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Year: 1864

A New York correspondent of the
Providence Journal, after describing
the preparations for the Metropolitan
Fair, proceeds to remark as follows:


In the midst Of this patriotic over-
flow of heart and pocket, there is also
seething current of extravagant folly
setting madly, it would seem, towards
ruin Teo much cannot be said or
written of this insane mania among us.
Where it will end heaven only knows.
During the series Of private concerts
and tableaux vivants, given for the
benefit of the fair, one Of our fashion
able ladies-formerly Boston BELLE
threw open her house on Madison
Square for masquerade party, not in
aid Of the Sanitary Fair, but in sheer
love of sensation and reckless expendi.
ture. No end of money was lavished.
The costumes were unique, dazzling and
gorgeous. Some of them, it is said, dis
gracefully wanting in modest grace and
womanly fitness but then when one is
masked, one can be oblivious to such
effects, I suppose. The distinguished
hostess herself, always fertile in expedi-
ents for outdoing the boldest leader
Of ton, on that patriotic occasion i'm
mortalized her genius, appearing before
her astonished guests with a coronal
of living jets! In the course OF the
entertainment, which was kept up until
six o'clock a. m.-breakfast being duly
servedto the revelers-the wearer of that
remarkable head dress, in most suave
and gracious manner, revealed the secret
of its success. Attached to her hoop
skirt was small gasometer, and con-
Meeting pipe, passing up between the
elaborate braids Of her back hair, secur-
ed the brilliant triumph, at the risk
of the wearer's life IF you are troubled
to believe the story /, | can only say,
,'but pity It's tbs true What shall
become Of nation in its ordeal hour,
if its womanhood finds nothing nobler
for use or adornment than buffoon's
arts Thank heaven, the womanhood
of our nation has risen in beauty and
power to the level of the nations need.
Year: 1864

A Rich MANS BEGINNING.-W When
Cornelius Vanderbilt was young man,
his mother gave him $50 of her savings
to buy small sail boat, and he engaged
in the business Of transporting market
gardening from Staten Island to New
York city. When the wind was not IA
vorable he would work his way over the
shoals by pushing the boat along by
poles, putting his own shoulder to the
pole, and was very sure to get his freight
into market in season. This energy al
ways gave him a command of full freights,
and he accumulated money. After a
while he began to build and run steam
boats; and he is now reputed to be
worth more than nineteen, millions of
dollars, after making the Government a
present, as a free gift, of a steamship
that cost 100000. -'.' II
Year: 1864

This morning while waiting at the
Post Office, our attention was attracted
by man in rather tattered attire, with
a woman's cap and bonnet upon his
head. His step was too firm and his
eye too clear to admit the idea of in
toxication. AS he approached several
gentlemen, he cracked large wagon
whip which he held, and cut a few an
tics exciting laugh in the crowd When
he observed the effect Of his conduct he
paused, threw back his bonnet and dis
played head nearly bald. and shelving
By the gray hair upon the temples, the
frost Of about fifty winters. #


"Do not laugh, gentlemen" said the
maniac, everything goes to the crack
Of a whip. The world would stand still
without it. When was a boy I was
whipped to school, and when there, the
lessons were whipped into me. Many a
scholar have | seen the whip make of a
dull fellow. As l grew up ciircumstan
ces whipped me into employment and
responsibilities. [ was married, had
children and means. But death and
misfortune whipped all off, and now fate
whips me alone round the world 'Tis
all to the crack Of a whip. You are all
scourged by the driver Time. He drives
you at a gallop along the road of life
whether you will or not You may
whip the devil around the stump, but
the devil will repay every lash tenfold.
Here we go / All to the crack of whip.
Patience, patience Better be whipped
by poverty, disgrace, bereavement t aye,
by madness, in this world, than by the


iends of hell in the next. Here we
gol All to the crack of awhip r'-and
suiting the action to the word, the crazy
philosopher went on his way.-Eincin-
hati E;rpress. hzaAh hs
Year: 1864

NEVER SULK.-Better draw, the cork
of your Indignation, and let il foam and
fume, than to wire it down to sour and
acrid within you. Sulks affect the liver,
and are still worse for the heart and
soul. Wrath hidden is as dangerous to
the moral health as suppressed small
pox to the animal system. Dissipateit
by rejecting on the mildness, humility,
and serenity of better men than your
SELF, suffering under. greater wrongs
than you have ever been called upon to
bear. 81 s4L .ss9z4 1s9#
Year: 1864

A GREAT COMET Predicted. The
following, says an English paper, is an
extract of letter just received from
Melbourne - Professor Ne#mager, on
a three years scientific visit from Bava-
ria, tells US that in 1866 comet shall
come so close as to endanger this our
earth and should it not attach itself
las one globule of quicksilver to anoth-
err nor annihilate US, the sight will


be most beautiful to behold. During
three nights we shall have no dark
ness; but be bathed in the brilliant light
of the blazing train"
Year: 1864

LAZY BoYs.--A lazy boy makes La
zy man just as sure as crooked sapling
makes crooked tree Who ever. yet
saw boy grow up in idleness, that did
not make shiftless vagabond when ne
become man, unless he had a fortune
left him to keep up appearances? The
great mass of thieves, paupers and GRIM
inals have come to what they are by be-
ing brought up in idleness. Those who
constitute the business part Of the
COMMUNICATIONS who make our great
and useful men-were taught 70 be ins
dustrious. III,
Year: 1864

The following from Jules Gerard
but six to nine miles is good way to
hear roar - faatf--a


"The very roar CT the lion in its
wild state-which, is music which the
most fastidious would deem worthy of
listening to-is truly magnificent. His
first note, when he commencessto roar,
is a low sound emitting from, the chest,
and nostrils, but is audible from great
distance. This is species of prelude,
and Immediately afterward It's repeat
ed ! but this time more loud and pro-
tracted, the jaws of the animal being
still closed, or the mouth but slightly
opened The third and fourth outbursts
are given to the air through the fully
extended jaws, and with the full force
of the lungs. To listen to this roar is
terrible for those who happen to be
crossing the monarch's path or to be
marching through the lonely forest. AT
length, after two or three more utter
ances of the kind, the animal ends as he
commenced, with less vigorous notes
The distance to which have been able
to trace the progress of the lion by his
roar, when there have been no contrary
winds and no mountains or other OBJ
jects to interrupt the sound, is two OF
three leagues but when heiroars about
league off, one who is not accustomed
TO the sound would believe him to be
close at hand
Year: 1864

p ERYsIPELAs.-A correspondent to
the Providence Journal says, that IN
ninety cases out Of every hundred,
cranberries applied to a poultice Will
cure the erysipelas. There is not an
instance e known where ithas not effected
a cure, when faithfully appiird before
the sufferer was in a dying state. Two
or three applications generally do the
work
Year: 1864

.sIJCCESS DESPERATELY NECESSARY"


The New York Herald" in All editorial on
the coming terrible campaign in Virginia"
says; =,


But five fsil in this campaign, that failure will
be ths greatest disaster in modern history
While it will not establish the existence of the
Southern Confederscy, it will proiract still more
this already desperate contest--put the end still
further away, AMI thus tend to rui Us tinGn-
cially, and throw US into state of anarchy from
which it is hardly possible TO conjecture how ~e
may come out. In view of the terrible evils that
may flow from such failure, it should be the
universal resolve of every man in the country
that nothing must be spared to insure ths sue
CESS Of this campaign, since success is 30 dsspe'
ratsly necessary.
Year: 1864

will not desert us in our need Firm ia our
faith that God will save our country, we
now dedicate this site to the memory Of
brave men, to loyalty, patriotism, and hon-
or. cloud applause.)
Year: 1864

youth and maturity arising from the baneful habits
Of self abuse. To which is added observations on
Female Diseases and other interesting matter of the ut
Importance the married and those contempt
marriage doubts OF their physical ability to
enter that state Sent to any address In sealed wrap
per, on receipt of ten cents or four stamps.


We devote entire time and attention to the treat
ment Of the various private Of In pr
vate report. Our Dspensary the only Institution efths
kind in America which has been established by special
charter and this fact should give preference the
various ouacks Of doubtful character 90 be foun in all
Year: 1864

Dr.. l., is visiting New Haven at reg ular monthly intervals, on account of numerous applications for treatment from parties residing in that city and vicinity. who arc unable to go to Now York for the indispensable personal 

 The practice ip New York does not suffer any interruption from this visit, as his brother, with whom he is associated in practice is there in constant attendance.
Year: 1864

SAID the New York Tribune, Nov. 26, 1860 :


"lf the cotton States unitedly and earnest
ly wish to withdraw peacefully from the
Union, we think they should and would be
allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel
them by force to remain would be contrary
to the principles enunciated in the immortal
Declaration of Independence, contrary to
the fundamental ideas ON whiche human
liberty is based"


Thisis the authority which nominated Mr..
Lincoln, and which more than any other
has influenced hisp policies. If, notwithstand-
ing this fact tits disputed that Mr.. Lincoln
did coincide with the sentiments expressed
in the extract, we invite attention to the
subjoined declaration made by him in Con-
gress during the Mexican war:


ANY people anywhere, being inclined
and having the power, have right to rise
up and shake off the existing government
and form new one that suits them better.
This is most sacred right, which we hope
and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is
this right confined to cases in which the
whole people of an existing government
may choose to exercise it. Any portion of
such people that can may revolutionize,
and make their own of so much of the
territory as they may inhabit. More than
this, majority of any portion of such
people may revolutionize, putting down a
minority, intermingled with or near about
them, who may opposeltheir movements"
Year: 1864

Another Yankee dodge for the protection of their
ecious carcasse has just been discovered by our boys
It consists in snail piece of looking glass, whcn is IN
geniousy attached to the stock, and scientifically ar
ranged 30 as to reflect the sights efany object com
ing within rapge With the assistance of this apara tus
they can place their guns through the head logs or
over the Notifications and shoot backwards as it wece.
without exposing any portion of their bodies


Our boys were first attracted by CONSTANT firing
from positions WHERE with tie utmost vigilance they
could not obtain glimpse OF the parties firing. In
the pockets of some prisoners captured few days
since, these glasses were found and the truth soon
flashed across the minds OF boys, who could thus
account for the singular glistening in the sunlight
which they had caught sight of from time to time
This is ahead of the breast plates!


Ertrnct from O. Litter TO Col Times
Year: 1864


arise, for the day is passing
While you lie dreaming on,
Your brothers are cased in armor,
And forth to the fight are gone;
Your place in the ranks awsits you
Each man has part to play
The past and the future are nothinx
In the face of the stern to-day.
Arise from your dreams Of the future
OF gaining a hard fought field,
OF storming the airy fortress,
Of bidding the gianI yield
Your. II ure has deeds of glory,
OF honor, (God grant it may y
But your arms will never be stronger,
Or needed as now-to-day.
Arise if the past detain you.
Her sunshine and storms forget,
No chains 30 unworthy to hold you
As those of vain regret.
Sad or bright, she is lifeiess ever,
Cast her phantom arms away,
Nor look back save 10 learn the lesson.
Of q no5ler strife to-day.
Arise for the hour is passing.
The sound that you diHly hear,
Is your enemy marching 70 battle
Rise rise for the foe is here
Stay lot to lighter your weapons,
Or The hour will strike at last,
And from dreams of coming battle,


1ou WILL Waken to hDd it past.
Year: 1864

QUEER S1M1LE.-The Chattanooga (Grin) Rel el says:


There was good story told some Of wo meI1-
too much water in their whisky On their home at
night they missed the bridge the canal in the da knes
and one of them slipped in He managed however, to get
hold of stick of timber and thus saved himself from d
ing. His conIade who known of the hes el-
she world, he did afterwards get to be Presd! Hs
looked about in vain for some means by which hs A.
could extricated from his perous and dsagreeabe t
uationa the time encouraging him with assurances nat
doing the best he couldfor him. Ha hoWeV er
finally compelled to abandon the idea of getting his freh
out in despair reluctantly Informed him that he wou
be compelled stey where he until morning. but that
as he could him cut he would do the next best
he could do which gat down in the and stay
with him and down he went into the water gentleman
who had Witnessed the whole affair Immediate went TO
their relief and got them out.


We were reminded of this anecdote by the late perform
apces of Gen. Soneman He started to lib his
Yanke officers at Camp Oglethope, but failing &c
get them OUT he has gene in the prison to hh he


to administer them such defeated
Yankee officer can give his brother in sf1iction.
Year: 1864

L


brilliant victory the result of that order We
pu blsh this patriotic brave seute hopeful that tho
authorities charge OF Mobile and its defences ay
profit by the noble AID glorious e1ampel
Year: 1864

A Mcclellan man in Providence paid the
penalty Of too implicit confidence in the sue
cess Of the democracy ON Saturday, by wheel
ing through the principal street barrow
containing juvenile negro waving the ma
tional ilag, and preceded by martial music.
Year: 1864

The total losses of the rebel Price in Mis-
souri, from the commencement Of the cam
paign at Pilot Knob down to the time when
he took refuge in the eastern part OF Kansas.
on the 2eth ult., are estimated at over three
thousand seven hundred in killed and wound
ed and about three thousand in prisoners
The entire Union loss during the same time
was sixteen hundred
Year: 1864




MR. EDIToR.-Tte article which came out
in your paper Of late issue, under the head
Of "Copperhead trick in Calais" was
simply an exaggerated falsehood. adulterated
with sprinklings Of truths. wish fully to
explain. In the first place, the honorable
member Of VI Legislature from the north
east corner town of this county, who wro e
The article, says the votes for electors were
sent to the town committee. This Is partial
ly true, perhaps, but as it would be under.
stood, is really untrue. There was pack
aye sent to this Office directed to ]. S. Whee-
lock, who is one Of the republican town COM
mittee, but whose post office address is r..
Calais.


End He stated that they were called for by
the committee both before and after election,
this is untrue, as neither Mr.. Wheelock or
any other person has ever called for them to
this day. When they we're received here
they were placed where such matter is always
kept, and has been there ever since being
nothing on the wrapper to designate them,
other than the private property Of said Whee-
lock, hence can any one justly charge the
Postmaster with embezzling said votes.


Sd. We hope that the honorable member
will be SO chary in mis- future ebultions o.
talent with the pen, that he will not COM
promise himself by causing to be published, +,
so extensive libel against those who feel
confident Of managing the affairs placed under
their control, and are responsible therefor.


Is it not strange that man so far removed
from the Transaction which he falsely reports
so 30 be, should stoop or even dare to circu-
late such libels against any person who has
for 30 many years been so highly respected
for his strict regard Of law and order as the
p. M. at Calais ut rather attend to his
own legitimate business and If the affairs Of
the P. o. at Calais. need investigation, let
those in its own vicinity VINO know about
matter investigate it


J. Ii. McLoUD,


OH ID n oil. ",
Year: 1864

WITT
NoTE.-We have authority from the gen.
tleman who wrote the previous article to state
that he was informed by one of the Town
and is ready to vouch for the entire truth Of
the former article.
Year: 1864

A deaf and dumb lad eighteen yearsof age,
Jacob Zimmers. pupil in the Toronto (Can.
ada) Deaf and Dumb Institute, has confessed
to the murder Of little gill eight years Of
age. and he was so ignorant that the Court
could not put him on trial. He did not appear
TO be conscious Of the enormity Of his eriue.
and pointed out voluntarily the place where the
body Of che child lay.
Year: 1864

General Butler, at the outset Of this Of
this war, in the preliminary engagements
was private In the ranks of jeff Davia-
1t is believed that this is the ouly instance
in the worlds history where man COM
N enced as private on ono side and rose to
the rank of general on the other without
fighting a single bait le.
Year: 1864

The tongue blessing God without the
heart is but tinkling cymbal; the heart
blessing God without the tongue is sweet
hnt still uausic; both in concert make that
harmony which fills and delights heaven
and earth.
Year: 1864

Republic paper says: we see the
hand of Providence in the REORGANIZATION
of Mr.. Lincoln But people who have q
great deal better vision than you, see the
cloven foot of Satan in it.
Year: 1864

4AG 4ICdCuS1 duu Tic 46dcu6T.


Martin Luther said if he would cult
preaching his first employment would be
teaching boys.


Martin Luther was a strong, energetic
character, and doubtless was in his proper
position as a preacher and reformer; and as
such had strong feeling of the relation
between his mission as a preacher and that
of true spirited teacher. With him the
connection was close; his object in either
case being the good of immortal beings.


Man is born into the world the most
helpless of all the animal creation, and if
LEFT to himself must soon perish, as he is
unable to attend to his smallest wants
And yet, though he is thus helpless, he is
endowed with capacities which, when prop.
erly developed, make him infinitely supe.
rlor to all the other animal creation. But
the faculties will not of themselves grow
and strengthen into this superior being:
1t neglected they seldom raise him much
above the brute creation: Hence to bring
him to his proper place in the scale of ex,
istence, he must not be left to neglect, must
be cared for


Besides those whom nature has placed
over him, the minister and teacher have
each his part to perform. Now the minis
ter, as l conceive it, though he may and
does, in some measure, directly on the
hearts and minds of children, must operate
principally through the parents, while the
teacher may do the same; and also, as he
is more Immediately in contact with their
minds and hearts, can bring his influence
to bear more directly upon them. Thus
while the minister must wait till they are
somewhat developed before he can instruct
them from the pulpit, the treacher has the
first chance at their infant minds


Now if they work together this is all
the better. Hence think it would be
proper for ministers to visit school occasion
ally, and learn the ways and conduct of
teachers and pupils. They might both
teach and learn by such occasional visits.
Year: 1864

AN extraordinary affair lately occurred
in the town Of Orel, in Russia, A great
local land owner had large sum FORTY
three thousand silver roubles) to receive
through the police Office of that town On
applying for the amount he was told that
the money could not be handed over to him
unless he presented the Office with FIVE
thousand silver roubles He refused, and
Immediately reported the case to ST. Pc
tersburg, and the money was paid over to
him. But on the evening of the same
day, as he was quietly smoking in his study,
loud ring was heard at the bell The
servant on opening the door, was instantly
pinioned, and tour men, their faces covered
with black Grape, rushed into the room and
told him he must hand over his forty three
thousand roubles. With the greatest COOL
ness he went over to his strong box, opened
it, seized revolver which was laid on the
top shelf, and shot two Of the robbers dead,
and the other two Immediately taking to
their heels. On the Grape being removed
from the faces of the dead men they were
recognized as the head of the police and
his secretary.
Year: 1864




To Keep Tires on Wheels Hear what
practical man says on this subject I" [
lroned wagon some years ago for my own
use, and before putting on the tires | filled
the felloes with lnseed oil and the tires
have worn out and were never loose. I
ironed buggy for my own use seven years
ago, and the tires are as tight now as when
they were put on. ....sr


My method of filling the felloes with oil
is as follows: | use a long cast iron oil
heater, made for the purpose the oil is
brought to a boiling heat, the wheel is
placed on stick so as to hang in the oil
each felly an hour for common sized fel-
ly. The timber should be dry, as wet tim
ber will not take OIL Care should be Ia
ken that the oil be not made hotter than
boiling heat, in order that the timber be
not burnt. Timber filed with oil is not
susceptible to water and is much more du-
rable. | was amused some years ago, when
| told blacksmith how to keep tires tight
on wheels, at his telling me it was profit
able business to tighten tires, and the wa
gou maker will say it is profitable to make
and repair wheels-but what will the far
mer, who supports the wheelwright and
smith, say ?"
Year: 1864

We have often written in behalf of toads;
we are glad to see them hopping around
our garden in large numbers, and have
paid boys for bringing them in there in
baskets, by the hundred, as insect des-
troyers. A friend connected with the
United States Sanitary Commission relates
for the American Agriculturist, the follow.
ing incident which he witnessed, that ex-
hibits Mr. or Mrs. Toad in new character:
A number of wounded from the battle of
Petersburg were lying in hospital tent,
among whom was negro whose leg had
been taken off. He was on a mattress on
the ground, and the weather being hot, the
dressed stump of his leg was exposed, and
a swarm Of flies were settling upon it.
Presently large toad hoped into the tent,
and taking his station near the edge of the
bed began "gobbling" up the blue bottles
in "double quick" The moment one
alighted within six inches of the spot, he
would square himself for the attack, his
eyes twinkling with excitement, and then
with fash of his tongue and smack of
his mouth, the unlucky insect would dis
appear. The boy was asleep when this
commenced, but soon awoke, and was at
first frightened at the "ugly toad" so near
him; but orr friend bade him be quiet,
and pointed out the service the creature
was rendering, when the negro and all
present voted him a member of the Com
mission, with many thanks, and he and
his kindred were at once in high favor.