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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-02-16

CANADIANS ON RECIPRoCITY.-Our con-
temporaries across the border appear to be
quarleiiing among themselves in regard to
what they shoul1 demand in the new Recipro
city treaty. Some are abusing Mr. GAIT for
endeavoring to buy treaty, SO as to extend
his warehouse trade; others are accusing the
Commissioners OF sacrificing the interest of
the Provinces TO spirit OF sycophancy to the
States while few, very few, are gloryin
in and gloating over the action of the dele.
gates, in refusing TO treat on any terms which
could be called with justice reciprocal. The
Montreal Herald is INDIGNANT at the sordid
Views of the Commissioners, and says:-
"We cannot understand why there is any
thing more improper in imposing duties upon
one kind of products than upon another, or
why those who are sticklers for preserving
one class OF industrials among ourselves from
foreign competition, should object to another
Government when it undertakes to protect
another class"
On the contrary, the Toronto Spectator,
with virtuous indignation, declares taat
"the proposition" OF the Committee of Ways
and Means were such that no Canadian, with
any respect for himself or his country, could
for one moment have consented to; and we
are glad, therefore, that the delegates did not
even stop to consider them. Their prompt
refusal of the offer Of the Americans, and
their equally prompt action IN closing AT
once the negotiations, will meet with a
hearty response throughout British America"
1t must be cause of regret to the mem.
bers Of the editorial staff of the Spectator to
see that the hasty action Of the Commission
ers does not meet with hearty approval
throughout British America" but that in fact
the sordid, mercenary inhabitants are indig-
nant and protesting against the hauteur dis
played, as it tends to lessen their gains and
postpone the renewal Of the food of wealth
which has been enriching the Provinces at
the expense of our country.
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DE-. CORsIN, of Montgomery county, has
presented a petition to the Legislature Of our
State, praying for the appointment of Com
mittee to take some steps to prevent the
cattle disease, which he says is prevailing in
certain portions OF Montgomery and Berks.
The special Committee has been appointed.
We hope that active steps will at once be
taken to prevent the contagion including all
necessary, and we are glad to perceive the
promptitude with which the petition was
acted upon. 1t is harblnger of future pre-
,ventive STEPS. .. .'
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A SOUTHERN ESTIMATE OF NEGRO CHAR
ACTER.-The Richmond Whig quotes from
the London Times, and endorses the state
ment that
" The negro will not so much as lift his little
finger, till starvation threatens him, and would
be we'll content to live and Craze like Sheep
As TO the accuracy of the description of what the
Times calls the Yankee we have nothing to
say; but of the negro no truer portrait was ever
drawn than that contained in the few words
above extracted. His supreme felicity consists
in doing in the sun, In eating when he is hun.
grv drinking when he is thitsty and having
nothing to do. 1t he has horse he is too lazy
to feed IL; be has cart he is too law to grease
the wheels. and to keep 1t otherwise in order.
The deg he keeps is o starvelng, and the hut he
occupies is unswept and filthy. This is Sambo's
nature, AID h. cannot help it."
We should have thought the negro would
not have so suddenly deprecated because of
his freedom. While he continued slave, we
had glowing pictures painted OF his character
when it was found necessary to put him in
the ranks as soldiers to fight against the
North, this "sheep" was put to other work
than that consistent with his lamb-lke nature
II the picture painted is true, 1t is but another
evidence of the debasing, utterly debasing, in
fuence of slavery. Contrast such a picture
with the blacks in the Northern States and
the effects OF freedom, and the crushing out o
every noble impulse by slavery is shown
| The Southern journals should be the last tC
Lold up to scorn the negro, for they and theil
teachings are responsible or his debasement.
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PROVED INNOCENT TOO LATE
Circumstantial Evidence.

There was trial and execution in Dublin,
more than century since, which excited great In
terest 1t was that of surgeon, well known IN
society, and esteemed for his humanity to the
poor he lived in retired street 1t happened
one evening that the milkwoman found the street
door aiar--and not being answered when she
knocked at it, she made her way to the kitchen.
She had no sooner entered it, than utterlng, q
piercing shrek, she called loudly for help Inc
passers-by and persons from the neighoorlng
houses were soon on the spot, and the Kitchen
was crowded in a short time. A sad spectacle
presented itself. The young woman, who was
servant to the surgeon, was lying dead on the
flags, while her dress Was stained with the piood
which had issued from wound In the slde 10
looking about the floor surgical instrument
was found which also was stained with blood
A medical man, who was present, ascertalneo
that it was the instrument which had inflicted
the death-wouud. On further Search shirt
saturated with blood, was found huddled up in
the coal-hole it YVES marked with the initials OF
the surgeon sname.
He was Immediately seized, and, though pro-
testing his innocence, he was evidently under
considerable agitation. The silent witnesses
which were brought against him were thought
sufficient to prove his guilt and all attempts to
account for their having been found near the un-
fortunate girl were secuted in the cross-examina-
ton.
living witness was also produced in Court,
an old lady, who deposed that she lived in the
house directly facing that where the surgeon re-
sided that her drawing room window command
ed view Of his premises, and that was custom
ary with her to watch his movements she de-
posed that she had not taken her eyes off his house
all that day on which the murder was perpetrat-
ed that no one had left or entered his house that
day but himself that he went home at about
four clock, his usual hour of returning and
that on knocking at the door it was opened by
the servant who, to the best other belief shut it
fast when her master went in that she saw him
three or four times pass the windows of his sit
ting-room that the last time she saw him was
about an hour and half before the murder that
she observed him look down both sides of the
street, and then shut down the window he held
something in his hand, which she thinks may
have been surgical instrument but this she
would not positively swear, s7-
| In summing up theeyidence, the horror which
the prisoner had betrayed when looking on the
body of his murdered servant was eloquently
dwelt on as crowning proof ofguilt. The defence
| was weak and msasrs--a bare denial Of the crime
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Do it Well.

Whatever you do, do it well. A job sighted
because it is apparently unimportant, leads to
habitual neglect, so that men degenerate insensi-
biity, into bad workmen.
g That is q good rough job, said a foreman
in our hearing, recently and he meant that il
was piece of work, not elegant in ITSELF but
strong made and well put together
Training the hand and eye to do work well
leads individuals to form correct habits in other
respects and q good workman is in most cases,
good citizen. No one need hope to rise above
his present situation who suffers small things TO
pass by unimproved, or who neglects, metaphori-
cally speaking, to pick up cent because it is
not dollar.
Some of the wisest lawmakers, the best states
men, the most gifted artists, most mercful judg
es, the most ingenious mechanics, rose from the
great mass
A rival of a certain great lawyer sought to
humilate him publicly, by saying You black
ed my fathers boots once ~ Yes replied
the lawyer, unabashed, F" and did it we'll -
And because Of doing mean things well, he rose
to be greater.
Take heart, all who toll all youths in hum
bly, situations all in adverse circumstances, and
those who labor unapreciated. If it be but to
drive the plow, strive to do it well if it be but
to wax thread, wax it well if only to cut bolts
make good ones or 10 blow the bellows, keep
the iron hot 1t is attention to bushes that lifts
the feet higher upon the ladder.
Says the Good Book" Seest thou man dill
gent in his business, he shall stand before kings ;
he shall not stand before mean men"
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being its chief substance shrill of horror
pervaded the Court. The jury retired-a brief
space suficed for deliberation-they returned
with verdict of t" guilty" The Judge having
donned his black cap, exhorted the prisoner on
the Nervousness of his crime, and pronouced the
fatal sentence.
1t is said that the condemned showed much
fortitude throughout, and persisted to the last
in asserting his innocence. He was brought to
the place of execution amid vast concourse and
the execrations of the people. We were told by
an old gentleman that his father remembered
having been held up in his nurses arms to see
the procession to the place of execution. lie was
often spoken Of in the social circle as one who
had been held in much estimation. His untlme-
ly end was lamented but there were few who
believed it underserved.
1t was after the lapse of several years that
some one who had emigrated to America return
ed. He was ILL., and troubled in mind some
thing lay heavy on his heart and disturbed his
conscience he had been . the sweetheart Of
the murdered girl she had let him in by the
back way, early in the evening, to take tea with
her. AS they sat side by sine he asked her for
q kiss, which he would have snatehed, when she
denied him she took up her masters surgical
| instrument which she had TO clean, and which
lay on table beside her, and she pointed it to-
ward him jestingly in struggle, she fell on it
and 1t pierced her side ne shatcDed the shlft
which she had in her lap to mend, and staunched
the blood which was flowing with it but life
soon ebbed away, and he saw the girl that he
| loved--who had been laughing and talking with
| him buta few minutes before-lyng dead be-
| side him his agony only gave way to the in
stinct Of self-preservation, when he thought he
heard the sound of approaching footsteps he
thrust the bood-stained shirt into the coal-hole
and setting the hall door aiar, he concealed him
self behind it, and when the crowd had collected
on hearing the alarm, he mingled with it, and
then passed into the street, and on 10 the quay,
and getting on board an American ship, he sail
ed in few hours When he learned that the
surgeons life had been forfeited, he was over
whelmed with anguish The only reparation in
his power was to clear his character from the
dreadful imputation but.though he felt relief
in this act of justice, yet it could not undo the
| iniurv inflicted
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er, all of a sudden, that my party has changed.
All gone t'wot l knowd, land lot of strangers
there. Think it is time to go home. Drink
glass of beer and go it.
IL P. N Am rudely awakened by some one.
Open my eyes and see couple OF watchmen.
am on door step on Vine street. The watch
man says:
s'You don't want to sleep here
s'The devil don't. Doyou suppose l would
be (hc) foolish enough to lay down and go to
sleep here if didn't want to
g But you cant sleep here
s'Thats different thing altogether. You said
| didn't want to, and (hc) / never wanted to so
bad in my life before
ll3O P. NJ reached home. Experience a
good deal of difficulty in unlocking the hall door
with a lead pencil. Try pocket knife, and then
blunder upon the night key Suddenly reinem-
ber that have got the hiccups, and getting un-
der the hall gas light try to cure them by see
ing how near can put my two little fingers to-
gether without touching them. | '.job them by
each other, clear up TO the elbow. Then expert
ence glow of triumph as hold them very near
together, t,oo feet apart.
l1.55 P. 1.-THE hiccups cured. Congratulate
myself on the cure as ! go up stairs. Think of
taking out license to practice in that line.
open the door gave hiccup that starts the roof,
and nearly throws my head off Wife starts up
IN Oed ana says
| Drunk again ?
protest that am (hc) not wax dignfed
and learned and asked her if she (hic) under
stood the dag (hic) nosis of hiccups She says
she onght to; she had seen me have them often
enough.
| Said I, in an injured voice,
"Do you know madam, that (hic) hccups
come from (hic)-comes from cold (hic) stom-
ach"
She said she thought it came from beer gar
den across the canae
| insisted that cold fit of hiccups come from
a severe stomach, and remember wandering OFF
into dissertation upon the intoxicating proper
ties of quails, while she was pulling off my boots
| Lager beer wont intoxicate. Oh, no
| HUN-KI-DO-RI
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DR.. r. sAPPINGToN's
LIVER PILLS,
For Purifying the Blood, Strengthening
the Digestive Organs, etc.


HNHE judicious use of DR.. Sappingtons Liver
Il Pills will, with certainty, eradicate all
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Stomach, and restore healthy action of the
Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.
They are suited for either sesyand will prove
A Certain Cure yor
IEDIGESTION,
CONSTIPATION,
LOSS OF APPETITE,
DIMNESS OF SIGHT,
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Fullness or Weight in the Stomach Oppres-
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the Heart; Pains in the Temples or Headache;
Sudden Flushes Of Heat; Restlessness; Often
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They have specific action on the Secretions
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After taking few doses of the Pills the Liv-
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as they are caused by diseases of the Liver.
The Liver is the organ whose office it is to
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Take a box of the Liver Pills and have
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,June 49, lS66.-1v.
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agpoetiral.
From the Little Corporal.
GOING TO DISTRICT SCHOOL.
by EMILY F. BuGBEx.


Barefoot boy and little girl,
She with rosey cheek and curls,
His, q forehead brown with tan,
Sturdy little farmer-man.
Old straw hat, with broken riM,
Is the least that troubles him,
As the dinner-pail he swings.
Full Of mothers choicest things.
/. Happy little pair are they,
Chatting blithely on the way,
In the morning fresh and cool,
Going to the district school,
From the shady farm house door.
Mother watches, till no more
She can follow-out Of sight
They are gone, her hearts delight.
Can you sec them sitting there,
Jon the benches hard and bare,
Tired feet swinging to and fro.
Coming DER the lessons low.
Sitting, at the noon of school,
BY the gurgling streamlet cool,
'Mong the brakes and bending tire es,
Eating up the bread and cheese
Or, with merry laugh and shout,
When the boys and girls go out
Books and pencils cast away,
See them jump, and swing and play
Hark the ferule on the pane,
Rap, and rap. and rap again,
Rushing in with cheeks aglow,
Half reluctantly they go.
Glide the busy hours away
Till the warm SUMS westering ray.
Slants across the open door,
And the hours Of school are DER.
Happy, healthy girl and boy,
Full of simple, careless joy,
Free from tyrant fashions rule,
Going to the district school
In the busy noon of life,
Mid its restless fever strife,
AS your pathways shall divide,
From the roof-tree wandering wide.
Memories of these morning hours.
Song of birds, and scent of flowers,
Bleat of lambs, and song of rill,
viii come sweetly o'er you still
And your thoughts go yearning back.
Ger that simple childhood track,
When the longest road you knew,
Was the one that led you to
School-house, just mile away,
Where the birch and rule held sway.
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The Largest Farm in the World.

observe a note in your last issue, of an 5000
acre farm, in Bureau county, H., and of Mr.. J.
S. Alexander's farm in Morgan county, H., both
of which will pass for fair-sized farms. But the
farm which is, no doubt, the largest cultivated
farm in the world, and, | believe, the best is
owned and cultivated by NJ. l.. Sulleyant ESQ,
formerly from the vicinity OF Columbus, Ohio,
now of Champaign county, Illinois. He owns
and presides over 10, 600 acres of the best land
on this hemisphere, $4,000 acres of which is un-
der fence, and in actual Improvement and culti-
vaton; the balance is used for herding
will venture the opinin that there cannot be
found FIVE acres of unserviceabe land on Mr. S. S
entire TO- 600 acres. Their productiveness is un-
surpassed Almost all Of Mr.. SIS farming is
conducted by labor-saving machinery, so that it
is estimated that throughout one man will per :
form the average labor offour or FIVE, as conduct
ed on small farms He drives his posts by horse
power bAeaks bis ground by Comstock's spades; /;
mows rakes, loads, unloadS, and stacks his hay
by horsepower cultivates his corn by improved
machinery bitches any low ground by machi-
nerv; sows aud plants by machinery, so that all
his laborers can ride and perform their tasks as
easy as riding in buggy.
had the pleasure of being present when he
harvested thousand acres of his wheat this
was done with IS e Headers about eight
or ten men and twenty horses cut and safely
stacked away about 200 acres day, and per-
formed the work better than ever saw it by the
old modes. To give all the improved modes of
farming employed by this king of agriculture
would require more space than you would like to
spare. Notwithstanding all this labor-saving
machinery, Mr. s. employs from one to two hun
dred laborers, some two hundred horses and
mules, and large herd of working oxen.
Not having the exact data before me, | will
not venture to give the enormous return, in
bushels or tuns, OF the products of this great
farm Some estimate may be made from the
magnitude Of the farm, taken in connection with
the fact that the quality of the soil is unequaled
by the very best Sciota bottoms - Correspondent
G;Uc;,p0fi INQUIRER
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DIR. JOHN w. WAUGH,

Formerly Of Millersville A. Arundel Co., Md,)
HAvING located at Priceville, Baltimore
i'll county, Nd, (thus succeeding the late
DIR. Mahlon Price, but more recently DR.. Elias
Price, now of Baltimore,) respectfully offers
his Professional Services to the citizens of the
surrounding country. 1t affords him pleasure
to give as reference an experience of eighteen
years active and successful practice which he
hopes will sufficiently recommend him to the
patronage of the public. May 2, 1s66.-6m.
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HENRY SHEW,
COUNTY SURVEYOR
CONVEYANCER,

Court House, Towsontown, (up stairs.)
TNHE undersigned respectfully informs the
i citizens of the County, that he has establish
ed an Office in Towsontown, Baltimore county,
for the transaction of all business relating to
landed property, and that it will be greatly to
their advantage to call upon him to have their
business attended to. By so doing they VIII
promptly, accurately and neatly, and at a less
expense than it can be done by others.
Deeds, Leases, Mortgages, Wills and all 9th
er instruments of writing carefully prepared.
HENRY SHEW, County Surveyor.
In my absence from Towsontown, all bust
ness left with JOHN M. WHEELER, Esq, at
the Clerks office, will be promptly attended to-
April Z, lS66.-ly.
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gag One exceedingly warm day in July z
neighbor met an old man, and remarked that It
was very hot eyes says, Joe, ''if itwasn't for
one thing should say we were going to have
thaw. g What is that q inquired his niena.
q There's nothing froze, says Joe. The man
went his way, much snlighted,
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DRS. JARRETT & PAYNE,

HAvING formed CO. partnership in prac-
III tice of Medicine, respectfully offer their
Professional Services to the citizens of TOW
SONTOWN and vicinity. The attention Of
both will be given when necessary, without
additional charge
OFFICE HOURS
From to o'clock A. NJ, IL to P. M, and 6
to P. M. April Z, 1S66.-ly.
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Avv(,TIONEERING.

FT,HE undersigned still continues the busit
ness of Auctoneering Real or Personal
Property of every description: When not a.
his residence in Towsontown,. inquiry may De
made at the office either of the Union or the
Journal. Persons desiring his services should
make application as early as possible, 50 as to
arrange the day of sale. Thankful for past IA
vors he respectfully asks q continuance Of the
same. SAM'L G.. WILSON,
Towsontown, Baltimore Co.
Aug. 26. ls65.&tf,
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ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.
NTERCHANTS visiting the city of Balti-
NI more to purchase GOODS, are respectful
ly invited to give us a call before purchasing,
as we are sure we can offer greater variety of
goods and at much lower prices than any house
the city. Our facilities for getting cheap goods
are unsurpassed, as one of the firm is constant
ly in the different markets. We invite stran-
gers coming to the city to purchase goods, to
make our house their headquarters. We not
only pack goods purchased of us free of charge,
but any packages purchased at other houses,
that may be sent in. We will also give infor-
nation as to the best houses in the city to pur-
chase any kind of goods. We hold Auction
Sales EVERY EVENING, and merchants pur-
chasing can leave the goods until morning and
if on examination, the goods are not as repre-
sented then the sale is null and Uoid. We are
constantly receiving consgnments of the fol-
lowing goods, viz
BOOTS AND SHOES,
JOB LOTS or DRY GOODS
SHIRTS AND ORA WEBS, HOSLER Y,
GLASS WARE, PLATED WARE,
CIGARS, CUTLERY, STATIONERY 7,
PHOTO GRAPH ALBUMS,
WATCHES, JEWELRK,
And FANCY GOODS of every description.
Give us a call.
L. CLARK q CO.,
Auction and Private Salesroom,
1S4 Baltimore Street. opposite Light.
Nav l2 1S66-6m.