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Year: 1869

Every boy should have his head,
his heart and his hand educated.
Let this never be forgotten. By
the proper education of the head,
he will be taught what is good
and what is evil, what is wise and
foolish, what is right and what is
wrong. BY the proper education
of the heart he will be: taught to
love what is good, wise and right,
and to hate what is evil, foolish
and wrong. And by the proper
education of the hand, he will be
enabled to supply his wants, to
add to his comforts, and to assist
those around him. The highest
objects of . good education are,
to reverence and obey God, and
to love and serve mankind.-
Everything that helps us in at
tanning these objects is Of great
value, and everything that him
ders US is comparatively worth
less. When wisdom reigns in the
head, and love in the heart, the
man is ever ready to do good !;
order and peace reign around, and
sin and sorrow are almost un-
known.
Year: 1869

A SENSIBLE ENGLISH NOBLE
MAN.-The New York Commercial,
noting the fact that the Duke Of
Argyll, Secretary for the British


Indian Department, fully recog-
nizing that there is no opening
for young men in the civil service,
has placed his youngest son in a
commercial house, in the tea trade,
thinks this is an example that is
worth following. 1t is a rebuke
to the snobbishness Of parents,
that applies with just as much
force on this as on the other side
of the Atlantic. The Duke of
Argyll's course is in mortifying
contrast with the action Of too
many OF our officials in the "medel
republic" Some of our public
men really seem to think that the
public service is q sort Of huge
crib especially established for the
benefit Of their relatives and de-
pendants. There is also another
view. Fathers frequently do their
sons a positive injustice in training
Them up for the oyer-stocked pro-
fessions for which they are mani
testify unsuited, and at which they
can seldom obtain a decent living.
Many a good tailor and shoe
maker has been lost to society in
this way. There is kind of false
pride that fills parents with the
idea that it is better that their
sons should half starve at some of
the out-of.elbow professions, than
learn q trade that will insure them
a competence in any part Of the
world.
Year: 1869

Can always be found in a sensi.
BILE, good woman. Ifa man wants
a correct adviser, a sympathetic
counsellor in any circumstance or
situation in life, we believe o wo-
man will coz nsel more prudently
than many of the sterner sex. 1t
is 9 we'll established fact, that no
married man can have such q
friend, as a pure, true hearted wo-
man-her love will make her more
scrupulous of his honor-more
sensitive Of his good name, and
more proud of his character-her
natural timidity assists her here,


by rendering her more cautious,
and her tact and judgment are
generally greater in comparison,
than that of the wisest man. If
this is acknowledged to be true, OF
q married man, it is also SO Of a
single one. The brother will find
in the sister the friend he so much


needs, and writers have not yet
exhausted the theme of a sisters
influence. To young man who
has no sister, we sill advise the
cultivation of female friendship,
and we have often met with in
stances where the man is many
years younger than his female
friend. 1t is best so, where no
question of falling in love can be
thought of-indeed many have
had female friends even younger
than themselves, who yet welded
a powerful influence over their
whole lives. Young men, seek
pure females for your friends, lis
ten to their advice, heed their
counsel, let their influence be ex-
erted for your good, and you will
find such friendship the pride of
your life, the protecting shield
against evil, and the crowning
glory of your future years. ...
Year: 1869

How it cheers and g'addens the
heart to have something pleasing
for the eye to rest upon no mat
ter if it be but a simple engraving;
or a bunch ofautumn leaves tackled
up here and there on the bare
wall: A few sea-shells, little
statuette, or even q pot of green
moss growing on the window sill,
give an air of taste and refinement
to the most homely cottage. And
how true it is that the silent in
fence of these little surroundings
helps to make up the great whole
that purifes and uplifts the soul
to something higher and better!


I remember once to have called
on a poor sick woman, who lived
iu miserable lodgings, and with
out many of the necessaries of life;
yet noticed on the rickety stand
near her bedside a flower-pot con-
tanning pansy, rich in its tints
of purple and gold. "Oh!" I ex-
claimed, "what a beautiful pansy"
eyes," she replied, her pale count
enance iighing up with tender
ness and joy, ut is very beautiful
to me, as it often leads my thoughts
away from myself, from my suf-
ferings and sorrows. Somehow,
I never feel half so poor when |
have something pretty to look at.


No matter how humble our
station in life, there is always
something to cheer the heart and
make us happy if we would but
accept it. The pure air of heaven,
and the glad sunshine, are they
not for US all? The sweet clover
blooms, and scent Of the pine
trees, the warbling Of the birds,
the ripping ofthe brooks, do they
not speak to US of love, hope, and
happiness? Yes, there are many
beautiful things lin the world, if
we would but see them. Yet how
many men and women live in con.
tinual discomfort and repinings,
seemingly unmindful. of the gifts
with which God surrounds them!


Show me a person who hears
music in the song of the cricket,
or the humming Of the bee; who
sees beauty in the lowly flower,
the fallen log covered with moss
and ivy. the Jagged rock, OF the
pebbles beneath the feet; ono who
loves to listen to tho winds, be
they mover 80 wild, and will show
you a person who can never be
entirely miserable or alone. The
beautiful soul-light within will re-
veal in amber tints some spots
whereon tie weary heart may
rest, and natures voice will ever
whisper of joy and peace, no mat
how fercely the storms of life
may sweep around.
Year: 1869

AT an inquest in New York city, on
Sunday on little girl who was fatally
burned by an explosion of kerosene
oil, IL was shown that the oil was be.
low the lawful standard, being almost
pure bcnEine, the coroner charged the
jury, aud they rendered a verdict TO
the effect that the accident was due to
tho culpable negligence Of Reiser 4
Lehenmeiker, the manufacturers, and
Samuel Schoonmaker, the vendor of
the oil. They also recommended that
all oil In the city be properly tested.
The Coroner held the manufacturers
and SHOEMAKER under heavy bonds
TO await the action Of the Grand Jury,
Year: 1869

None of the Evangelsts, not even the be-
loved disciples and bosom friend of Jesus
has given us the least hint of his counte-
nance and stature. In this respect our
instincts of natural affection have been wisely
overruled. He who is the Saviour of all
and the perfect exemplar of humanity should
not be identified with the particular Inca
ments of one race or nationality We should
cling to Christ in the spirit and in glory,
rather than to the Christ in flesh. Never


theless there must have been an overawing
majesty and irresistible charm even in his
personal appearance to the spiritual eye, to
account for the readiness with which the
disciples forsaking all things followed him
in reverence and boundless devotion. He
had not the physiognomy of sinner. He
reflected from his eye and countenance the
serene peace and celestial beauty of a sinless
soul in blessed harmony with God. In the
absence of authentic representation, Chris
tian art in its irrepressible desire to exhibit
in visible form the fairest among the chill
dren of men, was left to its own imperfect
conception of ideal beauty.-Dr. Schaf.
Year: 1869

ly, preachers may indulge in occasionally
The only objection is that it is very dull
Then there is Mineralogy, and Geology, anc
Botany, and Entomology. You ought tt
know something of these sciences, as sciences
and if you have any natural gift for obser
vation in this line, you might find delight il
scientific excursions. Ifso, your programme
is made out for you. But if not, study these
subjects as you would others, and play al
something else | oppose entirely the com
mon reading, "utile cam dulce." I do not
object to ''dulce cam utale."


will close this number, and with it my
rambling, long-winded advice to you, with an
illustration of what I mean.


do not wish you to read sermons-your
own or those of any body else-to your wife
and family on winter nights. l do not wish
you, when your boys are rowing, shouting in
the meadows, or over the hill-tops in your
autumn rambles, to call them up and make
them repeat "Addisons Ode, '.Gf it is his,)
or passages out of Thompsons Lessons
Nor would | have you prefer, on the piano,
oratorio music to operatic, merely because
of the name. No; be sure your employment
is allowable, and then give yourself wholly
to it.


On the other hand, there is one part of
your work, in which if you have mind you
may find what comes as near to rollicking as
is allowed to preachers. You are to 90 twice
year to the Presbytery, once year to the
Synod, and as often to the General Assem-
bly, as you can get your brethren to send
you. Here is your chance; if you are wise
you will improve it. l have been to many
of these gatherings, and I avow that l have
seen more fun, and shared in it too, among
set of genial Presbyterian preachers and
elders, than | ever had the good luck to come
across elsewhere.


And now, good bye. I have chosen to
close my letters to you in gay strain, to
indicate to you my belief that your calling
is not only the noblest and most important
offered to man, but also if rightly viewed,
and rightly used, the most joyous


S. L. G.
Year: 1869

RELIGION EXEMPLIFIED.-I would NOT
give much for your religion unless it can be
seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.
A light house sounds no drum, it beats no
gong, and yet, far over the waters its friend
ly spark is seen by the mariner. So let our
actions shine out your religion. Let the
main sermon of your life be illustrated by
your conduct, and it shall not fail to be
illustrious.
Year: 1869

If YOU ARE wise man you will treat the
world as the moon treats it. Show it only
one side of yourself, seldom show yourself
too much at time, and let what you show
be calm, cool, and polished; but look at
every side of the world.
Year: 1869

OvEpBoARD-This morning, Just as the
steamer Arrow, StaCkpole, was about leaving
Galt's wharf tor Mount Vernon, a blind horse
attached 10 a wagon backed overheard. The
circumstance attracted considerable attention
on the v harf. but none of them seemed equal
to the emergency OF rescue, and doubtless the
animal would have drowned had il not been
for the presence OF mind OF Mr.. lob Baker, an
employe OF the boat, who sprang into the water
and by cutting the animal loose disengaged him
from the wagon, so that he was enabled with
the assistance OF parties in a boat to reach the
shore. The wagon still remains embedded in
the river.
Year: 1869

The pouer for driving the machinery
necessary to manufacture the entire cot.
crop of the Southern Statescan be found
in Georgia alone. All that is necessary
to put the machinery in motion is tor
the planters themselves to invest their
surplus profits arising from the produc-
tion of the raw material in we'll directed
schemes for the utilization of this vast
power now lying idle in our midst.


English manufacturers will find it to
their interest to establish manufacturing
establishments here where motive power
is abundant at nominal cost, and where
the raw material is twenty per cent.
cheaper than in Manchester Instead
ofinvesting their money in efforts to in
crease the supply of cotton, let them
come here with their capital and make
investments in manufactures, which, &C
cording to the reports of our leading
Southern factories, will pay from t'oenty
to tinty percent. per annum. In Great
Bri am three to five per cent. upon In.
vestments is considered a good business
Here in the cotton manufacture, ten
times that amount can be realized.


The manifest advantages which the
South, and particularly Georgia, possess,
will necessarily attract manufacturing
capital from t! e North and from Great
Britain. While we are anxious to have
this capital brought here and this branch
of industry fully developed, we prefer
that our own people should reap por-
ton at least of the riches which must
follow -judicious investments in cotton
manufactures.


This is a matter of much Importance
to the State and to the planters, and
we hope it will receive the consideration
of those who areso clamorous to increase
labor or to,produce five millions of bales
in order to sell it at IL or Is cents


augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
Year: 1869

OUR NEW GOODS this season embrace a
~ more choice and varied assortment than
ws have had for several seasons. We take es-
pecial pleasure in inviting all who want cheap
end good goods to examine our stock. Onr
motto is. 'no trouble to show goods and al
ways sell at tho lowest price.


mvb ROBERT l.. WOOD.
Year: 1869

The native of Cape May is said to be a Gu
rious individual, with the value of the almighty
dollar deeply impressed upon his heart, who
gazes wistfully at the visitors pocket-books,
lives in the barn all summer, having rented his
residence for a cottage" and dips his frugal
crust in ham fat, in order to have the more butter
to sell to the hotel keepers,
Year: 1869

The Rev. Robert COlyer, in recent
lecture on the "Inside Track" said
that the first thing on the Inside
Track is honest work well done, for
in it lies the root of all living. Wait
ing for something to turn up is the
greatest mistake a young man can
make. When the war first broke out
the friends of General Grant wonder
ed what he was so busy about in his
room in st. Louis. Finally IL was dis
covered that he was drawing plans
and maps of Notifications and of the
districts where battles were raging.
Mr.. Colyer said that it was during
these days that great man was laying
the foundation for great name. His
great success was not the accident OF
an hour, but it was the inevitable re-
suit of long study and of hard work.
The second thing on the inside track
is good home, and to have a good
home, a good husband and agOod wife
with a house full of fehildren are neces-
sary. 1t was a grand sight to see brave
men and polite women rush to the
front in defense of their nation; but
il is sad to hear that these very men
and women are not willing TO help
people in the land in which they were
born. The hope of America lies in
children rather than in its great men.
The man who is not willing to help
fill his country with good children, IS
either a coward or a traitor. What II
the parents of Burns or of Lincoln
had followed the example of some OF
the so-called Christians of our day ,
The speaker alluded to the souls


which go up to God before their time,
and said: Think of it, to have the


pilgrim spirit say to its Father, Had
/ / been born in America l would have


made that land rich with my works,


but alas, the only way by which
] could enter was broken down."
Year: 1869




One of the most remarkable leaps
ever recorded, was made yesterday
evening, by a negro woman, passen-
ger on the Memphis bound train,
within q few miles from this city.
The affair would be incredible lin
deed. we can scarcely credit it as 1t IS,
were it not attested by a score or two
of passengers, from whom we learn
the following particulars of the adven-
ture: A negro woman got on the train
at Grand Junction and asked the con-
ductOr to put her out at a farmhouse
about ten miles from Memphis. She
could not remember the name of
the place, nor could she so describe it
that the conductor could recognize It,
so he told her to keep a sharp look
out, and let him know when they
were approaching it. Thus when IN
structed the woman took seat forward
and kept her eye skinned for her stop
DiDp-Dlace. When about twelve miles
ffOm town, the conductor started INTO
the rear car, forgetting alI2bout Oman,
let the engineer pull the throttle VIDE
open and come downward a hOWllng-'
When he got near the door OF the sec
Ond car, lie seated himself beside a
passenger and commenced pleasant
chat, from which he was startled by
seeing the wench come running ait
through the car. As she passed him
and slung open the door, he grabbed
at her dress but missed it, and in an
other she had reached the platform
and Jumped Off-the train going at
lightning speed! The astOnished pas
sengers and conductor saw for mo-
ment a confused mass of calico, red
brogans and black legs flash in the air
and vanish instantly as the train sped
on. The Mortified conductor jumped
for the bell-rOpe, and gave pull that
made the engineer jump Tor the re-
verse lever and whistle down the
brakes as if a ninety-ear train was
coming on a down grade in the OppO-
site direction at sixty miles an hour.
To cut a long story short, as soon as
possible the train was stopped and
backed up to where the unfortunate
colored femalen took her leap. rs was
confidentialy expected, into eternity,
and where they thought to find her
mangled remains. But they were
mistaken. The remains were found
it is true, but there was not much
mangling about them. She was stun
ned little, and had a patch of wool
knocked off the top Of her head, and
there was an awful dent in the ground
where she hit, but further than this
no damage seemed to have been done.
The conductor made couple of hands
hustle her into the baggage car, and
the train came on to the city. When
it reached the depot the woman was
''all right" jumped out of the ear,
and walked off as if nothing lad hap
pened.
Year: 1869

\ New York letter tells the follow
ing: lone of our banks has not been
doing very well. Some of our shrewd-
est bankers had more stock in the con-
cern than they wanted. They adopt
ed a shrewd scheme to raise the price
of stock and sell out. They induced
the Erie Railroad to transfer its de
posits to the bank, and the City Cham
berlain to remove the immensetundS
of the city from the Broadway Bank
to the bank in question. With such
a lift the feeble institution went up
with a bound. But as quarter OF Il
million of the stock was transferred IN
one block, it was not difficult, in the
public estimation, To account Tor the
transfer. Financial gentlemen in New
York don't serve their fellOw-men for
naught.
Year: 1869

Commissioner Delano yesterday IS
sued a sweeping order that hereafter
claim agents, attorneys, brothers hav-
ing business with the bureau, must
state their business in writing by
mail; that personal solicitation will
not be allowed, and that no one shall
speak on any business, without per
mission of the Commissioner or So
licitOf.
Year: 1869

Some time since citizen of Port
land had his pocket picked of $780,
Shortly after he received a letter from
the thief, stating that he had started
in business with his stolen capital,
and that he should pay interest on it
until he was able to return the pFinei-
pal. Two payments of interest have
already been made.
Year: 1869

On the Sd of August, 1861. the first
bill passed the House. 1t
provided that if during the existing
rebellion any person should employ
his property in aiding, abetting or
promoting said rebellion it should be
lawful subject of prize and capture,
and made it the duty of the President
to cause such property to be seized,
confiscated and condemned. 1t also
provided that if any master should re-
auire or permit his slave to take up
arms against the Government, or per-
Year: 1869

The PExINsULAR PEACH GRowERs Con-
vRSTIoN.-As usual there was q warm
time in this body at Dover, on Tuesday
last. growing out of difference in the
views and interests of those shipping by
water and those shipping by rail. The
Convention, however, after much debate,
accomplished the main purpose for which
it convened, which was the appointment o.
a committee to wait upon the several Raj
Road Companies freightipg peaches from
this peninsula to New York, for the pur
pose Of effecting a reduction in frcights
The next meeting of the Convention viii
be held in Middletown.
Year: 1869

We recently republished from the Middletown |
Transcript an account Uf the arrest OF colored |
man near that town for an assault on two ladies |
in carriage. We called attention at the time to
the improbability Of the story, and now copy the
sccused's own statement before the committing
magistrate, as printed by request in the last mum
Der Of that paper
We give more space to this affair than its inn
portance merits as Il Is fair sample of the slight
foundation on which prejudice rears so many Of
indiscretion Of poor man in the excitement Of
what was, to him, great ioss, Is magnified into
nameless crime by excitement and fears having
their birth in prejudice, and that is all.


We did not intend to refer to this mat
ter again. but the manner in which it has
been treated in the Commercial, has
changed our purpose. 1t is not true that
the ..indiscretiou" of this man, in the ex-
citement Of his loss, was ''maguified into
nameless crime" The nature Of the Of
fencs was distinctly stated, and there was
nothing in the statement TO warrant this
language Of the Commercial. It is q
phase of the offence no where given to it,
save in its own columns. The offence was
grave enough in its character and attend
ant circumstances. without adding to it
che brutal and diabolical idea couched in
the language Of the Commercial. As to
the allegation of prejudice" it is sim
pie attestation Of the existence Of bias in
the mind Of the Commercial itself, not u
gainst, but in favor Of offenders having a
black skin. Had a white man been gull
ty Of such an outrage towards two highly
respectable and unoffending ladies upon the
public highway, he would richly have de-
served the severest castigation; and if any
such should occur, it is to be hoped that
some male friend may be present to admin.
lister it, on the spot, in addition to the or.
binary penalties of the law. Prejudice
forsooth! To whom does this allegation
apply? To the ladies?-to the friend and
guardian Of the younger, who very proper
ly stepped forward to lend his aid and as
sistance in their distress ITO the com
mitting magistrate ITO the gentleman
who furnished the statement published ?
all Of them, without exception, belong t.
the party of which the Commercial is th'
mouth-piece; and surely it would no
bring m allegation of prejudice towards
the black man against the members Of it
own party. The truth is, that in its yea
to defend this 'poor man" the CONNER
'cial has put itself in an untenable position


1t has chosen to accept the statement o


the negro as true, while it rejects that @


the ladies, as having had its birth in "ex


citement" .'fear" and prejudice" 1t ma.


comport with its notions of propriety t


take the word of an infuriated black ma


in preference to that of highly respectabl


and intelligent ladies. but such cours


will meet with no countenance in this com


munity.
Year: 1869

The Women's Suffrage Association of
New York city adopted resolution Thurs
day favoring the ratification of the Fif-
teenth Amendment. A resolution Of op-
posite purport was adopted at former
meeting, but this action was afterward re-
considered, and the whole subject laid on
the table.
Year: 1869

bY-A full revival Of public spirit and a
little more nerve on the part Of capitalists
would make large, populous and beauti-
ful city Of Dallas in four or five years,an
its name would rank with that Of Houston
and Galveston on the records of The world.
Let old Rip Van Wrinkles rub their sleepy
eyes and grunt and croak and doubt, but
this is as true as that two aud two make
Year: 1869

How sANY2-A young man asked
an old man for his daughter in mar
riage. The answer was: $50 into
the orchard and bring in q number
of apples. Give me one-half of the
whole number and the mother half
of the balance and half an apple
over, and to the daughter one half
of the remainder and half an apple
over, and have one left for Yourself
without cutting an apple; and then,
if she is willing you can have her" "
He soTvedthe question. How many
did be bring2 = ~.