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Year: 1865

EvIN LONDON, on the 10th instant, goods
train was blown two miles through puenma-
tic tube in FIVE mintes. The Duke of Buck
ingham and several directors of the company
we're blown through in the same length of
time. Additional lengths of tubing are about
to be opened A circular disc, or fan, TWEEN
ty-two feet in diameter, is made to revolve
rapidly by steam'power and can be used either
for propelling the laden trains by atmospheric
pressure behind them, or for drawing them
back through the tube by forming partial
vacuum before them.
Year: 1865

Eg-Thc new bridge about to be suspended
over the Ohio river at Cincinnati will be the
longest structure of the kind in the world,
being more than two hundred feet longer than
that over the Niagara river, ard five hundred
and forty feet longer than the Menai bridge,
England. Its total span will be one thou
sand and ffty-seve feet The stone piers
rise one hundred and ten feet above the floor
of the bridge, and two hundred feet above
their foundations One year is allowed for
building it.
Year: 1865

A BUILDING IN CHICAGO DESTROYED AY A
TonpEDo.--The Chicago Oil } papers state
that an attempt was made few nights since
to destroy an entire household by blowing up
dwelling with large torpedo. The instru-
ment was thrown through the window into
the parlor, with slow match attached where
it exploded, making complete wreck of the
building and its furniture The very roof was
moved from its position by the force of the
explosion but, strange to say, the inmates
escaped with their lives The reason assigned
for this act of vandalism is that the house was
of the class denominated FAST" and was in :
babited by a large number of disreputable
females.
Year: 1865

FIRST LovE.-David Crockett, when quite
a youth, fell in love with beautiful Quaker
girl, and he thus forcibly, graphically, and
POLITICALLY, describes the effect on an ardent
and susceptible mind, produced by first love-:


II found myself over head and ears in love
with this girl, and thought that if all the hills
were pure chnk. and all belonged to me
would give them if could just talk to her as
l wanted to- but l was afraid to begin; for
when would think of saying anything to her,
my heart would begin to iutter like duck in
puddle; and if tried to outdo it, and
speak, it would get right smack up my throat
and choak me like cold potato"
Year: 1865

Commodore Murray took possession of the
rebel ram Stonewall on the I'd instant by
simply raising the American flag at the mast
head


He is empowered to return the $4,000
advanced by the Spanish Government to pay
the crew of the ram. The Stonewall will
probably 20 into the dock there to h ave her
bottom cleaned before leaving for the States
Year: 1865

EF-The New York Journal of Commerce
is informed that the Fenians are making con-
siderable purchases of fire. arms in that city.
They are said to be rather indifferent as to
quality. The trade in pistols is also brisk
lor the Southern market.
Year: 1865

The New York Journal Of Commerce
commenting upon the result OF the re-
cent election in Connecticut, says;


Let it be rememembered that this is a
State decision. In this vote we have an
instance of the exercise of State sover-
eighty, the highest exercise of it indeed,
since it is question going TO the very
foundation of all government among rs
1t is an interesting and instructive scene
just now. No one has thought otrequesE
ing President johnson te interitre and
compel Connecticut to give negroes the
right of voting. That State is still with.
in military district and the writ OF
haJeas corpus remains suspended there.
But we have not heard of any proposal to
proclaim the negroes citizens in full
standing, or TO compel the adoption OF
the new plan as q military necessity
On the contrary it is conceded 'that
neither the General Government nor any
State except Copnecticut-no, not even
Massachusetts-has any right to inter
fere with the absolute power OF Connec-
ticut to determine who shall vote in that
State. So that the doctrine OF state
rights and State sovereignty over its III,
ternal affairs prevails with all men OF all
parties, Notwithstanding the fierce at
tacks which have been made on these
principles
Year: 1865

The political campaign in New York
has opened and the State is to be thor
oughly canvassed by the best speakers
in the Democratic party. Governor sEY-
MoUR and JOHN VAN BUREN spoke in
New York last Thursday General SLo-
CUM, the Democratic candidate for Sec
retary of State, made a very eloquent
speech at Syracuse last Monday night.
The following extract serves to show
what he thinks of the Republican party:


During the war which has just closed,
have had little to do with politics-l
have made no political speeches, written
no political letters-I have found
the responsibilities devolving upon
me from my position in the ar
nv quite sufficient to occupy all
my time and attention. Having now re-
turned to civil life, intend to support
such measures as deem best calculated
to promote the interests OF our country,
and the prosperity and happiness of our
people. l find one party united in the
support of such measures--the other par
ty divided upon them, and in several
States strongly denouncing them-could
l hesitate as to my coursel Earnestly
indorsing and approving every resolu.
tien adopted by the Democratic Con-
vention, supposed in accepting nomi-
nation from that convention that was
entering the house of my political friends,
rather than that Of my opponents The
tornado which swept slavery from the
land, swept with it every platform ever
adopted by the Republican party prior
to the war can call to mind but one
resolution adopted by that party, before
the close of the war, which has any bear
ing on the issues now before the people.
On the god of July, 1861, the representa-
tives of that party in Congress assembled,
without a dissenting voice declared,
the war is waged to defend and main
tain the supremacy Of the Constitution,
and to preserve the Union with all the
dignity, equality and rights of the sew.
eral States unimpaired To the princi-
pies thus solemnly declared | still ad
here, and regret to see a large portion
of the Republican party diverging from
them. At the time of the passage
Ol lul5 ISSOlullull lLOlC NCiC many LuCl
at the South who had opposed secession,
and who were unwilling to aid their
States in making war upon our Govern
ment The resolution was a solemn
pledge to that class as to the treatment
they should receive in case their States
should again be brought under the con-
troll of the General Government. 1t was
a solemn declaration to every officer and
soldier of the Union armies as to the
principles for which they were contend
ing 1t was made at period of gloom
and dependency, on the darkest day
ever known in the capital of our coun-
try: the clouds that then hovered over
us have been dispelled; not an armed
foe is now to be found within our borders.
Is it not humiliating to witness on the
part of large portion of the party which
has controlled the destiny of our nation
for five years a disposition to repudiate,
in the hour of triumph, solemn pledges
made in the hour of danger?
Year: 1865

THE New York Diocesan Convention
adjourned on Friday, having completed
its business without the least jar or
trouble. No reference was made to the
DR. Tying affair, or high or low church
in any way. 1t is said that Bishop Pot
ter's kind and conciliatory sentiments con-
cerning the Southern brethren will have
a powerful influence in hushing the tur-
bulent voices that are painting for a
hearing, in the General Convention, in
favor Of annexing conditions to the re-
turn of the wandering sheep in that part
Of the fold
Year: 1865

WHY SHE LEFT OBERLIN.-Under this
head an exchange says that few days
ago two negro women of that place, one
of whom had been living in Oberlln
short time, met and had conversation
as follows:


HANN1BAL-"I say, you, what you leve
Oberlin for}''


QUIScY-"What leves Oberlin for
tell YOU that l would not stay there an
other day for the world why, you can't
90 to church and catch colored bean
but what some of them Oberlin white
men will take you away from him before
you get half way home"
Year: 1865

THE question as to the constitutions
ality of the oath imposed upon attorneys
by the new constitution of Missouri, has
been appealed to the Supreme Court Of
tie United States on writ of error from
the Supreme Court Of that State
Year: 1865

All who have committed an excess of any kind
whether it be the solitary vice of vout or the sting
ing rebuke of misplaced confidence in maturer years


SEEK FOR IN ANTIDOTE IN SEASON.
The Pains and Aches, and Lassitude and Nervous
Prostration that may follow Impure Cotton, are


Qc the barometer to the whole system.


Donot wait or the consummation that sure to fol-


low. do not wait for Unsightly Ulcers, for
T. Disabled Limbs, for LOSS of beauty hs
.Hi o afIa.o4a and Complexion.
Year: 1865

! A curious incident lately occurred in
a French criminal court. A young wo.
man, carrying a child less than a year
old in her arms, was arraigned for hav-
ing stolen three gold ten-franc pieces
from the house of lady where she
called on business. The prisoner sta
ted in her defence that her baby snatch
ed the coins from table without her
knowledge, and carried them home in
its hand that she had just discovered
them there, and was preparing to go
back with the money when she was ar
rested. The defence was thought most
improbable, owing to the childs age /;
but the president, in order to test its
possibility, ordered one of the ushers
to lay three gold pieces on the edge
of the dock, within the baby's reach.
The moment the little thing saw the
money it clutched the pieces firmly and
attempted to put them in its mouth.
This experiment satisfied the tribunal
that the woman had told the truth, and
she was i'll consequence acquitted of
the charge.
Year: 1865

couth form among the genteel visitors


but few words whispered in his eal
speedily satisfied his doubts the stran
ger took his place in the company
some Struggling, some staring, some
laughing outright. Yet there was
more in that single man than in all the
rest of the throng. He was an Amer.
ican woodsman, as he said he was a
genuine son of Nature, yet had been
fentertained with distinction at the ta,
bic of princes learned societies, to
which the like of Cuvier belonged,
bowed down to welcome his presence
kings had been complimented when he
spoke to them; in short, he was one
whose fame will be growing brighter
when the fashionables who laugh at
him and many much greater than they
shall be utterly perished. From every
hill top and deep, shady grove, the
birds, those blossoms of the air, will
sing his name. The little wren will
pipe it with his matin hymn about our
house the oriole carol it from the slen-
der grasses of the meadows the tur-
tie dove roll it through the secret for
est; the many-voiced mocking bird
pour it along the air and the imperi-
al eagle, the bird of Washington, as
he sits far up on the blue mountains,
will scream it to the tempest and the
stars. He was the late John j. Audu-
bon, ornithologist.
Year: 1865

In the first place, make up your
mind to accomplish whatever you un-
dertakc decide upon some particular
employment and perseverein in it. "All
difficulties are overcome by diligence
and assiduity."


BE not afraid to work with your
hands, and diligently too. "A cat in
gloves catches no mice" g He who
remains in the mill grinds, not he who
goes and comes"


Attend to your own business and
never trust it to another "A pot that
belongs to many is ill stirred and worse
boiled.p h~ s."


BE frugal. "That which will not
make pot, will make pot-lid.'
Save the pence, and the pounds will
take care of themselves" tea


Rise early. The sleeping fox
catches no poultry" "Plow deep
while sluggards sleep, and you will
have corn to sell and to keep"
Treat every one with respect and
civility. Everything is gained and
nothing lost by courtesy Good
manners insure Success" q
Never anticipate wealth coming
from any other source than labor and
Year: 1865

1t would seem that man has been
long enough on earth to learn the prop
er use of every part of his body. But
new discoveries are constantly made.
and it is now claimed that one chief
cause of pulmonary disease is from
wrong habits of breathing. The fol-
lowing paragraph is noteworthy:


There is one rule to be observed in
taking exercise by walking-the very
best form in which it can be taken by
the young and able-bodied of all ages,
and that is, never to allow the action
of respiration to be carried Oh through
the mouth. The nasal passages are
clearly the medium through which res
.piration was, by our Creator, designed
to be carried on. God breathed into
mans nostrils the breath of life" pre-
vious to his becoming a living crea-
ture The difference i'm the exhaustion
of strength by long walk with the
mouth firmly closed, and respiration
carried on through the nostrils instead
of through the mouth, is inconceivable
to those who have never tried the ex-
pertinent. Indeed, this mischievous
and really unnatural habit of carrying
on the work Of inspiration and expira-
ton through the mouth, instead of
through the nasal passages, is the true
origin Of almost all the diseases of the
throat and lungs, as bronchitis, conges-
tion. asthma and even consumption
itself That excessive perspiration to
which some individuals are SO liable
in their sleep, which is SO weakening
to the body, is solely the effect of such
persons sleeping with their mouths un-
closed. And the same unpleasant and
exhaustive results arise to the animal
system from walking with the mouth
open, instead of, when not engaged i'll
conversation, preserving the lips in a
state of firm but quiet compression.
AS the heat and velocity of the blood
through the lungs depends almost en-
tirely upon the quantity OF the atmos-
phcric air inhaled with each inspira-
ton, and it is unavoidable that it
should be taken in, in volume, by the
mouth, whilst it can only be supplied
in moderate quantities, and just in suf-
ficicnt proportion to serve the purpose
of healthy respiratory action, whilst
supplied through the nostrils, it is clear
that the body must be much lighter
and cooler, and the breathing much
freer and easier, when the latter course
rather than the former is the one adopt
ed. Children ought never to be allow
ed TO stand or walk with their mouths
open for, besides the vacant appear
ance it gives to the countenance, it is
the certain precursor OF coughs, colds
and sore throats.
Year: 1865

A Detroit officer who was taking female
prisoner along from Saginaw in the cars, left
her for few minutes 10 go into another car,
when the conductor came along, aud the
woman refusing to pay her fare, he put her
off the train. The officer was not little chop
fallen when he found how he had lost his
prisoner
Year: 1865

A Cleveland paper says that a young girl Of
that city would have been killed the other
day if a gentleman had not caught her in his
arms. That's the way some young fellows
have tried to save a good many girls.
Year: 1865

AN HoSEST LlYE.-The poor pittance Of sew
enty years is not worth being a villain for What
matter is it if your nei -hbor lies in splendid
tomb ? Sleep you With innocence. Look behind
you through the track Of time. a vast desert
lies open in retrospect wearied with years and
sorrow, they sink from the walks OF men. You
to leave them where they fall and you must
go a little further and you will ind eternal rest


Whatever You may have to encounter between
the cradle and the grave every moment is big
with events, which come not in succession but
bursting forcihly from revolving and unknown
cause HY oyer this orb with divers lied influence
Year: 1865

AN editor, having read in another paper that
tnere Is tobacco which, that if man smokes
or ehexs. will make him forget that he owes
Shilling IN the world innocently concludes that
many OF his subscribers have been furnished with
the article
Year: 1865

Az EpocH IN MILITARY HIsToRY-A New HERO.
The New York TriJaae says the carrying of such
a work as Fort Fisher by storm is an epoch in
military history;


9 As the monitor Nsrrimac fight was to naval
warfare as the preaching of Pulaski by light
guns at eighteen hundred yards was to casemated
forts on land, so may the storming of Fort Fish
er be to the newly vaunted earthw0rk defenses.
The ever oscilating superiority Of attack and
Defense which for three years has been sup
posed be with the latter, rests with the former
Heresm is better than dirt. The masonry Of
Yauban detied the weak artillery of the first half
of the century. and when that system fell the
earthworks of Todteben gain restored the odds
to defensive warfare but tie genius and the reSO-
lutte will OF one commander aided by the un-
eQualed valor of his troops, have neutrallzed and
overpowered the best engineering science OF the
dav. and at this moment no fertilization is secure
against assault.


+ Alfred II. Terry, Brevct Major-General United
States Volunteers is the hero of this new success


Educated a lawyer, never within fifty miles of
West Point, child of the people aud 4 soldier
( in this war from the beginning for conscience
sake-hc it is who has won in a single day Il
national fame aud professional military renown
not inferior to the psoudest. General Terry was
one OF the few men who before the war the


necessity of preparation for it, who helped to
put his State (Connecticutj in preparation for it,


and devoted his energies to its approaching de-
mands He among the first in the field, has


served steadily and with ever Increasing dis
tnction since and now at bound reaches the


highest place among the soldiers of the Rcpub-
!
Year: 1865

The New York Herald, in Its account of
the Otero assassination in the Park, and
the arrest of the murderers, narrates
this dramatic incident, which would do
well to adorn the next sensational novel. II
says:


yesterday morning Gonzales was taken
10 the dead-hOuse, where the lifeless body
of 0tero was lying. He was not told the
purpose of the visit, and was brought into
the room by Captain Waddy, unconscious
of the presence of the dead. When he
stood beside the shSuded corpse the cover
ing was removed, and his dark, evil eye
fell on the ghastly face of the murdered
man. Instantly a tremor shot through his
frame, gurgling sound issued from his
throat, his face grew absolutely liyid, his
lips parted, aud a choking sensation came
over him. With an indescribable express
sion of horrors and fright he turned his face
away from the mute witness of his crime,
and could not be induced 10 look ON IL
again"
Year: 1865

Broken the golden chord,


Severed the silken tie!
Never again will the old days come,
Darling, to you and /
Dead the beautiful Past


Scattered around its bier,
Pale thoughts lie thick, and memories
OF days that were so dear
Memories! Fold them up


Lay them sacred by;
What avails it to. dream of the Past !
The Future for you and L!
Broken the silken cord,


Severed the golden chain,
Linking us with the beautiful days
That never can come again
Year: 1865

Who is 1, knocks this stormy night?
BE very careful Of the light -
The good msa said 70 his wife,


And the good wife went to the door;
But never again in all his life


VIII the good man see her more.
For he who knocked that night was Death,
Aud the light went out with a little breath
And the good man will miss his wife,


Till he, too, goes to the door
When Death will carry him up to life,


To behold her face ouce more.
Year: 1865

VALIANDIGHAN, the leader Of the Ohio
Democracy during the war, and the most
noted and influential member of that party in
the United States, has taken the stump in
behalf of the Democratic ticket, headed by
Gen. MORGAN.


There was one regiment from Ohio, out OF
over two hundred in the field, which voted
for VALLANDlGHAN two years ago, and a
goodly portion Of his speech was devoted to
the gIori6cation Of that Copperhead regi-
ment and the rest of it to the alorifcation OF
himself and the abuse of Mr. LIycoLN's Ad.
ministration and prominent men who sup
ported it in the field and elsewhere. He
calls upon his "Copperhead Regiment and
soldiers generally, TO rally and place the re-
united Democracy of the North and the
South in power again, that they may take
ample vengeance on their enemies, and visit
condign punishment upon those who have
been making war on the South, and persecu-
ting the Northern friends of the South by
arbitrary arrests. military trials and other un-
warrantabe proceedings.


We can conceive of no more striking ex-
ample of utter decentralization than is fur
nished by soldiers in the support. of a party
of which VALLASDIGHAN is the chief and
most illustrious martyr.
Year: 1865

We gladly give place tothe following
letter, addressed TO lis by gentlemen OF
this city, and shall he pleased TO further
his praiseworthy proposition in any way
that we can The future historian OF the
great war of secession, VIII dwell with
pleasure on the splendid achievements
and the exalted character of StOnewall
Jackson; and all America will, one of
these days, claim the honor of being the
country of this great captain and simple
hearted Christian hero. Little VIII the
people OF after times reck whether he
flashed his stainless sword in defense OF
his native State and her endangered
homes and temples in defense OF the
war against the stronger whether he
fought for the Stars and the Stripes OF
the imperial Union They will only
remember that in all his grand career
he comported himself as became the he
roc loader of Christian army that
his death overwhelmed his cOuntrymen
with anxious sorrow, and that Virginia
all and the States of the South mourn
and yenerate him ~ the worthlest and
the dearest, and the most glorious OF
those who fell in defense of their soil
against the resistless armies of the Union.
Little does the Englshman OF to-day
care on which side Cromwell fought, and
Oh which Rupert. They are proud alike
of the grim and stearn old warrior who
fought against his king, and gilded his
rebellion with the bright tint of success,
and of the gallant and gay cavalier who
WAS ever loyalto the crown, and ready
TO die for his king And SO all Americans
will one Of these days be proud of the
fame of Stonewall Jackson, and Will
enrol his name on the proud list of Amer
lean heroes and soldiers:


New YORK, Dec. %, ls65.
Hon. BENJAMIN Itood:


Will Won not start movement for the
relief of the widow of the brave Jack
son? Think of his widow and child liv-
mo ON an income of $50 per year She
has been compelled to sell everything
but small house in Lexington. and this
brinrs in the above rental. Gladly
would she return and occupy her little
house herself, but she has not the means
to live there, and there is a fear that
even this will have to he sold To meet
the demands she cannot avert


Surely there are friends enough OF the
illustrious "Stonewall' in the North to
rally to the aid OF his widow and child
once they are apprised of their extreme
destitution.


What names will be hOnored i'll the
column of THE News by contributing to
this most worthy object COntribu-
tions NAV be sent to the care of the Rev.
DR. Hoge, at Richmond | enclose my
card, and remain, Truly yonr7.