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The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-07-21
From the North American Revie
The District School House.
pY JAMES RUssELL LOWELL.

Passing through some Massachu-
sets village, perhaps, at distance
from any house, it may be in the
midst of piece of pine woods where
four roads meet, one may even yet see
small, square, one-story building,
whose use would not long be doubtful.
1t is summer, and the Pickering shad-
ows of forest leaves dapple the roof OF
the little porch whose door stands
wide, and shows, hanging ON either
hand, rows of straw hats and bonnets,
that look as if they had seen good ser
vice, AS you pass the open windows,
you hear the whole platoons of high
pitched voices discharging words OF
two or three syllables with wonderful
precision and unanimity. Then there
is a pause, and the voice of the officer
in command is heard reproying some
raw recruit whose vocal musket hung
fire. Then the drill of the small in
fantry begins anew, but pauses again
because some urchin who agrees
with Voltaire that the superhuous is a
very necessary thing-insists on spell
ing subtraction with an too much.
If you had the good fortune to be
born and bred in the Bay State, youl
mind is thronged with half-sad, half
humorous recollections. The alb abs
of little voices, long since hushed in the
mould, or ringing now in the pulpit
at the bar, or in the SenateC Chamber
come back to the ear OF, memory. You
remember the high stool on which cul-
prits used to be elevated with the tall
paper fool's-cap on their heads, blush
ing to the ears; and you think with
wonder how you have seen them since
as men climbing the worlds penance
stools of ambition without blush, and
gladly giving everything for hfe's caI
and bells. And you have pleasantei
memories of going after pond-lilies, o.
angling for horn-pouts-that queer
bat among fishes-of nutting, OF walk
ing over the creaking snow-crust ii
winter, when the warm breath of ever,
household was curling up silently IL
the keen blue air, You wonder if lif'
has any rewards more solid and per
manent than the Spanish dollar tina
was hung around your neck to be re
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Good AND BAD APPLES. Ono day Rob
ert's father saw him playing with some
BOYS who were rude and unmannerly.
He had observed for some time n
change for the worse in his son, and
now he knew the cause. He was very
sorry, but he said nothing to Robert at
the time. In the evening he brought
from the garden six beautiful rvsy"
checked apples, put them on plate,
and presented them to Robert He
was much pleased at his fathers kind
ness, and thanked him. You must
lay them aside for few days, that
they may become mellow said the
father. And Robert cheerfully placed
the plate with the apples in his moth
cr's store-room. y
Just as he was putting them aside,
his father laid on the plate a seventh
apple, which was quite rotten, anl
desired him to allow it to remain
there. ~s t.s
But, father, said Robert, tire rot
ten apple will spoil all the others.
Do you think so? Why should
not the fresh apples rather make the
rotten one fresh 2 safd his father.
And with these words he shut the
door of the room.
Eight days afterwards he asked hfr
son to open the door and take out the
apples. But what sight presented
itself The six apples, which had brer
so sound and rosy checked, were now
quite rotton, and spread bad smell
through the room.
oh, papa ! cried he, did l not tcb
you that the rotten apple would spoil
the good ones yet you did not list, II
to me- ...-...
My boy said his father ), 'haye !
not told you often that the company
of bad children will make you bad, yet,
you do not listen to me. See in the
condition of the apples that which
will happen to you if you keep COM
pany with wicked boys. ss
Robert did not forget the lesson
When any of his former playfellovs
asked him to join in their sports, he'
thought of the rotten apples, and kept
himself apart from them. 7Edrly Days
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JOYS OF HoaE. - Bishop Horne said;
II hold it, indeed, to be sure sign
of mind not poised as it ought to be,
II it be insensible to the pleasures of
home, to the little endearments of ~
family; to the affection of relations, to
the fidelity of dom estics. Next to-
being well with his own conscience, tho
friendship and attachment of man 3
family and dependents seem to nae one
of the most comfortable circumstances
of his lot. His situation, with regard
to either, forms that sort of bosom
comfort or disquiet that sticks close to-
him at all times and seasons, and
which, though he may now and then
forget it, amidst the hustle of public or
the hurry of active life, will resume it's
place in his thoughts and its perma-
nent effects on his happiness, ut every
pause Of ambition or business.
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VINO They ARE.-A writer for the
Boston Post gives list of fictitious
names of current literature, and of the
real names which they represent, as
follows:
The much mystifed readers of "Rut-
ledge" may as well know, for instance,
that its author is Miss Miriam Coles;
the New Gospel of Peace" was writ
ten by Richard Grant White, who is
coming to be known as "Shakspearc's
Scholar" Orpheus G. Kerr (office-
seeker is Robert H. Newell; Artemus
Ward is Chas. L. Browne; Carl Benson
is Chas. A. Bristed; Marion Harland is
Mrs. Virginia Terhunc; Ireneus is
Rev. DIR. S. |. Prime; Jeems Pipes,
Stephen c. Massett; Howard Glyddon,
Laura G. Redden; Fanny Fern, Mrs.
J. c. Parton, and sister of n. p Viii
lis; Doesticks Fanny Ferns son-in-
law, is Mortimer Thompson; Jennie
June, Mrs. Jennie Croly; the Country
Parson, Rev. DR.. A. X. II. Boyd;
Miles O'Reilly, Col. Charles g. Hal
pine; X. n. Pepper, James NJ Morris;
Barry Gray,--Coffin; the Lounger, OF
Harper's, Geo. VIM. Curtis; Mr. Spar
rowgrass, f. S. Cozzens; Tx Marvel,
Donald G.. Mitchell; Occasional, of the
Philadelphia Press, John W. Forney;
Burleigh, Matthew III. Smith; Perley
and Ranconteur, Maj. Ben Perley
Poore; Malakoff, of the n. Y. Times,
Dr. Johnson; Mace Sloper, G. G. Lee
land; Josh Billings, A. W. Shaw; Tim
othy Titcomb, DR. j. G.. Holland; Gail
Hamilton, Miss Abigail e. Dodge
McArone, George Arnold; Mrs Part
ington, b. p. Shillaber; Ned Buntline,
f. Y. G. Judson; Edmund Kirk, j. II.
Gilmore; john Phoenix, the late Capt.
Derby; Oliver Optic is the non de
plume of William L. Adams, Boston
school teacher; and scores of other
writers hide themselves behind masks
which their readers would be glad to
see removed. Anonyms may do very
well for amateur and ephemeral scrib-
blers for the daily press, but men and
women who go into bookmaking as a
business, and who write for perpetuity.
ought to let people know who they
are.
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ABOUT ORDER. friends, put
things back in their proper places.
Never leave things all about, better
SHELTER, topsy-turvy--neuer. When
you use any article--hoe, shovel, rake,
pitchfork, axe, hammer, tongs, boots or
shoes, books, states, pencils, writing
apparatus, pins, thimbles, pin-cusb~
ions, needles, work baskets, kitchen
furniture, every article of housewifery
or husbandry. no matter what il is
the very mon,ent You have done using
it, return it to its proper place. Be sure
to have a special place for everything,
and everything in its place. Order,
perfect order is the watchword, heay-
ems first law. How much precious
time is saved aside from vexation) by
observing order, systematic regularity.
And little folks should begin early to-
preserve order in everything--form
habits of order. Those loose, slipshotl,
slatternly habits are formed in child
hood, and habits once formed cling for
life. Young friends, begin early to
keep things strait in their place; study
neatness, order, economy, sobriety,
everything just, honest, pure, lovely,
and of good report. ra
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John ROdman.

FOR deed he had not done John
'hodman was arrested, tried, found
gul'y' and sentenced to ten years i'm
spnSonment.
Len years, beginning at twenty-five.
4 ne best years of his life Circum-
f'ollial evidence, which has doomed
Hany a man, doomed him. That, and
i"lSe witness who took his oath to a
4 WIN Gods name upon his lips, and
~ guilty hand upon Gods holy Bible.
n was a horrible fate; and the worst
:" was that no one believed him in
''ent-fnends, brother, casual ac-
'alntance, all shook their heads and
'' 1T was a dangerous thing tc
money"
only Eva Fay, his young betrothed
IN nm tiny note, blurred with hel
'a'S' wherein shone these words
,Sas V0n lights to that unhappy man il
'Ha ~. dark sea of sorrow;
Aiy darling, whatever others think
W" W trust and love you until / die"
oOuld she have come to him, coule
nave spoken words of hope anc
H. hess with her white hands il
], - U"n, he could have borne his hare
has better But they would not lie
'' r, enter the prison walls. a-i1
,b "Ho could blame them, thinkin,
ro~ ' 'ney did, And she was to,
and too gentle to resist then
= force Or stratagem. So the pirl q
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-07-21
ps5~ A new anecdote of Mr.. Lincoln
IS told by Mr.. +. b. Carpenter in the

pD~ A new anecdote of Mr.. Lincoln
is told by Mr.. L. b. Carpenter in the
n. Y. Independent. 1t is as follows:
at will be remembered that an ex-
ira session of Congress was called in
July following Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural
ton. In the message then sent in,
speaking of secession and the meas
ures taken by the Southern leaders to
bring it about, there occurs the follow
ing remark: with rebellion thus SUI
gar-coated, they have been drugging
the public mind of their section for
more than thirty years, until at length
they have brought many good men to
o Willingness to take up arms against
the government, etc. Mr.. Dufrees,
the government printer, told me that
when the message was being printed,
he was good deal disturbed by the
use of the term sugar coated, and
nnally went 10 the IrcSldenl ABOUT III.
Their relations to each other being
of the most intimate character, he
told Mr.. Lincoln frankly that ho ought
to remember that u message to Con-
gress was different affair from Il
speech at mass meeting in Illinois,
that the message became a pant OF
history, and should be written accord
ingly.
What is the matter nowy inquired
the President. fras
why, said Mr.. Dufrees, you have
used an undignifed expression in
the nessage;' and then reading the
paragraph aloud, he added, Il would
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that, when night came, he lay sense
less and pallid as corpse upon a cot
in the long tent hospital, while on the
wings of the press sped over half the
world tidings of that day and of his
part in it.
Out Of death-lille trance John
Rodmaa awokc, and the moon was
shining down on him, and near
shaded lamp a woman sat at work. A
hospital nurse, Of course. and he closed
bis eyes again. His mind was active
once more. and he remembered an,
the fight and his wound, and fall He
felt the stump of bandaged limb, and
knew his soldiers life was over A
few tears arose in his closed eyes, and
a great sigh heaved his bosom Then
he heard the nurse arise and draw
near and bend over him; and, opening
those tear-flled eyes, he saw through
the midst, the face of Eva Fay.
"1s it dream ?" he said ooh, Eva,
can it be possible that you are here p
And she cried:
Thank Heaven, he knows me. 1t
is no dream, dear John"
She sat with her hand in his and
her cheek against his own. For a
while John was happy, and then sad
again.
Eva spoke to cheer him.
"Do you wonder how / came here ?"
eyes, angel
"Ah Ihave kept watch over you
ever since / first read your name. l
am very proud of you, John. Do you
know they have made you a colonel p
"Ah /" His heart arose and sank
in one moment. GA poor colonel,
Eva crippled man who will scarcely
lift a sword again. Oh, Eva"
"My poor, darling"
81 did not think of this. I did so
hope to come to you in strength and
health to offer you fame and fortune
I dare not now say, will you have a
poor manned soldier p 1t would be
wronging you"
Eva bent over him.
at would be of no use, John"
81 do not blame you, Eva" And
he hid his face.
"None at all, John, said Eva; for
darling, the day l came here we be-
lieved you dying; and that I might
stay and nurse you to the last, | told
the Chaplain that we were betrothed,
and he married us. Don't you re-
member, John? You said, 4 will. "
John clasped her in his arms.
81 remember" he said, "but ]
thought it was a dream, / have had SC
many, Eva. And it is true, quite true?'
"As Heaven, darling"
Then John Rodman murmured,
"God bless you, darling and laid his
head upon his wife's white arm and
rested, happy.
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IAN Extract from the Poem read on
1ply 4tb, at St. Adams, VT
nY ]. 8. y. TAYLon, ESQ.

All hail, july, the month OF months,
when nature most discloses
Her bonndloss wealth Of IN losk,
OF sunshine, and of roses.
When beauty in her richest robes,
Is ont and promenading,
And fills the soul With love and hope
OF beauty never fading.
Who does not feel his Youth renewed,
The happy days returning,
When he was free to roam the fields,
An work and school bells spurning,
When this glad month reveals the blush,
Tho beauty, fragrance. sweetness
OF earliest fruits in baskets full,
An exquisite completenessg
Who l. not once again child,
With bright tin cup or basket,
And mothers leave 70 freely given
Yes given ere we ask it
Carecring over I'LL and dale,
10 ind the place of places,
where most the blushing berries hide
Their ruddy, sweet-lipped facess
Who has forgotten where they grew,
Among the faunting daisies,
And how o'erjoycd, he knolt and picked,
In sunshine hot as biazes'
And now he hid the sun-burnt girls,
Beneath the shady hedges,
And hurried off to fill their cups
Around the lime stone Lodges
What joy, beneath the maple shade,
With syph-hke Cousin Mary
W. called her Cousin tho in fact
An unrelated fairy
Who caused us many an anxious hour
" narrowing sensations,
Which never upcned into more
Than doubtful expectations.
But let that pass-was it not joy,
ia concentrated essence,
To stand, not lar, from those great eyes,
That joyous. airy presence,
And watch her berry tinted lips,
Her brow Of alabastcr,
And think If they were only ours,
We would not envy Astorf
What berries grew on every knoll.
Where sunshine bcamed oiiulgent
We ind them nowhere now, so sweet,
Tho hugels more probulgent.
No hybrid seedlings IN orr time,
Like ends u toperS noses
frouuded their abnormal phiz,
Among the pinks aud posios,
Monstrosiics that now rcgale
Our present grosser swallow,
Bnt native sweetness that could beat
These pmpied pumpkins hollow.
Enomties are now the rage.
from berries on 20 treason
striving 10 Guido belief,
And statle human reason.
The much in little, that We loved
An scaity quaker dresses,
Is lost In such vast amplitude:
lie Whereabouts, who aies-es?
We're scarcely passed the Shanghai rage
tor monstruns hens and chickens,
Ahdlo tiye thousand dollar sheep
Are raising now the dickens.
We love, what We call love, in gross,
Al africa, all heather:
VINO cannot so POSSESS his neart,
Is charged with sin or treason.
Nehate by millions nowadays;
tst sections are asunder.
4 Al lankeodom is hateful now;
most surprising wonder.
bright July thou carnival
" Young life's happiest hours,
w. sing thy welcome once again,
Thy melody and flowers,
Dehghtful time, all joyous time,
90 - tull Of promise ever,
VI solutn harvests boupteous store
40 faithful wise endoavor.
" On not for naught, our nation sprung
= IN such time to being,
"lVu ninens cheer MS feilow-men,
8 pouoI not the great All-sceing
VA n, not iWnaught was Freedom born
mn glorious month OF flowers,
q OIl autumn shcayes are vet 10 bind:
run gamers shall he ours
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peD- At the time of expected inva-
sion at the beginning of the century.
some of the town magistrates called
upon an old maiden lady of Montrose.
and solicited her snbscription to raise
men for the service Of the king. Elm
deed" she answered right sturdily. "I'll
do nae sic thing; ! never could raise a
man. for mysel. and I'm ma gam to raise
men for King Geofge.'a tlss7a nii
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alter the structure of that if / were
you.
DrSrees, replied Mr.. Lincoln, "thnt
word expresses precisely my idea, and
1 am not going to change it. The
time will never come in this country
when the people won't know exactly
what sugU-coated mems r. sstss
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stored the next day and conclude sad
ly that it was but too true n prophecy
and. emblem of all worldly success.
But your moralizing is broken short
off by rattle Of feet and the pouring
forth of the whole swarm the boys
dancing and shouting mere
effervescenco of the fixed air of
youth and animal spirits uncorked
the sedater girls in confden-
tial twos and threes decanting secrets
out of the mouth of one cape-bonnet
into that of another. Times have
Hhanged since the jackets and trousers
used to draw up on one side of the
road, and Me, petticoats on the other,
to salute with>bsw and courtesy the
white neckcloth Of the parson and the
squire, il it CHANGED to pass during in
PERMISSION,
Now this building, and others like
it, were an original kind of fortifca-
ton invented by the founders of New
England. They are the martello tow
ers that protect our coast. This was
the great discovery of our Puritan
forefathers. They were the first law
givers who saw clearly and enforced
practically the simple, moral, and po-
litical truth, that knowledge was not
an aims dependent on the charity of
private men or the precarious pittance
of trust fund, but sacred debt
which the commonwealth owed to
every one of her children.
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What best describes and most I'M
pedes pilgrim? Bunyan.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-01-05

miral on board the Harvest Moon. Subse.
quently he made a visit to the iron-clad Pas
sale, Lieutenant Commander Thomas Scott
Fillebrown, commanding, with which he
was highly pleased, after which he proceed
ed with the Admiral to 0ssabsw Sound.
:. Sherman's army is within FIVE miles Of
Savannah, which is closely invested by it,
In q day or two Gen. Sherman will propose
to Gen. Hardee the surrender Of the city,
and Hardee will have to resort TO better
tactics" than those which he stole from
the Duke OF Orleans If be would successful
ly refuse Sherman's terms.
GENERAL sBERNAN's OBSERVATIONS ON
THE SITUATION
Gen. Sherman being asked by Gen. Foster
whether be (Foster) had not better keep
possession of the batteries recently erected,
commanding the Charleston & Savannah
Railroad, so as to prevent any more forces
joining Hardee, replied, You had better
hold on TO the batteries, and | can easily
spare FIVE thousand men to help you to pre-
vent them from running away; but let as
many go into Savannah az want to | can
take care Of them all. I'll open my lines
and let in twenty thousand Of them if they
want to go iu. ISL. Il.
Gen. Sherman says he has been through
Mississippi twice, and through Georgia once.
The sun goes North on the 2st, and BY
that time shall go North too" He says
he will go through South Carolina, aud
leave Q wake behind him as marked as that
which marks his path through Georgia, and
that he will go through North Carolina alse
Richmond being his destination.
Shernran's account Of his movement on
Fort McAllister was characteristics Said he:
II went down with Howard ard took look
at it. and | said to my boys, Boys, don
think there are over four hundred in tha,
fort but there it is. and think we nigh,
as well have it. The word was scarcely
spoken before the work was DONE Fifeer
minutes were all that were required.
The army has been splendidly fed durine
its march, the country being freely stocket
with wheat, corn, beef cattle, and hogs
His losses from killed, wounded, and sicl
are less than two thousand. None of BIZ
men becauie stragglers. About twenty
thousand "niggers and mules" are reported
in his wake.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-01-05


For the first time in sixteen years,
the list ef,delinquent lands in Belmont
County, is published in but one paper.
In 1S49, during the administration OF
DAVID ALLEN in the Auditors Office,
the commissioners, anxious to have this
list published in both papers, so that
all parties interested might see it, and
the law providing for its publication in
one paper only, sent for Horror How
ARD, publisher of the CnRoNIoLE, and
STEPHEN GREssINGER, publisher of the
Gazette and Citizen, who met them at
the Auditors office, where it was agreed
that, thereafter, the list should be sci
up jointly, and published in both pa
pers, and the fee--which is very lib
eral one-should be divided. And
from that time until the present year,
no matter what party has had the Aud
itor's office, the list has been published
In two papers. -.i
Since the above arrangement was
entered into, the Gazette has received
this list from the CHRONICLE nine years,
and the CHRONICLE has received it from
the Gazette three gears. And since the
arraingement in 1S40, there has beer
no man, having control of the mattor
mean enough to change the custom, de-
prive the people of both parties the op
portunity of seeing the list, and pock-
citing the full fee, until it was placed al
the disposal of HEAToN, the present
publisher of the Gazette. ..