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Year: 1865

Let us love little children; they are the
delicate f1owor-go of soon fading Eden,


have heard great divine say that God
had two dwellings, one in heaven, and the
other in meek and thankful heart.


Truth is the only real, lasting foundation
for friendship; in all but truth there Is
principle of decay dissimulating. = Miss
EDGEwoRTH
Year: 1865

We have the sad intelligence that Brig.
Gen. Terry, the young hero of Fort Fisher,
is new greatly prostrated by the poisonous
malaria in his system imbibed during his
Southern campaigning. Were not his du-
ties so imminent and onerous, he woald feel
to ask leave of absence from
duty for medical treatment.
Year: 1865

He has the secret Of winning the affections OF the
opposite sex, Ho guides the single to a wealthy aud
happy marriage, and makes the married happy. His
aid and advice has been solicited In innumerable In.
stances and the result has always been
Year: 1865

A warmer or more general sympathy
has never been expressed than that
which has been eyinced for the senior
member Of the great banking firm
which has recently been overwhelmed
by SO sudden and dreadful 3 calamity.
Mr.. KetchuTa, the elder, has been for
nearly half 8 century one of the most
prominent. respected and useful citi
gems. Identified with many business
enterprises of the highest moment, an
sctive promoter Of public and private
works which have played an important
part in developing the resources of the
nation, an ardent supporter of the
Government in sll its financial trials
and difficulties, he was as widely and
as honorably known as any man IN the
mercantile community. By prudence,
economy, activity and integrity, he had
accumulated large and solid fortune,
which he used in no foolish display OF
extravaganza, but in public enterprises
and labors Of usefulness and benevo-
lence.


From the moment that he learned
the criminal delinquencies of his son,
whom he had entrusted with the man
agement of his concerns, Mr.. Ketchum
devoted himself and all that he pos
sessed to an honorable effort 10 repair
as far as he could the wrong that had
been done. ALI the renlittsnces re-
ceiyed from the numerous depositors
of the house were at once put in bank
to the credit of the owners; his large
private wealth, amounting to some two
millions of dollars, has been surren-
dered to replace the bonds sbstracted,
and to satisfy the claims of creditors
and though himself the largest loser by
the default, he has only been anxious
TO cover, TO the whole extent Of bis
ability, the losses Of others. His prop
erty has been assigned, under the sd-
vice of his counsel and the best judg-
ment of friends, towel known and
competent gentlemen, in order to pro-
vide, as fully and as justly as it can be
done, for the satisfaction Of those who
are touched by the failure of mas house


That he should feel these reverses
deeply is but natural A sudden change
from the height of affiuence and pros
perity TO an almost absolute poverty is
a yicissitude hard to be borne; and it
is all the harder that il has fallen upon
his old age, and at the close Of long
and laborious career. But what he
feels more deeply than the loss of for
tune is the terrible ruin Of son to
whom he wss devotedly attached,
whom everybody seemed TO love, whose
promises in life were most 6attering,
but VINO is now wAnderer upon the
face of the earth. The dilapidations
of fortuue are often retrieved by manly
endurance and fortitude, but the
wounds inflicted upon the affections are
seldom, and leave 8 sorrow that can
never be consoled-E Y Pot
Year: 1865

A few days ago man was found suspended
BY the neck in the moose OF a rope hung to a
peg in barn in Quincy. He was cut down
unconscious. On being restored and question
ed as TO why he was in that position, he replied
that "he had been thinking about a man that
hang himself, aud thought hsJ should like 10
know how L wonld feel 70 be hung, bat the
rope was not so long as be thought It wa"
Year: 1865

Ak INDIGNANT EDITOR The editor Of
the Montgomery Ledger having been
treated rudely by United States oti
Ger, relieves his mind thus


The editor Of this psper returning to
his home yesterday morning, called
upon Whist he supposed to be one Of
Uucle Sans officials, upon small
matter Of business, who happened (un-
fortunately for any government, TO
wear the badge Of lieutenant) the fst
Toe really did not know the difference
between a gentleman snd one Of his
menials, who has no doubt been bullied
over from day to day, to let them know
that he was an officer Of the United
States. SAID officer in our estimation
s 6 ID poor specimen Of Uncle
Sans greatness.
Year: 1865

General Grants history should teach


us to d. .ciiminate better than we Ameri.
cans are apt to do between glitter and
solid work. Our proneness to run after
demagogues and spouters may find a
wholesome corrective in the study of such
II character as his. The qualities by
which great things are accomplished are
here seen to have no necessary connection
with snowy and superficial accomplish
ments. When the mass of men look up
on such "a character they may learn a
truer respect for themselves and each
other; they are taught by il that high
qualities and great abilities are consistent
with the simplicity Of taste, contempt for
parade, and plainness OF manners, with
which direct and earnest men have a
strong natural sympathy, Ulysses Grant,
the tanner, Ulysses Grant the un-uccess-
iul applicant for the post OF city surveyor
Of st. Louis, Ulysses Grapt, the driver
into that city of his two horse team with
a load of wood to sell, had within him
every manly quality which will cause the
biillc VI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NiIdUl 10 i've
forever in history Ills career is les
son in practical democracy; it is Il quiet
satire on the dandyism, the pupyism,
and the shallow aifectation of our fashion
able exquisites as well upon the swagger
OF our plausible, glib-tongued demagog-
ues. Not by any means that great quail
tiles are inconsistent with cultivated man
ners and a fluent eocution; but that such
superficial accomplishments are no meas
ure of worth or ability.


General Grants last brilliant campaign
sets the final seal upon his reputation. =
1t stamps him as the superior of his able
antagonist AZ well as of all the comman-
ders who have served under him in the
great campaigns of the last year. 1t is
not necessary to sacrifice any part of
their well-carned regulations to his
Sherman and Sheridan deserve all that
has ever been said in their praise but
there has never been time since Grant
was made Lieutenant q General, when any
body but Sherman OF our side, could
Year: 1865

Henry Young Stilling was an eminent
physician in the service of the grand duke
OF Baden. lie diei in the year 1872,
and consequently was well known to many
persons now living. His career was an
extraordinary one. In youth, Shilling
was extremely poor, destitute of the com
mon comforts and necessaries of life. AZ
ter long season of anxiety and PRAYER,
he felt satisfied that it was the will of God
that he should 90 to university and pre-
pare himself for the medical profession.
lie did not at first, make choice of uni
versity, but waited for an intimation from
his heavenly Father; for as he had in
tended to study simply from faith, he
would not follow his own will in anything.
Three weeks after he had come 10 this
determination, friend asked him where
he intended to go. He replied he did
not know.


Oh said she, our neighbor Mr.. T.,
Year: 1865

CATCHING A PICKPoCKET-A lady
travelling by the land route between New
York and Boston, was unfortunate enough
to lose her purse, containing a considera-
BILE amount of money. which was undoubt-
edly appropriated by gentlemanly per-
son who occupied the seat next her, but
who left during the time the train was
passing through the long tunnel going into
New York city, having managed 10 pick
the lady's pocket during that time unde-
tected, as half an hour previous the purse
was known TO be safe.


In recounting her loss TO friend who
was soon after about to make the same
journey, the danger of gentlemanly-ap-
pearing men occupying the next seat 10
unprotected females, and, in fact, the
danger of trusting to appearances at all,
was strongly dwelt upon.
Year: 1865

IT is hard for some people to get
out of the room when their visit is
really over; they want to get of,
but they don't how to manage it.
One would think they had been built
in your parlOr or study, and were
waiting to be launched.


ENVY, jealousy, scorpions and rat.
tlesnAkes can be made to sting them
selves to death.


To abandon q friend for q single
error svinces a cold heart and weak
judgment.
Year: 1865

TASTE OF THE HEATHES.-The number of
christian missionaries sent out among the hea-
then this year, will exceed. we are told. the
number sent for many years pas. The king
of Siam has promised not to eat aEy more mis-
sionaries. and little cold missionary" is no
longer to be a standing luxury, as a lunch,
among cannibal islands generally. Perhaps
this encouraging fact may account for the in
creased effort to evangelist the benighted crea,
lures of the Orient. Martyrdom is considered
honorable, in the abstract; but practical mar
tyrdom is not desirable thing among the
best of men, and when that martyrdom is con-
tempated in the light of making bonne bou-
che of ones self for an unciviized palate no
wonder the most jealous shudder at the picture
Boiled missionary, friend missionary, y
"roast missionary aux pommes de terre," are
oil dishes that look very tempting on Siamese
bills of fare to gourmands of the Siamese pat
tern; but We respectfully protest that such a
bill of fare is sufficient to make any missionary
feel down i the mouth" for what worse kind
of heathenism can there be than that which
will only learn US to stomach the gospel BY
digesting its ministers? Deliver US from such
a destiny
Year: 1865

The mind that has learnt things and forge
ten them Is Oh a superior footing TO that viii
has never received the teaching. Most thin
learnt may be forgotten in everything but |,
training they have given. Cultivation IS &C
sistent with a great deal OF ignorance.
Year: 1865

SIR PETER LELY made it rule never
look at bad picture, having found rom Ell
rieuce that whenever be did so, bis pencil to'
a tint from it, Always apply the same rule
bad books and bad company.
Year: 1865

A YoVSG PUPIL in the moo resident school OF
philosophy was once elected to the legislature
Of course from one of the interior counties.
True to bis principles, he drew up a bill abol-
ishiug all punishment for crime, and then pre-
pared another forbidding people to commit
crime.
Year: 1865

THIsK-Though; often engenders though
Place one idea on paper, another will follow
and still another, until you have written
page. You cannot fathom your mind. Their
a well Of thought there which has no botto'
The more you draw from it, the more clear q
fruitful ii will be.
Year: 1865

The GREAT SANITARY
FAIRs.-The netprofts of the Phil
adelphia Sanitary Fair, held last
June, have been computed, and
found to amount to a million and ten
thousand dollars, with some money
to be added from property not yet
realized in cash. The net proceeds
of the Sanitary Fair in New York
amounts to one million one hundred
and eighty thousand dollars. The
Chairman of the Finance Committee
of the Metropolitan Fair, New York,
reports that he has paid over to the
Sanitary Commission one million ono
hundred and eighty thousand dol
lars, az the proceeds of that Fair.
Year: 1865

Farmers are so often accused, as class, of being close and tight, of being too careful and saving, that the real state of the case is over. looked, and a partial acknowledgem ent of the truth of this charge satisfies us that we really use all available means to get ahead in the world, neither wasting our substance nor neg lecting any chance to increase it. -t3 ID Now we.believe, that so far is this from being true, that the farmers as class are more wasteful than any other in the community, in fact that we have yet to learn the first princi ples of thrift and frugality. .+.s-. ...s Let us have little self-examination and see how we stand. Will all practices bear criticism

 First as to tools: The mechanic has chest or shop where he keeps all his tools. When ever they get wet they are carefully cleaned, dried and oiled. They are always kept in place and ready for use. What farmer thinks his hoe or his spade worthy of such care r. Yet more than half his strength is wasted in using such a tool covered with rust. To say nothing of his harness, guiltless of oil,. and often left in the open wagon or on the fence, through sun, and dew and rain, see the tools near his barn-cart. sled, stone. boat, wagon, harrow, blows, horse-rake, hoes, chains, shoYels, crowbars, axes, in fact all the tools of his business, in season and out of season. They are alike exposed to the weather The axes take more harm during the season of dis use in summer than in the use of the winter. The rakes and forks and scythe -snaths s need to be renewed each having season, not be- cause they are worn out, but they have been wasted by neglect. r.

 To say nothing of the loss on the tools, how much time is spent in looking them up ?- Where is the hammer? Who has not ioined..in the hunt for this wandering tool? Notice the loss by weeds among our crops consuming the manure, and taking up the room. Don't they sometimes get the largest half?

 Manures, the life-blood of successful farm ing, are often allowed to leach and drain, to burn and evaporate, till more than half their value is wasted. If the merchant exposes his

 NJ . | rN | goods to such 2 degree of damage, can he sell them at profit The crops anu the nelu are the farmers paymasters, and will they pay full price for manure that has lost all its strength? Poor seed. poor varieties of fruit, and poor tillage may be mentioned here. The merchant or the manufacturer counts 8 fair interest on his capital as one of his expenses. Are there not many fields that do not pay a fair interest on their cost, to say nothing of the expense of care and fencing? These neg lected fields, growing continually worse, are only burden upon the rest of the farm. As there are unproduc tive fields, so there are un- profitable animals that eat without any cor responding return. Is there not half differ ence in the amount of milk given by different COWS, or of the growth of swine, or of labor in teams of horses and cattle. Does not the same strength accomplish twice as much with a good tool as with bad one?

 We throw out these suggestions as opening the subject for each one to make such person al improvement as his own case demands.
Year: 1865

n@. A soldiers wife residing in Macon county Ill.,, few days since received from her husband in the army package of s4o0, and upon returning home placed it under the pil- low of her bed. During the same night a man with g .blackened face, broke into the house and demanded her money. The woman took the money threw it upon the floor, and when he stopped to pick it up, she dealt him a blow with poker that broke his neck. Upon wash, ing the dead mans face, it proved to be he, brother-in-law.
Year: 1865

1 To preserve ice, put it in deep dish or jug, cover 1t with a plate, and place the vessel on pillow stuffed with feathers, and cover the top with another pillow carefully, by this means excluding the external air. Feathers are well known bad conductors of heat, and in consequence the ice is kept from melting. A gentleman has thus preserved six pounds ofise for eight d6vs
Year: 1865

from her bed Of pain and sadness with
reluvenated youth and beauty. The old
woman Inc has sworn to love, honor and
obey, will bring him only a dowry Of
sharp fangs, long nails and bitter curses.
She will net permit him long to enjoy
tho soft rcposc of his cotton mattress.
She will pull it out from under him, and
kick him out from bed and. board. lie
will have the taste of that oath in his
mouth all his life. lie will realize, to his
last hour, that kccncst pang Of such
minds "The wicked have liggcd pit
and have fallen into the midst OF it them.
selves"
Year: 1865

We need not invoke a grand rally at
the assemblasc to day The immense
popular enthusiasm will bring together
such a concourse as has never been seen
in Richmond. Not even the days OF
1861 approached the blazing fires which
Lincoln has Just kindled afresh in every
Confederate heart. They will flash forth
to-day in the matchless eloquence of the
most gifted and patriotic. statesmen of
the Confederaey, and the responsive
thundcrs will be echoed ere long from a
hundred battle fields. We can only
hope that rropitious weather and proper
facilities for hearing all that is said will
enable every man, woman and child Of
Richmond to be present on the august
o:casion, and hear the answer to the
tyyant.
Year: 1865

A cart horse. noted for his sagacity, once
found wagon obsuncting the way which
led 10 his stable. The space was too mar.
row to allow him TO pass on either side
Placing his. breas; again ST the vehicle, he
pushed it onward till be came to a part OF
the road which was wide enough to allow
him 10 60 by it. On another occasion a
large wide drain had been dng in the
same road, and planks laid over il for him
10 cross. II was winter, and one morning,
the planks being covered with snow and
ice, in stopping upon them his feet slipped
He drew back and seemed al a loss how 10
proceed. Near the planks was a heap Of
sand he put his fore leet into this and
looked wist.uIY 10 the other side OF the
drain, where stood the boy who was accus.
toned 10 attend 10 him. Seeing his hesita-
ton The boy called him. The horse imme-
diaiely turned round scraped the sand over
upon the planks till they we're completely
covered. He then, without hesitation Iroi-
ted directly into the stable.


Some horses kept in an enclosure logelh-
er, were supplied with water by a trough
which was 6lled from a pump. One of
them learned TO supply h:msel: and his
companions, OF his own accord. by taking
The pump handle between his teeth and
working it with his head. The others find
ing that he could thus supply their wants,
would force him, by biting and kicking, 10
pump for them, and would moi allow him
10 drink ill they were satisfied.
Year: 1865

The fresh sweet pasture of June. furn-
ishing that abundance of succulent feed
which new mich cows need to give rich
milk In abundance, make this month pre-
eminently the butter month. We present
herewith the views of good butter maker
expressed IN communication by H. A.
H., which has lain for some time ON our
table: L am very particular about thor
oughiy scaldlng and summing my pans In hot
weather; do not ill them more than half
full, and skim after the milk thickels sufh-
ciently SO that the cream viii come off
smooth without taking any milk with it,
which, l think, is apt TO make curdle in the
butter, and that Injuries the looks OF it.
ChurnTng should be done every day, if suf-
ticient cream should be obtained If not
the cream in the pot should be thoroughly
stirred whenever any Is added, and | add
little salt, which certainly is not a bad idea.
| design, when churn to have the cream
the right temperature, neither too warm nor
too cold, so a. to avoid adding any warm or
cold water, and as soon as IL Is gathered [
take it out and wash it in cold water until
it Is thoroughly freed from the butterniilk
salt II to my taste, and set 1t in a cool place
until the next morning, when | work it over
until it presents firm and uniform appear
ance. Last summer | worked my butter
three times before packing. At the last
working ] add small quantity more Of salt


After packing 1t smoothly | sprinkle ia
ble-spoonful Of loaf sugar and little salt
over the top between every layer, and ap-
ply on the top of that a cloth pressed down
closely to keep the air from it during the
time that must intervene before the pack
ing of the next layer After the jar or fir
kin IS well filed, put the cloth on the top
and apply another thicker one. and filed up
with salt packed tightls, and even with the
top Of the jar then laying on another
cloth to fit the top. | also put another one
over the jar and have it come over the edge
and paste it tight to the jar, then put on a
board and weight Or anyother way:
Instead of putting in salt | take melted but
ter and turn in on the thin cloth even full,
and lastly. apply salt sprinkled over the top
before putting on the last cloth and weight.
Then again, have had butter kept well az
ter packing thoroughly as | have stated,
to ill up the jar with strong brine,


which should stand two inches deep on the
top without being filed up with butter, and
it is necessary to put 2 little saltpetre in the
brine. Any one. whether he has very
good place 10 keep butter or not, if he at
tend TO the strict observance OF these rules,
can have good butter-and keep it for months,
and that through the hottest weather. -
Year: 1865

The lofty plateau of Arlington has been
converted into a national cemetery for our
brave soldiers and sailor who die in or near
Washington 1t was opened for interment
May |, 1864, and within the year five thou
sand have been buried there. In year or
two more it viii be the most populace city Of
the dead on this side of the Atlantic. Its
conversion into a cemetery renders 1t impos-
sible that it can ever be used as a residence
again General De Russey has already re-
moved his headquarters from there to the
house of Gen. Lee son. Immediately north
Many of the graves contain the bodies of
southern lsoldiers who died in our hospitas,
but then in every case the headboard of the
grave bears the word Rebel, in large let
ters on it.
Year: 1865

Think before you act, but when the time
for action somes, stop thinking. This is
the true doctrine Many men fail in life
and go down to the grave with hopes blasted
and prospects of happiness unrealized, be-
cause they did not adopt and act upon this
motto. Nothing so prepares a man for ac-
tion as thought; but nothing so units man
for action in the course Of action. Better
by far adopt some course and pursue 1t en-
ergetically. even though it may not be the
best, than to keep continually thinking with
out action. Go ahead ought to be print
ed in every young mans hat, and read until
it becomes part Of his natsre, until he can
act upon his judgment. and not be turned
from his course by every wind of interested
advice. Inconclusion, we would say Think
before you act but when the time for ac-
ton comes. stop thinking
Year: 1865

4 rather amusing story is told Of Brown.
rebel Governor Of Georgia: When the Lieu
tenant was conveying him North. under ar
rest, and had arrived near Dalton, Brown
rallied him pleasantly about his small force
The Lieutenant asked him what he should do
if the squad should be overpowered by guer-
rillas. Brown replied that he should run
with the Union troops
Year: 1865

Its certain sign Of an III heart, to be
inclined TO defamation. They who are
harmless and innocent, can have no gratif-
cation that way; but it ever arises from a
neglect of what is laudable in mans self,
and an impatience of seeing it in another