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Year: 1866

We publish below brief extract from Rev.
Mr. Lords New Years discourse, which relates tC
two young men Of his congregation-Charles and
Gilman Storrs, who fell, the one at Mobile, and
the other at Orange Grove, in Virginia. Their
friends in this place and elsewhere will be pleased
20 road this nntfaoynf them BY their pastor.


" | cannot but remember two bright and pleas
ant youths of this congregation-both members of
The Sabbath School, one of. them its librarian for
time, over whose SCARED bodies no tear OF
father or mother was shed, and no service OF re-
hgion OF love was said.


Many who hear me viii recall the face and figure
Of Charles Storrs and of his younger brother
Gilman, like scores OF thousands of Others in the
past few years, who have offered themselves up as
the price Of our welfare and happiness, as the
ransom Of our national existence, and of all the
untold blessings which are enfolded in it. They
persisted bravely amid the din Of battle and found
their graves unkneed, uncoffned, without prayer,
and without tear, within the lines Of their enemies
Over their unknown resting places shall grow the
ettacing yerdure of a hundred years, and though
no man can tell where they sleep that on that spot
of earth love might rear their memorial, yet many
thousand generations shall not the end of that
for which they gave their lives sacrifice, and
each drop OF their blood will cement in its measure
the structure Of national life and of indi-
vidual security. The grass OF the sod which COW
Nio Ahth EhpW bhoti anu WAlhtif anu ANo
flowers which the spring time brings upon their
hidden graves shall bloom and fade, but the work
which they contributed their all to further. shall
be their constant and sublime monument.


If our beloved land comes out safely from all
her trials and moves forward on brighter career
TO better destination, the coming generations
may look upon its massive and extended proper
tions, its towering and wonderful fame, and say of
each Of its thousands Of uncrowned and perished
sons, who rest securely in unknown graves through
the orange groves and by broad and deep rivers
of the South, and all along its valleys and hills,
" All this shall be thy memorial, this shall be thy
monument Beneath many marble piles shall lie
less honored forms and many a gilded epltaph
shall describe less worthy names, and recte less
noble deeds.


Excuse me, then, if ! speak now Of those OF
whom no other minister has spoken, and lay thus
late (now that affection has given up its last hope
that the dead may be alive) upon their memories
the tribute of their pastor and friend. Pardon me
if | speak to now childless hearts that never can
forget their sorrow such words shall temper the
edge OF their grief. Let me commend to them the
exhaustless fountain of a Divine love- and invoke
for them the highest fruits OF the Christening hand
of Cod
Year: 1866

Legislature, recently, Governor Andrew said the
Government ought TO require the people of the
States lately in rebellion reform their constit-
tons by first guarantying to people Of color, now
wards of the nation, their civil rights as men and
women, on an equality with the white population !;
second regulating the elective franchise according
to certain laws Of universal application and not by
rules merely eapricious and personal third, an
nulling the ordinances Of secession fourth, dis
affirming the rebel debt. lie would also have all
these propositions put to the vote of the people
themselves
Year: 1866

The American negroes who emgrated
TO Liberia have established there re-
spectable State, to which they invite
their black brethren in the United States.
The President Of the Liberian Republic
extends his invitation in the following
terms:


On the subject of immigration we
cannot but feel deep interest Our
population is still exceedingly scanty.
Our need of population is immediate
and urgent. Our immense resources
cannot be developed-the fruits OF the
earth, spontaneously produced--cannot
be gathered, the fat Of the land cannot
be made available, simply for the want
of minds and hands to engage. in the
necessary operations. Surely with the
vast latent capabilities of this country,
we have the ability to become power
by no means to be despised in the agri-
cultural and commercial world.


We have again and again invited our
brethren in the United States to come
over and help us to fill up the vast soli-
tudes. which for centuries remained uL-
inhabited: while they, in exile in the
Western hemisphere, are jostled and ell
bowed and trampled upon by an opp !.
sive race. But my hopes are as strong
as ever, and my confidence remains un-
shaken in the destiny of Liberia. She is
yet to be the asylum for the oppressed
American negro and a beacon for the
guidance of the benighted tribes of this
continent. may not be able to predict
the methods by which Africa's exiled
sons are to be restored to her bosom, but
feel certain that such an occurrence
will in some way or other take place.


1t is the most likely solution of the
vexed negro question in the United
States; and the only one that has yet
suggested itself to the most distinguished
statesman and philanthrophists of that
country. And it is gratifying to notice
that this view Of probable events is be-
ginning to be entertained by some Of the
leading blacks also Things are evi-
IDENTIFY tending to that condition when
the most Indifferent of our oppressed
brethren in the United States will be
compelled to give the question of emf
grafton a serious, studious and system
attic consideration question upon
which tkeir physical and political we'll
being greatly depends.
Year: 1866

Yesterday afternoon about O'Clock, colored
man by the Fame of Tom Washington, met with
an unusml accident. The statement of Tom is
that he lad entered car No LOG and had gone to
the front platform, when quarrel sprang up be-
twaen negro man and the driver; the former of
whom contcnded that he had not received the
right amount of change for bill he had handed
in. The driver now called police officer, and
commenced 'winding up" the brake. just at
that moment Tours hat fell off, and as lie stoopod
to pick it up, the driver let go the brake, ~
Year: 1866

colored boy by the name of Paine Anneole.
was yesterday shot by some person unknown upon
the Gentilly Road The boy, at the time of the
accident was riding on horseback on the Gentilly
Road, and passed what appeared to be a hunter
with gun upon his shoulder. Some conversation
ensued. The boy dared the man to shoot at him,
he says, and perhaps his manner was otherwise
saucy at any rate, as he was riding away the
hunter fired at him, shot penetrating the scalp
of his head, another going through his hat The
hunter then Immediately jumped upon the train
which was chen returning to the city, remaining
upon it until within square or two of the depot.
He left behind upon the train, his shoes, as a
token, the engineer says, and has not been seen
since.
Year: 1866

The dead body of a drowned man was yester-
day found in the river, near the levee at the foot
of BienVile street. and in the rear Of a steamshin
lying at the wharf. The man was dressed in a
blue shirt, and had apparently heen dead several
days. He was supposed to have been sailor.
His head was SAID to have been burt, and exhib.
tied indications of having haeu violently struck.
He was supposed, at tho Goroner's Office, to
have been 80 years old and to have died accident
ally.


An unknown man was also found drowned at
the lake end of the Portchartrain Railroad. Yer
dict, accidental drow ming.
Year: 1866

zT0.. Canal Street..


Adjoining Christ Church.


Is to be found ut bis Office from O'Clock A. NJ until
P ~ prepared TO attend to tn practice his Profession in
every department.


Every style of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, from the cheap vu
cante Base TO God and Platnn but particular attention
given to the Preservation OF Natural Teeth by Plugging
millions Of Hhch now lost or want Of TIMELY AND
JUDICIDUS jREAfMEkT. In this Department those who
have patrnzed him for than quarter IF acentury
this city say that be is Sec nd to None in his profession


lie has the laest improvement for Extracting Teeth Without
Pain Prices no higher than usually charged by Dentists
Gklll and GNperience.
Year: 1866

WASHINGTON News FRoM ABRoAp.-The
following item from Naples paper, iff rela-
ton to proceedings in our Congress is not
much more false and ridiculous than some
reports made by Washington correspondents:


Each member sits at his desk writing letters
or reading newspapers; if he wants to post his
letter he elaps his hands for messenger: and
if he is a family man he brings his children to
the House as convenient play for
them. While gentleman is speaking the
messengers race past him, and other mem
bers come round him and poster him with
questions, while the younger generation play
hide and seek between his legs. The breset
rank system to be extended socially is the
latest idea! That society should grant ladies
who can't manage TO get husbands the brevet
rank to act as married women. A difficulty
occurring between two rival editors in the
hall of the Capitol at Washington, six shots
were fired, with no other result than an injury
to Washington statue.
Year: 1866

THERE comes to us from Memphis as an ex-
change The Memphis Post, edited by Gene
raj EATON, and just such a staunch Union pa.
per, and occupying just such broad grounds
Of loyalty, liberty and justice, as must make
it an effective instrument in giving proper
tone aud direction to political sentiment in
Tennessee. With a loyal press the South
will be speedily regenerated. The Post gives
indications of thrift and prosperity, and we
hope it will secure permanent and distin'
guished place among southern journals.
Year: 1866

i


Cornelius O'Dowd, the most narrow, imper-
tinent and fippant writer who habitually airs
his tory prejudices in the pages of Blackuood,
is not accustomed to trouble himself much
about the truth in speaking of America, pro-
vided he can find something derogstory to
say. But in the following he seems to have
been driven by his oyerpowering hatred of
France and Louis Napoleon into grudgng
admission that Uncle Sam has really got him
self into the position of champion of the
worlds ring:


A more insufferable piece of insoleht pre-
tentlon cannot be imagined than what is cali
ed the Monroe doctrine. That my next door
neighbor should not live in certain style lest
the servants in my house should become dis
satisfied, Is too gross an absurdity to be enter
tanned. That whatever rules prescribe for
my family should be adopted by every one who
lives in the same street, is somewhat overbear-
ing; and yet, with all this, / declare am all
for the Yankee in this Mexican row. 1t Is not
the justice of the case want to think OF. 1t
is not whether France has right on her side,
and whether this demand to retire be one of
of those mandates high-spirited nation can
not submit to; my whole consideration is linn
tied to the fact--here at last the great bully of
Europe has met his matchl Here is Young
athletic daring fellow ready to 60 into the ring
with that finished pugilist that none of us have
courage to fight and who, even with gloves on.
doubles up in fashion far from agreeable.


America dares to hold language to France
that all Europe combined would not utter
There's no denying it; there's no qualifying it.
If we had Continental coalition tomorrow.
we could not venture to say what America has
just said. What Minister of Russia, Of Eng
land, or Austria would say to the French EN-
peror, I'VE were thinking of something else
when you slipped into Savoy and Nice the
other day; now that our hands are free, you'll
have to go back again." We are famous for
brave words in our Foreign Office, but does
any one expect that such a message as this
Will ever issue from Whitehall


We would no more provoke the Tuieries by
an insolent dispatch than we would go into
one of Van Amburgh's cages and KICK the
lion. 1t has become sort OF European su-
perstition that France can beat every one, and
/ am downright grateful to the Americans
that thew don't believe it, fla
war should break out between them and
France what side would you like to back?
saw America. I'd lay my head on the issue;
and if any gentleman is willing to bet an
eouiyalent-say another crown piece-I cry
~Done" and wait the event. ..a - l..,.
Year: 1866

For the benefit of our readers, both in
town and country, We publish the follow
ing recipe for making a wash for build
iues, which is said to look almost as well
as paint. We quote from the Chemical


Gazette:


Take clear water-barrel, or other
suitable cask, and put into it half bush
el of lime Slack it by pouring water
over it, boiling bot, and in sufficient guam
tity to cover it five inches deep and stir it
briskly till thoroughly Stacked. When
Stacking has been affected, dissolve in
water and add two pounds of sulphate of
zinc and one of common salt. These
will cause the wash to harden, and pre-
vent its cracking, which gives an unseem-
iugly appearance to the work. If de-
sirabe, beautiful cream color may be
communicated to the above wash, by add
ing three pounds of yellow ochre, or a
good pearl or lead color by the addition
of lamp, vine or ivory black. For. fawn
color, add four pounds o. umber-Turkish
or American-th latter is the cheaper,
one pound of Indian red and one pound
common lampblack. For common stone
color, add four pounds of raw lumber and
two pounds lanpblack. This wash may
be applied with a common whitewash
brush, and will be found much superior,
both in appearance and durability, to
common white wash
Year: 1866

DIsooURAGED-The New York Her
aid, Democratic paper, is saddened and
disheartened with the result of the New
Hampshire election. It is satisfied now
that the Democratic party can never again
be suceessful-that is is effectually "done
for" and that the sooner it disbands and
gets up another organization the better.
I'm fact" says the Herald, 'from its OBJ
noxious peace affiliations and peace move
ments during the war, the Democratic
party has lost the confidence of the people
who carried through the war. The parry
must take a new shape and new name
before it can expect to accomplish any
important revolution. The party record
of the war has killed it as dead as the
Bourbons"
Year: 1866

DRINK FOR MLcH Cows.-Cows that give milk in winter will add much to their profit by giving them bucket full of warm water twice day, with a kitchen with it. Every one has noticed how an extremely cold day will affect their milk, or when they have become wet even in summer. A little salt with meal floating on the surface of such drink. will soon teach any cow to drink it. They will drink at the pump all the better for little salt Maine Farmer.
Year: 1866

Those in wealthy circumstances, or who pursue sedentary employment within doors, generally use their lungs bat very little-breathe but very little air into the chest; and thus, indepen- dently of positions, contract wretch edly narrow, small chest and lay the foundation for the loss of health and beauty. All this can be perfectly ob- yiated by little attention to the man. ner of breathing. Recolleet the lungs are like bladder in their structure, and can be stretched open to double thear ordinary size, with perfect safety, giving a noble chest, and perfect inn munity from consumption. The agent, and the only agent required, is the com mon air we breathe, supposing, how ever. that no obstacle exists, external to the chest, such as lacing, or tying it around with stays, or tight dress, or heavy shoulder-straps upon it. On ris- ing from the bed in the morning, place yourself in an erect posture, your head thrown back, and shoulders entirely off the chest: now inhale or suck in all the air you can. so as to fill the chest to the very bottom of it, so as no more can be got in; now hold your breath, and throw your arms off behind, holding in your breath as long as possible. Repeat these long breaths as many times as you please; when done in a cold room it is much better, because the air is much denser, and will act much more power fully in expanding the chest. Exercise the chest in this manner, it will become very flexible and expansive, and will enlarge the capacity and size of the lunpe
Year: 1866

SALT AS MANURE.-A Correspondent with salt this season as manure. lie sowed it on barley and oats, at the rate of one hundred and fifty pounds per acre, leaving strips of unsown grain ill each field. in order to test the efficacy of the salt. He is confident that it ad- ded onc-third to his crop.
Year: 1866

No two human beings were ever alike
either in body or mind. In other words
nature has been engaged in making men
and women six thousand years without
ever making one that she thought it
worth while to repeat.
Year: 1866

"Well," I pursued, "can you tell one
whence the bright atmosphere that sur
rounds your home? Tell me how you
and Mrs Stearns manage to retain the
depth and freshness of your early love,
as you seem to do. l should think the
wear and tear of life would dim it some
what | never saw home where my
ideal of domestic happiness was real
lied before. 1t is what 1 have dreamed
Of"


The Doctor smiled, and pointing to
thrifty grape vine climbing over a neat
lattice, and loaded with purple fruit he
said:


"That vine needs careful attention,
and if pruned and properly cared for, it
is what you see it; but if neglected,
how soon it becomes worthless thing
So the love which is to all, at some pc
riod, the most precious thing in life,
and which needs so much care to keep
unimpaired, is generally neglected. All
my friend, it is little acts--trifes-that
so often estrange loving hearts | have
always made it point to treat my wife
with the same courtesy that character
lied my department in days of court
ship; and while 1 am careful not to Of
fend her tastes and little prejudices, l
am sure that mine will also be equally
respected


That night I rode home pondering
over the Doctors words, and reviewing
the years of our married life. was
surprised at my own blindness, and de-
termined to recall the early dream if
possible.


The next morning at breakfast, l as
tonished Alice by a careful toilet, chat
ted over the dinner, and after tea, in
vited her to ride. When she came
down in my favorite blue organdie, with
her hair in shining curls, l thought
she never looked lovelier. I exerted
my utmost as of old to entertain her.
and was surprised to find how quickly
and pleasantly the evening passed.


| resolved to test the Doctors theory
perfectly, and the result exceeded my
most sanguine expectations. For all the
little nameless attentions so gratifying
to woman's heart, and so universally
accorded by the lover and neglected by
the husband, [ find myself repaid
thousand fold; and I would advise all
who are signing over non-ful6llment of
early dreams, to go and do likewise, re-
membering that, that which is worth
winning is worth keeping.
Year: 1866

THESE BITTERS ARE PREPARED IN PURE
Bourbon Whiskey, from combination Of over twenty
different kinds Of roots barks and herbs which act
perfect concert with the other prepared from the
original formula given by the great chief Red Jacket
10 Dr. Chaplin, who used them successfully in his prac
tics for many years, and by their gined great
popularity in the treatment and cnre of Dyspepsia
Liver Complaint Constipation Sick and Nervous Head
ache, Fever and Ague, and all diseases arising from
torpid liver and indigestion. Persons suffering from
either Of these loathsome diseases viii find by the
Of these Btters, which perfectly pure aud free
from all those drugs and posons usually pat mp such
preparations and palmed OF unsuspectng public
single trial will convince the skeptcai
the RED JACKET there Is virtue that no other
Bitters possess,


They strengthen and invigorate the system.


They are unequalled for general debility.


They a cure for Dyspepsia


They give good and healthy appetite.


They assist digestion.


They purify the breath and acdity of the stomach
They cure DiarrhHA and Cholera Merbus.
They are the beat stimulant in existence.


They q preYentivs'of Fever and Ague.


They relieve Constipation.


They Nervous Headache.


They are perfectly pure and palafable


The genuine RED JACKET BITTERs are only sold
fn quart bottles by the gallon quart or pint


Bee that our private Government stamp is unbroksn
each cork.


Sold by All druggists and dealers throughout the
country.
Call fo- Red Jacket and take no other


Circulars TO the trAls supplied on application.
Year: 1866

When l was a boy of twelve wears. |


was working for twenty five cents a week


with an old lady, and | will tell you, l


had my hands full but | did my work


faithfully. l used to cut wood, fetch


water, make fires and scrub and scour
of mornings for the old lady, before the
real work of the day commenced, nv
clothes were bad, and had no means of
buying shoes, so | was often baretooted
One morning | got through my work
early, and the old lady. who thought |
had not done it, or was specially i'll
humored then, was displeased, scolded
me, and said | was idle and had not
worked. | said | had; she called me 4
''lIar. felt my spirits rise Indignantly
against this, and, standing erect, l told
her that she would never have the chance
OF applying that word to me again. l
walked out of the house to re enter no
more. l had not cent in my pocket
when l stepped out into the world What
do you think did then, boys? 1 met
countryman with team / addressed
him boldly and earnestly, and offered to
drive the leader, if he would only take
me on. lie looked at me with surprise,
but said he did not think I'd be of any
use to him. 20 yes, l will, said l ; Il
can rub down and watch your horses.
and do many things for you, if you will
only let me try. He no longer object
ed. got on the horses back. 1t was
hard travelling. for the roads were deep,
and we could only get on at the rate of
twelve miles day. This was, however,
my starting point. l went ahead after
this. An independent spirit,and a steady,
honest conduct, with what capacity God
has given meas lie has given you
have carried me successfully through the
world.


Don be downhearted at being poor or
having no friends. Try, and try again
l ou can cut your way through if you
live, so please God | know its hard for
some OF you. 1ou often are hungry and
wet with the rain or snow. and it seems
dr"ary to have no one III a city to care
for You Bnt trust in Christ and he will
he your friend. Keep of good heart. and
he determined to make your own way,
honestly and truly through the world
As l said, feel tor you, because 1 have
gone through it ALL know what it is
God bless you - Gen. NitcheIl
Year: 1866

The Rev. DR.. Hawks delivered a lecture before the
Historical Society of New York, some years ago, in
which be related interesting story illustrative of
female heroism. Among those who formed part of
settlement in South Carolina during the Revolutionary
struggle, was = poor widow, who having buried her
husband was left in poverty with the task upon her
hands Of raising three OF these the two Oldest
long fell IN the of their country, and she
struggled on with the youngest she best could


feat Of Colonel Buford, of Virginia. BY Tareton per
mission given TO some four or five American fe-
males to carry necessaries and provisions and admin
relief to the prisoners confined board the
prison ship and in jAls of Charleston This widow was
one of the volunteers upon this errand of mercy.
She was admitted within the city, and Drawing the
horrors of pestence employed herself 30 the extent
of her humble means in alleviatng the deporabls
suffering of her eountrymen. She knew what she
had to encounter; but notw outstanding, bravely
on. Her message of humanity having been fulfilled
she left Charleston her bu, alas her ex-
obliged TO breathe had planted her system the sesds
of fatal disease and she reached her home she
sank under attack of prison fever brave msrtvr
to the cause of humanity and patriotism The diving
mother, who now rests in unknown grave thus lef,
her ouly the sole survivor of hi. family 10 the
closed her the future Of orphan bov Tha,
became President Of ths free Republic for tha
widow was the mother of Andrew Jackson