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Year: 1867

When George Muller established his
orphan-house at Ashley Down, in Eng
land, he determined 10 live life OF trust,
and to mind bis own work, leaving it
to God to provide the "rations.'' His
work was to take care of the orphans;
he trusted the orphans God to care for
him. When the barrel and the meal
chest ran low he drew on God in prayer;
and he who sent the ravens to Elijah put
it into the hearts of rich men to send
bank-notes and guineas for the orphan
house. Over one million of dollars have
flowed into that treasury offaith. Hun
dreds of fatherless children have found
home and Christian training.


So doth the supernatural enter all the
events of daily life. He is the wisest
Christian and the happiest who most
fully recognizes the supernatural power
and the sovereign grace. He never
neglects his own duty, and never fears
that God will neglect his promises. This
is the victory by which he overcometh
even his faith. While he bends to the
oar as free agent, he commits the helm
to God as a sovetaign. When we have
wrought out our duty with the whole
heart, and carried to our Heavenly Faith
er the burthen of our desire in prayer,
and roll it upon him, then the best an
swer we can often have is the submissive
spirit which trusts that God will do all
things we'll Remember who it was
that ended the agonizing struggle, in
gethsemane with the simple utterance
"Nevertheless, Father not as will, but
as fhnn wilt y
Year: 1867

A few days ago, as the express train
from New York was proceeding on its
westward way. some one pulled the sig
nal bell rope, and the engineer stopped
the train. The conductor who was at the
rear end, waved "go ahead" and the engi
neer, wondering what it meant, started up
again. He had just got the train under
good headway again, when the signal bell
was struck and he again stopped the
train. The conductor who was innocent
of the cause of delay, as he could not hear
the bell, looked out from the plat form to
the engineer, whose body was accommo-
datingly thrust out of the "cab'' window,
and his face turned to the conductor.


.'What in blazes are you stopping for ?
shouted the conductor"


stopping for! what the d-l are yot
stopping me for?" roared the indignant
engineer in reply. eff you want me to
make time, let that signal rope alone a.
while"


The conductor sneered at the idea of
any one touching it, and both himself
and the engineer got wrothy, and the
engineer going 90 tar as to threaten to
knock the conductor into "double dis
titled grease spot" if he again insinuated
that the bell rope had not been pulled
Reason got the better of the discussion
however and the pair came to the conclu-
sion that it was some mischievous pas
senger who was the cause of the trouble
A sharp watch, in each car, was set by
the conductor, and dire was the punish
ment that awaited the rascal, if he could
be detected.


All went well for a few miles, when
-clang went the bell and the engine shut
off stem and ran back to help punish the
scapegrace, but though the conductor
and brakesmah were looking suspicious
ly into the faces of the passengers, the
william was still undetected, and the af-
fair was beginning to take the form of the
supernatural. The engineer vast satisf-
ed and thought that the conductor was
trying to sell him. Muttering some saw
age threats, he took his place on the en-
gine, and though the. bell rang several
times before he reached Syracuse, he paid
ne attention to it.


On that railroad the patent brake is
in use, and is operated by pulling the
bell rope backward. As the train neared
Buffalo clang went the bell and down
came the patent brakes simultaneously,
stopping the train almost immediately.
The train hands were in CONSERVATION,
as they had watched so closely that there
was not shadow of reason to suspect
any passengers aboard. The train finally
arrived at Buffalo, and then the wonder
full mystery was solved.


Hiram, the baby elephant, just import
ed by Thayer & Noyes, was in the bag
gage car, and when the door was OPEN
ed was amusing himself by pulling the
bell rope. The mischieveous little rascal
was allowed to go unpunished as he is a
full-blooded African, and his trunk (the
cause of the trouble) is under the special
protection of the Freedmen's Bureau.


A DisD0tch
Year: 1867

The following beautiful German le-
gend is told in "Thorps Yule-tide Sto-
rieS -


1t relates that mother who had lost q
darling little daughter sorrowed day and
night for her as one without hope, and
that for thre, days and three nights she
neither ate or drank anything, but wept
in the bitterness of her soul. The third
night, as she thus sat overcome with her
suffrings, in the place where her child
had died, her eyes bathed in tears and
fainting from grief, the door softly
opened, and the mother started, for be-
fore her stood her departed child. 1t
had become a heavenly angel, and smiled
sweetly as innocence, and was beautiful
like the blessed. 1t had in its hand a
cup that was running over, so full it
was. "Ohl dearest mother, weep no
more for me, the angel of mourning
has collected in this little cup the tears
which you have shed for me- If for me
you shed one tear more it will overflow
l shall have no more rest in the grave
and no joy in Heaven. Therefore o
dearest mother weep. do more for your
child, for it is well and happy, and
angels are its companions" 1t then
vanished. The mother shed no more
tears, that she might not disturb her
child's JOY in heaven.
Year: 1867

Slack a Little.
Slack littlei Slack a little,


Darling wife.
Why such breathless haste and hurry


All thy life?
Slack the vigor of thy striving,
"a Ere too late,
Tell those mousters, Care and Labor
Just to wait.
Slack little! Slack little,


Busy hand!
Slack thy rubbing and thy scrubbing,
Drop the sand
Minister thy blessings slowly,
And the longerl
Bind loves thousand precious tendrils


All the stronger.
Slack littlel Slack little,
Weary feetl
'Tis a thorny path you're treading,


Death to greet,
Slack your quick and fearless stepping.
Spare your strength!
Ye the golden streets of Heaven


Shall tread at length.
Slack little Slack little,


Precious heart Z!
Slack the fervor of thy throbbing,


Ere we part.
Thrill not thus with every sorrow,


Anxious everi
Trembling like an angel Tyre


Forever
Strung for high an0 holy themes,


Slack thy sorrow
Heaven those rapturous themes may walk
Perhaps tomorrow!
Slack little! Time how fleeting,


Slack thy wing
To my hearts long cherished treasure


Let me cling!
Go to Mirth, and from his chalice


Take the pleasure!
Pilfer Wealth, and from his palace
Take his treasure. -
Why such haste my night to bring?
Slack, o Time, thy scythe and wing
Slack little! Slack little,


Death, Death!
Vain thy strife and painting haste,


All out of breath
See. She fears not thy approaching
Thou hast no sting.
Clasp her! In thy cold embracing


She will sing!
Slack, o Death how sure thy loss,
Thou vast cenqured on the Cross
Year: 1867

Voltaire said: "The fewer married
men you have, the fewer crimes there
will be. Marriage renders man more
virtuous and more wise. An unmarried
man is but half of perfect being, and it
requires the other half to make things
right and it cannot be expected that in
this imperfect state he can keep the
straight path of rectitude any more than
boat with one oar, or bird with one
wing, can keep a straight course. In
nine cases out of ten, where married men
become drunkards, or where they COM
nit crimes against the peace of the COM
munity, the foundations of these acts was
laid while in the sinful state, or where
the wife is an unsuitable match. Here is
a home for the entire man, and the council
the example, and the interests Of his "bet-
ter half" keep him from erratic courses,
and from falling into thousand tempt
ations to which he would be exposed.
Therefore he is the friend to society
and toshis country"


The illustrious French speculatist was
right IN his views on this subject, no
matter how far wrong he may have been
on others. The results to community,
even where the welded pair may not be
well adapted to each other, are advanta-
gous in the main. The notorious immor-
ality of New York city life is due chiefly
to the fact that the great mass of its pop
ulation is unmarried and quartered in
boarding houses and hotels. the married
man, once settled in home of his own,
is to say the least, solicitous for its wei
fare. His position as pater fanilias in
duces habits of economy and industry
He is an important member of society,
and feels responsibilities and enjoys priv
ileges and immunities unknown to the
bachelor.
Year: 1867

In the downbill of life when find I'm declin-


ing,


May lot no less fortunate be
Than snug elbow-chair can afford for reclin-


ing


And a cot that o'erlooksthe wild sea; RI
With an ambling pad=pony to pace Ger the
:. While carroll away sorrow,
And blythe as the lark that each day halls the
Look forward with hope for the morrow.
With porch at my door, both for shelter and


shade, too, ~
AS the sunshine or rain may prevail;
And small spot of ground for the use Of the


spade, too,


With barn for the use ofthe fail! %
A cow for my dairy, a dog for my game,
And purse when a friend wants to borrow;
III envy no nabob his riches or fame,
Nor what honors await him tomorrow.
From the bleak northern blasts may my cot be


completely


Secured by neighboring hill !;
And at night may repose steal upon me more


sweetly I
BY the sound of a murmuring rill
And while peace and plenty find at my board
With heart free from sickness and sorrow,
With my friends may share what to-day may


AFFORD,
And let them spread the to morrow
And when at last must throw OfFthis frail COW


ering
Which I've worn for three score years and


ten,
On the brink of the grave III not seek to keep


hovering


Nor nay thread wish to spin DER again.
But my face in the glass III serenely survey.
A nd yuith aoohx hi frrr-


row
As this old worn out stuff which is threadbars


to-day, ss
MAY become everlasting tomorrow.
Year: 1867

RsA. The war which ended for Sher-
man and Grant when Lee surrendered
has never ended for him. From the day
he took command his administration has
been one long struggle with rebels in his
department and the friends of rebels in
Washington.


The above is the utterancs of the New
York Tribune with reference to the re.
moval Of Sheridan. Howis it that the war
has not ended for Sheridan Is it be-
cause a people once free cannot avoid
remonstrance against cruel acts Of ty-
ranny2 That rebels have done anything
more to make war in Louisiana than to
make such remonsirance, and to ask that
protection in the pursuit Of their peace
able avocations to which the public faith
is pledged, is simply untrue. Give to
every rebel the rights which the COnsti-
tuition comedies TO every uuconvicted
culprit, and the whole South will at once
become law abiding, to an extent un-
known to its previous history, and une-
qualed in any State Of the North The
only reason that Sheridan has been at
war, since Lee surrendered, is that be
has the soul Of the tyrant, and has been
q rigorous and cruel oppressor.
Year: 1867

The rats have it all their own way in
Galveston, Texas, if we may credit the
following from the Ne,cs, which says:
1t must be apparent to every one who
is obliged to be on the streets after
nightfall, that our city is infested with
rats. Go where you will you are fire.
quently startled by fierce ugly rat
starting across your path, sometimes
running at you as if to attempt the
passage to your body up through your
pantaloons. Even in the quietude of
our own room we are not freed from this
annoyance; when We enter our particu-
lar sanctum, after the labors of the day,
off they scamper. When we retire to
bed, our last moments before sleep, "Na-
ture's sweet restorer," comes to our eyes,
are disturbed by them. They crawl over
us. causing us to awake frightened.
This is not all-they eat up the few
clothes we possess. Only few weeks
since q gentleman who rooms below us
was bitten on the nose by a rat, and
bore the marks for several days after
wards. A gentleman also informs us
that his children's fingers, when in bed
asleep, have been bitten by them. The
stores in the city must lose thousands of
dollars annually by the mischief they
create. How will we get rid of themf
They fight dogs and cats, and even men.
If anybody will suggest remedy to-
wards ridding us of these little pests,
we will do our best to immortalize him.
Year: 1867

Hug q wench, damn Democrat, join
church, want to gut everybody who
cant see it, just as you do, steal some
thing and elude the vigilance of officers,
hollow out traitor every chance, carry
one vest pocket full of the chloride of
lime and the other full of niger "hair,"
to kill the stencil arising from off whis-
ky-drinking Democrats, avoid inter-
course with anybody but yourself, and
then not too long at n time, for fear that
your "loyalty" may become cOntamin.
ated by disloyal associations, believe if
it hand't been for "the man and the
brother" the rebellion would not have
been brought to an end, "friz" your
hair and don't wash your face, so that
you may look as little like Democrat
and as much like niger as possible.
Follow these rules out and you will at
once become. o "sweet-scented pepper
mint drop" IN the jug of unadulterated,
bullet pated and thick Tipped abolition
principles.-PespiSs Defender.
Year: 1867

proves that the Democratic party can
meet Its war record with advantage, in
proportion as the passions of the last
six years spend their force and subside.
So far as the contest has been affected
by the introduction of side issues, the
result proves that there is no such in
vincibfe prejudice against the Demo
cratic party as prevents the working
men rallying to its standard when the
country becomes cool enough to attend
to other things than the late war and it's
consequences. =


- =


The passions Of the last six years are
rapidly dying out by the exhaustion OF
their fuel and the near prospect of final
settlement in the South. The Republi-
can party, whether for good or evil, has
accomplished its mission. 1t must die
with the issues which gave it birth and
have kept it, in power. The nineteen
months which intervene between now
and the Presidential election will wit
ness the decline and fall of a party which
has done more mischief, shed more blood,
more treasure, .kindled moro
passions, and inflicted deeper
wounds on constitutional government,
than any other political party that ever


kisted in the world.
Year: 1867

RIVER stationary, with eleven feet Of
water in the channel.


The Iagomar goes down the river this
evening.


The want of freight makes it rather
dull times with the river men.


The moving up and down the river
still continues, and household furniture
constitutes a considerable portion Of
the freight.
Year: 1867

THE Cleveland Herald makes the follow
ing sensible remarks in relation to local
newspapers: 1t matters not how many
newspapers a man takes, his list is incom-
plete without this home paper. Every citi-


zen who wishes well for his locality, should
give a generous support to his home paper,


If that paper is not Just such as he would
wish, he should feel that himself and neigh'
bors are respnsible, in a measure, toT its


short comings. Give paper a liberal sup


port, an active, sympathy, and it will IN


stantly respond to such manifestations. Let
an editor feel that his efforts are apprecia-
ted, and he IS the most responsible being on


earth, his paper a part Of HIMSELF he IS as
sensitive to praise or censure as dot1ng
father Nothing can supply the place of
the heme paper. 1t IS the mirror in which
the town and neighborhood news Is Iehec-


ted; in the social, political and religious cir


Gle printed, it fills place that no other pa
per can. When need Of economy compels
the curtailment OF your newspaper list,
strike off every other one before you say to
! the publishers of your home journal, ''Stop
my paper The man who does not read the
advertisements in his home paper, can never


be said to be well posted. The advertise
ments indicate not only the business enter
prise of the place in which they are publish
ed, but the enterprise of the advertise
! When you see a man who advertises


liberally, you may be certain Of finding a
/ good stock of goods in his store, that he


keeps up with the market, and sells cheaper


than those who do not advertise. If you


want good bargains, always patronize those
/ who avail themselves Of the advantages


afforded through the advertising columns of
/ the home haper
Year: 1867

One cf the most preposterous reports
that has been lately sen; from wash


ington els the assertion that the
President proposes to disregard the
Tenure of Office Bill, and treat it as
nulity until the Supreme Court decides
whether it is constitutional, " Here's
richness" again; and the Copperhead
Doctors shake their heads Opprovingly
over the report and exc.aim, Nothing
could be more absurd than to dispute
the right of the President to bring laws
which he believes unconstitutional to a
judicial test" ' % h


The President, as President, has no
thing whatever to do With the etunconsti>
tutionality of laws after he has opposed
them by his veto. HIS sole duty iu re-
gard to them after they are passed over
his veto is to see that they are faithfully
executed Thcu, il anybody feels him
self to be aggrieved, he will bring au &C
ton in the Supreme Court. But if the
President, having exhausted the veto,
proposes to treat all laws which he does
not approve as unconstitutional and res
fuse to see to their execution until they
are legitimated by the Supreme Court,
nothing can be palmer than that every
law passed by congress must be sent into
the Supreme Court room and approved
before the President viii take care that
it is faithfully executed, Nothing could
be more absurd than such view of the
duty of the Executive except oil the rest
of the Presidents theories.


OF course, as the Cupperhead Doctors
truly remark, this appeal to determine
the constitutionality of a law I" is right
possessed by every citizen" But to say
that nobody is bound to obey law until
some Court has decided it to be eopsti-
tutional is simply to declare chaos come
again. The Tenure of 01ice Bill IS q
law-and not a very wise one; and the
President has just as much right to dis.
regard it as he has to nullify every othe-
law upon the statute book He is cit
izeuIof the United States like the. rest OF
us and if he disobeys the law he will
inevitably suffer the penalty.
Year: 1867

LosT TIaE.-Let any man pass an
svering in vacant idlebess, or even in
reading some silly tale. and compare the
state of his miad when be goes to sleep
or gets up next jrnoraing with its state
some other day when he has spent few
hours in going through the proofs by
facts and dreasoning of some ofthe great
doctrines in natural science, learning
truths wholly new to him, aud satisfying
himself by careful examination of the
grounds on which. known thruths rest,
SO as to be not only acquainted with the
doctrines of themselves, but able to show
why he believes them, and to prove be-
fore others that they are true, will find
as great q difference as can exist in the
sbme being the difference between look
ing back upon time unpro6tably wasted,
and time spent in selfimprosemept, he
will feel himself in one case listless and
dissatisfied 10 the other comfortable and
happy. Ia the one case, if he did not
appear to himself humble, at least will
not have earned any claim to his own
respect in the other case he will enjoy
proud consciousness Of shavipg BY ms
own exertions become wiser, and there
fore more exalted nature,-Bro,tghon'
Year: 1867

EARLY CLosING.-Messrs. Henry Darts
Sons request us to publish the following:


Having become fully satisfied that merchants
and their clerks have to work too many hours on
the present nine hour system tfhat is nine hours
off and fifteen hours ON we propose ON and after
this day to close our store promptly at eight o.
clock in the evening, and invite the business men
of this city to cooperate with US. There is not
a merchant but what knows there will be just as
many goods sold and that they viii have equally
large 3 balance in cash at the end of the year,
and that by so doing, trade will be rendered much
more pleasant and agreeable.


Respectfully, HENRY DARTS Soss.


Rock Island, July 20, 1867.
Year: 1867

We rather pity our neighbors of the Union
the poor show they made in trying to get
! the bounty money into the school fund and
keep it from the Camden road has left them


in a very unpleasant position. Last Satur-


day morning, the Union said:


"The people of this townaare going to the
court house next Thursday at p. NJ. to say%thas
they will themselves s., 900 additional school
tax this year by devoting the bounty fund to the
payment of debt which they must meet in some
way. Neither the ARGUs nor its |'ring' can
stop it"


The people were there in full force-the
house was crowded full and running over,
and many left because they could not get in.
And what was the result? Why the Union
and its "school ring" could not find dozen
voters to back their schemes. Their failure
was so perfectly ridiculous that we really
pitied them.


And, failing to carry their scheme to pre-


vent the money from being expended on the


Camden road, they are now trying to prevent


people on the line of the road from aiding in


the much-needed improvement. A gentle


man who sat near us, in the meeting, and


who owns property on the line of the road,
said he would give one hundred dollars to-
wards the proposed one thousand, and that
the balance could be raised in ID hours.


Last year, Mr.. Wells, residing near the line
of the road, took an interest in the matter
| and the people4on the line sent a petition to
the city council on the subject, asking the
city to do something on the road, and pro-
| posing to aid in the work. Mr.. Wells can
| vassed for subscriptions, and said he had no
doubt that three thousand dollars could be


raised from property holders on the road Tor
the proposed object. There is no doubt at
! all about the people who own property on that


road being willing to aid in its improvement,
| but the Union and its 'school ring are doing
| all they can to prevent such aid being given.
| We hope, after the city council has let the


job to expend the bounty money, it will then


take. measures to ascertain what can be
raised on the line of The road to extend the
| improvement. To make good job from
| the city limits to Camden will cost some
| $4,000 to S20,000-and we hope the people


on. the road will take an interest IN the mat
'ter and raise something to put with THE
funds on hand and push the work along as


farvas possiblethis fall. SsSa
Year: 1867

We rather pity our neighbors of the Union
the poor show they made in trying to get
the bounty money into the school fund and
keep it from the Camden road has left them
in a very unpleasant position. Last Satur-
Il nv r,nnrnirnr the TE,io,, rn;d
Year: 1867

The bill to encourage the extension Of di'
rect railroad communication with the city Of
Washington, was passed by the Board ol
Common Council last night. 1t authorizes
the extension, construction, and use, by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Of
a railroad from between Knoxville and Mo-
nocacy Junction into and within the District
OF Columbia, to extend the said last-men-
toned railroad into and within the city OF
Washington, entering the said city at the
intersection Of its northern boundary and
New York avenue, crossing said avenue, and
passing through the northwest corner Of
square No. 7l0 to First street east, thence
along the centre Of that street to the present
track of the Washington Branch Of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and along the
route of that track, east OF New Jersey avenue,
to the present station in square No. 632, with
the privilege Of constructing and maintain
ing two tracks within the city along the above
described line, and Of using steam engines
thereon.


The bill having now passed both Boards o
the City Council, only awaits the approval OIL
the Mayor to become law