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Year: 1867

A bow near Buffalo accidentally shot HIM
self, and the ball remained nine months in
his brain, when he began to recover from
the almost death-like condition into which
he was thrown. 1t was some time before
consciousness returned to the boy, but grad
ually his senses came back ,and he recognized
his friends. But his power of speech was
gone-he could not, with the exception of a
er to read was gone entirely from him yet
strange to say, his arithmetical powers we're
not only preserved, but appeared to De IN
creased wonderfully. He could figure up
with marvellous celebrity, very dlfilcuit PROP
lens in fact, the loss of the organ OF speech
seemed to be counterbalahced by the IN
creased power of calculation.
Year: 1867

Parental affection naturally inquiries what
fS csi,i lest do for the welfare of us children
in future years. and when the bosom which
now throbs with love to its offspring shall
be cold in death. Many plans are laid and
many hours of anxious solcitude are spent in
contriving ways and means Of rendering chill
dren prosperous and happy in future life.
But parents arc not always wise in the pro-
visions which they seek to make for their
children nor do they always seek direction
and counsel from God in this matter. The
best inheritance for children, beyond all con-
tradiction, is true piety towards God, the sal
utary truths and principles of religion laid
up in the hearts of children-a good educa-
tion-good and virtuous habits-unbending
principles of moral conduct-the fear of
God, and the hope of heaven. This is the
inheritance for children, and which all pa
rents should be most anxious to lay up for
them.


Many an unwise parent works hard and
lives sparingly all his life, for the purpose
of leaving enough to give his children a
start in the world, as it is called. Setting a
young man afoat with money left him by
his relatives, is like tying bladders under
the arms of one who cannot swim ten
chances to one he will lose the bladders, or
60 to the bottom. Teach him to swim, and
he will not need the bladders.


Give your children sound education.
See to it that his morals are pure, his mind
cultivated and his whole nature made sub
servient to the laws WHICH govern man, and
you have given what will be n.ere valuable
than the wealth of the Indies. You have
given him start which no misfortune can
deprive him Of The earlier you teach him
to depend upon his own resources and the
blessing of God the better.
Year: 1867

STATE OF THINGS IN GEORGIA. Au,
gusta letter says: Enterprise is as dead as II
the country was desert. There is little,
sickly, pulling trade in the necessaries OF
life, in which purchasers buy by the ounce
or pound, and sellers require to see the
greenbacks before they adjust their scale;
and grasp their scoop. Values, as the word
is understood in communities at peace, are
about as nominal as they would have been
to Robinson Crusoe and his freedman, Fri
day. There are no commercial calculations,
because there is no commerce The happy
few who have little money hold on to 1t
like grim death. and, needless of all the
tempting offers of three, four, five and even
six per cent. month, with all sorts OF col
laterals, prefer to sit and watch the hole ~
the wall where the stocking is deposited u IN
the belief that the bird in the hand is worth
the whole feathered creation in the bush.
Year: 1867


From the Cincinnati Gazette, l5th.l


There are people yet who think that
something is to be gained or some prin-
ciple established by the trial of Jefferson
Davis, and day by day the approaching
trial is announced. What is 10 be accom-
pIished by Il? Is it to convict him OF
tresson2 Who believes that Virginia
Jury, legally drawn, can be had to do
that? And il he were convicted, what
then? ? Why should he be punished
when Lee and all the rest were dis
charged without conditions is this
Government going TO revive the Jewish
scape-goat institution, and pile all the
sins of the rebellion on one man in order
to cancel them all in the lump by fine
Or is this trial to be had in order 10 decide
whether secession is n right? Think OF
this Government, after calling out 8
million Of men to put down the rebellion,
submitting its right TO do so to a jury OF
twelve men in rebel State.


And what If the jury should Rcquit
him Then il will have been decided
at law that secession is right, and that
the Government committed a crime by
resisting it: and as an illegal order is no
defence to the agent, all our soldiers who
carried on the war will have been found
guilty of murder. What a splendid con-
summation this would be for our imbe-
cile officiousness in demanding trial Of
Jefferson Davis. A jury trial is not mt
for the head of a great belligerent power
that carried on a terrible war for four
years. The right Of a nation to subdue
q rebellion is not thing to be submitted
to any Jury. It is netSAhs to execute a
penalty on one man out Of belligerent
bower that put half million of armed
men in the field, and after we have dis
charged all the rest.


Jefferson Davis is q fit subject for john
sons pardon This ignominy may serve
in the place Of penalty. We know moth
ing more humiliating that we can do to
him, than TO have him owe his discharge
to Johns0n's pardon. Let him have this,
and let us stop the farce of trial which
is announced as close at hand.
Year: 1867

and having one OF the LARGEST Stocks in the
city, we are certain Of being able To SUIT YOU
WITH WHAT YOU WANT.


We a 50 have a very heavy stock OF BOOTS
AND SHOES, CLOTHING AND GENTLE
MEMS FURNISHING GOUDS, which we offer
Year: 1867

Despise not thy mother when she
is old. Ago may waste a mothers
beauty, strength, limbs, Senses, and
estate; but her relation as a mother
isas the sun when it goes forth in it's
mirth-for it always the meridian,
and kn0wethDo evening. Theperson
may be gray-headed, but motherly
relation is ever in tho flourish. 1t
may be autumR yea, winter with d
woman, but with the mother it is
always spring. Alasl how little do We
appreciate q mothers tenderness
while living. How needless we arc
of all her an&ieties and kindness! But
when she is dead and gone-when tho
cares and coIdness of tho world come
whitening to our hearts-when we ex-
perience how hard it is to find true
sympathy how few win befriend as in
mistortrne--then it Is that we think of
the mother we have lost.
Year: 1867

Horse racing in Italy is accomplished
without any riders The animals are
started from an inclosure by attendants
in waiting. An apparatus is attached
to them composed of long reins running
round the body and connected in the
center of the body by a stable girth, and
the ends flap as the horse gallops. To
these ends moderately pointed spurs are
attached, and as the animal increases
his fight, these become more and more
troublesome. Some of our Italian citi-
zens propose to introduce this system in
New York. A track is to be purchased
on Long Island, walled, Of course, to
prevent the horse running off.
Year: 1867

There is dignity about that going away
alone, we call dying-that wrapping the
mantle of Immortality about us; that
putting aside with pale hand azure
curtains that are drawn aronnd this cra-
die of world; that venturing away from
home for the first time in our lives for
we are not dead-there is nothing dead
to speak OF, and we only go off seeing
foreign countries not laid down on the
map we know abeut


There must be lovely lands somewhere
starward, for none ever return that go
thither, and we much doubt if any would
| if they cnnld.
Year: 1867

BeAY An island is forming with great
rapidity in the reach of the Mississippi
river, near the point above Natchez. The
water is very shoal upon it, and the dis.
coloration is plainly seen from the bluff
near the Marine hospital.
Year: 1867

paT Major Pierce, who led the military
mob that recently sacked the Office of the
Constitutional Eagle, at Camden, Ark,
has been ordered under arrest by Gen.
Ord, and will be tried by court martial.
Year: 1867

fl0" A New Haven paper says min
inster of twenty years standing in
that city, has been obliged to abandon
his pulpit and go to work as carpenter,
in order to earn enough to support his
FAMILY
Year: 1867

re- A three story passenger coach is
run on one of the European railroads
The ground floor is for the first class, the
next above for the second, while the
third class have to climb to the highest
stO,v
Year: 1867

q . i D Z \ B / i i = II = .
Is most emphatic endorsement Of their viz
tues. We claim them to be the best
Tonic Esitters i'm the VgorId!.!
The unsolicited Teeolnmendatioss we receive
from all parts Of the globe prove them to be
just exactly what we claim.


They are purely vegetable.


They viii inVigorate and strengthen.


They tortify the system against the evil of-
fects Of uuwholesome water.


They will cure Dyspepsia.


They will cure Heartburn.


They viii cure Headache


They viii cure Jaundice


They Will cure Sea Sickness.


They viii cure General Debility.


They Will create Healthy Appetite.


They contain no poisonous drug


They VIII invigorate the organs of digestion
and moderately increase the temperature Of
the body; and the force Of the circulation act
ing, in fact, As a general corroborant Of the
Year: 1867

The suit in the London Probate Court to determine
the sanity Of Mrs Thwaites who left nearly 100000 TO
her medical attendant and his brother. TO the exclusion
of her sister and other relatives, still continues Mrs
Thwaites il will be remembered considered herself TO DO
the Holy Ghost IL has been testified that sho always
adorned herself with stars and feathers and that once
she gh tiara OF diamonds TO be taken up 10 Heaven
She declared that when she died all creation would
cease.


When the Polish Count Czapska was some time
ago sentenced to Imprisonment and hard labor for pot
cal oenses his wife went 10 st. Petersburgh to beg for
his pardon but being unsuccessful In her application
she fell into state Of detection and at last resolved 10
put end to her life She seated herself IN an arm chair
which she had previously surrounded with quantity OF
paper and setting fire TO the combustibe material, was
found afterward by her servants dreaduy burned
but smiling In the midst OF her agony and rnfy re-
solved TO die She expired two days aterward leaving
five children.


II turns out that many Of the foreign heathens,
Turks, Tunisans, japanese Chinese, who form one Of
the chief attractions Of the Paris Exposition are nothing
hpt Frenchmen IN disguise after all speaking no Ian


age but that Of the Faubourgs and having nothing
ctc about them but their clothes This fact out the
othef day In an Action brought by the manager OF 9
Chinese" dramatic company against builder who had


failed have theater ready for them TO play In by the
date agreed upon Nay IL Is even said that the Dutch
Russian and other people who figure In national resta
rants in the most fantastic OF national dresses speak
French marvelOusly well, but break down lamentaby
when they try to the tongues TO which they profess
| 70 have been born.
Year: 1867

To M Editor Of The Tribune


SIR: Is not the shameful overcrowding OF the city
cars proper matter for the consideration OF the Board
of Health The cramming Of these vehicles, which are
not half numerous enough for the accommodation OF the
cruel enough the horses but 1t is perhaps
moro cruel to the public. don't believe 1t Is healthy to
ride any how and what must II be to ride IN the midst OF
a dense Jam where there 10 no chance OF ventilation


c. H. KEANE.
Year: 1867

To ne Kitfor Of The NFoSne . - =,


SIR: suggest that the managers OF the Southern
Famine Relief Fund apply to tho Common Council Tor
permission to place contribution box at each end OF he
broadway Bridge There is great rush to cross 'he
structure while It Is novelty aud probably good aeai
of money could DO collected In this way for avery worthy
a. ~ '>'
Year: 1867

The Democrats Of Franklin county,
Ohio, recently adopted the following reso-
luton in public meeting:


Whereas, The large majority Of mem.
bers Of Congress from the State Of Ohio
have indicated great anxiety to force negro
suffrage upon communities and States, the
citizens Of which have no voice in their
election therefore, TO test the question as
TO whether the white people Of Ohio are in
favor Of negro suffrage,


Resolved, That in the opinion Of this
convention the Democratic State Conven-
tion Of Ohio assembling on the 9Th proxi-
mo, should adopt resolution requesting
he Legislature Of Ohio to submit to the
people, at their next annual election, the
question Of striking the word white" from
the constitution Of Ohio, IN order that there
may be no longer a doubt as to how the
people Of Ohio are affected upon the proPo-
sition Of negro voting, We declaring that
we viii hereafter, as heretofore, always op-
pose the proposition at the polls"
Year: 1867

If what is said by the Philadelphia Press
below be true, and we have no reason to
doubt It, we imagine that Philadelphia is
about the only city in the Union where such
a scandalous trade would be tolerated. The
Press says:


"Everbody who is in the streets at late
hour of the night, or early in the morning,
may notice individuals about the fronts of
restaurants, hotels and bar-rooms, gathering
from the streets and cutters the stumps of
cigars that have been swept out or emptied
from spittoons, and will wonder what pos
sible use can be made Of them For the
benefit Of pipe-smokers and the tobacco
chewers we can give seine information on
that subject There are a number of estab-
lishments in this city to which this filthy
refuse is taken and sold, aud where il goes
through the following process: It is washed,
dried in the sun or over fire, placed in a
small mill and ground, and then put up in
small packages and sold as a superior quail
ty Of fue-cut chewing and smoking tobacco
Of various fancy brands. The quantity of
Gold soldiers as the boys call them, thus
gathered, remoddled and sold every day, is
almost incredible The general quality Of
the tobacco which goes through this process
Is said TO be excellent"
Year: 1867


Three men, Fred. and William Edwards,
and - Griffin were arranged in the Chi
eago Police Court on Saturday morning
last, when the following singular state
meuts and explanations were made


Drunk and disorderly, your Honor"
They were also charged with being vagrants.
The officer swore that he had known them
by sight for over year, and that they had
no visible means Of support. They were
always well dressed, however


Mr. Fred. Edwards spoke: These two
gentlemen and myself are the firm of Ed.
wards s. Griffin. regret that / cannot
tell you our business. We will be sent to
the BrideEell if don't? Very well, sir,
your curiosity shall be gratifed. We are
proposers. By that ! mean we propose TO
young ladies and help to get them married.
We are benelactOrs.


When we see a young lady who is not,
and never has been, engaged, one Of Us says
to her: we will get you married for
s., payable after marriage OF course
she says yes.


For the time being, that one Of us is con-
sidered as engaged to her. We trumpet
the fact abroad Whenever the other two
Of US meet q young man who is not engag-
ed, we say, What lucky dog Griffin is !;
he has won Miss X And we praise her
We encourage the young man to go in and
cut Griffin out, for the fun Of the thing
Being fool, like most young men, he does
it. He proposes to Miss K, knowing that
she is engaged to Griffin, and hardly ex-
pecting that she will accept him


Bus she always does. And be can never
cut loose from her. He must marry her
or be sued for breach Of promise.


myself have been engaged twenty-five
times during the last year. We are doing
so well that we think of hiring clerk to
do part of the work for u.s.


/ should not have told you this but for
your atrocious threat about Bridewell.
But, as we have given false names, it does
not make so much difference. | trust the
reporters will say nothing of it.


As regards our being drunk, it is false
1t is an impossibility for either of us to get
drunk. We are members of temperance
society. The person who got us to join il
said that it would keep us from becoming
intoxicated. We believed him. If he lied
are we to be punished for i? Remember,
sir, that your daughters fate, if you have
any, may lie in our hands. Don't fine us
and we wills them married at half price"


Fined SI0 each
Year: 1867

Paris Correspondence London Telegraph.


One Ferdinand Balague has just been
executed at Toulouse, for trying TO murder
a gendarme and a keeper. The scene is
graphically described by the local papers
Monsieur Balague was polite to his iailers,
as they were "only servants" but threat
ened to kick the priests, who came to shrive
him out Of the cell. Then comes the old
story. The condemned man had a veal
outlet bottle of red wine-he asked for
white, which he said he never could take
during life, as it gave him heartburn, but
they would not give it-oofee, and cheese,
and enjoyed his breakfast very much in
deed, hecommented on the fact in the follow
ing terms to the soldiers on duty in the
courtyard: "You will get your rations at
nine, probably l shall get no more" He
then jested pleasantly with the headsman,
literally telling him, in the words of Hugo,
to have his


Bare arm ready,


That the blow may be both swift and steady.


Indeed, he resembled that erring man in
another particular; he would not be
blinded


These hands are chained, but lei me die


At least With an unshaokled eye!


As he advanced to the block he burst out
with torrents Of abuse against the Emperor,
and then shouted "Vive '93l Long life
eest an pea tard-to Robespierre Long
life to st. Justl There is no God God
is evi! Poverty is theft
Year: 1867

ban ofthe law, he does 1t at his ner;l and with
a full knowledge of the penalty ;urv
might hesitate to convict man of a o,,,,,o
committed under the influence of suaden no.
sion; but If he had deliberately and soberlv
chosen to engage in an illegal business. his
case will not inspire much sympathy. Con.
gress has just undertaken to forbid the i'm
portatiou of fire crackers. Opinions may diff
fer as to the propriety of the prohibition; but
it would be hard to find a man who would be
SO far Influenced by his opinion in that re-
spect, as to swear that to the best of his
knowledge and belief fire crackers imported
in defiance of the law are not fire-crackers.


That there may be some difficulty in en-
forcing the law without State constabulary,
we are prepared to believe. We are glad to
see that the Legislature seems inclined not
only to pass the bill, but TO take it out OF Mu-
nlcipai politics altogether and provide for its
uniform enforcement throughout the State
In this way it will receive the fair trial, which
Is all its friends ask for it.
Year: 1867

PROTECTION TO RooFs.-Shingled roofs
soon acquire furze, which, operating as a
sort of dam in wet weather, retains the water
and causes the shingles to rot early and when
dry, 1t is like tinder ON which spark falling
irom the chimney will suddenly set the roof
on fire. 10 guard against both of these La
bilities, take an opportunity just before rain,
to sprinkle coating of air-slacked lime all
over the surface of the roof. The rain and
lime will remove the furze, making the sur
face clean and smooth, and the lime water
penetrating the shingles will preserve the
wood for many years If the practice is occa-
sionally renewed TRAxI.
Year: 1867

To TIE EDITOR OF THE PRESS


In this short article propose to give you
some account of the growth and business Of
Chicago.


POPULATION.


In the year OF grace 1880 there We're few
Indians and squatters on the spot where Chi
cago now stands with apopulation of upwards
of two hundred thousand people-an increase
never yet equalled in the history of the
world. Some curious person has given the
number OF marriages in Chicago, and it well
illustrates its growth.
Year: 1867

SHlELD,' WOODEN Goops.-Tho Immense
demand for these fabrics has tested the
capacity Of the Davenport Woolen Mills,
with very satisfactory result, and Mr..
Shields is able TO assure the trade that no
matter how thick and heavy the orders
pour in he will be able to supply the do
mand. To do .his however the mill will
have to be kept running night and day. Il
may DO as well though to point out the
propriety Of merchants both Of homo and
elsewhere sending in their orders for fall
and winter goods at as early . day 40 pos>
sib!e in order to ensure having the goods
just when they want them. They are al>
ways "hsudy to have in the house,
Year: 1867

SHIPPING GAME WESTWARD. - Who will
assert that there is nothing new under tho
sun. To-day we saw a quantity Of prairie
chickens which an enterprisng poultry
dealer had had shipped to him from Calu>
met, Illinois, to meet the demand for game
Year: 1867

TO tt Ldnor OI'Ihe ITIUHne'


SIR: The Washington correspondents say we
to have new fractional currency note OF the value Of
10 cents hope not II the Secretary will stop the coin
ago OF the new Ave cent piece and give us plenty Of i've
cent bills tho public will be better ncc0mmod9ted s
Is cent bin We have many coins Of small but diner
ent values yet 80 nearly OF the size that great IN
convenience experienced inpayng them QUE espociaiy
In the might N,
Year: 1867

THAT DREADFUL RIoT.-A dreadful riot
is reported at Rogersville, in East Tennes-
see, where speech by Emerson Etheridge
was interrupted by some one in the audi;
ence; the lie was given and returned, and
finally the meeting separated itself into
Radical and Conservative camps, which
onened fire on each other. Two persons
were killed outright, and thirty-seven were
wounded, seven of whom it is thought will
die. We have had so much experience OF
the untrustworthy character of the press
dispatches from that part of the country
that we defer conjecture as to the party
most to blame for this affair until we,are
in fuller possession of the facts.-Ne''
York Tribune.
Year: 1867

WHAT IF NEGROES SHOULD BE ELECTED
TO CONGRESS ?-Bennett's Herald answers
as follows:


"We apprehend that the result will
be general rejection against the Repnbll-
can party in the northern States; for we
know that there is a stronger wall of white
prejudice against the negro in the North
than exists in the South"


"This will, in all probability, be the So
luton of the experiment of the political
organization of the blacks against the
whites in the South-a reaction of the
whites against the blacks and the Repub-
lican party in the North"
Year: 1867

Keep the greenback bond-issue warm.
1t is the fresh issue of the hour, and is
bound to win. 1t is as sure to prevail as
there is feeling in the people and oppres-
sion in the taxes. The people will not
stand the inequality now existing between
capital and labor-untaxed capital and
taxed labor. There must be equality OF
burthcns, or there will be something capi-
talists will tremble at.
Year: 1867

NEGRO POPULARITY NoRTH.-The party
that has the negro vote, or fishes for the
negro vote, here in the North is dead and
rotten, and buried for all time. No resur-
rection Of dead mems bones will ever
bring it's foul carcass to the surface OF the
green earth again.-Nelo York Old Guard.
Year: 1867

The people are coming, not gradually,
but en- nasse, to the proposition to get rid
of the bonds by redeeming them with
greenbacks. You can form no idea how
the thing is taking through the country
with the day laborers and small farmers.
Roll on the ball.
Year: 1867

I will just say that the proposition put
forth in the Enquirer for cancelling the
public debt with greenbacks is very popu-
lar in this section. I have made it a point
to get the opinion of some of our best Re-
publicans on the subject, and they inva-
riably sanction the move.
Year: 1867

And for the special pleasure and profit Of the
young each week wswill give general literary
and religious miscellany. Nothing shall end
It's way into our eolul n unfit for the perusal Of
the mothers and daughters Of the land DeDro-
eating the dSmOraliEing sensatiODalism Of many
contemporary journals. we shall oschsE that
character striving to give tbsrsadeF substantial
matter. prefsrring to BE- useful rather than


ensational.