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Year: 1866

that man can resort to,


1t is now said that they do not think
SO; that they are only pretending, ant
have covert place Of doing somethin,
hereafter about this thing, nobody car
tell exactly what. Perhaps we will bt
told they will not abide the result.


81 was pleased to learn from the leading
men whom [ met, that they no. only ac-
cepted the decision arrived at as final, bu
that now, when the smoke of battle ha:
cleared away, and time has been given fol
reflection, this decision has been a for
tunate one for the whole country. they
receive like benefits from it with these
who opposed them in the field and in
council"


Why, Mr.. President, the common sense
OF that last utterance is worth more as tes
timony than that Of thousand scribblers
who merely look at detached points OF this
great field. They have resolved to accept
the decision as final; and, what we ought
al! to be glad to know, they have found
that it is for their benefit. They have
found, too, after the smoke has cleared
away, that they are really in better con-
dition than they were before, that they
have BEEN relieved from the incubus which
oppressed them for SO long q time. and
they are ready now to take their places in
the Union, and alongside Of the Northern
States who have made liberty their great
principle rather than slavery Why
should they not? Ii any man can give a
reason why they should desire to keep up
this strife longer, with their devastated
fields, with Their treasures empty. with
their society disorsanized, should ike 70
hear it.


[ therefore hope, Mr. President, that
we may meet them in different spirit
that We may show 10 them that We made
this war, not to make them eternal enemies
OF ours, not to mutilate them, but to rescue
them; that we made this war to 60 and get
them out Of the clutches of the bad men
who had mislcd them into the gloomy
realm Of secession and disunion; and
that we intend, after the great military
victory which we have achieved, to achieve
another By magnanimity and clemency in
our conduct toward the n; that we will
win them back to be as they were before,
our friends and our brothers, Of the same
race and of the same lineage. hope too
that this angry, irritating, and czacting
mode Of treating this subject, which is
calculated to make us any thing else than
friends, will be discarded hereafter, and
that VIC shall coolly and calmly, and in the
spirit Of the nation, because that is the
spirit of the nation examine this question.
and do with it that which will be calcula-
ted to restore the old harmony and peace,
and the old Union again.
Year: 1866

Sports or THE RINa.-A white boy and
negro met in personal conflict on Seven
teenth street yesterday morning, and the
novelty of the spectacle attracted quite .
throng Of spectators. The first round re-
suited in nothing moro than q series Of
FONTS. Second round-White boy clasped
darkey by the neck, and both rolled ing
the gutter, white boy on top. Third round
Nigger's head in chancery. and bY series
Of well-directed blows bis antagonlst sue
ceeded in drawing the first blood. Fourth
round Colored champion got the white
boys hand between his teeth, and left sun
dry deep indentations. The fifth and last
round was fought in the gutter, and the
white boy was in fair way 70 come on
conqueror, when bystanders put stop
to the disgraceful spectacle.
Year: 1866

TEAsTB BY THE LADIES OF THE BROAD.
STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The ladies Of Broad-skeet church some
time since formed Dorcas Society, for the
purpose of furnishing suitable clothing and
bringing into their Sunday school poor and
destitute children. Up to this time they
have neatly clad and have present at their
school every Sunday morning some fifty-
odd such children. Many other children
have applied, and as their funds have be.
come nearly exhausted, they contemplate
holding feast in few days to enable
them to carry out their laudable purpose


We wish the ladies q hearty success in this
benevolent undertaking, and hope the
friends of the poor and destitute childrei
will give the ladies helping hand wher
they hold their feast. sset
Year: 1866

a correspondent at Galveston says: ~
have to-day seen Confederate Colonel, with
his full uniform on, stars and all, driving a
dray, with a mule whose harness was made
of ropes. A late Lieutenant General Of the
rebel army is a clerk in an Express Office at
New Orleans; and the officer who drove off
Franklin and his Is 900 men at Sabine is q
barkeeper at Houston;"
Year: 1866

a witness in case before a New York
court answered " Mop to every question SO
persistently as to arouse the suspicion of the
Magistrate, 1t was fhen DISCOVERED that the
witness was q Geru4an who understood nc
other word Of English.
Year: 1866

A VERY curious event lately occurred ir
Hungary during bear hunt. A very say
age she bear had just been mortally wound
ed, when all at once a young girl, bout
twelve yrars Of age, rushed out Of the thick
ct and threw herself on the expiring beast
giving utterance to the most lamentable
cries. Aftera good deal of difficulty this
young savage was captured by means Of
cord and nets. 1t has been discovered tina,
peasant woman some twelve years ago lost
her child Ia little girl on the confines of the
forest, and had never since been able to OBJ
tain any tidings Of her. A certain Count.
ess Erdeli has taken the little girl under
her care. and is obliged to feed her with
roots, honey and raw meat-the usual food
of bears. twill be most interesting to dis
cover, when the child has received an edu-
cation and her mental facilities develope
themselves, if she will remember her former
state, and be able to give an account of her
life in the forest
Year: 1866

In the debate in the Senate on the Tariff
Bill, Republican United States Senator
from Michigan said


"Mr. Chan Ter said that the free-list was
made up SO as to favor New England. Fer
tilizers were exempt from the tax. they
were not used in the Northwest. Thrash
ing, machines were taxed, they were not US
ed in New England


Mr. Fesscnden said that was great
mistake.


"Mr. Chandler said that he had Travelled
all over New England and had never seen a
thrashing machine there. They used the
old fashioned fail altogether"


IF it suits New England to have an arti-
Gle on the tree-lists, it is put there; and if it
is more for her interest to have another ar
tcle heavily taxed, it is also done. The
whole policy Of the Government is now for
her benefit
Year: 1866

Twelve hundred millions Of dreams rake
a network OF wild iances nightly about our
planet. TO go, ifit were possible, through
this world of sleep would be a stranger pro-
cess than that of exploring the whole wa
king world; for in sleep every heing is a
poet, from the baby that clines in its dreams
to the breast of goddesses, to the centena


rien, who with staff and spectacles, hobbies
about paradise at the heels of seraphs


Sleeping and waking are the two great phe-
nomena Of our existence. What is done
end thought in the every day working world;
where the ordinary business of hfe is car
ried on, no living Great IRE has ever fully
revealed to another. There are retict noes
in the confessions of the most frank, things
which cannot, and therefore which never
will be spoken-thoughts which transcend
the limits OF language-hopes which the
power ofnO fairy could satiSty-far which
even Lucifer himself would fail tt" exugger-
ate. If this portion of our life, which is at
least subjected to our own observation, can
not be fully and faithfully described, still
less can the other portion, which defes even
our own scrutiny, converts us into to mere
spectators of ourselves, sets free our az
tions from the control of our own will, and
transforms us into so many passive spokes
in the great wheel of destiny. Whatever
may be the laws by which it is regulated
sleep presents the counterpart of the waking
world distorted, .njutllated, thrown into
the irlemediable confusion by the force of
the Imagination. - Chambers Journal.
Year: 1866

fastenings attached to the coach roof with
the one other. when we were precipitated
over the prieipice.


| can distinctly recollect preserving con
| sciouSness for a few seconds of time, how
/, my breath was being exhausted; but of that
tremendous descent, | soon lost all further
individual knowledge by concussiQn Sc
| violent that was almost instantly deprived
of sense and motion.


On an humble couch inan humble room
of small country house | next opened my
eyes in the world of light and shade, of JOY
and sorrow of mirth and sadness; gentle
hands smoothed my pillow, gentle feet glid
ed across my chamber and a gentle voic,
hushed for time all my questionings
was kindly tended by fair young girl about
sixteen, who refused fOrseveral days to hold
any converse with me. At length one
morning, finding myself sufficiently strong
to sit up insisted on hearing the result O
the accident


You were discovered, said she "sittins
on ledge of rock. amidst the branches d
a shattered tree. clinging to part of you
broken coach, with one hand, and to the in
sensible form of lady with the other"


And the lady?' gasped, scanning the
girl face, with an earnestness that caused
her to draw back and blush.


She was saved sir by the same means
that saved you, friendly tree"


And her tather and brother?" | impa
tiently demarded


Were both found crushed to pieces al
the bottom Of the precipice, great way
beyond the place where my father and uncle
Joe got you and the lady We buried their
bodies in one grave close by the clover patch
down in yon meadow GROUND"


Poor LOuise-poor orphanl God pity
you!" | murmured in tone uttely uncon
scious that had a listener


God pity her indeed, sir" said the
young girl, with a gush of heartfelt sym.
pathy, Would you like to see her?" she
added


+ Take me to her." | replied.


I found the orphan bathed in bitter tears
by the grave of her buried Kindred. She
received me with sorrowiul sweetness oi
manner. [ will not detain your attention
detailing the efforts made to win her from
her great grief, but briefly acquaint you that
| at last succeeded in inducing her to leave
her forlorn home in the South, and that
twelve months after the dreadful occurrence
which have related, we stood at the altal
as man and wife She still lives to bless
my love with her smiles, and my children
with her precepts; but on the anniversary
of that terrible night she secudes herself
in her room and devotes the hours Of dark
ness to solitary prayer.


CAS- for me, added the traveller, while
a FAINT flash tinged his noble brow at the
avowal, that accident has made rhysi
cal coward of me at the sight Of noun.
tain precipice. =


"But-thc driver urged our lady rassen-
ger, who had listened to the recital of the
story with attention; what became Of the
driver?. Or did you ever learn the reason Of
his deselting his post?'


His body was found on the road within
a few yards from the spot where the coach
went over. He had been strucS dead by
the same flash of lightning that blinded the
restiye horses"
Year: 1866

What--if It be lawful to indulge such o
thought-what would be the funeral obse-
ouies Of lost soul? Where shall we find the
tears fit to be wept at such spectacle? Or,
could we relize the calamity in all its extent,
what tokens of COMMUNICATION and concern
would be deemed equal to the occasior?--
Would it suffice tor the sun to veil his
light and the moon her brightness? To
cover the ocean with mourning. and the
heavens with fackcloth2 Or, were the
whole trabric ofnature to become animated
and vocal, would it be possible for her to
utter groan TOO deep, or cry too pier
cling to express the magnitude and extent
of such q catastropheT-Robert Hail. -,
Year: 1866

action of the late State Convention:


"THE JOHNSON PARTY IN OHIO.


"Among the most cheering of the many
cheering indications of the Union Conven-
ton of Wednesday, was the united front of
the party in sustaining the Congressional
policy. The Convention was unit on this
question. Through the whole day there
was not lisp heard anywhere in favor of
my policy If there was johnson man
in the Convention he did not make himself
manifest. None Of the Can li,lates We're
Johnsonians, the only one at all suspected
of sympothies with the President having
withdrawn before the Convention assem-
bled. There was not johnson man on the
Committee on Resolutions; and there is not
a word in commendation Of my policy, i'll
the brief. statesmanike, and excellent plat
form which that committee reported.
Year: 1866

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Year: 1866

DE CAUTIOUS when you are told by any
ID one that they have good Sewing Machin es
for sale any one, etc. The Singer is the
Oldest and most reliable machine and best
now in use, will do all kinds of work from the
finest to the heaviest that any family ever wants
done and will last lifetime if properly taken
care of. / have been agent for other machines
aud have got rid of them. Please give me a call
and examine tor yourselves.


Sewing neatly done to order.


also have machine twist and thread for sale.


Any one wishing to purchase please give me a
call w. L. NORRIS, Agent,
next door to Babcock's new hall, up stairs, on


Illinois street.
Year: 1866

The brief message Of the President


to the l. S Senate, accompanied by
Gen Grants report on his observations
in the South, will be read with interest


Every word Of each Of these documents
is thrust in the riba Of the Radicals


II tells them plainly, that the informa-
ton in the possession Of the Executive,
and the personal observations Of the
Lieutenant General, are distinctly op-
posed to the Radical plan Of Southern
Government foreshadoWed by the Rad
icsl Congress. These papers from the
head of the Government and the head
Of the Army must have prodigious
weight upon Northern opinion, and Gra
Of the greatest value 10 Us Of the South
in proving taSt the President il firm
in his attitude Of reconstruction, and
that the distinguished Gen. Grant sup
ports him.


They are documents 70 make the
godly Sumner swear, and the worldly
Stevens pray. They precipitate the
inevitable issue and put the Puritans
on trial before the bar Of the good sense,
the patriotism, the kspublicanism and
the UniOnism of this great country,
which four years divided BY the red
hand Of war, is eager to coalesce and
renew the joint grand march Of the
sections TO the National future


Gen. Grant once u,ors shOss his great
good sense and generous feelings when
Be declares that the good Of the
country requires thst the force kept in
the interior where there are many
freedmen, al elsewhere in the south.
should be rgilfs t~oeuE


Nothing Is more Just or true This
class OF troops Is an unceasing fountain
Of irritation and counter irritation
They demoralize the freedmen and vex
the whites. They are the greatest barrier
TO restored harmony and reconciliation
The late events at BladOn SpFings are
sample Of the general experience. The
sooner they are removed the better for
every interest that has reference % the
true well-being Of the whole country.
Very few Of the southern people would
like to have the white troops Withdrawn
ct this time. They are not needed for
any Government purpose A child
with e pop gun would be force enough
70 keep the political peace anywhere ia
the South But = military presence Is
necessary 70 check the vicious and IL
norAnt Of both eOlors, while the two
races are going through the process Of
mutusl accommodation 70 Their strange
ly altered relations lime i rapidly
working out the problem, and before
long the sOundest philosophy EiH pre-
scfips that tas sooner the fresdnE1 L.
horsT and the employer and capitalist
Year: 1866

EXPENSE OF THE PHILADELPHIA Con-
vENTIoN.-The assessment to be levied
upon the clerks in the various depart
ments of the government at Washington
for the purpose of defraying the expenses
of the Philadelphia convention and the
fall elections, is per cent. of the July,
August and September salaries. Those
who do not care to pay the assessment
have high authority for refusing, as it is
but few months since that President
Johnson complimented a New Hamp-
shire clerk who refused to pay an assess
ment made upon him for the assistance
Of the Republicans in New Hampshire.
The President declared it was an out
rage to make clerks contribute their pay
for political purposes and directed that
the man who had had independence
enough to resist the tax, should be at
once promoted. The principle of the
thing is the same now as then, but it is
rather doubtful if promotion will be as
promptly awarded to the clerks who re-
fuse to answer Postmaster Randall's call,
as to the man who refused to aid the
New Hampshir Reepublicans.-SwnqfelS
Re3UbItc01
Year: 1866

THE CASE OF EMMA JoNRs.-A writer
in the Rochester Express, who processes
to know the history of this singular
woman, gives an interesting account of
her adventures in the recent civil war.
She was the daughter of butcher in
Cambridge, and for some time worked
at sewing machine in this city. When
the war broke out, she obtained the posi-
ton of vivandiere in New York regi-
ment, and afterwards 10 Massachusetts
regiment stationed near Washing ton.
n short time the colonel ordered her
away to her relatives in Baltimore. As
she insisted on being in the army and at
the front instead of her proper place at
the hospitals, the Secretary of War or
dered her to be confined in the Old Capi-
tai Prison, and soon after she was sent
to Boston and kept in the family of Sur
geon Dale. Itafterwards transpired that
she was acting the part of a soy. and as
such she was kept in confinement till
she could do no more mischief to the
Federal cause. After such a romantic
course, it is not strange that she should
become, under the promise of marriaee.
the victim of German physician Ia New
York, and ended her strange career by
committing suicide upon his door steps.
-Bosto1 Journal.
Year: 1866

DRowNED.-Charles Ritterbush, a son
of Mrs. Jacob Hayford of Johnson, while
bathing with four others in the Lamoille
river, near Hydepark, got into deep wa
ter and was drowned.


The Burlington Sentinel says:


On Wednesday Of last week, while the
orphans Of st. Joseph's Asylum were
spending the day in "Foot's Woods" at
a picnic, three of their number strayed
away to the river with the purpose OF
going in bathing. The oldest of the three,
Eddie Burns, a lad of IL years, was the
first to jump into the river, bidding the
other two not to go in till he himself
had first tried it, saying that If any were
to be drowned it were better that only
one of them should go than all three
should do so. The water where he went
in was twelve feet deep, and after his
first plunge he did not again appear to
his companions. Search was commenced
within half an hour after his disappear
ance, and the river dragged for his body,
but TO no purpose. On Friday and Sat
arday guns were fired over the river du-
ring the day and evening, and on Sun
day morning the body of the boy was
found by fisherman floating on the sur
face of the water some four or five miles
from the spot where he was drowned.
Year: 1866

HORRIBLE MURDER IN New JERSEY
A shocking tragedy occurred at North
Woodbury., N, j., on Thursday night.
A gentleman named Charles S. Raymond,
who resided with his family at North
Woodbury., was found dead in his bed,
with his temple crushed in, apparently
with an axe, and his chin and throat
badly mutilated An investigation de-
veloped the following particulars


"Nr. Raymond and his wife sat in the
porch Of their dwelling until 9 o'clock
in the evening, when they retired to bed.
They occupied adjoining rooms, with
communicating door between. Mr.. Ray
mond, before retiring, read his wife
asleep and then retired to his own room.
At three o'clock Wednesday morning
Mrs. Raymond was awakened by what
she supposed was the dripping Of water
in her husbands room. She rose,
dressed herself, and went to his room
door to see what was the matter, and
called to him. Not answering, she went
into his room and to his bedside. She
put her hand to his face and found it
wet. She in the dark placed her hand
in the cash on his chin, and thought it
was his mouth. Thinking he was sick
she placed her arm under his neck and
raised his head, when she discovered for
the first time that his throat had been
cut, the jugular vein severed and the
head almost detached from the body.


She Immediately went to the window
and called to colored man for help,
who happened to be near by. This was
az o'clock in the morning, and Mr..
Raymond was not dead when she first
saw him, but died in minute or two
after she first went into the room. There
were no marks of struggle in the
room. He had evidently been struck in
the temple while asleep, and almost in
stantly deprived of all sense or motion,
and then his chin and throat cut to add
certainty to the fiendish deed. Foot
steps were observed leading from be-
meath the window down toward the
river. At short distance these foot
steps, which were those of woman,
were Joined by others made by bare feet,
which, little farther on, were encased
in pair of boots. Some clothes which
were sent to washerwoman in the
neighborhood may lead to the detection
of the fiend, whoever be may be-"
Year: 1866

THE Jewish Talmud had these sentences
about women:


A good wife is heavens noblest gift A
housewife never allows herself to be disturbed
from her.work-even while conversinc she is
busy spinning. An old. experienced woman
in household is an ornament to it like a
pearl He who lives in an unmarried state
knows no joys, none of the blessings of a
home, and is without support. He who stands
at the death-hed of his wife feels like those
who saw the temple of Jerusalem reduced to
ashes; for the wife is the temple in which
each man finds repose and quiet, where he
rests after the labors of the day. and where
he can give expression to his feelings joyful
and mournful. God has given to woman
more ability of judging correctly than man.
Year: 1866

That leave the poison to crawl through the system,
eating its way into the tissues and organs beneath
the apparently smooth surface. to burst out in the
future with viruence that will battle the effects of
medicine, when PERFECT CURES can be OBJ
tanned by consulting physician whom long prae-
tce and thorough investigation into the causes of
DISEASES of the URINARY ORGANS enables
to determine at the nature Of the disease.


In all diseases entrusted to the Doctors care,
PERFECT, SPEEDY and PERMANENT
Year: 1866

OYSTERS IN CONNECTICUT Norwich Bulletin says that on the first of this month !" the oyster law was off and everybody who had boat and oyster tongs went to work at the beds if the river between here and New London. One hundred and five boats were counted yesterday morning, in each of which was one or two men, fishing and seraping for dear life. How many bushels were taken during the day we have no means of ascertaining, but from the number at work at it, we should suppose the market will be well supplied for a while. Our river oysters last year were un- usually fine they arc full, fat, and of ex- cellent flavor, but, unfortunately, that is no criterion for this year, as they vary much each season. The impression is that they are not as fat or well favored this season as last' .r ;.