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Year: 1868

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BY HENRY WARD BEECHER.


From the New York Lcdger.l


Alas for the poetry of farming. All the
songs of milkmaids must be now listened
for in the oil English poets. The whct-
ting of the mowers scyihe is almost over
quite over--on my farm! Instead of
that, one hears the sharp rattle ofthe NOW
er, and the driving man quite at his ease
riding round and round the meadow, for
all the world as if he were out airing.
Whereas, heretofore, two acres would be
counted large days work; now, ten and
twelve are easily accomplished,


Nor is The contrast less remarkable in all
the after work. When / was boy was
placed in line, with all the men that could
bc mustered, to shake out the hay with
forks; and after a few hours all hands were
called to go over The ground and turn il.
To do this rapidly, and yet so the bottom
side shall really come TO the top, is no
small knack. Now, tcddcr, with one
man riding, will literally do the work of
ten men, and do it far tetter than the most
expert cen. Have you ever seen ted
der! have now a perfect one. The
grass rolls up behind ii and foams, l was
g,ing to say, like water behind the wheels
of steamer. The grass leaps up and
whirls as if it were amazingly tickled with
such dealings.


The result is that unless the grass Is
very heavy and the weather very bad you
may cut your hay in the morning and get
it into your barn before night, in far better
condition than it used to be when it re-
qurcd never less than two, and generally
a part of three, days to cure it.


But l have forgotten the Horse Rake.
Instead of the old-:ashioncd, long-handled
Year: 1868

In the House on Friday Mr.. Brooks, of
New York, said


awe intend to undo what has been done
by this Congress, ,-and we shall, sooner or
later, have the power within the walls Of the
House to undo it all. These proceedings in
Ohio and New Jersey are but the beginning
of the revolution which has already made its
appearance elsewhere and the prerogatives
and powers which the majority in this House
is now assuming in the most revolutionary
manner we intend to make use Of to undo all
these revolutionary and violent proceedings.
So the honorable gentleman from Massachu-
sets might as well mike up his mind now to
see the beginning of this great reactionary
movement We do not intend to deprive the
negroes of the South of their liberty. We
intend to allow them fve-fifths representa-
ton, not a three filths onc which the negroes


in the North are having. But we do not in
tend to allow, so far as we can help it, the
people of the North to be brought into negro
co.partnershp in government on the floor of
this House, or to be ruled by black majors
ties, by rotten borough negro constituencies
in the South. We do not intend to be ruled
by any such government as that, aud all the
processes of legislation by which that has



State Legislatures, as in Ohio; through State
action, as in New jersey; through $4,000
popular majority in my own State, to be in
creased next year to 100000, If this House
goes on with those proceedings we intend to
undo them all. l repeat, that everything
which has been done is to be undone. The
voice of the people is no longer heard in
whispers, but in the loud roar of the whirl
wind coming from all parts of the country
aud it will sooner or later unseat a large ma
iority of those who now constitute the major
ity on this floor, putting in their places the
Democracy of the country. If the statistics
of elections are examined even now it will
be found that large majority of members on
this side of the House hold their seats here
and vote here on these bills who no longer
represent their constituents, but are acting
in utter defiance of the people who sent them
here"
Year: 1868

The Enquirer says that General Schofeld
tries to justify the drawing of funds from the
Treasury of the State to dclray the heavy ex-
ponses of the Convention, body of men un-
known to our laws, on the ground that the
Senate Of Virginia voted for calling the Con
vcntion. The Enquirer says very properly ::


"The action of the Senate was futile with
out the concurrence of the House of Dele
gates and that concurrence was withheld
The refusal of the House to concur, not only
left the Senate's action without any validity,
but was also full offset to it as indicative of
the sentiment of the people. The States
money has, therefore, been simply seized !;
and We are not aware Of auy effort to protect
it by appeals to the courts"
Year: 1868

NEURALGIA.-Wc have cut from the AAa
CalitarnjuH 4 recipe for the cure of ncural-
gia, which the editor Of that paper claims to
have been effective in several cases to his own
knowledge lie says:


Some time ago we published at the request
of a friend, receipt 10 cure neuralgia: Half
a drach1n of sal ammonia in an ounce Of
camphor water. to be taken toaspOonful at a
dose, and the do5e repeated several times at
intervals of FIVE minutes, if the pain be not
relieved at once Half dozen different per-
sons have since tried the recipe, and in every
case an immediate cure has been Effected
In one, the sufferer, a lady. had been affected
for more than week, and her physician was
unable to alleviate her suferings, when 80
luton of sal ammonia in camphor water re-
ieved her in few minutes.
Year: 1868

"A stingy husband threw all the blame of
the lawlessness of his children in company
by saying his wife always gives them their
own way"


Poor things" was her prompt reply, "its
al have to give them"
Year: 1868

In running on errands, to and fro, and,
when he grew older, in plowing sowing, hoe
ing and mowing--the boy had no time to
string his pearls and being loose and dsar-
ranged, one by one they dropped out Of his
grasp, and he lost them, not knowing where
they fell


Accordingly he mourned, as the time for
stringing them passed by and only mere
handful remained in his keeping. oh, how
have my treasures been wasted How my
time has been misspent How bare and bald
has been my life Why did the good spirit
bestow choice gifts upon me, and yet deny to
me their use 2"


SO the child, who was now man, died {;
and even in paradise he mourned his wasted
scattered pearls--and the life that he had
lived here seemed all meaningless and blank
But an angel who saw his mind reflected as
in a mirror, took him by the hand, and led
him gently back to his earthly home, that he
might see how his lost treasures had been
gathered into other lives. The old woman
thought not so much Of drudging now She
lamented aud wept over her boys departure
" How wise and gentle he was,n she sighed /;
and one Of the lost pearls she had found and
strung amid the wooden beads that hung
around her neck, shone and sparkled with re-
fining grace


Onward the spirit and his accompanying
angel sped, until they came to a. young peas
ant girl he had loved and helped with her
tasks, when he knew her in this world She
too had picked up one of his loose pearls, and
placed it upon the embroidery of her bodice.
Now as she spun in her mothers kitchen her
eyes glanced toward the pearl, and then were
raised in soft, sweet contemplation, as if it had
stirred hidden depth of her maiden soul.


So here and there, among the rude people
he had known were found all his pearls
garncred up and sewn somewhere upon their
coarse garments, giving precious quality to
existence that could not have been theirs if he
had never lived.


Back to Paradise he journeyed =; and all
the discomfort of his mind gave place to a
calmjoy 81 deemed Providence capricious," 4"
said he musingly, I" to bestow upon me gifts |
could not turn to account. But my aims
were selfish. | longed tocrown my own head
with pearl diadem, that men might envy
the wearer To my mortal vision this seemed
the highest object that life offered but now,
in the light of an enlarged existence, | see
that much which this world cali wasted, is
only so much sown in Gods vast ld."-Ia-
dependen
Year: 1868

A young child had lapful Of pearls given
him by a goodand powerful spirit but the
work of stringing them was to deyolvo upon
himself alone, This was only a thing of time
and opportunity. With these the child knew
he could weave coronet, which would set
his brow among the calm and glorious brows
Of earth.


Bat it is happened that he lived in the
midst of drudging, toilsome people, who had
no idea Of the value of pearls, and thought
this existence was only made for raising grain
and ihtteuing swine.


SO the old woman, his mistress, called to
him sharply before day, while he dreamed Of
stringing his pearls, and cried, T" Get up stir
your bones It is time to go after the cow"


When he returned from pasture, the old
man, his master, bade him saddle Dobbin,
and take the grain 10 mill.
Year: 1868

The following incident of travel is narrated
by a correspondent of the Daay SaratoqiaR


II took place on the Rensselaer, and Saratoga
railroad, on one of the Northern trains, be-
tween Saratoga and Whitehall: When the
train halted at Saratoga, among the passcn-
gers from the West came man of about 80
years Of age, ebowing his way through the
the crowd, and bearing in his arms child.
He was poor man, his clothes were poor,
he looked poor. Around his hat was tied a
piece of soiIed, worn Grape. 1t was evidently
all the mourning his scanty means would per-
nit, for the mother of the child was dead


This man was rough in exterior yet his face
was an honest one. He handled the baby
awkwardly, yet there was tenderness in his
sad look that showed the purity of fathers
love The little fellow Law asleep on his
Year: 1868

When the President of the South Caro-
lima Democratic Convention took the chair,
on the 9th inst, he made a speech, in which
he used the following language These re-
marks were received with great applause;


"Your State has been despoiled of her SOW
ereiguty your people have been deprived of
their liberty. You are now entering on the
great work of restoration. We must restore
the great, proud, noble Carolina of former
days. The crumbling walls, and solitary,
smokeless chimneys of your noble State House
are typical of our present political condition.
Thank God, that noble, brave building lies in
ruins Thank God, it is not desecrated by
those beings who assume to legislate for us
Let US resolve before high Heaven that the
land which was once the home of the Hugue-
not and the Cavalier shall never be ruled by
the Puritan and African"
Year: 1868

ARE YOU SICK? What is your ailment
Is your stomach weak and unable to digest
Are your bowels costive, and producing
piles? Is your liver deranged, hardened,
and torpid, causing pain in the side, right
breast, and under the shoulder-blade Do
not despair there is hope and health for you
in Bristol's Sugar-coated Pills and Bristol's
Sarsaparilla. Used together they will relieve
you of every trace of sickness, and enable
you to enjoy all the comforts and pleasures
Of life.
Year: 1868

We have evidence of what kind Of Democracy prevailed
in the South in the fact that these immseuate aeaa
sienrepudiate the Declaration of Independence ana
refused te have it read the National sanyersary


Will the Independent be good enough to
furnish the proof of its assertion? We doubt
its correctness. But, even if true, how
much worse is it TO refuse to read the Decla.
ration OF Independence on the Fourth of
July in Charleston, than to burn the Consti-
tuition, as league with hell and cove
nant with death. in Boston? 1t the South.
ern people were wrong is seeding how can
you, Ar. Independent, justify your party in
having pursued policy. to their rights
and interests and which every sane man in
the United States know would inevitably
provoke them to secession? If your party,
prior to 1860, thought the South could not
be kicked out of the Union, their eyes must
have been opened to better comprehension
of the situation before March, 1861. Why
did they not then accept the Crittenden Com
promise Amendment, if the preservation of
the Union was their object? Can you ex'
plain why Wendell Phillips and his princi.
Piles were regarded by a vast majority of the
people, but decade ago, as being dangerous
to the peace and stability of the Union, and
why the man is regarded as patriot and his
principles as patriotism, by you and your
party, to-day? Do you suppose that the
government is better, or the people more
prosperous and happy, now, than if the Union
had been preserved without a'little blood
letting?' Is an appeal to arms more Re-
publican method of demonstrating that " we
have government than peaceful COM
promise? Answer.
Year: 1868

SONORA AND Mono RoAD.-We learn from
Mr.. T. Clark, who has just returned from a
point on this road near the Summit, that it
is now open and in fine condition for teams.
When Mr. Clark left, last Sunday, the men
who were working on the road were about
starting across the Summit with three teams,
bound for Aurora There is now no snow
on the Hogs Back, or any other part OF the
road. Walkers River is falling very fast,
and in short the entire road from Sonora to
Aurora is in good travelling order.
Year: 1868

The only possible way the existing State governments
in the South be set aside and ones framed on the
basis of white suffrage alone is y forcerevolution WAR;
$. +. Times


If such is the case, it would not be as
great calamity to the country as the " force
revolution, WAR" by which they were es-
tablished. But we deny the truth of the
assertion. The Democrats simply propose to
overturn the Radical revolution by the peace
full agency of the ballot box. Does the
Times mean to say that when party OBJ
tains power on false pretences, and legis-
lates "outside of the constitution" and
against popular will, that the people have
no redress without appealing to arms? We al
ways knew that the Radicals, in carrying out
their lcathsome mongrel policy, defed the
will of the people but were not prepared to
hear them threaten WAR if their unjust and
~ -annical legislation should be interfered
wit. We tell the Times that the eltire
ST ueture of Radical reconstruction will be
ov turned and there will be no war, unless
they inaugurate it. If they do, they will
not have the Democracy of the North to
fight their battles. TIE people of the United
States are not going to allow ten States OF
the Union to be ruled by negroes. Nor yet
to have the electoral votes of white men in
other States neutralized by them. The Dem
ocrats understand the nature of the Ameri-
can Government, and no Radical innovation
can make them believe that State has not
right to enlarge or curtail the right OF
suffrage at pleasure.
Year: 1868

IcE.-Terry Clark will please accept our
thanks for numerous blocks of crystal ice dur
ing the week.


The Mountain Ice Co. keep US under con-
staut obligations for an abundant supply Of
ice
Year: 1868

SHARKS LAST DISNEE. A sea captain
recently related to us the following anec-
dote: lie was sailing before the trade
winds when h's vessel was followed by an
immense shark for fifteen days in succession.
which fed on wbsIever garbage was thrown
over the vessel. lie became so familiar
With his mode Of feeding that he would torn
up his body and catch the food as Il was
thrown to bin. Bot there vas fear among
the crew as there always is. that IL any one
should fall overheard he would at once be
hevoured by the shark. and means we're de-
vised to get rid ofbim. a junk ofiron wa,
heated red hot. and dropped overheard.


wolyn DE caught au8 sw4..Ow wad, and then
made bee line retreat aud was seen no
more. This vas probably bis last dinner
Year: 1868

To the Ecitor Of the Press:


Will you allow me, through your columns to
endeavor to correct certain misconceptions into
which many have fallen and to reply to nu-
merous questions asked concerning the Order
whose designation stands as the title of this
article?


Two circumstances have led many persons
to confound the Temple of Honor with the
Good Templars, the Sons of Temperance, the
Temperance Watchman and other organiza-
ton Of Similar character: first similarity of
name with the Good Templars-second, the
iact that total abstinanee" is one only one
OF the principles upon which it is founded. 1t
is my first object to correct this impression
the best interests of all the Orders require it.
Let 1t then be understood that the Temple of
Homer is an organization as totally distinct
from the Good Templars or any other Order
designed for the promotion of Temperance as
it is from Masonry or Odd Fellowship. Indeed
it has far more in common with these two lat
ter than with the former. True it requires of
its members total abstinance from all that in
toxicates and seeks, by all honorable means,
the utter and entire annihilation of the sale
and purchase of alcoholic drinks. In so far it
occupies common ground with the distinct
lively Temperance Orders-no farther 1t
teaches that the buuer is guilty ,cith the seller
and it seeks to work that revolution in public
opinion which shall holdboth accountable at the
bar of impartial justice for the vic alton OF civ
il, social aud moral Law entailed by their acts.
1t is, SO far as it works in the Temperance
field, not body of reforming men but of re.
formers and thoroughly reformed. 1t labors
In this field through means peculiar to itself
and best known only to those who stand as
pillars in its Inner Temple. 1t does not and
cannot enter the ground of labor through the
instrumentalties occupied and used by other
Orders


But temperance, iundamen tai and vital as
it is in this Order, is only single stone of the
edifice we seek to erect. Indeed, may say it
is but incidental to the great and paramount
object of our labor. That object is the lorna
ton and perpetuation of Perfect Brother
hood-an institution where the interests of
each Brother shall be identical with the inter-
ests of all and where the interests of all shall
De coincident with the best good of each Broth
er. Each for all and all for each'' is our
motto.


1t is not political organization, nor is it de-
signed or allowed to become an Instrumental
ity for the political advancement and success
OF any men or measures.


Its work is individual and specific, viz, the
cultivation and development in the persons of
its members of those qualities of mind and
heart and in their lives of those purposes and
acts which shall render them Knight Errants
of humanity and virtue, and Templars of FL
deity to the noblest purposes of social and in
dividual life. G.. W.R.
Year: 1868

Love thy Mother, little one,


Kiss and clasp her neck again;
Hereafter she may have a son


Will kiss and clasp her neck in vain.
Love thy Mother, little one.
Gazs upon her loving eyes, =.
And mirror back her love for thee
Hereafter thou may'st shudder sighss


To meet them when they cannot see
Gaze upon her loving eyes.
Press her lips the while they glow


With love that they have often told;
Hereafter thou may'st press in woe,


And kiss them till thine own are cold.
Press her lips the while they glow.
0 revere her raven hair,


Although it be not silver gray;
Too early death, led en- by care,


May snatch, save one dear lock, away
o revere her raven hair.
Pray for her at eve and morn,


That Heaven may long the stroke defer
For thou may'st live the hour forlorn,


When thou wilt ask to die with her.
Pray for her at eve and morn
Year: 1868

A Leavenworth paper says "A Kansas
City editor went skating the other day, and
slipped into an air hole. His ears caught
on the edges of the ice, the hole not being
big enough to let them through. They par
italy froze and will be amputated and used
for door mats ~
Year: 1868

A pike was caught the other day with a
squirrel in its stomach. Query--Did the
squirrel go in the water after the pike, or
the pike 60 up the tree after the squirrel
A problem for debating society.
Year: 1868

The Electoral College, which met at
Nashville on the I'd instant, addressed a
letter to General Grant very strongly urg-
ing him to give Horace Maynard Cabi-
net position. The messenger who takes
the electoral vote of the State to Wash



was authorized to deliver this letter to
General Grant, in person.
Year: 1868

G In regard to the article in the
Southern Opinion which caused the kill
ing of the editor by brother of the lady
slandered, it is now said that there was no
reason whatever for the sensation article
which resulted so unhappily. There was
no elopement in the case at all. The
young lady had desired to make visit to
some of her fathers friends in Philadel-
phia, and had been unable to get permis-
sion to do SO. Finally she concluded to
60 on her own hook. Reaching Philadel-
phia she was taken suddenly ill, when her
mother and brother went after her and
brought her home.
Year: 1868

A young bank clerk in Paris was re-
Gently robbed by girl under the follow
ing peculiar circumstances: He had been
sent to pay draft, but when he arrived
there he found the office crowded by men
and women, who also wanted to pay drafts.
By his side stood pretty young lady,
we'll dressed and of very engaging man.
ners. elbow provoking this is," she said
to him; "we shall have to wait at least
three hours until our turn comes" He
found her so chatty and amiablo that he
invited her to accompany him to neigh
boring coffee house, and the upshot of the
matter was that he spent the whole day
in her company. He thought he could
get the draft next morning from the bank
before it had been protested. Late in the
evening he was walking with his dulcinca
IN one of the deserted alleys of the Chat
eau de Fleurs, when the lady suddenly
drew from her pocket a casket from which
she took a small golden vial. "This via" "
she said to him, "contains a very delic-
ious perfume just smell of it." The
young man smclled the perfume, became
very dizzy, sank to the ground and fell
asleep. When he awoke to consciousness,
several hours afterwards, he found that
his gold and all his money was gone.
Year: 1868

The NEW DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
The work on the new Department of Agricul.
ture, on the public reservation opposite the
Washington Monument, is being rapidly COM
pleted, and it is thought the building will be
ready for occupancy by the middle of June.
Year: 1868

THE RECEIPTS OF CUSTOMS at the Treasury
Department have been very heavy thus far
this month, averaging about half a million
dollars per day. The Internal Revenue re-
ceipts are also increasing in amount. These
two facts make ii seem probable that the public
debt will be considerable reduced this month
Year: 1868

Roynl Victoria Yacht CIub-sailins Rules and


the Signal Code.


From Bells Life in London, March 14l


The following circular has been addressed to all
the yacht clubs of the United Kingdom


ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB, RYDE,(


ISLE or WIGHT, March Z, 1865.
am directed by the Commodore and Vice Comm0
dore Of the Royal Victoria Club to communicate with
you on the subject of the difference in the sailing
rules adopted by the various yacht clubs and to ask
your assistance towards the removal OF this great IN
convenience Captain Thellusson and Lord Exeter
are OF opinion that, could general meeting Of the
nag officers OF the various yacht clubs be called, ana
to assemble IN London as soon as convenient, some
steps might be taken towards the drawing up or q
general code OF rules to regulate the sailing OF all
regattas and is In furtherance OF this project that
am now directed to ask your cooperation. am
further directed TO lay before you the great con-
venience that would accrue to yacht owners were
the Commercial Code OF Signals for all Nations"
adopted by all yacht clubs the present system OF car
ryng several sets Of signal flags being unnecessarily
cumbersome. The Commercial COden has been
lately adopted at meeting OF the Royal Victoria
Yacht Club, and have been directed to request that
your committee will be good enough to take this sub
ect into their consideration Your obedent servant


J.P. MACKINNON, Secretary


Royal Victoria Yacht Club.
The annual regatta OF the club will commence on
August 10 and last through the week.