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Year: 1860

A WOMAN AND A WIFE.-Some weeks sncea New
York merchant advised and persuaded to take
southern trip of recreation account of the con-
dition of his health. He desired to leave alone, and
not unnecessarily, as he thought, to remove his
wife from the of the family and to burden her
with the nursing of her invalid, who only needed
change and recreation. His wife, no less determ-
ned in her own feelings and sense of duty, was re
solved on accompanying him, and finding all ordi-
nary means Intellectual for gaining his consent, she
went to the steamship which his passage had
been engaged She introduced herself confdenti-
ally to the captain, begged quiet BERTH and thus
secured her object. The steamship was some hours
out from New Y ork before the invalid husband dis
covered that his faithful and devoted wife was so
near him. On the passage, from that time, she was
not only nurse to her husband but a ministering
angel Of comfort to all who needed her gentle at
tentiOns.-C Charleston Courier, All.
Year: 1860

A FRIEND in Louisiana, of the legal per-
suasion, writes to an exchange the fol.
lowing: A man who had never seen the
inside Of a court house until he was intro
duced as a witness IN case pending in
one of our District Courts sitting last
fall in the northern part Of the State, be-
ing sworn, took position with his back
TO the Jury, and began telling his story to
the Judge. Judge R-n, in his bland
and courteous manner, said


address yourself to the Jury, sir"


The man made short pause, but not
comprchending what was said to him, con.
tinued his narrative. His Honor was then
more explicit, and said to him


"Speak to the Jury, sir-thc men sit
ting behind you on the benches"


The witness then turned around and
making an awkward bow, said:


Good morning, gentlemen
Year: 1860

a POOR MANS SONG
A poor and solitary man,


keep my lonely way;
With hearty welcome could greet
One joyful, careless day.
A mothers care, fathers love,
Soft tones, and faces mild;
When these are swallowed in the grave,
Woe for the little child
The gardens of the rich / see,


see the golden corn;
Mine is baron wilderness


Sown with but hopes forlorn.
When, bearing yet my silent grief,
l join among the gay,
My heart nor lips cannot withhold
A warm and glad "Good day."
Oh bounteous Lord, thou dost not yet
Quite joyless leave me here
Sweet trust that rises heavenward
Doth keep my soul from fear.
The glory of thy light still falls


On countless village spires;
Thou list'nest still to measured praise
OF organs and of choirs.
Sun, moon, and star still shed their beams
So lovingly on me,
And at the ring of evening bells


Then speak l, Lord with thee.
And when thy mansions are prepared
For those whom thou wilt call,
may in festal robes ascend


Unto the banquet hall.
Year: 1860

On Thanksgiving Day HenryWard Beech
er, delivered a discourse on the "Progress
of liberal ideas" Among other things he
said:


Mr.. Beecher then considered the fugitive
slave question. He said it was impossible
longer to prevent the departure of the chill
dren of Israel. The aurora of the North
lights up the plantations Of tho South
The slave will escape. God has never Civ
en- the brick and mortar that could stop up
that hole. The fugitive cannot be caught.
Our people will lubricate the feet of the
black men, and trip up the feet of the hun
ter. Said the preacher l would die before
man should 60 out Of my hand if the
hound was after him. That was principle
for which every man should be willing to
die. 1t was for principle that Christ hung
on the cross, and the sanctity of principle
made Calvary the highest and most glo-
rious mountain on the globe. There were
ne said, reporters present, and his words
might reach Charleston. He would say
to South Carolina, that so long as there
were free hills and valleys at the North
so long as there was oil in tho cruise; SO
long as there was blood in the heart; SO
long would the fugitive meet with sympa-
thy.


AT this point Mr.. Beecher expressed
himself in terms Of eloquence unusual even
with him. As he finished his sentence, 8
profound sensation was observable through
out the church. One gentleman, under the
excitement of the moment, clapped hi;
hands, and at once seemed frightened that
he had done so. But the signal was suffi
cient. Another, and another yielded to the
impulse, until storm ofapplausc rose from
the floor and the galleries.


Mr.. Beecher- 1t isn't Sunday. Re.
nowed applause.


Mr.. Beecher-There now, that will do.
It's all right. Immense applause.


The preacher spoke further of the impos
isbiityof compromise. Speaking of seces
sion, he said he once seeded from his faith
er's house; he was turned out because he
did not learn his catechism. But after be-
ing in the rain for time he was glad t.
get back. So he thought South Carolin'
would be glad to get back again, even if she
had to learn the catechism of liberty.
Year: 1860

A DAY OF HEAVEN Upon EARTH.-O
Sabbath needed for world of innocence
without thee what would be world of
sin! There would be no pause for consider
alton, 70 check to passion no remission of
toll, no balm for care! He who had Withheld
thee would have forsaken the earth !
Without, thee, He had never given us the
Bible, the Gospel, the Spirit! Wo salute
thee as thou comest to us in the name of
the Lord-radient in the sunshine of that
dawn which broke over a nation, achieved
work marching downward in the track of
time, pillar Of refreshing cloud and gliding
flame, Intervening with all the light new
beams of discovery and promise, until thou
standeth forth more fair than when reflect
ed in the dews and imbidcd by the flowers
of Eden-more awful than when the trum-
pet rang on thee, Small Christianity, and
the Sabbath! Like its Lord, but it rises
in Christianity, and henceforth records the
rising day. And never since the tomb of Je-
sus was burst open by him who revived and
rose, has this day awakened but has the light
of days, and with healing its wing Never
has it unfolded without some witness and
welcome, some song and salutation! 1t has
been from the first until now, the sublime
custom of the Church of God Still the
outgoing of its morning and its evening re-
joice! 1t is day of heaven on earth !
Life's sweetest calm, poverty's birthright, la
borer's only rest! Nothing has such a
hoard of antiquity in it. Nothing contains
in it such history Nothing draws along
with it such glory Nurse of virtue, SOU
of truth! The households richest patrimo
ny, the nations noblest safeguard The
pledge of peace, the fountain of intelligence
the strength of the law?-Hamilton.
Year: 1860

DEPENDENCY.-The raco of mankind
would perish, did they cease to aid each
other From the time the mother binds the
child's head till the moment that some kind
assistant wipes the death damp from the
brow of the dying, we cannot exist without
mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid,
have a right to ask it of their fellow mortals.
No one who has the power Of granting il
can refuse without guilt
Year: 1860

GREAT DIscovERY.-Among the most
important of all the great medical discoveries OF this age
may be considered the system Of vaccination for protee
tion from Small Pox the Cephalie Pill for the relief OF
Headache and the Of Quinne for the prevention Of
Fevers either of which speciae whose benefits
will be experienced suffering humanity long after their
discoverers are forgotten.
Year: 1860

Secessonsm must fall-and it will fall !
This is the verdict already rendered 10y all
Union loving men throughout the States
The seceders know it, and hence they are in
a quandary. What is there IN their party
to give it vitality? What is there in their
movement to command the confidence of the
people? They claim to battle for certain
rights but those rights are in their possession
unimpaired. They claim to be the true up
holders Of the Union, and yet we find them
gravely discussing the policy of breaking up
the Union. How is il possible for such
party to succeed ? Kentucky has rebuked
them in thunder tones. Missouri has re
buked them, and so has Alabama In Vir-
ginia and Georgia, aud in fact throughout
the whole South the secession movement is
becoming every day more obnoxious, and the
indications are, that by the time the day of
election comes round, the Breckinrdgers and
Yanceyites, will be in a most pitifu minor
ity. In Virginia, even now, they can hardly
get anybody to advocate their cause on the
stump. Their doom is written Since they
have sown the wind let them reap the whirl,
wind
Year: 1860



 Partridge Thatcher was the first man who prac- ticed the legal profession in New Milford. He was not educated to the profession, but took up the trade, because there were none of the craft hereabout, when this county was organized, which was after he came to middle age. He was na- tive, 1 have been told, of Lebanon in this state, and came to New Milford, know not how long ago. He was, however, married man at the time He had no children but a large number of negroes, whom he treated with kindness enough to put to shame the reproaches of all the abolitionists in New England. He was a man of strong mind, of rigid morality, and religious to the letter according to the stictest sect of orto- dox episcopacy. He adored Charles l. as mar tyr and he hated Oliver Cromwell worse than he did the evil one. Loyalty, unconditional loyalty, was, the prime element of his political creed. Of course, his name was not found in any list of the wicked Wings of the Revolution, and had he lived in these days, he would most thoroughly have eschewed democracy and abolitionism. On the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, his loyalty necessarily silenced his voice in court and he died soon after it's conclusion. Lawyer Thatcher, as he was always called, was undoubt- edly, a very odd, a very honest and very good man. wish there were many such men now, both on account of the good example they would set, and the harmless amusement they would afford. '. s.l O.. D. s. B.
Year: 1860

FoE SErTH TMEs.-We see by the last
number of the Times, that it has been en-
iarsed-makins it the largest paper pub
iished this end of the State. The Editors
promise in q short time to commence the
publication of tri-weekly Times, and we
hope the time is not far distant. They
have the enterprise, ability and facilities
tor publishing as good q paper as any in
the State, and deserve universal patronage
which no doubt they win get. Success to
to the tri-weekly Times.
Year: 1860

a NOBLE SEsrNExr.-Daniel Webste,
penned the sentiment


IF We work upon marble. it will perish
ii we work upon brass, time will effaee it
if we rear temples they will cramble into
dust; but if we work on mortal minds-ii
We imbue them with principles. with the
Just fear Of God and our fellow men, we
ensrave on those tablets something thai
will brighten through all eternity"
Year: 1860

tomatcn in the hands of set Of reckless wire
workers and political intrgucrs, who move him
TO suit their own selfish purposes. In either case
envy not his position or his fame.


Having made public the written history Of this
matter, in justification of my course, am done
with writing on the subject. and shall proceed to
take such steps as will result in the protection Of
my rights as Acting Capitol Commissioner.


Gro. GALLAGHER.
Year: 1860

Qua CoLLECroR will be round to day,
and We vish every man. woman or child, who
b, the good Luck to owe us anything. te come
down with the spelter, and not de'ain the gen.
tlemauly individual who will call upon them


Money il very necessary article in our bus
iness. and We must have it. Poney up. gen.
Year: 1860

FlRE.-There was slight alarm of
fire yesterday. The alarm bells on the other
side Of the river CO led out our boys. who
went down - the riv,r with their machine
| and then came back AGAR There was no fire
Of any account, or they would have b.. d .
hand in it. sure
Year: 1860

By an advertisement it will be seen
In suo.her column, that J. C. TeDD 10 now in
receipt of his Spring steck Of Boots and
Shoes which have been select ed with his usual
good taste. Call in and look at this elegant
stock Of Rysn's best manufacture
Year: 1860

PosrPoNED.-The Annual Pic Mic of
the Philharmonic Society was postponed yes
terdsy until week after next. The day will
be announce d in the papers in due season, and
all Who have hitherto attended the pic mic Of
the Society are invited to be present.
Year: 1860

Marbood will come, aud old age will
come, aud tie dying bed will come. and
the very last look you shall cast on your
acqnan,ances will come, and the agony Of
the parting breath will come, and the time
wien you are stretched out llteless
corpse before the eyes Of weeping relatives
will come, and that coffin that is TO en-
close YOU Will come, and that hour when
the company assemble 10 carry you to the
churchyard Will come, and that minute
when you are pot into the grave will
come, and throwing in Of the loose earth


into the narrow house where you are laid,
and the spreading of the green sod over ii
all, all will come on every living crea-
ture who now hears me and in a few
short wears, the minister who now speaks,
and the people who now listen, will be
carried to their long homes, and make
room for another generation. Now all
this, you know, must and will happen
your common sense and common eXpe-
rience serve to convince you Of IT. Per
haps it may have been ltlle thought Of in
llt udN Vi CdiClCSoI dlu bliOo hhSSSi az"
thankIess unconcern which you have
spent hitherto but call upon you TO
think of il now, to lay it seriously TO
heart, and no longer TO tTife and delay,
hen the high matters of death and Judge.
ment, and eternity is thus SET so evidently
before you. Aud the tidings wherewih
| am chuged-and the blood layeth upon
your own head, and not upon mine, if
YOU will not listen TO lhem-lhe object OF
my coming amongst you, is TO let You
know what more things is TO come into
existence ; it is to carry you beyond the
region Of sight and sense, TO the regions OF
faith and TO assure you, in the name oil


Him who cannot lie, that, as sure as the
hour of laying the body into the grave
comes, so surel Y will also come the hour
of the spirit returning to the God who
gave it. Yes and the day of final reck.
oning will come, and the appearance o


the Sen Of God in heaven, and his mighty
angels around him, will come, and the
opening Of the books will come, and the
standing of men Of all generations before
the judgement seat will come, and the
solemn passing of that sentence which Is
to fix yOn for eternity will come.
Year: 1860

Attorney and Counsellor at Lao,
WILL practice in the local Courts of this
w District and in the Supreme Court and
Court of Claims. Office at the corner of Indi-
ana avenue and Second street.
Year: 1860

gGy- The Washington correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser says that the Whig and American noml- nation for the President will be made about the middle of May, and il is sur missed in Washington that the Republican convention, month later will have to adopt 1t.
Year: 1860

FOURTH WARD.-The Wide Awakes of the
Fourth Ward will parade this evening. This
is the first parade of this Club and they will
turn out handsome force. Their uniforms
are the gayest in town, and although this
is their first parade, yet they propose to show
one hundred men tonight. They are truly
Wide Awake, and We are glad -tn.ses. this
Clubs. Look out for the Fonrth Warders
tonight.
Year: 1860

WINTER TINE TABLE.-The Time Table
Convention at Cincinnati .adjourned on Fri
day afternoon after having agreed upon
schedule to go into effect Nov. 18th, after
a final consultation with delegates from the
New York and Great Eastern Roads.


The following is the schedule, by which it
will be seen that we shall have two through
trains q daY
Year: 1860

THE CORDwAINERs. Shoemakers of
Evansville will hold II meeting OF the craft
at the City Council Chamber on Monday
evening next at half past seven o'clock, to
determine in what manner they will unite
with other mechanical crafts in the ceIebrn-
tion OF The approaching national anniversa-
ry. As portion of the bone and sinpw of
the community, and the curatoIs of its Solea,
they have deep and abiding interest in the
material blessings, which civil nnd political
freedom ditfuses throughout the world, aJ
well as i'll moral influences upon the minds
aud hearts Of their iel0w-citizens. 1t is to
he hoped that every member OF the craft
will be present at the meeting and unite
both heart and hand in devising some plans
and devices for demonstrating their regard
for the day So sacred to the cause of civil
freedom and human progress and happiness.
Let the meeting and its measures be worthy
of So important and respectable IA branch OF
the great family of Mechanics g.
Year: 1860

GssS-it is reported on the streets that J ulge
Law i'll accepting the nomination at Prince
ton, endorsed the Administration. We
don't believe it. 1t must be mistake
The Judge was never known to be wholly
and fully on one side Of political question
but once, and that vas when he wrote the
"Black Republican letter on excluding
slavery from the territories, and he has
repented that long ago in sackcIoth and
ashes. The Judge don't commit himself in
that style. lie is one of your compromise
men believes like every body else
Year: 1860

We are told that in the reply made 10y
Judge Law on Wednesday night to Il party
of his friends who Serenaded him, and cou-
gratulated him on his nomination for Con-
gress, he said that he would have no oppo-
nenti in the field. The Judge should not lay
that tlAttrring unction to his soul There
will, we doubt not, at TIE proper time. he n
candidate who will run him SO closely rs to
make him puff worse than he did when he
used (as Hicks says) to "preach Democracy
on the house tops


We have in our minds eye gentleman
who is as popular personally us the Judge
imagines himself and who, if he concludes
to respond to the very general desire of the
Opposition in this District, will give the
Democratic nominee a race that he will
long remember to his sorrow We refer To
Judge L. Q. DEBKULER Of Rpckport


Judge Law will find that the load of \ d.
minisration corruption aud party sin that
he will have to shoulder, will weigh him to
the earth. lie cannot escape responsibility
for the awful misdeeds of an AdIninistra-
ton that he has been defending and emdora-
ing. With such load on hls back, though
be were Hercules, he wouId he crushed
into the ground


The day has passed, rs we believe, when
IA Democratic nomination il this District can
be considered equivalent to an election The
people are perfectly sick of cliques, caucus
es and corrupt Conventions. They have
about concluded 10 take the mhnal lenlent ut
public affairs INTO their own hands
Year: 1860

Child-AnEeIs-Their Early Going Home.


Benjamin F. Taylor, of the Chicago
Journal relates thus eloquently and feelingly
upon the death Of child:


1t went in the morning-a bright and ra-
diant morning-many went yesterday, more
to-day, and there are dews to be shed for the
departures of tomorrow. And can 1t be
wondered that pleasant summer mornings
should beguile them into going2 Is it a
marvel that they do not wait for the burden
and the noon, but follow the lark and hear
her song over the rim Of the rainbow
That those words so beautiful, they should
make so true, land joy cometh in the morn
ing2"


Going in the morning q glorious morn
ing-when the sky is all beauty, and the
world is all bliss ere the dews have gone to
heaven, or the stars have gone to God; when
the birds are singing, and the cool winds are
blowing, and the flowers are out that will be
shut at noon, and the clouds that are never
rent in rain, and the shadows inlaid with
crimson lie away to the west


We have sometimes seen q little coffin,
like casket for Jewels, all alone by itselfin
a huge hesrse, melancholy with plumes, and
gloomy as a frown, and we have thought
not so, should we accompany those a little
way, who go in the morning. We have
NOhuOlCu why bhO1 ulu hOb lbhO GuG llJbl6
coffin into the carriage with them, and lay
it gently upon their laps, the sleeper there
lulled to slumber without bosom or a cradle.
We have wondered what there was for tears
in such a going-in the early morn
ing from home to home-like fair white
doves with downy wings emerging from
neither night and huttering for entrance at
the windows of Heaven. Never has there
been hand wanting to take the wanderer
in, and shut out the darkness and the storm.


Upon those little faces it never seemed to
us that death could place his great seal there
is no thought of the charnel-house in those
young listeners to the invitation, whose
acceptance we are bound not to forbid; there
should be morning songs and not sighs; fresh
flowers and not badges ofm0urning; no tears
nor clouds, but bright dews and bright dawn
ings together.


Fold up the white robe lay aside the for
gotten toy; smooth the little impressed pill
low, and gently smile as you think of the
white garment, ofthe harp ofgold and of the
fair brow with its diadem of light smile as
you think that no years can make that
memory old. An eternal, guileless child,
waiting about the threshold Of Paradise for
the coming friend from home.


Here the glad lips would quiver with an
guish; the bright curls growing grizzled and
gray the young heart weary and old, but
there, changeless as the stars, and young as
the Inst new morning.


The poet tells of green bough rent by the
tempest from the tree, and swept rudely
along on the breast ofan angry river, and q
mother-bird with cries Of grief futtering be-
side it, for her nest and nestlings were there.
All better to be waited away from earth,
than thus that they should drift around the
world in storm.
Year: 1860

A DIpLoMATIsT WITHOUT A COUNTRY OR A
KNG.-Among the diplomatic corps at Wash
ington there has not been greater favorite
than the Chevalier Massone, representative
of the King of Naples. The success of Carl
baldi placed him in position that was with
out a precedent. Not only was he with
out q king, but even without a country,
for Naples is merged in the unity OF
Italy. Accordingly Signor Massone de-
manded his papers, and will leave for Europe
shortly. On presenting him with his letter
recredence, General Oass remarked that ''the
Department regretted the departure of a
gentleman with whom its relations had been
perfectly satisfactory, and that he hoped that
he would be enabled to serve his country in
future as faithfully as he had served his
sovereign here
Year: 1860

HORRIBLE ACCIDENT ON SOUTHERN PLAN
TAT1oN.-A few days since, on Mrs. Curry's
plantation, in Wilkinson County, Miss, a
and some ladies with her. were anxious to
see the engine in motion, and negro was
ordered to fire up and put on steam~ The
steam made the engine revolve very slowly;
more steam was ordered ON, when the motion
of the engine was furious and appalling
The overseerer called to the negro to shut
off steam, but he had lost his senses by fright
and fed, together with the ladies. Mr..
Floyd ran to stop the engine, but just as he
reached it, met an explosion which tore his
body into fragments, scattering them far
and near. Half of his head, including one
eye, could not be found for burial.
Year: 1860

TOBACCO AND FALsEHooD.-Richards was
himself of the habit, he took up another,
which was that of making q pledge about
once month, that he would never chew
another piece. He broke his pledge just as
often as be made it. The last time had met
him, he told me he had broken off for good,
but now, as had met him, he was taking
another chew. "Why, Richards" says /,
iNyou told me you had given up that habit
but see you are at it again" "Yes," he
replied, 81 have gone to chewing again, and
left off lying.n
Year: 1860

WAD.-A mans head was blown off at
Stourport, England, on the Severn, by the
wadding of cannon. The gun was on a
barge, which conveyed party of volunteers,
and the accident occurred by the rocking of
the vessel raising the muzzle of the gun so
high that the charge, instead of striking the
river bank, went among the spectators on the
shore