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, THURSDAY. MARCH 11:41369.
YirE PRINT on the inside pages of this
morning's GAZETTE Second page
Poetry, Ephemeris; The "Beautifullest"
Poem, Whipping Grown-up Girls, .Mys
,- tory of Editing, Census of Ignorance.
Third and Sixth pages : Commercial,
:lrinancial, Markets, Imports,Biver News.
Seventh page: State Legielation, Birm
ingham •Councas, 6v. • •
11. 8. Balms at Praakfort. 87*.
PETROLEUM atAntwerp, 54}f.
GOLD closed in New Yolk yesterday
at 182.
THE bill repealing the Tenure-of-Office
act was before the Senate yesterday, and
after some discussion, was referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
A commrrrEE to which the Republican
Senators referred questions relatiVe to the
pending public business, have reported a
recommendation for the passage of the
bill; *Wing the Civil Tenure Act, to
strengthen the public credit, and the
Rooms bank-bill.
Tnz Wirth fJonstitutional Amendment,
- repOrted into the State Senate with affir
mative recommendation by the Corn
mittee on Federal Relations, was fully
debated heat evening, and passed on the
second reading. 'lt will be brought before
the Holm and passed to-day.
TILE new Solicitor of the Internal Rev
.
enue Bureau, Mr. W. IL Burrs, of Mt.
Vernon, Ohlo, is a lawyer of ability and
experience, and has enjoyed fdr years a
distinguished position at the Central Ohio
bar. Personally and professionally,, he
stands at BENCELEY'S antipodes.
Ma. Holm. Was awort‘ into office as
Attorney General yesterday. This puts
an end to the speculation that the Massa
chusetts delegation in Congress held him
in their hands and would sacrifice him in
order to secure Mr. BourvrELL's appoint
ment as Secretary of the Treasury. The
induction of Mr. Hoes into the Cabinet
seems to preclude the possibility of the
State he represents getting anything
more, so that New York will probably l I
have the Treaturership.
Tux intimation of the Post that Mr.
Briwerr's offer to donate the profits of
his business to clunitable'purpo s ses was
intended to deceive, while his real object
was to purchase the consent of members
to a lepeal of the law of 1869, Is disgrace
ful to its reputation for candor. It cannot
be, under all tlie' circumstances, that the
Post believes its own inqit ion . to be
true; and certainly no man of common
intelligence the co untryllirough believes
it deserving of a moment's credence.
THE RECENT DECISION'S of the Supreme
ConFt, upon questions rising under the
Legal-tender Act, elicit from leading jour
nals the most opposite Inferences as to
the ultimate determination of that tribu
zud upon the main question of the con
stitutionality of that Act. While it is
maintained, in one quarter, that the
Court, after recognizing all possible ex-.
ceptions, will aflirm the substance of the
law, others hold that the- present decis
ions are but cautious approximations to a
final decree which shall blot out that page
of our public statutes.
Tan Post insists that Mr. STEWART'S
offer to distribute the profits of his bust
. nets in charity was "all , a sham," and
Mathis real proposition was to divide six
millions of dollars, the estimated profits
of his trade for tour years, - "among the
Congressional ring." Good neighbor! if
you believe that, we ought 'not to hear
any more from you about the venality of
• RepubliCan members of the two Houses.
Six millions is a vast sum. Yet . Congress
was not even tempted, but kept both the
spirit and letter of the law. At this rate,
how many millions does • the Post cop.
pige it will require to induce: Congress
to do a wrong? -.
As intrwzan, the taro positions, we
concur hi RejiresentitivaWnson's
that the subject matter of petitions,
memorials and remonstrances from the
constituencies ought to be made known
to t 1 43 -.Legislature, at the lime of their,
presentation, rather than , to be referied,
Unread; to Committees which are not el•
ways certain to give to them an attentive
consideration. It is, however, not im
possiblo that a practice of reading the full
text'of such papers might occupy an in
convenient share of the hours of daily
business, andlhat ft would meet all de
sirable ends to charge the member with
'the responsibility of presenting,; briefly,
his own statement of the subject-matter
ofleuch papers as he„attbmits, This state
ment' should accompany the &nal refer
ence. Those who went; as we did,
through the great controversy in defence
of the right of petition, will not have it
infringed now.
COFFEE-HOUSE TACTICS
We made allusion, two weeks since, to
the Democratic plan for organizing a
popular pressure upon the Legislature,
against the ratification of the XVth
Amendment: It will be remembered
that the plan which they adopted was put
practically on foot, not only before * the
Article passed Congress, but befpre the
opposition knew even what its tenor
would be. They showered the State with
thousands of printed remonstrances from
the central coffee-house at • Harrisburg,
against an Article which Congress did not
adopt at all. This blunder wits a fair
illustration of that partizan spirit which
opposes any proposition, no matter what,
from a Republican source, , and does not
even wait to see what it is. Of couree,
the mistake was corrected, and new re
monstrances sent out, which have been
signed to order and returned to head
quarters, thence to be laid before the
Legislature. Public opinion manufac- ,
tared in this way signifies nothing, and
we need waste no words ,upop so palpa
ble a blunder as this Democratic protest
against a true Democracy. Had similar
tactics been worthy of Republican adop
tion, we could have matched each remon
stAnce-with a still larger list of petition
ers, not a few of these having inipartially
signed . both.
OUR LONGITUDE.
Through the kindness of -the gentlemen
of the United States Coast Survey Corps,
the Allegheny Observatory has been con
nectedly telegraph with the Observatcry
at Cambridge, and the astronomers at
both of these places are determining their
longitude or difference of time. The
sidereal clock at Cambridge is connected
with that' at Allegheny, and each tick is
heard and dotted down on paper by the
observers in. both places. While this is
going on the astronomers are -watching
the stars and determining - the exact time.
By making numerous observations, find
ing out the mean time at each locality,
and comparinirthe two means, the exact
longitude of each is discovered.
This mode of determining longitude is
an American one, and a wonderful series
of observations have been - going on now
for some time, under the direction of the
Coast Survey. Cambridge has been con
nected with Greenwich on the East by
cable, and San Frani:l4.ml the West by
overland wires. Everywhere the .impor
tance of the work has been recognized
and every possible facility given to the
gentlemen having it in charge. The
officers of the Western Union Telegraph
Company here have extended the wires
to the Observatory and tendered their
personal services, we understand, without
charge. We are pleased to note this evi
dent thorough appreciation of the valuable
work thus being carried out.
GRANT'S DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS.
In the harmony of the recent Inaugural
with the past official expressions of the
Republican party, the opposition press
Dill to see any recommendation either
for that Inaugural or for General GRANT.
That objection,was to be 'expected, but it
has no weight outside of a faction which
would support the new President upon
the sole condition of his betrayal of him
!elf, his country and his party: Since,
in fait, he is incapable of that moral de.
linqency, his partiality to the principles
of Liberty and Justice cannot fail to be
met by the continued "enmity" which
he has encountered, alike in arms and in
peace, for the past eight years.
We learn from the St. Louis Repubfkan,
an opposition journal of considerable
ability, and , of an equal candor, that for
this fidelity, on the part of the President,
"the old , party war -will be continued,
with scarcely a variation." This decla
ration surprises no one who justly regards
the implacable hatred of a faction as the
sincerestof tributes to the truth and the
power of patriotic principle. Nor has
the President waited until this time to
find it out." From that hour when he ac
cepted a high nomination, from the same
political organization which bad for seven
years guarded the ark of the Republican
covenant, and upheld, the hands of the
great Captain who was leading the hosts'
to victory for Liberty and the Law,
ULYSSES S. GRANT , has been the aim - of
an organized and scandalotte defamation.
RIB capacity: his services and character,
personal, military and political, have been
assailed with an ingenious malignity
which spared neither, truth nor the com
monest decencies of a Christian people.
This faction, which now pledges its renew
ed "enmity" to him held up his name as
that of a "liar," a "drunkard," and a
"libertine." They talked about cotton
sPeculations and pronounced him' a
"thief." They pointed to the victories,
which he delivered out of the shock of
the bloodiest battles of this century, and
howled their execrations upon the ',butch
er" of his countrymen. They charged
upon him every private sin, and denied to
him every personal virtue. They,sneered
at his military capacity, mocked at his
plans, derided his preparations, decried
his successes, magnified his seeming fail
ures, impeached his patriotism, and hard
ly cared to conceal their prayers for his
downfall. And when they had exhausted
the vocabulary of rebel hate lilts last cli
ps; of falsehood, they called him a DOl
ocrat Throughout the my, from Cairo
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE : THURSDAY, MA
to City , Point, opposition journals and
speakers never attempted toihelr
personal "enmity" to the leader of the
Republican hosts. Throughout the can
vass of 1868, there was no fabricatioh too
false, no falsehood too vilely base for the
use-of Democraticournals and'orators,,
against the persohal and official services
.tnd character of the Republican candi
date. From Chicago to the White House,
the = hounds of partizan hate have lx‘n
baying oh the track of the "dictator
who was already plotting the overthrow
of all constitutionali liberties." Whether
at Headquarters or in the War Office,
these assassins Of reputation have dogged
his steps with their poisoned daggers,
sometimes delivering ineffectual blows,
oftener willing to wound but afraid to
strike, in sleepless ambuscade for some
moment of advantage, sheltered in the
connivance of an historically infamous
Chief .llagistrate, but, thank Heaven:,
forever baffled in their designs. '
Is it to, this faction of his personal and
political opponeuts that General Gatqcr
owes the vindication of. his personal
name? Does he hold his great office by
their gift or good-will? Would he hold
aught worth living for, or, dead, to be re-
Membered in his honor by a grateful
land—would even the dying, father leave
to his children their rightful heritage of
an unspotted name, if the "Democratic"
success had matched its hate?
Yet in all this Satanic warfare upon a
man whose fidelity to his (ion, to his
country, and to his conscience, has been
his sole offense, we are invited to behold
"a strong disposition on the part of mem
bers of the Democratic party to deal fairly .
with GetteralGnanT." No, gentlemen of
the opposition! He prefers, the country
prefers, every sincere patriot prefers your
impotent "enmity" to your fatal friend
ship. Go on, as yOu began seven years
since. Your "fair-dealing" has no temp
tations for him, and no danger but for
yourselves. Already, a hundred-thous
and honest citizens, whom your "Democ
racy" had too long misled, have forsworn
your future company. Take good care,
or you will lament a still greater desertion.
PRACTICAL EDUCATION
Under this caption, not many days
ago, we presented some considerations
upon the importance of employing the
Western University, located here, as a
direct and powerful means for' the devel
opment of mechanical and manufacturing
interests, by thoroughly preparing large
numbers of youth and young men for
engaging therein. We entorced the sug
gestion by referring to what had already
been accomplished in some of the manu
facturing centers of Europe, and what
farther had been projected, and was cer
tain to be carried speedily into effect.
Nothing can be plainer than that phys
ical labor becomes honorable and remun
erative just in proportion as the mental
faculties are essential to the direction and
consummation:of the required piocesses.
On this account, slavery, as a system of
labor, proved to be a mistake. 'ln order
to hold the slaves In subjection, it
was necessary to keep them in ignor
ance; and their want of knowledge pre
cluded their employment in any but the
ruder Industries. This was among the
great reasons why the South always lag
ged behind'the North in the acquisition
of property. The gains of labor were
as they always will be, in ratio to the
brain-force put into work.
The capitalists of various nations - in
Europe are now engaged in the noble ri
valry of seeing which can surpass the
other in the exactness and efficiency of
the preparatory . educational discipline
given to those who are to direct the great
manufacturing esiablishment. Nor is
this discipline restricted to those who are
to be General Superintendents. Nor yet
does it stop with those who are to be
foremen of dePartments or sections. The
purpose is to reach and benefit the whole
body of skilled workmen, thus lifting the
whole to a higher level of intelligence,
and; consequently, of producing capacity.
Th.., tendency of this movement is to
countervail the Impost duties established
in all countries in which these thanufac
turers design to compete with the domestic
producers. If the body of twori men
abroad shall, by any means, be raised
greatly above 'the grade'of our 'own, in
educational outfit, the latter will-no More
be able to stand the inevitable competition,
than the laborors of the South, in the
condition of Ignorance in 'which, they
were kept, were able to keep up in actual
results with the laborers of the North.
TION.
The treaty just negotiated by Mr.
Cnsurno encounters a bitter Opposition in
the Colombian Congress, wher4 it is
.de
nounced, with not a little plausibility, as
a movement, in the interest of the Panama
Raliro 4 ad corporation, to foreclose the
possibility of a competition. The annexed
extract from the Nuevo Afundo, a Bogota
journal of Jan. 26th, presents the objec
tion very forcibly. Reap':
“The truth about th_edtrea S t at e shis
The Governinent of the iltedhas
contracted with the Ciovernment of Co
lombia that the former shall have the
exclusive privilege for sixteen years and
eight months of not opening a canal, so
that the Panama Railroad Company may
enjoy their present monopoly for that
term, in perfect security, without com
petition; and by this treaty the Govern
ment of the United States, in recompense
for the privilege, compromises itself to
pay Columbia--notting. * * * *
the terms of the treaty the surveys, Abi o
must be made within three veers gem
thedate of its approVal. which surveYz.
maps, Ae., will consist' of imaginary pic
tures made in New York, with perhaps,
the aid of an engineer, to so m e Point of
the isthmus, for mere form's sake, and
thus the first three years are 'gained.
And when the end of the next five years
approaches, some trilling work be
done, sufficient to meet the requirements
of - the second term of treaty, which
brings the time dp to fifteen years; and
this, with the twenty months delay au
thorized by article 19, makes sixteen
years and eight months.from the signing
of the treaty that must expire: kefore
anybody else can commence to expire;
a
canal across the isthmus." ; _
Mathematics, in Geology, in Industrial P.
If any mannftictnrer among us thinks I
wise or practicable to enhance imposts,
,
from time to, time, to, connter-balanco
differences in intellectual training and
activity, he is resting under a manifest
infatuation. •
The Fen of Massachusetts, 'who are
commonly two generations in advance of
the men of any other State, have already
founded an "Institute. of Technology,"
in which they provide Air special training
Cheniistry, in Anatytical Chemistry and
Mettalurgy, in Organic Chemistry, in
Civil and Topographical Engineeringein
Architecture, in Astronomy and Naviga
tion, In Mining Engineering, in Physics,
in Modern Languages, l,a Free Hand and
Machini Drawing, in Mechanical and
Plain Drawing, and in. Military Tactics.
This means that the manufacturers of
Massachusetts do ntit intend to fall be
hind thelit competitors
,elsewhere in that
training f workmen which is a source of
po*er_ and an element of success; that
they do not intend to be shut up to the
necessity of appealing to the government
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to do that for them by • increased duties
which they oiled tohavaddne fOr them
selves by affording facilities for education
to those upon whose skill their own sue
,:
cess depends. Already there has been
complaint that Massachusetts men do not
Stand up forthat larger degree of Protec
tion which the men of Pennsylvania
deem indispensable. Wel do not under
take to decide by what reasons the men
of Massachusetts are actuated; but we
cannot help intimating that it will be well
to explore and see if theY are not influ
enced, in part, at least,' by a justifiable
self-confidence, the. natural outgrowth of
the educational polley they have adopted
and are resolved fully to defelop.
In addition to the regular day class — es
in this Boston Institute of Technology,
evening courses of instruction are main
tained for the benefit of persons of either;
sex who J ere: prevented from availing
themselves of scientific training daring
the day.. The, design is to provide kb
stantial teaching, rather thin merely pop.
ular illustrations of the subjects.
In this connection", and in the absence
of information as to the suCcelis or failure
of these evening classes in Boston, we
will mention that, some twidve or fifteen
years ago, a citizen of St. itouls made a
donation to Hey. Dr. Enuor, Unitarian,
of ten thousand dollars. . He made that
gitt the nucleus of an educittional enter
prise, contributing that Suri towards the
endowment of what is Called, webelieve,
the Washington Universitr i . The ,total
sum since raised is between six and seven
hundred thousand dollars. full course
of day instruction- was established, for
which somewhat'high rates Were charged
—sl7s a year for each pupil. An even
ing course was also established, at $1 a
year for each student. In 1860, the even
ing course was attended by
,eleven hund
red and ninety-nine echolars. Here is
both a suggestion and an encouragement.
Why cannot the manufacturers of Alle
gheny county emulate this liberality, and
find their own ultimate advantage therein?
Twelve hundred boys and young men,
among us, put under regular training in
this way, would speedily tell in the ad
vancement of our peculiar industries.
The Western
_University f has a solid
foundation laid and is under the manage
ment of excellent and wise! men. All
that they need to enable thei4 to perform
this work is substantial •endouragement
in the form of money, to defray the in
evitable expenses. A few of our citizens,
accustomed to take broad views of all
questions, and to att in accordance there
with, have devised liberal things for this
institution, and are willing to go yet
farther, provided a willingness shall be
evinced to co-operate with them.
Nor can we avoid saying Ir. word for
the School of Design. The pupils therein
are doing excellently. No reason can be
given why this establishriiet, and. the two
like establishments—the one at Philadel
phia ant the other at Wilkesbarre—should
not receive State benefactions, I the same
as Normal Schools.
This School of Design deserves special
credit for having engrafted on its course
for young women, an evening course for
young men. For lack both lof means
and room this evening class hai been re
stricted to comparatively stun ;numbers;
but, we happen to know that some ' who
have enjoyed these advantageshavemade
admirable progress in practical fitness for
wsefulness as skilled laborers. A bill to
continue the annual State donaton in aid
of this institution, has passed the House
at Harrisburg. We trust it will not be
allowed to fall in the Senate.
THE DARIEN CANAL SPECULA,
REPARATIONS for ..a series of, well
managed strikes are being made ' by the
workingmenfif New York
,Olty. With
these arrangements-they are re.organiz.
ing their union* and associations, Ictivest
ing them of some of their objectionable
features and of certain principles !which
are inherently weakening, and Putting
the whole organization on a surer and
more subbtantial basis.
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A.vina °unrolls' isiNin of try ing the
tttle to land is...ptanticed ln Hindostan:
Two holes artillutlif2.the:;, dispnted spot,
in each of lii .-....., l4 l4„,tikirliintilts and de
fendant's law/04' "i - one of their legs,
and remain 'theteitt . - `..i3ne of them to
tired, in whiektiiiii 'cli ent is defeated.
In this countirl A l icfl : iip - ijent, and not,
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of T 11, 1869.
Senator Sumner entertains some fear
that our foreign relations will not con
tinue very long, as pleasant as they are
just now. It is known that the revolu
tionary government in Cuba will soon
send an envoy here to demand the same
recognition of them that Spain extended
to the rebels during the war, and it is be
lieved that President Grant will accord it
to them forthwith.
Tho President is severely criticised for
not having appointed the Hon. James F.
Wilson, of lowa, to a position in his
Cabinet. It may be interesting to know
that it is not General Grant's fault , that
Mr. Wilson is not to•day a Cabinet offi
cer. He was tendered the Attorney Gen
eralship, •and upon declining that, was
offered his choice of two other depart
ments, which he also declined. He pre
fers to retire .to private life and the prac
tice:of his profession.
The letter of Commissioner Rollins,
asking for Binckley's dismissal; says: Mr. '
John M. Hinckley was appointed Solicitor
in August last. On the 2d day of the
following month I requested his removal
upon:the ground• that he was a willful
perjurer, or so weak and credulous as to be
made the convenient tool of corrupt and
malicious men. Not having changed my
opinion of him since that time, I have
assign ty ed him no du *hateer an for
the last five months I do not v know w t
that
he has even ostensibly dona a single.
hour's labor for the Government. I have
repeatedly urged his removal, and he has
repeatedly drawn his monthly salary at,
the rate of $4,000 per annum Mr.
Binckleyis notoriously unqualified for his
place. I do not know that he even
claims to be a lawyer. Certain it is he
never undertook to practice law, and the
farce of his employment as Solicitor of
Internal Revenue I do not believe should
be continued under the present adminis
tration
-Is There.a Gulf Stream I
'Whatever doubts may be entertained
by skeptical minds as to the existence of
Homer in ancient and Shakespeare in
modern times, we have supposed that cer
tain leading geographical facts would
never be called in question. There is an
equator, and an ecliptic which is good
enoughto cross the equator (both imagi-
nary lines, and yet unquestionable veri
ties,) at a certain angle thus securing to
the dwellers upon earti many blessings
which we cannot stop to consider; and
there it &North Pole, albeit daring navi
gators have tried to reach it in vain. We all
know from Sidney Smith that the equator
and North Pole have both been "spoken
'of disrespectfully," but we never heard
their very existence denied; and yet here
'comes a certain Mr. Findley, who does
something quite as bold, and declares
there is no such thing es the Gulf Stream! .
What shall we say to this? Clearly we
cannot give up the Gulf Stream. It is
our sure reliance for the explication of all
exceptional conditions of weather and
freaks of the thermometer. It is the
oldest and most beneficent agency of the
great deep.
That this attack on the Gulf Stream
comes from England is amazing enough.
England world be an inhospitable region
but for the tempering influence of ,this
genial current, and should we ever get at
war with her government (which we
trust will never be) we shallonlY have to
divert the Gulf Stream, by joining the
two oceans at the Isthmus, to convert the
coast of Deionshire and the meadows of
the Isle of Wight into a shore as desolate
as Labrador. —N. Y. waning: Pod. •
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° Tag New York Herald says Parson
BlOwnlow presents , the most extraordi
narypicture of physical debility that was
ever before witnessed in , any legislative
assembly. Thad. Stevens 1 might have
been considered, when hrought into the
Senate Chamber on men's Moulders to
take his place among the managers in the
memorable days of the impeachment trial,
the best illustration up to that time pre
sented of the triumph of intellectual will
over a shattered and prostrated bodily or
ganism, but Brownlow's appearance
shows even greater indications of pPysi
cal wreck and ruin, and yet the fatter
lacks nothing of the sumenncortquerable
mental fire and energy that marked to his
latest moments the character of the Great
Commoner.: When taking the oath
Brownlow lay back in his chair, his head
bent down, his - face shrivelled, ghastly,
and of unearthly hue, his hands clasped
in bony, vice-like grasp, and his whole
appearance indicative of great physical
depression. As Mr. Colfax read the oath
the poor old Parson raised his feeble arm,
which shook with palsy and dropped
every moment to his side.", .Assistant
Sergeant -at-Arms Bassett went over and
sustained his arm thrOugh the remainder
of the ceremony, though the old man
made two or three desperate efforts ,by
himself to sustain the right arm by prop
ing it with his left hand. After he had
taken the oath the Parson stretched
forth his hand for a glass of water, Which
shook wildly before it reached his lips.
The ordeal, slight as it seemed, had com:
pletely exhatuited him.
TEE Sault Ste. Marie Canal, it as
serted, being only eleven feet deep, ex
cludes from the navigation of Lake Supe
rior the class of vessels drawing from
fourteen to sixteen•feet of water, which is
requited for the , economical transporta
tion of iron and copper ore. The State
of 'Michigan received 1750,000 acres of
land from the TJnited States Government
to aid in the construction of this improve
ment, on - the tends that only sufficient
toll should be charged to keep the canal
in , repair. Michigan is also prohibited by
her Constitution from making any ap
propriations for internal improvements.
As the means of enlarging the canal, it is
asserted, are withheld by the General
government pa the ground that it is
owne&tuid controlled by 3flchigan, the
Legislature of that State has been urged
to transfer the. Sault Ste. Marie Canal to
the United States. •
Tau ELECTRIC TELEcinars.—.9. new
system of telegraph, invented by Bonelli,
has recently been- brought into public
notice at Paris. The Emperor Napoleon
111, to whom it was submitted, it is stated,
has expressed his complete satisfaction
with the new process—the advantages of
which consist in the perfect and authentic
exactness of the message sent, as well as
the Increased ,rapidity -of transmission♦
The Government Director of the French
Telegraphs has been authorized to offer
every facility necessary for the getieral,
adoption of the new oppanttus.
Washington Items.
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It is a scandalotis fact that when 'Ex-
President Johnson left the White House
he carried off all flie official srec - -
ords, so that there were not even the
form of an appointment left. The mo
tives which prompted such action are un
revealed.
' The Valentine Trade in England.
The Liverpool Mercury says that the
total number of valentines delivered this
year in the postal districts of Liverpool
was 115,000. As in former years, an
immense number of dolls were sent as
valentines. About three hundred objec
tionable articles, such as red herrings,
black puddings and rats, were also sent;
but these were, by order of the Postoffice
authorities, stopped and destroyed. One
gentleman was favorea with a night cap,
which was superscribed "To--,a sleepy
headed gentleman," ttc. • .
About 45,000 valentines were'posted in
the Birmitighanpffice and its sub-offices.
'Of these about 28,000 were for delivery in
the town and rural districts, and 17,000'
for other towns. A corresponding num
ber was received frcm other towns for
delivery 14 Birmingham, making the
number delivered coequal with the num
her posted. Birmingham being a "for
ward" office, about 35,000 valentines
were received there from other towns to
be sorted and again dispatched, making
the total number of valentines dealt with
at the Birmingham office 97,000.
CaxrsTnQe Nmssox is to receive two
hundred pounds for every night she sings
in London. Mahbran received at the
Drury Lane £l5O a night. Lablaohe re
ceived as much, and fifty pounds for a
single singing 'lesson which he aave to
Q ueen Victoria. The second benefit of
aglioni, the celebrated ballet dancer, at
Bt. Petersburgh, yielded her the enor
mous sum of 51,0*0 roubles, . besides a.
large number of costly presents. Page
nini gave violin lessons and charged 2,000
francs for each. Hummel, the • pianist,
left to his heire 375,000 francs in cash, and
a very large number of costly presents,
which he had received at the different
courts of Europe. Among these presents -
were twenty-six diamond rings of the
highest value, thirty-four golden, snuff
boxes, and one hundred and forty-two
splendid watches. Mario and Albotd,
when at the height of their fame, never
sang for less than two thousand. francs,
and TamLerlik received twenty-five hun
dred francs. Hertz and Thalberg each
brought home, from one trip to the United
States, upwards of three hundred thou
sand dollars. Bogumil Dawison received
from Manager Woltersdorf, in Berlin,
ten thousand .dollars for thirty perform..
ances, and in the United States he made
sixty thousand dollars. Rossini was once
offered a million francs, by an enterpris
ing French manager, if he would himself
sing, for six months, "Figaro," in his
opera, "The Barber of Seville." Rossini
declined the offer.
Htnrs.nrrir is, not so bad as it is often
pictured, for even the most fallen are of-'
ten touched with human sympathy. In
the Leavenworth (Kansas) conservative
we find an , account of the rescue of a
young girl only fourteen years of age
from a life of Shame through the influence
of one of those creatures whose sins de
bar them from filling that high position
which their sex and man's love fit them
to occupy. The young girl in question
entered a notoriously gilded den in that
city and desired to be employed as a me
nial. The proprietor informed her thatit
was no place for a respectable gal, and
advised her to return to her friends, and
finally secured her a place of safety at a
respectable hotel. The girl stated that
she had been engaged as domestic in a
minister's family, and that she had two
brothers engaged in business in that city.
These were speedily sent for, and the al
most lost one recovered. No explanAtion
was given by the unhappy girl as to the
cause of her strange misstep. It is. to be
hoped'that she will henceforth bear in
mind that the only true happiness in this
world is to be found in the paths o virtue.
• ML.ODELL, an ambitions m•rubex of
the Ohio 'House of Representatives, in
troduced a resolution into that body on
the 4th inst., eulogistic to Andrew Jelin
son, and inviting the gentleman to visit
the Ohio Legislature. 31r. Hughes, a
Democrat from Butler who enjoyed the
credit of having been beaten in the Dem
ocratic National • Convention in his dis
trict last Fall by - Vallandigham, on - the
score, that the latter was more conserva
tive, and less objectionable to Union men,
expressed a strong deaire to endorse A.
J., and is reported as saying that "he
believed that George Washington was as'
guity of treason as John C. Breckin.
ridge."
OLD Dicxy B. Is a 'very 'wealthy but
very illiterate• Bast India merchant and a
member of the'Oriental Club of Londtm.
One day Dicky took a pair of compasses
and set about examining a large map of
India,
the margin of which Wad illu s .
trated with drawings of the' ild and do
mestic animals of the country. Sudden
ly Dicky dropped the compass ixcamitze
meat. "It can't be! it ain't in the horder
of natur that it should be! impossible! ri
diculous!" "Why, Dicky, what's the
matter?" "Wot's the matter? Vv, this
Bengal tiger ninety miles long!".
Dicky had measured the tiger by the scale
of the map.
LATEST ADVICE! from the Indian ter
litory report large numbers of the red
men encamped about our military posts
and awaiting location upon reservations.
For the rest, it is said that the hostile
bands are now surrounded, and with
broken down• animals, short ammunition,
and no means of subsistence except "the
limits of the chase," there is, at last, a fair
prospect of a final settlement of the In
(Ilan difficult* in the Southwest.
•
ECM HOSTETTERS BITTERS CURE
DYSPEPSIA.
THE WHOLE STORY IN A NUTSHELL..
The °thee of the stomach is to convert the food
into a cream-like semi -Auld, called Cana,. This
eff,cted partly by the action of siolveut,called
the gastric Juice, Winch exudes fromthe coating •
of the stomach, and peril* by a mechanical mom.
merit of that organ,. Which churns, as it were,
the dissolving alb:neat ! The egThut passes front
the stomach into the duodenum, or entrance to
-the bowels, where it is 'Militated to the motion of
the Ixle, and the nutritlogpori lon of it convert
ed into a fluid called Ohy which eventually
be
ow: it Is *Meet that If the great solvent, the •
gastric jtilc not produced In crillrient quan
tity or if t heymechanlcal action of the stomach
is not aufliclentiv brisk, the first procry processglottqw
tfolt will be but Ito perfectlype.rformed. /t isms°
clear that If the liver. which plays such an im
portant part in changing the nourish ng portion
of the chyme Into . toe mate ri al of the Wood, IS •
congested,, or In any unnatural ponditiom the xrceess will not be thoroughly accom
plished. The. result of the two failures Is days
yessafa, complle4ted with eflfournres • -
The mode le which IItrATE IVES'S BITTERS
operate
in such oases is this: they Invigorate the
,•
cellular membrane of the stora,clu which evolves
theoremic juice, thereby Insuring an ample sof-
Ildency of the fluid to completely die...else the
thou.- They. also act upon the nerves of the atom
&elk causing an acceleration of the mechanical
movelnent w•cessery to reduce the. food to
, a
honmgrneous mass. l'hey also act speclfical.Y
at upon the liver, a. rengthtrang, it and so enahllng
se ._produce an ample and regular suppl_ of
for
bile, r the put pose of converting the aturt
particles of.the • Ohymr•into Chyle, and .promo
thepassege through .the bowels ~,of rite migie gs .
debris:
FRB cure
In this way„ HOSTiTTERII
tadypiresinps,lasimaupdiletvveburcooropplualiciallt.,
atigdoterrexngslia.