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Year: 1869

The EDUCATION OF THE NEGRo.-Rap-
id as has been the change of opinion in


this country on every phase of the ne
gro uuestion-and we must remember
that the hale gentleman of fifty was a


stout boy Of seventeen when William


Lloyd Garrison was led through the
streets of Boston with rope round his
neck-in none has it been more rapid
tn an at the South on the education and


suffrage OF the black. Four years ago,
school houses for the blacks were burnt
down and the teachers everywhere as
saulted: to day the Southern mind ac-
cepts both facts as inevitable necessi-
ties, and is already preparing TO like
them at some far distant date. Even
now it is willing to use them. The more
advanced thinkers of the South recog-
nized the fact that reliable, skilled Ia


Dor is cheaper at high price than un
skilled and unreliable labor at a low. In
his ecent address before the National


Teachers S Association at Trenton, Gen.


Howard said that the teachers are now


personally safe from assault: they are


only ostraciseI from all white society
They must in many cases board with
the blacks, and be recognized by them


alone as acquaintances on the streets.


On one occasion, General Howard &C


companied two of his fair teachers to


church and was shown to seat. The


lady who occupied the pew, when she


lifted up her eyes and beheld the intru


ders, Immediately vacated the pew, and


retired in disgust to another part of the


church! But all this bitterness is dying


out, though but slowly. Occasionally u


resident clergyman will struggle in to


see if the 'niggers' are really capable


Of learning. Washington and George


town gives the same common-school


education to the blacks as they do to


the whites. The city of Petersburg in


Virginia has established system of


free schools for all children, without dis


tinction of race It receives aid from


the Bureau and from the Peabody fund


only to the extent of about one fourth


of the total expense. Aston shing as it


may seem, the teachers in that city are


mostly native Virginians. They have


braved and broken down the unreason-
abel spirit of social ostracism which has
hitherto awaited every one who should


venture to instruct colorcd children. In
all human probability, these Petersburg
teachers are but the precursors Of
great cloud of Southern teachers who
are to devote themselves to teaching ev-
cry one that will come to learn. In Co
lumbus, Mississippi, where the school
fund is derived from the rental of land
given by the United States, the city au-
thori.ies are now offering either to
throw open the doors of their free acad-
emy to colored scholars-a proposition
that would have led to the destruction
Of the building itself five years ago-or
they will devide the money on a pro rata
basis. From all parts of the South,
comes the same report-that in the
midst of obliquy, of social ostracism, of
Ku Klux outrages, Of deep and bitter
prejudice, the Southern mind is slowly
preparing to admit the black race into
the educational arena, just as it has
been found to admit him to the bal
SHALL They BE EDUcATRD2
in the December number of Lippincott's
Magazine.
Year: 1869

Winter is fast approaching. Already
it has sent out its skirmishers, in the
form Of stinging winds, and bitter
snowsqualls. With it will come long
evenings of leisure. Young men, what
do you intend to do with these even
ings


There are thousand inducem ents to
squander them. The gaily lighted bill
iard-room, opens its doors and invites
you to enter. The theater, the ball, SO
licit you. All sorts of similar tempta-
tions allure you to spend your time and
money, and many Of you will be drawn
into extravagant expenditure, by these,
in themselves, innocent amusements.


Another and worse class Of tempta-
tions will oeset you The drinking sa-
loon, the house Of i'll fame, will invite
you to enter, and with delusive excite
ments seek to blind your moral percep-
tions and lead you to ruin.


What are you going to do with these
precious evenings? Will you throw
away their golden opportunities, and
take upon you burden of vain regret
for the years that are to come? Do you
not see their value, if improved?


There are thousands of young me-
chanics who will see these words, and
will, some ofthem, perhaps, esolve that
this winter shall not be spent as was
the last. This winter shall be devoted
to neglected arithmetic, algebra, or
bookkeeping. They will seize the COM
ing leisure to perfect their knowledge
OF drawing, or to complete their perusal
of some scientific, historical, or literary
work begun long ago, but still unfinish-
ed. They know the value OF time and
they will no longer squander it.


Alas! how few Of these wise reso-
lutions will be kept. Yet we are hope
full that some will be influenced by our
exhortation to use their time in a more
profitable manner than do the majority
of pie ,sure-loving young men.


The means Of self-improvement are
now SO widely diffused that no one seek
ing knowledge can fail to obtain them,
and while we do not counsel the utter
renunciation Of innocent amusements, it
is always wisdom to subordinate these
things to higher purposes.


Young mechanics, and young men of
whatever occupation you may be, you
may refer your future success or failure
to the way in which you employ this
winters leisure. Then what will you
do with your evenings2-Scientifc Amer
tc0n.
Year: 1869

TOBACCO. possesses only TO
q very limited extent the narcotic power
50 conspicuously displayed by opium.
Its food action, however, is CORES
pondingly prominent 1t retards, as is
supposed, the rctrogradc change which
is constantly going on in our tissues
The nutritive forces of the economy
thus gain an ascendency, which results
in an increase Of the bulk OF the body.
Whether or not this be the correct ex
PLANTATION, tobacco and its congeners un-
doubtedly do promote nutrition when
used properly; and this, indeed, is one
of the benefits attending their judicioas
use.


The habitual consumption Of this
drug, however, is Incompatible with full
mental energy. The noblest function
of the body-that of ministering to
spiritual and mental growth-can be
performed only by the brain; and it is
on this organ, as we have seen, that the
effects of tobacco are first and most
felt.


By its sedative, benumbing influence
active work is retarded, and after q
time condition of hyper nutrition is
induced by its use, in which the brain
is as slow to respond to it's stimuli as
was Dickens fat boy, Joe, to the calls
Of his master, Wardie.-From an arti-
Gle on TOBACCO in the December num-
Der of Lippincott's Magazine.
Year: 1869

Michael Connell, an old man sixty
nine years of age, was burned to death
on Sunday night. near Clarksville, Ind.
He and his family resided in small
cabin near Beach's cement mill, and the
old gentleman had for several days
been confined to his bed His wife,
just before leaving the house to visit
-neighbor, left loog stick protruding
from the stove. and this falling from the
open door of the stove. set fire to the
house. The fire was at length discov-
cred by the neighbors. who heard the
old gentleman cries for assistance, and
ran to his rescue. They burst open
the door, only to find that the in
side of the house was all in flames,
which leaped out through the doorway
upon them as they attempted to enter.
It was not until the building was al
most entirely destroyed. that the fire
was subdued. and not until the old man
had died horrible death. His body
was found in the ruins, so frightfully
disfguced as to be unrccognizable. He
was lying with his face downward
when found, and one hand a d one foot
had burned entirely off. DR.. G W Ste
venson, Coroner of Clark county, held
an inquest over the charred remains,
and the jury's verdict was in accord
ance with the above facts louisville
Courier journal.
Year: 1869

I sit alone in the dark and ponder


On days hid deep in the byeone years;
In the busy past my sad thoughts wander
Far through the rain of my falling tears;
Till see him there he stood before me,
Pale with passion and stung with pain;
just as of old he is bending DER me,
Telling the love which he told in vain.
How his voices cadence grew changed and altered
His deepening color, it came and went;
But the tale of passion it never faltered-
A rushing tide till its force was spent.
Oh, knightly hero, noble lover,


How his deep voice rung with the true gold s ring!
In his fight with Fortune he scared above her,
By love ennobled-a king, king!
What answer made him know not surely
Something bitter and commonplace;
But saw the hopes which had shone so purely
Darken out from his pallid face.
In the open doorway he seemed to linger,
And my heart was yearning to call him back /:
a look, a whisper, lifted finger;


But my pride was bitter alack alack
How watched and waited for hopeful tidings!
And often too, when they named his name,
My heart would burst from my sternest chidings,
And flush my face with a telltale fame.
How aited, and my grief together,
For word or whisper we never heardl
For the golden days of the summer weather
Died with the voice of breeze and bird.
1t vas late in autumn the leaves scattered
In withered heaps o'er the hill and lea





My scul with dreams which were not to be.
One night they told me his mournful story
How his bold, brave struggle for life was Ger:
Shot in battle, but crowned with glory
Praised-promoted! heard no more.
From the weary fever at last l rallied,
But only to bear my darker fate
Only to mutter, with lips how pallid,
The bitter burden, "Too lato too late !"
Only to see him, pale and CORY,


Sinking down in the foeman s track:
What care for the praise and glory!
They cannot give me my darling back.
o hateful beauty that fooled and drew him
False pride unbendng 0 cruel lie
loved, yet mine the hand that slew him,
And drove him forth i'll the fight to die.
My wreck went down in the storm out yonder:
What have I saved from te's despair
What dream has my spirit left to ponder ?
This one loye-letter, this lock OF hair.
Fair Nature signs in her short-ived sorrow,
Then robes her form in mantle gay:
She weeps to- day, but she smiles tomorrow
Over the flowers that strew her way;
But alas for me there is returning
OF spring tide flowers summer prime
By days of sorrow and nights of yearning
Changed and sobered before my time!
From the daily struggle 1 shrink and shiver,
A dropping flower aIhirst for rain;
My lie is LOST like rapid river


That siuks from sight in the arid plain;
For | scorned the gift of a true hearts treasures
Loves crown that crowned me, flung it by;
The world knows naught OF my grief's dark measure
My lites deception lie lie!
Ah my heart is sad and my life is lonely;
Its dreary burden | scarce can bear:
From night to morning my prayer is only
To cease from troubling ami meet Him There
So yield my days in a meek surrender
To Him who orders and knows them best;
For feel that His loving hands and tender
Will take the spirit which longs for rest.


EDWARD RENAUp.
Year: 1869

The following letter from M. de Bismarck to the
Council Of che Northern Confederation throws some
light on Baden affairs-


The Grand Ducal government OF Baden desires to
conclude treaty with the North German Confedera-
ton, by which the subjects OF one Power residing on


the territory OF another shall be submitted to the
CONSUMPTION and fulfil the military duties Of the
country they inhabit Such q convention being de-
sirable In the interests both OF the several countries
aud in those Of the Confederation the undersigned
Chancellor OF the latter, have the honor to ask your
authorization for concluding the treaty. -
Year: 1869

horses 10 give their hair a bright
and glossy appearance, and given
TO o foundered horse, will give im-
mediate relief. In fact give a
horse a small handful at each feed
ing and he will never founder
Tho stalk also makes q very good
substitute for bean poles while
growing. know one man who
thinks he will have twenty-five
bushels. He planted and cultiva.
ted it tho same as he did his corn.
lie is going to have it chopped up
and fed to his horses. II. G. H.
in Western Rural.
Year: 1869

BuoKwHEAT CAKES. These are
peculiarly adapted to cold wealth,
er. The appetite Graves them, and
they supply the system with
warmth, to enable it to resist for q
long time the feeling Of hunger
But they must be made just right,
and here is a primo recipe. Make
a thin battor with q quart OF Hour
half a cup of yeast, warm water
ana little salt. Let it rise over
night. Bake on both sides on .
griddIe. A little of the batter left
in the rising dish will serve as
Yeast for the next batch. 1t is bet
tor 10 add q tea spoonful OF salera-
tus before baking in the morning.
and it is very essential that this be
good and strictly pure.
Year: 1869

USE OF FLEMoNs.-when persons are fever.
ish and thirsty beyond what Is natural, indi-
Gated in some cases by metallic taste ir the
mouth, especially after drinking water, or a
whitish appearance Of the greater part of the
tongue, one of the best coolers" internal or
external, is to take lemon. cut off the top,
sprinkle over it some fine lnat sugar, work it
downward into the lemon with spoon and
then suck it slowly, squeezing the lemon and
adding sugar as the acidity increases from being
brought up from the lower point. 1nvalids
with feverishuess may take two or three lem
ons day in this manner. with most marked
benefit, manifested by sense ofcoolness, COM
fort and inauguration. A lemon or two taken
thus at tea-time, as an entire substitute for
ordinary supper" of summer, would give
many man comfortable nights sleep, and
awaking of rest and inauguration, with an ap-
petite for breakfast, to which they are strangers
who will have thir cup of tea for supper rel.
ish," and ''cake" and berries or peaches and
cream.
Year: 1869

a ToUcuING INoIDENr.-Not many years
since certain English miuers working far un.
derground, came upon the body of poor
fellow who has perished in the sufocating pit
some forty six years before. Some chemical
agent to which the body had been subjected
IAN agent prepared in the lahratory of ma
ture-had etfectuaily arrested the progress Of
decay. They brought it up to the SUFFICE,
and. for awhile, till it crumbled through ex-
posure to the atmosphere, it lay there the
image of fine sturdy young man. No con-
vulsion had passed over his face in death
tho features were tranquil; the hair was black
as jet. No one recognized the face /; a gene
ration had grown since the day on which the
miner had went down his shaft for the Hast
time But a tottering old woman who had
hurried from her cottage ON hearing the news.
came up, and she knew again the face which
through all these long years she bad not for
gotten. The yoor miner was to have been
her husband on the day after that on which
he died. They were rough people, Of course,
that were louking on liberal education and
refined feelings are not deemed essential to
the man whose work it is to get up coal, or
even tin but there was no dry eyes when
the gray headed old pilgrim cast herself upon
the youthful corpse and poured into the deaf
ear many words of endearment unused for
forty six years. 1t was touching contrast
the one SO old, the other so young. They
had both been young those long years, but
time had gone on with the living but stood
still with the dead.
Year: 1869

How IT HArpENED.-A fellow who was
arrested 10 Buffalo for stealing shirt, put in
the following defense: II did not steal the
shirt; was passing along by the store, and I
saw the shirt hanging mp. and then took
hold Of it. when took hold OF it, it dropped
down IL my hands. and knew if l stood thers
with it, people who saw me would believe that
meant to steal it /; so ran of to prevent
suspicion attaching to me-"
Year: 1869

THE New York Commercial thinks Gen
Grants illne s is caused by the worry and fret
from the Tenure-of-of1ce imbroylio; and tells
him that the people OF the country are with
him in his view OF the question.
Year: 1869

The SENATE CoMMIrrKs ON FOREIGN Az.
PAIRS will shortly report q bill regulating the
landing Of foreign cables upon our shores SIM
liar TO the bill which was before the Senate at
the last session.
Year: 1869

IT WILL BE RKNENBKRxD that some months
since our Government offered its services as
mediator TO settle the difficulty bet ween Spain
on the one hand and Chill, Peru and Bolivia
on the other hand. The offer has been accepted
by those Governments, aud the Commission 10
adjust The dime between those Powers
will meet here in June, by which time Peru
will have here a full Minister instead of
Charge d'Afairs, rs now.
Year: 1869

AFTER OFFICE-Mr. Rice, the new Super.
in'endent of the Treasury Department, was
besieged this morning by colored men after
positions as laborers about the building. The
entire passage in front of his ONCE was crowd.
ed, there being over q hundred applicants
Year: 1869

For information at Washington, we copy the following paragraph from the inaug- ural address of Gov Palmer, Radical cf Illinois:

 The Federal Government is one of emu merated powers. It is essential to the usefulness of the State Governments that their just authority should be respected by that of the nation. Already the authority of the States is in measure paralyzed by growing conviction that all their powers are in some sense derivative and subordi- nate, and not original and independent. The State governments are part of the American system of government. They fill well defined place. and their just aa thority must be respected by the Federal Government, fit is expected their laws will be obeyod. "A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of govern mcnt is essential to civil liberty" and in this view have thought it proper to in- vi,c your attention to these subjects.
Year: 1869

LowDERMILL's COMPOUND FLUID We received early last year T bottle of this fluid to test in the case of caked breast One application entirely removed it, allay ed great suffering, and doubtless prevent ed broken breast, which had three times followed the same indication, in spite of the best physicians. We give it our un- qualified indorsement as an invaluable medicine for that terrible complaint, and advise every mother to provide herself with it -Tennesese Baptist.
Year: 1869

D~ Tho business consequent upon a change in the proprietorship of our paper has prevented us giving the usual amount of editorial matter this week. We will make amends by issu- ing a live newspaper from this time forward
Year: 1869

As we will make use of our large list of agricultural exchanges to glean from them the most practical hints on farming, making the CITIZEN almost as valurble to the farmer as if it was devoted to agriculture en- tirely, while the STOCK JOURNAL, that is given to each new subscriber will teach all about tho care and treatment of stock.
Year: 1869

The Tiobodaux Sentinel of the 16th, says that: Many freedmen are flock ing into town as usual at this season of the year, and renting every room that can be had. Until the wages of the last year are all consumed, they will not engage themselves to work for the present year. Many planters are al- most destitute of labor, while some are lucky enough to retain the most of their employees of the year just finished.
Year: 1869

eal, writing from Rainesyille, Ind, Dec. q, says


few days before We got out 10 tho Ridge, some
vent the house OF shafer aud shot him. killing
him Instantly. lie very bad man-harborlng
Iorseheycs and stealing for his living Several years
ago tracked u horse'thief 10 his cabin.
They inquired OF this man shafer whether the thief
had been there and told that lie had not but one OF
his little girls SAID that tho thief had been there so the
pursuit was continued aud the thief caught Shder
and has pifc then look Heir hhle daughter ont into q
hke6erp patch and e her throat for telling about the
thief Shortly after this II became known that Shaer
was sheterng thieves and murderers and he was sent TO
State Prison TO serve one year. While there
his wife fell sick with fcycr She neyor recovered.
After her death her husband cano back lived alone and
behaved before SO three resolved 10 put him out
OF the way They went to his cabin ono evening with
q welLl0aded shotgun. The old man was getting his
supper when ono OF them shot him In the back with
~ swan shot The next day went 10 his cabin and
found him dead. Since ths three others of tho same
stripe have fed fearing that they might De served In tho
same
Year: 1869

Two trains on the New-Jersey Central Rail-
road ran into each other at Spruce Ran Tuesday On
this occasions in addition to damages to rolling Stock two
men Lad their legs broken


1t is stated that the Erie directors have Sc
cured the right Of way across tho Atlantic, and viii be-
gin Immediately to pat down track from New-York to
Liverpool They have watered stock enough TO bid tho
whole extension. ICincinnatl Times.
Year: 1869

The Paris correspondent of the New
York Times, in alluding to the enthusi-
asm manifested at the recent reception
given the French Emperor on the Boule-
wards, says:


must again repeat what / stated in
one of my former letters, that great
deal of the enthusiasm manifested on
that occasion was manufactured. Along
the line of the Boulevsrds we're statioed
at intervals groups of police in plain
clothes, who did nearly all the cheering,
and otherwise tried TO impart q stimulus
to the crowd. l do not know whether
you are aware of the fact that the Gov
ernmeut has in its pay body Of twelve
hundred men, who precede or accom-
pany the Imperial family on all its expe'
ditions. They receive about two dollars
per day besides their travelling expenses,
and they continually change their dis
euises. so as to avoid observation. Their
business is to prepare for the reception
of their Msjesties, to get up an enthusl-
asm when the population is discontented
or Indifferent, to watch for the first evi-
dence of plots against the life of the En-
peror, and to surround his person when
they have reason to apprehend that sn
attempt is about to be made against u.
The force is quite distinct frem what is
called the Secret Police, aud has q sepa-
rate organization and chief of it's own.
Year: 1869

NATURAL WoNDER.-The most won
derful thing in the shape of pig was
born on the farm of Mr.. j. r. Smith, ten
miles from this city, last week. As near
as our memory serves US, this is the de-
scription Mr.. Smith gave US of the ami
NAL: The head of the pig bore strik-
ing resemblance to that of an elephant; !;
the ears were large, thick and pendant ];
had no mouth, but where the mouth
should have been was an eye, the only
one possessed by his pigship, with long
white bristles above 1.-THE only bristles
or hair on the hog. just underneath the
eye was a protruberance about an inch
in length, resembling an elephants pro-
boscis. From point just behind the
ears about half way down each side of
the neck, gradually running up to the
centre of the back, forming wedge, the
pig was coal black the balance of the
body was white, and entirely destitute OF
anything in the shape of hair or bristles.
This curiosity in the pig line was dead
when discovered. The great curiosity
was the absence of mouth, and the
presence of an eye where the mouth
should be. 1t seems as though "won-
ders will never cease"
Year: 1869

JUDGE LORENZO SAwYER.-The nom-
ination of this gentleman to the bench
of the Circuit Court of the Pacific coast,
is pronounced by the Sacramento Union
as good one as could have been made
His record as one of the Supreme Judges
of California is perfectly satisfactory.
His habits of mind and life, together
with his great learning and tried hon.
esty, eminently fit him for the high and
responsible Office, and will meet with the
universal appreciation of the Republican
party of California.
Year: 1869

VEyHIS HOUSE is the most commodious in the


State, newly furnished, and it will be tbs
endeavor of the Proprietor to make his gueste
comfortable. Nearest Hotel to the steamboat
landing.


w~ The Concord Coach will always be four
ut the landing on the arrival of steamships
river boats, carrying passengers and their bag
gage to and from the boats free of charge.


House supplied tcfth Patent Fire Ertiaguishers.