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Year: 1867

In lSi4, as Messrs. Hill and Adamson of Edinburg were takinga daguerreotype of York Minister, child sat down on one of the steps in front of the principal en- trance, and the operators were afterwards surprised to find that the child's figure was transparent on the plate. The stones of the edifce having been impressed on it before, were visible through the portrait of the accidental sitter. This singular occurrence was soon forgotten, and it is only of late, since the invention of the cnticular stereoscope, that efforts have been made to apply such transparencies to some useful purpose-the representation of phantoms or apparitions, for instance. The process by which such effects are ob- tained is very simple. The photographer arranges the actors he is to represent in their proper order, and fixes the place where the phantom is to appear. The actors turn their eyes toward that spot with various attitudes of joy, fear or hor- TOT, which the apparition is supposed to produce, When there are but few sec onds left of the time required for produ- cling the complete effect of light on the plate, the person representing the phan- tom rapidly steps into the proper place in 1 I.H s E- the attitude previously agreed upon, and is so reproduced in transparent state, everything behind being more or less wis ible through the body of the person. This process Professor Mack now propo- ses to apply to anatomical preparations in very ingenious way Taking the skull, for instance, he photographs it sterossopi- cally, so that the whole interior of the ear is seen through the temporal bone. It is easy to conceive the immense advantages that may be derived from the system. Suppose it were required to show photo graphically the exact position of the heart and its imwediate connections in given posture of the person; that part would then be photographed first from a model

 snd the whole body over it; the latter would thus form transparent outline showing the relative positions of the in i ner and outer parts. @s's
Year: 1867

At Fort Harrison, Judge Ould called him out, and he gazed- silently upon the frowning memorial, of the days when he wielded the power of de facto nation. To those days he made no referencc at any time, and only once did he make any allusion to his present position, which he didwhen he said, in reference to his health, that he had a plenty of vitality left, and would be as strong as he ever was when he should orcf ont of his troubles, af f'M
Year: 1867

God calls in health. He speaks to us when
we are WE'LL for he knows we need to be In the
full possession of all our powers to attend Alright
to the great concern. In health we read his
calls ON the printed page hear them from the
sacred desk trace them in the events of Provi-
dence feel them In our hearts.


And in sickness God calls. He awakens in
us apprehensions of danger turns our thoughts
to the past; carries our lmaginatlons to the
future lets us look into the grave discioses the
solemnities of the judgment; gives an earnest
of eternal retributions.


God speaks in prosperity, where all is bright
and cheering reminds us that our sun may soon
be obscured and storms of sorrow fall.


And he speaks In aduersity, when all is dark
and gloomy; directs our thoughts to better
world, where sorrow and signing flee away, and
tears are wiped from every eye.


God calls in yo,ttb, when the heart is tender,
before the world has bound it in iron fetters,
and before evil habits are fixed he says, Re
member thy Creator in the days of the youth.


And in manhood God calls, impresses us with
the Importance of being ready for early death,
and urges the duty of spending the remainder
of our days in his service.


And then In old age he calls reminds us that
our sands are nearly run; that soon the silver
cord will be loosed, and the golden bowl broken;
probation ended destiny fixed,


In seasons of reuipaJ God calls. When 9TH
ers are converted and enter the ark of salty, he
leads us to think that now is the accepted time,
now the day of salvation. He impresses US
with the belief that one call will be the last
that there will be last time; !. that we may
refuse Christ and grieye, the Spirit once too
often and he excites the apprehension that
now may be our last opportunity, and that, IT
we now neglect to secure an interest in Jesus
Christ, we may never have another offer of
| mercy
Year: 1867

In the days Of the good colony Of Virginia,
the distinctions between rich and poor were
based upon laws which, like those of the Medes
and Perslans altered not. One OF the most
deyout followers of this code was a wealthy
planter, living in what is known as the North
ern Neck. He was in all other respects a
frank, open hearted, manly gentleman; but his
estimate OF his fellow men was founded upon
the principles that governed his selection of his
horses-blood. Wealth, too. was by no means
an unimportant feature with him. He had our
human weakness, and, like all Of us, was in
fuenced more than he even believed by pounds,
shillings and peace.


This Mr.. C. had quite large family, and
among them was daughter whose beauty was
the standing toast of the country. She was
just eighteen, and budding into lovely woman
hood Not only was she beautiful in person,
but her amiable disposition and many accom-
plishments made her more than ordinarily at
tractive, and half the gentlemen of the North
ern Neck were already signing for her love.


There was in the country at this time young
of his neighbors He came Of good family,
but was, as yet, a poor young surveyor, who
had taught himself his profession, and who had
spent much Of his time in traversing unknown
forests, with nothing but his compass for his
guide and his chain for his companion, loca-
ting lands and settling disputed titles. He was
a model of manly beauty, and excelled in all the
varied feats of strength in which the olden time
Americans took such pride. He was calm and
reserved, and there was about him dignifed
sweetness of delneanor that accorded well with
his frank independence of character He was
great favorite with all who knew him, and
there was no gathering to which he was not
asked.


Mr. c. seemed especially to like the
young man, and it was not long before he in
sisted that the latter should abandon all cere-
mony in his visits to him, and come and go
when he pleased The invitation was heartily
given, and as promptly accepted. The young
man liked the planter, and he found the socie-
ty of the beautiful Mary C. very strong
attraction. The result was that he was fre-
ouently at the planter residence SO frequent
". indeed, that Mrs. G. felt called upon to
ask her husband if he did not think it wrong to
permit him to enjoy such unreserved intercourse
with his daughter The father only laughed
at the idea, and said he hoped his daughter
knew her position too well to allow anything
like love for a poor surveyor to blind her to her
duty to her family.


Nevertheless Mary C. was not so fully
impressed with this conviction of duty as was
her father. She found more to admire in the
poor surveyor than in all her wealthy and aris
tocratic suitors; and, almost before she knew
Year: 1867

1 would be thinel
Oh not to learn the anguish;
Of being first deity enshrined;
Then. when the fever fit is past to languish
Strippd of each grace that fancy round metwine,


Not such the lot crave.


would be thine
Not in bright summer weather,
A sunny atmosphere of joy to breathe;
But fear and tremble when the storm clouds
gather,


And shrink life's unrelenting storm beneath.


Falling when needed most


would be thine!
To lose all selfish feeling
In the sole thought of thee, far dearer one
To study ever thy will revealing,
To make thy voices ever varying tone


The music of my heart.


would be thinel
When sickness doth oppress thee
With loves unwearied vigilance to watch,
Waking-to soothe, to caress thee;
Sleeping-to list in dread each sound to catch.


Thy slumbers that might break.


would be thinel
When vex'd by worldly crosses,
=. 10 cheer thee with affections constant ear;
To stay thee meath the burden of the losses,
By showing thee how deeply thou art dear


Most so in thy distress.


would be thine
Gently and unreplying
To bear with thee when chafed and spirit
worn,
The hasty word, the quick reproaeh, denying;
But by the soft submission which is born


Ofsteadfast love alone.


would be thineI
Not passions wild-emotion
To show thee, tttul as the changing wind;
But with STILL deep, fervent, life devotion,
TIC be to thee the help meet God design'd-


For this would be thine.
Year: 1867

How watchful you are over your s0ords; how
closely you control your looks how anxious you
are that action shall stand before God and man
clothed in the garb of propriety But how it
with your thoughts? All there is no check
over them they are permitted nay encouraged
to wander in and out ofyour heart, bringing the
seeds of anger, pride, lust, and hatred, planting
them there, and bearing out the poisonous fruits
"a harvest for eternity. :" What you think,
that you are" The real man is within you, not
without. Words, looks, actions, you can mould
and fashion so as to appear as you wish to your
from the eye of Him who searcheth the heart,
and requireth truth in the inward parts. The
character for eternity is formed by the thoughts
nourished in time. What an awakening it will
be for you in the spirit-world, if, after having
put off the visible man, which you have watch
ed and guarded over, which you were so anxious
to present in fair and spotless garb to your COM
panions, you should find yourself stripped of
your good reputation, and name of virtue, and
clothed upon with-what purity, wisdom, love,
truth, and the robe of Christ's righteousness?
Oh no; but in the dark and soied garment
woven by your life-thoughts ofimpurity, vanity,
pride, and envy.


Let me intreat you, therefore, to be more
watchful over your inner life. Remember you
are the temple of the Holy Ghost Realize this
the temple of the Holy Ghost Nothing that
defled must be admitted there. Strive, watch,
pray over your thoughts. Put away from you,
sternly and resolutely, every thing that would
degrade them; and whatsoever is pure, what
soever is lovely, whatsoever is Of good report,
think on these things"
Year: 1867

Leona, the hour draws nigh,
The hour we've waited so long,
For the angel to open door thro' the sky,
That my spirit may break thro' its prison and try
Its voice in an infinite song.
Just now as the slumbers of night
Came O er me with peace-giving BREATH.
The curtain half lifted revealed to my sight
Those windows which look on the kingdom Of


light


That borders the river of death.
And vision fell solemn and sweet,
Bringing CLEANS of mornlng-llt land,
[ saw the white shores which the pale waters beat
And heard the low lull as they broke at their


feet,


Who walked on the beautiful strand.
And wondered why spirits should cling,
To their clay with struggle and sigh,
When life's purple Autumn is better than spring,
And the soul flies away like sparrow, to sing
In climate where leaves never die.
Leona, come close to my bed
And lay your dear hand on my brow,
The same touch that bless d me in days that are


fed,
And raised the last roses of youth from the dead,
Can brighten the brief moment now.
We have loved from the cold world apart
And your trust was too generous and true
For their hate to O. erfoW-When the slanderOus


dart


Was ranking deep in my desolate heart,
was drawn then ever to you.
The moons silver hair lies uncurled,
Down the broad breasted mountain away
Ere sunsets red glories again shall be furled


world,
l shall rise in limitless day.
[ go, but weep not O. er my tomb,
Nor plant with fral flowers the sod;
There is rest among roses too sweet for its gloom
And life where the lilies eternally bloom,
In the Misunderstanding garden of God.
Yet deeply those memories burn,
Which bind me to you and to earth
And sometimes have thought my being would


yearn,
In the bowers of its beautiful home, to return
And visit the home of its birth.
I thank the Great Father for this
That our love is not lavished in vain;
Each year In the future will blossom to bliss
And the forms that we love, and the lips that we


kiss,
Never shrink at the shadow of pain.
By the light of this faith am taught,
That my labor is only begun,
With the legions of wrong, till my armor has


caught
The CLEAN of eternity's sun.
Leona look forth and behold
From headland, from hillside and deep
Inc day-klng surrendered his banners OF gold,
The twilight advances through woodland and


wod
And the dews are beginning to weep.
'Twould be pleasant to stay
and walk by your side to the last;
But the land breeze of Heaven is beginning to


play,


Life's shadows are meeting eternity's day.
And Its tumult is hushed in the past.
Leona Goodbye! should the grief
That is gathering now, ever be
Too dark for your faith, you will long for relief,


brief
Over lowland and river to me-
Year: 1867

Z TURING COMPANY are now making
out of heavy double warp cotton Bagging of their
own manufacture, the most superior


GRAIN BAG
to be found in the market.


The preparations for this work are on a very
large, scale, and can be SO extended as to supply
any demand, no matter how great, and for this
reason, affording satisfactory profit at much
lower rate than has prevailed for some time past
Parties wanting this article will do well to call
on or address the undersigned, at his office, No
Is, (in the rear) 14th street. Richmond.


E. b. BENTLEY,
july2-10 Agent.
Year: 1867

Sad and Lonely.
He comes not as he said he would,
He comes not as he swore he should,
So over the past, link by link,
All alone am left to think.
ALI alone with thoughts of the past,
Dark Shadows are over me cast;
Once he found me without a care,
Now leaves me alone in despair.
Vainly I look forth in the dark,
In vain for his footsteps l bark
No sound can be heard in the street,
Save the wind and the fall of sleet.
Why am left lonely to weep,
And these weary vigils to keep?
Oh! why does he my love forsake
And why leaves he my heart to break?
He comes not as he swore he would,
He comes not as he said he should,
But all alone, with my sorrow
Leaves me waiting for the morrow.
Year: 1867

TEvO THE PUBLIC.1eOur accounts will all


be drawn off by the first of January, 1867,
and we hope that all who are indebted to us will
come forward promptly and SETTLE as we cannot
carry on our business successfully if they fail to
do So After that date we propose to 90


STRICTLY A CASH BUSINESS,
and hope that our friends will not ask us to de-
part from this rule.


dec 25-tf HOGE d MAOON.
Vim copv
Year: 1867

LYDIA BANNER, somewhat notorious
character, was arrested last evening in Rock
Island, and lodged in jail. We hear it stated
that oai neighb0rs intend to send ber to The
County Poor House a curious disposal Of
such persons.
Year: 1867

NATIONAL SKATING PAhk.-A great wh eel
barrow performance took pace at the Skai,
ing Park Of Rock Island at two o'clock this
afternoon, for y purse Of five dollars. The
weather being pleasant and the ice in
splendid condition quite crowd were at
tracted 10 sec the tnn.
Year: 1867

Secretary McCulloch has been invited by the
solid men of Boston TO visit their city and help
them eat dinner The Secretary Declines for
excellent reasons. The Finances are not so
flourishing as he could wisl-in fact, not mt all:
so that there is great danger that the National
Debt will be increased rather than lessened
during the six months beginning with the
present May. Congress last Winter. burnt its
candle at both ends-cut down taxes with one
hand, and enlarged appropriations with the
Other-hence the Treasury is now rather making
sternway than otherwise.


We heartily concur with the Secretary in
this view. What Congress could mean, unless
it meant to eternize, if not absolutely repudiate,
the National Debt-we were unable TO cOmprc-
hend then and we have gained no new light
since. We are obliged to presume that the
members did not clearly know what they were
doing We have understood the Speaker to
say that according to Treasury estimates, the
reductions of income made by the legislation
of last Winter would amount to but Twenty
six Millions per annum. We believe they will
amount to nearly or quite One Hundred Mil
liOns--that is, the revenue for the next fiscal
year will be $1OOOOO,0O0 less than it would
have been had no reductions or abrogations of
imposts been made by the XXXIXth Congress
at its last session. And we hold this reduction
at time when so large portion OF our
National Debt requires speedy funding or
converting, and when villains dare to threaten,
for their own base ends, wholesale repudia-
ton of that Debt-palpably, grossly, faganty
impolitic and unwise.


Still, we do not regard the financial prospect
with dismay. We believe the revenue is now
at its lowest point, and must speedily and
largely increase. We shall probably have
much larger crops this year than we had last
year; and these will produce improvement in
every department OF business. Incomes will be
larger; consumption will be more generous;
railroads, &C., will have larger receipts, and
OF course will pay more money into the treas
ury; while we hope for beneficent change in
the assessment and collection of the Liquor
Excise In our judgment, if Congress were to
reduce that tax to fifty cents per gallon on The
utmost capacity Of the stills respectively and
compel every man who should be found in pos
session of liquor to he able at all times to
prove that it had paid the excise there would
be an increase of Twenty to Thirty Millions per
annum on this item alone. And there might
be other changes made to general advantage
and satisfaction. 81, 20 -...~t.f--


Mr.. MeCulloch is very right, though very
trite, in insisting that the only safe recipe for
improving finances, personal or general, is-Earn
more and spend less More workers and fewer
idlers or cOrmorants-mOre production and (rel-
atively) less consumption-more gold mined or
earned and less irredeemable paper floated-
such is the whole story. We do not 50 readily
concur when he says


The views Of majority OF the members of Congress-
as sindicated by number OF votes last Winter ad
verso to immediate contraction and have not felt at
liberty TO uacc mvsef In practical opuosition TO tho law
Year: 1867

The Times. commenting on our former article,
says:


"what Tnr TRInusH means is simply this: that II
how fatally blasting to private character it may be-
should enjoy mpunity unless u can be proved that us
editor proprietor intended to do the wrong actually per
pctrated."


As this is not at all what we mean, VIC are
compelled to employ further illustrations:


Let us suppose that John Spike should post
up in the village bar-room or under the meet
ing-house shed. or at some other place of gen
eral resort. this notice:


"Zeekiah williams OF this town last Monday con
ycted at the Court Of Oyer and Tcrmincrof County.
of stealing and sent for i've years 10 tne otale
Prison" ~.


The law would very properly presume this
posting to have been made with Gbelous IN
tent. and would hold Spike to rigorous ac-
countabity therefor. The bare fact OF such
posting would create a strong presumption OF
malicious intent to dcfame and injure Williams,
which could only be rebutted by direct positive
evidence.


Now let us suppose that said identical para
graph were to appear in the regular reports of
judicial proceedings in The Times or in its
editorial summary of the news of the
day, would that presumption be legitimate
Would not every one know at once that the
paragraph had not been concocted by the
editor with malicious intent to defamc and in
lure the said Williams? And if the editor, being
sued for libel, should appear in court and prove,
I. That he had no knowledge whatever of the
aforesaid u. Williams till sued by him; .. That
this item of news was made up, with other
like news, by his assistant in that department
from regular report of judicial pro-
cecdings in the Court held in and for the
County aforesaid, as given in the journal
printed at its shirctown or county-seat; would
il not be- absurd, on such an uncOntradicted
state of facts, to convict the editor OF libel
and subject him to fine and imprisonment
therefor!


We ask for our vocation precisely that I'M
munity from vexatious and unjust legal annoy
! ance which il conceded to others. A lawyer
pleading for his client, prosecutor drawing
an Indictment, Judge charging a grand jury,
nay indeed be guilty of libel, though the law
protects him in saying as hard things as he
sees fit We ask it to protect editors so far as
not to presume them guilty of libel when judge,
Jury, lawyers witnesses, plaintiff and specta-
tors, knor that no libelous intent existed.


Mind that we do not desire that editors
shall be allowed to publish everything, even
though it he true. We have seen publications
of matters essentially private and personal that
would 10y no means be justified even by proof
that they were literally tue. But we do main
tain that newspapers may publish the current
news of the day without thereby subjecting
their editors to conviction as libeles
Year: 1867

the Government, if it cannot do this, to the


outraged and suffering men. Of Texasf Why


is the Government buying more territory If it


cannot maintain law and order in that which


il already possesses? What is the difference


between Texas, a province of Mexico,


never protected, and only recognized
,,or the purposes of taxation, and
Te,,es. member of the American
Union. yet still struggling with the most un-
bridled al archye We do not ask how many
men are needed to maintain the laws there,
for we do not Sarc. One thousand. ten thou
sand, fifty thousand, If you will no matter how
many, if no more than enough The State be-
longs to US; it is just as much part OF the
nation as NewYork or Massachusetts,; and If
this wild work were going on in either OF
those States, we believe that even our War
Department would bestir itself When we
overthrow the Rebellion in Texas, the act itself
was or should have been guarantee TO all
peaceable and loyal citizens Of safety and good
order. The national word is pledged, and 1T
must be kept. Correspondents write from
Texas that Quantrell is to be caught. and VIC
insist that it is the duty of the United States
to catch him, at any cost and so to deal with
him that like-minded ruflians may take
warning.
Year: 1867

The French Government has deemed it best
to make further concession to the public
opinion which has SO strongly declared itself
in favor of peace. 1t has taken measures to
reduce the number of troops in the standing
army. This is another good omen for the
preservation of the peace of Europe.
Year: 1867

We publish elsewhere an official document
which appears in the last number of The United
States Mail, by which it will be seen that tho
Postmaster General has taken steps to abate
the franking privilege heretofore assumed by
railroad companies, and to compel these corpo-
rations to pay the same postage on letters that
is paid by other corporations and by private
individuals.