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Year: 1866

a sad story is connected with the name of the
writer Of the beautiful song Ever of Thee, -
which has been sung and admired by so many
in this country and in Europe.


Foley Hall was gentleman by birth and ed
ucation. Wealthy in his own right with large
expectations, he led needless life, not choos-
ing his associates, but allowing himself to be
drawn into the society of the vicious. His
property soon disappeared, and he was left
without resources to buy his daily bread. His
musical talents had been highly cultivated, but
as he never needed them he scarcely knew
to what degree they could be made available
In his distress, however, he wrote this charm
ing song, Ever Of Thee A London pub
Usher gave him one hundred dollars for it, but
that amount with such spendthrift would not
last long. He wrote other songs, but the mon
ey not coming as fast as he wished, in weak
moment he forged the name of his publisher,
and although every effort was made (even by
the publisherl to save him, it was all no use
and poor Foley Hall went to Newgate, and died
broken hearted before his trial came on.
Year: 1866

Occupation what glorious thing it is for a
human heart. Those who work hard seldom
yield themselves entirely up to fancied or real
sorrow. When grief sits down, folds its hands,
and mournfully feeds upon its own tears, weav-
ing the dim shadows that little exertion might
is shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes our
master. When trouble flow upon you, dark
and heavy, toll not with the waves--wrestle not
with the torrent-rather seek by occupation to
divert the dark waters that threaten to over
whelm you into thousand channels with the
duties Of life always present. Before you dream
Of it, those waters will fertilize the present, and
give birth to fresh flowers that they may bright
en- the future-fowers that will become pure
and holy, in the sunshine which penetrates to
the path of duty. Grief, after all, is but sell
fish feeling; and most selfish is he who yields
himself to the indulgence of any passion that
brings no joy to his fellow men,
Year: 1866

Speaking of that interminable human bore,
the Ladies Man," wide-awake contemporary
says that by his air and gait the ultra fashion
able style Of his clothing the killing curl of his
moustache, the ''look, and die expression of
his simpering face, his stream of small talk,
and his sundry other signs and tokens of a
plethora of vanity and lack of soul and brain,
you may distinguish at glance the individual
who plumes himself s'ladies' man." His be-
lief in his own irresponsibilty is written all over
him. And to say the truth, your ladies' men
have some grounds for selfconceit. 1t is indu-
bltable that girls do sometimes fall in love, or
who suppose they love, fellows who look as if
they had walked out Of a tailor's fashion plate
creatures that by the aid Of various artists who
contribute to the make up" of popinjays, have
been converted into superb examples of what
art can effect in the way of giving man an un-
manly appearance.


The woman who marries one of these futter-
ers is to be pitied for, if she has any glimmer-
ing OF common sense, and heart under her
bodice, she will soon discover that her dainty
husband has no more Of mans spirit in him
than an automatic figure on Savoyard' hand
organ. But woman worth true mans love
is never caught by such specimen of fornamen-
tai hollow-ware. A sensible woman is, in fact
a terror to ladies men, for they are aware
that her penetrating eye looks through them,
and sounds the depth of their emptiness. She
knows the man indeed from the trumpery
counterfeit, and has no touch of the mackerel
propensity to jump at feshy bait, in her
wholesome composition. The ladies' man
should be permitted to live and die bachelor.
His vocation is to dangle after the fair sex, talk
OF soft nonsense, to carry shawls and fans, to
astonish boarding school misses, to kindle love
flames as evanescent and harmless as the fzz of
a squib. If, however, he must needs become
Benedict, let him be yoked with some vain and
silly filrt, his natural counterpart So shall the
law of fitness not be outraged.
Year: 1866

A Frenchman who had won high rank
among the men of science, yet who denied the
God, who is the author of all science, was cross
ing the great Sahara in company with an Arab
guide. He noticed, with sneer, that at GER
tain times his guide, whatever obstacles might
arise put them aside and kneeling on the burn
ing sands. called on his God Day after day
passed and still the Arab never failed till at
last one evening the philosopher, when he rose
from his knees, asked him, with contemptuous
smile, how do you know there is God ?"-
for moment in wonder, and then said, solemn
ly,, "How do know there is a God?' How
did | know that man, and not camel, passed
my tent last night in the darkness? Was it
not by the print of his foot in the sand? Even
so-and he pointed to the sun, whose last rays
were flashing over the lonely desert that
footprint is not that of a man.
Year: 1866

A prosy lay member of the Church rose in
meeting and said


my friends, the devil and have been fight
ing for more than twenty minutes He told me
not to speak tonight but determined would.
He said some of the rest could speak better
than /, but still felt that could not keep 81
lent. He even whispered that I spoke too of.
ten, and that nobody wanted to hear me; but
| was not to be put down that way-and now
that have gained the victory must tell you
all that is in my heart" Then followed a te-
dious harangue.


Coming out of the session-room, the good
pastor inclined his head so that his mouth ap-
preached the ear of the militant member, and
whispered, Brother, think the devil was
right"
Year: 1866

A Washington letter-writer to Radical pa
per tells droll story of the President, by which
it would appear that the President was being
shaved, the other day, when the barber acci-
dentally tweaked his nose little too hard
your hand in my sI coat n pocket a and pull out one


replied the kindhearted Chief Magistrate, sand
III fill it out for you when you're done. - -
Year: 1866

What singular creatures girls are. Offer one
OF them good wages to work for you, and ten
chances to one if the old woman can spare one
OF her girls. But just propose matrimony, and
see it they don't jump at the chance of working
lifetime for their victuals and clothes. Ed.
Year: 1866

The MYSTERY or SLEEP. Chambers
journal says that twelve hundred millions of
dreams make net work of wild fancies
nightly about our planet To go, if it were
possible, through this world Of sleep, would
be stranger process than that of exploring
the whole waking world, for, in sleep, every
living being is poet, from the baby that
etings in,its dreams to the breast of GOODIES
ses TO the eentenarian who with staff and
spectacies, hobbies about paradise at the
heels of seraphs. Sleeping and waking are
the two great phenomena of our existence.
What is done and thought in the every day
working world, where the ordinary business
of life is carried on, no living creature has
ever fully revealed to another. There are
retlcences III the confessions Of the most
frank-things which cannot, and therefore
never mEn ~ H1DiNttIal iEtas " hlah trans
cend the limits of language hopes which
the power of no fairy could satisfy-fear
which even Lucifer himself would fail to ex-
aggerate. If this portion of our life, which
is at least subjected to our own observations
cannot be fully and faithfully described, still
less can the other portion which defes even
our Own scrutiny, converts US into mere
spectators Of ourselves, sets free our actions
from the control Of our own will, and trans
forms US into so many passive spokes in the
great wheel of destiny. Whatever max be
the laws by which it is regulated, sleep pre-
sentssthe counterpart of the waking world
distorted, mutilated thrown into the ire
mediable confusion by the force of the i'm
agiBation.
Year: 1866

The Noblest Task OF Man.-THr SALVATION OF
HUMAN LFE-It something to discover planet the
heavens island race, and the sybarite offered
prize for the discovery Of enjoyment But how
measuraby does thebes of these achievements fall
short of the discovery and application of and
remedies for This great and good work has been
compished by Professor HOLLOWAY who has eclpsed all his
aud contemporaries and rendered himself the
fremost man of all this word far medical science
by the invention and universal diffusion of his
pnIs and OINTMENT While nations have been at and
destruction invoked by ambition and jealousy has deuged
earth with blood hero of peace has been fighting
main and suffering every region with not obtain
Al from the arsenal but the laboratory and conquerng them


encounter The loud hurrah that halls the
G warrior lord of stricken field worthless in
isou with the grateful of recovered muttudes who


haan ed to health usefulness by these match
in cnratyes To dwell in detail upon their virtues is
when there voice from every land between


circle and the centre of civilization, declaring them
he absolute specifics for all internal and external disor
ders-Boson Traveller. a.
Year: 1866

We ARE So DIsPOsED.-A few weeks ago the
German Hospital Society of this county publish
ed a card in the JOURNAL accusing Charles Kern
of being Z" a man devoid of honor, for reasons
set forth in said card. He pronounces the pub
lished statements of the officers of that Society
false, and adds that if the JOURNAL is disposed
to do justice it will so state. We do with
pleasure, We do the Society justice at the same
time, for the following reasons Mr.. Kern says
he agreed to pay the Society in June, but that
that they did not wait to see if be would keep
his promise. We are told by the Secretary of
the Society that they did wait until it was known
that Mr. Kern he'd received the money for his
winters work and left the county to locate In nm
adjoining one. We consider that in the above
justice is done all parties.
Year: 1866

LEMIsToN.-We learn from contractor Lowden
that the new road from Lewiston to the Tower
Cresswell says that more miners are now en-
ployed in that vicinity than have been for sever
al years Quite number of companies are al
ready at work in the river some of them employ
ing a dozen or more hands. The general belief
is that most Of these claims will pay we'll. Il
the quartz lodges between Lewiston and French
Gulch were only opened (as they should have
been long ago. that would be busy little town
But every body is busy-there is no time to pros
pect for quartz yet awhile.
Year: 1866

In the latest and most superior style Having
recently returned from San Francisco with new
Instruments, which have all been remodeled, and
constructed on a principle differing from, and
which work with more energy and truthfulness,
than those of any other establishment on the
continent-and using only OIL COLOR BACK
GROUNDS, which are obtained at great expense,
and acknowledged to be superior to all others +;
which, together with many years of practical ex-
perience, will enable him to defy competition in
the production of FAMILY GROUPS and other
large Photographs. Special attention given to
the execution of
Year: 1866

UNITED AND FlRM.-A friend writing from San
Francisco expresses the opinion that the Union
party of that city is more thoroughly and firmly
united than it has been since 1868. The partial
Copperhead successes Of the past two years have
taught Union men a lesson. All the lately ex-
isting differences in the ranks of the party have
been adjusted. and it presents a firm and un-
broken front to the common enemy of mankind
and all that is good and just-modern Democra-
Year: 1866

subject to tie following regulations:

 Certificates of the various articles, without regard to choice or value are first put into en- velopes, sealed up and mixed and, when or dered, are taken out by Blindfolded boy and sent by mail, thus giving all fair chance On receipt of the Certificate, you will sec what you are to have and then it is at youl optionto send the dollar and take the article or not Purchasers may thus obtain a Piano Melodeon, Sewing Machine, Gold Watch Diamond Ring, or any set of Jewclry on oul List for One Dollar.
Year: 1866

He might furnish volume of certificates, but the public have long since learned to ,esti- mate such things at their true value. The safest plan is for every one to test for himself the virtue of a new medicine.
Year: 1866

And it's attendant train of symptoms, it acts more like charm than a medicine. Thereis nothing in the range of Materia Medica that can for moment bear a comparison with it in this disease. M

 A full account of this wonderful plant may be found in the Ilth edition of the U s. Dis pensatory, pages 1887 and 1888.

 A series of experiments in which Dr. BULL has been for years engaged, has just been brought to successful termination, and he is now enabled to offer to the public combine lion of CEDRON with other approved tonics, he whole preserved in the best quality of cop per distilled Bourbon Whiskey, which he is confident has as A
Year: 1866

How often do We hear men and wO-
men complain II cannot get anything to
stay on my stomach; | am compelled to
eat Graham bread and the plainest food,
and then must suffer from it" Reader,
this is Dyspepsia-we bid you eat as
heartily as YOU please, and any thing you
choose, even the richest food, and if you
will follow il with single spoonful Of
Goes Dyspepsia Cure, you need not fear
apy distressing effects from it. 1t is the
greatest remedy in the world for dys-
nensia. indigestion and all diseases pro-
ceedipo from the stomach or bowels.
Year: 1866

A SINGULAR case has just come before
the French tribunals. A young girl
eleven years of age attempted successive
ly the life of her mother and sister, for
the sole purpose of drinking their blood
The child has been examined by compe
tent physicians, and proved to be at.
tackled by the strange mania of anthro-
pophagy. Her extreme youth leads the
physicians to hope that her cure may be
accomplished
Year: 1866

+" A million of money for one inch of
time," said Englands proud Queen Eliza
beth, while filled with remorse in her dying
moments; but all the wealth of the world
could not purchase single hour.


Young woman, are you improving your
golden hours so as to save yourself from
vain regrets by-and-by, when the fatal ar
cher lets fly the arrow of death and cuts
short your dream OF life? You have heart
sympathies to cultivate, mind to educate,
powers to make active for good, and infiu.
enccs to WELD for the right and the true.
How much ofyour time is absorbed by lofty
aims and noble strivings? "t


Young man, can you afford to waste an
hour in idleness and frivolity? Can you
afford to neglect your opportunities of sto-
ring your mind with useful information, of
making solid requirements, and preparing
yourself thoroughly for those hi gh efforts
that win success in the great undertakings
OF life! You have great deal to do, be-
tore you attain to your majority, in order
to Deet the just expectations of society.
You have to do with fast age, to share in
operations moving with lightning speed
and you must be capable of quick decisions
and brisk movements, for time and tide
will not wait for you. Every hour not
needed for repose and recreation should be
filled up with benefits to yourself and 9th.
ers. Act upon this hint, and you will
bless us for dropping it. Here is an old
saying and true one, which you will do
well to fix in your memory: aWho knows
nothing in his thirtieth year, is nothing
in his fortieth, has nothing in his fiftieth,
learns nothing, is nothing, and coines to
nothing" ,i''
Year: 1866

AN EDITOR IN HEAvEN.-Under the
above caption an exchange gives long
obituary notice of q deceased brother ed
itor, from which we have room only to
extract the closing paragraph:


"Should we then not rejoice that our
late friend of the scissors and quill is in
heaven3 In that paradise the cry Of
"more copy" will never again fall upon his
distracted ears. There his enjoyments will
no more be interrupted by the growls of
the unreasonable subscriber, or the duns
of the paper maker. There he will enjoy
entire freedom from the detractions and
misrepresentation of political opponents,
and the caresses of ambitious political as
pirants. In that blest abode he is TO more
to be troubled with illegiblc manuscript
or abominable poetry. No rival editors
will there steal his thunder or his items,
and typographical errors shall know him
no more forever"
Year: 1866

An act 10 allow appeals from the county


courts established at this session, so far
az relates to the county of Warren
Section l. Be it enacted by the Legisla-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That ap-


peals from the final jugments of the county
court of Warren county in criminal cases,


may be taken and allowed to the criminal
court Of Warren county, subject to the same
terms as appeals are ordered to the circuit
court in such criminal cases, Provided that
| the term of the criminal court of Warren
county to which said appeal is prayed to be


taken will be holden before the next regular
term of the circuit court.


Sec. O. Be it further enacted mat this


act take effect and be in force from and
after its passage


! Approved Dec .. 1865.
Year: 1866

we are always excessive when we sacrifice
the higher beauty to attain the lower one.
A woman who viii sacrifice domestic affec-
ton, conscience, self respect, honor. to love
of dress, we all agree, loves dress too much.
She losses the true and higher beauty of
womanhood for the lower beauty of gems
and flowers and colors. A girl who sacri-
fees to dress all her time, all her strength,
all her money, TO the neglect of the cultiva-
tion of her mind and heart and to the nep-
lect of the claims of Others on her helpfuI-
ness, is sacrificing the higher to the lower
beauty. Her fault is not the love of beauty
but loving the wrong and inferior kind.


In fine, girls, you may try yourselves by
this standard You love dress too much
when you care more for your outward adorn-
ings than for your inward dispositions, when
it atfiicts you more to have torn your dress
than to have lost your temper-when you
than By neglected duty-when you are less
concerned at having made an unjust com
ment, or spread a scandalous report, than
at having worn a pdSsee bonnet-when you
are less troubled at the thought of being
found at the last great feast without the
wedding garment than at being found atthe
party tonight in the fashion of last year


No Christian woman, as | view it ought to
give such attention to her dress as to allow
it to take up all of three very important
things, viz: all her time, al her strength,
all her money Whoever does this lives
not the Christian but the Pagan life-wor-
ships not at the Christian altar Of our
Lord Jesus, but at the shrine of the lower
Venus Of fCorinth and Rome - Mrs Stowe.
Year: 1866

A soldier slept, as the morning unrolled
Der the white tents pitch d on the pleas


ant plains
The bayonets CLEAN was the CLEAN of gold,
Where sunlight poured on the height and the


world


And the fields of yellow grain.
Then the soldier arose, when hisrestwas done
And he merrily sang in his joyous glee;
He sharpened his sword and he frightened


his gun,
And he smiled as he thought of the laurels


won,


That yet on his brow would be,
The couriers rode when the noontide came,
Aud told of grim lines advancing fast
So the camp was filed with wild acclaim,
And the soldier heart was kindled with fame,
And the hurrying squadron passed.
But the glen full soon was the place of blood,
With the Missing of shot and the claug of


steel;
And men lay dabbled and stained in the wood
Tho the soldiers comrades in yalor stood,


Till they made the foemen reel.
When the night came down the horses were


strewn


And the soft dews fell on the face of the


dead
But the soldiers song had changed TO moan
As faint dpale, where the sad moon shone,


He lay with his bleeding head.
'Tis morning again on the tents and the spears
But the soldiers voice is forever still
There's form that's missed from the cava-


liers,
There's sweet face blurred with bitter


tears


There a nameless grave on the hill.
Year: 1866

A Dutchman in Pennsylvania leased his
lands to an oil company in Pennsylvania
last spring, on condition of receiving one
eighth of the oil procured. The we'll pro-
vedto be pretty good one, and the Dutch
farmer began to think that the oil men
should give him better chance, and ven
tured to tell them SO. They asked him
what he wanted. He said they ought to
give him one twelfth. The agreement was
finally made, with the understanding that
the Dutchman was not to tell any one.


All went smooth until the next division
day came, when our friend was early on
hand to see how much better he would be
off under the new bargain. Eleven barrels
were rolled to one side for the oil men, and
one for him. This did not suit him.


How dish?'' says he, Il tink was to
get more as before by jinks you make
mistake.


The matter was explained to him, that he
Formerly got one barrel out Of every eight,
but If was his own proposition to only take
ono Of every twelve.


This revelation took him aback lie
scratched his head, looked cross, and reliev-
ed his feelings of self reproach By iGdig-
nantly remarking '.Vel dat is great, dish
ish the irst time as ever ] knowed eight
wash more as twelve,
Year: 1866

ANEcDoTE OF TIE WAR-Two boys be-
longing to Moorman's Lynchburg battery,
having marked good place near farm
house on the Peninsula, stole out after dark
to flank shoat They had seen large
number go under large out building, and
while one was to creep in and drive out the
critters, the other was to stand at an
opening on the opposite side with club.
to strike the first hog that came out. The
long and short of the story is, that the far
mer, not liking the near proximity of the
house, and the crawIer, not not finding them
emerged on the other side, and was knock
ed into cooked hat by his comrade He
did not leave his bed for month.
Year: 1866




The following extract from Diapers last
work, Civil Policy in America, shows the
Eastern origin Of much that is useful and
admirable In the times of which history
has failed to preserve any account, that con-
tinent Asia must have been the scene of
prodigious activity. In it were first deyel-
oped those fundamental inventions and dis
coveries which really lie at the basis of the
progress of the human race-the subiuga-
ton of domestic animals, the management
of fire, the expression Of thought by wri-
ting We are apt to overlook how much
man must have done; how much he must
have added to his power in pre- historic
times We forget how many contribution
TO our comforts are of Oriental origin.
Their commonness hides them from our
view


IF the European wishes to know how
much he owes to the Asiatic, he has only to
cast glance at one hour of his daily life.
TIE clock which summons him from bed in
the morning, was the invention of the East
as were also elepsy dTas and sundials. The
prayer for his daily bread, that be has said
from infancy, first rose from the side Of the
Syrian mountain The linens and cottous
with which he clothes himself, though they
may be very fine, are inferior to those that
have been made, from time immemorial, in
the looms of India, The silk was stolen by
some missionaries, for his benefit, from
China. He could buy better steel than that
with which he shaves himself in the city of
Damascus, where it was first invented.


Th, coffee he expects for breakfast was
first grown by the Arabians, and the
natives of upper India prepared the sugar
with which he sweetens it. a schoolboy
can tell the meaning of the Sanserit words,
'ssacchara canada IF his tastes are light
and he prefers tea, the virtues Of that ex-
cellent leaf were first pointed out By the
industrious chinese. They also taught him
how to make and use the cup aud saucer IN
Year: 1866

A LADY who " as in the habit of spending
a large portion of her time in the society of
her neighbors, happened one day to be taken
suddenly i'll, and sent her husband in great
haste for physician. The husband ran a
few rods, but soon returned, exclaiming,
MY dear, where shall find you when get
back ?"