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Year: 1866

CONFEDERATION In CASApA.-From the lower
provinces we have information of election
riots, tho killing Of one confederationist and
the election Of several confederate candidates.
Although public opinion in Canada seems to
be decidedly against the confederation schemes,
yet II is probable that the government, backed
by England, will manage to control the cleo
tons and push the project through. We look
upon tho Canadians as in state Of probation,
certain sooner or later 70 come into the Union.
What they may do In the interval Is really Of
Year: 1866

A NEW PILLow.-An especial good Office
has been rendered the sick by the Crown
Princess of Prussia Queen Nictoria's eldest
daughter) suggesting a new kind of pillow to
lay the wounded upon. Very small bits of
into a linen case, and this again into covering
of thin leather. This simple and inexpensive
invention. which is said TO be cooler than an
ordinary pillow has employed thousands of
little hands in Prussian schools and families


enormous patience being required 10 tear up
enough Of these tiny shreds 70 MAKE one
cushion.
Year: 1866

ANOTHER SHOCKING CASE OF CHILD WHIP
PING-The Oswego Times reports the brutal
whipping of lad 12 wears of age by his father,
a man named Euphrates Lake, of that city
Lake Is Seyenth.d Baptist. and whipped
his son IN most shocking manner because he
didn't want to work on Sunday, when told to
do so by his father. 1t is said tnat a short time
ago The same man turned out of doors his
daughter Is wears Old because she would not
woik on Sunday.
Year: 1866

CHOLERA PEEVENTATIvE.-I In many parts
of Europe, says continental traveller,
during the prevalence of cholera the inhabi.
tan,s wear small bag filled with camphor
next TO the skin. The bag contains about one
ounce of the gum,an is renewed once a week
From my personal obseryation.sayst the writer,
l can testify that the mortality among those
who adopted the above practice was extremely
small in comparison TO the number OF deaths
among those who used no precautions to save
themselves.
Year: 1866

a sToRYsis told Of an old lady who lived
near Rochester, who had never seen or travel
ed on a railroad. Wanting to 90 on q visit
20 a small town a short distance from the
city, she thought she would try one of the
pesky things. So she went to the ticket Of
fee, carrying her reticule on one arm, and an
odfashoned rocking char on the other. She
bought her ticket. walked on the platform,
put down her rocking chair, sat down in it,
took out her knitting, and went to work dill
gently Steadily she rocked and worked,
trains coming in and leaving as the car time
came round. The old lady made no attempt
to 90 on the cars, but kept knitting. The
last train was about starting, when the de-
pot master went up and asked her if she was
going out


" Yes, sir replied to old lady.


"Hadnt you better get on board and Sc
cure a seat p" said the depot master.


Thank you, sir, I'm very comfortable,
replied the elderly lady


The train lett. The master came around
again. Madam, shall have to disturb you,
it is late: the trains have all left, spd we
must close the depot. Shall send you to a
hotel?"


"Well," said the old lady, dropping her
knitting and holding up her hands, 'sint the
thing going to move? Here I brought nv
chair from home so as to bsve seat on which
some pesSy man couldn't squeeze himself
I've set here all day waiting for the things to
go, and here I've had all my trouble for moth
ing. / thought ii was long time moving.
declare that these here railroads is the big
gest nuisance and humbugs as ever was
and the old lady. with bag on one side and
rocking chair on the other gave & toss of her
head and marched off in high indignation.
Year: 1866

A blow from a lady is welcome, if she
strikes you agreeabiy.


Have the courage to, prefer comfort and
propriety to fashion in all things.


Il is better to love the person you cannot
mary, than to marry the person you cannot
love.


a new crinoline in Paris is in the shape Of
coat tails.


A woman will tolerate tobacco smoke in a
man she likes, and even say she likes it; and
yet, curiously enough, how the dislikes


Wells are not much worn. The newest are
octagon shaped, with tassel in each altern-
ate point.


"The divine right OF beauty, +" says Tunius,
is the only divine right man can acknowl-
edge, and pretty woman the only tyrant he
is not authorized to resist"


Gloves may be cleaned thus: Wrap q fine
cloth around your finger. dipit in new milk
and then rub on fine soap and rub the gloves
lightly. In all the above operations, the
glove must be on the hand.


Married couples resemble a pair OF shears,
says Sidney Smith so Joined that thaT can
not be separated, often moving in opposite
directions, yet always furnishing any one
who comes between them"
Year: 1866

A MAGIC TRIcK.-At celebrated Partisan
restaurant, in 1861, an extempore bet was
decided, interesting in its way. A Mississippi
gentleman won a big pile. He bet that be
would bring five hundred drops ont of an
empty bottle from which the last supernacul-
um had been drained.


It was done in the fairest way, without any
dodge, on the purest natural philosophical
principles. The secret is thus: There is 4
great deal Of moisture still remaining in the
bottle, only it IS dispersed all over the inside
surface in homeopathic particles, too minutes
to be poured ont in any way. You take the
bottle, hold it nearly horizontally, shake it
up WE'LL and strike the lower part OF the
neck repeatedly on your hand. Alter you
have manipulated it in this way for minute
or two Ohe length OF time depends on the
performers skill,) the moisture becomes col
lected and condensed in the neck, and then
you can Jerk out upon plate OF a sheet Ct
white paper more drops in quarter Of a
minute than you can count in a quarter of an
hour. It made quite a sensation at the time,
but SEQ spread about. a Frenchman who
was present exhibited the trick next night at
the Maison dor.
Year: 1866

AN exchange relates the following. Our
reporter was around hunting q house for a
friend, and called to see a family who were
preparing to yacate coy dwelling. As the
door stood open the reporter walked in with
out knocking, and his eyes straightway light
ed on the dame of the household who was
making frantic lounges with broomstick at
some object under the bed.


Good morning madam All I you have a
troublesome cat under the bed T


Troublesome cat?-no, sir, it's that sneak
ing husband of mine, and I'll have him out
or break every bone in his body ?


You WILL eh?' said faint voice under the
bed Now, Susy, you may rave and pound
and pound and rave, bnt I'll be dogged if
III come out from under this bed while I've
got the spirit of man about me-
Year: 1866

THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT
DEPRECATED.-By the mass of the peo-
pie, irrespective of party, the wish is
that the revolutionary attempt
of impeaching the President will not be
but some Of the Republican
journals do not feel exactly satisfied that
the malignants have made up their minds
not to engage in that undertaking. The
GAINESVILLE Courier, which is certainly in
tenseIy Radical enough, feels constrained
to say, in referring to a vigorous article
in the Chicago Republican, demanding
the Impeachment and removal of the
President, that q Congress would make
great mistake iritshould perform so gross
an act except for reasons not only tangt-
bic to the popular apprehension, but
impress Of sufieiency. = Ohio
Year: 1866

The inexorable law of fashion has carried our
ladies one step back towards the past. To the
goodly days of Queen Anne, when powdered
hair prevailed, aud the female head resemble6
meal bag, it was eminently la mode to be-
deck the face with small black patches which
were hrst intended to subserve the purposes of
female vanity, and which alterward was adopted
as the universal fashion. The origin of that
custom was due to the possession on the part of
the vain fair one, of dimple in the cheek;
which, perhaps, not receiving its due need of
attention, was recalled to the wandering eyes of
the beholder by small black patch defty stuck
on 10 Its neighborhood. The eye, .alighung on
the unusual spot, immediately took iu the &C.
cessory dimpe; and so the purpose of the wear
er vas achieved.


But ia course of time, the. impetus given to
this custom of dis6guring the face with these
patches led to other and more progressive i'm
provements. Thus, stars and flowers followed
the plain and unpretending circular spot
Thereto, after while, were added figures of
men and women; and finally chariot and four,
driven at full speed, was the most prominent
ornament of the beautiful faces of that time


The elegantes of our day, We must confess,
seem to be following closely in the footsteps of
their sisters of that earlier age, We have al
ready had, and we still have the hoop. The





trains to dresses, yard or more in length, to
be carried by negrillon, are quoted in the
latest fashionable intelligence from France
And now comes the black patch upon the face
to assert its position in the unity of modiste
toilette. With the combination of all these
(and with fashion combination is mpossible)
the outward make up in this practical-age, of
our monde elegant, will be spectacle of won-
derfui interest. Whilst the uuinterested public
the wary bachelors who ponder over the fan
tastes of the sex and congratulate themselves
that they are we'll out of it-nay laugh at the
sight that such a revolution in the wheel of
Fashion would precpitate upon US, no such
laughter would wrinkle the cheek of the fond
husband and the doting father who would find
himself compelled to foot the bills. There
would be ''deadly lively" feeling about him
when the day would come for the financial set
tiement. He would understand, in more re-
spects than one, how dear the wife of bis bosom,
Or the daughter of bis affection was to him; and
he would possibly linger with more regretful
interest upon the memory Of those days when
the question of new dress, or the suggestion
of new bonnet, never entered into bis daily
existence to disturb with their persstency the
current of peaceful life.
Year: 1866

The failure of the Merchants National Bank
of Washington City is very bad one 1t is
impossible yet to say what amount will be lost
by private depositors The Government will
loose about 100000, on account Of the depos
Its of Paymaster Parldng, who, in disobedeoce
of an order of the War Department, had depos-
tied over S750,00O in the Bank, upon an ar
raugemeut by which, as is alleged, be derived a
large sum as interest.
Year: 1866

The New York Post (RadicaD, speaking of
Judge Sharkey's statement about the mortality
of the negroes since the war, says If they have
fair play and die out naturally, no ohe need
trouble himself about it. Exactly SO. That is
about the amount of your sympathy for the
negro
Year: 1866

No oCoNvENTIoN-The withdrawal
Of the resolution of Mr.. Eustis, which
provided for the appointment Of a
committee to revise the State Consti-
tuition, is considered by many as the
final agitation of the question for the
present. The members Of the Legis-
lature--at least Of the House--appa-
rently had argued themselves into
the belief that it would be unwise
and lmpolitic 70 call . convention iieT
the purpose Of adopting new Con-
sttution, while the status Of Loui-
siana at Washington remained in so
unsettled condition; and yet the
advocates of a Convention would not
agree that the Legislature should
amend the Constitution of 1864, on
the ground that such action would at
once make it the legitimate organic
law of the State.


In this dilemma, we think the con-
cluslon is pretty clearly unanimous
among the Representatives, that it ia
best to drop the whole matter, and
we therefore anticipate no further
discussion Of, Or action upon, the
subject, during the remainder of the
present session. The Senate will.
under these circumstances, almost of
necessity coincide in the decision of
the House True Delta, 26tA.





EV The man who commits crirna
should himself be committed.
Year: 1866

NORTHERN Hay AND PorAToEs.-lt is no
uncommon thing to see large quantities OF
northern hay and potatoes passing along
our public highways into the very heart OF
the great agricultural regions OF the South.
We noticed day or two since some very
large consignments Of both these articles
raising ND the Richmond and Danville
railroad to Danville. Wecall Virginia the
garden spot of the earth, and yet she don't
raise potatoes enough for her own people,
nor hay enough for her own stock. we
suggest to the Agricultural Convention,
which convenes here next month, to In
auire into the expediency of inviting some
20. 900 or $4,000 Yankee farmers down here
to show us how to raise potatoes and hay
enough for our own consumption, and Q
supply for sale abroad.
Year: 1866

Run AGRorND.-Yesterday morning the
steamer GeOrgeanna ran aground near
Drewry's Bluff during the prevalence of o
thick fog. She was soon gotten of, and
lost very few minutes on her way to Nor
c,lI
Year: 1866

HUMAN DEpRAvITY.-For some weeks
past great revival Of religion has been in
progress at Laurel Hill church, Henrico
county, and at its close on Thursday night
over one hundred persons had been hope
fully converted. 1t was reasonably be-
lieved that so widely extended had been the
religious and moral influence Of these meet
ings that the whole community for many
miles around had been won from their evil
ways to the paths of uprightness. Alas for
the depravity Of man, one vile thief was
unaffected by these holy efforts, and on
Thursday night, while the congregation
were devoutly engaged in divine worship,
he made raid on the live stock and vehi-
cles around the church, and carried off a
horse and buggy belonging to Mr.. Thomas
L. Lyme, and horse belonging to Mr.. Yar-
brough. He has not yet been arrested.
Year: 1866




The papers are already Announcing
eases of hydrophobia in various parts o
the country. Innumerable cures of in
cursble diseases are heralded through th'
newspapers and never heard of sgain
In our exchanges we note the following
which seems sufficiently rational, at least
to be worth a thorough trial; i-3


DR.. Baisson, Lyons physician, claims
1 fhydrophobia. lie relates that in attend
ing female patient in the last stage OF
the canine rabies, he imprudently wiped
hishand with acknowledgements
with her saliva. There happened to be q
slight scratch on the forefnger of the left
hand, and, confident of his own curative
system, the doctor merely washed the
part with water However, he was fully
aware of the imprudence he had commit
ted, and gave the following account of the
matter afterwards: - L-irf7 ~


believing that the malady would not
declare itself until the 14th day, and hay
ing many patients TO visit, he put off
from day to day the application of any
remedy, that is to say, vapOr baths. The
ninth day, being in his Office, he felt all
at once pain in the throat, and still a
greater one in the eyes. His body felt so
light that he felt as if he could jump to a
prodigious height, or that if he threw
himself out of the window, he could sus-
tain himself in the air. His hair was so
sensitive that he appeared able to count
each separately without looking at it.
Saliva kept continually forming in his
mouth. Any movement Of the air indi-
Gated great pain to him, and he was
obliged TO avoid the sight of brilliant
objects. he had a continued desire to
run and bite, not human beings, but ami
mails, and all that was near him. He
drank with difficulty, and he remarked
that the sight of water distressed him
more than the pain in his throat. He
believed that by shutting theeyes any one
suffering from hydrophobia can always
drink. The fit came on every five min
utes, and then he felt the pain start from
the fore-hnger and run up the nerves to
the shoulder. In this state, thinking that
hls course was preservative and not cura-
tive, ne took a Yapor bath, not with the
intention of cure, but of sufocating him
self. When the bath was at heat of 90 |
Q23 Fahrenheit, all the |
symptoms disappeared, as il. by magic,
and since then he has felt nothing of |
hem" - Hl
Year: 1866

1t is rumorsd that the Herald viii make
a show of supporting the Union party as
soon as the amendment to the Post Office
Appropriation bill is adopted, stopping
the pay of any Post Master who may be
appointed during recess of Congress in
place of one removed for refusing to
support Andy johnson. Postmaster G..
A. B. thinks he can then be safe in his
office, and not support the President, and
thus stop his circulation from dwindling
Year: 1866

NEW YoRK. May 6.-The Herald's Wash
ington special says: Chief Justice Chase
had lengthy interview with the President
this evening. There are two constructions
placed upon this. One relates to the Con-
stitutional amendment to which it is known
the Chief Justice is opposed in its present
form as unconstitutional the other to the
Year: 1866

In the communication published in yes
terday's LEADER, signed IAN Old Fourth
Wsrder,' it was charged that the chair
man of the late Congressional Convention
refused to allow delegate to correct DR..
Curtiss' statement in reference to the vote
of the Fourth Ward on the ground, prob
ably, that the previous question was about
to be sprung. The temporary chairman,
Mr.. Perkins, called ON Us to say that the
previous question had already been
moved, hence his ruling the delegate out
of order. The statement made by our
correspondent Fourth Warder," namely,
that the vote at the primary meeting in
the Fourth Wand was less than the
Union vote cast at the regular election,
would have been proved by the figures
before the Convention had not the dele
gate who attempted so to prove, been
ruled out of order by the chairman.
Whether the delegate was out of order or
not we are unable to say.
Year: 1866

People who have cot their So teeth use
the sozODoNT, and all whs do, are willing to
declare to all who don't use it that it is the most
psrfest and delightful thing for the teeth they
ever dipped brush into. Jyl4
Year: 1866

About three o'clock last Tuesday o
squall Of wind from the northwest ac-
companied by tremendous fail OF
rain passed over a portion of our city.
For a momont the force of the wind
seemed utterly irresistible at points
where it had the freest sweep, and a
three story brick structure on Genesee
Street, the walls of which were nearly
completed, but unluckily not closed in
at the front, was thrown at once into
mass Of ruins, burying six men in
the debris, one of whom was instantly
killed. We give the particulars be-
low from the Daily Enterprise of We'd
nesday.


The wind blew scuttie and sky lights
off from the Bliss Block, and the rain
flooded the building, and considerable
damage was also done in other quar-
tars
Year: 1866

Of rolling bluffs on the right hand
and on the left with the broad belt o.
silver water here and there visible
through the dense foliage that every,
where marks the rivers border. In
front of you lies one of the much boast.
cd valleys Of Minnesota, fringed upon
either side by verdant groves, and dot
ted here and there by green islands OF
growing trees. In this frame work OF
verdure is set one of Natures most
beautiful scenes. Great golden fields
of ripened wheat from which comes ul
the hum of the busy reapers greener
fields of oats, the lusty corn and sill
yer headed barley, broad meadows
and undulating fields of pasture lands
through which roam fine herds and
hocks. Farm houses, neat and sub
stantial, great barns and convenient
sheds, tell surely of thrift and enter
prise. But even while we wonder at
these prospects of fatness a feeling OF
sadness comes over us as we remem-
Der that the harvesters are few and
that many thousands Of bushels OF
grain must rot upon the ground be-
cause there are no hands to gather it.
Men and women are all doing their
utmost, but all cannot avail TO save
immense waste, as rains have fallen
so frequently, that already the shocks
are just tinged with yellowish green
and the meadows are covered with the
blackened, ruined hay. But all this
cannot produce scarcity or want. 1t
only decreases the harvest of the vast
loads of produce that will soon be
seeking market at every available
point along the Father Of Waters"


What is true of Minnesota and of
western Wisconsin, will not hold good
as to other western States, and we
hear of abundant crops safely stored
in all parts below and eastward. But
the Spring sown wheat, which is so
extensively cultivated here, has ripen-
ed in season to be harvested during
the many pleasant weeks that have
passed.


Sportsmen on the Minnesota side of
the river are now busy in bagging
the chickens, woodcock and snipe, and
after the 18th inst, doubtless the same
activity in this line will begin in Wis
consin. There is no scarcity of game,
but hunters are also plenty.


Yours, Rovingly,
Year: 1866

A policeman struck rowdy on the
head with his locust; the rowdy on
his arrival home with bleeding pate
was asked what was the matter. He
said he had received a blow from a
ioO cuSS.
Year: 1866

ta'nty-an element Of danger in the State
such evils could not be corrected Yet there
we're signs tia. people were beginning to be
alive to the truth. Look at Peo,ia"-and he
mentioned several other towns where meetings
in support of the Presidents policy have lately
been held since the passage of the Civil Rights
Bill at is like water trickling along the
ground" said MIR johnson "You can see the
damp places here and there, and you know that
it will gradually spread. 1t will take time but
alter all what good can be accomplished without
trial and difficulty. If fail my regret will not
be for myself viii! hope that some one wiser
will rise up to do tho work " The President
uttefed these words in a somewhat weary aud
sad but very earnest tone. He continued with
greater animation: "My convictions are firm
aud strong, aud strong convictions are a great
source-the best source of courage to man.
have fought disunion nearly all round the
circle, and If am called upon to complete the
circle, / will Then could say most heartily
that would that could depart in peace"