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Year: 1865

Seventeen years ago, there was fair girl,
so pure, so lovely, so refined, that she still
rises TO mind as almost akin to angels. She
was wooed, and ultimately won by a hand
some young man of considerable wealth.
He sported fine team, delighted in hunt
ing, and kept pack efhouuds. He neither
played cards, drank wine, nor used tobacco
lie had no occupation, no calling, no trade
He lived on his money, the interest of which
would have supported man handsomely
[ never saw the fair bride till few days ago.
Seventeen years had passed away, and with
them her beauty and her youth, her hus-
band fortune and his life, during the latter
part of which they lived in log cabin on
the banks of the Ohio, near Blennerhasset' S
Island-a whole family in one single room,
subsisting on water, fat bacon, and corn
bread.


The husband had no business capacity.
de was gentleman Of education, of refine
ment of noble impulses but when his mon
ey was gone he could get no employment,
simply because he did not know how to do
anything. For while he foundered about
first trying one thing, then another; fail
ure was written on them all.


He however, finally obtained a situation ;
the labor was great, the compens alton small


lit was that or starvation. In his heroic
efforts to discharge his duties acceptably, he
oyer-worked himself and died, leaving his
widow and six girls in utter destitution In
seventeen years, the sweet and joyous and
beautiful girl had become a broken hearted,
caTe-worn, poverty-stricken widow, with
house full ofehildren. Young woman, ii
rich young man asks you to marry him, and
has no occupation, or trade, or calling, by
which he could make living if he were
thrown on mis- own resources, you may give
him your respects but give him the mitten
DR. Hall
Year: 1865


If person feel person treading on his toes,
iced person ask person Ioio a person kro,os.
Is it any body's business,
If a gentleman should choose
To wait upon a lady,


If the lady don't refusey
Or, to speak little palmer,
That the meaning all may know,
Is it any body's business
n a lady has beauf
Is it any body's business


When the gentleman does call,
Or when he Eeaees the lady,
Or u he eeaees at aHf
Or is it necessary


That the curtain should be drawn,
To save from further trouble
TO out side lookers-onf
Is it any body's business
But the lady's, if her beau
Rides out with other lediess
And doesn't let her knowi
Is it any body's business
But the gentleman's, if she
Should accept another escort,
Where he doesn't chance to be?
Is person on the sidewalk,
Whether great or whether small;
Is it any body's business
Where that person means to call1
Or if you see person
And he's calling anywhere,
Is it any Of YOUR business
What his business may Be hereg
The substance of our query,
Simply stated would bethis:
Is it ANY BoDY's BUSINESS
What ANoTHER's BUSINESS ISL
If it is, or if it isn't,
Wewould really like to knOp
For we're certain if it isn't,
There are SOME who MAKE IT 40.
If it is wen join the rabble,
And act the nobler part
Of the TATTLERs and defamers,
Who throng the public mart;
But if not, wen act the teacher,
Until each oleddler Eearns,
1t were better in the future
To mind his OWN concerns.
Year: 1865

A NEW KIND OF SCULPToR. At the,
the other evening, one gentleman pointed
out dandifed looking individual to his
friend as sculptor. 'tWhat p said his
friend, such looking chap as that sculp-
may M not be the Kind Of On one 11ae YOU mean said
the informant, but know that he chisled
a tailor out of a suit of clothes last week.
Year: 1865

QuIN was at a small dinner party. There
was delicious pudding, of which the mas
ter of the house begged him to partake A
gentleman had just before helped himself
to an immense piece of it. Pray said
Quinn, looking frstat the gentleman plate
and then at the dish, which is the pud-
ding
Year: 1865

A GENTLEMAN who had long been subject
to the nocturnal visitation of thieves in his
orchards wishing to preserve his property
without endangering any one S life, procured
from hospital the leg ola subject, which
he placed one evening in steel trap in his
garden, and the next morning sent the erier
around the town to announce that 'the
owner of the leg left in Mr.. johnson 8
ground last night, might receive it on appli-
cation" He was never robbed again.
Year: 1865

A steamer has Just arrived from the
inner hRrbor, and reports that at noon to-
day signal was hoisted on the flagship
for the entire feet to prepare for sea. The
probability is that we Will sail tomorrow
morning Il the weather continues favorable.


We also have the gratifying intelligence
that General Terry has arrived, and is in
command Of the troops. his presence is
hailed by the feet as an assurance that an
energetic and determined effort will be
made to prove that Fort Fisher can be
taken.


The feet outside the bar are all ready
to sail at q moments notice. The larger
transports are also outside, about FIVE miles
from the shore, awaiting the movement of
/ the feet.
Year: 1865

Some people are ashamed to work. They
are too proud to be seen carrying market
basket, or helping to wash, or wheeling a
barrow, or putting i'll coal, or digging IN the
garden. They are afraid to let others see
that they work And whenever they must
do anything of this kind they wait until it is
night, or go where nobody can see them, or
they go round the back way. II there are
any boys or girls who take the s. s. Hes
seager, | wish to tell them story of great
man vino was not ashamed to work.


On one occasion, during the Revolutions
ry war, Washington was going around In
disguise, to visit some log forts that were
being built. In the course of his walk, he
met with a company of men who were hard
at work under the command Of corporal.
This petty officer, proud Of his elevation a
bOve the common soldiers. was walking "a
bout, full of the thought of his own i'm
pOrtance and crying out, every now and
then, come, work away boys, but he new
er offered to help them. But Washington,
when he saw that the men had more work
than they could well 90, took off his coat at
once and began to help them saying, Spring
to it, my brave fellows! we are working for
our country: let Us do it with a good will "


In this way he worked with them till they
had finished and then when he was putting
on his coat, he asked the officer why he did
not help the men when he saw that they
h ID more work than they could well do.
Standing up straight with proud look on
his face, the officer replied, Il would have
you know, sir, that an. a corporal, dont
,corh: . ''Oh, are you sir?' said Washing
ton, you are a corporal and don't work.
Well, | would have you know that am
General Washington, Comneapder-in- CHIEF,
and do lcork


Don you think that the corporal must
have felt ashamed? Now if even you begin
to feel to proud too work, just think of
Washington and the corporal. S. s. Hes
SeUnter
Year: 1865

That the evil effects of slavery are by no
means restricted to those who are the vic
tins of tyranny, has been proved again and
again by the conduct of the Southern people
in the recent conflict, and is now shown by
the fact that some Of the leading guerilla
captains, who are keeping the border-lands
between Louisiana and Texas In terror by
their lawless deeds, were, before the war,
large plantation holders in Louisiana, and
the masters of large numbers of slaves.
Having sacrificed or lost everything in the
cause of secession, they are now without
home or profession. Feeling contempt
for labor, and despising the laborer, they
have no means of support in the future, and
are utterly destitute of capacity for adapting
themselves to the new order of things.
Perhaps the life of the guerilla, defying law
and living by pillage, more near ly resembles
their old, vicious, and unrestrained life on
their plantations, amid cringing mass of
trembling slaves, whose happiness and life
were at their disposal, that any position in
the new societary arrangements which are
being instituted under the influence of
Northern example and regulations. Too
poor to live, too Ignorant to learn, too proud
to work, these gentleman have only one
profession open to them-theft. Having
long lived on the unrequitted labor of the
negro, it is but one step to wrest their sup
port from their white neighbors.
Year: 1865

Ex-Gox. Washburne' Grafton at Portland,
ON the Fourth of July, contains the following /;


And that no example might be wanting
to illustrate the degeneracy of the times
and the perfdy of the public men, who at
such period could alone occupy the high
places of power, it was found that an ad-
ministration of the peoples choice, and rep
resentiug what appeared to be the average
opinion and sentiment of the country had
deliberately set itself to the work, in concert
with open traitors, of betraying and destroy
ing the Government it had been appointed
and sworn to preserve And so well were
its plans laid for the accomplishment of this
fagitious purpose that they could scarcely
have failed, if not to accomplish the end
designed, still to have produced such COM
plications, and given the rebellion such ad
dltlonal advantages, as would have rendered
the preservation of the Union, if possible, a
matter Of vastly greater difficulty and cost
than it has been, had it not been for one of
those fatal blunders, which, under the over
ruling hand of Providence, men engaged in
wicked enterprises are so apt make. We
tremble when we think that the salvation of
the nations prestige and honor, if not of
its life, and of the cause of free government
everywhere, depended upon the accident, as
1t seemed, Of the accession, In the winter of
1861 of Edwin NJ Stanton to the Cabinet of
President Buchanan He made himself at
once the ruling spirit and the directing pow
er of that false but weak Administration
and by his own personal strength, which
was as the strength of ten by his iron
will and his sublime devotion, averted
that monstrous crime, that unutterable dis
grace, and that last calamity-disunion by
consent of the Government itself.
Year: 1865

UnWise above man is the man who consid-
ers every hour lost which is not spent in
reading, writing or study, and not more ra-
tional is she who thinks every moment of
her time lost which does not find her sew
ing. We once heard great man advise
that book of some kind be carried in the
pied moment, such was his practice. He
died early and fatuitous. There are women
who after hard day 5 work. will sit and
sew by candle or gas light until their eyes
are almost blinded or until certain pains a
bout the shoulders come on, which are in
supportable, and are only driven to bed by
physical inability to work any longer. The
sleep of the overworkad, like that of those
who do not work at all, is unsatisfying and
unrefreshing, and both alike wake up in
WEAKNESS, sadness and langor with an in
evitable result, both dying prematurely.
Let no one work in pain or weariness When
a man is tired he ought to lie down until he
is fully rested, when with renovated strength
the work will be better done, done the soon
er, and done with self sustained alacrity
The time taken from seven or eight hours
sleep out of each twenty-four, is time
not gained, but the time much more than
lost we can cheat ourselves but we cannot
nature. A certain amount of food is neces-
sary to healthy body, and if less than that
amount be furnished, decay commences
that very hour. 1t is the same with sleep,
and any one who persists in allowing him
self less than nature requires, will only
hasten his rival at the mad house or the
grave. This is especially true OF brainwork.
Year: 1865

Hail to the hero mustered out,
Let the black -throated cannon shout,


And fling TO the wind the stars
Rejoice, o ye jubilant bells.
The he art of the patriot swells,
And tears overflow from their wells


When we see the soldiers scars
We welcome him home from the field,
Untarnished his sabre and shield,


Untainted his laurel crown
Champion of the brave and free,
what spirit and dash had he
COP grant that we may never see


cloud on his grand renown.
now let US muster him in,
Where the ranks of the true begin,


To fight for themselves again;
y lille he has been striking the blow,
At tn e rebels, another foe
Ha th laid many brave man low,


Who passed through the leaden rain.
Year: 1865

Union is responsible for the following;


THE old proverb that circumstances
alter cases, had spicy illustration the other
day at Boston hotel, and two parties, one
from this city, and the other of Boston,
participated therein. A young man, who
is the least bit feminine in his appearance,
parting his hair in the middle, &c, VI ent to
Boston, and while in that city was taken
with severe fit of cholic. Stopping at
hotel, he put himself to bed and sent for
a physician. The doctor came, felt his
patient pulse, examined his stomach, and
inquired solemly if his habits were regular
to which the young man, somewhat sur
prised, answered in the affirmative. The
doctor then cautiously and politely informed
his patient that his symptoms manifested
some probabilities of an increase of the
census in a short time. The surprise of the
cholic stricken young man at this singular
announcement, was only equalled by that of
the doctor when he discovered the true sex
of his patient
Year: 1865

JACKS WEDDING DIRECTIoNs.-"I say,
Jack. I'm going to get spliced tonight !;
couldn't you stand over on that tack and
lend us a hand in steering us III through the
shoals to Port Matrimony?


NO I'm blessed if | can, Bill. cause YOU
see Kate and Use shipped for Dolly Devon's
fandango to-night; but as I've been in
through that ere channel three times, ship
mate, can give ye all the marks and deeps
and sailin' directions, SO you sail into port
clear of everything.


IF you're a gon' to do the thing all up
ship shape, the first thing after you gets
in among the feet, branch pilot takes you
in tow and moors you about two fathoms from
the parson. Then he brings in your consort
and anchors her yard arm close aboard on
your starboard hand. After that ne tows up
another dimity craft, and moors her head and
starn alongside of the BRIDE Next, the pilot
drops down himself on your port beam, and
there you are, all stem on to the commodore.
Then the parson he sets in with a lingo as
long as the main-to' bow lin. which you
does ntp pay no 'tention to- till he comes to akin
ye if you ii take that ere craft for your life
consort and carry sail for better or worse on
the same tack with her? Then you sing out
Aye, aye, sir! sharp. Then Commodore
Blackcaat says you're spliced as fast as
blazes; and then all the beaux your wife
ever had bear down and take the last taste
they're e.er goin' to get of her-p'raps.


Then the feet all make sail and 60 driv.
ing about on a devils cruise after mischief
You watches your chance, signalize your
consort, both of you square away before it,
crack on canvas, and comes to al anchor in
Blanket Bay"
Year: 1865




6. the disorders that act mankind arise from the
corruption that accunuaes in the Blood of all the dis
coveries that have raadc to purgeit out
equal in effect HlLJlD0LD'S COMPOUND EXTRACT
OF PSIPARILL4. 1t cleanscs and renovates tho
Blood insti.ls the vgor Of health into the SYSTEM and
purges out the humors which make disease l. stimulates
the healthy functions of tae body and exPcs the disorders
that crow and rankle in the Blood Such remedy, tha.
could be relied on has long been sought for, and now for
the time the public have which they can de-
pend Our space here does admit of certificates to
show its effects but the trial OF single bottle Will show TO
the sick it has virtues surprising anything they have
taken.


Two tabespoonsfu the Extract sarsapa-a, added
pint water is equal to the Lisbon Diet Drn a=2
one bottle. to gallon of the Syrup Of Sarsa2arla
or the decoction usually made.


The above Extracts prepared purely scientific
prncples-n EIcuo-and ernbody the full strength OF
the ingredients entering into their composition ready
and conclusive test will comparison of their proper
ties With those set forth in the U. s. Dspensatory.
Year: 1865

A CURE FOR CHoLERA-As the cholera is
sad to be working its way westward and
bound to strike America before great while,
it may not be amiss to publish the following.
which is said to be successful, if taken in the
early stages of the disease:


" The Rev. Dr. Hamlin's Cholera Mix
ture-equal parts. by weight, of liquid
audanum, spirits of camphor and tincture of
rhubarb-has been used here not only by
him. but by many others. with the greatest
success in meeting she first stages of the
disease. If diarrhea is carefully kept off by
the use of this mixture the danger Of cholera
is very slight.


In the second stage of relapse and cramps,
clear brandy taken internally, mustard
plasters and other means of keeping up in
ternal heat by friction, etc, are very often
used with success. There is always hope in
cholera until the patient is actually dead :
and in severe cases, recovery often depends
upon the persisteney and energy with whcE
the disease is met and attacked at every
stage"
Year: 1865

In another column there is a call from
the Chairman of the two Committees in
Marshall county for County Convention.
As it is matter in which all voters are
interested we call attention to it with


few remarks. After consultation with
members of both committees and other
active citizens of the county it was thought
best to merge the two party organizations
into one, since the issues that divided US
were done away with. All held to be
Union supporting and Union loving men
only parting on persons and not on princi-
pals; hence the propriety of the step.


1t is desirable that as many voters as
possible attend the primary meetings and
that they appoint as delegates to the County
Convention, rgood men who will select
good and capable men for the various po-
sitions the people have to confer. We
hope to see no habitual drunkard placed
upon the ticket, nor any person who is in
the habit of drinking enough to unfit him
for the duties of the Office at any time.
We have had enough such. As usual
Marysville has candidates for every Office,
but we hope to see fair distribution
throughout the county. Mary sville can.
not afford to be ungenerons. There is
somebody in Marshall county besides the
people of Marysville and ihe sooner We
find it out the better for us.


We don't like to be too free in suggest
ing names of candidates for convention
to consider /; but beg leave to present the
name of Charles 2. Koester as candidate
for County Recorder, the Office he now
fills and has occupied so long and so hon
orably. This we do unsolicited, but in \
earnest desire to preserve the records Of
Marshall county in good condition, and
retain them as long as possible in hands
that can keep them better than they
ever were kept before, and as we'll as they
possibly can be kept.
Year: 1865

The chairman of the Commute on ways
and means in the last Congress, and one
of the ablest men in the Union, made a
speech to his constituents at Lancaster
Penn, on the 9th inst He took the posi-
ton that the South should be treated as a
conquered territory, the property of leading
rebels be con6scated TO pay the expenses of
the war, the rebel States be admitted into the
Union under the enabling act of Congress
prescribing who shall be voters at the elec-
tion for delegates to Conventions to form
new State constitutions, and no! afterward,
and that Congress she uld insist that the
State Governments there formed should be
Republican in fact, as well as in form.


Congress alone can settle this question.
If it has wisdom and firmness enough to
declare the Confederate States conquer.
ed enemy, to be dealt with as such, the
work of Reconstruction will be easy and
freedom'will oe triumphant. Ifthe presen,
policy of taking back repentant rebels is
to prevail, the Union party will be over.
whelmed. rebels and copperheads will rule
the country, slavery will be restored, and
all our sacrifices of blood and treasure will
have been in vain. The public debt will
be repudiated. or the rebel debt be added
to ours and the people be crushed beneath
the heavy burthens. This speech fore.
shadows the current discussions of the next
Congress
Year: 1865

The Atchison and P. P. Railroad is re.
ported to have taken a new start and that
hands are being employed by hundreds
upon it. This, we believe is the seventy
first new start that road has taken during
the last twelve months. Nearly every
mail reports new start on the road. 1t
has gotten to be such an old song that its
enemies do not fear nor its friends respect
the announcement. Thus far blind horse,
two crippled 1rishmsn and a broken wheel
barrow has constituted the laboring force
the remainder has been wind work. with
"beans' as motive power. In our opinion
road through Marshall county anywhere
is better than no road at all, and We long
to see the iron horse shake his name and
slake his thirst in the valley of the Blue.
Year: 1865

The Secretary of the Interior has ap.
proved list submitted to the general land
Office of tracts of public lands selected by
the agent of Kansas under the act Of July
I'd, 1862, donating lands to the States for
the benefit of the agricultural and mechan-
ical arts, amounting to SO 1896 acres, being
the quantity which Kansas is entitled to
under the said act. This approved list
vests in Kansas the fee simple title to said
lands, and satisfies the claim of the State
under the same.-N. r Tribune.


The above lands belong toIhe Agricul-
tural College at Manhattan, and unfortun-
ately for: Washington county, over one
half of the locations we're made within its
limits. The selections made embrace some
of its best lands, and the location of so
much of the grant within the county is of
serious damage to its prosperity. Itkeeps
out many who would settle there if they
could obtain the land. The next Legis-
lature should provide some way by which
the lands could be put into market and the
proceeds used to create perpetual inter-
est for the benefit of the college. In this
mannor the county could be allowed to set
tie up and the college have the immediate
benefit of the donation which it so much
needs. This would also relieve the neces-
ity of an appropriation of three or four
thousand dollars every year ou, of the
State Treasury for the maintenance of the
Institution. We would not urge the sale
of all the land. but of enough to relieve
in measure Washington county and ere.
ate a sufficient income to maintain the
Agricultural college free of expense to tho
State; leaving the remainder of the land:
10 increase in value and for future de-


mands. What think you Legislators
Year: 1865

Irrx.-All attempts. SO far, we believe, to
bring about IN interview between the young
lady who was rescued from . watery grave,
and the gallant young officer who did the
rescuing, have proved failure. The Rock
Island press should not give it up SO.
Year: 1865

Mucu APPRovED.- ED.-Numerous citizens
call at Plummer's to see the artistic and
truly splendid design for the city High
School building, and al speak of it very ap-
provingly. Whether or not they will vote
to build such an edifice right away remains
to be seen. Between this time and the


spring school election the people should
think the matter over thoroughly, and make
up their minds whsther they feel able to pay
for such IN improvement next year Or not.