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Year: 1867

Elsewhere in our columns will be found the
charge" yesterday delivered to his white and
negro jury by John C. Underwood, Judge Of
the United States District Court of Virginia.
As legal charge to Grand Jury it is wholly
beneath criticism, and challenges comment only
as display from the bench Of grovelling
malice towards the respectable people of Vir-
ginia, and a nauseating flattery of Stevens and
the Radical party. As an emanation from the
Supreme judicial functionary in this state, it is
diseraceful to his Office while, as literary
composition. il would hot be creditable TO the
brain of thick-skullcd freedmen.
Year: 1867

If it were the object of Judge Underwood to
disgrace his Government and the court over
which he presides, he labored in earnest yester-
day to carry it out in his charge to the jury on
opening his court We publish Il in our paper
to-day as it comes from the United States Court.
This charge, for the infamy of its aspersons Of
a whole community, finds no parallel in the
judicial annals Of any country on earth. The
world will wonder how such man ever got to
be Judge; but he will be awarded the credit
of making good use of his office to secure him
self notoriety in at least one way: that Of the
foul and filthy calumniation Of society.
Year: 1867

Underwood's charge to his Grand Jury yes
terdsy will be found in our columns this morn
ing. We have no hesitation in saying that
certain of its illusions to this city are the most
wantonly mendacious and brutally libellous ut
terances that ever came from the bench of any
civilized country. They sink their author be-
meath the fellowship Of the lowest jail-birds.-
It's impossible to give expression to the scorn
and contempt which every honorable man must
feel for the 1epravity ofa heart that can engen-
der calumnies so vile.
Year: 1867

Who'll press for gold this crowded street,
A hundred years to come
Who'll tread yon church with falling feet,
A hundred years to come
Pale, trembling age, and fiery youth
And childhood, with its brow of truth
The rich and poor, on land and sea;
Where will the mighty million be


A hundred years to comet
We all within our graves shall sleep


A hundred years to come;
No living soul for us shall weep


A hundred years to come;
But other men our land will till,
And others then our streets will fill,
And other birds will sing as gay,
And bright the sunshine as to-day.


A hundred years to come.
Year: 1867

\ FEARFUL SCAFFOLD SCENE.-A horrible
scaffold scene occurred the other day i'll the
prison yard Of Jauer, in SileSia. A young
woman. not of the lowest class of the pOpu.
lation was to be beheaded for gratifying her
jealousy of her former lover by an act that
had led to the death Of several persons
The faithless man had deserted her and
married another girl The deserted mistress
to revenge herself, set fire to his house, and
several persons perished in the flames. She
was arrested. convicted and sentenced to sut-
fer death. On the scafold. just ut the
moment when the executioner barred her
neck and was about to fasten her to the
fatal block, she broke loose from him and
hi assistants, seized the large axe that was
TO cut off her head, and then defied the
dumbfouuded officers to take her. They
rushed upon her, showered blows upon her
head. and finally, after she had slightly
wounded some of them in the scuffie, she was
knocked down and handcufed. She uttered
wild, terrible screams all the while, and the
executioner and his men tried to dispatch her
as quickly as possible-they tore her dress
from her shoulders, tied her feet and dragged
her to the block Although she still resis-
ted to the best of her power, the leathern
strap on the block by which the head of the
victim is drawn forward, was soon slipped
over IT, and the executioner seized the axe
Unfortunately. the dreadful scene had made
him quite nervous, and on striking he missed
her neck and cut deeply into her shoulder
and back. The blood rushed from the fear
full wound, and the screams of the unfortu-
nate woman grew heart rending beyond de-
scription. A second blow, dealt her few
seconds afterward, finally put stop to her
| suferings.
Year: 1867

IT is gratifying to occasionally hear or
read of matrimonial infelicities" being
amicably arranged. A case occurred re
Gently. in Minnesota, which must delight all
who admire free-love communion. A couple
having become disgusted with each other.
went to the Justice who married them, and
requested him to q undo the thing" The
Justice agreed to do so, if the wife was al.
lowed to retain the furniture. cow, and pigs.
The husband gladly consented, whereupon
the Justice unmarried them, and then
went with the woman to a clergyman and
got wedlocked to the fortunate owner of
household furniture, a COW, and pigs.
Year: 1867

A YOUNG man named Noble recently Wis
tied Mashkiil, Tennessee, to meet some
friends he had not seen for many years
One night he awoke fran a frightful dream.
in which he saw his father killed by an
assassin. So vivid was the dream, that it
was some time before the young man could
compose himself to sleep again. He did so,
however, and the next morning told the fami-
~ with whom he was stopping of his dream.
OF course they said it was very queer, but
nothing further was said about the matter,
Next day, however, gentleman brought the
intelligence that the father of young Noble
had been really robbed and murdered on the
same night.
Year: 1867

MARROW EscAPE.-The Nevada Transcript
Of the 22d says


Last Wednesday night family of emf
grants bound for Austin, encamped for the
night on the Henness Pass road, about one
and halt miles above Eureka They had
a team and some thirty head of cattle
During the night storm arose aud large
tree was blown down barely missing the spot
where the family lay sleeping AMI killing
two mules belonging tn the team A limh of
the tree pierced the mattrass. between the
sleeping woman aud her child
Year: 1867

Established expressly to afford tho afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Cases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders
Year: 1867

Ir's DARK.-The following beautiful SEN
timeDts are from Meister KarPs Sketch
Book, entitled "The Night of Heaven It
is full Of touching tenderness


cit is dark when the honest and honors-
bic man sees the results of long years
swept cruelty away by the knavish, heart
less adversary. 1t is dark when he feels
the clouds of sorrow gather round and
knows that the hopes and happiness in
others are fading with his own. But of
that memory of past integrity will be a
true consolation, and assure him even here
on earth of CLEANS Of light in heaven. It
is dark when the dear voice Of that sweet
child once SO fondly loved, is no more
heard around in murmurs. Dark when the
light patterlng feet no more resound with
out the threshold, or ascend step by step
up stairs. Dark when some we'll known
air recalls the strain once oft attuned by
childish voice now hushed in death /! Dark
ness but only the gloon which now her
aids the day-spring Immortality, and the
infinite light Of Heaven"
Year: 1867

refusal of at least one hundred applicants
desirous of embaFking on the packet which
is to sail on the 29d inst. They were com
ing and going constantly to and from his
Office, merely mention these facts to
show you that emigration has indeed be-
come q contagion.
Year: 1867

To CEMENT BROKEN GL.Ass.-Melt one
ounce Of isinglas5 IN two wineglassful of
spirits of wine over moderate fire. TAX
ing care that the spirits of wine shall not
boil over. When thoroughly melted, it
will form a colorless and transparent glue
which will reunite broken glass or china
so firmly that the fracture will be scarce
" perceptible
Year: 1867

THE pen, in the hand that knows how to
use it, is the most powerful weapon known.
AS the tongue Of the absent, how cheering
When the golden tints of virtue guide it,
how beautiful When self-respect gives
it a new yigor, how pleasing When
scurriiity weilds it, how contemplate 'Tis
the weapon Of the soul
Year: 1867

TRUrH.-Tbe heaviest fetter that ever
weighed down the limbs of a captive, as
the web Of gossamer, compared with the
pledge Of a man Of honor. The wall of
stone and the bar Of iron may be broken,
but the plighted word never.
Year: 1867

NEVER waste arguments on people who
kon't know logic from lOgwood-which is
the case with people who love disPutatiOn.
The best reply 70 a stolid dogmatist is to
say "Certainly-no doubt-irs clear as
mud
Year: 1867

The editor of the Boston Post having
said that brides cake is a drug in the
Washington market. A young lady Of
that city writes to him sharply that it is
no fault of hers. We infer that she is anx-
ious
Year: 1867

Give stock of every description the best
care. sows becoming heavy with Young
should be separated from other large hogs
for fear of accident. As ewes approach
the lambing season, see that they are kept
well mp in flesh, though they need not be
fat Let them have little grain if neces-
sary. Fiji up deficiencies in your work
stock. Look to it that young hogs have no
opportunity of. lying in heaps of ferment-
inc manure
Year: 1867

Be sure to protect these from the hoofs
and nozes.of ihtruders. Let nothing touch
them till the proper grazing season come.


PLANTING TREES.


If trees are to be planted in the spring,
take an,opportunity of the ground being
in order to dig the holes the earth will
be better for exposure to frost. Set stakes
near trees planted in autumn, and fasten
the trees to them with ropes of straw
Turn over all piles of weeds and other
trash, and Kill the field mice you will prob
ably find there. Fill a bag with straw for
a cushion, and go on your knees, with
knife and probe, to hunt out the destroy
ers of your peach trees.
Year: 1867

Gather from every source material for
manures. Save very carefully, and COM
post the rich manure from the pens where
the hogs were fattened. See that the
spouting around your farm pen takes the
water well off, without carrying a strong
solution Of the manure.


LIME AND ASHES,


When these are needed and can be OBJ
tanned. get them, and spread at once upon
the surface Of any ground you propose TO
apply them to. Lands to be plowed for
spring crops, however, need not be dressed
before plowing,-Ameriean Farmer.
Year: 1867

EMIGRATIoN TO BRAzIL-The Imperial
Government looks with sympathy and in
terest on American Emigration to Brazil,
and is resolved to give the most favorable
welcome to any emigranls, and in particu
lar to Mechanics and AgriouIturists with
Year: 1867

Railways are symbolical of modern civ
ilization. No other contrivance is to any
thing like so high degree. The Indians
have been aroused by what they regard
as the intrusion of two railway lines into
final retreat. Rightly enough, they in
fer that the completion of these two lines
will speedily make an end of the primi-
tive barbarism. The present gathering
of the tribes in warlike arrav, has for its
object the dispersion of railway building
and the permanent Illustration of the en-
terprises. OF course such efforts come
in consequence of inadequately compre-
hending the resources of the white race.
But it seems probable that the work on
the lines may be retarded during the
summer by the forays of the savages.
Year: 1867

HuMAN BR0TmEhMoop. race " mankind
would perish did they cease 10 aid each other
From the time that the mother binds the child ;
bead, till the moment that some kind assistant
wipes the death damp from the brow Of the dy-
ing, We cannot exist without mutual help. All,
therefore, that need aid, having sight 20 ask Il
from their fellow morials, no one who holds the
power Of granting can refuse without guilt
Year: 1867

CAN woman be wciter than whom she
has a cataract in her eye; waterfall on the
back of her head orick in her back forty
springs in her hooped skirt and high.tied
shoes en- Yes, when she has notion


an ocean, in her head.
Year: 1867

come to their senses, The Superior Court
met at Salem in January. 1903. at which the
Grand Jury found fifty new indictments
tried twenty cases, and convictions In
three. But there we're no more executions
The spell was broken. In May there was
a general jail delivery Of all the accused
and condemned.
Year: 1867

MANLY little fellow of five years fell
and cut bis upper lip so badly that sur
geon had TO be suinmond to sew up tie
wound. He sat in his mothers lap during
the painful operation, pale but Very quiet
resolutely keeping back his tears and
means, In her distress the young mother
could not refrain from saying 90, doc.
tor, | fear it will leave dis6guring scar
Charley looked up into her fearful face and
said, in comforting tone: Never mind,
mamma, my moustache will cover it,
Year: 1867

BY TEIEeKAPH o


louisville March 2s-The Inauguration OF the
Clay monument will not take place until the middle
of Nav owing 10 the non-arrival Of the pedestal
from New York. No formal invitations have as Yet
bpen extended
Year: 1867

Going Back TO the Original State or Society.


For the want Of laws to punish crime, or
from crime being unpunished by such laws ~
we have, it is evident we are going back to
the original state of society, when every man
was law to himself and redresscd with his
own hand the real or supposed evils committed
against him. This fact was brought forcibly
before us in sermon by the Rev. DR.. Bacon,
delivered in Brooklyn on Sunday and pub
lished in the HERALD yesterday. The theme
was chiefly on the Stanwix Hall tragedy, as it 10
mildly called, or, in other words, the deliberate
killing OF Mr.. Hiscock; but the preacher
branchcd off to other cases and subjects, to
show the want of laws, or proper execution
Of them, and the consequent decentralization Of
society. There is no law in this State to
punish adultery as q criminal offence. II is
merely one of damages; consequently the
aggrieved parties make a law for themselves
and commit another crime. The killing Of
Hiscock by Cole is a case in point The last
crime is lost sight of in contemplating the first
The public and juries turn their attention to find
ing out rather how Ear the adulterer was guilty
than to the crime Of the murderer At che pres
ent time the dead alleged adulterer is on trial,
and not the living murderer. Can we wonder,
then, that such crimes are frequents May We
not expect many more of them while the laws
are so loose and inefficient and public senti-
ment is so demoralixcdf And why should all
the penalty Of adultery fall upon one Of the
guilty rartiesf If man can deliberately
take the life Of another under such circum-
stances without punishment, may not any oncs
from vindictiyeness or bad feeling, execute
vengeance upon his fellow man under the pro-
sumption Of adultery Unpunished crime b
the seed of other crimes.


But the cause Of crime is not only IN the
want OF lews TO meet 1t, nor In demoralized
public sentiment in such . case as this OF
Hiscock and Cole; 1t is found also in tho
loose administration Of existing laws. For
instance, we frequently hear Of notorious
forrers and other great criminals being let
loose upon society again before they have
served ont half or third Of their sentence.
AT this very time great efforts are being made
by men occupying most respectable positions
and by set OF seudo-philanthropish TO get
one Of the greatest and most notorious forgers


out Of the State Prison, and their influence ID


such hat they will probably succeed. Need
we be surprised TO hear Of plenty Of forgeries
| whom such criminals are thus white wssasdl
Year: 1867

Can Mr.. O'Gorman, the Counsel to the Cor
poration, account for the long delay that has
occurred~n the opening Of the Boulevardi
We understand that law was passed by the
Legislature giving power to the Central Park
Commissioners to forthwith open the grand
Boulevard all around the island. This will be
one Of the greatest improvements, after the
Park ITSELF ever made in the metropolis,
and will add immensely to the beauty Of the
city, the value Of real estate and the general
enjoyment Of the inhabitants. Yet there is an
unaccountable and deplorable delay in the
work. There Is rumor going around that the
Counsel 70 the Corporation has been searching
into the Law and has managed to discover
some authority or pretence for multiplying
indefinitely the commissioners to appraise the
property, - required by the act, and for turn
ing this great public work into profitable
lob. a. has been done in the case Of every city
improvement for the last ten or twelve years.
We are not disposed TO credit this rumor when
we recall ~ circumstances under whinh Ma
Year: 1867

The Coronation Of the Emperor Francis DO


seph as King Of Hungary.


Our special cable dispatches from the
different European centres were yesterday full
of interest By one Of them we learned that
the great coronation pageant at Pesth, regard
ing which suoh expectations had been formed,
and about which so much has been written,
had at last come of Judged from Hunga-
rian point Of view, we may say It has come of
with complete success. Hungary has resumed
her place as an Independent nation with
crowned head of her own, and has obtained the
formal recognition and ratification Of those
rights Of which it has been the steady aim Of
the princes Of the House Of Hapsburg for three
hundred years to rob her, and which were ulti-
mately swept away by the very man who has
now gladly accepted the crown Of St Stephen.
Time works wondrous changes, and seldom
have those changes been made more manifest
in an individual life than they have been in
that Of the Emperor Francis Joseph. The
Francis Joseph who stamped out the Hungarian
constitution and attached. Hungary as a de-
pendency to the Austrian crown on the 4th Of
March, 1848, and the Francis Joseph who on
the 9th of June, 1867, performed a feat Of
which Ducrow might have been envious, by
galloping up Coronation Hill and brandish-
ing his sword towards the four points Of
heaven, are one and the same, yet how differ
entl To many Of the hundreds of thousands
who witnessed the coronation the contrast
must have presented ITSELF Glad as we are to
record this other triumph Of popular rights,
and willing as we are to rejoice with the Hun
garians in their new found liberty and inde-
pendence, we cannot help, with our New World
notions, regarding this coronation business as
very much Of farce. It is scarcely conceiv-
able that it can be again repeated. Such .
meaningless display belongs as completely to
the obsolete past as the Field Of the Cloth Of
Gold or medieval tournament If Hungary
is to convert her newly acquired liberty and
independence to any practical account it must
be by other means than these. There is no
lack of Jews in Hungary. Let the Hungarian
people seek out some Jew statesman like Dis
raeli, who is now working such wonders with
the old fashioned Norman aristocracy Of
England, or some Jew financiers like the
Rothschilds, who will develop their national
resources, and more good may be expected
than can be looked for from such empty shows
or from being able to boast of having a
crowned head of their own.
Year: 1867

between two performances Of the Black Crook,
on Saturday and Monday; but probably the
only way to redeem the character of our
theatres and induce the people to visit them
Is to hand them over to the saints. Such
radical change Of proprietorship might effect
q reform.
Year: 1867


Small Partisans In tho Constitutional Con-


vention.


Greeley and James Brooks, who are men,
bers Of the Constitutional Convention, have
already shown themselves to be the merest
partisans, without a single qualification to fit
them for representatives in body intrusted
with the revision Of the organic law of the
State They are editors Of New York papers
and have been members Of Congress, either of
which positions might be supposed to ct man
Of ordinary intelligence for the proper dis
charge Of the duties devolving upon the dele
gates at Albany yet both Greeley and Brooks
have been belittling the Convention by paltry
exhibitions Of partisanship since the first day
Of its session. The truth is, Greeley appears
to have had an intellectual collapse since his
unbounded philanthropy induced him to be-
come straw bail for JEFF Davis, and he will
evidently have to begin again at the A B
@ of politics. Brooks is in no better con-
dition. Ever since his unfortunate career in
Congress, when he prevented the South from
securing very mild tonic of reconstruction,
and aided Thad Stevens in forcing down the
Southern throat the black dose Of the Military
bill, he seems to have lost his head and fallen
into condition of drivelling copperheadsm.
If the Convention Is to do any good, it will
have to ignore them both, and pay no atten-
ton to their partisan jargon.
Year: 1867

MEDICAL ADVICE.-Dr. Wm. K Dohery's
Medical and Surgical Institute is becoming sine
qua non to the welfare of onr State and health


OF our citizens; and his rapidly spreading reputa-


tion, although it may excite surprise, is but the
signal of skill. and follows as the natural effect
of such a cause. We are personally acquainted
with gentlemen who had suffered for years under
chronic disease and who had taken advantage Of
every available means that promised relief, but
without success, until they called upon Dir. Do
herty, who in an incredibly short space of time,
has given them entire relief. 1t is gratifying to
announce this fact, because the Doctor is gen.
tcman who seeks. not by defamation of others.
to establish his reputation or to rear the super
structure of his own upon the ruin of another's
fame. The Doctor conducts his Institute in snch
manner that must be gratifying to all his pa
tients. He examines, advises and recommends
without charge and the patient after hearing
his terms for treatment, can accept or reject at
pleasure. In no case does the Doctor make a
charge unless he fleets a cure. This, he is able
to do, because he feels the confidence which long
experience has given and no doubt the consola.
ton which appertains to that confidence. Per.
sons afflicted with either acute or chronic disease
would do well to consult the Doctor; at all events
1t can do no harm, as for consultation he asks no
Zee; nor does he insist on obedience TO his advice
1nlcss the patient places himself under his care.


his Offices arc on Sacramento street, opposite the
Pacific Mail Steamship Offices. L. News.
Year: 1867

thanks to God, and say "There was not
one trouble too much; there was not
one sorrow too piercing" And you
viii thank God in that land, for the
very things that wiring tears from your
eyes in this. Look, then, to that bet
ter land out of all the trouble of the
way, sigh for it, pray for it, prepare for
it, and enter into it.
Year: 1867

We are passing toward final rest our
selves. Do not regret 1t If the eyes
grow dim. You VIII see better by and


by. Il the ear Is growing heavy, do
not be sorry II your yosth is passing,
and your beauty fading, do not n1ourn.
If your hand trembles and your foot is
unsteady, with age, be not depressed in


spirit With every impeachment, with
every sign of the taking down Of this
tabernacle, remember that II is the
striking of the tent that the march may
begin, and when next you pitch YOUR


tabernacle, II shall be on undisturbeii
shore, and that there, with eyes uuwet
with tears, through an atmos-
phere undimmed by clouds, and


before a 4 God unveiled and never
to be- wrapped IN darkness any
more-thasI there looking back upon


this world of Ignorance, and suffering.
and trdnhfs, md upon the hardships Of
the wayyyou viii with full and discern
ing reason lift up your voice and give
Year: 1867

Two angels keep watch upon each
mortaI-an angel on The right and an
angel on the left-taking note of every
word and action. At the close sf each
day they fly up to Heaven with a writ
ten report, and are replaced by two
similar ones the following day. Ac-
cording to Eastern tradition, every
good action is recorded ten times by
the angel on the right, and II the NOR
tai commit sin, the same benevolent
spirit says to the angel on the LETT
''forbear for seven hours 10 record it :;
per-advenTure he may repent and pray
and obtain forgiveness n