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Year: 1867

! sat in my room on a midnight dreary,
Counting the rain on the roof;


Hearing the roll Of the wheels aweary,


And the clank ofthc horses hoof,
Hearing the tall Of the distant feet
That echoed along on the sleeping street,
Ana the hollow sound of registering rhyme
Striking in with the clang of the midnight


chime.


l sat in my room while the gas burned low


On the dead white chamber WALL
While pale and haggard and full OF woe,


And strangely lank and tall,
a stony figure in silence stands
Watching the moves of my tremb ing hands;
Watching the drop of my weary eye,
With dim, grim smile at my every sigh.
/ Igazed at his figure in solemn awe


This spectre so CANT and gay,
Who came not bo the bolted door,


With his ghostly shadowy way.
saw that the rags of his shrunkcn form
Were dripping with wet from the midnight


storm;
| saw him shiver with pain and cold,
And histace looked prematurey old.
With a shiyer of dread in every vein,


spoke to this man of stone,
And every word he spoke again


Were the echoes Of my own:
''What dost thou hear in the midnight deep,
When the world is Tapped in Its sweetest


sleep :"
''What dost thou hear p he said again,
"Whcnthe pillow claims thy wearied brain?"
"What art thou thing of boodless life,


Whose presence isdeath and shame;
Whose every word is the stab of,a knife,


What is thy dreaded name ?"
Fora mon ent flashed his eyes in light,
When darkened again rs in the endless night;
Whoever shall know, shall never forget
The time when he wore the ch aims of Debt"
"Whocver shall once, ina thoughtless way,


Wear those golden CHAINS for me,
Shall labor and toll for many day


Before his limbs are free.
At first my chains are furnishing gold,
and worn in Il rich ana gorgeous fold
But they grow in weight, AMI they grow in


size,
With every speedy hour that iltes.
"ButI, with magic all my own,


Can change these chains of gold;
l can change them iron, and eat the bone,
And gnaw the flesh till the heat grows


old;
Till the clothes shall hang in a filthy shred;
Till the eyes shall look like the eyes OF the


dead
Till the arm shall die in its palscd pain,
And the blood run cold ia each icy vein.
"Who wearcth my chains shall know ro


hope,


Shall crave no length life;
Shalldie by drug, by knife and rope,


Or live in blood AMI strife"
With bis golden chain the Shape he drew


nigh;
| sprang to my feet with sbuddrrinr crv
There's nothing to hear but the swell O. M


scream--
And nothing to see but the mist of dream,
Year: 1867

NEGRO TESTIMONY IN SoUTu CAROLINA.


Judge Bryan. In his charge to the
Grand Jury of Charleston, few days
ago, said From the character of one
Of the witnesses to be brought before
you, you will realize the great change
IN our laws. The black man Is now q
competent witness, both by the laws Of
the United States and the Legislation OF
our own State, You will accept his tes-
timony and give that credit to it to
which the intelligence and character cf
the party enttle it. As far as color is
CONCERNED, there is no distinction as to
the competency Of testimony
Year: 1867




EuHoPL ARMNG "A foreign letter
says! In the matter OF expense you
may well imagine that the recent war
has entailed an immense outlay on the
part Of all European nations. l know
Of not single one that is not driving
it's works OF the utmost to supply COM
pletely new tirearm, Oh the breech-
loading principles, to all its soldiers, and
at great cost. American Inventions
Gre beng largely adopted, | am gratitied
to say, and their value will aid not a
little in deciding the coming contest
Speculation on events SO far ahead seems
almost useless; but ! submit the above as
those which the Russians are inclined to
indulge in DO not believe that we
shall escape war on the continent dur
ing the next three years. The Paris
Exposition will ensure quiet, so far as
France is concerned, for the next year,
If, indeed, the want of breech,loaGing
arms lid not prevent that empire from
entering into a contest if the Emperor
desired And the same weakness pre-
vents any European nation from ventur-
ing into a war, If we except Prussia and
she cannot yet undertake fight alone,
But this one obstacle will be removed
by the spring OF 1868, when the Oreech
loader or repeating rifle will be in the
hands Of every available soldier from
the Pyrenees TO the Arctic circle, and
meanwhile diplomatlsts are busy in ar-
ranging the men and sides on the great
chess board preparatory to the opening
o. a game, when thrones and crowns
are TO be lost TO the vanquished and
empire becomes the victor's PRICE,
Hence it is natural, in view of the colosa
sal contest which every one feels must
surely come sooner or later, that specu-
lation is rife as to what side will range
the giant combatants.
Year: 1867

1t is very often the case that beau
tiful woman is by her beauty alone made
the ugliest of her species beca Sc the
charms which should WOO the angels,
modesty and good humor, sometimes be
come the boon OF coquetry, affection and
l.ll..
Year: 1867

THESoUTH. w neither they will or won't the
people must face the fact that the prosperity of
the North is closely identified with that Of the
South 1t is time to see the truth that there
is something else to be done with the Southern
people besides this business of managing them
with reference to the future power of the Rad
ical party There are other interests at stake
than this one of gerrymandering the South to
give the radicals an increased vote in Congress
For no sensible man will dispute that the pres
ent management of the South is wholly con-
troled by the question of future power and
plunder for a party. The interests OF the
country are forgotten. The interests of the
Union are left out of view.


The absurdities which our present course
exhibits are disgrace to us. Why not have
some sympathy for the white man Why this
fundamental distinction which tends to con,
fct ofraces? Certainly the day OF wisdom and
of calmer thought and wiser action must be
before US. II is impossible that nation should
90 laundering on in this blind inconsistent
manner forever Our present policy at the
South distinguishing as it does white from
black, to the depreciation of the white and the
elevation Of the black over him, is disgrace
to civilization There has not been in many
years more serious state OF feeling than now
pervades our business circles. Ruin stares
men in the face, and its approach IS fastened
by the folly, the madness with which polltl-
clans are using the military position to accom-
plish their netarious purposes at the South
". Y Journal of Commerce. Es
Year: 1867

Penalty for lnteliiseuce-SaEesy of Jruo~-


In empannelling the jury at Bath for the
trial of the BowdOinham Bank robbers, the
candidates for the jury-box were exposed to
rigid examination, with view to challenging
any OF them for cause the right ofperempto-
ny challenge being confined to one by each
party. Mr.. B. T. Bicknell of Bath, one OF the
most upright, conscientious men in the city,
was peremptorily challenged by prisoners
counsel, though he had no interest in the Bank,
and was unconscious of having formed any
opinion of the guilt or innocence OF the prison.
ers. lie had read the newspaper account of
their preliminary examination at Bath, and
for this alone he seems to have been objection
able ..r - .-.a..4


One ofthe questions put to VIM. Adams was
Have you read the account of the trial at
Bath?"-in the Bath paper Answer-"I
hare not" He was sworn, of course, and the
reporter of the Lewiston Journal says "similar
questions were put to all the jurors and an
swered generally IN the same manner"


Only think Of it, One of the most unheard
of and brutal assaults was made upon Bank
officer in the night time; he was dragged from
his bed by masked ruffians, blindfolded, and
with pistol at his head compelled to 20 across
the street and open the Bank vault, when the
safe was rifled of money and government
bonds. The rufflans did not only this, but they
assaulted the cashiers wife and son-the latter
lad, whom they tied and gagged, while his
mother, with sick infant at her side, was
compelled to suffer her feet to be tied, was gag
ged, and had her hands tied though she beg
ged that they might be left free so she could
minister to her sick babe! individuals were
arrested on suspicion, examined in Bath-only
ten miles from the scene of the robbery and
outrage-and the case appearing strong against
them they were committed for full trial, and
yet twelve men are found, all living within
from two to fifteen miles of the Bank ,oho did
not feel interest enough an the matter to read the
report of the examination, and these men, in
preference to others more alive and intelligent


are thought peculiarly fitted for jurymenl-
The Bath Times, referring to the empannelling
of this jury, remarks:


| One thing was noticeable in the answers of
the Jurors as they were about to be empannell-
edyesterday They were each asked if they had
read IN the papers the account of the trial in
October, and il was astonishing how mrny peo-
| pie could be drawn from the jury boxes Of the
several towns, who had not read the papers.s


All that we feel inspired to add by way of
comment, may be summed up in the usual in
vocation in the old Bay State;-ifi in ignorance
only there is safety and if intelligence is to
! work disqualification for the jury-box, ther
| "God saue the Commonwealth !''ii 1 ati
Year: 1867

THE Democracy of Franklin county, this
State, have commenced the work Of Or
ganization in the right way. They have
Democratic clubs in every part of the coun-
tate the example of their brethren of Frank
lin county. .-SteubenviUe Gazette. ''
Year: 1867

KILLING OF PEALE.-A resident Of Buena
Vista Bar has letter from his brother in He
lena, who saw Farmer" Peale shot, which
gives the particulars of that late affair. 1t
appears that Peale and the man who shot him
had quarrel. The latter not being armed,
Peale said he would wait twenty minutes for
his antagonist to arm himself The man re-
turned in less time, and as Peale was walking
out of the saloon with pistol in his hand, shot
and instantly killed him
Year: 1867

Whether that is their real purpose or not,
the effect Of the teaching Of the extreme
Radical school of politicians Who are just
now clectionccring the negroes ut the South
will be to array the tSo races against each
other politically and socially. The blacks
are warped by these men not to trust the
whites in anything. They are reminded
that the whites are tieir old cncmics-that
if they could have had their way they would
still be holding them in slavery, and that
what they are striving after now is to de-
privc them of all the benefits Of their free
dom. A Massachusetts, emissary pamed
Hayward has been advising the negroes of
Richmond to take possession of the cars
and of whatever else they wish. In Ncw
Orleans, under the same kind of teaching,
they have driven the whites out of the street
cars. The men engaged in this infamous
attempt to STIR up u war Of races at the
South, are not likely to be influenced by
ANY fear or foresight of consequences: so it
is probably !qgite useless to warn them that
they are bringing sure destruction upon the
class whom they profess to aid. A war of
races can only end in disaster to the weaker;
and tic blacks are not half as numerous. as
the winter in the South York Times
(RddicaLj
Year: 1867

Bag The Nevada transcript tells the fol-
lowing story of fellow up in that region /:
"a boarder who had run behind in payment
Of his bill, being out of money and nearly
out of credit, determined to "play' the
landlord. lie had good wardrobe, Which
it would be difficult to remove in the ordi-
nary way without arousing the suspicious OF
the landlord, so he decided upon the strate-
gic plan as follows: His room was ir the
second story Of the hotel lie secured the
services of friend, who promised to go on
the outside and catch the clothing as it was
thrown out, aud tho delinquent hash-eater
expected to get away with his wardrobe.
At the appointed hour he went to his room,
and seeing, as he supposed, his friend below
ready to receive his property with open
arms, he threw out his fine coat, pants and
other articles Of dress, not one of which was
suffered to reach the ground. lie then
went down, aid was surprised when he dis
covered that he had been throwing all his
worldly goods into the arms Of the landlord. "
Year: 1867

rsS- A yo,sg lady rcsidiag in the vicinity
of Brooklyn complains that sbo became so
interested in young man who visited her
that while in his society she lost her diamond
ring and found brass ono on hcr finger in
stead and adds that if the ring is returned
she will ask no questions"
Year: 1867

Since the time when the Ancient Mariner
told the terrible tale of the cr,isc-ladcn ship,
with her crew Of gh4stly corpscs, no more
thrilling story Of the sea has been related
than that Of the whale ship Diana, that re-
Gently driftcd into one Of the Shetland Is
lands.


A year ago she left the Shotlands on u
whaling voyage to the Artic regions having
on board fifty men. From that time nothing
more was heard of her. The friends of those
OH board became alarmed. Money was
raised and premiums offered to the first YES
sci that would bring tidings of the missing
ship, but all to no avail. Hope was almost
abandoned.


On the 2lof April tho people near Rona's
Voc, in one of the Shetland Isles, were
startled at seeing ghastly wreck of a ship
sailing into the harbor. Battered and ice
crushed, sails and cordage cut away, boats
and spars cut up for fuel in the terrible Artic
winter, her decks covered with dead and dy-
ing, the long lost Diana sailed in like ship
from Dcadman's Land. Fifty men sailed
out of I.crwick in her on bright Maymorn-
ing last year. All of the fifty came back on
her on the ID Of April, this year; the same,
but hoy different.


Ten men, of whom the captain was one,
lay stittcncd corpscs on the deck tkirty-iivc
lay hclplcssly sick, and some dying, two re-
tanned sufficient strength to creep alolt, and
thcother three cruwed fecbly yabout the deck.
The ship was boarded by the islanderc, and,
as they climbed over the bulwayks, the mag
at the wheel fainting from excitement, one of
the sick died as he lay, his death being an
nouuced by the fellow occupant of bis berth
feebly moaning, Take away this deadman.'
On the bridge of the vessel lay the body of
the captain, as it had laid for four months,
with nine of his daad shipmatcs by his side,
all dcccn,ly laid out by those who soon ex
pcctcd to share their fate.


The survivors could not bear to sink the
bodies of their comrades into the sea, but
kept them so that when the last man died the
tated ship that had been their common home
should be their common tomb The surgeon
Of the ship worked faithfully to the last, but
cold, hunger, scurvy and dyscntery were too
much for him. The brave old Captain was
the first victim, ard died blessing his men.
Then the others fell, one by one, until the
ship vas tenartcd only by the dead and dy-
ing Ono night more at sca would have
left the Diana a floating coffin Not one of
the fifty would laye liycd to tell the ghastly
tale.
Year: 1867




ia better that the eountiJM I|o<l
the truth on this subject now than run
the risk of learning hereafter that an ira.
parable mistake has been made In the
plan aud execution Of the reconstruction
acts


need scarcely repeat that reeonstrue.
tion 10 bs in the spirit Of the acts Of Con
gress and TO be permanent must be the
act OF the people themselves after the
fullest and freest discussion. Congress
hns done wisely Ia enabling them TO make
this light by disfranohising the leading
rebels, and at least making II impossible
for them TO vote or hold office. Ii would
have been still better to enforce their per.
manent absence from the country. The
personal influence they might bring 10
bear If they were candidates themselves Il
thus greatly weakened. and they are fore
ed to discuss issues snd not appeal to per.
sopal feeling in their own favor. The
people are thus left freer than they ever
were before 10 choose their own cap didatcs,
and are forced to think for themselves, as
they have not hitherto done.


So far from being willing 10 see the
disiranchised Glasses relieved from poiti
cal disability, consider these disffanchis-
ing clauses of the acts to be among the
wisest and best considered provisions. II
they do no other good than to relieve the
people from the incubus Of the old politi-
cal leaders they have accomplished meal
culabie service. Ii is not doubted that
many worthy and now loyal men who
could be safely trusted arc disfranchised
by these clauses of the Military bills; but
such result was unavoidable, and can ia
their cases be easily remedied. II will NO
doubt be wise at an early day to relieve
ny name such of the disfranchised persons
% have hitherto proved, or shall prove by
their conduct in the course of the next
SIX months, that they are worthy Of it
while it was unavoidable that some good
men would be disfranchised by provision,
OF law against classes Of persons, the rene
dy Is easy. To undertake the converse o.
this-that is, to give general amnesty
and except individuals by name--woult
certainly result in leaving large numbers
enfraaehised who ought not to be. Sucf
improper persons might decide the COM
Year: 1867

A correspondent says: The robin de-
YOURS more fruit in the course Of the sea-
son than all our other birds put together
Most of the birds, however feed more or
less on insects which a7e injurious to fruit,
but not so with the robin. He lives until
strawberry time almost upon angle-worms
and the rest Of the season on fruit. From
Investigations undertaken by the Massa-
chusetts Pathological Society in 1865, il
appears that scarcely an insect injurious
to fruit was found in the craw of the robin
during tho entire season.
Year: 1867

Fun is by no means confined to
man. 1t is frequently asserted that
although naturalists have discovered
and named "the laughing jackass," "
"the laughing hyena," "the laughing
cockatoo," there is but one animal
which really INDUCES in "what you
might call laugh" and that is our
friend, the dog. The horse laugh is
a humbug; but the horse would laugh
if he could, for he is not deficient in
a sense Of the humorous. We have
known in our time, a sly old horse
which would slide up to a bystander
and put his hoof on the unfortunate
wight's foot in a manner which would
not soon be forgotten. 1t was a
common trick with him; but no pro-
le5sed practical joker could have done
it with his own sole, in a more mad
vertent manner. The comedy of
The World Mask" declares that a
"horse is a gentleman :" and this may
give US key to the gravity of our
Eclipses and DObbin, since a horse
laugh has long been regarded as any
thing but gentlemanly. Col. O'kel-
ly's parrot would scream for the dog
Rover until he obeyed her summons,
ana then frighten him away by yell
ling, "Get out! Small birds chase
each other about in play but, per-
haps, the conduct of the crane and
the trumpeter is the most extraordiu-
ary. The latter stands on one leg,
hops about in the most eccentric mar
ner, and throws somersaults. All
animals pretending violence il their
play, stop short of exercising it. The
dog takes the greatest prccaution not
to injure by his bite; and the Orang-
outang in wrestling with his keeper,
pretends to throw him, and makes
teints of biting him. Some animals
carry out in their pay the semblance
Of catching their prey; young cats,
for instance, leap after every small
and moving object, even to the leaves
Strewed by the autumn wind; they
crouch and steal forward, ready for
the spring, the body quivering, and
the tail vibrating with emotion, they
bound on the moving leaf, and again
spring forward to another. Benger
saw young jaguarS and cougars play
ing with round substances, like kit
tens. Birds of the magpie kind are
full of mischief. There is story OF


a tame magpie, that was seen in q
garden, gathering pebbles, and will
much solemnity al d studied air


buried them in hole made to receive
a post. After dropping each stone


it cried "currack y triumphantly, anC


set out for another. On examining
the spot, a poor toad was found ii


the hole, which the magpie was stonins


for his amusement. There is fun il


animals and birds. Indeed there is
-Meriden Recorder.
Year: 1867

SPICED VINEGAR FOR PICKLES
A correspondent of the Germantown
Telegraph gives the following direc-
tions:


For every pint of spiced vinegar
it is intended to make, take one ounce
of black pepper, half an ounce OF salt,
half an ounce of ginger, a quarter OF
an ounce of allspice, and If desired
to be hot, add also a quarter OF a
drachm of Cayenne, or few capsl-
Gums. Bruise the whole cf these
materials in mortar and put them
into a jar or wide mouthed green
glass bottle, tied over with a blad-
der. Place this in saucepan OF
water, and keep it hot tor three OF
four days, shaking it now and then
If the maker has an enamel sauce
pan, this operation can be facilitated
by simmering the ingredients togeth'
er. Spiced vinegar is used hot fol
waiWts and cold tor cabbage.
Year: 1867

On the bosom of the river
Where the sun unloosed his quiver,
Or the starlight streamed forever,


Sailed vessel light and free.
Morning dew-drops hung like mamma,
On the bright folds of her banner,
While the zephyr rose to fan her


Softly to the radiant sea.
At her prov pilot, beaming
In the flush of youth, stood dreaming,
And he was in glorious seeming,


Like an angel from above.
Through his hair the breezes sported,
And as on the wave he floated,
Oft that pilot, angel throated,


Warbled lays of hope and love.
Through those locks so brightly flowing
Buds of laurel bloom were blowing,
And his hands anon were throwing


Music from Tyre of gold.
Swiftly down the stream he glided,
Soft the purple waves divided,
And RAINBOW arch abided


On his canvas snowy fold.
Anxious hearts with fond devotion,
Watched him sailing to the ocean,
Praying that no wild commotion


Midst the elements might rise.
And he seemed some young Apollo
Charming summer winds to follow,
While the water flags carolla


Trembling to his music sighs.
But those purple waves enchanted
Rolled beside city haunted
By an awful spell, that daunted


Every conner to her shore.
Night shade rank the air encountered,
And pale marble statues numbered
Where the lotus-eaters sumbered


And awoke to life no more.
Then there rushed, with lightning quickness
Der his face a mortal sickness,
And the dew in fearful thickness


Gathered DER his temples fair.
And there swept a dying murmur
Through the lovely southern summer
As the beauteOus pilot conner


Perished by that city there.
Still rolls on the radiant river,
And the sun unbinds his quiver,
And the starlight streams forever


On its bosom as before.
But that vessels rainbow banner
Greets no more the gay savanna,
And that pilots lutte drops mamma


On the purple waves no more.
Year: 1867

A BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION one
should give me a dish of sand, and
say there were particles OF iron in it,
| might look for them with my eyes,
and search tor them with my clumsy
fingers, and be unable to detect them +,
but let me take magnet and sweep
it through, and how would it draw to
itself the most invisible particles by
the mere power of attractionl The
unthankful heart, like my finger IN
the sand, discovers no mercies, but
let the thankful heart sweep through
the day, and as the magnet finds the
iron, SO it will find in every hour some
heavenly blessings; only the iron in
Gods sand is gold. a
Year: 1867

a soul without prayer is like soli-
tary sheep without shepherd The
tempter sees it and lures it away into
bis suare. But the soul, in social
converse with God, is emptied of every
thing, is alone with God in the Spirit,
at rest and in silence giving place to
God and things divine, from which
alone result truth and strength and
life and salvation. How precious are
such times. How sweet the hour.
Year: 1867

SoFT SOAP FOR ALL.-For lieu
tenant call him captain; for mid
dle-aged lady, kiss her and say you
mistook her for her daughter; for a
young gentleman rising fifteen, ask
his opinion respecting the compara-
tive merits of razor; for young
ladies, if you know their color to be
natural, accuse them Of painting.