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Year: 1865

WAsHIYGToy, Oct. 15.-The record of the
testimony in the Wirz trial makes 5000 fools
cap pages, divided into seventy parts, and
contains between three and four hundred OBJ
jections and rulings of the court. One hun
dred and sixty witnesses were examined on
both sides, several Of whom were individually
on the stand two days for examination in chief
and cross examinations.


Mr. Baker, of the counsel for the defence,
thought it would take him seven or eight days
to properly read this mass Of testimony, in ad-
dition to the subsequent task of examining all
the points of law, and last Of all, tho criticisms
Of the statements of witnesses. the cOmpar-
ison Of the different classes of testimony. and
the writing out Of the argument.


He insisted on having two full weeks for the
performance of this labor saying it was Ut
terly impossible for him to complete it in a
shorter period of time. The court at first
gave him eight days, and afterwards extended
the limits to twelve days. but Mr.. Baker would
take nothing less than two weeks from Monday,
and failing to obtain TINS, he chose to submit



man, the Judge Advocate. is already prepar-
ing his argument, promising TO cover the
ground on both sides, and will read it next
Wednesday, when, as usual in such cases, the
court WILL with closed doors, proceed to con-
slider and make up their findings in the case
before them.


The Navy Department Will close out its sale
of steamers and sailing vessels by disposing
Of twenty-five at public auction in New York
on the 25th instant. They will be sold to the
highest bidder without reserve. A larger
number Of sels have been sold here than
elsewhere above the assessed value Of the
Government inspectors.


The South Carolina delegates have not yet
had the desired second interview with the
President, who was too much occupied to
again receive them.


Chief Justice Chase has returned to Wash
ingtOn.
Year: 1865

The following extraordinary domestic
tradition is extracted from now book
which is much talked of in Europe:


The Duke OF Alba, the brother-in-law
of Napoleon ILL, is short, little man,
who has something icy about his whole
manner. Small and weak, his face dis
PLAYS an alabaster hue, which gives him
q ghost-like aspect. In Spain the story
is current that the Duke was buried La-
fore he was orn. When his mother was
encieRte with him she was taken so des-
perately i'll that all the attempts to re-
store her remained fruitless. The
Duchess died far from Madrid, at a
chateau which had always been her IA
vorite residence She was buried III the
family vault; and, as it is the custom OF
the Spanish nobility, several valuables,
among others her rings, were put into
the coffin. The treasures which had been
left to oblivion with the Duchess aroused
the cupidiiy of some ruflians; they broke
into the vault on the night following
the funeral, robbed the dead woman and
would not leave the coffin till they had
plucked flashing diamond from the
corpse. Inc ulduohu was oh Vne iUcio
finger, and would not como off, This
gave the body.snatchers the truly can
nibal idea of cutting the finger. The
pain aroused the apparently dead wO'
man; she came to hersenses, set up Ia tho
coffin, aud, by her unexpected wakening,
put the robbers TO flight. When they
departed they forgot to close the vault.
The Duchess found sufficient strength
to quit her coffin and return to the cha
team, where she was at first taken for
ghost, and a priest was called i'll to eX-
orcise it, but as he was unable to I'anish
the spectre, the people in the chateau
gradually began to believe in her cor
poral existence. The Duchess recovered
and gave birth to boy, who has never
lost the deadly pallor which he brought
into the world with hlm.-Napoleon the
Third and his Court, BY a retired Diplomast
Year: 1865

place of business open. There is no s,rone|
drink for sale in town. This is right II isl
to day. as ii should be on the Sabbsth. Shall
men have a greater regard for q recommends
tion of President Johnsou. than for a conf
mand of the King Of heaven2 Let 60 mani
count himself pdir,oi. while he bows his
head as bulrush and disregards the Divine
" appointed conditions OF national prosperity


Thus in obedience 10 the word Of God. and
at the call of this nation, have met you here
this day as a minister of Christ. ] have ex-
planned TO you the nature Of a fast. | havs
cited you to some portions Of our national bis
tory. leading 10 the call. have iutma,ed
some of The effects aimed TO be accomplished
by it. and lastly, read the inspired conditions
OF being heard in prayer. Now let us spend
one minute in silent prayer to God, after which
we will all repeat vocally the Lords Prayer.
Our Father which art in Heaven.


Hallowed be thy name


Thy kingdom come,


Thy will be done in earth as i is in Heaven.
GIVE US this day our daily bread


And forgive our debts we forgive our DEBTORS
And lead US not into temptation


Bat deliver US from evil.


For thine Is the kingdom, and the power. and the
glory, for ever. Amen.
Year: 1865

occupying position unexcelled apparenta
ly for health. There were but eight cases
of typhoid fever In the town, and none of
these terminated fatally. so that the fright
full calamity at the Institute was evidently
due to some local cause. At the request Of
the principal, three physicians examined
the whole matter, and theirreport has been
published. The report shows the evident
cause to have been the filthy condition of
the priyies, and the gases from an open
drain and from the cellar of an old stable
that had been recently removed, From
these noxiOus etlluvia- was exhaled that
so poisoned the air that Some of the pupils
testified they were compelled to close their
windows ''to keep out the bad smells.p In
field so prepared, the seeds OF typhoid fe-
yer took root and bore q plentiful crop OF
deaths. Had it been cholera season, that
dreaded scOurge would have found numer+
GUS victims among the pupils at Maple7
wood. ~
Year: 1865

An examination Of the bodies of Judge
Wright and his sons, shot to death 10y a
guard Of State militia in Phelps county,
Missouri shows that they were all shot in
front. This does not sustain Colonel
Bocokcs statement that they were fired
upon in the act of escaping from the
guard The firing, too, was done 10y vol
leys-so those testify who heard the re-
port. and as though done at the word Of
command We are focced to the conclu-
sion that they were deliberately shot, and
that it was the purpose to Kill these men
at the time they were made prisoners. -
Cincinnati Commercial.
Year: 1865

6gA five year old with trousers, saw a
street Sprinkler for the FIRST time the, other
day. With intense appreciation Of the TT
ness ofthings he went home TO tell his stboth-
ergOf "a man with big wagon who had a
sprinkler on tokeep the boys from catch
ing hold behind .saitilon ii ls.llngn 81 y
Year: 1865

'' Our office, besides one Of Hoes best Power
Presses, is furnished with a good JOB Press and
all the necessary materials for executing plain
and fancy Job Printing with neatness and dis
Year: 1865

LAMENrABLE LACK OF CONFIDENCE.
We were amused at the Burtis House
an evening or two ago, by the expression


Of confidence iu tho honesty Of the hu-
man race, made by German Jew lie
Year: 1865

70 The Gr~at Northern hallway Company
in England, is about to introduce q method for
cons ming the smoke of locomotives. and at
the same tim" manufacture from it gas with
which to light the train.
Year: 1865

IF the controversy on reconstruction
could be viewed simply as a matter of po-
liticaI strategy. it would look rs though
the executive had stolen march on Con-
grcss. While the latter body were lciS-
urelv considering the best methods of de-
termining what seeded state should come
in and what should stay out of the Tn
ion, Mr. Seward issues L proclamation de-
clarin. incidentally, but very explicitly.
that seven of those states are already ac-
tually in the Union: and in another doc
ument he proceeds to relieve one of them,
Alabama, from its provisional swaddling-
clothes. and to array it in the customary
garb OF the Union. The members of
congress who were 50 Jealous for the rcso-
luton of the representatives caucus may
well be astonishcd at this thanking of their
position.


But this is no question of political STRAIT
egv. 1t is one OF the graveSt, the most
momentouS questions that ever addressed
itself to the lud gment and patriotism OF
the country. We have no reason to doubt
that the executive regards it in this light.
and the course it has taken springs from
conviction and from information honestly
collected and weighed And if conclu-
sions in any manner different had been
arrived at by the peoples representatives
in the two branches of congress, we have
no doubt they will be waived for renew
ell and dispaS>ionate examination OF the
whole subject from the new light under
which it is now presented. Ii is entirely
new and we wait with interest TO see how


it strikes congress and the country.-Bos-
ton Journal
Year: 1865

The English railroad men who recently
paid us visit were astonished by the char
acter and gigantic proportions of our sys-
TEN of railroad expresses. They saw that
express companies were making twenty
per cent. on roads that did not pay their
stockholders five ; they ascertained by III
quiry that the active managers of those
roads held large quantities of express stock !:
they tried to ascertain, but failed and had
to guess, how they came by it. But they
were unanimous and emphatic in the judg-
ment that railroad should do all the busi-
ness that run on its rails; that If should
stand ready to carry anything-from a
gimlet to an elephant-that was brou2h; to
any of its stations, properly directed and
duly paid for, and to deliver it at the In
dicated point, no matter though it he
Drontheim or Calcutta. They would
have each road employ competent and
trustworthy men to do all Its work, and
then take care that it be promptly done
and paid for but they would allow no
third party to come between the road and
its customers, taking heavy toll out of each
under the guise of running an express
v. Y Tribune.
Year: 1865

the sound of the toddy stick and the click
OF glasses, all the way. When l 90 to a
new place l never expect to find clean
sheets, or a tender piece of steak, but l
am sure there will be an abundance of bad
whiskey.


! When | crossed Mason & Dixon's line,
l also found there was no longer any Sab
bath in the New England sense The
cars and steamboats, run as on week DAYS
The drinking saloons are all open. The
masses make holiday of this sacred time of
which the Lord Jehovah says, remember
to keep it holy. In this city, while it was
under military rule, the theatres and plac-
es of amusement were closed but now
the civil authorities have permitted them
to be opened, and they are all in full
blast In passing through St. Charles st.
to church, the theatres and opera houses
and billiard rooms and shooting galleries
and ten pin alleys were thronged, and the
liquor sellers and oyster saloon men were
reaping their richest harvest This is the
afternoon ; you may imagine what the
evening would be. 1t is striking fact
that the clergymen of New Orleans refus-
ed to sign petition asking the managers
Of the theatres TO continue to keep them
closed on Sunday. They feared public
sentiment.


You may add to these two vices, licen-
tiousness, which flaunts its tinselry, and
exposes its vileness and corruption on ev-
cry hand. In New Orleans this has al
ways been an open and unblushing sin ;
but good men in the south often speak Of
the Generalization which has taken place
in domestic circles everywhere during the
war. The men in the army, freed from
the restraints of home. have been exceed
ingly lax, and their homes have been made
the scenes of deeds which it were better TO
leave unmentioned. In speaking of these
vices in the south, do not intend to i'm
ply that the north is free theretrom. in
these things the war has wrought sadly
with us, and it is time to apply the RENE
dy with all diligence and fidelity.


You also hear great deal said in the
south about the corruption and fraud
practiscd by quarter masters and army
contractors According to the testimony
of all classes, there was stealing at fear
full rate, and thousands OF men have grown
rich by plumber Our shoddy men may
find in this a new bond of sympathy.


Yours truly, c. L. G.
Year: 1865

WHERE ARE THE METALLIC THREE
CENT PIECES THE cent and two cent
coins are as plentiful as blanks in Il lotte-
ry: but where the copper and nickel three
cent pieces are slowed away is a mystery
that probably no one but a coin broker or
Il Jewish miser can solve. Since the first
oi June this year seven million four hun
dred thousand of these much desired coin
have been issued from the United States
mint in Philadelphia, and yet they are as
seldom seen as double eagle. Those
who are boarding them will profit by
bringing them out, for their metal value
Is less than.half q cent. and Congress by
and by may take a notion to re-
pudiate them.-Ne,r York Herald.
Year: 1865

The following is from Richmond pa
per: Wanted-A situation as son-in-
law in respectable family. Blood and
breeding no object, being already supplied;
capital essential. No objection to going a
short distance into the country
Year: 1865

The farmers home is to great extent q
community within itself, and its inmates must
seek for their information for themselves
hence, the farmers family is bound to read,
because it has not the opportunity of the city,
or town, where the lecture-room the court,
the walking takers, the numerous churches
the rapid movements of trade, etc., supply to
some extent, the place of reading.


The farmer himself is bound to read, be-
cause his interests are involved with interest
of the state and county which are constantly
doing something which affects him and his
children, and it is the newspaper-the politi-
cal newspaper-which informs him, if he will
read, of the changes of the laws of his state
and county, as well as the time when the
officers and the courts act upon these laws
This is information which he must have, his
own welfare compels him to have it, and if he
does not take the paper containing this infor-
nation, he must borrow from his neighbor,
or else ride to the county seat and ask for the
news Whereas, when he takes paper he
has the information in print, together with
large amount of other interesting matter
His journey to the county-seat if he wants
any information, must cost him his time, and
not less than half a dollar, while his paper at
$3.50 per year. will cost him less than five
cents per week-less than his tobacco, less
than his cigars, less than any thing he buys
or can buy. Yet we have men scodng about
the price of a newspaper.


Now, we would like you to ask any man,
especially farmer, how he can get the same
amount of information which he needs, and
the same amount of amusement for his chill
dren, for Jfre cents per week, that he can get
in his own political county newspaper 1t
can't be done. 1t is the best and cheapest
friend that enters the farmers door. Will
not those farmers who know this to be a fact,
endeavor to impress this upon their neighbors,
who do not consider the matter 2-Clarke
County Democrat
Year: 1865

soul seemed to hang on theburning tongue of
the stranger, he inspired them with the pow
er of his malignant passions; he seemed to
have stolen the natures long hidden secret Of
attraction. But his greatest triumph was to
come.


His eyes began to glance at the assassin
Hopkins, as his lean taper fingers assume the
same direction. He hemmed the wretch with
wall of strong evidence and impregnable
argument, cutting off all hope Of escape
He dug beneath the murderers feet bitches
Of dilemma, and held the slanderer up to
the scorn and contempt of the populace. M
Having thus girt him about with q circle ot
ase; N s''lRR8 81 lRsS| 1|s| S5l aha
dreadful to behold the orator. His actions
became as impetuous as the motion OF an oak
in hurricane. His voice became trumpet
filled with wild whirlpools, deafening the ear
with the crashes of power, and yet intermin-
gled all the while with sweet undersong of
the softest cadence. His forehead glowed
like heated furnace, his countenance was
haggard, like that of a maniac and ever and
anon he flung his long bony arms on high as
if grasping after thunderbolts.


He drew picture of murder in such ap-
palling colors that in comparison hell itself
might be considered beautiful; he painted the
slanderer so black that the sun seemed dark
at MONDAY, when shining on such an accursed
monster, and then fixing both portraits on the
shrinking Hopkins, fastend them there forev-
er. The agitation of the audience nearly
amounted to madness.


All at once the speaker descended from the
pcrilous hight His voice walled out for the
murdered dead and living-thc beautiful Ma
ry more beautiful every moment as her tears
flowed faster-till men wept and sobbcd like
children


He closed by strange exhortation to the
jury, and through them to the bystanders; he
advised the panel, after they should bring in
u verdict for the plaintiff not to offer violence
to the defendant however richly he might de-
serve it; in other words not to lynch the vii
lain, but leave his punishment to God This
was the most artful trick of all, and best cal
culated to ensure vengeance.


The jury returned verdict Of fifty thous-
and dollars and the night afterwards Hopkins
was taken out of bed by lynchers, and beaten
almost to death. AS the court adjourned,
the stranger said-"John Taylor will preach
here this evening at early candle light" He
did preach-and the house was crowded. l
have listened to Clay, Webster and Calhoun
to Dwight, Bascom and Beecher-but new
er heard anything in the form of sublime
words even remotely approximating to the ell
oquence of John Taylor. Massive as noun
tain, and wildly rushing as cataract of fire.
Year: 1865

Do everything at the proper time.


Keep everything in its place.


Always mend clothes before washing them


Alum or vinegar is good to set colors, red
green Or yellow.


Sal-soda will bleach; one spoonful is enough
for kettle of clothes. -t


Save your suds for the garden and plants
or to harden yards when sandy. te


A hot shovel held over vanished furniture
will take out white spots


A bit of glue, dissolved in skim-milk and
water, will restore old Grape.


Ribbons of any kind should be washed in
cold suds, and not rinsed.


If fiat irons are rough, rub them well will
fine salt, and it will make them smooth.


If you are buying carpet for durability
you must choose small figures.


A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges Of doors
will prevent them from creaking.


Scotch snuff put in holes where crickets
run will destroy them.


Wood ashes and common salt, wet with wa
ter, will stopthc cracks of the stoYe and smoke
from escaping
Green shapld be the prevailing COLOR for bed
hapgings and window dFapery
Year: 1865

\ translation of Welsh Triad:


'She is modest, void of deceit, and obcdi
ent


Pure of conscience, gracious of tongue
and true to her husband.


Her heart not proud, her manners affable
and her bosom full of compassion for the poor


Laboring to be tidy, skilful of hand, ant
fond of praying to God.


Her conversation amiable, her dress decent
and her house orderly.


Quick of hand, quick of eye, and quick o.
understanding.


Her person shapely, her manners agreeable
and her heart innocent


Her face benignant, her head intelligent
and provident


Neighborly, gentle, and Of q liberal way o.
thinking


Able in directing, providing what is want
ing, and a good mother to her children.


Loving her husband, loving peace, and lov.
ing God.


Happy is the man who possesses such a
wife.
Year: 1865

Reso1Oed, By the Legislature of West Vir-
ginia, the following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of this State to be
added at the end of the first section of the
third article thereof to become part Of the
said Constitution when ratified according to
the provisions thereof, namely


mo person who, since the first day of June,
1861; has given Or shall give voluntary aid or
assistance to the rebellion against the United
States, shall be citizen of this State or be
allowed to vote at any election held therein,
unless he has volunteered into the military or
naval service Of the United States and has
been Or shall be honorably discharged there
from"


Adopted, March /, 1865.
Year: 1865

CoRN FoDDER-As it is well said that there
is, "no rose without its thorn" so even rails
ing corn fodder is not without its drawbacks.
And albeit thus far only one side has been
seen, yet most subjects have at least two sides,
one at least rather vexatious.


Land in high condition, well handled, can
he made to produce over the highest figure
named. 1t is possible, yet by no means prob.
able. that one farmer in one hundred will
take the steps necessary for the highest meas
nre Of success. venture however, that who
ever drills or sows broadcast at least an acre
of tho large Western or Southern corn, will
repeat the experiment next year on an enlar-


One serious difficulty is In curing the crop
and this will require cape and fore-thqHght--
The man who first pailed my attention TO the
subject has upifapmly cut his up, stacked il
around com house in large lunches, which
have been we'll saved through the winter, and
drawn in as wanted. Stalks will not injure in
a barn or shed If set upon the end but it will
REQUIRE o large amount Of storage capacity to
house any considerable quantity. ExpePle,n
ce will soon find ways enough 10 store the
stalks when once raised. The new beginner
must make up his mind to some disappnln!t-
ment before he gets through with his expert
ment. Cor Country Gentleman
Year: 1865

BaA- A plain old Clergyman was once ap-
Piled to by q young man for advice on very
important matter. He asked which of two
sisters he had better pay bis addresses to-
One was very lovely in her disposition, but
not professor of religion. The other was
protesting Christian but very ill-tempered


MARRY the good tempered one by all
means said the old gentleman. ''The spirit
Of God can live where you can I, )"