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The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-12-27
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WHITTINGTON & exc - PrOprietOrs,

LOCUST ST., BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND.
U1HE PROPRIETORs HAVE FIT.
III ted up this spacious establishment in
the most elegant manner, and VIII prepare
ON short notice, and in the most delicious
manner. meals to order at all hours of the
day or night, comprising all the delicacies
this or any other market affords. - - r. =
10 A special dining room and private par
lor has been deliberately fitted up for the
ladies. which may be reached directly
from the street. u lQ5sue ~ y6l195cSY r
Or0rs from families and private parties
promptly filled. 6" wa" nov24d3m.
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Charles Dickens Before the Public

/ went lately to hear Charles Dick
ems read at ST James's Hall The
beautiful hall was filled with beauti-
full company, evening dress being de
rigeW. The novelist is very careful
about the arrangements made for his
readings. He has invariably little
red velvet table, with a shelf on one
side for handkerchief and water, and on
the other little block for the book to
which he almost never refers, the read
ings being really dramatic deliveries,
with vocal and mimetic accessories, of
his works He was dressed in n way
that might be regarded as foppish in
America, but it is not so regarded
here; that is, he flourishes big watch
chain with charms, large jewelled
shirt-studs, and little boquet in the
lappet of a dress-coat. He is consid-
erably bald on the top of his forehead,
and his beard and moustache are quite
gray; the wrinkles, too get deeper and
deeper about the eyes. But his color
is still good. his voice clear and strong,
and his animation perfect
Dickens's reading is indescribable:
it gives one the impression of an Fen
tire stock company in one man. The
pieces selected for reading were Or.
Marigold" and the trial-scene from
Pickwick. l did not, confess, like so
well the pathetic parts of DR.. Mari
gold. Whenever DIR. NJ. became pa
thetic he spoke good English instead
of patois, which was inartistic and de-
pressing to the nearer. But in des-
criptive and in humorous passages his
readings were indispensable. In the
reading from Pickwick his face flushed
with enthusiasm, and it seemed to me
he was calling up, one after another,
old characters, old friends. old fancies
and dreams, and that they circled
about him, ogled him, played about
his head, and nestled about his dress.
One hos to be familiar with the Eng
lish courts to realize Sergeant Buzfuz,
and Dodson and Fogg, and the old
Judge. To each of these Dickens
gives an entirely different tone, face,
and look. His limitations of the law
yers are so excellent that the house is
filed with uproarious laughter. Ma
ture certainly means him to be an
actor as well as a novelist. The pub
lie here appreciates these readings
deeply, and it is hard to get seats
I a. ID. C0nirdv IN he Commonwealth.
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use. He will load boat with amaz-
ing dexterity, carefully keeping all the
articles dry, and disposing them
where they ought to be placed In
propelling wheel carriages heavily la
Gen up q declivity, he pushes thom
forward with his forehead and sup
ports them with his knees.
IniCeylon, where the elephants are
frequently employed in dragging and
piling feHed timber, they manifest nm
intelligence and dexterity which is
surprising to stranger, because the
sameness of the operation enables
them to go on for hours, disposing of
log after log, almost without hint or
direction from their oserseers. Sir T..
Tenneht mentions two elephants thus
employed in the yards attached to the
Commissariat Stofes at Columbo, who
accomplished their work with equal
precision and with greater rapidty
than if it had been accomplished by
dock laborers. When the pile attain
ed a certain height, and they were no
longer able, by their conjoint efforts,
to raise one of the heavy logs of ebony
to the summit, they had been taught
to lean two pieces against the heap,
up the inclined plane of which they
gently rolled the remaining logs and
placed them trinity on tie top.
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The Intelligence of Brutes.

From THE Harmonies of Nature, ]"
an interesting volume just published
by the Appletons, we extract the fol-
lowing paragraphs on the intelligence
of animals:
''As the mammalia are mans near
est relations, in physical point of
view, they are also endowed with an
intelligence superior to that of any
other animals, and not seldom prompt
ing them to actions which seem rather
to belong to the sphere ofreason than
to that of brute instinct. The chin
pence, for instance, will lock and I'M
lock door or drawer, will thread any
needle and cannot be taken in the
same thing twice.
A dog III n monastery, perceiving
that the monks received their meals
by rapping at buttery door, contrived
to do so likewise, aud, when the al
lowance was pushed through, and the
door shut, ran off with it. This was
repeated till the theft was detected.
Another dog, belonging to Mr.. Tay
Tor, clergyman who lived at Cotton,
near Wolsely Bridge, was accused of
killing many sheep. Complaints were
made to his master, who asserted that
the thing was impossible, because he
was muzzled every night. The neigh
bors persisting in the charge, the dog
one night was watched, and he was
seen to draw his neck out of the muz-
zle, then 90 into field and eat as
much of sheep as satisfied his appe-
tite. He next went into the river to
wash his mouth, and returned after
ward to his kennel, put his head into
the muzzle again, and lay very quiet
ly down to sleep.
Mr. Morand, surgeon in Paris had
taken into his house the dog of friend
which had broken its leg, and good
naturally cured it. Sometime after,
this dog scratched at the door of MIR.
Morand's study, and, on being admit
ted, introduced another dog, to whom
some accident had happened, and who
could hardly crawl along after his
guide. The first dog plainly showed
by his caresses what he wanted, and
the surgeon admiring his sagacity,
took charge of his protege and cured
him likewise.
As the elephant snrpasses all that
breathes Oh dry land in bulk and mus
cular power, his mental faculties also
assign to him one of the first places
in the animal creation. When tanned
he becomes the most gentle and ODE
dent of all domestic quadrupeds, and
in most cases is exceedingly fond OF
his keeper, and soon learns to dis
tinguish the various tones of the hui
man voice, as expressive of anger, APP
probation, or command. His strength
is rendered donbly seryiceable TO man
by the intelligence he eyinces in its
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AI,BANs VIZ. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1866.

penniless man, and in all ihis wide
world ] have not friend-no, not
oneLunless this Book shall bel the
talisman that shall conjure up bright,
purNspirit to save me with its love
Not pany days since, when thought
Myself an outcast from this worlds
joys fosever and when / wished only
TO die, found this blessed Book in
my trunk Thus it was, with mother,
Sister, father golfe4-with the friends
OF the days of my prosperity turned
from .rhe-that / called upGom a bu-
ried corner of my heart the sweet face
OF the'gentle being who gaye it. And
l remembered what she said to me
when she placed the Book in my
bands-she would never forget me
she would pray for me and dove me
With that Book clasped to my bosom
J sank upon my knees, and said to my
God that Iwould do no more wrong
until | had seen Lottie -
A moments pause, and then, with
voice broken into sobs, with big tears
streaming down his cheeks, and with
arms outstretched, he cried
FLottie! Lottie o, my Godl Will
you hear me promise that / will do no
more of the sinful wrong while / live,
and will you be with me to help me
keep my promise always?'
And then the love that had lain
waiting il Lotties bosom SO long
love that had held watch and ward
over her heart, barring out all offers
from the many who had sought her
hand yelled up to it's full food of
fruition, and, with the head of the re-
turned wanderer pillowed upon her
bosom, holding his there as in ha-
ven of rest and salvation, she told him
that she would be to him all that he
could Justly ask while both should
live.
+ =
"My darling Lottie my wife-look
upl"
The crisp, brown tints of autumn
were upon the leaves, and the hus-
bandmen had gathered the ripened
grain into the gamers. Charles Alton
was man again, strong and erect,
and health and JOY made his face
handsomer than ever.
"Lottie, Joy is yours. You are mis-
tress of my fathers mansion. Aye, it
is all ours-the old home-the house,
and all the broad, rich acres p
Charles p
"It is true, my Lottie. Mr.. Whit
man has confessed that he deceived
me. When he knew the course that
| was pursuing in the great city, and
when he found l would brook no re-
straint, he determined to save the old
homestead if he could. The twelve
thousand dollars which he borrowed
of me he laid safely away; and the
speculation which failed him was his
hope of myself He has held the
mortgage, and he now returns it to
me, with two thousand dollars beside.
Lottie, my heart swells anew to hold
all this joy o, love me, love me, dar-
ling, for upon that sweet boon all 9TH
Ell JOY must rest !"
And, bound within his circling arms,
Lottie made answer:
30, my husband, as in the times
past-as now-so for all the time to
come !"
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If our memory serves US Alright,
there was time when blushing was
not uncommon. Why has Modesty
struck her rosy flag? How is it that
shame no longer sends the tell-tale
blood from the heart to the face
Have the people of this day less to
blush for than their grandfathers and
grandmothers had? We hardly think
SO. Have they learned, to use a quack-
doctor phrase, how to 'equalize the
circulation in every exigency ? or is
the human cuticle less transparent
than it used to be? We leave the ex-
PLANTATION to moral philosophers and
psychologists Meanwhile, the fact is
palpable. The rascals of good socie-
ty" are not in the least abashed when
brought face to face with justice.
Their demeanor is calmly heroic and
beautifully self-possessed. They mya
be shade paler when arraigned at
the bar than when engaged in fleeing
the unwary, but they never redden.
The "hayior of the visage" is perfect;
the pulse doth temporarily keep
time;" the blood has either dissolved
all connection with the conscience, or
the conscience has lost its sting.
Perhaps it is because the natural
suffusion is no longer possible that
some ladies sport on their fair cheeks
its counterfeit presentment. assume
a virtue If you have it not" says Ham,
let; and The tint Of bashfulness is pur-
chasable. Anybody can buy cosmetic
modesty.
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Wit and wisdom.

Men who fight duels have two sec
onds to live after they are dead.
Why are the members of q poor
cricket club like circles? Because they
have no big innings.
When vain man makes up
his mind, he might well feel mortified
at the smallness of the package.
1t is suggested that graduates of
female colleges be diploma-tized as A.
M-Artful Maidens.
"A tender hearted mamma, in In
dianapolis, recently prosecuted her
daughter for stealing some of her
clothes.
-Sawdust pills would effectually
cure many of the diseases with which
mankind are afflicted, if every indi-
vidual would make his own sawdust.
The man in Jail who looked out
of the window of his cell and exclaim-
ed, "this is great country" is now
generally admitted to have spoken
within bounds
"A briehess young lawyer thinks
that any young lady who possesses a
thousand acres of land has sufficient
ground for an attachment.
Where the real Fee-nian move
ment will develop itself Among the
waters and servants at the fashion
able watering places, and sea-shore
hotels.
Punch has written 10 Mr. Darwin
to inquire if it is possible, under his
theory of development, for bay. pony
ever TO become a sea-horse.
Pray, Miss c., said gentleman
the other evening, "why are ladies SO
fond of officers ?" "How stupid !" re-
piled she; sis it not natural that Ia
dy should like a good offer sire'
Jack Bannister praising the hos
pitality of the Irish, after his return
from one of his trips to the sister king
dom, was asked if he had been i'll Cork.
NO" replied the wit, "but l saw a
great many drawings of it,
"A thrifty wife wonders Why the
men cant do something useful
Mightnt they as well alnuse them
selves in smoking hams as in smoking
cigars?
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For he Transcript.
THE TALKING GAS.

There is a subtle gas, moral flame,
Whose rainbow hues aud tints bear many namc,
Whose sparkling tIi-tongued forks, and flashing
jets,
Rival the farest gem of coropeis;
A iack-o-lantorn hame, which leads ny on
Ger bog and forest till our strength is gone,
And bids us then amid the darkness grope.
Palaver, humbug, fattery, aud soft soap,
Are classcd among the classic applications
BY which this gas a. known among the nations;
A king with many titles, and, alasl
A monarch absolute is Talking Gas.
The salesman. so obsequious and polite,
As If displaying goods were his delight,
Tells you, with sigh hcrculean and deep,
That goods before were never sold so cheap.
II il a sacrifice, immense, It's true,
But he is proud to make 1t, seeing it's you.
Tho article just suits you, It's SO neat,
SO beautiful, exquisite, charming, sweet.
Perhaps you swallow all he says, nor question
Whether his gas is easy of digcsticn
But am apt TO snub my nose, an act
tsfsl lich Dame Nature fitted me, in fact,
And s.lnyself say Madam. should you drop
In tf%1H&3sifantic race from shop to shop,
Buy What you want, but don't buy soap or brass,
Nor purchase, by the wholesale, Talking Gas.
The politician, longing for a scat
In halls where legislative bodies meet,
An easy seat. where lac from day TO day
May lounge, and read, ard doze the hours away;
Eat Of good dinners, drink good brandy, too,
fNtAA f'tf ANE VI ~ LIS PAT ~ Afli tAili 80
Save when his eagle chances can descry
Some safer turnpike for his policy
And give his poor dyspcptic stomach vent
In spteful hOwls which shake the armament
And spend long months in argument TO prove
That black is white, or jealous hate il love,
Brings all this well-paid bessedncss TO pass,
by filthy lucre rum, and Talking Gas.
Measures, not men, is sometimes party cry
4 very good one, do not deny
But men and measures Oft prove to be such
That neither men or measures are worth much
When men make measures but q stepping stone
To serve some pet ambition Of his own,
Or when, as often proves the case, alas
Both men and measures are but bags OF gas.
lawyer, strong in argument to win;
A tailor, fashiOning q cloak for sin;
A priest, who leads his flock the sunny way,
Nor lifts warning crook to lambs astray;
A mocking bird, who blends in mellow notes,
The combined incense Of thousand throats;
\ Caesar, who each RubicOn viii dare.
Who comes, and conquers, ere we are aware:
A counterfeit, which even banks viii pass
All these; aye, more than these is Talking Gas.
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Human Suffering Causes or
Disease.

We are confident that the far prea-
ter portion of human suffering Is of
our own procuring, the result Of ignor-
ance and mistaken views, and that it is
a superfluous and unnecessary mixturo
of bitterness in the cup of human life.
We firmly believe that the greater
number of deaths, instead of being the
result of specific diseases, to which
they are attributed, are really caused
by series of imperceptible malign in.
fluences, springing from corroding
cares, griefs, and disappointments To
say that more than half of the human
race die of sorrow and broken heart.
or in some way fall victims to their
passions, may seem like advancing
revolving doctrine; but it is, nevcrthe-
less, in our mind, simple truth. We
do not see the operations of grief upon
some one or all the countless frail and
delicate constituents of human life.
But If physiology could look through
the infinitely complicated web of our
structure with the power of the solar
microscope, 1T would behold every
ehagrin seyerlng some nerve, paraIyz-
ing the action of some organ, or clos
ing some capillary; and that every sigh
draws its drop of life blood from the
heart. Nature is slow in resentipp
her injuries; but the memory of them
is indelibly impressed, and treasured
up for late but certain revenge.
Nervousness, lowness of spirits, head
ache, and all the countless train of
morbid aud deranged corporeal and
mental actions are, at once, the cause
and the effect of sorrow and anxiety,
increased by constant series of action
and reaction. Thought and care be-
come impressed upon the brow. The
bland essence of cheerfulness evapor-
ates. The head becomes shorn of its
locks; and the frosts of winter gather
on the temples. These concurrent
influences silently sap the stamina of
life; until, aided by some adventitious
circumstance-which we call cold, fe-
yer, epidemic, dyspepsy-death lays
his hand upon the frame, that by the
SORROWS and cares of life was prepared
for his dread Office. The bills of NOR
tally assign name to the mortal dis
ease, different from the true one.
Cheerfulness and equanimity are about
the only traits that have invariably
marked fthe life of those who have
lived to extreme old age. Nothing is
more clearly settled by experience,
than that grief acts as slow poison,
not only in the immediate infection of
pain, sbut in gradually impairing the
powers of life, and in substracting from
the sum of our days.
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A "SgUps" OF BoNNETs. -The Paris
correspondent of the London Telegraph
writes:
"The one great object Of my admira-
ton in Paris is the bonnet-its ever
changing shape, its splendor, its disrp-
pearnnce. and its dark days of moth
ingness.' What do you think bonnets
were yesterday Not Grape, nor tnlle.
nor silk, nor satin, nor velvet, nor
straw. No. nothing but flowers. /
saw ono lady with n bonnet of daisies,
and another who had on her head q
handful of lilies of the valley, fes-
tooned with green ribbon. If it is
really anything. bonnet can scarcely
be less than few lilies Of the valley,
which at Florence would cost half
Paul. Another lady had a wreath OF
wall fowsrs,sS
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True COURTESY. Real courtesy is
widely different from the courtesy
which blooms only in the Sunshine of
love and the smile of beauty, and
withers and cools down in the atmos-
phere of poverty, age and toll. Show
me the man who can quit the brilliant
society of the young and listen to the
kindly voice of age; and hold cheerful
converse with one whom years have
deprived of charms. Show me the
man of generous impulses, who is al
ways ready to help the poor and nee
dy; show me- the man who treats un-
protected maidenhood as he would the
heiress, surrounded by the protection
of rank, riches and family. Show me
the man who never forgets for an in
slant the delicacy, the respect that is
due to woman as woman, in any con-
dition or class; show me such man,
and you show fne gentleman nay,
you show me better, you show me a
true Christian.
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'nFoRTANT TO SOLDIERS
AND
THEIR WIDOWS.

lnoti6ed ,tNrEkEsTED ARE HEREBY
hess pertan srat | am agent to transact ali bust
pay Clsmsn 70 pensions, bounties and back
sented, and ,h ~ me above nature can be pre-
hgto u Nleir allowances obtained. bv annvl
u. Adams Mo-, WM. BRIDGES.
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DIR. Geo. l.. NewcOmb.

ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN,
A has sr ros an absence of four months, DIR. N.
House n Ia.nnrned to his Rooms at the fremont
Of o. Adams, where he will make speclalt,
prsetea nc cases, adhereing strictly TO an office
iom' :. oihee hours from to Ia A. NJ. and
81 and to 2. Al. Advice free.
aoans' W., March 18th, 1866. ll4-tf
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Notice.

" for Nv NJ ooloring and Pressing done on
ou Min; ana nose who have their rolls earded al
W are now w having put in New Roll cards.
dc manner ready to card rolls in the hest noss;'
AAosburgh Fa,Is hENI 4 BESsEY BROS.
"'' June IL, 1866. ll7-tf.
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Ray Resolve to see this world on its
sunny side, and you have almost half
Won the battle OF life at the outest.
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r,rEs OF ADVERTISING,

TRANSIENT ADVERTISEMENTS. Per square of ~
,;s or less of this type, for first insertion 81,
~ each subsequent insertion, 20 cents.
rbe number Of insertions must be marked on
q, i,i ordered out. Transient advertisements to
So pad for in advance.
a. liberal discount will be made on the
.hsre rates to those advertising by the ySar.
LEGAL NOTICES wilAts inserted at Is cSuA per
inn
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~ buck, ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL
Nj, L0R AT LAW. Also, Agent for first
-'ls Insurance Companies, and for obtaining
soldiers pay, &c.
Office over Weeks store. Lift
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THE TRANSCRIPT,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
WILBUR p. DAVIS, Editor and Pro-
prictor.
TERMS OF sUnscRrPTIoS {,

"a those receiving the paper through the Post
-, $500 per annum. 10 Village subscribers
,o'ncyiug the paper by the carrier, 30 cents in
addition viii be charged.
Fiftv Cents year will be added when payment
q. dIayed beyond six months.
y, paper discontinued until all arrearagos are
Ia ryrept at the option Of the Publisher.
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ST. Adams Business Directory.

D,1LEy - DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AND
X COrNsEtLORS AT LAW and Solicitors in
ti.'occry Office in the rooms formerly occu-
Nh bv White & Sowles, Gadcomb's Building
II 2lbans. Vt 91-ly
parfrY PARK DAVIS.
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'aE Mason x HAMLIN CABINET Or

cred and forty lorty different styles, adapted to sa.
Fifty.one 'S GIs music, for $50 to 5000 each
Heniuns p o'r or Silver Medals, or other first
Boston nee Address, MASON q HAMIiS.
=" AASoN BRoTHERs, New York.
SILLY
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d. BURGESS. dealer'in Pork, Fish, Hams,
". Lard, Flour, salt, and general Groceries.
wholesale and retail. Main Street. one door
south Of farar Bros. III
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II 0'P POST y CO., dealers in Dry Goods
IL aud choice Family Groceries. Corner of
nam and Fairfield Streets, st. Adams, VI. III
II. c. POST, L. JAMES
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LOttie Pages Gift.
A SIMPLE STORY.

By sY1yANUs conn, JB.
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oH oNLf A FEW DAYS can YOU dispose
son " your Mlssisquoi Bank bills to ii. l.. Sam
M Call at the Post Office.
May lOth, 1866 1lo-tf
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uhS' }. |, CHANDLER l. OF. FASSETT
PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS.

A1iNd formed a professional co-partner-
snip, oter their services to the community
Ohice at DR.. CHANDELIERS.
residence ofDr. Fassctt, at the Weldon House.
6, IN o. +. FASSETT.
81 Adams, Sept. Goth, 1865. stiff
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SnHiTT HOUSE. formerly Clinton
" House, Alburgh Springs, Vermont
IL carriages viii convey guest to and from
"0 Dvpot tree OF charge. l2l-tf
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--.rnnaE n. unuGIITON. Az

- FORGE II. HoUGIITON, Attorney and
tT Counsellor at Law and Solicitor in Chan
~ 81 Adams, Vermont. Office near She Post
oaco and residence ON Weldon street.
Ns6 United States Commissioner, Commits
,,ner Of Deeds for the States Of New York,
N,s.achusetts, and other States. He will give
prompt attention to all professional business
XIII which he may be entrusted.
81 Adams, Nov. 4, 1864. II