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Year: 1868

The world at large do not understand
the mysteries of a newspaper; and, as in
a watch, the hands, that are seen, are
but the passive instruments of the spring
which is never seen, so, in a newspaper,
the most worthy causes of its prosperity
are often least observed or known. Who
suspects the benefit which paper derives
from the enterprise tho -visiieuvo and
the watchful fidelity of the publisher2
Who pauses to think how much of the
pleasure of reading is derived from the
skill and care Of the printer? We fee;
the blemishes Of the printer. We feel
the biemishes of printing, if they exist,
but seldom observe the excellencies.


We eat a hearty dinner, but do not
think of the farmer that raised the ma
terial thereof, or the cook that prepared
them with infinite pains and skill. But
cook of vegetables, meat, pastries and
infinite bon-bons, has paradisical Office
in comparison with an editor! Before
him pass in review all the exchange news
papers. He is to know all their contents,
to mark for other eyes, the matters that
require attention. His scissors arc to be
alert, and clip with increased industry all
the little items that together make up
the news department. He passes in re-
view, each week, every State in the Un-
ion, through the newspaper lens he looks
across the ocean and sees strange lands,
and following the. sun, he searches all
around the world for material. 1t will
require but one seconds time for the
readers to take in what two hours re-
search produced. By him are read the
manuscripts that swarm the office like
flies in July. II is his frown that dooms
them. 1t is his hand that condenses n
whole page into line. 1t is his discreet
lsternness that restricts sentimental obitu-
naries, that gives young poets twig on
which to sit and sing their first lays.


And the power behind the throne, in
newspapers MS in higher places, is some
times as important as the throne itself.
Correspondents, occasional or regular,
stand in awe at that silent power which
has the last chance at an article, and
may send it forth in glory or humanity.
And, in short, as the body depends upon
good digestion, so the health of pa



per depends upon that vigorous digestion
which goes on by means Of the editor.


Ought they not to be honored? And
since little fame attends them, they should
at least have their creature comforts mul.
tiplied. From that dark and dismal den
in which they have so long had purgato.
. rial residence, they are at length trans


lated Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1868

A GOLDEN THoUGIIT.-We know not
the author of the following, but it is one
of the most beautiful productions of the
human mind we ever read:


Nature will be reported. All things
are engaged in writing their own history.
The plant and the pebble go attended by
their own shadows. The rock leaves its
scratches on the mountain side, the river
its bed in the soil, the animal leaves its
bones in the stratum, the fern and the
leaf its modest epitaph in the coal. The
falling drop makes its sepulchre in the
sand or stone; not footstep in the snow
or along the ground but prints its char
acter more or less lasting, a map of its
march. Every act of man illscribes itself
on the memories of its fellows, and his
own face. The air is full of sound, the
sky of tokens; the ground is all memo
randa signatures, and every object is
covered with hints which speak to the
intelligent.
Year: 1868

HONE TRUTHs. judicious wife is al
ways clipping off from her husbands $ moral
nature little twi igs that are growing in wrong
directions. She keeps him shaped by contin-
nal pruning. If you declare that you will
dc some absurd thing, she will find means OF
preventing your doing it And by far the
chief part of all the common sense there is
in this world belongs unquestionably to
women The wiseSt things a man common
ly does, are those which his wife counsels
him to do. A wife is the grand welder of
the moral pruning knife If Johnson's wife
had lived, there would have bee, no hoard
ing up of orange peel, no touching all the
posts il. walking along the rect, no eating
and drinking with disgusting voracity II
Oliver Goldsmith had been married he
would never have worn that memorable and
ridiculous coat Whenever you find a man
whom you know little about, odd y dressed,
talking absurdly, or exhibiting any eccen-
trcty of manner, you may be sure that he
is not a married man; for the corners are
rounded off-the little shoots are pruned
away, in married men. Wives generally
have much more sense than their husbands,
especially when their husbands are clever
men. The wife's advice is like the ballast
that keeps the ship steady.
Year: 1868

him acknowledged position as mechanic, and
his services were soon in demand through
out the whole district. Step by step he ad-
vanced, improving everything he touched,
economizing the labor of men and horses.
increasing the amount of their product ion,
until at last he undertook and accomplished
the work he had so often tried and that had
SO often failed, of superceding horse powers
on the colierry railways, by inventing lo-
comotive engine that would draw heavy
train over a smooth rail. The mighty re-
suits of that improvement we see around
us every day but it may be profitable
lesson to trace back once more to that pa
tient, observant, ambitious imdomitablv in
dustrious boy, watching his rude engine and
studying his alphabet when he was nearly
a man grown.
Year: 1868

RESIST TIE BEGINNING.-The Arabs
have fable of miller. who was one day
startled by canei's nose thrust IN the win
dow of room where he was sleeping. ct is
very cold, outside" said the camel; Il on
ly want to get my nose in" The nose was
let in, then the neck, and finally the whole
body. Presently the miller began to be ex-
trenely inconvenienced by the ungainly
companion he had obtained, in a room GER
tainly not large enough for both. If you
are inconveuienced said the camel, you
may leave As for myself shall stay where
[ am.


The moral of the fable concerns all. When
temptation occurs, we must not yield To il.
We must not allow as much as its nose"
to come in. Everything ike sin is to be
turned away from. He who yields even in
the smallest degree, will soon be entirely
overcome; and the last state of this man is
worse than the first.
Year: 1868

The power of man 5 conduct depends upon
the number of motives which it has to push
it. When train of cars is stuck in the
snow, they first put one engine behind, and
it pushes and butts, and butts and pushes,
and the train creeps slowly along a little way
and stops. They send for another engine.
and put that behind and with the two they
draw back to gain some impetus, an1 then
plunge into the drift, al d the train stops
again They send for the third engine and
put that behind and now there are three
great motive forces, and they plunge in, and
up springs the snow on every side, and the
train moves as though it were going to over
como the obstruction but its speed de
creases at every revolution of the wheels.
and it soon stops They want one more en-
CINE; and now with the four, they viii shove
the train through with power that is ire
sistible.


Well, here is line of conduct snd the
more motives you put against 1t, the more
forcible it will be. A man s action will be
powerful in proportion to the number of fac
ul,ies that are inspired to urge him forward
Mixed motives, therefore, are desirable. You
say, Il performed good deed to day, but
it does not seem to have proceeded from a
single motive 1 think 1 can distinctly trace
as aving to do with that deed, six different
motives" " Which was the leading one
,'Well, think benevolence was the strong
est. =" Then, what was next? "Well, think
conscience was the next" And what was
there then? well to'speak the truth. I
think pride, and some sense of what was
becoming and proper, came next" And
what then? We'll. | am sure that fell
into the weakness of thinking that people
would know it, and praise me and | think
that adulterated my other motives" Adul
terated them? 1t did not do any such thing.
II CO operated with them If benevolence
vas fret that was fit motive and then you
might put as many behind it as you pleased
Only let that motive which leads all the rest,
aud gives direction to them, he high and
divine, and then behind it put every motive
you can, and you will not adulterate it. Ev-
cry one you add is an adjuvenant under such
circumstances. But if it is selishness that
leads, then you may well suspect all youI
motives, for with such leader they will al


be serving wrong end but it will be be
cause the leading one is DOT right. Let the
mind go right end first, and then the more
motives you have, the better And the
great trouble with persons in life is not that
they have mixed motives, but they have toe
few motives, for such is the nature Of thing.
that, in proportion as you go toward thing,
low and gross, the fewer motives can be
brought to bear on conduct; while in pro.
portion as you go toward that which Is high
and pure. the more motives can be made &c
cooperate in that direction. 1t is not, then
mixed motives that ought to trouble you
but wrong motives-that is, wrong facultie:
in the lead Henry Ward Beecher.
Year: 1868

A mountain exchange tells of band of
Indians who made sudden attack on a
band of soldiers in the mountains. The sol
diers had mountain howitzer mounted on
a mule Not having time to get it off and
put it in position. they backed up the mule
and let drive at the Indians. The load was
so heavy that mule and all went tumbing
down the hill toward the savages, who, not
understanding that kind of warfare t1e / like
deers. Afterwards one of them was cap
tured, and when asked why he ran SO. replied:
Me big iniun, not afraid of big guns orlit-
tie guns. but when white men load up and
fire whole jackass at injun, me don know
what to do. -
Year: 1868

Without haste without rest ~
Bind the motto to thy breast;
Bear it with thee as spell,
Storm or sunshine. guard it we'll;
Heed not flowers that round thee bloom
Bear it onward to the tomb.
Haste not let no thoughtless deed
Mar for aye the spirits speed;
Ponder well and know the right,
Onward, then, with all thy might;
Haste not! years can ne'er atone
For one reckless action done.
Rest not life is sweeping by,
Do not dare before you die;
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time;
Glorious tbs to live for aye
When these forms have passed away.
Haste not rest not, calmly wait,
Meekly bear the storm of fate;
Duty be thy polar guide,
Do the right whate'er betide;
Haste not, rest not Conflicts past
q God shall crown thy work at last.
Year: 1868

A lady who had refused to give, latter hear
ing charity sermon, had her pocket picked
as she was leaving the church. On making
the discovery, she said: God could not
fud the way to my pocket, but the devil did. y
Year: 1868

A lawyer on his death bed willed all his
property to a lunatic asylum stating as his
reason for so doing, that he wished his prop
efty to return to the liberal class OF people
that had patronized him.
Year: 1868

from seven to ten millions of dollars, which has been
realized BY some Of these gentlemen nom sales OF
be brought into court and paid into the hands
OF receiver Ths papers have Of course
for the other side / don't know that they feel any
responsibility in regard to hearing this motion this
morning unless they were sent to them. But do
not propose to do so, nor do propose to make any
very elaborate opening regarding the extraordinary
facts which these papers develop unless my adver.
hold in my hand set out the whole history OF
this litigation. They set out and show between
the Sd and the nth days OF March the issue OF
ten millions of dollars worth of stock in violation OF
the order made by your Honor. 1t is now floating In
the community and is either in the pockets of these
gentlemen under their control, although some OF
Il may be out of the jurisdiction Of The court ~ :


Judge Barnard-ls there any objection to this ap-
plicaton'


Mr.. Field SAT smilingy in his chair, which was
tipped back on its rear legs and looked composed in
the extreme, but made no response to the inquiry OF
the judge


The Court-Draw up an order appointing George
A. Osgood receiver of this fund.- with security in the
sum OF 100000 and requiring these defendants to
appear before referee In regard to the matter.


Mr. Field irisingl-The court Will understand that
this was ec pdrte


Mr. Clark-we have given notice, and therefore


Mr. Feld-There has been no notice given: there
has been no service, This is er pdrte and now II
any one Will enter that order want to him do it,


Mr.. Fullerton iexcitedy and earnestly)-I dare
enter that order and will do it with your Honor's


Mr.. Field-May 1t please the court, there have been
no papers submitted in this case and afidavits
presented upon which this order is made. You have
made 1t upon blank paper and IN complete absence
OF any regular proceeding whatever. wish 10 say
however, that Just so sure as this proceeding is
being taken In this form day OF reckoning VIII as
surely come, when these parties win have to answer
before some one for this action.


Mr.. Fullerton lin a decidedly animated tonel-Let
that day come and there will be a reckoning that
yoI will have TO bear and 80 will every one OF those
men M who have been engaged IN this transaction.


The Court-Let II be inserted IN that order that as
fast as these sums OF moneyC blamed shall amount to
half million dollars they shall be deposited with the
Union Trust Company.


After some further unimportant discussion the
court adjourned and the large audience withdrew.
Year: 1868

Ourch TO the conscientious review Of the Christian
Church throughout this land TO the accord Of future
after and with the deepest humility, but with con-
one Hsad sss' snd U
His Church, and whose approval can never be given
70 the persecution Of the Innocent TO the oppres


Given in the Church OF the TRANSPORTATION, in the
city OF New York, this l4th day Of March, A. D. 1865


Rector Of st. Georges Church, In the city Of New
York.


When the clergy who, in their robes, had assisted
at the ceremony had also retired, crowd OF the
friends of Mr. Tying crowded about the pew occupied
by him, and many Of them In no complimentary
terms denounced the court which found the verdict
and the presiding bishop Some OF the less considerate
endeavored to to persuade him to address them from
the altar, others took him by the hand and not rev
expressed their anger against the reverend gentle
mans prosecutors" by Kissing. Mr.. Tying, who
was perfectly cool and collected throughout the
trying ordeal acted the part OF sensible gentle
man and left the edifce for his home while the
tumult continued, and which only the presence of
small body Of police prevented from breaking into
what might be called religious row."


The friends Of Mr.. Tying proceeded to the Church
Of the Mediator to protest against the action OF
the court. Neither Mr.. Tying nor his father were
present. The meeting was called TO order by Mr..
Foster. layman Of the Church OF the Holy Trim
ity. who announced the object OF the meeting Rev.
John Cotton Smith thought the object could be best
attained by the appointment Of committee by the
chairman, this committee to retire and select stand
ing committee to draft resolutions and name suit
able place for holding public meeting to protest
against the course pursued towards Mr.. Tying Rev.
DR.. John Cotton Smith, Rev. DR.. Dyer, Rev. Mr..
Brown and Rev. Mr.. Rising were appointed the CON-
mIttee.
Year: 1868

COMMUNICATED.


CUCUMBER BUa.-This is probably the worst
insect pest of the garden. He is the great en-
emy to squash, cucumber and melon vines, and
often blasts every hope of a good crop. Ac-
cording to DR.. Fiten he is the parent of the
small white worm, half an inch long or so
which enters the stems of vines just below the
surface of the earth, and eats out the pith and
destroys them This worm often kills vines
that have begun to bear fruit when it is entire
ly too late to replant If this be fact (which
We believe entomologists have not disputed J, it
is within the experience of every vine grower
that the bug isscarcely more to be dreaded than
when transformed to worm; 10 fact the bug
can be most easily thwarted in his depredations.
Perhaps the surest means of keeping the bug
or beetle, both from eating the leaves and lay
ing his eggs, are boxes covered with muslin set
over the hills. They should be large enough
to allow of considerable growth inside of them,
and the sides ought to be made sloping, so as
to admit sunshine to the best advantage. Some
cultivators get a,opg very we'll by using paper
covers, and very thin cotton batting has also
been recommended. Plaster or oyster-shell
lime busted on the plants once day, when the
dew is on, is also claimed to be preventive,
and some have used powdered white hellebore
with as good success against the cucumber bug
as the currant worm.
Year: 1868

STRANGE DISCOVERY valuable discovery
was strangely made short time since on the
banks of the Connecticut river three miles
from MiddletoWn. ~t -.


A gentleman living in the neighborhood
went out cunning on the 4th instant, and In
the course Of his perambulations reached the
river bank All of sudden it gave way beneath
him, and he slid down the slope forty teet,


feeling at the same time that he was sinking
into the sand. He thought it quicksand de.
post, and gave himself up for lost, but he slid


down safely with his gun sinking In, however:
above his knees.


After getting up and shaking off the fine
soil, he next thought of cleaning out his gun,
for in his fall it had become filled and covered
with sand. What was his surprise to find that
in wiping off the barrel he had polished it up
bright! 1t Immediately occurred to him that
it was emory, and that somebody would make


fortune. -


Off he starts, post haste, to the owner Of the
land


''How much do you want for that bit of land
of yours on the bank p swell, [ paid $780,
you can have it for 5000, | guess. Done! -
Sure enough it was frst-rate emory, OF which
there is only one bank there, discovered since
by the same man. Emory is very valuable
and most of it is imported. The Fourth oi
July rambler has to thank Dame Fortune tor
being very good to him. The deposit is quite
large. r..
Year: 1868

effect that sound mind and body ere the z .ost
necessary requisites to promote connubi&l hap
pincss Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrim&%ge th9
prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed WITH
another becomes blightcd with your own.
Year: 1868

The Louisville Courier has the follow
ing in regard to the canvass in our
State:


The Democrats of West Virginia are
making a gallant fight in spite OF the
discouraging fact that q majsrity OF the
white men in that State are dlsiraH-
chised. They are working with the ar
dor natsral to men conscious OF so noble
mission as the restoration OF their dis
franchised neighbors to the rights OF
freemen. Strange as it may seem, some
of the most firm of the original Union
men are doing all they can to overthrow
Radicalism, while some original seces'
sionists and Confederate officers have
sold themselves to the party which pro-
scribes the rebel soldier and woSld de-
grade him politically below the level OF
the negro.


The Kanawha Republican,, edited by q
Union soldier, ventiiates the record OF
Colonel Thomas b. Swami, late of the
Confederate army, who is now a rabid
Radical orator, and contrasts his ap'
peals to the people to take up arms
against the Government with Union
circular issued by committee In lo6l
OF the eight gentlemen who appealed tc
the people of West Virginia, in that
circular, to stand by the Union, TIVE are
dead, ono is moderate Republican, and
five are unfinching Democrats. Colonel
Swami, who was at that time lndictins
iAtlaming addresses to the yeomanry
and enlisting them in the work OF re-
bellion, is now in full fellowship with
the party that proscribes and dis
franchises them for following his ad
| yicet
Year: 1868

After the Democratic meeting il
Wellsburg, on Tuesday, n torchligh
procession was held at night. The
usual lawlessness of the Radical party
found vent in an attack upon that pro
cession, which was alike disgracefui aGt
cowardly. The Pan Handle Neps gives
the following particulars:


About the time the procession wa:
startirg from the Court House, the
Grant and Colfax men gathered on the
corner near Messrs. Lloyd & Craig'l
store, and without the least provocation
gave three groans for Seymour and
Blair. We would have thought nothing
of this, had they not made such fuss
a short time ago about groaning General
Grant. If they think that Grant Should
not be groaned because he was soldier
surely General Blair deserves the same
marks of respect.


The procession formed in an orderly
manner, and headed by the band moved
down Main street to the lower end OF
the town, from thence they crossed over
to Charles street, and while marching
up the street disturbance began, which
came near ending in serious row,
When approaching the Republican end
of the town stones were thrown, the
first of them coming from the vacant
lot near the Presbyterian Church, ana
from here on up, from almost every
alley were hurled the dangerous mis-
siles. After passing up this street to
the upper end, the procession moved
over to Main street, aud down this
past the Grant aud Colfax Club Room
in the Seminary Hall. After the
procession had passed their head
quarters, stones were again thrown,
and this time they came from the
top of the Seminary. One of the Guards
was struck upon the back part of the
head and badly hurt. Just then the de-
risive shouts Of the Radical roughs was
heard daring the Guards back. For
bearauce ceasing to be a virtue, they
wheeled into line, and with the war cry
of Seymour and Blair, moved upon the
enemy, who, under the leadership of
their brave Colonel, had first inaugural.
ed the fuss. But alas for their boaSted
courage. The Colonel (D thinking dis
cTetlOn the better part OF Ndlor, ana re-
membering the old couplct-


He that fights and runs away,


May live TO fight another day,


allowed his cowardly legs to scamper
off with his valiant tongue, and his men,
catching the contagious disease of their
leader, fo,;0wed in his wake. The Sey-
mour boys had conquered a peace, and
from that time they were unmolested.
After boarding the foe in his den and
giving three rousing cheers for Seymour
and Blair, they moved on down the
street.


We deprecate as much as any one
disturbances of this kind, and have
heretofore been charitable enough to
attribute this spirit of malignity which
is so manifest in the acts of the Radical
party hereabouts to the illitcratc mem.
bers of that party; but upon this occa-
sion we were satisfied that they were
bounded on by men who boast of their
morality. Two or three honorable men
of their party endeavored to avert this,
and had their couDsels been needed, all
would have been well, but other spirits
ruled, and hence the disturbance.
Year: 1868

The type which is now before the
readers eye was set by our colored boys.


When they first came in the office some
conservative, told us that it was of no use
10 try to learn them.


But we knew better; and five weeks
have proved that they are not only capa-
Bile Of learning. but that they have the
ability in them to become first class work
men.


And why shouldn't they? because
they are black?


Why the first prize for oratory in
Harvard College, Massachusetts, that
ranks higher than any other college IN
ne United States, was taken by color
ell man by the name of Greener. So too
NE greatest novelist in the world Alex
aader Dumas was colored man. So
was Molineux, who trained the Harvard
Vfew Tor the boat race this year, and we
could name hundreds of others who like
'fed Douglass, have had chance and
improved 1t. And we say just give us
Vnance, and we will show the nation
mat we have the intelligence and all we
ask the chance to improve it.