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Year: 1865

Every indication points to a speedy
movement of Grants army. We are in
receipt of letter giving details of the
preparations for that movement and its
probable object, which we do not at pres
en- feel at liberty to give to the public.
Suffice it to say that it will very soon be
made, and will be one of the most impor-
tant of the many gigantic projects for the
extinction of the rebellion now so success
fully being executed.
Year: 1865

Recruiting at the district headquarters s progressing
favoraby and the ward associations have per-
fected their arrangements there is doubt from the
energy they have already shown that the quota win be
filled without delay. Nine recruits were obtained yes
terday, and six more had TO be held until to-day in
consequence Of the county bounty not being forhcom
ing The Provost Marshal has placed In n conspicuous
part Of his Office for the information ohhose Interested,
list showing the balance OF the quota due from each
and the number enlisted each day The following
s the number due at present from each ward


1Sh Ward 20h Ward 21a Ward
DaAc;eprv m Mavch
Year: 1865

there was any probability or feasibility
in either suggestion. We take il for grant
ed that there will be a rapid hegira Of
those who have been engaged in ssimport-
ing and exporting" Of course blockade
goods will go up, but more rapidly at
trsttthan afterwards, because of the sud
den panic: They may possibly be cheap
er by the end of the week.


@'5fsl..e VIZ Journal.
Year: 1865

A letter from Yokohama describes the
beheading of two men, aledgcd to have
been accomplices in the recent assassina.
tlOn OF British officers The writer saws


" The door opened, and man bound
with cordsand blindfolded was led through
the crowd and made to knee down ON a
mat placed before hole dug to receive
his blood and head. The attendants
drew his clothes down off his neck, and
gave few preliminary brushes with the
hand upwards, as if to stroke the hair all
one way. The executioner was one OF
the Tycoon's soldiers, who had purchased
new sword blade, and had asked per-
mission to do the duty and thus try his
weapon.


"After securing the linen round the
handle and carefully wetting the blade,
he took up his position deliberately
on the left side of the victim, and RAISING
the sword high above his head with both
hands, let it fall with Swoop which sew
cred the neck completely. The head wa.
held up for the inspection of the chief Off
Ger present, who signi6ed his approval
" l have seen, and it was then thrown
into the hole The other man was car
ried in and they appeared to find som,
little difficulty in getting him to knee il
convenient position but when his knee.
had been perfectly adjusted and his neck
laid bare the other executioner, who hoe
also petitioned that he might fill the Office
advanced, took his place by the prisoner
side, and drawing the sword over his head
with an elegant flourish, inflicted the blow
as efectually as his predecessor


The blades did not appear to be diff
ierent from those ordinarily worn by the
two-sworded class, any one of which
would have done the work quite as com
pletely. The faces of the two men were
Vlllainous enough to justify the suspicion
Of being murderers in a foreigners mird.
Their punishment did not end at the
place of execution placards have been
put up everywhere stating their crime
and giving their names and ages.
Year: 1865

of his servants" He then patted John
ny head, and told him to be good boy,
and he would come and see his mother.
He did call again and after learning all "a
bout the family, he promised to take care OF
them; and when Johnny was a great boy
he took him on board his ship, and, in time,
made IN officer OF him, and adopted him;
and after battle when he was dying OF a
wound he had received, he asked Johnny,
who was now Lieutenant Ccle, to hand him
that casket on the desk Open it, said
the captain, giving him key. ''What do
you find there?" said the captain.


Nothing but my deal boat, said John
ny.


when you made that boat, you made
your fortune, said the captain. Under
that boat is my will and all the property L
have is yours John became "a rich man,
and he deserved it.


Now what is the object of this story!
Merely to teach you that, if you are good,
and want to do all you can to help those "a
bout you, God viii show you some way to do
so. The deal boat was a small affair to the
unfeeling boy who broke it, and to the
thoughIess girls who laughed at it, but TO
the officer and to God it was above all price.
Go, then, my young friends, and do likewise.
Year: 1865

IT viii be remembered that on Friday
the 10th we noticed the detention OF the
Northern Central train from the north by
running off the track near this city. The
following particulars are obtained from a
statement of Special Agent Row. He says
that when the train was some nine miles
north Of this city, the switch at the engine
house was turned the wrong way when the
mail train came dashing along, aad although
the engine was reversed, the train could not
be stopped until it ran into the locomotives in
the engine house. The express car crush
ed t rough and into the mail room, in which
Mr. Row happened to be at the time He
was so completely impaled with broken
timbers, boards and iron, that only after the
partition, boxes, and table had been torn "a
way Ito do which the use of an AK was ne
cessary, was he released from his horrible
position The hot stove set the mail
apartment on fire, and threatened the de-
struction of the car The mails were all
saved Mr.. J. w Hoffman, route agent,
jumped out of the door, and got off safely,
with the exception of the wrenching Of an
ankle. Harrisburg Telegraph
Year: 1865

The habits of children prove that oc-
cupation is necessity with most of them.
They love. to be busy, even about nothing,
still more to be usefully employed. With
some children it is a strongly developed ne
cessity, and if not turned to good account,
will be productive of positive evil, thus YER
flying the old adage, that '.Idleness is the
mother Of mischief: Children should be
encouraged, or if inherently disinclined to
it, be disciplined into performing for them
selves every little office relative to the toilet
which they are capable. of performing.
They should also keep their own clothes and
other possessions in neat order, and fetch
for themselves whatever they want; in
short, they should learn to be as independ-
ent of others as possible, fitting them alike
to make "a good use Of prosperity, and TO
meet with fortitude any reverse of fortune
that may befall them. | know Of no rank,
however exalted in which such system
would not prove beneficial
Year: 1865

WINTER DAVIS forced his resolution to
another vote on Tuesday Dec goth, when
the effect Of the former debate, and Of bis
powerful speech, were given in the passage
by vote Of l1S to s, of the part Of it
which had before been considered most OBJ
jectionable, while the closing clause, were
carried by majority of II. The only
change made in the resolution was substitu-
ing the words Executive Department for
President, and this was only made be-
cause a change of some sort was necessary
in order to get the order up, it having, once
before failed by the House. The resolution
amounted to rebuke of Secretary SEWARD
for his assertion to the French Govern
ment that neither the House nor Congress
had anything TO do with such questions as
the establishment of a French Empire in
Mexico
Year: 1865

Not long since attention was called to the
fact that Russia was at this time moving an
army southwark, III a manner menaclng to
Turkey. The inquiry Is at once sprung
do the MuscOvites mean to carry out their
traditional design of driving the Tur Ks from
Europe, and thereby gf lining a naval outlet
from the Black Sea! 1t is, to use phrase
once in vogue, the manifest destiny OF e.


vents. Russia Will hold on to the will Of
her great Gar Peter. She will tread the
road marked by board just out Of the
gates Of St. Petersburg, The Route to on
stahrinople - She will wrest from the eff
Terminate Ottomans, who are merely ellcGnp-
ed in Europe, the mastery of waters without
which she eau never have navy There Is
no idea, not even the faith In the Greek
Church, which is so tenaciously held by the
leading classes of Russia, as the idea OF selz-
ing Constantinople, and making their nation
a great maratime power. This idea will
never be relinquished, nor can England and
France defeat its accomplishment The har-
dy millions Of Russia will yet sweep away
the Crescent in spite of the zeal OF certain
Christian Kingdoms to give 1t perpetulty
with its slave markets, seragllos, etc. In
favor of this result, it may be claimed that
Russia will assimIlate gradually with Euro
pean thought and customs, and will develop
the commercial resources of the fairest part
of the world Our own relations with this
Autocracy are of the friendliest character,
and our trade will be greatly enlarged by the
dispersion Of the Moslems and the planting
OF vigorous and persevering race at the
Golden HoIn PttsGUrq Chronicle.
Year: 1865

God bless the little children


We meet them everywhere
we hear their voices round our hearth
Their footsteps on the stair
Their kindly hearts are swelling o er
With mirthfulness and gleei
God bless the little children,


Wherever they may be-
We meet them meath the Gypsy tent,
With visage swarth and dun,
And eyes that sparkle as they glance
With roguery and fun;
We find them fishing in the brook
For minnows, with pin.
Or creeping through the hazel-bush
The linnet's nest to win.
We meet them in the lordly hall,
Their stately fathers pride;
We IN eet them in the poor man cot
He hath no wealth besides;
Along the city's crowded steet
They burl the hoop or ball;
We find them meath the pauper's roof
The saddest sight Of all.
For there they win no fathers love,
No mothers tender care,
Their only friend the GOD above,
Who hears the orphau,s prayer;
But dressed in silks, or draped in rags.
In childish grief or glee,
G cd bless the little children,


Wherever they may be.
Year: 1865

''Why is it, asked lady, that so many
men are so anxious to get rid Of their
wives?' Because, was the reply, so
few women exert themselves after marriage
to make their presence indispensable to the
happiness of their husbands" When hus-
band and wife become thoroughly accustom-
ed to each other-when all the little battery
of charms which both played off so skillfully
before the wedding-day has been exhausted
too many seem to think that nothing re
mains but the clanlling Of the legal chains
which bind them to each other. The wife
seeks to develop in her affections no new at
traction for her husband and the latter,
perceiying the LupsuS, begins to brood over
an uncongeniality which does not exist,
and to magnify the ills that do exist into
insu, passable obstacles in the way of his
earthly felicity. This is the true secret
The woman who charmed before her mar
rage can charm afterward, if she Will, though
not of course by the same means. There
are thousand ways. if she viii only study
them out, in which she can make home so
attractive that her husband viii dislike to
absent himself from it, and so she can read
ily make herself the particular deity OF the
domestic paradise. This done, she may
quietly laugh at all attempts to alienate her
husbands inclination and with those incli-
nations will always go, in such cases, his ac-
five iudpment
Year: 1865

A FoUR-LEGaED HEN-At the last meet
ing of Polytechnic Association, DIR. Rowell
placed upon the President table a large
living hen with four legs. The hinder par
were fully formed, but are not used IN walk ak
ing; being curled up and carried. Dr.
Rowell remarked that they seemed to be a
part of a second animal in rudimentary
condition attached to the rump of the hem
He supposed that the fowl was hatehed
from double yolked egg, which the dam
had failed to push out Of the nest-an un-
usual oversight.
Year: 1865

The Pennington Chronicle speaks of a
sermon, the subject of which embraced the
personality, history and character OF the IN,
visible les der of the hosts of darkness;
This may well be said to be whipping the
devil around the stump.
Year: 1865

Accounts on file in the department at
Washington show the singular fact that
since the rebellion began, forty thousand
more Southern whites than blacks have re-
ceived assistance from the government
Year: 1865

have just placed my upon the list OF subscrib


ers 10 the monument which IL is contemplated TO erect
10 the memory OF murdered President and while


writing my name upon the scroll the though occurred to
me that while showing feeling Of appreciation for the
dead the living ought hot 10 be forgotten, and though


do not know what wealth, If any Mr. Lincoln may have


before his elevation the Chcf hagstracy
of our 30 ntry e, pretty certain that he could not
have accumulated much since and thereiore suggest


that responsible parties propose the raising, py
Mrs Lincoln I'll will be tribute thai feel sure MI
Jiueop would smile upor could he view The Offering
from the sp rit land ove apG for more in accord
ance with his we known modesty than soTied urn or


bust. however beautiful the art Of the sculptor
nait M. q them W. W. D.
Year: 1865

WAFHfNU1HNf
Ay charming friend, Miss sopbrona Sucker, having
gone 10 the seaside for the heated term suis deso


great many OF Miss SIS rebel knspcn have recently rc
turned 10 tho city they away from In such hot haste
four years ago. that they forgot TO pay little bills
and now come to euliyen US during the dog days; for
every dog has his Gay now "a formerly The most Of
u, humble and look very penitens good deal Of
he twosp te4tAAy mere STYLE Of expression that
Year: 1865

One WAY.-A Portugese shoemaker used
to give his wife severe fogging every
month. just before he went to confession. On
being asked the reason of this proceeding, be
replied hat, having a poor memory he took
this method to refresh it, as his wife, while
under the castigation, was sure to remind
him of all his sins.
Year: 1865

The State Journal OH Saturday
morning devoted an editorial to the
subject OF outrages Oh women. On
this subject it said:


"Not long ago it was our pride
tn at in America, women could trav-
el from one end of the country to the
other perfectly secure from insult"


That was when the Democratic
party had sway in this country
Further on, the Journal declares:


"Times have changed, we are sor-
roy to say, and if repeated outrages,
under aggravated circumstances, are
any warning, we are in duty bound
to declare that 1t is ursafe for woe
man to journey even from one town
to another without escort"


TIE Abolition party has ruled
this country for over four years, and
the morals OF The country haVo De-
come such that, according to the tes~
timony of the central organ OF the
Abolition party Of Ohio, now sit is
unsafe for q woman to journey even
from one town to another without
cssort." God knows, the country is
sufficiently taxed to enable "wOmcn"
to "travel from one end of the coun.
try to the other perfectly secure from
insult" as they wre able to do in
the days when the Democratic party
administered the Government and
the country was lightly taxcd.-[OhiO
Statesman.
Year: 1865

Among the negro cases brought
before General Palmer in Louisville
last week for adjudication was tho
following exceedingly knotty one:


An old negro deposited, some time
ago, one thousand dollars with a
white man. The man gave the ne
gro due bill for the amount. The
negro presented the due bill for the
amount. The man took the due
bill from him, destroyed it, and put
him out Of the store. The negro liv.
81 WIN the man six months orce,s
ana thought bn Lnaw him wall
enough to trust him with 81, G,oo0s


This is the negroes story; now for
the white mans:


In the first place, he don't know
the negro; he never lived with him;
he mover deposited 81 900 with him;
ne never gave him a due~bill, AMI
never put him out of his store
Moreover the General may hang him
if he ever laid eyes on the negro
before. g.


The General could not decide at
once upon such directly conflicting
assertions. and took the case under
lie may have to refer
it to Secretary Stanton or to the
Superintendent OF the Freednen's
Bureau.
Year: 1865

In A QUANDARY.-The radicals in
some portions Of Ohio. outside Of the
Western Reserve, don't know weather
or not they are in favor OF negro suf-
frage. They have not yet made up
their minds and don't want the issue
pressed upon them. They complain
of Democrats for seeking to force
them to take position. They prefer
to calmly await the "logic of events, "
Which means, if they succeed this
fall, they will be in favor Of universal
suffrage; ifthey are defeated they
will wsit little longer before they
decide. They are anxlous to get the
Offices first. Their minds at present
ore badly "torn up" Their naughty
opponents should not compel them to
commit themselves just now. An
office or two might be injndicionsly
lost. Wait patiently; all they ask
for is your vote, and by and by they
will tell you what they are in favor Of.
Year: 1865

The following curious passage occurs in the sixth
annual report Of the Regiotrar-Gener of Scotland


"Al CLASSES are agreed as TO the evils produced
by the abuse Of stimuant (acoholic) drinks and of
tobacco. But certain class decry even the use of
these, and point TO the statistics as triumphant
proof Of the banefu effect of such stimulants and
sedatives. No such conclusion can be drawn from
such statistics and this may be proved in the most
satisfactory manner. Tobacco and stimulating
drinks are almost exclusively consumed by males,
and by almost none under fifteen years Of age Yet
we find that in every one hundred thousand males
under fifteen years of age brain diseases cut of
nually three hundred and thrty-seven persons
whereas in an equal number Of females, only two
hundred and seventy-six are cut of by the same
disease At the very period of life, therefore, when
neither sex use these so-caed obnoxious articles,
the male tendency to these diseases so much great
or than it is in the female that three hundred and
thrty-seven males die for every two hundred and
,eventy-six females. Above fifteen years of age,
when, for arguments sake, may allow that the
female does not consume these articles or at least,
that the number who do is so Insignificant as not to
affect the general results, while the male both uses
and in many cases abuse them, instead of finding
that the relative proportion of male deaths from
these diseases increases, we lind that it rather di
mnishes so that while above fifteen years Of age
two hundred and seventeen males die from these
diseases in every hundred thousand males, one hum
dred and sxty-fou females die out of like number
of females.


"But the subject may be viewed in more strik-
ing light still by taking the proportion of each sex
who die from these diseases above and under fifteen
years of age BY this il will be found that the rel
alive tendency to death from these brain diseases in
persons above fifteen years of age was greater in the
female than in the male. The only conclusion,
therefore, which seems deducble from these facst APP
pears to be that in far the statistics Of these
deaths 90, there is no evidence to prove that the
consumption of alcoholic liquors Cincuding every
the general health of the population. On the other
hand, the evidence seems rather TO favor the idea
that the moderate use of these articles by the mass
Of the people 50 improves their health as to act as
counterpose to the undoubtedly injurious and fatal
effects to which the abuse leads in the few.
Year: 1865

There is a box of one hundred copies Of Brown
lows book on the Rebellion for sale at the office
Of the KNOXVILLE Wing, Persons wishing TO
purchase can apply at said office. Price, Sl.5O
Year: 1865

On this subject an exchange submits
the following remarks, which we commend
to the good people of this county. as both
sensible and timely:


when paper is ordered discontinued
because it is not liked, we have nothing to
say-but when the reason given or ex-
cuse is: i wish to take city paper, |
cannot take two at time, We have a
right to feel aggrieved, although our act
ual loss is but little The excuse is a poor
one. for the additional expense is but
little. We know mechanics who depend
upon their wages for a living, who take
one or two weekly papers and daily
and vet there are wealthy farmers who
cannot ai.ord to take a paper. Do such
men ever think Of the Importance to
themselves, pecuniarily, socially, polite
ally, and as a matter Of convenience, Of
having papers printed in their own coun-
ties? What would be thought Of county
that would not sustain local paper p
And yet there are hundreds if not thous-
ands of men in this county who take no
such paper. They rely upon others to
furnish them with the local news of their
county Now, we insist that it is the
interest of every property owner to sus-
tain 4 local paper that is identified with
all the interests of the county in which it
is printed. And by SO dong-by giving
us the support you contribute to foreign
papers-or at least not Withdrawing your
support from your home papor-we shall
be enabled to furnish you with better
and perhaps larger sheet"
Year: 1865

We have been handed, with a request
to publish it, the statement of conductor
Hall, in relation to the recent railroad
disaster at Grovertown. In justice to that
gentleman, we cheerfully give place to
his statement, which is as foil ows:


Il left the vicinity OF Camp Douglas at
precisely 5:25 P. NJ, in charge of a spc-
cial train OF twelve passenger cars, with
500 rebel prisoners ON board At Hannah
station I received telegraphic orders,
giving me until $40 p NJ. to make Don
elson arrived and stopped still at
Groyertown, three and half miles west of
Donclson, at precisely $40, and it was not
yet Sal when the express struck My train
at the rate of not less than % miles per
hour, killing the engineer and dislocating
one mans shoulder on the express train.
There was no one hurt on my train, with
the exception Of one of the guard, who
received slight injuries only. Had the
express not passed Donelson until $40, az
was ordered. and run at its usual rate of
speed, which would have consumed seven
minutes between the two stations, it would
have given me ample time to have tagged
it, and tie collision would have been
avoided. There was delayed freight
train on the sideway at Donelson. which
the engineer of the express might have
supposed was my train, in which case he
would Of course proceed. But he should
MT have done SO without knowing posi-
lively whether he was correct in his sup
nosition or not"
Year: 1865

~ The Postmaster General, with IN eye
to greater speed and regularity III the trans
mission Of mails, plainly tells the railroad
men that they must lessen tho number Of
cars On mail trims and make schedule time,
aud that then faithful compliance will be
Only proper observance Of tEelr contracts
with the Government.
Year: 1865

The MANAGERS ADvERTIsNG TIE HERALD
According to their own accounts the associated
managers are getting SO rich since they stopped
advertising in the HERALD and dismissed their
orchestras that they can afford to advertise
this journal every day in oil the other papers
in the city. While we are appropriately CRATE
fu for this kindness we do not need it; for the
HERALD, with it's immense and unequalled
circulation, always advertises itself Why do
not the managers spend their surplus cash in
advertising their friends in othor kinds Of
buslnessf Why not insert over their notices
the words "This establisbment does not buy