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Year: 1867

that was managed, and no won
der that the nomination surprises
the people of the State, while il
deceives those ofothers. Some light
may be shed on this subject, "du.
ring the sweep of coming events,
when retributive justice shall over.
take the lawless and violent" -
The calm, wise, thinking, truly
patriotic and unselfsh citizens of
Tennessee know full as well as
does Gov. Brownlow, that his
success in the coming campaign,
in addition to the enforcement of
the franchise law, stands sorely
in need of all the colored vote,
and the bullying intimidation
of that "loyal militia" Could
anything be more modest than
the governors bid for the renomi-
nation? See an extract from his
letter addressed to the conventions:
81 do not doubt the ability of the
loyal men of the State to retain
its control under the franchise law,
provided the law is enforced. l
have no candidate to suggest,
but deem the convention capable
of making its own selection. Nor
do l speak of the claims of my
self or other gentlemen. No man
has any claims to public trust;
but the country having right to
the service of her ablest and most
reliable citizens, such men will
not feel at liberty to decline I'M
portant nominations, if bestowed
with encouraging unanimity...
Even in my feeble state of health,
if l were nominated by your con-
venticn, I would not feel at liber-
ty to decline the nomination"


A.C.
Year: 1867

A young man IN Iona county


Michigan, last week descended q


we'll to clean out the sand at the


bottom. While he was thus


engaged, the stones began to fall,


and his father hearing the rum,


bling shouted to him to 'jumr
on the bucket" and Immediately
commenced drawing him up with
all possible speed. The strife of
the next minute or so was intense,
and the scene awful. He was
kept in advance of the falling
masses of stones and dirt that
were filling the cavernous depth
below him, till within about fif-
| teen feet of the surface. The
caving in was too rapid, and there
the stones caught and wedged
him in. AS soon as possible the
neighbors were aroused, and in a
short time a hundred or two were
at the scene of the disaster. The
young man was yet alive, as they
learned from time to time, by
hearing his smothered ''groans and
faint answers to their questions.
The work of rescuing him at once
commenced, great care being used,
as stone after stone was gently
removed, lest the treacherous and
sandy earth around should be dis
turbed and cave in anew, and
thus fill up the interstices which
might otherwise afford air sufficient
to sustain life for some hours at
least. The anxiety, of course,
was most intense, and the sus-
pense of his parents and friends
fearful, while their hopes alter
nately rose and fell, as now they
could distinguish a groan, or a
feeble response to the questioning,
and anon all would be still
again. Finally, after four hours
labor, they reached the sufferer,
and found him sitting upon the
sharp edge of the bucket,
with a boulder in his lap, sitting
erect, with his head thrown back
against portion of the circular
wall, and two or three stones rest
ing partly against his head, and
so inclined as to rest partly against
the wall and each other, and
"wedge." He was securely held
immovable in his position, and
fortunately the stones were SO arch
ed and keyed that they did not
again start during all the time
that the men were engaged in
digging him out. On being rails
ed to the open air, the young man
swooned, but soon revived. No
bones were broken, and his bruis-
es were so light that after two or
three days he was out, apparent
ly in his usual health.
Year: 1867

NOVELTY IN TANNING.-A tam
merry has been located at Rockford,
ILL.,, in which is employed the pat
ented process of exhausting the
air from the vat. The tanning is
said to be accomplished in twelve
hours, and that of sheep-skin in
fifteen minutes. The weight of


leather from a given weight of


hides is ten per cent. greater than
by the ordinary process, and the
COSTS but ten per cent. that of the
old. 1t is also claimed that the
leather is better; but this point
can only be determined by wear.
Year: 1867

HORRORS OF BEING BURIED A
LIVE.-During the third week of
October, Madam Barbiera, wife of
Benicelli, died at Rome, of cholera.
After the funeral services were
concluded the body was deposited
in the Campo Santo, to be thence
transferred to the Church of the
Magdalena as soon as the tomb
ordered by the family should be
completed. The transfer only
took place a few days ago, on
which occasion the coffin was open
ed, when the horrible fact was re-
vealed that the unfortunate coun-
tess had been nailed into the cof-
fin while yet alive. Her hands
were bitten in despair, her face
lacerated, her hair torn out in
handfuls. The top of the coffin
had been forced out of its place,
but, unfortunately, the miserable
victim of hasty interment had
not possessed sufficient strength
to burst it completely open. The
poor lady, it appears, had been
long in delicate health and had
been seized with the preliminary
symptoms of cholera, and had
fallen into a state of coma, which
was mistaken for death by her
terrified family.
Year: 1867

A New IDEA AS TO GAMBLING
HoUsEs.-There is a bill before the
Legislature Of Louisiana, to license
gambling houses. The price of
the license is $4,000 per annum.
The curious feature of the bill is
the provision that requires each
gambling room to be on the ground
floor, fronting on public thor
oughfare, with one or more large
windows to the room, SO that
passers-by may see all that is 60
ing on in the room where the gam
bling is done. 1t is claimed that
in this way the gaming room will
be open to the inspection OF the
police at all hours-to merchants,
bankers and others who have
clerks, to fathers who have sons,
and to wives also. The idea is a
new one, and the law, if rigidly
enforced, might be productive of
much good in deterring certain
classes of persons from visiting
such places. Clerks would hardly
visit gambling. room that was
open to the inspection of every
passer-by; nor father, nor hus-
band. unless lost to all sense of
shame and utterly reckless of re.
putation and consequences. The
growing universally of this vice
would seem to demand some ac-
ton that would check it; and we
know of no suggestion better than
that in the proposed law for the
State of Louisiana.
Year: 1867

A Maine paper says that a baby
was recently carried off by a train
and the mother accidentally left be-
hind. The woman was put on a
spare engine at hand, which over
took the flying train, and tack
led on the rear; the woman pass
ed over the tender to the car
without the train being stopped,
and mother and baby were all
right.
Year: 1867

VIRTUoUs AND CLEAN.-Lord


Shaftesbury says that he would be
virtuous for his own sake though
nobody were to know it, as he
would be clean for his own sake
though nobody were to see him.
Year: 1867

At a church collection for mis-
sions the preacher said: "My
Christian brethren, let us caution
those who put in buttons not to
break off the eyes; it spoils them
for use, and they will not pass
among the brethren for coin."
Year: 1867

Chief Justice Chase to PreAide-PrO-


grRmme OF the TriaI-DavIs Sure OF Ac-


qUittRl In any Case-POsitiOn OF the


Chief Actors.


RICHMOND, Va, Sept. 26.-It has now become
definitely settled that the Davis trial will take
place at the November term of the Circuit Court
here Judge Chase has expressed his intention
of presiding, and If the Rebel ex- President does
not fail to come to time on his straw ball. ques-
tions of great importance will arise which will
require all the diplomacy and ability Of the
Chief Justice to evade and decide.


The opinion is expressed that, allowing Davis
will appear, the trial will be shirked by the
Government, and the prisoner will again be
set at liberty on bail. There is reason, how
ever, to contradict such an erroneous impress
sion. Indications lead to the belief that the
trial win be proceeded with, and mass of the
most important events connected with the his
tory of the Rebellion disclosed. The counsel
for defense will demand a trial. and If the Gov
ernment urge as an excuse not ready, the court
will express its intention to remain in session
a sufficient time to prepare; falling In this a
aoLle prOS.Will be entered by which the discharge
of the prisoner maybe effected. The latter is not
likely, and the trial, which the nation at large
demand, will be proceeded with. Davis can
scarcely he convicted. With Chase on the bench
and Davis in the prisoners box, and the right
of secession in question, drama of great ma
actors Will have TO study well their parts.
Year: 1867

nhveioiap, ana somewhat prominently identified


with che late Confederate war; arrived at the Willard


Hotel Yesterday, his return from Toronto, IAN ada,
where he has been living in exile for the past three


~ four He is route TO New Orleans, In which
cty he established great reputation, in the good old
days of peace, a master OF that deadly malady,
yellow fever. DIR Blackburn will reach the Crescent
City Just In the nick OF time and we have no DOUBT
that his advice and practice will do much towards
widespread alarm and death IN that uniortunate me
tropoii-. His family, who have been residing In
Lo6svIlle for the past six mOnths will continue TO
make this city their home"
Year: 1867

In Worcester, Mass, last Thursday af-
ternoon, a man named Curtis, whose
wife had separated from him three times
on account of his brutal behavior, pro
ceeded to the house of a friend at which
she was stopping, met her in a room
where another female lay sick, and fired
three shots from a pistol at her, until he
shot her dead. The murderer then es-
capped, and is supposed to have commit
ted suicide by drowning.
Year: 1867

Taste in dress can scarcely lead is
posscssor cstroy, and is indeed, n
moral guide. II is full of reminders
aud admonitions; nor can II woman
dress herself in perfect taste without
distinct knowledge of her personal
defects. A hundred fashions are
pretty and charming in themselves /;
but she knows they are not for her,
and rcsists them. They are forbid
den by something in figure, complcc-
tion, station, age or character, which,
though not hattering TO her vanity,
she does not permit herself to forget.
Passion for dress is profuse and cx-
travagant; taste in dress is full Of
wise, philosophical economies, know
ing that the merit OF decoration is
not in its elaborate richness or ex-
pcnsc, but in its adaptation. Taste
in dress is essentially moderate and
sclfcollected never forgetting that
the object of dress is not to exhibit
itself but its wearer; that all that
the most splendid toilet has to do is
to set of a noble, graceful, and win
ming presence, and itself to be lost in
pleasing or effective, or, it may be,
dazzling general impression. Pas
sion for dress is always intent on
what others will think-or taking
some new eye by storm; taste has
self-respect, and before all thing
must satisfy its own notions of pro
priety and grace.
Year: 1867

A prodigal course is like the suns;
but not like his recoverable. = y


Civil dissension is a viperous worm,
that gnaws the bowels of the com
monwealth. Mems lives should
be like the day, more beautiful in the
evening; or, like the summer, aglow
with promise, and the autumn, rich
with the golden sheayes, where good
works and deeds have ripened on the
field. = = The woman that has
not touched the heart Of a man be-
fore he leads her to the altar, has
scarcely time TO charm it when
possession and security turn their
powerful arms against her. y y A
more glorious victory can not be
gained ouer another man than this.
That when the injury began on hi.
part, the kindness should begin on
ours. II both the ways were equally
in our power, yet it is much NOR,
desirable conquest TO overcome evi
with good, than with evil. BY thii
we can only conquer our enemy, anC
may perhaps fail in that; but by th'
other we certainly conquer ourselves
and perhaps our enemy too; over
coming him in the noblest manner
and leading him gently till he b
cool, and without force effectuall,
subduing him to be our friend.
One is much less sensible Of cold ol
bright day than on a cloudy ono
thus the sunshine Of cheerfulness an


hope will tighten every trouble.


The man lives most perfectly who's
constant happiness is found in th


consciousness that in doing the be'


that he can for himself, he is ais


doing the best he can for every bein


that is capable of having good don


to It. The misery of huma


life is made up of large masses, eac


separated from the other by certai


intervaIs-one year, the death Of


child; year after, a failure in trade


after another longer or shorter int
val, daughter may have marri'
unhappily. In all but the singular
T unfortunate, the integral parts tn
count the sum to all the unhappinc
of a mans life are easily counted Al
: distinctly remembered. The hapI
, ness of fife, on the contrary, is ma
E up Of minute fraetions-the lit
: soon-forgotten charities Of kiss
smile, a kind look, a heartfelt col


pliment in the disguise Of play
] raillery, and The countless otherinfi
r itessimals of pleasurable thought a
r genial feeling,
Year: 1867

| have known q country society to
xi,bcr away all to nothing under the
lry rot of gossip only. Friendships
oncc as 6rm as granite dissolved to
ielly, and then run away to water,
only because of this; love, that prom
ised future as enduring as heaven
Ind as stable as truth, cvaporatcd
into morning mist, turned to a
day's long tears only because of this;
/ father and son were set foot to foot
with the fiery breath of anger that
would never cool again between them,
pnlv because of this, and husband
Ind his young wife, each straining at
the fated lash, which in the begin
ming had been the golden bondage of
a God-blesscd love, sat mourniully
by the side of the grave where all
their love and joy lay buried, and
only because Of this. ] have seen
faith transformed to mean d0uht,
hope to give place to grim despair,
and charity take on itself the features
Of black malevolence, all because OF
the spell words of scandal, and the
magic mutterings Of gossip.


Great crimes work great wrongs,
nnd the deeper tragedies OF human
life spring from its larger passions
but woful and most melancholy are
the uncatalogued tragedies that issue
from gossip and detraction; most


mournful the shipwreck often made
of noble natures and lovely lives, by
the bitter winds of SANDER. So easy
10 say, yet so hard to disprove--
throwing on the innocent, and pun


ehing them as guilty il unable e


luck out the stings they never see


md to silence words they never hear


gossip and SANDER are the deadlies


ind cruelest weapons man has for hi


brother's hurt.-AH the Year Round
Year: 1867

lbV MUM t1fNAhafsafAs - ~
Petersburg (Va.) Express says:


The greatest obstacle to the intro
duction Of any new pursuits, is that
the habits Of our people have become
so inveteraiely formed as to render
il almost impossible to mould them
anew. They are, in a manner, case
hardened within US. But if the
South shall ever again enter on a
carer Of prosperity, old things must
be done away, and all things be made
anew. Every effort should be made
TO hasten the day when a large pro-
portion Of our cotton crop shall be
worked up at home, and not let all
the profits, as at present, accrue to
the benefit of those who would tyr
rannize over Us, and keep us in a
state Of perpetual inferiority.
Year: 1867

NEw YORK, Oct. so.
The Heralds Washington special says
Several prominent Southerners have recently
expressed to the President their conviction
that general outbreak among the negroes is
imminent. They say nearly every negro man
in the South is well armed, while the whites
are almost entirely without m cans of defense.
The impeachment ofthe President is believed
to be the time determined upon for rising.
These gentlemen strongly urge upon the
President an increase in military force.


The Worlds special says: The Supreme
Court Of this district refused to grant q writ
of error for an appeal from the lower court
from decision sustaining the constitutional.
ity of the confscatiou laws. The decision
covered several cases where property has
been con6scated for life estate in this dis
trict. An effort will be made to have the
consttutonality of the law tested in the u
s. Supreme Court.


The statement of the national debt for
November lst will probably show only q
very slight reduction. Payments from the
Treasury on various accounts for the last half
OF October have been heavy. The coin bals
ance will be considerably increased, but it
will be at once reduced again by the Five>
Twenty interest, which will be charged of on
the 1st proximo.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 80.


The Chronicle Of this morning contains an
elaborate address from Thaddeus Stevens, ex.
pressing his views on public affairs.
Year: 1867

NARROW ESCAPE OF RAILROAD TRAIN
The passenger train on the Orange and Alex.
andria Railroad, which left Lynchburg last
Monday night for Alexandrla, escaped An ac-
cident very narrowly, ~ Rockfish bridge The
Lynchburg NeWs has the following account OF
the in ncident:-"A man rode his horse upen
the bridge, which is an open one, and when
the animal had gotten some thirty or forty
steps on the bridge. 1t missed its footing, and
became entangied in the open space between
the ties, which was not large enough to admit
the passage of its body, and thus formed q
dangerous obstruction. Soon after, the train
came laundering along at the rate Of twenty.
dve miles an hour. but most fortunately for
the safety OF all on board, the engineer dieeoy.
cred the danger only in time to stop the train
when 1t had reached within q few feet of the
spot. Had the train struck the horse il Is mos.
certain that 1t would have been thrown from
the bridge distance of forty feet. auo many
lives would have been sacrificed The hands
on the train. assisted by the passengers, threw
the horse from the bridge into the river, no
other means of getting him out Of the way
being possible, and upon searching about for
the owner Of the animal, found him asleep in
ditch on the side Of the road, near the end of
the bridge.
Year: 1867

GENERAL GRANT AND THE PREsIDENCy.-
The New York correspondent OF the Philadal-
phia Ledger writes on Wednesday, as fol-
lows:


Do not underrate the importance OF the
formal nomination of General Grant by the
Union Republican General COMMITTEES last
evening. That proceeding was not undertaken
without full consultation WITH certain gentle
men OF distinction, whose postoffics address.
for the present is Long Branch, New Jersey
Upon this point my Information Is such as to
leave no room for doubt. The Mr. Deladeld
Smith who is the chief engineer Of business ,s
the United States District Attorney He was
among the passengers who went down to the
Branch in this afternoon's Q boat.


Another fact worth mentioning is, . leading
editorial in this evenings Commercial Advers
tiser, endorsing the nomination. That article.
II is understood. was written by the editor
Tburlow Weed, who also went to the Jersey
coast this afternoon The Times also, It ia
said, will be out in the course OF a day or two,
with double loaded article favoring the same
nomination, in accordance with instru ctio ms
said TO have been left by Mr. Raymond, the ed
itor, on his departure for Europe.
Year: 1867




the Town Of Riley, Mich, were thrown into
excitement. An insane woman the wife of
ThOmas Jones, murdered her own child aged
two years, by nearly sevsring its head from
the body with an axe. There was no one pres
ent when the unnatural mo her killed her
child, but soon after she called into the house
nelP Dor who was passing by. and told him
what she had done Instead of manifasting .
sorrow for what she had accomplished, she inn :
mediately took hold OF the child and attempted
TO throw it around the room Mrs. Jones has
al previous times, given evidence OF insanity.
Before she was married she attempted to de.
stroy her life by jumping into a well.
Year: 1867

take pleasure to inform the public that have
Doneht the well-known establishment known as
klomans Restaurant It shall be my duty to do
everything In my power to gain the custom and
ap Is SIM r. G.. ROHR.
Year: 1867

THE LOGGING CASE AT FORT SRDGwICK.-
The investigation ordered by General Grant
in the alleged brutal whipping Of citzans by
soldiers at Fort Sedgwck has closed. The
testimony is conclusive as to the whipping of
cltizens by sergeant tor selling whisky to the
men under him. Lacerations OF the flesh and
other cruelties were committed Lieutenant
Lantz promptly stopped the fiogging, which
was simply few strokes with a gun sling


The reported whipping of a soldier for steal
ing gun, and exposing HIM to the prey Of
gnats and musquitos, is without foundation,
as testified to by all the soldiers OF the 3Oth in


was present at the fiogging, as falsely reported.
Year: 1867

Has she a call TO be wife who thinks
more of her silk dress than her children,
and visits her nursery no oftencr shan
once day?


Has the woman call to bc a wife who
sits reading the latest novel while hus.
band stands before the glass vainly trying
TO pin together buttonless shirt bosom ?


Has that woman n cali TO be wife who
cries for cashmere shawl when her hus-
bands notes ore protested


Has that woman a call to be wife who
expects her husband TO swallow diluted
coffee, soggy bread, smoky tea aud wa
terry potatoes, six days out Of seven?


Has she call to be wife who flirts
with every man she meets, and reserves
the frowns for the home fresidc?


Has she call to be a wife who comes
down to breakfast in nbominable curl
papers, soiled dress gown, and shoes
down at the heel


Has she call to be a wife who bores
her husband when he comes into the
house, with the history of a broken tea
cup, or the possible whereabout of a miss
ing broom handle?


Has she o call to be wife whose hus.
bands love weighs naught in the balance
with her pext door neighbor's damask
curtains or velvet carpet?


Has she 0 call to be wife who ahas
the headache" whenever her husband
wants her to walk with him, but willingly
wears out her gaiter boots promenading
with his gentlemen friends?


Has she call to be wife who would
take advantage of moment of conjugsl
weakness to extort money or exact prom
ise


Has she call to be wife who takes a
journey for pleasure, leaving her husband
to toll in a close office, and shave an eye" I"
when at home, to the servants and chill
dren2


Has she call to be wife to whom a
husbands society is not the greatest Of
earthly blessings?
Year: 1867

A negro named Sweet has announced
himself as candidate for Congress In the
Cheraw district, South Carolina, and is
said to be prosecuting the canvass with,
great Vigor and with much confidence Of
SUCCESS
Year: 1867

t,r Tl, blocks aud streets that have given the


scss, e pa weeks But the ceany weldare sEd welOused
pgrt on. oil both cities increase Of fatal diseases"


And the same lesson will be repeated Though
all coming time.


There is one question which suggests itself to
every citizen-what is the excuse for this neg
lcct of the plain duties of the Street Contract
orr He receives an appropriation of S49S,OO0
TO be expended in certain work. He knew the
amount he was to get, the work to be done,
the expense of doing it yet while he takes
good care to draw his installments from
the City Treasurer, we cannot see that
he is equally anxious to use them
There is great indifference or great
mismanagement in his department-probably
BOTH We shall probably be told that the ap-
priation is insufficient, that the cost of labor is
excessive, and that as soon as the streets are
cleaned people will dirty them again. These
have been the standing excuses of contractors
for years, and the people are tired of hearing
them If Judge Whiting has not the means
to clean the city he should throw up his con-
tract; or if he remains i'll Office, and refuses
to-" thoroughly clean" it, we are justified in
refusing to perform our part of the obllga-
ton. The summary method of reform tried
last Winter is the best now let the streets
be cleaned, or lot us stop the appropriation