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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04
What All Must Expect.

Manhood will come, and old age will
come, and The dying bed will come, ant
the very last look you shall ever cast or
your acquaintance will come, and the
agony of the parting breath will come
and the time when you are stretched {
l(eless corpse before the eyes of weeping
relatives will come, and the coffin tha
is TO enclose you will come, and tha
hour when the company assemble 10 car.
ry you 10 the church-yard will come, and
that minute when you are put into the
grave will come, and the throwing in o
the loose earth into the narrow house
where you are laid, and The spreading ot
the green sod over it-all, all will come
on every living creature who now hears
me; and in a few little years the minister
who now speaks, and the people who
now listen, will be carried 10 their long
homes, and make room for another gen
Grafton. Now all this, you know, musI
and will happen-yOur common sense
and common experience serve TO con-
vince you of it. Perhaps it may have
been little thought of in days of careless,
and thoughlless, and shankless unconcern
which you have spent hitherto; butt call
upon you 10 think of it now, 10 lay il
seriously 10 heart, and no longer 10 uife
and delay when the high matters of death
and judgment, and eternity are thus sci
so evidently before you. And The lidings
wherewith am cbarged-and the blood
lieih upon your own head, and not upon
mine, if you will not listen 10 them-lhe
objec, Of my coming amongst you is TO
let you know what more things are 10
come; it is 10 carry you beyond the re-
gions of sight and Of sense, TO the regions
OF faith, and to assure you, in The name Of
Him who cannot lie, that as sure as the
hour of laying The body in the grave
comes, so surely will also come the hour
of the spirit returning TO the God who
gave it. Yes. and the day Of final reck-
oniDg will come, and the appearance Of
the Son of God in heaven, and his
mighty angels around him, will come,
and The opening Of the books will come,
and the standing OF men of all genera
tions before the judgment-seat will come,
and solemn passing Of tina. sentence
which is 10 fix you for eternity will come.
DR.. Chalmers.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04
mCHILD'S EVENING PRAYER"

jesus, Heavenly Shephed, hear me-
Bless Thy lille lamb tonight;
Through the darkness be Thou near me-
Watch my sleep till morning light"
All this day Thy hand has led me,
And thank Thee for Thy care,
Thou hast warmed and fed, land clothed me
Listen 10 my evening prayer.
May my sins be all forgiven
Bless my friends love so well
When die take me TO heaven,
Happy there with Thee TO dwell.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04
II Don't Care.''

Yes you do. and lhere's no use of try.
ing 10 deceive yourself with The sOpbis-
try Of these words.
The bes, and nobIest, the truest, and
most generous part of your nature does
care for the unHind, cutting words you
have uttered TO one you loved, in mo.
ments of pique.
You may carry yourself ever so proud
and defanlly, you may never drop by
word or look the dew OF sweet healing
on the wound you have made in a nature
as proud, as sensitive, and exacting as
as your own; but to your honor, be i; said
you are better than your words and away
down in your heart Turk shame and re.
pentance and sorrow for them.
You may carefully hide them both
and in a little while they will be gone
for oh !! it is very easy to make ones
self bitter, and proud and cold-very
hard to keep ones self sweet, mellow
and charitable, but there must be some
pain, and struggling before you can do q
mean, ungenerous thing 10 one who
loves you, and have your heart indorse
your II don'i care -
AND how often these words are uttered
when conscience slernly refues them;
and how often they harden the heart,
and keep the feet in the way of evil.
BE CAREFUL, reader when you say
Il DON'T CARE.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04
THE AUTUMN RAIN.

The darkened heavens sadly weep
Der summers beauties fled;
Der al the blooming flowers that sleep
The slumber Of the dead.
The sad sky mourns o'er fallen leaves,
That lie along the plain
Her tears are shed, while still she grieves,
In Gewy drops ofrain
The flowers tha; when the merry spring
TrippeJ gaily DER the earth,
When trees and fields were blo:soming
Arose in modest birth
Have wihered meath the burning beams,
Of summers heated day;
And like the visions of mJ dreams,
Have faded all away.
The leaves that on the swaying trees
In shady clusters clung,
Where whispered soft the playing breeze,
Aud happy songsters sung
Have lost their brilliant hue of green
With which they once were dressed,
And scattered rudely, now are seen
Upon the oarth's cold breast.
And whistlingly the wild winds sweep
Along The darkness dim;
And while the misty heavens weep,
They chant funeral hymn
A monody Of mournful sound,
Der faded beauties bed;
While autumu's rain falls soft around,
Where lie the summers dead.
My sad and lonely spirit grieves
Der happy moments past
Ger hopes that fled like summers leaves
Too beautiful 10 last.
And o, sad heart, when death draws near
And lays his touch on Inc,
Who, then, will shed one sorrowing tear
Who-whO will weep for thee
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04
THE YOUNG WIDOW

She is modest, she is basbful,
Free and easy, but not bold
Like an apple, Iipe and mellow,
Not too young and not too old,
Half inviting, half repulsive,
Now advancing, and now shy;
There is mischief in her dimple,
There is danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature,
She is schooled in all her arts,
She has taken her diploma
As the mistress Of all hearts.
She can lel the very moment
When 10 sigh aud when 10 smile,
Oh maid is sometimes charming,
But widow all the while
You are sad ? How very serious
Will her handsome face become.
Are you angry She is wretched,
Lonely, lriendless, fearful. dumb,
Arc you mirlhful How her laughter
Silver sounding. will ring out.
She can lure. and catch, and play you
AS the angler does the trout.
All old bachelors of forty,
Who have grown so bold and wise
Ye Adonises of twenty,
With your love-locks in your eyes,
You may practice all the lessons
Taught by Cupid since the fall
But know little widow
Who could win and fool you all
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04
"You see, grandmamma, we perforated

"You see, grandmamms, we perforated
an aperture in the apex. and a corrsspon.
ding aperture in the base; and by apply
ing the egg 10 the lips and forcibly inba-
ling the breath, The shell is entirely dis.
charged Of Its contents" BLESS my
SOUL" cried the old lady, "wha. wonder
fol improvements they do make Now,
in my younger days We jus. made holo
in each end, and sucked"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

and almost unforgiving remembrance OF
the injury done him. This, however, he
srove against with all the power of his
deeply religious nature. Taken all in all,
we ne 'er shall look upon his like again.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

temperance lecturer. descan:ing on
The essential purifying qualities OF cold
water, remarked as a knock down srgu-
ment, when the world had become SO
corrupt iba, the Lord could do nothing
with it, He was obliged to give il tho
rough sousng in cold wafer. Yes re-
piled a topper, 'bu. it killed every darned
cri!,er on the face OF The earth
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

Nothing was so much dreaded, IN oor
schoolbOy days, as 10 be punished BY ST..
ting between Two girls. All the force OF
educaion. In after years we submi, 70
such things without shedding lesf'a ~
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

lis wonder thai the man who con.
tSD plated, for twenty years. sPoem upon
the Geluge, didn's die Of water on The
hrain
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

A iipsy Irishmsn leaning sgsins! lamp
post, as funeral procession was passing
by was asked who was dead.
II csn'tssy exactly, sir. bui / presume
il is the gentleman in The coffin"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

Mrs. Psriingion says that il she was 10
be shipwIecked, she would prefer IFS be-
ing in the Bay Of Biscuits, for then she
would have enough 10 live on.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

Sui accompanied ut NlS seIsedn'' W 'ho
barracks, that soldier remarking, BY -!
you're an awfully lucky chap.
Spread Of the Cattle Disease in England.
The muIrain which has now for sever
al months been raging amongst cal'le IN
England. has al last seized also upon
sheep, which were at first exempt. NO
remedy has yet been discovered Tor this
plague, which is causing CONSERVATION
and distress amongst the farmers. Ii has
been satisfactorily established now. We
believe, that i, was not introduced from
the continent; that il is highly infectious;
,ha. it may be caught by sheep from cat
tie, and the reverse; that remedy which
is successful in one case will mos! iikeiy
fail altogether in the next; and lastly
that complete isolation will not save
herd. There have been several instances
in which valuable herds, carefully isola-
ted in extensive parks, with plenty OF
sound food and the best OF accommoda-
lions and a, distance from the points
where the disease was raglng-weEe AZ
tackled with great loss.
Amongst the remedies which have been
lried, with rather less than more success,
are iron rust water, brandy, beer, whis-
key, port wine and the cauiery. Miss
Burdeu Coults tried TO save lavoIl'e AL
derney by the administration of wine and
brandy; the enimal ded-but The wits
asser, ,ha, it was of delirium frsmsns.
At any rate, the "bes, of por. wine
could moi save her. though II would per.
hsps have eased her las, moments could
Sukey have known she was ge.nng her
Gil of stuff worth two guineas per bottle.
1t is pleasant TO feel that this terrible
scourge can hardly be carried across the
Atlantic. Even the Irish channel seems
wide enough to stop is-for Ireland is,
thus far, happily exempt. But 1t would
We, be well 10 use some precautions here.
Ii would be a great calamity 10 have a
cattle murrain bresk ou. on this contincnt
now, and it may BE well 10 look pretty
sharply after stock imported in these days
from England.-New York Post.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

A lady asked liIlle two year old who
gave her daily bread. 'Dod.' replied tho
Iinle girl, bat uncle Pelei puts sugar
on.'
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

The glrIs OF Northampton have been
sending bachelor editor boquei Of ssnsy
and wormwood. lie says he don'i care,
us sweeier dian mairimony, anyhow.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

A little boy. on being asked. "whsi II
The chief end OF msnl' replied, ".he end
what's got the head on"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

There is man ont west whose memo
ry is so short that it only reaches 10 his
knees, consequently he never pays for his
boots.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

A general order has just been promul-
gated by the War Department that here
after no person shall be arrested as de-
serler for having failed 10 report under
any draft, will be regarded as cheering
news TO the hundreds Of renega6es and
skedaddIers who, with visionary pursuing
Provost Marshals before their eyes. arc
still hiding and skulkng about the coun-
try, North, South, East and West, and
even on the other side of The Atlantic.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04
The treasure captured among Jefferson

The treasure captured among Jefferson
Davis effects has been counted q, the
Treasury Department. Ii amounts 70
sS7 ,S78 in gold, mostly old coinage; SO,
s22 in silver; lac pieces foreign coin.
gold and silver, value not ye. estimated,
and Sc bricks of silver, weighing over
five pounds each, the estimated value of
which is 500 zach. The value Of the
whole is somewhere over 100000.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1865-11-04

assured that shall not trouble the gov
ernmeni by remaining longer than | can
help. Good afternoon, sir and, turning,
left the room and walked rapidly back,
still accompanied by the sergeant, TO The
barracks, that soldier remarking, BY -!
you're an fully lucky chap "
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-01-19
Sweeping a city.

Very few Of our country readers
have a clear conception of the labor
and expense involved in keeping the
streets and walks in q city In con-
dition oftolerable decency. Some idea
may be gathered from the following
facts relative to the extent Of the la
Dor and the cost of sweeping the
streets IN New York. The New York
Herald says there are two hundred
and sixty-eigIt miles Of paved streets
in that city, averaging thirty three
feet in width. This::gives an area of
one thousand one hundred and thirty
nine acres to be cleaned. The city
inspector has the whole area swept
once every fortnight about one. half
is swept twice every forty-eight; about
one quarter is swept three times; three
hundred and forty five acres, arc
cleaned six times, and seventy FIVE
acres twelve times in the same space
of time. This is equivalent TO clean
ing threo thousand five hundred and
fifty three acres once in two weeks.
In addition to this work, the ash
carts traverse every mile Of the streets
on each side, overy day, Sundays ex-
cepted. This is equivalent to traver-
sing five hundred and thirty six miles
a day, and conveys some idea of the
extent Of this magnificent metropolis.
The expense for street cleaning last
year was s39S.223.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-01-19
r"'.r'.slAs n..uas !. a, wat.

A curious interview took place At
the White House, to-day, between the
President and one Of his old Sucker
friends. Just thirty four years ago
they first met, end under the following
circumstances
II wasin thespring and the country
had been flooded with rain. and Of
course, the bottom bad fallen out of the
roads. The little river Of Ocaw had
spread itself far and wide over the
bottom, so much SO that the good peo-
pie Of Sargamon, then a village of no
pretensions, but the scene of our COM
edy-believed it dangerous for man or
beast 10 cross. And no wonder they
huddled on the banks one morning
when the stream was at its highest,
and watched with more than ordinary
interest solitary OK team that had
started from the other side. and was
working toward them with speed
barely perceptible. In this wagon
was the Lincoln family; and the tall
"gangling' youth astride the near OK,
his brooches rolled up some three feet,
more or less CAD 10 his hand that
would have been the delight ola pio-
neer pedagogue, was "Abe'-the Pres
ideDt. One OF the group that stood on
the bank and watched the new comers
and congratulated them that they had
got safely over, was the friend who
to-day was welcomed at the White
House.
The friend Of whom I speak, was
afterwards In the Illinois Legislature,
while "Abe worked in the stil!-house "
to which Douglas frequently called his
attention in after years. But the
friendship formed at Sahgamon was
not forgotten. Young Lincoln fire.
quently eounseled the Legislator and
finally borrowed law books from him,
which he kept by him in the still
house, and read during leisure mo-
ments With his history from that
time to this every intelligent school
boy is. or ought to bo familiar.
To-day he Sangamon boy had an
interview. How are you Abe? how
does it 60 t. be Prosident2" 20, well, :
its more than | contracted for" Not
much court style about that, but there's
nobility in That cordial grasp Of the
hand-reciprocating at tho White
House in 1864 favors received on the
banks Of the Ocaw in 1S30-Wdshing-
ton correspondent Chicago Tribune.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-01-19
Report of the Auditor of State.

The report of the Auditor of the
State Of Ohio to the present Legisla.
ture, is document Of unusual interest
containing social and business statis-
tics of much value. We have already
published crop reports for the year
1863, and now make further comDila-
tons. -,
OF soldiers and Marines furnished
by the State, there were 2l1,794. OF
this number 1876 died in service, and
8,056 were disabled.
There were 46,337 soldiers families,
comprising in number 148,187 per-
Sons.
Jf necessitous families there were
29,56l, numbering 1881 persons.
There moved into the State 1886
families, Of 10,764 persons, and out of
the State 1859 families, of 11,57l
persons.
The State holds, in Turnpike stock,
81 ,589,l8S Al, on which it has received
s559,649 49 dividends. In Railroad
Companies ithas 419, 1873, and preferred
sto ;k 81, $50, on which dividends have
been received to the extent of S37 $780,
20. making q total dividend of sb97,-
53S GS, and capital investment Of
$2,022,S71 Al.
Seventy five Insurance Companies,
Of other States, represent an aggre.
gate capital and surplus of 4S,OO6,-
987.
In 76 counties in the States there
are found to be SOC deaf and dumb,
602 blind, 1,061 insane, and 1,116
idiotic persons.
The account of the Soldiers Allot-
ment Fund, shows that the total re-
ceipts of the year, and total balance
on hand at its commencement, to-
gether amounted to 2,l64 ,265 Is; OF
which sum there was distributed ST.,
622,O95 46, leaving balance in the
treasury of S542, 1863 SO. The total
taxes for all purposes amounted to
SIG, 5,639. OF which S5,329, 963 A
was for State purposes, S2,9S28S5 II
for county purposes, s9,019,491 2e
for township, special school, other
special, city and township taxes.
The report is ample in detail, and
much above the average of such doc
uments in style, as well rs the infor.
nation it contains,-Cin. Com.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-01-19

Hero we find an increase CT the ag-
gregate number for 1863, but a dimin-
ution in 1864 as compared with 1862
of 440,6 head There was an in
crease in sheep in these two years OF
1,112,O91, showing the strong hold
which this interest has taken in Ohio,
the increase will be equally great for
some years to come, and until the
ante-war rates for wool shall be re es-
tablished. Aside from the sheep, the
falling off in domestic animals was
1852, ,749 in 1864, as compared in 1862.
In horses the decrease was 1888
not so many as would be supposed in
consequence of the war demand. In
cattle the diminuton was 3S7 ,7S4, and
in hogs there were 1,l19,394, or about
forty per cent. less in 1864 than in
1862. The difference in cattle and
hogs is partly accounted for by the
increase Of sheep-though the greatest
increase Of sheep has been in those
counties that largely produced wheat
and corn.
Were we to venture a word on this
subject we should suggest, that the
agricultural interest of the State would
be greatly advanced by a fair distri-
button of stock and grain growing all
over the State. Those farmers who
produce grain exclusively, find it ex-
ceedingIy difficult TO make the neces.
sary manure for the fertilization of
their fields, and consequently, they
loso largely by the gradual deteriora-
ton of the vigor of their soils. All
farmers should have a due proportion
of stock, and Iaise also their proper
ton of grain. This, by reason of the
necessary meadow and pasture, would
afford more thorough system of ro.
tation in crops, as well as economy in
manure. Let no farmer, as he would
insure profit for himself while he lives,
and transmit profitable farm t. his
children, devote all his fields to grain
keep stock, and though the profit of
stock would for a period be diminished
should all go into it at once yet the
equilibrium would soon be restored by
forcing the exclusive stock growers to
devote part of their farms to grain. -
The exclusive system Of stock breed
ing has created a mania for large
stock farms, and accordingly eighteen
counties in the State decreased in pop
ulaton by reason of the absorption Of
small farms into large ones, and the
removal of our people TO the West, for
the purpose of making large stock and
grain farms out of cheap lands. Small
farms, managed rightly, yield fur more
profit in the course Of Fifty years, than
large ones badly managed. This is
the testimony of the best agriculturists I;
and the small farm system gives us
more farmers, more mechanics, better
schools, and an improved society,
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-01-19
ENJOYMENT AT HOME.

Never be afraid of plenty of fun at
home, good peopleI Open your heart.
and allow the musty old cobwebs of
lang syne cares, vexations and trouble
to shake down under the ringing
laugh of your children, in which you
take good care to join. you are de-
terminod to ruin your sons, teach them
By your frigidity Of manners, that all
mirth and social enjoyment must be
left on the Threshold; teach them by
your stereotyped visage of deep solem-
nifty that home, is but place in which
to eat and sleep; teach them by your
determined purpose to frown upon
their innocent salles of wit, that God
was wrong when he endowed US with
natures demanding social enjoyment;
teach them these things, and you may
rest assured that you have begun a
work which will end in gambling
houses and reckless degradation
Young people must have fun and relax
alton somewhere. and if they do not
find it at their own hearth stones, it
will be sought at other places. There
fore don't repress the buoyant spirits
of your children, but remember that
half an hour of merriment around the
cheerful light of tho home fire-sido,
blots out the remembrance. Of many o
caro- and annoyance during theday.-'
Ohio Sigfe Journal.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-01-19
Two Million, of Bank Notes burned

Two Millions OF Bank Notes burned
At its last meeting the Board Of Con-
troll of the State Bank of Ohio adopt
ed resolution that no more notes
should be delivered to any Of the
Branches, and that all notes of tho
State Bank received by the branches
should be returned to the general Of
fee to be burned. To keep up a sup
ply OF new bills for &c Banks has al
ways required q large amount Of sew
eral denominations to be prepared, and
ready for delivery TO take the. place
OF the worn out, defaced and mutila-
ted old bills. All this has been burnt,
as no longer needed, A Committee
met at the Office of the Board, some
ten days ego, carefully counted and
burnt the whoIe,-amounting to near
" two millions of dollars, in sheets,
Qndshus disposed of every dollar on
hand. 1t is alike honorable to the Of
ticers, the President, Yice President
and Secretary, in whose hands this
paper was kept, and to the Institution,
as showing the careful manner in
which its business is transacted, that
not one dollar of discrepancy was
found ir any of the accounts; and that
roucters were produced to verify every
transaction. lfthe State Bank of Ohio
is to close its existence, it will at least
have an honorable record. The ac-
counts ofthe officers, above alluded to,
embrace many millions.-[ [ohio State
Jeurnal.
The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1865-01-19

Samuel Freeborn deserted from the
Goth New York Cavalry, while on du.
ty at Norfolk, and he induced a wo-
man named Linden to conceal him.
As she was going to Baltimore, he
prevailed upon her to let him get into
her immense travelling trunk, and thus
make the voyage. He borod q hole
in the trunk to afford him air, but il
did not prove sufficient, and the poor
wretch sufocated. On arriving al
Baltimore, a nauseous smell issued
from the trunk, which caused it to be
opened, The corpse was discovered
and the woman then made the above
explanation.