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Year: 1860

was spending some days, not many
years ago, in beautiful little country
village. and in a family that had more
than common attractions to one who like,
country life as well MS myself. The little
circle had in it more of real interest thar
l have often seen developed in the same
number OF persons.


The father Of the family almost toe
young to feel that he was entitled to that
honorable appellation-was.a "a fine, frank
hearted young mechanic, with a wide
world Of bounding life in his veins, anc
energy that, when fully aroused, drov,
everything violently before him, and :
warmth Of disposition that won him more
friendship than it had then given him o.
the goods of this world.


His wife, 10 whom he had been mar
ried some four years, was singularly beau
tiful. They had two children-lhe one
alaughiug, brown eyed and brown-haired
little fairy OF three years. Her name
was Eveleen. The second was crow.
ing, laughing blue eyed plump little
beauty Of less than a year, promising
to have all the charms OF the elder at her
age.


| was sitting one afternoon in a quiet
little room with my feet upon two chairs,
readirg pleasant little book, in state
between alseep and awake-my host
away at lis shop, hundred yards off,
and my.pretty little hostess engaged in
her household labors - when / was
thrown out OF my Incidence by scream
that brought me to my feet like an elec,
tric shock. 1t was a woman's voice, and
had in it an excess Of agony that can.
not be indicated in words, SO loud that
it rung over that quiet little village, and
brought every one forth to ascertain the
cause.


l 1srrang to the door that separated the
sitting room from the dining apartments,
and l saw the whole at glance. The
young mother stood at the door with
her tirst,born, our darling Eveleen, in
her arms dying. A brief and hurried
word from the servant told me the sad
story.


The little girl had accompanied child
uncle up stairs, and while the attention of
the elder child was for moment turned
away, she seized bottle of corrosive
sublimate in alcohol, and had taken
enough to take away twenty such lives.
The little thing had tottered down stairs,
and the mother had met her at the land
ing with the empty bottle in her hand,
and the poison oozing from her mouth,
and the child all unconscious of the fear
ful. thing she had done. Was it any
wonder that terrific shrek rang out
over the quiet village, and that already
the occupants Of every home near, were
rushing toward the spot where the moth
er stood? ....


But few minutes could possibly have
elapsed since the poison was taken and
yet the effect was already fearful. After
The first shrek of terror, the mother had
luieted to calm dispair for moment,
and stood with the child in her arms, ma
King no effort for its relief, and indeed it
seemed hopeless, for already the subtle !
Year: 1860

WHY DouGLAs Can CARRY THE CoUXrY-
The editor of the Campaigner deyotes col
umn of his valuable space, and presents an
array of figures, to wove that "Douglas can
not carry the county" The figures are taken
from back files ofthe Democrat, and of course
are correct, but our neighbor falls into some
errors which we shall endeavur to point out
In the first place he estimates that the vote
of the county will be the same this year that
it was last, whereas there will be an increase
Of at least one thousand. Again, taking our
estimate that Lincoln will get 500 votes in
the county, he suPposes that the increase, to-
gether with the vote that will be cast for
Bell, will be taken entirely from the Currey
vote-a mistake he would hardly have fallen
into had he known anything Of the voters of
the county. The vote last year for Cover
nor stood as follows:
Year: 1860

BAKERY.-Charlie Hart, foreman Of
the Union Bakery for the last four years. has
carry it on himsslf; which is q guarantee that
things will be done up right, and in good order.
Bakery ON Second between Brady and Perry
streets
Year: 1860

An act to provide for the moro perfect registra-

 ton of the names of Electors in this state.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-

 sentatives, in General Assembly convened:

 Sec. l. That the selsctmcn and town clerk of each town respectively, shall constitute board ofregistration, to ascertain, determine, and make registry of the names of all persons legally quali fled to vote for all the officers elected at any an- nual election held on the first Monday in April, and also of all who are entitled to vote at the next and each successive election of electors of president and vice president of the United States and the town clerk shall be clerk of said board. and in case of his absence or inability to perform
Year: 1860

Here l remember to speak of those
Northern allies that to-day you are afraid


to trust. You are right i tell you now,
you are right and am going to give you a
little extra advice. Some of you we're want
ing to know how long they will stand by
you. They will stand by you just 50 long
as you paw them, and no longer, and the
moment you cease to pay them, the mo-
ment you cease TO have possession Of the
Government, so soon they will leave you.
That is the kind of men you have for your
Year: 1860

Be77~ The London Times treats the ques-
ton of slavery, Browns invasion and the dis
solution of the Union, with practical judg-
ment and sagacity. 1t sets forth clearly
and strongly the interest which English
men feel in the maintenance of our Union,
and the regret with which they would see
any material disturbance of its peace. 1t
says;


'The Union of the American people is of
Importance not only to themselves, but to
the world at large. To Englishmen, the
spread of our language, of our religion, and
to certain extent of our laws and manners,
can never cease to be an object of interest +;
nor can we desire success to the fanatics
who, in their wild dream of raising an in
ferior race, would imperil all that has been
accomplished in the New World during two
centuries of industry and genius.
Year: 1860

louis NAPOLEON AND THE TEMPORAL Pow
Err OF THE PoPE.-The question whether
the late pamphlet which has appeared in
Paris taking grounds that the temporal
power of the Pope ought TO be restricted to
the city of Rome, and that good policy re-
quired that he should abdicate his sovereign
ty over the rest of his dominions, spoke the
sentiments of Louis Napoleon, is yet unde-
cided. 1t has created great sensation in
Europe. The Paris correspondent of the
New York Tribune thus speaks of it


AS so5n as it made disappearance, Prince
Metternich and Monsignor Sacconi, the Pa
pal Nuncio, went to Count WaIewski and
required q straightforward answer whether
the pamphlet was the expression of the inn
perial policy or not Count Waewski ut
once replied that his feelings were shocked
by the very idea that the subversive propo-
sails of an anonymous writer could be taken
for the programme of his policy, and he
assured his illustrious visitors that he never
would give his assent to any such eccentric
plans as to reduce the TEMPORAL power of the
Pope to the confines of Rome. The Prince
and the Archbishop retired upon this, quite
satisfied with Count Walewskis declaration,
but still uncertain whether the Count really
knew the Emperors mind especially as on
the same day they saw Napoleon driving to
the theater of the Porte st. Martin, where a
piece, written by his private secretary NJ.
Mocquard, was played, the plot of which is
founded on the story of the boy Mortara
| Not only did the Emperor give importance
to that little drama by his presence, he even
! loudly cheered at the most exciting scenes
and his satisfaction, however gratifying to
| the actors, gave considerable uneasiness to
| the stock exchange.
Year: 1860

CLEVELAND, Feb. pa great blow prevailed
here last night, and it seems to have been general
at the South and West. house unroofed
numerous chimneys blown down, and considerable
other damage done in this city
Year: 1860

successful competitor at skate race, a few
days since, returned thanks in the following apt
and expressive terms: "Gentlemen, have won
this cup by the use of my legs; trust may never
lose the use of my legs by the use of this cup"
Year: 1860

gsS- At a recent Union meeting in Knoxville,
Tennessee, Judge Bailey, formerly of Georgia,
made a speech in which he said that during the
Presidential contest Gov. Wise had addressed
letters to all the Southern Governors. and that
the one to the Governor of Florida had been
shown him, in which Wise said that he had an
army in readiness to prevent Fremont from TAX
ing bis seat if elected, and asked the co o-opera-
ton OF those to whom he wrote.


The foregoing paragraph is among the last
overland news. mans gullabilty must be
very large to enable him to believe it.
Year: 1860

NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS,
Every Psrson entitled to the right of pre-em on
70 any OF the lands within the townships above
enumerated is required to ESTABLISH the same to the
satisfaction OF the register and receiver of the
soon as practicable after seeing this notice and before
the day appointed for the commencement of the
otherwise such claim will be forfeited.


s. A. SMITH,
Year: 1860

The defalcation in the Interior Department
alluded to above, was for the sum of $4,000
The new one, if the rnmor be true, is for even
more than that The item would have been much
more satisfactory if the estates" had told us
which enc of the "Executiye Departments it had
rafaronaa
Year: 1860

itself to the Interests and purposes Of purse
proud oligarchy. The contest may be pro
iracted, but tho issue cannot be doubtful
Step by step tho advancing columns of the
Republican host move on, bearing in their
hands the dearest interests Of humanity, and
chershing in their hearts an abiding conf.
dence in the justice of their cause, as well as
in its ultimate success.
Year: 1860

'Ibelieve time will como when an opportunity
will he offered % abolish this amentabIe OWL Every
thing we do Is to improve It, Nit happens IN TO-
day not let transmit to our decendants togeti


or with our slaves pity for their unhappy lot nnd
an adherence for slavery If we cannot reduce this
wished for reformation to practice let us treat the
unhappy victims with lenity 1t is the furttiest adj
vance make toward Justice H. Is a debt we
owe to the purity of onr religion, to show lat ~ !,
at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
Year: 1860

observed an old lady on the road, walking
very slow, fatigued and weary. The cap
tain ordered the eoacbman tn put her in the
coach, and be would pay for her. Immedi-
ately after, when changing horses at Bishop
ton, the passengers were saunteriug about,
except the captain and old lady, who re-
mained in the coach. The old lady thank
ed him for his kindly feeling towards her,
as she was now unable to pay for q seat
He said 'he had always sympathy for weary
pedestrians, since be was in that state when
a boy, twenty years ago, near this very place,
when tender hearted lady ordered the
coachman to take him up, and paid for his
seat ''Well do I remember that incident,
said she, Il am the lady, but my lot in life
has changed. I was then independent;
now am reduced to poverty by the doings
Of prodigal son. 'How happy l am said
the captain, that l have been successful in
my enterprises, and am returning home to
live on my fortune; and from this day I
shall bind myself and heirs to supply you
with twenty-five pounds per annum till
your DEATH
Year: 1860

Be off with you now-don't know


That it's only cajolng you are,
With 'cbeeks like the roses soft glow,


And gances more bright than the star!
'Tis true that my waist is but small,


And ringlets may curl like the vine;
But Pm not like On angel at all


Nor am the least bit divine!
So be off with you now-don't I see


You're deluding from eve until dawn;
My step may be bounding and free,


But I'm not in the least like fawn!
But twas ever the method we know,


Since Adam in Eden began
That bosoms were sure to be snow,


And necks were, Of course, like the swan
Come, be off with you now till you learn
To WOO like plain hearted youth,
Let your mind, if you love me, discern,


To win you must WOO me with truth,
would rather, instead ofthese flowers, a
In which you are ever so rife
That you promised to leave me all hours,
As long as each other had life.
Year: 1860

full of the application Of the new discovery,
Hypnotism. In Cosmos we 6ud a detailed
account of an amputatiou performed while
the patient was under its influence in the
Hotel Dieu Poitiers, on man aged 36,
whose left knee was increased by q white
swelling to nearly double the size of the
right knee, and was so painful that the last
movement produced the most intense suf-
feriug. The hypnotism was produced by
placing aspatula about eight inches in front
of the root of the nose. Looking at this
he soon became insensible, in spite of the
severe pains he was in from being taken to
the operation room. IpseDsibility was pro-
duced in ten minutes, and the amputation
occupied a minute and a half. The patient
made no signs of pain, and, when question.
ed by the doctor, said he thought he was
in paradise. His features were perfectly
tranquil; his eyes only seemed to be wan
dering in search of the brilliant object
which had been before them.
Year: 1860

My husband, twas for thee left


My own. my happy home;
For thee left my cottage bowers,


With thee in JOY to roam;
And where are oil thy holy VOWS,
. The truth, the love, the trust,
That won my heart?-all scattered now,
And trampled in the dust.
/ loved thee with a love untold,


And then stood bedside
The noble form, I joyed to think


was thy chosen bride.
They told me ere / was thine own,
How sad my lot would be;
Thought not of the future, then
I ouly thought of thee.
1 left my home, my happy home,
A sunny hearted thing,
Forgetting that my happiness


A shadowing cloud might bring.
The sunny side of life is gone,


Its shadows only mine
And thorns are springing in my heart,
Where blossoms used to twine.
do not blame thee for thy lot,


only pray for thee,
That thou mayst from the tempters powe
(Oh, joyful thought be free;
That thou mayst bend above my grave,
With penitence sincere,
And for the broken hearted one,


Let fall sober tear.
Year: 1860

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AT HOME


Not the interesting and instructive book
under that title, but the very scene which
the book delineates and which, unless we
mistake, are fast vanishing away, and will
soon be, ifthey are not already, among che
things that have been, but are not.


An evening at home, how is it to be
found? Just mark the calls for public and
social meetings, read in your church on the
next Sabbath, and advertised by the various
moral and literary associations of the CITY
and what evening is left for quiet com.
munion with your own family, or a social
call on friend? What room is there for
thorough family instruction? Their father
is always at the store or Office all the day,
and the mother has her work, and the chill
dren are at school-now if there is meet.
ing to call the family out every evening,
what time is left for household teaching?
There is much truth, with perhaps slight
coloring Of exaggeration, in the anecdote
given in the January number Of Harpes's
Magazine, of a gentleman who had failed
in business, and, when asked, what he
intended to do, replied, Il shall remain
at home awhile, and get acquainted with
my family "


We believe this constant drawing away
from home, and home influence is demoral-
izing; and that it is time Christians should
inquire, whether one reason why they do
not grow more rapidly in grace and knowl-
edge: is not, that they are ever hearing,
and never meditating on what they hear
ever running from meeting to meeting, ,saad
never at home. Is there not great danger
that 'home' influences will loose their charm
when we come there only to eat and sleep,
offering indeed the morning and evening
prayer, but never sitting down with the
household in the sweet communion and the
precious instruction that were always found
in the olden times, when both on the Sab.
bath and during the week, families had
some 'evenings at me.'-MiTor
Year: 1860

pa~ An Irishman went to live in Scot
land for short time, but didn't like the
country. Il was sick all the time was
there said he, 'and if had lived there till
this time I'd been dead year ago.
Year: 1860

WE are acilliag to serve God when we
love his son there may be obstacles, but
no unwillingncss We would be holy even
as God is holy, and perfect even as our
Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Year: 1860

VERY GooD.-Eycry one knows what
keeping farm in order means, 1t does
not mean merely to keep the soil in a
fertile and growing condition; but it ap
plies to everything on the farm; the build
lngs, the fences, the fruit trees, the farm
ing implements, particularly the latter ;
for what man can do good job with poor
tools And what in more, look at the la,
Dor. Every one knows that it takes nearly
twice the amount of labor to plow a field
with a poor plow that it does with a good
one, and when it is plowcd, it is not more
than half done If man has poor tools
they are all the time getting ont Of order,
and the time lost in repairing and the la
Dor lost in working will pay for good and
substantial onos,
Year: 1860

SUPPOSE liar says shat it is not in his
power to speak the truth that he has been
liar so long, that he cannot leave it off; is
that an excuse for him? Suppose man
who has long INDUCED in lust should tell
YOU that he finds his lusts have SO girt a.
bout him Ike n great iron net that he can
not get rid of them, would you take that az
an excuse, Truly it is none at all. If
drunkard has become so foully drunk
ard, that he finds it impossible 10 pas
public-house without stepping in, do you,
therefore excuse him. No, because his in
ability to reform lies in his nature, which
he has no desire to restrain or conquer
The thing that is done, and the thing that
causes the thing that is done, being both
from the root Of sin, are two evils which
cannot excuse each other What though
the Ethiopian cannot change his skin, nor
the leopard his spots ? It's because you
have learned 10 do evil that you cannot
now learn TO do we'll and instead, ther.
fore, Of letting you sit dow to excuse your
selves, let me put a thunderbolt beneath
the seat of your sloth, that YOU may be
startled by it and aroused, Remember
that to sit still is to he damned to all etcr-
! nity,
Year: 1860

If once wandered on yon mountain
top, and Jesus climcd up and caught me,
and put me on his shoulders, and carried
me home, I cannot and dare not doubt
that he is my shepherd. If had belonged
to some other sheep owner he would not
have sought me. And from the fact that
he did seek, learn that he must be nv
shepherd. Did think any man convinced
me Of sin, or that any human power had
converted me, should fear l was that
mans sheep and he was my shopherd.-
Could l trace my deliverence to the hand
of a creature, should think that some
creature might be my shepherd ; but since
ne who has been reclaimed of God must
and will confess that God alone has done
it, and will ascribe to his free grace, and
to that alone, his deliverance from sin,
such one will feel persuaded that the
Lord must be his shepherd, because he
brought him, he delivered him, he snatch
ed him out of the jaw of the lion and out
Of the paw Of the bear.
Year: 1860

WHEN the light of Gods grace comes
into your heart, it is something like the
opening of the windows Of and old cellar
that has been shut up for many days
Down in that cellar, which has not been
opened for many months, arc all kinds of
loathsome creatures, and a few sickly
plants blanched by the darkness. The
walls are dark and damp by the trail of
reptiles; it is horrid filthy place in which
on one would willingly enter. You may
walk there in the dark very securely, and
except now and then for the touch of some
Shiny creature, you would not believe the
place was so bad and filthy. Open those
shutters, clean a pane of glass, let little
light in, and now see how thousand nox-
ious things have made misplace their habi-
tation. Sure, twas not the light that made
this place SO horrible, but it was the light
that showed how horrible it was before.
So let Gods grace just open window and
let the light into mans soul, and he will
stand astonishcd to see at what distance
he is from God
Year: 1860

To cure felons on the finger apply the spinal morrow of the OK on a piece of cot ton rag, changing it every four hours.

 MIGRATING FRUIT TKEEs.- Instead of making use of a graft take slip, from an apple tree, for example, and plant it in a potato, so that couple of inches of the slip remain visible. It soon takes root, develops, and finally becomes a handsome tree, bearing fine fruit. An easy method; try it.

 To CURE SORE THRoAA-Take the white of two eggs and beat them with two spoons ful of white sugar; grate little nutmeg, and then pint of lukewarm water. Stir well and drink often. Repeat the dose if necessary, and 1t will cure the most invete- rate case of hoarseness in a short time. So says an exchange. MINcE PIEs.-Take a pound of beef, | free from skin and strings, and chop very | fine; then two pounds of suet, which like. wise pick and chop; then add three pounds of currents nicely cleaned and perfectly l dry, one pound and half of apples, the peel and juice of lemon, half a pint of sweet wine, half nutmeg, and a few cloves and mace, with pimento in fine powders; have cltron, orange and lemon ready. A CURE FOR LocKJAw-A young lady ran rusty nail into her foot recently. The injury produced lock- jaw of such malig- nant character that her physicians pro- nounced her recovery hopeless. AR old nurse then took her in hand, and applied pounded beet roots to her foot, removing them as often as they became dry. The result was most complete and astonish- Ing cure. Such a simple remedy should be borne in mind.-N. J. O6serper.

 Bags of hot salt applied to the jaws sometimes succeeds. TICKLING HAMs.-To each ham put One pound of baysalt, two. ounces of saltpetre, two ounces of black pepper, and half a pound of common salt. Mix the above l ingredients we'll together, and rub upon the ham; let 1t lie four days and turn 1t every day, then add pound and half of treacle; let it remain in the above pickle for m onth, and rub and turn 1t every day. Put it in water day or two before it is cooked, and boil three hours. gi5 5sLsnfJ.r

 SIMPLE CURE FOR GROUP We find in the Journal of Health the following simple remedy for this dangerous disease. Those who have passed nights of agony at the bedside of loved children, will treasure it up as valuable piece of information:

 If child IS taken with croup, apply cold water ice water if possible) suddenly and freely to the neck and chest with sponge. The breathing will instantly be relieved.