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Year: 1867

As soon as a republic has coHpassed the
destruction Of those who wanted to subvsrt
it, there should be an end of examples, pun
ishments, and even of rewards


Great punishments, and consequently
great changes, cannot take place without in
vesting some citizens with too great power.
1t Is therefore more advisable in this case to
exceed IN lenity than IN sever ty; to Danish
but few rather than many; and to leave
t1em their estates, rather than to make a
great number of confscations Under pre-
tence of aveneing the republics cause, the
avengers would establish tyranny The
business is not to destroy the rebel, but the
rebellion. They ought to return as quick as
possible into the usual track Of government,
in which every one IS protected by the laws
and no one oppressed -H0ntcsguicui S
Spirit Of Lasvs


1t would be well for those modern States
meR{}) who arrogate so much of statecraft
to themselves, to ponder this sentiment,
taken from the writings of a close observer
of the rise AID fall Of nations, who wrote
and aourished during the middle of the,
eighteenth century. The above quotation
is peculiarly adapted to the present situa
ton Of our government, and might become
Of salutary benefit ia solving the great
problem Of reconstruction Let those whose
vindictire pride is urging retaliatory and
startling measures as the policy Of govern
ment be but guided by the superior wisdom
Of this sagacious President Of the Royal
Academy at Berlin, and we viii soon see a
better and more hopeful future dawn upon
our now PROSTATE and distracted country.
Year: 1867

How 10 BECOME R1Cu-Ll q H0rn.-BEy
more land and refuse to sell any to poor
white men employ negro labor; plant cot
ton and thus subject the product Of your
land to strangers figures; collect ali the
money you can and invest it in the erection
of shauties for thieying, idle negroes to live
in; drive out, by extortion, every mechanic
in the county, and eountenance only those
who cut tape sweep out stores or clean lamp
chimneysi never shake hands with a man
on Sunday without he sports gilt edge
book or sings by note Never les your boy
learn . trade.
Year: 1867

Is it better to pay out twenty-one and a
half millions annually out of the State for
the above named articles, or to keep that
amount at home and sell several millions
worth of additional articles to other States ?


Let US remember our material is abundant
and our 1oater pOtCer extraordinary 1t IS
equal to the best IN New England. Missouri
can never rival US as a manufacturing State,
for she has no water power comparable to
ours. This is an Invaluable item, for steam
cannot compete with water power, provided
by nature free of cost, IN cheapness.


Suppose that, by exemption from taxation
for term Of years, the Legislature could in
duee manu- facturers to settle among US, and
make twenty-one millions of dollars worth
of goods annually, would rot everybody say
at once: Make the experiment; you viii, IN
reality, add many millions TO the taxable
property of the State and increase her re-
sources p We know that manufacturers
will come here after while without encour-
agement. Perhaps in fifteen or twenty
years. But is it wise to wait SO long for
what we can get in a much shorter time
We urge every friend of Tennessee manu-
features to weigh this matter well and eX-
anime it in all its. bearings and
Times.
Year: 1867

Life is beautifully compared to fountain fed
by thousand streams, that perished if one is
dried 1t is a silver chord twisted with thou
sand strings that part assunder if one is broken.
Frail and thoughtless mortals are surrounded by
innumerable dangers, which make it much more
strange that they escape so long, than that they
all perish suddenly at last Wea encompassed
with accidents every day, to crush the moulding
tenement that we inhabit. The seeds of disease
are planted in our constitution by nature. The
earth and the atmosphere, whence we draw the
breath of life, is pregnant with death. Health
is made to operate it's own destruction The
food that nourishes contains the elements of
decay: the soul that animates it by vivifying
fire, tends to wearit out by its own action death
turks in ambush along our paths. Notwith-
standing this the truth so pal paby confirmed
by the daily examples before our eyes, how lit
tie do we lay it to the heart We see our
friends and neighbors perishing among us, but
how seldom does it occur to our thoughts that
our knell shall, perhaps give the next fruitless
warning to the world
Year: 1867

Geography and Astronomy may teach as
their lessons, but we shall not cease to speak of
heaven as above.


The mother who comes to her empty cradle
and picks up the tiny shoe, weeps, but amid
her tears looks aloft and says, My baby is up
yonder! AS she sees the stars which shine so
purely and softly in the blue dome, she thinks
Of the blue eyes which looks out from beyond
them-baby eyes yet bright with Immortality.
visions of glory CLEAN before him. He sees the
crown, the robe, the harp. He shall then study
IN Heavens own light-shall see and unfold
broad pages, upon which are inscribed lessons
he has long sought to learn. He sees an in
definite progression in that glory to be revealed.
Up yonderp says the grasping invalid, L
shall rest 0, blessed world / shall suffer no
more. In the pure air. in the sweet fields of
Eden, shall struggle no more for my life I
shall rest.


Up yonder!' said the aged pilgrim, as he
lifted his trembling hand-sup yonder,' and his
choked utterance could add no more The old
mans thoughts were busy with the past He
had outived his generation. His earl friends
had passed away his loved wife had gone from
his side; his children had crossed the Jordan,
and when he said up yonder, he saw by faith
where they stand, gathered near the throne, and
the thoughts of meeting them so soon was too
much-tOO full OF glory.


Hark It is child's reed like voice, up
yonder ! What is up yonder, little girl? My
mother They laid her body down in the grave
and the baby beside her, and since then / am
so lonely. have no home, sir, and no one to
love me, since my mother died, but they tell me
her spirit is up yonder and that l may 90 and
see her. Sir, will the Savior let me 90 soon?
Poor child Cursed be he who would tear from
thee thy precious faith! Yes-turn thy pale
face heaven-ward-soon it shall be said, up
yonder'-


Now the child has found its mother,


Now the mother finds her child


Up yonder shall the mini ster of Jesus find
the rest to which he hath pointed many an eye,
and turn the steps of many wanderer. There
shall he greet those saved through his labors
Sweet to him viii be the greeting ofod friends,
and angels will listen with delight to their recital
of earthly toll,
Year: 1867

FABLE FOR coLoRED CITIZENs-BY CHIPS.
A white polar bear on his snow throne was sitting
While great Northern Lights around scintila
He lick d his huge paws with a graveness beft-
The shoot of race that for ruling was fated.
He monarch of all he survey d-his dominion
Was certainly boundless, for Franklin and


Kane
Had endeavor'd to give to the world an opinion
AS to its extent O. 'er the land and the main.
A dark-mantled Bruin, just fresh from the South,
Where Jack Frost & Co. have no chance OF


success,
Came crawling along with a bone in his mouth,
"Make us free, potent king!" cried the black


tribes commissioner,
We've suffered in bondage and have long worn


our chains;
For the rights Of our race I'm an humble petit


toner,


Let as take the whip and you hold the reins. "
The white polar bear scratch his pate and look d


worried


He could notacknowledgeh his brother his equal.
And yet yet there was something in bondage 50 hor-
That action was needed to give it sequel
At length with grunt. and grin, and growl,
And scratching his tail-piece instead of his nod


die,
He said-''Y You re brother-but ftly and foul,
And cannot live out of your own dirty puddle.
Be equal to those of my tribe at the South,
Take the whip and the reins if you choose, and


be free;
But, blast your black skin don't you open your


mouth


About rights at the Norus-youre not equal


to mo.O
Year: 1867

ARTLEss SIMPLICITY of the sweetest
incidents which we have noticed for many a day
and one which shows the effect of early train
ing, assisted by pure and undefed imagina-
tion-has just fallen under our observation. 1t
is thus related:


A lady visited New York city and saw on the
side walk ragged, cold and hungry little girl,
gazing wistfulIy at some of the cakes in shop
window. She stopped, and taking the little one
by the hand, led her into the store Though
she was aware that bread might be better for
the cold child than cake, yet desiring to gratifo
the shivering and forlon one, she bought and
gave her the cake she wanted. She then took
her to another place, where she procured her a
shawl and other articles of comfort The grateful
little creature looked the benevolent lady full in
the face, and with artless simplicity, said; Are
you Gods wife Z? Did the most eloquent speak
er ever employ words to better advantage.
Year: 1867

EFFECT OF SORRow.-Human nature is made
of as malleable stuff as the precious metals.
Experience is the alchymist and sorrow the
crucible whereby the atomic brightness of souls
are accreted and annealed preparatory to receiv-
ing the attesting impress of perfected goodness
from the die of the Great Mnter. 1t is the
intensity of heat that whitens the mass, and the
single human soul, as well as the aggregate in
nations, are purified by struggle, so that their
garments are TO shine like snow and their raj
ments like wool. 1t is the tempest rocked tree
that strikes its roots most deeply; the dashing
and tumbng waters that sparkle with the
brightest purity and in the temptest's path,
marked perhaps by the ruins of the thunder
bolt, do the breezes bear the balm ofhealth up
on their wings. So in like manner is the human
soul taught to lean upon its God.
Year: 1867

In many instances the mechanism of modern
times is surprisingly minute. A matchmaker
in London presented his majesty George III.
with repeating watch set in a ring. Its size
was less than a silver two-pence; it contained
l25 different parts and weighed altogether
dwts, grs


Perhaps the most curious specimen of minute
workmanship ever constructed, was high
pressure engine made by watch maker in 1S45.
Each part was made according to scale; yet ii
with room to spare, and with the exception OF
the fly wheel, it might be covered with thin
blo
Year: 1867

Touch it not; too cold and white
1t lies in its dreamy, silent sleep,
Over the waters still and deep,
Still and deep and dark as night.
Touch it not, for well know,


Far away down deep below,
Its roots are tangled in the hair,
Golden and long like this you wear,)
Floating over a face as fair.


And as white and still and cold. ah me,
AS the voiceless flower reflected there,
Dreaming over the mystery.


Touch it not; for such are we;
Beautiful blossoms of Life, that grow
Der an unknown depth with roots that Ii,
Floating, but linked with secret tie
To beautiful death below.
Year: 1867

THE END OF THE WoRLD-To thousands
this is no fiction, no illusion of an overheated
imagination. Today. to morrow, every day, to
thousands the end Of the world is close at hand.
And why should we fear it? We walk here as
it were in the crypts of life ; al times, from the
great caora above us, we can hear the organ
and the chanting Of the choir we see the light
stream through the open door, when some
friend goes up before Us, and shall we fear to
mount the narrow staircase of the grave that
leads us out of this uncertain twilight into the
serene mansions of the life eternal?
Year: 1867

An enraged parent had jerked his provoking
son across his knee, and was operating on the
exposed portion Of the urchin's person with
great yehemence when the young one dug into
the parental legs with his venomous little teeth.


''B'azes what are you biting me for y


"WeIl, dad you beginned this here war
Year: 1867

might say, in letter which he had forwarded to the sec
re'ary from dublin That letter was as IS0Ms 1867


"sIR; have received with much gratitude your letter
dated the th ut expressing wish on te par % p ,te
Committee or the Working Glass Exhibitors OF le la
City OF London Exhibition, that would accept copy w
the medal distributed to the successful competitors ~ .
Guidhal shall feel much honOred by the git anu lne
value OF the memento will DE much enhanced by he spo
taneous Kindness which prompts the donation IL Is my
and II VIII then afford me great pleasure to receive 'o
Committee you propose. consider 1t great honor 10
lea as the distributor of your award medals and the per
feet success of the Exhibition which you presented to e
public in the Gudhall gave much satisfaction InaI
you should now, my return TO England present me
with this medal memeno Of that celebration In when
took part Is an additional and unexpected honor ac-
cep 1t in proof your belief my desire for the
true prosperity of the class TO which you most worthy
yancng power in this great commonwealth, the indus
trial classes may advance in moral and religious quail
British people. am, with great respect your obedlent
servant, GEORGE PEABODY


Mr. Peabody said he had not much to add to that be-
yond expressing again his sense OF the honor which he
workingmen Of London had done him. In his native
town in America there preparing an institution in
which would be collected the various gifts and testno
proud There would be the Queens portrait the Queens
letter. the gold box in which the freedom OF inc Cit OF
was being prepared in accordance with the Will OF me
Congress OF the United States and the testimonial whcn
he had that day received That gift with the others
would he satisfied in knowing, be carefully guarded
until it crumbled into dust lie was not skllful III tne
or nc might nave spoken AT
and more eloquenty. He trusted that his future lie
would be guided by the same principles which hau
marked the past and would meet with the approval OF
all.


Luncheon was then served Mr. Peabodys health being
proposed by the exLord Mayor and drank with great eli
thusiasm.


THE SEARCH FOR DIR. LIVINGSTONE.


We understand that on July 10, her Majesty's ship
Petrol received board at the Cape the expedition, un
der the command OF Mr.. Young which has undertaken
search for Dr. Livingstone his remains and that the
ship sail the evening OF the day for the
mouth of the Zambcs. On arriving there the various
sections Of the steel boat especially built at Chatham for
the OF the expedition viii be put together, and the
party will proceed up the river 10 the Shire and thence
as far as the Murchison Falls where the boat must be
taken pieces again and carried some 80 or 40 miles over
land There will then be a the Lake Nyassa
within 80 miles of the northern end Of which the spot
where Dr. Livingstone is alleged to have been murdered


lPall Mall Gazette.
Year: 1867

THE SUIT AGAINST GENERAL wooL.-In
the case OF Thomas K. Rich against Major
General John f. Wool, for false arrest and
imprisonment, in the United States District
Court, in Baltimore, the Jury yesterday brought
in a verdict for the plaintiff, but assessed the
damages at only one cent The Court decided
that each party must pay his own costs A
similar verdict was rendered in the case of A.
ID. Evans against General Wool.
Year: 1867

HIn view OF the possible return of the
cholera this summer, the Surgeon General,
through the War Department, has issued in
structions to medical officers requiring q
quarantine of observation" in all the depart
ments, for the prevention or extension of the
disease should IL appear.
Year: 1867

fully and impartially The law makes it the duty of
the district commander to that strict and impartial
justice is administered to persons of all classes and
conditions If this be done by the civil and judicial
officers of the State, the requirements of the law in
this regard will have been fully complied with and L
have no doubt that the military authorities would
greatly prefer that occasion should arise for their
direct nterposition for the enforcement of the law


Having written, this much in reference to our pot-
cal condition and prospects, hope to be excused for
appealing to people to apply themselves with
newed energy to their respective pursuits, Let there
be forebodings about the insecurity of property.
Let them assured that they will reap all the fruits
of their labor 1t should be remembered that there
is yet amount of suffering in the State ; and
this naturally suggests the necessity of producing
more grain and less cotton. None of US should
yield to dependency; but all should strive to
the State from its present material aud politicalde
preston. Very respectfully, R. NJ PATTON.
Year: 1867

The first Of cruelty to animals in this country,
under Mr.. Berghs law was in the Court of Sessions
Of Brooklyn. Hugh Sweeny was arraigned for cover
ing dog with turpentine and then setting him on Ere
Judge Dikeman gent him up for two months
Year: 1867

The rejection by the Senate Of such nomina-
tions as General Couch for Collector of Boston,
General Frank Blair for Minister to Austria,
and General Slocum as Naval Officer for this
port, has created very general feeling OF in-
dignation. These gentlemen are among the
bravest and most deserving of the officers who
gave their services towards putting down the
rebellion. General Couch distinguished him
self during Lees invasion Of Pennsylvania;
General Blair earned high military honors in
the West and South, and General Slocum served
ns division commander under Sherman in his
famous march to the sea and back through the
Carolinas. Now, the rejection of such men for
Offices demanding far inferior capacity to
theirs, and that In favor Of mere partisans, can
only be characterized as atrocious insolence.
The whole country feels insulted in the indig-
nifty offered them. This Is the worst thing that
the radicals have as yet attempted In Congress,
and they may rest assured that they win be
made to suffer for IL
Year: 1867

Msjor General Henry w. Slocum was named


by the President for the vacant position Of naval


officer Of tho port Of New York and the United


States Senate has refused to confirm this ad-


mirable nomination. General Slocum was


educated at West Point He went 10 the war


IS Colonel Of the Twenty-scventh regiment Of
New York Volunteers, and served in the battle


Of Bull run. Prompt thus to be present in


the first possible, battle, there was scarcely


afterwards great field on which the national


cause was to be upheld from which he wss


absent He went to the Peninsula with the
Army Of the Potomac and did heroic service
through AL that terribly destructive campaign.


He went through the memorable seven days
around Richmond. AT Crampton's Pass on the
South Mountain he stormed and carried by


assault rebel position on hill side, so rough
and of such difacult access that the men who
voted agains. him would probably refuse to
climb it in even these peaceful, pastoral days.
He was at The battle Of Antietam! He was at
the Charlottesville fight, commanding the
Twelfth corps, and when the Eleventh corps
broke Slocum's lines were what the enemy
found in their way, and what kept them from
sweeping like deluge down the rear of our
lines. There Slocum saved the army. Slocum
also commanded the Twelfth corps through the
glorious three days Of the Gettysburg battle;
and opposed Immediately all that magnificent
fighting by which the enemy endeavored TO-
turn the right-Gghting their way all along
bis front from Spangler's Spring to Cemetery
Hill. Slocum next went to the Western Army,
and did such efHcient service that when the
force was made up for Sherman's march from
Atlanta to the ses, he was given the COM
mand of one of the two columns into which
force was organised. Thus from
the first fight to the field Of Joe Johnsons sur
render Slocum was in the front line Of glorious
service. He was it for that service, but his
opinions do not suit certain United States
Senator's, and he cannot have once. Does not
he party that rejects such candidstes write its
own sentencei
Year: 1867

We hear Of number Of prcjecp for the
erection Of new theatres and the Improvement
Of existing ones, all more or less consequent
on the burning Of the Winter Garden. Fore
most among them is an enterprise started by
the veteran actor Hackett, who intends, in con-
junction with some ofour moneyed men, erecting
a first class temple Of the drama, in one OF our
fashionable centr,s. Messrs Stuart and Booth
are also exerting themselves to effect similar
combination. We know no two gentlemen


who are better calculated 10 plan theatre
Year: 1867

that win be a credit to tho metropolis. Barney


Williams has taken two Year, lease OF the


Broadway, and in addition to the improve


ment already effected BY Manager Wood has
In contemplation others which win contribute
greatly to the attractiveness Of that populer
establishment During the intervals when the
theatre win not be occupied for the particular
class Of entertainments in which he and his
talented wife appear it win bs devoted to high
clas comedy. All these projects indicate >
revival Of the Legitimate drama which has
been 20 long thrust aside for the imported In
decencies that have held possession Of our
boardA or another and not lees important
reform We have q reasonable prospect, and that
Is the better construction Of any new theatrical
establishments that may be erected. As regards
ventilation, comfortable seating and facility
Of egress In case Of FIRE, most Of the existing
theatres are Disgrace to the metropolis.
Year: 1867

The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Republican says: It is as- serted that of the S490,000,000 raised during the last fiscal year from customs and internal revenue, the south paid but little, except the cotton tax of $20,- 100000. Ifthat ommodity is to be re- lieved from taxation, the south will be virtually exempted from it's share of the common burden, caused by their rebel lion, while the northern states, whose interest is more diversified, will be compelled to bear nearly the whole fi- nancial weight of the government" It is hard case that burdens should be put upon backs strong enough to bear them. If the north is compelled to bear the financial weight of the govern ment, it is because the south is too weak to do it. We take it that the southern people will be "compelled" to bear their full share of this weight. We presume that the income of mer- chant doing business at the south will be taxed as much as income to an equal amount reported by northern mer- chant. So of all other taxes. We do not understand that licenses or stamps are any cheaper at the south than at the north, nor that a less per centage is ex- acted upon such manufactured articles as the south produces. No discrimina- tion in any respect that we ever heard of has been made in favor of the south in the matter of Playing the taxesthough in the matter of collecting the direct tax, there has been shown to the south by the government the same favor which is accorded to his debtor by a crediter, who, finding the man who owes him dead broke, refrains from dunning his debtor for the simple req son that he knows that the latter cant pay him. AS to the tax oh cotton, it may be worth while to remark that it is imposed on raw material, and is on that account exceptional. < No raw pro- duct of northern growth is thus taxed. -[ Missouri Republican.
Year: 1867

BThe New York Hearld says the question of the status of the Southern States lately in rebellion Is about to come before the United States Supreme Court for decision. A man named Jor- dan was recently brought before the Federal District court, sittin9'in Mont gomery, Alabama, on charge of felony, and having been found guilty, was sen- fenced by Judge Busteed to twenty-one ne years Imprisonment. His counsel have determined to apply to the Supreme Court for writ of HABEAs CORPUS, on the ground that Alabama is nota State, but territory, and as such Judge Bus teed s Districts court hadno legal status. The matter will thus be brought fairly and squarely before the learned judges of our highest judicial tribunal and if they will meet the question openly and render plain decision, we may expect a solution of what is now very com plicated political subject.