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Year: 1865

THE FUTURE EMPRESS of Russia
The Princess Dowager of Denmark, who is
to be the next Empress of Russia, is just Is
years old She looks far short of that age,
says an exchange, from the innocent lowell
ness of her manner, and from her stature.
Her eyes and teeth form the fascinating beau
ty of her face, her features being far from
regular. In complexion she is brunette !;
but the skin is wonderfully clear, and the ro-
ses of health seem ever to bloom on her dim
pied cheeks. Her stature is rather under
middle height, "but her form seems perfect,
and her bust scarcely yet come to maturity,
rivals the most perfect of Thorwaldsen' S
goddesses in the swan-like neck, the grace
fully dropping shoulders and the rounded
proportions of her arms" To become EN-
press of Russia, the young lady must change
her religion and become member of the
Greek Church, which she will doubtless do
without serious injury to her conscience, or
materially lessening her chances of saliva.
tion.
Year: 1865

WOMEN KILLED WITH CARE.-Every woman
must have best parlor, with hair-cloth furni-
ture, and a Photographic book; she must have a
piano, or some other cheaper substitute her
little girls must have embroidered skirts, and
much mathematical knowledge her husband
must have two or three meals every day of his
life; and yet her house must be in perfect order
early in the afternoon, and she prepared to go
out and pay calls, with black silk dress and
card case. In the evening she will go to con-
cert or lecture, and then, at the end of all she
will very possibly S it up after midnight with
her sewing machine, doing extra work to pay
for little Elias music lessons. All this every
capable woman will do or die She does it,
and dies, and then we are astonished that her
vital energy gives out sooner than that of an
Irish woman in a shanty, with no ambition on
earth but to supply her young Patricks with ad-
equate potatoes-T. W. Higginson.
Year: 1865

CONSTANT EMPLoYMENT.-Th man who is OBJ
liged to be constantly employed to earn the ne
cessaries of life and support his family, knows
not the unhappiness he prays for when he de-
sires wealth and idleness. To be constantly
busy is to be always happy. Persons who have
suddenly acquired wealth, broken up their ac-
tive pursuits, and began to live at their ease,
waste away and die in a very short time. Thou
sands would have been blessings to the world,
and added to the common stock of happiness, if
they been content to remain in humble sphere


and earned every mouthful of food that nour-
ished their bodies. But, no; fashion and wealth
took possession of them, and they were COM
pletely ruined. They away from peace and
pleasure, and embraced a lingering death Ye
who are signing for the pomp and splendor of
life, beware Ye know not what ye wish Per-
sons who are always busy, and go cheerfully to
their daily tasks, the least disturbed by fiuc


tuations of business, and at night sleep with
perfect composure The idle and the rich are
seldom ever contented. They are petulant,
fearful, irascible. Bid them good morning, and
they scowl. Nature and art appear to have but
few attractions for them. They are entirely out
of their views. While in this state the springs
of life are rusting out, and the decay of death
has commenced undermining their constitutions.
Year: 1865

A young woman in Jackson, Michigan, has
been carrying on the recruiting business in
original and highly peculiar manner She mar
ries man on condition that he enlist and give
her his bounty. She, being strikingly handsome,
the man consents. After he is gone, marries an
other. Four men has she thus welded and sent
to the army On the fifth occasion she was de-
tected
Year: 1865

WISH OF A Coop MAN.-'I would rather"
said Dr.. Sharp, ''when am laid in the grave,
that some one in his manhood should stand over
me and say There lies one who was a real
friend to me and privately warned me of the
danger of the young. No one knew it, but he
aided me in the time of need owe what am
to him. Or would rather have some widow,
with choking utterance, tell her children,
There is your friend and mine, he visited me in
my afiicton, and found you, my son, an en-
ployer, and you, my daughter, happy home, in
a virtuous family. 1 would rather that such
persons should stand at my grave, than to have
erected over it the most beautiful sculptured
monument of Partisan or Italian marble. The
hearts broken utterance of reflections of past
kindness, and the tears of grateful memory shed
upon the grave, are more valuable, in my esti-
nation, than the most costly cenotaph ever
reared
Year: 1865

We copy, with satisfaction, the following
rejection OF the New York Neacs by the Rich
mond Republic:


1.-THE Boston Evening Transcript speaks of
the New York Daily Neacs as a journal which
is plainly conducted in the interests Of the
South There never was a greater mistake.
The Southern people are responsible in no way
or shape for the utterances OF the Netps, or any
other journal in the Northern States. Nor has
it any sympathy with the school OF politicians
in the North which the NepS represents, for
the, natural and good reason that they do not
understand our condition and have no real sym
pathy with us"
Year: 1865

'Tis Autumn, and the fading leaves
Sail slowly down upon the wind
Leaving like Death when he bereaves
The living germ OF hope behind
'Tis Autumn, and the sun is din,


His Summer fire is nearly g ne;
The breeze waits out mournful hymn,
And all the earth is sad and lone
Ills Autumn over land and main
veil of azure haze is thrown,
AS if the parent heaven again


Had claimed our planet for its own;
And the blue vestments of the sky
For garniture of glory given,
Till scarcely can the s,raining eye
Tell which is earth or which is heaven
Year: 1865

THE POPULATION OF NEW YoRK.-The
World and the Tribune are at loggerheads
as to what the actual population of New York
city may happen to be at the present time.
The apparent increase Of population from
1855 to 1860 was about 200, 900, but it is af.
frmed that there was no such actual increase,
but that it was figured out by the census
takers, under Marshal Rynders, for political
purposes But it is now quite impossible to
ascertain the facts.


Upon the figures of 1860, in their relation
to those of 1855, it was supposed that the
population of New York would be reported
this year at a round million at least but it
now turns out to be less, rather than over,
500, 900. Whoreupon the World, which has
a singular facility in discovering mares nests,
exclaims that mischief is meant and that
New York is to be fraudulently deprived Of
her fair share of representation. The Phila'
delphians are delighted, and are cOngratu'
lating themselves that they are the biggest
people in the country.
Year: 1865

A Washington telegram to the New York
Tribune says:


at is reported that Mr.. WILSON, Third
Auditor Of the Treasury, has resigned his
present office, and that on his return from the
West he will be called to the acceptance Of q
high position under the Government.


Upon inquiry we learn that Mr. WILSON
has not resigned the Third Authorship. The
high position" referred to is reported to us
to be the Chief of Bureau at the Execu.
tive Mansion for the transaction Of clerical
work. We do not believe the report, for the
reason that the President, instead Of increas-
ing his clerical business at tho White House,
will be obliged to reduce it there, and dis.
tribute the pardon and Office seekers to the
several appropriate Departments and Bureaus
of the Government where they belong, else
he will find himself with huge elephant on
his hands
Year: 1865

We understand that Major General PHILIP
II. SHERIDAN endorses the proposition Of the
merchants and planters of the Southwest set
forth in their petition to the President, pub
lished in yesterdays REPUBLICAN, to tax all
cotton Is per cent, and to abandon its at
tempt to conhscate any of the staple on ac-
count of any supposed right acquired by the
United States on account Of it having been
claimed by the confederate government as
its property.
Year: 1865

YESTERDAY the MtehLigemcer had a Sum.
mer-day article on the inconsistencies of the
Chronicle. This morning the latter ac-
knowledgcs 1t cannot find comparison of
records" No sensible person in this wide
world ever supposed that it could. With all
the ups and downs of the HteiHgemeor for
the last ten years we have been able to tell
pretty near where it stood for a: least week
at a time.
Year: 1865

And they have been scrupulously afford
ed a fair and speedy trial, with every
opportunity OF defense for crimes which
were openly perpetrated before the eyes
of hundreds, and as openly confessed.
They could escape conviction only by
technical exceptions, and the chances for
these they had to a greater degree, by the
expedition Of prosecution. And the
crimes deliberately done by them are of
the deepest and darkest kind which can
be committed against our people. Brown
the chief leader, has been legally and
fairly tried and convicted and admits the
humanity Of his treatment as prisoner,
the truth of the Indictment, and the truth
fulness of tho witnesses against him.
He has been allowed excess Of counsel,
and the freedom Of speech beyond any
prisoner known to me in our trials. 1t
was impossible not to convict him. He
is sentenced to BE- hung; that is the SEN
tence of mild code, humauely adjudged,
and requires no duty from mo except ID
see that it be executed. have to sign
no death warrant. Ifthe Executive inter
poses at all, it is to pardon; and to pardon
him l have received petitions, prayers,
threats from almost every free State in
the Unioh.


From honest patriotic men Ne your
self, many Of them, am warned that
hanging will make him a martyr. All |
will it? Why? The obvious answer to
that Question shows me above any thing
the necessity for hanging him. You ask:
Have you nerve enough to send Brown
to the State Prison for life, instead ol
hanging him?" Yes, if didn't think
he ought to be hung, and that I would
be inexcusable for mitigating his punish
ment, l could do it without ilinching,
without qdiver Of muscle, against a
universal clamor for his life. But was ii
ever known before that it would be i'm
polite for a State to execute her laws
against the highest crimes, without bring
ing down upon herself the vengeance of
a public sentiment outside of her limits,
and hostile to her laws? Is it SO that it
is wisely said to her that she had better
spare murderer, robber, traitor, BE-
cause public sentiment elsewhere will
glorify an insurrectionist with martyr
dom? If so, it is time to do execution
upon him, and all like him. And l,
therefore. say to you, firmly. that have
precisely the nerve enough to let him be
executed with the certainty of his con.
demnation. He shall be executed as the
law sentences him, and his Body shall be
delivered over to surgeons, and await
the resurrection without a grave in our
soil. ! have shown him all the mercy
which humanity can claim.


Yours, truly,


HENRY 4. WISE.


Hon. f. WooD.
Year: 1865

There is curious old document in existence


known as the Constitution of the United States


which formerly had the force and effect of law
in that large portion of our country not speci


ally dominated by the slave power. Under the
rule Of our present Cabinet, it seems to have
gone out of fashion; and, since Mr. Stanton:
accession to the control of the War Department,
it hos become practically obsolete. Loyal eiti-
zens did not much mind this while civil war
conyulsed the country, threatening the Perma-
nent overthrow of our liberty and nationality
but, now that the war is practically ended it
seems high time that che old parchment were
Year: 1865

[The following letters fell into the hafds of
one our army, on the occupation of Richmond,
and are undoubtedly genuine. We present
them to our readers as genuine types of the
embryo Southern traitor and the willy Northern
sympathizer. The first straight forward and
manly in giving expression to his impulsive
feelings, and evidently terribly in earnest and
fearless of consequences in carrying out the
peculiar views of State Sovereignty entertained
by his class of Southern Hotspurs. The other
oily and insinuating, alike destitute of truth
fulness and patriotism, and who would not
scrupe to use alike the Church Liturgy or his
wifes small talk for the manufacture ofpolitical
capital, TO be used in furtherance of his own
ambitious schemes of personal advancement
We think the resolutc Wise had the advantage
over his skillful and jcsutcal opponent in this
keen encounter. He certainly split his Wood


in so artistic and workmanlike manner, as to
provoke the risibles of those who are intimate
with the cratic operator and his Oily Cannon
yictim.-ED. PIONEER.
Year: 1865

The Louisville Journal thus speaks OF
the character of the Southern people, and
as to the way in which they can be the
most readily pacitied:


The Southern people, like other peo
pie, have their excellenoies and their de
fects They are excitsble, brave. and
generous No people i'll the world are
more open to the power of kindness OF
can be influenced more strongly by an
exhibition of it. A large majority OF
them hated the whole scheme Of an at
tempt at Disunion and the setting up Of
an Independent Government. aud they
have only to be dealt with in a magnan-
imous spirit to wheel into line with all
the enthusiasm of their warm and im
pnlsiye natures as true, Jealous, and
ioyal citizens of the United States


III, however, in an evi. moment, diff
ferent theory is adopted; if a taunting
iliberal spirit is INDUCED in toward
them; if the effort be made to kesp ever
before their minds the idea that they are
a suLjaqated people; if they shall be
treated with rigor upon the ground that
they have no rights which the Govern
nient is bound to respect'-and this is
the iargon of some fanatics--we may ex.
pect to see he consequences OF this IN
happy strife stretch themselves away in'
terminably into the dim, dark gloom Of
the future
Year: 1865

NEW YORK, May 1.-The gold market
is excited under a strong bear move
ment, engineered apparently by the
CLIQUE, and is held short so as to enable
them to get out of their corner. A large
amount of short sales were made during
the morning at 81 2s4 and 81 80: The
operation is hazardous one, and it is
not impossible that it may be followed
by sharp upward turn.
Year: 1865

FINE ScGAR.-A fine lump of sugar is
left on our table as specimen OF the new
refining process by means OF sulphurous
gas. It is from the Arcola plantation, now
under charge of Mr.. W. F. Weeks, who, we
believe is agent for the sale of the new
method of clarifing. The lump before us
is very beautiful, though not equal to the
average production of the new process in
whitcness The Grauulation is excellent.
= Gal. Nelrs.
Year: 1865

he habit of drinking can be cured by
giving tho drinkers all the liquor they
want 10 drink all the time. We know Of
two in our own experience who were cured
in three weeks. One jumped out ofa fourth
story window and ran curbstone into his
head. The other didn't get up ono morn
ing and has now IL curbstone growing over
his head in the graveyard.-[ tx.
Year: 1865

Many of the lending Methodist divines
of our State have, with the approval of
their congregations, made overturcs to tho
Episcopal Church of Georgia, and some of
the clerical officers of the triennial conven-
ton, to unite with the Episcopal Church.
Their hostility to Northern Mcthodism, and
its incidental hatred of the South in years
past, is said to be the primo motive Of the
act Georgia Exchange.
Year: 1865

1t is impossible to foreknow whether,
when ''reconstruction" is consummated,
there will be any Southern issues with the
Administration, and, if SO, what La other
words, 1t Is impossible to say whether the
old Democratic party of the South is or is
not capable of being revived or whether
any opposition party can, for years to come
find tenable foothold there Everything
south of Manson and DIXON S is in an anoma-
lous condition, transitional state; and it is
in vain to try to define the shapes into which
its political elements will finally resolve
themselves


What is left of the old Democratic party
must go staggering on, oppressed with the
disgrace OF Its recreancy In the war, and
helplessy trusting to luck for something to
better its fortunes Whether it Will abso-
lutely sink and cease to exist we do not un-
dertake to say But it is very certain
that, with is present elements, it can can
never get strength enough to re-acquire the
rule of the country. In the present
stage of the nation, it is morally impossible
for any party to get power in it that has not
an indomitable national spirit Here the
American people will not tolerate faintness
Infinitely less faithlessness.
Year: 1865

That 10000 freedmen would perish this
Winter OF starvation, if not relieved, Is not
the least remarkable statement of those
who have been recent observers at the
South~. We are not entirely surprised to
know that in South Carolina and Georgia
only very small minority are willing to
treat the blacks to pittance of ordinary
fairness. The real picture Of affairs is pain
fully suggested by this statement. SO far,
the blacks seem to be the victims but our
travellers have not told half the story. This
destitution on one side cannot be without
a correspondence on the other, if we reck-
ON from tie old social and industrial balance
at the South. The white Southerner who
kicks labor away from another person land,
and sends it out TO pasture upon nothing, Is
in fair way Of starving himself. Rough
riders, who still keep small standing army
at the planters expense TO waylay anu shoot
down negro soldiers and freedmen, are tak-
ing great pains to make famine sure thing
ali round. Rather put out the embers OF
the feud, drop the outlaws, protect the
freedmen. and let common-sense and plenty
have chance and room to grow. We can
nred;ct that for every black man starved
bv the pro famine and pro-Slavery combina-
tions of the South, white men viii suffer in
much the same way and proportion.
Year: 1865

Tt has been decided by the Second Comp
troler of the Treasury that, as the veteran
reserve corps is disbanded on account of
the close of the war, the members are enti-
tied to the bounty the same as if they had
remained with their regiments The fact OF
their being transferred to the corps, and
then discharged from that organization. not
affecting their right to the bounty.
Year: 1865

Our Government has ordered that no
armed parties will be allowed to pass our
frontier to aid either party in Mexico
Neither will any shipment of arms or NUM-
tions of war be allowed to leave our ports
destined for the same country.
Year: 1865

The fact has we presume. became generally known
that European vessel has brought that dire disease
the cholera to American shores. The steamer At
lanta which arrived in New y ork from London and
Havrc on Thursday night last, with 458 passengers,
had 50 60 of cholera, fifteen Of which proved
fatal. These facts coming to the knowledge of the
health officer he Immediately ordered the Atlanta TO
the Lower Quarantine, where she now remains, with
all her passengers board and debarred wholly frm
communication with the shore. There she will be
kept until fumigati0n and frost have done their ut
most to destroy the seeds Of all lurking disease Since
the arrival of the Atlanta the patients have been
transferred to the Floating Quarantine Hospital, and
we learn from dispatches that several new cases
have occurred


Further talk or speculation is useless and we have
nothing to do but face the fact that the cholera is here
at last.


No time should be lost by our corporate authorities
in executing measures of cleanliness and taking more
than ordinary precautions for the health of our cti
zenS Let the high ways and by ways the smaller
lanes and alleys be thoroughly cleansed the market
places kept under constant surveillance and the hun
dreds of little buildings in side streets be inspected
and their occupants be compelled to keep their pla-
ces clean and free from all noxious matter


Much is to be done and must be done without de-
lay. There are hundreds of sunken lots about the
city that not unfrequently, in summer are filed with
stagnant water and know that the malaria arising
from these during the last season was the immedi-
ate of many of low type of fever. WHAT
auXlliaries will they not prove to disease like the
cholera, if not properly filed up? 1t is a moment
when the utmost energy is demanded from every off
ccr and every individual. Clear, cold and
bright. these November days furnish a fit
time for the work of cleansing streets, lanes
alleys, hidden courts and cellars. The eiIu-
via from many localities cleaned during hot and
c1lt tharw 10 ,vbi .h G
subjected to process of purEation now would result
in no harm The last vestige of malaria and mias-
matte poisons will have disappeared before spring
time comes with its budding flowers and its genial
warmth. With pestilence almost at our very DOORS
why should We defer the work
Year: 1865

New YORK, Nov. 5.-At half-past eleven
o clock this morning, an explosion of mys-
terious box in front of the Wyoming Hotel,
333 Greenwich street, took place, shattering
the front of the hotel and breaking nearly all
the glass in the building opposite and along
the square where the hotel is situated Two
men were killed and nine persons wounded.
a short time ago, it appears, a guest of the
hotel left this box as security for his bill, and
promised to call soon and redeem it. The
box was placed in the baggage-room in charge
of the porter, and this morning smoke was
seen issuing from the box, when it was taken
by two men and carried to the sidewalk. Just
as they reached the edge of the sidewalk the
explosion occurred, killing the men carrying
the box and doing much damage, as above
mentioned. The police have arrested all the
persons stopping at the hotel, and the matter
is now under investigation. The explosion
was very loud, and attracted the attention of
persons mile distant from the locality.
Year: 1865

CONNECTICUT TOBACCO GROWERS CONVENTION
convention of the tobacco growers of Connecticut
was held in Hartford on Thursday last and the fol-
lowing resolutions were adopted:


ResoIred, That the present law taxing the various
kinds of manufactured tobacco is correct in principle
and nearly just and equal in its operation any
that can be devised.


ResotUed That, in the opinion of this association,
any tax levied upon tobaccO in the leaf would prove
alike detrimental to the country and to the interest
of the grower; that while experience may call for
some modification in the details of the present law,
earnestly contend that in the principle of taxing
the manufactured article should be retained.


ResoIUcd That we invite the tobacco growers of
Connecticut to join this association and unite with
in advancing and perfectng this branch of our busi
ness, and in protecting against all unjust legisa
tion and monopoly.
Year: 1865

The hospital ship, known as the Florence
Nightingale, but the real name of which is the
Falcon, was Withdrawn from her station in the
Lower Bay on the 10Th day of October, and
"laid up at Red Hook, foot Of Van Brunt
street, Brooklyn, for the winter.


The reason for this was that it was supposed
there would be no further use for her.


She has been ordered to her old station, and
the patients will be removed to her and treated
on board
Year: 1865

Still later intelligence is from Dr. Walzer
who has charge of the patients on the Atlanta
as an assistant health officer.


The number of deaths up to three O'Clock
this afternoon was nineteen.


The number of cases on board at that time
was more than twenty.