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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
