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Year: 1868

CaHFAsl MsNytUs There j. 40 great
~ education into yulgariy than home
carelessuess A man 81 wamm brought
up under such a system IS ruined .or
all the reality Of refinement IN after
wears The surliness loo often allowed
at home where children are permitted
20 be soappish Is each other dlsobhg
ing and discourteous. ruins the man
ners as much as It hurts the mind


Hence we come 70 company manners,
to a siekly sweetness put on simply for
the occasion, to formality Of speech
and an oppressiseness Of attentions. to
an exaggerated politeness that is 80
terribly afraid Of transgrossiug into hb-
critics as TO be absolute bondage, and
TO all the silly little Alterations belong
ing to the condition


We never know any one whom we
have not lived with, and even then not
always To be admitted into the Tenn
pie does not include entrance into the
asylum, and we may remain for weeks
in house where master and mistress
and maids are all reticent alike, aud
may know nothing Of the reality un-
derlying the surface People Of whom
| once know something aud who were
uotriously Unmatched, but marvellous
ly polite, could keep their house full Of
company and yet allow none Of their
guests to find ont that tho husband
and wife were not on speaking terms
All the communication between them
that was absolutely necessary was car
ried on by writing Personally, these
two, dispensing smiles aud ciyihties to
oil around, held no direct intercourse
Yet they managed SO well that no one
saw through the screen


With company manners and compa-
ny dress, there is also a company voice.
Who does not know that false voice OF
society," Mincing or thrown boldly for
ward, flung into the cnest OF pitched
up into the head, it is all the same
the company voice, ascent, choice OF
words, and register all artificial alike,
And there are company gestures, ---
People sit and stand and walk, and use
their hands according 10 the different
degrees Of familiarity in which they
stand towards their society. There is
a vast deal Of company make-benoye
among us; and if we would only give
half the time we now bestow on look
ing pretty and behaving pretty in so-
ciety, to be sweet tempered and amia-
bio, aud careful of pleasing, at home,
/ it would be all the better for ourselves
and our families, and n gain in the
way Of true civilization -Aii The Yen
/ Rouad.
Year: 1868

ANOTHER TURNER M.sQuERADE.-The Ger
man Turner'S making arrangements to give
another masquerade ball at their Hall in this
city on Monnay evening. March Both. That
nothing should be wanting to make this the
gion, they have made arrangements to procure
many of the most notable costumes and para
phernalia used at the recent great masquerade
in Chicago. Encouraged by the success of their
recent Masksn Ball, they confident the next
will he found immensely more brilliant and
worthy of patronage.
Year: 1868

OIiAWA, hdrch OtI, lCOC.


MEssRs. EpIToRs: Having returned from Il
trip through Michigan, where have been for the
last few weeks, on my arrival at the depot in
our kind little prairie home, the first greeting
got was, that the City Council had held sl,scaas
meeting, just five days before the time was ex-
pected home, and also before a regular meeting
of the City Council, at which L had hoped tU
participate.


And that they had passed an ordinance to be
submitted to the people at the next election, to
vote for Fifteen Thousand Dollars in addition to
the large amount appropriated the past year, for
school purposes, accompanied with threat, that
if the same was not gotsd for, the schools should
be closed.


Some are of the opinion that the Board, in an
ticipating more than the revenue assigned them
for school purposes, without first consulting those
from whom they expected to realize the same,
have acted hastily and it is thought by many
unwisely.


simply call the attention of the public to
this matter that they may be aware that ], iu
my position as Mayor, do not fully endorse this
hasty action We pay tax to support our
schools, and I hold many doubts whether the
Board of Education have any right to use that
money for any other purpose than that for which
it was intended THOMAS CLANCY Mayor.
Year: 1868

No TRADE. No trade, is the cry in every.
body's mouth now days. but stepping into
Fiske, Strickland e. Wings establishment the
other day we found all hands busy as bees.
They are. engaged in manufacturing stock of
clothing for their spring trade, that for style and
finish is equal to custom made work, and far
superior to anything We have eve. seen in this
market. They pay higher prices for their work
than any establishment IN the city, because they
demand and obtain from their employees superior
work Those who want anything in the way of
clothing or furnishing goods will find it to their
interest TO call and see them. They invite close
buyers to compare their work with that Of any
other maker. They have received the fashion
plates for the spring of 1868, and are now ready
to make any garment to order in the latest style
and with dispatch.
Year: 1868

The only trial during the week worthy of es.
pecial note was the divorce case Of Ruger W. Ru-
ger. 1t was given to the jury GA Wednesday,
and that body being unable to agree by Thurs
day noon, returned into court and reported the
fact. Thereupon the court gave them a gentle
scolding and having instructed them that by
the evidence no legal cause for divorce had been
SHOWN the jury, on retiring second time, found
no difficulty ia agreeing On verdict t. that
effect.


The only other cause tried was that Of .NclNai,
W. Dewey, involving the loss Of valuable mare,
through carelessness on the part of the defend.
ent, the owner Of stallion. Verdict for 1926
for plaintiff.
Year: 1868

PUBLIC SCHooLs.-The following is an Alb.
stract of the Monthly Report of the Superinten-
dent of City Public Schools for the month end
ing February a5th, 1868, showing the number
of pupils present at the beginning and end of the
month:
Year: 1868

Applicants for foreign missions are as plenti-
full as blackberries just now. They fill the
hotels, and night and day take possession OF the
ante-room of the executive Office, where the
great dispenser Of patronage sits patiently from
10 a. M, till close on midnight. Gentlemen
who are anxious for few years abroad come
with loads of recommendations, and are modest
enough to press their own claims in person
Last night one of these patriots called upon the
President accompanied by an influential friend
The latter did the introduction, and after few
fourishes Of blarney and soft sawder, remarked


''Mr President, this is young gentleman who
desires you to give him something abroad for a
few years He considers himself good repre-
sentative of the conservative people of New Jer-
sey, who have majority in that little State OF
seventeen thousand"


To which the President replied -"He Gel:
tainly comes well recommended"


Influential gentleman, smiling hopeful y
eyes, sir that seventeen thousand is good re-
commendation.


The President-''It is fine recommendation
but [ think we ought not to reduce that seven
teen thousand majority by sending the young
gentleman away. He is more useful III Ne"
Jersey than abroad"


The influential party and the young gentle
man with foreign tastes smiled grimly and de
| parted
Year: 1868

I have somewhere seen the story of a man
who went one evening to steal corn from his
neighbors field. He took his little boy with
him to sit on the fence and keepa look out, to
give warning In case any one should come along.
The man jumped over the fence with large bag
on his arm, and before commencing to take the
corn, he looked all around, and not seeing any
person, he was just about to fill his bag Then
the little fellow, his SOFA good little fellow ne
Was, tOo-cIied out:


s'Father, there is one way you havn't looked
yetw


The father was startled, and supposing that
some one was coming, he asked his son which
way he meant.


Why, said the little boy, ''you forgot to look
up"


The father was conscience stricken; he came
back over the fence, took his little boy by the
hand and hurried quietly home without the corn
which he had designed to take. The little boy
had reminded him that the eyes of God were up
on HIM
Year: 1868

Everybody has heard the term ''morganatic
marriages" and many people suppose that mar
riages of this kind are species OF concublnage,
in which the kings and princes of Europe are
fond of indulging This is not the case how
ever. A morganatic marriage is ust as binding
upon the parties as any other and precludes any
other marriage. The term is derived from the
German Morgengabe, which means dowry. 1t
signifies matrimonial contract in which one of
the parties is greatly superior in rank to the 9th
er. If it be the bride who is of inferior rank,
she agrees that she and her children shall be en-
titled neither to the rank nor the estate of her
husband, and that the dowry which is settled
upon her at the time of the marriage shall be ac-
copied in lieu of all other privileges. Ii the
man be the inferior, he gives his assent to similar
conditions. In the bridal ceremony the party of
superior rank gives the left hand instead of the
| right, to the other-whence these marriages are
sometimes styled ''left-handed." One Of the
| most famous marriages of this class was that OF
| Frederic William the Third of Prussia, to the
Countess Augusta of Harrach, upon whom her
husband conferred the rank of Princess of Lieg-
nitz-a marriage consummated in 1924, long
after the death of the kings more legitimate
spouse, the beautiful Queen Louisa. The Prin-
cess of Liegnitz is still living-a widow since
| 1910. Another morganatic marriage was that
| of the late king OF Denmark, Frederick the
Seventh, who, after being divorced from two
princesscs, married morganatically plain dress
maker by the name of Rasmussen, with whom
he lived happily till his death He first encoun-
tered her under very singular circumstances
1t is the custom at Copenhagen, when large
fire occurs, for one of the princes to attend it.
and to take command of the detachment of troops
which is always called out to keep order while
the fremen endeavor to extinguish the confa-
grafton. Frederic, then Crown Prince, was
once performing this duty, when his eye caught
sight of dressed wax-fgure in the window of &
dressmaker's shop in the second story of the
burning building. In the hurry and excite


ment of the moment he mistook this lay-fgurt
for living person endeavoring to escape from
the window. Leaping from his horse, he plunged
into the building and ascended the staircase
On his way through the rooms he discovered th'
owner of the dressmaking establishment, whC
was bewildered in the smoke, and whom he con


Quoted to place of safety This was the wo
man whom he subsequently married, bestowine
upon her the title of the Countess Danner, ant
settling upon her large dowry. She survived
him only year or two.
Year: 1868

HoRsEFLEsIr.-At an agricultural gathering
in an English town, the other day, Colonel Fame,
referring to the high price Of meat, said it was
his opinion that prices might be little too high
at the present time even for farmers themselves.
But they had one thing to fall back upon. He
did not know whether or not he should be abused
if he ventured to recommend it, but he had eat
en- horse-fesh himself, and he ventured to say
that there was great and unnecessary prejudice
against it. He was once dining, in company with
several other gentlemen, with one Of our great
est men-who had quails for break fast that cost
four or five shillings each-but at dinner there
was piece Of meat on the table, and his friend
said to them, just taste this" Well, one SAID
it was rather dry, and another said it was not;
but it was generally approved of, although there
was a difference of opinion upon it. That,


said the host, lis bit Of my old black pony,
which you knew so welf' (roars OF laughter. }
He looked upon the horse as the demonstrating
animal-in the world, and did not think any harm
would come if they tried the experiment.
Year: 1868

Mich Cows-A writer who says his COW
gives Al the milk that is wanted in family of
eight persons, and from which made two
hundred and sixty pounds of butter this year,
gives the following as his treatment. He says
IF you desire to get large yield of rich milk,
give your COW three times day water slightly
warm, slightly salted, in which brand has been
stirred at the rate of one quart to gallon OF
water You will find, if you lave not tried this
daily practice, that your cow will give twenty
five per cent more milk Immediately under the
effect of it, and she will become so attached to
the diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless
very thirsty, but this mess she will drink almost
any time and ask for more. The amount OF this
drink necessary is ordinary water pail full each
time, morning and night.
Year: 1868

THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE RECON
sTRUCTIoN LAW TO CONE BEFORE THE u.
S. SUPREME CpURT-A case is soon to come
before the Supreme Court here that will decide
as to the constitutionality of the reconstruction
law. It is that of Colonel McArdle an editor of
Natchez, Miss, who in his paper, recently in
dulged in some plain comments upon the prac-
teal working of the military governments. He
designated General Ord as a military satrap in
timating that he would have to enforce his mea-
sures at the point of the bayonet, and that the
people would not submit to his making Poland
Of Mississippi. He was arrested by order OF
Gen Ord, but before he could be tried by mill
tary commission writ of habeas corpus was
sued out, and ON examination before Judge Hill,
of the United States District Court of Mississippi
| he held that the law was constitutional and re-
manded the prisoner to custody, fixing his bail at
! 81 900. The case is now to b. sent here on a
writ of error with all the proofs and papers bear
| ing upon it. The hearing before Chief Justice
Chase and his associates will excite extraordinary
interest from the fact that it will be the first
case that has come before this court involving
the constitutionality of the reconstruction laws
1t is expected that the necessary documents viii
be here with little delay, and that the case vii
be taken mp out Of its order Hdsh. Dispotc'
| to the Ny Heratd.
Year: 1868

1t is only shallow-minded pretenders who
either make distinguished origin a matter Of per-
sonal merit or obscure origin matter Of personal
reproach Taunt and scofngat the humble con-
dition of early life, affect nobody in America but
those who are foolish enough to indulge in them,
and they are generally sufficiently punished by
the published rebuke A man who is ashamed
of himself, need not to be ashamed Of his early
condition 1t did not happen to me to be born
in log cabin, but my elder brothers and sisters
were born in 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 curcd over the frozen hill, there
was no similar evidence of a white mans habfta-
ton between it and the settlements on tho rivers
of Canada Its remains still exist; make II an
annual visit. l carry my children to it, TO teach
them the hardships endured by the generation
which have gone before them.


love to dwell on the tender recollections, the
kindred ties the early affections and the narra-
tions 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 af-
fectionate veneration for him who raised it, and
defended it against savage violence and destruc-
ton. cherished all domestic comforts beneath its
roof. and through the fire and blood Of seven
wears revolutionary war shrunk from no Toll, no
sacrifice to serve his country, and to raise hia
children to d better condition than his own--may
| nv name and the name of my posterity. be blot
| ted forever from the memory OF mankind---DaD-
iel Webster.
Year: 1868

THE MonORgdheId Republican has the
following; Not very long ago, the young
and beautiful wife OF one of our citizens
was called to her final account, leaving
her husband sad, disconsolate, and bereft.


She was buried in the adjacent cemetery,
and the husband returned to his desolate
home, but not TO forget the loved one.
She was present with him by day, in
spirit, and in his dreams at night. One
popularity of his dreams, and one that
haunted him-being repeated night after
night-was this that the spirit of his
wife came to his bedside and told him that
the undertaken had not removed from her
face the square piece of muslin, or nap
kin, which had been used to cover her
face after death but had screwed down
her coffin-lid with 1t upon her, and that
she could not breathe In her grave. but
was in unrest on account Of the napkin. He
tried TO drive the dream away, but It bided
with him by night, and troubled him by
day. He sought the consultations Of re-
ligion, and his pastor prayed with him
and assured him that 1t was wicked TO in
dulge such morbid fancy. 1t was the sub.
ject Of his own petition before the Throne
Of Grace; but still the spirit came and told
anew the story Of her suffocation. Ia dc
spair, he sought the undertaken, Mr.


Dickey, who told him that the napkin had
not been removed, but urged him to for.
get the clrcumstance, a. II could not be
any possible annoyance to inaninate clay


While tho gentleman frankly aclSnowl


edged this, he could not avoid the appari


tion, and continual stress upon his mind be


gan 70 tel upon bis health. AZ length h
Year: 1868

The fact that the views of several of the
representative men of the country, on the
question of paying the national debt, have
lately been sensibly modified, may Justly
be regarded as most encouraging indica-
uon. The political canvass has developed
the fact that the sentiment of the people
Is unequivocally against all forms Of repu-
diation. The masses recognizes the fact
that to pay the Five.Twenty bonds In
paper promises, which are already dishon-
ored, is to sacrifice national credit and
national honor; and hence the disposition
ON the part of the few leaders, who had
advocated the payment of the bonded debt
in an inflated paper currency, to place
themselves right on the record. 1t is to be
hoped that their example will be emulated
by ALL representative men, who advocate
this species of reputation. Then, we
might reasonably look for such strength
ening Of the public credit, as would en-
sure an early return to specie payments,
which is indispensably necessary to COM
plete prosperity. Public faith is the
scource of credit, and on credit alone,
nations stand In all their international
relations. 1t is on the broad and only
safe ground of a moral obligation that we
insist that nothing short of punctual pay
ment ofinterest and principal of the whole
national debt in coin, as the same shall
fall due, should for one moment be en-
tertained. The war which caused the
debt was carried on upon the trust which
the people roposed In the honor OF their
race. The government was their agent,
and they loaned their money as princi-
pal means for the perpetuity of the Union.
What they, and others not of our people,
who loaned upon the same basis of faith,
advanced, constitutes an enormous bur
den upon the resources of the nation.
Unquestienably it extracts a heavy taxa
tion for its interest, and adds in every
way to the cost of supporting life; but Il
is nevertheless a just debt, and o debt
means an obligation, which, if it does not
rest in morals, rests no where; and if it is
founded in morals, is as obligatory as any
thing that can affect the conscience of men.
The magnitude of the debt, the way in
which it is now held, or the amount given
for it by original or present holders, have
no more to do with the duty of paying 1t,
both interest and principal, when due, than
the fact that merchants notes are nu-
merous,a have been heavily shaved does
with his duty to pay their face at maturity.
There is an abstract morality, inexorably
cocrcive of nations as of men, unless NOR
ality has, indeed, no higher origin than
personal interest; and posterity would
have small room to thank the present
generation for money saved, at the cost of
credit and honor. The nation has demon
strated that 1t is abundantly able to pay
all its Indebtedness, according to the terms
on which 1t was contracted, and as soon
as all forms of repudiation cease to be
talked of, the public credit will advance,
and the difference between gold and paper
money will gradually cease to exist,-Neto
YORK. ShtppinQ List.
Year: 1868

IT is seldom necessary to file ring
which is too tight to readily pass the joint
of the finger. If the finger is swollen, ap-
ply cold water to reduce the Inflammation,
then wrap small rag wet in hot water
around the ring to expand the metal, and
soap the finger. A needle threaded with
strong silk can then be passed between
the ring and fore finger, and person hold
ing the two ends and pulling the silk while
slowly slid around the periphery of the
ring may readily remove it. If the ring
Is plain hoop this process is easy; if it
has setting or protuberance more care
will be required. Another process is to
pass piece of sewing silk under the ring
and wind the thread in pretty close sp:rals
snugly around the finger to the end.
Then take the lower end-that below the
ring-and begin unwinding. The ring is
certain to be removed unless the silk is
very weak. The winding congresses the
finger and renders the operation less diff
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