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Year: 1869

A very ingenious and Frenchy
mode of relieving the hunger of ray-
elers has been adopted on the leading
lines out of Paris. At certain stations
on the road, the railroad officials, all
of whom are dressed in uniform, in
quire if you will dine or sup, as the
case may be. If you answer in the
affirmative the fact is Immediately
telegraphed to the station where the
meal is provided. Even the number
of your compartment goes with il. On
arriving at the station q box is put
into your hands. 1t contains four
courses. with soup and wine. You are
allowed forty minutes TO eat, which
you do while the car is on its way
The dinneris hot and excellent. You
eat at your leisure and are charged the
moderate price of so cents for the ar
rangement. Your box is taken from
you, and you proceed on your way.
Year: 1869

Our aims are all too high: we try


To gain the summit at a bound,
When we should reach itStep by step,


And climb the ladder round by round.
He who would climb the heights sublime


Orbreathe the purer air Of life,
Must not expect to rest in ease,


But brace himself for toll or strife.
We should not in our blindness seek


To grasp alone for grand and great,
Disdaining every smaller good,


For trifieS make the aggregate,
And II a cloud should hover DER


Our weary pathway like a pail,
Remember God permits il there,


And his good purpose reigns DER all.
Life should be full of earnest work,


Our hearts undashed by fortunes frown
Let perseverance conquer fate,


And merit seize the victor's crown.
The battle is not to the strong,


The race not always to the heet;
And he who seeks to pluck the stars


VIII lose the jewels at his feet.
Year: 1869

\ sailor, exhOrting at a prayer
meeting in London chapel, said that
on dark stormy nights, while on the
sea. he had often been comfOrted by
that beautiful passage of scripture,
"A faint heart never won fair lady.n
Year: 1869

| Fine PeOple-The man who advertis-
es in your paper, the man who never
! refuses to lend you money and the fel-
| low who is cOUrung your sister.
| Gentle PeOple-Ihe young lady who
/ lets her mother do the ironing for fear
! of spelling her hands, the miss who
wears thin shoes on q rainy day and the
young gentleman who is ashamed to De,
seen walking with his father.


Industrious PeOple-Ihe young lady
who reads rOmances in bed, the friend
who is always engaged when YOU call
and the correspondent who can not find
time to answer your letter.


Unpopular PerSOnageS-Th fat man
in an omnibus, tall man in q crowd
and short man on parade.


Timid PeOple-A lover about 70 Don
the question, q man who does not ike
to be shot at and the steamboat com
pany with a case of cholera,


Dignified Men-A chit in o country
town, q midshipman on a quarterback
and a school committee on examination
day.


Prosecuted People-Women, by that
tyrant, man; boys by their patents and
teachers, and all poor people by society
at large.


Unhappy PeOple-Old bachelors and
old maids.


Humble People-The husband who
does his wife's churning, the wife who
blacks her husbands boots and the man
who thinks you do him much honor.


Mean PeOple-The man who kicks
people when they are down. and the
subscriber who refuses to pay for his pa
per,
Year: 1869

On the Ist of May fifteen thousand
people in California were booked for an
overland trip by rail. The tide of trav-
el has fairly commenced, and the time
has now come when tourists will make
Il trip to the Rocky Mountains before
climbing the Alps or indulging in a sail
on the Rhine. For an American to Wis
it Europe for pleasure, before he has seen
our own magnificent landscapes or
mountains, waterfalls, waving pines


and broad green parks, is ridiculous and
justly subjects him to unfavOrable eriti-


cism abroad.


Our mountain scenery Is as wild, beau


tiful, romantic and sublime as any
Europe can present, with the ADVANTAGE


that it is on a much grander scale. No
brooks sparkle brighter or are better fill
ed with trout than ours and no climate
on earth is more invigorating, clear and
beautiful than ours. One might spend a
dozen summers in exploring our noun
tain chains, and still the half would not
have been seen. Let those of the East
who have the leisure and money but are
lacking in health and vigOr, come and
camp in our beautiful hooks, battle in
our hot and cold mineral springs and re-
gain youth, vigOr and health. No nor
ton Of the world offers so much variefvOf
scenery, and this the Americans under
stand. If they want further testimony.
let them read Samuel Bowels book. and
follow his example.


Our artists already appreciate our i'm
pOrtance, and have been fiOcking here
IN great numbers to transfer portion of
our beauties to canvas, but they ought
not to be left alone in the enjoyment of
its pleasures - Colorado ReQiStCr.
Year: 1869

So long as God gives us life, and the
earth is cursed with the presence of Nc
Neil, we feel it to be our solemn duty to
rehearse, once every year, the story of
the most atrOciOUs and horrible occur
rences in the annals of barbarOus war;
fare. On the 18th day of October, 1862, a
deed was enacted at the Fair Grounds at
Palmyra, Missouri, which sent thrill of
horror throughout the civilized world.
Ten brave, and true, and innocent men
were taken from their prison, driven to
the edge of the town, seated on their
rough board COffins, and for no crime of
their own, murdered like so many swine.
Murdered! Butchered! By the old blotch
upon creations face, John Mcneil,
now by the grace of bayOnets, Tom
Fletcher and the Devil, is Sheriff of St,
Louis county! and a radical in full fell
lOwship.


There was our poor, handsome, gall
liant boyhOOd friend, Tom Sidener. AS
pure q soul as ever winged its flight
from blOOd-stained sod to that God who
will yet, to all eternity, damn the fiend-
ish butcher Mcneil! Poor Tom! He was
model paragon of manly grace and
beauty. So eXquisitely formed, features
so perfect and so fair; so brave and yet
so gentle, that even the vile reptile,
Winchell, now Editor of the Hannibal
Courier, said that Gin his beauty and
wickedness, he reminded him of Absa-
IOm." Poor fellow! He was engaged
to be married to a young lady in Mon
roe County. When he learned he was
to be shot, he sent for his wedding-suit,
which had Just been made, declaring
that if he could not be married in
it he intended to die in it. Arrayed
in his elegant black broadclOth,
and his white silk vest, when he noun
ted his coarse plank coffin in the wagon
that was to bear him to death, he looked
as if he were going to be married in
stead of shot! The very guards cried
like children when they hade him good
bye Raising his cap, and bowling to
the weeping women who lined the
streets he was driven from their sight
forever! Half an hour afterward, six
musket balls pierced his noble heart and
his white silk wedding vest was torn
and dyed in his martyr-blOOd!


There was poor old Willis Baker, his
head whitened with the SHOWS of more
than seventy winters. Heroic old man!
With his white hair streaming in the
wind, he seated himself on his rude cOf-
fn. and died without 4 shuddeT, refus-
s... is last breath, to forgive his
executo., md swearing he would meet
them and torment them in hell, through
all eternityP


There was that helpless llf idiot boy
from Lewis County, who allowed Inn"
Year: 1869

have learned by contact that, every


lady in this part of the country is more


or less a huckster, but for all that 1 can


never get used to it. There is certainly


no disgrace in any occupation that re-


suits in honest gain but I can never re-
conciIe the wives of noted lawyers, mon


eyed merchants. and indeed all profess
sionaI men, with common hueksters.-


The wife Of a Major General furnishes


me with buttermilk at ten cents a gal
Ion, and the wife Of a wholesale mer-


chant sells me ice at q cent and half a
pound. My husband (whO berates me


for not peddIing such things says this is


why they are Major Generals and whole


sale merchants, but I "can't see it, Il
! I can not serve nobler purpose than
getting in my buggy and huckstcring


the produce of my garden to ladies with


whom visit socially, I will do without


''smaH change" to the end Of the chap
ter.


! have discovered however the rea-
son why these ladies condescend to this
sort of Traffic. It's because their great
% husbands aeUer gire them money, and
/ if they were not hucksters, they would


have to do as I do-never have any


money, therefore I suppose there is some
excuse for them. Men are constitution


ally selfish, and that is the reason, i'm
magine that they permit their wives to


stoop to the level which this character


of traa7c puts them on. They don't care


straw what the world thinks of the


women they have chosen for compan-
/ ions CbahD so Hcydo not have to furnish
pin money. When a man is very poor
and obliged to struggle to maintain his
family by the sweat of his brow, then it
should be a womans province and de-
| light to assist him by the work of her
own hands, but where a man sets up to
be professionally q man in the true sense
of the word he ought to be ashamed to


allow his wife to be a target for squib


writers (lille myself to shoot at. Let


him take the jewel he has won and place
! it in a setting worthy the value of the
gem such will ever be the course an


honorable, Higd-toned gentleman should
I take; and any man who is able to fur


nish his wife with pocket money, and


does not do it is contemplate scamp
and I do not care if he hears me say it.
Year: 1869

BY LADY GAY.


WHERE do married men get the idea
chat they must neUcr' give their wives
money? -They-surely know that no wo-
man of spirit wishes to beg for every
five cents she desires to spend, and there
are numerous little feminine necessities
almost indispensable to a woman's COM
fort that men have no conception of
Trifies, which add greatly to her happi-
ness, but which ninety-nine out of every
hundred are obliged to fOregO just because
they shrink from asking their husbands
for money. was simple enough when
I was first married to think that, some
time or other, my husband would offel
me, at least, a moderate sum for person
al wants, but he has never been the man
to UOylmtarjly give me a dollar. At
first was too sensitive to ask for mon
.ey; and for long time endured various
notifications for the want of pocket
change. When I commenced needing
articles Of clothing, ( I had a genteel
wardrobe when a bride, but clothes lyH
wear out, instead of applying to the
protector the law had given me, wrote
to my father to supply the deficiency


this kept up till was ashamed. Ihad
left behind me, at my childhoods home,
4 family to be provided for, and my faith
or had nothing to look to for support,
but his own labor, and when I recall the
circumstances I am sure he must have
thought stt.ange of his married daughter
writing to him for shoes, Sc. &c, al.
though, in after years he never even al
Iuded to il. In the community where !
was reared lone of the oldest, proudesi
states IN the Union) it was considered
/ had almost said a disgrace, (that is toe
strong a word) it was not exactly a dis
grace, but a lady, the wife of any man
who held q respectable footing among
men, would have been scandalized by
STOPPING to sell buttermiIk and vegeta-
bles to neighbOr There was but one
lady in the community who was guilty
Of such a derogation, and her name was
q by-word. Since l came further west
Year: 1869

literally riddled with buckshot, and on examination
forty bullet holes found in his head and body.
These holes varied in size from minnie ball To a
small buckshot From the horrible manner in which
Tillman's body was mangied, 1t was evident mat a
number OF persons had waylaid him for the purpose
tanned as to the guilty parties and there will be
some difficulty investigating the matter. as the
community had very little sympathy with the muir
dered man.
Year: 1869

A man is apt to think that his person.
al freedom involves the right to make
his fellow-men do just as he pleases.


AS the best tempered sword is the
most flexible, so the truly generous are
the most plant and courteous to their
interiors.


A lady went out with her little girl
and boy, and purchased the latter rub
Der balloon, which escaped him and
went up into the air. The girl, seeing
the tears in his eyes, said, Never mind,
Neddie, when you die and go to heaven,
you'll dit it.


An eminent painter was once asked
what he mixed his paints with in order
to produce so extraordinary an effect.
az mix them with my brains sir" was
his answer.


Beauty in woman is like the flower
in spring, but virtue is like the stars of
heaven.


A house without children is like lam
tern and no candle; q garden and no
flowers; vine and no grapes, brook
with no water gurgling and rushing in
it's channel.


Trust him little who praises all him
less who censures all; and him least who
is Indifferent about tall.-[Lavater.


Ifyou suppress the exorbitant love of
pleasure and money, idle curiosity, in
iquitous pursuits, and waDton mirth,
what stiffness would there be in the
greatest cities! The necessities of life
do not occasion at most third part of
the hurry La Bruyere.
Year: 1869

Coleridge was such slave to liquor
that he had to be kept an unwilling
prisoner by christopher North On an &C.


cassion when some literary perform


ances had to be completed by certain
time: and on that very day, without
I taking leave ofany member of the family
he ran off at full speed down the avenue
to ElIeray, and was soon hidden, not in


the groves of the valley, but in some


obscure den, where, drinking among
b some low companions, his magnificent


mind was soon brought to the level Of
the vilest of vile. When his spree was


over he would return to the society Of


decent men.


De Quincy was such slave to the


use of opium that his daily allowance


was of more importance than eating


An ounce of laudanum day Frustrated


animal life during the forenoon. 1t was


no unfrequent sight to find him asleep


on the rug before the fire in his own


room, his head on book, and his arms


crossed on his breast. When this torpor


from the opium had gassed away, he


was ready for company until about day
light. In order to show him of his
| friends had to arrange their supper par
ties so that sitting until three or four in
the afternoon, he might be brought to
that point at which in charm and pswer
of conversation he was so truly wonder
full.


Burns was not less q drunkard than
Coleridge. It was the weakness OF
Charles Lamb. And who can remem-
Der the last day Of Poe without an IRE
pressible regret? He was on his way 70
marry a confiding wsman, stopped in
Baltimore, and was found by gentle
man who knew him, in a state OF beast
Hly intoxication, unconscious as log and
died that night in the rawlings of del1ri-
um tremens! -.-..--,t ....


Douglas Jerreld was a devotee Of gin,
so. also. was Byron. Steele, the bril-
liant author of the Christian Hero, was
a beastly drunkard.i Men wrote OF him
that he would dress himself, kiss his
wife and children, tell them lie aosut
his pressing engagements, heel 1t over
to groggery, called the "Store, ana
have a revel with his bottle companions.


Robin says Of Alexander the Great,
that the true poison which brought MIN
to his end was wine.


The empress Elizabeth OF kussls vas
completely brutified by strong liquor
She was often in such state Of bacchi-
nalian ecstacy during the day that sne
could not be dressed in the morning, and
her attendants would loosely attach her
robes, which few clips Of the scissors
would disengage in the evening.


Let every man, especially those In
public life, who desires to avoid drunk
ards derth, remember that he is on the
rumbling verge ofsuch an infamy Whsn
be begins to feel that in order to prepare
himself, the doctor for cons ultatlon, the
lawyer for cause, the clergyman fsSA
sermon. the politician for aspeech, he
must take pint Of coffee or plug OF
onium and the elf same moment OF
discovery let him put his feot down,
raise his hand and swear that by the
help of God, he will never taste another
,rain or drop as long as life remains.-
rhis is the only safety. ~ -'-
Year: 1869

In the Senate on Tuesday last Mr..
Trumbull, from the Committee on Ju-
dietary, reported substitute for the bill
TO repeal the tenure-of office act, which
after some discussion was passed, as fol-
lows: .4ss. .....s.... ...-..t. ..r


Strike out all after the enacting clause
and insert as follows: That the first and
second sections of an act entitled IAN act
regulating the tenure of certain civil
Offices" passed March I'd, 1869, be and
the same are hereby repealed, and in
lieu of said repealed sections the follow
ing are hereby enacted: That every
person holding any civil office to which
he has been or may hereafter be appoint
ed by and with the advice aud consent
of the Senate, and who shall be entitled
to hold such office during the term for
which he shall have been appointed,
unless sooner removed by and with the
consent and advice of the Senate, or by
the appointment with the like advice
and consent of successor in his place,
except as herein otherwise provided. %


SEC. 2. And be ii. further enacted, That
during any recess of the Senate the
President is hereby empowered in his
discretion to suspend any civil officer
appointed by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, except Judges of
the United States courts. until the end
of the next session of the Senate, and to


designate some suitable person, subject
to be removed in his discretion; by the
designation of another to perform the
duties of such suspended officer in the
meantime, and such person so ,designat-
ed shall take the oath and give the
bonds required by law to be taken and
given by the suspended officer, and
shall during the time he performs, his
duties be entitled to the salary, and
emoluments of such officer, no part of
which shall belong to the person sus-.
pended; and it shall be the duty of the
President, within thirty days after the
commencement of ea:h session Of the
Senate, except for any office which in
his opinion ought not to be filled, to
nominate persons to fill all Vacancies in
office which existed at the meeting of
the Senate, whether temporarily filed
or not, also in place of all officers sls.
pended, and if the Senate during such
session shall refuse to advise and consent
to an appointment in the place of any
suspended officer, and also refuse by
vote to assent to his suspension, then
Year: 1869

| How many homes are made desolate


by the demon intemperance!


How many happy families are ruined,


and all peace, comfort and pleasure des-


troyed by the demon intemperance.
How many of our warehouses, jaiIs


and penitentiaries are filled by those


who can trace back to intemperance
the cause of their onward course in


crime.


How many murders are committed
by persons under the influence Of Ii


quor!


How many of our young men are


ruined by intemperance!
How many middle aged and old men
are now running their health, and ruin
ing the peace and comfort, of their


homes by intemperance!


How many have died in the werld,
since the commencement, from intem-
perance


How many members of the Church,
from whom the world expects good
example, are daily draining the cup of
intemperance to its very dregs!


How many members Of the Church,
instead of putting their seal Of condem-
nation on intemperance, in all its FERNS,
keep wines and liquors in their houses,
and not only use them themselves, but
allow their children to do 50, and thus
contract vicious appetite and love
for that which the father k1otUs may
prove the ruin of those nearest and dear
est to him of all the world! The Bible
teaches us to give good Gifts to our
children and to train them up in the
"way they should CO." If parents ex-
pect from their children lsve and affec-
ton, let them raise them, and be them
selves sober and industrious and wor-
thy of being loved.


How many Church members deal in
liquors and how many are themselves
Incorporate, instead of discountenan-
cling their use in the community, and
thus following the precepts taught them
by Divine Revelation! 1t is said that
the drunkard cannot enter the King
dom of Heaven can the maker OF drunk
ards enter there?


How many an old gray-haired man,
with one foot in the grave and the 9TH
er on the brink, instead of being daily
to meet his God and render
an account of his stewardship" Is day
after day, and week after week, and
month after month, and year after year,
stepping his few remaining senses in
Deaths poisonous cup-rendering his
own life burden to himself and mis-
ery to his friends, for the drunkard is
curse to himself and to all around.


Now, we ask, how many young men
and old, Christians and sinners, Will
DIN with us in putting down the giant
,vil-aid us in all lawful ways to dis
the use of alcoholic drinks
N the community, and by 80 doing, ad-
vance the interest and welfare of man
kind, and make every man who prac-
ices temperance richer, every family
happier and more prosperous, and all
male and female, old and young, rich
md poor, high and low, som uoh further
ldyanced on the road to Heaven.
Year: 1869

THE WIFE.-It needs no fault to
break husbands heart. The absence
of content, the muttering of spleen, the
untidy dress and cherries home, the
forbidding scowl, and deserted hearth
these and other nameless neglects, with
out a crime among them, have narrowed
to the quick the hearts sore of many q
man, and planted there, beyond the
reach of cure, the germ of dark dispalr.
Oh! many woman, before the sight ar
rives, dwell on the recollections of her
youth, and, cherishing the dear idea OF
that tuIeful time, awake and keep alive
the promises she so kindly gave. And
though she may be the injured, not the
injuring one; the forgotten, not the for
getful wife, u happy allusion to the
peaceful love-a kindly welcome to q
comfortable home-a kiss of peace to
pardon all the past, and the hardest
heart that was ever locked in the breast
of selfish man will soften to her charms
and bid her live, as she hoped, her years
in matchless bliss, love, loving and con-
tent--the soother Of the sorrowing hour,
the source of comfort, and the spring OF
Joy. 9f.'H.
Year: 1869

troops were met on the road moving slowly. with
Cuiiacan as the objective point though II trouble
arise In the southern portion OF the state, as
pected portion OF these forces would march In that
direction In this city the greatest vigilance IL
cised on the part OF the State authorities The mine
is rea1y 70 spring, and 1t Is only by the greatest
have to close this letter.
Year: 1869

~ An exchange wants to know
where Senator Pomeroy was. whom the
Judiciary Committee of the Senate asked
and received discharge from fort her
consideration Of the woman suffrage ques-
tion-of which Pomeroy profes.ed to be
the father and champion. We would
ask. when was Pomeroy ever known tn
come mp to the work when the ting Of Wal
came. except the issue involved contain


ed . gobble in which he had an interest!
Year: 1869

frOIeBbOr Akasblz anu the bOoA u


Genesis.


We are informed that the first words OF
Professor Agassiz in his opening lecture
of the Harvard course were % do not
wish any one to come to my lectures
who believes the Book of Genesis, as
given in the Bible" Although the posi-
ton of scientific men with regard to the
Scriptures has long been regarded as
committing them to the substance of
this, we have not had any declaration of
so plain purpose to make an issue
against the writings that are still classed
as the Word of God. We have not had
this declaration because scientific men
we're too wise to make It'll because they
did not want to put science at the dssd-
vantage of arraying religious war
against il; because they perceived that
properly science had little to do with
what writings beyond her immediate
circle might be disprovsd BY seeumulat.
ing knowledge of natures laws, and
cared not to 90 aside to wage a war in
which even victory could be of no ad-
vantage. But it is characteristic of the
brsggadocio, boldness and vanity Of the
New England PHILOSOPHERS to thus pre-
cipitate unnecessary conflict and parade
their contempt Of that which he's the re-
spect, to say the least, of the religious
world.-Nep York Herald