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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-06-24

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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-06-24

The design Of painting q picture commed1.
orativo 0Ythe ACe q ENaE ctpsti that
suhasquent occurrences had only contirm.
ed my own first judgment 81 t6at not -
tory. EYES," said he, and never DO I 70.
.msmber 10 6ave noticed In him more earn.
esio3so of expesssiOn Of manner, As q.
tnirD have turned, Il - the central oct az
the Administration, and the great event
q The uin6teenth 6sntury. "is - 3.
!. Llelnembeg u hav0 ssked bin; on one
occasion. IS th6tsivas not some opposition
Of the Cabinet to It's emancipation policy.
He said, An reply, Nothing moro than I
have said to you. Mr.. Blair .theaGht W
should looo The MI elections, and Opposed,
it On hat ground only" 9eid'I, ~ k&ve
underwood that Secretary Smith va not
IN fhvor Of your acl3o0. 0r. Blair told me
that when tho msH ing closed. md 10 and
together, that the latter told him, II the
President carried out that policy - might
count On losing Indiana sure r. 'sHs never
said anything 81 the kind to me, - returned
the Precedent. ssAnd how" soid i, "doeo|
Mr.. Blair feel about 1t now" ''Oh,' was
Tie prompt reply, ''he proved right n re-
gard to tho 1h1l elecaions, but b. q satisfied
that W have since gained moro than vel
Lost" II have been told." said "that
Of tho procaama&ion." ssHe never ox.
pressed such IN opinion in my hearing,"
fopliod Mr.. Lincoln. yssNO member o( the
cabinet ever dimented from the policy in|
any conversation with me.
NJ. Chase told mo that q the Cahdnet
EAeeGing Immediately alter The batt1e OIL
Antiseam, ard juss ptioe g The ione q The
loeod upon ~ business botb9o t66m ~
Iayine that tho time for tho enunciation OIL
~ nanMpation policy could no Longer b /
delayed. dPuhlie seo6uNp4s !" - thep6AA
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-06-24

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naf1o0 nsveg . s. taken 6oek 6
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- had no parallel n m6dern
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III NY have boon taught 70 b.
0otr rights and intofeoto, how
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ao0 With The moro Southern
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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27
VOL. IX.---NO.. 4.

Das~A Loudoner recently poisoned him.
self on his mothers grave, leaving the fol-
lowing letter "My dear wife-When you
read these lines the individual who writes
them will have taken the liberty of taking
view of the future state of society. / 20
to my mother. You remain to look after.
the boy. God will raise up for you what
l wauted-Friends. God will protect you.
See how wrong you were when you said I
had not the courage to commit the act I
limited to you'll l believe now what Shak-
speare says, that there is method in mad
ness. Farewell to this world Since our
juvenile days, since first love has ripened
into manhood's devotion, and the love Of
my boyhood has become manhood's affec.
tion--since our first love was generated
when we were boy and girl together, I
have been yours, but | now constitute my
self judge of the Divorce Court, and /
now leave you. With Eugene Aram I
have followed reason aud not vice my
faults are from the head and not from the
heart. BE sure to bring up the boy in
strong feeling Of religion; that I neglect.
I'd
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

The STONES OF THE TEMpLE-The
marble stones which composed Solomon's
Temple were said to be forty cubits long,
twelve thick, and eight high. Sup
posing cubit to be eighteen inches, which
) the lowest estimate, they would be sixty
feet long, eighteen feet thick, and twelve
Get high. And surprising cubic foot of
marble to weigh 1907 ounces, one of these
tones weighed 2,752,O38 pounds and
2 ounces. And surprising one man to be
bile to raise 200 pounds, it would require
1880 men to raise one of these, and also
little boy who could raise 3S pounds and
twelve ounces. And supposing one man
to require square yard to stand upon, it
would require acres, roods, | l perches,
and II yards for them to stand upon while
raising it, besides place for the little boy
to stand. What floats must have been ne
cessary to carry them across the sea of Jop.
pa! And what kind of teams, as we'll as
wagons, do you suppose they had to carry
these stones from Joppa to jerusalem,
which was about thirty miles, and noun.
famous country? And what skill was ne.
cessary to square and dress these immense
stones, so that when they were brought to.
gether, they fitted so exactly that they had
the appearance of being enc solid stone
CdSket.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

A BILLIoN.-What lisa billion? The
National debt, as given by the President.
on the LIST of July last amounted to one
billion seven hundred and forty millions
of dollars. We hear much dispute over
this statement, some contending that it
means one thing and some another. The
difficulty probably arises from the differ
ent ways of computing billion, there be-
ing two methods, the French and English
According to the latter, billion is mill
lion millions, and according to the French
system it is only thousand millions =
The French method of computation is the
one used in this county, so that our pub
lie debt in July, as stated by Mr.. Lincoln,
was in round figures one thousand seven
hundred and forty millions Of dollars
The difference eau better be seen by put
ting the amount of debt in figures as the
rules of each system would require it =
French (aud Americau) system, 81, $40,
100000. English system, 81, 900, 740,.
100000. 49,. .., .... w..
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

nD- The correspondent of the SPRING
field Republican, is responsible for the
following: '... p
Last week, in village hard by, where
ministers are not so plenty as in larger
places, Squire F., justice of the peace,
man of good common sense and sterling
integrity, remarkable for bluntness rather
than blanduess of manner, and whose lit
erary attainments extended to the writing
of his name, was called on by a colored FAM
lily to make few remarks at the funeral
of their son, in the absence of the only
clergyman of the place. The weeping
friends were seated about the room, when
he rose and said: otis pretty bad; but, IL
| was you, l wouldn't take on SO. It's oil
for the best. S'pose he'd lived and grown
to be fat, healthy boy,-wby he'd never
been nothiu' but id niger, anyhow"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

sa5nThe New York Times says, "it is
safer to take stroll on the picket line of
the james than to walk alone through the
streets of New York after uightfall." The
Police Commissioners of the same city, in
their last annual report, say :-"In no
city of the civilized world, not the theatre
of actual war, is human life SO lightly
priced and subjected to as great hazards
from violence as IN New York and Brook
lyn." So it would seem, from the state-
ments of its own journals and officials, that
New York is pretty hard place to live iu-
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

BeS- Two fellows making noise in the
Theatre Royal, Dublin, were brusquely or,
dered to be silent by gigantic Emeral-
der, who happened to be in the same box,
whereupon they shouted: H..
"You shall hear from US our name is
Lawes."
"Lawes, is ?" quoth the big man,
"then I'll give you an addition to your
name," and kicking them out of the box
he exclaimed "Lawes ye were, but by
the powers, it's Out Lawes ye are now"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27
How a Bridegroom Was Treated.

A circle of gay young bachelors was
thrown into confusion day or two ago by
the desertion of one of their number, who
fell victim to the charms of beautiful
and amiable young lady. For some cause
best known to himself, the caamored
Benedict kept the matter a secret, and
without inviting his bachelor friends, to
the wedding, had the knot tied in an un-
destinations manner, and started on bri-
dial tour to some village in Illinois.
His friends, of course, heard of the we'd
ding the day after it occurred, and feeling
slighted, determined to have revenge
When the happy man returned from his
tour, he was taken aback by being waited
upon by stranger, detective, who pro-
iuced an order for his arrest on a charge
If disloyalty. Having at one time enter
aimed sneaking sympathy for Sour
southern BRETHREN he was greatly trou-
lied He was taken by the detective into
darkened room, where the examining
'oard was sitting, aud was surprised to
ee that they all wore masks aud domi,
Ioes -.. .N.-..
He asked why he was not allowed to
se tie face of his judges, and was told
hat they were disguised on account of
he discovery of spies and traitors in the
government service. He was then &C.
used of having uttered snoh and such
entiments in the presence of certain Of
his friends, whose names were given, and
he could not deny what he had said, he
p!ead guilty, and threw himself on the
aercy ofthe court-urged his youth and
nexperienee-the fact of his recent mar
'iage, &c. ...,.t f.t FL. .,a.,
Although his pathetic appeals appeared
- soften the hinty hearts of his judges,
ct it could not turn aside the ponderous
ammer of justice, and he was sentenced
six months Imprisonment in the Alton
l'rison, at hard labor, with ball and chain
ttached to the left leg. This was terri
lie blow to man who had been married
I'ut three or four days, and the prisoner
vas greatly affected. -
After witnessing the misery of the con-
1emued man for few moments, the mock
Judges threw off their masks, and appeared
before him as his unlimited wedding guests
they told him they had taken this mode
# furnishing him for his failure to invite
hem to his wedding, and he was SO glad
10 find that the thing was all joke
nat he treated the party to champagne
nd oyster supper, and promised that he
you'd never get married again without
heir presence-Missouri Dem. .....
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

CONTINENTAL CURRENoY.--The total
amount Of paper issued duriig the war Of
Independence reached 100000, 0O0.-
The official statement of the various issues,
with their respective values in Spanish
dollars at the time of emission, gives $28
in paper for one dollar in specie as the
comparative rate for November, l776. A
few months afterward it was more than
one hundred to one. John Adams, wri.
ting to the Count Of Vergennes, in juno,
1880, says: "Linens, which cost two
francs Gao cts.) in France, were sold in
the States at $50 a yard. Broadcloth sold
at 5000 per yard Bobea tea, $45 ID. !;
salt, $40 bushel, and in some of the
States, at 5000" ....r
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27
JtIistellaneous.
The Titus Oates Plot.

In these days of plots, inventions, &c +,
it would be we'll for those who get them
up to remember the lessons of history
The following is Macaulay's description of
the famous Titus Oates Plot, and the re-
suit oft:
Yet was the ferment excited by this dis
covery-the French plot against Dauby-
slight, when compared with the commo.
ton which arose when it was noised abroad
that great Popish plot had been detected.
One Titus Oates, clergyman of the
church of England, had, by his disorderly
life and heterodox doctrine, drawn on him
self the censure of his spiritual superiors,
had been compelled to quit his benefce,
and had, ever siuce, led an infamous and
vagrant life. He had once pesfessed him
self Roman Catholics and had passed
sometime OH the continent in English COL
leges of the order of Jesus. In these SEM
maries he had heard much wild talk about
the best means of bringing England back
to the true church. From hints thus fur.
Dlshed, he constructed hideous romance,
resembling rather the dream of a sick
man than any transaction which ever took
place in the real world. The Pope, he
said, had intrusted the government Of Eng
land to the Jesuits. The Jesuits had,
by commissions under the seal of their So
clety, appointed Catholic clergyman, po-
licemen and gentlemen, to all the highest
offices in church and state. The Papists
had burned down London once. They
had tried to burn it down again. They
we're at that moment planning a scheme
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

81 am constant as the Northern star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in The armament"
Happy are those who realize the felicity
of true friendship. They possess a treas
ure more lasting than gold-a flower
whose fragrance is enduring. Love may
"sicken and decay" from its own lavish
waste and surfeit; the idol, stripped of
its tinsel, may stand forth in all its moth
iugness; but true friendship, like the
taper in the sick-roo burns steadily on,
shedding its calm unvarying light through
the long, weary watches of the night. In
the better language of Buiwer-"Friend-
ship is the wine of existence love the
dram Drinking
Some writer has fguratively described
the difference between friendship and love,
by telling US that the man in love ''puts
on his tight boots when he visits his in
amorata, but wears his old shoes when he
visits his friend" This is very good
description of that line of demarcation
which separates love and friendship. We
wish those who love US to think us perfec-
ton; we are willing to let our friend see
that we are human. We feel that our
friend will lament over our errors, and
deal gently with them. in his thoughts and
words; but the one who has singled us
out as an idol, will only see that bright
ideal in all the hideousness of reality.
Consistency is the grand feature OF true
friendship; without this basis the fabric
will not stand. Without constancy, friend,
ship is only an ignis .tatuus, to lure a
trusting, couiding heart, and then vanish
away, to leave that heart more desolate.--
1t is this Gone error the want of constan-
cy in cementiug our friendships, that fills
them with sorrow, and makes US feel how
keen the wound, when it is received Sin
the house of friend" M.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

TALENTED YoUTH good aneciotc
is told of house. paiuter's son, who used
the brush dexterously, but had acquired
the habit of quitting it on too thick. -
One day his father, after having frequent
ly scolded him for his lavish daubng, and
all to no purpose, gave him severe fla
COLLATION.. ..... ...,.
"There, you young rascal said he, af-
ter performing the painful duty, show do
you like tbat?"
"Well, l dou't know, dad,' whined the
boy, in reply, "but it seems to me that
you put it on thuuderin' sight thicker
than did -
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

s@- The last wicked story of Paris is
that there is mother-married, of course,
very early-who still prides herself on her
youth and beauty. She has had differ
ences with her son, who is old enough at
least to be examined on oath. They both
had to state their age in a court of justice.
"Your age, MADAME" asks the courteous
justice. "Twenty-fve," says the auda.
cious mother A little later the sou is in
the box. "Your age, sir" asks the JUS
tice. "Why," answers ingenious youth,
81 find, to my establishment, that am
year older than my mother"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

ONCE WAS PURE.
Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below
Over the house-tops, over the street,
Over the heads of the p. ople you meet,
Dancing,
" Flirting,
Skipping along,
Beautiful snow it can do nothing wrong,
. Flying TO kiss a fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to lips in frolicksome freak,
Beautiful snow from the heaven above,
Pure as an angel, gentle as love
Oh the snow, the beautiful snow,
How the fakes gather and laugh as they go
Whirling about in its maddening fun,
1t plays its glee with every one,
Chasing,
Laughing,
Hurrying by,
1t lights up the face and it sparkes the eyel
And even the dogs, with bark and bound,
Snap at the crystals that eddy around;
The town is alive, and its heart in glow,
To welcome the coming of beautiful snow
How the wild crowd goes swaying along,
Hailing each other with humor and song
How the gay sledges like meteors fash by,
Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye:
Ringing, ...,
Swinging, ...
Dashing they go,
Over the crest of the beautiful snow
Snow so pure when it falls from the sky,
To be tramped in the mud by the crowd rush
ing by,
To be trampled and-tracked by the thousands
of feet,
Till blends with the filth in the horrible street.
Once was pure as the snow-but fell
Fell like the snow flakes, from heaven to hell /:
Fell to be trampled as filth of the street
Fell to be scotfed to be spit on and beat;
Pleading,
Cursing,
Dreading to die,
Selling ny soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead;
Mercitul God have fallen so low?
And yet was once like the beautiful snow.
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eye like its crystal, heart like its glow;
Once was loved for my innocent grace
Flattered and sought for the charms of my face.
Father,
Mother,
Sisters, all,
God and myself have lost by my fall
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by,
Will take wide sweep, lest wander too nigh.
How strange 1t should be that this beautiful
snow
Should fall on sinner with nowhere to go!
How strange it should be when the night
comes again,
If the snow and the ice struck my desperate
brain,
Painting,
Freezing,
Dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for moan
To be heard in the crazy town,
Gone mad in the joy of the snow coming down,
To lie and to die in my terrible woe,
With ii bed and shroud of the beautiful snow.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

1SAn iron letter has just been sent By
mail from Pittsburg to England. The
iron was rolled so thin that the sheet was
only twice tho weight of similar sized
sheet of ordinary note paper. 1t is sup.
posed to be the thinnest iron ever rolled in
the world, and was manufactured BY tho
Sligo Iron Works. a,,
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

g A curious case is about to be tried
in Paris. A lady is about to prove in open
court that she is not the mother of her
children, or rather the children which her
husband attributes to her. This matter is
to be demonstrated by decisive arguments,
the lady herself demanding to plead.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

eg- "Come here, my little lad" said
an attorney to a boy about nine years old.
"a case is between the devil aud tho
people-which do you think will be tho
most likely to gain the action ?" Tho
boy replied 81 guess it will be hard
squeeze; the people have the most
money, but the devil has the most law
yers." .....
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

ng "Boys," said a village pedagogue,
"what is the cause of all this noise ia
school to-day" at is Bill Sykes, sir,
who is all the time initiating steam.en-
CINE"
"Come up. here, William ; if you have
turned into locomotive, it is high timo
you were switched off,"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27

g. When you see man on q moon
light night trying to convince his shadow
that it is improper to follow gentleman,
you may be sure that it is high time for
him to join temperance society. .
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-01-27
LIME! a. ....., .
g., LIME!
LIME!

THE subscribers, successors to Cook s.
L Hi'les, take this method of informing
the public that they are prepared TO fur
nlsh them with superior quality of U.N-
Stacked LIME, delivered at any of
the accessible landings on the tributaries
OF the Chesapeak Ike Bay, du,ing the naviga-
BILE season, and respectfully solicit their
patronage.
Orders should be given thirty days in
Advance, and addressed 10 the firm at
HAvRE-DE-GRAcE, MD.
dec9-ly JAMES COOK s. co.
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4oetital,
TIL E s N 0 w ,

rive find the following, says the Louisville
Journal floating about the sea of .ncwSpaperdom,
and though its mournful cadences fall upon the
ear like the strains of well-remembered music
we cannot recall The authors name.
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$3.50 PER ANNUM.
BIBB & co.
Baltimore Stove House,
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RALYfMNMR..

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Also look and see what repairs you want
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Don't forget that we are still selling that
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For The Ayis and Mtelligencer.
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~ am constant as the Northern star,
Of whose true fixed and resting quality
There is no fellow in the armament"
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