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Year: 1866

Some persons eat themselves to


death. When a man is sick be is


weak, and concludes that as when


he was well he ate hearty and


was strong, if he now eats hearth
ly he will become strong again;


well meaning but ignorant friends


are of the same opinion, and their
solicitations to eat become one of


the greatest annoyances of a sem


sible invalid. Nature purposely


takes away the appetite under


such circumstances, and makes


the very sight of food nauseating.
A sick man is feeble; his feeble
ness extends to every muscle of
the body, and the stomach being
made up of anumber of muscles,
has its share of debility. 1t re-
quires several hours of labor for
the stomach to "work up" an ordi-
nary meal and to give to it that a.
mount of work to do when it is al
ready in an exhausted condition,
is like giving a man worn out by
a hard days work, a task which
shall keep him laboring half the
night. Mothers are often much
afraid that their daughters will
hurt themselves by a little work,
if they complain of not feeling
very well; and yet if such daugh-
ters were to sit to dinner and sho-
vel enough food for an elephant or
a plowman, it would be considered
a good omen and a harbinger of
convalescence. A reverse of such
procedure would restore multi
tudes of ailing persons to perma-
nent good health; namely, to eat
very little for few days; eat noih-
ing but coarse bread and ripe fruits,
and work about the house indus
triously, or, what is better, exer-
,isa IN the open air, for the greater
part of each day on horseback, in


he garden, or walk through the
or over the hills, for
hours at a time. Objectless walks,
md lazy toiling in carriages, are
title better than nothing.
Year: 1866

A California editor, participa-
ting in a debate as to the best meth
on of building a certain bridge, OBJ
jected to Golfer dam for making
the pier. He said he early formed
a prejudice against the thing; his
uncle once had a cow choked with
a turnip, and for long time it was
thought she would Golfer dam
head off.
Year: 1866

VOLTAIRE ON MARRIAGE.-Vol-


taire said: ''The more married


men you have the fewer crimes


there will be. Marriage renders


man more virtuous and more
wise. An unmarried man is out


half OF a perfect being, and it re-


quires the other half to make


things right and it cannot be ex-


pected that in this imperfect state


he can keep the straight path of


rectltude any more than a boat
with one oar or bird with one
wing can keep straight course.
In nine cases out Of ten, where
married men become drunkards.
or where they commit crime
against the peace of the communi-
ty, the foundation of these acts
was laid while in a single state, or
when the wife is, as is sometimes
the case, an unsuitable match.
Marriage changes the current of a
mans feelings, and gives him a.
centre for his thoughts, his affec-
tiOns and his acts. Here is a home
for the entire man, and the coun-
sels, the affections, the example
and the interest of his "betterhalf"
keep him from erratic courses, and
from falling into a thousand temp
tations to which he would other
wise be exposed. Therefore, the
friend to marriage is the friend to
society and to his country"
Year: 1866

ELECTRICITY AND MUsIC.--It is
stated by cotemporary that Mr..
Barker, an organ-builder Of Parish is
the inventor of a mode of applying
electricity in the construction of
great organs, SO that the largest
organ may be played as easily as
pianoforte, and the pipes may be
distributed anywhere through a
church. The invention is now be-
ing applied to large organ in
course of construction for the
church Of st. Augustin, in Paris.
Year: 1866

The negroes at San Francisco
have been trying their right to sit
among the white folks at the the
atre. The Judge held that a pro-
prietor had a right to enforce such
regulations as would be most con-
ducive to the prosperity of his
business.
Year: 1866

Soar SUDs.-It is bad policy to
throw away soap suds, as they con-
tain the same fertilizing proper
ties as ashes and potash. Spread
them upon your garden or throw
them into your pig pen to be in
corporated with the manure there.
Year: 1866

The New Orleans correspondent
Of the Mobile Tribune writes:


The negro, take him as class,
has been a quiet, lazy, docile, ig-
norant being. His freedom, forced
upon him, has resulted in fewer
atrocities and outrages than any
one dreamed Of not seeing. Had
the men who did not fight during
the war kept out Of the way after
the war was over, the negro would
have taken his freedom quietly,
gone to work, and year by year
learned what that freedom pecessi-
tated him to do to render him
worthy of it; bat a set Of dogs
who never-fought have been at the
heels of the negro ever since the
surrender Of Lee--they have hal
loed freedom into ears that did
not understand the meaning of
the word-they have forced into
the minds of the poor darkies a
distrust of their former masters
they have encouraged the idle and
drunken-they have carried off
the earnings of those whom they
could get to work, they have, IN
one year, taught lessons of theft,
idleness, rascality, drunkenness,
rape; everything, in fact, which
the poor slaves were free from be-
ing profcients in before these
Northern heroes came among them.
Bnt now that there are set OF


men among us who associate with
the negro, encourage him in his
idleness and give him an eXagger-
ated idea of his political worth,
what can we expect but constant
trouble, constant collision? The
majesty of the law is humbled IN
the dust in the eyes of every ne
gro who, deserving punishment,
can get his case before such a per-
son as Mr.. Commissioner Shannon.
Year: 1866

he is dead the beautiful youth;
The heart of honor, the tongue of truth
He. the life and light of Us all.
Whose voice was blithe as a bugle call,
Whom all eyes followed with one consent,
The cheer of whose laugh, and whose pleasant wor
flushed all murmurs of discomfort.
Only last night, as rode along
Down the dark of the mountain gap,
To visit the picket guard at the ford
Little dreaming of any mishap,
He was humming the words of some old song:
q Two red roses he bad on his cap.
And another he bore at the point of his sword"
Sudden and swift whistling ball
Came out OF wood and the voice was still;
Something | heard in the darkness fall,
And for moment my blood grew chill;
/ spake in a whisper, as he who speaks
In 4 room where some one is lying dead;
But he made no answer to what said.
We lifted him up on the saddle again,
And through the mire ard the mist and the rain
Carried him back to the silent camp,
And laid him if asleep on his bed:
And / saw by the light of the surgeons lamp
Two white roses upon his cheeks,
And one just over his heart-blood red
And I saw in a vision how far and fleet
That fatal bullet went speeding forth
Till it reached a town in the distant North,
Till it reached house in a sunny street,
Till it reached heart that ceased to beat
Without murmur, without a cry;
And bell tolled in that far off town,
For one who had passed from cross to crown
And the neighbors wondered that she should die.


Atlantic Nonthl,
Year: 1866

PERILs OF CRINoLINE-A fine looking
Young woman, in more than the usual am
plitude of crinoine, entered thea re in an
Eastern city lately, with a beau, and was
making her way through the already filled
seats in the front row of the dress circle.
where places had been reserved for them To
do so with all the bold freedom of femnir
Y ung America, >he. stepped upon the Sc Is
when, unfortunately. her hoop, or rather the
lower .oop of her skeleton skirt, caught upon
the back of one of the seats as she went by.
and the fastening about the waist parting.
the whole concern came down ''by the run"
and as she stepped forward and out Of it,
was left hanging in full view upon the seat.
The change was astonishing; the full blown
belle at one moment; the next like a lamp
post with silk dress tied around It, For a
moment, also, the young lady was quite
unconscious of the accident; in another she
saw the full extent of it, and bushing Grim
son, sank into her seat, and for the next half
hour had undoubtedly the most brilliant
complexion in she audience. Though morti-
| flying to the young lady, the circumstance
provoked the rsibilites of those who wit
| messed it, exceedingly.
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 prac-
tice and thorough Investigation into the 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

2 Over the River they beckon to me,


Loved ones who've passed to the other side;
The gleam Of their snowy robes see,


But their voices are lost In the dashtng TIDE.
There's one with Itnglets Of sunny gold, ,
And ewes the reflection of Heavens own blue !;
He crossed In the twilight gray and cold,


And the pale mist hid him from mortal view.
We saw not the angels who met him there,


The gates Of the City we could not see
Over the River, over the River,
My brother stands ready to welcome me.
Over the River the Boaman pale,


Carried ano:her-the household pet;
Her bright curis waved In the gentle gale


Darling Minnie, / see her yet!
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And feariessly entered the phantom oarki
We watched II slide from the silver SANDS,


And an our sunshine grew strangely dark.
We know she Is safe on the other side,


Where all the ransomed and angels be;
Over the River, the mystic River,


My childhood's idols are waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet shores


Who cross with the Boatnan cold and pale;
We hear the dip Of the golden oars,


We catch gleam Of the snowy sail,
And 10, they have passed from our heart;


They cross the stream and are gone Tor aye!
We cannot sunder the veil apart,


That hides from our vision the gates Of day;
We only know that their barks no more


Shall safi with ours on life's stormy sea;
Yet somehow hope on the unseen shore,
They witch and beckon and walt Tor me.
And I sit and think when the sunsets gold
- Is flushing river and hill and shore;
shall one day stand by the water cold,


And list TO the sound Of the Boatman's oar;
4 shall watch for the gleam Of his tapping sail,
shall hear the boar as II gains the strand,
/ shall pass from sight with the Boatman pale
srs- ~. ,ho of 70 Shirt I.qndt
shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joyfally sweet will the meeting be
When over the River, the peaceful River,


The Angel Of Death shall carry me!
Year: 1866

ANNAPOLIS, Oct 26.
The Governor has decided to permit the
counsel of the commissioners to examine
witnesses. The Governor said he claimed
jurisdiction to try the case and pass judgment
on it; that he was responsible to no tribunal
but the Legislature Of the State that be
would proceed with the case without paying
any attention to threats, aud that he intended
day The Governor also announced that il,
in the course of the investigation, the limo
cence or guilt of the commissioners should
appear, he would act instantly even in tho
midst uf the proceedings.
Year: 1866

The subscriptions in aid Of the sufferers by
the late FIRE are progressing fsvorably. Two
thousand dollars were received from the New
York Stock Exchange yesterday and the
citizens are much pleased with tie gift. Bos-
ton is about forwarding large donation Of
clothing. The weather here is very cold.
Year: 1866

SEWING MAcHrSEs.-No article of house
hold use is so much desired as sewing ma
chine. So rapidly has this invention grown
into public favor, that it is now considered
almost indispensable to every family. Over
a hundred thousand families already expert
ence its benefits, and each week adds nearly
another Thousand TO the list, and so the ratio
Of the demand increases in proportion as the
advantages Of the invention become known.
The sewing machine of the present day is
not, however, the sewing machine of some
years back. Though retaining the first prin'
cples, many and valuable improvements
have been added, and various notifications
and alterations found necessary to increase
the speed and efficiency, render it more
simple and nosslsss, and adapt it to all the
different requirements Of the family and the
workshop. The Grover 4 Baker Sewing.
Machine Company, among the first 10 pro.
ducs practical sewing machine, have bsen
the most successful in attaining these results.
Their machines are now to be found 10 al
most every part of the world.


american Agriculturist
Year: 1866

% The political news from Washington
has not been very exciting for the past week,
but the dispatches say the pot is boiling and
bubblug, and another explosion may be
looked for shortly upon the passage Of bill
now pending in Congress to admit the Ten
nessee delegation. 1t is proposed to admit
these representatives upon the theory .h
Tennessee is out of the Union and must be
re.admitted, and the President mas distinctly
stated that he will veto the measure To as.
sent to it would be compromising hs own
citizenship, and giving virtual assent to the
idea that be is not legally the President of
the United Sates-a position that hs does
not intend to be placed in.
Year: 1866

The LAYSE CLA1M.-Ws are informed ny
gentleman residing in the vicinity Of the
Layne Silver claim, near Rock Spring, on
the Folsom road. that the company have
made arrangements to erect mill this
Spring, and work the lead regularly. The
ledge is we'll defined and yields handsomely
by working process. Some of the success
ful Washoe operators have taken an interest
in the Company.
Year: 1866

The last day of our Circuit Court ex-
hibited scene the like of which has
never been witnessed in our county be-
fore, and which it is to be hoped may
never be witnessed again.


It occurred in the matter of the
hnbedS corpus granted at the instance OF
Clark Everly against his wife for the
rendition of the body of a child born to
the parties prior to their separation.


Saturday last was consumed i'll the
examination of witnesses touching the
character of the husband and his fitness
for the custod yoft the child. 1t was very
interesting little babe, only about four
teen months old, aud called forth the
wnrnest sympathies of the by-sta nders'


The mother resisted the application
on the ground that her husband had
voluntarily abandoned her shortly
after the child was born, and left her
at the house of her father, (James
Lazzell, of this county, and had made
no provision for her maintenance since
that time, [about one year ago. and
that the child was of delicate health,
and ofsuch tender years that it requir-
ed that attention and care which
mother alone could bestow.
should deliver the child to the father


1t was then that a scene occurred
that beggars description. The mother
pressed her infant to her breast anC
clung with all the tenacity of life to the
object of her fond hopes. Her louc
sobs and agoniZing shrieks sent such
thrill of sorrow to the hearts of the by
ISLANDERS as only the voice of woman
in distress can impart. The HUSBAND
endeavored to wrest it from her arms
but could not do it, when the Sheriff
stepped forward to carry out the ordei
of tbe court, and succeeded in obtain
ing the child. The loud cries of the
mother thus doubly widowed, were
heard for several squares from the
court house, as she was led away sup


ported by her father and brother. Th'
| world to her was indeed empty, ane
she could exclatm, with lady Maxwell
'sFate, drop the curtain; l can lose NJ
more." -.


We do not know whether this Is Law
or not; but SUPPOSE it must have beer
so, or the judge presiding would no


have so decided. If il is, however, II Il
| a burning shame on American civiliza
tlon to thus tear from the mother!


breast child so young; and we thlnt
that in this country. where 1t Is on
| boast that all that is honorable ant
| courageous in men, bows before Tn
| virtue and affection of our women, ina
the law should be amended by the Leg


islature to at once remedy the evil ant


prevent recurrence Of such heart


rending scenes.
Year: 1866

In the early settlement of our country the
greatest anxiety was, how our people could get
manner of living has changed, so that many
people really suffer, and enough of every kind
around them. Why is this? 1t is because their
food distresses them Buy one bottle of Mains
Elderberry Wine and you will getrelief Then
buy case. dec4tf
Year: 1866

SERIOUS ACcIDENT.-ATr. John G. Young.
of Concord, N. H., machinist, while engaged
yesterday morning in putting up the iron front
OF the store of Mr.. j. G. Proctor, corner of
Middle and Market streets, met with serious
accident. While the workmen were hoisting
piece of the iron cornice to its position the
chain slipped and the iron cornice fell on Mr..
Young breaking his left leg badly near the
ancle joint, and otherwise bruising him. He
was taken to his lodgings at Mr.. J. H. Saw
yer's eating and boarding house in Market
street, where he was attended to by DR.. Foster
He was in such comfortable condition last
evening, that he will be taken to his home in
Concord this morning
Year: 1866

WE are requested to invite the attendance of
all desirous of having Congregational Church
established in the lower part of the city, at the
meeting to be held this evening, in the Vestry
of the Chestnut Street NJ. L. Church.
Year: 1866

SMAsH-UP.-A countryman's team on Com
mercial street, yesterday afternoon came in
collision with the buggy wagon of Mr.. George
s. Hunt, Slowing the horse attached to it round
and turning the buggy up over him. Mr.
Hunts horse started off at full speed and ran
afoul of another wagon nearly upsetting it, and
then run into another heavy team, with such
force as to disengage himself from the shafts.
Soon after, he was stopped and was found to
be but slightly injured. The buggy was
wrecked
Year: 1866

hereafter. We call upon the Sentinel
and its friends to meet us in this dis
cussion in such spirit as will produce
good to the State. Let us discard pre-
judice and passion. Let every consid-
Grafton of personal or political advan-
tage be forgotten. Let as think Of moth
ing but the best means ofrestoring the
State to the Union.


The Sentinel asks us if the Washing
ton Chronicle is correct in saying that
we have declared the Presidents plan
Ga failure" 1t is not correct. The
Presidents plan has our approval. We
were engaged seven months in trying
to carry it out. We are committed to
it by every consideration of interest
and honor. 1t is ga failure" only so
far as the people of the States have not
carried it out. There is no fault in the
plan. The fault is in the people who
have not carried it out. 1t was success
full in this State up to November, 1865.
1t may be successful hereafter, if taken
up and carried out in good faith. If we
will do this we will at once infuse new
life into the prospects of the State, and
render the President invincible in his
contest with his enemies.
Year: 1866

enterprise, or if he gets an Office of trust he
is sure to turn speculator; in short, whatever
he is, you may count on finding hard man,
without any of those amiable traits that
palliate villainy. We have all known such
men, and suffered from them They have
made our politics more corrupt; they have
made legislation more venal for their con-
nection with them. The church bushes for
them, the State is defiled by them, and soci-
ETY. justly regards them as among its worst
enemies"
Year: 1866

To those who get up clubs of five or more sub
scribers, one copy, gratis, will be furnished.


Subscribers who were cut off from us during the
war. and whose time of subscription had not ex-
pired, will be furnished the paper free on the
restoration of communication until the time be
filled. If they desire the paper longer after that
time, they must renew.


A cross Il mark on the paper indicates the ex-
piration of the subscription.
Year: 1866

1t seems to be probable that Tennes-
see will be admitted to her full privile-
ges in the Union during the ensuing
month. What shall be done to ensure
the admission Of NORTH Carolina p
The States went out of Congress one
by one, and one by one they must go
back.
Year: 1866

National Government. How many men. call
ing themselves loyal, arc willing to accept
these Copperhead assumptionss And yet this
is the pith Of the issue to be submitted 10
the ballot box for the popular verdict this
fall.


All tue Coppcrhead talk shout estates In
tho Union," and "ont Of the Unlon," is
merely sand thrown in peoples eyes to pre-
vent them from seeing tho simple actual
question which Is before them for their de-


We repent, the real question is on the Con-
stitutloual Amendment. The victors In u
war have perfect right to dictate terms 10
the vanquIshcd. The supporters Of the
American Union are the victors, and It Is
their right and privilege to say in advance
on what terms they arc willing to admit tue
ranquishcd Insurgents to participation in
tho government Of tho Republic. Tint la the
whole question freed from coppcrhcad clap
INN and s0DbistFT,
Year: 1866

the revenue; also, the limits of the anchorages
within which lading and discharging are permit
ted by the customs, and the same shall be notified
to the Consuls for public information.
Year: 1866

A QUEER WAY OF KILLING ONES
SELF.-A suicide of an extremely
CHASTITY character has been committed
in London. Charles Valance, a man
of so years of age, having almost sew
cred his head from his body by means
of a rather ingeniously contrived guillo-
tine. The deceased was found lying
on his back on form-his head being
nearly cut of by an ak, the handle Of
which was screwed to a bed post so
that it might be held firm. The bed
was drawn close up to a cupboard, on
the top of which a roller had been
placed, and to the end of the rope some
four feet long the deceased had tied a
large stone weighing about 80 pounds.
Having drawn up the stone to the top
Of the door, so as to give it fall Of four
feet, he had arranged matters so that
the stone was placed exactly over the
head of the ak. The deceased must
have laid down on the form, placed his
head under the edge of the ak, and cui
the rope by which the stone was sus.
pended with a razor.
Year: 1866

MAN-EArER.-A shark measuring
about I feet from nose to tip of tail,
says the Monterey Gazette, was caught
by the Whaling Company on Monday
morning and brought to shore. He
was regular man-eater with an i'm
mense mouth armed with teeth like a
picket fence. This is the first instance
We believe OF the presence of shark of
this species IN our waters in the memo
~ of our whalemen. and we hope the
climates will prove as unhealthy for all
his kind as it did for him. 4 much
longer though harmless shark is quite
numerous in our waters but they are
not speared after. There is nothing
valuable about the carcass except the
liver, which yields from ten to Fifty gal
Ions Of oil.
Year: 1866

Oh there's power to mike each hour


AS sweet rs heaven designed it;
Nor need We roam to bring it home,


Though Few there he that find it,
We seek too high for things close by,


And lose what nature gave us
For life hath here no charms SO dear,


AS home and friends around us.
We oft destroy the present joy.


And future hopes, nor praise them,
While flowers rs sweet bloom at our feet,


lr we'd but Stoop to raise them.
For things SO fair still greater are


When youths bright spell hath bound us
But soon we're tau INT that earth lls nausht
Like home and friends around US
The fricmls that speed in time Of need,


When hopes last reed is shaken,
Do show Us still, that com, what will,


We are not quite io"sakcn.
Though all w,re night, if but the light


From friendships; altar crowned Us.
'rwou'l prove the bliss Of earth WAS this
Our home AMI friends around Us.