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Year: 1867

Sometimes, when the day grows dusky,
And tho stars begin to come,
When the children, from their playing,
Come singing and laughing home,
think, with sudden sorrow,


AS they press through the open door,
OF the faces of the children


That we shall never sec any more.
Children in snow-white caskets,


Laid away to their rest,
Their still hands lying folded


Over their pulseless breast!
Children who came and tarrled


AS only it were for night,
And passed, at the break of the morning,
On journey for out of sight.
On long and lonely journey, 7
Where we could rot help or hold,
For we saw but the closing of eyelids,
The fading of locks of gold;
And knew how now was but silence


Where once had been prattle and song,
And only q chill and shadow


Where was sunshine the whole day long.
Away from our care and caresses,


"God knows where they are, we say,
And We know that we tarry behind them
Only little way;
For we, too, haste in our Journey


And we know it will not be long,
Till we come to the City Eternal,


The rest and the rapture Of song.
Yet oft, when the sun is setting


In unspeakable splendor of light
Or the day grows dim and dusky,
And the shadows strctch into the night.
When the children, tired with their playing,
Come in through the open door,
7 think of the dear, dear children,


Who never will come any more.
Year: 1867

LOUISIANA SUGAR CRoP.-The New Orleans
Times says the sugar crop of Louisiana this
year will reach fifty thousand hogsheads,
against sixteen thousand last year; that only
extraordinary obstacles will prevent a pro.
duction of one hundred thousand next year,
and that the old average of four hundred
and fifty thousand hogsheads will be restored
in three years.
Year: 1867

greatest inward .satisiaction, whatever they
may say with their lips. They know well
that Pharaohs will arise in their land who


knew not Joseph that there is generation
coming that will not care for SUMNER, and
they will be only too happy in the exercise
Of the power to remould, reconstruct and be-
devil our institutions by act Of Congress


We undertake to say that the man who
would bequeath to the next generation
Republican Government perverted so that q
mere party majority in Congress can over
ride each other branch Of the Government,
making TIE PREsIDKsr mere lay figure,
and subordinating the Judiciary to the will Of
political caucuses, Is q black-hearted traitor.
We do not doubt but that unscrupulous
demagogues would like 10 see this sort Of
thing go on until the precedents are estab-
lished, In anticipation Of the time when they
can, By political management, make up q
Congress Of the right complexion and exer-
else all the power they could wish. When
that day comes the very parties who inau-
gurated Il will be fain to invoke the interposi-
ton Of the Executive and the Judiciary 10
restrain Congress within constitutional limits
such as were prescribed by the trainers Of
our Government. .ll 81. var l2f'
Year: 1867

THE CHIIIAN WAR,-Spains future policy
with regard to Chill and her allies is said to
be to carry on the war against them, by
sending to the Pacific feet strong enough
to blockade all their ports and starve them
into submission. Spain is endeavoring to
conclude treaties with the adjacent countries,
by which the latter will prevent the trans.
portation through their territories of any
articles contraband Of war intended for Chill
or her allies Chill and Peru have equipped
feet to operate against SPAN, the vessels
of which are now reported to be in the neigh:
borhood of Cape Horn.
Year: 1867

CHARLrsroS, Jan. 1.-THE trial Of the
negro Horace Greeley for the murder Of Mr..
Rhett is the first capital case tried here under
the new code. The court assigned United
States Senator Campbell and other eminent
counsel to defend the prisoner. The evidence
for the prosecution was chiefly by negroes,
and conclusive of the prisoners guilt The
case will be given to the jury tomorrow.
statement in the witness stand 5r'
Year: 1867




In favor Of q Free Railroad Law, and


against the amendments made to the


bill by the Railroad Committee Of the
Senate.


Mr.. HALL. Mr.. Speaker, l did moi
intend, when | made few remarks on
this bill the other day, to occupy the al,
tcution of the Senate any further in re-
gard TO it. When repeated votes showed
from eighteen to twenty in favor of it
and from eleven to sixteen against it,
supposed that the minds Of Senator's were
made up, and that we would not be wag-
ran.ed in taking up time to the exclusion
Of other matters Of legislation. And
should not now, hal it not been for the
remarks Of my friend, the Senator from
Bradford { Mn. LANDoS.] l do not rise
10 reflect upon any railroad corporation
certainly not upon the Pennsylvania rail
road. l have had quite as much to 10
with that corporation as the Senator from
Bradford, aud am quite as familiar with
the region Of country traversed by that
great railroad | am well aware that 1t
has greatly enriched Central Pennsylya-
uia-;hat its value has been increased 10
ten times. yes twenty times, what it was
before that road was constructed. I have
never lent myself, either directly or in,
directly, to any effort that was calculated
to crush this railroad or impair its use
fulness. | have never opposed or sought
to thwart my Legislation calculated tc
strengthen and encourage it, when such
legislation tended to the public welfare
But with all due Difference to my brother
Senators, | must say that any one who
knows the popular sentiment must know
that the people Of Pennsylvania are de-
termined to have a free railroad law
But the people do not want railroad
law so loaded down and clogged with re-
strictions that it will be impracticable
even to construct railroad under it
Let the Senator 20 to lis constituents,
and | think he will find that they, as
well as my constituents, are in favor Of q
free railroad law. But they do not desire
such law as Will be practically inope-
rative and nullity. l hold in my hand
the inaugural address of Governor Gear,
aud the last message Of Governor Curnf;
in which they say the people demaui a
free railroad law. Such | found to be
the unnistakable sentiment of the Peo-
pie Of Bradford county, where I address
ed portion Of them last fall, and N no
part of the State did | find a more oe-
termined and earnest feeling in favor oi
the movement than in Northern Ienu-
sylvauia, where the people gave :heIf Lid
jorities by thousands for General Uoary'
Believing, as l do, that such is the gen
eral sentiment, and that the wants OF 'he
people must be needed by their CHOSEN
representatives, in view, too, OF the sPe'cn
Just made by the Senator from bfaai'fu
Year: 1867

A man in his carriage was riding along,
a gaily dressed wife by his side,
In satin and laces she looked like a queen,
And he like king in his pride.
Awood sawyer stood on the street as he passed,
The carriage and couple he eyed,
And said as worked with bis saw on log,
81 wish ] was rich and could ride.''
The man in the carriage remarked TO his wife,
Gone thing would do if l could
I'd give all my wealth for the strength and the


health


Of the man who saweth the wood"
A pretty young maid with bundle Of work,
Whose face as the morning was fair,
Went tripping along with smile of delight,
While humming loye-breathing air.
She looked in the carriage, the lady she saw
Arrayed in apparel so fine,
And said in a whisper, 81 wish from my heart
Those satins and laces were mine.''
The lady looked out on the maid with her work,
So fair in her calico dress,
And said, "I'd relinquish position and wealth
Her beauty and youth TO possess"
Thus it is in this world whatever our lot,
Our minds and our time we employ
In longing and sighing for what we have rot,
Ungrateful for what we enjoy.
We welcome the pleasure for which we have


sighed,


The heart has void IN it still,
Growing deeper and wider the longer VIC live,
That nothing but heaven can fill
Year: 1867

In the new play, "UnCer the Gas
Light" the heroine gives utterance 10 the
following:


Courtship is the text from which the
whole solemn sermon Of married life takes
its theme. As lovers are disconiented
and unhappy, so will they be as wives
and husbands. So, you as you would be
happy al The years Of your life, listen to
the voice advising you:


Let The woman you look upon be wise
or vain, beautiful or homely, rich or poor,
she has but one thing which che can give
or refuse-her heart. Her beauty, her
wit, her accomplishments, she may sell
10 you; but her love is the treasure with
oul money and without price She only
asks, in return, that when you look upon
her your eyes shall speak mute deVo-
tion; that when you address her, your
voice shall be gentle, loving and kind
That you shall not desPise her because
she cannot understand all al once your
vigorous thoughts and ambitious designs;
for when misfortune and evil have
defeated your greatest purposes her love
remains 10 console you.


You look 10 the trees for strength and
grandeur-do not despise the flowers be-
cause their fragrance is all they have 10
give. Remember, love is all a woman
has TO give-butii is the only earthly
thing that God permits US TO carry be-
yond the grave.
Year: 1867

JANUARY.-W Whoever is born in this
month will be laborous, and lover OF
good wine, but very subjec, 10 infdelity;
but he will be complaisani, and wilhal a
very fine singer. The lady born in this
month will be pretty prudent house
wife, rather melancholy; but YET good
tempered.


FEBRUARY. man born in this
month will love money much, but the la
dies more; he will be stingy al home, but
prodigal abroad. The lady will be hu-
name and affecGonate wife and tender
mother.


MARcH.-The man born in this month
will be rather handsome; he will be hon.
est and prudent; he will die poor. The
lady will be jealous and passionate chat
ter-boX,


APRIL.-The man, who has the mis-
fortune 10 be born in this month will be
subject TO maladies; he will travel TO his
advantages; and love ladies 10 his disad-
vantage, for he will marry a rich and
handsome heiress, who will make--
what no doubt all understand. The lady
OF this month, will be tall and stout, with
agreeable wit, and great talk.


MAY.-Tbe man born in this month
wiK be handsome and amisble; he will
make his wife happy. The lady of this
month will be handsome and marry early.


JrNE.-The man born now will be Of
small statue, passioaaiely fond Of women
and children, but will not be loved in re.
turn. The lady will be giddy parsonage,
fond of coffee; she will marry al the age
of twenty one, and be fool at foriy.hve.


JULy.-The man will be fa., he will
suffer death for The wicked women he
loves. The female of this month will be
passably handsome, with short nose but
fine bust. She will be of rather sulky
temper.


AUeUsT.-The man will be ambitious
and courageous; he will have several mala-
dies, and two wives. The lady will be
smiaLle and twice married, but her sec.
ond husband will cause her 10 regret her
first.


SEPTEMBER.-He who was born in this
month will be strong, wise and prudent,
but two easy with his wife, who will give
him grea, uneasiness. The lady round,
and fsir,haired, witty, discreet, smiable
and loved by her husband.


OCTOBER man OF this month will
have a handsome and forid complexion;
he will always promise 10 do one thing
and do another, and remain poor. The
lady will be pretty, and little too fond
of talking. She will have two husbands
who will die Of grief, she will best know
why.


NovEMBER.-The man born in this
month will have a fine face, and be gay
deceiver. The lady Of This month will
be large and liberal, and full Of novelty.


DEcEMBER.-The man born in this
month will be good sort of person. tho
passionate. The lady will be amiable
and handsome, with a good voice and a
we'll proporiioned body; she will be twice
married remain poor ,and continue honest.
Year: 1867

The bounty bill giving to all re-
enlisted volunteer soldiers of this
State bounty of one hundred dol
lars, was published by the Secreta-
ry of State, on Saturday, as law of
the State.


The law provides that where a
veteran volunteer was credited to a
county, or township, or city, and re.
ceiyed no bounty, the commission
ers of the county, the trustees Of the
township, or the council of the CITY,,
as the case may be, shall issue for his
benefit bond for one hundred dol
lars, bearing six per cent. interest,
redeemable one year after date.


In case the volunteer was credited
to the State at large, then the Audi
tor of the State is required to issue
his warrant upon the State Treasury
for the same purpose.


In cases of credits of volunteers
on the quotas of Congressional dis
tricts, the counties in the district are
to provide for the payment of the
bounties in proportion to their pop
ulation. ~


If any re- enlisted soldier, as above,
shall have received any bounty less
than one hundred dollars, the amount
so received is to be deducted, and
the bond or warrant given for the
remainder Columbus Journal.
Year: 1867


The Light at Home. how bright it beams
When evening shades around us fall:
And from the lattice far it CLEANS,
To love, and rest. and comfort call.
When wearied with the tolls of day.
The strife for glory, gold or fame,
How sweet to seek the quiet way;
Where loving lips win lisp our name


Around the Light at Home
When through the dark and stormy night
The wayward wanderer homeward hieS,
How cheering in that twinkling light,
hich through the forest gloom he spies,
1t IS the light at home he feels,
That loving hearts will greet him there,
And softly through his bosom steals
That JOY and love that Danish care


Around the Light at Home.
The Light at Homel how still and sweet
1t peeps from yonder cottage door
The weary laborer to greet
When the rough tolls of day are o'er,
Sad is the soul that does not know
The blessings that the beams impart
The cheerful hopes and joys that fiow
And tighten up the heaviest heart,


Around the Light at Home.
Year: 1867

A Coon SIGN.-We understand
that majority of the Democratic
Central Committee Of this County
will vote in favor of manhood suf-
frage, at the next election. Whatev-
er may be their motives for thus TAX
ing the advance, they should have
the credit of being on the right side.
This is an item to show that the issue
does not so materially affect the po-
litical situation of the parties as one
might suppose. These persons will
support the Democratic ticket, and
vote for manhood suffrage also
Irontors Register.
Year: 1867

Inc people live uncommon long in
vermont There are two men there
so ola that they have quite forgot.
ten who they are. and there is mo-
body alive who can remember it for
them. - ioi
Year: 1867

SwINDLE on THE CoLoRED POPULATION
few days since a well dressed eolored man
made bis appearance in this city, representing
himself as being an agent OF the New York and
Erie railroad. and empo wered to make con-


tracts with two hundred colored laborers 10
work on the road at high wages OF course he
had but little trouble in getting the requisite
number, one OF the conditions being that as the
fare TO Buffalo was sl6, each one was to paw
hlm IS, which they did and he would paw the
balance, deducting it out of their rst nav


tuesday evening was the time appointed 10
leave for Buffalo, by the Northern Central
railway. and the two hundred met at the de-
pot, accompanied In most cases by their fami-
lies and friends TO see them off. The smart on
orator was on hand, but previous to the party
taking seats in the cars he managed to sudden
1y disappear, and has not since been heard Of


and most probably never will BY the opera
uon the swindler pocketed some sI,60O.-Balt
Year: 1867

THRCoNsTTTUTIoNAL AMENDMENT -ItwiII
be remembered that the COMMITTEES of FEDERAL
Relations OF the lower House of the Massa


chusetts Legislature, 70 whom the q question of
ratiiylng the constitutional amendment was
referred, made a report last week in which the
majority oppose the amendment and the mi
norIty favor il. This committee consists of
seven members, one OF whom is q colored man.
Tne curious fact is now developed that three
OF the white men on the committee were on
posed 10 the amendment and three IN favor ef
IL, and the colored man. by his casting vote
against the ratification, gave that side the ma
jority and made the committees report oppose
the amendment. The majority opposed ia be-
cause IL did not secure universal suffrare
Year: 1867

THEY WANT To TEST ITS CoYsTtTUTIoN
ALITY.-ln the Virginia House of Deleeates
on Monday, Mr.. White offered q resolution
instTucting the committee for courts of Justice
TO report a bill providing for the appointment
OF commission to test before the Supreme
Court OF the United States, the legality of the
act OF Congress TO provide for the more eff
Gent government Of the rebel States"


Mr.. White claimed that we were not vet
dead, ana had still the rights OF a State and the
rlght 10 appeal 10 the Supreme Court to pro-
tect Us from such an outrage TO appeal in 10
name OF State around which clustered so
many glorious memories IN the Rame of hu.
manity IN the name OF right and justice and
truth and honor.


Ihe resolution was Withdrawn by the me YER
and referred 10 the committee on resolutions
Year: 1867

TAX CoLLRCTINe.-Mississip papers an
nounce that by new law in that State the
poll-tax upon persons not having visible
means OF support or not in the employ Of q
responsible person, is TO be collected at the
time of assessment, and II IL cannot be col
lected, the defaulter is to be reported as q
ya1raut
Year: 1867

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN COURT ROOM
1 he second trial of VIM. G.. Orne. for setting
hre to brick building on Winthrop street
CharIestown, In July last, which has been
gong on during the past few days at East
Cambridge, terminated yesterday afternoon in
verdict OF guilty. After the result had been
announced. the prisoner briefly addressed the
court, strongly asserting his innocence OF the
crime Tor which he had been convicted
Judge Russell then wrote the sentence OF I'M
prisonment for life on the back of the indict.
ment and handed IL 10 the clerk Just as the
clerk was about 10 read il, Orne drew a knife
winch ne had in some way concealed in his
sleeve, and stabbed himself three times i'm the
lett breast He renamed standing for nearly
amInute. and then he sank down into the dock
partially unconscious. He was Immediately
carried 10 the Counsellor's room and laid upon
the table, where an examination OF the wounds
was made by Dr. Taylor. Orne was then car
RED on stretcher TO the sick room al the iatI


where he lay AT a late hour last evening in a
critical condition, with but little chances of
recovery. While being conveyed 70 the iail
ne SAID that he didn't care much about go
ing 10 the State Prison, for he knew all about
III, but he would never go there innocent He
expressed no regret whatever for hIs act Orne
is about thirty years old, and a native Of NAL
den, and has wife and child living in
Charlestown. He has served four wears in the
State Prison for arson and a year in the Hoase
OF Correction for robbery.-BoStOn Voice.
Year: 1867

CONDITION oFTHE NATIONAL BANKS.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
received about one thousand quarterly
reports, showing the condition of the
national banks throughout the country
on the morning of the 9TH instant. As
far as the same have;been examined,
they are found TO show the banks gem
orally in a good condition. They, ap-
pear to have demands for all their
available funds, and the loans and dis
counts are unusually large in the aR-
gregate, yet the lawful money reserve
required by the national currency act
is well maintained. In regard to the
reserve of lawful money required by
the banks, the Acting Comptroller is
requiring that the banks keep the two
tifths of fifteen or one half of twenty
hye per centum of circulation in legal
tender notes and specie entirely. The
banks have heretofore been allowed to
keep compound interest notes, to a GER
tain extent, for all purposes.
Year: 1867

1t is not the custom of our people to
symbolic their feelings by change of
dress, with this solitary exception. If Il
man becomes bankrupt, or has his home
burned down, or loses heavily in CONNER
cial operations, or has son in disgrace.
or a child mislead by evil company, or
any other griefful experience, he. docs
not change his garb. The one solitary
and exceptional case is bereavement -
But there is i'll domestic sorrow delica-
cy, or ought to be, which should shrink
from an ostentatiousness such as mourn
ing apparel cannot fail to have. No one
has a right so to express his sorrows as to
intrude them upon every eye wherever
he goes.


Custom has long justified it; otherwise
it would be esteemed an indelicacy for
one to be a walking advertisement of
ones private griefs. But even if one
were permitted to announce this one side
of domestic experience by change of garb,
the question still remains, whether ex-
pressions should be given to the weakness
Of natural feeling or the triumph of
Christian faith! Whether we should SYM
boize the darkness of the grave as unen
lightened nature shows it, or the grave
made luminous by the triumph of our
Savior and the glories of Immortality be-
yond it? We may be sure there is some
thing wrong in Christian community
where death is surrounded with associa-
tioGs of terror, where the young are
reared to a horror of the sepulchre, where
present grief rises up like a. dark cloud
and shuts out the heaven, wherein ser
mon, services, conversation and dress
everything g conSpires to shrowd death and
the grave with darkness. Has sorrow a
right to be selfish? May it bear false
witness against Immortality? Has
Christian under bereavement right to
declare by his conduct ''There is no light
in the grave, none beyond it, and no COM
fort for the bereaved but only black,
black sorrow! l never meet one mutfied
in black from head to foot, without GER
tain horror. The smell of Grape is to me
like the smell of charnel house!


Did it ever occur to @mourrers to ask,
what if those for whom'I grieve were to
speak to me out of their blissful rest i'll
heaven, would it be their choice-that |
should be shroudeh like one i'll despair, or
robcd as one who mourns, but with
Christian hope III Ward Beecher.
Year: 1867

SAYINGS OF DEAN SwIFT.-If man
will observe as he walks the streets, | be-
hcve he vii find the nierriest faces in
mourning caches.


The reason why so few marriages are
happy, is because young ladies spend
their time i'll making nets, not in making
cages.


The power of fortune is confused only
by the miserable for the happy impute
all their success to prudence and merit.


Ambition often puts men upon doing
the meanest offices so climbing is per-
formed in the same posture with creep
ing.


Small causes are sufficient to make a
man uneasy, when great ones are not in
the way tor want ofs block he will
stumble at a straw.


Every man desires to live long; but no
man would be old.


Apollo was held the god of physic and
sender of diseases. Both were originally
the same trade, and still continue.


If a nan makes me keep my distance,
the comfort is, he keeps his at the same
time.


Men are content to be laughed at for
their wit, but not for their folly.


A man would have but few spectators
if he should offer to show for three pence
how he could trust red hot poker into a
barrel OF gun-powder, and it should not
take fire.
Year: 1867

SYMMETRICAL CHARACTERs.-It is a
plausible theory that neither good nor
evil is absolute; that elch vice is the ex-
aggeratcd extension of virtue each ca
pable of being corrupted into vice so
that the good and wise man becomes
simply the man with acuteness enough to
draw the exact line between either, and
then to obey the advice liz medic tu.
tissin,us IBIS" Ifthis be sophism, there
is yet truth in it. Undoubtedly the best
man the man most useful to his species,
is he whose character is most equally
balanced; aud the most complete life is
ttat which has fived, so to speak, in per-
perspective. People with enormous faults
and gigantic virtues may be very inter
resting in novels, but they are exceeding
ly inconvcnient in real life. An equal
person, with no Extensively exaggerated
qualities, he is far the safest to have to do
with, and especially to live with.-1NisS


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