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Miscellaneous Reading. HAVE COURAGE TO BAY JfO. You'nx startin? to-day on life's Journey, Alone on tbo highway of life; Ton’ll m’.et with a thousand temptations; Each city with evil Is rife. Thia world is a stage of excitement, There’s danger wherever you go; Bnt. if you are tempted in weakness,', Have courage, my boy, to say No. The syren’s sweet song may a’lure yon; Beware of her cnnnlng and art. Whenever you see her approaching. Be guarded and haste to depart. The billiard saloons are inviting, Decked out in their tinsel and show; • You may be Invited to enter; Have courage, my boy; to say No. The bright ruby wine may be offered— No matter how tempting It be. From poison that stings like an adder, My boy, have the courage to flee. The gambling hal's are below you. Their lights how they dance to and fro; It you should be tempted to enter, Think tw.ee, even thrice, ere you go. laconrsgo alone Hrs your ssfoty, , when you'the lone journey begin, -•■■■ And trust in a Heavenly Father, Who will keep you unspotted from sin, Temptations will go on Increasing, As streams from a rivulet flow, But if yon are true to your manhood, Have courage, my boy, to say No. -St. Clair.

Graphic Account of the Great Conflagration in the Canadian Woods.

From the New York Timet, Sept. 12. Mesbhh. James 8. Randle and H. E. Dodge, of this city; Gilbert F. Spencer, of Chicago, and John W. Dudley, of New Haven, Conn., have just returned from Canada—from the vast district which was recently burnt. They encountered a terrible ordeal of Are and smoke, and were almost famished, barely escaping with their lives. They furnish the following, account of the terrible conflagration: “ After having made a long journey in carriages, viewing certain lands in which we were interested, we drew near to what seemed to be a large village on Are. We did not dream of the near aproachof danger, although the blaze was reflected in the Armament, and lighted up our road with an indescribably beautiful radiance. It made the sand and pebbles in the road look like precious stones. The dark edges of the woods also seemed surrounded by huge flickering shadows. As the night advanced the glow and glare grew brighter, until at last its intensity warned us that an extensive conflagration. was in progress. Wo continued on toward it, however, wholly unconscious of the great danger into which we were going. At ■ length, after an ominous silence, Mr. Dudley said : “Great Go<i! I believe the world is on fire!” Just then a great flash I t up the road from behind us. We looked bsck, and were surprised at the sight. A low moor between the forests, perhaps ten miles in width, covered with dry grass, was in a blaze, and the fire flying swifter than a locomotive. At the same time the wind changed, and the air, which had been growing hot, became almost unbearable. A gust of wind brought clouds of cinders that 'dropped about us. The horses trembled and neighed with fright, and as the hot cinders touched them, they became almost ungovernable. The earth seemed to be a vast fiery furnace, and the heat came puffing past our faces like the glow from a forge. Our eyes ached and smarted with the smoke and ashes. Several times our clothing caught fire from the falling coals. Now we were hemmed in on three sides by the fire-fiend, and the only avenue ofcscape was the road alongside the course of a creek, where the flames had not yet reached. Down this road our horses plunged at a rapid gait. The poor animals screamed with terror as the cinders showered about them, and the velocity of our progress was so terrific that we had to hold on with all our might, as the wagon went whirling and crashing over stones. At last we came to a bridge, and reined down to the stream, hoping to gather some relief by plunging in the water, for our flesh seemed roasting. We dashed in the horses, neighing and pawihg, up to their backs in the deepest part. It seemed only a mo mient before all the country was suddenly sheeted in flame; our road was cut off, and but a narrow stretch of marshland was free from the flames. We abandoned the horses to their fate arid dashed over the swamp. Now we would be in mire up toour knees—Mr. Spencer nearly sank to his neck—and come out all covered with slime. At length, however, we came to dry ground where the fire had spent its fury, and left a blackened charred wilderness of posts, stumps and sod. At daylight we came to an opening where a farm-nouse had stood. Here was a sad spectacle, at the sight of which we forgot our own situation. The embers of the fire were yet smouldering, and some of the blackened timbers lay over the foundation unconsumed. The baru was entirely gone, wagon-tires and iron-work, ! with the skeletons of cattle scattered around. The well was uncovered, and we looked down upon the body of .a man clasping a young girl. They had evidently been suffocated from the foul gas, while seeking escape from the Are. As we moved away from the scene toward the house, we saw the figure of a woman with a babe in her arms. Both bodies were half consumed. Two miles further on we came to another scene of desolation. A house lay in ruins in the midst of a charred and blackened waste. A cow-shed had eicaped, and in thir wire the family, all but one. The mother commenced to tell her tale of suffering, but broke down with griefl The husband said they had been surprised in the night, and hurriedly es caped through the blinding, choking smoke. There were five children, the eldest being 16, and the youngest 3. Thrfce times ho rushed into the burning house, each time rescuing a child. The mother was almost insensible from fright, and he had to drag her out by main force. A little one, 7 years old, the pet of the family, stood and said ; ‘Take Janie and Mollie (the two younger ones) first, pana,’ and waited patiently until her turn, lly some means, in the confusion of the Hour, he thought she had been rescued, until her voice, now in tones of alarm, cried out, ‘Oh, papa! take me, take me, too! Come, papa! come, para!’ The father dashed toward the house, which was now tottering ip the flames, but wia too late. He had hardly placed his foot upon the stairs when the roof fell in, and the entire structure came clashing down. ‘Ah ! sir, I would have gone in and died with her, but I remembered tho others. But I'll never forgive myself—never, never!' “The names of this family are Talmadge; the others were Cornwall” The .narratore of the above saw many other terrible scenes of ruin and devastation during their journey. Their eye-

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lashes, whiskers and hair were singed, and their faces and hands were badly blistered. Mr. Dudley’s eyes were wry badly injured.

The “Coming” Man Marries the “Coming” Woman.

Tns Virginia City, Nevada, Enterprise gives the following account of a marriage ceremony in that city, uniting two Celestials, who desired to be married in true American style. The knot was effectually tied in the “ Pigeon English ” dialect: , ■ Yesterday forenoon a gallus looking Celestial, with a well-oiled tail hanging down to his heels, followed by a robust specimen of tho Flowery Kingdom, with her hair dressed a la fan-tailed pigeon, came to Justice Ellis’ Court room to be married “ ’Melican” style. “You have got license, John?" asked the Judge. “Yes, me hab got,” answered John, “me go one Cote hcusee, one law man, me heap catchee licensee.” "Well, youlikee me marry you’Melican fashion.” “Yes, me likee all same one ’Melican man." “You got any wife now, John ?” John astonished—“No; me no hab’got one wifee. Me likee catchee one wifee, me likee catchee him,” pointing to the almond eyed female at his side. “Are vou married ?” asked the Judge of the Celestial; “you got one man?” “No; me no got one man. Me one man China country— he come die one time.” “Well, all right. What’s your name, John?” “Me name Su-u-ung Fung." “ What ? Some Fun ?” “No; me name 80-u-o ng Fu-o ng.” “ Oh! Sing Fung ! Well, what's her name—the woman’s?” “Who, him? Him name Ho-ye Go-, ye.” “ Hoy Goy! All right; you stand up here. Take her by the Ifr.nd, John. No; stand this way. Not that hand; this hand, John—so. Now, John, what’s your name?” “ Me name Su u-ng Fung." “Now, John—Sung Fung, you takce him woman—what you call him name, John?” “ Call him Ho-oy Go-oye!” “ You take him Hoy -Goy to be your wife, and promise to keep her heap good : heap plenty licee give her catee, no kick her.be good man all time, hey?” John—“ You bet me belly good man, Judge. Me no kick him plentee." Judge—" Now, you here, Hog Eye, or whatever your other name is—you takee him to be your man, be one belly good wifee to him all time; no run away; cook him Jicecall time—bet your life?” - Hoy Goy—“ Me one belly good woman; cookee uiu licee; no lun away all time; stay housee allce time— bully wifee me.” Judge—" All rightcc. Me plentee power ; me big mandarin—two swordee man —me tellee you all one piecec—one ptecec man, one piecee wifee. Plentee fix, all done. John, Cash. John, money—eabe ?’’- John paid up, but was determined (so pleased .to find himself married ’Melican fashion) to have a bit of a blow-out. He sent out for wine and glasses and treated all hands. After this was over the pair struck out for Chinatown, remarking, “111 yang chin powe, sung tepin chin tow-ee ling!’’ as they went, which shows that they were highly delighted with the ’Melican marriage ceremony.

Curious Confirmation of a Prophecy.

The war, writes our Frankfort correspondent, has its humorous as well as sad side, and before the times become too earnest I will give you a number of curious gleanings and anecdotes which have appeared in recent German papers. I bought for a kreutzer a few days ago a small printed sheet headed “ A Remarkable Prophecy,” in which the end of Napoleon is apparently foretold for the present year. I had seeu similar things before in relation to Napoleon, but will communicate it here: The following calculation (says the printed sheet) is of great importance now on account of the surprising results gained therefrom: Louis I’hlllppe was born 1773 His queen 1782 They were man fed .’.... ISO 9 Ascended the F>each throne 1880 By the addition of these historical numbers, as follows: 1830 1830 1880 1 1 1 7 . 7 8 7 8 0 3 2 9 ISIS 1848 —* 1848 we get the ominous year of 1848, in which Louis Philippe actually abdicated the French throne. This method of calculation has been applied to the present Emperor, and equally surprising results have been achieved. Napoleon 111 was born 1808 The Empress Eugenie was born 1820 They wore married 1858 Ascended tho throne 1853 Taking these figures and working them out as before, we have: ' 1813 . 1858 1853 —1 • 1 . 1 8 8 . 8

8 ... « 8 1870 A 1870 1870 The deduction of these figures is apparent to every one: Lotus Napoleon will lose his throne during tho present year —N. K Evening Post." A citizen of Massachusetts having undergone a very severe operation at the hands of the surgeons, was seized with .the conviction that they had. removed all the internal organs from his body, and lift him b mere anatomical shell. All their protestations to the contrary only c inVinced him the more of the perfidy of the whole medical profession They had stolen his viscera, and’’didn't intend he should know anything about it. Under the circumstances it was, of course, useless lor him to eater drink,and ho steadily refused to do either. Food was administered to him while under the influence of ether, but he n jicctcd it immediately upon awaking. After lingering in this condition for nearly a month, he died the other day in a Salem hospital, bewailing his stolen vitals, and exeexating the thievish doctors In justice to the latter it should be added that the gentleman was laboring under a m’stale 1 1

Humboldt county, Cal. is a fort of. independent territory of itself. It has no inland communications. No practical wagon road connects it with any other county in l the State. Its only point of intercourse with the outer world is the town of Eureka and tho bsy which stands In front of it

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Weekly News Summary.

FOREIGN. Paris was declared in a state of siege on the 16th. Throngs of people were escaping froi»the city. It was reported in London that the railroad trains leaving Paris on the I.sth and 16th Were attacked and captured by the Prussians. Several passengers on board were killed and wounded. It is stated that in his reply to Jules Favre for an armistice, Bismark says there were questions still to be settled with France before the suspension of hostilities is possible. Gen. Ulrich reports on the 16th that the bombardment of Strasbourg was constant and terrific. He had no idea of surrendering. Metz still held out A special from Berlin to the London Times oi the 16th says Russia had declined all further effort for mediation. Bancroft denied having invoked American Intervention. Prussia was satisfied with the reserved attitude of England. If defeated, the French hope for armed intervention Germany demands the cession of Alsace and Lorraine.

Severe fighting at various points around Paris is reported as having occurred on the 16th and 17th. Prussian detachments were engaged in cutting off all railroad communications, and the investment of the city was rapidly progressing. The scat of government had been removed to Tours. A London special of the 17th to the New York World says: “ There is great excitement in diplomatic circles to-night over the report that an alliance between Austria, Italy and Russia is completed, the object of which is the division of the Turkish Empire, annexation of Prussian Poland by Russia, annexation of Prussian Silesia by Austria, and surrender of Italian Tyrol to Italy. It is believed that Europe is on the eve of a complication more formidable and extensive than was dreamed of a few weeks ago.” A fight took place on the 18th, ten miles from Paris, between the advance guard of the Prussian army and a reconnoitring party of the French forces. The latter were driven back, and the Prussians established themselves on the heights which the French had been holding. The Prussians numbered 30,000. The fight is said to have been a very bloody one, and the French, though beaten, inflicted heavy losses on the Pruasians. The contest raged for upward of two hours. ( The London Daily News correspondent says Bismark insists on the evacuation of Metz and Strasbourg, or else Paris to be starved out; A dispatch from Minister Motley, dated London, September 17—evening—to the State Department at Washington, says there is no truth in tho widely circulated report that the Prussian Government will not treat for peace other than with the Napoleonic regency, and that the Prussians refuse to recognize the French Republic. The Prussian Government do not believe the present government of France is other than local in its character, and claim that it does not faithfully represent the French people, and cannot guarantee the fulfillment of a peace treaty if one should be made. Mr. Motley further says that the Prussian Government docs not object to a Republic if it be established by the voice of the French people. Dispatches received in London on the 19th contradict the reported escape from Metz of Bazaine, with a considerable force. A mere handful of men only had escaped. Jules Favre had gone to the Prussian headquarters on the 19th. The number of deaths in Havana, from cholera, for week ending September 17, 580.

Late dispatches from China are unfavorable to peace. Nankin dispatches, August 22, state that the Governor had been assassinated by natives on account of well known sympathy tor foreigners. On the 20th the Prussians occupied Clamart, Mendon, Villeneuve, Beauvais, and Fontcnay. The Crown Prince was near Fontainblcau. It was stated that the headquarters of King William would be fixed in the palace of Versailles during the operations before Paris. The Berlin correspondent of the London Times, September 20, asserts that the Prussians were ready to treat with any French Government which is capable o/makingand’guaHAtb'Sni'STpßMff' A Tours dispatch of the 20th says, as the result of the interview between Jules Favre and King William, that the hope of speedy peace was not abandoned. Prussia was not disposed to consent to an armistice. If there was to be peace at all, it must be settled immediately. In a railroad collision between two trains near Tours; on the 20th, eleven persons were killed and twenty-five seriously injured. Tho people of Strasbourg, voting on the subject of surrendering, decided by a large majority to continue the defence; to the last. General Ulrich has been badly wounded. A London dispatch of the 20th says the final official figures of the capitulation of Sedan areSJO Generals, 230 staff officers, 2,095 line officers, besides 500 cfflcers of various grides discharged on parole; 8-1,433 privates surrendered, and were Irani ported into Germany; 28,000 were made prisoners during the battle, 5,000 . escaped into Belgium, 20,000 Were killed and wounded. Total, 137,000. An immense republican demonstration occurred in T.ondoflr t>n the evening of the 10th, at which, an dddress to the Republic of France adopted, in which it was declared that he monarchs of Germany j pro9cc”tc tbr ‘ -"w now againat Republi-

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canism, and not against France, and that in so doing they are guilty of a great crime against liberty and humanity—against the people of Germany as well as against the people of France. Paris was entirely shut i» on the 21st, and all avenues of communication were cut off except via Berlin. A French redoubt, with seven cannon and several men, was captured between Villeneuve and Montrange, by the Prussians, on the 20th. The number of men under arms in Paris on the 21st was stated at 430,000, including 180,000 volunteers from the provinces. The city is reported as abundantly provisioned for more than four months. A report was received in Berlin on the 21st that the city and garrison of Toul had unconditionally surrendered, and was occupied by Prussian troops. It was also reported that Gen. Ulrich, commandant at Strasbourg, had died of his wounds. A London dispatch of the 21st says Russia was moving large bodies of troops into Poland. News frem Italy on the 21st is to the effect that Rome had been occupied by the Italian troops, without bloodshed; the Pope forbade any resistance. The Remans received the Italians with the greatest enthusiasm. King William reported to Queen Augusta on the 22d that the investment of Paris was then complete. A conference was being held at Meaux on the 22d, between Favre and (Bismark. There was great activity in all the departments at Tours, on the 22d, preparing for the national defence. A London dispatch of the 221 says the great cities of France will refuse to be bound by the action of the capital—Paris—if it capitulates. - - ; = —- . ' ' ; J The Papal troops at Rome, on capitulating, laid down their arms, and defiled before the Italians, who cheered lustily for King Victor Emanuel. Garibaldi was being held as a prisoner on the island of Caprera, on the 22d, an Italian war vessel cruising off the island.

DOMESTIC. Gold closed in New York on the 22d it 113%. Gov. Shaffer, of Utah, issued a proclamation on the 16th, forbidding the assembly of the Mormon militia, and cf all gatherings of armed persons within the territory. All arms and ammunition in the possession of the militia were ordered to be turned over at once to Col. Wm. M. Johns, Assistant Adjutant-General Gen. P. E. Connor is appointed Major-General, of militia. Four negroes were hanged, at Isle ol Wight Court-House, Va„ oh the 16th, for the murder of Joel Gray, a white citizen of that efunty, on the 11th of December last. 4 Customs receipts for week endiug September 10, $5,503,766. According to the' official figures the census of Chicago is 297,718, an increase of 183,458 in ten years, as compared with the census of 1860. The population of Cook county, including Chicago, is 348,709. The returns from 71 counties in Illinois show a population of 1,829,086, against 1,186,377 in 1863—a gain of 643,709. * It has been decided at the Internal Revenue Bureau in Washington that the exemption of promissory notes from stamp duty, for a less sum than SIOO, under section 4 of the act of July 14, 1870, applies equally to other written or printed evidence of an amount of money to be paid on demand, or at a time designated. Chief Justice McLean, of Utah, hasdecided that tjio Territorial legislation, whereby the Mormons have for teii years controlled the jury system of the Supreme and District Courts of Utah, was null and veil.

During the week ending on the evening of the 18th, there were fifty-two deaths at New Orleans from yellow fever. Hon. William Strong, of the United States Supreme Court, has recently decided, at Philadelphia, that divmends and interest paid by railway companies subsequent to January 1,1870, are not liable to internal revenue taxation. A vccent dispatch from Washington says: | ■ “ The drouth has so seriously injured the Eastern and Middle State's, that the crop of New England and Central New York is dried up. This will be almost certain to influence the price of dairy products, and give a fresh impulse to the growing business in that line. In the Western States, turnips and cabbages are also nearly destroyed, and the potato crop will not return a quarter of the usual yield. Wheat will have to supply the deficiency in tho customary production of food in tho East."

Ono hundred and twenty volunteers for the French army were arrested at New York, on the 21st, on board the steamer Lafayette, by tho United States authorities, on warrants issued on complaint of the North German Consul General Resing. They were soon afterward released, but not in time to get on board tho steamer. Some 500 or 600 volunteers managed to sail, however. The men arrested had been recruited in New York and Brooklyn. Customs receipts for week ending September 17, $4,501,831. The New York Evening Post of the 22d states that Secretary Fish has instructed Minister Washburne, at Paris, that he can do nothing in tho name of this government, to relieve tho suffrrings of German residents expelled from that city. Great disappointment prevails in official circles at Berlin in consequence of this decision of the American government The Commissioner of Patents has, in a final decision, refused to extend tho most

Im’potta nt of the Bessemer steel patents, and the process is now public property.

PERSONAL. The stone presented to President Lincoln, by many Roman citizens, has arrived at Springfield, 111, and will be placed in the Lincoln monument. The recent California State Fair was a great success. Receipts, $30,000. In Chicago on the 17th tho White Stockings defeated the Forest City?, of Cleveland- 9 to 7. Corrected census returns of New Hampshire show the population of the State to be 817,976; net loss, 8,079 in ten years. The Universalists commenced the celebration of their centennial anniversary at Gloucester, Mass, on the 20th. A Washington telegram of the 20th says the executive mansion was being rapidly placed in propel condition to receive the President and family, who will return there about the first of October. Austin Brooks, editor of the Quincy, HL, Herald, died on the 20th, of cancer of the stomach. Hon. E. H. Williams, of Clayton county, has resigned his seat on the Supreme Bench of lowa, and Gov. Merrill has appointed Hon. Wm. E. Miller, of Johnson county, to fill the vacancy. Mr. Miller has resigned the position of Circuit Judge of the First Circuit of the Eighth Judicial District, and accepted the appointment. The Oregon Legislature has elected Colonel J. Kelly (Democrat) United States Senator. The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, in session at Baltimore, on the 20th elected the following officers: Frederick D. Stuart, of Washington, D. C., Grand Sire; A. C. Logan, of Kansas, Deputy Grand Sire; James L. Ridgely, of Maryland, Grand Corresponding and Recording Secretary ; 'Joshua Vansant, of Maryland, Grand Treasurer. President Grant has made the following appointments: Jos. P. Root, of Kansas, Minister to Chili; J. W. Taylor, of Minnesota, Consul at Winnepeg; J. P. Bardwell, of Ohio, Agent of the Chippewa Indians in Mississippi; Seldon N. Clarke, of Illinois, Agent of the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior. A pugilistic encounter occurred on the stage of the Grand Opera House in New York city, on the morning of the 20th, between Jim Fisk, Jr., proprietor, and Max Maretzek, manager, in which the former is said to have been badly puni had, Hon. Leo W. Booker, Congressman from Virginia, and A. J. Hamilton, of Texas, have issued a call for a convention of native original Union men of the South at Knoxville, November 1. An immense and enthusiastic mass meeting of citizens of Chicago in sympathy with the French Republic was held in that city on the evening of the 22d.

POLITICALG!

In the Oregon Legislature, on'the 14th, Gov. Woods presented his biennial message. Gov. Grover was inaugurated on the 15ih. Bills discouraging Chinese immigration were introduced. The recent Democratic State Convention of Kansas nominated: For Governor, Ira C. Sharp; Lieutenant Governor, A. J. Allen; Secretary of State, C. C. Duren; Auditor, H. McMahon; Treasurer, 8. C. Lephart; Superintendent of Public Instruction, L. H. Murray. Congressional nominations: Demo-cratic-First Minnesota District, C. M. Buck; Twelfth Illinois, Wm. Huntsell Republican—Sixth Missouri, Ex Lieutenant Governor Smith. Labor ReformFirst Ohio, Aaron F. Perry, Republican candidate. The Nevada Democratic State Convention on the 18th nominated Major L. R. Bradley for Governor, and Frank Denver for Lieutenant Governor. N. 3. Collyer, Democrat, announces himself a candidate for Governor of Tennessee, against Brown, the party nominee John V. Farwell has published a card in the Chicago papers declining the nomination for Congressman at Large on the Temperance ticket in Illinois. The Democrats of the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee have nominated Robert P. Caldwell, of Trenton, as their candidate for Congress. The Kentucky Democratic State Convention is called to meet at Frankfort, on January 7,1871, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the following offices to bo filled at the next August election: Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Attor-ney-General, Auditor, Treasurer, Register of the Land Office, and Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The official returns of tho late election in Maine give the following result: Perham, 54,651; Roberts, 45,175; Perham’s majority, 8,875. Tho Liberal Republicans in the Fifth Missouri District have nominated Chas. H. Johnson for Congress.' The New York Dsmocratic State Convention at Rochester, on tho 21st, made the following nominations: For Governor, Jno. T. Hoffman; Lieutenant Governor, Allen C. Beach; Comptroller, A F. Nichols; Canal Commissioners, long term, Jno. D. Fay ; short term, Geo. W. Chapman; State’s Prison Inspector, Solomon Schen, all renominations. Edward Avery, of Braintree, has been nominated for Congress by the Labor Reform party, in the .Second Massachusetts District. Congressional nominations on tbe2l«l: Republican—Ninth Illinois District, B. F. Westlake. Democratic—First Wisconsin, Alexander Mitchell; Fifth Wisconsin, Anton Klans; Sixth Illinois, Julius Awry. V Dr. Harvey B> Dale, of Oshkosh, has been tendered the nomination as candi-

date for State Superintendent of Public Instruction by the Wisconsin Democratic State Central Committee, and has accepted the same. Besjamin Turner, colored, has been nominated for Congress by the Republican Convention of the First Alabama District. The Democratic State Central Commit tee of New York has organized by the election of Samuel J. Tilden, of New York city, Chairman, and Wm. Cassidy, of Albany, Secretary. The Republican Congressional Convention at Cortlandvillo, N. Y., on the 21st, nominated Hon. R. Holland Duel!,* of Cortland, for successor in Congress to Hon. Dennis McCarthy, in the Onondaga and Cortland District. The recent Nevada Republican State Convention nominated: F. A. Trittie for Governor; J. 8. Slauson for Judge of the Supreme Court; Gen. Wines for Treasurer; W. W. Hobart for Comptroller; James D. Minor for Secretary of State; Wm. Campbell for Attorney General; Thomas Fitch for Congress, and J. Slngerland for Lieutenant-Governor. Judge Charles Betts is the Democratic candidate for Congrcsi in the Thir<| Illinois District. The recent Republican State Convention of Tennessee nominated W. H. Ursner, of Bedford, for Governor. The Republican Congressional Convention in the First Virginia District, on the 22d nominated Mr. Norton, colored, for Congress. The white members withdrew and nominated Mr. Douglas, white; The contending parties agreed to submit their difficulties to the National Executive Committee.

CURRENT ITEMS.

St. Louis has 115 miles of sewers. Make this Out.—Possesses possesses BBS*. o. A Man of Letters—The penny-post-man. What part of a cigar is like a tree ? The ash is. The public singer that ‘'draws” the best-A mosquito. ' How to fire and fall back—get a gun that kicks. The acrobats of every household -the pitcher and tumbler. Chicago publishes ninety five newspapers and periodicals. Thousands of laboring men arc said to be out of work in New York. A prosperous man who yields himself up to temptation bids farewell to welfare. Why is a carpenter like a barber ? Because he can’t get along without shavings. Pennsylvania has produced 28,000,000 barrels of petroleum in the past ten years. a The ruin of most men dates from some idle hour. Occupation is an armor to the soul. A PONSTERipassing by the shop of a certain . Mr. Taswell, observed that his name would be As-well without the T. The Georgia State Fair is to give a premium of SSO to the best printed daily or tri-weekly paper in the State. The other day some scoundrels entered the orchard of a Mr. Neil, near Racine, Wis., and “barked” eighty-nine of his best apple trees. A woman in Windsor, Canada, has become such an inveterate tobacco chewer that she puts a ten cent package into her mouth at once. - . . Sound advice of an old merchant: “Never owe any man more than you are able to pay, and allow no man to owayou more than you are able to lose.” “|One ought-every day,” says Goethe, “at least hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it be possible, to speak a few reasonable words. A gentleman was one day asked by a friend how to keep himself from quarrels. He answered, “By letting the angry person have all the quarrel to himself.” Hearth and Home, heretofore published by Pettengill, Bates & Co., New York city, has been purchased by Orange Judd & Co., the well-known publishers of the American Agriculturist, and its publication will be continued by the new proprietors. The Charleston Courier says: “The value of the cotton crop of the past year (1862-70) may be put down in round numbers at $325,000,000. Astronomers say there are eighteen million suns belonging to our firmament. More than 4,000 such firmaments are visible*, and every increase of telescopic power adds to the number. Youth and age have too little sympathy with each other. If the young would remember that they may be old, and the old remember that they have been young, the world would be happier. A Nashua, N. H., paper says: “In several towns in Maine apples are offered at ten cents a bushel at the orchard. In many towns in onr vicinity they can ba had for nothing.”

A. well, knows theatrical manager is abount to fit up a steamer as a theatre, to ply up and down the Hudson River, and give performances at the various towns and villages on its banks. Ths difference between war and peace has been well defined by one of the scientists : ‘'ln time of peace the sons bury their fathers. In time of war the fathers bury their sons.” A little boy having broken his rock-ing-horse the day it was bought, his mamma began to scold, when he silenced her by Inquiring, “ What’s the good of a hoss till it’s broke!” The great Woman’s Hotel of Mr. A. T. Stewart, in Fourth avenue, New York, which is to cost 13,000,000, has reached the third of its seven stories, and will be ready for occupation within twelve months. a A lady, living in the country, who is a little plumpish, sent her man servant to secure two places in the local coach, so that Jihe mightn’t be cqueezed. Thera was only room for one inside, so he engaged the other outside. The walls of Paris are a mile and a half from the outer boulevard, and the outlj ing forts are a mile from the walls, so the enemy’s guns must take a position three miles ircm the outer boulevards. Tkox had a haunted cigar store, the ghost being robed in snowy white, The

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old lady who kept the store made a grab at the spook, the other night, a sheet remained In her hands, and a young girl from over the way wasfsoon making tracks for home. The average age of the thirteen men constituting the present government of France is 58. The oldest of them is Cremieux, a Jew in religion, and a moderate republican. He is 74. The youngest is Gambetta, Minister of the Interior. He is 82. One editor accused another of having stolen his report of a meeting, which was recognized by certain ear-marks. [The retort courteous was that the first editor “should tie his ears over his head while writing, to keep them out of the inkbottle.” , The German artists resident in London are preparing to hold an exhibition of gratuitous oil paintings, sculptures, sketches, &x, the proceeds to be applied, after paying expenses, to the relief of the widows ana orphans of Germans killed in the war. Chalons is the great seat of the Champagne wine trade. There is one merchant there who holds 4,000,000 bottles as his ordinary stock. His cellars, excavated in the chalk recks, are six miles long, and are traversed with tramways through which loaded wagons are driven. A bootblack having taken a situation in a store to sweep out and run errands, was questioned by some former associates whether he felt as good as when in business for himself? “ Well, ’t is hard to be bossed round,” was the reply," but I pay it off on the ashman.” A bomnalbulistic farmer residing In Jackson county, Kansas, got up in his sleep a few nights since, harnessed his team to a plow, and plowed two acres of ground, all without waking. The farrows, ft is said, were laid with the utmost pre clslon. A proposed National Fat Men’s convention at Cincinnati, it is thought, will be a huge affair. No man will be eligible to the office ot president who does not weigh 280 pounds. Any gentleman weighing less than 220 pounds, who may present himself at the door for admission, will be marched away to the tune of the “Rogue’s March." A suggestion of how fast Americans live may be found in the fact that when the late Grenville F. Jenks, a prominent member of the New York bar, died, although his income for several years had been over $40,000, he was so poor that his club had to pay his funeral expenses. John V. Farwell, the senior partner of John V. Farwell & Co., since the great Chicago fire has made the munificent bequest of $30,C00 towards establishing a library for the Young Men’s Christian Association. The disastrous conflagration, it appears, has not exhausted his means, dried up the fountains of his charities, or even left the smell of fire on his garments. Such men deserve prosperity. A man who had been a ‘ dead head” several times on the steamer Palestine, plying on the Ohio River, was told, the last time he came on, that he must work for his passage. This he refused to do, and, on being told by the clerk that he must either do that or get off at the next landing, deliberately walked off the boat. He was drowned before assistance could reach him.

It was reported in Williamsport, Pa., among the elite, that one of the upper ten was in the habit of beating his wife, and a committee of old ladies were deputed to wait upon her and learn the facts from her own lips. They did so, and to their horror learned that he was in the habit of beating her, “But,” remarked the lady, “itis at euchre.” The committee mizzled. Children must take good care of their German toys. No importations of them can now be made except by a roundabout and expensive way, ana none can be while the war lasts. But, even if the ports were open, there are now no workmen left in Germany to make toys, all being engaged in soldering. It must be some months after the war ends before trade will return to its ordinary channels. So no new toys from Faderland need be expected this year to gladden little eyes and supply little hands.

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