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Year: 1868

A new Burean bill is said 10 be nec-
essary by the Radicals, in order that an
additional fund and second set of Of
6cials may he created to control the
negro vote. Of course, with the Presi-
DENTAL election near at hand, snch a
measure 10 sure to meet with favor in
this Congress. Thus it is that the
western Taxpayers are required to
contribute for the purpose of bnyins
negro votes for Grant.
Year: 1868

In pursuance of a resolution passed
by the State Convention held in Wheel
ing, on the Sth day of January last,
there will be State Convention of the
Democratic and Conservative voters of
West Virginia, at
Year: 1868

piled., And it may be questioned whether
the achievements of the American people
under this cover have been anything more
tnan feeble attempt at initiating rival.


They too had purposes to accomplish and
whlIe Great Britain held in bondage
more oppressive than slavery one hum
dred and fifty millions of civilized people,
mad the audacity to teach the American
people their duty to the interior race among
them.


Some of the effects of those Vaccinations
are already seen in the transfer of our COM
merce to foreign flag, and the ruin of one
OF our great productions in the Southern
States, while her toiling, starving millions
furnished to her Golfers the accustomed
tributes. and render he independent of our
great commercial staples.


But consequences worse than these now
stare us face to face.


And when the fabric reared by Wash
ington and the other great men who were
honored as the founders of this once great
Republic, shall become thing of the past:
when the beacon to the nations set up by
them shall have been extinguished, and
the glories of the past and hopes of the fu-
ture buried in common grave--write on
the tablet which some affectionate hand
may rear to their memory


Died Of British Philanthropy.
Year: 1868

Cor rHI wnoxo BcBy-A singular misfake ~
made By Q lady VINO vin1tod New Orleans 20 Get ne
body Of her hIsband. The New Albany Conan vcsal
states that just before the steamer Dexter len New
Orleans for this city lady went aboard and engaged
charges on metallic case which she supposed con-
tanned the remains Of her husband. She had given
the necessary directions TO the undertaken at New
Orleans for the shipment Of the body Of her dead hu
band, and she supposed the body would be shipped
bodies In the Office OF the undertaker. and An the
hurry OF shipment mistake was made and the
wrong body was sent 10 the boat. The mlstale wa0
not discovered until the body was put Oh tie boar u
this city yesterday AS soon the bcreaved saw me
box she discovered the and her grief was in
tense The body win be sent back TO New Orleans
and the right one returned in Its place.
Year: 1868

all mankind. He was an ardent admirer 0f Italian
unity and this day the Dantean prophecy OF seven
Smitl closed his lecture with an eloquent eulogium
the merits OF the poet Of Italy and then retired,
his lecture occupying one hour In delivery.
Year: 1868

Every year great many young trees are
destroyed by these little rogues. How to pre-
serve the trees from their sharp teeth is a
question in which all fruit growers have a
deep interest. Many remedies have been sug-
gested and hardly any has worked cure.
Some have wrapped their trees with paper
and tSine, plowed the ground late in the fall,
and cleaned the grass carefully away from
around the trees, and yet these remedies have
not proved successful, and the mice still grid
led the trees. They will have living if they
can get it, and no body can blame them for 1t.
A writer in the Journal OF Chemistry put
his wits to work to devise some sure remedy
that would be cheap and quickly done. The
following is his remedy. Take equal parts Of
pine-tar and fish-oil, mix together Thoroughly
by warming; then take brush ami put the
mixture upon the trees close to the ground
and twelve Or fifteen inches up around the
body. 1t will not injure the trees, and there
will be no more trouble with mice. He says
he tried the experiment on fifty trees last
winter, and it worked like a charm. His trees
were never more thrifty than during the pres
ent season. The above remedy is not costly
and easily obtained.


AGRICoLA
Year: 1868

The wife of Tom Gordon isa victim to mag
mary ailments and is never so content as when
living according to the directions of her medi-
cal advisor. DR.. Valentine now understands
her whims and oddities so well that be humors
her in every caprice; if she imagines rheuma-
tisn is her complaint, he agrees with her, and
prescribes some harmless potion; if she thinks
her appetite decreasing, some bread pills keep
her in good spirits until the fancied symptoms
of some other disease induce her to send for him.


During the last four years Tom has often
wished his wife would fall down stairs and
break her foolish head, for the reason that the
physicians and apothecarys make a serious in
road upon his fortune.


About three months ago she complained of
pain in her side, and as usual, the doctor was
summoned. After prescribing two or three
bottles of different compounds-all harmless,
but rather expensive, he said:


All YOU want to assist the medicine in af-
fecting cure is a little rousing. Although
vour ailment is serious it is not dangerous
Assume little energy and you will recover
Remember, rouse yourself.


After the doctor retired the patient fancied
that at last some serious disease was beginning
to manifest itself, and, ike fool she went to
bed in despair.


Tom understood the case thoroughly, from
long experience, and said mentally:


"She wants a rousing does she? Well I'll
give her a surprise that will startle her"
Mrs Hake, an attractive widow, was engaged
to act in the capacity of nurse to Mrs. G. The
widow is young, buxOm and amiable, and Tom
thought her attractive qualities might be avail
able in giving the patient the necessary rous-
ing. -,


A short consultation with Mrs. Hake resulted
in the arrangement of plan, the execution OF
which was to induce Mrs G., TO ever afterwards
throw physic to the dogs.


Late the next evening while the patient lay
fretting and grOaning and announcing her in
tention of giving up the ghost, Tom called
Mrs. Hake aside and said to her in whisper,
but loud enough to be heard by the invalid:


"Poor Fanny she is about to die at last,
and so you and may as well arrange for our
marriage
Year: 1868

the field; So to make the matter sure to my
self and evident to Others, / drew from her hand
a ring which she had often declared she would
only give to her betrothedloyer and transferred
it to my own fingers.


alt was my mothers engagement ring
said she, half in earnest, and half playfully,
and there is a superstition connected with it.
So long as you keep and wear it, we are en-
gagged but if you lose it or part with it in any
way, the engagement is broken. SO take good
care"


"Some weeks after, she went away on
visit, and then my great consolation was to
haunt that favorite spot on the bridge which
had been our trysting place. Once leaning
over the railing, and thinking of our betrothal,
took from my finger the treasured ring, and
gazed fondly on the initials-her's as well as
her mothers-engraven within. In attempt
ing to replace it the golden circle fell from my
grasp and disappeared in the waters below.


"Only lover under such circumstances can
imagine how felt. Day and night mourned
disconsolate, my lost treasure, and my great
dread was her returning and finding the ring
missing. Yet strange TO say, had singular
presentiment or intuition that should recover
it, though by what means had no idea.


"Not long after, fishing in the same stream
some distance below the bridge, fell to think
ing of my lost ring. If could fish itup-and
Just ther there was quiver, tug, pull, and
a struggle at my line, and after some play |
drew out large, fine trout. At the sight Of
him the thought suddenly and unaccountably
flashed into my mind that the ring-my lost
ring-was to be found in his body. cannot
account for the feeling, but | know it was
heightened into almost a conviction when, up
on grasping the victim, | perceived on por-
ton of his body singular protuberance, and
felt there beneath the skin something like
hard foreign substance.


81 seized my large pocket clasp-knife.-
Eagerness had made me cruel, yet not more so
than if | had left my victim to die slow and
lingering death. cut OF his head, and then,
with trembling hand, ! ripped open his body
and explained the suspicious protuborance.--
Ny knife grated against something hard, and
yes, caught the glitter of some shining
substance. Imagine my feelings when, with
a beating heart and trembling hand, drew
forth"


"The ring, uncle ?" breathlcssly inquired
Nellie.


"No, my dear. Only piece Of green glass!'


The general CONSERVATION and indignation
may be imagined.
Year: 1868

Not from the flowers Of earth,
Not from the stars,
Not from the voicing sea,


May we
The secret wrest which bars
Our knowledge here
OF all we hope and all that we may fear


Hereafter.
We watch beside our graves,
Yet meet no sign
OF where our dear ones dwell.


All well,
Even now your dead and mine
May long to speak
OF raptures il were wiser we should seek


Hereafter.
Oh. hearts we fondly love!
Oh, pallid lips
That bore our farewell kiss


From this
To Wonder worlds eclipse
Do We, safe home,
Smile at your earthly doubts OF what would com


Hereafter?
Grand birthright of the soul,
Naught may despoil
Oh, precious, healing balm,


To calm
Our lives in pain and toll!
Gods boon, that we
Or soon or late shall know what IS to be


Hereafter
Year: 1868

Barring Brothers yesterday drew a
million sterling from the Bank OF En-
gland for the Russian Government. 1t
Is said this is on American account, and
that the money was In part payment
for Alaska
Year: 1868

EVERY rose has its thorn, and the great
benefits resulting to the human race from the
construction and use of sewing machines,
are not unmixed with evil. Some time since
an eminent French physician, who had large
experience in Paris in treating sewing wo>
men for disease, was struck with the gener,
al similarity of the complaints that came to
him to be treated. An investigation con-
vinced the doctor that the peculiar motion
of the body in working sewing machines by
the feet, brought on a class of diseases in
females. Too long exercise at sewing ma
chine is denounced as killing to the ladies.
1t is thus pretty well established, that a lady
may stitch "a shroud as well as a shirt on
sewing machine, as the poor seamstresses DO
plying their needle and thread in the 6d
fashioned manner.
Year: 1868

AN engineer employed in buildinga bridge
in France, lately ordered block of stone, so
feet in diameter, to be broken, and in the
middle of it an adder as large as mans fist,
twisted nine times round in spiral line, was
found. Accustomed to this dark and close
prison, it died in five minutes after being
exposed to the open air An attempt was
made to untwist it, but without success. The
stone round where it lay was quite smooth.
On careful examination there was not found
the least hole or crevice in the stone.
Year: 1868

KING THEoDoRE's drinking cup has been
presented to King William of Prussia. 1t
was found on the bed ofthe African monarch
half filled with rum. Ii is an enormous
buffalo horn, the thick end of which is clos
ed by metal plate, forming the bottom the
pointed extremity is cut of, and the open
ing thus made is covered with wooden stop.
per. This cup is covered with buffalo skin,
and is suspended to a leather strap. 1t is
entirely destitute of ornament.
Year: 1868

THE Pope has a summary way of disposing
of " the social evil" Because of its shocks
ing effect upon the health of his troops, the
Roman police made general raid upon the
frail sisterhood, and swept the whole body
into prison, or out of the Roman States, and
boased that they had not left one frail wO-
man in Rome. The condition of the poor
creatures thus driven from the city is said to
be deplorable.
Year: 1868

WINE is becoming an important article of
manufacture in Kansas. The newspapers in
the city of Lawrence state that the manufac-
turers of domestic wine in Kansas are busily
engaged in gathering the summer grape,
which is abundant in the valley of the Kaw.
Year: 1868

THERE was once an independent old lady
whose comments on the Bible were very
pointed. Speaking of Adams naming all
The animals, she said she didn't think he
deserved any credit for naming the hog
ANYBODY would know what to call him.
Year: 1868

q THE SEx.-A lady was told BY travels
ing gentleman, that every lady who had a
small mouth was provided with husband
by the government 18th it pOthibleF said
the lady, making her mouth as little as she
could The gentleman added, that if she had
a large mouth, she was provided with two
husbands my graciOusy exclaimed the LADY,
At the same time throwing her mouth open
to IFS full extent. The gentleman became
alarmed, made his escape. and has not been
heard Of since.
Year: 1868

would be healed if they would take
our medicine. The only thing need
Ell TO make this werld what 1t ought
W pe, Is new pavement on our
Sidewalk. If Ulysses gets into the
" bite House We shall have the mil.
lennlum. The nations are safe as
soon as we can bring to an end the
expectorations of tobacco Juice.
All that We can sec of anything is
between the leather pricked.up ears
of our hobby.


This frantic urging Oh of our pet
notion will come to naught. Our
prancing charger will sink down
with iathered tlanks and we be
passed on the road by some Scotch
Presbyterian, astride a plain draft
horse that has been pasturing In
the field next to the kirk, jogging
along at an easy pace, knowing it
has been elected that he is to reach
the kingdom.


Brethren let US take a palm-leaf
cool off! Let your hobby rest. Ii
it will not otherwise stop, tic it for
n few days to the white-washed
eSump of modern conservatism. Do
not hurry things too much. If thlt
world should be saved next week
it would spoil some of our profts
sions. Do not let us do up things
too quick. This world is too big a
ship for us to guide. | know ftom
the way she swings from larboard
too starboard that there is a strong
Hand at the helm. Be patient.
Gods clock strikes but once or twice
in thousand years; but the wheels
all the while keep turning. Over
the caravansarie of Bethel hem.
with silver tongue, it struck ONE,
Over the University of Erturt, Lu-
ther heard it strike NINE. In the
rockingS of the present century il
has sounded ELEVEN. Thank God Z
It will strike TWELVE,
Year: 1868

THE Folly OF QuARREIING.-If anything
in the world will make a man feel badly,
except pinching his fingers in the crack of
door, it is unquestionably quarrel. No
man ever fails to think less of himself after
it than before. 1t degrades him in the eyes
of others, and what is worse, blunts his
sensibilities on the one hand, and increases
the power of passionate irritability on the
other. The truth is, the more peaceably
and quietly we get on, the better for our
selves and others. In nine cases out of ten,
the better course is, if man cheats you,
cease to deal with if he is abusive, quit
his company; and if he ISLANDERS you, take
care to live SO that nobody will believe him.
No matter who he is; or how he misuses
you, the wisest way is to let him alone; fol-
there is nothing better than this cool, calm
and quiet way of dealing with the wrongs
we meet with.
Year: 1868

WAIT, MOTHER, before you speak harshly
to the little chubby rogue who has torn his
apron, and soiled his white Marseilles jack
ct. He is only child, and ''mother' is the
sweetest and most sacred word in all the
world TO him Needle and thread and soap
suds will repair the damage now, but if you
once teach him to shrink from his mother,
and hide away his childish faults, that dam
age cannot be repaired.
Year: 1868

STRIKE THE KNoT.-"Strike the knot !"
said gentleman to his son, who tired and
weary, was leaning on his axe over log
which he had in vain been trying to cleave.
Then looking at the log, the gentleman saw
how the boy had hacked and Clipped all
around the knot without hitting it. Taking
the axe he struck a few sharp blows on the
knot, and split the log without difficulty.
Smiling, he handed the axe to his son, and
said:


ssAlways strike the knott"


That was good advice. 1t is good for
you, children, as it was for the boy to whom
it was given. 1t is capital maxim to follow
when you are in trouble. Have you hard
sum to do at school? Are you leaving
home to live for the first time? Strike the
knot Look your trouble in the eye, as the
bold lion hunter looks in the face OF lion.
Never shrink from painful duty, but step
right up 10 it and do it. Yes, strike the
knot Strike the knot, boys and girls, and
you will always conquer your difficulties.
Year: 1868

Or those who contemplate marriage, who are
suffering under any of these fearful maladies,
should not forget the sacred responsibility
resting upon them, nor delay to obtain i'm
mediate relief.
Year: 1868

A few days since lot of stuff was sold in
your city for rum by the United States, it being
seized as contraband from abroad the true
history of which was that some parts of the
human body were sent to st. John for the use
of a medical professor, preserved in alcohol
The jantor took the liquor and sold 1t to a
smuggler for export-sold as Santa Cruz.
Year: 1868

Money IS easy at SAT per cent on call In CONNER


cial paper no change. Primo is and wanted st
per cent and second grade sells at quite large in
terest Tho exchanges are In favor Of New-York to
an extent which makes it certain that call loans
to rule at as low rates as have been known for long
period. Lenders as rule. prefer short engagements
at low interest, with immediate control Of their
money and shun oil enterprises requiring long
term to complete them. The Bank Statement shows
smother large increase in oil the items The legal tend


ers and specie show On increase Of >o,S7i, ,l&-tho
gross amount of specie being tssl9.S7. tho largest
sum reported several years In the absence of any
adequate use for tho now idle money u the banks
Year: 1868

There improvement to notice m the duless bch mas
pervaded monetary circles OF late but on the contrary -
seems rather to increase Money is still very close ana
firm and it Is extremely difficult 10 negotiate even
frsclass bills Rates OF interest are steady at tho quo
tatons heretofore given The Exchange market s very
scanty supplied and nearly all Of the banks are ship
ping currency Tho rate between banks is uniformly 20
cents premium and over the counter par buying ana
1-lO OF one per cent. premium selling


The Pottsriie journal Of Saturday says:


The quantity sent by railroad this week e92 Of tuns
against the spending week last
The trade confined entirely To the city and the ne
The trade sums up this week follows. compared with
last year:
Year: 1868

the South, with a view to securing
its vote, but as Dictator of the ten
provinces, and backed by Congress,
Grant will be able to keep them from
voting at all unless they vote for
him.


1t is more than probable that Con.
gress will enact a law for the suspen
sion Of officers during impeachment,
and chat their next blow at the Pres
ident will be the hurried passage Of
a bill Of impeachment, and then his
immediate suspension and ultimate
removal. As auxiliary to this move.
ment, it is being SO adjusted that the
President shall have no control over
the disposition of troops, lest he may
call aroudd him sufficient force To
defend his constitutional rights
against further invasion. When all
this is done, he WILDE powerless to
help himself or the country.
Year: 1868

Who was the first Puritan Satan. Un-
doubtedly that illustrious malignant was the
real original historically, as be is metaphysi.
cally the true type of the Puritanic character
He set up the banner of revolt In heaven be.
cause of his purist notions. Things were moi
done as he thought they should he, and he
determined to force his principles on the ma.
jority-just as if he had been in Massachu-
setts-he ''ngitated" and got himself thorwn
out the window. His name signifies the Ad-
versary. That is Puritanism, in a word
Puritans are the adversaries wherever they
are Put them down in a monarchy, and
they are the adversaries Of monarchical
principles; In republic, and they equally
oppose republicansm. Put them in church,
and they quarrel with all the points Of doc
trine, one by one, till they get religion work.
ed to Preshyteranism. Assent, then that they
shall all be Presbyterians If they chQose, and
in fifty years II turns out that they are such
common adversaIies Of even that chosen wor-
ship that they have split into iifty strips oi
shadow, and their piety and doctrine seem In
theology like the triturations Of homGpath-
ic apothecary. Satan squared with God was
about Adam. He had no doubt very good
thing of 1t before that; but no hated Adam
from the moment Of the creation, and that
hatred to our ancestor, which the bad-teui-
pered scoundrel expressed in offensive terms,
brought on the difficulty. He was, according
to the report made by distinguished Puritan,
tumbled from the cry ,tal battlements Of heav-
en- alta point directly over hell, and fell into the
fire. As coon as he recovered from the inju-
ries The had a bottle Of Wolcotts Pain Paint
in his pocket) he went TO Paradise and began
his operations sgainst Adam as the original
cause OF his troubles, determined that the
good old gardener should never have comfort
or ease on earth. Could there be more abso-
lutte Puritanism In the history that re
counts the miseries OF job we see the first
Puritan following out the same plan; wretch,
ed, morbid, quarrelling, complaining, sore
headed because there was some one happy;
going 10 and fro in the earth and travelling
up and down in it-not TO enjoy the sunshine
and the scenery, not to gaze with wander on
Mont Blanc or dine at Veiour's as any res
pectable fellow would IL he had the chance
but simply TO secrete black bile and vent
spleen and kick up world Of trouble be-
cause poor old job was an honest man and
happy, fearing God, and having plenty OF the
true clay OF Adam. Even to this day the
old Adam" Is what the Puritans most hate
what they are most desirous To burn and whip
out of the world; and in the very phrase we sec
a "reminiscences Of their ancestry. Truly the
very soas Of the very Devil and worthy Of
their father.-N Y. Herald