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Year: 1867

CoNTRADIcTED.-We stated last week, on the
authority of Alex. Tinsley, that the Junction
City district portion of the road between this
place and North Fork was in miserable condi-
ton. Junction City teamster thinks great in
justice was done Alex. George, overseer of that
district, in so stating, and pronounces the road
n very good repair, everything considered. 1t is
far from our wish to do Mr.. George injustice in
this matter, knowing full we'll the disadvantages
under which he has labored since he was ap-
pointed to that position. The road tax had
nearly all been collected and shamefully mis-
applied before he took the Office and all who
travelled the road last summer. and antumn know
that Mr.. George used every effort to keep it in
good travelling repair.
Year: 1867

ben rash and misguided in his late at
tempt to precipitate Italy into revolu-
tDn, no one doubts the honesty OF his
irtentions or the unseltish patriotism
that unfortunately led him into conflict
With his King. He is recognized as q
genuine hero, and the news that he is
lying sick in prison will awaken very
vide spread sympathy.
Year: 1867

WRECKED L1vEs.-The Adrian (Aiichigan) }
Expositor, of March Goth, tells the following
sad story: Few persons acquainted with the
orbits sometimes dubious and eccentric, of
theatrical luminaries, but have recollections
of having seen Mrs Frank Drew, formerly a
bright particular star in the profession. She
was for some years lessee of the Arch Street
Theatre. Philadelp phia, one of the most repu
table places of amusement in the country,
and possessed of extraordinary talents as an
actress, nightly played to refined and delight
ed audiences in the city of Brotherly love-
Her life was perfect ovation, and pecunary
success crowned her talents to such an ex.
tent that four years ago she was reputed to
be worth in the neighborhOod of a quarter of
million She had daughter, a beautiful
child, then about thirteen years OF age, who
electrified beholders with her grace and skill
as a daaseuse. The daily life of mother and
daughter was one of luxury. extravaganza,
gayety, and excitement. But behind and
beneath all this apparent success and happi-
ness, there was secret which palled the cup
of Measure. The mother was victim to the
appetite for strong drink The intoxication
of popular applause, the garish glare of the
footlights, the enraptured atteLtion accorded
to every step, every gesture, was not enough,
and Mrs Drew drank deeply of the cup
which was so soon to ruin her and her daugh-
ter-ruin them body and soul. Eacilis des
decensus AUerni, and rapidly the wretched
woman trod the downward path. So soon
welded was she to her besotted appetite, that
she could no longer retain her hold on public
favor. As she descended she sank from
public view, and the ever tickle populace
turned from contemplation of the fallen to
hail the rising star But the saddest feature
Of this sad tale is the fact that the miserable
mother, in her fall, drew down with her her
young daughter. and forced her to drink to
the full of the cup of wretchedness and shame.
Now, at the time we write, the mother and
daughter are playing an ngagement, so
called, at miserable Varieties Concert
Room, which the citizens ef our neghbOring
city of jackson allow to poltute their midst.
Here, surroEade2 by the dregs of society,
themselves re better than the worst about
cher- these two exc out miserable subsist-
ence. Bloated by intemperance, dissipation,
and licentiousatss-ior the crime of drunken
ness rarely goes alone-and disfgured al
most beyond recognition, it seems as though
siquor had done its worst for this wretched
couple; that from the topmost rognd Of the
ladder Of professional fame, these two, who
81 lately delighted audiences Of the best
society, had fallen to the uttermost depths of
degradation. But if there is a lower depth
rhan this, assuredly they will find it. In the
ruin which liquor brings there is no half way
stepping place.
Year: 1867

A Swiss engineer has just announced a
delightful invention that he has recently
achieved, to wit: A burning glass, or, as he
terms it, an incendiary mirror. by the aid of
which one can roast an army TO death Just as
easily as one could cook mutton chop on
an ordinary gridiron.
Year: 1867

Ar late wedding in Petersburg. Va. a
former husband of the bride oficiated as
bridegrooms attandant. The idea of the
former husband, knowing the future fate in
store for his successor, thus ostentatiously
assisting at the sacrifice, is one of the worst
instances Of cold blooded malignity on
racor1
Year: 1867

AugIlSt
DR.. J. C. AVER: Sir cheerfuly comply with the
quest of your agent and report you Of the effects
have realized with your Sarsaparilla


have cured with it, in my practice, most Of the
plants for which it is recommended and have found its
effects truly wonderful in the of Fcncred and Mr
curial Disease. One of my patients had Syphtc ulcers
in his throat which were consuming his palate and the
top of his mouth. Your SarsaparilIa steadily taken,
cured him in five weeks. Another attacked by sec
ondary symptoms in his nose, and the liberation iad
eaten away considerable part Of it, that believe the
disorder would reach his brain and kill him. Bat it
yielded to my administration of your Sarsaparilla the
ulcers healed and he is well again. of without
designation to his face. woman who had been
treated for the disorder by mercury was suffering
from this poison in her bones They had become so sem
stve to the weather that damp day she suffered
cruciating pain in her joints and bones She, too was
cured entirely by your saisaparilh in a few weeks 1
know from its formula which your agent gave me- that
this Preparation from your laboratory be great
remedy; consequently, these truly remarkable results
with it have not surprised me.


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Year: 1867

GONE OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY


- you. You have tried every remedy but tho
ONE destined, by its intrinsic merit. to superceds
all similar preparations. it is not surprising you
should be reluctant to try something else after ths
many experiments you have made of trashy coin
pounds foisted ON the public as ecAain cure; but
Year: 1867

A regular monthly meeting of the Directors
of the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad Company
took place on the 18th at their office, Camden
station; the President, J. w. Garrett, Esq, in
the chair. The Committee on Transportation
reported resolution reducing the rate OF
transportation on coal from Cumberland and
Piedmont to Baltimore 90 cts. per ton, and on
gas coal from NewbuIg Fairmountand Clarks-
burg 90 cts. per ton also corresponding re-
duction Of way rates for coal upon the road
and branches, all of which to take effect on
the 18th instant The President stated i'll con-
nection with this subject, that contrary to
general expectation during the last season the
necessares of life had continued at high prices,
and consequently there had been no decline in
the high price of labor. The cost of material and
labor. and of the working expences of the road
generally, are still very high and such as did
not Justify any reduction in the present moder-
ate tariff; but as the prospect for reduction IN
the cost of living had improved, and as 1t was
the earnest desire of the Company to aid the
manufacturing, steamship, and all the other
great interests which would be benefited by n
reduction in the price of coal, he was prepared
to advise the adoption of the report of the
committee lie hoped the Company would at
an carly day be enabled to reduce its expenses,
and with its largely improved facilities 10y its
increased double track, and with its immense
equipment, accomplish large increase IN this
highly important traffic. The rates from Cum
berland to Locust Point will be reduced under
the resolution from Ss to S2,70 per ton, and
from Piedmont to the same point from $3.S5
to $3.O5 per ton. 1t will be noted that these
rates reduce the transportation to the low figure
of u cts. per ton per mile. After somc fur
ther discussion, the report of the committee
was adopted, and the reduced tariff will be
placed in operation on Monday next.


Bait. Com.
Year: 1867

FAST Observation-Disclosures still keeps its
superiority in the article Of enormous lying.
For example, the Maine Farmer tells story
of man whom it calls Neverbeat. Somebody
having boastcd of the speed Of his horse, n,
replied "Why, the other day | was up to
s.. sixteen miles distant just as started
for home shower came sweeping on. The
rain struck in the back part Of the wagon and
the moment it struck hit old Kate cut with
the whip. Away she trotted, scarcely touching
her fore-feet TO the ground; she kept Just nip
and nip with the shower. The wagon was
filed with water but not a drop fell on me p
Year: 1867

SHOE PEGGIYG.-At recent exhibition Of the
Polytechnic branch of the American Institute,
in New York, hand -Pegging machine
was exhibited, which is said to have operated
to the satisfaction OF The members. The exhib-
itor claimed that by his machine he could peg
one pair of boots per minute, the work consist
ing Of cutting the pegs from long strips Of
birch wood, punching the holes and driving a
double row OF pegs.
Year: 1867

There are lonely hearts to cherish
While the days are going by;
There are weary souls who perish
While the days are going by,
If smile we can renew


As our journey we pursue,
o, the good we all may do,


While the days are going byi
There's no time for idle scorning
While the days are going by;
Let your face be like the morning
While the days are going by
o, the world is full Of sighs,


Full of sad and weeping eyes;
Help your fallen brother rise


While the days are going by.
Year: 1867

FRUIT PRosPEcT.-The editor of tho Ohio
Farmer says: The winter has not been hard
upon the vines or the wood Of the cherry,
peach or other tender wooded fruit trees. Old
Doctor Kittland said to us the other day, that
he never saw the wood in better condition OF
the promise better for crop of fine fruits
The same is true Of the field crops; winter
wheat, clover, and all the grasses, have come
through the winter in the best condition.
Year: 1867




New York GALAXY makes this fitting reouke :
"The eyeing of women by women is one OF the
most offensive manifestations of sEperciliousness
now to be met with in society. Few obseyyant
persons can have failed to notice the manner in
which one woman, who is not perfectly we'll
bred or perfectly knd-hearted, will eye EoSsr
another woman Who she thinks is not in such good
society, and above all, not at the time being in
SO COSTLY dress she herself Is in. It is done
everywhere-at parties, at church, in the street.
1t is done by women in all conditions of life
The very servant girls learn it of their mistress.
1t is done in an instant Who cannot recall
hundreds of instances of that sweep of the eye
which takes in at glance the whole woman and
what size has on, from top-not to shoe-te? 1t
cannot be n fashion of behavior but the daily
increasing pretense of people to superiority, be-
cause they can afford to spend more money upon
their backs than others can, makes it at once
more common and more remarkable even than it
was ten or fifteen years ago. Men are never
guilty of it, or with such extreme rarity, and
then in such feeble and small-soued specimens
of their sex, that it may be set down rs sin
not masculine, or at least epcene. But women
of sense, of some breeding, and even of some
kindliness of nature, will thus endeayor to assert
a superiority upon the meanest of all pretenses,
and infiict wound in manner the most cow
ardly because it cannot be resented and admits
of no retort If they but only knew how un-
lovely, how positively offensive they make them
selves in doing, not only to their silent Victims
but to every generous hearted man who observes
their maneuyer, they would give up a triumph
at once so mean and cruel, which is obtained at
such sacrifice of their part. No other evidence
than this eyeng is needed that q woman, what
be her birth or breeding, has a small and
vulgar soul"
Year: 1867

THE BRIGHT SIDE.-Look at the bright side
1t is the right side. The times may be hard, but it
will make them no easier by wearing gloomy
and sad countenance. 1t is the sunshine and
not the cloud that makes the flower There is
always that before or around US which should
cheer and fill the heart with warmth. The sky
is blue ten times where it is black once. You
have troubles, it may be. So have others. None
free of them. Perhaps it is rs we'll that none
should be. They give tone and sinew to life
fortitudc and courage to man. That would be a
dull sea, and the sailor would never get skill,
where there was nothing to disturb the surface
of the ocean.


II is the duty of every one to extract all the
happiness and enjoyment he can without and
within him, and above all he should look on the
bright side of things. What though things
do look little dark The lane will turn and
the night will end in the broad day. In the long
run the great balance rights itself What is
wrong, right. Men are not made to hang down
their heads or lips, and those who do, only show
that they departing from the paths of true
common sense and right. There is more virtue
in one sunbeam than a whole hemisphere of
cloud and gloom. Therefore, we repeat, look on
the bright side of things. Cultivate what is
warm and genial, not the cold and repulsivc, the
dark and morose. The Iron Duke right.
Don't neglect your duty look on the bright
side live down prejudice.


MoRMoNIsM.-Horaee Greeley has been ectur-
ing in New York city, his theme being g West
ward oe the Mississippi" Speaking of Mormon
ism he is reported as saying ;-'' He had met in
Utah the son Of one who had once been veal
thy merchant in New York, and IN alderman,
when that position was not synonymous with
robber He had two wivts, and one of them
was the daughter of the other The affair was
looked upon quite as matter of course by the
saints, and, he supposed, worked as well the
three-cornered affair could be expected TO behave
itself, until be went home one day and found the
young one had disappeared. She preferred, no
doubt, the favors which had been divided with
her mother. He had also, even among the bish-
ops, met several not over happy in their marital
relations-one who had among his wives two of
his nieces another whose two wives Che was
modestl never spoke to each other on any oeca-
sion, which made the house rather awkward for
visitors. ''Only imagine to yourself, said the
lecturer e.. family of twelve children, with four
our FIVE mothers to bring them up in one house.
and you have fair start for hell upon earth
you well imagine. Ten years in such a
purgatory would make man long for the sound
of Gabriel's trumpet
Year: 1867

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT CouRT.-An nd.
jonrned session Of the spring term OF this
court will commence to day In the court room,
custom-hoEse building. Chief Justice Chase
and Judge Underwood will arrive in the city
to-day, and District Attorney Chandler is
expected to morrow.
Year: 1867

eg-A gentleman in very poor cireum-
stances and who was devoted to the
worship of the Virgin, went to the
Church Of the Annunciation in Flor
ance to implore her aid. AS he was
leaving he saw at the entrance of the
church two blind beggars, one Of whom
was telling the other that besides the
money he had at home he had 200 gold
pistoles sewed in the crown of his hat.
The other replied that he had 500 in
his. The gentleman overhearing this,
believed himself inspired by the Virgin,
whose aid he was there to invoke, to
seize both hats and carry them of,
which he did and withdrew, greatly
gratifed with the reward of his piety.
Such is the effect of the Romish teach
ing.
Year: 1867




ny GEORGE d. PRENTICE
Here, whilst the twilight dews
Are softly gathering on the leaves and flowers,
come, oh patriot dead, TO muse


few brief hours
Hard by you, rank on rank,
Rise the sad eVergreens whose solemn forms
Are dark as If they only drank


The thunder storms.
Through the thick leaves around
The low, wild winds their dirge like music pour
Like the far Oceans solemn sound


On its lone shore.
From oil the air sigh
Dirge like, and soul like, melancholy, wild,
Comes like mothers wailing cry


Oer her dead child.
Yonder, little way,
Where mounds rise thick like surges of the sea
Those whom ye met In fierce array
Sleep dreamlessly.
The same soft breezes sing,
The same birds chant their spirit requiem,
The same sad flowers their fragrance fling


Ger you and them.
And pilgrims oft will grleve
Alike Ger Northern and DER Southern dust
And both to Gods great mercy leave


In equal trust.
Oh We and they, as foes,
Will meet no more, but calmly take your rest,
The meek hands folded In repose,


On each still breast.
No marble columns rear
Their shafts to blazon each dead hero's name,
Yet well, oh well, We slumber here,


Great sons of fame.
The dead as free will start
From the unburdened as the burdened sod,
And stand as pure in soul and heart


Before their God.
"Tis mOrn--as lone l stand,
The dawn is reddening DER each humble grave
Oh when shall night pass from the land


Ye died to saver
Through all the upper air
May your life blood in exhalations rise,
A ghastly cloud of red despair


To traitor eyes.
And may the lightnlngs dire,
Coiled in that cloud, like vengeful scorpions dart
To blast with their keen fangs of fire


Each traitor heart.
Year: 1867

BASE INGRATITUDE.-An editor who
occupied a room in a hotel not thou
sand miles distant, absented himself
from town for a night The house be-
ing crowded with guests, the obliging
landlord put stranger in the editors
bed. This kindness the ungrateful fell
low requited by scrawling upon piece
of paper, which he left on the table, the
following rhymes:


II slept in an editors bed last night


And Others may say what they please;


say there's one editor in the world


Who certainly takes his ease.


When I thought of my humble cot away,


could not suppress sigh,


But thought, as rolled In that feathery nest,


Hon easily editors lie." 1.-THE Printer
Year: 1867

NEWSPAPER EDIroRs 1t would be
difficult TO compress more in few worls
than is found in the following from the
Chambers Journal:


A newspaper editor must, like the
poet, be born to his calling. in the major
ity of instances, no amount of training
will fit person for such a post unless he
have natural taste and aptitude for this
description of literary labor for, although
many persons are able to write ''leaders,"
or literary articles, for newspaper, few
can be entrusted with its editoria! control,
few can scent out the libel which turks IN
almost every communication, few canl
distinguish the report intended to please
the speaker instead of informing the
nation, and the letters written to ser, Q
private interests instead of public ends
still fewer who can tell at glance tho
kind of literary or political material which
will promote the circulation Of journal
in fact, good editors great difficulty
is not as to what he should put in, hut
what he should keep ont of bis columns.
Successful editors have not been great
authors, but men of good common sense.
anl their good common sense has taught
them to write but little themselves, but
to read, judge, select, alter and csnlbine
the writings Of others.
Year: 1867

A young lady has kindly furnished the
Detroit Tribune with a receipt for keep
ing the feet warm, which she has tried
and knows to be effective. She says, 81
am troubled with cold feet, but | manage
to Keep them warm by lying in bed morn
ings until my mother has built a rousing
fire and prepared my breakfast. | then
get up, place my feet on the front of the
stove, eat my breakfast, read the news,
and after warming some hannels and
wrapping them about my poor feet return
to bed, where remain until nearly noon.
l repeat this every twenty four hours.
Year: 1867

A celebrated concert vocalist, upon
applying for board in house that was full
upon being shown room on the top story,
replied, very innocently, that he had no
disposition to become an upper attic (opcr-
atic) singer.
Year: 1867

AGAINST the egotism to which wa have refer


red, and object to that exclus;vo,,oss ,,hi.h


wouid crowd woman into the realm of mere
drudgery or fashionable folly, as unworthy of
our common manhood There are bundred,
OF empioyments, now crowded by those who
should follow the plow, WELD the AK. fer ,ho
forests, and convert the wilderness into frnit-
full fields, that she could engage in with hon.
OF to herself and benefit 10 the race. and
hardy men should have gallantry enough will
in.ly to vacate such places for her benefit
Her dextrous fingers eminently fit her for
many such spheres of activity and usefulness,
while her graceful address and patient spirit
indicate her right to places now often
filled by boorish young men and impertinent
coxcOmbs.


Without dogmatsm or any disposition tobe
quefulous, we would advise our whiskered
'rierds, VINO are accustomed to depreciate fe-
male talert, and to underrate everything done
by only woman" to think of these things
to read, mark and inwardly digest, them.
aud not overlook the portentous signs of the
times-the signs of progress. And while
never forgetting that it was man whom God
created in l is own image, remember that It
was no individual man or race who Inherited
this high creative distinction, and above all
remember that the same man whom God thus
created, made in his own image, he created
both male AND FEMALE, and TO the DIAL man
OF such high origin and such abirthright God
gave dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl OF the air, and over every living
thing that moveth upon the earth;v in other
words, to man MALE and FEMALE, the Crea-
tor has opened the vast field of nature for
work, for achievement, for lofty effort, for no
bic daring, for heroic deeds.
Year: 1867

Since the gross fling at Gen. Butler by Mr..
Bingham about his failure to capture Fort
Fisher, he being in command of the land force
and Commodore Porter of the naval force de-
signed to operate against that place, Gen. b.
has received the following letter from gentle
man who in every respect is said to be reliable


New York, March %, 1867,


Ny Dear General: Apropos OF the personal
tell you what Col. Lamb of Fort Fisher rebel
fame said to me in the Office few days since


Perhaps you may have heard something to
the same effect already. but give it for what
it is worth. Said Col Lamb, almos, in these
words: If L were a friend of Gen, Butler /
could tell him facts which would prove that he
did perfectly right in not attacking Fort Fish
er when he was before the place. My battery
OF nineteen heavy guns 50 commanded the
land approach that not a man could have
lived to reach my works. 1t was only after the
navy had with beautiful precision dismounted
gun after gun in regular order, at the second
attempt, leaving only one in place, that thea t.
lacking party had any chance of success Gen.
Butler has been much abused tor not accom-
plishing impossibillities"


Lam is a modest, gentlemanly fellow, and
is thoroughly reconstructed"


L think his opinion, as above given, is an hon.
est one. fs Yours respectfully,


1t is to be regretted that General Butler
should have been betrayed into throwing Mrs.
Snrratt in the face of his assailant, for it is
quite probable Mr.. Bingham, as Assistant
Judge Advocate in the assassination trials, did
no more than his duty, and it will require
great deal of offsetting testimony to make the
people believe that the military court and
the President condemned woman to the
scaffold without evidence Of guilt. The testi-
mony may have been informal in some re-
spects, and capable of being tortured and
twisted by a sharp lawyer, but that she was
guilty and suffered the righteous retribution of
An offended law, we think admits of little


AT any rate, Gen. Butler has done much, to
lessen public esteem for.his course in Congress,
in relation to this matter, in order to deal
hard blow at one who had provoked him.
While his Fort Fisher fame may have received
some furnishing, his laurels in other respects,
we fear, have been somewhat needlessy faded.