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Year: 1866

fallen braves, and to the mind of the soldieY
they are heroes alike.


The gray jacket and the blue coat sleep
side by side, aud some day we will rear q
monument in honor of their deeds of hero
ism. Even now we find the portrait of
General Lee hanging by .he side of General
Grants. It is but natural that the surviving
soldiers should respect those against whom
they fought 1t matters net, whether wear
ing the badge of defeat or victory; thss
heart is base indeed, when it refuses to pay
tribute to bravery. But we have no in-s1
tention Of entering iHto full discussion of
the question. Our object is simply to
notice lithograph likeness, recently pub
lished, Confederate General, ''Stonewall''
Jackson, the idol of his command, and the
hero of many fight. We call him hero
because he led brave men to battle, and,
whether he retired from a field of defeat, or
proudly waved his banner in the hour of
victory, those agoinst whom his columns
charged behaved with gallantry, and fought
as only heroes can. 1t is no honor to cross
swords with an arrant coward, and who
will claim that no laurels were won by the
Federal soldiers during the four years of
war? ''Stonewall'' jackson, then, was a
military hero, viewed from a northern, as
well as southern, standpoint, and it is but
natural, that all who can appreciate bravery
should desire 10 preserve his counterfeit
presentment. It will find place in many
homes, and by the side of Mcpherson,
Wadsworth, Lyon and others, it will hang
suspended against the wall.
Year: 1866

Breadstuffs are declining and weaker in all
of the markets of the country. The hog
crop is largely in excess of what it was be-
ieved to be some weeks since, and asa
consequence, prices of provisions tend to
lower figures. The South has learned to
live more economically than was its custom
before the war; but, were this not the case,
she has not the wherewith to purchase
largely. There is a large surplus in the
country of the items we have mentioned,
and, as soon as the ice-fetters are removed
from the rivers OF the Northwest, It's bread
stufs will find their way to the markets of
the country, and contribute to bring prices
to living standard, and this will be the
result, though Congress shall ignore all
Legislation upon the question of finances,
thereby keeping afoat the present enormous
amount of greenbacks. In this condition
of things there can be no question as to the
wisdom and prudence of caution in every
description of mercantile transactions. That
a crash is coming, the best informed pre-
dict and believe, and he who keeps himself
In the best condition to meet it, will have
the best reasons for self-gratulation when it
has passed.
Year: 1866

In describing a reception at the White
House the Washington Star says: A Pc
culiar style of wearing the hair last evening
among the ladies. was the subject of much


comment, and the remarks were, for the
most part, altogether in its favor, as be-
coming substitute for the water fall. The
hair was allowed to fall its full length, with
out fetter or bond of any description, and
was thought by many to be the most grace
full style the ever-cbanging empress, Fash
ion, has yet presented to public patronage.
Year: 1866

Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below;
Over the hOusetops, over the street,
Over the heods of the people you meet.


Dancing.


Flirting,


Skmming along.
Beautiful snow 1t does wrong,
Flying to kiss fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to lips in frolisome freak.
Beautiful snow from the heaven above,
Pure as an angel, gentle rs love
Oh the snow, the beautiful snow;
How the fakes gather, and laugh as they go
WhirIing about, in the maddeping fun
1t plays in its glee with every one.


Chasing,


Laughing,


Hurrying by:
It lights on the face, and it sparkles the eye,
And the dogs, VITA bark and a bound,
Snap at the crystals that eddy around
The town is alive, and its heart in glow,
To welcome the coming of beautiful snow!
How wild the crowd goes swaying along,
HaiIing each other with humor and song;
How the gay sledges, like meteors, fash by,
Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye


Ringing,


Swinging,


Dashing they go,
Over the crust of the beautiful snow;
Snow so pure when it falls from the sky,
To be trampled in mud by the crowds rushing by,
To be trampled and tracked by the thousands of
feet.
Till it bleeds with the filth in the horrible street.
Once was pure as the snow-butI fell A!
Fell, like the snow flakes, from heaven to hell
Fell to be trampled as filth of the street:
Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat;


Pleading,


Cursing,


Dreading to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy;
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Merciful God Have I fallen so low?
And yet was once like the beautiful snow.
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eye like its crystal, heart like its glow;
Once was loved for my innocent grace
Flattered and sought for the charms of my face


Father,


Mother,


Sister, all,
God and myself have lost by my fall;
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by
VIII make a wide sweep, lest wander too nigh;
For all that on or above me I know
There's nothing that's pure as the beautf; snow.
How strange it should be that this beautiful snow
Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to got
How strange it should be, when the night comes
again,
If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain.


Painting,


Freezing,


Dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for mog
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town
Gone mad inushe joy of the snow coming down,
To be, and 5de, in my terrible woe,
Ny only bed and shroud the beautiful snow.
Year: 1866




Now that the war has closed, and peace
returned to bless the land, we can look dis
passionately upon the leaders of the armies
in the great Rebellion. While laudIng the
valor of our own gallant soldiers, frank
aud generous spirit will not permit US to
overlook the bravery of those who fought
in a mistaken cause. Their valor intitles
them to respect. and if bravery makes he
roes, then we must not forget their deeds
of lofty daring. The heart which is in
fueuced by noble and generous impulses,
will not refuse to recognize the gallantry OF
a soldier, it matters not in what cause he
fights, especially when he surrenders his
life on the battlefield. Bravery makes the
soldier hero; aud the general who com
mands the love of his trooPs-soldiers who
falter not in the hour of privation and dan
GERS justly entitled to our admiration.
Our late war furnished many heroes-he-
roes born beneath a northern as well as a
southern sky. It would be an unjust re-
Election upon the gallantry Of the Federal
troops to attempt to disparags the bravery
Of the Confederate soldiers. The grass is
growing upon the graves of Thousand of
Year: 1866

There are ever half million white men
and women in the old free States that can't
read or write; yet their Representatives are
full of zeal to educate the negro. We are
not opposed to the negroes having the ad-
vantages of education; but we don't think
they are any better than white people
However, New-Englanders know their own
neighbors better than we do, and our est
mate of their worth may be incorrect.
Year: 1866

ders. If we VII only give up the barren
pursuits of politics, and turn in to hard
work, the end of the present century will
sea the South the most prosperous and
densely populated portion of the American
Republic.
Year: 1866

THE FLAG is to be trusted asa
true Union paper without deceit
which no motive of interest can
turn from its course !; and which
cannot be swayed by favor or in
timidated by threat. tits first
class journal, and ought 10 re-
ceive the hearty support of the
true Union men of San Francis
co and the fnterior.-Stockton
Year: 1866

MANY of the lead
ing articles in the A
MEXICAN FLAG, when
carefully perused
cannot fail to make
the lover of his
country tremble.-
They are umistaka-
bly, a plain chess
board of the future
and will serve as a
beacon light on the
political paths Of
the nation. A lar e
number of these ar.
ticles are W orthyof
republication in
book form.-Los
Anro1ee A..,,o
Year: 1866

Resolved That
this Convention
does most heartily
indnrse the AMERI-
CAN FLAG. as a news
paper true. energet-
ic and reliable for
its advocacy of the
great measures and
principles of the Un-
ion party in this
State !; and that VIC
do hereby commend
it TO the confidence
and support of all
loyal men.-Resoiu-
fions of Union
State Convention.
Year: 1866

We return our sincere thanks to Mr.. Low
for supply of fine. early apples and peaches.
Also, to Mr.. Werle for a nice watermelon.
If our friends continue to do as well by us
as they have during the past week, We may
do well in this country yet.
Year: 1866

II Avery singular defect of verbal mem
lory, is the difficulty felt by nine persons
tout often, in remembering proper names,


at the same time that the. possession OF


such name is felt to be the key to the


whole knowledge ofthe subject. A mans


face, figure, voice, In fact the man him


self, in bodily presence before us, fire.
quently fails to recall, to us who, be is,


and what have been our relations to him.


For all we can remember, he may have


been an old acquaintance, or a man who


travelled withus yesterday in the rail


way, or a tradesman from whom, we
bought pair Of gloves We know that


we have seen him before, and that is all.
The when-the where-Aand how, we can


not remember. At the same time we
are quite aware that IL we could only
recall his name, we should instantly re-


member all we ever knew about him.
His name Is the hook to which we have


hung every faetgin our collection, and
in our hurry we cannot find it. By-and-


by memory supplies us with the missing


name and then all is clesr. Our, vague


stare is exchanged for the cordial recog-
milton, and we exclaim How strange
j should have forgotten your name for


moment remembered your face quite
well, but could, not tell where we had


met" 1t is said that persons who have
received injuries Of the brain, and those
who are failing, in old age, suffer ip .
special degree from this difficulty OF re-
memhering proper names, which may
therefore be considered the most weak
point in this very weak faculty A fa-
miliar vet unaecountable fact connected
Herewith, Is the greater facility with
which we recover the lost clue when we
do not directly strive to recover IL, but
occupy ourselves in some other thoughts,
leaving some unknown, nncOncious fac 4
ulty to work at the required search As
a star seems brighter when we are not
looking directly al, it but q few degrees
aside, SO a word which we seek seems to
come out Of obscurity in our recollec-
tion when we have turned our direct men
tai vision a little away TO other objects. /
Memory Is o coy and wilful witness, who
win not 5e Intercepted with point
blank questions, nor brow-beaten
BY cross-examinaiioh.h p She remains
silent and sulky when so treated,
but as soon as she is humored BY
being left at peace she comes forward Of
her own accord, aud volunteers the in
formation we desire How, or why this
should be so, it seems diifienlt 70 under,
stand. The action or the unconscious
mental powers IS even more marvellous
han the faculties, which work in the day
light Of our cognizance. .isa h,e st
Year: 1866



 THE NEFsPAPER.r- .r-Withont my newspaper, life would narrow itself to the smallest limits of my personal experiences, and humanity be compressedin the ten or fifteen people mix with. Now refuse to accept this. I have not sixpence in consols, but want to know how they stand l was never-never in likelihood shall be in Japan but 1 have an intense curiosity to know what our troops did at Yokohama l deplore the people who suf- fered by that railroad smash and sympathize with the newly married couple so beautifully depicted in the Illustrated, as they drove of in a ehaise, and one old gent at the hall door waving them last adieu. like the letters of correspondents, with their unwarrantable omissions in the liturgy I even like the people who chronicle the rain fall and record little facts about the mildness of the season. As for advertisements, regard them as glass and mirror ofthe age. Show me but one page of the swants.' of any country, and l engage to give sketch of the period What glimpse of rare interiors do we gain by these brief paragraphs, How full of suggestyepess and story are they .- BIackwood's Magazine.
Year: 1866

fs&-4 CREDIT SfSGEMs

 The credit system works 2 hardship upon

 the community where it is indolged in this

 way. X merchant purchases at the East

 or elsewhere. ten thousand dollars worth of

 goods and brings them to pes Arc, he

 makes an estimate of his house rent board

 of self and clerks, clerks wages, taxes, inei-

 dental expenses; loss in ware and tare, &c;

 he then puts on his per cent sufficient to cover all these expenses and pay him T reasonable proGt'f8r his riskin investment. say his per cent (for illustration, :, is forty per cent--now in view of his probable loss under the credit system, heis compelled to put his per cent ten or fifteen per cent higher on his entire stock than he would do under the cash system, by which he would be enabled to rcinvest his means two or three times every year and makea M Msp'all per cent on each investment. and thus the merchant would realize more in the wa5 of profits every year, and the farmer and me chanic would get their goods or nedessares cheaper But who pays that additional price of ten or fifteen per centon the goods under the credit system2 evidently 1t IS paid by the solvent or punctual part of the community, and they are thus taxed ten or twelve dollars every year to keep up and encourage class of men and women. that l are all the time consuming and making no efforts to pay their debts or liabilities, from year to- year.. Look at the money paid l judicial or civil officers in suits instituted for the collection of debts look at the time consumed by plaintiff and defendant in actions of debt costs, fees, &c. These are, in part, the fruits of the credit system I But how are VIC to remedy this evil ? I an swer, by learning to unlearn the things We have learned amiss; we can educate our selves'to the cash system slowly, gradually N and cfIectually Thoh men will feel freer, easier and happier--they vii, be indepen- dent in the true sense of the term inde- pendenccr Under our former mode of do ing business it was impossible Tor most men to determine what they were worth at any | time, but they hurried on with continual leaping in the dark, ever looking upon the bright sidcnf the picture and hoping that times would get better; that something would turn up to relieve them from em barrassmcnt and thus they indnlged others and were themselves indulged, till war sud denly broke upon us, with its startling re alities-the consequence was thatadehtsl were lost sight of, tin. hostilties ceased, 4 then the old claims were fcviyed, and men, 4 having lost all by the war, were unable to liquidate the claims created years ago. ItI is an inconvenience to be poor, but to bel poor and have old claims hanging over us is still worse--but all this can and will bel remediea by tinc,sindpstry and courage Experience is the lamp by which our feet| should be guided and directed in the full

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Year: 1866

There is not an honest or intelligent citizen at
all acquainted with the characters and antece-
dents Of the main instigators Of the revolution
airy and incendiary plot which produced the
terrible scenes of yesterday who does not know
that the real and controlling motive of these
reckless and unprincipled men was to regain
offices and patronage which they had lost since
the close Of the war, and by means of which
they had raised themselves from poverty and
obscurity to comparative wealth and partisan
notoriety. 1t should not be imagined for amo-
ment that they were of the class of honest IA
natics, sincere believers in any of the doctrines
or ideas advocated by them that they had ever
before manifested any honest sympathy or con-
Germ for the freedmen The few in our city
who have some claims to consistency and sin
cerity in such ideas and feelings had no part in
this scheme The leading actors were men
who before the war were of utter insignifcance,
and would never have emerged therefrom in
any peaceful, respectable community: Many Of
them were renegades from the Confederate
cause
Year: 1866

The Washington National RepuJltcan of
Wednesday. August LIST, has the following
startling announcement: 1t will be recolect-
ed By our readers who have kept the run of
this paper, that We lntimated a~suspicion seve-
RAJ months ago that the Radical members of
Congress had entered into conspiracy against
the Constitution to shut out the electoral vote
III 1868 Of certain Southern States, and that
about a month ago we stated more clearly what
1t was AS no. Senator, Representative, or
Radlcal newspaper has presumed to deny the
allegation, We take it to have been true. Ex-
cept so far as it has since been modified BY the
ratification of the proposed amendments to the
Constitution, we understand the Radicals to be
workngrup to that programme still


The present anxiety about the President of
the Senate, to succeed MIR. Foster, grows out of
the plan to have man In the Vice President S
chair, lii February 1869, who will have coufage
enough to refuse to open the electoral returns
from all the States then unrepresented in Con-
gress The letter-wrters say that Senator
Wade is the candidate who i, thought to pos
sess the most courage for such performance
1t is unlmportant who the Senator that shall
undertake that outrage may be, except so far
as it may concern his own personal safety, for


1t is plot that cannot be carried out with i'm
punity. We do not believe it can be consunl-
mated without bloodShed At all events, if the
eieclOfal votes OF the OtateS thus unlaWfuly cX-
cluded wilLelect a candidate for President who
shall not he elected without them, the people
will find way to have them counted, by put
ting the proper Pre- ident elect into the Execu-
tive office and maintaining him there, by force
ii necessary. 9t's aa'e srr -


If we had any hope that anything we ght
say would cause the Radicals to deSist from this
revolutionary work we should beseceh them,
by their love of country and its Constitution, by
their regard for the success of the experiment
OF free government, and by the dangers of light
ing anew the flames of civil war in our country,
to pause before they.go any further 1t is
most fearful Undertaking. The exclusion of
ten States from repre- entation in Congress goes
to the utmost verge of forbearance No further
outrage can in our opinion, be superadded to
it without breaking the public peace and expo
sing the country to the horrors Of another civil
war, in which he people ofthe excluded States
would have the sympathy of the civilized world


1t will be the first duty of the National
Union Convention to denounce this foul con-
spiracy in proper words to the whole American
people, to the end that the people may do some
thing towards averting the catastrophe which
is certain to enSue from its consummation, at
the autumnal elections We cannot think it
possible that the people at large are so far de
morazed as to send back to Congress many of
these consplrators against the Constitution if
they can be made to understand the nature and
enOrnty of the plot -
Year: 1866

ALL MAY BECOME RICH.-It often
amuses me to See how a hap-hazard,
neck-or-nothing voyage, which by some
rare good fortune enriches common
place individual, increases his reputa-
tion for talents. All the small fry look
up to him; he begins to talk with en-
phasis, but no discretion, about matters
ne don't understand; and his great tai
ents are at last rewarded by being incor-
porated into banking institution! 1t
would seem that the acquisition of rich
es is considered as unequivocal proof of
great cleverness, which is the mercan-
tile phrase of wisdom. But in my opin-
ion any man may grow rich if he pleases.
1t is only to become the slave of gain !;
to think, and work and dream of money
and to repulse and starve every liberal
impulse of the mind. Thirty or forty
years sticking close to this will inevita-
bly, make man rich enough to consult
his tastes or his passions, just at an age
when he has no tastes and for the most
part but one passion. This is what is
called gaining the whole world and los
ing our soul-an exchange very COM
mon in this world.-Paulding.
Year: 1866

How TO EXTRACT A NEEDLE.-Dr.
W. W. Porter, of Geddes, recently re-
moved a needle which had been for
nearly four weeks deeply imbedded in
the muscles of the hip of child two
years of age, by passing positive pole
Of horseshoe magnet, highly charged
over one extremity of the needle. In
a few minutes he easily discovered the
needle coming near the surface, and in
less than half an hour the head was
drawn through the skin, and it was ca
silly removed. 1t was about two inches
in length. The child during most of
the process was as quiet as though moth
ing unusual was being done. This
statement will interest readers generally
and it may be of service in cases like
the one related above.
Year: 1866

voice raved and stormed, jealous and
rcrengeful.


81 know he is here; l saw him come
into the house with you. You locked
the door; I'll have his heart out, where
is he ?"


Hear me Hear me I will ex-
plain" urged the lady.


As I listened to hear the explanation
the husband walked plump against me;
and at the same moment the light ap-
peared. L .la


Well. B." we cried, deeply
interested, for we knew that every word
of his story was true, chow did you get
out of the scrape?"


81 used violent remedy for so vio-
lent complaint. Driven into corner
my life in danger-perceiving at q
glance that Othello was not as strong as
I was, threw myself upon him, fell
with him, and held him there until I
had given him full explanation of the
error, made him hear reason, and tanned
him to be as gentle as lamb. Then I
left, rather unceremoniously, and l have
never seen Othello or Desdemona since.


SPANISH CUsToMs.-The Madrid
correspondent of the London Times,
says:


"You would say, on a first cursory
glance at the streets of Madrid, that
there are none but carriage company.
The number of comfortable and even
elegant equipages here would seem to
be altogether out of proportion with
the amount Of population and their fini-
cal circumstances. Stand before the
Upper House of Senate, and you will
hardly see one out of $50 members
coming to serve his country otherwise
than in coach and pair. Strange to
say, however, all these brilliant equipa-
ges are quite an innovation in Madrid,
and are due, I am told, to that suppress
sion of converts and confscation of
church property which seems here to-
have enriched everybody. People fa-
miliar with the place assure me that
there was not one private carriage ten
years ago where there are now five hun
dred, and hardly anything like fine
pair of.horses in the whole town. The
cattle used in these good old times were
solid, sure-footed, long -eared mules. A
pair of those more useful than ornamen-
tai animals is often to be seen put to
modern heroine or landau at the present
day, and although the Queen almost in
variably makes her appearance in public
with six fine bays, still team of as.
many mules have almost invariably the
honor Of drawing the roomy conveyance
in which the royal children, their tutors
and governesses are sent out for an
airing.
Year: 1866

WHY Two L's.-The degree Doctor
Legum, or Doctor of Laws, as originally
given in the universities of Europe, in
dicated just this: That man was so
learned in civil or canon laws as to be
able to teach them. The reason why
they said laws instead of law, and con-
why the abbreviation is L. L..
D., instead of L. D., is that there were
two bodies or systems of law studied in
those universities-the civilian and the
canon-and the person decorated must
be master of both. We say in this
country Of distinguished judge or ad-
vocate that he is learned in the law
Not so in the middle ages. They said
of such person that he was learned in
the laws.