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Year: 1868

BY REV. GEORGE G. SMITH, JR
Comrades you stood beside me
In the hottest of the fight,
And you braved the storm of battle
With all strong mans might
Now, comrades, stand up nearer,
Grasp me firmly by the hand
And swear by Heaven with me
You will never leave the land.
'Tis the land of our grand old fathers
Won from forest and from foe,
Made theirs by noble daring,
And with many bloody blow
Our sisters here lie buried,


And here our mothers lie
Our bones must rest beside them,
When God wills that we shall die
We cannot yield to menials,
And to strangers hard and cold,
We cannot yield the graveyard,
And our fathers mansions old
And no threat of chains and halter,
And no threat of prison cell,
Shall drive us weeping exiles
From the land we love so well.
We have not feared the battle,
Nor the rain and chilling wind!
We shall not shrink from suffering,
As shrinks the craven hind!
And doing well and suffering well,
Shall pass away the night,
And all its sorrows be forgot,
In the glory of the light!
Then trust in God, my brothetsI
Our fathers God and ours,
Who has blessed us with such sunshine
Such fruits and glowing flowers.
And, comrades, we Il not leave her;
But bide with her till we die
And in her sacred bosom


Shall our wearied bodies lie
Year: 1868

Farmers during the severe Ia
bors Of the busy season, that of
planting, crop tending and har-
vesting, are constantly in the


open air. This as every one knows
is greatly conducive to health
and vigor. But during this sea-
son they are obliged to work in
the dust and dirt incident to the
various processes Of farm labor,
and not unfrequently during some
portions of the year in a complete
perSpiration almost the entire
day. Now the point we insist
upon is that during this season
no farmer shall retire for the
night without changing the en-
tire apparel in which he has la
bored and ,perspired during the
day. The idea of a farmer reek-
ing with sweat and covered with
dust, getting into a clean bed for
the night, is anything but pleas
ant, has a tendency to ally him
too closely with the lower species
of animals, and is inconsistent
with all our ideas of health, com
fortandpersonal cleanliness. How
much better it would be for the
farmers own health, and for the
well being of his wife and family,
if on retiring at night he should
remove the shirt in which he has
labored all day, and put on light,
clean night shirt in its place, af
ter first having sponged his entire
body with cool water. We know
farmers will say they have NO
time to do this, and the farmers
wife may say she cannot wash SO
many pieces, and this change OF
clothing will only make an addi-
tiOnal number to wash. But these
are the merest shadows for an ex-
cuse. The matter we have men
toned will not take the farmer
ten minutes time, and he can
hardly estimate the benefit it will
be to him in promoting his health
and contributing to the value OF
his nights rest. And the plan,
instead of adding to, will actually
lessen the work of the farmers's
wife. To be sure she will have
an extra night-shirt to wash every
week, but the bed clothing will
be comparatively clean and free
from the dirt obtained from con


tact with the working clothes Of
men who labor on the farm. Far


mer, and farmers wives, give


more attention to these matters


and thereby secure in a greater
ldegree your own personal health
land comfort. "Cleanliness is mex


to godliness."-I Maine Farmer.
Year: 1868

WHAT WE WANTING want
an honest statesman at the head
of public affairs n0w-not a brain
less soldier. Our country is in a
sad and distressed condition, and
getting worse instead Of better
under radical rule. Nothing but
a speedy return to the honest
craftsmanship of old will rescue
us from the valley of humiliation
and wrong in which we are floun-
dering.
Year: 1868

under the decision of Commissioner Rollins
that spirits in bond could not be forfeited, the
seizures were relinquished In the course Of
the seizures papers came into the possession Oh
Collector Bailey which showed clearly that for
eighteen months previous TO the commence
ment of his operations the bonded warehouses
had been only grand entrepOts of fraud 1t
was found that the official papers covering
sbipments in bond from the West had been
only convenience for fraud, and even that
papers had been distracted from official files to
protect the movements of " fraud whisky Be
fore these facts could be made available, how
ever it was necessary that evidence from the
West should be procured. The facts set forth
above were communicated to Commissioner
Rollins, and secret agents, acting under Col
lector Bailey, have been carefully collecting
data on which TO base proceedings against the
guilty parties. A mass of evidence has now
been accumulated, showing that official papers
were for months used between several districts
in the West and in the East, merely aS
cover for the larger fraudulent operations
carried on under them. For instance
n Collector in the West would issue
a permit for the transportation OF five hundred
barrels of whisky to New-IOrk. lhlS permit
in regular course of business, should have gone
ON file in New-York in three or four days, ana
the whisky itself should have been in ware
house in from five to eight days; but the
hermit, in point of fact would remain out for
60 davs. while successive shipments would be
made in the interval of illicit whisky, for
which. if any question arose i'll regard TO 1t,
this permit would be used to procure release.
This Operation has been carried on with almost
endless variations as to detail, every shipment
of regular whisky from the West being cover
for the movement of Il larger quantity OF fraud
whisky.


A great difficulty has been found i'll this city
in bringing the persons involved i'll these
shameful frauds TO justice, in the fact that
there has been no Judge TO sit in the trial OF
criminal causes District tOrncy Courtney Is
making arrangement Is, it is understood, which
will obviate this trouble, and we hope then to
see the long list of indictments found at the
instance of those officers who have been at
tempting to enforce the law, tried, and the
guilty brought to justice. Yhe main reason
that no trials have taken place is that Con-
grcss made no provision for the salary oil a
Circuit Judge trying criminal causes Justice
is arrested in the Southern District OF New
York because there is no Judge to sit. Con-
grcss should remedy this evil. If not, then
our citizens should subscribe the money neces-
sary for the expenses of Judge long enough
TO send some of these whisky raScals to sing
Sing.
Year: 1868

thieves, or our corrupt and prohigate legiSla-
tors, we respectfully advise our neighbor that
we mean to keep on denouncing them till they
repent of their evil deeds or are driven into
obscurty. Much of the canal management OF
the two or three last years was disgracefully
corrupt, and we said so, regardless of the poll
ties of the culprits So of our recent legisla-
ton The Eagle is quite right in assuming that
we did not defend" the peculators and job
bers, and it may trust our assurance that we
never shall. But it was the villainy, and not
orr open denunciaton of it, that damaged the
Republicans; aud the way to make things
pleasant is not TO cover up but to expose and
eytirpatp
Year: 1868

"The Virginia Convention is following the example OF
Alabama in requiring every voter To take an oah never
10 oppose the civil and political equality Of All men, With
out distinction OF color This is TO be adopted as


test OF fitness vote OF course its effect VIII be To eS-
cude all opposed TO the Constitution from voting
at all Why not enact at once that votes against the
Constitution will not be counted why does not Congress
frame Constitution for every Southern State aud de-
clare IL adopted without going through the formal farce
Of submitting IL TO popular vote y


AnSwer.-Congress is chary of following the
lead or treading in the footsteps of Andrew
johnson and what The Times suggests is sub
santially what the latter did in 1865. lie called
conventions, ordered elections, fixed the quail
lications of voters, supervised the returns, and
then told the delegates what they must and
what they must not put into their Constitutions.
Congress is not disposed to follow so bad an
example
Year: 1868

About six levees are held year. II


takes hundred men three weeks to pre-
pare the rooms. Everything is measured


by the inexorable law of etiquette. The
dress is prescribed the material, the
length of the trains. the mode of dressing
the hair. and the style of the garments.


The Throne Room is right royal
room. There is not seat in it. except
the throne and the gilded chair at the
foot. On platform reached by three
steps, on a crimson carpet, spattered with
gold, stands a gilt Gothic chair, sur
mounted by crown. This is the throne.
1t is covered with a canopy of crimson
velvet, trimmed with heavy gold lace. On
the top of the canopy is golden cushion,


on which rests a larger gold crown. The
Throne Room is very long. nearly two
hundred feet. Running the whole length
is heavy iron fence, full FIVE feet high,
capped with crimson velvet.


The great throng below, at a given sig
nal, come up the stairway. They enter
the great Audience Room that opens into
the Throne Room The Audience Room
is very gorgeous with satin hangings. radi-
ant with vermilion and gold. When the
signal is given below, the rush commences.
Her Majesty is painfully prompt. At the
exact moment she comes out of her royal
closet and takes her stand on the lower
step Of the throne. On the signal being
given, her Majesty's Ministers, with the
Foreign Ambassadors, enter from the pri-
vate door, file singly before the Queen,
bow, and take their station in the center
of the room, where they remain. Tho
crowd is admitted one by one. The party
passes up the narrow pathway to the place
where the Queen stands, makes low bow,
and then backs down the whole length of
the room. The lady cannot turn her back
on the Queen, nor take up her train. 1t
is etiquette for the ministers and ambassa-
dors, who occupy the center of the room,
to lift the train and pass it from one to
another while the lady backs down to the
door. 2Ho


The presentation lasts about one min
ute. It costs months of labor and ankle.
ty, and great expense. The inery will be
Year: 1868

what pleases their eye on the counter. for.
getting what they have at home. That
parasol is pretty but it will kill by its color
one dress in the buyers wardrobe, and be
unsuitable for the others To be magnif-
Gently dressed costs money, but to be
dressed with taste is not expensive. II
requires good taste, knowledge and refine
ment Never buy an article unless it is
suitable to your age. habit, style, and the
rest of your. wardrobe. Nothing is more
vulgar than to wear costly trimming with
a common delaine, or cheap lace with ex-
pensive brocades.


What colors. it may be asked, 60 we'll
together? Green with violet, gold with
dark crimson or lilac. pale blue with scar
let, pink with black or white, and gray
with scarlet or pink. 4 cold color gener-
ally requires warm tint to give life to
it. Gray and pale blue, for instance. do
not combine well, both being cold eolors.
White and black are safe wear, but the
latter is not favorable to dark or pale
compilations. Pink is to some skins the
most becoming; not, however, if there is
much color in the cheek and lips, and If
there be even suspicion of red in either
hair or complexion. Peach color is, per-
haps, one of the most elegant colors worn.
Maize is very becoming. particularly to
persons with dark hair and eyes. But
whatever the eolors or material of the en-
tire dress, the details are all in all the
lace around the bosom and sleeves, the
flowers in fact, all that furnishes the
dress. If trimmed with black lace, some
of the same should be worn on the head,
and flowers which are worn on the head
should decorate the dress.-AH the Year
around.
Year: 1868

As you look from your window in Paris
observe the first fifty women that pass
forty have noses depressed in the middle
small quantity of dark hair, and swarthy
complexion, but then. what toilet Not
only suitable for the season, but the age
and complexion of the wearer. How neat
the feet and hands. How well the clothes
are put on: and, more than all, how well
they suit each other.


Before English women can dress per.
fectty. they must have the taste Of the
French, especially in color. One reason
why We see eolors ill-arranged in England
is, that the different articles are purchased
each for its own imagined virtues, and
without any thought of what is to be worn
With It, Women, while shopping. buy
Year: 1868

SAGACITY OF HoRsE.-An Ohio paper
tells the following good story: " An old
family horse that has been running at will
through the streets and commons. lost one
of his shoes. when, with the intelligence
of human being, the old horse walked up
to the blacksmith shop where he had been
shod for the last twenty years. and to the
best of his ability asked the smith to shoe
him, by raising his foot and stamping the
ground. The smith, being busy, drove
him away several times during the day. and
thought nothing of it. The following MORN
ing on going to the shop, he found the old
horse at the door; again he drove him off,
but the horse came back, and. entering the
shop. walked up to the anvil, and there
raised his foot, thus attracting the partic-
ular notice of the smith, who examined the
foot. and finding it worn off to the quick
kindly picked up an old horseshoe, and
fitting it to his foot. nailed it on when the
grateful animal. frisking his tail by way of
thanks, trotted off contentedly."
Year: 1868

RICHMOND, thursday, NOV. 70.


Before left New York yesterday, |
had read the dispatches sent from Rich
mona gloating over my poor brothers
death. As to the brutal joy over such
an event; as to the crowd, probably the
base towards who had watched in the
street for the consummation of the deed
of blood, cheering an assassin who had
shot his victim from three-story win
dow, secreted and locked in room; as
to this hideous sslutation of death; as
to this man, reeking with murder, IRE
ceiving the congratulations Of his
friends" allowed the freedom of the of
fee of the Police Chief; as to his being
unconfined, unconcerned; as to efforts to
put Justice at defiance; as to a
Coroner's Jury on their oath declaring
that death was "caused by an unknown
person"-let these things stand to the
shame of their perpetrators, and write
their own commentary on the chivalry
of Richmond. They shame not me,
they shame not the dead. My heart is
sufficient to hold him. No man can in
suit my tears. | come to claim but one
thing: Justice" Whatever were the
offences of my poor brother, every man
deserves justice. We boast that il is
equal and exact to all. Is assassination
not murder' Is it ever justitiablei Is
the element of assassination ever
to be allowed in any mode of
taking redressi And where, in all
the black achievements and crooked
paths of crime, has there been the equal
of this deed' Considering all its cir
cumstances, where has the post of the
assassin, the place of concealment ever
before been chosen with such hideous
solicitude for his own safety Where
has cowardice ever before barricsded
itself with such dastardly painsi Let
Justice be done. Let all true people re-
consider. / am far from defending the
article which has been referred to in my
brothers paper. l deeply regret it, but
nv brother did not write it. The mur-
derer never inquired for the real author.
He never asked any word of explana-
ton. He never applied to have the ar
ticle corrected. He took not one single
measure which the brave man, no mat
ter how wronged, always takes before
he comes to the resource of blood. He
went without one alternative to that
resource, and he went where no one but
the coward treads-on the path OF the
assassin. EDWARD a. POLLARD.
Year: 1868

In danger. Nothing would plcisse tlren


with danger, but utterly broken to
pieces and destroyed. But there is great
danger and great cause Of alarm for all
the rebels and all their allies. And the
danger lies In the fact that loyal Con-
gress mean to re-establish the constitu-
ton In all its original vigor and purity.
They are determined to purge it from
all the false glosses Of slaveholding aud
rehellious interpreters and commenta-
tors they mean to restore the origional
text with not single word or letter of
freedom or justice blurred or defaced !;
they mean to breathe into 1t a new in
spiration and power, and make il a
flaming sword turning every way to
keep and guard equal laws and human
rights. This is the danger that looms
up before the Copperhead vision in such
portentous form. IT took any shape
but that his firm nerves might never
tremble but this, TO him, is full Of hor-
rors unspeakable. There is imminent
danger that the constitution and law Of
liberty shall for the first time In our his
tory be made to prevail in the South
If Congress holds fast to the faith, as we
believe it will, if it Is determined and
bold, to take every particle of power
from disloyal and lodge it in loyal
hands If 1t utterly destroys every hope
that the rebels have that they can elect
themselves to Congress and then pay
themselves for their slaves, for their
losses and sutierings by the war, for
their utter defeat and humiliation, there
will be a voice heard through the land
Of weeping and loud lament. There
will be believing as of the bulls of Bash
an, roaring and bowling IA of all the
animals together but 1t will oil pass
away with great noise, aud silence,
with peace and freedom, reign at last.--
Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1868

none more gallantly and devoted than
by our adopted fellow citizens.


Common justice would seem to insist
that the protection of the Government
should be equal over all its people, and
while the strong arm of the nation
would be raised to resent with armed
force, If need be, any restraint Of liberty
suffered by An American born, It Is a
shameful Inconsistency which allows
indignities and dishonor to be imposed
with impunity upon citizens Of foreign
birth.


,. desire, therefore, to call your atten-
ton to the laxity with which the Gem
eral Government has hitherto regarded
infractions upon the rights Of this class
Of our people. Accordingly I would
suggest the propriety Of meMorializing
Congress to take speedy and definite ac-
ton for their protection.


The very able and exhaustive message
Of my predecessor has left little necessi-
ty for a further consideration Of the
work before you. I cannot forbear,
however, to urge the Importance Of leg
islative action upon the subject of a Re-
form School, and the erection Of new
State House. And whatever provisions
may be made i'm the latter case, let the
word be guarded so thoroughly against
the danger of fraud and misapplication
of the public funds rs not only to protect
the State, but also the individuals who
may have the york in hand from
groundless suspicious.


1 have the honor to submit herewith
An appendix to the Report of the Regis
ter of the Land Office.


s. MERRILL.
Year: 1868

Tbs DAIRY BusISEss.-We are pleased to notice E
that quite a number of stock OWNERS have
lately turned their attention to the dairy busi>
ness. A good article of butter will always COM
mand fair price in this market, and should the
supply at any time be iu excess of the local de-
mand, the surplus can readily be freigbted to-
the mines. The dairy business whenever enter
ed upon systematically has invariably paid, and
II score or two Of our stock oWners who are
constantly comPlaiuing of "dull times" will
take hold of this branch of Industry we vouch
for it that they will find it remunerative. In
most countries cheese is regarded as an iudis>
peusible article of diet, but in this Valley
owing to its high price, it is rarely found on the
table. This should not be, and in future we
trust that our own dairyman will at least pro-
duce the butter and cheese required to meet the
local demand.
Year: 1868

Brass BAND.-We understand that a movement
is on foot looking to the organization of a brass
band. Already some eight or ten persons have
signifed their willingness to become members of
the band, and lend it their aid. We certainly
have the musical taste and talent necessary for
the organization of complate band, and with
the proper effort we have no doubt that the move
ment will succeed The want of band is fire.
quently felt on festive occasions, such as the
celebration of the Fourth of July, and we trust
that with another anniversary of the national
birthday this want will be supplied. Thus far
Mr. G. P. Wineset has been active in getting up
the band, and being an old and practiced musit
ciau is eminently calculated to inaugurate the
movement,
Year: 1868

ca N B mechanical Hall is open
for all specimens Of mechanical works,
manufactured goods, aud all other arti-
cles not otherwise provided for The gum
of S25loo is placed at the disposal Of the
discretionary Committee" to pay such
premiums in this Hallas they may award,


a. N BAH persons intending to
exhibit stock of any kind are requested
to notify the Superintendent of Stock at
Morrisvllle Of the number aud character
of the same. that ample accommodations
may be provided. Aud any who reside
out Of the limits of the Society and may
have choice hor ses, cattle or animals of
any kind are cordially invited to be pres
ent wi ,h them and exhibit them on that
occasion. and honorable mention will
be made.
Year: 1868

IlduIcS THteHuIng 10 appear III VIC Sau-
die must give notice to the Secretary Of
their intention is carly as ~ IN. on the
first day of the Fair The merits of the
equestrianism will Re decided entirely
upon the case and grace with which the
riders conduct themselves, and not upon
the ileetness of the animals.
Year: 1868

A MAN with an enormously large mouth called on dentist to get tooth drawn. After the dentist had prepared bis instru- ment, and was about to commence operations, the man began to strain and stretch his mouth, till he got it to frightful width.

 "Stay, sir" said the dentist. "Don't trouble yourself to stretch your mouth any wider, for I intend to stand outside of it to draw your tooth"
Year: 1868

A MILKMAN in New York dropped some money while crossing the ferry and the scrip was conveyed by the wind to the East river. A bystander consoled the yender of the lac teal with the remark that "what comes by water generally goes by water"
Year: 1868

THE merchants of San Francisco have form ed an association for mutual protection to contest the release of fraudulent bankrupts under the National Bankrupt Act. The as cociation embraces all the leading merchants in the city.
Year: 1868

THE following is speech by successful competitor for the prize at foot-race:

 " Gentlemen, l have won this cup by the use of my legs; trust may never loose the use of my legs by the use of this cup.h
Year: 1868

A CHICAGO paper says there are in that city from 10000 to 25,000 men out of em- ployment, fifteen or twenty thousand of whom are dependent for support, in whole or in part, upon charity.