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Year: 1866

SOUTHERN HATRED OF THE NORTHERN PEOPLE
General Schurz, in his last report, speaks on this
subject :-'sI have read in the Southern papers
bitter complaints about the unfriendly spirit ex-
hbited by the Northern people, complaints not
unfrequently favored with an admixture of Wig
orous vituperation. But as far as my experience
goes, the unfriendly spirit exhibited in the North
is all midness and affection compared with the
popular temper which in the South vents itself
veriety of ways and all possible occasion.
No observing Northern man can come into con-
tact with the different classes composing society
without noticing it. He may be received in
social circles with great politeness, even with
apparent cordially, but soon he will become
aware that, although he may be esteemed as a
man, he is detested as Yankee, and, as the con-
versation becomes little more confidential and
throws off ordinary restraint, he is not unfre-
quenty told so. The WORD simple Yankee still
signiies TO them those traits of character which
the Southern press has been so long in the habit
of attrbuting to the Northern people, and when
ever they look around them upon the traces OF
the war, they see in them not the consequence OF
their own folly, but the evidence of Yankee
wickedness. In making this general statement
]. beg to be understood as always excluding in
fvidual exceptions"
Year: 1866

No PRINTERS IN THE N Y. STATE PRIsoN.-
A fact highly honorable to typos is disclosed by
a late report of the New York Inspector of State
Prisons while all other occupations represent
ed in their large number of convicts, there is not
a single printer.
Year: 1866

TIRE Hartford Comm Times tells story of
gentleman who eating Bolona sausage at a
restaurant in that city, when he found something
in his mouth which seemed not to have been
chopped as fine as it should be. Taking it
out he discovered, to his horror and disgust
that it was the-end of mans finger! The
man went home and took an emetic.
Year: 1866

TEMPER.-It depends upon the temper of the
South whether the peace upon which the coun-
try has now entered, shall be enduring, or be
broken and dispersed by the earthquake and the
whirlwind of fraternal strife Worcester Palla-
dium.


HAsN'r the temper of the North something to
do in it also 2-Boston Post.
Year: 1866

The annual week Of Concerted Prayer. held
in all paris OF the world by agreement Of all classes ~
Christians will commence Monday next al one hour
in all parts Of the woridon the land and the sea-
all missionary stations and in the Bethes Of all TIE
world Millions will bow at the universal altar 10 pray
for general revival in all the earth great revival
OF religion is In progress in various parts Of the land
In this city many churches holding extra meetings
in which large numbers Of persons reported have
been converted. In the Fourth Church in the city Of
Washington a marked revival prevails. A large nun.
Der Of soldiers arc included in the revival at Emira


FRUIT IN OLD AGE.


Tie Rev. Dr. Spring of the Brick Church. having
reached the age Of 90 years and fearing his faculties
would rust for want Of use, has written and sent out
volume Of great interest embracing his personal reco
lections of and things during biz long public life
than 30 years Of which have been spent in the pas
torate OF one church in this city,


GIFT 10 A PASTOR


The Rev DR.. Hodge has tie charge Of the Mariners
Church in this city, located in the old Olverst Baptist
Church When he assumed the charge Of this society,
heavy debt was on IT, Through the erertions Of DR..
Hodge tie encurnbrance was removed, and the fine
brown stone edifce is now dedicated TO the welfare OF
seamen Appreciatlng the great service that Dr. II.
has performed for the men Of the sea, few friends
subscribed the needful and paid Of the mortgage
on Dr. Hodges dwelling house, and presented the paper
to the pastor New Years.


WHAT SHALL BE DONE wITH A CHURCHY


When Prof Matieson went ont from the Methodist
Episcopal Church and set up Independent Methodist
Church many followed him, and a small but neat house
Of worship erected Fortyf frst.st in this city,
When Mr.. Matteson went back to the church from
which he seeded lis little flock left without
shepherd. They advised by their late pastor tc
20 to the Congregational fold. But some overturei
have been made by some gentlemen Of the Dutch
Church and perhaps in that fold the little congregation
NAV find home.
Year: 1866

The SKATING PoSDs.-The frigidity of the
weather yesterday and It's continuance to-day, lave
covered the numerous skating pondvpf New'iork and
vicinity with thick. smooth CLASSY surface. Of which
the lovers Of the beautiful OF our Winter pastime
will doubtless avail themselves 20 great extent col
Oa,man's Hfth-aye. Pond. corner Of Finh.aye. and
Fify.nin;hs st. lightly frozen Yesterday but tue
thin ice was well flooded IN the course Of the day. and
the hard frost Of last night must have rendered the ice
Of that popular pond in tie most seryiceabc condition
FOR the skaters light heel this morning The ponds OF
Central Park and elsewhere will also probably be IN
good condition during the day.
Year: 1866




During several weeks of the past winter q
thriving business was done by the corset
manufactures in the production of artificial
caves And by calves we mean Just what
the anatomsts mean when they speak of the
lower extremities. We do not know whose
ingenuity devised them, or when they were
first introduced, nor indeed the method of
their construction. But that they are a very
popular article Of apparel with young ladies,
and especially those who made dashug dis
! plays on skates, we have abundant reason to
| believe. In fact, several of the prominent
corset makers devoted all their energies to
| the fabrication of these rare bits of fashions
! able anatomy; and, Notwithstanding the very
| -apid production, the supply fell short of the
demand. OF course deal of care was ta-
ken lest any pryiEg masculine dyes should
penetrate the mystery, and give publicity to
the newly created market for this would
have had a very I'M uribus effect upon the sale
OF the article, and the tantilizing delusion
would have been far less pleasing. But the
fact of its existence was soon and easily
transmitted, by sort of maldenly legerde>
main, and all who were desirous of making
sensations by marvellous perfection of FORM
knew very well where to supply their sweet
calves with patent calves.


1t would doubtless be matter of Interests
to the innocent public to know who the ladies
may be that patronize these entra hcing little
toys, which call forth the ogling glances OF SO
many admIring spectators. This is a secret
which only the corset dealers and the ladies'
bureaus canreveal. We learn, however, that
they have been sery popular with the so-called
upper circles,' and it is their surprising
success with this class that has led to an un-
usual mania for skating during the past sea~
son. The ponds have been thronged with
young ladies as never before. and not until
this writing has the mystery been fully re-
veaied. In fact the rage of the season has
been these adjustable calves, nor has the de,
mand fallen off very materially with the !
passing away of the skating season. They |
are worn by the most fashionable, if not the |
most respectable, in the daily promenade and !
at the weekly social gathering, and, in fact,
almost everywhere. Very nice young men ,
stand behind counters all day long and sell |
them to very nice young ladies in sizes t, /
suit. So it makes little difference how cada- /
Gerous or ill.shapen one may be, even nature I.
is outdoue Dy the ieeiCes of art
Year: 1866

Early rising gives long days, invigorating
light in abundance, and healthy cheeks
This passage from Bulwer's Caxtons is worthy
of remembrance


"I was always an early riser. Happy the
man who is! Every morning, day comes to
him with a virgins love, full OF bloom and pu-
ritv end freshness The youth of nature is
contagious, like the gladness of happy child
doubt if anv man can be called " DID," as
long as he is an early riser a nd an early
walker. And youth take my word for it
youth in dressing gown and slippers, dawdling
over breakfast at noon, is very decrepit
gtastly image of the youth who sees the sun
blush over the mountains, and the dews
sparkle upon blossoming hedger9ws.'
Year: 1866

The year 1866 will be very eventful one
to every maiden who gets married.


Throughout the whole course Of the year,
whenever the moon wanes the nights will
grow dark.


If dandies wear their boards, there will be
less work for BARRIERS. He who wears his
moustache will have something to sneer at


Whoever is in love this year will think his
mistress an angel. Whoever gets married
will find out whether it is true.


He that loses his hair this year will grow
bald.


He that loses his wife will become a
widower.


If young lady should happen to blush,
she will look red in the face. If she dreams
of young man three nights in succession,
it is sign of something. If she dreams of
him four times, or has toothache, it is ten
to one that she is a long time getting either
of them out of her head.


If anybody jumps overheard without
knowing how to swim, it is two to one he
gets drowned.


If any enc lends an umbrella, it is ten to
one he is obliged to 20 home in the rain for
his pains.


Whoever runs IN debt this year will be
dunned.


Many an old sinner will resolve to turn
over new leaf this year, but the new leaf
will turn out blank.


1t is probable that if there is no business
doing, people will complain of hard times,
but it is certain that those who hang them
selves will escape starving to death
He that bites off his nose, or turns politi-
clan, will act like fool, and this is the most
certain of all.


THE ART OF PRINTING.-D'1sraeli be-
lieves, and brit gs up mass of evidence to
sustain him, that the art of printing was
known to the Romans, bu: that thev rejected
it as unsuited to their ci ilizat:on, and that
the Emperors were bitterly opposed to it, as
in it they recognized a powerful enemy to
their tyranny. They did. however, make use
of it on a small scale. The Emperor Justi-
Man had a stamp on which were engraved or
carved the letters of his name, and he made
constant use of this for signing documents.
Theo loric did the same. The moyeable
letters with which the Roman potters stamped
their wares were similar to those used by the
book>binders of the present day for lettering,
&c. The Romans were also perfectly faIDil-
lar with printing ink, and their refusal Il;
make use of the printing press must be at
,ributed either to the opposition Of the Empe.
rors, or the popular belief that it was not
suited to such high civilization.
Year: 1866

To PsoTEcr SHEEP FROM Docs.-1f sheep
are kept In the same lot with cows or fat cat
tie, no dog will disturb them. As soon as
the dogs approach the sheep. they ru, to the
cattle who drive off the dogs. A far ner for
thirty years, in Shelby county, by adopting
this plan, never lost a sheep by dogs; al
though in the same night the sam E dogs
killed sheep in the farms north and sbuth of
Year: 1866

There is girl in Troy whose lips are so
sweet that they stick together every nj prning,
by the honey they distil, ana she cannbt open
her mouth until she has parted her lips with
a silver knife. She will be treasure TO her
husband, not only on account other Sweetness,
but because she can occasionally keep her
mouth shut.


What did William Tells son say to bis par
ent after the apple was shot from his head
"Father," said he, GIVE had an arrow escape
Year: 1866

PAPER AS AN ARTICLE OF Dress Except
by those whose tastes are fxedly old fashion
ed, the wearing of paper collars and cuffs by
both sexes almost universal. We see that
paper socks have been lately inventd ID intend
ed 10 wear over cotton or woolen socks as a
protection from cold. But we look to see
them introduced as substitutes for ordinary
socks before long. The Chinese ma Ike use OF
paper for many articles of dress and it Is said
that their paper hats and overcoats are durable
warm and Waterproof If paper clothing
should come into fashion a new suit would
cease to be SO much of an event as now. How
handy it would be for reporter to take his
notes on his sleeve or the skirts of his coat !!
We go for paper.
Year: 1866

Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHRR has been lee
turing Of late TO crowded audiences in several
cities Of the interior Of New York. The sketch
published in the Dispatch n day or two ago OF
his remarks in one Of these lectures discloses a
more kindly spirit and more enlarged ideas
than those formerly popular among his hear
crs. Whilst proclaiming his own desire for
the extension of suffrage, not only to all men,
but also to all women, he said that he would
have Georgia and South Carolina as prosper
Gus rs Massachusetts and New York; he would
have liberty for the Southern white man ;
made prosperou and happy. He would have
10 more shedding Of blood no hanging for
political offences he would have a total ces-
sation of strife; if we are to go on and hang
all who have done wrong, where, he asked,
would the executions cease? Mr.. BEgcHER
urged that it was not only necessary for the
welfare of the nation that the North should
be generous, but that she should be SO tho
roughly and heartily earnest in her generosity
that the South could not help knowing and
feeling the strength and purpose OF her
motives and her actions. He is said to have
exerted the utmost power ofhis eloquence and
yigor in support OF these views


1t indicates wholesome change In public
sentiment when Mr.. BEEcHER expresses. in
popular lectures, such wise and liberal opin.
ions. We can pass over the universal suffrage
10 all men and all women--for perhaps the pro
gressives in this country will never be salts.
fed till the experiment is tried and the trial
Will go farther 10 use up theories and afford
AL opportunity for new departure than the
most learned and logical argument.
Year: 1866

WHITE LABOR FOR THE SoCTH.-Mr Joseph
J. Mhoon, n well-known and very successful
planter, left this city yesterday, taking with
him sixty four white laborers, whom he has
employed to work upon his cotton plantation
in Oktibbcha county, Mississippi, near the
Mobile and Ohio railroad. His experience and
observation have satisfied him that the plan
ters cannot rely for the production of cotton
upon the uncertain labor of the freed negroes,
and that the future prosperity of the South
must be based upon white labor.--Nao York
Year: 1866

HEsIIco CoUyTY.-Some few arrests have
been made by the constables of Henrico county
within the past day or two, among them that
OF negro, for stealing wood No case OF
great interest have transpired.
Year: 1866

What dark and loathsome place
No ray of hope picrces its dense gloom
The goodly minister must not, dare
not, repeat over the polluted clay, as
it enters the place Of sepulcher, that
touchingly beautiful passage III the
burial service: 'We commit the body
OF this, our departed brother, dust to
dust and ashes to ashes in sure and
certain hope Of glorious resurrection
from the dead at the last day Hope
tor the drunkard in death Alas .
there is none. Inspiration inscribed
upon his death tablet, in letters of fire,
No drunkard shall inherit the king
dom Of heaven Despair eternal sits
enthroned upon the drunkard's grave,
and an utterunce ofawiul truthtulness,
proclaims its undisputed right to hold
the prisoner as his lawful pray until
he shall awake to everlasting shame
and contempt, to receive his final
doom. Every clod, as it falls upon
the coffin lid, declares with terrible
significance, the hopelessness of the
lost man.


While kindred shed their tears OF
anguish, and friends perform their last
act of kindness, how terrific the
thought that demons are holding a
festival of merriment over another
soul plunged by the maddening cup
into perdition's fiery depths.


Imagine, if you can, all the drunk
ards who have from the first transgres-
sions until now been brought by some
invisible power into one place. How
vast the multitude How immense
the mound Of debased humanity
What commingIing of the great and
small, the wise and the ignorant, the
civilized and the rude, the rich and the
poor, the honorable and the ignOble
As you gaze upon this mountain pile
this eommingling of nations, of divers
sects, cf all classes, you see written
upon every brow, by the pen OF an
outraged divinity, DIED WITHOUT HOPE.


1t matters not how brave, or learned
or rich, or generous, or noble, or elo
quent, or influential that drunkarc
was in his day, the shroud of despair
covers him.


. The drunkard's grave is the very
citadel of eternal hopelessness. What
bolts and bars and chains are here =
And all the more fearful because they
were forged by the miserable victim
as he went forth in his day, under tn,
sunlight Of heaven. 1t is of no con
sequence to him now when or wher,
he lived-whether in a palace or
wigwam-upon throne or in serfdon
in luxury or in poverty-at home o
in foreign land; the result is essenti
ally the same. His life was spent il
digging grave, which to him is tn


home of despair. .
Strange that the living will not TAX


warning, but they will not. Ho'
many in this very town, and all owe
Year: 1866

thing to do in reference to the openly
active and energetic disloyal men, and
that must be done with the view of
preserving the rights and immunitles
of those who are with us in our sup
port of the Government. The Chris
tian should not, must not, forget the
duty of upholding Government so as to
maintain and protect liberty and good
order, to protect the dutiful against the
encroachments and expressions Of the
lawless and disorderly. He was will
ling to leave the arrangement of af-
fairs to his Government-no one de-
partment of the Government, but by
all. [Applause. He saw nothing in the
constitutional amendment at variance
with the spirit of Christianity, and he
was amazed that its generous provis
ions had not been instantly adopted by
the South. There was no humihating
demand or eXaction contained in any
of its clauses. And yet the hatred
which certain pretentious hypocriti-
cal class in the South indulge against
the negro had made the proposed
amendment odious in their sight. Any
thing which foreshadowed rights for
negro must meet with their opposition,
and they had lost no opportunity Of
misrepresentingt the nature of the prop
Osition to those who were ignorant,
and infaming their lawless passions to
the point Of riot and bIoodshed The
treacherous, defiant and hypocritical
classes Of the South would continue to
take advantage Of the leadership Of
bad men and fall in with the multitude
to do wrong and commit outrage 70
avert the danger consequent upon this
state Of things, something must have
it's place in the fundamental law which
shall assure to US more than Union in
name-a Union in spirit. The speaker
then alluded to the Conservative out
cry against what was called political
preaching' He did not believe in par
tisan preaching, but he regarded it the
duty of the Christian minister to be
the teacher of religion in such a way
as to purify our conduct in politics as
well as in the other walks Of life. 1t
was the genius and spirit Of Christian
ity to teach us that we were but in
struments, and we were weak before
God, who would, at all events, accom-
plish His work while we were used in
promoting its details.
Year: 1866

tue land, are every night engaged In
forging the chains that will ultimately
blnd them in this graveof ruin. With
many, the business for this terrible
c"nsummation is well nigh done. A
few more glasses from tie poisonous
flood and all is over. The final stagger
made, and then the hoary headed sin
ner falls IN the pit Of gloom he has dug
for himself. 0, if he would listen to
the voice of reason and repent before
he makes the final plunge in the place
where repentance comes not,


But what is still worse, as these old
veteran drunkards die off, there is no
lack of others to take their place
What legion of young men have al
ready entered the pathway leading to
the drunkard's S prison house. o, could
we speak to them, one and all, we would
plead with them in accents of burning
love to pause before they take another
step. Another glass-another spree
another bacchanalian feast, and it may
be too late! By ihe warnings OF Il
mothers bosom; by the first love to
hor to whom you have given the nup
tial pledge; by the obligations of your
manhood; by the respect you bear to
yourself; by the compassion of Sa
viour's heart, and the wrath of ar
offended God, we beseech you to go nc
further in the downward way. Shur
the revelry Of the dram-shop and The
/ glee of the festive board as you wonlC
/ the scorpions bite. Remember, young
man, that every liquor hotel-every
drinking saIoon-every dram shop o
every sort, is the gateway to the drunk
ards hopeless destiny. To every one
who INDUCES in the cup that intoXi
Gates, we would in all affection address
the solemn warning of the prophet
Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways
for why will ye die?
Year: 1866

Mr. Green, the famous diver, tells
singular stories Of his adventures, when
making search in the deep water of
the ocean He gives some sketches of
what he saw on the Silver Banks near
Hayti


The Banks of coral on which my
divings were made, are about forty
miles in length, and from ten 20 TWEEN
ty in breadth. On this bank OF coral
is presented to the diver one of the
most beautiful and sublime scenes the
eye ever beheld The water varies
from ten TO one hundred feet in depth
and. is so clear that the diver can see
columns from two to three hundred
feet in height and from one to eighty
feet in diameter The top Of these
more lofty support a myriad more,
giving reality to the abode of some
water nymph. In other places the pen
dants form arch over arch, and as the
diver stands on the bottom Of the
ocean and gazes through these into
the deep winding avenues, he feels
that they fill him with as sacred an
awe as if he were in some old cathedral
which had long been buried beneath
cold oceans wave" Here and there,
the coral extend even to the surface
OF the water, as if tho-c loltier col
| umns were towers belonging 10 those
stately temples now IN ruins.


There were countless varieties of di-
oh, hG tNla n - 1yf
every crevice of the corals where the
water had deposited the least earth.
! They were all Of u faint hue, owing to
the pale light they receive; although OF
every shade, and entirely different from
plants | am familiar with that vege-
tate upon dry land. One in particu
lar attracted my attention; it resem-
| bled a sea fan of immense size Of vari
egated colors, and Of the most brilliant
hue


The fish which inhabit these silver
banks | found as different in kind a
the scenery is varied. They were o
all forms colors and sizes-frOm tht
symmetrical gOby to the globe-likt
sunfsh; from those of the dullest hue
to the changeable dolphin; from thl
spots of the leopard to the hues of the
sunbeam; from the harmless minnow
to the voracious shark Some haC
heads like squirrels; others like cats
and dogs; one of small size resenbled
bull terrier Some darted through
water like meteors, while others coulC
scarcely be seen move.


To enumerate and explain al
the various kinds of fish | behelC


while diving on these banks would


were | enough of naturalist to do so


require more space than my limits vii


allow, for | am convinced that mos


kinds OF fish which inhabit the tropl


cal seas can be found there. The sun


fish, starfish, white shark, grounc


shark, blue or shovel nose shark were


often seen There were also fish which


resembled plants, and remained as t1Xe(


in their position as shrub; the only
power they possessed was to open ant


shut when in danger. Some OF then
resemble the rose in full bloom am
, were of all hues; there were rlbbol


fish from fouI and five inches to thre
, feet in height Their eyes are yer.
: large and protrude like those OF tn
r frog. Another fish was spotted ilk