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TIIE TWO RABBIS.
BY JOHX G. WHITTIER.
: The Rabbi Nathan, two score years and ten,
j Walked blameless through the evil world and
then,
I Just as the almond blossomed in his hair,
: Met a temptation all 100 strong to bear,
And miserably sinned. So adding not
Falsehood to guilt, be left his seat, and taught
No more among the elders, but went out
From the great congregation girt about
With sackcloth, and with ashes on his head,
Making his gray locks graypr. Long he
prayed,
Smiting his breast; then, as the Book he laid
Open before him for the Bath-Col's choice,
Pausing to bear that Daughter of a Voice,
Behold the Royal preacher's words: "A friend
Loveih at all times, yea, unto the end;
And for the evil day thy brother lives."
Marvelling, he said: "It is the Lord who gives
Counsel in need. At Kcbatana dwells
Rabbi Ben Isaac, who all men excels
In righteousness and wisdom, as the trees
Of Lebanon the small weeds that the bees
Bow with their weight. I will arise and lay
My sins before him."
And be went his way
Barefooted, fasting long, with many prayers - ,
But even as one who followed unawares;
Suddenly in the darkness feels a hand
i Thrill with its touch his own, and his cheek
j fanned.
■ By odors subtly sweet, and whispers near
Of words he loathes, ytt cannot choose but
hear;
!So, while the Rabbi journeyed chanting low
The wail of David's penitential woe.
Before him still the old temptation came,
j And mocked him with the motion and the
! shame.
I Of such desires, that, shuddering be abhorred
Himself; and, crying mightily to the L< rd
' To free his soal, and cast the demon out,
' Smote with his staff the blackness round
| about.
' At length, in the low light of a spent day,
The towers of Ectabana far away
Rose on the desert's rim: und Nathan faint
And foot-sore, pausing where, for some dead
saint,
The faith of Islam raised a domed tomb,
Saw some one kneeling in the shadow, whom
He greeted kindly: "May ihe Holy One
Answer thy prayers, O stranger!" Whereupon
The shape stood up with a loud cry, and then.
Clasped in each other's arms, the two gray
men
Wept, praising Him whose gracious provi
dence
Made their paths one; but straightway, as thc
sense
Of his tiansgresaion smote him, Nathan tore
Himself away: "O, friend, beloved, no more
Worthy am 1 to touch thee, for I came,
! Foul from my sing, to tell thee all my shame. ;
Haply thy prayers since naught availelh mine. ;
I May purge my soul, and make it white like
' thine;
j Pity me, 0 Ben Isaac, I have sinned!"
i Awe struck Ben Isaac stood. The deseit
wind
Blew his long mantel backward, laying bare
The mournful secret of his shirt of hair
1 "I too, fiieud if uot in act," be said,
"In thought have verily sinned. Hast thou |
not read,
| "Belter the eye should see than that desire
Should wander?' Burning with a hidden fire
j That tears and prayers quench oot, I come to
thee
For pity and for help: as thou to rne
Pray for me, Omy friend!" But Nathan
cried
"Pray thou for me, Ben Isaac!"
Side by side.
In the low sunshine by the tnrban stone
They knelt; each made his brother's woe his ;
; own,
' Forgetting in the agony and stress
! Of pitying love bis claim of selfishness;
\ Peace, for his friend besought, his own be
came:
i His prayers were answered in another's
name;
j And when at last they rose to embrace,
1 loach saw God's pardon in his brother's face !
- Long after, when bis headstone gathered
moss,
Traced on the targum marge of Onkelos
j In Rabbi Nathan's hand these words were I
read:
"Hope not the cure of sin till self is dead:
i Forget it in love's service, and the debt
| Thou canst not pay the angels shall forget;
Heaven's gate is shut to him who comes
i alone;
Save thou a soul, and it shall save thine :
own!" — Atlantic Monthly for October.
pijSfriliiufou.s.
The KING of THE FRENCH PRESS.
The following is translated from the
| German Dahtim:
F.MILE DE GIR.IRDIN.
The Presne created, from the first, a great
| sensation in the newspaper world of France,
i What party M. de Girardin'a journal be
: longed, to, nobody could tell. Girardin was
i not the man to subordinate himself to any
! party; he was bound to have a party of his
own; he had to create it, lead it, and render
it daily more numerous; and this party lie
called no less cynically than cleverly, tin
.party of the tnbtcriLeci! 11.- published in
his paper whatever was spicy, and satisfied
the incessantly renewed thirst of his readers
S for excitiog and startling news. It was he
who introduced in France popular medi
cines by the side of popular science, aud
the local gossip of the Prcste encroached 1
very stroDgiy upon a field hitherto held
exclusively by the Gazette Jet Tribunaux, .
Rising men he would pet, when they
resembled his own energetic, adven
turous and irrepressible character; but the
editor and proprietor of the Prase detested
all those quiet, timid and modest men, who, .
being possessed of genuine talents, shrank
from puffing themselves into notoriety. !
Girardin was the inventor of that well
known system which kilis public men, as
it were, by never mentioning their names.
He issued the most stringent orders to his !
assistant editors and reporters not to mention
the names of such men as were under his
displeasure, aud if they disobeyed him, be
discharged them immediately, M. de Gi- I
rardiu completely ignored such mea in his :
! paper, which at one time had 120,0<j0 sub
bribers, even though all Paris took the
' utmost interest in them; and it is said that
, more than one distinguished statesman, <
who otherwise bade defiance to the storms
;of the Tribune and to public opinion,
bowed their heads before the editor of the !
Prase. We will mention here two names 1
which will certainly surprise our readers; {
Guizot and Thiers.
HIS DUEL WITH M. DEGOUVE DENTNCQUES.
When the other journalists perceived that .
their attacks upon the Prase resulted only 1
in adding to the subscription list of that
paper, they attacked M. de Girardin per- j
sonally, and scarcely a week elapsed but
that an offended author believed he had the
right of sending a ch'lleDge to him. M. de
Girardin, however, was not lung in obtain
ing the privilege of being able to reject all
challenges. He had already fought fuur
duels when M. Degouve Denuncques aocus- j
ed him publicly of having sold kitu.-eif and
his journal to the government. The social
standing tf the accuser, whose personal re
lations were koown to be auch as to enable
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, NOV. 6. 1868.
him to ascertain many things which were
kept secret from a great many others, im
| parted a special importance to his charge.
| Girardin could not wait until public
opinion would compel him to demand
: satisfaction for this terrible insult, but he
; had to anticipate it; for the first time in his
iife he did not accept, but sent a challenge;
for the first time in his career as a journalist
J gross injustice seemed to have been done
him, and M. de Girardin was by no means
I willing not to turn this wrong to account,
j M. Degouve Dcuuncques immediately ac
cepted the challenge to fight a pistol duel
'• with Girardin. He was said to be an ex
cellent shot, and for twenty-four hours Gi
rardin was really in danger without know
| ing it or being informed thereof by his
■ friends. On the duelling ground where
: lots were drawn in order to settle the ques
tion which of them was to fire first, this
danger was much increased, the adversary
of ibe editor of the Presse having drawn the
lucky lot,
M. Degouve Denuncques sai<L at a soiree
on the eve ot the duel, "I am satisfied that
( I shall render a service, not only to France,
; but to mankind, by shooting this man; for
Girardin is no man, but a disease that will
soon extend beyond the frontiers of France
and poison the life blood of literature,"
And he tired with a calm conscience and
steady hand at this man whose life seemed
j doomed, and — missed him. Not a muscle
quivered in the journalist's face, and when
| his seconds signed to him that it was time
for him to shoot he took his pistol in his left
hand, bowed coldly to his adversary, and
fired into the air. Boundless rage seized De
gouve; he demanded that Girardin should
fire once more at him; but Girardin sternly ,
refused to do so. "I am ready," he said, j
"to begin the duel afresh; but nothing will
induce roe to fire at that gentleman."
All Paris, as was to be expected, was in
commotion, and the Prase gained thousands
of new subscribers. 31. de Girardin, who
had succeeded in securing to himself, by
this duel, a position in which the most scru
pulous man of honor could not have found A
flaw, of course did not fail to use it as muck
as possible to piomoto his own interests.
Journalism, then much different from what
it is now, found itself seriously threatened;
and not only journalism, but also book pub
lishers and book sellers, inasmuch as Girar
din had invented the feuilleton of the Pari- j
sian world, and bought the best and most !
interesting works of popular novelists at
prices which seemed absolutely fabulous to
the booksellers of that period.
RECONTRE BETWEEN GIBARDIN AND CARREL !
We have to mentioo now a decisive epi
sode iu Girardin's life, which, it was at first
believed, would become the turning point of
bis career, but which, so far as he was con
cerned, only served to fasten his life irrevo
cably to the lamentable path which he had
entered. Aruiand Carrel, the managing ;
editor of Le National, the ablest and best ;
journalist of his time, and, withal, a noble
and true-hearted man, could no longer put
up with the attacks which the editor of the
Presse made upon him; he sent him a ehal
ltnge, and when his friends rebuked him for
it, he replied. "As long as society has no
laws yet to banish ruch a man from its midst
the duel is the only way remaining to us for
vindicating our wounded honor."
The duel took place, Carrel fired first,
and his bullet struck Girardin above the
knee. With a trembling band and dimmed
glance Girardin pulled his trigger, and Ar
mand Carrel, whom death had spared in so
many battles, fell shot through the abdomen
and uttering a groan of pain. He was car
ried, almost lifeless, pat the spot where
Girardin's surgeon was dressing his wound
in the leg. Girardin, lifting his head, and
seeing Carrel's features distorted with pain,
said in a low, compassionate voice, "I am
afraid you are suffering much pain, 31. Car
rel." The dying editor, summoning his
last strength, raised himself up and said in
a husky voice, yet with a clear and almost
radiant glance, "God grant, 31. de Girardin
that you may never have to suffer more from
your wound than I am suffering from my
mortal wound !" Even Girardin's seconds
hung their heads, and Girardin himself
fainted. Carrel died on the following day.
Fortunately for Girardin, bis recovery
lasted several months, so that time lessened
the impression which this dreadful occur
rence produced, even on the minds of the
frivolous public of Paris. He, or at least
his newspapers, would certainly have suc
cumbed to the general indignation. After
his recovery lie took a solemn pledge which,
it is no more than just to say, he has ful
filled in the most scrupulous manner; ho
swore never to touch a weapon again. He ,
could do so without incurring the sneers of
the French, for he had fought six duels,
and as even his adversaries admit, always
displayed the utmost intrepidity.
Already, in the following year, this vow
was to be tested in a very trying manner, ,
wben Bergeron, the author, boxed his ears
at the grand opera, in the presence of the
eourt and tho cream of Parisian society, !
Girardin did not challenge him, and the j
courts alone avenged the insults heaped on
the editor of the Presse.
WE have no room to follow the career of
the Presse, step by step. A journal without ;
fixed principles, and whose sole object is to
obtain more and more subscribers, and for
this purpose now flatters public opinion and
now boldly defies it, such a journal has a
history on which a whole work might be
written.
PERSONAL HISTORY OF GIRARDIN.
31. de Girardin is now a mtllionnaire.
Journalists no longer dare to oppose hint; i
all of them hate him, most of them even !
despise hint, and yet all of them bow to his
indisputable influence over public opinion.
Suddenly the storm of tho great year 1848
tweaks out — tho storm which M. de Girar- j
din has foreseen, and which he skillfully I
avoids by resiguing his scat in the chamber 1
two weeks liefore the outbreak of the revo- ;
lution. At the first symptom of the great
political convulsion he hastens to the Tuil
eries, aud the advice which he dares to give
the King, and which is, of coarse, contempt
uously rejected, is the only correct and ac- •
ceptable one, and is carried into execution
thirty-six hours afterward, when it is al
ready too late. The editor of the Presse
demanded the abdication of King Louis :
Phillippe, the regency of the Duchess of
Orleans, and a liberal Cabinet. When- all j
this was granted, it was already too late. !
The throne of the son of Phillip Egalite
sank in ruins, and the republic, with La
martine, took possession of the old royal !
palace. The Presse now becomes a socialist j
organ, defends the cause of the laborers j
against their employers, and M. de Girardin
finds this so good a speculation that be re
ceives a host of new subscriptions, and Gen.
Cavaignac, upon whom the National As
sembly has conferred discretionary powers,
has bim arrested during the June riot, aud
imprisons hiui for eleven days. Girardin
revenges himself, after his release, by pla
cing the whole influence of his journal at the
disposal of Prince Loui* Napoleon, whose
candidacy for the Presidency he supports in
the most vigorous manner. When General
Cavaignac withdraws from the adininistra
j tion, and the present Emperor takes the
helm of the Republic, Girardin Itecomcs a
very influential man; the Prase , howeverT
seeuis to be going down; during the Presi
dency, its circulation dwindles down to eight
thousand copies, and the old manocuver of
joining the opposition seems to have lost its
efficacy. The coup d'etat takes place, and
the modern Caesar plays Girardin a shabby
trick by paying no attention to him, and
thereby discrediting him entirely with the
public. As soon a* order has been re-estab
lished, Girardin seizes once more the helm
of the Press? , raises its subscription list by
superhuman efforts to thirty-five thou-aud
copies, and having achieved this result, be
i sells the paper for four hundred thousand
: francs.
I mil 1859 ho withdraws from journalis
\ tic life, and devotes himself entirely tospeo
I ulations; he buys a great many houses in
old streets, at low prices, and, strangely
enough, after a time, all these streets are
ordered to be torn down by the city, which,
as is well known, indemnifies the proprietors
of the houses in the most liberal manner.
It is generally known that M. de Girardin
amassed enormous sums by these specula
tions. We are not aware what else M. de
Girardin was doing during this time; but we
know for certain that in 1859, he had a for
tune yielding him at the very lowest calcu
lation, three hundred thousand francs a
year. In the following year he bought the
Presse, which was now vegetating with six
thousand subscribers, for seventy thousand
francs, and the mere announcement that
the paper has passed again, into his haud
procures to it, in the first week, ten thou
sand new subscribers.
After the Italian war Girardin saw that a
new field opened in France to a party of lib
eral Bonapartists, so ho leaned toward
Prince Napoleon, and underbid auspices he
was so prosperous that, two years ago, he
was able to sell the Presse for three times as
much as he had given for it,
M. de Girardin is now sixty- two years old.
He is one of the richest men in France, and
his name is sure to live in the history of bis
country. Alter the death of his first wife i
he married a lady descended, it is sail, on
the side of her father, from a German dy
nasty lately deprived of its sovereignly. He
has realized the most fabulous dream which
a child, disownej both by bis father acJ
mother, ever had. The world, always wor
shiping mammon, considers him a high
priest of its idol; and yet this man is. per
haps, the unhappiest mortal whom God's
sun shines. Carrel s agony lasted twenty
four hours before God delivered him from
his torments; Girardin's pain has been
gnawing for years past at bis mind, and the
more be plunges into the whirlpool of public
life, the more erushingly falls upon bim the
idea that all his labors, all his struggle* for
wealth have been in vain, lie bad five
times the joy of being a father, and, as
hisfriendssay.it was the most rapturou
joy which the man, whom his adversaries
declare to be destitute of the heart and
eon-cience, ever experienced in his life. -'A
million for a son!" he is said to have ex
claimed at his second wedding; and God
gave him this son, and eighteen months
afterward there opened a sixth grave, into
which was laid the last hope of the realiza
tion of his fondest wish.
He locked himseif in his room for a whole
month after his son's death; no one, not
even his wife, was admitted to him; and
when he reappeared one dav, pale and hag
gard, he bought the Liberie, which had
only twenty-five hundred subscribers, and
which has now upward of ten times as
many.
THE NEW MIDDLE STATES,
The Atlantic Almanac, for 1869, contains
an article on that p>art of our Republic drain
ed by the Mississippi, which on many ac
counts is worthy of attention, a* connected
with the future prospects of increase and
wealth of tho whole country. Not very
long after the settlement of Boston, persons
employed to explore the country they had
done so, as far as they believed would ever
be necessary, which was about seven miles
west of the colleges at Cambridge. This to
them was the beginning of the great West.
Settlements afterwards made in the vailey
of the Connecticut removed the limit a little
further. The Indian wars and the Revo
lution carried it to the Ohio, in our latitude,
and to the Mohawk, further north; then it
soon advanced to the Mississippi, and still
further away beyound the Missouri; and the
Mexican war aud the discovery of gold in
California removed the boundary of our
great West to the Pacific OoeaD. The State
in the valleys watered by the Mississippi
aud its tributaries may, therefore, now be
justly termed our "Middle States."
The Atlantic seaboard ot the United
States extends about 2,500 miles, and the
Mississippi and its tributaries open up an
inland navigation of 30,000, miles, upon the
bosom of which is now floating an amount
of commerce three times as great in value
as the whole foreign commerce of the coun
try. In former times the trade with foreign
ports was looked upon as our most import
ant interest. It is now dwarfed by the
transportation and handling of domestic
produce for domestic markets. In 1860, the
entire produce of the United States was
$1,900,000. Its exports were less.than
one fifth of this amount, leaving four fifths
to be exchanged between the States. It has
been said that at the presant time, not
more than one fifteenth of the business of
New York city is based upon foreign com
merce.
The Mississippi drains 1,685,000 square
miles, which is more than half-the unmbcr
of square miles in the whole United States,
and the surface contains 768,000,000 of
acres of the finest land in the world. It
has space for one hundred and fifty States of
the size of Massachusetts, and were its
population iu the same proportion, it would
contain more than five times the present
population of the whole United States. At
this time not more than one acre in five is
under cultivation, and the vast resources of
coal and minerals have hardly begun to bo
fairly developed. The fourteen States which
| comprise this region claim (though this I
witbout reason) that they pay more than
one-halj the taxes, and that they work more J
than half the improved land, and have a 1
majority of the population of the United
•States. Tho value of the annual commerce
of the 3lissi.,hippi is estimated at $2,000,-
000.000, and the Agricultural Bureau, ba
sing its calculations upon past results, esfi
, mates that in the year 1900 the cereal pro- \
| ducts of the West will amouutto more than |
j 3,000,000,000 bushels.
The values of crops, as well as of the pro
ductions of the mine and the forest, depend !
mainly on facilities for transportation, either I
natural or artificial. The Mississippi is but
one of the outlets of the vast region through
j which it passes. The great lakes open a
j wide belt of the country, and canals and
railroads bring almost every farm within
> ea.-y distance of natural navigation. The
| estimated cost of conveying a ton of mcr '
• chcndise a mile on thfe ocean, is from half
| a cent to one and a half cents; on the lakes, ;
; two cents; on the river two and three fourths
cent,-; on the canals two to five cents; and
I on the railroads from three cents to thirteen
: and a half cents. Of the amount of grata |
received at Chicago, seventy-five per cent
conies by railway; but from that city only ten
per cent, is sent ea*t by rstl, wbil.-t ninety
per cent, is sent by the lakes. The roer
| chants, manufacturers and consumers of the
; East have an interest in reducing the cost 1
; of transporta'ion to the lowest po-sible point,
and this can most easily be effected by iui
proving the water communications. Cheap
transportation is a vital necessity to our
: whole country, and it it is secured, the re
! sources and fertile regions even further
west, will be developed as surely as time
endures, and more rap>idly than we can at
present imagine,
WHAT the ARMY nnd NAVY COST L'S.
The estimates for the current year of the j
United States government for army and
navy together are fifty-seven millions of
dollars in currency—equal to forty millions
of dollars in gold. These are big figures
to be sure; but comparing tbem with the
expenditures of France for her army and
navy, they arc- not BO extravagant as they i
look. This year France, with a much
smaller population than we have, will
spend cne hundred millions of dollars in
gold more than we do, on these two depart i
meuts of the public service alone. With
the same amount of debt and annua! pro
duction. .-he spends in time of peace tw:c3 ]
as much a* we do, and her army an i navy
expenses are three and a half times as large
as our own. Considering that the "Em
pire is at Peace," figures like these dwarf
our national extravagance almost to parsi
mony. Of course Napoleon holds the
dubious advantage of being always prepared
for war. He has at this moment, ready to 1
i respond to the first cannon -hot, one million
two hundred thousand soldiers, equal to any
! the world ever knew, one-fifth more thau
> the whole number we disbanded when our
; "late unpleasantness" was over. Another
t evidence of the perfection (and costliness) of
| the French military system, is afforded hy
dro fact that not only at the Navy but also
at the War office, a committee of superior
officers meet every week to discuss all mat- '
ters affecting the progress of their profes- I
sions, and to examine the reports of cor
respondents from the principal States in
the world, as to the doings of those Power-. !
For the last two weeks, the War office has ,
; hi c:i oec-upied with the subjects of military i
; telegraphy and ballooning, and are said to I
i have before tlrm a plan to remedy that
; great drawback to working the wires on tho
battle fields, viz: the injury caused by.
i horses and carriage wheels. A synopsis of
: the proceedings is forwarded to the Emperor
j next day. Under the direction of this ;
i committee, experiments take pla e nightly ;
with the new tuitraille, the effects of which .
j are terribly destructive. Altogether, peace
| in France must be almost as costly a thing
J as war in this country — Keening Star.
! EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENT
WITH PLANCHETTK.
A few evi nings since a young gentleman j
; made a purchase of one of these tell-tale
! machines, and repaired to tie residence of;
I a young lady, on Walnut street, to whom j
he was paying his addresses, with the hope j
| that Planchette would reveal to him what 1
: he had failed to obtain from his fair dulci- j
I ness. After arriving at the house he man
aged to introduce Planchette, and aceord
ing'y they arranged themselves at tha table,
and succeeded in receiving answers that sat
isfied their minds that Planchette was but
too well acquainted with the affairs of the
world and what lies in the future. Km
| boldcncd by success, the lady propounded,
j mentally, sundry questions, and very
prompt answers were returned.
As a matter of course, the manipulator
being a young lady, her first inquiry was,
"Shall I ever marry?" "Yes," promptly
came from Planchette. "33 hen ?" "Two
years." "To whom?" "S B."
"Shall we tc happy?" "Perfectly,
i "Shall we have children?" "Yes." "Boys
and girls?" "How manv f" Planchette
i was deliberate, evincing no haste, desirous
i of making no mistake in his figures, but
i wrote with considerable distinctness, "S-e-v
--! on t," when the young lady shoved the io
; dtrnment from her with force that it fell
! upon the floor, and divided in half by the
fall. 33' bather Planchette intended "seven
! teen," or "seventy" was not determined,
I aud we presume time alone can discover the
; entire answer.
| THE most signal benefit the South will
derive from the election of General Grant,
' after the establishment of order, will be the
appreciation of real estate. The bulk of the
iand in many states south of 3 irginia is
worthless. That is, as an investment tho
profits would not pay the taxes. 33 hy it is
so every one knows. The remedy for the
glaring defect is also palpable. Natural
; qualities belong to the soil which make it
J valuable; natural advantages pertain to the
whole section not found elsewhere The basis
of wealth in any country is its reality. An
increase of $5 per acre on Southern land will
lie a Golconda to its people- It will be worth
more than a decade of cotton and sugar
crops, because it will not take to itself
wings.
A GOOD conscience is the best looking
: glass of heaven: in which the soul may see
: Gtd's thoughts and purposes concerning it,
reflected as so many shining stars.
DON'T touch the lute when drums are re
sounding. A wise man remains silent when
j fools arc speaking.
VOIs. 41: NO. 42
EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA.
Further details of the destruction of prop-
I erty in the interior of the State, by the
earthquake of October 21st, have been re
ceived at San Francisco. Alameda county
suffered the most, the damage to property
extending in all directions.
Back of Sau Lcandro there were numer
ous fissures in the earth, from some of which
i 'ame clouds of dust and from ethers vol
, umcs of water. San Lenndro creek, which
was dry for months, is now a rapidly run
ning stream.
From some places hot water still gushes
| forth. The villages of San Loamlro and
Ilayward are almost in ruins. The brick
buildings are all down, or uninhabitable,
and numerous wooden structures are much
damaged. At Ilayward only one brick
buiiding remains uninjured.
Alameda, Brooklyn and Orfean. all suf
fered severely.
The destruction of property at San Jose
and Brashear City is grout. The friiek and
adobe homes of the Mission of rian Jo.-e are
a mass of ruins.
: At Stockton and Mary.-ville the injury to
buildings was slight.
Fetoluma, Health-burg, Santa Rosa, Val
lejo and Martinez felt the frill force of the
-hock. Chimneys and fire walls were thrown
down and much damare was done t . prop
; erty.
The loss is considerable at L • Apg-'do*.
At Visallia the shock was -light and no
damage was done.
Santa Cruz, Monterey and Watsonvillc
suffered little loss.
In the State of Nevada the earthquake
was scarcely felt.
The San Francisco committee of archi
tects, appointed bv the board of superinten
dents, report the city hall unsafe, and it will
have to be takeu down;'meanwhile the city
officials and courts will find other quarters.
The other city buildings are uninjured to
any great extent. The school houses are
not much damaged. The United States
Marine Hospital has been condemned by
the proper authorities, and will be demol
ished. The patients are at pre nt encamp
ed on the grounds adjoining the hospital.
The custom house is wrecked to such an
extent that probably it will not be occupied
again. The officials have removed tempo
rarily to Ileywood's building, in 'California j
street. An annv of laborer 3 ls at work to
day on the shattered buildings and rem: v- j
ing the debris from the streets.
The merchants show no disposition to .
abandon their property or the location, some j
of the structures are being taken down and
others repaired. The vicinity of the wreck
ed.buildings is a busy scene.
The shock that occurred on the morning
of the 23d October, caused additional dam
age to the injured buildings. Some chim
neys of the different manufactories, which
suffered considerably by the first -hock, will
now have to be demolished and rebuilt.
No definite estimate of the damage to
property can lie made until a proper survey
of the entire city is made. Some person
| estimate the loss at $300,000, and other- at
$2,000,000. The latter figure is probably
nearest the loss.
BEAUTY AND BRAINS.
Meu do not eare for brains in excess in
women. They like a sympathetic intellect
which can follow them, and seize their
thoughts as quick as thc-y are uttered, but
they do not much care for any clear or spe
cial knowledge of facts; and even the most
philosophic among tbem would rather be set
right in a classical quotation, an astronomical
calculation, or the exact bearing of a politic
al question by a lovely being in tarlatine
whom he was graciously unbending to in
struct. Neither do they want anything
strong-minded. To most men, indeed, the
temiriiue strong miudedness that can discus
immoral problems without blushing, and
despise religious observances as useful only
to weak souls, is a quality as unwomanly as ,
a well developed biceps or a huge fist would
be. It is sympathy, not antagonism; it is
companionship, not rivalry, still less su
premacy, that they like in woman; and
some women with brains as well as learning
—understand this, and keep their blue
stockings well covered by their petticoats.
Others, enthusiasts of the freedom of
thought and intellectual rights, -how theirs
defiantly, and meet with their reward. Men
shrink from them. liven clever men, able
to meet them on their own ground, do not
feel drawn to them, while all but high-class
minds are dwarfed and humiliated by their
learning and their moral courage. And
this is what no man likes to feel in the pres
ence of a woman, and because of her supe
riority. But the brains most useful to wo
man, and most befitting their work in life,
are those which show themselves in com
mon sense, in good judgment, and that kind
of patient courage which enables them to
bear small crosses and great trials alike with
dignity and good temper. Mere intellect, j
ual culture, however valuable it may be in
itself, dees not reach to the worth of this
kind of moral power, for as the true domain
of woman is the home, and ber way of or
dering her domestic life the best of her fac
ulties, mere intellectual culture does not
help in this, and, in fact, is often a hind
rance rather than a help.— Saturday re
vino
TRIE —Dr. Franklin remarked that a
man as often gets two dollars for the one he
spends informing his mind, as he does for a
dollar laid out in any other way. A man
cats a pound of sugar and it is gone, and j
the pleasure he has enjoyed is ended, but I
ihe information he gets from a newspaper
is treasured up to be enjoyed anew, ami to
be used whenever occasion or inclination
call for it. A newspaper is not the wi-dnro
of one man or two men; it is the wisdom of
the age. and of past ages too. A family
without a newspaper is always a year behind
the times iu general information; besides
they can never think much nor find much
to talk about. And then there are little
ones growing up without any taste for
reading. Who then, would be without a
newspaper,—and who would read one
regularly without paying for it?
A TOCNO lady who teaches music in an
academy in Western New York, sent an
order to a publisher, recently, iu which she
had spelled the words very poorly. She
apologized by adding a postscript, as fbllows:
"You must exkews this letter, as I pla bi
note, but spel bi ear."
A CHILD was asked, "What is faithflV —
She answered, "Doing God swill, and ask
ing no questions."
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NV9IFUB.
Between the time of the raw school rirl
and that of the finished youDg lody ii a
aLort season of the nymph, when the phy
sical enjoyment of life is perhaps at its keen
e-t, and a girl Is not afraid to use her iiuiba
as nature meant her to use them, nor
ashamed to take pleasure in her youth and
strength. This is the time when a sharp
run down a steep hill, with the chance of a
tumble midway, is an exercise by no means
objected to; when clambering over gates,
stiles, and even crabbed stone walls, is not
refused because of the undignified display of
ankle which the adventure involves: when
leaping a diteh comes in as one of the ordi
nary accidents of a marsh-land walk; and
when the fun of riding is infinitely enbauch
ed if the horse is only half broken, or bare
barked.
The nymph, an out-of-door, breezy,
healthy girl, more after the pattern of the
Greek Oread than the amazon, is found only
in the country: and for the roost part only
in the remoter districts of the country. In
j the town -he degenciates into fastness, ac
i oordir.g to the law which makes evil merely
I the misdirection of force, as dirt is only
I matter in the wrong place. But amoug the
mountains, in the secluded midland villages,
or out • n the thinly-populated moorland
tracts, the nymph may be found in the fuil
perfection of her nature. And a very beau
tiful kind of nature it is; though it is to bo
feared that certain ladies of the stricter sort
would call her "tern-boy," and that those of
ttiil narrower way of thought, unable to
distinguish between unconventionality and
J vulgarity, would hold her to be decidedly
: vulgar—which she is not —and would won
der at her mother for "letting her go on
so."
Von fall upon the Dymph at all hours and
in all seasons. Indeed, she boasts that no
weather ever keeps her indoors, and prefers
a little roughness of the elements to any
thing too luscious or sentimental. A fresh
wind, a sharp frost, a blinding fall of snow,
or a pelting shower of rain, are all high jinks
to the nymph, to whom it is rare fun to
eotne in like a waterdog, dripping from
•every hair, or shaking the snow in masses
; from her hat and cloak. She prefers this
I kind of thing to the most suggestive beauty
| of the moonlight, or to the fervid heats of
summer, and thinks a long walk in the crisp
-harp frost, with the leaves crackling under
her feet, worth all the nightingales in the
1 wood. And yet she loves the spring and
umraer too, for the sake of the fluwers and
the birds and the leasts and the insects
I they bring forth; for the nymph is almei-t
i always a naturalist of the perceptive . nd
; self taught kind, and has a marvelous
j faculty for finding out nests and rare habitats
| and for tracking unu.-ual trails to their hid
d-m homes. — From the London Saturday
I Kevieic.
| CAN TRAVEL LIKE "PIZEN."
i The electric telegraph is bound to remain
: a mystery to the million, and the ludicrous
i conceptions of its modus operandi, which
omc of the most ignorant people have
; formed, are as mirth provoking as anything
out of Rupelia or Smoller. The last ilius
; tration of this that has fallen under our eyes,
is the following story from the Pittsburg
Journal:
Not long since an old lady entered O'-
Reilly's office, in one of our cities, and said
she had a message to send to Wheeling. In
a few minutes her note was deposited in a
dumb waiter, and ascended in a mysterious
manner through the ceiling.
"Is that going straight to Wheeling
inquired the old lady, with eyes bent on the
ceiling.
"Yes ma'am," answered the clerk.
"I never was there, ' continued she, "but
it bardly seems possible that the town lies in
i hat direction. When wii! I get an answer,
Mr. Telegraph?"
"1 can scarcely tell, ma'am; it may be two
or three hours.'
The old lady went%w*y, and returned in
exactly two hours. J ust as she entered the
door, the dumb waiter came down through
the ceiling.
•There is your answer, ma'am." said the
clerk.
The old lady took the neat yellow envelop
in her hands, with a smile of mingled grati
fication and astonishment.
"Now that beats all," exelaimed she. —
"Bless my heart! all the way from Wheel
ing, and the wafer still wet. That's an
awkward looking box— but it can travel like
pizen."
TiiEl'niversity of Michigan, an institution
that enjoys merited celebrity, has besn en
joined for old fogyism. It appears that by
a statute of ISOS the Board of Regents
were required to appoint at least one profes
sor of homoeopathy in the department of
medicine. This they have persistently re
fused to do. The Attorney General has
presented his petition praying the regents
to show cause why they omit to carry out
the statute, and asking for a writ of manda
mus to compel them so to do. The faith of
the regents in homoeopathy must be weak,
but in allopathy still weaker, when they de
sire to shield it from competition with an
adversary. Oue siege in a court room may
serve to liberalize their views.
A GOOD RULE. —A certain man, who is
very rich now, was very poor when he was
a hoy. When asked how he got his riches,
he said: 'My father taught me never to
play till my work was finished; and never to
spend my money until I had earned it, If
I had but an hour's work in a day, I must
do that the first thing, and in an hour. And
: after this I was allowed to play; and then I
could play with much more pleasure than if
I bad the thought of an unfinished task be
fore my mind. I early formed the habit of
everything in time, and it soon became
easy to do so. It is to this I owo my pros
perity." Let every one who reads this do
likewise.
A WELL-KNOWN author hung up his
stocking in jest last Christmas Eve, and
his wife, very much in earnest, put a baby
in it; whereupon the author said, "My dear,
dam that stocking."
KNOW thyself is a Grecian maxim. The
advantage of carrying it out is that you will
always have an acquaintance at hand, if it
isn't so gorgeous.
A DEVOTEE of fashion predicts that
auother season of short ball dresses, tight
boots, and an agonized expression on the
faces of the wearers, will bo the taehion.