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WEEKLY. PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! UNTRAMMELED LIVES! H E i.A KING THE TFAY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. WL L'.-Xn. 19. WHOLE 4.'.. NEW YORK, MARCH 25, ISTI. TRICE TEN CENTS. HCTOSIAC . WOODHITLL <fe TENHTE C . CLAFLIN EDITORS A XI) PROPRIETORS. rO.XTKNT* OK THIS VOIHHK. I*AG T'AGS 'j- 1. •'■•of New Y ork................. I t Cpîn^iaft EiT*»rt and Victory in Tuan: Repatatkm (Poetry); RivrUti Conventions . 3 -<» W -M i'ü « Poetry ; Mr*. Yood- \ui U'l toe Ponile# of the IY tm; J*me^ Kiek. Jr., to the tescae............................... Uai«*« »>f ibe D ar............................ frúbCUy. or Román Ñstnrein t Xa:»óeU tPoeiry)..................... i<l ¡o the N’rimee; The Penn- -y¡7tnji Central Railroad .......... T¡»»He H.morable (?»Uenfleraen ; Tie Coal Región# of Pennpvl- nnú.............................. L. 4 5 8 9 Free Trade «. Protectiou; Fi- nance .............................. JO fncitrance: Bootfe Joarnai i-*in; More Danger to the Peace an 1 tTepplnee# of Sherman, Dahl ?ren and Company ..................... 11 Gruut r m . A. T. S t e w a r t ; A *V«»rd to (4. S. P ; Equality; Woman's Rijiht of Franchise.*....................... 1*2 Miscellaneous ......................................18 The Origin, Principles and Ten- dencies of Government; Equal- ity the Right of Woman: Pa- pers for the iPeople; Book Notices; The Theatres, etc ....... 16 TO NEWSMEN AND POSTMASTERS THROUGHOUT! Oa accuuQt of the very extraordinary and widespread de tnand which has sprung up for T he W eekly since the ex- posure of the frauds and villainies which are practiced upon tie people by iniquitous corporations having no souls, was commenced, which demand is evidenced by the daily receipt ol numerous letters—too numerous for us to answer indi- vidually—from all parts of the country, we now offer the following liberal cash terms to all who are disposed to «rail themselves of th e m : For one new subscriber at $4 00.25 per cent. “ five new subscribersat $4 00 ...............30 “ " 10 “ $4 00............... 35 “ - 20 “ $4 00........... 40 “ 50 “ $4 00............. 45 “ 100 or more “ $4 00............... 50 “ ll'an agent, having forwarded one subscriber, retaining bis 25per cent, shall subsequently obtain four more subscribers, he will be entitled to receive 30 per cent, upon the whole number, and so on up to 100, having obtained which number he will be entitled to the full 50 per cent, upon the amount »f the said 100 subscribers. All funds-should be remitted either by Post-Office orders, nr, when amounting to fifty dollars and upward, by express, at our expense. This journal will always treat upon all those subjects which are of VITAL INTEREST TO T HTC COMMON PEOPLE, It will, in the broadest sense, be A FREE PAPER FOR A FREE PEOPLE, in a iiicli all sides of all subjects maybe presented to the pub- lic, we only reserving the right to make such editorial com- ment on communications os we may deem proper. Here, then, is a free platform upon which THE REPUBLICAN AND THE DEMOCRAT, THE RADICAL AND THE CONSERVATIVE, THE CHRISTIAN AND THE INFIDEL, THE ROMAN CA1HOLIC AND THE PROTESTANT, THE JEW AND THE PAGAN, AND THE MATERIALIST AND THE SPIRITUALIST MAY MEET IN A . COMMON EQUALITY AND BROTHERHOOD, which we believe comes from the fact that GOD IS THE FATHER OF THEM ALL SUBJECT TO ATI FI CATION BY THE j^ATIONAL jDo NY ENT ION. THE CLUBS OF NEW YORK. THE CENTURY CLUB. BY JANUARY SEARLE. [CONTINUED.] MONTHLY MEETINGS. These monthly meetings are not remarkable for any great display of talent—nor is there at any time, so far as we know —a si t programme. Anybody may read bis own poems aloud, if he can get anybody else to listen to him, and the same of es- says. Business conics first, and this is done in the “ Star Chamber”—a most ominous name, by the way—and after that, there is an adj mrnment to the reception-rooms, where the members and their friends talk politics, discuss the con- tents of the last new book, or the merits of Leutz’s last pic- ture, or James Hart’s or Kmsett’s, or any that the triad of tricksters may have painted—known asRossiter, Church and Bierstadt. At a late hour the lunch is served, and consists of oysters, oyster patties, oysters stewed,broiled or fried, lobster salad, all sorts of sweetmeats and confectionery, ice creams, jellies,Charlotte Russe,blanc mange, coffee,tea, ph uty of bread and butter, and a good supply of champagne and claret from the club’s cellars. They can afford good wine with an in- come of $30,000 a year, and not much outlay lor anything else. AT SUPPER. It is really a jolly sight to see all these long and short, squat and rotund, lean and fat fellows, with such distin- guished brains in their great liends, go rushing, jostling, crushing and tumbling one over or “ through” the other, to get at the table of good things spread out for the eating there- of. There are neither chairs nor forms near the great long table, but George Bancroft squats in bis field chair, and en- joys the sight of so many weary legs standing around about him and the hospitable board. What laughter and merri- ment, what fun anil frolic, what Hushes of wit, what redun- dance ofhumor - moet of it good and none of it bail—and wlint, a grand uprour their mingh d voices produce 1 They come in crowds and depart in twos and threes, or half dozens, and ns many more take their places from the rtceptiou rooms, as fast as they—bnving gorged themselves—retire to digest the same, with more laughter. Happy boys! enjoy the good time to the utmost extent of your faculty. It is Dight now; anil a long oblivion lies between your present frolic and to- morrow morning’s duties and responsibilities! But to-mor - row will come, and with it will come bad debts and dishon- ored bills, and perhaps impecuniosity on your part, and ina- bility to meet that ugly draft, and so Alps upon Alps of misery, while the cloul darkens your sky and the sun re- fuses to shine. But it will shine, and then, thanks to the buoyancy of the human heart! all that trouble will lie be- hind, like a bad dream that is gone. After the lunch they roam about—these motley members —here and there and everywhere, talking gayly, and many of them still discussing oysters, which they have brought with thtm from the dining-room. Help yourselves, ihen, to the wine ; but don’t ask to sit down. Chairs are like the viands of the Barmecide’s table—they have no existence here. We stroll into the gallery, and “ interview ” the pictures and the sculptures, and are “ mightily pleased therewith,’’ as the old gossip, Peppy«, saith. And in the reception- rooms are many of the artists who did these admirable works —very pleasant to see. We shake bands will» some of them heartily, because we like them. Many men, who have hardly a professional name at all, ai« a long way greater than many others who have a very big name. We could illustrato this postulate if we liked, for we know them well. But comparisons are odious, says the proverb, and so is injustice, say we, although, may be, it is prudent to “ lit it slide’’ for the nonce. Poor Gillian C. Verplnnck was the last commemorntor ot the last Twelfth-Night, which happened in 1858. This used to be the Century’s festival of festivals, but it has gone chan out of fashion, and the monthly meetings have superseded it. There is always a good lunch prepared on these occa- sions, but it is frugal, as wo hnve seen above, and compared with those given by the Union and other “ tip-top’’ clubs, it is parsimonious. But, there is plenty of wit at those dispensations, and w hat some of the numbers probably think better still, there is plenty of punch biewed in the " lleicu les’ cup’’ of the club, whereof all muy partake free, as a lu»i pituliiy. It must lo understood that the wine vaults of the club are pretty extensive, but the wine is expensive, an I o n only bo had by purclu se. At ono timo it was cusUunAry t r the members to indulge In “ rnueh and milk ’’ at Uh-* o uwt
Transcript of WEEKLY. - IAPSOP. PROGRESS! FREE THOUGHT! ... or any that the triad of tricksters may have...
WEEKLY.PROGRESS! F R E E THOUGHT! U N TRA M M ELED LIV ES!
H E i . A K I N G T H E T F A Y F O R F U T U R E G E N E R A T I O N S .
WL L'.-Xn. 19. WHOLE 4.'.. N E W Y ORK, M ARCH 25, ISTI. TRICE TEN CENTS.
HCTOSIA C. WOODHITLL <fe TENHTE C. CLAFLIN EDITORS A X I) PROPRIETORS.
rO.XTKNT* OK THIS VOIHHK.
I*AG T'AGS' j - 1. •'■•of New York................. It Cpîn^iaft EiT*»rt and Victory in Tuan: Repatatkm (Poetry);
RivrUti Conventions . 3 -<» W-Mi'ü « Poetry ; Mr*. Yood- \ui U 'l toe Ponile# of the IYtm; J*me^ Kiek. J r ., to thetescae...............................
Uai«*« »>f ibe Dar............................frúbCUy. or Román Ñ stn re in
t Xa:»óeU tPoeiry).....................i<l ¡o the N’rimee; The Penn--y¡7tnji Central Railroad..........
T¡»»He H.morable (?»Uenfleraen ; Tie Coal Región# of Pennpvl- nnú.............................. L.
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Free Trade « . P ro tec tio u ; F inance.............................. JO
fncitrance: Bootfe Jo arn a i i-*in;More Danger to th e Peace an 1 tTepplnee# o f Sherm an, Dahl?ren and Company ..................... 11
Gruut rm. A. T. S tew art; A *V«»rd to (4. S. P ; E quality ; W om an 'sRijiht of Franchise.*.......................1*2
M iscellaneous......................................18T he O rigin, Princip les and T en
dencies of G overnm ent; E quality the R igh t o f W om an: P a pers for the iP eop le ; Book N otices; T he T heatres, e tc .......16
TO
NEWSMEN AND POSTMASTERSTHROUGHOUT!
Oa accuuQt of the very extraordinary and widespread de tnand which has sprung up for T h e W e e k l y since the exposure of the frauds and villainies which are practiced upon tie people by iniquitous corporations having no souls, was commenced, which demand is evidenced by the daily receipt ol numerous letters—too numerous for us to answer individually— from all parts of the country, we now offer the following liberal c a s h t e r m s to all who are disposed to «rail themselves of them :
For one new subscriber at $4 00.25 per cent.“ five new subscribers at $4 00...............30 “" 10 “ $4 00...............35 “- 20 “ $4 00........... 40“ 50 “ $4 00............. 45“ 100 or more “ $4 00...............50 “
ll'an agent, having forwarded one subscriber, retaining bis 25 per cent, shall subsequently obtain four more subscribers, he will be entitled to receive 30 per cent, upon the whole number, and so on up to 100, having obtained which number he will be entitled to the full 50 per cent, upon the amount »f the said 100 subscribers.
All funds-should be remitted either by Post-Office orders, nr, when amounting to fifty dollars and upward, by express, at our expense.
This journal will always treat upon all those subjects which are of
VITAL IN TERESTTO T HTC
C O M M O N P E O P L E ,
It will, in the broadest sense, beA FR E E PA PER
FOR A FR E E PEO PLE,
in a iiicli all sides of all subjects m aybe presented to the public, we only reserving the right to make such editorial comment on communications os we may deem proper.
Here, then, is a free platform upon which THE REPUBLICAN AND T H E DEMOCRAT,
THE RADICAL AND THE CONSERVATIVE,THE CHRISTIAN AND THE INFIDEL,
THE ROMAN CA1HOLIC AND THE PROTESTANT, THE JEW AND THE PAGAN,
AND THE MATERIALIST AND THE SPIRITUALISTMAY M EET IN A
. COMMON EQUALITY AND BROTHERHOOD, which we believe comes from the fact that
GOD IS THE FATHER OF THEM ALL
S U B J E C T T O
A T I FI C A T I O N B Y T H E j ^ A T I O N A L j Do N Y E N T I ON .
THE CLUBS OF NEW YORK.
T H E CENTURY CLUB.
BY JANUARY SEARLE.
[C O N T IN U E D .]
MONTHLY MEETINGS.
These monthly meetings are not remarkable for any great display of talent—nor is there at any time, so far as we know —a si t programme. Anybody may read bis own poems aloud, if he can get anybody else to listen to him, and the same of essays. Business conics first, and this is done in the “ Star Cham ber”—a most ominous name, by the way—and after that, there is an adj m rnm ent to the reception-rooms, where the members and their friends talk politics, discuss the contents of the last new book, or the merits of Leutz’s last picture, or James H art’s or K m sett’s, or any that the triad of tricksters may have painted—known asRossiter, Church and Bierstadt. A t a late hour the lunch is served, and consists of oysters, oyster patties, oysters stewed,broiled or fried, lobster salad, all sorts of sweetmeats and confectionery, ice creams, jellies,Charlotte Russe,blanc mange, coffee,tea, ph uty of bread and butter, and a good supply of champagne and claret from the club’s cellars. They can afford good wine w ith an income of $30,000 a year, and not much outlay lor anything else.
AT SU PPER.
I t is really a jolly sight to see all these long and short, squat and rotund, lean and fat fellows, w ith such distinguished brains in their great liends, go rushing, jostling, crushing and tumbling one over or “ th rough” the other, to get at the table of good things spread out for the eating thereof. There are neither chairs nor forms near the great long table, but George Bancroft squats in bis field chair, and enjoys the sight of so many weary legs standing around about him and the hospitable board. W hat laughter and merriment, w hat fun anil frolic, w hat Hushes of wit, what redundance ofhum or - moet of it good and none of it bail—and wlint, a grand uprour their mingh d voices produce 1 They come in crowds and depart in twos and threes, or half dozens, and ns many more take their places from the rtceptiou rooms, as fast as they—bnving gorged themselves—retire to digest the
same, with more laughter. Happy boys! enjoy the good time to the utmost extent of your faculty. I t is Dight now; anil a long oblivion lies between your present frolic and tomorrow morning’s duties and responsibilities! But to-morrow will come, and with it will come bad debts and dishonored bills, and perhaps impecuniosity on your part, and inability to meet that ugly draft, and so Alps upon Alps of misery, while the clou l darkens your sky and the sun refuses to shine. But it will shine, and then, thanks to the buoyancy of the human heart! all that trouble will lie behind, like a bad dream that is gone.
After the lunch they roam about—these motley members —here and there and everywhere, talking gayly, and many of them still discussing oysters, which they have brought with th tm from the dining-room. Help yourselves, ihen, to the wine ; but don’t ask to sit down. Chairs are like the viands of the Barmecide’s table—they have no existence here.
W e stroll into the gallery, and “ interview ” the pictures and the sculptures, and are “ mightily pleased therewith,’’ as the old gossip, Peppy«, saith. And in the reception- rooms are many of the artists who did these admirable works —very pleasant to see. W e shake bands will» some of them heartily, because we like them. Many men, who have hardly a professional name at all, a i« a long way greater than many others who have a very big name. We could illustrato this postulate if we liked, for we know them well. But comparisons are odious, says the proverb, and so is injustice, say we, although, may be, it is prudent to “ l i t it s lid e’’ for the nonce.
Poor Gillian C. Verplnnck was the last commemorntor ot the last Twelfth-Night, which happened in 1858. This used to be the Century’s festival of festivals, but it has gone chan out of fashion, and the monthly meetings have superseded it. There is always a good lunch prepared on these occasions, but it is frugal, as wo hnve seen above, and compared with those given by the Union and other “ tip -top’’ clubs, it is parsimonious. But, there is plenty of wit at those dispensations, and w hat some of the num bers probably think better still, there is plenty of punch biewed in the " lleicu les’ cu p ’’ of the club, whereof all muy partake free, as a lu»i pituliiy. It must lo understood that the wine vaults of the club are pretty extensive, but the wine is expensive, an I o n only bo had by purclu se. At ono timo it was cusUunAry t r the members to indulge In “ rnueh and milk ’’ at Uh-*o u w t
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T ie 'r i s s a i d .i'ga wa« to ce! Lnie ;htm c-n C luistrnaS'| ere. anvdst t_e r-ojm_c ci Le z . t^ ty yule U ; » it lay ootbe | efblgvnt fire ; t ie blast of tiv:rpvta. the r»)' of drums, the | »colts of happy el.UJren and r^ m«-n. *nJ ik-- bl.'tre of men's | ▼o:ces. d^in^ the toss unto these ¿ xord^nt harmonies. But i oometbinc happece Ì to P"'s*p ne u i r «^veet riot which they j contemplated, and it did not come o f f until the 2 9 th Decern* j h r . The truth is, that a cr. de 1 ef the Teutonic element has lateiy got into the club, and ¡he Tcl: "*n> being mootly rounganvl full of German tr*tii ions and old Christ mas memories. thougl t it would be no bad ;Lir g to revive them and let the com try peoj le see t .iem in aìi tì t ir pristine magnificence of col; r. d lamps and gi t rbresd and ** black jack" sugar st’chsL So they pat Santa Claus in the chair, and erected a Kris K rirgle tree, and drtssed it in the queerest kind of robery ihat was ever put upon ;fce bark of a tree. There were ben bons stuck upon it, and fragments of poems and music, and ether incongruiiks by the score. Bundles of cigars and boxes of Promethean matches, a great doll and cradle, labeled
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ho hoped soon to know, practically, the delights of matn- composed exactly of “ Continents of beef and Mediterraneanmony—Latin Thompson l-y name—and he had been presented with a very brown, full-sired baby, made of terra cotta.
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The tree and its ple ising fruits were the centre of all the fun t cientlv substantial affair, neyertheless; with a superabund- and jdiineation cf t .e eveci. g.
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rated with the strange, bright Jo * tr from the blocmv slicris < f the eti Itetween lime and immonalfy. A melody pervades all his r.otal ie p
ance of wine to wash it down, and wherewith it was pretty | paniment of the birth of ail his most beautifol thoughts isd considerably washed down, and to everybody's satisfaction. ‘ sentiments, and that of the intellect, which is the sot..1 '
of Tariaticn in the festivittes. was the reading of a good- natured. gossipy piece of s .tire by Irfoddard, in which the peculiarities, or follies, if you please, of the “ big wigs” of the club were hit off in fine style, and with a wit the edge whereof was ss fine ar.el keen as a razor. Everybody was delighted with it—and no wonder; for. whether as a poet or a prose-writer, Mr. Sioddard is equally cultured and delightful, and turns whatever he touches into gold by the alchemy of h 's genius. Among the poets of the club, indeed, he stands in the very front rank. There are poets who have a broader, grander and deeper organ of utterance, but few surpass him in lyric sweetness and melody, or in graphic picture-writing. He is one more illustration, also, of the power of genius to force its wav through all obstructions, and the lets and hindrances of early poverty, and achieve position and fame. But there are no signs in his poetry of the struggle which he had to make with circumstances. All his poems are as polished and refined as the courtly verse of Tennyson. His songs are gtx>d and sing to their own melody, and he possesses a rare and genial fancy, but not much imagination. H e can reproduce what he sees in nature, and put the seals of his individuality upon i t ; but no creative power is manifest in his lines. H e is a beautiful landscape painter, and in his didactic pieces he abounds with wit and humor, and a subtle and covert sarcasm. But he is never offensive. He plays with his subject, like a kitten with a mouse—but he does not kill i t ; and if he exposes any one's foibles, it is with pleasantness and a most sunny humor. His pen is light and airy, and there is a commingled sound of flutes and JEolian harps in his music, which it is all the more delightful to listen to when it comes from beloved lips in the beautiful June woods—and thereby hangs a ta le ! Mr. Stoddard takes his place as one of the classics in American literature. His style is simple and gracefui, and he has thetenderest sym pathy with home and all homely affections. N or does he lack pathos, whjgli, indeed, drops from some of his pieces like the tears of a woman in a great bereavement. He writes prose well, and this is high praise; for, although any school-boy can pu t sentences together so as to express to any other boy the particular sensations which always accom pany a good caning, when applied to his own particular back, there is not one w riter in a thousand who can lay just claim to be considered as an accomplished man of letters. The most are cumbrous and heavy, loose, slovenly, and without the slightest pretension to art, although it takes more and higher a-t to w rite well than to paint a good picture.
Mr. Stoddard is an intim ate friend of Bayard Taylor, the ■well-known traveler anil Utisrateur, and un til lately they kept house together, rarely going into company, but hospitably entertaining all friends and acquaintances at their own homo. There is a strong bond of sym pathy between these two men, both as authors and companions. They have both roughed it thoroughly and know w hat it is to •'live h a rd ” and to “ lie hand," facing reality in its strongest aspects and tram pling down difficulties like straws. They have won their position both in letters and society. Hence
The success of this new venture into the regions cf social amusement and jollification wiil be safe to insure its annual repetition. And it is right that an oasis like this should be cultivated in the Century, which otherwise threatens to become a desert and bury itself, like the Egyptian Sphynxes. in bottomless sands. For. shirk it as we may. the tact is patent to all observers, members and lovers of the club, that the shadow o f“ old ancientness" is gradually tailing upon it. The young men who founded it nearly a quarter of a century ago are no longer young men, neither is the blood so hot as it was. nor the vigor of the body so lusty. Upon the principle, too, that “ like attracts like." as " like cures like.” the “birds of a feather all flock together." jays with jays, peacocks with peacocks, and birds of Paradise with birds of Paradise: and this to such an extent that the club looks, on gala nights, as if it were divided and sub-divided into little episodes of clubs, each emblazoned with its own heraldries. These cliques and coteries are, indeed, so numerous as to imperil the very existence of the club, and it is on this account that we hail w ith pleasure the introduction of fresh Teuton blood into the veins and arteries of that old corporate body, and wish success to the Kris Kringle.
There are now upward of six hundred of these Centurions, and among them tire some of the leading men of the city—poets, men of letters, artists, clergymen, physicians, actors, musicians, philanthropists, merchants and bug-a- boos who have long purses and nothing else to boast of.
ATe propose to give peu-and-ink sketches of the representative men in all these departments and the president shall come first, to w it:
WILLIAM CULLES EKY IXT.
W hat man among us is so well known and so generously loved as William Cullen Bryant, the journalist of this city and the poet of America * T hat *• ge>od, gray head which all men know,” as Tennyson says of the Duke of Wellington— that stalwart, upright form, and proud, firm foot, and,sincere, earnest, thoughtful face—we have many of us been familiar with, any time these thirty or forty years ; and every year seems to have exalted him higher and higher in the public esteem and in that of the republic of letters, until he has reached at last the topmost spoke in the wheel of good fortune, his pot try the household words of us and our children, and the breath of his fame upon all the winds of heaven.
Xo higher honor and distinction can any man ask for upon the earth than this. H is reputation is not ephemeral but enduring, and built upon the everlasting granite. From the first he was animated with the highest themes and aspirations, and no seduction of society or o f popularity could induce him to lower his tone, and oxcharge the solemn and holy office of a bard of God for that o f the'm ere fashionable songster. The bent of his genius a d the aspirations of his nature were predetermined for him, and his good angels enamored him of his vocation, and kept him from being contaminated by the base ambitions of life. One can see in his
of this nulody, and. as it wire, a mechanical invention. Tbe poems of “ Annabel Lee” and the “ Bavin" ' . iunarste this idea. The former is like a flood of music dr. pp-.-d ¿owa out of heaven, and seems to float all the sol d world; the Utter, like the poem i'.self, is made up, and seems to be s'oci on to the structure of the fable as if it were an afterthought ornament, or a tune made fer the occ-s;cn. We cans« how gradually it accompanied the building np of the poem and how artfully it is made to fit the gloomy theme. And. at all events, the influence of Fee was cot good fer a gad life. It is splendid disease from top to bottom. Willis was a man of society and of artificial feelings and manners. Bet traege to say, he rarely reflects hts personality in his poems,
and there is often a simplicity and sweetness about them which contrast notably w.lh X. P. W„ the Beau Brutntne' of Xcw York fashion His religious pieces open the coor to quite a new region in his nature which few would hare expected to find there at all, and which vastly enhances his moral character by revealing to us his spiritual storehouses. His other poems are refined, polished and classical. Bnt he was no more an American singer than Longfellow :s. or Shelley was. He went to Europe for his inspirations. How could he otherwise write songs for Americans' This ¿irtv democratic soil—which, by the w ay. was good enough k* Geetrge Washington's leet to walk upon—inspires os >e; no American poet. There was George 1\ Morris, it is true, and he did his best—good man 1—but poetry is mightier than mere mechanic art, and its influence fills the work! and lasts forever.
Bryant seems to have get hold ot this thought, or the thought had got hold of him and would not let hint go. God had given him a great faculty, and it involved a great responsibility. and he set himself to work sirioasly—judging by his early poems—to compass and execute h:s mission. He was the first ot our poets who lay so close to the heart of nature, upon her beautiful American bosout, that he passionately loved her, and his love inspired him to s.r.g her praises. There is no maudlin sentimentality in Bryant, he apes no school nor leader, he affects no European nonsense, cares nothing for the feuds and romances ot its great biro, nial halls, but goes direct to our virgin forests, wild lands and bright waters, and beholds, through them, the great apocalypse of American destiny.
His poems smell of the Ingram pine wood, and the sweet pure airs of heaven in the wilderness. Here at last we are at home, domesticated with nature as she shows herself upon our own soil, and we love her all the more because of the beautiful sorcery of words anil sweet music in which the poet has represented her. The flowers, and ferns, and mosses—the birds and beasts of the Lire st. are all more or less photographed in his vt rscs. We drink in them also, of the morning air, and seem to grow like melons in his s trshinr. Herein are strong, vigorous, refreshing life.ar.d imagery drawn ftvmi the primal solitudes of nature—new and strange—as if Homer were speaking to us again from the morning of lime and man'« history.
MiBi'n 25, 1S71. ^oodhnll & (Tlaftm’s Perkin.(W i tli» po> m and it :s like open ing op foun tain o f ;
n^d tL jprlr.£> o f life. T here U no m ore h ea lth y ' ,a ir literature. I t U m y rrh and roarm ary w h ich !
e; .-..it: xii-u o f a eas t heap o f effete m atte r outside, f ,~J Chech" at all eve. U the sp read in g ot a fatal disease. Th« I „ „ . i i i.-r alive. t u t t l a and they w ould bleed.' Tiuntfvp*,» was Mr. B ry a n t’* earliest poem o f any m ark . ,wl * 3i written at the age ot eighteen. I t m ade hia rep u te
; - ' U not a little curious th a t Shelley, K eates, F estus,¡t s n,| W’oriU w orth .bad all w ritten ** thing* w h ich th e * r ! ! »•:!' n->t w illingly let die ," w hen they w ere ab o u t the
- jrv But it is custo m ary to speak o f T hana to p sU as if P rism 's fame dependeil upon thi* one poem . I t is a
-kC piece of Hebrew rheto ric , to be su re , an d to u ch es w ith lie s irp u ity and tenderness o f an in sp ired p ro p h e t, the ia,*t sacred leeliDgs o f th e h um an h e a r t— b u t it is by no it. r - Ms b n p roduction , an d th e poet m u st be surfeited » th hemps of c rude praise's w hich it is co n tin u a lly re- ceniug. Give me his w oodland poem s, h is poem to a w ater- hi!. fcU lyrics—and we can sp a re th e T h inatopsis .
We should be well p leased lo m ake a th o ro u g h c ritica l umIvils both o f Mr. B ry a n t 's “ m ind , c h a ra c te r an d gen ius,", J of his poems, if we cou ld rind th e space. B ut a t p resen t wean; driven to the w all. W e a re g lad to find, ho w ev er u it he h is put so noble a soul u n d e r th e ribs o f his verses— •.hat he shows him self n o t on ly physica lly b u t m o ra lly and religiously healthy, au d is n o t ash am ed in these g h a s tly days of scientific atheism to ack n o w led g e h is H eav en ly F a th e r , mil his dependence upon h im for a ll he h as a n d is.
We are looking out for his translation of Homer, some lengthy passages of which we have already read. It is not hir always to judge of the whole by a part, but we may say that if the bulk be as good as the sample, there is more fame in store for the poet. It is admirably well rendered,»ml in the spirit of the great morning epic of the world.
Bryant was born November 3, 1794, at Cummington Hampshire County, Mass. His father was a physician, and the poet seems to have inherited from him his love of poetry and art, for he was much distinguished for these high matters in bis day and generation, and taught his son to lore poetry from his nursery days, and often, even, at an earlier period, " reciting” him to sleep in his swaddling clothes. He began to write poems at the age of ten, and founJ a publisher for these early pieces when he was only ttflten. Of course, being unusually good for a child, they astonished everybody, and it was prophesied that he would one day become a great poet and man. “ Tlianatopsis appeared in 1817, in the “ North American Review,” and has been popular ever since. In 182£, in his thirtieth year, became to New York as an attache of the Evening Post. Bryant was then a Democrat. The paper was Federal, and when slavery became a party issue, and Republicanism was born out of the throes thereof, Bryant joined the party, bat always as an independent man. He has lived much abroad during the past fifteen years, and does not interfere much with the management of his paper.
His first book of poems was more highly praised abroad than at home. His “ Letters of a Traveller,” published in 1849, were collected from his contributions to fhe Post. He is tot a rapid, but a painful and laborious writer, so far as poetry is concerned, and, like Pope, he is continually a ltering, adding and amending.
His home is in one of the most lovely nooks of Long Island, at Roslyn, and he has adorned it with gardens, lawns and beautiful streams of water, which flow into a little lake- let It looks like a poet’s dreum realized. He almost lives among his flowers when at home, and his gardens are his Paradise.. He is seventy-five years old, and, alas I a widower; and, although he has two daughters to whom he is devoutly attached, he is alone in the world. For who can supply the place of his lost wife—his life-long companion and his best friend? He is a brilliant talker, hospitable to all comers, and a most genial companion, full of old memories of the illustrious dead, and not a bad listener.
R E P U T A T IO N .
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Atooc* i t . • — ’* ; *<; J Md*-and »«*k With reputation.
w Ih l ht a gambol <Sr*tT h e « 'i twi eeaa.Tr«! U ;
A COMBINED EFFORT AND VICTORY IS YOURS.
There are five millions of women in the United States who desire suffrage. Let every one of them sign the necessary petition, to be found on page 8, and mail to Mrs. Josephine 8. Grilling, Secretary National Woman’s SSffrage Association, Washington, D. C.
New Jersey Mutual L if e I nsurance Company.—Mr. Mil ler, the insurance superintendent of this State, recently made a thorough examination of the affairs of this Company at the request of its officers. He reported that the business was "systematically and honorably conducted” and that “ its financial condition was such as to entitle it to public con fi- dcncc."
There is no doubt that Mr. Miller has done his duty thoroughly, therefore there can be no substantial reason for discrediting his conclusions. The fifth annual statement of this Company's affairs shows a larger increase in business, which speaks well for the public confidence in its directory, who are all responsible citizens of Newark.
Twenty-two thousand dollars of the guaranty capital bus been refunded. The receipts in 1870 reached $311,087 15 Its total assets are stated nt $010,944 01. Its number of poll-, ciejto January 1,1870, 0,288. ’
Welcarn that the prosperity of this company is attributable to the energy and business talent of its vloe-pres!dent, C. C. Ulbrop, Esq. We trust it will always remain worthy the patronage wulcli has born given it so frcgl y.
R-bied liw bill- and areaud the know!* He J ly played It.
B*it ev’rv nook betrayed h i. loir ;Th«* leal«*« round him
Would rustle at h i. breath. and so 111. p'aytnatea found him.
Thou, leaching. rrvpt the W ater forth. And ’m onn.l the mallow»
He .pre«d him.elf. mnd branched »part In cuuuth -- .hallow».
The lone era.» hid hip .liver .treatn.The sedge concealed him :
The drooping willow, hclned h i. flight— No »un rovealed hlui—
TUI, In h i . confidence elate With vigorous rally
He leapt a rock, and so was caught W ithin the rallcy.
The Wind and W ater, panting both, Kernlud their mate
That he should take his turn, and meet The self saute fate.
Bat Reputation answered slow : "T hough I Inclined me
To sport. If once I hide myself.Say, who ahull And me ?
W ith me all canning skill is vain,Vain all endeavor—
If I but lose myself from view,I’m gone forever l”
The various conventions being held throughout the country do not appear to appreciate the advice of
"T H E INDEPENDENT"AND THE
“ WOMAN’S JOURNAL."one of which says it does not believe in going “ across lots” by means of Constitutional amendments ; and the other, “ Nothing is to be gained by hasty, injudicious action. Wc would not press a decision to-day.”
Will they please take sufficient notice to read the following from Sturgis’ Journal, relating to the convention held there:
RESOLUTIONS.At the opening of the afternoon session the following
resolutions were submitted by the Committee on Resolutions and accepted :
Whereas, impartial justice is true conservatism and thorough radicalism, preserving the good and uprooting the evil, therefore
Resolved, That we advocate and claim suffrage for woman because it is just, and therefore safe and full ot benefit, hoping to a truer state and church and a purer and nobler social life by giving duties and responsibilities to all.
Resolved, That, so far from denying fhe overwhelming social and civil influence of woman, we arc fully aware ofit, BELIEVING, WITH DEMOSTHENES, THAT MEASURES WHICH THE STATESMAN HAS MEDITATED A YEAR MAY BE OVERTURNED in a d a y b y a w o m a n , a n d fo r th is re a so n w e p ro c la im i t th e h ig h e s t e x p e d ie n c y to e n d o w h e r w ith fu ll ctoil r ig h ts , s in c e th e n o n ly w ill sh e e x e rc ise th is in f lu e n c e u n d e r a j u s t se n se o f h e r d u ty a n d re sp o n s ib ility , h is to ry b e a r in g w itn e s s th a t th e o n ly sa fe c o u rse is to a d d o p e n re sp o n s ib il i ty to p o w e r .
Resolved, That since the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the State where they reside, and that no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of such citizens, we believe and affirm that women aa persons and cilizens have the right to the elective franchise and can vote and hold office equally with man under the Constitution of our country, and that we ask of Congress a declaratory act, and also that the women assert their rights at the polls, and, if refused, then carry their case up to the highest courts, persevering until Congress and the courts are compelled in the light of righteousness to grant equal justice under the law and the Constitution.
Resolved, That the right of women to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment does not lessen the earnestness of our demand for such changes in State laws and constitutions as shall recognize her right and guarantee her elective franchise, and we shall urge such changes that States may make haste to be just und therefore truly great.
[We cannot refrain from calling the attention of our friends to whnt we deem a great error, into which they are constantly falling. Wc refer to the last paragraph of the above resolutions.
Do Ih'cy not know that three-four tbs of all the States did legislate upon the XIV. Amendment, and by such legislation all the States are held to have done the same ? The XIV. Amendment could never have become a part ot the Constitution without such action, and it seems to us the height of folly to now Insist that the States must act again upon the same question which they have already legislated into the Supreme Law of the Land.
The real length, width and depth of the XIV. Amendment is us yet but little understood. ]
Also the following action of Cook County Woman’s Association, Chicago :
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION OF TIIK COOK COUNTY WOMAN
SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
Resolution* Offered that Woman is Already Entitled to the Franchise.
MORNING.' SESSION.
The first annual convention of the Cook County W oman
Suffrage Association wo» held yesterday in Fnrw.'U nail.I t wa» announced to open nt 10 o 'c lo ck ; b u t , o w in g to th e th in n ess of th > -s t'em ian c" . fu llv nn h o u r e lnp-ed helore th e com m encem en t ot b u -iness. M rs. F e rn a n d o .lot cb, th e P re siden t o f th " A ssociation , w ns in th e ch a ir. M iss Su-nri B. A n th o n v , M rs. E. Ca-ly S tn n to n , Mrs. W nito an d o th e rc h a m - p lons of th-- CHitee, w ere p reven t on ilie p la tfo rm .
Mrs. C. B W aite o p en ed th e m ee tin g w ith p m y cr.Mrs. Stanton read the following resolutions, which, she
said, had been prepared by the conuniltoo the previous evening:
H’AereiM, it is ju s t ns d isa stro u s to th e b e s t in te re s ts o f th e race to tench nil w o m a n k in d to tiow d o w n to th e a u th o r ity o f m nn ns d iv inely o rd a in ed , ns it is to tench nil m a n k in d to bow do w n to th e a u th o r i ty o f K in g s an d P o p e s ns d iv in e ly o rd a in e d : th ere fo re .
Resolved, T h a t m en ’s h e n d -h ip in th e S ta te , th e C h u rc h a n d th e hom e, is an exp lo d ed idea o f th e d ead p as t, o p p o se d to a rep u b lican g overnm en t, am i P ro te s ta n t re lig io n , b o th of w h ich recogn izes in d iv id u a l re sp o n s ib ility , conscience , Ju d g m e n t an d ac tion .
Resolved, T h n t, ns th e F o u r te e n th A m e n d m e n t d ec la re s all p erso n s b o rn o rsin tu ra liz .ed in th e U n ited S ta tes , a n d su b je c t to th e ju r isd ic tio n th ereo f, a re c itizen s o f th e U n ite d S la tes , the re fo re , w o m en , b e in g su ch perso n s , a re c ilizen s o f th e U n ited S tates.
Resolved, That, ns the Fifteenth Amendment declares “ that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or nhridged,” and, ns the Sixth Article says “ that, the Constitution and laws of the United Stales should be Hie supreme law of land, and the judges of every Slate shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution of any State to the contrary notwithstanding,” therefore, it is the duty of the National and State Governments to secure to woman the right to vote.
Mrs. Stanton supported the resolutions, and announced the jlatform on which they proposed to stand. According to ler interpretation of the Constitution, women had ft right to exercise the privilege of voting ; and, instead of going in for the Sixteenth Amendment, they were to proceed, at the next Presidential election, to register, and let the question be decided then by the coutts.
Mr. C. B. Waite objected to the second resolution, but was in favor of the other two. He urged ihem not to abandon the Sixteenth Amendment and fall back on the declaratory law. A woman was not excluded from the franchise on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude, but because of sex, and no amendment to the Constitution bad declared her a citizen.
Mrs. Stanton replied to Mr. Waite’s arguments, and didn’t sec how he could get away with the logic of the resolution.
Miss Anthony took up the discussion and supported Mrs. Stanton’s position. She thought Sumner wns right in his protest against the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as unnecessary; but if they did anything to help anybody, they helped women as much as any disfranchised class. Women must keep pulling away at this string until men. should, just to get, rid of them, be glad to acknowledge their rights ot ci izenship. There were twenty women in the District of Columbia preparing to make an attempt to register. Judge Riddle had promised to carry the matter through the courts, and that was the beet plan to bring the subject to a practical issue before the country. The men would have to declare themselves one way orunother.
A second reading of the resolution was culled for; and, after some further discussion, the convention adjourned till afternoon.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Prayer wasThe convention reassembled at 2$ o’clock, offered by a lady from Rockford.
Mrs. Brooks, the Recording Secretary, read a report giving a resume of the progress of the associaiion since its organization, its financial condition, and its proposed plans for the future. The report was adopted.
Mrs. Loomis, the Treasurer, reported that $200 had been received, which had been expended in organization, and $150 which had been consumed for various purposes. The amount in the hands of the Treasurer was $3.
Miss Anthony read an editorial from a Wyoming paper giving a flowing picture of the practical outcome of the movement in that Territory, and followed it up by a speech of considerable length.
Mrs. Waite, the Corresponding Secretary, presented a report of the progress of the association. Several societies had been founded within the past year in South Pass, III., in Onarga, Champaign, Paxton, and Evanston, and were all doing well. Iucidi ntally it was mentioned that Rev. Robert Laira Miller was doing a great work for the cause.
Dr. Blake moved that the present officers of the society be re-elected. The motion was carried.
Mrs. C. II. Leonard was elected F irst Vice President to fill a vacancy.
Mrs. O. H. Wcndte. was elected Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Waite resigning.
Rev. M. M. Parkliurst delivered nn address, in which he sought to expound the Christian idea ot the woman movement.
Miss Anthony again spoke.Mrs. C. H. Leonard read nn essay on the liquor laws, in
which she propounded aomo original anti striking propositions.
Mr. C. B. W aite offered the following as a substitute for the second resolution offered by Mrs. Stanton;
H'A«r«M. By th e F o u rteen th A m endm ent to the C o n atitiitio n , th e c i t i zensh ip o f w om en Is fully recognized : and
HAerafls, By th a t am endm en t, n r well aa hv th e ortglnnl C o n stitu tio n , every S la te ie debarred from d eny ing to cllia«-nr nf th e U n ited B la irs the priv ileges and tm m nn ttlea o f c ltiaensh lp , one o f th e ftindnm ental aa well as onu o f the d ea res t aud m oat valuable o f w hich linm uutlte» la the rig h t o f suffrage;
HAerwis, T h e re la no w nrran t. e ith e r In the C o n stitu tio n o r In th e n a tu re of th in g s , for deny ing c itizen s the electlvo franch ise, excep t tor crim e, sufficient age. capac ity or residence ; thereforedssotvel. T h a t wom en h a re th e rig h t of suffrage u n d er the C o n c ilia tion of the U utled Blaine, and should v igorously p rosecu te th e ir claim to th e exercise o f th e r ig h t u n til It la fully recognlaod an d e s ta b lis h « ! by a ll th* c o u ru o f the country .
This resolution, as wi II as (lie other, were laid over to b« discussed at this morning's session.
The convention then adjourned till 10 o'clock this forenoon.
T o e p ro g ra m m e lo r to -d a y is s s fo llo w s ; I n th e m o r n in g a iiiocus.-i.in w ill t i k e p in c o n tin- i tv - iliu io n « o tT r-ed \»-»u r d a y . I n llic a f te rn o o n th e r e w ill tre a g r in d » m ira g e t u n i c e . l ) r . W . II . R y d e r w ill g iv e a n » .I d r i s - nt 3 . . 'c io c a - n “ W h a t th e W o m a n S u ffra g e A g ita t io n l u - A c ro tu p l is i e d " In U»* e v e n in g M r». S ta n to n will a p m k o n " T h e T r u e R e p u b l i c , ' and M ra. U o o rg e C . U o tea wU l a p e a k o n " O u r Kep » l l i c .*
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IF WE WOULD.
i f «re w eald b a t check the fp v tk fr, When be #oi!* a ndrfabar'« h a « .
I f we w eald b a t help the errtnc.Ere we a lte r were# of blame :
I f we weald, bow m an r mipfet we T a ra from path« o f *ia and »ham*
All * the wronsr# th a t m l^ht be rixbted I f we w oald b a t n*# the w ar ?
Ah ? the paia« that m ight be lighten d Every boar and every d» v.
I f we wooM bat hear the pleading#Of the heart# that go aa trn j.
Let p# »tep oot#ide the #trongbold O f oar and p rid e :
l e t a# lift o a r fa in ting brother*.Let as s trengthen ere we chide :
Let ns. ere we blam e the fallen.Hold a light to cheer and gnide.
Ah. how blessed—ah. how bleesed E arth woald be if we b a t i r r
T has to aid and righ t the weaker.T h a t to check each b ro th e r 's sigh :
T h a t to walk in daty*# pathw ay To o a r be tte r life on nigh.
In each life, how ever lowly.There are seeds of m ighty good.
Ftill we shrink from soals appealing. W ith a tim id •• If we coaid
B at o a r God. who Jadgeth all things. Knows the tro th is, ‘' I f we w ould.**
i. INSINUATIONS, PER SO N A L IT IES , SLANDERS.it, although it W just such ,:tv and old fspyUin a, tins which has built up so strooe a wall of prejudice and ignor- !; 'ance and phostly fear in favor of perpetual manias**, no j 1“ *i*w of the prreent Sun condition of many per matter under what circumsttncea of crime and misery. ( * "»» who hare no better husin.— thsn to be ra p p 'd
We should like to put our editor to the test in proof of I ln retailinp stale maliciousness or in inventing newhisosrn theory of the indUs-dubilily of marriase. It would I insinuations, but wl»o lack the honesty and thatgive ua pleasure—real pleasure—to tie this gentleman to g j Dtinhotxl and womanhood which speaks no ill, e\c* pi bad woman, whose whole nature was immoral, and who did 1 h* know it tru e ; and to .how them tlmt they do rot trouble her best to make liis life a living hell. We should like then u» in *i|f least, we quote from iso. 10 of this journal the folio hear what he has to say about everlasting marriage, lie . lowing, and wish them all the happiness and good whichwould be the first to call it names, we dare be sworn, lie | ^ P***ibly arise from sucli employment. Now, as in Sepwould dub it adultery, sin, crime and abominable injusiire( ■ irnibrr lwi, we are too much engaged in In-tter business to and would never cease to plead for a divorce, which he , waste time upon such specimens of a common hmllnrh *d should never be able to get. Poor man ! what a plight to ' simply remarking that we are perfectly willing to receive be in! and how cold blooded he would think any one who ‘he fire‘ stouc'from bint or her who is without sin among did not sympathize with him ! I U1®111:
Can’t he. therefore, put himself into the position of w riters The world hiss yet almost no conception of a personality against the existing marriage laws, ami believe it possible . ftUd character which stand so secure in their ow n pur-
MBS. W00DHTJLL AND THE PRESS.
POODLES OF THE
An article appeared in this journal weeks ago on “ Mar riage L a w s” which, it seems, h is given umbrage to some of the old fossil country newspapers. One of these is a Jersey paper, and the editor makes a long extract from it, which he introduces in some very moral words which ought to do good to his readers, who are currently reported to be old women, and spinsters who don’t know how old they are. It would not matter to us a jo t what this moral editor has said, if he only spoke the truth. We could pardon the bad taste which prompted him to abuse ourselves ladies because, in spite of themselves, the}’ have been pressed to the front of battle in the great social questions of the day—and especially in the Woman’s Suffrage question—we say we could pardon this, because it is only gentlemen who understand and practice the amenities anc courtesies of discussion. But we peot st against such words as these when used in connection with “ Mrs. Woodhull ” and the article alluded to. The editor, speaking of the woman’s movement, says, “ No cause has been more embarrassed . . and made odious byabsurd and, sometimes, even positively mischievous schemes than this. The advocates of free love and of looseness have got in among the friends of this movement and played all sorts of bad wiih it.” l ie then goes on to quote the article, premising lhat Sirs. Woodhull edits the journal in which it appears, and thus, by implication, making her responsible for the notions of her correspondent. He further apologizes lor giving the obnoxious contents of the article to his readers in these worda: “ The views it presents and the suggestions i t makes are so mischievous that we quote from it to show its quality.” This is a good deal like introducing a young man into evil scenes and company to teach him to avoid them, and is the practice of all cowards and sneaks who lug spicy things into their columns, and then profess to be horrified that such wickedness could possibly exist in the world.
We have read over the contraband article with care and confess that we see no kind of harm in it, but a vast deal of good. John Milton, the great orthodox poet, and builder of the immortal epic know n as “ Paradise Lost,” goes quite as far as the author of this article on “ M arriage Laws” in his “ Plea for Divorce,” only learned John backs his argument not only with incontrovertible logic and the experience of mankind, but w ith a whole park of Bible artillery, in the shape of passages lrom Scripture.
Milton said that divorce ought to be as easy as marriage in the getting the reo f; and old Michael Montaigne is of the same opinion, and tells U9 tha t at a certain period of Roman history, when divorces were open both to men and women upon a great variety of complaints, there was not such a thing as a divorce known for five hundred years. This is literally true, w ith some half dozen recorded exceptions, and proves the rule absolute. The author of the “ Marriage Laws” is evidently a sincere and earnest soul, seeking to do good to his fellow-men by removing a heavy shackle from the mind and body of the race. He says, tha t for two people to live together when they hate each other—when their pursuits, aspirations and aims of life are all different—when they live, in short, in u tte r misery, it is cruel to compel them to abide by their swearings a t the altar, to “ love, honor and obey,” aud declares tha t the “ primal promise is all nonsense,” a proposition which we cheerfully indorse, as we do likewise the following pretty amendment suggested by this writer : “ Love is not a m atter o f volition but of necessity We can only love that which is loveable, honor that which is honorable and obey tha t which is reasonable; and the bride a t the altar can only honestly say, ‘ I will continue to love my husbaud so long as he is loveable, honor him so long as he remains honorable, and obey him so long as his commands are ju st and reasonable.’ ”
There seems to us no kind of immorality and license to free love in these words, which arc indeed the “ words of tru th and soberness.” Onr moral editor thinks otherwise. He thinks that because two foolish people have taken upon themselves the bonds of matrimony they are to remain bound together until jolly old Death parts them. B ut there Is neither good sense, good morals nor good Christianity in
that they may know what they are talking about » That they may have suffered from precisely such causes as we have named, and as we desire to test our moral editor’s principles by in regard to matrimony. We may be sure that three-fourths of the miser}- of mankind spring from unhappy marriages. Everybody knows it, sees it, pities it, but only the brave people whom he taunts as living “ free and untrammeled lives” dare to denounce the whole scheme ns an offence to God and an insult to the human intellect.
But this godly editor talks about the “ divine sanction” which is afforded to the married condition, and turns up his nose at everybody who “ scouts that idea.” as he says. But we, for one more, don’t believe the diviD sanction is given to any hut the good, true and genuine arriuge of noble souls. Two wretches, man and woman, both thieves and worse, go before the altar, and ask the priest to marry them, that they may breed a whole progeny of criminals to prey upon society. The priest may not know them, but possibly God does; and in this case, will our devout ed ito r affirm that the divine sanction is accorded to it? If so, all we can say is, that we would not like to be in the shoes of the divine sanction.
W hatever may become of this argumeut, however, there are such things a9 truth an I fairness in public as well as in private discussions, and since it by no means follows that Mrs. Woodhull indorses the sometimes very queer and crude crotchets of her correspondents, neither does it follow that this editor has the right to try and make it appear tha t Mrs, Woodhull is the person who puts forth the views contained in the Marriage Law art icle—that she wrote it, in fact. I f her name is to it, no doubt she is the author of i t ; but if it is not, our astute editor lias no more right to charge her with it, or w ith holding views similar to those expressed in it, than he has to charge it upon the Rev. Mrs. Catherine Beecher Stowe, or any other man. But we fear there is a good deal of malice in this editor’s statement regarding Mrs. W oodhull’s responsibility ; at all events, he shows a considerable desire to misrepresent her. He must know well enough that W o o d h u l l & C l a f l l n ’b W e e k l y is open to all opinions, and tha t its editors do not necessarily indorse anything which appears in its columns over another’s signature, or that is quoted from another paper, the latter of which is true of the case in question.
I t is not a little curious, too, that the country editor should have gone back to an issue of nine weeks ago, in order to make his attack. And it is still more curious that lie should have charged Mrs. W oodhull w ith the sentences contained in the Marriage Laws article which he quotes trom to sustain liisabuse, inasmuch as neither she nor any of her friends nor correspondents wrote it, but it was copied from the London Cosmopolitan to show how advanced the English journalists were upon this “ tickli ’’ subject and how boldly they dare to speak out about it.
The fact of the case is, that this editor, or some minion o f his, has exhibited quite too much spleen to w arrant hi9 readers m making the desired application. He must remember they do not wear green glasses. He, or somebody who speaks through him, evidently has a grudge against Mrs. Woodhull. He is perhaps jealous of the position she has achieved for herself—of being at the head of the women’s movement— and as thefirst among men or women to discover the mightiest fact of modern history in that X IV th Amendment, viz. : that woman everywhere is thereby accorded an equal right with man to vote at elections, etc. The little editor man strikes at high game, but he won’t bring it down. He does his best to blacken her character in tlxe estimation of the bread-and-butter children who go by the name of women, and suck candy in church, and never heard in all their lives any objection raised to the existing marriage laws, he tries to make Mrs. Wood- hull out to be a very black sheep, we say, with such nondescripts as these, who are evidently his only readers ; hut he can no more harm her w ith really good and intelligent citizens than he could harm the great pyramid by leaning his poor little body against it. He says, “ Such women as this Mrs. Woodhull and her public demonstrations, do great harm to the cause of the reform ," etc. Now this is poodleism out nnd out. Mrs. W oodhull has carved for'lierself a name in tbo history of this country which cannot he blotted out, and her fame is only ju st beginning to dawn. In a few years at most, and it may be much earlier, every woman in the land will have a vote through her “ public demonstrations,” and if that be doing harm, may God give her strength to do more of it. " B."
poses, their self-justified freedom, and their consciousness of strength as to meet every event and contingency as they may arise, that there is no fear and no care of tvhat tlic world may say or think. lTeolselv that is, however, our position ; and we even forget, in our simple e irncstness to live true lives and do our work, that there are people in the world still to defer to the dietum of Mrs. Grundy. II we are true to ourselves, to our own highest sense of right, w-e art- content. The whispers, or the loud talk.or the sly malicious inuendo are alike indifferent, und if it w ere not that we are occasionally reminded by the nnxiety of a friend lhat something is buzzing, we should not, on our own account, even have occasion to say *’ shoo fly !”
The world is, for the most part, in its babyhood, and in the condition of imperfectly conceived and badly bred babies at that. We have our earnest purpose to accomplish, and by the help of the good angels we shall accomplish it, in good part. It is to instruct the silly and perverted menta ilies, and to elevate and refine the low and sensual appetites ol this hall-rotten humanity about us ! but what the said humanity may say or think of us, in the meantime, is of little moment.
We have no contempt hut the highest admiration and respect for the possible man and woman. We have no contempt for the actual man and woman; but, with a few noble exceptions, and they grow lower every day with our increased experience, we do not propose to defer to their opinions. We measure the world by high standards, aud we find it wanting.
We do not despise, for that is an action and sometimes a fierce sen'iment, but we passively disregard and ignore the judgments which the world may pass upon us. Nobody is really entitled to have a judgm ent upon what they cannot understand, and people bowed and compressed out of all natural shape cannot, as we said in the b- ginning of this article, comprehend the feeling even of those whom the truth hatli made free.
JAMES FISK, JR., TO THE RESCUE.
LES GEORGIENNES AS A POLITICAL HOROSCOPE.
HENRY WARD BEECHER AS B0B0LI.
WOMEN’S RIGHTS TACTICS AfiD VICTORYA BAS LES H O JniE S .
Janies Fisk, Jr., is a man of the times. His acute perception tells him exactly when, where and how to make a hit. He looks a long way aheael, waits until his chance comes, then seizes it with unerring grasp. Anything he takes hold of has life in it ; anything he passes by is either not worth picking up or not high enough game lor him. He is successful because he work9 to a definite end, and never for a moment loses sight of it.
For some weeks past this city has been on the q u i v iv e in anticipation of the appearance of ’* Les Géorgiennes” and Jam es Fisk, J r .’s, elephant. But few who have seen the numerous announcements of the advent of this drama had any idea of the real significance of its production at this particular juncture; but once having seen it in all its geor- geousness, no one can fail to see its political drift, and the adroitness w ith which the W oman’s Rights question is represented, in its several phases, throughout the entire drama We had no idea, as we entered the theatre, of the connection of the dram a with our cause; but as we passed through the wicket, we noticed a significant twinkle in the Admiral’s eye, that we knew very well meant something, aud what that something was we will now proceed to explain.
Les Géorgiennes represents a certain city about to be attacked, and its male defenders being cowardly do not come forward to defend their capital and their liberties under their constitution. The women therefore rise, organize and undertake the defence of their capital (capitol) and constitution, placing Feroza at their head and N ani next in command. In this state of affairs Boboli. leaving the men. joins the women, but is only halt-hearted in their cause, having his own ends in view; he sees how affairs are likely to turn out and wishes to be on the right side enacting the role of “ heads I win, tails yon lose.” Rhododendron (or Revolution) is head of a party who assail the capital (capitol.)
Feroza gets hold of the key to the plan of attack of Rhododendron, and Nani (the general) keeps the key of the fortress u n d e r her armor. W e will explain no more of the play, but putting the proper names to the proper eharac-
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F ero za ...................................................................V ic to r ia C. W o o d b u lLNoni................................................................... Tuoni« C. Ciadlo.Bo boli........................................... llenry Ward Beecher.Rhododendron........ ......................................... The Rrrolatloo.Le« Geonriennu«......................... ...........Women’« Right« Party.CoottantiDopIe................................................. The Constitution.
Lts Georj-iennes flntlin;; the constitution likely to be trampled underfoot to the detriment of the liberties of the women, call a council of war and in solemn conclave ori;aniic and appoint Ferr/a as commauder-iu-chief.Fkboza. Now, unduretand, ladle«, that I
Mean to have every thing laid Aside for thu defunct* of the country !
So»i We have «or up a government of Women; but Feroza. having ail The right to command, a« the Strouge«t bead lu the town (Country), ha« been proclaimed General-in-Chief.
Lxa Gio r o ic n n c s . Hurrah for Feroz a ! hurrah for t u s O k n k k a l !Bo b o u . Rise up in (tue) Revolution,
Oh, TIMID DAJXES !Naxl Ah, ladies, and misses fair,
All the meu have run away.Bo b o u . Now, you know they went out
To beat the enemy.Fir o a * No more idle p h rases; let us to the fact«.Bo b o u . But do you want me to spoil my future *Na ni. It 1« no disgrace to be rebels—
In this case it is highly moral.Bo b o u . Ah th a t woinuu has thrown
Vague yearnings iu to my soul.
[Here Feroza and Nani discover that women have theright to vote under the XIV. Amendment to the Constitution],Nani. A nice discovery we have m ad e ;
To th ink that I should hold here, lu th is little hand, w hat is going To save the country.
Bo bo li. I'll pretend to know nothing. And ignore the rest.
[Song by L e s G e o r q ie n n e ».]
The m om ent has come T hut ends the reign of men.
Bo bo u A t tha t Feroa ! ah, these women !Fkboza . Let us strengthen oar arm s with
S tjel, for our cause is the noblest.Bo b o u . Let me betray eo as not to be
Betrayed inyseif.[Here having the shadows of coming event« F loating before his vision he betrays Rhododrendron.]
Rb o d u d iik n p o n (confessing). I tried to wiuOver the guard of the gates By giving him th ree Rupees, bu t the rascal wan Incorruptib le .
Bo b o u . They are all like th a t in This country, consciences o f iron . In men of bronze, they will Never betray the ir tru s t till you Get to the fifth rupee.
(See serm on containing the rem ark “ You know how it is yourself.’“)
Rh o d o d e n d r o n . “ Yes, th a t’s ju s t w hat happened."Boboli. ** i know the scale of ra tes.”
[See above eermon.] Song by Rhododendron. ” R esistance is useless
Subm it to fa te ,“*F kboza . “ Come, surrender.”Bo bo li. I am as gen tle as a lamb,
As gentle as tw o lam bs.”Rd o d o d en d r o n . ” W ell ladies, are you satisfiedIs£B GEORGIENNES, “ E nchan ted .”Bo bo li. “ I ’m as gentle as a lamb ; as
gen tle as tw o lam bs.” Les Géorgiennes.
But tbe m om ent has come T h a t ends the re ign of meu.
Bo b o u . My iCoglans and I,W hom your exam ple excites,W ish, upon my word,To m arch In your rear.
Morale.—The discovery that the Amendment gives the right to vote, at first placed Feroza in command of the Woman’s Rights movement, but frightened those halfhearted in the cause; who, when they find this to be the key to ihe posi.ion, fall in line and victory ensues. James Fisk’s elephant is merely the symbol of our new movement, and the astute Fisk has appropriately made it ono ol the first magnitude.
We arc certainly gratified at the manner in which “ Prince Erie” has put this symbolical dnunu on the stage ; the silken and brilliant colored Fastern costumes; the choruses (some ol which were very superior); the drummer girls with their pretty blue and white costumes, keeping perfect time with their marching and countermarching; then with the dashing Aimee and the model figured petite Pcrsini, both artistes of the very first order, give a hill of fare not certainly to be surpassed as affording a thoroughly enjoyable evening’s amusement, which the uudiences appear to highly appreciate. The Inherent attractions of the piece, combined with its political prognostications and nliusions, ns shown in our quotations, will give it a long lease of life. J. R.
THE ltADlCAI
BY E . a . U O l.LA N D .
Thu on»nilc »phvru« that radiaut Rio* lu peaceful orbit*, flow ;Atul no di>rupibv lufiuuiu'u tuar«Thu grand rt*po»u of marchlDg «tar».
''be Earth, which bathe« lu gidduu light,■'o diftaut world« «ueuiN glau aud b righ t;Vet at her centre all may *uu Thu real throb of tragedy.
When first arose the mountain chtttu*From depths uukttowu above the plalu«,The central fires that bade them rise Wuro rtuficu/—aud deeply wise.
The storm that makes the ocean roar lu fitamiug rage against the shore.Or send* the lightning through the sky,U the rad leal % coming ulgh.
The Cyclone. whose rotative sweep Breaks up the calmness of the deep,And makes the wave Its sportive toy,1« radical la uccuu’s Joy.
The U’lnifs that blow from northern sky,With hale, refreshing energy,Are radicals wo canuot spare For muklug pure the sultry air.
X\agara% eternal roar.And torreuts which incessant pour,
, C'hhue not with timid cautiou's velu.Hut triumph in heroic stralu.
The central fires that deeply He In this, our grand Humanity,At times upheave the mountains strong,And bury deep the morul wrong.
The sense of right, the Passion-fire,The Reason clear, the righteous he,Unite to burn in fiaines sublime The crushing tyrannies of time.
And radical is N ature's force,Kdiiciug epochs in its course,Whose action bold and stroug aud free. Evolved each rare sublimity.
No less in all Historic lore Are those hteh Forces we ador«.Whose play has broken error's chain,Aud Freedom's shout evoked again.
In every clime, in every age,The highest tru th of seer and sageHus lived and tlutncd through souls that woreThe radix o f Its blossoms rare.
Conservative are N ature’s laws,Educing lava and its cause,W ith whirlwinds fierce and thunders grand, And earthquakes shuking sea and land.
TOPICS OF TO-DAY.LECTURE BY WENDELL PHILLIPS
WORKINGMEN TO FREE THE WORLD.
HE TRAINS WITH THE WOMEN’S RIGHTERS,Ladies and Gentlemen—I f any one should ask me why
I bring to this lecture-platlorni such grave questions as I shall try to offer you, when usually these winter-evening lectures are regarded as a literary entertainment than anything graver, my reply would be that I took upon this system of lectures, not as a literary entertainment, but as one of the great educational instrumentalities of a free government— one of those necessary adjuncts to politics; for when God flings on a generation a great issue, it needs somo power to tear it open, and riddle it with light, and marshal the facts, and gither the argument, and crowd the brain, anti lift the heart, and ripen the million voters up to ihe level of an intelligent grapple with the new issue. Politics which contemplates an immediate result and action on the very morrow, cannot afford to lift the angry issue, cannot safely touch it. Neither ordinary journalism nor ordinary politics to-day could stand in California aud take the Chinese issue in its hands, and hold San Francisco still while they cram down her reluctant throat the facts which she must know and does not wish to know on that angry and unpopular and despised topic. The first time that I ever saw William II. Seward in the Supreme Court of the United States he said to m e: “ Go on, travel about, manufacture as much public opinion as you can, ripen it, and when it is finished I will use it up here in the Senate.” Well, it wus an exact description of the real relation under our Government between a United States Senator and a vagabond lecturer. [Laughter.] One is to make the road sate—one is to ripen the question up to the possibility of political treatment. Now, therefore, when I bring on to this lecture-platform the questions that politics will handle ten years hence; when I try to take the anger, the contempt, the indifference, the mob of 1833 on the slave question, and do my share to lift it into tho loyality and intelligence of1881,1 think I am using this platform for the very best and highest purposes; and I bring you, therclorc, the great questions that do not to-day make the politics, but underlie them; will crop out into their lull significance five years, seven years, tiltee years, ten years hence. In 1835, in October,! was still in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity. 1 was a lawyer. [Laughter. [ Seated in my otllco I heard a noise in the street, went down to find what made it, saw three thousand men in broadcloth dragging a man through the stroets with a rope around his waisi, I didn’t know him; I had never seen him. Of course I didn't know what offence he had given, or what idea ho represented. Of course it was Mr. Garrison, and it was the anti-proslavery mob of October 25, 1835, in tho stroets of Boston. But I was not an abolitionist; I was only a young lawyer, fresh from bouks. with all a young lawyer's keen sense of the sacred ness of personal rights—fresh Irorn the study of Genesis, of Anglo- Saxon liberty. I hud all Dnniel Wei ster’s eulogy on law in New England at my tongue’s end. I wus penetrated through and through with Story's idolatry for tire Constitution, and, of course, after nine years' study of such models, supposing I
I stood under tho most pcrlcct Government, I looked out on this scene ol mob violent« with the hotte-t tndlgnadon. It » a s llio vt' l tllon of the central light i f the 8,tx n’s Idea of liborly. Presently the Mayor nppeared on tliu stone. lie represented law.Tio was" the symbol of mnplsiriicy. I watclnel him anxiously, anti to my utter astonishment lie never issued acoimnniul. Reordered nobody; Ic summon d uo policemen. Bare lteadttl, lmt in bund, bending t.clnrctho mob, be prayed aud besought anti entrinted and exhorted these “comrades” and " aetpuiintauces’’ of bis to condescend to remember that bn was a magistrate. Will, tho angry mob swept over him, as the ocean sweeps over tho sand. llo utterly surged out of sight, while tho tumult now swept one street and now another in angry defiance. I had a commission then in a Suffolk r g ment.By my sale stood my colonel, an older lawyer than I. I said to him, “ Why don't tho Mayor call us out ? 3 hero are the gues in Faneu-.l Hall! \Ve w ill scatter this mob in ten minutes!'' My wiser colonel, in ten words, taught me more of United Stales Uovcruuu til than nli.c years ot study had taught mo. 11c gave me what the clergymen call “ my first realizing sense" of the nature of I lie institutions and r which I lived. [Laughter.] Pointing to the crowd, he said tom e; “ You tool! Don't you see ilull thu ri g mi nt is in front of you? Don’t yon sec that the thousand men who would handle those muskets are here V" Then, lor the first time, it flashed through me that in this Government of ours, with all its merits, in n critical hour, when the passions of men fling themselves against law, there is no reserve lerce— there is no bayonet anchor to which you can appeal ; hut at that moment just so much of luw-ubiding, self respectful, intelligent sense us there is the mol), iust so much government you have got and no more. It you are not hanged then you will enjoy your life to-morrow. If your hou*c is not burned down you w ill live in it the next tlay. This is not our idea of government. We borrow the wind from a race that look up to quite a diflcrent machine. In England it is not so. When Birmingham lay in the hands of the mob a week the Iron Duke ordered his Scotch guards to rough- grind the scoundrels, as they dial at Waterloo, and, vaulting ing into their saddles, they rode the-people down. There is an element in the British state that in the maddest hour of tho maddest mob cannot shake a hair. We have nothing like it. Thut very spring, when the guns sounded at Sumter, I remember a thousand men met in my own city, in Tremont Temple, when Boston merchants still thought it best to show South Carolina that we were submissive, and accordingly they opened the Tremont House and the Parker House gratis, and by 11 o’clock they had got a thousand men into that condition of mind that they turned them into the gallery and turned us into the street. Why do I give time to this? To bring to your mind this element, and remind you by these little reminiscences that it becomes thoughtful men to ask themselves the question, “ What is the opporlunhy, what is the facility, which lies right at the hand of st 11-seeking wealth when it pleases to lift up the dregs of society and fling it a. ainst law ? How do they get the means? How is it done? In a country of schools and churches where property is so w idely diflused how is it, on critical conditions, that a small class of men can lilt up the demoralized elements and beat down law?” Lord Macauley says, in one of those profound and suggestive chapters, “ The great evil vices is that in the ordinaty hours
' they rock and demoralize a large class which at such times hide and skulk from the notice of society, but on critical occasions they re-emerge, and, in the hands of base men, are forgeil into weapons that beat down law.” What is New Yoi k? New York is 500 men,a little ring that use and hold the city like u piece of private property. How do they govern it? They govern it through some 3,000 ti ols, every one of whom ought to be hung. [Great applause.] On a critical day one of these leading 500 says to his tool, “ Go down to the polling-booth and make it so disordeily and dangerous that no peaceable man will dare to approach it.” The man says, “ It I do that it sends me to Sing Sing.” " Not a bit of it; I hold the judge in one hand and the distrirt-attrr- nev in the other. Do what 1 tell you. You are safe. Go back upon mo to-day and I will bang you for what you did yesterday." [Applause.] In other words, this class of men are already so compromised that safety lies only in going forward. Well, how can lie do the duty assigned him ? lie can’t go there aloue, hut must have comrades. He can’t go to some fifty or one hundred thrifty mechanics, ana say to them, “ Come let ns go and break the laws.” He must go to men already half rotted by their vices, and besoittd by habitual imbibitions at the corner grocety. That is the duly assigned him. Every man that studies the temhneies of the day knows that this is no exaggerated picture, but a bird’s- eye view of the machinery that makes your great city’s government. I am not blaming any patty for it. I am not hero to day blaming any man for i t ; my inquiry is deeper than that. I am here to suggest to you not only that the fact is so, but that it could not be otherwise; for in the very elements, that make the city government this is the inevitable result and that unless you change the elements you cannot i xpt cl to change the result. Take the city of Boston. I know its detuils better. It is a small place compared with yours. We have not a quarter of a million. There are always two classes of meu, the conservative and prognssive, tbe man that needs the spur, and the man that needs the curb ; tho man that never looks with any satitfscib n on a new moon, and the man tlnit is never satisfied unless it <flanges once u month. They masquerade in all history. They are present in all society since history recorded it. God’s method of check and balance perfectly exists. Etch oue m»y look up to his Mak' r and say the mind you gave me aud the circumstances in which I was placed forbid my looking at events otheiwise. These two classes exist of course, in Boston. Now in the centre of these stands a third force. Behind it is $80,000,000 oevoted to tho manufacture of drink. In front ot them lim e or four thousand drinking saloons; in front of them the demoralized class, the dangerous class, the crminal class. I don’t care for the epithet—a class that is ever prtsent in cities; a class with whom social science deals; the class that law cannot curb; llio class that wealth panders to in order to double its gains. These men have no idtas ; tin y have only an object, and that object is that the law shall never lie exectiicd against them. On election day they say we don't care a wait lor your ideas, just give us the meu that won’t execute the law against us. They hold the balloia, have ever hild the ballots. There is not a city from ti ty thousind up to a million where tiny don't. The csudidate virtually makes the promise and it is kept. 1 say in tv, ry great ciiv on this great Continent, the mayor and aid. rrnen arc noth hg but a standing committee nominated by its grog shops, and hare not been anythiug else tor many years. [Applause.] And thus it follows that them has no’t been a great city on th.a
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continent governed for twenty consecutive years decently, so far as the protection of life, free speech and property is concerned. S.> tar as this theorv of ears of self-government, of universal suffrage, has grappled hitherto with the problem of governing a great city, it is a failure. You may put on your diamonds and walk on London Ptrnnd. and be safe. You would not try it in Broadway without making your will; and Broadway is the unadulterated result of universal suffrage in our circumstances. London strrets are safe, because Sir Robert Peel, in organizing her police government, took a leaf from the despotic form of the Comment and interpolated it into British law. Every student of the census knows that the tendeney oi the age is to the aggregation of cities. Cities' increase faster than population. The nature of modern civilization all tends to mass men together into cities, and the problem of statesmanship in the next generation is how to grapple with the government of great cities. Great cities are points where weath m ikes its heart and home. Montesquieu said Paris was France; to-day, for another reason, great cities are getting to be tlie state" The experience of the last fifty years show that gn at c ities are only saved by accident rent the control of their criminal classes. San Francisco flung away law and institute d a vigilance committee; so did New Orleans and Baltimore. The sin of intemperance is the dry-rot of the great cities ot the nation, and while great cities give charac.er to the empire, something that shall efficiently grapple with it is the essential of the statesmanship of the next generation. For intemperance is no skin disease, no individual weakness ; it lies in the very blood ot the race. Every race has its dominant wtaknes's, its bc-eiting sin : and it you want to know it and mark it, trace it back before Christianity, put it into costume, and you will a ways find the beginning. The Saxon race has everywhere shown two ruling passions: thirst for empire and intoxication. W hat I wish to do is to lift the temp: ranee idea to tne level of its patriotic significance. I know that it has two sidos: one is the Christianity that puts its >rms round tue drunkard and enwraps him in t te warmest sympathy, and tries to plant in his heart so much resolution as be is capable o( ; and the other side tries to make it safe for him to xvalk in the streets bym -ans of a prohibition. W e are an inventive race; a Yanke. baby, six months old, will look over its cradle, plan a model, and get out a patent belore be is nine months old [laughter]-, anu we are heie just as ingenious in our statesmanship. If th s does not succeed, we will try another plan. An eloquent woman lecturer tells a story which I will repeat. In oue of the Western States, the flourishing State of Illinois, one of her richest men said this : ‘* Give me re so lution to pa-s that open door,” which led into the drinking- saloon, " and I will share my wealth with you to-morrow.” B e could not do it. Nobody but God can plant in a human soul that vigor of resolution which can trample his appetite under his foot. But there is one ih 'ng which law can do, which the safely of republican institutions demands, and that is to shut those doors. [Great applause.] There is another question that is now looming all over the world, and that is t ie labor question—the workingmen’s ques lion. I considtr it the absorbing question of the next generation, to civilization, anil to the govern ments of Christendom. In Europe its aspect is a political on e ; h e te it is social. We have seen half a million of workingmen of Prussia flung against half a million working- men in Fiance. They did not hate each o ther; their ignorance of each other was made use of to create unfriendliness. Whiie the Frinchm au had built out of his imagination a demon and called it German, the German had buiit out of his imagination a monster and called it a Frenchman, and both were mistaken, ju st as we in our war thought of each other; the South thought the North a nation of peddlers that would not figul, aud the North thought the South a nation of barbarians. I t was not until we had seen each other on fifty battle-fields that we begun to know each other, and one of the heat results of the war is that the sections did come to know each other at 1 ist. [Applause.] But here we see two forces thrown together in Europe, to accomplish this last collapse of civilization, which we call the German war, and it is the greatest danger of the nineteenth century. Men say it w.ll take a million dollars to restore the beauty of Par.s, but that is hardly a consideration worth mentioning beside the graver aspects of the question. I t has made the Prussian a system of preparation for a similar w ar that will monopolize all the energies of the state in that direction. They took three adult years out ot every man’s life merely to make him a soldier. Fiftei n millions ot people have given three years, l orty-five millions of wasted years wherein a man has neither planted nor sown to lease a mortgage on his leilows! T hat is to make the Prussian army now a nation able to dictate to Europe at the point of the sword. A nd if England is ever to maintain her place, she, too, m ust adopt the system. And so must France; and il you l.ve you will see 100,000,000 of wasted years in Europe —wasted in the mere preparations for battle. The restoration of the feudal system would be no greater evil, and the name of Bismarck, tha t produced such a system, will be loaded with the curses of the next generation. [Great applause, and cries of “ Hear! hear!’1] The first step that lie made westward from Sedan, when Napoleon’s broken sword lay a t his foot; the first step that he made westward he forfeited his title of statesman, unless he can prove that he was the tool of a bigoted king or a heathen soldier. [Hisses and appl .use long continued. J Up to that moment every Prus siaii had been taught by nis mother to revenge tbe insults of seventy years ago at Berlin. When Bismarck stood there, if he hud held out the haDd of brotherhood, and said the people ot Germauy have no war with the people of France, it would have been a gre tier guarantee of the peace of Europe than a dozen such territories as Alsace. [Applause.] Instead of that he has planted in every Frenchm an's heart the cruel purpose to carry back revenge to the gates of Berlin. I know what is said of Gcrmunv, her metaphysics and her advance in Protestantism, but France has done more for pop ular rights than a dozen German es. [Applause.] But for her English W ing aristocracy would have sat like an incubus on Europe for centuries to come; her revolution, which is called hell by some, was the result of thought against superstition, of the people against kings; and, with all her shortcomings France has done more loi civilization than any other king dom in Europe. [Applause.] She is like the beast in the gospel; the uevil rend- her as he departs from her; and her notmsl condition and the place she occupies is » standing protest in favor ot right, humanity, liberty, and the masses. [Applause.] Europe congregates against her to-day. There are only three great powers in the world to day. England stands third-rate; belaud her is the Irish question on one hand, the A1 ibatna claims on the other. Russia, Prussia, and this Government are the only three ; and I do not think
it becomes the United States to send out congratulations to the blasphemous Emperor of Germany for his cruel conquest in this infamous war. [Applause.] 1 mean what I s:iy, tor it is not a pa’try sum of dollars nor a psltry kind of swnpa- tliy we owe to France. France, ever since 1T‘.*1, has been our yoke-fellow in the great uprising of the people. She is the onlv great power in Europe that, with her will or against it, has been the bulwark always at the side of progress in this country. [Applause ] W ith 'all her shortei mings, in the cause of the people France s volcanic aud Germany i- mud. and she stands to-day in the vanuuanl of ev. rything dynastic and aristocratic in Europe. And England let Fiance fall, leaving herself the sole representative of freedom. She was judicially blind ; nothin? but her channel stands between Bismarck dictating tbe same law in Loudon that he does in Paris. [Applause!] But no power will be allowed to domineer over Europe, for the workingmen will fling all these dynasties to pieces within the next twenty years. This quV~ I is social here. Here it is the protest oi Itbor against xveailn —labor against capital. I am not going to enter in any breidth upon the complaint ot labor against capital, although I agree with it. It is a sound that 1 believe our children will listen to and wonder that their lathers ever doubted it for a moment. Your great-grandchildren will sit in these seats and listen to some orator telling the story ot a Vanderbilt with as much wonder as a modern audience hears Agassiz describe the habits of a mastodon [laughter] or as we wonder now that we ever thought it right to keep a fellow- creature in bondage, and in seventy years hence your descendants will listen to the story of a YanAerbill or an Astor with incredulity. I do not say that these men arc wrong; they are but the growth of a lalse sociul system. Out of one hundred children lying in their cradles to-night in this city ten will have turned out weak; they cannot do anything without leaning on somebody. Ten more will have turned out idealists—men that dwell in the skys—make poems, ir- vent things. [Laughter.] Their feet never touch the ground; they do not want any bread. [Laughter.] Of the fifty left ten will be rich, they w ill be worth trom a million to forty- millions; and of the fifty remaining members, tliev will rise every morning to coin their daily bread. Here is a man of sixty, he is worth forty millions—he liasgathered it in forty years. There are 5U.000 men that toil for him. At sixty most ot them rise each morning to beg of him leave to toil. In tbe chain which connects the two there is a link which neither justice nor Christianity sanctions, and you will find it out. There are the men that trade in money and swap stocks, and there are 'h e men that trade in time. Out ot that class come four-fifths of the rich men. Girard said the first thousand dollars he ever gatli ered were gathered with more toil than all the rest he possessed. That is, it took him more labor to get up from the position of pennilessntss to a standing on the first round of the ladder of capital than it took to mount all the others Then there is something in all that leans unfairly on capital Your children will find it out. I am not touching that question. T hat theme can be left. I am on the ballot-box We canLOt afford to have a laboring class in this country We cannot afford to have a narrow-minded, ignorant class. England can afford to have such a class ; it don’t matter She looks down in Lancashire, rotting in its ignor ance, and does not care. If a man lias intelligence enough to wield a spade, or attend a spindle, that is all that is wanted. W e want him to wield the ballot. W hen the Earl of Shaftesbury looks down into a cradle he knows that the child will never lift a band against his fortune or title, and if be does anything he does it for the simple bidding. But when your Wall street looks down in toacraale it knows lhat that baby hand will in due time wield the ballot, and unless it hastens to put morality on the footsteps of that baby, your country is not safe. I thank God for democracy. I t is a glorious system ; but it shows you lhat this labor question, to us, is not a question of mere sympathy. I t is a question of absolute necessity. W e cannot afford to have classes. I f the time comes when you have got a class of capitalists standing apart perm anently; a class of labor standing apart—that is the end of the republic. In England there is a capitalist class. I t has stood over 700 years unchanged. There is a labor—it has toiled 300 years unchanged. Now and then, once in a while, a man makes his way over the chasm. There is a man worth £1,000,000! strong evidence that his father w as; strong probability tha t his son will be. There is a man in New York worth $1,000,000; no evidence that his father was; no probability that his son will be. [Laughter.] The fathers ot your millionaires were p- ddlers. They count m illions; their sons will die in the poor-house. Very likely it is for a republic this shifting; it saves the average mood, the average intelligence, the general sympathy, tbe m utual sympathy. Every man tha t watches his time sees creeping out ull around him the evidences that we are having a laboring class, and another class that is capital. Two great dangers assail us in the future. One is great cities, the very nuclti and centre of talk and trade, a class dry-rotted with intemperance. Our fathers thought, when they had abolished the nobility of blood they had secured democracy; but the nobility of a millionaire is of greater infinity than that of a duke. West of us those States newly grown and not merged into manhood have nothing but railroads. I can take you to two or three of them cobwebbed all over with railroad corporations. There is r.ot a rail in the Slate that has not the same name behind it practically ; and when you look out and want to discriminate the State and the railroad, you find that there is not a lawyer or merchant that dare to m utter until that corporation sets t h e ’example. You know you had a Legislature once at Albany; you have not got any such thing now, only a standing committee to register. [Laughter.] I t was no jest. It was ot too sad a nature to be a jest, w h tn a year ago at Harrisburg, in the Legislature, a member said, “ If Tom Scott lias no further business with this Legislature I move we adjourn.” [Laughter and applause.] I landed lately in a town where one man worth fifteen millions breathed for the town, and a little while ago he thought he would hax-e a county. He counted a dozen towns and went to the Legislature and had them joined. Officers were elected,, but the. millionaire didn’t agree with the officers, and so he packed his carpet-bag again, and when the next sun arose there was neither countv nor judge. He had taken them up in his carptt-liag. i f that great channel that leads from Pekin to New York ever gets on to its financial feet, and the great commerce of it pours into your harbor, Congress will sit only as a committee to register its decree. T A voice, “ T hat’s so ." ] You know i t Public labor w ith a problem out of which no statesman sees its exit, and the only efficient protest that we have heard ^gainst it, comes from a stifled voice of starved labor. Your papers print, w ith epi theta o f indignation or astonishment or disapprobation, the
position of tbe miners of Pennsylvania- Throe millions ot men ready to submit to such laws would be enough to enslave the reel of labt r. and 1 sav to-dnv. thunk G< d the miners of Pennsylvania have resiste.1. [Applause.] Thar.k God lhat labor, from St. Louis to Portland, tins organized for resistance, for it is only twilight :.nd struggling dawn of a better future. Mueli a.s nnv man here 1 retiu tale at a-zrari- anistu that bartered private prop. rty nnd repudiation; that denied the national debt. But as sure as late it is on the cards for a revolution that nothing but that of ’111 in Paris will equal, unless capital is wise in lime, and presses labor no no re relent b ssly to the war. Why, g. nllenten, there are in New England to-night 200,000 men and women that «am their living under a roof, in tactories ; and frotuo o'clock in the morning till B at night they have nothing but the mill. Underground in Pennsylvania are from fitly to one hundred thousand men. and they have nothing in common but toil. I do not care now lor inhumanity; it is nothing to me the individual injustice. I ouly follow that man after bis fitlccn hours of drudgery into his cheerless home. I only take the man’s hand as he comes from the mine, and I remember that hand is to weigh just as much as mine in deciding whether we have war with England, whether we shall pay the National Debt, and I approach him and say, ” Well now, mv go< <1 fellow, I want to confer with you. Here is an English commission silting ; shall we submit? Here is a new scheme of Boutwell. Shall we pass it? Come now, shouldn’t you like to sit down to a juicy speech by Butler ; or how would you like to read what Sumner has to say on the German war, what John Stuart Mill has to say on protection, suple- rnenled by tbe Tribune on the same matter? [Laughter.I Ah, you laugh ; you know it is absurd. Half a million el such men are growing up ; half a dozen minds can fling them into the ranks that w rite repudiation on their banner; halt a dozen minds can fling them into ranks that will fill your harbor with British monitors. W hat I say is, you cannot afford to cut up American population into these chunks of ignorance, and let one man's ambition and another’s selfidi- ness, and another’s greed throw them into which scale he pleases. The workingman’s movement is simply a claim that this generation shall reconsider the question between capital and labor. It is simply a question that when you have trusted hiinw ith the ballot you shall give him an appor- tunity to obtain intelligence. You remember that when the British House of Commons three years ago added 300.000 names to the list of voters tbe Tories resisted it, and when the speaker announced that it had become a law, Lowe, the leader of the Tones, said, “ Now, the first necessity and tbe first duty of every Englishman is to educate the masses.” Americans, you are letting giant corporations concentrate wealth in the bands of a dozen greedy men trom the harbor of New York to the harbor of San Francisco, grinding clown the people to such a limit that the ballot-box is a sham, and universal suffrage tbe peril of tbe age. [Applause.] The question of the eight-hours' employment is the claim for schools, the claim for thought, the claim for preparation. I think there is one idea could be added to the forces of society to grapple with these coming storms, for I believe that, stormy as the last thirty years have been, the thirty to come are to be stormier. I see society crashing and jostling frigates in a storm. The Republican party itself, with its brow covered with laurels is rotten to the core [applause] rotten to the core with the servility to wealth and capital at Washington. [Voice, “ Hear, hear,” and applause.] One word more, I tliiuk there is an it< m of strength we may add to the side of honor and the Declaration of Independence in this struggle, and that is woman. [Applause.] I am going to trouble you with one word, not on the subject of woman’s rigLts, although I accord to all of the argument. I think it a just question, well sustained, soundly urged. I train in that regiment. [Laughter.] But it is not as a right; no, it is as a duty. Looking out from that same stand point, the ballot-box, the advent of women into politics as one of the great strengthening elements, aDd on this account. There runs through all human history one law, seeming to be the law of God’s government of the race.I think it is this, that wherever you commit to one race a great interest, the interest is lost and the sex deteriorate. It is not at all probable that in human experience we shall ever see a finer literature than the Greek, but you cannot read Sophocles to your daughter. Shakespeare was the highest mind of the English race, but you cannot open him upon your centre table. You can read every word of Charles Dickens, you can c h a d every verse of Tennyson; but Sophocles had as pure a soul as Tennyson, and Chaucer lived in a finer atmosphere. Chaucer and Sophocles wri te for men. The reader was man. Tennyson and Dickens wrote for the race. W hat is society? It is a plane whtre menand women meet together, put their lives together, thoughts, discuss the true, the beautiful, hopes, memories, aspirations; it is the only plane where men and women are fellows and equals. Society judges by a higher rule than the statutes. Now, I want to lift the caucus up to the level of tbe parlor; I w ant in some way to take that atmosphere and clear it so that it shall be in some way the atmosphere of society. You have been into many a saloon where the partition went half way to the roof, and it said, “ Gentlemen are requested to remember there are ladies on the other side.” I would like to put one up in the caucus. You may probe your man down to the network of the natives that make a man up, and, as sure as there is a history behind, so there is a law which makes it certain that only standing side by side can we accomplish the best results. So I believe in the politics of the future, with woman as an element within it—not because she is an angel; she is no better than man. [Applause and laughter.) But it is the strongest strand in the rope of hope, and I believe that in this grapple with the outlying and underlying dangers which assail us, one of the safest aids for the future is in calling upon woman to remember that she has the brains and the heart, and God does not permit us to excuse it from a share in the great battle for the hopes of tbe race and the model government of the centurv.
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OR,
HUMAN N A T U R E IN A N U T S H E L L .
BY JOSHUA KOSE.
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•• And tell her th a t he, being now o ar guest,To treat him w ith politeness—for the rest,I never could give my consent th a t she Could e 'e r disgrace her friends and family By wedding w ith a common workm an ; so "Tis best that she a t once the tru th should know ;I plainly see he is in love w ith her,That she retu rns it, 1 do no t aver.
•• I only m ention th is because, m y dear,I've thought the m atter over, and 't ls clear His parents m ust be vulgar people, or They could not, for one m om ent, place before Their son a fu tu re in so m ean a sta tion .Repulsive to all taste and education,But that is their decision, and I bowMy head and wipe m y hands of them from now ."
Then Mrs. Grey expostu la ted th u s:"T here 's surely little need of ull th is fuss,
Because it is resolved by Mr. ClayThat F rank should from the ranks fight h is ow u way.Besides, I 'm sure I really canno t seeWhy you should even th in k th a t there can beAught but the m erest friendsh ip 'tw ix t the two,But I will tell her ull you bade m e to.
" I do not th ink th a t it is a disgrace To fill w ith credit e 'e n the hum blest place,And, w hatsoever s ta tio n F ra n k m ay fill,He'l be a gentlem an and scholar s til l ."Then Mr. Grey laughed out, and th u s replied :
“ I'd rather such a frien d sh ip should subside :’Tis d angerous; b u t leave i t in m y hands.And I will tell him how the m a tte r stands.
I often laugh a t w hat good people say.And then look a t the course th a t they p u rsue .
Come, te ll me. can you p o in t m e o u t to-day,Among our friends, b u t one w ho ac ts up to
These p retty p rinc ip les w hich have such sway In parlor conversa tion ? I t is true
They po in t a rom ance w ith a m oral grace,But in one’s p rac tice never find a place.
" A man’s vocation m arks h is social s ta tion And holds h im to th e g rade o f h is position .
The path he chooses is an ind ica tion T hat he considers it h is tru e condition ,
And, no tw ith stan d in g all yo u r fine oration ,Society exacts a p ro h ib itio n
Against a d m ittin g to one’s social sphere Inferiors ; w e to its ru les ad h ere .” ,
But Mrs. Grey was n o t a t a ll convinced,Although b eneath these sca th ing tru th s she w inced ; But, outw ardly a t least, she q u ite gave way,W hich reassured and q u ite p leased Mr. Grey,But in her h ea rt she on ly hoped F ra n k m ight,By future p rog ress, se t th e m a tte r r ig h t.And prom ised, m enta lly , to a id h is su it By every m eans an d m ethod , coutegui coute.
'T is said there never has been m isch ie f done Unless there w as a lady in th e case.
’Tis fa lse ; I here deny i t . I, for one.W ill n o t stand by and hear so iou l a b lo t
A ttached un to a m o ther by a s o n ;For dogm as w ork bo th w ays, s ir—do th ey n o t?
Ha, ha 1 Y ou do no t lik e such p e rso n a litie s ;Then don’t condem n th e w orld by g en era lities.
’Tls grand to no te th e ir tend ern ess an d care ;'T is rap tu rous to feel th e ir sw ee t caress ;
'Tls ecstasy to feel th e ir flow ing h a ir Sweep round one'B n e ck as th ey lean o 'e r to kiss.
Does there ex is t aught else th a t can com pare To th is ? ’T is heaven itself, no m ore, no less.
The veriest scoffer a t all earth ly b liss Must feel h is n a tu re m oved u t tim es lik e th is .
I t may he th a t a loving d isposition Is quite too p artia l to decide betw een
The pros and coub of any in q u isitio n W herein a charm ing lady is th e them e.
Were I a jud g e In any such positio n ,I ’m very m uch afra id th a t I shou ld lean
The scales o f ju s tic e ra th e r on h er side ,However m uch to balance th em I tried .
You th ink th a t is a Bomewhat w eak confession ;Upon my w ord, I can ’t deny th e fa c t;
But le t me add I 'm und er tho Im pression I 'd no t be i^uch asham ed o f such an a c t;
Perhaps the w orld w ould sm ile a t th e d ig ression— T hat is, p rov id ing i t was done w ith tact.
I mean to say, tho k iudur p o rtio n m ay be Would scarcely blam e o n e 's fuvor to a lady ;
T hat is, I m ean tho lo rd s o f the creation ,If In the m arried o r the sing le s ta tio n ,Would fain iguorc in such a s itu a tio n Tho herein-m entioned little dev ia tion ;I t is not to a Indy 's in c lina tion ,Were sho um pire in such a m ed iation ,To lean uu to hor sex, a t any prico—I would not ask so great a sacrifice.
Yon think I've spoiled all I bavi said boforo,Aud in the ladles ' cause should say no m ore ;Not s o ; I proved tho very tlilug I wanted,
“ Proved woman favors uot her sex," 'tls granted,
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But also shown she likes the opposition ;And th a t's the very germ of my position.We ought to lean unto the nobler sex ;
‘ B ut which is it ?’’ bo patien t, don’t perplex.
If you’re a lady, 't is the male, of course.If not, you have the opposite resource;T he world will scarce agree with this, forsooth. Although it is a "g la rin g , s ta r in g " truth.The ladies say, " I blame her, artful thiug.I t ’s her owu fault, I really p ity him ."T he gentlem en declare it was a shame,A scoundrel act, to Injure her good name.
Most people say they like their opposite.W hich pays bu t them selves a poor com plim ent;
I don 't agree to such n dogma qu ite .I 'll try to give my notiou an em bodim ent
In Just one phrase, set down In black and w hite— Perhaps It Is an egot's sen tim ent—
But if one’s ra ther selfish, do not sta rt,'T is th a t I love m y very counterpart.
W ith in th is life, e’en though it be a dream,There Is a bond, unselfish, unalloyed.
W here love alone unfettered reigns suprem e.By jealousy nor by exclusion cloyed.
W here love of others cannot in te rv en e ;B ut m akes the welling heart feel overjoyed
T h a t theirs, w ith our offering, can blend In earnest tr ib u te to our favored friend.
’T is sw eet to know our friend is loved by a l l ;T o feel a glow for they who love our friend,
And to exult th a t th e ir a tten tio n s call A th rill o f grateful p r id e ; th a t they should lend
A force to w hat we feel w hich seem s to fall,A lin k th a t b inds us to a m utual end,
W here every p leasan t look and k indly word W ith joy , w ith thanks, w ith love are seen and heard.
Think as I think, feel just as I do feel,117.-A as I wish, admire what I admire,
D efend my cause as yours w ith friendly zeal,L et yours and m ine be ever one desire,
A nd I w ill answ er to the fond appeal,Return it tenfold— in my b reast inspire
A loving, deep, en th u s ia st’s devotion,Sure as the sun, unceasing as the ocean.
I w ill defend you, all your w rongs redress—Defy the w orld, if need be, for your sake,
Shield you from harm and soothe you in d istress,T here is n o sacrifice I would n o t m ake.
The very faith that asked it I would bless ;A nd to m y arm s your loving form I ’d take,
A nd thank you for your confidence in me,A nd try to be as you w ould have m e be.
’T is q u ite ro m a n tic ; p ’raps you m ay rem ark ,A n evidence of som eth ing ra th e r “ g re e n ;"
I p ity h im , w ith n o th in g in h is h ea rt B u t trad e and b arter, cynicism and spleen.
I f you or I en ac t the b e tte r part,R em ains, m y friend, a m a tte r to be seen ;
M eantim e, I say, I w ould n o t tak e your place—A soulless m an, I te ll you to your face.
A n o th er th in g I w ish to illu stra te W h ils t w e are on th is skep tica l debate :Y ou gen tlem en m ake q u ite a g rand m istake In th in k in g th a t a m an’s n o t w ide aw ake W ho makes a friend out of the common way.R egard less w hat th e form al w orld m ay say.Y ou’ll o ften find in try in g such an one In a sm a rt bargain , you w ill be outdone.
I ’m w ith you, sir, i f you urge th a t the fact is T h e w orld is n o t y e t r ip e for such a practice ;I d id n o t te ll you th a t one ever chose T o force one’s favor ’n ca th th e pub lic nose.B u t, n e ’erth e less , th e re is a t tim es a feeling So “ sp le n d id ," so enchan ting , so ap p ea lin g ;I t s tr id es beyond o n e 's usual reticence,And scorns alike, or satire, or defense.
'T is w hen th e soul shakes off i ts ea rth y coil A nd will n o t be en tom bed in egotism ,
B u t,b a sk in g in u n fe tte red freedom ’s soil In sp ite of com m on p la titu d e o r ism ,
I t tow ers aloft w ith m ien an d g ran d eu r royal,A goddess w ith affection for a prism ,
W ho says, " I rise beyond the potty ru les D ecreed by custom to its slavish to o ls ."
O f all the feelings in th e hum an b reast T h a t shed a ruy of beau ty o ’er th is life—
A m ong the sw eetest, p u rest, and the bes t Is frien d sh ip 's love ; no selfishness is rife
T o m ar i ts p leasures or d is tu rb its r e s t ;The love of one's fiancee or one's wife
Can never lessen neither can it rend The pure love for one's own true bosom friend.
H ow o ft we hear th a t tru th ’s moro strttngo th an fiction, A nd y e t th e fact w e scarcely realize, 1
W o tre a t l t l ik o a w eatherw ise p rediction W hose tru th fu ln ess Is m a tte r o f su rprise .
P recep t an d adage oft are an infliction F rom sages who are a p t to catechize,
A nd i f by chance th ey 're rig h t, they feol a glow Of wisdom, Baying, " A h , I told you so.”
A nd still m ore o ften , finding th ey ’re m istaken .T hey shake th e ir heads profoundly and declare
T h a t since th e ir young days th ings are sadly shakan, In fact qu tto o u t o f jo in t, and unless care
Is tak en w ith the rising generation Tho coun try will he lo st beyond repair.
P u t on th e ir g lasses an d you’ll p lain ly seo T h a t th in g s are n o t as they onuo used to be.
Age lectures youth and youth lampoons old age.One shakes his head, tho o ther shakes his 6ldca;
Tho first gives m axims solid, tr ite and sage.The which the o ther silently derides,
Unmindful w hat the warnings may presage ;Ills im pulse and his wishes nro his guides.
Reduced to practice, his Idea Is th is:“ You had your day, so, pray, le t him have h is."
You cannot p u t an old head on young shoulders,A fact th a t la too often overlooked :
Tho forest g iant sears, decays and moulderB, .H is trunk storm -rent, h is aged branches crooked.
Ho stands a w itness pa ten t to beholders T hat all to common destiny aro hooked.
Y outh, pleasure, joy and tru s t go hand In hand.Age, w isdom an d precopt together Btand.
I t wero n o t well to warp the sapling 's form.And bend its boughs to angles and rigidity.
To m ake its p lian t stem defy the storm .Infuse in to its sap a dull frigidity.
No, no, the breezos of the early m om Pass by tho m onarch's loftiest sto lid ity
To woo tho Bwaying stem s of tender plants.W hich bow in hom age for the k iss it grants.
Oh, youth, thou term o f happiness and purity ,O flove, hope, joy, w hen all the world is b r ig h t ;
To eager years of sad and cold m atu rity Thou art, indeed, a dream of love and light.
’T is well on doubts a id fears of life’s fu tu rity Dispel thy bliss, thy lustrous visions b lig h t;
Dream on your happy dream from day to day,T he w orld too soon will b rush you all away.
W ell, com ing back to P ete , Ills bed-room door Is tapped, then slowly opens, and before H im stands h is m other in her dressing-gown.H er face qu ite ashen and her eyes cast d o w n ;She sa t upon the bed close to h is feet.A nd said, in saddened, trem bling tones, “ O, P ete, I 'v e learuod a t la s t w hat I have long suspected.T h a t all your early teachings are neglected.
“ L ast n ig h t I saw you and observed your sta te ,A nd find th a t you have been so oft o f la te ;W here do you go ? W h at does th is m ystery m ean ? Am I aw ake? Is th is some horrid dream ?W ould th a t i t were, th a t day would never dawn T o find your m o ther’s m ind in to rtu re torn ,I here dem and, a t once, a s tr ic t confession,T he n a tu re an d th e leng th of your transgression .
“ Y ou hear m e, sir, exp lain th is m idn igh t prow ling. E xp la in a t once, I care n o t for your scow liog;T h is stea ling from your paren t’s roof away,A nd sneak ing hack before the daw n of day L ike som e base th ie f w ith muffled, cau tious tread, D iscovery alone h is only dread.Y ou w ill n o t—th en I ’ll take som e o th er m ode To find w h a t these nocturnal ra ids forbode.
“ T ak e w arn ing by m y w ords—I say, b e w a re ;F o r here I m o st vehem ently declareY ou shall n o t b rin g disgrace upon your hom e.I w ill u n earth you ; n o t a sing le stoneShall bo u n tu rn ed ; I 'l l search th is m a tte r th ro u g h ;I ’ll n o t be long in doubt, I prom ise y o u ;A ud E lla, too, shall know your goings on—I will n o t spare you though you are m y son ."
P e te glared upon h is m other, an d re p lie d :“ Do so, and then th e consequence ubide.
W ho pam pered m e an d spo ilt me as a ch ild—On all m y fau lts and erro rs b lind ly sm iled ?A nd, w hen I played the tru a n t from m y school, W ho h id th e tru th from fa th e r, like a fool ?A nd, w hen he found i t o u t and would chastise,W ho stayed tho rod w ith angry , flashing eyes ?
“ W ho, w hen th e w ell-earned p u n ish m en t d id fall, W ould tak e me to h er open arm s au d call Me h e r good boy, th e very m uch a b u s e d ;A nd ta u g h t me I w as cruelly ill-used,A nd sow ed th e seeds o f w hich you see th e f ru it ? ’T is well you s ta n d in co nsternation m u te ;Y on p lan ted , now behold w h a t you p roduced—T he ch ickens m erely have com e hom e to roost.
» “ F rom litt le seeds th e g ia n t tree h as spread.1 w ould n o t tell you th is , b u t w h at you said H as m ade m e a n g ry ; bold enough to tell Y ou how , and why, my p re se n t s ta te befel.Y ou th o u g h t i t k in d n ess. Is i t k in d to sow T he w eeds th a t w ill expand th e ir roots, and grow T ill they envelop in th e ir ran k cm braco T h e gra ins o f corn , and th e n usu rp th e ir place ?
“ You never tau g h t m e evil, g ran ted true,Y'ou m erely helped me my transg ressions th rough , A nd in terposed your sh ie ld ing arm to stay T h e Ju s t rep ression of m y e rrin g way;W hen tem pted nud I w eighed in trep id a tio n T he cost, I counted your co-operation.Y our influence w as alw ays th n s relied U pon to a id tho dev ia tin g s id e ."
T hen M rs. G rey arose, confronted P ete,R eplied , “ Is th is tho recom pense I m eet F o r loving you too well, and yon to cast In to m y face tho m em ory o f the past.I f I had th o u g h t my love w ould p rove a curse I w ould have ra th e r followed at tho hearso T h a t bore you to your grave, th an you should plead My love as au excuse for yo u r m isdeed ."
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
Tho w orld lacks firm ness, honesty , decision, A nd all Is fo ib le , fash ion nnd frivolity ,
O ur m odern p leasures them es for th e ir derision T hey lack aliko both ea rnestness and Jollity ,
Iu fhet, denude o f m ethod or precision ,A ud the w hole ten o r o f our m odern po lity
Is su b s titu tin g for the old sagacity KnJoymuuta p reg n an t w ith a vain v ivacity .
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Congress has been memorialized to pass a “ Declaratory Act" lorever settling the Constitutional equality of all persons who are made citizens by the Constitution. Two reports from the Judiciary Commitue have been made upon the mi mortal. One admitting that women are citizens, but failing to recommend that they be protected in the exercise of the common rights as such. The other first refutes th<- fallacious positions ot the former and recommends that Congress do pass the required act.
There is but one thing anting to secure just the action which every lover of equality desires : this is to pour in such a mass of names as will convince them that the hearts of the people really desire and will sustain them in giving equal rights to all citizens. Every person who reads this should at once n solve him or herself into a committee of one to obtain all the names possible as signers to the petition below, and mail the same to Mrs. Josephines. Griffing, Secretary of National Women’s Suffrage Asssociation, Washington, D. C.
To the Honorable the Senate and House o f Representatives of the United S'tie- in Congress assembled:Wq, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, de
siring to exercise the elective franchise, do In ta lly pray your honorable bodies to enact a declaratory law recognizing our tight to vote under the Constitution, as interpreted by the XIV. Article of Amendments thereto. And your petitioners will ever pray.
THE PENNSYLVANIA. CENTRAL R AILRO AD .Union PacificT h o m a s A . Scott and the
Railroad.HARRISBURG KNAVERY
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Bouffe J ournalism.—The New York Sun some time ago started a project to erect a statue to Wm. M. Tweed. The general public at th* time supposed it was one of those quiet jokes for which the Sun has become famous. Some persons, however, absolutely took the proposition as in earnest, and forthwith commenced to raise funds for the purpose of carrying it out, whereupon Mr. Tweed writes, politely declining the honor, inionning them that ho is not a fool. The Sun, however, regrets Mr. Tweed’s decision, and hopes he will rc-cousider it.
A PIECE OF WAR HISTORY
I rresponsible P arties—T he Status of the N egro at last Settled .—Some persons having lost flowers from their gardens in ongomery, Ala., the . aily Advertiser of that city warns its readers ugainst purchasing plants from "N egroes uud other irresponsible parties,” 'e rg o a negro is on irresponsible party with the Democracy down South Northwurd he is becoming a man and a brother, and in fact no Democratic procession is now complote without him Verily the times arc moving.
If all the evil that has ever been, rightly or wrouglv, laid at our door and charged to us, be admitted, to our scandal and reproach, as justly so charged, yet we have one atonement to offer that should outweigh all the faults of the most hardened transgressor, and cause the recording angel to blot from the dark entry of sins all that are ours. Give us our due. AVe were the first to strike a heavy blow at that monster of fraud and iniquity, the Pennsylvania Railroad; and well do we remember how, after our first attack upon it, our Pennsylvania exchanges came to us full of verbatim copies of our articles, and sometimes of incredulous comments. Neither have we forgotten how that Philadelphia “ ring'' sent out and endeavored to buy up our whole issue, ana so suppress the revelation ; nor the letters nor visits we received from those immaculate (?) directors; uor the slow, hesitating support we finally forced from the general press.
In 1850 the Pennsylvania Railroad people made llieir first essay in thieving operations not directly connected with the smaller hut highly profitable field of “ supplies ” to their own road. At that date the Pittsburg and Steubenville road was scarcely more than begun, and was under contract and lease to New York parties. W ith these parties the Pennsylvania “ ring,” by practices which, as only recently revealed in the proceedings of a court at Pittsburg, partook very nearly ol the character and legal definition of “ conspiracy,” became affiliated, and, forming a bogus firm to represent them, and endorsed by them, became through it co-partners to the contract and lease. Thereafter, by all adroit and hidden acts which might embarrass or discredit the original contractors, (their partners) they labored and waited until—the mine prepared and the crisis of 1857 aiding their efforts—they, without warning, broke their contract, failed purposely to meet their share of the obligations, and, firing the train calmly watched for the explosion which was to ruin their asso ciates. This explosion was delayed through the desperate and nearly successful efforts of the first parties, but these very- efforts, which, of course, utterly exhausted all the per sonal and business resources of the victims, delayed tne ruin for the time, only to make it more effectual when it did come and the whole affair passed into the intrigued-lor controlo t----- the Pennsylvania railroad.
The results of this burglary were eminently satisfactory— in fact, for that date, were something remarkable. No qualms ofconscience.no pity for private misfortune, distressed the minds of those who participated in the “ swag,” any more than such sentimental nonsense did Fagan or his precious gang when they had made a haul. The appetite w is whetted, and an irresistible, itching desire for “ more,” by any means, fair or foul, grew up in that “ ring” until through the length and breadth of this country the name of the “ Pennsylvania railroad” is fast becoming a synonym for extortion, corruption, malfeasance, fraud and falsehood. A company that never builds railroads-^-tliat never controlled hut 350 miles of road in the construction ol which it had any direct part—to-day, by leases, by contracts, by legislative and ju dicial impurities that would have disgraced the vilest of the Roman Emperors or the Borgias, by almost impudently uaked, fraudulent and unlimited “ guarantees” and stockwatering (insuring the ultim ate ruin ot the general shareholders), now openly governs at least 4,000 miles of track, and no man can say how much more. F or w’hat man can believe the asseverations of its officers or rely upon them further than what is openly known ? The ink is hardly dry which recorded the proceedings of the shareholders’ meeting of the Pennsylvania R. R. Co. in Philadelphia, at which Thomas A. Scott, its vice-president, told Mr. Cliff, a share holder, that it (the Company) had no interest in the Union Pacific road, before the same Thomas A. Scott appears at the shareholders’ meeting of the Union Pacific road iu Bos ton. The “ Pennsylvania railroad" ticket there is reported triumphant, and Mr. Scott and Mr. J . Edgar Thomson, pros ideut of the Pennsylvania road, become directors in the “ Union Pacific” and Mr. Scott, its p residen t!!
After this who will question the word of tha t Pennsylvania Railroad director, who, at the meeting in Philadelphia declared the whole of tho company’s accounts false ? W hat over-credulous mortal will now yield implicit confidence to any story told by railroad officials ?
To be sure Mr. Scott may briug forward, the excuse that he spoke in the corporate name of the Company, but Phila dclphiaus would receive such an excuse with derision ; and all who knew the true condition of the Comp tny will be forcibly reminded of th“ contraband who was captured at the bat tie of Chanccllorsville and marched to Provost Marshal-General Patrick, to give an account of himself, when ensued the fullowiug colloquy : “ W hat’s your name?" “ My name1 Sam." “ Sam w hat?” “ No, sah; not Sam W hat, 1’se jis t Sam.” “ W hat’s your other nam e?“ “ I hasn’t got no other name, sah, I ’se jis t Sant, dat’s all.” “W hat’s your mas
ter s ram s ? “ Use got no mass \ now. M&aa runned sway1 ah 1 yah t I so a free nieger now.“ “ AYhat’* vour father and mother a name ?” “ Use got none, sah; nebber h id none.1 se ji?l 8am ; ain t nobody else.“ " Haven’t you anv broth ers or sisters? “ No, aah ; nebber had none. No brodder, no sister, no ladder, no ntuddcr, no mavs*. notlvii" but S im When you see Sam, you see all there is of us.”
Precisely, when you see Mr. Scott and his co adjulors. you see all there U of the Pennsylvania railroad. What arc the directors or shareholdera ? The proceedings of the meeting show that except in the ring, the first know nothing and the second are likely soon to be no where. Let the last ponder well the almost total disappearance of $17,000,01)0 income, and the pretty exhibit of estimated assets of $03,800,1)07, iu road track and equipment, plus certain very obscure invest, ments contra liabilities, in round numbers, of $75,000,000?
We suppose a self-consciousness of the predicament, financially, they were approachiug, induced Messrs. 8cott & Thomson, the worthy firm who represent the Pennsylvania road and shape its destiucs, to attempt, a year ago, to make up any deficiency by the desperate expedient of carrying uwav the sinking fund of the State. A shameless legi-la- lure, subservient tools to a money inlluencc, were not wanting in willingness to thus bankrupt their constituency, and the veto of Governor Geary alone prevented the entire consunt-
ion of the fitting complement to the “ Pan 11 indie Railroad” plot. Evidences point this winter to the conclusion that it is yet intended to accomplish the scheme by a legislative vote sufficient to override tho Governor's veto.
Only see what a picture of depravity the Lancaster (Penn.) Intelligencer presents : " The managers of the Pennsylvania Central have nominally bought up a majority of the member.-, of the legislature early in each session, and those who were purchased have bound themselves to vote as they might be directed. . . . The agents of the railroad could be seenat all times in the lobby or on the floor of the two Houses, watching the course of legislation and forwarding or checking the passage ot hills. No men iu Harrisburg are better known, and none have a more distinctive and well-recognized avocation than the lobby agents of the Pennsylvania Railroad. They have learned by long experience how to ply their foul trade successfully, and are adepts in all the arts of intrigue aiid skilled in every species of corruption and bribery.” Even every branch of the National Government swarm3 with the spies arid retainers of the corporation. Of a Senator in Congress, the Intelligencer says: “ Believing that it m ight be well to have a representative in the highest legislative body in the nation, the managers of this road purchased for one of their salaried solicitors a seat in the Senate. John Scott was never dreamed of in that position until the corporation which he served instructed its servants in the legislature how they should vole."
Can we he surprised, in such a sink of infamy as has been thus created by this m onster corporation, to find the private men who have been participators in these transactions, showing their abilities in individual cases of “ grabbingV"We behold a bank started in H arrisburg by these fellows— its sole and only capital a deposit of State money! We find
lobby man of this famous “ ring” trying his hand in contracts which, from 1861 to 1869, drew from the State Treasury $208,506, of which $158,506 were for stationery and prin ting ! and the same man quietly holding $25,000 of the S tate—the people’s money—which he loans back to the people at usurious interest! W e find the Postmaster at H arrisburg beginning with a charge of $15,000, in one year, for postages paid for the State Senate and House of Representatives, which, w ithout any increase in the quantity of mail m atter sent off, he advanced in two years to a charge of $23,302, and then, in a year more, by a forced march, to
charge of $29,072, an increase of $11,873!! The estimated proper cost of keeping the public buildings at Harrisburg in order is about $5,000 annually. In 1860 the actual cost was $5,330. In 1864 it had run up to $14,000, and in 1869 it had reached $32,000!!
Thus evil example docs Us work. Virginia will do well to heed the lesson. This railroad corporation has entered her territory w ith no hesitating tread. Already the foulest aspersions are cast on her Legislature, and Richmond promises to be, under Pennsylvania auspices, as slimy a pool of corruption as Harrisburg. In spite of the struggles of General Mahone, and of Virginians whose integrity has been proof against the blandishm ents of Messrs. Scott & Thomson, it looks as if the “ abominable schemes for swamping the railroads and subjugating the commonwealth of Virginia, of these Pennsylvania adventurers and sharpers, who do not intend to construct railroads” [.Richmond lUAty], were very likely to be successful, and that, through the agency of “ Havana cigars,, liquors, lobby salaries and an expenditure of $100,000,” the m other of Presidents was about to become a mere appanage of a Philadelphia “ ring," which, not content w ith any success short of entire subjugation, is now said to he the organizer of a lobby to defeat the re-election in Richm ond of its opponent, Senator Johuson. An alien company, under the guidance of the whilome salaried engineer and the ci decant car conductor, passes into a distant Stale to control its senatorial elections !! But even this is not the lim it to its pretensions. H ints are now cir. culating that Thom as A. Scott, the master-spirit of the “ ring," whose franchises and leases and property now extend from the Delaware River on the Atlantic to the far distan t shores washed by the waters of the Pacific, will control, by this great power, such a num ber of “ cotes" as to mak.-
„(Jliis coadjutors nocess >i(# who hopes fur success in l j*** 0j the Roman guards wl s ^ ir country to the highes °f . '>nJ the p-’oplc calmly lo' ^Senate of the United Ste «*?; (or which, by peculia
st iiicorruptihle in tegrity ,__ , the agent in tl”—the mouthpiece t!
ic»Pls>in dcfiancu of tlie P o obstruct the navigat
gainer by a gentleman wh ¡curf " ar' testifies to tl ^honest care of the publi (J*liichhe will go to obi
a testimony so toucl amc so peculiarly interest i ^produce a small scrap licjtiott which is before ports of Congressional c April, 1861, the then St «ssorof Sumner—gave t jlr. Cummings, which a uchment, aud that no mi stood in the way ot its requested to expend the fancy in buying anytbii the money was plac treasurers in New Yor at once drew out $50, t tmployed a clerk lo 1 because tlie soldiers “ i (flvi from a hardware i baying, but the deale Cummings believed gro
, never saw the articles be bought a ship—tw know even the tonn: for everything! lie twenty-five cents a oblige a man who li of money ! To cap t purchased, for the \Y been condemned an and fur this re-purt it the time of the c the Congressional t |600,000 of the $2 “ iSMT SUPPLIES” t enthusiastic triend, bought as a private eminent when fou dozen pints of ale boxes of cheese; l id liWum; twent iray! glorious st those visions have have a “C.esar’s Lincoln’s first AY a orsble disgrace, t sense, for once it walk over the eou
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Aim »nd bis coadjutors necessary auxiliaries to any Candid a »ho hopes fi-r success in ihe Presidential election ! The jtorr of the Roman guards who openly sold the government of their country to the h'ghest bidder is not remembered to-
ind the p -epic calmly look on at the operation by which ■hefenateof the United States displaces Sumner from an oficc for which, by peculiar aptitude, long training, the Most incorruptible integrity, he was so tilted, to succeed himAi- ------ , the agent in the Senate of the Philadelphia-ring”—the mouthpiece there of that ring in its late attempts, in defiance of the protest of a whole State, to bridge uni t o obstruct the navigation of the Ohio River—replacing jumner by a gentleman whose honorable record when Secretary of War, testifies to the purity of his public character, tis honest care of the public funds, and the extreme lengths to which he *'¡11 go to oblige his political friends—a record and a testimony so touching and convincing, and at this time so peculiarly interesting, that we feel tempted to briefly reproduce a small scrap of war history from a publication which is before us, and derived from the reports of Congressional committees of investigation. In April, 1861, the then Secretary of War—the present successor of Sumner—gave an order to his old political frieud. Jlr. Cummings, which at least showed the depth of his at Hchtnent, and that no modesty or propriety, not to say more, stood in the way ol its gratification. Mr. Cummings was requested to expend the sum of $2,000,000 pretty much to his fsney in buying anything he might deem appropriate, and the money was placed in the hands of Government treasurers in New York, subject to Cummings’ order, who it once drew out $50,000 merely “ to go to work on.” He employed a clerk to hay linen pantaloons and straw hats ! because the soldiers ” looked hot.” Cummings bought gro- uritt from a hardware dealer. He did not know what he was buying, but the dealer proposed to sell him something, aud Cummings believed groceries were provisions of some so r t! lie
, never saw the articles nor knew their quality ! Afterward be bought a ship—two or three ships, in fact. He did not know even the tonnage—just took the word of the dealer for everything! He bought 75,000 pairs of shoes, paying twenty-five cents a pair more than the market price, to oblige a man who had in past days loaned him small sums of money! To cap the climax, the indefatigable Cummings purchased, for the War Department, 700 carbines which had been condemned and sold by it as absolutely unserviceable! and for this re-purchase he paid at the rate of $15 a piece !At the time of the examination of this “ high old affair” by the Congressional committee, there were still said to be |600,000 of the $2,000,000 unaccounted for, aud among the “ a bm t s u p p l i e s ” furnished to .he Secretary of War by his enthusiastic lriend, some of which, too, seem to have been bought as a private speculation and transferred to the Government when found unsaleable, figured such things as 280 dozen pints of ale; codfish and herrings in quantities; 200 boies of cheese; butter, tODgues, straw hats, linen pants ad libitum; twenty-five casks of Scotch ale 1 1 Happy army! glorious sub rosa Commissary Departm ent! But those visions have faded into the dim far-away, and now' we have a “ (L e s a r ’s S e n a t e ” to give the meed of virtue to Lincoln’s first War Secretary, and to send Sumner into hon- orble disgrace, that the Democratic party, if it has the sense, for once in its life to exercise common sense, may walk over the course in 1872.
THOSE HONORABLE (?) GENTLEMEN.
If a person s'ate a case, he is supposed to know something about it. If he state a case of which he knows nothing, and state it unfaitly, he is open to the charge of misrepre- sentaiion. If be slate a case unfairly, having the opportunity to learn the real condition, he is guilty of a wilful lie.
The honorable and gallant (?) editor of the Nation may hang himself on either of the above horns of the dilemma into which be has precipitated himself in his desire—which stops at nothing—to vent his spleen upon us.
In an editorial in the number duted March 2 there are five unqualified misstatements, or, if lie please, lies, and a dozen attempts at misrepresentations. Theodore Tilton, in the OMenAge, thoroughly exposes the lutterund thus far shows up this conscientious!?) editor in his true light, as follows :
A OCN THAT KICKS ITS OW NEIl O VElt.
A profes-ional critic ought to he pre-eminently fair and just. Otherwise his criticism is a mockery of the judicial function. Tue N a tio n" is nothing if not critical.” But take one ol the Nation's criticisms, and weigh it nt its proper worth. It says: “ Thus lar the tuudmey of the Woman's Rights mov. m-iit has been to swell the ranks of feeble orators, third rale lecturers, sentimental politicians and tricky speculators." Now, in what sense is this true? Take tbs CliiUilna religion, take republican govermneut, take any great idea or movement which ever came into the world, and tue Nation may ju-tly say of it, in the same phraseology, "that it has swilled the ranks of locblc orators, third-rate lecturers, sentimental politicians and tricky speculators." Rut has the Nation the right to condemn Christianity or republicanism because these incidental outgrowths have a ttached themselves to it like n festoon of fungus to a Southern Oik? Hat the Woman's Rights movement developed "lerblu orators ?" Yes, hut also strong orators ; ami we tie- llevt that, It the Nation were u-ked to name n dozen of the •blest punlc ►ptuivTS in l.iu United Stales, it would find tbit irv.-n, aud |)cr.iaps nine, out of llie twelve, lia I made hHlK.ni speeches in favor of womin'a enfranchisement. 11« tue Woman's Rights movement developed " th ird rate IhUm s ?" Yea. but ihrn, on tue other hand, all the Ant- ntslMoren In the country an», without exception, in favor
of woman’s rights; in proof of which we have only to point to \\ eodell Phillips, Henry Ward Beecher, deorge William Curtis, Thomas Wentworth Higgin>ou anu others—to say nothing of such women as Elizabeth Cady' 8t niton, Julia t\ ard Howe, Marv A. Livermore, Aima E. Dickinson and others, whom the Natum, being loreign born, may contemn, but whom their own countrymen delight to honor. lias the Woman’s Rights movement developed “ sentimental politicians ?” Yes, but it also arrays under its banner many of the most philosophic statesmen of the age—as, for instance, Chief Justice Chase and John Stuart Mill, lias the Woman’s Rights movement developed “ tricky .speculators?” Yes, if we may believe The Nation's disparaging allusion to a special ease ; but will that journal please answer for us the question, " How large a proportion of * tricky speculators ’ does it suppose to be in favor, and how much larger a proportion does it know to be against, woman’s suffrage?” Indeed, it unwittingly answers the latter question when, in referring to the Erie Road, it says that “ Fisk's predece-sor or pioneer in mis-maiiuging that corporation was a pious aud wealthy church member, who ‘ manipulated ’ other people’s properly intrusted to his care as dexterously and impudently as any peddler or taro banker.” The allusion is to Mr. Daniel Drew, a well-known -Methodist. Now, if The Nation, in its complaint against Airs. Woouhull, makes her a type of the whole Woman s Rights movement, why should it not in the same way, in its complaint against Mr. Drew, make him a type ot the whole Alethodist church? The truth is, The Nation lias never been fair towurd the Woman’s Rights movement—not even though the editor ot that journal frequently owes the chief richness of his pages to the contributions of gentlemen well known as advocates of woman suflrage.
To the former we reply. First, that we went before the court of our own accord. Second, that the “ poor governess” did not give us “ all her hardly-earned savings.” Third, that the $500 was not “ all lost.” Fourth, that the jury' did not believe the governess’ story, for which we have the word of the jury; and, Fifth, that the verdict given iully substantiated our theory of delenr.e. The reason why' a verdict for a portion of the $500 was given her, was this : In Swindell’s petition she failed to stale when she paid the money. She did not know'. When our account was rendered she learned that it was on the 8th of August. She then testified that it was on the 12tli of August. Late in the case her counsel knowing that it was lost as to his theory, made the case turn upon this discrepancy' in dates, which as we did not have our books there by Which to verify' our statemeut rendered her, the jury gave her the benefit of and a verdidt for the losses sustained between the 8th and the 12th. This is pi-ima fa c ia evidence that the jury did not believe the governess’ story. Had they' done so they were bound by the instructions of the court to give a verdict for the $500. Had all the losses occurred alter the 12th, the verdict would have been wholly in our favor. It was not a question of “ tricky speculators” in any sense, but simply one of dates. And this the said editor knows, or should know, as well as we. Did he know any thing of the ease: did he know' nothing of it, or did h i wilfully mis-state it?
We shall make no further analysis of the case, as it has been appealed and its merits will be made to appear fully. Suffice it now to say that the editor of The Nation stands convicted as charged above.
A word, however, upon the merits of the question he lias sought to discredit, by his personal reference to ourselves. We make no pretensions to oratory', but we do claim and we challenge the nation to disprove it, that we have pointed out the true meaning of the Constitution of the United States, the force of which the said editor attempts to parry by' bringing in a side issue, which has no connection whatever with this ease. Even had the ju ry taken the view of this case which the editor ascribes to it, what would that have to do with the question of im partiil suflrage? Would that impair the provisions of the supreme law of the land ?
Most cunning aud consistent Fox though you ure (?), these propensities cannot shield you this time from the full weight of responsibility which you have incurred in your desire to “ hurt" the cause ot a common humanity by defaming us.
Because wc cau make lto pretensions to be a Demosthenes or a Cicero ; because we have never assumed to lie a Stanton o ra Phillips; because wo do not pretend to unsentimental politics, and because we are engaged in business in Wall street, upon the same principles and basis as other firms, shall they be charged up against the movement for the elevation of woman? This editor may so enter (hem, lint he will find that the rights of woman under the Constitution of the United Slates and of the Stale of New York, will be recognized, for nil that, and the Nation and all other lime-terv- ing journals shall kick and squiim just as much as they •H-Oise, they will have to accept the situation.
If our being, as he asserts, “ two of its most prominent leaders," is a detriment to the cause generally, what will he say of the endorsement of our position by such Constitutional, legal and political talent as Benj, F. Butler, George W. Woodward, George W. Julian, F. M. Arnell, J. II. Ela,N. I’. Banks, Wm. Laurence, Win. Lougliridge, S. C. Pomeroy, 8. P. Clmse, Gerrilt Smith, Won Jell Phillips, and hosts of others, too numerous to ineulion, every one ol whom is fully equal ia all that constitutes intelligence and judgment to this pretentious editor of the Nation, whose real character is fully demonstrated in the article which we refer lo ? To be honorable, to de d fallly and openly w ith au oppom nt, to always have truth on your side, lo admit a truth when comprehended, mark» a great mind. W hat capacity thin editor ran claim, under these tesla, we leave the public to determine.
THE COAL REGIONS OF P E N N S Y L V A N IA .
The Results of Watered Shares and Bonds.
m e n S A L A R IE S FOR OFFICERS AND STARVATION FOR MINERS.
OVERPRODUCTION AND THE REMEDY FOR IT.
FOREIGN STEAMSHIP LINKS.
A recent article published in the Nation on the subject ot the coal troubles in Pennsylvania among the miners—while not touching upon the points which we have heretofore made of the arbitrary' and oppressive action of the carrying companies and their attempts, under the foolish charters of in corporation grunted by the State, to control not only the lines of tia isportation hut to own the whole coal fitlds— goes into some interesting statistical information, showing that for twenty years prior to 1862 the wholesale price of coa! in Philadelphia averaged about $3 60 per ton. The business was always unprofitable, and lrequenlly disastrous, but nevertheless mines .continued to be opened and new connections between them and the seaboard, by rail, were continually made, and the production of one million of tons in 1842 had advanced to five millions in 1852. Eight millions in 1862, and seventeen millions in 1870. Thus the singular anomaly' is presented of a wretchedly unremunerative industry steadily' expanding and increasing, W’hile its operatives are illy paid, dissatisfied, and on “ strikes,” its managers claiming to constantly' lose money', and the “ great companies” complaining of both miners and coaloivners, aim to control both by raising the cost of carrying from $2 to $7 per ton at a single hound, and so preventing any shipments of the production of privateonines to market. Pending all this, in spite of the alleged unprofitable nature of the trade, we see one of the carrying companies—the Reading Railroad— paying its president a salary of $30,000 a year, and engaged in a scheme for the absorption, under a new charter, of al{ the coal lands it qan reach to.
On its face this condition of things has a truly curious aspect. A conceded overproduction—a ruinous decline in. prices, coupled with such an advance in freights as to drive the consumer mad—a starving and almost riotous laboring- population in the mines—high salaried company officials— and, over all, an evident anxiety on the part of capital to continue in this crazy, failing occupation 1 How can these incongruities he reconciled.? Simply by a consideration of the same circumstances in the issuing of watered stock and bonds in the coal mining and carrying industry as we have before now explained in speaking of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and as Mr. Rufus Hatch lias laid bare to public inspection in Ins history' of the “ Alilwaukce and St. Paul Railroad Company."
In the first place, speculators purchased coal lands at a cost of say $15 an acre. These lands were sold by the speculators to coal-mining companies organized by themselves, at an advance of many' hundred per cent. The shares having been disposed of, the company of necessity eilher kept on in busipess or in process of time was merged into some larger affair. These kinds of operations, by which large fortunes were so easily nccquired by inside parties, were constantly repented, anil in process of time, as the lands immediately accessible were thus taken up, became suggestive of en terprises kindred in character but far more profitable, viz.: the building of new railroad communications opening untouched mining ureas, which contributed their quota to the speculative profit, besides which the roads actually cost
ONLY ONE—qi'AltTEKof their nominal construction price for road-bed and equipment. The real cost was provided for by perhaps only one half of the mortgage bonds issued; leaving t he oilier half of the bonds and all the shares
A CLEAR PRO KIT
to th e p ro je c to rs . A s a m a t te r o f c o u r s e th e se ro a d s o i u e h a v in g y ie ld e d to s u c h m e n a l l th e g a in t h a t c o u ld b e sq u e e z e d f ro m th e m , w e r e a b a n d o n e d lo th e in e v i ta b le d if f ic u ltie s in h e re n t in th e i r n a tu r e , a n d in d u e l im e b e c a m e a b s o rb e d b y s t r o n g e r c o m p a n ie s , u n t i l to -d a v th r e e o r lo u r g ig a n t ic m o n o p o lie s , k n o w n a s “ T in ; g r e a t c o m k a m k «," c o n tro l a ll th e o u t le t s f ro m tiie c o a l r e g io n s , se e k to o w n lln- oo 1 f ie ld s , a n d in d e f ia n c e o f th e p u rp o se » to r w in c h th .-y w e re c r e a te d , a re e n g a g e d in a d e s p e ra te b a t t l e vs it 11 ali«- m in e rs w h o m th e y w ish to c o e rc e in to »ub m iss i n lo an y w a g e s th e y m a y d ic ta te . T h a t p o in t o i u e c o n c e d e d to tb , ,n . th e se c o m p a n ie s , th r o u g h th e i r sy s te m o f s u p p ly s to n s |„ r th e la b o re rs , r , b a le s o n to lls , e tc . , e l< \. w ill « « in be m s s ; ,- - , n o t o n ly o l th e i r lo a d s , 1ml o f a ll th e n»ir>. », a il th e m in e r s a n d la b o re rs , a ln u w l t.|t• : r v e ry w i l l s , am i w il l d ic t a t e t«< t h r A tla n t ic o t ic » th e p r ic e o f c o a l b y a l lo w in g j u s t so m u . o so l i l t lu o f it ns tin y p le a se to e n t e r th e u iio»< t ’
AVe now wv the lolly winch tli ’ v, :,al leg isla ture of J*. sylvnnhi has committed in passing sue a t* o f ia , •» •i.s would ja-miit or ■ untenati.j turm «fl.irta H o i k , and consumer» must Ik- taxed t > pay i d rw l .-m > ■ fleiitioua »hare* and bond» of l hear cxmuu.ai •-c . ,r, - >- . tin it c h u rn » |x running U-*a* coa ¡ranlev also to < ..,x_ : ,mining, thi-y do *o, to the dcatrucli n ol all rival p*.v - <■ n , ■ ? prise, »nd—lr»*rlin ea biar distance from the r - •
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B i l l LEG ISLA TIO N .
To the members of the last t'ongr* as who were unable to see how the encouragement of Americin steamship building would benefit the coal and iron industries of llie country and who could not consi lerany pi in to place our fiag again upon the ocean which did not, on the principle of tlie land grant railroads, involve the creation of one odious monopoly or the robbery from the na’ion of its bon ls or m oney; we commend the consid ration ot the state of affiirs in the mining districts and beg them to contrast it with the following clipping from the London Timtn, of February 23, and ask themselves what market would exist now for the productions of our collieries and blast furnaces had we had the wit to obtain our share of this vast steamship building and carrying trade:
According to accounts recently published of the eight lines of European ste >m companies to America they own IOC vessels, which, during the past year, made 555 round trips, and conveyed 302,148 passengers, and nearly 1,700,000 tons of freight. The Cunard line, it is stated, consists of 24 steamers, with an aggregate of 05,000 tons. These during 1870 made 123 round trips and carried 450,000 tons of m erchandise. The passengers carried both ways numbered 55,101. of whom 43,081 were from Liverpool, and 11,420 from New York and Boston. Of the persons taken to America, 9,150 were cabin passengers and 34,525 were steerage. Of the persons brought to Liverpool, 6,270 were cabin and 5,150 were steerage. The Anchor line between Glasgow and New York lias 28 steamers, each of from 1.000 to 1,300 tons. During 1870 they made 102 trips from New York to Glasgow, and 103 trips from Glasgow tin the M editerran an ports to New York. The cargoes averaged 1,500 tons each voyage, m aking in all 307,500 ton3 of merchandise. The p issengers carried numbered 39,020, of whom 31,437 were taken to America and 8,139 were brought to Europe. The Ham- burg-American Packet Company runs between New York and Hamburg, touching at Havre, Cherbourg and Plymouth. The line consists of seven steamers, of from3,000 to 3,500 tons burden. D uring 1870 its operations were interrupted by the war, but it conveyed 09,000 tons of m erchandise and 23,093 passengers. Of the passengers, 22,366 were taken to America, and 5,727 brought lo Europe. The company has established a branch to run icgularly between Hamburg, Havre, H avana and New Orleans, and has placed three steamers on that route. The General Transatlantic Company, running between New York and Havre, employs four steamers, with an aggregate of 7,587 tons. D uring 1870 they made twenty-five trips each way, and carried 7,030 passengers, all first-cabin. The cargoes averaged 750 to 800 tons for each vessel, and consisted of silks, fine goods and wine, which were taken to New York, and of cotton, tobacco, grain and provisions brought to France. A f:er the ou tbreak of the war they were engaged in transporting arms, ammunition and military stores The N ational line, running between Liverpool and New Y'ork, has ten steamers, w ith a total of 37,401 tons. D uring 1870 they made sixty-four trips to New Y ork and sixty-three to Liverpool. They carried 43,152 passengers and 369,145 tons of merchandise. Of the passengers, 38,443 were from Liverpool, and 4,798 from New York. The N orth German Lloyd’s line of steamers run between New Y ork and Bremen, via Southam pton, but its business has been deranged by the war. P reviously to the outbreak of hostilities, they ran twice a week. This line owos twelve vessels, averaging 3,000 tons burden. D uring 1870, they made fifly-six trips each way, and carried 35,319 passengers, of whom 298 were taken to New York, and 8,021 were brought to Bremen. The cargoes average about 1,300 tons for each vessel. The W illiams & Guion line runs between Liverpool and New York, and has eight steam ers, m aking in all 25,544 tons. D uring 1870 they made fifty-five trips each way, and carried 34,928 passengers, and 150,293 tons of merchandise. Of the passengers. 29,330 were taken to America, and 5,598 were brought to Liverpool. T he In man line consists o f thirteen steamers between N ew Y ork and Liverpool, touching a t Queenstown. D uring 1870 they made eighty-nine trips each way, and carried 58,900 passengers anti 170,000 tons of merchandise. O f the passengers,49,000 were taken to the United States, and 9,900 were brought to Europe.
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T here are five millions of m en in the country who are favorable to extending sufi'rage to women. L et them jo in the same num ber of women in petitioning Congress to pass the D eclaratory A c t See petition on page 8.
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Moni. Guizot Kj. .king m the French t. orps L cgi-lil IT, in 1840, said that ti.t fre trrdc pom y oi England had three rtsulu.
1st. It maintained and aueinrntid tin amount of labor2d. It lowered the prices o f the nec ssaries of lilc o f the
laboring classes.3d. It d im inbhel the terrible oscillations lo which those
prices were exposed.In the following year in consequence o f the free-trader»,
protec’ionist excitement, certain statistics were laid before the English House o f Commons, more particularly as to plate- glass, the manufacturers of which had loudly declaimed that free trade would ruin them, asserting that the continued ex istence of their business bad only been insured by protection. The statistics were as follow s :
Doty. Weekly Sales.T ear. C w l P rice p e r F o o t. F ee t.1819........................ 98-»- i i e . 3.<*)0
................ 6 ri«. K**. 5.0001*17....................... F ree . 5». 70,000
H and* E m ployed in C ap ita lth e M ann lac tu rc . Invented .
1836...................... CO?. 2,500 ¿.*251,0001847........................ F ree . 12,000 1.000,0 0
There was no English plate-glass exported to the United States in 1840, while in 1817 more was so exported than there was to all the rest o f the world in 1840.
Comment on the above figures seems altogether supererogatory, for the reason that nothing that can be said can present a stronger case in favor of free trade. W e may, however, point out tha t from 1819 to 1827, under a protective tariff, the lowering the duty SO per cent, reduced the price of the article 52 per cent, and increased its weekly sales 00 per cent. W e deduce from this, the consum ption being 06 per cent, greater under the 60s. a cwt. duty than under the 98s. a cwt. duty, there was 60 per cent, more laborers engaged in the m anufacture under the lesser tariff than under the greater one. In the lace of this simple statem ent of facts w hat justification is there for the assertion that protection is an aid to the grow th of the m anufacturing interests ?
Pursuing still fu rther our digest o f the above official figures, we find th a t in the year 1847, when all the duty was taken off, the am ount of labor engaged in the m anufacture increased 480 per cent., as com pared witli the year 1836, when the d u 'y w as 60s. per cwt.
I t is also notable tha t the increase in consum ption and productiveness followed exactly in the wake of the reduction in the tariff.
W e will now turn to llie repeal of the corn laws in E ng land, which was made a test case as to the m erits of free trade, the conflict lasling from 1842 to 1846. In 1842 there was a sliding sc ile of duties in force, tha t is to say, the du ty varied according to the price of corn; the average of the du ty was, however, 16s. per qr. This scale of duties lasted un til 1846, when it was lowered to an average o f 4s. per qr., the average am ount o f duty collected under the first-named tariff w as 1372,599 per annum , while in 1849, under a nom inal tariff', the ;duty collected was £015,814 per annum .
The com mencem ent of the free-trade agitation found Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of W ellington and Mr. Gladstone, as protectionists. In 1840, Sir Robert Peel, speaking in favor of a reduction of the tariff on corn, renounced his protectionist ideas, and became a free trader. In his speech he said he claimed the principle of y i e l d i n g both to the force of argum ent and c o n v ic t io n , and of a c t in g o n t i i e r e s u l t s o k e n l a r g e d e x p e r i e n c e ; and th a t *' he w as about to review the duties w hich applied to m any articles the produce and m anufacture of o ther S ta te s ; th a t for the last three years, since the policy of acting on the principle of repealing and reducing certain duties had been acltnowleged, there had been increased productiveness of revenue, increased dem and for labor, increased com merce, as well as
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corn, nl the very comment ament of tlie free trade a .'-iUoa. the duty was 90a per quarter ; at Ilia rlotc and lrionq-di t free trade it was la a quarter, the results of asrh raduf .» only paving the way for a still greater one ; had the opp nei.i-. ol free trade been aide to show ii jurioua tfircu (roman; one reduction of the tariff, the downward movement would have . - I, and probably a reaction have set in. Wr mint here call particular attention to a remarkable fact, name )y : Lord John Uusacll slated that the Immediate piotpet J lowering the duties on corn had been lo rauke a rtee in its price in the English market.
We think the evidence adduced above proves conclusively that protection does not even assist the productlrn of tbr produce protected ; but, on tlie other hand, absolutely cbecln it, and that tlie plea for protective tariff on any such ground is totally untenable.
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No. I.Gold coin has become, by, us it were, common con»eni,
the recognized standard of value among nations; nolibst the commerce of the world is carried on by the cash paym ent o f gold for every international purchase. Produce purchased in one country is, us a rule, paid for in produce, the vulue of each being com puted in gold. For example;If a cargo of manufacture* is im ported, its value is estimated in gold coin, and if a cargo of w heat is exported in return, its value is estim ated in gold also, the differences in the values of the tw o cargoes being estimated in gold coin. If, therefore, the im ports of a nation exceeds in value its exports, the difference has eventually to be paid in gold. (Tbii is, however, no proof th a t a nation having to remit a yearly paym ent of gold in consequence of an excess in value of its im ports, is necessarily getting poorer, for the reason that its internal w ealth m ay increase in a far greater annual ratio than its excess of imports. T here are many years in wbidi the U nited States have exported less in value than she hai im ported, and y e t became in th a t year a more wealthy nation.) The h istory of com m erce affords no instance in which,under any circum stances, any m edium of paym ent of balances bat ever been substituted for gold, and, in point of fact, it la ao in ternationally recognized as the only standard of value, th a t no nation can substitu te any medium of payment that w ould pass curren t abroad w ith ao little fluctuation u a standard of v a lu e ; therefore we assume that, for the paym ent of foreign balances, the use of gold becomes an absolute necessity.
Gold is also supposed, o r presum ed to be, the medium of dom estic paym ents ; b u t it i3 not so. There is no nation th a t possesses sufficient m etallic coin to transact its internal business, the deficiency being supplied by promissory and bank notes, w hich are as m uch in circulation as gold. Thia lim ited possession of gold precludes it from fulfilling all the theoretical and practical necessities of a medium of paym ent. I f we w ere to suppose a sudden and general demand tha t all bank notes, prom issory notes and bills of exchange, be paid in coin on a certain day, we should at once perceive th a t its deficiency to perform the task necessitates a resort to some o ther m edium of paym ent, w hich medium is paper money. B ank and prom issory notes, it is true, derive their com mercial value from being redeemable in coin ; the one On presentation for paym ent, the other at some stipulated date in the fu tu re ; bu t, then, ju s t so fast as they are liquidated, o ther notes o f a like natu re are being issued; so that, ns a rule, the am ount of paper m oney in use as a medium of paym ent is som ew hat uniform . A nd when this amount is m aterially reduced by distrust, o r an unusual demand, ffom the sam e cause fo r its redem ption takes place, a commercial crisis ensues, because gold no t being in sufficient supply, and paper rejected, there rem ains no m edium of payment to conduct business w ith ; so th a t w henever gold is thrown upon its ow n resources as a m edium of domestic payment, its inefficiency fo r the purpose is dem onstrated.
T he only advantage ever claim ed for gold as a medium of
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TbU Is not so with irredeemable paper, or paper bearing interest, because ita value depends upon the ability of the pvernment to pay the principle or interest at the stipulated date, which ability is not absolutely within its entire control. A war may keep goods at borne, and lessen our Import’, and in consequence the government may not collect lufflcleol tnxes to keep its promise to pay. A failure in the crop) limy produce the same etfect, or a war may make such »demand upon it for money that it may not be aide to meet Iti prom lies to pny; but neither of these causes would affect ill ability to gunninlco. The real gist of the whole matter rati here: the people are the source of power, the people would hold their own money, ami, even supposing them to deaire to deteriorate or even repudiate the paper they have made their own standard of vulue, and which is in their own poaiC'iion, w ho is to say them nay. It is true, those holding the largest amount would he the greatest suflirers, mid thus receive Injury; hut, ns we have shown above, the standurd of values this class now accept cun he altered at the hands of the people, under existing circumstances. This supposition it, however, supererogatory, inasmuch as, to render such action at the bunds of the people ut ull adinlssublc, an inducement to do so must he demonstrated, whereas no such Inducement could exist, because such legislation would lie self injury, with no possible advantage. The issuing of paper bearing no promise to pny at any stipulated lime, and hearing no interest, does not preclude its ultimuto payment in gold.
The necessity or desirability for determining paper money naitandard of values and medium of payment for domestic purpoies having passed, the people may determine to call ll In and pny It In coin nt Its face value, so that in future cases of necessity the same uld may be called in. I t is true, the issue of such paper might temporarily hurt our credit abroad, but that Is of no consequence to us, hecuusc in all our foreign dealings wo propose to uso gold; and It would beamnttor of perfect Indifference to us ns to the estimation they might bold our paper in, with which they have nothing whatever to do; but the Issuing of such paper, by relieving ua of the payment of millions of Interest, would enable ui to rapidly call it In—would exhibit a faith In ourselves that would enhance our credit abroad and savo to us the vast expend'entailed by the collection of tuxes imposed to obtain funds to pay Interest. The germ of our position on this part of tho subject of finance begins and ends In the people's faith in tlic'r own ability to deal with paper as a standard of internal values as they now deal with gold, wldcli It Is as much within their power to ufTcct by legislation us paper Is or would he.
In order to Illustrate our position still further, let us sup- pow the Government to ho a national hank, Issuing Its notes ns promises to pay on demand, tlie security being the Internal credit, the mien king fixed by low al par with gold, tlioro would be no Inducement lit such a ease,for persons to presunt those notci for payment except to obtain golii sufllclcnt to pay to foreign nations the amount of the balance of trade that tuny boagalnstus; the muss of the people lioldtngsucli notes would not Uko tbs trouble to present them for payment since no advantage would thereby accrue. Government could call In any quantity It might doslro to pny oil', nnd If In consequence ol there being no Inducement to oiler them for payment they wore not presented In sufllcient quantities, a slight.pn'inlum
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lASritANCK.
W« have nnothiT enn« to add of th« rcsistum-« of I-lfi: In- suranre Comparii«» to the payment of losses, In the subjoined report of the tcrinirmtloii of one tnken from the New Vork Timet ol Man li III.
Hoppose this widow had not the means to proscritto her Just claim against a rich and influential company, or supposi', having 1 lie means, she, innocent of business, believed thc coni puny's statement that it was not legally bound.
In the tirsi ease her only resource would have been to drop the matter, or to divide whatever might have been obtained with some lawyer who would have sued on speculation. In the second supposition the company would have altogether escaped; and in neither event would thc claimant have had Justice, nnd yet a legislation which would stop these subterfuges of Insurance ofllcos, Is strenuously opposed by New Vork daily Journals :
In the casa of Kchccrn L Foote against the /Ktnn Life Insurance Company, to recover on a policy of insurance on thc life of her husband for $'J,I)(H), which has been on trial in the Court of Common Pleas befora Judge l.new, a verdict was yesterday rendered in favor of the widow for the full amount. As already published in thc Timet, the defence set up was, that the Insured concealed the fact that consumption was In his family; hut the evidence disclosed the fuel that his disease did not originate in hereditary taint, hut from a severe wound received in battle.
Ill« quind iry of not knowing whether the ntxivu quotations m rewrlH n -t- rly or tn editor boutfe.
M T‘ at 'll-strive Chart» * II. Fox, of Journalism, has e < t" piit.ltill a comic, wrekly under the name of TheA if'in
: t That the editor of 7'Ae .Va/ian, whether its editorials are w-rilt-n In ''ImjiiITo" or not. ought to p it notes at the b-itloin of i a )i pige, in the one ease, to t'-ll us what each paragraph mem», q, t|,0 oilier, to Ull where the 1 »ugh come In.
ll) ull sincerity, however, llie-e quotations are a very fair specimen of llio reliability of the Saturn and its statements. As to it" name, it lias licen suggested to ustlmt it is intended to give till? Idea that whatever it may know of the nation unfortunate enough to possess such a sheet, it knows nothing of anything outside said nation ; and l.ere we leave it for the ,
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P E A C E A N D H A P P I N E S S ”
BOUFFE JOURNALISM .
There is a folded sheet of paper, Issued somewhere, in this city, which a friend solemnly assures us Is called a newspaper. Now our informant is a person of some knowledge in these matters, and really we do not like to doubt his word and presume, therefore, that It really is so called. We there fore determined to glance over its pages. Speaking of the treaty of peace now concluded between France and Germany this folded sheet of paper says, “ France cedes Alsace and Mclz,’ which latter term undoubtedly includes all the de
partnient of the Moselle lying east of that fortress as well ns Tlilonville on the western bank of the river, and possibly some other portions of Lorraine.”
Whew! This Met/- Is the place where Marshal Tiazaine was as we thought, shut u p ; but there is something decidedly wrong here to suppose an army ns shut up in a great purt of the department of the Mozelln, Tlilonville, and possibly some other portions of Loraine, is coming it a little too strong. Bear me, how tilings do get mixed up, don’t they
The article quoted continues: “ The Germans restore to France thc Alsacian fortress of Belfort, i ' k o u a iii-y , with portion, ip n o t the whole, of thc French speaking district uround It. France pays in three years one thousand millions of dollars; the Germans holding, in 'the meantime, some of the fortresses occupied by them. We presume the border fortresses of Longevy, Montmcdy, Sedan and Mczicrcs, ik n o t also Verdun.” This is exactly so, and i p .n o t t iip -hk tu icn i t is homis o t h k k h ; and there is no doubt the Oer mans restore to France, probably, the fortress of Belfort, and i f not, some otlior place (the reader being loft to take his
lioioo; well, having paid his money, lie lias a right to d that). If Mr. Thiers has succeeded in negotiating such definite treaty as this, lie has made a reputation hitherto tin paralleled in diplomacy.
The very next paragraph in tills folded sheet of paper says: “ Of tho wisdom of putting Thiers at tno .head of tho Provisional Government there can be no doubt, lie Is the ablest, shrewdest, most experienced and most trusted politician Franco now has. Considering what his career lias been, and of wlrnt antiquated ami immoral and aliBtird ideas lie lias in his timo been the apostle, it is uiius lug to sco him cited as a protectionist authority by the Ne York Tribune." Poor France I “ How have tho mighty fallen I" Her ablest, shrewdest, most experienced and most trusted politician is the advocate of antiquated, Immoral and absurd ideas.
Turning to nnothcr pago wo rend : “ Now that the Franco, Prussian war Is over, It is not unreasonable to ask some of those who have busied themselves in commenting upon it ami making predictions nbout Its its results, to sit dow soberly and reflect upon their own sayings."
Certainly, bring them to account. W hat do they mean by such absurdities f Well, aflor sitting down silently and thinking over sumo of thosu who have busied themselves on tills Frauco-Prussliin aflalr, wo have determined as follows :
1st.—That wo do most decidedly object to being placed In
SHERMAN, DAHLGREN & COMPANY.
IIammonton, N. -L, Marcli 0, 1871.H k ah Miih. Woonuin.i,:
A few days ago 1 and another lady issued the following in our local paper, The Movth./ertey Republican. We want you to print it because It may serve other ladies who may like our way of “ carrying war into Africa,” nnd stir them up to greater action ut tills critical moment.
'ro TIIK I-AOIEB OK IIAMMONTON.The ladies of Hammonton who are interested in examin
ing the claim of their sex to the ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, und who are interested in "in education and the local politics of the town, are re
quested by the Committee of the Woman’s Club to meet on Tuesday afternoon, at 2 o’clock, at the house of E. J. Woolley. B y O h iik r ok t h e C o m m it t e e .
Eighteen ladies answered the call. We did not organize formally then, for the next day was the annual town election of oflleers, and we resolved to go and present our votes as citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment. One sister, in a courteous spirit, threw cold water on our movement. She declared that the framers of this Amendment did not intend to include women when they said “ all persons,” und therefore her conscience would not permit her to join us. I, for one, declared that I had no such tenderness ot conscience, and that I believed “ all persons” meant simply “ all persons” and nothing more nor less. Our meeting was enthusiastic and unanimous, witli this one exception ; and yesterday eleven of our num oerand four otliers went to the hull where the elections were held und presented our voles. I had the distinguished honor of presenting the first ballot. As I gave it, the judge of elections said :
“ By what right do you claim the privilege of representation V”
“ I am taxed as a property owner, and I know that tnxa] lion without representation is wrong in principle.”
“ You are a woman,” said he, " and cannot vote under our State Constitution."
I asked him lo read me the section which disqualified me. The Clerk rend 1 lie odious words—“ white male citizen.” There were other words, I believe, but I heard only these.
“ T hat is a dead letter," I said. “ You have ulready re - ceived tho votes of negroes. W ill you please read me the XLV. Amendment to the Constitution of the United States?” The Clerk read the first section : “ All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisd iction thereof, are citizens of the United Slates and ot the Stale wherein they reside,” etc.
“ Am I not a person V” I asked, nnd I looked uround ut the fifty or sixty mule voters, whose eyes were all intent upon mo. There was a general smile, but. ull was perfectly till.
“ Certainly you are," snid the Judge.“ Then I mu a citizen. You know 1 own properly in
your town, for which I am taxed, nnd you ennnot refuse my vote."
Mrs. Samson then came forward nnd presented her ballot, nnd Mrs. Hnndall, M. L)., and the discussion continued. Two gentlemen among the voters spoke eloquently in our favor ; these were, J. B. Holt ami Edward Howland. May their nnines be immortal I
Well, thc result was thut they registered our fifteen names and received our votes, hut kept them in a separate place We then drew up a statem ent of the fact, signed it, nnd thc. Judges of thc election and the Clerk appendid tlie r rigna- tures. We have laid the ense before one of tho lnwyi rs of 1 lie Supremo Court in Washington. We shall soon know if wo have any redress or not, und will lu quuuil your leaders oi tlui fuel, whatever it be.
Wo arc now very busy in drawing up the constitution nnd by-lttws of our club. There is a glorious spirit of fraternity and enthusiastic unity among ua, and we hop* to do good for tho cause of our sex. Any sugge-tion* through your columns for our guidance will he thankfully nceixod.
12 Woodhull & (flaflm’s deckln. M A R C H
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VT« intend to attabl'sb a reading-room as soon aa possible | fiHd« ami pasture« new in and jou r valuable W i r n r will of course always be lound j on our table. We read it with great interest, and hare received new b-ipe and courage from your nobl*- •-(forts in the cause cf -ur »- »-
Yours. with love and hope,M a r ia I I u u l l m j i M rs.)
I’ b I must not omit to add that we fouud the dreaded ¡--Ut a cleanly and rc»|»cctable place, and that we were treated throughout w ith the distinguished courtesy that ladies always expect and alw ays command from gentlemen . and w e also treated them as politely as if we bad met them in our churches or drawing-rooms. Where now is that terrible bugbear that has frightened so many of our timid sisters— namely, that the polls w as a place until for the presence of ladies.
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GKAXT vs. A. T. STEWART.
The World publishes a list of the names of prominent men who have become disgusted w ith President Grant. In this list we find the name of A. T. Steward We are somewhat surprised at this, inasmuch as that Grant has certainly, to the best of his ability, rewarded A. T. Stewart for the pecuniary interest the .atter took in the President's election The President has appointed Air. Stewart’s proteges to West Point, and nominated him, also, to an appointment in the Cubinet, doing his utmost to secure him the appointment. Of course this has not gjven Mr. Stewart liis money back and this is the sore point. If the President would take some method of balancing accounts we see no difliculty in the way of a reconciliation and a shake-hands ail round.
M r s . AIa c r e a d y will give the third of her “ Drawing room Recitals” on Tuesday evening, March 21, at 18 East Twenty-third street. These entertainments were pro nounced by the elite the most elegant literary receptions of London, and promise to become so in New York. Airs. Alacready went to Europe some ten years ago and lias made a world-wide reputation.
C h ic a g o , Alarcli 12, 1871.D e a r AIr s . W o o d h u l l :
We have just had a very good convention here, and discussed the enclosed resolutions. [The resolution will be found in another column.—E d .]
I think the ground taken by you before the Congressional Committee in Congress has aroused new enthusiasm among women in our movement. We have based all our arguments in this meeting in the fact that women are “ citizens ” of this republic. In the letter I sent you last your reckless little type-setter made me use that much condemned expletive "dam ned” instead of “ crowned.” Will you tell your readers that I said the Republicans had “ crowned" —not damned—their deeds of darkness by declaring that women are merely “ members of the State.” There is a great demand in all directions for tracts. Do scatter Riddle’s and Butler’s speeches in all directions; they are able and unanswerable. In haste, yours, respectfully,
E l iz a b e t h C a d y S t a n t o n .
A VOICE FROM KANSAS.
A t c h is o n , Kas., March 4,1871. AIk sd a m e s W o o d h u l l <fc C l a f l in :
Your paper is glorious. I have been advocating the same doctrine for ten years in the capacity of a private individual, aud have had the reading of every paper pertaining to the enfranchisement of w om en; but yours in its inlancy is ahead of any other in ils prime.
Please send copy of date January 28, containing editorial “ History Repeals Itself mine has been loaned and read until worn out.
We shall be able to raise a large club for here. Respectfully, M r s . II.
y o u r W e e k l y À . M o n r o e .
A WORD TO G. S. P.
M k h d a m es W o o d h u l l & C l a k l i n :A word in the W e e k l y , if you please, in answer to “ G. 8.
P .” We have neither time nor space for'particulars, barely enough to glimpse at the heads and general outlines of the old mythologies in which the Bible has ils place. The W e e k l y allows us but very little room to gather in all the fullness of the ancient Godhead bodily. W hen it shall grant us two or three columns a week, it may then be in order to descend from the headlands and pu t iu a fuller appearance in the valleys.
We accept every physical, moral and spiritual tru th in the Bible as of equal authority to the like tru th seized upon heathen ground. As a book of ancient oracles, w ritien within and on the back-side, and sealed wilh seven seals, we prize it very highly. Ils ambiguous givings-out, in the words of the wise, and their dark sayings, are for those who have ears to hear and eyes anointed with eye-salve, according to ihe ancient initiations of the Nature worship, where the pliysicul and (lie spiritual were blent in a homogeneous whole, though often divided in Jacob and scattered in Israel, in personification of attributes. To others than the iniiiated the light shines unto the darkness and the darkness does not comprehend it. Over all must be the Genius, the Aluse, or, as the wise men among the Hebrews would say, the Lord, or his angel, iu manifestation of the spirit, incarnated in the seer or medium.
True, the way-faring man might “ hoof it” forty yenrH in the wilderness 'without ascendiug to Pisgah’s top, nor from apy other mount of vision get a glimpse ot the Holy Land. Ulysses also took the furthest way round as the nearest way home. I t was the ancient peculiar way of lollowing o n to know the Lord through tangled juniper, beds of reedS, through many a fen where the serpent feeds, and man never trod uefore. Whether In exodus out of Egypt or in wanderings* to and fro among the isles o f the sea, the path was always rugged and sore; whether through the Dismal Swamp or through the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, before one could ho properly horn again for the fresh
To those who wbh to go to the root id the matter in par- ■ ticular», we would sugg—t ihe reading of ihu works ol the i learned Fre ma-uiis, pnrtii ularlv the •'Signs and SymlMiU” me "History *,|‘ Initiations,’’ by Dr. O.ivt-r. lieu, 11 it > li-
: cock’s •• Christ the Spirit” is rugge-live to begiuners to the | much more that supersedes him; Burritl’s *• tieogruphy of the- Heavens,” Stewart’-» “ llierapliaiil or llildieul Aslron* otuy.” and " Votary's Built-" As anatomy and plivsi- < logy iu personification of parts were more or le,s wrought into the sacred ntvslrries of the ancients, Ihe auatotuy of J. F. Aleckcl wid show lirw complilely the human utecltunisut is in correspondential relations; and thus how the Lord might be the Item ex maehiua in the image of God, and how the Lord betwten the cherubim was over the mercy-se it. The unonyntous work. " Time uml Faith.” published in London, is a it anted setting lortli of many celestial urcunas, the origin of the Hebrew Sabbath- day, from the' lime tables of the old astrologers and sun worshipers, wlto linro~cop*d (be heavens for the word as well as consulted the Loid by bis spirit. Mux Aluller and Air. Cox will open the way from the Artan to Ihe biblical mythologies; for the root of the matter is tlie same. Anatomical and physiological works will show which way went the spirit ol the Lord ill personifications of the clio-sucral regions of the Holy Lund—a very large tract of land which tluwed with milk aud honey—so that the solar plexus of the centre of the system corresponded to the sun with liis going forth trout one end of heaven to the other. The psulniist s tng of this mystic land in parable and dark saying when liis “ reins instructed him in the night season.” A French work, by Delaine, “ lJei Dioinites Generatrices ou Du C'ulte Du Phallus c/tez Anciens et Its ilodernes," is apropos, as showing bow much this has been blended with the modern church mysteries.
Whoever may seek 'to read the book written within and without and on the back-side, and sealed witli seven seals, must be a student of tiie same lor a long time on probation, belore he is ablo to see and to read it with the seven eyes of the Lord. These seven, as per Zacltariali, run to and fro through the whole earth, nor less, we may add, through the heaven. Titus, to follow on to know the Lord is to see him as the sun sliinetli in liis strength, shining more and more unto tiie perfect day, and with the spirit world to help, beautiful indeed are tiie angel’s feet upon the mountains, tripping ou light fantastic toe, and bringing good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. But we m u-t bear in mind that the figures of Holy Writ are not exactly those of Colenso, who found Alount Sinai so great a stone of stumbling aud rock of offence, insomuch that Aaron and bis sons had to tote the excretitc six miles before they could find a dump- ing-off place.
With reference to Swedenborg, we have read a bushel of him, more or less, and he has many good things. In the light of modern spiritualism he is seen to have had considerable open vision ; but like the bible seers or mediums, he must not be taken as infallible, for be is much ip tiie hazy reflex of his own personality in beginning and surrounding, in health and disease, whose influences so much modify his word, liis considerable spiritual insight makes him so much the more apt to lead astray in his many baseless assumptions; and bis followers who seek to exalt him in any exclusive sense, fall into the same error and idolatry as the Bible worshipers of the holy nten of old who claim to speak the thus saith the Lord. But no lessw asthe Lord oracular by Balaam, aud Samuel by the witch of Endor. As an exponent of the ancient initiations, or church, as known and practiced by the Hierophants or godmen of those days, Swedenborg is worthless. Those who would kuoiv of him w ithout wallowing through a score or two of octavos, will find hint in best estate in Wilt. W hite’s two volumes, London, 1807. There the Swedist seer is very fairly set forth—very fairly weighed, and very fairly found wattl ing.
If we would develop, in the fulness of all trulli, that the truth may make us free, we m ust have no infallible Bible no infallible Pope, aud no infallible Swedenborg, to say thus far and no fa r th e r ; but let each have wnatever is rightfully the due. Asia and Europe are to lose their sway before the coming Genius of America N either the Lord of old Jew ry, King Jesus, nor Jim on Swedenborg is to be paramount in the sight of the cr tiling God, who will do America in all the light of the largest vision. Mediums between this world and tiie next may be somewhat few and far between ior the angel’s visits, yet the communion of ghosts has come so nigh unto us that we need not pin our faith to them ol old time. W oman, also, is to rise from the old planes and have her equal voice Iroin heaven, already sounding the crack»of doom to the fossil politicians and right reverends in God ; for these, w ith the parasitical women, Almira Lincoln Phelps, Airs. Gen. Sherman, Airs, Duhlgrcn, etc., transformed into Lot’s wife, are looking for help to the other side of tiie flood, and calling w ith a loud voice for Aloses and Paul to come ibrth ; but the more they call tiie more they won’t come. C. B. F
“ W h a t f o r . ' E x a c t l y ; t h a t la th e v e ry q u e stio n every t i x -p » y e r h a s a r i g h t to u k , a n d to h a v e p i d n lv an»w n«1.W lm t c le a r e r r i g h t c a n th e r e b e t h a n th a t o f th e c itizen to d e m a n d o f h ia tu le r a , ” l l o w m u c h d o y o u ta x m e. am! for w h a t p u r p o s e ¥ H o w m u c h o t th e s u m p a id Ly m e goi «Into t h '1 T r e a a u r y , a n d h o w m u c h iu io p r iv a te p o rk e r» ? " Is nut a G o v e r n m e n t “ o f th e p e o p le , b y tin - p e o p le , a r.d lo r the peu. p l e j ’ b o u n d to a n s w e r s u c h q u e s t io n s u s th e s e V
A e t t h e s y s te m o f t a x a t io n n o w in lo rc c is th e moat cun n in g d e v ic e e v e r y e t d is c o v e re d lo r h id in g fro m t lu s e win, p a v ta x e s b o th t h e o b je c t a n il th e a m o u n t o f th e tux paid by a n y im l iv id s l . o r b y th e p e o p le in th e a g g re g a te A man s p e c ia l ly t r a in e d iu f in a n c ia l in q u i r ie s , u iid a u p p lie d w ith all e x t a n t d o c u m e n ts a n d w r i t i n g s I te a r in g u p o n th e mil,pel, m a y s p e n d m o n th » o f h a r d la b o r , » p u llin g Iris eye s igh t over v o lu m e s o f f ig u re s , y e t n e v e r d isco v r r w ith p recision Irnw h u g e a t a x i» a c t u a l ly b o r n e ltv t h e w h o le peop le o f Iljj, c o u n try - S t i l l le a s c a n l ie d i s c o v e r w h i t ta x is paid by a ry in d iv id u a l o f t h e m i l l i o n s w h o h a v e a r i g h t to k now . And a s fo r th e m il l io n » t l ie m a e lv e s , th e y o n ly k n o w th a t in »ome u n d e f in e d rin d u n l im i t e d w a y th e y a r e ta x e d , a n d th a t it it n o t e a s y to liv e . P r i c e s r is e , a m i t h e c o s t of l iv in g increarte* m o re t h a n t h e e a r n in g s o f in d u s t r y . T h e fa c t a n d the cons e q u e n t b u r d e n a r e a p p a r e n t . B u t w h o c a n te ll how m m h o f i t is a c c id e n t , h o w m u c h o f i t is t a x , a n d h o w m uch of ,t is r o b b e r y ?
If there were no other objection to the existing system of taxation, this alone should challenge the attention of a people professing to govern themselves. Some strange device for concealing from the people the real maguitude of their butdens might naturally find favor in the counsels of despotic rulers. Ever since the leudal baron ceased to extort by resistless force the tax from helpless serfs, and the wild bandit found high-handed robbery limited by order and tire gallows, force has been giving place to fraud, and robber and ruler alike now search for ways to reacit bv cunning that which they dure not demand iu open day. But here, taxpayers being also the rulers, one might expect tiie adoption of mt tbods designed to guard against plunder, lavoritism and illegitimate schemes for private advantage, and to enable the taxpayer to know as nearly as possible how much his government really costs him. Flow can a man be said to govtrn himself if lie cannot find out bow much lie pays from bit earnings, to whom, or for what purpose V Let it not be said that even in this country such concealment is nect*. sary ; that the people would not bear needful taxes if the full extent of them were known. During the war such burdens were cheerfully borne as few other governments have ever ventured to impose. So long as the government is their own, ami taxes for objects of their own deliberate choice, in met hods which they can understand and within limits which they can know aud approve, the people of this country will pay as freely as they give or loan to any other investment deemed profitable or wise. But if money is taken from them, they know not when or how, by laws devised on purpose not to be comprehended, and if of that portion of their earniDgs which they pay only a part goea to government and the rest they know not whither, under laws passed by the influence of men clamoring always for aid and yet rolling in luxury, w hat wonder if a people who wish a t least to fancy that they govern themselves begin to m urm ur and complain y W hat wonder if they begin to believe tha t a part of their earnings is stolen from them through forms of law, and that cunning ways, more lilted to other modes of government, are here used to enable both robber and ruler to profit bv a taxation which is plunder, and a plunder which is concealed under the pretext ol taxation. F o r a taxation which purposely exempts one class and casts all the burdens of government upon another U virtually plunder, and a system which takes money from the farmer to give it to the manufacturer is not the less plunder because it is ostensibly framed to secure revenue trorn duties on imports. 1'he main difference between the robber and ruler arrangem ent and that obsolete one of the brigands and barons is th a t in this age one cannot always tell which is the ru ler and which the robber. The poor artisan, who helps to pay the taxes for his rich employer, never knows how many members ot Congress that employer owns. And there are maDy members of Co. gress who, when they vote for a tariff bill, never know how much plunder they are perm itting, o r w ho will profit by their acts. Such are the beauties of a system of taxation uevised, one might suppose, to keep everybody in darkness as much as possible. It is as if some law-giver had taken for earnest and applied to political economy the sad words of half-crazed Olkelio:
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EQUALITY.
As we are the advocates of all measures which look to per feet equality for nil citizens, we make no apology for irans ferring the following article from the N. Y. Worlel to our columns. It is to the poiut and w orthy of the best consid crution of all thinkers:
TA X A T IO N OR ROBBERY.It is time to ask whether people who are taxed have any
rights which governm ent is bound to respect. If they have any, surely chief and most indubitable am ong them is the right to know how much they are taxed, and lor wlmt.
Yet tl.erc is not asingleciiizeu of these United States, from richest to poorest, from the most ignorant to the wisest, who can answer either ot these questions.
“ W hat 1 do not nty tax bills show how much I pity ?" asks some muck-burdened workiug-iuan, who finds it no easy m atter to meet tiie expenses of liis lantily, although his wages are fifty per cent, higlter ilinu they were ten years ago. N ot at a l l ; they do not sltoiv how much the cost o f supporting family hits been increased by duties on articles consumed of foreign production or growth, and by the enhanced cost of articles of domestic production caused by duties on corresponding products front itbroad.
“ But there are the Treasury reports," some student suggests ; “ these ut least will show how much the whole people have paid.” Mistaken man ! They sliuw only how much has been paid to the Government. A nother aud larger sum is paid by the people, not to Government, but to somebody else.
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But the tax-pavers will know it. begin already to protest against a wrong which they cannot indeed measure, but that it is & wrong they know full well by ten years of experience. It may not he practicable a t present to so adjust taxation that it shall be fully understood by all tax-payers, but the system which purposely taxes one m an for the benefit of another can be exposed, and will be abolished. “ Let there be darkness” is the d a ily ,p ray e r of monopolists. " L e t there be light” should he the com m and of the people.
W O M A N S R IG H T OF FRANCHISE
There arc, I have no doubt, few questions at issue which will command more attention am ong master minds ot either sex than this ques tion ; and while we cannot but pity the w ant of understanding w hich some have evinced regardirg it, we would wish to avoid all extrem es in discussing such» momentous subject, and one front which we expect so many happy results to flow. May we, in all truth, request a tavir- able hearing and a trium phant success; not that we may as women, be brought prom inently before the public, bnt that justice, a t least, m ay be done to us, as a very strong. » very intelligent, and a m ost im portant integral of this great nation. I wish to aw ake iu ail an interest in our right of tranchise, but m ore particularly women. 1 want women o be fully alive to the many advantages she would then posse;». I w aul her to rem em ber the du ty she owes to her sons and and daughters, her brothers and sisters, the duty wiiki she owes to society and her country, that all nuv unite aa one in dem anding of the governm ent her uninunmekd right to vote.
To those who study the politics o f our country, it most lx evident th a t corruption is strid ing through this nobit land ; ships are bearing h ither to our short s ererr dav tm g ran ts Irom every land, the educated and the ignorant ft» noble-minded and the vile, all come hither, a».d, alas, ■* “* alike a t the polls, and too well we know how tco«. acquire the right o f which we are deprived. Are ih< strangers to our laws, unacquainted wilh oor pubifc
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not whither, under noring always for ler if a people who hemselves begin to f they begin to be- stolen from them rays, more lilted id to enable both which is plunder,
ie pretext ot taia- rxempts one els» nt npon another is akes money from rer is not the lest to secure revecu: ence between the bsolete one of the ne cannot alwin obber. The post is rich employer, ress that employer 0; gress who, »hex >w much plunder r their acta, soci evised, one mighi much as posault
rnest and applied -crazed Othello: jg stolen, il at all.ver the land they the magnitnde i bat it is a wronr icnce. It may net ion that it shall be the system which jf another can be re be darkness"» t there be light"
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4 *ed a m b i a r * A rc th e y m on? ,. r > (Lan vf>iûtn who have try n J Soci in i daugt, iw iV - to j o u r t r i e jn-«t y.njr ; |*t not
t'*‘eni j■* tl h a v r t'*‘e n »bed in *. «r r v i^ r i-o u n try ‘h a ll l e
^ a u i g i* -un , th ro u g h w h ich ^ r- .- r- Stay tli*- l-M.j: w » v r e r r it
* - ^ L_id s*er*-l azxl «L «r3 :i i* * u t Lo w h a tS x«’ ^ maxiv < " s ire n a re L orn to th ef *a*i s i z z z z ’ h-.w m a n y to th*-f r ) ; ^ r Nervi I te ll r « l th e re-M Ui
fit trvo rarlv > W h o tv ili be[ ^ ' r*v a! -:r p 'l U bc!»»re m a n y y ea r* ?
— '__ i? I fnnM npen y fv ir ey e s , e re it be- Tiserr m b u t o n e w a y to re m e d y
,; ¿rawing evil, a n d th a t w o m a n s
piicef* tn w om an # k e e p in g a ll th a t to ts jc r t 'i ; sfce U-ar» hi# n a m e , #he h o ld s
", ‘ nor. »he rd u c a te s a n d t r a in s y o u r r£+ pr>i*ients a n d ^ ta te iim en , sh e ha#
•xiitpr to h im s u p re m e ly h a p p y ,„ J v<! >*!v Biiserable. W o m e n g o in to
j trk tfs isd p u rch ase a n d o w n p r o p e r ty • imt ewn she r a n e s ta h lia h a n d^ -.^ ¡3 s t.i w ith o u t m a n ’s a id o r h<-j jh T amt very n im y ca se s c o u ld I en u - ;n ft* where s.je’ la ^ d o n e s o fa r mor»* * u r-
•W-il*' than h e r lo rd a n d m a s te r ! W o u ld rflitr prrmit m e I c o u ld s h o w in o th e r a g e s L \ -r many land# w h e re w o m e n h a v e a r-
ta a# g rea t a h e ig h t in g o v e r n in g a s ips. JcJ iJ 'l speak o t a C a t h a n n e o f R u s i i, Hirii Theresa o f A u s t r ia , E l iz a b e th o t ej^wtai. shall a w a it a n o th e r o p por* . j - r r I trust it w ill n o t r e q u i r e e x a m p le s : j*v:!jJroi to conv ince o u r w o m e n th a t
. IloiiiJ have th e r ig h t to v o te . I r e jo ic e h;iW the stand w h ich o u r c o u n tr y - w jm e n fan i t —u, the lad ies, W o o d h u ll a n d C la it tn .
s e l tU t they possess th e e n e r g y a n d th e hli k» proiecule th is s u b je c t , a n d I t r u s t , rf iuog. to see a b ill p a s s e d t h a t w il l e n a b le utaan to give h e r in f lu e n c e a n d s u p p o r t placing in o u r h ig h offices m e n c a p a b le o f
iiw? them. E x i l e .
O B . ■ B L . ’ I B O l . D a b r o a d
La-
[From the P ittsburg Leader.]Six D a y « i n H e a v e n .
> Kct, II. Sioeabaagh relatef the following tdo~ ra* drwnwtance: Ou the 7th of November, the tfosepb Perching, of the Salubu rg circuit, begau i*e«o( meeiiug« at kelly ’s .Station, on the W est iwivaoU Railroad, where the M ethodiete have a buIq Hair tied ebureb and a feeble society.
Ita-g tbe second Sabbath evening of the m eeting, !i*#eiice Taylor, daughter of Jklr. Jo h n Taylor, cf #6 'b Statiou, a young lady ol quiet and am iable upMOD, came forward for prayer. She rem ained linear for quite a length of tim e, appearing to fe cii&j mina, and yet earnestly and devoutly look*
for ? mercy of God. About 9 o 'clock her prayer «med be answered. Her face wore au expression flf m»M brigbtneee, as she, looking upw ard, re- priiede-rai uuiee, with d istinct em phasis, “ Oh, ¿ai bo*inl place over th e re !” She becam e en- drejjOQtecious, and was carried to a house near Aj.Jt beitboagbt unadvisable to rem ove her to her ficatf'ibie, which was about three m iles d is tan t. liUiiaco^iou she remained for seven days, in the Brtiiume;jng no nourishm ent whatever.
UaTaefr Bhe began to speak in a low voice, and far kali Mur told of tbe scenes o f an o th e r w orld, aliervluete remained silent for several hours.
Tbe ftret whom she spoke w ere tw o m in is te rs ; ***** ^ e v . A. H. Thomas, o f th e P ittsb u rg UHuerenceie other was the Rev. Mr. W hite, of the PreebytenaiiQfcb, once the paetor o f th e cnurchai^alieborg.
Many experts were used to resto re her to ccm- (Ct>o?m*e. wnicb were singing and an im ated reiipoas eeiv but all w ithout the desired effect. OBlnday bei,end8 became very m uch alarm ed, wing to the sions expreseed by tb e physicians, ^ai toviDg b g0 ]ODi, w ithou t food she would lever be reetox The effort was m ade to give her «me Duunsho but in va in . She was a*ked ^ r e b e w o ever able to rise , w hen she re*plied, “ iiy havijjgp n o ty e t told m e.” A t differ- «tnm « »he hSpo^en 0f b e r Saviour as p re re n t *•“ Jer a® ker gg an(j ic s ira c to r Shortly a fte r tbisibe told iheia t her Saviour had ju s t inform ed wr that sbe migtlnrn ^o earth on Sabbath even* mg at so clock. B s tatem ent occasioned a joy fu l Rupnie to ber an19 fnends . T he fa th e r said th a t Mooldu thus com pa8gi he w ould believe a ll she voaid eay concerutde fu ture sta te .
On fcat>bath evei^ large com pany o f th e neigh* bore had gathered ©aru the sequel. T here was no dock lo her ro o t r any way jn Which she could satk the flight of boors, for h e r eyes had re mained closed from grt$t A t th ree m in u tesb e* fore 9 the raised her-jt hand, and w aved i t as if pring farewell to peg van ish ing in th e d istance , and men raised her k An(j jn jin e m anner, and a t precisely 9 o clock O pened h e r eyes, spoke a jrreetiBg to her fnendt»an p ra is ing th e Lord, and called opon thope a r o ^ j 0{n ber in p ra ise for Hie p « t mercy. ^ hen d j f ebe waB hungry , she rahed that she was n» ¡n the le a s t ; th a t she had
x j i.mi k „h o n ey , and . indeed, h e r renew ed th a t i t
leemed that phe bad b ^ d ¿y an unseen hand.The onginal paper ohpb these s ta tem en ts were
written ae they fell frotr j |p H is in th e hands o f Uie Rev. J. I ershmg. I mo8t rem arkab le n a rra tion of events, and a ^iptioii o f scenes th a t she ‘d l w f were ae re a d e r as any o th e r In her whole life. *
Gladstone on F enalb fRA0K. _ M r. G ladstone on t recent occasion sa ld k g | atj je8 jn E n g lan d and America are agitaun“ t b e suffrage. That hey will obtain i t who c ^ u b ti a8 th ey a tta in
everytbiug they set theii^t u p o n ; und w hen they attain the suffrage w ! u „ n f r t » h a tth p v will «opthcrcr On whaf p r l n ^ P ^ a a ^ o V o t elor a meraber o f P a r l i a m e n t . h „ c i c ) n d e dfrom a »cat in i t ! l h le ia t f l n d . a u d w h e n .be baa arrived a t b e in g a » > 3 u ? p a r l £ m e l l t th e r e h alii) a th ird axep. I t w o t O & ™ ‘ a mixed P a rliam e n t. G e n l” P 3 “ )ene“ c " a J® public any m ore th a n in p r i ¥ ffa i „ „ „ 0'„ a»nnppuifn. Hwhftti. with »ho carrJ[1 OU 8io th a t g en tlem en»Qccessfui debate with the I most evacuate the House ofladies to manage public affali
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SI**« CO htm ranoothr Jo*# mote *¿l4D *c r i m: -* rru r . u n lh# rrw «paf*r {tp*. T ' .»• • - •• well km»»»** : hot wh-j > ».. rv u j ■
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M Mi i.' me \ r r !• T' •»:L!» ¿aiiy terp«*nditrjr*» nf u< ar!r ’W" ' - ■ ■ tr*in o E .' «1! the whn- :t »•>*.*". r.fhdD. hterng’l** he»ttu^ un it- winj-« t.« - qiT rinc mi!!, »«ts. At fmyii! b«nqQr: 1—n . ro which nulyth^ste tri' r - ““i»*entatii»»« of tt.r •••dmitifid. Lte-ludintr the V:, ^.prr*;-»rni nf »ht t‘* ited Ptatco and a f**» r»?fc*r di*t’r_-m«k7-d p'-Hlic meri who had been connected Ih f rm ii '. Dr. H»*fff*k***ld e a t in vited and called i ;-»n to «peak aicricir tbe evening—a compliment w hich wan cm iii-ntly deaerved ; for. a* wr hare alr«*ady »aid. he !■ th** Iff** of the pr— and therefore no man *o richly d. a t it*hand* a* thin
URCATC-T o r APTERTT* 1' K- .If Dr. Helmbold mak»-n money he spend* it. too.
with right royal mnnillcence. The cost of coming to oar Carnival with hie family, equipage and retinue m nrt have been v»*ry considerable : but, not wit’sfled with that, he engaged at the Arlington, onr crack
| hotel, the he-» room« and largest p-irlon*. where dnriDg biM etay i. « '!;-• n t
«Titl.'AW o r VI-ITORH, poured in iijkoj him, w ith all of whom, in the -pirit of true y. he had •»nmerMnir kind and evenw itty to say. and made them by hi® bonpitality realire that they were a t home. Of course, he possc®Mes a brilliant intellect. No ordinary man could in so brief a space of tim e am ass such a fortune, and tha t solely by the exercise of the highest medical skill, allied to indom itable perseverance, which he so hnppily delights in. Alm ost every paper we take up from every quarte r of our land has som ething to say abou t Dr. Ilelm - bold. u n til w eare fairly dazzled by the power which he exercises, surpassing w hat w e have read in the Arab ian N ights of the
MAfltCIAV'S WAND.N or is this surprising. W e now read in tbe New York Tribune of th e enlargem ent of his m agnificent Broadway palace, ex tending clear through to Crosby street, upon which occasion full five hundred chosen guests are entertained ; then we find in the Philadel*
fihia Bulletin an account o f a serenade to him by an mmenee concourse upon the open ingo f his new drug store in the C ontinental H otel, the happy speech which he m ade from the hotel balcony, form ing the subject o f a two-column leading artic le in the C incin
na ti Commercial, m erely becan’se he has won so much popular esteem as to be generally regarded as the nex t P resident o f the U nited States. A na now we have be fore ns in tbe New Y ork Leader, of W ednesdaj’, March 1. a glow ing descrip tion o f the o p en in g o f a magnificent up-town branch of the establishm ent of Dr. Helmbold, corner o f Broadway and Twenty-Dinth street, rendered absolutely necessary by tbe m arvelous grow th o f th e m arvelous trade of th is m arvelous m an. A re we no t. then , justified in saying th a t he rivals the m ost ex travagant creations of fiction, and stands to -d iy absolu tely
PKERLEFR AND ALONE ?T his new Tem ple o f Pharm acy has cost, in its cons truc tion and decoration, $80.000—far m ore than m any pre ten tions concerns have a ltogether of capital —and ye t It lorm s b u t one o f m any branches of tbe
PARENT STORE, 594 BROADWAY, w hose genial p rop rie to r la st year re tu rned an incom e o f $152.20S. All honor to th is w orthy disciple of jfis- cu lapius 1
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* :a w h ic h p a re n t* *tx*ald t&ke ln tr r* « t ,. i 1» "saicr »» that of NiOMUoO. LNti» lixiibtermtlon t* m-Moto1: «* x r future *** a efciM'« life may hm dark- < i !i - *irf> lo *“ariy j-p*r». Thrre are ram • f *\ proplr w'v- sre fitted for harinr rhargv (u*. It r—i-Jnf* the moat n«iol*lte tact.- ■ • mpr»-h-: -ivr jrasp of charact»*n*ttc*, a** hk»t :t •• tt* adspuv xntoeirci»m*tance*.• i .->> uf < l lh< -I are alway* purr and true... 0 -• mted and bl*«ared by an nu-. r curhn, ri.-v -hoold «Imply he directed .-■•id tb** qi ic-«aud* and *hoal* which cer- •px-itiur.- ‘ »j. bt drift them toward. True i* u*»i —* much ihr «»uffiug procee* a« it 1* i. • - *- iiuiuaiiug prx>ce-«. by which the• ui.] eLrriijrb fix*y be eierted in prodocing a . .»j— * *’ •* and noblest purpose* o*.y — » of »-¡r U t dioi: school* teach those things vt.-j-h rv a?» jxaipabty to the external, and are therefoT- to be <i-1 ■: - aied. There are, however. *om* wbo*5- prinHpal* have the true Idea of education, Am«‘i»g them may be mentioned the Sch<*ol for Young Ladi«-«. at No. 15 East Twenty-fourth street, under (be rharg* of Mesdame* Millard & Carrier, wbow advcrtizM-ment am*-ar* in another oolumu.
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T ita N e w Wo r l d — K weekly newspaper devoted to temperance, uoiver-al suffrage and tbe emancipation of woman. Edited by Mr*. Paulina W right f>a- vi* and Ml*** Kate s tan tou . Published in quarto-form by L. A. Carpenter. Provldenre, R. I. It will be the object of thin (taper to treut all subject« of vital in terest to the American people w ith fairness and independence ; and white it* column* are open to the di*< >i»*lon of tbo**e great questions to which It is devoted. the editors reserve to them*elve* the righ t to be judged only by their editorials. Term s invariably in advance.One copy to one addreas.....................$2 00 per annumTen copies ** ..................... 17 50 “Twenty “ '* ..................... 30 00 ‘‘
A liberal discount made to lodges and societies.
There have been many attem pts made to combine the usefulness of a sofa and a bed in oue article of household furniture, but i t may be said thev have been total failures, and i t had come to be tfiought that noth ing could be invented which wonld present the elepance of a first class parlor sofa and also posses- all the convenience and com fort of the beet bed All the difficulties, however, liave a t last been overcome in the combined Sofa Bed, m anufactured by \Ym. S. H umphreys. 634 Broadway, who presents tbe public w ith an article of furn iture which no critic could detect was anyth ing m ore than a sofa when closed, and which no one would ever suppose could be converted in to a sofa when in its bed form, and yet the conversion is m ade instantaneously. I t is the dendera tum loqg sought b n t never before a tta ined .
This pure Brandy has now an established repots- tation, and is very desirable to all who use a s tim ulant medicinally or otherwise.
Analyses made by tbe d istinguished Chem ists, J , G. Pohle, M. D., and Professor S. Dana Hayes, S ta te Aesayer, M assachusetts, prove t h a t . i t la a purely grape product, containing no o ther qualities.
F o r Sale in quan tities to su it the demand.
California Wines andFine Domestic Cigars.
S. BRANNAN & CO.,OS BR O A D ST R E E T ,
. N EW Y O R K .
On paftfdDg th rough B roadw ay recently, onr a tte n tio n w as a rre s ted by a w ork of a r t so nearly duplicatin g th a t or N a tu re 's ow n. that, a debate arose w hether we w ere robb ing N atu re o f h e r dues o r g iv ing c red it to an a r tis t, h u t w ere com pelled to ad m it th e la tte r.
T h e sub jec t was finely executed w ax flowers, th row n over an ancho r of th e sam e m ateria l m arbleized— H ope in a bed of flowers, w ith th e m o tto , “ N il Des- perandum .”
M ore elaborate rep resen ta tions o f the beautiful in n a tu re , by the sam e a rtis t, M rs. A ddison B artle tt, $96 Broadw ay (where she is prepared to receive pupils an d orders for various designs) a re to be seen a t Cassell & H azard 's d rug store. F if th A venue H otel and T h irty -n in th s tree t, and a t De la P e rq n e 's , B ooth 's T h ea tre building.
W e have sufficient confidence in th e good ta s te of lad ies o f any age a nd in th e ir love of beau ty to feel su re th a t w ere th e ir a tte n tio n secured, they would realize m ore pleasure , and also render them selves far m ore p leasing to th e ir gentlem en friends (if sensible), in learn ing and occasionally p ractic ing the a rt, than in p reparing all those fillings and frizzing* w hich a re exc lusively fo r lad ies and expressly for gentlem en.
T h e a r t em braces m ore th an a m ere know ledge of fo rm ing a flower, i t cultivate* a ta s te for N ature '* workB, and enables one to discover infinitely m ore b eau ties in them . A nd if a fine, rom antic scenery ex erts a refining, e levating influence npon th e in te llec t, certa in ly do beau tifu l fiowrers, w hich we m ay have ae co n sta n t com panions in our house*, and they are certa in ly p re tty and la s tin g m em entoes to friends, and o rnam en ts for th e draw ing-room and boudoir.
” F low ers a re the b rig h tes t thing* w hich earth On h e r broad bosom love* to c h e r is h ;
G ay th ey appear as ch ild ren '* m irth .L ike fading dream s o f hope they perish .”
Y et b y th a t w hich th e ind u strio u s bee furn ishes ns. they m ay be p e rp e tu a ted —nay, reproduced fnsm the ir OW’D sw eetness.
N othing m arks the character of a m an m ore d istinctly than hie dress. I t is n o t neceseary th a t a person should have a two hundred dollar su it o f clothes to be well dressed. D ressing does n o t consist so much of the m aterial worn a* i t does in th e style of its make up. Few people are adapted to conduct a Ready-Made Gents* C lothing Em porium . I t is a difficult task to have clothing to su it and to S ta ll custom ers. B ut if there is one who m ore than any o ther has overcome all these difficulties it is Randolph, a t h is C lothing Em porium , corner of G reat Jones s treet and Broadway. H e no t only sells to everybody, b u t he fits everybody to w ho m 'h e sells: I f you w ant to be “ fitted ^ instead o f “ sold,” go to Randolph**. I f you w ant to be sold instead oi fitted go to some one who will force bad fits upon you if he c an 't fit you well.
H ilman & T horn have ju s t opened a first-class dining-saloon a t 9# Cedar s tree t, a few steps w est of Broadway. T hey supply, by th e ir arrangem ent of private dining-room s, a need, long fe lt in th a t v icinity . G entlem en who have p riva te business to a rrange can a ttend to i t there w hile d iscussing th e ir lunches and dinners. I t is a lso a m ost desirable acqu isition to the accom m odation o f lad ies who m ust d ine dow n tow n, and who have an aversion to pub lic , dining-room s. E veryth ing is served up in splendid sty le and a t abou t one-half th e price o f m any o th e r places. T hey also keep a choice selection o f w ines, liquo rs and cigars. General en trance as above. P rivate en trance n ex t door below 9?:_____________ __________
W e tak e ppeciAl p leasure in calling th e a tten tio n of all our readers who need dental service to Dr. Koonz, a t No. 1 G reat Jones s treet. N ew Y ork , w ho is bo th judicious and scientific in all departm ents o f den tistry . H is room s are fitted ta stefu lly and elegantly , and be ing constan tly filled w ith th e elite o f th e city, testifies th a t h is practice is successful. H e adm in iste rs th e n itrous ox ide g as w ith perfect success in all cases.
N E W J E R S E Y
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.
X o . 1 8 9 M A R K E T S T R E E T .
N e w a r k , N . J .
P e rp e iaa l insurance secured by paym ent of One
A nnual P rem ium .
A ssets over H alf a M illion o f D ollars.
Incom e nearly T h ird o f a M illion of Dollar«.
JTEIN W A Y HALL.C H R ISTIN A NILSSON.
Policie* issued on all the
Insurance.
approved p lans of
A young m an in Oswego, who s ta r te d to a tte n d a raurtiiaeradc p a rty on T hursday , attired, and accou- te rca as he supposes Satan usually is, unhappily en te red th e w rong house, to th e co uste rna tion o f the inm ates. T he old gen tlem an , fa th e r o f the fam ily, especially , was g rea tly alarm ed, and w ith a w ild sh riek , *• M aria, save th e c h ild re n !” he m ade h is e x it th ro u g h th e rear door, closely followed by M aria and all th e ir lit t le ones.
TUESDAY. 14th: ‘W EDNESDAY’. 15th: SATURDAY, 18th.
Mr. M ax S trakosch respectfu lly announces th e first reappearance in New’ Y ork of
MLLK. CH RISTIN A NILSSON, in GrandrConcerts and O ratorio .
T uesday, 14th, G rand M iscellaneous Concert. W ednesday, 15th. first, appearance o f Mile. C hris tina
N ilsson in H ay d n 's m asterw ork ,T H E CREATION.
Saturday, lftlh. G rand N ilsson M atinee a t 2 o 'c lock , M LLE. ‘C H R ISTIN A N ILSSON w ill be a ss is ted by
MTSS PA U LIN E CAN1SSA, Soprano ;M ISS A N N IE LO U ISE CARY, C o n tra lto ;
SIGNOR BRIGNOL1. the d is tingu ished T en o r; Mr. GEORGE SIM PSON, T e n o r : SIGN O R N.
V E R G E R B arito n e : Mr. M. W . W H IT N E Y , B asso ; Mr. H enry V IE U X T EM PS. V io lin is t.
T he choruses o f th e C reation will be rendered by T H E M ENDELSSOHN UNION.
M usical D irecto rs and C onductors,Signor Boson! and Mr. Geo. B ristow .
General A dm ission. $ 2 ; R eserved Seat*. $1 and $2 ex tra , according to location.
T h e sale of Reserved S ea ts for e ith e r o f th e above will com m ence on Sa tu rday , M arch 11. at. 9 a . w., a t the Box Office o f Ihe H all, a t S h irm er's , 701 B roadway mid a t 114 Broadway.
S teinw ay '* P ianos a re used a t all th e N ilsson Concerts.
“ THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST."
Look o u t for coal-dealer* who go ab o u t w ilh the p rofession th a t they a re go iug to b reak up those who have “ m o n o p o lized ” th e trade of W all s tree t, b u t w hose p rac tices do n o t “ s q u a re ” w ith th e ir p ro fe s sions.
D iv idends declared annually on the “ C on tribu tion
P la n ." applicable , on se ttlem en t o f th ird annual
prem ium , e ithe r tow ard th e R ednction o f th e P re
m ium or th e Increase o f the Policy . T hese ad d itio n s are, lik e th e Policy, N on-forfeitaM c. and arc payable
w ith th e Policy.
W IL L IA M M. FO R C E, P res iden t.
C H A R LES C. LA T1IRO P, V ice-P residen t,
C1IAS. H . B RIN K F.R H O FF, A ct'y and A ct'c Sec.
HENRY W. BALDWIN,
S u p 't T em p and M in isterial D epartm en t,
180 B roadw ay, N ew York City,
R ooms fi. 7. t .
B eing constructed w ith regard to scientific accuracy, are used in all te sts o f sk ill by th e b est p layers in the coun try , and in all first-clas* d u b s an d ho te ls . Illus-
W . an d leave th e
A poor soldier In New llarapi . _ #K.__applications, succeeded in g s t t i t f f a/ i f once $10 to an uncle who had lu i^ o u n ty , w n t a t when lie was in desperate needH111.1 41 am o?h i Mels died, and by ula will left 'f 'd * ? 8 •old'erall ms estate, valued at | | n oet penniless rcuon for so doing that he h i giving ^nis tbooev to bis relatives aod he aloor^ ,eDtRepaid bim.
M rs. T hos. C. L om bard , o f th is c ity , will c o n tr ib u to on a rtic le on th e Church M usic A ssociation to th e a r t d ep artm en t o f Old a n d N ew for A pril.
E verybody w an tlu g an y th in g in th e line o f “ d re ss in g for th e feet,” a re referred to th e ad v ertisem en t of P o r te r A B liss, in an o th e r colum n.
J o h n G au lt's B illiard Room s, 09 an d 71 Broadw ay, a re th e m ost popu lar re so rt o f th e d e n lz eu so f W all s tre e t and v ic in ity . “ Phelan tab le* " am i “ pure d rin k s ” a re the a ttrac tio n s.
tra ted catalogo« o f ev ery th ing re la tin g to b illia rd s s e a t by m ail.
PHELAN & C O L L E N D E R738 BROADWAY« New York City.
\ OLBY W RIN G ERS! Best and Cheapest I 1OMPOSED of indestructible materials t
OMPACT, simple, durable, officiant I | OMPARE lt w ith any o ther machine 1 ' OLBY BROS. A OOn 606 Broadway, N. Y.
BANKING HOUSEKOUXTZB KUO I'll KUS.
NEW YOKK.
14 W ALL STREKT.
Four por i«n t. Uh n e t t\K>wrd ou alt 1'oUoctlon« m adr fT .r jw h .T f .Order* ftw Gold. O oT .rnm ral abd olUer i « u
a m i t i .
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B A N K I X G H O U S E ¡ w o o d h u l l , c l a f l i n a c o .
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H E N R Y C L E W S & Co.,
No. 32 W all Street.
I i u r t f t allow ed o n all da lly balance« o t C ' l m c t )
o r G old.
Persons depositing w ith u can check a t s igh t la tbe same m anner aa w ith National Banka.
Certificate« of Deposit issued, payabl« on demand o r a t fixed date, bearing intereet a t current rate, an aeailable in all part« of the United State«.
Advance« made to onr dealer« a t all tune«, on approved collateral«, a t m arket rate« o f interest.
We bay, sell and exchange all Isaacs o f Government Bonds a t curren t m arket p r ic e s ; also Coin and Coupons, and execute orders for the purchase and sale o f gold, and all first class securities, on comm ission.
Gold B anking A ccoanta may be opened w ith ns upon the sam e conditions a« Currency Accounts.
Railroad, S tate, C ity and o ther Corporate Loan negotiated.
Collections m ade everyw here in the U nited States, Canada and Europe.
D ividends and Conpone collected.
Bankers and Brokers,i
No- « BROAD >TUEtrr,
N ew Y ork.
M ID L A N D B O N D SIN d e n o m i n a t io n s o f
$100, $500 and $1,000.I
TH E
LOANERS' B A N KOF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
(ORGANIZED UNDER STA TE CHARTER,.)
“ C ontinental Life " Building,
23 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.
J . OSBORN. ADDISON CAMMACR.
CAPITAL........................................................... $¿00,0 0Sabject to increase to .......................................... 1,«0, * UO
BOARD OP DWXCTO&6 :
WILLIAM M. TW EED, SHEPHERD F. KNAPP, A. F. W1LMARTH, EDGAR F. BROWN,EDGAR W. C RO W EL L ARCHIBALD M. BLISS,
DORR RUSSELL.T h is Bank negotia tes LOANS, make*« COLLEC
TIO NS, advances on SECU RITIES, and receives DEPOSITS.
Accounts o f B ankers. M anufacturers and M erchants w ill receive special a tten tion .
F IV E PE R CENT. IN T E R E S T paid on CU RREN T BALANCES, and liberal facilities offered to o a r CUSTOMERS.
DORR RUSSELL, President.A. F. W il l m a r t h , Vice-President.
OSBORN & CAMMACK,
B A N K E R S,No. 34 BROAD STREET.
STOCKS, ST A TE BONDS, GOLD AND FE D ER A L
SE CU R IT IES, bought and to ld on C om m ission.
K EN D R IC K & COMPANY,
O K E R SB RIN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, AND
ALL CLASSES OF RAILROAD BONDS AND STOCKS.
TO W N , C ITY AND CO UN TY BONDS o f the N o rth e rn and N o rth w estern S ta te s largely d ealt in. O rders p rom ptly execu ted and in fo rm ation g iven, personally , by le tte r o r by th e w ires. No. 9 New s tree t. P . O. Box No. 2,910, N ew Y ork.
fam'd BARTON. HENRY ALLEN.
BA RTO N & A LLEN ,BANKERS AND BROKERS,
No. 40 BROAD STREET.Socks, B onds and Gold b o u g h t and so ld on com
m ission.
RAILROAD IRON,FO R SALE BY
S. W. H O PK IN S & CO.,71 BROADWAY.
PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO,
CA RL R E C K E R & CO.,
40 EAST FO U R TEEN TH STREET,
U nion S quare , N ew York ,
CARL HEOKER.
MISS S IR IE O’H A R A ,
L adies’ Hair DresserAND
C H IL D R E N ’S H A IR CU TTER,(Late with J . Ilanney, of Baltimore,)
No. 1302 F 8TKHKT, Jld door froth T hirteenth , Washington, D. C.
Braid*. Curls and Fashionable Hair Work foi Iridici ci nuU utly on hand.
J A M E S McCREERY & CO., -Broadw ay and E leven th street,
On M onday, Feb ruary 13, will offer a sp lend id stock of
H ousekeeping L inen Goods, selected w ith g rea t care for on r re ta il trade, a t ex
trem ely low prices.R ichardson’s Ir ish L inens,
Iu every m ake and num ber, a t gold prices.L inen Sheetings.
10- 4 B arnsley sheetings a t 85c.11- 4 B arnsley Sheetings a t 90c.
Several cases o f very fine Sheetings,2)6 and 3 yards w ide.
D am asks.9-4 B leached B arnsley D am ask, $1, from $1 30.
9-4 and 10-4 D am ask, new designs, in very fine Goods. A lso, a few pieces ot
R ich ard so n 's 8-4 S triped D am asks.A large lo t of
D am ask Table C loths, from tw o yards to s ix yards each, w ith
N apk in en su ite ,u n d e r gold cost.
C rash and Tow elinge.Crash, from 9 cents per yard upw ard.
A large stock of T ow els o f every descrip tion .from $1 50 per dozen.
B lankets , F lannels , etc.O ur stock o f B lankets , F lannels , M arseilles Q uilts,
C oun terpanes, e tc ., etc ., w e arc se lling o u t a t g rea t bargains.
D om estics.
A n im m ense s to ck o f D om estic Goods, S h ir tin g s and S heetings,
in every w ell k now n brand ,a t m an u fac tu re rs ’ prices.
J A M E S M cCREERY & CO.,B roadw ay and Elevi n th s treet.
W ill open , on M onday, F eb ru a ry 13,A fresh a sso rtm e n t of
N E W FR EN C H C H IN T Z E S A ND PERCA LES, E nglish C alicos in .1 new shade of purple,
a spec ia lty w ith us.T ycoon R eps, G ingham s, D elaines, etc.
A lso, a la rge s to ck o f A m erican P r in ts ,in all th e m ost popu lar m akes,
a t very low prices.
S Y P H E R & CO.,(Successors to D. M arley,)
No. 557 BROADW AY, N EW YORK,
D ealers in
MODERN AND A N TIQ U E
F urn iture, B ron zes,C H IN A , A R TICLES OF VERTU,
B aU b lU h td I82f.
Th<-«e imiorue SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS u r •veurvd by a F inn M ortgage ou the great Midland Railroad of New York, and their issue is «trictly 11m lied to £11,000 per mile of finished road, coaling about $40,C00 per mile. E n tire length of road, 345 mile«, of which 220 have been com pleted, and much progress made In grading the rem ainder.
RESOURCES O F T H E COMPANY.
Full paid stock subscriptions, abou t...............$6,500,000Subscriptions to convertible bonds................. 600,u00M ortgage bonds, $20,000 per mile, on 345
m iles...................................................................... 6,900,000
T o ta l........................................................... $14,00u,000Equal to $40,000 per mile.The road is bu ilt iu the m ost thorough m anner, and
a t the low est a tta inab le cost for cash.
T he liberal subscrip tions to the C onvertible Bonds o f the Company, added to its o th e r resources, give the m ost encouraging assurance of the early com pletion of the road. T he portion already finished, as will be seeu by the following le tte r from the P res iden t of the Compuny, is doing a profitable local business:
N ew Y o r k , Dec. 2, 1870. M essrs. Geohuk Ofdykk & (Jo., New Y ork :
Ge n tlem en—Y our favor of the 1st in s t., a sk ing for a s ta tem en t o f la s t m o n th ’s carn iD gsof the N ew Y ork and Oswego M idland R ailroad , is a t hand. I have n o t y e t received a rep o rt o f th e earn ings for Novem ber.
T h e earn ings for th e m o n th o f O ctober, from all sources, were $43,709 17, equal to $524 510 04 per an num on th e 147 m iles o f road, v iz . : M ain lin e from Sidney to Oswego, 125 m ile s ; New B erlin B ranch, 22 m iles.
T h e road com m enced to tra n sp o rt coal from Sidney under a co n trac t w ith th e D elaw are and H udson c an a l Com pany in th e la t te r p a rt of N ovem ber. T h e b est inform ed on the sub jec t e stim ate th e q u a n tity to be tran sp o rted the first year a t n o t less th an 250,000 tons, w hile som e estim ate th e q u a n tity a t 300,000 ten s T h is w ill y ie ld an incom e o f from $375,000 to $450,000 from coal alone o n th a t p a r t o f the road.
T ak in g th e lo w est o f th ese estim ates, i t g ives for th e 147 m iles a to ta l an n u al earn ing o f $899,510 04. T he to ta l ope ra ting expenses w ill n o t exceed fifty per cen t., w hich leaves the n e t annual earn ings $449,755 02. w hich is $214,555 02 in excess o f in te re s t of th e bonds
iesued thereon .
I should add th a t th e earn ings from passengers and fre igh t a re s tead ily increasing , an d th a t, too , w ith o u t any th ro u g h business to New Y ork . Y rs tru ly ,
D. C. L IT T L E JO H N , P res id en t
N . Y. and O. M idland R ailroad Co.
T h e very favorable e x h ib it p resen ted in th e forego ing le tte r show s th a t th is road, w hen fin ished , w ith its unequaled advan tages fo r b o th local and th rough busi ness, m u s t prove to be one o f th e m ost profitable rail road en te rp rises in th e U n ited S ta te s , and th a t its F ir s t M ortgage B onds co n s ti tu te one o f the safes t and m ost in v itin g ra ilro ad secu rities ever offered to in
vesto rs.F o r sale, o r exchanged fo r G overnm ent an d o th e r
cu rre n t secu ritie s , by
G E O R G E O P D Y K E & C O .,
25 Nassau Street.
8 Per Cent. Interest
First Mortgage Bonds!
S T . JO S K T U A N D D EN V EH CITY RAILROAD COM PANY.
P r i n c ip a l a n d I n t e r e s t P a y a b l« in G o li
1 0 5 MILES COMPLETED and in operation, 15«
earning« on which are in excess of intereet on thi
total leeue. Grading finished, and ONLY 6 MILES
OF TRACK ARE TO BE LAID TO COMPLETE
TH E ROAD.
M ortgage a t the rate of $13,500 per mile.
Price 97)6 and accrued Interest.
W e unhesitatingly recommend them, and will fa*
nUh m aps and pam phlets upon application.
W . P . C O N V E R S E & CO.,M PINE STREET.
T A N N E R A CO.,11 WALL STREET
JO H N J. CISCO & SON.
BANKERS,N o . 5 9 W a l l S tre e t , N ew Y ork.
Gold and Curreucy received on deposit, subject U check a t sigh t.
In te re s t allow ed on Currency Accounts a t the nfi o f F o u r p er C ent, per annum, credited a t the cnd'l each m onth.
A LL CHECKS DRAWN ON US PASS THROU'H T H E CLEARING-HOUSE, AND ARE RECEIV® ON D E P O S IT BY ALL THE CITY BANKS.
C ertificates o f D eposit issued, payable on dcrftd, bearing F o u r per Cent, interest.
L oans negotiated .O rders prom ptly executed for the PurchM ud
Sale o f G overnm ents, Gold, Stocks and B a^ com m ission.
Collections m ade on all parts ol the Unite/BUtw and Canadas.
M A X W E LL & CO.,
Bankers and BrokersNo. 11 BROAD STREET,
New York .
THE UNDERSIGNED BEG TO INform th e ir fr ien d s th a t th ey have opened
B ranch offleo a t
No. 365 Broadway, cor. Franklin Street,connected by te leg raph w ith th e ir p rin c ip a l office,
No. 46 EXCHANGE PLACE,and solicit orders for Foreign Exchange, Gold, Got. emment Securities and Stocks, which will be promut- ly attended to. r
C IIA S . U N G E R & C O .Jannary 3,1(71.
H A R V E Y FISK . A. S. ^CH.
OFFICE OF
FISK & HATCH.BANK.ERS,
AND
D EA LER S IN GOVERNM ENT S^URITISS,
No. 5 Nassau street, S*-.
O p p o s i t e U. 8 . Sub- I tasury .
W e receive the accounts cBanks, Bankers, Corporations and others, >bject to check at sight, and allow interest o balances.
W e make special arrangepnts for interest on deposits of specific sums'! fixed periods.
We make collections on 1 points in the United States and Canadsmd issue Certificates of Deposit available t all parts of the Union. ’
W e buy and sell, a t curut rates, all classes of Government Securitiotmd the Bonds oi the Central Pacific Railiul Company; also, Gold and Silver Coin an Gold Coupons.
W e buy and sell, atuc Stock Exchange, miscellaneous Stocks a; Bonds, on commission, for cash.
Communications an inquiries by mail or telegraph, will receivrarcful attention.
FISK & HATCH.
«BEAUTIFULS E J O F TEETH,
With plumpers to act t the cheek* and rerlor« the face to it* natural afaranco. Movable plumpen adjusted to old «etiqHghted Lower Seta, CLlHnga ol Gold, Amalgam, Boactc.
T EETH E X T tT K D WITHOUT PAIN, W ith troa* Oxide Gaa.
No ex tra charge*en other* a n tuerted. 8PLKÄD SETS, »10 to »W.
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Mattresses, P illow s.AND
Church, Chair, Car and Carriage Cushions.
ELASTIC SPO N G EA SITBSTITUTE FOR CURLED HAIR
For all Upholstery PorposeaCHEAPER than Feathers or Hair, and
FAR SUPERIOR
It is the Healthiest, Lightest, Softest, most Elastic, most Durable and BEST Material known for
lifTBES, PILLOWS, CUSHIONS, St
ELASTIC SPONGEMakes the moet LUXURIOUS and DURABLE BEDS, MATTRESSES, PILLOW S and CUSHIONS of any material known.
ELASTIC SPO NGEDoes not PACK and become M ATTED like
Cnrled Hair.
ELASTIC SPO N G E¡sREPELLANT TO, and PROOF against, BUGS and INSECTS.
ELASTIC SPO N G EIs the VERY BEST ARTICLE ever dis-
eorered lor STEAMBOAT and RAIL CAR UPHOLSTERY.
ELASTIC SPO NG EIs absolutely UNRIVALED for SOFA SEATS and BACKS, and for ALL U PHOLSTERING PURPOSES.
Mi l d , c e r t a in , s a f e , e f f i c i e n tI t 1« fa r th e beet C a th a rtic re tn e d j ye t d iscov
ered . and a t o nce relieve« and inv igorate* ¿ 1 th e * ita l function* , w ith e a t causing tn ja ry to any o f them . T h e m oet com p lete success h as long a tte n d e d its use in m an y localitie* . an d i t is now offered to th e geueral p u b lic w ith th e conv ic tion th a t it can never fail to accom plish a ll th a t ia cla im ed for it. I t produce* li t t le o r n o pain ; leave* the omran* free from ir r i ta tio n , a n d nev e r overtax** o r excite* th e nervous *vs- tem . I n a ll disease* o f the sk in , b lood, stom ach , bow el*, liver, k idney*—o f ch ild ren , ao d in m any diffic u ltie s p ec u lia r to w om en—it b rin g s p ro m p t re lief a n d ce rta in cu re . T h e beet p h ysic iaue recom m end an d p re sc r ib e i t ; an d no person w ho once use* th is w ill v o lu n ta rily r e tu rn to th e use o f any o th e r ca th a r tic .
S e n t by m a il o n re c e ip t o f p rice and postage .1 b o x , $0 25.......................................... P o stag e 6 cen ts .5 b o x es , 1 00*......................................... ** 18 •*
12 “ 2 2 5 . ........................................ “ 39 **I t ia so ld b y a ll dealer* in drug* an d m ed ic ines.
T U R N E R & (JO., P rop rie to r* . IS O T rem on t S tree t, B oston , M as*.
ELASTIC SPONGEL the HEALTHIEST, SW EETEST, PUREST, MOST ELASTIC, MOST DURABLE, and BEST M ATERIAL IN USE for BEDS, CUSHIONS, &c.
KKCOM MKNDED BY PHYSICIANS.
BEST SALVE IN USE.S o ld b y a i l u ru g jn s t* a i zn «.eras.
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B IL LIA R D ROOMS.Seven first-doss Phelan Tables.
6 9 A 71 B R O A D W A Y ,(Nearly opposite Wall St.)
Open from 7 A. M. to 7 P. I f ., exclusively for the Stock and Oold Boards and Bankers.
The FinestQualities o f Imported Wines, Brandies and Cigars.
Wholesale Store—71 BROADWAY.J O H N G A U L T .
P I A N O S ! P I A N O S !CABINET ORGANS AND MELODEONS,
AT IHERRELUS[Late Cummings],
iano Waierooms, No. 8 Union Square.A large stock. Including Pianos of the beet Makers,
for sale cheap fo r cash., or to rent. Money paid for ren t applied to purchase. Repairing done well and promptly. Call and examine before deciding elsewhere.
M. M. MERRELI., late Cnmmings,No. 8 Union Square.
BOOTS & SHOES.
P R O G N O S T IC A S T R O N O M Y ;A ^T R O -p h r e n o l o g y ,
as p racticed bv Dr. L- D. and Mr*. S D. HOUGHTON.4yl Brvtome s tre e t. New Y ork C ity.
T o know bv s i g n s , to j udgs th e tu rn s o f fate.Is g rea te r tl is a to All the seats ot S ta le ;T he ru ling s ta rs above, by secre t laws.D ete rm ine F o rtu n e lo h e r second cause.T aeae a re a book w here in w e a ll m sy read .A nd all shou ld know w ho w ould lu life succeed.W ha t co rreapendeu t s i g n s in m an d isp lay •H is fu tu re ac tio n s—p o in t h is devious w ay :—T h u s. In th e heavens, h is fu tu re fa te to learn .T h e p reseo t, p as t an d fu tu re to d isce rn .C orrect h is s tep s. Im prove th e ho u rs o f life.A nd, sh u n n in g e rro r, live devoid o f strife .
A ny dve q u es tio n s In le tte r , enc losing tw o dollar*, p rom p tly a tte n d e d to . Term * o f c o n su lta tio n from $1 to 45, accord ing to im portance . N a tiv itie s w ritten from $5 upw ard . P h reno log ica l e x a m in a tio n s , verbal $ 1 ; w ith ch a rt, $2 .
GUNERIUS GABRIELSON, F L O R I S T ,
821 BROADWAY,C O R N E R O F T W E L F T H S T R E E T ,
N E W Y O R K .
t W C h o i c e F U n t e r s a l w a y s o n H a n d . J g f
E. D. SPEAR, M, D.Office, 713 Washington St.,
B O S T O N , 7 1 A S S .
T H E B A L T I M O R E & O H I O R . R .Is an Air-Ldue R oute from B altim ore and W ash ing ton to C inc in n a ti, and is th e only lin e ru n n lu g P u llm an 's P eIacc P ay and S leeping C ars th ro u g h from W ashing- ton and U allim ote to C ioc luua ti w ith o u t change.
L ouisville iu 2^*4 hour*.Passeuger* by the B altim ore an a O hio R ailroad have
choice o f ro u te s, e ith e r > la C o lum bus o r P ark ersb u rg .F rom C inc innati, ta k e th e L ou isv ille an d C inc innati
S ho rt L iue R ailroad .A void a ll d ange rous ferry transfer* by cro ss in g th e
g rea t O hio R iver S uspension Bridge, an d reach L ouisville hou rs in advance o f all o th e r lines. Save m any m iles in go ing to N ashv ille . M em phis, C h a ttan o o g a , A tlan ta . S avannah , M obile au d N ew O rleans
T h e only line ru n n lu g four da ily tra in s from C in c in n a ti to L ou isv ille .
s ilv e r l*alace S leep ing C oaches at n ig h t, an d sp len d id S m oking C ars, w ith revo lv ing arm ch a irs , on day tra in s
Remember! lower fare by no other mute.T o secure th e advan tage* offered by th is g rea t
th ro u g h ro u te o f Q uick T im e. S h o rt D istance »Dd Low Kan*, ask for ticket* , an d he su re they read , v ia Lou isv ille an d C inc inna ti S ho rt L ine U. K.
G et y o u r tic k e ts—No. 87 W ash in g to n s tre e t, B oston ; N o. 229 B roadw ay, office N ew J e rs e y R. K., foo t of C o rtlan d t s tree t. N ew Y o rk ; C o n tin en ta l H otel, 828 C h es tn u t s tre e t. 41 S ou th F if th s tre e t, an d a t th e d ep o t co rner B road und P rim e s tre e ts . P h ila d e lp h ia ; 8 . E. co rn e r B a ltim o re an d C a lv ert s tre e ts , o r a t C am den S ta tio n , B a ltim o re ; 485 P en n sy lv an ia aven u e , W ash in g to n ,! ) . C . ; a u d a t a il th e p rin c ip a l ra ilro ad Offices iu th e E a s t.
SAM. GILL,General Supt., Louisville, Ky.
H E N R Y S T E F F E ,Gen. Ticket Agent, Louisville, Ky.
SIDNEY B. JONES.Gen. Pas*. Agent, Louisville, Ky.
T h e m ed ica l reco rd o f D r. E . D . S P E A R , as a successfu l ph y sic ian in th e tre a tm e n t o f ch ro n ic d isea se s, is w ith o u t a p a ra lle l. M any a re suffered to d ie w ho m ig h t b e saved . D r. S p ear m a k es a d ire c t a p p e a l to th e su b s ta n tia l , in te ll ig e n t a n d c u ltiv a te d c i t iz e n s o f o u r co u n try , a n d a s k s th a t h is c la im s as a p h y s ic ia n o f e x tra o rd in a ry p o w ers m ay b e In v es tig a ted . I I you a re b ey o n d h u m a n a id D r. S p ea r w ill n o t dece iv e you. I f y o u h ave o n e cha nce h e w ill sav e you . C om e to h is office a n d c o n su lt h im . I f you c a n n o t v is it , co n s u l t h im b y le t te r , w ith s tam p .
RAILROAD OF NEW JER-*ey.—P asse n g e r a n d F re ig h t D e p o t in N ew Y o rk ,C1ENTRAL
j *ey.—P asse n g e r a n d F re ig h tD e p fo o t o f L iu e rty s t r e e t ; co n n e c ts a t H am p to n Ju n c tio n
ixtv miles and three hours saved by this line to Chi- o, Cincinnati, St, Louis, etc., with bu t one change
Dr. Spear can be consulted at his office, 713 Washington street, Boston, or by letter, with stamp, free of charge, upon a l l diseases. Those who have failed to be cured by other physicians are respectfully invited to call on Dr. Spear.
ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY.
$330,000 IN GOLDDRAWN EVERY 17 DAYS.
Prizes cashed and iniorm ation furnished. Orders solicited and promptly filled.
The highest rates paid for Doubloons and all kinds of Gold and Silver and Government Securities.
TAYLOR & CO., Bankers,No. 16 Wall Street.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH INSTIIUTE.
YEAR 1870-71.
BOARDING & DAY SCHOOL
YOUNG LADIES,No. 15 East 24th Street, near Madison Park,
NEW YORK.
with the Delaware, Lackawannaand Western Railroad, and at Easton with the Lehigh Valley Railroad and its connections, forming a direct line to Pittsburgh and the West without change of cars.
ALLENTOWN LINE TO THE WEST.Sixty
cago, of care.
Silver Palace care through from New York to Chicago.
SPRING ARRANGEMENT.Commencing May 10,1870—Leave New York as fol
lows:5:30 a . m.—F or Plainfield.6:00 a . m.—For Easton, Bethlehem, Mauch Chunk,
Williamsport. Wilkesbarre, Mahanoy City, Tukhan- nock, Towanaa, Waverly, etc.
7:30 a . m .—For Easton.12 m.—ForFlem ington, Easton, Allentown, Maucb
Chunk, Wilkesbarre, Reading, Columbia, Lancaster, Ephrata, Litiz, Potteville, Scranton, Harrisburg, etc.
2 p. m.—F or Easton, Allentown, etc.3:30 p. m.—F or Easton, Allentown, Mauch Chunk,
and Belvidere.4:30 p. m .—For Somerville and Flemington.5:15 p. m.—F or Somerville.6 p. m.—For Easton.7 p . m.—F or Somerville.7:45 p. m .—For Easton.9 p . m.—For Plainfield.12 p. m.—F or Plainfield on Sundaye only.Trains leave for Elizabeth at 5:30,6:00,6:30,7:30, 8:30,
9:00, 9:20, 10:30,11:40 a . h ., 12:00 m., 1:00,2:00,2:15, 3:15, 3:30,4:00, 4:30, 4:45, 5:15, 5:45, 6:00, 6:20, 7:00, 7:45, 9:00. 10:45, 12:00 F. m.
FOR THE WEST.9 a. m.—W estern E x press , daily (except Sundays)
—For Easton, Allentown, Harrisburg ana the West, w ithout change of cars to Cincinnati or Chicago, and but one change to St. Louis. Connects a t Harrisburg for Erie and the Oil Regions. Connects a t Somerville for Flemingtop. Connects a t Junction for Stroudsburg, W ater Gap, Scranton, etc. Connects a t Phillips- bnrg for Mauch Chunk, W ilkesbarre, etc.
5:00 p. m.—Cin cinnati E xpress , daily, for Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Reading. Harrisburg, P ittsburgh, Chicago and Cincinnati. Sleeping cars to P ittsburgh and Chicago.^.Connects a t Junction with D., L. and W. R. R. for Scranton.
Sleeping Cars through from Jersey City to P ittsburgh every evening.
Tickets for the w est can be obtained a t the office of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, foot of Liberty street, N. Y .: a t No. 1 Astor H ouse; Nos. 254, 271, 526 Broadway, a t No. 10 Greenwich street, and a t the principal hotels.
R. E. RICKER, Superintendent.H. P. B a l d w in , Gen. Pas*. Agent.
Prin cipa Ls—MAD A ME MALLARD AND MADAME CARRIER.
Madame Carrier, with whom she has associated herself after a co-operation of six years, is a niece of the late Sir David Brewster. From her early training and a thorough education, received in Scotland, together with several years’ experience in tuition, ?he is In every respect qualified to take charge of the English Departm ent of the Institute.
The Principals hope, by devotion to the mental, moral and physical train ing of their pupils, to secure their improvement and the encouraging approbation of parents and guardians.
For particulars, send for Circular.
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f.T VICTORIA C. W O O D H U L
T hi- rem arkable hook, jo»t from the pre*s. contain"graphic consolidation of the various principle* ic-
▼lon* to the removal of • papi). At the wfeh of the parent», pupil" m ar he m‘-t In London or Bremen, ft* fsrence« : John Betr«. R«q.. Perobury. near Ton- bridge, K en t; S. R. Pattiwm, Esq., 5) Lombard " t r et. London: Char’**" Kln^. E*q . Invertitigli llouee. Ayr. S ro tltn d : William F*di®\ M. D . Ä Newton piare, (ila tgnw ; N. Tru^n**r. fr>u . *** Paternoster mw, L«*t;don:' l)r. Carl M ittermaler. Heidelberg: ^"harlea Krieger. >r.. E»q.. Cobi* •
la«-« iDQ"t he only half made to be th n t sp it upon and ............................... cb gi
volved in governm ent a* the guarantee and protectionto the exercf** o f human right".
Sack principle« me. from tim e to time, have been eoncria ted in those column" are here arranged. c)ar«i fled and applied. A carefnl corsidera tion of them will convince the m o d skeptical tha t oa r (.¿overoment, thoagh "O good, i" very fa. nom being perfect.
Every person who ha« the futnre w e’iare of thi*
P A P E R « F O E t T U E P E O P I . E .
trampled under loot th a t qoletly perm it snen jp os? abase. Can the women m ake worae lailnrea than th-. •«?** •
The qae*ilon ari"e«. ran *nrh «evere meaeore» be made practicable * I th ink not. a* society 1" now organized. The majority of voter* are t/*o strongly in terested in the pleasure or profit of the bnaltie*» to ■re it destroyed, aud oar politicians go w ith the ma-
»rity. Let the i"*oe be raised, and In Michigan, a" indeed iD alm ost every S tate, the w hltky in terest would trium ph. They know the ir power and will flerc**lr use it. A compromise as above indicated la
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But there i* an elem ent of power in our land, which
Tii'-r** i* a i*r» at deal said in *om" quarter« about am ending the national ro n - 'itn r io n . s i a« t«> arknowl- edge J.-hnvab a* t?: all power. Would sucha recognition tend to make m m any more ju s t toward the ir kind than they are * C u ri-i-...! iin ba« been pro-
™ nD trj ml hran i-hnnld m ake him or hem elf fam iliar : f - - ‘— " '- h *n »^kn.i«l. .l^ n . f.t fur many « .m a n e ..and yet no ri <«* of ram and women are le«* ready tnw ith the question" trea ted in th is book. No lengthy
• ’□cidation? are entered in to : its statem ent« are fresh, terse and bold, and make d irect appeal to the reasoning faculties.
It ¡* an octavo volume o f 250 page*, contain ing the p icture o f Uie au tho r; is beautifully prin ted on the best quality o f tin ted paper, and is tastefully and• iibstantially bound in ex tra cloth. No progre**iv person « house shoatd be w ithout thi« conclusive evidence o f w om an's capacity for «elf-government !*rice, $3 00: by m ail, postage paid. $-1 25.
E Q t A L I T V A R I G H T O F IV O T U V
BY TENNIE C. CLAFLIK.
T he object of the au thor in presenting thi* book to th e public w a«:
Fxr*t, To show tiiat woman has the sam e human righ ts which men hare.
ft»cond, To point out wherein A condition o f «ervi tnde has been involuntarily accepted by women as a snhstitu te for equality , they in the m eantim e laborin; under the delusion tha t they were abor• instead of befoic equality .
Third. To prove tha t it i* a du ty which women owe to themselves to become fully individualized persons, responsible to them selves and capable o f m ainta in ing such responsibility .
Fo*trth. To dem onstrate tliAt the fu ture welfare o f hum anity dem ands o f women th a t they prepare them . -e |ve? to be the m others of children, w hoshall be pure iu body and mind, and th a t all o ther consideratioh* o f life shoold be made subservient to th is th e ir high m ission as the artis ts of hum anity.
Fifth, T ha t every child bom has the natu ral righ t to live, and tha t society is responsible for the condition in which he or she is adm itted to be a constituent and modifying part o f itselt.
This is not merely a *• W om an's R ights ** book. I t i* a book for hum anity, in which the principle* of life are learlesely pronounced and uncovered o f all th e absurdities aDd im aginery lim itations by w hich p rejud ice and custom have bounded w om an’s capa b ilities . Every fam ily will be the p u rer and holier for having fairly considered th is book.
I t is an octavo volum e o f 150 pages, con tain ing an excellent p ictnre o f the au th o r; is beautifally prin ted and tastefully and substan tially bound in m uslin g ilt. Price, £2. By m ail, postage paid. $2 15.
B O O K N O T IC E .
“ Cruel as th e Grave” Is the nam e o f Mrs. Emma D. E. N. S onthw orth’? new novel, ju s t published by T. B. P eterson &. B rothers, Philadelphia. I t m ust com mand a very large sale, as i t is one o f Mrs. South- w orth 's most pow erfully w ritten efforts, exciting and sensational, and is fnlly equal, if n o t superior, to “ The Maiden W idow.” •• T he Fam ily Doom.” “ The Changed Brides.” “ The B ride 's F a te .” “ F a ir P lay ’’ aud “ How He Won H er.” w hich have proved to be six of the best novel* ever published, aud w hich are having unprecedented sale» ; for Mr*. Southw orth, as a novelist, stand? a t the head o f all female authors. She is a w rite r o f rem arkable genins and o rig inality : m anifesting wonderful pow er in the vivid depicting of character and in her glow ing descrip tions o f scenery. H er heroines are not merely nam es, b u t ex istences—they seem to live and move before us. H er conceptions are m arked by o rig inality , and the re ispurity aud sweetness ab o o t her language which give a peculiar charm to her w ritings. H er characters are
ipowerfully and touchiDgly drawn, and we learn to ove them because they are more natural than affected,
“ Cruel a* the Grave’ is issued in a large duodecim o volume, and sold a t the low price of $1 75, in c lo th ; o r $1 50 in paper cover; or copies will be sen t by m ail, to any place, post-paid, by the publishers, on receipt of the price o f the work in a le tte r to them .
T H E T H E A T R E S .
NIBLOS.The advent o f The Knnnels Fam ily ha* added a new
attraction to the Black Crook. Miss Pau liue M arkham bus resum ed the role o f Stalacta*. Mis* K elsey retiring, she is how ever to appear in Philadelphia as Cariind. We shall g ive a description of the innovations in the Black Crook n ex t week. M eantim e we call a tten tion to the fact tha t th is en terta inm en t h as but three weeks m ore to ran in th is city.
THE GRAND OPERA IIOl'SK.Las Georgiennes is upon us in all its predicted splen
dor and Eastern costum es. A live elephant, a baby elephant who gaimtols around the stage to the g reat am usem ent of the.andience, and a veritab le war horse are am ong the attractions. The leading performers a t th is theatre are decidedly ta len ted , and i t is our in tention to give an extended notice o f the dram a in our next.
Institution kok th e education op toils« l a dies. conducted by the M isses Capelle. a t Coblence on the Rhine, Pfaffcndorf, 12*1, Tne Mieses Capelle receive a lim ited n n m b e ro f young ladle« a* resident pupils, to whom they offer the com forts o f a home w ith the advantages of a superio r education . There arc at Coblence an English amt a Germ an P ro testan t church, where the pupils may a ttend d iv ine service. T he house is surrounded by a large garden and s itu ated in the beuutilul environs o f Coblence on the righ t hank of the Rhine, T he course o f study comprises German. French aud English in every branch, including the h igher literary studies. T he best professors Irora town attend , and a French governess resides in the house. T erm s: F or pap ils above twelve years, £60; w ider twelve, £>5. Lessons in in s tru m ental and vocal music, draw ing, pa in ting and danc- m g a t professor’s prices. Use o i piano, 15«. p e r qtiar, ter. Expense of laundry extra. Charge for^ervants- lve. pe r year. Three m onths’ notice reqolred pre-
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****.¿1 to ihe practice of the ju«t and "imple right of the elec’fve franchise on the jwrt *»f w oman—the #yucd right» o f all— than the«e zealous religionist«. Having be**n’ Horn free, w»* occasionally s trp in to a church on a '»uttdsv rnorniDg to not»* how the prog- re«* tow ard the condition of r**al liberty—tn see with what «arc»*** they lf«*r the oo ts 'de pr»**«ore of elem ental change and progress, w hich, indeed. In sp ite of the opposition and snari* o f prle«tcraft, 1« ripd ly placing Cod’" heritage, the people, far above and ah«*ad of the w arring tyranny of Church and M ate.
The la«t tim e we were at church, during an interval in the services, the r|*-rk read from the chancel am ong o ther notice« the follow ing :
“ There will be a m eeting of the m nlt members of thi* church to elect,” c 'c.
We rem em ber how harshly thi« in«nlt to the m ajority of tha t church g rated on onr liberal feeling*, a? looking round we easily note much the larger portion of the andiencc w**re—pardon u* if we do not say “ ladie«.” we do not like the te rm —women. A nd these would-be constitu tion tinker« are the men who w ith uplifted hands with holy--horror exclaim ; ‘W hat, le t w jm en vote! w hat sacrilige ! what bra/.'-n infl- delitv thus to dare fly in the face o f the Almighty, who
if perm itted to vote, would enable the friends of tern- i pentner to gain a com plete victory. The women «uf- { fer from th re w l-o f luternperance fearfully, and haiiog j the busine«« aud its result*, would g’adfy de-troy all I the di«till«*ri»-s and saloons in the land. If the ir vote*
failed the ir fsggo*» would not.The sar'»* i* true with political and o ther moral re
form* ►«* greatly needed. Man s lonecau never acnom- j pljeh them, be*au*e a m ajority find, as in the w n isk j : traffic, too much pleasure or profit In them to give
them up.| W heu woman is ¡n-nnitted to join w ith man in his ; efforts to purilv society from its disorders and corrop- ; tious. we may lo«.k f«»r loftier aod more exalted stand
ard- of justice aud righteou*ne** than has ever yet bet-u aspired to, and which man (an never a tta in h r
j his own efforts. W om an's *en«eof righteoosnesn wifi I not perm it her to stndy policy at the expense of ' principle, a* is now* alm ost invariably t*e case w ith ' man. which paralyse* most effectually his efforts to
redeem m aiikicd from theevil con d llio n sth ey aren o w ingulfed in. G eo. B. Sm ith .
D etroit . February 2», HG1.
has proclaim ed by patriarchal exam ple and the m outh * * woman forever to be man'* servant.uf his apo«fle
r o t bis equal. For Adam was f o r m e d t h e n Ev»*.' rd/o X «b
Therefore, le t the women learn to
The woman wa« created fo r the man, not man for the and she being «¡M>b«*dieut was found in thewoman
transgression, keep silent, and if they wonld know anything, let them ask the ir hn^bnnd. for thi* i* well-plea "ing in the sight of the Lord—love, honor, and obey.” etc., etc.
And are they not consistent w ith the tenor and sp irit o f the ir unequal and im perfect s tandard? The «chool-bov and girl of the lightsom e end o f the n ineteenth centurv are rapidly learn ing som ething of the nature o f the tyranny with which woman has been oppressed by the Biblical Patriarchs and Apostles from the father o f the fiith fu l. who so heartlessly sen t bis concobine I l igar and her child ad rift in to the drear w ilderness to starve and die. b a t who, desp ite the evil results o f S ira h 's petty jealousy, was saved from perishing by angel in tervention , down enslavingdays of the splenetic bachelor Paul, and th-.*«e lazv, G od-in-the-Consritution men, D. D.’s. are busy only to continue the slavery. aDd more, we th ink , «nice the advocates of equal right? have taken th e logical stand to iip*i*t only on present righ ts, the national C onstitu tion is sufficient for the balance of th e n ine teen th centnry. S till, p lease, perm it u» to indulge w ith these I). I).’* in a little logic.
D raw ing Day in Havana.—As the bell «track the signal for the draw ing to commence, en th u sia s tic cries of “ r t r a *f rotm 'ui dt rvy / ” filled the air, aDd I came to the conclusion th a t every m an, wom an and child in the ciiy of H avana was *he ow ner of a ticket. Indeed. 1 liave since learned th a t It is “ qu ite the th ing” fo r h gallan t to p resen t his inam orata w ith a lo ttery ticket, and th a t in all grades of life it is considered a neat and acceptable Lift.
Of one th ing 1 felt couddeoi—th a t every person present wa* financially in terested in the resu lt of the thaw ing. In th a t vast assem b’age. which held itsb reath w hh suspense a* the boys p a t the ir bands in tb** w heel- to draw , stood general and private , mas-
W e take the following from the Xatioral ii'fonner, London. E n g lan d :
W e n o te th is journa l specially as a vigorous specimen o f w om au 's jou rna lism . I t is ow ned and ed ited bv V ictoria C. W oodhull and T enn ie C. Claf- lin. and M esdames, the editor?, w rite w ith a force and fearlessDes* w hich m ake the ir jo u rn a l refreshing. I t a tta c k s the hoge com m ercial, ra ilroad . baDk and in surance swindles, n o t «imply w ith hard w ords, but w ith real argum ent? and strong facts. P osh ing forw ard the w om an's question , it doe? so w ith a pleasan t freshnes« and keen sense offinm or. C hronicling daily acts of ta len t, courage, devotion and endurance on th e part o f liv ing w om en, i r m entions in ano ther
aragraph th a t ‘ M rs. E sthe r M orris. Ju s tic e of the ’eace in Iow a, has tem porarily re tired from tbo
bench to nurse her b ab y :’ and th a t * A lady stenographer i? aston ish ing the old fogies in attendance a t th e p re sen t term of the Suprem e Coort. in Som erset C ounty. M aine.' M esdames W oodhull & Clartin deal w ith m oney and currency in a way which would have delighted the Jate B ronterre O’Brien, and w hich ongn t to m ake J . H ., o f Liverpool, an im m ediate and enduring subscriber. W hether th e lady ed ito r? are sound on money and currency, we will no t. dare n o t say. W e have never bad enough of e ither i>aper or gold to te s t the question experim entally , and, «o far a? m ere th eo ry goes, we are te rrib ly confused. Mes- dam ee W oodhull & Claflin are F reeth inker* and free trader?, th e m otto o f th e ir jou rn a l being * P rogress, F re e th o u g h t. U ntram m elled Live?.* ”
T o the Com m ittee on Tem perance Reform, appointed by the citizen? o f D etro it a t a public m eeting held F ebruary 22, 1671:T he horaan appetitecrayes stim ulant* so pow erfully
a? to circum vent all expedient? thus far tried to re stra in its gratification. You and m ost of thon^htfu l persons are study ing if i t is possib le o r practicable to do this.
I t is said, nnon good au tho rity th a t the nee o f vinous and m alted liquors greatly m itigate? drunkenness. F rance and Germany com pared to B ritain and our own country, a re free from th is vice. Thi? is ow ing to the fact th a t the vinous ferm entation produces none of th e m addeniog influence? which u ltim ate iu delirium trem ens. T hey are genera ted by d istilling grain, fleuce vinous liquor? are iunoxiou?, w hile the d istilled are in ju rious to the hum an ?y«t<*rn.
If total abstinence is im practicable (a? it always ha? and bid? fair to be) it is a «« riou? question w hether the n?e o f viuou? liqaor? ough t n o t to be encoaraged o r a t least to lerat d if they can be m ade a substitu te for distilled . I t seem s to me th a t no one will d ispute th a t society w ill be im m ensely im proved thereby.
B ut can thi* bednne ? Upon thi? m u tter I beglcave to repeat the following rem ark? already affered upon
ter and -lave, m istress and m aid, the m illionaire and the rugged boatm an, all draw n together by th a t common oepirc—the sudden acqu isition o f the yellow metal.
The lir*t num ber* were d ra w n : tha t taken from the wheel rep resen ting the num ber of tickets w j?----- . tha t from the prize wheel j?50,u00. W e w erenot lo u t iu discovering the loeky one. a poor «on of Africa. who*e a ttire proved h im to be one of th a t abused cla-s of coal s te 'ed o re* . He darted from the assem blage, thou ting , and frantically g iving thank?, in hi? peculiar d ia lect, to hi? God, lo r deliverance from Spanish slavery. I will say. tn th a t Isome year? after m et ’nim in P o rt au Prince, w here be wa? the ow ner o f qu ite a large »•i»ff**e i*?tabJi«hment.
The draw iug *p**i on. every now and then some one shouting in trium ph as they foand them selves called on by Daine F ortune. But never have 1 seen ?nch excitem ent a.? wheu the largest prize? loilow -d each o ther in succession from the wheel. T he lucky num ber? f<»r the th irty thousand dollar prize w ere 5, 2. 14 ; for the one hundred thousand dollar p rize. 2. 6 . 10. These ticket? had evidently been sold in fractions, several parties p resen t holding ten th? and tw en tieths.
Many were the com plain ts o f those who had ventu red and lost, o r having ven tu red and w on. cursed the ir luck for Dot doing so boldly, by boy ing the whole of the lucky ticket, in the place o f a fraction.
"O n ly to th in k .” said Jack , w ith a lugubrious expression o f countenance—" 1 came w ith in tw o num ber? of the largest prize.” And he showed his ticket. N o. 5 ,2 , 12.
“ So you d id ,” «poke a ta ll m an w ith a treacherous face, who bad been looking over Jack*? shoulder. “ As i t is of no use to you, le t m e have it . to show som e friend? w hat cruel trick? fortune , the ja d e ! som etim es play? ns.”
“ You can have i t .” answ ered Jack , and wa? ab o u t to hand i t to him w heu I stopped bis had, say ing—
“ K eep it , J a c k ; if i t is o f any use to h im i t is to you .”
T he m an scowled, aud «aid he thou g h t it wa* none o f my busine«*: b u t if th e cubellon w onld ta k e a doubloon lo r it , be was w illing to g ive it. W hy I did so I canno t say, b u t 1 urged J a c k to refuse th e offer, w hich be did.
T he d raw ing was over and the im m ense assem blage had d ispersed—som e to th e ir hom es, b n t by far the la rger portion to the clubs and cafes, the lucky one? to receive the congra tu la tions o f th e ir friend?, the other? to ta lk over the event* o f th e day, and look forw ard to the n ex t draw ing, which w ould take place in Hevenleen days.
the sub jec t;I allude, first, to the evil? o f Intem perance. Since
rny boyhood I have heard th is constantly deplored and have seen num ber? o f organizations formed lo erad ica te : no, sim ply to m itiga te. N othing could be easier than to eradicate th is evil, te rrib le and gigantic us it is. W e have sim ply to vote all d istille ries u nuisance and order them to be abated under penalties, and puss a law aga inst erec ting any new oues. B nt o u r legislator? con ten t them selves in study ing o u t th e roost ert'ective m eans of dam m ing up the stream s while perm itting the sp ring to flow, w ith all th e powerfnl iu- fluencesof selfishnes* constan tly raising the ir sources Vi h igher levels.* As long as w hisky is made it will be d rank in sp ile of all Icgielarion against it.
” Again, while in M ichigan wo have the m ost strin- gen t Maine law know n, saloon? ex ist and m ultip ly like the frog» o f Ejn-pt, upon every side. There are probaoly a thonsand in our city of D etro it aloue, doing a flourishing business in u tte r contem pt and defiance of our laws m aking it n S ta te prison offence to sell the th ird glas* of cider, and in su ite o f nil the teaching aad preaching, precedent an a exam ple o f thousand? o f our m ost w orthy men and womou who view the basines? a? nefarious and the victim ? o f i t as going dow n the fearfnl road to perdition. Thousands raise th e ir w arning voice, b u t few to any, purpose. Verily,
•O nly forty-nine perm its for now distilleries granted y este may by our Government, nml fifty moro lo bo granted to-day, February 28.
Dialogue on Corru ption .—T wo wag* p as tin g out o f tow n on the G alveston road w ere stru ck w ith the beauties o f Lawrence.
** W hose place i? th a t ?” asked one o f them .T h a t is the lordly residence of M ajor G eorge A. Rey
nold*. Cost $»0.0U0.“ W hat i? hi« business ?”” Indian agen t.”“ W iiat isu i* salary, and how long ha? he held th e
office ?”“ Tw o yea ra a t $1.500a year.”“ L o rd ! w hat d id the honest fellow do w ith the res t
of his salary ?”“ S tarted hi? b ro ther and tw o o ther men in the new s
paper business to denounce corrup tion .” —A o ;u w Tribune.
A S ecret op You th .—T here are w om en who ca n not grow o ld : w omen who. w ithou t any special effort, rem ain always yoang and alw ays a ttrac tiv e . T h e ir num ber i? sm aller than it should be. b u t there is a sufficient num ber to m ark the w ide difference betw een ib is class aud he o ther. T h e secret o f th i? perpetual youth lies n o t in beauty, for som e w om en possess i t who are n o t a t ail h andsom e; nor in dre«s, for they are frequently careless in th a t respect, so fa r as the m ere ar iitrary d ic ta tes of fashion are concerned ; nor in having noth ing to do, for these ever youug w om en are alv .aj? u* busy a? bees, and i t is very w ell know nth a t idleness will fre t people in to old age and ngll- nes? faster than overw ork. T he charm , we im agine.He? in the sunny tem per—neither m ore no r le -s—the blessed g ift o f always looking on the b rig h t side oflife, and to stre tch ing the m antel of charity over ev-
...................... id f t ” * • * *erybody 's faults and failing*. I t is n o t m uch o f a secret, but i t is all th a t we liave seen, and we have w atched such w ith g rea t In te rest and a determ ination to report tru th fn lly for the benefit o f the sex. I t is very provoking thnt it is sonu-thing w hich caono i be corked up and sold for fifty cent? a bo ttle . B u t th is is im possible, and is why the m ost of u* w ill have to keep on grow ing old und ugly and disagreeable as„hUtll.
T he W alking W om en .—T he m atch o f endurance betw een Mis* May Chapm an and Si Is? Forrestelle , inBnii'Friincisco, for a purse o f £5U0. was concluded a t 3 o 'clock on M onday m orning, having been won by the former, who walked sixty-five hours. A t tw entym inute? before 3 o 'clock. M iss F orrestelle declared th a t she could walk no longer, and asked to be re moved from the platform , and she was carried off. The um pire gave ber fifteen m inu tes to re tu rn , b u t she failed to make her appearance again. Mi?s Chapm an,
j e r’ 0oDliuue<i to walk for aoo tber hour, and theu retired , apparently in good eouditiou. Chapm an tookHO fin ir iIsa ' ' X?a Mi u t u l l . J l j l . . k . s W — — -.. 1. s~v.. . .no “ sp irits ” —Forrestelle d id—hence the result. Comm ent is unnecessary.
C aw a W owaw K r r r a ? r r m * -T b e Century, a periodical published in Char!etton, tin? lr*a*i tb ;t mneh-rooou-d p o in t:
M«n n y v o m * n can 't keep a D'* *:T*'v rrae : women can. m*n can 't. Worn»'« carry with them secret* tha t wonld kill any m^n. We n"7' r.‘-ver tens: man alwaye does. Woman suffer* and die«: cnau blab* and live*. Man cannot keep a sec re t: woman cannot make it known. What ia «port \<> the man ia death to the woman. Adam w** a sneak. Bve wooM bar* kep t the apple a «c«.r*t. It- fajtl.f’il. ” ho ever heard a woman talk of h< r lov«-r'» fii.se/** i KveryVidy has beard a man ssjp. Man delights in teJir-z of bis UHelt ronque*t*: woman a.. , d cu t ber toniroe o o t first. Men are ‘■osr*e jrj the ir club-room ta lk ; women refined in th*'ir par! r ronvereMif'D. Mb*» ever beard o f a woman te .i- j^ o f ber lovers ? Wto has n o t listened to lb** di-*ipatr-ri of men* Hen boast : women don’t. Women never tell tales oat of «chool; men are always So. down with ano ther old adage. W oman can keep a secret, and herability to do so is proved by the conduct of aSL Joho
Sew Bronswkk» girl, who did not t* 11 be.r lover »be(New Bronswkk» _ was worth four million? in ber own right until after her m im age.
R emarkable F act« —An Eastern man has heea calculating, and in pondering the almanac has discovered the followiDt, rem arxable facta: N*xt year :• to have fifty-three Sundays, “ hot only fifty-two w eeks.” Mon-over, now here daring tbe year doe« Monday come oftener than once in seven days, and the first week of tb e year begins with Sunday, and “ so do all the o ther week*.” Le*t we should he lo«t in am aze at thi*. he expl»iins m atter- by saying that the calendars for 1K71 m d 1872 show that the last week In 1"71 begins w ith S nndar. and ba? a Sunday follow- log it. Now. as it would be a g s it" t all precedent tn have tw o S o n d a js come in together, tbe year l*7t considerately open? on Monday, and. since It ir leap- year, Sunday? w ill occur once ln seven days thereafter, an arrangem ent w hich tbi* strange man will place Sunday a t the end ol tbe week kit**ad of the beginning, and thus be “ a complete theological trium ph for the Seventh-Day Baptists.” It roe®» tha t th is com plication of the calendar ia ** »opposed to have been planned by the Jew s who. on aceoautof ih e ir *nperinr education , were intrusted wiib its revision.” T h is la w hat O'raee of devoting one*« giu,t in tellect to tbe etudy of almanac?.
W oman k G eographical W onder.—What a jer- graphical w onder a woman o f fashion it. There!» her dr«-M. w hich, perh:*p*. the «i!ky worm of Japan or Lom bardy have furn ished the materia! for. woven by th e lo*«ms o f Ger.oa and Lynn«; it \« supported upon lining* o f cottoo from the fle)d" of EgypL Georgia. Brazil o r D harw ar: h<-r glov— used once U> roam sportively u io n th>- -Sav ry ~ ~ ;:)tains. if they did co- serve a* natu ra l clotli .-s for ra t* : ' .e feath-p* of her ha t o r bonnet form^rlv flew the palm groves ofSum atra and the il» !ay *elagi>. or trarereMA rabian laud* : the diam ond but. rs of Ansrraiia and Sooth A frica and Persian oy«t»-r b ‘.^ve furnished precious «tone* and t« ar.- for her j - , ; the boon o f A rctic whale* ?a*U ined h * rr, her fur?w ere torn from o tte r o r tr in k in A-.a«ka or British A m erica, o r the sable in Russia, «r. periup*. she wear» a *hawl fr*im In d ia : and. l»srly. ber chignon may have once adorned a head long *iace pill iwed on a “ lap o f ea rth .”
W .f z -Kclliko in E ngland.—Y*£!en lir . at »t* house of Mr*. J a n e Morceila, the Golden Bail public house. X.-w »trt-et. P reston, a pariy of laen&rd wobm* assem bled to celebrate by general jollification one of tho*e illegal aud di*gu«t!ng bargiios which even T*t tak#* place occasionally am ong the !otr*-r cl&ssecin Lan»:a*bire—th e sale o f a vrifeT On Monday i i.»fcL at tbe inn above nam ed. Jainee Dilworth, alias “ Juanv F a t.” a baker, led in to the room full of cornpacv. witH hand? bound and h alter round ber neck, bis wife Agnes, a comely women, about tw«nty-«evr 3 year* of age. who is a w inder a t a mill, and offered her for *ile a t auction. She w ai ‘ p u tu p ” at a shillirg. ou which a girl in th e room offered a «hilling mere. One of the m en b id ha lf a eroTm, and afU r the •* cha tter had «rood at th i? som e tim e she wa* “ knocked do« 11” to him . DoriDg the evening, however. H r. Gudgeon, a factory operative, gave th e purchaser* sixpence for h is bargain, m ak ing the price to him three shillings, and she wa* tr jn sfe rred to him . W e are informed th a t D ilw orth and h i? wife, who hive been married some tim e, lived very u nh ipp iiy together, and tla t he has had one o r tw o cniidren affiliated on himriuce hil m arriage, w hich wa? the p rim irv cause of the:r quarrels. D aring the whole tim e or the “ gale” she took the affair q u ite ¿rood ham oredJy, and seemed nothiag loth to p a r t w ith her lord and master.—Literpooi O w n er, Dn\ 187'».
G<jveraor C lafftn .in hi* aonrial message, say*: “ It is very ev iden t th a t a U rge share of the increase of saving* banks i? not the saving? of labor.” IheLowell Citizen question* th is coaclusioo by adducing
............ t t tthe ca*e o f the “ F ive C en t S irin g ? B ank” of Loweli D eposits for w eek ending January 7. £56,659. New acconnls. 150. W hole n am ber of depositor«. 662; iS deposited over each, and 475 under $100 each, dow n to 10 cent*. D aring the year IcTil the whole num ber o f deposito rs wa? 8.116, o f whom 274 were operatives. 281 in tru s t for minor?, 262 minors. 144 in tru s t fo r w orkm en. 244 mechanics. 201 house-keepers. 58 farm ers, b2 laborer?. 33 domestic?. SS clerk*. 115 of 'various industria l occupation?. 95 other occupations, and 45 n o occniM tioa. Those whose deposit* w ere over J )00 w ere 4 8 ; between $kM and $100. 362: betw een $100 and $50.930: betweeu $5) and $1 ,5 882: under $1. 474. o f whom 21 deposited 10 cent* and 16 deposited 5 cent*. Two other sariof? b anks in Low ell fu rn ish re tu rns nearly similar.
A mcsino Incid en t in C u c e o l —A p ir> h ia tie W est o f England had purrhased a seif-actinj orran, w arranted to play tw enty tone?. A large coa^egnioa had gatherod to bear the instrum ent. The first psalm having been finished, the organ w iihoai permission began psalm No. 2. In vain tbe officiating persontried to stop it—in vaiti d id the wardens leave their
fiepew s to s lid e the uoise. still the organ kept on, ¡rivin* psalm Nos. 3 and 4. etc. W bat wa- to be doue? Tesuspend the servie«» ? To hope for it? stopping ? It con tinued to play Nos. 5 and fi, etc. At last they carriedi t o u t o f the church, eovered it o p with a carpet to kill th e soand , b u t on it w ent noiii it had plaved No. m nch to the am usem ent ot the half-aitenare congrega ti ou.
T he C om m ittee engaged in the inre^tigatioa of the tw o utilUou bond fraud a t Montgomery, bare adhfi- cn lt ta sk »o perform . T hey have been unable to find any record o f the am oun t of bonds issued, and the testim ony goes to *ho;v tha t the law authorizing the bond? wa* passed by mean? of whoit»sa e bribery; J o h n H ardy, C hairm an o f the House Coutatittecon In te rn a l Im provem eut*. having recei%'vd ihiriv-five thousand dollars to favor the bill. There is evidence to show tha t the bonds were sold in New York on the 26th o f M arch 1*70. aud that Die (sirne bonds were iwt issued nn til th e 9th o f A pril following. There cause to believe tha t ex-G«*vernor Smith i*-uedal least one m illion o f bttad? tuorv than was aniborijed hy law, and how m uch m ore no one i? able lo telL as tbe im m aculate fttdica) ex-T reasurar Brngham refuses to give evidence 011 th e ground to s t b j di>iD< b« would crim inate hiruself. Is A labama bankrupt or no t?
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