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Year: 1865

If You in lager find no bliss, and loathe
cigars-no child to kiss-no wife to love
no gal to hug-don't seek oblivion in
the jug; but if you haven't any sister. just
ask some chap to lend you his, to speak
for little while-thcn "splice' and all
the rest will come in nice
Year: 1865

1t is proposed, in Cincinnati, to open
subscription to erect a monument
over the grave of the mother of the late
President Lincoln. The publishers of
Barretss History of Lincoln, in that
city, have had sketch made of the
locality and have the enterprise in
hand, with good prospect of success.
The locality is near the village of Cen
tryville, Spencer County, Indiana, the
residence for seventeen years of the
parents OF Abraham Lincoln. Under
the aged forest trees OF the country lie
the remains of the mother of our mar
tyred President The moss covered
mound of earth, where peacefully
sleeps the mother of this great and
good man, is without head-stone or
monument to mark its locality, or re-
late to the passer-by the name Of its
honored occupant The Cincinnati
Commercial, from which we obtain
these particulars, says lit was among
the last expressed resolves of Mr.. Lin
coin to consummate a long -contem-
plated desire to erect suitable memo
rial over the grave OF his mother
This resolve was beautifully expressed
in letter from the President to an old
friend at Gentryville, written but few
weeks before his tragic death, in'which
he said that in the coming (present)
summer, he intended to visit the local
ity and make provision for procuring
testimonial Of his affection for his
mother. He was not permitted to full
fill his desire. Shall not the citizens
of Cincinnati seize this opportunity to-
express their profound respect for the
memory of Abraham Lincoln, by rais-
ing fnnd sufficient to erect monu-
ment to the memory of his mother ?"
Year: 1865

The situation OF this unhappy man
Is now such as would excite pity, il it
were possible to think of him without
remembering the unspeakable woes
his ambition brought upon bis country.
He was not only the head of the Con
federate Government, but prime NOV.
er of the conspiracy plunged The people
OF the South into causeless war, before
time was given them to deliberate on
the course not comfortable to their in
terests, and large number of them
protested against secession. General
Lee has excused him on the ground
that he yielded to the solicitation of
others. But his speech in the Senate
of the United States on the 2lst of
January, 1861, would suffice to refute
this statement If we had not abundant
evidence to the contrary from other
sources. And not only did lie plan this
war, but on him rests the responsible
ity Of continuing it for months and
years after the hope Of success had
passed away. From what Lee and
Johnston and Hardee have stated since
the fall Of the Confedcracy it is now
clear that Mr.. Davis prolonged the war
after his best Generals had urged
him TO make peace II he we're an
swerable for nothing but the great sac
riflce Of life caused by the rejection of
Mr.. Lincoln's proposals at Hampton
Roads, the weight Of such a load of
responsibility might well break down
the stoutest heart His language and
acts during the nine months preceding
his flight from Richmond sufficiently
disclosed the ruin of his hopes. Until
then habit Of self-restraint had con
cealed to great extent his real char
acter.


But from the time he visited Geor-
gia, after the fall Of Atlanta, and CALI
ed Gov. Brown a scoundrel in public
speech, down to the address of March
last, in which he referred to Grant and
Sherman as spaniels whom be would
whip, the coarseness Of the mans ma
ture has been apparent. 1t was about
the time Of the reckless Macon speech
that he began to authorize those afro
cious outrages which have made it less
difficult to believe in his completely
with the plot which resulted in Mr..
Lincoln's death
Year: 1865

The beaten rebels, who say they submit
because they are whipped but are of the
same opinion still; the pro slavery reaction.
lists in the border slave States, who would
prolong and aggravate anarchy for the
chance of reinstating slavery; the subdued d
but still unrepenting traitors in the South;
the Confederate Democrats Of the North,
are disposed to assume and call themselves
conservative. We suppose the Radical are
the opposite of these. The name of Con-
servative is quite as odorous OF treachery as
that of Democrat. II seems to have been
adopted as an alternative to escape bad
name but the movement was SO general that
it carried the smell of the party with it. We
must admire the sense of those who hitch
themselves to name of such an ill savor to
avoid the suspicion of having any honest
principles.
Year: 1865

The destruction of Governor Letcher'i
house, at Lexington. by Hunters raiders
has left him in condition of real distress.
So utterly stripped is he Of all means Of
subsistence that his family have had tc
rely altogether upon kind friends for their
support ever since his imprisonment. A
few Of his friends had actually to raise for
him, by contribution among themselves,
thirty or forty dollars on the morning of his
arrest, to serve as means to purchase ssne
little requirements beyond what is served
in his place of confinement. The last earth.
ly possession upon which Governor fletcher
relied for future start was ten thousand
dollars worth of tobacco. pursbssed BY him
since the expiration Of his term Of office,
and that shared the fate Of the thousands
OF hogsheads of that article deposited in
the public warehouses in that city.
Year: 1865

Sketch or Governor w. w. Holden.


William Woods Holden, Provisional Governor Of North
Carolina was born in Orange county North Carolina on
on the 24th Of November, 1918 He is eminentIy If
made man. and his present power, influence posi-


on are the reward OF life Of laborous study educa-
ton and application. He born Of humble parents


and was deprived Of the advantages Of good education
IN his youthful days He spasmodcally ATTENDED an
"old hed' school until his eleventh year. when he was
placed in printing Office. Afterward with his bundle
on MS back, he travelled through the part the
state seeking work At Hllsboro he was employed for


time as clerk IN store He went to Danve after,
and finally walked to Raleigh, where in his eighteenth
year, he was employed in the Star Office as prcssman


He also worked for some time in the Il giter office.
During this time he closely applied himself TO study
making use OF the libraries of hts employers or such
books as he could borrow among his friends or pur
chase from his slender purse. His early Me in
fact a constant struggle to educate himself
under the most adverse circumstances Meanwhile
he read law, and having qualified himself obtained Q
license and admitted to the bar He practised his
profession two years In 1S43 he took charge Of the
Standard and made it the most influential paper in the
mense success which attended the democratic party
every election after he assumed the editorial chair The
whigmNoriiy in 1s43 ten thousand the democratic
majority in 1858 sixteen housanda result due Is
admitted to the persistent efforts OF Mr. Holden be-
owing their Opposition to the measure of universal
suffrage which was hotlv advocated by him. He also
supported the movement for the North Carolina Central
Railroad and was Instrumental in obtaining The
sary charter This road is the most important tho
State, and Is one OF tho connecting links in
the chain Of railroads from the North To the
South. In Short he has been the advocate
OF all public cnterprscs-common schools internal i'm
provemens, agriculture mechanical arts and science
In lS46, he elected member OF the House Of Com
mons-the lower branch OF the State Legislature This
the only political office he ever held prior 10 his pre-
sent appointment He has also been member Of the
Literary Board trustee OF the University and State
printer many years In tho stormy time just previous
the war he opposed the destructves' secessonsts
and was the jealous members of conser.
vative party. When Governor Vance nominated in
Nnti ek at Mr. unlAA "A
him. Vance, however, getting into Office betrayed
his friends and in 1854 Mr. Holden became al for
the eovernorshp-faing Of the election only through
the powers and patronage oil the incumbent of the Office
and the general prescription Of the peace party.
Year: 1865

SEVERE ON HE GIRLS, BUT True
An exchange says: The number of Idle,
useless girls in our large cities seems to be
steadily increasing. They lounge or sleep
through their mornings, and assemble in
frivolous companies of their own and the
other sex to pass away their evenings. What
store of unhappiness for themselves and
others are they laying up for the future,
when real duties and high responsibilities
shall be thoroughly assumed They are
skilled in no domestic duties-nay, they des-
pise them; have no habits of industry nor
taste for the useful What will they be as
wives and mothers? Who can wonder if
domestic unhappiness and domestic ruin fol-
lows 2"
Year: 1865

All, well we are wiser at last;
The charming delusion is over,
Your dream of devotion is past,
And lam no longer a lover.
But darling (allow me the phrase
For simple civility's sake,)
Don't think in this ealmest Of lays
I've any reproaches to make.
All no l-nota querulous word


Shall fall from my passionate pen;
The sharp little seedlings you've heard,
never shall utter again.
But if, in this final adieu,


Too chilly for even a kiss,
/ venture a comment or two,


You surely won't take it amiSs.
I'm thinking, my dear, of the day
(Well, habit is certainly queer,
And still in a loverlike way


call you ''darling'' and "dear !')
I'm thinking, | say, of the time


I vowed you were charmingly clever,
And raved OF your beauty in rhyme,
And promised to love you forever
Forever1-a beautiful phrase,
Suggestive Of heavenly pleasure
That millions and millions of days
Were wholly unequal to measure
And yet, as we sadly have seen,
The case is remarkably clear,
Tis word that may happen to mean
Rather less than a calendar year.
Yet never have broken my vow,
Although ! admit that ! swore
To love you forever, and now


Confess that I love you no more;
For since you're no longer the same
(Heaven pardon and pity US both y
To be loving you now proclaim


Were really breaking my oath. J. e. SAxl
Year: 1865

What thing fire must have been
to tho primitive man the first time
it flashed upon him! Say that he
kept watch over his people ; that
at the chilliest hour of the night,
Just before sunrise, he noticed how


a dry stick grew warm when rub.
bed against his club that bc rub.
bed them again, more stoutly still,
and it became hot; at it again,
with the wonder OF child and the
strength of twenty men he flung it
down, for it scorched his hand ,
yet he could not choose but try
again, and it smoked again and
again, quicker and quicker, longer
and longer, he pursued the wild
experiment, until it burst into
flame, and the sun arose in the
east what was the fire upon the
brand but the spirit of the blessed
sun come down to dwell with him
and his II is surely not impossi.
ble to feel how, in the absence,
with the presence Of only an incal-
culably small amount ofexperience,


in an intellect far more observa-


ton than analytical, and young


soul capable OF little more than


wonder and love, the worship OF
tho Sun and Fire might arise and,
once risen on a national and con.
tihehtal heart, it could never until
the fullness OF better time were
come. Nor is Christianity herself,
the reconciling genius ofthe world,
ashamed to draw upon the memory
Of that old faith for she lifts up
her Prince OF Peace to the homage
OF nations, nnder the image OF the
Zoroastrian god: "'The Sun OF
Righteousness with healing in his
beams. " rI
Year: 1865

A whole family in heaven e.
Who can picture or describe the
everlasting ioy9 No ohe is ab-
sent no father, nor mother. nor
son, nor daughter is away. In the
world below they we're united in
'aith and love, and peace and joy.
On the morning OF the resurrection
they ascend together. Before the
throne they live together in united
abortion. On the baiiks of the
river Of life they walk. hahi In
hand, and as a family they have
commenced n career Of glory which
shall be everlasting There is
hereafter to be no separation in
that family ; no one to lie down on
a bed Of pain no one to sink into
the arms Of death. Never in heavi


en- is that family to move along in


the slow procession, clad in tho


habiliments Of woe, to consign ono
Of its members to the tomb. God
grant in his infinite mercy that
every family may be thus united.
Year: 1865

How commonplace is the expression,
and yet what volumes it may speak for
all future timel We never listen 10 its
passage that this thought does not force
itself upon us, bGlthe tone in which 1t is
uttered never SO gay. The lapse Of few
fatal hours or minutes may surround and
hedgeit with horrors, that Of all the mil
lions words which q lifetime has record.
ed, these two little words alone shall seem
to be remembered. Good night the lit
tie child has lisped as it passed to a
brighter morn than ours the lover with
his gay dream Of nuptial morrow /; the
wife and mother, all the fragile threads
Of household cares still in Sher fingers ;
the father with appealing eyes Of child
hood oil unans wcrcd. Good night that
seal upon days past and days to come
what hand so rash US TO rcnd aside the
veil that hides its to morrow.
Year: 1865

An earthenware dealer at Lilo. finding
himself going to the bad, determined to
swindle his creditors, and so abroad with
tho money he might amass. He let his
wife and clerk into the secret, and told
them to sell clandestinely all the goods in
the shop; this done, he was to send a tel
egram to his wife announcing his death
in a duel at Belgium; thereupon she was
TO celebrate . funeral service to which all
his creditors were to be invited, appear
in deep mourning, and rejoin him with
the spoils at Belgium. The wife faith
fully followed the fret part of her hus-
bands orders. She sold the stock in
shop, had the funeral soryice celebrated,
went into mourning, and ran off with the
creditors money, but instead of joining
her husband, she ran in another direction
with the clerk. Her husband had told
her he was a man in whom she could place
implicit confidence. The husband, furi-
Gus at the double trick played on him,
laid information to the police, and all
three have been arrested, tried, and SEN
fenced to imprisonment.
Year: 1865

Murder has become fashionable
crime, and its popularity seems to be in
ducemcnt for its comnission on the most
trivial offenses Maidcns with broken
hearts no longer weep themselves to death,
but murder those who win and trife with
their affections Men suspicious ofthcir
wives, instead Of cutting the connubial
knot, straightyay cut some Lothario's
throat or blow out his brains, and then
live happily with their spouses, satisfied
with the popularity thus acquired
Year: 1865

Every Southern Man who took part
with the Government in the effort to sup
press rebellion became, during the var,
a decided abolitionist while every North
ern man who sympathized with treason
had his love for slavery intensified in the
mcantine.
Year: 1865

Here is an incident Of 1915, which the
English journals are relating On the
morning of the memorable battle of Water
loo, Henneman had just handed his master
(Blucher) lighted pipe, when a cannon
ball struck the ground close by, scattering
earth and gravel in all directions and caus-
ing the white charger on which Blucher
was mounted to spring aside, a movement
that broke the pipe into a Thousand pieces
before the owner had time to lift it to his lips.


Just keep lighted pipe ready for me
| shall be back in a few moments, after
have driven off the Iascally French churls.'


With these words Blucher gave the com
mand, Forward, boys !" and off he gal
loped with his cavalry. Instead, however.
of chase of few minutes, it was a rapid
march of nearly whole hot summer day.
as we all know from history. After the
battle was over Blucher rode back with
Wellington to the place where first he got
glimpse of the combating armies, and
nearing the spot where Blucher had halted
in the morning, they saw to their surprise
a solitary man, his head tied with hand
kerchief, one arm in sling, and calmly
smoking pipe.


Donner and Blitz p cried Blucher why
that is my Henneman How you look, boy
what are you doing here alone 2"


Waiting for your speedy return" was
the grumbling answer. "You have come
at last have waited for you here, pipe
in mouth, for the whole long day. This Is
the last pipe in the box. The cursed French
have shot away every pipe from my mouth,
I have ripped the flesh from my head, and
shattered my arm with their ducced bullets
1t is well there is an end TO the battle, or
you would have been too late even for the
last pipe"


Saying which he handed to Butcher the
pipe, to enjoy the remaining fumes OF the
weed. Wellington, who had listened at
tentively to the conversation, here remark
ed to Blucher, You have just admired
the unfinching loyalty and bravery of my
! Highlanders, what shall say to this true
and devoted soul :" But your Highland
erS had no pipe to regale themselves with,
cody replied Bucher
Year: 1865

1t is instructive to note how. when one has q
mean cause to support, he is sure to back it by
mean considerations and arguments Thus The
Sunday Mercury says:


"The Democrats will oppose the universal admission
" the negro to all the privileges ofcitzenship not
from any dislike to the principles Of universal suffrage
but because their opponents IN agtatng the question,
seek neither the benefit 0f the negro nor the welfare
of the country but am TO create large ooored vote.
which they expect to be able to control and thus re-
tain the power they have prostituted aud abused


This, you see, is precisely the logic of the
brief handed up to the barrister who had to
defend a bad cause, and who, on looking at his
instructions from the solicitor in charge of the
case, found thereon only the words" Abuse
the plaintiffs attorney"


The Mercury is informed that one of our
subordinate reasons for seeking the Right of Suf-
frage for Blacks is our desire to see how Demo-
cratic orators and journalists will make out that
their party were always hostile to Slavery and
friendly to negroes, while their Federal
opponents, true to their arstocratc traditions
and instincts, tried to keep them in bondage
forever
Year: 1865

as fast a. the business Of the country will permit
the contraction, and we have national currency
to fill their place. We shall have thorough
revision Of the internal revenue, an abolition OF
the features that lead into the most secret de-
tails Of domestic business and personal economy.
We shall fund our debt into great consolidated
five per cent loan, and from year to year create
sinking fund for the redemption of the prnc-
pal. English journalists may content their
souls about it. American fnancierS have shown
too much wisdom and American people too
much patriotism for them to allow our debt to
become the terrible danger so much dreaded.
We shall pay the interest when it becomes due
and the principal when it natures.
Year: 1865

We were right few days ago IN assuming
that the cessation of the insulation In the At
lantc Cable, on July 90, did not necessarily IN.
dicate the failure of the enterprise. The brief
dispatches received last night by the MoraVian
indicate that insulation was speedily restoreo'
and that on August 2, five hundred more
miles of the cable, or twelve hundred miles in
all, had been payed out. Then, from causes
not vet known, the signals became again unin-
tellgble and on August communication still
remained suspended.


1t is natural that much alarm should be felt
on account of the frequency of the discovered
faults, that the shares considerably declined and
the insurance greatly advanced. But the
promptness of the last repair gives hope thai
Others may be equally successful.
Year: 1865

the labor could not be completed within the
month of June. The law was undoubtedly In
tended to secure a complete and thorough Gnu
meration of the population, and to give to every
section of the State just and fair representation
in the Legislature. Under an impression ol inc
grave Importance of the responsibilities implied
in its trust. the utmost vigilance mas
been observed in fulfilling the duty imposed py
law, of giving the returns careful eAainina'
ton; and, in several cases, they have been re-
iected altogether, where the report showed d
less number than We had a right to expect from
the information obtained from the police In
these cases new enumeration has been ordered


From these causes, which no forebought
could have provided against, the State Depart
ment is not yet in possession OF full returns
from the city, and some days must yet elap'e
before the exact figures can be reported from
the districts where the more recent appoint
ments have been made or new enumerations
have been ordered Meantime we give the
results so far as ascertained as follows:


REpORTED.
Year: 1865

Do our Bank Directors, as a rule, MAINTAIN
any efficient supervision Of the habits and golngs
on of their employfsf The answer to this ques'
ton may be said to concern only their stock
holders, but that would not be true. Such an
explosion as has just occurred in the Phoenix Is
a blow to public credit, and thus general ca
lamity. Occurring at a critical moment IL
might have been attended with effects as dis
astrous as those of the great Schuyler defalca-
ton.


If Bank employf-no matter what his grade
has once dabbled in Stock or Gold specula-
ton, or has been drawn into an intimacy with
any of the female harpies who figure IN our
singing saloons and other places of obscene re-
sort, his ruin is purely question of time. lie
may not yet be defaulter, thief, conscious,
irredeemable villain, but he is on the high road
to perdition, and will certainly reach the goal
sooner or later


The Banks therefore, as measure OF simple
self.protection, should, either through an ars
rangement with the regular Police. or through
machinery of their own, know all the habit
and haunts of their employfs. They should give
full and fair notice that they do 50, and that
any one who may be seen entering upon EVIL
ways will be summarily and inexorably sent
adrft They cannot afford to leave their cash
and their reputation at the mercy of dabblers IN
stocks or associates Of lcwd women.
Year: 1865

Provisional Governor William Marvin OF
Florida, in issuing his initial Proclamation 10
the people of that State, appoints no day Tor an
election Of delegates to rcconstructing Con-
yention. but intimates that he will do so at no
distant day. He adds;


.'By the operations and results Of the war, Slavery
has ceased to exist n this state IL cannot Dc re'eu.
Fver voter for delegates to the Convention IN taking
the amnesty OATH takes a solemn oath to snpport the
freedom of the former slave The freedom intended is
the full ample and complete freedom oil citizen OF tne
Tinted States This does not necessarily include the
privilege of voting. But it does include the idea OF
full constitutional guarantees of future ossession ana
quiet enjoyment The question OF his voting is an
dpen oucstion-a proper subject for discussionand is
to be decided as question Of sound policy by the Con
yentlon to be called
Year: 1865

which should involve the assent Of the Free
North to that stupendous and shameful inirity.
Better twenty Disunions than that, as we thank
The World for blindly aiding 70 prove Ard
now We ask it to back square out of its imputs-
tions or make an attempt to justify them.
Year: 1865

d, and steady Tho Railway share ist was dull and steady
and the transactions upinpoan After the Board ray o


per cen. made Erie and the balance OF the list gym
ps1ed from t cont but the o't later ana 'He


market closed dull Money has been inactive, and IN ou'


,le demand from brokers There is more offering
hut the rate ia strictly per cent frat class securities
Year: 1865

HAY FzvER.-Suferers from very prevalent
but obscure disease know a. hay fever. or hay cold
will be interested in letter from DR.. Newton ia
another column, recommending remedy Of which q
Mayor Hayemsyer Is the discoverer.