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Year: 1867

DR.. HALL assails the idea
that men rest by doing moth
ing. He says the only health
iul rest, as long as our physical
and mental condition remains
as it is, is to be busy. Men of
force and industry will every
where tell you, it is the hard
est thing in the world to do
nothing. The true object Of
rest is recupeartion, and that
it is best brought about as to
the body, by exercising a diff
ferent set of muscles; and as
to the brain, calling into requi-
sition a different set of organs
or powers, causing the mind to
act upon new objects.
Year: 1867




Courting is a luxery, it is ice
water, it is the pla spell of the
soul. The man who has never
courted has lived in vane. He
has been a blind man among
landscapes, he has been def
in the land OF hand organs and
by the side of murmuring ca
mails. Courtin is like two lit.
tie springs of water that starts
out from under a rock at the
foot of a mountain, and runs
down hill side by side, singin,
dancin and splatterin each
other, eddyin, and frothin, and
kaskadin, now hidin under the
bank, and now full of shader,
bimeby, they jine and then go
slow. am in favor of long
courtin; it gives the parties a
chance to find out each others
trump cards. 1t is good exer.
else, and is just as innocent as
5 merino lambs.


Courtin is like strawberries
and cream; wants to be did
slow, and then you havegot the
flavor. have seen folks get
acquainted, fall in love, get
married, settle down, and go
to work in three weeks from
date.


This is the way folks larn a
trade and akounts for the great
number of almity mean me.
chanics and poor jobs they
turn out.


Perhaps it is best l should
state sum good advice to young
men who are about to court
with a view to matrimony as
it was.


In the first place young men,
you want to get your system
awl right; then find a young
woman who is willin to be
courted on the Square.


The next thing is to find out
how old she is which you can
do by askin her, and she will
sa she is 16 years old, and this
you will find out will not be far
out Of the wa.


The next is to begin moder.
ate, sa once every night in the
week for the fust six months,
increasing the dose as the pa
shent seems 20 require.


1t is a fust rate way to court
the girls mother little on the
start, for there is one thing u
woman never despises, and that
is a good little courtin ifit is
done on the square.


After the fust year you will
begin to like the bizness.


There is cne thingI always
advise, and that is to swop
photographs oftner than once
every 16 Aaze, unless you for
get how the girl looks.


Ockasionlly you want to
look sorry and draw in your
wind as though you had a pain;
this will set the gal to teezlng
you to find out what ails you.


Evenin meetings are a good
thing to tend. 1t will keep
your religion in tune and if
your gal happens to be there
by accident, she can ask you
to 20 home with her.


As a general thingI would
not brag on other girls much
when l was courtin. 1t might
look as though you knew to
much.


Ifyou court three weeks in
this wa all the time on the
if you don't sa it is the
sleekest time of your lite you
can 60 to the cheap store and
ret measured for a plug hat at
Year: 1867

A MAN went into the office
OF the St. Joseph (Mo. herald,
lately, with an old book which
he desired reprinted. He was
told that it would cost several
hundred dollars, upon which
he left in high dudgeon, say
ing it only cost a dollar in the
first place. s..~.
Year: 1867

experience, and that there
could be, what | had never
imagined possible, happiness
in lodgings; even in a garret,
whose occupant was a young
girl of nineteen, who had been
reared in n home of afluence,
and with no daintier viands
than a crust of bread and a
cup of cold water"
Year: 1867

Coop TEMPLARs learn that the col.
ored citizens Of our city established among
themselves Good Templars Lodge, last
Saturday evening At their church on Fourth
street, with P. c. Cooper as Worthy Chief
Templar We were unable to learn the
names of the other officers or the extent Of
membership.
Year: 1867

that of a cannon. The news of this
second disaster spread like lightning,
and hundreds of the friends and rela-
tives of the poor creatures in the pit
were quickly on the spot. The scene of
Wednesday was again renewed. The
poor women could be met on the road
TO the colliery fainting with excessive
grief, while others were seen tearing
their hair, apparently wild with ex-
element. The scene in the neighbor-
hood of the colliery was truly heart
Year: 1867

At A. NJ. the pit exploded again,
killing all the volunteers who were
searching for the dead. Happily the
foulness of the pit had been SO great
previously that about ten minutes to
nine all the searchers, to the number of
sixteen, came back. When they did so
they were accused of cowardice by
the men who were waiting to descend,
and these latter at once went down to
continue the search. They had not
been IN the pit many minutes when it
fired, the crash of the explosion being
distinctly heard at places nearly mile
distant
Year: 1867

Where stood the humble cottage OF
James Richards brilliant light house
now stands, and it is the '.best light" on
the eastern coast old John Richards
Is the keeper of it Visit him and he
will tell you the story | have related. far
better than | have done, and will show
you the graves Of his father and his
mother, and will :ell YOU now be and
Sam worked for them and made them
comfortable in their old age; how after
they were dead Sam went to sea, and
found, after all, 4 grave .'in the cold
caverns Of the deep and that he never
lights the lamps of the light house with
out thinking how anxious!y he watched
the fire kindled by his father on .'Broad
Stone" in the night of the tempest, when
he was off in the boat, tumbled about
by the waves; and how upon the dark
and angry waters he vowed that if God
spared his life he would consecrate il TO
him forever and ever, and try to sin no
more; how Sam broke his VOW that he
made on his knees beside him at that
terrible hour, ever since which the world
went hard with him, until he was pun
lshed by drowning death: of his own
VOW he speaks not, but from appearan-
ces he hes not forgotten il.
Year: 1867

How dear my heart are the scenes of my childhood
When fond recollection presents them to view!
The cheese pess the goose pond the ps in the wild
woods


And every old stump that my infancy knew.
The BIZ linkum Eastwood with wide spreading shadow
The horses that grazed where my grandmother fell
The sheep the mountain the calves in the me eaiow
And al the young kittens we drowned in the well
The meek little kittens, the milk loving kittens,
The poor little kittens we drowned in the we'll
remember with pleasure my grandfather's goggles,
Which rode go muiestic rstraddle his nose;
and the harness oft mended with tow string and togge
That belonged to old Dolly, free from her woes
Aud fresh in my heart is the long maple woodpile,
Where often I've worked with beetle and wedge,
Striving to whack up enough to last for good while
And grumbling because my old axe had no edge.
And there wa the kitchen and pump that stood nigh
Which ne'er plsyed the deuce lik the one we hav,


now


But was faithful and true, so peaceful and quiet
'rwould be hailed with delight by the I" folks dowI


below"


The fLithful old pump, the covered pump,
The old wooden pump, | would twere here now
And there was the school house away from each dwell


ing,


Where school-ma ANS would govern with absolute


sway;


Who taught me my rithmetic, reading and spelling
And "whaled me like blazcs'' about every dlv.
remember the ladder that swung in the passage
Which led 70 the loft in the p Ak Of the house
Where M grandmother hung up her "puInkin and sau


sage


To keep them away from the rat and the mouse
But now, far removed f.om that nook of creuti IL,
Enc tons Of sri-f b.g rs teakettles swell;
When Fancy rid = back to my old habitation
And thinks If the kittens we drowned in the well
The meek little kittens the milk loving kittens,
The poor little kittens we drowned in the we'll
Year: 1867

o woman thou knowcst the houl
when the good man OF the house" will


return, - at midday, when the sun i:
vet bowling down the laborer with the
tierceness of his beams, or at evening.
when the heat and burden of the dav are
past. Do not let him at such time.
when he is weary with cxcrtion. and
faint with Encouragement, find. upon
his coming TO his habitation, that the
foot which should hasten to meet him is
wandering at q distance; that the soft
hand which should wipe away the sweat
from his brow, is knocking at the door
of other houses nor let him find wild
erness, where he should find garden :
confusion, where he ought to see order
or that which disgusts, where he might
hope to behold neatness that delights and
attracts. If this be the case, who can
wonder that, in the anguish of diSap-
polntment, and in the littleness of neg
lected and heart-stricken husband, he
turns away from his own door for that
comfort which he wished to enjoy at
home, and that society which he hoped to
find in his wife, and puts up with the
substitutes for both which he finds in the
houses of others. john 4nge! JcImes.
Year: 1867

TIE DRUNKARD's Boy. A little
boy was seen Fastening through the
streets of a large city one cold, starless
midnight. Faster and faster he ran, as
though he feared soma lurking spirit OF
evil would find him out. His conscience
was not his own, it was another'S.. He
was being forced TO do that which he
hated. One of the ten thousand evil ei-
fects of rum. Ills father had come home
from the tippling-house almost insane.


He had fallen asleep, but had wakened
raving. More, more, MORE" he
shrieked. Water was offered him, but
he dashed the glass away in fury, and
demanded rum until the neighbors, hear
ing the frenzied cry, ran TO see the cause.
His little boy, shiyering with cold, crept
from the straw in the corner, too much
frightened to lie still His father in the
height of his madness, saw him, and
ordered him to 90 for rum. When the
the boy hesitated, he threatened to Kill
him and the poor little fellow took up
the old tin pail, OF which he was hearth
y ashamed, his mother slipping her last
piece of money into his hand to pay for
the accursed stuff. Oh. what load of
guilt upon that mans soul, to send that
boy on such an errand, to purchase Gcimg
death for every soul akin to him,
Year: 1867

1t is impossible, without a floating
bridge, TO make a permanently good
road on wet foundation MacAlam.
the inventor of macalamized roads. used
to say that he cared not what material
was the foundation Of a road, provided
ii WAS always dry, The great fault OF
road-making in New England i the
want of drainage at the bottom. Take
tight cask and fill it with any earth.
sand, clay, loam, or even gravel. then
pour IN a mnch wafer as il will hold 4.
then take 4 wooden rammer and ATTEMPT
TO beat the mass solid, and tie more YOU
beat If, the softer If becomes: you would
not expect TO make hard shell ON the
top, by such means. So ii Is with a
road, through a swampy or springy
place; the wafer Is at the bottom. and bv
attraction works up AMI keeps the sur
face wet, and no amount of gravel or Of
rolling can form a hard track above il.
Ii is not the water which falls directly
upon the road that does the greatr,i
harm, for this may be easily disposed Of.
although with wet foundation, the ram
increases the difficulty. there being no
passage for ii downward. as there l. a
soil which is undetermined.


Farmers who have practiced thorough
drainage in their fields or meadows, Will
at once understand this matter They
know how line or two of tiles four feet
deep, through shaking boz, or along a
springy hillside, will change a spot over
which no beast could pass, into soil
compact enough that loads of hay. or
even manure, may cross it safely. Dry
sand is good foundation for a road or
for building clay drained of its moist
ure forms hard subsoil, but cracks and
opens sufficiently by drainage, to allow
water to pass through ii, and even
swamp mud or peat well drained TO the
depth OF four feet would support the
gravel or other material necessary 10
form good country highway If the
reader will call to mind the places on the
roads in his own neighbOrhoOd which
have been most expensive TO repair, and
are still in the worst condition for travel.
he Will be satisfied that we are correct
when We say that the one thing needful
Year: 1867

Between husband and wife, there
ought 10 be no more religion, Reserve
than between man and God for they
ought TO confess themselves to one an
other rs freely as 10 their Creator. -
-npurJorI
Year: 1867

\ Hen SToRY.-J. w. Barksdale


writes the following to a Georgia paper


II warrant that | have got the most
intelligent and peculiar fowl in Wilkes
or Lincoln counties. She is quite a large
size hen, between the common dunghill
fowl and the Shanghai. My little daugh-
Ter can take the hen upon her knees and
pat her on the back and say, Sing, Bet
sy,' Cor that is her name) and she will
begin to sing as requested. She will
then say, Sing loud, Betsy and she
will then sing at the very top of her
voice, which is very loud. for she has
got an excellent pair of lungs, She will
say, Sing soft, Betsy and she will
change from the loud tone to a very soft


one, And to cap the climax in the way
Of obeying and pleasing the children, my
little niece put Betsy in a chair the other
day, and began to pat her on the back,
saying at the same time, Lay me an EGG,
Betsy Betsy sung very short, soft
song, and then stood up in the chair,


and to the great delight of the children,
there lay in the chair an cog, She will
follow my wife all over the house, yard
and and garden, just like a pet dog, and
VIII sing, or not, as she is directed to- -
Year: 1867

The import trade Is active although there is marked
falling on in dry goods the value Of those entered last
week amounting to but s1,2l7o22 Annexed is the
total valuation for the week ending March 90 compared
with those OF the two preceding weeks, also the
value Of dry goods entered at the port and thrown
market since January Of this year and TO the
spending period IN 1865 and 1906
Year: 1867

Wendell Phillips is the foremost leader of
the Radicals In his Birmingham Mass. J
speech, some time ago, he thus referred to
the Constitutional Amendment, and the OBJ
fects of the leaders of the Radical party:


Yon and know what Congress means We
5 know what hobby Congress INDUCES il. We are
accustomed to say that the President has apolicy.
think that is mistake. The President has no
policy The President hopes to be elected in 68,
and he will admit any policy to secure that end.
For that he would even give suffrage to the negro.
The President has no ideas-he mas plot: he has
no principles--he has selfish purpose to carry
out Now, Congress, broadly considered, isin ex.
atty the same position. allow the honesty of
ats purpose; but the purpose OF Congress Is to
maintain the harmony and predominance of the
Republican party. Congress, in the true sense OF
tne word. has no policy. Il has purpose, and
its purpose is to tide over the Fall elections. Our
leaders in Congress know that the amendment
will he rejected. Of course it will be. Congress
Judges that the Republican party will be victori-
Gus at the balotbox, and that unfettered by the
adoption of the amendment, Congress will be able
To pass an act that wiA give ballot to the negro.
They hope and expect that after the defeat of the
amendment they will return to Congress at the
Fall elections stronger than they are to-day.-
Then do not scdIat that amendment accepted. The
worst possible news that Thad. Stevens could hear
would be the ratheatl0n OF tne amendment. DO
not disgrace the whole proceedings when say it
is party trick. [Cres OF hear. hear" 1t is
got up to serve purpose, to kill time until after
the Fall elections, and get rid OF pressing emer


gency. trust, however, the Republican party
will succeed: for know of no other party in
which to work this Summer. | cannot tell you to
desert the Republican party as there is none other
10 which you can go: hutlmy advice is this: Open
your eyes and understand that your leaders neither
scish nor crpect the ratification of this proposal
They only present it as stalking horse to cover
the real design The only men Of the party whose
opinions are worth mentioning rely upon comm 6
into Congress unfettered by it, and with the hope
of welding such strength as will checkmate the
President with his own weapon and still keep the
,rebeious States in the hands of the army. Zap
plause.l In all our meetings remember that the
real Republican batte-cry is tsNo rebef States ad~
mitted without ballot, land, and education for ev-
cry loyal man in the country no rebel State ad-
mitted at all for the present"
Year: 1867

CRUEL TREATMENT.--Much has been said and
written about the cruel treatment Of Union pris-
oners, says a Montana paper, but very little has


ever come to light with regard to the treatment of
rebel prisoners in Unien prisons. We propose to
Law before our readers in this brief article some
facts on the latter subject that have recently come
under our notive. There is now at Virginia City
q young man named Daniel D. Banks, who has just
arrived from tho States across the plains, who is
slowly but surely perlshiug with consumption, at
the age of twenty-five caused by Starvation, and
other cruel treatment he received in the prisons of
Camp Chase and Rock Island. He belonged to
Gen. Morgans command, and was captured in
Ohio. He was imprisoned nineteen months in all;
six months at Camp Chase and the rest OF the time
{ 1T Rock Island. He was guarded six months by
loyal nigger troops, who shot down every prisoner
that approached what was called the '.let line."


The rations of the prisoners was one~fourth pound
Of beef once aday, which barely Kept them alive,
and so terribly did hunger prey upon them that
they were forced to forage fer rats and mice ia
the prison, which on being caught were instantly
devoured by the inmates, who were all the time
almost ready to perish with famine. And, altho'
citizens outside were disposed 20 relieve the wants
of the poor starving prisoners, yet their kind Of.
fers were rudely and peremptorily refused, and
the prisoners left to the starvation ratonS furnish
ed them by those ia charge of the prison, and
such rats, cats, dogs and yeTmin as they could
catch, and crumbs they picked up from the ground.
kAll this transpired in the midst of plenty There
waS no pTeteXt, as in the case of AnderS0nvllfe


that there were 10 provisions to be had; that She
provisions were exhausted. It was the result Of q
studied and ll-planned policy of cruel and fn>
human treatment intended to starve the victims to
death! 1t is with no desire to pander to the NOR
bid appetite of depraved humanity that we give
publicity to this case of inhuman conduct. We
would gladly, for the fair fame and honor of our
country and race, let the pail of OBLIVION cover up
and obscure such willfuI and infamous conduct.
but candor and due regard to facts compel us to
show it up, SO that the perpetrators. may be held
world in all time to come. And the subject of
this special case of cruelty is but mere boy now,
and was but a mere child then. He is doomed by
fate and cruelty to an early grave. This is the
story of the dying youth whom any one may see
now so reduced by the seeds OF destruction that
be cannot speak above a whisper. he lisa printer.
Year: 1867

Poor white children have to go supperless to
bed if their fathers are unable to earn bread
enough for them; but the little niggers of the
South have their fill from morning till night by
the Freedmen's Bueau.
Year: 1867

The Irish papers contain roman
tic story, substantially as follows:


"About twelve months ago, a gen
tleman who resides in the county of
Galway, dreamed that he had been in
strumental in saving the life of love-
ly and accomplished young lady, who
would have been dashed to pieces had
it not been for his timely aid. The
fair one was so deeply engraven on
his mind, that, when he awoke, being
a tolerably good artist, his first i'm
pulse was to make sketch fit, which
he improved from day to day until it
was rendered as perfect as possible.
On bitter cold night, some months
subsequently, while the dreamer was
comfortably ensconced in an arm chair
before blazing fire, he vas startled
by the scream of a female. In mo-
ment his overcoat was hurried on and
he shortly arrived on the spot whence
the cries proceeded. Ina deep ditch
by the side of the road, a horse was
kicking and plunging in fearful man
ner, attached to jauntingj jcar, which
was turned upside down. Three per-
sons were quickly rescued from be-
meath it, and conveyed to the house,
where they soon recovered from the
effects of the accident The gentle
man who had saved their lives ap-
peared all at once struck with one of
the party, a young lady, who he felt
certain he had seen before. The
dream was brought forcibly to his rec
objection, and on entering another
apartment, his visitors were more than
'astonished to perceive the portrait of
one of themselves suspended from the
wall. The mystery was soon explained
and in two months from that date the
dreamer and the fair young lady were
married in Dublin"
Year: 1867

SAVAGE AND MEXICO QUARTZ CLAIMS
These claims are located between Auburn
and Ophir, and were worked to some extent
last fall, plenty offree gold was found in the
rock. The two companies combined soms-
time since to sink single shaft on the divis'
ion line. At the depth Of l2 feet they find a
we'll defined ledge two and half feet thick
1t is the intention Of the two companies to
prosecute the work and have crushed the
quartz that is taken out.


Quarz mining in this vicinity seems to be
prosecuted With more vigor this Spring than
usual. Il H
Year: 1867

T"When we see the most disorderly OF
the Irish and Cornishmen all Democrats, and
that kind always laughing at you when you
brag on your country, and showing in hun
dred ways that they scorn it and hate it, then
if there's any true American blood in man
its bound to boil. The way they talk and
act seems to say that Yankee would have
as hot time as the Yanks had among the
rebels, if these fellows ruled, and they would
rule or riot if the Democratic party got in
power"


We copy the above from the last
Stars and Stripes. 1t is one Of the dirty
WAYS in which that sheet makes its filings al
white men who were born upon foreign
soil. But such is the Abolition programme
-denounce !rishmen, Cornshmen, Germans
&C., and try and elevate the negroes and
Cinnamon above them.
Year: 1867

CHILD ScALDED.-On Friday the 3rd inst ,
the daughter Of Jerry Gvens was carrying
chairs out of the dining room, and in back
ing out OF the room into the kitchen fell
over backwards into tub Of hot water.
The poor little thing was severely scalded
but we are pleased to learn it still lives and
there are hopes Of its recovery.
Year: 1867

NEVADA CoUNrY.-The Democracy of Ne.
vada county meet in county Convention at
Grass Valley ou the 18th day Of June, to
nominate a county ticket and send ten dele
o ates to the State Convention.