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Year: 1865

A certain Deacon in Lamoille County
having business in Washington, resolved,
if possible, to- get a peep at President
Lincoln before returning Accordingly
he betook himself to the White House
and pressing his way through the crowd
already waiting to urge their claims of
one kind or another upon the good
ed President, he slipped his card into the
hand of an usher who soon announced
that he had permission to enter. Upon
entering the room he was accosted thus by
the President "What is your business
sir ?" Oh, nothing, sir" replied the
Deacon. II only callced to see the Presi-
dent and shake hands with him." 81
am glad to see you" exclaimed the Presi-
dent, "glad to see any one who comes
on that business" at the same
time giving him hearty shake of the
hand. After exchanging few words
the President asked him from what State
he came. From Vermont" replied the
Deacon, hesitating moment fearing
perhaps, lest 50 small place might not
he known SO far from home. "From
Vermont" exclaimed the President, "God
bless you and your State; let me shake
your hand again, sir y whereupon he was
greeted with a another grip from the
President that seemed to come from the
heart, after which the Deacon made way
for others, and pressed out through the
crowd, fully resolved that again he nevel
would hesitate to say frankly that HI
came from Vermont.
Year: 1865

GENTLE MISUNDERSTANDING the Incidents
attendant upon the cebration in Worcester
of the death of the rebellion, was the for-
NAL Presentation, to a leading man of the
copperhead persuasion, Of bottle Of Mrs.
Wlnslows Soothing Syrup.
Year: 1865

The army is to be gradually dis


banded and the soldiers dismissed to
their homes. Even now this is in
process of completion and men who
as vet have seen little service are
returning once more to their faimies.
How will this effect the interest of
the working classes? Will there be
such an excess Of lsborers after the
war as 30 reduce the wages to very
low Standard We think not. The
soldiers as they return will be readily
absorbed in the ranks of society, and
for the most part return to their old
avocations.


The demand for agricultural labor
in the west will be very great. Those
who do not choose to labor for others;
under the homestead law, can take
up piece of land and g oto work for
themselves. In the South the de-
mand for agricultural as well as
mechanical labor will be very great,


far surprising that Of any former
period. The trade of Southern cities
will in a great measure fall into the
hands of energetic Northern men.
The rich lands of the Southern States
will no longer be held by a bloated
aristocracy, who, under forced servi-
tude Of the negro, failed to procure
Year: 1865

THREE BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS
I'VE are not enemies but friends.
We must not be enemies. Though
passion may hsYestrained, it must
not break our bonds of Affection
The mystic cords Of memory, stretch
ing from every battle field and pat
riot grave 70 every living heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus Of the Un-
ion, when again touched, as surely
they will be, by the better angels of
our nature.--ABRAHAM LINcoLE's
First Inaugural, March 4, 1861.


"If God wills that this mighty
Gcou-ge of war continue until all the
wealth piled by the bondman's two
hundred and fifty years of unrequita
ted toll shall be sunk, and until eVsSy
drop of blood drawn by the lash shall
be paid by another drawn WITH the
sword, as was said three thousand
years ago, so still it must, be said,
that the judgments Of the Lord are
true and righteous altogether"
Year: 1865

CAMPING ON LAKE BoMBAzINE. Editor
Herald EARLY in the morning, on a
high rock at Mason's Point ON the east
bank of Lake Bombazine, set myself
down, not to tell you an immense fish
story but simply to relate to you and
your readers few things concerning
camp life in Castleton. A few of our
romantic folks conceived the idea and
proposed it to Others, Of camping out
for week or two on the shores Of this
beautiful lake. Accordingly some Of
them started on an exploring expedition,
and after taking observations for a
while they selected a delightful spot
heretofore known as Maple Grove, but
hereafter to be called Bombazine Camp
Ground, overlooking the broad lake,
with the Island on. the left, Cedar Noun
tain looking up in front on the opposite
bank, with Poplar point running out in
to the lake some distance, and Prospect
Hill on the right, from the summit Of
which you can overlook the most varied
and picturesque mountain and valley
scenery in our own beloved mountain
State. Amid such scenes as these they
stuck their stakes and pitched their
tents with the stars and stripes stream
ing therefrom, indicating it to be Un-
ion as well as pleasure camp ground.
The sports or rscreations here are bath
ing in the morning and evening, fishing
by night and by day, sailing by sunlight
and moonlight, riding on horseback and
roaming on foot, interspersed with music
and mirth, reading the New York, Bos-
ton and Rutland daily papers, and par.
taking Of three as good meals every
day as are prepared this side of Sarato-
ga. Clarendon, James X. Hyde's or the
Bardwell House Tho fuSl. Ess tn grove
thus far exceeds the expectations Of all.
More than one hundred persons have
visited the ground already for the pur-
pose of enjoying a good dinner and
few hours recreation in the grove and
its surroundings. Among the camp.
cutters are four army veterans who have
camped on the tented field during four
years of war and strife, namely-Lieut.
Col. Johnson, Major Ballou, Lieut.. FL
field Of the old gallant and fighting I'd
Vermont, and Surgeon H. f. Smith of
the Sd vt. These grounds are situated
on the. east shore Of the lake, on land
owned by H Ainsworth, Esq, and are
easy OF access and egress during the day.
We do not expect or propose to make
Nahant, Glen Cove, Cape May, or a New.
port Of this lake shore retreat, but merely
a summer resort for Castleton people
and their friends, ... ........


Mr.. Editor, you are one of our best
friends because you inform US every
morning before breakfast what is going
ON in the worldfand around home Now
will you not visit us of an afternoon:
the ladies and all Of US with joy would
greet you.


Just on the borders of the camp
grounds on the shady side of the stately
naples, religious services were held
Sunday at o'clock in the afternoon.
They were conducted by Rev. Edward
Hooker OF Medford, Mass. He delivered
an appropriate, eloquent and touching
discourse from John, Sd chapter, 10th
verse, in the presence of a numerous and
deeply interested class of hearers A
solemn stiffness prevaded the progress
OF these exercises, which are regarded
as the crowning feature of life thus far
on Bombazine Camp Ground. B.w,p.
Year: 1865

LETTER FROM 0. W. HoLMEs.-A few
days ago Capt. Beaman forwarded the
handkerchief belonging to O. W. Holmes,
Jr., to which allusion has been made in
our columns and which he picked up on
the Balls Bluff battlefield, and has re-
ceiyed the following neat and feeling
letter from the Autocrat of the Break
fast Table:


B0sToN, Aug. 7, 1865.


DEAR SIR: have Just received the
handkerchief which you have had the
kindness to send, and return you the
most grateful Acknowledgements for it.
His mother unfolded it, and said, as she
read his name, II marked it," To you
it was curious relic, andias such L can
understand that you valued it, and only
parted with it from generous impulse
which is honorable to your feelings.
But to US and to our childrens children
it is, and will be, something more than
a relicl it records the baptism of blood
of my first born on one of the most
dreadful fields Of this hard fought war.
My son has the minnie bullet which tore
his breast on that fatal day. He has the
large ball from a spherical case which
was dug out of his heel at Fredericks-
burg. But this handkerchief returned
after so long an interval, calls up the
recollection of that day when he was so
near death more vividly than any other
memento could do, and will always be
precious to him, and to all of us.
My son is taking a vacation among
the mountains, as believe mentioned. |
but thank you in his name, as well as |
in my own, and in that Of all our fam
lily, for your prompt and cheerful kind
ness. Very truly yours.


o. w. HOLMES,
Year: 1865

herewith send. He declines giving his
consent to the publication of his letters
unless these parts be published with the
rest. | have concluded that it is better
for ne to submit, for the time, to the
consequences of the false position in
which consider he has placed me, than
to subject the country to the consequen.
ces of publishing these discouraging
and injurious parts. send you this,
and the accompanying copy not for
publication, but merely to explain to
you, and that you may preserve them
until their proper time shall come.
Year: 1865

E.. E.


There is an Eastern story of q certain prince
who had received from aiairy the faculty OF
not only assuming whatever appearance he
thought proper, but of discerning the wander
ing spirits OF the departed. He has long
labored under painful chronic disease, that
none Of the court physicians, ordinary or
extraordinary, could relieve; and he resolved
to wander about the streets of his capital
until he could find some one, regular or ir-
regular, who could alleviate his sufierings.
For this purpose he donned the garb and
appearance of dervish. As he was passing
through one of the principal streets, he was
SURPRISED to see 1t so thronged with ghosts
that, had they been still inhabitants OF their
former earthly tenements, they must have
obstructed the thoroughlare. But what was
his amazement and dismay when he saw that
they were all grouped with anxious looks
round the door of his royal fathers physician
haunting, no doubt, the man to whom they at
tributed their untimely doom. Shocked with
the sight, he hurried to another part of the
city. where resided another physician of the
= court. holding the second rank in fashionable
estimation. Alas his gateway was also sur
rounded with reproachful departed patients.
,Thunderstruck with such discovery, and re-
turning thanks to the prophet that he was still
in being, despite the practice Of these great
men, he resolved to submit all the othef re-
nowned practitioners to similar visit and he
was grieved to find that the scale of ghost:
kept pace with the scale Of their medical rank
Heart broken and desparing of cure, he was
slowly saupterng back to the palace, when In
an obscure street, and on the door of hum.
Die dwelling, he read doctors name. One
single poor solitary ghost, leaning his despon'
dent cheek upon his fieshless hand, was seat.
ed on the doctors steps. 'Alasp exclaimed
the prince, 1t Is, then, too true that humble
merit withers 10 the shade. while ostentatious
Ignorance inhabits golden mansions. This
poor neglected doctor, who has bat one un
lucky case. to lament is then the only mar
in whom l can place confidence He rap


ped; the door was opened by the doctor him


self a venerable old man, not rich enough
Year: 1865

To Lieutenant General Grant:


Thanks be to Almighty God for the
victory with which He has this day
crowned you and the gallant army under
YOUR command The thanks of this de
partment and of the government and of
the people of the United States, their
reverence and honor have been deserved
and will be rendered to you and the
brave and gallant officers and soldiers OF
your army for all time.


[Signed] f Nj. STANTON,
Year: 1865

This question Of premium and discount
is an annoying botheration to most persons.
The following table, BY correspondent
saT," of the Abbeville Banner may be Of
use in assisting our readers in the premises.
We have not examined the table closely,
but are willing to take it upon the credit of
the Banner:


/. In the construction of the following Ia
BILE the rate of premium will OCCUPY the
left hand column, the corresponding dis-
count the right: -,
Year: 1865

QUEER ExH1BITIoa.-When the earth:
ausbe occurred at San Francisco, lady
who was engaged in washing an infant of
very tender ,sge, ran screaming into the
street. She stood on the sidewalk for some
time swinging something in her hand, which
at frs. was taken for a dressed chicken by
the bystanders, which began to speak for
itselfi in language which placed it at once in
the category of different class of aimated
nature. She was holding it by tie foot,
head downward, and had forgotten all about
what she had in her hand. .-....
Year: 1865

There has not, as yet, been introduced into this
market pump that 10 so powerful and durable, or
that can be furnished cheap the above pump
It s fitted for either iron or lead pipe. The Pumps
are so arranged that they can be used ny Hand,
Wind, Horse, or Steam power, and are adapted to
surface deep wells. TheV are not apt 10 get out
Of repair, but their construction Is simple that
should they need repairs. they can be made BY any
person Of ordinary ingenuity.
Year: 1865

when the earthquake occurred al San
Franz cisco, q lady who was engaged in wash
ing an infant OF very tender age, ran screaming
I'M the street She stood on the sidewalk for
some time swinging something in her hand
which at first was taken for a dressed chicken
by the bystanders, which began 10 speak for
itselfin language which placed il at once in
the category of different class of animated
nature She was holding il by the foot, head
downward, and had forgotten all about what
she had in her hand ...a
Year: 1865

choking him for the instant. Gen. Baker
commanded him TO open his mouth, and as
be did so he spit out s little ball which he
had partly crushed and which Gen. Baker
picked up. II was somewhat smaller than
an acorn and was aseertained to be strychnins
and coated with iquories. In getting up
Mrs. Wirz had probably and wittiiy
conveyed it TO her mouth, and in a moment
more Wirz would have swallowed it, and as
soon as the outside coating had dissolved IN
his stomach it would have caused his imme-
diate death. Mrs. Wirz was not again al
lowed to visit his cell. She left the city
nearly two weeks ago, not waiting either TO
hear her husbands sentence or TO see him
again before his death. On his trial here
her cold and Indifferent manner was noticed
and esnmented upon. It is not known
whether Wirz had by any means cOmmu-
nicated his desire to commit suicide to his
wife, or whether it was not partly at the
instigation of outside parties that she wished
to aid him in doing SO, it 10 known that
Wirz had for long time no hope Of escap-
ing the sentence of death. 1t is also be-
lieved there were friends of Davis, Lee, and
Winder who feared something might be
ELECTED on trial that would commit them by
legal implication with and mets them re-
sponsible for the Andersonville crimes, and
who desired that Wirz might be out of the
way as quick as possible.
Year: 1865

A New York correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial says:


There is fair prospect of Kilkenny
cat imbroglio again among the stockhold-
ers of the New York Central Railroad, on
the occasion of the annual election, which
takes place on the 18th of DeeembG. As
no stock can be voted on which has not
been held, by the party voting, at least
thirty days previous to the election, there
is considerable activity in the stock
at the Brokers Board. The bone of con-
tention seems TO be whether Vanderbilt
shall be permitted to oust Dean Richmond
and link the fortunes Of the Hudson Riv-
er and Harlem Roads as a sort of ball and
chain, upon the prosperous progress of
the Central Road Vanderbilt owns the
entire Harlem Road and most of the Hud-
son River Road, besides holding the insig-
niHeant amount Of $4,000 worth Of
shares in the Central The public, GER
tainly, have no reason to wish him success
in his attempt to own the whole State Of
New York.
Year: 1865

On Thursday last, an unusual and quite
romantic incident occurred ut the White
House among the squad Of pardon seekers.
The suppliants were waiting around as
your correspondent D. D. described a
few days ago and among others wes two
persons, q closely yelled young lady and
gentleman somewhat, "a rebel soldier
once quite likely,) with heavy beard
and tareful dress. They had not paid
any attention TO each other during the
hour OF two they had been to near, and
would not have done SO for all coming
time had it not been fof the usher. He
came with document and in sharp
tone called out the name superscribed on
the envelope. 1t was prominent one
once in Georgia, and was familiar to
most Of the ears upon which its tones fell.
The gentleman with an air Of pleasure,
stepped forward to take it, when the lady
with little scream, pressed forward and
clasped him tightly in her arms. he at
first seemed surprised by suchsn unwont-
cd proceeding, but whom she several
times excitedly asked, "Don't you know
Jessie?" "Don't you know Jessiel" "You
can't have forgotten in such short time;'
and removed her veil to show q fresh
piquant, pretty face. Recognition Wis
instant, and with one word "sister," be
was quite as demonstrative as she was be-
fore. "Why, Jessie, what are you doing
here?" he asked. am here for father !;
he is very, very sick" she said with q
little elision Of the "r," and a sob. But
he wants to die, if has to die, a citizen Of
the Union again. The young man seemed
affected, but in the new found joy Of
meeting a sister long lost, the cloud that
time did not darken his heart. A few
moments after she also received the grant
of her application.


II seems that the young man went out
early in the war as major ofa Confederate
regiment. He was taken prisoner in a
skirmish just after Bull Run, and spent
two years in Northern prison. Return.
ing to service. the cause ofthe Confeder-
acy needed all the men for support it
could obtain and he was forced to stay in
the ranks. Letters he had sent home
failed to reach them, and he, despairing
Of finding his family after the march Of
Sherman over the Sta.e, came North tc
see after friend. This good work done
he returned to Washington to look after
his pardon. All this time his family
gave him up as dead and saving his sister
who met him SO strangely, think SO yet
l-Phild. Press.
Year: 1865

LrBssTY.-It 10 understood thet thsfs will
b general clearing out ct the rebel bar
racks on the Island in few days; that al
the rebels who feel like it. vii b permitted
to have their liberty upon their taking the
oath Of allegiance. If they can do better
than to accept such terms, they are at liberty
TO do 20.
Year: 1865

DENvER.-How like a picture of death does
Denver look these nights at a late hour, with
its pallid pail of snow, and the clouds of a
moonless sky the only mourners. It hasn't
been duller for a long, long time about our
streets of nights than during the week just
closing. After theater time shivering strag-
gler scarcely can be met, from F to Ferry, and
as for sleighing parties like two winters since,
(when Capt. Powers and party gave tone to
things, there's not tinklng bell brought
but to serenade the sable goddess" from
sundown even to sunrise. In SO we used to
while away the time by throwing snow balls,
and staring at the ladies; but these latter
days the latter have grown quite shy to cir
culate, and the SNOWFALL in the hand seems to
have become the symbol less of delight than
death, for the more It's grasped the faster it
melts away Denver News. om
Year: 1865

IT is remarkable fact that persons losing
themselves in the forest, or in snow-storm
manifest invariably a tendency to turn round
towards the left, to the extent even Of event.
ually moving in circle. Theexplanation of
this is found probably in the fact that the
limbs and muscles of the right side are bet-
ter developed than those Of the left. Shoe
makers say that as general thing, the right
foot is somewhat larger than the left and that
the right boot wears out first. Under the ex-
citement felt when one is lost, and in the alb
sence of any guiding line, the superior energy
of the right limbs throws the pedestrian in
sensibly around to the left.
Year: 1865

About two weeks since a horse was
stolen from a Mr.. Wood, at Miller Farm,
Venango county, Pa, and few days ago,
he received the following information
concerning the animal:


"DEAR WooD Il rode your Id
horse till l was sore. l hired the horse
boarded at the first white house on the
road leading from Centreville to Cory.
If you think it worth while. you can send
for him, pay charges and take him away"
Year: 1865

The annual Report OF Post Master Gen
eral Dennison, is Il very complete and
satisfactory view of the business Of the
Post Office Department during the fiscal
year ending June 30th, 1865.
Year: 1865

THE HEIGHr OF THE ATMos PBERE. The
received opinion is that its upper surface
If it has no surface-cannOt be nearer
to Us than fifty, nor more remote than five
hundred miles But it is impossible to
fix any precise limit, by reason of its
growing teruity, as it is released from the
pressure of its own superintendent mass


Ii i something to know that more than
,;,rce fourths of the entire atmosphere i
below the level of the highest mountains


The other is rarcfied and expanded, in
consequence of the diminished pressure.
until the height of many miles be attain
cd From the reflection of the sun rays
after he has set, or before he rises above
the horizon it is calculated that the upper
fourth part must extend at least forty or
fortv~fiYc miles higher Sir John HerSchel
has shown that, ut the height Of eighty or
ninety miles there is a vacuum far more


complete than any which we can produce
bv an air pump In 1888, meteor, con :
nuted 90 be half mile in diameter, az d
ffty miles from the earth, WAS heard to
explode \ sound cannot travel through
a vacuum. il was inferred that the explos-
ION took place within the limits of the at
mosphare. Herschel thence concludes
that the aerial is at least fifty miles deep.
Year: 1865

QUAsI UxIoNIsM-A letter from Peters
burg says: "The Petersburg Express,
than which no paper could have been
more reasonable, nor INDUCED in fouler
vituperation against the sportless character
of the late President, is now being issued
bv the same man aS Union Journal
This Is CARRYING indulgence beyond the
degree of propriety fany class of men
deserve any punishment for their crime
Of treason. it is the cultivated rebes, who
prostituted themselves to deceive the
masses through the medium of their pa
pers- and continued their malignant spiris
until the flag of Union vindicated Its aa-
thority. Mercy to this class is weak
ness


go ahart STo5 n0O 000 worth Of Ma
Year: 1865

DEsERTIoN-Th state Of things growing out
of desertions from the army, and the depredations
committed by these misguided men at home, is in
some parts of the country becoming perfectly in
tolerable There seems to be no act too sacri-
legious for them to commit We learn that Salem
Church House near Franklinsgille in Randolph
county, with the arbor and most of the tents, was
burned week or two ago by these lawless bands
to prevent its becoming rendezvous for the Home
Guard ordered out to look after them.


1t is high time the government would take this
matter 10 hand, and the necessary force to put
eectual aud final stop to such state Of things.
If this is not done one Of two things must result
either the few loyal people left at home will take
the law into their own hands, where there are
enough of them to render it practicable, or the
country must be given up to these brutss Raleigh
Conservative.
Year: 1865

STRAY BABY-We learn that q respectfully
looking female got of the cars at Hillsboro' the
other night, leaving her baggage and bundles
The said female not returning before the cars left,
her baggage and bundles carried on 10 the
Shops, by which time the conductor discovered
that one of the bundles contained very young
infant It was cared for and is still at the Shops
We trust this notice may lead to the detection Of
the unnatural parent.-Ral,igh Progress.