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Year: 1866

We have listened to many effective ar
guments in favor of total abstinence, but
we have never heard one more exhaustive
than that of the honest German who was
asked to speak at a meeting of the friends
of total abstinence. AS to the precise To-
cality of this meeting our readers are at
liberty to exercise their guessing faculties.
After some hesitation, he arose and said !:
1" shall tell you how it vas put mine
hand ON my head, and there vos Won big
pain Then put mine hand On my pody,
and vas anoder. There was very much
pains in all mine pody. Then put mine
hand in my pocket, and there vas nothing
Now there vas no more pain in my head.
The pains in my pody was all gone away.
| put mine hand in my pocket, and there
vas twenty tollars. So shall shtay NIT
te temperance" Aside from the moral
prospects of the question, the Dutchman's


experience tells the whole story.
Year: 1866

VELVET ToNGUEs-When was a boy, |
and number of my playmates had ram
bled through the woods and fields, till, quite
forgetful of the fading light, we found our
selves far from home Indeed we had lost
our way. 1t did so happen we were near
er home than we thought; but how to get
to it was the question. By the edge of the
field we saw man coming along and we
ran to ask him to tell us. Whether he was
in trouble or not | do not know, but he
gave us some very surly answer. Just
then there came along another man, near
neighbor, and with a merry smile on his
face. "Jim," said he, "a mans tongue is
like a cats /; it is either a piece of velvet
or piece of sand-paper, just as he likes to
use it and to make it E; and | declare you
always seem to use your tongue for sand
yaper Try the velvet man, try the velvet
principle Blind Anaos
Year: 1866

MANHOOD AND WoMANHooD--Who are you,
young man, young woman, living in this
country and age, and yet doing nothing to
benefit others Who are you blessed with
body and intellect, and yet an idler in the
busy workshopof life Who are you with
immortal soul, and yet that soul so deaf to
the myriad voices all about you that call to
duty and to labor Arise and be faith
ful toiler-God calls humanity calls
you-and they have both right to all
your powers. Arise Make your whole
life one scene of industry ! Arise and go
forth. and every moment your feet shall
press or your hand touch some pedal or key
in the "organs that shake the universe"
Arise there is work for you to do. You
were created to toll and bear hand where
the hammers of time are ringing as they
fashion the fabric of eternity.
Year: 1866

New YORK, February 27.-Lieutenant-Gener
Grant was accidentally shot in the hand yester-
day by the explosion of a new rifle, which he
was examining. The wound is not serious, and
did not prevent his attending the reception at
Brooklyn last evening. He left last night for
Washington.
Year: 1866

NEW YORK, February 27.-The Tribune says
that three members of the Cabinet who contem'
plated resigning have concluded to await the
action of the President, but it is not improbable
that he will remove one of them in few days.
Year: 1866

and which are patent to the minds orthe whele
community.
EProbst states that he would have confessed to
all the murders before, but he feared IL ha did
so he would be torn TO pieces by the mob.


During the trial, and even at the time Of his
capture, he states that he had disposition to
make confession, but the yells of the crowd
when he first saw them frightened him into the
belief that If they knew the extent of his crime
all the police in Philadelphia could not save him
from their clutches.


Probst also states that be did not like to go
to the courtroom during the trial, as the yels
OF the crowd when he made his appearance on
the street made a deep and terrib impression
on him, and he much preferred the solitude of
bis cell.


During the afternoon he will be visited by
come of the authorities, and II is expected that
a minute confession in detail will be extracted
from him.


He knows that he will never again be brought
face to face with any number of his fello F-crea.
lures, until the day of his execution, and there.
fore will give to the authorities all the intorma-
ton they desire in relation to the murder.


Although no one had doubted, for long
time, that he was solitary and alone in his
devilsh work it is a source of infinite satisrac.
tion to know, from his own lips, that he had no
accomplice.
Year: 1866

curb and correction of reason in order to restrain
u passionate outoursts of the popular will. Yet
we cannot be bno to the fact that the repub ic has
cen for many years great and tree State, exit
biting to the word the example Of people in the
enjoy ment OF wealth, haI pIness ana freedom and
aforoInR bright prospects of the progress and i'm
pIovement of mankind. When ] reflect that the
ieproschts which by the States OF the,
Nor upon the ates of the South. and the resist
ance which they have called forth, have arisen from
hat accursed Institution of slavery, l cannot b 1t
recolect also that with great and
glorious institutions we gave them that
curse, and that ours were the hands from
which they received that fatal gift of the poi
soned garment which was flung around them from
the first hour Of their estab ishment Therefore 1
do not hink II just seemly that there should be
among US anything like exunaton at their discord.
and still less that should reproach them with
evil for the origin of which we are ourselves to
blame. These are the feelings with which heard
the remarks of my honorab friend the other night,
and must say that believe the sentiments which
he expressed form an exception TO the general im-
preston IN England. iced, think nothing could
be more honorable TO our country than the prevail
ing pain and grief which have been occasioned by
the prospect of that great and free people being
about to rush INTO arms to destroy each others hap
pness and freedom,
Year: 1866

GNATs,-Accounts from Louisiana report the
killing of large numb bers of horses and mules in
the northern part of the State by buffalo gnats
One plantation lost thirty eight mules and horses
in one night, another twenty-five, and others
from fifteen to twenty each. The buffalo gnat
river and creek bottoms at some seasons of the
year. Great numbers OF them will fit about and
settle on horse, until they so fill his nostrils
and throat as to produce strangulation. Riders
have often lost their horses in this way while
going through a locality infested by them.
Year: 1866

WHAT SECESSION NAY BIB COMPARED To.-The-
Richmond (Va.l Dispatch says:-"The South
might be compared to lady who had selected a
brave cavalier for her husband, and attempted
to run OF with him, but who had been over
taken by the father, and brought home Nothing
worse, and few are willing to make even so.
much OF a concession
Year: 1866

and crcpt softly to his side. Now. the
old lady was much frightened at holding
a razor so close to her husbands neck,
and her hand was not so steady as it once
was; 60 between the two, she went to
work very awkwardIy, and pulled the
hairs instead Of cutting them off. Mr.. B.
opened his eyes, and there stood his wife
with razor at his throat. After what
had been said, and seeing this, he could
not doubt but that she intended'to mur-
der him. He sprang from the bed in
horror, and no explanation or enireaty
could convince him tp the contrary. So
from that time there was a jaw, jaw,
quarreling and wrangling all the lime.


With delight the Devil heard Of the
faithful emissary, and sent her word if
she would meet him at the end Of the
lane, at a certain line lie would pay her
the shoes. At the appointed time she
repaired to the spot, and found the Dew
il at the place. He put the shoes on a
pole and standing on the opposite side Of
the fence handed them over to her. She
was very much pleased with them-they
were exactly the article.


"But there is one thing, Mr.. D. | would
like to have explained that is Why you
hand them to me on a stick %


VERY easy to explain" replied he,
"auy one who has he cunning and mean
ness to do as you have done, don't get
nearer NAN twenty feet Of me" So say.
ing, he fed in terror.


Alter while the old woman died, and
when she applied for admittance to the
lower regions. the Devil would not let
her in, for fear spe might dethrone him,
as she much his superior. So the old
woman is yet condemned to wander over
the world, creating quarreis and strife in
peaceful families and neighborbooda


Would you know her pame +?


Il is Madam Scandal. When she died
The young Scandals were left orphans, but
the Devil in consideration of the past ser
vices done By the mother, adopted them,
and SO YOU see be is father to that re.
spectacle class call Scandle mongers


Reader don't you know some OF the
family?
Year: 1866

DR.. LErHEBY, in his report to the City
Commissioner Of Sewers, states the following
characters by which good and bad meat may
be distinguished Good meat is neither of
pale pinkish color nor of deep purple tint.
The former is indicative of disease, and the
latter a sign that the animal has died from
natural causes. Good meat has also mar
bled appearance from the ramifcatious of lit
tie veins of intercellular fat and the fat es-
peceially of. the internal organs, is hard and
suety, and is never wet; whereas that of dis
eased meat is soft and watery, often like jelly
or sodden parchment Again, the touch or
feel Of healthy meat is firm and elastic, and it
hardly moistens the fingers; whereas that Of
diseased meat is. soft and wet; in fact, it is
often so wet that serum runs from it, and then
it is technically called wet. Good meat has
but little odOr, and this is not disdgreeable !;
whereas diseased meat smells faint and cadav


erous, and it often has the odor of medicine. G.
This is best observed by cutting it and smell
ing the knife, or by pouring little warm
wIter upon it. Go)d meat will bear cookir 6
without losing very much in weight but bad
meat sbrives up, and it often boils to peices.
Year: 1866

Coon NIGHT-How common place is the
expression, and yet what volumes it may
speak for all future time We never listen
to its passage that this thought does not
force itself upon us, be the tone in which
it is uttered ever so gay. The lapse of few
fatal hours or minutes may surround and
hedge it with horrors, that all the million
words which lifetime has recorded, these
two little words alone shall seem to be re-
memberea Good night The little child
has lisped as it passed to a brighter morn
than ours; the lover with his gay dream of
nuptial morrow; the wife and mother, all
the fragile threads of household cares still in
her fingers; the father with appealing eyes
Of childhood all uuanswef Good night
That seal upon days past and days to come,
what hand so rash as to rend aside the veil
that hides its tomorrow
Year: 1866

THE 1ouNG WIFE.-The marriage Of mid
die age is cOmpanionship the second mars
riAge is maturity perhaps the reparation of
a amistake, perhaps the~Pallid transcript Of
buried joy; but the marriage of the loving
yOungis by the direct blessing of God, and
is only the realization Of the complete ideal
Of lovely human life. Let those who have
found that pearl hold it fast and keep it safsi
Within the doors where Lore dWells, no ev


thing should enter; and the loving bride VII
should be the happy wife, must especially
guard against her own impatience and des>
pair when the lover is merging into the hus.
band, the Aatterer into the friend. The last
state may sometimes be better than the 6rst.
Year: 1866

having determined to resume his former business
in Alexandria, respectfully announces to the
public, that he has opened ms @ eSta61lshment a at


NO. 43, KING STREET,


below Fairfax, on the north side, where ne, is
prepared to furnish the public, With every de-
scription Of articles in his line, which may bs
wanted His assortment of coo X N u
STOVES, Will embrace every variety, and OF
the best descriptions. He would enumerate;
among them, NOBLE Cook STOVE, the best that
was ever in use, and well deserving its name
the LILLY the PALMETTO, and others.


His TIN WARE will be found equal If not
superior, to any ever offered for sale IN AleXan-
dria, and housekeepers can have any dcscrip-
ton Of ware of that kind, which they may need;
he invites an examination OF his goods, ana
presents such selection rs cannot tAll to please


All kinds of ROOFING and SPOUT1NG,
executed in the best manner and on the lowest
terms


An experience of forty years in this business,
enables him to claim that he has practical
knowledge Of it, in all in his branches. he Is
desirous of not only accommodating, but giving
ers, and they may be assured that what he sells
them will be Of the best materials and of the
best manufacture He will warrant whatever
he sells. 1t will be his object to secure patron
age by constant and personal attention to his
establishment.


With this announcement he will open his
Manufactory willing to show by his efforts that
the patronage he asks: will rebound to the ad-
vantage of those who buy, rs well as OF him who
sells, and that the citizens Of Alexandria and
its vicinity need not go elsewhere to. purchase
what can be procured in their own city, from
one of their own people. Jy l2-AWI
Year: 1866

CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN SPAIN.-The Mad
rid correspondence of the London Times re-
ports that the condition of affairs in Spain is
daily becoming more alarming, and that the
people there are living In state of chronic
terror. The health of the Queen is represented
as being seriously impaired, and suspicious
were afioat that she was being slowly taken off
by poison. The treatment pursued in her case
by the court physicians is denounced as so
prodigiously absurd as to be hardly explained
on the score of ignorance or infatu ation, and il
was very positively asserted that she had be-
come so reduced as TO render il extremely
doubtful whether she will go safely over her
forthcoming delivery. 1t is further declared
that not only is the Queen extremely unpopu-
lar, but this unpopularity has extended OF late
years to every member of her family, so that
she could not be set aside without imperIlling
the rights OF the Bourbon dynasty. A day
later the same correspondent writes that extra
ordinary precautions had been ordered to be
observed at the barracks; that changes in the
garrison were going on, and that regiments
were being brought in from the provinces,
whilst those that were previously in Madrid
were being sent away. The story sounds some
what sensational.
Year: 1866

POLITICAL COMPLEXION OF PUBLIC BopIRe
The new Councils of the city Of Philadelphia
will stand thirty nine Union 10 ten Democratic
in the common branch, eighteen Union TO seven
Democratic in the Select branch. The Mayor
also was elected on the Union ticket and large
majority Of other officials. In New York the
preponderance Is all the other way. Nearly
every one OF the important municipal Offices is
filled by a Democrat, the chief exceptions
being the Tax and Pohce Commissioner The
State officers, however, are all Union, and in
the Legislature there is Union majority on
joint ballot of sIxty-two. sufficient 70 ensure
the passage Of anY desired measure.
Year: 1866

BAD FOR THE WoNES.-The Salt Lake Tele-
graph says that the people of Washington
Territory do not know what TO do with the six
or seven hundred Massachusetts women who
have been sent out 10 that wooden country, and
that when the women discover the deception
practiced upon them, inducing them TO go there
with the promise Of pleasant homes and four
dollars a day, they will feel disposed 70 lynch
the author of their misfortune. The Telegraph,
however, cody invites them to the territory
of the Saints, where there is a little room left
yet. Probably half dozen of the -soig saints
would contract TO marry the entire lot.
Year: 1866

Mr.. GEORGE D. PRENTICE, senior editor
of the Louisville journal, Acknowledges the
sympathy of the press during his recent i'll
ness, in the following felicitous manner


''Our heartfelt thanks aredne to very many
Of our brethren of the press for their kind
notices Of US during our late Illness. Their
sympathy soothed and cheered and strength
ened US. 1t seemed to throw calm and
lovely light upon the world, and make as
wish to linger still among our fellow-men.
There is much that is beautiful and holy and
hallowing in sickness It's influences are
purer and better than those of health In
deed the feebleness of the body is often the
health of the soul. We zee and hear what
we may not in the season of our physical
strength. Myriad spirits of the air fhItter
over the dividing line between two worlds,
uttering to mortal beings the tones they have
learned in heaven. As we move downward
upon the sombre and mysterious pathway
that leads to the door of the tomb, we behold,
as from the depths of a shadowy well and
cavern, the pale serenities of floating stars,
all invisible in the glare and sunshine of the
upper air, and their sacred and blessed light
need never fade from the spirit"
Year: 1866

Among the lost of the Egeaiag Star was yOunl
girl, who was born near Louisville, Ky. who wa
remarkable for her marvellous beauty and reckless
life. Betrayed by one whom she trusted. sht
abandoned home and family. and followed hel
seducer to New: York, where she entered upon
life of infamy. A Bohemian Of that city tells hel
story in the following lines:
Far out in the West, where the log huts lay
Bathed in the gloom of a closing day,


With naught her joy TO mar,
Lived a maiden fair, with golden hair,
Whose form did well with her name compare


Twas Stella. the Evening Star.
Far away from the North the tempter came,
And the log huts told n tale Of shame


As many as there are
Of affection past of maiden cast
Adriff to encounter alone lie's blast


Poor Stella, the Evening Star.
Far away to the East. mid din and strife,
Bartering her soul for the means of life,


And bearing the branded scar
That the world best0ws with its sneers and blows
Unsparingly on the heads of those


Like Stella, the Evening Star.
Far AWAY TO the South. aye. out Of the world
With the twin-named ship that the tempest hurl'C


And stript of mast and SPAR
Went down in the deep--she lies asleep
And the merciful waves increasingly weep


Ger Stella, the Evening Star.
Year: 1866

HEAVEN AND HoME.-I was reading the
other day, that on the shore of the Adriatic
sea, the wives of the fishermen, whose hus-
bands have gone far ont upon the deep, are
in the habit at eventide, Of going down to
the sea shore and singing as female voices
only can, the first stanza ofa beautiful hymn;
after they have sung it, they listen till they
hear, borne by the wind across the desert
sea, the second stanza, sung by their gallant
husbands as they are tossed by the gale upon
the waves, and both are happy. Perhaps, if we
too, might hear on this desert world of ours,
some sound, some whisper borne from afar,
to .remind us that there is a heaven, and a
home; and when we sing the hymn upon the
shores of earth, perhaps we shall hear its
sweet echoes breaking in music upon the
sand of time, and cheering the hearts Of
them that are pilgrims and strangers and,
look for city that hath foundations.-Dr.
John CitnniRg
Year: 1866

AK editor in Illinois, says an exchange,
recently saw a patent clothes-washer Ii was
in TIE shape Of a wheelbarrow. The revo-
lutions Of the wheel put in motion a crank
that moved a plunger that pounded the
clothes. The body Of the box was mounted
where she load is in a wheelbarrCw. On the
top Of the box was a wringer. a lady can
put her clothes in her machine, pick it up
and 20 cut calling, the longer her list Of
friends the further she will have to wheel
her burden, and the better her clothes will
be washed. Calling will then be ofsome use,
and an eternal gad-about will become a first
rate washerW0man.
Year: 1866

The Publishers have perfected system Of
mailing by which they can supply the Magazine
and Weekly promptly to those who prefer to
receive their periodicals directly from tho
Office of Publication.


The postage on Harper's Magazine is -
cent. year, which must be paid at the sub
scrib.T's post office.
Year: 1866

Whom you walk in the streets with
lady, keep your hands out of your
pockets, and your cigar out of your
mouth. We would sooner be caught
{. stealing than in the act of smoking
while walking with a lady. Don't
change sides with her on crossing the
street 1t is quite as proper that you
should fall through cellar doors and
other traps set by careless people as
- L~';ld Always take the
right hand when you>meet another
person, and don't stop. At the table
take the dish the host offers you, and
don't pass it to the nearest neighbor,
even if lady; it is ungenerous to re-
prove your host or hostess to his or
her face. There is point where
self-abnegation becomes rudeness, and
this is precisely that point. he per-
son who gives the entertainment has
IL perfect right to say which shall be
served first Don't offer your chair
to newcomer, unless it is the only one
of the kind, and the best in the room.
Rise when another guest leaves the
house where you are entertained, bnt
do not follow to the door-you may
thus spoil more cordial leave taking
Don't sit cross-legged in presence of
ladies or in company Of CEREMONY
Keep your finger out Of your button
holes, and your hands from off your
lap. Make yourself as comfortable as
you can without incommoding any
one. Your host, if gentleman, al
ways likes to see his guests comforta-
bic and contented. Be neither a
pump or pumper, but alternately re-
sumo both conditions. Ask and an
swer questions with diplomatic
propriety. Speak well of people, or
speak not at ali. Nothing indicates
greater defect Of colloquial ability
than vituperations, SANDER, or angry
declaration. Maintain repose if the
earth quakes. Always wear a clean
shirt and collar, and do not fail to use
tooth brush. All of which is re-
spectfully submitted to those who
would be recognized as persons of
good breeding.
Year: 1866

sHymanial Poetry.


MINISTER.
This woman wilt thou have,
And cherish her for life 2
. Wilt thou love and comfort Eer,
And seek no other wife
This woman l will take,
That stands beside me now
III give her board and clothes,
And have no other frow.


MINISTER.
And for your husband will
You take thisnice young man,
Obey his slightest wish,
And love him all you can.
III love him all 1 can,
Obey him all 1 choose,
And when l ask for funds,
lie never dare refuse.


MINISTER.
Then you are man and wife,
And happy may you be,
AS many be your years,
As dollars be my fee.
Year: 1866

Nothing - grand this project ever before conceived
There never was involved much property
again there another one 10 watch th. public could
Invest their money with the certainty thai
ton would be conducted by honorable As will he
seen Nr Crosby has submitted his plan to the best In
Chicago and they give cordial and unhc stating
men nerc can be nothing surer than The Fact that the
operation H. IN honorable hands and that dollar VIII
be as propery accOunted u deposited In bank