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Year: 1865

A SERIOUS AFFAIR.-Recently while q
party of national soldiers were in search
of lost government cattle near Gayles-
vile, Alabama. they were attacked by q
sheriff with posse of men, who claimed
to be acting under authority from Cover.
nor Parsons One of the soldiers was
killed; thirteen of the sherifrs men were
made prisoners This collision between
the civil and military is to be investi-
gated by board of army officers.
Year: 1865

New YORK, Sept. 25-In pardoning a
distinguished southerner the other day,
says the Posts special, the President told
him to 90 home and urge the election of
men to Congress who would take the oath
prescribed by law. 1t was of no use, the
President said, to send men to Congress
who would not take that oath
Year: 1865

L. richly assorted. Being exclusively Ia tho
Clothing Business we can furnish the above to
better advantage 70 dealers and on better term,
than can be had elsewhere.


We have the most complete stock and lArgss,
assortment Of goods Of any house In our line Ia
the city.


We are selling goods lower than any other
house In the city, ~ we bought our goods whom
gold was at the lowest.


We have largo stock Of
Year: 1865

The late order respecting the mastering inof Ebsti
tutes found work very badly and needs TO be Invoked
without delay, If is intended to afford the cry fair
opportunity MI its quota The following s the order
70 which We rSfer:-l
Year: 1865

1t has been said that the American people
are less apt than Others to profit by experience
because the hustle Of their lives keeps break
ing the thread of that attention which is the
material of memory, till no one has patience
or leisure to spin from it a continuous thread
of thought. We suspect that this is not more
true of us than of other nations, than it is OF
all people who read newspapers. Great events
are perhaps not more common, than they used
to be, but a vastly greater number of trivial
incidents are now recorded, and this dust of
time gets into our eyes. The telegraph strips
history of everything down to the bare fact,
but it does not observe the true proportions OF
things, and we must make an effort to recover
them. In brevity and cynicism it is me
chanical Tacitus, giving no less space to the
movements of Sala than Of Sherman, as inn
partial leveller as death. saisa Yssg9


1t announces with equal SGnqfr0Sd the sur
render of Kirby Smith and the capture of a
nesh Rebel Governor, reducing us to the stat
tre at which posterity shall reckon us. Emil
nent contemporaneousness may see here how
much space will be allotted to it in the histori-
cal compends and biographical dictionaries of
the next generation. In artless irony the tel
egrapn Is unequa1ed among the satirists of this
generation. Dut this short-hand diarist con
POUNDS all olsC'hcuons OF great and little, and
fills the memory with minute narticles of
what is oddly enough called intelligence. We
read in successive paragraphs the annointment
OF a Provisional Governor of North Carolina
whose fitness or want of it may be the tIrning
point of our future history, and the nomina.
ton of a minister who will at most onlv he
wilder some foreign court with more lesper-
ately helpless French than his .predecessor.-
The conspiracy trial at Washington, whose
result win have absolutely no effect on the real
affairs of the nation occupies for the moment
more of the public mind and thought than the
question of reconstruction, which involves the
life and death of the very principle we have
been fighting for these four years.


Undoubtedly the event of the day, what
ever it may be, is apt to become unduly prom
inent, and to thrust itself obscuringly between
us and the perhaps more important event Of
yesterday, where the public appetite demands
fresh gossip rather than real news, and the
press accordingly keeps its spies everywhere
on the lookout for tribes that become impor-
tant by being later than the last. And yet
this minuteness of triviality has its value also.
Our sensitive sheet gives us every morning the
photograph OF yesterday, and enables us TO de-
tect and to study at leisure that feetinp ex-
preston of the time which betrays its charac-
ter, and which might altogether escape us in
the idealized historical portrait. We cannot
estimate the value Of the items in our daily
Year: 1865

p The author of that song has deserved and
received the personal thanks of many of our
Generals for giving the Inspiration which
aroused and sustained the enthusiasm of our
soldiers on many a hard fought field 3 4 .al,s
Year: 1865

what can be done in the way Of peace.


The Tribune don't think he will succeed,
urges the filing up Of our army and
making short work Of the rebellion.
Blair Is not clothed with any power from
the Government, but we infer Is lsu-
thorized 10 ascertain whether any treaty
Of peace is now attainable.


The HeraIds Winchester eorrespOn-
dent details a conversation with man
recently from Richmond, who says the
rebels are busy preparing for evacuation.
Much Government property and many
officials have already been sent OF to
the interior. JEFF Davis has become
convinced that be cannot hold the city
much longer and il is being mined.
Year: 1865

Upon the outside of to-day's REPuBLIcA An
will be found the able speech Of Hon. ScHur.
LER CoLrAx, delivered on Saturday evening
last to an audience of his friends who made
a complimentary call upon him.


1t is the production of a man who thor.
oughly understands tho situation. It is the
political gospel from a congressional stand
point, and is the Government programme as
reflected by the Chief Executive. Both are
in harmony with the principles and purpose
of the great Union party of the nation to
which President and Congress owe their off,
cial existence.


We congratulate the country that the ex-
ecutive and legislative branches of the Gov
ernmcnt, elected by the same great party
the party that put down the rebellion-are
in perfect concord on the great questions
which compass reconstruction.
Year: 1865

Among other measures to be presented to
Congress early in the session, is one for an
air line railroad between this city and New
York, avoiding all the old roads and dong
away with horse power and ferry boats this
side ofth Hudson river. Substantial business
men with plenty of capital are said to be the
hackers.
Year: 1865

There is no foundation for the statement
made in morning paper, that the Secretary
of the Treasury will put forward new loan.
The Bonds on tho last loan of hty millions
have not yet been all delivered, and we are
authorized to say that further loans will not
be asked for by the Secretary until after the
meeting of Congress, to which body the
whole subject will be submitted.
Year: 1865

MORE IMPROVEMENTS We notice that
The Methodist Society is improving its
church and grounds. We would invite
the ow lers of lots on that street to imi
tate SC worthy An example, and n once
bring the grade Of the street and adjoining
lots to tho rade Of the church lot II
this be not done there will be an insight
ly pond hole north Of the church lot
where ducks aud geese vii! delight to
sport themselves, and the young urchins
10 sail their immature fieeis.
Year: 1865

The BEST AND SAFEST ST1MULANT-The
Red Jacket Bitters are free from all aci
ditie' usually found in ordinary toDics and
stomach bilters Of the present day. They
are made from sound and fresh material
nothing that is To, entirely wholesome
and healthy enters into the composition
OF them
Year: 1865

beautiful rainbow of the sunlight 1t remained
visible about fifteen minutes.


AS this letter will doubtless be the last 1
that shall write your paper from Richmond,
I take this method of returning my thanks for
the kind manner with which they have all
been received, and hope at some future day to
renew my acquaintance with your readers
through the columns of the TINES, which pa
per I hope will meet with unlimited success.
as it will, if energy aid perseverance can
accomplish anything.


TT TT KAYTON
Year: 1865

A LITTLE Swedish girl, while walk
ing with her father on starry night,
absorbed in the contemplation of the
skies, being asked of what she was
thinking, replied:


II was thinking if the wrong side of
heaven is so glorious, what must the
right side be p
Year: 1865

In another mansion, not far distant, was grief
an unwelcome visitant A little child, Of the
same age as Eva, was lost, but not by death.
During the temporary absence of her nurse
some hend bad stolen her away. Oh the an
guish Of that stricken household! To lose a
friend by death is terrible, but there is a con
ISOLATION even in that. We know they are in the
hands Of merciful God. To have an innocent,
delicate child taken from home, carried, We
know not where-to feel that while we are sit
ting in comfort, our lost one may be suffering
from cold, hunger and abuse at the hands Of
some tyrant, must be more agonizing, more ter
rible.


A brother of some fifteen years, Edwin Mon
tague, stood proudly up and, while the light Of
fixed resolve shone in bis eagle eye, vowed
that be would give up the search but with his
life, and terrible would be the fate of her alb
ductor All that money could do or The anZ-
isty Of the stricken parents could suggest w95
Year: 1865

these concessions being the basis OF '
treaty for the virtual surendse, BY certain
ireaoherous odacials, Of our local system OF
representative selfgovernmsnt. Sops WIN be
thrown hero and there 10 tho most clamorous
and menacing hounds Of our city and county
pack Vast professions Of desire for reform
win be made to amuse the emineutly respect
able old gentlemen who compose the "Cit-
sens' Association and, q the upshot of TIE
whole, Il d hoped by all the parties most In
interest that before the present session Of the
Legislature terminates We shall have an enor-
nous school Of many colored sharks-black,
white and hammerheaded charging down the
Hudson from Albany, all their minatory dorsal
6ns rippling above the water, ell their fore
jaws extended to the utmost tension, and boun-
teous prey awaiting their arrival on the very
moment Of their heaving In sight ofour much
suffering and plundered island.


We tell the honest members Of our State
Legislature-for such we fondly hope there
are-that what our city mainly needs ID tho
consolidation Of all iH executive power In the
hands Of one man, to be elected annually;
and Of all Legislative power in single board
Of the Common Council, to be elected ON
. general city ticket along with the Mayor,
and to hold office for the same time. Small
districts are invariably held in fee simple by
the greatest rascals they contain. But insist
upon it that the whole city shall be called upon
to vote for each Of our municipal Legislators,
and the various political parties will be at
once compelled to put up respectable and able
candidates, possessing the confidence Of the
entire community. Let all heads Of depart
ments be appointed by the Mayor, and be re-
movable by him for cause-this being the only
means by which we can fix upon one man the
responsibility for every act Of official mis-
conduct With civic legislative body elected
on general ticket, we should once more have
our best and most capable citizens contending
for this species Of distinction; and, should even
few bad men be elected, their tenures Of
Office would be too brief to permit the forma-
ton Of any regular or well consolidated
"rIngs" Of plunder, such as we have recently
groaned under. 1.-THE Mayor and Common Coun-
Gil thus elected for year prove worthy and give
satisfaction we can keep re-electing them, year
in and year out, In sGc,Ad soscsAor.sm; while, II
the reverse, they can be booted out Of the Of
fees they seek to disgrace before having had
time for any material mischief This, briefly
and roughly sketched, Is our well considered
plan for thorough and radical reform Of our
municipal affairs, and we gladly challenge
comparison between its simplicity and direct
ness, and the nondescript tinkerings, term ex-
tendings, commission appointings and general
plunder arrangements Of the sharks who poise
themselves on throbbing fms In the muddy
waters Of the Legislative spool" at Albany, all
their heads facing towards our devoted island,
and all their jaws wide open for the expected
prey Of our piers, streets and markets, ferry
leases, railroad franchises and other such like
bOOty.
Year: 1865

YOUR PROPERTY Is MORE VALUABLE q.


If you'Sastain yeur County Pape,
YOUR PROPERTY is MORE VALUABLE -


If YOU Sustain your County Paper.
YOUR PROPERTY IS MORE aVALU ABLE .9ii


II you Sustain your County Pader
YOUR PROPERTY IS MORE VALUABLE


If you Sustain yeur County Paper.
YOUR PROPERTY IS MORE VALUABLE


IF you Sustain yo:r County Paper.
YOUR PROPERTY is MORE VALUABLE


IF you Sustain your County Paper
YOUR PROPERTY is MORE VALUABLE


If you Sustain your County Paper
YOUR PROPERTY is. MORE VALUABLE


If you Sustain yourAC County Paper
YOUR PROPERTY IS MORE VALUABLE


Il you Sustain your County PaPeI
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your County Papee.
iouR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


ro II you Advertise in your County Papef.
iouR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE
1t you Advertise in your County Paper.
1oUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


ro,, If you Advertise in your County Paper.
LUX BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


vo,r, II you Advertise in your County Paper.
'ook BUSINESS Will. INCREASE - : !
vor, II you Advertise in your County Paper.
Aooh BUSINESS WILL INCREASE v Q
yorrn II you Advertise in your County Paper
ooA BUSINESS WILL INCREASE ''s
yorrp III II you Advertise in your County Paper
on BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


you Advertise in your County Paper
Year: 1865

The following are some Of the rules
by which fortune tellers profess to be
guided in their practice of astrology :


JANUARY.-The that is born in this
month will be laborious and lover of
good wine, be very subject to infdelity,
yet he will be complacent, and withal
a fine singer. The woman born in this
month, will be a good wife, rath-
er melancholy, but yet good -natured.


FEBRUARY.-The man born in Feb
ruary will love money much, but be
prodigal abroad. The lady viii be hu-
name to her mother.


MARcH.-The man born in March
will be rather handsome, but he will be
honest and prudent.-He viii die poor.
The lady will be passionate, jealous
and chatterbox.


APRIL.-The man who has the mis-
fortune to be born in April will be sub
ject to maladies; he will travel to his
disadvantage, for he marry a rich heir
ess, who will make him much trouble,
as you no doubt can well suppose.
The lady born in this month viii be tall
and stout, with agreeable wit and great
talk.


MAY.-The man born in the month
of May will be handsome and amiable {;
he will be equally blest in every re-
spect.


JUNE.-The man born in the month
of June will be of small stature and
passionately fond of children. The la
dy will be a parsonage fond of coffee,
and will marry young.


JULY.-The man born in the month
of July will be fat, and suffer death for
the woman he loves. The female of
this month will be passionately hand
some, with sharp nose and a fine bust !;
she will be of very sulky temper.


AUGUsT.-The man born in the
month of August will be ambitious and
courageous he will have two wives.
The lady will be amiable and twice
married, but her second husband will
cause her to regrt the first.


SEPTEMBER.-He who was born in
September will be strong and prudent,
but will be too easy with his wife, who
will cause him great uneasiness. The
lady will be round faced and fair haired,
witty, discreet and loved by her friends.


OcroBER.-The man born in this
month will have a handsome face and
forid complexion. He Will be wicked
and inconstant. He will promise one
thing and do another, and remain poor.
The lady will be pretty, little fond
of talking, will have two or three hus-
bands, who will die with grief-she will
best know why.


NoyEMBER.-The man born in this
month will have fine face, and be a
gay deceiver. The lady of this month
will be large, liberal and full Of novel
".


DECEMBER.-The man born in this
month will be a good sort of person,
though passionate. He will devote him
self to politics, and be beloved by his
wife. The lady will be amiable and
handsome, with good voice and we'll
proportioned BODY. and very honest.
Year: 1865

BE CoNTENTED.-Could people only
know, or would people only know when
they are well off, how much more serene
to themselves, and how pleasanter to
others would their lives be. Little
mindful Of the present blessings we en-
JOY, we 60 on with an Unsuitable desire
for wealth, and if we are fortunate, our
ideas so change, and our expenses in
creasing in proportion to our ideas, We
truly find ourselves no better off than
when we commenced. If | only had
SO much more lis the frequent remark
we hear, how comfortably would be
off. If ever we reach what ten years
ago We considered our maximum, it still
is, if | only had so much more. So
we 90 on from year to year, till
we grow old, and, losing some of
our pride, begin to think there is
something else to live for than the ac-
cumulation of riches. Then, and till
then, do We look back and see the errors
of life too late to erase, too true to
ourselves. always making US poor when
really rich, and destroying that most
charming trait Of character that brings
more with it than wealth can give
conteatment,-[ ["Leisure Hour in
Country Gentleman.
Year: 1865

Whether broken down by excess. weak by nature.
or impaired by sickness, the unstTung and relaxed


organization Is al once rehraoed revived and buit
up. Well may this celebrated medicine be call
Year: 1865

There was time when a london
audience was to be feared. A bad
piece. was remorselessly extinguished,
so that no manager dared insult the
public by putting it again before them.
A sloYenly actor was equally certain
of reprobation. If he did not respect
himself and his location, he speedily
learnt that he must at least respect Be
public. Good work, it is true, though
always appreciated, cOuldnot always
be secured but good endeayer VA


least required. The applause Of an
audience of this stamp vas worthy of
an actors ambition. They Judged Ior
themselves, and they did not scrpole
to express their judgments. NomSn-
agerlor actor would have Yentured in
those days to dictate from his PLAY
bills, as we now see done every day,
what the public we're to think of
their pieces or their acting. It was
their duty to supply the best which
they could command of both, and to
leave these to make their way with the
public without note or comment of
any kind. A little frmness on the
part of the press, and few vigorous
symptoms of disapprobation from the
audience, might speedily restore mat
ters to their present healthful state
IN these respects, and teach managers
and actors that the resources of Bar
numism, in which they are now so
fertile, would no longer avail them in
foisting wretched pieces and viTainous
acting upon public that has been
tried by both beyond the limits of en-
durance. -


Such an audience should have visit
ed our Boston theaters, where for
weeks the manager did not think it
worth while to engage a commedian,
and complained because the public did
not patronize his establishment.
But he thinks he knows how to man
age theater.
Year: 1865

Over the beauty of the plum and the
apricot there grows a bloom and beauty
more exquisite than the fruit itself
a soft, delicate flush spreads its fuSh-
ing cheek. Now, if you strike your
hand over that, it is gone. The flow
er that hangs in the morning impearled
with dew, arrayed as no queenly Wo-
man ever was arrayed with jewels-once
shake it so that the beads roll of, and
you may sprinkle water over it as you
please, vet it can never be what it was
when the dew fell silently on it from
heaven. On a frosty morning you
may see panes Of glass covered with
landscapes, mountains, lakes trees,
blended in a beautiful picture. Now
lay your hand upon the glass, and by
the scratch of your finger, or by tho
warmth Of your palm, that delicate
tracery will be obliterated. So there
is in youth beauty and purity Of
character, which when once touched
and de6led, can never be restored.
Year: 1865

When a gentleman in China feels desi
rous Of taking unto himself a wife, he
sends to the paternal head of some fam
lly containing daughters for specimens of
their feet, with the price attached. One
foot is valued at perhaps two thousand
dollars, the next smallest at FIVE thousand,
and SO forth, according to the market.
After the foot (of the lady to whom it
belongs IS chosen, she is sent in a sedan
chair to the intended husbands house;
he meets her at the door, looks into the
vehicle to take view of the fair one,
and if she suits his taste he admits her.
As soon as she passes his treshold she
becomes his lawful wife; but if be likes
not the lady, he shuts the door, and she
is carried whittier she came.
Year: 1865

The following is a good exercise for
the ingenuity of school girls: A man
starts on a journey and has to pay toll
at three gates but has only apples to
pay with. At the first he gives half
his apples and half an apple beSidss;
at the second he gives halt the remain
der and half an apple more; and 81
the third he gives half that is left and
half an apple. No apple was divided,
and the man hsd one left for himself
How many did he have at Grst:
Year: 1865

LINCOLN, April Sd, 1865.


To the Editor of the Press:


Permit me TO call attention, through your
columns, to the death ofanother brave officer.
who has fallen victim to this wicked rebel
lion, Charles Wiley Mute of Lincoln, twill
pe remembered that, at the beginning of the
war, enlistments We're more active in this vi
entity than In any other part OF the country,
he enlisted the first full company for the 18th
Maine Regiment, and was commissioned Lieu
tenant. His popularity among the soldiers
soon brought him promotion to Captain,
and very soon after to Major of the first
Maine Heavy Artillery. He was under Grant
IN the bloody battle of Spotsylvania, and all the
battles OF the Wilderness, where he gained not
only the respe ct Of his men, but the confidence
OF the higher officers. He was in front of Pc
tersburg on the 18th, and in that terrible
charge while leading on his men was wound-
ed and carried from his field. He was obig-
ed to be away from his regiment nearly
four months, when, on his return he participa-
ted in the charge at Hatcher's Run, and very
soon after died.


He was a member of the masonic order and
had the esteem OF all its members. He was
highly esteemed by all classes, and when the
sad intelligence came that he was no more.
sadness was depicted on many countenance.
His remains were carried to New Hampshire
and deposited by his wife, who had died
while attending him in the army. The people
here, while they mourn over their heavy loss
have the consolation that he was a worthy
sacrifice, for that cause which will eventually
accomplish the great work attempted


j. M. K.
Year: 1865

an item stating in substance that the "small
pox was so prevalent at Fort Monroe that the
mall could not be landed there" am hap
py TO state that there has not been the least
foundation for such report since have been
in this department-nearly five months. The
author OF the paragraph must have possessed
a very Uiuid Imagination.


Hoping to greet you within a few weeks,
and my many other valued friends in the good
old "Sunrise State" remain,


Yours truly,


WANDERER
Year: 1865

To be in earnest in any work is to more than half
accomplish it. If we would succeed in anything,
we must enlist all our energies, and work with zeal,
and work all the time There is vast amount of
significance in the old adagc, "Where there is will
there's a way


The Federal party would do well to learn les
son from the rebels for they have prosecuted their
treason and rebellion with an earnestncss worthy of
better cause They are terribly in earnest. They
began the rebellion with intense earnestness, and
they have prosecuted it ever since with the same
determination. They are now putting forth all
their energies and are attacking every point where
they can muster force.


= Thanks TO heaven, our Government is going at
them in an earnest way. Still, there is room for
more earnestncss on the part of our Government
and among our generals in command. We have
the numerical strength, we have the money and
credit, we have right on our side, and all we lack is
sdjyestess