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Year: 1868

New METHOD OF LIGHTING PUBLIC
HALLs.-The following is given as the
latest invention for lighting large halls:


"This invention for lighting public halls,
is Of recent date, there being, we are in
formed, but one church as yet lit in this
manner, and this is the place of worship in
Brooklyn, New York, of which Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher is pastor. The lighting
arrangement or reflector is octagon shape,
about twelve feet in diameter. 1t is COM
posed of plates of prepared glass, of great
reflective power. In the center of the re-
hector appears the gas.drop, to which is
appended a hanging circle of thirty-six
burners. The circle is about three feet in
diameter. There are two of these rehectors
placed in the ceiling, about thirty feet
apart, and the result is that every portion
Of the audience room of the church is
beautifully Illuminated. The lights are
placed so near the ceiling as not TO affect
the eyes Of either the speaker or the audi
ence, and yet it shines down with such a
mellow glow that the smallest print can
be read with great ease. This arrange
ment is the patent of Mr.. Frink, Of New
York"
Year: 1868

And for the special pleasure and profit Of the
young. each week we will give a general literary
and religious miscellany. Nothing shall find
its way into our columns unfit for the perusal
the mothers aud daughters Of the land. Depre-
eating the demoralilins sensatiOnalism Of many
contemporary journals, we shall eschew that
character striving 10 giye the reader substantial
matter. preferriug TO be useful rather than


eusauonal.
Year: 1868

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 viii pay special attention
to the COST and sTATIsTIOs Of manuiacturing
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversif-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
uont Of Southern resources.
Year: 1868

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE lash.
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the UNION AND DTsPAToH by the
patrona Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present a Newspaper hitht
10 unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper will compare favorably ith


best in the entire country; and in sayins


we only repeat the expressions Of many


patrons, who are most capable Of judging in


matters.
Year: 1868

Together with the ills which follow In their
train. His remedies are we'll known. for there
is scarcely State in the Union which has not
riAbly cured.


Patients who cannot come to Nashville can
have the remedies applicable to their disorder
sent them, securely put up IN the least possible
compass for safe transportation.


Ladies need not hesitate to apply for advice.
A personal interview is not always necessary.
All correspondence is confidential. Instructions
through the medium Of correspondence for the
proper administration Of medicine is frequently,
all that is necessary. Oct11eOdtf
Year: 1868

done, In the stupend0us emergency, it
probably ross ov1Fjthe Constitution, and


in place of that charter proclaimed and


enforced the will of the people-the


source of constitutions and the sole re-
pository power. They who hold the
Constitution to be more sacred than the


Justice It enshrined or the glorious ends it


was intended TO achieve, will cling fast to
their idolatry and put away the true sover-


eign. But the vitality which infused itself
in the Government was q living principle,
and it remains to vitalize the future as it
has the past, and to lift above all cavil its
inexorsble justice, indomitable majesty,
and its glorious destiny in the coming
time. -5t.-
Year: 1868

There will be no performance at the St.
Charles this evening, on account of prepa-
rations for the magnificent production of
the White Fawn, (which will be brought
out with immense splendor.
Year: 1868

The Offices of the Governor and Secre-
tary of State will be removed from the
Mechanics Institute to the house on Cont
street, next below the bank building, on
the frst pleasant day.
Year: 1868

THE OLD WOMAN Once she was &
Mother and it is "Motber I'm hun
gry," "Mother, mend my jacket
Mother, put up my dinner" and
"Mother,'' with her loving hand
would spread the bread, and stow away
the luncheon, and sew on the great
patch, her heart brimming with afec.
ton for the imperious little curley pate
that made her SO many steps and near
ly distracted her with his boisterous
mirth


Now she is the cold woman" but she
did not think it would ever come to that
She looked on through the future years
and saw her boy to manhood grown, and
he stood transfgured in the light of hel
own beautiful love. Never was there q
more noble son than he-honored of the
world, and the staff of her declining
years.


Aye, he was her support even then
but she did not know it. She never
realizes that it was her little boy that
gave her strength for her daily toll
that bis slender form was all that up
held her over the brink of dark despair
She only knew how she loved the child
aud felt that amid the mists of age his
love would bear her gently through its
infrmities to the dark hall leading to
the life beyond.


But the SOD has forgotten the tender
ministrations now. Adrift from the
moorings of home, he is cold, selfish,
heartless, and "Mother" has no sacred
name to the prodigal. She is "the old
woman" wriukled, gray, lame and
blind.


Pity her, o grave, and dry those
tears that roll down her furrowed
cheeks Have compassion ON her sen.
sitive heart, and offer it thy quiet rest,
that it may forget how much it longed
to be "dear mother" to the boy it nour.
ished through careless childhood, but
in return for all this wealth of tender.
ness has given back reproach.
Year: 1868

Horace Greely. in his "Recollections
of Busy Life" now being published
in the New York Ledger, says in q
late number:


"If it be suggested that my whole
Indebtedness was at no time more than
$4,000 to $4,000, l have only to say
that even 81 900 of debt is ruin to him
who keenly feels his obligation to fulfill
every engagement, yet is utterl y with
out the means of so doing, and who
finds himself dragged each week little
deeper into hopeless insolvency. To
be hungry, ragged and penniless is not
pleasant; but this is nothing to the
horror of bankruptcy. All the wealth
of the Rothschild's would be poor
recompense for FIVE years struggle
with the consciousness that you had
taken the money or property of trusting
friends, promising to return or repay
for it when required, and had betrayed
their confidence through insolvency. l
dwell on this point, for l would deter
others from entering that place of tor
ment. Half the young men in the
country, with many old enough to know
better, would ego into business''-that
is into debt-to-morrow if they could.
Most poor men are SO ignorant as to
envy the merchant or manufacturer
whose life is an incessant struggle with
pecuniary difficulties, who is driven to
constant shining" and who from
month to month, barely evades that in
solvency which sooner or later over
takes most men in business, so that it
has been computed that but one in
twenty of them achieve a pecuniary
success. For my own part-and l
speak from sad experienced would
rather be convict in State Prison, OF
a slave in rice swamp, than to pass
through life under the harrow of debt
Let no young man misjudge himself un-
fortunate. or truly poor so long as he
has the full use of his limbs and faculties,
and is substantially free from debt.
Hunger, cold, rags, hard work, con-
tempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are
disagreeable; but debt is infinitely
worse than them all And, if it had
pleased God to spare either or all of my
sons to be the support and solace of my
declining years, the lesson which |
should have most earnestly sought to
impress upon them is, "Never run into
debt! Avoid pecuniary obligation as
you would pestilence and famine. II
you have but fifty cents, and can get
no more for week, buy a peck of corn,
parch it and live Oh it, rather than owe
any man dollar!" Of course know
that some men must do business that
involves risks, and must often give
notes and other obligations, and 1 dc
not consider him really in debt who can
lay his hands directly on the means of
paying, at some little sacrifice, all be
owes | speak of real debt-that which
involves risk or sacrifice on the one side,
obligation and dependence on the other
and [ say from all such let every
youth humb!y pray God to preserve
him evermore.
Year: 1868

EFFECT OF ABSENCE OF SOUND
DR.. FL. Rails Smith, of Louisville, Ky,
by certain Investigations, claims to have
established the truth of the theory that
animals living permanently in the Mann


moth Cave of Kentucky, are not only
without trace Of the optic nerve, but
are also destitute of the sense of hear
ing. At one time he penetrated about
four miles into the interior of the cave,
and some 400 feet below the surface of
the earth, the solitude and total absence
of sound produced very distressing
and almost insupportable effect upon
him, resulting in very perceptable,
although temporary, detection of hear
ing and alteration of mind. This ex-
plains the fact why persons lost in the
cave for one, two, or three days have
always been found, when rescued, in a
state of temporary insanity. The mind
and special sense, deprived of their nat
ural pabulum and stimulus, gradually
become weakened, paralyzed, atrophied,
and finally as far as external manifesto
tions are concerned, nearly if not quite
extinct. This fact may afford some
clue to the cause of eretinism, species
of idiocy in the Alpine valleys.
Year: 1868

The following is from the able pen Of
Mr. Ruskin. Our lady readers will find
in it lesson worthy of their study, and
a deserved tribute to their sex:


You have first to mould her physical
frame, and then, as the strength she
gains will permit you. to fill and temper
her mind with all knowledge and
thoug hts which tend to confirm its nat
ural instincts ofjustice aud refine its nat
ural tact of love.


All such knowledge should be given
her as man enable her to understand,
and even to aid, the work of men; and
yet it should be given, not as knowledge,
not as if it were or could be, an object
to know but only of feel and to judge.
1t is of no moment, as matter of pride,
correctness or perfectness in himself,
whether she knows many languages or
one, but it is of the utmost that she
should be able to show kindness to a
stranger, and to understand the sweet
ness of strangers tongue. 1t is of no
moment to her worth or dignity that
she should be acquainted with this sci
ence or that, but it is of the highest that
she should be trained in habits of accu-
rate thought, that she should understand
the meaning, the inevitableness and the
lines of natural law, and follow at least
some one path of scientific attainment,
as far as to the threshold of the bitter
Valley of Humiliation, into which only
the wisest and bravest of men can de-
scend owning themselves forever chill
dren gathering pebles on a soundless
shore. 1t is of little consequence how
many positions of cities she knows, OF
how many dates of events, or how many
names of celebrated persons-it is net
the object of education to turn woman
into dictionary, but is deeply necessa.
ry that she should be taught to enter
with her whole personality into the
history she reads, to picture the passag.
es of it vitality in her own bright imagin-
alton; to apprehend with her fine in
stincts, the pathetic circumstances and
dramatic relations which the historian
too often only eclipses by his reasoning,
and disconnects by his arrangement
1t is for her to trace the hidden equalties
of divine reward, and catch sight,
through the darkness, of the fatal
threads of woven fire that connect error
with its retribution. But chiefly of all,
she is to be taught to extend the limits
of her sympathy with respect to that
history which is being forever deter
mined as the moments pass in which she
draws her peaceful breath, and to the
contemporary calamity, which were it
but rightly mourned by her, would
recur no more hereafter. She is to ex-
ercise herself in imagining what would
be the effects upon her mind and con.
duct if she were brought into the pres
ence of the suffering which is not the
less real because shut for her sight She
is to be taught somewhat to understand
the nothingness of the proportion which
that little world in which God lives and
loves, and solemnly she is to be taught
to strive that her thoughts of piety may
be feeble in proportion to the number
they embrace, not her prayer more
languid than it is for the momentary
relief from pain of her husband or her
child, when it is uttered for the multi.
tude of those who have none to love
them, and is for all who are desolate
land onnressed
Year: 1868

PRUNING THE GoosEBERRY AND
CURRANT.-In the culture of the goose
berry and currant three distinct modes
are adopted. The first, which is quite
common in this country, is plant the
bushes along garden fences, where they
often grow up with grass, and being
neither cultivated nor cared for, the
fruit becomes small and of little value.
This is the worst mode. The next is to
cultivate, but not prune them. The
fruit on such bushes is fine while they
are young, but as they become filled
with profusion of old bearing wood it
diminishes in size. The third and best
mode is to give them a good, clean cul-
tivation, and to keep up constant
supply of young bearing wood, yielding
large and excellent crops. The currant
and gooseberry, like the cherry, bear
their fruit on shoots two or more years
old; and it is important that a success
sion of strong young shoots be main
tanned for this purpose. The branches
of the heads should, therefore, be dis
tributed at equal distances, and the old
bearing spurs cut out when they become
too thick, or enfeebled, and new shoots
allowed successively to take their place.
When the young gooseberry or currant
bush is set out, all the buds or suckers
below the surface of the ground should
be previously ly cut off clean, so as to form
clear stem. 1t is often recommended
that this stem be foot highs before
branching-which does well for the
moist climate of England, but under
our hot suns it is better that the branch
es begin near the surface of the ground.
Old currant bushes, such as have grown
up thick mass, may be greatly i'm
proved, and will increase the fruit sew
eral times the size, by thinning out
clean all the old crooked wood, and
leaving a sufficient umber of stems at
equal distances to bear the future crop.
The English gooseberry, in this country,
will remain free from mildew, only so
long as it is kept in vigorous, grow
ing condition, by frequent and judicious
pruning, so as to give constant sue
cession Of strong oots.-Hananaonton
Culturist.


CoNcE1r.-Hardly anything is more
contemplate than conceit which rests
merely upou social position, the conceit
of those who imagine that they are thus
divorced from the clay of common
men, of those who shrink with horror
from the idea Of work, as something
which degrades from its very contact,
and yet who, ever likely, owe their
present position to some not remote
ancestor who, recognizing his call to
work, lived more honestly in the world
than they do, and was not ashamed of
soiled thumbs. 1t is one of the mean
est things for people to be ashamed
of the work from which they draw
their income, and which gloriied their
ancestors more with their soiled apron
and black gowns, than themselves with
their fine ribbons and flashing jewelry.
1t might be fine thing to be like the
lilies, more gloriously arrayed than
Solomon, and doing nothing, as if we
were lilies. Advantageous position is
only more emphatic call to work and
while those who hold the advantage may
not be compelled 70 manual drudgery,
they should recognize the fact that
manual drudgery may be performed in
the same spirit as that which character
ICES their own work, and therefore that
it is equally honorable.
Year: 1868

her cold cheek fondly. ~ declare, Mr.. Mar
tin, you've put her all in tremble. It's
been SO unexpected like o dear ! dear mel
when / think of the misery of this very hour,
and how it's all cleared away, and that /
shall see my poor patient husband properly
tended and brought back to life, as it WERE
I declare Ii seems too much, too much" and
the excited woman literally lifted up her
voice and wept for joy.


Lucy stood looking at her in kind of
stupor. Without word of acquiescence in
her destiny, she was giving over to a man
whose dissolute life had been the talk of the
parish for years, in whose house even now a
wretched creature from whom she would
recoiled with ioathing held her away. No,
no: any fate but this Rouslng herself, she
turned to the well satisfied Martin, but be-
tween him and her aching eyes floated vi
sion of her dying father. She put up her
hands as il to drive it away, but they were
caught in the hot clasp of her unwelcome
lover, and he saw not the inward struggle /;
but drawing her to his embrace, he pressed
his lips to her brow. 1t was the first link in
the chain, and desperately freeing herself, she
rushed up stairs and crept into the closet
where she slept. To kneel, to wiring her
hands, to form resolves that nothing should
induce her to accept him, and then, as she
remembered all he promised, to bury her
head in her hands, and ardently wish that it
was to her death was coming instead of to
her father
Year: 1868




The six weeks had passed away, and John
Pearson was free But he lost within the
prison walls the little mental and bodily
strength he had when he entered them /;
returning to Patchct Mead with signs of ap-
preaching dissolution in his face. Lucy's
five pounds was fast melting away; and the
courage with which she had SO bravely sus-
tanned the sinking spirits of those who clung
to her, began to fail when she looked at her
father. Perhaps those six weeks spent in
the cottage at Patchet Mead had been
Taught with as much misery to her, as Pear
sons lonely ones in the infirmary of the Jail.


While her relatives, during the last few
months, by slow degrees were sinking in
the social scale, and becoming accustomed
to the loss of the comforts that had once
surrounded them, Lucy, seated in the luxu-
rious carriage of Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer, OF
staying at the best hotels of the cities they
visited, had shared in the luxuries which a
we'll filled purse commands everywhere.
She could not reconcile herself to the un-
avoidable dirt and discomfort of the wretch
ed howell; to the unwholesome and narrow
sleeping-room, where the window would
not open to the muddy water, and the
coarse and scanty food. Yet all this she
had to endure; besides listening to the hour
ly murmuring and fretting Of her mother,
and trying to keep the children in order.
They were not wholly without friends in
this season of calamity. Many visited the
cottage to express their indignation al
Farmer Lawson's harshness, others to con
| dole with the wife while they condemned
the husband. The clergyman came fre
quentIy; kindly nan, whose life was
ceaseless struggle with the wealthy farmers
his Pensioners, who regularly attended th,
vestries to oppose his schemes for the bene
Year: 1868

SPRNGFIELD, Dec. 26.-Mr. Colfax and wife
have been Christmas guests OF Mr.. Bowles, et
the Republican, and had a reception this eve
ming at the Springfield Club Rooms. Mr.. Col
fax was rendered serenade by the Armory
band, and in the response said:-'1 am very glad
field, as / have within the few minutes have
spent in this club room. thank the Club
who have SO honored me, the people whose
hands have clasped, and the armorers who
have rendered me the further compliment of q
serenade. Coming here to visit an old friend,
Mr., Bowles. with whom have twice made a
long trip across the continent, and again nearly
as far, experiencing with him varieties OF
frontier lie, l came here to have quiet time,
as see it is this evening. 1t is the misfortune
of public men that they belong to the public
whenever they can be caught, and they cannot
attend q New England dinner or make a Christ
mas visit without at the same time making
speech.


at is good fortune as we'll to meet here the
beauty aud grace OF Springfield, and the sturdy
sons OF toll. All the emotional part of my
nature is with the ladies, naturally so, but
under my present circumstances all the patriotic
part goes with the armOrers, who in our civil
strife equipped q reeIment in a day. / am glad
again to visit New England, but unfortunately
| was not born in New England, nor does my
ancestry come from thence; yet have met so
many and so great kindnesses IN her borders,
that feel that can call myself New Eng
lander, first by birth and then by election.
Upon this occasion 1t is not fitting that should
speak on any question which has divided us;
but on this Christmas Day, which commemo.
rates such blessed event and which is filed
with happy associations and general Joy, may
say that we are all happy in our nation, in it's
recognition in the world, and in our President.
Yes every loyal heart is happy, General Grant
is happy, am happy"
Year: 1868

CLEVELAND, Dec. 25.-Michael Harrington is
on trial for the murder of Robert Sharp. One
Sunday in May last sharp and Harrington went
out and crossed the Toledo Railroad bridge, and
on the next Monday morning Sharps body was
found in an out-of-the-way place nearly mile
below the rRilread bridge on the east bank of
the river. He was lying on his left side,
with his left hand in the pocket OF
his partaloons, his right hand grasping
q bed of rough stones on which he lay. The
back of his skull was broken, and In a terribly
mangled condition, and pool OF blood was
running down 10 the river. The Coroner's Jury
found that the wound in the head was by gun
shot, aud as Harrington had been out cunning,
and as pieces OF his guns waddiug-paper found
near the dead body corresponded with paper
found in Harrington's pocket, he was arressed.
Year: 1868

The enemies of Impeachment have
changed their tactics Instead Of defend
ing Mr. johnson they vent their wrath
upon the Tribune All this is welcome,
and we could have some chance Of re
plying if they did not deliberatly falsiiy
and misrepresent our position. The
Times says we have accused Judge
Trumbull' "of being brbed' and de-
nounced Senator FeSsenden as .'corrupt
and treacherous. We have done moth
ing of the kind On the contrary, we
are endeavoring to do both of these gen
tlemen the justice to believe III them
until their votes dispel the confidence
The only Senator We have denounced
is Mr.. Grimes Our quarrel with him
is not his probable vote but the indecen
cy of his whole course during Impeach-
ment Mr. Grimes has made himself
"a common scandal, and we have treated
him as such. The use of money in this
Impeachment trial is no suggestion OF
ours. We copied deliberate PROPOSE
ton to buy the Senate from The Nesc
York; World We know the men who
own The World and the character of the
associates of the President. They are
gamblers. Their stake is empire and the
Treasury, and for another year S control
of the plumber they would gladly spend a
couple Of millions.


We make this general reflection from
our knowledge of human nature. Now
comes more specific question. The
Washington correspondent of The Boston
Post is known to be in the confidence Of