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Year: 1867

The Government will sell to-day the famous
old three decker North Carolina which has so
long been a fixture of the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. Though nearly fifty years old. we have
the assurance of Il Commodore who was long
in command of her that her hull is thoroughly
sound Her great size eminently fits her for a
Quarantine ship, and she should be bought for
that use as it is not probable that she will
bring half the value of the $4,000 worth of
metal employed in her construction. Anchored
firmly in the lower bay, she would make n
better hospital for Quarantine purposes than
we are likely soon to establish on shore. We
trust authority and means may be found to Sc
cure her for this end
Year: 1867

The ease of r. G.. Callc0t and others, ac-
c,Ised of frauds on the revenue, was up before
Commissioner Newton again yesterday. The
counsel for the defense expressed their detemi-
nation 10 deprive the Government of every
excuse for delaying the decisive trial beyond
the coming October term. To this end they
waived all examination of the ease before the
Commissioner, and pledged themselves TO do
all in their power to aid the Government in
bringing the Issue to II speedy tiiai. They
took the opportunity To suggest 10 the prose-
cutting officer that, in ease so exceptional and


important, nothing could excuse or justify
delay. II was Il case, they insisted, in which
the public prosecutor, being also the principal
witness, cannot be presumed to have taken so
important step as to procure the suspension
of high financial officer of the Government
without being fully prepared with proofs to
substantiaie his charges.


The Indictment could be drawn in q single
hour; and, rs no objection would be offered, it
could be found by the. Grand jury ID u time
equally short. They had been informed that
the Ciecuit Judge could not be on the bench,
but insisted that the attendance OF any two of
the i've District Judges of this Circuit could
be obtained for October If application were
Immediately made. The ease should be pre-
ferred to all other cases on the calendar, as it
was one which. while pending, suspended the
ordinary operation Of IN important function OF
the Government They therefore gave notice
TO the Government that they should not con-
sent TO any postponement of the trial beyond
tic October term.


TO this, the District Attorney for New-Jersey.
who Gt is understood) is charged with the
prosecution of the case, replied that the Gov
ernment would be ready, and pledged himself
that there should he no delay.


May we not hope that here is one ease of
public importance which is not to be smothercd
by postponements or killed by the delays that
have, to such I'M extent, contributed la bring
the administration of justice into public con-
tcmpt2 If, under all tho, circumstances, the
Government should delay The trial beyond the
October tenn, it viii go i4r to shake public
Year: 1867

The Democratic party in the West rejoices
in a richer specimen than even Vallandigham.
In Wisconsin, a fellow known as '' Brick POme-
"roy,r who edits a rank Democratic paper in
La Crosse, is regular Democratic canyasser,
working with a will for the Johnsonites. His
speeches are not as bright as they were three
years ago, as the following notice he gave OF
the late President Lincoln's murder will show:


Everything concerning the departed cuss possesses
fascination and charm for which we make no effort 10
rcsst-we would not II we could've feei his loss moro
than people for he such NICE sweet besutifuf
lnan-possessed of such winning ways and charming
characteristics he snuied out of existence 50
easy-he a human frstcass rocket, and everybody
tonch-and-go in mm-that there was 70 much OF that
divinity which doth hedge about, 6e But one day
naughty boy John Wilkes Booth by name, came along.
and he admired the rocket and he said Oh what beau
tfu rocket, and hescratched match, and touched Its


flame the NICE first class rocket and before any one
could say Let kiss him for his mother II went on
and all that left OF the amusing rocket was nasty,
blackened broken stick and empty case OF noaccount
to anybody or anything.


This is the right sort of man to gladden.
the hearts of Democracy that the other night,
in Washington, gave three cheers for the
President who was Mt afraid of being shot,
Year: 1867

Gen. Sheridan met with hearty reception
last evening. The military parade was exten
sive and creditabc, and the soldiers were all
enthusiastic in their admiration for the hero of
the Shenandoah The guest of the evening
made no long speech; but none was needed.
His best eXtempOraneOus speeches are stored up
in the memories of those who heard them amid
all the wild accOmpaniments of the battle
field while his written efforts will appear IN
future histories of the Department of the Gulf
No worther guest has ever been received in
our metropolitan city than Phil. Sheridan.
Year: 1867

One of the Republican speakers in Ohio
lillens the Democratic new mode Of paying off
gold debts in greenbacks to man trying to
redeem his negotiable paper by giving other
notes without interest. That is just about
what il amounts to.
Year: 1867

The latest returns from Louisiana indicate
that majority of registered voters voted at
the recent election, and that the Convention is
therefore ordered. In New0rleans the vote
was very light, but more general in the
country PARISHES
Year: 1867

Coon GIRLS IN TIE SoUTH.-The Holly
Springs Miss Reporter knows several girls
in Marshal county who were raised in the lap
of luxury. with fine carriages to ride In and
money by the thousands to spend, before the
war, who can now chop wood, drive q two.
horse wagon, go to market, and do all the
housework They can go in the kitchen too.
and prepare dinner equal TO q French cook


And then call on them in the parlor, they will
treat you TO such music, as woBld make the
houri listen with wonder and admiration


These girk have cheerfully conformed TO the
change In their pecuniary circumstances


The Reporter thinks they are worthy of being
the wives of the greatest and best in the land,
and so think we.
Year: 1867

u Mr.. DAVID johnson, a faithful Govern
ment employee, who has had charge of the
eoal Meet Al the Mound City (IIlInois) Navy
Yard for the past three years, made a mistake
IN the measurement OF a barge Of coal which
he received from a contractor some weeks
since, by which the Government lost about
Tour hundred bushels of coal. The error SO
preyed upon his mind that he committed sui
eide on the sth instant. by shooting himself
through the head. fearing that his reputation
bad suffered materially with the officers TO
whom he was amenable, and that the conf
dence previously reposed in him would be
witbheld In future. The paper containing the
rgures he had used was found on a table near
him, and on the other side was written a note
staung that be died by his own hand.
Year: 1867

FALL OF TABLE RocK.-A letter from Cliff
ton, 9. w, TO the Buffalo Express, says that on
Wednesday morning so much of Table Rock
as had been Ief by the fall of seven years a go,
tumbled with a loud crash into the river Tns
accident IL attributed to the sudden expansion
and contraction caused by the recent change
OF weather and the prolonged thaws. There
is said to be much grief among the denizens of
that locality. as Table Rock was the source OF
much profit 20 them.
Year: 1867

A CURIOUS CAsR.-The Chicago husband
VINO went away on business January 81 and
came home February 16, TO lind that his wife
married another man, was only a sampIe case


The only witness against him, the charge
being Cruelty, was the new husband. As
some atonement. this is the third case noticed
within week where courts have set aside
their decree of divorce after one of the parties
were married again. This is the fourth ca Sc
which equally illustrates the looseuess OF our
cal joke, obtained the legal separation of a
newly married couple, by acting as attorney
for the gen tleman, whom he m ade the plaintif
In his absence on the wedding tour. On his
return ne found the decree on his office Table


and learned that for the latter part of his
honey moon he had been Illegally cohabiting
with his former wife, and was obliged TO take
out new marriage license and get married
again. Lord Brougham once SAID in Parl,.-
menf, not haif the people knew whether or
not they were legally married - -
Year: 1867

In Edinburg, a short time ago, DR.. Stark
read paper on the influence Of marriage on
the death-rate of men and women in Scot
land. 55, f,is4


DR.. Stark based his calculations on the
statistics issued by the registrar-general, and
brought out results which, to a great mea-
sure, he believed, were now presented for
the first time. He first showed the results
in the case of men, He found that between
twenty and twenty-f five years Of age the
death-rate of bachelors was exactly double
that of the married men. As the age in
creases, the difference in the death-rate as
against the bachelors decreased, but at every
stage of life the advantage was in favor of
the married men. From twenty years of
age to the close Of life the mean age attained
by married men was ffty-nine and half
years. while that of bachelors was only forty
years in other words, married men had
the chance of living nineteen and half
years longer than those who were unmarri-
ed. From twenty-five years of age to the
close of life the mean age Of married men
was sixty and two-tenths, while that of un-
married men was only forty seven and seven
tenths. Very nearly one-half of all the
bachelors who died had not attained thirty
years of age. The results, Dr.. Stark thought,
clearly proved that the married state was
the condition of life best fitted for mankind,
and that prolongation of life by that state
was special provision of nature. 1t was
based on fixed laws of life. Married men
were generally more regular in their habits,
better housed, better cared for, and more
under the condition of health and long life.
In the case of women also, the results were
in favor of the married as compared with the
unmarried, though the difference was not
so marked as in the case of the men. Mar
ried women died at a greater proportion
during the quinquenneal periods from
fifteen to twenty, and twenty-five to thirty,
but at a lower rate from thirty to forty.
The death-rate, in the case of married
women, was higher between forty and forty
five years of age, but the rate was in their
favor again from the latter period to old age.
Year: 1867

The owl wrote book to prove that
the sun was not full Of light, but that
the moon was much. more luminous :,
that the whole world had been mistaken
about it, and that the whole world was
wrong and the owl alone was right.


"W hat Il wonderful book I" cried all
the night birds, "and it must be right !;
our lady, the owl, has such very large
eyes, of course she can see through all
the mists Of Ignorance"


every truc," cried the bats, "she is
right, no doubt. AS for us, we cannot
see blink; the moon and the sun are Il
like to us. And for anything we know
there is no light in either, So we went
over in n body to her opinion


BY and by the matter WAS noised a.
broad until the eagle heard of it. He
called the birds around him, and look
ing down upon them from his rocky
throne, spoke thus;


"Children Of the light and Of the day,
beware Of night birds their eyes may
be large, but they are 50 formed they
cannot receive the light. And what
they cannot see they deny the existence
of. Let them praise the darkness or
the moonlight in their haunts, they have
not known anything better; but let us
who love the light, because our eyes
can bear it, give all the glory to the
great fountain Oft, and make our boast
ofthe Sun, whilst we pity the poor
moon worsAippers who live in compar-
atlyc darkness.
Year: 1867

Near Sherman, Texas, recently, Mrs.
Beatty, widow lady, met her death in 3
most singular manner She was in
the act of getting on horse, when q
common sewing needle, which stuck In
her dress, caught in the saddle and was
driven into-her body near the breast,
slightly piercing her heart She lived
only about half an hour.
Year: 1867

Nor RUNNING.--The Whitney Mill At Indian
Valley is not running at present, as we learn from
the Quincy Union. The company are still at work
sinking the shaft, which is about fifty feet
deep. Seams of quartz are getting numerous in
the rock. and they will probably strike the ledge
N sinkin few feet more.
Year: 1867

great French Physician says More than half q.
the disease in the world GENES fr- neglect to f,-v
the system against changes of climate weather and
foci- The great Of hsal-h Is u keep the cor
ton nf the stomach and Blood regular and UNIFORM 50
thst changes from Heat 70 Geld rom Dry to Damn
etc, canDot upset the machinery of the hcNiy. and
breed disease


Now. is fact positive and vell-known that there
l. such byiwarS and assistant for the Stomach As


PLANTATION BITTERS.


This splendid Tonic is row used by all classes Of pe
pie for every symptom Of Stomach out Of orfer
The secrst q it Is this Plantation Brts~s are certain
10 correct the uces Of the stomach all machinery
az work and enable it 10 resist and throw Of the sy
preaehing danger. The tendency Of the operations os
Nature Is always towards all she needs is lit
tie assistance at the proper time. How much more res
sonabe and sensible il IS to help her along Vie, 1e..-
tie We. powerful Tonic than to deluge and and
defeat her curative processes with poisonous drugs sud
nery mixtures which only stupefy and plant the seeds
of disease Snd death.
Year: 1867

shall adopt Inc elementary branches taught IN
our public schools. are the essential foundation for
any and all professions and business pursuits and
if Mr.. Fitzgerald conducts his office in the spirit
and letter of the law every objection urged BY this
removed.


Weare not told by Mr.. Montgomery what is to be
the practical effect of the change be proposes. The
entire burden of his song is Parental control"
and his nursery bugaboo is"John SWEET" Sup
pose the public fund should follow the child into
any school designated by the parent and something
should occur TO cause the removal of the child 10
another school, must the public fund follow him
through as many changes as the parent chooses to
make. Certainly it must the parent is taxed for
school purposes withou; any benefit therefrom.
The result of Mr.. Montsomerys crazy theory would
do away with public schools and supply fund for
private schools. Deny it as he may. his war upon
the school system, is the war Of a bgot and arises
in the ability of the Catholic Schools to draw the
public fund. The effort made some years since to
induce the Legislature TO enable them to do 50 will
be remembered We do not object alone to the
NatnonV ieilSton, out 10 All DENOMINATIONS an
sects and creeds, in connection with our public
school fund The result of our present system is
public school house in every neighborhood. Change
If for Mr. Montsomsrys plan. and they will soon be
displaced by sectarian schools. Instead of public
school houses and teachers We should have chape Is
sad preachers, synagoSues and rabbis. monaSteries
and monks Let our present Legislature beware of
the retrogression of the bigot and the demagogue
and adhere to the true and correct principle of
universal education.
Year: 1867

n, The relative amount Of rejoicing properly
occasioned by the penitence of single wick
ed man on the one hand, and the continuance
of ten righteous men in welidoing on the
other, is we'll established by the scriptural
declaration in reference to that subject. So
in politics, there is more exultation over a
paltry fifteen hundred majority In New Jer-
sey, where the people are in the first.years of
their. moral emancipation, than over the
annually recurring twenty thousand of Ver-
mont, that has never gone astray. Is the
world so wicked, then, that political virtue in
a State becomes as tiresome to it as the I'M
wavering honesty Of individuals? Vermont
is our Aristides. People are weary of bearing
it everywhere called 'the Just" When New
Jersey or Connecticut by dint Of stirring
canvass and almost superhuman effort is
saved from the enemy, it occasions the same
rejoicing as when some disreputable scamp is
ioduced to put on clean shirt, wash his face
and go to church. Vermont is the
"good fellow" who always goes to
church, and is always sighted and over
looked, and, if necessary, snubbed. So
it happens that after the first telegraphic
assurance that Vermont is all right, as usual,
Information which is no more surprising
! than would be the statement that the Green
Moantaina still Within t,,s. n..ass- ss ,ae
State, and have not crossed the New York
line on visit to the Adirondacks-we have
no dispatches the second day giving details of
the result. But it is enough to know that
notwithstanding few local quarrels, and
Republican majority is proportionately as
large as ever. If it shall prove that there was
a very slight relative gain for the Democrats,
it is no more than may be fully accounted for
by the unfavorable weather of last Tues
day, for the different effect of an election
bers Of the majority and minority parties
is physical paradox, the existence of which
is perfectly well established, though from its
singularity it demands the investigation of
natural philosophers. l tile 4a9ut +


But Vermont deserves hearty commenda-
dation, instead OF the condescending pats OF
approval which are accorded to her when she
brings her annual tribute to the shrine Of
Liberty and Union. Whether the political
skies are serene or stormy, Vermont is al
ways sure. While in other States local issues
or personal quarrels cause the majority to de-
clare itself now ON one side and now ON the
other, Vermont always in these latter years
has kept steadily in view the paramount i'm
portance OF national issues. The people of
the State are precisely what is indicated by
the correctness of their political sentiments.
When the nation calls for soldiers, no reader
response comes from any State than from
Vermont. No State has better schools or
more intelligent citizens. Crime is compara-
lively of rare occurrence. In short, though
Vermont suffers from natural idisadvan
tages, which preclude the possibility Of
considering it Utopia, its moral greatness
entities it to be regarded as the Little Giant
of the States. i'+
Year: 1867

HAWTHORNE, while sitting on the 27th of
July, 1874, in "a shallow space scooped out
among the woods, makes the following en-
thy in his diary: "Insects are fluttering
around The cheerful, sunny hum of flies is
altogether summerlike, and so gladstone that
you pardon them their intrusiveness and
impertinence, which continually impel them
TO fly against your face, to alight upon your
hands, and TO buzz in your very ear, as if
they wished to get into your head, among
your most secret thoughts. In truth fly
is the most impertinent and indelicate thing
in creation; the very type and moral of
human spirits with whom one occasionally
meets, and who, perhaps, after an existence,
troublesome and vexatious to all with whom
they come in contact, have been doomed to
re-appear in this congenial shape. Here is
one intent upon slighting on my nose. In a
room, now-in human habitation-I could
find in my conscience to put him to death;
but he holds in common with all other chill
dren of earth and air; and we have no right
to slay him on his own ground"
Year: 1867

To LIGHT DARK RooM.-The London
Builder recommends a plan for lighting a
dark room in which the darkness is caused
by its being situated on a narrow street or
lane. The Builder says if the glass of win
dow in such a room is placed several inches
within the outer face OF the wall, as is the
general custom in building houses, it will
admit very little light, that which it gets
being only the reflection from the walls of
the opposite houses. IT. however, for the
window be substituted another in which all
the panes of glass are roughly ground on the
outside, and flush with the outer wall, the
light from the whole of the visible sky and
from the remotest parts of the opposite wall
will be introduced into the apartment re-
flected from the innumerable face or faces
which the rough grinding of the glass has
produced The whole window will appear
as if the sky were beyond it, and from every
point of this luminous surface light will ra-
diate into all parts of the room.
Year: 1867

I" Let me tell you of little incident
that happened TO me this evening, said
q soldier in Louisiana. II had been out
all day on the skirmish line; all was
quiet had not heard the singing of q
bullet for some time. was sitting on
the ground with my rife across my knees,
thinking Of my home and friends far
awsy-wondering what the future had
in store for me, and il ! should ever see
that home again. AS ! sat thus, little
bird, called the Baltimore oriole, perched
himself on bush so close TO me that l
might have touched him easily with my
rife, and soon commsnced singing.
The voice OF this bird is muck like that
Of our robin, and he is about the same
size, though his color is different, being
a dark red. The poor little fellow had
been driven away through the day by
the shower of bullets that visited that
quarter, but had returned TO visit his
home and seemed now TO be returning
thanks TO God for his safe return. And
so, thought !, my case may be like the
little bird. After this struggle is over, l
may return to my friends and home.
/ accepted the omen, thanked God for
His waichful care over me, and with re-
newed courage ana hope pressed on. =
Frank Moore's anecdotes.
Year: 1867

An amusing matrimonial story is told
of the olden time of New England. 1t so
fell out that two young people became
attached to each other, as young people
sometimes do. The young woman's ia
ther was a wealthy Quaker, the man was
poor but respectable" The father could
stand no such union, and resolutely op-
posed it, and the daughter dare not dis
obey openly. She met him by moonlight,
while she pretended never to see him,
and she pined and wasted in spite of her.
self. She was really in love-a state of
sighs and tears, which women oftener
reach in imagination than reality. So
the father remained memorable. Time
passed on, and the rose of Mary's da-
mask cheek passed of. She let not con-
cealment, like a worm in the bud, prey
upon her damask cheek, however; but
when her father asked her why she pined,
she always told him. The old gentle
man was a widower and lov ed her dearly.
Had it been widowed mother who had
Mary in charge, woman's pride never
would have given way before the i'm
portunties of daughter. Men are not,
however, so stubborn in such matters,
and when the father saw that his daugh.
ter heart was really set upon the match,
he surprised her one day by breaking
out: "Mary, rather than nope to death,
thou hadst better marry as thee choosest
and when thee pleaseth.'


And what did Mary? Wait till the
birds of the air hath told her swain Of
the chances, or till her father had time
to change his mind again Not bit of
it. She clapped her neat plain bonnet
on her head, walked directly into the
street, and then as directly to the house
of her intended as the street could carry
her. She walked into the house without
knocking-for knocking was not fashion
able then-and she found the family just
sitting down to dinner. Some little com
motion was exhibited at so unexpected
an apparition as an heiress in the widows
cottage, but she needed it not. John
looked up inquiringly. She walked to
him and took his hand in hers. John,
said she, father says / may have thee. y
And John got directly up from the din
ner table and went to the parsons. In
just twenty-four minutes they we're man
and wife.