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Year: 1868

In Charles the Seconds days it was the custom, when gentleman draak a lady's health, as q toast, by way of do- ing her honor, to throw some part oi his dress in the fire, an example which his companions were bound to follow, by consuming the same article of their apparel, whatever it might be. One of his friends perceiving that Sir. Charles Sedley had on very rich lace crayat, when he named his toast committed his cravat to the flames, and Sir Charles and the rest were obliged to do the same. The poet bore his loss with great composure, observing it was a joke, but he would have as good one some other time. He therefore watch his opportunity, when the same party was assembled on subsequent occa- sion, and drinking off 8 bumper to the health of Nell Gwynne, he called the waiter and ordering tooth-drawer into the room, whom he had previous ly brought to the tavern for the pur- pose, made him draw decayed tooth which had long plagued him. The jules of od-fellowship then in force clearly required that every one of the company should have tooth drawn also, but they naturally expressed a hope that Sedley would not be so un- merciful as to enforce the law. Deaf, however to all their remonstrances, persuasions and entreaties, he saw one at time in the hands of the op- orator, and writhing with pain. while he exclaimed: Patience gentlemen, patience; you know you promised that l should have my frolic.
Year: 1868

The genuine Brazilian pebble ispectacIes are
only to be had at No. IL Camp street. Messrs.
Kernsghan & Co., opticians, have large assort-
ment on hand, and assure the public they are
warranted to preserve the sight to extreme old
age. So perfect is the lens, and SO peculiarly are
they adapted to the vision that the wearer is only
aware Of the fact that he has them on by the
great improvement in his sight. Call on these
gentlemen all you who are afflicted with imper-
feet vision and be relieved.
Year: 1868

Messrs. Pfeiffer, Hseller & Co.. of New Orleans,
have purchased the entire interest and material
of the German Press, one Of the most popular
and influential German papers in the South. The
daily and weekly publication Of the paper is to
be continued as usual. When we tell our readers
that Mr.. Heidenhain is not to be connected with
the editorial, and that our old friend Weichardt
will remain on the local column, we trust our
fellow-citizens will continue their patronage of
the German Press.
Year: 1868

The cold backward spring weather which
We are experiencing has led to much sur.
mise as to the cause of the failure of the
earths heating apparatus to do its work. In
regard to the matter a cotemporary re-
marks


Some have supposed that we are entering
upon q change of seasons, and the rather ap-
palling theory has been brOaChed that the
poles are changing position, and that the
arttc region is to swop places with the
equator. The astronomers have, however,


'cold spelln somewhat less disturbing to
the nerves, though not altogether tranquil
izing. They say that the suns disc is at
present riddled with holes, in other words,
with spots, one Of which Is of very consider
able size. 1t Is a deep cavity in the photo
sphere, and so wide that the whole terrestrial
gaobe would find room in it without touch
ing the edges. There is another spot which,
though much smaller, still has one of its
diameters as large as that Of our earth.
HeTsChel and Arago having conceived the
idea of comparing the annual price of corn
to the number OF solar spots observed each
year, found, on comparing series Of TWEEN
ty-fve results, that the greater the number
of spots the higher was the cost of bread
stBffs. This shows that these phenomena
may reduce the heat Of the sun considerably.


On this theory piece of smoked glass
will be handy thing to have about the
house; and in laying in the Goals or pro
vidiGg for winter clothing the first thing in
order will be to take a sQuint to ascertain
the dimension Of the holes in the solar at
mosphere.
Year: 1868

Youatt, the well-known veterinary sur
geon, who has been bitten eight or ten
times by rabid animals, says that crystal
of the nitrate of silver rubbed into the
wound will positively prevent hydrophobla
in the bitten person or animal. On
Year: 1868

The present telegraph Companies OF tue county
have been consolidated into one huge monopoly.
and are now earning six millions of dollars per
year, or over one hundred per cent on the actual
cost Of their lines their present capital having been
watered over one thousand per cent
Year: 1868

The National Telegraph Company have ia rscoE.
nition from the United States Government Of the
Importance Of their enterprise with a grant Of ths
most valuable franchises ever conferred upon
Telegraph Company No competing line has e7sE
had the right now granted by congress to this Com
Dany to construct and operate lines every Rail
road and Mail Rsute in the United States. The posi-
ton of this Company differs from that OF any com
pany ever before organized. The question Of the
right of way is forever settled.


The Stockholders of this Company can not be sold
out or transferred to any other Company. The act
of Congress under which this company has been
organized prohibits any transfer Of the franchises
granted.
Year: 1868

Men seldom think of the great event
Of death until the shadow falls across


their own path, hiding forever from


their eyes the traces of the loved ones


whose living smiles were the sunlight


of their existence. Death is the great


antagonist of life, and the cold thought


of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts.


We do nOt..want to go through the


dark valley, although itspassages may


lead to paradise, and, with Charles


Lamb, we do not want to lie down in
the muddy grave, even with kings
and princes for our bed-fellOws.


But the fiat of naTure is inexorable.
There is no appeal of relief from the
great law which dOOms us to dust
We flourish and we fade as the leaves
of the forest, and the flower that
blooms and withers in a day has not
4 frazier hold upon life than the NIGH
test monarch that ever shook the
earth with his footsteps. Generations
of men appear and vanish as the grass
and the countless multitude that
tlHrUngs the world to-day, will tO-mOr-
row disappear as the footsteps ON the
-.3lOre.


In the beautiful drama of Ion, the
instinct of immortality, so elOquently
uttered by the death devoted Greek,
finds deepresponsein every thought
ful soul. When about to yield his
young existence as a sacrifice to fate,
his beloved Clemanthe asks If they
snail not meet again, to which he re-
plies: II have asked that dreadful
question of the hills that look eternal
of the clear streams that flow forev-
the stars, among whose field Of
azure my raised spirit hath walked in
glory. All were dumb. But while
gaze upon thy living face, l feel that
there is something in the love that
manties through its beauty that can
not wholly perish. We shall meet
again, Clemanthe."
Year: 1868

An English paper says that among


the curious local customs still praetic-


ed in Derbyshire is one which was


kept up for one hundred and forty
years at Hilton Hall. On the first day
of the year the lord of the Manor at


EssingtOn brought q goose to the
hall, and drove it three times
round the fire, after which ne carried
it to the table and received a dish ii
for his own Use. This droll proceed
ing was only discontinued when the
manOTs came under one lord. At Wal
sail there is an annual adult scramble,
for here a custom exists of throwing
out apples and nuts from the Town
Hall on st. Clements day, to be
scrambled for by the people. Happy
are the boys who are born in Walsaii.
AT Wichuer, the same custom that
has prevailed at DunmOW was once i'm
use, and'a a wooden fitch of bacon still
hangs in the hall. In this case il was
John of Gaunt who instituted the
custom by arranging that the owner
of the hall should hold the tenure in
virtue of his keeping a fitch OF
bacon always ready for any married
pair who had been married a wear and
a day, and would take the following
oath ; Hear ye, Sir Philip de SOmer-
vile, Lord Of WychenOr, maytennOr
and gyver Of this baeOnne, 1, A. B..
sithe l have welded my wife, and
sithe had her in my kepying and at
my wylle by year and day after
our marriage, / would not have chang
ed for none other, flirer nj fouler.
richer nj poorer, &c. And If the said
B. were sole and sole, l would take
her to be my wyfe before all the wynn
en- of the world. So help me God and
all fleshes."
Year: 1868

COrns are of two kinds. Vegetable


and animal Vegetable corn grows in


rows and animal corn grows on toes.
There are several kinds of corn there


is unicorn, capricorn, corn dodgers,


field corn and toe corn, which Is the
corn you feel most. IL Is said believe


that gOphers like corn, but persons


having cOrns do not like to Ego far" If
they can helpit. Corn have kernels,
and some COlOnels have cOrns. Veg
etable corn grows on ears, but animal
corn growsOn the feet at the other end
of the body. Another kind of corn is
acorn, these grow on oaks, but there
is hoax about the corn. The acorn
is a corn withan indefinite article, but
the corn is very definite article in
deed Try il and see. Many a man
when he has a corn wishes il was an
acorn. Folks that have corns some
times send for a doctor, and ifthe doe
tor himself is corned he won't proba-
bly, do as well as il he isn't. The doc
tors say cOrns is produced by tight
boots or shoes. which Is probably the
reason why when a man is tight they
saw he Is eorned. If farmer manages
well he can get good deal of corn on
one acre, but | know a farmer that
has one corn that makes the biggest
acher on his farm. The bigger crop
of vegetable corn a man raises the
better he likes it, but the bigger crop
of animal corn he raises the better he
does not like it. Another kind of corn
is cOrn-dOdger, Theway it is made is
very simple, and is as follows that IS
if you want to know y You go along
the stneet and meet a man you know
has a corn, and is rough character,
then you step on the toe that has the
corn on it, and see if you don't have
occasion TO dodge. In that way you
will find out what corn dodger is-
Year: 1868




Senator Morrill, in his speech in the
senate, Wednesday, had this to say about
the schemes of the semi-repudiators-and
80 say we all:


Should we be lured by the prospect
of temporary gains to swerve from the
standard Of true national honor so far as
to make irredeemable paper, without in
trinsic value. a permanent legal tender,
or So far as to employ the smart excuse
of the pettifogger for the avoidance of Il
contract-to vary il not only from the
understanding OF all parties except the
government, but from the understanding
of all who negotiated for and spoke in
behalf of the govcrnmcnt-trom that mo-
ment we fall TO the lower ranks i'll the
scale of nations, not merely i'll the public
judgment Of the world, but literally and
practically. whenever next called upon
to confront equal, or interiors No more
TO be trusted at home or abroad. our
government would be an easy prey to any
enterprising foreign foe OF TO any cour-
agcous domestic faction. Public credit
is the lite-blool of a great people. Cast
suspicion upon it, and. stabbed ut the
fountain, all life and greatness oozes out
and is gone forever. y republic may
not be generous, but it cannot afford to
be mean. \ nation cannot be sued i'll
courts OF law, but it must he Just before
the great tribunal OF mankind al large.
We have Just achieved ore of the grand
est victories. martial and moral, recorded
in the history of nations. No more for
m;Gabie rebellion was ever more brilli-
antly started or more brilliantly sublued
and while subduing this we fought and
conquered slavery, the giant sin of ages,
in its last and mighticst stronghold. 1t
was thus we saved our country now and
forever, one and indiyisible. Our saliva
ton was bought with a great price. Let
US not begrudge the price. Our reputa-
ton is too exalted for US to consent to
title OF what we promised to those who
supplied the means to pay and reward
| the defenders Of our country. Sir.
have yet to believe that any class Of our
people will shrink from the manly MAIN
tenance OF the public credit from what
ever quarter ii may be menaced. As :
government, all our pride in the past an'
all our hope i'll the future rises or fall
with the life or death of public credit
lis brightness, like feminine virtue, sur
wives no eclipse, aud once obscured il
gone forever. ltpoliticians should prove
taithless, l would appeal to that might,
host who risked their lives to maintain
the honor and glory Of their country
confident that they will recognize a 70,
even though he should come into caml
wearing federal uniform. Ii banker
and men of wealth should prove penuri
Gus and recreant TO duty, | would appea
to the humble poor, to those having moth
ing but what they daily earn by the swea


OF the brow, having nothing but til
proud name of an American citizen, an
| should feel confident that no part
could survive any position tending to i'm


peach the good name of the America
people or to destroy the luster of thei
h;ctnr,.
Year: 1868

A fitting climax to the long list of Demo
cratic blunders for the year of grace 1868 is the
nomination of Charles A. Shaw, of Bddefcrd,
by the Democrats of the first District as can
didate for Congress. At the Convention yes
terday William P. Hanes, of Biddeford, was
first nominated by acclamation; not desiring
to swell the already formidable number of de-
feated Democratic candidates whom the peo-
pie of Maine have been consigning to oblivion
for twelve years past, he was discreet enough
to decline. Then Mr. Shaw's friends presented
his name, and he received the nomination.


Mr.. Lynch was sure of reelection under any
circumstances, but the madness of his oppo-
nents has now insured him as large majority
as he received in 1866. He is man whose po-
sition in public life is due to solid worth, to
stirling integrity and to valuable public servi-
ces. To exchange him for an individual who
has sought notoriety by system of self-adu-
lation that finds no parallel in the country,
unless it be in the conduct of gentleman who
is now investigating in practical way the
workings of the various debtors prisons in
Great Britain, would be piece of folly which
no sane man can anticipate


The Republicans of Connecticut once tried
the experiment of nominating p. T. Barnum
for Congress. The result was that Democrat
represented them in Congress instead of
mountebank, and they richly deserved that
punishment It is doing Mr.. Shaw no injus-
tice to say that he is a sort of provincial Bar
mum. That he is successful business man is
some credit to him, if the strange arts-we do
not mean dishonorable, but simply empirical
arts-by which he has become so, are not too
curiously investigated. The manner in which
he obtained his nomination was in strict ac-
cord with his methods of proceeding in busi-
ness. Having made up his mind that the life
that appeared with so many embellishments in
the chronological journal would be well
rounded by term at Washington, he immedi-
ately invested in newspaper, and has been
blowing his own trumpet with persistent but
futile industry ever since. When the returns
show majority of from three to four thou
sand for Lynch on thel evening of the 18th of
September he will probably dispose of his in
terest in the Democrat at once and devote him
self to business ever after.
Year: 1868

STATE PoLITICs.--The Biddeford Democrat
says that Mr. Lynch introduced his bi II for the
gradual resumption of specie payments and
for the prevention of undue expansions and
contractions of the currency just before the ad.
journment of Congress, merely for buncombe,
and with no expectation that they would pass
This is a-mistake. He introduced them
months ago and urged them upon the atten-
ton of the House as frequently as possible.


The Tribune's Washington special says that
some persons are there from Maine, represent
ing the interests of the Seymour and Blair
ticket who are striving to have johnson do
something for the ticket by making a new dis
tribution of the federal patronage in this
State. They say it is vitality important to
the Democracy that they should carry Maine
or at least make significant reduction in the
Republican majority. From this it would ap-
pear that there are still a. few Democrats left
who can tell the truth under the pressure OF
an extraordinary emergency, but not the whole
truth even then, for no use that Mr.. johnson
can make of federal patronage will reduce the
Republican majority in this State below twen-
ty thousand.
Year: 1868

A COMPREHENSIVE SPEECH BY SENATOR
of brief speech made by Senator Morton on
the occasion of his recent brilliant reception at
home, is exactly to the point and contains as
much truth and suggestion as many three
column address:


He has just returned from long session of
Congress, which has just adjourned, after hav-
ing iaiied IN some important things, but having
succeeded in others. Eight out ofeleyen South
ern States had been reconstructed and were
entitled to representation in Congress- and if
the Republican party is allowed to remain in
power. the entire country would soon be re-
stored to peace and harmony, and would march
on to prosperity and power never dreamed
Of Ii not, we must lose all the ground we
have gained by the war. The Democratic par
ty has made the plain issue of war if they
succeed. They have declared the reorganized
governments illegal, and that the Southern
States owe no obedience to the acts of Congress.
General Frank Blair, three days before his
nomination, wrote a letter declaring that the
governments established in the rebel States
were illegal and must be overturned, and that
ON this ground only would he ask for the
nomination. / wish to say to my Democratic
friends in Indiana that if they want to settle
up our difficulties, they must support the Re.
publican ticket and help elect Grant and Col
fax. But if you want war, and desire to con-
tinue a contest through the lifetime of your
selves and children, support that party which
is willing to Kept no peace except upon the
principles of the rebellion. We have lost
from 100000 to 100000 valuable lives, and ex-
pended immense sums of money but this must
have been all in vain unless we protect the
governments of the South. We must stand by
them, or every loyal white man will be COM
PEELED to leave, and the negroes will be again
reduced to slavery. But we shall triumph and
will elect Grant and Colfax by an overwhelm-
ing majority. To this end he desired the as
SiStance of ALL
Year: 1868

REBEL GUNs.-The editor of the Buffalo
Express has been shown a copy of the Corinth
Caucasian, weekly paper, published at Cor
inth, in the northern part of Mississippi. 1t is
"a singular paper in its history and appearance
to spring upon loyal soil and from loyal
hearts, The cut which heads this journal is
well executed and is a single piece of artillery
surmounted by bright and clear secesh flag.
Underneath are these significant words: "The
guns that wiR Kill Radicalism, Seymour and
Blair" The Caucasian came into existence
the week after the Democratic nominations
Year: 1868

THE Argus recurs again and again to the ex-
empton of the Government bonds from taxa
tion as peculiar hardship to the. poor, and
we have again and again proved that it is no
such thing' since the laboring men are as large
ly Interested In Government securities as the
capitalists; and are even more interested in
keeping the National honor. The Argus
stoops to lower depths of infamy than even its
candidate for the Presidency In all of his re-
cent speeches, until he accepted the New York
nomination and platform, he has taken the
ground very emphaticaly, that the Govern
ment bonds can neither be taTed nor paid in
greenbacks
Year: 1868

The Democrats are beginning to find that
they made terrible and unquestionably fa-
tai mistake in putting into their State plat
form resolution in favor of.taxino the gov
ernment securities held by our own citizens for
the benefit of the disloyal people of the South
The full enormity of that proposition has not
even now been fully exposed, Though the COM
pialnt OF wounded soldier, published in the
rfeSs last week, goes a great way toward
putting the matter in the proper light. The
wounded soldier complains that of the $21 tax
That the Democrats would levy on his $1,000
bond the State of Maine would receive only 80
cents while the rebel States would receive
$3.50. Now if this would afford relief to
anybody but the worst of the disloyal people
it would still be an atrocious swindle But all
the property in the South, with trivial excep,
tions, is held by the representatives of the old
slaveholding aristocracy, and it is these men
for whose benefit the wounded soldier is to be
taxed.


Let us recapitulate few of the principa
grounds of complaint that the wounded soldier
has, that he himself has not mentioned


FIRST, he is to be robbed. The government
mas promised to pay him six per cent. interest
ana the face of his bond at maturity. These
promises are to be broken solely on the ground
that the government has the power to break
them.


Second, he is to be robbed not merely for the
benefit of traitors, as he himself alleges but of
traitors who have already received the tender
est consideration from the government. These
traitors have, in the first place, received from
the government their lives and estates which
were forfeited. In the second place they have
hitherto been exempted from the payment of
the direct tax which the Northern States pay.
ohe OF the last acts of the despotic Congress-
men who have just left Washington was to ex-
tend this immunity from taxation another
year and to extend to the Southern States the
provisions of the law granting lands for the es-
tabhshment of agricultural colleges. Further
more, while postal communication with the
South was cut off by the war, the Post Office
Department more than paid its way. Now
there is heavy deficiency occasioned by the
anxiety of the government to afford the South
facilities for communication with other parts
of the country through the mails.


The question arises whether the disloyal
Southern people have not been treated with
sufficient leniency without taxing soldiers and
the other tax-paying people OF the North for
their benefit, and thus making them the direct
beneficlaries of debt incurred in suppressing
their rebellion, while they contribute hardly
cent toward its liquidation-in fact payi,.g
hedry premium on rebellion


The question arises whether it will be well
to rely very much upon the Democratic prom
ises to relieve the burdens of the laboring
classes, when it appears that they mean only
the relief of Southern aristocrats at the ex-
pense of the laboring people of the North
Year: 1868

Is urged upon The attention and trial OF sufferers
from this M st horrible of all diseases. Dyspepsia
shows its ravages in thousand different forms such
as Sick Headache, Heartburn. Depression, general
sense OF uneasness and feeling that YOU are not
FOOD disreSses You rises and your stomach;
breath IS bal skin at times Is flushed and hot; don't
feel as il you could move stir about and worst of
all, Indigestion or Constipation, nothing more OF
less than Dyspepsia. Thousands upon thousands
suffer and die this way, and neither themselves nor
their physicians know what ails them, except that
they are surely dying.


Reader, we repeat 1t, this is Dyspepsia. If you
would have proof o. statemen, II YOU would save
yourselves and children from an early grave, fyOu
would have health and energy and strength again we
beg you to try one bottle OF
Year: 1868

PANORAMA OF THE WAR.-This elegant Sc
ries of paintings will be unrolled this afternoon
at half past two o'clock, as well as at eight in
the evening. The afternoon entertainment
affords an excellent opportunity for ladies' and
children to witness this most instructive exhi-
hitiOn
Year: 1868

You will see how soon ii will dspel your bad feel.
ings and gloomy forebodngs. How soon 1t win
chase away any species OF Dyspepsia. How soon it
will give you life and vigor, aud how soon 1t will
make a well man woman OF you. For your own
sake tor the sake Of everybody suffering, beg we
enireat you to try il.