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Year: 1868

4 story is told of a favorite janitOr in
n neighbOring city who was accustomed
to have certain matters in charge AT va
rious public entertainments. A short
time since during Il lecture n lady faint
ed. He was always ready for an emer-
gency Of this kind, and had all the nee.
essary restoratiNes close at hand for use.
She was borne into an ante-room, aud
our friend rushed for his bottle of cam
| phor, and proceeded to rub her face and
forehead, applying it to her nose for
her to smell of. After while she re-
vived, and he then became conscious
that there was something wrong abou
the camphor. He smeit oft, and founC
that all Of its virtue had evaporated
he applied his tongue to it, and found
to his dismay, that he had been bathing
his patient literally with mucilage
She was so stuck up by the attention
that she had to be sent home in Il ear


riage.
Year: 1868

ATLANTA, August lin the Sen
ate to DAY. question was taken as to
sustaining the decision of the Chair,
which was that inasmuch as Bradley
lad resigned, the case was out of the
haads OF the Senate. The decision
was sustained by vote of 20 yeas
and 10 nays.
Year: 1868

Tbirty-three millions of dollars were
ornropristed by Congress for the ex-
,,snses of the War Department for 1868.
This was before the election. Now the
secretary of War announces that an ex-
ira appropriation of ninety millions
mp.t be made to meet the deficiency.
With such men at the head of public
affairs. it is no wonder that the debt
Increases at the rate of twelve millions
or dollars per month.
Year: 1868

1t is said that if the bodies of peach
trees are well banked up with earth at
the beginning of winter, and the earth
removed in the spring, they wlll pear
much better than they otherwise would
Year: 1868

WE FADE AS A LEAr,-As the trials of
life thickcn, and the dreams of other days
fade, one by one, in the deep vista of disap~
pointed hope, the heart grows weary of the
struggle, and we begin to realize our insig-
nifcance. Those who have climbed to the
pinnacle of fame, or rcvel in luxury and
wealth, go to the grave at last with the poor
mendicant who begs pennies by the wayside,
and like him are soon forgotten. Generation
after generation, says an eloquent modern
writer, have felt as we feel, and their fellows
were as active in life as ours are now They
passed away as a vapor, while nature wore
the same aspect of beauty as when her Crea-
tor commanded her to be. And So likewise,
shall it be when we are gone. The heavens
will be as bright over our graves as they are
now around our path; the world will have
the same attraction for offspring yet unborn
that she had once for ourselves, and that she
has now for our children. Yet little while
and all this will have happened Days will
continue to move on, and laughter and gong
will be heard in the very chamber in which
we died and the eye that mourncd for US
will be dried and will glisten with JOY; and
even our children will cease to think of US,
and will not remember to lisp our name.
Year: 1868

THE OLD MAN.-Bvw low the head boy.
do reverence to the old man! Once like You
the vicisitudes of lie have silvered the hair,
and changed the round merry face to the
worn visage before you. Once the heart beat
with aspirations o-cqual to any that you have
felt; aspirations crushed BY disappointment
as yours are perhaps destined to be. Once
that form staked proudly through the gay
scenes Of pleasure, the beau ideal of grace
now the hand of time, that withcrs the flowers
of yesterday has warped that figure and des-
troyed the thousand thoughts that press
through your brain, now wishing to accom-
plish deeds equal to book in. fame and
imagining life like dream, tha: the sooner
he awoke from it the better. But he has
lived the dream near through. The time to
awaken is very near at hand, yet his eye ever
kindles at bold deeds of daring, and the hand
takes a firmer grasp of the staff. Bow low
the head boy, as you would, in your old age,
be reTerenccd- Tr01rcl
Year: 1868

NECESSARY RULES OF SLEEP-There is
no fact more clearly established in the ply
siology of man, than this, that the brain ex>
pends its energies and itself during the hours
of wakefuness, and that these are recuperated
during sleep. If the recuperation does not
equal the expenditure, the brain withers-
this is insanity. Thus it is that, in early
English history persons who were condemned
to death by being prevented from sleeping,
always died raving maniacs; thus it is also,
that those who are starved to death become
insane. The brain is not nourished, and they
cannot sleep. The practical inferences are
these list. Those who think most, who do
most brain work, require most sleep. I'd


That time "saved" from necessary sleep is
infalibly destructive to mind, body. and estate


Give yourself, your children, your servants
give all that are under you, the fullest amount
of sleep they will take, by compelling them
to go to bed at some regular hour, and to rise
in the morning the moment they awake; and
within fortnight, nature, with almost the
regularity of the rising sun, will unloose the
bonds Of sleep the moment enough reoose has
been secured for the wants Of the svstem.-
This is the only safe and sufficient rule. And
as to the question, how much sleep any one
requires each must be a rule for himself
Great nature will never fail to write it out to
the observer under the regulations just given
Year: 1868

VERY GooD.-A learned professor in a
New England college was accustomed to
demand OF students excuse whenever they
were..dilitory at recitation. The excuse given,
he invariably added: very well; but don I
let it happen again" One morning married
student happening to be behind time. WIS
promptly interrogated as to the cause. Slight
" embarrassed, he replied


''The truth is sir, had addition 10 m
family this morning, and it was not convenient
to be here sooner"


Very WELL" replied the professor. in his
quick, nervous manner, very well but don t
let this happen again ~
Year: 1868

NOBLE SENTIMENTS Feaseuden con-
cluded his speech against conv icton as fol-
lows:


TO the suggestion that popular opinion
demands the conviction Of the President on
these charges, reply that he is not now on
trial before the people, but before the Senate
In the words OF Lord Eldon upon the trial of
the Queen, 4 take no notice CT what is pass
ing out of doors because l am supposed, con-
stitutionally, not to be acquainted with it.
And again, 1T is the duty OF those on whom
judicial task is imposed to meet reproach,
and not court popularity The people have
not heard the evidence as we have heard it.
The responsibility is not on them, but upon
US. They have not taken an oath to do im-
partial justice according to the Constitution
and the laws | have taken that oath. l
cannot render judgment upon their convic-
tions, nor can they transfer to themselves my
punishment if violate my own. And l
should consider myself undeservng the con-
fiGence Of that just and intelligent people
who imposed upon me this great responsible
ty, and unworthy place among honorable
men, if for any fear Of public reprobatior,
and for the sake OF securing popular favor L
should disregard the convictions OF my judg-
mcnt and my conscience.


The consequences which may follow either
from conviction or acquittal are not for me,
with my convictions, to consider. The future
is in the hands of II i'm who made and gov
erns the universe, ard the fear that He will
not govern it wisely and we'll would not ex-
cuse me for 4 violation Of His law.
Year: 1868

The Hon. John Forsyth, editor of the Mo-
bile Register, writes as follows from Wash
ington to his paper:-


GAS an observer of the march of events at
this focus Of political sentiment, l should fall
short of duty as faithful chronicler, did l
omit to note the all but universal feeling that
the revolution now in progress will culminate
in another domestic war-this time not Sec
tional but a civil war. All intelligent Dem
ocrats have ceased to doubt that it is the de-
sign of the Radical revolutionists to hold on
to the power of the Government, under all
and any circumstances. 1t is with this view
that they are so intent on driving Mr.. john
son from the Executive seat and placing them
selves in full possession of fall the departments
of the. Government when the critical hour
strikes. They will manipulate the votes Of
the Electoral College to give themselves a
majority. and they will force upon the Dem
ocrats the fearful responsibility of inaugura-
ting civil war, to sustain their claims justly
resulting from constitutional majority of
the people. If the Democratic President
elect is a man of weak and nerveless charac-
ter, they expect an easy victory and acqul-
escence in their usurpatiOn. Hence the gen
eral Democracy desire to select leader who
will be equal in judgement, in daring, and in
the confidence of the people, to the great
emergency. The need is for both states
man and for soldier; and probably the quail
tiles of the latter, in high and stern degree,
will be all essential to open the path for the
exercise of the official qualities Of the first
And perhaps, too, if the right man is in the
right place-some man Of Jacksonian temper
the Radicals may be deferred from the
coup dc force which none doubt it is their
purpose to attempt. 1t remains to be said
that have not met the first Democrat who,
having measured the danger and the respon-
sibility, hcsitatcs to declare that his mind is
made up to the solemn duty of meeting the
issue as presented, and Of inauguruting, at
the point of the bayonet, the white President
elected by a majority of the white men of the
United States. Upon these premises being
correct, Washington will be a very lively
place about the 4th of next March. A civil
war would be deplorablc calamity in this
country, where the energetic character Of the
people compels them to do with all their
might whatever they put their hands to.
And once begun, no man could forecast the
end. 1t might outlast the thirty years Ger
man war, or go on until slaughter survived
the recollcctions of the issues and principles
upon which it was originally urged. But
there are worse things than war, in its most
sangunary, and destructive {orm. The free
dom of nation like this is peerless beyond
all sacrifices; priceless above all earthly bOons.
So reason the anti Radical men, and in the
spirit Of the argument they declare they have
made up their minds to act"
Year: 1868

The pivot of pending discussion is
Grant. We can write nothing about cur
rent affairs that does not mention his
name; aud whether we are for or against
him, we are quite unable to leave him
out of the count" There seems to be in
embryo not only personal conflict for
the succession between him and the
President, but there is already col
lision as to their respective powers. The
dictator bill, if psssed, will only make
matters worse. Our opinion as to the
powers of the President has never been
immoderate, but nothing is clearer than
that the new powers to be conferred upon
General Grant are in bold conflict with
the Constitution. This is virtually con-
fessed even in all the worst acts yet
passed by Congress. The former recon
struction acts went to the verge of Radi-
cal daring in opposition to the military
authority of the President; but none of
them ventured to take out of his hands
the assignment of the Generals. The
chief command of the army, vested in
in him by the Constitution, must have
some meaning; and if the designation
of officers for the discharge of particu-
lar duties be not one of the functions Of
COMMANDMENTS Chief, it is impossible to
name any thing which is. The Presi.
dent can command no officer to do any
thing contrary to law; but, on the other
hand, no officer can be exempted from
obedience to all the commands the Pres
ident may choose to give in accordance
with law. Congress can not itself select
this or that officer and order him to do
this or that specific service, because this
would be a usurpation of the command
of the army, which the Constitution has
explicitly conferred on the President.
But if Congress can not exercise com.
mand itself, it can not depute it to an
individual. Nashville Banner
Year: 1868

A CONVENTION of mechanics is to be
held in Cincinnati, but the time is not yet
announced. 1t is stated that this con-
vention will take action upon the present
condition of political affairs. In New
York plan has been broached to receive
from all the prominent points of the
West quotations of the labor market, so
that emigrants may be sent at once to
the points where their services will be
most in demand.
Year: 1868

AN English reporter tells bad story
for Parliament. He says that nearly all
the classical illusions and quotations
made in the English House of Commons
are taken from the first book of the
Eneid, which every Eton scholar is
obliged to commit to memory.
Year: 1868

they arc at war upon the husbandry Of the
South. Iwant him to play that same tune,
in order that tho people Of tho North may
know where their money has gone to. He
is going to play here, aud If you molest him
l will mash your head for you." Great
laughter.] I left the Office at Eve minutes
before four yesterday, and he stood there
grinding, "Away down South in Dixie. I"
1 am going to hire him to grind all next
week. Still it is not pleasant music for the
bondholder. knowit is not nice, but they
have given US little trouble, and this is
one Of the ways in which propose to have
my share Of revenge out Of them. I have
no doubt the New YorsSun, the paper in
which this gentleman is interested, came
out this morning and said I was traitor.
Well, like as not There good many trai.
tors. [Applause. Traitors to the Repub-
lican party, traitors to those who have rob-
bed them Of their interests; there are many
OF these traitors coming from the ranks Of
the enemy and joining our ranks.
Year: 1868

The affected horror at alleged naturalza.
ton frauds exhibited by Radical journals
might lead an unsophisticated person to
suppose that these pure and pious party Or
gans do not sanction any violation of law to
accomplish political objects. They suppose
that the rank and file Of their party are so
stupid that they never think ofthe fact that
every important act Of their leaders, since
the close Of the war, has been fragrant and
inexcusable violation of the supreme law OF
the land; and that the power and plunder
they are now exulting in they could not have
but tor their notoriously lawless acts. They
have disfranchiscd all the most intelligent
men Of the South without a shadow of law.
ful authority for the outrage, and they have
carried sham elections by means Of some
seven hundred thousand illegal negro votes
in that part Of the country.


In the North they could not carry q sin
gle State but for the power of their money,
and no one who is not as blind as mole can
fail to see the enormous vilainy they have
perpetrated in allowing eighteen hundred
national banks to use three hundred millions
Of government funds without interest, thus
robbing the national treasury Of eighteen
million dollars in gold every year to keep at
work the most monstrous political machine
ry ever set in motion


If all unfair influences and all oppression
were removed, not tenth part Of the peo-
pie could be induced to vote for the support
of Radical scoundrelism, and the destruc.
tion Of the constitutional rights Of the peo.
Dle.
Year: 1868

MARRY.-Never marry because people
advise you to. tits your business not theirs
If you don't feel that you want wife OF
q husband, as the case may be, it is pretty
certain there is no haste in tho NATTER
Don't 60 into the water unless you feel as
though you would like to get wet Advice
in this matter is almost always suspicious
Because some father or mother has daugh-
ter it is no reason you should take her.
Their wish is not law OF duty to you. Time
enough when your heart raps loudly to be
let out in order TO exchange places with
another in like condition. About that tMo
you can send word tv the parson, and order
the cake.
Year: 1868

The Grant and Colfax papers Of this city
- five in all, and dailies---cuncur that the
financial plaUks of Chicago Radical plat.
are the very opposite of Mr. Pendleton' 5
plan> They tell us that the Grant and
C0lfax plan is that as there is ho immediate
necessity tor the payment of the bonds, and
as the debt was contracted for the benefit
of posterity as well as the present genera
ton, the debt should be continued far
enough into the future that posterity might
pay its portion of it; and that, by giving
the word assurance that the debt, princi-
pal and interest, shall be paid in gold, in
duce capitalists to loan us E'oney on cheap
er rates than we are now paying. In other
words; continue the debt and pay the pres
ent rate of interest until we can reduce it;
AMI, finally, pay the debt in gold


1t wllbe seen that the Grant and Cofax
financial plan is the very opposite Of that
of Mr.. Pendeton, which is to retire the
ive.twenty bonds with greenback currency;
tn. same kind of currency the Government
received in exchange for the bonds.


The Grant and Col'sx plan holds out no
relief to the people, but proposes to con-
tinue their tax burdens DOR an indefinite
period.


The Pendleton plan proposes immediate
relief by paying off within very short pc
riod very nearly the whole of the public
debt, thereby getting rid of about one hun
drcd and twenty millions gold taxes aunu-
ally.


By the Grant and Colfax plan the people
will before the debt is wiped out, have paid
the amount of the principal two or three
time4 over in interest alone.


BY the Pepd'eton plan thu principal and
interest will be largely diminiohed annually,
so tn It in seven or ten years, at farthest,
the whole debt will have been pad.


There are other differences between the
plans and all in favor Of Mr.. Pendleton's
plan, so far as the interests of the people
are concerned; but we will not state them
here, our object at present being, simply,
to call attention to the fact, that these Re
publican journals boast that the Chicago
Convention repudiated1 entirely the Pens
dIeton financial plan Of paying the public
debt. -Eaquirp. s.
Year: 1868

Two colored boys, aged fourteen and six.
teen, got into fight in Memphis, Temp.
on the 10Th ult., in the course of which one
fred pistol pointed directly at the head
Of the other The would-be murderer fed,
while the wounded boy fell as if dead. Up
on. examination it was found that the ball
had entered the forehead, but was diverted
from straight course by the skull and
plowed its way ever the Head. He soon
reviaved and left for home.
Year: 1868

farmer getting hold of dangling rope,
succeeded in pulling down the balloon.


He at first pulled out little Johnny, who
ran rapidly few yards towards the house,
then turned round and stood for few
moments curiously surveying the balloon
The faithful little sister was so chilled and
exhausted that she had to be carried into
the house, where, trembling and sobbing,
she told the wonderful story.


Before sunrise mounted messenger
was dispatched to the Harwood house with
glad tidings of great joy. He reached it
in the afternoon, and few hours later the
children themselves arrived in state, with
banners and music, and conveyed in COW
cred hay wagon and four.


Joy y-bells were rung in the neighboring
town, and in the farmers brown house the
happiest family on the continent thanked
God that night
Year: 1868

In his new work, The Open Polar
Sea-" DIR. Hayes thus describes the fear
full solitude and stiffness of the Arctic
night:


II have gone out in the Arctic night,
and viewed nature under varied aspects.
! have rejoiced with her in her strength
and communed with her in repose. l
have seen the wild burst of her anger
have watched her sportive play, and have
beheld her robed in silence. Ihave walk
ed abroad in darkness when the winds
were roaring through the hills and crash
ing over the plain. have strolled along
the beach when the only sound that broke
the stiffness was the only dull creaking of
ice-tables, as they rose and fell lazily with
the tide. I have wandered far out on the
frozen sea, and listened to the voice of the
ieebergs bewailing their imprisonment ;
along the glacier, where forms and falls the
avalanche; upon the hilltop, where the
drifting snow, coursing over the rocks,
sang its plaintive song; and again l have
wandered away to some distant valley
where all these sounds were hushed, and
the air was still and solemn as the tomb.


"And it is here that the Arctic night
is most impressive, where its wonders are
unloosed to sport and play with the minds
vain imaginings. The heavens above and
the earth beneath reveal only an endless
and fathomless quiet. There is no where
around me any evidence of life or motion.
l stand alone in the midst of the mighty
hills. The tall cliffs climb upward, and
are lost in the gray vaults of the skies.
The dark cliffs standing against their
slopes of white, are the steps of vast
amphitheatre. The mind finding no rest
on their bold SUBMITS wandcrs into space.
The moon weary with her long vigils,
sinks to her repose; the Pleiades no lon.
ger breathe their sweet influence. Cassie
pea, Andromede, and Orion, and all the
infinite host of unnumbered consultations
fail to muse one spark of joy into this
dead atmosphere. They have lost their
tenderness, and are cold and pulseless
The eye leaves them and returns to the
earth, and the trembling ear aEaits some.
thing that will break the oppressive 81.
lence. But no football of living thing
reaches it, no wild beast howls through
the solitude. There is no cry of birds to
enliven the scene; no tree among whose
branches. the wind can sigh and moan
The pulsations of my own heart alone are
heard in the great void and as the blood
courses through the sensitive Organization
of the ear, am oppressed as with dis
cordant sounds. Silence has ceased to b.
negative. 1t has become endowed witt
positive attributes. l seem to hear anG
see and feel it. 1t stands forth as fright
full spectre, filling the mind with oyer
powering consciousness of universal deatf
-proclaiming the end of all things ant
heralding the everlasting future. Its pres
ence is uncomfortable. l spring from thu
rock upon which was seated, ] plant my
feet heavily on the snow to banish its pres
ence and the sound rolls through the nigh
and drives away the phantom. hav'
seen no expression on the face of nature
so filed with terror as the silence of al
Arctic night" = 81 y"
Year: 1868

A good joke is told of preacher in Me-
braska, who had dined with friend just
before afternoon services. As it happen
ed, this friend occasionally luxuriated in
a smile of the ardent, and sometimes car
ried morocco covered flask in his overcoat
pocket.


By mistake, the minister took the
friends overcoat for his own on his depart
ure, and walking into the pulpit began the
exercises without dofing the garment, it
being rather chilly in the room.


Looking very ministerially over his con-
gregation from behind his spectacles, he
began drawing from his pocket, as he sup
posed his hymn book, with the introducto-
ry remark that the congregation would
sing from a particular page which he Sc
lected beforehand.


The minister held the supposed book up
in full sight of the congregation, and at
tempted to open it sideways, but it was no
go.


The situation was realized in moment,
but alas too late.
His reverence waa dvmbfopnded, the
whole scene was made ludicrous by fell
low in the back part of the congregation,
who drawled out:


Say, Mister, can't we all jine in that
ar hymn?"