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Year: 1868




Ii is said that the market is overstocked
with men seeking employment, and yet
there is always a demand for intelligent. re-
liable, and energetic men to fll places Of
trust and position. But they must be
members not only Of the genus homo, but
of the species 'Utr for such there are al
ways open places waiting to be filed. Hen
ry Ward Beeeher thus describes the sort
which are wanted


Who are the men that are needed in this
worldl Young men that shall bear bur
dens. We have enough mullen stalks, we
want oak trees We have enough mush-
rooms, we want TIMBER We have enough
men that are willing TO do anything for the
sake OF getting along, but what are they
WORTH They arc bridges for men to walk
over. They are tools. Men use them like
sand paper, to scour with, and then throw
them down and trample them under foot.
A young man that does not know how to
say No. = young man that has not power
to resist the cup when 1t IS presented to
hIm-what Is he but poor miserable wash
CLOTH but rag, dishonored, and put TO the
Tilest uses2 Who cares for him, or mourns
over him, but some Christian mother or
Christian minister2 But a young man that
knows how TO say mo" that knows how
to resist evil; that knows how to give buffet
for temptation-is not he hardening him
self2 Is not he making his bones tough
particularly his backbones? He IS beeom-
ing columnar And it IS such as he that
are sought after in business 4 man says,
Here Is a difficult department in my es-
tablishment, and | would pay almost any
price If | could find a man that | could
trust. Says the man whom he addresses,
Il know an impraeticable sort of fellow /
think might suit you He viii stick towhat
he thinks is right at all hazards. You can
not turn him from it by any power on
earth. Says the other man, / want
ignumvite man; send him TO me Let it
once be known that mar cannot be cajol-
ed; that he viii not lie even for himself that
be viii not steal, and has prejudice against
stealing; let it De known that he has been
tried and that there is inward principle in
him, aud let US put him up at auction, and
| viii get million bid on him. Men are
the things that are most needed in New
York Why, there is no timber in the
market that is gathered up so greedily as
they are. There is nothing 50 much needed
in business, in all departments of it, as
moral principle And yet merchants will
teach young men to lie; and, for the sake Of
monetary profit cajole customers. And
when, by-and-by, these young men grow up,
they become on their own account, filchers,
steaiers, and liars. You think that the
young men Of this generation are corrupt
and worthless. They arc; but the blame
rests on your shoulders. You we're their
sehoolmasters. You taught them tolie and
cheat in your interest; and now they do it
in their OVID Now your own chickens
come home to roost. Merchants North and
South have been raising by the wholesale,
damnable young men without principle.
And a young man if he would save himself
from destruction, must cling to that an
Choir of the soul, both sure and steadfast,


which entereth into that within the veil. F"
-NOJnlng else can insure MIN safety.
Year: 1868

Why WE SHAKE HANDS AND KIss.-A
learned Theban gives US the solution of this
frequently coDiectured problem. In the first
place tits a very old-fashioned way of findicat-
ing friendship. Jehu said to Jehonadad:
Is thine heart right as my heart is with
thine heart? Ifi be, give me thine hand. :"
Ii is not merely an old fashioned custom; it
is a strictly natural one, and as usual in
such cases, we may find physiological rea-
son If we only take pains to search for it.
The animals cultivate friendship by the sense
of touch as well as by the sense of hearing
and sight; and for this purpose they employ
the most sensitive parts of their bodies.
They rub their noses together or lick one
another with their tongues. Now, the hand
Is a part of the human body in which the
sense of touch is highly developed; and after
the manner of animals, we not only ike to
see and hear our friend, we also like to
touch him, and promote the kindly feelings
BY abs aentanf apa -aoir,-noal z,raees=e 7f tha
sensitive hands. Observe, too, how this
principle is illustrated BY another of our
modes Of greeting. When we wish to de-
termine whether substance be perfectly
smooth, and are not quite satisfied with the
information conveyed by the fingers, we ap-
ply it to the mouth.
Year: 1868

Dr.. SAMUEL JOHNSON was much attach
ed to a young man-an intelligent Italian.
As the Doctor lay upon the couch from
which he never rose up, he called his young
friend to him and tenderly and solemnly
said; There is no one who has shown me
more attention than you have done; and it
is now right you should claim attention
from me- You are young man, and are
to struggle through life; you are in profes-
sion that I dare say you will exercise with
great fidelity and innocence; but let me ex-
hort you always to think Of my situation
which must one day be yours-always re-
member that life is short, and that eternity
never ends.
Year: 1868

NEWSPAPER LAWS. .-Postmasters are
required to give notice by letter, when a
subscriber does not take his paper from the
Office and give the reasons for its not being
taken. Neglecting to do SO makes the post
master responsible to the publisher for the
payment.


ANY person who takes paper regularly
from the post Office, whether he has sub
scribed or not, is responsible for the sub
scription.


A person ordering his paper to be discon-
tinued must pay all arrearages, or the pub
Usher may continue to send it until payment
is made, and collect the whole amount
whether If is taken out of the Office or not.


The courts have decided that refusing to
take newspapers and periodicals from the
post Office, or removing and leaving them
unealled for, is pripla facie evidence of in
tentional fraud.
Year: 1868

AN EDITOR TIGHT.-We believe it is
rare that editors indulge in drop, but when
they do, their readers are sure to find them
out. 4 cotemporary was called upon to re-
cord melancholy event at time when
his head was rather heavy, and did it up
after the following manner:


Yesterday morning, at clock, 2. NJ,
a man with heel on the hole of his stock
ing, committed arsenic by swallowing dose
of suicide. The inquest of the verdict, re-
turned jury that the deceased came TO the
facts in accordance with his death. He
leaves a child and six small wives to lament
the end of his untimely loss. In death We
are in the midst Of life. F"
Year: 1868

FREsH SHAD.-Shad are being caught in
tolerable abundance by the gill net fisher
men About five thousand were brought to
Washington during the few warm days of
last week. They were sold to first hands at
from S25 to $50 per hundred. Our mar
kets have been well supplied with these
superb fish from rivers farther south. In a
few days, if the warm weather prevails, we
may welcome our ownDelaware shad, which,
as every housekeeper knows, are vastly su-
perior to those from the South. The season
for large supply viii be much delayed, this
spring, in consequence of the coldness of the
water caused by the immense quantity Of
snow still to be found in the mountains near
the head waters of the Delaware. A few
were caught last week and soldat from 3 so
to 81. rs each. Philadelphia Eueliag Star
Year: 1868

The LANGUAGE OF THE EYEs.-It
has often been said that woman with
a hazel eye never elopes from her hus-
band, never chats scandal, never sacri-
fees her husbands comfort for her own,
never finds fault, never talks too much
or too little, and is always an entertain.
ing agreeable and lovely companion
ave never knew" said a brother quill
driver, "but one uninteresting and un-
amiable woman with a hazel eye, and
she had a nose which looked, as the
Yankee says, like the sharp end Of
nothing Whitfield down to a point" y
The gray eye is the sign of shrewdness
and talent. Great thinkers and cap
tains have it. In women it indicates a
better head than heart. The dark hazel
is nobler in significance as in beauty.
The blue eye admirable, but feeble
The black eye! Look out for the wife
with black eye! Such can te seen al
most daily at the police Office, generally
with a complaint against the husband
for assault and battery.
Year: 1868

The Aboltionists have been telling
us, for half century, Of the degrade
ton and bestiality ofthe negro through
the baneful influence of the oppression
of slavery. But no sooner has slavery
been abolished than these same philan.
thropists contend that tho degraded,
bestialized subject Of it is fiji 10 sit upon
juries, to exercise the elective franchise,
to take his seat in State or National
Legislature, and to discharge all the
high and responsible duties of intelli-
gent manhood. Now there is an incon-
sistency somewhere. Either the tales
of cruelty and atrocity were not true,
or the negro is in the degraded condi-
ton he was represented to be in. The
Abolitionists were either liars before
emancipation or they are knaves since.
The negro is degraded or he is not de-
graded. If the former, it is wrong and
wicked to clothe him with the privileg C
which should only belong to worth and
intelligence. II the latter, then the
thrilling tales of cruelty, which have
been poured out from pulpit and press
for half a century, have been deliberate
falsehOods.


This is the present dilemma of the
party of great moral ideas. They have
either to write themselves down as II
ars or fools. Impartial History will
probably not be embarrassed by this
difficulty and will rank them with both
classes!
Year: 1868

The. Old Guard says: "The Mongrel
traitors to the government formed by
our forefathers have murdered more
than million of men in perpetratinq
the monstrous crime of turning this
government from one of conss Mt into
one of force. Onr doctrine is, that this
government must be restored to the
free basis of consent, or self-govcrn-
ment; and, therefore, that all which has
been done by the force principle must
be repudiated and utterly wiped OUT
There is no other road back to the I'm


ion that dates from Washington's time.
The man who talks of restoring the Un
ion without utterly ignoring oil that the
coercive and despotic principle of the
war has done, certainly needs q new
head as we'll as new heart. If we are
not permitted to say that such man Is
a knavs, we must be allowed to think
him a fool. Are these hard words ?
But are they not true2 Who will, who
dare, attempt to reconcile the coercive
principle of military rule with the free.
dom of States9 a,
Year: 1868

The Rump Congress refused to adj
journ over one day as mark of re
spect for the memory of Washington,
and even refused to have his Farewell
Address read on the 22d of February.
There is nothing surprising in this in
famous disrespcct of the great Rebel of
the Revolution which resulted in the
independence Of the Thirteen Colonies.


Seeing that they will not even recog-
nize as a State in the Union old Vir-
ginia, which gave him birth, and in
whose soil his ashes now repose,-it
can hardly be expected of them, to join
with the people elsewhere, in honoring
his birthday. 1t is best for them to be
consistent in this, as in other things, all
the way through.
Year: 1868

As Gen. Sherman's name has been
brought into the controversy between
the President and General Grant, it may
not be amiss to state that the President
is in receipt of letter from General
Sherman, which is understood to have
this paragraph in it "If Stanton won't
resign, and there is no other way Of
getting rid of him, vlterior measures
should be resorted to-" This letter,
together with one other Of very i'm
pOrtant character, may reach the pub
lie eye If the unfortunate controversy is
pressed any further.
Year: 1868

The New York Express ola late date
says that boy in that great city, where
100000 men are ready at a moments
call from Andrew johnson, was trying
the other day to sell small American
flags on the street; but people passed
him by as if they had no use for the ar
ticle. What, indeed, is the use offs flag
without government to sustain it?
Year: 1868

A correspondent of tho New York
Express, formerly an old Wing, down
in Louisiana, writes to that paper as
follows:


"We have been wondering for IS
months past how the Northern people
have managed to keep SO quiet in view
or what Is passing before their eyes.
they must know that the chains forged
for ten Of the States will lust as easily
| fit the limbs of the other twenty-six.-
power that Is daringly adequate to
strike down local government In tho
great expansc Of territory that reaches
from the Potomac to the Bio Grande,
is certainly able to rcpeat it north of
the Potomac and west Of the Ohio. Tho
Northern people thus see and feel the
gradual approach of an alarming and
despotic changein their form of gov
ernment, and except in the protests of
the press and from the lips of public
speakers, we witness no signs Of tho
spirit of resistance which the audacity
ofthe attempt and the peril of its sue.
cess, would seem naturally to provoke"
10 which the Express responds Pa
tience, patience, good friends The
stiffness which is brooding over tho
North is not apathy, is not Indifference,
is not submission to usurpation, or
tyranny,-but the calm that heralds in
the storm. The great heart of the Peo- p
pie for the moment is too full for ut.
terancc.--but the time is near Mt hand
when the Tyrants and Traitors, who
are now tearing down the Temple of
Liberty by piecemeal, will be summon
ed by them to account--bcfore the
chains that are preparing for them can
be put on their limbs. The govern
ment, which these sappers and miners
are now cndeavoring to upset was cre-
ated by the People, for the People, and
BY the People it will be maintained at
whatever hazard, and at whatever cost
The SERVANTS Of the people may assume
to be their MAsrERs,-but wo to all
such assumptions and all such betrayals
O.: trust, when the day Of settlement
comes.
Year: 1868

We saw three lovely young ladies
upon our streets the other day. One
had on long dress that trailed in the
dirt Another had on q dress that
lacked some 4 inches of touching the
ground, and though it gave her girl
ish appearance, it was remarked by sew
eral bystanders that the short dress
was. decidedly the most appropriate,
least cumbersome and most attractive
for the street. We thought so too.
Year: 1868

The season is now at hand for making
these fermented beverages, which are
highly priced in many households.
One recipe will answer for all:


TO a quart OF juice from these fruits,
add three pounds of white sugar, melt
by very gentle heat, pour into a keg
or glass vessel, and add water enough to
make gallon. Left to itself, fermenta-
soon begins, consequently the vessel
must not be full, or it will foam over and
waste. After fermentation is over fill
up with more of the same liquor, and
leave it tightly corked up till spring.
About the time the buds begin to start,
all new wine commences working"
consequently just before that, it must
be racked off into clean vessels and
again corked up tightly. Many persons
imagine wines of this kind ferment bet
ter in wood than in glass. Perhaps
this is so. Every vessel of the kind
must be scrupulously clean. Wash
well with water and soda, and then set
on fire a small piece Of cotton rag dipped
in birthstone tied to a twine and let it
burn in the keg or barrel, which must
be rinsed out with clean water again.
This is called 'stumming' by the wine
makers.


Fruit wines are very invigorating to
many, and, when we'll made, are excel
lent. it is supposed that much of the
champagne wine is made of strawber-
ries, the two resemble each other so
much. But very probably most of the
former is made from material much
cheaper than this fruit
Year: 1868

The total eclipse of the sun which is to
take place on the 18th of August next,
Is already exciting unusual interest
among the astronomers, in consequence
of the long period of darkness which it
will occasion. A line drawn on the


map from Alden across Hindustan, and
away to the southern coast of New
Guinea, will represent pretty accurately
the line Of total obscurity. 1t so hap
pens that on the day above named the
moon will be almost Mt its nearest to the
earth, and the sun at its furthest from
the earth, consequently, the moon will


hide the sun 80 completely that the du-
ration of the total darkness will be
nearly seven minutes. This Is SO rare n
phenomenon that Ill Interested in cosmi-
cal science are earnestly desirous of get
ting all they can ont Of 1t bv observa-
ton. Foremost among them, the ROYAL
Society have taken such measures that,
If the weather be only favorable at the
time and place Of observation, most sat
isGactory results will be obtained. They
have sent out to India u number of
newly constructed instruments-tele-
scopes, spectroscopes, prisms, actinome-
ters, and Others, by which all the phe-
nomena Of an eclipse may be well
observed and rs the observers will be
some of the most skillful Of the officers
employed on the great trigonometrical
survey OF India, we may hope that the
highly important questions involved in
the phenomenon will be cleared Of their
present uncertasnty. If the southwest
monsoon, which will then be blowing,
will only leave the sky clear at the place
of observation, We shall by Christmas
next know more about the sun and its
Light and atmosphere than hitherto.
Year: 1868

1t is the general custom in Berne, says
Swiss writer, that the lovers father
should play the wooer to tile parents of
the bride. He frequently goes to them
and says: "My lad likes your daughter,
suppose you have nothing much
against it, and that it will suit you?" Or
sometimes he goes in more elaborate
fashion, as is the case of the father who
knocked one evening late at window,
begged tho old people to look out, and
then began: Is Gods will that my
Year: 1868

The meeting that vas postponed until to-
morrow to wait the action Of the Directors
~lll probably take place at the appointed
time and place, when some further and
more definite plan Of action will be decided
upon.
Year: 1868




The Republican ticket, headed by Gen.
Grant, seconded by Colfsx, is a strong
ticket; the platform upon which they
are placed is conveniently evasive and
withal as elastic as India rubber. 1t
means, on the great financial issue,
greenbacks or gold, as Congress may
hereafter determine; and il means q
qualified or universal negro suffrage,
according to the market to be supplied.
How the Democracy are to fight this
ticket and platform it is for their wise
heads to determine between this and the
4th of July.


The ticket is like tadpole. Grant is
the head and belly and Colfax is the tail.
The relative dimensions OF the two are
very much as between those parts Of the
incipient frog.
Year: 1868

operator, can for sufficient cause with
draw by resembling the compact, then
all these consequences of its union with
the others cease. That it can not with
draw in an extreme case, when there is
no other remedy left, and the Constitu-
ton and its own rights are grossly vio-
lated, Judge Hunter indeed asserts, but
does not attempt to prove, 1t would be
far more satisfactory, If he would conds-
scend to consider the arguments on the
other side, which he does not even notice


As an attempt " to supply great pub
lie want" as an exhaustive or even able
defence of Webster's theory of the Con-
stitution snd7Government, the pamphlet
is a failure. The defects Of its logic are
IS great and glaring as its assumptions
are bold without being original. No one
who had never before heard Of the SUBJ
ject would guess, from anything con-
tanned in it, that its propositions in re-
gard to the Constitution had ever been
considered and discussed by any one, In
the way of denial or refutation; and vet
we may certainly be allowed to say that
arguments have been made against them
that it would require all the intellect and
ability Of men greater than Judge
Huz ter to refute.


The argument that there is no cltizen-
ship OF 8 State, but only Of the United
States, because the Constitution provides
that Representatives and Senators must
have been for certain number of years
citizens of the United States, and the
President a native-born citizen OF the
United States, loses all its weight, aad
the proposition is ignobly exploded when
we read the provision that citizens Of one
State are entitled to all the privileges
Year: 1868

A brief analyses Of this document VIII
show how singularly absurd and meaningless
il is in some OF its features;


"First-The immediate restoration Of all
States to their rights 10 the Union under the
constitution of civil government and tho
American people,"


Congress, for two years past, has exerted
all its power to bring the Southern States
back into the Union, In which noble object
!. has been opposed by every effort and oosta-
Gle which the Democratic party and an inim-
ical Chief Magistrate could throw In It's way.


"Second-Amnesty for all past political
offences and the regulation Of the elective
franchise In the States by their citizens"


A proclamation of amnesty h6d been issued
by the President before this paragraph was
penned.


"Third-The payment of the public debt Of
the United States as soon as practicable; all
money drawn from the people by taxation,
except so much as Is requisite for the neces-
sities of the Government, economically ad-
ministered, being honestly applied to such
payment and when the obligations OF the
Government do not expressly state upon
their face or the law under which they were
issued does not provide that they shall be
paid in coin, they ought in right and In JUS
tiee to be paid in the lawful money OF the
United States"


The first clause of this section Is verbiage
mere iteration, and on the second, the par
" is divided in opinion.


The sixth section calls for ECONOMY In
the administration of the government" the
old cry of the politicians, who are all the
time attempting to put their arms elbow deep
into the treasury. 1t also demands reduc-
tion of the army, which Congress has already
made; and the abolition of the Freedmen's
Bureau-a measure also determined upon BY
the same body.
Year: 1868

Az unknown lady has been engaged to sing
at Partisan theatre, she stipulating that she
may be allowed to wear mask, and that no
attempt be made to ask who she is, or where
she lives. 1t is surmised that she possesses
both rank and fortune
Year: 1868

The further hearing In this case was set down for
yesterday morning, but In consequence OF the de-
cease or Assistant Marshal Thompson, the proceed


gs OF the court were ordered to stand for the
day and the case was further adjourned till Friday
next