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Year: 1867

BE- Toombs of Georgia, has writ
ten a letter to the secretary of the
National Democratic Committee in
which he avows himself willing and
anxious to act with the Democratic
party, believing that in the md the
Iost cause will be vitalized through
it. He concludes his letter by saying
that Il regret nothing in the past but
the dead and the failure, and | am to
day ready to use the best means l can
command to establish the principles
for which | fought
Year: 1867

peAA correspondent at atSweetwater
Illinois, writes: In this village yes


terday, in front of a drinking saloon,
occurred riot, which resulted in the
death of an ex-rebeI officer, whose
name is Warner, formerly of the 9th
Georgia Infantry, and who had been
in the habit Of abusing Union soldiers.
a few days since young man named
5. M Green came here on a visit. In
company with a soldier friend Green
drank to the old flag. Warner heard
it, and Immediately ordered Green to
take it back, saying if he did not he
would send him to HI Green re
piled that he could not see it, at the
same time putting his hand behind
him. Warner then raised chair,
whereupOn Green drew a revolver and
fired, the ball taking effect in Warmers
head. lie lived ten minutes Green
has left for parts unknown, but he
would be entirely safe to remain here
Year: 1867

The PREACHER AND THE Plea CORES
ponGent of the Messenger, in this village
giving an account of his :. first circuit" re-
lates the following incident:


% At an appointment away upon the
headwaters of the Little kanawha river in
III isolated community the people were very
ple-hearted, uneducated, and unintelli-
gent, but very religious, devout Christians.
We preached there once in two weeks on
Monday, and the whole community, number
ing about dozen families would usually
turn out. On one beautiful Monday morn
ing, men, women, children. dogs, etc, were
present in force. Among other things pet
pig followed its master to meeting,-a dis
tance of some three miles. The house,
large log building occupied by the family of
the widow L0uden a residence. was our
preaching place. On this occasion it was
very much crowded, and the boys not being
able to find place inside remained out near
the door, where they could hear, and were
very quiet till they observed that the hogs
belonging to the premises had got into the
enclosure about the house, and supposiny
that they were in mischief. set the hounds
after them. The baying of the hounds and
the squealing of the hogs made perfect bed
lam Immediately around the house. In the
meantime the ''pet pig alarmed at the
noise outside ran into the house for refuge.
but the house being densely crowded and he
being a large animal could only get few
steps inside of the door which opened iuet
opposite to where the preacher stood to
speak. And here for sometime the pig stood
facing the minister, but turning his ears first
IN one side and then on the other to listen
TO the noise without. That having subsidized,
he backed his hind parts out at the door and
squatted himself down upon his launches at
an angle of about forty-fve degrees, which
gave him the appearance of looking very
wisely into the preachers face. 1t was the
greatest trial of my life. did not dare to
stop speaking. and recommend that he be
driven away, for the scene was SO ludicrous
should have lost my gravity altogether and
given way to uncontrolled laughter So
looked another way the best / could. and
came to as speedy conclusion as the subject
would admit Of
Year: 1867

IHE LACE OF ANNABERG.-A chatty cor
respondent of the Boston SATURDAY. Gaz-
cite thus describes Annabe.g in central Ger
many:


About the whole region Of Annaberg
there is a vast quantity of beautiful lace
made. No machinery is employed, the
work being done entirely with the hands,
and is hardly excelled by the famous man.
ufacture> Of Belgium and France We
went for walk through the city, stopping
at some of the little cottages where the
women were at work. They talk and chat
ter ike all women over their labor, and
have little quishions foot long, perhaps,
containing six thousand tiny pins of steel,
and sixty so-called clappers or wooden nee
dies, each three inches long. With these
simple impliments, working SO rapidly that
the eye cannot follow the motions of the
pins. they manufacture this beautiful and
delicate texture. So accustomed are they
to the work that they fabricate the finest
and most complicated embroidery without
stopping their laughter or talk, and SEEM
ingly without paying any attention to their
difficult work


Such is the competition of labor in this
over-stocked land, that twelve hours of dali
ly toll brings tncm at the most but ten cents
and until they have spent years at the
business; and become perfectly skilled in
the nlanipulations of their infinite needles,
six cents are good days earnings. Yet
their houses and persons seem clean and
neat; they are pleasant and hospitable,
and l did not see any attempts to force US
70 patronize them, nor to extort the usual
triple price which strangers are charged
We bought several fine collars and small
Year: 1867

are as satisfactory as the facts. Those
which never made the voyage, and are
without the society of those which have ta-
ken the journey; find their way without
difficulty, They are under an instructive
impulse to go. which nothing short of i'm
prisonment could restrain.


Insectivcrous swallows would perish every
year did they not repair to a warm region
as soon as the frost begins to nip the flies
they subsist upon. Their average speed on
the wing when flying for winter retreat is
believed to be at least fifty miles an hour.
Therefore it wonld not take a swallow or
black bird long to reach Louisiana or Tex
as from New England or the State of New
York. When the wind is favorable their
flight is far more rapid. Spallanzi calcu-
90 ninety-two miles an hour. An elder
duck, annas molliSinaa, ninety miles an
hour; hawks and some other broad-winged
b rls have speed of one hundred miles and
hour


Wild geese, it has been satisfactorily
ascertained, fly from Georgia to the great
lake. of northern Canada in two davs.
Wild food has been found in their crops
peculiar To the South which had not had
time for being digested-so rapid must
have been their flight. 1t happens occa-
sionally, in foggy weather, they lose their
way, and flying round without visible
objects to guide them at the great height
in the air to which they mount, they settle
down in open rivers, ponds, and fields, etc,
and if unmolested, remain several days till
the atmosphere becomes clear, when they
again soar into regions above and take
their winding way north. Birds must have
some method of communicating their inten-
tions to each other How else could they
understand migratory trip was to COM
mence at sunrise the next day
Year: 1867

MIND AND BoDY.-The necessary con.
nection of the condition of the body and
of the mind is matter of universal and
constant experience. Mental influences af.
feet the physical health and the state of
the body, on the other hand, exerts power
full effect on the mind In treating of
health, it is, therefore, necessary to consider
the management of the thoughts and pas
sions. La some diseases physical and men,
tai disorders are SO complicated and blend
ed together, that it is impossible to tell in
which the arrangement had its origin.
Even when the disturbance does not 90 to
the length of disease, the mutual influence
of the mind and the body may play in the
question of health. The body is constant
ly acted on through the mind, and this way
of reaching and influencing the corporal
health deserves more attention than il usu.
ally receives.
Year: 1867

ANECDoTE OF DR.. BEEcHER.-The fol-
| lowing is an anecdote of Rev. DIR. Lyman
Beecher that was not put into the family
| book:


My father" said H. W., loved to
write at the top of the house, and | loved
to get up there and watch him. He had
a way of whispering to himself as he
wrote, and while he wrote with one hand
he rubbed his breast with the other. He
could not bear to be buttoned up into any
thing while writing, and wristbands, and
collar, and vest were all sure to be pulled
open as soon as he set to work. His coat
was laid aside and his suspenders thrown
! off his shoulders


at was unfailing interest and amuse-
ment for me to sit in that room and watch
him.


:" My father was great lover of clans.
One day, he was rapidly driving his
pen, a clam man passed the house, crying,
CLAIMS, clans My father was so intent
upon his sermon that it was several min
utes before he fully realized what the
sound was Then he rushed to the win
dow and hailed the man, who had passed
beyond the reach of his voice.


Clapping his pen behind his ear, father
dashed down stairs like an avalanche, and
before any or all the women who were
wont to lie in wait to catch and put him
| in order could arrest him, he was in full
chase down the street. holding to his
pantaloons with one hand and waving the
other in the air, shouting, CLAIMS, clans,
clans He caught the man, secured his
.f, Ill
as he went. to the house and to his study
Year: 1867

TO MUcH THUNDER FOR \ LITTLE PORK
The sins we wish to commit are easily
made small to our seeming. To many a
sinner who cries out against his punishment
for - little things" the story Of the jew
pork will well apply:


There was once a Jew who was partic-
ularly fond of pork, and who used to 60
out of town to eat it at tavorite tavern
One day he had just cut a slice, when a
tearfnl clap of thunder and a dazzling flash
of lightning Illuminated his room. Con-
science-stricken and trembling. he dropped
his knife and fork By degrees however,
his courage returned, and he had swallowed
a few mouthtuls, when another clap and
another fash ten times worse than the first
renewed his terrors. Pushing away his
plate, he reluctantly rose from the table,
muttering, as he did so, " Lord, Lord,
whata fuss about little piece of pork "
Year: 1867

By the third day things
began to assume something like law and
order, but starvation was staring the whole
population in the face; it is true that sut-
lers had opened stores of tempting COM
estibles; but who had money to buy ?
Not one, except save of the Jews. ] my
self had not one mouthful, except quart
of meal the marketing furnished on Satur-
day was exhausted, and my neighbors
could not give me, they had nothing
| to bestow.


One by one the men who had left the
city strayed back again, and some soldiers
on parole came to their wives, but, except
the comfort that sympathy gives, they were
of no more real service than fifth wheels
to wagons. Husbands had 10 money, but
were human nevertheless. My six thou
sand dollars in Confederate money, which
I had in hand for pocket money, could not
bring me one ginger cake. Officers, men
of rank. social distinction and wealth, we're
now forlornly sitting down to meals for
which they could not hope to pay The
landlady's stock on the fifth day consisted
of half ham and a half barrel Of Irish
potatoes. She posted a notice over the
Year: 1867

The navigation Of Pearl river is GER


tainly perii0us. A short time ago the
steamer Fleta came TO the railroad bridge
at Jackson and fled backwards. Soon
afterward the North Star, craft better


adapted to the stream, passed under the


bridge, went some miles up, snagged and


sunk. This proves to us that the profits


of the stream are proftless, and thst the


navigation OF the river with the pedriy
name Is too perilOus for the mariners of
the pearly deep-even when leading mot
led by) the " North Star" We hope no


Jonas was aboard, for there is no whale
that we know of big enough 10 swallow


prophet: and we think the "sensu8
c0HlUliUs " will give verdict suitable to
the common sense Of the community.
Our old friend Ellis undertook to navi-
gate this stream some years ago, but did
not prove an EliGs.-JdcksOB Clarion.
Year: 1867

SELF IMPROVEMENT. w hile it is pleas
aHJ and desirable to know something Of ev-
Tythlng it Is absolutely necessary TO get
along we'll. IN the world that we know every
thing 9f something. Every man should
know all shat he Is capable of knowing Of
ms calling. y hat SO soon destroys your
confidence IN i man as t8 receive in answer
Co some plain question, / don know, or


L caa ten r. On the other hand, let Z
carpenter state thaE ioist ought ID sustain
5uch a weight. or 4 uachlnist that such
piece Of work 1ugh5 70 carry gwen bur-
len. au.! you at once have confidence both
I'D the article and the mechanic. Ia that
one end every man should bend his every
ga3rt, VIZ 70 know his 5wu business. AZ
Ger chat the learning I little Of everything
is quite easy There Is no business SO sim
pie, but that there Is something special TO
know concerning it, even tn the day la5arer
ap0a ahe street and he who knows all of
bis occupation is sure 20 succeed In IL If
Young mechanics should make It study Of
the hours they toe gften waste, to post
themselves In their trades, We should have


less dissatisfied and Il-paid men in our
workshops bat they have just learned
enough to bear the yoke Of society under
the cad Of ! director or foreman, and not
enough 1c run alone 0r drive
Year: 1867

w dlSAAAAAf9 f9OMe


Towards the close of the revolutions
ary war, says DIR. Cox, an officer in the
army had occasion to transact some
business with General Washington,
and repaired to Philadelphia for that
purpose. Before leaving, he received
an invitation to dine with the General,
which was accepted, and upon enter
ing the room he found himself in the
company of a large number of guests.
AS they were mostly strangers to him,
and he was of a naturally modest and
Unassuming disposition, he took a seat
near the foot Of the table, and refruined
from taking an active part in the con-
versation. Just before dinner was con-
cluded, General Washington stood up
and called him by name, and requested
him to drink a glass Of wine with him.


"Will you have the goodness to ex-
cuse me, General?" replied the officer,
Il have made it a rule never to take
wine"


All eyes were instantly turned upon
the young officer, and murmur OF
surprise and indignation ran around
the table. That a person. should be SO
unsocial and so mean as never to drink
wine, was really too bad; but that he
should abstain from it ON an occasion
like that, and even when offered to
him by Washington himself, was per-
fectly intolerable!


Washington saw at once the feelings
Of his guests, and promptly addressed
them:-


"Gentlemen, said he, "our friend is
right I do not ishany of my guests
to partake of anything against Their
inclination, and certainly do not wish
them to violate any established princi,
pie in their social intercourse with me.
/ honor my friend for his .f-d1kness
for his consistency IN thus adhering to
an established rule lchich can gleuer dc
him harm, and for the adoption Of
which, have no doubt he has good
and sufficient reason"
Year: 1867

A correspondent writing from Wood
county desires to know "when Senator
VAN WINKLE's time will EXPIRE" and
also "at what time the Legislature will
elect his successor" His impression
is that the Legislature just elected will
be required to fill Senator VAN WINKLE's
place" Our correspondent is mistaken.
Mr.. VAN WINKLE's term will not expire
until March 4th, 1869, and his successor
will be chosen by the Legislature of
that year, which is to be elected ia
October, 1868.


Proceeding upon the assumption that
Senator from West Virginia will be
elected this winter, our correspondent
ventures certain suggestions which, as
they are not appropriate at this time,
We will withhold. We can hardly
agree with him in the opinion that
candidates will be as thick as thieves
in the Radical party" This is stating
the case rather strongly, and with such
Legislature as the last one, would
leave few disinterested men to do the
Radical caucussing. We doubt not,
however, that the class referred to will
be largely represented On the list Of
sspirants.


Other phases of yillainy win also have
their special expouents among the Rad
'cal candidates for the Senatorship
Indeed there is no style of rascality
Year: 1867

We are gratiied in being able to pre-
sent to our many sheep-brecding and
wool-growing readers a communication
from one of the most distinguished
sheep-breeders in this justly celebrated
sheep raising country. Other communi-
cations are promised from this gentle
man; and we take this occasion to
renew our invitation to Breeders, Farm
ers and Gardeners to use the columns of
the REGISTER in communicating their
thoughts and experiences to one an
other.


FALL MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP.
Editor of the Register:


have, as well as many ethers, been
vexed to sec the coldness on the part of
most of the "PreSS" of our country to-
ward the interest of wool growing and
Improvement of sheep. We arc glad to
see you come out from among that num-
Der and invite MS to talk to each other
through your paper.


The fall season is now far spent, yet
it may be useful to review and see
whether we have made the best Of it..
About the first of September the whole
flock should be sorted over. The poor
ones from every lot put by themselves
Oh good pasture and fed a little grain
every day. Commence feeding lambs
as soon as weaned; corn, oats and bran
equal parts mixed and given once or
twice q day is the best they can have.
1t is good for them TO have hay stacks
in their pasture and they will learn to
eat hay on cold, frosty mornings, thus
pre- pairing them for winter. Or what is
better, have them run into their sheds
at night and during hard storms,
having hay in their racks. Lambs
served in this way "go into winter quar-
ters" having acquired an appetite for
dry feed and being, in a great measure,
Injured to it. Then they seldom, if ever,
die with the "black scOurs" or paper
skin" or "dwindle away" by refusing to
eat, sc.


Breeding ewes should be gaining in
flesh and it is well to grain them light
ly during the Coupling season." If on
good pasture, say three gallons of corn to
the hundred head. Nearly all focks OF
sheep, if they only get The chance, will eat
little "roughness'-hay or fodder-the
latter part of November. The change
from fall to winter is gradual; in the
same manner animals ought to undergo
gradual change from green to dry
food, then their thrift is not checked.
In word, the whole flock ought to have
pasture and feed enough to put them in
good condition by the last of November
in our climate. We would urge this
besides many other reasons-as mat
ter of economy. Most certainly it is
easier to raise sheep to good condition
during the mild fall weather than it is
on dry feed without the aid of pasture
and the rigors of winter to contend
with. The old saying that "sheep well
summered are half wintered," is good
one. The philosophy being, that any
animal in good health and good flesh
has greater digestive power, has more
animal heat aud strength to withstand
the cold and is better enabled to be
continually throwing off the Impurities
of the system, therefore is far lest liable
to contract the poisonous elements of
disease. We may say something soon
of how to winter sheep.


SHEPHERD.
Year: 1867

There's sunshine on the meadows,
And sunshine on the road,
And through the brightness tolls my horse
Beneath q weary load;
And as stand beside my gate, with hand before
I see the children laugh to see the household


gods prize.
There was time when this old home
Was full of mirth and glee,
But one by one the household went
And let 1t all TO me
a quiet house Of vacant rooms, each made q


sacred place
By echo of a missing voice, or dream Of vanished


face.


All, how used to pause before


The mirror on the stair, n
And shake my long bright ringlets out,
And fancy was fair!
! took that quaint old mirror down, and packed


ii up last night,
And never stopped to trick my hair-for what


is left is white.
In later years used to sit


And watch the long green lane,
For one who came in those old times,
But cannot come again.
And somehow still at eventide my chair is


turned that way;
sit and work where once watched-I sat 80


yesterday.
Ny new house is a pleasant place,
But yet it grieves me now,
Its small completeness seems to say
Ny world is narrow now
lis far too small for any one with festivals to


keep,
But for my fsneral large enough, for few will


come to weep.
Goodbye, old house. a long goodbye;
My hand is on your gate;
Though tears are gathering in my eyes,
may not longer wait.
Goodbye, old house; and after all the love


which makes you dear
Awaits me in the heavenly home which I am


drawing near.
Year: 1867

simple OF complex, in tho interest Of
which some illustrious "loyalist" may
not be found to stand for Senator VAN
WINKLE's place. Among the accom-
plished compound scouhdrels, whose
requirements include the whole range
of villainy from the lowest that base
man may contrive to the highest that q
poltrOon dare attempt, there is one for
whom we can name no rival in any of
the varied infamy that has attracted at
tention to his name. Indeed, we might
say, to compare small things with great,
that like Olympian JovE, he has not
even a second in rank AS in JUPITER's
case, all the inferior gods stood i'll a
lower than the second plane, so in the
sphere of West Virginia knavery, the
summit being occupied by a worthy
sovereign of on empire of rottenness,
the second station is vacant, probably
because no man can be found of suf-
ficient stomach to stand next to Cover
nor FOREMAN.


AS to "the probable result" to which
our friend refers, we can form no idea.
The whole matter will probably be de-
termined by those with whose counsels
We have little familiarity. If perois-
tent and Hnscrupulous prostitution of
his place and official powers to personal
ends can avail anything, FOREMAN
will be elected. His course in the matter
of registration in Barbour, Tucker,
Randolph, Hampshire and Hardy, shows
that if corruption and fraud can work
total exclusion, no Democratic member
of the Legislature shall take even partial
retribution by assisting in the Governors
defeat. We have some hope, however,
that in spite of his relentless and in
iquitous purposes, there will still be
left sufficient number of Democratic
members in the Legislature to make
respectable showing. In that event the
Governors chances will depend entirely
on the personal influence of the man
who shall oppose him. If he be of
sufficient weight to command decent
support in his own party, Mr.. FOREMAN
might as we'll try to be embalmed as to
be elected. He will waste his sweet
ness to no purpose.
Year: 1867

K. u. Leonard, writing from Wyom-
ing county, N. Y, to the Rural Ne'c
Yorker, says: ~ believe it pays every
farmer who works clay land to plow it
as much as possible in the fall, especial
" that which he means TO SOW in spring
grain. The plowing should be done
when the land is dry, and Fit turns up
in great Jumps so much the better.
Plow deep and leave the surface rough.
The frost and rain will pulverize and
tighten the soil, making it friable and
easily worked next spring. Deep plow-
ing on clay land is better than shallow,
for the reason that such lands are gen.
orally of rich, deep soil; the great
drawback on their producing largely
being the imperfect pulverization given
it. Only get the clay soil loose enough
to good depth and ysu are very sure
of good crop-that is if it keeps loose
while it is growing. Draining is very
necessary to secure this, as any one can
readily sees Our clay soils are the best
of all, if they are only rightly managed,
but it takes good deal of capital to
work them; they must be drained,
plowed deep, subsoiled, worked up loose
and fine, so the roots can get the food
they contain, and then they will prove
the most productive of any"