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Year: 1865

A man who had never seen the inside
of courth6use until he was introduced
as a witness in case pending in one of
our District Courts sitting last fall in the
northern part of the State, being sworn,
took a position with his back to the jury,
and began telling his story to the judge.
Judge In, in his bland andcourteous
manner, said, Address yourself to the
jury, Sir" The eman made short pause /;
but not comprehending what was said to
him, continued his narrative. His Hon
or was then more explicit, and said to
him, Speak to the jury, sir-the men
sitting behind you on the benches"
The witness then turned around, and
making an awkward bow said, with
great gravity ofmanner, "GOod-morning,
gentlemen ~
Year: 1865

| Ynvas ARRANGEMENTS for Ibe Capture
OF the Shenandoah he fcsii!f IN


iians iu the West-DiMculty aboui


Reconstrdction in South Carolina
| JEFF. Davis-His Opinion ON the An.
dersonville Cruelties.


(By Union Line, cor Water and Monroe Sts.l
New YORK, August 2S-The Herald S
Washington special says the statement
of the New York Evening Post that the
naval authorities have made no adequate
preparations to resist or capture the
Shenandoah in the Pacific is without
foundation. In fact when the naval Off
Ger at San Francisco heard of the pirate
in that direction he telegraphed to the
Admiral commanding i'll that quarter,
and the Swanee and one other ironclad
were dispatched from Acapulco some
time in July.
The sale of Government horses and
mules has been stopped at different mill
tary posts for the purpose OF ascertain
ING the magnitude of the Indian depre-
dations in the Western States and ter
ritories The total destruction by the
Indians of over five miles of the North
western Telegraph line in Utah at a sin
gle point, and the hostile attitude of the
savages in that region, make it impor-
tant to dispatch an additional mounted
force to learn how formidable they are
beyond.


A special to the Times from Washing
ton 9th SAYS: From Il highly intelligent
Southerner, direct from South Carolina,
we learn that the question OF suffrage
may prove somewhat embarrassing to
the South Carolina politicians in settling
the basis of representation i'll that State.
A strong party will be in favor Of form
ing on the white basis, while the low
country interest has hel etofore controlled
the legislation of the State by the pre-
ponderence in slaves To insist now on
the negro forming any portion of the
basis of representation will be more or
less compromising upon the question OF
negro suffrage.


On Friday last an officer of authority
called on JEFF. Davis, who announced him.
self as in very good health, the only
drawback being carbuncle on his leg
and a slight touch of erysipelas. In
speaking of Writ, Davis said he had
never seen or heard of him before his ar
rest, adding that from what he knew of
Winder, having been class mate of his
at West Point, he did not believe he
would be guilty of such awful acts.of in
humanity as are laid to his charge


Secretary Stanton will visit Saratoga
Springs before he returns to Washington.
Year: 1865

NEW YORK, Aug 2s,-The coroner's
Jury on the inquest relative to the fatal
collision on the Oil Creek railroad, in
Pennsylvania, on Thursday, returned a
verdict charging that it resulted from
negligence on the part of the engineer
and conductor of the freight train, and
requesting the coroner to issue warrants
for their apprehension. The jury also
saw that lives are constantly in risk on
this road in consequence ofits insufficient
accommodations.
Year: 1865

4 i-ster from the Army Of tbc Potomac
sa,s new branch ~ She railroad from City
Point To the front was built last week. reach
ing out towards the left OF the line, to carry
supplies.
Year: 1865

too long shore) Before breakfast, the sloop Sun
Dog got aground at the mouth of Fortescue creek,
and would have been total loss, had it not been for
the assistance rendered by our party, who exerted
themselves to the utmost to her from going to
pieces on the beach; worthy Captain taking
charge, and by dnt of exertion and skill, got her
safely in port to the Joy of Captain and crew-saving


the owner heavy loss, as we could not learn that she
was insured. Breakfast reported ready; was taken
with relish, after the exertion of saving the Sun Dog


The time spent pleasantly until 12 o'clock; dinner
reported ready; after dinner our Secretary preferred
charge against the Mate for conspiring to inJure
life and limb, by cansnga dripping pan to be attach


ed to his line, to represent stngeree causing sao
Secretary and others to jump dangerously. Presi
dent ordered him tried by court martial; evidence
examined jury rendered verdict of guilty; SEN
tence, five months close confinement, manacled hand
and foot; President commuted the sentence; alter
which we started for home: Pilot reported to the
Surgeon as indisposed, but examined, and found
to be not serious. Four o'clock, at the mouth OF Ce-
dar Creek; o'clock, off Grog Point On motion,
vote of thanks rendered to the Captain and offi-
GERS of the boat, for their gentemany treatment
At o'clock, arrived at the wharf, all pleased with
their trip and resolved to make another the Soth Of
August, 1856. Il.
Year: 1865

A HEROIC GIRL.-A Warrenburg,
(Mo.) correspondent of the St. Louis Re-
publican says :-On Friday night last,
two men knocked at the door of an old
gentleman by the name of Bedicheck,
living near Columbia, in this county, and
demanded admittance His daughter,
Young lady of some Is years, who togeth-
er with her father, were the only inmates
of the house, asked what they wanted -
They would give no satisfaction, and she,
on going to the window, saw that they
were armed with guns. She told them
that she would not let them in, but that
if one of them would set his gun down
she would let him in, at the same time
telling her father to be prepared for emera
gencies. After coming in he asked II
there was any one else in the house ex-
cept himself and daughter, and was told
there was not. He then walked back
and examined the beds in the room, re-
turning to the fire and says: "Old man
I have come here to kill you," at the
same time drawing a revolver from his
breast. The old man seized the pistol
with one hand and threw the other around
his waist, and being strong man OF his
age, succeeded in holding him while his
daughter ran to another part OF the house,
seized a corn knife, struck him severe
blow. as she thinks, on the arm holding
the pistol, somewhat disabling it, then
fell to work on his head. In the mean
time, the old man disengaged himself
seized a sword cane which he fortuna ely
had, and run the miscreant through three
times with it. :,


Rv this time the villain was Justify
shouting murder, and calling to his friend
To helm him out. His friend ran around
the house to another door and burst 1t m,
where he was met by this heroic girl,
and. receiving severe cut, was forced
back, she shutting and boiling the door
in his face, and putting upa curtain at
the window which bad fallen down. to
nrevent his looking in. He then fired
some two or three shots at the window,
which was high up and carried the shots
to the ioist above. He then returned to
the first door and broke that in, giving
his friend chance to escape, which he
managed to do, and being met by the
girl, backed out, no doubt being glad to
escape with what he had already received.
After short time, the father and daugh-
ter, on leaving the house, to go to neigh
bors nearly quarter of a mile OF, saw
the hat Of their first assailant lying behind
the hen house, literally cut to pieces, and
the place where he probably died-the
/
ground being covered with blood and
also the tracks of horse, which had
come and no. doubt carried off the dead


man.
Year: 1865

Don't give up your seat in the cars
when you are tired with your days work,
to pert young miss who has been anus
ing herself with little shopping. She
won't even thank you for it; and if man
is going to sacrifice his comfort, he has a
reasonable right, at least, to expect little
gratitude. No use being polite to some
ladies' there's an old proverb about cast
ing pearls before-what's their names?


Don't submit to be crowded off the
pavement into muddy gutter by two adj
yancing balloons of silk and whalebones.
Haven't your newly blacked boots as good
claim to respect as their skirts Look
straight before you, and stand up for your
rights like man. The ladies can con-
tract little, when they see there s no
help for it.


Don't talk literature and the fine arts
to the pretty girls Of your acquaintance
until you are sure they know the differ
ence between Thompson's Seasons and
Thompson's Arithmetic. And if they
look particularly sentimental, then you
may know they do not understand what
they are talking about.


Don't ask nice little girl about her
dolls unless you are very certain she hasn't
come OUT and been engaged in two or
three firtations already.


Don't say complimentary things to
young lady at party without first max
ing sure that her intended is not stand
ing behind you the whole time.


Don't accept ladies invitation to 60
shopping with her unless you have previ-
ously measured the lenght of your purse.


Don't stay later than eleven o'clock
when you spend the evening with pref
ty friend-the wisest and wittest man in
Christendom becomes bore after that
hour


Don't believe any woman an angel. Ii
you feel any symptoms Of that disease,
take dose of sage tea and go to bed
it is as much malady as the small pox,
and it is your business to get over it as soon
as possible. An angel indeed! Ifyou don't
erably more than wings, we are sadly
mistaken!
Don't make up your mind about any
creature in belt.ribbon and velvet rosetts
without first asking your sisters advice.
Depend upon it, one woman can read an
other better in five minutes than in five
years.


And, above all, don't imagine that you
must keep your lady talk and gentlemen
talk in separate budgets, labelled and
sorted, unless you want the girls to laugh
in their sleeves At your wishey-wasky SEN
timental,sm. Talk to them in frank,
manly sty'e, as you would to an intelligent
gentleman. Don't suppose because they
are women they don't know anything.
Remember all this advice, sir, and you
will make rather less fool OF. yourself
than YOU would otherwise.
Year: 1865

mentations cannot reinstate them. Our
efforts should be to make better the con-
ditions of the survivors. To them let us
direct our attention, and exert ourselves
in their behalf. They who live will have
learned lesson never to be forgotten;
and as for ourselves, if we but do right,
we shall be justified in the sight of Hea-
ven and approved by the world.
Year: 1865

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 2s.-The track of the Lacrosse
Railroad torn up. and bridge burned near Ger
mantown, eighteen miles from this city, last night,
supposed to be the work of the farm mortgages,
who mortgaged their farms along the line of the road
to the amount of 81 100000 for the benefit of the road
which mortgages being foreclosed, they threaten to
destroy the entire road if the company fail to make
provision for the payment of the mortgages. Great
trouble is apprehended
Year: 1865

BosTON, Nov. 8.-The Board Of Trade have adopt
ed resolutions looking to increased cotton raising
in the Southern States. in which the Government is
requested within the sphere of its legitimate powers
to aid forthwith in sustaining and organizing such
portion of the laborng classes now in the Southern
States cannot be reached by private capital not
only on the ground of considerations of humanity,
but also to secure their labor to themselves and
Year: 1865

If you value your own health and that of your
Family do not pass another day without bottle of
TARRANTs EFFERyEsCEyT SELTzER APERIENr in
house; sudden Bilious attacks are dispelled by
few doses and Headache, Costiveness, Sour Stomach
Indigestion and Liver Complaints are permanently
cured by the timely use of this most wonderful
remedy. Sold by all Druggists. no 27-2w
Year: 1865

Manhood will come, and old age will
come, and The dying bed will come, ant
the very last look you shall ever cast or
your acquaintance will come, and the
agony of the parting breath will come
and the time when you are stretched {
l(eless corpse before the eyes of weeping
relatives will come, and the coffin tha
is TO enclose you will come, and tha
hour when the company assemble 10 car.
ry you 10 the church-yard will come, and
that minute when you are put into the
grave will come, and the throwing in o
the loose earth into the narrow house
where you are laid, and The spreading ot
the green sod over it-all, all will come
on every living creature who now hears
me; and in a few little years the minister
who now speaks, and the people who
now listen, will be carried 10 their long
homes, and make room for another gen
Grafton. Now all this, you know, musI
and will happen-yOur common sense
and common experience serve TO con-
vince you of it. Perhaps it may have
been little thought of in days of careless,
and thoughlless, and shankless unconcern
which you have spent hitherto; butt call
upon you 10 think of it now, 10 lay il
seriously 10 heart, and no longer 10 uife
and delay when the high matters of death
and judgment, and eternity are thus sci
so evidently before you. And The lidings
wherewith am cbarged-and the blood
lieih upon your own head, and not upon
mine, if you will not listen 10 them-lhe
objec, Of my coming amongst you is TO
let you know what more things are 10
come; it is 10 carry you beyond the re-
gions of sight and Of sense, TO the regions
OF faith, and to assure you, in The name Of
Him who cannot lie, that as sure as the
hour of laying The body in the grave
comes, so surely will also come the hour
of the spirit returning TO the God who
gave it. Yes. and the day Of final reck-
oniDg will come, and the appearance Of
the Son of God in heaven, and his
mighty angels around him, will come,
and The opening Of the books will come,
and the standing OF men of all genera
tions before the judgment-seat will come,
and solemn passing Of tina. sentence
which is 10 fix you for eternity will come.
DR.. Chalmers.
Year: 1865

Yes you do. and lhere's no use of try.
ing 10 deceive yourself with The sOpbis-
try Of these words.


The bes, and nobIest, the truest, and
most generous part of your nature does
care for the unHind, cutting words you
have uttered TO one you loved, in mo.
ments of pique.


You may carry yourself ever so proud
and defanlly, you may never drop by
word or look the dew OF sweet healing
on the wound you have made in a nature
as proud, as sensitive, and exacting as
as your own; but to your honor, be i; said
you are better than your words and away
down in your heart Turk shame and re.
pentance and sorrow for them.


You may carefully hide them both
and in a little while they will be gone
for oh !! it is very easy to make ones
self bitter, and proud and cold-very
hard to keep ones self sweet, mellow
and charitable, but there must be some
pain, and struggling before you can do q
mean, ungenerous thing 10 one who
loves you, and have your heart indorse
your II don'i care -


AND how often these words are uttered
when conscience slernly refues them;
and how often they harden the heart,
and keep the feet in the way of evil.


BE CAREFUL, reader when you say
Il DON'T CARE.
Year: 1865

She is modest, she is basbful,


Free and easy, but not bold
Like an apple, Iipe and mellow,


Not too young and not too old,
Half inviting, half repulsive,


Now advancing, and now shy;
There is mischief in her dimple,


There is danger in her eye.
She has studied human nature,


She is schooled in all her arts,
She has taken her diploma


As the mistress Of all hearts.
She can lel the very moment


When 10 sigh aud when 10 smile,
Oh maid is sometimes charming,
But widow all the while
You are sad ? How very serious


Will her handsome face become.
Are you angry She is wretched,


Lonely, lriendless, fearful. dumb,
Arc you mirlhful How her laughter
Silver sounding. will ring out.
She can lure. and catch, and play you
AS the angler does the trout.
All old bachelors of forty,


Who have grown so bold and wise
Ye Adonises of twenty,


With your love-locks in your eyes,
You may practice all the lessons


Taught by Cupid since the fall
But know little widow


Who could win and fool you all
Year: 1865

and almost unforgiving remembrance OF
the injury done him. This, however, he
srove against with all the power of his
deeply religious nature. Taken all in all,
we ne 'er shall look upon his like again.
Year: 1865

Very few Of our country readers
have a clear conception of the labor
and expense involved in keeping the
streets and walks in q city In con-
dition oftolerable decency. Some idea
may be gathered from the following
facts relative to the extent Of the la
Dor and the cost of sweeping the
streets IN New York. The New York
Herald says there are two hundred
and sixty-eigIt miles Of paved streets
in that city, averaging thirty three
feet in width. This::gives an area of
one thousand one hundred and thirty
nine acres to be cleaned. The city
inspector has the whole area swept
once every fortnight about one. half
is swept twice every forty-eight; about
one quarter is swept three times; three
hundred and forty five acres, arc
cleaned six times, and seventy FIVE
acres twelve times in the same space
of time. This is equivalent TO clean
ing threo thousand five hundred and
fifty three acres once in two weeks.


In addition to this work, the ash
carts traverse every mile Of the streets
on each side, overy day, Sundays ex-
cepted. This is equivalent to traver-
sing five hundred and thirty six miles
a day, and conveys some idea of the
extent Of this magnificent metropolis.
The expense for street cleaning last
year was s39S.223.
Year: 1865

Never be afraid of plenty of fun at
home, good peopleI Open your heart.
and allow the musty old cobwebs of
lang syne cares, vexations and trouble
to shake down under the ringing
laugh of your children, in which you
take good care to join. you are de-
terminod to ruin your sons, teach them
By your frigidity Of manners, that all
mirth and social enjoyment must be
left on the Threshold; teach them by
your stereotyped visage of deep solem-
nifty that home, is but place in which
to eat and sleep; teach them by your
determined purpose to frown upon
their innocent salles of wit, that God
was wrong when he endowed US with
natures demanding social enjoyment;
teach them these things, and you may
rest assured that you have begun a
work which will end in gambling
houses and reckless degradation
Young people must have fun and relax
alton somewhere. and if they do not
find it at their own hearth stones, it
will be sought at other places. There
fore don't repress the buoyant spirits
of your children, but remember that
half an hour of merriment around the
cheerful light of tho home fire-sido,
blots out the remembrance. Of many o
caro- and annoyance during theday.-'
Ohio Sigfe Journal.
Year: 1865

Credit never permits man to know
the real value of money, nor to have
full control over his affairs. 1t pre-
sents all his expenses in the aggregate,
and not in detail. Every one has more
or less Of the miser's love of money
of the actual gold pieces and the crisp
bank notes. Now, if you have these
things in your pocket, you see them
as you make your purchases, visibIy
diminishing under your eye,


The lessening heap cries to you to
stop. You would like to buy his, that,
and the other but you know exactly
how much money you have left, and
if you go on buying more things your
purse will soon be empty. You do not
see this when you take credit. You
give your orders freely, ,withoutthough
or calculation; and when the day Of
payment comes, you find that you have
ovorrun the constable.


On every hand we see people living
on credit, putting off payday to the
last, making in the end some desperate
effort, either by begging or borrow
ing, to scrapc tho money together, and
then struggle on again, with the can
ker of care eating at their heart, to
the inevitable goal of bankruptcy, If
people would only mako a push at the
beginning, instead of the end, they
would save themselves all this misery
The great secret of being solvent, and
comfortable, is to get ahead ofyour cx-
penscS. Eat and drink tIi6 month
what you have earned last month
not what you are going to earn next
month. There are, no doubt, many
persons so unfortunately situated that
they can never accomplish this, ,


No man can guard against i'll health ;
no man can insure himself a wcll-con-
Quoted, helpful family, or perma,
nent income. There will always be
people who cannot help their misfor-
tunes But, as a rule, the unfortunates
are far less trouble to society than those
in better position who bring their
misfortunes upon themselves by delib,
crate recklessness and cxtravagance.
You may help poor, honest, strug-
Cling man to some purpose. But the
utmost you can do for an unthrift is
thrown away. You give him money
you have earned by hard labor-ho
spends it in pie tasure which you have
never permitted yourself to enjoy,


The best pleasures-those which
swceten life most and leave no bitter
ness behind-are chelp pleasures
What greater pleasure can man enjoy
than the sense of being free and indie
pendent? The man with his fine
house, his glittering carriage, and his
rich banquets, for which be is in debt,
is slave, 4 prisoner, forever dragg
ing his chains behind him through all
the grandeur Of the false world through
which he moves,-[All the Year Round
Year: 1865

Thus, while there was an increase
in average for 1863 of 239, ,561-exclu,
ding the sorghum from the first table
there was falling of in the amount
of production Of 40,6Oe bushels; and
while there was a dimihdtion of Is
per cent. in the average of 1864, the
decrease in production was 18,462,706
bushels or about II per cent. tie yield
per acre not being quite 60 large as in
1868. The grass crop was about the
same in yield for 1863 as in 1862, but
in 1864 the average yield was less than
one tun per acre, while in 1863 it was
about one and one-third tuns.
Year: 1865

4Esop, who has sable illustrative of
every phase of. life, has left us one appro>
pirate to the effort now on foot to erect
every negro into voter, and to make him
the white mans equal. 4Esop says: a
certain man having bought Black moor
was so simple as to think that the color OF
his skin was only dirt and filth, which he
had contracted for want Of due care under
his former master. This fault he imagin
ed might easily be removed. So he order
ed the poor black to be put into tub, and
was at considerable charge in providing
ashes, soap, and scrubbinS brushes for The
operation. To work they went, rubbing
and securing his skin all over, but to NJ
manner of purpose, for when they haC
repeated their washing several times, ant
were grown quite weary, all they got by
it was that the wretched Blackmool
caught cold and died"
Year: 1865

Equal TAXATION OR NONE.-Th(
Democracy of Mercer County, Ohio, have
adopted a resolution demanding that the
bonds of the bondholdcr be taxed to de
fray Government expenses as we'll as 9TH
er property. This is right. Let us have
equal taxation or no taxation. Let all the
property of the nation be take. to pay the
debt, or let Lone of it be taxed We want
no privileged orders in this country, such
as we have at present If property in
bonds can be exempted from taxation, let
us exempt the agriculturist and the
mechanic! The bondholders have prated
of their patriotism! Are t,ey unwilling
to bear their proper share of the burdens
of the Government? Does their patriot
ism consist in Sinking taxation from them
selves upon the shoulders of other people,
who are so well able to bear it The man
who has $4,000 in Seven-thirty Bonds
should be made to pay just as much taxes
as the owner of ten thousand dollar
farm [Circlevillc (O.) Democrat.