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Year: 1865

SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE - We
have secured the services Of an experienced
correspondent, who will! entertain the read
ers of the Herald with weekly budget o.
Legislative doings. during the continuance
Of the session. His frs. installment will be
found in to'days paper and will be found
spicy and interesting.
Year: 1865

There is a set of peoples says DR.. Chal-
mers, whom cannot bear-the pinks Of
fashionable propriety-whose every word
is precise, and whose every movement is
unexceptionable, but who though we'll
versed in all the categories of polite be-
havior, have not particle of soul or of
cordially about them. We allow that
their manners may be abundantly cor.
rected. There may be elegance IN every
gesture. and gracefulness in every position
not smile out of place, and not step
that would not bear the severest scrutiny.
This is all very fine; but what ! wan. is
the heart and gaiety Of social intercourse
the frankness that spreads ease and ami.
mation-the eye that speaks affability to
all, that chases ,imidi!y from every bosom,
and tells every man in the company to be
confident and happy. This is what /
conceive to be- virtue of the text, and not
the sickening lormality Of those who walk
by rule, and would reduce the whole of
human life to a wire bound system ofpre.
cision and misery,
Year: 1865

have known country society which
withered away all to nothing under the dry
rot of gossip only. Friendship once as firm
as granite dissolved to jelly, and then run
away to water, only because of this; love
that promised a futur. as enduring as heav.
en- and as stable as truth, evaporated into
a morning mist that turned to days long
tears, only because of this; father and
son were set foot to. foot with the fiery
breath of an anger that would never cool
again between them, only because of this;
aud husband and bis young wife, each
straIning at the hated leash which in the be-
Cunning had been the golden bondage of q
God-blessed lovo. sat mournfully by tho
side Of the grave where all their Joy lay bu.


ried and only because of this. have seen
faith transformed to mean doubt, hope give
place to grim despair, and charity take on
itself the features of black malevoence, all
because of the spell-words of scandal and
the magic mutterings of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrongs; and the deeper
tragedies of hman life spring from its larg-
er passions but woeful and most melan-
choly are the uncatalogued tragedies that
issue from gossip aud detraction; most
mournful the shpwreck often made of no.
Bile natures and lovely lives by the bitter
winds and dead salt water of slander. So
easy to say, yet SO hard to disprove-throw-
ing on sthe innocent all the burden and
the strain of demonstrating their innocence,
and Furnishing them as guilty If unable to
pluck out the sting they never see and to
silence words they never hear-gossip and
SANDER are the deadliest and the cruelest
weapons man has forged for bis brothers
hurt.-.4H the Year Round.
Year: 1865

l suffered all the extreme agonies of
shyness for many years; and if the efforts
TO which was continually stimulated Ito
think about his gaucherie, copy other
peoples manners, etc. had been in any
degree successful or had been applauded
as such, should probably have gone on
to perfection, and remained conscious all
my life; but finding no encouragement, l
was fortunately driven to utter despair.
l then said 10 myself, Why should l en-.
dure this torture all my life to no pur.
pose! l would bear il still if there were
any progress made, any success 10 be
hoped for; but since there is not, | will
Gle quieslyiwitbout taki'g any more doses.
have tried nay very utmost, and find that
| must be as awkward as a bear all nv
life, in spite OF 1t. l will eudeavor to
think as little about it as bear and make
up my mind to endure what can't be
cured. From this time struggled as
vigorously 10 harden myself against cen
sure as ever had 10 avoid it's =


l was acting more wisely than tho't
ofat the time, and I succeeded beyond
my expectations; for not only got lid of
the personal feeling Of shyness, but also
most OF those faults OF manner which con-
sciousness produces, and acquired at once
an easy and natural manner, carelesa in
deed in the extreme, from its originating
in stern defiance of opinion, which l
had convinced myself must ever he
against, me, rough and awkward for
smoothness and grace are quite out OF my
course, ,tutorialIy pedantic; but uncon-
scious, and therefore giving expression
TO that goodwill toward men which l
really Bishop Whasely.
Year: 1865

A SALUTARY THoUGHT,-When ! was a
young man there lived in our neighborhood
farmer, who was usually reported to be o
very liberal man. and uncommonly upright
in bis dealings. When he had any. Of the
products of bis farm to dispose of, he made
il an inyariable rule to make good measure,
rather more than would be required of him.
One of his friends. observing him frequently
il; he told him he gave too much. and said
it would be to his disadvantage. Nov, dear
reader, mark the answer of this good man;
"God has permitted me but one journey
through the world, and when am gone
cannot rectify mistakes" Think of thisi
There is bat one journey through life.
Year: 1865

1t is asserted that out of seven hundred reb-
ell officers, in durance at Fort Delaware, all have
taken the oath of allegiance except thirteen.
The Bulletin says 3" Seven hundred rebels
of any kind, converted to loyalty, prove most
concusively that there must be something in
the bracing sea breezes, the wholesome though
plain food and the paternal or rather avuncu-
lar guardianship exercised over the boarders
at that great National Hotel, calculated to de-
velOp correct views upon national questions
and to correct the misguided notions of the
dwellers below the line Of Mason and Dixon.
But when we see that General Rhett, Of South
! Carolina, has taken the oath of allegiance to
the United States, our admiration of Fort Del
aware rises into absolute wonder. For the
name of Rhett, (which, by the way, was plain
Smith until it was changed to Rhett as recent
ly as 1881 is synonymous with all words sign
flying notification, and secession and rebellion
for thirty years past Whether the lately con
verted General is a son or nephew of the ori
ginal Robert Barnwell Rhett we cannot say


He is probably the former, the son of the pro


prietor and editor Of that pestilent little sheet
the Charleston 1Nercury"


What is good for Southern rebels is also goo,


for their Northern sympathizers Fort Della


ware has made more men take the oath aroun,


these parts than any other means yet adopted


the very thought of the National Hotel ha


made men swear to their loyalty. But it woul
r take more than fort to make some of then
stick to their OATH A man that will talk trea
son will break pledge.
Year: 1865

FLY IN WHEAT.-The fly is committing sad
havoc on the wheat crop in this section In
the early part of the spring the crop never
gave fairer promise, but this seems to have
been blighted within the last week. Some Of
the farmers think they will not raise more
than half crop, and others say that unless
the fly is checked Immediately they will not
produce enough to pay for harvesting. How
much other localities are affected we do moi
know.
Year: 1865

ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE YELLOW FEVER IN
THE NORTH. If hellish malignity can further
60 than in the assassination of the late Presi-
dent it certainly seems realized in the scheme
of DIR. Blackburn, formerly of North Carroll
ma, and said to be known in Canada as a lead
ing and ultra Rebel, to introduce the yellow
fever at the North by shipping from Bermuda
to our ports bedding and clothing permeated
with the virus Of that terrible scourge Fol
the murder Of prominent public character, il
political hate; but for the wholesale destruc
ton of innocent men, women and children, ut
terly removed from any connection with tn,
imagined wrongs to be avenged, one must sun
pose the want not only of every moral senti
ment, but also Of every human instinct.
Year: 1865

Marie Devote Obissa, a Corsican young lady.
shot her seducer who had declined to marry
her, who is, however, likely to recover. The
relatives of the young man stormed the young
lady's house. in order to wreak upon her the
Corsican system of revenge or vendetto, and it
required all the power Of the police to save
her from danger.


So says a European correspondent of the
New York Herald Here we do things differ.
emily. Ii young woman shoots young
man. we conclude she is the one to be pitied,
for he mayhap, is past pity. We have her
held to bail for thousand dollars or two, and
when her trial comes on we show our gallant
ry by making the crowded court room echo
with applause at every turn of the case in her
favor. The jury are given to understand that
II they acquir her there win be several debts
mysteriously bat promptly paid and when
the woman is acquitted we make the old court
house tremble with our Joy.
Year: 1865

From the st. Louis Republican.


John Redman, q cOlOred man, died Gas
was supposedly at an early hour yesterday
morning, at his residence over the grocery
store on the northeast corner of Franklin
avenue and Twelfth street. A coffin and
shrond were procured, and the colored
corpse, after being washed, shaved and
dressed in the burial clothes, was laid out
in the coffin. While his bereaved wife was
wringing her tears out of a bandanna
handkerchief, and numerous friends,
"mute with grief" were sitting around
the dead body, talking about what q good
man be was, Mr.. Redman suddenly raised
himself bolt upright in his coffin, with the
majesty of death in his cold face. Nov
ing his not entirely sightless orbs around
upon the company of mourners, bis clayey
lips began to chatter some unintelligible
stuff about the other world. The result of
this hideous performance was to upset the
whole assemblage with sudden horror, the
female friends fainting and tumbling
into each others arms at the sight of the
ghost, the men themselves caving in and
with dilated eyes rushed hurriedly out of
the room. Mrs. Redman, the distressed
widow, was among the number who faint.
ed. When she came to she ran out of the
room and out of the house, and nothing
could induce her to return during the day,
Notwithstanding she was assured that
her husband had come to be conscious,
and that the Doctor thought he might re-
cover. We are not informed as to the
nature OF Redman's disease, but are in
formed that he was attended by an inteili-
gent physician, who regards the circum-
stances OF his sudden restoration, when,
to all appearances, he had been lifeless
man, as something almost preternatural.
Year: 1865

From the Milwaukee News


The aggregate amount of dividends paid
over in Boston for the six months ending
October 1st, is estimated at the enormous
sum of six million dollars. A large por-
ton of this amount is the profit for six
months on capital invested in manufactur-
ing. 1t is more than double the sum re-
allied in the same length of time on an
equal amount of Massachusetts, capital
before the present tariff went into opera
ton. Within the last year the price of
cotton has fallen nearly dollar per
pound but under the protective policy of
our ''Union" Con- ngress, the manufacturers
OF Massachusetts, are entitled to monopo-
lie the American markets, and to realize
double their former profits on sheetipgs
and calico.


Who pay these enormous profts9 ALI
who buy cotton goods at our stores
Every man who buys yard of sheeting,
and every woman who buys calico dress,
pays portion of the sum


Western capitalists complain that they
do not grow rich as rapidly as eastern
capitalists. Western farmers complain
that their farms do not net them a suffi-
cient profit on the labor and capitol invest
ed in tilling the soil. Western mechanics
complain that the prices of everything are
so high that they cannot work for ordina-
ry wages. Western cities complain that
they do not grow as rapidly in wealth as
circumstances seem to warrant. -


Is not the reason plain A stream tf
wealth is flowing steadily from the pockets
of the people into the pockets OF New
England capitalists. A portion of every
dollar expended in the purchase of the or
dinary necessaries of life is set apart BY
Congress to swell the dividends of these
capitalists They are thus enabled to re-
alize from one hundred to Eve hundred
per cent profit on every dollar they DOS
sess.


Is there any doubt that such is the &C.
tuasreanlt of protective tariff law2 Thil
was the professed object of that law wheg
| il was enacted If It does not accomplish
Year: 1865

From the Galena Gazette


The manufacturers of cotton cloth, we
are informed, are making from one hum
dred to five hundred per cent profit on the
article. It does not require a very large
establishment to make fortune large
enough for any prudent man in a single
week. These men expect to grind these
prices out of the people! They expect
the people to bend their necks to the bur-
den as patiently as the OF to the yoke. Is
it possible also that the people will bear
this enormous forced contribution without
a protest that will be settler7 Perhaps
so. We shall see, for the trial is on US,
and the monopolists or the people must
knock under. Perhaps little or nothing
can be done till Congress meets, and then
move your representatives with power
of persuasion that they will understand,
and knock off the duty on foreign cotton
goods! Show them that this Government
is one for the benefit of the people, and
not one to enable q few monopolSts to
bleed the many honest people to death.


1t is not the cotton manufacturers alone
who are wsging this warfare, but the COM
binations wind themselves into and around
each other, and lock and interlock, each
hoping that the whole united will be too
formidable to be overcome by any power
that can be brought against them. We
are conscious Of their power. We ac-
knowledge it to be so formidable as TO
make the hope of extrication almost
hopeless. But we believe in the power Of
truth clothed in the courage of American
freemen also. We believe in the common
sense of the farmers of the West, who
with their broad shoulders have borne the
br1nt Of the war so bravely through to
victory. We look to them to hold the
balance of justice between the sections
in this hour. They have won power, for
they have saved the nation. They can
demand consideration when they speak,
for they have given proof in great action
of manly and heroic worth.


People talk about government taxation.
The burden is not light one. The taxa
ton of the Government, compared with
what is collected from as by monopolists,
is like the little finger to the whole body.
But, how are people to bear both? They
low 0SAo S4OA oOu0 w CnO wal 0X0lu6t
rebels, where many were killed and others
MANNED for life. While absent, the wo-
men, in large numbers, supplied their
places in the field. The aggregate crop
was not diminished from the vast deple-
ton of laborers called for by the war.
They bore the high prices imposed with
fortitude because they were created on
account of a public necessity. Cotton
cost one dollar and fifty cents a pound.
Railroad expenses were large. Gold was
three hundred per cent. The war must
be pushed, and war always brought high
prices. We have no war now. Cotton is
down to few cents pound. Gold is
down to 140. But, where prices can be
controlled by monopolists, they are going
up instead of coming down! What logic
is this except that of hardness of heart
and blindness of mind?
Year: 1865

IMPORTANT DECISION. Mr.. Lewis, the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue, in re-
ply to letter Of inquiry, says that "re
ceipt given for note, taken in settlement
Of an accounts exempt from stamp duty,
it not being within the meaning of the
statute, receipt for the payment of mon
ey, the delivery Of property, nor the pay
ment Of any debt due. A note, check.
draft or order is not money, but merely
the representative. Of money, and there.
fore receipt for such an instrument is
not receipt subject to stamp duty
This is an important decision and our
merchants and other business men should
preserve it.
Year: 1865

DoN'r LIKE IT.-Rev. DR.. Junkins, OF
Philadelphia, was one of the men who got
Up the war, and was intensely "loyar
during its progress. Everything that was
done in the name of loyalty, TO matter
how diSgraceful it was, met his hearty
approval. But he now seems to think
that profanity, drunkenness and gambling
have been carried too far. lie says:


Profanity, drunkenness, gambling, Sab
bath breaking and debauchery prevail over all
the land, but above all in the army and navy.
Indeed, the sentiment that swearing and in
temperance are military necessities is not un-
frequently limited at. if not distinctly avnwed."


Before they originate another civil war
it is hoped that the political clergy will
take its full measure. Not one of them
will live long enough to see the end of the
mischief they have done. Owing to their
pernicious teachings the country has been
deluged in blood. They have made thou
sands of widows and orphans. and an in
dignOnt people hold them responsible for
our national calamity.
Year: 1865

are the most active and thorough pills thar
have ever been introduced


They act so directly upon the Liver, cxeit
ing that organ to such an extent as that the
system does not relapse into its former con-
ditisn, which is too apt to be the case with
simply pursative pill


They are really
Year: 1865

There is an old Latin motto, often
quoted, which is designed to convey
in concise language lesson OF vast
importance-obsta principiis: resist
the beginning. However insignificant
the fault may be, however slight the
departure from the strict line Of rec
titudc, if we are careful not to take
the first in the downward course, we
are safe. II there be no first error,
there certainly can be no second. -
On the other hand, if we yield to the
first temptation, we shall be less able
to resist the second. The indulgence
We have already showed prepares us
for another. Gradually and moro
easily than we are apt to suppose
habits are formed; and that which
might have been so readily at the be-
ginning has become chain that
binds us in cruel bondage.


The traveller on the Alpine hight
amused himself with setting in motion
q small mass Of snow; ere long an
avalanche spread ruin through the
smiling vale beneath. The children
at play on the Holland dyke were dc.
lighted to guide the escaping rill in
to mimic waterfalls, which their lit
tie hands controlled at will; ere long
mighty tide red over the fields
its deyastatinf floods. The first
oath-the first theft the first un-
truth-the first Sabbath dissertation
how easy it seemed to the wander
er to retrace his step, and regain the
straight path from which he has only
begun to swerve! Was ii easy?--
Alas! almost impossible. The first
ungentle word, wounding the heart
of a friend, how easy it had been to
repregs altogether how slight the
sclC-control Il would have required;
and how wide the breach, how sadly
enstranged the hearts that one loved
so tenderly, that conflded so trust
fully! That frst evening which wit
messed our neglect OF Bible, our omis-
sion OF prayer--to what n long, weary
dcclension it led the way! All, tempt
ed hearts! let us resist the first in
clination 10 neglect duty, tn,
lirstsyllable of bitterness that
trembles upon our lips, tic fist
step in the rapidly descending path
Of sin; and that we may resist sue
cessfully, let us seek strength from
One who was in all points tempted
as we are, yet without sln.-PieS'
Lyteriaa Banner.
Year: 1865

1t is of no use to put up a skeleton
and expect to make a fine, fat, tender
meated fowl of it by feeding in con-
tinement. Fattening is adding fat to
lean. You must have the lean laid
on while the bird is running at liber-
ty. No amount of feeding will make


hard, old fowl tender. If hen il
over ten months she may as well be


ten years. She has passed the age


for the table. She is old at ten


months and ought not to be palmed


off as a chicken.


Four months, or at most five


months, is old enough to take chick


ems for the table, and if you take them


at that age, in good 6eshy condition,


three or four weeks of conflement
ought to bring them into first rate


condition for the table. If they are


going to market they may be crowded
to advantage, but for home consump-
tion it is not needed. If you make
a coop big enough for fifteen or TWEEN.
ty fowls and put four or FIVE into it
they will not readily fatten. They
have too much room. To fatten rap
idly they must not have room to
move about freely, but simply enough
to stand and SHIFT their position.
They ought to be fed three times n
day. Indian meal or dough is one of
the best articles of food to lay on fat.
Oatmeal mixed with milk is also
first rate. Either substance should
be fresh mixed each time and no
more ought to be given tn will be
eaten up at the time. If you give
too much the bird will overfeed, or
become cloyed, that is, the appetite
is destroyed, and the food gets sour,
and if the fowl does not take a de-
cided dlstaste to it, it will not thrive
upon it.


Feed fattening fowls at daybreak
in the morning. Cover them up
warm at night and protect them from
cold during the day. Feed regular
ly, never on stale food. Never sub
ject them to draughts of air. Never
place them where they can see other
fowls running about. In these cir
cumstanccs they will fatten beauti-
fully in three weeks, and there is no
known process by which they can be
kept healthy after they are well fat
tened. Begin then three weeks be-
fore you want to kill. Calculate the
number the coop will hold, and fill it
so full that the fowls can do but lit
tic more than stand comfortably
can't expect to do more than put on
flesh while fowls are running at large.
the mgnest price IN market, you must
coop and feed three weeks in the
indicated. -Ploughman.
Year: 1865

1t will be interesting to mechanics


to hear that condensed air is to be
tried as a motive power on stseet
cars between Albany and West Troy
A car will he ready in few days for
the experiment. The Troy Times
says: "rhe air is to be compressed
at each end of the route, and placed
in rcservoirs--which took like ex.
aggerated soda fountains. The res.
ervoirs are to be cast ir, II, and able
to resist a pressure of three hundred
pounds to the square inch. Each
car is to be supplied with one or
more of these reservoirs at each end
OF the route--tle compressed air on
each car being sufficient to run dis.
tancc of ten miles. The compressed
air is to be applied TO cranks on the
cars in n manner similar to steam,
and is to he regulated by governors,
that uniform rate of speed may be
maintained at all times. With com.
pressed air it Is supposed that the
cars may be run at an expen O not
exceeding two dollars day ch.-
This would prove vast saving to
the road, and in the end would rev
olutionize street railroad manage
ment."


If by the use o! air as motive
power the conductor can run the
machine and take up the fare, letting
his passengers in and out ut one door
of the car, there will be something
gained in this particular. The street
railroads OF this city will not admit
of the use of air rs they now are
The cars would bc Off the track half
OF the time. In many places they
are only kept on by the horses pull


g aside, and, when Off, without
horses car cannot be easily replaced
on the track. 1t will, we fear, be a
long time before any power will dis.
place horses and mules in drawing
street cars .-Rochesier Union.
Year: 1865

THE CnoLERA.-A letter received at til G
State Department represents that the cholera
seems to be on the decrease at Constantnople.
At Marseilles, however, the disease is greatly
on the increase, the number of deaths averag-
ing between fifty and sixty day. Eighty
thousand persons had left the city for the ru-
raj districts, to avoid the pestilence. Thou
sands of bonfrcs are kept blazing in the
streets of the city, night and day, to purify
the atmosphere. Business of all kinds was
nearly suspended.