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Year: 1868

We learn from the N. Y. Herald
that very fine quality Of cotton Of
the new crop this year, has been
brought to the New York market
from Carol parish, Louisiana. It
was sold Immediately at As cents =
pound. 1t is called the Peeler cot
ton, and has a long, fine staple, ap-
preaching that Of the Sea Island
cotton. It is different product.
however. and, as it was grown in
the interior and in the great cotton
region Of the Mississippi valley. We
suppose it can be raised where any
of the ordinary staples are. Tho
Sea Island cotton can only be grown
within a short distance from the sea
and in a particular locality; the
supply, consequently is limited. If
the Peeler cotton should be cultlva-
ted it would make great change
in the market value Of the great
American product, and might revo.
lutionize the manufactures Of tho
world. This particular kind Of cot
ton was discovered threo or four
yesrs ago in an accidental manner.
Mr.. Peel, q planter in the Missis-
sippi valley, found among his ordi-
nary standing crop plant bearing
q much finer and longer staple than
the rest. He carefully saved the
seed, which he planted the next
year, the year after. and until he
had seed enough Of the new variety
to sell to his neighbors. Thus It
spread and acquired the name oi tho
Peoler cotton. No doubt it will DO
cultivated hereafter more extensive
ly, as it has realized such : high
price in the market.
Year: 1868

The facetious Watty Morrison, as
be was commonly called, was en-
treating the commanding officer ofa
regiment at Fort George to pardon
q poor fellow sent to the halberds.


The latter granted his request on
condition that Mr.. Morrison should
grant the first favor which he asked.
that being to perform the ceremony
Of baptism for young puppy. A
merry party of gentlemen were in
vited to she christening.


Mr.. Morrison desired Major
to hold up the dog.


LAS l am minister of the Kirk
Of Scotland" said he, II must pro-
ceed accordingly"


The officer replied that he desired
no more.


swell, then, Major" rejoined
the other, II begin with the usual
question, You acknowledge yourself
to bo the father Of this puppy?'"


The Major felt the force Of the Joke
and threw down the animal. Thus
did the witty minister turn the laugh
against the ensnarer, who intended
to deride the sacred ordinance.


On another occasion, when a
young officer scoffed at the parade of
study to which churchmen assigned
their right of remuneration for labor
and offered to take o bet that he
would preach half an hour upon q
verse or section Of q verse from any
part of scripture, Mr.. Morrison ae-
copied the wager and pointed out
the following words:


"And the ass opened his mouth
and spoke


The former, however, declined en-
ploying his eloquence on that pas
sage, and thereby put to confusion.
Year: 1868

from the N. Y. Commercial Bulletin.l


The railroad earnings Of August
and the early part Of September
were very large on most Of the Wcs-
tern roads, and some disappointment
seems to be felt that they are not
fully maintained. The course of tho
grain trade, however, seems to fur
nish very satisfactory reason for
the late decrease in the earnings Of
many Of the western roads when
compared with the corresponding
period last year. In the early au-
tumn of 1867 the price of grain was
very high, and farmers and grain
dealers at the West pushed forward
their produce to market with great
eagcrness, making tho freight re-
ceipts of the railroads unusually
heavy during that part Of the season.
At the present time, however, grain
is held back at the west for higher
prices, as may be seen by compar-
ing the weekly receipts at the prin.
ciple lake ports with the receipts
for the corresponding weeks ~ 1867,
from which it appears that for sew
cral weeks past there has been =
decrease from last year, although
the fact is generally conceded that
the grain product Of 1868 Largely
exceeds that Of 1867.


It seems to be . fair conclusion
from this state Of the grain market
that there will be large shipments
made to the Eastern markets later
in the season. The export demand
for grain will require larger guam
tity at the ports than can te sent
forward before the close Of naviga-
tion, and the natural result will be
that after the canals are closed the
railroads will do an unusually large
business in the transportation Of
-four and grain from the west to
New York.


The prospect of heavy receipts
from frei ght during the coming win
ter on the great through lines Of
railroad between Chicago and the
Atlantic coast is certainly very
good. The Michigan Southern.
Michigan Central. Lake Shore, New
York Central, Erie, Fort Wayne,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey Gem
trail Railroads will in all proba bility
have larger earnings from transpor.
tation of -four and grain the present
season than in any previous year.
Year: 1868

AN ELOQUENT ExrRAcr.-Gen.
Grafton after generation have felt as
we now feel, and thcir lives we're as
active as our own. They passed
like vapor, while nature wore the
same aspect Of beauty as when her
Creator commanded her to be. The
heavens shall be as bright over our
graves as they are around our paths.
The world will have the same at
fractions for our offsprings yet un-
born IS she had once for our an-
cestors. Yet . little while and all
will have happened. The throb-
bing heart will be stihed and all
will be at rest. Our funeral will
wind its way, and then we shall be
left aloae in silence and darkness
for the worms. And 1t may be, for
q short time we shall be spoken Of.


but the things Of life will creep in
our names will soon be forgotten.
Days will continue to move on. and
sorgs will bc heard in tho room in
Year: 1868

"And now," said Thornley,, after
his friends were ready to retire,
you have seen my sources Of pleas
ure. Every industrious man with
fair fortune may have the same,
though many may not 60 so far as
l have gone; but l speak in gener-
al terms. If 1 could only find pleas.
ure in the sports you tried to urge
upon me, you may be assured that
| would not only join in them, but
l should also pay my share of the
expenses cheerfully. But such
things have no real pleasure for me
not generally. Once in while l
love to sail, and I love social gath.
crings, but my fullest joy is here,
with my wife, my books, my music,
my pictures and garden. My home
is open to you whenever you wish to
join me IN my kind of pleasure, and
you may be sure you will ever be
warmly received. And one thing I
will tell you. I have subscribed
81, 900 to the new Atheneum in the
city, and whenever any Of you wish
to visit there and see the splendid
specimens Of art there collected, I
will give you a pass.''


The party had reached the veran-
dab on their way, but they hasitat-
ed, as though ething should yet
be said. At length James Pearce
said


cas- l commenced the discussion
which has led to this pleasant visit.
l ought to speak what think to be
the truth now. Tom, you are right.
Your pleasure is surely better than
ours, for it has more to it, and.
we'll may as we'll tell the truth a.
has more sense in it. I'll kevcr
find fault with you again; but one
thing !! will do will accept your
invitation to spend an occasional
evening here"


All agreed with Pearce and
when they turned to leave Thorn
ley's home they were wiser than be-
fore. They had learned what they
had not previously understood, and
that was that there was another
kind Of real pleasure besides that
which they followed. Argument
might never have convinced them
but one good look at their friends
home, and on understanding Of his
domestic arrangements opened their
eyes. Never again did they ask
Thomas Thornley, to accompany
them on any Of their scrapes, but
they did often visit him, and they
were not long in finding that an
evening spent beneath his roof, with
music. and sensible conversation,
and simple collation. of fruits and
nuts. was better by far than a wine
supper, with its boisterous laugh
and jest, and consequent depression
and headaches of the next morning.
Year: 1868

All about the new Meat Market on Mar


ket street. You will get meats put up in the
neatest possible manner as men of exper-
ience, and skill are running the machine.
Call and see them one and all, ano give
them share Of your patronage. [S4m6-9
Year: 1868

The celebrated apostrophe to water CIV
ell in one of John B. Coughs temperance
lectures is gem. 1t is said to have orig
mated with Texas baptist preacher. 1t
is somewhat modified as used by Mr..
Cough. Pouring IL goblet of water and
advancing towards his audience, and lift
ing it above his head, he said:


look at that, ye thirsty ones of earth
Behold it! Behold its purity! How it
glitters, as if mass of liquid gems! 1t
IL beverage that was brewed by the hand
of the Almighty himself! Not in simmer
ing still or smoking fires, choked with poi
sonous gases and surrounded by the stem
ches of sickening odors and rank corrup-
ton does our Father in Heaven prepare
the precious essence of life-the pure cold
water; but in the green glade and grassy
dell, where the deer wanders and the child
loves to play there God brews it; and
down in the deep valleys, where the foun-
tains murmur and the rills sing and high
upon the tall mountain tops, where the
storm clouds brood and the thunders
crash and away far out on the wide sea
where the hurricane howls music and the
big waves roll the chorus, sweeping the
march of God-thcre he brews it-that
beverage of life-health giving water-and
everywhere it is thing of beauty: glim-
mering in the dew drop, singing in the sum-
mer rain, shining in the ice gem-till the
trees all seem turned into living jewels !;
spreading golden veil over the setting
sun or white gauze around the midnight
moon, sporting in the cataract, sleeping
in the glaciers, dancing in the hail show
er; folding its bright curtain softly about
the windy world and weaving the many
-colored iris, that seraph's zone of the sky,
whose warp is the rain drops of earth.
whose woof is the sunbeam of heaven; all
checkered over the celestial flowers by the
mystic hand of reflection, still always it is
beautiful that blessed life water. No poi.
son bubbles on the beakers brim its
foam brings no sadness or murder
Year: 1868

EXTRACT FROM THE VISION OF MIRzA.-
We commend the following allegory by
Addison. 1t was first published in the
year I'LL, and it truthfully represents the
actual facts of u table of mortality:


1.-THE bridge thou seest," said he, ''is
human life consider it attcntively." Upon
a lAore leisurely survey of it found that
it consisted of three score and ten arches,
with several broken arches, which, added
to those that were entire, made up the num-
bef about one hundred. As was count
ing tite arches, the genius told me that
this bridge consisted at first of thousand
arches, but that great flood swept away
the rest, and left the bridge in the ruinous
condition now beheld it.


But tell me. further" said he, "what
thou dscoverest on it p Il see multitudes
of people passing over it," said I, land a
black cloud hanging on each end of it.
Is l looked more attentiyely, saw seve-
val Of the passengers dropping through the
bridge into the great tide that flowed un-
derneath it and, upon examination, per-
ceived that there were innumerable trap
doors that lay concealed in the bridge,
which Tue passengers no sooher Tou upon
but they fell through them into the tide,
and Immediately disappeared. These hid
den pitfalls were set very thick at the en-
trance of the bridge, so that throngs OF
people no sooner break through the cloud
but many of them fall into them. They
grew thinner toward the middle, but null
fiplied and laid closer together toward the
end of the arches that were entire. There
we're indeed some persons, but their num-
Rer was small, that continued a kind OF
hobbling march on the broken arches, but
fell through one after another, being quite
tired and spent with 50 long walk.


What beautiful picture of human lif,
as it exists and dies out in the present age
Year: 1868

Gov. Helm, of Kentucky, one Of the
Oldest and most highly esteemed public
men Of that State, died not long since
leaving will, in which was found tho fol.
lowing, after proper disposition had been
made therein Of his large estate. Az u
part Of his will, lie says:


''The South was conquered, but in my
firm conviction the North will sooner OF
later learn that they are the whipped
party. The race Of intellectual giants
has passed off the stage. The moral
tone Of tho people is gone; corruption
and vice rule the hour and the day. The
mass Of the whole people have lost conf.
dcncc in the rulers and the government
they place no reliance in its justice and
honor. This is melancholy picture.
But my mind is made up, that the future
Of this governments will have downward
tendency, and ultimately, aud at no very
distant day, will result in disintegration
or q central despotism. This is IN un.
seemly place to introduce my political
opinions. do it to solemnly impress
my family with my opinions, in the firm
hope that they will stand by tho form ol
government as it came from tho hands oil
our Revolutionary fathers, and oppose
modern reform"
Year: 1868

During our recent peregr.nations We
passed through large portion Of Lin
coin county, of which, before our fee,
had touched its soil. we had heard SO
much in its favor, as not only inviting
and pleasing to the eye Of a traveller on
. bright May morning, but of that class
Of noble men whose occupation is substa.
tum Of all other trades and professions =
the farmers. 1t is, indeed, o fine country
in any sense in which We may look at,
IFS soil cannot be surpassed. It's really
surprising to US that the people Of that
county do net feel q deeper interest in
building the proposed rock road from
Troy to Wentzvillo, as it would greatly
enhance the value of their already valua-
bic plantations, besides being very con.
yenient route over which to export thei.
products.


Having curiosity to sec the city Of
Troy, the county seat, We paid it bric
,visit also, and We must confess it does no.
present as good an appearance as we had
anticipated it would, but on the contrary,
it was collection Of the shabbiest old
dilapidstsd houses we have ever seen.
We are almost too extravagant, as there
are some beautiful private residences Just
Sever on tho hill," but it would


Make your heart Auttsr,


To look down in the gutter


In which the business portion Of Troy ID
situated. The people with whom We had
the pleasure Of becoming acquainted are
genial aad hospitable, associations with
whom will always leave . pleasing i'm.
preston On the mind Of the visiter.-
WeAtsvills News.
Year: 1868

Presenting IN brief space and few words the
current events elaborated and sensation sl-
iZed by the metropolitan press Our eX-
change list, procured at considerable eX-
pense, and embracing many Of the best
dailfes and weeklieS on the continent ena-
bIes ms to do this with facility.


The readers Of the Gazette will be kept so
intelIigentIy informed of the worlds week
" occurrences as to ind the foreign papers
matters of luxury rather than necessity
while at the same time they Will be AFFORD
ed the Home News which foreign papers
do not and cannot furnish. This is why
your home paper is Indispensable. Subscribe
for that first, and afterwards study whether
you can afford or whether 1t is necessary to


The Gazette viii not be filed up with
stale matter. 1t viii always contain the
latest and freshest articles on all subjects,
varied with interesting stories and other
choice reading for the family circle


Politically it will in the future as In the
past advocate national honesty, economy,
and the restoration OF the public credit to
coin basis in accordance with the approved
and settled principles of finance; and will
give its steadfast adherence to the principles
Of constitutional liberty, enunciated by the
founders of the Republic, and maintained
by the best blood of the nation.


The Gazette is one of the largest county
papers in the country, containing 81 large
colamns,) and gives as much reading matter
as, or more than, any paper in the stats, not
published in city larger than Delaware


With q view to extending Its usefulness
and as an inducement to our friends 10 aid
us in this regard we offer the following
Year: 1868

The Superintendent of Common Schools
has issued circular, addressed to the school
committees of the several towns, calling for
information respecting the text books used,
the cost, and frequency of change, and also
asking their advice respecting county super
vision and conventions. The answers to his
elaborate and ingenious series of questions
will furnish a body of information which will
enable the next Legislature to act intelligent
ly upon this important question. We have
no doubt that the confusion and costliness of
the present anarchic arrangement will so
fully appear in the statistics that the necessi-
ty of referring this matter to some compe-
tent board win become fully apparent


The board which undertakes such a. duty
must be so,organized of course as to command
the public confidence both in its capacity and
integrity. 1t must be entirely above suspi-
cion of collusion with publishers or Their
agents. In this respect the Governor and
Council would be an entirely satisfactory
body. But the Governor and Council are al
ready overbur dened, and it must be remem-
bered besides that they are not selected with
reference to their qualifications to decide up
on the merits of school books or systems of
education. 1t is necessary to have a body
not only of unimpeachable integrity but il
possible of trained judgment in this special
direction. Perhaps the Board of Agriculture
may serve as a model in this case. Why no:
| have Board of Education, composed of dele
gates elected by the County Associations o
| teachers? Such a board, the elect of the
very men who by their profession are COM
PEELED to give closest attention to the merits
of the various school books offered to the pub
lie, would deserve and receive the confidence
of the community. If the presidents of oul
three colleges were made er oticio members
| of the board, they would add to its character
and usefulness, and establish connection
between the colleges md common schools
which would doubtless be for the advantage
| of both.


| Mr.. johnson is entering upon the duties Of
his Office with zeal and energy which prom


Use excellent results. Besides the circular al.


ready mentioned, he has issued another to


teachers, inviting their cooperation and coun
sci, and exhorting them TO stand by tn
"Maine Normal" the town and county asso
citation, and the annual State convention
as the rallying points of the profession. 1t il
good advice and should be unhesitatingly ant
enersetically followed.
Year: 1868

What is greatly needed in State offices is
that there should be reduction made in
certain of the larger salaries, and that the
expensive sinecures, such as the offices of
Inspector General of Militia and Levee
Commissioner should be abolished There
Is no need of paying $4,000 to Lieutenant
Governor Dunn to preside over the senate,
and there are enough Others that will bear
cutting down.-TiTaeS.


It takes Democrat long time to find
out what he believes in. After having been
perfectly silent on the subject of sinecures
for more than year, our cotemporary now
goes in briskly for reform. We submit
there would be as much justice and pro-
priety in paying Lieutenant Governor Duan
his salary for presiding over the Senate as
there is in paying the present incumbent
for doing nothing at all. As for such
sinecures as the Adjutant and In
spector General, it is proposed to
make him earn his salary before spring
by organizing loyal militia. There viii
be no sinecures under the new State gov
ernment For the past sixteen months the
State Offices generally have been little else.
The Lieutenant Governor, Adjutant aud In
spector General, and superintendent of
Public Education have had no duties to per
form; while those of all the other State Of
fcers put together could have been attended
to by one man. And yet they all have
deputies who assist in doing nothing and
getting well paid for it. A short sermon on
ecouomy at an earlier day would have been
more becoming to our cotemporar US con-
sistenCy, however damaging il might have
been TO his pecuniary interests.
Year: 1868

PREPARING FOR THE MEETING OF THE LEGs
IsLArURE.-One of the legitimate results Of
the induction of the newly elected city off,
cials into office will be to create police
force hostile to reconstruction, and ready
to perform any act unfriendly to the new
Legislature which their partisan leaders
may propose. Is General Buchanan willing
to place the lives of the members of that
body in the peril incurred by the convenT
ton that met in July, 1866? We sincerely
hope he will give this subject his serious
attention.
Year: 1868

There will be large amount of money
used by the New Yorkers to influence the
Democratic Convention. Commenting on
this fact a New York journal says the dele
gates ''from the South are poor and open to
conviction This is certainly not very
complimentary to our chivalry. l
Year: 1868

- A colored youngster in Troy received
corporal punishment At the hands Of his an.
cestors, recently, because his kitten got its
head In the milk pitcher. The boy cut on the
head 10 save the pitcher, and then broke the
pitcher to get out the head.
Year: 1868

TIE TRIAL OF JOHN H. SURRArr, which
was yesterday postponed until Monday next,
rs not likely to come OFF then, as those who rep
resent the Government say that further time
will have to be granted them to prepare. II a
further request is made for postponement the
prisoner will be admitted to bail. The counsel
for the defence are having ninety-two wit
nesses summoned to testify in behalf of the
accused.
Year: 1868

THE TAX B1LL.-The House Of Representa-
tiyes, after considerable discussion, yesterday
adopted a resolution instructing the Commit.
teeof Ways and Means to report q special bill
relative 70 the tax on whiskey and tobacco. A
proposition to include mineral oils in the new
bill was rejected. The action Of the House
virtually pUstpones the consideration of the
Tax bill recently under discussion until the
December session. II is expected that the new
bill will receive the immediate attention Of the
House when reported
Year: 1868

out and all was darkness within. No sound but
her own aeitated breathing broke the death.like
silence Her conjectures were full of fears. She
knew not whether it was Victor or only his corpse,
over which she bent in an agony Of pity and a.
larm.
Year: 1868

CHURCHES IN LARGE CITIEs.-The Amer.
can Churchman, religious paper published
at Chicago, has the following on the subject
of the condition of the churches in our large
cities:


1t is fact of the gravest Importance to
the future of this country, that the bonds of
common religion does not exist. The
strongest of all the ties of social order has no
place among US. And this Is not only so
from the division of the people into sects,
but, what is far more serious, it is so at least,
from the division into social classes. No
longer among us is Christianity, even in the
vaguest and widest meaning Of the term,
common bond between the rich and the poor.
The census of our large cities betrays the
fact that, in the heart of each of them, there
is an enormus mass of practical heathenism |,
large population who are attendants on no
form of public worship whatever class
who are cut off from another class, not only
by the difference of wealth and culture So
cially, but who do not come in contact with
it even in religion. 1t is possible, in other
countries, where there is a large and controll-
ing common faith, Notwithstanding the wide
differences in all else, for cobber and a
prince 10 knel side by side, for duchess
and a seamstress to bend together at the
same communion rail.