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Year: 1868

If patience brings upon its wings


The blessed balm of healing.
And soothes the soul when DER it roll
The restless waves of feeling,
Oh at ttis hour I need its power
To check the fever spinning,
With fresheued force along its course,
My soul to passion winning.
If one could find contented mind,


All ready for the asking,
If one could feel for wo or veal


That faces need no masking,
We'd not let slip between the lip


The words there's no recalling,
We'd only ask consent to bask


Where peace is ever falling
If there's shrine where heart of NINE
Can find the needed treasure,
0 may win the blessed in


Its purest, amplest measure {; l- .
My restless thought by patience taught
Shall then. its zeal abating,
Lie on the breast of perfect rest,
And win REWARD OF WAITING.


New York Ledger.
Year: 1868

Subscribers should prepay by the quarter
at the office Of delivery. The Postage to any
part of the United States is Two Cents num-
ber. This rate only applies to current sub
scriptions. For back numbers the postage is
double.
Year: 1868

These periodicals are ably sustained hy the
contributions of the best writers on Science,
Religion. and General Literature, and stand
unrivaed IN the world of letters. They are
indispensable to the scholar and tie profess
slonaI man. and to every reading man, as they
furnish a better record of the current literature
of the day than can be obtained from any her
source.
Year: 1868

The most successful business men in
this city are those who have advertised
liberally and constantly A small ad-
vcrtisement constantly appearing is bet
ter than display column occasionally"
Year: 1868

The Northern mails failed last night.


Hundreds of hogs have died in Navasota, Texas,
since spring opened. Some farmers think the
disease that is killing them is cholera. while
others believe it ia the effects of eating the young
sprouts Of the cuckle-bur.


The Rio Grande Courier learns that Point Isabel
ia to be abandoned by the military authorities. A
new wharf is to be erected Immediately for the
steamship company. New warehouses are to be
built by the government at Brazos, and a good
wagon road made between that port and White
Ranch. From the latter point. freight can be
shipped by the river or continue By the road to
Brownsville.


Persons who have been tormented by the hor
rble music Of the gsn.grinders have hitherto
found certain amount of grim satisfaction in the
reflection that the perpetrator of the outrage has
always himself been the victim of retrlbutive
"horrid grind" in the necessity Of turning the
crank. Even this feeble consolation, however, is
to be torn from US by the remorseess ingenuity
of a Pittsburger, who has invented an internal
machine of the barrelorgan species which does
its own grinding. One Of the papers makes the
almost incredible assertion that the improved" {"
instrument of torture is more diabocal in its dis
cords than the old variety.


A letter from California contains the following
queer story I" The large estate of Senator
Broderick who was killed in a duel, was disposed
of under a will which was proven to be a forgery
concocted after his death in New York, and so
pronounced by one Of our district judges, before
whom the case was tried. The difficulty in the
matter was that the forgery was not proven until
the will had been duly admitted to probate by the
county court, and the district court decided that
the admission of the will to probate was finality
and after that no action could be taken to set it
aside as fraudulent. As l said, under this de
cision, the whole estate, now worth millions Of
dollars, was held, and the present holders have a
clear title through will known to be a forgery.
much doubt if such another case can be found
on the record of the courts of any country outside
of California
Year: 1868

WORK BY MAxIMmIAN.-1he announcement
Of a work from the pen of the late Emperor MAXI
milan, is well calculated 10 excite a melancholy
kind OF interest; and " On the Wing" by MAXI
milan, late emperor Of Mexico, will be read by
many, under the influence Of curiosity or Of a
feeling of sympathy for the unfortunate Austrian
prince. This work has nothing whatever TO do
with the authors career Ia Mexico. IL Is a tram
script Of journal kept by him in 1850, when he
was a very young man, and full Of the buoyancy
and hopefulness of youth. Nearly half the book
is made up OF the details OF visit TO Greece,
where Maximilisn was the guest Of the now
exed royal family. The remaining portion i5
chiefly devoted to Smyrna and other places in
Asia Minor. The srchduke's diary proves that
be was q man of amiability and intelligence.
with a mind capable Of appreciatng the
beautiful in nature and art, and an imagination
that was kindled equally By the glowing colors OF
an Oriental city and the classic splend0rs OF tns
AcTopolis and the Temple Of Victory. The reader
will be struck with q certain resemblance De-
tween the social life Of Greece, as this young
prince saw IT eighteen years sgo, and that OF me
Mexican republic OF empire. An account OF
visit which he made with the queen TO conVent
In the neighborhood Of Athens is, perhaps, the
best piece Of description in the book. Inc perhs
Of the ride up almost inaccessible paths ana alon8
the verge Of yswniDg preciplces are VVIo'y
sketched. IL Is pity that man wno Couir
write so wen at eighteen did not devote niInsel,
wholly to literature. He would then have sNSoo y
himself from q more ugly fall than the one s "
dreaded when visiting the Greek monks on 1eit
rocky cliff.
Year: 1868

The commissioners in most Of the wards were
yesterday revising and correcting the tallies, aud
in the third poll Of the seventh precinct the whole
vote was being counted over again to endeavor to
reconcile q discrepancy between the number Of
votes cast and the poll lists.


We think there is no doubt Of the election OF
the. Democratic candidates for mayor and con-
troller.


AS TO other candidates, with the division that
has been going on, and the alteration that may
have been made, the result cannot be known with
certainty until the returns all in at head
quarters, and we viii not impose upon our read
ers speculatioDs that in twenty four hours may
prove to have been based upon incorrect infor-
nation.


We have some hope Of being able TO publish,
tomorrow, official returns from every poll In the
parish.
Year: 1868

The Table Talk Of Once Week thinks II strange
that amid all the discussions to which the disap-
pearance Of Mr.. Speke has given rise, no mention
has been made of one Of the most remarkable
cases of disappearance on record. AS the clown
Grimaldi was playing at Drury Lane in the winter
of 1903, he was called 10 see two visitors. in one
of whom he recognized his only brother, who had
run away to sea long before. After the perform
snce was over he retired to dress, leaving his
brother on the stage. Being little startled by
the event Of the evening he took a longer time
than usual TO dress. When be was ready TO de-
part, he found that his brother had but a moment
before left the theater. he was never seen again.
The most urgent inquiries were set on foot for his
discovery; but TO no purpose.
Year: 1868

A letter to Chicago paper dated at Ma
pierville, ILL.,, June 10th says;


'.Never before in the history Of Napier
vile was such an excitement created as on
last Sunday evening, when it was reported
that the entire congregation Of the Dunkard
church, who were celebrating a love feast,
had been poisoned by eating meat prepared
in a copper kettle and allowed to remain
there until the metal had become oxydized.
Nearly every one in the village had friend
or a relative in attendance, and consequent
" there was general rush for the church
in question Upon entering the building
the scene which met their gaze verified the
reports. In different portions of the church
were the sufferers, some sitting up, others
lying down, the latter twisting themselves
into all sorts of positions, rolling around the
floor; and all apparently suffering the most
excruciating pain.


Medical assistance was at once summon
ed, but, as it was very limited, considerable
time elapsed before all could be attended to.
The stomach pump was brought into requi-
sition and those who gave evidence of suffer
ing the most were considerably relieved by
It's use. Itwas found that upon actual count
that no less than one hundred and thirty
were more or less affected, the major portion,
however, but slightly, they having partaken
of but a small quantity of food. About
twenty were found to be in a dangerous con-
dition. These were removed to their homes,
and every attention paid to them, and be-
fore morning many of them were out of
danger. Those who were but slightly afec-
ted, with some little assistance, got home,
and in short time were entirely recovered.


Tt seems that the members were eelebra-
ting love feast. On Saturday last guam
tity of meat was cooked in a copper kettle.
About one-half of it was eaten that day, and
the remainder allowed to remain in the ket-
tie until Sunday, on account Of there being
no other place to keep it. Some Of the suf-
ferers did not recover for two or three days,
but now all are pronounced out of danger.
Year: 1868

We are often asked what is the law in re-
gard to stray cattle, sheep &c. 1t is briefly as
follows: 1t is made the duty of all persons
having strays in their possession, within
four days to deliver to the town clerk a
particular description of the color and marks,
natural or artificial, ofeach stray, or atrays in
writing or other satisfactory who, and for
every neglect or refusal to do the same he
shall be liable to forfeit and pay the sum of FIVE
dollars" and it shall be the duty of the
town clerk, subject to like penalty for neglect
or refusal, to make entry of the same in his
book, for which he shall receive on each head
of horses so cents, each head of cattle 25
cents, and for every sheep six cents, to be
paid by such person delivering the said
notice aforesaid " If the owner presents
himself within 80 days after said stray has
been thus registered on the book ofthe town
clerk, he is entitled to receive his property
on the payment of the costs the keeping
and the damage that may have occurred
After the expiration of thirty days, if no
owner presents himself, the person taking
up the stray shall cause an advertisement
particularly describing sush stray, to be
published in at least one newspaper in the
eounty-and if no owner shall appear and
make out his property in said stray within
ninety days after the publication of said
advertisement, the person taking ap the
same shall apply to Justice of the Peace
in the same township, who is required to
issue his warrant to a Constable, who, after
giving ten days notice, is required to sell the
same-the money for which is to be paid
into the hands of the Justice Of the Peace,
who is to pay all reasonable charges for the
cost of keeping, registering, advertising,
selling &C., and the balance, if there be any,
is to be paid into the county Treasury. =
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Year: 1868




Mr.. Henry Blackburn ARTISTS and
Arabs, or Sketching in Sunshine, contains
this picture of model patriarch among the
Algerines: Around the camp this evening
there are groups of men and women stand
ing, that bring forcibly to the mind those
prints of the early prtriarchs from which we
are apt to take our first and, perhaps, most
vivid impressions ofeastern life; and we can
not wonder at French artists attempting TO
illustrate ScriDtural scenes from incidents
IN Algeria. There are Jacob and Joseph,
as one might imagine them, to the lie;
Ruth in the fields, and Rachel by the well;
and there is a patriarch coming down the
mountain, with light about his head as
the suns last rays burst upon him, that
Herbert might well have seen when he was
painting Moses with tables of the law. The
effect is accidental, but it is perfect in au
artistic sense, from the solemnity Of the
man, the attitude Of his crowd Of followers.
the grand mountain forms which are parti-
ally lit up by CLEANS ofsunsot, and the sharp
shadows cast by the throng. This man
may have been warrior chief, or the head
of a tribe; be was certainly the head Of
large family, who pressed round him to an
ticipate his wants and do him honor. His
children seemed to be everywhere about him;


they were his furniture, they warmed his
tent and kept out the wind, they begged for
him, prayed for him, and generally helped
him on bis way.


In the Koran there is a saying of similar
purport to the words; Happy is the man
that hath his quiver full of them'-this one
had his quiver full of them, indeed, and
whether he had ever done much to deserve
the blessing, he certainly enjoyed it to the
full Looked upon as colored statue, he
was in some respects perfect type ofbeauty
strength and dignifed repose-what we
might fitly call study, as be sat waiting,
whilst the women prepared his evening meal;
but whether from moral point of view he
quite deserved all the respect and deferencs
that was paid to him, is another question.
As picture, as we said before, he was mag
nifcent, and there was a regal air with
which he disposed the folds of his bournous,
which, we clad in the costume of advanced
civilization, could not but admire and envy.
He had the advantage of US in every way,
and made US feel it acutely He had
splendid arm, and we could see it; the fine
contour and color of his head and neck were
surrounded by white folds, but not concealed
His head was not surmounted with bat
tered 'wide-awake, his neck was not band
aged as if it were wounded, his feet were
not misshapen clumps of leather, his robes
but we have no heart to go further into
detail. There is a well dressed French
gentleman standing near this figure, and
there is not about him one graceful fold, one
good suggestive line, one tint ofcolor, Crate
ful to the eye, or one redeeming feature in
his (by contrastl hideous tout ensemble.
Year: 1868

BY A LADY


People viii kiss. Yet notone in hundred
know how TO extract bliss from lovely lips
no more than they know how to make dia-
monds from charcoal, and yet it is easy, at
least for us!


This little item is not alone for young
beginners, but for the many who 20 at it
like hunting coon or shelling corn. First
know when you are to kiss. Don't make a
mistake, although mistakes may be good.
Don jump up like trout for fly, and
smack woman on the neck, or on the ear,
or on the corner of the forehead, on the
end of her nose, or slip over on her water
fall or bonnet ribbon, in haste to set
through. The gentleman should be little
| the tallest He should have clean face, a
kind eye, and mouth full of expression
instead Of tobacco. Don't kiss everything,
including nasty little dogs, male and female.
Don sit down to it, stand up. Need not
be anxious to get in crowd. Two persons
are plenty to corner and catch kiss
More persons spoil the sport Il won't
burt any after you are used to it. Take
the left hand of the lady in your righthand.
Let your hat go to-any place out of the
wayl Throw the left hand gently over the
shoulder of the lady, and let the hand fall
down on the right side toward the left,
Don't be in hurry. Draw her gently to
your loving heart Her head will fall lightly
upon your shoulder, and a handsome shoul-
der-strip it makes! Don't be in hurry.
Send little life down your left arm and
let it know its business. Her left hand is in
your right, let there be expression to that
not like the grip of a vice, but gentle
clasp full of electricity, thought and res
pect Don't be in a hurry: her head lies
carlesslyon your shoulderl you are nearly
heart to heart Look down into her half
closed eyes! Gently yet manly press her
to your bosom. Stand firm, and Providence
will give you strength for the ordeal Be
brave, but don't be in a hurry. Her lips
almost open! Lean lightly forward with
your head not the body Take good aim
The lips meet-the soul rides the storms,
troubles and sorrows of life, (don't be in a
hurry!) heaven opens before, the world
shoots from under your feet as meteor
flashes across the evening sky don't be
afraid the nerves dance before the first
created altar Of love as zephyrs dance with
the dew-trimmed fowers-the heart forgets
its bitterness-and the art of kissing is
learned


No noise, no fuss, no futtering and
squirming, ike a hook-impaled worm.
Kissing don't hurt; and it don't require
brass to make it legal. Don't job down on
beautiful mouth as if spearing for frogs I
Do not muss her hair, scratch down her col
lar, bite her cheek, squizzle her rich ribbons
and leave her mussed, rumpled and FUN
mixed! Don't grab and yank the lady as if
she was struggling colt! Do not flavor
your kisses with onions, tobacco, gin cock
tails, lager beer, brandy, &c, for a mud
ding kiss is worse than the itch to deleeate
sensible woman


There, now, is your receipt free gratis,
for nothing. Try it-Lebdnon Patriot
Year: 1868

DIP TUP.-A ship was sailing in the south
ernwaters Of tie Atlantic, when they saw an
other vessel making signals Of distress. They
bore down toward the distressed ship and
hailed them


WHAT'S the matter? p


"We are dying for water was the re-
spoase.


Dip it up then = was the answer you
are in the mouth Of the Amazon River %


There those sailors were thirsting, and
suffering, and fearing, and longing for
water. and supposing that there was moth
ing but the oceans brine around them,
when, in fact, they had sailed unconsciously
into the broad mouth of the mightiest river
onthe globe, and did not know it. And
though to them it seemed that they must
perish with thirst, yet there was hundred
miles of fresh water around them and they
bad nothing to do but to


dip it up!"


Jesus Christ says. ''If any man thirst let
him come unto me and drink "And the
Spirit and the Bride say, come and whose
ever will let him come and take Of the wa
ter of life freely" Thirsting soul, the food
is all around you, "Dipit upl" and drink,
aud thirst no more Exchange
Year: 1868

FEMALE INFLUENcE-I have noticed
that married man falling into misfortune
is more apt to retrieve his situation in the
world than single one. Chiefly because
his spirits are soothed and relieved by
domestic endearments, and self-respect kept
alive, by finding that, although abroad be
darkness and humiliation, yet there is still
a little world of love at home Of which he is
monarch. Whereas, a single man is apt to
run to waste and self fneglect--t fall to ruins
like some deserted mansion, for want of in-
habitants. have often had occasion to
mark the fortitude with which women
sustain the must overwhelming reverses of
fortune Those disasters which break down
the spirit Of man, and PROSTATE him in the
dust, seem to call forth all the energies of
the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and
elevation to their character that at times it
approaches sublimity. Washington Hvjag.
Year: 1868

The LAST OF THINGS. 1t is with some
melancholy interest, musing on the instabil-
ity Of human things that the philosophic
mind surveys the last specimen of almost
anything. The last tiuder-box, and the
last hackney coach, for instance, may be
looked at with certain fond partiality Of
regret. That they are the last of their sort
shows, to be sure, that they have outliyed
coarse and barbaric expedicnts, and the
things themselves are nCither beautiful nor
any longer useful. But they are the last,
and we drop sympathiziag sort of sigh as
we get rid Of the worn out old bores. We
might be sorry, after a fashion, to see the
very last cockroach. The dodo was an un-
gainly fowl, and was certainly not an orna-
ment in the animal world; yet who but
would have sighed had he witnessed his
final extinction Saturday Rerie1c
Year: 1868

when you mention pay, he looks surprised


you surely do not charge for such thingsl'
And tins is called newspaper patronage.


Another man (bless yon it does us good to
see such mem, comes in aud says: "the year
Tor which paid is about to expire, want
to pay for another He does so and re-
hres. This as newspaper patronage.


Now isn't newspaper patronage a curious
thngf And in that great day, when the
gentleman in black gets his due-as he sure
ly will-how many Of the patrons enumera-
tea above viii fall to his share? Now, it viii
be seen that while certain kinds of patronage
Is the very life and existence Of newspaper,
there are other kinds Of patronage more
destructive than the deadly night shade.


keader where do you stand
Year: 1868

read last night Of the Grand Review
In Washington's chiefest avenue
Two hun ndred thousand men in blue


think they said was the number
llll seemed TO hear their tranping feet.
The bugle's blast and the drum quick beat,
The elatter Of hoofs in the stony street,
he cheers Of people who came to greet,
Aud the thousand details that to repeat


Would only my verse cucumber
1 III l fell in a reyerie, sad and sweet,


And then to a htful slumber
w hen, 10 in a vision / seemed to stand
In the lonely Capitol. On each hand
Far stretched the portico, dim and grand,
Its columns ranged like a martial band
Ofsheeted speetres, whom some command


Had called to a last reviewing;
And the streets Of the city were white and bare
y loot fan echoed across the square,
But out Of the misty midnight air
seard IN the distance a trumpet blGre,
Aad the wandering night-winds seemed TO beat


The sound Of far tattooing,
Then held by breath with fear aud dread,
For into the square, with brazen tread
There rode a figure whose stately head


Osrlooked the review that morning.
nat never bowed from its firm set seat
When the living column passed its feet,
Yet now rode stately up the street


To the phantom bugle's warning;
Till 1t reached the Capitol square, aud wheeled
and there in the moonlight stood revealed
well-known form that in state and fed


Had led our patriot sires
Whose face turned 70 the sleeping camp,
Atae through the rivers fog and damp,
That showed no flicker, nor waning lamp,


Nor wasted bivouac fires
And | saw phantom army come,
With never a sound Of fife or drum,
But keeping time to throbbing hum


OF wailing and lamentations;
Tue martyred heroes Of Malvern Hill,
Ut Gettysburg and Charlottesville,
The men whose wasted figures I'll


The patriot graves Of the nation.
And there came the naneIess dead-the men
Who perished in fever-swamp and fen,
The slowly starved Of the prison pen;


And, marching beside the others,
Came the dusky martyrs Of Pillows fight,
With limbs enfranchised and bearing bright;
1 thought-perhaps twas the pale moonlight


They looked as white as their brothers!
And so all night marched the nation dead
With never banner above them spread,
Nor badge, nor a motto brandished;
No mark-save the bare uncovered head


0fthe silent bronze Reviewer
With never an arch save the vauted sky,
With never flower save those that lie
On the distant graves-for love could buy


No gift that was purer or truer.
So all night long swept the strange array,
So all night long till the morning gray
/ watched for one who had passed away.


With a reverent awe and wonder
Till blue cap waved in the lengt timing line,
And l knew that one who was kin Of mine
Had come, and I spake-aad 10! that sign


Awakened me from my slumber.
Year: 1868

FLOWERS. sit is said that almost all kinds
of flowers sleep in the night. The hlarigold
goes to bed with the sun and rises weeping.
Many plants are SO sensitive that their leaves
close during the passage Of a cloud. The
dandelion opens at FIVE or six in the morn
ing and closes at nine in the evening. The
daisy opens its days eye to meet the morn
ing sun. The crocus, tulip and many others
close their blossoms at different hours to-
wards evening. The ivy-leaved lettuce
opens at eight in the morning, and closes
forever at four in the afternoon. The night
blooming cereus turns night into day it
begins to expand its magnificent, sweet
scented blossoms at twilight, it is in full
bloom at midnight, and closes never to open
again at the dawn Of day In a clover field
not leaf opens till after sunrise. So says
a celebrated author, wLo has devoted much
time to the study of plants, and often
watched them in their slumbers. Those
plants which seem to be awake all night he
styles the bats and owls Of the vegetable
kingdom