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Year: 1869

A large class of sheep farmers have made
two or three mistakes, and now threaten to
make another. They had not firmness
enough to 60 through a pinching time in
the wool business without becoming dis
couraged, and to greater or less degree
sacrificing their focks. Sheep that would
have long before been in good demand, and
brought renumerating price to those dis
posed to sell, have been reck klessly crowded
off at less than the value Of single fleece, to
be killed for their pelts with less than a
half half years growth of wool on them.
Secondly. Many that have retained fockS
have abandoned improvements on them
bred them, The past fall, to rams OF inferior
quality, or made the most irrational crosses.
Third. Not few farmers, we are told, in
certain portions of the country, are prepar-
ing to m kc another egreglous mistake
namely, to give their sheey an excessively
poor wintering, feeding them scantily and
compelling them in great measure to shift
for themselves.


The folly of this last procedure is fully
equal to that of either Of the others: and il
is barbarous as we'll as foolish. If sheep
are worth wintering, it is certainly more
profitable to give them full supply of food
and thus preserve their lives and obtain
their full amount of wool and lambs next
spring, than it is to 60 to halt the same
cost for keep and have half or more of the
sheep perish in March-lose half the value
of the wool and nearly the entire drop Of
lambs.
Year: 1869




Seven months ago etter came to the
care Of the Chief of Police OF this city, di
rected to Mr.. De Bose. 1t was marked
Private Business, and although no one
appeared to know the erson to whom it
was directed, it was suffered to occupy
nook ABOVE the mantel in the private Office
of the Chief of Police, and has been fire.
quently an object OF remark. But no in>
quiry was ever made of 1t, and SO the
months fed, and the old letter still remains
ed.


But on Tuesday it was concluded to open
it. 1t was accordingly DONE and one Of
the strangest incidents connected with the
war was revealed by it. The MIR, De Bose
to whom it was directed wss an officer in
the Confederate army. When he left
home, at the breaking out of bostilities, he
had wife and six children. During his
absence there died all but his youngest son
" lille, uere infant then. Shortly after
ward it was rumored the father had fallen
in battle. The little child, thus lest an Or
phan, homeless and unprotected, was tax
| en- in charge by faithful slave, who, upon
the opening of navigation, removed with
the child to ST. Louis Nurtured tendery
by this old negro and his wife, the boy
grew rapidly, and soon became an object of
Interest


He was put as messenger boy in store
in st. Louis by the old colored man, and
his history tod to the proprietor. Here it
seems the boy became dissatisfied, and Ole
day disappeared He was scar ched tor by
the negro, and finally found in a country
town in Illinois. The man brought him
back to his own house, and at the time this
letter was written (seveu months ago) he
was still with his faithful protector. But
| there is another thread to the story. The
father was net killed as reported, but TAX
en- prisoner and confined in Fort Delaware
to the end of the war. Immediately upon
his release he came home to New Orleans,
to lind his family dead, except his little son
and he a warderer on the face OF the earth
He applied to the Chief of Police of this
city, and he telegraphed all over the coun-
try tor information, and, among the rest,
the Chief of Police of St, Louis. An allu-
sion to the incident was made Ia the local
columns of the Republican of that city, and
the paragraph was seen by the lady who
wrote the letter alluded to- She new the
boy and the colorcd man with whom he re-
sdcd-had heard bis history, and she at
once wrote the letter referred to, to advise
the father of tho whereabouts of his child
By some strange fatality the letter has fail
ed to reach the person meant fer, and thus
the kindly intentions of the good lady haS Q
come to naught-New Orleans Rcayune
Year: 1869

- IF De Quincy were now alive (says an
English paper), he might write a compan>
ion essay to the one on Murder as one of
the Fine Arts-takiDg for his theme


Murder as Pastime, and illustrating it
by case which has just happened at Ge-
neva. A woman named JeanDeret, thirty
two years Of age, whose employment was
that of nursing the sick, has just been
found guilty Of nine murders. She was q
clever woman, with highly nervous and
eXcitable organization, and she seems to
have had no other motive for her crimes
than q morbid love of the excitement of
murder and grim delight in witnessing
the sufferings of her victims. The unusual
fatality of patients nursed by her drew the
doctors attention, and il was found that
SIZE gave them atropine, the active princi-
pie of belladonna. She did not deny that
she had given the narcotic, and of course
pleaded that she had done so to produce
sleep and lull restlessEess. But it is clear
that she knew the sleep she produced to be
that which knows no waking. Brought in
to the presence of the exhuned corpses of
victims, she showed no signs of horror, and
went through her trial with complete cool
ness and self-possession.


Yet the woman WAS no more monomanr-
ac. She had alb her faculties about her
and the only rational theory of her crime
was that she had taken to it for amuse-
ment. A kind OF gambling passion had
taken that direction and had gained ortire
mastery over her. The case is rare, but
by no means unique example of the possi>
bil,ty that all feeling may be lost IN one
osermasterrng passion. Fortunately, such
passion is generally some form of seif>in
dulsence, and it rarely happens that any
human be.ug Is sufficiently caious TO in
dulge passion for murder.
Year: 1869

THE HoLIDAYs.- Believing it to be the
bounden duty ofall good christians to proper
ly celebrate the present holidays, all hands
connected with the Plot Office, have en-
deavorcd TO do so, and hence there is lack
of reading matter in this issue. We will
make amends hereafter.
Year: 1869

HORRIBLE CONFESSIONAL Lafayette,
n. j., widow WHITE made confession
just previous to her death on Saturday
which horriod the town. Being a mems
Der Of the Methodist Church, she sent for
some of her fellow members to attend her
in her dying hour, and to them she con-
fessed that about seven years ago she poi-
soned her infant child, which died, and a
year afterwards she administered poison to
her husbands father, who died also. Later
still, on the return Of her husband from the
army, she dealt out to him also deadly
poison. The woman had borne a good
character. The only reason assigned for
making this dying confession, was desire
to rid her conscience of this load of crime
Prior to and up to the time of her decease
she was perfectly sane.
Year: 1869

A transcendental preacher took for his
text "Feed my lambs" A plain farmer
very quantity remarked to him on coming
out OF the church, "a very good text, sir;
but you should take care not to put the
hay so high in the rack that the lambs
can't reach it,"
Year: 1869

A Connecticut editor fell on an icy
sidewalk last week He did not use Sun
parliamentary language" as some would
have done, but bit his lips, rubbed down
the bruises, and while benevolent smile
radiated his countenauce, remarked ::
eve don't cherish any i'll will but for
light and entertaining reading matter, re-
commend to Us the obituary Of the man
who owns this sidewalk"
Year: 1869

CUREFoR Half drachm
of sal ammonia In one ounce of camphor
water to be taken a teaspoonful at dose,
aud the dose to be repeated several times,
at intervals of FIVE minutes if the pain he
not relieved at once.
Year: 1869

An old fellow of the ultra inquisitive
order asked little Girl on board the train
who was sitting by her mother, as to her
name, destination, ect After learning she
was going to Philadelphia, he asked,
''What motive is taking you thither, nay
dear p 81 believe they call it the Loco
motive, Sir, was the Innocent reply.


The intrusive stranger" was extin-
gished.
Year: 1869

BEAUTY IN UGLINEss.-A beautiful
face is one of Gods beautiful works but
He has made more beautiful things. We
shall see, il may be in our travel to.mor.
row-you or I-some angular faced wo-
man Of youthful but uncertain age, in
gold-bowed glasses, perhaps, and shall
say at the first cruel glance, (you or u
|"Good gracious what woman to live
with r An old gentleman her attendant,
goes haltingly TO the place beside her /,
and there is such touching and delicate
attention on her part to every want of his
such grace of action-such tender, ea.
ger, yet not oficious or presuming watch.
fulness-that you cannot keep your eyes
from her, ugly though she be; and the
face of the old gentleman grows SO radiant
as it turns toward her, and you perceive
him to be under some abiding charm, as
her low musical voice falls on his ear,
that, little by little, even as you look, the
angularities seem to melt away into fine
flowing lines, and the homely text of her
face, hour by hour, and feature by feature
grows luminous with sweet deep mean
ing. that is as subtitle and penetrative in
its influence as beauty itself. And if an
hour of on-lookipg can work such trans.
fguration and makes one blind to any
possible crabbedness of text by reason Of
the sweet meaning it carries. how shall it
be with the reading of month, or year,
or life ?-Donald G.. Mitchell.
Year: 1869

reflect that u sound mind and body are the Il ost
necessary requisites To promote connublal nap
piDess Indeed without these the Journey
through life becomes n weary pllgrimsge the
prosp ct hourly darNcns TO the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filled win
the melancholy reflection tha. the happiness &
another becomes blighted with your own.
Year: 1869

y NEW ITEM OF SOUTHERN IRAnE.-
Very large quantities of black walnut lumber
are being shipped from Tennessee to New York
VIA Bristol. The logs are merely squared and
otherwise shipped whole, SO as to be ready for
Tie saw OF the manufacturer
Year: 1869

The strike of the German Trainers, lnaugu-
rated few weeks since still continues with little pros
poets of a speedy termination. There are about $50
idle in consequence Of the strike large number
OF those who went out at the commencement OF tho
movement have gone 10 work at house oarpentellpg
The bosses declare their determination To hold out against
Year: 1869

There are now IN progress IN this city and
yiriuitv five strikes, viz; the German Framers who
are meeting with poor success the Male and Female Cap
makers the CO0pers OF Jersey CITY, the Iron Molders
connected with q largo fOundery In Harlem, and the
walters who have met With u complete defeat.
Year: 1869

There is likely to be trouble between Sec.
ratary Robson aud the employees in the
navy yard at Washington on account OF the
eight hour law, as an order was issued from
the navy department Saturday directing
that work should be commenced at a later
hour in the morning, and continued till u
later hour in the afternoon. Bu. three quar-
ters of an hour are allowed at noon, and
workmen are required to muster Is minutes
before the bell rings in the morning, and at
noon, thus adding half an hour to the time,
which they contend is not in accordance
with the eight hour law.
Year: 1869

The constitution Of Virginia recently
adopted, provides that the Inauguration of
the governor shall be on the frat of January
succeeding his election, though an ordi-
nance of the convention which framed the
constitution provides that the Inauguration
of the FIRST governor elected hereunder shall
take place Immediately af.er the election,
the effect of which will be TO install Gov.
Walker within the next 30 days.
Year: 1869

1t appears that Canada is to have its gold
fever too. The Toronto Telegraph says
4Dispstches from New Brunswick states that
gold has been discovered in that province,
and that there are indications Of rich depos.
its along Eel river. The precious metal has
been found in quartz rock, and also in the
sand depopted on the bed of the river. We
hope all this is true, and that further pros.
pechng will develop the fact that the pros,
poets are rich and worth looking af.er.--
However. until we have more reliable infor.
nation it would be well to guard against the
gold fever That deposits Of gold are to
be found in many parts Of Canada Is an es'
tablished fact. In Nova Scotia and Quebec
there are several paying mines in operation;
and there is every reason to believe that
some OF the Madoc mines, properly worked
would pay q handsome dividend But so
far, the discoveries Of gold in the Dominion
have not been Of much benefit TO the poor
man. u5 illElhl mas ia o4' SosSo wv"
imbedded in quartz, from which it can only
be extracted by means of costly machinery.
Mining Of this nature must, on account OF
the capital required, be carried on BY com
pspies. The poor miner, with nothing but
his pick and pan, would stsFve in such a
gold country. We believe that the mines
recently discovered in New Brunswick viii
turn ont the same as tbs other Canadian
mines. The geological formation OF the
country indicates this. There may be gold
IN paying Quantities, but it will, IN all proo'
ability, require capital to develop IT. in
the meantime, we would advise our young
men not to run off to New Brunswick in the
hope of digging up gold by the busbel.-


Wait awhile until We have heard more


about the matter"
Year: 1869

dispatch from Washington says the
Secretary Of the Treasury has SO much cur


rency on hand that he has concluded to buy
three millions of bonds per week for three
weeks, and the necessary orders have gone
to New Yc.k. This nine millions, like the
previous six millions, goes into the sink.
ing fund subject to the action Of Congress.
Year: 1869

The Woodford (Ill.) Sentinel says that
the red rust is in the wheat, and should we
have one more week Of wet weather, the
black rust will follow, and then farewell to
the wheat crop in Woodford county.
Year: 1869

The report of the drowning of the Powell
expedition is said to have originated from
the drowning of an individual named Hook,
IN Green river who was in no manner con.
nected with the expedition.
Year: 1869

NEW LONDON, CONN, April 26, 1869


REMEMBERED FRIEND-I thought it well to
wait another week before writing TO see if l con-
tlnued to improve, as l have been doing some
time, under the treatment of the new medicine,
and am happy to tell you that l am getting
better-even faster than when you were here /
commenced the use of DODD'S NERVINE
without anybody advising me to it. When be
gan with it could only walk from my bed to the
chair. My trouble has been extreme pain in the
head and has lasted over three years. All the
medicine have heretofore taken has failed to
give me any relief. l am now able to go up and
down stairs and daily improving. l consider the
NerVine the best medicine ever found, and thall
continue its use, for am confident of entire re-
cOvery. l have taken only three bottles and
would not be without it on any accOunl.


Jaws Very truly, Mrs. l. S. MUTE.
Year: 1869

Defeat of tho Revolutionary Movement


Severity Of President Meignrei0.


LIMA, Jan. %, 1859.


The revolution has been completely suppressed by
the energetic movements OF the government troops,
and owing, perhaps. IN great measure to the want
OF confidence felt in the leaders Of the revolt. Two
Insignificant skirmishes took place In which the
rebels were beaten, but the main body OF their forces
the revolt seemed dangerous and the elements COM
posing were also f0rmidable but the selection OF
leaders and the proclamation Of the constitution Of
1850 were peculiarly unfortunate as regarded the
ultimate success OF the movement. The principal
persons implicated In the revolution have emigrated
or rather fed TO the Argentine republic, Megarej0
being determined to set bloody example to future
malcOntents. lie shot few days since his COUSIN
Colonel LOzada, concerned III the rebellion.


Although the revolution has been crushed, still the
people are generally dsc0ntented, and at no distant
day WILL all probability make another attempt at
rising, though Megarejo Is so firmly fixed In his po-
stion that the chances OF success are very small.
Year: 1869

unlawful means mentioned clothed such aliens with
the means Of procuring such employment were de-
Hence, forging certificate purpordng 70 naturalize
native born citizen oy an alien not within the pro-
criminal to sell 70 either Of such persons certin-
cate Of naturalization. These are not cases within
Ine 7, mischief which the act was passed to remedy:
contended that i Is too clear for argument-that u
u no crime to forge or sell certificate unless s
OF the applicant therein named. NO other certin-
Gase gay can possibly be 80 used g 70 accomplish
vent. The offence Of Rosenberg was against the
laws OF the State OF New York. and Congress has NO
But it shall be held that Congress has such bower
TO pass laws In aid OF State legislation to promote
the purity Of state elections, then it Is urged that
such was clearly not the Intention OF this act-tnat
the laws OF .he state OF New York have prescribed
penalties for the forgery Of such certncates and
ever no constitutional provision giving Congress any
such power over the question OF suffrage in the


ON the part Of the government it Is insisted that
the history OF the enactment referred 70 and Of the


statute q which = part sSoaa 'Is "a Sonss:


In its application TO the ceruncates or proofs Of nat
urahzatOn contemplated by the previous sections OF
law OF general application for the punishment VI
the forgery OF any certificate record or proof OF nat
spective Of the use to which It may be applied, or
may be intended to be applied, as well as the utter
ing OF any false or counterfeit cerncate OF natura-
zatlon and the sale disposal OF certlhcate OF nat
uraization to any person TO whom II does not right
fully belong. The words OF the thirteenth section are
sufficient " enable the court 10 carry into e1ect the
obvious intention OF Congress to punish iaslncation
and fraud In connection with naturalization records.
The words OF the second section OF the act do not re-
fer an exempncation OF the entire record, but 10
q certificate Of the judgment OF the court by which
person il made ctizen which Is conclusive that al
the prerequisites have been complied with. TINS
construction sustains this OF the government,
and 1t Is the which has uniformly been placed on
the statute OF the courts The title OF an act II





Its provisions and 1t was originally, In England,
neld to be part of the act statute Is good for
any number Of different subjects ana may contain
provisions Of public and private nature; and lt
may be two laws under one enacting clause f. ".
StouQhtOn and A. X. Lawrence for defendant; At
torney General Evarts and Assistant Attorney Gea-
eral Ashton Tor the government
Year: 1869

WASH GTON
RESIGNATION OF SECRETARY STEWART
The Transfer Of His Business
Decided insufficient.
TEXT OF THE DOCUMENT.
Withdrawal Of the Presidents Message


on the Subject.
FIRST MEETING OF THE CABINET.
Reception at the White





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Important Change Of System at
the War Department.



The General-in-C Chief Assumes the
Whole Administrator of


Army Affairs.



Passage Again Of the Bill to Repeal
the Tenure Of Office Act


in the House.
Another Avoidance of 1t i'm


the Senate.
Year: 1869

You can never forget her. She was
so young and innocent and pretty. She
had such q way of looking at you over
her hymn book In church. She alone
of all the world did not think you boy
of eighteen, but wondered ut your size
and learning, and your faint foreshad
owing ola sandy monstache, and be-
lieved you very inch a man. When at
those Stupid evening parties, where
boys and girls who should have been
eating suppers of bread and milk, and
gone to sleep hours before, waltzed and
flirsed, and made themselves sick on oy-
sters and champagne, you were favor
ed with \ glance of her eye or a whis-
per from her lip, YOU ascended to the
seventh heaven Immediately. Whence
once upon memorable eve she polked
with the druggists clerk, and never ev-
err looked at you, how miserable you
were. 1t is funny to think of now. but
it was not then you were aNfully in
earnest.


Once at a picnic she wore white
dress and had roses twined in her black
hair. and she looked so much like a
bride you fairly tire mbled; sometimes
you thought in just such snowy costume
with Just such blossoms in her hair. she
might stand before the altar, and you
most blessed of mortals, might place
ring upon her finger !; and when you
were left with her for moment, some
of your thoughts were formed into
words, and though she blushed aud ran
away, and would not let you kiss her.
she did not seem to be angry. And
then when you were somehow parted
for little while, and when you met
again she was walking with gen le-
nan, large, full-grown, whiskerS 3
man, oftwenty-eight or thirty. and had
neither word nor smile tor you, and
some well-meaning gossip informed
you shortly alter that she was engaged
to the tall gentleman with black whis-
kers. and that it was splendid match.
1t was terrible news to you then, and
sent you off to some great city far from
your native home, where, after great
deal ofyouthful grief, and many resolu-
tions to die and haunt her, you recOv-
cred your equanimity and began to
make money and to call love stuff and
nonsense.


You have rich wife of your own now
and grown up children-ay, even two
or three toddling grand childrsn-about
your hearth; your hair is grey and you
Ioch your hcaTt up III thc HrcprooI sate
at your counting house when you go
home at night. And you thought You
had forgotten that little episode Of your
nineteenth year, until the other day
you read her death in the papers. You
know she was stout lady who wore
glasses, and has died older than she
was in that olden time, but your heart
went back and you saw her smiling and
blushing, with her golden hair about
her face, and yourself boy again.
dreaming OF Wedding robes and rings,
and you laid your grey old head upon
your office desk and wcpt for the men,
ory OF your first sweetheart.
Year: 1869

,P- The hetel-keepers of Harr g.
burg, Pennsylvania, are notorious for
their eXtortionate prices. The follow
ing instance more than supports their
previous reputation. A gentleman
from New York stopping at the State
Capitol hotel committed suicide there
while laboring under temporary insani-
ty. He had been some two days at the
house, but the proprietor put in claim
of $3.50 as the amount OF his bill against
the deceased. The family refused to
pay, the landlord raised his claim $500,
aud has entered suit against the estate,
IL the man had lived his bill would have
been some eight or ten dollars; but the
landlord claims the rest on the ground
that his death will injure the reputation
OF his house.
Year: 1869

Come hither, my baby, my darling,


My lilly, my wonderful rose
The ite-bosomed flowers in the garden
Begin their soft petals to close;
The bees have gone home from the clover,
The swallows are under the caves,
And down in the orchard the robin


Broods O er her nest in the leaves.
Come, baby, my beauty, my darlingl


Your eyes are heavy with sleep,
Your little red mouth has grown silent,
And scarcely its laughter can keep;
Lay off the white robes from your shoulders
Unclasp the small shoes from your feet
On, daintest blossom of Eden,


! kiss you, my lily, my sweet.
Do you feel the cool wind coming softly,
And see the young moon in the sky?
The clouds sailing over the sunset


The bats fitting silently by?
Do you hear how the cattle are lowing


Along the green lane by the hill
And the brook running oyer the pebbles,


With MUSIC that never is stlll2 q
Now hush while sing to you, baby.


A song of the angels above,
That come on invisible pinions,


To watch O. er the children. they love; s.
So all through your beautiful dreaming
The voice Of your mother shall creep,
Lest, hearing the harpings celestial,
g Your soul shall fly homeward in sleep.