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Year: 1865

LONGEVITY OF MANA writer in the Atlantic
Monthly proves by statistics that mans longevity is
in exact proportion to his educational attainments
mental exertion. 1t seems that increasing intelli-
gence and decreasing war have prolonged the aver
age length of life in Europe from twenty five years
in the seventeenth century to thirty in the
eighteenth, and TO forty-fve in the nineteenth
The best educated communities the longest lived
and the best educated soldiers live amazingly Longer
than the more ignorant, and seemed to wear q
charmed life, not much against bullet and bayo-
net the effects Of disease, privation and even Sc
we're wounds, on their constitutions and lives.
Year: 1865

"A good story is told of recent smash,
up on Western railroad soldier who, in coming
from Baltimore to Rock Island, had met with four
accidents was on this occasion in the that COM
pletey turned over. Making his way through a
window. and gaining an upright position, he looked
around him and coolly inquired What station il
this2h
Year: 1865

PALMERsroS's DEATH -BED.-The following account
of the state of Palmerstons mind at the time of his
death, is from the last letter of Mr. Conway the Lon
don correspondent of the Boston Commonwealth:


have the following from unquestionabIe authori-
ty. When it was perceived that Lord Palmerston
would not recover, a clergyman, accompanied by
Lord SALISBURY, visited him for the purpose of hav
ing some religious conversation with him. They
found the old man in Il very low condition. The
clergyman asked him if he thought the medicines
which had been given him were beneficial. Yes =
The clergyman then limited that there was another
medicine which of infinitely greater Importance
What is it?" said Pamerston. THE blood of
Christ, replied the clergyman, who with this for an
opening went on into a religious exhortation.


When he came to pause Palmerston said, only,
Go on" The clergyman, pleased at this, went on
with further religious remarks and coming to an
other pause, Palmerston said again, go on" Much
encouraged BY this the clergyman continued ferven
ly and Lord SALISBURY, who is very piOus Joined in
with him At length, Palmerston said, That is well:
now read the sixth article No one present knew
what this meant; and the clergyman referred to the
sixth article in the prayer book. which, however shed
no light on the mysterious request On testing the
dying mans mind further it became abundantly ev-
dent that he had supposed that he listening to the
treaty of Utrecht the sixth article whereof related to
the surrender of Dunquerque
Year: 1865

The Bishop of Oxford has received the
undgnifed cognomen of "Soapy SAM" 1t is said
that when the Bishop travelling eastward to at
tend the Church Congress at Norwich, a lady. who
was sitting opposite to him, commented in fatterng
terms the eloquence and ability of the great Ang-
can divine quite unconscious that she address
ing him. But why, SIR she added, do people call
him Soapy SAM well, madam" replied the
Bishop, Il suppose it is because he has always been
in good deal of hot water, and always manages to
come out with clean hands,


"A soldier belonging to the garrison in
Toronto undertook the other day to beat his wife
with his belt but accidentally struck the baby in her
arms with the buckle, and killed it. He and his wife
burned the child and kept quiet, but their dreadful
secret was discovered, and the man was arrested.


"A man named Henry Henke attempted
to commit suicide in public street of St. Louis, No.
on Saturday last by punging dagger into his breast
The point of the weapon was just entering the flesh
when his suicidal efforts were frustrated by blow
on the head from bystander, which knocked him
to the pavement and relaxed his hold on the knife


The London Times has its own little
theory about the Jamaica insurrection. It says Of
the natives-"In fact if they have revolted. it can
only be that they are but too well off, and have time
to indulge in dreams of republican Independence


"A bridal party, consisting of the princi.
pals and sixteen bridesmaids and of course an equal
number Of side-boys, left Portsmouth on Thursday
morning for Richmond,
Year: 1865

DR.. RALEIGH, in giving his report to his Congre-
gatonal brethren in England of what he had seen in
this country said


From what he had seen in his travels he was
more than ever that slavery the real cause
of the war; that in its defence the South drew the
sword and if it not expressly to uproot slavery
that the North vigorously resisted they e slavery
beneath the whole conflict, and they struck at the
vile system as soon as public law and constitutional
honor and fairness would allow them: and when the
end came there was general sigh of relief, and an
exclamation at any rate felt by ALL Thank God it is
now gonen"
Year: 1865

HORSE CARS TO BE RuY By COMPRESSED AIR.-The
Albany and West Troy Horse Railroad Company are
about to test new propelling power-compressed
air instead of horses. The machine is now building
for the purpose of testing the idea The air is to be
compressed at each end of the route. and placed in
reservoirs-which look like exaggerated soda foun-
ans The reservoirs to be cast iron, and able to
resist of three hundred pounds to the square
inch. Each car is to be supplied with one or more of
these reservoirs at each end of the route-the COM
pressed air on each being sufficient to dis
tance of ten miles. The compressed air is to be ap
Piled to cranks on the cars in manner similar to
steam, and is to be SO regulated with governors that
a uniform rate of speed may be maintained at all
times With compressed air it is supposed that the
cars may be run at an expense not exceeding two
dollars day each. The first car driven by COM
pressed air will be placed upon the road in about
four weeks.
Year: 1865

The INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.-The Commissioner
of Agriculture has addressed the following to cotton
manufacturers:


Realizing the immense Importance to the country
of large cotton crop for the ensuing year, propose
to use all available of stimulating healthfully
such production.


As an incident to this end desire to obtain accu-
rate statistics of the cotton manufactured during each
to show, nearly as possible, the precise consump
tion of each year in contrast with the much larger
previous consumption and the greatly enlarged de-
shall be happy In return for the courtesy, to meet
NY ability,
Year: 1865

x. Devoted to the cause of Republicanism,
lac4r.erescs Of Agriculture, the advancement
Of Education aad the best good of Potter
COUNTY Owning no guide except that OF
Principle. Il will enieaver to aid in the work
Of more fully Freedomizing our Country.


ADVERTISEMENTS inserted at the following
Year: 1865

WAsBfNGIoN, April 81, 1896.
This morning delegation Of over one hundred citi
zens OF Ohio headed by Governor Brough called upon


President Johnson tender him the expression Of their
confidence and support in the discharge Of the duties oil
the Executive suddenly devolved upon him. Upon
their introduction 10 Mr. Johnson Governor Brough ad
dressed him assuring him OF tho confidence OF the peo
pie OF Ohio in his honesty zeal and ability in the dis
charge Of his duties and ~ their assurance that in his
hands the honor and interests Of the country were
safe a. in those Of the late amened Chief Mag sirate
I He said -


We do not come ask of you any pledges or guaran


tics for the future do not 70 ark any manifcs


taiion of the line Of policy which II would probably be


futile you attempt at this time, and which future
4 circumstances may entirely change remodel We
3smpy come to say that have an abiding trust and
faith that the sacred purposes OF our govern
ment will be carried out by you We come
TO congratulate you upon The assumption of the


power OF the country not because have forgotten the


melancholy that produced it, but because feel


That the vital principle OF government is illustrated
y In the change 50 quickly and harmoniousy made under
the working or the constitution Governor BTough con


nued AZ some length, calling upon the President to see TO


the WIS bloody rebellion should be eGeotuay crushed
out ana indemnity secured against any similar attempts


in the tuture concluding folowsThe State OF Ohio


hereore greets you and you that the


hdence the same energy and reliance with which shC
~ came 70 voul suDDort last fall Tor the second Office OF h
Year: 1865

Hon. ALEXANDER RAMSAY


DEAR SR-Sincc writing TO you such change in affairs
has taken place that avail myself Of this early oppor
tuny to express to you my feelings the tragic
currence which has brought this change No event Of
my life has given greater shock than the
mcIt Of the terrible and infamous assassination Of the
President Aside from the great crime, which cannot
template without feelings Of adherence and Indignation
greater calamity could have befaen country when
our minds and hearts looking for speedy peace
say country for now feel that this is my country,
and personally Imourn the loss OF Mr. Lincoln and feel
that the people of State will condemn the crime and
bitterly feel the calamity. / trust in God that
|spectable Southern man, when all Is brought to light
will be found In any way accessory to the hesh crime


but the contrary that all will feel the utter abhor
renee of the act which II merits from all Your
Kindness and courtesy to induce you Of
my feelings in this hour OF nations calamity Your
obedient servant, J. l.. JONES.
Year: 1865

(FrOm the HaXerstOWn, Nd, HefaIu, April 10
J. D. Reamer, prominent rebel sympathzer OF this
place. went 70 the county Jail Sunday evening and


asked TO be locked up refuge from crowd Of justly


ncensed citizens About the LIST of March last Reamer
2confdentally informed customer while purchasing


goods in his store that hundred thousand dollars


being raised to the assassination OF President Lin
coin The fifty thousand dollars
previous 10 the commission Of the deed and the balance
immediately after its perpetraon This was 10 be before
the 18th day of April Adavits 10 this effect were made
lby a man who overheard the information The deed
Occurring the time set by Reamer and he being


In Baltimore at the date OF the occurrence satisfied those
who knew of his declaration that he was in some way
implicated in the crime, and indignant assembly of
citizens ready to give into the hands of justice man
who certainly culpabe in his wish the murderer
lin act.
Year: 1865

Now HOEk Cnemoer OF Commerccs
The Chamber Of Commerce will hold . special meet-
Ing to-day at one O'Clock to act upon the invitation from
the city authorities TO cooperate with them in the recep


ton OF the remains Of the late President Of the United
States
Year: 1865

He who proposes TO print bis lncu-
brations should in the first place have
something to say. and then he should
study how best to say it. No man
should write line intended to meet
the public eye who does not appreci,
ate The moral responsibility which be
incurs by that act. The tastes and
capacities of the readers of a public
Journal are as widely different as those
of the writers who cater to their lit
erary necessities and every article,
however illogical or poorly written,
strikes home somewhere, and exerts
an influence upon some one for good
or evil Your words once printed can
not be recalled. They float ont on
the great sea of humanity, whisper,
ing in thousand ready cars lessons
fraught with life or death. They raise
ripple in the boundless sea of human
thought which will expand and flow
on forever. By the very act of wri
ting you assume superior knowledge
Keep the grave responsibility steadi.
" before you, and endeavor to make
your generation wiser and more virtu
ous than it would have been if you
had not lived.


" Let all the ends thou aim st at be thy country's
Thy Gods and Truths ..
Year: 1865

Twenty compositors in a printing
Office, twenty apprentices in a work.
shop, twenty young men in village ;
all want to get along in the world,
and expect to do SO. One of the com
positors will own a newspaper and be-
come an influential and prosperous
citizen; one Of tho apprentices will
become a master mechanic one OF
the villagers will get a handsome farm
and live like a patriarch. But which
is to be the lucky individual +? Lucky!
There is no luck about it; the thing
is almost as certain as the "rule
of three" The young fellow who will
distance bis competitors is he who
masters his business, who preserves
his integrity, who lives cleanly and
purely, who never gets in debt, who
gains friends by deserving them, and
puts his money in a savings bank
There are some ways to fortune which
look shorter than this, but the stauncl
men Of the community. the men who
achieve something really worth hav'
ing, all travelled along this road.
Year: 1865

The fattery with which our assem-


bled working classes are apt to be


served, undoubtedly contributes to


keep many of them content to! make


no higher attainments. If they are


not received with open arms by the


educated and refined, they attribute it


to their occupatian. not to themselves,


to the. unreasonable pride and preju-


dice of others, and nc: to their own


deficiency. But water is not the only


thing that will find its own level.


Genius, wit, learning, ignorance, are


each attracted to its like. Two per-


sons were overheard talking in the


room where they were at work. Lord


| knowed him we'll when a boy" said


one. He used to live with his gran.


tller next door to US. Poor as jobs


turkey /; but | amt seen him since till


l hearn i'm in - hall t'other night.


Don't s'pose he'd come a.nigh me now


with ten foot pole. Them kind o
folks has short memories, ha I! ha
Can't tell who poor working-man is,
nohow." ...... ..... -. .aH. I.


No, no, good friend, you are in the
wrong. There is, indeed, a great gulf
between you and your early friend,
but it is hot poverty. To say that it
is, is only a way you have of flatter-
ing your selflove. For If you watch
those who frequent your friends house
you will find many a one who lives in
lodgings as plain as your own among
them. No, sir 4; it is not becanse you
work, for he is as hard worker as
you are but because, begging your
pardon you are vulgar and ignorant;
because you sit in your sitting.room
at home with your hat on and smoke
your pipe or spit tobacco juice on the
carpet or floor; because you plunge
your own knife in the butter and your
own fork in the toast, having used
both in your eating with equal free
dom because your voice is loud, your
tone swaggering, and you grammar
horrible because your two paths
from the old school house diverged
his led upward, yours did not and
the fault is not his. You both chose.
He chose to cultivate his mental pow
ers you chose not to do so.
Year: 1865

The light and shade, the happiness
OF mans life depend upon the dispo-
sition with which be regards it. An
unailoyed contentment Of mind can
not be bought with money, it is the
golden gift Of Heaven. But it is with.
in the reach of every one to soften
himself to the rough shocks Of life.
He may receive them courageously,
sustain them patiently, and by bis
prudence alleviate or turn them aside
but even if his mind be unequal to
these exertions, it need not, as is the
case with too many, be exerted to its
own annoyance.
Year: 1865

THE TRIBUNE IN TROUBLE.-The Tribune is in
great tribulation about the official statement of
its circulation. II thinks that the circulation of
newspapers should be established every day
upon oath. Well, we think that this rule is
faithfully complied with. We know that as far
as our paper is concerned its daily circulation
ia verified under the sanction of an oath. We
have not the least idea-nor could we be in
duced to believe-that the Tribune people, in
making their first returns to the assessor Of in
ternal revenue, Intended to commit perjury to
evade the tax. Not at ALL On the contrary,
we are disposed to put the charitable interpre-
tation upon the matter-that in making their
first returns Of circulation they simply made a
mistake.
Year: 1865

The FAILURE OF COMO NEwsPAPERs.-There
is good deal of fuss being made in some
quarters about the failure of establishing comic
papers in this city. 1t is true that, as general
rule, this class of literature has not succeeded
of late, but the reason we think is obvious.
There is no room for them The ground is
fully occupied, and as it is impossible to force
q superhuity of pabulum upon an overcrOwded
stomach without dsordering it, so you cannot
compel the public to digest too many comic
newspapers. There is one paper which oc-
cupies the entire field of comic literature. The
Tribune has decidedly the monopoly in this
line. Fun would not be palatabe without a
little touch of the antics Of the clown. Ro-
nance would be fiat without the inspiration of
lying and an unlimited stretch OF the imagina-
ZION, which upon occasion can make white
black and black white. These faculties are
essential to the production of a truly comic
paper, and these faculties are possessed in
such perfection by the Tribune that It has
necessarily swept the field clear of all the other
comic papers. The failure of this class of
papers is, therefore, very easily accounted for
upon the simple principle of supply and de-
mand. The Tribune is a comic journal 80 rich
and racy that even Punch himself could not
hold his own against it.
Year: 1865

Bulwer eloquently says: ~ cannot be-
lieve that earth is mans abiding place. 1t
cannot be that our life is cast up by the ocean
of eternity to float moment upon it waves,
and then sink into nothingness! Else why
is it that the glorious aspiration which leap
like angels from the temple of our hearts, are
forever marching about unsatisfed? Why is
it that the rainbow and clouds come ever
with beauty that is not of earth and then
pass off and leave US to muse upon their
faded loveliness Why is it that the stars
who hold their festivals around the midnight
throne, are set above the grasp of our limited
faculties, forever mocking us with their unap-
proachabIe glory And finally, why is it
that the bright forms of human beauty are
psesented to our view, and then taken from
US, leaving the thousand gtreams of our aft
ections to flow back in Alpine torrents upon
our hearts ? We are born for higher desti-
ny than that of earth; there is realm where
the rainbow never fades-where the stars will
be spread before US like islands that slumber
on the ocean-and where the beings that pa SIS
before Us like shadows will stay IN our pres
ence forever.
Year: 1865

The great hall Of Foheringhay was hung
with black; in the midst was scaffold Gov
cred with sage, and surrounded by low rail-
ing. Around this gloomy object nigh two
hundred persons were assembled, among item
were the .pIintipal gentlemen of the county,
vi no obeyed the summons of the sheriff, in
total ignorance of the object for which they
were required to be present. Behind the
clad in suits of sable velvet, the last holding
the axe behind him in such position that it
was concealed from the eyes Of Mary. AS


the Sheriff Of Northampton and his officers
entered the hall there was profound silence,
many breath was painfully drawn; but when
the Queen herself appeared, the most manly
eyes were moistened. Never had Mary an.
peared to better advantage she walked firm
ly, scarcely leaning on two nobemen by
whom she was supported her dress, which
was that of Queen Dowager of France, ad-
pointed Golf, edged with bone lace, shaded
her wasted features, and around her neck she
wore gold cross, and from her arms was
suspended pair Of beads o falling collar
completed costume at once regal and becom
ing. As she gazed sroundineither abashed
by the numerous spectators, nor shrinking
from the death droppiDgs before her, mur-
muir of admiration and pity was with Difficult.
ty suppressed. Her attendants followed her
to the foot of the scaffold, which was raised
about two feet from the ground, but before
ascending she exclaimed to melville


'Once more farewell, good Andrew; pray
for thy mistress and Queen. Thou shalt
now see the end of Mary StuarL's trials"


" Thanks, sir,' she continued to Paulet,
who offered his arm with rather a penitent
expression of countenance, sit is the last
trouble you will experience at my hands"


On the scaffold was small wooden stool
and cushion, and no sooner had Mary's foot
touched the ia tai planks than the executioner
kneeling before her, prayed her to forgive
him for the office he was about to perform
but at this moment her eye fell on the axe
and she exclaimed quickly


"Ah would rather have my head taken
of by q sword as they do in France"
Year: 1865

Lord PaImerstOR and the Trent Affair.


The following is an extract from the ar
ticle in Blackwood's Magazine in refer
ence to the desire of Lord Palmerston to
20 to war with us about the Trent affair,
to which reference has been made by the
telegraph


In the Trent affair, on which it is now
no longer secret that Lord Palmerston
made up his own mind to go to war with
the Federal Ststes, the Emperor of the
French, equally loug sighted, agreed with


Lord Palmerston; and had there not been
with him in the Cabinet men to when the
thought of war under any circumstances
is dreadful, the message sent to Washing
ton would have required short and cate
gorical answer, because feet equip
ped for action would have escorted it to
the mouth of the Chesapeake. In the
Cabinet, however, there sat at the time
not only Mr. Gladstone, Mr.. MilnersGib-
son and Mr.. Villiers, but Sir George Corn
wall Lewis, the most subtle of political
reasoners. the most pacific of ministers
one who could never be brought to see
that in the lives of nations as in those of
private persons, there are moments when,
though it can never be becoming to do
wrong for its own sake, it is perfectly jus
tifable to anticipate others and to avert
an injury inflicted against ourselves by in
ficting it on them. We had, when the
Outrage on the Trent was committed, a
long list of outrages to be accounted for.
We had been cheated-for there is no
other word for it-into the Ashburton
treaty. The States claimed as territory
what they had in their possession the
clearest proof belonged to us; and as ifto
cap this outrage, the island of San Juan,
admitted to be ours up to the moment of
occupation by an American force, was in
vaded and kept military possession Of
These, with other lesser, but not, there
fore, unimportant wrongs, ranked and
festered, and the Trent outrage presented
such an opportunity as could never be ex-
pected to occur again for righting them
all bv process which would have bene-
fitted the whole world. Had We struck
then, as Lord PalmerstOn was anxious
that we should do, the Southern States
would have achieved their independence
and become to us faithful allies, as well as
our very best customers.
Year: 1865

These figures mean something. A re-
duetion of the Union majority on the
Reserve by nearly one-half is significant
fact, which may as well be needed by
politicians. One reason of the diminutlon
is doubtless the fact that there was no
local contest on the Reserve in reference
to county and Legislative tickets, by which
a full vote could be drawn out. The Union
county tickets, throughout the Reserve,
we're all as sure of success as the State
ticket, and no special effort was made,
either BY the candidates or their friends,
to bring out a full vote. But this of itself
is not sufficient to account for the falling
off which we have noted. The main