El tits littibutal etaisitt. TEE OLD WORLD AND T NEW. There , . s checkmate universal In this blind old world of ours. • The earth has lost its vtgor, Men's brains have lost their pow, :es. Alas !'for the young fruits blittra; And the flowers rust cannot looT! Alas! for the lack, e and sun. ALasi for the lowering glocrm! 1, Alas! for the thiratibarreits, Ayr the moors that yield no coral Alas' for the lingering harvests,: 11 • And the still delaying morn! I t By millions starve the beggars \ Around the untitled downs, And the orphans weep in cite alleys Of the igen cud stunptuous tosenti. There "a deaftmate universal, In thisold world of ours; ' 1 he earth has lost its vigor. • Men's bra.nshave lost their powers. - Yet I hear an angel crying, 'Away to the Virgin Land. Away to the doundtess prairie, Fresh from Sod's shaping hand." I • And I see the Eastern sunbeams Feint to the woad free West. And l watch the seabirds .eading To the golden realms of rest. There's a checkmate universal In this dumb old world of ours: The earth his lost th. •Igor, Men's brains have lost their powers. Yet I know the flowering prairies Shall soon r alt with the ripening grain, And the merry strevms now tartan Over the desert Plain. , Break tro old types. lay orothere. Pave roads with Pharaoh's bones, Hew from the Pi molds of the Past The ntnre's temple 'doom —.4ft Ms Year Round. EPHEM R S. —Balfe the composer is nearly scanty years old. 4apt. Mayne Reid is now living in Brooklyn. ,—An exchange sillys "Absinthe con quers love." —The Austrian Bishop Rudiger-is to be made a Cardinal. , —Large deposits of guano have been discov,ered in Russia. .- . —Valuable beds of iron ore have been discovered in Georgia. —Exiiemes always meet. Woman's sphere is .nan's fear.—Ez. —The latest product discovered in the Rocky Mountains is diamonds. —"Old Mr Montijo's son-in•law" is what Rochefort calls Napoleon. —Mottoes for striking mechanics—A little earning is a dangerous thing. —The New Orleans people talk of cov ering the levee along the river front. —The prosped of the International boat race is quite rate-ey—Oom. Bulletin. —Atlanta—The place from which to go to the sea—is called the Chicago of the South. —What mental process resembles a min• nte's reflection? Second thoughts. Punch.. —Black velvet bows with very long ends are now worn by ladies on their shoulders. —Report says that Miss Olive Logan and MiEs Bengal are stopping together at Saratoga. —The patentees of the "Byron Col lar" have comtnenced an action against the ".Atlantie." —The population of Rome, by the re cent census, is 220,532. The ecclesiasti cal population is 8,480. —Mr. Bateman is to bring Strauss with his fine orchestra to this country during the autumn some time. , —Many of the old elms in Yale College grounds have been cut down to make room for new buildings. —A fashionable restaurant is like an cient Egypt, because it has a Pyramid of Ch(e)ops and a Temple of. Isis. —More diamonds have been aiscover ed at the Cape of Good Hope, one of which is said to be worth 280,000! —The Emperor of Austria with his wife and mother propose visiting the King of Italy at Florence in October. —All will doubtless be interested to learn that a son of the Prince of Monaco is to marry a sister of the Duke of Ham ilton. —New York has plenty of rum and water, and jeers at Boston and Philadel phia because they each lack one of those liquids. _ • I -Rumor saps that Ralph Waldo Em erson and Oliver Wendell Holmes have a pair of gloves •bet on the international boat-race. —A street preacher was arrested in Philadelphia on Sunday last. He ob structed the sidewalks and interfered with i church goers. —Henry Kingsley, the well known novelist and brother of Rev Charles King sley, is to be the editor of the Edinburgh Daily Review. —An exchangelays: What is the dif ference f between an editor and a wife? One sets articles to rights, and the other Writes articles to set. —The second moon which we are short ly to have, , is to be nearer the earth than the old one with which _we have hereto - fore managed to get along. •;--A new opera of Wagner's is to be 1 brought_out you , gorgeously in Munich this week. It contains, among other lio*elties, a Oltatring scene. -A.Cassablaiica has revived, he is one of the gentlemen cOmootting_ the committee iiipoiritecl, some dole since in France, to .examine the. Senates Consultum. -The porter of the Temple of Isle, at ,ithebee, had a daughter. This girl died, And her interesting remains in the shape of a mummy have recently been found. " Paris has a velocipede with five • • wheels . We have always regarded the Oh' wheel to a coach as rather unisefal, :but with 'a velocipede it may be different. —Spritualists are boring for oil in the midst, of Tonawanda swamp in _New A.ptedium has given the informs. .datithat a 450p,000 well can be struck ~ just there -] Two boys in a Chicago prison tried in Vain to get out through a small hole; i 4 ; I' -I they then got soft sotn;' after smear ing themselves over succeeded in slip ping through and escaped. —Mr. Burlingame's French interpreter was thrown from his horse and injured, and for some days the Chinese were un able to express their feelings in a way that could be understood. —Female compositors were employed in. Italy as early as 1481. We are unable at present to state what wages they .re ceived, or how they compared with the wazes of men at that time. —An Austrian woman has been arrest ed for the horrible offence - of bleeding young girls and drinking their blood to replenish her own supply. On being de tected she tried to poison herself. —Napoleon, Wellington, Humboldt and envier were all born in the year 1769. It is curious to try and imagine in just what condition the world would now be if these four had never been born. —The wife of a judge at Odessa in sulted a coachman, who summoned her before her own husband in his official ca pacity. The justice issued a warrant for his wife, investigated the affair and fined her fifty roubles. —The royal family of Prussia have subscribed quite liberally to the Hum boldt monument which is to be erected there, and the so-called Feudalists in Prussia have taken offence at such liber ality in such a cause. - —Nark Twain, who has just assumed his duties as one of the editors of the Buf falo Express, says he intends hereafter to give up swearing, though he don't see very well how taxes and house rent can be discussed without it. —A friend who was unable to go to England to see the International boat race, now congratulates himself that he has staid at home, as the cable will bring over the news of the result several hours before the time settled for it to take place. —At a recent meeting of the Ladles' Sanitary Association of London, at which a number of prominent surgeons and physicians were present taking part in the proceedings, it was decided that there are not at pesent sufficient data to war rant the present law compelling vaccin ation. —ln St. Louis they propose to , cele. brate the Humboldt centennial by pope. lar festivities and the erection of a grand observatory, vivarium or zoological gar den. Which of these three desirable things will be chosen as the lasting monu ment to Humbo:dt, remains as yet to be determined upon. —A curious old portrait has been dis covered of Napoleon I, painted at Ajaccio in March, .1773, by Cavalluci. The future Emporer was then but four years old. He is dressed in a sailor's costume of dark olive green, and wears painted shoes, with silver buckles. Thick hair fang over the child's forehead. —The Jewish feast of the Atonement comes off on the same day as the Hum boldt centennial and some of the Hebrews of Cincinnati desiring to take part in the Humboldt festival, have addressed the committee, having that matter in charge, requesting the postponement of the cele bration for one day. —One of the most clarions l instances of the community of art is to be , seen in the Cathedral 'of Cologne which is now being rapidly pushed to completion. It is a Roman Catholic Church, while the repairs and other work now being done on it are at the expense of the King of Prussia, an ardent Protestant. Tun London correspondent of the Chi cago Tribune says: Mrs. Linton is the contributor to the Saturday Review of the "Girl of the Period" articles, which gave terrible offense. Her husband, an able engraver, has been in the United States, I believe, for some time, and I am sure his talent must have been dis. played there. Before her marriage, Miss Lynn published some novels which at tracted considerable attention by the au dacity 01 the theories which were broach ed, as well as by the incidents detailed. Mrs. Linton, I understand, is collecting her 'contributions to. the Saturday Re view, and a remarkable volume she will make. There seems no possibility in these times of preserving the anonymous long. A year is the outside. Perhaps the secret of the authorship of "Ecce Ho mo" was kept as well as auy of recent date. There were all sorts of guesses until at hat Prof. Seely's name crept out. The "AmaU3ur:Casual" was another success for a time, but the gentleman in question fell out with the conductors of the peri odical in which his adventure appeared, and ultimately Mr. Greenwood published his name as the author. The Saturday Review; perhaps, would have preferred the anonymous to the "Girl of the Period" contributions, and would like the surmises as to Marchionesses and Duchesses best, for Mrs. Linton, though a clever woman, is out of the silver fork school to which the Saturday Review professes its con tributors are restricted. SISIIARCIC had a world of bother be f3re his'courtship of Mlle. Von Pattliani7 Mer was brought to . a connubial conclu- Mon. The old baron was quite wrathy that "that madcap Bismarck should have the courage to apply for the hand,of my dear, gentle Johannah." The old.baron ness was still more obdurate, and it was not until Bismarck came to Read , ' in person, and in her presence passionately pressed his sweetheart to his breast, that she relented, cried a bit, and said, "Bless you, my children." On the wedding trip • Bismarck met his sovereign, Sing Fred erick William IV, in Venice, was invited to dine with the old potentate, who then and there saw the stuff of which he was madil, and at once took him into his con fidence. Mns. STOWE abhors Calvinism as much as she abhors slavery. In her Okitoton Folks she attributes the lapse from virtue of.one'of the female characters to Calvin ism, and in her defense of Lady Byron, which bas just appeared, Mrs. Stowe, through the mouth of Lady Myron holde "the Calvinistic theology ea heard. la Scotland ai responsible, partially, at least, for ," the social erhnee of Lord Byron. rinsaugp„,GAZETTE: THIIIISPA.Y; AUGUST 26, 1869 Woman's Sphere A. Miss Catharine E. Beecher, by re quest, read a paper *fore the National Teachers' Association, in session in Tren ton, N. Y., entitled, ' , Something or Woman better than the Ballot," from whieh.we extract the following: How much there is included in wo man's distinctive and appropriate duties, and how much science and practical training are demanded properly to pre pare for them, few realize. The selec tion, preparation and care of food and drinks for a family, are, in Europe, made an art and science, to hich the meet lit erary and cultivated devote attention The selection, fitting and making of clothing are other branches for which science and training are demanded. The CM of young infants and the nursing of the mothers demand science and practical training as much as any profession of the other sex. The management and gov erning of young children require as much training and skill as the duties of the statesman or warrior. The nursing and care of the sick, if performed by conscien tious scientifle and well trained nurses, would save thousands of the victims of ignorance and neglect. And then 'there are out, door professions connected with a home which are as suitable for women as for men. The business of raising fruits and flowers is especiall suited to woman as , also the management of the dairy; and for these the other sex are regularly instructed in endowed agricultural schools, while wo men cannot share these advantages. The arta that ornament a home, such as draw ing, painting, sculpture, and Dindscape gardening, are peculiarly appropriate for women as professions by which to secure an independence. Yet but a few have the opportunities which are abundantly given to the other sex. These are all em ployments suited to woman, and such as would not take her from the peaceful re treat of a home of her own, which by ;hese professions she might earn. A collection of the more remarkable precedents of love-letters, well chosen, would be both useful and interesting; and it would not he impertinent to ex amine how far the modern facilities of in tercommunication may not have induced some deterioration in the style of amor ous composition. Southey, apropos of the loves of Leonard Ban and his cousin Margaret, observes that theirs were not times in which a sigh could be wafted across the country by mail-ce ach at the rate of eight miles an hour. What would he have said of these days, in which, for three cents, half an ounce of assurances of unalterable affection maybe transmitted from New York to Boston in a few hours, or, indeed, the sigh (if under twenty words) may be wafted Instantaneously by electric telegraph? Here we may observe that, in actions for breach of promise of marriage, written evidence of the prom ise, though its absence may weaken the plaintiff's case, is far from being a sine qua non. For example, in a case tried some years ago, in which a marine-store dealer. was the defendant, and a damsel of Portsmouth the 'plaintiff, defendant's counsel insisting very strongly that not a single scrap of love•letter was produced on , the other side, the learned judge warned the jury against attaching much significance, observing very pertinently that it was absurd to expect that the man would occupy himself with writing love• letters to the young woman, when all he had to do was to go round into the next street and put his arm around her waist. Ups anti Down! of. Fortune An English paper has the following: "At the last meeting of the Paddington Board of Guardians, F. B. Prescott, Esq., banker, in the chair, the Chairman stated that while visiting the infirmary, he had been accosted by a pauper Inmate who a few years ago was in possession of property worth from fifty thousand to sixty thousand pounds; was a blood relation to one of the highest peers in the realm, and vitose fortunes bad been completely broken by the failure of Messrs. Overend and Guerney's concern. This man, who Is seventy years of age, after recounting in a forcible and intelli gent manner • the difference between the present and his former mode of lining, and, also, after stating that he had met with every kind ness from the work house officials, asked him (the Chairman) to request the guar dians-to grant him a few indulgences- be yond those accorded to the lower sub stratum of paupers living In the work house. The Chairman added that such had been the gentlemanly behavior of the man while in the house that the mas ter and matron had frequently supple— mented the diet usually allowed by little luxuries which they had paid for out of their own pockets. After the vice Chair man had expressed his ;regret that the law did not allow guardians •to draw a line of demarcation between the treat ment of the well•conditioned and ill-con ditionad pauper, the Board resolved that Lord be written to, informing him of his relation's present circumstances. Pr sus been ascertained that the climate of Key West, Florida, has a similar adap tability to the manufacture of cigars as that of Cuba; and that a celebrated Ha. vans cigar manufacturer determined to try the experiment of establishing a large factory for the manufacture of cigars at that point, which is said to have proved a success. The tobacco is brought from Cuban fields and 200,000 cigars per mouth are now being turned out from-the Key West establishment. They are said to equal in flavor the finest brands of Cuban clgars v and can be furnished to . American consumers at from thirty to forty per cent. less than, the present prices asked and paid for similar articles. More face tortes will be speedily established at Key West, and altogether there is a good prospect ahead for sinokers; that is if the whole thing is not': clever dodge for smuggling purposes. WB ABE =Wed. to observe that many prominent journals, which ridiculed the idea of the Empress of France visiting' the United States next summer, a fact first announced in this journal, have since informed their readers that cottages have been engaged - at Saratoga, for the use of the Empress and her party. The Prince I y mperial who is now in his four teenth ear, will accompany his royal mother, mother, and the entire cortege will con sist of about thirty persons. The Em press wil! visit Boston,Newport, New York, Saratoga, and iagara Falls, and may possibly extend her tour to Califor nia, proceeding to PhiladelPhia, Balti. more and Washington on her return from the West., "It has been one of my dreams to:visit America," said the Em press to our informant,next year I shall see New York and Niagara Palls," Appteton's Journal. Love—Lettere. SEIJP LABELING FRUIT CAN TOP COLLINS & WRIGHT, Re are now prepared to supply Tinners and Potters.- It Is I)erTect, simple. and as cheap as the plain top, having the names of the various Fruits stamped upon the cover. radiating from the center. and =lndex. or pointer stamped upon the top of the can. It is Clearly, Distinctly and Permanently by merely , piecing the name of the fruit the can cortains opposite the po.nter and sealing In the customary manner. ,h , o preserverof fruit or geeingousekeeper will use any . other after once t. tah2s = r e t k 23 . •• ; • ViTATEB PIPES, _ " CHIMNEY TOPS A large assortment. HENRY IL COLLIMES. apl4:hll Sld Avenue.neir Smithfield St. DRY GOODS, TRIMMINGS. 2,000 POUNDS OF 211 AT 60011 COUNTRY YARN, Which we have been selling for several gears. JUST RECEIVED. FLANNELS; AT LOW PRICES, Full Line of Colors. BUMMER GIOODS, j AT REDUCED PRICES. 3:1C1C13, igh313.1.11t9, A FULL VARIETY. CORSETS, all the best makes. PAPER COLLARS OF ALL DESCRTPTIONB . AND A FULL STOCK OF Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods. WHITE GOODS, HANDEBBCHIEPS, LACES, TRIHMINGS. BUTTONS. MACRITM, GLYDE & CO, 78 & 80 litarket Street. 00 Di 4% ck 3 e 0 b , hi p F . 4 W. rl Pir m g 4 1: 1 4 cal tri t=i €4 re 4 mo FA E as tn E 4 OD P . 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SPECIAL BARGAINS IN MEN'S HALF HOSE. E FANCY SHIRTS To be Closed Out Very Cheap. QUAKER CITY FINE SET Of which we are the Sole Agents for this City. are unsurpassed in quality. style, make and excel lence of fit. It is a make of Shirts that has become Standard, and for which the demand is STEADILY INCREASINC We have these Shirts in all sizes FOR EYELETS AND STUDS To Open at the Back. (FINE DRESS SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER Mso, Wholesale Agents for the Celebrated "NORWICH MOLDED Linen Collars and CuEs, SAP,ATOGA, NEWPORT, NIAGARA, P rlirLC:lltl .fit Manufacturers Prices PUTNAM & ADAMS saborsair SHING GOODS FOR A LARGE LOT OF THE ALSO, 72 Fifth Avenue, OMEM POSTOPPICL CARP-ET$. CARPET S, Floor Oil Cloths, 3111.1L9C u r IN G !3! Window Shades, AT LOW PRICES. We offer many . of our goods much below last Spring's prices. Those needlig goods la our line can save money by buying at once. BOVARD, I ROSE tk, CO., 21 FIFTH AVENUE, j7l4l:daT NEW FALL STOCK. CARPETS, The First in the Market D THE CHEAPEST. CHOICE PAT'TERIiB Two-ply and Three-ply CHEAP INGRAIN CARPETS. THE FINEST LI OF BODY _BRUSSELS E..ver Offered in Pittsburgh• ,*ye time and money by buying from McFARLAND & COLLIN. No. 71 and 73 FIFTH AVENUE. auZ:d aT NEW CARPETS! aru.rie, MEMO. We are now opening =assortment unparalleled in this city of IrtNEST VELVETS BRUSSELS TREE-PUS, The Very Newest Designs, Of our own ree.nt Importation and Selectedfrom eastern manufacturers. MEDIUM AND LOW PRICED TN4G-rt ArNS, VERY SUPERIOR QUALITY AND COLORS. An Extra Quality of Rag Carpet. ' We are now gelling manT of the above at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. • BROS., ..ro. 51 FIFTH' .4NEXUE, Jen OLIVER ICLINTOCR & CO. • RAVE JUST RECEIVED A FINE SELECTION OF EUITSSELS, TAPESTRY BRUSSELS THREE PLY AND INGRAIN CARPETS. THE LARGEST LSSORTAILIT OF WHITE,CHECK & FANCY MATTINGS, FOR SUMMER WEAR, IN TEE CITY. STOCK FULL IN ALL DEPARTMENTS OLITEU McCLINTOCH & CO'S. 533 FIFTH AVENUE LITHOGRAPHERS. 81.214.11.31321 323.113; SINQERLY & CLEIS, Successors to Ozo. T. BOOOMIYAN a CO., 1 - PRACTICAL. LITILOGRAPHEBS. The only Steam Lithographic "Establishment West of tre Mountains.-Business Cards, Letter Beads, Bonds, Labels, Circulars, Show Cards, Mimes. Portraits, Views. Certificates of De sosita, Incitation burls, so.. Nos. 7$ sad 74 sated street. Pltesharsh. DR. QONTINVES TO TREAT ALL private diseases, dypbßle In all its forms, all ary diseases, and the effects of mercusg e ns completely eradicated; Spermatorrhea or nal Weakness and Impotency, resulting teem self-absuse or other causes, and which produces acme of the following erects, as blotcnes, bodily weakness, indigestion, consumption, aversion to soclery, unmanliness, dread of fuMre events, loss of memory, all so i n t d r o altenngc e,hnocturnal) s emission..y rnendfen m y arria p g os unsatat t ac e oy, and s h m ef a r o e imprudent, are permanently cured. Persona af flicted with these or any other delleatq Intricate or long standing constitutional complUnt silo= give the Doctor a trial; he never tails. A particular attenUongiven to all Female em - plaints, Leuoirrbes or Whites, Filling, inflam mation or Ulceration of the Womb, Ovatitis, pniritis, Amenorrhoea. Menorrhagta, Dysmen- • norrhoes, and bterility Or Barrenness, are treat. ad with trus greatest success. It is selforrldent that a physician whoconfutes himself exclusively to the study of a certain class Of diseases and treati thousands of cases every year must acquire greater skill In that specialty than one In general practice. The Doctor publishes a medical pamphlet of fifty pages that gives a full exposition of venereal and private diseases, that can be bad free &Lonnie or by mall fOr two stamps, In sealed envelopes. every sentence contains instruction to the at dieted, and enabling them to determine the pre. else nature of in complaints. The establishmen comprising ten . ample moms„ is central. Do ctors is not coavenient to Thit the city, the opinion. can be ob. tainel by giving a written statement of the case, and medicines can be forwarded by mall or ex. press. In some Inatanees, bowevee, a personal examination Is absolutely necessary, white nn othemdally personal attention is regaled. • lad for the accommodation c f such patients there aft . apar=ents connectenurith the office that are 'tided with every requisite that Is calm promotcovery. Including medicated e l m,. baths. AU prescriptions are prepared Its wi Doctor's own laboratory, under his 2ersofi v a . or.„ Medical pamphlets at, omee = W aal :bravo stamps. No matter who. or felled. read what be say*. Hours 9 Aar. to pu r e e ; 31101i/tie K. C ourt H enn . ) . No. 9 WY.Ella ISTRIAT. Meat puti 14188. LV (Second Floorb