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Year: 1866

HUMAN. LovE.-Consciousness of
being loved gives tort and
strength, and makes trust in God a
real, living feeling thar influences the
daily life. If there is no love about
us, if all men turn glances Of dislike
upon us, and close their hands against
US, then our hearts grow hard, and
we find it difficult to raise at once,
without the aid Of human steps, s,aboye
earthly pain and desolation to love
and confidence in God; all has a ten
dency to become dark above as it is
around; whereas love and kindness
keep our hearts open; dear, loving
people are to us witnesses of the love
and tenderness of GoG-are his an
gels whom he sends to show us thai
he has not forgotten us.
Year: 1866

Never trust secret with mar
ried man who loves his wife, for he
will tell her-she will tell aunt Han
nah-and aunt Hannah will impart
it as a profound secret to every one OF
her female acquaintances. "a
Year: 1866

EHE Subscriber has tax en- the Agency and


/ spent some time i'll visiting some OF the best
and most popular Sewing Machine ESTABLISH
ments in New England, and is now prepared to
furnish Single ard Double Thread, the
Year: 1866

The conditions OF the bridal race are
these The maiden has certain start CIV
en- which she avails herself of to gain a sHt-
ficient distance from the crowd to enable her
to manage her steeG with freedom, so as to
assist in the pursuit of the suitor whom she
prefers. On signal from the father all the
horses gallop after the fair one, and which
ever first succeeds in encircling her waist
with his arm, no matter whether dlSagreea-
ble or not to her choice, is entitled to claim
her as his wife. After the usual delay Incl
dent upon such occasions, the maiden quits
the circle of her relations, and putting her
steed into a hand gallop, darts into an open
plain.


When satisfied with ber position, she
turns round to the impatient youths, and
stretches out her arms toward them as if to
WOO their approach. This is the moment
for giving the signal to commence the chase,
and each of the impatient youths, dashing
his pointed heels into his courser's sides,
darts like the unhooded hawk in pursuit of
his fugitive dove. The savannah was exten-
sive, full twenty miles long and three in
width and as the horsemen sped across the
plain the favored lover became soon appa-
rent by the efforts of the maiden to avoid
all others who might approach her. At
length, after nearly two hours racing, the
number of pursuers is reduced to four who
are all together, and gradually gaining on
the pursued. With them is the fayorlte
but alas his horse suddenly fails in his
speed and, as she anxiously turns her
head, she perceives with dismsy the hapless
position of her lover. Each Of the more
fortunate leaders, eager with anticipated tri-
umph, bending his head on his horse name,
shouts at the top of his voice, Il come, my
Peri I'm your lover But she, making
sudden turn, and lashing her horse almost
to fury, darts across their path, and makes
for that part of the place where her lover Is
vainly endeavoring to goad on his weary
steed. The three others instantly check
their career but, in the hurry to turn back,
two of the horses are dashed furiously
against each other so that both steeds and ri
ders roll over the plain.


The maiden laughed (for she well knew
she could elude the single horsemanl and
flew to the point where her lover was. But
her only pursuer was rarely mounted, aud
not easily shaken off, Making a last and
desperate effort, he dashed alongside the
maiden, and stretching out his arm almost
won the unwilling prize; but she, bending
her head to the horse neck, eluded hii
grasp, and wheeled off. Ere the discomft-
| ted horseman could again approach her, hel
lovers arm was around her waist, and
amidst the shouts of the spectators, the!
turned towards the fort.
Year: 1866

1t is beauty privilege to kill time, and
times S privilege to kill beauty.


The veil which covers the face of futurity
is woven by the hand of beauty.


IF We are loved by those around us, we
can bear the hostility of all the rest of the
world; just as if we were before farm FIRE,
we need not care for all the ice in the Polar
regions


We should give as we receive--cheerfully,
quickly, and without hesitation, for there is
no grace in benefit that sticks to the fin
gers.


The truly illustrious are they who do not
court the praise of the world, but perform
the actions which deserve it.


Some sensible chap says, truly, that a
person who undertakes to raise himself by
scandalizing others, might just as well sit
down on wheelbarrow and undertake to
wheel himself


Dentist to his patient Hem, very odd.
| must have made some mistake; there's
nothing the matter with this tooth Never
mind, I'll try again. OF course, | won't
charge you for pulling more than one of
them, no matter how many take ont. -
Year: 1866

We count the broken Tyres that rest
Where the sweet wailng singers slumber,
But O. er their silent sisters breast,
The wild flowers who will stoop to number?
A few touch the magic string,
And noisy frame is proud to win them
Alas for those who never sing,
But die with all their music in them?
Nay, grieve not for the dead alone,
Whose song has told their hearts sad story.
Weep for the voiceless who have known
The cross without the crown of glory
Not where Leucadian br9ezes sweep
Der Sappho's memory haunted pillow
But where the gistening night dews weep
Ger nameless sorrows chureh.yard pillow.
0 hearts that break and give no sign,
Save Whitening lip and fading tresses,
Till death pours out bis cordial


Slow dropped from misery's crushing presses
If singing breath or echoing chord
To every hidden pang were given


What endless melodies were proved


As sad as earth as sweet as heaven
Year: 1866

PUNGENT SERoloN.-Je Jerome, in one of
his sermons, rebuked the women of his day
in words so apropos to those of modern
times that we cannot forbear copying them


''Ah ] shall tell you who are the women
that Scandahze Christians They are those
who daub their cheeks with red, and their
eyes with black-those who plaster their
faces too white to be Misunderstanding us
ofidols-those who cannot shed tear with
out its tracing furrew on the painted sur
face of their taces-those whose ripe years
fail to teach them that they are growing old
those whose head dresses are made up of
other people hair-those who chalk wrink-
les into the counterft presentiment of youth
and those who affect the demeanor of BASH
full maideus in the midst of troops of grand
children.


If he had added those who wear fitting
skirts, the picture would have been COM
plete.
Year: 1866

a WoMAN's S FRIENDSHIP. is Won
drous advantage to a man, in every pursuit
or vocation, to secure an adviser in a sensi~
bic woman In woman there is at once a
subtitle delicacy oftact and plain soundness
of Judgment, which are rarely combined to
an equal degree in man. A woman, if she
be really your friend, viii have a sensitive
regard for your character. honor and repute.
She will seldom counsel you to do shabby
thing, for woman-friend always desires
to be proud Of you. At the same time her
constitutional timidity makes her more eau
tiOus than youI male friend. She, there
fore, seldom eounsels you to do an impudent
thing. A mans best female friend is d
wife Of good sense and heart, whom he loves
and who loves him But, supposing the
man to be without such helpmate, female
friendehip he must still have, or his intellect
viii be without garden, and there viii be
many an unheeded gap, even In its strongest
fence. Better and safer, of course, such
friendships where dispaTities Of years or cir
cumstances put the idea of love out of the
question Middle life has rarely this ad-
vantage youth and old age have. We
may have female friendships with those
much older, and those much younger. than
ourselves. Female friendship is to man
the bulwark, sweetener, ornament of his
existence.
Year: 1866

The BEAUTY OF OLD PEOPLE. Men and
women make their own beauty or their own
ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks
in one of his novels of man who was
uglier than he had any business to be-" and
if he could but read it, every human being
carries his life in his face, and is good look
ing or the reverse as that life has been good
or evil. On our features the fine chisels of
thought and emotion are eternally at work.
Beauty is not tie monopoly of blooming
young men and white pink maids. There Is
a slow growing beauty which only comes to
perfection in old age Grace belongs to no
period of life, and goodness improves the
longer it exists. / have seen sweeter smiles
on a lip of seventy than ever saw on lip of
seventeen. There is the beauty of youth,
and the hohness-a beauty much more sell
dom met; and more frequently fonnd in the
armchair by the fire, with grand children
around its kuee, thau in the ballroom or the
promenade. Husband and wife who have
fought the world side by side, who have
made common stock of joy and sorrow, and
grown aged together, are not unfrequently
found curiously alike in personal appearance
and In pitch and tone of yoice-iust as twin
pebbles on the beach exposed to the same
tidal influences, are each others alter ego.
He has gained a feminine something which
brings his manhood into full relief She
has gained q masculine something which
acts as a foil to her womanhood.
Year: 1866

A writer SAYS; ''The great want of this
age is men. Men who are not for sale.
Men who are honest, sound from the centre
to the circumference true to the hearts
core. Men who fear the Lord and coyetous-
ness. Men who will condemn wrong in
friend or foe, IN themselves as well as In
others. Men whose consciences are steady
as the noodle to the pole. Men who viii
stand for the right if the heavens totter and
the earth reels. Men who can tell the truth
and look the world and the devil right in the
eye.-AIen that neither brag nor run. Men
that neither swagger nor finch. Men who
can have courage without Whistling for it,
and JOY without shouting to bring it. Men
in whom the current of everlasting life runs
still and deep, and strong. Men careful OF
God honor and careless of men S applause.
Men too large for sectarian limits and to 0
strong for sectarian bands. Men who do not
strive, nor cry, nor cause their voices TO be
heard in the street, but who will not fail,
nor be discouraged, till judgment be set in
the earth. Men who know the message and
tell it. Men who know their place and fill
it. Men who know their duty and do it.
who will not lie Men vino are not too lazy
to work nor too proud to be poor. Men who
are willing to eat what they have earned, and
wear what they have paid for Men who
know in whom they have believed Men
whose feet are on the everlasting rock
Men whe arenot ashamed Of their hope
Men who are strong with divine strength,
wise with the wisdom that cometh from
above, and loving with the love, of Christ
Men of God.
Year: 1866

INFLUENCE OF A TRUE WIFE "A sensible
affectiouate, refined, practical woman makes
a mans nature all the stronger by making it
more tender-puts a new heart into all his
strivings-and gives dignity to all his pros
perity, and comfort for his adversely.
Every true life wields still greater power
when it feels living heart drawing it with
irresistible force into every position of duty
Year: 1866

GIVE Us BACK OUR DEAD.-The discon-
solate Copperheads keep murmuring 'Giye
us the Union as it was Let the answer
of patriots be, Give us back our dead -
Into the CLASSY eyes of Lyon put the electric
light that shone when he led the heroic
charge Restore to Ellsworth his young
life and manly beauty. Give yigor to the
wasted limbs of Kearney Bring back the
war worn veteran Sumner. Revive the
McCooks, twin brothers of valor Heal the
savage wounds of Dalghren. Re-animate
the commanding form of Ellet. Call Sedg-
wick from his grave and Wadsworth from
the silent republic of the dead. Breathe
the breath of life into the nostrils of the
gentle Lander Return new strength to the
sinewy arm of Reno. Give back its music
al cadence to the tongue of Baker, and
cleanse his gray hair from the gore which
our fellow Democrats shed upon it. Restore
the enliyening smile of humanity to the
care worn face of Lincoln, now pallid under
the bloody hand of Democratic assassin,
and bring back daylight to those CLASSY eyes
that were so sleepless for the Union and
Freedom Take down the bereavement that
hangs in the sorrowful dwellings, Of the peo-
pie, and bring back to life and home the
thousands Of devoted men who dyed the
land of treason red with blood to make it
pure Do this, O thou thrice damned spirit
of rebellion, and thou mayest again have the
Union as it was.
Year: 1866

nA-Two men killed each other in
Mobile recently, for "a lovely woman. -
Home Journal


The journal ought to have told the whole
story. They not only killed, but ate each
other up. TIE survivor was married next
day to the lovely woman whom he had
SO deservedly won.-lnoJile Register.


"None but the brave deserve the fair"
Year: 1866

DEER LODGE CITY, March 18th, 1866


EDITOR POST: This morning noticed quite stir.
about and little groups of nearly all of whom
strangers could be here and there engaged in
conversation something which seemed excite
than ordinary interest," and looked out towards the
housesituated few rods south of town. the
bank of the rverI also noticed number of going
and coming from that quarter All explained
by the coarse remark that there had been
Year: 1866

The pork disease is no new- thing.
Somebody makes out that Ilerol the
Great died OF it. ~ we are assured that
he was eaten by worms before tie breath
was fairly out of his royal body.
Year: 1866

Mr. W. M. Smith, astone cutter and native of
Scotland, has been working down at Fort Jack
son, caught the swamp fever in that locality, and
was brought to the Ohio Exchange, where he re-
mained about ten days. During that time lie
drank to excess, and is supposed to have had the
delirium tremens. At any rate, while trying to
reach the ground through his window, lie fell and
hurt his lower jaw badly. He was then sent to
the hospital in cab but before reaching there he
had died. He was carried to the Second District
police station and transferred to the coroner. His
verdict was swamp fever.
Year: 1866

The body of dead man was yesterday found
in skitf at the foot of Ursulne street. The ski'
was covered with kind of shade-a circumstance
which went to show that the deceased there made
his habitation and home. The custom of thus
living is not unfrequent with certain class. of
men who are too .peor to live on land and
many of them erect comfortable habitations upon
RATS near the French vegetable market and who
gain subsistence by picking up drift wood, fish
ing, etc, The deceased is supposed to have lived
in this way and to have died of fever.
Year: 1866

The winds blowing from the lake were gufi.
GENTLY strong yesterday to cause rise in the
waters of the Carondelet canal, and to effect an
overflow of the banks between Claiborne and Der.
bgny streets, and between Dorgenois and Roche
blaye. At the head of the Old Basin the water is
said to have been two or three feet higher than
ordinary, and to have risen about eighteen inches
in four hours. notification was yesterday made
at the Second District police station of the above
facts, with request for prompt action on the
part of the draining commissioner.
Year: 1866

"A dog somewhat curtailed as to his caudal ap
pendage, though otherwise having the appearance
Of being Of good stock, has recently taken up his
quarters at the Second District lookup, and ap-
parently has no disposition to get himself out upon
bond He is white and liver-coored in respect to
bis general appearance, and any one whom Carlo
will claim as his owner by responsive wag Of his
tail, or by following him from the lookup will be
put in possession Of the property.
Year: 1866

Why is it that liquor in a soldier invariably de.
yetops the most intense and aggressive s'tility
towards everything and body more dark col.
ored than Maine liquor law man? Why does a
drunken boy in blue invariably finish of bis snrea
by beating freedman ri Petersburg Index,
Year: 1866

Merchants from the Country visiting the City will his
Wholesale Department well fitted up, and replets with
most desirable articles adapted their trade
He would especially call the attention Of


Ing


MERCHANTS AND PLANTERS
Year: 1866

The Legislature sitting in Richmond is discussing
with much animation proposition to reunite West
Virginia with old Virginia. The latest phase of
the subject is the following appeal gravely offered
in the Richmond House Of Delegates las. week by
Mr.. Hansbrough, of Stafford county:


Resoiued. That the Committee on the Union Of
Eastern and Western Virginia be respectfully re-
quested 10 examine into the propriety Of adopting
the following appeal


Sometimes in the course of human events trivial
circumstances separate good friends; and, in the
case of Abraham and Lot, one goes to the right
hand and the other departs TO the left; bu: when
passion subsidies and reason is enthroned the
brance Of ancient friendship prompts the kindly
feelings Of nature to reconciliation and mutual
esteem Il grioves US that there has been separation
between us and our western brethren. Bound to-
gether by common blood common language, and
the iron hooks of interest what shall separate US
And bound together by mutual limits who shall
separate what God has joined together Shall
poverty, shall tribulation shall the sword tear
sssunder from our brethren? And how shall We
divide the glory of the Old Dominion You are
700 brave and generous to require US in bondmens ;
key, to say, Pray, master, forgive u.s. And we
ask 10 submission, no humiliation from you; but
with outstretched arms we invite you to our affeC-
tionate and tender embraces And behold how
good and pleasant it is for brethren dwell togeth-
er in unity. is like the precious ointment upon
the head, that down the beard, even Aaron's
beard As the dew OF Heaven, as the dew that de-
scended upon the mountain Of Zion, for there the
Lord commanded the blessings of life for ever
more.


The official report adds that the House Immediate
lY adjourned.
Year: 1866

NATIONAL BANKs-A few days since we
noticed, says the ChrOnlcat and Sentinel, the
winding up Of some National Banks. From
an official source we gather the annexed in
formation in regard to these institutions;


\ National Bank cannot fail to pay its is
sue because it is based upon deposit Of
Government Bonds in the Treasury of the
United States. For every one hundred dol
lars deposited with the Treasury in the Five
Twenty Bonds, bearing six per cent inter
ests per annum in gold, payable semi-annu:
ally-the Government issues to the banking
association ninety dollars in National Bank
bills, holding in reserve ten per cent. to Sc
cure the note or bill holdcr-in case of the
bank failing to redeem. And when a de
posit Of tcn-forty bonds is made, the Gov
ernment only issues eighty seven and half
per cent to the Banking gassociation-hold-
ing in reserve twelve per cent. over the is
sue. The Government holds the plate from
which the bills are printed, and in no case
can there be an over issue. Each Stock
holder is liable for double the amount Of his
stock


Our readers will perceive that the bills of
the National Banks are good under all cir
cumstanceS--whether the bank is in full op-
GRAFTON or is in process Of being wound up.
Year: 1866

The season is at hand when many persons
will be called on to salt their pork, and some
Of them will be at a loss as to how to do it.
An article is going through the papers, sug-
costing that the right way is to put TWEEN
ty-tive pounds Of salt to the barrel: then
make a brine and put on cold After it has
become picked through, scald, skim the
brine and turn it on hot, as it has settled.
scald as often as it is bloody"


There.it is, rerbatim ct Liberatum Just as
clear as mud, and enough to distract any
one who has a barrel Of pork at stake.


Nothing is more simple than to salt n
barrel Of pork SO that it will keep forever,
aught we know, if you don't eat it,


In the first place, have q good hog, dress
him in a cool time and let him hang until
the whole carcass is cooled throughout
Cut out the fat pork neatly, taking away
every piece that is bloody, or wash out the
blood clean with cold water. The strips
should be three or four inches wide. Lay
them in 4 cool place each piece by itself for
twenty-tOur hours then sprinkle the bottom
OF perfectly sweet barrel, half an inch
thick, with what is called coarse-tino" salt.
and on that hay strips Of pork, with the
skin next the barrel, and SO continue until
the bottom is entirely covered. Pack it
closely. Then cover that layer with half
an inch Of salt, and so continue until the
barrel Is nearly full; coverthe top with salt,
and then lay clean strip of board over it.
and on that a stone sufficiently heavy to
keep the whole from rising. bet it stand
twelve hours, and them fill the barrel with
clean, cold water.


We have practiccd this method for twen-
ty years and have not lost a round Of pork
1t is ''as sweet as nut, and gives an ex-
cellcnt relish to many kinds of food in cook
ing that nothing else will.


If lean pieces are desired they should be
most carefully washed before being salted


In taking the pork from the barrel, no
piece must ever be allowed to float above
the brine, as it viii be likely TO ruin the
whole.


If the weather is a little warm when the
pork is salted, it will be well to take it out
in April wash the barrel, scald the brine,
and when cool, return it, and add new salt
as the pork is laid in.-Nlar England Farm
eT.
Year: 1866

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~ ever produced.
The Proprietor has devoted both time and attention in
binng and preparing this article Each ingredient
carefully prepared and combined proper proportions and
offered With certainty that will give satisfaction
No commenti necesssrya fair trial will convince all of its
efficacy.


Ladies will find it not only certain remedy to RESTORE
DARKEN and BEAUTIFY THE HAIR, but also a desira.
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For sale by all Druggists and Perfamers.


I. W. WRIGHT,


Sole Proprietor,
=..... =. 100 Liberty street, New York.
Year: 1866

PAINFUL AccIDENT.-A few days since
Miss Sallie Lambert, one of the teachers
at the Lancasterian school, was struck
senseless by the falling Of blackboard.
She recovered in short time, and is now
out of danger.
Year: 1866

GENERAL AsHBY.-We have seen pho
tograph Of General Ashby taken from .
sketch from life by Colonel Willie Caskie,
of this city. The photograph is by Van
nerson, and those who have seen the Gene
raj state that it is very accurate picture.
It is being sold by Messrs. Davies s Bro
ther for the benefit Of the Hollywood Me-
mortal Association. We are gratified to
learn that the demand for it thus far has
been very satisfactory; and we feel sure
that it's object, together with the fact that
this is the only accurate picture Of that
gallant cavalier taken whilst soldier,
will insure for it an increased demand.