Lorain County news. (Oberlin and Wellington [Ohio]), 1869-03-03

              HE VOL 9NO 470 OBERLIN OHIO yEIpTESDAY MORNING MARCH 3 1869 200 PER ANNUM i L0RAfi COUfiTY NEWS v w tii u 1 i v h r r ftPMS OF THE NEWS SUBS01UPTI0N Six months vnree months u 1 01 A DVEUTISING 3 monfil 6 months 1 year 16 Column ft Column 14 1imdu 12 Column 5 00 7 50 12 00 7 60 12 0D 18 00 VI DO 1 00 30 00 H 00 30 00 50 00 to on 50 on loo oo Jl of 90aceor imrl of an inchfor ihe Aral nrlton and thirty cuntt for eachubeMent iinn No adverttsomeut lnnerLod rlttiaii Ally eentt Local Notice ten cnnts a line in all cases Ho display Kivon In ihum TKR1rf Ad vermin alwfiyscaih In advaiice initios v speinl arranrHmiit TotiuaUtorshorinouce of Marriages or Saw 1 Buslnem Directory 100 a lin for a Jerw Reftnlar advertisers are allowed to ehanectheiTadvoriiBcmouta qunrlerly without nBERLIN BUSINESS DIRECTORY n R Uli Hicturos of all Hindi Koomi ijarpeuurt Block See adv p sTT HAWLEY 8Uc 8or i to A C Gnodrlulrs Boon Store corner Main XM College StiettB a rrouNEV i a WEBSTEK Attorney at Law Notary Public liounvy Real Kslale Pension and Cmiui Ageitl HUST NATIONAL BAN It1 Of Oberlin Designation Depository and Government Agcms lor sile o fntiA 11 Johnson CllS l b 1 LUMB X IIS L WVNN South Main Sircut Wwal Siac BOO 1 Kl PITCH FAIRCHILD Books Stationery lAcitro Picwru fnwnes Wall Paier etc College St ta1Qt8 Wall Pa11BetccorCQiiM M fiOOlS ASP MOK WM IHM Sdeulrtn Hoots ShnesTruuttii PHLNEAS BAILEY liaat Lorain St Hoots Shoos Shaiuae rciumtuutuw jiiLea A J UYKKMunulactiiroraiid Dealer in Boots Shot Kullori Keoulnng Main M J DYER Mituiiliitures ami repairs jjoots hues A seat Howe sewmtf Marhiue over fullers Grocery More B KOYCE Manuluciurer and Deaierln Boots andSlioes Noa lliiinn Blnckj tilllF J N D B H A K DWELL Lumber kept on Baud All kmn ol Jub Work dono Shop at Hie old Grist Mill Water hi L A JJ HILL East Lorain street HKKSCHEL KEEDProspeclSireet UAKIft EIWAltE A riJKWITUKE V HEBErtliM UiUMiiotwar and Furnt lure OeaUiUiliiy hinuu wain fcBViiSE J K S1DUALL Uiiion Hlocliup Htalra j FGALESTINK Cer WebtCullA Main Sts Lullcluosand Groceriei raruv m GAKItNKKA CUUruR Medicines JFaintVOilactcBirgeOUSLundMhbt DKV fjPW A BlllMIVBHY HOSiN LEVY Ac Co dealflrs in KeadyMade tl7hi Clulis Kara Millinery Goods W Col lev1 Sirel Flouli AM tEED iTIi rJlLIKT ALIEN Flour aad Feed H Pn Uy Mill Main Street tlllCMiXltE A L NI E K T A K 1 N C cn ATAlTlJKOWN Si Co Furniture rail Rljiu hirsreal Bi3oriinoil ill loWu2d door nortliol tlie Iot Olilce citCUCCU A0 tJONFECTIOKEB J li CKlENl EK Giucer Confoctlonor ProviHioiib Kloiu Feed etc Union Block li v ll lLKUNo 3 East Coll St Oberlin 0 A laru diuct of GroenrleB Crockery GlaPd vVaro and CinUreiis Carnages K B MEAD Co Bakers Grocers aod CouUCionerB South Main Street C T HOfiRKS ot CO Grocories andProTVoniof all kin IS Packaeaa delivered Cash oriluluiE8 cSoMerclmnis Exchange J WATSON dealer in Grocorieiani Confe tlonory Oylersand Tropical Fruits all I thclraeasou lue Cream Parlors S Main St G WTOTTKN Dealer in G rocrles urdProvlMoua Coufecuonory Produce etcbunnalis tilock wit door to tbe Bant TOUACLO SOLD 11EKH MtOf KICim AND HAKDWAKg lit A MVTTISON dealer i n Grocorles Flour Xrov moiib Hard ware Cotul Block Main St liK Si AND SHiN PAINTINO W U MASON House and Slftn Painting enduing Glazlerlng and Paierbunguig Shop over Meads1 Uakery J liWELEIW BOWFNBAHNKS Jealorn in Clocks and Wmdms Jewelry Spectacles and Fancy Goods ut VleUiNow Jilock V O KOULET CO Dealors i Watches Jewelry ailvor and Plated Ware Fancy riU Tnvs Muslcul Inslruinenla Uc Ho 2 Union Block Oburlin Ohio Particular at leiition peid to U aicu hopuinug 1IVEKV AN1 TEAiTl NiAKLE CHFAVEI tiod Horeiand Carrlagesto lot Also all kinii of uaiiiiii dmo at the horte at notice Olilce Xo ws Block Mayiikw k 1opk Fine rigs Cmt horsee and new carnages at tiiur livery stable on Kaat College Si next door to Voits rriii iti Ac EAST MS CLKMEST MeulerB In Lumber Coal Lim mi Fiimr etc etc Waretiousa ai n u tlfjiin UAiStkAU l itEU II TtiUltSluN MmuifLicturer of Shingles Shinglu lnaiir wvnled Suulh Main Street PEKK c COLLI UN Manufacturers of Doort SHihBliuJa Scroll Work at Planing Mill Oi A J BUHHEll Shingle Manulacturerfl at all J Gillmin Mill 11XC01S 4 MUKK1S South Mmn musoi meaiiitjjit In Ihuir aeusun BK1WEII Mim Murkot South Ol HnvoyaM p iTfciiHAIlr I M JOIISSUS a stN loalri lo Ir nnd linn Hraor Crockery rtoduce 41 ii Si RKAMEH llUlmjKD la CoDry GOC ez ii tirocuriu Crockery ic oi II1imuv ri c e promtl v Hoop Urutr N Main SI V flo Mf Second WoiZZZ c IHFlttJMANT TAIIOIC W EILh Keady llink to orde r rrdi Cluihiiir Cmand I X 2 Kai Cillae St nniiis L A WHITNEY OneiluH and Hicb Office South Mnio SL Omriiljuito uvety train and Pll Vl4 IAtVM Dli I FLEMING Residence and office onS1rolessor St at lormer residence of Treas Kinney W T RIDEXOUR Physician and Surgoon East College St Dr H P GIBBS Eclectic Office oTer Ells Clotbine Store East College St Residence on Spring St DR HAYWAR1 Homeopathic Office Union Block Residence West Lorain Street DOCTOR A STKETR North Main Street Dr GT Smith Phvsieian and Surgeon Oilice Win Baileys building Main St Pit I TING ATT kinds of Book Job Printing clone at reasonable terms at the Xews oilice over ttie Iost OfGco Oberlin O KF PAIRING COLHYS Clothes Wrin ffers repaired by J JEWELL ovCAUTiai WILCOX SPECTACLES FRANK HENDRY Manufacturer ofHendrys Celebrated Spectacles Office ai m umi factory corner of College and Va tor Sts ObcVlin HTOVFXAND IIAKiMVAKE CARTER St WILCOX Stoves and TinWare solo acents for Stewarts Stoves Job Work dene In beat manner WEED EDWARDS Stoves Tin and Shpet Iron Ware Hardware of all kinds Mowing Machines etc Merchants1 Exchange SADDLES AND HARNESS R TO BIN Saddles Harness Trunks Car petBags Values sign Big Horse S Main at BEEBE HOUSE ELYBIA Ot EDWIN HALL Proprtf tor The Travollng Public Picnic Parties c win uno tni a pleasant place to tarry by the way A good Stable attached RUSSELL HOUSE Cleveland 0 Corner Superior St Public Square C RUSSELL Co Proprietors This is a first class temperance house and as such should hcfaiihully patronized CITY HOTEL CLEVELAND O SENEGA ST II C JJrockway Proprietor Located in the business part of the city Table always well supplied BUR FUDGE CO SOLICITORS AND ATTORNEYS FOR U S FOREIGN PATENTS 136 Bank ot Cleveland Olm WUfe Associated OfUces io Washington and Foreign Countries Removed Removed To No I Vietss New Block W HERE wo are constantly receiving fresh supplies of goods usually found in a Jewelry store Seth Thomas Clocks Ovor seventyfive patterns Thej are the BEST CLOCKS MADE IN AMERICA 1 Gold Watches Silver Walche In Ibe almost endless variety of more meats A largo supply of Napkin Ringe Fish Knives Berrv Spoons Pie Knives Table and Tea Spoons Forki and Fruit Knives and Sugar Shells Ihe Jurgcst uno 01 PLATED WARE in the county from the elegant Tea Set to the Napkin King Opera Classes QUNS GUN MATERIAL BASE BALL GOODS I TTM V TRWFTRY of the latOBt stylos HaIiI i nntir Phninn flnll Thimbles Fin der Kings Etiuscaa Sets Sleeve Puttonc c Sec Bohemian and French Vases Tcilet Seta via0 xtntnh Snffln Watch Stands Dolls and Doll Heads a multitude of these Childrens Toys Crumb Brushes Hair Flesh Infant and Tooth Brushes SPECTACLES EYE GLASSES t of all kinds Portmoniea Razor Strops m n HI Tl A Ilnini J1D TOlleir DOaps VlieaB ajuuiub noes to L E Bowen OBsnns Feb 1 16S MR AB FITCH Has taken my Agency for Pianos Melofleons Organs Violins Flutes and all kinds of musical instruments Mr Fitch is the only authorized agent in Lorain County for the Weber Piano Emmerson Piano Reward Drahcr Cos Jlclodcons lie will furnish at the lowest cash prices PIANOS OR MELODEONS From any llrst cass manufactory in tbe country Geo W STEELE 31H11 New Clotlis Cassimeres and Vestings Just Received at MOSES LEVY COS ITadTes hair ir f m g TVTRS SCOTT tliankful for past fa vors would annouocB o dies oflhisand adjoinine townfthut she nrl uxlobirdriisins in 1 Its br nches She will manufaclnre witches curl chlenoni 4c also slrairhlen hair j ikm nDinnlceor comnings a u r der HAIR JEWELMi tle oiarte to order in me Persons entustiiK their ork to me will l sure Vf lavln their J turned to tnenj n su hraids 1 will ulropsy a ftr S nun Dnnm to Rent At the Drag Store of J M Gardner Ai Co xjisricx OBERLIN OHIO One of the oUcst and host Institute forBusiness Kilnnnnnn in Amara The Principal and Founder brings more iiiau ivioive jcas experience in tnepractice and teaching of Business to the aid WE TEACH BUSINESS AND BUSI NESS BOOKKEEPING in all its forms and principles WE TEACH THE LAWS OF BUSI NESS Wo teach the best method of business computation We teach practical lightning calcula tions as they are taught no where else in this country Wo teach such principles and ethics of business as will lead to its sate conduct and happy results We do not hold out false hopes to allure Any into our classes Men and boys arc taught for a fmall ta ition fee aad self supporting ladies aie taught a commercial course tree We never published our own writing m Newspaper or Editorial opinions and never shall do so We belicvo doing so would be lying and a liar is not io be trusted anywhere and t etpecxally unjit for a Teacher For particulars Call at the Office or apply by letter S S CALKINS H L HENRY Druggist and Grocer NoliUain Street Oberlin O DRUGS MEDICINES The attention of Physicians and allpersona wishing PURE and RELIABLE Medicines is respectfully solicited to my Stock which comprises a completeassortment of everything pertaining to the DRUG T K A 1 K And atpricesto insuresatisfaclionto the purchaser Perfumery and Fancy articles in great rariety Also PAINTS OILS Sf DYESTUiFS And a stock of Liquors as to quality second to none in market and sold strictly for medicinal purposes Country Physi aiane are particularly invited to anesamiaation of my Stock and will find it to their advantage to favor me with their orders A fill Stock of TEAS SUSARS AND CIIOrcE FAMILY GROCERIES of all kinds kepi constantly un hand Prescriptions carefully compounded atall hours day and night U L UiJSIKX 1B7S19 JM GARDNER CO uiugs ctuu uyes Patent Medicines Paints and Oils FINE FRENCH AND ENGLISH PERFUMERY AND SOAPS Toilet Articles Combs Brushes C5 O TJ The atlention of thope wanting re liable articles is respectfully solicited Prescriptions prepared with care at all hours T7ie old Book Store of J M FITCB deceased Established 1844 Fitch Fairchild BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONEES No 2 West College Street OBERLIN OHIO AN INVITATSOLM Go To C T ROGERS Cos for your Crockery and Glass Ware Ttey have a LI1GE and WELL AS SORTED STOCK which they are selling at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES J Brices Mew Stock Clothing cf Cheaper than ever irTT1rnw TT A O ACTTM I l Linr io it I Vint fffinrin can 1e bought al J Brices clothing ea tnbMsnmtni iur iwa luuurj aj i i i u 9 Oilier CUUbK 111 nuuv a TVT Z TXT TI 19 We buy our goods from Eastern houses who can and will sell cheap for cash itr II inirnriohlTT rn rush nrinninlpR for very small profits Call and price Belected supply oi FANCY CASSIMERES SUPERB BROADCLOTHS 4c c to t l a iv vn niOTlllNO tion oi jvaLf well cut and made and most kinds of Furnirdiine Goods usually Kept in fjioining oupic Geullfmens clothing cut and made to order In every vnutly of style to suit the wearer and warranted to give eatis faction Ciuilnjr done at half our moderate Drces when we furnish Ihe roods We rii nlnii rnll from Dersons ho want anything in our line before purchasing elsewnere Mark the place Oloae by the Barter Pole South Main St Oberlin Came and xirrowfuMv v r A flirouil nl wliuc lor tli buried town We rose with feel in i jriinl and intense A nd lii red a n1 idilleaieil Anjrlo A lYicun aloveliit to clean our siilcwalk fur Jlliy ceiitd 1 i TZZr KINGDOM COME Xow in the heat and burden if he div Father twere faithless ofthvchild to iriv That Tliou shouldst call hie to Thyself away Say rather I will kneel and tneelin say Fiither Thy vill he done Yet the work presses and the hands hang down And in much weeping is the godl seed sown Oli I for the harvest and the urn ring homo Oh for Iho Masters Presence with his own Iather Thy Kingdom come the rAiuiuirttM Mrs Davidson one of the sufferers of the terrible earthquakes if August lo died in Valparaiso on the lOth insf Her escape was a perfct mira cle and after innumerable escapes and sufferings sho has at lat given up to the shock upon her nenous sys tem She was a wealthy widow lady living in Arica with her nv audJ after the first heavy shok h1 o a tine estimable young man rushed home through the falling ruins to find his mother partially buried un der the beams and timbers of her fallen house After frantic etibrts to extricate her and being unable to do so alone and unaided ho vanity tried to nnd some one to help him release her but at such a time help fromothers is almost impossible every one seeking their own and their friends safety At last he found some kind gentlemen and by their aid and after incredible labor his mother was re leased from the fallen ruins but so bruised and injured that she was near ly unconscious and totally unable to stand or rise While seeking again for some person to aid him inremoving her to a greater place of safety as the second shock had compelled the kind men helping him to flee to secure the safety of their ownfamilies he was obliged to wander away to a distant part oi the town and as ho was returning the cruel sea came in and he saw his mother washed out to sea before his eyes clinging to i door upon which he had laid her But as she lay extended upon it it kept her afloat and after two hours she was washed ashore upon a small island Here she lost all consciousness but recovered her senses to find herself again floated oil to sea after about an hours refugcon the inland Her son had miraculous kept her in sight watching her tossing form auong the breakers even amid the convulsions around him and he now succeeded in getting a boat sent olT to her from the Peruvian corvette America By the time the bont picked her up another tidal wave had filled the boat half full of water and there was great danger of being swamped Mrs Davidson had been in the water nearly nine hours and the men finding the sea running so high said they would not return to the ship and as their only salvation put the boat out to sea and waited and wached for the daylight Atrx oclock VVrr V TV ashore and the whole place in ruins They brought Mrs Davidson ashore however and for three days longer she lay exposed to the scorching rays of the sun and the cold night dews without any shelter or covering ex cept a small blanket that her sonsecured lor her Her property was all destroyed and yet this brave woman kept up and was cheerlul anaconndent Her son made an unavailing effort to get to Valparaiso by the first mail steamer but in the crush and fright of the fleeing people it was an impossibility At last on tre zth of September sho reached Valparaiso by the steamer Esmeralda and every care and attention were bestowedupon the unfortunate lad v Tuit she sank under the shock and attendant suffering and died on the 10th as above stated If any son deserves logy young Davidson does ro attached was he to his mother that many predict that he will not long survive her It seems hardly credi ble that a trail woman could endure such suffering ir Y Times THE 11 ITIIT F PROFITABLE Gath the Tribunes Washington correspondent has been talking with a British railway capitalist who is reported as having said concerning railway speed It is a question vital to the Ameri can people and their railway system the subject ol utilizing your railroads to the fullest extent by running slow and frequent trains of freight atgreatly reduced rates of shipment You know I suppose that very many of your railways arc in use not more than four hours out ot twentylour You know that in geometricalprogression almost the cost of railway carriage increases with the rate of speed it costs hall as much to run a train at ten miles an hour as at twenty Increase the rato to thirty and it costs double the tarilTat twen ty The fuel the wear and tear ac cident cost of rolling stock make the dillerenccs An engine to run frrly miles an hour as some ot ours do costs an extravagant sum of money It must weigh sixty tons to insure safety This sixty tons pulverizes rails The speed shakes theextravagant engine speedily to pieces We have found in England that norailway train pays anywhere in thekingdom which exceeds thirty miles an hour The Joyal Holyhead mail which makes a mile a minuteexclusive of stoppages has to be subsidized extravagantly The same applies to fast ships Behold only yesterday the French steamer Pcreire built to outstrip the Scotia puts back to Havre with her engine room full of dead men High rate of speed That was an tne matter They destroyed your Collins line of vessels But for the mail subsidy and the extraordina ry competition in England between railways we should not have a train to make above thirty miles an hour Our island is hardly longer than the btate ot New lork but m this coun try where you have such vast distan ces between your giain nnd cotton districts and the sea the subject of low speed or the sake of cheap freight is ot vital importance Augusta Maine has been visited by mo most severe sieet storm ior years Hundreds of trees are completely ruined and the roads arc almostimpaisible TUT VlSRlKGTO LODRV Among those who visit the Capitol as lobbyists the most persistent and the most dan serous are cxMembers of Congress who have the freedom of the floor In fact this privilege en ters largely into the qualifications of the men selected by corporations or individuals to urge their measures upon Congress And the thing iscarried to an extent which is utterlydisgraceful to the House In the Senate comparatively little of it is done Then the Senate is a smaller body and the members can bo seen better at home But the floor of the House is the place of business for this class of men which they visit daily exactly as the merchants of our city go on Change It is proper that exmembers should be entitled to the privileges of the floor as an act of courtes but when this privilege is used openly as a part of a lobbyists stock in trade it becomes a disgrace to the House to tolerate it The Alaska case is one in point 3HFtsrs Walker and Stanton were the attorneys for those who wished to effect the sale They have the rang of the members deks the conven ience of the sofas for explaining and the privacy of the cloakrooms for those who would rather talk in quiet A cause which pays its attorneys 21000 has other inducements tooffer to thoso who iro not retained and the advantage of being able to see all the members together and have their ear when their constituentscannot is valuable capital in aprofessional lobbyists pocket Another case in point is found in the attempt to break down the House in the position it is taking in regard to fraudulent sales of Indian lands to great monopolies Those interested in what is well known now as the Joy purchase of Cherokee neutral lands are here in force to browbeat those in the House who are attempting to stop this and like abuses Of course the lobby though a strong one would not be complete without anexmember of Congress and so Mr who is also an interested party and who was one of the formermanipulators of the scheme was sent on He can be seen ever day among the desks of members and found every night including Sundays making the rounds of their rooms He by no means confines himself to the facts in the case Indeed his business is to conceal the facts and so oil the scheme that his former as ociates willswallow it Every member of the House who has conversed with him knows what his business is knows that he is using the iioor to privately debate the position taken by the Committee of Public Lands and to combat other proposed legislation to prevent the swindling of Indians and yet nomember seems to think it an insult to the dignity of the House and perhaps it is not Mr s case is but anisolated ono among thoso constantlyoccurring It is however a marked one in this that he openly uses thecourtesy extended to him as anexmember to lobby among the desks ofmembers for the defeat of legislativemeasures reported to the House by one of its committees The sepresentatives tarn a seat in the Reporters u tilery until they have signed an agreement that they will not be interested in any project before Congress And this is right If exmembers who turnlobbyists were only allowed to prose cute their schemes in the galleries there would be little cause of com plaint but to give them not only the freedom hut the protection ot the floor is certainly a slight stretch of courtesy Wash Cor CincinnatiGazette PIJGl FOK TIIK LITTLE FOLKS Dont expect too much of them it has taken forty years it may be to make you what you arc with all your lessons ol experience and 1 dare say you are a faulty being at best Above all dont expect judgment in a child or patience under trials Sympathize in their mistakes and troubles dont ridicule them Remember not to measure your childs trials by vour standard As one whom a mother comforteth says an inspired writer and beautifully docs he convey to us the deep faithful love that ought to be found in every womans heart the unfailing sympathy with all her chil drens griefs When I see children going to their father lor comlort 1 am sure there is something wrong with their mother Let the memories of their childhood be as bright as you can make them Grant them every innocent pleasure in your power We havo often felt our temper rise to see how carelessly their little plans have been thwarted by older persons when a little trouble on their part would have given the child pleasure the memory of which would last a iiietimc Jasuy uoni think a child a helpless case because it betrays some very bad habits We have known children that seemed to havo been born thieves and liars so early did they display theseundeniable trails yet we have lived to sec the same children become useful men and women and ornaments to society We must confess they had wiseaffectionate parents And whatever else you maybe compelled to deny your child by your circumstances in life give it what it most values plenty of lovc Episcopal Methodist 2EirOKM Li ENGLAND The prosecution of disestablishment rnnt Uritnin is marked by another unmistakable sign of progress and this is the announcement of MrGladstone that he will bring in a bill at the current session of Parliament to abolish University tests He alsodeclares his purpose to proceed mabolishing the Irish church As the Universities arc now managed they are Church of England schools arm i n t tnlonf united to the IllUSl UllllUW 1 Ercatest wortli finds no encourage ment Irom mem ni tho established church Ihe whole population of Great Britain is about 30 0001X10 of whom 0000000 are Catholics and 23000000 Ptf But tho adherents of the Established church are not quite twothirds of the whole nnmber The Universities by their tests which it is now proposed to abolish exclude those who do not belong to the Established church and so including the Catholic anddissentin population a hug per cent of British bom subjects arc debarred from university education Thecompletion of the university test reform will be another important step olprogress rOLOGY OF THE LAKE SHO It F Lorain county is made up mainly f Devonian shales very tew points on its surface rising more than 300 feet A L E The lake ridges are ancient sand bars formed parallel to tho shore of the lake when it was severalhundred feet higher than at present They are not strictly horizontal At Rockport Cuyahoga county the north ridge is 90 feet a mile west it is 105 to 107 at Avon S5 with round knolls rising to 105 and at Kusselton Huron county 120 The middle ridge two miles southwst of the Cuyahoga at Cleveland is 149 feet A at Dover Center 153 and atKidgeville 158 There is a third ridge one mile south of Ridgeville Center which is 1S5 feet the summit being in allcases the point to which the levels were taken The fourth or south ridge in Brooklyn Cuyahoga county is 173 in Ridgeville 203 and in Elyria west of Black River 195 feet These ridges surround all the lakes On Lake Ontario there are eight thohighest attaining an elevation 762 above lake level or 539 feet above the mean surface of Lake Erie This is more elevated than any of those belonging to the Lake Erie system They are all due to tho same cause suchparallel banks being everywhere formed beneath the surface near the shore in all seas and large lakes InCuyahoga County east of the river and thence easterly along the shore they have tho following elevationCleveland north ridgo 95 to 10S Euclid 112 to 118 Mentor 109 Painesville 120 Centroville 105 AshtabulaCounty line 107 four miles east ofAshtabula 132 Conneaut 120 East of Cleveland thero are not as many ridges as there are between theCuyahoga and the Black Rivers In the destruction of the shore andthegradal encroachment of the lake waters upon the land since it assumed its present level no doubt some ridges which existed at lower levels have been carried away On LakeMichigan and Lake Superior they are found from 20 to 80 feet above the present surface These ridges or submarine bars must not be confounded with terraces which are composed ofdifferent materials and are due to adifferent cause The terraces are theancient margins of the lake forming precisely the same steep slopestowards the water as the bluffs of the present shre would do if the water should recede and allow the edges of the strata to crumble down assuming their natural slope Underneath all the sand ridges are layers of trees and sticks principally of whito cedar with cranberry spruce and pine leaves They are alsoscattered through the blue clay and hard pan of the drift beds along the lake shore partially rotten and partially mineralized There are pieces of trees among them which are worn precisely like the flood wood of the present beach According to thesurvey of Cyrus Williams Esq firstengineer of tho Cleveland and Columbus railroad the station Elyria is 160 feet above the lake and the bed of the West Fork 125 The railroad grade at Grafton is 268 at Oberlin 240 and at Wellington 2S9 which is nearly up to tfie highland of the county CVV TIIE TV L W HI It Y roa r INCETSjUIAHV The telegraph announcement of the arrest in Minnesota of a person charged with being the Newburyport incendiary recalls t the publicattention the history of a series of crimes as mysterious and almost as terrible as that narrated in De Quincys Avenger For the last ten years a secret and systematic incendiarism has been a constant and increasingterror to tho people of Newburyport Massachusetts Within that time not less than fifty buildings including four churches have been burned The destruction was evidently the work of the same hand and marked by a certain subtlo and devilish skill which has baffled all detection In several cases a curiously preparedlittle box containing combustiblematter has been discovered near the burning building What rendered the matter more mysterious and therefore the more terrible foreverything mysterious had in it anelement of terror was the apparentutter absence of object in theincendiarism Tha fires were notaccompanied by any robbery or violence and no ordinary human motive appears to have inspired the author Thealleged criminal is named Leonard Choate and was arrested in thowilderness beyond the Falls of StAnthony hiding from civilization in a primitive cabin It will not besurprising if investigation shows that tho incendiary is a monomaniac The people of Newbury however havo very naturally been roused to anintense indignation against theirpersecutor and if there is any proof against the arrested man it will go hard with him Clev Leader ABOrr FKANKING The Washington Correspondent of Ihft Cinninnntn nunnJ ta 1 o following in relation to the abuse of trie irankmg privilege I was shown an illustration of the effect of these cflbrts on the part of these economical reforms A lady received a letter from a Congressman that nilZ71pfl llfT Virvnnrl vnliinimn and she handed it over to me for clear ance l understood it at once My fair friend had the same name made famous by an authoress here and the letter had been missent It seems the fair quilldriver had been using the M Cs frank to forward hermanuscripts and proofs I ought not to publish but cant resist The little epistolary effort read Dear Friend I am sorry torefuse you the use of my fac simile as heretofore Thera has been such a row kicked up in the newspapers about the use of the thing that I have been forced to lock mine up It is well I did I found it had been used to frank over the country a circular setting forth the excellence of acertain ointment to cure scaldhead tetter ringworm and the chickenpox in children I have the confounded thing under double lock and key and have had nightsweats ever since for fear some infernal paper would get hold of the thing and force me to rise to a question of privilege on the subject of franking scald heads If you wjll send me your manuscripts and sheets I will frank them with pleasure provided none are to goto that screechy old heathen Horace ureeley I am madam yours etc GFOKGE WILLIAMCIKTIS I miirht call him the Bayard of our political struggles the Sidney of our literature so much has his most disinterested and gracious nature been employed iu his public and literary work so courageous hisoction so stainless his record Called from the epicurean experience of a social favorite and of a literarygourmand his daintiness has become delicacy his sensuousnsss moral suavity If fresh from theenervating Orient he wrote with the tepid lassitude of a fibreloss andspringless nature and so to speak spilt his mind in memories of the exhausted East at twentyeight ho wrote the Potiphar Papers His mind had retrained its tone fibre purpose and skill were in his work At twentyeight a social satirist then a moralist Today ft journalist that is to say preacher politican and essayist but in each character alike serene and thoughtful At first he was superfine superfine in hisreading superfine in his expressionsuperfine in his experience But he seems to have been touched by the siirious and penetrating genius of Thackeray The phrasenntker formed under Emerson and English poetry disappeared in place of that exquisite writer a cleareyeddelicate and decided mrn looked and reflected upon the comedy of actual life instead of brooding over nature and recalling the felicities of poets His literary work in this new phase was admirably done with good sense with humor with dramatic life Then he gave us the clarified and wifinmg expression of his personality in Prue and P a book full of grace and pathos and humor a book full of sentiment and souvenir which shows that Mr Curtis is closelyrelated to Longfellow Hawthorne Irving and Mitchell men in whom the genial and contemplative mind dominates men who have sense of art of nature and a delightfulperception of character but who are devoid of energy They maybe of one literary school These men have an honored place in American homes They hold Old World memories with New World facts they make the transition from European culture to tbe social and literary life of ourseaboard towns and eities Mr Curtis is a mild contemporary he is never vulgar never hostile to anything but bad taste badprinciples and brutish people Do I paint a man deficient in energy MrCurtis is not a type of the compact and inflammable mind that must burst forth in aggressive and arresting words There is no jet of flame in his style I cannot even say that his personality is invigorating I come in contact with his mental being to be harmonized and mollified The asperity of our New England climate is neither in his mind nor in histemperament Like his native soil I should say he lacks depth andvariety Eugene Benson in March Galaxy Bje itit of the blind The blind boys in school know the step of all their school fellows with unerring certainty Thus a boyhtvin tr missed Jiis friend at play he Wittclus for him as the ranks li nt uii iniimg in to damn Tic hen thfranip of hTs friend amicTtTie din and the scuffle of the other boys long ere lie has reached him and pounces upon him with the samecertainty as though he saw himIndeed the band speak of hearing as seeing If from the sound they know that the master has left the room they say I saw him go out It is a curious tact that blindpeoplenever run up against each other Thus when playing prisoners base a game which leads to some rough jostling even amongst boys gifted with eyes those sightless littlefellows but rarely come into collision with each other Each boy when he enters the workshop in which lie is employed in basket making a room twenty feet wide by one hundred and fifty feet in length marches up to his own seatand box never by any chance mistaking his place If they are in search of a friend and they happen to call out his name in an empty room they never stop for an answer their senso of hearingtelling them that there is no one in it Mr Anderson of Edinburgh tells us a tale which illustrates this point I had occasion he says to send out a blind man with a mattress I gave him a bill with it that he might receive payment But to my surprise he returned with the account and the mattress too Mve brought back baith ye see sir said he How so1 Indeed sir I didnt like to leave t yonder else I am sure we wnd neer see the siller there b nae a stick of furniture within the door How do you come to know that Oh sit twa taps on the door wi my stick soon toll t me that and the mans estimate proved to bo correct Exclianyc the oibio raiiiNTuitY I1 rom the i eport of Itcv A G ltyers Chaplain we learn that there are 10 prisoners under tho ago of sixteen years 95 under twentyone years anu zwj overtno latter age Ol these 6 are women 336 white and 38 col ored 121 are natives of Ohio 155 of otner states and US foreign born 31 1 are on their first conviction 11 on the second 6 on the third and 3 on the fourth Of this total 101 of theconvicts arc orphans and 30 of them never had a home 131 of them aretemperate 10S intemperate and 132moderate drinkers SO havo children 131 arc married 217 are single and 2 widowed 43 have no education 47 can barely read and write and 9 have a good education 193 of theprisoners have served in the Federal army and 5 in tho rebel army 191 claim honorable discharges and 7 admit having deserted Tho total number of prisoners received during the year is 371 1 31 V O III A N T K V VErKU E D EINION W 11 1 Mi E V The government has obtained averdict against George W Thome late collector of internal revenue for tho Fifth district ot New Jersey and his sureties for the sum of one hundred thousand dollars on a charge ofmalfoasance in office Itappean that in January 1867 cne hundred andfortyeight barrels of whiskey wereremoved from New York to Jersey City and Thome was applied to for a permit to have it transmitted to San Francisco The sureties accepted by Thorne were worthless and suit was brought against him to recover the amount A verdict was rendered for tho government ODDS AND EN liS How did Adam get out of the N garden of Eden He was snaked out What the keynote to good breeding B natural Tho first thing poople dye and the last one that is dead is the hair An unsafe rudder to guide tho womens rights movementSwisshelm If ladies were cast adrift on the sea where would they steer to Tho Isle of Man They have a new Testament in Baltimore one hundred and fifty years old It is a part of life to bear and forbear Ladies who pursue fashion in dress have to bear a great deal Wendell Phillips calls Rcvcrdy Johnsons talk in England thesentimental mush of magnanimity The Boston Standard publishes the names of delinquent subscribers under the heading skunks When do your te functions of the tongue are chattering th vhivp the When they What time by the clock is the best for a spun A joke takes best when it strikes one It is reported that Queen Victoria is a Spiritualist and talks with her departed Albert every day Organists ought to gain areputation more easily than pianists since they always have some one to blow for them If some men are given to their cups there are women who like their saucers The color of this joke is invisible The strongest kind of a hint A young lady asking a gentleman to see if one of her rings would go on his little finger One and one make two unless they are ciphers This refers to men and women in marriage as well as to numerals An Ohio landlord dropped dead of apoplexy while caning an overcoat thief Tho latter remarked that it was a judgment of Heaven and walked oil with the coat Some one who had a keenappreciation of domestic matters gave the following toast at a dinnertable Woman the only sewing machine that ever basted a goose Weston was such a curiosity that the congregation rushed out of a prayer meeting in Ellenborough New York to gaze at the pedestrianleaving the pious parson alono A female weaver at Bradford named Sabina Carey has gained 5 damages against a young man who while courting her squeezed her hand so hard as to break one of her fingers T W Iligginson besides being an accomplished literary man is making immense strides in science lie has already contributed to the IfnUi an f ILone two essays on Snow Furls and how to make them i 1 lie tiny more Vv atiinrton teacher in giving notice of thocoming holiday to her pupils said somo things about the good Washington and then asked this question Why should we celebrate Washingtons birthday more than mineBecause ho never told a lie shouted a little boy This was rather hard on the teacher but the boy did not see it John Chinaman in California is clear at a bargain His ideas of the credit system are extremely Rafo though rather vague A merchant of unbounded credit in San Francisco recently applied to a Chinesemerchant through his agent to purchase a cargo of rice on time The agent duly set forth tho opulence standing etc ot his principal to whichChinaman replied Yes him welly good man Me trustee him pay meonehalp cashec other halp when me beliber ricece A certain lawyer was applied to for a legal opinion by a poor neighbor in which the interests of the latter were materially involved Thelawyer furnished the opinion and charged five dollars for it There is the money said his client and it is all I have in the world and my family has been a long time without pork Thank Heaven replied theattorney my wife has never known the want of pork sinco the day we were married And never will said his client so long as she has such a great hog as 3ou The attorney returned him his money A gentleman who has recently arrived from South Africa tells a story about a shipwreck near the Cape of Good Hope which derives additional zest fiom the fact that he was ono of the clergymen referred to It appears that on tho steamerWaldcnstan were several clergymen from Natal going to a synod of theHeformed Hutch church at Capo Town and also an English clergyman The steamer was wrecked near PointLingulia to the east of Cape Town and the boats were got out One of the clergymen rushed for tho first boat but Captain Joss the master of the ship lilted him out of tho boat saying You are a minister andprepared to die the sinners must bo saved first and sure enough the clergy were compelled to stick to the ship until the sinners had been landed I W VE 0IM N E I K THE An insane woman named Annie ONeil was recently discovered in one of the corridors of tho White House moving towards the privateapartment of tho I resident When asked what she wanted she roplied I am sent by God Almighty to kill Andrew Johnson She was taken intocustody when an old fashioned double barreled pistol was found in her po session wnicn nowevcr loaded It appears that she hadentered the White House during theafternoon and concealed herself in the meantime Sho was evidently labor ing under an atiaun v i is said to havo been caused by herapprehension that she would lose tho entire savings of herself and sister gained in the treasury department during the several Tears past andinvested in a little homestead for her family This property she wasnotified she would havo to gvo upbecause it was purchased under tuxtitie