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Year: 1865

A resolution introduced 10 the city
eouocil last night disapproving Of the re-
turn TO this city Of rebel soldiers, excited
heated debate, and public meeting to
prevent the return Of such men is called
for to night. There are large number
OF them already here.
Year: 1865

A new aud beautiful method Of lighting
gas without the use Of match has been
introduced in Philadelphia. II Is q neat
and elegant Gxiure. consisting Of brass
cup. lined with silk, lOOse-6tting India
rubber stopper, and an insulated copper
wire coil. with plartiuun point directly
over the burner Within the stopper is
placed sualI piece Of tin foil. 70 bold or
store for use the electricity generated by
the friction Of the Iudia-rubber stopper
upon the silk lining Of the cup While
the cup is closed there Is complete elee-
trio current maintained, but when the gas
is TO bo lighted the cup Is lifted. the cleo
tric current is broken, and the electricity
passes down the coil Of wire to the burner,
At the same moment the gas ;s turned on.
and Is instantly lighted. a
Year: 1865

Boston, Feb. 1.-The announcement
was received at the State House early
this evening that President Lincoln had
signed the constitutional amendment
abolishing slavery, upon which Governor
Andrew issued an order for a national
salute of one hundred guns to be fired on
the common at ten o'clock tomorrow,
also recommending that the church bells
be rung one hour, and suggested similar
of rejoicing throughout
the State.
Year: 1865

BosToN CRACKERs.-Lovers OF good
fresh Boston crackers will be pleased 10
learn that an unusually large stock has
inst been manufactured and is now FOR
sale at Zimmer's Bakery, Market street,
a few doors below the Register office
Drop in and see-they are fresh and
Year: 1865

selves, then any profession I might now make
would be equally useless. But if I know
myself as think do, know that l am of
the Southern people, and I love them and will
do all in my power to restore them to that
state of happiness and prosperity which they
enjoyed before the madness of misguided men,
in whom they had reposed their confidence,
led them astray to their own undoing. Ifthere


is anything that can be done on my part on
the correct principles of the constitution to
promote these ends, be assured it shall be
done. Let me assure you that there
is no disposition the part of United
States Government to deal harshly with the
Southern people. These may be speeches pub
lished from various quarters, that may breathe
different spirit. Do not let them trouble or
excite you, but believe that it is as it is, the
great object of the government to m; the
union of these United States more lll;te
than ever, and to maintain it on consutullonal
principles, if possible, more firmly than it has
ever before been.
Year: 1865

WAsHIsGroS. Sept. 27.-Surgeon Allen. of
the Navy Department, returned this evening
from tour of inspection to the marine hospitals
of the East West and Southwest. He will prob
ably recommend the sale of all marine hospitals
owned by the Government, and the abandonment
of the present expensive system of keeping up
establishments into which not half dozen
patients are annually admitted, and the contract
lag with established hospitals for the treatment
of all Government patients. "
Year: 1865

WASHINGTON, Sept 27.-For the encourage
ment of those who have applied OF intend to sp-
ply to the Secretary OF the Treasury for clerk
shls in his Department it should be known that
all applications are filed in pigeon-hoes and will
some time turn up for consideration. About
10, 900 applications have already been sccumu-
lated, majority of which have been received
since the dispersement OF the army. All of them
are deserving, come we'll reco mmended, and with
proper addition to the clerical force can be dis
posed OF within the next four years.
Year: 1865

The latest novelty in agricultural pro


ducts is the manufacture of sugar from


corn. Professor Groessliug, German


chemist, at the West is said to have dis.
covered process by which beautiful


white syrup and gTanulated sugar may be
made from corn starch. A company has
been organized in New York with large
capital to procure patent and rest the
discovery. The Buffalo Com mercial
Adrertiser says of it:


They propose TO enter at once unoa
the manufacture of syrup and sugar from
corn by the new process, upon "a large
scale, and to introduce its manufacture
throughout the country as fast as exp.di-
ent. Experiments have already sue
ceeded in the production of at least TIRES
and half gallons of syrup from a bush
ell of corn, and of a quality which is.
pronounced by the most critical judges
to be equal in every respect to the best
syrups heretofore produced at the New
York re6neries from sugar cane. An
equivalent amount of granulated, first
quality sugar it is also claimed can be
produced, but we understand that for
the present the company will confne its
efforts to the production of syrup. 40
tive preparations are being made, how
ever, to enter upon the extensive manu-
facture of sugar, and it is expected that
the company will be prepared to put the
staple into the market during the pres
ent winter.
Year: 1865

A milk peddler finding that his bust
ness was not just what it should be resolv
ed to tack about and sell milk, instead of
milk aud water, as he had formerly done,
and thus test the soundness of the old
maxim about honesty. A day or two af-
ter he had effected the change he was
told by one of his customers, old lady,
that be need not bring any more milk to
her. Ia great surprise be asked the
reason why. r,


Because" )" said she, ''the article you
sold me yesterday Was the queerest stuff,
| ever saw. 1t had not stood there two
hours when it had nasty yellow scum
on it. | must have the real sky blue
srtic's have always been accustomed to
have
Year: 1865




"Why is it." asked lady, THAT so ma
nv men are so anxious to get rid of their
wives p' because" was the reply, $50
lew women exert themselves after mar
riage to make their presence indispensable
to the happiness of their husbands =
When husband and wife become through
ly accustomed to each othcr-when all
the little battery of charms which both
rlsyed off so skillrully before the wed
ding-dsy has been exhaustcd-too many
seen to think nothing remains but the
clarI:ng of the legal chains which bind
them to each other The VIE seeks to
develop in her affections no new attrac-
ton for her husband aud the latter.
percciving the lapsus, begins to brood
over an uncongeniality xhich does not
exist. and to magnify the ills that do ex-
ist into insurpassable obstacles in the
way of his earthly felicity. This is the
true secret. Tho woman who charmed
before her marrisgc can charm afterward,
if she will, though not of course by the
same means. There are thousand ways,
if she will only study them out, III which
she can make home so attractive that her
husband will dislike to absent himself
from it, and so she can readily make
herself the particular deity of the domes-
tic paradise This done, she may quietly
laugh at all attempts to ALLEVIATE her hus-
bands inclination and with those incli-
nations will always go, in such cases his
active judgment.
Year: 1865

After years of labor and great out
lay of money, the manufacture of
Pig iron with stone-coal instead of
charcoal, has been accomplished in
the town of jackson Ohio By shaft
ing some fifty feet a vein of coal
was found of four feet in thickness,
which on analysis was found to be
free of sulphur and well suited to the
manufacture of pig-iron from the
ore, so abundant In the hills, of that
country. A company was formed
now known as the Orange furnace
company and have a furnace in full
blast, in the imm ediate vicinity of
the shaft, using the raw coal, brought
up by steam. The ore used is hauled
some four miles, at q cost delivered
of 81 per ton, with vein of coal un-
derlying the whole country, and in
exhaustible beds of ore. A furnace
can be profitably worked on every
hundred yards square. Charcoal fur
naces will in time diminish, and coal
furnaces be established.


Itis source of pleasant reflection,
that the good people of jackson have
now the means of rearing in their
midst an iron business that will in
point of advantages and facilities for
making iron compete with the most
favored localities of other countries.


The day is not far distant when
the iron business in that county will
outstrip all other business of the
country, manufactures, of iron from
a fish hook, to an anchor will be
carried on.


Jackson county in days of yore,
furnished salt for large portion of
the inhabitants of the western coun-
try, in the manufacture of which,
the timber for miles around the fur
naces have been exhausted, and at
once, precluded the erection of iron
furnaces within those bounds. Now
within that very locality the coal is
found so suitable for the manufac
ture of pig iron. While nature has
done so much for that portion of the
state, capitalists will be attracted
there. Pig-iron can be afforded at
less cost there, than any portion of
the state. While jackson county is
the richest in mineral wealth of any
in the state, it possesses. a soil that
Is susceptible of great agricultural
improvement and capable OF fur
nish:ng subsistence for q dense pop
ulation.


To no one is it more pleasing to
observe than reflect on the prospec
tive wealth in store for the inhabi-
tants OF that county, than to the
writer of this article, who was one
of the commissioners to locate the
seat of Justice for that county in
the Spring of 1916.
Year: 1865

IT'S gc5d to know that he who tries


The silver, takes his seat
Beside the fire which purifes,


Lest too intense heat
Raised to consume the base alloy
The precious metals, too, destroy.
'Tis good to think how well He knows


The silver's power to bear
The ordeal through which it goes;


And that. with skill and care,
He'll take it from the fire, when fit
With Hisown hand to polish it.
IT'S bleesedncss TO know that He,


The work He has begun
Will not forsake till he can see


The work well doney
An nimage by its brightness shown,
The perfect Likeness Of His own
But OH how much Of earthly mould
j.; Dark relics Of the nine,
Lost from the ore-must He behold


How long must He refine,
Ere in the silver He can trace
The first faint semblance of His face.
Thou Great Redeemeri sit Thou by,
Thy purpose to fulfill
Moved by Thy hand, beneath Thine eye
And melted at Thy will
Oh, may Thy work toreoer shine,
Rejecting beauty pure as Thinel
Year: 1865

TRY IT-Why are greenbacks
more valuable than gold; even at its
present price2 Because when you
put a greenbsck in your pocket you
double il and when you take 1t out
you find it increases.
Year: 1865

The eastern papers notice the trial of
a new system of refining crude petrole-
m by chemical process. Twenty gallons
of crude oil were put into a cylinder with
several apartments, and, after passing
through filters, turned out seventeen gal
Ions pure refued oil in three minutes -
The gentlemen present pronounced II
much sweeter than when clarified 10y the
old process of heat, and when burned
was found to smoke much less. The loss
of oil by this process is only about l24
per cent, the naptha and the heavy oil
being nentralized The cost by the new
systcm is about three cents per gallon,
while in the old way it costs about ten
cents, aud tho oil Is better in every re-
spect and the gravity more uniform,
Year: 1865

WRITERS are speculating good deal
on Abraham Lincolns theology 1t
would seem that Davis and Lincoln have
had good deal to do with this war; but
Mr.. Lincoln can't exactly sec how it is;
SO he speculates how to account for what
he and Davis have done He lays it on
the Lord, who has done all this for his
purposes. This would relieve both sides
of the guilt, if there be any, and it does
look very much like either could do bet
ter than lie is doing.


There has been a great deal OF evil in
the world 1t comes by the permission Of
the Great Disposcr OF all events; but He
will hardly hold the parties guiltless in
the slight est degree on that account. IL
is hardly worth while TO inquire why the
Lord has allowed it, for a man is not apt
to find out II is his business to look to
himself. The Lords purposes are none
of his business
Year: 1865

MoRE Or. DfscovERIEs.-The Clarion
Banner, alluding TO the Deer Creek Well
in that vicinity, says a heavy vein OF gas
was struck, which threw oil aud water
as high as the derrick roof, and then
subsidized until it reached about ten feet
above the month of the conductor. com
ing up with rushing noise and descend
ing in spray The rivsr is very greasy
and all the eddies are filed with oil
The existence of oil is clearly demonstra-
ted. and it has been asserted by a thor
ough geoIogist that the Clarion river is
destined to be a great and profitable oil
producing region. At the Clarion Well
the oil and water are also flowing. CIV
ing good evidence of plenty of oil.
Year: 1865

FROM CANADA-There is a strange
story ahoat in Montreal to the ef.
feet that commissioner Oh the part OF
the Washington government has been IN
that city for weeks negotiating with the
leaders of the annexation party, and OBJ
taining g information as to the feeling rt
the people on the subject of anon OF
Canada with the United States.


There is quite an excitement at Toron-
to, Canada, cansed by controversies be
tween those of the business men who
are willing to take American silver at
par and those who demand discount.
The Board of Trade are among the latter,
and recommend -four per cent as the
proper rate. u
Year: 1865

From Springfield Republican, Rap) March 4 J


1t would have been thought that after
the exhibition which Mr. Vice-President
Johnson made of himself OH Inaugural
zion day, he would he more careful OF
himself in public. We are informed,
however, upon private hut entirely cred
ible authority, that the Viee-President
was so far stupefed with liquor at the
inauguration ball that some of his friends
were obliged to carry him home. We
would gladly disbelieve this, hut ke
source from which il comes leaves no
room for doubt
Year: 1865

Hf,IpFIELp RAILROAD. - The train
which left the city yesterday afternoon,
Oh the Hcmpfield Railroad, ran of the
track just beyond the city limits and be-
foe reaching the tunnel. Some two
hours were occupied in getting the loco
motive upon the track, aud the train
proceeded After going about five miles,
a huge boulder was found upon the
track, which defed the efforts of the
whole neighborhood for its removal
After wasting some time, Conductor
Mccoy very wisely concluded to return
TO the city and take a fresh start this
morning. The train left at seven O'CLOCK
and, we trust, met with no obstacle &c
impede its progress.
Year: 1865

BKIGAAM YOUNG is perfectly neutral
In a recent sermon he said: "The North
prays that their swords may strike INTO
the heart of every rebel, and l say
Amen And the South prays that the
North may be cut down on a thousand
battle fields. aud again say, Amen"
Year: 1865

NEGRO SOLDIER SHOT BY AN OFFI-
GER "A negro soldier was shot by
an officer ON Sunday evening, while
committing depredations on the
property of citizen, near the city.
The officers orders for the man to
desist and leave the place were not
obeyed, and to enforce his authority
he was compelled to fire. The ne
gro was shot in the head and almost
instantly killed T5chsbarg Her
aid.
Year: 1865

The property this Powd"r possesses in in
creasing the quantity of Milk in Cows, gives
IT an Importance and value which should
place it in the hands of every person keeping
Cow. BY actual experiment it has proven
that it will increase the quantity of Milk and
Cream twenty per cent, and make the Butter
firm and sweet In fHttrning Cattle, it gives
them an appetite, looScns their hide and
makes them thrive much faster.
Year: 1865

Speaking Of the Reorganization OF the
South" the Washington Chronicle OF this
morning, says: ''ln the reorganization OF
Southern society it would be unwise to act
upon uniform plan. The Administration
will be governed BY the peculiar circumstances
of each case. That Of Tennessee may be re-
garded as disposed Of. There is no rival State
government III iu existence within it's boundaries.
TIE legislature, which we believe. is still in
session, will elect two U. S. Senators, and in
August an election will be held for members
of the House Of Representatives. There can
be little doubt that they will be admitted to
their seats when the Congress assemblies. In
Virginia, Louisiana, and Arkansas, loyal
governments have been set up but thus tar
they have failed to represent sufficient num-
bers Of the people to inspire entire confidence
in their stability among all classes OF loyalists
There are those who believe that they lack the
sanction Of popular appreciation, and that they
would fall to pieces if the support OF the
general Government were withdrawn. Ii
there be force in this view of the subject at the
present moment, we are quite sure that 1T Will
be different by the time Congress meets
These forms of government, it not perfect
are perhaps the best that can be obtained at
present, and they will become, now that the
warts ended, the nuclei around which society
W|!! be reformed.
Year: 1865

TuIrvEs.-We will venture to say that
.here are few cities in America, of the
SINE population, that have so many
thieves unon the Recorders docket daily
as Memphis This morning out of the
arrests that were made yesterday. ten
were for stealing. Just think OF it This
is no very extra occasion, but the usual
round of depravity falling into the hands
Of the arms of the law We do hope that
every suspicious character, and all va
grants, will be hustled together out o
| the ci v. The sooner this is done the


quicker will we be rid of the Thousand


thieves that are nightly preying On th'
| community ty-Memphis Ledger.
Year: 1865

1.-two persons are to occupy a


bed rood during Il night, let them
step upon weighing scales as they
retire, and then again in the morn
Ing, and they will find their actual


wight at Last a apoard less in the
morning. : Frequently there vii
be loss OF two Or more pounds,
and the average loss throughout
the year will be more than one


pound. That is. eirfipg the night
there is loss ota pound OF matter
which has gone off from the bodies,
partly from the lhhgs, and partly
through the pores OF the skin. The
escaped material is carbonic acid
and decaycd animal matter or poi.
sonous exhalations. This is diff,
fused through the air, ana in part
absorbed by The bedclothes. Ii a
single ounce of cotton or wool be
burned in room it will 50 c,m.
pletely saturate the air with smoke
that one can hardlybreathe, though
there can be but oGe ounce OF for,
eign matter in tho air. II an ounce
of cotton be burnel every half
hour during the night, the air will
he kept continually saturated with
smoke, unless there he an cpcn
door or window for it to escape
Now the sixteen ounces of smoke
thus formed is far less poisonous
than the sixteen ounces OF exhaia'
tioI.s from Tho luneA&nd hodies OF
the two persons who have lost a
p-una In weight dH"ing the oigh'


hours Of Sleeping; for, while the
dry smoke is mainly taken into the
lungs, the damp odors from the
body are absorbed both into the
lungs and into the pores Of the
whole body. Need moro be said
to show the Importance of having
bedrooms well ventilated, and Of
thoroughly airing the sheets and
coverlids and mattresses ia the
morning. before packing them up
in the form of a neatly made bed?
Year: 1865

A few days ago, the police of New York
made descent upon an establishment in
that city, and captured large amount Of
counterfeit currency, together with the dies
and material used in its manufacture


There is great quantity of this currency
in circulation in the United States, which
is attributable to the fact that many of our
citizens, thoughtlessly aid those engaged
in its manufacture, by passing and receiving
the bogus notes. We are told that some
merchants in the course of business,
receive them in payment for their goods,
knowing them to be spurious, and give
them out again in change to their Gus
toners. By this practice they have been
brought into general use Often have we
heard of persons presenting counterfeit
notes to storekeepers, with the remark
that they know them to be worthless,
but ask the merchant if he will not be
able to pass them again. Such acts are
both morally and criminally wrong, and
the perpetrators are equally eulpable with
the maker, and liable to the same punish


ment, if convicted. He who wilfullv and
knowingly palms off spurious note onI
another, violates the law just as much AS
the one who screens a thief or aids him
in the disposal of his dishonest or ill
gotten gain. They have thereby general.
lied the circulation OF this currency
to such degree, as to render it al
most impossible for the great mass of our
people to distinguish the good from the
bad. The consequence will be that at
some4uture time when gold and silver are
put in circulation, that the community att
large will lose heavily by the operation


Every cents worth Of these notes put intoI
circulation onl y serves to make the matter
worse If our merchants would refuse toI
receive them in payment for their goods.


or our people in return to accept them as


change, it would stop the issue in n short
time, and although it would be attended
with some loss, it wonld be nothing in com


parison with what it will be if no measures ofI
this kind are taken. All should make
themselves acquainted with the appear.
Year: 1865

CELEBRATION OF THE GREAT NATIONAL RELIGIOUS


OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF ARMY OFFICERS.


The San Salvador papers Of the 18th OF August con-
full the celebration Of the Feast OF San
Salvador-the national religious holiday Of the republic.
A report has been made To the government showing
that though fifteen thousand persons participated in the
festivities there not the slightest accident to record
The feature Of the day was procession, in which was
representation OF the TRANSPORTATION immense
hcle which passed through the streets Of the capital
In the evening there private and public balls, but
the rain prevented an expected illumination


number OF the generals and army officers who
the during the troubles OF 1858 have
received therefrom the Cross Of Honor.
Year: 1865




FORTRESS MONROE, Sept Z, 1896


PREPARATIONS DAvs TRIAL
Rumors "a to the trial Of JEFF Davis still continue In
circulation with changes time and place. a. marked
and divers as Of the weather In s most variable
phases The latest rumor rather revival Of one set
saoat some time since and mentioned in my correspond
ence at the time is that he to be tried here, and that
proper quarters being arranged for the purpose in
Carroll Hall II is said that he s to be removed
from the cascmate he occupies and given place In
the building named. All this Of course Is rumor
A story has been going the rounds that he
WAS TO have had assigned him for occupany
the quarters occupied ny the telegraph department
no that there may be something after all IN this idea oil
chanQisg his location Meantime his health continues
good, and he keeps up his daily outdoor walks, and
there Is abatement In the privileges allowed him and
the other state prisoners who also are In the enjoyment
Of good health.


ARRIVAL HILTON HEAD.


The steamer Triton arrived to-day from Hilton Head.
She brings a number Of convaescents aud detachments
from various regiments their way TO their respective
homes No later news OF importance by this arrival
Year: 1865

Will you be kind enough TO call the attention Of our
government TO the blockade the pUts Of the Domni
can republic by Spains The annexation Of the island
to spain has been acknowledged by The govern
lnent Washington II is therefore hardly probable
that inefficient blockade m IL exists now, can be
acknowledged Our Custom House permits clearances,
that guarantee for the protection Of The flag ia
case OF meeting u Spanish man of-warY And If trade
with the island be lawfully recommended why it
not brought to public knowedgeY


II may interest you TO hear that Mr. Hennecken, the
Vice President Of the Pentel government, died San
Cristobal rec entity A CONSTANT READER.