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matter might subject him to in case the IN junction should be granted. The Dis trict Attorney was therefore per- milted to elect whether he would defer making the pending motion until the ses- sion of the Z. S. Circuit Court at ST Paul III June next, or would Withdraw the mo- ton for the purpose OF renewing it as so n rs practicable before Judge Miller (o Iowa) or Judge Dillon, at Chambers. The Dist Atty preferred the latter course and the mo lion was withdrawn accordingly. However much the delay is to be regret ted, certainly the scrnples of Judge Nelson are to be respected; and in this connection we may say that the statement in the Du- uth Wn,sesotio1a of last week-refcrring TO this motion-to the effect that the people OF Superior were congraJulating themselves upon Judge Nelson's ownership Of property here, and were boasting that therefore he was "sound' Oh the goose" (so the Wtah1e- s0t,an had 1T, was perhaps the most ma hcious libel OH our people that ever appear ed III a Duluth print, and that is saying considerable. Those who know the editor of that paper and his reckless and adroit methods, would be apt to suspect the ruSe, and would scarcely be misled. Others however, unfamiliar with the ways and tricks Of the willy Doctor" might think almost as meanly of us. as they VIII of him when thus exposed. The canal operators at Duluth mean while are working away like beavers, pos >eSsed with the insane notion that som, great advantage to them or disadvantage to the United States, in the pending suit, is to be secured by opening the canal clear rossthe point, and keeping 1t open, before an injunction order shall be actually served No stronger evidence could be afforded Of their own expectations as to the result of hearing on the motion, than their ill-ad visrd and unworkmanIike activity under this foolish idea. The old fable OF SisyphuS is realized III their case. Time and again they cut the canal through at immense cost, to find it So filled up at its mouth by the first northeast wind, as that scarcely a sign OF the excavation at that point can be OBJ served. They and their advisers seem never to i we heard Of such a thing as a mandatory injunction, the office OF which is to compel party to undo, and repair the effects of, unlawful acts; and they Seem to be totally innocent OF the idea that courts sometimes have wsy-in precisely that class Of cases to which this suit belongS-of authorizing an aggrieved suitor (the United States in this instance) to undo the work of a wrong doer, IN case the latter refuses to act to that end, in obedience to an order or decree, and Of assessing the whole expense of the corrective measur s, against the contuma- clous party.

1871

An Irishman took O contract to dig d public well. When he had dug about twenty feet down, he came one morning and found it caved in nearly flled to the top. Pat looked cautiously around, and saw that nobody was near; then took of his hat and coat, hung them on the windlass, crawled in to some bushes and waited events. In a short time the citizens disoov- cred that the well had eaved in, and seeing Pats hat and coat on the windlass, they supposed he was at the bottom of the well, and Just as the eager citizens had reach "a the bottom, and pondering where the body was, Pat came ont 81 the bushes, and good paturedly thanked them for relieving him 81 j sorry Job. Some 81 the tired diggers were disguised; but the Joke was TOO good 70 allow any thing moro than = hearty laugh that soon followed.

1871

This will be the opening day of the Lou isiana State Fair. Thousands will visit the Fair Grounds during the current nine days of that exposition. and much will he done to give an idea of the industrial, manufac- turing, mechanical and agricultural pro- ducts of the State

1871

A valuable discovery has been made by an inventive genius in Ohio which consists OF converting iron into steel that may be cast In any form In mods and which is Of quality that Is suitable for axes OF other edge tools for rails all being done Mt one pro- cess The trouble in making steel heretofore has been its viscdty under device OF melting; whence shap and thin castings have been unattainable. Ropy aud celatipous AS IL wero tho molten metal refused to now into narrow crevices. All this difficulty however mas been conquered by the discovery. The metal nov" liouid IA water flows into the mnutest apetures, ana threads thin az the finest hair can be cast IN IT, Inc u covery II all that Is claimed for 1t is true, will work revolution in many branches Of iron and seel nanuac lures. We find tho above floating through our exchanges and have waited some weeks ior clearer and fuller account of the alleged DIS coyery. Very likely, it is but the dream OF heated brain. like thousands that infest jour nolists and hundreds that make their way TO the Patent Office. If it be half true, IL Is OF moro account than all the fighting around Paris during the past fortnight. Ii any one has knowledge Of such an invention, anu knows how to impart it, we will thank HIM to send an account to THE TRIBUNE. We are always more than willing to give an account of any really great invention, such as this purports to be; but we choose never 10 hear of one which has not passed beyond inc stage of drawing and model into actual use. Until then, we prefer to maintain silence. anu os to the innumerable company who have merely projected or designed an invention, let them cschew type for the next ten years, or at least until they shall have made something that will work. While they keep their ideas to themselves, no one can steal them.

1871

Mr. Orange s. Winans is not person to be argued with; but his sophistries may be used 10 expose kindred unreason as well as any. Mr.. w. is a trusted and well paid employe of the Erie Railroad: Wherefore, he gives out that it was his duty, as legislator, to vote "a the interests of that road seemed to dictate. This is pretty steep; but what Is the Erie Rail road Company Is it not an ASSOCIATION OF persons who furnished the money which built that road, or have purchased and now hold an assignment of the rights which those persons acquired by paying their money? Can any one answer No to this question: Well the men who paid in the money which built the Erie Road ask the Legislature to let the Owners of its stock choose q JnH Board of Directors at their merit election In other words: they ask that those who own this great property may control and manage it pre- csely as its charter originally promised that they should. But Messrs. Gould, Fisk, Tweed and Lane, having obtained control of it some years ago. have had an act passed whereby they can retain control Of it for years, III spite of twO-thirds of the stockholders They compose the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, wherein all power is centered; they are President, Treasurer &c; ; and they have classified themselves SO that their terms do not expire for some years vet. If q majority of the stockholders were to try to turn them out, and could Keep thelr stock and proxies out of the reach of Barnarfs iniunctions, they could not reach the managers of their property save through two or three successive annual elections. This network of rascality, this cherdur-de- frie.e of villainy, the Democratic majority III the Legislature votes solid to perpetuate and Mr. Winans votes with them because he is an employG of the Erie Road His fidelity Is due not to those whose bread he eats, but to the knaves who have stolen the greater part OF IT., but have not yet stopped his allowance Men and brethren! we must hereafter choose as legislators men who, if they are base enough to betray their trust for bribes, will not insult us by such excuses as this, but respect our in telligence so much as to pocket the wages OF their shame in silence.

1871

The exposure Of frauds in this great City of many knaves and innumerable dupes is endless and for the most Part thanklesS job. One swindle is no sooner exposed than another is contriyed with the quick ingenuity of practical knavery to take its place ca the old one is renewed in some other locality Often exposure only an advertisement for there dupes silly enough to "try their luck' where they are warned that no chances of winning are given to the players TIE TRIBUNE has been at great pains to ferret out and expose the counterfeit moneydeal ers the keno-players the panel-house thieves, gam blers generally not excepting those who play Tam many's great and dangerous political cheats ms morning it gives full account of the new swindle devised by Ellis H. Elias, proprietor of the Dollar Store Milton Gold Jcwelry establishment and other concerns which sell worthless objects at small prices within the reach of ALL but at large profits neyerthe- less. The new swinde is known as the Merchants and Manufacturers Cooperative Distribution" pos sbly because neither merchants nor manufacturers cooperate, and there is no distribution OF profits or prizes From the details which we publish those who have bought tickets emitting them to prizes will learn that by no possibility could they draw ANYTHING but blanks that the persons who draw prizes Of valuable articles are regularly saared EN- ploy6s of the swindling proprietor; and that they change their dresses and assume various characters with the skill of actors. The profits of the fraud enable the swinders TO retain large force OF these prize drawers" and to provide several offices where they can change their clothing. 1t is amazing that such shallow trick should succeed in the most pub lie street of the principal city OF the country; but until the foOlkiller along again and does bet ter execution than any previous visit, the swindc will flourish.

1871

attack upon the dynasty in the Chamber OF Deputies. His remarks occasioned a scene OF great confusion, in the midst OF which tho House adjourned. We showed few days ago how slender was the majority upon which the Ministry could count in emergencies. Perhaps the Government members felt it would be dangerous to sit still under the battery Of the renowned tribune, and howled him down to save their preponder- ance. But it is hard to say whether there be more danger in the eloquent invectiye or the enforced silence of this most brilliant rhetorician of the age. The time has gone by for muzzIes, even in the Peninsula, and if King Amadeus cannot afford to let the Oppo- stion have its word of criticism, he would do well to pack his sea-chest and betake himself to his frigate again.

1871

That one should not speak when he has nothing to say, was long since established ; it seems not so well understood that he should keep silence, even when he has somewhat to say, unless he dare say it. Hence such blum ders as the Address of the Democratic Mem bers of Congress. The country was already thoroughly aware that these gentlemen held Its ruin inevitable unless they should be allowed to run it. They told us in 1860 that, if we should elect Lincoln, the Union would be destroyed they pro- claimed in '61 that we must buy off Rebel lion by new concessions and guarantees to Slavery, or all was lost; they shrieked in '62 that if we should dare to strike a blow at the arch-rebel Slavery, we would thereby prove ourselves as arrant SecessiOnists as jeff Davis and Slidell they resolved in ga that the Union could only be saved by an immediate cessa- ton of hostilities and the election of McClel- Ian as President; they clamOred in 65 for the instant restoration of the Southern States to every right and power of loyal States under the rule of their Rebel chiefs and with a complete surrender of the Freedmen to their uncovenanted mer- cies in '6s, they resolved that the National Debt should be paid off in Greenbacks, and the reconstructed State Governments of the South treated as unconstitutional revolutionary and void" so as to let Toombs, Ben. Hill g. Co.. follow up their expulsion of the Colored men, bers of their Legislature by depriving them Of all political rights whatever if not, the Con- stitution would be subverted, State Rights abolished, and Chaos come again. In every instance, the American People listened to their doleful prophecies, then went exactly as Sham Democracy warned them not to go, and all came out right We hold it advisable that they should eschew Prophecy for time, after such public and pitiable failures, and try some other role wherein their past discOmitures have not been so signal and so damaging. One question is paramount in our current politics" the Democratic party accept and regard the XIVth and XVIII Amend "ments as part of the Federal Constitution or will it, if restored to power, treat them =" as null and void, and allow the Whites of " of every State to deal with the Blacks and Z" their Right of Suffrage as they shall see " itf" A frank, candid, explicit answer to this question is anxiously awaited, since that answer must give shape and character to our next contest No one wants to waste powder on hoiuess WHICH tne garrison mas defnl- lively abandoned. We shall cheerfully accord to the gentlemen opposite much greater space than is filed by their late Address, if they will plainly state in it whether they do or do not propose henceforth to treat the reconstructed State Govern ments of the South as usurpations and null ties and their Blacks as subject to disfranchise ment by their Whites Failing this, their reiteratiOn that the Republicans are bad LOT. and are running the country to perdition, ia dull reading. There is not boy of fifteen in the land who has not heard it till his ears call for cotton to relieve them of the dread, monotonous din. There is not penny whistle in the republic that cannot utter as pleasing and forcible variation on it as that of the Democratic Members Of Congress. Every one knows that these gentlemen have vehemently resisted Negro Suffrage hitherto as a fraud and usurpation by the Republicans, designed to uphold and perpetuate their i'll gotten power. DO Messrs. Garret Davis, +. r. Blair, Salisbury a. Co. still maintain that po- sitionq If not, why not state the ground on which they have resolved tostand henceforth ! What sense in vague fulminatiOns while tho

1871

Although a Knight of ST. Crispin. Mr.. J. Sheenan who goes about the country delivering the lecture on Chinese labor of which we publish summary this morning, is an ardent admirer Of the Celestial workmen. His speech is splendid but covert eulogy of the Chinaman, for though he calls them "vipers" and other hard names to satisfy his Cris- pin audience he cannot conceal his admiration of them. He declared in strong praise of their indus try that in California they are making slippers and ladies' and gentlemen's first aud second quail ity boots" which are profitable articles to make by the by; that "they are also encroaching upon other skilled branches Of our labor" meaning the labor which in this country is free to ALL that they have learned to run sewing machines" TO say which is to commend their intelligence; that "they make all the paper collars used the Pacific Coast and all the matches, and put up all the canned fruits; y that they "are encroaching upon the carpenters trade, and are employed in factories where doors, sashes, and blinds are manufactured" that they have driven out the cigar-maker and are driving out the harness-mak- ers" and finally that they "are considered the best painters in the city" meaning San Francisco After concluding this highly eulogstic passage the lee turer sly dog that he evidently isD the further to deceive his fellow Knights who pay his expenses etc. wildly declared that some means must be adopted to cure this evil" We beg he and his fellow knights won't adopt anything of the sort we rather like the prospect which is held out that this evil is to spread Intelligent workmen, thor Ouglily learning their trades, and industriously working at them, are among the plaques this conn try would heartily enjoy and profit by.

1871

N public with q revolving story of the sordid crime that is eating the heart of the city. In the interest of public morals we have made a thorough investigation of some OF the haunts of the monsters who devote their lives TO the work of corruption. For the third time we call the attention of the Chief of Police to his sworn duty. Let him read on the first page of the triple sheet which we publish this morning the full and accurate account there given of the work of these servants of the devil, and let him do what his oath of Office demands. We have suppressed the names and addresses Of the foul hags who stand i'll these ante-rooms of perditiOn, to avoid giving i'm proper information to the vicious or the thoughtless. But these are retained at this Office at the disposition of Superintendent Kelso, if he can be presumed to be so Ignorant of his field of labor as not to know them already. We have been led to lay this frightful ex- hibit before the world on account of late incl dents and letters received by The TRIBUNE, which seem to indicate that this moral ulcer is growing and spreading with ominous rapid ty. 1t is useless to mince the matter any further. The truth must be told at once, and in way to bring the fact vividly before the conscience of the community. Under the guise of folly and fraud is concealed the most atrOcious of vices. The pretended Fortune tellers who ply their vocation in this city are simply PROGRESSES and all the more danger GUS because the calling which they profess and publish makes them the medium of COM munication between depraved men seeking victims and ignorant young girls or vain women already corrupted. AS Fortune -telers, they prey upon the ignorant and superstitious and it is difficult to punish the taking of the money of the foolish under the false pretenses of Civ ing information of the future But as Pro- curesses they debauch the innocent and increase crime and pauperism; and as such they are amenabe to the laws If we cannot exter- inmate them, we can at least make their vile trade so Infamous and so unsafe that their ef- forts to escape detection and punishment will deprive them of half their power to harm. OF course, we need not warn our readers to discriminate between the straightforward statements of our reporters and the SLAM derous utterances Of the PROGRESSES. What ever the representatives of THE TRIBUNE state in regard to their investigations is literally true, but it would be unsafe to con- clude that the lOathsome calumnies which these she-fends scatter broadcast upon the women of New-York are anything more than the natural OutpOurings of their own vile hearts. They indulge in this violent exaggera- ton of the extent of their power and resources, partly to impose upon the licentious vanity of the men who hire them, and partly as an i'm potent protest of fallen nature against the virtue which shames and condemns it. But there is enough to startle and admOnish us in the unquestionable fact of the existence of so many of these carrion-kites. They are at once the effect and the cause of most deadly social disease, and it rests upon the authorities to 90 to the extreme limit of the law to make this infamy the most dangerous and most Improbable of trades.

1871

We publish this morning the Throne Speech of King Amadeus upon the opening of tho COrtes in which, amid all its assertions of confidence and energetic purpose, it is not difficult to see the traces of that disappOint- ment which the lukewarmness of his welcome has inspired in the breast of the youthful monarch. As n commentary upon this address 10 is announced from Madrid that the Repub- lican orator CASTELAR, has lust made violent

1871

On the 10th of june 1869, there was fine frenzy in Boston. The great Jubilee was at its hight The Star-Spangled Banner, the cannon, the hig-drum, the hundred anviis, the hundred fircmen, the ten thousand singers, were all going OF at once, and $4,000 people were crowded together in and around the Sacred Shed on the Back Bay. just at the climax of the festival lane was made through the crowd and up to the seats of honor in the center of the Coliseum marched sturdy impasSive little man Of modest demcanOr, u quiet elderly gentleman, and behind them a large and very showy person in brilliant naval uniform. The band struck up "See the "Conquering Hero Comes" whereat the sea- faring person, if he did not actually blush, seemed at any rate very much pleased. The little man was the President of the United States. The elderly gentleman was our gallant old Admiral, David g. Fauagut. The third man, who outshone the others and monopolized the attention of the multitude, was James Fisk, jr., Commander-in-C Chief of the Fall River steamboat line That was a glorious day for Admiral Fisk and he has never forgotten it. To be looked at by eighty thousand people, to be construct lively apOstrophizcd as Il conquering Hero by the biggest band of music ever got together in America, to be allowed for once in his life to sit down in decent company, to form part of that celebrated show which for months threw al New-England into turmoil, and above all TO have made it appear that he was the object OF that official recognition which the Governor and the city authorities intended for guests of very different character-all this made in Fisk's life chapter whose dazzling and corusCating splendOrs have haunted him ever since What wonder is it, therefore, that as June comes around again, frelghted with its patriotic festivals and glorious with memo rles so dear TO Boston as Prescott, Putnam, Pat rick Gilmore, and Jubilee jim, Mr.. Fisk should propose to celebrate the anniversaries of the dawn of freedom on Bunker Hill and the apOtheosis of Fisk at the Coliseum, by getting up repetition of the pageant Of 1869 as nearly as circumstances will allowf In point of fact, he has requested the Mayor and Common Council of Boston to "do it some more" We have already alluded to the notifying fact that Col. Fisk's Overtures are not taken in good part. In his anxiety for public reception, he has consented to meet the City Government a good deal more than half way. He has waived the fOrmality of an invitation, and even offered, if the city will give him a dinner to pay for it himself, and be at all the trouble of making the necessary arrangements, borrowing an idea apparently from the business of the Grand Opera House, where prima donnas buy their own bouquets and have them passed up by boy from the ox-Offce. Nevertheless the city, as Mr.. Fisk himself would say, does not receive him worth cent. Colonel Fisk is not man to be abashed, and it will crafty the good people of Boston to know that in spite of all rebufls this prom ising son of theirs, who went forth from them few years ago on the top of a peddlers wagon, is going back in glory at the head of the Ninth Regment-unless between this time and the middle of June the Federal Court, which is trying to find out which of the prin- cpal officers of the Erie Railway Company un- derstands its affairs and knows where it's books are kept, should examine Colonel Fisk and find it necessary to shut him up in Lud- lowest. Jail. Barring accidents of this kind, we say the Conquering Hero will make his triumphal entry into Boston about the 10th of June, and if the. light of him does not fire the ambition of some TremOnt-st haberdasher or Safest. fnancier to steal a railroad then there is no power in a great example, and no virtue in gold lace.

1871

OF the twenty-seven miners who resumed work at Scranton on Thursday in defiance of the mandate of their Trades Union, twenty six have been intimidated by threats only one man had the courage to 60 into the works The efforts of the operators 20 conclude the strike by breaking up the Union promise neither early nor even ultimate success.

1871

The examination of the accounts of Gen. Lawrence, lately Pension Agent in this City, has shown that there not only is defalcaton, but that its amount is far beyond what was feared The friends of the missing man APP pear to have been no less deceived as to the condition of his affairs than the public.

1871

The members of the Board of Education have been given a new five years lease OF office under one of the amendments to the City Charter. Faithful henchmen and recent traitors thus share alike in the munifcent bounty with which the purchase of Winans loads fhem

1871

a line pOetic Jury, 10 The local newspaper, Those barbarous people, as you can SEQ, Have the advantage OF you and me, For they can live on dogs and cats And lodge all night on filthy mats. The time will como without delay When our iro will give way; Wen rise up with stick In hand And drive these Spalpeens from the land. II is quite true that diet of cheap reptiles gives these barbarous people advantage over the lusty consumers of potatoes and whisky but, II we might venture to advise would IL not be more equitable solution of the difficulty il the Limbs from the Emerald I,le would try to get accustomed TO cats

1871

4 DoG-MArIc SroRY.-An editor in Iowa advertised the other day that he would take good dog in payment of one years subscription for his paper The next !ay iorty-three dogs were sent TO the office. The day attcrward, when the news had spread out into the country, four hundred farmers had sent two dogs apiece by express, with eight baskets full of puppies, all marked {. .. ID. In the meantime the offer found It's way into the neighboring States, and, before the end of the week, there were eight thousand dogs tied up with ropes in the editors from, and back yards. The assortment Included all the kinds from bloodhounds down TO poodlcs. a few hundred broke loose and swarmcd on the stairs and in the entries, and stood outside the sanctum, and howled, aud had fights, and shifted un- der the crack OF the door as ii they were hungry for some editor. And the editor climbed out Of the window, up the water. spout, and out on the comb of the roof, and wopt. There was no issue of the paper for six days, and the only way tie friends of the eminent journalist could feed him was by sending lunch up to him in bel. ! looms At last somebody bought barrel Of arsenic and three tons Of beet, and poi soned the dogs and the editor came down only to find on his desk bill for eight thousand dollars, being the mu. picipal tax on dogs at one dollar per head. He is not offering The same induce ment 10 subscribers now and lie doesn't want dog.

1871

Difficulties over disputed land titles have already begun to exer- else the Chicagonians. On mon day a party having secured from the bona ide owner the least Of a valuable lot set about removing the debris, when he was confron- ted by another claimant who had already erected a frame shanty upon one corner of the premises. Called upon to show his title, he exhibited a lease from a pre- tended owner in Omaha. AL though the title to the property was known by common report to rest in an entirely different per- son, there is not the least posi- bility Of proving it, and conse- quently the squatter who claims to have leased it from q man in Omaha has as secure a claim as though he had owned it for a thousand years. By such means the best lots in the burned dis trict can be gobbled up by adven- lures, and until legislative relief is given there can be no way of ousting them except by force. The serious troubles of Chicago have but just commenced.-St. Louis Times.

1871

1uCuIcs The Taxpayers Convention may do great deal towards the organization spoken of above, coming as the delegates probably will, from every part of the State. They may take steps looking to- wards aud directing ward, county and State organizations, which will array and put in order the full voting strength of the party, and welcome into our ranks men of every party and every color, who hope for release from the Or ganized robbery and the shame less plunder of the party now in power. We cannot afford to be beaten, or leave anything undone that will secure us victory. Another term of years Of plunder under Radical rule, a still greater accu- mutation Of debt upon our un- happy State, and a consequent increase of taxation upon an al ready overburdened, oppressed, wronged and outraged people, and the cry of "blood OF bread" may resound through our streets and thoroughfares, to call forth a suspension of the writ of h@be0s corpus by the military head at Washington, to inaugurate the rule of third-rate lieutenants, and the merciless trampling under foot of the personal liberty OF our people, as in '66 and '67, and probably worse. I confess that / fear that the shameless perjury and gross ty- ranny of bayonets, (which deprived us of a Congressman in this Dis trict in '6S, may wrest from us the fruits of victory in '72, and bring about the same results men, toned above. But we must do all that is in our power, do our duty, and trust to God for the re- suit. And all that we can do is to perfect our organization and bring out the whole voting strength OF that portion of the people who desire a prudent and economical administration Of our State government, as opposed to the wild and reckless legislation of the past few years. I fear and feel that my answer, hastily written, to your question is not as full and satisfactory as desirable, but I shall depend greatly upon the prudence and wisdom of the Convention to an swer more satisfactorily. Very truly and respectfully, II. b. TOMPKINs.

1871

Item from u Georgia paper: a negro went so far as to faint in a store at cambridge. ite was res tored to consciousness by an un- sympathetic friend, who sprinkled him with the short end of Il bug gy trace.

1871

1t has ever been q matter Of sincere regret with the lovers OF Shakespeare that nothing approaching q trustworthy likeness had come down TO us. The conventional bust which forms the only sculptured likeness does not deserve the name OF art and Is evidently the production OF some provincial stone mason; and while the engraving from the portrait ascribed ndiYerently to Taylor or Burrage displays higher artistic power fails to convey TO our minds an adequate idea Of the power and richness OF thought that dwelt In the master mind As result are disappointed for though face full OF in telligence something wanting that might indicate The marvellous insight into life and sympathy with human passions that breathes through every line OF the great poets WORKS. About 1887 o German vir- tuoso purchased an old painting OF the deathbed Of william Shakespeare and being struck with the fact that the face had been painted from O mask was in duced TO MAKE inquiries which led to the dis covery OF O mask which 1t is claimed was taEen from the poet after death. This mask was brought to England and offered to the British Museum for a sum Of $25.OOo by the German pos. SCISSOR, but after some years was carried back to Germany, as the authorities OF the Museum did not consider there was sufficient proof OF its au- thenticty, the curious feature about 1t Is that 1t presents the main lines Of the nkenesses we already possess, while giving US head of unparalleled force and development We have the large eyes and arched brows with indications OF the scar he was known TO have over the right eyebrow, while the peculiar natness OF the face IN the STRAIT ford bust s also found in the mask. peculiar for nation OF the mouth, which Is indicated both In the bust and In the picture exists also In the mask 1t is known whether or not the authorities of the Brush Museum consulted experts as to whether there was sufficient internal evidence to justify the belief that the mask was really Shakspeare's Mr.. Page, whose large experience as portrait painter and consequent habit of analyzing features entities his opinion to much consideration, has no doubt that the German mask was really taken from the deceased poet In this belief he has devoted nearly q year TO the modelling IN plaster Of head which shall present all the features found in the mask result Will oner strong contrast TO The inane and unsatisfactory hKenesseS with which we have hitherto been compelled to content ourselves Every one must have felt LII looking at the conventional portraits how weak and inadequate they were, how little they reflected the great soul which We know 10 have Inhabited the mortal tenement. But In the head as copied from this curiously discovered mask We nave evidence OF power almost superhuman. 1orcibly and SO trutniully every human pas sl0n analyZing mems motives and characters genulneness OF the German mask can be estao- iished, the curious specuations as TO che race to Which belongs put forward y re- speare," published some years ago In Eoinburg will have received strong continuation the sls and analysis declared that Shakespeare was not q Saxon but Celt, aud II the claims OF the German WORK can be established satisfactorily the correc- ness OF this deduction win be placed beyond doubt Mr.. Page deserves the highest credit for eo orts 10 place before US worthy portrait OF the great N. ]. Heade has just finished very pleasing picture OF 'An Apple Orchard,n with some figures delicate colors lend charming enect to the trees wnlch are carefully studied good deal or atten. the grass and liste field flowers painted with pre- Raphaee minuteness OF detail. The shadows thrown on the grass are handled with nice judg- ment and mpart o pleasing tenderness to the scene. In the color treatment there evidence OF delcacy and feeling The artist has in progress other work OF the same character and some pleasing Mr.. M Wilson has Just finished portrait of Mrs. HUTCHINSON, OF the BrooKlyn orphan Asylum, which JARVIS McEntee mas come home from the Catskill | Mountains with quite q number OF late autumn | In which this artist delights. lie remained at MS post watching the everchanging beauties OF the dying leaves until the bitter wind announc- Tenth street. Some OF these sketches which hap | pened to be unpacked, are delightful, and Will no doubt rapidly grow into effective pictures unoer Mr. Z. II. Perry IS at work upon one Of those familiar thug Of malice the artist calls his picture whicn represents two children, one OF wnom Is cutting away at 2 pumpkin, "Tne Young sculptor" It's simple little genre piece, with q good deal OF the feeling OF childhood naturally comp0sed and solid in color Mr.. Perry possesses much sympathy with and many OF mis- paintings represent what migut be termed the poetry OF labor, which he treats naturally and without any attempt at sensa- indeed, the fault seems 10 TO lie rather the other way, and the introduction OF little more idealism INTO those subjects would we have no | doubt, lend 10 them an increased interest van Elten has set TO work vigorously and Is far | on q very pleasant Landscape. near 1t Is wen composed, and promises TO DE most interesting. water-colored scene OF Lake henderson, In the Adlrondacks," displays remarkable poetlc feeling. We have in IL some thing beyond the mere transcript or nature, with winch so many artists content themselves. In the composition OF the picture groups OF trees, water and mountains have been worked INTO something of a fairy scene, IN which We see the Imagination Of the artist lending to nature an additlOnal charm Harvest Time" landscape In Ulster county, with group OF women in the fe Id, Is decidedly pictur- esque. No matter how much we may object TO see women laboring In the fields 1t cannot be denied that their presence lends charm TO the harvest work 1t would not otherwise possess, at least from art point OF vtew The artist has a. mirably caught the sentiment OF the scene which Is at the same time peaceful and joyous, with a me0wness in the tone OF the picture which accords admirably with the ripeness and fulneSs OF nature NncINAT REVrEW

1871

The regular semi-waekly meeting OF the Rink Reform or Backhouse Committee was held last evening, Mr.. samuel Hutchinson in the chair. The session was held as usual, with closed doors. At the termination OF the meeting the representatives OF the press were informed that the committee had nothing further to say than that "we report progress" The several sub committees, who have been visiting the different departments Of the municipal government during the past week. reported the progress made by them, which was SIMPLY to institute few preliminary inquiries at each bureau. This ana nothing more. They also determined that Tor the future the organ ization u body would meet Saturday evening only OF eacn week insteaa OF Tuesday and Satur- day, as heretofore. The Executive Committee win, however meet at 367 Fulton street each morning and on Tuesday evening. for the transaction OF such business as may be within their province So far they assert that every facility has been accorded the committees They state that they have no objection TO the presence OF reporters dur ing any OF their Investigations at the departments. as there Is nothing secret about their movements. 1t is the intention OF the committee TO TO- 900 circulars solicit the aid Of the citizens further ing their investigation. These circulars will be q copy or the address which has already been pub liShed In these columns.

1871

Bogus News Movements Of the subcommittee Of the Committee of Fifty-A Correspondence and Visit to the Water Board-The Late Deoapitations- Recent Election Frauds-Eighteen In dictments Found by the Grand Jury.

1871

IMroRTANT DEoIsioY.-The Supreme Court of the United States decides that notes given for the purchase of slaves prior to the war are valid. We publish ed in our columns, few days ago, the decision and opinion of Judge Caldwell adverse TO the validity of obligations given for the purchase Of slaves before the abolition of slavery. In the case Of Ginears VS.. Campbell, recently decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, that court overrules a decision similar to that of Judge Cald well and sustains the validity of such OBJ. legations This decision Of the Supreme Court ofthc United States is in harmony with the late decision of the Supreme Court Of Arkansas on the point involved, In the aforesaid case of Ginears VS. Campbell, the Court below sustained the contract Of promsory note given for slaves in April, 1861, and the Judgment was for the holder Of the note The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Court below, holdine that as the con sideration Of the note was legal at the date of the contract, the instrument is valid and the rights Of the parties must be decided by the laws then existing. Any other rule would impair the oblga- ton of contract when made - Gazette

1871

Our sister County, Sebastian, seems to be born to troubles or else has an un paralleled faculty for getting into hot wa ter. While they are still wrangling about the County seat question, another is sprung They claim the right to tax steamboats,! This claim or right has been asserted for some time by Sebastian county, and, so far as we know, by her alone No other County in this State has pretended to any right TO tax steam boats running the rivers. From AN ar ticle in the Era, Of the 7th inst we gather that the Comfy claims the right, not to tax the boat, but the freight and passenger receipts! How this helps their case, in legal aspect, we leave to the County and Company to decide. 1t seems to us that if the provision of the Federal Constitution, granting full power to Con gress to regulate commerce between the States, means anything at all, it means that States shall not do this, and taxa ton is but a part Of regulation. If the States have power to tax steamboats, at all, they can make the rate oftaxation so high as to amount to prohibition, and thus completely destroy this kind of car rying between the States, and Congress would be powerless. 1t is evident such a state of things was not contemplated by the trainers of our Federal system The States may, doubtless, tax the amount of money steamboat owners may have invested in stocks, but this power can only be exercised at the place Of resi- de ice Of the party, and when paid there cannot be retaxed here. But this whim OF our neighbor seems to be confined to the adams line The 7hos II. Alien Of that liue was summarily "tied up" on her last trip, and compelled to. deposit money to secure the payment of some $500 taxes The Glascow was at the whaif at the time and no effort made, so far as we can ascertain, to collect tax from her. II this right exists at all, it can be only exercised equally upon all property of the same class, irrespective OF the owners. The plan ofmaking Van Buren, head of navigation, because Of these unjust and illegal exactions, will doubtless soon be put into operation We trust, however, that the sober second thought may cause our friends over-the- way to abandon this claim, and thus avoid the inconvenience of hauling freight from Van Buren,; for the assess ment must, eventually, be made and the tax collected Of all the boats that do business with Fort Smith

1871

real Joining point OF The new dspensation win the Oil IL found In the final beGefcti0u OF our Lord IN rers0n-"dy peace ! leave you; nv peace give YOU" This was what lsaian had SAID, zine WORK OF righteousness shall be peace, and the eject OF righteousness quietness and assurance forever" tpat tnese significant f0rmaues nav Disappeared 1nd IN their stead We are Obliged to use THE MEANf5r EXPRESSIONS - OF meaningless speech. Our Ielgion has no ntting recognition In The conrfesies OF 1ailY lie. We cease to know each other as the children OF one Father. ment upon heais and chIlls upon S4ApEs AND SHADOWS. our piety might enter without any obstruction in to even 'le most commonplace acts OF our inter- course. Religion might have recognition. as our PATRIOTISM does. Ia our dav greetings in THE MARKET PLACES. Christianity is IN no respect unc0ngenial with pOliteness or culture The most refined heart ought to exhibit It's excellence IN It's painest demeanUr. As we know gentle nan by mis- constant go d breeding. SO We might well demand TO know the CHRISTIAN ny his grace l believe the followers Of but know they nave come to be most disadvan tage0usiy and abSurdly AFRAID or each other. Tney are quick 10 recognize the advantage OF easing the burden OF lie WIN words OF sympathy and good Will; the' Know II gives cheer to every heart to make the proilers OF friendship and fellOwshlp They Will even go SO flr as to CLAP A HAND IN A HAND with cordial wish OF welcome. But they are modest beyond measure as To uttering any express sion OF religious gOod Will. So we meet. and with most assdu0us interest ply each other with pro- found surmiSes concerning the PROBABILITY or MORE RAIN. All this we fear for what we call cant. Now, II may as well e understood thai cant Is In our manners ana manners alone and one may cant as much about the weather as anything e.5c.

1871

How LITTLE LAND WILL KEEP Cow. On the first cay of June last commenced cutting clover for one COW confined in a yard enclosed by high tight board fence, with a stable attached in which she had been fed She had no feed but freshly cut clover from the first of June to the fifteenth of October. and all taken from one-fourth of an acre of ground. She has averaged eighteen quarts of strained milk per day, from which my wife mas made eight pounds of butter per week. during the four and half months. The cow is five years old, and a cross of the AYRSHIRE and Durham. She has given more milk, more butter, and OF better quality than she has ever done on pasture. On one-eighth of an acre have raised $50 bushels of sugar beets and carrots, which with the two tons of bay Will keep her handsomely the balance of the year. The labor of cutting clover for the cow Is less than the driving her three-fourths of a mile to pasture; besides, the manure saved is quite an item. In the dairy districts. the usual estimate Is tOur acres to the COW. on the nay ana paature system, whereas by soiline and raising roots five eights of an acre is fonna 10 be sufficient will state further, what Deleve from nearly thirty years experience is, tnat there is no crop SO valuable for soiling as ciover, no crop so many pounds of which. and OF equal value for milk and butter. can be produced from an acre OF ground, Sweet corn is a good crop for late feeding. where clover will not grow, but not profitable for winter NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

1871

The "kangoroo droop,' now fashionable, is thus defined in New York letter: "To make the thing perfect,a glove with three or four buttons is selected, SO that the wrist NAV be as long and as small as possible. The wrist OF the lett hand and also that of the right hand, if it is not engaged with an Al pine parasol, is brought close to the breast. ana then the hand is permitted to fall, palm .e .Gownward, as II all muscular action was lost This is the present attitude of locomotion bv the descendants of the Kangaroo. and il sug gests the loveliest helplessness imaginable. besides proving respectfulness TO the deceased progenitor."

1871

No HUMBUG.-Mr. Z. B. Warner commu- statistics in relation TO the potato bug, that will perhaps explain its mnltitudinous visita- tion in the States east. From careful obser- vations he finds that thirty three days COM pletes the cycle OF one generation from fertil- cation to the pupa state, or about three crops annually in this latitude, Seven hundred OF these bugs are the average product of single female, from which the family grows IN the second generation 10 245O 900, and in the lhiid to $500 900, which must be considered as very respectable increase. A further calculation shows that one fe male bug can thus expand itself into total production of sixteen hundred and sixty-sX bushels of average sized bugs in little over three months! Any one looking over the gar dens and potato fields at the present time, will conclude that several Of these females must have already made fair start the D, es- ent season. The person who can turn Them into some economical use, may not ouly make fortune, but get universal vote of thanks. II they are TO develop on the theory proposed, We shall be forced before tall TO annex Cana da to get storage room. What are now to be seen are only the first effort. What will the next be? 1t is said that they do not relish Paris green as an article of diet; and now that the Communists have been duly put down, perhaps the Parsians may see hope III vast demand ior bug poison on this side OF the ocean. Who knows but the bugs are to give birth to new industries, and to an i'm porlant change in human food? Greater events have followed from even less causes.

1871

BOOTHS THEATER-LOvR AND LOYALTY. This evening, at Booths Theater, the ro- mantle play of Glove and Loyalty" Will be brought forward with Mr. Lawrence Barrett in the chief charac ter This expedicnt s employed, not only to give Mr Booth night Of neodfl ret-after six performances OF the exhausting part of hcheeubu TO give Mr. Barrett special opportunity for the demonstration Of his pecu- liar abilities Those abilities OF the highest intel lectual order this line OF employment Mr. Barrett has fine and fervid mind sensitive temperament a heart easily enkinded by contact with what Is noble in seton sweet In feeling; true and deep love OF the beautiful just Of symmetry in artistic forms and OF effect in dramatic combination andmoyement Intense earnestness OF emotion; electrical energy ripe culture and accurate control Of his faculties and art resources. We look back to his fine performance Of shakespeare's Cassus and TO other kindred efforts OF his dramatic genus forming this estimate OF his nature and powers. To see this actor In character that gives him adequate scope Is 10 enjoy real pleasure; for be Is always conscientious. We have mover known him 10 emphasize a little part, for the purpose OF making himself conspicu- ou nor 10 reverse the proper and right process Of dram art by making character glass through which 10 show the actor Love and Loyalty" affords MI Bar rett part that IL is worth his while to play, aud In which he may be expected to do himself justice. He will have efficient cooperation. The debut TO be made In this piece-tO which we time ago made passing alu- sion-wn be that Of Miss Theresa Selden The young lady altogether without experience in theatrical pursuits and she Is known TO possess many Of those ac compishments which elevate and decorate character and adorn and sweeen social life The complete cast Of Invn and L Ifv - vdE

1871

USING THE LEFT HAND.-The number of left-handed peple seem to be on the increase. Formerly it was quite rare thing to meet person who gave the preference to the left hand, and those addicted to the habit We're a little dis posed to conceal the popularity, but now it is not an unusual thing to see lady or gentleman sitting at the table with the knife in the left hand, and the cup of tea at the left side of the plate. This reverse of the general order of things appears awkard enough, yet we do not know but the time is coming when the left hand will generally have preference over the right. In one school room at Perrysburgh there are fifteen left-hand- ed children. This indicates rapid pro- gress on the part of the left digits in their struggle to gain the mastery over those of the right hand. How long will it be ere we shall be. told TO 'put the left foot foremost" and hear people speak of the strong, left arm? ~

1871

An Ohio Judge has recently delivered q decision which, aside from its adverse Importance to the paternal parents OF large families of marriageable daugh- tels, may have considerable to do with the increase of matrimonial alliances in the future At least it removes g all son-in-law to maintain the authors of his partner in conjugal bliss, so far as the legal obligation is concerned. The suit in which this opinion was an nounced was brought by a fatherin-law against son-in-law upon contract, the father alleging that before his daughter married he was living with her in the West, and that the young man, then living in Ohio, wrote to him that if he would come there and bring his daugh- ter he would marry her, and that the old gentleman should always have a home with them and in accordance with this understanding they moved East, and the young couple were mar ried. The question came incidentally before the Court, whether son-in-law was legally bound to maintain and sup, port the father of his wife, in the alb sence of any specific contract The Court held that he was not-that when a young man married, he took no such legal obligation upon himself. The decision will open the way for all who may have had misgivings upon this point, and definitely determine as well the greatly agitated question about +" marrying the whole family Since this Ohio jurist has given q de cision upon one side of the question, we advise him, if he desires to make HIM self popular among the young men, to hold that the father-in-1aw is bound TO support his sonin-law. For such a de- cision he can find thousands of prece- dents, agreeably to the maxim that "cus- tom makes law" 4':." ae-H '4"-

1871

The CONCERT LAST NIGHT.-The last of the two concerts advertised by the Gal ton troupe, came off at Assembly Hall last night. The audiencei in attendance was not large not so large by hundred, perhaps, as attended the night before. OF the sing ing, we shall not attempt to speak in detail. We heard much to commend, and also much that would not bear close criticism. On the whole, however, it was rather an enjoyable performance, and several of the pieces were vociferously encored. We see it stated that the troupe will give concert in Washington city tonight.

1871

Z ACCOMMODATIONS FOR MEMBERS OF TIE LEGIsLATURE.-Wha a sad COM inentary upon present corruptions, is con- tanned in the letter of Democratic writer in the Norfolk Vagiaian of yesterday, who says: "One of our most popular sporting men is enlarging and otherwise improving his establishment, for the better accomno- datiOn of members Of the Legislature" We hear Of other establishments white washing, carpeting and repairing for similar purposes. The people, it seems 10 us, have the control of selecting men to represent them in the coming Legislature, and there is no reason why these selections should be made of men for whose entertainment great preparations, in certain quarters, are being made. These preparations" account for the necessity of '.jobs !" Tor the zeal exhibited all over the country to serve the '!Giear people," and we do hope these same dear people will see to it, that men will be sent to represent them, who need and will have no other than the ordinary "prepara- tioas' for the accommodation of gentle men, VINO should come here 10 labor and not TO -rolic. We shall have more TO say in the future of the decentralization Of the two or three hour system, of our present Legislative bodies, in which our readers will find contrasted the days of the past with those of the present.

1871

1t is no wonder that some among the Democrats cry out fora "New Departure; but reformation cannot be obtained there, and those who wish it must abjure the party, and in good faith and purity of purpose Join the Republican ranks. X.

1871

The most beautiful girl in the United States lives near incoln, H. Her hair is Of that peculiar hue that field Of ripe wheat throws towards the setting SUM- Her eyes send forth light SO effulgent and magnetic that strangers become spell bouud under its influence and stand rude ly gazing. Her cheeks bear bloom like the sunny side of an early peach. A pearl would seem almost black beside her teeth. Her form is so graceful that men worship her before seeing her face. Her hands suggest the idea of waxen fingers tipped with vermilion. Her smile seems actually to illuminate her presence, aud when she laughs the listener fances he hears sweet music in the distance. ia3e

1871

From the San Francisco Monitor1 "From time to time we receive communi cations from various parts of the State relative to the political status of our coun- trymen in California The gist of these letters is that Irishmen of intelligence, education and respectability feel they have not that amount of influence which, proper ly, is owing to them in the councils of the party to which they have invariably given their support The Z emocratic wire. pull lers act upon the convenient principle that they are sure of the Irish voters, anyhow that, consequently, they have no need of troubling themselves as to whether their candidates are acceptable to them or not and that, finally, when the. division Of the "spoils of victory comes, the Irish share may safely be made infnitestmal. In short, the plan is to use our people as lever wherewith to elevate others into office; to deliberately play upon the attachment Of Irish voters to the Democratic platform. The individuals who want to get nominal. ed to Conventions, for the purpose Of bar tering their votes, affect great deal Of windy sympathy for Irishmen and the cause of Ireland but, as soon as the votes of their dupes, at the primaries, secure them the object of their exertions, their sympathy, like Bob Acres courage, oozes out at their fingers ends. They should assume an attitude which would let the wire-pullers and professional conventionists very plainly know that they were no longer to reckon the Irish voters among theil private property, or number them among goods and chattels to be bought and sold as occasion required"

1871

No announeemt will appear under this head unless paid for in advance. We arc authorized to announce DR.. WM. GUPTILL as a candinate for the office of County Clerk, subject to the decision of the next Union Republican County Convention.

1871

WHERE lO SlOf IN tNEV 1Oitn' If any of our travelling friends reach New York, dirty and tired, or half sick, as we did, few days ago, we have apiece of adj vice for them. At No. Is Laight street, is a quiet retreat, half home and half hotel, where the best of food, beautifully cooked, may be had good clean beds, and, what is better than all, that renovater of the physical man, a genuine Turkish bath. If you are well it will not hurt you, and if you are sick it can hardly fail to benefit; and many case it is one o { the supreme luxuries vouchsafed to man. Here, too, you will meet refined and intellectual circle of people ; and the propri- etors ,Drs. Wood and Holbrook, spare no pains to secure the comfort of their guests and make them feel that they have found home in that Babel of strangers, New York. Those who look only for style and display may go elsewhere, but we know there are numerous visitors to New York, who would be delighted with just such quiet and refined stopping place as 10 Laight street. In our advertising columns will be found a fuller account of this deserving es- tablishment.

1871

WE call attention to the notice of Column bia College from our gifted and genial friend Prof. o. Mason. 10 be educated in the atmosphere of such a man as DR.. Samson must be great privilege, and from person. al knowledge, we can commend Prof. Ma son as a first-class instructor and faithful guardian of youths committed to his charge.

1871

ALLEGED ASSAULT IN A CHURCH. A warrant for the arrest of merchant in this city on the charge of assault in house of worship, was sued out this morning. As we were unable, owing to the brief time be- fore going to press, to collect the facts in the case we withhold the names of the par ties, as well as further comment, till the le- gal investigation, which the warrant pre- supposes, is made into the charge by JUS tice White. fs 4

1871

SENT ON.-William II. Turner, the colored man who was arrested in New York and brought to this city few days ago, on the charge of having attempted to poison his wife, had hearing before Justice White, in the police court, this morning, and was sent on to the Hastings court for trial during the present term.

1871

SHARP WORK TO BE PERFORMED The approaching fight between Democracy and Republicanism, in Virginia, is going to be hotlv contested. There is severe labor to be performed by every person who feels an interest in the success of his party. Every individual member of the Republican party, must, if he expects to win, arm himself and feel eager for the fray. We shall do our duty unEinchingly wher- ever our captains may order us. We, with our paper, imagine we arc doing good SER vice in the glorious cause, and are striving earnestly to accomplish the greatly to be desired results of defeating Democracy in this State. As an evidence Of our determination to labor in the good work, we have consented to, and will commence on Tuesday, the 18th inst, to issue sem-weekly edition of the STATE JOURNAL, in addition to our present daily and weekly. We are now being read by greater number of people than ever has been any Of our Republican predecessors, and yet we are not satisfied. We want to reach, if possible, every man in the State, in order that the Repub- lican party may be heard, and that we may expose to public gaze the infamy and hy- p0CTJCy Ol DclllOCfdcy. w U CdlllOt uO Ills unless our friends in the country will as sist us. In urging renewed energy on their part we must not neglect to return our grateful acknowledgment to those who have manifested an interest III us, by furnishing us with subscribers, but the good work must 90 on, must never cease, so long as a man is to be found willing to read Repub- lican paper. We ask then, not that we expect a monied return for our labors, but we ask in behalf Of the Republican party, that each indi- vidual friendly to it, devote little Of his time towards securing us q hearing by the people of the State. We are cheered by the frequent letters we receive, all congratulating us on the sue cess of our enterprise, but neither the party or ourselves are yet satisfied. M Send us the names of our acquaintance, who would like to subscribe or who will read our paper gratuitously for reasonable time and you will entitle yourselves to the gratitude of the party in Virginia. Send in your lists as rapidly as possible ; we are prepared to furnish as many copies as you will have read. We regret to state that office-holders, who live upon the emoluments of party office, have thus far failed in their duty. | We ask none of them to circulate the JOURNAL particularly, but we do declare it their duty to see that Republican paper reaches the people. ~

1871

The Memphis AudLdllche of Wednesday gives an account cf revolving case of in eest which was first brought to light and public notice last Monday evening. About ten o'clock that evening, while a well known physician was quietly reading at his residence, he was startled by violent ringing at his door bell. Hurrying to the door he found an elderly gentleman, who implored him to come to his house imme- diately, as his daughter was dying. Hav- ing seen the young lady referred to only a day or two before, the doctor thought the sickness very strrnge, but supposed it was caused by a eongestive chill or some other dangerous malady. Proceeding Immediately to her bedside, the physician, after q moments examina- ton, discovered that his patient was in travail. Stepping out of the room, he call ed the father and mother and asked them if they were aware of the condition of their They replied tha they were not, but supposed it was some sudden attack and remarked that the young lady had felt unwell for, several days. Their consterna- ton and grief may be imagined when the doctor told them the real cause of their daughters illness. The mother received the heart-rending information with a shrek, and fell senseless into the arms Of the father, who bowed his head, while a convulsive sob shook his strong frame, Ordering ever one to leave the room ex- cept the physician and his wife, the fa- ther went up to the almost unconscious girl and demanded the name of her sedu- Ger which she with tears refused to give, but by repeated threats, intermingled with solicitations from her mother, she fl nalIy named her own brother as the gull ty man. This last blow was too much, for, with low, heart-broked gasp, the poor mother fell lifeless on the floor, and it was onIy by the most assiduous care and careful treatment that she was ever re- stored to consciousness. From questions asked the girl, it was learned that her unnatural brother had first led her from the paths of virtue when she was but fourteen years of age, and since that time has been criminally inti- mate with her repeatedly. A few days ago the brother, who was considered highly exemplary young man, left for parts un- known. The yonng lady, whose family are highly respectable, is about seventeen years of age, gave birth to child on Tues day morning, and at last accounts mother and child were both doing well.

1871

The following article is copied from the Abbeville Flag, a journal bitterly to Governor Warnoth: 1t is pretty well known that we like Governor Warmoth's usrrpations just enough to favor his Impeachment. we also admire Mr.. Walsll's cilal- lenge just enough to condemn it. Thus throwing down the glove under the circumstances, is no evidence that Walsh will fight. IFS refusal is no indication that Warmoth is a coward. We think it requires more moral nerve, to refuse a challenge than to accept one. The Republican who will indorse the absurdity of duelling, by fighting under any pretext, is utterly unacGuainted with one of the most clearly enunciated principles of his party. If a man so insults you as to deserve death, break his head or else shoot him on sight, but never descend to his level by fighting duel. War moth was nearly played out, but this ridiculous challenge will do more to win him friends and revive his droop- ing hopes, than the discovery of q gold mine. If Mr.. Walsh pretends to be a leader of the Dunn party, we openly and sqIlarely repudiate him and his kind. He fevives the Lost Art of the Lost Cause, in party that abhors it. Such men are an advan- tage to WaImoth at the North, and a drawback and dead weight to the party at home.

1871

The Tt1rebonne Patriot Will enter upon its fourth volume next month, and the editor announces that some decided improvements viii he made in the paper upon that occasion. II this is an evidence of its prosperity, we are glad to hear it. '1ii

1871

/ AnSlElcCng oung children. Most parents, when attempting 60 teach young children how to use their little hands in doing some thing, seem to be destitute of the proper exercise of common sense, and devoid Of all patience, the re- suit Of which is, the temper of the dear pupil is soured, fll-nature is aroused, and perverseness, obstina- cy, and Il don't 'tcare," ," and 81 won't try, drive out the suavity and flial affection which are calculated to render the realm of home a little heaven below. Children have eve rything to learn by the slow and te- dious process of educating the muscles TO perform some new ope- ration with which they are not ia miliar. Because a child cannot perform some little duty with the same facility that the parent is able TO do it, after the parent has trained his or her muscles to that partieu- lar manipulation for many years, the verdant pupil is reproached in an overbearing manner, fretted at and frequently boxed for his unac- countable stupidity. Even some professedly religious parents, who desire greatly to train up their children in the nurture and admo- milton of the Lord, frequently fall into this mischievous error of pro- voking their little children 20 wrath when love and gentleness should direct all their instructions. The best of all known remedies for fretting and scolding parents, is to attempt to perform with the left hand whatever is required to be done with the right, or with both hands of the child. If the pupil is awkward in handling a pen, let the parent take the pen in the left hand and beat the child, if it is possible. IF the little seamstress handles her needle or scissors awkwardly, let the mother take the needle in the left hand, and teach the young ap- prentice how dexterously she can handle those tools with muscles that have never been educated.- You think that little fellow handles his knife and fork stupidity awk- ward. Before fretting at and re- preaching him, procure the largest spoon in the house, and the biggest carving knife and fork; then take the spoon in the left hand, or let him see how skillfully you can ply the knife and fork with the knife in the. left hand. That little am bilious girl wishes to help mamma burnish the knives and forks, and wipe the dishes. But she handles everything so awlwardly that her tender mother becomes 50 nervous that nothing viii restore the equili- brium except fretting and scolding. If the good mother would only ex- ercise herself to handle her Wiping cloth or the Furnishing powderwith the left hand, the charge would be so amusing to both parent and chill dren that fretting and fault-finding would disappear. Parents, when training colt, or a young donkey, viii exercise the patience of job in educating the unframed pupil; but if a dear child appears a little un- willing or awkward, he is often treated like a football Christian Weekly.

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Flattery is ike bad butter; easily spread on, but sensible people won't swallow it. You may CLEAN knowle'lge by read ing, but you must separate the ehaf from the wheat by thinking. It's the country homes. the small villages and towns, that make the true strength Of nation. Tt is the best ordered households that usually are begun the best ordered lives. A eoTet0hs man is an enemy to the poor; and is cursed both in this and the coming world. Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons. They hurt themselves and put 9TH ers to pain. A mind full Of piety and knowl- edge is always rich; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a perpet- ual dividend ofhappiness. Many q man breads throwing a. way his life at once, who shrinl1s not from throwing it away piece meal. Any one may do a casual act of good nature; but a continuation Of them shows it a part ofthe tempera- ament. I would give nothing for that mar. 5 religion whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.-Ros0- land HH. Be not penny wise. Riches have wings, and some times they fly of ofthemselves; sometimes they must be sethying to bring in more. Fortune is for the most but a gal laxy or milky-way, as it were of obscure virtues without q name BacOa. Faith leads from itself to Jesus. The generous heart should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. Laziness Isl a good deal like mon ey, the more a man has the more he wants. Fine sights of human pomp and worldly grandeur captivate and ravish worldly minds. Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by many streams, but is extremely difficult to trace it to its source. Those who have escaped the rocks of gross sins, have yet been cast away upon the golden sands. A guilty conscience is like whirlpool, drawing in all which would otherwise pass by. The pebbles in our path weary us, and make us foot-sore, more than the rocks, which only require a bold effort to surmount. One sight Of the matchless charms and the dazzling glories OF the Savior make all other things appear mean and contemplate. Wise travellers provide the needfuIl for their journey, and guard against such as lie in wait, by the way to rob them. It is the great JOY of the Gospel indeed, it is that which makes the Gospel, that it is for any and every poor sinner who will believe. The essence of the Gospel, the Joy Of sinners and the glory Of faith consists in a firm belief in the efficacy of Jesus, beloved to cleanse and save the soul. A mans possessions are just as large as his own soul. If his title cover more, the surplus acres own him, not he the acres. The tears of beauty are like clouds foatings over heaven Of stars. be- dimming them a moment that they may shine with a brighter luster than before. Never let yourself be beguiled with the idea that fate has mis- placed you in life and that if you were in some other sphere you would rise. With love, the heart becomes a fair and fertile garden, with sun and warm hues; and exhaling sweet odors; but without il, it is a bleak desert covered with ashes. Happy The man to whom heaven has given a morsel Of bread with out laying him under the obligation Of thanking any other for it than heaven itself An avaricious man runs straight into poverty. He leads a life Of poverty here below; but he must give the account Of q rich man in the day ofjudgment. A man can go to heaven without wealth, without health, without honor, without learning, without friends; but he can never go with out Christ. Any one can drift But it takes PRAYER, religious principle, earnest ness of purpose, constant watching to resist the evils Of this worid-to struggle against the tide. The preaching Of the word in some places is like the planting Of

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more. What makes the think thee will keep thy vowg' 81 know, friend Edgerton, I have often, often vowed to drink no more but now I feel different from what I ever did before. MY heart is bro ken, I feel my weakness, and / be- lieve God viii help me this time. . 'God grant it may be SO, Daniel. Get in and take a seat. Thee must be hungry 60 home with me- On the way the Quaker drew out Of him all that we've written; and he advised him to go to California. He told him to go to New York, and work his passage round the Cape. He determined to do so.- The Quaker furnished him with suitable apparel. ''Thee wants to see thy wife and children before thee goesg "Yes, friend Edgerton, I do, but they have become estranged from me. fl went, perhaps they would not believe what I say. It is bet ter that 1 should not see them. In deed it is better that they shouldn't know where I am. I want to sur prise them, as hope todo, by COM ing back a sober man, and with mo- ney- enough to make them comfort able. I prefer that you and your wife should be the only persons in the place who know where I am and what I am doing" Thus, while riding towards the quiet farmhouse of the Quaker, the whole thing was arranged. When they reached the place, the horse was put in the barn and they enter ed the house, he said to his wife as they took their seats by the fire: 'Amy, thee may put another plate. Daniel will stay with us few days, and then he will go to California" The benevolent Quaker was con fdent that Daniel Akin would keep his resolve. At length when everything was in readiness, the horse was harness ed, and Daniel Akin was on his way to a railway station. He had not been in the village since the night when the words, ''Not a drop moro, Daniel" were uttered. He was missed from his customary haunts, but it was supposed he had gone off on a spree, and so nothing was thought Of his absence. His wife's father lived in the adjoining town, and some thought he had gone over there. No inquiries we're made, for ma ny were rejOiced that he was miss ing, and cared not for his return. He had been gone somewhat more than a year, when the Quaker was in the store of Haskins and remark ed that he wished to hire a pasture the coming season. "I have got one I win let yon have free of rent, if you win put up the fences on the place" said Haskins. 'Where is it? asked the Quaker. 'On the Akin farm ''If thee will rent it at that rate, the must have let it get out of re- pair" ''It is so indeed; I cannot leave the store to attend to it. The house is poor, and the family that lived in it were too shiftless to buy wood, and burnt up all the rails. I had rather sell than rent it." ''What will thee takeY' 81 cost me some sixteen hundred dollars" "Yes, but thee paid in goods and had thy own price on them" ''To be sure 1 did. Akin could not get trusted anywhere else, and 1 felt that Twas running a great risk in letting him have goods. I had to charge him accordingly, just as ANYBODY would under the eircum- stances. - "Thee has not told me what thee would take for the place. viii give thee eight hundred dollars for it, if that is any object to thee. Haskins thought long enough to conclude that the interest Of eight hundred dollars was far better for him than the farm, for the use Of which he had scarcely realized any thing, and said. .'You can have it" "Thee can make me out a deed to- morrow, and thee shall have thy money. BY the way, does thee know what has become Of Daniel Aking' tNo. He has not been in the VII Iage for more than a year. At any rate, 1 have nos seen him" We may tell The reader what Has kins did not know. The Quaker had that. day received a letter from / Daniel Akin, stating that be was at the mines, hard at work, and was sticking to his motto, Not a drop more, Daniel," and that he had laid up a few hundred dollars, and de- string him to inquire what the place | he once owned could be bought for. Mr.. Edgerton had taken the I sr.rrsaH 70 EfmFI

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that he was perfectly miserable when he could not obtain the means Of gratifying his thirst. He had neglected his family till his wife's father had taken her and her chill dren to the parental roof He had spent all his substance for drink, and was kept from the poor house only by performing menial services for his food, and by the kindness of Thomas Edgarton, a member of the Society OF Friends, VINO had known him from his youth and had a strong hope that in the course of time Daniel would see his folly and turn again into the right path. The leading merchant in the place had let him have drink as long as his money lasted, but would trust him no longer. He was loafering about the store one bright moonlight eve ming, pleading with the merchant to trust him for a drink. His re- ply was: ''Not a drop more, Daniels He remained a while longer and left. AS the cool air of the even ing fell upon him, he all at once be gan to give utterance to his feelings in the following strain: Not a dropmore, Daniel Am I drunk, OF am I sober2 1 am So Der. Not a drop more, Daniel. = Did Haskins think a drop more would hurt me? MOI out my mo- ney was gone. He has got the Bi- bic my mother gave me. He has got the shoes my wife bought for Jennie, and paid for with her own earnings. Not drop more, Dan iel.' Daniel, what say you to that2 I say so too. I once had good clothes, and now have nothing but rags. Not a drop more, Daniel, till I have others as good as when Ma ry and I were married. I had once a good watch, but that too is gone. Not a drop more, till I have another as good as the one I pawned to Has kins for drink. 1 have seen the time when I had a nice good horse and buggy, and could ride into the village in as good style as any man in the place. Not a drop more Daniel, till I own another horse and buggy as good as I once had. I once had COWS which furnished my family with butter and cheese, but Haskins has got them. Not drop moro, Daniel, until those COWS, or others as good, are mine again. I once had this wallet filed with bills, but now there is not a cent. Not a drop more, Daniel, till this Wallets well filed again" BY this time he had reached the place where he had formerly resid- ed, and he stood and leaned against the fence, and mused for time in silence. He viewed the desolatc- ness of the scene by the light of the moon; and his eye ranged over the house and barn once his own, which had become out of repair He then said: "Once I owned this house and farm. Here I was born. Here my father and mother died. I was the pride Of their hearts but / brought down their gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. Here I CONF menced my married life, and all that heart could wish was mine. Here Mary and I took comfort till Has kins came and opened his rum shop and now he calls it his! In that south room my children were born, and here my Jennie died. Oh, how sorrowfuI she looked when she saw me take her shoes and start for the store to pawn them for rum, while she Law sick. Aud then how she begged me before she died never to strike her mother again. 1 can see her now, her pale face, her wasted form, but she cannot come to me again. And oh, my wife how shame fully have I abused youi 1t was not your Daniel that did it. No! it was that vile rum that Haskins sold me. No wonder you were ta- ken from me by those who love you, and not see you abused. They won't have me in the house. Not a drop more, Daniel, till the house is mine again. Not a drop more, Dan lei, until these broad acres are again in my possession, and that wife and children that are living, are in yon- der rooms, and we are happy fam flv once more. Not drop more, Daniel, so help me God, till all these things are accomplished. ! shall not forget them" He had become 50 much Ocon- pied with his thoughts, and spoken in a tone so loud, that he bad not heard the wagon which by this time had reached the road, in which was seated the kind-hearted Quaker who has been mentioned. BE stop ped his horse and heard distinctly the language which Daniel had used. As he closed his soliioquy he turned and saw Thomas Edger- ton, who said: ! @Daniel, does thee mean to keel

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The st. Louis Republican. in view of Logan's remark that Grant "would run like HI, with a tin kettle tied to his tail, thinks that the Senator ''is sound on the Grant question but is not q success as a Methodist"

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"No other six weeks Of my life have had compressed into them half SO much excitement, or half so much interest Those Northern States have very far the start Of US Virginians, in almost all the constituents of civilization yes, further than my State pride will even now will let me own without struggle. They are more public spirited than we. They are more charitable-they possess better or. ganized social and civil institutions. Their usages are more favorable to health, to virtue, to intelligence - and in their thorough, practical understanding of the word COMFORT, (Which is said to be unknown in any language, save the Eng. lish) they are as far before U.s. as We are before the Hottentots or Esquimaux. Great good-very great gOod-would result to Virginia or any other Southern State, if her farmers and planters, and their wives would come often among the Yankees and observe their ways. Some things would be seen to be Stunned but many more, TO be initiated. shall al ways preach up to my countrymen aud countrywomeu the utility of such jaunt l shall particularly exhort them to quit the great highways of fashionable touring the steam and stage lines-and explore the simple, rural districts for instance Windham county in Connecticut, and Worcester and Berkshire, or even Hamp- shire or Hampden in Massachusetts. There would have them stay, for sever al days, in village Inn, or (better still enter as boarders in a farm House, and themselves in plain dresses and with no equipage, so as not to awe their entertain ers into reserve, quietly note their ways. One day with my kind hostess in Wind ham with whom breakfasted so on the llth of july could not help being pleas ant and profitable.

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whatever he undertakes a success from the first),-and is established upon u firm basis pecuniarily, and in respect to the mechanical skill employed. 1t has every facility for doing business, and is managed by men whose manufactures are well and favorably known in every town in the country. The same resources, en-. ergy, and knowledge which have made the name of Sprague household word wherever in all our broad land cotton goods are worn, are applied to furnishing the farmer with an implement saving him labor, expense, and loss of crops. The mower will be soon, and on large farms now is, as necessary an adjunct as a COW or plough. To get the best is as i'm. portant as to have good seed.wheat, or sound potatoes to plant No man who uses one at all, can afford to have any but the best and cheapest, Just as no farmer who cuts twenty tons of hay with scythe can compete in the market with the man who cuts it with a machine. The interest on tho machine is nothing compared with the cost of doing the work by hand, to say nothing of the delays and losses so often occasiened by the want of help at the all-important moment The works Of this Company are built upon what was formerly gently sloping meadow in the western part of the city Of Providence, and on the shore of Long Pond. In their vicinity has grown up community sustained by the concern, and comprising sturdy mechanics, skilled ar. tisans, and those who find employment and are benefited by its creation and growth. The foundry is one.story building, with an area of 14,S40 feet, containing two cupolas, with capacity OF twenty tons per day. This capacity it is the intention of the Company to in. crease Immediately, although with their present arrangements they are enabled to turn out fifty machines day. Ad. joining the foundry is clearng-room, 40 4 50 feet; two pattern houses, re. spectively 40 80 feet, and 80 80 feet. The machine-shop is model one in every respect The work is all done on one floor space is strictly economical; the system is complete order everywhere prevails every man is in his place, and every article carefully made and inspect. ed nothing is left to chance or accident, all is done according to well conceived and well understood plan, and every ma chine is thoroughly tested before it leaves the works There are no negligences al lowed, and no imperfect pieces are per- mitted to be used The detail being per feet, the result is that the whole machine is just what it ought to be. The arrange ment Of the machinery employed (some Of it being made by the Company is such that the work passes from one de- Dartment to the other with no unnecessary and thus, as in other ways, the cost of production reduced to its lowest point And herein this concern has every advantage. 1t is able to purchase its when it pleases, and at the low EST price; it has the best mechanics it has erected its works especially for the purpose to which they are devoted; in very respect it has the means of doing is work well, and at the lowest rates with entire faithfulness in producing the best article. From the entrance Of the pig iron into the foundry o its appearance in the machine-shop in he form of castings, the work progresses, md assumes its ultimate form step by tep, in the most economical manner, till rom thence it emerges complete and crfect machine, ready to be made by he painters as ornamental as it is useful, he machinc-shop is 200 = 60 feet, with SSi4, sl qGSG}t Ga}t By tEc PffCcSSiideGce Steam nginc Company. The blacksmith shop 5 90 = 40 feet, and the pattern shop is o \ 80 feet In the month of March he Company turned out !, ,O4l machines. The thousands who visit our city will nd it to their advantage to visit these 'orks, for the traveller who leaves it ont t his sight here cannot tell one in full that manufacturing city Providence S, and what brilliant promises she gives Or the future.-Proridence Paper.

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The New Haven Democrats are seek. ing to creep out of a very small hole, by claiming that the ballot stufiing and steal ing in the Fourth Ward of that city was the professional gamblers, who had bet on English. The fact that they can't lay their hands on the offenders would seem to indicate that according to their own story gamblers and democrats are most wonderfully alike.

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What Saw from my window. 1t was strange scene and yet ther ? was nothing startling about it. coul ! not tell why my eyes were rveted to tn spot. Probably, | said to myself, it ca -, only be accounted for by some occult pys : Geological reason, and | will simply watch = and endeavor not to wonder. MY librar, j. is situated in the third-story back.roon efan ordinary.built house in the neighbor hood of the Hcights,a and it is there spend hour after hour in work and study-.some , times, as the light fades from the sky drawing near the window with my book on writing, and semi-occasionally glancinp at the backs of the houses opposite. The house whose garden joins ours has always been an object of interest to me, even since | moved into the neghborhood, on account of an old gentleman who was to be seen in his library at almost any hour OF the day. He seemed to be an inde- fatigable worker, and was generally at his post long before | was. This old gentleman grew to be very entertaining to me, and | came to miss him very much when for any reason he was absent from his library. The time above alluded to was early in the evening in the latter part of February. My neighbor had gone from bookcase to bookcase, and drawer to drawer, arranging and putting away and at last | noticed or thought | saw him lock the drawers of his desk and put the key in his pocket. Soon after | heard the ring Of their tea-bell, and watched until the old gentleman walked slowly out of the room. What was the reason that even then | could not withdraw my gaze 4? There was nothing particular inviting about the apartment, now that its occu- pant had gone, but still could not help looking. The gas was burning very dim ly, and could just make out the differ ent articles of furniture, assisted a little BY the light Of very pleasant CRATE fire. AS | watched, a figure clad in white came swiftly in at door at the right. A cold, nervous tremor took full possession of me. Not that | felt there was anything SUPER natural about the vision. knew better for | Immediately recognized the form and dress of lady had noticed in the garden only an hour or two before; but | did not know that her presence in that room at that particular time meant mis- chief and woe unutterable. | know that her feet made no noise as she moved hastily about, going over exactly the same ground which the old gentleman had travelled only few moments previous. Drawer after drawer she ransacked- lifting lids, examining pigeon-holes and finally after second spent in looking over the contents of the old gentleman's desk saw her grasp what appeared to me to be small box or casket, close and lock the drawer, and then waving her hands aloft,with singularly triumphant gesture, hurry from the room. That this young woman had been guilty of theft l was perfectly aware also, felt sure that she was some relative of the proprietor of the and more than all did l realize that the fearful consequences Of this work Iy"nlSrny- cstvrnIeu IIicnUvI o, uiie"nuusc- hold. How did know this? Perhaps | reasoned from cause and effect without really being aware that such was the case. Perhaps, having been let to see this strange performance, | was peculiarly acted upon as to the result. However that mi ght be, it seemed that the troubled future of that family was thoroughly daguerreotyped upon my heart. After while the old gentleman entered the library, followed by an elderly lady | took to be his wife then young gentle had often noticed him before and last of all the lady in white, with wide scarlet sash and neck-ribbon. Soon after a young woman, whom | had also often seen in the garden, apparently the geverness, as she always had littlo curly headed boy by her side, entered, leading the urchin for the sole purpose, it would seem. of bidding them all good night, The old gentleman took him in his arms and caressed him for while, ,and after short frolic with each one he was led off by his govern.ss. Then the young gentleman drew the shades and | saw no more that night. 1t was some time be- fore could sufficiently Danish the occur renee to sleep, and the first thought upon waking the next morning was the strange scene Of the previous evening. My first glance at my neighbours library was suf- fcent to assure me that The theft was dis covered. The old gentleman. with his hands clasped behind him, paced slowly up and down the apartment. His wife, assisted by the young woman who had ransacked every nook and corner the night before, went through the farce Of examination. The old man was evident ly too grieved and stunned to join in the search. During the forenoon the young governess entered, having to all appear ance been sent for. for the purpose of questioning. For moment she stood it appeared to me, in silent wonderment then advanced quickly to the centre of the room and confronte ed the old gentle man. The little boy ran into the library, and caught her by the hand. The owner of the white robe-this morning she was dressed in a white merino wrapper, faced with cherry, and cherly trimmings-arose from her chair by the library table, and with an imperious gesture, perfectly OBJ servable from my distance even, drew the child away from the side of his companion. Then the poor girl hid her face in her handkerchief, and left the room. 1t was plain then as the sun at midday. The ! 0oreyuess had been aroused of the theft. What was my duty in the premises ? When | took into consideration that | had not heard word spoken, did not even know what had been stolen, and had only the pictures of the different scenes to rely on for proof, my position was a very peculiar one, to say the least. It was certainly very delicate busi- ness to call at that strange house, and describe to the proprietor what | had

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The returns Of the recent local election at Charleston, South Carolina, show that only four hundred whites voted for the Rad icsl ticket, while one thousand four hundred and twenty colOred men voted for the Citizens iCouservstive ticket, although it was almost as much as their lives were worth. This shows that the most respecta- bic colored men of that city no longer feel themselves under obligation to support the Radical party.

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If The Democrats are not satisfied with 10000 majority on the popular vote of Ken snoky, gain OF 8 900 since last year. they will have to fall back On the Legislature, which on JOINT ballot is made up of III Democrats and q Radicals, showing q Democratic majority of SO. As matter OF policy, this is too much one sided.

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THE houSekeepers of America very gen orally know Dr. Prices Cream Baking Pow der and Special FlAvOrings. They are be- yond ell question the best and most perfect of anything for the purpose in the market, and are now having the largest sale. Al most q million families use them constantly and the housewife who has used them once will never be without them. Grocers and dealers can supply you.

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FEMALE DEMcAcY.-Above every other fea- ture which adorns the female character. deli cacy stands foremost within the province OF good taste. Not that delcacy which is per- petually in quest of something to De ashamed Of which makes merit of blush, and simpers at the false construction its own ingenuity has put upon an innocent remark this spurious kind Of deicacy is as far removed from good taste as from good feeling and good sense ; but the high-minded delicacy which maintains its pure and undertaking walk alike amongst wo- men as in the society of man, which shrinks from no necessary duty, and can speak, when required with seriousness and kindness, of things at which it would be ashamed to smile or to blush-that delicacy which knows how to confer benefit without wounding the. feel ings of another, and which understands also how and when to receive one-that delicacy which can give aims without display, and ad- vice without assumption and which pains not the most humble or susceptible being in creation.

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"SHop."- Under this head Rowell's New York Newspaper Reporter gives the following sensi- BILE article awe rejoice to find in our respected cotem- poraries anything they may print relating to the business of printing, editing, advertising, &c. There are many Of these matters which may be advantageously opened, from time to time, for healthy discussion. We try to secure such articles as our legitimate prize, aud do our best to worry them into shape for the Re- porter. Some matters, however, are too often dwelt upon in newspapers, and sometimes at such an absurd length as to create the Just ac- cusation that they contain too much shop" We refer to the endless personal discussions, chickering's and such professional matters as in no way concern the public, and have not even a passing interest for the general reader. In some countries, France, for instance, these matters often take on "vitaP' interest, from the fact that they are almost sure to end in bloodshed, and the remote possibility of news paper duel is one of the surest appetizers for the break fast tables of reading world. Blood is certainly one of the best paying articles OF merchandise which form the stock in trade of the journalist. Blood pays. 1t is sure, handy and easily worked. But our squabbles lack this i'm mportant clement and consequently the personal affairs of our editors lack interest If the public is tired of so much shop, is it not time to drop it ? Is it not best to discuss only the real business or professional point at issue, and leave aside the mere vanities which crop out from the "sanctum sanctorum Z"

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PooR WEAK WoMAN.-Miss Susan Nipper who lives in a small tenement, a lone woman, was quite frustrated the other morning by an early call from bachelor neighbor. what do you come here after? asked Miss Nipper. piled. Matches That's likely story. Why don't Won make match? l know what you come for,' cried the exasperated old virgin as she hacked the bachelor into corner. you came here to hug and kiss me almost to death But YOU shant without you're the strongest, and the Lord knOaos yoN are"

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There is gem more pearly bright, More dear to mercy's eye, Than loves sweet star, whose mellow light First cheers the evening sky; A liquid pearl that gitters where No sorrows now intrude richer gem than monarchs wear, The tear of gratitude. But meier shall narrow love of self Invite the tribute forth, Nor can the sordid slave of pelf Appreciate its worth But ye, who stop the widows woe, And give the orphan food, For you this liquid pearl shall flow, The tear of gratitude. Ye who but slake an infants thirst In heavenly mercy's name, Or proffer penury crust, The sweet reward may claim; Then while you rove life's sunny banks, With sweetest fiow'rets strewed, Still may you claim the widows thanks, The Orphans gratitude.

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Too much cannot be said or written en- the subject of cooking, for life, health, prosperity and happiness depend upon the quality OF food we eat. Many man can trace bis fallen for tunes and shipwrecked hopes to heavy bread, tough biscuit, and other poor cooking. Stomachs ought 70 have sheet-iron Innings to endure the burdens and insults imposed upon them by inefficient housewives. Those long-faced, glum sort of people, to whom it seems sin to laugh and drive dull care away, are most likely the victims OF indigestion which brings on multitude of diseases and makes in valds. So q man may work and do his best to accumulate fortune-but if his wife does not properly prepare his food, or, if they can afford it, see that her hired help does it, in the midst of increasing prosperity and bright prospects that man is very likely TO fall sick and when bis strength is gone the spirit of his projects dies out, and every thing sinks down sIaguant and lifeless. Women have far greater responsibility in these things than many of them like to admit or assume. 1t requires very little more effort to do things well than to betch them up. And there is satisfaction iu knowing a thing is rightly done which pays for the trouble. Especially isit true OF girls who 90 out to work, that they are apt to take the quickest way of turning off work, if il is not the best They ought to feel the Importance of their position, and that they desire the family where they live to be we'll and happy. In all departments Of house keeping, it costs less to be neat, orderly and systematic, and to know just how much but ter, sugar, eggs and -four TO use on baking-da as we'll as just how long to boil or roast nice tender piece of meat, that ii may not be toughen- ed, and its sweetness and nourishment cooked away. Good housekeepsrs know so many ways to save and economise of which an unpractsed hand is entirely ignorant. Experienced cooks make delicious and inexpensive dishes OF odds and ends left over from meal TO meal, which in most hoseholds are more or less wasted. Who would believe that the well-picked bones Of a roasted chicken, with two or three little beef bones taken from the broed beef-steak which was served at breakfast, boiled two hours in about quart Of water, will make excellentso1p good for the sick and tempting to the most deli cate taste2 Try it and see. Soup is strengthening, and can be made much cheaper and easier than most people can imagine. Beef bones are just as good for soup after they have been roasted as any, and save much expense. There is no accomplishment fer which wo- man has so much reason to congratulate herself and he proud, as for being good housekeeper, and the foundation Of housekeeping is TO be q good cook Ellen Orlou, in Pomeroy's Weekly.

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"Here, Lizzie, wish you Would put leW stitches into my coat it's getting so shabby dts so, Frank but really think you had best take it to tailor" "Take it to a tailor ! By George but that's huge idea. Why, there's not five minutes work to be done, and the tailor would charge dollar 81 suppose he would, but don't see how l can do it day. Walter is very frettul, and you know he kept me awake nearly all night" "Little imp !" 1t does not seem to me there ever was so cross young one. Always some excuse Well, you must mend my coat, any how" 81 will try and find time" "Try lust let him squall twill do him strengthen his lungs" "Then, you know, it is ironing day." "Well, how many more excuses I'll put 1t on, rips and all, if you are going to make a fuss" "Oh, no, Frank, I did not mean to make a fuss but it's a long job, and one | am not used to and with my dinner to get, and baby, and ironing, do not see yet how can get it DONE But III do my best" Such was the conversation that passed between young husband and wife OF elgh- teen months standing. Frank Burton was what the world calls real driver. He made anything that went through his hands inure to his own benefit. Everybody liked him because he was so frank, and withal so honest and upright in all his dealings with his customers. He was well educated for business man; lived in society /; had made up his mind that he could support wife, and, according to his reckoning, save something to boot. Yes, to be sure he could. There were six dollars week for board, one dollar week for washing and then quarters and dimes innumerable for taking his lady ac- ouaintances to ride, to the theatre, to ice cream saloons balls operas, etc. I. lii al hn mai his yearly account, "that's huge; enough to break fellow a thousand a year; it won't do I'll marry and settle down !" So he applied to Lizzie Forsyth to be his wife and he was soon in possession OF her. A snug house was rented, and the work of supporting wife began IN earnest. The hVe rooms cost two hundred dollars year, and were prettily furnished. Lizzie preferred to do all her work. Sometimes by her needle she earned dollar extra. Then, as it was little lonesome for Frank, he brought home several clerks as day boarders, at four dollars week. Still, with all this he would tell his acqualn- tances how much less it cost him tolive now he supported wife. He never seemed for mo- ment to realize that she it was who was saving all these expenses, and that If he had not earned dollar, her busy hands would have paid the rent and kept him from starving. So the matter stood when he asked his wife to mend his coat. Lizzie drew deep sigh after he was gone, and hurried her dishes away as fast as possible. The coat was of brosdcloth, and was his wedding garment but it was well nigh wear ing out, broken under the arms, the cord and lining in rags the sleeve Innings broken loose, buttons worn off in fine, there was nearly davis work. She sat down to the coat with hearty good will, determined to do her best. Her needle flew fast, but every moment it had to be laid down to see to dinner or hush the baby. The hours wore away, and though she did all she possibly could, the job was still un- done at sundown. Walter cried necessarily. He looked pale, and his eyes were dim. She then remembered Franks words, "let him squall" and let him cry half an hour or more. Oh, bow it wearied her to hear her darling cry for its mother. Tears swan in her eyes as she thought OF her hard days work and the want of appreciation OF her labor. She knew she was making his old coat look almost as well as new. But he would never think of the toll she had put upon it. "And what if he don't ?" she mentally said ri shall in my own spirit know all have done, and that is enough" But Lizzie was strong hearted as we'll as loving and dutiful. So she shook OFT her dlscon- tent and became as cheerful as possible. Then she worried through supper-getting and with much managing had all things done by the time that Frank came in with his companions. my coat done, Lizzie Z! "No, not quite" "There's woman for ye, boys. One-half of them would let husband go out at the elbows week before they would turn aside from any plan of their own. All the ironing completed, I'll be bound, Lizzie" Lizzie was taking her biscuit out OF the oven, and the Young men did not see the deep flush of pain that flashed over her weary features. "Will you bring in pitcher OF water, please?' she said pleasantly. "There it is again when was a bach had nothing to do but hand my coat over to the tailor, pay him dollar, and twas done in a jify, and not any grumbling. No water 10 fetch when fellows tired, either" Lizzie was nervous, was tired with house hold work and care. She could not endure his badinage, although half playful. She hastily set them on the table, and saying simply "supper is ready" stepped IN the bed room and then burst into tears. Her tears did not flow long, though she was deeply and wrongfully hurt in her feelings. Her heart gained in its natural relief, and after pretend ing that she was getting Walter asleep (Which she actually did) she bathed her eyes and came out washed her dishes, and sat down again to the coat Frank sat watching her flying fingers for an hour or two, as he laughed and talked to his friend, thinking to himself that every turn would be the last At nine o'clock she had set the last SClLCn. Inc COdJ lOOhcu llhO d hO" OhO all around. AS she finished, She looked up with still a shade of sadness upon her brow. "There, Frank, l have mended your coat thoroughly. I guess it will last another year now" "Quite Job, wasn'tit ?longer than thought" !" SAID he, deprecatingly. GLOW much clear cash have you made to- day, Frank?" asked Lizzie, in very earnest tone. m "What do you want to know that for ?" was his answer. =, "For my own satisfaction certainly should | feel an interest in all your affairs" "Well, l think the shop has cleared twenty dollars" Chow much do you count your own services | worth % "Not less than five dollars day." ''How many hours do you labor" "Ten is the legal time nowadays. | don't generally work that many. But what arc all these questions for 2" "Because, Frank, we are husband and wife. We expect to live the rest of our lives together, and if there is harmony in our marriage rela- ton, there must be justice and right. You may call me daily to appreciate anything you can do. You have earned five dollars to-day, | and the shop has cleared twenty. Yet to save you one dollar, worked ten hours on your | coat and six on your breakfast, dinner and supper, and making your home pleasant and comfortable. To save you that dollar, have had TO hurry all day, to put all of my work out of my line, and to really neglect our darling boy, who should be our first care, and the last thing, under any circumstances, to be set aside" "I had not thought of that" "I know you had not, Frank, so shall freely forgive you, but must insist that hereafter may be allowed to be my own judge of what work had best do, and shall not expect to be threatened, nor hear myself accused of not being willing to do my duty" Frank felt the force of her words and sat | silent. "One thing more, Frank. l want to say while am about it, that don't want to hear you talking about supporting your wife, will l not be supported while l am able to support / myself. / find on looking over my books, that the profits of my labor amount to five dollars week, and the board of yourself, myself, end the baby beside. Then do all your extra work and my own. All this saving has gone into capital to be invested, and to help you make your twenty dollars day. Out of this comes the five dollars you call the worth ofyour day work, while 1 must labor with weary limbs

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END OF THE SAN DOMINGO STRUGGLE. The opponents of the San Domingo project may now see their fatal mistake. Intending only to oppose annexation, they really arrayed themselves against an investigation of the reasons for or against annexation. What they wanted was to show why we should not take San Domingo,-what they did was to oppose an impartial inquiry into the facts indicating whether we should OF should not take it. They sought to defeat mistaken policy but they put themselves in the attitude of refusing to see whether it was mistaken. Of course they met with the predestined and inevitable defeat The Senate has again passed its original resolution for Commission of Inquiry to visit the island, with the House amendment, stipulating that this shall in no way commit Congress to annexation; and already We have the semi official announcement that ex-senator BENZ. F. Wade, Bishop Simpson, and Mr.. VIM. E. Dodge are to be the Commissioners. The country will receive this ending of The angry struggle with perfect satisfaction The Commissioners are sure to command universal confidence, and there can be no possible objec- ton to the inquiry they are charged to make. If opposition to the project of annexation is to be made, it must be upon the facts, not before and without the facts. Mr.. Sumner and his. followers, after the Commission reports, will have perfect right, if their judgment then points out such a course as the path of duty, to do what they may to defeat the pro- posed annexation; but their opposition thus far has been mistimed. Hear the evidence then, no longer in the dark, strike, if you must! Meanwhile the ideas suggested yesterday by Mr.. Schurz, and previously limited by Mr.. Sumner, concerning the tendency of the Ie- groes to the West Indies and the ultimate probability of a negro confederation there, viii command the thoughtful consideration of statesmen. We do not include in that category the superserviceable bIawlors who not long ago made a night in the Senate chamber hideOus by brutal attacks upon a member who chose to do his duty as he understood it. 1t was not by such follies that the Republican party was built up; nor is its continued power to be assumed without their repudia- ton. We hold the present action of the SEN ate precisely right ; we regard the amendment of the House as wise and needful cOnces- sion and we hope to see the result accepted as an end of strife.

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dcnoy, and conGdes TO him his conviction TINT, "as n soldier, Grant is failure" Notwith- standing the generally acquicscent mood OF the Congressman, he is hardly prepared TO go this length, and intimates TO his interlOcutor that possibly little delibcration may lead him to q different conclusion. But the unahashcd IIodnctt instantly takes refuge in the alterna- tive proposition that " if he is not a failure as Z" q soldier he at least is as President" which valuable opinion the Congressman likewise silently rejects, and wonders, doubtless, from what quarter of the sky bore SD prodlslous and pOrtentous has rained upon him. The most momentous utterance ofsMr. Hod- nett, however, is that in which he signifies his purpose of Withdrawing from the Republican party. The party can stand good deal, but we doubt whether it can stand that. we really hope that some arrangement VIII be made with Hodnett by means OF which the organization may still retain his valuable as sociation and cooperation. Dakota is very important place, and one which needs the ablest kind of assessment. How could the party there be kept together without the cohesive influence of IIodnetts character and the inspiring slogan Of Hodnetfs eloquent yoiceq On the whole, we think ho had better get back there as soon as possible. lie is a nice man, doubtless, but he does Mt shine to advantage here.

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Judge BlatcbfOrd has at last rendered de- cisiOn in the case of the Florida, seized some time ago under suspicion that she was fitting out as a Cuban privateer. The Government failed in every effort to show that the arma- ment found on board was intended for use against the Spanards while there was strong corroborative proof Of the purpose to sell the arms and munitions of war at Vera Cruz. 1t was in fact admitted by Gen. Darr, the owner of the vessel, that he expected to dispose OF the cargo to Cuban sympathizers at Vera Cruz, and against his right to do this the Govern meut could urge nothing. The Court has further decided that there is no prohibition III law of the shipment of arms and war NUM- tions to any country in unarmed vesseis,-a Judgment not indeed new, for the Cabinet unoficially. declared such policy three or four months ago, but one well worthy of formal reitoration at this time. 1t is proper enough and wise, we suppose, that this Government pending its claims against England growing out OF the escape or armed vessels from her ports should err on the side of too great vigilance IN OBTAINING alleged privateers. But it is evident that the Spanish agents in this country have been able, in this instance, by sldllful management, TO delay for many weeks a decision which ought to have been reached at once. And it is chiefly owing to the fact that the principle which has now been clearly and distinctly enunciated was not previously understood that this delay has occurred. From the irresponsible persons instigating and procuring the seizure of his vessel, Gen. Darr, doubtless, can obtain no legal redress, though We cannot appreciate the justice which permits government or its agents to make charges of this kind without fear of penalty in case of failure to sustain them. We protested against it at the time;- the result shows that our protest was deserved, and should have been needed. The decision has grave interest for all friends of the Cuban cause, and those earnest in the desire to aid the patriots will not fail TO OBJ serve its bearing. The right to fit out block ade-runners is practically conceded by the decision, and unarmed vessels loaded with munitions of war or other supplies for the insurgents of Cuba cannot be detained, as the Florida was Illegally held, by process of law on complaint of the Spanish authorities. The Cuban Junta in this country long ignorantly bent its little energy to fitting out Illegal en- terprses to prey upon Spanish commerce at sea. Its wiser successors may now without fear of opposition fit out such vessels as the Hornet which has lately been successful as a blockade-runner, and thus add to the strength of their struggling friends on fhe Island. And that it is the better policy OF the Cubans to add to their own power on shore rather than to destroy that of their enemy at sea, all who know their necessities will readily concede.

1871

The Book Committee of the Methodist Epls- copal Book Concern is to begin to-day the in- vestigation of the charges against DR.. Lanahan for exposing the alleged frauds in the manage ment of that institution, and the interest throughout the whole extent Of this great and powerful body of Christians is intense as to the revelations and the result 1t is whispered that there is a disposition on the part OF the majority of the Book Committee to keep the pro- ceedings secret. We suggest to these gentle men that the day for secrecy is past. They have suffered too much in tho public estima- ton, through stunning the light, already; the sooner and the fairer they face 1t now the better for them md for the Church whose in terests in part they have in charge.

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The celebration tonight, in the Academy OF Music, of Free and United Italy, by her sons resident among US and her many ad- mirers, is an event with which every American can sympathize-a meeting which every friend of national progress may feel proud to attend. The land of song aud of art, of history and romance, the old-timo center Of civilization and religion, and to-day free and one, presents n spectacle which may well kindle the warm est eloquence and the brightest hopes. On our second page will be found letters from various statesmen and other prominent citizens, which indicate the high estimate of the new era opening before Italy entertained by the wisest and best of our people. The meeting is GER tain to be imposing and enthusiastic, and we are glad to notice that ladies, too, are invited and expected to be present.

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1t seems that the Gentiles in Utah do not wish to see the Territory admitted as State at present, and declare that the scheme lately submitted in the Senate looking to that end was urged in the interest of brigham Young, who hopes thas to retain his power. He GER tainly cannot long WELD influence if the laws of the United States continue to be admins tered as they are at present, and it is wiser that the social revolution now agitating the community of Salt Lake City should be con- cluded before the Territory becomes State.

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not the fault of the City Fathers, however, that the Schools have not been ruincd like the Police and other organizations, for they have persistently voted away moneys which right fully belonged to the Educational fund, and which ought to have gone to the support OF the public instead of private and sectaran schools. The report of the Superintendent Just issued and published on our second page, is encouraging as showing not only increased attendance and enlarged accommodations but greatly improved system of instruction. There is no reason, other than that noticed, which should prevent the Public Schools OF New York from becoming tho best i'll the country, for they are cheerfully and Literally supported. We suppose we ought to be con tent, however, with knowing that the Schools are net deteriorating under their present mana cement,

1871

The principle that the dealers in Intoxicating liquors should be held legally responsible for the evil consequences that directly ensue from the traffic has often been presented by writer's on intemperance; but that principle has been generally rejected hitherto as impracticable. Mr.. Lawrence of Ohio, however, proposes to try it in the District of Columbia and in the Territories of the United States. His bill, introduced in the House on the 4th inst, and referred to the Commit tee on the District of Columbia, pro- vides that every wife, child, parent, guardian, husband, employer, or other person who shall be injured in person, property, means of support, or otherwise, by any in toxicated person, or by reason of the intoxica- ton of any person, directly OF indirectly, shall have right of action against any person or persons who shall, by selling or giving any in toxicating liquor, or otherwise, have caused or contributed to such intoxication, or shall have caused in whole or in part, the intoxication of such person or persons. In any such action, moreover, the plaintiff shall have q right to recover past, prospective, and e1em- plary damages. The owner or lessee of any building which is used with his knowl- edge for the sale of intoxicating drinks, is also made Jointly liable with the seller for damages resulting from the traffic The money recovered by any wife in any action under the law is to be her sole and separate property. Amy sale or gift of intoxi- eating liquors by the lessee Of any premises, resulting in damage, is to work a forfeiture of the lease 1t will be easy to rail against this bill as nero fanatcism, but who will under take to show that the principles on which it rests is unsoundH Why should not those who fatten upon the profits of the liquor traffic be compelled to bear the responsibility of their own chosen work :

1871

The Cattle Commissioner of this State re- ports that the disease now prevalent among our herds was brought from Canada. There is pending in Congress a resolution directing inquiry into the subject, which, for the sake of the important dairy and agricultural interests generally of New-York and the North-East, ought to be promptly acted upon. The report of the Commissioner has grave interest for all milk consumers, and it behoves the Sanitary Inspectors of the city to see that impure milk and butter are not sold to our people.

1871

The remarkable trial which has been in progress at Binghamton for several days ended yesterday in the conviction of the prisoner. The circumstances of the crime, as well as the character of the murder, have invested the proceedings with unusual interest. The YER dict viii surprise no one who has read closely the overwhelming evidence of guilt presented by the DrOsecutiOn

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1t is not expensive to make a. pond, where through hollow or swamp. OF course, the size of the pond depends somewhat upon the lay of the land and the quantity of water in the stream. Sometimes fifty dollars spent on dam will flow fifty acres or more. Often the the ponds are already made for reservoirs or milling purposes, and are Just as good for raising fish as if they were constructed ex- pressly for that purpose. Ifa brook is already stocked with trout, they will multiply much faster with the aid of pond Nothing need be done but to stop fishing in the brook, and let the trout multiply for three or four years. They will increase faster if you supplement natural by artificial breeding. Ten thousand young fry put into the brook every spring, will help the stock very much. You can raise the fry yourself, or buy them, as suits your means and convenience. 1t is merely question OF dollars and cents. In brooks and ponds, stocked with other fish than trout, we have no hesitation in recommending the Black Bass (Grystes nigricdns) for all northern waters. This fish has been thoroughly rested, in many experiments, for over twenty years, and is ad- | mitted by all sportsmen to be unsurpassed as | a game fish. 1t is many times more prolific than the trout, and will make fine fishing in less than half the time. 1t grows much more | rapidly, and i'll three years from the egg you get one and two pound fish. In old ponds, where feed is abundant, they are frequently taken weighing from four to six pounds. They will hold their own amid the most de- structive fresh water fishes Many claim that the flesh is quite as good as that of the trout and salmon. All we claim for it is, that it is an excellent table fish, good enough for anybody. In any well stocked water it re- quires no feeding The owner has only to put in his adult Black Bass, and they will take care of themselves, and make money for him while he sleeps. Scores of ponds in the Northern and Eastern States have been stock ed with this fish, and we are yet to hear Of any dissatisfaction. We know of one forty acre pond, stocked two years ago, that is now valued at $4,000, and it will probably pay the interest ON that sum as long as fish run.

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/ The San Francisco Bulletin publishes the following statement made by William S. Hine who was recently arrested there for the rob- berry of the Great Darlington Bank, Massa- chusetts: Twas in the harrington Bank over three years. The first two years / kept mighty straight, but at the end of that time got in with set of young fellows and they were of that cless that spent money freely. In time I went on heavy ''spree," and was called up by the President. He then told me that if / ever made mistake again, should be dis year all went well with me, Last October got in with the ''boys" again and went off on another ''spree." On Friday, the Goth of October, the cashier informed me that when the President returned, he would report. President Dodge was alb sent, and / knew that when he returned all would be over with me and would lose my character. A month or so before l had an offer from another bank of a position at S4O0 per month, and L knew that this would ruin my chance of getting it. sat down, consid- cred the whole matter, and determined on the course would take. The President was to return on Monday, the 23d of October, and my work had to be done quickly. Iknew the combination that would open the safe, and on Saturday night l went to the bank, opened tile safe, and cleared it of all available means. 1t being Saturday evening" knew that the bank would not open until Monday morning, and made the most Of my time. l was not as smart as might have been, and here l am, have no fear of the future, as my relatives are rich and influential enough to settle my case. but am sensitive regarding the loss of my character.

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How TO Cook A HAM.-The late General Winfield Scott, an acknowledged authority in culinary art, was of the opinion that few cooks knew how to cook ham, because they did not boil it until soft enough to be eaten with a spoon! A great artist once told the writer never to serve a ham under one year old; it was then to be soaked all night in soft water, and if possible, running water; it was to be put on the fire in large pot Of cold water

1871

Among other visitors in the city, drawn hither by the attrac- tions Of the State Fair, is that able journalist and uncompromis- ing Democrat, Major McCranie, of the OUACHITA TELEGRAPH published at Monroe, La. The section OF the State where the circulate is populat- cd by an energetic and prosperous people, who keep themselves posted with regard to the mar kcts of the country, and their trade is very valuable one. Our merchants can employ no better medium of communication with the planters of North Louisiana than the paper above named. st. Louis is making great efforts to d-i vert from Now Orleans the trade OF that portion of the State, and we are likely to lose much of it un- less we can offer the same induce. mcnts. Major McCranie will re main in the city for several days We acknowledge the courtesy o Il call from him-Ber.

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nine northern latitude almost without any difficulty, and it was only the want of provisions that prevented us from going further north. The probable cause of this IA vorable state of the ice in the sea of Nova Zembla in the au- tumn appears to be the Gulf stream. From the collection and comparison of all previous OBJ servations this cannot, however, be said as certain, but only as probable. In favor of our opin- ion we may mention the fact that in this high latitude the tenn perature of the water in Septem- Der is three to five degrees high er than that of the aic; also the frequency of fog, the stream to the northeast, on the coast of Nova Zembla, the characteristic blue color of the Gulf stream, and tho extraordinary number of small animals. In the begin ming of September the Gulf stream seems to leave the coast of Nova Zembla, and to appear further west, or perhaps to ex- tend itself over a much larger space. This stream of warm water is not equally deep, and loses power as it extends further north. One of tho most note worthy facts is the large number of whales in the sea Of Nova Zembla. The scientific expert ments made during our voyage consisted in the observations of tho temperature of the surface of tho water, in regular meteorolo- gical researches at different depths, in geological examina- tions of collections of stones and plants, etc.

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a good woman never grows old. Years may go over her head, but if bcnevolcucc and virtue dwell in heart, she is as cheerful as when the springs of life first opened to her view. When we look upon a good woman, we never think of her agc-she looks as charming as when the rose of youth first bloomed upon her check. That rose has not faded yet; it will never fade. In her neigbborhood she is tho friend and benefactor in the church the devout worshipper and excmpla- ry Christian. Who does not love and respect the woman who has passed her days in acts of kind ness and mercy-whO has been the friend Of man and God whose whole life has boon scene of kindness and love, q devotion of love and religion We repeat, such a woman cannot grow old. She will always be fresh and bouyant in spirits, and active in humble deeds of mercy and be- nevolencc. IF the young lady desires to retain the bloom and beauty of youth, let her not yield to tho sway of fashion and folly ; let her love truth and virtue +; and to tho close of life she will retain those feelings which now make life appear garden OF sweets ever fresh and ever new

1871

The people of the city and State, in their election of yesterday, proclaimed their adhesion to the Divine mandate Numbered from Sinai-"Thou shalt not steal :" This is the meaning, this tho NOR al of the verdict, which had very little reference to party politics. Reconstruction - Suffrage-Pro- tection-Civil Service Reform the next Presidential contest each and all are we'll in their way but the people of our State thonght little, and those of tho city nothing at all of them. . Let the full meaning of this ver- dict be realized.-N. Y. Tribune.

1871

Every day demonstrates clearly that liver complaint in all its distressing FORMS be controlled and cured with out difficulty Inconvenience 1t is obstinate disease, but its obsnacy is not proof against the pernacous dial and restorative operation of osette Stomach Bters That genial corrective cOmpes The organ n do its duy 1t must secrete regularly and BEAUTIFULLY under the influence of the Bitters Their action brings it back from beon into perfect harmony with the laws of health II there is costiveneas it dappears If there backache it if the skiH and the whites of the eyes nged with superuous bile, they their natural hue if the appetite is gone it returns If the digestion is impaired it is restored in brief whatever the symptoms the complaint may be- and whatever the phase has assumed is certain Such the uniform effects this prepa ration where bilious disease has been already oped in where there is merely constitutional tendency liver complaints it may be prevented throughout life by the regular in small quantities, of this palaabe aatdote These proven facts should be seriously pondereor rather they should be promptly acted uponby all persons of bilious habits Mar Aim

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INDIAN CREEK.-By a private letter received from Mr. R. Sillcox, we learn that for some time past his quartz mill has been running and that be intended cleaning up this week, but that he sdid not expect it to turn out much as he had been crushing refuse rock for the purpose of getting the copper plate in good order to catch The gold when he commenced on the better quality of rock. Since receiving the letter from Mr. Silcox, we have been informed that he did " clean up" and the proceeds were great deal larger than he anticipated. Silcox writes that y he thinks he has " one of the best things in the state," and we sincerely hope he has.

1871

TRINITY RIVER SALMON. oN.-Cbarley Schoppe and 'Stenmuller again propose trapping salmon this season to supply Trinity people. 1t will be re- membered that last year they sold the best fish ever brought to town at greatly reduced rates. The way its done explains everything The fish are caught in trap and kept alive. When the weather is warm Stcinmuller leaves MILESTONE Bar for Weaver about 3 O'Clock, A. M, and is here before breakfast time. Consequently, the fish are fresh and COOL

1871

TENACIOUS OF LIFE.-We were this week told the following instance of remarkable tenacity OF life in young chicken Mrs. Flowers, of Canon Creek, has a chicken that when about three days old was attacked by the old hen and severely pecked by her, the skull seeming badly broken and life extinct. This was about three O'Clock in the afternoon. Mrs. Flowers little boy, coming across the dead Bird took it for a playthng, carrying it around the yard and house by its head amusing himself with it and handling it he would toy. At times the dog would jerk it out of his hands and run off with it, the little boy would get it back again and thus chicky was handled and banded about until night, showing no signs of life. At night, when the children were going to bed, the little girl took the luckless chicken into bed with her. After the family were all a-bed, Mrs. Flowers was surprised by hearing the chicken crying out from her daughters couch. After hours oi unconsciousness and subjection to usage OF the roughest sort, the bird revived and the next day was running around with its fellows as lively as any of them.

1871

From HooPA.-Expressman John Clifford tells us that new Indian Agent and commanding officer have arrived at Fort CASTOR together with number of other new officers, some of them having wives. As the streams were up and the snow deep, we are of the opinion that some of the ladies just from the States take this to DE rough country.

1871

Go AND SEE.-By reference to advertisement in another column, it will be seen that Prof. L. Gary, the Astronomical Lecturer, will give an Entertainment at Washington Hall, this friday evening. Besides highly interesting lecture on Astronomy, number of Panoramic and Dis solving views will be exhibited and explained in such manner as to combine instruction with amusement. Professor Cary has with him an Improved Campbell Telluron," said to be the greatest invention of the century, and which has only been exhibited twice in this State, it having reached him at Red Bluff and been shown in Shasta for the first time. The Tellurion," judging from the various notices and engravings we have seen of it, is very ingenious piece of mechanism, and shows plainly the motions and course of the earth together with the changes of day and night, and fully explains the cause of the change of the seasons, which is something that most of our people have but limited knowledge of. The various positions of the earth sun and moon are set forth in practical manner and in a way that all can understand in fact, the Tellurion " is a solar system in miniature, and something which most of us will never have an opportunity of seeing again. The admission to the exhibition is placed at only so cents and we hope to see a good turnout, thereby showing that the residents of Weaver vile can appreciate something of higher order than negro minstrel performance. Prof. Cary goes North from here into Oregon.

1871

WEATHER SIGNs.-It is current saying in the Atlantic States that the ground hog comes out of his hole every Winter on the second of Feb ruary and turns himself around. If he sees his shadow, he goes back to his burrow and maps it for six weeks, for there will be forty days more Winter. Again, on the sixteenth of March he comes out, and if his shadow can be seen, he re- turns to his nest and takes another suooze for the next three weeks, for there will be twenty days more Winter. If, on the contrary upon either of these days his body casts no shadow, he remains above ground, for it will be Spring thenceforward In Ireland, the country people regard the second of February as indicating the weather to follow it. We presume there are no ground hogs in Ireland but the following coup let according to which the people of that coun- try guided in relation to the weather, will be seen to correspond in substance with the ground hog theory.

1871

most lamentable occurrence, resulting from the accidental discharge of q cartridge pocket pistol, took place on Middle street yesterday afternoon about o'clock, the effect of which has plunged two of our most respected families in incOnsoable grief Two small children, Willie Cooper and Johnny Stout, the former the son of Captain George ii. Cooper, United States Navy, and the latter the son of John Stout, Esq, bookkeeper of the Bank tof Ports mouth, obtained possession of a small single-barrel cartridge pistol a diminutive weapon, but capable of terrible execution, and set out to amuse themselves by firing cartridges about the academy lot. On the Presbyterian church corner, Willie Cooper attempted to fire the weapon in the air, and when it was in point blank range of the face of the little fellow Stout the chamber exploded and the charge entered the brain of young Stout Immediately above the left eye, and he fell back senseless on the pave ment. A number of laborers at work in the vicinity who saw the accident ran to the spot and picked up the unfortunate child and carried him into the residence of Judge Watts, where he lay perfectly comatose for about an hour and then expired. The children were very young aud altogether unconscious of the danger 10 which they ex- posed themselves in carelessy handling fire arms. Willie Cooper is nine years old and Johnny ssout was about thirteen.-NorJoh Journal, Thursday.

1871

Very many men have some extra ordinarily good IDEAS, which they strive in vain to express. and yetthev have not the sense to perceive their sLortcoming, The most experienced writers are those most aware Of their own deficiencies for the more they learn, the more they see there is still to learn. As to style and manner of composition. it is the very thing that comes last. The true authors are all their lives learning how TO write. Tru- ease in writing comes from art. not chance: y those move easiest who have Iearn'd 10 dance.

1871

A NEW TELEGRAPH PoLE.-A new telegraph pole has been invented which combines the two valuable properties of being both useful and ornamental! 1t is made of iron constructed in hollow tubes, made in sections, so that in being shipped one section can be slipped within another. In pole fifteen feet in length, the lower section is three inches in diameter, the second two and o half, and the third one and quarter inches This iron pole has insulated arms, which insures perfect current of electricity, and is fast superceding the old fashioned wooden ones.

1871

LAUNDRY Polish FOR LINEN-Add to starch made in the usual way IA small lump of white sugar, or bit of white wax Of spermaceti, or few thin shavipgs of white soap and teaspoons full of salt After the clothes are rinsed in the blue water, starch them, and dry on the clothes line; then wringing them from cold water, roll up tightly, and let them lie awhile. Iron smoothly in the usual way. Then place the bosom or piece to be polished, on a board with single fold of muslin over it, pass damp cloth over the linen and polish with IN iron made for that pur- pose, such as may be bought at the hardware or kitchen furnishing stores.

1871

That man Is maniac, dellDeratc suicide, who drinks tea, coffee or ardent spirits of any kind to induce him to perform a work IN hand, and when he feels too weak to go through it without such aid. This is the reason that the majority of great orators and public tavorites die drunkards. The pulpit, the bench. the bar, the forum, have contributed their legions of victims to drunken habits The beautiful women, the sweetest singer, the conversational ist, the periodical writer's, have filled but too often a drunkard's S grave. Now that the press haa become such a great power in the land, when the magazine must come out on certain day, and the daily newspapers at fixed hour, nothing waits, everything must give way to the inexorable call for copy, and sick or well, disposed or ludIsposed, asleep or awake, the copy must come; whether he feels like it or not, and if he is not in the vein of writing, he must whip himself up TO it by the stimulus Ut drink Some Of the great est writer's of the country haze con fessed to the practice, on urgent occa~ sions, of taking 4 sip Of brandy at the end Of every written page, or even oftencr. Lord Byron, at the end Of every paragraph sometimes. 1t may have escaped the general lok died young, who have been connected with the New York press, within ten years, and that. too from intemperancc, than in all the other educational call ings put together; young men whose talents have been Of the first order aud gave promise of a life Of usefulness, honor and emincnce. The best posi- bic thing for man to DO, when he feels too tired to perform task, or too weak to carry it through, is 10 20 to bed and : iccp n week i'll can; this is the only true rccupera,on 81 brain power The only actual renewal II brain force because during sleep the brain Is in u sense Of rest, in a condition TO receive aud appropriate Particles Of uutrimeut from the blood, which take the place o. those which have been consumed in previous labor, since the very ret Of thinking consumes, burns mp solid PARTICLES, as every turn Of the wheel or screw Of the splendid steamer is the result OF consumption BY fire Of the fuel in the furnace. That supply Of con- sumed brain substance can only be had from the nutriment PARTICLES in the blood which were obtained from the food eaten previously, and the brain il 50 constituted that it can best receive and appropriate to itself those nutrient PARTICLES during the state Of rest, quiet, and of stiffness, sleep. Mere stimuIauts supply nothing in themselvcs-they only g0ad the brain, force it to greater | consumption Of its substance which has | been so fully exhausted that there is not power enough left to receive a sup ply, just as men are so near death by | thirst or starvation, that there is not / power enough left to swallow anything, | and all is over. The incapacity Of the oraln tor receiving recuperatlye partl~ | c|os sometimes comes on with the rapid | Ity of u stroke Of lightning, and the man becomes weak in an instant in an instant falls into commissions, in an in slant loses all sense, and is an idiot. Is was under circum stances of this very sort, in the middle of a sentence of great oratorical power, one Of the most eminent minds OF the age forgot his IDEAS, pressed his hand against his fore head, and after q moments silence, 'aid, God, as with a sponge, has plotted out my mind" BE assured, 'ender, there is crest for the weary" only in early and abundant sleep and wise and happy are they who have firm loss enough to resolve that by Gods lelp | will seek it in no other way" #. Al |

1871

Under the suggestive heading, "Too much gas-not enough light" the Scien- tific American has considerable to say in relation to the poor gas inflicted upon US by the New York companies. 1t says: 1.-The various companies who fur nish Illuminating gas to the citizens of New York appear TO think that it is gas that we want and not light. We have plenty of the former-at any rate we pay for enough--but somehow, in cold wealth. er, the light becomes "small by degrees and beautifully less" The journal re- ferred to then has something to say about the absurdity of paying for gas by the cubic foot instead of by the volume of light it affords. The writer says: "What we want is light, and that is the article we ought to pay for, and the only correct measure is the photometer, not the gas metre. In every other country but this there is an Inspector appointed whose duty it is to report upon the candle-power of the gas furnished by the companies and, if it is found to be below the prescribed standard, the delinquent company is COM PEELED to pay heavy fine. In London the gas inspector is thoroughly competent man. appointed by the government, and beyond the reach of the companies. The consequence is that in that city the CANDLE power OF the gas is very much higher than with us. Some of the London companies take pride in keeping their gas up to fifteen candles, which is the maximum required of them. If gas is to be sold by the cubic foot then the company may pump in quantity of atmospheric air, or let it con- sist of fifty per cent. hydrogen, or make it of Il low grade on purpose. AS long as they contract to furnish gas and not light, they are at liberty to speculate as much as they please; the lapse is largely our own for not agreeing with them to give us light, and not gas. The conclusion reached is that what we want is to have a gas of n fixed and known candle-power, to have an Inspector appointed to. control the manufacture. and heavy penalties attach ed for any breach of the law precisely as it is in London, where the whole business has long since been reduced to system, and frauds have rarely been detected. Let Us have, not peace, but titteen-candle- power gas"

1871

Yesterday two well dressed young men entered the store of Burke, the halter, Full ton street and Broadway. One of them asked to look at ielt hat. A number of hats were produced and laid along the counter. Among them was very supe- rior article which the shopman said he could not sell under SS. After looking at several hats the young man took off his hat counter over the SS one He then fitted a 81 hat and said he thought that would do. He then took out we'll filled pocket a book and handed Burke s shopman a two dollar bill. Then lifting up his own hat with the So hat inside, he said - ''Say, young fellow, give me some pa per to wrap my old hat in" The shopman said, Certainly" and handed him a newspaper. The young man wrapped up the parcel, and the two young men left. As soon as they were gone, the shop man put on his hat and followed them sew eral blocks, until at the corner Of Chambers street he saw policeman. Then tapping the young man with the parcel on the arm, the shopman said - Excuse me, sir, but think you did not pay for that hat" '.Why, of course l did," replied the young man, taking the hat off his head and looking at it. IL don't mean that hat," said the shop man; II mean the hat you have under your arm" Il don't mean your old hat" answered the shopman, "but the hat inside your old hat, which you took by mistake. The price OF that hat, sir, inside the old hat under your arm, is twenty dollars-paid at once" The young man looked at the shopman, and then at the policeman who stood on the corner The young man took out his purse, and with exceeding courtesy hand ed two ten-dollar bills to the shopman- Nelc York Sun.

1871

That the skin Of the Ethiopian is tolerably secure from change has ever bee an undisputed fact yet according to the most recent revelations of science such is the case no longer. A San Francisco doctor has discovered a pro- cess by which a white man can be transformed into negro, which IS certainly no less remarkable than that the African should be converted into a white man. The surgical operation, that has become SO common since its re- cent discovery, Of transplantiog a por. tion of the skin from some other portion OF the body, or even from some other person, to an ulcer, for the purpose Of starting new growth Of cuticle, vas performed upon the arm of a white man Of rs years, and rudy COM p)exion, the borrowed cuticle having been taken from the arm of full blooded negro. The experiment was a success, 50 far as the ulcer was con- cerned, but to the horror of the VIC tim the black skin is spreading rapidly and the pleasing probability is that he will soon become negro. OF course q corresponding operation on a negro might 60 far toward making him what our southern friends call "Caucasian." "

1871

"A colony in Maine was started I few years since by wealthy man, who was mora skeptic, and who deter mined to keep out both rum and re-. ligon. The place grew but the result was so bad that now, in starting . new colony, he has spilled to have church from the first, Offering to contribute largely IN its aid. He says that he cannot keep out rum without the aid of religion, and without religion he gets only the worst men to work for him. He is satisfied that no place can thrive without the christian church, ministry, and Sabbath.

1871

"Thereis nothing to tell" said Grace, / part shy, part sullen. i "No! Then you must let me read biz letter, that I may judge for my self" ~ "No, no p cried Grace vehemently. II won't let you read tho letter, Mr. Magnus. 1t is too bad of you to ask ; it is to cruel, too horrible Papa would not have done such thing, and you shall not read itw On which, she thrust it into her pocket, aud crushed it rebelliously in her hand in the depths for, indeed, it seemed to her at this moment, trembling with love and virgin shame together, that it would have been worse than sacrilege to show tit would have been gross, improper, treacherous, every thing most vile and terrible. William Magnus was not a patient man. There had been a time when, kind and brave as he was, and frail as was his opponent, he would have taken from her by force what she refused now to bis request but change had some how come over him of late, and, with out another word, but with curious pallor on his bronzed face, he rose from his seat and loft the room, leaving Grace so far the conqueror ; yet leaving her more unhappy than if she had yielded, as perhaps she ought to have done, and had given him the confidence he had claimed. And yet how could she show Addy's letter? You might as we'll have asked her to lay bare her heart as it beat in her bosom. She was unhappy because Of her disobedi- ence, truly, and yet she did not feel as if she ought to have been more tract able. Addy and her guardian; love and duty fidelity and obedience. Oh, why is not the path made palmer for tender souls who would faiu do right to every one all round, yet who, if they are loyal to one, must needs fail the other! "Grace, I am surprised at you," said Aunt Maria, with vague dlspleasare !; and she too got up and went away, not caring 10 venture on question which she was dimly conscious had depth be- yond her sounding. So Grace sat down and cried. feeling as if her fairy palace had suddenly melted away, aud had left her standing in the midst Of ruins. And yet had not Addy said he loved her ? and was she not bldden to wait? And wait she would, though she had to wait in sor- row and tribulation, and With only ruins for her souls habitation for the rest of her lite. Meanwhile Will Mag nus wandered about the garden, per- picked, disappointed, angry, and most miserable. Yes, most miserable. It seemed to him that no one in this wide world Of suffering was so wretched as he was at this moment. He had known full we'll the truth of his own heart, but he had resolutely shut his eyes to tho state OF his feelings and the hostile chances of the future and now he had to pay for his blindness. Yet she was such child He could not have acted differently. How could he, a man Of forty with the silver beginning to spread over his gold, how could he make love to child not yet seventeen, and his own life, better than his past-than his diguity-if not better than bis honor. And she, whom all this time he had thoug ht a mere bit of wax which he was moulding to his desire she whom he fondly hoped he was leading, as yet unconscious!y, to love him, so that when she was woman and able to choose him Of her own tree will-his child. love, his delight, his darling, she had already given her heart away ; and what he thought he held safe in his own hands proved to bs tho mere outside appearance, no more! And row whaN could he do? Play the tyrant, and for. bid her young lover ever to think Of her again or be maguanimous and | give up his treasure to the earlier claim ant? Yet why should he? She hat shown no feelings tor him ; she mus have known what te suffered !; and sh' had placed no trust in him. And a this thought bis anger began to rise She had placed no trust in him, he VIII Of all men priced and desired confidence Why, then, should ho show her kind ness? And was it not his duty to looI into this matter narrowly, and to forbit it absolutely, Internationally, at leas for the present, no matter who thi' young sooundrel might be? He was I scoundrel; Will Magnus made sure o that beforehand, else he would not hav' written to her, child as she was, with out first asking permission Of her guar dams and care takers. Yes, the Gems Of duty cleared off his perplexities b would forbid the whole affair. i So, armed with this resolution, h turned back to the house, and entere' the dining-room as he had left, it b, the window. Here he found Grace sitting alon among the debris of the breakfast looking, in his eyes, more like the pic

1871

eS The fignres from the Kentucky election look better, the more they come in. They show a thorough and strong organization in every part of the State, and gain since last year of nearly 10000. A proportionate gain next year. will give Kentucky to the Republicans, on Presi- dent, by large majority. The Republican party don't seem to he crumbling as much as it was

1871

O KENTUcKY.-TheK Kentucky election was held on Monday, and resulted, as everybody expected it would, in a Democratic victory. But there is a very gratifying feature in the retums-they show that large Republican vote has been cast in every part the State, which has not been the heretofore. The Republicans Of Kentucky are becoming organized, and are taking firm stand Throughout the State A continuance of this car nest work viii increase the Republican strength and there is ground for hope that even Kentucky, the hardest State politically in the Union, may yet become Republican.

1871