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Year: 1868

The Legislative Session ClOsed-The Kings


Speech and Tone of Peace.


BERLIN Feb, 20, 1868.
King William Of Prussia formally closed the sessions
Of tho Diet last evening.


In the usual speech on such occasions tho King con-
graduated the members the OF their labors
The eec Of tho Diet the peace Of Europe had
been promptly and powerfully sustained by the other
great Powers the confidence thus restored will aid In
che spiritual and temporal welfare of the nation.
Year: 1868

Major James b. Krker, the well known Catholic book
publisher OF this city, died Friday last, after
illness Of week. The deceased was for many years
connected with the sixty-ninth regiment as captain
Of the Engineer corps and took active part
in the organization OF the Corcoran Lagoon
which contributed SO much 10 tho suppression
OF the rebellion Possessed OF great executive abilities
he was commissioned auarcrmaster to the Legion and
also TO that OF tho First division OF the seventh army
corps which commission he held until near tho close
or the war; when he resigned For honorable service
he had been brevetted BY the President OF tho United
States TO the rank Of major.


Major Krker possessed all ihoso qualities which arc
calculated 10 make lasting freudsh ps--smplicity OF
manner, urbanity, charity and integrity.


His funeral will take place tomorrow morning at
half. past nine o'clock from 81 Teresa church. corner
OF Rutgers and Henry streets
Year: 1868

One Anderson, the Collector of Inter-
nal Revenue in the Fourth Virginia Dis
trict, was convicted of fraud and cor
ruption in office, and sentenced to the
Penitentiary, where he is new serving
the country. Yet, under the provisions
of the tenure of office law, the Attorney
General has decided that he is still the
legal Collector. the Senate having re-
fused to confirm man in his place. In
SO refusing, the Radical Senators knew
that this Penitentiary bird must, under
their own law, remain in office, and it
is probable that he shares with the cor
ruption fund the salary and stealings of
the office. What commentary on Rad
ical legislation-an inmate of the Peni-
tentiary deliberately kept in aR office
while serving his term of Imprisonment
for fraud in that office! A Penitentiary
bird holding responsible office and re-
ceiving its salary while confined in a
prison and supported at the public ex-
pense. He is probably as honest and
worthy as one-half of the Radical office
holders who have not yet received the
merited punishment inflicted on him;
but for dGcency's sake it would seem
that he should be deposed from office
and not allowed to continue his plum
dering while wearing the convicts
garb.
Year: 1868

LIrTLEToN, w. Va, Sept. 81, 1868.
Editors Of the Register:


In pursuance of an agreement OF the
workingmen of Broad Tree Tunnel, Bal
timore and Ohio railroad, West Vir-
ginia, and vicinity, we had the pleas
ure of raising a Seymour and Blair pole
and flag to the breeze, and indeed it was
a very fine one. The ladies (God help
them) deserve great praise for making
it. We had very respectable audience
at the meeting, which was addressed by
James Dandy, Esq, in very telling
little speech. We are ali hard-woring
men out here, and we are most earnest
ly opposed to Radical rule and Freed
mems Bureau business. We are deter
mined to do our part on the third day of
November next.


The gentleman engaged in getting up
the flag deserve great praise, as they
are hard working men, kept busy all
the time, but when they think of the
"cause" they are like all other good
men; they are willing to do most any
thing to advance the interests of our
common country.


We are going to have Seymour and
Blair pole raising in our own little
town very shortly now, as we are max
ing all necessary arrangements; when
that comes off we will let you know.
Mr.. Elias Long presided as Chairman
of the meeting. You can rest assured,
my worthy friends, that on the 22d of
October, as well as on tho Sd of Novem
ber, old Wetzel will come out glorious
ly for tho old Democratic party.


Very spccIruily,r
Year: 1868

The Baltimore San says: "Never In
the history of Baltimore has there been
more rapid progress in building than
during the present year. Buildings of
almost every detcription have been
springing up in every portion of the
city, more particularly on some of the
outlying streets. In the vicinity of
Patterson Park numerous neat resi-
dences have been erected, and many
Others are in course of construction.
The unsightly hills and sand banks in
this section are fast giving place to the
work of the architect.
Year: 1868

A NEW figure in "the German has
been invented at watering place in
Bohemia. The lady is seated in the
middle of the circle, and small cakes
are given to three or four gentlemen,
the one who succeeds in eating the cake
quickest having the honor of her hand
for the dance. The last of the Wallen-
stems almost choked himself the other
day, to secure the hand of an America n
belle.
Year: 1868

The National Iatelligenoer forcibly re-
marks: "The farmer is told that times
are not so bad when he can command
two dollars q bushel for wheat and one
dollar and twenty cents fer corn, and
other things in proportion. But the
question for the farmer is not so much
what is the nominal price of his pro-
duce, but what is the purchasing poweri
He cannot buy as much with his two
dollars as he could formerly with one,
and he finds himself at the close of the
year with less money in fact, though,
perhaps, more in name than he did be-
fore the era of greenbacks. The paper
dollar, which is legal tender and
nominally a dollar, though worth less
than seventy cents, has disturbed all
the values of the country, and the
brick maker, who earns five dollars a
day, finds it harder work to feed and
clothe his family than he did when his
wages were not quite so high'sounding,
but more real"
Year: 1868

the price of one dollar per pound for
English filberts with the heavy green
husks upon them. There is no soil in
the werid SO we'll adapted to the growth
of this nut as the calcareous tobacco
lands of Maryland; the bushes come ia


TO bearing in three years from the slip,
and the labor of cultivation is next to
nothing.-Tarf, Field and Farm.
Year: 1868

FROM Mr.. THoNAs-We have used IIenley's
Royal Balsam in my family this winter. There is
no use talking. 1t throws everything in the shape
of Cough medicine in the shade that l ever saw.
My wife troubled with asthma smothering
spells for years and could get nothing have any
effect until | struck this ''Royal Balsam'' She is
now about. we'll 1t cured of the worst cold
| ever had in my life in night. Whenever our
children have anything like cough. a few drops
given on going to bed-that is the last of the
cough. l never intend to be without it in the
house.
Year: 1868

hand and with a voice filled with emotion,
which the widest uproar of battle could never
a!gltated, he replied. "Ah sire, with us it
is henceforth for like and death ~ Noble
man kindness could overcome in u moment
II Is no wonder that Bonaparte felt. OF last,
that he had not known McDonald's true
world
Year: 1868

Challenges the world to produce anything in the
shape of Medicines that will remove aud eradicate
a Cough or soreness in the Chest, as prompt. no
matter what form the disease might assume. Hen
ley's Royal Balsam' is the best Medicine in the
world for Bronchial or Pulmonary affections. For
Group or Hopping Cough. there is nothing
earth that can equal it. All mothcrers and Nurses
ought to have a bottle close by them, it will give
a child relief in two minutes. 1t is entirely veg
etabe, and will prove blessing to the human
family.
Year: 1868

Mr.. j. E. Nicholson states in
the Rural american that he re.
Gently caught chicken that was
sick, killed it and opened its craw
and found therein a number of
small worms like a caterpillar,
about three-fourths Of an inch in
length, with a few hairs on them.
He had noticed great many of
them crawling about on the prem
ises, and supposed they had some
thing to do with their sickness
He then caught some of the chick
ems that were unable to walk for a
day or two, and no doubt would
have died in ashort time, and melt
ed a little lard in tea spoon,
with the addition of little ground
black pepper, and gave it to them,
which cured them in a short time.
This remedy is at least worth a
trial.
Year: 1868

One of the city fathers of Mil
waukee was made the recipient of
a handsome testimonial to his
worth the other evening. Ans
wering a ring at his door, his wife
discovered half bushel basket or
the steps. Taking it within the
house and uncovering it, she found
a handsome young baby several
days old. Accompanying it was a
note politely requesting its futile,
to take good care Of the little crea.
ture for its own sake.
Year: 1868

To CURE A FELoN.-As soon as
the parts begin to swell, get the
tincture of lobelia, and wrap the
part affected with cloth satura-
ted thoroughly with the tincture,
and the felon is dead. An old
physician says he has known it to
cure in scores of cases, and it never
fails if applied in season.
Year: 1868

A gentleman of Nashua, N. H.,
received a letter a few days since
from a man in neighboring town
with whom he had had a business
transaction, explaining an error of
two cents, and enclosed was the
money to correct it. Beat the
honesty of that man who can.
Year: 1868

An Illinois negro ordered his
wife to put Grape on the door pre-
paratory to beating her brains out
with chair, but she furnished the
corpse by cutting the thread of


sable eminence with her scissors.
Year: 1868

TIE GESERsLsHn.-Bciow we give the Act by
which Congress gave the authority to the President
To appoint Gen. Grant General Of the Army of the
United States" Unless the law shall be repealed or
amended SO as to deprive him o the power 10 appoint
Gen. Grant can. when he assumes the Presidency.
all the place he now holds pretty much to his own
fancy, or. by withholding appointment manage 10
cvade the intention OF the Act, and retain supreme
control over the Army in his own hands, As things
stand there in very little obstruction between Grant
aud absolutism, and there will be nothing between
when he becomes President. Here is the Act


The President is hereby authorized whenever he
shall deem it expedcnt 10 appoint by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, General of the
Army Of the United States to be selected from among
those officers in the military armies Of the United
States. most distinguished for courage skill and ab
iy who being commissioned as General. may be au-


horzod under the direction and during the pleasul
OF the President, TO command the al mics of the Uni:
cd States
Year: 1868

TWO MEDirArIvE CHAPS were talking of the world S
injustice, when


Quoth Tom, 'Tis strange that in the world


So much injustice should abound:


Nay, answered John. the huRan heart


Is never Oh the right side found.
To which latter proposition exchange gives a
contradiction as follows:


There is young man attending college in Albion
Michigan whose heart is Oh his right side He has
been examined 10y several Of the most noted physi-
clans OF New York and Washington. who all agree
that such Is tie case. II s the second OF the
kind on record.
Year: 1868

BEAR RIVER City RIoTs-After the vigilante hang
ing Of three men last month in Bear River City.
force Of employees from the line of railroad made all
attack upon the place They destroyed the Frontier
TadCr office, and committed other excesses. In the
night another raid on the place was made, but tho
assaants rcpused with the loss Of twelve killed
and some wounded. The editor of the fnder hid and
afterwards fed 10 the military for protection. He
had backed the Eigilantes. Both mobs were wrong
and criminal but that of the vigantes the least
provoked. and therefore by far the most criminal,
Vigilantcism never pans out well in the long run.
Year: 1868

\ great novelty is photographs on
silk for medallious on sofas, armchairs
and cushions. 1t will be quite a sug,
gestive idea for granddaughter to
give her sire bolster with her sweet
rounded features upon it, and ten to
one the old gentleman would sleep all
the better with her cheek next to his,
but it will not be agreeable to have a
drawing set of faces on the backs of all
the chairs. Some men are obliged to be
photographed in spectacles, too, which
will add nervously argus feeling to
ladies in panniers every time they sit
dOwn.-PdriS Correspondent.
Year: 1868

Last Saturday afternoon a ine look
ing woman arrived at Richmond, Ind.
on the Indiana Central afternoon traia
having with her a fine looking boy
child, aged about eight months. Just
as the train for the East was starting
she requested an elderly lady TO take
charge of the child a few minutes
which request was cheerfully acceded
TO. The mother got on the Eastern
bound train and left her babe, with a
note, stating that whoever would take
charge of the child would be amply re-
wsrded. The child is in the Orphans
Home, ard will be well taken care of.
Year: 1868

a VI ode Of Paying the National Debt


A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Harrisburg, sug.
gests q new modso pa ying the Nation
al debt. He says: The question of pay.
ling off the National debt and how II
shall be paid, in coin or currency and
when are still attracting attention
There does not seem to be much doubt
of the ability of the Government to pay
the interest on the debt, and when the
seven-t thirties are converted, all interest
will be paid in coin. Neither will it be
very burdensome to simply pay the in
! terest. --.E.a


Now 1 wish to suggest a method OF
getting rid of the, principal by one sin.
gle payment Of twenty-five millions
Let us suppose that Congress appropriate
Twenty-Five millions in gold to create a
sinking fund. with instructions that il
be used to purchase in open market, the
interest bearing bonds of the Govern
meIt that have the shortest time ia
Iun. and that the bonds so purchased
shall all be destroyed, and in their place
shall be issued an equal amount OF





ing Fund Bonds,o which shall draw in
terest at the rate of six per cent, pay
able srmi-annoslly in coin, which said
bonds shall not be negotiable, but shall
form and constitute the sinking fund OF
the Government, the interest on which
shall be paid by the Government into
the sinking fund, aud said interest
shall, as soon as received, be used to
purchase the interest bearing bonds of
the Government i'll open market, the
bonds so purchased to be destroyed and
sinking fund bonds issued for like
amount and placed in the sinking fund.


Thus the sinking fund wOuld increase
at the ate of six per cent, compound
interest, and the national debt decrease
iu the same ratio. At the expiration of
eighty wears the sinking fund would
have reached s. GA, ,S97 500, a sum equal
to the debt, when the sinking fund
bonds would, by their own terms, be
destroyed, thus closing out the debt,
aud that on the suppostiOn that the
Government has been obliged to pay q
dollar in gold for dollar in bonds. 1t
is true that in effect the debt would re-
Ulaiu tue Sdulc hu luS HO O'Shty ySu'ot
only the ownership would gradually be
changed from the creditors Of the Coz.
ernment to the sinking fund, and when
the change should have been perfected
the sinking fund should cease to exist.
1t seems as though such an arrangement
might satisfy all parties, as the Govern
ment wonld get its bonds at the market
price, and under such a gradual and
sure redemption they would soon be at
par in coin. If all surplus revenue
should be added to the sinking fund
from year to year, to be used in the
same way, the end might be attained
much sooner. Is not this idea " orthy
of serious consideration The appro-
priation could be made for The purpose
without any very great exertion on the
part of the Government, and the move
ment once begun goes forward itself.
Year: 1868

A long train of cars, fourteen or fifteen, were
a few months since passing over the Allegheny
mountains, on their way eastward They were
crowded with passengers. As the iron horse
snorted and rushed on, they began to feel that
they had begun to descend, and needed no DOW
er but the invisible power Of gravity to send
them down with terrific swiftness Just as the
passengers began to realize their situation, they
came to short curve cut out of the solid rock
"a wall of rock lying on either side. Suddenly
the steam whistle screamed as ifin agony, put
on the brakes put on the brakes u Up press
ed the brakes, but with no apparent slackening
of the cars. Every window flew open, and every
head that could be was thrust out to see what
the danger was, aud every one rose up in his
place fearing sudden destruction. What was
the trouble?


Just as the engineer began to turn in the
curve, the engineer saw little girl and her
baby brother playing on the track. In mo
ment the cars would be upon them the shrek
of the whistle startled the little girl, aud every
eye looking over could see them Close to the
rail, In the uprig int rock was little niche, out
OF which piece of rock had been blasted. In
an instant the baby was thrust into this niche,
and as the cars came laundering by. the pas
sengers holding their breath heard the clear
voice Of the little sister on the other side of the
cals ring out, Cling close to the rock Johnny
CllilS CiUSG lO tlic IOCk Ltuu niue
smuggled in and put his head as close to the
corner Of the rock as possible, while the heavy
cars whirled past him. And many were the
moist eyes that gazed, and many silent thanks,
giving went up to heaven.


In few hours the cars stopped at station,
where an old man and his son got out of the
cars. He had come SO far to part with his child,
who was going to an Eastern city to live, while
the aged father was to turn back to his home
All dangers that would harrass the son. seemed
to crowd into the heart of the father as he stood
holding the hand of his boy-just now to part
with him. He choked and the tears filed his
eyes, and all he could say was, ''Cling close to
the Rock, my son!' He wrung the hand Of
his child, and the passengers saw him standing
alone, doubtless praying that his inexperienced
son might ''cling close to the Rock, Christ
Jesus''
Year: 1868

IS lOF The circulation of the ssSpEcrAToR''
is about as great as the combined circula-
tion of both the other papers published in
this place, and has as many subscribers in
this county alone as are contained in the
whole list of either of the other papers.
Year: 1868

ATTENTION !-What is the difference between
a civilized diner and person who subsists at
the North Polk? ? Attention, againt-Onc has
his bill of fare and the other has his fill of bear
Year: 1868




II love to steal awhile away


From every cumbering care,


And spend the hours of setting day,
T In humble, grateful prayer"


The Religious Herald gives the following as
the circumstances under which it was written,
and we think the narration lends touching in
terest to the familiar hymn:


Its author, Mrs. Phoebe FL. Brown, was an
intelligent, pious woman, who labored industri-
ously to support large family of children She
was wont, after the tolls of the day were over,
at the quiet twilight hour, to ramble to a
nelghbOrlng grove where, alone and unobserv-
ed, she might spend an hour in meditation and
prayer


A wealthy lady, who lived near Mrs. Brown,
seeing her go often to this retreat, without
knowing her object censured her severely, in
the presence of other persons, for her ''ramble,"
and told her ''she had better stay at home with
her children" Mortified at being charged with
neglecting her family, and deeply wounded that
her retirement for communion with God had
excited evil surmises, Mrs. Brown remained at
home that evening, and with her babe on her
knee, wrote her Apology for my Night Ram
bles A friend found this pretty gem among
her manuscripts and sent it to DIR. Netteton,
who inserted it in collection of hymns he was
preparing. Mrs. Brown WIS doubtless success
full in bringing up her children in the nurture
and admontion of the Lord, as one of them
was the first American missionary to Japan
A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT clip the fol-
lowing beautiful sentiment from an exchange:


Sorrow sObers us and makes the mind genial.
And in sorrow we love and trust our friends
more tenderly, and the dead become dearer to
us. And just as the stars shine out In the
night, so there are blessed faces that look at
us in our grief, though before their features
were fading from our recollection. Suffering
Let no man dread it too much because it is bet
ter for him, and it will help to make him sure
of being immortal 1t is not in the bright hap
py days, but only in the solemn night, that
other worlds are to be seen shining in the long,
long distances. And it is in sorrow-tbe night
of the soul-that We see the tarthest, and
know ourselves natives of infnity and sons and
daughters Of the Most High.


FORMATION OF CHARACTER you ever
watched an icicle as it formed, you have
noticed how it froZe one drop at u time, until it
was a foot long or more. If the water was
clean, the icicle remained clear, and sparkled
brightly in the sun; but ifthe iccle was slight
ly muddy, the cicle looked foul, and its beauty
was spoiled. Just so our characters are formed
One little thought or feeling at time adds its
influence If every thought be pure and right,
the soul will be bright and lovely, and will
sparkle with happiness; but ifthere be thoughts
and feelings impure and wrong, the mind will
be soiled, the character darkened, and there
will be final deformity and wretchedness. How
important, then, that weshould be on our guard
against every evil impulse and desire.
-s..f-f .
II
Year: 1868

How TO ENTERTAIN GUESTS. Il pray you,
0 excellent wife, not to cumber yourself and me
to get rich dinner for this man or woman
who has alighted at our gate, nor bed cham
ber made ready at too great cost. These
things, if they are curious in, they can get for
dollar at any village.


But let this stranger see, if he will, in your
looks, in your accent and behaviour, your heart
and -earnestness, your thought and will, what
he cannot buy at any price at any village or
city, and which he may well travel fifty miles,
and dine sparsely, and sleep hard in order to
behold.


Certainly, let the board be spread and the
bed be dressed for the traveller; but let the
emphasis of hospitality be in these things
Honor to the house where they are simple to
the verge of hardship, so that the intellect is
awake and sees the laws Of the universe the
soul worships truth and love honor and court
esy flow into all deeds.-R. W. Emerson.
Year: 1868

Radical journals come to the rescue and en-


deavor to blunt the point and weaken the force
of the name popularity applied to the shameless
advcnturers of reconstruction. They try to
explain the word away. In their explanation
they exhibit that they do not precisely know
what carpet-bagger is. They say that Albert
Gallatin was carpet-bagger from swtzer-
land, and that every native Of one State who
becomes prominent in another is a carpet
Dagger. They also talk of millions of capi-
tal' taken into Southern States by carpet
baggers. This is very wlful blindness. No
body has uttered o sentence against immigra-
ton, North or South, or been wanting in re-
spect to men who, wherever born, attain emf
nence in virtue of great ability and the good
opinions of the men among whom they have
made their home. The complaint is against