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Year: 1865

egThe master of all trades. He beats
the farmer with his fast hoe, the carpenter
with his rule, and the mason in setting tall
columns; he surpasses the lawyer and doc
tor in attending to his case and beats the
parson in his management Of the devil
Such is the Printer. o
Year: 1865

"a An army correspondent of the Hart


ford Courdnt thinks it may interest deser-
ters to know that those who are convicted


of this olfense are hung in the army OF the
P otomac and shot inthe army of the James,


as it gives them an opportunity of select
ing their mode of exit. W
Year: 1865

L


must always be looked upon as one OF
strength of the United States Govern
ment, and of its strong hold upon the
confidence and affections of the people
On Saturday, May 18th, the subscriptions
were over thirty million dO{IaYs and for
the week ending on that day, over ninety
eight nlttttOlt dollars, and in the three
months that the Loan has been in charge
of Mr.. JAY COOKE, OUer fUe hundred
mil ION dollars. These large receipts
will enable the Treasury 20 pay off cur
armies as they are disbanded, and to rap
idly discharge the various obligations
incurred during the war. History will
show that great war debt to individuals
has never before been SO promptly paid;
and we think all will agree that Secreta
rY McCulIOch deserves great credit for
the ability he has manifested, not only in
securing the means, but for the financial
skill he has displayed in so directing these
vast receipts and disbursements as not for
a moment to disturb the equilibrium of
commerce, embarrass individuals, or in
any way tighten the money market. 1t
is doubtless true that the Secretary of
the Treasury might have negotiated the
remainder of his loans at six per cent. in
terest instead of 7.30, but so much valua-
BILE time would necessarily have been
lost III popularizing a new loan, that the
great object of the Government, viz, an
immediate supply Of money sufficient to
pay all the debts incident to the war,
would have been defeated; and besides,
the interest would not have been equal to
three days expenses. The policy may
have looked penny wise" but the best
financial authorities, as well as common
sense, pronounced it pound foolish. -
As it is, and will be, no soldier will go
home without his greenbacks, and the
floating debt in the shape of vouchers,
requisitions, &c, will be wiped out as
rapidly as the proper officers can audit
and adjust the accounts.


The Second Series of the 7-30 Loan was
exhausted on Saturday, May 18th. On
Monday, the Secretary of the Treasury
authorized JAY COOKE, the general Sub
scription Agent for i. S. Securities, to
receive subscriptions for $3.50, 600, 600 Of
Third Series, which is all that is author
lied by Congress, and is without doubt
the last loan at this high rate of interest
that will be offered by the Government.


There is no change in the terms or con-
ditions of this Third Series, except that
the Government reserves the right Of
paying interest at six per cent. in gold IN
stead of seven and three-tenths in curren-
cy-a right which would pre-suppose a
return to specie payments, and make six
per cent. in gold even better than the
higher rate in currency consumation
most devoutly to be wished


The privilege Of converting the notes
into $40 six per cent gold bonds at the
end of three years, OF. receiving payment
at maturity, s& the Aolders option, is re-
tanned


The first day of the Third Series opened
with a subscription Withie fraction Of
five millions, and the month Of June will
certainly see the last Of the Z .36s out Of
market. How early in June we cannot
predict, but parties who wish to make
sure Of a portion would do well to be in
time.


Full particulars may be found in our
advertising columns
Year: 1865

Some weeks since we called the atten-
ton of our readers to the statements of
young man, confectioner, in which it was
asserted that very much of the candy
offered in this and other cities, and large
ly consumed by children, had, as It's lead
ing ingredient white earth. commonly
called 4erd At6G. Since the publication
of the confectioner's communication we
have made inquiries into the process of
preparing cheap candies, and have found
that there are five or six houses in this
city largely engaged in Its manufacture,
that use from four to five hundred thous-
and pounds per annum IF ealcerous earth!
This earth is brought from England as
ballast, and sold at from two to two and
a half cents per pound. When the candy
is fresh it is diticult/of detection. except
that it IS wanting IN sweetness; but when
old it becomes exceedingly hard, and can
only be softened by disolving l. in water
or some other liquid Terra ALba is prin-
drops it will be found in larger proportion
than in any other form of confectionery
If the drop is broken into pieces, it will
be found, on examination, that the outer
coating IS simply glazed with sugar, and
all between the coating and the almond
will be found to be white earth-we are
speaking of common or cheap candies
which, when precipitated into water, will
collect at the bottom of the vessel in the
form of sediment.


When we remember how much of this
earth is manufactured, annually, in this
city, into candies alone, principally con-
sumed by children, can we wonder at the
diseases under which preponderating
proportion of the non-adult population
are laboring2 The insidious, tasteless-
but for the saccharine coating-earth
readily dissolves in the mouth and, on
passing into the stomach, concretes and
remains, to the great injury, often induc-
ing inflammation, of the Innings of that i'm
portant organ of the system.


We do not know that the attention of
the medical faculty has ever been serious
ly called to this matter, but we are per-
suaded that many of the often fatal dis
eases under which children labor, would,
if intelligently examined, be found to
have had their origin in this 'earth can
J.
Year: 1865

Of all the unneigboring places, great
city is the most strangely inhuman. You
may 1--we months--years, even-with only
an elght-lnch wall separating you from
people you never see, whose names you
may learn by accident, and who are happy
and orrowful-Who are born, married, and
buried without your knowing it.


You hear the piano-forte on the other
side of the wall or the cry of a child /;
or joyous laughter. You see the physi-
clans ehaise standing at the door, and in
fer that somebody is sick Some day
there comes hearse and several carriages,
and you know that some body is dead, and
that is all you know of whathas happened
within six feet of you. But for the wall
you could have lain in your bed, and
shaken hands with the sick person-or
laid it on a corpse.


All around you are hundreds of dwell
ings-crowds of people. There are intel
ligent minds with whom you would de-
light to hold converse, and loving hearts
with whose joys and sorrows you could
sympathize, and yet in the midst of all
these riches of life, you may be as utterly
and desolately alone, and severed from all
human sympathy, as our friend Robinson
Crusoe.


Y ou may sit next to your nearest neigh
Dor in church, or at the theatre; but you
are none the less strangers In the coun-
try, if he lived ten miles away, you would
get acquainted-in the city, only ten inches
separate your parlors, your dining
and your bed-chambers, and it is an i'm
passable barrier. 1t is quite possible that
the man whose friendship you could trust,
or the woman whose love might be the
happiness of your life, eats, drinks and
sleeps close by you-just the other side of
| q brick and two inches of plaster and vet
you are forever lost to each other; because
though hunger may go through stone walls,
etiquette will not allow human sympathy
to pierce through brick ones


Few people starve for want of food in a
great city but millions starve for want OF
friendship. sympathy, kindness and love.
And what is wonderful, the nearer you
bring men together, the more unneighbor-
ly they get.
Year: 1865

In the April number of Harper's Mag
azine there is an excellent paper on the
Torture of the Innocents, which every
parent should read, and from which we
take the following:


There exists in some minds a morbid
interest in death and unnatural mortuary
taste, and an uncomfortable attraction to
the face of a corpse. Certain persons
never miss funeral, and are critical upon
shrouds. and the fine art of mourning
costume generally. and whose horrible
curiosity Is masked under a specious sort
Of religious interest, sometimes as a far
rago gossip about the clergyman and his
family is occasionally dignifed as a re-
hgious conversation with So-and-so. I
don't mean the kind friend who, out of
the love of Christ and her neighbor, sti-
hes her own repUgnance to the task, and
assists IN your hour of need to bury your
dead out of your sight; but those ghoul-
like people who, not content with graft
flying their own love of the horrible, in
sist upon all the little children within
their control being taken in to look at
the corpse As if that white mystery, so
starkly lying there with stiffening limbs
and shining smooth hair, and clad in
white vestments of the grave so straightly
smoothed around it, was sight caleula-





and of lonelinessl That pale form, dimly
suggesting the dear friend so strangely
missing from the familiar chair or couch,
yet SO unlike its old self, SO unlike peo-
pie, is not a thing to bring into familiar
contact with sensitive, highly organized
natures. Especially it is not to the warm
pulses and keenly Yitalized sense of chill
dren. And so much suffering is some
times caused by such shocks to the ner-
vous systems of children, that it seems
unnecessary and cruel to cause the at
tendance of those of such tender age on
funeral occasions.


Let all that be spared to the little ones.
Tell them that mamma, papa, sister, or
brother IS gone away to another world,
and make it pleasant to them to some
times talk Of them in that far and distant
country. Do not speak of the parting for
a long time, and let the association of
death with all fair snowy blossoms, with
pure babe-hke statues, all that suggests a
calm, white repose, and peaceful trust in
Gods love, take forever the place of the
skeleton and hour-glass. We shall find
it easier to live and surely not more diff
cult to die, to lie down softly, and pass
away sWeetly and lovingly-if the awful
darkness and corruption is fairly yelled
and forgotten. Let our mother Earth
and our sister Worm be cast into the
shade which hides those old monkish no
tions, born of celibaoy. of unbaptized
babes lying in the outer darkness until
the Judgment-day, that old rubbish of a
half-heathen time when women were ac-
counted vilest of all things, and mar
riage, though permitted, yet regarded as
only admitted of lower grade of piety
than the conventual coWl; when the clois-
ter and the rope were the sufficient type
of the worlds piety.
Year: 1865

1t is calculated that by the stoppage
of the draft and the reduction Of the
army and navy expense, saving of over
5000, 100000 has been made in the esti-
mate of the current year.


If the counsel be good, no matter who
gave it,
Year: 1865

DIS n r W n Il L AN TRUST
ID that the success Of his efforts in behalf o.
female education, viii recommend at once to the
favor Of the public this Institution for boys and
young men, which he hopes to make all that u
desirable as a school for youth.


The modern languages will be taught by gea-
tlemen to whom they are vernaculaT and who
will afford to the pupils occasional opporturiteS
Of learning by practice and conversation It Il
intended to provide such instruments and appa.
ratus as may elucidate, while they give interest
to the studies Of Natural Philosophy, Chemii
try, Surveying and Engineering The depart.
mant of Book Keeping and Penmanship will b:
superintended By An eminent accountant


The school will be open to the public, but Oh
ly Catholics viii be received as bearders, unless
for special reasons exception be made. The dis
cipline will be strict and be enforced by the dis
missal Of the insubordinate.


Payments win always be required ~ adsdHss.
for the day scholars, quarterly; in the case 0!
boarders, for the half session and the figures be.
low indicate the cash In advance terms II from
the neglect of parents or other causes paymsa.
Is delayed an addition Of ten per cent. to tho
cash prices will constitute the regular ohargss
of the College No deduction will be made for
absence or Tor removal when quarter or hall
session has been commenced, except in casa Of
sickness
Year: 1865

COLONEL THOMAS, of the Freedmen's
Bureau, has improved upon the cele5rat'
ed order of General Halleck which pro
hibited marriages from taking place be
tween white persons in Virginia until
both the parties seeking to be united
and the clergyman selected to perform
the ceremony should have taken the oath
of allegiance. Colonel Thomas does not,
indeed, require the oath of allegiance
from negroes, but he directs that the
clergyman who marries them shall adopt
the following formula: "ln accordance
with the ordinances Of God, and by au.
of the United States, I pronounce
YOU to be husband and wife"


Col. Thomas has only to adopt a some
what similar formula for the baptism OF
black infants and for grace before meat"
to make the whole affair as complete as
the most fastidious stickler for author
ity could possibly desire it to be.
Year: 1865

The vicious die early. They fall like
shadows or tumble wrecks and ruins into
the grave--olten while quite young, Away,
before forty. "The wicked liveth not hall
his days. " The world at once ratl6es the
truth and assigns the reason, by describing
the dissolute life Of fastmen F" that is, they
live fast, they spend twelve hours in six,
getting through the whole before the meri-
dian, and dropping into darkness while 9TH
ers are in the glory of light. 'Thcir sun
goeth down while it is day." And they
might have helped it. Many one dies be-
he need. Young men of genius, like Burns
and Byron. to whom, when dissipated and
profgate, thirty-seven is so fatal, and your
obscure and nameless wandering stars, who
waste their time in libertine indulgence
they cannot live, they must die early. They
put on steam till they blow up the boiler. -
They run at such rate that the fire goes
out for want cf fuel. The machinery is de-
stroyed by rapid and reckless wear. Moth
ing can save them. Their physical system
cannot stand the strain they put to it; while
the state of their minds is often such that
the soul would eat the substance of the most
robust body and make for itself way of es-
cape from the incessant hell of its own
thoughts 4a u
Year: 1865

A rather laughable transaction took place
a week or two ago in the town of De Witt;
Clinton, Michigan, in which love and br,sii-
ness are so intermixed that it requires an
adept to distinguish between the two. A
milk safe pedler called at the house to sell
enc. The woman informed him that she
was widow, and would much rather have a
man. The pcdlcr informed her that he
would send her man if she would take
safe. She took it, and the pedler went on
his way rejoicing. He soon met man who
he ascertained had no entcrprising compan-
ion, and directed him to the widow. Going
on he called at house to sell safe, and
was informed that the man was widower,
and would prefer wife. He told him that
i. he would purchase safe he would direct
him where to get woman. He took the
safe, and the pedler directed him to tho
same widow. When he reached her he was
about an hour too late, the first having lust
secured the prize. The kind-hearted wo-
man, however, sent hin to second widow,
whom he secured, and both loving couples
we're married that afternoon.
Year: 1865

Sir William Rapier was one day taking d
long country walk near Freshford, when he
met a little girl about FIVE years old; sobbing
bitterly over, broken bofTl she had drop
ped and broken in bringing it back from the
field to which she had taken her fathers din
ner in it, and she said she would be beaten
on her return home Then with sudden
gleam of hope, she looked up innocently in
to his face, and said >: but We can mend it,
can't; yep Sir William smilingly explain
cd that, he could not mend the bowl, but
the trouble, lie could, by, the gift Of six
'pcnse to, buy another. However, on OPEN
ing his purse it was empty u silver; lschad.
to make amends by pr6mising to meet this
little friend in the same spot at the same
hour next day. The child entirely trusting
him, went on her way comforted. On his
return he found an invittion awaiting to dine
in Bath the following evening" to meet some
one whom he specially wished to see. He
hesitated for some time; trying to calculate
the possibility of giving the meeting to his
little friend of the broken bowl, and of still
being in time for the dinner party in Bath;
bit fifiding this could not be, he wrote t6
decline accepting the invitation on the plea
ofa engagement, saying to his family,
III cannot Aisappoiut het, she trusted me so
IMPLICITLY"
Year: 1865




The Old,linc Wings, who Justly have q
reverence FOR the name and fame Of the
great statesman Of New England. viii be
interested in the following, which We take
from late address of George Tckuor Cur
tis in New York. 1t is valuable contri.
button to our political history. Alr: Curtis
says:


''DASisL WEBSTER IF LIVING WOULD HAVE
BEEN A DEMOCRAT.


I'm all the early part of my life was g
political follower of Daniel Webster. The
school in which he trained .he young men
who came under his influences and really
gave themselves to his teachings, was en-
tircly inconsistent with any sympathy or
cooperation in sectional party; and it was
only short time before his death that the
tendencies of a large part of Northern
Wings to cotivert themselves into sectional
party began to appear But the signs of
this change did appear, and Mr. Webster
saw and comprehended their full import. ~
lie meant TO warn me, as he did Others,
against them; and the manner in which he
did 1t, IN my case, can never forget: The
scene was iu that plainly y-furnishcd apart-
ment, his own chamber, in the large house
at Marshfeld, now so memorable, and the
time was three days before his death Be-
meath the window, on a little artificial like,
there rode always small, boat at anchor.
with an American flag at its masthead, SO
placed that his eyes Could TEST upon it, if
light sufhced, as he closed them at night,
and could open on it with the dawn. Be
yond the lake stretched the great farm
which he so loved to cultivate, and then the
low beach and the ocean. He had been
very i'll for several weeks, and it was appar-
ent to all about him that his life was now
grandly drawing to its close: He had that
morning, for the first time during several
days, paid some attention to the political
news; it was just before the Presidential
election which resulted in the choice of Gen.
Pierce over Gen. Scott, and the returns
from some of the previous State elccti6ns
were coming in. pretty heavily against US
Wings. We We're alone together, and I
mentioned to him the news which had come
down from Boston the night before. Call
ing me to his bedside by my Christian
name, he said: THE Wing candidate will
not be elected. You love your country, and
you think its welfare involved in Wing sue
cess: This has been SO; but let ME warn
you, to give no countenance to a sectional
geographical party. The Wings, after this
election, will break up, and upon the ruins
Of our party sectional party will arise
The stability of the Union w,H hereafter de-.
pend upon the Den,6crdcyP'
Year: 1865

Hold on to your tongue when you are
just going to swear, lie, or speak harshly, Or
to say an improper word. ls..


Hold on to your hand when you are about
to strike, scratch, or do any improper act,


Hold on to your foot when ycu are on the
point of kicking, or running away from
study, or pursuing the path Of error, shame
or crime.


Hold on to your temper when you are
angry, excited or imposed upon, or others
are about you. ut


Hold on to your heart when evil associ-
ates seek your company, and invite you to
join in their game of mirth and revelry.


Hold on to your good name at all times
for it is more valuable to you than gold, high
places, or fashionable attire Ta
Year: 1865

IT is proposed to lay new Atlantic tele
graph cable, by the way of Falmouth, Oper-
to and the Azores, to Halifax, 400 miles,
or rather. less than the quantity which the
Atlantic Telegraph Company successfully
laid the other day, before the accident habl
pened by which the cable was lost. It is
supposed first to lay their cable from Fal-
mouth to Oporto, and after the successful
completion of so much of their task, to ask
for the additional capital requisite for two
further steps across the Atlanta, MA
Year: 1865

"a" AS a polite omnibus agent was going
through the ladies car, checking baggage,
nc .askeda very pretty young lady if The
had any baggage she wished taken to the
hotel.


mo, sir, was her reply.


The agent then asked her if she desired
bus.


She instantly gave him very sweet smile,
and retlied:


mo, sir" am not in bussing humor
this evening"
AZ The agent dropped his memorandum
book hastily retired to the baggage car, and
said he felt unwell
Year: 1865

MOBILE, Nov. 25.-T. C. Dexter, Treasury
cotton agent at Mobile, who had been arrested
and held in custody by General Wood, com
mander of this Department, for alleged NAL
feasance in Office sued out writ of habeas
corpus before Judge Busteed, U. S. District
Court of Alabama, which writ was served on
Gen. Wood and Brevet Marshal Brook


The military declined to obey the writ, claim
ing that military commission had been con-
vened for the trial of Dexter, and would
proceed with the trial, whereupon Judge
Busteed ordered Dexter's discharge from
custody, and that General Wood have no
longer control of said Dexter, and produce
the body of Dexter in court to be bailed and
answer any complaint made against him, and
that General Wood be ordered to appear at
10 o'clock to-day, to show cause why he shall
not be proceeded against for contempt of court.
Year: 1865

The widow of Major l.. F. Booth, who
was killed at Fort Pillow, has devoted her time to
raising funds to make the widows and orphans of the
soldiers who fell in her husbands regiment comfora
BILE. and after considerable effort she has succeeded
in securing pensions for them. In the cities of Chi
cago and Washington alone she raised seventeen
thousand dollars, which has been applied for the
purpose named. She is now trying to raise sufi-
cient sum to place plain but substantial granite
shaft the spot where these brave men fell which
at the time shall call to mind both their deeds
and the dark record which treason wrote upon the
bluffs Of Fort Pillow.
Year: 1865

Robert B. Meal is the authorized subscription
agent of the COMMERCIAL in Washington. Orders
left at his stand No. All Pennsylvania avenue nearly
opposite the kirkwoodHouse will meet with prompt
attention
Year: 1865

The pioneer steamship of the Baltimore and
Liverpool line-the Somerset Captain Sanford-after
a somewhat boisterous passage arrived at this port
Saturday afternoon. with a large and valuable
cargo. consigned mostly to merchants in this city.


We give n full list of the consignees in another
column. The European news brought by the Somer-
set has been already anticipated by the China at New
York Attention is called to the well dgested article
the second page of to-days COMMERCIAL, concern
Year: 1865

TIE METHoDIsTS IN VIRGIyIA.--The Virginia
Methodist Conference met at Danvile on the 2lst
instant. Large reyivals were reported. majority
of the circuits and stations within the bounds of the
Conference have, with great unanimity, petitioned
Bishop Early to return pastors whose terms have ex
pired according to the Discipline. 1t is believed
that Bishop Early will follow the example of the
Bishop of South Carolina, and send back every
preacher to his congregation for another year. There
are many weighty reasons says correspondent, why
no change should be made the chief of which is the
fact that the people have no money to pay their
preachers expenses in removing. 1t is rs much as
they possibly do in most of the circuits to feed
and clothe their preacher and his family.