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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-27
PREMIUM PIANOS,

T A. MCCLURE has for sale SO --
y. Piano Fortes from celebrated FzSs@=.5ss5-s<S77
makers ,Stenway Sons, A. II. Gale n n ~ f
Co. Hazelton Bros, Peters, Cragg -
& Co. and others, consisting of and u = and az
Octaves, land ranging in price from S100to 5000, ali
warrented in every respect Persons purchasing
from him will NOT pay from SIS SIS more than if
they gave order to a PEDIAR for an instrument
that they neither hear until tits put up in
their parlor. When tits sometimes very hard lind
an lnstrumentthat peasesin every particular when
likely you would be pleased in buying by order
Also in store the largest Stock of Sheet Music Books
and small Music instruments offered n the
Market, and viii be sold lower than by any
other houseinthe City. cCmcto 33 Union street and
be convinced. - - IA. MCCLURE.
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Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-27
Sunday School Celebrations.
Elags! Elagsii EIaesitl =

NOfHlNG adds so much to the appearance Of q
4N Procession Of Sunday School Chlidyen as Flag
mthe hand of every little hoy and gir... LUCK IS
now prepared to furnish them IN any quantity at q
Coege street, up stairs over Snieds' Auction Ro m
mayl-t -. =
Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-27
z Y L IL A
For the Consideration of Sensible People

TNIDDLING aOOUtis not the practice ofDr- NESECh.
Il He understands the disease at once and cures
tie hates long tamperiRg around and long running
bs, but sticks anhOuUrble practice to respecta-
ole fees and to cash payments Cases given up by
other Physicians are often cured by Dr. AESECk
OfIce on COIiegestrseL, corner OF Line
IulyS-tT
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30

coveted treasures are pulled out, and such
noisy wishngs Of "Hoppy Now Year, as
could only be known in a house which has
five children in it. But the grand event OF
the morning was yet to come. Anna had
proposed that one Of grandma's should be
hung on her door, and though Tom had at
first objected, and Charley declared "he
wouldn't put anything in. because she had
pulled his hair so = they had all relonted, and
all. down to little Bessie, (who, with infinite
labor and considerable help from Anna' had
constructed a pin-cushion,) had put into 1t
some little gift, and it was now hanging IN a
very stuffed, ms-shapcn condition, on the
outside Of grandmas door, and every little
heart was beating high with expectation
What would grandma say to the beautiful
worstod cuffs Ann had knit to the nice hood
mother had quilted with her own hands
and. most of all, how would she like Char
lies unique gift of stuffed black broadcloth
cat, with yellow eyes, which the little fellow
would put in. because it was his, and because
"Danma liked back cats p
"Now," said Tom, "if she should be in ono
of her'-cross FITS he was going to say, but
he met his mothers eye--"one Of her poor
feeling days she won't like it much, | guess.
80 YES, she will. exclaimed Bessie, every
body likes presents New Years I; and my
cushions a real beauty. isn't it mamma =
"A very nice one, indeed, for little girl tc
make"
81 think Ellen's comforter is the prettiest,
said Tom. / wish it was mine.
For shame" said Ann. cts great dea
too pretty for a boy--iust the thing for grand
ma to wear cold mornings
A rustic is heard, and an unlatching of thu
+ bedroom door Every ear and eye are ON th
alert Tom peeped through a crack, and saS
her start as the bag swung round almost mt
her face, as she opened the door.
Whats this y she exclaimed. Then
seeming to get some idea, she looked at 1t
and took it down. exclaiming, "Well never
why, | haven't had a New Years presen
since | was a little girls and she sat dow
on a chair quite overcome.
Yes, that old, wrinklcd. gray-haired woma
had once been light-heartcd child, wit
sunny curls and laughing eyes, who had hun
up a little red stocking, and found some pre'
ty toy iu IL from a mothers hand. II wa
very. very long ago, but it all came back q
her now as she sat there-the old kitchen
with its great fireplace, its hanging table, he
fathers arm chair, her mothers low rocker i
the corner, and the pale, meek face of tina
mother, who had one dreary day been put i
a coffin, and laid in the grave-yard-it wa
all before her as present reality, and tn
hard heart was melted
"Now,' whispered Tom, grandma is cry
ing"
Mary Burnham wiped a drop from her ow
eye. for to tell the truth. she had felt littl
nervous over this experiment Of the children
but. dislildng to damp their enthusiasm, ha
said nothing of her fears.
There was no restraining the little one
any longer.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30
A VERY COMMON THOUGHT TO ALL
OF lis

An English journalist says Ills there any
body above an idiot, who has not at some
time or other thought, with strange, inter-
nal thrill, while contemplating crowd, How
will all these people die !? The thought comes
when the Queen is opening Parliament, amidst
the most gorgeous assemblage that this coun-
try can show 1t comes in the midst Of the
village fair, when the drums and trumpets,
and the shouts of the showmen, and the great
laughs of the rustcs, are loudest. II comes
when, in war time, the troops march forth
through Ihronged streets, and climb into the
transports on the crowded sea 1t comes when
in time of peace, the first sod of a great rail
way is turned, or the first stone laid of
building which will be a benefit to successive
generations for a thousand years. We know
how something very like it occurred to the
poet Gray and to Mrs. Hemans, at evening
prayer in a girls schools and few of us can
have been present at any celebration in any
one of our public schools without being visit
ed by that speculation-'ln seventy or say
eighty, years from this day, every individual
of this great crowd will be dead One would
like to know how each one will die by acci-
dent on land, some of them, no doubt; by
gun going off in getting through a hedge
their own gun or some comrades, who will
never be happy again; some by drowning, in
bathing at home, or by laundering at sea
some by fire in the dressing-room, or in the
ship, or in their beds one or two by suicide
in disease of brain or agony Of mind some Of
the youths years hence, by apoplexy brought
on by intemperance Of one kind or another
some Of the young women in the most pathet-
ic possible moment--mothers for an hour or
a day, but prevented from rallying by preyi-
Gus violations Of the laws of nature some
few, very few, from old age, when they will
remember this day, but not anything Of a
then recent date; a large proportion from the
ordinary diseases affecting the three great de-
partments of the head more from the vari-
Gus diseases of the abdomen, and most from
those OF the chest The deaths in the streets
from brain seizure, are a common item Of news
in the papers. We need but refer to liver
complaints, cholera, the gout of the olden
time, still surviving, and the miserable stom-
ach complaints of our own day. But all this
last class together will not carry off so many
as consumption, If we are to Judge tho next
half century by tho past Within fifteen or
twenty years, large proportion of the young
people who to-day look so full of life and spir-
its, will have died Of the slow strangulation
and tormenting fever of consumption"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30
A LITTLE HERO.

have a story to tell my little readers, of a
little hero, which is every word Of it true. A
hero is brave mana man full of spirit, zeal
and courage. Any man who has courage and
spirit to do right to tell the truth, even if it
is against himself, to be honest when he could
make money by cheating, TO be true when he
is tempted to be false. is hero. A little hero
is boy of just this character. The story !
have to tell is about just such boy. About
six years ago ! knew him first. He was a
small boy from some country in Europe
His birthplace | did not learn He had come
to this country, and was left alone, or nearly
alone, in ST. Louis. He had no money, and
only the dirtest and raggedest clothes. Ho
could speak our language only poorly. Ho
walked the streets in search OF something to
do. At length kind-hearted grocery man
took him in. 1t was here first saw him
He was studying an English spelling-book at
every odd moment he could get from his work.
A few months afterwards he came to my house
to recite lessons in the evening, which he
would get through the night and day at snatch
ed moments all the while saving every cent he
could from his small earnings, to go to Com
mercial College, as soon as he was old enough
When he had saved sixty dollars, he applied
through the course. As soon as out. he got
good situation in an insurance office. Tc
this was soon added the treasurers duties
with handsome increase of salary. His
faithfulnoss and abilities soon won him place
in a bank. at salary of fifteen hundred dollars
year. In bank he still is-a boy yet,
should think, not twenty years old.
This is what call a hero, For a little boy
in strange city, and among a people speak
ing strange language, with all kinds OF wick,
odness around him, to olothe, educate and
keep himself; to resist the idleness, playgamos
drink, folly, sightseeing, rudeness, coarseness
vice, and wickednoss, which leads thousands
to ruin without advisers, friends or help
and grow up in purity, virtue and noblenes'
of soul, to be an honorable, intelligent ant
useful man is degree of hcrosm seldom
found If he is not a hero, where can one b'
foundi If his boyhood is so noble, what viii
his manhood be ,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30
temperance,
WHOLEsALE POIsONING.

The virus OF the liquor demon grows more
deadly from day TO day. Some new atrocity
is constantly leaping, full-grown and full
armed for its deadly work, from the ever ac-
tive crater. II an element more efficient in
mingling madness with the blood Of our peo-
pie or in filling almshouses or graves, is need
ed, the want is soon supplied Chemistry is
prostituted to the Internal task and the most
virulent poisoRs Of the vegetable and animal
Kingdoms, combined to fill the armory of the
traffic with a more destructive weaponry.-
The human stomach, the battle ground where
nature wages heroic war with every enemy,
cannot grappe but for a brief period with the
rum of this day Ia a little time the strong
est men arc destroyed and their drug-eaten
bodies given to the grave. The demon Of ay-
srice is greedy for gold. and though the very
graveyards should be perfectly gorgcd with
dead, the work will still 60 on.
The drinking habits Of this day, with the
facts which like slow moving skeleton fingers
point mockingly TO the skull and cross bones
reflected upon every bubble in the cup. but
prove how infatuated-how mad-intelligent
beings can be. The laboratory has wrenched
the veil from the deadliest fangs that ever
killed, but il is all in vain. The ranks are
full to-day. Every gap is filled, each fool fat
terinB himself that ne IS not drinking poison
some "eil meaning men see inc signs OF a
temperance miIehlum' IN inc prospect oi
stringent attempt 10 prevent the at. aduitefa'ion
OF liquors Creduious people lhey nave
remarNaole ialth IN the honesty oi a business
when dehes GOD ana man every day OF ITS
existence winch mas never spared age sex
class or condition those who are now drug
ging and POISONING all over the land are go
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30
LIFEs HApPIEsr PERIOD.

Kingsley gives his evidence on this disput-
ed point. lie thus declares -, There is no
pleasure that have ever experienced like a
chids midsummer holiday. The time, mean,
when two or three Of us used to go away up
the brook, aud take our dinners with us, and
come home at night, tired, dirty, happy,
scratched beyond recogntion with a great
nosegay, three little trout, and one shoe, the
other having been used for boat till il had
gone down with all hands out of soundings
How poor our Derby days, our Greenwich
dinners, our evening parties where there are
plenty of nice girls, and after that Depend
upon it, man neper experiences such pleasure
grief after fourteen as he does before, unless
in some cases in his first love-making, when
the sensation ia new 10 him +"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30
llottrp.
THE EARLY BLuE.BIRD.

HY MRS. l.. H. sigOuRgEN.
Bluc-bird on yon loahcss tree,
Dosi thou carol thus 20 me- .,.
"Spriug Is coming Spring is here
Say 81 thou 80, my birdie dear
What Is that in misty shroud,
Stealing from the darkcncd cloud
Lot the snow-hakes gathering mound
Settles Ger the whiloncd ground,
Yet thou singcst. hlithc and clear,
"sprng 10 coming Spring is hcrc'
suiEsi thou not too bold a strain
Winds are piping o'cr tho plain.
Clouds are sweeping DER The sky,
With a black and threatening eye;
Urchins by the frozen rill,
Wuu their mantlcs closer still;
Nou poor man with doublot old,
Doth he shi,cr with the cold
Hath he not "a nose II blue
Tell me, birdhng-tell me true
Springs a maid " mrth and gloe,
Rosy wrcaihs and rcyclry;
Hast thou woocd some winged love
To nest 10 vcrdant grove
Sung 10 her Of greenwood bower,
sunny skies that ne'cr lower
lurcd her with Thy promise fair,
Ola lot that ne'er knows care
Puthre, bird iu coat OF bluc,
Though a loycr-tell her true.
Ask hcr, IL when storms are long,
She can sing q cheerful song
When the rude winds rock the tree,
Ii she'll closer cling 20 thee
Then, The blasts that sweep the sky,
Unappalled shall pass thee by;
Though thy curtained chamber show,
Suungs Of untimcly snow,
Warm and glad thy heart shall be,
Love shall make Il Spring for thee.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30

8, she'd to any hotel or saloon for drinking or
gambling purposes, under any circumstances.
Fifh--playing billiards in any public bill
lard hall or saloon. Playing billiards is in
tcrdictcd, not because Of any objection to the
game as an elegant amusement for those who
can afford it. but because for young men it is
a step toward the other offences named, and
the excitement and association Of the billiard
saloon naturally lead to drinking.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30

RULES TO ne FOLLOWED "A military or
ganizaton in Chicago, known as the Zouaye
Cadets, who recently bore away the $500 col
ors at the United States Fair, for superiority
in drill have just adopted a set of rules, a
departure from the letter Of which forfeits a
membership in the company. We append
them without further comment;-
First-Entering drinking saloons at any
hour OF the day or night, except when COM
PEELED by imperative business which cannot
be transacted by proxy, in which case a state
ment of the facts shall be made to the com
pany Immediately after the occurrence.
Second-Entering houses Of ill-fame under
any circumstances or pretext whatever.
Third-Entering any gambling saloon, or
gambling for any sum of money or article
under any circumstances or pretext.
] Fourth-Entering any private room at
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30
KINa soLoMoN.s BLAcKsMITH

And it came to pass when solomon the son
of David had finished the temple at Jerusalem
he called unto him the chief architects and
artdcers and cunning workers in silver and
gold, and in wood and ivory and in stone -
yea, all who aided in rearing the temple of
the Lord, and he said unto them:
Sit We down at my table; have prepared
a feast for my chief workers and cunning ar
tifcers. Stretch forth your hand there, and
cat and drink and be merry. Is not skill
ful artfcer deserving Of honor? Muzzle not
the OK that ireadeth out the corn.
And when solomon and the chief workers
were seated, and the fatness of the land and
the soil thereof we're set upon the table, there
came one who knocked loudly at the door,
and forced himself into the festal chamber
Then solomon the king, was wroth, and said :
What manner of man art thou
And the man answered and said
when men wish to honor me, they call me
Son Of Forge but when they desire to mock
me they call me blacksmith, and seeing that
the toll of work in the fire and smoke covers
me with sweat and smut, the latter name, o,
King, is no more inapt, aud in truth thy SER
want desires no better.
Bat, said Solomon. why came you thus
rudely. and unforbidden to the feast, where
none save the chief workers of the Temple are
nvitcdH
Please ye my Lord, came rudely, replied
the man, because thy servant obliged me to
force my way, but came not unbidden. Was
it not proclaimed that the chief workmen were
invited to dine with the King of Israel ?
Then he who had carved the cherbm said :
This fellow is not a sculptor.
aN l.. Al. ...4 4 4
said
Neither is he a worker of fine motals.'
And he who raised the walls said
'He is not cutter of stone.
And be who made tho roof cried out
He is not cunning in cedar wood, neither
knoweth the mysteries Of uniting strange
pieces Of timber together
Thon said solomon, what hast thou to say
Son Of Forge, why should not order thee to
be pucked by the beard, seourged and stoned
to death :
Then tho smith turned to him who carved
the cherubm and said
WHO made the tools with which you
carved
And ne said the blacksmith
And he said to the chief Of the masons;
who made the chisels with which the
stones of the Temple were squared
And he said the blacksmith.
And he said to tho chief Of the workers in
wood
who made the tools with which you hew-
ed the trees la Lebanon. and formed them
into pillars and roof Of the Temple :
And he said the blacksmith.
Then he said to the artidcer in gold and in
ivory:
who makes you the instrument by which
you work beautiful things for my lord the
king
And he said the blacksmith
Enough, enough, good fellow said Solo
mon, thou hast proved that invited thee,
and thou art mans father in art. Go and
wash tho smu, OF the forge from thy face, and
come and sit at my right hand. The chief OF
the workmen are but men--thou art more.
So it happened at the feast Of solomon, and
tho blacksmith has been honored to this day.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30

CLosED FOR REPAIRs.-A good one is told
Of old Judge L. His honor kept dem
John Of good Old jamaica in his private office
for his own comfort aud the entertainment of
his particular friends The Judge had noticed
for some time that on Monday mornings his
Jamaica was very considerably lighter than
he left it on Saturday nights. Another fact
had gradually established itself in his mind
His son Sam was missing from the paternal
pew in church on sundays. One Sunday af-
ternoon Sam came in, and went up stairs ra-
thcr heavily, when the Judge hailed him
sam, where have YOU been =
TO church, sir was the prompt reply
What church, Sam;
Second Methodist, sir.
Good sermon, Sam;
Very powerful, sir; it quite staggered me.
'Ah see, said the Judge; quite power
iul, ch, SAM
The next Sunday Sam came home rather
earlier than usual, and apparently not so much
under the weather. His father hailed him ;
WELL Sam, been to the Second Methodist
again to-day
Yes, sir
Good sermon my boyN
Fact was, father, that couldn't get in /;
found the church shut up, and a ticket on the
door
Sorry, Sam; keep going-you may get
good by it,.
Sam says that on going to the Office for his
usual spiritual retreshment he found John
empty, and bearing the following label
There will be no service here to-day, this
church being closed iog repairs
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30

Leave Montpelier at 300 A. NJ. aud 20 =. VI.
MAIL TRAIN connecting with trains leaving ogdcns
tursh AZ 400 o. M and Montreal NJ $50 p. ~ leaves
Ronses Point at 30 p. lodge at s. Aoans, leave Of
6 80 A. 49, arrive at darlington at sl5 A. ~ and Wind
s1r A. I % p. NJ. connecting az White River Junction
win train. for Wells River and Barton, and for Boston,
lowell aud Worcester. arriving Ia Boston az $50 M
and connecting az Windsor with trains for Boston
Springfield and New York arriving in New York al
II 10 D. N.
EXPRESS Train leaves Ogdeusburgh A. 600 A. n.
Montreal at of5 A. N., Rouses Point al Lao A. n, ar
riyrs AZ Burlington n 85 NJ, and Windsor At l2l r
" pas.engcrs hy this train reach Troy, y. Y. and
Concord same day and Boston and New York ucHt fore
noon.
Through Tickets for Chicago and the west ior sale al
the principal stations. .
Northfeld Vt Nov. q. 1859.
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Business Garos.

I ETrER PRESS & COPPER-PLATE
- PRINTING. Sermons, Catalogues. Blanks. Bill
Hcas Cards, Circaars Posters, and an kinds Of Plain
aud Ftncy Printing executed promptly az
WALTON'S STEAM POWER PRINTING OFFICE.
State Street, Montpelier, Peymont.
Orders for work done in the cues,-Embosscd, Gilt,
Letter-P Press Lthogrnphic and CopperPlate Printing
such az Cards Of Address Wedding Cards Visiting Cards,
Bank Cheeks Sc executed In the highest style OF the
art and city prces through Of the most ccehrat-
Ell Printing Establishments Teuns-Cash, al reasona-
bic prices Address +. p. WALTON, Montpelier, Vt.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-30
A MONKEYS AFFECTION FOR RAT.


One of the principal objects of attraction 4.
the Aquarium in Broomfeld Street, is
male monkey that exhibits an extraordinal
affection for rats. She is one of the "Hapv
Family" belonging to the establishment, al
soon after being placed there, conceived b
fondness for a rat, that was also a member
the family" Upon every occasion wht
she could catch the rat, she would hold it in
her arms, fondling it as a mother does he p
child, and caressing it with every mark al
affection. The rat soon began to like thi d.
kindness, and would remain for hours in the
arms Of its friend. Finally the monkey
would not allow the rat from its arms mo
ment, even to feed, and at last the pet was ac
tually starved to death. The monkey met
this bereavement much in the same manner
as human parents do the loss of offspring
who have died in consequence of over-fond-
ness, with sobs and means, and she would not
be comforted.
For twelve hours she held the dead rat to
her breast, refusing all the time to eat. or to
take notice of any Of the animals of the
family" AT last Mr.. Cutting took the rat
from her by force, and fearing that she would
voluntarily starve herself to death, he placed
three other rats in the cage This addition
to her "family' brought the bereaved animal
to her senses, and the care requisite to the
government of these pets takes up all her
time, and she is twice as cheerful as ever be-
fore. She is never for moment without
some one of them in her arms, and frequently
fondles two of them at time. But the new
comers are not altogether grateful for her at
tentious, and most frequently, while she is
holding one of them, the Others are cycling
her askance from some distant part of the
-IraueLIer.