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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1868)
(Lljc Wcchlii (Konsfitittionftlisf. BY STOCKTON & CO. OUR TKKMS, The fbfiowfng are the rate* of Subscription: Daily, one year ', $lO DO Wbhit, one year.... $8 00 The Blue and Gray. BY j. r. s. Ho ! brethren of thorvbel South. ~., You b'ya who wore the gray; Who meet ue boldly fn the field And in the battle fray . t« Who 'or the c use you thought was right Your glittering bay'nets drew ; We hall to-day with love and joy, We boys who wore the gray. No more throughout your sunny hills Does the clash of arms resound, No more are bloody corpses piled Upon the battle ground. No more does clang of trumpet Os the coming fray foretell, Or funeral dirge remind us Os the comrades brave who fell. No, no, the war is over, And we met in love to-dav. We boys who wore the Un'on bins, And yon who wore the gray ; For though we fought you bravely, And though fiercely we were me', Yet still old feu is We're willing now Forever to forget. Though dastard politicians Your bravery wou ! d deny, And cowards base throughout the land Catch up their craven cry ; But we who met you boldly In the battle’s bloody fray, Bear witness to the courage of The boys who wore the gray. Gn the hi Is and in the valleys, By forest, brook and dell,' The whitening bones of gallant boys, Both gray and blue, who tell, Will t -stify through ages Os wha’. stuff the boys were made, Who on the glorious Southern hills Tn conflict stood arrayed. They sleep to-day the sleep of peace, Uni'ed in their graves, While o’er their dust the rippling corn In the breeze of morning waves ; And shall we, the 1.-ft rurvirors <. f tha dark ar.d bloody fight, Fe less generous to our gallant foes, Oh I will we not un te ? Ah ! yes, if nothing else there were Save the memories of to day, ’Twould make 'he boys in blue join hands With their brothers of the gray ; Old quarrels let us now forget, . And in Heaven’s name unite, Our liberties must be preserved, May God defend the right. Th- n sing it out in gladsome tones, From tower and steeple high, And let your shouts ofjoy and thanks E’en pierce the arching sky ; Their pledge of royalty To-day let all renew, ‘.V' And give three ringing, hearty eheers For the boys in gray and blue. The Cloud of Witnesses. “Are they not all ministering spirits f n I leaned upon a burial urn, And thought how life is but a day, And how the nations each in turn Have Jved and passed away. The earth is peopled with the dead, Who live again in deathless hosts, And come and go with noiseless tread— A universe of ghosts. ' They follow after flying sh’ps. They flicker through the city’s marts, They hear the cry of human lipa— The bea of human hearts. They linger not around their tombs, . But far from churehyaids keep aloof, To dwell in old familiar rooms, Beneath the household ro f. They waken men at morning light, They cheer them in their daily care, . They bring a weary world at night To bend the knee in prayer. Their errand is of God assigned To comfort sorrow till it cease. An 1 in the dark and troubled mind To light the lamp of pedce. There is a language, whiskered low, Whereby to mortal ears they speak, To which we a- sw er by a glow That kindles in the cheek. Dear shadows, fairer than the day, With heavenly light the, wrap us round, Wherein we walk a gilded way, And over holy ground. O, what a wonderous life is theirs 1— To' fling away the nr rtal frame, Yet keep the human loves, at-d cares, And yearning-still the samel O, what a wondrous life is ours ! To dwell within this earthly range, Yet parley with the heavenly powers— Two worlds in interchange 1 O, l-alm of grief I—to understand That whom our eyes behold no more Stiff cl sp us with as true a 1 and As in the fl. sh before I No longer in a gloom profound Let memory, like a tm urner craped, Bit weeping by an empty mound Whose captive hath escaped 1 80, turning from the burial urn, I thought how life was double worth, If men be cn ! y ■wise to learn That heaven is on the • arth. I—■ Hans Brietmann’s Party. Hans Brietmann gife a barty, Dey had biano-blayan, I felled in lose mit a Merican frau, Her name was Madil la Yane. She hat haar as prown ash a pretzel, Her Byes vas bimm el-blue, Und ven dey looked into mine Dey shp it mine heart in two. Hans Breitmann gife a barty, I vent dere you’ll pe pound ; I va'tzet met Madiida Yane. Und vent.shipinnen round und round ; De poOtiest tradulein in de house, She vayed ’pout dwo hoondred pound, Und efery dime she gife a shoomp, She make de vindpws sound. Hans B eitmann gife a barty, Ifdells you it cost him dear; Dey rolled in more ash sefen kecks Ot foostrate lager beer; Und venefer dey knocks de shpicket in, De Deutschers gifes a cheer; I dinks dat so vine a barty Nefer coom to a het dis year, Hans Breitmann give a tarty, Dar all vas souse and brouse, Ven de sooper corned Id, de gompany Did make demseifs to house; Dey ate das brot an 1 gersy broost, De bfatwurst and fine, Und v.ish der Abendessen down Mit four parrels of Necdarwein. Hans Breitmann gife a barty, We all cot troonk a*h bigs ; I poot mine mout to a parrel of beer, Und emptied it oop'mit a schwigs*; Und den I giesed Madilda Yane, Und rhe shlog me on de kop, Und de gompany flted mit daple-lecks, Dill de coonshtable made cos shtop. Hans Breitmann gife a barty, Where ish dat barty now ? Where ish de lofely golden cloud Dat float on de mouncafn’s prow I Where ish de himmelstrabiende stern De shtar of de shplrit’s iight 1 All gooned afay mit de larger beer, Fay in de ewigkeit I Woman’s Work—A Letter' from Florenc < Nightingale—Excellent Advice to Her Sex. The following letter from Florence Nightin ' gale contains some Interesting reflections upon th : question of woman’s work: < London, September 13, 1860. To Lemuel Moss: Mr Dear Sir: I could not do what you asked me to do in your kind letter of July 12th, viz: Give you information about my own life ; though If I could it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led to God—by strange and unaccustomed paths—to do in His service what He did in hers. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all and 1 nothing. I have worked hard,' very hard—that is all—and I have never re. fused God anything; though, being naturally a very shy person, most of my life has been dis tasteful to me. I have no peculiar gifts. And 1 can honestly assure any young lady, if she will but try to walk, she will soon be able to run the “appointed course.” But then she must learn to walk, and so when she runs she must run with patience. (Most people don’t even try to walk.) Ist. But I would also say to all young ladies who are called to any peculiar voesuion, qualify yourselves for It as a man does for his work.— Don’t think yon can undertake it otherwise. No one should attempt to teach the Greek lan guage until he is master of the language; aud this he can become only by hard studying. 2d. If you are called to man’s work, do not exact a woman’s privileges—the privilege of inaccuracy, of weakness, ye muddleheads. Submit yourselves to the rules of business, as men do, by which alone you can make God’s business succeed ; for He Iras never said that He will give His success and His blessing to inefficiency, to sketching and unfinished work. Bd. It has happened to me more than once to be told by women (you countrywomen.) “ Yes, but you had personal freedom.” Noth ing can well be further from the truth. I ques tion whether God has ever brought any one through more difficulties and contradictions than I have had. But I imagine these- exist less among you than among us, so I will say no more. 4th. But to all women I would say, look upon your work, whether it be an accustomed or an unaccustomed work, as upon a trust con fided to you. This will keep you alike from discouragement and from presumption, from idleness and from overtaxing yourself. Where God leads the way He has bound Himself to help you to go the way. I have been nine years confined a prisoner to my room from illness, and overwhelmed with business. (Had 1 more faith—more of the faith which I profess—l should not say “ over whelmed.” for it is all business sent me by God ; and I am really thankful to Him, though my sorrows have been deep and many, and He still makes me do His business.) This must be my excuse for not having an swered your questions, before, Nothing with the approval of my own judg ment has been made public, or I would send it. 1 have a strong objection to sending my own likeness for the same reason. Some of the most valuable works the world has ever seen we know not who is the author of, we only know that God is the author ot all. I do not urge this example upon others ; but it is a deep seated religious scruple in myself. I do not wish my name to remain, nor my likeness. That God alone should be remembered I wish. If I could really give the lessons of my life to my countrywomen and yours (indeed, I fain look upon us as all one nation)—the lessons of my mistakes as well as of the rest—l would ; but for this there is no time. I would Only say, work—work in silence at first, in silence lor years—it will not be time wasted. Perhaps in all your life it will be the time you will after wards find to have been beet spent; and it is very certain tha( without it you will be no worker. You will not produce one “ perfect work,” but only a botch In the service of God. Pray believe me, my dear sir, with great truth, ever your faithful servant., Florence Nightingale. Have you read Baker’s “ Sources of the Nile,” where he says he was more like a don key than an explorer ? That is much my case, and I believe is that of all who have to do any unusual work. Aud I would especially guard young ladies from fancying themselves like lady superiors, with an obsequious following of disciples, if they undertake any great work. American Women as Described by a Scotchman.—David Mcßae, Esq., who has commenced the publication in the Glasgow (Scotland) Herald of a series of articles, descrip tive of the habits, customs, scenery, etc., of America, as appeared to him during his recent visit, says: “ The American ladies agreeably disappoint ed me. They are by no means the dry, hard, angular, disagreeably independent, strong minded women they are described. Here and there, no doubt, you find a few of this stamp. Traveling over the country you occasionally encounter a lady who lectures, or preaches, or edits a newspaper, or fills a professional chair, or has a regular practice as a physician. But these cases are very far and few bt tween—rari mantes in gurgiti vasto. And even they are very often, as a Scotch doctor in Massachusetts described them, ’ stickit women.’ But Ameri can females, as a rule, are just as gentle and kind, ns lovely, as agreeable and as affectionate as our own. Their lovliness is of a different type—paler and more ethereal. A beautiful Canadian or American girl comes nearer the popular idea of angel than any being I have ever beheld out of dream land. Pale features, of exquisite symetry, a delicately pure com plexion, eyes radiant with intelligence, a light, graceful, often fragile form—this is the vision of loveliness that meets the eye in almostevery drawing room. I never saw during all my life before so many fairy forms, which it would have surprised ue less to see shooting out wings and flying up into the empyrean.” j [I, I iluw .1 Ml Ii; . I A Baltimore Lady’s Plan for the Pay ment of the Public Debt.—Secretary Mc- Culloch received a letter, Saturday, from a lady in Baltimore, staling that she bad been inform ed that the interest on two cents for a thous and years would pay off our public debt. She had not made the computation, and could not speak positively, but if this is the case she could not see the utility ot so much talk about repudiation, when the payment of the national debt is only a matter of two cents and a ques tion of time. She was willing to furnish the principal for that purpose, and accordingly en-’ closed two cents, which she requested should not be deposited to swell the conscience fund, but should be placed at interest for the liqui dation of the puolic debt. [Richmond Examiner. A witness in court, who had been cautioned to give a precise answer to every question, and not to talk about what he might think the question meant, was interrogated as follows: “ You drive a wagon ?” “ No, sir, I do not.” “Why, man, did you not tell my learned friend so this moment ?” “ No, sir.” “ I put It to you, sir, on your oath, do you not drive a wagon ?” “ No, sir/’ “ What is your occupation, then ?” «»I drive a horse, sir.” /i-!.. " JJ! ■■■»•— . A tidal phenomenon was observed at Hell Gate, recently, when the tide, according to ex perienced pilots, was stronger than it has been for the last tWefi'ty years. r: n AUOTsTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JJLVIMBER 4, 1868. The Coming Girl.—Bhe will vote, will be o f some use in tb'e World, will cook her _o wn food, will earn her living, and will not die a n old maid. The coming girl will not wear the Grecian bend, dance the German, ignore all possibilities of knowing how lo work, will not endeavor t« break the hearts of unsophistica ted young men, will spell correctly, under stand English before she affects French, will preside with equal grace at the piano and wash board, will spin more yarn for the bouse than for the street, will not despise her plainly clad mother, her poor relations or the hand of an honest worker; Will wear a bonnet; speak good, plain, unlisping English; will darn her own stockings ; will know how to bake dough nuts, and will not read the Ledger oftener than she does her Bible. The coming girl will walk five miles a day, if need to be, to keep her cheeks in glow ; will mind - her health, her physical development and her mother; will adopt a costume both sensi ble and conducive to comfort and health; will not' confound her hypocrisy with politeness; will not place lying to please above frankness ; will have courage to cut an unwelcome ac quaintance ; will not think that refinement is French duplicity; that assumed hospitality, where hate dwells in the heart, is better than outspoken condemnation ; will not confound grace of movement with silly affectation ; will not regard the end of her being to have a beau ; will not smile, and smile, and smile, and be villain still. The coming girl will not look to Paris, but to reason, for her fashions; will not aim to fol low a foolish fashion because milliners and dress-makers decreed it; will not torture her body, shrivel her soul with puerilities, or ruin it with wine and pleasure. In short, the com ing girl will seek to glorify her Maker and to enjoy mentally His works. Duty will be her aim and life a living reality.— Church Union. A Dilemma.—A young parson of the Uni versalist faith, many years since, when the Si mon-pure Universalism was preached, started Westward to attend a convention of his breth ren in the faith. He took the precaution to carry a vial of cayenne in his pocket, to sprin kle his food with, as a preventative of fever aud ague. The convention met, and at dinner a tall Hoosier observed the parson as he seasoned bis meat, and addressed him as follows : “ Stranger, I’ll thank you for a little of that ere red salt, for I’m kind o’ cur’ous to try it.” “ Certainly,” returned the parson, “ but you will find it very powerful; be careful how you use it.” The Hoosier took the proffered vial, and feeling himself proof against any quantity of raw whisky, thought that he could stand the “red salt” with impunity, and accordingly sprinkled a junk of beef rather bountifully with it, and forthwith introduced it into his capacious mouth. It soon began to take bold. He shut his eyes, aud his features began to writhe, denoting a very inharmonious physical condition. Finally, he could stand it no long er. He opened his mouth and screamed— “ Fire!” * “ Take a drink of cold water from the jug,” said the parson. “ Will that put it out ?” said the martyr, suiting the action to the word. Ina short time the unfoitunate man began to recover, and turuins; to the parson, his eyes yet swimming in water, said : “ Stranger, you call yourself a ’Versalist, I be lieve ?” “ I do,” mildly answered tho parson. “ Wall, I want to know if you think it con sistent with your belief to co about the country with hell-fire in your breeches pocket ?” Good for Forty Tunes.—The Shelby (In diana) Courier gives the following : Organs in the churches have become very fashionable of late. In almost every church you go into you will find one of these instru ments. A triend of ours, who lives in a neigh boring village, related to us on yesterday an amusing incident which occurred in their church. He said, to be in fashion, they must have an organ. The congregation could not afford to nay an organist, so they got a self-acting organ, a compact instrument, well suited to the pur pose, and constructed to play forty tunes. The sexton had instructions how to set it go ing and how to stop it; but, unfortunately, he forgot the latter part of his business, aud, alter singing the'first four verses of a hymn before the sermon, the organ could uot be stopped, and continued playing two verses more ; then, just as the clergyman completed the words, “let us pray,” the oigan clicked and started another tune. The sexton and others continued their exer tions to find the spring, but no oue could put a stop to it; so they got four of the stoutest men in the church to shoulder the perverse in strument, and they carried it down the aisle of the church, playing away, into the church yard, where it continued clicking and playing away until the forty tunes were finished. A Rat Stort. —A miuer of the Imperial Mine, of Gold Hill, Nevada, publishes in a pa per of that locality the following rat story. He says: It is not generally known, except iu mining localities, that rats inhabit the mines, but such, however, is the fact; From the to.p ground down to the lowest levels they arc to be found in our mines. Some time since the Imperial Company stopped work at the lowest level for several days to repair the shaft just above it. After resuming work the carman, who was the first to go below, went down alone to run out the ore from the chutes, and as soon as the rats heard the old familiar sound of the car rumbling along the track, they rush ed out from behind the timbers to welcome the presence of a man once more. They ran up to the earman in squads, climbed all over him, then down to the station floor again, and scam pered and gamboled around in ecstacies of un mistakable delight. When he started for the chute again with the car, they ran following and playing around him, and when he had fill ed his car with ore and started back again for the shaft, they (the rats) sprung upon the car and ran all over it, and jumped and leaped as if mad. The carman sat down a moment to see what they would do, when they all huddled around and ran over him without the slightest apparent fear, and without offering to bite him. He did not hurt any of them, as he said If they could live in such a place he felt in dutv bound to let them have the “ freedom of the city.” [Exchange. —— >— > —I ..... ■ . , A Scene in Court.—An individual possess ing unmistakable evidences of African extrac tion was arraigned for larceny. The judge, as of right, was dignified, but with severe pres ence, “ Are yon guilty or not?” he inquired. “ Bar.” “ Did you steal these clothes ?” he in quired. “ Golly, boss, ’clar never done it.” >• This ma j says you did ?” “He ain’t nothin’ but white trash.” “ And what are you ?” “ Me! Why don’t you know me. 1 rid wid you in de percession. 1 helped to tote you home when yer got tired dat night—don’t yer ’member me now ?” There was the “ snddenest nol pros in that darkey’s case that judicial annals afford an example of. So much for the advantages of good society.— N. O. Picayune, \Zth. Two Irishmen were traveling, when one of them stopped to examine a guide-board. “ Twelve miles to Portland,” said one. “ Come On. Just six apiece,” said the other, and they trudged oil, apparently satisfied at the short distance. Why are ships called she ? Because they al ways keep a man on the look-out. Lee —Beauregard—Oorcoran. <•« sn-itL ■ Dr. Bagby, in one of his letters; from the White Sulphur Springs to his paper, the Native Virginian, gives us the following : 1 count it good fortune to have seen Lee and Beauregard walking from the cottage, which they occupied in common, up to the great ho tel. It was a picture to begin the morning with, I promise you. As they passed the groups of gentlemen iu the porches, every hat was lifted almost reverentially, and when they reached the doors of the dining-room, gallants as they are, each must wait for bis lady ere the matutinal meal is begun. General Lee’s favor ite seemed to be the angelic daughter of an in famous West Virginian, whoSe sweet face, over which a pensive shadow like that which cloud ed the tender features of the hapless Beatrice appeared to rest, made a lively contrast to bis own noble lineaments. General Beauregard, on the other band, paid court to a statelier beauty, and, if inference become facts, the day is not far off when Lynchburg will boast a bride more distinguished than even Mrs*. Kirby Smith. - . When General Lee first came he could not enter the ball room without being surrounded by groups of gentlemen and ladies, who were anxious to make his acquaintance. One eve ning it so happened that the group around him was composed exclusively of old men, and this of itself attracted all eyes toward him.— Just then a silver-haired old gentlemen, much more aged than the rest, drew near the group’ and introduced himself to General Lee, grasp ed his hand, and bolding it fast in his owjp, said, with a trem tiling voice: “ General, pardon an old man for telling yon the plain truth : 1 love you better than I ever loved my own father.” Overpowered by emotion, Gen. Lee attempt ed no reply, but his suffused eyes made answer more eloquent than words. Those who wit nessed the scene say that it was one of the most affecting they ever beheld. Corcoran, the great banker, was not less noticed than the many eminent soldiers and politicians here. He has the ear (you know my theory about cars) which is characteristic of rich men. I heard many anecdotes of his goodness of heart aud noiseless liberality.— Hearing: that a lady from Louisiana had arrived at the Springs with a sick sou, but was unable to pay her way, he sent her word to stay as long as she pleased, and told .the proprietor to draw on him for her bill. A year or two ago a gentleman went to him to obtain a donation tor a clergyman who was in sore need. Tears came to his eyes as he listened to the story of the clergyman’s afflictions and privations, and going to his check-book, he filled out one for SSOO, and, handing it to his visitor, said : “This is a new check-book, and I am glad, indeed, to fill up the first check in: so good a cause.” I was also told that, at the close of the war, on hearing of the poverty of the family of Gen Cooper, formerly Adjutant General of the Con federate States, he at once sent Mrs. Q., whom he scarcely knew, a draft for $5,000. Important to Consumptives. TUB CLIMATE OF MINNESOTA MISREPRESENTED to the invalid. Bt. Paul, Minn., September 24. To the Editor of thh Hartford Cour ant: 1 am sorry to say that there have been manj’ fabulous accounts published in our Eastern papers in regard to the climate of this new and enterprising State, viz : Its “ non-piercing winds,” “ mild winters,” “ dryness of atmos phere,” and that the resident of this dime was never annoyed with sudden changes of weath er, etc. As to the latter, allow me to say that a more changeable climate trom one extreme to anoth er I have never experienced in this country.— The changes are more sudden, too, than they are in our own good New England States, thus making this elimate totally unadapted to pa tients suffering with bronchial or catarrhal complaints, though hundreds are annually sent here by their physicians and friends for a relief or a cure of the above troublesome, and not unfrequently fatal, complaints. It has been in tensely cold, with heavy’ frosts at night, for the past two weeks, and last evening we had our first snow storm. The climate in Minnesota has its peculiari ties ; and not in a few instances the consump tive invalid will improve beyond our expecta tion, providing he don’t come too late, as thou sands have and are still doing. I have seen no evidence of the dryness of the air here in the interior of the State. I have yet to learn of a single instance wherein a patient with bron chial or catarrhal disease has been in the least benefitted by this climate. But, on the other hand, they are maladies that are continually originating in this State. Not a few such have consulted me in regard to their cases since my brief sojourn in St. Paul. I invariably send ail such (or rather advise them) to spend the win ter in Aiken, 8. C.—unless such patients prefer to go to Cuba or California. A climate so changeable and subject to such severe currents of wind as this, should not be sought after by the invalid in the last stage of consumption. It is universally conceded that the climate here has materially changed within the past few years. The mornings are very foggy, more frequent rains, the snow melts in mid winter ; things unknown to many of the older residents in years past. I have written just what I consider a true state of affairs, without prejudice ; trusting it may find a place in your valuable paper. And should it prevent a single sufferer from leaving bis New England home at the “eleventh hour,” where he is surrounded with every comfort, for this cold and unadapted clime, I shall consider I have been well paid for the information ren dered. Most respectfully, etc., J. Farrar, M. D. Methuselah Drowned in the Flood.— We make the following extracts from an article contributed to the Louisville Democrat: All we know of the origin of the earth or our race we learn from Revelations. The chronology used by the civilized world is founded on the dates furnished us in the Bible. We reckon the date of the flood from the dates found in the 6th chapter of Genesis. We learn from this chapter that Adam lived before his son Seth was born 130 years; Seth lived before his son Enos was born IQS years ; Enos lived before bis son Cainan was born 90 years; Cainan lived before his son Mahalalul was born 70 years; Mahalalul lived before his son Jared was born 65 years ; Jared lived before his son Enoch was born 162 years; Enoch lived before his son Methusaleh (687) was born 65 years; Methusaleh lived before his son Lamech was born 187 years ; Lamech lived before his son Noah was born 182 years. Noah, hence, was born Anno Mundi 1056. In Genesis, 7th chapter, 6tb verse, we are in formed that Noah was 600 years old when the flood of water was upon the earth. Add 600 years (his age) to 1056, the date of his birth, and we have 1656, the date of the flood. We learn from the 27th verse, sth chapter of Gene sis, that “all the days of Methusaleh were 969 years, and he died.” By reference to the fore going table it will be seen that Methusaleh was born Anno Mundi 687; add his age, 960, to 687, the date of his birth, and we have 1656, the’time “ when the flood of waters was upon the earth.” The conclusion is as certain as figures that the oldest man was drowned for his wickedness. [And is a remarkable proof of the truth of Bible figures. | [From the N. Y. Heiald, Isth. , • .i’ id The Headless Rooster. ’ THE PROPRIETOR OF THE EXHIBITION ARREST ED ON THE CHAHGB OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. I - 1 Since the Legislature enacted the just and ex cellent law providing for the punishment of those who are callous to the sufferings of dumb i creatures, no arrest among the many hundreds tbat have been made since it went into force ap ; proaches in prominence or displays the occa sional diabolical cruelty of some .men to the brute creation than one affected yesterday af ternoon by officer Laycraft, of the Jefferson Market Police Court. It Is no less than the apprehension of the party alleged to be the proprietor of that highly sensational show of “ The Headless Rooster.” The charge against this person is that on the 10th day of July last, at No. 512 Broadway, Henry Richardson will fully and maliciously violated the law against cruelty to animals, by cutting the bill or beak of a common domestic fowl, known as a roos ter, piercing out its eyes, thus totally destroy ing its sight, and further by taking a portion of the fowl’s brain out and pulling off the feathers from its bead and neck, and opening the skin and drawing the same down in such a position as to make the fowl appear to be without a head, and thus exhibited it to the public, pre tending it to be one of nature’s vagaries. It was further complained that such cruel opera tions caused the fowl great paiu and torture, which it exhibited by struggles for more than hour after its performance. It was also alleged that Richardson has been in the habit of thus cruelly treating fowls for some time past, in order that they may be publicly exhibited for his personal gain. In this condition the roos ters which he has shown to the public on Broadway—his place being conspicuously marked by a large placard—have lived from one Week to two months, when they languish and did. Richaidson’s arrest was effected at the instance of Mr. William Wilcox, of Prince street, who complained of him on the 15th of September last, but from his migratory habits he was not arrested until yesterday, when, be ing brought before Justice Dodge, he was com mitted to answer in default of bail. Ear-Rings Without Piercing;—New pa tent ear-rings are advertised in London. Some inventor has turned philanthropist, and proposes to put a stop to the semi-civilized practice of piercing the ears of little girls.— These new ear-rings may be worn by ladies whose ears have not been pierced, “ without the slightest inconvenience or pain.” It is even claimed by the inventor that they “are far superior both iu comfort and security to those usually worn in ears that are pierced.” This is the best improvement in female toilet articles which we have noted for many a year. If our little girls can grow up without having holes punched through their ears, there will be no less pain to be endured by the “suffer ing sex.” We have never been able to recon cile this ear-piercing with the advancing ideas of Christian civilization. There has always been a suggestion in the custom of savage nose-rings and tattooing, and the other orna mental physical torturings Which we profess to despise. The proprietor of the new patent ear-rings is Mr. G. E. Searle Goldsmith, No. 23 Bedford street, Plymouth, England. Will not some of our more enterprising jewelers open negotia tions with Mr. Searle? We believe money can be made by the man who introduces the novel ty. Ladies having little girls whose ears are still intact, can get “ drawings and, prices ” by addressing as above. If they think by the drawings or by the examples that the invention will prove a success, they can save some of their own and their husbands’ blood which flows in the veins of their little female off springs. John Allen Once More.— The reformation of John Allen, the Water street dance house keeper, who has been extensively paraded as the “ Wickedest Man in New York,” has been exceedingly short-lived. For some time past it has been understood that Allen had gone back to his old ways, and that his dance house had once more been de voted to the infamous business that had before caused it to be a by-word in the Fourth Ward. All the rumors circulated on the subject were more than confirmed at the Toombs police court this morning, where John and his “fam ily ” were brought before Justice Dowling on a charge of disorderly conduct and theft. It appears that at an early’ hour this morning a sailor named Benjamin Swan, living at No. 114 Roosevelt street, went into John’s place and drank once or twice. During the night one of the girls stole Swan’s pocket book, containing sls. Missing his pocket book a short time af terwards, Swan caused the arrest of the girl, and, on being taken to the station house, she declared that she had given it to .Wes. Allen.— This the latter denied. When these facts were reported to Captain Thorne he ordered the ar rest of all the inmates of the house, which was done. The magistrate decided to hold Allen, his wife and the girl above mentioned to bail on the respective charges of keeping a disorderly house and petty larceny’. Allen succeeded in procuring bail, and the company were then al lowed to go, the three remaining females agree ing to leave the city and lead better lives. [New York Post, Oct. 17. “ The Way of the Transgressor is Hard.” —ln December, 1863, Wm. W. Tread well, a young banker, of Hudson, Michigan, borrowed over $60,000 from banks in Cleve land, Chicago, Detroit and other cities, and dis appeared with the money. In February, 1868, he appeared at Mansfield, Ohio, under an as sumed name. He and his wife were arrested there, but Treadwell’s father-in-law, Hester, who was one of the party, got off with the mo ney. Treadwell was taken to Michigan, sen tenced and lodged in jail. Having secretly ob tained ?2,600 from his wife, Treadwell escaped from jail with a horse thief named Cowell, and was soon after murdered by Cowell fcr the money. The body of Treadwell was found in the woods, and his murderer was arrested and hanged. Hester,, having returned home, was arrested as a thief, but escaped. A hired woman having soon after discovered Hester, Mrs. Hes ter and Mrs. Treadwell counting large sums of money, Hester was again arrested, tried and mulcted in $38,500. The case affords another illustration of the saying, “ The way of the transgressor is hard.” Treadwell was murder ed, his murderer executed, and the fatber-in law, who is supposed to have prompted Tread well to commit the crime, is in the hands of justice, and compelled to relinquish his ill-got ten wealth.— Exchange. Ancient Marblb Platers.— A party of our ancient citizens, it is said, have organized a marble club for the purpose of endeavoring to find pleasure in the renewal of youthful remi niscences by devoting themselves at their club meetings to the delightful and healthful game of marbles. They have chosen Trades’ Union Hall as their headquarters, where they will meet periodically for indulgence in this juvenile pastime. No one can be a member who is un der sixty years of age. [ Washington Observer, 17th. There is a schism in the Unitarian Church which threatens to result in a permanent rup ture. Dr. Bellows and the conservatives of the church think that the liberals therein are so latitudinarian in their views that they might as well have no creed at all to distinguish them from Jews, Spiritualists or Atheists, and hence the trouble. L 9 so JI . , Vlil.’W. NO. 45 4 t IQ Q I lt mn Seward iw Lowh.“-G/ A. T. writes from Mi« Olive R-j -y the daughter of an officer of the’Treasurj'7 a” lrtj£e land handsome lads of dark hair and stateff Carriage, has been amused and flattered by the gossip current that Mr. Seward is in loVte with her. The lady is under thirty, the Secretary sixty-seven, having been born in the year one (1801.) The whole story rests upon the fact that Mr. Seward sent a favorite physician to her mother, recently de ceased, and now comforts the lady by giving her airings in bis carriage. Among the diplo mists of the O d World these marriages of power on the one side and beauty on the. other are quite common. Count Bodiske, white as Russian snow, married a tipping school girl in Georgetown. Mr. Seward is hale and lively as a boy. At his receptions, he will stand three hours ut the foot of the room, never showing fatigue. To make a conquest of a handsome woman would be the crowning feat of bis di plomacy, while she could boast that while he could outlive the knife of a gigantic assassin, he yielded up his heart to her. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commer cial says, on the same subject: Mr. Seward’s marriage is fully announced. His bride is to be Miss Olive ——, a lady not above twenty-five or twenty seven years of age. She is noted here for her stately figure, large and almost masculine in height and fullness. Her eyes are dark, and her intelligence is re markable. She will probably make the most agreeable lady in Washington society that we have had since Mrs. Madison. She hails from Chatauqua county, New Yo:k, where Reward lived at one time, about-twelve years before she was born, and before he became Governor of the Commonwealth. He is lonely in his great establishment here and at Auburn, and, being an amiable, sportive, fri.-kv, foxey, aud infatu ating man of fame and place, who would not marry hiuj that was ambitious and the daughter of a politician ? This marriage is indorsed by both families, aud by Mr. Seward’s mother-in law, who called the young bridegroom to her bed side and hade him be happy. So says ihe country that he has served so well and helped so largely to civilize. Judicial Irony.—Mr. Jay, in a recent book on lawyers, reproduces one ofo •M'*-. Jnai.irn Maule't judgments, and one of the most pow erful pieces ot satire that has ever come from the bench. A feit years previous to the pass ing Os the divorce act, a-laboring man, whose wife, a drunken and dissipated woman, had left her home with another man, married a young Woman and was tried for bigamy. He was found guilty, and the judge in, sentencing him, said : “ Prisoner at the bar, you have coqpmitted a grievous offense in the eyes of thd law and against the well-being of society, and puniehed you must in consequence be. You should have instructed an attorney to have brought an ac tion at law against the fellow who had dishon ored you for crim. con. After obtaining a ver dict iu such action against him, your next step should have been to have employed a proctor to take the necessary steps on your behalf in the Ecclesiastical Court. That done, you should have employed a solicitor aud parliamentary agent to bring your case before the House of Lords on petition for a divorce, supporting such petition with the necessary evidence to get a bill for that purpose passed in tbat assem bly. This done, the bill should then have been taken to the House’of Commons to be passed there, alter which the Queen’s assent to the act of Parliament would have been obtained, which would have dissolved the marriage with your worthless wife, and allowed you to marry the woman with whom you have committed bigamy. Ali tills you omitted to do, aud having broken the law, you must receive the sentence of the court. It is that you be imprisoned for one day and then be discharged. Catching Mail Bags.— One of the most in teresting features of the Postal Car system, that is now reduced to a science on the Northern Railroads, is the “ Catching Service,” by which the mails are taken up at the stations along the route without checking the speed of the trains. The bag is hung on a frame erected beside the track so as to be within the reach of the agent. On the side of the car is an iron arm, which is operated by means of a handle acting as a 'ever. As the train approaches the station, a bag is dropped from the car window,the arm is thrown out and the suspended pouch is caught up and wedged firmly against the side of the car in the joint of the V formed by the extended iron rod. Il is then immediately opened and sorted, and the mail for the next station is made up and placed ready to be thrown out. This process is repeated many times along the route, and the constant reception and delivery of mails adds greatly to the labors of the clerks. Sometimes bags are missed or knocked down by the arm attached to the car, but never when they are properly suspended. The force with which they are jerked up by the express trains soon destroys the bags employed in this ser vice ; but as they are inexpensive canvas sacks, it is a matter of slight consequence, consider ing the many advantages of the service. II— I An Ancient African Relic. —We saw yes terday, at the store of Mr. Davfs, on Mulberry street, a relic of a Congo tribe of Africans. It was taken from the slave brig Wanderer, in 1858, the officers of which vessel found it among a gang of 80 Africans they bought from their conquerors on the Congo river. It is a staff or club, about four feet long, manufactured from the teak tiee, a wood equally as hard as the lignnm-vitse, and much used for ship building. Il has a heavy head, upon which are inscrip tions identical with those on the Egyptian Pyramids, and those which were upon the Temple of Diana, of Ephesus. Upon either side are the carved faces of the African, sur rounded with hieroglyphics, and below this head-piece inscriptions in lonic characters, the meaning of which no one here has been able to translate. It is supposed to have been the scepter car ried by the King of the tribe, the insignia cf royalty. The yacht Wanderer had the whole tribe on board, including His Royal Highness, the King. Mr. Davis got this relic on board. {Journal and Messenger, 18th. 'I I. j I. 1 The Velocipede. —lt is said that the vek ci pede, whieh now attracts so much attention, is by no means a new invention. A writer says: “It was invented sixty years ago. Its pro pelling power was then, as now, the feet of the rider, except that he put them on the ground and trotted along With his machine. The pres ent form was devised in 1830 by Mr. Dreuze, an employee of the French post office, who thought he had made a great thing for letter carriers in the rural district’. The badness of the roads, however; nullified his hopes, and his invention' lell into obscurity. It is now re vived, with more brilliant prospects than ever, and will probably soon be fully naturalized in every part of the world.” The Jesuits. —We have a strong sympathy for the Jesuits. Every rascal thinks he has a divine right to seize their pile, and will be doing a work of piety to take it. Like the Southerners, they are political Pariahs and outcasts. The world is against them. We have an idea that the Jesuits were about the only decent, well-behaved people in Spain, but King Prim has got their money, as many a rascal has taken it before.— Macon Telegraph. O’Balilwin, the priE—ghter, who was arrest ed 0* Thursday evening, 15th Inst., in New York City, has been released on baiL
