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Year: 1865

without exception, men who based their
claim for popular favor on the services
they rendered in the rebel army. We are
told that papers are started in all parts
ofNorth Carolina, to advocate the policy
of the most reasonable magnates in the
old North State. So alarming are the
demands which the traitors make, that
the Union men are urging the general
government to interpose its strong arm to
prevent the State from again becoming
the theatre of strife.


The question then of the power which
they are to have in controlling the Con-
gress of the United States, is one which
should not be hastily disposed of. By
the last apportionment, the whole number
of Representatives in Congress is 24l.
Under the three fifths rule, there are nine
teen seats in the House which may be
filed by men whose constituency would
be negroes of the South, yet they will be
elected by the whites. in 1870, there
will be new census, and new appor-
tionment. The South will take political
power in the lower branch of Congress
according to the combined white and
colored population. Supposing there
will be in the old slave States four and q
half millions of colored people-which i:
not improbable-and nine million whites
to the former will be allowed thirty repre-
sentatives and to the latter sixty making
total of ninety. In the free States
twenty-five million people--making thirty
five and half million in all, the fret
North will be entitled to one hundred ant
forty-four representatives. This will Civ,
the free States 81 more votes than the


South. Thus, it will be seen that the
South lacks but % votes Of majority il


that branch of Congress At the las


Congressional election, when the part,


friendly to the South, met with the mos


overwhelming defeat which ever ATTENDED


it, they elected forty-fye members or NOR


than enough to control the government


The question then presents itself are th


people willing to surrender this powel
into the hands of men who have give
birth to conspiracies and committed al
most every crime in the catalogue. !


not, now is the time for the popular mint


to speak its sentiments on the subject


Let the people calmly and dispassionatel
weigh the matter and act with an eY


single to the best interests of our coun
try, and if they have no fears of trouble, ad
, nit the southern people to participa
! ton in the administration of the affairs 0
, government at once. But unless the pres
and statesmen in that section of theunio


make false declarations, the future is poi
9 tentous with evil


Let our rulers act with great circun
, spection in the work of reconstruction.
Year: 1865

To those who, looking for presents, seek to
combine real usefulness with pleasure. We would say
bny sewing machine IT will lift from weary shoui'
ders tbe heaviest burden that weighs upon them Its
cheerful click prophecies Of rest TO weared hands and
shattered nerves and leisure for the charities ana
amenities of life. To the widow and seamStress
toing for livelihood it is the boon Of health and
independence.


The savage and the semi.barbsran tasks woman like
beast Of burden for pleasure or profit. What should
be said of him who still dooms his wife 10 the drudgcry
Of hand. sewing. 1t ranks with caTding spinning.
weaving and grinding corn by hand padding canoe
fishing with bore hook, and inhabting howell 1t Is
as much Of place with the civilization OF the nine
teenth century would be an Esqumaux in Iiithave
II is a shameful waste or idling OF time. when the
charities and higher purposes of life call 40 ioudiy-a
worse than vast. Of nine hours OF the ten 20 occup
What shall excuse pnliae this Only necessity that
knows no law The rich cauno, urge this plea and
judcious economy would put the sewingmachine into
nine Of every ten families In our land Let be under
stood that idling with the handneedle is dscrediiabe
and that it is as fashionable and much more sensible
TO have a sewing g.machne as pianoiorie


WHEELER & WILSON. No. 625 Broadway. are still
among the first in tie sewing machine business lhcr
machine has carried the American name and fame
aronnd the world and to households in every land.
Their increasing facilities for supply have hardly Kept
pace with their growing business. Not content
with acknowledged excellence even they have ayaed
themselves Of such fruits Of genius rs hare commended
themselves to their judgment and their machines now
vie. in artistic finish with any article Of furniture
They have recently added 20 their stock some black
walnut and birdseye maple cases that rival, and IN
our opinion, sppass any foreign woods. These are
really articles of luxury well use. The palmer
styles are equally erviceable. and extend their willing
and ireess arms TO aid al who call upon them II is
matter Of much Importance to have the guaranty OF an
old and responsible Company.


Commercial Advertiser.
Year: 1865

~ We learn that the friends Of the Due
Wese Telescope are making an effort to have
the publication Of that useful and instructive
paper resumed. This paper. as the organ of
iho Associate Reformed Church is much need.
ed. and it is to be hoped that Ill may soon
make its weekly visits to cid friends and cub
scribers
Year: 1865

RAPIDITY OF THOUGHT IN DREAMING.-A very
ant point in analogy, is to be found in the
extreme rapidity with which the mental
operations are performed, or rather with
which the material changes on which ideas
depend are excited in the hemisphercal
ganglia. 1t would appear as if a whole
series of acts, that would really occupy
long space of time, pass ideally through
the mind in an instant We have in dreams
no true perception of the lapse of time--a
strange property of mind, for if such be al
so its property when entered into the eter-
nal disembodied state, time will appear to
us eternity The relations of space, as
well as of time, are also annihilated. 50
that while almost an eternity is compress
ed into moment, infinite space is travers-
ed more swiftly than by real thought There
are numerous illustrations of this principle
on record. A gentleman dreamed that he
had enlisted as soldier, Joined his regi-
ment, deserted, was arrested, carried back
tried, condemned to be shot, and at last led
out for execution. After the usual prOpar-
alton a gun was fired :; he awoke with the
report, and found that noise in the next
room had, at the same moment, produced
the dream and awakened him


A friend of Dr. Abercrombic dreamed
that he crossed the Atlantic and spent q
fortnight in America In embarking on his
return, he fell into the sea, and awaking in
his fright he found that he he had not been
asleep ten minutes
Year: 1865

\ BEAUTIFUL THouGHT-A writer whose
life has passed its meridian thus discourses
upon the flight of time Forty years once
seemed long and weary pilgrimage to
make. 1t now seems but step. And yet
along the way are broken shrines where
thousand hopes are wasted into ashes foot
prints sacred under their dust green mounds
whose grass is fresh with the watering of
tears shadows even which we would not
forget. We will garner the sunshine OF
these years, and with chastened steps and
hopes, push Oh toward the evening whose
signal lights will soon be swinging where
the waters are still and the storms never
beat
Year: 1865

CONFUSION OF NATURE" Some three
weeks SINCE" says the correspondent of
Quebec paper, writing under date of the 9th
instant, "a peaceable family, residing at
Bon Desir in the county of Tadousac, were
reused from their slumber in the middle of
the night by horrible noise and quaking
of the earth around their dwelling. Rush
ing out into the darkness, but not knowing
where to turn for safety from a danger
which threatened to engulf them every
minute, their fears increased thousand
fold, they decided to await the return of
day before departing from the spot. Their
fears were not without foundation, as the
ground around them shook and grOaned in
the most dreadful manner Morning at
length came, and with it an alarming spec
tacle for the eyes of all the inhabitants Of
the locality to behold.


can immense moral hill had slidden
down. a house. barn, and number Of
other. buildings had been removed to dis
tance of about two acres below their origi-
nal sites, land the beach close by was strewn
with immense boulders, and raised TO
height of from twenty to thirty feet above
its usual level while the ground all around,
for the space of twelve or thirteen acres,
was cut up with deep crevices. The slide
covered an extent of over twelve acres in
depth by four or five in breadth The un-
fortunate proprietor of the land covered by
the slide is in the deepest despair at the
catastrophe. Almost all his crops, hay, po-
tatoes, and grain, are destroyed, and the
better half of his farm useless for the fu-
ture. There is, very fortunately, no loss of
life to be recorded"
Year: 1865

DIsCoURAGING CHILDREN.-It is somewhere
related that a poor soldier, having had his
skull fractured, was told by the doctor that
his brains were visible 'Do write and tell
father of it." said he, "for he always said
| had no brains" How many fathers and
mothers tell their children this, and how
often does such a remark contribute not a
little to prevent any development of the
brain? A grown person tells child he is
brainless foolish or bockhead, or that
he is deficient in some mental or moral
faculty, and in nine cases out of ten the
statement is believed; the thought that it
may be partially so acts like an incubus
to repress the confidence and energies of
that child


We know boy who, at the age of ten
years, had become depressed with fault
finding and reproof, not duly mingled with
encouraging words The world appeared
dark around him, he had been SO of
ten told of his faults and deficiencies.
\ single word of praise and appreciation,
carelessly dropped in his hearing, changing
his whole course of thought We have of
ten heard him say. THAT word saved me"
The moment he thought he could do well he
resolved that he would and he has done
well. Parents, these are important CON
siderations.
Year: 1865

A BOYS PRAYER--A Presbyterian clergy
man in Northern New York had two smart
boys, just old enough to have inquiring
minds, but not to discern the reason of things
They were taught to pray and the efficien-
cy and need of prayer daily impressed up
on them Both boys had patch of tnck-
ct" or "pop" corn in the garden, and the
growing blades We're watched with intense
interest, small reward being held out to
stimulate their industry One day, the
father walking near the patch" heard the
voice of the youngest solemnly engaged in
prayer, and drawing near listened to the
following petition 90 Lord, make my
corn grow great big corn, but make broth
er Sans grow all little nubbins !"
Year: 1865

ABsTRACrED GENT" Old Bumblebee"was
the cognomen of Mr.. T, of Newbury-
port. He gained the title from the fact Of
his catching humble bee, one day, as he
was shingling his barn, and in attempting
to destroy the insect with his hatchet, cut
off the ends of his thumb and fore-fnger
letting the insect go unframed Other
mishaps happened to the old codger, on the
same barn. In one of his distractions, he
shingled over his spare hatchet and cut
ting a small aperture in the building to let
a little daylight in, this man actually set in
a wooden pane, as being economical and
not likely TO be broken Uncle t


in one of his obvious freaks, nailed his
left arm so firmly betwixt two boards of a
fence he was putting up. that he had to call
for help to get extricated from his selfim-
prisonment. He once put button on the
gate instead of the post But the rarest
freak of all was when he ran through the
streets with his hands about three feet asun-
der, held before him, begging the passers-
by not to disturb him, as he had got the
measure of doorway with him
Year: 1865

TEACH YOUR BOYS TO AsrIRE.--Much pro-
sy advice is bestowed on boys and young
men that never gets beyond the drums of
their ears. One of the most useful ideas
you can introduce in young head is that
its owner is bound to make his mark in the
world if he chooses to try Teach him that
it depends solely upon himself whether he
scars above the dead level of mcdiocrity or
not, whether he crawls or flies Give him,
as far as possible, confidence in his own in
herent capabilities Argue that he has the
same faculties by which others have risen
to distinction, and that he has only to cul-
tivate them and apply in their exercise that
mighty propulsive agent, a determined will,
in order to rise Bid him shoot his arrows
not at the horizon, but at the zenith 4
boy who sets out in life with the Presidency
in his eye, although he may fall short of the
mark, will be pretty sure to reach higher
position than if his ambition had been lim-
ted TO the position Of town constable, or
tide walters berth in the Custom House
This is not land where poverty is a seri-
Gus impedimcnt to advancement Very
few of our miliOnaires were born with gold
spoons in their mouths, and several of the
most distinguished of our statesmen earned
their bread III early life by the sweat of
their brows. Fortunes gifts are wrung
from her in this country by heads andhearts
that know no such word as fail, and Fame
has no special favors for the siIk-stocking
class. Action, says Aristotle, is the es-
sence of Oratory, but it is more true that
energetic uiU is the soul of success. The
best temporal advice father can give
son is "aspire.'


Boy, let the eagles flight ever be thine,


Onward and upward and true to the line.
Year: 1865

Ray~ On the Goth ult Mrs. Clark, of North
Collins, n Y, and her three children were
seated at a table, on which was placed a
lighted lamp, which the girl undertook to
fill with kerosene. In attempting this, the
base communicated to the oil i'll the can,
causing an explosion of both the can and
the lamp, and instantly enveloping all four
persons in sheet of liquid fire Efforts
were made in vain to extinguish the flames.
The unfortunate mother was burned to
blackness from head to foot and her fea-
lures so horribly disfgured that her most
intimate friends could not recognize her.
She survived till Tuesday afternoon, ,endur
ing the most intense agony. The girl aged
thirteen, and a boy aged six years, were
not expected to survive The fourth a lad
of sixteen, was badly burned on the right
side Of his head, shoulder, and the whole
length of his arm, but hopes are entertain
ed Of his recovery.
Year: 1865

COoUETRY AMONG GIRLs-l suppose that
coquetry, in it's legitimate FORM is among
woman's charms, and that there is legiti-
mate sphere for its employment for, except
in rare natures, it is natural thing with
your sex. Nature has ordained that man
shall prize most that which shall cost an
effort, and while it has designed that you
shall at some time give your heart and hand
to a worthy man, it has also provided a
way for making the prize he seeks an ap-
parently difficult one to in. 1t is a sim
pie and beautiful provision for enhancing
your value in his eyes, so as to make
difficult thing of that which you know to
be unspeakably easy If you hold yourself
cheaply, and meet all advances with open
willingness and gladness, the natural result
will be that your lover will tire of you. To
become f1irt is to metamorphose into
disgusting passion that which by a nat
ural constitution is harmless and useful
instinct. This instinct Of coquetry, which
makes woman a thing to be won, and
which | suppose all women are conscious
of possessing in some degree, is not thing
to be cultivated or developed at all


1t should be left to ITSELF unstimulated
and unperverted and if, in the formative
stage of your womanhood, by initiating
them, or seeking to make impressions for
the sake of securing attentions which are
repaid by insult and negligence, you do vi
olence to your nature, you make yourself a
woman whom your own sex despise, and
whom all sensible men who do not mean to
cheat you with insincerties as mean as
yours, are afraid of They will not love
you, and they will not trust you.-Dr. Hol-
land.
Year: 1865

WHAT is CONSCIENCE ?-When little boy,
my father sent me from the field home A
spotted tortoise in shallow water caught
my attention, and lifted my stick to strike
when voice within me said Tt is
wrong" l stood with uplifted stick, in won
der at the new emotion, till the tortoise van
ished from my sight.


l FASTENED home, and asked my mother
what it was that told me it was wrong


Taking me in her arms, she said, "Some
men call it conscience, but prefer to call
it the voice of God in the soul of man.
But if you turn deaf ear, or disobey, then
it will fade out little by little, and leave
you in the dark without guide"
Year: 1865

THIS LIFE AND THE NExT.--lK this life
we grow up to our full stature |; and then
we decrease till we decease, we decline and
die. In another, we come at first to per
feet stature" and so continue forever. We
are here subject to sorrows and sins ; the
first grevious to us as we are men, the 9TH
er as we are good men 10, we shall one
day be freed, be perfect. 1t is sweet
meditation that fell from reverend divine,
that many vegetable and brute creatures
do exceed men in length of days, and in
happiness of their kind, as not wanting
the thing they desire. The oak, the raven,
the stork, the stag, fill up many years ; in
regard of whom man dies in the minority
of childhood This made the philosophers
call nature step-dame to man, to the rest
true mother For she gives him least
time that could make best use of his time,
and least pleasure that could best appre-
hend it, and take comfort in it. But here
divinity teacheth and revealeth large re-
compcnse from our God Other creatures
live long, and then perish to nothing ; man
dies soon here, and afterward he may live
forever. The shortness is recompensed
with eternity. Dost thou blame nature, o
philosopher, for cutting thee SO short that
thou canst not get knowledge =? Open
thine eyes-perfect knowledge is not to be
had here, though the days were double to
Methuselahs. Above it is. Bless God,
then, rather for thy life's shortness, for the
sooner thou diest, the sooner thou shalt
come to thy desired knowledge. The best
here is short of the least there Let no
man blame God for making him too soon
happy. Saw rather with the Psalmist. "My
soul is athirst for God 0 when shall
come to appear in the glorious presence of
the Lord ?" Who would not forsake pri-
son for palace, tabernacle for a city,
sea of dangers for firm land of bliss, the
life of men for the life of angels ?--Thomos
Adams
Year: 1865

How TO GET RID OF RArs--For some
years | was considerably annoyed with
rats. | tried various "vermin poison"
traps &c, with very little success, until l
thought of mode which we adopted for
destroying dogs that used to hunt our rab-
blt warren in the old country. So got
quantity of broken bottles and window
glass, and with a hammer and an anvil,
trituratcd it pretty fine Ga stone would do
to pound the glass on y | then sifted the
coarse part out and mixed a cupful of the
fine with a cupful of -four and another of
oatmeal, and, scenting it with a few drops
of aniseed to attract them, placed it on
boards in the cellar, etc They ate it up so
fast that one of the family observed that
'instead of poisoning, it must be tattening
them :" but a few days told a different
story. The last mess served for them re-
mains untouched yet, though put down last
Fall, and no appearance of a rat or mouse,
living or dead since Neither have we
noticed any smell of blue-bottle (meat)
flies, as there would been had they died on
the premises. 1t was a happy riddance-
The mixture must be kept from children,
dogs, and other silly animals, as it would
kill them as well as rats
Year: 1865

FRAUD DETECTED.-Peter the Great, while
in Poland, visited a statute of the Virgin,
which was said often to shed tears during
the mass. He saw that the fact was, APP
parently, just as had been described but,
while his companions seemed struck with
conviction, he ruminated on the means of
discovering the cause, which he well knew
was not supernatural. The statute being
placed high, and close to the altar, so that
no one could reach it from the ground. he
took up ladder which happened to be
near, and mounting it, very closely exam
ined it from head to foot His curiosity
seemed ungratifed, and the attending
priests mentally congratulated themselves
on their escape, as well as the conversion
of the czar, which they expected would
probably follow. But perceiving small
apertures in the eyes, he uncovered the
head of the Virgin, and to their great NOR
tification exposed the whole mystery The
head was hollow and filled up to the eyes
with water this being agitated by few
small fishes placed in it, few drops were
occasionally forced through the apertures,
and thus the miracle was produced. Peter
took no notice of the matter further than to
observe that "it was miracle indeed :"
and then left, as if nothing particular had
happened.
Year: 1865

81 THINK" said a farmer Il should make
a good Congressman, for use their Ian
guage. received two bills the other day,
with a request for immediate payment The
one ordered to be laid on the table, the
other to be read that day six months"
Year: 1865

sHE wore monstrous waterfall the night when


first we met
A roll, halfhorse, halfhuman hair, hung in a


bended net;
It rested on her shoulders, for the first time put
g.. in use,
And she looked just like Digger squaw when


Juggling papoose;
On, taking good rearward squint at head and


hair together,
Just like horse, with tail tied up, in very mud


dy weather!
And she stood beneath her burden she thought


was passing fair,
With her dainty head drawn backward and her


nose turned up in air;
I saw her but moment, so graceful and so tall
Bending, sweating meath the burden Of her cher


ished waterfall.
Oh, when will Fashion give Us back the charms


weprized so long.
The web Of siIken splendor- theme Of many


a song
The shining hair that kissed the brow in many
an airy curl,
And gavethe crowning beauty to every lovely


girl?
When will sense resume its rule sgaih--Eashion


receive check,
And our loved ones no more carry round pillow


on their neck?
A thing composed of horses tails, OF wool, Of


jute, Of cord
A monstrOus, mean Disagreement, by every man


abhorred,
A load upon their shoulder, at home, abroad, at


ball.
A foolish bag-a senseless bump, they call a


waterfall.
Year: 1865

THERE are bonds of all sorts in this world Of


ours,


Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers,


And true lovers knots, ween
The girl and the boy are bound by kiss.
But there's never bond, old friend, like this


We have drank from the same eanteen!
Tt was sometimes water and sometimes milk,
And sometimes applejack, fine as silk,


But whatever the tipple has been,
We shared it together, in bane or bliss,
And warm TO you, friend, when think ofthis--


We have drank from the same canteen!
The rich and the great sit down to dine
And they quaff to each other in sparkling wine,


From glasses Of crystal and green:
But guess in their golden pOtations they miss
The warmth ofregard to be found in this


We have drank from the same cauteen!
We have shared our blankets and tent together,
And have marched and fought in all kinds Of


weather,


And hungry and full We have beeni
Had days of battle and days ofrest,
But this memory cling to and love the best


We have drank from the same canteen
For when wounded I lay on the outer slope,
With my blood flowing fast, and but little hope,


Upon which my faint spirit could lean;
o, then, I remember, you erawled to my side,
And bleeding 50 fast it seemed both must have


died


We drank from the same canteen.