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Year: 1867

The New York Times (Rep.) says:
"The premature death of the impeach-
ment agitation is indicated by the fact
that no quorum of the Judicial Commit.
tee could be found on Wednesday al
Washington. The ardent impeachers
were all absent; two out of the three
members who actually came to the tryst.
ing place being Democrats. If the other
members drag themselves to the commit
tee-rooms it will scarcely be with any
great confidence in the success Of theil
undertaking. Events have passed them
by. Before they could get their impeach.
ment fairly in motion the campaign fol
the next Presidency would absorb the at
tention Of the public, and the impeachers
would be discovered wrangling among
each other over a cdput nortuuna. The
people would not be disposed to take ar
interest in a contest for the removal oi
President johnson on the very eve of be-
ling called on to elect his successor. Be


sides, these extreme measures are danger.
Gus at juncture like the present, since
| it is not to the interest Of any party te
risk making more enemies than necessa
/ ry. Even advanced" Radicals cannot
afford to indulge in false steps. The Ju


dietary Committee might as well turn. it
attention to some subject in which its la.


bors would be of benefit to the public"
Year: 1867

The Cleaveland Plain Dealer says
Owe have no intention of making fun Of
serious matters in telling the following
good story-we merely relate fact:


"There is rule at Oberlin College that
no student shall board at any house
where prayers are not regularly made
each day A certain man fitted up a
boarding house and filled it with board
ers, but forgot, until the eleventh hour,
the prayer provise. Not being a pray
ing man himself, he looked around for
one who was. At length he found one
"a meek young man from Trumbull
county, who agreed to pay for his board
in praying. For awhile all went on
smoothly. but the boarding master fur
nished his table so poorly that the board
ers began to grumble and to leave and
the other morning the prayer boardel
actually Struck" Something like the
following dialogue occurred at the table;


''Landlord-Will you pray, Mr.. Midi


"Mild-No, sir, I will not.


"Landlord-Why not, Mr.. Mild2


"Mild-It don't pay, sir. | cant pray
on such ,vituals as these. And unless
you bind yourself in writing to set a
better table than you have for the last
three weeks, nary another prayer do you
get out of me.


"And that's the way the matter stood
at the latest advices."
Year: 1867

Despise not thy mother when she is
old. Age may waste mothers beauty,
strength, limbs, sense, and estate; but her
relation as a mother is as the sun when
goes forth..in its might-for tits always
the meridian, and knoweth no evening.
The person may be gray headed, but her
motherly relation is ever in the forish.
1t may be autumn, yea, winter with a
woman, but with the mother tits always
spring. Alasl how little do we appreci-
ate mothers tenderness while living
How needless We are of all her ankle
ties and kindness! But when she is dead
and gone-when the cares and GOODNESS
of the world come witheripg to our
hearts-when We experience how hard
It Is to find true sympathy how few will
befriend US in misfortune-tben it is
that We think of the mother we have
lost.
Year: 1867

The other day at Toledo, Ohio, Scat.
tie dealer received pay for steer, which
had been sold to butcher, end rolling
the greenbacks into small wad, put
them into his tobacco box. Shortly after
he extracted, as he thought, a portion of
the tobacco, but with all his mastication
could expectorate none of the savory
juices, and finally took his quid out Of
his mouth to look at it, when he found
he had been chewing his roll of green.
backs. He stood aghast for moment
and then burst out: "Cuss the luck! a
whole steer at one chew!"
Year: 1867

Tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied her raven ringlets in;


But not alone in the silken snare


Did she catch her lovely floating hair,
For tying her bonnet under her chin
She tied ayoung mans heart within.
They were strolling together up the hill,
Where the wind comes blowing merry an
chill.


And it blew the curls frolicsome race,
All over the happy, peach -colered face,
Tillscolding and laughing she tied them in,
Under her beautiful, dimpled chin.
And it blew color, light as the bloom
OF the pinksst fuschia's tossing plume,
All over the cheeks of the prettiest girl
That ever imprisoned a romping curl,
Or, tying her bonnet under her chin,


Tied young mans heart within.


Sleeper and sleeper grew the hill;


Madder, merrier, chillier still


The western wind blew down and played
The widest tricks with the little maid,
AS tying her bonnet under her chin
She tied a young mans heart within.
Oh, western wind, do you think it was fair
To play such tricks " ith her floating hairf
To gladly, gleefully do your best
To pillow her against the young mans breast
Where he as gladly folded her in,
And kissed her mouth and dimpled chini
Oh, Ellery Vane, ven little thought,
An hour ago, when you besought
This country lass to walk with you,
After the sun had dried the dew,
What perilous danger you'c be in
As she tied her bonnet under her chin.
Year: 1867

D mother, canst thou see thy childi


Upon whose head thy blessings fell;
Around whose path in beauty smiled


Love that no human tongue may tella
Canst see me gazing on that star,


We both have loved and watched so oft,
As, glimmering through the clouds afar,
Its mellow radiance, bright yet soft.
Seems like thy love, SO constant felt,


So gentle in its soothing power,
And ye. so strong that it could melt


The sternest heart in passions hour?
Mother, thy fond love could not die;


Too good, too beautiful for earth,s
'Tis but ascended to the sky,


The source from whence it had lis birth.
0, it looks down, like the soft ray


Of our own star. thy holy love,
Guarding my path by highland day,
And pointing to our home above.
Where should it be, but where the heart
Its treasure hast there it will come,
And, dearest mother, where thou art,


Wilt make doubly welcome home:
Aud though kneel upon the sod,


That binds thy breast with its cold chain,
knew that thou art with thy God,


And trust that we will meet again.
Then guard me well. for would fain
Enjoy that hope in this brief life,
Where every pleasure seems but vain,
And fondest schemes with sadness rife.
Year: 1867

s@- The price of cats are said to be
advancing in Paris on account Of the ex-
cellent soup which they make when kill
ed and cooked. Many visitors to the great
Exposition will be treated to cat SOUP
under some Frcnchi6ed name and think
it is delicious. a
Year: 1867

Ey- Here is an item illustrating the pro
gressive character of this age:


A meeting of the proprietors of houses o
prostitution in New York city was held on
Tuesday, in obedience to a call signed by an
Executive Committee" Of eighteen persons
and keepers Of houses of i'll fame. The
meeting was private one, about fifty per
sons being present. Its object was explain
ed in the call to be for the purpose of per.
fecting an association for mutual protection
and benefit, and also for helping the passage
of license law.
Year: 1867

CURE EoR CoRNs-Take lemon, cut a
piece of it off, then nick it SO as to let in the
toe with the corn. Tie this on at night SO
that it cannot move, and you will find the
next morning that, with blunt knife, the
corn will come away to great extent. Two
or three applications will effect thorough
cure.
Year: 1867

HAZARDOUS UNDERrAKINa.-The recent
trip Of the steamer Colorado from Yokohama,
a distance Of 4,75o miles, without stopping
at an intermediate port for coal, has demon
srated that it is not safe to continue the at
tempt to run the whole distance with the
quantity she is able to carry. She consum.
ed over LOO tons and bad but SO tons left
on her arrival at San Francisco, so that a
detention of two days by bad weather would
have left her without fuel. The Company
will either have to stop at Honolulu for coal,
as originally intended, or find some less
bulky material for fuel. 1t is thought that
crude petroleum can bo used with the coal
and thus obviate the difficulty. 1t is esti-
mated that seven gallons Of petroleum will
give as much heat as one ton Of coal. This
would not only be much cheaper than coal,
but its use would enable the ship to carry a
much larger amount of freight, and thereby


increase the profits of the voyage.-Stock-
tom Independent.
Year: 1867

IAN NiSlI ~ II EOiE.


From Our Special Correspondent,


BEIRUT, Syria, July 2, 1867.


The civilizng and Christianizing influences
which are at work in Syria find good illustration in the
following article, which has just appeared the official
organ lie L6d. OF Daud Pasha at Beddn. Mount Leba,
non 1t is entitled "Customs and Practices Of Syria -
and is IN both Arabic and French:


In Mount Lebanon there exist certain customs which
had their origin in kindly feeling and sympathy but have
now passed beyond the limits of proprety and lost their
original meaning For example: When one falls sick
his friends and relatives at once begin TO pour in upon
him. The whole population Of the town will crowd into
the house, each one speaking to him word OF comfort
and encouragement and then sitting down in the sick
room. Then they must speak word to the family the
wife and Children assuring them that the disease ia but
slight, and the sick will speedily recover Then they
crowd into the sick land Sch crowd as IL isl and
smoke cigars or narghelies and talk all once and
in loud voice, and the air becomes impure
ard suflocating. and all these things as matter
OF course nlure the sick man, and he becomes worse
Then the childish doctors Of the town are summoned,
and In they with grave faces and great show OF
wisdom, and each begins TO recount the OF al
the medicines he has heard OF and describes their
in working miraculous cures and then enter into ignorant
disputes learned subjects and talk the art OF nedi-
cine, Of which they know nothing save what they have
learned by heaTsay and Will insist that this medicine
the best for his father used IL with great benefit just
before he died, and another viii urge the claims OF
another medicine of "A directly opposite character and
opinions will clash all IN the presence of the sick man.
who thus becomes agated and alarmed and takes first
one medicine and then opposite and then e calls other
doctors and then the relatives and old women take him
In hand and set at naugt all the doctors have advised
and give him medicines OF whose properties they are
whelly ignorant, and thus they hasten the final
departure OF their friend on his long, last journey.
And he should die at once the whole population OF the
town assemblies at the house the relatives and friends
and neghbOrs and people from other villages They
count the virtues Of the departed with shreks
and lamentations, and In measured sanzas, and this re-
senbles the old customs OF the Greeks and Romans, who
hired male and female mourners TO do thr weeping Tor
them. And, after this they proceed at once 10 bear tho
corpse TO the grave, without one thought az TO proving
whether there be yet life remaining not not leaving 10
even u hours and never ~ hours and 1t Is well known
that this custom Is most brutal and pcous for they may
suppose living man to be dead and bury him alive, as
bas no doubt often been done, Ths custom ~ agran
Year: 1867

THROUGH ROUTE OPENED.-The through
route to Brook avenue per city railway
was opened yesterday, but owing to some
mismanagement, the Rockets morning
train missed the connection at Ninth-street
junction, so that the passengers had to lie
over there until this morning, when they
can resume their journey to Brook ave-
nue.. 1t has been suggested that there is
an understanding between the railway
managers and the proprietors of the Spots
wood Hotel, which is very convenient for
the passengers who have to lie over for the
next train. We don't credit this, and we
hope that the friends Of the road will not
hearken to these calumnious reports chcu-
lated by its enemies. These little mishaps
will happen in the best regulated institu-
tions, and time must be given for their cor
rection.
Year: 1867

ARREST OF A SUPPOSED HoRsE-THIEF.-
Constable Cole on yesterday arrested a
negro whom he found on Seventeenth
street trying to sell fine gray horse at
such low price as to excite suspicion,
The negro could give no satisfactory ac-
count for the animal.
Year: 1867

CIRCUIT CoURr OF RIcHAoND.-The Cir
cult Court adjourned yesterday until its
next term, which commences on the FIRST
Monday in February. During the recent
short term the docket was reduced about
thirty cases, besides the transaction OF
much chancery and common-law business
Judge Meredith is one of the most laborious
and efficient judges on the bench of Vir-
ginia, holding four terms Of his court every
year for the very small salary of $4,000.
This SUN is entirely inadequate to the sup
port Of family in this city. The country
judges receive $4,000 and mileage, and
everybody knows it is much more expen-
sive to live in city than in the rural dis
tricts. One would think the members OF
the Legislature themselves had sufficiently
experienced this difference to make a more
liberal allowance to our city judge.
Year: 1867

FIREs.-Thc alarm of fire yesterday was
caused by the burning Of kitchen Chin
ney on First between Main and Cary
streets.


The alarm yesterday morning at 2 o'clock
was caused by the burning of a chimney
near the corner Of Leigh and Sixth streets.
Year: 1867

This Association has been organized BY few
citizens OF the city OF Baltimore with a view OF
relieving, to the extent of their ability, the sufs
ferngs Of the widows and orphans OF the southern
States who have been left homeless, helpless, aud
DsnaiteSs by the late war.


This Association, having thoroughly examined
the true condition Of this unhappy class, and
having fully communicat ted its plans and purposes
TO the most eminent and most popular OF the gen.
tlemen and TO the most generous and philsn.
and advice, have unanimously adopted the follow
ing plan for seeking and most surely obtaining tho
aid OF all good people who can givetheir hands In
4 cause SO meritorious and SO human0--frmly be-
lieving that by the prompt execution the object In
view will be surely accomplished.


The plan adopted is to distribute to subscribers
throughout all the southern states
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-reliant. and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversih-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

Every department Of business has ar imme-
date interest in the markets Of the country. and
In its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who fails to keep himself properly adj
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets. az
controlled By the laws Of demand and supply,
and the relative condition Of the currency. is
exposed to constant loss. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprising
neighbOrs. In order to make our paper valuable
as well az interesting. we shall continue 10
make this a SPECIAL FEATURE. Our Daily
Market Reports, domestic and foreign. BY tsle-
graph. and our City Reports. gotten up at heavy
expense, have challenged the commentator Of
cur best business men; while our current Fiaan-
cial Reports from ell the leading money centre


Of the country are fuller than have ever


published BY any other Journal in Tennesssee.
Year: 1867

A PROTEST AGAINST INJUDIcIoUs EARLY
RISING. DIR. Hall, in the February number
of his Journal Of Health says; 90 One of the
very worst economies of time is that flched
from necessary sleep. The wholesale but
blind commendation of early rising is as
mischievous in practice as it is arrant folly
in theory. Early rising is crime against
the noblest part of our physical nature, un-
less it is preceded by an early retiring. We
caution parents particularly not to allow
their children to be walked up in the morn
ings !; let nature wake them up, she will not
do it prematurely; but have care that they
90 to bed at an early hour let it be earlier
and earlier, until it is found that they wake
up of themselves in full time to dress for
breakfast. Being walked up early, and allow
ed to engage in difficult or any studies late
and just before retiring, has given many a


beautiful and promising child brain fever, or


determined ordinary ailments to the produc-
tion of water on the BRAIN
Year: 1867

TuF ONO SENAToRS.-W ade is q man not
given. | should imagine, to close study or
diligent reading, but his intuitions make up
for his deficiency in this respect; they come
to his relief ALWAYS. and often serve better
purpose than the bookishness of other men.
Sherman is man of close application,
student bv habit and inclination and al
though he may have all OF Made s faculty
for extemporaneous debate or action, he lacks
self-confidcuce to exercise it. Neither OF the
Ohio senators caa he called finished orators.
or orators of any kind in the strict meaning
of the word But Sherman is good rheto-
rician and fair rcasoner. Wade speaks
sometimes with more force and effect than
his colleague; he relies less on the force of
what he saws than in the vim with which he
saws it. 4 strictly Ben Wade speech would
be weary, stale, fiat and improbable effort
from the tongue of almost anybody else. 1t
is like the bow Of Ulysses, which could be
welded effectively only by the strong arm of
its owner. and was but cumbrous and pom
derous load under any other. 1t IS for this
reason that to be Influenced by what he says
YOU must hear him, and see him, too. You
must see the old fellow get up in a fit of
passion. kick his chair away to make play
room for himself, put one hand under the
breast of his waistcoat and you must hear
him change his voice from talk to a scOld
and from a scold to a roar. This is not ora
tory nor rhetoric, nor defamation, but is
something that carries its point in the Sen
ate better than either. In the old pro-
slavery days when Wade and John p. Hale
and Sumner were about the only abolitionists
in the Senate, the Southerners feared the un-
polished denunciation of Wade more than
the scholarly invective of Sumner | have
been told by Mr.. Sumner that on one occasion
while Wade was speaking, Mason of Vir-
ginia. touched him (Sumner) on the shoulder


and. in tone of positive fright, said; g Ny
God, see that man prance +" On another
occasion, some one, Wigfall, believe, tolt


one of his Southern colleagues that he mean


to reply to one of Ben's speeches. g oh


for Heavens sake, do n't-do mt rouse tn


old fellew. We We got him quiet now. ant


better let him alone. Correspondence Ci'
cinnnti Commercial.
Year: 1867

public another volume, tracing the work of
from the surrender of the
rebel armies to the restoration of all the
states to their equal position in the regener-
ated Union We trust his life and vigor
may be spared to fulfill this promise, and
that the South may so soon come to its right
mind, and accept the situation, as to give


his pen early employment in tina work.
Year: 1867

Our lives are spent either in doing nothing
to the purpose, in doing nothing that we
ought to do. We are always complaining
our days are few, and acting as though there
would be no end of them.
Year: 1867

Whether a man can or cannot sup
port himself and those dependent upon
him on the proceeds Of eight hours
labor is not for US to judge. That is q
question for each to answer for himself.
But this much may be safely affirmed,
that there is not tiving in Chicago one
Year: 1867

The eight hour difficulty in Chicago
is not yet settled, and business remains
almost at standstill. The Republican,
which makes itself workingman's
organ, declares that every man that
resumes work under the old system is
booked, and n moral suasion committee
appointed to wait upon him, and in
nine cases out of ten they convince
these backsliders Of the error OF their
ways. The Republican also pronounces
false the reports that the railroad shops
and many large manufacturing estab-
lishments have found plenty of men to
work on the old basis (tsn hours) and
declares that "not only hive all the
railroad companies, who engage the
bulk Of the men, made continued and
persistent overtures for their return up
TO the present time, but what is more,
there are not dozen men at work in


all the chops, out OF thousands usually
employed. Tho difficulty is certainly
a serious one for all parties concerned,
and will cause loss in time and pro-
Year: 1867

and equity, and no more leaning to the
tribe of her own children and grandchildren
than might fairly be expected.


So 90 matters in this easy, rollicking,
sunny climate, where the warm days so
outnumber the cold that the laborer never
thinks it hardship to live in house with
out glass windows, generally being certain
that no rain storm will beat in at all four
sides of his house at once, so that he can
have an open shutter somewhere


1t is hardly possible to run plantation
with hands trained under the old reQine
without running in the same old, worn, rat
tling grooves in which the machinery OF
plantation life has always moved


y climate whose summer lasts pretty
much the year round, inclines people, spite
of themselves, to the large, leisurely, easy
way Of doing things Nature here does
not bring you up with the short, decided,
step-mother turns of northern latitudes,
where if you do not SOW to-day it will be
too late tomorrow, where frost stands sem
try on both ends of the three months called
summer, TO warn you that it is now or
never with you, and a cold winter bids you
look ahead and store provision and fuel
Tor us lung r,ontls- Here, where one can
90 on sowing, reaping and tending garden
the year round, everything inclines one to
take matters by the day, to comfort ones
self that there is tinne enough tomorrow
for what isn't done to-day. So even North
ern Yankees find the grim clutches of care
relaxing their hold they laugh at incon-
veniences which at home they would find
matters of grave Importance, and agree to
take life, as our friend Romeo is convinced
the last trumpet will find them, 8 cool and
easy


But we are out running our space, and
must defer what more we have to say of
Florida life to another letter


It. Johns River, Florida, April l.