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Year: 1866

The first time you are walking with your
arms at liberty, stop moving them, and hold
them by your sides You will be surprised
to find how soon your companion will leave
you behind, although you may hurry, twist,
wriggc and try to keep up. Oue reason for
the slow walk among girls is to be found in
this practice of carrying the arms motion
less. Three miles an hour with the arms
still is as hard work as four with the arms
free. L have seen the queens of the stage
walk. | have seen few girls and women OF
queenly bearing walk in the streets and
drawing room. They moved their arms in
free and graceful manner. Could this
habit become universal among girls, their
cheeks would enlarge. and their bearing be
greatly improved See that girl walking
with both hands in her muff How she
wriggles AMI twists her shoulders, &c.
This is because her arms are pinioned. Give
them free swing, and her gait will soon be-
come more graceful You have seen pic
part of the body, you remember, spread out
from the shoulder in all directions, like
fan. Now, if you hold the shoulder still,
the muscles of the chest will shrink, the
shoulders stoop, and the whole chest becomes
thin and ugly. But some girls will say,
swinging the arms must be very slight ex-
ercise" True, it is very slight if you swing
the arms but once or ten times, but if You
swing them ten thousand times in day you
will obtain more exercise of the muscles of
The chest than by all other ordinary move
ments combined. Indeed, if l were asked
what exercise | thought most effective for
developing the chests of girls, | should re-
ply at once, swinging the arms while walk
ing
Year: 1866

A person processing to be country buyer
entered large wholesale store in New
York last week and affected purchases to
the amount OF nearly $4,000. the cash for
which he promised to pay or the morrow
Having completed his purchases he inform
ed the junior partner that he was going to
see lady friend, and that he had thought
lessly left his watch at home, at the same
time begging the loan of his timekeeper to
prevent any suspicion in the breast of his
fair friend. The merchant, delighted with
the business he had done, not only readily
iell in with his wishes, but offered him in
addition the loan of SO, which was really
accepted by his willy customer. The mer-
chant was sold, for his customer never
returned.
Year: 1866

We have heard great many stories
about mean men, but none that gave more
powerful idea of n,eanness than the follow
ing fact A man once drove up to New
Hampshire tavern and cooly asked for a
cents worth of hay The landlord led the
horse to the shed and then filled the wagon
with loose hay. Meanwhile the owner Of it
called for u basin and soap; and after wash
ing his face and hands thoroughly, wiped
himself dry on 'seedy clean towel, laid
down his cent and was moving off,


Il say said the landlord, won't you
take drink before you go?"


"Well, seein' it you, | don't care if l
do, was the reply and back he went and
took drink


You don live in these parts, I believe,
stranger" said the tavern keeper


No. was the reply, Il don't; but go
by occasionally, and as you've treated me
so we'll this time, III call and patronize you
again :"
Year: 1866

MISERY LOVES CoMPANY.-Maxim
Hsn wife, not succeeding in her diplomatic
Mission to Napoleon, has gone to Rome to
seek religious consolation at the feet of Pic
Mona. The precarious condition of the So
called Mexican Empire and of the temporal
power OF the Pope will be sure to create a
oond of sympathy between them. Their
mutual condolences will be inspired with
sincerity that comes of actual and painful
experience. Poor Carlotta! People say
she is good wife, wonderfully able wo-
man, and would make first class Empress !;
but the fates are against her exercising her
talents in the Imperial sphere. Let her
stick to the domestic, and try to console her
husband by making home happy at Mira
mar instead of Mexico.
Year: 1866

a farmer recently went to Lowell with a
load If poultry 10 sell, and had on his wagon
Il large owl, which one of the boys had killed
a short time before. The vender of pou-
try was hailed by son of the Emerald Isle,
who asked him what d We AK for the bald
faced turkey?' THAT is not a turkey"
sa d the country man, it is an owl L
don't care saxpence how ould he is, l
want to buy him
Year: 1866

This Vegetable Compound is a certain cure for
Dyspepsia, Disease of the Liver. Carbuncles, E.
ruptions of the Skin, Canker in the Stomach. etc.
benefit is always experienced from the use of
bottle. and perfect cure warranted when the
patient perseveres in taking a sufficient quantity.
In some from two to three bottles will effect
acure. No change of diet is necessary Our ad-
vice is, eat good su bstanta food and enough of it.
Year: 1866

A young Englishman, who has been eek
ing out wretched existence in New York city
by begging from door to door and sleeping
ON the City Hall steps or among the docks,
was few days since informed of the death
OF titled relative in the old country by
which he is left heir to nearly $5O, 900.
Year: 1866

This is unfailing remedy for that loathsome
disease the Goiter or swelled neck. II is simple
in its com position yet powerful in its effect Us
ed internally and externally Persons afflicted
in this way should not hesitate to obtain the rem
edy at the earliest possible moment and be re
lisyed from their unpleasant complaint
Year: 1866

with solid and instructive matter for the advan-
tage of the rising generation, and for the enter
tainment and comfort of those more advanced in
life. The proprietors Of the =" UNION AND AMERI-
CAN" have lived and been engaged in the
newspaper business long enough to obtaina knowi-
edge of the true wants of great. honest and vir-
tuous people who, though unfortunate. striving
TO transmit to their descendants. in culture and
nurture, the highest and most noble qualities.
industry, self-reliance, and dignity of character
Petty appreciatng the power and benefcence OIL
woman, they will endeavor to make this paper an
acceptable companion to the mothers and daugh-
tiers of the country, wherefrom they may derive
both profit and pleasure.


To persons desirous Of making known to the
public their business we may say that our creula-
ton by mail, reaching every Post Office which has
been re-opened in the State. besides an extensive
circulation in adjoining States, gives our advertis-
ing columns superior advantages. fari


The advance in the pricessi every article which
enters into the production Of newspapers is such
that the terms upon which they are furnished
must necessarily correspond. In common with
our city contemporaries, we have adopted the
following az the 5At
Year: 1866

DE CAUTIOUS when you are told by any
ID one that they have good Sewing Machines
for sale any one, etc. The Singer is the
oldest and most reliable machine and best
now in use, will do all kinds of work from the
finest to the heaviest that any family ever wants
done, and will last lifetime if properly tax en-
care of l have been agent for other machines
aud have got rid of them. Please give me call
and examine tor yourselves.


Sewing neatly done to order.


l also have machine twist and thread for sale.


Any one wishing to purchase please give me a
cali w. l. NORRIS, Agent,
next door TO Babcock's new hall, up stairs, on


Illinois street.
Year: 1866

A FAIR TkADE.-We will venture to pledge
the Yankee nation to fair trade with the
rebels. 1t will be unanimously endorsed by
the North. if the South will accept it. 1t is
simply this: Let the negro alone and we will
let YOU alone. We will give You as clear II
field rs ynu will give him. We do not want
to do anything to you. You shall dn nothing
to him. Let him come and gn. work or play.
beg or starve, with oi ly such regulations as
apply to whites. and our country will be
restored. Awake from your nightmare Of
crime and oppression; stand up from your
wrestling mach with Africa. Let him alone.
Be let alone yourselves. Then will Peace.
Union and Liberty go hand in hand. and you
will soon put New England good naturedly
..out in the cold'' by the rapid strides you
will make in prosperity and wealth. But if
YOU are determined to fight the negro. you
will also have to fight the nat on; for the
promise of freedom made to the ear of those
victims of your present hate. will not be
broken 10 their hopes. Is this vindictive-
ness The whole North would gladly make
the treaty. But they mean To have 1t beyond
anv danger of being broken. Make the trade,
and YOU break up tie Abolition party. Till
.hen it will rule over you.-Free American.
Year: 1866


land, and afford even to refuse out


ward honors in the conscious wealth
of living for higher purposes, and
leaving s name which, unadorned by
titles, carries with it the remem-
hrance of "wholly unprecedented"
acts Of goodness.


We might have expected the de
scendants of so able, refined, we'll
educated and distinguished man as
lord Aberdeen, to succeed in better
educating family than that they
should come to have such tastes as
those We have described. How has
it all happened, we naturally ask? Is
it not because, propped up by entails
in hereditary ease and greatness.
which they can not forfeit BY any idle
ness and dissipation, the nobility of
England lose those habits Of care
and self.preservation which alone
can render family merit secure aud
prolonged? The worthy and amhi-
tious poor boy grows up with the
feeling that he has his future charac
ter and fortune to make by industry,
energy and intelligence; hence he
cultiystes these. The young noble
growsup feeling that wealth and high
position are l,is without effort, and
so he begins life without ambition.
and is as likely to fall as to rise. All
men should feel that they must de
pend upon themselves for success, or
they viii never succeed.


But the most important matter here
is that the American system leads
men to feel that there is no security
for the progress of each except by
the progressive education OF ALL
The Ell length and civilization of so
ciety is to be measured not by. the
top but bottom strata 81 long az
whole classes lie deg AIDED. depraved.
ignorant and uncared for, the highest
classes, however wealthy or propped
up by hereditary honors, never can
be secure. Re, olutions will threaten
and growl, and the children of the
highest may descend to the lowest
1t is only by elevating the lowest
throu I'll education and care, that civ
ilizauon is to be extended, and fami
lies preserved from degradation
There is that scattereth and vet in
creaseth, and there is that withhold
eth more than is meet, and it tendeth
to poverty" There are noblemen in
London whose estates produce them
from two TO three millions of dollars
annually, and they add field to field,
and increase or squander their rent
rolls. But such an act as this of Mr..
Peabody's is wholly unpreceden-
ted" because the mobiles there scarce
ly ever think of or hope for the ele-
walton of the poor, as Is customary
here. They do not dread having
vast masses of low vicious and un-
educated families, never rising to
breathe the pure air of education
ana religion. Those masses OF The
uncared for. poor will yet be the
downfall of the English monarchy.
Year: 1866

4 short time ago a man named Doctor
John w. Hughes was hanged at Cleveland,
Ohio, whose fate teaches salutary lesson.


He was man of good family, well educated,
had an honorable profession, and, at one
time, good social position. But he seems
to have ruined himself by liquor and bad
company. Under these influences he be,
came thoroughly demoralized. He was held
by no conscience whatever Having good
wife and child, he married another woman
almost in the presence of his family. For
this crime he was tried, convicted, and sent
to penitentiary, His injured wife procured
him a pardon for this but instead of being
grateful to her, he abused her in the most
false and heartless manner, and went off to
seek the woman be had injured. Having
found her, he deliberately shot her through
the heart because she refused to live with
him. For this he was tried and hanged.


On the scaffold he alluded to his advantages
in life his education, the wealth and posi-
ton of his family; but all these, he said, he
had allowed to be overcome by indulgence
in drink and bad company. What a lesson
Year: 1866

LET THE CHILDREN SLEEP. We earnest
ly advise that all who think a great deal,
who have to work hard, to take all the sleep
they can get without medical means.


We caution parents, particularly, not to
allow their children to be walked up OF morn. \,
ings-let nature wake them up, she will not
do it prematurely; but have care that
thew go to bed at an early hour; let, 1t be
early, until it be found that. they wake up
themselves in full time to dress for break
fast.


gage in difficult or any studies late and Just
before retiring, has given many promis-
ing and beautiful child the brain fever, OF
determined ordinary ailments to the pro-
duction of water on the brain.


Let parents make every possible effort te
have their children go to sleep in pleasant
humor. Never scold or give lectures ol
any way wound child's feelings as it goe:
to bed Let all Danish business and every
worldly care at bed time, and let sleep come
to mind at peace with God and all the
world.
Year: 1866

4 dubious landlord, at Cobleskill, short
time since, was complaining that his sugar
drawer was overrun with ants A ''setter"
ever present proposed that if Boniface
would treat that he would inform him how
to get rid of the ants in very short time.
The landlord accepted the proposition, when
an ant every tine he took a drink. I"
Year: 1866

UNLAWFUL MARRIAGE. rs there any
person you would particularly wish me to
marry? said widow expectant to her
dying spouse, who had been somewhat of a
tyrant in his day Marry the devil, if you
like - was the gruff reply. 'Oh no, my
dear, ~ retorted the wife, you know it is
not lawful to marry two brothers.
Year: 1866

Returned to the County Commission
ers by the Collectors of the several town
ships and boroughs for the taxes due
and unpaid thereon for the year 1855
and previous years, in pursuance of
the Act of Assembly in such case made
and provided. In pursuance whereof
the said Treasurer viii! expose the said
property to public sale at the Court
House. in Clearfeld, on the I'd Monday
of June next, (the llth day.
Year: 1866

A western soldier, who has been through
all the campaigns, and shared in many Of
the fercest battles of the war; writes from
his home that he never realized the horrors
of war till he got home to Indiana and found
his girl married to a stay at-home dry goods
clerk
Year: 1866

A seven year old was recently reproFed for
playing out of doors with bows; she was
''too big for that now" But with the
greatest innocence she replied Why,
grandma, the bigger We grow the better we
like en- Grandma took time to think
Year: 1866

WE are Indebted to the City Auditor for a
'opy OF the Mayors Address and the Annual
Aeports OF the several Departments of the
Jity Government for the last financial wear.
which have been bound up in neat pamph-
Let volume.
Year: 1866

For her to live was Christ, and 10 die was
gain; and while her absence will be deeply
felt and long lamented, the remembrance or
her many virtues will ever afford a solace as
well as stimulus to the imitation of her
beautiful and sanity example.
Year: 1866

In the furrows of thy life


Scatter seed
Small may be ti.y spirit field
But goodly crop twill yield
Sow the kindly word and deed


Scatter seed
Sun and shower aid thee now


Scatter seed
Who can tell where grain may grow
Winds arc blowing to aud iio-
Daily good thy simple creed


Scatter seed
Up. the morning flies away


Scatter seed.
Hand Of thine must never tire;
Heart must keep its pure desire;
While thy brothers faint and bleed,


Scatter seed
Though thy work should seem To fall


Scatter seed
Some may fall on stony ground
Flower and blade are often found
In the elefts we little heed


Scatter seed.
Spring time always dawns for thee


Scatter seed
Ope thy spirits golden store
Stretch thy furrows more and more
r. God viii give thee thy need


Scatter seed.
Year: 1866

Prepared from prescription of Sir j. Clarke, MD


Physician Extraordinary to the Queen.


This invaluable medicine is unfailing in the
cure of all those painful and dangerous diseases to
which the female constitution is subject 1t mod
eartes all excess and removes all distractions from
whatever cause, and speedy cure may be relied
Year: 1866

the oil gratis to the manufacturer, lor
the advantage of having his cotton
seed converted into a much more sai,
vable form, in which 1t can be preserved
for length of time, acts more raploly
as manure. and imparts much less OF
the oil flavor to the milk and butter OF
COWS fed with it. The manure OF cat
tie fed with cotton seed, If properly
collected. contains the mineral ingredl-
ents of the latter in even more valu-
able form, without loss. But cotton
seed or seed cake would be a very
costly feed to the cotton planter VINO
would not collect and avail himself OF
the manure resulting from 1t.


Every county in this State ought TO
have its cotton seed oil press, to which
the planter might carry his seed, and,
leaving the oil behind for toll, carry
back his seek cake as regularly every
year as he carries his own gram 10
mill


Rut the cotton seed oil manufactures
in our large cities, whence the cake Is
exported, and finally lost to the coun-
try. are a calamity to the cotton inter
est Already England has caught the
scent, and is preparing to swallow IN
her Unsuitable NAV the fertility OF our
cotton lands, as she has that OF the
pastures of the west of Europe, in the
shape of bones-for which she is even
now resurrecting her own dead on the
hat41e-felds of the Crimea. If some
of our over-confident bottom planters
think they can afford to sell their cot
son seed manure, let our apla'd plant
| ers take advantage of it, and by means
of the oil-cake transfer part OF the


surplus fertility of the bottom to then
| less thrifty soil But do not let Us


send the life essence of cotton culture


out of the country, least of all, to the
bottom of the Gulf of Mexico


EUG. W H1LGARD,


State Geologist of Mississippi
County papers please copy.
Year: 1866

Mr. C W Taylor writes us that
Morton is one of the reconstructed
post offices in Mississippi which we
omitted to include in the list published
Z few days since He states that they
have 8 live postmaster who does the
thing up in good order, with neatness
and dispatch; also, deputy p. m,
whose handsome countenance would
do honor to one of Uncle Sans pest
age stamps.
Year: 1866

Trade in New York is beginning to
move in earnest. The dry goods deal
ers say the country merchants, within
the past few days, have been purchas-
ing with freedom, under the persuasion
now that there is TO be no further
abatement in prices Carpetings are
also beginning to look up The stocks
are light and prices generally very
firm.
Year: 1866

Of all the agonIes in life, the most |
poignant and narrowing is the conYic-
ton that We have been deceived where
we placed all the trust Of love. The
moment the anchor snaps the storm
comes on-the stars vanish behind the
cloud


The heart that once fondly loved
may do so again. Notwithstanding the
contrary belief is so strongly urged by
many. Bitter enemies may become
devoted friends. Hope may wave a
sad adieu as she takes her flight to the
eternal shores, yet she will return and
fold her bright pinions to rest again
in our hearts Those we dearly loved
may be shrouded in the chill impene-
trable gloom of the grave; others will
be as fondly cherished. The bright
flowers that charmed us by their beauty
and fragrance may droOp and die IN
spite of our fond care and attention,
but their places will be filed by others
as lovely. Sun, moon and stars may
vanish from our sight as dark and
angry clouds loom up i'll in majestic
grandeur, sending forth deatening
peals from Heavens artillery, yet, ere
long, they will gladden. the earth with
their radiant beams. Old ocean, which
clashes its foaming pillows in bold de
fiance of all earthly power, will again
smile in calm serenity.


These, and numberless other things
NAV return, but there are many which,
! once gone, can never be recalled
! Youth and innocence can never return.
The unkind word, wrongs and injuries,
when once they start on their dark
missions of evil, are gone forever
| Lost confidence, when once desecrated,
can never be fully and entirely restored.
| Oh when our hearts have been blight
ed, crushed and ruined by falsehood
and ans! treacherE, from l a. the 20! one being we
bodiment of all that was noble, pure
and good-when that cherished name
was ever remembered in our petitions
to Heaven, when self was forgotten
| when we feel that there is one in whom
we can trust-then to have the bitter,
blighting conviction unfolded to our
fond, confding hearts, this one has
proved false Oh death, | imagine,
would be far preferable to this living
despair We may forgive and still
love, but can the vase broken and
cemented ever be as safe again


We would give worlds to forget,
but, alas this is not in our power
Our lips cannot again be wreathed in
| trusting smiles of atfection-the same
endearing tone is no more ours-we
struggle to conceal our disappointed
hopes, our broken confidence, until
our hearts bleed at trying to appear
what we are not, Oh how earnestly
we should strive to retain that affec-
ton so devotedly bestowed, and which
in after years we would give much to
recall How little can be employed to
wiring from our hearts such bitter
grief What a mystery the human heart
is, and how little understood How
careful we should be to let no rude
hand touch it's delicate chords, lest
they be shattered beyond the power
of restitution LULA.
Year: 1866

The judiciary committee of the
Texas Senate were instructed by res
olution on the IIth ult., to inquire into
the expediency of passing some meas
ure Of relief, either by conditional
stay or appraisment law, one or both,
as they may think best
Year: 1866

The assemblage of a number of col
ored people at the Camp Meeting held
at Greenwood, Caddo Parish, Louis
lana. last week, was the occasion for
a disgraceful attack upon them by
number of thoughtless young men
from the neighborhood. There was
no great bodily harm done the ser
wants, but their fnery, of which the
colored people are so fond, was sadly
abused, and that they were otherwise
maltreated
Year: 1866

A friend engaged in planting opera
tions on Red River below here writes
to us that the boil worm had made its
appearance on the river, and that the
Toggg ftfS to 89nnee 9n eyfEY gantation n; from
tackled by it. The corn crop he re-
ports almost an entire failure. He
says that planters on the river had suf-
fered so much from the overflow that it
would have taken the best Of luck to
have made half crop but now that
the worm has set in, their prospects are
indeed gloomy.


The cotton and corn crops of this
entire section will average but frac-
ton of that of an ordinary good sea
son.-Shreveport Gazette