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Year: 1867

SOMEBODY'LL COME TONIGHT.
Unjust bind my hair with the myrtle bough
And gem it with buds of white;
And drive this blush from my burning


brow,


For--*.,mebody'l come tonight.
And while his eye shall discern grace
Tn the Iraid and the folded flower,
He must not find in my tell-face


The spell of his wondrous power.
Unjust don the robe which he fondly calls
A cloud of enchanting light;
And sit where the melloWlng moonliSht


falls,


For-somebody'l come tonight. -,
And while the robe and the place sliall


seem


But the veriest freak of chance,
IT'S sweet to know that his eyes Will oean
With u tenderer, happier glance"
Twas thus I sang when the years were leW
That lay on my girllsh head,
And all the flowers that in fancy grew
Were tied with golden thread.
And somebody came, and the whispers
cannot repeat them, quite
But know my soul went UP IN prayer
And somebody's" here tonight
1 blush no more at the whispered vow,
Nor sigh in the soft moonlight;
NV robe has a tint of amber now,
And 1 sit by the anthracite.
And the locks that We'd with the glossy


wren


Have passed to the silver gray,
But the love that Geckcd them with flowers


then


Is q sweeter love to-day.
Year: 1867

A paper lives by the advertising which 1t
does. The subscription and sale Of papers
hardly pay for the paper used in printing, and
when a man asks for a notice of any matter by
which he expects TO be benefited, he Is asking
FIR so much money out Of the pockets OF the
D .opretors. It would be just as reasonable for
aim to 90 into store and ask the merchant
for suit of clothes or a bag of coffee And
yet he would open his eyes in astonishment at
such request. -,


Newspapers cannot be published for nothing
Every line put in type costs money, and has
I, be psid for in cash-there is no credit on
anything which goes into the printing and
publishing of n paper, notwithstanding which,
there are some inconslderate people who com
plain that printers try 70 collect their bills
promptly. and do not give unlimited credit
\ moments reflection ought to convince such
people that no paper could be published sixty
days in times like these on such system
With every inclination 20 be accommodating
and forbearing, selfpreservation demands that
in the newspaper business, above all others, the
cash system should be riEdly adhered TO- On-
der any other plan, the resources OF the pro-
prietors would be scattered in small amounts
all over the country, to collect which would
cost almost as much as the accounts amounted
10. Ii is much easier for the many % pay the
small sums due by them, than for the papers
~ wait the convenience Of the debtors for pay
ment Of the aggregate Of the bills owing them.


GPctersbug Express.
Year: 1867

Reason N A HoRsE-Mr A. I. Barclay
relates 10 the Lexington Gazette, that on Fri-
day night week, stallion belonging to him
was chained in the stable with a large halter
chain and the door locked. Daring the night
the horse was taken sick, and succeeded in
breaking the CLAIM, kicked the door open and
walked through the yard into the porch Of the
dwelling, and after stamping around, passed
down the steps and in short while returned
a second time and going back into The yard a.
gain returned third time and continued paw
ng at the door until some one went 10 him,
when he returned to the yard and lay down
and die in a few minutes. lie states that the
horse had never been in the yard before.
Year: 1867

How TO KEEP HAMS THROUGH THE SUN
MER.-After your hams have taken ,ait' hang
them up and smoke them well then take
them down and dip them in boiling water Tor
few seconds; that viii kill all the eggs of in
sacts II there should be any on them then
roll them up again smoke them more, if you
choose. | know this TO be good way 10 Keep
them. for have tried it for two or three years.
II is cheaper than canvasiDg, and great deal
better. This will do also for shoulders and
sides. Those that 90 their bacon in this way
will never have any bugs or skippers on their
meat-Rurol World.
Year: 1867

The day is ended. Ere sink to sleep
Ny weary spirit seeks repose in Thine;
Father forgive my trespasses and keep


This little life of mine.
With loving kindness curtain Thou my bed,
And cool in rest my burning pilgrim feet;
Thy pardon be the pillow for my head


So shall my sleep be sweet.
At peace with all the world, dear Lord, and
Thee,


No fears nv souls unwav' ring faith can shake;
Ais well whichever side the grave for me


The morning light may break!
Year: 1867

AT HIS SHOP


on MAIN ST., near the CARTER no USE,
"AS on hand a stock 10 which the people of this


community are invited. and he eels satisfied
that those who examine it will be constrained to
purchase He does not profess to be able to sell or
manufacture at lower prices than any one else in
the community; bat this he does pledge: that ne
will give satisfaction TO all who favor him with
their patronage. Ifexperience and strict attention
10 business are calculated to commend, he feels as
sured that he has these two requisites for success in
business. Intending TO work none but the most
Year: 1867


dood night have to say good night
To such host Of pserless THINGS
0ood night unto that fragile hand
All queenly with It's weight OF rings
Good night to fond upllfted eyes,
Good night to chestnut braids OF hair,
Coed night unto the perfect mouth,
And all the sweetness nestled there


The snowy hands detain me, then


I'll have to say good night again
But there will come time, my love,
When, II read cnr'stars Alright
shall not lnger at the porch
with my adIeus. Till then, good might
You Wish the time were nowt Ana l.
You do not blush to wish ii so'
You would have blushed yourself to death
To own SO much year ago


WHAT both these snowy hands ? ah, then


I'll have to say good night again.
Year: 1867

HINTS ABOUT KoUsEKKxpING We will
gave TO intellect, to religion and l. all virtues
the homo that belongs TO them. And still il
may be boldly sff rmed that economy taste
skill and nsainess in the kitchen have a great
deal to do in making life happy and prosper
Gus. t. .f.


Nor is it indispensabIy necessary that
house should be filled with luxuriss The
qualifications for all good housekeeping can
be displayed as y ell on small scale as on q
large one.


Skiilful cooking is as readily discovered in
a nicely baked potato, or a respectable johnny
cake. as IN nut brown sirloin or brace OF
cauyass-backs F =


The charm of good housekeeping. is the or
der OF economy and taste dis played in atten-
ton 10 little things and these little things have
a wonderful in nfuence


A dirty kitchen and bad cooking a We driven
many q one from home to seek for comfort
and happiness somewhere else. .


Domestic economy is a sciences theory OF
LIE hich all sensi bic women ought TO study
and practice None OF our excellent girls are
nj 10 be married until they are thoroughly
educated in the deep and profound mysteries
of the kitchen. -


See to it, All ye who are mothers. tnat your
daughters are all accomplished by an expert.
mental knowledge OF good housekeeping.
Year: 1867

MINNESOTA OPPosKD TO CURRENCY Con-
TRACTIoN.-Both houses OF the Minnesota ieg-
islature have passed concurrent resolutions
against the further reduction OF the currency
Of the country at the present time. They also
oppose the payment Of the pnblic debt until
the country shall have time to recover from
the effects Of the war.
Year: 1867

GREAT FRAUD DETERMINED UPoN.-There
are some seventeen or eighteen hundred million
dollars of debt which Government never prom
ised to pay in gold, which, upon the face of the
legal tenders, can be paid in that money, accor-
ding to the contract with bondholders. Not
withstanding this fact the Cincinnati Enquirer
saws there is a scheme foot among these
bondholders, and they have already interested
''rings" of prominent politicians in its support
who are determined to pay these bonds in gold
which would bring loss upon the people, at
the present rate of gold six hundred and eighty
millions of dollars. These seventeen or eigh-
teen hundred millions of bonds were bought
with legal tenders when gold was 200 to $50
per cent, and did not cost the bondholders more
than eight or nine hundred millions of dollars in
gold. If in addition to receiving for years the
most usurious interest, together with entire ex-
emption from taxation, they can now be paid
eighteen hundred m llions of dollars, when they
only cost nine hundred millions of dollars, the
would have made great thing. They can well
afford, with their National Bank allies, to ex>
pend millions of dollars in subsidizing the press
and purchasing the politicians. There has nev.
er been so gigantic a fraud-so huge a robbery
ever planned against the public treasury as
this scheme of the bondholders to get gold for
that which can be paid in legal tenders, aud
which they originally lent in that currency
Let the people look out and watch the progress
of this attempted swindle.-Louisidnd mo- Jour.
nal.
Year: 1867

HYMEN.-Hymen was a young man of Athens,
obscurely born, but extremely handsome. Fall
ing in love with lady of rank, be disguised
himself in female attire, the better to carry on
his amour; and, as he was one day on the sea
shore celebrating the Glusinian rites with his
mistress and her female companions, gang of
pirates came upon them by surprise, and carried
them off to a distant island, where the pirates
got drunk for joy and fell asleep, Hymen then
armed the virgins, and dispatched the sleeping
pirates; when, leaving the two women upon the
island, be sped to Athens, told his adventure,
and demanded bis beloved in marriage as her
ransom. His request granted; and so fortunate
was the marriage, that the name of Hymen was
ever after invoked on all future nuptialsi and in
progress of time the Greeks enrolled him among
their gods.
Year: 1867

D1rcHING.-Where the ground has not
become too hard from the long-contlpued
drouth, the intervening period between this
and the setting in of winter is one OF the
most convenient for constructing drains for
carving of the surplus water of late fall
and spring. This is one Of the most import
ant items of fall work on the farm.-Prdtrie
Enrnaer
Year: 1867

among those who volunteered at the begin
ning OF the war was CHARLES A. WARREN of
Standish. Eniisting as private in the 18th
Maine he was wounded in the battle Of the
Wilderness on the 9Th of May, 1864. Literally
drawn from the field on a stretcher by Lit Stur-,
gis, assistant surgeon of the regiment, he was
conveyed to Armory Square hospital where he
remained, receiving all the attention the cir
cumstances would allow, for about thirteen
months, when early in the summer of 1865, he
was removed to his home in Staudish.


1t is a remarkable fact, evincing degree of
patience and resignation almost incredible,
taht as a body tie Union soldiers in our several
hospitals were wholly uncomplaining, even
while suffering intensely from wounds or dis
ease contracted from exposure; and it was a
reply from almost every patient when asked by
the chaplain of Armory Square rospitsl as to
his health at the moment-"Oh, / am first
rate" Noble utterance from noble hearts,
Living or dying may the blessing of the AL
mighty rest upon them and their memory ever
be cherished.


Mr.. Warren gained little or no relief from his
wound, but remained confined to his couch
constantly suffering yet patient and uncom-
planning, until at last on Friday the first day
of the present month, in the full assurance of
glorious Immortality, at the age of thirty-two,
death ended the scene. The funeral services
held on the following Sabbath, were attended
by a large concourse of mourning and sympa-
thizing friends, ard were conducted by Chap
lain Jackson and Rev. Mr.. Pickctts


The death of Union soldier is an event
whic.. should not be suffered to pass unpoticed
By patriotic people. Though great gain to
the subject of this brief notice, yet his death is
serious loss to the family and immediate
friends, to the country and to humanity. In
the midst of peril, when the fate of the nation


was regarded as extremely doubtful, the pat


riotic, self-sacrifcing and heroic services of the


soldier for the Union were in a measure prop
erly appreciated, and our hearts beat in uni
son with his noble endeavors to save the ma
| ton. But now that the rebellion is crushed,
and the Union saved, let us not forget the in
strument under God of our national deliver
| ance, or fail to bear in grateful remembrance


the patriotic services so freely rendered.
Year: 1867

The hands in this office have been constantly
at work since the republication of the paper
soon after the close of the war. Last year, al
Christmas, there was no suspension, as is Gus
tomary at that season of holiday festivities, and
this Christmas they had but few days respite
from labor, as we did not suspend, but furnish
our readers this week with half sheet, In
which all the current news of interest IS pub
lished. AS our readers are not expecting pa
per this week, they will be pleased to receive
the half sheet-as ''half loaf is better than no
bread" Next week we will publish whole
sheet as usual.
Year: 1867

THE Duty OF ECONOMY. this season of
adversely, when no man knows what the NOR
row may bring forth, it is the duty ofthe Church,
of the press, and of every thoughtful and con-
siderate individual as well, to keep constantly
before the people our real condition, political
and material. We should TRY to chose to us
judgment, let us know among ourselves what is
good


The times are full Of change, and that man
omnous muttering Of the storms ofanarchy and
revolution that now lower around the political
horizon. 1t becomes us then to put our house
in order, to husband the little the war has left
us, to practice the strictest economy in every
detail Of domestic life, and to undertake no
scheme of business of which we do not see
clearly the end-Ri;ch Ecanai,aer.
Year: 1867

&a- The circulation of the Spectator is about
as great as the combined circulation of both the
other papers published in this place, and has as
many subscribers in this county alone as are con-
tanned in the whole subscription list of either OF
the other papers.
Year: 1867

The pay of the officers and employees of the
Va Central Railroad have been all reduced 10
per cent, not because the pay Of the employees
was greater than that of the employees ofother
roads in the State, but was dictated solely by
the financial condition of the company. The
President of the company inaugurated the
movement by voluntarily remitting fifteen per
cent of his own salary
Year: 1867

The METHODIST CHURCH SoUTH.-This Or
ganization has ceased to exist under this title.
The requisite number of votes has been obtain
ed for the change of name, and it will hereafter
be known as the Episcopal Methodist Church.
Lay delegation has also been carried.
Year: 1867

The fercest howl for Jefferson Davis blood
is from the Advocate of Peace. published in
Boston. 1t comes to US protesting the princi-
Piles of gentleness and peace-like dove with
olive branch in its beak but despite its out
ward seeming and meek pretensions, it utters
the hunger scream Of the vulture.
Year: 1867

The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald says, in his letter of the 24th =
''The President to-day, in conversation with a
friend, expressed his unabated confidence in the
final triumph of his restoration policy. He al
so took occasion to condemn the project that
was being agitated in Congress for the over
throw of the present State governments at the
State governments from the payment of their
State debts and impose them upon the United
States. Mr. Seward has recently expressed the
same confidence in the triumph of the Presi-
dent s policy as was to-day expressed by the
President himself"
Year: 1867

In the case of the condemned Fenian prison.
ers, who were to have suffered death on the
18th of last month, the Governor General of
Canada has granted respite until the 18th of
March next
Year: 1867

law SECURING THE WIFE PROPERTY
act has been passed by the Georgia Legislature,
and signed by the Governor, providing that all
property of the wife at the time other marriage
whether real Or personal, or chooses in action,
shall be and remain her separate property; and
that all property given to, inherited or acquired
bv the wife during coverture, shall vest in and
belong to her, and shall not be liable for the
payment of any debt, default, or contract of the
husband
Year: 1867

A case is soon to be made before the United
States Supreme Court which will involve the
question whether Alabama is a State in the


Federal Union, or, if not, what her present
ststrS is
Year: 1867

TTVO THE PUBLIC.-Our accounts will all
Il be drawn off by the first of January, 1867
and we hope that all who are indebted to us will
come forward promptly and settle, as we cannot
carry on our business successfully if they fail to
do so. After that date we propose to do


STRICTLY A CASH BUSINESS,
and hope that our friends will not ask us to de-
part from this rule


dec 25-tf HOGE & MASON.


Vim copy
Year: 1867

Could NOT CHANGE THE DECREE OF God
The Washington Union states that on Christ
mas morning colored woman walked into one
of our churches and took a seat among the
white people The sexton asked her to take a
seat in the part of the church set apart for her
color. She. went to the minister and complain
ed. saving She did not think there should be
anv distinction. The minister replied: MY
dear woman God has made the distinction, and
cannot change His DEGREES.
Year: 1867

SUPREME CoURT-lMPoRrAN DECISIONS
EXPECTED. 1t is confidently expected that the
ron-clad test oath which all practitioners before
the Supreme Court Of the United States have
been compelled to take will, in the course Of a
few days, be declared unconstitutional by the
same majority that decided against the military
trials


Judge Grier, who is assigned to deliver the
decision, is now engaged in the preparation Of
the opinion Of the majority Of the court; The
IS trade, and therefore an inalienable right,
not to be given by government Or taken away
by the act of rebellion, like the privilege of vo
ting Washington Correspondence Philadel
9oh3G Press
Year: 1867

The Louisville Courier, in opposing the
adoption of the Constitutional amendment says


Wrongs perpetrated upon people do not
dishonor them; but to assist in their own de-
graduation is blistering infamy from which is no
release, and for which there is no remedy. The
Southern people are in the hands of ungenerous
and unmagnanimous victors, and are constrain-
ed to submit to outrages because they have no
power to resist them But they cannot be COM
PEELED to put the collar of shame about their
own necks, and will not do it. For the acts of
their enemies they are not responsible, how
much..soever they may be made to endure. They
have preserved their honor untarnished.
Year: 1867

Congress ascending Committee to the South.
ostensibly at least to gain information concern
ing our people. Has it never occurred to the
majority that this object would be much better
accomplished by admitting representative men
from the South to seats in Congress, where they
could be interrogated in daily debate? 1t is a
new thing to go out in search of evidence while
excluding the best possible witnesses from the
coyrt room TpOuireT
Year: 1867

The New York Herald seems to have given
up the territorializing and the Constitution
amending policies in reference to the South,
and to have become convert to the policy OF
letting the South alone. In its issue Of the
25th it says:


"What, then, can we do with those people?
They rebelled against the Constitution, they ap--
nealed to the sword, they have been defeated
and disarmed, and now they fall back upon
their constitutional rights as they were before
the war. Taking the hint from President
Johnson's greatest mistake, they demand these
constitutional rights in their restoration just as
they stand. They may be taken in hand from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, as the people
of great unorganized territory, and cut up and
recast into new territorial divisions; but this
will be troublesome and costly process. We
NAV establish the constitutional amendment by
three-fourths of the loyal States, and then re-
organize territorialy each Of the outside. States
on this basis but we shall gain little time by
this.plan The only course remaining. then, is
to let these outside States alone, only lnterfer-
ring to prevent their whites and blacks from
cutting each others throat, and SO give them
as much time for reflection as they may require.
After being two or three years out IN the cold,
or five, ten or twenty, reason and common sense
may prevail among them, and they may. come
in on the terms of the amendment 1t there is
no hope in the present Southern generation we
can wait for the next By that time there will
be Northern leaven among them sufficient to
leaven the whole lump Time and emigration
will settle the question.
Year: 1867

We take the following good thing from tho
st. Louis Republican:


There are occasional opportunities offered by
the Radical leaders in which their hollow pre-
tensions and arrant hypocrisy can be exposed
TO advantage. They pretend, as occasion sliit.
to have wonderful affection for the FLAG and
for "the best government on earth )" but the
time was when they hailed that Flag as 4
~haunting ie," and spat upon and burned the
Constitution upon which the Government was
based


Mr. Samuel Stern has ayailed himself of a
recent occurrence to show UP the hypocrisy
and moral treason of some Of the leaders. Re
Gently Senator Wilson Of Massachusetts made
a speech at Saratoga, New York, in which he
exultingly said:


There is not Democratic flag floating from tho
Potomac to Florida, and they dare not raise one
To this piece of braggartism, Mr.. Stern.
who is. we believe, Secretary of the Free
Trade League Of New York, replies in the
following pungent epistle: .f H
The undersigned remembers when there was a
Democratic flag floating from the Potomac to Flor
ida, and that flag was the Star Spangled Banner:
and the time when that Democratic fag was floating
from the Potomac to Florida was on the 4th of July
1856 The Democrats of the town of Natick the res
1dence OF Senator Wilson, hung out the flag at the
same time, but he, instead of participating in the
celebration of the birthday of the American Republic
in his own town, was present at the anti slavery
meeting in South Pennington, in the same county
and clapped his hands when VIM LLOYD Garrison
Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, Eizur Wright
and host more, now very loyal Union men, spit
upon the Constitution of the United States then
throwing it to the ground rapling it beneath their
feet, then consignng it to ashes, and these ashes
they again trampled upon. rT


remember this incident to-day just as clearly as
remember the other fact that at meeting in Tre-
mont Temple, February 1861 Carl Shurz slandered
George Washington slayeholding old fogy and
that the whole audience clapped applause with their
patriotic hands-and on both occasions saw neither
the flag of our country any other fiag-the DEM
ocratic hag-of course not But when John Brown
was hung I saw the flag Of the country lowered at
half mast, and that in the town where the honorable
Senator resided and that insult to the national flag
was not perpetrated by the Democrats but by the
party OF which Mr.. Sumner is the leader


SAMUEL STERN


s lacl 104 Orchard street. N Y
Year: 1867

GREELEY says he once participated in an
election where the result was decided by the
votes of paupers from the New York city aims
house. An effort is being made in that State
to bar paupers from the polls. Have not the
white paupers of the North as much right to
suffrage as the black paupers of the South2