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RAGS.

On aud after this date. we viii only pay Five
cents per pound for good country Cotton
Rags. WHITMAN BROS.
November 2-tf
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C1ncfnnat1 Markets.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 6.-Flonr unchanged.
Corn 66@67: Whisky 94@95c. Pork held
at S33 80. Bulk meats I34@144c. BAG
con l44, l73 and 1Sc. Barley 81 S0@2 As.
Cotton frmer and higher, 20. Butter 2S@
SSc. Eggs 2lc. Cheese 19!@22. ExchaDgs
dull.
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FL R0othmsn was bound to keep the
peace for six months toward his wife, yes
terGav hv Justice CassettY.
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uEOURREsT MONEY.
TEHAEBgEE. 6OUrU nARnTrsa

All orders must beaecOmpsnied by the money
or check for the amount. Stamps will be sent
BIZ mnil OF eXpress. Rs directeh.
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f,ircnlIC 0urI.

No business of Importance were tran
saeted Yesterday in this tribunal
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SRgrancy.

John Phillips, VIM. Tucker and Gabe
Fall we're sent to the workhouse for twenty
days yesterday, each, on a charge of va
grancy. James Myers was sent down for
sixty days on the same charge.
Hattie Cooper, Rose Norman, Mary
Grant, and Mary Basket were sent down 10
the workhouse for twenty day each for va
grancy and notorious, lewd and abandoned
chAraCiers.
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New York Markets.

NEW YORK, Feb. Cotton active and
t better. $500 uplands 3O4c. Flour S. Is
@6 20. Whisky 95. Rice quiet. Coffee
quiet and firm. Sugar firm, Cubs 1I4@11},
Muscoyado 3S@39. Corn, Western $50
81 OF.
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TERRIBLE AFFRAY.

BIRDsxEsr CoTTAGE. Nashville. Wednesdi
Feb 2 1850
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FROM L.. w. HALL, ESQ.
Firm OF PIgue, Manner d 60, Nash
Vile, Tenn

Vile, Tenn.
To THE PUBLC.--DR. BUNFORD- LIGHT
HILL being introduced to us by letter
from well known friend (E. A. Collins,
Esq, of MiIan,) we would state that we
fully indorse any thing Mr.. Collins would
cay.
Learning that DR.. Lighthill contem-
plates visiting Nashville professionally, we
tender our name az a reference.
l.. w HALL.
Nashville Dec % 1863
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MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.

To THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BY TIE wRsTERS
UNION LINE.
Foreign Markets.
LONDON, Evening, Feb. 6.-Consols 93I
5-20s quiet 764.
PARIS, Feb. 6.-Bourse frmer. Rsntes
sOf.
FRANKFORT, Feb. 6.-BOnds sos.
LIVERPOOL, Feb. Cotton active and
] aigher. Sales 20, 600 middling nplands
l2s, Orleans 12ss.
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REyEEUE STAMPS,

REvEEUE STAMPS,
We have made arrangements to supply our
customers with Revenue Stamps at the follow
ing low rates, discount payable ia stamps, viz:
On purchases under $2U..........Par
On purchases of $50 OF mOro.-31S -
On purchases of 500 or mOre..,3I
On purchases Of $500 or mOre..4Z
On purchases of $500 or mOre..4Z Z"
On purchases of $1,000 or more ~
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. Cotton adj
yanced !. Middling 29c. Sales 1900
bales, receipts 309, exports 1888 bales.
Gold 1876, Exchange Sterling 1474, Com
mercial 1464, New York Sight discount.
Common sugar 1OI@1O1, prime 124, yell
low clarified 14f. Molaoses firm and un-
changed. Whisky and Coffee unchanged.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17
BE Good to the LiitLe ones.

A g.eat deal has been said and sunr
about maternal love, but the ia,et has
yet t" make his appearance who is capa-
hle Z! doing justice 20 maternal cruelty.
We have it on old and respectable au-
thority that woman is an uncertain and
variable creature, and it is not all new TO
say that Der love often turns to hate, but
why a woman should dislike her own off
spring Is one OF the psychological mystic
rles not yet solved. Yet the thing often
happens, and when it does we have a
fair sample of the refinement of cruelty of
which woman can be guilty, and which
would be utterly impossible TO man. A
mother is capable of inhcting petty but
torturing cruclties which would never
occur 10 one of the other sex. A little
incident occurred yesterday on Nassau
street, which showed how cruel parent
can sometimes be. even 10 the most help
less being. \ well dreSse woman was
walking down the street leading by the
hand II little tCddler, not more than two
years old. The day was hot. the little
one tired, 50 that she could not keep
pace with her mother, and stumbled,
when the latter brought her to her feet
with a Jerk which extortcd cry of pain
from the child. n gentleman behind
the par who is passionately fond OF chill
dren, and who had seen the performance,
had his Indignation aroused at this, and.
stepping promptly up, picked up the babe
and marched coolly down the street,
soothing it with ''baby talk" (in which
he is an adept, and followed by the
mother, who, it is fair to say, had the
grace to be ashamed enough to blush for
her conduct. Arrived at one of the
cross streets, she expressed her wish to
turn down it, but baby utterly refused to
leave her new friend, and he carried her
another block, where the lady wished to
stop. The child still objected to recog-
nlzing her parent until pursuaded by the
gentleman, who then set her down, and,
lifting his hat politely to madam, left
her, we hope, a wiser woman. The ac-
ton was witnessed by many people, who
highly relished the rebuke BE gentle
with the little ones and have mercy on
their short legs, mamas.-CommerCtai
4 drcrtiSer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

An honest farmer was invited to at
tend party at the village squire's one
evening, when there was music, both vo-
cal and instrumental. On the following
morning he met one of the quests, who
said, ''Well, farmer, how did you enjoy
yourself last night Were not the quar-
tettees excellent p ''Why, really sir,
can't say" said he ''for | didn't taste
EN- but the pork chops were the finest
| ever ate"
When a fancy farmer down on the
Connecticut once attempted to write an
elaborate essay on cheese-making, he
asked a successful dairy woman of his
acquaintance to how many degrees of
the thermometer she heated her milk.
"Mometern exclaimed the old lady,
whats that p ''Why, an instrument
for ascertalning temperature" replied
her questioner chow do you know when
the milk is warm enough ~ ''Why," re
piled the veteran chesse-maker, 81 stick
in my fore-finger, and that's worth all
the 'mometers on airth ~
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17
4 Cat InHrlltdry.

Recently We heard of and read part OF
the most singular will on record. The
maker of the will is represented to be I,
shrewd, successful business man, who
has accumulated quite large fortune.
He exhibits no other signs of insanity
than NAV be derived from the extreme
eccentriclty of his will, although it is
probable the court will, in due course.
be cal ed upon to determine the question
whether the testator was OF sound and
dlsposlng mind.
The will dlsinherits all the natural
heirs of the maker OF it, and devises the
entire property in trust for the establish
lnent OF an lnfirmary for Cats \ most
elaborate architectural plan for the nee
essary buildings is attached to and made
part .. the will. 1t provided areas for
that sweet amatory converse so dear to
the feline heart, and rat holes Of the
most ravishing nature, to be kept we'll
stocked. The most ingenious contriv-
ances are provided for the securing to
the rat a chance Of escaped, So that
the cats may not lose the pleasure Of the
chase by tiudIn- their prey come too
easily. High walls are to be built, with
gently sloplng roofs, for the moonlight
promenade and other nocturnal amuse-
ments of the cats The trustees are di-
rccted to select the grounds for this
novel Infirmary in tie most populous
part Of some American city, and the de-
visees are to be projected by competent
force of nurses from the ravages of men
and dogs. No person of the male sex is
ever TO be admitted within the walls.and
no female who has children, or is under
thirty years of age. There are hundreds
of minute directions which we have no
time to note.
One would suppose that in the forcgo-
ing provisions the testator had eN-
haustcd all the eccentricities of one man,
however unique his nature but the last
provision of the will seems more outra-
gcously bizarre than any that 90 before.
says the devisor 60 have all my life
been taught to believe that everything
in and about man was intended to be use
ful; and that it was mans duty, as lord
OF animals, TO protect all the lesser spe-
cies, even rs God protects and watches
over him. For these two combined rea-
sons-first, that my body even after
death may continue to be made useful
and secondly, that it may be made in
strumental as far as possible in furnish
ing a substitute for the protection of the
bodies Of my dear friends, the cats, l do
hereby devise and bequeath the intestines
of my body TO be made into fiddle strings,
the proceeds to be devoted to the pur-
chase of an ACCORDION, which shall be
played in the auditorium of the Cat In
Urinary by one of the regular nurses to
be selected for that purpose exclusively
the playing to be kept up for ever and
ever without cessation day or night, in or
der that the cat may have the privilege
of enjoying that instrument which is the
nearest approach to their natural voice.
-COLunaGuS Journal
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

A subcommittee of school board,
not a thousand miles from Lynn, were
examining class in primary school.
One of the committee undertook to sharp
en- up their wits by propounding the fol-
lowing question:
"If | had a mince pie, and should give
two-twelfths to John, two-twelfths to
Isaac, two-twelfths to Harry, and should
keep half of the pie myself, what would
there be left ~
There was profound study among the
scholars, but one finally held up his hand
us signal that he was ready to answer.
"Well, sir, what would there be :
Speak up loud, so that all can hear
said that committee man.
"The plate!' shouted the little fellow.
The committee man turned red in the
face, while the others roared aloud.
That boy was excused from answering
any more questions.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

sand he has found, but a woman in all
that number. Now, Solomon was a wise
man IN his way, L doubt not but then
he never went out sewing, and in my
daily experience see more of the true
family life every week than l might in a
year of going visiting, when people
would don their company manners along
with their store clothes. Perhaps men
have degenerated and women improved
since Solomon's day, for to one family
where the woman is tyrant | find ten
where the man is. / do occasionally see
really hen-pecked husband, and L al
ways regard him with a mixture of pity
and contempt, while stand in as whole
some awe of his loud-voiced wife as if
she were tame tiger. AS occasionally
| find a really happy marriage, such
one, for instance, as is SO beautifully de-
scrlbed in "John Halifax" and | am
ready to exclaim, spinister of forty that
am, marriage is the only true life ~
But, alas how often / find men of the
type of Mr. Thecpolous Brown, so agree
able, and gracious abroad, so sour and
selfish at home, making me feel to say
with as self fcongratulatory an air as the
Pharasee Of old, 81 thank Thee | am
not as other women are :"
oh, husbands and wives, why must
these things be? To whom in all the
world ale you dear if not to each other .
And where in all the world should you
b. kind and tender and courteous, if not
at your own tiresides? Let the outside
w"rld go; they can spare your smiles
and honeyed words, but the home circle
cannot. And in defiance Of Mrs. Z. G.. /
5. or Miss 5. b. A., ] still claim that
whatever benefits the right of suffrage
confers on woman, far greater benefits
will be conferred on her were man to re-
llize continually t''at his care-worn wife
were really the same being he took in
charge under a solemn promise to love,
cherish and protect while life should last
Let him but keep that promise faithfully,
and t. e glad millennium of woman's true
rights will have come.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17
n Ride on the COtCcatcher.

There was railroad smash up abou
a mile from st. Paul, one day last week,
but we scorn to 20 into the particular,
OF things so commonplace, and besides
TINS was ot no consequence,-on one
lie lost. You will obtain dim impress
son OF the glorious way in which we do
things out west by the perusal of the
heading to this paragraph. You are
aware, of course, that a party of capital
ISIS took trip on a special train to
Mankato, the other day, as all such
things as this ale telegraphed but the
telegraph, we suppose, omitted to state
that the representative of St. Paul pa
per, with two of his wealthy friends,
took ride on the cowcatcIer in salts
faction of bet of five or ten thousari
dollars, we forget which. Well, the en-
sineer started up, and went very slow at
first, and remarkably heroic we felt as
the ragged little boys hurrahed us, and.
just by way OF variety, threw few
stones at Us. We smiled bene, olentlv at
the incipient husbandmen, and were lust
going to wave our hats at two ladies
who appeared concerned for our salety,
when the engineer called out, Keep
your seats, gents; make yourselves at
home, and Immediately clapped on 40
pounds of steam. Whew Bumpety-
we tiew,-holding on to
lie cowcatcher like a lobster to a dogs
AL, I'll we saw, with feelings which
may be easier imagined than described"
Is Sylvanus Cobb says, cow Oh the
rack,-a Large, fat, lazy looking cow,
Inspecting US with the most solemn gray
ty, as though getting out of the way
would be the very last thing she could
hlnk OF. ''Stop the train, stop the
fIin :" we yelled, and the whistle began
o shrek but never did COW seem SO
Indifferent TO life as that cnw did. We
hould think she was utterly tired of be-
~ MIXED, and was bent on suicide.
'he would not bulge, and when the
rain stopped the cow was just 15 inches
'om US. Seeing that the train was
topped, however, she turned quietly !
ound, lowed complacently, and marched
IT. We thought we had experienced
lough OF that kind of novelty for the /
resent, SO got aboard the train. '.Why, q
r, said the engineer, 1.-THE wind has t
ade you look pale. ''-.U0mesota Letter. Il
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

PERU.s OF AN ONLY CTtLD.-It is
harder to bring up one child well than
six. In a large family, the children help
bring one another up. 1t is not merely
that the elder ones assist in taking care
of the younger, but they all influence one
profitably in other ways ; vanity is some
times laughed into modcsty, and AFRO
gance is snubbed into humility. Each
child is kept constantly in mind the 9th
ers have right and feeling and preferen-
ces, and he is thus prepared to "get
along" as we say, with those with
whom his lot may be cast. Parents
with one child have difficult task, and
their best way is to get for their solitary
chick as many playtellows of its own age
as they conveniently can. 1t is bad for
a child to associate too much with per-
sons of mature aye.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

There's little drawer in my chamber
Guarded with tenderest care.
Where the dainty clothes are lXinr.
That my darling shall never wear.
And there. while the hours are waning.
I'LL the house is all at rest,
sit and fancy baby
Close to my aching breast.
Ny darlin%S pretty, white garments.
| wrought them, sitting apart.
While his mystic lite was throbbing
Under my tIIrohhing heart.
And often my HAPPY dreaming
freaks in happy song.
Like the murmur of birds at brooding.
When the days are warm and long.
finished the dainty wardrobe.
And the drawer was almost full.
With robes of the finest muslin.
And robes of the whitcst wool.
| folded them all together.
With rose for every pair.
Smiling. and saying. Gem fragrant.
Fit tor my prince to wear
All. the radient summer morning.
so full "t Il mothers joy.
Thank God, he is fair and perfect.
Ny beautiful, newborn boy"
Let him wear the pretty. white garments
| wrought While ,il.ing apart;
Lay him. 50 sweet aud 50 helpless.
Here close to my tmobbing heart.
Many and many an evening
sit. since my baby came.
Saying. "What do the angels call himr
For fe died without name:
Sit While the hours are waning.
And the house j. all at rest.
And fancy baby ne>tlin"
Close To NV aching breast.
-PatRdm'S Ndqa .tHe.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17
A gentleman travelling in the Sout

A gentleman travelling in the South
attended worship in a colored church,
the colored pastor of which was remarka-
ble for his high-fown style in the use OF
words. On this occasion a white min
lister preached in plain and direct style
adapted to his audience. In the season
of exhortion and prayer, which followed
the sermon, an old negro thanked the
Lord for the various blessings of the Sab
bath and the sanctuary, ''and we thank
Thee that to-day we have been fed from
a low crib The Protestant Church.
man wishes that all preachers would re-
member that ''Chrio's flock are mostly
little ones Their necks are short. They
cannot reach high aud food placed in
too lofty crib is no better than none at
all They may then starve, though the
food be provided, because they cannot
get anything that will nourish them"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17
Bnying GIOces in GibraJtor

A very handsome young lady in the
store offered Inc a pair of blue gloves. |
) did not want blue, but she said thew
would look very pretty on hand like
mine. The remark touched me tenderly.
glanced furtively at my hand, and some
how IT did seem rather comely member.
| tried glove on my left hand, and
blushed little. Manifestly the size was
too small for me. But 1 felt gratified
when she said:
"Oh, it is just right yet | knew it
was no such thing.
tugged at it diligently, but it was
dlscouraglng work. She said:
"Ah L see you are accustomed to
wearing kid gloves-but some gentlemen
are so awkward about putting them on,
1t was the last compliment had ex-
pected. only understand putting ON
the buckskin article perfectly. made
annother attempt, and tore the glove
from the base of the thumb into the
palm of the hand-and tried to hide the
rent. She kept up her compliments, and
kept up my determination to deserve
them or die.
'Ah, you have had experience - "A
RIP down the back of the hand. "They
are just right for you-your hand is very
small-if they tear you need not pay for
them" \ rent acros the middle. 81
can always tell when gentleman under
stands putting on kid gloves There is
grace about it that only comes with long
practice" The whole afterguard ofthe
glove ''tetched away" as the sailors say.
the fabric parted across the knuckles, and
nothing was left but a melancholy ruin.
was too much fattered to make an
exposure and throw the merchandise on
the angels hands. | was hot, vexed,
but still happy; but | hated
the other boys for taking such an absorb
ing interest in the proceedings. | wished
they We're in Jericho. | felt exquisitely
mean when | said cheerfully,-
This one does very well; it fits eIe-
5antly. | like glove that fits. No,
never mind, ma'am, never mind; I'll put
it on in the street 1t Is warm here
1t was warm. 1t was the warmest
olace ever was in. | paid the bill, and
Is passed out with fascinating bow,
hought detected a light in the wom-
ms eye that was gently ironical and
when | looked back from the street, and
he was laughing all TO herself about
or other, said to myself, with
'lthering sarcasm, "Oh, certainly, you
now how TO put on kid gloves, don't
GU! self-complacent ASS, ready to be
ALTERED out ofyour senses by every pct
lcoat that chooses TO take the trouble to
o it,"-.Hark Ttcqin.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17
ToUCHING INSTANCE OF CHILDrsu De

ToUCHING INSTANCE OF CHILDISH DE-
vOnoN.-Three children in New Bruns-
wick got astray. One was about six
years of age, the others four and three
1t was wild region, and i'll wild weaIl-
cr, and at the edge of night. From
signs it seems that the six years old soon
felt sure there was no hope of their being
found, or finding themselves that night,
and SO ii took measures at once for the
safe keeping OF lis little ones. Putting
them in the most sheltered nook it could
find, it then stripped away the most of
ITS own garments to put on them and set
out % gather dry seaweed and brush to
cover them up in and defend them. Quite
Il quantity of this had been gathered and
piled about the babes into sort of
nest, and there they lay when the peo-
pie found them, still alive; but the SIX
year old matron and martyr lay out on
the shore dead of the cold-lay beside
the last pile of brush it had been able to
gather, but was not able to bring III.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

''She died. said Polly, "and was
never seen again, for she was buried in
the ground where the trees grow" '.The
cold ground ~ said the child, shuddering
again. "No, the warm ground" re-
turned Polly, ''wherc the ugly little seeds
are turned into beautiful flowers, and
where good people turn into angels and
fly away to heaven. .''-DickeHs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

An old drunkard at indianapolis laid
down on the railroad track the other day
and had his life saved by faithful dog
which dragged policeman to the rescue.
The faithful canine ought not to be
blamed, for he doubtless had the best Of
intentions,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

A little boy while flying a kite at
Virginia City, New, the other day,
backward into the shaft of a
mine and fell $50 feet. The boy lived
long enough to be brought to the top.
1t must be rather risky to leave such holes
unfenced.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

a Bellows Falls mechanic recently re-
ceived the following note from an Irish
man who sent a saw to be filed: "Mr.
- please brest it off wrounding and
file it whoking"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

AT Concord y. H., Mrs. Caroline
Clark has recovered 3d. ,394 81, damages
and costs from Mrs. Paul r. George,
whose dog bit Mrs. Clark's three-year-old
son, in July, 1866.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17
o. 3. CUTTING.

--,ry K.ss "a .yl':,, F:iicy {, 1,is, TucL t
- lItr! No.c, p ,:.,l,s, ClOcks, } wei J, &c.
-. 10 - II. I,i, Aa.4 door Of Woodbury. d
"!@. tI,,JHp, VERMONT
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17

The corn crop is a pigmy, it IS non
entity, it is a factotum, humbug,a bank
rupt. Everybody seems to have planted
the small yellow kind, and as emblemat-
ic of its gone-upness it is wearing the hue
of utter dsconsolateness. 1t no more ap-
pears in silks and tassels. Joseph of
old would make poor stagger buying
corn the coming harvest. - Wisconsin Pa
per.
1t Is about the same here
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-09-17
GRANITE STATE
Military 4 Collegiate institute,

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