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Year: 1867

On this subject tho Louisvill Journal has the
following;


= "Lock here, boy said gentleman to IN
urchin, who was munching candy at lecture
.'you are annoying me very much" No
amt neither" said the urchin, "Im gnaw-
ing this ere candy


awe have been carrying on the Louisville
Journal between SO aud 81 yesrs. During
that time we have known no man Of business
in the city to fail who advertised literally
And we have known no one to succeed in any
considerable, il even in respectable degree,
who didn't advertise literally!
! 10 you tell US, oh candidates for the Gus
tom Of the community, that you cant afford 70
advertise, because your business is dull2-
All! Why is it dull? Listen? and We will tell
you.s 1t is dull because you don't advertise
and you don't advertise because ii is dull
So the vacant circle is complete. We tell you
il you are doing i'll, to advertise that you may
do we'll, and if you are doing well, advertise
that you may do better. Set high your mark
of business success, and advertise up to it
You can do SO, if you will even in hard times


"a little nerve is needed in advertising as
well - in using any other effective means oi
success. Your men who have no more nerve
than wet rag advertise little or not at ALL
You may suppose that We are giving advice
that We think would benefit ourselves. Yes
We think it would benefit us, but benefit yor
immensely more. Think little and you viii
agree with us, and be wise enough to act &C,
cordingly.'
Year: 1867

close and lively contest is looked for In consequence
of the registration under the late District Suffrage
act of large number of cOored men, the two tickets
are distnctivcly known as tho White Mans Ticket"
and the National Union Ticket" As the negroes
will not support the former it is believed by many
that the atters candidate for Mayor will be the sue
cCssful one.


The scheme which passed the Senate on Wednes
day last to give Mr. Norton and associates of Troy,
N. Y, 100000 as a subsidy for the use of Post-Of-
flee stamp is looked upon an outrageous waste OF
public money The House PostOff Committee,
who have had the subject under consideration for
months have Tepcatedlylreported against it, and will
resist it when the bill before the House for
action


The notorious Col T. T. Titus, Of Mexican and
bushwhacking reputation attempting lately to drive
harpoon through a revenue officer when in the ex-
ecuon of his duty was arrested and turned over to
the United States Marshal at st. Augustine, Fla.
{ Gen. Grant will not 90 West before Monday. SEN
ator Harris gave a grand reception this evening at
his residence which was his last for the season. The
Presidents last reception also took place this evening


The Capitol to-day was crowded with visitors. The
Departments being closed the clerks flocked thither
to watch the chances of their increased compensation
bill


To-day being the anniversary of the birth of Gen
Washington, all business was suspended III the Gov
eminent Departments. The city had holiday look
Year: 1867

We notice that there is considerable
discussion indulged in, in various parts
of the country on the subject of wine
making, and that there is much divefsi-
ty of opinion as to How it should be
made. Some even claim that there
should be not only a liberal supply of
sugar, but of alcohol. 1t is well known
that twenty-five years ago there was
little Madeira made in its native island
that had not an infusion of brandy, on
the score that it would not otherwise
''keep." But that idea has long been
exploded, and neither brandy nor su-
gar is now used in Europe in the manu-
facture of wine. The pure juice of the
grape only is used. They cultivate the
grape suitable to the soil and climate,
and in that and in the care Of express
ing and fermenting the whole secret
lies. We have no grape in this region
from which we can make drinkable
wine without sugar to supply the want
of saccharine matter in the fruit. But
this artificial application to the "must"
is a very poor substitute. The truth is,
we have our doubts if any really fine
wine can be made east of the Mississip-
pi. In portions of Missouri, Kansas,
the 'Indian Territory" and so through
New Mexico to the Pacific coast, good
wine may be obtained. California and
some of the adjoining regions, particu-
larly, will probably become great
wine country, and may even rival the
best districts of Europe. We may hit
upon a grape even here in Pennsylva-
MIA, that may suit the soil and climate,
but it seems next to impossible that in
this latitude, with our short seasons, we
shall ever discover grape with the nee
essary proportion of sugar, and without
it, it is useless to attempt to make good
wiue.-s st,aerican T,ele1raDh.
Year: 1867

Our praisihg God should not be as
sparks out of flint, but as water out
Of a spring--natural, ready, free, as
Gods love to us is. Mercy pleases him,
so should praise please us. 1t is our
happiness when the best part in us is
exercised about the best and highest
work. All things are either blessings
in their nature, or so blessed as they
are made blessings to us, by the over
ruling command of Him who maketh all
things serviceable to His people. Even
the worst things In this sense are made
spiritual to Gods people against their
own nature. How greatj tlfeL, is that
goodness which makes even the worst
things good
Year: 1867

~ Isn't it very affecting to behold
at wedding sorrow stricken air of a
parent as he gives the bride away when
you know tbsFt for the last ten years he
has been trying 10 get her OFF his hands.
Year: 1867

with personal property in Lees army,
he is particular in setting good ex-
ample himself. His staff are crowded
together, two or three in tent; none


afe allowed to carry more baggage than
small box each, and his own kit is
but very little larger. Every one who
approaches himdoes sowith marked res
pect; although there Is none Of that bow
ing and flourishing offoraSe Gat5 which
occurs in the presence of Eurpean GEN
erals /; and, while all honor him and
place implicit faith in his courage and
ability, those with whom he is most in
innate feel for him the affection of sons
to father. Old General Scott was
correct in saying that when Lee joined
the Southern cause it was worth as
much as the accession OF 20,00 men to
the "rebels." Since then every injury
that it was possible to inflict the North
erners have heaped upon him.
His house on the Pamunkey river was
burned to the ground and the slaves
carried away-maEy of them by force,
while his residence on the Arlington
heights was not only Quilted of its fur
niture, but even the very relics of Geo.
Washing were stolen from it and para
ded in triumph in the saloons of New
York and Boston. Notwithstanding
all these personal losses, however, when
speaking Of the Yankees, he neither
evinced any bitterness of feeling, nor
gave utterance to single violent ex-
p preston, but alluded to many of his
former friends and companions among
them in the kindest terms. He spoke
as a man proud of the victories won by
his country, and confident of ultimate
success, under the blessing of the AL
mighty, whom he glorified for past sue
cesses. and whose aid he invoked for all
future operations. He regretted that his
limited supply ottents and available ac-
commodation would prevent him from
putting us up, bat he kindly placed at
our disposal horses, or a two-hofsed
wagon, if we preferredit to drive about
in.-Black,oood'S Magazine.
Year: 1867

A correspondent of trs London Times
says child would instinctively rush
to Gen. Lee in crowd as friend and
protector. so fascinating is the beauty
of his countenance and adds that Gen.
Lee breads a ne vspaper panegyric
worse than he does wound. He says
Lee is hero, but jackson is sal At.
Year: 1867

OF thick skin or leather. They are very
durable, as one may well infer from the
fact that it lasts the Indian loug while in
the chase


The moccasin looks much better on the
parlor table than on the Indians foot, COW
cred with dust, patched, and a coppcrhead
looking toe poking out through u worn
hole. Cor. Raj. Sentinel
Year: 1867

livery efnTt will be made to afford the high


n est advantages for Female Education. The
course Of study is both thorough and syste-
matte Combined with home care and teaching.
Professors or acknowledged ability have been
provided for the various departments.
Year: 1867

We have a fancy for old books, and
can rarely get the better of temptation
to lOiter at the stalls and look them over.
A day or two since we picked up an old
folio on Heraldry, full Of quaint sayings,
and a perfect mint of information on the
useful science of which it treats. We
shall pick out an occasional gem and
reset it in the Mercury for the benefit Of
our readers. Thus, describing a coat Of
arms, argent, chevron between three
squares, he says: "Arti6cers do use their
SQUARES, their rules, their lines, and
levels; they go by measures and
members to the end that in all
their works there shall not be anything
found done either rashly or at ad-
venture. And therefore much more
should men use the like moderation and
rules in the performance OF those acts Of
virtue wherein mans happiness doth
consist, especially those who sit in the
seats of justice, which, in Noses time,
were wont to be men fearing God and
hating covetOusness, which is the per-
feet square which such ought to follow.
But Aristotle writeth of Lesbian square
rule, which was made of so flexible
stuff that it would bend any way the
workmen would have it. But most dam
gerous is the estate Of that common
wealth whose judges work by such
squares, making the laws 10 bow to their
private affections, and sometimes TO
mean one thing, another time the con-
trary, as themselves are disposed to in-
cline.n
Year: 1867

From a Lecture of the Scottish Rite.l


Though Masonry neither usurps the
place OF, nor apes, religion, prayer is an
essential part Of our ceremonial. It is the
aspiration of the soul towards the AbsO-
lutte and Infinite Intelligence which is
the One Supreme Deity, more feebly and
misunderstandingly characterized as an
~ ARCHITECT.p Certain faculties Of man
Year: 1867

Courage, brother! do not stumble,
Though thy path is dark as night;
There's a star TO guide the humble
Trust in God and do the right
Let the road be long and dreary,


And its ending out of sight,
Foot IL bravely-strOng or weary,
" Trust in God and do the right"
Perish "policy - and cunning,


Perish all that fears the light;
Whether losing, whether winning,
Trust in God and do the right"
Trust no party, church or faction,


Trust no "leaders" in the fight:
But in every word and action


Trust in God and do the right
Trust no forms OF guilty passiOn,
Fiends can look like angels bright
Trust no custom, schoOl, or fashion,
Trust Ia God and do the right %.
Some will hate thee, some VIII love thee,
Some will 1atter, some viii slight;
Cease from man, and look above thee
Trust In God and do the right
Simple rule and safest guidance,


Inward peace and inward light;
star upon our path abiding,


IS Trust Ia God and do the right
Year: 1867

THE CoMING WHEAT CRoP.-Reports
from all sources, public and private, concur
in the statement that the growing wheat
crop, both fall and spring sown, looks un-
usually well, and the present prospect is
that there will be a very good crop. The
report of the Agricultural Department for
April, just issued, says "thcrc has never
been so general an expression of encour-
agement, IN view Of the fine condition OF
winter wheat, since the establishment ol
of the present system of collecting crop
statistics. In more than nine-tenths OF
the returns received, the condition of the
crop is reported favorable and promising
From the south the returns are as cheering
as from the West" The high prices mus


soon begin to tumble.
Year: 1867

as-A brick yard is very much needed
in our village. Building material is very
scarce, il being almost impossible to get
enough to accomplish the work needed to
be done this year. Good building stone IS
scarce, ard hard to get; lumber is enor-
mously high, it having to be hauled from
20 to 25 miles, and brick, the best build
ing material in use, is out of the question:
it cannot be got. We have an abundance
of excellent clay, and there would be
ready market for all the brick which could
be made. Will not some enterprislng man
90 into the business? There is fortune
in it.
Year: 1867

Horse THIEvEs.-Two very suspicious
looking individuals were hanging about
the farm houses in the Welsh settlement
in the town of Linden last week, and on
their exit two or three horses were ascer-
tanned to be missing They appeared to
possess secret whereby they could In
duce horses to follow them off, which they
were seen to do, since which the animals
have not been heard from. Two persons
answering their description passed through
this city few days since, with two mules
and three or four horses. Look out for
tbem.-nineraZ Point Tribune.
Year: 1867

MORE School TAx.--At the next school
meeting. we propose that there be sufficient
tax voted to furnish the schools with wood
during the entire term. The weather has
of late been quiet cold and damp, much
too cold to be without fire; and the school
which is kept in part Of the building which
we occupy, having no wood, we have taken
pity on the poos blue nosed children, and
allowed them to ,.se from our pile; but we
have come to the conclusion that we can
not afford it any longer. Our wood is dis
appearing too fast; fonr fires from ont
pile soGn make an awful hole in it.
Year: 1867

ewWe would call the attention OF our
farmers to the "New Yorker" which is
said to be the best reaper and mower now
made. G. E. Trowbridge is the travelling
accent and Peter J. Morris the local agent
at this place. See advertisement.
Year: 1867

- The weather has played such queer
pranks this spring, and is still acting so un-
accountably, that we are called on, as
journalist, to make an item Of it. The
snring has been unusually cold, in fact the
season appears to be about month behind
time, for we had February weather in
March, March weather in April, and now
we are having April weather in May. The
spring thus far has been unusually dis
agreeable; in fact, we would rather have
winter weather altogether, than such raw,
cold, wet and windy weather as we have
had during the past few months. Never
theless we don't think the crops have been
much injured, and if it comes out warm
and pleasant before long, VIC may expect
as good crops as during the last ten years
The corn which is now in the ground may
have to be planted over again, for it vii
soon rot with this cold wet weather, ant
can never grow. The small grains are o
course backward, but are looking health,
and promising
Year: 1867

MASONIC CELEBRATIoN.-The Masonic
fraternity of Mineral Point announce that
thew will have a grand celebration on the
Gath of June. They extend cordial in
vitation to neighboring brethren to unite
with them
Year: 1867

wToombs, who said he would call
the roll of his slaves under the shadow OF
Bunker Hill monument, has settled down
into peaceable quiet He has lost his slave
property, and says he will never again en-
ter into public life.
Year: 1867

A PROFITABLE FLOCK OF SHEEP.-John
Wilson of Arena, in this county, bought
ten sheep last year. They were all ewes
and early this spring six of them had two
lambs each, three had three lambs each,
and one had four lambs, making twenty
five lambs from ten ewes. They are all
alive and well. At this rate of increase
he would have flock of one hundred and
twenty-tw next year, and four hundred
and twenty-five the year after. What is
more profitable than sheep raising?-
Wheat at So per bushel is not circum
! stance to it.
Year: 1867

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support Of the UNION AND DIsPATcH by the
patrons Of both the former papers, the Proprie-
tors are cnabled TO present Newspaper hither-
20 unsurpassed in this city os State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS. our paper will compare iayorably with
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this we only repeat the expressions Of many Of
our patrons. who are most capable Of Judging in
urh matters
Year: 1867

Dear Sir: have examined your Stomach Bit
ters carefully and find It what you represent 1t
to be. The high order which the ingredients
going into il take in the Materia Medica, as well
as the nest happy proportiGned combination Of
substances make your Bitters far superior to any
similar preparation in the country. The fact
must necessarily recommend your Bitters in
another point, especially as far as wholesome
ness and palatability are taken into eOnsidera-
ton, I was well pleased to see in your eStab-
lishment the process of manufacturing your
Bitters carried on by way of displacement, which
not only gives you a better product, but also
rennmme ponds itself By olearer Operatinn.
Year: 1867

The Society for the Suppression of Gambling
had their first tried before Justice Connolly yester
day at the Fifyseventhst Station House The Society


days ago caused the Fourth District Police TO make
descent McCa1rey shafer's gambling establish
ment at No 732 Broadway The three persons detained
discharged on giving bail j. Graham is the lawyer
the gamblers The complainant Addison Str0W BRIDGE
said that he Is native OF Massachusetts,, but has been
about the 18th Of November last and had been boarding
at No I42 Beeckerst before he went To the hotel where
he stops On the evening Of the LIST OF July he went
In company with another to the gambling saloon No
1872 Broadway Three days aferward he went again. when
know Harrison at thetlme dealing ont cards In game
OF faro The counsel the prosecution here requested
seemed not to it. The tools were brought
and tho 4fss made the operation somewhat plan a 10
on being cross examined he seemed TO have poor re
whom he had had dealing The counsel for the defend
ants said that he did not believe the Society was so
0uxoc as TO prosecute case for a vagabond and bear
All the expenses themselves and expect pay In return
also did not believe that Mr. Greeley was president or
the Socety or II he was that he would not hold II
than few months He thought that the Police had
right be making raids on houses In the middle OF the
night He said that IL almost impossible for 10
walk after O'Clock in the vicinity springst and Broad
way without being knocked down. or having his pockets
picked He Thought the police had better be up there
projecting citizens and their property than be watching
to seef got tencent drink, In violation OF the
Excise law The Societys lawyer replied that he was
satisfied II Mr. Greeley elected President OF the
Society, ho would not only hold his offce Tor a Few
months but for the rest OF his life II necessary.


The soclety will continue its work until Broadway is
swept clean end the other, OF these dens Of
infamy -


sergeant Dks put the stand and stated that on
the evening the he the dealers draw three
or four cards and rake in the chips He was In front
the tables twice before he declared the house under ar
rest. -


Daniel Chafee who lives at No 76 Varickst says he
was at No. 32 Broadway the evening OF the arrest ou
business. He is dealer in furniture. He
saw no one playing drawing cards. The
counsel for the defendant said that clear that Ser
gean Dks had been mistaken. though, no doubt hon
esty The for the Society stated that they had
WOul1 positively tlut MCtaufey uld
play The witness not being present the Court adjourned
the case till next Friday at 10 o'clock.
Year: 1867

A "reliable" western paper tells
of an accident of q remarkable
nature. A man, while standing
on a balance tree lying across q
large log, was thrown eighty feet
into the air by the tremendous
weight of a falling tree striking the
other end and acting like spring
lever. But the most remarkable
part of the story is that the man
at the highest elevation, caught
hold of limb in the top of a tree
about fifteen feet from the trunk,
and remained suspended by the
arms until the person who felled
the tree travelled a distance of
five miles and returned with help
and a ladder, before he could be
released from his perilous posi-
ton. He was found in the same
position as when left, evidently in
the best of spirits, for he was whist
ling "Yankee Doodle" and MAX
ing a strong fight with his feet a.
gainst a delegation of wasps that
were endeavoring to build a nest
in his pants.
Year: 1867

But one colored man in King
William county, Va, voted against
the convention and in favor OF the
conservative candidate, Col. Will
liam r. Ay!ett, and the citizens of
King William have united in a
subscription to purchase a piece
of land and give it to him for q
homo in that county as his own.
Year: 1867

A wedding in Arkansas, be.
tween a divorced woman OF thirty
and a youth of nineteen took place
at the house of the brides former
hus sbaDd, who is said to have been
in the highest spirits. Revenge is
sweet.
Year: 1867

A wealthy Cuban recently died
in New York, leaving all his prop
erty to his widow, who was biz
second wife. One of his sons by
his first wife has now married the
widow and the fortune.
Year: 1867

The Philadelphia Press wants congress to
overhaul the Baltimore elections,-possibly
to change the face of the whole result in
Maryland. Believeing that congress is all
the government there is in this country, of
course it would have all local matters refer
red to that body. Should it ever become an
snti-radical body, however, it would no doubt
want the court changed.
Year: 1867

question is a purely state question, to be de-
cided by the people Of each state, just exact
ly as they please. And while holding to and
defending this good old democratic doctrine,
we claim that we have aperfectr right, a dem
ocratic right, to express our opinion as 10
the course which ought to be adopted, on
this as well as any other question. Those
who deny this right are not democrats, and
do not know what democratic principles are.
Year: 1867

A veteran soldier of the I'D Ohio Regi-
ment related in our hearing the other day,
an incident that occurred on the campaign
from Chattanooga to Atlanta. BE says that
while his regiment rested for few minutes
at Etowah, in Georgia, he had some conver-
sation with rebel lady Her first inquiry
was about Judge Thurman, Of Columbus, o.,
the present candidate of the CoPPerhead
Democracy for Governor. The lady was out
spoken in her praise of the Judge and his
family. She. said that the Oonfederacy had
one friend in Ohio, at least tried and true
in the person of Judge Thurman. She said
she had son then prisoner of war at Camp
Chase. who always spoke in the highest
terms of praise of the conduct Of the Judge
and his family toward him and his associate
prisoners of war. Was ever a mother Of
sick or wounded Union soldier confined to
the hospital about Columbus known to bear
testimony TO the acts of charity of Judge
Thurman and his familyH We guess not
Rsnton Republican.
Year: 1867

The number of youths in our cities who
are seeking some kind of employment that
allows them to have delicate hand, and
wear kid gloves and polished boots, is enOr-
nous, and furnishes a fearful number of re-
cruits to the army of vice and crime. What
the cause Of the disinclination to the manual
arts is, it is not easy to say; and csrtainly,in
the nature of things, there is more demand
for intellect and far more exercise of manly
power in tilling the soil or building houses
or ships, than in selling silks or calicos be-
hind the counter. 1t would be a great gain
if ten thousand clerks could at once go into
fields and workshops, where they are want
ed, and leave their places to ten thousand
young women, who have nothing to do but
to make their poor fingers the hopeless rivals
of the sewing machine, and to anticipate the
uncertain time when some young man, not
yet able to pay for his own board and clothes,
shall venture upon the enterprise of taking
wife less thrifty than himself 1t is part
ly from the false notions of gentility that
much of the rising aversion to manual labor
springs, and much harm comes from the fire.
quent preference of the dainty swain of the
counter over the far abler worker at the
plough or plano by sentimental maidens, who
have studied out their ideas of the gentle
man from trashy novels, and not from the
good old Bible and its noble standard of the
gentle heart.