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Year: 1865

FEMALE TOBACCO CHEwERs IN THE SourH.- A North Carolina correspondent says Among the next Yankee innovations. consequent upon a restoration of peace and good neighborhood, you may look for the speedy organization of anti-snuffdippingand anti-female. tobacco. chew ing societies. Yesterday I noticed group of young women sitting around the door of store In Fayetteville street. A soldier was sitting and chatting with the party As I passed saw him take out his paper of fine cut and take chew. One of the young ladies sitting near n'm' With glance which said, please give me cnew or tobacco. extending her right hand to take the package, and at the same instant. with the left discharged an old quid of hupe proportions with her mouth. She deposited

 wad of the weed between her pretty lips, re- turned the paper and added 'thank you just as if she had done the same thing before: All our suffers and Yankee traders keep waller snuff on hand as a staple article. The extent of the trade in this article, which is not snuffed up the nose, but .eaten by the fair sex of this country, would suprise every one if the figures could be correctly given. About five hundred barrels of the article are now laying waiting a market'at Greensboro.
Year: 1865

FIRE PRooF SHMaLEs.-A writer in the Bos- ton Cultivator says he has always noticed that the slaves of old soap-barrels or pork tubs made very poor kindling wood, and so he ar- gued that potash and salt would tend to keep his roof from kindling. Being blacksmith, this was g matter of some importance. Sc. in preparing his shingles. he took half a bushel oflime, half bnshel of refuse salt, and five pounds of potash, and water enough to slack the lime can and dissolve the alkali and salt. He mixed these up in an old trough or box. Then he seta bundle of shingles into the mirtnrs

 nearly up to the bands. leaving them soaking for full two hours. Then he turned overs,h. ! bunch and put in the other side for the same length of time. As exposure to rain and sun will in time take out the strength of this mix lure, it should be applied, fresh, once in three ,oor four years. ae
Year: 1865

Mr.. Benjamin G.. Harris, whose trial for


treason has been going On at Washington,


reminds US of the celebrated Irish Tutor


who was "master of six anl-twenty Ian


guages, including the profane' Whether


this sweetmouthed NJ c. swears by note


or by ear, we are not informed He may


have natural genius for the lingo of bias
phemy, or he may have tOiIed to acquire


Greek. We have heard of habitual pro-
fame person who declined to swear when


his load of hay Bas Overthrown, because
he felt, as he modestly admitted to the
crowd, that he could not do justice to the
subject Harris, NJ c., would have
proved equal to the emergency. In the
course of his many conversations, he d--d
the United States, the Black Republicans,
the President, the Abolitionists, Gen.
Grant; and, after swearing to an indefinite
extent, he wound up by bestowing a dollar
and drink upon a pair Of Confederate
soldiers, with the friendly advice atthey
should not take the oath of allegiance but
go somewhere and fight somebody, "by
Cd, like h-p


Harris, it is perfectly clear, should have
been in the Confederate army. How be
would have blasphemed the battaIlions
into bravery! how he would have cursed
the towards into shamel Placed in a ju-
diciously selected position in the front,
with a powerful trumpet, and with direc-
tions to consign the advancing Yankee
hosts to a place where everybody is sup
posed to be quite warm enough, Harris
might have done frightful execution.
Many of our soldiers would instantly have
fallen stone dead with horror and amaze
ment and the rest would have ignomini-
ously fed from Benjamin the Denouncer.


This profound Professor Of Profanity
will hardly figure again in Congress.
Neither is he likely to be sent to any moro
Democratic Conventions of Chicago or
elsewhere. If he escapes the Provost
Marshal's rope, we advise him to 20 into
He is good, but he is too
strong in his expressions. The world
can't stand him let him wait until be is
dead and then he can swear at his leisure
without offending anybody. In the place
for him they may be more aceus-
toned to his style of Conyersatiou.-N r /
Tribune.
Year: 1865

William Cullen Bryant gave the follow
ing advice to a young man who offered him
an article for the Evening Post:


My young friend, I observe that you
have used several French expressions in
your article. 1 think if you will study
the English language, that you will find
it capable Of expressing all the ideas that
you may have. I have always found it
so, and in all that 1 have written I do not
recall an instance where I was tempted to
use a foreign word, but that on searching,
1 found a better one IN my own language.


Be simple, uuafeetedj be honest in
your speaking and writing. Never use a
long word where a short one will do. Call
a spade a spade, not well known oblong
instrument Ofmanual industry; leta home
be a home, not residence; place place,
not a locality, and so on. Where a short
word will do, you lose by using a long one.
You lose in clearness, you lose IN honest
expression of your meaning and, in the
estimation of all men who are competent to
judge, you lose in reputation for ability


The true way to shine even in this false
world, IS to be modest and unassumiag.
Falsehood may be very thick crust, but
in the course of time truth will break
through. Elegance of language may not
be in the power Of all of US, but simplicity
and straightforWardness are.


Write much as you would speak I;
speak as you think. IfWith your inferior,
speak no coarse5 than usual if with su-
Perior, speak no finer. Be what you say,
and within the rules of prudence. No one
ever was gamer by siDgularity of words or
in pronunciation. The truly wise man
will so speak that no one will observe how
he does speak A man may show a great
knowledge of chemistry by carrying about
bladders Of strange gasses to breath, but
he will enjoy better health who lives on
common air


Sidney Smith once remarked: After
you have written an article, take a pen
and strike outhalP the words, and you will
be surprised to see how much stronger it
is.
Year: 1865

nants of the armies Of treason, the desOlate
wives, mothers and children mourning for
dear ones who have fallen in a vain and


hopeless struggle, it seems,to me our duty
is very plain. We must forgive their past
/ treason and welcome and encourage their
returning loyalty. None but towards will
/ insult ami taUnt the defeated and defense
less. We must feed and cIothe the desti-
tute, instruct the ignorant, and, bearing
patiently with the bitterness and prejudice
which will doubtless for time thwart our
efforts and misinterpret our motives, aid
them in rebuilding their States on the
foundation of freedom. Our sole enemy
was Slavery, aud Slavery is dead. We
have now no quarrel with the people of
the South, who have really more reason
than we have to rejoice over the downfall
Of system NAich impeded their material
progress, perverted their religion, shut
them out from thesympathies of the world,
aud ridged their land with the graves Of
its victims.


ave are victors-she cause Of all this
evil and suffering is removed forever
aud We can afford to be maguanimoUs.
How better can we eYince our gratitude to
God for His great mercy than in doing
good to those who have hated us, and in
having compassion on those who have de-
spitefully used US. The hour is fastening
for US all when oar sole ground of depen-
dence viii be the mercy and forgiveness of
God. Let US endeavor so to feel and act
in our relations to the people Of the South
that we can repeat in sincerity the prayer
ofOur Lord; Forgive US our tespasses as
we forgive those who trespass against US,
reVerently acknowledging that He has in
deed lied captivity captive and received
gifts for men; yea, for the rs5elJiOus also,
that the Lord God might dwell among
them" J. G. W"
Year: 1865




Most heartily do we congratulate the
Country aud the Government on| the
opening to the public last Saturday of the
Military Tribunal which is engaged IN
4 trying the persons implicated in tue mur-
der Of President Lincoln aud the attempt
to murder Secretary Seward. Heneeforth,
we presume, all the testimony submitted
to this court will be taken in public, with
the usual liberty to report and print it.


Is there one human being who does
not knol0 that the Government is stronger
for this Difference not less to Public JUS
tice than to Public Opinion g'If there be
threads of conspiracy which it is exped-
lent to trace without giving notice to
those they may implieate, let a Grand Ju,
ry be impaneled to follow them. 1t would
have been a grand, a sublime spectacle
for the civilized world, if this entire trag-
edy, with the conspiracy which prompted
it, had been treated precisely like any
other conspiracy and murder. One law ia
the case alike for the highest and the hum.
blest is the moral that We would have had
our Government illustrate and enforce on
this occasion. Since that we was not to be,
We rejoice that everything is to be done
aboveboard and under the gaze-of the civ
ilized world. Now if the testimony is
found to implicate JEFF Davis or any of
his satellites, there can be no pretence that
1t was obtained, no one knows Whence,and
cooked up for publication, no one knows
how. The Executive has more than half
corrected the mistake of having the trial
of these eonspirators and assassins in any
manner exceptional And we feel conf
dent that this viii be the last Military ar
raignment Of persons wholly uneonnected
With the Military service. s .-


To those who fancy that We, who have
demonstrated against the original mistake,
would have eVinced a truer devotion to
tbe Government by defending it, we com
mend a thoughtful peFusal of the memoir
able closing words of Hugh S. Legare's
speech in Congress against the Sub-Treas-
Ury projeet-as follows:


I have spoken what I felt and
thought, without references to party. But
I will say one word to t66ee with whom I
have generally acted on this floor. l have
heard that some of them disapproYe this
measure, but are disposed to vote for tito
Obiige their friends. Sir, this is a strange
aud great mistake. A true friend ought
to be a faithful counselor. Let them re-
member the deep reproach which the
great p ct puts in the mouth Of one Of his
heroes


Hadst thou but SHOOK thine head, or made


pause,
When I spoke darkly what purpOsed,
Or turned an eye Of doubt upon my face ?


" 7. Tribune.
Year: 1865

Many of US have often remarked how
differently our friends look in their pic


lures to what they do in real life. Under


the above caption, Dickens, in "All the


Year Round" partly explains the natter


and treats the subject very readably. He
says In turning over the leaves of an
album, we frequently pass our acquaintan>
ces without even a nod. Hew is this


The photograph may be irreproaehable as
work Of art, and it is impossible to be
other than transcript Of what was presen-
ted to the camera. How comes 1t, then
that this is not a likeness p Simply be-
cause the original one was, at that critical
moment, unlike himself When about to
be photographed, one is apt to feel that,
like Marshall Ney, the eyes Of Europe are
upon him, that according to the position
he assumes, Judgement will be passed on
his good or bad figure, aWkwardness or
grace. He wishes to present himself on
paper to an admiriug, not critical public.
A nervous consciousness, moreover, that
perhaps a guinea or two is involved in the
operation, tends materially to add to this
discontinue. Trivial as this consideration
may appear, it ezerts far greater influence
on the expression that most persons are
willing to acknowledge, even to them
selves. Placed in position always chosen
by the operator, (being, to save himself
the trouble Of re-arrangiDg accessories, pre-
cisely the same which the last sitter occu-
pied, his head screwed up in vice be-
hind, he is told to-look at an identical
spot on the wall, and keep still. Thus
poised, he regards further operations with
much the same feeling Of dstrust as he
would those of dentist In Imagination
he hears the sharp rattle of the forceps or
the punch. His breathing becomes thick.
er and quicker as the critical moment ar
rives; his heart beats audibly against his
waistcoat, and hazy film falls over his
eyes. In this delightful condition of mind
and body he is enjoined to keep still, and
put on a natural expression as if expires
siOns were as easy to put on as gloves.
The inevitable consequence is that he
"grins horribly ghastly smile," the like
of which never passed over his features be-
fore. Yet both operator and sitter won
der why the portrait is so over unlike. 81
should like to have landscape background
for ny portrait, if you please" is frequent
but Inconsistent request.
Year: 1865

A sweet little incident is related By
a lady writer. She says: I asked .
little boy the last evening


Have you called your grandma to
tea p


Yes. When I went in to cali
her she was asleep, and didn't know
how 10 wake her. I didn't wish to
hoIer at grandma, or to shake her; 90 I
kissed her cheek, and that woke her
very softly. Then 1 ran into the hall,
and said, pretty loud, grandma, tea
is ready And she never knew what
woke her"


Do we find anything more sweet,
delicate and lovely than this In the
annals of poetry Can conventiORslis
ty improve upon such pOlitsRsss,
spontaneous in the hsart Of . sig
years boy?
Year: 1865

The creation Of national debts is moi


modern improvement, but the ability


of great nation to provide for a great


debt, and to make it the most, convenient


and best form of personal property, is a


modern wonder. The debt ofGreat Britain


was begun by raising a million sterling By


loan in 1892, and when their great contest


with Louis XIV. was determined, the debt


had reached fifty millions. Many statesmen


and economists were then alarmed at the


great burden which had been imposed


upon the industry of the country, but


when the war Of the Austrian success bad


sweled this amount to eighty millions,


Maeauly says that historians and orators
pronounced the case to be desperate. But


when war again broke out, and the ma


tional debt was rapidly carried up to one


hundred and forty millions, men Of theory
and business both pronounced that the IA


tai day had arrived. David Hume said
that, although, by taxing its energies to
the utmost, the country might possibly
live through it, the experiment must new


er be repeated even a small experiment
might be fatal Granville said the ma
ton must sink under it unless some por-
ton of the load was borne by the Ameri


can Colonies, and the attempt to impose
this load produced the war Of the reYolu-
ton, and, instead of diminishing, added
another hundred millions to the burden.
Again, says Macauly, was England given
over, but again she was more prosperous
than ever before. But when at the close
of the Napoleonio wars in 1916, this debt
had been sWelled up to the enormous sum
of over eight hundred sterling, or four
thousand three hundred million dollars,
or nearly one half of the United King
dom, the stoutest heart, the frmest belieV-
er in national progress aud national de-
Yelopement might as well have given up
But in the very face Of this mountain Of
Obligation say nothing Of her vast
colonial possessions,-the property Of the
British nation has been more than tTeb-
led, and her debts is now a charge of but
I25 per cent. against it. An that Great
Britain has done in paying her debt, we
shall do, and more with ours. We have
vast territories untouched by the plow,
mines of all precious metals, of which we
have hardly opened the doors, a pOpula,
ton full Of life, energy, ent.Eprise and /
industry, and tie accumulated wealth of |
money and labor of the old countries
pouring into the lap Of our giant and ev-
rebubic During the fer
cest aud most ezhausting of all possible
wars, we have demonstrated our national
all the world over, national
strength is but another name for national
credit {" As good as United Stocks "
will soon be synonymous the world over
with " as good as British COnsols.' For
our part, we think a U. S. Treasury note,
bearing seven aud three-;euths annual
interest, is just as much better than
British Consols as the rate of interest is
higher Some of our timid brethren, who
have shipped their gold to London and
invested 10 consols, are now glad to sell
put and invest at home at a round loss
and serves them right.
Year: 1865

BY ". C. BRYANT.
Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare,
Gentle and merciful and jUstl
Who, in the fear Of God didst bear
The sword of power, a nations trust
In sorrow by thy bier we stand,


Amid the awe that bushes all,
And speak in anguish ofa land,


That shook in horror at thy falll
Thy task is done; the bond are free
We bear thee to an honored grave,
Whose proudest monument shall be
The broken fetters Of the slave.
Pure was thy life; its bloody close
Hath placed the with the song light
Among the noble host of those


Who perisiIed in the cause of Right.
Year: 1865

General Thomas ] Mood has recently written
a letter onsthe subject of Slavery as connected
with the Rebellion. This letter addressed to
General Whitaker, member Of the Kentucky
Legislature, and a worthy companion in arms oil
the gallant author, who is hmselfa native of Ken
tucky. We have nowhere seen the duty of the
Government to destroy slavery more tersely Oh
forcibly expressed than in the following sentence
of General Woods letter:


"No Government with proper regard for it.
perpetuity, can safely nurture in its bosom an ee
ment which may be, in the hands of designing
criminal men, used for its destruction.


"No Government should give its protection to
an interest which can be availed to arouse the
most incendiary passions Of human natur G, and d
rect them into systematic action for its over
throw"


This is the sum Of the whole argument Slave
ry made the war, and the struggle is to determine
whether it shall overthrow all other interests anc
remain master Of the Nation.
Year: 1865

Newspal er subscriptions are iniallible tests Of
mans honesty. If man is dishonest he will,
cheat the printer in some way-say that he has
raid when he has not and sent money which was
lost by mail, or will take the paper and pay for
it on the plea that he did not subscribe for it; or
will move off, leaving it to come to the Office he
left. Thousands Of professed christians are dis
honest, and the printers book will tell fearfuily on
the final settlement of the Judsmen. day. How
many who read this paragraph viii be guiltlcss Of
the offence charged7-WaLash Express.
Year: 1865

A man named Showell, of Reading,
Hamilton Co., heard noise In the
night, and supposing chicken thief
to be about, took a pistol and went
into the yard. Not finding any
one he fred his pistol into the dark
ness to frighten any one who might
be about, and sent the ball through
the heart OF his wife who had followed
him without his knowledge.
Year: 1865

A mans force in tue world, 6ther
things being equal, is just IN the ratio
Of the force and strength OF his heart,
A full-hearted man is always pow.
erful man; if he is erroneous, then he
is powerful for error; il the thing 10
in his heart, he is sure to make it no
torious, even though it may be 0
downright falsehood. Let man be
ever so ignorant, still, if his heart be
full to n cause, he becomes II power
lul man for that object, because. he
has heart power, heart force. A
man may be deficient in man OF those
advantages Of education, in many Of
those niceties which are so much
looked upon in society; but once give
him q good strong heart, that beats
hard, and there is no mistake about
his power. Let him have n heart that
is full to the brim with an object, and
that man will do the object, or else
he will die gloriously defeated, and
will glory in his defeat. Heart 10
power.
Year: 1865

-. 80 "


our pIeilo[ men They met in gene
raj convenpor and resolved that the
war TO restore the Unian bad failed.
angshonld stop Their aid and en-
c9uragement, and the hopes. they
held out, kept the rebellion alive
long after ITS cause was hopeless,
and multiplied the cost OF the war
They served their Southern party
leaders all through the var, and now
when the rebel military pow er has
submitted, and Is ready to ratify the
death OF secession and slavery, the
Northern Democratic party seeks to
revive these issues, and tn renew the
Conflict. - i..:i ? iis'1-.t'le-'> :


Letthe lDemoeratie Journals and
orators howlover the debt and taxes
their war has brought. They but
magnify their own sins. Every dol
lar OF debtis a Democratic legacy.
Every tax Is a Democratic gift
Every Government stamp is Dem
ocratic sticking plaster. Every per
son in the United States drinks in
Democracy in his tea, his coffee and
his whisky, and In the sugar where
with he sweetens them. Each in
gredient pays its quota for the cost
of Democracy to the country. The
smoker mhales Democracy. The
sick man is physicked with Democ-
racy. The laboring man gives about
one hours labor every day % pay
for Democracy. The capitalist pay
One-tenth of his income for the cost
OF the Democratic party. Every
transfer of property is saddle6 with
the Democratic burden. Before he
is begotten the child is subject TO the
Democratic tax. From the cradle to
the grave he never is free from it.
The funeral mourning must first pay
the penalty Of Democratic rule, and
portion of that which he leaves be-
hind must go into this Democratic
vortex.


Celebration after generation will
carry this Democratic burden from
birth to death. Like the original di-
vine curse, it will be felt in the sweat
of the brow of the laborer and in the
travail of woman, and in swallowing
up portion OF the earth's produc-
tions for all time. But for the Demo
cratic party our people would hardly
Year: 1865

~ We ask the attention of the
members Of the Methodist Church in
Gal,ia county, to the following Cop
perhead howl from the New York
News Democratic paper of the first
water, which we lately saw adver-
ised in the New Orleans Della, as
having always been in favor ofthe
South. The Gallipolis Dispatch for
two years past has copied largely
from this ''New York NeOs" and to
day considers it as one of the most
conservative and pure sheets of the
day. We would like every member
of that church to read this, and then
see if they can vote for ]. L. Vance
and the balance of the Copperhead
ticket in this county. Remember
that this is written and published in
an orthodox Democratic paper, which
is fully endorsed by the Gallipolis
Dispatch.


Take the Methodist Church in our
midst as an illustration of this cor
ruption of Christianity. That church
is pre- eminently responsible for the
recent war, with its ruin and desola-
ton. It's hands are imbued with
blood; its banner is bespattered with
blood; its very bible is defaced with
blood; its gospel has been an anath-
ema of blood; its hosannas have
been thanksgivings ior blood, and
that not the sanctifying blood OF
Christ, but the blood of Northern and
Southern men slain in fratricidal con-
hiet Even yet it thirsts for blood
The military are satisfied, the poll