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Year: 1867

BosroN, Oct. G.-There is every indication
that grand popular welcome will be extended 10 Gen;
Sheridan tomorrow, in which the people generally viii
participate The banks and many business houses will
he closed and the school children VIII have holiday
The military display will probably exceed anything Of
the kind ever seen In Boston.
Year: 1867

large proportion of the operatives in our various
kinds Of shops are not worth $1,000. A wife be.
loved. and confding children cling with fond regard
to the father liable at any moment to be taken away
with nothing laid by for their comfort and protec-
tion. The annual sum of $25 would pay life poll.
cy that would in the event of death go far towards
making them comfortable; and who can not lay
aside for such purpose this small sum, and who
among you ought not to lay it aside If the family
is poor much the greater need that this wise pro-
vision be not neglected. AS the ordinary accumu-
latiOns necessarily slow, requiring years to lay
aside few hundred dollars, how much wiser to make
sure at once a large sum by Life Insurance. Take
warning before il is too late,
Year: 1867

There are many persons who have been deferred
from Insurng their Lives for the benefit of their
families on account Of not being in sound health
The undersigned is agent for the UNIVERSAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
which company takes risks on the lives of IEVALIDs
and is also agent for the
Year: 1867

Net5 Castle, Del, May "a, 1866.
used Whann's Raw Bone Phosphate last year on
corn, and do not hesitate to say that doubled the
crop; also used it on wheat last fall The wheat is now
better than where used barn yard manure


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Year: 1867

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Year: 1867

NEw YoRK. Aug. a.


The New York Heralds special SAYS. The
Office Of Commissary General Of Prisoners
is to be consolidated with that of the Adju-
tant General, and put in charge of General
Samuel Block. About thirty clerks in the
former office are to be discharged.


A special to the New York Tribune says:
That since the late action of the President
letters have been received here by prominent
Republicans from members of Congress,
which state that the only remedy left to in
sure reconstruction is the impeachment Of
the President. These letters are significant,
from the fact that several of them are from
members, who, at the last session OF Con.
gress, were known as conservatives and op-
ponents of impeachment They further
state that the prominent members in favor of
impeachment are busy at work, and are al
ready canvassing among the members to test
the feeling.


The recent newspaper reports about a great
meeting Of conservative politicians in this
city, who have put up the names of Mr. John.
son and Gen. Sheridan For the Presidency, is
all stuff


The New York World especial says: That
tho order relieving Gen. Sickles will prob
ably be issued as soon as his so called rea-
sons arrive, wherein he will attempt to just
ity himself for refusing to obey the Presi>
dents order
Year: 1867

= The Judiciary Committee of the House,
in accordance with instructions previously
moved by Mr.. Kelly, reported bill on the
18th to facilitate the reconstruction Of the
rebel States. The bill, which at once passed
the House by III to 27, provides that all
elections shall be by ballot; that the Gener
al commanding shall cause thorough reg
istration to be made of voters, and majori-
ty of the registered voters is required to rat
ify the Constitution to be adopted by the
Convention.


We are glad to observe that the General is
not to be allowed to delegate any of his
power to the acting rebel Governors of the
States We agree with Mr.. Sumner that
these rebel Governors ought to be dropped
through as soon. as possible. They are an
incubus and an eye-sore to the loyal people
of the rebel States 1t is hard, for exam
pie, that the loyal people of this State should
be required even to tolerate Jonathan Worth,
who, in his message, pronounced the Con-
greSS aH uiColsIitu1ioiai Douy, anu
gravely proposed to distribute the colored
people of this State throughout the United
States; or that the loyalists of Mississippi
should be afflicted with Gov. Humphreys,
who was hardly warm in his seat before he
spoke of the presence of the national troops
in Mississippias a blighting curse" " to that
State. But we suppose that we must bepa-
tient, since it is certain that in due time
these rebel Governors, with the meshes of
treason that surround them, will be ripped
up by the roots and cast into the sewers of
| contempt and oblivion.


1t is stated that the Senate has determined
in caucus to postpone action on adjournment
until the supplemental reconstruction bill
becomes law. We may, therefore, take it
for granted that it will be the duty and
privilege of our people to re-organize the
State under law of Congress specially
passed for the purpose. This fact, however,
does not do away with the propriety or ne
cessity of the meeting in this City on the
9th. 1t is every way important that the
| Unionists should meet for consultation, to
perfect their organization, and arrange their


plans for the futurel


|
Year: 1867




We regret to see that the Judiciary COM
mittee of the Senate, in reporting the sup
Elemental bill to that body, recommends that
the House bill be so changed as to allow the
military commanders to delegate their power
to reorganize the States to the Acting rebel
Governors. We have no fear that Gen. Slckles
would delegate such power to Gov. Worth;
yet we know that our loyal people, as mat
terofjustice and propriety, would prefer that
no such provision should be in the act. It
is hard that Congress should render it even
probable by its action that these rebel Gov
ernors will, in any event, have the right to
interfere in and embarrass the work of recon-
struction.


1t is also proposed to modify the oath in
the act. The oath as it is in the House bill
is an excellent che. We would prefer the
Stevens test-oath, but this oath will do very
we'll. The rebel National Iatel1igencer says
sit is disgraceful to Congress to ask men to
swear that they are earnestly attached to the
Union and government of the United States"
We say, in reply, that the man who cannot
take such an oath promptly and cheerfully,
ought to be shipped at once to Brazil or
some other foreign country.


We trust the Senate will not agree to these
amendments, and that, if it should agree to
them, the House will refuse in the most
positive manner to concur in them.


We are satisfied that we have expressed ip
this article the views Of every Republican in
North Carolina
Year: 1867

The Charlotte Democrat very properly
warns the Governor and Council against
convening the Legislature of this State with
the view of calling a Convention. 1t says
"we think We have good reason for saying
that any action the Legislature may now
take towards calling State Convention will
not be regarded by large portion of our
citizens who have determined to act in the
matter independently of the Legislature. y
1t is, perhaps, fortunate that Congress is
about to pass an enabling act which will
prevent all danger of conflict between the
loyal people and the present rebel organiza-
tiOns
Year: 1867

One of the most odious and infamous acts
passed by the late rebel Legislature of this
State was the amnesty act, Ivy which traitors
assumed the right to pardon themselves for
offences against the United States.


When the State passes into loyal hands all
such acts must be wiped out. If those who
shot, hanged and tortured our Union people
should retire to private life, and give proof
by their submission and silence that thew
have repented of their crimes, they may be
spared; but if they should pursue differ
ent course, and continue to agitate, perplex
and misead the people, and insult and re-
vile the Unionists, as they have. been doing
for years past, they will be held to condign
punishment. There can be no amnesty for
unsuhdued rebels Where there is no repen
tance there can be no room for pardon.
Year: 1867

We have cheering information from the,
Mecklenburg region of this State as to the
disposition Of the people generally to submit
in good faith to.the Sherman reconstruction
act, and not to embarrass. but on the con-
trAy to encourage the loyalists Of the two
races in the great work of restoring the State
to the Union.
Year: 1867

Congress has not yet fixed any day for ad-
Journment. It will most probably adjourn
over to October next, after passing bill to
enable the people of the rebel States to carry
out the Sherman act.
Year: 1867

Mr.. EDToR:-What is more contemplate
than an habitual loafer? He intrudes into your
counting-reom, Office or workshop, day after
day and week after week, until he becomes a
perfect bore. He NEEDLES with your business.
asks impertinent questions, repeats stale jokes
chews or smokes tobacco, uses profane Ian
guage, and seizes the daily papers before you
have had a chance to read them yourself He
will not take hint that his presence is not
wanted, but waits for a kick, and then it is very
doubtful if he leaves. ........
Are there not ways enough for him to spend
his precious, priceless time to good advantage,
| without dragging out this miserable existence?
There are books enough to read, and if he can
find no better way, would advise him to store
his mind with useful knowledge.


Some men are thrown out of business, and
cannot get work Immediately. but it is not of
this class that write. Imean the profession
al loafer"; the man that is too lazy to work and
who loafs from choice (; a man that is abhorred
by everybody and respected by none.


1t is a mystery to me how some of them OBJ
tain living. They have no visible means of
support, yet contrive by various ways to keen
out OF the work-house.


do not wish any one to think that this
piece was written expressly for him, but hope
that ALL loafers will take warning and seek
some means of improving the time that God
has given them for this purpose. H. M
Year: 1867

In this world, and especially in this teeming
age ofit when there is so much to criticise
and so many ready and willing to engage in
the work whether they are qualified for it or
not it is quite desirable that all should know
how sharp the pen of criticism may be made
and to what extent it may be used. In the
first place we should bear in mind that there
is very wide difference between lust criti-
cism and indiscrminate putting, for the latter
has become rife in the land and quite siekening
in its Details while the former is more SPAR
ingly used, and not so well paid for.


An interesting case has recently been decid-
throws some light on the subject, and shows
to what extent criticism may be carried with
out rendering the critic liable to penalties as
the publisher of q libel. DIR. Straus last spring
brought an action for libel against the Athe-
neum based ON critique appearing in that
journal on work called "The Old Ledger"
This book was said by the AttenGum to be
characterized by 'vulgarity, profanity and in
delicacy, bad French, bad German and bad
English, and abuse ofpersons living and dead .
This was severe criticism, but the publisher of
the Atheneuna considered it no more than the
book deserved. He admitted the publication
and pleaded justification. The plaintiffs coun.
Gil was too shrewd to bring the book in eyi-
dence to enable the Court to decide whether
the criticism was just; but the council for the
defendant read some extracts from it which
convinced the opposing council of the propriety
of withdrawing the case from the iury and al
lowing it to drop.


The Auien@um commented on the result in
very trenchant style. 1t said eve found
the book abominable, and said so. Our read
ers were satisfied with our verdict, since 1t is
alleged that the sale was instantly arrested.
1t seems a few extracts from the book con-
WINGED the Bench, the Bar, the jury and ev-
erybody in Court and even Sergeant Bullen-
tine hin self that the case was hopeless. He
avon beoped in Difference to hi own feelings
as n Gentleman and to the credit of his pro-
fesson to be allowed permission to abandon
the case. 1t would have been well for him il
he had read the book before he commenced
the libel suit-a duty which he certainly
owed to himself, to the Bench to the Bar, and
to the community generally" But it seems
Year: 1867

Il is about time our friends who desire 10
add one month to our growing sea-
son, were preparing their hot oedS'
BY means of these, they may nave
plants which are as large and forward tne
first of May, as they would be the hrst OF
June if the seed were planted at the ordinary
time in the open ground. As all may not
lno,v inst how to make hot bed, we will ven
,,re a few simple directions for their benefit
Take. or make, good strong box without top
or bottom as large as you want the bed to be-
Let the ends slope to the front, which should
be but half the height of the back
Have window sash or sashes glazed, that
will exactly fit the top ofthe frame. 1t should
be so tight as to keep the rain out.


In order to make the bed, place the frame
where it is to stand, having southeastern
aspect. With a pointed stick mark
the ground all around the inside Of
the frame. Remove the frame, and dig
out this space about eighteen inches
deep. This done, replace the frame, when
will rest immediately on the edge OF tne pi'.
Now procure some fresh stable manure-no,se ~.
droppings intermixed with the stra"-oeuulno
is the best-and place it in heap near wneie
you are making the bed, Shake every "i>'
Year: 1867

A yonng gentleman and young lady LETT a
fashionable party in New York, up town, the
other evening, got into carriage together'
drove to elergyman's residence were mar, la.
German together. We presume this is new
figure
Year: 1867

DEAR ENoUIRER:-Your enquiries seem to have stopped before reaching our sub lime height, as see nothing in your col l nrnns eoneerning, us though other people of other places that we-fguratively and literally too-look down upon are noticed frequently. No doubt you imagine we are ''froze up, you are quite mistaken. Ou1 thermometers indeed have been rather low spirited lately bat the people not at all so. We usually find ''stirring around good expeller of the cold. notice in your last number that some of our neighbors are leaving their native hills during Jackfrost's s reign. We contemplate nothing of that kind, and if We have our usual luck will compare health aud vigor with them next May. One of the chief among our many settlements this winter is our debating So- ciety which has been in full operation for several weeks, and some perplexing and difficult questions have been ably discuss ed. Female Suffrage has of course taken a prominent place as a subject of debate, in which the champions of the fair ones got worsted-that wasn't my fault. Perhaps in justice to our "Lucies, Maries, and fair Anns." I ought to say that they had been requested by the asserted ''Lords of Crea- tion" to stay at Aome on that evening lest they should plead their own cause. Since then whether the ladies have-Lucretia ike-called upon their relatives and friends to avenge their wrongs or whether the consciences of said males smote them I do not pretend to confess, but at any rate, an invitation has been given for the ladies to attend the meetings and even to take part in the debate.

 "Rome was not built in day" and one hill may yet be found as favorable to the growth of Ciceros as seren others were in time past Yours hopefully

 A LITTLE 'sC1o. IN EMBRYO.
Year: 1867

The ohaptar of railroad accidents for the past week has been one of the most terri ble ever known. The worst was that which occurred at Angola on the Lake Shore road, about 20 miles from Bu6alo, on Wednesday of last week. The manner of the accident is thus described:-

 The next to the last car was thrown from the track little east of Angola, and was dragged over the ties nearly to the bridge before the car behind it became unseated from the rails the time during which this plunging along the ties continued was sufficient to enable some but not many of the passengers sitting at the forward end of this to make their retreat from it into the car ahead. Just as the train reached the bridge, the car was jerked from the track and ran nearly across the bridge. An instant more and 1t would have reached the bank, but just at the edge, it Topped over on the next slde, and went with fear fu crash, end foremost. down tho ice-coyered slope 40 feet at least, to the flat below. The passengers were thrown into > struggling mass at the lower end. The soon took fire from the stoves, and, before assistance could reach them, the dead and wounded were ali burned to- gether.

 How many the flames devoured in this car can- not be told with certainty. It was well filled with passengers.

 Forty-one are known to have been killed of whom, twenty-f five were burned to death.

 AS We have already stated, the car next the rear one was that in which the disaster originated, but

 it's fate was less terrible than that Of the fol- lowing. The headlong plunge of the latter threw it over but not until the bridge had been passed, and it made it's descent on the opposite or right side of the embankment where the night was not more than twenty-five feet. The crash only less awful than that already described. It not followed, however by the more frightful calamity of the fire. Twice the car was kindled by the coals from the broken stoves, but the passengers were ia a less helpless situation, and the flames were extinguished.

 Whether the accident was occasioned by de fective rail or by the breaking of a wheel is not positively decided.

 On Saturday, passenger train on the Boston, Hartford and Erie, near the for. mer place, was thrown from the track in consequence of broken rail, and rendered complete wreck. Fifteen or twenty per- sons were severely injured and two will probably die. The escape of more from instant death is regarded ss almost miracu l lous.

 1 On Sunday, an accident occurred neal Natick, Mass, by which a brakeman wa' killed, and several passengers injured.

 We presume it will be claimed that al these accidents were unavoidable, and per haps with the care now usually exercised on railroads, they were so; but we think the time has come when the public should demand precautions not hitherto deemed | necessary
Year: 1867

AN exciting scene transpired in Danbury Monday morning-the caning of a lawyer by young man of that town at the office of the former. It appears that the canee had acted in an ungentlemanly manner
Year: 1867

BSS- 1t is understood that now fif
teen cent denomination OF fractional
currency is now ready to be issued


but That the delay il occasional by u
desire to know the opinion of Congress
on the subject Of issuing 1t. II seems
that so far all the members who have
been convcrscd with in regard 10 it
arc favorable to the new denomination
Year: 1867

THE LITTLE CUP OF TEARs.-We find
the following North German legend in
Thorpe's Yule tide Stories. It is too
beautiful to remain in the sole keeping
of antiquarians


ffThere was once a mother and child:
and the mother loved this only child
with her whole heart, and thought she
could not live without it. But the Al
mighty sent a great sickness among
children, which seized this little one,
who lay on its sick bed, even to death.
Three daYs and three nights the mother
watched and wept, and prayed, by the
side of her dying child Z; but it died.
The mother, now left alone in the wide
world. gave way to the most violent
and .unspeakabte grief. She ate moth
ing, and wept three long days and three
long nights. without cessation, calling
constantly upon her child. The third
night, as she thus sat overcome with
suffering, in the place where her child
had died, her eyes bathed in tears and
faint from grief, the door softly opened
and the mother started for before her
stood her departed child. 1t had become
a heavenly angel, and smiled as sWeetly
as innocence, and was beautiful like the
blessed. It had in its hand a small cup
that was almost running over, so full
and the child spoke col dearest
mother, weep no more for me; the an
gels of mourning have collected in this
little cup the tears that you have shed
for me. If for me you shed but one tear
more, it will overflow, and shall have
no more rest in the grave, and no JOY in
Heaven. Therefore, o dearest mother
weep no more for your child for it is
we'll and happy, and the angels are its
companions It then vanished. The
mother shed no more tears, that she
might not disturb her child rest in the
grave, and its ioy in heaven, For the
sake Of her infants happiness she con-
trolled the anguish of her heart. So
strong and self sacrificing is mothers
love. .
Year: 1867

In accordance with the rec0mmenda-
ton Of the General Assembly, that the
established custom Of celebrating an
annual thanksgiving be respected and
continued, and in harmony also with
the proclamation of the President Of
the United States, declaring q national
festival,


I do hereby appoint Thursday, the
twenty-eighth day of November, i'm
slant, as day of Thanksgiving and
Prayer to God, our Heavenly Father;
and I recommend that the day be relig-
iously devoted to thankful and happy
recollection Of all the public and pri-
vate blessings and mercies which have
been showerered upon us by the Divine
hand during the year that is past Let
Us assemble in our places Of religious
worship and devOutly recognize the in
finite goodness of our Creator and Pre-
server, and let us in our family reun-
ions rejoice over the peace and comfort
which have blessed our hearths.


In testimony whereof have hereun-
to set my hand and affixed the great
seal of the State Of Ohio, this first day
of November, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
seven, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the nlHety-
second.


J.D. cox, Governor.
WIN. HENRY SMITH, Secretary OfState.
Year: 1867

The Washington Star, organ of Mayor
Wallacl, and theless rabid Democracy says


"Too sudden and wholesale q conversion
of the lately defeated Southern malcontents
to Republicanism would he suspicious, and
not nearly as hopeful for the political future
of the South, as the indications that their
change of attitude in reference to negro suf-
fragc and other questions involved in the
scheme of reconstruction under the military
bills, is being gradually and painfully accom-
plished, and meets with considerable opposi-
lion from some in whom the old rebel spirit


is still unconeuered. The press and people
are taking sides for and against reconstruc-
ton, and every day the dividing line is being
more sharply defined. In Richmond, the
Times may be taken as the exponent OF the
impracticable, hard-headed school ofold fogy


politicians, while the Wig represent theii
opponents.


The impracticables continue to stultify
themselves, as they have always done, IN
every possible way. Thus they tell the CO.
lored man e we are your only true friends,


while at the same time they boast Of Demo-


cratic triumphs on "great national issues,


said issues generally amounting to just thi'
one of whether these dear colored friends


shall vote or not. Nobody, white or black


is deceived, however, consequently there il


not much damage done. Besides their ranks
Are thinning every day, and this highly re-
spectacle class of old fogies will ere long be
extinct, OF live only in the pages of the his
toran, whose mission it shall be to write the
story Of the "good old times" when class


distinctions were not swept away, and ont


man was not by any means as good as an
| other unless he had as white skin, and ;
| pocket as well lined with cash.