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Year: 1864

GoD OUR KEEPEB.-Adam had his
salvation in his own hands; he could not
keep it. Esau had his birthright in his
own hands; he could not keep it. The
prodigal had his patrimOny in his own
hands; he could not keep it. IF our
souls we're left in our own hands, we
could not keep it. The world is a false
keeper. The devil is a churlish keeper.
The body is a brittle and inconstant
keeper. God only Is the sure keeper.
Year: 1864

We have heard of many cases of POP
ping under very singular circumstances; ;
the eccentric, the abrupt, the business
lie, the silly, and hundred other styles.
Of the eccentric, we could cite the case
Of a we'll known merchant, who one day
dining at a friends house, sat next to a
lady who possessed rare charms Of con
varsation. The merchant did not pos
sess this faculty in a very large degree,
hut be could DO tLatwhich was next best,
he could appreciate, an appreciation which
he endeayored to show By the following
mode of action;


DO you like toast, Miss B-?'


YES, responded the lady, slightly sur
prised at the question.


'Buttered toast?'


YES.


That is strange; so do I. Let Us get
married.


There cannot be mach doubt that the
lady was taken slightly aback, a fact that
did not prevent the marriage from com
ing off ia month afterwards, nor the
accession Of the lady to enc of the finest
establishments in the city.


As a specimen of the abrupt, we shall
cite the case Of a gentleman who had re-
tired from business at the age of forty,
and built himself beautiful house, de-
termined to enjoy life to the utmost. One
day friend was dining with him and
said half jOkingly:


You have everything here that the
heart can desire but a wife.


That's true. 1 must think of it, and
then relapsed into silence for a few min
utes, at the end Of which time he rose,
begged to be excused for short time,
and left the room. He seized his hat
and went instantly to a neighbor's and
was shown into the parlor, with the in
formation that neither the master nor
mistress were at home. He told the ser
want that he wanted neither, and reques-
ted that the housekeeper be sent to him.
She came, and the gentleman thus ad-
dressed her:


Sarah, I have known you for many
years, and have just been told that
want a wife. You are the only woman
know that I should be willing to entrust
my happiness with, and if you agree, we
viii be instantly married What is your
answer?


Sarah knew the man that addressed
her, and knew that his offer was serious,
and as well weighed as though consider
ed for a year, and she answered him in
the same spirit:


L agree


Ill you be ready IN an hourF


L will


I shall return with you at that time
Which he did, the gentleman who had
suggested the idea accompanying him tt
the clergyman's. Many years have pass
ed since then, and neither party has seer
any cause to regret the abrupt propose
and acceptance.


OF the business style, we can cite a cas-,
related to US, which We know for tru,
one. A young man who had succeeded
to the i'll kept and badly cultivated, tho
really valuable farm of deceased uncle
saw at a glance that two things we're ab
solutely necessary to enable him to sue
eeed; the first being wife to take oharg
Of the woman's department, and the sec
ond a few thousand dollars to stock it
Year: 1864

Arrangements are now completed to sap
ply any demand for this article, which from
lack Of government stamps has not heretofore
been possible.


The public may rest assured that in no case
win the perfectly pure standard Of the Plant
alton Bitters be departed from. Every bot
tie bears the fac simils Of our signature on a
steel plate engraving, or it cannot be genuine.


Sold by al Druggists, Grocers and Dealers
Throughout the country.
Year: 1864

GRACE does not permit US to check
ourselves through to heaven, but Tequir-
es US to get out at each junction Of our
life, and see that our faith is right, and
to take heed lest We lose our way. I5 IS
this that is one Of the mysteries Of Chris
tian life, that while in view Of our weak
ness We know that without constant reli-
ance on His help we must fall forth
with.
Year: 1864

TRUTH is a common interest. When
We defend it, we defend the basis Of So
cial order. When we Tindicato it, we
vindicate our own foothold. When We
plead tor it, it is Ike pleading for the
air Of health We breathe. When we IN
dertake to Lsneft lying man, it IS Ike
putting your foot into the mire.
Year: 1864

Another wonderful ingredient, Of Spanish
origin, imparting beauty to the complexion
and brillianey to the mind, is yet unknown to
the commerce Of the world, and we withhold
its name for the present.
Year: 1864

orally ROUND THE FLAG. This patriotic
song is heard all over the city Just now it having
been newly populsrized by the AdmI able per-
formAnoe OF the song and chorus by the Female
ZouSves in the "seven Sisters" at Growers
Year: 1864

The Senate having passed the tax on whis-
ky precisely as it came from the House, it bs-
comes law, On receiving the Presidents sig
nature. According to the new law, whisky
made after the LIST of January, 1866. is taxed
two dollars per gallon; and by the understand
ing of both Houses under which the bill was
was passed, this is to be flnality of the whole
question. Meantime the proposition to tax
stocks on hand has been laid on the table and
clinched by motion to reconsider, which was
also laid on the table.
Year: 1864

In his recent speech at Dayton Gen. r. q.
SCHENcK thus ventilated the sympathy"
plank OF the Chicago platform;


There is another plank in the platform, and
think it is the tail of the whole. The Chi
cago Convention express its deep sympathy
with our soldiers in the field, and its determ
nation to give to them their care and pro-
lection, in the event of their attaining power.
What do you think of that, soldiers, if there
are any here? Would you not like to have
little manifestation of the love and sympathy
in advance, before you trust these fellows
Don't you think it strange that, as a party,
they have always opposed your right to vote
while you were absent fighting for your fire.
sides and your glorious country? Would it
rot have been more becoming in them, with
Geo. Pendleton at their head, to have voted
for money to pay you, and for more troops to
reinforce you, before they begin talking such
hypocrisy? The care and protection Of the
dear soldiers Suppose the dear soldiers had
no votes, would their bowels of compassion
have been so much moved Suppose they
had succeeded 10 preventing the soldiers from
voting, would you have the plank in the plat
form / rather think not. A vote is po-
tent thing. 1t has the effect 10 striking back
ward that the bayouet has in striking forward.
A ticket and bullet in the hands OF SOL
dier will kill rebel H either direction.
Suddenly, after calling them Lincolns hire
lings, denouHcing them in public and private,
they are filled with love for the dear boys in
the field, and want them to understand, if
they will help them to put the Democratic
party to power, nobody will SO well protect
| them as they will.


know something of the feelings of sol,
diers. 1 know soldiers are not fools. [
know with what acorn they spit upon and
despise such hypocritical pretcnses now when
wanting their votes, when it is necessary to
get their help. You can not catch these
birds with that kind of chaff You must try
other stuff to put upon the tails of your
game, if you expect to put any of them ia
your trap.


They despise your pretenses, and abomin-
ate your hypocrisy, when you go forward now
with your pretended love for them. These are
the men, and it is for you to say whether you
will go with the Union people who stand by
their Government and fight the rebellion, or


whether you will 60 with this pretended Dem


ocratc party, who do not fight the rebellion,
nor stand by the Government, but assail the
administration and the authorities of that
| Government
Year: 1864

aversion for "the vandala.' Yet they are not
unwilling to display the latest Southern fash
ions and most recherche Southern toilet in
many daily promenade in full view of Yam
kee optics. Ga the other hand they seem
rather fond of improving every opportunity
for an exhibition of their precious selves to
the vulgar gaze of thronging blue coats; i'm
agiuing no doubt that our nerves are unaccus-
toned to being impressed by such trauscen-
dent female lcveiness. And yet nine cases
out of ten these gentle creatures are indebted
for what little culture or refinement thev NAV
have to Northern books. teachers or schools
and have done little dlring their natural lives
except humping upon Northern pianos a smat-
tering Of music taught them by Northern
governesses. AprOpos of pianOs, permit me
to say that while am writing this a soldier
boy of our Brigade, one whose home is 10 the
prairie west and who has passed through the
privations of the long campaign is improving
a Boston piano in adjoining room about as
skillfully as could probably be done by any
lily fingered lady in Atlanta. The hands that
draw lanyards and pull triggers in behalf of
the Union are by no means all strangers 10
the fue arts Of life. On the contrary the
amount of culture and intelligence which
careful observation discovers in the ranks oil
an army is truly surprising. Our soldiers re
feet immense credit upon the free institutions
under which they have been nurtured aud
which have extended the priceless boon OF
moral aud intellectual improvement.


The recent raid made upon the communica-
tions of this army by the rebel General
Wheeler caused temporary suspension OF
mails, but otherwise occasioned no serious en-
barrassment. 1t is a remarkable fact that
through campaign the army has operated in a
wild aud destitute country and has frequently
abandoned its communications liz order to ex-
eeute hanking movements, yet it has not been
short of supplies for single day. The enemy
in all his efforts to destroy our railroad has
accomplished little except to wear out his
horses aud weaken his force in our front. Vast
quantities of supplies of every kind are now
being brought here by rail and are being
stored away for future use in the depots aud
warehouses of the city.


A clear calm September night, made radi-
ant by fuIl-orbed moon, tempts me from
this prodtless writing. It is one Of those glO-
rious Southern evenings the inspiration OF
which it is easy to feel but impossible to de-
scribe. It is a time when earth seems to1ched
with too much of heavens beauty to be the
corrupt and sinful world that it is.


Alas, for the delusion


A. T. SECHAND.
Year: 1864

WASHINGTON ON TRAIToTs.-In letter to
Governor Trumbull, of Connecticut, written
during the Revolution, in relation to disafFect-
ed and disoyal persons, he said:


As it is now apparent that we have nothing
to depend upon in the present contest, but our
strength, care, frmness and union, should not
the same measures be adopted in your and
every other government on the continent p
Would it not be prudent to sieze on those
tories who have been, are, and that we know
will be, active against US {? Why should per-
sons who are preying on the vitals Of their
country, be suffered to skulk at large, while
we know they will do US every mischief in
their power? These, sir, are points beg
leave to submit to your serious consideration.
Year: 1864

A BIC STRAw.-A vote was recently ta-
ken among the citizens of the State of Maine,
in which the preference of the people Tor the
Union candidate over the Democratic was
shown by a majority of twenty thousand
"a straw" &C.
Year: 1864

The Milton Chronicle is 80 intent on losing lib.
erty and then gaining it. that IN is issue Of the 9th
Of August it says:


"For our own part ws are Is Jealous of State
rghts-frss government and civil liberty-.s eth.
er of the two journals above mentioned. But
what avail State rights and State governments il
the enemy overrun u while w stand splitting
hairs about constitutional etiquette In the desper-
ate struggle now raging, We regard State govern
ments As nothing without the army to protect and
defend them. The great dssiteratum, IS it seems
to us is to keep up the army, even if it requires
temporary suspension of State rights or Of govera-
uents themselves. If we fall into the enemy'a
hands, our government is gone not only for during
the war but forever; and with it perishes State
Constitutions State rights, and liberty. But if we
conquer, then each State can resume its original
rights, and guard them with IN eye As jealous Is
she chooses


This is one of tho fruits of tho lstc Destructive
triumph in the elections in this State The Rich.
mond Enquirer Of tho 10Th of July, 1868, pro.
claimed the same doctrine, as follows


"All laws ought to BE- silent except military law,
We regard all Judges and Courts, State and Con-
federate all Congresses and Legislatures az q nuis-
anee save in so far IS they help US to strengthen
the hands Of the commsnderin. chief of this Con.
federacy. There is no interest or institution
IN the country worth mentioning nov, except the
army. The government of the Oonfederacy is the
government of the army and no citizens has any
rights which can interfere with or impede it's eff.
ciency."


The above is Destructiveism intensified, We
hope the Enquirer is satisfied with the progress of
its doctrines


We oppose to this, and We invite the attention
of the Editor Of the Cronicls to the following e1.
tract from the great speech delivered in our State
Convention by tho Hon. William A. Graham, on
the subject of Test Oaths:


alt Is quite remarkable that while the commit
tee inveigh with vehemencs against the despotism
now practiced by the Lincoln government in Mary
land, they should bring forward measure equally
abhorrent to freedom in North. Carolina. Sir, if
such . measure prevails and is acquiesced in, 1t is
Of little moment what may be the issue Of the
present great conflict in the battle. .fie1d We shall
in the end be in any event slxves and present the
sad spectacle of State throwing away its liberties
in struggle to preserve them, in angry imitation
OF tho contagious example of an enemy who threw
away theirs, to give vigor to their efforts for our
su6jugaten. " Our people are resolved to be
independent and free, not only in the end but in
the lnesns They are resolved not only to be free.
men At the termination Of the contest but will not
surrender their liberties during its progress"
Year: 1864

prescribe and punish the 8 strait" Conservatives
for their adhsrence to their organization and their
principles, We would turn upon them and give them
"war to the knife and the knife to the bilt" Fair
warning often leads to good understanding. Any
fusion in the Legislature between the Conservatives
and Destructivss, and any attempt to prescribe or
punish the strait" Conservatives, will b. fatal to
the Conservative party of the Stats.
Year: 1864

Another little wave
Upon the sea of life;
Another soul to save,


Amid its toll and stlife.
Two more little feet


To walk the dusty road;
To choose where two paths meet,
Tho narrow or the bread.
Two more little hands


To work for good or i'll;
Two more little eyes,


Another little will.
Another heart to love,


Receiving love again;
And so the baby came,


A thing of life and pain!
Year: 1864




0TWe have never concurred in the
opinion that the institutions of Am erica
have been found wanting in this trial.
The fault has not been with them but with
the people who, for vain glory, have given
up their liberti es. Had they lived under
a monarchy they would have done the
same, and would have made their sover-
eisn as absolute as the Car whom they 30
much admire and extol. It is their vics to
love greatness mora than liberty; to be vain
of extensive territory instead of personal
rights; hence their light surrender of all
their best securities for freedom.


Let US not DO told they will resums
their guarantees. when the occasion has
passed away. As we'll might it be said that
a woman would resume her chastity after
surrender. A nation which has consented
10 live without its liberties has prepared it
self too we'll for the loss of them. It has
foregone the habit of virtue.


The above are the words of an English
man who throughout the war has employed
his pen-and still employs it-on the Sids
of the North. He is editor of the London
Examiner, a paper second to none 10 the
ability with which it is conducted World.
Year: 1864

1t is an easy and vulgar thing to please
the mob, and very arduous task to as


tonish them; but essentially to benefit
and to improve them is work frauEht
with difficulty, and teeming with danger.
Year: 1864

Some years ago gentleman visiting
a farmer took from his pocket small
potato, which somehow had got in there
at home. 1t was thrown out with a
smile, and the farmer taking it in his
hand to look at it, curious little boy
of twelve standing at his elbow asked
him what it was. "Oh," said he, moth
ing but potato, my boy; take and
plant it, and you shall have all that
you can raise from it till you are free"
The lad took it, and the farmer thought
no more about it at the time. The boy,
however, not despising small potatoes,
carefully divided it into as many pieces
as he could find eyes, and put them
into the ground. The product was
carefully put aside in the fall and plant
ed in the spring, and so on till the
fourth year, when the yield being good,
the actual product was four hundred
bushels The farmer seeing the pros
pect that the potato field would, by
another year, cover his whole farm
asked to be released from his promise!
Let us not despise small things.
Year: 1864

An enterprising travelling agent for well
known Cleveland tombstone mandatory
recently made visit to a small town in q
neighboring county. Hearing in the village
that mAD in q remote part OF the town
ship had lost his wife, he thought he would
go and see him, and offer him consolation
and a grave stone, on his usual reasonable
terms. He started the road was hor-
rible, frightful one, but the agent persever-
ed, and arrived at the bereaved mans house.
The bereaved mans hired girl told the agent
that the bereaved man was splitting rails.
The indeiatigable agent mounted his horse
and started for the pasture. After falling
into all manner of mud holes, scratching
himself with briers, and tumbling over de-
cayed logs, the agent found the bereaved
man. In subdued voice he asked the man
if he had lost his wife. The man said he
had. The agent was sorry to hear it, and
sympathized very deeply with the man in
his great sorrow, but death, he said, was an
insatiate archer, and shot down all, OF both
high and low degree. He Informed the
man that what was his loss was her gain, /"
and would be glad to sell him grave stone
to mark the spot whore the loved one slept,
marble or common stone, as he chose, at
prices defying competition. The bereaved
man said there was slight difficulty in the
way. Haven't you lost your wife p in
quired the agent. "Why, yes, l have"
said the man; 'but no grave stone amt
necessary, tor you see the cussed critter
amt dead; she scooted with another man. !"
Year: 1864

of the Goth inst, says:


Private letters received here give the par
ticuars of the death of Mr.. Dayton: He
left his house 10 perfect health to call upon
lady at the Hotel de Louvre. Soon after
entering her room he complained of feeling
unwell, and lay down upon the sofa. He
appeared to fall asleep, and the lady threw
a shawl over him and called physician. =
Upon examination he was found to be dead,
in the position in which he had lain down.
Year: 1864

TIE New York correspondent Of the
London Times admits that the manner in
which the Presidential election was CON
Quoted is in the highest degree honorable
to the American people. -I
Year: 1864

But few works on surgery contain
more interesting or remarkable case
than the following Matthew Phenix.
Co. B, Eighty-sixth New York Volun-
teers, was wounded, BY a spent ball, in
the left eye, at Mine Run, on the 9th
day of November, 1863. He was brought
to the Baptist Church hospital, in this
city, on the 4th of December. 1863.
where his wound was probed by Dr. C.
P. Bigelow, surgeon in charge, who
failed to discover the locality Of the
ball He remained in the hospital some
time, experiencing occasional pain, but
all the time his general health was i'm
proving. The wound was frequently
prObed by Or. BigelOw, but without any
better result than at she first trial.
About the first of March last. his gen
eral heslth being very good, he was
granted a furlough for forty days Al
the expiration of that time he returned,
and soon began 10 complain quite fre-
quently of severe pain from his wound.
The wound was again prObed, and some
pieces of dead bone taken from his eye
and the roof of his mouth. On Satur-
day last, in examining the wound again,
with probe, Dr. BigelOW discovered
the locality of the ball, which seemed
TO be resting Immediately over the
pallet of the mouth or throat. Insert
ing his ball tOrceps, he found he could
not grasp IT, and, after repeated eE
forts, he concluded to wait until Sun
day morning, when it was MS intention
to separate the bone on each side of the
eye, by which means it was thought the
ball could be easily taken out Early
on Sunday morninga messenger aroused
the Doctor, and informed him that
Phenix was choking to death. He at
once repaired to the hospital, where he
found the patient in the condition
stated. He soon discovered that the
ball had been moved from its original
bed a little lower down, and unless i'm
mediately removed must produce sutlo-
cation. He inserted his fOrceps and
extracted it without the least difficulty,
giving instant relief to his patient The
ball was a grape shot (iron,) one and


half inches in diameter, and about four


inches in circumference, and weighs


but fraction less than half a pound.


To any one but a surgeon this story


would seem somewhat miraculous. but


stTuth sometimes is even stranger than


fiction Phenix is still at the above


hospital, and from all appearances the


carrying of a cannon ball in his head


for FIVE months has but slightly impaired
his health, and not shorted his days in
the least-Alerasdria Sentinel Jf1y g.
Year: 1864

Honesty, the world viii tell you. is
the best policy: speculate on it till you
get the confidence of your rich ac-
quaintances, then line your pockets and
run for Congress. Humbug, you must
not forget, is a greagbalsam, and to sue,
ceed in any enterprise you must en-
deavOr to please everybody; smile upon
those who say that yo,t are a humbug;
and if anybody say you deserve to be
kicked for your impudenee, humbly
beg pardon, go down upon your knees
and imploringly beg forgiveness, and
add that you meant neither harm nor
insult, as did an old friend of my ac-
quaintance Ga field ofieer) when a
subordinate threatened to twist his
nasal organ.


Keep it before the people that none
but knaves, rascals, blacklegs, pimps,
GbeFtines and piek-pocl1ets are qualified
to hold Office or fit to sit in judgment
upon the people If rival cross your
path to honor, emolument or pros
perity, act the honest Quaker with him !;
don't hurt him, bit giire him a bad name.
In order to have all decent folkdom
respect you-to insure youa seat in the
easy-chair when you 60 see the old
woman's' daughter, interest yourself
in the moral and religious training of
the youth; ingratiate yourself into the
good graces of the deacon, the old
women and rich men of the church,
and if vote of thanks be given
through the press to any benevolent
individual for bundle of foul linen, a
loaf of unmarketable bread or an old
New Testament for the soldiers or
orphans, be sure and have your name
attached as Secretary Be a Gabriel in
your own sublime way; blow your own
horn, for as modest worth is seldom
recognized, the bigger noise you make
the more the world win hear and know
of you


Having little time and ample means
at my disposal, l am preparing an
Essay on lGo,, and am fully resolved to
adapt it to the wants of the present
age and generation. The above being
sample, Twill insist upon you puff
ing it when it appears.


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