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Year: 1866

GooD PoINT.-Tbe local of the Indi-
annapolis Journal gets oil a pretty thing in
the following: Il


He says "a Local is living 'rebutter Of
that general principle that people get rich
attending to their own business" We
have very eminent authority for '.minding
your own business" as general rule Of
conduct. But obesity of Local Editor
depends entirely upon the success he mani
ifests in attending to everybody's business
and his argentiferous gains hang entirely
upon the same principle. Wemerely make
this statement to- relieve ourselves from
improper censure when we frequently in
troduce the sharp end of our nose into the
private affairs of individuals, and demand
to know, pro bono pubtico,' what it's all
about t-st ta @a


We wish il distinctly understood that irr
hours of business we cross no threshold on
any other business than b. to
know if the inhabitants ofthe house or Of
fee know anything;' if SO, a free confess
ion, which, according to Snakpeare, is
good for the SOLE" will insure ourspeedy
departure. We really hope our friends
will not make point to keep good thing
If they have any, but let us know, that
through our columns it may irrigate the
general desert of ignorance. We call up
on everybody to furnish every possible in
formation to the Local. and when the
time comes for repayment. we will try and
cancel the obligations with usury." @


RAIL ROAD DEcIsIoN.-A special dis
patch TO the Chicago Republican from
Washington under date of March 5th says,
that, ''the Court delivered its opinion OIL
an appeal from Iowa, reaffirming one
heretofore pronounced, thata county or
municipal corporation has no inherent
power to subscribe for railroad stock. They
can exercise no snch power unless express
authority is given by the Legislature for
that purpose -a" '.
Year: 1866

A California editor some time ago
received long document which he was
requested to ''put under the, editorial
head, gratis" He complied by placing
it under his pillow, and expressed his
to serve similar communi-
cation In the same way.-
Year: 1866

They approached Sumter, when q
watchman on its walls trumpeted the
inquiry,


Who comes there"


a gentleman in the boat replied
through a trumpet,


Mrs. Maj. Anderson


She was formally ordered to advance.
As her friends conveyed her up the
rocks to the wharf, her husband came
running out of the sally pert. He
caught her in his arms, and exclaimed
in vehement whisper, for her ear
only, My glorious wife = and carried
her into the fort


have brought you Peter Hart
she said The children are all well. I
return tonight Then turning to the
accompanying friends, she said, tell me
when the tide serves; | shall 90 back
with the boat She then retired with
her husband to his quarters, nearly
over the sally port, and took some re-
freshments; the first since leaving New
! York.


The tide served in the course of two
hours. When Mrs. Anderson was
placed in the boat by her husband, she
experienced almost irresistible desire
to draw him after her-to take him
away from the great peril With the
Spiashlng OF the oars, when the boat
was showed off, came terrible impress
sion as if she had buried her husband,
and was returning from his funeral
But she leaned lovingly, by faith on
the strong arm of the All Wise. Father,
and received strength Invalid and a
woman as she was, she had performed
a great service to her husband and
country. She had given them a faith.
tul and useful friend in Peter Hart
how faithful and useful the subsequent
history Of Fort Sumter until it passed
into the hands Of armed insurgents,
three months later, only feebly reveals


Unheedlng the entreaties of friends,
who tried to persuade her to remain,
and offered to bring her family to her;
and the assurance Of a deputaton of
Charlestorians, who waited upon her
that she might reside in their city,
dwell in Sumter, or wherever she pleas
ed, Mrs. Anderson started for the ma
tional capitol that evening, accompa-
nied by Major Anderson's brother
Charleston was no place tor her while
her husband was under the old flag !;
and she would not add to his cares BY
remaining with him in the fort


a bed was placed in the cars, and on
that she journeyed comfortably to
Washington. She was insensible when
she arrived at Wizards Hotel, into
which she was conveyed by dear
friend from New York, powerful man
whose face was the first that she rec
ognized on the return of her con-
sciousness. After suffering for forty
eight hours from utter exhaustion, she
proceeded to New York, and was for o
long time threatened with brain fever.


Thus ended the mission of this brave
woman. She alone had done what the
government would not, or dared not
do. She had not sent, but taken val
liable reinforcement to Fort Sumter
When we look back to the beginning
Of the great civil war, the eye of Just
appreciation perceives no herosm more
genuine and useful than that displayed
by this noble woman; and history and
romance will ever delight to celebrate
her deed-Lossimg's Pictorial History Of
the CiUH War.
Year: 1866




BY. THOMAS MOORE.
Forget not the field where they perish'd,
The truest, the last of the brave,
All gone--andthe brig hit hope we cheris
Gone with them, and quench'd in their grave
Oh could we from death but recover
Those hearts as they bounded before,
In the face of high heav'n to fight over
That combat for freedom once more
Could the chain for an instant be riyen
Which tyranny flung round us then,
No, tits not in Man, nor in Heaven,
To let Tyranny bind ii again!
But tits pa stand, tho blazon'd in story
The name of our victor may be,
Accurst is the march of that glory
Which treads DER the hearts of the free
Far dearer the grave or the pr son.
Iumed by patriot name,
Than the trophies of all, W no have risen
On liberty IS ruins to anne.
Year: 1866

The following poem was written by James He
.rwick, Scottish poet but little known in this cou
ad these lines without falter in the voice or te
the eye!I


They tell me first and early love


Outlives all after dreams;
But the memory of the first great grief
To me more lasting seems.
The grief that marks our dawning youth
To memory ever clings,
And Ger the path of future years
A heightened shadow fings.
Oh oft my mind recalls the hour
When to my fathers home
Death came, an unlimited guest,
From his dwelling in the tomb.
had not seen his face before
shuddered at the sight;
And shudder yet to think upon
The ang uish of that night!
A youthful brow and ruddy cheek
Became all cold and wan;
An eye grew dim in which the light
Of radiant fancy shone;
Cold was the cheek, and cold the brow,
The eye was fixed and dim;
And there 1 moaned brother dead,
Who would have died for him!
know not if twas summer then,
know not if twas spring;
But if the birds sang in the trees
did not hear them sing;
Ifflowers came forth to deck the earth,
Their bloom did not see;7
looked upon ODE withered flower,
And none else bloomed for me!
A sad and silent time it was


Within the house of woe;
All eyes were dim and overcast,
Aud every voice was low.
And from each cheek, at intervals,
The blood appeared to start,
As if called, in sudden haste,
To aid the sinking heart!
Softly we trod, as if afraid


To mar the sleeper's sleep,
And st ole last looks of his sad face
For memory to keep.
With him the agony was DER,
And now the pain was ours,
As thoughts of his sweet childhood rose,
Like odoT from dead flowers.
And when at last he was borne afar
From the worlds weary strife.
How oft in thought did we again
Live Ger his little life.
His every look, his every word,
His very voices tone,
Come back to US like things whose worth
Is only priced when gone
The grief has past with years away,
And JOY has been my lot;
But one is long remembered,


And the other soon forgot.
The gavest hours trip lightly by.
And leave the faintest trace,
But the deep track that sorrow wears
No time eel. eface.
Year: 1866

Fr IN the Augnsta psa) Cons'itntionalist March q.


THE SOUTH TO DECIDE THE ISSUE,


Other matters there are. too long now to
number, that 90 to show il the Radicals be
mighty. there are many causes in operation to
bring up great elements of opposition to the
help Of good government against them. The
debates Of the day are but the preuding
skirmish. The great struggle itself will ere
long open. The result one way or the other
is yet uncertain, but let the South be patient,
let it be hopeful, and above all, let it be hrm
For four years it did and, endured many
things for independence, and susy for some
monthsit can still wait and labor for the hour
that shall set Constitutional Liberty on the
hazard of the day. There is great danger it
is true. Wealth and population. intelligence
and energy, The pluck of fanaticism and the
hope Of plunder are banded against all law
and order. But there is something to hope.
The President stands firm. the Supreme
Court takes Southern cases on trial of appeal,
"as Of course = the Northwest is growing,
and in New Jersey and New York the con
servative element musters strong; Radical
legislatures are going out and more moderate
men coming in--the strife is becoming more
equal, and in peace let US wait till to alter
the fable, between the bull and the bear can
come in the lion to decide the day. The
balance will yet hang even, and then let the
South throw her whole weight for tn princi-
Piles Of Anglo Saxon freedom and the putting
to shame of the Radical dynasty.
Year: 1866

Senator Lane, Of Kansas, about whom
some doubts have existed as to his vote on
the Civil Rights Bill, made a speech in the
Senate to-day supporting the veto Of the
President, and defending him from the
charges made against him, by Senator Wade,
of despotism, dictatorship and treachery.
There are many members Of the House Of
Representatives on the floor OF the Senate,
and these, with those who fill the galleries,
are apparently most intensely interested in
the proceedings
Year: 1866

TELEoRAPHfc travel up the Mississippi
Riveris evidently slow and difficult opera
tion. The Davenport Gazette says, that 1.-THE
Steamer Starlight has quite . reputation for
speed to say nothing Of comfort &c., but the
last trip up, Capt. Powers Gays his little Pack.
ct beat the telegraph. dispatch be sent
from keokuk 10 his Davenport agent reached
him just half an hour after the Starlight
made her landing here We also know Of
another instance Of telepraphic dispatch
where q telegram on an important business
matter was three days going from Davenport
to point in Northern Iowa
Year: 1866

General Rousseau states that whoever applied
to Speaker Colfax to withdraw his resignation
did so without any authority from him; that he
would not allow 1t to be withdrawn. He is still
here, and will return to Kentucky soon.
Year: 1866

Don't let any druggist or dealer urge upon soa a
different article there Is no preparation in the
world like this Beware Of any article purpOrtlg 10
be the same


Try HALLS HAIR RENEWsR according TO Direc-
tions, and you will use other.


II not sold At druggists 10 your town, trial bottle
will be sent you by express upon receipt Of dol
lar by mail, thus giving you an opportunity at
once OF testing its excellent qualities
Year: 1866

TFrom the Cincinnati Commercial.l


There is now living in this city family,
she history of which forms something so
romantic as to constitute most interesting
story.


In the summer of 1859 Charles Geroux
became a graduate of college in the south
ern part of this State. He was the descend
ant of an aristocrstic family who lived in
Louisiana, and to be brief, he was then a
full embodiment of the ''chiEalTy," just
having entered his majority. While attend
ing college he had formed the acquaintance
of Clara G., who attended college for
young ladies in this city, which acquaint-
ance ripened into attachment and love, and
Just before the breaking out Of the rebellion
they were married, and removed South
Miss. g. was an orphan, possessed of q con
siderable property, which was held in trust
by her uncle, a Southern minister, who had
raised her from infancy, and personally
superintended her education. In addition
to the endowments Of a collegiate education,
she was possessed of strong character,
bordering almost on the masculine, but
tempered with sweetness and mildness
not often combined in the same person. She
was at once handsome and womanly.


Within year after their marriage and
settlement in the South, came the fierce,
wild blasts of war from Sumter's parapet,
and there was none more ready to enter the
deadly fray than Charles GeFoux. His po-
litical tutors were practical seeessiOnists,
and he entered upon the war with fsrvor
and zeal to command the admiration Of his
friends, and which secured him a Majors
commission His wife opposed his mad
scheme with all the power of woman's
eloquence, but 70 no avail. She openly es-
pOused the cause Of the Union, and stead
lastly refused to cooperate with her new
friends snd usighbors.
Year: 1866

Two painters were employed to frescoe
the walls of magnificent cathedral; both
stood on rude scafolding. constructed for
the purpose, some eighty feet from the
floor:


One of them was SO intent upon his work
that he became wholly absorbed and in ad-
miratlon stood off from the picture, gazing
at it with delight. Forgetting where he
was, he moved backward slowly, surveying
critically the work of his pencil, until be
had neaf5d the very edge of the plank upon
which he stood.


At this critical moment his companion
turned suddenly, almost frozen with horror,
beheld his imminent peril; another instant
aud the enthusiast would be precipitated
upon the pavement beneath. If he spoke
to him it would, be certain death-if he held
his breath death was equally sure.


Suddenly he regained his presence of
mind, and seizing wet brush, flung it
against the wall, scattering the beautiful
picture with unsightly blotches of eoloring.
The painter few forward, and turned upon
his friend with fierce impreoations-but
startled at his ghastly face, he listened to
the recital of danger, looked suddenly over
the dread space below, and with tears Of
] gratitude blessed the hand that saved him.


30 we sometimes get absorbed in looking
pom the pictures of this world, and con-
templating. them. step backward, unconsci-
Gus of our peril, when the Almighty
dashes out the beautiful images, aud we
spring forward to lament their destruction
into the outstretehed arms of Mercy, and
are saved
Year: 1866

her married son. Mrs. Geroux was sup
piled with money to enable her to fnd her
friends iu IroquOis County, where she has
since resided.


Geroux returned to his situation at Gin
oinnati, and was seut by his firm to colleo
a debt due 10 lroquois County. W.
there, he sought out the attorney who
him discharged On the habeas corpus,
learn the Whereabouts Of the horse that d
him such good service, and to secure
assistance in collecting his debt. He 500
made himself known, and while they weF
discussing about the stolen horse, lad
and child entered the same Office. Th
was a momentary pause, and husband
wife were in each others arms. We


not attempt to describe the scene which
lowed. The husband found a wife
child, whom he firmly believed to be de
and the wife found husband, over VII
grave she lad shed bitter tears Of woe.


Mrs. Geroux was visiting the same
torneY, to find out about her husband
con6soated property. and to apply to the
Government to have his property restored
to her
Year: 1866

THE LAUGH OF WoMEN.--A woman has
no natural gift more pleasingiy bewitcbiDg
than sweet laugh. It is like the sound of
flutes on the water. 1t leaps from her in
a clear, sparkling rill; and the heart that
hears it feels as if bathed in the cool, ex-
hilarating spring. Have you ever pursued
an unforeseen fugitive through trees, led on
by fairy laugh-noW here, now there,
now lost, now found? We have; and we
are pursuing that wandering voice to this
day. Sometimes it comes to US in the
midst of care, or sorrow, or irksome bust
ness, and then we turn away and listen, and
hear the evil spirit of mind. How much
we owe that sweet laughl It turns prose
to poetry; it fings flowers Of sunshine over
the darkness of the wood in which we are
travelling; It touches with light even our
sleep. which is no more than the image Of
death, but is consumed with dreams that
are the shadows of immortality Prentice.
Year: 1866

OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS; La,
Corner Camp and Common,


Opposite the City Hotel
Entrance on both streets, in the spacious
and elegant Story BHiling, is constantly in ses
sion under eight able Professors.
Year: 1866

CURED on HoMGPATHIC PRIECIPLEs.
The Grant county (IiIiuois) Herald re-
lates that man named Lyon was bitten
three times on the foet by rattIe-snake
while binding grain, and fell to the ground
He was carried to the house, drank q pint
of alcohol and camphor, then quart Of
whisky, and then quart Of pure alcohol
feeling no symptoms OF iutoxication. The
next morning he Felt some numbness and
pain in the limb, and drank another pint
Of alcohol, then swallowed quarter of a
pound of fine cut chewing tobacco, boiled
in sweet milk. These doses which it
would be supposed would kill anybody,
had no Injurious effects, and the fourth day
after the bites he felt well enough, only q
1.-THE soreness from the knee doEn.


Tell that to the marines.
Year: 1866

The radicals do not promise to re-
store the Union at all. Even if every
State in the Union should ratify the
proposed constitutional amendment
(Which they certainly will not do) the
Southern Representatives would not be
admitted to Congress. On the twcn-
tieth of last July, a bill was introduced
in the House of Representatives provid-
ing for the immediate admission of any
Southern State that would ratify the
amendment. That bill ,ras defeated.
CHESTER d. HUBBARD voted to lay the
bill on the table. There is therefore, no
promise nor guarantee of any kind
on the part of the radicals that they
will ever consent to restoration OF
the Union. They have refused to make
any offer by compliance with viii ch the
Union may be restored.
Year: 1866

In nearly every election there are
men, who, from motives of personal
friendship or personal dislike, split their
ticket, that is, scratch off the name of
their personal enemy who is the regular
nominee, or insert upon the ticket the
name Of their personal friend who is a
candidate of different political views.
We hope to hear of as little as possible
of this work being done to-day, upon
the part of Conservatives. The Demo-


cratic Conservative ticket has been
regularly nominated by convention
representing the wishes of the people OF
West Virginia and of the State atlarge.
The ticket is as good one as could
possibly be framed. But, in addition to
the personal merits of the candidates,
there is another consideration which
should prevent any splitting of tickets.
We have an important principle at
stake. The triumph of the radical
party or any of its candidates will not
be regarded simply as the triumph Of
the men voted for, but it will be regard
ed as a popular endorsement of the
heresies of radicalism. The voter who
puts the name of a radical npon his
ticket votes not merely for the man, but
also for his political principles. Let us
have no splitting to-day. The crisis
demands a solid vote for the whole
! ticket
Year: 1866

A correspondent asks what is meant
in commercial parldnoe by selling
short" Answer-Sales of stock or
other property which the seller does not
own, and over which he has control.
Stocks sold in this way are usually de-
liverable at specified time, not e1-
ceeding sixty days. If longer than
three days, the contract bears interest to
accrue, If the agreement is at sellers
option" he may make the delivery at
any intervening time before the expira-
tion of that specified in the bargain, by
giving one days notice; if at buyers
option" a claim may be made for de-
livery at any date before maturity Of the
contract by giving like notice.


In either case, at maturity, if neither
buyer and seller has offered nor called
for delivery, the transaction must be
settled, unless extended by mutual
agreement. Such engagements are set
tied either by actual delivery of the
property, OF by cash payment of the
difference in price, the latter being the
most frequent method in small transac-
tions. The cornering' process is the
usual process of "short sales. A
clique of operators accept all the offers
made for future delivery of particu-
lar stock until large contracts are ont,
then they buy whatever floating stock
is likely to interfere, and when the
shares are thus rendered scarce call for
a delivery under their agreements. This
frequently puts up the market to high
ficticious value, and fills their pockets
with large profit.
Year: 1866

We wish that our prominent business
men would lay aside their customary
pursuits, if only for few hours, to-day.
and devote their exclusive attention to


bringing out the full vote of the con-
servative party. There is necessity
for the active efforts of every inhuen-
tial man to make the triumph of con-
servative principles as complete as it
should be. Every vote is needed, not
merely for the election of our ticket,
but to elect it by majority that will
completely overawe radical mobs and
that will put final stop to radical dom
ination in this county. We want the
orderly, law-abiding and staunch men
of the party to take prominent part in
the work Of the day. They should feel
no reluctance nor hesitancy about doing
so, for the cause in which we are engag-
ed and the principles for which we con-
tend are worthy of the most strenuous
advocacy of every good citizen. Come
TO the polls and help us.
Year: 1866

A rule of the Democratic party in
former years when it was always sue.
cessful, used to he "rote early" The sys
TEN presents more advantages than are
apparent at first sight. Byvoting early
yOu render yourself flee to devote your
attention during the day to hunting up
and bringing to the polls your neigh
bors who are less prompt. By voting
early you avoid the danger of procrasti-
nation until it is too late. By voting
early you prepare yourself for the
business of the day, and avoid the
danger of losing your vote by being
confined to your counting room, or sum.
moned from the city by any important
business affair. Let the old rule be
strictly followed by our Democratic and
Conservative citizens to-day. Tot,
Edrly.
Year: 1866

The San Francisco Monitor speaks in
flattering terms of Coolie laborers in
California:


We were informed, month or so ago,
that person had arrived in this city
from New Orleans to make arrange
ments for the transfer of three hundred
Cinnamon to work on Southern planta-
tions, and Us all distinctions of race
and color are abolished by the Civil
Rights bill, so far as Congress can do
so, we imagine the day not far distant
when the copper-colored Pagan labor
will be substituted for the labor of the
white man in all the Atlantic states.


These coolies, for such they are, are a
demoralized blight TO any community
in which they are domiciled. They are
active and ingenious. it is true, good
copyists, quick of comprehension and
useful drudges; but they are filthy,
thievish and infamously vile. They are
brought to this city as merchandise, TO
be parcelled out on the labor market,
with no other condition than the supply
of their animal wants and their return
home, living or dead, at the end of the
term contracted for. Very few of them
return alive, but continue to work on
their own account after the expiration
of their term of service, and after death
their bodies are picked up and transfer
red to the "Flowery Kingdom" annually.


There are several companies trading
under real or assumed names, engaged
in their import and export to and from
this city. The Chinese population of
California may he set down at seventy
FIVE thousand; but it may not become us
now TO present any details of the de-
moralizing influence of so large a hea-
then population on a State which casts
a little over one hundred thousand votes,
or about fifteen thousand votes less
than were cast in 1856.