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Year: 1868

SOCIAL LovE.-How sweet is social affec-
ton! When the world is dark without we
have light within. When cares disturb the
breast, when sorrow broods about the heart,
what joy gathers in the circle we love! We
forget the world, with all it's animosities,
while blessed with social kindness. That
man cannot be unhappy, who has hearts
that vibrate in sympathy with his own,
who is cheered by the smiles of affection
and the voice of tenderness. Let the world
be dark and cold, let the hate and animosity
of bad men gather about him in the place of
business-but when he enters the ark of
love, his own cherished circle, he forgets all
and the SOFT ow from his heart. The warm
sympathies of his wife and children dispel
every shadow, and he feels thrill of joy
in his bosom which words are not adequate
to express lie who is stranger to the
.joys of social kindness las not begun to live.
Year: 1868

Many say, does not God know our wants
better than we What good is it, then, to
pray : God knows our wants, and it is for
that reason He wishes us to speak to Him,
for God Himself is our first want, and to
pray to God, is to begin to possess God. A
father knows the wants of his child; but il
the child, therefore, 10 address no word OF
petition or gratitude to the fatherf
Year: 1868

Ohscrvant men cannot fail to
notice The striking difference between
The conduct Of Northern Democrats
aud Northern Radicals who have Of
late years settled In our midst, II is
rs great as day from night -os light
from darkness. The Northern Dem
ocrnt who comes here to engage IN
Legitimate business aud the Northern
Radical who comes to search for
office are as different and distinct
from each other as il one had come
from the tropic and the other from
the frigid zone. The one comes TO
aid In the Inauguration of peace and
good will, to encourage industry, en-
liven trade, developc resources, and
make "waste places blossom as the
rose" The other comes TO excite
animosities, to breed contentious, to
fcrment discord, to array classes
against each other, and to incite the
ignorant and superstitious to turbu-
lcnce and revolt. The Democrat
seeks to pacify and rebuild, the Rad
ical to embitter and destroy. The
Democrat depends upon his own en-
ergy and industry for his support
and success in business, while the
Radical seeks TO swindle living out
of the ignorant masses upon whom
he imposes or whom he persuades to
give him an Office. For sufficient
exemplifcation Of these truths the
reader need not 60 further than the
limits Of this city. Here we find
that many Northern Democrats are
located and following industrial, bust
ness, and professional pursuits, wholly
disconnected from politics. They
are quiet, substantial citizens, the
very opposite in every respect of the
Northern Radicals, who have come
here in the capacity of ofIicc-seekers,
and who seem O',think there is no
such thing as living without place or
patronage. II is an easy matter to
note the difference between the two
classes Of persons, and our citizens
will not fail to do so. The informa-
ton thus gained will be useful and
convenient as a subject Of future ref
erence and recollection.


Ndshriie Gazette.
Year: 1868

Many Of our readers will romom.
her The circumstance. Of the death Of
Dr. J. j Hooks, who was found dead
In his room In the Stillman Block
about two months since. The Coro-
ner's jury returned a verdict that
death was caused by heart disease or
oppoplexy, in which they were sus.
tanned by several medical gentlemen.
From information received by Col.
Beaumont, Chief Of Police, Il Is
thought that The deceased gentleman
was foully dealt with, most probably
poisoned. A detective has been at
tending to the business for several
days, but has developed nothing war
ranting the arrest of any person.
Col. Beaumont, however, has issued
a circular stating that facts recently
developed leave little doubt that DR..
Hooks was foully murdered, and
offering five hundred dollars reward
for the detection and conviction of
the murderer. Certain persons who
bought property belonging to the
Doctor at United States tax sale
are suspected of poisoning him for
the purpose of stopping legal pro-
ceedings that were about to culmi-
nate in the restoration of his prop
erty. AT the time the body of the
Doctor was discovered, he was lying
on the bed, with his eyes closed and
his hands folded, as if some person
had laid him out, while a peculiar
odor filled the room, the only mark
oil violence beng bruise just above
the right eye. 1t is thought that
the Doctor was overpowered in his
Office, and while insensible sulphuric
acid was administered to him, caus-
ing death. The decomposition of
the body at the present time renders
a post mortem examination impracti-
cable, but the police have a clue that
may yet result in the detection and
conviction of the parties engaged in
the diabolical work.


Memphis Appeal.
Year: 1868

This Is the law and The penalty
from which there cls no escape. Thou-
sands are trying 10 eyade u someby
making their fellow men work for
them, Others by depending on money
inherited or accumulated In former
years, but without avail. IT idle,
they storvo In the midst OF plenty.
They may cat to the full, but eating
without exercising Is against The law
of nature, and very soon the stomach
refuses TO digest the food, the body
Is not nourishcd and the man literal
ly starves though he feel not hunger.
The hands, the brain and the heart
must work to live. Tf you dodge the
labor Of learning lessons, you at the
same time miss the strength of in
tellect which mental work brings, and
the mind will pine for the want of
nourishmcnt. Thousands have starv-
ed their wits in this way, until they
wonder how it is that others carry
away all the prizes Of life. Many
starvo their hearts by never exercis-
I


ing them with noble emotions. Self
ishness eats into nature like canker;
leaves the man hungry for affection;
but love is the price Of love, and he
that will not work in this field must
accept the penalty. 1t is an error to
think that work is penalty imposed
on man for having violated Gods
command. Mans nature is such that
activity is the law of his being.
Every muscle and nerve calls for en-
ployment, that il may remain in
health, and there can scarcely be
more terrible punishment than soli-
tary confinement, where the eye, the
ear and the hands must remain idle.
A slow and painful death will surely
result. So then, boys and girls strive
to love work and not to shun IL.
Though you may be as rich as Astor
or Stewart in money, yet your own
nature will suffer the pangs Of poy-
erty without active exercise.
Year: 1868

Yes, give me the land,


Where the ruins are spread,
And the living tread light
On the hearts Of the dead;
Yes, give me the land


That hath legends and lays,
That tell Of the memories
OF long vanished days
Yes give me the land


That hath story and song,
To tell Of the strife,


OF the right with the wrong;
Yes, give me the land,


With a grave in each spot,
And names in the graves
That shall not be forgot.
Yes, give me the land


OF the wreck and the tomb;
There's grandeur in graves
There's glory in gloom;
For out Of the gloom


Future brightness Is born,
As, after the night


Looms the sunrise of morn.
And the graves Of the dead,
With the grass overgrown,
May yet form the footstool
or Liberty's throne;
And each simple wreck


In the way-paih Of might,
Shall yet be a rock


In the temple Of Right
Year: 1868

An old farmer recommends the
following method of getting rid Of
the cotton worm: "Mix together a
quantity Of tar and sulphur, say two
ounces of sulphur to one quart Of
tar for every FIVE acres of cotton.
Place the mixture on an old stump
or log, if convenient, and burn it
between sunset and dark. II has
proved successful in destroying the
worm, and is worth trying.


The crop which makes a farmer
richest needs neither plowing nor
sowing, and, like a tropical produc-
ton, is only to be gathered. This il
grass.
Year: 1868




Hints TO GIRLs.-We sometimes
see ladies take great pains to impress
us with the idea Of their ignorance of
all domestic matters, save crotchet
work, or weaving a net to encase their
delicate hands. BY some curious
kinds Of hocus pocus they have got
II into their heads that the best way
to catch a husband is to show how
profoundly capable they are Of doing
nothing for his comfort-frigbtening
a piano into fits, or numbering the
Kings French, may be good bait for
certain kinds Of fish; must be Of that
kind usually found in very shallow
water. Girls, be natural, truthful,
homelike and capable Of making
homes and hearts happy.
Year: 1868




A TREMENDOUS PERoRATIoS.--
A Western stump-speaker thus scat
tiers himself around ia answer to an
opponent;


"Build worm fence around win
ter's supply of summer weather !;
skim the clouds from the sky with a
teaspoon; catch a thunderbolt in a
bladder; break a hurricane TO har-
ness; ground sluice an earthquake;
bake hell in an ice-house; lasso an
avalanche; pin a diaper on the crater
of an active volcano; hive all the
stars in nail keg; hang the ocean
on a grape vine to dry; put The sky
to soak in a gourd; unbuckle the
belly-band Of eternity and paste TO
let on the sun and moon, but never
sir-never for a moment, sir, delude
yourself with the idea that any ticket
Of your party can beat ours"
Year: 1868

GREENBAcKs are received by those
who shed their blood that the Union
might be perpotuated and pray,
why should not Wall street and the
bondholders take in payment for
their blood-bought gold interest the
same kind of'money2
Year: 1868

The unequal taxation sheet over ia the
Province wants to know if we have ever
attended Sabbath School. We never at
tended q Sabbath School where a g Peter
lPlumfulll' was Superintendent. NJ
Year: 1868

TuE special election held in the
Eighth Congressional District for
member Of the lower House Of Con
gress, on the 9th ult, resulted in
the election of the Radical candi.
date; and the Radical papers all
over the State, and all the street
politicians are doing their prottiest
to torture the result into Radical
victory They want something 10
CROW about, and have heard Of
nothing else since they and niger
suffrage were wiped out last fall
We hope they will have a joyful
time.and will make q great deal out
of what they call a reaction Ia
"pain."
Year: 1868

The present cold weather tells with greatly increased
severity our poor population. There has been no
dimnution in the number Of unemployed there Ia
not likely to be for some time to come. Many who
have been living their savings have finally exhausted
this source OF subsistence and, from having managed
thus far keep the wolf from their doors have no
other b1s starvation dependence charity
II is amsntable to know that the attention the urgent
necessity OF tho demands is not being given to our
unemployed and deserving poor. In the Thirteenth
ward-the only ward whore q special relief committee
has been organzed-t is feared the aid that has been
given to some six hundred families in the ward
will have to be suspended from lack OF funds Mr..
Kellock, Superintendent Of Outdoor Poor reports q.
daily growing increase OF applicants for assistance at
the office OF the Commissioners Of Chartes-tar more
than he can possibly supply The agents OF the Society
for Improving the Condition OF the Poor report tenfod
more desttuon than they can possibly relieve with tn


limited contributions they receiving Meantime III
meals ordered by the Commissioners OF Charities to b0
given each morning at the lombs, Essex Market and
Jefferson Market to the dodgers at the police station
houses such as are known 70 be Of employment and
deserving the charity are still regularly supplied every
day at those places This order went into effect the
10th ult. Tho following table will show the number
who have been fed in pursuance OF this Order:-
Year: 1868

At the stated meeting OF this Board, held last even
ing, large Of routine business transacted
the local Board OF the Eleventh ward granted per-
mission to lease for one year and month premises
at the southwest of and Tenth street at
aren't OF $ 500 per annum for grammar school No. &c.
and hire until May next at tho rate Of 1900 per
annum' the basement OF Baptist church on sixth
ton OF $l,500 made for the purpose Of
fitting up those establishments The sum or $21 900
appropriated for the purchase Of three lots OF ground
Thirty ninth street, Seventh avenue, for the
purpose OF building thereon grammar school for coorsd
children, and 900 moro were appropriated for the
purchase OF three lots OF ground Fftythrd street,
Sixth avenue for the purpose or building thereon
Q primary school, and resolution was adopted directing
the officers OF the Board to take needed measure to
insure q modification Of the law whereby the school
fund may not be deprived OF the value OF sites aban
doned when becomes necessary 10 change the ioca-
ton of schools S.
Year: 1868

The members Of this Commission met yesterday morn
ing for the purpose OF directing the payment Of the bill
OF the street cleaning contractor which work being
duly performed the Commission adjourned. day or
two cruel observed that the Commissioners
should certainly audit the BILL as whiting might
be seen in every street in the city
Year: 1868

Gen. Buffers remarks upon the Presidents
reply to- the tenth article of impeachment
drawn by Gen. Butler) present vivid pic
ture of the degradation of the Presidential
office by Mr.. johnson during his Western
tour in 1856. We copy from the unabridged
report:


Andrew johnson, the private citizen, as 1
may reyerently hope and trust he soon will
be, has the full constitutional right to think
and speak what he pleases, in the manner
he peases and where he pleases, provided
always that he does not place himself within
the purview of the common law offences of
being a common railer and brawler, or COM
mon scold, which he may do if a male person
is liable to commit that crime. But the dig
nifty Of station, the proprieties of position, the
courtesies of office, all of which are part of
the common law of the land, require the
President of the United States to observe
that gravity OF department, that carefulness
of conduct, that appropriateness of demean-
or and those amenities of behavior which
are part of his high official functions. He
stands before the youth of the country the
exemplar of all that is worthy in ambition,
and all that is to be sought in aspiration; he
stands before the men of the country as the
grave magistrate who occupies, if he does not
fill, the place once hOnOred by Washington,-
nay, far higher, of greater Importance, he
stands before the world as the representative
of free institutions, as the type of man


whom the suffrages of free people have


chosen as their chief; he should be the liy-
ing evidence OF how much better, higher, no.


bier and more in the image of God is the


elected ruler of a free people, than a hered-
itary monarch coming into power by the ac-
cident of birth; and when he disappoints all


these hopes and all these expectations and


becomes the ribald, scurrilous blasphemer,


bandying epithets and taunts with a jeering


mob, shall he be heard to say that such con-


duct is not high misdemeanor in office


Nay, disappointing the hopes, causing the
the cheek to burn with shame, exposing to
the taunts and ridicule of every nation the
good name and fame of the chosen institu-
tons of thirty millions of people, is the
highest possible crime and misdemeanor in
Office, and under the circumstances is the


gravamen of these charges. The words are
| not alleged to be either false or defama-
tory, because it is not within the power OF
any man, however high his official position,
in effect to SANDER the Congress OF the
| United States, in the ordinary sense OF that


word, so as to call on Congress to answer as
| TO the truth of the accusation. we do not
go in, therefore, to any question OF truth OF
| falsity. We rest upon the scandal of the
| scene. We would as soon think, in the tra
Year: 1868




The New York Tribune has an article un-
der the above caption from which we gather
some facts and suggestions that have close
bearing upon the interests of agriculture in
our country. The winter from which we
have Just emerged has been characterized by
great suffering from famine in many portions
of the world, and our own country has not
been exempt from the calamity that has be-
fallen other nations. Our recent war has dis
organized labor and brought desolation in its
train. But that is not the only cause of the
scarcity of food. The heavy rains in the
spring and early summer of 1867 were a Sc
we're drawback upon planting, and rotted the
seed in the South. The army worm made
sad havoc upon the green bolls of the cotton
and reduced the crop nearly one-half. Two
millions of bales were all that were raised
where there should have been four millions.
Other crops also suffered, but the great loss
was upon the cotton which deprived the
planters of the means to purchase their
bread.


The spri1g and early summer rains retard-
ed plowing, planting and cultivating in the
West, and these floods were followed by Sc
we're drouth which reduced the crops nearly
or quite one-half. 1t is true, Wisconsin es-
capped these calamities and some other locali-
ties in the great West were equally fortunate,
yet the Tribune thinks not more than half of
a full crop of Indian corn was harvested north
of the Ohio and the Missouri. This deficiency
has greatly increased the price Of beet and
pork. Although the South grew more food
in 1867 than in the average OF the ten pre-
ceding years, yet she has received far less
from the West than usual, because the yield
was less abundant than usual and because
she was much less able to pay. Hence mer-
camille embarrassments, and falling off in
demand for fresh goods and in payments for
those already purchased Many of these
changes the war has wrought, and the disor-
ganization of labor has produced its legiti-
mate results upon all classes.


But the people of this country have not
been the only sufferers. The inhabitants of
the Old World have been greater sufferers.
The failure of crops in the northern provin-
ces of Prussia, Sweden and of Russia was
productive of great want and suffering in
those portions Of the globe. Wheat, rye
barley and oats-and especially the three lat
ter, form the chief articles of food for the
poor, and these were all destroyed throughout
Year: 1868

"A jenkins says "Gcn Grant sits
elegantly on the Lack Of horse So he
rides pretty well on the rump Of an ass
But the beast is in fair way to give him
an awful iolling When he has done rid
ing on this iump, il there is n whole bone
in his body, he will bc lucky.
Year: 1868

Men and women make their own
beauty or their own ugliness. Lord
Lytt0n speaks of man who twas ug-
lier than he had any business 10 be -
and Ii he could read IL, every human
being carried his life in his face, and is
good looking or the reverse as that life
has been good or evil. On our features
the fine chisel of thought and emotion
IL eterfially 1t work. Beauty is not the
monopoly of blooming young men,
and of white and pink maidef1s.
There is slow growing beauty which
only comes to the perfection in old age.
Grace belongs TO no period of life. and
goodness improves the longer 1t exists.
| have seen q sweeter smile on q lip of
seventy than on lip of seventeen.
There is the beauty of youth, and there
10 also the beauty Of holiness II beauty
much more seldom met. and more FREE
qutntly found In the arm chair by the
fire, with tine grandchildren around
its knee, than In the balI-rdUm or
promenade. Husband and wife who
have fought the world side by side,
who have made common stock Of Joy
and sorrow, and grown aged together,
are not uhfrequentiy found curi0usly
alike In personal appearance, and In
pitch and tone of voice--just as twin
pebbles on the beach, exposed to the
same tidal influences, are each Others
second self. He has gained fema-
nine something, which brings his man
hood into full relief. She has gained
masculine something. which; acts as
d foil 70 her wOmanhOod. m fa
Year: 1868

EcoNoMY.-Thef father OF an ifItefes-
ting family residing near Detroit, not
long since stopped the only newspaper
which he had ever allowed himself or
family, and solely on the ground that
lie could not afford the expense. This
man chews UP fourteen dollars and six
n. cputs worth of tobacco every year
Year: 1868

o, word Of undying beauty; thine
echoes sound along tile walks Of time
till they crumble at the breath of the
eternal In all the world there Is not
habitual spot where the music OF that
holiest word Is not sounded. BY the
golden flow of the river. by the crystal
margin Of the rock, under the shade Of
the forest tree, I'm the hut built of bam-
boo cane, In the thatched cottage, the
grand peaks of the kissing mountains,
the wide spread valley, on the blue
ocean. in the changeless desert where
the eagle came down to the parched
lips OF the sweet waters of the wilder
ness, on the alters where the father
stayed, the downward stroke Of his
sacrificial knife, warned by the voice of
God, between the pillows, that like sol
Id walls Of ruby, threw their crimson
on the swarthy crowds of Israelitish
men, and lighted the dark eyes of the
women under the tents of the Arab,
and in the bark covered wigwam OF the
Indian hunter, wherever the pulse of
human hearts best quick and warm, or
float feebly along the current Of failing
life, there Is that sweet word spoken
like universal prayer Mother.
Year: 1868




innate of his character and qualities and trusting
implicitly in his own intuitive judgment Of char
acter, he did not hesitate to urge Colonel Giles to
avail himself of Victor's services, when he dis
covered the perplexity of that officer in finding an
agent to discover and bring to light the secret cor
respondents and spies of the enemy. He felt as
sured that Victors alertness and quickness Of ap-
prehension, together with his sense Of the respon
sibility imposed upon him, would make amends
for his inexperience, whilst his very youthtulness
would tend to disarm the caution and suspicion OF
those whom he was sent to watch. He had quick
and discerning eye, and his youthfulness OF ap-
nearance would Danish suspicion as to his purposes
and objects, from the minds Of the most wary and
d;strustful., Such was the reasoning of Lieuten-
ant McGregor, and thinking to benefit Victor, in
whom he already felt a warm interest, he succeed
ed in having him put upon the confidential service
of which we have spoken. -..


At first, Victor was rather pleased at the duty
assigned him, nasmuch as it freed him, fora time,
at least, from the irksomeness Of the camp and
the severity of the service, and permitted him free
" to range through the streets of the historic OLD
city, of which he had read and heard so much
The only drawback to his satisfaction was, that to
save himself from the modification OF an utter
failure, he must achieve some positive and definite
result. The soldier on post has duties Of mega,
tive character to perform while those assigned te
him were of the most positive and active charac
ter, demanding the keen and skillful exercise o.
every faculty of his intellect It was not the mere
guarding of post, but he was to accomplish th'
far more difficult task of finding clue to the abet
tors and partisans of the enemy, and following il