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Year: 1869

In 1864, notice was given that a boat
load of prisoners from Andersonville
would be exchanged and that they would
be landed at Annapolis, Md. Men and
women came from every part of the
United States, each with the hope of
meeting friend whom they knew to be
confined at Andersonville. Of course,
among such large number there could
not be more than one in one hundred that
could find the friend they came after.
When the boat came up to the wharf there
| was great crowd there to welcome the
| forlorn creatures, and to inquire after
others who did not come. Among the
| ! eXpectants was the mother of a soldier in
! the 18th Connecticut regiment, who
rushed ON board the boat, asking every
soldier she saw for her boy. From deck
| to cabin, in the cots and among the bar
rels, she searched for him but he was not
there, and no one had heard of him. She
had brought cap, a shirt and a pair of
pants, that he might have a clean change,
and with these across her arm she wan
dered among the crowd, saying, in half
inquiring, vacant tone, He has not
come; he has not come" For
year after she went regularly to the
wharf at sunrise from her lodgings,
which nobody could find, and gazed
for an hour down the bay, and muir
muring, he has not come," would go to
the Post Surgeon with the same cap,
shirt and pants, and ask why her boy did
not come. At the close of the war she
was taken to the Lunatic Asylum. But
one day last June she managed to get out,
and securing some old rags in place of the
clean pants, she astonished the family now
living in the house where the surgeons
quarters were then, by asking "why her
boy had not come" They shut the door
in her face, and she wandered down to
the wharf and was found the next morn
ing stiff and cold, sitting upright behind
some old barrels on the wharf, with her
CLASSY eyes still gazing down the bay
toward the point where steamers first came
in sight.


tsHe had not come to her,
Year: 1869

in my favor, of course I shall not have
to pay the money if the Court decides
against me shall not have to pay it,
according tosthe terms of our contract, for
shall not then have gained my first suit
at law"


The discerning reader will easily per-
ceive that great many Of the metaphysi.
CAL political and doctrinal discussions
which are going on in the earth, get their
principal fuel in the different sense of
words and phrases. will not moralize
extensively on this proposition, though
there is abundant opportunity to do SO. I
deem illustration more entertaining than
dissertation. Gagaag.
Year: 1869

Ayoung lady with "switch" trailing
fashiouably down her back was some
what startled, while waiting at railroad
depot the other day, by kindly old lady,
who was not "up to the latest styles I
approaching her and whispering in tone
audible all over the room, Your back
hair is coming down, miss"
Year: 1869

If there be any man in the nation
who deserves the sympathy-yes, even
the pity-Of all good people, that man
is HIRAM ULYSSES GRANT, President of
the United States. We are, on princi-
pie, opposed to smoking have written
and published several wel1-pronOunced
protests against the habit, on moral
grounds /; have, in fact, quite unTe-
servedly commended Mr.. PartOn's con-
clusions, that it don't ''pay to smoke -
but we beg to make Mr.. Grant an ex-
ception to any arguments we may have
stated or assented to against the prac-
tice. We are glad to know that the
President does smoke, and that he can
draw comfort from his Havana; for, if
anybody on this foOtstoOl stands in
need of comfort, that person is the
President.


We have various pictures in our
memory of General Grant. From the
time he preferred his humble suit to be
permitted to serve the country as
volunteer, to the eliminating scene of
his brilliant career under the apple
tree at Appomatox Court House, there
are multitudes of episodes, any one of
which would make the subject of a
marked historical tableau, with Ulys-
ses as the central figure but in none
of them would he be more an object of
profound regard-We came near saying
ommiseration-than in his present
role of dispensing the ''spoils" of his
last great victory. We are free to say,
too, that the experiences of a four
years military campaign do not seem
to have been the best school to prepare
one for such important civil functions
as that of deciding upon rival claims
to postmastership or a postmistress-
ship in Podunk. It was all very well
and sublimely prophetic, as we now
see it-for the conquering hero, as he
entered ''the Wilderness, ,, to send back
his telegraphie assurance that he would
Eight it out" on a given line if it took
all aummer; but what knowledge, ex-
perience or patriotism can define to his
mental vision any cline" upon which
he can successfully fight out his pres
ent campaign?


Upon the authority of an excellent
witness, the President is "a very OBJ
stinate man :" and a cloud of witnesses
establish him as an ''inVeterate
smoker" F" and so, between his obstinacy
and his cigar, may we not hope that
the man who began the most brilliant
military career known to modern his
tory by a disastrous defeat, and ended
by debating to the enemy the terms of
an unconditional surrender, will repeat
that record in the civil administration
of the government whose very exist
ence is due, under God, to his instru-
mentality?


AS it took four years of military SER
vice to develop Grant as the first Cen
eral of his time, who shall say that
four years of civil service will not as
fully develop in him an intelligent,
honest, magnanimOus chief magistrate?
The inference is wholly justifiable.
q Let us have peace. ."-PGckGTd'S


Monthly.
Year: 1869

The Cleveland Herald makes the fol-
lowing structures on the passage of the
Morgan Raid Bill:


"We have already given our opinion
on the Justice of the claims presented,
and recorded the extraordinary devices
resorted to by those interested in rush
ing through the legislative measures
looking to their payment. However
honest some of those claims may be,
there can scarcely be q question that q
large proportion of them were grossly
disproportiOned to the actual damage
received, and that the farmers and
others who suffered the damage were
not the parties most interested in the
passage of the bill for their relief,
Farmers are not lobbyists, and no mea-
sure ever run through the Legislature
bore the lobby mark more plainly
stamped upon it than did this Morgan
Raid legislation. When legislative ar
tifice failed to compass valid enact
ment, all regard for constitutional OBJ
legations or legislative decency was
thrown aside, and the bill declared a
law in defiance of the legislative jour
nails and the constitutional regulations,
which showed it to have been defeat
ed"
Year: 1869

The lad and lass were forced TO part,
They kissed and went along;
The sight went into the poets heart,
And it came out song.
The sun. down-sl0ping in the west,
Made gold the evening air;
The sight went into the painters breast
And grew to a picture fair.
The mother murmured to her child,
And hushed It yet again;
The sound, as the musician smiled,
Grew music in his brain.
The damsel turned, her hair to bind,
A flower was in her zone;
There grew from out the sculptor's mind
A damsel carved in stOnei
The song was sad, the tune was played,
The girl in marble stood,
The sunset in the picture stayed,
And all was sweet and good.
And God, who made these things to be.
q The damsel and the sun,
Color and sound, and you and me.
Was pleased to see it done;
And all the angels would be glad,
# in the world he built,
AlthOugh there must be some things sad
No drop of joy were split.
But all the beauty in the earth,
And skies, and hearts of men,
Were gently gathered at its birth,
And loved, and born again.


MadhetC Br0nlR.
Year: 1869

The following communication explains itself, and
would seem to merit some attention.


To THE EDITOR THE HERALD:-


trust the authorities Of New York and Brooklyn viii
not disregard very practical suggestion relating to
any municipal ordinance depends on what influence
1t may exert upon the health and comfort OF every
tionn


We do not propose to discuss whether the charges
preferred against certain dealers in subsistence be
true or fase Our experience has been that, as q
and correct ORE in their dealings But there
that OF selling unceaned poutry-the remedy for
which lies with our city authorities and to them
does every man, woman and child, dealer or con-
We ask that law be passed that on and after q
certain day. say lst OF May 1862 no poultry shall be
to disembowel or as the French say, deseaffdtleI,
and the German, 1ussceiden.


IL Is fact that the peculiar delicate flavor OF poul
try Ii injured by leaving them undrawn only one
night, for when dead digestion ceases and the ''cr0p
and intestnes, filled with ermenting nuids impart
nav0r to the flesh; and besides the gall and ntestnes
become tender. and in drawing are frequently
ruptured in the most careful hands, which fact
the annoyance and dstaste OF the host and hostess
and their guests. That common intestinal flavor
the true flavor Of that article of food il In reality
foul flavor rather than the favor OF fowl There Is
no more reason Why turkeys and ducks should be
these last quartered 1t is not the only why
they are cleaned before being oered In markets
as food, and the same reasons should apply to tur-
keys, cucks chickens, &c.


The dealer tells us that his poultry will keep
longer and better II drawn, Int that he could not
una purchaser, as drawn poultry Is looked on
with suspicion. The writer can testify TO this lack
OF good taste, for about year ago he found box
OF drawn turkeys IN Washington market shipped
from Boston, where they have some wholesome mar
ket regulationsl six Of which he bought at ten
cents less tnan the market price, could be
found disposed to invest In "such trash as drawn
turkey When eaten, however, In two weeks
after they excellent keeping and condition.


Having briefly shown the advantage and necessity
Of law touching the good health and appetite or
teeming population, we sincerely trust that the
honorable Common Council OF these respective
cities WIN not be long In making and enforcing this
much needed and most wholesome regulation.


CITIZEN.
Year: 1869

A Bill is before Parliament, and has
passed the house of commons, to legalize
the marriage of man with his deceased
wife's sister, and the newspapers are
much divided over it. The Times is
much opposed to the change, and says ::


A sister-in-law is never so serviceable
as Immediately after wife's death. At
present she can offer her help at such a
time without risk of misconception, but
if the law were altered, it would be i'm
possible for her to remain in her brother
in-law's house. There is clear conven-
fence in the present state of things which
practically enlarges the family circle,
while we cannot admit that any real in
convenience is inflicted by the restriction.
There is no dearth of women in England,
and man can have no difficulty in find
ing suitable wife. It can be no mate
rial hardship to interdict him from two
families-his own and his wife's


The Roman church forbids such mar
riages, but frequently grants dispensation
in their favor hence, Arch bishop Man
ming and other Roman Catholic dignita-
ries favor change in the law, to cover
these last cases.
Year: 1869

SUMNER FRUITs.-Acids promote the
separation of the bile from the blood,
which is then passed from the system,
thus preventing fevers, the prevailing
diseases Of Summer. All fcvers are ebil-
ious," that is, if bile is in the blood.
Whatever is antagonistic of fever is cool
ing. It is a common saying that fruits
are "cooling," and also berries of every
description it is because the acidity
which they contain aids in separating the
bile from the blood, that is, aids in puri-
fying the blood. Hence the great ycarn-
ing for greens and lettuce, and salads, in
the early Spring, these being eaten with
vinegar hence, also, the taste for some
thing sour, for lemonades, on an attack of
fever. But this being the case, it is easy
to see that we nulify the good effects
of fruits and berries in proportion as we
eat them with sugar, or even sweet milk
or cream. IF we eat them in their natu-
raj state, fresh, ripe, perfect, it is almost
impossible to eat too many, to eat enough
to hurt us, especially if we eat them alone,
not taking any liquid with them what
ever.
Year: 1869

"Your hair wants cutting" quoth the
barber.


81 don't want it cut. You BARRIERS are
after mans hair the moment it grows
out of your stereotyped regulation clip"


"Wi en- the hair gets too long it is apt
to fan off. Your hair is coming out
now"


That's the story BARRIERS have been tell
ing me for the last twenty years. Now |
want to know why, if keeping a mans
hair clipped SO closely, as demanded by
the fashion of the present day is necessa-
ry to its preservation, why the same rule
does not hold in regard to women. AS a
general thing, they allow the hair to grow
as long as nature wants it. Do you see
any bald headed women am inclined
to believe that this constant cutting and
clipping has something to do with the
say the hair is sort of plant. IF you
keep upa constant practice of shifting
off the top of any plant it will finally die
down to the root. There's such a thing
as over-pruning.


At this juncture the barber grew met
aphysical.


"Quite a mistake" said he. sIt's a
mans brain that so often kills his hair.
Men think more than women. They
IVORY and fret about their business.
They use their brains more. Fact is,
they have more brains. Well, using the
brains SO much keeps the scalp heated
This dries up the roots of the hair. So
the shorter you keep the hair, the cooler
it must be and the longer it will last
But women do not think so much as men
You give a woman plenty to eat and
dress her as she likes-that's nearly all she
wants. Her brain is not SO active. Sc
her skull is not heated up like mans
and the hair is kept healthy. That's the
reason of the difference" said the barber
triumphantly.


The above is no work of fiction. It is
reality which transpired in this city
last Wednesday. It is useful, as it shows
an estimate of hair and especially women
held not only by single barber, but
probably large class of which he may
be fitting sentative.-Efgaro.
Year: 1869

Color IN THE SKY-This crimson


of the morning and the evening, and the
blue color of the sky are due to common


cause. 'sThe color has not the same orr
gin as that of ordinary coloring matter,
in which certain portion of the white
solar light are extinguished, the color of
of the substance being that of the
portion which remains. A violet is blue
because its molecular texture enables it
to quench the green, yellow and red con-
stituents of white light, and to allow the
blue free transmission. A geranium is
red because molecular texture is such as
quenches all rays except the red. Such
colors are called colors of absorption but
the hue of the sky is not of that charac-
ter. The blue light of the sky is reflect
ed light, and were there nothing in our
atmosphere competent to reflect the solar
rays we should see no blue armament,
but look into the darkness of infinite
space. The reflection of the blue is eff
fected by perfectly colorless particles.
Smallness of size alone is requisite to en-
sure the selection and reflection of this
color. OF all the visual waves emitted
by the sun, the shortest and the smallest
are those which correspond to the color
blue. On such waves small particles
have more power than upon large ones !;
hence the predominance of blue color in
all light reflected from exceedingly small
particles. The crimson glow of the Alps
in the evening and in the morning is
due, on the other hand, to transmitted
light; that is to say, to light which, in
its passage through great atmospheric
distances, has had its blue constituents
sifted out of it by repeated reflection"
Year: 1869

DEFENSIVE INSTINCTS OF HOME
There is an ugly SPIDER that burrows in
the ground. She excavates cavity in
some desert place, lines it with a delicate.
texture, and constructs trap door with
hinge and two little handles by which
the inmate may hold it down, if beset
from the outside. IF the door be forced
open by superior strength, right valiant
ly will she fight, even unto death, in de-
fence of her poor abode. So it would
seem that the humblest and feeblest
creatures possess that beautiful instinct
which, strengthened and sublimated by
human reason, justified by human law,
and sanctifed by the purest affection.
makes home the holiest place in the uni
verse. The poorest inhabitant of des-
potic coutry cannot part from the old
homestead without emotion. Like the
Irish peasant though born and reared in
abject poverty, with pig for a fellow
lodger, rags for covering, and dreary
bog for landscape, he looks hack from
the emigrant ship with big tears on his
cheek and heavy sorrow in his heart.
Year: 1869

THE JoURNALIsT.-The New York
Erpress, alluding to the death of Mr..
Seymour, of the Times, says: Journal
lists seldom perish from long illness.
They generally pass away without hay-
ing had time to sacrifice upon bed of
tedious illness. They wear to the last,
dying while in the harness without being
aware of it. Probably no slave pen was
ever more to be feared than the pen of
the journalist who has the capacity for
hard and rapid work, and the courage to
do that work without cessation. Yet the
people deny him the honor of being a
workingman.
Year: 1869

The PRINCIPLE WHICH GIVES REL
IsH TO FooD AND DRINK.-Much too
little has hitherto been thought by phys
iologists, and almost nothing has been
written on that beautiful provision for
our happiness by which everything that
is useful as food or drink is most agreea-
bic to the palate, SO that the higher our
relish for any given article, the more
perfectly is it digested, and made to
supply the wants of the system We have,
therefore, natural guide to the right
kind of food at the right time, and, on
the other hand, have disreiish for arti-
cles which not being suited to our con-
dition, would be injurious. But a little
reflection viii show us that in this adap-
tion of our palates to the peculiar taste
OF osmazome Of every distinct article Of
food, we have faithful sentinel, inviting
the admission of friends and protecting
| us from the approach of enemies.


Place before child who has never
tasted of sugar, or butter, or super6ne-
flour, or any other clements of food that
have been separated from their natural
connections, and whose tastes are there
fore unperverted, milk, unbolted bread |,
meats, fruits, or any other natural food
and he will choose just that article which
is best adapted to his condition at the
time, and may be trusted to eat as much
as he pleases.


But the taste is perverted with food in
which the flavor is excessive, as in but
ter, sugar, fine -four, etc., and it is no
guide, but deceptive.


And here we are liable to err. Our
natural gustatory pleasures are not in
proportion to the amout of osmazoIoe in
our food or drink. Natures favors are
very delicate, and the very choicest rel
ish is that produced by very slight traces
of osmazome. For example, take nut
meg, very slight grating of which will
flavor larg bowl of porridge. Attempt
to increase the relish by increasing the
quantity OF the spice, and you utterly
fail, making your beverage less and less
agreeable as you increase the quantlty Oh
nutmeg, till it becomes disgusting, posi-
lively injurious to the digestive process ;
and this Is true of other condiments, and
indeed, all other good things. Delicate
aavors me agreeable and useful in
prompting digestion; but every article
which is capable Of promoting health and
happiness in appropriate quantities, is
capable of doing harm in unnatural
quantities.-Dr. Bello,cs.
Year: 1869

C"rlIlc's Nomination as Minister "a
Stockholm.


from the Washington pa Reporter.


The Republicans of West Virginia are
intensely indignant at the nomination
OF John 5. Carltle, of that State, as Min
lister TO Stockholm.


1t will be remembered that Mr.. Car
lie was one OF the foremost leaders in
the movement which secured the erec-
ton OF that State, and was one OF its
first United States Senators. It seemed
that this was his object, and having
reached the goal of his ambition, his
true feelings and sentiments soon be-
came apparent: He aPostatized from
the party which elected him, and up
till a short period before the election of
Gen. Grant, was its bitter and malig~
nant enemy. Seeing that it was evi.
dent Grant was to become President, he
announced himself in his favor, and
took part in the campaign. OF course
this was only with the view of securing
such an appointment as that which he
has received. His selection is regarded
as great outrage by the Union men Of
West Virginia. The appointment is
supposed TO be all that the State will
receive, and the people are excessively
indignant that 1t should have been
conferred upon such a man as Carlile.
They regard him as one of the most





We are sorry to see such a selection
made, and we fear that President Grant
has been csjoled and deceived in the
matter. We expected that if West
Virginia was recognized at all in the
way ofEappointments, some one of the
many brave, faithful, and true men
who stood nOblv by the government,
would have been chosen. We had set
1t down In our own mind that in all
probability that sterling patriot and
able and eloquent Republican, Hon.
Archibald Campbell, would have been
the choice. We had hoped to see him
go to the U. s. Senate, and when such
was not the case, felt certain that he
would have been determined upon by
the Administration as the representa-
tive from West Virginia. 1t was due to
his ability, worth, integrity and patriot
ism, to the great service which he
rendered to the State, the party, and the
Government that his claims should
have met with more than paramount
consideration. We regret that such has
not been the case, and we cannot regard
it as anything other than calamity
that another and an unworthy son OF
that State has been preferred. As yet
the Senate has refused to confirm Car
lille, and we hope it will adhere to that
determination.
Year: 1869

The President hopes before the end OF
the week to get ready his order for an
election in Virginia, the time for which
will probably be fixed in the last week
of May or first week in June. The con-
servative of that State are to hold a
convention in Richmond next week
[Tuesday and Wednesday, to determine
ing contest. The radical Republicans
are going to run Wells for Governor,
with Harris, colored man, for Lieu-
tenant Governor, while the moderate
Republicans will run Walker for the
first position, and have not selected
their second man. Some persons In
Richmond believe the Conservatives
will join the moderate Republicans for
Walker against Wells. 1t is said Un-
derwood will apply next winter for one
of the new circuit Judgeships.
Year: 1869

The condition of the Treasury Is re-
garded as very promising. The receipts
from the internal revenue and customs
are considerably in advance of last
vear's estimates. The estimates of
Commissioner Wells for the revenue
were one hundred and fifty millions,
while receipts to this date are one hun
fired and Twelve millions, with ten
weeks remaining OF the fiscal year, for
which the receipts cannot be less than
fifty millions, which will make the ag-
pregate at least ten or twelve millions
in excess OF Wells's estimate.
Year: 1869

NEVER chase your own hat when it
blows off in a gale of wind; just stand
still, and you will presently see half a
dozen persons in pursuit OF it. When
ward him, receive with graceful ac-
EnowledP now ment, and replace on your
head He will invariably act as ii you
had done him favor. Try 1t.