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T he C ourier . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1870. AS WE CUOK A T I r. Independent in politics thouglt w are, still we claim the privilege that every citizen claini$, and would say to every man who holds the interests of his community at 'heart, to be careful in the coming town and vil lage election to choose such fill places of'trust, as you can be sure will discharge their duties faithfully; without fear or favor, We have these men among us, and so many of them, that selections can be made with care. The offices are minor ones, but ■teS citizens, have it to say who shall fill them. Then we would ask the' citizens when good men are mention^ ed, to manifest more interest than' heretofore siand use your vote where you feel sure, it will be likely to do the community good Xlis Valentine. ohservance, silly or hot, which has k'eprits^alaG.e in the world so accounts they will recall the moment of exquisite confidence and childlike tiaist. Besii isides, in a full, complete, id insol- re is a neat finish ; creditors’ meei absolute, and perfectly rGunde< ihoy there is a neat finish ; itirely without a comic element. The bull, The feeling that there is really: ing to be done about it is comic. Appl ication for a discharge under i ■oircumstances is in itself an immense piece of humor. Then philosophy i ;heir notes of hand. Music has a silver sound. Bo sing 1 gressing in New York, and of the hopes they entertain of their ultimate s.uc- Brother iVIoody islna stete of tfiumpliante way in which the revival has s here. In none of the other places where he has longma St. Valentine’s Day deserves looking into. ' The young pagans a thousand years before Christ had their own notions about love and marrage just as young Christians do now and were just as bent upon find ing each his own true lover. They went straight to their gods to help them iii the search. On the four teenth of February, Pollux, disguised in wolf-skins, apd fair Cleona, vailed and crowned with ivy, worshiped Pan in the streets of Athens and drew lots from a vase at his feet for the spoi sent them by the gods. They drew each other and were married, and very 'likely squabbled, and sulked a way the rest of their lives. The gods had cheated them. Old Pepys tells us how English girls ages later drew fhe same lots on the same February morning. They never had heard of Pan and Juno, and were not quite sure of the name o f the Power which made birds and beasts and men choose their mates on this especial day of the year, but they were qftite sure there was such a power. Lark and plover flew straight to the tree, and companion waiting for them, and when Chloe ■went afield in the damp shiny morn ing the first man she met was hentrue love, seht to her from the ends of the world. Presently they were married, ■ and Strephon guzzled ale, and Chloe lbVfi.:was dead, and ihey ciirsed theii ■ luck o r St. Valentine. JiTowadays our young A'mericans being well-bred people, laiigh a little at the cheap or costly valentines with which the children cumber the penny post or that the grocer’s boy sends to the pretty milliner; Yet each, like the skin-clad Greek shepherd Strephon or grocer’s boy, is engaged in that never-ending search for the one woman in the world who is his comrade, counterpart, Valen tine. How is he to protect himself from mistake in this ma'tter.? H e is very apt to trust to chance, to luck. H e meets a rosy-cheeked girl at a ball when he is in a melting mood, rich young widow when his creditors are pressing, and they marry; and presently come bickering, scandal, very probably divorce. The ghosts of all unhappy marriages, from Menelaus to those which fill the morning’s paper with noxious gossip, ought to serve as skeletons to' warn precipitate young people against hasty and feverish fancy. Surely there is something sounder at the base of the chaste domestic life of the world’s happy homes than a heated imagina tion or shrewd mohey speculations. Thereon rests all the future of our country. It may be worth the while o f our fervid young people to dis cover what it is. land to send itp the shoi The laeutory of Creditoirs. A pleasant little story for these times conies to us from England, seems that there was at Hedinoncl- \wioke a business man who was in a fix which may be thus briefly stated; Debts, so and so; assets, nil. So he called together his creditors. He laid before them this simple and Sorrowful Statement, and explained that riot eyeil a ghost of a dividend was to be expected. One of the unfortunates, however, was not to be p u t off in that way. He knew that the bankrupt had: a good voice, and, determined to have something, he said: “Oaii’b yoU. at least sing us a song ?” The insolv ent gentleman was willing to do what hecpuld, and so he warbled “Then you’ll remember me,” rendering that ballad with a tremulous pathos caleu- ted to soften the heart of lated to soften the heart of SI 'hey fi They were likely to remember him. ■Whether something a li himself, They knew it. They felt not have been medicinal to the Jollier is a question ; something 'hey knew were likely to ler something not have been on, is a questi like “Cheer up, my lively lads 1 ” “01 what’s the use of sighing ?” ''Back and sides go bare.” Still there was a pretty propriety in the ballad chosen, to say n othing of its absolute truth. A wretch forgotten by father and mother and aU his friends will at least be warmly remembered by creditors. Sleeping they willdrcaui nor is it seting : is a solecism, sort of one-sid NEW XOHK t E ’rXEttJ Rubonstoiu’s Eutc--PpUtlcs in the Metropolis-Suicidal—'Victiais of tUc Eire—iTwCea-IntoresUnif Notes. peciaVCorresjiondcncis o f the Courier- N eav Y orxc , Feb. 17,1876- Pesach Rubenstein,, >vho murdered ;Sarali Alexander, the Jewess, in Bast New York last Decemlxer, and who has Just been tried in Brooklyn, W£ id guilty and was seiiteneed to 1 : the 24tli of March. 1 had fourteen witnesses I anything else, singing to he tri Avith good effect, Avhen a vocal kind Avere Avorth more than We have fcnoAvn cry. Give u s a song, if you cannot,give se. V ig to he tried during a pani n an alibi; s prisoner, bu excepted by the Jury. When the verdict Avas given it came upon JeAVS like a thunderbolt. The sing act of the prisoner in uncut] men’s i h more 5ss the I operated ho$ he b fore, so far as we at the opening of very quiet about ampfign. Ordinarily, he i vorlc and its fruits. He wa proceed against one or two of the alibi witnesses for perjury. lUts of rejoicing over the coh- But in the very first week of his Hippodrome ;camfoign. and while yet but gazing upon the field, he hasbe'en seized with the spirit of prophetic , with the e.viilamation,; ■soul W6,a're going to i vVe have ever s \I believe in my; lec the greatest work in N ew ever by said i thinkit could nowbe said of New York city. There as it has her ;r saw the work open an I have never seen so much after the first week ( encouragement.” All his utterances durih give encourageraen , his short.shiy here have been in the s •other Moody had the h.tbit of inilnlg:-i; and he has told all inqui urely surrender to the; If Brother Moody had this sort of thing, or if he belonged to tht minds which give way to exaggerated hopes, , he were unfamiliar with the drawbacks arid couragements of revivalism, there would be little heed given to his predictions. But he is a he headed, cool-minded man, free from flightiness, with great experience in revivalism. A' ear after year he has carried on revivals in many cities, in some of which ho has met with success, and in others failure. When such a veteran operator use anguage we have quoted, it may be assumed he has grounds for it and knows what he is a ° ebnfinn .tis nominees. As a return ‘, I for these favors, Mayor Wickham has “ promised to a,ppoint a Custom House . Republican in the place of Police “ of May next. If this bargain is ear- tied out the Custom House party Avill be enabled to manipulate the election returns next fall. The aldermen’s re solution, excluding non-residents from the right to hold offlpe in this city, became operative on Friday Avithout the mayor’s signature. A TEMPEKANCE ticket Avill be star ted ill our village. Good men are spoken of who will gladly come to the front to take their chances for any office to which the people may nominate them. In the past feiv times in Avhieh such a measure has been tried, defeat has been met Avith on every hand. The isympathy of the people theii Avas not With such a movement. The feeling is much different now. Good would make a close, and Ave dout a successful flgkt for the temperance cause. Citizen, do not let the matter rest here. Men Of popular ability have been spoken of. The feeling and sentiment of the people at this pres ent time is all on the side of temper ance, and the people want a temper ance ticket. All friends of this much desire reform should remember that they have a duty to perform, and their earnest efforts are needed during this election time. A COPY of the first edition of the NeAV York Herald published has the folloAving, Avhich from the fact that it Avas Avritten over forty years ago, makes the article Avorthy of perusal : TnE D ying I nf A n .—The taper was just, ing in the socket, as fhe weary and s mother awoke from her momentary slu renew har anguish ; she turnedh er eyes o piring infant, whose dim orbs were slowly turning m their hollow abodes, it was midnight, and nothing was hoard but the strokes of the dock pen dulum, and the heavy sighs of a.disconsolate father which mingled with the short, deep breath of his suffering darling. Half raised, and leaning on his pillow, he had been watching the dread mon when a sigh or a struggle should announce that a: d life had together taken thelr.everlasting flight. lutter drew the attention of the wretched fas the expiring infant’s favorite bird, whose food |had been neglected since the danger of its little admirer had obsorbed all other the sad presage of its fate. ler care, and, sad presage of its fate, now expired. The s looked alternately on each other, and then put at this instant, to add to their dis- le ceased tolpurn—the father seized his .pulse tVas still, and ail was cold. I t noAV oecui’s that there are two Gen. Babcocks and tAvo Bessie Tur- Tliis female Avho has been ambulating around, and making her self conspicuous on the lecture stand, under the non de phm e of Bessie rner, turns out to be an un id lady of the grosser sort n. Babcock—well, its quite laugh- rreat man will attem p t to do for his So SAvear not. lis broth WxNSLoAV, the Boston forge?*, man avio I played such a Avholesale confidence game, has been captured in London, and Avishes to be brought ibiy: nnd it Avill not be a very pleasant, coming home either. T he NeAV Yoi'h papers talk about the rivals there in a manner calculated urt, more than to prot ssts of religion. If thf to hurt, more than to promote ligio lar journals only had a little more re ligion to hack them up, it AVould'nt hurt them a bit, T ite initial number of the Golumtola County Farmer is at hand. It is al edited, by F. H. \Yebb,. identified with the llepuUk Farmer deserves success. formerly arose in lade a boy King of Spain, prtes, Tuesday, and made a speech that would have done j;ustioe to a head much older and wiser than his o\vu. like a thunderbolt. The singu}ar ling liie hair, Avhen h e Avas aiTaigiied for sen-. explained by his brother i the habit of their race when they to make their strongest oath. i As the hair dropped doAvn it hung in curls, and in the act the prispner nn- swore tl in the caraon the AA^ay East NeAV ¥ork,iiad curly hair. Judgp: Pratt, having an aversoii to pronouzio •; ■ g the death curis, an Avittingly corroborated the testimony of one of the girls Avho ’swore th a t the saw in It is rumored in political circles that MaA’or 'Wickham has made another deal Avith the leader of the Custom House party. It is said that the Re publican leaders have.agreed to direct Police Commissioners Wheeler and,Br- hardt, both of Avhom are Republicans, ;o make Gen. Fitz John Porter,: late lonimissioner of public worki inteiident of Police, and to secure passage by the legislature of a bill vesting the poAver of appointing heads '■ ' ‘ ilents in the t h e s u i c i d e m a k i a . The suicide epidemical has got among the women, tAvo having attempted suicide by jumping from feriy boats on the East river. On Friday evening a m arried Avoman jumped from leaded in Houston street ferry boat and atos rescued by a Catholic priest, v a the river after her and hi of them Avas i - . - tug. OnSunday while a.SouthBrook lyn ferry boat Avas preparing to leave the slip, on its trip to Brooklyn, i young Avouian, carewoim in her ap pearance, jumped from the fonvard part of the boat. The alarm Avas given by a man Avho saAV her jump, and ropes and grappling hooks Avere let; struggles t ink ; by thi led in rescu- _ _ ___ „ ^ipling hooks. __ hours afterwards tlie ferry hands continued the search for the young man, b u t uiiavailingly. W ellshadonly arrived in the country tAvo Aveeks ago from London in search of Avork. t h e v i c t i m s o f t h e f i r e . The funeral of the tAvo fu-emen that were killed at the large fire on BroadAvay, took place last Friday. Their names Avere David MuldreAV and David Clute. The funeral of another iireiiian who died since from injuries, received at the fire, took place on Sunday, and the remains Avere taken to Paterson, N. J. for inti loss by the fire Avas not business. THE TWEED SUIT. The I'Aveed $6,000,000 suit Avas brought up before J udge YVestbrook on 'Tuesday. Notwithstanding the stormy Aveather, the court room Avas croAvded to its utmost capacity. In- gersoll, the chairmaker, occupied the Avitness chair (one of his own make). Among the testimony in which the Avitness told, Avas the manner in Avhic the stolen millions Avere divided. H said all it required Avas a little flgui mg, and tlie division Avas made., 'TAveed always received 25 per cent. In 1868 the division became more com plicated, because it Avas necessary to add interest. He drew his check for ) per cent., which he gave to Wood- 'ard, and lie also dreAv his check for 5 per cent, of the prinipal, Avhich he gave to TAveed. . in making up his bills against the city and county, he used other and fictitious names. This Avas suggested by Watson. He also had coiiyersatioiis.Avith TAveed about it, and lie told him to use two of the fictitious names ; WoodAvard also ad vised him. The case Avili likely occupy some Aveeks to come. will form a daily line between this; city and Albany and 'Troy. —Monday evening a liieeting Avas held by a portion of the “Old Guard,” Avho pi’opose visiting Charleston, S ^ to participate in the celebration Washington's Birthday. The exi __ sionists left here on Wednesday on tlie steamship' Geoi'gia, and will bethe guests of the mayor, common council, consisting of a Avhite coat and bear skin hat, and Avill, no doubt create a sensation, ivere I'ain and Avind stor ?ver tins city from Sundt ^gSiSii —An additional vault is tob be c __ ___ _____ , _____ . . e con structed In the sub-treasury in this •city to make room for the silver coin age, so fast accumulating in all parts of the country. The amount of silver reported in this city lsif3,5()0,000; the secretary of the treasury proposr a redemi)tion of fractional curreiH 1 ? S P I oleii Goods W M MWI! Sriaice R o o i r i f o r INS CfOOBS CLIMBEOTHEB’S P A S H M A B l i S Tailoriag Emporium 593 and 595 STATE STREET, Bar||ins in Ladies’ and ' Clijldren’s A W L S , b | ; t t s ’. Grloves of all Kinds. Try (O y .i.oo and $1.25 Kid Gloves. BL a I ^ KID GLOVES of ]the best quality. m i t t | n s , a l l s i z e s . I is the time to buy |[T E GOODS. I) kinds at Betts’. EIBUpifBEflS’, Lansiilgburgh Agency for Madjime Demorest’s Best in the W orld! Willimantic Six Cord Spool Cottqn, the best in use. AGEHOY FOB BEEFS Glove Dyeing E s t a b l i s h m e n t . Special Bargains in WINjDOW SHADES Upholstery Goods. Yarns of all Colors at Betts’* M O N E Y ! C-A.!R D’A .R E ! ! fBY BUYING}- Y o tr ia DRY GOODS BETTS, 589 State St. Itcilv m inio ii ( ru m Cuiiu< v ’i l a n s i n g b u r g h . C o i i i G a £ 2 d t i s . = l)0«ito Odob of uiud lotbj p fuoo ur purpHs of mud, .lugothei’ with iho t-xiifubo pio ri»tu of udvi-rtiamg ' LUe euuio tor-reue ni tiou, wilUnjitqulied to r doi*m thb Suiuo oii ib« last day Oh wli fb uuia edcmpiio.. CRU bomado, wixUh will bt- the 15 U of July, lb7 , and th»t Uulet-8 the ’j-u d lu s, . r puroelb of '•luudiireiedeuutfu mjor t.oiore tMdtday, tuoy will ■ I Namesi Z«o. Iicacrl; t|on. Amount. ............. 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