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Year: 1868





Out in the woods the lonely trees
Toss and moan in the winter wind,
For the birds have flown far DER the seas,
And they are left behind.
Bare and cold in the twilight dun,
They pine for the light of summer ewes,
When the golden rays of the setting sun
Shone through their golden leaves.
Far away o'er the purple hills
The moon is climbing to the skies,
And faint gleam over the water thrills,
Where her trembling radiance lies.
The flowers are dead and the birds are flown,
And the wind blows cold from the chilly sea,
And think of the days that are dead and gone
That will never come back to me.
But the flowers will bloom again in spring,
And the birds fly home from over the seas,
And, nestled in sweet green leaves will sing
All day to the happy trees.
And somewhere, deep in this heart of mine,'
Under the sorrow, and car eand pain,
Waiting for April suns to shine,
For April clouds to rain,
Lies little Hope, like a violet,
Ready to bloom with the other flowers;
And over the grave Of my old regret
Springs dream of brighter hours.
Year: 1868

The subjoined extract from recent private
letter from Howell Cobb, of Georgia, is made
public


Il entered this contest with desire for the
success OF our ticket which | never ielt before.
Wearied with the bitter struggles OF the past
few years, my heart pauted tor peace, dutet, and
repose. In the election of Governor Seymour
and the success of the Democratic party 1 felt
IN common with all our good people, there was
not only prospect but a certainty of peace-an
enduring peace, that would lift up our own
desolated section and give 10 it new days of
property; restoring too, the past relations of
brotherhood between the two sections, and
making us once more a happy and unlted people
united not merely in name, nut in heart, rpirIt,
and truth. 1t was with these feelings | was
induced to break long selfimposed silence,
and address the people OF Georgia, to induce q
like feeling on their part. Well. imagine, II you
can, the surprise with which have read the
comments in radical papers on that speech,
perVerupg its meaning, distorting and constru-
Inc my words of peace and hope into words of
blood and revolution! i am made the advocate
of strife and war, when from every pore Of my
heart there comes gushing the most earnest
and sincere desire for peace lasting, eternal
peace. Do me the favor to read a revised aud
correct copy of that speech, which send you,
so that our friends at least in the North may
truihfully Judge me,'
Year: 1868

The New York Herald of this morning con-
tains the folowiDg:-


The Broadway Theatre is closed, and not but
one theatre IN the city monopolizes all that
there is of Foul Pidy. In consequence of the
refusal yesterday on the part of Judge Barnard
to remove the injunction which had been
granted on Wednesday last against the drama of
Foul Play as performed at the Broadway
Theatre, that establishment was compelled to
keep its doors closed last evening, and its
patrons we're obliged to solace themselves by
finding amusement elsewhere. 1t was not
known until late in the afternoon that the in.
junction could not be removed; too, late, in
fact, to admit of another play being substituted
for the one under the ban. As the
company had been engaged to perform
in that particular piece and could not be
brought together until about quarter of an
hour before the usual time for raising the cur
tain it was deemed advisable by the manager
not TO open the house, as it would be impossible
TO give a frst-class performance, such as has
always Charact eriZed this theatre, on SO short a
notice; therefore 1t was that hundreds of our
amusement loving citizens last evening were
doomed to disappointment. The house would
undoubtedly have been crowded to excess had
IT been open, for long after the customary hour
had arrived for commencing the performance
hundreds OF people continued TO flock to the
theatre in carriages, in omnibuses. and atoot,
only to find the graat lamps in front OF the house
as black as Erebus, and the iron railing that
guards the entrance TO the yestIbule locked and
boled. The theatre will remain closed until
Monday evening" when Mrs. General Lander,
the great tragedienne, will appear in the role of
Mary Stuart" in the play Of that name,
Year: 1868




WASHINGTON, Aug. pa new idea has been
broache1 by certain Southern auti.radical poll
tcians in favor of allowing every native and
naturalized citizen of the United States in the
reconstructed States the right to vote in the
coming Presidential election. The idea is,
briefly, that the constitutional amendment
of the Constitution known as article fourteen,
only deprives of the right to hold Office such
persons as, anterior to the Rebellion, took an
oath to support the Constitution aud afterwards
engaged in the Rebellion, and gave aid and
comfort to the enemy. By referring to the arti.
Gle it will be noticed that not word is said
about the right of such persons to vote, and
hence Southern politicians contend that they
have not been deprived of that right by the ne "
amendment.


The Next Session of Congress.
Dispatch TO The Associated Press.


WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-Efforts are still being
made by Southern Republicans for September
session of Congress, but Senator Morgan, who
is now here, says that no understanding exists
between himself and General Schenck on that
subject,
Year: 1868

rived from Il; on TIE contrary, nothing but mis-.
chief must be the result.


The people of the city are alive 10 the necsssi-
ties of the police, and although immediate relief
may not be given to their distress. yet there is
excellent reason to believe that some remedy VII
be soon applied to their condition.
Year: 1868

FORCE kEDUCKD.-In compliance with an
act oi congress for the reduction of the cler-
zeal force IN the Departments. the Surgeon
General has ordered the discharge Of several
citizen clerks in his department.
Year: 1868

No FUNDING BILL THIS SEssION.-It was
announced from Committee of Ways and
Means N the House thIs afternoon that there
was no prospect OF an agreement upon q fund
ing bill az tins session. The Senate Committee
reported bill preventing the Secretary of the
Treasury from paying commission OF allowing
per eentage on sales of gold or Government
securities; which was unanimously passed.
Year: 1868




Change Of Mall Ro,ae.--We are In
formed, says the Cecil Democrat. that it is
the intention of parties Interested, to make
application to the Post Office Department
for change of the mail route from Elkton
to Chestertown, so that the daily mail from
Elkton may pass through Cayot's Corner
and Cecilton, thence to Sassafras, instead
of through Sc. Augustine and Warwick as
at present. The distance over the pro-
posed route, it is claimed, will not be ma
tcrially greater, while the roads. will be
much better than those over which the
stage has now to travel The only Post
Offices that will fail of supply by the new
arrangement are those at st. Augustine
and Bohemia Mills. The latter is station
of so little Importance, that an Office is not
open there more than half the time, and
the limited mail matter there deposited can
be sent to Middletown, distance of about
two niles The st. Augustine Post Office
will shortly be discontinued for want of an
agent, and is at best, the depository of but
little mail matter. Cayot's Corner, where
new Office would be opened, is the center
of a large community, and would be an Of
fee of much Importance and great convc-
niencc to persons in the diriction of Town
Point and Port Herman, who have now to
go to Chesapeake City for their mails.


At present, we are informed, much
larger amount of mail is left daily at the
store in that place for distribution, than is
received at St. Augustine, Added to this
the advantage of a regular daily mail to
the first district instead of az at present,
the uncertainty of a roundabout commu-
nication by the Del. railroad, ought to
commend this change to public approval
The Bohemia Bridge makes this route for
the first time practicable. Warwick would
still have its daily mail supplied by the
route of the northern mail from Middle
town, Del. TO ,Cecilton, and be in no wise
materially inconvcnicnced. Or if it were
reduced to the same necessity that Ceeilton
is now for its Baltimore mail, the simple
fact that postal matter to and from Cecil
ton is ten times as great as that to and
from Warwick, ought to silence cavil and
reconcile all parties to the change. Add
to these considerations the prospect Of a





Bridge across the Sassafras at Frederick
town, andthe near approach to realization
Of the opening of the original direct route
from Elkton to Chcstcrtown across the
Bohemia and Sassafras rivers, and the adj
~ocates of the proposed change have
abundant ground to justify their petition
to the Department. x
Year: 1868

We learn that the Tockwa Lyccum was
'reorganized at Sassafras, on Saturday last,
by a large attendance of the literati of the
vicinity. Some few years ago the Tockwa,
undoubtedly, stood second to none of the
Debating Societies of this section, and we
doubt not will again hold such position
among societies Of that kind.
Year: 1868

Such bargains cannot be obtained elsewhere
in this city rs you can get at the selling out
place. The same is to continue only for q short
time and it is to the advantage of every one to
call and purchase at the small but well stocked
store, No. 3G KING ST., which you cannot
fail to notice, from the fact that q small red
flag hangs out at the door. Sc far, every one
who has purchased, calls out cheap, cheap,
very cheap. Notice the following price list:
Year: 1868

The largest stock in this market is to be
slaughtered at Reddick 4 Gllens in the next
thirty days. There is no humbug about this
sale. All are invited and requested to have no
delicacy in calling and examining goods and
testing the truth of what this firm advertise.
Year: 1868

THE AUCTION SALE OF Clothing by John
Stout, at the late store Of Thorn & Armstrong,
has been the great business excitement of the
city during the week The best Of clothing is
being literally given away, and everybody is
coming out in now, stylish rig. The sale con.
tinues every day and evening.
Year: 1868

A very handsome gentleman's boot. I'VE meaE
the boot is handsome perfectly water proof, the
boot VIZ mean and yet so ventilated as to keep
the foot always comfortable-is among the latest
Mepaftiu
Year: 1868

THE PLACE TO BUY Doors s. SHoEs-Look
all round town and then step into Child & Bros,
and you will be sure to find just what you want,
and at ten per cent. less than any other house in
the city.
Year: 1868

We are very sorry to learn by the last Meta.
mora Visitor that our friend Thomas L. Powell,
one of the publishers of that paper, recently had
fall by which he broke one of his legs. Thorn.
as always had been lame, walking with stick,
and this additional affliction must set hard on
him. Thomas, accept our sincere coincidence.
Year: 1868

DAN RIcE remitted, in settle
ment OF an account of anewsi
paper out West a three dollar
bill, which was returned en-
dorsed, "this note is counter
felt; please send another" 1t
was Two months before Dan re-
piled, when he apologized for
the delay, saying he had been
uuable "untl now TO get an
other counterfeit three dollar
BILL" but he hoped the one he
now enclosed would suit, pro.
Tossing, at the same time, the
inability to discover what the
objection was to the other,
which he thought was as good
a counterfeit us he ever saw.
Year: 1868

WHEN a man treats me with
a want of respect, said a philo-
sophicaI poor man, 81 comfort
myself with the reflection that
it is not myself which he
sights, but an old shabby coat
and hat which, to say the truth,
have not any particular claims
to admiration. So if my hat
and clothes choose to fret
about it, let them but it is


nothing to me-" ,..t
Year: 1868

Every young girl nowadays
expects to get a rich husband,
and therefore rich men ought
to be abundant. In the coun-
try, we admit, that girls are
brou5ht up with an idea OF
work, and with a suspicion that
each may chance to wed a So
Der, good-looking, Industrious
young man who will be com
PEELED to earn by severe labor
the subsistence Of himself and
family. There are not so many
brought up with such ideas
now, even in the country, as
there used to be; but there are
some, and they consequently
learn how to become helpmates
to such worthy partners. But
in towns it is different. From
the highest to the lowest class
in life, the prevailing idea with
all is, that marriage is to
lift them at once above all ne
cessity for eXerjion, and even
the servant-girl dresses and
reasons as if she entertained a
romantic cofdence in Cinder-
ellG-like destiny of marrying a
prince, or, at least, Of being
fallen in love with and mar
ried by some wealthy gentle
man, if not by some nobleman
in disguise.
Year: 1868

To thS Editor Of Tie Tribune


SIR: An article in TIE TRIBUNE of the 10th
inst on the subject OF the location selected for the
Post Office and United States Court building well con.


dered and fairly stated and should convince every fair
thinking mind. This location has been approved and
paid for by the Government, and it is well fact
that no other suitable ground Of equal space cond be had
at rate that Congress would be willing 10 pay, az
ten times the OF the selected We understand
that the plans accepted by the Commission have been APP
proved at Washington and with the estimates of cost Of
construction, in the hands OF the Postal COMMITTEES
awaiting action We urge the committee TO be prompt In
securing the necessary appropriation to this
much needed building and get this important business
out OF the old shell Nassau-s where u has been 80
long to the disgrace OF and detmen OF the
public service. PUBLIC GOOD
Year: 1868

The schooner Gem of the Sea recently
touched AT Mount Island that the In
habtants of Long Island and the Isle Of Hant having
been two months Isolated by from the mauland had
consumed their supplies, and subsisting on shell
fish THE cold had intense and Of unusual dnraton-
The eehooner left stock Of proyisionA
Year: 1868

AS the season has arrived for making ma
pie sugar we vii; give some dire, tons which
an old Vormonter has derived from his ex-
perienee. There is a great difference in the
price OF good and an inferior article and
hence the importance OF knowing how to
make the best. 1t requires no more expense.
or at least, a very little more, 10 make good
maple sugar than it does 10 manufacture a
poorer article. And those who make it tor
their own use, and not ior the market are in
t9rested to know the best mode OF manuiac-
turing it. A black, dirty looking lump, such
as we sometimes see for sale, is not very
tempting, while clean white cake is looked
upon as luxury, and viii command qoicA
sale and good price.


The first thing is 10 get the sap from the
trees. And to DO this they must De tappeu'
But how tapped? Use haii-ineh BIT and
bore about an inch deep, and that will give a
quarter of an inch for lreshins without mate
ria.ly iniuling the tree Use alder spiles in
nregerence to metallic ones. Every spring
tbey should be properly cleaned, and also the
mans and buckets which may he done with
hot lime juice and thorough rinsing. This
will prevent the sap from souring. Strain
the sap through a double woolen cloth into a
tub, and let It stand two hours 10 settle; then
draw OH by facet inserted in the side oI
the tub one inch above the bottom. In this
way the sap win be well filtered and ready tC
place ever the fire in a suitable vessel. Wher
il soils, add pint of new, sweet milk TO every
90 gallons to slack it, and skim thoroughly a
long as nything rises to the top OF it.


When sufficiently boiled down 1t must b
stirred with thin wooden paddle one hou
while it is cooling and granting in woodel
| trays or bowls. Ii the above rules are strict
Year: 1868




We say to our farmers save your fodder.
But how, it may be asked, by starving our
cattle? Not so by aHy means. II has been
said that horse Will almost starve to death by
being kept before NOW OF hay and in close
proximity to it. The very instisets of the no
be animal tell him that Is no way ior him to
be fed. There is something wrong about 1t
and be leels it. But give him his food regu-
llrly an d in such quantities as he needs and
he will thrive. Don't disappoint him by neg
Letting TO feed him at the proper time
Much valuable fodder Is wasted every winte:
AID the spring time occasionally opens the
eyes OF the farmer, who has practieed no
economy or regularity in feeding his ami
mails.


The New Hampshire Farmer says there ls
first loss at harvest time, grass is badly
cured, corn fodder is allowed to remain in the
field until It's vitality is washed out by au-
tumn storms, straw is properly spread stout
barn and yards at thTeshing time. And then
again, when farmers come 10 iced, they are
extravagant in the amount they Give their
animals and allow much TO be wasted through
bee llessness. This is all true, and STANCE it
is true. Farmers VIII labor hard in hay
ing and harvest time 10 procure iocd for their
stock, and then in the winter, throw por-
tion of 1t away. Wien hay is regularly and
Systematically dealt out to the animals 1t wi
be found that much smaller quantity than
is generally supposed will keep them in coed
condition II Ia nRf had NJ 10
have lew tens OF hay TO keep over aid
thereby guard against the evils OF scarcity
tie next season which some times com IS up
on The farmer when least expected. We say
again, save yonr hay which you have laboied
hard to put into your barns.


AGRICOI.A.
Year: 1868

Returns from all parts of Indiana show
that there will be more than an average
wheat crop. In some localities it is thin,
and in others it has been injured by in
sects, but generally the crop is good.


Reports from the wheat harvest in lower
Illinois and other sections Of the West are
favorable. The crop is good one Corn
promises an abundant yield .


A Lexington, Kentucky, letter of the
9Th inst. says


" The prospect for good corn crop 10
this State Is improving rapidly. Since the
last week IN May the season has been very
favorable. Rain and sunshine alternate
finely, and under such benign influences
the corn has shot up rapidly, and in many
fields ls already shooting and tasseliBg"
The crop in 1860 amounted to sixty-four
million bushels, and will not be any less
this year. About week or ten days before
the wheat was harvested, the black rust
made its appearance in it, and has done it
considerable damage, yet the crop is a much
better one than was expected at the begin
ming Of the spring"


The New York Times of the 9th inst,
reviewing the prospect for an abundant
harvest, says:


"The prolonged wet weather, we are told,
has been highly favorable for all kinds Of
grasses and clover, and everywhere the hay
crop will be immeuse-far beyond the
average growth. The consequence of this
enormous yield Of fodder has been greatly
enhanced product Of butter and cheese in
every section of the country, and the prices
of these prime articles Ofdomestic consump-
ton ought in reason to be materially re-
duced before the lapse Of many weeks.


The strawberry crop, which was weeR
or more later than common in reaching US,
and the fag end of which is Just passing
away, has been fully up TO the ordinary
yield, although the flavor of the fruit has
scarcely been as fine as usual-the fact
being accounted for by the soaking rains.
Raspberries and blackberries are already
beginning to come to market. OF apples,
pears and peaches we cannot speak in quite
as favorable terms. La some localities we
learn the yield of these fruits will be very
small for, in spite Of the wonderful dis
play of blossoms and the fine setting of the
fruit, the crops seem to have been blighted
and shriYelled, and the cause of the dis
aster has not yet been ascertained.


The success of the farmers this year, as
far as the products of the soil, the dairy and
the stockyard are concerned, appear to be
beyond question. The result must be an
abundant supply offood at cheaper rates, and
We congratulate the public that the prices
of all articles of family consumption are
already tending downward in spite of the
determined struggles Of spectators and
brokers to keep them up to the present un-
reasonably high marks"
Year: 1868

fact of his being so hurried in his move
menls-something so foreign and unusal
with his honor, upon ordinary occasions,
that specuiations soon became rife in regard
to his mysterious visit. Riding up 10 the
hotel, he dismounted and at once went in
search Of the Sheriff. It soon became
noised about that the Emory Iron and Coal
Mining Company had failed, and that the
Judge and young Baxter we're only anxious
to get out attachments on the property of
the company before anybody else. As the
company was indebted to nearly everybody
in Kingston, each went TO work to save his
bacon, and consequently every lawyer in
town was engaged from dark until late
hour in the night in writing out attachments.
We have not learned the amount Of their
Liabilities, but presume it was immense, as
they were carrying On an immense busi-
ness. The amount Of the Baxter claim
against the company was S30, 900; Browns
claim was $4,000 Kingston East T5nnes
sean, JUly 9.
Year: 1868

JAPANESE CosTUMEs.-The New York cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin
says:


There are more Japanese costumes in
Broadway than you can shake a stick at.
unless YOU are very skillful in this manly
recreation. With back hair high in air.
little patches of green or white Just over the
bump of veneration, broad ribbons floating
from behind and before, dresses built in tie
Yokohama style, the parasol held pretty
much the idiotic "supes'' in the theatre
hold their wooden swords at the present.
the women sail up and down the shady side
of the popular thoroughfare, a never. failing
course of wonder to their country cousins.
and of most unmitigated contempt to each
other. The scornful look, the impudent.
brazen look. with which every woman re-
CARDS every other woman in the street, is
something greatly to be deprecated Whence
comes 1t? If two men should look at each
other, in passing, as two women do, there
would soon be an unpleasantness between
them and should every man follow the
fashion, it would require 100, 900 policemen
to keep the peace in Broadway alone
Year: 1868

This splendid Tonic is now used by all classe:
of people for every symptom of Stomach out
of order"


The secret Of it is this: Plantation Bitters are
certain to correct the juices of the Stomach, set all
its machinery at work. and enable it to resist and
throw off the approaching danger. The tendency
of the operations of Nature is always towards
cure all she needs is little assistance at the
proper time. How much more reasonable and
sensible it is to help her along with gentle, vel
powerful Tonic, than to deluge and weaken and
defeat her curative processes with poisonous drugs
and fiery mixtures, which only stupefy and plant
the seeds of disease and death.