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Year: 1867




The LOYAL Southern Association of this
civ, composed of large number of infiu-
eniial Southern men who have been obliged
to leave their homes because of persecu-
ton, will, on Monday next through Thom-
as j. Durant, its President, lay before Con
gress an urgent appeal, of which the fell
lowing is an extract: The President after
repeated assertions by Congress as to its
legislative power and In opposition to the
Executive power, and, also i'm opposition
to the expressed will of the loyal people of
the nation at the ballOt-bOx, still persists in
a contumacy that. if allowed to prevail,
will virtually unhinge the government
framework of the United States under the
Constitution. The attempt to hold i'm sub
ordination. to keep under the ban of disa-
bltv the Union element, and to hold it in
subsection to the rebel element, is political
course that can find no apology or excuse.
II is as suicidal TO the life of the nation as
il is unjust and wicked in purpose. That
portion ofthe Southern people who have
voluntarily abiured their allegiance to the
Government of the United States, and rs
the highest evidence of abjuration reviled
and denounced and made war against it,
and which have thus become the enemies
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been the people almost exclusively favored
by participation in political power. He
has made The support of his usurpation the
teS of his favOritism and encouragement,
whilst opposition to it has drawn from him
an exhibition of malicious animosity.
Andrew johnson has assisted to restore
them to temporary power under pretended
State organizations. He has diligently
worked and co operated TO assist them in
the exclusion of the Union people of the
So1th for the benefit of such only as would
uphold the acts of a depraved tyrant, re-
bu1ed by the voice and verdict of an in
dimant people. He still persists In bis at
rodous policy of giving the control Of the
South to rebels, as unrepentant of their past
crimes as the loyal people of the United
States are determined to establish and
MAINTAIN protective Government. 1t Is
maintained by this Association, by Con-
gress and by the loyal people ofthe United
Staes, that Congress alone has the power,
and the exclusive power to establish, main
tair and secure, under laws to be enacted,
protective republican Governments in these
Southern States. We further maintain that
no progress is possible to be made as long
as Andrew Johnson shall be permitted to
stand on his usurpation, defying the power
Year: 1867

Is 1T so lis the Dr. Nichols of Sacramento
nominee On the Democratic ticket for Secretary
of State, the same person who, when the infor-
nation came of the assassination of President
Lincoln. threw up his hat, gave three lusty
cheers and said it was glorious news?-EI.


So the record reads. The Sacramento Union
was loud in its condemnation of the act, when
committed, but now it is too busy reviling Union
men ana Union nominees to answer the above
question. The announcement of President Lin
coins assassination was hailed as "g glorious
news by the Democratic nominee for Secretary
of State-Dr. H. L. Nichols
Year: 1867

IT is the same unregenerated, fag end Of De-
mocracy, composed of unreconstructed rebels
men who reoiced over rebel victories and wept
when Atlanta fell-that now seeks to obtain po-
litical control in this State. Will intelligent
Union men be misled and fooled into the sup
port of such cause? If they are and that
cause should triumph, they will drink the bitter
waters of repentance to the dregs. Once let the
lean and pernicious leeches of Democracy fasten
TO the public treasury and the time will not be
long ere taxes will be increased fifty per cent.
Such has always been the experience under the
domination of modern Democracy, and We have
no reason to expect better things of that party
in the future.-Sdn Jose Mercury.
Year: 1867

NOBLE SExTIxENr.-To my mind the mere
election to the office of Governor would not of
itself be success, 1t is not satisfied with secur.
ing space but labors afterwards to secure the
good opinions of good people. would rather
never be Governor, than have it said as Govern.
or, have failed to meet the just expectations o.
the people of this city and of the State.-Georg
C. Iorhnm
Year: 1867


HemOrrhage In Fifteen Minutes.


Coroner Clawson was summoned Yesterday
afternoon to hold an inquest on the body of Mr..
Robert Wallace, Of the firm of Wallace &
Ewing, proprietors of the New York hotel,
situated on Penn street, near O'Hara, in the
Fifth Ward, who was killed by falling from the
third-story of the hotel building.


The deceased, It appears, had been in the
habit of occasionally going to the upper stories
in the rear part of the hotel, to watch the rats
in the yard Yesterday, about noon, he was
seen to go into the back room OF the third story,
and look down into the yard. II is supposed
that while looking out of the window he lost his
balance, and fell down into the yard. In the
descent, his right leg struck the point of a sharp
panel OF the fence with such force as to cut
large cash in IL, from which the blood flowed
profusely. The injured man was picked up, and
carried into the hotel, and Drs. A. NJ. Karr and
7. w. Shaw called in.


The physicians discovered that the femoral
artery of the leg had been severed, but by the
time they arrived all efforts to save him were
unavailing, and the injured man died in about
fifteen minutes after the accident. The physi-
clans state that the only injury sustained was
the severing of the artery mentioned, and that
if the artery had been closed as soon as the
injured man was picked up, the great loss of
blood, which caused his death, would have been
prevented, and his life would probably have
been saved. The coroner's jury, after eXa-
mining several witnesses, returned verdict
that the deceased came to his death by accident
ally falling out of third story window. The
deceased was about forty three years of age, and
leaves wife and family to mourn his loss
PGtS6Hg Dispatch, Sept. 80.
Year: 1867

Mr. S. E. Todd, in the course of discus
sion before the New York Institute Club,
referred to the fertilizing power of red clO-
yer as follows:


On the heavy, stubborn soils of the slopes
of our northern lakes, the production of red
clover has been Of incalculable value in re-
novating and changing the character Of those
stubborn soils, so as to render them more
productive from year to year. Under the
ameliorating influences of crop of red
clover, farms that produced scarcely a re-
munerating crop when the virgin soil was
first turned up with the plow, now yield an
nually heavy crops of choice wheat Or other
grain. The distinguishing characteristic of
red clover as renovator of the soil, is to
produce vegetable mould or humus Where
humus abounds in large quantities in the
soil, red clover is not the fertilizer required
But where the surface is not covered by a
stratum of fine mould, red clover can be
raised with eminent satisfaction and profit.
Our most extensive Pennsylvania farmers
understand and appreciate the excellence
and efficiency of red clover Almost our
entire country has got to TenOvate with red
clover Old and impoverished fields will
eventually be made to feel the ameliorating
inaunces of the efficient renoVatOr Of poor
and badly managed soil And this great and
desirable change will be wrought out By the
production of red clover.
Year: 1867

Notwithstanding for the Wicked Alone
to Read Some genius has got up a revised
decalogue, to suit the exigencies of our mod
ern social system. Here is a specimen ::
Remembers the first day of the week to
keep it holy The other six days thou shalt
labor and do ali thy work, but the first day
is the day Of the church in it thou shalt
not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter; but thy man servant shall attend
to thy horses early in the morning, and shall
see that thy equipage is in order, and drive
thee therein to tie sanctuary Of the Lord, and
he shall wait there, sitting without the Temple
upon the chariot until thou shalt offer the
sacrifice Of a broken and cOntrite heart,
upon the altar of the Lord, and he shall then
driye thee home, that thou maYest fare
suptuOusly on the repast which thy maid
servant hath prepared for thee in the sweat
Of her brow
Year: 1867

Painting on Glass-Take glass that is
perfectly clear-window glass will answer
clean it thoroughly, then varnish it, take
care to have it thoroughly smooth; place it
where it viii be entirely free from dust, let
it stand over night; then take your eBgraY-
ing lay it In ele8r water until it is wet through
(say ten or sixteen minutes, then lay it upon
a newspaper that the moisture may dry from
the surface, and still keep the other side
damp. Immediately varnish your glass a
second time, then place your engraving on
it, pressing It down firmly, so as to exclude
every particle of air; next rub the paper
from the back, until, it Is Of uniform thick
ness-so thin that you can see through IT.
then varnish it the third time and let dry.
BY this art you viii be enabled to take on
the following Colored or plain engraYings,
photographs, water colors, crayon, steel
plates. newspaper cuts, mezzotints, pencil,
writing, show cards, labels, OF, in fact, any
thing on paper. The materials used are two
ounces Of balsam of fir TO one ounce Of
spirits Of turpentine; apply with eamefs
hair brush.
Year: 1867

A man by the name of Milsaps had
difficulty with freedman concerning bale
of cotton, in the neighborhood Of Pontotoc,
Miss, few days ago, during the course Of
which he drew pistol and shot the negro
dead, Milsaps made his escape.
Year: 1867

The Chicago Times says " The Jacobin
national executive committee have fixed
on Chicago as the place for holding the next
presidential convention Of that party. The
Jacobins began their career Of President
making in Chicago; it is appropriate that
they should end It here"
Year: 1867

3: This Hand NepeT Struck Ne We
recently heard of the following touching in-
cident: A little boy had died His body
was laid out in a darkened, retired room,
waiting to be laid away in the cold lone grave.
His afflicted mother and beresved little sister
went in to look at the sweet face of the
precious sleeper, for his face wss beautiful
even IN death. AS they stood gazing on the
face Of one so beloved and cherished, the
little girl asked TO shake his hand The
mother at first did not think It best, bat the
child repeated the request and seemed very
anxious aboutit; she took the cold, bloodiess
hand Of her sleeping boy, and placed it in
the hand Of his weeping sister


The dear child looked at it a moment,
caressed it fondly and then looked up to
her mother through the tears Of afdiction
and love, and said. Mother, this hand
never struck me"


What could have been more touching and
and lovelyf
Year: 1867

A man, passing through gateway in the
dark, hit his nose against the post wish
that post was in hell said be. Better 70
wish it somewhere else" said a bystander,
" you might run against It again"
Year: 1867

The day is done, and the darkness
Falls rom the wings of Night
As a feather is waited downward
From Bu eagle in his flight.
1 see the lights OF the village


CLEAN through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling Of sadness comes Ger me,
That my soul cannot resist
A feeling Of sadness and longing.
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow Q aly


As the mistress Hable. the rain,
Come read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall sOothe this restless feeling,
And Danish the thought Of day.
Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors Of Time.
For, like strains Of martial music,
Their mighty thoughts suggest
LIES endless toll and ende8vor
And tonight he longs for rest.
Read from some humber poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds Of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start
Who, through long days Of labor,
And nights devoid OF ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
OF wonderful melodies,
Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the beuedictfOn
That follows after prayer.
Then read from the treasured volume
The poem OF thy choice,
And lend the rhyme Of the poet
The beauty Of thy voice
And the night shall be dIled with music.
And the cares that fest the day
shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.


IL. ". LOnQfeyJO1g.
Year: 1867

Only a day-and yet how long a story;
Only a drean1-and yet return il will
Only a curl from out the auburn glory
That crowned her head, now slumbering so
still.


Only a little life, and yet it led to Heaven,
The home that longer ones may never win /;
She had no Wanderiugs to be forgiven
Before the Golden Door could let her in.
Only a sunbeam for moments tinting;
Only a rainbow in a frOWuing sky;
And gone so sOOn-yet on our memories


printing
Those soft, sad images that cannot die.
Only a little bird to sing and perish;
Only q little heart to beat with iOy and love /.
Only a lock Of hair to TondIy cherish,
But just one angel more to welcome us abOvs.


-IldeDe43dellt.
Year: 1867

NEwsPAPERs----Of all the amusments
that can possibly be imagined fore hard
working man, after a days toll, or in
it's intervals, there is nothing like read
which, nine cases out of ten, is what
drives them 90 the ale house, and to his
own ruin and his family's. Tt trans
ports him into gayer, a iveler, and
more diversified and interesting scene /;
and while he enjoys himself there he
may forget the evils Of the moment full
lv as much as if he was ever so drunk,


with great advantage of finding him
self the next day with his money in his
pocket, or at least laid out in real neces-


saries for his family and without ahead
ache. Nay, it accompanies him to his
next days work, and gives him some
thing to think of besides the mechani-
cal drudgery of his every day operation
something he can enjoyWhile absent.
Year: 1867

NREAT REDUCTION in First Class FARE-
" WEST NORTH and EAST. via NETWORK CENTRAL and
NORTHERN RAILROADS. and TROY LINE OF STEAMERS from


Pier No a North River Of Spring daily SATURDAYS
Year: 1867

Docs AND WOMEN are the concOmitants OF
Cologne team, writes correspondent OF
the Springfield Republican. Belgium is
said to afford the most shocking spectacles
of woman labor, but cannot imagine any
thing worse than at Cologne. If God had
not gwen constitutions of iron TO these hurley
Prussian girls, their lot would have been
insutferable; but as it is they seem to be
reasonably happy in the task of dragging
heavy cart all day, with assistants in the
shape of a huge dog attached TO each shaft.
/ saw a ludicrous spectacle, which shall
never forget, as l was awaiting the steamer
at the bridge of boats over the Rhine at
Cologne. The guardians of the bridge had
swung open the draw to allow vessel to
pass through, and the result was blockade
of the Cologne 'teams' on the side of the
river next to me.


There was a long train of milk carts, each
one drawn by diminutive "dorg' arrested
before the bridge, and the sun coming out
rather warm, and the leas IN the shaggy
Jackets of the CANNES doubtless becoming
very lively, each dog seemed suddenly seized
with desire to investigate not only his own
fees but those of his neighbor; and series
of spasmodic bitings, howls, and recrimina.
tions with teeth and claws took place, to
which even the pencil of Dore could moi
have done Justice. The milkmaids could moi
arrest the proceedings-the train got gradu
ally entangled, the howls grew more ant
more vehement, milk cans flew about, and
the pavement grew white, but the contes
was irrepressible, and when L left three
black dogs had succeeded In freeing them
selves from the vile trammels of their shaft
and were administering salutary punish
ment to two yellow ours, with pointed ears
who had been the cause of the principa
disturbance.
Year: 1867

SINGULAR TEsT.-There is curious ordeal
in India, which shows the action OF fear up
on the salivary glands. If wrong is COM
mittcd, the suspected persons are got to-
gether, and each is required to keep guam
tity of rice in his mouth for certain time,
and then put it out again; and, with the
greatest certainty, the man who had done
the deed putt out almost dry, in consequence
of the fear of his mind keeping back the
saliva.
Year: 1867

ALMOST VICTIM TO VAN1TY.-The Mil
young Miss of the fashionable circles has
lately been moved by an ambition to take
the lead in the matter of personal charms,
and adopted an expedlent for transcending
the attractions of other cumulative damsels
and winning to herself the undivided adA
miration Of all the rustic swains of her
locality. Having heard that arsenic had
been successfully employed by fashionable
bellies for beautifying the complexion and
rendering the cuticle Of the countenance soft
and transparent, she resolved upon q course
of treatment, and on Tuesday last procured
a supply of the deadly drug. AS might have
been expected the foolish girl had little idea
of what quantities of the poison might be
taken without incurring the danger of
fatal result, even though aware, if consum-
mate vanity did not preclude an atom OF
common sense, that its introduction into the
system in the most minute portions must be
attended with ruinous effects. The conse-
quences were that the usual quiet section OF
the city in which she lives was appalled, on
Tuesday evening by the report of an at
tempted suicide on the part of one OF the
fair daughters, and rumor was very busy in
diyining the cause of the painful affair, until
the victim, in an interval from violent retch-
ings and the energetic operation of stomach


pump, was enabled to give an explanation


herself A fatal result was averted by the


skilful attention Of the physicians, and the


patient is In fair way of recovery. 1t is


to be hoped that the brave damsel will be


contented with nature's bestowments in the


future, and not again resort to such violent


means to overdo the 'pretty.'
Year: 1867

M NAOAhAs


BY uLA.
II grew by unfrequented paths,
Along untrodden Waysi
II glistened in the golden light
Of balmy summer days.
II blossomed In the summer time,
Beside the rivers beds
But when the snow lay on the ground
The violet was dead.
She lived In sequestered place,
She trod untrodden ways;
she grew the sunlight Of my life
In those old summer days,
Among the flowers, by the stream,
My love to her was given:
But when the snow lay on the ground
My darling was in heaven.
Year: 1867

SINGULAR SUNDAY OCCUPATION
A writer on the subject of "Benevo-
lent Blunderers," in Good Words,
gives the following account of some
obstacles in the way of a religious
life which will be likely to strike most
readers as novel;


A lady had gone to visit a young
couple Of the better class Of the poor.
They had as yet no children, and the
husband being. stoker on a railway
they were as yet above the reach of
want. Under these circumstances ii
seemed to their visitor that they might
have attended to their religious duties
at least TO the extent Of going to
church on Sundays, and she ventured
to intimate as much to the young wo
man who was standing rather idly at
the door. "Will you please to walk
in till | show you something p was
the woman's answer, and she conduct
ed her visitor into the little kitchen
where her husband sat by the fire
He had just come home for half an
hour to have his tea, and was watch
ing the kettle with all absorbing inter
est. He was of course, in his work
ing clothes, and his face and hands
were of deep oily black, after the
manner Of stokerS. "Now, ma'am,
said the woman, pointing to him, "yor
see that there man that's my husband
and I'm bound to do a part by him
amt l ?" Surely" said the blunder
er, anxious to uphold the duties of
matrimony. "Very well, then; would
you like to know how | pass my
Sundays A washing of he! Never
a blessed moment has he to wash him
self through the week, out early anc
late and half the night too, and black
er nor any crow all the while. Well
on Sundays it's fitting and proper he
should try to look like a Christian if
he can, so he sets me to it after We
has our breakfast, with a bucketful of
soap-suds and a scrubbing-brush, anC
| rubs at him off and On all day, till
my arms ache, and he amt much bet
ter nor he wor; and then after VT
has our tea, he says to me, "Come
Sally, have another try, there's a brave
wench, and goes at him again, anC
sluices him down, till you'd think ;
born niger nd come out white; ant
Iif you'd believe me, ma'am, when
lpolishes him off with a dry towel afor,
we 60 to bed, he's only light brown
after ALL What was to be said t,
such stubborn facts; especially whel
the good woman finished with tn
unanswerable argument. $50 you see
ma a'am, them as wants to be religious
had best not marry stoker."
Year: 1867

Horace Greeley is writing a series
OF sermons to the juvenile readers Of
the Little Corporal. The following
extract from one of them contains
good meat for older readers: 9Hos


"No man is old enough, or wise
enough, to solve all the problems pre-
sented to finite minds by what we see
and know. If the universe has Gre
ator, must there not have been time
when it did not exist? If God made
all things but Himself, must he not
have previously existed alone +? And
must not infinitv have been enlarged
by the subsequent calling of the ma
terial universe into being? Thus,
question after question may be asked
to which no satisfactory answer can
be given, and with reference to which
we can only say, with Tennyson:
sT sink upon the altar stairs, |
That slope through darkness up to God''


But when we quit the dreary do
main of speculation all is simple, cheer.
full, certain. We are not the waits Of
chance, the slaves of necessity
"Though now we see through a glass
darkly," we can yet see enough. to
render it certain that we are children
of an infinitely powerful, wise and
good Parent-too wise and too loving
to permit US to defy His laws with
impunity. He must punish every alb
erration from the straight and narrow
path of righteousness-that is, recti-
tude.


He would not be absolutely good
if He did not. To permit US to do
wrong with impunity-to break His
laws and secure thereby seeming per.
sonal advantage or qualification, al
the expense Of general injury-would
be to resign His benignant sceptre
and allow the world to drift helpless.
ly toward chaos and the unfathomable
abyss.


The vital truth is tersely summon
ed up by the Psalmist in thestatement
"The fool hath said in his heart, There
is no God" That is the one great
fatal mistake, which covers our globe
with misery and woe. But for this
there could be no libertine, no thief
no drunkard, no heinous transgressor
The conceit that Gods justice may
be somehow eyaded, circumventcd-
that the pleasures of sin may be enjoy
ed and its penalties somehow escaped
lis form of qualified atheism i'm
menSely more prevalent and more
baneful than any other. 1t is tn,
omnipresent prompter of greed, an(
lust, andindolence, and knavery. Les.
palpably absurd than the notion tina
nothing originated everything, it il
more widely cherished, more vastly
Injurious.


Let no one harbor a doubt of til,
universally, the inexorable, unavoid
able certainty Of retribution! Il
spite of all deceiving appearances, W,
reap as we have sown, and receive a
we have deserved, The succession
Of event to cause is not always instan
or obvious, appearances may oftel
seem to ignore or defy it as plainly a
the sun seems to revolve around tn
earth; but the truths only obscured
never subverted, God reigns; that i
the great first truth y