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Year: 1865

Hickman's s Cornet Band have been
delighting our citizens with the
sweetest music. Their youthful lead
er is indeed a prodigy. Friend
Dupleix, they design paying your
town a visit. Knowing your love for
the art, we bespeak kind reception
and promise you will not be disap-
pointed.
Year: 1865

Thanks friend Beazely for your
complimentary notice. Our motto is
Excelsior" A compliment from so
quite source is appreciated, and
our every energy will be put forth to
toe the mark.
Year: 1865

STATE SToRE.-This institution
continues to draw. We hope soon
to chronicle the fact that it has drawn
in enough Of our State notes, so as to
make the residue attain its old value
at premium.
Year: 1865

In this issue of our paper appears
the name of our friend, Maj. S. D. Oh
liver, as a candidate for the office of
State Treasurer. The Major is well
and favorably known in this section,
and is in every respect worthy Of the
position.


The name of our friend Col. Ross
Burke also appears. Both are friends
of ours, gentlemen, and fully capable.
Year: 1865

YOUNG JEFF's BEHAvIoR.-A Mon
treal correspondent Of the New York


Herald describes the behavior of the
young son OF Jeff Davis, at the Donega.


ma House, as not indicative of very good
"bringing up" He says -


1t was their custom to eat a, the pub
lie table along with the other guests of
the establishment. The little boy, about
nine years old, was very laxative and
noisy. On small scale he kicked up as
much noise and fuss at the Donegana as
his paternal relative did on a larger scale
during the rebellion. At meals he was
constantly gabbing in loud voice, and
finding fault with every thing placed be-
fore him on the table, and with the SER
wants. Withal he is a boy of much spir-
1t and originality OF thought and express
sion. Il say. nigger,' said he one day to
one of the colored servants, Il wish YOU
would bring me some custard.' The
custard, in considerable quantity, was
brought and placed before him.


is that the way you bring custard 10
this country 2 asked the boy.


Yes, answered the servant you can
help yourself to as much or as little as
you choose.


i don't like it that way. In my coun-
try we always get it in nice little cups
said Master Davis. Here, niger


Servant-'I don't think you will find
hat word in the dictionary


Master Davis-'Oh, indeed. Why,
suppose shall have to have diction-
Try with me hereafter when l want to
with colored people in Canada
Year: 1865

What's hallowed ground Has earth clod
Its Maker meant not should be trod
BY man, the image of his God,


Erect and free,
Unscourged by Superstition's rod,


To bow the kneei
That's hallowed ground--where, mourned ant


missed,
The lips repose our love has kissed -
But where's their memorys mansion Ist


Yon churchyard bowers
No in ourselves their souls exist,


A part of ours.
What hallows ground where heroes sleep
'Tis not the sculptured piles you heap
In dews that heavens far distant weep


Their turf may bloom;
Or Genii twine beneath the deep


Their coral tomb:
But strew his ashes to the wind
Whose sword or voice has served mankind
And is he dead, whose glorious mind


Lifts thine on high p
To i've in hearts we leave behind,


Is not to die.
Is't death to fall for Freedoms right
He's dead alone that lacks her light
And murder sullies in Heavens sight


The sword he draws:
What can alone ennoble fight -


A noble cause!
Give that and welcome war to brace
Her drums and rend Heavens recking space
The colors planted face to face,


The charging cheer,
Though Deaths pale horse lead on the chase,


Shall still be dear.
And place our trophies where men kneel
To Heaven but Heaven rebukes my zeal
The cause of Truth and human weal


o God above
Transfer it from the swords appeal


To Peace and Love.
What's hallowed ground 'Tis what gives birth
To sacred thoughts IN souls of worth -
Peace Independence Truth go forth


Earth's compass round
And your priesthood shall make earth


AHhakIo,oed ground.
Year: 1865

THE CENTRAL AFRIcANs.-At a mis-,
sionary meeting lately held in England,


DR.. Livingston, the African explorer,
said ;


should like to answer question that
is often put to me, "What sort of people
are those you wander among z"


Now l should like to tell you that they
are very far from being savages. On
the sea coast they are rather blood-thirsty,
especially those who have been in the
slave-trade, but when you get about three
hundred miles into t h e interior, you
meet with people who are quite mild aud
hospitable. 1t is the duty of each man
in the village to give every stranger bis
supper, and to show him every hospitali-
ty which lies in his power. These 1eo
pie are not engaged in hunting, as most
inhabitants of this country think they are,
but are employed in cultivating the soil
They also manufacture iron, smelling it
from stone, and very excellent iron it is.


| brought home with me the last time
was in England some of the ore, and
the iron was manufactured into an excel
lent Enfield rife. The quality was ex-
ceedingly good, ard equal to the best
Swedish iron. They also manufacture
a superior quality of copper, also articles
Of eartbern ware and basket-work.


When we first go among this class Of
people, with the idea of their being sava-
yes, it is rather singular, but ] believe
rue, that they rather believe we are
,avages. They do not understand where
Ill the black people who are carried away
20 to. Thousands are taken away an
iually, and you cannot 60 anywhere
without meeting with slave parties. The
men carry what are called slave sticks,
With fork at the end Of them, which
ire fastened around the necks of the cap
ives, so that it is impossible for them to
Year: 1865

CURE FOR DYsENTERY.--Dr. Paige
Of Washington, communicates to the Re-
Publican Of that city the following simple


remedy, long known in family practice,
and which was recently tried in the camp
OF the New York twenty-second regi-
ment, where there were from eighty to
one hundred cases daily, and with rapid
cures in every case In a tescup full
of vinegar, dissolve as much salt as it
will take Up, leaving little excess of
salt at the bottom OF the cup. Pour boil
ing water upon the solution till the cup
is two thirds full. A scum will rise to
the surface, which must be removed and
the stolution allowed to cool. Dose tea
spoonful three times day until relieved.
The rationale of the operation of this
simple medicine will readily occur TO the
orthologist, and in many hundred trials /
have never known it to fail in dysentery
and protracted diarrbea.
Year: 1865

In ancient Sparta there was law
which compelled the youths to rise when
an old person approached; to be silent
when they spoke TO yield them the path
when they met them. With US what the
law does no, enforce, decency should
prompt us to perform. Respect for the
aged. teaches us such beautiful moral,
that those who forget to practice il them
selves, can do no less than applaud it in
others.
Year: 1865

get out of them or get at the other end,
by which they are tied to trees through
out the night. m


The people l am now speaking of
imagine that the white people eat them.
They look upon US as cannibals, and we
took upon them as saYages. Now, if we
take an impartial view of both, we shall
find that they are better than each im>
agine one another to be.--A}rican Re
pOsitOry.
Year: 1865

The following verse commentaries the
not uncommon misfortune of a hungry
urchin:


"There was small boy of Pawtucket.
He bought him an orange to suck il,


He had long nose


And as you may suppose,
Right into the orange he stuck H."
Year: 1865

The sweeping order from the War Depart.
mont, which appears elsewhere in our paper
to-day, will reduce very materially the heavy
expenses Of the Government, and afford 70
our public treasury timely and sAlutAry ro
lief Tho reduction Of expenditures oontom.
plated in this order will amount to several
hundred thousand dollars per day.
Year: 1865

CABnAoE.-There is no crop grown near q
large city that pays better, as general rule,
than cabbage. Ten thousand heads can be
grown on On acre, worth Eve cents each,
at least, amounting 70 $500, while the cost Of
cultivation and marketing is not over 800
This crop can be grown hundred years In sue
cession on the same soil, by applying coat Of
manure yearly. The hoeing Is mostly done
with the double mould board plow, after the
plants have got good start In growth. The
market gardeners near New York frequently
pay 500 per acre for rent Of land and get rich
ut the business.
Year: 1865

GrN is we'll known that cream may be
converted into butter by simply burying in the
ground, but it Is not generally known that this
mode is in common use IN Normandy and some
other parts Of France. The process is as fol-
lows: The cream is placed in linen bag oi
moderate thickness, which is carefully secured
and placed in hole in the ground, about a
foot and half deep; Il Is then covered and
left for "a or 25 hours. When taken out the
cream is very hard, and only requires beating
for short time with wooden mallet, after
which half glass Of water is thrown npon Il,
which causes the butter milk to separate from
the butter. If the quantity Of cream to be
converted into butter is large. 1t is left more
than 25 hours in the ground. In Winter,
when the ground is frozen, the operation Is
performed in the cellar, the bag being we'll
covered up with sand. Some persons place the
bag containing the cream within second bag,
in order to prevent the chance Of any taint
from the ground. This system saves labor,
and is stated to produce larger amount Of
excellent quality, and is, moreover, said never
to fail. '~.s1.r p, ~.rf.
Year: 1865

A clergyman, seeing little boy playing
in a small stream by the roadside, inquired
for his father.


He's over to the little dam BROOK ex-
claimed the lad.


"What !" said the reverend gentleman,
shocked at the boys profanity. CAM
you speak without swearing?"


"Well, he as over to the little dam brook,
anyhow persisted the boy, as he went
spattering through the water and mud after
butterfly. Hes been over to the little
dam brook all day, and fyou don't believe
it, you can go up to that house and ask
mother.


The clergyman sought an interview with
the mother Immediately, and complained Of
the profanity of her child. After telling
her, however, what the lad had said, she
laughingly informed him the little dam
brook, was title by which the stream wa.
called to distinguish it from 'big dam
brook, situated few miles further to the
eastward.


He now felt that he had wronged the boy,
and therefore owed him an apology. Hur-
ryng back to the spot, he exclaimed


Boy, | wronged you in accusing you of
swearing; but you should have told that
little dam brook" was only the name of a
stream, and l then would not have scolded
you"


swell, 'tain't no matter, said the happy
as he held aloft struggling frog
that he had speared with his mother clothes
stick. There's big dam on big dam
brook, and little dam on little dam brook,
and we would have had little dam on this
brook, only 'spect it's too small, it ANT
icorM q dam"
Year: 1865

The great causes of toothache are cold
and decay. The first is more easily guarded
against than the second. All important as
is the subject on account of the ever recur-
ring and constant pain it occasions, it has
not received so much attention as it should
because it is not thought dangerous. 1t is,
however, a greater evil than many danger
GUS maladies. From what we have read and
heard, we attribute the decay of the teeth
chiefly to acidity This is counteracted by
cleaning the teeth every night with magne-
sla. This is prevention. A cure for fit
OF toothache is not 50 easily given; a few
drops of de-cologne in the mouth and on
the side affected, often give relief Another
remedy is of more homely nature, but no
less effectual. Take a piece of coarse brown
paper, about the size Of the cheek steep it
in Jamaica rum; then CRATE thick layer of
ginger over the saturated brown paper; ap-
ply it to the side of the face affected, and lie
dow FOR half an hour. This application will
bring out a great deal ofredness, but leaves
no mark whatever.
Year: 1865

1t is only shallow minded pretenders who
make distinguished origin matter of per-
sonal merit, or obscure origin a matter of
personal reproach. A man who is not
ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of
hir early condition. 1t did happen to me
to be born in a log cabin, raised among the
snow drifts of New Hampshire, at period
so early that, when the smoke first rose from
its rude chimney and curled over the frozen
hills, there was no similar evidence of a
white mans habitation between it and the
settlements on the rivers of Canada. Its re-
mains still exist. | make it an annual visit.
! carry my children to it to teach them
hardships endured by the generation before
them. | love to dwell on the tender recol-
lections, the kindred ties, the early affec-
tions, and thenarration and incidents which
mingle with all | know of this primitive
family abode. weep to think that none
of those who inhabited it are now among the
living; and if ever fail in affectionate ven
Grafton for him who raised it, and defended
it against savage violence and destruction,
cherished all domestic comfort beneath its
roof and, through the fire and blood of
seven years revolutionary war, shrunk from
no toll, no sacrifice to serve his country,
and to raise his children to condition bet.
ter than his own, my name and the name of
my prosterity be blotted from the memory
Year: 1865

In the case Of Horder, u.s. Miller, in the Lou.
iisville Chancery Court, Judge Pirtle decided
last Friday, that the promises to pay s475
in gold, made in a note dated March 8, 63
payable in twelve months, could be en-
forced; that the maker would have to pav
either the actual gold coinor its equivalent
IN treasury notes at the time of the maturi-
ty. The note was given as part of the
purchase money of farm. 1t was alleged
by the holder of the note, and not denied
that the gold premium at the date of the
note, which was " per cent. was higher
than at the maturity of the note, when it
had come down to SO, was taken into CON
sideration in fixing the value of the farm,
Tor part OF the price of which the note was
given.


The Judge thought that there were two
sorts of currency when the note was given,
and if man chose to promise to pay in
gold, he must have known what he meant
Year: 1865

The following paragraph is from the Wis.
consin Farmer


'"To the majority Of men who we are sat
isfied that soil is nothing but dirt but to
the chemist, who knowsits origin, its nature
and its capabilities, il is wonderful mixture
Of those beautiful elements, which, in their
ever varying forms become the ambient air,
the liquid ocean, the precious opal the
amethyst, and the still more precious da.
mond, or delicate blue bell and violet, the
amaranth, the lily and the rose, but the
spear of blue grass and the cedar of Lebanon;
or, again, the ruby lip, the love.lit eye, the
noble palpitating hearts-and more wonderful
brain. These are the jewels of which the
soil is composed, and out of which the hus.
bandman strives to force the food hunger
claims. Henceforth, as he turns the fur
rows of his field let the sleep Of his thought
be broken by the reflection that the earth
thus stirred up by his plow-shear is doubt.
less composed in part of the ashes of his
ancestral heroes, whose deeds are the history
OF the past, and whose mortal remains are
the plastic material out of which are build
ing the bodies of men to-day"
Year: 1865

In the course of some conversation in re.
lation to dogs Gov. Andrews related o
Texan practice in training dogs with sheep:


"A purp is taken from its mother before
its eyes are opened and put with an eve tc
suckle:, After few times the eve becomes
reconciled to the pup, which follows her
like lamb, grows up among and remains
with the flock, and no wolf, man or strange
dog can come near the sheep; and the dorg
will bring the flock to the fold regularly at
= O'Clock, if you habitually feed him at
that hour.
Year: 1865

ALWAYS BUsY.-That's right, my lad.
you will be something yet. We never knew
smart, active, Industrious lad, who did
not turn out an energetic, enterprising and
wealthy man. Better wear out than rust
out, is a good proverb, and we rejoice to see
you follow it up. We would rather have
you than a dozen dozy-headed, sleeping, in
active youths who do nothing from morning
and yrunt to the customers
Year: 1865

The tongue is more persuasive love-
maker than the pen. Declare your passion
with modest candor, but take care TO
choose plant hour Women are not al
ways in the cue of receiving declarations of
attachment. After tea-time they are more
unreserved than at any other period of the
day; and, therefore more susceptible to re-
ceive and recognize fond impressions
Year: 1865

'My dcarast uncle" says humorous
writer, 'was the most polite man in the
world. He was making a voyage on the
Danube, and the boat sank. My uncle was
just on the point of drowning He got his
head above water for once, took off his hat
and said, ''ladies and gentlemen will you
please excuse me p and down he went.
Year: 1865

ONE cents worth of stout wire, bent in
the shape of the letter U, is a very good
protection against burglars, Hang the
curved part of the wire on the door-inob,
and let the the two extremities pass tbro'
the bow of the key, after the door is locked.
Their. the burglar may rage in vain, unless
they break the door down.
Year: 1865

Group is au inflammation OF the inner
surface of The wjndpipe. Inflammation
implies heat, and that heat must be sub
dued, or the patient will inevitably die. If
prompt efforts are made 10 cool the parts
in case of an attack Of the Group. relief
will be as prompt as ii is surprising and
delightful. All know that cold applied TO
a hot skin, cools it, bat all do not as well
know and understand that hot water ap-
piled to an imfammed skin will certainly
cool it off. Hence the application OF iced.
cold wafer with linen cloths, or almos!
hot water with woolen flannel, or two
folds large enough 10 cover the whole
throat and upper part of the chest; put
these in pail of water as hot as the hand
can bear, keep il thus hot by adding water
from q boiling tea-kellle at hand.


Let two or three Of the harnels be in
hot water all the time, and one on the
throat all the time, with dry flannel COW
ering the wet one, so as 10 keep the heat
in TO come extent; the fannels should not
be so wet when you pu. on as TO dribble,
for i, is important to keep the clothing as
dry as possible, and keep up the process
until the phlegm is loose, the child easier
and begins 10 fall asleep; then gently
wrap dry flannel over the wet one which
is on, so as 10 cover i, up entirely, and
the child is saved. When it wakes ur
both fannels will be dry.-HaFs Jour
.n0l Of Hp1jih
Year: 1865

We take the following article from
the Baltimore american. Several of the
Companies of the 9Th were from this county.
1t will be seen that when the Regiment was
mustered out there were number Of vacan-
cies in the Companies. The same was the
case with many Pennsylvania Regiments,
when they were about to be discharged; but
Governor Curtin-who is the best Governor
in the country-succeeded in getting the
Government to fill all vacancies in the reg,
ular line of promotion, whereby the worthy
had the rank to which they were entitled at
their discharge. But with Maryland sol.
diers the case is different; they have NO
Governor to look after their interests, and
consequently the Companies were mustered
out just as they came from the battle. field:
Year: 1865

We take great pleasure in reproducing this ex


quisite poem cut many years ago from an obscure


Arkansas paper, and published i'll the North
Every now and then it re-appears on the surface Of
newspaper literature. 1t desires more prominent
place in our letters


Where the rocks are gray and the shore is Steep
And the waters below look dark and deep,


Where the rugged pine, in its lonely pride,


Leans gloomily over the murky tide;


Where the reeds and rushes are long and rank,
And the weeds grow thick on the winding bank
Where the shadow is heavy the whole day through,
Lies at its moorings the old canoe


The useless paddles are idly dropped,


Like sea birds wings that the storm has Topped,
And crossed on the railing, one DER one,


Like the folded hands when the work is done;
While busly back and forth between,


The spider stretches his silvery screen,
And the solemn OWL with his dull "too-hoo,"
Settles down ON the side of the old canoe.
The stern half sunk in the Shiny wave,


Rots slowly away in its living grave,
And the green moss creeps DER its dull decay,
Hiding its mouldering dust away


Like the hand that plants DER the tomb flower,
Or the Ivy that mantleS the falling tower
While many blossom of the loveliest hue
Springs up DER the stern of the old canoe.
The currentless dead and still
But the light wind plays with the boat at will,
And lazily in and out again


1t floats the length of its rusty chain,
Like the weary march of the hands of time,
That meet and part at the noontide chime,
And the shore is kissed at each turning anew,
BY the dripping bow of the old canoe
0, many time, with careless hand, -
have pushed it away from the pebbly strand
And padded it down where the stream runs quick,
Where the whirs are wild and the eddies are thick
And laughed as leaned DER the rocking side
And looked below in the broken tide,
To see that the faces and boats were two,
That were mirrored back from the old canoe.
And now, as I lean DER the crumbling side,
And look below in the sluggish tide
The face that see there is graver grown,
And the laugh that hear has a soberer tone
And the hands that lent to the light skiff wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things.
But love to think of the hours that flew
As Irocked where the whirs their white spray threw
Ere the blossoms waved, or the green grass grew,
Ger the mouldering stern of the old canoe.
Year: 1865

"BEAsTLY" INToXIcATIoN-.The most re-
markable case of intoxication we ever
heard of is related by the Troy Times.
About month ago an illicit whisky dis
tillery was in full blast on Green Island,
near Troy. One night-it was a "stin'
night-the man running the machine had
made eighteen gallons of whiskey, and put
it out in the open air to cool Along came
COW. She was thirsty, and the beverage
looked inviting, She swallowed every drop
eighteen gallons Of uncctiied whiskey,
warranted to kill at forty rods. The COW
has been drunk ever since. She staggered
home and is now in the fourth week Of a
grand old bender The COW eats nothing ::
falls down whenever they try to raise her
up, and has become as lean as a crow in
stead Of COW. This COW, besides, had
young calf, whose strange behavior first
led to the discovery of the state of the
mother COW. 1t reeled round and round,
and lifting three legs and tail in the air,
actually spun on the fourth leg The owner
of the COW was an orthodox deacon, who
had been led by Cough to leave off intoy-
icating beverages. Being of scientific hall
its, he tasted the milk Of the cow, to see
what had produced such strange symptoms
He found it was milk punch, and, having
once tasted, he continued drinking, and ii
was the quantity thus taken from the ami
NAL by man and calf that made her '.as
lean as a crow" Chemical analysis proves
that the casen had all changed to whiskcy;
but the deacon viii have to relate his cN-
perience to a consistory OF farmers to have
his story believed and recover his upright
position. Whether the COW will ever get
sober, or end her life in a tit of dcIirum
tremcns is question TO which we shall
look anXiously to see the solution Of.
Year: 1865

A clergyman, who was eonsoling a
young widow upon the death Of her hus-
band, spoke in a very serious tone, remark
ing that he was one of the few. You
cannot find his equal, you know" To
which the sobbing fair one replied, with an
almost broken heart, " l dom; know, but
I'll try"