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Year: 1864

A CLASSIC ToILET.-According to testimo


ny, which is scarcely to be disputed, the sun
could never have shown upon less lovely
object than Roman lady in the days of the
Caesars, when she opened her eyes in the
mornipg-or, rather let us say, as she ap-
pearel in the morning, for before she opened
her eyes a great deal had to be DONE When
she retired to rest her face had been covered
with a plaster composed OF bread and ass s milk
which had been dried during the night, and,
consequently, presented in the morning an
appearance of cracked chalk. The purpose
of the ass's milk vas not only to preserve the
delicacy OF the skin, but to renovate the
lungs; and so strong was the belief in the
efficacy of the specific, that some energetic
ladies bathed themselves in it seventy times
In the course of a single day. As for Pop.
pe, the favorite wife of Nero, she never went
on journey without taking in her train whole
herds of she asses, that she mi ght hathe when
ever she pleased so to do The plaster of
Paris bust having awakened in the morning
IN cracked condition, it was the Office of a
host Of female slaves to mature it into per
feet beauty. To clear the field for further
operations, the first of these gently washed
away with lukewarm ass's milk the already
crumbling mask, and left smooth face. to
be colored by more recondite artists. The
slave, whose vocation it was to paint the
cheeks, delicately laid on the red and white,
having moistened the pigment with her own


saliva. The apparent nastiness of this oper-
alton was dismissed by the consumption of
certain number of scented lozenges, which.
if the slave neglected to take, she suffered
corporal punishment.-AH the Year Round
Year: 1864

Pre- E-EMPToRs.-The following is a copy of
the oath required to be taken by persons who
locate Government lands:


| do solemnly swear that I will support,
protect and defend the Constitution and Gov
ernment of the United States, against all
enemies, whether domestic foreign, and
that will bear true faith and allegiance and
loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolu
ton OF law of any State Convention or Leg
islature to the contrary notwithstanding, and
further that do this with a pure determine
ton, pledge and purpose, without any men
tai reservation or evasion whatsoever, and
further. that / will well and faithfully per-
form all the duties which may be required of
ne by law. so help me God.
Year: 1864

How TO JUMP SAFELY FROM TIP CARs-We
often see persons make bungling jump from


cars while IN motion, and often see them
thrown down. This arises f,om want Of
reflection, as they could jump safely [if they
only knew how though it is better and safer
to wait till the cars stop than to run any risk.
Now there is . way, that al persons should
know by which one can jump safely, even
though the cars are going 1t great speed.
Take care to have sure foothold when you
are about to jump, then jump easily forward
at little angle from the cars the same way
they move,. and continue, your pace easily
when you strike the earth, and you will moi
feel any more sensation than in an ordinary


run. II the cars are at very great speed


and necessity requires you to jump to save


your lit, then give all your vigor and strength


and jump with the cars, yet at slight angle


from them, and jump - high as possible int


the air-the higher the better. for the body


will soon loose its momentum, and you vii


descend and light upon your feet without in
Jury. This can be seen by sending an appl'


or rocket into the air; when, its strength


upward ID gone, it falls to the ground in


direct line; 90 persons that jump. up in thi


way without fear, are ssfs. Any other Va,
lis always dangerous to ifs.-Ezehengs.
Year: 1864

A noble, brave, honest soul has been taken
from among men, to enjoy the companionship
of the pure and free. Among the earnest
friends Of humanity the death Of Owen
Lovejoy has caused pang Of sorrow such
as the death of no civilian for these many
years has occasicned. He was the type of .
true hero, because he dared to speak and do
right under insult, contumely and persecu-
ton. He was an honest man whom the
Establishments Of power nor the corrupt cir
of Congressional life could not swerve from
tho path Of honest duty. A hater OF opprss.
sion by nature, his soul WAS embittered
against the system Of American Slavery, 10
an intensified degree, when his brother was
80 brutally murdered at Alton, to appsase
the wrath Of the Slave God.


No man in America has contributed more
towards arousing the public mind to the
dangers Of Slavery. His voice has been heard
in the pulpit, on the hustings and upon the
floor of Congress, in behalf Of the natural
rights of man, sounding clear and strong
and powerfully magnetical in its influence.
The Northwest has lost its most effective and
popular orator. Liberty has lost one Of her
firmest and most devoted champions. The
down trodden and oppressed have lost . true
friend. The Nation has lost an honest States
mao. The greatest eulogy that can be passed
upon Owen Lovejoy is the relation of q sim
pie fact. When his death was announced
upon the floor Of Congress, those members
who had pursued him with fendish malignity
and been his most unjust political assailants
were the frst to come forward and say that
in his death had fallen IN honest man, . true
and most generous soul.
Year: 1864

There was nothing at all of interest
transpiring yesterday to attract the at
tention of the public. At Petersburg
all was quiet - not shell thrown during
the day-owing probably to the fact that
yesterday was the Yapkee fast ant
prayer day ordained by Lincoln


From other quarters the news was
Onite as dull.
Year: 1864

ATLANTA, August 4, 1S64.-Late yesterday
afternoon heavy skirmishing occurred along
the entire line, and continued till after night
fall. Every effort of the enemy to dislodge
our skirmish line was defeated. We still
hold our original lines.


The firing OF musketry and artillery was
brisk on portion of the line. A few pri-
soners were captured on our front. The
city Was vigorously shelled in the meantime.
During the night young lady was killed by
a shell.
Year: 1864

>Waternaelons are as plentiful at this time
as they ever have beeu at any other season,
and yet it is rarely that any of them can be
bought for less than from i've TO fifteen dol
lars The price asked is about hfty times
higher than before the war, while the
cost of raising them is neither more ex
pensiye nor more troublesome. People
would do well to let them alone until the
venders come down in their demands.
Year: 1864

A Soldier Stet When the train was about
ieaving the depot in Petersburg fer this city
yesterday afternoon, o soldier named MUIR
dershaw, member of the Ninth South Ca.
ro'ina regiment, Kershaw's brigade, attempt.
ed to get on, but had not proper pass, and
was prohibited by the guard at one end of
the cars from doing so. lie then went round
TO the other end, and, unobserved as he
Thought, jumped on, with the intention of
coming over to tbis city. Ia a short time
atei. however, just as the train was oppo-
eite Duniops farm, q few miles from Pc
tersburg, the lieutenant of the guard, who
had noticed his movements, walked through
the car to where he was, and told him to
consider himself under arrest. Murdershaw
Immediately sprang from the train and ran
oil In the direction Of the woods, where
upon the lieutenant followed his example,
aud finding that he would not halt upon be.
ing ordered to ID 80 for. the third time, he
fired the barrel of revolver at him, which
took effect in his right side, inf cling q
wound which it is thought will prove fatal
The wounded man was taken to hospital
in the vicinity of the occurrence, and the
train then continued on to this city. The
train, at the time, was moving very slow, or
else serious consequences might have re-
sulted from jumping Off
Year: 1864

An exsColonel of the l4th Infantry
residing at Grand Rapids, wrote to
Major Fitzgibbon, an old Democrat,
to learn if that regiment could not be
induced to vote against Mr.. Ferry the
Republican candidate for Congress in
the.4th district. The gallant Major re-
turned the following admirable reply,
which Col. Miner encloses with a
note. that does honor to his heart as a
man, and his spirit as q soldier and a
Datriot ~
Year: 1864

Major General John Charles Fremont
accepts the nomination for the Presi
dency rendered him by the Convention
with the proviso, that if Mr.. Lincoln
should not be nominated at Baltimore
he will withdraw in favor ofthe other
man. John Charles knows that Abra
ham Lincoln will be nominated, and
he wishes it known to the public, that
his object in accepting the nomination
and becoming a candidate, is that he
may split the Republican party in
twain, and thereby defeat it.


However desirable to Democrats may
be the success of John Charles strate-
cic movement, the value of the move
ment depends exclusively on his prob
bic means of accomplishing the end.
Can John Charles muster enough votes
in either of the New England States to
enable the Democracy to obtain electo-
raj votes Can he obtain any popular
vote in any State, TO a number that
will enable the Democracy to win
Can he get twenty thousand votes in
Ohio2 Can he get the same number
in Wisconsin, or half that number in
Iowa, or Indiana or Illinois Can he
change the result or render it certain
against Lincoln in Pennsylvania or
New York; He frankly admits by the
terms of his letter that he cannot be
elected: be might have added that he
cannot get an electoral vote. The only
State in which we think he can posi-
bly, divide the Republicans to an ex-
tent that would render the vote of the
State certain for the Democrats is Mis-
souri, and even that result would be
obtained there just as well by his not
being a candidate as by his being one
On the whole, we do not think the
Fremont candidacy is Of sufficient inn
portance to the Republicans or Demo
Gratis 70 be worth the favor or disfayor
of either party.-CkieqgO Post
Year: 1864

The following letter was picked up on
the battle field near Cold Harbor, Va.


Ny sainted Love IL the Yankee
Cusses will let me alone will write you
a letter General L. = Grant is q bun
dog, and Meade is match for the Dew
il. No matter how deeply we may en-
sconce ourselves IN the woods, the
Yankees are sure to find US out They
charge on Omsworks-ChaTge them re-
peatedly-and often take them from
us They fight more iiercely than [
ever saw them before AS for digging
Mcclellan is nowhere. They construct
impregnable lines Of rihe-pits, and then
our brave officers ask us to charge
them We have done SO, and they
have given US hell every time You
must pardon me, Love, for using tbs
language; but if you were with US, you
too, would say they give US hell


my patriotic fair one, ] am almost
tired Of this. so long as there appear
ed a chance Of achieving our national
independence I fought with a viii. but
now that all hope scenes dashed 10 the
earth. have no heart to strive any
longer, merely to keep jeff Davis from
Going to the devil little sooner than
he otherwise would


After some paragraphs Of personal
matter, he concludes as follows


II must close hurriedly. We are or
dered to charge the enemy, and, If pos
sible, surprise them


Truly your own,


Sergeant GRAHtW,C G. $ A.
Year: 1864

covered IN a cromlech at La Bicochire.
near Pornic (Loire Inferieufs); the
same bed also contained q piece of per
oxide manganese. Two similar speci-
mems were brought TO light in the Foa


neau du Diable at Bourdeilles Ga rein


deer stratum); and lately a small mass


of copper, almost entirely covered with


coating Of green carbonate Of copper.
and cubic crystals of protoxide of the


same metal was dug up in the drift of


Langerie, in the commune of Tavac.


NJ. de NibFsye is decidedly of the
opinion that some commerce existed in
these remote times, because the various


manufactured articles found in the
drift often lie together with sea-shells,
which could only have come from the
coast, the drift being of too modern for
nation to admit of any other explana-
ton of the circumstance. Our author
also mentions the discovery Of a hu-
man atlas (the first vertebra of the
neck) amidst an accumulation of the
/ hyena and other extinct species; a
/ fact which tends to carry man S first ap-
! pearance upon this earth several thou
sand years farther back than any his
I tOrical record in existence. Among
other singular discoveries we must not
/ forget to mention a small statu c repre-
senting a woman, and carved out of an
elephant tusk-a wonderful feat. con
sidering that it could only have been
achieved 10y flint implements. The
drift is sometimes found 60 cover places
where fires had been made, and ashes
and cinders revealing the fact, lie on
blocks Of limestone foreign to the dis.
trict evidently chosen on account Of
their power Of resisting the effects of
heat NJ de Nibraye does not hesitate
to admit the existence Of man during
the geological drift period, and consid


ers the question definitely set at rest
Year: 1864

All Affections of the Womb treated with success
Those Married Ladies who have been so unfortu
nate 10 mscarry or prove abortion, can be carried
to their full time if found pregnant, by giving me
coll
Year: 1864

My books will show that for the past FIVE months
my practice hss increased hundred per cent. over
the LAST year. until it is not to be surpassed by any
IN the State. With my general practice in the city,
treat the following
Year: 1864

Friend Rarle.--I gave you statement
last fall about the growth of hay, &c.
and now | will show you what IKE quail
ity of that hay will grow in stock with a
stable to keep them in that does not freeze
in the coolest nights. have grown
pair of steer calves, on hay and nothing
else, cut the last of June and again in
August. They both came the same day,
the fifth of April. 1868, which makes
them thirteen months months old to day.
l have just weighed them and one weighs
706 and the other ZIG pounds, making
the weight of the pair 1922 pounds I
weighed them the first day of November
last and the weight was 42O and 424.
making the pair s44 pounds, which makes
the growth from the first day of Novem-
ber up to this day 47S pounds, making
the average weight per day fraction
over one and half lbs. each. now show
last fall that the crop of hay could be
doubled from two to four tons; showed
you the quality of two tons of hay cut in
June. and again in August. doubtless the
growth of stock as you see above; and
then you have two tons more to the acre
to grow more stock, or sell, under the new
rule than under the old. AS they are
paying for beef now from l-2 to 7 l-2
cents, live weight, these calves are worth
at l-2 cents $92,43, at cents, 500 ,54.


have shown the above brief statement
so the people can look them Ger and prof.
it by them if they will, instead of keep
ing along in the old channel, of doing as
our fathers and grandfathers have done
before us--commence cutting hay the first
Monday after the 4th of July, and finish
ing in August or the first of September.
which has been the custom from the Or
ganization of the government.


Yours truly, A. SoorT.
Year: 1864

Many of the Scotch Prcsbyterians have
little more hopes of the salvations of a
man who leave 1.-THE knk =" that the Cath
olics of one who breaks from the Com
munion of Rome Hugh Miller, in his
i" Headship of Christ" tells beautiful
story of man who, though losing cast
by becoming a Baptist gradually won
the love and confidence of all his neigh
oors by life of Christian bcne6cence:


Willie had quilted the north country a
respectable Presby byterian, but it was not
until after meeting in the south with
some pious Baptists that he had become
v,tally religious. The peculiarities of
B .ptist belief had nothing to do with
his conversion; but as is exceedingly COM
mon in such cases, he had closed ia with
tie ent re theological code of the men who
had been instrumental in the work and
so, to the place which he had left an un-
converted Presbyterian he returned con-
verted Baptist. Certain it was, however
though until after his death his towns
men failed to apprehend it,-that Willie
was better fitted for union with the truly
religious portion of them in the later than
in the earlier stages of his career. Willie
the Presbyterian, was, beyond comparison,
less their Christian brother than Willie
the Baptist, maugre their diversity of
opinion on one important point.


1t is now fifty years since Willie Wal
ton returned, after an absence of nearly
quarter Of a century, to his native place,
seaport in the north of Scotland. He
had been employed as ladies' shoemaker
in some of the districts of the south. No
one at home had heard of Willie in the
interval; and there was little known re-
garding him ON his return, except that,
when lie had quilted the town many
years before, lie had been neat handed,
excellent workman, and what the elderly
people called quiet, decent lad. And
he was now, though somewhatin the wane
Of life. more thorough master of his
trade than before. He was quiet and un-
obtrusive, too, and great reader of Be-
rious books. And SO the better sort of
the people were beginning to draw to
Willie by kind Of natural sympathy.
Some Of them had learned to saunter in
to his workshop in the long evenings
and some had grown bold enough to en-
gage in serious conversation when they.
met him in solitary walks when out
came the astounding fact--apd, impor-
tant as it may seem, the supplemented
mechanic had taken no pains to conceal
/ it,-that during his residence in the
south country he had left the kirk and
gone over to the Baptists There was a
sudden revulsion Of feeling towards him,
aud all the people Of the town began to
speak Of Willie Walton as "a poor. lost
lad" ~
Year: 1864


Where the pheasant late was drummin
With her brown and spotted wings
Where the velvet bees are humming,
Where the ox-eyed daisy swings
The gay bobolink is coming,
With his song the welkin rings.
His coat is black as night,


His epauletts are white;


A meadow bard is he,


Minstrel of liberty. .....
Hear the chorus of the rover
AS he sings upon reed,
On the thistle, in the clover,
On the tip-top of the weed,
On the elm-twig bending over,
Singing when he husks the seed.
Where the soft cotton grows,
As white as winter SHOWS,


He never sang the lay


That charms the ear to-day.
How soft and tender is the twitter
OF this meadow minstrel gay
How jubilant the wings that filter
While he sings his roundelay
Above the still and faithful sitter
Upon her nest of wool and hay
When the glad husband sings,
His wife. with folded wings,
Hid in the grass and flowers
Forgets the fleeting hours.
Year: 1864

had gone the way of all flesh. There
was silence in his shop There was many
wistful eye cast at the closed door and
melancholy shutters, by the members of
Willie's congregation, and they could all
point out his grave.
Year: 1864

THE FIRST STEP.-Towards re union of
the States is Peace. The first step towards
Peace is for the sovereign people TO speak
out their just demands. He who o6struGts
this movement by attempting, under the
guise of friendship, to give it an abolition
war coloring, Is worse enemy than an open
implacabie foe. Some men serve abolition
and its war in the most effectual manner. =
They seek, by pretending Democracy, to
turn the noble impulses Of the people into
the abolition channel Of sectional hate -
Such men are ready with gfoans of oerls-
ion for the South, but have none for the
monster abolition, nor its disunion war
Lima Democrat.
Year: 1864

STRONG CHARACTERs.-Strength of char-
acter consists of two things-power of will,
and power of self restraint. Itrequires two
things therefore, for its existence-strong
feelings, and strong com mand over them.-
Now, it is here, we make a great mistake.
We mistake strong feeling for strong char
acters.


A man who bears all before him-before
whose frown domestics trembe his children
quake-because he has his will obeyed and
his own way in all Things, is called strong
man. The truth is that he is weak man;
It's his passion that is strong He that is
mastered by them is weak. You must
measure the strength of man by the power
of the feeling he subdues, not by the pow er
of those which subdue him. And hence
composure is very often the highest result
of sire myth.


Did we never see man receive fragrant
insult, only growing little pale, then re-
ply quickly? This is man spiritually
strong. Or did we never see man in an
guish stand as if carved out of solid rock,
mastering himself? Or one bearing hope
less daily trial remen silent and never tell
the world what cankered his home peacs7
That is strength.


He who with strong passions, remains
chaste, he who is keenly sensitive, with
many powers of indignation in him, can be
provoked and yet restrain himself and for
gve-these are the strong men, ,the spiritual
heroes.
Year: 1864

THE Widow Maker of the 10th Century


and Republican Candidate for Presf-


dency.


Including the last batch of half nailfiont


since the war began two million seven hun
dred and ninety five thousand men have
been called into the field by the n orth, or by


the widow maker. And the crusade is mo
nearer over by fighting to-day than it was
tour years since, and we veribly believe that


IT the affair goes on for year more on the


same plan as for the past threes the rebels


viii force the North to terms. Seventy


five thousand three m onths men were, in the


estimation of our rulers and tyrants, full en-


ough to subdue the rebellion. The differ
ence between the first call and the number
actually taken from their homes to be
butchered and squandered by the fiat boat
tyrant and widow maker,is not greater than
the difference between the aforesaid nation
al grave digger and the least of all our form
g. statesmen.


Only TWO MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED AND
NINETY-FIVE THOUSAND men lost to their
homes their industrial pursuits, the eir families
and their country through the fanaticism of
of Aboltionigts, and the imbecility of She
widow making President! And these men
have been by dribets fed into the mangling
machiDe-smothered to death in cotton or
stunk to death between niggers-not for the
salvation of the country but for the glorifi-
cation of HONEST OLD AB4 the clown and
usurper, who in his crusad e for Eiggefs, has
marked his path with the blood and bones
of his betters at every step.


How much longer will ye stand this in
suit, oh! Ye willing people? How many
more of your brave men shall go forth to
death, oh! loved country? How many more
hearthstones will ye suffer to be made desc
7 Il
more will you continue thisrotten and thrice
accursed Administration in power;ye patriots
who have sworn to defend and not make war
upon the Constitution? Let the people talk
this matter over. Let the poor Taxpayers,
the Impoverished laborers, we care not
their creed nation or politics. talk this mat
ter over. Let them look at the miEions of
the tyrant strutting by in good clothes and
face marked wilh riotous living-let them


look at our decimated armies-at our waste
feds-at the half en- PITY workshops-at the
deserted hamlets-at the widows in weeds
and the orphan in tearS-at the prospect for
the future, and tell, not US, but themselves,
whether it is worth while longer to support
Abraham Lincoln, the tyrant, widow maker
and hell's vicegerent on earth? We all owe
allegiance to our Government but not one
bit of fealty or respect to te Constitution
breaking. incompetent President; who is
daily disgracing this once happy nation.


MEN AND BRETHREN! Talk it up. By
the twilight talk 1t over among yourselves.
In little clusters, standing by neighbors
gates-sitting on your own doorsteps-eat-
ing at your half filed tables-coming in
squads from workshops and toll. talk this
matter over among yourselves. It is for you
we write. 1t is to you, not to the widow
maker, we owe allegiance. Talk it over
As you bend in toll think, and let your
be known.-La Crosse Democrat.