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Year: 1867

Albany, March rs, 1867.


Bills PASSED.
To amend the charter OF the village of Albion
Authorizing the sale Of the Poor House property in
Syracuse


To authorize the city Of Brooklyn to raise money by
tax for sanitary purposes
To amend the Revised Statutes relative TO trial By
jury.


To enable the towns Of Middetown and Southfeld
Richmond county, to purchase the plank road
To authorize the extension OF the Central Road IN west
chester county.
To improve the highway in West Farms, 10 be ca0d
the Southern Boulevard
Relative TO jurors in Queens county.
Relative to the compensation OF the Highway Com
mssioners Of Richmond county.
Providing for vacancies in the Office Of Supervisor
To open Lafayette square, Brooklyn.
Authorizing the extension OF certain streets In Brook
lyn to the bulkhead line.
To provide for deficiency OF money in support Of
the Brooklyn common schools
To amend the charter Of the village OF Rhinebeck.
To authorize the city of Syracuse TO issue bonds for
educational purposes
To incorporate the National Savings Institution Of
New York.


The Assembly took till half past seven p NJ


Evening Session.


PASSED.
To change the town line between Boonvle and Ava,
Oneida county
To amend the charter OF the Syracuse Savings In
stution


To alter the map or plan Of the city Of New York
In relation TO quarantine in the port OF New York. and
amend the existing acts in relation thereto74 49,
To enable national banking institutions to become
State banking institutions and to amend the Banking
laws Of this state.
Year: 1867

the nrst Veto IN April 1855 gold between l45 and
l54 last year n l34, and is about sne same now
be conceded on this score. Again, what gusransee -
given thai there will be q reduction IN the tos on
nslsht the permission gwen % ,al,e .ne price Oh
AN RELATION NEW YORK cksTRAL RAIL
The people OF the state Of New York. represented Senate


@ Il sha Be Se lawful Il for the New yors Central Rail-
road Company demand and receive two and
ns % % s, % s % Or ..a


SEC. q This act shall take effect immediately.


But it is urged now that the Central Rs,road Is re-
publican machine. Formerly IL vast democratic
power under the management Of Dean Richmond The
old objection to giving favors 70 political opponents no
Fenton have too high respect for his impartaly
an executive to believe him capable Of Withholding
veto such grounds


The rich placer which this opens up 10 the
corrupt members in the Legislature the wei known
hberay Of the Central directory, and their undsputsd
ability to make good their promises led TO caucus Of
the strikers" who met last evening a. Congress Hall


TO take together upon the best ways and means
OF duly avalng themselves OF the opportunity to make
q handsome thing cut OF the company. inc Caucus
was composed IN main OF the legislative ring, wnicn
Is as much fixed institution yours in City Hail. and
embraces members OF all political tenets So the Cen
rra will have hard row TO hoe" after ALL In ma
paaa il is also stated that among the matters discussed
al this caucus appropriate and thorough plan for
the pccunary phlebotomy OF Jake Shapes Broadway
surface railroad corporators


spEcuLAroRs IN CENTRAL RAILROAD STOCK.
There Albany scattered about at the differ
rent hotels twenty bankers brokers and their
agents from New York who waiting impatiently the
action Of the Legislature on this BILL They are pain
fully socitous 70 tho the Governor intends


take with regard TO when Is presented for his sigma
Every officer of the Governors staff every men,
Der Of his political household has been approached by
every strategem and device with view to the determ
nation OF his Intentions Any one capable OF divuging


the secret promised oneha the proceeds Of the
laion in which the intcrogator engaged There
millions Of dollars controlled from this city by these
STOCKHOLDERS who the instant the Governors decis on
becomes known, will telegraph the result Of their vigs
TO Wall street. These calculate the imitation Of
the stock TO 100 ut least the Governor signs the bill
Among the less enthusiastic directors the impress
sion that will touch ia The vibrations Of Central
in Wall street will be worth watching during the next
fifteen days
Year: 1867

10 nature not to preserve and keep in splendid
order good set Of teeth. Nothing can be
easier All that is needed is to brush them
brlsily night and morning with Purifying So
zodont 1t will make the mouth q perfumed
palace, ao
Year: 1867

one of the preachers at the Wilmantic
Comm camp-meeting, recently, said g There
sits Brother P, who used to be one Of the
meanest men in this section of the country, but
the grace of God took hold of him and shook
him all to pieces" hearty q Amen - was in
dulged in by the congregation, and the voice of
the man referred TO rang clear and loud above
the rest
Year: 1867

5NEwsPAPERs.-The newspaper is sermon for
the thoughtful, library for the poor, and a
blessing to everybody. Lord Brougham called
it the best public instruction.


Yes, Lord Brougham once said in a speech in
the House of Commons :" His Majesty may
take the army and navy, he may take tile Min
istry but give free and untrammeled press
and will defy him ' a srt
Year: 1867

AwoMAE always likes to be contrary and if
her parents tell her they would rather follow
her to her grave than have her wed certain
young fellow whom she adores, it is certain
that within one year she viii pass The Paren:taI
domcile three or four times every day. dFawihs
after her pretty little wagon, in when si'S u
prettier little baby. te
Year: 1867

and SO they went on hopping and jump
ing over the stools and chairs, and at
last out at the door, After that evening
they did not come again; but the Shoe
maker prospsred in all he undertook,
and lived happily TO the end of his
Year: 1867

A MOTHER who was leaving her home
on q visit told her little boy and girl not
to 60 through gate at the bottom of
their garden, which opened into the


wood. The children were very happy
for long time after their mother had
gone, but at last, in their play, having
reached the gate through which they
were not to pas, the little boy began to
feel an earnest desire to go into the wood.
He persuaded his sister to fellow him.
Nothing appeared to disturb them, and
after rambling and playing about they
returned, having concluded not to tell
their mother where they had Dsen,
unless she asked them; she had not
expected them to disobey, and never
thought of inquiring. Notwithstanding
this, the little boy did not feel comfort
able. He knew he had done wrong,
and he could not help feeling unhappy.


When Sunday night came, and the
little boy had been washed for led, he
and bis mother commenced to have a
Mica talk, as they usually had at that
time. James could not keep his sad
secret any longer from his kind mother,
so he told her what he and his sister
had done; and then in some sort to
show that her command was needless,
be said that nothing had happened to
them. The mother let him know that
something did befall them, and that
they had lost something, and urged her
little boy to think what it could be.
Perhaps she meant they had lost the
habit Of obedience, and would be easily
led to do wrong again; or perhaps she
meant they had lost her confidence.


The little boy could not think for a
long time of anything he had lost.
He knew that he had left his ball safe,
that, bis knife was in his pocket and
that his slate-pencil was az hand when
wished to use it. But as he continued
TO think, he remembered how uneasy
and uncomfortable be had been all the
week, and at last, in a low, sorrowful
voice, he said, "Mother, did lose
something in the wood, 1 did /; IIost the
happy osa of rsy heart" a
Year: 1867




Jennie June writes as follows: The
short dresses is new idea, and makes
its way slowly, bit it is to be hoped that
it will succeed none the less surely. 1t
is the most admirable idea in dress that


has appeared since the advent of thick


walking boots, and deserves the hearty


cooperation of every woman who has


the mental, moral physical and spirit


ual welfare of her sex at heart. The
lifting up of the dresses out of the dirt
in the streets was great improvement


on the old habits of trailing in the mire ;
tbut-even this is always found objection


able, no matter by what agency effected.


The dress is more or less injured by be-
ling constantly festooned, and is very
liable to be torn or defaced. The short
gored dress not only saves all this


trouble, but large amount Of material,
is neater, and in our eyes more becom-
ling. As yet it has only been worn by
young ladies of the very highest class,


but large numbers who felt afraid to


have new materials cut out in this way,
have ventured to cut over old dresses,
thus making them as good as new, and


are so delighted with the result as to
encourage the strongest hopes that the
fashion will be permanent one. But
|if dresses are very short in the streets,
they are longer then ever at home, and


have assumed a strong Venetian cast
due perhaps to European sympathy


with Italy. The train, the high point


ed body, the long coat sleeves with high
puff on the top, slsshed across, are all
identified with the Venetian lady of


rank, and when to them are added the


hair combed smoothly up into pearl
net at the back, arranged by short curls


over the forehead, the resemblance be-
lcomeg almost comnletA.
Year: 1867

The legal-tender notes of the govern
ment are promises to pay dollars, and
some people seem to entertain the be-
lief that this means promise to pay
gold and silver, though nothing is said
in relation to either of those metals. A
paper dollar is a paper dollar; it viii
pay any debts either of a public or pri-
vate nature. No one is compelled to
receive it in payment for merchandise
ofany kind, though it cannot be refused
in the payment of debt Any one
anxious for specie payments may decline
receiving anything but gold, or silver,
or copper, or platina, or lead, or iron,
or any other metal in exchange for his
goods; and any one who thinks it a
proper thing to do may decline giving
anything but gold or silver in exchange
for what he buys. The paper dollars
Of the Government may easily be con-
verted into gold, or silver, or copper;
just as they may be converted into beef,
or bread, or lumber, or sheetings. To
call them inconvertible, as Mr.. McCul-
loch does, is simply false, because they
may be converted into anything. The
paper dollar is our standard Of value,
and gold and silver vary in price the
same as other commodities DO. The
gold dollar is worth eight cents more
than the silver dollar; and, though it is
supposed to represent hundred cents,
it is really worth about three hundred
of the one cent coins. The only dollars,
therefore, which are really what they
pretend to be are the legal-tender paper
dollars. These paper dollars have an
swered all the purposes for which a
currency is needed during the tremen-
dous trials of the past six years, and
there is no reason why they should not
continue to do so for six years more, or
for sixty if the need should exist for
them.-M y. Independent
Year: 1867

A correspondent thus refers to mat
ter which deserves the attention of all
parents: ''The labors of Sunday school
teachers would be much less irksome
and much more productive of good re-
suits if parents would take some interest
in the progress Of their children. 1.-THE
father or mother, during the week,
would show an interest in the child's
Sunday lesson, explaining and illustrat-
ing it, and then on Sunday morning
would see that the child had some no
ton Of the lesson, at least that it had not
been wholly neglected, great change
for the better would soon be apparent


When child comes to Sunday school
without having looked at the lesson, and
without bringing testament or the Il
brary book taken the week before, it is
tolerably clear that the people at home
care very little about the child's pro-
gress or the Sunday school, or that they
are extremely busy" - I
Year: 1867

The waves ofsound go only S77 yards
in a second, while the earth itself goes
eighteen and one-third miles and light
ten thousand times faster than that;


while electricity (which again is proba-
bly, another kind of vibration of the solid


atoms of bodies, and certainly not a
fluid runs along wire about half as
fast again as light SO, if the earth were
a cannon-ball, shot at the sun from its


present distance, with the velocity it
now travels, and the moment of ex-
|plosion telegrapbed to the sun, they


would get the telegram there in about
five minutes, and see the earth coming
in eight minutes, and would have near
ly two months to prepare for the blow,
which they would receive about fifteen
years before they heard the original ex-


plosion. This is merely taking the sun


as target to be shot at without regard
to his power of attracting the earth at


the final rate of $50 miles a second


Denison's Astron'y t0itAout Mathematics.
Year: 1867

ing their exit through the aperture Of
the attic door.


So much for the ghost of the haunted
house; and, had not this mysterious oc-
currence been unraveled, what thrill
ing story might have been told by each
member of that household-s'personi
of the highest respectability and un.
doubted veracity."
Year: 1867

The day is ended. Ere ] sink to sleep
Ny weary spirit seeks Tt rose in thine;
Father forgive my trespass 5 end keep


This little life of mine.
With loving kindness curtain Thou my bed.
And cool in rest my burning pilgrim feet:
Thy pardon be the pillow for my head
So shall my sleep be sweet.
At peace with all the world, dear Lord and


Thee,
p No fears my FOULS unwavering fsitA can


shake;
Ais well whichever side the grave for me
.s The morning light may break
Year: 1867

OF all the absured financial projects
of the times, we regard the proposition
to contract the currency rapidly as the
most preposterons. If the currency is SO
contracted as to increase its value, taxes
must be reduced so as to enable US to
meet them. The public debt was ere
ated on Initiation, and it ought to be
paid in the same way. Frederick the
Great tried the experiment of paying
the debts of initiation by the increased
value of money contracted, and it pro
duced such widespread disaster and
misery, as to threaten his throne. The
creditor class may be able to meet the
condition Of affairs which have been so
ssubbornly pressed by the Secretary,
but it will ruin the debtor class, who
are three-fourths Of the people.-Dey-
ton Journal
Year: 1867

BEHAVIOR IN CoMPANY.-On the
subject of behavior in company, Leigh
Richmond gives the following excel
lent advice to his daughter:


"Be cheerful, but not gigglers. Be
serious, but not dull. Be communi-
cative, but not forward. Be kind,
but not servile. Beware of silly,
thoughtless speeches; although you
forget them, others will not. Remem-
ber Gods eye is in every face, and
his eye in every company. Beware
of levity and familiarity with young
men; a modest reserve, without fami-
liarity, is the only safe path. Court
and encourage serious conversation
with those who are truly serious and
conversable; do not go into valuable
company without endeavoring to i'm
prove by the intercourse permitted
to you. Nothing is more unbecoming,
when one part of the company is
engaged in profitable conversation
than that another part should be trif
ling, giggling and talking comparative
nonsense to each other"
Year: 1867

LUTHER's SIMPLE LIFE. .-Luther's
own life was a model of quiet simpli-
city. He remained poor. He might
have had money if he had wished, but
he chose rather, amidst his enormous
labor, to work at a turning lathe for
his livelihood.


He was sociable, cheerful, fond of
innocent amusements, and delighted to
encourage them. His table talk, col
lected by his friends, makes one OF
the most brilliant books in the world.
He had no monkish theories about the
necessity of abstinence; but he was
temperate from habit and principle
A salt herring and bunch of bread
was his ordinary meal, and he was
once four days without food of any
sort, having emptied his larder among
The poor.
Year: 1867

A physician in Peoria, Ill. recently
had lady patient strangely affected,
and his medicines in no case had the
desired effect. Finally he resortcd to
emeties, finding it necessary to ad-
minister very strong doses. At last
violent retchings ensued, when the
lady threw up a snake about ten
inches long, of the size of common
lead pencil. She has no idea when
such an unwelcome tenant got into
her stomach. She is now rapidly re-
covering her health.
Year: 1867

BEST TINE TO PAINT HOUSES
Experiments have indicated that paint


IN surfaces exposed to the sun, will


De much more durable if applied in
autumn or spring, than if put on dur
ing hot weather. In cold weather it
iries slowly, forms a hard, glossy
;oat, tough like glass, while if applied
in warm weather, the oil strikes into
the wood, leaving the paint so dry
that 1t is rapidly beaten of by rains.
Year: 1867

Gen. Howard. So


He talks about the people with all
the oily fucncy of the consummate
demagogue, while welding all the
power at his command to battle the
nations will. In alliance with the
men who sought the nations destruc
lion, and who, having treated him
heretofore with sovereign contempt.
now use him as their plant tool, he
seeks by every means to balk the pur-
pose Of those who poured out their
blood like water and their treasure
ike dust to save the nation's life, un-
der the pretext that they are misled
by fanatical radicals and hypocritical
preachers! With an arrogance that
would have caused the head Of any
British sovereign for the last two
hundred years to roll from the block,
ne attempts to defeat the purpose OF
the people expressed through their
representatives, by long-win d d
vetoes, and, when these fail, by the
most shameless denial of the very in
depreciation which he himself had put
upon Congressional enactments and
by removing every officer who at
tempts to carry them out according
to their true spirit and intent.


He possesses ability of certain
kind; he is bold, determined and un-
Scrupulous; he knows well the power
which he wields and understands the
weakness Of his adversaries. Firmly
believing the maxim that "every man
has his price," he laughs at threats
of impeachment, and uses the ablest
men of the country asethe counters in
the bold game which he is playing
He is more than likely to serve out
his term of Office and prevent recon
struction on any just basis for sever.
al years. His strength is not in him.
self, but in the vacillation OF Con.
gress, the timidity of the republican
party, and the lack Of principle il
the men who should, but do not, op
pose his nefarious designs.


We have written, not for the pur
pose of joining in vain cry for im
peachment of the President-we have
yet to be persuaded that there is suf
ticient nerve in Congress for so bold
and effective a measure; but In order
to call attention to the necessity of
some standard of qualification for Of
fee different from the present. Tho
nation, groaning under the incubus OF
this bad man, cries out, 1--WE mus
put good men iG Office" In vain dc


we look for good political principle
in men of bad moral character. "Dt
men gather grapes of thornS or fig
of thisties ?" No amendment of th,


Constitution is more imperatively de


manded than one closing the door


of the halls of Congress and tn


White House against the drunkard


the gambler, the prolane swearer, ant


the debauchee. We care not wha


name is applied to it, whether it b


called moral or religious. One thin|


is certain. We must have a test tina


will secure the nation against Andre7
Johnsons and John Morrisseys.-


When we re-enact the law of Coo


"Set up over you able men, fearin
God, and hating covetousEess," ther
and not till then, will we be saf
against such rulers as the one wit
whom, for our sins, God now scourge
this nation.
Year: 1867

What can be more desolate spec
tacle than an old maid sitting on an
inverted half bushel, in cold kitchen,
with her feet on the brim OF slim
bucket, pairing her corns with a case
knife, by the light of a tallow candle ?
Year: 1867




SING AWAY YoUR GRIEF.-We can
sing our cares away easier than we
reason them away Sing in the NOR.
ming. The birds are the earliest to
sing, the birds are more without care
than anything else that / know Of
Sing at evening. Singing is the last
thing that the robbins do. When
they have done their daily work.
when they have flown their last
fight and picked their last morsal of
food; and cleaned their bill on
knapkin of bough, then on a top
most twig they sing one song of
praise. l know they sleep sweeter
for it. They dream music; for some
times in the night they break forth
in singing and stop suddenly after
the first note startled by their own
voice. o that we might sing even.
ing and morning. and let song touch
song all the way through.


As | was returning from the count
ry the other evening, between six
and seven o'clock, bearing a basket
of flowers, met 8 man that was
apparently the tender of a mason
He looked brick and morter all everl
He had worked the entire day, he
had the appearance of man that
would not be afraid of work. He
was walking with little step, and
singing to himself as he passed down
the street, though he had been work
ing the whole week Were it not
that my good thoughts always come
too late, l should have given hina
large allotment of my flowers Ifhe
had not been out of sight when the
idea occurred to to me, 1 should
have hailed him, and said; ''Haye
yau worked all day." "Of course 1
have" he would have said. "And
you are singing?" ''Of course 1
am ''Then take these flowers
home and give them to your wife,
and tell her what blessing she has
in you"


o that we could put songs under
our burdens. o that we could ex-
tract the sense of sorrew by a song!
Then these things would not poison
so much. Sing in the house
Teach your children to sing. When
troubles come, go at them with songs.
Lift the voice of song against cares.
Praise God by singing; that will lift
you above trials. of every sort. At
tempt it. They sing in heaven, and
among Gods people upon earth song
is appropriate language of Christian
feeling. -Beecher.
Year: 1867

Two little pairs of boots tonight
Before the fire are drying,
Two little pairs of tired feet


In trundie-bed are lying;
Inc track they leave upon the floor
Makes me feel much ike signing.
These little boots with copper toes,
They run the livelong day,
And oft times 1 almost wish


That they were miles away
SO tired am to hear so oft


Their heavy tramp at play.
They walk about the new plowed ground,
Where mud in plenty lies;
They roll it up in marbles round
And hake it into pies;
And then at night upon the floor
In every snaps it dries.
To-day was disposed to scold;
But when Hook tonight
At those little boots before the fire,
With those copper toes so bright,
think how sad my heart would be
To put them out of sight.
For in a trunk up stairs I've laid
Two socks of white and blue;
IL called to put those boots away,
o God, what should dor
mourn that they are not tonight
- Three pairs instead of two.
mourn because thought how nice
My neighbor cross the way
Could keep her carpets all the year
From getting worn and gray:
Yet well know she'd smile to own
Some little boys to-day!
We emotners weary get, and worn,
Overour load of care;
But how we speak of those lite ones
Let each of us beware:
For what would our firesides be tonight
If no little boots were there?