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Year: 1867

1 know not if the dark or bright
Shall be my lot;
If that wherein my soul delight
Be best or not.
1t may be mine to drag for years
Tolls heavy chain;
Or day and night my meat be tears
On bed of pain.
Dear faces may surround my hearth
With smiles and glee;
Or may dwell alone. and mirth
Be strange to me.
My bark is waited to the strand
By breath divine;
And on the helm there rests hand
Othtr than mine.
One who has known in storms 20 sail
l have on board;
Above the raging of the gale
1 hear my Lord.
He holds me with the pillows might
I shall not fall;
If sharp, it's short; if long, it's light;
He tempers all.
Safe to the land-safe to the land,
The end is this;
And then with him go hand in hand
Far into bliss.


-[The Dean of Canterbury.
Year: 1867

FROM Ohio comes the following cap.
isal temperance story. Judge Ray, the
temperance lecturer, in one of his efosts
here got off the following:


'All of those who in youth acquire a
habit of drinking whisky, at forty
years Of age will be total abstainers Or
drunkards. No one can use whisky for
years in moderation If there is a per.
son in the audience before me whose
experience disputes this, let him make
it known; l will account for it, or ac-
knowledge that | am mistaken.
A tall large man arose, and, folding
his arms in dignifed manner across
his breast, said


Il offer myself as one whose own ex-
perience contradicts your statement


Are you a moderate drinker?' said
the Jud ge.


9 am


'How long have you drank in mod
Grafton 2


Forty Years
'And were never intoxicated p
'Neverp ..-... .
WELL remarked the Judge, scan.
ming his subject closely from head to
foot, yours is a most singular case ;
and yet think it is easily accounted for.
l am reminded by it of little story:


A colored man, with loaf of bread
and a bottle of whisky, sat down to dine
by the bank of clear stream. In
breaking bread some of the crumbs
dropped into the water These were
eagerly seized and eaten by the fish.
That circumstance suggested to the
darkey the idea OF dipping the bread in
the whisky and feeding it to them. He
tried it. 1t worked well. Some of the
fish ate of it, became drunk, and Aoated
helpless on the surface. In that way he
easily caught great number. But in
the stream was large fish very unlike
the rest. 1t partook freely of the bread
and whisky, but with no perceptable
effect. 1t was shy of every effort of the
darkey to take it. He resolved to have
it at all hazards, that he might learn
its name and nature. He procured a
net and, after much effort, caught it,
carried it to colored neighbor, and
asked his opinion in the matter. The
other surveyed the wonder a moment,
and then said 'Sambo, 1 un n'erstans dis
case. Dat fish is a mullet-head 1t
amt got any brains In other words,
added the Judge, alcohol affects only
the brain, and of course, those having
none may drink without injury


The storm of laughter which followed
drove the moderate drinker suddenly
from the house.
Year: 1867

The "SMELT" RAILROAD -Itis we'll
known that the Portsmouth Railroad
has to turn everything to account to pay
running expenses, and many are the
Jokes they perpetrate upon the conduc-
tors in reference to their shifts to get
living. 1t is said that one of them last
year was accustomed to bring fish from
Portsmouth, and peddie them out at the
stopping places on the road to Concord.
One day he brought along smelts, deal
ing out to customers at every station,
till he got to Suncock, where he blew
his horn, and an old woman came out
and wanted six.


"Just pattern-all I've got left;
you're in the nick of time" said be;
and he began to count them and found
only FIVE. "How's this ? l should have
six" and he began to count his fingers
and reckon over how he had disposed of
the four dozen he started with.


After while, 81 have it; hold on a
little while and I'll be back" said he;
and he run the train back seven miles
to place where he let woman have
one more than she paid for, got it, came
back to Suncock, and let the old woman
have the six she wanted, and the 'smclt'
train went on to Concord.


THE BENEFIT OF BEING KNOCKED
ABOUT IN THE WoRLD.-It is a good
thing for a young man to "be knocked
about in the world" though his soft
hearted parents may not think so. All
youtls, or if not all, certainly nineteen
twentieths of the sum total enter life
with surplus of self couceit. The
sooner they are relieved of it the better.
If in measuring themselves they discov-
er that it is unwarranted, and get rid of
it gracefully, of their own accord, we'll
and good if not it is desirable, for their
own sakes, that it be knocked out of
them. By this time the novice, having
found the legitimate social status, be
the same high or low, the probability is
that the disagreeable traits of his char
acter will be softened down or worn
away. Most likely the process of abra-
sion will be rough, perhaps very rough,
but when it is all over, and he begins
to see himself as others see him, and not
as reflected in the mirror of self -conceit,
he will be thankful that he has run the
gauntlet, and arrived, though by rough
road, at self.knowledge. Upon the whole
whatever loving mothers may think to
the contrary, it is good thing for their
boys to be knocked about in the world,
to make men out of them,
Year: 1867

THE zEIGHT.HOUR LAw.-The Working
mems Union OF New York, composed of rep
reseutatiyes Of all the trades, has adopted
resolutions looking to the carrying out of the
Eight.Ho recently passed by the Legisla-
ture. The resolutions say that lnasmuch as
the Legislature has, by enacting the measure
into law, thrown the responsibility upon the
industrial classes. they consider it an Impera-
tive duty at an early day to make ii operate
as practical measure, and that they will not
IN any case allow what they have earned by
dangered by any default Of theirs, however
much they May be disposed to conciliate and
adapt themselves to the situation. The Union
also re solves to invite and counsel employers
to have the question considered and be pre-
pared to assist and co operate with the work
ingmen in having the Eight Hour law carried
into practice. In the meantime, the Eight
Hour law, which was passed by the Illinois
Legisla lature, has had q fair trial by the Board
of Public Works at Chicago, and the result of
that trial is very suggestive and Instructive.
On the first Of the present month the employ.
ees Of the Board Of Public Works We're re.
quired to work only eight hours work instead
of ten as before. and were paid for eight hours
first week the workmen grew discontented
petition ed for ten hours pay for eight hours
work. The Board refused TO grant the req uest,
and in another week the workmen petitioned
for ten hours pay tor ten hours work. This
request was granted, and they are now work.
ing the same number Of hours that they have
formerly worked and are receiving the same
pay, and are better satisfied by far than they
were at the prospect OF cutting two hours from
the length OF their days work and twenty Per
cent. from the amount Of their wages.
Year: 1867

LACK OF EMPLOYMENT.-It is reported that
New York merchant engaged In but a small
business, advertised last week for a CLERK, ap-
plIcation TO be made by letter. By noon of
the day on winch the advertisement appeared
he had received eighty applications for the
situation, and be fore the next day had passed
the number had reached one hundred and
nineteen The salary was small, the induce
ments were few, and the work req quired close
was so great as to be but poorly shown by the
number OF applications. Many of the appi-
cants could speak two or three languages, and
claimed to be possessed of various valuable
accomplishments. The New York Times con-
siders this great rush after so unpromising
place to be 50 but one of the many proofs of the
wide spread stagnation of business, and the
activity -
Year: 1867

The following story is told OF 4
Yankee captain and his mate;


Whenever there was plum pud-
ding made, by the captains orders all
Of the plums we're put into one end of
ii. and that end placed next to the
captain. who. after helping himself,
passed it to his mate, who never
found any plums in his end of it.
Well. after the game bad been played
some time, the mate prevailed on the
steward to place the end that had no
plums in it next the captain. The
captain no sooner saw the pudding
than he discovered that he haa the
end that had no plums i'll it.
Picking up the dish. and turn
ing it in his hands, as if merely to
examine the china, he said: This
dish cost me two shillings i'll Liver
pool" and put it doNn, as though
without design, with the plum end
next to himself. Is it possible. y
said said the mate, taking up the
dish: Il shouldn't suppose It was
worth more than shilling" and, as
If in perfect innocence. he put down
the dish with the plum end next to
himself The captain looked at the
mate, the mate looked at the captain.
The captain laughed, and the mate
laughed. Il tell you what. Young
one" said the captain. You've
found me out, so we'll just cut the
pudding lengthwise this time. and
have the plume fairly distributed here
after"
Year: 1867

To WASH MEEINoEs.-An old mer-
ino dress may be made to look as
COOL as new. by first ripping to
pieces the skirt, and afteru ards
washing each breadth separately, in
warm suds, being careful to rinse on
ly in clean warm water or suds. Cold
water after warm will shrink all
kinds of wooden goods. Iron while
quite damp on the wrong side. At
forwards fold once double on the
right side; placing over it clean
newspaper. and iron with very hot
fiat iron, in this way making the
seam fold in all new double-fold
goods.
Year: 1867

Coon ADvlcE.-If the following
suggestions were faithfully lived up
to, there would be far less trouble in
the world: !" He who thinks better Of
his ncighbors than they deserve can
not be a bad man. for the standard
BY which his judgement is formed is
the goodness Of his own heart. 1t is
the base ones who believe all men
bases or in other words like them
selves. Few however. are all evil,
Nero did good turn to somebody,
for when Rome was rejoicing over
his death, some loving hand covered
his grave with flowers. Public men
are seldom or never fairly IIdged, at
least while living. However pure.
they cannot escape calumny: how
ever incorrect, they are sure to find
euiogists.
Year: 1867




poTATo Bues-lIow To HEAD
THEM oFr.-Ed. Ioica Homestead ).
j have a word to say about plant
ing and heading Off the bug which
may benefit the farmers of Iowa.
If you would avoid the potato bug,
which is travelling from this direction
through Iowa eastward, plant your
potatoes as usual, covering only
slighlly-say an inch or two.-Then
add to it a covering Of straw, hay, or
coarse manure, to a depth of four or
FIVE inches. and You will have no
trouble with bugs. / nreier straw for
covering. Last spring planted
with and without straw side by side


On those covered with straw, scarce
ly bug made its appearance, while
those upon which the straw was not
used, were so infested with bugs that
we saved them only BY picking eve
ry few days for some time. In 4 dry
season the straw retains the moisture
in the ground, aud the potatoes make
a better growth than without it, +.
JEWELL, Warm Slough, Nebraska.
Year: 1867

NEARLY every English lecturer or
public speaker who now visits this
country, devotes about two-thirds of
each speech or lecture to a disinsen-
nous apology for, and a sneakingly
false explanation of, England's hostile
and dishonest conduct towards the
United States during the rebellion.
Year: 1867

One Pound of Gold may be drawn
into a wire that wonld extend around
the globe. So one good deed may be
felt through all time, and cast its in
fluence into eternity. Though done in
the flush of youth, it may gild the last
hour of long life, and form the
brightest spot in it.
Year: 1867

The rebel papers of Virginia as well
rs the Coppcrhcad papers of the North,
make a great ado because The freedmen
ofthat State voted almost solid against
the whites. One Of the freedmen, in
defence Of his race, writes to the New
York Hibncgiving very clear reasons
why they so voted. lie says they We're
compelled by sense of duty "to vote
in solid phalanx against the whites" :"
AS it seemed to the blacks that the
question en- which they were voting
was whether they should ever have
the chance to vote again, it was abso-
lutcly impossible that they should vote
away their own right to vote. He
predicts that as soon as the question of
their right to vote is settled, which will
be done by the ratifying ofthc Consti-
tuition to be adopted by the Convcn-
ton, the black vote of Virginia will
be as diversified as the white on all
questions of Stare and National policy.
The blacks not only believe but arden
tly pray that after the Constitution is
formed, securing their rights, the
blacks may never again be obliged to
vote as a party together, or against the
whites. This is certainly clear state


ment of the case, and it cannot be Won
dcred at that the freedmen of Virginia
voted in the manner in hich they did.
Year: 1867

To the Editors of the Union and Dispatch.


1 have read "the most extraordinary
production since the hood.1 The pamph-
let is too absurd for criticism, and too
shocking TO the moral sense to require criti-
cism; but, as some who have read it may
form very injurious notion of "the opin-
ion Of the learned of present and past
ages" beg to descry it to be that 10 use
his own gTammar) the present race of ne
groes are the descendants Of Ham, and
were made 30 By his name or the curse of
his father. He means that his opinion of
the learned is, that his own name or the
curse of his father caused the children Of
Ham to have the black skin, kinky hair,
etc, which are such marked but not orna-
mental peculiarities of that race of bipeds.
Patrick's Commentary gives no hint of such
an opinion in his day, 1884. ] find no
trace of it in Smiths Bible Dictionary,
which is the best authority for the present
standard Of opinion in the learned world.
In that work the fulfillment of the curse is
asserted to be found in the fact that Gin
every case the more energetic sons of Shem
and Japheth have at last fallen upon The
rich Hamistic territories and despoiled
ftASAAAF -AAcLtCAa mAAbCA ~ iFtuE 5dlAE WIN
says: "The subsequent history of Canaan
shows in the strongest manner possible the
Julflinient of the curse. When Israel took
possession Of his land, he became the slave
of Shem. When Tyre fell before the sires
of Alexander, and Carthage suecumbed to
her Norman conquerors, he became the
slave of Japheth." Although he says
good deal about the Philippians, the de-
scendants of Cush, not word is said about
black skin and kinky hair as the effect,
or as an effect of the curse. This theory
is, / believe, peculiar to the Armageddon
school. Some suppose the climate BACKED
the skin of the negro, and kinked his hair,
and did all the rest of the mischief Some
doubt and some deny the unity of the hu-
man race. Only those Of the Armageddon
school claim to know all about it.


The origin of the negro is in the dark.
Himself is black. He has been black
wave of calamity sweeping over the South
He is the blacklist sort of black portent
now in our sky. aels


1t is as hard, perhaps, to account for the
peculiariiies of some othtr races. The ar
gument from his intellectual and moral
susceptibilities to prove that he is man, is
just the same as that by which it is proven
that we are men.


The negro is not equal to the white man,
nor without the aid Of a superior race can
he emerge or remain out of a state of bar
barism. 1t is the more incumbent on MS to
help him on the road to civilization.


My sympathies we're with the South in
the war. The beliefs which led to those
sympathies have not changed. But we are
bound TO make the best we can of the re-
sult-the best for humanity, for ourselves
and for the negro. X
Year: 1867

UNIVERSAL AMNEsTY.-Th New York
Herald, in urging the President to pro-
claim universal amnesty" says:


Besides the reconstruction of his Cabi-
net Mr.. johnson is master of the best
method for the reconstruction of the South,
and by a single stroke of his pen may, by
virtue of the power which the constitution
gives him, proclaim universal amnesty
amnesty for the white who was foolish
enough to run into rebellion with the idea
that he alone was created to govern the
country; amnesty for the poor negro,
whose intellect is completely unsettled by
our political quarrel over him; amnesty
for the North, which is heartily sick of
paying the bills for these Ethiopian theat-
ricals; amnesty for our commerce, our ag-
ricultural interests, our progress as a peO-
pie; above all things, amnesty for the
brains of our statesmen. Let US, therefore,
have new Cabinet and general am
nesty."
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the southern
people to be sslf-rsiiaat. and shall do what ws
may be able 70 induce the establishment Of
msnafactories in our midst for eur home pro-
4ucts TO this end We will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversi6-
cation of Southern industriessnd the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867




A CARD.-In 1861 Morton discontinued the
discount formerly given to the Jobbing Trade
and, ignoring the services of middle men, has
sold his pens either directly to those who use
them, or to such as keep them on hand for the
better supply of the writing public in their
own localities. There may be Jobbers who
have spoken in favor of the Morton Pen since
that time, but if so their remarks have never
in a single instance reached his ear and
although they generally admit that Morton
can make the best pens in the world, and used
to do sO they nevertheless put forth great
exertions to show that the Morton Pen has de-
preciated in value, is not what it formerly was
and that those which they vend are equal, if not
superior; now since many Retail Dealers Obtain
what little they know of pens as well as the pens
Themselves entirely from the Jobbers, people are
apt to be misled by their representations.


In order that the public may judge correctly,
and at the same time see how much pains
taking is exercised to give every one who orders,
Just such a pen as will exactly suit his hand
Morton confidently refers to the many thousands
throughout the entire country, who have re-
ceived his pens through the mails during that
time, and also calls particular attention to the
following letter which has accompanied every
pen sent.
Year: 1867

A FRANK CONFESSION The editor of
the Atlanta (Ga) Ne,o Era, makes the
following frank confession:


A pack Of foois (of whom we were
one), so. the South into war, and now
pack Of like fools are resolved to keep
her in hot water till the end Of time, il
the people permit them to do SO. We
care nothing for Gen Sickles. Uur only
care Is to restore the South TO peace.
plenty and qniet, and we pray God thar
every newborn fool in the land may be
confined at the public expense, till by ju-
dicions treatment They are restored to that
saueness Of mind necessary to good ciii.
zensbip, and to serve on a jury. We
hsve had enough of war. and our voice is
for peas,
Year: 1867

n DREAh UNCOMFORTABLE hhhLizhD.


Some time ago strat ger called at
farmhouse in Paris, Ohio, ard asked to
stay over night A couple Of hours after
retiring the stranger was taken suddenly
and violently i'll, and for several days was
apparently deranged On his recovery he
informed his host that during his illness he
had discovered in certain ravine near
his house, under rock, an earthern creek
containing large amount of silver. AT
this the old gentleman expressed surprise
and spoke of its being very mysterious
dream. Afterwards, however, they were
walking in this section, and the dream
was again adverted TO by the stranger An
examination was at once proposed by the
farmer, to satisfy their curiosity. Tho
rock was soon found, and after brushin.
the leaves carefully away it WAS removed
and to their utter amazment there sat u
crock full Of silver. They took it out and
conveyed it secretly TO the house, and on
examination it was found to contain S40U
which they agreed to divide equally bs'
tween them. The day after this discovery
as the stranger was about to take his
leave, he complained to his benefactor cf
the inconvcni' nee Of carrying 40 much
silver, when an exchange was proposed,
the stranger receiyeing $3.50 in greenbacks
for his share OF the coin, silver then being
at a premiums of fifty per cent. 1t wa-
not long after the departure Of his guest,
however, till mine host made another dis
cuvery--hi- 800 In silver was counterfeit
and he had thus been ingeniously swindled
out # $3.50.
Year: 1867




like to see the day when Senators. Of the
United States will no more tolerate 4
drunken man in their chambers than they
you'd a viper in their beds Amen we
say to the above from the Etenuaq JouoR
OF Chicago. For the last few years. the
American Senate has witnessed scenes
which resemble those in established bar
rooms. Members have reelad and starcer>
ell and even attempted to address their
fellow members when their incohcren;
speech showed that they could not put
two ntencas together becaus, thev
were so thoroughly drunk Many times
has this occurred, and with no word of
retroof, until in one case the matter
went so tar AS 10 demand some action on
the part OF the Senate. The fact how
ever Is notorious. that anything short of
the most beastly ntoxicaIlon has been
over looked. Nor is this confined to the
Senate chamber; to say nothing of the
occupant Of the White House whose re
cord IN this respect makes every Ameri-
can blush, there are various rases in diff.
erent departments Now this will 20 on
and even increase until we take the
ground that candidate of Incorporate
habits is disqualified Tor office When we
do this, then we shall be saved from a
repetition of those di-gacefull exhibition
by high officials which fill us with 50
much grief and shame. Perhaps it is
necessary that we should be thus humil.
lated, that we may be whipped and spur
red to do battle with this great foe to 50.
ciety, who has brought, and if not dc.
feated, will yet bring countless sorrows,
sufferings and even death to our hearts
and homes.


The sadIest thing connected with this
Is that men who are known to he confir
med drupkards are elected to office and
those who are on the road are not thought
to be disqualified by their drunken habits
tor important public trusts This shows
that we regard drunkeness as comp ,ralive
ly trivial affair, and the apologize tone in
which It is spoken OF confirms our asser,
tion The habit as whole is everywhere
gaining ground and these cases Of public
exposure are ernptlon' rpbn the surface
which reveals the x ent of the disease
a constituency who would not elect trail
tor, does not hesitate to elect drunkard
now If as people we detest drunkness
and alive to its deadly evils, desired to
root 1t out, we should haze an eye to tho
habits OF our candidates. w" ought 20
put the stamp Of moral condemnation
upon drunkenness, and rot till then shall
we he saved from a repetition Of those
di'graceful exhibitions by high officials
whi ill us with disgust Carisha.
Register.