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Year: 1866

Only let a woman be sure that she is
precious to her husband-not useful, not
valuable, not convenient, simply, but
lovely and beloved; lether be the recip-
lent of his polite, hearty attentions; let
her feel that her care and love are notic-
ed, appreciated and returned; let her
opinion be asked, her approval sought,
and her judgment respected in matters of
which she is cognizant; in short, let her
only be loved, honored and cherished, in
fulflment of the marriage vow, and she
will be to ber husband, her children and
society we'll spring Of pleasure. She
will bear pain, and toll, and anxiety,
for her husband 5 love is, to her, tower
and fortress. Shielded and sheltered
therein, adversity will have lost its sting.
She may suffer, but sympathy will dull
the edge of sorrow.


A house with love in it-and by love
mean love expressed in words and looks
and deeds, for l have not one spark of
faith in love that never crops OUTS to
house without love as person to ma
chine; one is life, the other is mechanism.
The unloved woman may have bread just
as light, house just as tidy as the other;
but the latter has spring of beauty
about her, joyousness, an aggressive
and penetrating and pervading brightness
to which the former is stranger. The
deep happiness in her heart rtshines out in
her face. She is a ray of sunlight in the
house. She CLEANS over it. 1t is airy,
and gay, and graceful and warm, and vel
coming with her presence; she is full Of
devices and plots, and sweet surprises for
her husband and family; she has never
done with the romance of life; she, her.
self, is lyric poem, setting herself to all
Ipure and gracious melodies. Humble
Household ways and duties have for her
a golden significance. The prize makes
the calling high, ,and the end sancti6es the
means. "Love is heaven, end heaven is
Hove"
Year: 1866

s9rA German paper relates the fol-
lowing story of one of the late battles:-
A young soldier, in the midst of the tu.
multi of battle, thought he saw on the
grass four leaved shamrock growing
As such plant is rare, and is considered
to bring good luck, he stopped to take it
At that very instant eannon ball passed
over his head, SO near that he must have


been killed if he had not been bending
down. The man so miraculously saved
has sent the plant to which he owes his
life to his betrothed at Kenigsberg.
Year: 1866

D@A lady writer says:--aSome ten
years ago I went to my closet to get q
sponge cake, and found it covered with
those little pests the red ants. Not knew
ing what to do with it, laid it down on
an old black-walnut table close by, and
in less time than it has taken me to write
this, the ants left the cake and table I
Immediately took the hint, and put wal
nut shelves in my closets, and since that
time there has not been an insect seen.
Year: 1866

ndrA correspondent Of the Louisville
Journal treats at some length on the
best way to prevent hydrophobia. A
wag in reply, suggests that he once pre-
vented case Of this dreadful malady by
getting on fourteen rail fence and stay
ing until the s'dorg" left.
Year: 1866

Loor our FOR HIM.--An exchange raps
on the knuckles certain class in this
good style: "When you find man wri-
ting his advertisement, and sticking it up
in the post Office instead of publishing
it in his town paper. look out for him
the very act shows tina. he is too closes
fisted to deal with to advantage" This
is the frozen truth"
Year: 1866

STY on THE EyELID.-An exchange
says: Put teaspoonful of black tea in
small bag: pour on it enough boiling
water to moisten it, then put it on the
eye pretty warm. Keep it on all night,
and in the morning the sty will most
likely be gone; if not, q second applica-
ton is certain to remove it, ~
Year: 1866

fare of the country, but would be also
the height of ingratitude to men who had
risked character and reputation for the
patriotic cause of cotton, and ten Or
twelve thousnnd a year. Your commit
tee concurred entirely in his Oninion
Year: 1866

Senator Doolittle yesterday delivered a pow
full speech in the Senate in support of President
Johnson's policy and in opposition to the reso-
lutions of Mr.. Howe TO provide provisional
governments for the lately insurrectionary
States Lieut.. General Grant was present
during the speech, and was an attentive lis
tener. Mr.. Doolittle closed his argument with
brilliant peroration, and on taking his seat
was loudly applauded by the spectators in the
galleries. and received the Congratulations of
Senators on the floor.


In his speech he argued that two radical
ideas, radically false, brought in this civil war
which has cost the nation half a million of
lives. First, that the States had right to Sc
cede; and second that slavery is a blessing
These ideas have been surrendered by the
South, and we have now the basis of a perma-
nent peace. We must stand on one side, sup
porting the Lincoln and johnson policy, or we
must take our stand with the Senator from
Massachusetts on the other. Mr.. Lincoln's
policy received the unqualified appreciation of
every member of his cabinet, and every day
up to his assassination he was more favorabIy
convinced of its right and justice. On the re-
turn of peace the army should be withdrawn,
the sword should be returned to its scab-
bard. OF all governments on the face of the
globe, the military government was the worst
Ii was the concentrated essence of despotisn
All that the President had done was done by
authority OF the laws Of Congress, and not in
derogaton OF them. 1t has been said that this
Congress could annul laws passed by its pre
decessor, and, technically speaking, it possibly
might, but would it be right and acting in good
iailn dileI the eeCeuIng StdJes mad submitted TO
the laws already in force. If we now direct
the President to withdraw the terms of pacifi-
cation he has offered, and which have been ac-
cepted, II we carry out the spirit of this resolu-
tion, we shall be in the wrong, we shall falsify
our pledges of devotion to the Union The
people of the South have been SO humbled and
prostrated by this war that they will bear almost
anything before again appealing to arms but in
his judgment, If anything could induce them so
to do this would. Itwould turn the North intoa
community of Shareholders, with the Southern
people as their slaves. To hold them tn hus would
require the presence of large standing army
which would undermine our republican insti-
tutions and pave the way for empire. 1t
would subject us to incalculable expense and
affect our national credit most disastrously at
home and abroad. Peace we must have, il is
essential to our very life. To acknowledge the
right Of State to secede, or the right of Con-
gress to expel it, would admit an idea fatal to
the perpetuity of our Government. Every law
we passed, every blow we struck, every shot
we fired, every drop of blood we shed, was not
to put the States out of the Unien, but to keep
them in forever. His colleague claimed to rep.
resent the voice of the people of Wisconsin, but
he was confident, from the tone of the Union
Convention, and the sentiments of his con.
stituents, that such was not the fact.
Year: 1866

business and gentleness which accom-
pany that style of speech.


One more very common and very
annoying habit may be named, and
that is, not going when one starts,
but standing in the door. Many a
cold has been taken by the patient
lady of the house with nothing on for
protection, being detained by gos-
siping friend, sometimes ten minutes
to hear last words and confidential
communications talking thus in the
noise and roar Of thestreet necessitates
loud talking, and sometimes the most
confidential things are heard all over
the house, and even across the street


We remember, in particular, fam
ily that lived next door to us. The
young ladies would stand on the steps
and talk, sometimes ten minutes, and
we were obliged to go away from our
open parlor windows, or hear all
their arrangements and confidential
conversations, and, forgive us for say
ing it, we have seen some people
make display on the steps on pur-
pose, as we thought, to attract atten-
ton from people across tire way
they have talked loudly and laughed
heartily on purpose to make a display.


Never stand and talk when you
propose to 60.


We have seen delicate woman
rise to dismiss her company after
they had reached the door and must
go right away;" we have seen such a
lady stand till she turned pale with
fatigue, while her visitors, ruddy and
strong, and jolly, would spin long
yarns, and then stop again in the cold
hall, and on the steps, and after
reaching the sidewalk. The proper
rule is. when you have decided to
leave, to be off in sixty seconds
Never keep n person standing in the
hall or at the parlor door, but take
leave of your friends where they are,
and go at once.
Year: 1866

WANT OF DECISION great deal
Of labor is lost to the world for the
want of little courage. Every day
sends to their graves number of OBJ
scure men, who have only remained
in obscurity because their timidity has
prevented them from making a first
effort, and who, if they had only been
induced to begin, would in all proba-
bility have gone great lengths in the
career of fame. The fact is, that in
doing anything in the world worth do
ing we must not stand shivering on
the bank, thinking of the cold and
danger, but jump in and scramble
through as well as we can. 1t will not
do to be perpetually calculating risks
and adjusting nice chances; it did oil
very we'll before the flood, when man
could consult his friends upon an in
tended publication for hundred and
fifty years, and live to see its success
for six or seven centuries afterward;
but at present a man waits and doubts,
and consults his brotheA, and his un-
cles, and his particular friends, till one
day he finds that he is sixty-fve years
of age, and that he has lost so much
time in consulting first cousins and
particular friends that he has no more
time to follow their advice. There is
so little time for over-squeamishness
at present, that the opportunity slips
away. The very period of life at which
man chooses TO venture, If ever, is
SO confined that it is no bad rule to
preach up the necessity, in such in:
stances, of little violence done to the
feelings, and efforts made in defiance
of such strict and sober calculations.


Sydney Smih.
Year: 1866

HINT TO LETTER WRIrERs.-By the
late act to amend the Postal laws, it is
provided that postmasters shall re-
turn to the writer's, free Of cost, all
letters not called for, when requested
to do so by the person mailing them.
Persons mailing letters should bear
this in mind and write on them re-
quest to the postmaster TO return the
letter to them if not delivered in any
number of days they may choose to
mention. By this course much delay
and anxiety may often be avoided.
Year: 1866

Never offer to intrude, by words Of
untimely sympathy, upon a griefborne
as men bear it, and felt as women feel
il.


We don't see why lady in crino-
line should go abroad for companion
ship. Let her 1o content in her own
circle.


Many ladies who think themselves
unable to walk mile, would gladly
dance three times that distance.
Year: 1866

Sculptors have to strike almost in
Vulnerable blows upon the marble
block to develop the statue that's hid
den within it. Shoolmasters are apt
to think they must treat an urchin's
body in the same way TO develop his
mind.
Year: 1866

TAKE TnEsE.-Some twenty years ago far
mer's barn 10 The vicinity Of Worcester was
struck by lightning aud burned TO the ground.
Many Of the citizens had gone TO the fire, when
ATOP, well strapped and dickied. with bis cap ON
one side Of his bead. met a celebrated doctor and
accos'ed him thus wise


Can you ah, tell me. dociah how far thcy
have snccreded in cxiinguishing the conAagra-
ton Of the, ah, unfortunate yeoman's barn.


The doctor eyed the individual atientively,
dropping his bead a. usual for u moment, and
then slipping his thumb and fingers in his vest
pocket, took out a couple Of pills and handed
them to him saying


Take these sir, and 60 10 bed and II you
DO not feel any better ia the morning call at my
Office
Year: 1866

The Atlanta JteNigeaCer says young
and interesting lady passed through that
city on Tuesday, returning to her home IN


Texas. She was led to the altar during


the second year of the war by young and


gallant captain in a Texas regiment, who
left her 10 rejoin his command in Virginia
ere the honeymoon had waned. His ca
reer was an honorable one, and in her far
off home her heart had been made to
swell while his deeds of valor were being
recounted by his comrades. But few leaves
of absence were given in the Army oil


Northern Virginia TO Texans, ana our


captain was not permitted to return to the


rosy bowers where love awaited him. HIS
devotion 10 duty knew no abatement, and


he was found among the faithful few when


the end came. He is known to have sur


rendered with the Texas brigade at Apo


mattoX Courthouse, and to have started


fairly upon the wings OF love to meet the


woman of his choice. Further than this
nothing is known of him. Other hearts
have been made glad bv the return OF ab-
sent ones, but that great agony OF sus-
pense has yet to be lifted from the heart
of the fair Texas bride. Unable any longer
to quietly bear the torture OF doubt ana
uncertainty, she resolved upon mission
of inquiry after the one whose fate still
remains mystery. Her search has been
extended from Texas to Virginia, and no
effort has been spared to discover the
probable cause of his heightened stay ;
and while her search has been frutleSs,
she is ready to wager her future hopes OF
Heaven that if living he is faithful still,
and if dead her name was mingled with
his latest breath. She returns to her home
in Texas with mountain weight of sorrow
pressing heavily upon her fair young brow.
Year: 1866

MISUNDERSTANDING the improve
ments in the city, we occasionally meet
with case of the alteration and extension
of an old edifice, by which it is accommo-
dated TO the taste and enterprise OF the
age. Among these is the Improvement OF
the store of Levy Brother, formerly
Jacob 4. Levy. II is now spacious, light,
and airy. Speaking of Levy, brings to the
recollection that Israelite 4" in whom there
is no guile" Abraham Levy, the grand
father of the young men who are now sue
cessors to their father, who is still hale
and cheerful man, and the truest of south
erners. The grandfather died years ago.
No man was better known in the city, and
everybody respected old Mr.. Levy. He
was the kindeSt of men, and gave with a
liberal hand to the poor and needy. In
his business, in his early days, there were
none more enterpriSing. He was remarka-
BILE for his quickness and accuracy in esti-
mating the value of goods by the shelf, and
was fond of purchasing in that manner.
He was notable man. When Henry Clay
came to Richmond and made his great
speech in Browns warehouse, he met Mr..
Levy, and knew him, although he had not
seen him since when boy) he left Rich
mond. He Immediately took the old man
by the hand and shook it cordially, telling
him that he was Henry Clay, and that he
had driven his wood-cart frequently to Mr..
Levy's door, there to sell to him or await
customer. The incident pleased the old
gentleman nightly, and he referred TO il
with pleasure to the day Of his death.
Year: 1866

DREDGING THE RIvER.-The steam dredg-
ing machine for deepening the water on
the bar below Richmond has left Phila-
delphia, and its arrival here is daily ex-
pected. twill be a matter of much salts
faction to our citizens when it begins
operations. We have to be party to an
active struggle for the trade and trans
portation of the country, if we hope to
make great city here. And to be enabled
to bring those vessels that can reach City
Point to the wharvcs at Rockets, would be
an invaluable advantage in this struggle.
There is nothing Just now within our power
to accomplish that is half SO important to
Year: 1866

FILLING UP THE RIvER.-The public au-
thoritics should take care, while the opera
ton Of dredging is going on, that no source
of deposit for filling up the channel should
be permitted, if it can be possibly stopped.
The business of dredging is expensive, and
even if it were not, a rapidly y-obstructed
channel requiring inceSsant exertlon to
keep clear must annoy and impede navlga-
tion more or less.


Earth from foundations, &C., has been
deposited on the river bank below Mayo'S
warehouse, without wall TO coniine 1t
there, and the last fresh washed much OF
it away, dcpositing it along the side of the
shore between the dock and the river. The
wreck of the West Point, lying opposite
the mouth of the dock, forces a large part
of the deposit from this loose bank Of
earth around into the mouth Of the dock.
This will probably give trouble, because OF
the Shallowness il occasions at the entrance
TO the dock.


The City Council ought to look to this
matter. Persons who are making lots where
water lately stood ought to be compelled
TO fix upon a boundary TO avoid showing
James river to the Manchester side, and
uepFlNlng us ol wafer chouSu loI thS 'C'-
sells at our wharveS. Not only should the
line not be allowed to encrOach too much
upon the river; but no man ought to be
allowed to dump earth on the river shore
until he has built a wall to keep it from
washing away. One would think that it
would be as much to their interest as to
that of the city to secure the earth they
accumulate on the river shore. To dump
it where the water washes it away is
very Improbable labor to themselves,
while it subjects the commerce OF Rich
mond to serious Inconvenience and loss.
Year: 1866

VERY HoT.-The heat in the sun yester-
day was intense, though at meridian it had
not gone above ninety in the shade. The
rays of the sun were peculiarly exhaust
ing. Mr.. Cox, a carpenter, working upon
the Gallego mills, was disabled by sun
stroke, and four others, overcome by heat,
were forced to stop work. A friend Of
ours, after struggling with superhuman
efforts to bear up under the oppressive
temperature, was forced to 60 home and
take drink s,a.
Year: 1866

THE DISPATCH on THE RAILROADS. -Messrs.
Cole 4 Turner deliver the Dispatch every morning
on all the railroad cars leaving Richmond; and as
they are also our authorized agents to receive sub
scriptions to the Semi- Weekly and Weekly Dis
patch, our friends along the railroad routes can
Avail themselves Of the messengers OF these enter
sing new IN dealers in forwarding their orders.
Year: 1866

A HoAx.-Tuesday night rumor was
put ahoat by some practical joker, that a
duel had been fought at Bowling Green, be-
yond Adams's valley, which resulted in
the death of one of the parties, and the
serious wounding Of the other The re-
porters were on the alert, and hunted
through the highways and by-ways, and
pumped everybody they met until their
papers went to press, and then completely
exhausted, they gave it up. The rumor
spread like fire in the prairie, but it could
be traced to no reliable source. 1t was a
hoax. If the author is ever found out, he
will repent sorely of his joke. The re-
porters will make this world too hot for
him.
Year: 1866

YORK RIVER RAILROAD.-The work OF
reconstruction of the York River railroad
is going on with great energy, and in
manner that is creditable TO the contrac-
tors. When done, it will be better than
when first built. The guage is the same
with the Danville railroad, with which
road ii will be connected. 1t is really
cheering in these hard times, when we are
laboring under the paralysis occaSioned by
the impoverishment Of the country and
the burning of this city, to see the energy
and enterprise which is displayed in the
rebuilding of this important road. 1t is
peculiarly a Richmond road-one of the
defences of this city-and its restoration
will be of great public service, as we'll as
beneficial to our commerce. One of the
least important of its public benefits will
be an expeditions route to Norfolk, which
will be established by it with line of fast
steamers down the York, and ria Hamp-
ton Roads. This will give the traveller a
delicious opportunity to snuff the sea
breeze as he goes to Norfolk. We hope
ere many months to see both the road and
the line in operation, and, furthermore,
that not many years will elapse before
there will be transportation and freight
enough to keep both the York and James
river lines actively and proftably en-
ployed.
Year: 1866

Il DO not wish to die when the weathe,
Is cold and dreary; this world is beautiful
ana would not like to SEQ il for the lost
hne" :" Gun
On would no, die in winter


When the earth is cold and drear,
"hen the wind, like funeral dirges,
Falls in Sadness on the ear,
When the earth is cold and silent
In her winding sheet of snow
"hen the birds have hushed their singing
ana the trees no blossoms show.
No-l would not die in winter


When the world is locked in death;
when the earth is clothed in sunshine,
Let me give my parting breath.
Oh |! But let me die in sprihgtme
When the earth is robed in green
When the trees are full of blossoms,
And the zephyr cloud is seen.
low it speaks Of tha: fair country
Where soon expect to 60
Where the trees are ever vcrdant,
And the skies no changes know.
Oh! Then in the pleasant springtime
When oil nature wakes from death
Whom the earth is clothed in beauty,
would give my parting breath.
If the spring should pass to summer,
would lay mo down to die
Midst its rich and varied flowers
Meath its warm and genial sky.
Birds should come with songs TO cheer mo
On that pleasant Summer day;
would let he zephyrs fan me
,-t4s FROM earth passed away
Oh Then In the gladstone sunshine,
When the earth has walked from death.
And this world is full Of beauty,
would give my parting breath.



From the icy grave Of winter
Came the early breath Of spring,
And the air was filled with sweetness
From the blossoms it did bring;
But still he fingered with us


Till the roses were in bloom;
And the spring had just departed
When VIC laid him in the tomb
'Twas the second day in summer
When he closed his eyes in death,
And the world was clothed in sunshine
As he gave his parting breath.


June, 1864.
Year: 1866

When secession al last wss accomplished


under circumstance far too recent ard 100
well known % need recapitulation the
South was prepared at most points, tie
North Rt none; and man was al the head
Of affairs, who, on a hAsty or superficial
Judgment, might have been pronounced
singularly ireibcient and unuited for The
task Of coercion which cruel fate had thrust
Year: 1866

Not 80 much of a rowdy as Jackson, and
far more Of a rowdy than Lincoln, he had
some qualities 70 which he was superior 90
them both. Like them be had studied the
law to fit himself for political life but, un-
like them, he was a thorough lawyer and
excellent speaker. He possessed all the
indcmitable will snd energy OF Jackson,
but was free from truculence and feroeiy.
Though his early evidence was deficient, he
had in later life turned his leisure to such
account as 10 make himself familiar with
the masterpieces Of English literature.
Jackson might be content with the Bible
and the Vicar Of Wakefield and Lincoln
with the Bible and "Joe Miller" but An
drew johnson had larger thirst for knowl-
1 edge; and though he did not constantly in
/ terlard his speeches with trite poetical
Z quotations, like some Of the so-called orns-
mcnts Of the Senate Chamber, his reading
was as extensive as theirs In his unfortu
nate speech as Vice President he was CO.
I herent enough 10 declare principal which,
as President, he afterwards made the corner
stone Of his policy-the principle that a
sovereign State, such as his native Tennes-
see, could not commit treason, that State
gh be de tGcio, but could never be theo-
Feileally, out Of the Union. He reitera.t Z
the assertion with marked emphasis Of tone
and manner, few II any of his hearers i'm
aginlng at the time the importance which
either the speaker or the principle was &c
speedily TO assume, and what transcenden
issues Of peace or war, prosperity or ruin
were involved In it,


The war was all but over when he spoke