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Nebraska advertiser., 1865-03-02

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Pins. Bracelets SleeUs ButtonS. Sit0eF
Ioi Spoons and Forks, Gaps, Cake r.
lssis Basksts, &C.. north Eight 5se
vain Hundred Thousand Dollars !
The Entire, Stock of . large Importing House,
retiring from business.
For the purpose of closing out the stnck at the
earliest pOssiblerdate, the undersigned have decided
on a great distribution made as follows:
Each and e4ery Article. nc matter how valu-
able, being Sold for 81.
a CERTIFICATE OF each article with its value
printed ppon,itis placed in an envelope and sealed
these envelopes are thoroughly mixed and sOld for
twenty-five cents eash-the person receiving one
of these envelopes is entitled to the article Ianed
therein by returning the Certificate to Us with one
dollar, and the article, no. matter how valuable it
may be, will be forwarded TO him or her at once
There ale no Blank Certificates and therefore every
one is sure. to get, ~atleast, the full value Of his or
her money. Should the article named on the GER
dhcate not suit any other which he may select Of
the same value will be substituted. We sell the
certificates as follows: lt1 4
One for, 25 eGs, FIVE for 81, eleven for 81, thirty
for SIS, sixty-fve for $40, one hundred for SD
This aistributiOn affords 3 fine opportunity f0E
Agents, as what lady or gentleman win not invest
twenty-five cents with a prospect Of getting i've
hundredor n thousand times as much. All orders
mast be addressed to US az our old stand No. ID,
Maiden Lane, Nav York. 54a2t1o 9ic1W bIE
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Nebraska advertiser., 1865-03-02

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Nebraska advertiser., 1865-03-02

in The night, taking Eve or six pieces of
flight artillery with Them. aud every
Ihlag else of value.
This morn!ng some of our troops that
were near by wenl in and holsted the
flag on the ranparts, when the firing
ceased from the niorlarS.
There were heavy guns init Ander.
son and a quanuiy of ammunition. We
lost three KILLED and five wounded.
am, sir, your obedieLt servant.
d. d. PORTER, Rear Admiral.
g Washington. Feb. 24th--The follow
ing has just been received a: the Navy
Department
Fortress Monroe. Feb. 24-R Hon.
Gideon Weles: The Schuyler has just
arrived from Cape Fear river and reports
our forces having taken possession Of
Wilmington on the morning of the 22d
-WashiDgtOn's birthday. The rebels
relrealed, leaving behind a large number
of prisoners IN our hands.
S. D. TRENCHARD, Com.
Our captures. including Fort Ander-
son, amount 10 500 prisoners, and 80
guns,
The citizens stated that the rebels
burned 1000 bales Of cotton and $4,000
barrels of rosin.
Louisville. FEB. 24lh.-A special to
the Democrat dated Nashville the Esd,
at 4 O'Clock, p. m, says that intense ex-
element exists al Knoxville from a re-
port that Longstreel's conmAnd was
moving on that place.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-17

AXE GRINDEe.-T is term bor-
rowed from story told by Franklin.
A little boy going to school was ac-
costed by man carrying an axe. The
man calls the boy all kinds of pretty
and endearing names, and induces
him to enter yard where there is a
grindstone. "Now, my pretty little
fellow" says he with the axe, 'only
turn that handle, and you'll see some
thing pretty The boy turns and
turns, and the man holds the axe to
the stone and pours water over it till
the axe is ground. Straightway he
turns with harsh voice and fierce
gesture on the boy: "You abandoned
little miscreant," ne cries, what do
you mean by playing truant from
school? You deserve good thrash
ing. Get you gone, sirrah, TINS IN
slant !" "And after this, adds Frank
lin, ''when anybody fattered me al
ways thought he had an axe to grind
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No. So.

the master Of elegance. If any of my
audience were at that period in Bos-
ton, or Cambridge, they will easily re-
member his radiant beauty of person,
of classic Style his heavy, large eye;
marble lids, which gave the impression
Of mass which the slightness Of his
form needed; sculptured lips; voice
of such rich tone, such precise and
perfect utterance, that, although slight
ly nasal, it was the most mellow, and
beautiful, and correct, of all the instru-
ments of the time The word that he
spoke, and the manner in which he
spoke it, became current and classical
in New England. He had . great tai
ent for collecting facts, and for bring
ing those he had to bear with ingen-
ious felicity on the topic of the mo-
ment- Let him rise to speak on what
occasion soever, fact had always just
transpired which composed with some
other fact well known to the audience
the most pregnant and happy coinci-
dence. 1t was remarked that, for o
man who threw out SO many facts he
was seldom convicted of a blundsr.
He had a good deal Of special learn
ing, aud all his learning was available
for purposes of the hour.-Raph Hal-
do Emerson.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-17

ENTHUSIASM AND IT'S CoUNTERPARTs. -
A sentiment, flame of affection, or
delight, the love of the mother for her
child, of the child for its mate, the
youth for his friend, the scholar for
his pursuit, the boy for seattle, the
patriot for his country, the philanthro-
pist's desire to spend and be spent for
some romantic danger, John Brown
for the slave, the heroes and heroines
of the Sanitary Commissioning mat
ter what the Objects all good, if it
fam or desire, and makes life sweet
and dear, and reinforces the heart,
But Society in towns is infested by a
class who, seeing that the sentiments
please, seek to produce effects by
counterfeiting the expression, senti-
mentalists who mistake description for
the thing. They have an intense love
of nature; they adore poetry, and art,
pictures, the moon, the cadets, and
the Governor They worship virtue,
dear virtue and almost make the name
hateful with their praise. The warm
er their expression, the colder we
grow. The soul is lost by mimicking
soul.-Emerson
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TO MY BROTHER.
by b. DAVENPORT HOUSE.

Dear brother Fred, with heavy heart
saw thee from our door depart,
And tears unbidden dimmed the eye
When last said to thee good-by.
Though many long, long day has passed
since thy dear hand in mine was claspcd;
Through all the time that since has sped,
I've often thought of thee, dear Fred.
I've often thought of childhood's joys
When you and |, dear Fred, we're boys,
And oft will rise the unbidden sigh,
And tears responsive dim the eye;
To think that we no more on earth,
Shall meet around our old homes hearth,
Dear brother Fred, where You and
50 oft have met in days gone by.
Dear brother Fred, though far apart,
Thine images craven on my heart,
So craven that not time or space
The faintest line can e'er erase.
And though thy hand no moro l grasp,
Nor feel thy strong and loving clasp,
Until I'm numbered with the dead
I'll neer forget thee, brother Fred.
Tack St. Adams, w.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-17

CRocoDmEs AND MONKEYS. Henri
Mershot, in his travels in Indo China,
SAYS:
"Crocodiles are moro numerous in
the river al Paknam Vem than in that
of Chantbaun. continually saw them
throw themselves from the bank into
the water; and ii has frequently hap
pened that careless fishers, or per-
sons who have imprudently fallen
asleep on the shore, have become
their prey, or have afterwards died Of
wounds inflicted by them. This lat
ter has happened twice during my
stay here. 1t is amusing, however,
for one is interested in observing the
habits of animals all over the world
to see the manner in which these
creatures catch the apes, which some
times take fancy to play with them.
Close to the bank lies the crocodile,
his body in water, and only his ca
pacious mouth above the surface ready
to seize anything that may come with
in reach.
"a troop of apes catch sight Of him,
seem to consult together, approach
little by little, and commence their
frolics, by turns actors and spectators
One of the most active or most i'm
prudent jumps from branch to branch
till within a respectable distance off
from the crocodile, when hanging by
one claw, and with the dexterity pc
culiar to these animals, he advances
and retires, now giving his enemy a
blow with his paw, at another time
only pretending to do SO. The other
apes, enjoying the fun, evidently wish
to take a part in it, but the other
branches being too high, they form a
sort of chain by laying hold of each
others paws, and thus saving back
wards and forwards, while any of
them who comes within reach of the
crocodile, torments him to the best of
his ability.
Sometimes the terrible jaws sudden
ly close, but not upon the audacious
ape, who just escapes; then there are
cries of exultation from the torfnen-
tors, who gambol about joyfully. Dc
casionly, however, the claw is en-
trapped, and the victim dragged with
the rapidity of lightning beneath the
water, when the whole troop disap-
pear, groaning and sbrieking. The
misadventure does not, however, pre-
vent their recommending the game a
few days afterwal DIS. y
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in pink perfectly flightful Is this
your shawl on the piano Beautiful
shawl Father says he is going to
send to Paris to get me a shawl in the
spring. | can't bear homemade
shawls How do you like Monsieur
Esbry? Beautiful man, isn't he ? Now
don't laugh, Maria for l am sure
don't care anything about him
Oh, my L must be going--it's a
beautiful day, isn't it ? Maria when
are you coming up to see me ? Oh,
dear, what beautiful pin That pin
was given to you; now | know it was,
don't deny it Harry is coming up to
see me this evening; but | hate him
| do, really but he has beautiful
moustache; hasn't he, Maria o, dear
me isn't it very warm ? Good morn
ing Maria. Don't speak of Harry in
connection with my name to any one,
for l am sure it will never amount TO
anything; bat hate him awfully I
am sure l do Alieu
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How MEN SHOULD TREAT WOMEN
A Persian poet gives the following in
struction upon this important subject;
"When thou art married, seek to
please thy wife; but listen not to all
she says. From mans right side rib
was taken to form woman, and never
was there seen a rib quite straight.
And would'st thou straighten it 1t
breaks, but bends not. Since then,
It's plain that crooked is woman's tenn
per, forgive her faults and blame her
not; nor let her anger thee nor coer-
cion use, as all is vain to straighten
what is curved"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-17

A New FaAUD.-The high and I'M
reasonable prices to which articles of
common consumption have been forced
by spectators seems to have had the
effect of stimulating the inventive
genius of dishonest traders to the ut
most, and adulterations in articles of
daily consumption were never more
common than now. We have before
us a preparation invented in New
York for extending tea, made Of
wheat husks taken from the barn af-
ter thrashing, slightly crushed, and
colored black or green, for the
varieties of tea it is designed to
adulterate. This article is styled
Japan Tea" and is extensively
used in New York and Philadelphia,
whore it is sold to grocers for mixing
with tea, which they sell at from rs
cts. to 81, so per Id. The price of the
chaff for adulteration is from 90 to so
cts per Id. 1t is tasteless, and may
be harmless, if there is nothing pois-
onous in the coloring matter. The
gentleman who furnish us with the
was solicited to introduce it
to the trade in this city, and promised
a commission of cts. ID for all he
sold; but, to his honor be it spoken,
he declined in any way to aid SO
abominable fraud. - Commercial Bul-
ietin,
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FAsHIoNABLE CALLS. We find in an
exchange the following, in which a
friend intimates there is more truth
than poetry
Enter Miss Lucy, nearly out of
breath with the exertion of walking
from her papa's carriage in the street
to the door Of her friend.
Lucy-O Maria how do you do ?
How delighted / am to see you How
have you been since l last saw you
at the ball last Thursday evening ?
Wasn't the appearance of that tall girl
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JOSH Billings ON SHANGHAIs. The
shanghi reuster is gintile, and speaks
in a forum tung. He is bilt on piles
like our Sandy Hill crane. If he had
bin bilt with legs he wud resembul the
peruvian lama He is sekond best in
a ruff and tumble fte; like the injins
that kant stand civilization, and arc
fast disappearing Tha roost on the
ground similar tew the mud-turkle.
Tha often go to sleep standing, and
sum times pitch over, and when they
dew they enter the ground like a
pickaxe There feed consists NV corn
in the ear. Tha crow like jack-ass,
troubled with the bronkeesucks. Tha
viii eat as much to onst az q district
skule master, and generally sit down
rite oph tew keep from tipping over.
Tha are dredful unhandy to kook, you
have to bile one end nv them to q
time, you kant git them awl into q
potash kittle tn onst The female
reuster lays an egg as big rs kokee-
nut, and is sick for week afterwards,
and when she matches out litter of
young shanghis, she has tew brood
over them standing, and then kant
kiver but NV them, the rest stand
around on the outside, like boys
around cirkus tent, getting peep
under the kanvass when ever they
can. The man who fust brought the
breed into this country ought to own
them all and be obliged tew feed them
on grasshoppers caught'bi hand. l
never owned but one, and he got
choked to death by kink in clothes
line, but not till he had swallowed Is
feet ov it. Not any shanghi for me, if
you pleze | would rather board a
travelling colporter, and az for eating
one, give me billed owl rare dun, or
turkee buzzard, roasted hole, and
stuffed with a pair of injun rubber
boots, but not emmy shanghi for me,
not shanghi Poughkeepsian.
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Hannah Gneldt's Door Step.

Hannah Gneldt leaned upon her
broom, and looked out from her low
Kitchen door across the wintery fields
bud the ice-glazed streamlet which
By between her home and the little
Village Of Greennook, with its one ia
pering spire and Shopping roofs and
blank white walls, bare now of the
Summer verdure. She had done her
household work, polished every article
capable of polish, and soaped and
landed all the rest At the last she
had swept clean her door stone, and
Vow felt free to do what she chose,
y rest, or gossip, or sit down to
needle-work, IA thing impossible to
her while spot beneath her roof was
out Of order. Just now she felt Meth
q like gossiping nor sewing; her
heart was very full, and she found it
ltcessary to stand still and think n
Shile. Only that she was not used to
y she would have cried, she was so
very sad. 1t seemed to her that the
hppiest people were those who lay in
helr green graves in the church yard
Fth crossed hands upon their bosoms,
phd feet quiet from all earthly going
~ and fro for evermore.
q Not that Hannah Gneldt was tired
= body, or weary with the toll Of
eouSehold duty; for she was strong
II frame, and her health was perfect,
her hands were willing. 1t was on
pr humble heart the burden lay,
II spirit that was worn with earthly
tavail.
lwenty-three years to-day I've
peen his wife" she muttered, "and
Se loved him well and worked hard
10 faithfully to keep things decent,
snd It's come to this at last Things
10 been better, says he, if he'd mar
PEG Miss Lester p"
les, that was what Farmer Gneldt.
sArasSed by toll and debt, had said to
'liat very morning; and it seemed
hannah like the confession of
mr..
ng repentance, forced from her hus-
eRnds lips at last.
ioor man | wish ! could help
a. she sighed, leaning ON her
Foom beside the door. 81 doubt he's
en- about Miss Lester"
vain that her eyes fell and rested
Y e. chance on the doorstep.
can mend that, anyhow" she
lone"
~ she hung the broom up, and
eped into her oven, and set the
Tue on, and then, hooded and
1 ".ied' crossed the fields to where
i"rm joined that of Simeon GRAY
4 on one spot We're men at work, and
Eones lying about.
hannah Gneldt nodded to the old
7i ,n and he came to meet her.
want a stone," she said. "Mav
have oneY" la'
WISH you'd take 'em ALL" said the
"er; "a lot of rubbish. You see
clearing away what they call the
graveyard at last. Wife talks 70
Oh sacrilege and disturbin' bones
eSS you, there amt been none for
'rS and years; and these hard
~. ,S man can't let land go to waste
n wife she don't know notbip,
|sS D' IT, What dye want to do ?
."5 bit around the wells"
NO want a STEP" said Hannah.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-17

EAIERsoN's REcoIEcTIoNs or THE
YOUTHFUL EDWARD EyERETT.-There
was an influence on the young people
from the genius of this eminent schol-
ar, which was almost comparable to
that of Pericles, in Athens. He had
an inspiration which did not go be-
yond his head, but which made him
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-17

True PROSPERITY talk of the
prosperity of your city. | know but
one true prosperity. Does the human
soul grow and prosper? Does the
human soul grow and prosper here
DO not point me to your thronged
streets. | ask, who throng them Is
it a low-minded, self-seeking, gold
worshipping, man-despising crowd
which | see rushing through them
DO I meet in them under the female
form the gaily decked prostitute, on
the idle, wastoful, aimless woman OF
fashion ? Do / meet the young man
showing off his pretty person as the
perfection of natures works, wasting
his golden hours in dissipation and
sloth, and wearing in his countenance
the gaze of the profigate? Do /
meet grasping multitude, seeking to
thrive by concealments and fraud An
anxious multitude driven by fear of
want to doubtful means of gain ? An
unfeehng multitude, caring nothing for
others, if they may themselves prosper
and enjoy? In the neighborhood OF
your comfortable and splendid dwell
ings are there abodes of squalid misery
or reckless crime, of bestial intemper-
ance or half-famished children, of pro
faneness, dissoluteness, or tempt ati on
for thoughtless youth? And are these
multiplying with prosperity and out
stripping and neutralizing the infu-
ences of truth and virtue Then your
prosperity is vain show. Its true
use is to make better people. The
glory and happiness of city consist
not III the number, but the character
of its population. Of all the fine arts
in the city, the grandest is the art of
forming noble specimens of humanity.
The costliest products of our manu-
features are cheap compared with a
wise and good human being. A city
which should practically adopt the
principle that a man is worth more
than wealth or show. would place itself
at the head of the cities. A city in
which men should be trained worthy
of the name would become the me-
tropolis of the earth, DR., Claiming.
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Boz Nothing teaches patience like
garden. You may go around and
watch the opening bud from day to
day but it takes its own time, and
you cannot urge it on faster than it
will. If forced, it is only torn in
pieces All the best results of gar
den, like those of life, are slowly but
regularly progressive. sa ,ios.
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10. He playeth euchre with the
parson whether the Q viii lie preaching
in the camp on the Sabbath, and, by
dexteriously turning Jack from the
bottom, postponeth the service.
IA. And many other marvellous
things doeth he; and, 10 are they
not already recorded in the morning
reports of Company G ?
If the members of Company G love
fighting as well as they do fun, there
is no fear but they will give good
account of themselves.
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nay A man proves himself fit to be
higher, who shows that he is faithful
whore he is. A man that will not dos
well in his present place, because he
longs to be higher, is fit to be neither
where he is, nor yet above it.
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The Chronicles OF a Soldier.


One of the members of Company G..
Kansas First Regiment, having be-
come inspired with a glass of whiskey,
managed to chronicle the following as
the life of soldier
/. Man that is born of woman,
and enlisteth as a soldier in the Kan
sas First, is of few days and short Of
'rations"
.. He that cometh forth at 'reveille,
is present at retreat yea, even at
tattoo and retireth, apparently, at
"taps"
3. He draweth his rations from the
commissary and devoureth the same.
He striketh his teeth against much
"hard Bread and is satisfied He
filleth his canteen with a9aa para, and
clappeth the mouth thereof upon the
bung of whiskey-barrel, and after a
little while he goeth away rejoicing in
his strategy
4. Much soldering hath made him
sharp-yea, even the seat OF his
brooches is in danger Of being cut
through.
5. He covenanteth with the credu-
lous farmer for many chickens, and
much honey and milk, to be paid
promptly at the end of each ten days;
and 10 his regiment moyeth on the
ninth day to another post.
6. His tent is filed with potatoes,
cabbage, turnips. krout, and other
delicate morsels of a delicious taste,
which abound not in the commissary
department.
Z. Ard many other things not in
the return" and which never will
return; yet, for a truth, it must be
said of the soldier of the Kansas First,
that of surety he taketh nothing
which he cannot reach.
s. lie freth his Minnie rifle at mid
night, and the whole camp is aroused
and formed into line when To- his
mess comes bearing in nice porker,
which he declareth so resembled a
secesh, he was compelled to pull
trigger.
s. He giyeth the Provost Marshal
much trouble, often capturing his
guard, and possesseth himself of the
city
TO- At such times lager and pretzels
flows like milk and honey from his gem
erous hands. He giveth without stint to
his comrade-yea and withholdeth not
from the lank expectant Hoosier of
the Indiana Twenty fourth.
IL The grunt of d pig, or the crow
ing of cock, awakeneth him from the
soundest sleep, and he sauntereth
forth, until halted by the guard when
he instantly clappeth his hands upon
his breadbasket, and the guard, in
commiseration, alloweth him to pass
to the rear.
II. No sooner hath he passed the
sentrys beat, than he striketh ''bee-
line for the nearest hen roost, and
Selling pair of plump pullets, re-
turneth, soliloquizing to himself The
noise of goose saved Rome how
much more the flesh of chicken pre-
seryeth the soldier %