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Year: 1868

Arkansas in spite Of the Preident's
veto. is admitted again into the Union,
aud is among the first Of our erring
States to return to her allegiance.--
They are rapidly coming back, and
soon the cry Of the COpperheads
about the "ten States uurepresented," "
will be at an end, and the loyal re-
construction policy of Congress will
have prevailed against the obstruc-
tions Of ANDREW JOHNSON and the
Democratic party. tits matter OF
eoDgratulation not only to the party
but the country. With loyalty as a
basis Of representation, We cannot
bat have a season Of unsurpassed
prosperity to the country
Year: 1868

All the prominent rebels of the
South, who have tho means, are
preparing to attend the Democratic
convention on the 4th of July
What a pity it would be if the Is
land of Manhattan would happen to
sink with all that precious freight
aboard Of her
Year: 1868

We would advise a most thorough
disinfecting, by the New York
Board of Health, during the sitting
of the Democratic convention in
that city, especially if "dirty shirt
Dean and Brick POmerOy are among
the representatives of the "great
unwashed7 at that time. q ~
Year: 1868

THE Memphis Post remarks pithly that about
the doors of every corner grocery in the country
towns in that region may he found half a score
of white men, smoking cob pipes and demand
ing vehemently Where the devil shall we get
labor to raise our cotton ?"
Year: 1868

ADJOINING THE OCCIDENTAL HOTEL,
Where he will be in attendance daily administer the
wants of all those who may require his services.


1t is impossible here to mention all the diseases with which
he is familiar perhaps will not be Of place. The
most formidable, the destructive mankind is Self
Abuse The brain being the Of the disease the whole
system suffers in consequence will here
of the symptoms that those afflicted be able to form
opinion in regard their complaints and seek advice
time, thereby saving themselves world of suffering: Nerv-
debility loss Of memory pain in the limbs and back
paptaton Of the heart trembling Of the limbs headache
and aversion to genial society," especially that of females
There great many but these sufficient, and
should you be suffering from of them call at
DIR. T0ZER, and he will you in short time without
any interruption in business state by let
and there will be occasion for calling at the Office.


STRUCTURE OF THE URETHRA
Is another formidable enemy health Send for of my
circulars that disease and inform yourselves of its terri
BILE results. The worst cured in few days.


Dr. TOZER has for the last forty given his entire
attention to the Treatment and Cure OF Special
Complaints, and will q in all
His remedies purely vegetable and positive in their
tion. His medicines for all FEMALE COMPLAINTS have
with the greatest


preston of the monthly sickness Price, S. per box-to be
had at the Office only Sent by Mail Express receipt
of price.


AS-AIl letters strictly confidential. Address, through
mail express,
Year: 1868

ARREST. T.--Some FIVE weeks since one
4. L. Preston Of Moretown, hired a horse
and sleigh Of B. l.. Perry, landlord at that
place to be gone five or six days. The
time expired but Preston did not return.
Some ten days ago he wrote to his wife
that he had been travelling in Canada,
and on certain day he overlook a Ger
man pedlar who had been shot and was
sinking under exhaustion from his wounds
He said he took the pedlar on to his
sleigh, who died while he was carrying
him along, and he was Immediately ar
rested for murder and lodged in Sher
brooke Jail. This letter was mailed a
Island Pond. Mrs Preston showed tn,
letter to Perry who Immediately started
in pursuit and in due time captured Pres
ton and the team at Bethel, Maine. Oh
Monday night last. the landlord with hi
team and prisoner stopped at Walker
Hotel, Lyndon Centre, on their way +
Moretown to explain the affair to the off'
GERS of the law.
Year: 1868

SIR Yonr note of this day has been re.
feivo1, stating that public consideration,
Of a high character constrain You to say
my resignation as Secretary Of War will
he accepted" In reply, have the honol
70 say that public considerations Of a higl
character, which alone have induced IN,
to continue at the head of this Depart
ment sonstrain me not to resign the ofiie
OF Secretary OF War before the next meet
ing Of Congress.
Year: 1868

GAINESVILLE, Texas, July H. lsJs.
Lie,d CHARLES A. VERNON, a. A. A. General


| have the honor to report that last evening,
after sundOwn, desperate named Ben Griffith entered
our town. armed with three siX-shooters and double
barreled shotgun He known by several OF the cti
zens, TO whom he spoke informing them that his party
manning Baker, Bickersta aud Engs were just at the
edge Of the town. and that he waiting for them to
come up He kept his gun cooked and the burt on his
thigh said that he had been below and killed two Yankees
and four negroes and burned train of cOmmssary stores
and tha they were to assemble ~ In all. and proceed
West and destroy train that It's way TO tho
and entered grocery kept by Whtsett, filed can
teen WIN whisky aud mQnpted laying that anybody
wanted MIN to come on and they would find him ON the
Boston road After he left freedman In ana said
he had been robbed OF his pistol aud the just passed
was e one Immediately ordered the Shef1H 10 sum
M9n posse, and arrest the man. only three responded
sauded my horse, and started. Two OF them Kept
up the third could not get his mule into run We over
TOOK hn mile from tow and came upon hi Just as he
was In the act Of shooting the freed boy whom he met in
the road, He had his gun down within few feet OF
the boys head; we dsmOnnted and run up within
~ yards OF him and shouted HaltW He turned
ms mead and put spurs 20 his horse. ordered
the Two men 10 fire. which they did simultaneously and
ne gave spring from his saddle aud when he reached
the ground he was dead had him deoenty inferred as
ne had sufficient funds 20 pay for it The gang have
sworn that shall not live, and town Is divided IN
sentiment, do not know who my friends are DO not
want TO retreat, but 20 stay alone with not soldier
Wlthn 90 miles, and every second man syinpathZer
WIN the despeadOes Is, 20 say the least very unpleasant
nave ms horse and equipments gun aud pistols what
Sha' 10 Win thenit Please give me decided order III
Year: 1868

IN the village of W, lived a man who had
once been Judge Of the county and well
known all over it by the name Of Judge l..
lie kept store and saw mill and was always
sure 10 have the best Of a bargain on bis side,
hy whi-h means he had gained an ample
flrlane; and some did not hesitate to call
hiH tile biggest rascal in the world. He
was very conccited, withal, and used to brag
of his business capacity, when any one was
near TO listen One rainy day as quite a
number were seated around the store, he
began as usual, to tell Of his great bargains,
aud at last wound up With the expression:


Nobody has ever cheated me, nor they
ean't neither


Judge said an old man Of the company,
i ge cheated you more than you ever did
me-


How SO, said the Judge.


you viii promise YOU won go to law
bout it. nor do anything, III tell you; or
else won't, you re To much ofa law charac-
ter for me- Let > hear cried half adozen
voices at once


Ill promise, said the Judge, and treat
in the bargain if you have,


We'll do you remember that wagon you
i0hbcd me Off


Il never robbed you of any wagon ! only
gof the best Of the bargain, said the Judge.


Wen. / made up my mind to have ii
back. and


You never did interrupted the cute
Judge.


'Ycs I dill. and interest too.


'H0w 50 d? tkuudcred the now enragcd
.Jurlre.


We'll. you see, Judge sold you one day
very nice pine log, and bargained with you
tor a lot more Well, that log stole of
your pile down by the mill the night before,
and the next day sold it to you. The next
night drew it back home, aud sold 1t to
you The next day, and so ! kept on until
you had bought your own log Of me twenty
seven tunes


That'ta lie exclaimed the iniuriated
Judge, running to his book and examining
his Jog accounts; 'yOu never sold ME twenty
seven logs of the same measurement.


! know it, said the vcnder I'D logs, by
drawing ii back and forth, the end wore on,
and as it wore, / kept cutting the end Oft,
until it was only ten feetlong Just fourteen
feet shorter than it was the first time l
brought it. aud when IL got so short, | drew
it home again and worked tup into shingles,
aud the next week you bought The shingles,
and concluded had got the worth OF my
wagon back-and slowed away in my pocket
book


The exclamation Of theJudge was drowned
in the shouts of the bystanders, and the log
drawer found the door without the promised
treat
Year: 1868


The fisherman wodes in the snrgesi


The sailor sails over the soasi
The soldier steps brayely TO battle;


The woodman lays axe to the trees.
They are each Of the breed o the heroes,
The manhood attempted in strife:
Strong hands that go lightly to labor,
True hearts that take comfort in strife.
In each is the seed to replenish


The world with the yigoF it needs
The centre of honest affections,


The impulse to generous deeds.
But the shark drinks the blood of the fisher;
The sailor is dropped in the sea;
The soldier lies cold by his cannon;
The woodman is crushed by his tree.
Each prodigal life that is wasted
IN many achievements unseen,
But lengthens the days of the coward
And strengthens the crafty and mean.
The blood Of the noble is layshed
That the selfish profit may find;
God sees the lives that are squandered
Aud we to His wisdom are blind


EASILY, HARDLY.
Alas! how easily things go wrong
a sigh too much, or a kiss too long,
And there follows mist and weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.

Alas how hardly things go right
lis hard to watch in summer night,
For the sigh will come, aud the kiss will stay,
And the summer night is winter day.
Year: 1868

Gail Hamilton gives the following moth


erly advice: Be content to strive for moth
ing less than all a woman may become.
Cease to think that pettiness, and friyoity,
and insipidiiy are feminine accomplish
ment,; cease to think it beautiful, grace
inI, a womanly thing to be fool. Strength.
en- the mind by study, aud the body by ex


ercise. Store your memory with facts, and
cultivate your Judgment by reasoning. Fit
yourself for the place which you select or
accept BE wife, mother. teacher, nurse,
what you viii, bat be your best; and he al
ways a woman first; be always higher than
your work Remember always that you
must be before you can d. Scorn to contract
your powers TO the narrow circle of your per-
sona contact, but comprehend with yonrin-
tercst, all that touches welfare. Consider
nothing human as foreign to you. Make
home, so far as you have or can have
power, centre OF com l0it indeed but of
light, Of intelligence, of humanity as well,
and count the whole country your home
and the whole world your country. l'is-
dain to affect OF to cherish an ignorant in
uoccncc, but wear an aggressive and all
purity Remember that the
perfect is Bobly planned; not only to warm
and comfort, but to command Learn to
think nobly, to love nobly, TO live nobly,
and demand aud enforce BY your own no
bilifr, from aii who seek Senr friendship
ar campanionshipi the Same outstretcl for
noble thought, and love and life.
Year: 1868

The following eloquent paper on Time, is,
we believe from the pen of Paulding


/ saw temple reared by the hand Of
man, standing with its pinnacle in the dis
tant plain. The streams beat about it, the
God of nature hurled his thunderbolt
against it, yet it stood firm as adamant.
Revelry was in The halls the gay the hap
py, the youEg, the beautiful were there. |
returned-and 10 the temple was no more.
Its high walls lay in scattered ruin moss
and grass grew rankly there; and at the
midnight hour the owls long cry added to
the deep solitude. The young and gay
who lad revelled there had passed away.


saw child rejoicing in his youth, the
idol Of his mother and the pride of his
father. | returned-and that child had
become old Trembling with the weight
of years, he stood the last of his generation,
a stranger amid the desolation around him.


| saw an old oak standing in all its pride
upon the mountain; the birds were carol
ing in its boughs l returned-and the
oak was leafess aud sapless; the winds
were playing at their pastimes through its
branches


WHO is this Destroyer" said [ to my
guardian angel.


I'll is Time, said he "When the morn
ing stars sung together for joy over the new
made world, he commenced his course
and when he had destroyed all that is beau
tiful on the earth, plucked the sun from his
sphere, yelled the moon in blood, yea,
when he shall have rolled the heavens and
earth away as a scroll, then shall an angel
from the throne of God come forth, and
with one foot upon the sea and one upon
the land, lift up his hand toward heaven
and swear, by Heavens Eternal, Time is,
Time was. but Time shall be no longer
Year: 1868

ENCOURAGE THE YOUNG. G.--John Ruskin
has said. if young man deserve praise, be
sure you give it him, else you do not only
run chance Of driving him from the right
road by want of encouragement, but you
deprive yourself of the happiest privilege
you viii ever have Of rewarding his labor.
For Il is only the young who can receive
much reward from mems praise; the old,
when they are great, get too far beyond and
above you 10 care what you think Of them.
You may urge them with sympathy, and
surround them with acclamation, but they
will doubt your pleasure and despise your
praise. You might have chcered them in
their race through the asphodel meadows
of their youth; you might have brought the
proud, bright scarlet to their faces, If you
had but cried once, Well done as they
dashed up to the first goal Of their early
ambition But now their pleasure is in
memory, and their ambition is in heaven.
They can be kind to you; you can never
more be kind to them.
Year: 1868

RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS.
just wealth enough to keep away
OF want the direful scene;
just health enough to gid the day,
And made life's course serene;
Virtue enough to acr that part
Which is devoid of sin;
Courage enough to ask the heart
Art thou secure within 2'
Year: 1868

A COOP QAUGHTER.-Th are other
ministers of love more conspicuous than
she, but none in which gentler, lovelier
spirit dwells, and none to which the
hearts warm requitals more joyfully re-
spond. She is the steady light of her
fathers house. Her ideal is indissolubly
connected with that of his freside. She
is his morning sunlight and evening star
The grace, vivacity, and tenderness oi
her sex, have their place in the mighty
sway which she holds over his spirit
She is the pride and ornament of hi'
hospitality, and the gentle nurse in hi'
sickness.
Year: 1868

complish his purpose of mercy In saving
sinners by the death of Christ. In these
cases, where we see cruel suferings lntiict-
ed by wicked men, yet overruled by God
and bringing about great good; let us


learn in these providences that are most
dark and inscrutable to us, to rejoice that
% the Lord reigns," and will in the end
show that what is now to us short sighted
creatures dark and mysterious, is wise and
good, and will promote the glory of God,
advance the interest of the Church, and
make his people more humble and heav-
enly minded.


In times of calamity there are some
things we can do, and duty requires us
to be difgent and faithful. We must in
quire what in our. circumstances and
with our means we can do for our Sa-
viour's cause. In ncts of beneyolence a
willing mind is the chief thing. LIS ac-
cording to what man hath, and not
what he hath not. No doubt the widows
mite was as acceptable to God as the
large donations of the wealthy. Power
ty, unless induced by crime, is no sin.
Jesus, who had power to select any con-
dition, chose that of poverty. 1t is
doubtless more free from temptation than
that of wealth. If God should reduce
any one from wealth to mediocrity, we
should thank him; for that is the condi-
ton for which Agur prayed, "Give me
neither poverty nor riches" If we are
poor in this worlds goods, but rich in
faith, heirs of the heavenly inheritance,
We may well rejoice. We then have the
good part that shall never be taken
awav.


Sometimes unbelef and distrust
spring up and trouble us, notwithstand-
ing the many promises made for our
comfort. When we are called to live by
faith and not by sight, when we do not
see how our wants are to be supplied, we
are troubled. We can trust God when
the granary is full, not when it is empty.
1t is well then to read-Matt vi: 25-
81, and learn that if God feeds the birds,
ond gives to flowers their beauty and per-
fume, he will not neglect his children.
@ for the faith of Habakkuk Gal
though the fig tree shall not blossom,
neither shall fruit be on the vines; the
labor of the olive shall fail, and the
fields shall yield no meat; the flock
shall be cut off from the fold, and there
shall be no herd in the stalls; yet l will
rejoice in the Lord. will joy in the God
of my salvation" Say now, is there
not reason why you should cast away
your sad and gloomy fears, and rejoice
in the Lord?


l. "The Lord reigns.' He rules
over the seasons, over beasts, men and
devils; and we can conceive of none in
whom We can so safely confde to rule
over all. Then joyfully say, "thy
will be done"


2. 1t IS rain to trouble yourself about
things you cannot control God will do
his pleasure in heaven, earth and hell
and what ne does is right and best.
Then believe it is all for the best.


3. If you want to be as happy as a
creature can be on earth, first receive
Jesus Christ to be your Teacher, your
Priest, on whose sacrifice and interces-
sion you rely for salvation and your
King, TO rule in you and over you, and
subdue all his and your enemies. Then
believe with unshaken confidence all his
promises, and you will have that peace
and Joy the world cannot give.
Year: 1868

The standing Committee to whom was
referred the Report of the Executive
Committee of Foreign Missions submit
to the consideration of the Assembly the
following minute -


The Report of the Executive Commit
tee presents in a clear and impressive
light, matters of such vital interest in
volving the obligation of all the members
of our churches, that it is deemed highly
important to bring the facts and appeals
therein set forth, as far as possible, to
the attentive consideration of all; there
fore


Resolved, 1. That the editors of the
religious newspapers which find their pa
tronage among our own people, be re-
quested to publish this report entire and
to commend it to the special attention of
all their readers.


The successful maintenance of the mis-
sions now established, with such enlarge
ment as is demanded, requires the culti-
vation of an intelligent interest in the
operations of the Executive Committee,
and habitual spirit of prayer and libe-
rality among our people; therefore


Reso1ved, 2. That Monthly Concerts
of Prayer for Foreign Missions should
be heartily sustained in all our churches,
where they have been established, and
should commence where they do not ex
list; and that regular collections should
be taken up at such meetings in addition
to the annual collection for this object,
as heretofore advised and urged by the
Assembly.


The training of our children and youth
to habits of Christian benevolence, and
to familiar acquaintance with the mis-
sionary operations of our church, is a
matter of high Importance to them and
to the cause of Christ; therefore


Resolued, That the superintendents
and teachers of our Sabbath Schools in
cooperation with the pastor, be urged to
bring the subject of Foreign Missions
before their respective schools and classes
frequently, and to invite regular monthly
offerings for this cause.


1t is made plain by the Report of the
Executive Committee that the amount OF
funds needed to sustain our missionaries
now in the field requires the contribution
from each member of our communion
assuming the statistics of membership
to be substantially correct) of not more
than fifty cents per annum. This, it is
true, is but one of the objects of Chris
tian benevolence, calling for support
but it is obvious that our operations in
this department of Christian duty ought
to be safely enlarged by strengthening
the positions now occupied and the es
tablishment of new missions as doors
may be opened and men are found t.
enter upon the work, without interfering
with other important interests or impos
ing unreasonable burdens upon our peo
ple;-therefore,


ResOlved 4. That this Assembly halls
with grateful satisfaction the announce
ment of the Executive Committee, tina
we have now eight young men, of gooc
report in respect of character and attain
ments, who have devoted themselves tt
the Foreign Missionary work, and hav
offered themselves to the service of ou
Board: and we commend these brethrel
to the prayers and support of our peo
pie.


The Committee nominate the followin
Year: 1868

[PUBLIc-No. 80.


An Act to create an additional land


district in the State Of Minnesota.


Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the President of the
United States be, and he is hereby,
authorized to establish an additional
land district in the State of Minneso-
to, embracing all that part of the
present land district which lies north
of township number one hundred and
twenty-four north, and west of range
number thirty five, west of the fifth
principal meridian, and to fix, from
time to time, the boundaries thereof,
which district shall be named after
the place at which the Office shall
first be established; and the Presi-
dent shall have power to fix, from
time to time, the location for the Office
for such district.


Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That the President is hereby author
lied to appoint, by and with the ad-
wise and consent of the Senate, a reg
lister and receiver for said land dis
trict, who shall be required to reside
at the site of the land Office for said
district, who shall be subject TO the
same laws and responsibilities, and
whose compensation respectively shall
be the same as that now allowed by
law to other land officers in said
State.


Approved July 25, 1868.