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Year: 1868

his winding stair Of rope, carrying big
tin case Of powder, r be put into the
seam Of the rock, 81 the electric wire
by which It was to - fired. He looked
like an Esquimaux merman going to
his days work with = dinner pail under
his arm. III . sarpIingly short time
he stood again on sAPck, dripping and
smiling, and the v6asd was moving Oh
a little, to he out o. thc way Of the ex-
plosion, We held, pr breath. I. for
one, own that ! thosght w were quite
too near. All! II 10 - over! Il was on.
ly small blast; tAAt broad beautiful
sheaf Of silver foam which burst sudden
ly between ~ and .ths sun was only six
or seven feet high. md our vessel d d
not rock. s@'s


THIS was the end u what ws wess to
see. After We had gone would begin
TIE divers solid work; to 81 down, and
stay down for m hour and half at a
time, putting iron clamps lound the
pieces Of loosened rock, and fastening z
them to the ropes, by which q putting
little steam engine on the deck Of the
vessel hoists them out of the water.


In these hours what things he might
see, If he only could look with educated
eyes.


I shook the hand which the perch had
bitten. and said good bye to the diver.
l shall always DO sorry was SO stupid
that I did not ask him to bring me up a
bit Of some sort Of thing as memento
Of the bottom of Boston harbor.
Year: 1868

One Of the most grevious errors of
the past and present generations Of
the American farmer is the almost
Unsuitable thirst for more land. Not
one In thousand, though possessed
Of five times AZ many ncles as he
can profitably or successfully till. In
satisfied. While this Is perfeetly
natural it is at the same time very
unwise. The farmer recognizes his
wealth In the multiplication Of his
broad acres, just as the merchant or
banker does his in the multiplication
OF greenbacks. but the difference be-
tween the two is that the farmer may
add acre 10 acre without the ability
to render the investment productive,
while the merchant or banker has no
difficulty in finding profitable vest
ments FOR his greenhacks. Ii Is al
ways bad policy To buy more land.
and give manure In homeopathic
doses TO that already in possession.


The safe aud sure guide for tile
farmer 10 10 attempt the cultivation
OF no more acres ti,an he can keep i'm
perfect good heart and every days
experience demonstrates the fucts
that, with occasional exceptions. q
little farm well titled is more profita.
Bile I'm the end than large one in
differently cultivated. We once read
q story of Frenchman who had two
daughters. One of tbom marries.
aud received one-half OF the paternai
vineyard as her dowry. TO tile old
man 8 turprise, the half he had re-
served, receiving as much cultivation
as lie had formerly bestowed uno,,.
the whole, yielded as much az the
whole had. The second married.
and he gave her one half Of what he
had left, and still he had as many.
grapes from his remaining fourth .aJ
he used to get from the whole. There
IL . whole volume of practical truth
In this little anecdote. Its moral Ia.
attempt the cultivation OF no more
land than you can cultivate weIl.---
Journal of the Farm.
Year: 1868

There is tender pathos in the following
incident from the North British Mail. 1t
suggests the sad thought that many o
homo is made utterly desolate by a moth.
er's death, and that children arc often
ruined by the loss OF her comforting and re-
straining love.


Some gentlemen passing through the
beautiful village of Renton, in the Vale oI
Leven, Dunbar tonshire, about nine o'clock
at night, some time ago, had their attention
directed to dark object in the church.
yard. On going TO ascertain what it was,
they found boy of tender years lying fiat
on his face and apparently sound asleep
over recently made grave. Thinking it
not very safe bed they took him up, and
asked him how be came to be there. He
said that he was afraid to go home, as his
sister, with whom he resided, had threat
ened to beat him.


"And where does your sister live? "
asked one of the party.


"In Dumbarton," was tho answer.


"In Dunbar ton-nearly four miles off ;
and how came you to wander 80 far away
from homer"


~ just came" sobbed the poor little
fellow, because my mothers grave was
here.'


His mother had been buried there a short
time before, and his seeking a. refuge at
her grave in his sorrow was beautiful
touch Of nature in this chIId, who could
scarcely have yet learned to realize the
true character of that separation which
knows no reunion on earth. Thither had
he instinctly wandered to sob out his
sorrows, and to mosten with tears the
grave of one who had hitherto been his
natural protector, for he had evidently
cried himself to sleep.
Year: 1868

II is simple. When you rise in the mornI'
ing, form resolution to make the day n
happy one 10 fellow creature. 1t is easily
done. A lefl-oF garment to the man who
needs it; kind word to tho sorrowful
an encouraging expression to the starving
--trifles in themselves as light as air-will
do it, at least for twenty.four hours and
il you are young, depend upon it, it will
tell when You are old and if you are old,
rest assured it will send you gently down
The stream Of time to eternity. Look at
the result: You send one porson-only
one, happily through the day ;'that is, three
hundred aud sxty.fve in the course of tho
ycar-and supposing you 1.-Two forty years
only, after you commence this course, YOU
have mado fourteen thousand six hundred
human beings happy, at all events for q
time. Now, worthy reader, is this not sim.
pie We do not often indulge in moral
d,so, but this is so small pill that ono
needs no red currant jelly to disguise its


flavor, and it requires to be. taken but once
day, that we feel warranted in prescrib-
ing it. 1t is most excellent for digestion,
and a producer of pleasant slumber.
Year: 1868

The stones were brought from the oppo-
site side of the valley of the Nile, twelve
to fifteen miles distant The first work
was to build great causeway over which
to transport the stores. herOdotus says
one hundred thousand men were employed
on this part of the work. After this pre-
paratory work, came the loveling Of the
rocky foundation, the cutting out of the
subterraneau chambers, and tho elevation
of the huge masses of stone. This work,
the same writer says, occupied three hun
dred and sixty thousand men twenty years.
These men were drafted by the authority
ora tyrant sovereign. as men are drafted in
time of war each levy serving a number
of mouths, then others taking their plac es.
Year: 1868




Journal devoted TO ne interest and supremacy Of
the iohife man.
Terms, 10 advance, only 81. The cheapest
newspaper fn the State of Mississippi.


Having larger daily circulation than auy other
paper published In Mississippi, the publishers of
the pieksburg Weekly Time, arc determined to
have larger circulation for their Weekly than
any other journal in tho State can boast To Sc
cure this object and place the Weekly Times with.
in the reach Of the poorest In the land, we have
determined to reduce the price Of subscription to
ttco dollars per annum, invariably in advanced
This will make the Times the cheapest weekly
paper ever published in Mississippi, while for the
quality OF its contents, shall not shrink from
comparison with any other journal within the
limits Of the State:


We are satisfied that the friends OF the Times
will appreciate the motives which prompt us to
furnish good family newspaper at price which
can only prove remunerative by an immense sub
scripton, and therefore, take the liberty Of re-
questing every friend of the Rights and Liberties
OF the Southern people, TO act as our agent in OBJ
tanning subscriptions for, aud in sustaining manly
and Independent journal-a journal at all times
devoted to the best and most cherished interests C
the Southern people.


In politics, the Times will, as heretofore, be
democratic and dnti-rddicdt ia oil things. In the
future, as in the past, il will be the defiant and
relentless foe Of tyrants and tyranny.
The columns of the Times will be repiete with
general information, both foreign and domestic,
and the latest aud most interesting State aud sec
tional news will be carefully compiled. Now IL
the time to subscribe and secure large amount of
reading matter for the family circle to patron1e
4phfe mans paper and sustain home institution
Year: 1868

1T NARY oLEMMER AAEs.
We arc growing old together
There 10 silver In thy hair.
In the whIteness of my temples
Life hath loft Its lines Of care.
We are growing old together,
Thou art beautiful TO me
We are growing old together.
Am / beautiful TO thee1
We arc growing old together
When you held my plighted hand,
Life wore look Of splendor
Unseen on sea or land.
By the pain Of tho lamenting
That tho summer could not bring,
With the ripOnsss Of It's fruitage,
The brightness of the spring.
by the lovely hope wo buried,
BY the dying child VIC kissed,
! love thee best, my dearest
For what thy life hath missed.
We are growing old together:
When we drop the hody's veil,
The ono will wait the other
Within the silent pale.
Into the grand Forever
Together We will glide;
No power in the ages


Our being can divide.
We shall grow young together;
What poet ever sung
The rapture Of Immortais,
Who love, forever young!
Year: 1868

The more we see of the world, the
more we arc satisfied that simplicity Is as
inseparably tho companion of true great
ness. We never yet knew truly great
mana man who overstepped his fellow
men-who did not possess certain play
full, almost infantine simplicity. True
greatness never struts on stills, or plays
the king upon the stage.
Year: 1868

1t Is curious to notice the habits of diff
ferent nations in regard to beds. How
ever dress, food, manners, cooking, poll
tical conditions may vary in other coun-
tries, the beds differ as notably as any,
thing does. In Eastern nations the bed
is often nothing but u carpet, and is car
riea about and spread in any convenient
spot, the tired native lying down in his
clothes. We remember child who used
to be puzzled with those miracles of our
Saviour, who, on restoring an impotcnt
man, directed him to take up his bed and
walk-his idea of bed consisting in a
four post bedstead, with its palliasse, mat
tress, and feather bed besides blankets,
sheets and pillows. But even in very cold
counties the beds are closely allied to the
Eastern carpet. In taking furnished
house in Russia, on inquiring for the ser.
wants bedrooms and beds, which did not
appear in the inventory on our surveying
the apartments, it comes out that the Rus
sian servants are in the habit of lying any
wherein the passages, on the floors, on
the mats ut the room doors, or even on the
carpets in the sitting-rooms- as
near as possible to the stoves in the winter
season. The Emperor himself sleeps on a
leathern sofa, in sitting lying down
in dressing gown, but not removing his
under clothing. But in Russia the houses
are kept so warm by the system of stoves
through the walls, that much bed covering
is no more required in winter than during
the heats of summer. In Germany, the
construction of the beds gives one the i'm
preston that the Germans do not know
what it is to lie down The bedstcad is a
short wooden case; there is a mattrass ex-
tending from head to foot, but so formed
that at the halfway the upper end is made
to slope at an angle of considerable eleva-
ton, and upon this are two enormous
down pillows, which reach from the head
of the bed to halfway down to the feet !;
consequently the occupant of the bed lies
at an angle of at least forty-fve degrees,
and is nearly in sitting position at night.
In some parts of Germany there are no
blankets there is sheet to lie on, and an
other over it, which is tackled to q quilt
wadded with down; and this is the entire
covering, with the exception of sort Of
bed, thick cidcr-down quilt, but not
quilted, which is placed on the top, and
which, unless the sleeper is very quiet in
his sleep, is susuallv found on the floor in the
morning In hot weather there is no me-
dium either sheet is the only covering,
or one of these ovcr-warm eidcr-downs.
Year: 1868

THE YOUNG BRIDES DREAM.
The young bride she is dreaming,
All who that dream can tcll2
1t may be of some loved one
Ere falsehood broke the spell
1t may be of the bridegroom
Who watches by her side,
And deems she must he happy
BECAUSE she is bride.


Oh if that be her dreaming


May time ne er break the SPELL


But the tears flow in her slumber,


And who that dream can tellR
The young bride she is dreaming
OF the future, or the past?
But she'll wake, and smiles around hor
Like a ray of sunshine cast;
Her pride will keep her silent,
She may speak of other themes,
But her lips will never whisper
What she wept for in her dreams.


Oh if those dreams were happy


May time ne'er break the spell,


But the tears fell in her sulmber,


And who that dream can tell?
Year: 1868

such as are generally kept in country store.


respectfully invite the citizens of Odessa and
vicinity to call in, and examine my prices and
you will find that they will compare with the
lowest city prices.
Year: 1868

LoNesrREEr.-Longstreets pilgrim
age to the Jacobin party must have been
a good deal like man inwestern Penn
sylvania, who,inquired of boy wheth-
er heknew where Jake Kleinfelter lived.
The boy said he did. Says he "Can
you tell me? p (" Yes, sir" said the boy.
" Do you see our barn down there ;"
e Yes, says he" Go to that. About
three hundred yards beyond the barn
you will find lane. Take that lane
and follow along for about mile and q
quarter. Then you will come to a
branch. Go up the branch about a
quarter of mile, and then YOU will
come to a slippery elm log. You be
mighty keerfnl, stranger, about going
on that log; you may get into The
branch; and then you go on up until
you get to the brow of hill, and there
the roads prevaricate, and you take the
left hand road and keep that until YOU
get into a big plum thicket and when
you get there, why then-then-then,n
f" What then?' "Then, stranger, I'll
be burned if you amt lost -
Year: 1868

An advertising people are always
thrifty. The enterprise and energy
that prompt them to push forward in
the race and keep themselves and their
business before the eyes of the world
insure them against failure. 1t would
be difficult to point to single instant
of a great success in trade that has not
been won through the valuable medium
of the advertising columns of the press.
Our most famous houses in every branch
of business are those which have expen-
ded fortunes as advertisers, and persev-
cred until thoy have forced patronage
from the public, The American people
are beginning understand these truths,
Year: 1868

We have never ceased to urge upon


the colored people OF the South this idea
that their true interests ran on all


fours with the interests of the white
people of the South. The colored man
who thinks for a moment that the car
pet-baggers and scalawags have come
down here from the North out of pure
love for him and his race, and not to
line their own, dirty pockets with the
fruits of their stealings is, to speak
plainly, ga blasted fool Human ma
ture shows no example Of love like this.
There is but one instance of it on the
records of time, and that was given by
the Divine benevolence, which gave the
Son of God to purchase the forgiveness
Of world of souls. These scurvy scoun-
drels from the North, colored men, are
here to prey upon the whites and to
make tools ofyou?an the rascals new
er cease to laugh in each others faces
when they think what blind asses they
have found in the majority of your peo-
pie.


Forget not what we, have told you so
often that the white and the black. men
of the South have, in the end, to settle
this question of relations, political and
social, between them. When the scala
wags have filled their pockets with all
the plunder they can lay their thieving
hands on, you and we will be left to
make final settlement. And Just as
sure as you are born you have got to
meet us, face to face, in this matter,
with the scalavags counted out-count-
ed out they are obliged to be. If not
one way, another, for life is not pre-
cious enough to balance against the
stern determination of this people to
overthrow the usurpation and tyranny
of these intruding scoundrels and incen-
diaries.


Let the colored man stand aside un-
til this contest for the mastery Of this
land is settled. He can gain nothing,
but risk much and lose much by taking
a part in it. Stand aloof, black man,
and then join and make friends with
those who win.


The Southern people wish you well,
and they will be your friends if you
let them: But if you consort with their
enemies, you take your destiny with
them, and that is certain defeat. This
Southern land is ours and "by the
Eternal we mean to rule it.-Mobile
Register.
Year: 1868

We take the following editorial in ref
eronce 20 Mr.. Woodbridge, published in
the National Republican Of the 2Sth:


Hon I, Z. WooDBRtDGE.-We have
seen 1t stated in some Vermont paper that
there were Efforts being made in the dis
trfct now ably Represented in Congress by
the gentleman whose name stands at the
head of this article, to supplant him by
TIE nomination of some new man.


We allnde to this subject here and now
for a particular purpose, and not so much
on Mr.. Woodbridge's account for we
have exchanged no word with him. and
have no means of knowing whether he is
really desirous to be returned or not 1t
does seem to Us, howeyer-and this is the
point that we desire to make-that this
displacing of a thoroughly competent
and useful man. upon the ground that
somebody else, or some man in another
portion of the district wants, or is entitled
to the place, is neither Mise nor iudicious.
This notion is predicated upon the princi-
pie that offices are created for men and
not for the State, and that a wise, capable,
intelligent legislator must be turned
aside to make room for some new conner
because he desires the place. and thinks it
his turn, and is satisfied that it belongs
to his country.


We have watched Congress for many
years, and We state what we know, and
what both observation and experience has
taught us, that able and judicious legisla-
tors are not made in day.


Though we have selected Mr.. Wood
bridges name as the caption Of this arti-
Gle, we intended to discuss principle,
rather than to dwell upon the personal
and statesmanlike characteristics of the
man himself.


Mr.. Woodbridge has been in Congress
for several years, and oil the while has
been steadily rising, and now stands
among the foremost men in the House.
He has gained this position by his own
talents, worth, industry, and good sense
The loss of such man, in these times,
from the national halls Of legislation, can
be lily afforded, either by his district or
by the nation.


Mr. Woodbridge is very efficient and
useful member of the Judiciary Commit
tee, and also of other important commit.
tees. he is more oi a worker than speak.
er, though he sometimes addresses ths
House, but he never speaks unless be ha,
Year: 1868

something TO say, He is, as speaker,
always fluent, clear, and cQgcnt, not un.
frequently eloquent, and invariably COM
mands the attention Of the House. lie is
a sound Republican, wise and an expe-
rienoed legislator, and an honest man
We trust that his district will return him,
both for their own sake and the good Of
the country,
Year: 1868

LAMoILLE VALLEY RAILROAD - A
correspondent OF the Free Press says, in
reference to the Lamoille Valley Railroad :
Our project does not progress with the
rapidity that we would like; but we have
full faith in its ultimate success"
Year: 1868

his capacities. The court sug gested thai
perhaps it would be well for his nose to
point him to the workhouse, but Neal
jocosely remarked that the persuas sion Of all
he'i couldn't make MIN work, that ne nad
never labored with his hands and never
would, either through coaxing or driving.
His replies indicating that there was moth
ing particularly bad in his composition, he
was allowed to point his nose toward the
fullest liberty. His wits are equal to all
emergencies.
Year: 1868

SENT TO THE INSANE AsYLUM.--A poor
unfortunate woman was arraigned before
Recorder Gastinel yesterday morning upon
two charges, one of disturbing the peace,
and the other of being vagrant. But it was
soon discovered that the misfortunes of this
mundane sphere had wrought on her frail
intellect with such force as to cause her
reason to desert her, and she walked to and
fro in the court room making the mot pitt
fal pleadings for some lost friend, aud
alternately breaking out in spasmodic sobs
Of grief. She was sent to the Insane Asylum
for examination.
Year: 1868

To PRISONERS. Individuals who do not
wish to see their names in priHt in connec-
tion with their various offenses, should be
careful not to give cause in the first place
for public exposure. Whether guilty or in
nocent, it is the business of reporters to
give the public information. If man is
charged with crime and he is proved inno-
cent, no one can find objections to its
being so heralded. Likewise, if guilty, the
public should know it in order to avoid a
further repetition of his offenses.
Year: 1868

A REGULAR STAvER.-Jean Louis, dark
skinned Frenchman, let his angry passions
rise against Louis Jeager, at the corner of
Water and Washington streets, when he
placed his strength at one end of stave and
sent the other end fatly against Jeager's
poor flesh and blood to the disgust of the
innocent rarity, whose eyes bore dark wit


ness that the accusations were forcibly
true. The case will be settled before jury.
Year: 1868

He WAS CUT.-Perhaps the stateme,
made by this paper, some days ago, that tie
colored Democratic Rollins was not cut the
other night was incorrect. 1t is now known
that he was cut-by all his brother freed
man
Year: 1868

ONE OF THE REGuLARs.-Maria Foster is
not mild hammered woman, especially
toward Officer Finn and Mary Cockrill.
Her conduct on the corner of Second and
New Levee streets indicated her champion
of the prize ring and queen of termagants.
When the officer attempted to arrest her
she placed her muscles in fighting trim, but
that failing her she Iresorted to foul tricks
and began biting. Prints of her ivory are
now on the policeman's arms and limbs in
half dozen places; indeed, he found it
necessary to call in assistance in order to
take her to the stationhouse. She was drunk
all over, nor would she be quiet when in the
lookup. When arraigned, still in tantrums,
Recorder jackson gave her the delicate
privilege Of paying fine of S25 or becoming
a dweller in the Parish Prison for two
months. Not being flush of funds she retired
to the shades Of Congo sonare Hotel.
Year: 1868

Row IN THE FRENCH MARKET.-Yesterday
morning Leon Findlay, Spaniard, who
keeps stand in the French Market, tried
to create row with a colored man, which
operation came very near ending in serious
difficulty. A colored man named Alexander
bargained for the purchase of a plug of to-
bacco from Findlay for the sum of twenty
cents and handed him the money, when
Findlay refused to give the colored man
the tobacco he had just paid for and also
refused to give back the money. The col
ored man called a policeman, and as he did
SO Findlay struck him violent blow with
his fist on the shoulder. Some colored men
standing near by rushed to the rescue of
their friend, which also attracted crowd
of white men who commenced abusing the
colored men, and the colored men in turn
vented their spite upon the white men; but
just as the tide was about to turn and
general melee take place two officers COB.
bled the offending Spaniard and dispersed
the crowd. The accused was arraigned be.
fore Recorder Gastinel, who sent him before
the Criminal Court.