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Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore in a measure the energy and ardOr Of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms and give health and happiness in their
Snf,
Year: 1869

1t is a well established fact that fully one.
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, to
use their own expression never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite


TO this class of persons the BITTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

or A subscription is being made in
Vinccnncs TO obtain a sufficient amount


to be offered as bonus TO the Ohio and
mississippi railroad company, 10 induce


them to remove their shops and works
from East st. Louis to that city.
Year: 1869

An experienced planter on Edisto Island,
South Carolina, writes IL letter to the
Charleston. News, in which he says that
there is marked improvement IN the labor
ing population of the Sea Islands. Since
the removal of the Freedman's Bureau the
freedman finds he has to rely upon his own
exertions for support, and he works more
cheerfully, more contentedly and altogeth
er more efficient. The systemkOf labor is
by contraction tWo days work out Of
every week for land, in place of wages and
rations. Some for three days for land and
rations in place of wages, and some for VS.
ges for the whole time, at the rate of hun
dred dollars per year. and rations equal to
fifty dollars more. The latter contract is
in every respect the best both for employ
er and employee but the freedmen much
prefer the first. as it gives them more time
at their own disposal, but much less money
in their pockets in the end. The fine
growing weather, with it's hot and dry days,
and heavy dews at night. which we have
had for the past month, has caused the
crops of cotton to recover from the effects
of the cold spring, and is pushing them
rapidly forward to state of fruitfulness
and promise. Blooms are to be seen every
where over the fields, and the crops are in
a good and we'll worked condition. About
a month ago there was great hue and cry
raised about the appearance of the dread
ed caterpillar already in our fields. It has
passed away.
Year: 1869

under the hastily arranged, yet we'll pre-
pared management of MIR. Beal, of the firm
of Banks & Co.


10 many the trip was one of intellectual
entertainment, parties had come from
sections which bad not been permitted a
knowledge Of the surroundings OF Will
mington, and its harbor and places Of in
terest. Soon the sunken steamer, the de
stroyed vessels, then the old brick church.
the battlements of fort Anderson and
Fisher came into notice, and were passed.
At Smlthvllle @ stop was made, while few
availed themselves of the opportunity of
making a stay until the return of the boat
Many had been entertained the mean
while by the dance, anu until reaching the
landing at Fort Caswen fully enjoyed SO
pleasant an opportunity for relief from the
monotony or discomfort of so large an as
sembly. With some difficulty in the tenn
porary arrangement for landing, the slight
splashing of some of the fair ones in their
jumpings, and the full and complete vet
ting Of one of the party to the amusement
of the others, most of the party made their
way to the old ruins of Fort CaswelI. At
this hour, Of three to four, notwithstand-
ing the pleasant breeze blowing the while,
it was found to be rather warm to linge1
long on the coast, and hence the return o1
the party to the boat, the resumption oil
the social pleasures and the dance, while
the boat turned its course to Smithville
and returning Eight o'clock found the
party at Wilmington, where the train
awaited the delighted guests, but where
we were tempted to leave them for a
nights rest and the pleasures of the com
ing day. The train left at night, and
doubtless all reached their homes in safety
gratified and delighted with the pleasures
afforded, and with: wishes for the future
prosperity of the Academy under its pleas
ant and happy administration.


EXCURsIoNIsT


Wilmington, July 9, 1868.
Year: 1869

VISIBLE PICTURES OF INVISIBLE THINGS
In police court we generally see too much
of the rough realities of life-a too broad
reliance upon facts But in Judge Dowling's
court there is not enough of this, as we have
just seen in the ridiculous investigation before
him of the spiritual photograph humbug, and
in his most ridiculous decision, discharging
Mumler with grand advertisement and full
freedom to inveigle all the countrymen he can
into his gallery. Justice in police courts has
very peremptory prerogative to protect the
people against rogues, and it has this in its
favor, that it need not always stand upon the
nice and embarrassing formalities of the law.
Upon the complaint of the Mayor that Num-
Ter was getting money on false pretences, and
upon the showing by experts how the pictures
could be made, Bowling should have decided
the case, unless the accused could afirma-
lively show that his pictures were made In
some other way. Common sense and reality
are not to be departed from in such tribunals,
or every bedlamite can give his own crazy
reasons for misconduct, and there is no safety
whataver
Year: 1869

Affairs at the Custom House have almost
reached the eliminating point; and within
the present week, probably, the guillotine and
scavcnger's broom will be at work looping off
official heads and clearing out the official
fungi that has accumulated during the past
few years. In the past ten days number OF
appointments and removals have been made,
but these were merely such appointments as
were very necessary to be made to enable the
department to perform its functions efficiently.
Collector Grinnell has been for two days at
Washington and will probably return to-day,
and his return will be signalized by the per-
manent organization Of the staff. The most
disastrous havoc, it is expected, will accrue to
the brood of harp;es who hold sinecure posi-
tions, drawing large salaries for nominal, and,
in some instances, purely imaginary services,
and among this latter class are many Bohe-
milan and other pretended editorial writers
and magazine scribblers. Retrenchment will
be the watchword of the new regime, and to
this beneficent end. in addition to the abolish
ment of individual Offices and the reduction of
the clerical force, some of the subdivisions or
departments will be consolidated with existing
bureaus. There will be the usual rejoicngs
and discontinue at the prospective changes,
but those who rejoice, being the greater part
of the community, will largely outnumber the
weepers, who are to be known by the hapless
appellation of the ''outs"
Year: 1869

DISCIPLINE WANTED IN THE FIRE DEpART-
MENr.-It appears that in the reorganization
of our Fire Department the commissioners did
not purge out all the ruffianism that contami-
mated the old system. Half dozen men in
one Of the companies seem to have made up
their minds that they are subject to no au-
thority and will do as they please, regardless
of all regulation. If there is to be any order
or discipline in the department the commission
crs will find IL necessary to take hold of this
matter very sharply.
Year: 1869

DAMAGEs.-One good way by which TO
control the temper of policemen and make
them reason like other mortals is shown in one
of the court reports. Plaintiff was roughly
handled without provocation by an imperious
policeman. He demonstrated, and the reply
to his remonstrance was TO arrest him ''for
disorderly conduct" and lock him up all night
Verdict against the captain on suit for false
imprisonment-on thousand dollars. Paying
at this rate for lessons policemen will soon
learn the limit Of their powers
Year: 1869

have lived and prospered and been contented
for period the commencement of which must
be sought ages before the Christian era. Is il
wonderful that resisting and reactionary infu-
ences should make themselves felt when the
powerful pressure of modern civilization ia
disturbing their ancient habits of thought and
driving them out of their ancient grooves
Thousands Of Cinnamon have found their way
to Australia, and thousands more have sought
and found home and wealth on the western
slopes OF the Rocky Mountains; but while
those thousands are exercising powerful in
fiuence at home in favor of progress the resist
ing, stubborn, interested, unreasoning multi
tude remains and nothing but q fierce agony
of revolution can force the nation within the
pale of modern civilization. Rome was not
built in day, and as we have not yet rea ched
that period described by the prophet when
nations are to be born in a day we must not be
impatient with China. 1t is our duty, as one
of the greatest nations of modern times, to take
this big and backward sister by the hand, to lead
her forth as gently as possible, to insist on
advancement, but to use no force until
force has become an actual necessity. Mr..
Burlingame has perhaps blown the trumpet
little too loudly, but that is no sufficient reason
why we should despair of China.
Year: 1869

HANSON CABs.-A Hanson cab company
was incorporated in our State Senate on Mon
day, and as soon as the bill of incorporation
shall have been signed by the Governor the
introduction of Hanson cabs in this city will
be attempted on larger scale and under more
favorable conditions than ever before. But as
every previous attempt to introduce them here
has failed, and as our citizens have become
welded to the convenences and even patiently
endure the Inconvenience of the present sys-
TEN ofstreet railway cars, il is doubtful whether
this new experiment Of importing the very con-
venient but more expensive Hanson cab from
London will succeed. Although two persons
may ride comfortably for forty cents in one of
these cabs, from Union square to Wall street.
escaping the annoyanccs Of the crowded omni-
bus or car, yet they cannot forget that each of
them has been accustomed TO make four trims
in the omnibus, and at least six in the car for
the same price. Perhaps il street railways
were as numerous and as cheap in London as
they are here Hanson cabs would already
have lost their popularity in the British me-
| tropolis.
Year: 1869

HOUSE AGENTS. class of persons who
fancy they have full right and power to do just
what they please with the people and the peo-
pies money are the small house agents, and
we are glad to see that one of these has just
been brought to his senses in court. He had
shown house and it was taken but he made
out the lease for another, received the rent
and refused to make the correction. All these
men ought to do business on license, and the
fact of a decision against them in suit like
this should revoke the license. II is not
enough that they are compelled to refund the
money they have wrongfully kept.
Year: 1869

WoMANs VENGEANCE. The Excise law h as
served one honest purpose in a household,
ruled apparently by woman who knows
rights. Elizabeth Baker repeatedly warned
a liquor dealer not TO sell rum TO her
husband, and he repeatedly laughed at
her and sold the rum all the same. Then
Elizabeth determined to close his career, and
sent little girl to buy rum at time when
the dealer was forbidden by law to sell IT,
lie fell into the trap. Elizabeth laid the facts
before the Excise Board and the dealer lost
his license.
Year: 1869

In THE CUSTOM HOUsE.-Reform has begun
well in the New York Custom House, in the
interest of the merchants and not of politicians
and office-holders. This is the first time in a
ticular Wav
Year: 1869

SOME DrFrEEENcE.-These words from Judge
Bedfords charge to the Grand Jury summarize
completely our status as to crime 1.-THE bold
and daring recklessness which but few weeks
ago characterized our criminal record has
been palpably very much diminished"
Year: 1869

DRUG CLEREs.-The law to secure the en-
ployment by druggists of competent prescrip-
ton clerks requires that such clerks shall
study, and lays a penalty upon the employ
ment of others in this special vocation. This
penalty is not its best point and is one that
perhaps will seldom be enforced, though the
law will commonly be violated. The effective
feature in the law is that in cases Of death re-
sulting from its violation there is basis for
proceedings against the delinquent. Some
body can be punished, and few punishments
will do good.
Year: 1869

People are not to have protection against the
abuses practised by the gas companies for the
asking. Such is the appearance in Albany
just now. The Gas bill passed through the
Assembly without difficulty, much to the sur


prise of those who did not reflect that the gas
men, being good fnanciers, would naturally
prefer to buy up the less numerous body where
one would suit their purpose as well as another.
The bill is now in the Senate, and there is a
suspicious tendency to defer action on it.
Judging by the past it will do no great violence
to the fame of the legislators to see connection
between this tendency and the hundred and
fifty thousand dollars belonging to the gas COM
panies that is now on deposit at the State
capital. Shall the public interest be now
deliberately and coolly sold out by the Senate?
This bill embodies in its provisions a pro-
lection to our citizens that becomes daily more
necessary. Without it we shall still be, as we
have been in the past, at the mercy of corpo-
rations that hold a monopoly on the supply Of
the best artificial light practicable for use.
Without gaslight we cannot live in cities. As
the law now stands we are compelled to pay
an excessive price for q poor article, we have
the most vexatious rules imposed upon us, and
we have no redress anywhere. This winter
the people have forced the Assembly up to the
point of enacting law that promises improve
ment. Shall that law now be bartered away
by the huckstering legislators of the other
house? We fear it will be unless the popular
will is expressed in a way to make the Senate
forget for the time that money on deposit.
Year: 1869

sisted in it with such affecting assev-
erations, that many pitied him, though
none doubted the justness of his sem
tenee. y ~


,The executioners were not so ex-
pert at their trade as modern ones,
nor were drops and platforms invent
ed. The young man was very tall;
for his feet sometimes touched the
ground, and some of his friends who
surrounded the gallows contrived to
give the body some support as it was
suspended. After being cut down
those friends speedily bore it away
in coffin, and in the course of few
hours animation was restored, and
the innocent saved. When he was
able to move, his friends insisted on
his quitting the country and never re-
turning. He accordingly travelled by
night to Portsmouth, where he enter
ed on board man of war, on the
point of sailing for distant part of
the world; and as he changed his
name, and disguised his person, his
melancholy story never was discover
ed. After few years of service, du-
ring which his exemplary conduct
was the cause ofhi promotion through
the lower grades, he was at last made
masters mate, and his ship being
paid off in the West Indies, he with a
few more of the crew, were transfer
red to another man of war, which had
| just arrived short of hands. What
were his feelings Of astonishment and
then Of delight and ecstacy, when al
most the first person he saw on board


his new ship was the Identical boat
swain for whose murder he had been


tried, condemned and executed, five


years before. Nor was the surprise


of the old boatswain much less when


he heard the story.


An explanation of all the mysteri-


Gus circumstances then took place


It appeared that the boatswain had


been bIed for a pain in his side by
the barber, unknown to his niece, on


the day OF The young mans arrival at
Deal; and when the young man wax


ened him, and retired to the yard, he


found the bandage had come off his


arm during the night, aud that the


blood was flowing afresh. Being


alarmed he rose to 60 to the barber,


who lived across the street, but a


press-gang laid hold of him just as he


left the public house. They hurried


him to the pier where their boat was
waiting; a few minutes brought them


on board a frigate, then under way


for the East Indies, and he omitted


ever writing home to account for his
sudden disappearance. Thus were


the chief circumstances explained by
the two friends thus strangely met
= The silver coin being found iii the
possession of the young man, could on
ly be explained oy the conjecture, that
when the boatswain gave him the
knife in the dark, it is probable that
: as the coin was in the same pocket it
stuck between the blades of the knife,
and in this manner became the strong
est proof against him.
Year: 1869

TROUBLE IN THE DOMESTIC CAMP.
The Troy Whig tells the following:
A young man residing in Pownal, Vt,
not long since married young lady
residing in Center Bennington. The
union was considered happy one in
every respect, and for a time every
thing passed off in the most satisfac-
tory manner to both parties. About
a week since, the young bride display
ed a somewhat restless disposition,
and returned to her fathers residence,
expressing a determination never to
return to her husband. On Saturday
last she slipped on board the Troy
and Boston train and came to this
city. The husband, intent on trans
forming the marital wormwood into
blissful honey, followed in the foot
steps of his truant wife; coming on to
this city yesterday morning, and pass
ing through our borders he pressed
on to Albany, whittier his better half


had fed, as to city of refuge. Ar
irving at Albany, he proceeded to
Stanwix Hall, and opening the regis
ter discovered that something was
wrong, or else the truant wife had
more than one husband, but this he
hardly considered right. Soon after
he discovered the young man who had
so suddenly him-intruded in his
domestic affairs, and seizing him, gave
him in charge of bystander to hold
until he could gain an interview with
his wife, he hastened to her presence,
but alas no open arms were ready
to receive him. She spurned him,
and vowed, although she was only
four feet eight, and he six feet two,
she would yet execute vengeance up
on him. Husband became excited,
and turned to fog the young man
who had intruded, but he was gone;


the bystander, into whose care he
had been given, whispered in the
prisoners ear, "run to the depot and
take the first cars for Cohoes," and
then released the young man who i'm
mediately departed, but returned soon
after, just as the husband succeeded
in thrusting the recreant maiden into
carriage, regardless of her threats
of vengeance, and wild, fanciful gesti-
culations. A large crowd gathered


to witness this scene-Albanians al


ways like such sights. AS the car
riage drove of, the second handed
lover ran shrieking after, leading the
van of an army of sooty bootblacks,
with dirty faces but clean morals, we
hope). The carriage drove hurriedly
to the depot, where the gate closed


upon one of those peculiar scenes, the
fouor of which the hetter -.
Year: 1869

In the year 1928, a young man who
was serving his apprenticeship in Lon
don TO u master oaii-maker, got leave
to visit his mother, to spend the
Christmas holidays. She lived d few
miles beyond Deal, in Kent. He
walked the journey, and on his arri-
val at Deal, in the evening, being
much tatigued, and also troubled with
a bowel complaint, ne applied to the
landlady OF public house, who was
acquainted with his mother, for
nights lodging. Her house was full,
and every bed occupied; but she told
him that if he would sleep with her
uncle, who had lately come ashore,
and was boatswain OF an lndiaman,
he should be welcome. He was glad
to accept the offer, and after spend
ing the evening with his new comrade,
they retired TO rest. In the middle
OF the night he was attacked with his
complaint, and wakening his bedfel-


low, he asked him the way to the gar
den. The bOatSwain told him to 90
through the kitchen, but as he would
find it difficult to open the door into


the yard, the latch being out of order
he desired him to take knife out of


his pocket, with which he could raise


the latch. The young maG did as he


was directed, and after remaining


nearl y half an hour in the yard, he re-


turned to his bed, but was much sur


prised to find his companion had ri8-


en- and gone. Being impatient to Wis


it his mother and friends, he also


rose before day and pursued his jour


ney, and arrived home at noon.


The landIady who had been told


of his intention to depart early was


not surprised; but not seeing her un-


Gle early in the. morning, she went to


call him. She was dreadfully shock


ed to find the bed stained with blood,


and every inquiry after her uncle in


vain. The alarm now became gener-


al and on further examination, marks


of blood were traced from the bed


room into the street, and at intervals


down to the edge of the pier head


Rumor was Immediately busy, and


suspicion fell, of course, On the young


man, who had slept with him, that he


had committed the murder, and thrown


the body over the pier into the sea-


A warrant was issued against him,


and he was taken that evening at his


mothers house. On his being exam,


ined and searched, marks Of blood
were discovered on his shirt and trow.
sers, and in his pocket were a knife


and a remarkable silver coin. both of
! which the landlady swore positively
were her uncle's property, and that
she saw them III his possession on the
evening he retired to rest with the
young man. On these strong circum
stances the unfortunate youth was
, found guilty. He related all the above
: circumstances in his defense; but as
he could not account for the marks
of blood on his person, unless he got
/ them when he returned to the bed
!, nor for the silver coin being In his
possession, his story, was not credit
, ed. The certainty of the boatswain's
disappearance, and the blood at the
, pier traced from his bedroom, were
two evident signs of mis- having been
murdered and even the judge was
so convinced of his guilt, that he or
dered the execution to take place in


three days. At the fatal tree the
i youth declared his innocence, and per-
Year: 1869

Little tongues that chatter, chatter
Little feet that patter, patter
With ceaseless motion all the day
Little eyes that softly tighten
Little cheeks that flush and brighten
Little voices singing at their play,
In my memory awaken
Thoughts of one who has been taken.
OF little heart that beats no more
Of little voice that's ringing
Mid the angels sweetly singing
Songs of gladness on distant shore.


Chambers Journal.