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Year: 1869

The depression in financial circles
although not quite as stringent as last
week, is still acute and fast becoming
chronic. The lateness of the season
and probably early close OF the Erie
canal, renders it extremely proDlemat-
ical, whether there is to be very much
of let up before the opening of navi-
cation in the spring.


That there is an abundance of prod
uce IN the country to liquldate all the
pressing Indebtedness Of the commit
nifty, even at present prices, ifaveraged,
is not to be denied, but the extreme
slowness which attends the threshing
and moving of SO vast a crop, and the
low price at which greater portion OF
it must be sold will not bring in money
as fast as its transmission east is deman-
ded to discharge eastern indebtedness.
For this and other reasons we might
adduce, we see no prospect OF any I'M
mediate ease IN the money market
Hence we conclude that the situation
must be accepted, bad as It is, land we
should be thankful that it is not worse,
and that we must take the sacrifice,
pay our debts SO far AS possible, and
save litigation and costs, which must
follow refusal.


Our present situation as we have be-
fore stated has been complicated, by
our over anticipation of our income,
which in nine cases out OF ten is sure
to disappoint us in the realization, and
subject us to sacrifices to meet. Ii
this toretaste OF hard times will have
the effect to curtall expenses and learn
us to anticipate nothing, it will work an
untold good to this community. Pay
as you 90, then you are ever in posi-
ton of independence.


Our farmer friends have discovered
ere this that there is some sharp dun
ning as well as sueing going on, and we
wish more fully than yet has been
done, to explain the reason why oul
business men, whose hearts are large
as well as noble, are compelled to push
their customers. The business man us
ually buys his goods and groceries on
80, 80 or so days, as the case may be
giving his note, which is usually dis
counted at some bank, ana when due Il
not paid is protested and collection
forced, by compelling the party to &C
into bankruptcy, which of course ruin.
hlm. We give acase as anlilustration:out
OF our merchants finding himself with
his protested paper, thought OF course
to take advantage OF time i'll obtaining
a judgment and stay-but he soor
found that under the general bankrupt
law he would be forced into bankrupt
cy, and of course financially ruined
the money had to come no matter Al
how high a rate OF usury. This is the
situation our business men find them
selves in to-day. Is 1t any wonder
that they lun and ,hrcaten.-thcis very
existence AS business men compels then
to resort to the law. The sensible read
er can see from this thallenity on the
part OF the business man is his certain
ruin, and cannot be expected. Sci
preservation is the first law OF nature
We are sorry to feel compelled tc
chronicle such astatc of affairs, yet Just
ice to the worried aud distressed busi
ness man, demands it. Pay up ant
that at once. is now the word-,host
who do'it will continue to be tayorct
by their creditors, while those who IL
not will be cut OF with bad name
Marshall Times.
Year: 1869

Sir William Napier was one day
taking long country walk near
Frcshiord, when he met little girl
about five years old, sobbing over
broken bowl she bad dropped and
broken it in bringing it back from the
field to which she had taken her faith
er's dinner in it, and she would be
beaten on her return home tor having
broken it; then with sudden CLEAN
of hope, she irnocently looked into
his face and said: "But We can mend
it, can't ye:a My father explained
that he could not mend the bowl, but
he could by the gift OF sixpcnce, buy
another. However, on opening his
purse il Was empty Of silver, and he
had to make amends by promising to
meet his little friend IN the same spot
at the same hour next day, and to
bring the sixpence with him, bidding
hcrmeanwhile to tell hermothershe had
seen a gentleman who would bring
her money for the bowl next day
The child entirely trusting hlm, went
her way comtorted. On his return
home, he found an invitation await
ing him to dine in Bath the following
evening to meet with some one he
especially wished to see. He hesitated
for sene little time, trying to ca,cu-
late the possibility OF giving the meet
ing to his little friend of the broken
bowl, and OF still being IN time for
the dinner party in Bath, but finding
this could not be- he wrote to decline
accepting the invitation OH the plea OF
a "preengagemcnt," saying to US: IL
cannot disappoint her, she trusted me
so implicitly. - Bruce's life OF Ma
pier.
Year: 1869

TIE FAMILY RELATIONS According
TO TIE TALNuD-If your wife is Of a
short stature, bow down to her and hear
her words in reference 10 domestic Us
well as worldly affairs.


The husband should ever be anx-
ious that the proper respect be paid
to his wife, because the house is bles-
sed only for her sake.
Honor your wife, and you will be
blessed with richness.
Good and bad luck, pleasure and
grief, JOY and sorrow are in the hands
Of the wife.


Who takes unto himeslf a wife
brings luck to the house or yawning
gulf.


l have found a woman who is more
bitter than death-a bright jewel OF
an oppressive barden-sanil. loo.


Who lives without wife kown no
pleasure, no bliss, no blessing.


Who has TO thank SD much to his
wife Will not only treat her with the
utmost regard aud respect, but make
her position in the house fully equal
TO his own


\ man without wife is no man al
all.
Year: 1869

It is said by an old traoper iii the
Rocky Mountains that the winds are
mlder and damper than formerly
It seems too, that the fall OF rain is
more frequent and copious in Utah
and other parts OF the tar west than
formerly, and the rivers have increased
in volume
Year: 1869

Blessed are they that are ignorant for
they are happy IN thinking they know
everything. Blessed are the orphan
children for they have no mother TO
spank them. Blessed are they that do
not advertise; they are not bothered
with customers
Year: 1869




REPoRTER-Are these the only ques-
tions involved in this canvass?


JUDGE PAcKER-No. There are two
others, which regard rs of paramount
importance to the safety OF the citizen
and the virtue of the State. l refer to
the indlscriminate use Of the paidoning
power and special or class legislation.
While the one is AN incentive to crime
unless cautiously and sparingly used,
the other engenders corruption in the
State, whereby the name of legislator
becomesa a reproach. Against these evils,
reaching magnitude that has cast a
dark shadow over the State, every good
citizen should protest.


REPoRTER-How would you remedy
these evilsf
Year: 1869

New YORK, October 20.-None of
the Roman Catholic clergy have as
yet called upon Father Hyacinthe,
and the Boston delegation of clergy
men who announced their intention
Of calling upon him this morning have
not done so.
Year: 1869

DON'T Do IT.-Dont speak a harsh,
unkind word, and thus make sad the
heart of another. Speak gently; 'tis
better.


Don't make the burden of another
heavier, when it is in your power to
Tighten the same. Keep in good hu-
NOR, anger is waste of vitality. No
man or boy does his best except when
cheerful


A light heart makes nimble hands,
and keeps the body healthy and the
mind free.


Don't let others say that you are
selfish, and care only for yourself.


Don't live for your own comfort
and enjoyment alone; live for others.


Don't neglect the precious soul COM
nitted to your charge; remember it
must live forever


Don't waste the holy Sabbath; its
hours are too valuable.


Don't turn away from the bible it
is the book by which you will be
judged.


Don't speak against christians; re-
member their faults will not save you.


Don't live merely for the world;
remember the endless future, which
will make deeper impression than
we are aware of.
Year: 1869

MORE SOUTHERN LIFE.-The IA
nous duelling ground at New Orleans
known as The Oaks was lately the
scene of a sanguinary duel between
two young men of that CITY, which
has rarely had its parallel i'll the an
nails of the code either in this country
or in Europe. The antagonists were,
the one a native creole of New Or
leans, the other Frenchman by birth !;
the provocation a blow in the face at
the hand Of the creole; the weapons
were broadswords; the hour day
break. Arrived on the field, accom-
panied by their seconds, the combat
ants stripped to the waists, and sword
in hand, in the freezing air of the
morning, sprang at each other like
tigers. There was no hesitation or
playing to try each others skill. A
few lunges and cuts were successfully
parried, when suddenly an up cut
from the Frenchman'S sword wound
ed his opponent in the right arm. the
riposte from the creole laid open the
Frenchman's left cheek, laying the in
side open and exposing lis teeth
Nothing daunted, the wounded man
stepped back, had a handkerchief
bound round his face and again put
himself in an attitude Of ofenSe. His
first lunge penetrated the breast OF
his antagonist, between the rib and
the skin, but it was made with such
relentless force that it passed also
through the off arm. An attempt was
made at this moment by the seconds
to stop the matter at that point, but
the man with the handkerchief around
his jaws rushed at the second who
was most anxious to settle the matter
sword III hand, asservating that naught
should quiet his animosity except q
cut across the throat. The battle was
renewed and lasted until the creole
had received eight wounds and the
other six, all severe and painful, but
none, it is hoped, dangerous. Both
men displayed extraordinary courage
animosity and endurance, and during
the course Of the bloody encounter
neither was willing to give up the
contest until both had to let theil
hands fall helpless to their sides from
loss of blood and the pain of theil
wounds. The parties were carried
home after having their wounds dress
ed, and though the creole had two
more wounds, his situation was more
comfortable and less critical than tha


of his antagonist.
Year: 1869

ADVICE TO THE MARRIED.-Zchokke
in one of his tales, gives the follow
ing excellent advice:


In the first solitary hour after the
ceremony, take the bridegroom and
demand solemn VOW of him and give
him VOW in return. Promise each
other, sacredly, never, not even in
Jest, to wrangle with each other
never to handy words or to indulge
in the least ill-humor. Never-I say
nev6E Wrangling in jest, and put
ting on an air of ill-humor merely to
tease, becomes earnest by practice
Mark that Next, promise each other
sincerely and solemnly, never to keep
a secret from each other, under what
ever pretext, and whatever excuse it
might be. You must continually, and
every moment, see clearly into each
others BOSOM Even when one Of you
has committed fault, wait not an in
slant, but confess it. And as you keep
nothing from each other, SO, on the
contrary, preserve the privacles of
your house, marriage state and heart,
from father, mother, sister, brother,
aunt, and all the world. You two,
with Gods help, build your own quiet
world. Every third or fourth one
you draw it into with you will form a
party and stand between you two
That should never be. Promise this
to each other. Remember the VOW
at each temptation. You will find
your account in it. Your souls will
grow, as it were, to each other, and
at last will become as one. All, if
many a pair had, on their marriage
day, known this secret, how many
marriage were happier than, alas, they
are
Year: 1869

Where do the chickens run


When they are afraid?
Out of the light, out of the sun,


Into the dark, into the shade,
Under their mothers downy wing,
No longer afraid of anything.
Dear little girl, dear little boy,


Afraid of the dark
Bid goodbye to the daylight with joy,
Be glad of the night, for hark!
The darkness no danger at all can bring
1t is the shadow of Gods wing.
Where do the little violets creep


In the time of snow?
Into the dark to rest and sleep,


And to wait for the spring they go
Under the ground where no storm can


reach,


And God takes tenderest care of each.
Are you afraid, little girl or boy,


OF the dark of death?
Jesus will carry you full joy,


To the world of light, he saith;
And under the ground, where the violet<


sleep,


Your little bodies the Lord will keep
Year: 1869

JOSH BILLINGS PRovERBs.-The
fear of the law here, and the law here
after, has furnished US some very
clever specimens of christianity.


Fools don't know their strength; if
they did they would keep still.


Beauty never dies; it is like truth,
they both have an Immortality some
where.


If you would make yourself agreea-
BILE wherever you go, listen to the
grievances of others, but never relate
your own.


Common sense is almost generally
despised by those who havn't got it.


Although mankind worship wealth,
| will give them credit for one thing
they seldom mistake it for brains.
Treason is one of those stains which
wash well.


Shut New England out in the cold !
| should as soon think of shutting the
cold out of New England.


Monuments are poor Investments
the bad don't deserve them, and the
good don't need them.


The best way to keep secret is to
forget it.


1t isn't so much trouble to get rich,
as it is to tell when we have got rich.


If man wants to get at his actual
dimensions, let him visit graveyard.


1t is good plan to know good
many people, but to let only a few
know you.
Year: 1869

HEAvEN.-Heaven is not a spot to
lie down in, and there, on our couches,
tuning our harps, to think how much
misery we have personally escaped.
The christian heaven is an exalted So
ciety of self-sacrifcing spirits, bound
together in mutual fellowship by their
common conservation to Him who is
above them. where each accepted soul
will 60 from strength to strength, run
and not be weary, toll and not faint,
aspire and not be baff1ed, do good and
not be misinterpreted, and will be as
simulated in ever closer and closer
affinity to Him who is its light and
life, in whom whosoeyer liveth and
believeth shall never die.
Year: 1869

Ever so little the seed may be,


Ever so little the hand,
But when it is sown it must grow, you see,
And develop its nature, weed, flower, or
tree:
The sunshine, the air, and the dew are free


At its command.
Ifthe seed be good, we rejoice in hope


OF the harvest it will yield.
We wait and watch for its springing up,
Admire its growth, and count on the crop
That will come from the little seed we drop


In the great wide field.
But five heedlessly scatter wide


Seeds we may happen to find,
We care not for the culture or what may
betide,
We SOW here and there on the highway
side;
Whether they've lived or whether they've
died,


We never mind.
Yet every sower must one day reap


Fruit from the seed he has sOwn.
How carefully then it becomes us to keep
A watchful eye on the seed, and seek
To SOW what is good, that we may not weeE


To receive our own.
Year: 1869

her tears. She loved and was bless
ed. But the reputed bone of pat
riarch, or the skull of a prince, is as
far from having sanctity in my eyes,
as the spear that pierced the side of
the Saviour or the scourge that drew
his blood.


But there is no accounting for the
tastes of people, and disgusting as is
the idolatry of the Greek Church to
me, know that many English and
American Christians wish to have that
Church united to theirs. Iwould like
to see it reformed frst.-IRENEUs IN
N. Y. Observer.
Year: 1869

The Salisbury Esdminsr wishes to increase
its circulation, and trieste do so by mount
ing the repudiation hobby. Such a course
will be more likely to bring a Reputation
of the Ezaminer than anything else. r,ari y
Year: 1869

to write il the great braggart was rendered
unpresenta. e for many long day. That
number one c;t.,.od him to see fifty suns beam
ing in the tirmament with his right eye that
number two produced q similar phenomenon
with his left; that number three obliged him
to swallow front tooth and to observe the
ceiling more attentively than he had hitherto
done. And when one or two other that's had
completely cowed him, and he threw open
the window and called for help, the straw
berry-eater took him by the neck-wel, an
other and lower part, and flung him out of il
on to the tloWer-bed below


The strawberry -eater remained a month at
Bordeaux to fulfill his promise Of giving the
count his revenge. But then again the bully
met with more than his match The straw
berry-eater had Anglo for master as well
as Owen Swift, and after a few passes the
count too eager to kill his man, felt an
unpleasant sensation in his right shoulder
The seconds interposed, and there was al
end Of the affair, 1t was his last duel. Some
one produced sketch of him as he appeared
being thrown out of the hotel window, and
ridicule--sO awful to Frenchman-rid the
country of him. The strawberry eater was
alive when the battle of the Alma wa fought
and is the only man to whom the above facts
are known who never talks about them.
Year: 1869

The Gold Hill (Cal.) News of October st
tells the following:


"An old scrub of a dump-cart horse. work
ing at the grading of the railroad on the high
rocky hill just south of Crown point ravne,
last Friday evening getting excited probably
over an extra allowance ofbarley, ora arepug-
nance to night work, took Il notion to get re-
bellious, and started to run away. Recklessly
sloshing about in the dark, he plunged over a
stone wall sixteen feet high, then rolled sixty
feet further down the hill into an open cut
thirty feet deep, which directed him into an
old shaft OF incline l25 feet deep, down which
he went head first, carrying with him harness
and leaving the cart sticking fast in the mouth
of the shaft He was found next morning w.
ing on his back, wcdged between some BIG
rocks at the bottom of the shaft. He was
helped to his feet, and found to be all right,
except being scratched and bruised. The
railroad folks gave him to some boys, who
rugged windlass and hoistcd the old fellow
out This story is Us tough rs the horse, but
il is true, nevertheless
Year: 1869

Having persuaded itself that the
Democrats of Ohio county could be de.
luded by Republican platform mean.
ing nothing, into the support of Repub,
lican candidates intending nothing in
the liberal way, the Intelligence Of
yesterday woke up to realization Of
the fact that the "let up" movement is
Ohio county had gone just far enough
to ALLEVIATE the proscriptives and not far
enough to capture any Democrats


Anybody with less pig-headedness than
the Intelligencer ring, AID clearer vision
than bat, could have known this from
from the start. But our contemporary
assumed the reverse, and now, realizing
that HUBBARD and CAMPBELL are to bt
annihilated by the cross fire of the
proscriptive Republicans and the
straight-out Democrats, attempts to hold
Year: 1869

ALonden correspondent says: Much
astonishment has been caused by the
announcement that the Prince of Wales
has given up his pack of hariers at
Windsor. Sporting men and the farm
ers in the vicinity are very much dis.
tressed by the news, and the fact forms a
topic for much comment, public and
private. The expense of keeping up
these dogs, and hunting with them oc'
casionally in royal style, amounts yearly
to several thousand pounds. The Prince
has found himself unable to make both
ends meet on his trifing income of hall
a million of dollars, and as the public
voice has been unanimous against any
increase of his allowance, he has foand
retrenchment necessary, and so begin.
with his hariers. What will go next re
mains to be seen.
Year: 1869

"sink party" and insisted that the
Democrats should offer uncondi'
tional allegiance to the majesty OF
HUBBARD and CAMPBELL. They now
see the extravagancs and the hopeless
ness of their demand.


Defeat stares them in the face. 1t
cannot be sverted. 1t would be moth
ing more! than common fortitude for
them to bear the fate they have pro-
voked. When they undertake to beg
off in advance by bleatiDg about the
bad faith of the REGISTER they simply
invite public contempt.
Year: 1869

Has been provided preparation in which the
solid extracts OF the finest restoratives Of the
vegetable kingdom are held in solution by q
spirituous agent purged Of all deleterious con
stituents. The patient in choosing between
these two great antidotes, should be guided BY
his own condition. II in 4 very low state from
debility, the Tonic should be his selection: bu;
pressing the Bitters is Othe specific n required M d
Thousands find infinite benefit from taking each
in turn. THERE'S no phase OF ndigestion, Bilious
ness, Nervous Diseases, or Physical Prostration
10 which they arc not adapted, and in which
singly or combined, they will not effect q cure


Biliousness, Indigestion. General Debility
and all the complaints which proceed from a
want Of proper action in the Liver Stomach
and the Bowels, are eradicated by q course OF
thia great
Year: 1869

That's STEVENSON all over. He prints
an anonymous letter to counter balance
the published statement of response
BILE man. Was he afraid the name of
the author would give the lie to his let
teri If the author is really "a re-
spectable and reliable citizen ofNicho-
las county" why not give his name and
let the public see what your standard OF
respectability and reliability isl Only
spies and the doers of dirty work feel
compelled to shun daylight and respon'
sibility.


But who is this Doctor RUCKER, about
whom complaint is madei A Simon
pure Republican, upon whose loyalty
there is no stain. Governor STEVENSON
made grave mistake when he omitted
to'suppress his name along with that OF
the author of this blood and thunder
letter. There is nothing of the rebel OF
traitor about RUCKER. You can hang
no "loyaln scalps to his belt, Governor
He is a man after your own heart. By
YOUR own showing this "leyal'' leader
with his 'loyal" mob is fighting the vii
lainies of your "loyal" Board. The stencil
is of your own raising Governor. Hadn''
l. you better fumigate g <
Year: 1869

Our neighbor of the Courier is
fond of quoting the eccentric sayings
of the above gentleman against the
Republican party. We hope he will
give his readers the benefit of the
following opening sentences of
Donn's speech before the Colored
Mems Convention


"MY UNCONSTITUTIONAL FRIENDs-
l have accepted cheerfully the invi-
tatiOn of your committee to say
something to you on this occasion.
| am no politician, and have no 9th
or interest in this demonstration than
that which comes of an interest long
felt in the welfare of your race
This is probably the only opportuni-
ty shall have to address you, for
the Fifteenth Amendment will soon
he the constitutional law of the land,
and l will find myself crowded off
The stump by the Democratic orators,
who will address you from every
road as "onr colored fellow
citizens" precisely as they now ad-
dress the Irish as "our Irish fellow
citizens" and the Germans as 'sour
German fellOw-citizens.'' These pol
iticians will crawl upon their bellies
and lick the feet of any class possess
ed of the political power the ballot
gives, as they will, on the other hand,
cruelty Oppress and abuse any class
not armed with this potent privi-
lp0e.',
Year: 1869

A young man may go to the village
of Walnut Hills to learn the trade oil
q blacksmith or shoemaker or to en-.
gage in any pursuit or occupation
except the study of theology, and ne
is permitted by law to vote, provid-
ing he remains there the period of
thirty days. But let him engage in
fitting himself in Lane Seminary for
the sacred calling of the ministry
and he is excluded by the Democrat
ic law from the privilege of voting,
though he may have resided at
Walnut Hills, one, two, or even three
years. To preserve the purity Of
elections. theological students must
not be allowed to exercise the rights
of citizens afte- three years resi-
dence in a place, but "colonists''
from other counties, and all sorts OF
rowing vagabonds can vote after a
residence of thirty days. This is
tie logic of the Students voting law.
Journal.