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Year: 1866

If you cannot on the ocean,


Sail among the swiftest feet,
Rocking on the highest pillows,
Laughing at the storm you meet;
You can stand among the sailors,
Anchored yet within the bay,
You can lend hand to help them
AS they launch their boats away.
If you are too weak to journey


Up the mountain steep and high,
You can stand within the valley,
While the multitudes go by
You can chant in happy measure
AS they slowly pass along;
Though they may forget the singer,
They will not forget the song.
Ifyou have not gold and silver
Ever ready to command,
IfyOu cannot toward the needy
Reach an ever open hand;
You can visit the afflicted


Der the erring you can weep,
You can be true disciple,


Sitting at the Saviour's feet.
If you cannot in the conflict,


Prove yourself a soldier true,
If, where fire and smoke are thickest,
There's no work for you to do;
When the battle field is silent,


You can gowith careful tread,
You can bear away the wounded,
You can cover up the dead.
Do not, then, stand idly waiting,
For some greater work to do!
Fortune is lazy goddess,


She will never come TO you.
Go and toll IN any vineyard,


Do not fear to do or dare;
Ifyou want field of labor,


You can find it anywhere.
Year: 1866

BE GENTLE AT HoME.-There are
few families, we imagine anywhere,
in which love is not abused as furnish
ing the license for politeness. A hus-
band, father or brother will speak
harsh words to those who love him
best, simply because the security OF
love and family pride keeps him from
getting his head broken. 1t is shame
full that man will speak more impolite
at times to his wife or sister, than he
would to any other female except a
low and vicious one. 1t is thus that
the honest affections of mans nature
prove to be a weaker protection to a
woman III the family than the restraints
of society, and that woman is usual
ly indebted for the kindest politeness
of life to those not belonging to hel
own household. Things ought not sc
to be. The man who, because it vii


not be resented, inficts his spleen and
bad temper upon those of his hearth
stone, is a small coward, and yer!
mean man. Kind words are circula
ting mediums between true gentlemen


in society; and nothing can atone TO


the harsh language and disrespectfu
treatment too often INDUCED in be
tween those bound together by God
own ties of blood, and the still NOR
sacred bonds of conjugal love.
Year: 1866

COLONEL O'NEIL, THE CAPToR o
Fort ERIE.-Col. O'Neil is an Irish
man by birth, although a resident of
this country since his youth. Enlist
ing in the regular cavalry, he served
eight years in that most instructive of
all military schools, the life of an
Indian fighter on the plains of the
West. 1t was noticeable during the
rebellion that the most dashing and
successful among the subordinate of
fees of the cavalry arm were men
whose military schooling under the
best regular officers of the time fitted
them to command when the less ex-
perlenced hosts were brought into the
field. ONeil was one of them
From Captaincy in an Ohio regi-
meut of cavalry, we believe, he rose
to a Lieutenant Colonelcy, greatly
distinguishing hinselfin the course of
of his service. O'Neil, as we have
already stated, was also active in the
chase of John Morgan, when that
worthy invaded the North, and was
chiefly instrumental in his capture
The selection of such an officer as
O'Neil to lead the advance on Cana
da shows that the Fenian leaders
exercise careful discrimination in the
selection of materialS.-Boston Jour.
Year: 1866

A MIRACLE.-A clergyman was en-
deavoring to instruct one of his Sun
day school scholars on the nature OF
a miracle. Thinking he had made it
plain,-~Now, my boy, suppose you
should see the sun rise in the middle
of the night, what would you call
that ~ THE moon, sir" mo, but sup
pose you knew it was not the moon
but the sun, and that you saw it actual
ly rise in the middle of the night
what should you think ?'' Il should
think it was time to get up, sir"
Year: 1866

The Government has awarded a
contract for raising the vessels in the
river and harbor of Savannah, which
were sunk by the rebels to obstruct
the channel. The gunboats and 9th
er vessels were scuttled and sunk at
the time the city was evacuated.-
There are in all about twenty, some
Of them valuable, with all their guns
and armament on board.
Year: 1866




THE JUDGMENTS OF WOMEN.-I II
a conversation | once held with an
eminent minister of the church, he
made this fine observation; We
will say nothing Of the way in which
that sex usually conduct arguments
but the intuitive judgments of women
are often more to be relied upon than
conclusions which we reach by all
elaborate process of reasoning. No
man that has an intelligent wife or is
accustomed to the society of educat-
ed women, will dispute this. Times
without number you must have known
them to decide questions Oh the in
slant, and with unerring accuracy
which you had been poring over for
hours, perhaps with no other result
than to find yourself getting deeper
and deeper into the tangled maze o
difficulties. 1t were hardly generou:
to alIege that they achieve these featS
less by reasoning than a sort o
sagacity that approXimates to the
sure instincts of the animal races
and yet there seems to be some
ground for the remark of a witty
French writer, that when a man has
toiled, step by step up a flight 0
stairs, he will be sure to find a woman
at the top; but she will not be abl,
to tell how she got there. How sh,
got there, however, is of little moment
If the conclusions a woman ha
reached are sound, that is all tina
concerns us. And that they are ap
to be sound on the practical matter
OF domestic and secular lite, nothing
but prejudice and self-conceit cal
prevent us from acknowledging. Th


inference, therefore, is unavoidable


that the man who thinks it beneatl


his dignity to take counsel with a


intelligent wife, stands in his owl


light, and betrayS that lack Of judge


ment which he tacitly attributes t


her."
Year: 1866

WANTS LOCAL WRIrBR.-The Salt Lake
Telegraph advertises for q local writer. 1t
says "he must write to please everybody. and
consequently have no taste or judgment of
his own. Applicants must state whether
bachelor, slightly bachelor OF much married
the latter preferred"
Year: 1866

ONLY ONE. The San Francisco Bulletin
is said to be the only practical paper in the
State that has not declared itself either for
Congress or the President on the reconstruc-
tion question,
Year: 1866

An Act requiring Oath of Allegiance and to


support the Constitution of the United States


to be administered to Masters of American Yes


sells clearing for Foreign or other Ports during


the present Rebellion.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House Of Re-
pre sentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That it shall be the duty of
the several collectors of the customs at the ports
of entry within the United States, during the
continuance of the present rebellion, to cause to
be administered to each and every master of any
American ship or vessel, steamship or steam YES
sci, which shall be about to clear for any foreign
port or place, or for any port or place within tie
United States, the oath Of allegiance required by
chapter ssxty four of the acts of the year eighteen
oundred and sixty .one; which oath shall be duly
saken by such masters before such vessels shall
be permitted to clear as aforesaid


SEC. 3 And be 1T further enacted, That the
oath or affirmation aforesaid may be taken before
the collector of customs at the port from which
such vessel about to clear, before any justice
of the peace or notary public or other person who
is legally authorized to administer an oath in the
State or district where the same may be admins
tered. And that any violation of such oath shall
subject the offender to all the pains and penalries
of wilful and corrupt perjury fwho shall be liable
to be indicted and prosecuted to conviction for
any such offence before any court having compe-
tent jurisdiction thereof


Approved, March 9, 1852
Year: 1866

An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasu-


ry to issue Certificates of Indebtedness to Pub


lie Creditors.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re-
presentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the
Treasury be- and he is hereby authorized, to cause
to be issued to any public creditor who may be
desirous to receive the same, upon requisition of
of audited and settled demands against the
United States, certificates for the whole amount
due or parts thereof not less than one Thousand
dollars, signed by the Treasurer of the United
States and countersigned may be directed by
the Secretary of the Treasury; which certificate
shall be payable in one year from date earlier,
at the option OF the Government, and shall bear
interest at the rate of six per centum per annum.


Approved, March /, 1862.
Year: 1866

To-day we throw our banner to the breeze,
and will keep it at the masthead, until the
election in November shall proclaim to the
people of Delaware that honest d" Jimmy
Riddle" the working-men's candidate, is to
be the next Governor of the State. Mechan-
les, hard-fsted laboring men, men of toll
and sweat, you have now a representative
man from your own ranks. Stand by him;
dignity labor, and do honor to the sons of
toll by electing one of your own number to
be our next Governor. lie is honest, he is
worthy. He is for you, with you, and of
you. March with him to your own victory
Year: 1866

THE ARLINGTON MoNUMENT.-In the
great vault at the Arlington National
Cemetery, Virginia. the plan Of the mon.
ument has already been prepared, and
the work is to be commenced in q short
time. 1t will stand on the top of the
huge vault which contains the remains
of two thousand one hundred and eleven
of our heroic dead, gathered from the
Virginia soil around Bull Run, Chantilly
and the country bordering on the Orange
and Alexandria railroad from Ball Run
to the Rappahannock.
Year: 1866

The New Bedford (Mass.) Standard
learns that the town OF Ashford in that
State is in the nands of few families
who have enough to make them comfort
able without depending on business; and
desiring to live quietly and not be
troubled with new comers, they are pref
ty sure to buy any real estate in the
town offered for sale. The consequence
is that the population Of the town has
decreased from four hundred and ninety
ln 1870 to one hundred and seventy eight
in 1863,
Year: 1866

Mrs. c. Y. Waite, late resident vt
Salt Lake City, has published book eI


planatory of Mormon society. From
this it appears that 10 we'll regulated
Mormon families the first wife stands at
the head of the domestic concern, and
the husbands will is paramount. The
details of the law concerning marriages
are peculiar If a husband has lost his
wife by death, before he had an opportu


nifty of attending to this holy ordinance,
and securing her as his lawful wife for
all eternity, then it is the duty Of the
second, first to be sealed or married to
the husband for and in the name Of the
deceased wife for all eternity and second.
ly, to be married for the time aud eterni


ty herself to the same man. Thus by
this holy ordinance bolh the dead and
the living wife will be bis in the eternal
world. Bat previous TO marriage for
eternity. a woman lose ber husband by
death aud marty second, and IL her
first husband was a good man, then IL 10
the duty of the second husband to be
married 10 her for eternity, not for him
self, but in the name of the deceased
husband, while he himself can be mar
ried to her for time; and he is TO enter
inte a covenant TO deliver her up, and all
her children, to her deceased husband,
in the morning Of the first resurrection" /"
Year: 1866

A '"SoHooL House" Row.-St. Johns
bury Centre was the scene of big row,
recently. The teacher of q school there
has compelled his pupils to present writ
ten excuses from their parents when they
desired to be absent. One of the "big
boys who had asked to be dismissed
without such document, was given
time to go home after it, and returned
with revenue stamp attached to the
paper. Teacher took this as an insult
and pitched into the lad with a poker.
The boy ran, and the teacher after him.
They brought up in shed near by, and
fought-the one with poker and the
other with an axe helve, both receiving
some pretty hard hits. They were final
ly separated, and the boy taken TO his
home, while the teacher was taken to
the school house. After an Intellectual
attempt to resume school keeping, he
took to his heels, and the boys after him,
spelling for fight Finding there was
heavy storm brewing, teacher left
town in the next train, a strong guard
escorting him to the depot, as protection
against the boys. ...g-- y
Year: 1866

RuTLABD g. BURIIYcToE RAILROAD
The following important notice has been
issued by the Superintendent of the Rut-
land g. Darlington road, the strict OBJ
servance Of which win, no doubt, tend
to secure more promptness and celerity
In running the trains; and it will also
prove great convenience to the travel
ling public. Too much credit cannot be
Year: 1866

The colored levee laborers on . strike for
higher wages we're arrested and imprisoned
the other day for thus refusing to accept the
wages offered them without grumbling.


If colored laborers are compelled to work
for low wages or 60 TO prison for refusal, in
Memphis and elsewhere, it strikes us that it
will have . tendency to keep down The wages
Of laborers generally.
Year: 1866

The first step should be to under
drain the garden thoroughly. That
means tile laid two and a hat feet
deep, and the drains eight or ten feet
apart. Make the drain shallow, so as
to dry the surface Of the ground quick
ly, and 50 that the air passing up tho
drains may reach and benefit the plants
readily. Put them close together so
that every foot of ground may come
within their influence, and so that as
cending water in the spring, may be
arrested ere it reaches the surface.


If the soil contains too much clay,
is heavy and difficult to puIverize, draw
on sand and mix with it. If on the
contrary it is too light, apply clay
you can generally find it in the subsoiI,
and such trenching is the very best
thing to be done. You want plenty of
vegetable mould in the garden, and
this can be supplied readily by cutting
sods from the road side or fence cor
ners, and piling them up until thor
oughly decayed. a fine compost may
be made with sods, barn.yard manure,
plaster, &c, and it forms the best fer
tiiizer, all things considered, that can
be applied to garden. Manure should
decay sufficiently TO destroy the vital
ity of seeds Of weeds which may be in
it, and this can be accomplished eco
nomically in Il hot bed. Rural N
Yorker.
Year: 1866

The LAUGH OF WoMEN.-A woman
has no natural gift more bewitching
than a sweet laugh. 1t is like the
sound of flutes on the water. 1t leaps
from her in clear, sparkling rill and
the heart that hears it feels as if bathed
in the cool, exhilarating spring Have
you ever pursued an unseen fugitive
through trees, led on by fairy laugh
now here, now there, now lost, now
found? We have; and we are pursu-
ing that wandering voice to this day
Sometimes it comes to US in the midst
of care, or sorrow, or irksome business,
and then we turn away and listen, and
hear it ringing in the room like silver
bell, with power to scare away the evil
spirit of the mind. How much do we
owe to that sweet laugh! 1t turns prose
to poetry; it filings flowers of sunshine
over the darkness of the wood in which
we are travelling; it touches with light
even our sleep, which is no more than
the image of death, but il is consumed
with dreams that are the shadows of
Immortality ity.-Prentice.
Year: 1866




TRE local editor of Lynchbufg pa
per, while in the act of taking valise
from the baggage car at station, let it
fall on the track and the whole train
passed over it, smashing it up horribly
and scattering shirts, paper collars and
the like in every direction. AS soon
as the train passed, a crowd gathered
around the wreck and expressed their
sympathy for the owner of it. But jnst
then he thrust his hand into one end of
the crushed valise and drawing forth an
unbroken bottle of whisky, held it up
triumphantly and exclaimed: "Never
mind gentlemen, I saved the most i'm
portant part of my baggage
Year: 1866

Have been used with the greatest success,
Their mission is not only to prevent disease
but:to cure. They search out the various
maladies by which the patient is suffering,
and re-invigorate the failing system. To
the aged and infrm few doses of these val
uable PILLS will prove to be
Year: 1866

For in every case they add new life and vi
tality and restore the waning energies to
their pristine state. To the young and mid
die aged. they will prove most invaluable, as
ready, specific, and sterling medicine. Here
is dream realized that Ponce-de-Leon sought
for three hundred years ago, and never found.
He looked for fountain that would restore
the old to vigor and make youth ever
Year: 1866

AN ETERNAL SPRING !!
1t was left for this day and hour toerealize
the dream, and show in one glorious fact. the
magic that made it fair.


These Famous Remedies.
Cannot stay the fight of years, but they can
force back, and hold aloof, diseases that
might triumph over the aged and the young.
Let none hesitate then, but seize the favora-
BILE opportunity that offers. When taken as
prescribed


For Bilious Disorders.
Nothing can be more productive of cure than
these Pills, Their almost magic influence is
felt at once ; and the usual concomitants of
this most distressing disease are removed
These remedies are made from the purest
Vegetable Compounds,
They will not harm the most delicate female
and can he given with good effect in pre-
scribed doses to the youngest babe.


For CutaneOus Disorders.
And all eruptions of the skin, the SALVE is
most invaluable. 1t does not heal externally
alone, but penetrates with the most search
ing effects to the very root of the evil!
Year: 1866

From the Clncinnau Commercial.


We had yesterday an opportunity of
witnessing one Of the interesting marvels
Of modern science-the almost instantane-
Gus production Of stone hard, ringing, IN
soluble stone, from the common sand
Astounding in this neighbsrhood This
artificial stone is produced by what is
known in England as the Ransome process,
and is the result Of more than twenty years
Of constant experiment on the part Of the
inventor. Clean dry sand of any color or
quality, is the material employed; the color
and quality Of the resulting stone exactly
corresponding with the sand employed.


The sand Is first mixed with silicate Of
coda, Of about the consistency Of honey.
With a few minutes kneading 10 q Pug
mill, every grain Of sand il coated with a
viscid cement. Il is then moulded to'sny
desirable form, plain or artistic The ma
terial being then turned from the m0lid,
there Is poured over il chloride ofeslcium,
which permeates the mass, without in. the
least changing its form, efecting &C the.
same time a chemical transformation Of
elements az wonderful az Il Is beautiful.
The silicate Of soda becomes an insolhhle
silicate Of lime, at the same time that the
chloride Of calcium becomes a chloride Of
sodium, or common salt, which being solu-
BILE is readily washed away. Every grain
of sand is thus cemented 10 its surrounding
particles with an inscluble cement, as hand
and enduring as glass, and the result is q
natural, rather than an artificial stone un-
affected by water, acid OF frost


The cost Of this patented stone is said 90
be less than one-teRth Of sandstone Of good
grit or limestone wrought into shape
while its transverse strength, its power Of
resistance and adhesion have, by very elab-
orateexperiments, been proved TO be greater
than that Of the best stone employed upon
the principal architectural structures in
England. A Baltimore company, We un-
derstand, has purchased the right TO manu-
facture this artificial stone, or concrete, in
the United States, and the specimens we
have seen attest the fact that new element
Of exceeding utility and beauty is waiting
20 be introduced.
Year: 1866

In the course Of an article upon the sub
ject of labor the Charleston Courier states
that the best plan for laboring in South
Carolina during the ensuing year is un-
doubtedly that of paying wages to the col
Ored people, bat that for the want of capi-
:al the planters will at present generally
have to resort TO the system of working on
the shares-the planters and labors d.
viding the crop.
Year: 1866

Dear Sir: have examined your Stomach Bit
ters carefully, and ind it what you represent it
to be-. The high order which the ingredients
going into II take in the Materia Madisa as well
as the most happy prop0rtiOned combination Of
substances, make your Bitters far superior 70 any
that you use only the purest Bourbon Whisky
must necessarily recommend your BitteFs in
another point, especially as far as wholesome
ness and palatability are taken intO eOnaideFa-
ton. 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 better product, bat also
Year: 1866

Dear Sir; Ny wife and child have been sufFey
ing for several msnths from Indigestion Nv
wife, seeing your advertisement, requested me To
bring her bottle of your Stomach Bitters which
did and on using one bottle am more than
happy to state that my child, nov four months
old, who has not had a voluntary action since
Its birth. is entirely restored. and my wife 3
enjoying the best Of health, and il now wholly
unwilling to be without a bottle of your Bitters
in the house, she says il Is the most strength
ening and ap petizing tonic that can be used and
that 10 house ought to be without It; and feel
il due to the public to make known the wonder
ful good il has performed in my household, and
most heartily recommend its use in every family


n NJ SWANN
Year: 1866

HIS iuimitable preparation Of sARSAPARIi.LA
has long stood &C the head Of the 7ariOus CON-
pounds OF that valuable drug.
His Compound Of WILD CHERRY has
become a household word through


out the West


and South. His Worm LozengesI
n less than a year after their Introduction
Year: 1866

No WONDER. The packing together
Oh tnirteen nunorvo huulan pefhHs Ia
q ship of moderate size, to live to-
gether, walking and sleeping, day and
night, was an inhumanity. Il there
had been no pestilence breeding among
them. But disease could hardly have
failed to make its appearance in such
condition. Whether the pestilence
that actually did break out and which
has destroyed nearly one-sixth of tho
entire number, be cholera or ship
fever or something else, it should be
an effectual warning against all such
trifing with human life and all such
ignoring Of the claims of humanity
and decency We are glad to see that
Congress is promising some action to
prevent the importation Of pestilencs
by such means. 1t would not be amiss
to make some inquiry as to the kind
of population likely to be brought to
our shores by the eructation that seems
to be going on in Europe. The
asylum may be overstocked by whole
sale subsidies of foreign pauperism
and crime. Without rejecting on the
character of this cargo, it is known
that cases have been detected Of at
tempts to throw on our hands the
refuse and dregs Of old country popu-
lation, both paupers and criminals. g.
Pittsbmg Commercial
Year: 1866

forp What is the object Of your early
rising and late retiringp


What are you living for9


What is the end and aim Of lifeY-
u ever stop and think-as you
straighten up to rest your back-as
you wipe the labor stained hand across
your sweating brow, do you ever think
what all this toll, trouble, labor and
worry js to,epd imp a<


EYo| are orking to livel Very
good, you arefaboring for the benefit
Of wife and childrenl Still better


You wish to educate your childrenl
Very good again. q


You are trying to improve your
farm-to beautify that little cottage
Ihpme-to get money enough ahead to
purchase a COW, horse, a cart, a
wagon, new dress for your wife
new clothes for your children--new
clothes for yourself after the others