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Year: 1867

BurrxR MAKING following letter
was received from a lady at Venice, New
York: "Althuugh SO much has been saip
and written on the subject OF butter making,
still the complaints from grocers and genteel
families in the city wakes louder and louder.
On recent shopping excursion to city IN
Central New York, CHANGED to bear re>
mark, there has been more poor butter in
the market this Summer than ever One
baker sfirms that he has bought atom OF but
ter at 124 cents per pound while good ar
ticle was bringing 80 cents. There is not
one farmer in ten that has suitable place
to set milk 1t is left (like geese) to shift
for ITSELF Most pantries are too warm TO
set milk in for making good butter, while
most cellars are too damp; for cream will
moi rise in a damp atmosphere. Added to
these is gross carelessness about sklmming
the milk Milk should be closely watched
and skinned before it gets very sour. A
good milk house is as necessary as any other
building. 1t should be built over cellar
four or five feet deep, the sides well lined
up With brick or stone and white-washed, the
bottom tagged with nice fat stone, laid in
hydraulic cement. The windows should be
made of fine Stats, with wooden inside shut
ters. Then the temperature is easily regu>
lated. No woman, however neat and cares
full, can make good butter in warm weather
without suitable place to set the milk.
And until farmers generally provide better
places to set milk, and dairy maids are more
careful about skimming milk aud working
butter, we shall continue to hear the cIy of
poor butter.
Year: 1867

TIE EMIGRATION OF ELEPHANTs.-A writer in
the London Spectator asserts that the elephant Is
q highly imaginative animal, and proceeds to
cite numerous facts to prove the assertion. He
says: The Ceylon engineers say that when they
survey ways through the forests and plant woods
en- tracing pegs to mark the levels during the
day, these are generally removed during the
night by the elephants, who are uneasy TIL tney
understand these novel symptoms OF human
agency. It is clear then, that the elephants are
rendered uneasy, troubled in their imaginatloos, 8,
by these curious marks Of special aud unex-
planned human interest in their dwelling places,
Just as Morgiana, in the Forty Thieves, was rem
dered uneasy by seeing the chalk mark on her
masters door. Indeed, it is recognized aud
very successful way to escape vicious elephant
to throw down anything complicated 10 MS
path, which in his caution, be will examine so
carefully before he proceeds ss to give his cha


ser time to escape. Col. Hardy, in 1920, saved
himself from a vicious rogue elephant by
throwing down his dressing case, which the
creature in question waited to force open and
examine minutely instrument by instrument.


How strong the conventional imagination OF
the elephant is, is seen, even without respect to
man, in his intense respect for the organic unity
of q single herd or family, which he shows both
positively. One herd will never, even when
united by common danger, admit another
herd, or even a single individual Of another
herd, into the limits of its own group. Even
when more than one herd are captured in the
same corral they will never unite or join in the
same charges against the barrier. Any attempt
to Join them on the part of a stray elephant is
resisted pertinaciously, even by blows. Here
10 the same value attached to conventions which
induced some fashionable man to assign as a
reason for not saving another from drowning
that be had never been introduced to him


We should explain it by saying that elephants
attach a higher superstition or imaginative
value to the sIrictu mites of elephantine States
or na,ionalities, than to the immediate ult OF
life or death to any one such State or national


ity It is not want of value or the power OF
organization. The wonderful description OF the
placing of picket by the leader OF a herd of
elephants anxious to bathe near human en-
campment, and the anxious generalship with
which the leader examined his outposts and
himself surveyed the ground in advance, sutti


ciently proves this. Besides, whenever herd
of elephants is at bay it always follows one
leader, and if the leader is slain, follows the
next, and so on till the last is left in isolation.
Year: 1867

MAcAULY's VIEW OF FREEDoM.-Iu an essay
on Milton, published in the Edin6urg ReVieU more
than fifty years ago, Macauly wrote as follows,
seeming tC have a prophetic forecast of the pres
ent condition of the negroes in America


"There is only cure for the evils which
newly acquired freedom produces-and that cure
is freedom. When prisoner leaves his cell, he
cannot bear the light Of day-he is unable to dis.
criminate colOrs or recognize faces. But the
remedy is not to remand him into his dungeon
hut to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The
blaze oftruth and liberty may at first dazzle and
bewilder nations which have become half blind
in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on
and they will soon be able to bear it, In few
years men learn to reason. The extreme violence
of opinion subsidies. Hostile theories correct each
other. The scattered elements of truth cease tc
conflict and begin to coaesce; and at length q
system ofjustice and order is educed out of cha
os. Many politicians OF our time are in the hab'
it of laying it down a self evident proposition
that mo people ought to be free until they are I'll
to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy oi
the fool in the old story, who resolved not to 20
into the water until he had learnt to SWIM"


We clip the above from loyal paper. 1t
will be observed, that in radical estimation, the
English historian was a superb loyalist on
the niPger question. Well, anything to "make
history" whether truthful and good, or the re
verse
Year: 1867

| give the following incident. falling
under my own observation, as an instance
where The masonic lie OF brotherhood
proved stronger than the fear of death,
and more lasting than the hatred Of NOR
tai foes. At lhe second battle Of Colo
Harbor The repulse of The FedersIs left
the ground in front Of the Confederate
works slrewn with their dead and wound
ded-lhese lying more than day under
The hot July sun. dying with thirst, beg
ged pileously for help, bot in vain, as The
Federal lines were so close, that none
could leave the protection of the breast
work without being made The target Tor
their bullets. Some dragged themselves
10 the ditch and were hoisled over by
means OF waisl.bells buckled together and
let down TO them.


AT this time. when 10 cross the works
seemed certain death, two men came to
headquarters, and asked permission TO
bring in a wounded Federal lying in their
I front They were referred 10 lhe order
prohibiting such reckless exposure, ana
the danger OF attempting pointed out
They answered ibai this man had shown
the Masonic Signal of Distress, and that,
as Masons, they fell bound TO attempt 10
relve him al any cost. The General (R.
F. Hoke.) could not refuse his consent,
and al nighlfal the two went upon the
field, aud although exposed to the great
esl danger, succeeded in bringing .he man
safely off. lie proved 10 be Lieutenant
Colonel badly shot in the head, he was
carried to private hospital; carefully al
tended by Mssons. and eventually rccov-
cred from his wounds at first considered
mortal. As General Grant sent in no flag
Of truce. bu, continued his FIRE upon the
Confederate ambulance corps, HE wound
ed lay where they fell and nearly all died


wi hou, help in The sight Of the two ar
mics, but The Masonic signal (eebly rails
ed, had found response from the hostile
breasts, and added one more TO the many
victories of Love or Dealh.-NeW IOrh
| Dispatch.
Year: 1867

Nay speak no ll-a kindly word


Can never leave sting behind /;
And. On, 10 breathe each tale we've heard
Is far below noble mind.
Full oft better seed is sown,


BY choosing thus the kinder plan
For if but little good is known,


Still le: us speak the best we can.
Give me the heart that fain would hide
Would fain another's faults etace;
How can it pleasure human pride


To prove humanity but base ;
No; let US reach higher mood,


A noble estimate OF man;
Be earnest in the search of good,


And speak Of all the best we can.
Then speak no ill-but lenient be


To others faiings as your own;
If you're the first fault to see,


BE not the first to make it known.
For life is but passing day,


No lip can tell how biief lis span;
Then, Oh, the little time we stay,


Let's speak Of all the best We can.
Year: 1867

Two gentlemen of The bar were wend-
ing their way home one night, when one
W as nabbed by he Charles and put IN
the lock up. A friend on learning 'he
mishsp, asked the other why he did not
bail hin out. BAL him out p said The
topper, "you could not pump hin oul."
Year: 1867

A HOTEL KEEPER R1MPALED.-Coroner Claw
son was summoned yesterday afternoon to hold
an inquest on the body Of Mr. Robert Wallace
Of the firm Of Wallace & Ewing, proprietors
OF the New York Hotel, situated on Penn
street, near OHara, in the Fifth Ward, who
was killed by falling from the third story Of
the hotel building. The deceased, it appears,
had been In the habit Of occasionally going to
the upper stories, In the rear part of the hotel
to watch the rats in the yard. Yesterday,
about poon, he was seen to 60 into the back
room Of the third story and look down into the
yard. 1t is supposed that while looking out of
the window he lost his balance, and fell down
into the yard. In the descent his right leg
struck the point of a sharp panel OF the fence
with such force as to cut large cash in it,
from which the blood flowed profusely


The injured man was picked up and carried
into the hotel. The physicians discovered
that the femoral artery of the leg had been
severed, but by the time they arrived all efforts
to savelhim were unava alling, and the injured
man died in about fifteen minutes after the
accident. The physicians state that the only
injury sustained was the severiHg of the artery
mentioned, and that IL the artery had been
closed as soon as the injured man was picked
up, the great loss of blood, which caused his
death, would have been prevented. and his life
would probably have been saved. The coro-
ner's jury returned q verdict that the deceased
came to his death by accidentally falling out
of third story window. The deceased was
about forty-three years of age, and leaves q
wife and family TO mourn his loss.-PittsJurg
Commercial, Monday.
Year: 1867

NEW RAILROAD CARA novel style OF rail
car, carrying its own track, and designed for
use on common roads or the streets OF a city,
was shown at Philadelphia on Monday. In
this vehicle the car moves the wheels instead
OF the wheels moving the car, and the wheels
do not touch the ground at all. There are six
pairs OF wheels, and each pair has a broad fiat
foot attached. These "feet" rest on the ground
and bear up the wheeIs, " whIle two rails under
the body OF the car are made to roll along the
upper surface of the tire as if 1t were passing
over 30 many pullies or friction rollers The
feet and wheels are all connected by an end
less chain, and As fast as the body of the car
passes beyond one of these feet 1t Is lifted from
the ground and made TO travel along to the
front OF the car, where it drops on the road
again, and the whole is thus kept in contin-
uous 10 otion. The wheel truck in fact walks
along the road while the car itself rolls along
over the wheels. The body Of the car is in
form very much the same Irish iaunt.
ing car. =" where two rows of pas sengers sit
back to back, but is much longer, nd is in =
tended to carry about as many passengers az
can be seated In one OF our ordinary street
cars,
Year: 1867

CHOLERA IN ST. LOUIs.-We have authentic
intelligence that the Asatic cholera is prevail
ing to fearful extent in ST. Louis On
Wednesday there were twenty seven deaths,
and the disease is raging in all parts OF the
city. The press Is obligated by some strange
terms not to make public the condition OF
afairs.-LouiSciiIe Democrat.
Year: 1867

THE SANDWICH ISLAND TRBATY.-The
reciprocity treaty between this Government
and the Hawaiian Government of the Sand
wich Islands has been ratified by the au-
thorites at Honolulu, and will be sent to the
Senate at the next session for its action there
on. 1t was prepared IN the interest Of the
monarchists OF Hawaii as flank movement TO
head off the republicans, who are extremely
desirOus of annexng the Islands to the United
States. The argument used by the monarch
lists ls that, with San Francisco al q free port
to which the planters can send their sugar, the
sum of 5000, ,O0u will be saved annually to the
residents. and they plausibly argue that our
Pacific coast will be equally benefited
by reciprocal free trade in their ports. 1t
seems that the annexation movement became
70 strong that the King and his friends were
obliged to resort to the pending treaty as the
only measure which could allay its progress
The Government native journal opposed the
treaty and warned the mobiles and representa-
tives OF the Government against the malicious
designs Of traitors, and ad wise the Legislature
TO lay the treaty on the table.


The writer "said the chiefs and representa-
tives ofthe people In the Leg islature may think
they are called together to consider and pass,
for the general benefit, the invention between
the two Government; but in view OF the threats
to seize the eGoYernments,a and the desire for the
death Of his majesty, kRmahmaha. who Is so
greatly belo we'd, and who has the hearts Of all
the Hawailane, there 10 good reason to look
upon the treaty with distrust, and refuse to
pass it,"
Year: 1867

" The circulation Of the SPECTATOR is
about as great as the combined circulation
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: 1867


Dear mother, am all alone,
Ny heart is sad to-day,
Pm thinking of you, mother dear,
How long youv been awayl
o mother, dearest mother,
Ever faithful, kind and true,
Not one in all the world I find
To love me as did you.
0, how long once more to lay
My head upon your knee,
And listen to the little hymns
You used to sing to me.
am not now SO light and gay
Since you and Pa are gone,
l DO not care to sing and play,
I'd rather be alone


When other children happy seem
1t makes me feel so sad
For they lie in the church-yard now,
Who used to make me glad.
They ask me why look so sad
And speak in tender tone,
But even when l play with them,
/ still feel all alone
The birds don't sing SO sweetly now
As once they used to do,
And do you know sometimes think
The sparrows miss you too.
When you were here they used to come
For crumbs about the door,
And once or twice since then they came,
But now they come no more.
The lily that you loved so much,
In sadness droops its head
Indeed, l really think, Mama,
The flowers know you are dead.
I went one day to pluck a rose
From off your favorite tree,
And lol upon its velvet cheek,
A tea4-drop did see.
It seemed to say to me: "poor child,
Imiss your mother too,
l wish you'd place me near her grave
To weep for her with you."
And so I took the rose-bush up,
And placed it at your head;
Now, then, above your grassy tomb
Its flowers their perfume shed.
And every morning there I 60
As soon as it is light,
And find the roses all in tears,
o. tits a touching sight!
And sometimes, through my window, peep
A little star at night,
Then feel sure it is yoat7' smile
Beams on me through its light.
How far, mama, is Heaven above
The sky so bright and blue?
wish could go upthere now,
To live with Pa and you.
Sometimes in dreams I feel your hand
Placed kindly on my head,
And once you smiled so lovingly,
And kissed me as you said:
''Some day Tmlcoming, Ellie, dear,
When God the Word shall give,
And take you to our happy home,
Forever there to live"
O, then I'll be an angel bright,
And shall the Savior see,
Who said of little children,
Suffer them to come to me-"
I remember that you told me God
Had given us work to do
And maybe that is why he does
N lot let me go to you.
And so mean to ask him now
To teach me of his will,
And give sufficient grace and strength
My duty to fulfill.
Indeed ought to love Him, ma,
He's been a faithful Friend;
He loved me ere knew Him and
Will save me in the end.
And when he's done with me below
He'll call me to the skies,
And He, Himself, shall wipe away
The tears from off my eyes.
And 0, how happy we shall be
In that bright world above,
Where pain and parting are no more
Where all is joy and love.
Now will try to wait content,
Until the time shall come;
When God will give you leave to take
Your little orphan home.
WILLIE, July l2th 1857. L.
Year: 1867

Bulwer says, Female friendship is to a man
the bulwark, sweetener, ornament of his ex-
istence. To his mental culture it is invaluable;
without it all his knowledge of books will never
give him knowledge of the world
Year: 1867

The imagination divineness of mental
faculties-is Gods self in the SOUL All our
other faculties seem to me to have the brown
touch of earth on them but this one carries
the very livery of heaven. 1t is Gods most su-
pernal faculty, interpreting to us the difference
the difference between the visible and the invis-
ible; teaching Us how to take material and WIS.,
ible things and carry them up into the realms
of the invisible and the immaterial, and how to
bring down immaterial and invisible things, and
embody them in visible and material symbols
and so, being Gods messenger and prophet,
standing between our soul and Gods.
Year: 1867

DIR. Magoon recently in lecture on aMind
your own business" tells the following good one
"A young went from New York city to the
West, where he commenced business on his own
account, and married. His friends in the city
were interested in his welfare, and when mer-
chant was about to journey to the place where
the young man had located, he was requested to
visit the emigrant and ascertain how lie lived
and what sort of wife he had chosen. lis pros
poets, etc. Accordingly the New Yorker ascer-
tanned the residence of his young frienG, and
called upon him quite early in the morning He
found him in a small, neat cottage and just
taking his breakfast. The introduction of the
New Yorker to his wife was quite of-hand and
unceremonious, and he was requested to be seated
and partake Of the morning meal. The young
wife had prepared the steak, biscuit and coffee,
with her own hands, and for a table had used her
kneading board, over which a napkin was spread,
and the board placed on her lap The New
Yorker declined seat at the table and took his
leave. On making his report to his New York
friends rs to how he found his young friend living,
he descr bed the style as magnificent and for
explanation OF the superative, he said that were
he the owner of that young mans furniture he
would not tke ten Thousand dollars for the legs
of Ills table,
Year: 1867




IF the United States Congress take heed o
| the popular voice in time, We may be saved from
much suffering. Acting ON this belief a mum
Der of gentlemen of both sections of the country
have agreed to suggest the presentation of mon
ster memorials to Congress and the President
asking that the policy of the country may be i'm
mediately conformed to the actual needs of the
situation and to the expressed demands of pub
lie opinion. --


Below will be found this memorial which has
been prepared and recommended to the South
ern people with this view. We would request
our readers to bestow their earnest attention up
on it. We believe they will agree with us in
the conclusion that this movement, if it become
general, may do much good. Even if Congress
refuse to modify its policy, the fact of refusal in
the face of an overwhelming expression of opin-
ion from both sections of the country, will place
it still more decidedly in the wrong and streng
then the hands of that great party which is t.,
be charged with the final solution and settlement
OF these momentous problems:


TO has ErceUency the President and the .Senu-


tors "nd Representatives. fhe Z. s. Congress.


The undersigned, citizens Of the State of Lou
slana, respectfully represent that the political
developments of the past few months have de-
n;onstrated the fact that the Reconstruction acts
Of Congress WILL if persisted in, produce con-
fct of races which will result in the desolation
OF the country and the serious if not irreparable
injury OF both races in the Southern States


That the negroes Of this State are organized
into secret bands termed loyal leagues" sworn
and combined against their former owners and
citizens of the State in order to obtain control OF
the government.


That this credulous race has been deluded by
designing men into the belief that the property
of the white citizens Of the State will be divided
amongst them.


That, under these demoralzing influences
they are daily refusing to fulfill their contracts,
or labor for the support of themselves and their
families


That, in consequence of this decentralization
planting i'll this State has resulted in the runous
failure Of large majority of our planters, and,
OF course in the necessity of its abandonment.


That, before the close of the present year, the
negroes, with but few exceptions, will have con-
sumed or wasted all their wages, or share of the
crop, and be destitute OF the means of subsis-
tence.


That the white race will be compelled to limit
their planting to the labor of their own families
while the negroes will not have the means, if
they had the capacity, to plant on their own ac-
count.


Under these circumstances. famine, with all its
attendant horrors, must soon come upon this i'm
prOvident race.


In view of these impending calamities, the
undersigned would earnestly appeal to the Presi-
dent and Congress to give prompt attention to
this vitally important matter and provide imme-
diately such remedy as in their wisdom can be
devised, to avert the ruin which, unless arrested
must speedily come upon u.s.
Year: 1867

The old and numerous friends of my house know
of course their interest demands then, to give call
before purchasing. whilst the public generally can
rest assured that trisl at my will leave them
fully satisfied that and will sell at least low
q the lowest.


WHOLESALERS, who do nat wish to be under
sold, will do well to look through my stock.


Oct. 81. 1867 r. KOOPNANN
Year: 1867

can be bought in of the city.


As usual my stock comprises everything kept in
first class mercantile house. OF Dress Goods full
and complete stock: Calicoes in every variety and
pattern; Shiring, bleached and unbleached; Sheet
lngs and Pillow casing of all widths Ticking &C.


Special attention is called to my extraordinary
fnn and extensive stock of
Year: 1867

At the seige Of Leicester young
soldier, about seventeen years Of age,
was drawn out for sentry duty. One
of his comrades was very anxious
to take his place. No objection was
made and this man went. lie was shot
dead while on guard. The young-man
first drawn afterward became the author
of the 'sPilgnm's Progress.
Year: 1867

Bacon, the sculptor. when a tender
boy of fve years old, fell into the pit Of
soap boiler, and must have perished
had not workman just entering the
yard, observed the top Of his head and
delivered him. pa =