Lorain County news. (Oberlin and Wellington [Ohio]), 1871-12-21

              1 County K Lorain IJates cf Advertising HE EWS I PUJITJPHFP JIT JUSTUS N BROWN C court I Vtaft 116 Column lb Column 14 Column 12 Column 1 Column Tem roil a it cents per incli the Iirt insert Stincut insert tor ss than ii Local Ni 1SC0 ItW iniK fiioo 3UUU ouo lOllUO r ADVEKTisrxo sevenlyi3ve ot space or part of an Jiuh iur on and lortv cnts for eacb sub Ojjiee il Carpenters Block third si lory advei Lisiiuciil Jlisel U d ximrift rMirri yurntn aXjIj PAPERS ZDISOOIN TliTTJEX THE EZJCtPIZRTIOUST OP rPTMF POE ill ten cae No a line in JL TKitMofAdveriliiii en lo tbelii always eauh In advnnce iot lees of Marriages or ctory one dollar ii line unltss hy special arranai Nu CUAltuit iur short Deaths C Aiinsin Business Hit MlinsCRIPTION Volume 13 No 42 4nf yenr In advatici ix month ilirff months Oberlin Ohio Thursday Morning December 21 1871 Whole Number 614 11 ANiiE Ttecnhir advert I to cliaime tblr adcrUsehieiitont extra charge lived lilli i nun giwinws givertonj PRINTING BOOK ANDIOD PRINTING of nildescriptions done at the News oflleo oo reasonable terms Olllvi in Giupuntcrs Hlocfc Oberlin O A X Til ItNEl iiTEliSrfcllI A AttorneyiindounscdV Irtratlaw Notary Ilihlic Real Estate ent Oillcc on South Main street RUOKMIOKVM FAtKCHIID l4EOlI Books Htatiocry lictnrs Iiotme Krumus Wall 1uper etc College street nOODKICH E J Books Surtioncry Pic It Kranw Willi Ph if nllecr and streets BJOTH ANO 8UOEM 1 T SMITH marnfiioitncr and dealer 1 in Boot Shoes Leather and Trunks Main Street IjdiCB J ia a no fact liver and dealer in l Boots and Shoes Nu 3 1nton Block PHISKVS BAILEY East Lorain street makes and sole Slippers Repairing done cheap DAN A JOHNSON A WARN Kit Market West t olltsifc treet All kinds of fresh and salt meals kept in their season WM MORRIS East College street All kinds of meatJs tt hi theircitson PAY GS Meat market south of SnelPs Store Pair prices and line iruut JACKUS XV U Con tract Dr and Builder J North ProfessorStreet Oberlin DENTIST J F SIDDALL over Wcstervelts store M ARDNEtt A CO Drngs Medicines Of Is X Paints etc i VKRY II A dealer in Drugs Medicines L and Groceries Prescriptions prepared MJERLY CilLRCfllLL Drugs Paints j Varnishes etc No 7 Vut College St H KM K Itf A lMiUTAIUi 111 A IM AN fit CH AM BERLIN Fumitime j of all stylos Largest ihmh Lpieiit in Uivu Store on Main street opposite tlie Park if KBKIHIAN D V Cahi netware andFur11 niture of best quality Mouth Main st HUNT NATIONAL UANK OF Oberlin Designated Depository and Government Agents for i tile of Ponds 0 HJkxkins Jasi A II Johnson Pres FLUUK AN a fcfd n Li Store Proprietoiii City Mills South Main Street GW TOTTES dealer in Groceries and Provisimis limine Is Block West College st Cash paid fur Butter and Eggs FARRAR BARNARD dealers inGroceries and Provisions of all kindsPnukCs delivered Cash for Butter Eggs etc So 4 Merchants Exchange UAKDWAKK p ART EH A ROSSITER dealers inHardu ware stoves and Tinware Sole agents or Stewarts Stoves Job work done in best nanncr WEED EDWARDS dealeis in Stoves Tin and Sheet Iron Ware andHardware of all kinds Mowing Machines etc Merchants Exchange North Main street JEWEIEUIt BO WEN R D dealer in Watches Clocks Jewelry Spectacles and Fancy Geods Park House block pUTTLE C II Watchmaker Engraver I and dealer in Watches ClocksJewelry and Silverware Car neuters Block II VEltl STAB I EN tjUVEL C H Good Horses audCarrlages 1 for hire Also all kinds of teaming done at the shortest notice stable on North Miin street opposite the Park TR MAYHBVY Fine rigs fast horses ami new carriages atliis Livffry Stable on EastCollcge street next to Park House MillHrit COAL AC EASTMAN A THOMPSON dealers in Lumber Coai umc Salt Flour otc Warehouse at Railroad Depot ITIILLINEUV MR A MRS C P GOSS dcaleiB inFashionable Millinery 2d Floor overRennier Uullmrd A Cos VtVst Colioge street tlANLFACTUKEKS LS UOLBURN manufacturer of Doors Sash Blinds Scroll Work atthePlauug Mill illBKVIIANlM STRAUS M dealer in Drv Goods etc J Viols Block Sorth Main street JOHNSON WHITNEY COLE dealers J in Drv Goods Groceries Produce etc Merchants Exchange North Main street HIIULBCRD dealer in Dry Goods Clothing Groceries Crockery etc Allege street II 11RICE MEKCUANT TAILOR IT South Main street Keudptnade Cloth iii and Gentlemens Furuishiug Goods to suit all classes of customers N OTAKY PUIXIjIC ITARU1S W P Notarv Pubho Convey IL ancer of Dods ett over the store of llall iillett Allen OTINIKITS nMMBUS AND HACK OFFICE South U Main street Omnibus to every train Daily Hack to Wellington Whitney A Wed Proprirdori fiiisiciAnii fUMKR JOHNSON M Kast College l street D NO it LIC Physician and Surgeon East Collcgd street U HAYWARD Homcopathlst Ofllce J Union HlocK iiesiucnco Lorainsc GT SM IT II Physician and SurgeonOfi flee in Baileys building Main street UUDIKY ALLKNMH Ofllce with Dr U Sulilall Residence corner of Professor nd ForiStstreets IK EPA I It I INC pLOTHKS W lilNGKKB repaiied b 1 v J KV KLl 8PECTAHER PtWli HKNHKY miinnfacnirerofHen A ilr riiiiril iiiriMiicles Ollue at ninuivfory ioneroi Collegeand Water neeisuiiorlin TlIKtllM IS iHOWlb Book and Job Printer Mcilin Oliio PPfil nttonllon crlvrn to C1po linl Cli trliitlni Killr ITIitv jfCUi LINK or Alox T SlewnrCs A Jjiis33wa3i7 cores FTNE ASSORTMENT OF NUBIES AT JOHNSON WHITNEY A COLE No more Broken Spectacles Xo More Rusly Spectacles Something Entirely New in the line of Spectacles No move TiieKi work in Fitting Spectacles Kings Patent Process There is no humbug Call nt the Jewelry Store of c ii tu r rr i Ami fxtlnlii for ynnrselvi9 Carpenters Block llmt College Street OBEKLIN O gHAWIS We have just opened a very rlegnnl lock of Long SlinvlH Square Shnwls jMissoh Shawls Ofliillioiiis Sliavlw Vainly Shawl IS iiiijrii iaw Pen lotly h Johnson Whitney Cole WATCHES Clocks and Jewelry AT THK Corner of Main College Sts UNDER TflK PARK HOUHR THE undersigned is receiving and selling at Reduced Iiioejs I Such goods as are usually found in a Jen elry store The celebrated Setb Thomas Clocks Are the best Cloeks made in America t Gold and Silver Watches In an almost endless variety of movements SILVER WAR E Napkin Rings Table and Teaspoons Forks ana Fruit Knives Sugar Shells etc of all patterns The largest line of PLATED WARE In the county from the elegant Ten Set to a Napkin Ring A good Rsortincnt olsuperior tine and common Table and Pocket Cnllery OPERA GLASSES REVOLVERS AND CARTRIDGES FINE JEWELRY Of the latest styles Gold Teontinc Chains Gold Thimbles Finger Kings Etruscan Sets Sleeve Buttons etc FINE FANCY GOODS Bohemian and French Vases Toilet Sets PI aeons Match Safes Watch Stands Polls aixl Doll Heads a multitude of these CHIIORKNS TOYS Crumb Brushes Hair Flesh Infant and Tooth Brushes Spectacles and Eye Glasses Of all kinds Portmonnaies It aznr Strops Fine Toilet ioaps Chess Hoards uomiuoes etc Watches and Clocks repaired and warranto R D Bo wen rjlABLK LINENS Tiivltey Heel nCnlle DniiinU 3NailinH Toilet Qnilta Ioylie IlneU Towels Inst received ar Johnson Whitney Coles UNION BUSINESS INSTITUTE All who wish to learn Bookkeeping In all Ksl ranches i All who wish to learn to execute nil kinds of Commercial Paper as Notes Drafts Duebills Receipts Orders Checks etc A II whnwidi In liemnu familiar with Con tracts Powers of Attorney Certiflcatcs of Agency Bills lor Mnpment All who wish to aeon ire a Good Business Hand Writing in the shortest possible time All who wish rsmake their living like men instead of picking it like a beast ol burden ALL are advised lo study nt Ibis Institute the cheapest and best place in America to acquire a Imf vmv thev are full ajrain Wonder if these bees ever get to ltuwiiesH JEdiieatioii Call nt lit oAVior inquire by letter To imrtic ii Jist Received A InrgcstockorTnhle and Pocket Cutlery 30tSSr8neBrs firniiui tuu utMsirui 0 n TUTTLK LIFTED ItT MARY E DO DOE In sorrow I lended tnv iranlon Ai Hie colors div bv iUy tmled ami chanceil In the litedless air And passed Willi the siunmer away While tltpy fflnldened mv beautiful jardHii here the dews and tlie sunllirht ahlilc And crept ii the wall to mv window Or hid as the swuetext will hide While they flashed their brief splendor iwibrf me Not i lower not a bud would cull Till the henveiiUt flames of the latPBl flit out and my garden was dull O cruel the death of the blossoms And cruel die word that were said Next SirtiiK shall Hie enrtli be reKhublened 1 he living shall bloom from tliedead Not for me would ihe hloomlmr lie ever For my love O iuv love uld not slay Hand in hand we hail bent ncrthelr briirlitius And now he was passim away Tlielieartbreaklin flowers of ntxt Summer Tluy will look at me dreary and wan Or mock me or taunt me unci madden U bod that the years should roll oo So I felt and I would not look skyward Nor earthward nut only at hlrn 1 him will Ills clear dvfuif vision Who saw not the earth kdwIhh dim t him till nloue in the irinleii I stood with lie liuk 01 tlif llnwura Alone mid the ltilpss Aiitiiinii euldead leaves about ine lu slinwers Look up lie had wlilipered in partlm fook up said n voice lo me lliiru ear by in the widenpreadlnir inaplei Far otT In Hie nildsl of tin wood Around and above nie they gatltereil id lit all tlie place where 1 stood My purples mv rosetints and vellows My erlinsoH that gladdened Ills slKt Were Mvln Were living I knew It And tin lesson that nine to tne s ent not wheu the torfst was linked And the Kruas covered over with snow For acaln I looked up and beheld them i ne mhiis oi tue uowers ne inin niesi And I saw them lit fclory transflkured Far oil In the wonderful West ontented aaln I beheld them My colors Ininiorial and bright tlieii the ates of the sunset slowfold big Shui them out from my passionuie sltrht Scribntr Monthly What a Boy c I can see that day White cumuli were heaped over the wood tops but the middle sky was blue and clear Though I was dozing on a saloon step tins uay oi oeauty got even through my wavering sight Perhaps I sat there an hour perhaps an age in which the blinks I got were the re curring days It suddenly occurred to me that such a long continuance of tineweather ought to be enjoyed more actively rsut tne world whirls as everybody knows I mumbled a number of jokes on nature as I staggered abroad Alter a tiresome journey I came uDon an alley and a group of boys traveling through a game ot marbles on their knees like penitents stumping through Jerusalem And in their midst was Billy Billy was a noble looking boy I paused and tried to get in position to look at him I felt a maudlin pride in Billy He had JNoras blue eves Blessed Nora She was gone where she couldnt be cursed an more poor little broken hearted thing As Billy photographed himself in my eyes his bright hair blowing his lusty fingers gouging a pit for the center marble the contrast between what he and I were born to be and what we were struck me like abullet I had tried to reform Oh yes And every failure was a link in my chain I was utterly given over to the snakes and the luries Now here was Bill walking in my vagrant steps a vicious Arab under a beautiful Caucasian guise Say Bill begged one of the tribe casting a covetous eye on hisindustrious jaws let me chaw your wax awhile Bill with graceful generosity and contempt of gain tossed it over Bay ing I here vou can take it and keep it I dont want it no more While I stood in drunken dolor against the fence the group whirled up suddenly into a maelstorm The center to which they were all sucked was a steadtast rock with churning fists and a yellow top Bull 1 shouted in furv come here you young scoundrel Hearing my voice over the broil he dashed through the boys and came crying bloody and ruflled v hat are you lighting about r i asked standing in tremulons judg ment over him I cant tell you father he an swered bravely Yy hat Jven the boy despised and dared me I lifted my band and felt that I could kill him Take that then and that you little wretch Ill show you how to be a bully and turn against your own father My muscular hand brought a fright ful blood gush out of his bruised face I thought he should leel that his father was a solid man in one respect if the rest of mv body was a mass of moist wretchedness The boy the boy I groan when I remember it Oh dont father he begged wringing his little dirtv hands Oh father please dont strike me and Ill tell you all about it The boys said you was a drunken old bloat And Ill fight anybody that calls you that father 1 will if you kill me lor it I sat prone down upon the ground That was tlie hardest blow I ever had Get up father said Billy cast ing a bloody and warlike glancebehind him and Ill help vou along I took hold of him but a weakness not born of rum kept me at his cracked stubby little feet There was no one in the world who cured whether I rose or went down but him He cared I put mv arms around the boy and cried against him Xo more drunken glazing repentance for me iLvery tear was hard as a pearl with resolution The good Christappeared that instant in his love and long suffering through the boy as plainly as he appeared to dying Sir Launtal through the leper When on earth He was always going about picking up tlie abominal and since We has lett the earth no sends lor them by messengers they cannot help knowing Men should respect in me that spark which the boy respected I would show him what a grand and overinjiKtcring tiling is that soul which the God of glory values Dont cry father requested Billy while he ceased not to paint bloody sunrise on his face His eyes looked bluer and more hfavenlike than the skv Do you love your father I risked holding to him like a woman Yes sir Ill lick any body that calls you names the bright tender firmaments in his face gushing with another shower A horizontal hail of mud andpebbles hit us while he was speaking Billy reared up like a charger snuffing the battle cry afar off But I made him retreat from the enemys lines When the boy and I were laid at night in a low tavern which was our only home I asked with my face turned from him Billy will you help your father to try once more Upon which he Vninded up and pumped my arm with all the visor and familiarity that the street had put in him Yessiree I will that you bet vowed Billy A very few minutes after hesubsided I heard his soft breath going in and out the doors of his lips inregular cadences While he slept and started up to fight his skirmishes over I flogged my weak brain to work and planned and planned and planned When I look back at that wretch in soiled tavern sheets glaring into darkness with watery eyes my legs tremble under me though they have gone stoutly these many years It was such a very straight path up from that place and I came so near falling time after time The next day I got work on the railroad rom the gutter I could not go directly back to the bar since drankenness is one of tlie vices which is not tolerated in lawyers It was hard to shoevl dirt in the hot sun I sat down half fainting Agoodnatured Patrick came slyly with a bottle and bade me whist at it which I put forth the will to do like a weak beast when Billy swooped down from a passing freight and squared himself before that Irishman while the very tatters at his elbow bristled with wrath Look here now threatened he sending the bottle over the track if you get my father to drinkin again Ill kick you It would have been so very hard for the boy to fulfill tlie threat with his baby legs on Patricks high breeches that my Irishman took jolly compassion on him and roared a vow never more to put his slimy temptation to my lace After I had delved awhile Billy had a new suit a set of books and I school privileges Then a situation I as copyist was opened to me The j boy and I fell into the habit olshaking hands and going to church on a Sunda Some of my old friendsbegan to notice me Oh I tclPyou it makes a mans heart swell 1 ike a green bulb to have an honest hand come seeking his mally 1 got into practice Some times the thirst came on me and I stormed up and down in rily office and twisted out little locks of hair as if the curse hung to the roots ot that Once I locked the door and threw out the key and was a prisoner till myassociate came Passing a saloon one evil time the clinking of glasses and the breath of mine enemy penetrated my senses That saloon door sucked me justhalfway in when I was shocked through my coatskirts and quite knocked into the street Here father pleaded Billy charging me with a second jerk come out ot this come out of this were agoing to make men ofourselves father l es men liulv I su Inscribed bo I didnt run into that side trackbecause I had such a faithful tender Coming up socially often does much for a man morally Casesmultiplied and I seemed to grow with my trust Ihe bov and 1 had smart lodgings up town He rose in school L was so proud of him I ve heard how women love their children with close peculiar devotion I think I must have loved him with a mothers love Theres no other way oPxprcssing how near the boy is to me When he came from school and met me on the streets he was oftencarrying the satchel of a smoothhaired dark eyed girl to whom he would ex claim as lie loyally touched his cap That s my lather with such a proud accent that the blood leaped in mv veins Oh mvgood fellow its a good day for you when your child is proud of you we live an together now uiny his darkhaired Nora the little row dies and I in a home with no end of verandas and vines The respectable handle of judge is set to my name but Billy s children who gave the echo to his former street training stand in no more awe of it than they do of the venerable Roman handle to my countenance V e tumble like wild colts in the grass But they have no idea that their successor ever lay in a lower bed Blessed be enduring love I think often I may be in my dotage for quiet matron Nora often looks up from her babv in surprise at mv walk ing the veranda and maundering in a sort of ecstacy The bov The boy Mary JTartirell in Woods Household Magazine The South Tlie condition of the negro after emancipation that is his ignorance and want of experience combined with his position of estrangement from or hostility towards his white neighbors attracted the carpetbag ger as naturally as a dead ox attracts tlie buzzard Ihe lower class oidemagogue scents an unlightenedconstituency at an almost incredible dis tance and travels towards it over mountain valley and river with the certainty of a mariners company But then we hastened his coming by our legislation AVe deliberately and for arrjmfctinirc period excluded all the leaiTing Southern men from active participation in the management of their local aihnrs In the idea that we wore befriend iifjyii negroes we gave thempossejafc of the government ami de privt1 thorn of the aid ol all the local capacity and experience in themanagement of it thus ottering ihe States as a prey lo Northern adventurers and thus inflicting on the freedmen familiarity with the process of acorrupt administration carried on by gancrs of depraved vagabonds in which the public money was stolen the public faith made an article of traffic the legislature openlycorrupted and all the community contained of talent probity and socialrespectability put under it legal ban as some thing worthless and disreputable We do not hesitate to sav that a better mode of debauching thefreedmen and making them permanently unfit for civil government could hardly have been hit on had the North had such an object deliberately in view Instead of establishing equal rights lor all we set up thegovernment of a class and this class the least competent tlie most ignorant and inexperienced and a class too whose history and antecedents made its rule peculiarly obnoxious fo the rest of the community There is no use in getting in a rage with KuKluxery and sendingcavalry and artillery alter it than oflegislating against pestilence as long as nothing is done to remove the causes There is no more place for passion in dealing with South Carolina than in setting a broken limb or tying up an artery AVe care nothing about the stories brought back by the KuKlux Com m i t tee very 1 i kely t h ey are every word true but they donothing towards the solution of theproblem before us The Nation The Weakness of Crime Three times in recent years we have seen the great truth exemplified that nothing which is founded on fraud and violence is really strong Its strength is merely apparent and although it may stand for a time as if it were impregnable to all the attacks of truth and justice it onlyrequires steady hammering to bring it down For years after the campaign of slavery began there seemedsomething almost Quivotic in theendeavors and hopes of the men who were assailing this gigantic evil It seemed to be growing stronger and secure every hour Another wrong which met with a strange and monstrous success tli rough a term of yenrsbut against which wo always bore unceasingtestimony was the Second Empire of France Louis Bonaparte throttled the Republic and imprisoned itsrepresentatives unquestioned by the world and condoned by the people of France The kings and queens born in the purple gave him their hands and called him Moiwcur mon jrere lie called the world about him toadmire that hollow and superficial show of material prosperity which prevailed in France in 18b7 and not a sovereign that year entered the gates of Paris who seemed so strong and secure as he But even then his state was honeycombed His throne was worm eaten To save the prestige he saw fatally slipping away he began a madmans war and the Empire which he had taken twenty years to build crumbled to dust in a month A few months airo the despotism of Tammany Hall seemed alsoimpregnable Cynical observers said it could not be overthrown for it was founded on the rock of vice and ignorance It began from sources so low and vulgar that its first encroachments were re garded with contempt Its firstsuccesses were won with loafers and criminals In its later exploits it used in its coarse worklegislators and men called statesmen It hung its brazen badges on the ermine of the judiciary It controlled every utterance of the great and defiant party it had shackeled and muzzled Its chief thieves at last sincerely despising the town which allowedtheiri such immunity began to think well of themselves They became charitable and public spinted When they stole a million they would give a few thousand to the poor They encouraged art and ence in their ignorant and clumsy way and men of taste and culture were hopeless enough to accept their largess for these objects But there never was a Ring of thieves which could endure It is a silly proverb which ascribes honbr to such The press kept hammering on for years without ellect other than that of sefeming to wield this Ring of base metal more firmly together But at last the hammer struck the weak place where the avarice of one rogue touched the avarice of the others and the Ring was broken and thestrongest and foulest despotism of our times came down in crumbling ruin at the first determined assault of the honest citizens The lesson is worth all it cost No matter how big and strong and insolent a lie and a fraud may be it will surely give way sooner or later if honestly and persistently attacked iew i orf 1 noune Ingratitude to Farragut It is to be regretted that the last days of this brave trufuful amiable and exemplary man for whom his countrymen had and always willretain a deep and abiding affection and regard should havo been subjected to petty annoyances from a few who were envious of his fame or incapable of doiner him justice Great changes were made in the service without his knowledge and against his judgment Ho was compelled to receive orders which notoriously emanateiMfom one of inferior rank The otlice of Ad miral which Congress had created for him in acknowledgment of hisdistinguished and uneuualed services was he saw destined by favoriteism te piss to another In various ways ignoble and ungenerous mindsnastened to mortify the great andunassuming naval chief Tlie people throughout the Union mourned the deatli of the goodAdmiral Thousands from thesurrounding country crowded around his bier at Portsmouth but high officialdignitaries were not there The expenses of his funeral which was necessary 1 public at Portsmouth where he died were borne by his widow who has never been remunerated or noticed by the government He was exposed to greater dangers in many battles than any general ollicer on tlie field but when he died his pay died with him His widow has received norecognization or pension Most naval officers studiously prepared andpresented their prize claims and some have been enriched with large amounts of prize money Farragut in his unselfish patriotism which called out all his energies and all his time was neglectful of self andfortune He never received a dollar of prize money for the conquest of New Orleans where more extensivecaptures were made than in any battle of the war Notwithstanding official neglect the American people revert the memory of one of the most trutl ful heroic exemplary unselfish an devoted patriots the country ever had in its service and gratefullyremember his many signal achievements Gataq A week from Monday is Christmas and New Years follows a week later SprinqfirM TtrpblCiV Vec lWf Disraeli He always contrives to have one practical point to press on the not very active rural mind he appeals to Now it is the three chief wants of the laborers cottages an oven a tank a porch now it is a suggestion for sheep farmers to cross their Downs with Cotswolds again this year it is the value of a laborers garden and a garden which grows flowers as well as vegetables and fruit the necessity of manuring the garden in theautumn and the primary importance of including plain sewing in the teaching of the village girlschool We do not sav he is alwavs quite ac curate as to such points ofinformation But he makes his points sharply and with a businesslike eye to the apprehension of his audience The air of the whole is dexterous rather than natural You feel that Mr Disraeli is descending into the rural scene with admirably prepared resources for playing the benevolent squire well but that the succulent roots the golden oats the successful gardens the potatoes for winterconsumption the autumnal trenching and manuring and the skill in plain sewing are all more or less theproprieties by the help of which hesucceeded in becoming the squire for a time and with a very good effect But it is a becoming not a being it is an act of dramatic condescension after all The getup is excellent as in all matters connected with theornamental side of public life MrDisraelis getup always is but you can hardly help distinguishing the man inside the squires coat from the squire There is a slight suspicion that the great actor is playing at the London manager even more that at the rural audience after allEngland does not produce many political players in the sense in which Mr Disraeli is a player The Spcetator The Execution of ltosscl We think the execution of Rossel able brilliant and honest though he was was a necessity deplorable to be sure but still a necessity and that most of the lamentations over it have come out of peoples breasts and not out of their heads The great danger of France and perhaps the very greatest is that the instability of her government and the lovo of ths people lor military processes may finally hand over completely to the army and that the army havingdiscovered its power may become a real Praetorian Guard and put the state up at auction It is of the last im portance theretore that military men should be taught by any process however stem or savage that political revolutions are none of their business and that their Sole duty is to obey the government de Jacto Rossel set aflagrant example of insubordination to the civil power He being a com missioned military man deliberately i took upon himself to say that a gov1 ernment elected by universal suffrage and which was the only government France had or pretended to have was not entitled to his obedience The argument that Rossel was gifted and highminded is simply an aggra1 ration of his offence because the I possession of these qualities only I made him all the more dangerous We must remind our sentimentalist friends once more that the business of M Thiers and all other governors is not to mete out to every man his exact deserts hut to save and carry on human society in peace security and freedom The Nation American Commerce The common notion of steam navi gation is that it is a pursuit in which persons engaged for the purpose of making money but Mr iioutweii is apparently under the impression that it is an exercise or entertainment like yatching a share of which everynation ought to have at any cost So after showing that the American share in the carrying trade was 71 per cent in 18G0 and has now fallen to 38 per cent and that there is little chance of its revival in the present state of our tarirt and currency he proceeds gravely to recommend that enough money be taken out of the pockets of the American people to enable certain individuals to engage in the amusement of running ocean steamers on the same terms as the British He evidently holds a vague notion that in some mysterious way great good would result to us all from this process of carrying our own and other peoples goods and passengers over the ocean at a dead loss There is one other practical method which far surpasses it viz therunning of great numbers of oceansteamers entirely at government expense carrying passengers for a mere trifle and taking freight for nothing If this were kept up five years wewarrant there would not be a British steamer left in the ocean which is more than Mr Boutwell can promise from his plan The Nation The Voice of Loyalty Sir Charles Dilke has given the Queen notice to uit It need not be said that this eminent young man has not taken this momentous step without full consideration He has calculated the cost of the monarchy in pounds sterling and determined that it is not worth the money paid for it In the plenitude of his evil military and naval knowledge he has condemned the Royal household the Royal guards and the Royal yachts They are also so bad that he iswilling to welcome a Republic if there is only a chance that it will give usanything better AVhat it is that gives even a sting to this petty higgling about pounds shillings and pence What is it that leads Englishmen to listen withapproving laughter to a demonstration that the one monarchy in Europe that is both ancient and popular ought to to be sent about its business because a Republic might perhaps Sir Charles Dilke does not ask for cer tainty be found a little cheaper Nothing we firmly believe but the fact that the monarchy no longer keeps itself before the eyes of the oeople that it leaves those who can not estimate its political advantages without any substantial evidences of its existence Let this state ot thing he altered and altered it could be without difficulty by giving the Prince t Wales his proper place in society tnd Sir Charles Dilke might go on Iding the Republic come until he rew wean of the useless invitation Pal Mdl Oazettf i soems that Dr Bellows divides ihe lunar month in the following un sectarian way During the first week iie speaks as a Unitarian and lets fly at the Orthodox during the second I week and part of the third he veers round toward orthodoxy and militates against the Unitarians during the remainder of the third week and into the fourth ho sweetly takes the two parties together into his heart of hearts and wraps round them both a lavendersprinkled copy of the Liberal Christian and during the last few days of every month he writes his communion sermon and his remarks on The Golden Age But sometimes he departs from the above order and it was during one of his off weeks or new departures that hecharacterized Mr Beech er as a monopysite of the Antiochian school The shanielessness of this charge is the more apparent from the wellknown fact that Mr Beecher was a regular scholar of the Litchfield district school The Golden J What the Democrats will do it would puzzle the wisest man to 6ay The passive policy seems to pain ground pretty steadily The World is running up and down the bank naked and nervous apparently ready to take the plunge but afraid of the cold and depth of the waterCivilservice reform in the meantime in high favor on all sides but everybody thinks somebody else should begin it and finds the difficulties immense The Nation It hurts ones literary pride aseditorinchief after we have made a clever point on the Rev Dr Bellows to have that gentleman deliberately attribute all our wit to our brilliant associate Hereafter if we should ever see a bright thing in The Liberal Christian we will attribute it not to the Doctor himself but to hisassociate Only judging from his paper we are sorry to infer that thus far he has had no associate The Golden Age TrtEaverage lecture audience in New York is said to be two or threenewsboys four policemen a deaf old lady a stranger who does dot know where he is half a dozen reporters and the irrepressible citizen who goeseverywhere on principle No city in the union offers such poor inducements as this does to lecturers who have not achieved high distinction and wide reputation Atit York Tribune Oberlin and the National Council j Especially Oberlin The place is not remarkable for its size beauty of location or naturalresources The soil is not of average fertility and the country is so flat that there is no outlook saveheavenward The village is regularly laid out and as land was abundant it covers a large area Like Washing ton although on a smaller scale it i abounds in magnificent distances Its buildings public and private are all plain for it contains no wealthy people it is not the object ot itsinhabitants to make monev but to do good Oberlin is a place rich m mudduring the fall and spring months We saw this mud in abundance and were impressed with the fact that but for the sidewalks our whole Council had been stuck therein Oberlin has always been noted for its excellent morals It is a most un I comfortable place for a man to live who is not a mend to good order temperance and piety They who tarry long at the wine wouldnaturally give this place a wide berth No intoxicating drinks are sold there If a man is sick and needs alcohol as a medicine he can only procure it by first obtaining a certificate from his physician The religious influence of the place is powerful and pervading and gives a decided and healthy tone to the morals of the people During its whole history it has been noted for its revivals of religion and perhaps no other college in our country has sent out such a large proportion of pious students We suppose Oberlin College has had less trouble in maintainingdiscipline than almost any institution in the country Students have gone there because they wished to learn and not because they were sent They have conducted themselves honorably yielding willing obedience to allnecessary regulations Oberlin has a noble record She has lived down opposition and her sons and daughters are wielding a mighty influence in the nation Purer and stronger for tho obloquy which she has encountered few colleges have more flattering prospects for the future Of the National Council held there we shall say but little although much might be said Taken all in all it was the grandest meeting we everattended We believe the placeadded not a little to the interest of the meeting The revival spirit socherished here seemed to pervade the great assembly from the beginning to the close of its six days session We were delighted to see the noble and kindly face of Prof Finney now in his SOth year and to hear his golden words He won tlie hearts of us all and a hundred benedictions from members of that Council are resting upon his honored head Wc were delighted with the singing by a choir of about 100 members who belong to the Musical Union in that place They have been thoroughly trained and they rendered for us some superior pieces with fine skill and effect We all left Oberlin with theconviction that it is the most hospitable place in the world It was no small task for the people of a village of 3000 inhabitants with 800 students already on their hands to entertain 500 guests for a whole week but they did it cheerfully and heartily No pains were spared to make us comfortable We were welcomed to their homes anl everything was done to create theimpression that they and not we were receiving a favor One speakeraffirmed before the Council that it was his belief that Oberlin id the most hospitable place in the universe This may be putting it rather strong as the universe embraces a good deal of territory with which we areunacquainted but we were all willing enough to concede that it is the most hospitable place m the world and that is sufficient for all purposes Long live and nourish Oberlin its largehearted people and its nobleInstitution of learning Rev David Peck in Gnrrtlr and mirier A Oberlin It does not reuuirc that one should be very for advanced in life to recall the day when Oberlin would have been one of the last places chosen for a National Council ofCongregationalists Its name was cawt out ms ft re proach It was looked upon as the source of dangerous opinions and dangerous practices But a great change has taken place m the land during the past thirty years The old theological contro versies have ceased Oberlin has won the affection of men in other wavs Her deeds of practical usefulness her Christian simplicity her earnestactivity in the cause of the Master have endeared her to the churches Their teehng is somewhat like that which must come over a fathers heart when he 6ees a child whom in early life lie disowned and cast out living honor ably among men and doing a noble work in his generation Around that institution whichbetween thirty and forty years ago was planted in the shadows of thewilderness there has gathered and grown a community which is itself herhighest ornament and honor It would be difficult to find in all the land abetter specimen of Christian democracy a place where the rights of eachindividual are more thoroughlyrespectedand guarded against all civil and moral wiong a place where theprevailing atmosphere is more healthy and conducive to the growth ofvirtuous character It is now acknowledged almost universally that the men who have been educated at this institution and have gone out into the world have done a noble work for the west and consequently for the land They have labored not only earnestly but wisely and successfully in all parts of that great field Boston Recorder The National Council 1871 Whatever the expectations with which five hundred people nearly three hundred of them delegatesassembled at Oberlin to attend theNational Council it is safe to say that not one went away disappointed The atmosphere of Oberlin proved amorally bracing air to the Council the Council itself communicated a new impulse to Oberlin both community and college and our churches every where the very land indeed wiil surely share the quickening Perhaps the most valuableimpression made upon the Council was in connection with the service rendered by Prof Finney Twice did thatvenerable and honored servant of God address the Council or if we iuclcd3 both addresses at the communiontable three times And it was easy to see that his words had a markedeffect No one present could have avoided the conviction that for the true life and greatest efficiency of the churches something besidesorganization and machinery is needed There is a Power from on high All were made to realize that fact anew and that it might be poured out upon the churches all were led to desire afresh Congregational Letter from Asia Minor The following letter written by Miss J A Sherman a missionary at Koorabeleng will be read withespecial interest by those who knew her during her residence in Oberlin My Dear Friends I know you will like a letter from this place if my pen will mark enough to let me write I am in a village built on amountainside which when I first saw itseemed as if it would surely slide down to the bottom There are nothing but mountains all around us with one other village like this clinging to the mountain afterthe fashion of ivyrunning up a wall and here and there tiny villages dotted on the plain at our feet I came here with Mr and Mrs P three children another lady and two native men who took care of the horses AVe had six horses for you know we have to bring our own bedding and a great deal of our food very little can be found here but coarse native bread and a little fruit such as melons In all these villages chairs tables bedsteads etc areunknown Mrs P has a littletraveling bedstead which folds up very email I sleep on a native bed alittle sort of mattress stuffed with tow aud laid on the floor On this I spread one of the thick cottonwadding quilts which has a sheet basted to it and which goes both under me and over me My pillow is that waterproof I bought in London folded up and put in a pillowcase The night before last I was worried by fleas and bugs and could not sleep so got up and sat on the floor of the next room for hours till quite worn out and towards morning lay down again I was sorry because it was Saturday night and I knew we should have swarms of women and children to visit us all day on Sunday Last night I slept very nicely This is not a bad place for vermin however Mrs P aud I were saying to each other just now that if we had had as many Baglichyik women about us as yesterday they would have left us thousands of fleaB I am squatted down on my mattress now ula Turque using tlie writingcase Mr Stanton got for me and which travels every where with me I suppose you wonder how we eat without a table AVe sit on the floor having a tablecloth spread before us in the middle of which is placed what the Orientals call a table which is a small wooden round tray standing some six inches from the floor This table now standing in my sight brings Scripture to my mind as many things here do I recollect when I was a girl in the Bibleclass of Mr Mercer of Sheffield he was speaking of the word baptize and trying to show that it could not always mean immerse because it is said thePharisees held many traditions about the washing baptizing of cups andtables now he said we canunderstand the baptizing of a cup but who ever heard of the immersing of atable Now if Mr M saw this table he would perceive how very easy it would be to immerse it I have been round on the hills and seen thethreshingfloors and the oxen treading out the corn and the women bruising it in great mortars to get out the bran and I understood d rjctly about the tlireshinglloors of Araunah theJebusite when the angel appeared toDavid during the plague and which place he bought for tlie site of the Temple The women carrying water in great earthen jugs which they sling over their shoulders by a rope or a handkerchief put through the handles remind me of Rebecca when she hastened to let down her pitcher from her shoulder for Abrahamsservant All the water for the houses is fetched by the women It is a shame for a mnnto he seen carrying water I have seen h woman w ith a baby tied to her back carrying two heavypitchers up these sleep hills Thesubjection of woman too is very plainly to be seen and is curious and sad Children are betrothed when habien and married when only children a girl at ten or twelve years After her marriage she may not speak to her husband or any of his relationsexcept in answer to a question until she has borne two or three children She can not speak even in the street where her husband lives In some places a cloth is tied over the mouth until the third child is bornYesterday among the women that came to see us there were two young married ones and as an old woman related to their husbands was also there they did not open their lips Yet they looked quite contented and cheerful Indeed they are attached to theircustoms just as much as New England people are to theirs Unless ahusband beats or otherwise illtreats his wife she is contented to be insubjection to him They are handsome looking creatures with largesparkling black eyes aud I often think how beautiful and attractive thev might be This is the most entirelyunenlightened place I think I have yet seen There is a school but the master bead the children so sorelv that few will go Then they are taught to read An cient Armenian a language now quite dead and they are kept from three to live years before they can spell this out which they do without the least idea of what they are saying The character of the modern Armenian is the same so that if they can spell out the ancient they can do the same with the modern In their churches p ravers are said twice daily but in Ancient Armenian and preaching is the greatest variety Books are things almost entirelyunknown AAhat therefore can be the the condition of the people In this village there is a large handsome church but of what use it is would bo hard to sav The younger women rarely go The older ones sit in the gallery and talk together indeed church is the place they goto betroth their children and do all sorts ofbusiness They crowded on us all day yesterday from morning till evening leaving us barely time to eat Mrs P sat with her Bible on her knee all day talking incessantly I gathered the children in another room sang with them Come to Jesus read a few verses from John 111 and then committed them to Freddie who made an admirable little teacher re citing to them the Bible lessons he had gone over witti me Luriosity was of course the leading motive which brought them They gazed on me and asked first of all the vital question is she married or a girl I smile and say 1 am only a girl I suppose it is iiisciutible how this can be and they doubtless think some reat blighting misfortune has come over me But 1 begin to leel proud that with my forty years and my gray hair I can smile so serenely at these crowds of women aud babies and say I am a girl Marriage does not look attractive from my present stand point I wore a very plain dress and neither ribbon nor ornament of any kind but they looked me all over very closelv fingering mv white col lar a thing unknown in native dress stuck their bands into the pockets of my calico apron and handled my shoes AVe kept our sleepingroom closed against them for reasons per taining to our own comfort but it was very difficult and at some times they would push the door open spito of all resistance look inquisitively round and turn up the quilts on Airs Ps little bedstead Ihey have no idea of privacy and arc devoured withcuriosity They listened with more or less interest to what Mrs P said but most of them answered It is vory easy for you to think about God and heaven because you have nothing to do but sit still and read but we havo to work hard to earn our bread and have no tinre Poor souls Yet they urged us to stay and said they would learn something if we would teach them But I have not told you how I got here thirty miles over the mountains I knew it was a bad road before start ing but 1 did not know how bad or I should scarcely have dared to come for I am timid of a horse at any time I rode a packsaddle with a small load on each side On a moderately good road I find this the easiest seat but there is always this danger that the load may slip to one side andoverturn or the girth may break and let you down This last happened to me going up a very steep mountain path fortunately upsetting me on the safo side and causing mo no hurt AVe came down ravines when I had to lie al most on my back and then up steep places when 1 held the horses mane andthis continued with the exception ofalittle smooth riding on a broad ridge for eleven hours AVhat was most unendurable fo mc was winding along mountain ledges with aprecipice below me over which one foot alrcadyjhung This was only during little bits of the way but it so wrought on my nervous system that when I got to the end of my journey ami feltmy foot once more on the ground I could not help a fit of convulsive sobbing It seemed as if nothing could induce me to go back over that roadHappily there is another way loss difficult but as we arc almost on amountaintop there is no possibility of avoiding a steep descent You would wonder as I have done what could inducehuman beings to live in such places while the valleys are almost without inhabitants but the reason is plain They have climbed up away from the civil roads to get out of the way of robbers and enemies This village was once down on the plain but was so much plundered that the people moved up here where they can not even be seen from tlie high roadbelow I have not exaggerated thedifficulties of the journey yet I was th onlv person who felt afraid Mr P has been over the mad again and again for vears and has brought his wife and his children when they went babies at times when the way was very much worsethan when 1 came so that they have all grownaccustomed to it The young ady whoaccompanied us is one of those fearless people to whom difficulties are simply a delight The steeper the paths the narrower and more stony the greater her on joy men t I alaw who have scarcely ever mounted a horse in my life shrink from these things I like it well enough on the plains and can endure to wade through ponds when I know not my footing but I dontbelieve I can be an itinerant missionary among the mountains But 1 amgetting tired of my position Now dont worry about me I am enjoying this grand scenery murk now I have got here have a good appetite and plenty to eat and if I can keep the flea out which is hard work any where in the east shall do splendidly