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Year: 1865

The indications are that the Harrison
County Fair to be held on the 4th, 9Th and
9th days of October, will surpass anything
of the kind heretofore held in the county.
From the notes of preparation We hear
from every quarter, every department Of
industry and usefulness will have full repre-
sentation.


The war is over and people who have
long been separated will find this good
place to go to meet old friends and acquain
tances whose location they have lost sight
of during the changes of the past few
years.


1t will be grand social gathering of the
people-whore old friendships will be re-
newed, and new friendships formed; and a
great promoter of social feeling among the
people.


No person having proper regard for the
welfare of the county, should fail to be
present They should not only attend, but
bring articles for exhibition.


The farmer cannot fail to be benefited
by seeing samples of the crops raised by 9TH
ers of the same calling; if they are superior
to his own production, he can learn the
manner of culture, and, with his own expe-
rienec, perhaps, make improvements.


The mechanic will be benefited by seeing
the handicraft of his fellow tradesman, and
ali be melted oexcel in the different branch
es of industry


The thousands of articles that crowd the
Floral Hall--the skillful work of the good
women Of our county, are worth going a
good distance to see, and the thousands
who see and admire the beauty and value
of this department, will not fail to be pres
ent.


Harrison county has as good Sheep as
can be found anywhere, and sheep-raisers
everywhere would be richly repaid by at
tendance.


The Managers of the Fair are making
every cxcrtion for the proper display Of
everything brought for exhibition, and all
arrangements possible are made to make
everything pass off pleasantly.


The Secretary Of the Society will be at
the office of James Howard, in Cadiz, until
the Evening before the Fair, for the purpose
of making entries. let all who can make
their entries before the fair and thus avoid
the rush andronfusion


Let every body come to the Harrison
County Fair? Let business alone for three
days and take little wholesome recreation.
Bring along your wives and daughtes 5, and
let them participate in the cnjoylaent of
the occasion, Let Harrison county not
fax behind in enterprise, but let her take
and hold high position in this day Of ad-
vanccment.
Year: 1865

Lot every soldier in Harrison county re-
member that General Morgan stands on the
same platform with their gallant leader,
Gen. Sherman, who both oppose Negro
Suffrage.


Let them remember that Gen. Cox treats
with silent contempt all inquiries as to his
position on that snhicct. If he is not in
favor of Negro Suffrage, why don't he tells
the people so in some of his numerous
speeches?


Let soldiers remember that he is trying
to deceive them.
Year: 1865

THE Bedford (lndiaDa) Iadpadeut says
that one of the merry wives Of that rlace
played practical joke on her husband, by
having their babe, sweet little infant of
SIX months, done up in basket, and left on
the front doorstep, with a note informing
him hat lie was the father Of the child, and
must support it. The indignant husband
swore roundly that it was not his, but saw
the joke finally, when he found the cradle
Year: 1865

A vote for General Morgan and the Dem
ocratic Ticket, will be vote in favor of
maintaining the Constitution of tie United
States, in favor OF equality in taxation in
favor Of retlenchments and reform, and op-
position to Negro Suffrage and Negro T.
quality.
Year: 1865

He gets up at daylight and looks through
taxed window-puts on his taxed clothes
cuts wood with taxed axc-strikes fire
with taxed match--drinks his taxed coffee
in taxed cup-sweetcned with taxed sugar
then goes to his work, and is taxcd-on
every thing he makes for the use Of man.
Why all this taxing? To. pay the great war
debt, bonds and Interest. He murmurs not,
but simply says the bond holders ought to
pay tax on their capital invested therein.


To bring child in the way it should
po--tuTel that way yourself.
Year: 1865

There are women who cannot grow Old
women, who, without any special effort, re-
main always young and attractive. The
number is smaller than il should be; but
there Is still a sufficient number to mark the
wide difference between this class and the
other. The great secret of this perpetual
youth lies n0tin beauty, for some women
possess it who are not al all handsome; nor
in dress, for they are frequently careless in
that respect, 30 far Is mere arbitrary die
tates of fashion are concerned nor In hav-
ing nothing TO do, fer these ever Young NO
men are always busy as bees, and ii IN very
well known that idleness win fret people into
old age and ugliDess faster than overwork.
The charm, we imagine, lies Ia sunny tenn
per, neither more or less-the blessed gift Of
always looking on the bright side Of life,
and stretching the mantle Of charity over
everybody's faults and failings. 1t is not
much of secret but it is all that we have
been able to discover and we have watched
such with great interest and determine
ten to report truthfully for the benefit of
the sex. 1t is provoking that it is some
thing which cannot be corked up and sold
for fifty cents per bottle; but, as this isimpos-
sible, why, the most Of us viii have to keep
on growing old and ugly and disagreeable as
unsual. Jenny June.
Year: 1865

The comfort and happiness of home and
home intercourse, let me here say, depend
very much on the kindly and affectionate
training Of the voice. Trouble, and care,
and vexation will and must, ofcourse, come;
but let them not creep into our voices. Let
only our kindly and happier feelings be vocal
In our homes. Let them be so If for no
other reason, for the little children sake.
These sensitive little beings are exceedingly
susceptible to the tones. Let us have con-
sideration for them. They hear so much
that we have forgotten to hear. For as we
advance in years, our life becomes more in
terror. We are abstracted from outward
scenes and sounds, We think, we reflect,
we begin gradually to deal with the past as
we have formerly vividly lived in the pres
ent Our ear grows dull to external sound /;
it is turned inward, and listen chiefly to the
echoes of past voices. We catch no more
merry laughter of children We hear no
more the note of the morning bird. The
brook, that used to prattle gaily to us, rush
es by unheeded-we have forgotten to hear
such things. But little children, remember,
sensitive hear them all. Mark how, at ev-
and listens And thus with equal sensitive
ness, does it catch the tones of human vol
ces. How were it possible that the sharp
and hasty word, the fretful and complaining
tone, should notstartle and pain, even de-
press, the sensitive little being whose harp
of life is so newly and delicately strung, vi
brating even to the gentle breeze, and thrill
ling sensitively ever to the tones of such
voices as sweep across it Let us be kind
and cheerful-spoken, then, in our homes =


Once Month.
Year: 1865

The people of this land are certainly dis
tlngulshed, to an extent unknown In other
countries, except perhaps Great Britain, by
protaneness. A stranger might infer from
the tone OF popular conversation, from the
ordinations Of excited individuals, from
the elamors of anger and passion, that we
acknowledge the Almighty for no other
purpose than that we might have name to
swear by, or a convenient expletive to fill UP
the chasms of discourse. Profaneness is a
SIN the enormity Of which the imagination
cannot conceive, because no thought can
compass the infinite excellencies of Him
whose prerogative it is to be (; who sits upon
the circles Of the earth, and the inhabitants
thereof are as grasshoppers who stretcheth
out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth
them out as tent to dwell in. That a puny
creature of the dust, borne to-day and gone
tomorrow, should have tho aS1daaity To
pour contempt upon that glorious name
which seraphs adore with rapture, is enough
to astonish the heavens and convulse the
earth. Yea, still more astonishing is that
miracle of patience which endures the mon
sters, when one word would arm all nature
against them, make the ground treacherous
beneath them, heaven terrible above them,
and hell ready to meet them at their COM
ing. The magnitude of the sin cannot be
exaggerated 1t is enough to make the
blood curdle, to think of the name of God
banded about as the bauble and plaything
of fools, to point a jest, to season ohscenity,
and to garnish tale This offence cannot
go unpunished If there be a God, he must
vindicate his own magesty and glory. There
must be period when ali shall tremble be-
fore him when every knee shall bow, and
every heart shall do reverence. The sword
of justice cannot always be sheathed, nor
the arm of vengeance slumber. In the
sight of angels, there can be no greater sin
than that of profaneness. They know
something of what God is. They fear that
dreadful name, and their imaginations, lofty
and expanded as they are, cannot measure
the height and depth of that imquity which
can make light of so tremendous a being.
1t is the very spirit and core of all evil, the
quintessence of ungodliness.-Americaa
MeSseu0er
Year: 1865




general JAcKsoN's MoTTo. Think
before you act, but when the time for action
comes, stop thinking. This is the true
doctrine. Many men fail in life and go down
to the grave with hopes blasted and pros
poets Of happiness unrealized, because they
did not adopt and act upon this motto.
Nothing so prepares man for action as
thought; but nothing so units man for
action in the course of action. Better by far
adopt some course and pursue it energetic
ally, even though it may not be the best,
than to keep continually thinking without
action. $50 ahead" ought to be printed in
every young mans hat, and read until it
becomes a part of his nature, until he can
act upon his Judgment, and not be turned
from bis course BY every wind of interested
advice. In conclusion, we would say,
'aThink before you act; but when the time
for action comes, stop thinking"
Year: 1865

There are two mistakes about it. One is
that which DR.. Watts has sanctioned in his
celebrated lyric, that souls were paired when
sent into this world, and somehow have got
mixed and iumbled up, scarcely any one
getting his true counterpart, or having any
chance of doing so and that hence are the
Earrings of the married state. many people
lay off their miseries Upon this mystic fatal
ism, and think, if they had only their true
partners, they should have been supremely
happy. Now the truth is, there are no
persons but those regenerated or becoming
SO who can be brought into any intimate re-
lation. least, of all the most intimate, with
out drawing out all the mutual points of
repulsion in their character.


We are not sent into the world paired
and nicely fitted to each other without any
agency of our own; we are brought here
with selfish natures to be subdued, and an
gelic natures to be unfolded from within I;
and this done through constant watchings,
selfdenials, and efforts Let two persons,
then, with hearts intensely natural, be
brought together IN the most sacred of all
relations. They think they are matched.
They are so. But it may be either for a
draw game at self or for walking aeqats
paSssblS, on the heavenly road. If they be-
gin in earnest life of regeneration, intern
al evils, as they come successively into the
consciousness, will be denied, and have all
their jagged points fled off, and finally, will
be cast out entirely and whereas there
union at first might have been only external,
at length it may become so perfect, that for
aught we know, they may only appear in
the spiritual world, as Mr.. T. L. Harris,
says, like one person instead Of two. AT
any rate they may become together com
plete humanity halved and split in twain.


Or on the other hand, suppose a regener.
ate life does not begin, but selfish and
worldly living rather Then the Jagged
points Of two selfish natures viii begin ta
Year: 1865

WHOM TO MARRY.-When young
woman behaves to her parents in manner
particularly affectionate and respectful, from
principle as well as nature, there is nothing
good and gentle that may not be expected
from her, In whatever condition she may be
placed. Were Ito advise a friend as to his
choice of wife my first counsel would be,
"Look out for pious girl, distinguished for
her attention and love to her parents. The
fund of worth and affection indicated by such
behavior, Joined to the habits of duty and
consideration thereby contracted, being
transferred to the married state, will not fail,
As rule, to render her amid, obliging, and
valuable companion for life. -
Year: 1865

sAxE-GRINDING. - This is a term
borrowed from one of the most charming
stories told by Benjamin Franklin. A little
boy going to schoolwas accosted by a man
carrying an axe. The man calls the boy all
kinds Of pretty and endearing names, and
induces him to enter yard where there is a
grindstone. 'tNow, my pretty little fellow
says he with the axe only turn that handle,
and you II see something pretty. The boy
turns and turns and the man holds the axe
to the stone and pours water over it until the
axe is ground. Straightway he turns with
strident voice and fierce gesture on the boy:
You abandoned little miscreant, he cries,
what do you mean BY playing truant from
school? You deserve good thrashing. Get
you gone sirrah, this Instant And after
this adds Franklin, ''when anybody
aattered me | always thought be had an axe
to grind
Year: 1865

THE FIRST WOMAN From THE RIB OF
MAN-We take the following beautiful pas
sage from Matthew Henry's Commentary"
on the second chapter of Genesis


Woman was made from rib taken out
of the side of Adam; not out cf his head
to top him, but out Of his side to be equal
with him, under his arm to be protected,
and near his heart to be loved.


Surely this eloquent little extract ought to
be committed to memory by every man who
is married or intends to get married.
Year: 1865

Is richly assorted Being exclusively in the
Clothing Business, we can furnish the above 10
better advantage 10 dealers and on better tor,us
than can be had elsewhere.


We have the most complete stock and largest
assortment of goods of any house in our line IN
the city


We are selling goods lower than any other
house in the city, as we bought our goods when
gold was at the lowest.


We have large stock Of
Year: 1865

EgA little daughter of a proprietor of
coal mine in Pennsylvania was inqnisltive
as to the nature of hell, upon which her
father represented it to be large gulf OF
fire, of the most prodigious extent. pa"
said she; couldn't you get the devil to
buy his coal of you ?"
Year: 1865

Eg> Much of the pain and pleasure OF
mankind arises from the conjecturcs which
every one makes of the thoughts OF others.
We all enjoy praise which we do not hear
and resent contempt which we do not see.
Year: 1865

Our Office, besides one of Hoes best Power
Presses. ia furnished with good job Press and
all the necessary materials for executing plain
and fancy Job Printing with neatness and dis
Year: 1865

CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GooDs The
attention Of our soldiers is directed to the
immense assortment Of clothing and fur.
nishng goods kept by Hess 4 Stern, in No.
I'D st. No other house in the city is able
to compete with them in good fits and low
prices. Give them call before purchasing.
Year: 1865

THE CmIco RoAD.-The following significant
Dalles (0regon) Mouataiaeer, will be interesting
to the Chcoites - What are your people doing
towards check-mating the movement now being
made to take your business away from you. In
the language ofthe profession the Chicoites mean
business, and if you think they are only gass
ing all you have to do is to wait till the opening
of Spring and you will find the bulk OF the trade
and travel to 0wyhee and Boise going by way
of the Chico route. At the head of this Chico
movement is General Bidwel, the owner of the
Chico town site. and man of boundless energy
and vast wealth If money and perseverance
will put the road through General Bidwell is
the man to do it," That writer tells the truth
in every particular.
Year: 1865

WoULDy' T Do.-Calistoga wouldn't pay as a
watering place. The man who kept the hotel
there has filed a petition in insolvency in the
Napa County Court. 1t will probably revert to
its normal conditional sheep ranch. So says
the Ree
Year: 1865

WHEN the workmen on the New York Central
Railroad threatened Dean Richmond that if he
didn't raise their wages they would go against
the Democratic party, he telegraphed them that
. The Democratic party has gone to hell, and
YOU NAV follow it t'
Year: 1865

a VESSEL SUNK AND ALL ON BOARD LOST
On Wednesday night about o clock the steam
er George Leary, on her way from Baltimore
to this city, when off Seven Foot Knoll, about
80 miles this sioe of Baltimore, made a small
vessel about two points on her port below The
wind at the time was blowing fresh from the
eastward, with thick, misty weather. Sud-
denly, the vessel luffed up, and struck the
steamer Just forward of the port Canpwav
slowed broadside too alongside of the steamer
and was struck by her wheel, no doubt sinking
the vessel. The steamer lowered a boat and
searched around the bay In the vicinity, but
II up as hopeless. The night was so dark that
the rig Of the vessel could not be distinguished
and il is feared that the vessel has gone down
and all on board perished.-NOrfoIk Post
Year: 1865

labor. and could employ several thousand more
froeduen than are now in the State. Testimony
of this kind goes far to show that there is real
and intimate want for freedmen labor through.
out the whole South, and that, rather than
expatriate the blacks to bring aliens in their
places the industrial interests Of the South
should bend their present efforts to distributing
the labOrcrs Of Over-crowded localities. just
laws will aid them in the work. Bad ones


will undoubtedly assist the outgoing tide, but


will just as certainly rcpcl incoming labor.
Year: 1865

There being some misapprehension as to
The time Of the State election, We quote
from the law: -


On the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day in October in each and everv wear ex-
cept the year in which the election of the
President Of the United States occur, and
IN that year on the first Tuesday after the
nrst Monday in No0em6er, . general elec-
tion shall be held in the several election
districts of the State. which said election
shall be known as the annual election Of
the State, &c.


The general election this year therefore,
will be On Tuesday, the third day of Octo-
ber-a little less than a month after the
nominations arc made.-Pioneer.
Year: 1865

A North Carolina correspondent Of
the New York Times says: 81 discover
among all classes a feeling Of antipathy
against VIM. L. Yancey, which appears
very strange to me. In referring to
the probability of hanging Davis, it is a
common thing to hear people here say
that they wish Yancey had not died
he was the man to hang. He was the
most prominent secession leader in the
South, who stumped North Carolina,
advocating rebellion His promises to
pay the expenses Of the war with ten
cent piece, and wipe up the blood split
with his handkerchief, are often re-
peated now, and his memory is held in
anything but a sacred reverence.
Year: 1865

Henry Ward Beecher, in a speech in
Boston last week exclaimed-"Talk OF
education being necessary to make a
voter To vote only req uires good
common honesty and good common
sense" The reverend gentleman does
not come up (or down to his own stan
dard. He may have common hon
esty," but is sadly deficient in common
sense.
Year: 1865

This invention consists of Duplex Cor two)
Elliptic Pure Refined Steel Springs, ingeniously
braided tightly and firmly together, edge to
edge, making the toughest and most flexible
elastic and durable Spring ever used They sell
dom bend or break, like the Single Springs, and
consequently preserve their perfect ard beau
tiful shape more than twice as long as any Sin
gle Spri0 Skirt that ever has or can be made


The wonderful fiexibiity and great comfort
and plea ure to any lady wearing the Duplex
Elliptic Skirt will be experienced particularly
in all crowded assemblies, carriages, railroad
cars, church pews, arm chairs, for promenade
and house dress. as the Skirt can be folded
when in use to occupy small place as easily
and conveniently as a silk or muslin dress.


A lady having enjoyed the pleasure, comfort
and great convenience of wearing the Duplex
Elliptic Steel Spring Skirt for single day will
never afterwards willingly dispense with their
use. For Children, Misses, and Young Ladies'
they are superior to all others.


The Hoops are covered with two-ply double
twisted thread, and will WEAR TWICE AS
LONG as the single yarn covering which is used
on all Single Steel Hoop Skirts The three bot
tom rods on every Skirt are also DOUBLE
STEEL, and twice or double covered to prevent
the covering from wearing off the, rods when
dragging down stairs, stone steps, &C., &C.,
which they are constantly subject to when in
use ng H,4 B


All are made of the New and Elegant Cord
ed Tapes. and are the best quality in every
part, giving the wearer the most graceful and
perfect shape possible, and are unquestionably
the lightest, most desirable, comfortable and
economical Skirt ever made.


Inquire for the Duplex Elliptic Cor Doube)
Spring Skirt fs


@ 45f FOR SALE BY +.


SHINN & CON YER,


FREEHOLD, N. ].


September 81 1865 If
Year: 1865

we earnestly request our debtors 10 pay in'me-
dassly if not all at least portion of what they
owe ,s. so that we may ourselves pay those from
whom we draw our subsistence. We do not in-
tend TO hoard up what we get, but merely snbs'st
and become indebted to nobody, in the uncertain
,ires in which we live. Those who cannot pay
otherwise are notified that accept with pleas
IRE all kinds of provisions, such as corn. meal
fnaat. and also materials for clothing.
Year: 1865

Letters from Texas say that directly after
the war the people Of that State were willing
to agree to almost anything for the sake Of
paciheation, but that now owing to the dilato-
ry movements Of Provisional Governor Ham
ilton, much dissatisfaction begins to be mani
tested. The State has made but little pro-
gress in restoring her relations to the Union;
nor are the proper facilities yet afforded
throughout Texas for taking the amnesty
oath.


There have been no arrangements made as
yet for the trial Of JEFF Dafis.
Year: 1865

The New Orleans True Delta thus expresses Its ad-
mration of President Johnson's message:


As a whole. the admirable message of President
johnson has been received with universal satistac
ton. Taken altogether in view of the surrounding
circumstances it is of the greatest nOblest, and
most magnanimous documents that ever emanated
from any incumbent of the executive office since the
pure and grand old days when Washington and his
illustrous compeers welded the Government of the
country shaped its progress and controlled its dest
nies in an unexampled degree.


While the message is mild and conciatory. it is at
the time firm and decided. There is great deal
of the Andrew Jackson style about Andrew johnson.
This is particularly apparent in the expression of his
views in regard to the Constitutional Amendment;


Whatever opinions of a contradictory character
that have heretofore prevailed in regard to the PTes
dents wishes concerning this amendment are now
fully dispelled by the unmstakahle wording of his
message. He is emphaticaly in favor of its ratfca-
ton by the different Legislatures, and very plainly
intimates to us of the South that unless we do this.
our progress toward restoration will be retarded, If
not indefinitely postponed


The question thus presented is one of choice OF
evils. As we Lave already remarked, we do not like
the second section of the amendment; but as South
Carolina and Alabama have adopted it, and as there
is no doubt of its shortly becoming part of the or
ganic law of the land it might well be swallowed
with good grace. The President is clearly of this
opinion, and we apprehend most of the people will,
on reflection, conclude that he is about right