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Year: 1866

BOsToN BOoT AND SHOE MARKET.-There is
little more movement noticed during the past
week, as the holidays are over, and our mer-
chants are now fairly embarked in the business
OF a new year. A few buyers have made their
appearance; and constant accessions are being
made TO their numbers. Most dealers look for
late trade, as a number of buyers have signi-
fed their intention of holding of until the last
of the month before coming on TO purchase. As
prices are very firm, purchasers will natural
ly try the market pretty hard before they buy.
but We do not look Tor any Stacking OF IN
prices Of goods this season as stocks are small,
and rates for leather and findings are not like
ly 10 go any lower. We notice more call for
shoes for San Francisco, the shipments from
Boston and via New York being Loco cases this
week and about the same number last week
This Is the first shipment TO that port we have
noticed for some months. The shipments for
the past fortnight Were 1900 cases more than
for the first two weeks of 1865. With a South
ern and Western demand for the coming wear
we may well expect a larger years business
for 1866 Than ever before.-lShOe and Leather Re-
porter.
Year: 1866

But few men die of age. Almost
all die of disappointment, pasSlonal,
mental or of bodily toll, or of accl-
dent. The passions kill men some
times, even suddenly. The common
expression, "choked with passion y
has little exaggeration in it; for even
though not suddenly fatal, strong pas
sions shorten life. Strong bodied
men often die young-weak men
live longer than the strong, fol- strong
men use their strength, and the weak
lave none to use. The latter take
care of themselves, the former do not.
AS it is with the body, 50 it is with
the mind and temper. The strong
are apt to break, or, like candle, to
"run !" the weak burn out.


The inferior in animals, which live,
in general, regular and temperate
lives, have generally their prescribed
4erm of years. The horse lives about
twenty-five; the OK fifteen or TWEEN
ty; the dog ten or twelve; the lion,
we are told, about twenty ; the rab
bit eight. The duration of life in all
these bear a similar proportion to The
time the animal takes to grow to its
full size. But man, of all the ami
mails, is the one that seldom comes
up to his average. He ought to live
a hundred years according to his
physiological law; but instead Of that
he scarcely reaches, on the average,
four times his growing period; the
eat six times; and the rabbit even
eight times the standard of measure
ment,


The reason for all this is obvious.
Man is not only the most Irregular
and the most intemperate, but the
most laborious and Woodworking OF
all animals. He is the most irritable
of all animals; and there is reason
to belieye-though we cannot tell
what an animal secretly feelS-that
more than any other animal, mar
cherishes wrath to keep it warm, and
consumes himself with the fire o.
secret reflections. Besides this, MAI
|. is the only animal that makes a wide
departure from those laws of nature
which control life. He takes on un
natural and health destroying habits
carrying them to the verge Of th'
grave, and clinging to them with
tenacity which yields not even to hi


better judgment. The lower order
ST animals never do this. Instinct
is their guide, and the superior du
ration of life they enjoy is proof o
the folly of man.
Year: 1866




TRoUBLES.-SOme people are as
careful of their troubles as mothers
are of their babies; they cuddle them,
and cry over them, and fly into
passion at you if you try to take
them away from them; they want
you to fret with them, and to help
them to believe that they have been
worse treated than anybody else. If
they could, they would have pie
ture of their grief in gold frame
hung over the mantle shelf for every
body to look at. And their grief
makes them ordinarily selfish-they
think more of their dear little grief
in the basket and in the. cradle than
they do all the world beside and
they say YOU are hard-hearted if yOu
say don't fret" ''Ah you don't un-
derstand mc-you don't know me
yOu can't enter into my trials. =
Blind amos, pub. by the A. s. s. Union
Year: 1866

I am touched, as I ought to be,
with all your sorrows; but can only
pity you, and pray God to console
you, You greatly need His spirit to
support you i'll your trial, and to ten
der your natural excitability on an
occasion so calculated to awaken it.
When God would teach US to die to
ourselves, he touches us in the ten
derest part; our weakness is the
measure of our trial Be humble.
Silence and peace, in a state of hu-
initiation, ere the true health of the
soul. We are tempted to speak hum
bly,, and we find thousand excuses
for it; it is still better to be silent,
for the humility that speaks may be
suspected. Selt-love consoles itself
a little by speaking, -.


DO not be vexed at what people
say. Let them speak, Willie you en-
deavor to DO the will of God YOU
will never succeed in pleasing men,
and it would not be worth the trou-
bic, il YOU could. A little silence,
peace, and communion with God, will
compensate you for all Your injus-
tice of men. We must love our fel-
low-beings, without depending upon
their friendship. They leave us,
they return, and they go from us
again. Let them go or come; it is
the feather blown about by the wind.
Fix your attention upon God alone,
in your connection with them. 1t is
he alone who through them consoles
or affiicts you. .....-..


All your tirmness srcquired in the
situation in which you are placed;
but your impetuosity must meet with
trials and obstacles. Possess your
soul in patience. Renew often with
in y0u the feeling Of the presence of
God, that you may lehrn moderation.
There is nothing truely great but
holiness, charity, fear of ourselves,
and detachment from the domain of
shhSe.- FeRc'Oa'S Letters.
Year: 1866

The eyes of all birds have a peculi-
arity of structure which, enables them
to see near or distant objects equally
well, and this wonderful power is car
red to the greatest perfection in the
bird Of prey. When we recoIlect that
an eagle will ascend more than a mile
in perpendicular height, and from that
enormous distance will perceive its un-
suspecting prey, and pounce on it with
unerring certainty; and when we see
the same bird scrutinizing, with almost
microscopic nicely, an object close at
hand, we at once perceive that he pos
sesses a power Of accommodating his
sight to distance in a manner to which
our eve is untitled and of which it is
totally incapable. If we take a print
ed page, we shall find that there is
come particular distance, probably ten
inches, at which we can read the words
and see each letter with perfect dis
tinctness; but if we move the page to
a distance of forty inches, we shalttnd
it impossible to read at all; scientific
man would, therefore, call ten inches
the focus or focal distance Of our eyes.
We cannot alter this focus except by
the aid Of spectacles.


But an eagle has the power OF alter
ing the focus of his eye just as he pleas
es; he has only to look at an object at
the distance of two feet or two miles
in order to see it with perfect distinct,
ness. OF course the eagle knows moth
ing the wonderful contrlvance which
God has supplied for his accommoda
Year: 1866

ton; he employs it instinctiveiy and
because he cannot help it. The ball
OF his eye is surrounded by fifteen lit
tie plates, called sclerotic bones: they
form complete ring and their edges
slightly overlap each other, When he
looks at Il distaul .i.ioct this little cir
Gle Of bones eXpanus, and tho ball of
the eye being relieved ttom the pres
sure, becomes fatter; and when he
looks at very near object the little
bones press together, and the ball of
the eye is thus squeezed into round
er or moro convex form; the effect is
familiar to every body; person with
very round eyes is near sighted, and
only sees clearly an object that is close
to him and person with fat eyes, as
in old age, can see nothing clearly ex-
cept at distance; the eagle, by mere
will, can make his eyes round or fat,
and see with equal clearness at any
distance
Year: 1866

The ADVICE ne gave President johnson on


Reconstruction.


The persistent efforts of Mr. Beech
er to cast blame on the Republican
majority Of the present Congress as
at least equally with President John
son-responsible for the grave existing
difference between them, impels me,
in the interest of truth and justice, to
make q statement of facts


| was one of the many who early
apprehended and anxiously deprecated
a breach between Congress and the
President Soon after our last State
election, and before the assembling of
the present Congress, went, not unin-
vited, to Washington, expressly to
guard against such difference. Be
ing admitted to. an interview with the
President, | urged him to call to Wash
ington three of the most eminent and
trusted expositors of Northern anti
slavery sentiment, and three equally
Year: 1866

@Out of a population of five thousand,
Fredericksburg gave one thousand two hun
dred TO the Confederate cause. Over one
tenth Of the number were killed or died an the
service, and at least ten per cent more are for
ever disabled. This is rather heavy on a small
place. Al the present time there are twenty
blacks to one white man in the town.
Year: 1866

condition, the only possible chance for any
thing approaching external peace or order
would be in physical as well as legal amalga-
nation but as the mulatto or mongrei pro
geny dies out within a certain limit, this, of
course, would render impartial freedom
just as impossible as ever.


1t is thus absolutely and obviously certain
that so-called slavery is the normal condition
of the negro, for he multiplies, and there
fore absolutely certain that mongrelism is
wrong, for both white and negro die out
wherever it is attempted.


The case then stands Just thus Abraham
Lincoln, representing the northern States,
took possession Of the common government
created for the common good Of the States,
and stood pledged to pervert it into an in
strument for forcing the southern States into
mOngrelism, and thus to bring upon the peo-
pie a social as well as political destruction so
awful, that in comparison, it were better the
earth opened its bosom and engulfed them
The endangered States seeded, gave up every
thing held in common by the States, and
only asked to be let alone and save them
selves from a social ruin so monstrous, hor-
rible and irreparable as that involved IN the
impious and monstrous effort to set aside the
order of nature and equalize widely separa-
ted species of human kind


In conclusion, therefore, Jefferson Davis,
though he made the error OF lighting the
battle on secondary issues, viii 60 down to
posterity as the champion Of American civili-
zatiOn and defender of the system founded
by Washington, and Abraham Lincoln if not
the greatest criminal that ever lived upon
this earth, will only be saved from it by be-
ing regarded as the most fatal lunatic that
ever afflicted mankind by his madness The
truth IS, Mr.. Daviss friends, or indeed him
self never fully understood the greatnes and
sacredness of the cause he represented, and
it may be that this generation will not do So
But just as fast as Americans get rid of the
monstrous and obscene lunacy Of Abolition,
and comprehend that sO-called slavery is the
normal condition of the negro, they win un-
derstand that, however much he erred in the
means, Jefferson Davis sought to reach an
end more just, benefeent and glorious than
any other public man or leader since the
days of Christ
Year: 1866

CaHSes Of Sudden Deatb-Very few Of
the sudden deaths which are said to arise
from diseases of the heart do really arise
from that cause. To ascertain the real
origin Of sudden deaths, an experiment has
been tried in Europe, and reported to u
scientific congress at Strasburg. SiXtY-six
cases Of sudden death were made the subject
of a thorough post mortem examination in
these cases only two were found who died
from disease of the heart Nine out Of
sixty-six had died from apoplexy, while there
were forty six cases of congestion of tho
lungs-that is, the lungs were so full of blood
they could not work, there not being room
enough for a sufficient quantity Of air to
enter to support life. The causes that pro-
duce congestion of the lungs are-coId feet,
tight clothing, costive bowels sitting still
until chilled after being warmed with labor
or a rapid walk, going too suddenly from a
close room into the air, especially after
speaking, and sudden depressing news oper-
ating upon the blood. These causes Of sud
den death being known, an avoidance of
them may serve to lengthen many valuable
lives, which would otherwise be lost under
the verdict of heart complaint That disease
is supposed to be inevitable and incurable;
hence many may not take the pains they
would to avoid sudden death, if they knew
it lay in their power.
Year: 1866

All the other Presidents put together only
cost the government about =, 100000 No
wonder the people regard this latter one such
a very dear man; and more especially so
when they take into consideration the cost
Of his administration, which has become a
debt this country can never pay.
Year: 1866

Our selection of SPRING AND
SUMMER Goods are daily expect
ed to arrive, and it would be well
for purchasers to note this fact, as
our purchases were all made after
the late HEAVY DECLINE.


HARRISGTuS B 60
Year: 1866

a farmer having made his fortune, moved
into a city to enjoy it, but his old love clung
to him. and he INDUCED in small way In
the agrestic pursuit. Visiting his friends
in the country, and relating his experience
in city farming. he said


o. put outside my window a large box,
filed If with mould, and sowed It with seed
What do You think came up 2"


Wheat, barley or oats


No; a policeman, who ordered me to re-
move It.
Year: 1866

PROGRESS OF TIE PARIS EXHIBITION
BuI1DINo.-The Paris correspondent of the
London Morning Star writes.


THE Champs de Mars is one vast scene
of eScavating, levelling, engineering and
erecting railways run over the Point de Jena
carrying earth to the Trocadero, which is
being levelled. The Trocadero is the height
opposite the Ecole Militaire, and the spot on
which was to have been erected the marble
palace for that poor Prince who thus wrote
his own melancholy epitaph Born King of
Rome-died an Austrian Colonel Rail.
ways run across the Champs de Mars, around
it, about it, everywhere; thousands OF hands
work night and day. But this is not all. AL.
ready there arises the skeleton OF the vast
Industrial Palace A large segment of the
vast circular iron gallery which is to run
round the building is already erected and
from it you can give slight guess at what
the whole will be-"
Year: 1866

An editor thus does up the biography
of a recent accession to his household:


We have had SO many kind friends
asking about the baby, that we thought
it necessary to biograph the chap briefly,
and somewhat after the current style Of
the day: asa


It's boy.


He's buster.


Weighs nine pounds and quarter, and
old women tell us that he will grow heay.
ier as his weight increases.


He's the first boy Of which we've ever
been proprietor,and of course is the only
baby in town.


The old women before mentioned de-
clare him the very image of his pa:


IA faithful copy of his faithful sire,


in face and gesture"


But, in justice TO the youth, we must
say we think him an improvement on the
original world of progress you know


This young American is as old as could
be expected, considering the time he wa.
born, and will doubtless be too old fol
his father in a few years, if he has good
luck.


He is quite reticent on politics, and on
ly wants to be. let alone.
he thinks he favors Mrs. Winslow'I
policy.


We haven't named him yet; we want t,
give him distinguished cognomen, bu
the fame Of our great men is at presen
so precarious that we don't like the risk
1t is perhaps unnecessary to say, as al
biographers do of distinguished persona
ges, that the subject of this sketch wa
born at an early age, Of "poor but re
spectacle parents"


Itwas Bluejazy who spoke Of his spa
ternal pa" as poor, but ION it.
Year: 1866

Eg-We wish all to remember that. sub
scriptions 10 this paper must invariably be
paid in advance that no paper is sent from
the Office until paid for From these terms
we shall not deviate for high or low, rich
or poor, friend or foe, kith or kin.
Year: 1866

Wade Hampton, Of South Carolina, and
Gov. Humphreys, Of Mississippi, have both
spoken against the Constitutional Amendment
recently They both speak of the Northern
people as their "oppressors. This is bad
policy. Just in proportion as the South de-
nounces the North, so will the Copperheads.
The Democratic party foresees that through
the South is their only chance of return to
power; hence it studies to please" The
South has but to express its opposition or ap-
proval of a measure and it at once receives the
sanction or condemnation of the Democracy
Were the South suddenly to turn in favo r
of the Amendment the Democrats would at
once commence to endorse it, and before elec-
ton day they would turn upon us with the
same arguments we are now using. They op-
pose the Amendment not because they think
it so Objectionable, but because the South
thinks so.


There is nothing in the Amendment that the
North does not ask for as much as u matter Of
justice as a guarantee of security nothing
whatever is intended as punishment or an
oppression. The first two measures, against
which so much objection is made, would have
been insisted upon (has been for years. wheth
er the war had occurred or not As has beer
said, more magnanimous terms could not have
been suggested. Instead of the Southern lead
ers being imprisoned, banished or hung, as il
other countries where like offences are com
mitted, they are only asked to subscribe to al
additional clause to the organic law, which i
binding on all alike, and which is intended a
even justice to all.


The moment the Southern leaders and thu
Southern journals begin to abuse the Nortl
they excite suspicion. Such abuse can do NJ
good. Nothing has so consolidated the North
as the demands and arrogance of the South,
backed up by the Copperheads. 1t is now
generally believed tina: the Amendment viii
be ratifed--let the South set its house in or
der and cease its abuse. By that means til,
country can be restored to harmony and pros
perity. The Union party desire to see thi
result, and are working to this end. The ad
mission Of the Southern States is what tn,
Republicans wish.
Year: 1866

Is IT DEAD.-A Democrat speaker on Sat
urday last went into an argument to show that
the Democratic party was not dead The Ga
zette has been trying to prove the same thing.
From this we may infer that it has been very
sick, otherwise such report would never have
been started. There is no better sign of its
hopelessness than for its friends to speak thus
of it. 1t shows their fears.
Year: 1866

A CoTToN FACTORY-We call attention to
the article on our first page headed /" A Cot,
ton Factory in Smyrna" There is an awaken
ing to enterprises Of this kind in our town that
we hope will assume practical shape ere long.
The squandering of so much capital abroad,
which has proved such poor speculation, has,
it is hoped, induced favorable movements for
local investments Why not make such risk,
at home, if risk there be.
Year: 1866

COwARDLY.-Some low bred individual who
is afraid Of negro equality, applied the torch
to negro church in Thoroughfarc Neck last
week. A day-school had been started in it,
So much for Copperhead teachings. Talk
about the Torch and Turpentine party"
Year: 1866

~ Hostetter, Smith L. Dean, whose card ap


pears in to'day's issue, have added to their for.


mer business that of Wholesale Drugs and Chem


icals. They have made arrangements with one
Of the leading Houses on the Mediterranean, for
the direct Importation Of the best goods in their
line found there. Their Glass Works (San Fran
cisco Glass Works. are now in full operation,
manufacturing all descriptions Of Druggists
ware.


MEDICAL ADVICE.-Dr. Wm. X. Doherty's
Medical and Surgical Institute is becoming sine
qua non to the welfare of our State and health
OF our citizens; and his rapidly spreading reputa.
ton, although it may excite surprise, is but the
signal Of skill, and follows as the natural effect
OF such 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 DR.. 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 q gen.
tlcman who seeks, not by defamation of others,
to establish his reputation, 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
bis terms for treatment, can accept or reject at
pleasure. In no case does the Doctor make
charge unless he effects cure. This, he is able
to do, because he feels the confidence which long
experience has given, and no doubt the consola.
ton which -appcrtains 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
fee nor does he insist on obedience to his advice
unless the patient places himself under his care.
His offices are on Sacramento street, opposite the
Pacific Mail Steamship Offices F. News.


SPECIAL NOTICE. We would call the atten-
tion of OF our readers to the Grover & Baker Ma
chimes Their reputation is too we'll established
for us to attempt word in their favor but
would advise any person wanting reliable Fam
lily Sewing Machine, to investigate these before
buying "a word 10 the wise is sufficient"


U IT is AN lNDISPUTABLE FACT THAT
more disease and suffering is cntaled upon chill
dren by impure blood in parents than from any
other cause. Heads OF families owe it to their
posterity to see to it that their blood is kept free
from all poisonous matter that would have ten
lency to produce disease, suffering and perhaps
death to their offspring. Adams Blood Purifier,
prepared by Samuel Adams San Francisco, is
strictly vegetable preparation and is scientifically
prepared from the choicest and most effcacous
blood purifying remedies known to the vegetable
world and if used according to directions, will
restore the blood TO its proper condition in a
short time For sale at the United States Drug
Store, corner of Powell and Bush streets, San
Francisco and all Druggists. febl0 3m
Year: 1866

SPECIAL NOTICE. We would call the atten-
tion of OF our readers to the Grover Il Baker Ma
chimes. Their reputation is too we'll established
for us to attempt q word in their favor, but
would advise any person wanting reliable Fam
lily Sewing Machine, to investigate these before
buying. "a word 10 the wise is sufficient"
Year: 1866

~ About the last and smallest ex-
cuse We have seen put forward for the
Presidents apostasy. is. that be accepted
the Republican nomination for Vice Pre-
sident only. and that be is under no obi
cations to carry out the policy of the par
ty. Is President. This is equal to the
old topper who signed . pledge to quit
drinking; but being soon after found "a
drunk IS ever. be excused himself by say
ing that the pledge was not binding. as
it had no revenue stamp on it!