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IMPonTANr NOTICE TO THE PUBLT

IMPORTANT NOTICE To THE PUBLIC,
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hold single ticket the akes place, might
classification among patrons and therefore
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when will positively take place any further post
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NEW HAmpsniae Politics.

WrxcHurzR n. r., Dec o. lSoo
The republicans OF the Second district in convention
held here yesterday, nominated General Aaron r. 6te.
vens, Of Nashua, for Congress
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The Charleston Dailv New

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MISCELHANx
L ai,, Weary.

aim Weary.
\ an. weary, am weary,
Weary Of the shadows here,
That fall daily on my pathway,
Sadly lengthening every year.
For my life is very lonely,
Aud my spirit never glad,
With the mournful Past behind mo
And before the Future sad.
Ono by one they all have left me,
All the JOY 1 ever knew;
Better words and promises broken
Now remains Of what seemed true.
Loves, the joys passed in one moment
Like vivid flash away,
And the darkness that is DER mo
Grows more gloomy every day.
And like phantoms they pursue me,
Vanished pleasures Of my life,
AS tried the path of duty,
And am fainting in the strife.
If the future has one gladness
I could grasp, though far away,
I'd not mourn that all is darkness
That now falls across my way.
For I'm sinking, daily sinking,
Meath the burden that bear;
And I'd gladly sleep for ever
0, my Father, hear my prayer.
In Thy loving arms, oh, fold me,
Rest me on Thy bosom dear,
For In weary, very weary,
Weary of the shadows here.
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Great REDUCTION
IN THE RATES OF
Advertising!

ON the I'd of January, 1866, the COLUM-
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The terms for transient advertising have
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TO THE PUBLIC.

NHE NEW YORK NEWS HAS BATTL ED
y against despotism for four wears of
blood and terror, in assertion of the sane
tlty OF the Constitution. A patriotism
! sulhclcntly broad to embrace both sections
mas beca Its only guide, and it refers nov
with honest pride to it's record to show that
IL mas not turned to the right or the left
under all the violence of arbitrary power.
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BACHELORS HAIR DYE!

TNHE Original and Best in the World.
Il he only true and perfect HAIR DYE.
Harmless, Reliable and Instantaneous.
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Josh Billings ON Waterfalls.

|
rather like waterfalls.
kant tell why, emmy more than T
ken tell why I love kastor ile--but lie
is good for lazyness in the system.
don't like lazyness ov enny sort
not even In musketeers.
want my musketeers lively.
But aul this is foreign to mi pur-
pose.
like waterfalls-they are SO eazy
and material.
They attack all the sex.
Some they attack with CRATE fury.
while others they opproach more like
siege, while working up slowly.
[ saw one yesterday.
1t was no bigger than a small
French turnip.
1t had attacked small woman of
only nine summers duration.
She was full by recreation, and
when she bounded along the side
walk-it was on the West side of St.
Clair street, In the streets ov Cincin
natty, foremost "Baker & Davis
yaller sope store-the waterfall hight
esied up and down in oscillatin,r
manner, resembling the sporting ter
minus ov bob tailed lamb in a great
hurry.
The effect wus electrick.
also saw another one pretty soon,
which belonged to mature matron.
She might have seen seventv-five
summers, her hair wus white as -four
Perkins ga, " worth fifteen dollar.
barrel, delivered-but the waterfall
was black.
asked bystander how he could
recount for that
He sed ''it WIZ younger.
l. also saw another one pretty soon,
which wuz the property of gusher.
She was 10 years old and as ripe as
o two year peach.
She swept the streets like thing
ov life.
Men stopped to gaze as she passed
and put in new chaw ov tobacker.
Little boys pocked their marblesin
silence.
Her waterfall wuz about the size ov
corn basket turned inside out.
It was enclosed in a kind ov skalp
net, and kivered with blazing dia-
monds ov glass.
1t shone in the sun like the tin
dome of the court house where the
supervisors meet
But rather like waterfalls.
1t haz ben sed that they would run
out, but this reckon is error, for 1
don't see any sign Of a leak yet.
In the language of the expiring
Canadian on our Northern frontier. I
say, ''Viva la Bag-at-l
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FEES ON Both SIDES. New
York World tells the following story:
"While deeds of violence are be-
coming common, the bribing, in
triguing and smoother scamps are
not idle, and men who would not
commit other crimes engage with
relish in this. James, said friend
of ours, who was in pursuit of know
ledge, I hear you have an Office
under Government We'll, sir,
was the reply, indeed, I've paid all
my big taxes like man for many a
long year, and I've no love for idle
ness, and I've as good right to an
Office as any of them, so long as I do
my duty the same as the rest of
them. The next question was, And
what pay do you get To this
James replied, Indeed, sir, they
don't pay me enough to maintain my
family decently and respectfully, as I
always have done; but I have not
altogether bad Office, though taxes
are very high and everything is very
dear for poor man, and I've six
small children, and they've no
mother living, and two dollars day
are not much. But, sir, he added
significantly, with y bright look in
the corner Of his eye, two dollars a
day is what I get for preventing
smuggling, but that is nothing at all
to what [ get for not preventing it.
James undoubtedly is sly rogue,
Aand should not go unpunished, but
ne is common type of his class"
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Dispensary.

Dispensary.
nR. Il. w. GIBBES offers his MEDICAL
~ and SURGICAL services to the
public, = his residence opposite the old
Baptist Church.
In consequence Of liability to asthma, he
cannot attend general practice, which
requires exposure at night and in bad
weather. Terms cash.
OFFICE HOURS-S a. IN. to 10 a. M,
and 2 p. m. to 4 p. IN. Jan9
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-10-06
From the New York Daily News, August Goth,
The Strife of Three Cities.


A long mooted question in musical cir
Giles has recently been permanently settled
to the great satisfaction of lovers of justice
generally, IND especially to the delight of
Southerners, who have watched the long
struggle with intence interest. Boston,
New York and Baltimore have been the
contcnding parties in this prolonged dis
pute, which was boldly inaugurated by
Messrs. VIM. Knabe & Co., of Baltimore, to
determine whether the ''hub, the me tropols
or the Monumental. City could turn out the
best American piano. The great CONNER
cial town Of Maryland can claim to lead.
And this decision has not resulted from
any one stated trial, but from series of
thorough comparative tests in New York,
Chicago and other important business CEN
tres of the country. In every instance
parties opposed TO the "Knabe piano have
been fairly beaten before an honest COM
mittee, or have refused utterly to meet the
issue and backed down in the face of i'm
minen defeat This must settle the issue
as fully as if national convention had
decided it, and in the future the South can
boast of manu- featuring the best piano i'll
the country. Knabe g. Co. have been max
ingthese superb instruments for thirty years,
and their fame is nothing new; out other
piano concerns have sprung into existence
mean while, claiming to beat the old house
at it's own trade, and contest with them
was inevitable. Hence the various trials
as above. .. gg
People will have their prejudices in favor
of one or another maker, and must be
humored in them but an article so long
tried as tbis-onc that has so often proved
superior and freely accorded this palm by
the best judges, of Europe and America, has
certainlymore than ordinary claims upon
purchaser attention. Substantial, dura-
BILE, handsome to look at, delightful to listen
to, keeping in tune longer than any other
known, having delicate touch and giving
such quality and purity of tone as only
"Knabe' can, we cannot but commend the
universal verdictin their favor. The great
Southern house is'again being extended to
meet the wants of its immense and con-
stantly increasing business, and this tri.
umphant success, overlapping quarter of
a century, is after all, the true and indis-
putable test Of worth.