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Year: 1867

Hard on the Ladies-Some old fogy, Tan
old dilapidated bachelor, Of course gets of
the following at the expense of the ladies':
Taken as a class, women can contriVe more
outlandish and ugly fashions than one would
think possible without the gift of inspiration.
Take, for instance, the waterfall First it
represented bladder of Scotch snuff; next
it hung down a woman's back like a canvass
covered ham; afterward it contracted and
counteFfeited turnip on the back Of the
head now it sticks straight out behind, and
looks like a wire muzzle on a greyhound
Nesting in the midst of this long stretch Of
hair repose a little batter-cake Of a bonnet
like a jockey saddle on a longbaeked race
horse"
Year: 1867

Good Plain Fashioned Apple
ISQuee.--Let your stock Of apples be picked
over several times in the course Of the
winter, and all the defective ones taken cut
Let the good parts Of these be pared and if
not used for pies be made into apple sauce.
Boil it IN preserving kettle and to pailful,
Of cut apples put one sliced lemon. After
the apples are tender, add pint bowl Of
brown sugar, and boil them gently fifteen
minutes longer. Toward spring, when ap-
pies become tasteless, a teaspoonful Of tar.
taric acid, dissolved IN little water should
be added to this quantity Of apples
Year: 1867

HERE'S Your CHANcE.-0n the 10th inst
the Tennessee Legislature passed bill on
its third reading authorizing any person Of
good character and over twenty-One years Of
age to practice before the County Court By
paying five dollars, to be appropriated to the
common school fund. This is decidedly
heavy, and wiz serve to keep green the
memory Of the able sable for all time to come.
What next2
Year: 1867

We have six children, al beautiful and
good Spangle takes great pride IN the1s
loves them, and growls at them like dear
old dear. You must not think that Spangle
regards the new comers as burdens.
Quite the reverse. He goes into esEatics
over each one .dilates upon its beauties and
perfections for five minutes, and then seems
to think it ought to be laid away TO grow Ups
and be no further trouble to him until they
want to marry If one Of them has the
bellyache and cries at night, Spangle thinks
that the pain is a special hardship to him.
because it keeps him awake a few minutes.
The fact is undeniable that the best men
are selfish brutes as far as babies are con-
cerued.
Year: 1867

Con CUFb EY.-The Nashville Press and
Times, radical, is jubilant over three story
hotel which a negro by the name of Harding
is running a good place for moneyless
rads. to loaf, eat and drink The hotel is
known as the Harding House, and IS said to
possess many attraetions-espeeially to such
men as Duggan
Year: 1867

At last says the Nashville Daily Union
and Dispatch, the truth is out The letters
of Gen. Grant to the President demonstrating
against the removal of Stanton and Sheri
dan, and in effect, indorsing the administra-
ton Of these men; and his proposal, nearly
a year ago, in advance of the reconstruction
legis Iation Of Congress to establish martial
laws in Texas, clearly defines his polisical
status He is and doubtless has been Radi-
cal all the while. He has attempted to play
hide and seek with the question, and with
all the shrewdness of which he is MASTER


(Which is not great deal, has carefully
noted the signs of the times. It has been
manifest some months that the Democratic
party would not adopt him as {. candidate
for the Presidency and the publication Of
these letters at this juncture, is for the pur-
pose Of strengthening him against Chase, as
the aspirant for the Radical nomination.
They display him IN the character Of an in


triguer for that high station; but if he ever
attains It after the system Of falteriDg as he
has pursued, his luck will even be superior


to that which attended his military. career.
Year: 1867

I will say though, that Of all the children
have, Spanglo Is the biggest baby. Us
true he was through most OF his aIments
have enumerated before i got him. but in q
thousand other respects be stil IL, and ai-
ways viii remain 10 that chronic state of
babyhood which ever attends oger-indulgsd
and spoiled husbands. When 8e were FIRST
married my old baby would alnoat break
his back to pick up my fan, and he would XIII
a ay in minute if the hy manifested any
disposition to aEght on my nose.


Now / have to almost literally dress hinn
Ia the morning I have to get his boots to-
gether, one Of which he generally kicks an-
der the bureau, the other under the bed.
always have to find his cTayat IL &c to
bed first, in the morning / find his clothes
scattered over the room as only man casl
scatter clothes. lie would never put Or g
clean shirt if it were not spread out on
chair before him. lis sleeve buttons are
taken out and put ID hy me- when takea aut
and put in at all j don't believe hs pas
combed his own head since re were lsa1-
ried. lie cant even wash ms own iaee
properly without being told, ike any other
child If i did not wash hims his ears and
the back Of his neck would be sight 70 be-
hold.
Year: 1867

We learn that gentleman residing in our
town, some few weeks ago, purchased lot
of old condemned seepcrs from the railroad
company, for the purpose Of using them as
fire wood They we're accordingly conveyed
to his residence and sawed il suitable
fcrgths for the steve, and were used as fuel,
and as such gave great satisfaction, until
one evening the good wire placed ore Of the
pieces in the stove, when very strange and
remarkable occurrence happened Shortly
after placing the wood in the stove, her at
tention was attracted by singular noige in
the room, not unlike the crying of child
or the moaning of person in distress, and
upon searching ter the cause oft, ascer-
tained that it proceeded from the stove, and
becoming somewhat alarmed, called in her
husband and acquainted him of the matter.
The gentleman at once advanced to the
stove, and upon opening the door Il strange
and fearful sight met his gaze-right in the
midst of the blazing flames large black
snake writhing in agony and uttcring the
piteous noise which had attracted the at


tention of the lady. The snake slowly
crawled out of the stove and dropped on
the floor yeritable fiery serpent" and
in few seconds expr d. The snake had
doubtless entered cavity Of the sleeper in
the fall, and reapsing into torpid state,
was only aroused when encompassed by the
fame. Hnno,rr (l-enp Spectator.
Year: 1867

A French Court has decided that when
railroad fails to transport passengers to a
given point in given time, by the break
ing of an engine or any other accident, the
company is mound to pay the expenses OF
pase,n neers who may adopt other means to
each their destination.
Year: 1867

~ ts EdHor V Inc AFohN


SIR: In view of the great Importance which the
proposition to introduce city pavement possesses
and the general desire to obtain one for our use which
shall be good for beastso far his hoo is concerned
and good for the taxpayerso far ~ his purse coz
csrned-I would beg suggest that the Society for the
Prevention OF Cruelty 10 Animals, presided by Mr..
De Bergh offer small prize for the oes pdreae for use
In such city as Ours American inventive talent 10 aa
varied as extensive. and is the Qui for i'm
provement Hence the press has but 10 call the atte
lion OF inventors TO important specially In order 70
witness birth OF numerous inventions 10 compass ~
II the city would do the General Government purposes
regarding plans for the new Post ONCE, Offer prize
(Which need not be thousands Of dollars In fact tho
honor OF getting IL would be deemed sufficient by most 10
yent0rs should soon ascertain possible TO set
the pavement We need one OF those who consider
the Eicolson pavement unsuitable for our use for sew
eral weighty slss mdssatisdas every poor
taxpayer must beat the those concerned In have
husiedft through the City Boards and Mayors once.
II Mayor Hoffman would act In this matter as lac s DOING
relative to iDode Cor the Post Office. he would ave the
city from another rngand win the respect OF fesident
inventors Il u late for him 20 do or Is be already
In the hands of certain srecilaforsS 6.H u.
Year: 1867




The printers dollars. Where are they 7
A dollar here and dollar there, scatter.
ed over numerous small towns, all over
the country, miles aud miles apart, how
shall they come tgether? The type
founder has his hundreds of dollars against
the printer, the paper maker, the build
ing owner, the journeyman compositor,
the grocer, the tailor, and all assistants
to him carrying on his business, have
their demands, hardly ever so small as a
single dollar But the mites from here
and there must be diligently gathered
and patiently boarded, or the wherewith
to discharge the large bills will never be-
come bulky,


We imagine the printer will have to
get up an address to his widely scattered
dollars, something like the following:


"Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, and
all the numerous fractions into which you
are divided, collect yourselves and come
home Ye are wanted Combinations
of all sorts of men that help the printer
to become a proprietor gather in such
good reasons for your appearance at his
counter, that nothing less than a sight Of
you will appease them Collect your
selves, for valuable as you are in the ag-
gregatc, single you will not pay the cost Of
gathering. Come in here, in silent sim
glo file, that the printer may form you
into battalion, and send you forth
again to battle for him and to vindicate
his feeble credit"


Reader, are you sure you haven't two
or three Of the printers dollars Sticking
about your old clothes p If so let them
( come forth
Year: 1867

~ A sharp old gentleman travelling
out West got seat beside his wife in a
crowded car, by requesting the young
man who sat by her to "please watch
that woman while he went in another car,
as she had fits
Year: 1867

Established expressly to afford thu afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases Cases
Of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1867

tIlcn VIC shs,,ll risk the want Of hero. The aver
age good sense 0e the people " The
sole dependence OF nation. No single man
or set of men can bear CHE weight OF the
smallest State without tottG.ng under the
burden Ii is fTuc that in our lAnd we nave
had heroes-men who. far in advance of thelr
fellows have electrified the nation by a sli;sie
word Of truth, but we beg Mr.. Carlyle to remem'
Der chat these were heroes among free men, not
heroes among slaves, and that they were great
because they sought to raise the ignorant and the
poor TO higher plane, and did not stand apart
in ficir God given supremacy benefcently
Keeping million of slaves to their work.


Here in America where the people have for
seventy years proved to the people of all other
lands that Democracy, with all its evils, is
better for Man than Royalty with all its bless
ings, we read with more sorrow than anger
these words of scorn and bitterness. There is,
indeed, no cause for anger, for nothing that
Thomas Carlyle can say can lessen or
postpone the triumph Of the rights
of tho people; but cause for sorrow there
is. for this is great mind that
seeks TO bar the progress of humanity, and
taunts his race with its inborn unftness to
govern itself, its Heaven-intendcd Slavery. 1t
is blind Samson who comes forth to combat
with tho multitudes of mankind, not blind
alone, but shORn of his strength All the ge-
mus OF Carlyle cannot avail him in this
struggle, for lie carries banner on which
the finger OF God has written defeat, and
wars against manhood itself. But when we
think how stROng he might have been as an
ally, whcais so powerless as a foe; how much
he might have done to guide to noble ends the
revolution he vainly seeks to prevent, who that
honors genius can fail TO pity its perversiOn.
Year: 1867

His Imperial Majesty, the Grand Turk, has
safely completed his journey through Western
Europe, and reached his capital. He has
already announced that the result of his jour
ney will be the opening of an era of reforms
and general progress. The first act of the new
era is the refusal of the Turkish Government
to consent to the proposal of the Christian
Powers for an investigation of the shocking
condition of Crete. 1t is to be hoped that the
proposed investigation will now be made with
out Turkish consent.
Year: 1867

In the old chivalric days when feats OF arms
were the chief glory of man, and the sum OF all
genteel amusements was comprised in the sports
Of the chase and the tourney, the singing OF
minstrels and the love of fair women, a knight
was held in but slight esteem until he had
cried his lance on many distant field, and dis
played his proves before the admiring eyes of
the beauties Of many far Off lands. Gallant
chevalicrs then armed themselves in cumbrous
mail and rode forth in search Of cOmbats and
adventures. When they came to great city
they sounded notes Of defiance, and called upon
all good knights to ride forth and contend
with them for the credit of their country and
the glory of their mistress. Kings and mobiles
put on their best array and went out to see the
mimic battle, and the smiles of the fair and
the plandits of the brave rewarded the victors.


Times have changed a little since then.
There are no more jousts, except when few
of the crazy chivalry of the South have tilt
at mufiin-rings; and probably we shall hear no
more of even those gallaDt amusementS since
the last exercise of the kind at ST. Louis was
so cruelty parodied by the negro Ministries.
But the thirst for manly contests Is still
strong. The prize ring, thank heaven, is not
the sole remaining relic of the knightly lists.
Iyanhoc and the Templar have left better
representatives than vulgar bruiserS, and tho
gallant esquires of the middle ages have not
degeneratcd into brawing bottle holders. The
true successor of the old tourney field is the
base ball ground. The true progeny OF
the ancient knights whose bones are dust,
whose swords are rust, whose souls
are with the Saints We trust, are
the bold "fcldors" and batsmeD, the "long-
"stops," and the pitchers whose friendly
riyaship sets the clubs a-gog and fills the
newspaper columns with records Of glory.
The modern knight equps himself not with
cuirass and grcavcs, but with canvas shoes and
a linen cap. His lance is a bat. His reward
alas! for the prosaic truths not the smile
of the queen of beauty, but Il compliment from
the reporters.


And is there, seriously, any very awful
descent from jOusting to baseball Is 1t so
much more honorable to knock man OF his
horse with long pole than to strike good
blow at q flying ball : As an exercise of phys
ical yigor and agility we dare say the modern
pastme is better than the ancient one, and
considering how often those old knights used
to be carried out of the lists with broken
neck or q hole through the body, there can be
little question that our national game is vastly
more wholesome and improving than the Ia
vorite sport of our ancestors. IL the gay and
gentle spectators could only be brought back;
if the waving of cambric handkerchiefs, the
nuttering of bright ribbons, the smiles OF pretty
womon the soft applause of delicate hands,
might only cheer on the contest; if we might
be relieved from the rough Outcries OF a
betting mob, and the perpetual danger OF
free fight at the close, our ball-felds would
present as brilliant and as grateful q scene as
any recorded in medieval romances.
Year: 1867

The Convention last evening finished the
consideration of the article relating to town
and county officers, leaving it substantially as
it stands in the present Constitution, with the
important exception that the Board of Super
visors is to have legislative powers and ex-
elusive control of local matters. The Legisla-
ture is thus prevented from dealing with other
than general laws. An amendment was adopted
leaving it with the Legislature to decide
aDpOinted.
Year: 1867

The English Reform bill has received the
assent of the Queen, and is now the law OF
the land Thus the masses of the English peo-
ple ace themselves for the first time in the
history Of their country, endowed with the
right of suffrage, and admitted to great
share in Parliamentary Government. The re-
suit of the next election will be looked for
ward to with intense interest.
Year: 1867

Jefferson Davis, if we may believe the state
meats Of Western correspondent, which we
print in another column, is quite free in ex-
pressing his views of the situation. The letter
writer darlSly hints at intensely important mat
ters furnished by the Rebel Chief, which are
for the present to be kept secret but from
what he does say, we understand that, on the
matter of Reconstruction, Mr.. Davis, with an
imperious wave Of the land. announces that
Year: 1867

Gov. Brownlow denies that he is in favor of
extending amnesty. Should no action be taken
before the new Legislature cOnyenes in Octo-
ber, number of years must elapse before the
Franchise law can be changed by that body. We
mistake the temper of the liberal Republicans
Of Tennessee if they are satisfied with this
state of affairs.
Year: 1867

BALTIMORE. newspaper correspondent,
writing from Baltimore, thus speaks of that
city:


In politics Baltimore is sound to the core
Radicalism has no longer vestige Of its former
il-gotten influence within her borders. The
sound common sense and enlightened hum anity
of her people revolt from the monstrous and
diabolical utterances of Stevens, Phillips and
Ben Butler The spirit of the old Maryland
Line, which proved itself so often and so nobly
on many battlefield Of the revolution, yet
animates a large majority of the Baltimoreans.
They love the Union and the constitution, and
revere the memory of Washington, Marshall
Madison, Carroll, Harper, Pinckney, and the
whole host of great and good men who mould
ed our republican institutions. They do not
pretend to be wiser or better than their neigh
bors; they do not affect to be Puritans, either
in morals or religion. They extend an open
hand to the German and the Brlton, the French
man and the Spaniard, the Northerner and the
Southerner, the Catholic and the Protestant.
In fine, they conduct themselves precisely as
all we-regulated American communities did
for eighty years before the late rebellion
They stand upon the ancient ways and take
pleasure therein, and find their reward III an
apparently unlimited prosperity and growth
and the good wishes Of all true patriots.
Year: 1867

GEN. BEAUREGARD. "A few evenings ago a
marty of Southern gentlemen gave dinner to
Gen. Beauregard at the New York Hotel. In
the course of his remarks on the occasion, the
General stated that he had received tempting
offers from English capitalists to take up his
residence in England, as superintendent OF ex-
tensive engineering works in that country, but
he had concluded, upon calmly surveying the
different Governments Oft the world, their status
and their inherent strength, that this country
nossessed the most stable Government Of any
existing on the face Of the earth, and that, for
his part, he was determined to spend his life
under the flag of the Government that was the
most stable and least liable to disorganization.
It was nothing short of sheer nonsense TO talk
of another rebellion. If they wanted to raise
one they could not 1t was utterly impossible
and will be impossible tor them to do SO for the
next generation. Before the war he was III
favor of State sovereignty, but he had had that
dogma essentially whipped out Of him, and
thought that all should now bend their ener
gies towards again building up our Union to
that magnificent status among the nations OF
the world to which its destiny evidently points.
In conclusion, he would urge them to give the
Government their united support in every
manner, making it their pride to add lustre to
the common glory OF a united peop!e.-N. Z.
ErpreSS, Sept. II.
Year: 1867

power enough mako up for the want OF IT. but they
moved toward nature. not away from hor. They made
the next step 10 nature half dovelopmont
OF their practice, andInot a contradiction OF It, as
their own was Of that OF their teachers There s no
doubt that they have helped 10 lay tho foundation OF


distinctive American school OF landscape painting. and
pictures that they painted In their prime must nways
DO looked upon with respect and with certain degree
Of pleasure. Unhapply. they have all oeased TO paint
WELL tolerably and that, too. while they arc still


comparatively young Their work no longer attracts
tho public interest, longer commands tho public ro
spect. Time when any these names would draw
bovy, when OF them would draw crowd: but
now, hardly Of them Ia able to attract moro
than a passing look. We read somowero. lately.
a statement by q person Of an enthusiastic tenn
permanent, TO the effect that Mr. Clifford his
beau ideal OF the imaginative anu spiritual treatment Of
Landscape; he was comparing him, II wo remember
rightly with Mr. Bierstad and showing what contrast
he furnished the merely superficial and material paint


Ing of that gentleman To hear Clifford spoken Of In this
way made start 1t like voice from the grave


tis nearly ten years since an entirely new move
ment began IN the practice Of art In Amcrca-a move
ment whose consequences only just beginning TO DO
developed II had clear and well marked origin wholly
independent of the school have just been considering
There two immediate promoters OF this now phase
but they both had inspiration. Mr.. j. w. Hill, "Old
Mr. Hlp ho is called TO distinguish him from his son
J L.
the second Mr. Hill taught by Ruskn through his
books. MI. Farrer was taught by Ruskin himself


We arc not writing history and therefore We pass
lightly over the details OF this movement II begun
fanatcsm and 1t took up the weapons OF fanatiosm
and piled them Justify Mr. Hill considerably over


10 years of ago when he abandoned tho teaching OF his
youth and turned his back the rules tho prcceps and
tho models Of the conventional school in which ho had
up TO that time. been steadily working II was sngu
lar case Of conversion. but tho convert gave
and still gives indisputabls evidence OF his since.
ity. He made no compromise with what he be
neved TO be pernioous system injurious to art
itself, and douby Injurious TO tho Artists who
embrace 1t. We only allude TO Mr. Hill to-day. Ono
Of the results OF his change Of faith aud practice was
alienation from the other artists which gradually
Withdrawn him from participation In their Exhibition.
until at length. nobody looks for any work Of his the
Academy walls We may add that this withdrawal Of his
whatever motive or prde contempt for tho public


Judgment may keep II up was. in tho beginning
dictated by simple His drawings and those OF
his we're Tor many years. rested with what wo must