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Year: 1867

Tonight there is ioy in many home,


For the merry time of Christmas has come;
1t has brought its treasures of gin and song
For those who've waited its coming so long.
There are lights burning brightly in the hall
There are stockings hung by the chimney wall
There are shouts Of laughter frem voices sweet
And the ceaseless patter Of little feet.
There are children around the Christmas Tree:
Their eyes grow bright as its treasures they see
There are gifts of Love for the Young and old
There are books and toys and jewels of gold.
There are presents found that were hid from
Which were wrought in the quiet hours OF
Or in secret places were stored away,


That no ono should lind them till Christmas day
o, Christmas It's season of joy,


To the hoary man and the fair haired boy;
lis time OF pleasure, of song. and mirth.
For the weary, toilwOrn children Of earth.
lis time of rest from the cares of life.
From its hustle and turmoil din and strife;
Then sickness and sorrow forget their pain,
And the hearts of the old grow young again
Then welcome, thrice welcome be Christmas tide
May its joyous cheer with rs still abide
Till He who brought the first Christmas to men
In the clouds Of Heaven shall come again.


JESSICA.
CHRISTMAS EVE 1867
Year: 1867

Foop FOR THE llUNGRY-God has
given the cattle something which is con-
sonant TO their nature ihev are nothing
but flesh, and flesh is grass, there Is
therefore grass for their flesh. But then.
though | am flesh. am something else
besides, | AIN spirit. Then, if | am to
get something 10 satisfy NE. it must be
spiritual meat. Where Is il When |
turn 10 Gods word. L find there that
though the gra>s withereth, the word of
the Lord endureth forever: and the word
which God speaks unto u. is spirit and
life. Oh, then, say, here is some
thing spiritual for my spiritual nature,
something suitable to ne as an immortal
being. o., may God help me to know
what that spiritual meat is, and enable
me TO lay hold upon it, for | perceive
that though God provides the grass for
the cattle, the cattle must eat il them
selves. They are not fed by it if they lie
down and refuse TO come and eat. Then
what must / do! | must initiate the
cattle. and eat that which God provides
for me- What do | find provided in the
Scripture find the Lord Jesus Christ
laid down as the food for INV soul. |
am told that he came into this world to
suffer and bleed, and die, instead of me.
and that If | trust in him | shall be
saved; and. being saved, the thoughts of
his love will give solace and ioy TO me
and be my strength, the strength of my
life and portion forever. l do not find
the cattle bringing any purchase-money
to the pasture, but they enter it and re
ceive what they want Even so DO by
an act of faith in Jesus. Lord give me
grace TO feed upon Christ make me
hungry and thirsty after him; give me
the faith by which may be receiver of
him, that 50 may be satisfied with IA
vor, and full of the goodness of the Lord.
Year: 1867

The Paris newspapers are out Of
humor with the Americans and English
because they DO not allow their machin-
cry in the Exposition TO work on sun
day The newspapers say that the Ia
boring population who 90 to the Champ
de Mars on that day, and pay their ad-
mission, have as much right TO see every
thing as those who visit the Exposition
during the week.
Year: 1867

The vaults of the United States Sub
Treasury are said TO exceed in size those
of the bank of England. The strong and
burglarproof manner in which they have
been constructed excites the admiration
of all beholders. There are two Of these
immense vaults, one at each corner of
the Pine street end of the rotunda- The
rooms are perhaps twenty feet long by
fifteen feet wide. anl ten or twelve feet
high They contain no window there
Is but one opening into each. and gas
lights are kept burning inside, The in
ternal appearance of these vaults has a
striking resemblance TO 4 fashionable
tomb in Greenwood cemetery, rows of
cases being arranged around the sides of
the room, each about two feet square.
with iron doors attached There Is one
door for each case, and when the apart
ment has been filled with bags of gold or
bundles of greenbackS, the doors are clos
ed. Each case will contain half a mill
ion of dollars put up in bags OF five thou
sand dollars each. When case Is thus
iillel. the door Is closed. and Z seal Is af-
fixed in the presence of the naval Officer
and the Surveyor of the Port 1t takes
one hundred bags TO hold half a million
OF dollars. In the first vault entered there
were seventy-two compartments arTang-
ell around the room. which formed a tier
somewhat higher Than mans head.


Running over the top of these was a
balcony with an iron railing in front
there were piled up in this balcony, in
one heap, six millions of dollars in five
and ten dollar bills one half million OF
dollars in internal revenue stamps, fifty
thousand dollars in fractional CURRENCY.
put up in large paper boxes. five and
one half millions I'm nited STATES honls
Year: 1867

A communication in relation TO an
article in a recent issue of the REGISTER
headed Trouble at Big Rum" was re-
ceivsd at this office from Marshal cOun-
ty, day OF two ago, and, owing to the
temporary absence of the editor, was
inserted without the explanation that
should have accompanied il If our
correspondent had observed she heading
ofthe three items, of which the article to
which he alludeS was the last, he would
have found our authority for the state
ment there given. We copied the item
from the Moundsville National, which,
we presumed, was familiar enough with
current events in its own county to be
reliable. While we would not justify
the publication of what II. Il. L. styles
"a base and slanderouS lie" merely
because another paper circulated it, we
wish our correspondent to know where
the story which offends him originated,
80 that he may fix the responsibility
nearer home.
Year: 1867

After the arrival of the company in
this city, every mail brought to Sing
kee-chee letter from his betrothed,
and on Saturday she came to meet him
previous to his departure from this city.
Her strange love intead of decreasing,
seems to flourish as time rolls on and
opportunity is given to think it over,
and when the party left this city to 60
to Fort Wayne, passing through Chica-
90, there seemed no happier or more
devoted lovers in this world than Sing
kee- -chee and his Chicago betrothed.


We shall watch the conclusion of this
strange love affair with no little inter
est.
Year: 1867




Mrs. Stephens, in her excellent
monthly magazine, gives certain class
of men, the like of whom are seen in
every community but ours, the benefit
of her opinion, as follows:


Our own private opinion of the
gladys man. is, that he is thoroughly
contemptible-a sert of the life hardly
worth thinking about-a nutshell
with the kernel wi thered up
handful of foam drifting over
the wine of life, something not al
together unpleasant 10 the fancy, but OF
no earthly use. A woman of sense
would as soon be put to sea in a man-of-
war made of shingles, or take up her
residence in card house, as dream OF
attaching herself TO lady killer.


Women worth the name are seldom
deceived into thinking our lady's man
the choicest specimen of his sex. What
ever the ignorance may be, womanly in
tuition must tell them that the men
who live for a great object, and
whose spirits are so firmly knit
that they are able to encoHnter
the storms of life-men whose depths
and warmth of feeling resemble the
powerful current of mighty river, and
not the pebbles on its surface, who il
they love, are never snitten by mere
beauty of form or features-that these
men are more worthy even of occupy.
ing their thoughts i'll idle moments
than the fops and men about
town with whose attentions they amuse
themselves. If we were to tell him
this, he would only laugh; he has nc
pride about him, although full of van
ity; and it matters not to him what We
may broadly affirm or quietly insinuate


Soft and delicate though ne be, be il
as impervious to ridicule as hod car
risr, and as regardless of honest con
tempt as q city Alderman. Were yor
to hand him this article, he would take
it to some social party, and read il
aloud in the most mellifiuous voice a:
an homage to his own attractions.
Year: 1867

A large force of Indians are encamped
on the Arkansas river, south of The
Union Pacific railroad company, East
ern Division, busily engaged in horse
stealing, their object being TO mount
all their braves before commencing war
In earnest. 1t is said that everything in
the shape of a horse or mule is driven
of. Work is now entirely suspended
on the line of the road for a hundred
miles west Of Fort Harker; but arrange
ments are being rapidly made to arm
the workmen. and commence operations
again. Governor Crawford, Of Kansas,
has called for eight hundred mounted
men for four months, and recruiting is
very brisk.
Year: 1867

B6ys The President, it is said, is about
to issue new proclamation of amnesty.
Ii is we'll to be magnRnimous, but II does
not follow, even though the Herald as
serts it, that the Presidents pardon null
lifies the laws. The President may par
don so far as to absolve individual rebels
from punishment, but cannot remove the
disabilities imposed upon classes The
Reconstruction acts do not punish in the
accepted meaning of the term, but lay
down certain precautions and restric-
tions, and these disabilities the law ex-
pressly provides shall not be removed by
reason OF any Executive pardon. Mr.
johnson may proclaim universal am
nesty, but so long as reconstruction is
imperfect, the disqualifying clauses OF
the law will be enforced.-N Y. Tribune.


What are these disabilities but punish
ments2 If q man is forbidden to vote,
who was formerly entitled to do so, for
the reason that he has engaged in rebel
lion, is not this taking away the distin-
gushing. privilege of a freemana punish
nent2 And if the President may, by
pardon, exonerate all individuals of all
classes from punishment, why can he
not remove the disabilities imposed on
classes The Tribune articles are full
of skillfully drawn sophistries, and this
is one of them. No one preiends that
"the Presidents pardon nullifes the
laws" 1t is in pursuance of the SUI
preme law of the Constitution that elem
ency is extended by the Executive ;
where alone the right resides, which,
when exerted, no honest court will dis
regard. This is not nullifying, any
more than it is making, but enforcing
the laws. Who ever before pretended
the power of the President was linn
tied as to the removal of any dis
ability, penalty or suffering imposed on
conviction of crime2 And, if it was
competent for him to grant relief after
conyiction,is is not his power equally ample
before conviction 7 The wish is father ia
tho thought, on the part of the Tribune.
And Mr. Greeley knows that the merely
partizan affirmation he has made will
not bear tho light, while it will put
bubble in the mouth of the unblushing
malignant and soulless partisan. 1t is
not true that "the reconstruction acts dc
not punish in the accepted meaning o.
the term if taking a franchise, the
most sacred and inviolablo right of free
men, is a punishment. The law is void
to the extent it takes the pardoninE
power from the President, which is giver
by the Constitution, and there is not {
dishonest Judge in the land who dare
affirm otherwise.
Year: 1867

GeS- The durability of painted wood
over that not protected by paint Is very
striking. Several white pine mileposts
painted with white lead were taken up
along the line of New Jersey railroad
last week, and found to be as sound and
perfect ss when placed in the ground,
IN ore than thirty years ago.
Year: 1867

E6- The New York Times comment
ing upon the recent executions in differ
ent parts of the country says; The
number Of pious murders who are dying
lust now is quite remarkable. From
these dying speeches the shortest and
most triumphant route to heaven would
seem 20 be through Murderer's Alley.
Year: 1867

EDIToRs LEDGER: The planting com
munity would be pleased to hear your
ideas as to the labor question in our
midst The present system OF giving
negroes al interest in the crop does not
pay, and / suggestthat the better plan
is to pay wages and have done what is
necessary. What do you think of it
What do planters say2 A change is
demanded by all so far as I've heard.
Let us hear from you, gentlemen.
Year: 1867

TIE PRoaREss OF REVOLUTION Three
years ago the leader Of the House had not a
corporars guard to uphold him in his reVolu-
tiona,y theory, born of a corrupted brain and
tyrarnous heart, that the secaeding States
are conquered provinces. When he first an
nounced that all contracts between the North
and South were abrogated, all obligations an
pued, dozen of his own party friends sprang
to their feet in indignant protest against it.
To day majority uphold him in his rebellion
Tor to trampe on she habeas corpus aad the
Jury trial, to defy the authority of the Supreme
Court, to subordinate courts of law to the arbl-
trary will of soldier, even though done in the
name of liberty, are as rebellious in spirit as
the enactment of an ordinance of secession, or
the formal disclaimer of the authority Of the
Federal Government.-Ndt. Int.
Year: 1867

A SIMPLE RECIPE FOR (1oITRE. An inteli-


GENT lady of this county who has used it with
success in her own case, and has known another
10 be cured with the same remedy, sends us
for publication the following simple recipe for
the cure of the gotre:


"A piece of fresh butter the size of hulled
walnut mixed With spoonful OF soda, spread


upon and mixed with raw cotton. applied to
The throat Renew the application every day. y


The lady who sent us this recipe says: 1T
will cause small blisters, and make the throat
quite sore, but will remove the goitre at least
did 30 in my case, and in that of the person
who recommended me to use it. | had to
wear the poultice for three weeks. '-Staunton
.SDect1fOr
Year: 1867

rThosc Of ourhari fslci, Woodworking brethren
throughout the North, who have been deluded into
acting and voting with the Radical "niookhoals'
for the past few years should read and ponder well
the following lines, and then answer ior himself 4
he can, ewhy the rich grow Kicker aud the poor
Work Work Work


with pick and shovel and axe,
To nay New Enrland's protection.


Your own and the bondholder's tax.


Work Work Work


There are millions Of niggers TO feed,
And the cost Is hitched on with the bondholdcr's


claim,


And the sum cf New England's groci.


Tugl Toll Sweat


still harder than each day before;
It will go to keep niggcrs and bondholdcrs up
And the wolf away from the door


Work Work. Work.


From the dawn to tho dusk Of day.
For your hopes are crushed with aweight Of debt
That toll Of your life won't pay.


You gave your son to the war,
The rich man loaned bis gold;
And the rich mans son is happy to-day,
Aud yours is under the mould.


You did not think poor man.
You scarce believe when you're told
That the sum which the rich man loaned to the war,
Was the price for which you were sold.


Your son was as good ms his
And as dear, perhaps to you;
But yours died for his, and your daughter now
For his must wash and sew


Nay, do not pause to think,
Or sigh for your children or wife,
For your moments are mortgagcd to hopeless toll,
The rest Of your weary life.
Year: 1867

The above is the caption of a good
editorial in a late lumber Of the N. Y.
Observer, from which we are gratified
to learn that the editors of that pa
per have become protestants against
political preaching. We extract from
the article referred to, the following
truthful and sensible remarks:


"The moment that n suspicion of
the existence Of n predominant par
tisan or political feeling, on the part
Of the preacher, is excited in a Ger
tain class Of minds of opposite senti-
ments, his influence over them is ut
terly gone. The preacher himself
may conscientiously believe that he is
called to the lofty work of vindicating
the independent utterances Of the pull
pit, and he may brave strong adverse
influences in discharging what no ro-
CARDS as a sacred duty. But it would
be well for him TO consider what the
effect Of his words and course must
be on persons not predisposed in his
favor who may chance to hear him,
and who have souls to be saved or lost.
The interests of what are sometimes
spoken Of as political crises sink into
utter insignifcanee by the side Of
those vast issues which attend upon
the delivery of the solemn message of
heaven TO a guilty, dying race. We
are confident that there can be no
vindication of the dignity or authori-
w Of the pulpit to be compared to that
which is found in the faithful dis
charge of its sacred duties, in calling
men to repentance, and pointing their
trembling trust TO the Lamb Of God.
1t is a startling thought that there
are men who visit our sanctuaries,
and, having heard once, are disclined
to repeat the visit, because they feel
that they have been treated 90 a rilu-
alistic show, or been fed on political
or ormetaphysical rhetoric. Mutitudes
OF intelligent and even educated men,
who ought TO be found openly and
boldly on the side Of religion, are
abandoning our churches, and, al
though the leading cause of their with
drawal is one for which they are
alone responsible, it is to be feared
that, in some cases, there is only too
much ground for the reasons by which
they extcnuate the guilt of their neg
lect. To every church and to every
pastor it should be a serious question
how far is an unfaithful presenta
ton Of Gospel truth, or feeble exhib-
ition of his power, the occasion for so
sad resultg
Year: 1867

There is in this very city young
married woman who is very strongly
afflicted with q mania for initiating
the growing Of the morning cock
while in state of somnolenco. We
arc assured that at the hour appoint
ed by nature for chanticlcer TO fright.
en- away the midnight prowlers from
yawning graveyards, the fortunate
husband Of the "crowing wife, on the
first night Of his marriage, was rous
ed from Lis slumbers by most lusty
growing On opening his eyes what
was his astonishment to behold his
better half seated in the middle Of
the connubial couch of coniugal bliss,
tapping her wings and growing in a
most loud and clear voice, stretching
out her neck after the most approved
rooster fashion Thrice did she thus
"herald in the morn, and then sank
back and slept on. In the morning
he spoke 60 her about il, and was not
more surprised than amused to learn
that she had been born in the country
and that a favorite "Shanghai," " which
roasted with his feathered family in
the hen coop near the window OF the
maternal bed-chambor, frightened her
mother by his loud Growing, and thus
the child was marked" And ever
since-yes, even when babe lying in
the cradle she had been wont to awake
the echoes Of the coming dawn by i'm
itating aye rooster"-and still, each
morn She "haps her wings and crows.


As tho business Of the husband re-
quires him to rise very early, be ]:
rather pleased than otherwise to find
bis wife possessed Of this additional
accomplishment, which dispenses with
the necessity for an alarm clock
though having heard bis grandmother
say that the "crowing Of hen indi
Gated ill.luck, unless her head was i'm
modiately cut of, leis in some doubt
whether, in order to insure good for
tune to his household, he is in duty
bound to stop his wife's growing by
severing her musical throat. We ad-
wise him to let bis chen" crow on, Sc
long as she docs not peck him.


Some persons may question The
truth Of this remarkable incident, but
we can assure such that il is true in
every particular, and can be vouched
for by responsible parties who have
known the lady from infancy; and
the moral of it is, that ladies who do
not desire "crowing children" should
not sleep too near the hon-coop.
Year: 1867

READ AN Houx A DAY. There sre
many boys who will, We trust, b bsnc.
fited by reading the following anssdcss: i:
There was lad who, at fourteen, was
appSenticsd to . soap-boiler. One Of
his resolutions was to read an hour day,
or at least at that rate, and he had IN old
silver watch, left him by m uncle,
which he timed his reading by. He
stayed seven years With his master, and
said when he was twenty -one he knew
as much Us the young square did. Now,
let us see how much time he had to
read in seveu years. at the rite Of an
hour each day. It would all be 1885
hours, which, at the rate of eight reading
hours per day, would be equal to thres
hundred and ten days; equal to forty
five weeks; equal to twelve months:
nearly years reading. That time
spent In treasuring up useful knowledge
would pile up very large store. am
sure it Is worth trying for. Try what
you can. Begin now. In after years
yon will look back upon the task as tho
most pleasant and profitable you ever
performed.
Year: 1867

THE LAST HoUE.-But let me think
of the future. There will come to me
another hour which, like the present,
will be the last of all my earthly years.
The clock will sound it from the church
tower, when my failing ear can no long
err hear it, and those only who are
watching beside me count its strokes,
then my last minutes will begin, one by


one to depart. AS they go, this heart
which now beats strongly within me,
will grow more feeble, until the last
p;.lsation is given, and all is at rest
How happy then to feel, as the old life
is passing away, new, better, nobler
life is opening. Just as now it is pleas
ant to think that when the hour is gone,
and the whole of the year of 1867 is SEAL
ed up in the past, there is n new year
present with all its opportunities for
good, all its hours for communion with
Christ. and days to be given to the SER
vice of God, so after death there will be
new scene, an immortal existence,
through which my soul may move In
endless inconceivable joy, serving God
Year: 1867

DIR. Noyes, u fruit cultivator from
of the New York Farmers Club, and
was called upon to speak. He stated
that his residence was about fifty miles
below New Orleans, and his pursuit was
orange.growing. He. said this occupa-
ton was peculiarly profitable, as con-
tractors would give "a thousand dollars
per acre for fruit, were willing to pay in
advance, and would close n bargain as
soon as the trees were in blossom. The
doctor also gave sketch of the method
Of rice-raising, and that it was the most
profitable crop grown in that country.
After the rice il sown, it Is inundated
with water from the Mississippi river,
which is shut Off from the field when
the rice is ripe. The method of gather
ing is with sicEles, and it is threshed by
hand. One man could cultivate about
twelve acres, which would yield on an
average fifteen barrels of rice per acre,
and was worth about nine dollars per
barrel. The speaker said he had tried
to induce the people to use reapers to
gather the rice and threshing machines
to thrcsh it, but he was looked upon
with the same suspicion that all inno-
waters upon Old-eslablished customs and
occupations are, but he was confident
that these machines would be introduced
in that country in time.





| AN UNCOMFORTABLE THEORY. -
Apropos of the recent meteoric showers
and the explosions of steam boilers in
every part of the country, Professor
Loomis suggests very uncomfortable
theory in regard to the safety of the
earth itself. He thinks it not impossible
that sufficient steam might be generated
in the burning center of the world to
blow the whole globe to pieces. \ vol
canic eruption und dcr the sea, or near it,
like that Of Nesuyius now in progress,
may at any moment convert the earth
into huge steam boiler, by letting the
water in upon the central fires, to be
followed, for aught we know, by an ex-
plosion that shall END it apart and send
the fragments carening through space
as small planets O meteors each bear
ing off some Distracted member or men,
bers of the human family, to make, per-
chance, new discoveries and acauai,lt-
ances in other prts of the planetary
system now revolving with US. So that