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Year: 1867

The attempt to create an excitement up.
on the attorney generals Interpretation Of
the reconstruction acts is about to prove a
most impotent failure. The fact that these
opinions were not volunteered, but were re-
quested through the regular channel of off
eial communication by the generals com
manding in the south, has been regarded by
the thoughtful and considerate organs and
masses of the republican party as an ample
justification of the utterance of the opinions
and the added fact that these opinions have
been calmly considered, and with singular
unanimity almost entirely approved and
adopted by every officer of the president
cabinet, rebs the hot-headed hotspurs of the
radical revolutionary cabal of all their than
der, and renders their furious invectives
against the President and the attorney gen
esal simply ridiculous.
Year: 1867




A Turks TRIBUTE TO THE SISTERS OF
CHARITY.-A Turkish history of the Crime
an war bears the following testimony to the
brave deeds done in the hospitals at Scutari
and elsewhere by the Sisters of Charity:


''The invalids derived inappreciable solace
from the presence of Sisters of Charity
amongst them. These selfdenying women
tended them as mothers and sisters are ex-
pected to attend sons and brothers. They fed
those unable to feed themselves. They nursed
the wounded with gentle hands they cheered
the desponding by their society; they
smoothed the pillow of the sleepless. We saw
many poor fellows eyes light up as one OF
those good spirits, noiseless and smiling.
approa ached his bedside, if only to say
kind word or pass on to another. In our un.
worthiness we have been unable to elevate
our thoughts to that frame of mind which
leads women, many Of them fair and young,
to devote themselves, uncheered by fame
their names and garb conventional, to the
service of humanity in its most repulsive
form. They seemed to be ubiquitous
wherever suffering lay there they were sure
to be found"
Year: 1867

A letter from Boston, in regard to the
Presidents reception, there, has the follow
ing "Bostonians say that never before
was there time when politics was so sue
cessfully excluded from public demunstra.
ton in honor of a public man, and many are
glad to have the President among them, in
order that they could express their respect
for. him as Chief Magistrate and as his fel-
low citizens, irrespective of the issues which
disturb the country"
Year: 1867

The railroad connection between Omaha and
the East is now complete, and the earnings of the
Union Pacific on the sections already finished for
the first two weeks in May were $4,000. These
sectional earnings as the road progresses will
much more than pay the interest on the Compa-
ny's bonds, and the through business over the on
ly line of railroad between the Atlantic and Pa
citic mnst be immense
Year: 1867

THE STORY OF a woMAN's LIFE.


/ was not handsome or very bright.
Neither the youngest nor eldest. just plain
Hepzebah Lee. No one ever thought of
calling me Hessie, only one and that for
so short time that it did not much mat
ter. Elizabeth. my eldest sister, was al
was Lizzie, and Catherine was always
Kate from her cradle. Lizzie was hand
some and Kate was smart. so it came
about that, while one married young and
left home, the other went away to teach,
/ staid at home and kept house for father.
/ am sure | did not envy them, for Lizzie's
husband was never to my mind, and as
for teaching il was little enough | knew of
books. i could never read page without
growing dlowsy, though maybe it was be-
cause the farm work was hard, and when
| had once quit stirring about, l grew
drowsy over my knitting, even, unless /
set myself sharply to thinking of the next
days butter. or what we had best do with
the brindled cows calf, or anything else
about the farm.


So,mother being many years dead and /
not like TO marry, it was but natural that l
should stay by father. | was not, as / said,
like to marry, for we were FIVE miles from
the village and / had little heart for the
merry-makings there, even if had the
time. And then, every young man for
miles around / had seen, for Lizzie was
found of company and was known through
all the country for her handsome face,
though she was only a farmers daughter,
and ! knew none of them were for me,
nor | for them.


There was one Harvey Burrill, a worth
less fellew knew-maybe thought the
more of him because he was the only one
who ever minded my soft blue eyes, or
called me Hessie but that was long.
long ago, before Kate left home, and no
one knew that he cared for me. 1t was
only little while, / think the days were
very short that summer, and SO it seems
very little while. / heard, then. many an
i'll story of him, but l could have almost
forgiven him anything when he was by
me. Anything but lie; that could
never forgive, and SO we parted. did
not grieve over it, but put it away and
tried to work the harder. There was need,
for father cleared the wood lot that winter,
and we had extra men, but / am ashamed
to say that it was long before l could for
get the look of his eyes, maybe because
was weakly that winter, and days churn-
ing was burden. OF course it was long
ago, and I'd not speak of it now, but for
what came altersards.'


Ten years s,aid by father. Ny hands
were too busy to mind if my heart was
content. What with the baking and churn-
ing, the calves and the chickens ia the
spring, and the pigs in the fall, to say
nothing of the turkeys and geese, i had lit
tie time to think, but one day just followed
another. and my whole life seemed to lie
between the dairy and the kitchen. am
sure trouble does not come al the watching
but when we fold our hands, as ! did that
night, and say, 1t viii always be as it is
now,' then the change comes 10 US sat
on the stone by the door, helping Janet,
Year: 1867

Could We but know
The land that ends our dark, uncertain travel,
Where lie these happier hills and madows low
All, if beyond the spirits ininost cayil,
Aught Of that country could we surely know,


Who would notgo'


Might we but hear
The lowering angels high imagined chorus,
Or catch, betilres, with wakeful eyes and clear,
One radiant vista Of the realm before u.s.
With one rapt moment given to see and hear,


All, who would fear!


Were we quite sure
To find the peerless friend who left US lonely,
Or there by some celestial streams as pure,
To gaze in eyes thit here were lovely only
This weary mortal coil, quite sure,


who could endure
Year: 1867

PoLITIcAL WIRE-WoRKING.--A correspondent
of the Nevada Transcript, writing recently from
San Francisco, says -" Political wires are al
ready being skillfuly manipulated here, and the
slate is being rapidly filed One would suppose
that the State was owned by San Francisco, and
that each politician had county that he could
safely count upon as could an English land
holder who owned some borough in former
times. Cannot the State at large, or the people,
control Conventions. and cannot men, who are
choice of the majority, be put in office, or will
delegates, as heretofore, enter the Convection and
vote at the beck of wire-pullers. believe the
trouble has been heretofore that interior districts
have been careless in the selection of delegates
to represent them. Cannot politicians be sent
who can cope with the Metropolitan clique? At
least send men down whose ambition will not be
satisfied with the abandonment of choice men
for the smile of San Francisco politician"
Year: 1867

PoLITIcAL PLEDGEs.-Many of the worst evils
in partisan politics result from the practice of
giving pledges to go for particular candidates,
long in advance of the time for making nomina


tons. Through friendship for aspirants, or
those who are interested in their success, many
good persons often make promises, which, in the
sequel, are found TO hamper their choice and to
connect them with odious schemes and combina
tons Often, as the canvassing preliminary to
convention progresses, other candidates appear
whom they would much prefer on public con-
siderations if they were not pledged already, and>
constrained by sense of honor to keep promises
which conflict with their sense of duty. 1t Is
safe rule to refuse to make any premature
pledges. Professional politicians who make and
unmaks combinations at will, and who have
scruples of conscience about breaking their word,
can afford to be lavish of promises but the we'll
meaning citizen, who desires to use his influence
for the public good should be very chary of
them. For his own peace and quiet he Will find
this the better course. If he is likely to be
delegate to any nominating body and desires to
exercise an independent Judgment, he should
reserve his decision between candidates until the
time to ac, shall arrive. He may and will often
have his choice privately determined long before
but this does not commit him toanybodys pro-
gramme it does not hamper his will, nor prevent
him from doing n bold right thing at the dictate
of public duty The State and city have most
to expect from delegates VINO go into convention
unpledged and resolved to make those nomina-
tions which seem most favorable to the public
interests without regard to private intrigres and
combinations An independent judgment ought
ever to be carried into and exercised at the
primaries and it would be good thing if the
names of delegates then to be chosen could be
as we'll known and freely canvassed beforehand
as those of candidates for Office Caucus resolu-
tions and private intrigues could not then avail
to prevent the average sentiment of the COM
munty from asserting itself-S. T. Bulletin.
Year: 1867

BARLEY AND RYE FOR HoRsEs.-M


first experience in feeding barley to


horses was in California, where there


was no other grain raised for feed at
that time. All our horses were fed on


it for two years without any change,


and meyer got tired of it, always thriv-


ing and looking remarkably well for


the amount of labor they performed.


This induced me to raise it to feed


after my return from that country, and


i have learned to esteem it higher
than any other grain (when ground
for horses, 1tis too hard to feed in
the grain. 1t is less liable to founder
than corn, wheat, or rye, yet contains
but very little less nutriment than eth
or of those grains / have raised a
great many colts, and have made
breeding trotting horses study, and
in all my experience l have
found nothing equal to barley
meal to make a mare give milk. l
have found it no disadvantage to
mares getting foal, and not any while
she was So Oats are a better food
for colts from weaving time until they
go to work. Rye is dangerous grain
to feed alone; it is more liable to
founder than any other grain; but to
mix with shorts, or to grind with oats,
and feed without hay or straw,it makes
excellent feed. Instead of being pre-
ventixe to pregnancy in mares, it is an
advantage. / own and keep for serv-
ice one of the finest and most promis-
ing stations in the State; and if any
one has mare they wish to put at
certain time ! always recommend feed \
ing the mare with boiled rye, blood
warm, to get her in season, and it new
er fails to do its work in from three to
five days, and / never knew mare to
refuse the horse after such Treatment.
Three quarts three times day,is good
feeding. This discovery may be of
great value to breeders, and save an {
enormous sight of trouble.
Year: 1867

The American ship Cremona was on
the eve of leaving Calcutta on her
homeward-bound passage. The star
board anchor hung at the cat-head, and
the other was already a peak-the sails
hung in graceful festoons from the clew
lines and bluntlines, the studding gear
was all rugged, the topsail halyards
We're cleared ready for running, and all
that the good ship waited for was the
presence of Mr. Bowditch, the owner,
who was going home in her,


At length Mr.. Bowditch came, ac-
companied by his daughter Mary, a lit
tie girl of some thirteen years of age,
and two Malay servants. Most of the
luggage had been on board several days,
but on the present occasion he brought
off huge box which he desired to have
very carefully taken over the side, and
after all was safe and snug, and the old
ship fairly under headway, the men
learned that the great box contained no
more nor less than a large Bengal tiger.


At any time the immediate neighbor-
hood of the Royal Tiger wears an atmos-
phere anything but pleasant, but when
the neighborhood is bounded by the
narrow commences of shipboard, it is
reasonable to suppose that some anxiety
at least, may be exercised on the occa-
sion. Some of the sailors on board the
Cremona were rather inclined to super
stition-not more so, perhaps, than the
common run of sailors-and under the
peculiar circumstances of the present
case, they found plenty of food for
superstitious dread; but then the thing
was done, and it couldn't be undone-
the tiger was on board, and they con-
cluded that they must make the best
of it.


One man in particular, by the name
of White, who belonged to Connecticut,
experienced the utmost dread of the
forest tyrant, and no assurances on the
part of those who felt perfectly secure,
could set his mind at ease.


The cage was in the hold, directly
beneath the main hatchway, and ever
and anon, as the deep savage, growl of
the Royal Bengal came up like the
rumbling of an earthquake from the
bowels of the ship, White would start
back from his occupation, whatever it
might be, and tremblingly stand, like
one thunderstruck, till the noise ceased.
Not many weeks before, poor White
Year: 1867

Well, let him 60 and let him stay
do not mean to die;
l guess he'll find that can live


Without him. if try;
He thought to frighten me with frowns
So terrible and black
He'll stay away thousand years
Before ask him back
He said that l had acted wrong,
And foolishly beside;
l won't forget him after that
wouldn't if died.
If was wrong, what right had he
To be so cross with me:
know I'm not an angel quite
I don't pretend to be.
He had another sweetheart once,
And now when we fall out,
He always says she was not so cross,
And that she didn't pout.
It's enough to vex saint


It's more than l can bear
l wish that girl of his was


Well. l don't care where.
He thinks that she was pretty, too
Was beautiful as good;
wonder if she'd get him back


Again, now, if she coulds
know she would, and there she is
She lives almost in sight;
And now it's almost nine o'clock
Perhaps he's there tonight.
I'd almost write to him to come
But then I've said 1 wont;
do not care so much. but she


Shan't have him if 1 don't.
Besides, l know that was wrong,
And he was in the right;
l guess I'll tell him so-and then
1 wish he'd come tonight.
Year: 1867

My heart is chilled, my pulse is slow.
But often and often will memory go,
Like blind child lost in a waste of snow,
Back to the days when 1 loved you so,


The beautiful long ago.
l sit here. dreaming them through and thro',
The blissful moments I shared with you
The sweet, sweet days when our love was


new,


When I was trustful and you were true


Beautiful days, but few.
Blest or wretched, fettered or free,
Why should l care how your life may be,
Or whether you wander by land or sea,
l only know you are dead to me,


Ever and hopelessly.
Oh how often at days decline,
pushed from my window the curtaining
To see from your lattice the lampGgh,


shine;


Type of message that, half divine,


Flashed from your heart to mine.
Once more the starlight is silvering all,
Inc roses steep Oy the garden wall,
The night bird MARBLES his madrigal,
And hear again through the sweet air fall


The evening bugle call.
But summers will vanish, and years will wane
And bring no light to your window-pane
Nor gracious sunshine, nor patient rain,
Can bring dead love back to life again


l call up the past in vain.
My heart is heavy, my heart is old,
And that proves dross which I counted gold
watch no longer your curtains fold,
The window is dark and the night is cold,


And the story forever told
Year: 1867

GARIBALDI on AMERICAN AFFAIRS.


Garibaldi has written the following letter upon
American affairs in reply to an American who asked
his opinion The letter has already been alluded to
IN q cable dispatch:


"CAPRERA, Jan. g.
happy TO be able 10 respond to your wish to
my opinion upon the present controversy between
the President Of the United States and the majority In
Congress shall certainly give II with the consciousness
that the question at issue not only America but
humanity at large Yes for friends OF the American
Union who trcmbled, for moment for its integrity dur
ing tho gigantic struggle which you have 50
HAPPILY brought to an end, the Importance g., OF OF
the vote OF the ooOred race Is lessened In pres
ence Of tho danger of fresh dtssensfon Menberss
Of the human fraternity, we make no distinction OF
We have therefore, appauded tho election mace
by the generous population OF Massachusetts, In the per
OF two colored deputies as their representatives and
we shall applaud any such demonstration In country
where liberty and progress are not empty words Wnat
We however chiefly desire Is that the harmony more OF
less complete which reigns among the members OF
the American family may not be disturbed, ana that
every sort Of individual prejudice may be sacrced az
any cost in order to maintain intact the integrity OF inc
great Republic the strongest palladium OF liberty IN the
world May your President therefore, come 70 an under
standing with Congress, and may dissensOn no longer
exist between the States constituting your admirable
political system. Such IS the wish formed by your SIN
cere friends, amOngwhO nm proud 10 include myself


Yours faithfully, q. GARIBALDL"
Year: 1867

The Central Committee for the elections to the
North German Parliament had decided to defray the
travelling expenses of the Prussian Liberal deputies
and TO guarantee them the remuneration for their
Parliamentary services which had been refused by
the Government. s,,
aly reported to his Government that In Vienna was
believed tue object of tho STAY Of the Prusslan qe9
Year: 1867

favorable terms on the subject of the decree Of the
10Th inst, and praise thc change In the system


cised with regard to the press Several express re-
gret at the suppression Of the address in reply to the
speech from the throne but the majority recognize
the decree considerable step IN liberal direc-
Year: 1867

DR.. johnson wisely said, "He who waits
to do a great deal OfgOOd at once, will new
er do anything" Life is made up of lit
tie things-It is but once in an age that
occasion is offered for doing great deed.
True greatness consists in being great in
little things. How are railroads built? by
one shovel of dirt after another; one shovel
at time. Thus, drops makes the ocean.
Hence we should be willing to do a
little good at time, and never "wait to
do great deal of good at once" five
would do much good in the world, we must
be willing to do good in little things, little
acts and one after another; speaking a
word here, giving a trace there, and set
ting good example all the time, we must
do the first thing we can, and the next, and
to keep on doing good. This is the way to
accomplish any thing Thus only shall we
do all the good in our power.
Year: 1867

GENTLEMANLY CONDUCT.-Self re-
spect is the safest preventive against
quarreling. The man who is sure of
his position is the slOwest to suspect
another of a design to question it; and
hence the art of avoiding alterations
has generally beOn deemed one of the
peculiar characteristics of the gentle
man. Never to seem afraid of being
put upon, as the phrase is-never to
argue the question merely lest people
should think you n'targue it-never
to fight simply for fear that lOokers-On
might think you are a cOward-these
are some of the maXims on which all
men of superior minds act, habitu-
ally and uncOnsCiOusly; and it is the
habit which gives to such men that
air of repOse and self possession, be-
fore which fools stand abashed and
dandies wax wild with envy.
Year: 1867

Every man who has sense enough
to appreciate a wOman's worth, and
energy and industry enough to sup
port her, and virtue and intelligence
enough to bring up his children in the
way they should gO-every such man
should marry. And every woman
who is able to comprehend the value
of a good husband, and has love
enough to prompt her to cheer him in
his time of trial and WEAKNESS, and
generosity enough to prevent him
from making himself the slave of her
extravagance-every such woman, we
say, should marry.
Year: 1867

The ritual excitement in England
shows little signs of abatement. Some
phases of the serious question are very
ludicrOus. For instance, a member
lately introduced in the House Of
Commons a bill to regulate the dress
of the clergy. 1t made the singular
provision that no clergyman should
wear "any other garment, covering or
ornament" =" except asurplice and hood.
The bill fortunately did not pass.
Year: 1867

Base ball is sraging foarfully through
out the oil region, sparing neither age
nor condition. We eat base ball, talk
it, and act it. The other night one
of the deacons of a church in Frank
lin, winding up a petition to the
throne of Grace, said ooh, Lord,
as we start for homo run to glory,
don't let us by the devil be caught out
ON fN "
Year: 1867

ENERGY.-Energy, literally from the
Greek, is inward -wOTkingness; the bloom
ing Of the flower is energy, the increase Of
fruit is energy, the growth Of the body is
energy; yet in all these there is no Lyio--
vital: without it the whole frame must fall
at once into corruption; with it, instead of
rorru urtion we have life
Year: 1867

A man advertised for wife, and request
ed each candidate to enclose her carte de
Uisite. A spirited young lady wrote 70 the
advertiser in the following terms-'ISir, 1
do not enclose my carte, for, though there
is some authority for putting a cart before
a horse, know of none for putting one
before an ass"
Year: 1867

Disease is simply obstruction. The man
who can touch the bottom of his lung with
a bit of fresh air, and the end of his toe
with a little blood, may laugh at the doc
tor and break Off acquaintance with the
undertaken. He is sure of getting into the
nfneties.-FAnon.
Year: 1867

IN referring TO our card As above, we would


say that IN the future, as in the past, we will
give our best attention TO the interests Of our
patrons on all cOnsiguments MADE Us. That
while our facilities are At least equal to any,
TIE USUAL CH ARGES WILL BE MADE,
and we pledge ourselves that the result 70 the
planter on all business tntrus usted TO us shall be
as favorable as from any other house Of equal
standing, or from parties who may propose to
transact business for less than We feel we can
justly and safely afford to co. oc3-3m
Year: 1867

\ RAT SToaY-A Western man saw one rat
clasp an egg tightly between his fore legs ana
chin, and then turned himself on his back, when
another rat seized him by the tail and dragged
rat, egg and all away to his hole.