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Year: 1867

ces TO let, and who will be the first
to leave it at the approach of disas-
ter or the prospect Of dissolution.
Sunset Cox, formerly demo ratio
member Of Congress from Ohio, now
y leading politician in New York, has
recently been in Washington at the
head ola delegation to insist upon
Gen. Grants becoming the De mo-
cratic candidate, but they have lett


with mighty big flea, in their cars.
Judging from what the Cincinnati
Enquirer says Of the mission, and its
result, which we here With submit:


"Thcrc are plenty Of soldiers who
think that General Grant has already
been too highly rewarded for his mer-
its, and who do not believe that all
the honors and high positions should
be carried off by one man. He now
struts about with his three stars and
SIC, 900 a year, life position, while
thousands of men who did quito as
much service are reduced to penury
and want. 1t IS a great mistake to
suppose that the Democratic Conser-
vative men who were in tho army are
going to run after Gen. Grant in or
der 10 pour still more affluencc into
his lap and TO clothe him with still
higher elevation. lie will not get no
votes from that quarter. There are
hundreds of thousands Of people who
think that some Of these high mill
tary dignitarics who have been lifted
from obscurity by the efortunate events
of the war are putting on alto
gether too many airs, and becom-
ing too important and inflated
They do not think that all the Off.
ces are their property for years to
come. and that mo- language is to be
poured into their ears hut unbounded
flattery and eulcgy. The common
sense OF this people, too, has been
disgusted by the extraordinary ova-
tons which have been paid to Gen.
Grant, and they have anxiously in
qurcd "upon what meat hath this
our Caesar fed, that he has grown so
great 7" High as this military des-
pot is in rank and vast as arc his
pretcntions, we are not afraid to
meet him in popular canvass. and
to discusa his merits for the posi-
tion of Chief Magistrate of this Re
public. Such q bubble can be easily
pricked, and the gas it contains let
ont"
Year: 1867

Editor Of the Register:


Father Arthur, who doth in Wheel
ing dwell, we are told that where two
or three are gathered together in thy
name that thou will be in their midst
to pay all expenses. We, Oh Arthur,
have been gathered together in thy
name, and have been sued by thirteen
copperheads for erasing their names
from the books of registration, and pray
thee to send us good counsel that our
evil doings may not cost us any money.
We know that we have sinned against
our neighbors and against God, but we
are loyal and ought not to lose money
by it. We know that ever since man
hoods earliest dawn we have been con-
sidered scoundrels and Bcalawags, but
it has given us favor in thy sight. We
know that our stencil emitting carrion
carcasses would not make decent food
for buzzards, but such are the men to
do thy dirty work. We know that for
fifty long years We have not cherished
one pure forgiying Thought; that for
fifty years our bosoms have glowed with
the Kissing flames of the eternal pit,
aud we have scorned to feel one human
impulse, one tender emotion, yet it has
been money in our pockets. Enlighten
the mind Of our Judge that his decision
may not be against us. Convene the
Legislature that they may stand ready
to appropriate money to our relief If the
prove TOO hard. Import
from Africa some good, warm, rich
blooded he and she "niggers" for our
sons and daughters to marry. And Oh,
Arthur, we would especially ask that
thy blessing be with A. Fl. Bowman,
our clerk; let thy arms of protection
be round and about him and each
hand we'll filled with greenbacks
for his use. Give him plenty of the
needful cash, that he may not again be
taken from our midst to the Federal
Court at Clarksburg on charge of rob
bing the mail. These we'll merited
favOrs we ask for the sake of the biggest
'.nigger" that walks South Carolina
soil.


Now "Arth." remember us and ours;


Pay us two dollars each eight hours,


And We'll not fear the devils powers,


s.tt- 2. Nor his black den;


Well vote the Rad with you and yours


Amen, amen.


TUCKER.
Year: 1867

DISTILLKRs AsSOCIATIoN-A meeting OF
the whskey distillers and rectfyers of New
York city and vicinity was held at the Astor
House Saturday, when thev were addressed
bv Deputy Commissioner Messmore, who in
formed them that the government was de-
fermined to enforce the collection Of the tax
and he was anxious to secure the cooperation
OF the honest manufacturers In his efforts 70
bring offenders to justice. An associate was
then formed by the distiliers present for their
mutual protection, to guarantee the payment
OF whiskey taxes to the government and To
assist the Revenue Department in the detection
of frauds.
Year: 1867

A PICTURE SToLEN.-A short time since some
CONSERVATION was excited among the officials
of the Ufizi Gallery, Florence, by the discovery
that one of the pictures Of the Flemish school
had been torn away from its place about ten
minutes before the usual time of closing-the
culprit having got clear off with his booty.
Prompt measures were taken copy of the
picture was photographed Immediately, and
the photographs placed in the hands of the
police. Two days afterwards the picture was
discovered exposed at one of those small shops
for the sale of such objects which abound, in
Florence. The dealer averred that he had
bought it for two francs of a man. who said
that he had given fifty centimes for it. The
picture, which is one of the best works of Van
Mieris in the gallery, although the size is only
about nine inches by seven, has been replaced,
and search is being diligently made for the
abstractor. The real value of the work cannot
he much less than G700 or f800 sterling.
Year: 1867

The News aud Herald. Of Savan.
nai, Georgia, relates that in response
to touching appeal from the people
Of Polk county, two car loads of corn
we're sent them from Savannah Tor
distribution among tho suffering
The inhabitants held a meeting to de-
clare their gratitude for the relief
The committee of distribution in n
letter giving an account Of its reeep.
ton say.


1t would have done YOU hear, good
to have seen what we did when your
letter announcing that rolicf had
been sent to this county was read 70
the meeting. The news was soon
spread abroad, when you could have
seen the destitute coming in late az
night with their torches, to receive
their morsol, with their hearts full of
thankfuluess to the goodpoople of Saw
aunah, and weure requested TO say that
they will ever hold them in dear re.
T. embrance.


The Committee appointed to can
vass the county report that there are
not over two thousand persons who
are at this time entirely destitute; aud
in a short time the number will be
largely increased by those who have
but little now on hand.
Year: 1867

A TRUE LADY, was once walk
ing short distance behind a very
handsomely dressed young girl, and
thinking, as l looked at her beautiful
cloths, II wonder If she takes half as
much pains with her heart as she does
with her body"


A poor, old man was coming up
the wal., with loaded wheelbarrow,
aud just before he reached us, he
made two attempts to go into the
yard Of small house but the gate
was heavy, and would swing back be
fore he could get 4 rough.


"Wait, SAID the young girl, spring.
ing lightly forward, am hold the
gate open" And she held the gate
until he passed in, aud received his
thanks with a pleasant smile as she
went OF.


"She deserves to have beautiful
clothes" / thought, "for a beautiful
spirit dwells in her breast"
Year: 1867




Twelve hundred millions of cams make
a network of wild fancies nightly about
this planet. To go, if it were possible.
through this world of sleep, would be a
stranger process than that of exploring the
whole waking world, for in sleep, every
living being is a poet, from the baby that
clings in it's dreams to the breast OF god.
desses, to the centenarian who, with staff
and spectacles hobbies about paradise at
the heels Of seraphs. Sleeping and wal.
ing are the two phenomena of our existence.
What is done and thought in the everyday
working world, where The ordinary busi-
ness OF lie is carried on, no living creature
has ever fully revealed to another. There
are reticences in the confessions of the most
frank-things which cannot, and therefore,
never will, be spoken-thought which
transcend the limits of language hopes
which the power of no fairy could satisfy
fears which even Luciier himself would
fail to oxaggerate. II this portion Of our
life, which is at least subjected to our own
observation, cannot be fully and faithfully
described. still less can the other portion,
which de6es even our own scrutiny, con-
verts us into mere spectators of ourselves,
sets free our actions from the control Of our
own will. and transforms us into so many
passive spokes in the great wheel of des
tiny. Whatever may be the laws by which
il is regulated sleep presents the counter
part of the waking worlds distorted, mutt,
lated, thrown into the irremediabe con-
fusion by the force of the Imagination.
Chambers JournGl f-'F
Year: 1867

The appearance of the Presidents wife,
at lato reception at the White House, is
thus described: @ "a. I,t.


Mrs. Johnson appeared at the recption
for the first time. felt deep anxiety TO
see the woman who had taught her husband
to read, and inspired him with that lofty
ambition which led to place aud power
She stood near the President to his right
pale Thin stamped with care and sickness
countenance Of thoughtful sadness, an ex.
preston of deep curiosity. Looking for a
moment at each person introduced, her eye
would drop Immediately in medilalive
thoUghtfulhess as if her mind aud heart
were filled with thoughts and emotions far
different from the giddy throng passing by,
All who know her speak we'll Of her.
Year: 1867

An Italian astronomer, Sciaparell, has
just published sn hypOthesis upon the
comet of 1862, by which he Identifies with
it the shower of shooting stars that ap.
peared in the month Of August, These
stars, he concludes from comparison Of
their elements with those of the comet con
sist Of mass detached from the nucleus Of
the comet. lie predicts that the earth
will DO obliged to traverse through the
very nucleus of this comet about 1882
Lovers Of the marvellous should bo prepared
for spmething wondenpl. We have al
ready been told that the earth and the
moon were recently brushed by the tail OF
q comet, without noticing the circumstance,
but between the tail aud the nucleus is coli.
siderable difference, and The event of The
collision may he awaited with some Curl
Osity.
Year: 1867

IA young lady Of New York was in the habit Of
writing for the newspapers on the subject Of Tenn
perancc. Her writing was full OF pathos, and
evinced such deep emotion Of soul, that friend Of
hers accused her Of being a monomnnisc on the
subject ofintemperunee, whereupon she wrote the
following lines j
Year: 1867

say An Illinois paper tells q story of
an Irishman who fell into forty foot
we'll while smoking his pipe, and on
being drawn out was found to be unin-
jured, and having the pipe still lighted
in his mouth. M
Year: 1867

s6- Tea is coming to the Atlantic
ports now by way of San Francisco and
some shippers are said to prefer that
route to the old one through the East
Indies and around the Cape of Good
Hone.
Year: 1867

A rich man was asked to contribute
to certain benevolent work, and the
solicitor quoted the text, He that Civ
eth to the poor lendcth to the Lord,
and that which he hath given will he
pay him again


The merchant replied, with a smile,
Your security is no doubt good, and
your interest liberal, but | do not like
to lend on such long credits, and he
cooIly bowed the collector out.


Alas, the day Of settlement was not
so far off to this poor rich man. In
two short weeks he was called to his
last account. And so the day of our
death seems far off to all of us We
are reckoning on long credits still,
when one messenger after another has
1 been sent to warn us that our term of
stewardship was drawing to close
/ When we see one and another cut
down suddenly about us, it leaves but
a transient impression on our minds
and hearts. We think that a like ca
lamity will never come to us. How
fearful the surprise, too often, when a
sudden summons calls the soul to stand
before its judge.


A young man in the full flush OF
health was suddenly thrown from a
carriage, andso severely injured, he was
taken in house near at hand, and a
physician Immediately called.
I The first question the youth asked
as he fixed his eye piorcingIy upon
him, was,


Sir, must die? Must die? Dc
not deceive me in this matter


The physician informed him that hC
could not live an hour.


Then his whole soul awakened to {
full sense Of the dreadful reality.


Must /, then, go into eternity in al
hour? And | have made no prepara


ton for such an event. | knew thai
impenitent youths were sometimes Cut
off thus suddenly, but it never entered
my mind that | was to be one Of th'
6 number


Then wildly crying out, ooh, wha
r must | do to be saved ? he passed int
u eternity. There was no time then fo
: explanation.


: SO, too, it may be with us. Deatl
;. may knock as suddenly at our doors
!, !, and we can meet it with composur
re only when we have Christ for sou
u friend. When he is our hiding plac
e. we shall fear no evil. Death is our Ell
II envy, and he is strong and pitilcss.-
ur But we do not fear au earthly foe whe


we have safe retreat, into which /
7 can never enter, where none OF b
- wiles can reach us. Even at the m


ment when this foe seems to triumI
st our conquest Is complete. Thanks


unto God, who giveth us the victor
through our Lord Jesus Christ. &c


S. S. Times.
Year: 1867

Some genius has recently reduced to
a system the popular habit of getting
up fiirtations by means of handker,
chiefs. The language of flowers is out
of date 1t is too elaborate and round


about a mode of conveying the tender
emotions. Commend US to the hand
kerchief. The use of it is so handy so
natural, and so easily acquired, that
any one who has tried it will at once
perceive its advantages over the old
complicated system. The handker


chief, too, is Suggestive in connection
with flirtations. Think ofthe troubles
that poor Desdemona got into by not
Year: 1867

Rich Autumn, With her golden store
May count her treasure DER and DER,
And say such wealth did ne'er before


The land betide;
And fruits and flowers, and yellow sheaves
Are gathered in, and sIthered leaves
Are all the travellers eye perceives


In prospect wide -
But give to me the sheltered room,
Where neither minds nor seasons gloom
Can blight our Joyous mental bloom


BY our tireside!
How sweet to ramble through some book,
Or chat with friefds in social nook,
With children round, on whom TO look


With honest pride,
And then to have the meeting crowned
With some old ditty's cordial sound,
Or sit and hear the tale go round,


Or aught beside
Which may the passing hour engage
or life we'll con the varied page,
And hope for happy, good old age


BY our fireside.
Year: 1867

CONTEMPLATED Coal RAILWAY. The Pres
ldent and Superintendent of the Cumberland
Valley Pennsylvania Railroad, visited Will
hamsport in Pa, last week, with view to
ascertain it's adaptability to the establishment
Of coal basin and depot in the event of the
extension Of the Cumberland Y alley Railroad
to the canal now in contemplation. The Ha-
gerstown Mail says that the visit proved salts
factory, adding that the immediate object Of
the proposed extension is the procurement OF
Cumberland coal for steam purposes, and that
the whole locomotive system Of the Pennsylva-
MA network of railroads will be fed from the
nnes of this region as soon as the little link OF e
miles between Hagerstown and Williamsport
snail be completed. Ultimately it it designed
% make great coal road, and by means OF
Aoppers in the canal boats enable boats to be
conveyed from Cumberland to New York with
out breaking bulk
Year: 1867

more MERINos AND LESS OF FREEDMEN. -
This is a paying motto these times, if practi-
cally enforced, The adaptation of this whole
region Of country to wool-growing is being re-
allied by those who have made the venture.
This is the experience of OF least one gentle.
man-argey engaged in Culpeper-w will
pardon us for the extract we give from prl-
Vate letter, viz: II


MY flock is now doing finely, and from the
two last years experience | feel greatly encour-
aged Our sheep have paid us far better than
anything else on the place. though we put in a
good crop of wheat with guano. Experience
has taught me to push on the Merinoes and
eurtail the crops, if [ want to make farming
pay-and that too with as little annoyance
and help from the freedmen as possible can
safely say that for every 500 properly invest;
ed in Merino Sheep and they properly cared
for, will pay the interest on 81 ,ooO'-and
would like to know it there is any better pay in
anything else in the farming line - fredp,-
cksbrg Herald.
Year: 1867

BRAINs Ds MoNEY.-A good joke is told
on a young man who attended social party
few evenings since. The conversation
turned on California and getting rich Tom


- remarked that if he was in CaIiforn-
la he would, instead of working in the
mines. waylay some rich miner who had a
bag full of gold, knock out his brains, gather
up the gold and skedadle. One of the young
ladies present quietly replied that he had
better gather up the brains, as he evidently
stood in more need of that article than of
gold. Tom subsidized for the balance of the
evening ...... ...4t...-
Year: 1867

OLD MAIDs.-A sprightly writer expresses
manner:


am inclined to think that many of the
satirical aspersions cast upon old maids fall
more to their credit than is gen.
orally imagined. Is a woman remarkably
neat in her person? She will crtainly be an
old maid Is she particularly reserved in
her intercourse with the other sex2 She
has all the squeamishness of an old maid
Is she frugal in her expenses and exact in
her domestic concerns She is cut out for
an old maid. And if she is humane to the
animals about her, nothing can save her
from the appellation of an sold maid" In
short, have always found that neatness,
modesty, economy, and humanity are the
never-failing characteristics of that terrible
creature" old maid"
Year: 1867

now mounted tho hill, which
was tho centre of so much intense
interest during the battle-that on
which Ayers battery was once
planted, captured, recapturod, and
again taken finally by the enemy
where the house of Mrs, Henry had
stood and sho was killed by u can
non ball as sho lay i'll in bod-wherc
General Bee fought his Goorgians
against Hunter till one regiment
had but sixty mon left, where Bar
tow fell, pierced by a musket ball
through the head, whore, at last,
Jackson's men "stood like u stone
wall long enough to enable Gen,
Bco to rally his men by their ex-
ample, and TO give deatlless name
to that brave and devoted rebel
commander. Tho crest of this hill,
within twenty feet oftho foundation
stones Of the Henry house, is sur.
mounted by n neat monument of
rough hewn red stones, about
twelve feet high, crowned atits apex
with n solid conical shot, and with
four huge cannon balls at the four
corners. r
Year: 1867

A watch for the blind has on tho
outside of the face n movable run OF
metal, which, on being turned, stops
in such a manner that tho hour
may bc known by counting certain
little knobs that project from tho
sides Of the watch.


Eggs with iron shells will be u
inct at the exposition. A Berlin
chemist caused his hens to produce
them by feeding them on a prepa-
ration in which iron was made to
take the place of lime.
Year: 1867

SLANDER.-Yes you pass it along,
whether you believe it or not; and
that one sided whisper against the
character of virtuous female, you
don't believe it, but you will use
your influence TO bear up the false
report and pass it on the current
Strange creatures are mankind
How many regulations have been
lost by surmise. How many hearts
have bled by whispers. How many
benevolent deeds have been chilled


by the shrug of shoulder. How
many individuals have been shun-
ned by a gentle, mysterious hint
How many chaste bOsOms have been
wrung with grief at a single nod
How many graves have been dug
BY false report. Yet You viii pass
the slander along. You will keep it
above the water by wag of your
tongue. when You might sink II for
ever. Destroy the passion for tale
telling we pray. Lisp not a word
that nav injure the character Of
another. Be determined to listen
TO no story that is repeated 70 the
injury Of another, and "a far rs you
are eorce-rel. ti.e sisnlar VIII die.
Year: 1867

ALL FOR SHOw.-The world is
crazy for show. There is not ono
person in thousand who dares fall
back on his real, simple selffor pow.
er to get through the world, and
exact enjoyment as he goes along


There is too much living in the
eyes of other people. There is mo-
end to the aping, the mimicry, the
f;,lsc airs, and the superficial airs


1t requires rare courage, we ad-
nit to live up to ones enlightened
conviction in these days Unless
you consent to join in the general
cheat, there is no room for you a.
mong tho great mob of prctonders.
If a man dares to live within his
means, and is resoluto in his pur-
pose not to appear more than he
really is, let him bo applauded.-
There is something fresh and invig.
Grating in such an example, and we
should honoY and uphold such q
man with all the energy in our pow
~ Inn nIeonfe
Year: 1867

Hold not thy head too high, my friend, FH surely thou must know The heaviest heads of wheat will bend The stalks on which they grow; And ever, where the loyciicst flowers Bloom nearest to the ground The sweetest songsters of the wood ln lowly shades abound. Hold not thy head too Ligh, my friend, Though rich iH land and gold; The throug9 that on thy steps attend Speak not the thoughts they hold; Their true respect is only paid

 Where worthiness they sec Those defereutial bows arc made

 Unto thy wealth, not thee. Hold not thy head too high, my friend, Whatv'er thy station here; For brains will triumph in the end Where then will be thy sphcrey We envy not thy lordly tread,

 Nor at thy lot rcpinc- Who could not hold erect head

 That weighs SO light as thincy
Year: 1867




We have no hesitation in warning the commu-
ui,y against subscribing for tickets in what is
termed the Grand Presentation Concert. ad-
vertised to be held under the auspices of this
Association Not only has the whole business
been wretchedly mismanaged, but it has been
carried on in way that has caused the public
to suspect, whether rightfully or wrongfully
We do not pretend to say, that certain persons
connected with the Association will derive con-
siderable advantage from the speculation, aNd
the Southern orphans little or none. The
names of number of gentlemen who repudi-
ate all knowledge of or responsibility for the
Presentation Concert have been freely used as
though they had agreed to patronlze it, and
the managers stated that the affair is to come
off at the Maryland Institute on the 30th Of
April, although the Institute has not been and
cannot be engaged for any such purpose. A
great deal of money has already been sent to
the agent, but until further advised we would
caution benevolent people to refrain from send
ing any more. Ball. Gozette
Year: 1867

The FIRST gentleman OF Princeton College
who is to receive the jerome Medal is soon
to be selected. 1t is understood that the senior
class and the literary societies OF the college
will each furnish one candidate The collie
gians will make the first choice, subject, how
ever, to the final decision of the faculty.