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Year: 1868

himself a member; but among the working


people his republican ideas are very popular


Since the failure of the last Roman revolution
the influence of Garibaldi is likewise exerted
more openly than before in behalf oil repuoh-
can principles, which appear to make, at pres
ont great progress in all parts of the Kingdom.
Year: 1868

Our German citizens, in their large and
enthusiastic mass meeting at the Cooper lnstl-
mte Yesterday afternoon, gave an emphatic
denial to the assertion so often made, that the
Germans as a class are in favor of the repeal
of the Metropolitan Excise law and pledged
their influence in favor of sObriety and good
order
Year: 1868

PLANT GRAPE VINK.-Every farmer,
and every one who has vacant spot Of
ground suitable for the purpose, should
consider whether he can do better than
to set out one or more grape vines. The
varieties known are now so numerous
and diverse, that it will not be difficult
to find among them one which shall be
appropriate to the proposed situation,
and bear fruit which will meet the taste
and wishes of the cultivator. The care
required, especially if the number of
vines be small, is not excessive, and it
will be found rather pleasure than 3
toll to give the necessary attention.
The growth'is comparatively rapid-in a
few years only from the time of setting
out, ample reward may be expected in
the shape of luscious fruit. ..r Fa.-4


A grape vine which has once attained
a healthy maturity, is no summer flower,
destined to bloom awhile and speedily
die and decay with reasonable care and
average good future, it will last life
time, constantly bearing larger crops
and repaying the original investment a
thousand times over.


Every such plant, be it fruit tree, shade
tree or vine, is permanent improvement
on the place, and adds or ought to add
to the pride of ownership, the satisfac-
ton which the master feels in contempla-
ting his property, and to the attractive
ness of home to children-not to men
ton the favorable effect which such im-'
proyements exert on the minds of would
be purchasers and the increased money
value which results il it ever becomes
desirable to SELL ''- '''.''' .''-'-.'''


Plant vines then-not necessarily q
vast vineyard yielding fruit by the ton
and wine by the ,bogshead--but one or
two at least, here and there on your
grounds, where circumstances seem to
favor, and see if yon do not find your
self repaid over and over again, as year
after year passes by. eN .1a.y is.i --
Year: 1868

| We happened to be present in MAY
/ last at the Polytechnic Institute Of


London while Prof. Pepper was con-


Quoting some very interesting Opical
/ experiments to a crowded and ap-


pTeciative audience.


This Institute is one of the most


valuable and instructive in London,


and we trust that in due time we shall


have something like it, and even bet


ter, in this city.


A large hall in the building is


devoted to the exhibition of novel


inventions, many of which were re-


markable for their ingenuity. At the
time of our visit u very vOluble little


parsonage was summOning the visitors


to examine a small eontriyanee which


he called the Norwegian cooking


apparatus. It ItcOnsisted Of a tin vessel


or stew-pan, having a clOsely-fitting
cover, and into which piece of NUT


ton or beef, potatoes, and other
vegetables, are placed in water at the
boiling point. The vessel is covered
80 as to be water-tight, and then
carefully inclOsed in a felted box, and
the lid sealed. The apparatus before
us had been shut up nearly three and
half hours, and when opened in our


presence, we were invited, along with
other half-hungry visitors, to eat of
the viands thus prepared, which we


found well cooked and very palatable.
The lecturer on the cooking appara-
tus remarked that the peasants OF
Norway, wise in their generation,
were great eaters of pOrridge. They
found that by boiling their mess for
only five minutes, and then immedi-
ately inclOsing the saucepan, all hot,
in q little felted box, the acquired
heat was sufficient to complete the
cooking of the pOrridge and to keep
it hot for many hours.


The Norwegian Government, :
appears, took a leaf out of the peas
ants book, and adopted the same
plan Of cooking for the navy, which
has proved a success.


The lecturer went on to say that
two gentlemen-perhaps himself was
one of demonstrated from Paris with
one of these little felted saueepans
full of mutton, and upon reaching
London, after eleven hours ride, the
felt covering was removed, the stew
opened, and the inner man regaled
with as choice q mOrsel as ever
ate, assisted, of course,
by generous pot of beer, to which it
is said Englishmen are somewhat
partial.


Now, for a wOrkingman there is
nothing like a good hot meal. 1t
adds force and power to human
muscle. Therefore, in every farm, in
every cottage, let the kettle be boiled
every morning; let the saueepans
the provisions for the
days dinner be placed to boil for tive
minutes, and then shut up, piping
hot, in wood box, well fitted inside
with cheap felt, and the family need
concern themselves no more til the
dinner hour arrives. At that time
the food will be found aicely cooked,
and with the addition of some salt
and pepper il will constitute dish tit
10 set befOre a king. The labOrer can
IS easily carry the little Norwegian
stew-pan to the field as he can his
little tin pail
Year: 1868

At last the glad release came to us.
Sherman had started on his "marah
to the sea-" The rebels were perfect
ly ignorant of his intentions. They
feared he would come and recapture
us. So as an act characteristic to them
.they further reduced our rations, Civ
ing us but little more than pint of
coarse corn meal, with a pinch of salt
nothing more. Doyou say men could
not live on that? Well, we did live.
Perhaps hope kept us alive. We
knew as much of Sherman as the rcb-
els did, and twas plainly seen that the
days of the confederacy were drawing
near to a close-an ignominious close,
disgraceful to all who were in it.


On the 26th of Nov. the first thous
and were ordered to be ready to move
on the morrow. They went outside,
when the sick were taken on the cars
and the rest sent back. This looked
like exchange, but we had been de-
ceived so many times, our faith was
weak, and we thought we were only
to be taken out of Sherman's reach, to
another prison. In a day or two the
sick who had been taken away were
sent back in. They said they had
started for Savannah, but found the
railroad had been cut by our men.
This was good news, for we thought
now we would be released by ex-
change, or else by recapture. At last
on the 7th Of Dec, the sick of five
thousands" were taken out and sent
away. The ninth thousand, to which
| belonged, received orders to be ready
on the next day; oh, how we dreamed
of home that night. How many hopes
and fears alternated in our hearts. I
could hardly believe ! was to be talk
en-, as I was not sick at all, though
considerably reduced in flesh. Morn
ing came, we weredrawn up in line by
hundreds. A certain number were to
Year: 1868

A GOOD rule is in force on some of.
the railroads of Pennsylvania, to the
effect, that the officers Of such roads
are clearly forbidden to sell a ticket to
or allow intoxicated persons to ride in
any of their cars. This rule is excel
lent, and should be applied to all bu-
siness. No man intoxicated should be
allowed to appear any where on a
railroad car, on the highway, the side
walk, at market, in a business trans
action, or in fact, any where in public,
for the reason that the drunkard is an
unclean and unsafe thing. 'res
Year: 1868

The idle levy very heavy tax upon
the industrious, when, by frivolous risi-
tations, they rob them of their time.
Such persons beg their daily hapi-
ness from door TO door, as beggars
their daily bread and like them
Sometimes meet with arcbuf,. "A
mere gossip ought not to wonder if
we eyince signs that we are indebted
for the honor of his visit solely to
the circumstance of his being tired
of himself He sits at home until he
has accumulated an intolerable load
of enn,li, and he salies forth to distrib-
ute it amongst all his acquaintances.
Year: 1868

A TAKING MATCH is on the tap
is between two woman of Boston.
Amount of wager not stated. Time;
twenty-tour hours without sleep; no
stoppagcs for food or drink. The hus-
bands of the amiables are anxious to
have the time extended to week.
Year: 1868

THE Canadians have more wheat
than they can use. Coal oil Is So
cheap they have closed the wells. Sil-
yer money is a drug, and yet times
never were so hard, for immigrants
will uot come in and old settlers arc
leaving.
Year: 1868

A GOOD rule is in force ON some of
the railroads of Pennsylvania, to the
effect that the officers of a such
roads are clearly forbidden 10 sell a
ticket to or allow intoxicated persons
to ride in any of their cars.
Year: 1868

IT is now ascertained that fifteen
thousand native whites voted for the
Republican constitution and the Re-
publican State ticket at the late cleo
ton in South Carolina. This is more
than double the number heretofore re-
pOrted. "a tC.lI
Year: 1868

The following is recommended as a
recipe for making Bologna sausage;
Take an eel skin and stuff it with
ground cat; season it with Scotch
snuil and persimmon oil; lay it on a
hog pen to dry, and then hang it up
oy the tail ina grocery for three
months for the flies to give it the trade
mark, then it is ready for use.
Year: 1868

HORACE Greeley says that if you
lend a stranger money as a general
thing he will never pay it; but Ho-
race notices an exception. He once
received remittance of a five dollar
loan, and on inquiry found that the
writer was patient in a luuatic asoy-
lum. arr-
Year: 1868

NEW IOhh, april 10, 1ooO.


The East River bridge proposition
still attracts considerable attention
though the project seemingly makes very
little real progress. All sorts of ideal
bridges have been born of this already.
One bridge enthusiast and maniac urges
the Importance of having six of these
ponderous affairs across the East River.
He cant even waitto see if the first shall
be a success. He or some of his family
will probably attack the North River
next. This comes of having an undue
measure of the spirit of the age, and yet
this kind of fellow is nor lightly to be
"sneezed at" His ideas and those of
some of his family may be somewhat
crude but they are wonderously sugges-
tive, and this city is to-day blessed with
many a work the idea of which had
dreadfully rough birth in the brains of
enthusiasts, W ho were laughed at in their
time.


That the poor woman, living in this
city and dependent on the work of her
own hands for her livelihood, has hard,
sad time of it none can deny who
has given her position a thought.
But how much harder it is than we are
apt to realize is shown by the payment,
iii one instance, as is currently reported,
of sixteen cents for the making of four
pairs of pantaloons. The song of the
pantaloons is noless weary than the song
of the shirt. Some believe that only a
man here or there has soul, and this
man of the precious sixteen cents would
seem to furnish an argument for this
| theory. We have thousands of aban-
ldoned women in this city; their num-
bers are positively alarming; and should
not we Immediately seek to know how
many have joined this hopeless sister
hood because of such men as this one,
who gives four cents for the making OF
one pair of pantaloons2 7aqo s-g
Year: 1868

of the disasters which may arise from
your present course Of action. Finally,
think of the old Pope who speaks to you,
of the outrages he has had to undergo
from those whom he believed entirely de-
voted to him, and am persuaded that
you will hesitate to fill his cup with Bit
terness by obliging him to change the
benedictions which he has ready for you
and yours into so many just excommuni-
cations. In the meantime, continue to
address the most ardent prayers on your
behalf to the Almighty, in order that he
may enlighten your mind, and I bless
you paternally. Plus TX.
Year: 1868

OYsTERs.-6e take from an exchange the fol-
lowing, which ia well worthy Of trial:


1--WE suppose that nine out Of ten housekeep
ers will contradict Us point blank in a statement
that nine out Of ten Of them do not know how to
stew dish Of oysters. By the ordinary routine
that nearly every one follows, either the oysters
are stewed and shriyeled out Of all semblance Of
Themselves in shape, size and asVor, or else the
soup and thickening has raw taste that spos it.
Here is the right meihod-tTy it once, and we'll
warrant you won't need telling the second time
Pick the oysters out Of the juice with fork as
dry as possible; stew the juice. thiekening, milk
or water Of which the soup is to be made, until
thoroughly cooked; then drop the oysters in, and
just as he cooled soup begins to show signs OF
simmeriDg, empty out altogether. and you viii
lave rich soup and plump oysters. lusciou:
enough to make you think you never tasted rea
oysters before"
Year: 1868

The New York Herald, that started
out strong for Grsst, under the impress
sion that the popular current was in that
direction, is constrained to say:


"If the history Of Democracy were
darker than it is, the history Of Radical
ism would be infinitely beyond it in in
fanny. Il is upon these broad views and
judgments Of parties that the people move.
The common mind averages great results
BY process of its own. Isolated facts are
forgotten-this or that virtue or vice
seems to pass away; but the balance Of
history is made mp at the polls, and Ken
lucky indicates the tendency"
Year: 1868

We have been permitted to make the
following extract from letter received
yesterday by a prominent citizen. from
Bowling Green, Kentucky, under date OF
the l7th Instant: =.
Z From the signs Of the times and
passing events, greatly fear You will
soon have difficulties in Tennessee. A
negro man came into my office to-day
with an open letter in his hand, respect
fully asking me to read 1t for him. The
letter was written in an excellent hand,
aud purported to be from bis brother,
saying to him that be had received or
ders TO return to Nashville at once TO be
mustered into the militia service. and
that he was directed TO order him also,
to repair without delay to Nashville to
be mustered into the service so you see
you are to be ruled not only by your own
negroes, bat by all the viciously disposed
negroes in your sister States. ! would
urge you 10 place your property in al
safe condition as you can, and that soon,
for the crash, which seems inevitable,
| from all that can learn, will come ct an
early day" t.f


We learned yesterday morning. from q
gentleman who came down on the Louis
vile train, that two box cars Of negroes
we're on the train destined for this
place.


A day or two ago man who came
here from Hopkinsvillc said he had been
in the Federal army, but he could moi
"stand the Radicals" aud that the me-
groes we're leaving his part of the coun
try for Tennessee, large number hay'
ing come to the city on the train with
him. These statements he made in the
presence OF respectable citizens.


The most singular feature of this in.
gress of negroes is that the friends oil
Col. Prosser claim that he will poll ten
thousand colored votes in this county
alone, As Col. Prosser is chairman Of
the House Committee on Military AT.
fairs, and evidently got himselfappointed
| to that position for some purpose, is II
not natural to inquire whether his claim
to seat in Congress has any connection
with the confidence manifested by the
negroes that they are all to be mustered
into the service of the State2 The Col
onel has expressed an anxiety for
"peace," but his friends have made
some indiscreet revelations which imply
anything else but such disposition on
his part. NashUille Banner. i
Year: 1868

The Union Pacific Railroad Company has a land
grant or absolute donation from the government OF
II 800 acres to the mile the line ofthe road which
will not be worth less than S5o per acre. at the low
est valualiou .........r r....s
Year: 1868

Was never better. The means SO tar provided for
consructionhas proved ample, and there is no lack
OF funds for the most vigorous prosecution OF the en-
terprse These means are divided into four classes
Year: 1868

stored, and what they are struggling


against is bound to come. You must


know that this will be a Republic of


free labor and equal rights Zap
plause. And yet you are still pour


ing oil into the fame of their mad


ness - nay, you are urging the sword


into their hands, which you know


they can raise only for self.destruc.


ton Democrats Of the North are
your cousciences dead 2 Have you
no hearts, no pity for your Southern
Victims 2 Have their destroyed cit.
les, their devastated fields, have the
hundreds Of thousands of their sons.
whose blood they have sacrificed at
your instigation, not yet given you
your fill? Shall the agony of those
whom you have goaded on from or.
ror to error, from crime to crime,
from disaster to disaster, be contin.
ued forever3 Will you never give
them a chance to return TO reason ?
What have the poor Southern people
done to you, that you should never
cease to pcrsecute them with your
cruel, relentless, murderous, fendish
friendship? Tremendous applause ]
Is it not as if the policy OF your par.
ty we're born Of the love of mischief
for mischief's sake When coutem.
plating this appalling spectacle, does
II not appear questionable to your.
selves which was the most terrible
curse Of the South, the institution of
slavery or the friendship of the Dem
ocratic party2 Is there no human
feeling in your hearts which moves
you, no voice of conscience which
compels you to dcsist from this mos
cruel wickedness?
Year: 1868

Within three mouths after Grant, s
election the reign of terror at the
South will cease, and Northern men
will be safe anywhere within the
bonds Of the late rebel States. This
will lead to the rapid Development of
the resources OF .he South. 1t will
secure to the latter those two ele-
ments which are so much needed y
capital and population. rf.A
Year: 1868

DOR SALE-HORSE, SPRING CART AND HARNESS,
all in good working order will be sold cheap on &C.
count OF the having to leave the city, To be seen AZ
the Of Twenty street Sixth avenue at the
linuar
Year: 1868

| wonder why when wild winds cry,
And rain drips from the caves,
And before the rising tempest fly
The last few fiuttering leaves;
There bursts tune of merry june
Upon my inner ear,
Warm odor pass through the rich deep grasi
And the blackbirtls whistle clear!


Iwonder why
wonder why when the night winds sigh,
And the city rests IN shade,
And its living souls in slumber lie,
And the glare and tumult fade;
Far from the town on the clovered down,
With short, fine grass to tread
Mid gorse and gray stone wonder alone,
And larks carol overhead


l wonder why!
Do wonder why when you and
Are parted by many smile,
And between US tireless streams go by,
Woods whisper and pastures smile;
In whatever way, by night or day,
You come to eye Or ear,
You are no surprise TO my glaGdened eyes,
And the wonder of your song sing clear


Do | wonder why
Year: 1868

favorable to Chase, an astute observer
asked, care you quite sure of it?" He,
evidently, was not, and ne laughed at the
excessive greenness of the Herald in sup
posing that Mr.. Seymour would seriously
withdraw in favor of the Chief Justice.
"There is no compromise between right
and wrong" said another Democrat; ii
we suppose the Republicans to be right,
we ought not to nominate candidate; ii
we are right, we ought to nominate one OF
our own representative men, and not a
radical Republican of yesterday"


The Convention agreed with this gentle
man, and we have truly representative
man of the party, which, by its unscrupu-
lous devotion to the extension and perpe-
tuity ofhuman slavery, plunged the coun-
try into war; which insisted that the re-
bellion was successful until it was wholly
defeated, and which now claims that, as
the country would not be destroyed, it
shall be disgraced. Of this kind of patri-
otism and craftsmanship Horatio Seymour
is a proper representative. When the war
was imminent, and the rebel Senators were
seeding and all was doubt and darkness
and confusion, Horatio Seymour justified
them, and cast the whole responbility of
their crime upon those who, believing that
liberty was better national policy than
slavery, had lawfully declared that slavery
should not be extended upon the national
domain. When the war began, this pro
phetic statesman announced that it would
develop the resources of the South and
prove ruinous to the North. When it
became clear that it was question be-
tween slavery and the Union, Mr.
Seymour insisted that the Union must
be surrendered rather than slavery.
When the agony of the war was EXTREMIST
Mr. Seymour, then Governor, came to the
city of New York, and in public speech
derided the patriotic hopes of the coun-
try, and instigated a mob against the
Government then engaged in drafting
men. He presided at the Convention
which urged surrender to the rebellion.
Rejected by the people as Governor, he
appeared at Democratic. Conventions af-
ter the final victory of Grant and the
Union army to denounce the party that
had sustained the war, and to instill in
the public mind the idea that the war
debt was wicked creation of the Repub-
lican party, and that the taxation was the
result of Republican misrule and not OF
the rebellion No word of encourage
ment to loyal men in the field fighting
for their country-no syllable of sym
pathy with four millions of human beings
held in the most hopeless slavery by his
countrymen-no declaration Of any great.
generous, humane principle of public and
national action, has ever fallen from the
lips of this man, trained from his youth
to politics and to public speaking. A
plausible politician, an unscrupulous
partisan, the obsequious servant of the
only aristocratic class in the country, the
flatterer of the laboring man, and the
stigmatizer of labor, Mr.. Seymour is the
fit candidate of party which, in its
prime, sought to make of the American
Republica vast slave empire and in its
decadence, still inspired by the spirit OF
slavery, seeks to perpetuate class hatreds,
and to govern the country unjustly.--
Harper's Weekly.
Year: 1868

A PAPER hanger of Reubaix, France,
fell victim to his imrrudence some short
time back by going to his breakfast with
out first washing his hands after handling
some green papering. The inquest proved
that death was caused by introduction into
the system of salts and copper, now so
much used in the manufacture Of green
coloring for paper
Year: 1868

Many women, who would not for the world be wanting in the matter of per sonal ncatness, seem somehow to have the notion that any study of the arts of personal beauty in family life is unmatronly. They buy their clothes with simple reference to economy, and have them made up without any ques- tion of becomingness and hence mar riage sometimes transforms a charm ing, tripping young lady into a wadling matron, whose everyday toilet sug- gests only the idea of feather-bed tied around with a string. For my part do not believe that the summary punishment of the grace from the do- mestic circle as soon as the Baby makes its appearence, is all conducive to do- mestic affection. Nor do I think that there is any need of so doing. These good housewives are in danger, like other saints, of falling into error of neglecting the body through too much thoughtfulness for others, and too lit tie for themselves. If a woman ever has any attractiveness, let her try and keep it, setting it down as one of her domestic talents.