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Year: 1866

A WORD TO You've MEN.- My friend did you
ever know, can you call to mind any single case
of person who, having his own way to make
in the world, spent bis time on the street, in bill
lard saloons, around hotels, or in any form of
dissipation or idleness, to succeed in. eminent
degree in any enterprise Look over your list of
friends and acquaintance and note their course.
Do you not find upon examination that those
who to-day are men of influence and honor were
the youth who made the most Of valuable time,
turning it to good account, and ON the other
hand do you not find those who stood at the
corners with cigar or pipe in their mouth went
from bad to worse, from worse to ruin Sadly
must the answer be made,-O that it were not
so-they have failed, win you not profit by the
experience of others? Go not thatway. Never
be idle Every moment of your youth is gol-
den one, use it as such; improve the mind fix
your eye upon some noble object be men,
The call is for men, will you not be one of that
number who can say, 81 am man.
Year: 1866

azs- Every family may make its own vinegar.
The Maine Farmer publishes the receipt for
making it, furnished by lady. She took the
parings and cores of apples, poured on boiling
water, with a little molasses and yeast, put all
into large stone jar and kept where it was
moderately warm. In three weeks it was good
sharp vinegar.
Year: 1866

Grudging the price Of one year,
Will never good husband make,


Because his wife can never know what is GO
ing on in the world, and his children will all be
copperheads and very ignorant appear.
The last line is thought by critics to be rather
too long for good metre, but the moral is excel
lent.
Year: 1866

Nsa- A little thoughtful attention, how happy
it makes the old |! They have outlived most OF
the friends of their early youth How lonely
their hours Often their partners in life have
long filled silent graves; often their children they
have followed to the tomb. They stand solitary
bending on their staff, waiting till the same call
shall reach them. How often they must think
of absent, lamented faces of the love which
cherished them and the tears Of sympathy which
fell with theirs, now all gone. Why should not
the young cling around and comfort them, cheer
ing their gloom with songs and happy smiles
Year: 1866

@g- The Rev. Mr. A--was more eminent
in bis day for the brilliancy of his imagination
than the force of his logic. AT one time he was
preaching on" The Ministration of Angels" and
in the peroration he suddenly observed ri hear
a whisper '' The change of tone started the
deacon, who sat below, from a drowsy mood,
and springing to his feet he spoke: guess 1t
is the boys in the gallery" g
Year: 1866

T. T. SHELDON.


DR. schENcK- Sir About two wears ago was
taken with very troublesome cough and pain in my
breast seven or eight months passed away without my
doing anything for myself Then applied to physi-
cian who attended me for about three months without
rendering any service. I also obtained the advice
and treatment of physician in one of the hospitals
and also the advice and treatment of two other nh
cans but all to no purpose During this long space
time was nearly dead; several times my friends came
to see me and witness my exit into the spirit world
was confined to my bed two months at one time, NY
breathing was exceedingly short gave up several
times all hope of getting better and regarded getting
WE'LL that was entirely out of the question. And to
think thIsday am well and hearty! was advised by
some of my friends to try Dr. SCHEAoK's Medicines.
accordingly bought bottle after BOTTLE until reached
the ninth then found decided change in my cough
for the better. suffered severely from palpitation OF
the heart and two weeks after commenced taking YOUR
medicine this difficulty ceased


When first went to Dr.. Schenck's Office it was with
difficulty that could get up into his reception room
so weak and so sweled my skin was as sallow as
though had the aundce; felt dull heavy and Sleep
less Dr. schenck, after examining me, said both my
lungs were affected, and gave me but little hope but
his medicines in about two weeks took right hold of
me it seemed to go right through my whole SYSTEM
The Pulmonic Syrup Seaweed Tonic and Mandrake Pills
all took right hold in the right place. The Pills brought
away great quantities of bile andlime the Syrup oos-
ened the matter in my lungs, which off very Free
the Seaweed Tonic gave me an appetite and everything
seemed to taste good.


To show what great power the medicines have in pu-
rfyng my system, and to show how bad was diseased
DesfS an S tils' Pdsseu my oo"eis, anu the great
quantities phegm and matter expectorated broke
out all over in large bOis that would continue to gath
and for about six weeks and had at one time
twenty-five boils. have nothing of the kind now
and feel like another altogether can safely say
that have not enjoyed such health for five years as
do now and cannot praise you and your medicines
enough. May God abundanty bless and preserve you
is the sincere desire of who has wonderfully
relieved through your agency and if any one desires
know with regard to the truthfuness of this report
if they VIII call upon any of my friends or upon me-
No Dryden Place, Thompson street, below Cad
waader Philadelphia, they will be perfectly satisfied
with the validity of the case = 2nis ~ n


Yours, with much respect. aan9ylsa ~ ~


MARY rSCHNAIDT.


The above case described, is perfectly correct
knowitt to be true, Yours, 7. B, MILLER,
Year: 1866

Elsewhere in our columns to-day we pub
lsh the result Of the municipal election held
in this city on Tuesday last. By reference
o the figures II will be seen that the Union
Republicans achieved signal triumph, hav-
ing carried every Ward and elected every
candidate nominated by that party. This is
a glorious victory when we take into con-
sideration the fact, that the Union men went
into the contest without organization or
concert of action, while on the other hand
our opponents were completely marshalled,
and brought out nearly If not quite their
entire strength. Although the Union men
labOred under many disadvantages they
worked gallantly and have demonstrated to
the friends Of My Policy" and the Copper
johnsons, that the people fully appreciate
the blessings of liberty, and are determined
that the blood the gallant men poured out
in the struggle for the perpetuity of the life
Of the nation shall not have been shed in
vain. They declare in the most emphatic
manner that reason.worshippers aud apollo
gists Of the perfdy Of Southern traitors,
shall hold no official position within the gift
of loyal people.


This result is peculiarly gratifying to the
Union men, because it augurs well for
triumph of the party in November The
Union men of Wilmington can and will give
such majority, if the proper effort is made,
as will place the election of the State and
County tickets beyond the possibility of a
doubt. Let the work beginl Let the loyal
hosts be marshalled for the fray! Let the
CoppeIheads be met at every step, and their
sophisiry demolished Let every man feel
that the crisis demands that he shall sacri.
fec every personal consideration and unite
with the noble band of Union patriots who
brought US safely through four years war,
in saving US from despotic rule at the hands
of a tTeacherous and unprincipled President,
II our friends in other parts of the State but
do their duty, we promise that Wilmington
will roll up such majority for Riddle and
McKim, as will insure their triumphant
election.
Year: 1866

lF OUR CITY had been properly blocked,
and the party thoroughly organized, our
majority on Tuesday last would have been
much larger in every ward than it was A
want of proper organization lost us, doubt.
less, several hundred votes, which might
have been brought out for the Union ticket.
Will the State Central Committee take the
hint and go TO work? AS yet they have not
given the first symptom of life. Nothing
has been given to the people to show that
we have committee at ALL Our opponents
are holding meetings nightly in the open
air, while we are contented with being
perched up in the third story of the Savile
building, SETTLING in an atmosphere of from
eighty to ninety degrees. How long is this
apathy and inactivity to lastY
Year: 1866

ANDY JOHNSON made another drunken
speech at Cleveland, few evenings ago
He quarelled with the crowd, because it
was good-natured, and made a disgracefu
show of himself generally, May heaven
save the honor Of the nation while such a
blackguard is at the head oft
Year: 1866

IT II SAID that Grant and Farragut left the
Presidential burlesque at Cleveland, in dis.
gust, few evenings ago, and would have
nothing more TO do with 1t. Decent men
everywhere are becoming daily more and
moro disgusted with the low slang Of the
Tennessee Alderman.
Year: 1866

The Dury OF YoUNG MEN IN THE SOUTH
The Southeastern, q journal published at
Shreveport, La, in the course Of an article
upon the wants of the South, urges the
young men of that section to devote their
attention to agriculture, and thus take the
places of the thousands of freedmen who have
left the Southern States or been killed dur
ing the war. 1t urges them to prepare dur,
ing the coming winter for the putting in oi
crops in the spring upon the rich but idle
acres of the South. Says the Southwestern
I'VE have too many stout young men in the
South, shameless burdens on the Drawn and
muscle of better men than Themselves
worthless young men, who ride the laborer
as the old man of the sea fastened himself on
the back Of Sinbad the Sailor 1t is time
that they were shaken off and compelled to
sweat for themselves"
Year: 1866

From the Land we Love.


Major B had command of a battal-
ion of Texas cavalry, well known to the
people of that State for its deeds Of daring
among the snow-capped mountains of New
Mexico, and the swamps of Louisiana. While
serving in Louisiana previous TO the first
raid of Banks on the Red River valley, he
fell in love with a sweet girl, proposed and
was accepted in due form, But Just at that
juncture Banks column came along, carrying
ruin and desolotion in their track. Our
forces fell back into the interior, but the fair
young girl remained with her mother on the
plantation. When the Federal army re-
treated to Brashear City, the Confederates
were close upon their heels, and, of course,
one Of the first acts Of the enamored Major
was TO call upon his promised bride. Her
mother had been ruined by the raid, the
negroes had been carried of, stock all killed
or taken away, everything of value about
the plantation had been burned or destroyed.
The young lady met her lover and said (;
When engaged myself to you | was the
owner of thousands-but to day | am pen
niless. II is not right to hold you to your
pledge under these circumstances. You are
free" "No," replied the Major, 81 love
you, and not your property. You are dearer
to me now than ever" Some months after
wards the noble Major fell desperately
wounded, while bravely fghting at the head
of his battalion in the battle of Fordoche
lie fingered long in the hospital, but finally
came out-a wreck Of his former self. Hi;
right arm had been amputated, and three
! fingers had been taken of his left hand
The lady was his tender and devoted nurs'
through those weary months of suffering
and confinement When he began to con
valesce he said to her, 81 am a cripple anC
must be helpless all my life. It would b,
selfish in me TO ask you to throw yoursel
away on such a wreck as | am" No,
said She "you did rot desert me in my dis
tress and poverty, Nothing but death shal
ever part us again


They now live in the village of NJ
Texas 'aifording beautiful example Of dc
voted happiness and OF tac reward Attending
true pobleneS OF soul.
Year: 1866

To the close observer of passing
events, there is no one thing more surely
foreshadowed than that the Radicals
have determined, in some way or other,
to fasten themselves upon the country
as the ruling power for all time to come.
AS has been expressed by the Radical
candidate for Congress from this district,
this is to be done peaceably if they
can-forcibly if they must


Scarce paper of note published in
the interests of that faction, but in some
way or another hints at or asserts the
possibility or probability of war that
shall eclipse in horror and devastation
that which has just passed. These allu'
sions to contest, which, according to
these Radicals, is soon to be Inaugural
ted, are too frequent to be passed over
without notice They have meaning
which the wise will not fail to heed.
Though there may be much of the bully
in these threats and declarations, yet
they would not so generally be made, if
there had nothing been said about the
matter in the conclaves Of the faction.


The Governors of several Of the States
have lately been engaged in purchasing
arms. Congress failed to distribute to
the Radical Governors the arms in the
arsenals of the United States, as was in
tended, and hence other means have to
be resorted to and we find the Govern
ors Of the States most likely to be car
ried by Conservatives on a fair vote,
purchasing arms The people would
like to know what necessity at present
exists for this measure.


We have been informed that arms are
collecting in various places about the
country, and that they have been dis
tributed to the faithful, and are left in
places where they can be had when
wanted by these, contemners of law and
order. All these things should have the
effect to make Conservatives vigilant and
watchful Their liberties and lives are
in danger They should demand Of these
Radical Governors, who are purchasing
arms for their secret consplrators, what
they propose to do with them-what
right they have to make the purchase
what necessity for their procurement ex-
lists; and then, when they are distribu-
ted, they should also demand that they
should not go into the hands of one
party to the exclusion of another. They
should see that there was an equitable
distribution, or none at all When
one party is armed the other is compar-
atiyely at their mercy, and let it be borne
in mind that the fact that the Radical
Governors are procuring arms to put
into the hands of their faction, is primG
facia evidence that they propose to re-
sort to force in the questions before the
people. Freedmen, ponder these things
and act PeOria DemocrdL
Year: 1866

A gentleman Of Rochester was lately in Sara
toga county, n. Y, and was there shown an
apple tree in fine healthy condition which had
been III. subjected 20 treatment with calomel,
and thoroughly cured. This tree was afflicted
with insects, which were destroying it and rem
dcring it unproductye. A hole was bored
into the body Of the tree nearly through the
sap and two grains Of calonel inserted. As
soon as the calomel was taken up by the sap,
the yermin on the tree died, and it began to
bear fruit, and has done 50 for three years, to
the entire satisfaction Of the owner. Sulphur
may be mixed with the calomel and produce
good effect This is fact worth knowing.
Year: 1866

A good many years ago, when General Cass
wa lea e among Demo; rats, and consequent
ly al object Of dislike to the Wings, it was
moved in the Legislature Of Western State 70
bestow the name Of Cass on new county. A
Wing. meaning to be sarcastic, arose and moved
as an amendment that the first letter Of tho
proposed name be struck out The laugh was
on his side hugely, until the Democrat retorted
that he might not have any objection, but that
it was very unusual for member 10 rise and
propose that a county 10 the State should bc
named after himself! And then the other side
had the laugh.
Year: 1866

The Loss will be paid in Cash. A standing reward
of one fourth of the value of every animal in
surcd by this Company is offered for the recovery
thereof. One Hunred Dollars for the arrest and
conviction of the Thief.


Persons having Animals not insured by this
Company, can, by renting FIFTEEN DOLLARS,
giving full description of Animals, and amount Of
reward, have One Thousand Hand-bils struck,
and furnished TO all our Detective Force in the
State
Year: 1866

THE BETTER HoPE.-Nothing makes the
freside SO cheerful as blessed hope beyond it.
Even when you sit most lovingly there-though
the daily task is completely done and the infant
in the cradle is fast asleep-though this is Sat
urday, and tomorrow is day of rest-though
the embers are bright, and from it's fat and pop
pling fountain in your coal the jet of gas flames
up like silver scimetar, and though within your
little chamber all is peace, and warmth, and
snug repose, the roaring gusts and rattling drops
remind you that it still is winter in the world.
And when that withering leaf tapped and fut-
tered on the window, mother, why was it that
your cheek grew pale, and something glistened
in your eye? You thought it perhaps might
come from the church-yard sycamore, and it
sounded like messenger from little Helen's
grave. 1t said, father and mother, think of
me"


Yes, dreary were the homes of earth, were it
not for the home in Heaven. But see to it that
yourselves be the Saviour followers, and then
to you he says, ''Let not your heart be trou-
bled In my fathers house there are many
mansions; go to prepare place for you
And when you come to love that Saviour right
ly, you will love one another better, more truly
and more tenderly. And, trusting to meet
again in that world where they neither marry
nor are given in marriage. purifying hops and
lofty ambition will hallow your union on earth.
Year: 1866

The WFE.-Woman's love, like the rose
blossoming in the desert, spreads its rays over
the barren plain Of the human heart, and while
all around it is desolate, it rises more strength
ened from the absence of every other charm
In no situation does the love of woman appear
more beautiful than in that of wife parents,
brethren and friends have claims upon our affec-
tions but the love of wife is of distinct and
different nature. A daughter may yield her
life to the preservation of parent, sister may
devote herself to her suffering brother but the
feelings which induce her to this conduct are
not such as those which lead a wife to follow
the husband of her choice through every pain
and peril that can befall him; to watch over
him in danger, to cheer him in adversely, and
ever remain unalterablc at his side in the depth
Of ignominy and shame. It is an heroic devo-
ton which woman displays in her adherance
to the fortunes of hapless husband; when we
behold her in her domestic scenes a mere pas
sive creature Of enjoyment; an intellectual joy,
Frightening the family circle with her endear-
ments and loved for the extreme joy which that
presence and those endearments are calculated
to impart, we can scarcely credit that the fragile
being who seems to hold her existence by a
thread, is capable of supporting the extreme of
human suffering: nay, when the heart of man
sinks beneath the weight of agony, that she
should maintain her pristine powers of delight
and by her words of comfort and patience, lead
the distracted murmurer to peace and resigna-
tion.
Year: 1866

1t is a melancholy spectacle to behold a free
government die. The world, it is true, is filled
with the evidence of decay. All nature speaks
the voice of dissolution and the highway of his
tory and of life is strewn with the wrecks which
time, the great despoiler, has made. But hope
of the future, bright visions of reviving glory
are no where denied to the heart of man save
as he gazes upon the downfall of legal liberty.
He listens sorrowfully to the autumn winds as
they sigh through dismantled forests, but he
knows that their breath will be soft and vernal
in the Spring, and that the dead flowers and
the withered foliage will blossom and bloom
again. He sees the sky overcast with the an
cry frown of the tempest, but he knows that
the sun will reappear, and the stars the bright
emblazonry OF God, cannot perish. Man HIM
self, this connecting link between dust and De-
ity, totters wearily onward under the weight Of
years and pain toward the gaping tomb, but
how briefly his mind fingers around that dismal
spot 1t is filed with tears and grief, and the
willow and the cypress gather around it with
their loving but mournful embrace And is
this all Not so. IF a man die, shall he not
live again? Beyond the grave, in the distant
Alden, hope provides an elysium of the soul
where the mortal assumes Immortality and lite
becomes an endless splendor.


But where, in all the dreary regions of the
past, filed with convulsions, wars, and crimes,
INV
commonwealth on which the angel of resurrec-
ton has ever descended or from whose mouth
the stone of despotism has ever been rolled
| away? Where, In what age and in what cline,
have the ruins of constitutional freedom renew
ed their youth and regained their lost estate2
By whose strong grip has the dead corpse Of a
Republic once fallen ever been raised? The
merciful Master who walked upon the waters
and bade the winds be still, left no ordained
apostles with power to wrench apart the jaws of
national death and release the victims of despo-
tism. The wall of the heart broken over the
dead is not so sad to me as the realization of
this fact But all history, with loud unbro-
ken voice. proclaims it, and the evidence of
what the past has been is conclusive to my mind
of what the future will be. Wherever in the
wide domain of human conduct people once
possessed of liberty, with all powerin their own
hands, have surrendered these great gifts of
God, at the command of the usurper, they have
never afterwards proven themselves worthy to
regain their forfeited treasure.-Da,esel ".
Voorhees,
Year: 1866

The BACHELOR.-In the vast fowerfeld of
human affection, says a cotemporary, the old
bachelor is the very scarecrow ofhappiness, who
drives away the little birds of love that come to
steal away the hemlock seeds of loneliness and
despair. Where is there more pitiable object
on earth than he who has no amiable woman in
terested in his welfare? How dismal does his
desolate room appear, when he comes home at
night, wet and hunger, and cold hearth,
barren table, and lonely pillow, which looks
like the white urn of every earthly enjoyment!
See the sick old bachelor in the dark afternoon
of life, when his heart is sinking to its sunder-
ance! Not solitary star of memory CLEANS
over his opening grave! No weeping wife to
bend like an angel over his dying bed No
fond daughter to draw his chilly hand into the
soft pressure of hers, and warm his icy blood
with the revivifying fires of unavailing affec-
ton! No manly boy to link his breaking name
with the golden chain Of honorable society, and
bind his history in the vast volume of the world
he is leaving forever!


He has eaten and drank, and drank and died,
and earth is glad she's got rid of him for he
has done little else than cram his soul into the
circumference of a sixpence and no human be-
ing save his washerwoman will breathe sight
at his funeral
Year: 1866

A FmeER IN SAUSAGE. = Yesterday a
Hartford gentleman, albeit strong of stomach
and hearty of appetite, met with his match
in eating bologna. It was wholesale es.
tabIishment on State street, where few
friends had gathered to have glass of ale
and bite of luncheon by themselves. The
gentleman referred to eat his bologna with
relish, till he found something in his mouth
which seemed not to have chopped up as fine
as it should be. Taking itout, he discovered
to his horror and disgust that it was the
end of q mans finger It was fact. There
it wasl How it came there was greater
mystery than the presence last week of the
negroe's finger under Senator Sumner door.
The hungry gentleman, after abrupt ending
of his meal, and srndrY Intellectual efforts to
vomit, went home and took an emetic.--
Hartford Times.