text: *fr ; • rr ■ < > - jij j; i <'! e ,4 vrv ixTrrn n 4 1 r vr'lJ'l) l mil .tai lk> /inn ■1 ni uinllilj M rJi, SI-50 I’ER ANNUM. BEL AIR. Ml). FRIDAY MORNIFG, APRIL 30, 1869. VOL. XIII.—NO. 18. ,, ■— i. inn ’' memmmmmm—mm—mmmmmmmsmmmmmmmmmmm - ■ TRUSTEE’S SALE. 1N pursuance of ■*. dfcopce of the Circuit * Cautx for Harford County, as a Court of ■Equity, the subscriber. s trustee, will offer -at Public Sale, at the Court House door, in 00l Air, on Taesday, 11th. day of May *1869, ■at 114 'oVdock, A. M., all that TRACT OR PARCEL or la AND ■situate in Harford County, Maryland, formerly the property of Richard Mitchell, composed ot two tracts called “HARMER’S ADDITION,” AND •‘SHEWAN’S HUNTING •GROUND,” CONTAINING 121 ACBRS, MORE OR LESS. It lies and bounds on the public road &im Havre dc Oruce, by Mud Town, to Hel Air, and is well known by the name of “Shkwan’s Hunting Ground.” The improvements arc a good two storv FRAME HOUSE, 49 feet front by 19 feet, with a Store Room annexed, in L shape, 25x16 feet, fitted with ■Counters, Shelves, &c. Outbuildings are Barn, Spring House, fvtnAke-House, Stabling, Carriage House, Corn Crib, &c. I location it is well suited for business. TERMS OF SALE Prescribed by the decree are: that one ■third the purchase money shall be paid in ■cash on day of sale, one third in six, and Dhe balance in twelve months thereafter, the credit payments to bear interest from day of sale, and to be secured by notes of purchaser, with surety approved by the Trustee, who, bn payment of the whole pur •chasc money, is authorized to execute deed. HENRY D. FARNANDIS, Trustee. J. S. Richardson, Auct. ap9 TRANSFERS AND ABATEMENTS. The County commissioners for Harford County will meet at their office in Bell Air on MONDAY and TUESDAY, 6th and 6th of April, and every Monday and Tuesday until the 17th and 18th of May, to make transfers and abatements. All persons interested will attend, as no abatements or transfers will be made after the 12th of May. Persons making application for transfers of property will be required to comply with the following sections of Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws: Section 18. Whenever any person shall make application for any allowance or deduction on account of the sale, transfer, alienation, loss or removal of any property, to the collection or payment of any public or private security for money, the County Commissioners, or Appeal Tax Court, shall interrogate him on oath in reference thereto, and the disposal of the same, and especially inquire of him to whom the same has been sold or transferred, and the amount of purchase money, or the money collected, and how the same has been invested. Section 19. They shall also interrogate and person on oath in reference to any acquisitions or investments made by him and not already assessed, and the amount of all such acquisitions and investments shall be added to his assessable property, and if he refuses to answer, no allowance or deduction shall be made on his assessment. By order of the Board, JAS. A. FULTON Clerk. IMPORTANT NOTICE TO FARMERS! MAKE YOUR OWN PHOSPHATE THE undersigned, having purchased from All our A. Winfield a right to manufacture and sell their celebrated Fertilizer in Dublin District, in now prepared to sell individual rights, every farmer can, after obtaining one of these MAKE THIS OWN PHOSPHATE, a rate of from $5 to $10 per ton, required to many people best fertilizers now in use, thereby saving from $25 to $30 per ton. By paying $10 a receipt will be given, with full Profits and directions, for making this important Fertilizer, explain the mode and manner of manufacture and the same. Individual rights can be obtained under the undersigned. ANDREW B. LINDS AV. ADMINISTRATORS’ NOTICE This is to Give Notice, That the subscriber has obtained from the Register of Wilmington county, Md., Letters of Administration the personal estate of SILVER, late of the county, deceased. Alpkinson has claims against and hereby notified to exhibit the same, with file legal vouchers thereof, on or before the 3rd day of May, 1878. They may otherwise be excluded from all benefit of Snakes. Given under the hand and seals of the 24th day of March, 1869. S. HANNAH SILVERS R. L. MORGAN, Administrator C. T. A. YOUNG LADIES HE IT AT THE or THE INJURIOUS EFFECTS of Powders and Diseases. All such remedies show up the pores of the skin, leaving a short time to destroy the complexion. It would have a splendid, healthy, and youthful appearance, unless Helinbo's Extract Sarsaparilla. IMPORTANT LECTURES TO GENTLEMEN ONLY. ON OF INTERESTING, INVALUABLE AND SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS, showing how TO LIVE and WHAT TO LIVE FOR, Am always delivered Daily at the BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. THOSE who attend can receive cop; by I’m ward In 25 cents to the Secretary of the BAt JIM (RE MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, it.W HU.tlMr.Kfl, Mil. •.IN, SHEET J RON and HOLLOW WARE, for Sale In * VAACAMOR * L 4 - ■ V I Trustee’s Sale! of Virtue of a Decree of the Circuit Court for Harford County, as a Court of Equity, the Subscriber, as Trustee, will offer at Public Sale, at the Court House Door, on Bel Air, On (Tuesday the 4th day of May, 1869, at 12 o’clock, A.M., all that TRACTOR PARCEL OF LAM & situated on DeCoy Creek, in Harford County, and containing 83 ACRES, MOREYOR LESS, and being the sums land of which Wm. Turner, late of said county, died seized, and adjoining the lands of Wm. Stansbury and others. This Farm has about 65 acres in cultivation, the balance is in wood. All of it is under excellent fencing, and is divided into convenient fields, with water in every field. The Improvements consist of a new TWO STORY frame DWELLING, 40x20 feet, Stable, Com House and other outbuildings, and Orchard of good fruit, and also a Young Orchard just beginning to bear. There is a Pump of good water at the door, and Spring and fine Stone Spring House near the dwelling. This property is situated on the road leading from Maj. Abram Rutledge’s to Fawn Grove, about two miles from the latter place, on upper Deer Creek, well known as one of the best farming sections, and in a neighborhood not surpassed by any in the county. It is convenient to churches of all denominations, schools, mills, etc. TERMS OF SALE. One third cash, one third in six, and balance in 12 months, credit payments to bear interest from day of sale, and to be secured by notes of purchaser, with approved security. P. H. RUTLEDGE, Trustee. HANWAY’S WOOLEN FACTORY! Pleasantville, Harford Co., Md. REDUCTION OF PRICES FOR 1869! BATES OF MANUFACTURING. Dressed Cloth, -  “ Blankets,.... $4,00 per pair. Stocking Yam, - 45 cents per lb. We also keep all the above goods for sale, or exchange for Wool. STOCKS & LOMAN. 1869, 1869. Our goods, Notions and Family Groceries. We wish to inform the public that we are opening a very complete stock of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, which to cash buyers we will sell at prices that cannot fail to please. Give us a call. T. B. BATEMAN, Agent for the Company, Frankville, Balto. Co., Md. mh26 NOTICE. Thirty days after the publication of this notice, application will be made to the County Commissioners for Harford county, to open a public road, commencing on the road leading from Hall’s Cross Roads to Garrettson’s Chapel, at the south corner of the land called the Bog, belonging to the heirs of Daniel Martin, and running through the land of said heirs, Lewis Monk, Phil, Monk, J. Wesley Paca, Benj. S. Courtney, Jno. P. Dallam, Joel S. Garwood and Miss, Fannie Preston, intersecting the public road leading from Boothby Hill to Perry's Mills, at)2-* WANTED: WHEELWRIGHT to take charge of Shops at Edgewood. A good work man will find steady and paying employment. Apply to WM. MECHEM, Edgewood, Harford Co., Md. mh26 JOS. M. SIMMONS, COAL DEALER, AND Quality HARD and SOFT COALS. HARVEY DE GRACE, MD. Notice to Teachers. IN consequence of a more favorable condition of the finances than was anticipated at the last meeting of the Board of County School Commissioners, the Board I have determined to continue the Public Schools during the Summer term—from the First Monday of May until the fifteenth day of July. First Monday of May until the fifteenth day of July. Teachers will take notice and act accordingly. By order of the Board, B. F. MYERS, President. Benjamin Chebney vs. Anv Frances Goruelu (In Equity. James L. Gorrellletai. ORDERED, this 21st day of April, 1869, that the sale made and reported by A. Preston Gilbert, trustee for the sale of the Real Estate mentioned in the above cause, be ratified and confirmed, unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown on or before the 16th day of May next; provided a copy of this order be inserted in some newspaper printed in Harford county, in each of three successive weeks before the 15th day of May next. The report states the amount of sales to be $1,485.37. A. L. JARHETT, Clerk. True Copy, Test, AL. JARHETT, Clerk. Jesse F. Walton, John J. Barnes, formerly W. C. W. BorguK A Son. WALTON BARNES FABOCALES GROCERIES LOW FOR CASH. North Gay Street, Corner Monument, BALTIMORE, MD. Trustee’s Sale OF VALUABLE Farming & Mineral Lands, By virtue of a decree of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county, as a Court of Equity, the subscriber, as Trustee, will offer at Public Sale, at the Court House Door, in Towson, On Wednesday, May 6th, 1869, at 12 o’clock, M., all that valuable REAL ESTATE, situated In Baltimore county, on the right of the public road leading from Shawsville to Hereford, containing 460 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, being the same and all the lands of which John Wilson, late of said county, deceased, died seized, and on which James Wilson, Mary Wilson and James P. Wilson now reside. This tract of land has been divided, and will be offered in two separate parcels: Farm No. 1, Comprises that Tract or Parcel of Land which was conveyed to John Wilson, Jr., and James Wilson, by William Arnold, by deed duly executed and recorded; also, those two parcels which were conveyed to John Wilson and James Wilson, by Mary Holmes, (except one hundred and three acres sold to Fellows Robinson), containing together 130 ACRES, MORE OR LESS. This Farm is improved by a new Frame Dwelling house, and has on it several good building sites. About fifty acres of this land is heavily timbered with Oak and Chestnut; the residence is cleared and under cultivation. From the surface indications, and its proximity to other mines and quarries, it is believed this land has on it both Copper and Limestone. Farm No. 2, Comprises all the lands devised by John Wilson, Sr., to John Wilson and James Wilson, except sixteen and a half acres which was afterwards conveyed to Samuel Miller. The improvements consist of a large comfortable Frame DWELLING house, a large Frame Barn, nearly new, with TWO TENANT HOURS, Corn House, Spring House, Meat House, Stabling and other Outbuildings, all in good repair. Farm contains 330 ACRES, MORE OR LESS, about one hundred in wood—the balance cleared. The land is easily improved, well watered, well fenced, and in a good state of cultivation, having been heavily limed and well farmed within the last few years. This property is admirably situated in a pleasant neighborhood adjoining the lands of James B. Cuddy, John March McComas, William Robinson and Others, and is within an hour’s ride of Baltimore city, being only one and a half miles from White Hall and two miles from Monmouth, on the North Central Railroad, and offers to the farmer, the merchant and the miner rare opportunity for a profitable investment. TERMS OF SALE: The terms of sale prescribed by the decree are: that one-third of the purchase money shall be paid in cash on the day of sale; one-third in six and the balance in twelve months thereafter, the deed to be paid in cash, and be secured by the bonds of the purchaser, with approved security. J. M. STREET, Trustee. [The York Gazette, Baltimore Weekly, American, Baltimore County Union and Journal publish all sale, and send bills to the trustee.] HARRISON POTATOES. I HAVE a few bushels of POTATOES, pure seed, which I will sell at low price if called for soon. For further particulars, enquire of H. P. WULLIS, ap2-lm* Churchville, Md. KLMHOLD'S CONCENTRATED EXTRACT SARS A r.IKIILA, is the great trial. THE HERALD AND INTERNATIONAL EPISODE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BATEMAN & BAKER, AT ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, OTHERS TWO DOLLARS WILL BE CHARGED. HATES OF ADVERTISING. One square, (eight lines or less,) two insertions, $1.00. Each subsequent insertion 25 cents. One square three months, $3.00; six months, $5.00; twelve months, $8.00. Business cards of six lines or less, $5 a year. No subscription taken for less than a year. The Old Year, BY J. H. WHITAKER. O', finding gleaming upon our sight, Through present wrong, eternal grief, And stop by stop, since time begun, We see the sternly gain of man. That all the good the past has had Remains to make our own time glad, Our common daily life dares, And every land a Palestine. We look but open eye and ear To find the Orient's marvellous time. The still small voice in Autumn's hush, You maple wood the burning bush. For still the new tranquility the old, In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men, the Olive wares With roots deep set in but the grave. Through the harsh noises of the day A low, sweet prelude finds its way; Through clouds of doubt and cree is of fear A light is breaking calm and clear. Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more For the long time and holier shore; Hod's love and blessing, then end there, A Now, and here, and everywhere. From the New York Sun, April 1. Secretary of War. The Hon. Adolph E. Borie, titular secretary of the navy, is personally a most estimable gentleman. He is about 65 years old, immensely rich, long retired from all active business, a charming companion, giving the finest dinners in the world, and a generous, patriotic man. But for all that, he is disqualified for the office of which he is the titular incumbent; and out of regard to Gen. Grant, to the interests of the country, he should resign it instantly. The reasons why Mr. Borie should quit the navy department are very simple, but they are very strong. In the first place, he is unable to do the duties of the office. The condition of his health is such that he cannot read, or think consecutively, or attend to any serious business for an hour at a time without experiencing great pain and suffering. This is the permanent, chronic state of his nervous system. If he were, by a great effort, earnestly to devote himself for a single day to the hard work of learning how to administer the navy department, he would probably not recover from the exertion for a month. He is not, therefore, and cannot be, in any fair sense of words, the secretary of the navy. To make up for this physical incapacity of Mr. Borie, Admiral Porter has been assigned to assist him. Mr. Borie has the title and draws the salary; Admiral Porter possesses the power, furnishes the ideas, and does the work. Borie is the pretended, Porter the real secretary. Now, if Admiral Porter is actually to fill the office, very well. We think there are serious objections to the appointment of men holding military commissions to civil stations; but if the president should chouse to nominate Admiral Porter, and the senate to confirm him, it would probably be legal. At any rate, there would be no false pretenses about it, no sham, no attempts to carry on one of the chief offices of the government behind the veil of a transparent deception. Along with the regard justly due to truth and fair dealing with the public, there is another consideration which should have forbidden Mr. Borie—and forbidden him as sternly and unalterably as the voice of conscience herself—from seeking or accepting either a place in the cabinet or any other office of power or emolument under Gen. Grant’s administration. He is a pecuniary benefactor of Gen. Grant. He has given the General money. He was a very large contributor toward the purchase of a house in Philadelphia, worth some $50,000, which was presented to the General. The present was proof of Mr. Borie’s good feeling, and that of his associates in the benefaction. We cannot say that it was wrong for the General to receive it at that time, though other prominent officers of the war have refused such gratitudes. But one effect. Of these donations is now too evident to be a subject of serious dispute. Every man who has bestowed such gifts on Gen. Grant is thereby disqualified from holding any office of power or profit by Gen. Grant’s appointment. We don’t mean that he is legally disqualified. There is no statute bearing on the subject, because none has ever been thought necessary, but disqualified by the law of personal delicacy, public policy, and a decent respect for the world’s opinion. Cannot Mr. Borie understand that people will say that he has bought this great office, that he has obtained it by gifts of money and of other things? Of course, we do not admit for a moment that such is the truth, for we understand Gen. Grant too well to believe that he would be influenced by such sordid motives. But Mr. Borie, who is a man of the world, and cannot put in any plea of ignorance, was bound to understand from the beginning that he ought not to seek for, or to take any such place, because the beneficiary, or, if you prefer, the pecuniary relations between himself and the general were such that he could not decorously receive any office except one of mere compliment at his hands. It will not do to have the honor of the presidency and the most important function of the executive government soiled and degraded by giving even our enemies the least ground for suspecting them to be allotted upon reasons of pecuniary influence and obligation. Mr. Borie is a gentleman of scrupulous integrity. He has got himself into this false position, hurtful to Gen. Grant and most of all hurtful to the dignity and welfare of the country, without sufficiently reflecting upon the grave and pregnant error he was committing. Is it too much to hope that he will early come to a perception of his lamentable mistake and promptly withdraw from a complication that is either pleasant, proper, nor honorable, and which, if much longer persisted in, will be positively scandalous! The Tools Great. Yet, with the tools that make the workmen, but the trained skill and perseverance of the man himself. Indeed, it is proverbial the bad workman never yet had a good tool. Someone asked Opip by what wonderful process he mixed his colors. “I mix them with my brains, sir,” was his reply. It is the same with every workman who would excel. Ferguson made marvelous things—such as his woodcock clock, that accurately measured the hours—by means of a common pen-knife, a tool like everybody’s hand, but then everybody is not a Ferguson. A pan of water and two thermometers were the tools by which Dr. Black discovered latent heat; and a prism, a lens, and sheet of pasteboard, enabled Newton to unfold the composition of light and the origin of color. An eminent foreign savant once called upon Dr. Wollaston, and requested to be shown over his laboratories, in which science had been enriched by so many important discoveries, when the doctor took him into a study, and, pointing to an old tea-tray on the table, containing a few watch-glasses, test-papers, a small balance, and a blow-pipe, said, “There is all the laboratory I have!” Bothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. Bewick first practiced drawing on the cottage walls of his native village, which he covered with his sketches in chalk; and Benjamin West made his first brushes out of the cat’s tail. Ferguson laid himself down in the fields at night in a blanket, and made a map of heavenly bodies, by means of a thread with small beads on it, stretched between his eye and the stars. Franklin first robbed the thunder-cloud of its lightning by means of a kite made with two cross-sticks and a silk handkerchief. Watt made his first model of the condensing steam-engine out of an old anatomist. ’s syringe used to inject the arteries previous to dissection. Gifford worked his first pound in mathematics, when a cobbler’s apprentice, upon small scraps of leather which he beat smooth for the purpose, while Rittenhouse, the astronomer, first calculated eclipses on his plow handle. —Samuel Smiles. Street. Instinctively in Scotland. A correspondent of the Round Table, in a letter from Helensburg, Scotland, says: "The manners and customs of lower classes are not altogether disagreeable. It is indeed a considerable compensation for much discomfort that one finds every evening male and female minstrels—generally a violinist and a woman’s voice—singing sweetly all the Scotch ballads. These are the concerts that the people have here, and they gather round these minstrels in large crowds, nearly all giving a penny or a half penny. There is a woman who sings every evening under our window, who has a sweet, beautiful voice that I am sure it would have made her fortune had she been born in Italy. She sings without ever getting out of voice, the dear old ballads of her country, and with an indescribable pathos." She is seemingly the daughter of a grey-haired old man who goes about with and accompanies her voice tenderly with his violin. She is about twenty years of age, and has a sweet, homely Scottish lassie lace, an unpretending garb. No orator ever moved a crowd more than she did when she sang ‘Highland Mary.’ “A fashionably dressed woman passing with her husband on the street, had paused to listen to her singing. She then came through the hundreds who had collected, slipped a coin into the singer’s hand, and then whispered something into her ear. It was probably a request that she would sing Highland Mary again. At any rate, the minstrel broke forth with that old hymn of love divine, and poured her whole soul into it. Each note seemed to float, winged into the moonlight; every noise was hushed along the street, and the very surging of the Frith seemed to pause. As she went on, many a tear must have been born in silence, and many a heart thrilled. When it was over, nearly everyone came forward with their tribute; even the children with their half pence, throughout the country the old ballad tunes and the music of Burns are still sung with accuracy and feeling by the working people. The fishing people, particularly, sing them all the day long. I have often had occasion, roaming about Scotland, to remember the best thing that George Gilligan ever said—that Robert Burns set the human heart to music. Match-Making by Wholesale.—A short time since, at a wedding in South Carolina, a young lawyer moved that one man in the company should be selected as president; that this president should be duly sworn to keep entirely secret all the communications that should be forwarded to him in it is official department that night; that each unmarried gentleman and lady should write his or her name on a piece of paper, and under it place the name of the person they wished to marry, then hand it to the president for inspection, and if any lady and gentleman had reciprocally chosen each other, the president was to inform each of the result, and those who had not been reciprocal in their choice were to be kept entirely secret. After the appointment of the president, communications were accordingly handed up to the chair, and it was found that twelve young ladies and gentlemen had reciprocal choices, and eleven of the twelve matches were solemnized. Sterne, who used His wife very ill, was one day talking to Garrick in a fine, sentimental manner, in praise of conjugal love and fidelity. “The husband,” said Sterne, “who behaves unkindly to his wife deserves to have his house burnt over his head.” “If you think so,” said Garrick, “I hope your house is insured.” An old lady who recently visited Oneida, was asked on her return if the canal passed through that village. I.—Honest. 2.—Pare. 3.—Intelligent. 4.—Active. 5.—Industrious. 6.—Obedience. 7.—Steady. 8.—Obliging. 9.—Polly. 10.—Neat. One thousand first-rate places are open for one thousand boys who can come up to the standard. Each boy can suit his taste as to the kind of business he would prefer. The places are ready in every kind of occupation. Many of them are already filled by boys who lack some of the most important points, but, they will soon be vacant. One in an office not far from where we write. The lad who has the situation is losing his first point. He likes to attend the circus and the theater. This costs more than he can afford, but somehow, he manages to be there freely. His employers are quietly watching to learn how he gets so much spending money, they will soon discover a leak in the office drawer, detect the dishonest boy, and his place will be ready for someone by observing point No. 1, and being truthful in his ways. Some situations will be vacant, soon, because the boys have seen poisoned by reading bad books, such as they would not dare to show to their fathers, and would be ashamed to have their mothers see. The impure thoughts suggested by these books will lead to vicious acts; the boys will be ruined, and their places must be filled. Who will be ready for one of these vacancies? Distinguished lawyers, useful mechanics, skilled physicians, successful merchants, must all leave their places for somebody else to fill. One by one they are removed by death. Mind your ten points, boys; they will prepare you to step into vacancies in the front rank. Every man who is worthy to employ a boy, is looking for you, if you have the points. Do not fear that you will be overlooked. A young person having these qualities will shine as plainly as a star at night. We have named ten points that go toward making up the character of a successful boy, so that they can be easily remembered. You can imagine one on each finger, and so keep them in mind— they will be worth, more than diamond rings, and you will never be ashamed to "show your hand." Wild Beasts out Cora Holiday. A great manager. The opened at Forest the other day; A huge elephant, named Hercules, was chained to a stake, and having been very insubordinate for some days, the people were warned not to approach him. From a person, however, handed the boast a piece of tobacco, which so enraged him that after dislocating the man's shoulder with a blow, he broke loose, making the crowd scatter for life. A freight train was just approaching, he immediately ran toward it with great speed and met it with such a shock that he broke off his tusks and was immediately killed. The engine was detached from the train and thrown from the track, and the engineer having foiled to shut off, steam it unfortunately ran into the canvas and smashed the cage, killed the lioness and released the lioness and released the lioness. The lioness, finding himself uninjured and at liberty, and being frightened by the steam and whistle of the engine, started at full speed on the homewood road roaring terrifically. Meeting Mr. George W. Sheppard he chased, overtook and attacked him; but fortunately beyond tearing his clothes, did him no damage, his attention being drawn off by the approach of Mr. John Smith, on his back. At the horse the lion rushed and having thrown it down began devouring it, while the rider escaped to the woods. While he was devouring Mr. Smith's horse, Mr. James J. Rich, who was on his way to Forest with a load of chickens, drove up. As soon as he saw him, he reared on his hind feet, lashed the ground with his tail and sprang at him. Mr. Rich eluded him by jumping from his wagon, when he mounted and began to tear open the boxes; containing the chickens and turned them out. He then seemed to lose sight of everything in his efforts to catch them. Spine twenty men, well armed, started out in pursuit. It is reported that he killed a freedman in Smith county, near Mr. Thos Husband’s, and that when last heard from, he was going down the Ocoha. —Brandon (Mitt.) Republican. Damascus dates back anterior to the days of Abraham, and is the oldest city in the world. It was founded by Uz, the grandson of Noah. The early history of Damascus shrank in the hoary mists of antiquity. Leave the matters written of in the first eleven chapters out of the Old Testament out, and no recorded event has occurred in the whole to allow but Damascus was in existence to receive it. Go back as far as you will into the vague past, there was always a Damascus. In the writings of every country for more than four thousand years its name has been mentioned and its praises sung. To Damascus, years are only moments; decades, only flitting trifles of time. She measures time not by days and months, but by the empires she has seen rise, prosper and crumble to ruin. She is a type of immorality. She saw the foundations of Baalbek and Thebes and Ephesus, laid; she saw them grow into mighty cities, and amaze the world with their grandeur, and she has lived to see them desolate, deserted and given up to the owls and bats. She saw the Unholy empire exalted, and she saw it annihilated. She saw Greece rise and flourish for two thousand years, and die. In her old age she saw Rome built; she saw it overshadow the world with its power; she saw it perish. The few hundred years of Genoese and Venetian might and splendor were, to grave old Damascus, only a scintillation hardly worth remembering. Damascus has seen all that has occurred on earth and still lives. She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and she will live to see the tomb of a thousand more before she dies. Though another claims the name, old Damascus is by right the Eternal City. The following is from a local paper: "Persons wishing to see the editors will generally see them at the printing office. In their absence, however, invitations to dine, challenges to fight, should either be left with the publisher or in our table drawer." New Haven paper lately announced, by mistake, the subject of a The debating club as, “Ought future punishment to be abolished?” Capital punishment was what they intended to talk about. A railroad out West is safe to travel on, as the superintendent keeps a little boy to go ahead of the train to drive off the cows and sheep. Taking Pictures. A correspondent of the American Union says a neighbor of his, a dentist, had a room directly below a photographist’s, and there were constantly little mistakes making—the dentist and the photographer getting confounded by strangers with very ludicrous results. The dentist had a boy, the very concrete and embodiment of mischief, who was always engaged in some prank, and gave his principal much trouble. One day, while the dentist was out for a few moments, he returned to find his three chairs filled by an Irishman and two of his female friends, who sat looking seriously and solemnly at a tin kettle that was on a shelf before them. ‘Well,’ said he, ‘what do you want?’ replied the man, not moving. ‘But what are you doing here?’ he repeated, ‘but,’ said the irate dentist, ‘what do you have taken possession of my premises for?’ ‘What, now, and don’t you see we are having our taking?’ ‘Well, this is no picture room, anyway.’ ‘Then bedad where is he? The spal Peen told us to set down and look at the kettle and we’d get our pieties, and begarra, we were being doing so for the last half hour, and nary a picture do I see yet. He went up stairs breathing maledictions on the head of the young villain who had played the trick on him. In wit and raillery, O’Connell had but few rivals. Upon one occasion, he was attacked in the House of Commons by the members for Lincoln, Armagh, and Sligo successively. Each of those members was a colonel. One was distinguished by a long flowing beard, while the other two were remarkably clean-shaven. O’Connell, in reply, made these characteristics, the butt of his ready and daring wit. He said, the attacks of the honorable and gallant gentlemen. Somewhat brought to his mind, Dryden’s lines upon Milton:— Three poets, in three distant ages, born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; the next in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; to make a third she joined the former two. With the permission of the house, he would slightly alter those noble lines, and dedicate them to the three last speakers:— “Three cocks in the thief of the last court ties born, Lincoln, Armagh, and Sligo did adorn; The first in matchless impudence surpassed. The next in ignorance; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go,— To beard the first, she shaved the other two.” Cincinnati commercial has the following anecdote: A little fellow presented himself at headquarters one day and solicited a commission. “Have you seen service!” sternly demanded Mr. Senator Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, who happened to be present. "Yes, Colonel, I was in the three main divisions." "Were you at the battle of Bull Run?" "I was, Colonel." Now Henry has a delicate—very delicate vein of humor in him. It is not sufficient consistency to carry a laugh, but Henry enjoys it. So, winking to the Staff, Henry asked: "And did you run well?" "I used due diligence, Colonel; I did the best I could, but I could not keep up with you in that hack." The Hanover of Ladies.—Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in Great Britain have lately made a printed report, two points of which are, that "women are least satisfactory as teachers of arithmetic," and that "the excessive prevalence of small hand among them is a grievance." "I wish," remarks one of the inspectors, "that teachers would remember that, in the words of John Locke, everyone naturally comes by degrees to write a less hand than he at first was taught, but never bigger, and that, therefore, he who learns at school to form every letter well on a large scale, will fashion a good small hand for himself afterward without teaching, while he who writes nothing but small hand at school will never be a good or legible writer long as he lives." Other remarks quite as pointed were made about the "angular" style of penmanship prevalent among the lady teachers. Wholesale Blasting.— A correspondent of the Pittsfield Eagle says: “The most thrilling scene that came under my observation was in the Sierra Nevada on the Central Pacific. Here the road is built on the side of a precipice two thousand four hundred feet above the base, and the slope is so steep that the Chinamen who did the work were let down in baskets, and in this position drilled holes and charged them in the side of the mountains. At one time there were four hundred and sixty of these charges connected by a fuse, exploded at one time. Masses of rock weighing many tons fell to the bottom with terrific fury. When the debris had ceased to fall, the echoes were still repeating among the distant hills. So stunning was the shock that I would never witness the like again. A matron lady, with a physiognomy indicating that she was strong-minded, was put on the witness stand at New Haven to testify in a case on trial. Being pestered, a little by the counsel for the defense, she exclaimed, raising herself up to her full height, and with a gleam of triumph in her eyes, “I ain’t afraid of the whole of you; you can’t scare me. I have lived in Chicago ten years and anyone that has lived in Chicago ten years needn’t be afraid of the very devil.” Some years ago a wild goose was shot in Washington Territory, and a few grains of wheat were taken from his craw. Being very large and full, they were preserved and planted. The yield was found to be so great as to lead to its propagation, until this variety, which is known in the Territory as the “Goose Wheat,” has become a standard one in that section of the country. The same kind of wheat is grown in Spain. Dean Swift, hearing of a carpenter falling through the scaffolding of an house which he was engaged in repairing, dryly remarked, that he liked to see a mechanic go through his work promptly. A Young lady who saw a steam fire engine in Boston for the first time, innocently inquired why they boiled the water before the threw it on the fire. 