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The evening Argus., 1867-11-27

Situate at Riverside, Burlington county, New
Jersey, is founded for the purpose of gratuitous-
ly educating the of deceased Soldiers and
Seamen of the United States
The Board of Trustees consists of the follow
ing we'll known citizens of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey:
Hon. William B. Mann. District Attorney, Phla-
delphia, Pa.
Hon. Lewis R. BroomaIl, ExChief Coiner Z. S.
Mint, and Recorder of Deeds, Philadelphia.
Hon. James M. Scovel, New Jersey.
Hon. W. W. Ware, New Jersey
Kenry German, Esq, Agent Adams Express.
Philadelphia, Pa.
J. E. Coe, Esq, of Joy, Coe Co., philadelphia.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, b G..
April IS, 1867. Office of Internal Revenue =
Hoving received satisfactory evidence that the
proceeds Of the enterprise conducted by the
Washington Library Company will be devoted to
charitable purposes, permission is hereby granted
empt from all charge, whether from special tax
or other duty.
E. ROLLINS, Commissioners.
The Association have appointed as Receivers
: Messrs. George A. Cooke & Co., 33 South Third
street. Philadelphia, whose well known intey-itv
and business experience will ne sufficient guar
ansee that the money intrusted to them viii he
promptly applied to the purpose stated.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Ma.e20, 1857.
To the Oficers and Members OF the Washin gton
Library Co, n. S. Read, Secretary.
Gentlemen-on receipt of your favor of the
18th inst, notifying of our appontmeet as
Receivers for your Company, we took the Hb0ty
to submit copy of your charter, with plan q
your enterprise to eminent legal authority, ant
having received his favorable opinion in regart
TO its legality and sympathizing with the bene
violent object of your Association, viz: the edu
cation and maintainance of the orphan children
of our soldiers aud sailors of the Riverside In
stitute, have concluded to accept the trust
to best efforts TO promote so worthy al
object. Respectfully, yours, DC,
GEO. A. COOKE & co.
Address all letters and orders to
GEO. A. COOKE q CO., BANKERS.
80 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Pa
Receivers for the Washington Library Co.
DEV0E Il CRAA6PToN,
Agents in Rock Island.
The evening Argus., 1867-11-27
IT WILL SAVE YOUR HEALTI
" And what k better chan all, -e
1T WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE
GOOD NEWS FOR THE LADIES

dies whose delicate health it aso utely necas
sry for them not to have children, have
nocent and safe remedy to prevent conception. They
with perfect confidence and safety DIR. RAPH
OF family but they win at th time promote
snd their health, because his Is inn
cent and safe. It does not interfere with Diet
1t operates without sickness exposure
certain in its effect 1t not only prevents from having
children ba It Will restore the monthly periods and
improve the health. If LADIES who have suffered fru
misplaced confidence. consult him before they get
ried he will restore their bloom freshness and vigor OF
youth, and enable them enter married ffe with
hdence of health and happiness. journal Of Hsdih
Hear what the Cincinnati Weekiy Press says the
eth of March, 1862: ara<3eCidedly opposed TO drugs
and to advtssd remedies for the prevention of having
children and feel it du ty to ackno~ ledge bene
fit from and when for the relief
suffering humanity. fact has TO our knowledge
that ought to be promulgated and widely circulated
the benefit of those ladies whose delicate health makes
Ii Necessary to prevent increase family. About
twelve months after marriage lady of acquaintance
gave birth 70 daughter, but her suterings were so
great that her physicians despairei her life This
made her dread the thought of again becoming mother
Sac tired to prevent repetition OF her suffer
iass but without succeeding. Two wears after marriage
enc again conf ned hut her sufisrnes great
that this child died, and her life despaired of
more children he feared her life would be the forfeit
As all the remedies she had tried before had failed
she applied to the Botanic Physician, DR. RAPEAI-I
for his Preventive to have Children. His remedies Lad
the desired effect; they only prevented her from
having children hut they also improved her health To
THE PURE ALL THINGS Al.E PURE" The BOTANIC Physi-
clans remedies can lie recommended because they
Innocent and safe. They without causing sck
nIpTy ID iPs thf isey
certain in their effect. Al. III E1GGS. Nd
T G PANC0ST MD
His hours for seeing visitors from 10 A NJ 10 1
7. NJ. pAiLY,-SUNDArs E1CEPTED-AT 2l 3 EAST MAni
SON STREET. tCP STAIRS BETWEEN WELLS ERANkLIN
Dollars He has private consultation for LADES
and Gentlemen. Each visitor has a separate room
ranged 50 that the most delicate refined and ser
site visit the Doctor conhdentiay, without be-
ing seen by any other visitor
The evening Argus., 1867-11-27

All trains run directly through to New York,
w. 400 MILES, without change of coaches.
The evening Argus., 1867-11-27
The Trade Supplied.

We warrant every article as represented, and all
our work done in te most thorough and substantial
manner.
%sal-0ur prices, wholesale and retail, same as
the man uiacturers.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11
Greeley to the Union League.

The New York Union League feeling dis
posed to eXpel Horace Greeley for having sign
cd Davis bail bond, sent him a notice to an
pear before them for trial. They will doubt
less wish they had let him alone, for in this
mornings Tribune he demolishes them in n
scathIug letter Of which we subjoin the con-
Guiding portion:
* I shall not attend
your meeting this evening. have an engage
ment out Of town, and shall keep it. do not
recognize ycu as capable of jud ging. or even
fully experimenting me. You evidently re-
gard me as weak senum 0falist, msled by
maudIin philosophy. l arraign you as narrow
minded blockheads who would like to be use
tul to great and good cause, but don't know
how. Your attempt to base great enduring
party Oh the hate aud wrath NECESSARILY e3
gendered by bloody civil war is as though
you should plant Il colony on an iceberg which
had somehow drifted into a tropical ocean,
l tell you here, that out of n life earnestly de-
voted to the good of human kind, your chill
dren will select my going to Richmond and
signing that bail>boud as the wisest act. and
will feel that it did more for freedom and hu-
manity than all Of you were competent to do,
though you had lived to the age of Methuselah.
| ask nothing of you, then, but that you pro-
ceed to your end by direct, frank manly way.
Don't side off into a mild resolution of censure
but move tho expulsion which you purposcd
and which deserve if any reproach whatever
All | care for is, that you make this a square,
stand-up fight, and record your judgement by
years and nays. | care not how many vote
with me, nor how many vote against me for
l know that the latter will repent it in dust
and asEcs before three years have passed
Understand, one for all. that dare you and
defy you. and that I propose to fight it out on
the line that have held from the day Of Lees
surrender
HORACE GREELEY.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11
The Mexican Catastrophe.

Whatever opinion may be entertained of
the incapacity of the Mexicans to carry on a
republican Government, or, indeed, Governs
ment in any other form, few will be sceptical
OF their fighting qualities. Most especially
do they shine with an ominous lustre in civil
wars. They did not greatly do nor dare in
the contest with the United States, but that
was because they were so hopelessly over
matched, that there was no hope of any other
but the issue which overlook our antagonists.
But any one who has paid attention to the
inveterate strife between the Mexicans and
their foreign invaders, must have had feel
ing of admiration for their tenacity bravery
and patriotism. They fight bitterly, brutally:
they fight to kill they kill prisoners after
the battle as well as armed foes in the hot
blood of battle. Gen. N. B. Forrest would
have made himself a favorite, not that he
would slay prisoners in cold blood as thev do,
but that he had in him the warrior zeal
which makes these Mexican battle fields SO
bloody. Forests speech at the head of his
troops was always about to this effect =
There is the enemy you are to fight; and
fighting means killing. Charge 20 We are
in the habit of regarding the Mexicans as an
inferior, certainly, and perhaps an effeminate
race; but either the accounts of their fight
ing are fabulous, or else the estimate is incor-
rect. Maximilian had with him several thou-
sand picked troops at Queratero from the best
regiments of Europe, but he was compelled
to succomb to assault upon an advantageous
position. He did nOtseem wanting in general
ship or in personal prowess, but he was out
fought by his opponents, whom he probably
did not appreciate till it was too late.
We have no idea that any permanent settle.
ment has been attained. The word perma-
nence has scarcely any place in that latitude
AS soon as Maximilian is disposed of, the mill
tary chiefs will antagonize with Juarez the
civil head Of affairs. Every thing, of course.
depends on the disposition Of the army, and
1t is not likely to strike for criterion. There
fore, no matter how shrcwd or able Juarez
may be, his tenure of office must be exceed
ingIy Precarious. Other people might get
tired Of fighting, and SO give up even to the
slender claims of Juarez to the Presidency,
but not so the Mexicans strife is their life,
as much as evil is the good Of the great ruler
of the under world.
Perhaps the intcrna! condition of Mexico
which springs as much from the mixture of
different races Of men as from any thing else,
may warn us Of the danger to liberty from
that quarter. 1t would seem, however. that
all warnings were in vain for the preservation
OF free institutions. Fanaticism is too strong
for history and philosophy, aud her scorn of
right and justice springs from the conscious
ness Of her power being irresistibIe.-U Vest
GBl South.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11
MISCELLANEOUS.
Solomon's Throne.

The following description OF the throne of
hlng Solomon is from Persian history OF
Jerusalem, and is in true Oriental style:
The sides of it were pure gold, the feet of
emerald aud rubies intcrmixed with DearIs =.
each Of which was large as an ostrich's egg,
The Throne had seven steps on each side
were delineated orchards full of trees. the
branches of which were precious stones, rep
resentinS fruit, ripe and unripc on the tons
OF the trees were seen figures Of plumaced
birds, particularly the peacock, the etaub and
the kurges. All these birds were followed
within artihcially, so as to occasionally utter
thousand melUdiOus sounds. such Ms the ear
of mortals never before heard. On the first
step were delineated vine branches of grapes
composed of various sorts Of precious stones
fashioned IN such manner rs to represent
the various colOrs Of purple, violet, green and
red, 50 as to render the appearance of real
iruIt On the second step. on each side of
the Throne were two lions Of terrible aspect
large as life, and formed of cast gold. The
nature Of this remarkable Throne was s,,cb
that when Solomon placed his foot on the first
STEP the birds spread forth their wings. and
made tluttering noise in the air. On his
touching the second step, the lions expanded
their claws. On reaching the third sten the
whole assemblage of demons and fairies. and
men, repeated the praise of the Deity. when
he arrived at the fourth step, voices were
heard addressing him in the following man
ner: 'Son Of David, be thankful for the
blessings which the Almighty has bestowed
upon you" The same was repeated on his
reaching the fifth step. On his touchino
the sixth, all the children of Israel joiped
them; and on his arrival at the seventh. all
the Throne, birds and animals became in mo.
ton, and ceased not Cntil he had placed him
self on the royal seat, when the birds. lions.
and other animals, by secret springs, dis
charged shower Of the most precious per,
fumes on So!omon, after which two of the
kurges descended and placed the golden crown
on his head. Before the Throne was n COL
umn OF FURNISHED gold, on the top of which
was golden dove which held in its beak n
volume bound in silver. in this book is writ.
ten the psalms Of David and the Dove bav,
ing presented the book to the King he read
aloud portion Of it to the children of Israel
1t Is further related that, on the approach of
wicked persons to the Throne, the lions were
wont to set up terrible roaring, to lash their
tails with violence the birds also BEGAN to
brisk up their feathers, and the assembly of
demons and geaii to utter the most h6rrid
cries; so for fear of them, no one dared be
guilty of falsehood, but all confessed their
crimes. Such was the throne of Solomon
the son of David.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11
Losing Time.

What is whiting away time When Watt
sat in the chimney corner, observing the wa
ter force up the lid of the teak kettle, he
aroused the anger of his relations but he
was discovering the steam engine. The uncle
of Pliny reprOved him for walking. which he
called losing time. How much truer was the
confession Of Warburton to his friend Hurd :
at would have been the greatest pleasure to
have dropped upon you at Newark. l could
have led you through delicious walks. and
picked off for your amusement in our rambles
thousand notions which hung upon every
thorn and passed, thirty years ago" They
whom the world calls idle often do the most.
In villages and by-lanes few eyes are always
learning. a garden, wood, even Il pool of
water, encloses library of knowledge, wai,-
ing only to be read-precious types, which
Nature, in her great printing-press, never
breaks up. And surely he Is happy who is
thus taught; for no man can afford to be
really unemployed. The tree, it is said, may
lose its verdure the sun need not count its
rays; because the sap will strike out new TO-
liage, and another night reflls the treasury
of day. But the thinking faculty does not
waste. The most saving and thrifty use of
it will oaly make it sufficient for our absolute
necessities.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11
Heaven.

Next to the sin of referring at all to heaven
as a subject of delightful contemplation. is
that ofregarding it under false aspects. The
Mahomedan thinks of it as a paradise of SEN
sual delights and many a nominal Christian
has no ojuster view of it. To some it is mere
release from pain, from the annoying cares Of
lite, from prosecuting enemies to others
mere escape from hell; =; and others think of it
only in seasons Ofpetulance, when thoir world
ly wishes are crossed. The heaven of most
men is but an Imaginary place, without one
essential attribute of that glorious home in
which Christ has prepared mansions for his
people On the contrary, the devout believer,
while he is not inseusiblo to the yalne Of
heaven as rest from toll, as an escape from
WORLDLY sorrows, es an exemption from hell.
most highly estimates it as the perfect reunion
of God and his soul as bringing him near to
an ever present Saviour whom he prefers 70
all others, and as a final escape from sin. Sin
Is uow his burden, the source of his heaviest
griefs. There he rejoices to believe Satan is
never permitted to enter to inject into his soul
his foul suggestions; the world will forever
have lost its power TO divert his attention and
fill his mind with vain thoughts. and his flesh
will be SO refined rs no longer to be subject to
hateful lusts. His happiness in heaven wilt
consist in entire freedom from sin, and in nm
clouded and uninterrupted communion with
his God and Saviour.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11

all places of distinction or emolumeut are be-
fore you. There are here few of those in
whose hands the administration of the govern
reut is placed
We are passing away,-the next wave will
bring you, young men aud women, in our
places, and our work will fall into other hands,
therefore, the greater should be your efforts
to prepare yourselves for the responsibility
that must in time devolve upon you In con-
clusion, permit me to tender you again my
thanks for this cordial welcome, extended
through your distinguished representative,
the Governor Of the State. Though she sent
me out pennilcss and friendless, She did not
then afford those advantages which you now
enjoy, and though, on returning, 1 can not do
so, In the language of the schools, to my alma
nldter.
81 can say, with pride and satisfaction, she
is my mother, and, whatever may have been
her delinquencies, Il love her STILL Then,
ladies and gentlemen, let me again express
my heartfelt thanks for this warm and sincere
welcome on my return to this, my native city"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11
Pat on the Telegraph.

a burly Irishmaa called at the telegraph
Office during the heavy storm of last week,
says the Red Bluff hdepeadeat, and desired
to send message to Shasta. Lyon told him,
he would have to wait a few hours before
could be transmitted, as the line was tempo
rnrily disarranged by the storm.
what differ does that make" says Pat.
'Why, the wire is down-under the water
and we have to wait till it is put up" says
Lyon.
'Undher wathcr, is it p said the Feniau,
Chat don't hinder it at all at all. ShureI
it's only forty miles from here to Shasta. an
it's five thousand miles from here to oull Ire
land. An begorra, | read in the Sacramint
CHion yesterday, whole lot iv late new
from Dublin an Cork about the Fayniar
an' more about Louis Napoleon writin to
ODonahue 70 borry the loan of Brian BortiN
blackthorn shtick, to bate Garibaldy and re,
store the Pope. An that KEN all the way
Und0er 'catIter, so it did. To the divil wiI
yur orld fresh wather telegraph, that can't
spake forty miles ~
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11
Good Joke.

When l used to tend store in Syracuse tho
old man came round one day, and SAYS he:
boys, the one that sells the most "twixt''
now and Christmas, gets vest pattern as u
present"
Maby we didn't work for that YES. patterpi
tell you there were some tail stories told in
praise OF goods just about that time; but tho
tailest taiker, and the one that had moro
check than any of US, was certain Jonah
Squires, who roomed with me. He could
talk dollar out of n mans pocket, when the
man only intended to spend sixpencc, and
the women-Lord bless you they lust
handed over their pocket books to him, and
let him lay out>What he liked for them.
One night Jonah woke me up with:
by 10, old fellow, if you think that erc's
get any cotton in it, I'll bring down the sheep
that it was cut from, and make him swear to
his own wool! 'Twont wear out either.
wore pair of pants of that stuff for five wears.
aud they're as good now as when first nut
EN- on; take it at thirty cents, and I'll saw
you don't owe me anything. L? too dear
We'll, call it twentyeight cents What d'yc
say? Shall tear ity All llright, it's bar
gain"
could feel Jonah's hand playing about
the bed clothes for an instant, then rip tear!
went something or another, and l hid my
head under the blankets, perfectly convulsed
with laughter, and sure that Jonah had torn
the sheet from top to bottom. When woke
up next morning found-alas uukindest
cut of ail-that the back of my night shirt
was split from tail to collar band.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11

Our TERRITORIAL AcQuIsIrIoxs.-Tho
following is n list:
l. The purchase of LOUISIANA and the Mis-
sissippi Valley in 1903, from France, for
$4,000, 600.
2: The purchase of Florida in 1919, from,
Spain, for So 100000.
3. The annexation of Texas in lS45.
i. The purchase of California, New Mex
leo and Utah from Mexico, for SIS, ,OOO, 600,
in 1913.
D: The purchase of Arizona from Mexico,
for $40 600 900, in 1854.
The purchase of the immense Russian
possessions, running down on the Pacific
coast from the North latitude, at which limo
it strikes the British possossions.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11

The negroes in the vicinity Of Carbon
Hill coal mines, Virginia, are drilling assidu-
ously in large numbers, and their insolent and
defiant conduct towards the whites Is such al
to create serious aPprehensions.
= Plus TX. completed his seyenty.fftb
year on the 18th Of May, having been boTI,
May l3, 1892. He will have occupied the
pontifcal throne iWenty-cne years on the 10th
Of June next
= 4 New Orleans letter says the recep. de,
eclslon in the New Orleans courts that debts
incurred for the purchase of slaves before the
war are null, involves nearly 800, 700, 900 in
Louisiana alone.
"A Bridgeport, Connecticut, citizen, re-
fused an increase of wages to one Of his SER
want girls lately, saying that he considered
the privileges che enjoyed of living in
Christian family worth 50 month
= FOley's statue Of Edmund Burke. vbict,
has for some time been in the hands Of tho
bronze founder, will soon be placed on its ne
destal at Dublin. The statue is to be ercc.sd
in front of Trinity College, in line win Nj
Feleys figure OF Goldsmith. ~
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11

EUGENE AND HER LITTLE SoH.-The
young Prince Imperial of France has been
transported to Saint Cloud, on a mechanical
bed, and the carriage which bore him was Or
dered to 20 at walking pace over the stones.
The two doctors who accompanied the Prince
are never to leave him night or day. They
still hope on, and reckon upon the change Of
air as likely to promote a cure, which all their
united skill, with that of Nelaton and Bache
and GendrOn combined, fails to accomplish.
That same evening there was reception and
ball, and the Empress was doomed to wear
her sweetest smile and don her richest robe
to receive the company; and anon there was
the ceremony Of receiving the Commission of
the great Exhibition and her Majesty to ex-
ert herself to find pleasant things to say to
each Of the members presented to her notice,
while her thoughts were most likely at Saint
Cloud by the side of the he'd whereon that
poor, pale sufferer lay turning his gaze to the
IuilIerIes, whose peaked roofs and sculptureG
chimneys are visible from the window of his
chamber.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-11
P1anS-EorGeS.
CHARLES IL. STIEFF,

Al HANEFACTURER OF Firzt Premium GRAND
III aud SQUARE PIANOS. Factories 81 and SO
Camden street, and IS and - Perry street. near
baltimore and Ohio Railroad. WARE ROOMS,
No-F, North Liberty street, above BaltinO orc, BAL
-INoEE, Nd.
Has always on hand the largest stock of PIANOS
IN the city. My new Grand Scale Ovcr-strung A
Lsraiie Treble Pianos are pronounced by the ANA
tours and professors TO be the bIst Piano manufac-
Iured- We warrant them free of every fault for
Tlye years, and the privilege of exchange within
Twelve months, II not entirely satisfactory the
purchaser.
SECONDHAND PIANOS.
always on hand-S5O 20 S3DO. MELODEONS and
PARLOR ORGANS from the best makers.
We have permission TO rc!crEO The following per
sons who have our Pianos usc-D g RentCiI, VIM
Rush. w g Butter, Richard Williams, Dennis
Daniels. Benjamin Harrison, in Jefferson county
and tmes Cunuingha aTn. ; c CunainChay ia
cob SclbcTt, Benjamin SpCCk. Andrew TO ossIuuu,
George Hoks, Jacob Miller, Charles II Coo, James
Denny, Lemuel Campbell, Rev AIr Hair, in Berlze-
ley county.
Go Far further particulars, apply to 3 F IA
f;lSON, a. gent, ShCphe rdsruwn.
FERNS liberal 4 cali is solicited.
October >. lSbG-ly