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Year: 1866

the declivity of chain of mountains,
the passes of which, as was proved IN
1873, may after defeat be defended
against the conquerors by rear guard
of beaten army, and in such way as
to convert the defeat into a victory, while
before them they have vast plain, un-
interrupted by single eminence, from
Leipsic to the shores of the Baltic, where
their splendid cavalry can be employed
with better effect than in Lombardy, and
in the event of a victory on their side
woHld complete the rout OF the enc my.
A single battle might thus bring the
Austrians to the gates Of Berlin, and in
yolve Prussia in as irredeemable disaster
as after the catastrophe ofJena whereas
if the Austrians come off second best,
they have but to fall back to the noun
tains, like the allies did after the battle
of Dresden, where, if the Prussians fol-
lowed them, they might meet with the
fate of Vandamme, or atany rate, would
in all probability be as unable to dislodge
them from their favorable positions as
Napoleon was when he appeared in per-
son to avenge the defeat of his general.
The Prussian strategists are quite alive
to this danger; and if Bismark, was his
own master he would undoubtedly have
been beforehand with the Austrians and
have sent corps weeks ago to occupy
Saxony (as his organ, the North Ger
man Gazette, threatened to do) but this
the King who has conscientious regard
for the rights of his fellow-princes and is
only partially initiated in the ambitious
schemes of his minister, positively re-
fused to consent to- Rismark would like
not only TO swallow up Saxony, but halt
a dozen other German principalities.
The King, on the contrary, shrinks from
the idea of despoiling sovereigns who
reign by the same right divine that he
lays claim to, and would not ever have
countenanced the project of annexing
Schleswig- Holstein if the crown lawyers
had not assured him that the Prince
ofAugustenberg had no legitimate title
to the Duchies, and that the true owner
was the King of Denmark, who was per
fectly at liberty to make them over to
any one he thought proper, as. he had
to Austria and Prussia. That the in
habitants themselves should have voice
in the matter is of course heretical no
ton which his majesty would not listen
to for moment
Year: 1866

The country is threatened with stand
ing army of sixty regiments. Assuming
that members of Congress who are in favor
Of keeping force Of this dimension are sim
cere in their opinion that it is necessary,
We gain another point of view from which
to see the changes which four years Of war
have produced. Before the war, the stand
ing army consisted of about ten thousand
neh, at a cost of about the same number
of millions of dollars Admitting the cx-
pense in the future to be no higher than
in the past, and the annual cost of an
army of sixty thousand men will be sixty
millions of dollars, about four-6tths of the
average annualexpcnseS ofthe Government
before the war This, of itself, is a very
tolerable exempliication of the pleasures
of war-making and when it is considered
that there is to be, if not a corresponding,
at least, a very considerable increase in the
cost of every other branch of the public
service, together wife several new and costly
branches, we can gain pretty distinct
approximative idea of the financial future
which it will be our lot to encounter
Gin. Eng.
Year: 1866

Well strike out the white" constitution and


laws,
Shall know no such word in line nor clause
Our brother no longer shall "cOlOr'ds be call'd
But known as a Saxon or TutOnic curld,
Our lexicon, too, we will also amend;
No longer shall negro its pages offend;
No longer shall Africa stamp upon man
The odious shade of the children of Ham,
Well teach the wide world that Republican


reign
Can wipe from the Ethiop every stain.
And DO what has never been done since the


flood
Well make all the nations to be CT one blood :.
Yes, strike out the white and have none of


our laws
Contain the vile word in line or a clause.
Wen have but one ballot one hand and one


head!
All love shall be free. with one heart and one


bed!
Well strike out the white, and pay balance


to mig;
Join Sambo and Celt in political iig
Wen strike out the white, and have jubilee


come,
And Celtic and Saxon and Afrc be one
0. strike out the white, and thus hasten the


hour
When all shall thus bask in Elysian bower;
Yes. strike out the white !. hnd on Canaan's


shore.
An Eden untempted will bless us once more !!
All wise above wislom-we'Tl strike out the


white
Embrace as our equal the race Troglodyte
The EsaumauX, too, as brother well hug,
And know no distinction 'twiXt Christian and


Thug!
To be of one blood we will have every race
Tho ring-streaked and speckled will be every
For this is the way that all equal are made
BY nature-as was by our fathers once said
Come, Cuffec! come Bushman. Hotten,ot,


come
With Saxon, with Celtic, and Caucasian, be


one!
And come. Patagonian Feejeean, too,
With hearts ftll of lOve-we are waiting for


you.
Wen strike out the white and dame nature


will teach
No longer 'twiXt races to keep up q breach
As brothers and sisters Wen have all to be,
And riot in free love meath libcrty's tree.
o! happy the day when we came into power ,
To Danish all hate have Il common love bower
To strike out tue white. TO bleach the black


down,
And dye all as equals in beautiful brown.
The nations may ask why would we thus do
Have all our posterity OF deep shady hue
'Tis easy to answer. in hell we would reign
Ere serving IL Heaven, if power we can gain
Year: 1866

The ''Farmer's Garden" is a bound vol
ume of agricultural life, written in poetry.
In it the farmer and his family set the great
industries of the plow, spade and hoe in
rhyme. Every flower or fruit>bearing
tree is green syllable after the graceful
type and curse Of Eden Every bed Of
| flowers is an acrostic to nature, written in
the illustrated capitals of her alphabet
Every bed of beets, celery, or savory roots
or bulbs is page Of blank verse, full of
6eifes-lettres Of agriculture The farmer
may be seen in his garden. 1t contains
the synopsis of his character in letters
that may be read across the road The
barometer hung by his door will indicate
certain facts about the weather. but the
garden, lying on the sunny side of the
house, marks with great percision the de-
gree Of mind and heat culture which he
has reached. 1t will cmbody and reflect
his tastes, the bent and bias of his percep>
tons of grace and beauty. In it he holds
up TIE mirror Of llis inner life to all who
pass; and with an observant eye they may
see all the features of his intellectual be-
ing in it. In that choice rodsof earth he
records his progress in mental cultivation
and professional experience. In it he
marks by some intelligent sign, his scicn-
tifie and successful ceremonies in the corn
field. In it you my see the germs Of his
reading, and you can almost tell the mum
Der and nature of his books In it he will
produce the seed thought he has culled
from the printed pages of his library. In
it he will post an answer to the question
whether he has any reading at ALL The
house of many 4 nominal farmer has been
passed by the book agent without Il call,
because he saw blunt, gruff negative to
Year: 1866

CoNsCIENTIOUSNEss In a town in
Connecticut resides a man who made for
tune in the milk business, Icy not giving
the full measure las he grew rich he thought
he would change his occupation to seise-
thing more respectable, and accordingly
bought grist mill. In conversation with
his wife, he said he did not feel right about
the cheating he had practiced in the milk
busiEess, and wished way could be de-
vised whereby he could repay in the grist
mill what he had cheated in the other. At
last they settled on the following plan,
which was, to have measures with which
they took toll, as much too large as the
milk measures were too small
Year: 1866

This Old veteran, the New \ York Herald
says, unhesitatingly indorses the p5EC5 OF
President johnson, and approves of his
Twenty second February speech. The
strunch old soldier expresses the hope that
he will yet see the north and south more
firmly bound together than ever, and that
to effect this President j ohnson has adopted
the only true and proper course
Year: 1866

"MIsPLAcED CONFIDENCE. speaker
Colfax was SO confident the President
would sign the Freedmen's Bureau bill
that he wagered box Of cigars on it with
member of the House On Tuesday
morning the member found the box on his
desk, indorsed, From a victim of misplaced
confidence. The honorable Speaker was
not the only victim.
Year: 1866

During the year ending Sept. 30th,
1866, S,756 patents for useful inventions
and designs were issued. At that date
the balance in the Treasury to the credit
of the patent fund, was s228, ,297, As a
subject upon which depends an immense
amount of the probationary commerce of
the country, recommend to Congress
such legislation as may be necessary for
the preservation of the Mississippi river.
1t is a matter of national Importance, that
every step should be taken-not only to
add to the efficiency of those barriers
against destructive inundations-but for
the removal of all distractions to the free
and safe navigation Of that great channel
of trade and commerce.
Year: 1866

The entire success Of the Atlantic
Telegraph Gable between the coast of Ire
land and the Province Of New Foundland,
is an achievement which has been Justly
greeted in both hcmisphercs as the open
ing Of an era in the progress of civiliza-
ton. There is reason to expect that equal
success will attend. and even greater re-
suits follow the enterprise for connecting
the continents through the Pacific Ocean,
BY the projected line OF telegraph between
Kamschatka and the Russian Possessions
IN America.
Year: 1866

Or course the Constitutional Amend
ments will he adopted By the Scurh, anl
the paciication of the country inaugursted.
if the policy of the Peoples Congress is
resolutely sustained by the People and the
President checked in his mad career of
revolutionary disturbance. kilograms like
the following from States lately in rebellion
have become frequent in the last four weeks:


prominent Sontherners just from the
North report that the popular sentiment is
entirely with Congress, and this creates
much alarm among the politicians. Tho
Picayune has changed its editors, and il is
understood that it will in the future advO-
cate the immediate adoption of the Con
stitutional Amendment. The Bee also gives
the Amendment tacit support"


Hurry up tho happy day which shall see
a reunited and a racfed country We
especially invoke the merchants Of this great
commercial city to give their best endeavors
to settle Immediately and forever the mis-
cradle strife which among its other evil, has
unsettled trade. made credits to the South
insecure, retarded industry there. has
alarmed Northern capital and stopped its
flew to the unreconstructsd States for in
vestment in mining, manufacturing and
agricultural enterprises. Your interest in
giving a settled policy to the country is su
preme. The People, beyond all doubt, are
infsxibly determined that that policy shall
be the one which they have declared
through their Congress. Accept it, and
help to establish it, 1t will give quiet to
the whole country, restore friendly relations,
revive business, and invigorate the produo
tion of national wealth. N. Y. Trib.
Year: 1866

Il TIE aim of education should be to teach


us rather how to think than what TO think
rather to improve our minds SO as to
make us think for ourselves, than to load
the memory with the thoughts OF other men.
Year: 1866

Bayard Taylor, in crossing the Rocky
Mountains found a nest of young eagles,
He writes: We rode forward over what is
called the Second BOTTOM low table


land rising into hills milo from the riy-
er, covered with a uniform growth of
silvery sage, and dotted with grazing am
telope. We heard the Cry Of an eagle
circling in the air over our heads, and
had not proceeded half mile further
before we discovered an eagles nest in
the top Of cottonwood just under the
edge Of the bluff We were able to ride
within one hundred feet and look into it.
Three eagles-awkward ,owlish creatures,
completely covered with thick gray down
sat on the edge of the nest, which was
huge structure of sticks, and yelped
piteously. 1t was rare piece of good
fortune for all Of us, mona of whom mad
ever seen (and probably will never see
again) an eagles nest with the brood in
it. a8 a
Year: 1866

The Commissioners OF Charities and Correction held
their regular meeting yesterday, the President In the
chair Repeated complaints having been made to the
Board Of prisoners having escaped from Blackwcll's
Island by jumping into the water and being picked UP
small boats lying in wal, for the purpose, they submitted
the matter to District Attorney Hail. who gave opin
Ion that any unlicensed boat found towering about the
island could be SEIZED and that any boat actually used
suspected on good grounds Of being used eriia,e
ly might be seized whether licensed unlicensed.
prcsennent Of the Grand Jury received recommend
accommodation for prisoners In the rombs the space
In thai building now used as court rooms
be taken 10 enlarge the prison accommodation
ceved for the erection Of the Inebrae Asylum and the
1owest-thst of n G. Weeks 70 do the mason work for
SO 600 and John Marshall TO do the carpenter work
sgs 47-were accepted In consequence OF picnic par.
ties interfering with the routine and also trespassng and
inlurng the grounds at Randalrs Island resolved
10 refuse permission pleasure parties visit that place
for the future
Year: 1866

The Philadelphia Clearing House Association refuse 70
take the bills Of such State banks deposit IS do not
maintain redeeming agency recognized by the assoca
ton


The following the footings OF the last weekly stale
msnt Of the Boston banks compared with tho previ
Year: 1866

the Union; to change the Constitution for
the purposes in view, can not but degrade,
impoverish, enslave and ruin the whole
people, but let sectional fanaticism, and
ambition and official extravaganza, be
hurled from power, let the Union be pre-
served intact; let the Southern States re-
vive their industry and restore their
wealth, and let each State provide for its
own poor and control Its own system of
labor; let this Government forever remain
a Government of white people; let the
public debt be placed upon the whole
|people-rich h as well as poor-aceording
to valuation Of property; let labor and
production be untrammeled, ,and the ruins
of the war viii soon disappear, ard the
people again be prosperous and happy
1t cannot be possible that a people who
have sacrificed so much to save the I'm
ion are at last to see it overthrown in the
Year: 1866

The yellow skies at eventide,


The mornings crimson glow
The bare brown rocks that peep above


The swiftly less'ning snow
The swelling buds upon the trees,


The mellow heat at noon,
Are sweet and. d.subtle prophecies


That Spring is coming soon.
The sparkling brooks freed from the ice
So That bound their gentle flow
. The stars as soft as eyes Of love-


The Southern winds that blow
Tho breath of balm from spicy climes,
Like the sweet air of jane
Speak unto us the welcome truth
That Spring is coming soon.
The early robin on the elm,


The blue bird in the hedge
The ripping of the forest spring


AdOwn the messy ledge
The purple haze that sails BY night


Between US and the moon 5.s..,s
All, all suggest the pleasant thought
That Spring is coming soon.
Year: 1866




Nessrs Et'itors,-I have concluded to drop you
a few lines. On reading the paper this morning
(the Dispatch of course), noticed that my silent
friend Struggle - has met with an accident.
| certainly sympathise with her, and trust
that ere long she may be able to WELD the pen
again. From the Dispatch Of to-day find she
has another adversary. Can any one see
Just cause why "Struggle" should have SO
many opponents Has she beenguilty of using
personalities? No. And am confident she is
fnstigated by no mean motive whatever
Why Miss Annie B. should want you to pub
lish anything censufing "Struggle 10
question l cannot answer. What the Inter
has written is true, and no one who has resided
here as long as your humble writer, can doubt


hear it rumored about that the town is to
have gas lamps in it. very good idea, but
it will not pay, as all awning-posts and trees
over here are held mp now by some Of our
"swells." Business here is all done on credit
system, except by myself, whose terms are
cash and no doubt have made many afel-
low pony up' who would not have done 1t II
he had had another pair of shoes. heard
restaurant proprietor say yesterday he sold
three hundred drinks, and his cash sales were
forty cents. Fine way TO get rich. The ten
pin alley amt making much money, but the
boss sees plenty of fun. If you, Mr.. Editor,
are fond of this amusement, wait until we get
the free bridge across; then you and all the
devils can come gratis. But the best Of all the
improvements that are to be made Is the great
canal that is to be cut through (the Dutch Gap
amt nowhere) from Port Walthall away up
to I don't know where; but IL we live long
enough, yon must not be surprised II you see
this town surpass Portland in commerce.


am at a loss to know what has become OF
"Citizen. Is he dead, or has he left Man.
chester, never to return as long as struggle
is upheld by her friendsi But trust ne mas
done neither, as we can i'll afford to lose any OF
our community, and especially good citizen.
PUSH On.
Year: 1866

DEING DESTROYS OF MAKING


room for our
SPRING STOCK OF DRY GOODS, &C.,
we have decided to opena


RETAIL DEPARTMENT


In connection with our


EXTENSIVE WHOLESALE
Therefore we have set apart the principal floor OF
OUR SPACIOUS BUILDING,
Nos. 100 and l4l MAIN STREET, EAGLE SQUARE,
where we will offer for the next thirty days our
PRESENT STOCK AT AND BELOW COST.
The Ladies are especially requested to give us q


call and examine our


EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT


before purchasing elsewhere.
fe lots J. STEENBOCK & co.
Year: 1866

~William Cain, aged about 10 wears, fell
INTO the weigh-lock Of the canal st Waterford,
New York, saturday, at the moment il was
being exhausted preparatory 10 weighing a
boat. He was drawn in an instant down
through the heavy timbers or the scales and
shot out with lightning-lIke rapidly by the
rushing current, passing under the canal bank
through tunnel about one hundred feet long.
and then over tall of ten feet into the open
stream. The bystanders had gathered on the
bank, expecting to see his lifeless body crushed
and floating down towards the Hudson. when
he suddenly emerged and crawled up the
wall unhurt. When asked what he thought
while coming through the tunnel. he replied
that ne Thought he would be in the river an
about a minute. I"
Year: 1866

SINGULAR WBDDING.-An exhibition of
marital GOODNESS took place in PIttsburg a few
days since, which is not often seen or co oualed
a gentleman well-known 10 the business COM
munity OF that city. and a lady very promi-
nent IN society there, had been acquainted for
some time, and their acquaintance had re-
suited In mutual promise of marriage. Bot
the wedding had been postponed for various
reasons, and at last the friends of the bride
decioed mat II shouli come Off on a certain
"wednesday. That evening the brother of the
lady waited on the expected bridegroom, and
demanded If he would marry her that even
ing After some parleying an Affirmative
obtain a clergy man. As soon as the perform
ance was over the husband took his hat statsd
that be had an engagement elsewhere, bade
the bride and the company good evening, and
has not been heard or since
Year: 1866

The World yesterday devoted over column to
what it called "the torture Of Jefferson Davis, in
which such adjectives as wicked" shameful -
damning," "horrible, &c, &c, abound.


Now, the official report made upon Davis condi-
tion does not anywhere show that he has been tor
tued that he has been treated with extraordinary
criminal severity 1t sets forth that he is much
shattered in mind as well as in body; but he was
that before the collapse of the rebellion 1t is no.
torious that during his reign at Richmond he was
often unified by nervous suffering, for any part in
public affairs, and for any duty, however trifng-
1t is not strange that man broken down in health
by neuralgia disease long ago as 1864, and since
then suffering the tremendous shock of failure of
all his wicked projects and tedious imprisonment,
should be in the condition described by Dr. Cooper.


But the World, which grows so furious at the suf-
ferings of Davis that it scarcely find words in
the language to express ITSELF showed no such sym
pathy with the thousands of Union soldiers who
were literally tortured to death at Andcrsonvile-
1t cared very little for their suffcrings; it is only
when the rebel chief who sent the brute Winder to
command at Andersonville and with whose knowl-
edge and consent our men there tortured by
his chosen jailor-it is only when Davis complains
that the Worlds sympathics are stirred


We should not find fault with this-for m en- must
be expected to sympathize with their friends-but
it is not right to misrepresent case and to charge
the President of the United States with 'torturing


prisoner of State; for if it is true that Davis has
been tortured the blame and disgrace would rest
upon the President.-N. T. Ere. Post
Year: 1866

The following interesting document was found
among the archives of the State few days ago
The paper is in the form of a circular, and the
blanks are filled with the replies and names given,
If the holder of the bond was not intensely South
ern" the bond was repudiated:
H,terrogatories to be Propoao,ded to -, erho is


claiming TO dralU Interest the Certificates OF State


Debt:


Are you the bona riac owner of the bond on which
interest is now due, or from which this coupon was
taken


Were YOU such owner before the 10Th day of
June, 1861?


If not the owner of the bond, are you the bona
ride owner of the coupon?


If you are, were you such owner before the end
of 26th of June, 1861?


If the owner of the bond or of the coupon of
what State or nation are you citizen?


If not the owner of the bond, of the coupon, in
what right do you claim the interest?
A.-As the attorney.
Give the name of the person or persons from
whom you received the coupon his residence and
business.


A.-Mr. jenkins, leather dealer, city Of Balti-
more.


Off not a citizen of the Confederate States or
either of them, are you a citizen of the United
States as il now exists of any State adhering to
the United States


And now give a full just, true and perfect ac-
count and discovery of the right title and interest
held by the person or persons under whom you
claim; and in like manner state whether such per-
son or persons has or have any right title or inter-
est therein in possession rcversion remainder,
whether the same is held by you or them in any
manner to evade or circumvent the ordinance pas
sed on the 26th day of June, 1861, in relation to
the interest of the State bonds.


A--These bonds are the bona fde property of Mr.
Jenkins Of Baltimore which have been held by him
as an investment for more than t1eLUe months mast
Mr. >, is intensely Southern in his feelings and
principles