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Year: 1867

MEDICAL ADVICE.-Dr. VIM. X. Doherty's
Medical and Surgical Institute is becoming sine
qua non to the welfare of our State and health
oil our citizens; and his rapidly spreading reputa-
ton, although it may excite surprise, is but the
signal Of skill, and follows as the natural effect
of such cause We are personally acquainted
with gentlemen who had suffered for years under
chronic disease, and who had taken advantage of
every available means that promised relief, but
without success, until they called upon DR.. Do
herty, who in an incredibly short space of time,
has given them entire relief. 1t is gratifying to
announce this fact because the Doctor is a gen
tlcman who seeks, not by defamation Of others.
to establish his reputation, or to rear the super
structure of his own upon the ruin of anOther's
fame. The Doctor conducts his Institute in snch
manner that must be gratifying to all his pa
tients. He examines, advises and recommends
without charge, and the patient after hearing
his terms for treatment, can accept or reject at
pleasure. In no case does the Doctor make
charge unless he effects cure. This, he is able
to do because he feels the confidence which long
experience has given. and no doubt the consola


ton which appertains to that confidence. Per.
sons afflicted with either acute chronic disease
would do we'll to consult the Doctors at all events
it can do no harm, as for consultation he asks no
fee: nor does he insist on obedience TO his advice
unless the patient places himself under his care.
His offices are on Sacramento street, opposite the
Pacific Mail Steamship Offices. f. News.
Year: 1867

SPECIAL NOTICE. We would call the atten-
ton of of our readers to the Grover & Baker Ma
chimes. Their reputation is too well established
for us to attempt word in their favor, but
would advise any person wanting reliable Fam
lily Sewing Machine, to investigate these before
buying. "a word TO the wise is sufficient
Year: 1867

These periodicals are ably sustained by the
contributions of the best writer's on Science,
Religion and General Literature, and stand un-
rivalled in the world of letters. They are in
dispensAb!e to the scholar and the profession al
p better record of the current literature of the
day than can be obtained from any other sourc ce.


TERMS FOR 1868
Year: 1867

Not even Mexico, in the most anarch-
ical period of its turbulent history, was
ever so badly governed as is the "recon-
structed" Safe of Tennessee at the
present time. We ask honest and peace
loving men to behold, in the regime of
blood and violence which prevails in
that green and beautiful State, a speci-
men of what Southern State is when
governed in accordance with the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, an ex-
ample of what all the Southern States
will be when tho Federal troops are
withdrawn and the reconstructed"
governments are in operation. The fact
that such ribald old reprobate as
Brownlow is Governor of Tennessee does
not essentiallyvary the case; the mischief
is in the system. The system will raise up
BrownlOws wherever il is tried, differ
ing from the brutal Tennessee despot
only in falling short of the unrivalled
coarseness of his blasphemous and RI
bald tongue. The essential vice of the
system is that it is government from
which the intelligence and respectable
ty Of the community are ostracized; n
government in which an ignorant and
reckless minority rule the majority of
the citizens. Such system is precisely
fitted to bring the worst man in the
community to the top. The man who
can appeal most successfully to the low
est and coarsest passions, who is
the most unscrupulous, brutal, and
strong -willed, is best fitted to
rise in government founded on
ignorance and Ostracized hatred.
If the disfranchised class could freely
vote, the evil would be rectified in the
first election; when the government
would come to represent the will and
the intelligence of the majority. But
under the diabolical Republican regime
the majority can obtain redress neither
by voting nor by fighting. They are
ostracized and cannot vote; and if they
should attempt to assert their rights by
force, they would be met and crushed
by Federal soldiers. The only remedy,
the only road to peace, lies through
the overthrow of the Republican
party in the Northern States,
and ousting it from its control
of the Federal government What
Tennessee is to-day, the other ten States
will be when they shall have followed
it into the Union through the Repub-
lican portal. They will have govern
ments resting, like that of Tennessee,
on white disfranchisement and black
suffrage; and no government of that de-
scription is capable of preserving peace
and maintaining order. The shocking
scenes of bloody violence which are
how eDacting in Tennessee are pre-
cursors of the horrible pandemoninm,
the "hell let loose" which will soon be
q spectacle to men and angels all over
the South ...
Year: 1867

The Evening Telegraph of Monday ap-
peared very indignant and very much
shocked in consequence of the state
ment in some paper to the effect that ex-
Senator Preston King, of New York,
drowned himself because of remorse for
his having persistently refused to admit
Miss Surratt to see the President while
her mother was under sentence of
death. This is no new story neither Is
it without foundation, and pretty strong
foundation. 1t is well known that
Preston King was "On guard" ut the
White House at that time. Who placed
him there or why he was placed there
we know not but he was there, and
turned deaf ear to all Miss Surratt's
most earnest and eloquent pleadings to
be permitted to see the President in be-
half of Ter convicted mother.


The mother was eXecuted-muTdcred.
Not even the recommendation to mercy,
signed by majority of even the mill
| tary officers who condemned her on pur-
chased testimony, was allowed to reach
the eyes of the President. The White
House was hermetically sealed against
any and all of her friends, even her
weeping daughter, and Preston King
was the instrument by which it was
thus sealed. Not long after Mr.. King
drowned himself. Why' He had no
other great cause of grief; nothing to
make him desire to leave this world.
He was in good health, he was wealthy,
he occupied an honorable position in
society, held lucrative and an honor
able Office (the collectorship of New
York, and was blessed with everything
calculated tc make life desirable. Why,
then, did he commit suicide' Was i
not the ghost of the murdered Mrs. Sur
ratt, and the grief-stricken form of her
daughter, that drove him to the des-
perate deed


He perhaps was responsible, too, for
keeping the President ignorant of tie
Recommendation Of Mrs. Surratt to Ex-
ecutive clemency, as he was of prevent
ing Miss Surratt from pleading with
the President for her mothers life. He
had served as o wretched tool in the
hands of Stanton and Holt, to cousum-
mate the murder of an innocent woman,
and the consciousness of all this proved
too much for o man naturally as kind
hearted as was Preston King. Under
the course of this damning conscious
ness life became insupportable, and he
put an end to his wretched earthly ex-
istence Such is the belief of many who
ars familiar with the facts above stated
and who we'll knew Mr.. King, and no
affected indignation Of the Telegraph can
change their belief.-Philadelphia Daily
Netrs, .,
Year: 1867




Annoying mad Lauyhable Accident-


Young Lady Falls Through @


Buggy.


One of these annoying, yet ludicrous
accidents, which will happen in the
best of families, occurred on Sunday,
not over thousand miles from this
city. A dry goods clerk had an engage
ment to take his love out buggy riding
Early in the morning he appeared be-
fore her fathers door with one OF those
spider like vehicles which are proba'
bly, constructed with q view Of ascer'
tanning how light buggy can be
made, and at the same time be servicea'
BILE.


The lady is sweet l6, beautiful, and
Just little bit of what is termed "fast. y
She is full of life, fun and frolic, and is
decidedly embonpoint, weighing abont
l40 pounds. As the young gentleman
drove up, his lady love was standing
OH the top steps at the front door with
her venerable father, who had his gold
specs elevated on his forehead, in order
to get a distant view of his future SON.
in-law.


Adonis jumped out of the buggy pre-
paratory to assisting the young lady in,
but she suddenly took one of those
strange freaks to which the dear sex
are all subject. The buggy was stand
ing about four feet from the steps, and
considerably below the step upon which
stood the young lady. She probably
wanted to convince her lover that she
was not clumsy if she was fat, and
thought that this would be good time
to show him her agility. BE that as 1t
NAV, she gave jump and landed in the
centre of the buggy. Ifshe had stopped
there, all would have been well, but
alas The thin boards of the bottom OF
the buggy, unable to stand the pressure,
gave way, and the young lady contiR-
ued her descent.


There was piercing scream; a
plunging horse with n young man hold
ing to him: bundle of muslin in the
buggy, and two little gaiter boots
pointing to within six inches Of the
ground under it. Paterfamilias rushed
TO the rescue and detached the horse
from the buggy. He then got up. on
one side, and young man Oh the other,
anu tuoy atpOinptCu w ia'oo y y'"nS ...NJ
up. 40, stop, STOP. You are killing
me-" she cried. The boards had broken
in the center, aud the long, sharp splin-
ters extended downwards, and when
they attempted to raise the young lady
out of her predicamcnt these sharp splin.
ters would catch in her le-pshaw.
Did you ever see wire mousc-trap! II
not, 90 and get one, stick your finger
through the entrance funnel and try TO
pull it out. You will then understand
the sad fix that our young lady was in
on Sunday morning.


The old man comprehended the situa-
tion in a moment. He told the young
III an to get down and break the splin-
ters off. Young lady screamed. SO,
DON'T" and young man wouldn't. AT
this stage of the proceedings a practical
neighbor came up with a hatchet, and
the young lady was soon eStricated
from her unpleasant situation, and dis
appeared behind the front door,


We don't know whether the young
lady sustained any serious injury or not,
and we are not going to ask any ques-
tiops of that young man.
Year: 1867




The following propositions and pro-
test are put forth by prominent mem
Der of the Republican party in New
Jersey-a Republican who loves his
country better than party:


Suppose that during the rebellion
each State of the Union, in its turn,
had been Overrun by the confederate
arms and compelled to submit to the
confederate government; that under
the protection of that government an
ordinance of secession had been adopt
ed in each State, confederate flag
floating over its capital, and cOnfed-
crate Legislature assembled within it;
that this state of things had continued
long enough to prevent the election OF
a Union State governments for at least
one term, and that afterwards and final
ly the cause of the Union and the Con-
stitution. had triumphed, and the rebel
lion been suppressed, as is now the case.
what would have been the legal and
constitutional result of those facts?
1t is far from impossible that these
events could have occurred. If the re-
suit of Gettysburg had been reversed,
they probably would have occurred.
The New York riot was only slight
cropping-out of a spirit existing
throughout the entire North. What,
repeat, would have been the legal and
constitutional result of these facts
Weuld it have been that all the States
had committed suicide, that there were
no lawful State governments, and there
fore no lawful States, and therefore no
UnioRe Would The triumph of the
Union arms have given force and vital
ity only to ordinances of secession, and
have reduced the Constitution and the
Union to a nullityi Either this would
have been the result, or else there is
only one other alternative, that which
the Republican party, in its hour of
sorest trial, by its Representatives in
Congress, pledged its faith and its
honor solemnly before high heaven
should be the result of the war o
maintain the supremacy of the Consti-
tuition, and to preserve the Union with
all the dignity, equality, and rights Of the
several States unimpaired.


That was pledge more binding than
an oath. pledge on the faith of which
thousands of millions of dollars, and a
hurdred thousand human lives were
offered up a sacrifice to restore to the
Union "with all their dignity, equality,
and rights unimpaired"-those Stales
which the American Congress has just
voted with deliberate and cold -blooded
perfidy to put under the heel of an ab-
Solute military despotisn.


1t is idle for the less insane portion
of the Radicals to stink away from the
doctrine of State suicide; either that
doctrine is we'll founded, and there is
no such State Of the American Union ex-
isting as the State of Virginia, or else
the action of Congress has not so much
foundation as a grain of sand to stand
upon. Absurd, preposterous and con-
temptible as the doctrine is to all in
telligent and rejecting minds, yet the
Trumbulls, the Fessendens, and the
Frelinghuysens must stand squarely on
it without wincing, or confess them
selves guilty of a usurpation-of an as
sault upon the Constitution Of their
country, not surpassed in magnitude
and audacity by secession itself.
Year: 1867

The Lynchburg Ners says that the
total amount of the tax on tobacco
shipped from that city, if the tax had
been paid here, would amount to about
one million of dollars, from the lst of
June, 1866, to the present date; but
much the larger portion of this tobacco
was shipped "in bond" and the districts
to which it was shipped collected the
tax and are credited with it.
Year: 1867

Some weeks since the wife OF respec.a,
DE citizen Of Troy died after brief illness
leaving her husband something like
$4,000, which she had carefully saved from
money which came into her possession. and
OF the existanee of which the husband wa,
entirely ignorant. Through long life. she
had been a Hateful wife and ysluabe help
mate. and in death e-en was faithful still.
Year: 1867

COUNTY OFFICERS. In another
column We publish an article from the
Independence bulletin, which reflects
our sentiments upon nominating Con.
ventions. We are inform ed that the
Convention for this county will prob


ably be held in Sentember, and ii the
peopie wish to have any voice in the
matter they must attend the primary
meetings. otherwise the few will run
the machine to suit themselves. When
a Convention Is called and notice is
given o. the township caucus. it is not
acting The part Of men 10 stay away
from these gatherings and then com.
plain that the few who do attend have
everything their own way. It is just
a. important that these primary meet
ings be attended as that the people
vote on election day. We trust that the
Republicans Of the county will take
the matter in hard and see that good
honest. reliable men are placed in
nomination, men representing the
wishes of the people and not the nom.
iaees OF 4 lew would-be politicians,


and then will there be 70 excuse for
any one 10 hesitste giving the ticket q
hearty support.-Fraaklia Reporter.
Year: 1867

Editors sometimes receive very curious
requests The following clipped from q
New York paper is pretty good sample of
those often met with in editorial life /:


Please print something beautiful smart
and respectable for me in the copy iha, You
send to Miss -. Some smart piece that
some person has written. ! have heard that
yoa was famous for writing Smart Pieces
II you will write me smart piece and sign
ny name TO il u the cop, tha, you send to
Miss -- and in the co that YOU s,nd 10
me viii! do more than as much for you.n
Year: 1867

TEACH THE WOMEN TO SAVE
There's the secret y saving woman at
the head Of a family is the very best
saving bank yet established-one who
receives deposits daily and hourly with
no costly machinery to manage it, The
idea of saving is pleasant one, and If
the women would imbibc il ut once,
they would cultivate and adhere to it,
and thus, when they were not aware OF
it, would be laying the foundation Of
competent security In a stormy time,
and shelter in rainy day. The woman
who sees to her own house, has large
field to save in. The best way To make
her comprehend il is to keep an account
Of all current expenses. Probably not
one woman in ten has an idea Of how
much are the expenditures of herself
and family. Where from one to two
thousand dollars are expended annually
there is chance to save something If
the effort is only made. Let the house
wife take the idea, act upon it, and she
will save many dollars, perhaps hun
dreds, which before she thought inn
possible.
Year: 1867

MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA-SUM-
MER SCHooL.-The opening lecture to this
course was delivered on yesterday in the
college building by DR.. NJ. L. James, the
lecturer in the chair of practice.


DR.. James discussed the influence on
character of the study of science generally,
and especially the study and practice OF
medicine, the responsibilities and attrac-
tions Of the profession, and its relations to
the present circumstances of the country.
He closed by alluding to the possible effect
of the present misfortunes Of the southern
country in being made to contribute to ele-
vate the condition of its science and litera-
ture in directing much Of the current of
mind to its cultivation heretofore devoted
to politics.


This school deserves liberal support.
The Faculty is able and jealous, and the
clinical advantages are superior. We are
aware of the difficulty to students in our
present impoverished condition Of raising
the necessary funds for meeting college
education, but such arrangements have
been made between the two Faculties that
this really amounts to almost nothing so
far as tuition fees are concerned; and the
expense of board is now very much re-
duced in our city-certainly as cheap as in
other cities, if not cheaper. As will be seen
by the advertisement, the Faculty of the
winter school will deduct one-half the fees
charged in the summer school from.the fees
of the winter course, leaving only thirty
dollars for the entire course.
Year: 1867

but the highest honors Of the Institute
have as vet been borne off by only some five
or six "flll graduates"


A literary society, the Phiiomathean,
has existed in the Institute from its foun-
dation, and its varied exercises form an at
tractiye feature among the young ladies.


In conclusion, we may say that the In
stitute, as perhaps the only incorporated
institution for the education Of young Ia
dies among us, should continue to be an
object of interest and pride to our comnu-
nify-
Year: 1867

To the Editors Of the Richmond Dispatch:


The past month Of March has been 50
remarkable that ! send you statement Of
the thermometer and the weather. / kept
no record as to the freshet In the river, or
of the length of time that the city was
without water, but believe 1t was fully two
weeks. b.
Year: 1867

STREET-CAR ACCOMMODATION FOR THE
PUBLIC.-The Street Railway Company is
evidently determined to try and accomo-
date. They will soon receive lot OF
lighter cars, which will be put on the road,
and the hours Of running have been
changed so as to start early in the morn
ing, 6 o'clock, and run till 9 o'clock at
night. Working men and women will now
have chance to ride down town to their
business.
Year: 1867

A Boston man, who wanted to trade in
mahogany, sugar, honey. beeswax and
hides. lived at Beaz. a little palm town
on the coast, near the beautiful plains
and mountains of Anna. He had little
house that was built Of palm tree bark
and covered with palm leaves At last
he had house made OF pine boards at
home. all fitted ready to put on ship board
and carried to Beaz, and he put it up,
had it nicely ceiled, and thought he was
very grand But the sun shruuk the
boards, and very soon the seams in his
nice new house were large enough to let
in a bee and in the bees went, between
the ceiling and the weather boarding, in-
to his closets, under his chamber floors,
up his chimney, everywhere ; and before
three months, so delighted were they with
this new home, they had filled every crack
and crevice overhead aud round about
with comb and honey, till it poured
down on his head, and his house became
such "sweet, sweet home" that he had
to run away and leave it, or be stuck fast
and drawn out, like fly in cup, from
his own great beehive.
Year: 1867

Life bears us on like the stream of mighty
river. Our boat at first glides swiftly down
the narrow channel through the playful mur-
murings of the little brook, and winding along
its grassy borders, the trees shed their blossoms
over our young heads, and the flowers on tho
brink seem to offer themselves to our hands:
we are in hope, and we grasp eagerly at the
beauties around us; but the stream hurries us
ON. and still our hands are empty.


Our course in youth and manhood is alonga
wider and deeper food, and amid objects moro
striking and magnificent. We are animated
by the moving picture of enjoyment now pas
sing before us; we are excited by short-lived
success, or depressed and rendered miserable by
short-lived disappointment. But our energy
and dependence are both In vain. The stream
bears us on, and eur joy and griefs are left be-
hind us; we may be shipwrccked, but we can
not anchor our voyage may be fastened, but
we cannot be delayed; whether rough or
smooth, the river hastens towards its home the
roaring of the waves is beneath our keel, and
land lessons from our eyes; the floods are lifted
up around us and we take our last leave of
earth and its inhabitants and of our future voy-
age there is no witness but the Infinite and
Eternal
Year: 1867

/ confess that increasing years bring with
them an increasing respect for men who do not
succeed in life, as those words are commonly
used. Heaven is said to be place for those
who have not succeeded on earth; and, it is
surely true, celestial graces do not best thrive
in and bloom in the hot blaze Of worldly pros
nerity Ill success sometimes arises from su-
perabundance of qualities in themselves good
from a conscience too sensitive taste too fas-
tidious: self-forgetfulness too romantic; q
modesty too retiring. l will not so far as
to say, with living poet, "that the world
knows nothing ofits greatest men," But there
are force of greatness, or at least excellence
which die and make no sign;" there are mar
tyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; he
roes without the laurel, and coquerors without
the triumph
Year: 1867

Dropping away with musical chime.
Fast falls the golden sand,
The days of youth and of olden time


Are fading away on the strand:
Passing away with a tinkling sound,


The sands in the glass run lower;
They fall with musical-withering rhyme,
Those golden sands in the glass of time
Are gaining the darker shore.
Echo is mute,-for eloquence still


Is pleading the cause of to-day;
And old Time leans on his scythe and weeps,
So 10th to pass him away;
But night comes on, and the aged man,
With brow all wrinkled and wan,
Tells the Future to find in the Past homej
While the belfry bellin the old church dou,e
Fen now is beginning to toll


Tolling the hours, the hours away,


And how past and present are gone.
Year: 1867

When the chimneys of lamps become foul,
or covered with a white dust that can neither
be washed off nor removed in the usual way,
rub the inside withwhiting and strong vinegar,
and then rinse with clean water and wipe them
perfectly dry.
Year: 1867

An ingenious pick-pocketin in the West is said
to have driven a good business by getting on
railroad trains, refusing to pay the fare, and
picking the conductors pocket while he was
putting him out