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Year: 1865

Lexington Nov 25l Dispatch to the Cincinnati


Gazette.


The oelored citizens of this city met
last evening and presented General Bris-
bin with beautiful silver service, us an
indication of their esteem and friendship.
The General made a speech to the i'm
mense crowd of blacks who had assembled.
In sum and substance he said to them:


"You are now free, and in giving you
your freedom the white people have done
about all they can do for you, and hence
forth your fate is chiefly in your own
hands. L would exhort you, therefore, to
exercise patience, cultivate truth, practice
industry, do justice to all men, and take
the Bible as your guide in this life. Your
claims upon the government for aid and
protection are superior to the whites of the
South, and the twenty-eight millions of
freemen at the North are fully determined
that full justice shall be done, and that the
same rights and privileges accorded to the
whites shall be extended to you. En-
deavor then to do right in all things, and
show to the world that you can and will
take care of yourselves, by becoming good
and useful citizens.
Year: 1865

The official returns of the vote at the
October election in this State which we
published yesterday morning demonstrate
a very material falling off in the Union
maiorities on the Reserve. The following
table exhibits the exact amount of that
decrease, as compared with the Union
majorities for President in 1864:
Year: 1865

\ passenger swearing terribly in the
cars ON the Boston and Providence Rail
road was approached by young minister
with more zeal than discretion, who said
to him abruptly, My dear sir, d you
know where you are going straight to
hell y "Just my id luck p replied the
man, looking the minister in the face with
an alarming air, and suddenly fumbling
for his check, 1 bought ticket for
ProYidencew p
Year: 1865

The Posts Washington special dispatches
say the officers Of the Treasury Department
have seized counterfeit plate OF ten-forty
bonds of the denomination of five hundred
dollars, so we'll executed that spurious notes
would have been difficult Of detection.
General Grant


General Grant started on his Southern
tour this morning
Year: 1865

READING, Pa, April 19, 1864.


Dr. WIsHARr-Dsar Sir: One year ago the
Examining Surgeon of this district told me |
had Consumption of the Lungs and that could
not be cured; and Judging from all my symptoms
at that time, l myself supposed this to be true.
was for more than one year troubled with a
hacking cough, which gradually grew so bad
that | could not have severe fit of coughing
without splitting up blood in large quantities.


For months could not work at anything,
and was obliged to keep my bed most of the
time While in this condition | was in Mr..
Rowbotham's store, in this city, and he seeing
how low | was, recommended me to try your
Pine Tree Tar Cordial. He said he had sold
great deal of it. and that, as it had cured so many
others, he believed it would do some good. l
bought bottle and commenced using it. In a
yery short time | saw that | was getting better
yery fast, and after taking several bottles was
entirely restored to health, so that could work
every day at my business which is very heavy
work, in an iron foundry. When | commenced
70 use your Pine Tree Tar Cordial, my weight
was only one hundred and thirty-five pounds;
since the use of it l have weighed on an average
one hundred and fifty five. l shall be glad to
have YOU publish this, as L believe should not
have been living at this time if had not used
YOUR great medicine, and l wish all who suffer
to receive its benefit


Very truly yours,


Capt. SAMUEL HARNER.


NJ. QQd EiDhf etroat Raadinox De
Year: 1865

how any State goes Stanton is wrapped up in the man.
tie Of MS own originality As long as he has lease
sident or Senatorror anything else In the submty of
his autocracy he Is content let the outside world take
care or itself, and even senator's and governors,
they cross MS path, may go TODD
Scratch, or 70 the Old Captol-about the
thing, The Postmaster General has not been long
enough IN the business 10 be bored TO great extent
The Interior Department not considered of much
count any how; and old Grandmother Weiles is
thought OF politically. Thus all these political wire
workers are turned for the time being TO the State
Department where they with the qcter
saodo that characerizes that establishment and like
beaux surrounding reignng belle retire. each satis
Ned thai he has made good impression and has carried
bis point


The iact s that the administration cares little for
these local squabhles II engaged upon matters Of
aomnls'.aiion are no, unapprecated; but u rs
presumed that every loyal man, Of whatever
party esntecedents, at the North, and in the
loyal states, Is a friend or the administration,
and there Is no time 10 talk of party politics. The
reorganization OF the Southern States restoration Of


integrity TO the Union, the redemption of the whole
country from the serious losses sustained during tho last
four years OF desolaon the tasks Andrew johnson
has hand and he has addressed himself to them with
singleness of purpose and self-sacrhclng devotion
which challenge admiration He will not for moment
be led away from any of these great projects to attend
who may be elected Senator what party may be
successful in State election. He counts upon the sup
Cp Se waesasa cSn
who don't belong TO the peopel and he n
proceeding with his work with an eye single
u the one great result of perfect restoration Of the
Union. Called to the executive Office without the imme-
diate aid OF any party he forming party for himself
He has enuncated plainly his policy and his ideas Of
reconstruction, or rehabilitation, reorganization
whateverit it may be called They are plain and un-
misakable He intends TO adhere to them because he
believes them to be right They the cade he
has set up for politicians, and those who agree
with them are at liberty to oppose them. He is con-
scios that their ghtfuness will recommend them the
good men OF all parties and whoever may be Senator
Governor, wiz rally around him popular support that
VIII deIy and destroy whatever opposition may be
Year: 1865

RETAIL LIQUOR AND POLICY DEALERS.


Retail liquor dealers pay annual tax Of twenty five
dollars to the government, while policy dealers taxed
annually at the rate Of ono hundred dollars The follow.
ing table win give the number Of dealers OF both kinds
Year: 1865

Of the cause, he naturally feels himself
at liberty to make as many blunders as
possible, assume the military control, put
incompetent generals in positions Of vital
Importance, and sacrifice Confederate
armies to death and captivity.


We differ from General Sherman in one
thing. We never heard before that it
did any good to pray for the Devil. Ger
tainly, such Devil as JEFF Davis is past
all possibility Of salvation. We would
much better pray for such saints in the
flesh as Lincoln, Seward, Sherman,
Turchen, Butler, Hunter, ETC., who,
though the salt Of the earth, have their
little imperfections, and are not quite
angels; at least, We see, as yet, "no
signs of wings sprouting from their
shoulder blades" There are few
cracks in their armor Of steel. Let us
pray that the Devil may find no vulnera-
BILE place to reach their innocent hearts.


They have had nothing to do with the
bloodshcd and misery that have swept
over the South like a volcanic eruption
from Hell. Excellent men, though still


subject to human frailties. Let the


country pray that they may not fall into


evil ways and come short of their re-
! ward
Year: 1865

Let US all join in doing acts necessary to
restore the proper practical relations be-
tween these States and the Union, and
each forever after innocently indulge his
own opinionlas to whether, in doing acts, he
brought these States, from without, into
the Union, or only gave them proper as
sistance, they never having been out of it.


To EDITORS; Owing to the bad condi-
tion Of the wires the Presidents speech
comes very slowly and goes West equally
slow and as there is more to come than
can possibly be sent, have stopped with
the above, which will doubtless be late
reaching you.-REPoRTER.1
Year: 1865

The letter of General Grant to the rebel
leader viii challenge the admiration of the
civilized world. There is soldierly can
dor, knigbtly courtesy, and subOrdins-
ton to the civil power which he obeys.
while be offers his life to ssve and strsnthen
it, which prove that he who fought this
great fight and wrought this great victory.
is equal to all trial and proof sgsinst all
temptation.
Year: 1865

A peasant may justly believe what phi
losopher cannot explain. For example,
philosophers puzzle themselves exceedingly
to say wherein consists the identity Of hu-
man being, taken only at short intervals Of
time; but the most ignorant man knows that
his neighbor, whom he has seen frequently
for sixty or eighty years, is the same man
that he was at first. So it is with many
points Of common belief, or even of relig-
ious faith; an ignorant man may have the
certainty of truth about them, while the
learned are frittering away all proper
thoughts of the same, and depriying them
aelves of the most real advantages offered
them, The unlearned passes safely over a
bridge, while the speculative man refuses
10 cross till he knows the history of the
structure, and gets more than the evidence
Of the senses that II is there at all.


Now the truth is, the principle of faith,
or the habit of resting upon testimony, is
one that ought to 60 much farther with man,
kind than any merely rational calculator
will allow. Reason has its own sphere, and
that most important one; bu! where ques.
tions of ontology or substantive being are
concerned, we must walk in great meas
ure by faith ultimately faith in God.


c. S. A.
Year: 1865

We think Of our own consequence; our
talents, our entertainments. We think
what q breach will be made when we die.
We think OF the mourners who will gather
around us with broken hearts. We think
Of the solemn, sad procession that will go
with us TO the tomb: forgetting how seldom
it is that the hearts Of any considerable pro-
portion in funeral procession are serious
and solemn at all, or care anything about
the dead. We look at our own affairs and
press them forward, as il every thing else
should give way TO them, and as if the
world had no interest SO great that they
may not be required to yield 10 our conve-
nienoe:


Now, show contrary all this is to truth
and reality, it is hardly necessary to at
tempt to show. Few will care about it
when we die; and the world at large will
care nothing, and know nothing about it.
A very little circle Of friends will be
affected-as little circle of water is agita-
ted when drop of rain falls into the ocean.
AT the center of that small circle Of friends,
there will be some deep emotion, and some
tears of genuine grief will be shed; at a
very little distance, the emotion will be
fainter and feebler, at point but little
more remote there will be none, and soon,
very soon ell the agitation there was will
have died away as when the little drops Of
ram fall into the ocean


The gay will laugh,


When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on and each one as before will share
His favorite phantom.-Bryant.


A few friends will 60 and bury us; and
then they will turn away to their own con-
Germs, forgetting that we are sleeping in the
grave. Affection will rear stone, and
plant few flowers over our grave-but
the hand that reared the stone or planted the
flowers will soon become unable 10 cut the
letters deeper as they become obliterated or
to cultivate the foweis-and in brief pc
rod the little hillock will be smoothed down,
and the stone will fall, and neither friend
nor stranger will be concerned 10 ask which
one Of the forgotten millions Of the earth
was buried there. No "Old Motality'
will go 10 cut again those effaced words
which told our name, and the time of our
birth and our death. Every vestage tina,
we ever lived upon the earth will have van
ished away. All the little memorials ol
our remembrance lock of hair en-
cased in gold, or the portrait that hung il
our dwelling, will cease to have the slight.
est value to any living being, nor will ever
momsntary curiosity be excited to know
who wore that hair, or whose countenarc,
is delineated there.


On my grassy grave,


The men of future time will careless tread,
And read my name upon the sculptured stone;
Nor will the sound familiar TO their ars


Recall my vanished memory.-H. Kirk While.


Il Rev. Albert Barnes.
Year: 1865

The gem of all others which enriches the
cor onet of a lady's character, is unaffected
piety. Nature may lavish much on her
person-,he entrenchment of her counte-
nance--the grace of her mein-or the
strength of her intellect, yet her lovliness
is unorowned till plety throws around the
whole, the sweetness and power OF her
charms. She then becomes unearthly in
desires and associations. The spell which
bound her affections to the things below is
broken and she mounts on the silent wings
of her fancy and hope, to the habitation O
God, where it is her delight TO hold COM
munication with the spirits that have been
ransomed from the thraldom Of earth and
wreathed with garland of glory.


Her beauty may throw magical charm
over many; princes and conquerors may
bow with admiration at the shrine Of her
love, the sons of science may embalm her
memory in the page of history-yet her
piety must be her ornament, her pearl.
Her name must be written in the "BOok Of
Lile," that when the mountains fade away
and every memento of earthly greatness is
lost in the general wreck Of nature, il may
remain and swell the list of that mighty
throng which have been clothed with the
mantle Of righteousness, and their voices
attuned to the melody OF heaven.


With such treasure ever lofty gratfi-
cation on earth may be purchased, friend
ships will be doubly sweet, pain and sorrow
shall i::aa i:s:a ;aeir siirs, and the character will
possess price far "above riches" life will
be but pleasant visit TO earth, and dealt
the enterence upon joyful and perpetua
home. And when the notes OF the las
trump shall be heard, and sleeping millions
awake to judgement, its POSSESSION shall b'


presented, "faultless before the throne o


God with exceeding joy, and crown
glory that shall never wear away"
Such is piety. Like tender flower


planted in the fertile soil of woman's heart


It grows expanding its foliage and impartin
its fragrance TO all around, Till it is set {
bloom in perpetual vgor and uniadin
beauty in the Paradise Of God.


Follow this star, it will light you throug
every labyrinth of life-gild the gloom tha
i will gather round you in a dying hour an
bring you safely over the tempeslous Jorda
/. of death into the haven Of promised an


settled rest.
Year: 1865

BORROWING NEWSPAPERS. -- The
liallowell Gazette pitches into people
who make practice to sponge the
reading ofnewspapers without any ex-
pense TO themselves; and we have
some such persons here. We have
known men ot means q hang arouud
a store where the proprietor takes
paper, for the mere purpose of read
Ing the paper and getting the news
without its costing them anything. -
Says the Gazette: "I'bere are scores
Of families whose paternal head, spend
enough in bad rum and tobacco, week
ly, TO pay Tor dozen newspapers,anl
still persist IN sponging what little In
formation they get Of what is going on
in the world from their neighbor. Any
man who can afford 10 indnlge 4. rum
beer, cider, or tobacco, can abundant
ly afford to Subscribe and pay Tor
newspaper for the benefit OF himself
and family lsu't that so
Year: 1865

is towards new and contingent base /;
and that if hard pressed by the progress
Of civilization and the hand of authority,
the Mormon leaders will gather up all
their available forces and wealth, and re-
treat thither. 1t is certain that they must
make change of base of one sort or anoth-
er before long, either in the matter of po-
lygamy, or else in the location of their
earthly tabneracles and kingdom. Even
without the interference of government,
they must soon give way here in their
peculiar sway and their revolving institu-
tions, before the progress of population
and the diversi6cations of civilized indus
try that come along with it. .....


Our bachelor stage-driver out of Salt
Lake, who said he expected to have a rev.
elation soon to take one of the extra
wives of Norman saint, is a representa-.
tive of the Coming Man. Let the Nor.
mans look out for them. sB.
Year: 1865

eg The height of Mansfield mountain
above tide water, and also the heights of
all the important points taken on the
route are given in the following table, all
based upon the height Of top of the sleep
ers of the railroad track at Waterbury
station: 34l
Year: 1865

There has not been the Improvement in dry
goods during the week that was expected. In
confidence among buyers, and notwithstand-
ing the recent heavy decline, prices are still
weak and tend downward. The jobbers are
quite 1ndisposed to take any more goods than
Is necessary to supply the immediate demand,
and are reducing their stock as much as pos
slble, and at q concession In price. The pres
ent course of trade, SO far as respects cotton
goods, is q losing one among the jobbers; and
it may be reasonably questioned whether the
manufacturers are making any money. The
military aspect produces an all l-controling an. d.
prehension that at any time victory NAV put
down prices to a very serious ext ent an un. &.
der such circumstances all are takin in sail,
so as to place themselves in position for LOSING
the least possible amount.


In woolen goods the trade is steady, and on
the whole remuneraive. There is less appre-
hension OF decline in prices than preva lis
respecting cotton goods, and purchases are
consequently made with more freedom Wool
ems are generally cheap. The price. as q rule,
are not much higher than before the war, as
the rise IN gold would appear to warrant: and,
as consumers are not slow to discover this
tact, the demand is kept well up to the supply,
and prices are steady.


The demand for brown sheeting is light and
irregular, but with cOrrespondingiy light
supply prices are kept about steady. Stand
ards are selling at 529 c.a53kc; Appietons
have sold at lc. advance.


The trade in bleached sheetiugs is generally
light and irregular. Agents are not very firm
in their quotations, and In many instances
would readily make m0oerdte concession 10
move off good lot of goods. New York Mills
are held by the agents at Soc; but sell very
slowly at that figure.


FOREIGN GooDs.-There is steady demand
for goods among the importers, especially for
goods of fancy fabrics, which are scarce and
decidedly firm. The supply Of staple goods is
sufficiently ample for not only does the present
importation include full proportion or such
goods, but a considerable amount Ia held over.
either in store or in bond, from last season
Buyers do not like the present frmness Of
hAIA ch
to the auction room. With the EXTREMITY lieht
stocks IN market 1t would seem that the i'm.
porters have little to fear from such q test of
dress goods, during the week, realized satis.
factory prices. The importation or dry goods
ior the week fs In excess of that OF last week,
put less than half the amount of that OF the
corresponding week OF last year.--N r. Corn.
meYcial
Year: 1865

WHAT do without n paper? No,
I've tried If TO my sorrow;
So. to subscribe for one I'll go,


Nor wait until tomorrow.
Should lovers drown or hang themselves,
Or cut their foolish caper,
I never get to hear oft


do not take the paper.
Why, there's my neighbor, old John Stout
He always hears the news,
And having news to talk about,
He never gets the "bluos,n
While others yawn in ennui,


His mind is light as vapor!
The cause is plain TO half an eye
He always takes the paper.
While neighbor Stout hears all the news
And knows the current price,
And always minds his P's and Q's,
By taking good advice;
I can not tell the price Of calves,


Ofpoultry, coffee, tape, or
Any kind of merchandise,


Because I take no paper.
Though have studies which require
Much time and mental labor,
Yet I can spare a little time


AS well as Stout my neighbOr;
Though time is precious, can use


a longer midnight taper,
And thus take time to ''read the news"
Therefore, I'll take the paper.
Year: 1865

leather apron, on removing which he was
found to be black in the face, and the
vital spark eztinguished.


How the leather apron came to be
preserved, after the transformation of its
owner and his consequent antipathy to
everything connected with his former
occupation, was at that time, and con-
tinues to be even at this day, a matter Of
wonder in the village of Fairbush. But
SO it was-as if the badge of his early
prosperity, when cast off and despised,
should still continue in existence, only
to become the instrument of his DEATH
He was inferred in one corner Of the
village burying ground, and the follow
ing inscription is still to be seen on his
grave stone:


Here lies the body,


OF Fritz Pigiron,


Who died


By pride.


He was very good Jechante,


But a very bad Gentleman.
Year: 1865

NOBODY cared when he went to war,


But the woman who cried on his shoulder,
Nobody decked him with immortalles--


He was only a common soldier.
Nobody packed in q dainty trunk
Folded raiment and officers fare
A knapsack held all thenew recruit


Night own, or love, or eat, or wear.
Nobody gave him goodbye fate


With sparkling jest and iower-crowned wine.
Two or three friends on the sidewalk stood


Watching for Jones. the fourth in line.
Nobody cared how the battle went


With the man who fought till the bullet sped
Through the coat undecked with leaf or star


On a common soldier left for dead.
The cool rain bathea the 6evered wound,


And the kind clouds wept the liTelOng night,
A pitying lotion nature gave


TIL help might come with morning light.
Such help as the knife of the surgeon gives,


Cleaving the gallant arm from shouldef;
And another Eame swells the pension list


For the meagre pay Of a common soldier.
See, over yonder all day he stands


An empty sleeve in the soft wind sways,
As he holds ais lonely left hand out


For charity at the crossing ways.
And thus now, with bitter shame,


He begs his bread and hardly livesi
So YEARLY seeks he out the sum


Aproud and gratefulC2) country gives.
What matter how he served the guns


When plume and sash were over yonder?
What matter though he bore the flag


Through binding smoke and battle thunder
What matter that a wife and child


Cry softly for that good arm, rent ?
And wonder why that random shot


To him, their own beloved, was sent
Oh, patriot hearts, wipe out this staini


Give jeweled cup and sword no morei
But let no common soldier blush


To own the loyal blue he wore.
Shout loud and long for victory won


By chief and leader staunch and true;
But don't forget the boys that fought
Shout for the common soldier too.
Year: 1865

A SEA horse Is a sea horse


When you see him in the sea;
But when you see him in the bay,
A bay horse then is he.
Ofeourse, a race course isn't course,
A fine is far from fine;
It is a saddening sight to see
A noble pine tree pine.
Hminors are all miners, then
Their guardians get their gains;
All glaciers extra pains should take
To put In extra panes.
A bat about farmers room
Not long ago knew
To fly. lie caught a fly, and then
Flew up the chimney flue.
But such a scene was never seen
lam quite sure of that
As when with sticks all hands essayed
To hit the bat a bat
"How do you do ?" said Sal to John,
"SO-so," ," replied he;
allow do you do ?" said John to Sal,
Sometimes seW-seW," ," said she.
A kitchen maid is often made
To burn her face or broil it,

A lady will do little else


Than Toll if at her toilet.