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Year: 1864

The GRAvEYARDs OF ATLANTA


The Atlanta correspondent of the Cin-


cinnati Commercial says: "Availing my


self Of the spirit that is now universally


prevalent, to>day wandered through


the city cemetery among the dead, and


there found many a mark to indicate the
spot where rests the hope of many do
ting Southern matron and wife. The


grounds comprise at least ten acres, more


than half Of which is covered with the


victims Of war, Federal and rebel officers
and privates, all crowded together so
close that their cofiins must touch each
other. The part used as the rebel bury
ing ground is about acres, and all the
graves are marked, some with little mar
Die slabs. At least eight or ten thousand
rebel dead must sleep in those narrow
trenches. la an obscure corner I found
the plot set apart for deceased Federal
prisoners, and, halting, read upon the
headboards many names of families from
Maine to Nebraska, and remembered
that at home in the great North there
are scores of crushed hearts who know
not where their dear ones sleep, I felt
that an hour could not be better spent
than in deciphering the almost oblitera-
ted pencil marks upon the slabs. But
upon none of the graves had the rebels
inscribed aught TO offend the tender SEN
sibilities of Tue friends of the dead who
lay there awaiting the resurrection that
alone
Year: 1864

sac A poor frcnchman being aroused
from sleep by his wife. with the cry, Get
up, Baptiste, there is a robber in the
house calmly answered, Don't let us me :
lest him Let him ransaek the house and
if no should find anything OF value we !
take j. away from him
Year: 1864

sword would be no victory, but lamentable
defeat to the friends of liberty.


A convention Of patriots, it wise, will never
nominate for the Presidency a military leader
ia actual command Of an army, much less the
commaRder-in-chief,w who now bias more than
half million soldiers under his command,
an it necessary to success, might have mil


lion before the next Presidential election


The temptation 10 a military candidate to
use the sword TO secure his own election is
too great, the warnings Of history too impress
sive. for the American people ever vOluRtari-
y 10 consent TO so hazardous an experiment


Never before in our history has such com
bination of high qualities been required as
will be needed the administration OF the
next four years,


The war has created debt the magnitude
Of which is astounding to consider The in
terest alone will oppress the people for years
to come at the same time the means of dis
charging the debt will, by the necessary oper.
atoms OF the war. have been fearfully weaken
ed SO many hundreds of thousands Of men
have been called from their industrial pur-
suits never to return 10 them SO much OF the
material wealth Of the country has been de-
stroyed so many fields for the productions
of its great staples laid waste indeed It's
whole labor system has been perverted or dis
organized


To recover the nation from this state OF ut
Ter exhaustion, and restore il to its Wonted
prosperity, will demand an order of intelli-
gence which is bestowed upon but few men of
any country at the same time, and the might
est intellect in our land might well tremble
in assuming such responsibility. We want in
our coming President an advanced thinker /;
statesman profoundly versed in political and
economic science, one who fully oomprehends
the spirit of the age in which we live.
Year: 1864

After witnessing one Of Prof. Rarey's
horse-taming exhibitions last fall, we could
not repress the thought that general ac-
quaintance by horse-keepers with his sys-
TEN, would be productive of advantageous
results, incalculable in amount. Let every
horse-keeper read the following, from
some remarks made by Prof. Rarey, and
apply them to practice:


"Almost every wrong act the horse
commits is from mismanagement, fear, or
excitement. One harsh word will so ex-
cite nervous horse as to increase his
pulse ten beats in minute. When we
remember that we are dealing with dumb
brutes, and how difficult it must be for
them to understand our motions, signs
and language, we should never get out of
patience with them because they do not
understand US, or wonder at their doing
things wrong. With all our intellects, if
We were placed in horses situation, it
would be difficult for us to understand
the driving of some foreigner, Of foreign
ways and fereign language. We should
always recolect that our ways and lam
guage are just as fareign and unknown to
the horse as any language in the world is
to us, and should try to practise what we
could understand we're we horse, endea-
voring by more simple means to work on
! his understanding, rather than on the diff
ferent parts of his body "-Farmer and
Gardener. T 80 g a
Year: 1864

Ten years since built an ice house.
After inquiry and reflection, l adopted
the following details of construction, which
has proved complete success, the supply
rarely failing until ice forms again: g
= I chose as location, a north-laying
bank of sandy formation, made the exca-
: vafion cube Of thirteen feet, or so that
the earth removed would bank up to that
height, put in an eighteen inch dry soall,
except the top foot, which was mortared
/. inserted on each side three pieces of B by
4 inch scantling, to which perpendicular
1-inch pine boards were nailed as lining;
, put on light shingle roof of double pitch,
left the spaces at the caves between the
rafters open for draft of air to enter and
placed small Venitian window near the
top of the north gable for it to escape
Before putting on the shingles, and after
Dailing lath on the under side Of the raft
ers, the intervening space was tightly
9 packed with straight straw; the roof is
Kept whitewashed The south gable con-
,lsists of two doors, one OF which answers
4, for general use, but when filling, the
ground being level on that side, both are
opened, small platform placed in front
of them, and the ice is shot directly in
from the cart. The bottom was made
about one foot deeper in the middle than
at the sides, and 8 to 10-inch chestnut
logs laid across it close together; the ice
IS thrown ON these. a..


> fill only to the square with ice, and
the remaining space with wheat straw,
which am careful always to keep cover
ed over the ice and packed down the sides
foot or two, as it melts, leaving space


of about one foot between the ice and the
lining. The bank was well sodded up to
the wall, SO as to throw off rain-water fall
ing on the roof, and prevent its ingress to
the house. Free daily use is made of the
ice during all the warm season, for a
family of nine, and there is usually about
load or two over. The capacity of the


house is about twenty well-flled ox-cart
loads, with side-boards. SO. B., in Gar
deaers' Chronicle.
Year: 1864

There are many preparations sold nnder the
name Of Bitters, put up in quart bottles, COM
pounded of the cheapest whisky or common rum,
disguised by anise or coriander seed. .pf1


This class ofBitters has caused and will con-
time to cause, as long as they can be sold, hun
dreds to die the death of the drhnbard,a By
their use the system is kept continually under
the influence of Alcoholic Stimulants of the worst
kind, the desire for liquor is created and kept up,
and the result isall the horrors attendant upon
drunkard' s life and death. At .


For those who desire and aoiU haze Liquor
Bitters, 1--WE publish the following receipt:S Get
One Bottle Hocfand's German Biders and mix
with three quarts et good Brandy or Whisky, and
the result will be preparation that will far ex-
Gel in medicinal virtues and true excellence any
ofithe numerous Liquor Btters in the market,
and will cost much less. You will have all the
virtues of Hoofand's Bitters in connection with
a good article of Liquor, at a much less price
than these inferior preparations will cost you.
Year: 1864

who are in reed, aud we are only doing our
duty as well as a pleasure in calling TO see you
tonight, for we heard today that your father
bad not been paid for some time"


ga Society,"" The round blue eyes grew
larger as she repeated, "a Society am SO
sorry. I was going to ask God TO bless you
tonight; but I do not know what Society
is, and don't know whether l can ask Him to
bless that or not Can I just as well?"


The two ladies exchanged glances and smiled
"Yes, dear, you can if you wish lc. and We as
a society will feel very happy to know that
we have an interest in your prayers"


81 will then," she said, 81 will ask Him to
send the Society everything they need, and He
will do it know, because you give the things
be sends you to the poor, and heard mama
read in the Bible that those who give to the
poor lend to the Lord


And now Mrs. Preston came in With the
coats in her arms, and Louisa bright aud hap
py, ran to introduce to her mother those kind
ones who had come to their relief.


This was too much for Mrs. Preston. She
was almost exhausted with the long walk and
long fasting, and when she saw her little girl
so happy and the two pleasant faces, and
heard their unexpected errand. she was com
pletelY overcome with gratitude. And when
those two ladies had left her house and re-
membered tie expression Of gratitude linger-
ing 10 her face, alter she had expressed so much
by actions, they felt more forcbly than ever
what they had felt so many times before when
on their errands of mercy, that at is more
blessed to give than TO receive"
Year: 1864

The downfall Of slavery will open the road
TO properly for the poor laboring man.
Slavery was huge Unsuitable land eater
Slavery once abolished, the great landed es-
iates, based upon and supported by slave
labor, will go 10 pieces, and tbe pieces viii
fall into he hands Of the poor iaboriug man.
Instead Of the grand pala'iai mansion, sur
rounded with miserable negro cabins, aud in
stead Of the wietched hoveI, inhabited by the
poor white, we shall soon see the ueat white
cottage in the midst of small buJ houTlshing


fields, and The interior OF that cotruge gii be
adorned, not with the bowie-kniie and pistol,
but with the book case and every evidence of
progressive civilization. This will go quickly
as thought, for the Southern people viii not
be left 10 work out thnt deveiopenent alone.
Thousands Of Nortlren men, who but recently
had been roaming over the country with sword
and bayouet and 90 that occasion, bad made
the discovery OF the truth, viii invade it again
with spade and pIow. and machinery and capt.
tai, and knowledge, and a spirit OF progressive


Improvement. These invaders will be the
peaceable neighbors Of the invaded, and each
one will work for the other in working for
himself and will be all one people. Thus the
Southern people will be reorgunizgd, regenera-
ted by the emancipation Of the large majority
also from the rule of powerful few. Then
the acrimony of the rebellion viii be 5Intted
out even 10 the remembrance, he people will
no longer nave time to think of the difference
of an unfortunate past, for they will have to
think OF the problems of busy present and a
hopeful future Carl .Sciur=.
Year: 1864

Money, let US coucede, is not everything,
but it is very great deal. The young phi
losopher may smile at the solemn manner in
which is is referred to by those who show rev.
erenre for little else f; he may make merry
with the serious chsnge that comes over the
CHEEKY and good tempered business man while
he is worshiping at Mammon's shrine; but there
is really something wondrous and almost ter
rible in the power of money, and such as be-
longs to few other things. To have too much
of it, is agreed upon all bands to bo a very
dangerous matter, likely to lead it's possessor
to his eternal ruin. When Garrick showed to
Johnston his villa and his gardens, expecting
to hear them admired, the photographer great
ly disappointed him by replying: All,
David, David, these are the things which make
a death. bed terribIe!" On the other hand, an
empty purse is said on good authority, to be
an equally periIous possession. and indeed has
been entitled by divine of the English church
" the very devil" Finally, even moderate
wealth has been inveighed against that fatal
gift, little competency, which prevents a
man from exerting bis energies, and making
him useless all the days Of his life.


But where Mammon shows himself most
hateful and most strong, is when he is set in
opposition TO human love when he stands
frowning between two fond hearts that would
faiu be one or sits upon the tomb of the
dead, and unlinks the loving hands of the sur
viyors, who now, that they have lost their
common friend, should surely have journeyed
on more closely knit together than ever
What legacy of disappointment, and jealousy,
and hate do men often leave behind them
among those, too, against whom they may
have had no i'll will How often has the
grave of parent been the gnlt which has
sundered brother from brother for ever in this
world How often have tenderness, and fos-
tering care, and the selfsacriice of whole
life, been erased from the conscious heart by
single stroke of the pen 10 a dead mans will !
The deepest affection is dried up, the keenest
gratitude is blunted and confidence and filial
lOve-the very elements which have most hal
lowed the past-are pluczed up in a moment
by the roots, and cast aside forever. The evil
that we do lives after US and the last deed
we d0-the making of our will-may SOW
more i'll than all we have planted in that teem-
ing soil, the human heart. throughout our
lives.
Year: 1864

Il was tbns few days since, we heard a
STRIPPING of sixteen years designate the mother
who bore him. By coarse husbands we have
heard wives so called occasionally, tho in the
latter case the phases is often used endeariDg-
ly. At all times, as commonly spoken, it jars
upon the ears and shocks the senses. An old
woman is an object of reverence above and
beyond almest all Phrases of humanity. Her
age should be the surest passport to courteous
consideration, the aged mother of grown up
family needs no other certificate Of WORTH
She is a monument OF excellence, approved
and warranted She has fought 50 the good
fight" faithfully, and come off conqueror.-
Upon her venerable face she bears the marks
OF the conflict iu all its furrowed lines. The
most grevous of the ills of lie have been hers,
trials untold and unknown, only TO God and
herself, she has borne necessarily and now in
her old age-her duty done, patiently await
ing her appointed time, she stands, more true
ly beautiful than be who has slain his thous-
ands, and stood triumphant on the proudest
field Of victory. Young man, speak kindly
to your mother and ever courteously Of her.
But little time and you may see her no
more forever! Her eye is dim, her form is
bent and her shadow falls graveyard. Others
may love you when she has, passed away
kind hearted sisters or she whom of all the
world you may choose for partner-she may
love you warmly, passionately children may
love you fondly but never again while time
is yours, shall the love of any woman be to
you as that of your old trembling, weakened
mother has betn through helpless infancy
her throbbing breast was your safe protection
and support-in wayward, testy boyhoOd, she
bore patiently with your thoughtless rudeness
and nursed you through legion of ills and
maladies. Her hand has bathed your brow,
or moistened your psrched lips her eye that
lighted up the darkness of wasting nightly
vigils, watching always in your nightly sleep,
sleepless by your side as none but hers could
watch.


Oh speak not her name lightly, for you
cannot live SO many years as would suffice to
thank her fully. Through reckless and i'm
patient youth she is your COUNSELOR and solace.
To bright manhood she guides your impor-
tant steps, nor even then forsakes or forgets
Speak gently, then, and reverentially of your
mother, and when you too, shall be old, it shall
in some degree tighten the remorse which shall
be yours for your other sins, that never wan
tonly have you outraged the respect due to the
old woman.
Year: 1864

Union men, true patriots, rejoice that Presi-
dent Lncolp's Message is fully up to the anti
Slavery standard on which the people voted
November 9Th, as expressed in the following
resolution by the Baltimore Convention:


Z" ReSofUed, That, as Slavery was the cause,
and now constitutes the strength of this rebel
lion, and as it must be always aud everywhere
hostile to the principles of Republican Gov
ernmeut, justice and the national safety de-
mand its utter and complete extirpation from
the soil OF the Republic and that we uphold
and maintain the acts and proclamations by
which the Government in its own defense, has
aimed the death-hlow at this gigantic evil
We are in favor, furthermore, of such amend
ment to the Constitution, to be made by the
people in conformity with its provisions, as
shall terminate and forever prohibit the exis-
tence of Slavery within the limits of the
Jurisdiction Of the United States
Year: 1864

RIGHTEOUS DECIsIoN.-A verdict for ST.
900 damage was recently obtained in the
United States Circuit Court for the Southern
District of New York, by a person who was
injured by a stage (omnibus) while crossing a
street. Persons on foot, according TO law.
have the first right in crossing a street, and
drivers of vehicles must accord it 10 them
Most people suppose that a team OF any de-
scription has the first right to the street, but
such is not the fact. 1t would be well for all
interested to remember the law in this case
We consider The above decision as Just and
right
Year: 1864

The Nelo York Tribune condensed our
views on the war when it said


Let US pay anything, do anything, to
bring the war to close, but let US not
double the cost Of the war through a
have just emphatically recognized this war
as theirs, and instructed the Government
to spare no effort to bring it to a speedy
and triumphant close. Every dollar of
debt contracted in it is mortgage on all
the property in the country, and he under
rates the popular sagacity and intelligence
who fancies that the people would rather
have five hundred millions added to this
mortgage than pay half that amount in
taxes. After the result Of our recent
election, it would be wantOn insult to
distrust their resolution or their patriot
ism.
Year: 1864

The New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Inquirer says:


The coming New Year is likely to wit
ness revolution in the newspaper bust
ness here as regards price, &C. The ven
cradle Journal of Commerce notifies It's
patrons that It's rate of subscription
henceforth will be SIS per annum. This
is a big jump up, but not more so than is
actually necessitated by the high prices
al labor editorial services, &c. Two of
the other morning papers, it is said, will
increase their price from four to six cents
each.


This increase in the price of papers is
dictated by imperative necessity. Still it
is an increase not as great as has taken
place in other branches Of business.
Year: 1864

SINGULAR DREAM-A lady came from
New York yesterday to attend the chris
tening Of her little grandson. During the
evening she lost the setting of valuable
diamond ring The house was thorough
ly searched and still no trace of the lost
valuable could be found Early this
morning lady friend who was present at
the party came to the house, saying she
had a most singular and vivid dream, in
which she plainly saw the diamond lying
hid behind the leg Of stove that stood
in the room. She could not help calling
to see whether it was or not Upon look
ing in the place designated they found
the missing treasure. This, like the dream
of another person in this city, not many
months ago, which correctly revealed the
lost body of drowned boy, with the
hands still tightly clinging to some tim
bers, deep down beneath the waters at
Daniels dam, shows that dreams are not
to be disregaraed. In the last case men
toned, a most vigorous and prolonged
previous search of the river throughout
at considerable length, had failed to find
the lads body-Hartford Times
Year: 1864

The height OF rebel impudence is reached
in the suggestion by the New York News
that in consequence Of the destruction OF the
Florida, by the steamer that happened to run
into her as she lay at Hampton Roads, the
United States Government, should deliver a
vessel equal in armament and capacity to the
Brazilian Government, aud thus save the
rebels their loss
Year: 1864

In matters of great concern, and which
must be done, there is no surer argument of
a weak mind than irresolution, to be unde-
termined, where the case is so plain, and the
necessity SO urgent; to be always intending
to live new life, but never to find time to set
about it; this is as if man should put off eat
ing and drinking and sleeping from one day
and night to another, till he is starved and
deatrOva5
Year: 1864

And after the bier dolorOus train,
Led on by Ealandig-wnuse sarna Ham
Tis due To the race that pause to explain:
Twas ot the il am family he came
For tn O. Hams defendants must bear the disgrace
OF sable complexion and i'll shapen figure,
To say that Fallaudigham OF that race,
Is rather too heavy joke on the Niger
Year: 1864

The Detroit Free Press Of April 28d,
says: "From reliable sources We learn
that the growing wheat promises much
better yield than We feared would be the
case some time since. In the western por-
ton Of the State, where they have been
favored with greater depth Of snow than
has fsEen here, the crop was not 50 badly
damaged by the cold weather. The rainy
weather Of late, however unWeloome to rs,
has been Of vast benefit to winter crops.
A great proportion Of the crop did not
look promising at the opening Of spring,
from the fact that it was sOWn 30 late, as
the farmers have the idea that late soWn
wheat yields the best; but Of late the
warm rains have improved the appearance
Of these fields wonderfully"
Year: 1864

Senator Wilson reported q bill
from the Military Committee re-
ducing the army ration to Its
statute in the beginning OF the war, and
giving the soldiers two dollars additional
per month in lieu, on the grounds thNt
the original allowance was ample and the
present complement found but little bene-
6f
Year: 1864

FROM CHARLEsToN.-The New York
Times correspondent writes that the
bombardment of Charleston is steadily
continued, with the effect of causing fire.
quent fires and the gradual crumbling
away of the houses within range of our
guns There is little firing on the part
of the rebels, who seem averse to ex-
pending their ammunition. The work
of raising the sunken monitors Keokuk
and Weehawken was in progress, but
not with rapid results as the immense
mass of metal in the hulls and guns re-
quire machinery of extraordinary
strength to move it.
Year: 1864

A DEAD MAN DRIVING A HoRsE.-The
Galena Democrat tells of man who, in
a buggy was slowly passing a farm
house in the neighborhood of Warren,
H., one of the cold days last week. The
good woman of the house, thinking he
must be very cold, called to him to come
in and warm himself. He made no re-
ply, but turning neither to the right or
left, kept slowly on his way. The lady,
fearing that the man would freeze; know
ing that there was no house for five
miles in the direction he was going-re-
quested her husband to follow him and
induce him to stop and warm himself
He did so, and coming up, found him
frozen stiff, dead, with whip in one hand
and lines in the other.
Year: 1864

How PRICES ARE RArsED.-Congress
proposes duty on cotton of two cents
a pound, whereupon all the small deal
ers in spool cotton propose to advance
the price one cent upon each SPOOL Now
as pound of raw cotton will make
over one hundred spools of sewing cot
ton, it is not easy to appreciate the JUS
tice of this large advance in the price Of
very necessary and important article
in daily use. But, while it is not easy
to appreciate this fact, it is but charac-
teristic of the advance in prices upon
two-thirds of the articles in daily use.
Just hint at a tax of any kind, and
forthwith the price is put up ten, twen-
ty, thirty, fifty and hundred per cent.
The rule is to put up the price once when
the tax is proposed, and once more when
it is passed. And if the duty fails, the
price is kept up.-Worla