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Year: 1868

A CHILD WITHOUT a HEAD. In the vlcn-
ity Of Spoon river, in Illinois, is a child which
was born and has lived five years without a
head. Mrs. - the mother is the widow OF
soldier, formerly living in Marshall county,
who enlisted in the sixty-ffth OR Scotch rcgi-
ment, and was killed at the battle of Deving
ton, No. She was standing beside her hus-
band during the engagement, when cannon
ball carried his head completely away, his body
falling into her arms ard covering her with
blood The shock affected her greatly, and
when, in seven months afterwards, her child
was born, there was not the semblance OF q
head about it. The limos were perfectly de-
yeloped, the arms long, and the shoulders
where the head and neck should be, smoothly
rounded off.


But the most surprising thing Of all is that
the face is situated in the breast. Of course,
there being no neck, the power OF turning It's
head is wanting, except as the whole body IS
moved but this difficulty is overcome by the
singular faculty it possesses Of turning It's eyes
in their sockets, enabling it to sec quite as we'll
on either side as those more perfectly formed.
The upper portion Of its body is white as the
purest Caucasian: from the waist downwards
is blood red. This strange creature, now an
active boy Of five years old, as it to compen-
safe for its dcformity, possesses the most clear
and birdlike tones ever listened to, Staging
with singular correctness everything 1t may
hear, aud its voice at this early age accomplish
Ing two octavcs easily
Year: 1868

The possession Of the soil in great planta-
tions is, in fact, the '1ast ditch Of slavery
and the Confederacy. Instead OF having
this great social and political force misused
and misdirected by slaveocratic planters,
by men who strive to keep up the false theo-
ries and false practices of the slave regime,
we wish it to be so used as to bring wealth
end prosperity and power to Louisiana
and the only way under heaven to do this
is to cut up the plantations into farms, and
convert the shiftless planters into thrifty
farmers, although the process may seem
iheisive aud degrading While so much
cheap and fertile land is for sale as is aow
the case in Louisiana but little is to be
said, but in the end the great planters, or
the would-be great planters, if not sold out
by the sheriff must prepare themselves to
dispose Of their surplus unoultiyated acres.


We rejoice to hear that the freedmen are
working well on the plantations. We
would expect, however, much better results
both to the employers and the employed
we're they all working as hired men on
Louisiana farms Better still would it be
were they the possessors of small tracts of
land
Year: 1868

The Cape Fear Fibre Company will commence
the msnufs cture Of cane paper some time dufiag
the coming year. They only manufacture paper
stock row. We have never tried pager made
from the cane. but are Informed that, apart from
its cbesppess, II is very popular with those pub
bsbers who have used II. As soon o. the Cane
Fear Fibre Company shall resolve itself into the
Cape Fear Paper Company, we will be able to give
definite report Wilmington (N. C.) Star.
Year: 1868

much time 30 any one subject. but you have my best
wishes for your success aud whenever can find an Op
portunty lend helping hand IL shall be done with
Will With great respect b. r. WADE
Year: 1868

On tne zou OF AprIl StOcK br0kcr doing buslness
at 46 Broad street lost had stolen in Nassau street
two certificates for one hundred shares each of New
York Central stock for the recovery of winch he Of
fered reward of $500. On the 4th of May he re-
ceivei an anonymous letter stating that the writer
had found the certificates in question and would re-
turn them, and on the day following he received
letter from lawyer whose ofrce is in Pine street
saying:-"A client Of mine has found the boNds you
advertise for and will give them to you upon receiv
ing the reward" The reward was paid, but the at
torney refused to give up the name OF his client.
The wonder is that any member OF the bar could be
found willing to stand In this position. coirJ 3
Year: 1868

ITENTZTNG.-Who that regularly reads the news
papers has been struck with those many named
columns into which the news of all the world is
compressed? Variously styled in various news
papers, they aim to grasp and focalize the news
of everything and everybody everywhere, and to
present il in as small and telling a space as pos
sible. They carry the reader In a breath from
Indus to the pole, and hurry him along from sen
tence TO sentence to conduct him in trice to anti
podes of thought. The reader never thinks. as
his eyes take their rapid journey down the col
umns, of the care, the pains. the taste. the Skill
the patience necessary to reduce those items to
attractive shape.


The scissors and the paste do good deal of
the work, il is true, but the brain helps than
it is given credit for. Fancy and imagination and
judgment have to play their part. The scissors
dart instinctively into good" item. and the
would be judicious. Is the item oldl Has ever
appeared before? Is it nice aud fresh and crisp
and sparkling? What position shall ii hold with
regard TO the other items? Has another one on the
same subject been alreadycipped outg Might not
the phraseolcgy be changed so as to bestOw point
and pith Could q piquant joke be tagged ong
Again, when the work Of selection Is done, aud
the items-personal, miscellaneous, religious, the
atrical and what nOt-are all arranged 10 order,
will they make glittering and symmetric whole.
over which the eve will delight to rove, like bird
from flower TO fowerg


All these things have to be considered in attend
ing TO the " item " department Of a newspaper.
The tastes of every possible reader must be an.
ticipated. Since il takes all sorts of people to
make a word-a truism Of profOunder meaning
than is generally appreciated-it takes all sorts of
items to make newspaper.
Year: 1868

Governor G.. Koerner Mv Dear Sir:


Ifeel sure I am right, and whea the passion
Of the hour subsidies, that shall be able to
satisfy all reasonable and fair minded men that


It was my duty to decide according to my con-
yictions, whether they agreed with my political
friends or not. | was just as we'll aware before
voting as now that Andrew johnson was obi
ous to the, country and that probably ninety
nine huudredths Of the Republicans desired his
removal; but to have convicted him of high
crimes and misdemeanors because the p lrty de-
manded it, when In my opinion he was not
shown to be guilty of them, would have been
monstrous. If the prosecutors have the right
to dictate the verdict and Judgment, the trial is
farce No President who disagrees with
Congress will hereafter be permitted to remain
in Office, if such principle is to obtain--or to
state the case more accurately, a majority OF
the House OF Representatives, when two-thlrds
of the Senate agree with them politically, may
at any time remove President. That the
Republican party has a right to demand the
the sense of justice Of the nation will
revolt at such an idea when the passion
of the hour subsidies; and yet l have re-
ceived numerous letters and kilograms tell
ing me that the Republican party demands the
removal of the President. I do not believe it,
unless the tribunal appointed by the Constitu-
ton to try him believe him guilty Of some
crime or misdemeanor with which he stands
charged I think / am right in coming to the
conclusion that no crime or misdemeanor justi-
Tying impeachment was made out In the case;
but if mistaken in this [ must, Of course, take
the consequences of my error Of judgment, but
to charge it as betrayal of the party is cruelty
unjust. What is the administration of justice
worth when decisions are to be made, not ac-
cording to law and justice; but at the dictation
Of political party, or even of the whole peo-
pie? In newly settled countries mobs and par
ties Of regulation sometimes take the admins
tration of justice into their own hands; but who
ever heard of mobs even re outing courts to ex-
ecute their DEGREES? The stories about corrup
ton or improper motives influencing any Re
pubcan to vote against conviction are, of course,
false. All the pressure-and it was very great,
more than you know of-was on the other side,
as an invest, CATION, if one is ever had, will
show. But for outside pressure l think no
such vote as tbirty-fve could have been OBJ
tanned for conviction on the eleventh article
I enclose copy of my opinion.


Very truly, LYMAN IRUMBULL.
Year: 1868

The PRESBYTERIAN UNION POSTPONED
The Old and New School PresbyteriaDs will not
unite this year, The New School Assembly
adopted the resolution proposed as basis OF
union, but the Old Schoo! Assembly desired
some additional explanations. Hence, al
though the report recommending tthe union
vas adopted, there was added by the Old
School Assembly q recommendation that the
portion of the basis which referred to the con-
feSsion being received in its historical or re-
formed sense, should be omitted also that
which gave freedom in stating, explaining ana
Illustrating the doctrines OF the confession ac"
oording to the Reformed or Calvanistlc system.
The Old School proposed to strike out very
material clauses bearing upon the question OF
freedom of Interpretation of the contesslon-


The action of the Old School Assembly DID
not meet with the favor in the New 7School
Assembly which was necessary to insure the
adoption of the amendment. The proposed
amendments required one hundred and sixty
one votes in order to be carried 10 that body
Ihey only received one hundred and seventeen
yeas. A committee was appointed to which
The subject was referred, but it reported 1t was
100 late to take action upon the matters under
Consideration. The New School AssembyWas,
therefore, dissolved without any definite set
tlement of the questions in interest: The COM
mlttee Of the New School Presbyterians being
Continued to act with Old School brethren,
mere will be further negotiation, so that When aoa
.ae Assemblies are again convened IN .loo9,
there may be some plan of union adopted
Which will be satisfactory to both parties.
Year: 1868

The washerwomen of Holland and
Belgium, so proverbially clean, and who
get up their linens so beautifully white,
use refined borax as washing powder,
instead of soda, in the proportion of a
large handful of borax powder to about
ten gallons of boiling water. They
save in soap nearly half. All the large
washing establishments adopt the same
mode. For laces. cambrics, &c, an ex-
ira quantity of the powder is used, and
for crinolines (requiring to be made
stiff strong solution is necessary
Borax being neutral salt, does not in
the slightest degree injure the texture OF
the linen. Its effect is to soften the
hardest water, and therefore, it should
be kept on the toilet table. TO the taste
it is rather sweet; is used for cleaning
the hair, is an excellent dentriice, and
in hot countries is used, in combination
with tartaric acid and bicarbonate Of
soda, as a cooling beverage.
Year: 1868

him, rendering him speechless. Even
after they laid him in the grave, and con.
signed him to that most horrible of
punishment, living btfial, his lips re-
mained closed; and in silence he lay
there, until the heavy elods had shut
him out forever from the world, and
had sent him into the presence of the
Judge eternal, whose laws he had broken.
Not so with the Countess. She strug-
gled violently to escape from her hus-
band, and vainly sought to throw her
self into the grave and perish with her
lover. The Count held her with hand
of iron, preventing her from sharing
the fate Of the man she loved, yet COM
pelling her to witness it. In vain she
called on Brother Ambrose to speak to
her. In vain she besought the Count to
spare his life. No word from either
answered her. Despair had sealed the
lips of the one; hatred and revenge had
silenced the other.


The grave was filled up, the heavy
f1agstones were replaced, and the honor
of the Count de St. Manr was avenged.
The unhappy monk had ceased to live
long before the task was completed, and
no trace was left of his tomb. The
men at arms were sworn to secresy; the
Count kept his own counsel; and the
Countess, overcome with horror and des-
pair, had sunk into hopeless lunacy. No
one but those who had witnessed the
punishment knew of the stain that had
been cast upon the proud name of St
Maur. They alone knew how it had
been wiped off, and both secrets were
safe in their keeping.


The monks of St. Pierre sought theil
missing brother long and vainly. Nc
trace Of him could be found; and il
came at length to be believed that ht
had become too sanity for earth, and
had disappeared from it in some mirac
|.ulous manner. Some of the monk:
even went so far as to declare that or
the night of his disappearance they hat
heard angelic music around the mo11as
terry, and had seen visions Of angel.
about it. They never knew the truti
of the matter, for the old castle kept it!
terrible secret well.
Year: 1868

HA young Irish servant girl, COM
ing from Albany recently in one Of the
night steamers, had the ill-luck to lose
the recommendation which had been
given her on leaving her last place An
Irishman, learning the cause Of her dis
tress, and being able to write, gave her
the following, which she presented to q
friend of ours: "This is to say that katy
o'brien had good character when she
left albcrny, but she lost it on board the
vessel coming down from alberny."
Year: 1868

The New York Sun, insinuates that the
Chief Jud,ice is ambitious. Editorially it
says:


Chief Justice Chase is said to have told the
the delegates Of Conservatives who rendered
him nomination for the Presidenc last
Thursday, that he did nor desire to be Presi-
dent To every one who knows Judge Chase,
this prctestation from him must appear either
altogether Improbable or extremely ridiculous
So it must seem to every one who ever has
known him; for he has been o candidate for
President from time when the memory Of
wost men now living runneth not to the con-
trary The White House has been one pole
star Of his whole political life. In his own
estimation he is nothing if he is not Presi-
dent. The Presidency.has been his meat, his
drink, his board, his lodging, the atmosphere
which he has breathed, for a5 years. People
may believe almost anything else which Sal>
mon ?. Chase, thinks proper to state; they
may believe that he is and always has been
hard money man, although he is old Green,
backs himself but to ask them to believe that
he does not wish to be President is too much.
Year: 1868

PERsoNAL.-Col Robert o. Love, Of the Hous-
ten Telegraph, is now on visit to our city and
will call upon our merchants in the interests Of
his journal, which is one of the Oldest and most
respectable papers published in the Lone Star
State. The colonel is whole.souled fellow. and
we hope our citizens will cheerfuly respond. BE
is stopping at the City Hotel. where he viii be
happy to see his many friends or receive any
business communication.
Year: 1868

p


No man ever came into power with u
fairer chance of usefulness TO his coua-
try than is now before Gen. Grant. 1t
is but a few months since he was the
choice Of those who wished TO place in
the Presidential chair a man with no
party ties He was first put in nomina
ton for the Presidency by such men.
When nominated by the Republic an
Convention, he declined to commit him
self to a prescribed policy. No one
can yet say what creed Of public policy.
he holds. Yet all have confidence in
his integrity, his frmness and his pa
triotism. He has no enemies to destroy
before he is seated securely. The best
wishes of the entire people attend him.


Such a man, coming into power under
such suspicious circumstances, finds
country not yet composed from the con
ficts Of long and bloody civil war.
lie finds inevitable aIienations and dis
fractions, which tend to mar the Lar-
mony of the Union. Three Of the
States have not yet been brought back
to the fold SO as to vote for or against
him at the recent election. These evils,
far less indeed than we might expect at
the close Of such a war as ours, are to
be cured; and we trust in God that
Gen. Grant will carry out in his policy
the motto he himself proposed as the
watehword of the late campaign, '.Ilsr
Us BAvE PEACE"


Again our financial affairs are in
more precarious state than it is wise to
say. There is demanded the keenest
sagacity, the loftiest patriotism and
most unbending firmness, to carry
through financial system that shall re-
duce the national debt, restore specie
payments, and preserve the prosperity
of the country during the commissions
attending the change. Gen. Grant will
have a mighty work on his hands, but
the most that he himself can do is to
summon the right men to his aid, and
sustain them in the battle before them.


His chance, or opportunity, is this:
that he comes to the chair Of State when
the agitated country needs peace, when
the financial affairs of the country are


in peril and need eStrication, and he is
the man who commands such general
confidence that lie can work out these
grand results. and we feryently trust he
will. Unless lie is thwarted by politi-
clans, selfish sod schefning, he will sue
ceed. He is upheld by the best wishes
and prayers of millions.-[New York
Observer.
Year: 1868

tionship.


Apostolic authority ..by the inspiration
of the Holy Ghost, has incorporated
these injunctions of the law of love
with statements Of doctrine, so that all
doctrine and all positions which do not
recognize the force of love. is wrong
doctrine and wrong position. There
fore the sincere spiritual reader comes
to the Scripture with a heart prepared
for obedience to such divine orders as
these: 90 Let love be without dissimu
lation.:''a "Be kindly affectioned one to
another with brotherly love; in honor
prefering one another" distributing
to the necessity of saints; given to hos
pitality.' ssBless and curse not."s
"Reioice with them that do rejoice, and
weep with them that weep" s'Be of
the same mind one toward another
In perusing the Scripture on this point
we are impressed with the variety Of
expression which is given to the law OF
love- as if designed to throw around the
engagements of'a loving life peculiar


y
charm There is charm indeed!
With what force may the saints of this
dispensation ofthe Church of God pro
long the strains of the sweet Psalmist of
Israel? ''Behold how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to
gether in unity! It is like the precious
ointment upon the head, that ran down
upon the beard, even Aaron's beard.
AS the dew of Hermon, and as the dew
that descended upon the mountains Of
Zion: for there the Lord commended
the blessing, even life forever more


The Lord baptize US with the spirit
which prompted the sufferings Of the
cross, and gave Us heavenly life. So
shall we have power and shall prevail.


ssHe that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
God and God in him. !"
Year: 1868

FT WAYNE GuosT 1t is said that q
young lady in Fort Wayne heard of a
haunted room in that town, aud deter
mined to occupy it. She gives the fol-
lowing, as her experience: II aving re-
tired to bed, and just as her eye lids
began to grow heavy, and while the
angel of sleep was tanning her. cheek


with his drowsy pinions, she felt the
bed covering sliding off the bed Think
ing that it was the weight of the over
hanging quilts, she attemped to draw
them up, but met with resistance. Look
ing down she saw what appeared to be
a large Newfoundland dog, angrily tug
ging at the coverings. With one spring
she landed in the middle of the floor,
ran to the window opening on the street,
raised it, ami screamed with all her
might. The family came to her assis
tance In the meantime the dog had
disappeared but the bed clothing was
found stacked up in the far corner of
the room. It is needless to say that she
changed her quarters.


Her brother, Mr. W, next tried it.
He saw no dog, bnt soon found some
thing tagging at his quilts He rests
ted with all his strength, but the cloth
ing was torn from his grasp, and thrown
across the room. Well, said he, cody,
if you wan5 the covering worse than
do, you can have it. And he left the
room and asked to be quartered else
where admitting that it wasn't pleasant
sleeping in there.
Year: 1868

A young minister went into the coun
try to preach, and observed during his
discourse o poor woman who seemed
to be much affected After the service
he resolved to pay her visit, and see
what were the impressions on her mind.


s'W - said the woman" III tell you.
About six years ago me and my husband
removed to this place and all the prop
erty we had was donkey. Husband,
he died, and then me and poor donkey,
was left alone.


s'At last donkey, he died; and to tell
you the truth, your voice put me SO
much in mind of that dear old critter,
that couldn't help taking on about it. y
Year: 1868

IMPORTANT TO PENSIONERS An act
was passed on the 9th of July last.
declaring that all pensions shall com
menee from the date of the death or
discharge of the Soldier. Many pen.
sious were commenced ut the time of
finishing the last paper of application,
and so the pensioner lost from one to
two years of pay. All these pensions
are now made payable from the time
Of the soldiers discharge or death, and
the arrears of such pensions can be
secured by proper application. Every
pensioner should look at his or her GER
tificate, and if it is dated at any time
after the death or discharge of the SOL
dier, go at once to some attorney and
have the arrears collected.