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The Howard union., 1865-07-13

A PERsEvERING PEDEsTRIAN.-A young
German, who had gone into the army as a
substitute, and Lad been swindIed out of all
his money, arrived here Yesterday, having
Travelled all the way from New York on
foot. He started from that city without 0
cent in his pocket, intending to make his
way to California on foot. He had got
along very WE'LL and was in exuberant spir.
its. He had no doubt about reaching his
destination in due season. When hunger
overlook him, he would stop at some house
on the road, earn few dimes by days
work. Sand then resume his journey. When
he reached East St. Louis, he was entirely
out of money, and chopped wood for twenty.
five cents, and was thus enabled to pay hi.
ferriage and buy something 10 eat. HI
landed on this side with fifteen cents in hi,
pocket, and struck out for California by ,ht
track of the Pacific railroad. We venture
TO predict that lie will turn up rich maj
before many years.-[St. Louis Democrat
The Howard union., 1865-07-13
FORGIVENESS OF INJURIES.

The most plain and natural sentiment of
equity concur with divine authority to en-
force the duty of forgiveness. Let him who
has never, IN his life, done wrong, be al
lowed The privilege Of remaining ineXCrabe.
But lei such as are conscious of raitics
and crimes consider forgiveness as debt
which they owe TO others. Common fall
irgs are the strongest lessons of mutual
forbearance. Were the virtues unknown
nmopg men, order and comfort, peace and
repose, would be strangers 10 human life.
Injuries retaliated according 10 The eXor-
tant measure which passion prescrbea
would excite resentment in return, The
injured person would become the iniurar
and thus wrongs, retaliation. and fresh in.
uries would circulate in endless succession
till the world was rendered field Of blood
OF all the passions which invade the hu.
man breast, revenge is the most direlu
When allowed TO reign with full dominion
il is more than sufficient TO poison the few
pleasures which remain to man in hls pres
ent state. How much soeVer person ma,
suffer from injustice, he is always in. hazart
OF suffering more from the prosecution O
revenge. The violence of an enemy ca!
not intlict what is equal 10 the torment h,
created 10 himself by means OF the iiercr
and desperate passions which he allows l.
rage in his soul.
Revenge dwells in little minds. A nob
and magnanimous spirit is always superio
to ii. 1t suffers not, from the injuries Q
men, those severe shocks which other
feel. Collected within itself, it stand
unmoved by their impotent assaults; an,
with generous pity, rather than with anger
looks down on their unworthy conduct. |
has been truly said that the greatest mai
on earth can no sooner commit an injury
than great man can make himself create
by forgiving it, Blair.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13
THE OLD FARMERS ELEGY.



On green grassy knoll, by the banks of the brook,
That so long and SO often has watered his flock,
The old farmer rests in his long and last sleep,
While the waters low, lisping lullaby keep;
He has ploughed his last furrow, has reaped
his last grain,
No morn shall awake him to labor again.
The blue bird sings sweet on the gay maple bough,
Its warbling oft checred him, while holding the
plough;
And the robbins above him hop light on the mould,
For he fed them with crumbs when the season
was cold
He has ploughed his last furrow, has reaped
his last grain,
No morn shall awake him 10 labor again.
Yon tree that with fragrance is filling the air,
So rich with its blossoms, so thrifty and far,
BY his own hand was planted, and we'll did he say,
It would live when its planter had moudereG away;
He has ploughed his last fuTow, has reaped
his last grain,
No morn shall awake him 10 labor again.
There's the well that he dug, with the water SC
cold,
With its wet dripping bucket, so mossy and old
No more from its depths by the patriarch drawn
''For the pitcher is brokenl''--the old man sgone
He has ploughed his last farrow, has reape,
his last grain,
No morn shall awake him 10 labor again.
Twas a gloom-giying day when the old farme
died;
The stout-hearted mourned, the afiectionate cried
And the prayers of the just for his rest did ascend
For they all lost BROTHER, aMAN and FRIENI
He has ploughed his last furrow, has reape
his last grain,
No morn shall awake him TO labor again
For upright and honest the old farmer was;
His God he revered, he respected His laws;
Though fameless he lived, he has gone where
worth
Will outshine, like pure gold ,all the dross of Ii
eartl
He has ploughed his last furrow, has reap
his last grain,
No porn shall awake him to labor again.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

SINGULAR DEATH OF HoRsE From
FRIGHr.-An almost unprecedented death
of horse from fright took place, lately,
near Bingham, England. Edmund's me-
nagerie left that town at an early hour, en-
route 10 Newark, where the annual "May
Fair" was about to be held. One of the
caravans is drawn by camel. This was
met by cart which was coming in the op'
posite direction, drawn by horse belong
ing to Mr.. Smith, farmer, of Flintham.
The horse caught sudden view of the
strange beast of burden, gave sort OF snort.
ing scream, plunged violently, and dropped
down dead
The Howard union., 1865-07-13
The Lexington Union suggests that there

The Lexington Union suggests that there
shall be q general Convention of the law
yers, preachers, teachers, insurance and
bank officers and directors, and others affect
ed by oa,hs precribed by the new Consti-
tuition, in order that concert Of action may
be had in regard to testing its validity in
the United States Courts and for other
purposes. The first Wednesday in August
is suggested as the day for the Convention
and St. Louis the place.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

Prof J. H. McIlvain, geOlogist in letter
TO the St. Louis Republican upon the sub
ect of petroleum in Missouri, predicts that
in five years railroads will be required 10
accommodate the immense oil trade Of the
valleys of the Charlton and Grand River,
and that Glasgow and Brunswick will be-
cUme the great coal and oil marts of the
Missouri valley. Huntsville will have q
finger in that rie.-Randolph Citizen.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

The testimony Of General Hooker before
the Committee on the Conduct of the War
has just been published. twill be remem-
bered that General Hooker never made an
official report of the battle of Chancellor
vile, or, at least, that such document new
er saw the light. The present publication
furnishes full account of that unfortunate
campaign, as well as a complete history of
the Army Of the Potomac from the time Gen.
eral Hooker assumed command until he was
superseded at his own request by General
Meade.
General Hooker attributes his want Of
success to the oliicious meddling of Halleck,
who was at that time General in Chief In
closing he says:
~ may add, as my conviction, that if the
General in. Chief had been in the rebelin.
erest, it would have been impossible for
him, restrained as he was by the influence
of his Excellency, the President, and that
of the Honorable the Secretary of War to
have added TO the embarrassment he caused
me from the moment took command Of the
Army of the Potomac 10 the time surren.
dered it,"
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

The venerable VIM. Wilkins died on
Friday morning at his residence at Pome-
wood Station, near Pittsburg, having at
tanned the ripe age of Sc years. Mr.. Will
kins was Senator in Congress from 1881 tc
1884; Minister to Russia in 1884; he was
Secretary Of war, when John G. Calhoun
was Secretar of State. He was on board
the Princeton when the "Peacemeker" can
non exploded and Secretary Upshur was
killed. Mr.. Wilkins also filled the office
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

When the Great Eastern starts with the
Atlanta cable, her draught of water will be
over thirty feet, and her weight will come
near the stupendOus mass of eighteen thous-
and tons. She will start about the 10th
Of July from Valentia. 1t is supposed she
will be about twelve days in making the
voyage 10 Newfoundland and paying out
the cable, during every hour of which reg
ular communication will be kept up with
England.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13
Record Of a Rebel Regiment.

The famous Crescent regiment, composed
of the sons of the wealthy men IN New Or
leans, left that city little over two years
ago eleven hundred strong. They have
been parolsd and returned to their homes
reduced to the pitiful number of sixty one.
The New Orleans Picayune, commenting
on this unprecedented mortality, says:
.Such is one OF the sal pictures of the
horrors of war May it contribute another
TO the numerous other lessons with which
the history Of the last four years is so fear.
fully replete, to warn our people, in ali time
TO come, from ever embarking in so bloody
and barbarous an experiment"
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

Maximiion has sent agents from Mexico
to Paris for the express purpose of explain
ing the critical state of affairs in Mexico.
Maximilian (it is stately speaks of the
eatening attitude of the Americans, and
fears that war may be declared by the
United States. The French Government,
therefore, has given the Washington Cabinet
to understand that Mexico is under the
protection of France and no power will be
allowed to attack 1T. All fillibusters enter
ing Mexico are to be hanged Or shot with
out loss of time or mercy. 1t will be seer
that the tone Of the French Government
is decidedly energetic.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

II has passed into proverb that the
man who advertises his business is sure to
prosper; end the reason for the rule is
obvious. The fact of advertising the pub
lie of ones facilities and manner Of doing
business, is of itself an evidence of enter
prise and public spirit, and it is the 60
ahead enterprising man that deserves the
patronage of the public, and is sure tc
obtain it. An enterprising people will give
support 10 one who himself manilests tn,
same spirit.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

To be yourself, strictly yourself, is one
half the battle. Differ, rather than always
subscribe. On the cornerstone of that fab
rio which we entitle manhood is engraved
the monosyllable No. He who early
learns the use of that invaluable word has
already learned the way to peace, comfort
and safety, An easy compliance illustrates
everything. Respect for others need not
degenerate into seryitude.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

CAnpAoEs.-O On of the greatest difficult
ties encountered in raising cabbages, is the
ravages of the out.worm. We have COM
petely outwitted them for two or three years
past, in very simple manner. We take
pieces Of newspaper six inches square, tear
a slit in one side TO tie center and insert
the plant, Bring the slit edges together,
and place a little earth or pebble on the
corners, and the work is done. A platform
Of paper is formed around the plant through
which the worm cannot penetrate. We
did not lose more than two or three plants
from that cause the last two years. We al
ways think it great point gained when ar
efTectual safeguard can be obtained agains
the ravages Of insects, and we regard this
as one oil the discoveries VI the age Maine
Farmer.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

A HARD LEssoN.-St, Paul first adviseth
women 10 submit themselves 10 their hus-
bands, and then counselleth men to love their
wives-since it was fitting that women
should first have their lesson given 10 them;
because it is hardest TO be learned, and
therefore they need have the more time to
con it.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13
s,,vrn OurLAwrp.-A correspondent

SILVER OurLAwrp. correspondent
Of the Saturday Evening Gazette grows elo-
ouent over the sixpences "We have so
long mourned the disappearance OF silver
that we have ceased TO regret it, rather rel.
ishing the odor of the postal currency, that
comes to us with refreshing garlicky fra.
GRANGE, making us conscious Of scent per
cent and inspiring the greatest confidence.
Our neighbors in Canada are sweating in
this hot weather over the loads Of silver coins
they have 10 carry. Their pockets are
plethoric with.it, that wears through cloth
and runs away in mint drops. The fear Of
the heavy evil of silver has no weight with
us. The musical levity of tinkling sheckels
is no longer temptation, and the glitter
that was wont to dazzle is supplanted by
the modest substitute that pays for our gro
ceries without regret at parting with it."
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

The former spacious and elegant mansion
of Pierre Soule in New Orleans, is occu-
pied as n a colored Orphan Asylum, under
the uperintendence Of an intelligent lady of
color from Boston, Madame LIE Mortimer.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

The Springfield special of the Chicago
Republican says:
"Just now large number Of soldiers and
paroled prisoners are returning from the
war. b. Thursday of this week over four
thousand will be in the city. am sorry
to say that the preparations on the part OF
the United States Government to receive
them do not seem at all adequate, and num-
bers of them are reported to be in suffer
ing condition. Many Of them have no mon
ey, and have actually been compelled 10 beG
meals from eating. house keepers. Severa
Of our merchants have also given them or
ders on eating houses ior meals. l heart
that yesterday the soldiers were very bit
ter at this state of things; that it was evel
thought necessary to place guard upon tn
market-house in this city, 10 prevent it
being sacked. Finally, the evil has com
to such pass that something must be don
for the credit cf the State and nation 10 pu
an end to it,"
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

SURRENDER ON THE SPUR OF THE Mo.
MrNT.-An amusing incident is told of a
gallant Colonel. At the first battle of Bulls
Run, our Colonel got the stampede on him.
After riding through the heat and dust TO
his extreme annoyance, he became very
thirsty. Coming TO stream of water, he
stopped; dismounted-o his knees he CON-
menced drinking, by way of mouth, when
slipping, he exclaimed, "Don't shoot, | sur
render surrender
The cause of all being the unfortunate ac-
cident of sticking himself in the rear with
his spur.
l, is needless to say the joke was on The
Colonel. We could give name Unnecessary
but out Of proprietl refrain Exchange
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

There are in and Immediately surround.
ing Washington eighteen United States gen
eral hospitals, capable of accommodating
lhirty thousand patients.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
T SAMUEL C. MAJOR, Public Admins
l. traitor of Howard county, Mo-, do hereby
give notice that, by virtue Of my said Office, and
in accordance with the statutes in such cases
made and provided, ! this 18th day Of May, 1865,
have taken charge Of the estate of John o. Riley,
deceased, to administer the said estate.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required to exhibit them for allowance TO the
administrator within one year after the date afore
said, or they may be precluded from any benefit
of such estate; and if such claims be not exhib-
tied within three we ars from the date aforesaid,
they will be forever barred.
SAMUEL c. MAJOR,
June Is, 1865. 3w Public Admir-.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

The population of London is now estima,
ted at three millions. Two hundred years
ego II was estimated TO be 100000.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

A Coon CuARAoTER.-A good character
is 10 q young man what firm foundation
is 10 the artist who proposes TO erect a
building on it; he can well build with safe.
ty, and all who behold it will have conf.
dence in its solidity--a helping hand will
never be wanted; but let single part Of
this be defective, and you go on hazard,
amid doubling and distrust, and ten 10 one
it will tumble down at last and mingle all
that was built on it in ruin. Without q
good character, poverty is a curse-with it,
scarcely an evil. Happiness cannot exist
where true character is not. All that is
bright in the hope of youth, all that is calm
and blissful in the sober scenes of life, all
that is soothing in the vale of years, centres
in and is derived from good character.
Therefore, acquire this as the first and most
valuable good.
The Howard union., 1865-07-13
Notice of Fina Settlement.

Notice of Final Settlement.
"A tate of JAMES BEvIN, deceased are no.
titled that the undersigned, administrator of said
estate, intends to make final settlement of SAID
estate at the next August term Of the county court
of Howard county, Mo-, 1865.
SAMUEL c. MAJOR,
Public Administrator.
June IS, 1s65-4w nj So
The Howard union., 1865-07-13

The river at this place has been falling
ra idly for the last four or five days,
The Howard union., 1865-07-13
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.

Having bought recently, under all the advsn-
taees of CASH MARKET, will sell accord
ingy.
MY STOCK CONSISTS IN PART OF
Sugar,
Coffee, Hay Forks,
Iron, Wedding Hoes,
Nails,
Spun Cotton, Coal Oil,
Dye-Stuffs,
Hardware, Salt,
Scythe Blades Seeds,
Fish, Cotton and wool cards,
Scoops, Shovels,
Chains, Fruits,
Rope, Confectionaries,
Hinges, Locks,
Screws, Brushes,
&C., &C., &C., &C., g., &c.
RT- Will pay the highest market price in
CASH for all kinds of Produce.
GT ALSO, Agent for Receiving and Forward
ing Freight.
Store-room in the old Post Office, at the corner
Of Water and Howard streets, next door to my
old Stand, Glasgow, Mo.
GEO. Fl. TATUM.
June Is, 1865-1y
The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-21
sALE:OF VESSELS.

r-...-.. .,l .W w AsHINGTOE, July 70.
At the sale of government vessels to-day
the side. wheel steamer Commodore Read,
was purchased by J. Brandt, of Baltimore,
for $40, GOO +; the side-wheel steamer Com
modore Barney by the Fulton Ferry Com
pany, of New York, for $S5 900; the side
wheel steamer Morse by tha Rsst Boston
Ferry Company, for $25,60O the side
wheel steamer Thomas Freeburn by An
thony Rsybold of Delaware, for 1900 (;
the propeller Anscosta by Thomas Clyde,
of Philadelphia, for S., 900; the steam tug
Verbens by d. Chadwick, of New York,
for $s, 800 the propeller Henry Brinker
by j. HovVol of New York, $1,000; the
proreller William Bscan by VIM. White,
Of New York, for $4,000.
Most of.these vessels have been attached
TO the Potomac iotills and bsVe been out
of commission for the past. month or two.
The large 5side-wheel steamer Banshee, q
blockade runner, and the side-wheel steam
ers Yankee and jacob Bell, we're with
drawn, as they did not bring their sp'
praised value. -a.'..l
Nearly two hundred applications for par.
don we're received to-day at the Attorney
Generals office, sll of which, with few ex'
ceptions, were from the $4,000 clsss
Among the applications are Neil s. Brown
ex. Governor Of Tennessee, and Judge Bid
lev, ex-ChAnceIlor of the same State.
The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-21
GOV. PExkY. OF sOUFH CAROLINA

NEW YORK, July 20. .
Provisional Governor Perry made a re-
msrksble speech at Greenville, s. O., on
the Sd, before he knew of his appointment
Its tenor may be inferred from the follow.
ing expressions:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN-I will here frankly say,
as 1 have often said during the past four
years, that there was not s man in the
United States who more deeply regretted
the secession of the Southern States than
did at the beginning of the revolution, and
there is not now in the Southern States any
one who feels more bitterly the humilis-
tion and degradation of going back into the
Union than / do. Still know that we
shall be more prosperous and happy in the
Union than out of it.
He also said that JEFF. Davis was not
specially to blame for the failure Of the re-.
bellion; that the people, tired of fighting,
had skulked from the field; that Johnston
had 20, 900 men on the muster rolls of his
army, but only $4,000 in its ranks, and
adds:
Congress, too, Mr.. Chairman, Is greatly
70 DlAIIIe IUr IueIr exemptions. mi be-
tween Is and As should have been forced
into the army and kept there. 1t matter
ed not whether he Wss doctor, lawyer,
preacher, politician, editor, or school teach
or, if an able bodied man he should have
been sent to the army. allude to the edi
tors, politicians and preachers. It is fair
that the man who gets up fight should
always take his share in 1t.
He also said President Lincoln's deatl
was no loss to the South, as he was Whil
and non-slsveholder, while johnson is |
Democrat who has held slaves and wit
voted for Breckinridge in 1860: tharafari
| LL-r-~F,ie-sIIOuIu nave every confidence II
him. He ranks Lee next to Washington
The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-21
VOL. XIX--NO. l72
sOJFHERE NEWS.

I'd NEW YORK, July 2O.
The Times Washington special says the
South Carolina delegation headed BY Coy
ernor Perry had an interview with the
President at four O'Clock this, Wednesday,
afternoon, which resulted in the mutual
satisfaction of the parties.
1t appears the delegation was suggested
at various town meetings throughout the
State, and the members had been selected
and were on their way to this city before
the news that Governor Perry had besn
appointed provincial Governor of the State.
Governor Perry first heard of his appoint
ment when he had got seventy miles from
Rome
In the course Of the interview Of this af-
ternoon Governor Perry assured the Pres
ident that South Carolina would be repre-
sented by her congressman in the month of
December next that the State viii adopt
the amendment to the Constitution, abolish.
ing slavery, that the parish system will be
abolished, that the Presidential electors
will hereafter be elected by direct vote
of the people, and in general the State laws
will conform to the spirit and form of the
Northern States, and TO the Federal Con-
stitution.
Governor Perry issued a proclamation
this evening, which will go forward by 8
special messenger tomorrow morning, call
ing State Convention to meet on the
third Monday of September for the forms
tiOn of new Constitution, and for the
consideration of the several measures there
in suggested.