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Year: 1866

Up from the South, at break Of day,
Bringing TO Winchester fresh dismay,
The afrghted air with shudder bore,
Like herald in haste, to the chieftain's door,
Tho terrible grumbe and rumble and roar,
Telling the battle was ON once more, .t tt
And Sheridan twenty miles away.
And wider still those billows of war
Thundered along the horizons bar
And louder yet into Winchester rolled
The roar of the red sea uncontrolled,
Making the blood Of the listener run cold
AS he thought Of the stake in the fiery fray,
And Sheridan twenty miles away. .I
But there is road from Winchester town
A good broad highway leading down;
And there, through the flush of morning light,
A steed rs black as the steeds of night
Was seen TO pass with eager fight
As il he knew the terrible need,
He stretched away with his utmost speed;
Hill rose and fell but his heart was gay,
With Sheridan fifteen miles away.
Still sprung from those swift hoofs laundering


South,


The dust, like the smoke from the cannon's mouth,
Or the tail of comet, sweeping faster and faster,
Foreboding to traitors the doom Of disaster.
The heart of the steed and the heart of the master
Were beating like prisoners essauting their walls,
Impatient to be where the battlefield calls
Every nerve Of their charger was strained to full


play, -...-
With Sheridan ten miles away.
Under his spuning feet the road
Like an arrowy Alpine river flowed,
And the landscape sped away behind +.'n
Like an ocean flying away before the. wind.
And the steed, like bark fed with furnace ire,
Swept on with his wild eyes ful of fire.
But 10 he is, nearing his hearts desire
He is shutting the smoke of the roaring fray,
With Sheridan only Eve miles away.





The first that the General saw were the groups
OF stragglers, and then the retreating troops.
What was done--what to do-a glance told him


both, i'- .4.
Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath,
He dashed down the lines mid storm of huzzas,
And the wave of retreat checked its course there,


because


The sight of the master compelled it to pause.
With foam and with dust the black charger was


gray;
By the fash Of his eye and his red nostrils play
He to the whole great army seemed to say
al have brought you Sheridan all the way
From Winchester down to save the dayl"
Hurrah, hurrah for Sheridan
Hurrah for the horse, and hurrah for the man
And when their statues are placed on high,
Under the dome of the Union sky
The American soldiers Temple Of Fame
There with the glorious Generals name,
Be it said in letters bold and bright


Here is the steed that saved the day,
By carrying Sheridan into the fight,


From Enthusiastically miles away"
Year: 1866

A WITTY printer, who quit the businesss
studied physic, and become a physioian1
gave his reason for so doing that in printing
all the faults are exposed to the eye, but
in physic they are buried with the patient
Year: 1866

" wo would have the kindness of others
we must endure their folies. He who can
not persuade himself to withdraw from soa
ciety must be content to pay tribute of
his time to multitude Of tyrants.
Year: 1866

The man who can make his own hret
black his own boots, carry bis own wood,
hoe his own garden, pay his own debts, and
live without wine and tobacco, need ask
no favor Of him who rides in coach aud
C,ur
Year: 1866

Itch d.-Tho itch-wood tree Of
the Fiji Islands and New Caledonia,
though producing wood valuable for
building purposes, is better known for
its highly dangerous properties when
in a living state 1t sccretcs a deadly
milky sap, a single drop of which,
should it happen to fall on The hands
and face, is said TO produce pair
equal to that caused by contact with a
red hot poker The natives are well
acquainted with the dangerous prop,
critics Of the juice, and uso it as poi
son.
Year: 1866

We often hear the yogng when
speaking of their parents say, old
man and old woman How can they
50 far forget that their kind father has
toilcd early and late to procure food
and raiment for them, us 10 call him
thus Or so ungratetul to their moth
cr for all her patience with their faults;
all her unfailing love for them, "s to
cali her old woman instead Of the lov-
lag name mother Trey often remind
US by their disrcspcct to their parents
of the boy that ran away from home.
and when asked the reason for SO do
ing replied;-'That tie old woman and
man were getting SO saucy that be
could not stay at home any longer
Year: 1866

simpossibe here to mention with which
he is familiar: perhaps win not be out of place
The formidable. the destructive mankind is
SeAbuse. The brain being the seat Of the disease the
whole syStsm suffers in consequence Will here enunerate
of the symptoms. that those afflicted be able TO
form opinion in regard their complaints and seek ad
vice in time thereby saving themselves world of suerng
Nervous Debility. Loss of Memory Pain in the Limbs ana
Back. Palpation of the Heart Trembling of the Limbs
Headache and Aversion Genial Society, especially that
of females There great many but these are SUI
DR. T0ZER and he will You in short time. without
interruption state by let
and there will be occasion for your calling the office


Structure of the Urethra
Is another formidable enemy health. Send for of my
circulars that disease and inform yourself of its terrible
results. The worst cured in a few days


Venerial Diseases,
ali their forms either Primary Secondary or
reary completely eradicated from the system Your
stituton being perfect health will
danger of handing down your children that terrible dis
ease known as scrofua.


Syphaletic Disease,
As it presents itself this coast is of formidable
character than that in the Atlantic States Europe
and Sandwich Island disease Those of You who have
visited the latter doubt have the dread
full effects of it both the native and foreign population
1t requires altogether different modes of treatment


The Old Formulas
of Rcorl. little account except
the blood, which LATER will show itself
dary disease in aggravated form. These facts have learn
ed by experience and think without bostng that
have practice in these diseases than any other
physician in California. dating it does from 1919 1t be-
therefore, to think WELL before you employ
ply yscian


Who is the proper consu-an old experienced
or one who has recently settled amongst You!
Year: 1866

JouN G. SAxE.-Our readers will please
bear in mind that to morrow night john g.
SAKE delivers his lecture on Poets and
Poetry" At the Metropolitan Hall. The
h ouse will undoubtedly be crowded, and
re recommend all those wish to be certain
Of hearing the great Wit, to secure reserved
seats Is soon as possible.
Year: 1866

We, the delegates of the people of NortlCaroina, in
Convention assembled for the purpose of amending the
Constitution of the State, having consolidated the
as adopted on the eighteenth day of December A d.
thousand seven hundred and sevenysix with the amend
ments thereto which ratified the eleventh day of
July, A d. thousand eight hundred and thrty-fve,
together with sundry amendments adopted in the years
thousand eight hundred and fftysx thousand eight
hundred and sixyone and thousand eight hundred and
slxtywo and other amendments adopted by this Conven-
ton do ordain and establish tile following Constitution for
the State:


ARTICLE l.
Year: 1866

CAUSES OF SUDDEN DDATH.-Very
few of the sudden deaths which are said
to arise from diseases of the heart do
really arise from that cause. To ascer-
tain the real origin of sudden deaths, an
experiment has been tried in Europe,
and reported to scientific congress at
Strasburg. Sixty-six cases of sudden
death were made the subject ofa thor
ough postmortem examination; In these
cases only two were found who died
from disease of the heart. Nine out OF
sixtv-six had died from apoplexy, while
there were forty-six cases of congestion
of the lungs-that is, the lungs were so
full of blood they could not work, not
being room enough for sufficient guam
tity of air to enter to support life. The
causes that produce congestion OF the
lungs are-cold feet, tight clothing, cos
tive bowels, sitting still until chilled
after being warmed with labor or
rapid walk, going too ruddenly from
close room into the air, especially after
Speaking, and sudden depressing news
operating on the blood. These causes
of sudden death being known, an avoid
ence of them may serve to lengthen
many valuable lives, which would other
wise be lost under the verdict of heart
complaint. That disease is supposed to
be inevitable and incurrable; :; hence
many may not take the pains they would
to avoid sudden death, if they knew 1t
lay in their power.
Year: 1866

result of the late elections has opened even
his eyes little. lie will get another ''eye
opener" from New York State election, and
will perhaps presently find that there is no
difference at all between him and Congress.
Year: 1866

IloNU CONVERSATION Children burger per.
rctually for new ideas, and tho most pleasant
way OF reception is by the voice and ear, not
the eye and tho printed page. The ono mode
is natural, the other is artificial. Who would
not rather listen than read? An audience will
listen closely from the beginning To the end OF
an address, which not ono in twenty OF those
present would read with the same attention.
THIS is cmpbatically true of children. They
will learn with pleasure from the lips OF par.
ents what they deem 1t drudgcry TO study in
the books; and even II they have the misior-
tune to he deprived Of the educational advau-
tases which they desire, they cannot fail to
grow up intelligent if they enjoy in childhood
and youth tho privilege of listening daily to
tho conversation Of intelligent people. Lot
parents, then, talk much and talk we'll at
home. a father who is habtually silent in
his own house may be, in many respects, wise
man; but he is not wise in his silence. We
sometimes see parents who arc the lfe OF every
company which they enter, dull, silent. unin.
teresting ut home among their children. IL
they have not mental activity and mental stores
sufficient for both, lot them first provide Tor
their own household.
Year: 1866

e A tender conscience is like tho apple Of
q mans eye, the least dust that gathers into il
affects it, There is no surcr and better way to
know whether our conscences are dead and
stupid, than to observe what impression small
sins make upon them. II We arc not very
careful to avoid all appearances OF evil, and to
shun whatever looks like sin; IL we are not 10
much troubled at tho vanity Of our thoughts
and words. at the rising up Of sinful emotions
and desires in US as We have been formerly, we
may then conclude that our hearts are harden.
ell. and our conscicnces are stupefed: for a
tender conscience will no more allow Of small
sins than Of great ones.
Year: 1866

Every intelligent and thinking person must know
that remedies handed out for general should have
their efficacy established by well tested experience in
the hands Of . regularly educated physician, whose
preparatory studies tit him for all the duties he must
fulfil yet the country is flooded with poor nosrums
and cure-als, purportng to be the best in the world
which are not only useless, but always injurious.
his physician, as 1t Is amentabe yet ncontroverti
BILE tact, that many syphiltic patients made mis-
cradle with ruined constitutions by maltreatment
from inexperienced physicians in general practice for
itisa point generally conceded by the best syfogra
pliers, that the study and management of these come
plants should engross the whole time of those who
would be competent and successful in their treat
ment and cure. The inexperienced general pract-
TONER having neither opportunity nor time to max
himself acquainted with their pathology, commonly
pursues one system of treatment, in most cases max


ing an indiscrmnate use of that antiquated and dan
gerous weapon, the Mercury.
Year: 1866

mischief-the want of sympathy and cor
fidence between the husband and wife. he
had made business the duty of his life till
he had no taste for any other worldly pur-
suit. 4" ~


at was easy for him to renounce all
pleasures but the one of getting.
So he called all others sinful, forgetting
that the Word of God has declared the love
of money is the root of all evil. 1t was
this bitter root which was destroying his
family. His riches had given them leisure
and the means of luxury, and they felt the
want of amusements. He could not spare
time to regulate these, or to teach them the
true principles of self-government. v,.


ale was proud, indeed, to bestow on them
every means of self indulgence. AND thIs
led the mother, vain woman; whose oD-
ject of ambition it was to get her dangh-
ters into the most fashionable society, TO a
series of falseh0ods and disslmulatlons, IN
order to give them those accomplishments
considered most fashionable. Novel read :
ing was one of these; she foolishly supposed
it would teach them the beau ideal of Euro
pean manners. To obtain these graces, she
was willing to sacrifice truth, that pearl OF
the soul, the reverence for which, when
once lost, is rarely restoTed"1i s.g, =. H..


Ibid you become much acquainted with
them P" inquired Miss Maria.


mo, / never saw them afterward. But
their history might serve for warning to
many of the would. be fashionables.


"Mr. Tuttle failed, and removed with his
family to the Far West to build up some
new settlement with the backwoodsmen.
| doubt not that lie was much better man
for the reverse; but his wife and daughters
must have had hard lessons to learn. hope
one of these was sincerity. And now, in
reply to your question: do doubt.an un-
truthful woman. There cannot, in the
home under her guidance, be either rest or
npapa -
Year: 1866

Take dead dog--a dead ono is better
than live one, though the latter might
answer--tske of bis hide and send il 10
the tannery Jn the course of time il will
reappear in the furnishing shops aud the
lady whose worthless poodle was poisoned
by GU unfeeliug policeman, will pay mnny
times it's value for piece of its skin in the
shape Of a pair Of genuine kid gloves. Bot
this is only q small part of the value Of the
defunct poodle. When the hide has been
removed take the remainder of the poodle
and boil it. With tho fat which is the
product of the boiling mix little soda, -
This will produce sweet substance called
glycerne, or sugar of fat, the commercial
value Of which ia very considerable, and is
capable Of almos, indefinite increase.


Mix il with little nitric ard sulphurc
acid, and the product is nitro glycerine, q
few ounces Of which, according to recent
experiments made somewhat accidentally,
would be sufficient to blow Ashtabula into
the gulf, or Du,ch Beer Saloon This Is
one of the uses to which dead dog or q
dead cat might be put But it is not the
most desirable or prof able use. 5-. h-r


Glycerine is one Of the chief ingredients
in the manufacture of cosmetics and per.
fumes for the loilet, and in the most choice
and expensive kinds it is Indispensable. 1t
is also an ingredient 10 the manufacture Of
smelling salts.


The lady whose unhappy poodle has
passed from the vale of woe through the
agency Of a barbarous policeman, has the
consolation of knowing that death is not
- end of dogs any more than it is the
end of human beiogs; but a'er dea 81 Q
will meet that shaggy friend again in
another and better shape-aye, thst her
hand shall touch, and cht eks shall feel. and
lips shall taste, and nose shall smell that
better part of him that hath triumphed
over death, and passed beyond the dark
valley to bloom in brighter glory on bic
mistress cheek; enrich the csrmine Of her
lips, revive the dropping spirit through the
uasal organ, and shed immortal pefume on
The folds Of her cambric handkerchief


20 Nor ore these sll the, valuable uses OF o
dead dog. From the residipm of the deg
are obtsit ed soap aud candles from the
bones phosphorus and phosphate of lime
or carbon, through which sugar for our
coffee is made
Year: 1866

A California paper tells the following ol
Lieutenant Darby. John PLGaix, the hunor-
| ist:


One evening at the theatre Phenix OBJ
served man sitting three seats 10 front. whom
be thought he knew, he requested the person
sitting next to him to punch the other indi-
yidual with his cane. The polite stranger did
SO, and the disturbed parson turning his head q
little be discovered his mistake--that he was
not the person he took him for. Fixing his
attention steadfastly on the play and affecting
uaconsciousues of the whole affair, he left the
man with the cane to settle with the other
for disturbance who, being wholly without an
excuse, there was, of course, ludcrous and
embarrassing scene, during the whole of which
Pheuix was most profoundly interested ip the
play.


At last the man with the oane asked, rath.
er Indignantly you tell me to punch
that man with my stick


Yea.


And what did you want


l wanted to see whether you wonld punch
him or not
Year: 1866

a Parental LETTER. The following let
ter was written by father to bis 500 in
college:


My dear Son; | write to send you your
new socks which your mother has just knit
by cutting down some Of mine. Your moth
er sends you ten dollars without my knoHl-
edge.an for fear you would not spend it
wisely, kept back half. aud only send you
Eve. Your own mother and ! are WE'LL
except that your Gis,er has got the measles
whchwe think would spread among the 9TH
or girls if Tom had not had them before,
and be is the only one left. / hope you
will do honor to my teaching; if you do
not, yon are DONKEY, and your mother aud
myself are your offectionate parents.
Year: 1866

We have to congratulate our popular friend


Ben Del}ar, upon his late purchase. On yestcr-
day Messrs. C. E. Girardcy & Co. sold him The st.
Charles Theater, for account of the New olleaNs
Gas Company, Tor the small sum Of $40 050 II
is not only a good indication Of the vaiun Of real


estate ia our rapidly improving city, but may be
accepted by friend Ben as an evidence of the esti
nation in which he is held as manager Of the mos
successful place of amusement in the city. We
trust that his career proprietor will be lopgei
and more successful than as manager and lessee
Year: 1866

CURIOUS CAsE.-Some time ago, VIM.
Grady was hung at Elizabeth, New Jersey,
for the murder of Fergus Collins on the Goth
of August, 1854. Itappears that Grady had
previously been in the army, and, after the
murder, which was perpetrated while Grady
was drunk, he enlisted second time in the
Both New Jersey volunteers, which was as
signed to Sherman's column, just before il
proceeded on the grand march to the sea
shore. While the army in question was
moving between the Ashley and Cooper
Rivers, Grady became separated from his
company, and suddenly sank very low into
the mud Of a treacherous morass While in
this situation, without any prospect of getting
out of it, with every evidence of dying there,
he made solemn declaration to God, that
if he ever did get out he would make clean
breast of all he knew in the case of the Col
Inns murder Fortunately a straggler be-
longing to Massachusetts regiment came
along and helped him out of his perilous
situation. On arriving at Goldsboro, N. c.,
Grady made a statement to the military off,
GERS there, who caused him to be arrested
and held in close custody. Thereafter he
was given over to the civil authorities of
New Jersey, and tried, convicted, and SEN
fenced to death for the murder OF Collins.
Every effort was made for a commutation OF
his sentence without avail, and Grady was
hung, as above stated, protesting with his
last breath that he was entirely innocent of
the crime for which he had been condemned
to suffer.
Year: 1866

A NATURAL CURIOSITY INeENIoUsLY
TURNED TO USEFUL ACCOUNT. On the
South Fanellone Islands, on the coast oil
California, is remarkable subterranean
passage, connected with rocky gulch, open
to the ocean. Through this passage the
waves of the sea force tho air with much
violence, and an observation of the peculiar
character of the wind current some year ago
induced Col. Bache, of the Engineer Corps
U. S. Army, to undertake to arrange a fog
whistle which would give an alarm to un-
lucky mariners approaching the place. This
he succeeded in doing, and the wind instru-
ment performed at nearly all times, but with
different degrees of force-sometimes 'piano
passages" and at others fortissimo ones.
About the time of low water, when the
waves do not enter the gulch, it would cease
for about two hours, when its shrill music
would begin again. The force of the wind
in stormy weather is so great that the first
whistle erected by Col. B. was carried away,
and he subsequently constructed one Of a
disk of iron perforated with hole six inches
in diameter. This was securely fastened by
heavy bolts to the solid rock, and it proved
entirely successful. Wind and water in
their mildest moods may be turned to use
ful accountwhen genius and skill are brought
to bear upon them, and we do not know a
more curious illustration of the great re-
sources of a cultivated mind than is found in
making the violent operations of nature give
warming tn their victims of tho dangpre tha,,
are about TO encounter, Patio. News.
Year: 1866

The Washington Chronicle, in publishing
the report of the Committee of Congress on
Reconstruction, giving the testimony of
Stephens, Sharkey, and Johnson, says:
"Perhaps the most remarkable feature of
it is the contradictory character of the state
ments Provisional Governor Sharkey, of
Mississippi, for instance, is of opinion that
the Frecdmen's Bureau ought TO be abol-
ished, and the colored troops withdrawn
from the South, while Provisional Governor
johnson, of Georgia, thinks that the bureau
should be continued, and the troops retained.
Sharkey evidently belongs to that class
which has no particular love for the blacks,
for he gives it as his deliberate conviction
that the whole race must eventually become
extinct. In other words, he believes in the
doctrine of a "war of races, " which seems
to be prominent plank in the platform of
Tiny policy and its supporters. He does
not seem to know much about the great
principles which form the cornerstone of
the Declaration of independence, or if he
does he evidently cannot understand them.
If, as the census demonstrates, the negrOs
increased at a rapid ratio when they were
slaves, VIC should like to know by what pro-
cess Of reasoning Mr.. Sharkey reaches the
conclusion that in a state OF freedom they
are bound to be exterminateG It is to be
hoped that he does not represent the popu-
lar sentiment of Mississippi; if so, the work
of reconstruction is by no means complete in
that State. The entire animus of Mr. Shar-
key and his evidence is apparent when he
says that the Freedmen's Bureau has done
more harm than good, and that had the
colored troops and the Freedmen's Bureau
been withdrawn he could have had perfect
state of order. The most important witness
examined was Alexander H. Stephens, the
Vice President of the late Confederacy.-
What he says of Georgia relative to the
feeling of the people on the question of Sc
cesson may be taken as fair example of
the sentiment of the entire South on this
subject. 1t will be observed that while
there was and is some difference of opinion
as 10 the policy of secession, there is scarcely
any as to the right The only trouble was
the want of ultimate success. Mr.. Stephens
himself inclines to this opinion and, Judging
from his testimony, he is not alone, There
arc thousands in the South to-day who be-
lieve in this doctrine. They do not look
upon the rebellion as crime, but simply as
questionable and unsuccessful policy adopt
ed to carry out a cherished principle. Most
of the Northern witnesses agree:


l. In the general feeling of animosity
which exists among the Southern people
toward the Government of the United States.


II. That this feeling is more bitter and
widespread now than it was Immediately
after the surrender of Lee and his army.


III. That there is general disposition to
prescribe Southern Unionists and Northern
emigrants


~. That the colored race is subjected to
inhuman and barbarous treatment wherever
the late rebels obtain the ascendancy.


From this it would seem that 'my policy
has not accomplished all it started out to do,
or at least what honest people were led to
expect by the professions and pledges of its
author"