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Year: 1865

The Southern Democracy undertook to
erect their political structure on the corner
ptone, the negro alone, and failed in the at
empt. The Northern Democracy, improving
on their experience, are building on nigger
nd whisky
Year: 1865

The shock of the earthquake mentioned in
the dispatches of Saturdays paper was sensi-
ply felt by several persons in our city between
and 10 clock Thursday forenoon, as we
were informed by them on the evening ofthat
day
Year: 1865

From Rev J. Newton Brown, d. D.. Editor Of the En-
cyclopedia Of Religious knowledge and the CHRIS
tian Chronicle Philadelphia


Although not disposed 10 favor recommend Pat
ent Medicines in general through distrust Of their
ingredients and effects, yet | know Of no sufficient
reasons why q man may not testify TO the benefits
he believes himself 20 have received from any simple
preparation, in the hope that be may thus
20 the benefit OF others.


do this the more readily In regard 10 HOofand 5
German Bitters, prepared by DR.. c. N. Jackson Of
this City, because was prejudiced against them for
many years, under the impression that they were
chiefly an alcoholic mixture. I am indebted 10 my
friend Robert Shoemaker Esq, for the removal Of
this prejudice by proper tests and for announcement
to try them when suffering from great and long con
tinued debility. The OF three bottles OF these
btters at the beginning OF the present year was fol-
lowed by evident relief and restoration TO q degree
Of bodily and mental vigOr which had not felt for
SIX months before, and had almost despared OF re
gaining. therefore thank God and my friend for
directing me TO use them.


M l.rr.a- r
Year: 1865

ADVICE TO You've LAwYER.--The following
is the advice of an examining judge to young
lawyer, on admission


"Sir, it would be idle to trouble you father
You are perfect and will dismiss you with a
few words of advice, which you will do very
well to follow. You will find it laid down as
maxim Of civil law never to kiss the maid when
you can kiss the mistress. Carry out this prin-
ciple, sir, and you are safe. Never say boo to
goose when she has the power to lay golden eggs.
Let your face he long, your bills longer Never
put your hand in your pocket when anybody's
else is handy. Keep, your conscience for your
own private use, and don't trouble il with other
mems matters. Plaster the Judge and butter the
jury. Look as wise as an OWL and be as ocular
as town clock. But above all get money hon.
estly if you can, my dear sir but get money.
welcome you TO the bar
Year: 1865

A KIND ACT AND IT'S REWARD.


The Cleveland PIaindealer sketches an
incident that lately occurred on one of the
railroads running through Ohio. The sketch
is interesting, though it is impersonal.


The train is running at rapid rate
The car is filed with well dressed aristo-
cratic passengers. The conductor enters
and proceeds TO collect the accustomed
fare Presently he comes to lady dressed
in deep mourning, travelling with three chill
dren. and calls for ticket. The lalv
quickly put her hand into her pocket for
the same, but it was gone, with the wallet
containing allher money, within which the
ticket had been placed for safe Keeping
The lady is of an exceedingly modest. re-
firing disposition, and in an agitated man
ner explains why she cannot pay the fare.


The conductor is one of those hard
hearted kind-one Of those men without
particle of gentle feeling-and without Ia.
king into consideration any of the pallia-
ting circumstances of the case. rung the
bell, stopped the train, andthe young wo-
man and her little ones were ordered from
the car The engineer had not been an
uninterested spectator of the scene. He
had left the engine, and advanced 10 where
the lady was standing, looking so distressed
and friendless The engineer had big,
warm heart. Putting his hand into his
pocket, he produced fifty dollar gold piece,
and handing it to the lady remarked:


Here, madam take this, get into the
car. 1t is shameful that you should be thus
treated" eF


The lady hesitated about receiving it,
but was in desperate strait and after
showering numberless thanks upon the no.
BILE engineer, she insisted upon receiving
his name and address, and then returned
to her seat in the cars and went on her way.


About month after this time the engi-
neer received note requesting him TO call
at the express Office, and take from thence
a package addressed to- him. He did so.
Upon opening the package, he found that
it contained fifty dollars. and an elegant
gold watch, seals and chain. Upon the
inside Of the case was inscribed the golden
rule, the substance of which is, do to
others as you wish others to do to you"
Year: 1865

A THouFHrFuL BoY.-A certain Sunday School


teacher in New York was in the habit of taking
collection in his Juvenile class for missionary
objects. He was not a little surprised one day to
find country note among the weight of copper


He was not long in finding it to be q broken
bank and on asking the class who put it there,
the donor was pointed out to him by one who
had seen him deposit it. "Didn't you know
that this note was gocd.for nothing ~ said the
teacher s;Yeg,' answered the boy. Then
what did yon put il in the box for? The boy
coolfy re .'ed FSrdidn't spose the little heath
ems woulu lSnow the difference and thought it
would be i.st as good for them h3r5u
Year: 1865

va. 1t is rare that editors indulge in drop
too much, but when they do, their readers are
sure to find them out. 4 cotemporary was re-
Gently called upon to record melancholy
event." being pretty far gone in his cups, he
made bad job 1T sS.the following will show:


g Yesterday morning, at o'clock P. NJ, a man
with heel in the hole of his stocking commit
ted arsenic by swallowing dose of suicide. The
inquest of the verdict returned jury that the
deceased came to the facts in accordance with his
death. lie leaves o child and six small wives to
lament the end of bis untimely loss, In death
We are in the midst Of life
Year: 1865

@se Two fast young men, justreturnng home,
aftera nights carousal, saw the sun rising. One
it vas the moon. They agreed to leave it to the
first man they met. He also had been ont on a
lark q Excuse me, sir, but my friend and
have made little bet, whether that's the sun or
the moon that's now rising, and we We agreed TO
haveyou decide the NATTER '' Fact is, gentle
men, ! should be very happy but you see L m a
stranger 10 the city, and have also been out all
night ~ f}NbC5 fns
Year: 1865

Masculine AND FENININE.-Punch slanderously
says The sun is called masculine from his sup
porting and sustaining the moon and finding her
where wihal to shine away as she does at night /;
and from being obliged to keep such family OF
stars besides. The moon is feminine becanse
she is'constantlv changing just as ship is blown
about every wind. The church is feminine be-
cause she is married to the State, and Time is
masculine, because he is rifed with by the ladies.
Year: 1865

G9~ Young ladies should not write poetical
love letters Such a one was written TO a Ken
lucky beau not long since, which so affected him
that he stole horse TO go and see the writer
and got into Jail to pay for getting in love with
a pOeteSS s4-s ua at sess fffet 74sate 81
Year: 1865

/.


COMFORT or ANiaALs:-Ar n animal may be we'll
fed and apparently we'll attended, and yet be M
comfortable owing to the floor to stand or rest
on, bad rack manger, or some other incon.
venence III the stable; there may be q want of
exercise or change of food pure air, carling,
pure water, or something else necessary for com
fort he may breathe on his food and render II
offensive, or something incommode or render the
animal uncomfortable OF course his digestion
is impaired his appetite declines he will not grow
or fatten and is unfit for labor, and the female is
not in good condition for yielding good whole
some milk. If we intend our farm stock shall
be protitably kept, we must attend 10 their com
fort as we'll as their sustenance. They must be
well lodged rs we'll as well fed, or they will con-
sumo much hay and provender to little purpose.


II they are well Uttered, they will not only be
rendered the more comfortable, but the material
with which they are accommodated will make
good manure. Therefore, make your animals
comfortable. 1t is comparatively an easy matter
for those farmers who have nothing but good En-
glish hay and grain 70 feed out to their stock, to
have them look well and do we'll, but with some
farmers who have q great deal of coarse fodder.
it is a very different thing. II requires consde-
rabe stud Ito carry stock of cattle through the
winter on coarse fodder. and have them looking
well in the spring A person must be constantly
fixing up something that is palatabie for them.-
know Of no better way than to keep changing
from one kind 10 another, and in iudicious feed
ing, so as TO keep the appetite good. Thus one
can keep stock thriving and in good order


'''.',i ii' Nc,c York Farmer
Year: 1865

Our office, besides one of Hoes best Power
Presses, IS furnished with good Job Press and
all the necessary materials for executing plain
and fancy Job Printing with neatness and dis
patch.
Year: 1865

any attempt on the part Of "the Govern
ment' to coerce State into subjechon.


Mr.. Moderator, 1 said awhile ago that in
the absence of any clear and well defined
standard OF loyalty" and in the constant
shifting OF the standard both anon gst church.
men and statesmen, there was a solid and in
superable objection against the passage Of
tins order. Now, sir, add that the same
objection lies with equal force against the
order as It respects the subject OF freedom"
1t leaves 1t entirely to the Board" to settle
the standard by which the loyalty" and
freedom necessary to be approved shall be
determined. Then, sir, it will be requisite
that this board should prepare catechism
on these subjects Of loyalty and freedom,
that our ministers may have some guide in
their preparation for examination. And
what are TO be the points of inquiry on this
yexed and complicated subject of freedom
Is 1t to denounce slavery as the 'sum Of all
villainiesH 2 Is it to say that to hold a slave
is IN itself sin and the STAKEHOLDER a criTni-
nal q Is 1t to believe and hold that slavery
Is the root Of all evil" and makes a man
rebel, murderer and an assassin 1t is to
approve Of immediate and indiscriminate
emancipation; in our midst, of the whole slave
population OF the country2 Is it to believe
the Emancipation Proclamation" to have
been inspired Of God and 10 be received by
the Church IS an expression Of His holy win
for her guidance, to be enforced with FIRE and
sword and accommodation and imprisOu-
ment and death Are these, or such like
these, to be made the exerunatOry points Of
inquisition now2 If so, wish to know if
the matter is to stand at this, or to change
with the advance Of the so-called "spirit Of
freedomP Sir. we are progressive" I
have understood that there is q memorial in
circulation here for signatures asking this As
sembly to give an expression in favor Of ''ne-
gro suffrage" Well, sir, is this to be made
point in the new eatechism of "loyalty and
freedom p Why not, sir; and even more
than this? In the present stage Of this
movement surely no questions could be
more pertinent than such as these


Are you in favor Of immediate and perfect
civil and social equality between the whites
and blacks ?


Are you in favor Of using the negroes to
keep down the Roman Catholics


Are you in favor Of negro suffrage


Are you in favor Of matrimony between
weites and blacks?


Let us know at least something about this
catechism Of freedom to be used by the
Board, before we give them both the author
ity to make it and the power to enforce It as
a test Of the fitness of q Presbyterian minis
ter to preach the Gospel Of Christ to the
Presbytsriaus Of Georgia aud Mississippi.
Year: 1865

WE give below some extracts from
speech of the Rev. DR.. Wilson, of KY,
delivered before the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg
on the 10Th of May. 1t is described as
having electrified the Assembly and the
immense audience present, as we can well
imagine it would-for it administers a
stinging rebuke to that self-righteous
spirit-prevalent in all denominations
which seeks to degrade the churches of
the land to the service of politicalparty
We commend it to the careful perusal
of all.


The following Resolution being under
consideration, viz:


RESOLVED, That no Missionaries be
appointed by the Board, except those
giving satisfactory evidence of loyalty to
the National Government, and of cordial
sympathy with the Presbyterian Church
in her testimony on Doctrine, Loyalty,
and Freedom"


DR.. WILSON said


Mr.. MODERATOR 1t is with great
difficulty I can so recolleCt myself as to
realize that am sitting in court of the
Lord Jesus Christ and not in political
convention or in the Hall ofa State Leg
islature. So much has been said about
"loyalty" to Cesar and so little-so very
little-about loyalty to Jesus Christ, the
Head of the Church. 1 shall, however,
endeavor so far to recall my tOoughts to
the character of this Assembly and to the
proprieties of Court of the Church,
professedly acting under the guidance of
the Holy Spirit and according to the
teachings of the Word of God, as to abb
stain from the following those who have
preceded me, in their windings and
wanderings on the subject of loyalty
They have yielded US no light, on the
question which they are preparing with
SO much fiery zeal and one fails to
Year: 1865

IAN sitting in my consulting room in
dingy house in a dingy street. The
neighborhood is fashionable, being in the
vicinity of news, and having strong
smell of straw and stabling about it. My
consulting room is so called, lucus a non
lucenlo. because no one has thought fit
to consult me in it-that is no one to
speak of, because an elderly female did
once plunge into my apartment with her
little boy, who had overeaten himself,
alleging that the unhappy cub chad
overbalanced his heart, poor deer, a di-
agnosis which did not seen familiar, and
for a time perplexed me.


I am a surgeon, and have been two
years a qualified practitioner. But as
yet, save the elderly lady referred to, I
have had no patient. yet my door lamp
is the brightest, and burns the bluest of
any ia the neighborhoOd. My brass
plate is the largest and the brassiest. 1
have been called out of church on an
average four times every Sunday; the
policeman regularly hammers at my door,
in manner to disturb the whole street,
in the smaller hours of the night; para
graphs in the Piccadilly pepper, the To-



cal organ of the district, have regularly
set forth the imaginary accidents that l
have attended with my usual prompti-
tude and kindliness Of heart;" but it has
been all to no purpose [ am ready to
bleed for my country, but my country
will not be bled. My practice in anato-
nv is still confined to the dissection Of
my daily mutton chop; and in despair l
had given pills to all my servants, inelu-
ding my boy in buttons, till they struck
for board wages, with an increase contin-
gent on the consumption of draughts and
powders; and I had serious thoughts Of
taking some of my own medicine myself,
My last card had failed. A case of med
ais and a prize cup, with an inscription,
For Proficiency in Pathology" placed
within full view of the open window, on
ly tempted thieves and not patients and
policeman called to suggest that 1 was
hot to be so lavish of my plate. Poor
fellow he little knew all were dummies
I had written paragraphs in the Lancet
on Hydrocephalus" and "Asphyxia," 1"
had even very serious thoughts of writ
ing a book, and was one evening sitting
solitary in my room, musing on the bit
terness of sublunary things, especially of
aloes and other drastics, when rap came
at the door. A dun, by Jove Ia tax
gatherer, 1 thought. I listened a lady's
voice The rascal Jack had opened the
front door at once, as if he knew it was a
Year: 1865

nails must be punished, and Justice must
have its course.


1 had read in a French book once how
great criminal was detected in the act
of numbering his master by mirror
that the person watching had seen the
reflection of the assassin sitting the cries
of his victim with a pillow I deter
mined to set my trap by the same means.
1 placed the mirror in such way as
to command the head of the bed and
having, with the consent of the patient,
who seemed passive in the hands Of his
fendish wife-strsnge fatuity-made the
necessary dispositions for my watch. I
placed myself in an armchair. L sat for
some time musing on the terrible effects
of the poisoning by small doses, admins
tered by a cunning hand. saw imagi-
nation, the cruel and restless assassin
stealthily encroaching, as a serpent en-
velops its victim in its folds, day by day,
on the life and strength of the sufferer
obnoxious to its design. I thought of
the terrible suferings-the protracted
agony-the gradual prostratiOn of the
victim, the glOating cruelty of the poison
er, as hour by hour she watched and
measured the fading strength of her prey,
and thinking thus-I suppose I fell
asleep.


Twas awoke suddenly by door open
ing stealthily, noislessly. All! it is true
my worst suspicious were realized. I
did not move. A figure clad in loose
dress entered. The looking-glass before
me covered the head of the bed the
figure fell within its angle of incidence.
I saw at once it was the guilty wife. She
still noiselessly moved toward the head
of the bed She addressed some remark
to her victim He was awake and I
then saw her take from a table close by,
tumbler and vase Of antique form,
from which, still noiselessly, she poured
a draught I saw it all in an instant
the looking-glass revealed every move
ment. She raised the goblot-the un-
happy husband raised himself on his
elbow. He was about to drink.


Stay, demon !'' I said, in a voice of
thunder, addressing the lady; would
you poison your husband? Stay-drink
notofthe accursed draugbt-iti is poison!"
The lady gave a shrek, and the glass fell
upon the floor.


seized the vase containing the fluid.
I examined and tasted. 1t was-toast
and water!


I received my congo next morning from
a brother practitioner. The patient was
an NJ P, engaged-from his popular
manners, a taste for literature, and phi
lanthrophy-as perpetual chairman to
public dinners in the whitobait, season,
particularly those held at Greenwich. He
was suffering from billiousness and indi-
gestion, caused by his ministerial duties
in this respect. His young wife, with
perhaps pardonable anxiety, had over
rated the severity of this complaint, and
I had been mislcd by novels into believ-
ing that pretty women are generally de-
mons. I am wiser now; but this was
my first and last patient.
Year: 1865

An easy pnrgative that leaves the system
in a state of healthful regularity; purely veg
etable, they can be taken in any weather at
any time without danger Of evil consequence
es, and they always operate in the same
pleasant and thorough manner Families
that have tried them constantly keep box
on hand and recommend them to their neigh
bors, so that in this way they have become
more extensively used than any other cathar-
tic.


As sickness invariably attacks its victim
when the bowels are constipated, those who
nave recourse to Roback's Pills A. the proper
time need have no fear of illness for these
excellent pills always create the desired ac-
ton on the system.
Year: 1865

The successful publisher of the most popular
ladies' magazine in America, Louis A. Cooley.
and who is veteran IN the army Of publishers
give. his views to what should form an essential
in female education. His judgment is entitled to
no ordinary consideration in this regard and is in
accordance with the views that sound reason
would dictate. We commend them to the atten-
tion of our lady readers. He says:


cit is great mistake, in female education
to keep young lady's time and attention devoted
10 the fashionable literature Of the day. Ifyou
would qualify her for conversation, you must give
her something to talk about-give her education
with this actual world and its transpring events
Urge her 20 read the newspapers, and become
familiar with the present character and improve
mcnt Of our race. History is Of some Importance,
but the past world is dead and We have nothing to
do with il, Oar thoughts and our concerns should
be for the present world. to know what it is, and
improve the condition of it. Let her have IN in
tclligent opinion, and be able TO sustain an in
te!lisens conversation, concerning the mental
noral. political, and religious improvement of orr
times. Let the gided ANNALS and poems of the
ccntertable be kept part of the time covered with
weekly and daily Journals. Let the whole family
men, women and chldrcn-rcsd the ncwspa-
pers"
Year: 1865

Houseless by night"


and tn, officer that testified afterwards said that
looking in at those beautiful windows into this rare
and elegant room, there stood the young man who
had been her employer, with young girl resting
her hand in his, promising TO love and honor him
for life; and tis said that up and down up and
down. up and down, in the night and cold, wander.
ed this poor waif, this miserable outcast, still;
and when Christmas morning sun rose and str, am
ed up the street, there she rested dead and peace
And the day thereafter this girl, daughter Of a
clergyman, gently and tendery reared with a
mother who had loved her, this poor girl was car
ried out and buried in the potters field with four
miserable abandoned women following her as her
only mourncrs.
Year: 1865

matter before you to night. The speaker said,
that girls story had ending One Christmas
eve, not long ago, in one of our elegant streets,
in front ola beautiful dwelling, blazing with light
from garret to basement, stood this girl.


"With amazement
Year: 1865

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