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Year: 1865

A lste number Of the St. James Magazine has
the following:


"Tilesius declares his belief that mammoth
skeletons still left In Northern Russia exceed in
number all the elephants now existing upon the
globe. Doubtless the process of mammoth ex.
tinction was very gradual, and extended over an
enormous space Of time. This Circumstance Is in
dicated by the varying condition in which the
tusks and teeth are found. Whereas the gelatine,
or soft animal matter, Of many specimens remains,
imparting one of the characteristics necessary to
the being of ivory, other specimens have lost this
material, and mineral substances infltratiBg, have
taken its place. The gem turquoise is pretty gen.
orally conceded to be nothing else than the fossil.
lied tooth of scme extinct animsl-probably tho
mammoth.


Curiosity Of speculation prompts the mind to
imagine to itse'f the time when the last of these
gigantic animals slccumbed to influences that
were finally destined to sweep them all from the
earth. Had men come UPON the scene when they
roamed their native wildsl Were those wilds the
same as now as to climate and vegetable growthsl
Testimony is mute. Time silently unveils the Sc.
pulchred remains, leaving fancy to expstiste as
she will on topic wholly beyond the scope Of
mortal intelligence"
Year: 1865

A WATRRFALL.-A mortlfying but ludierous
incident occurred yesterday near the post oflce


A lady of most expensive exterior was gliding
gracefully up the street, when the tsckling con-
tanning the buuch Of hair at the back OF her head
Year: 1865

openly on this ground. his pohticai pias oecon''
of no sort OF consequence.


Fellow Citizens Of the Commercial Emporium'
you must reform your Municipal admin's'fa'
,ion. Your commerce will leave you, your
prcperty become worthless, your industry be
driven away, if this DO not done thoroughly and
speedily. The matter is too plain for argument
Year: 1865

At a meeting of the New York Chamber of
Commerce, yesterday, resolutions were
adopted approving the sentiments of the Secre-
Iary OF the Treasury in his speech at Fort
Wayne, as well as his recent action in fun ling
nfty millions of legal tender notes. thus giving
an assurance Of his determination TO exert his
lhnuence and authority in favor Of an early
return TO specie payment; also expressing, em-
phatically, the conyi iction of the necessity of a
prompt but cautious movement in the direc-
ton OF curtailment of the currency and
therefore entering in advance a protest against
every appeal that may be made to increase, at
the approaching session of Congress, the issue
OF n NATIONAL Bank currency beyond the amount
authorized, or the issue of a single dollar more
OF paper money in any form.


The formal opening of the financial agency
OF the Republic of Mexico occurred in New
York, yesterday. Over two thousand persons
We're present; and among them many of the
leading bankers and merchants Speeches
were made by Mr.. Romero, the Mexican Min
lister, Hon. MIR. Tomilnson, Hon. :. s. Cox
MAJOR General Lew Wallace, Robert Dale
Owen and others.


The Governor Of South Carolina maintains
that if the Southern Representatives make
their demands for seats in Congress- there is
no power TO exclude them. The Congressional
tsst oath, which he says scarcely any South
Carolinian could take without perjury he con-
tends is unconstitutional.


The Nashville Times says the cave mystery
Is losing holding on the public curiosity, The
sensauon evidently has very little backbone.
and mas lived this long mainly from the fact
of guards being posted at various points, il
being taken for granted that the military au-
thorlties were acting on information not open
to the community.


The New York Tribune is privately ad vised
that the Union State Committee of New Ter
sey. after careful canvass of every locality
feel assured of the election OF Marcus D
Ward as Governor, as well as a Union maiori-
ty in the new Legislature.


The Court of Appeals Of the State of Mary
Iand mas sustained the constitutionalty of the
registry law of the State and also the consis-
tency Of the provisions in the Constitution of
the State with the Constitution of the United
States
Year: 1865

81 The Executive Committee OF the Tobac-
conists' National Association have recently
held meeting, snd have decided 70 issue cali
for a grand convention of all branches of the
tobacco interest, to assemble in the city of New
York on or about the 22d of November. The
immediate object of the convention is TO obtain
full and free consultation in regard to the best
measures to be adopted 10 free the trade from
the depressing effects Of the present methods OF
taYafion
Year: 1865

TuE LowER CtAss-Who are they? Tho
millions, the labOrng man and woman, tho
mechanic. the inventor, the producerI Far
from 1t. They are natures nobility. No
matter ii they are high or low in station,
rich or poor in pelfi conspicuous or humble
in position, they are surely Upper circles in
the order of nature. whatever the fictitious
distinctions of society, fashionable or un-
fashionable, decrees. 1t is not law--it is
the highest duty, privilege and pleasure,
for the great and high-souled men and wo!
men to earn what they possess to work
their way through life, to be the architects
of their own fortunes. Some may rank tho
casscs we have alluded to as only relative
ly low, and in fact the middle classes. We
insist they are the very highest. If thero
DO dlass of human beings on earth who
may be properly denoniinated low it is
that class who spend without earning, who
consume without producing, WHO dissipate
on tho earnings of their father or relativesi
without being anything in and Of them
selves,
Year: 1865

BEAUTIFUL ExPERIMESrs.---FIll wide.
mouthed jar with water, and cover it over
with piece of foundation" (ihe ladies
will understand this,) cover that over with
with layer of peas, pressing it down 50
that the peas will lay in tie water. They
will then swell aud sprout, the roots grow
ing down into the water, their fine fbres
presenting a beautiful appearance. SGT in
a window and vines will grow up, which
can be conducted to the sill. The whole is
very handsome.


The following ne clip from newspaper:


I" If an acorn be suspended by piece of
thread to within half an inch Of some water,
contained in a hyaculh glass, and 50 per-
mitled to remain without being disturbed
il will in few months burst and throw q
root into the water, and shoot Upwards Il
its taperlug stem with beautiful little green
leaves. A young oak tree growing this
way on the manlle-slelf Of a room, is very
interesting object
Year: 1865

We offer for sale, on the most advantageous
terms, the following described Lands in Wood
County, among which will be found bargains sell
dom to be secured. More fertile and better Farm
ing Land, under proper cultivation, can not be
found in the Maumee Valley:
Year: 1865

A LOYAL" Washington correspondent,
writing to a New York newspaper, said of
the testimony Of Generals Grant and But.


Ter before the Committee on the Conduct of
the War, relative to the Fort Fisher expe-
dtion: General Grant swears that il was
not intended that Butler should 20, and that
Grant knew be was going" From this it
would appear that Butler like other burg
lars, is prepared TO swear himself clear when
given an opportunity to do 90. How well
he has acquitted himself as witness for
himself may be inferred from the rumor
that tho Committee substantially vindioate
him in It's report concerning bis failure at
Fort Fisher. or course to Justify him is n
censure OF Grant aud Lincoln for removing
him.-- Chicago Times.
Year: 1865

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. %, 1865.
DR.. W. 6. BRowNLow,


Deor Sir Having noticed in your issue of the
18th Instant an article alluding to officers in COM
mand of colored troops and the estimation in which
they are held by some of the more rctiaed persons
in this locality account of their temporary call
ing beg leave to give expression to few thoughts
further upon this subject through the columns Of
your paper. do not propose to enter upon any
defense praise censure Of any officer or class of
officers, in the military service in newspaper ar
ticle, nor in any way to discuss the merits or
dement's of such officers For them individually |
have no respect from any to crave no kind consid-
Grafton to ask; but as friend to the true equilb-
rum of the social scale in all places | would sug-
gest the propriety of duly exercising the reasoning
faculties on the subject, before making the resolve
to withhold respectful treatment from any men, sim.
ply because they are trangressing the weak law Of
local prejudices, without taking into account any
intelligence or urbanity they may or may not pos
sess. 1t cannot be expected that such course can
have any effect upon the purposes of these men, nor
the policy which they defend by their course in thi,





the calling they have temporarily adopted they
have the full and natural faith of the Government
of the United States, which Government so far has
proven somewhat potent against the slavery re-
bellion,' with the prejudiccs of the timc-scrvng,
South and North, thereunto added grat.. And
again, if !! ~ remembered experience and ob'er-
walton mus, ho. shown that the sU,il., of the in
habitants of gny particular locality however highly
such inhabitants may be regarded are NOT generally
the highest ambition of military men, especially
those who have usual sense of patriotism and duty
as the motive of action or who have a respectable
prize in military character and reputation.


These officers engaged on equal terms with
Others in the stern and patriotic duty of establishing
the power and authority of the Government over
nsurrrtionary parts, and must, like all others.
make their own military rccord-must stand upon
their own merits and several abilities just as in the
social SCALE us general rule men find their level
according to their intellectual and social capacities
and-purscs.


If these men are worthy of the positions they
hold they are satisfied with the security they have,
in the faith of the Government as before mentioned,
and will go ahead looking rather in the face of the
countrys future history than hhcr and thither, far
the smiles or frowns of preiudiced fellow-mcn. Ii
men Of positive character, and free and independent
Year: 1865

thought they will live and net in this ms in all else
| upon the most common principle worthy of Amor
icaus-"Do right, though the heavens fall, and if
nothing moro terrible should fall upon them than
the silly contempt of some prcIudccd parties, all
this fragrance of disgust "wl be- wasted on a
desert air' and if they shall be found not to
trombIonorqual beneath this g,1o or0ory contempt
1t must all rclound to the exquisite enjoyment of
clugrn by the sconlul parties.


The simple policy of orming ncgroc, it :. not the
business Of the writcr here to defend but should
be borne in mind that thi, being the Legitimate poll
ley Of the United States government, is necessarily
entitled to the respect if not the cudol opgror0 Of
all citacns of the United States who are in sympa-
thy with their Government, and in converse with
reason


II unbiased history in future shall have recorded
the transformation into good and efficient soldiery,
powerful in a national war against gigantic re-.
beon, the element of an institution Of which that
rebellion was the onsprng-an institution which
has been hugged to the bosom Of our people until
it has poisoned our vital energy cursed our soil pol
utcd our history prostitutcd society and dctcrio
lhA'A 'ttl AAN'tN'N lNN lll''' NllHt'N H'' lIIAN
be led to approve the "ctcrnal providence of God.
and, in this particular to look more compaconty
upon men who may have been instrumental in
changes wrought


Now "lct US reason together All these prcu-
dccs with all their bitterness are only the natural
and inevitable results of this institution, the evil Of
which is admitted by ALL But now that the time
of the ime-scrving class Of persons is so evident
y served out far us the interests Of slavery are
concerncd-what is the use what can be the use of
everlasting pclsstcncy in foolish prciudccs per-
tanning to an institution that is not only dead let
ter, not only has gone to return no more, but one
which involves no principle of right to which to
cling, no principle Of TRUTH of which TO hope for
resurrection and no true interest which reasonable
people can wish TO recall


The exercise of such contempt as that in question
is but "bcating the air, and it would seem well be-
coming of all interested to give the subject little
thought as reasonable beings, being hastily disrc-
spcctiul to any.


Hoping you may make these ideas useful to somc


| am Sir, very respectfully


Your obcdcnt servant }. s.. W
Year: 1865

We publish to-day the able and statesman like
speech of Mr.. Hanes, of Davidson, delivered in the
House of Commons of this State, on his resolutions,
looking to a Convention of the State and of the
Confederate States for the purpose of making peace.
The great reputation which Mr.. Hanes has won for
himself as the writer of "DauidsOn," and many
other articles which have from time to time appear
ed in the Standard and Progress is more than sus-
tanned by this speech. We bespeak for it general
and careful perusal
Year: 1865

SHERMAN seems resolved to obtain some sort of
popularity in Savannah. He has put down Whiskey
to three cents drink and bread to five cents leaf


The murder is out People drinking that kind
of whiskey could not be expected to do otherwise
than "t take the OATH" or any number of oaths.-
The bread is better idea.- WA. Jour.
Year: 1865

THE city clerk wish us to say that he was
called on, on the streets, by messenger from
the Union Office for copy of the proceedings
of the last meeting of the council, and he
told the messenger that he was going directly
to the Office and would have them ready in q
few minutes He did 60 to the Office and
prepare them, and they were ready before..2
o'clock, but they were not sent for, and still
await the pleasure of the editor of the Union.
Year: 1865

THE ISLAND BRIDGE. we understand that
tho authorities on the Island have made an
a,nlieation to buy the city bridge and the
sand island and that the mayor has given time
f,r them 10 communicate with the ordnance
department on the subject. We hope the
matter will be arranged satisfactorily to all.
Year: 1865

THE onion says the democratic union and
administration county ticket is very weak
one and will be worse beaten than any other
ticket ever nominated in the county. 1t that
IS true why does the Union attack it so furl-
ously? 1t is cowardly and base for the strong
to attack the weak.
Year: 1865

as those who die in the rebel ranks undoubtedly
do, is foolish. But the other hand


DYING FOR GOOD CAUSE
as those who are wise and prudent enough to


remedy the defects of mature with
Year: 1865

The juno number of the Hours at
Home has an article on "TTow to
Treat our Wives" which those who
think that love is not an essential
element of true marriage will do well
to read. The article is too long for
insertion in our paper. The follow
ing arc the closeing paragraphs:


The American woman is what the
American man requires her TO be,
and what American institutions and
influences enable her TO be. There
is constant and fruitful effort Oh the
part of men to secure for their daugh-
tersu and for genial female society the
best advantages for education and
culture; end these same men do this
with wives in their homes who are
treated little better than housokecp.
ers. They are not re garded as part
ners; they are not treated as init.
mate and confidential companions -
Equality OF position, identity Of in
terest, community of sins, affection
ate and copsiderate tenderness and
respectfulness Of demeanor, thor
ough sympathy that shows itself in
all private and family intercourse,
certainly do not prevail between
American husbands and wives, when
regarded in the aggregate. Some
will he disposed to deny this we only
see life under some of its more favor
ed phases; but those who are &C
quaintcd with all classes, in city and
country, cannot fail to recognize the
truthfulness of the statement. Wo.
men are denied the sympathy and
society of their husbands to shame
ful extent. They are kept in po'
sition Of dependence and made tC
feel their dependence; they are made
to ask for money for their per
sonal use, and compelled to feel like
mendicants in doing 1t. There arc
multitudes of wives, supposed to be
well married, who never approach
their husbands for money without O
sense Of humiliation. Now any mar
who compels the woman oil his love
to do this, insults her womanhood
degrades her, denies essentially hi,
marriage vows, and does his best tC
kill out her respect for him, and tC
make the connubial bond an irlIsomI
one. A wife who is made TO feel tha
she is a beggar, is no longer wife
except in name. A wife who is com
PEELED to feel that she has no right.
except those which her husband nc
cords to her from hour to hour, loses
her spirit and selfrespect, and be
comes mcnial in feeling and il
fact.
Year: 1865

The account given by writer on
the Great Eastern, OF the manner in
which the Atlantic Cable was lost
overheard whilst being hauled in by
the "picliing up apparatus" for the
purpose of repairing u defect, is as
follows:


Let the reader turn his face towards
u window, imagining that he is stand
inc on the bows of the Great East
crn, and then, OF course, on his right
will be the starboard, and on ms ieit
the port side Of the ship. When the
cable was hauled around on the left
hand side, and passed over the four
wheels, it was carried over drum,
which we must suppose to DO behind
the spectators, and coiled up rs fast
as it was delivered from the picking
up apparatus; but when the enignes
failed to work this apparatus, Of
course the cable remained motion
less, and as the ship WIS driitcd by
the wind from right to lett, and slight
ly forward, at last the cable came
close up to the bow and under the
forel'oot of the ship. There are at
the bows Of the Great Eastern two
large hawscr holes, the iron rims of
which project for more than a
foot beyond the line of the stem
Against one of them the cable caught
Oh the left hand side, while the ship
kept moving TO tho loft and th""
charcd and strained the cable greatly
agoinst the bow The Great Eastern
could not go astcrn lest the cable
should be snapped, and without mo.
ton some way there is no pewer OF
steerage. At this critical moment,
too, the wind shifted so as to- render
it more difficult to keep the head Of
the ship to the cable, which then
chafed so much that damage in two
places was done TO IT., A shackic
chain and wire rope belonging to one
of the cable buoys were passed over
the cable and secured in right below
the hawser holes These were haul
ed so as to bring the cable to the
rinht hand side Of the boat, the ship
still drifting TO the left 1t was nee
cssary to do this instead of veering
away. as we were near the end oIthe
cut of the cable in the boat. There
is II large iron wheel with a deep
groove in the circumference, tech
nically called "V' wheel, from the
groove, by the side OF which is a
"Remitar," or smaller wheel, on the
same "axis," The cable and the
wire rope together were coming in
over the bows and the grove in tn
larger wheel, the cable wound upon a
drum behind by the machinery, which
was once mole in motion, and the
wire rope being taken in around the
capstan, by bars, but the rope and
cable were not coming up in right
line, but were being hauled in with
great strain on them, at an angle from
the right hand side, so that they did
not work directly in the "V' in the
wheel. Still the strain was shown on
Year: 1865

the indicator to be very high, but not
near breaking strain. At last up
came the cable and wire rope, shack
ing together on the "V" wheel ir the
boat. They were wound round it
slowly, the wire passing over those
wheels together, the first damaged
part being on board, when q jar was
given to the dynamometer, which
flew up from sixty hundredsweight
the highest point marked, with sud-
den jerk, three and q half inches
The chain shackle and wire rope
clambered, as it were, out Of the
groove on the right hand side Of the
V Of the wheel, got on the stop" Of
the rim of tho V wheel, and rushed
down with crash on the small wheel,
giving, no doubt, q, severe shake TO
the cable, to which twas attached
Tho machinery was still in notion
and the ropes Travelled aft together,
ono toward the capstan and the other
toward the drum, when, just as the
cable reached the dynamometer, IL
parted, and with one bound leaped,
as IL were, over a few feet of inter-
vening space, and splashed into the
sea. ~ -


The last mail from England brings
report, on good authority, that the
Great Eastern will be at once dis
patched from Shcerness to Newfound-
land. The object of this trip is to
fish up on the way the fragments Of
the discovered cable, which it is hoped
will be recovered by means of Crap
nels and buoys. The promoters Of
the enterprise in England are deter
mined to lay another cable next year,
making nse o. the reeovered PORTIONS
Of the old one. '''''' A''"'
Year: 1865

A pretty little bit Of romance de
veloped itself in one OF The State
street cars on Friday. Among the
passengers was a pale, quiet little
woman, plainly dressed, and very
pretty withal. Presently a onc-leg-
gcd soldier laborcd into the car on
his crutches. The seats were crowd
ed and the soldier had to stand. The
young woman got up, pulled the blue
sleeve and pointed to the seat she had
vacated For the first time, as he
turned, she had full view o: his face,
and neither Of them pad any more
attention to the empty seat. They
started at each other q minute, and
then, in spite OF the awkward motion
of the car, embraced and kissed each
other with hysterical fervor. At irst,
the passengers were somewhat rs
tonished at SO public II demonstra-
ton; but all of them soon joined in
congratulating the delighted couple
upon learning that the two persons
thus suddenly brought together were
man and wife, long separated by the
vicissitudes of war. The soldier had
been desperately wounded in Ten
nossee and taken prisoner He was
supposed To have been killed, and be
fore he was restored TO freedom and
able to write, his wife, or widow, as
she supposed herself, removed TO
Chicago, and so his letters never
reached her. The poor fellow, as
soon as he could travel, set out for
home, with desponding heart, TO
learn why his letters had never been
answered. He reached Chicago on
Friday, on his way thither, when the
generous impulse of kind little wo-
man to a MANNED soldier, brought
her back q loving husband, and threw
him into the open arms of a wife who
had long mourned him rs among that
innumberable host who have lain
down their lives for the salvation OF
their country.


Thn fn1loaf man thaf haa EUan in
Year: 1865

The Administration press will occasion.
ally vent an indignant slur on our Chief
Executive. or course, the wounds of a
friend are always grateful and do not de,
serve the same denunciation as when CON-
ing from the other side. The Washington
Chronicle thus polishes PALMEns1os and
LILcoLN:


"When the premier Of England and the
President Of the United States will learn
habtual'y to act as If their personal digni
ty and convenience and success were of
no consequence in comparison with the
preservation of the law and maintainance
Of the right, the millennium will be close at
hand"