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TERN A2J Volume 56-3SJ"o.30. Chron IDLE. "Warren, Ohio. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ry-ESTEEXBESEBTE CHROXICLE ' ? PublUhed every Wednesd&r moraine, la Empire Block, Market St Wurea w Uul, Editor mad Proprietor. "OIBLES AXD TESTAMESTS at the XjactualenM of publishing them, for sale by the Trubuij-Co. Bible Hotikty, at all its depositories throughout theeoontv. All me etvies and price published by the American Bible Society, kept coostantlv on ! hand. Central Depository at Hapsnud t j Krown'a. Market St., t south side of Omrt House square) Warren, O.- (JulyiltTL. T"R. LOT, Physician and Surgeon, lyomoeaod residence few rods South o toe AtlauMe A Great Western Depot, where he eau be eoiulted professionally. Warren, O., April 19, lel-tf f A E. LTXA5, Dentist- Office over . 9. C. Chryst A Co. "a new meat market, opposite the Court House. Market St.. War ren, Ohio. Ian. a, 1A70-U TiOCT. S PELLS A5, Dentist Has YJ concluded to remain in Warren, and can be round at his old rooms loruie future. May lL UTO-tr. GEORGE P. HUNTER, Attorney at Law, Office In VanOorder Block, Market Bt.. Warren, Ohio. (.Feb. 23. 1ST0-U. TI. GILLMER, Attorney at Law, .and Notary Public, Kewton Falls. O. .Nov. 8, 187 1, 1 yr. SPEAR. Physician and Surgeon, . office over FreerA Smith's Grocery. arket Street, Warren, Ohio. DR. V. GIBBONS. Dentists, teeth extracted without patn; upper or low er sets of teethfor tlioO. Office over T. J. Mo Lain A Son's Bank, Main 8U. Warren. Ohio. Jan. i. 1S70.-. J. H1KMUH. C. T. MXTCAU. TTAEMON stXETCALF, Physicians, 1 l ana surgeons; umce on nigi tne stand formerly occupied by 1 . Harmon JOB HCTCHI3C3. W. T. SPEAK. HTJTCHIXs SPEAR, Attorneys at Law. Office in First National Bank iing. 2d story, front -ooms Werreu O. Jan. 4. 1870-lx. ALMOS IT, WEBB, Notary Public, Pension and Bount- Agent, and Fire and Lite Insuranee Arent. Dwellingssnd Farm property insured for one, three oi five years, at low rates. jEnrarce assets rep resented, over $ ',000,000 W). Office in Webb's Block, Main 8L, Warren, O. (jn S, IsTZ J II. BRISCOE, Physician and Sur- geon. Office over Park A Patch's store. Market Street. Residence, north aide of Market Street, two doors east of Elm. Par ticular attention paid to Chronic oiseaeea, Jan. S, ISTU-Ivt. BR. F. A. BIEBCE, Homoepatblo Physician and Surgeon. OrBf in buUUTs :k, lliili buee. DB.J.E, TfELSOJ, Physician and Surgeon, office east of First Nat. Bank. oinoe hours frojn7 to loo ciock, a. m.. and S to a p. m...- Jan. 25 11 "TiR. P. MYEPS, Physician and Sur Lgeon. Office id door north of National House. Entrance off Liberty street. Office hours, from 10 to 12, a. m and 1 to p. m. Residence, corner ef High and Chertaut streets. Nov. 27. 167-Lr J. VAUTOT. THAU. ACKLEY. yAUTBOT & ACKXET, Successors to J. Vautrot A Co., Di alers in Watches, Jewelry and Diamonds. M.uket Street, War ren. Ohio. Jan a. 187" in its ! to and to as sults - K. W. KATXirr. K. B. XOSES. RATLIFF A X0SES, Attorneys and Connsellers at Law. Office over the Kx cUanee Bank of Freman A Hunt, on Market St. Warren Ohio. iJan.r ". " 5. COTTDERT, Attorney at Law, (J . Office cornerof Mill and Main St., Niles, Ohio. foci. 18 1S71-U. "V!" B. TILER, Manufacturer and l . Dealer ia Gnna, Rinea. Pistols, Cutlery Fishing Tackle. Uut. Materials, b porting Apparatus, bewing Machines, v. No. . Mar ket St, Warren, Ohio. (J.o.5 lt70-tf k. POKTEK. W. r. FOSTER. V. A W. F. PORTER, Dealers - In School and Miscellaneous Books, Stationary, Wall Papers, Periodicals, Pan- pulelsand Magazines, at the New lark Book isLore, Main Suent, Warren, Ohio. w H S. R0BBISS, Newton Falls, .Notary Public nof 1, WTl-lyr GEO. B. S.EXXEDT, Fire and Life Insurance Agent, Warren. Ohio, uct. l. Ib71-lyi. D. F. J. XACXZT. TTALL ft RACKET, Manufacturers P of Harness and dealers In Saddlery fiord ware. Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags, , iiorse riiauEets, Moaies ana r ancy :ry. No. 8. Market Street- War. o. O. Jan. a,lti7t Whips, Baddlei V11TLESET ADAXS, Fire and y f Lite Insn ranee Agent, Warren, Ohio. Merchandise and other property Insured in the best Companies, on favorable terms; Farm property. Isolated Dwellings, and their Iirniture insured for one, three and five rrs. Office in McGombe and Smith's block. f C McSUTT, House, Sign, and V. Orn&meotal Painter, Grainer, &a. King's er Block. Main 8t., Warren, Ohio. May iti. Uiii-ii nTHEX AT WABBEX. Call at M - HARRIS", one door south of the Pout Offlee. tor your cigars and Tobacco. tie keeps the best nve eent i4gars in town. juiy im. l-LT. T - X. DAWS0X, Mayor of the Cily I .of Warren, Civil Jurisdiction same as j usiiee oi tne raoe lor tne ity, ana crimi nal jurisdiction througbouteityandeouuty. Also agent for Cleveland Cement fcewer and drain tlpe of ail sirea. 0n.ll- DREXNEX & GOIST'S X. L. C. K. Carriage Works. Warren. Ohio, nun tcturers of Carriages, Busgies, Wagons, leieitfs, and specialties. Ail orders from any part oi-lbe eouutr pi omptlv attended to. PaiaUng. Trimming and Repairing done to order ou the shortest notice, booth of Canal. (Jan s. 1872. rpOTHE FARMERS OF TBUXBCLL X County, O. B. Dealing. Agent for Ohio Farmers Insuranee Compauy; residence one door north of National House, Warren. O. Hates of insurance lower, and security bet ter than any other responsible company ia the Slate, Call aad see him before you In sure, may A. lS71-Ju r. JBRACKIX, M. D., Eclectic Phy . aleian and Surgeon. Particular atten tion paid to the treatment of Cancers and all eh ronio diseases, office over 4. L, Hunt's Shoe Store, on Market St , No. JO. Residence on the eoruer of Liberty and Washington Streets, Waixen, Ohio. Jan 1, U'i. i DOLrllCS G2ETER, Dealer In rMusical Merchandize of all descriptions, viz: Pianos, Organs, Melodeons, lolins, 3uizanrAccordeons,Claronou, Flutes, Fifes, DruiAA. Pl&uO-sDreads. Pi&no-stooia. Hhcuut- snnsie. Music-books, Violin Strings, Guitar trlngs, a, Ac. Store in Webb's Block, over Porter's BjxA Store. iJan.5 1S7U. AK.WAXJCEK, W. B. J.EHLIK, B.LWALEEB. VTTALKER, LESLiE k CO., Bank yy era, Chuscb HiU, Ohio. Dealers In aTovernment Secnrittes, Foreign and Domes tie Exchange. Collections made. Interest allowed on Special Deposit. (Jan. 4-ly. HARTFORD ACADEMIC Institute. J. W. Cheney, A. B., Principal, with au euicient corps of assistauts. Twccoursesof euidy, Normal and ClassicaL Spring Term begins March. SMth. For circulars aiid res T. A. BC6HJ. ELL. Saur. Oct25 l71-lyr Hartford,TrumbullCo..O. TTTABREX TEMPLE XO. 29 J f Horon and Temperance, meets at Good Templar's Hall, in this city, every isaturday rtituiL. All desirous of aiaimc in nromouna- the Lemperance cause, which is the cause of ajou ana numanuy, are Invited to attend with us. JAJS. LEONARD. W.C. T. . M. T. B ALT. W IS, W. R. JanlO,lSr3-Iyr . r.K .HVTCHM, C. X. TTTTLK, J. X.8TC1L TTCTCniXS, TL'TTLE t STILL, Jtl Attorneys at Law, otaoe over Smith A Turner's Store, corner of Main and Market taeta. Warren. Ohio. Jan. iu. UC-tf. EXAKTXATIOXS OF TEACHEBS.-. Until artber notice, there will be an examination oi teachers at the High School building in Warren, on the first Saturday of .every montn during me year, excepting tnaiauring Lne snootns oi Apni ana eep tember. there will he an eaaminstion on each succeeding Patnrday, as tollows: irst satnraa rayne's corners: seoona, Johnston; thf i Bristol; fourth. Warren. Notice is ber iveci of the adoption of the tollowlngru.' nich will bestrictly adhered to : "All e cates hereafter granted by this Board. 9 11 be dated on the day of examination, except that In special cases for good reason, certificates may be dated back, but in no case beyond the date of the previous examination.' By order of the Board, ' GEO. P. HUNTER, Clerk. eTflJTen. O., Feb. 7, IXT-JyT. His 6ired tion nis b 't in the taken large lakes. and and so North ern a - skill of After three which inch the their of had va-ious interest nd vexatious In witnesses to bs miles '88.. On aware, three In ana stroyed repaired Virginia of this boats years. On place Fitch In his account er ran boat journals of Iu a lowing doubts was hibited against veasel propelling together Ida "Having his forward jector." The ware ginia of them wbtre the The ware the upon State of that of the The aged and the boat On the the drama," and During of and to obtain and bad that in a constructed lork. steered THE CHRONICLE. THE MAIDEN'S LOVE. The fleetest horse In all the lacd, Ho swift you cannot" ride Bat that his shadow on the san l Will fellow by your side. And If your bean with love be sore For one who fells your pain. You cannot love that maiden more Then she will loveagaln. 6o red a rosebud never blew When opened by the wind, Bot that one more as bright of hue Hy seeking you may fled. And all mat wooing lips e er swore Of greater troth la vain; You cannot, love a maiden more Than sbe will love again. The fairest fish upon the line Ho matchless may not be. But that some othe'r nsn as fine Is swimming In the sea. And love at man ne'er loved before, Ihis truth will still be plain; You cannot love a maiden more Tr.au sbe will love again. The horse will live while grass Is free. The rose while wet with dew. The fish while swimming In the sea. And love while love Is true. W hlle light Is in the sun above. And flowers are on the plain. So long as you are true to love, She'll love you back again. For the CHRONICLE. FITCH THE INVENTOR. (CONCLUDED.) Fitch's attention was first drawn to the propelling of carriages on land by steam power, but soon gave it up and set himself to work to perfect plan for the moving of boats by steam. "His first model was made and tried Bucks county, Pa., and realized every expectation; it had wheels at sides." Paddles were adopted in I7S6, as the buckets "were found to labor too much in the water." The difficulty seems to have been owing the size of the wheels employed. There was a waste of power "by the of the buckets or paddles on the water and their lift of water in rising." This decreased as the wheel increased in site. The large wheels required in modern beats correspond nearly in piinciple with those of Fitch's first boat. After having completed his plans made his initial experiments, his nignest ambition was to build a boat large enough to test his theories. Application for aid was made by him the Continental Congress, to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, as well to many private individuals, to whom he represented the grand re to be achieved by the use of steam in navigation. ' In Oct. '85 he wrote to Franklin, boldly asserting the practicability of steam vessels navigating tne ocean. not produce the ue- etJortri did result.,. but gave him the reputa of insanity. During the war he had invested all proerty in continental currency, rinding it depreciating po rapidly value he purchased goods with the remnauts, and while passing flown Ohio on a western trip he was prisoner, and after various ad ventures in the west returned to Penn sylvania in the winter of 'S2-3, a pen niless man. His travels through the west as surveyor and prisoner had given him enlarged ideas of that region with its rivers and net work af great He plainly foresaw the capac ities of the north-west, and his mind became filled with visions of wealth honor to be realized from the commercial demands of this region, was no doubt a powerful incen tive ia urring him onward in his steam navigation, which were well calculated to advance its set tlement and commerce. By the con struction and sale of a map of the Western Territory, his west travel having given him the re quisite knowledge, some money was obtained which enabled him to form company of forty shares. After some experiments with the steam boat, which satisned them tne feasibility of their plans, they commenced a boat of sixty tons. innumerable vsxations and de lays, the boat on trial moved but miles an hour. The power was anticipated from a twelve cylinder was not realized owing doubtless to the roughness or Its con etruction. The shareholders were somewhat discouraged, but doubleo number of shares and commenced improvements. During the time these experiments several States granted Fitch valuable monopo lies for a term of years in the use and construction of such boats. These Acts, which were passed it times, served to give renewed to the Steam Boat Company' urged them forward in spite of delays and misfortunes. a few mouths the bott named the Perseverance was ready for trial. -Every precaution was taken before j lor a ruir trial ana aec area fairly made. A speed of eight an hour was attained in Oct. the 12th she made the trin to Burlington, twenty miles np the Del witn Uurty pgjseugers, in boors and twenty minutes. 'if. more terieet boat was built maneTin evrerrmerrr vFlrtetr-was satisfactory.' That night she was de by fire. 'The second boat was iu '00 and a new steamer constructed o as to comply with the law which expired Nnv. 7tb year. The law required two wilhin her domain within four . . , ... the lfitb of April, a trial took which was so satisfactory that felt as if his troubles were over. journal, which contains an of the trip, be exuitingly ex claims, "we reigned Lord High Ad mirals of the Delaware." The steauir quite regularly as a passenger during this Beaton. The pnblie gave commendatory notices Fitch's success. petition to the Congress of the Confederation In '88 he used the fol expression "we nave over come every difficulty which can cause to arise, having done what never done before. We have ex to the world a vessel going strong uinas ana uaes, me earryiug the engine, the engine ta yessei, and all moving against the current." petition, July 2d, 17ii, he gays, at length fully succeeded in scheme, be trusts he now comes not as an imaginary pro boata were lying in the Dela ready to comply with the Vir laws, but a storm arose and one was driven on Betty's fsland it lay until the expiration ol statute passenger traffic on ttie Dela-1 not Having proven proniauie, principal reliance for profit -was me monopoly given mm uy me Virginia, as her Territory at time comprised a large portion west. """ shareholders became discour indifferent For four years remained without change. ijih of 4 uguet, 1795,ooeurred "last act in the melancholy an auction Bale of thepnn.e machinery. this time Fitch had pre pared his manuscript before spoken made some unsuccessful efforts aid to continue his projects, made a trip to Euro)' for purpose, but returned to Boston state of destitution. In 'H$ he a screw propeller in New The boat was a ship's yawl L a an and D. gard "if ring have up to ten many If there their will boat This the To lor boats, the time. euce as for was is cially. A stable which nanus the along arms towards needing sion had ment. eluding niir 1 tbe miles mont, the who world. every been Fitch years manner left on friends all in was the was often gifted ted How of man's would standing deeds are recorded will ances, in tne In eer pleted tbe antil ' He house, of Whether or not. ' On years bavannan name safely July April Hinus hours that lie also when ' fame How verified? of his we should for the said to ble man. overbearing thwarted caused right of Fitch's with tbe him, agination and thought sbouid discontented. by an oar. Fulton and Liv- would were on t he boar ereral times new- when It was worked by steam. He soon returned to Kentucky and innriA some attempts to organize a company out without avail. A model made at Bardstown, Ky., just before his death at that place, is still in existence bearing wheels at Its sides. A pamphlet of John Fitch's, which ne published In London In 1793, en titled "an explanation for keeninc a ship's traverse at sea" shows, if any thing more was needed, the inventive powers of his mind. He has proved himself a "on! venal Yankee," but one who lived a few years too early to reap the reward of nis own genius. Two years after Fitch's first exner- iment bymington put in motion the n ret steam bout built in Great Britain. Morey, Evans, Stevens and Fulton soon followed as experimenters in steam boat building in the United States. Fulton commenced in 1803: four years later the Clermont, in running from New York to Albany, made four and seven-terths miles an hour. In '88 the Perseverance run Biz and one-third miles an hour. At the ex piration of the monopoly of Fulton and Livingston their steamers hail ju6t acquired a speed of eight miles per nour. elevens so in put them np iu luinerru uiurs in tue same ume. In an Inquiry of this kind the question naturally arises, in what are we indebted to Fulton as prior in ventor? He himself never claimed the invention. "Was it for the wheels? they had been used a half century before." The crank,' shaft nd axle, a committee of the New brk Legislature say, were contained i Fitch's patent of '1791. Aa to peed there was a retrograde of one- third. Remove these inventions from the Clermont, and what would remain but the hull? The committee just referred to. said in 1317 that "the boctj built by "u """P were in suo- of stance the invention patented to John Fitch, in 1791. and that Fitch. during the life of the patent, had the exclusive right to use the same in the nited States. Of all the projects started by differ ent inventors to whose is the modern steamboat most nearly allied ? Bumsey had one plan, Jouflroy another and Fitch a third. They all bore the common name of "the steamboat" In each case there was vessel, and the resistance of the water was to be overcome by means of internal power. Which of these boats has been reduced to practice T Oliver -vaoB, an inventor whose improvements had been alike useful honorable to the country, said he yielded to John Fitch and his associates all the honor and profits justly aue mem as tne original in ventors." Fernando Fairfax, of Washington. C, in 1815, in speaking with re to the original invention, said those spirited individuals (refer to Fitcb and bis company) spent tnousanus or pounds in demonstrat ing their scheme, without reaping the prone which its establishment would Insured, but when others, taking their invention at a later and more fortunate period, were enabled to realize, they are not the less entitled the favor of an enlightened com munity, or to the reward of inventive genius. The testimony of such men as Rit- house, Evans and Thornton with others cannot well be denied. these facts as stated are true, and can be iio reasonable doubt of authenticity, a practical mind naturally inquire why Fitch's did not come into immediate use. will be to many the sole test of value or his invention. properly understand the reasons the financial failure or ritcn't we must fake into consideration situation of the conntry at that The war for American indeoend had just closed. Capital, as well public and private credit, bad been swallowed up in one common ruin. some years the commerce or the country was at its lowest ebb. This the period of Fitch's efforts. It notstranire that under such adverse circumstances It was a failure finan few years later the enects or a government, and the capital bad been coined anew by the of labor began to snow llseli m throbbing pulse of commerce our national highways. The is of past tne tion was of tne the not were and ture, were A other ana the was enraesi the the logical nected given of Kings. of by of trade were reaching . out the fertile valleys of the west, new facilities for its exten and development The Hudson become a thoroughfare, and the Clermont proved a paying Invest The Jorth river boats, in- the Paragon and the Car of imri anririniiarl T n run ann tiair I . kj dividends, and mankind remember month of August, ISO 7. while the Perseverance, with a speed three an hour greater than the Cler is well nigh forgotten. .Before the grass had grown upon grave of Fulton he had an eulogist heralded forth his praises .0 the His name has beeu heard on shore where a steamboat has seen. had died in an obscure west ern village, and his friends were for ignorant of the "lime, place and of his death." Models.' pat ents and documents of various kinds by him hare been a prey to fire three different occasions. His and cotemporarles were nearly their graves before any effort made to rescue his memory rrom thick .cloud of darkness which faat settling around it How are encomiums offered to the mechanics who have con tribu their improvtments to the wtrld a advancement seldom do we hear the name Fitch. We would detract from no honor or reputation, but we s?e the name of John Fitch in the position to which his entitle him. How prophetic the declarations whieb we find in his journal. "Steamboats be preferred to ail other convey' and will be particularly uselul navigation or tne umo ana .Mississippi. 1SH the New Orleans, tbe pion steamer of the weet, was com at Pittsburgh, and passed down Ohio ana continued to make trips she was wrecked in 1816. wrote to Franklin and Bitten- saying "this will be the mode crossing the Atlantic in time, I shall bring it to perfection the 26th of May. 1819. twenty after" Fitch's death, the steamer sailed from the port or tbat for Liverpool. She arrived in the British channel, and on '25th sailed for St Petersbnrvh. 23d, 1333, the English steamer arrived at New York. Four later the Oreat Western entered harbor from Bristol, England. said,' "the day will come some more potent man will get and riches from my invention." soon were all these declarations After reading the history struggle arid disappointment, rather pity than blame him last lash act of his life. He is have been an upright, honora 11 at times naugnty and towards those who him in bis plans it was by the belief tbat he was It is pet strange tbat a man enthusiastic temperament winds and the fates ajUflst, looking into the future, his im fired with the golden re suite immortal honors which he were just within his grasp. at times become querulous and There are bnt few who at a to drill be war the All upon ing, is fine view and A of a on or about a not have shown similar weak rigstnn nnier the same rtreamstanre. tea of the ! Among his immediate friends his reputation was that of one who "bore anger as the flint bears fire, which being enforced, give forth a spark and is cold again." It is more than probable that the verdict on the subject at issue jnay never be changed.. He may long re main in the grave where stranger bands have laid him, without a fitting mark for his last resting place, or perhaps be entirely forgotten. A monument has been talked of but is perhaps unnecessary, as every smoke pipe on every steamer as they enter our harbors, or ply on our riv ers, is a "moving monument" to the and of John Fitch. T. Recent Explorations in Nineveh in Connection with Jewish History. A regular monthly meeting of the .new ion .Historical society was held vvcunesday evening at the Society building, corner of Hecoud avenue and Eleventh Street. The interesting feature of the evening was a paper reaa oy James w.Uerara, Jr., on the Kecent i-xnlorations in Nineveh in connection witii Jewish History." A sketch was first given of the general geography and early history of the Aiesopotamian region, ana tne sue cessive establishments of the kinc doms of Babylon and Assyria, the predominance oi tne latter as the great empire of the East, and the gradual extension of its power over all the civujseu wonti, until, in its turn, overcome by the Babylonians, assist ed by the Medea aud other tribes formerly tributary to the Assyrian power. The contrast between the former magnificence of Nineveh, the "city of three days' journey." and the once great capital of the Assyrian empire, and its Dreeent state. wa tbeu vividly described. The lecturer thef tsvb lin tha o.i m nr. AAA. explorations into these aocientabodca man undertaken bv Messrs. Bot la. Bawlinson. Lavard and others under tne direction or the French Govern ment and the trustees of the British museum. Under these explorations and the subsequent deciphering of the inscriptions by the ingenuity of nruisQ ana x'rencn Dniiosrists. the speaker stated that the crust of time being removed from the hidden mysteries of this buried empire : the mounds that now rise in solitary prnuueur over tne Assyrian plain like huge tombs of a buried nation ality, are now being excavated by the nana or earnest science: the seal a continuous silence is extending through twentv-five centuries is broken : the dumb ruins begin to shake off the dust of aees and tosceak tueir secrets into tne wounded ear or modern civilization and reveal the story of their hidden wonders and glories. They give sad token of nee tine nature of human gran deur, and bear solemn testimony and corroboration of the truth of the inspired writings that are the fouDda of the Christian faith. Reference then made to the various objects art and luxury discovered among ruins, as well as those depicted in Kcriptures, showing that the Assyrians were a ereat and luxurious people; that most of the useful arts only existed among them, but cultivated to the highest pitch, that in me'allurgv. dress, furni jewelry, arcbi lecture, Ac., they not mucu Deuina tne moderns. detailed account was given of the successive excavations of the mounds atimroud.Koiuniik.Khorsabad and places on the east bank of the iigris, in the vicinity of the modern oiosui. ana or tne colossal human headed winced bulls and Biihinxes aiaoaster slabs and clay cylinders discovered there and transported to European museums. These, it shown, had been the subject of acientinc investigation, and inscriptions on them successfully showing they contained valuable his torical matter among other things annals of the different kings, the national archives, and also chrono and historical statistics con with cotemrjoraneous nations. Interesting information was then with reference to theconnection the Assyrians under their various lecture elosed with an account the final destruction of Nineveh the Medea and Babylonians, and quotations from prophetical writing predicting its doom. J its as as c of this the auct cal tbat The to boay made and be have of be tions. the if xsiuie ment, tested, bound Bible made two is a few are infirm to to before. be The Man with Three Arms. [From the Williamsport (Pa.) Gazette and Bulletin.] Among the passengers on the trai bound south last evening was a man born and raised in the County of Jaooo8, ' He prides himself on three . . . . well-developed arms and hands, tb member extraordinary having grown above the right shoulder-blade. It hantrs suspended down the back, and can be raised and lowered at will. In length it is shorter than the arms proper, but possesses extraordinary muscle, which be displays whenever occasion demands it. ito person passing uirougn a railroad car or meeting upon the street would observe any deformity; but after becoming cognizant or mis singular ue, would perceive a pecular fit of bis coat He states tbat he has often been ques tioned as to why he does not place himself upon exhibition, or become one xiarnum's permanent attractions. His invariable reply is, that be is averse tp public exhibitions. His father being a wealthy farmer, be had always preferred to remain at pome, and was the most active and profit able of farmer's help. He would assist in loading hay and at the same time hold securely tbe horses' reins. On several occasions he came near breaking thin unnatural member by Buauen tans, ano at one time sunered the pangs or afult-slzed felon upon the forefinger. On one occasion, When about is, tne village ooys thought they would have a little sport " I. Dree arms' " expense and com menced a system of blackguardism, followed by bold attacks upon his person. Forbearance ceased to be a virtue, and throwing off his loose garments he went at them in true pugilistic style, aim number 3 per forming its duty nobly and apparently outrlvalling number 1 and 2. At the of the skirmish, six prostrate yillagers told what a fierce opponent they bad met. "Three arms'1 gained notoriety, and never afterward was persecuted on account or bis de formity. At the outbreak of tbe rebellion he joined a New York regi ment, and sodistinguished himself by bravery, tbat he was finally promoted captain, and ranked as tbe best officer of tbe regiment to wbiob was attached. At tbe close of the he returned to the farm, and has I since remained there. He is now en route for tbe South, to visit a sister somewhere in the interior of North Carolina. It may be a query with how he could use his arm with proper clothing upon his body. his garments intended for labor ing suits, were so made as to open tbe back, and closed by button tbe same as a child's apron. He truly a wonder. Being a man of conversational powers, an Inter with him is especially agreeable, he relates many pleasii.g anec dotes of himself with great relish. will politic win sort a be political will parted science, nave Do what popular cannot masses like to Do so poor with ing our urag Even reugion. abstract Itselr. form and to So a abstraction. expression A State of Unties Church must for an ous not proposing pearl must doctrines sary to tneir their that conscience political Pennsylvania paper, in speaking songstress, says : "She beats cats high notes. There was no music chest tone in her voice, but it was six octaves abpye the soreeph of lost Indian." The world uses 250,000.000 pounds of each year, and 718,000,000 pounds coffee. China furnishes nearly all tea, and Brazil over one-half of the ofle. I The upon the genial God people, religious which are rejoice wun and ly ana Jews iq dwellingi are citizens In tion. Emil poem graphically frisking shore. Bishop Newman, the Washington missionary. GOD IN THE CONSTITUTION. The movement to put into the Con stitution a declaration of spiritual authority originates with a class of persons who think that religious lib erty and the system of government which separates Church and State are failures. It is not strange that they should have this lack of faith, for the system is an experiment which our government alone or all the govern ments of the world is trying. It is not strange that many should think that religious liberty is licentiousness and that a State without a State religion is a godless State, and is vir tually an expression of contempt for religion ; tor I an ages or tne world. ciaies, wiiemer pagan -or inristian have taken charge of the religion of their citizens. xu aiarung mis u me conviction of lUA... . 1 . is . 1 "iew movers, we give iuu considers- tion to their disclaimers and exnlana- tions. In spite of all these, no plain reason can be given for inserting in the Constitution an acknowledgment of a spiritual authority in our govern- iucub iuai uura u uic&u a aeciara tion of religious duties on the part of tne btate which mate the Btate Church, with the power and the duty enforce religious observance, and i ; l r j J : r- s , . to uisquaiuy auu uisiancmse those wno ao not subscribe to what th Bute lays dow n in purely spiritual matters. The extent to which this amend- ment is designed to enter into the law of the land is declared in the call ror tne convention, wnicn lays down tnese : 1. A nation Is the creature of God It is clothed with the autlinritv : r si l J ueriveu iroui ijruu. 3. Itowesallegianceto JesusChrUt the appointed ruier of nations. 4. It is subject to the authority of the Bible, the special revelation of moral law. From these is drawn the fhllnu-ln., conclusion : . j-.o a . .. . . in constituting .ud administering I government, then, a nation is unuer obligations toacunowIedireGod the author of IU existence and the source oi its autnonty, Jesus Christ its ruler, and the Bible as the foun- iLs lujer. auu mo xiuieas tne iou n i tain of its laws and the supremo rule its conduct I heaA mnvpm Inhnr - tinrlar 11. n mistake of aimnnslnir that. .nvlKU- I which thev iwlievn la ha lm. I. I proper thiuff to be put Into the Con- slitution. When they affirm this source of exlstenceand authority, and al'-but ftlleirlflnpA an rl this oi,ll,l Bible asarule of conduct, tLey P-1-p very few todispute. The prooer 9r r.,.T I.... . . I . . T. i A I .uindLiuu ui nil Luia in 1 1 m i. i, i man i should make Christian morality and fhri&ti.n iliiln IK. m.I. f L. .. : - - I Hp Christian dutv the ruin nf rhir n. I He in public aOairs.aud thusshould make religion the higher law of Doliti- action. But their conclusion is because what they declare is naa truth, it should be put into the 80 uonsutution, and thereby be made coercive law. ter Iheir religious zeal Is greater than theirknowledgeof Constitutional laur. Constitution is not a nlaf form nf abstract declarations, nor u it a creed was which people are to assent to, but make the law of their conduct according as they can hold. It is a or fundamental law. for the government of the country. It is to be carried Into eflect by the tion be government, by legislative, judicial, executive administration. This their declaration of spiritual authority is to aD(1T a mere nioekarv of Onrl nr It i in the same force as all other parts this fundamental law, and It is to carried Into effect bv the same in- seen strumentalities. ' God and religion are not abstrac- to They have their written law. Bible. These declarations mean a tbey have any meaning that the 8ion snail be the law of the govern- by wnicli all our laws are to be and which our courts are to administer. Now to say the is a sufficient rule of faith and practice, and to say that it shall be the law of our government are widely different things. The first declaration that all Christiana subscribe to. The second Is what very of them will accept Our laws to be administered by the ordinary human agencies. Do we desire put tbe divine law into theirhands define and execute? If good as jurors, weet dict by future Human nature will remain as it was No miraculous change will wrought by this declaration. The government will continue to be by men of ordinary such as are elected by the intelligence and virtue, and average ignorance and corruption the voting population. Vicious ness, and ignorance, and corruption continue to be powers in the bod v the same as before, and these continue to elect legislators, ex executives, and judges of their own The consummation will be tbat spiritual authority will be created to administered by a low order of instrumentalities, and men find that they have foolishly with their freedom of con and Instead of the law of God set up a very bare human con trivance to rule over them. intelligent people think that they have seen of the nature of government a thing which rise higher than the average Intelligence and virtue qf tbe voting is such a thing as they would con fer spiritual authority upon? they really think religious liberty a thing that they would part it so basely ? Instead of elevat politics by dragging religious administration into them, tbey will BQwp y tne level 01 our polities. I I in the individual affairs of men do not treat it as an element which is to execute They associate themselves and organizations to interpret Its law carry it into the life. State religion cannot be a mere It must have form and and a corporeal existence. religion that is, the declara tion spiritual authority and spiritual in the Utate must have a State to define it In fact, t-be State be tbe Cnurch, These agitators amendment to confer religi power and duties on the State are conscious bow cheaply they are to barter away tbe priceless of religious liberty. But they see that they are laying down which will make it neces keep the political machine in own bands, in order to save own religious liberties, and thus they are periling tbe rights of upon the chances of control. On. Gazette Jewish Measenger has an arti cle "Distinctive Judaism,' in course' of which we 'find this paragraph : has formed us to be a peculiar distinct from all others in our duties. But here this dis tinction ends. In every good act tends to elevate humanity we carpenters with tbe world ; we n tber happiness, sympathise tneir sorrows, eieyate me lowly educate the ignorant To be plain property understood, we are the synagogues and in our but in the walks of life we of the world, cosmopoli tan feeling and sympathy and SO' Ritterhaus, a prominent Ger man bRS written a beautiful about Lake Erie, wherein he describes tbe alligators among the palru trees on the ''. Ames, desires Bey. J. P. D. D., tbe popular pastor of Methodist Metropolitan Church, City, to go to Japan as a 1 a In for be " It" "It's one they 'em "If what tion, part, as hear " "Yes, " going If have prr [From the New York Herald.] PETTICOATS IN THE PULPIT. j It is a very delicate question. I hey made terrible flurry in Brook lyn Presbyterian world about it and what wonder? Dr. Cnyler bad invited a sweet little duck of an un baptized Quaker, Miss Smiley (happy namejj to preach in his church. She preached, and such floods or nntni. ance were never known in the history i of Brooklvn'a Ihmn. ... K u i . r : -v-" cuun vumicu ueiore. But she left a state of war behind . ..e w.'ve8 who had noticed the vAi.,,ru,nariiy rapid conversion of '""i pouses iea tnem gently home ward, and if ever Mrs. Caudle's spirit lnea bTo&d it was cn the night succeeding Miss Smiley's touching . rrr . AU" war generally opened 111 I ll Id FnaliiAH ! . 1 Vr J iiiuii, wun a query rrom .lTS- Caudle : "What do vou think. ,rVr th,s wt"nn preacher?" To w, F Benedict replies, clasping n' nnds and looking idiotically to- K'Brn. lha . I : ... . . Jislening lo an angel, so pure, so uuuiug, so novel." We cannot transcribe the shrioir r ini,.j :r r001 wb'ch follows and can but faint to convey how her white, taner fin. AM win1 a... . . ,i u r 'uegugiy in and out me iot as noon his cranium f0?.00 Benedict screws his face In- similitude or the contorted irar- n Gothic church under that ri 8 "c PPe" his better feelings, .1o think." she coutihueo. atil! ""'" "ls attention in the mild wardly ever since. manner indicated "(hot t uuaeu ior oavs and months .H tuyuu upon tne subject of re pentance, and that it was reserved for strange woman tsi snnnu n. Mr. Caudle. thU la nof niMnn This is - With the shriek that lOllOWS we dlaw Ihaonrl.ln Tl uici, unoer protest, has been out. ioe to women preachers UUt the evil li,l nnr -..J L. mi. . , cuu lue mllle rtverends had lrt Pe!.r ttrction for hi in, and he was a.u""u u oiasounasiee aur""g the next sermon. ""w lQe ai.trm at the inatten tloaor the male members of the con- ep five times Th.Jl.l I u uwio iiieuiuers oi ine con- I f". nd formed a compact with tne soreiy tormented females that woman-preaching should be put down with theBtrnnc hsnl We now turn to th muiim r urooKiyn Presbytery, on Mnnrlav ,a8t.' try the case of Cuvler. the immortal innovator. The trial Went On. Thaeh was flungat the devoted head ne contumacious Cuvler. who flnrl t h a .m.ril .J .. .1 " . 1 . 1 --- uil in i ui uiiuir. ill. tr ran t i aPlU8; Ho w innnocent, he said. n H II 'nroQ oil ul f,. - uA 1.' : .. 1 - i I bad. preached for th VrlanHi .ml '"vueu anas Bmiley in return, who preached about the vision of Jacob ''rettling with an angel, and never n9 "stened to anything so pure, touching, so novel. This produced scene, ine words recalled a num. or bona fide wrestlers with home angeis anything but agreeable souvenirs. Bev. Van Dvke nnenerl with this rankling in his vitala. and impelled to a vigorous onslaught witn tender recollections about the roots of his beard After two days of struggle a resol ra was passed which is intended to mildly condemnatory of the nn. contrite Cuyler, and which may be loked on as a compromise between convictions and their necessities, the affair ends in smoke. When the fandango vu ahnnr. in he abolished by the Inquisition a bold advocate pleaded that it should be before being condemned. A charming Spanish girl was introduced the Holy Office, and wheh she had danced the intoxicating measure such feeling of mercy had taken possea- the gray-haired Inquisitors lue d was removed and ran' "'"itw nave oeen danced ever since. this crucial test of experience helrl of so questionable a proceeding the fandango, why not of a woman's sermon ? These divines should have invited ansa Smiley, and as upright separating themselves from all outside influences, listened to her woman's words of invocation or warning, and they formulated a ver as they found themselves moved the spirit They have left the question open, and it is reserved for a day to vindicate ' woman's to a place in the pulpit as well the foot of it CHILDREN. BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 1 me cniiuren," ne sal a to me one day at table. I like 'em and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest trpth-telling there is in the world Is done bv them. Do know they play the part in the house hold which the king's jester, who very often had a mighty long head under his cap and bells, used to play for a monarch? There's no radical club like a nest of little, folks in a nursery. Did you ever watch a bahv'n nugers r 1 nave oiten enougn, tnough I never knew what it was to owh one." Tbe master paused half a minute or so. sighed. perhaps at thlnkiug what he had missed in lire, looked up at me a little vacantly. saw what was the matter 1 he hail lost tbe thread of his talk. Baby's fingers," I intercalated. -Yes. yes: did vou ever sea how they will poke those wonderful little fingers of theirs into every fold and cracK aud crevice tbey can get at? Tbat ia their first education, feelinir their way into the solid facts of the material world. When they begin to tnllr If la Miaanma lliiniv nrnnm - ; I -. another shape. If ttiere is a orack or flaw in your answer to their eon founded shoulder-hitting questions, tbey will poke and poke until they have got it gaping just as the baby's fingers have made a rent out of tbat atom of a bole in his pinafore tbat your old eyes never took notice of. Then they make such fools of us by copying 011 srqau spaio what we do the grand manner. Froni the m --i mm The Spectator thinks that George xuiiot is tne only woman or our time wnose writings would be remembered the hnmor alone, sad quotes such sentences as these: "A maggot must born r tne rotten cheese to like it" If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o tbe batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner." " It's poor eating wnen tne navor 0 tne meat lies r tbe cruets." "There's folks as make bad butter, and trusten to the salt t' hide Or this in condemnation of tbe habit of perpetually praising the dead; "It's but little good you'll Jo v water ing last year's crop." Or this, " I know the way o' wives ; they set on to abuse tbeir husbands, and then turn roucd on one and praise as if they wanted to sell 'em." old Harry's a mind to do a bit o' kindness for holiday like, who's got anything against it ? " " As for age, that's worth depends on tbe quality of the liquor." This is the shrewdness which cornesof observa like this description of a Scotch gardener, perhaps the very beat description of tbat kind of eouoetted efHcieutever put into words; "You're mighty fond o Craig; but for my I think he's welly like a cock think tbe sun's rose o' purpose to him crow." Bob, is your sister at home ? " bat she won'tseeyou to-night" Why ?" " Because she said she was tp bays one more mesa of onions she never had another bean." One of our western exchanges an nounces tbat enough old pantaloons been sent to tbe Wisconsin sufferers to furnish each a hundred rapitft. ing cloud, puff and as and room could or see. His smoking across brought the or reaching smoked with attitude wnust the while the edthe Jemmy ami to to tbe au 1 could best to tbe that seemed In the imposition. al." ward The Jemmy, will see Jackson tbe room a manikin hat, flourished to tne with French approaching seemea trerne' The ine nowi quicKiy, chair, voice : with amazeoiy nateiy, French was no cook, to his besprinkled with iu p ing jacKsnn's "Mon "it is rniuippe "Oh sir; there And be by entered the to enjoy thousand jollity, Tbere in oring to THE NATIONAL EXPENDITURES. What We Spent Last Year—An Interesting Table by the Hon. James A. Garfield. the speech of Gen. Garfield, chairman of the Appropriations Com mittee, on the leei&lalive. executive sou juuiciai appropriation bill there was embodied an interesting table on the expenditures of the Government, which is herewith annexed. Gen. Garfield has made a superb chairman of this important committee and won golden opinion since the opening of Congress. The table is as follows : Table by the Hon. James A. Garfield. EXPENSES GROWING OUT OF THE WAR. Interest on the public debt ri25J7&6S 3 Expenses of refunding the na- tlonal debt 332,173 M Difference between premiums on oonus purchased and gold Pensions.. National asvlnm for vnlnniMM Bounties and backpay to volun teer soldiers..... Reimbursing States for expen ses of volunteers Horses and other property lost In service In the fate war Illegal ca plure of British vessels aou cargoes during the late war Return of captured and aban- aonea property, and expenses of suits Capture of Jefferson Davis Total X4.4I.MX 3 2MS,27 10.SS4.300 53 2.370.346 72 28,88s 75 -70.72872 743.M0 OB 1.611 au 17&3.Me a a MILITARY EXPENSES. Present military and naval estab lishments : For the army, after deducting payments ior toe late war, already mentioned in fru p 1, and for Improvement of rivers and larbora .w -.. -e For the navy li.tilAtc 'Ji t5,lH,5Sl M r, r or CIVIL SERVICE EXPENSES. The civil service Drooer. heinir all the expenditures not named In th first and second group, namely: The civil list, being expenses of legislative. j uu unuun ouiceraoi tne uuv- ernmeni, not inciudingg Internal revenue and customs dpn.rtm.r.1. Forelzn Inicteoaru Indians id provamen is of rivers and har- oors. $15.S02ynrS M 7,3)V7 H 1.831,277 88 3,28,011 30 Public buildings and grounds, including repairs Expenses of mint, coast survey. .ni.linnu. , . . . , , u i n-( c"t or utc?sm duties KI-7onj &d1?of chusetliTn find terest on aance ior war 1MI'.IA - . exclusive of revenue-cutter service, and bnildlng and n-nairinffcnstom-hniiu Cost of assessing and collecting Internal revenue Deficiency In revenue of the Post omee uepartment.' including. earrvlnvofrrMAm.il mitt.. Expenses of the eighth A ninth census ' 10,10. 199 go t,0U,SS0 71 4,100,000 00 l.(5,lll 13 731JSO0O of MiscLnJous of pnbUe lands 8TS SB2 41 7e.!Jl 70 Grand total- taip6Mll 13 or of the feet on hill of PRESIDENT JACKSON'S STYLE. From General Henry A. Wise's "Seven Decades of tbe Union," we take tbe following reminiscence of the days of Jackson, told in the auth or's inimitable style : But, on another occasion, his ignor ance 01 language did entangle him in a ridiculous mistake, and almost in a scrape. During his administration hile Mr. Louis McLane. of Dela ware, was Secretary of State. France sent a certain Minister to Washington. a young man just elevated above tbe grade or Charge, whose passion was uispiay. ii outnt or equipage. grooms, postillions ana gold was mag nincenu lie called on tbe Secretary 01 btate to appoint an audience with the resident and Mr. McLane. an accomplished, easy gentleman, beg ged him to coll the next morning at ten o'ciock at tbe Btate office, and he would accompany and present him to me xresiuent. Monsieur le Ministre mistook as to the place of calling. He thought he was to call at the President's man sion at 10 A. M. Accordingly, in full panoply of costume, in coach- and-iour, with attendants, grooms. postillions, outriders and footmen, at tbe hour appointed he drove ud to the front door of the White House, in stead of to the State Department where Mr. McLane was waiting his arrival. At that time the president was serv ed by a French cook, and the cele brated Irishman, Jemmy O'iSeal, was General Jackson's petted major-domo. The hour was about the time of Gen eral Jackson's finishing puff of tbe aftjr breakfast, and he smoked did everything else, with all might ! His mode was noLatak- no dreamy, thready line, from -opened lips ; but a full draw ing ana expanding volume or white cloud, rising up whiff after whiff, puff after puff, and bowl and stem and pipe all smoked as hard and fast they could, and the fire was red and the ashes hot, and the whole room was so obfusticated tbat one could hardly breathe the atmosphere see. His usual mode of sitting while smoking was his left leg thrown across the right, and the left toe brought behind the right tendon, and long pipe-stem resting in the fork crotch or tbe two knees, and reaching nearly to tbe floor. He smoked the old Powhattan bowl. with reed stem very long. In this attitude he was sitting and smoking wnust Air. aicjume was waiting at State office for Mr. Minister, and while Mr. Minister was riding np to Presidential mansion. He arriv edthe French cook in the kitchen Jemmy O'Neal, about his business, uenerai jacKSou alone (a nis or fice. A bustle was made, belles be gan to ring. Jemmy was summoned tbe door, and there presented itself 1 nis parade, 'ine devil a word could Jemmy understand, and the he could do was to run up stairs tbe General and announce some body very grand ; but Jemmy wink ed that all didn't seem right, as there seemed too muph fuss for that soon the morning, and it might bean imposition. "Och, there was no tel ling about tbe thing, it was so unusu It might turn out what after- oceured a La we re nee affilr! General quietly -replied, "Oh, Jemmy, show the stranger up; we see who it is." Jemmy ran, and Jackson sat smoking, when presently room was thrown wide open and manikin of gold lace entered, coaked with bullion and white feather, flourished in band, making a salaam. tne right and salaam to the left, tremendous sweeps, whirling French with vehement gesture ant approaching nearer and nearer; it very tnreatenin -j tne ex President oult imokintr. beat nowi or nis pipe in bis hand, rose quicKiy, 100K bold or the back of his and exclaimed, with a strong : "isy tne eternal goas, jem my O'Neal, who is this?" Jemmv. ears open, and hands read v. was amazeoiy looaing on, wnen, lortu - he bethought him. pf the cook, and ran for lum. There no time to be lost, so the French with his shirtsleeves rolled up shoulders, and just as be was. besprinkled white with flour, ran nn Jemmy, arriving lust in time p mi-, mimaien pate rrom be niasneo ny tne chair in General jacKsnn's nands. "Mon Dieu ?" exclaimed the cook is tbe grand minister of Louis rniuippe 7" f" said the General ; "walk in, there is no ceromony here?" be was about taking the minis ter both hands just as Mr. McLane to see the mistake, to witness prevention of (he catastrophe, and enjoy the joke, which made him a times afterward shake with "like a bowlful of jelly." me llie of n ate er be fast. them went to out bar-room iltlU me street. down ice alter The went w.i. time. me In iiugs the of auuigs boiling how think inches are broken The inches cqrta;ne, be? bureau glass maae down steak Tbere are now three or four expedi tions in the Arctic Regions, endeav to reach the Nor u Pole. An years the feeding are little been Cattle mey to eellect roan little as sa.lt THE DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE. The true story of Foe's death has never been correct! v tnlriV Tt ta thia In the Summer of 1S49 he left N'ew York for Virginia. In Richmond he met Miss Kl m i ra Rliollin h.m i . 7 - - -""w n nis youth, renewed his -luiutance, ana in a few weeks, they were engaged to be married. He wrote to his friends Iu the North that hesbou d pass the remainder of his life ia Virvima. where th h.r.ni.. days of his youth had been spent ' "'.'- .w"" ue set out rrom Richmond to fulfill a literary engage ment In New York, and prepared for his marriage, which was to tat- r.1... on the 17th of the month. Arriving in Baltimore, he found that he had iiiiB-eu me rniiadelphia train which be expected to take, and would have to wait two or three hours for the next train. He went to a restaurant near the depot to get soma refresh mr.r. There be rret some of his old West Point friends who invited him to a cbampaigne supper that light He accepted the invitation and went At first he refused to drink, but at last he was induced to take a glass of ii.iuuq.ut, loll SL ntns riir onf in few hours he was madly drunk. In this state he wandered off from his friends, was robbed anil lo. i. ruffiaus, and left insensible in the street all night The next morning , v-- up sun laaen to the Marylaud Hospital. He was deleri ous with brain fever. He was well erwf rv i T . v z; "" puysicians or the ?,?,t;1.V ot he wa beyond the skill of the doctor. He lingered two three days, and died on Sunday. uciooen,- ijhm, in the 39th year of "ge. nis iuneral was attended by Hon. Z. Collins Lee, Dr. 8nocf. grass, Nelson Poe, (his cousin), and Henry Herring (his uncle.) Apple ton't Journal. ee or THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Secretary Seward, speaking of the great wall of China which he exam ined during his late trip to the .taet says: " The Chinese have been ror at least mree tnousana years a wall-making people. It would bank rnnt. N"aar Vni-Lr Paris to build the walls of the city Pekin. The great wall of China is great wall of the world- It ia fortv high. The lower thirty feet is of irewu limestone ana granite. Two modern carriages may pass each other the summit. It has a parapet wiuuguuut its wnoie lengtn . with convenient staircases, buttresses, and garrison-houses at every quarter of a and runs, not by cutting down and raising valleys, but over the uneaven crests of tbe mountains, and down through their coree. ariutan a thousand miles. Admiral Rodg- and I calculated that it would cost now to build the great wall of the an the 1 ? the and the tree, a uina, inrougn its extent of one thousand miles, than it has cost to build tbe fifty-five thousand miles of rai.road in the United States. What a commentary it is upon the ephe- range oi me nuuian intellect to see mis great utilitarian enterprise, so necessary and effective two thous and years ago, now not merely useless but an incumbrance and an obstruc tion." grew A """ A School Boy's Geography. The secretary of the St Louis news boys' home, in a late report says liurtng one of their class lessons in geography, each lad in his turn was required to give the name of three .uropean countries until all had been named. The first boy resnonrtmi hi saying England, lreand and Scot land ; tne second followed with France, Prussia and Russia ; the next hi V 'a rwrrra nkinat T .1 evidently limited, for he gave in per fect aerimiunMa " 1 " ...!.. t- : i " v.iwuuact, XVI 1 A wood and Chicago." although with half doubtful air. "No. no." naid the class-master of the evening, "name three of the countries in Europe." The boy looked at the floor anr) then at the ceiling in a state of perplexity. A boy behind the other quietly whisf pered, "Hungary, say Hungary." 'No, I shan't you're hunirrv. hnmrr . . , .... O -rf F O -J iuu uu wuiiiry." "iea it is, you numskull, say Hungary." With this genue prompting Hungary was said. "Yes, now another." Prnmnree h. hind whispered "Turkey." "Go on withyer, turkey ain't no country." "Yes it is. vou thirbhmi Tur key." Turkey was said very doubt fully. "Yes, that's right Hungary and Turkey; that's two; now anoth er, I want you to same three." Hot gave an appealing side look full of confidence to his prompter, who whispered "Goose," say "Goose." "Goose," shouted the student of geograpny, as ir he'd known it all his me to ne tne name or a country in Europe. Roars of laughter from all present greeted this answer much to llie COnlUSlOn or the Btlirlanr mhi finally created a diversion by attempt ing to make geographical researches 1th his fist about the nolar momn. his prompter. in which in eye he An is the appetite thrifty. all will oxen to mixed prevent ... will eat IILUU Tbey have a clever old gentleman Portcbesterr a mn r. rAAriaF known as the Profewnr Smith. Oa Tuesdsy night the Pro fessor went into an ovster saloon n.i forty raw. He then told the wait to put np fifty for him to take nome. and Insisted that they should put in a paper bajr. This was done. Before he bad walked a )M tha bottom came out of the bag. and the oysters fell to the pavement and froze The Professor tugged away at without avail, and at length to the bar-room across the street get some not water ta thaw them Between the Professor and th was a chain connecting two hotse POStB. He atumhle.1 rr cnain, aud let! head-long into the street. His hat flew off and sailed the street before the wind at boat speed. The Professor started it. but the hat won the r. Professor returned to the bar room, got a pitcher of hot water, and for his oysters. On his way "v .cu sviuh iue cuain a second He scalded bis hand and broke p.icner. Marmora fot. his lecture on hotels. Josh Tt;t. sayir "aiany notels a, re kept on European plan, but the friAlnritv them on pone at all. Everybody a umi a uoiei-room IS llKe how over with comrorts it is, and it makes people who occupy it about home. It generally measures about thirteen ft ao by nine f aef four inches. There two pegs to hang clothes on one oflf and the other pulled out. bell-rope is broken off just six beyond reach. There are no cqrta;ne, fur what good could they You couldn't see out Tbe has three lees, and the looking hangs by one pivot The bed is oi slats and a very thin mat tress. You have to go to bed side ways, and when you get In vou iro on the slats like a Piece of beef on tbe bars of a gridiron. It er in dread girl sick next at in winging tne at our tell er seat A nw school bout Tell asked em." asked rather you aid Aunt Mrs. of the te: "Do you said amiable detested, 1 about General having during no more up to a unfair if he was "Well, 'Mon, English writer of a hundred ago thus speaks of the status of potato : " This root increases pro digiously, and is very proper for and fattening e.ttle. They boiled in water, aud reauira hut boiling, though they may have i kept two months in the store. I eat them raw. but for the thia arewnoiesome boiled. I earnestly recommend tbe culture of this plant husbandmen, aa it ia nntonlvev. food for cattle, but good for In years of scarcity. After a use, tbe taste becomes at least agreeable as tuuitps, and partleo lariy if the potatoes are boiled witk pork," I in'." last nicht thirty sober, uj i,uib One of ever late Rev. tmall ing wine, it is own sake." A farmer nine elk in to to drive pasture, currying refused The itie aeatn as the took place He was Dispatches the famine unabated dying daily. Whole No. 2890 CLOSE PRUNING GRAPE. Mr. if. Pike, of Alton Til a SllOOOoaf,. 1 - ' ' ' . e.7Z.rr grower, at one or the Meetings of f&e Alton Horticultural ciety gave his experience :-"I am Mtasfied that the majority of grop growers over-crop their vineyards. I !I5i)een each "ear reducing the wood In my vineyard, until now my Catawba canes are not more than three and a half feet long, and but one cane, and I am getting just aa near the ground as possible, for th r.. othere. that they are easily laid down for protection during win ter. Lust year my Catawba vines made the heaviest mwth of --i and produced the largest bunches of rruit of any in my vineyard, probably lo Percent, mum m . W. ,J m.tTipeiCedJ,,p WeU (tue" ere not merely colorerli i.nri- i.: . . thesuicession of leaves. I grow three teifl1?" TSe original ... .aiuaoie one. i then grow two additional ones. You may have the succession of leaves early by CLOSE PRUNING GRAPE. WASHINGTON. D.C., Feb. 9, 1872. The Defeat of Amnesty. the Senate to-day is regarded by most as postponing the question for the present seesiou. The Hale bill from the House is on the table, and might possibly be passed If a direct vote could be had upon it, bnt It is Mr. Sumner's known Intention to move his Civil Rifrht-. 1,111 amendment to every proposition for amnesty, and the Senate is too tired the subject to care to go over the discussion again. Refom th. wi bill can be reached. strength enough may be obtained for -fI Sumuer' proposition down "'Tu' eaienueu debate, but other business is likelv to ronJh o aside for some time r ? Chicago Relief hill h.. r,.. Monday, and Cole has given notice thai he wul begin work in the senate on th Annrn.;.i;.,n v.;n Tuesday. 'rT " The Apple mantel-pieceof my grandmother's best parlor, among other marvels, was apple tri a vial.: It quite filled up body of the bottle, and my childish wonderment constantly was, ' How could it have got there ?' By stealth climbed a char to see if the bottom would unscrew, or if there had been Joi? '? .th &,a88 throughout the length of the vial. I was satisfied by careiul observation that neither of these theories could be supported, and apple remained to . ... CUIlCIUil a mystery. One day walking in garden, I saw it all. There, on a was a vial tied, and within it a tinyapple.whieh was growing wffhir. cryataL The mnl. S i. bottle while it waa litii. there. . Beautiful Ajcswros a Kk. t:i i . .. " i gaTe tne roiiowing extra ordinary answers: . " "What is jratitude?" i "Gratitude ia the memory of the heart" "What is hope?" !'JJ.?Pe ls the blossom of happiness," "What is the difference between and desire?" "Desire is a tree Jo leaf, hope is a in flower, and enjoymentiaa tree fruit" "What is eternity?" ' ' "A day without vesterdiiv or to morrow, a l!re that hast no e.d What is time?' A line that haa tvn mill .... I. begins in the cradle and emU the toinb." "Vv hat is God?" "The necessary belrnr th nm. r eternity, tbe machine of nature the of justice, the watchmaker of the universe, the aniil of ih. it "Does God reason ?" ' - "Man reasons. heono lie .lnKit. . deliberates he decides. God il omniscent; he never doubts he there fore nevereasons." Horse-radish for Animals. exchange sara - TronA.i.r;.K excellent condiment to mir witi. food of cows, to give them an and to make them sleek and It should be fed freely to animals tbat are not well and it be of great service to work'ng troubled with the heat If given cows in doses of a pint a day, with potatoes or bran, it wi'll or relieve cows of the disease cake in tbe bag. Few animals refuse to eat it. and Sfimp vi!l of it greedily, a half a peck at a ls stated that a ladvsehoal read Omaha, having, an inordinate of small-pox, sent home a little because sbe said her mother was and had marks on her face. The day the little girl presented her self the school-Louse, with her fin ger her mouth and her little bonnet by tbe strings; and said to teaeher, " We'ye gota little baby house, but mother told me to it isn't catchin'. " The teth commanded the nunil to tUo i.... father was one evening th;r... mtle boyto recite his Sunday lesson. It was from Matthew sowing tares. "Whatis a tare? me my son, what a tare the anxious parent. "You had "Johnny, what do you mean"" the father, opening his eyes wide. "Why, last week, when didn't come borne for three days." Johnny, "I heard mother tell Susan that you was on a tear." Partington entered the oflW Probate Judge (called "civil ian,)" and; inquired ia- her blandest "Are you the civil villain?" wish to insult me, madam"" the Judge. "Yes," replied the old lady, "my brother died and left three infidel chil dren, and I'm to be their executioner- wan. to ,D8u1t ,n elvil villain it" . , . bherldan reported as declined to kill any buffaloes the lata hunt He says it is fun than it would be to ride cow and sboot at It with a re volver. He thinks it is taking a an advantage as Jonah would had killed tbe whale when be inside of it taking a ride. Lauchie, how aie you?" I'm wonderful weel. eonsider- MJnsiderin' what r;.. what I've so dune this year. I iraed tu hed nir.tin. and I'm thankfu' to say I got mornin no a Tilt tne waur." the best temperance sermons delivered is this sentence by tuo Bomuel J. Ma v ; r t i i - sacrifice tor you to give np driii k do it for the sake of others lf great sacrifice, do it for your J out in Iowa has a hl ej thatae U training and break ing farm work. He now ia able them a little, keeps tbeui in and generally they submit ta as well as any animals. He has $1,400 for tbe herd. Gettysburgb papers aanotnir? or John l nurns, knowu "Hero of Gettysburg," which on Sunday morning las' in tbe 78th year of bis age. from Teheran states tbat in Persia continues with fury. Many persons ax.' r