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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-01-15
From the N, Y. Mercantile Journal
Character.

! The Able Lacordaire, exiled from France
Yin 1851, uttered some grand and true words
In famous sermon of his, on "Man. We
translate the passage which we chiefly adj
mire:
| "True greatness of character is not in the
mind alone, and we have too many memo
fable examples around us to admit the ne
cessity of mentioning them. You all know
that man may be powerful in his aims,
yet cowardly in the means he adopts
Greatness of character rs rather in the heart,
because tho heart is the seat of liberty, be-
cause thence we draw our generous senti-
ments, because there We feel justice and
truth arising in us. The mind controls
the heart attaches us, but the heart must
have noble, profound and exalted outward
expression.
God has given man a 'front.' sublime; he
has made him to look upward to the heav.
ems Ofthese, our conscience, Christians, is
the shining mirror, and thence 1t Is that
we should in all things, draw the deeds that
are our duty and the duty of Others.
What dishoners these ministers, these
conquerors, these founders of empires is that
they pursue an aim despite all the barriers
of conscience, and reach it despite all NOR
atty and justice. We must not take up
with evil that good may como of it, how
ever mighty may be the views, however
great the aim, even when the latter is what
Is called, Saving country" He who to
attain that purpose, employs base means,
is base himself; the honorable man prefers
to die rather than to be degraded. The
cause of the victor pleased the gods, but
Cato preferred the vanquished side, and
not to stray from Christian SMILES, let us
say with the mother ofthe Maccabccs; "let
us stand firm and erect, and let us die with
simplicity"
The chieftain OF q savage horde having
visited hermit, asked him to form wish
and promised to grant it, on the instant
I'm all your empire replied the hermit"
there is but one thing that ask-the sal
vation of your soul 7 Weneed these grand
and simple words that come, from time to
time, to illume the horizon of humanity,
in order not to feel contempt for the whole
history of men.
When God extended his finger to the fir
mament and made the stars to sparkle forth
from it, he desired to reveal himself glori-
ously to US; but when he touched the heart
OF man to make the spark of truth shoot
forth from it, the revelation was still more
magnificent.
What st. Paul said of the heavens may
be applied to character 1t must haYe
height, length and breadth. Height-that
is to say dignity; breadth-that Is to say
generosity length, that is to say-patience,
devotion, and love-"
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Report Of the Commissioner or
internal ReccNNe.

In this important Report, it will De seen
that in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1858,
the sum of one hundred and nincty-one
million dollars was collected from internal
revenue, the expenses of collecting which
was five per cent. The heavy items in this
account are the taxes paid on the indul-
gcnce of popular appetite. The amount
received for instance. from the tax on chew
ing and smoking tobacco was, in round
numbers, fifteen million dollars. Add to
this the cost of production and dealers
profits, which is estimated to be five times
more than the revenue tax, amounting to
sevcnty-ive million dollars. All the rail
roads paid together less than seven millions,
the insurance companies less than two mil
lions, and the telegraph and express COM
panies not million between them, so that
chewing and smoking tohacco-our small
vices, as they arc called-are really bigger
things" in the Commissioners report than
all the railroads, telegraphs or express and
insurance companies in the United States
taken together, The number ofcigars tax
ed was six hundred millions. 1t is calcu-
lated as many more are used through snag-
Cling, making grand total yearly expen-
diture in the United States of one hundred
md .ffty million dollars for tobacco alone.
Will not some Philanthropist discover
some remedy for this enormous and useless
waste Of money! Only think oft, one ham
dred and fifty million dollars annually hroWn
a,oayi This would soon liquidate our ma
tional debt. The question reours, where
will an Antidote be found for this greatest
of eyils.-New York Herald,
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A RUSSIAN VILLAGE.--Far away among
the widest ofthe wild steppes of Russia, and
in the heart of the corn countries is desc
late village. 1t is one of very many, and
fair type of all villages in Southern Rus
STA. 1t is built in a struggling line, the
main and only street being twice as wide
as Piccadily at the widest part. 1t may
extend perhaps long English mile, per
haps two, from one end to the other. The
reason of its length is that every hut has a
yard belonging to it about as large as
Grosvenor square, sometimes twice or three
times as large The yard serves no purpose
in particular. 1t is mere waste of good
ground. 1t becomes u huge dust heap in
the summer, and bog of quagmire during
the rest ofthe year. The huts generally sit
uated all alone at the extreme of a corner
facing the road have peculiarly misera-
BILE appearance. They are built of mud
and fagots coarsely whitened, and have
matched roofs, usually with large holes in
them. Every hut is divided by clay
stove into two dim holes, and is foored
with dry manure. This "kirpitch" is the
only fuel used. Few of these huts have any
windows. Some of them have no doors.
Everything betokens decay, misery, list.
lessness, indifference to any OF the comforts
or decencies of human life. The village
looks precisely what it is-a place in
habited almost entirely by drunken men
and women, utterly ignorant, utterly bru-
talized and demoralized by despotic Gov
eminent. Their sole pleasure in this world
is drink. There is not garden or a fruit
tree, or a shrub in sight; not flower, not
singing bird, nor nag horse nor a pet
calf about. No pleasant apple-faced old
women spinning in door way, no girl
singing as she carries her milk and eggs to
market, nothing which makes the charm
and beauty Of an English or German vii:
lage. All is black, dreary, forbidding.
Even nature itself is sad in Russian vii
liage. A few gaunt pigs walk about hide
bound, grubbing discontentedly for offal.
Bands Of large, shaggy, fierce dogs rush out
from every yard on the passer-by and must
be stoned back to their kennels before they
viii allow him to go upon his way.
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Z u d
cent. Of the balls fred will take efAct.-
The whole affair, when in fighting trim
weighs but five hundred pounds, and is in
tended to be hauled by one horse and
worked by two men, one to drive an6
the other to operate. The loading and fire
ing apparatus is SO arranged that it can be
detached in moment, when the other par,
of the deadly engine becomes perfectly use
less One of them can be finished of, com
plete, with horse, &C., for 81 900.
The inventor, young working mechan-
ic, feels jubilant at the great success which
attended the first trial of his important
production, which cost him SO many months
of toll and all the means which he had al
his command. He goes to Washington in
about week to push his fortune and TO
revolutionize tho art of war.
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The Word ss.1Earr,..n

| There has been not q little discussion as
to the use of this word, chiefly in regard
to the public announcements of marriage.
/ The usual mode of making the announce
ment is Married, John Smith to Mary
Jones. Some people being dissatisfied
with this form, of late years we have seen
in certain quarters-Married, John Smith
NTH Mary Jones, and in others-John
Smith and Mary Jones. have no heaita.
ton in saying that all of these forms are
|. incorrect. We know, indeed. what is
meant by one of them; but the same is true
of hundreds and thousands of erroneous
uses of language. Properly speaking a
with her; nor man and woman married
with each other. Hf
Her name islost in his, not his in hers she
becomes member of his family, not he of
hers; it is her life is merged, or supposed
to be merged in his, not his in hers; she
follows his fortunes, and takes his station,
not he hers. And thus manifcstly she has
been attached to him by legal bond, not
he to her except indeed, las all attachment
is necessarily mutual. But nevertheless we
do not speak oftying ship to a boat, but a
boat to a ship. And as long at least as man
is the larger, the stronger, the more indi.
vidually important; as long as woman
generally lives in her husbands house and
bears his name-still more, should she not
bear his name-it is the woman that is
married to the man. In speaking OF the
ceremony, it is proper to say that he mar
ried her (durit in matrimoniam) and not
that she married him, but that she
was married to him and that the prop
per form of announcement is-Married,
Mary Jones to John Smith. The etymol-
ogy of the word agrees entirely with the
conditions of the act which it expresses.
To marry is to give, or to be given, to
husband, MARI
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gaetiGal.
Life Ledces.

The day, with its sandals dipped In dow,
Has passed through the evenings golden ga'es.
And single star in the coudlcss blue
For the rising moon in silence waits
While the winds that sigh to the langud hours
A lullaby breathe DER the folded flowers.
The lilies nod TO the sound Of the stream
That winds alone with lulling flow,
And either awake, or half-a-dream,
pass through the realms of long ngo,
While faces peer with many smile
From the bowers of memory's magic tale.
There joys and sunshine sorrows and tears,
That check the path oflife's April hours,
And longing wish for the coming years,
That hope ever wrcathes with the fairest flowers;
There are friendships gueless-love as bright
And pure as the stars in the halls of night.
There are ashen memories bitter pain,
And buried hopes, aud a broken vow,
And an aching heart by the reckless main.
And the sea-breezc tanning pallid brow,
And a wanderer on the shel-lincd Shore
Listening for voices that speak more.
There are passions strong and ambitions wild,
And the fierce desire to stand In the vHn
OF the battle Of life F.; and the heart OF the child
Is crushed in the breast of the struggling man:
But short the regrets, anil few are tho tears
That fall at tho tomb of the banishod years.
There Is quiet aud peace, and domestic love,
And joys arising from faith aud TRUTH
And truth unqrestionng, far above
The passionate dreaming of ardent youth
And kisses Of children on lip and cheek,
And the parents bliss which no tongue can speak.
There arc loved lostl There are little graves
In the distant dell meath protect lug tiees
Whore the streamet Winds and the violet waves,
And the grasses sway to the signing breeze;
And we mourn for pressure of tender lips, ...a
And the light Of eyes darkened In deaths eclipse.
And thus as the glow Of the daylight dies,
And the nights first look to the earth Is cast,
gaze, meath those beautiful summer skies
On the pictures that hang in the hall of tho past
Oh Sorrow and joy chant mingled lay,
When to memorys wildwood wander away.
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| THE TEXAN AND THE LAsso.-The tol.
lowing has been clipped from the Jesoish Sen
tineI, of st. Louis, NO.: g35 ID. .-3,f
The Texas herdsmen become so expert in
the use of the lasso that they ride on their
stunted ponies through the city of Houston
as though on steeple-chase, pick up with
one throw of the rope anything they may
happen to want on the side of the streets.
They very seldom miss their aim. They
will take up a loaf of bread from the pave
ment or the hat from the head of man
walking in front of them with the greatest
ease, while riding at the highest speed
The dexterity aseribed to the herdsman
is no impossibility. The lasso cannot be
used with effect upon a small article-there
must be sufficient weight to make the knot
tight The lasso wouldjerk off mans hat,
butt would seldom remain In the rope. A
good rider can take anything light from the
ground. He can pick up piece of money
at full gallop. lie seldom alights to get
anything he can raise with one hand. He
can throw rope upon any named leg OF
an animal, shoot with remarkable accuracy,
at full speed of his horse, and he can also
touch the ground with his feet without
stopping his horse. The vault into the sad
die is easy. @ cC- 1tWl 90 To-
There have been, and are yet, men in
Texas who can robe wild horse, tie him
to tree, saddle and ride him at once. The
same thing has been accomplished without
saddle or bride, and the rider sitting upon
the naked back of the horse.
In riding, shooting and fighting the
Texans acknowledge no superiors. They
are willing to measure themselves with any
nationality in any and all of those dangerous
feats.-- B'ornsoille Sentinel
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The HOlN Land.

The Chicago Journal has correspondent
who is strolling through the Holy Land
and Palestine. He is not particularly i'm
pressed with its present state, whatever its
past may have been. He says: II have not
seen wagon road in Palestine. Even the
stones and timber for building the houses
in Jerusalem must be brought into the city
upon the backs of camels and donkeys
and the roads over which Abraham, David,
Christ and the Apostles once travelled are
but paths winding over the rocks and
around the base of sterile mountains In
fact the whole land, said to have been once
so beautiful, is now but rocky, barren
waste. think | have seen more good
land in one square mile in Iowa or Illinois
than in all Palestine. Much of the country
is occupied by the Bodouin Arabs, and for
the privilege visiting the river Jordan and
Dead Sea their Sheik requires $3.50 from
each person. For this amount he sends a
guard of Arabs with you. The population
of Jerusalem is said to be but 14,000."
The correspondent, upon this fact, moral
ICES thus; "While looking at the city as
it now stands, with narrow streets filled
with dogs. Arabs and filth, il is hard to re-
alize that it was once the home OF more
than one million human beings, and the
proud metropolis of a mighty nation
While looking out of the window at the
Mosque of Omar where the Turk bears
rule, can but ask myself the questions, Is
it possible that on that spot stood the tenn
pie of Solomon2 Is it there tina David
held his court? The pages of history an
swer, Yes. That spot is Mount M 'r;ah.
Upon that ground stood that Tenn lie " hose
glory filed the whole EARTH" .-.
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VOL. XIII.---NO.
tricks n, Trade.

! The New Yerk World has turned the
attention to the swindles practiced by the
grocery dealers in that city-exposing the
tricks Of the retailers-and publishing in
full the name and number of every firm
thus far detected, with articles which have
been purchased, and the amount found
short
In the article of tea alone, the adulter.
ants are exhausted tea leaves, leaves Of
the beach, elm, horse chestnut, starch, rice,
husks, and sand. For coloring the tea are
used rose pink, Dutch pink, vegetable red
and yellow dyes, chrome yellow, Venetian
red, Prussian blue, sulphate of lime, verdi
girls, carbonate of copper chromate and BIZ
carbonate of potash, carbonate of magnesia,
black load, soap stoae, logwood, indigo,
and sulphate ofiron, l 40 oil. 100,
In coffee they use chicory, roasted beans,
acorns, mangle-wurzel, roasted wheat,
roasted peas, parsnips, sweet potatoes, in
ferior or damaged coffees, mahogany saw
dust, old sea biscuits, oak bark, tan bark,
and brick dust. For color, burnt sugar,
madden root, yoasted horse liver, and burnt
blood have been used.
( Spices are adulterated with wheat, as
| well as ground oil cake, arrow root mus
tard husks, &c. To give bulk and weight
! to flour, hydrated sulphate of lime, pow
dered flints, plaster Of Paris, chalk, while
alum is used to give proper taste to
adulterated flour. For sugar they use
plaster of Paris, tapioca, wheat flour and
sand. Vinegar is doctored with sulphuric
and other acids, water and Cayenne pep
per. For lard, alum, potash, caustic, lime
and mutton suet. In bread sulphate of
copper is used, while confectionery seems
and noisono,s snhstancss ever -" nr;r;n.t t.i1
Who can read such an exhibit of poisons
entering into the articles of daily eonsump-
practice can be abated In any degree the
newspaper which has begun the exposition
will surely be entitled to the thanks of a
grateful community.
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s5y~ An attorney, about to furnish bill
of costs, was requested by his client, a ba-
ker, ito make it as light as he could !"-
"AhW replied the attorney, "that's what
youmay say to your foreman, but it's not the
way make my bread"
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times, fayorite and fashionable fparsuit;
one ofth9 most celebrated pirates of the
Northern seas was a Princess Alyilda, the
daughter of q Gothic king, who, according
to the legend, embraced the occupation Of
a sea-rovcr,9 to relieve herself from a MARI
age which was soughfs be imposed upon
her contrary TO her estimation, with AN,
q Danish prince. She habited herself in
male costume, and selected as her rowcrs
and crew, Al band of Amazonian damsels,
who assumed The same attire.
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~ a shoemaker was the other day fit
ting customer with pair of boots when
the buyer observed that he had but one OBJ
lection to them, which was that the soles
We're little, too thick. "If that is all, re-
piled the maker, "put on the boots and the
objection will gradually wear away"
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sg1 Felix Mccarthy, of the Kerry Mill.
tia, was generally late on parade. 'Ah,
Felix said tho sergeant, you are always
last" BE aisy, Sergeant Sullivan" was
his reply; ''sure some one must be last
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-01-15

sy~ A woman in ono OF the census dis
tricts on Long Island gave to the, enumer-
ator the names of twenty Of her children,
and then said she believed there were two
or three more, but she couldn't just then
remember their names.
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1:Y- A lady who had refused an awk-
ward but wealthy sutton, said to friend as
he passed, "Look at hirni Could you mar
ry him, even if he had a carriage and
horses ~ mo, indeed, !" replied the other,
mot If he kept a livery stable.n
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sSS" A gent ont West was invited to
take game ofpoker, but he refused, say
ing: "No, / thankee; played poker
all ono summer, and bad to wear pankccn
pants all next winter. 4 have no taste tor
that amusement since. tg5s g3f W tg n
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A SINGULAR CASE or SSMEoLENcY.-
About noon Thursday, whea the throng of
people on Seventh street was greatest,
man was discovered fast asleep in front of
Forneys Press Office. He was in stand
ing position, and his head was resting
upon the bulletin board, upon which yes
teroay's Press waspasted. Several persons
thinking him sick or drunk, attempted 10
awaken him, but could not, He still
snorcd away, and finally snored so loud that
the noise amounted to disturbance q, the
peace. A policeman was then ca
who, after shaking the man well, and
ing in his ear, succeeded in awak;
He rubbed his eyes and after fevs
regained consciousness. Quite u
crowd was collected, and the mi
ed that he was in business as q
er in Eighth street; that he h -
pay, and was hurrying do.
it; that he only stopped Z
The Press Office, and begad.s ss..sssa 81.
the editorials He could not explain why,
but a heavy drowsiness instantly came
over him, against which he strus: a.. in
vain He said he never was SO. si,vi, III
his life and in little time lost conscious
ness entirely. Considerable sympathy was
expressed by the bystanders, and after dip
ping his head in cold water the unfortunate
individual went away drowsily after thank
ing the policeman for his prodigious efforts
to awaken him,
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s5y He is we'll constituted who grievcs
not for what he has not, and reioiccs for
what he has.
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icy Alaska has a base ball club Pro-
copi Kiokak is first base, and Mr. Komoi-
pcehusattrigoo is pitcher.
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1t would seem that Jackson county is not
entirely without rival in our sister State
of Indiana. There are some other counties
that have these gangs of robbers and MUIR
derers, as we'll as regulators, to look after
them. 1t is said that Benton county is
equally notorious for the crimes committed
of late years by a gang of cut threats hay
ing their headquarters in Pine township,
near Rainesville. A gentleman writing
from Rainesville, December 18th, gives the
following account of the doings and tragic
death Of the chief of this gang of robbers
and murderers and his family, and some
other items of interest. He says:
"a few days before we got out to the
Ridge some men went to the house of a
man named Shater and shot him, killing him
instantly. He was very bad mani ar-
boring horse thieves and stealing for mis-
living. Several years ago some men track
ed horse thief to his cabin. They inquir-
cd of this man Shafer if the thief had been
there aud were told that he had not, but
one of his little girls said that the thief had
been there. So the pursuit was continued
and the thief caught. Shafer and his wife
then took their little daughter out into q
huckleberry patch and cut her throat for
telling about the thief. Shortly after this
it was found out that Shafer was sheltering
thieves and murderers, and he was sent to
the State Prison for one year. While there
his wife took sick with fever. During her
delirium she would say, oh, how the little
thing screamsp The murder of her little
daughter was working on her mind. She
never recovered, but passed to her final and
terrible account After her death her hus
band came back, lived alone, and carried on
the same as before. So three men concluded
to put him out of the way.
They went to'his cabin one evening with
well-loaded shotgun. The old fellow
was getting his supper, when one of them
shot him in the back with twenty-five swan
shot. The next day man went to his ca
bin and found him dead. Since this three
more of the same tribe have left for fear
they would be served the same way.