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Year: 1866

DUTCH GAP CANAL The owner of the
farm known as Dutch Gap, finding that the
inland made by the cutting OF Buffers canal
could not conveniently be put to use with
ont some means OF communication with the
main land. has gone to work filling up one end
OF the canal in order to create eanseway and
the great canal will soon be among the things
that Were.-RichRond Dispdtck
Year: 1866

REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF CoAL.-Mr Ca
Bile has reduced the price of coal to II cents
at the coal yard. in this city. The tendency
of prices is towards specie standard, and the
true business man does not wait for his Gus
toners 20 force him to reduce prices but
comes down gracefully. -
Year: 1866

STRUCK THE PIER.-Yesterday when the
steamer Michigan came through the draw
with two barges, the swift current drove her
against the pier resulting in such damage to
the barges that the frsight had to be tran
shipped here to other barges aud the steamer
Ella, and the barges sent to the boat yord
for repairs.
Year: 1866

THE PEEL OF BELLE.-Afser quoting from
John Locke. that blind man took his idea
of scarls from the sound of a trumpet, {.
witty fellow says that hoop skirt hanging
out of shop door reminds him of the peel
Of BELLE
Year: 1866

Nov that there is very great danger that, not
withstanding all the efforts that have been
made and are making to prevent the introduce
tion of cholera into our midst, the disease will
be inIthe city before the summer is over Per-
manent hospitals for the treatment of those VINO
at the Battery, Five Points, House of Industry,
a building in Thirty-ninth street, and on one OF
the barren islands off the Marrow ows.-Neso York


WO1Id
Year: 1866

was q higher object than ambition or avarice
could promise. But for the noble eleemosynary
institutions in which these orphans are educated,
it admits of but little doubt what their lot and
part would be in after life. Such educational es-
tablishments-and our city has as many of them
any other of her population-are enough to
make the most dstrustful cynic take an ennobliDg
view Of his race.
Year: 1866

IT is very complimentary both to the Union
party who elected him Vice President on the
ticket with Lincoln, and to Mr.. johnson
himself, that the leaders of the opposition
party are ready to abandon the venerable
designation of Democratic party and assume
the name of johnson party, because they re-
gard it as better.
Year: 1866

How sadly are the reconstructed abused
that they are not permitted to run the ma
chine after their own bent At Wilmington
North Carolina, on the 18th inst eight colored
and one white man were strung up by the
thumbs in the most frequented street Of that
city at noon, stripped and fogged until the
Agent of the Freedmens Bureau arrived on
the spot and put stop to this chivalrous
amusement
Year: 1866

MANY persons admit that leading rebels q
the South have been guilty of treason of tbs
bloodiest dye, and yet in the same brsatt
they contend that members of Congress are
disunionists for refusing to admit these same
rebels to seats in Congress on their promise
not to commit open treason again.


On the same principle these persons might
denounce husband as vile adulterer If he
should refuse to restore anotoriously unfaith-
ful and guilty wife to her martial rights and
privileges and the control Of the family on
the promise of future abstinence from crime.
Year: 1866




PfTTsBuRG, Sept. q.
A meeting Of returned prisoners from .
number OF States was held after the adjourn
ment Of the Soldiers convention. when an
association OF rebel prison survivors was or
CANNED by the election Of Gen A. d.
Streight ~ Chairman. This evening Con
stitution and circular Was adopted.
beginning thus having been made, we
appeal to our late comrades in prison to join
with us IN making this association co extern
siye with our country. To this end let each
returned prisoner put himself into communi>
cation with the Vice President appointed for
the State to which be belongs, and be en-
rolled q member of the branch association
of his State. Those becoming members will
aid IN collecting ssch information as will be
useful IN completing history of rebel prisons,
and especially in relation to those of their
fellow prisoners whose fate is unknown to
their friends at home. With such purposes
in view, we feel assured that our fellow pris-
oners generally will join us in 0arrying them
into effect, using every means conclusive to
that end


The meeting then adjourned
Year: 1866

measures which were afterwards taken to
restore order, tranquility and law to the
States, where all had for the time been over.
thrown. No steps could have been better
calculated to command the respect, win the
confidence, revive the patriotism and secure
the permanent and affectionate allegiance
of the people Of the South to the constitu.
ton and laws of the Union than those
which have been 20 firmly taken and 50
steadfastly pursued by the President of the
United States.


And if that confidence and loyalty have
been since impaired If the people of the
South are to day less cordial in their allegi-
ance than they were Immediately upon the
close of the war-we believe it is due to
the changed tone of the legislative depart
ment of the general government towards
them; to the action by which Congress has
epdeavored to supplsut aud defeat the Pres.
ident's wise and benedcent policy Of res.o-
artion to their exclusion from all partici-
patton in our common government; to the
withdrawal from them Of rights conferred
and guaranteed BY the constitution, and to
the evident purpose of Congress, in the
exercise of usurped and unlawful authori,
ty, to reduce them from the rank Of free
and equal members Of republic Of States,
with rights and dignities unimpsired,
to the condition Of conquered provinces
and conquered people. In ell things
subordinate and subject to the will of
their conquerors-free only to obey laws,
Year: 1866

DIG0ING WELLs-IIow TO DETERMINE
WHERE WATER Is.-At recent meeting Of
the American Institute Farmers Club, a
member related his experience in this matter
as follows:


"An lrishman in his employment 10 order
to ascertain where he ought to dig to obtain
water soonest, got stone and buried it over
night in the ground, next to the hardpan.
10 the morning he found it quite moist but
not sufficiently SO to suit bis fancy. Next
night he tried it 10 another spot, and it was
found very wet on the following morning.
There said Patrick, you will find water not
many feet deep, and plenty Of it, Sure
enough. in few days digging, Patrick con-
frmed his prediction, Notwithstanding the
jeers Of the workmen-fnding vein which
filled the well to overflowing, and rendered it
exceedingly difficult to bail out the well SO as
to stone it. The philosophy of the operation
seems to be that as great evaporation takes
place from the surface of the earth during
the night, the water rises up from The depths
below TO supply the loss, and accumulates in
the vicinity OF the stone, often making quite
puddle.'
Year: 1866

THEN AND Now-Do CIRCUMSTANCES AL.
TER REL1GIoN?-During the Administration
of MIR. Lincoln, the clergy, for the purpose
Of quieting the consciences of the honest
and devout believers in the doctriue of the
Prince of Peace, and to induce them TO give
the last dollar and the last man, to carry on
the war against the people South, declared
constantly that obedience to the Government
was obedience to God; and that the Govern
meht was represented in the President
Every person that had read history knew
that all such teachings Of the clergy was
sheer trickery, and was resorted to by them
to carry out certain views Of their own,
either of power or revenge.


The war over-the South conquered
slavery abolished -and-then what? The
clergy pipe a new tune. 1t is no longer
obedience to the Government is obedience
to God" They have discovered, since the
veto Of the negro bureau bill by President
johnson, that it depends altogether upon
who administers the Government, and
whether the administration of the Govern
ment is in accord with their views of public
policy, whether "obedience to the Govern
ment is obedience to God" They no long
or inculcate the doctrine, that the powers
that be were ordained Of God, and that,
therefore, resistance to these powers is sin
against God.


They themselves are now foremost in de-
nouncing the powers that be-powers they
have heretofore taught were ordained of God.
One says, if the President and supporters
are to 60 to Heaven, he wants to be counted
out of the heavenly company-he would
prefer hell We have no objections. An
other declares that Benedict Arnold, in COM
parison with President Johnson, is as the
smell of the rose beside carrion-as carrion
beside1 e1assafetida. Still another says, that
hell vomited its drtiest demon when An
drew johnson was given to the world We
doubt not that, by next week, we can multi
ply these clerical demonstrations against the
President tenfold


What are we to think Of these things?-
What do they mean? Is the Bible a fable,
and religion humbug? Enquirer.
Year: 1866

HEAVY SALE.-A sale was recently made
of the Orc Fino mine, and the Morning Star
mill and mine, in Idaho, for the sum Of six
teen hundred thousand dollars. The pur-
chase was made by New York and English
company Of capitalists, who will at once 60
to work upon and fully develop the mines
bought ~st ..s
Year: 1866

NEGRO PAUPERs.-Tbe Macon telegraph


says that there are forty three thousond me-
groes and upward fed at the expense Of the
Government in Georgia, and that in all the
Southern States the number exceeds four
hundred and thirty four thousand thus fed.
Year: 1866

Ew Milk may be kept sweet by having
it constantly in the presence Of fresh water
10 milk room provided with tubs, in which
the water is changed twice q day, milk will
not be toured even by lightning,
Year: 1866

The FIRST LOCOMOTIVES IN AMERIcA.-Ma
jor lloratio Allen, the Engineer of the New
York and Erie Railroad. in speech made at
recent festival occasion, gave the following
interesting account Of the first trip made by
locomotiAe an this continent: "When
was it? Who was it? And who awakened
its energies and directed its movements? 1t
was in the year 1928, on the banks Of the
Lackawaxen, at the commencement Of the
Railroads connecting the canal of the Della.
ware and Hudson Canal Company with their
coal mnes-and he who addresses you was
the only person on that locomotive. The cir
cumstances which led to my being on the
engine were these: The road had been built
in the summer. The structure was of hem.
lock timber, aud rails of large dimensions
notcbed on caps placed far apart. The timber
bad cracked and warped from exposure TO the
sun. After about 800 feet of straight line, the
Lackawaxen creek was crossed on trestlework
about thirty feet high, with curve Of 355
to 400 feet radius, The impression was very
general that the iron monster would either
break down the bridge or it would leave the
track at the curve and plunge into the creek.
My reply to such arprehensions was that it
was too late to consider the probability Of
such occurrences; that there was no other
course than to have trial made of the
strange animal, which had been brought
here at great expense; but that it was not
necessary that more than one should be in,
volved in its fate; that would take the first
ride alone, and that the time would come
when would look back to the incident
with great interest. As | placed my hand
on the Unbelievable handle, ! was undecided
whether would move slowly or with fair
degree of speed; but believing that the road
would prove safe, and prefsrring, if we did
90 down, to 60 handsomely, and without


any evidence Of timidity, started with con.
siderable velocity, passed the curve over the
creek safely, and was soon out of hearing o
the vast assemblage. At the end of two or
three miles reversed the valve and returned
without accident, having thus made the first
railroad trip by locomotive on the Western
Hemisphere"
Year: 1866

ments IN relatle|.n to it may be supported, are
beyond Enumeration, or calculation. But to


eoute to particulars the ordinance proposed


'oy the Board of Health, contains scarcely sol


italy new penal provision, and certainly not


one that can be reasonably objected to. Al


most every section OF it is a counterpart Of


already existing although never enforced


ordinances. The objection raised to it at the


last meeting of the council was that it provided


for the appointment of four health officers,
at the expense of say some eight or ten thous-
and dollars year. How valid this objection
is may be gathered from the fact that it is pos
itiyely less than has been expended for similar
purposes by any city having over fifteen thous-
and inhabitants throughout the whole country.
In three months, New York has expended little,
if anything, less than half million of dollars
to prevent the introduction or the spread of
pestilence and other cities, from Portland to
Brownsville in proportion. The necessity of
this action has seemed so urgent that the
United States authorities have interested them
selves in it, and have not only offered aid in
carrying out preventive measures, but have
intimated that if these be not adopted by local
authorities, they will be enforced at their own
cost.


We have carefully examined the ordinance
prepared by the Board of Health, and we have
no hesitation in saying that it is the most con
servatiye and inexpensive we have seen
throughout the whole country. Itmerely adds
for the sanitary purposes of the city four
health officers to the existing city organiza-
ton and that is less than has been done by
any other city in the country. There seems
to be an idea that Che policemen and street
commissioners already existing can carry out
health ordinances without further aid No
greater mistake can exist. None but q medical
man can say with confidence what is really
prejudicial to health what is the character of
a supposed contagious Or epidemic disease
none but medical man can afford the prompt
and efficient aid and action necessary to pre-
vent the spread Of disease. And the Board of
Health could not carry out the object of pro-
tecting the health Of the city without minis
terial officers


In short, New Orleans must have sanitary
protection; and she can get it in no cheaper
or more effective way than that proposed by
the Board Of Health
Year: 1866

H II a father wishes to give his
son legacy that will endure while
his life exists, let him send him to an
institution where he can obtain q
general, practical, business educs-
ton, and he will have the satisfaction
Of knowing that he has given him
that which is better than houses, lots
and farms, or even geld and silver;
these things may take wings and sud
denly fly away, but this knowledge
will endure while life and resssn ex-
ist--Hordce Mana.
Year: 1866

The report Of the Secretary Of the Interior
exhibits the condition Of those branches OF
the public service that are committed TO his
supervision. During the fiscal year. four
millions six hundred and twenty-nine thou
sand three hundred and twelve acres Of pub
lie land were disposed Of, one million eight
hundred and ninety-two thousand five hun
dred and sixteen acres Of which were entered
under the homestead act.
Year: 1866




How Gov. Harris and General Price
were Caught in the Rain.-A n
Amusing Incident.


We find in one Of our exthan ges an
extract from a letter written in the
city of Mexico, and giving an amusing
description of the manner in which
Gen. Price, ex.Gov. Harris and sew
eral other Confederates wero caught
in rain storm. They were dining at
restaurant when the fain began
suddenly to fall. They made them
selves quite merry over the matter,
expecting the shower soon to pass
over; but hours passed and the rain
continued without intermission. Pre-
sently the sidewalk was uveraowed
and the water found it's way into the
restaurant, where IL continued to rise.
Chairs and tables werc appropriated
to new use. In one corner was seen
the stalwart form Of " Pap Price,"
mounted upon little roun d table,
while his vis-a.vis was Gov. Harris,
carefully balancing himself upon the
back ofa decidedly rickety char, and
the rest of the Confeds were disposed



of to the best advantage upon other
articles of furniture. Here they re-
mained cogitating upon the fallen for
tunes of the Confederacy, the power
of Uncle Sam, and the instability of
the Mexican climate until the storm
subsidized. How to get to their hotel
was the next question. There were
no canoes to be had, and carriages
would not venture out iu such times.
At length the General settled the
knotty point by taking off his boots
and divesting himself Of his neither
garments; his example was followed
by his comrades, and carefully rolling
lp their boots and clothing, the party
allied forth. "Old Pap" taking tho
cad. Such procession was never
before seen in the streets Of Mexico,
Ind the costume of the party would
hardly have been considerd la mode
n New York; however, they had dry
,reechos to wear by this aquatic feat.
Year: 1866

of the deceased, that allowed myself to bs
silent in the presence of infamy.


Before daylight there was another corpse
in the house, and It was told for two months
after that Mrs. Colebrook had been killed by
the shock of her husbands death.


buried them both two days after and I
had the pleasure of seeing the Colebrook
fortune pass into the hands Of the poor and
deserving sister.


have never seen nor heard from Dr.
Rowne from that to this. 1t is said he went
to the East Indies. The did, the devil is
with him there, and always will be.
Year: 1866

From the Bangor, Mel Times (rep.l August III


we have time to-day but for few words this topic.
Inc details we have received by telegraph are neces
sary imperfect and jet complete enough
70 convey good idea OF what said and done That
tno convention has been great success NO candid man
wiz deny; that It will be productive Of much good, even
every considerations radical will admit The best temper
prevailed and the utmost harmony characterized the
proceedings throughout


Chefest among the many points which command our
appreciation in this gathering is the one which dis.
carded and repudiated utterly the ant-war cle-
ment at the North The alacrity with which Wood,
vallandgham and Of their ilk caught up with
the idea OF this convention, led rs TO doubt Its
utility and TO fear for It's success These doubts
are now happily removed In the action OF tho
convention, the speeches made, resolutions passed.
and address submitted the anti.war element not
only ignored, but most emphatcay repudiated This is
the most gratifying fact In connection with the proceed
ing saving that exhibited In the temper Of the Southern
delegates which admirable that radical
friends find little In which TO pick flaw.


or the resolutions cannot speak In detail The
abstract we have received s very meagre There H.
however, enough to furnish key note
TO each They eminently conservative and yet
thoroughly explicit, while in tone they above cr.
csm being catholic and national They give salts
faction to all men Of conservative tendencies who have
not become mbued with the falaces of the hour And
best OF all they the natural and sequence to the
Baltimore Un'on platform The doctrines Of the
lamened Lincoln are eptomiZed In them, and their tr
umphant vindcaton by the people in 1858 foregone
conclusion.
Year: 1866

The true explanation OF the prevailing ex-
travaganee in costume is that women dress
for one another.


In other words, they dress for eyes which
can appreciate the material and estimate the
cost Of every separate article they have on,
1t is quite true that many men care as
much for, and are as competent to give an
opinion on the appearance Of their wives, or
sisters, or friends, as any number Of female
acquaintances; but the grounds upon which
the two classes Of critics will base their sew
era. judgments will always be distinct, and
the conclusions themselves not unirequently
quite opposite.


Ask man and woman to tell you who
is the best dressed girl at a ball, and you win
hardly ever find them agreeing in their an
swer. Go step further, and compare the
costumes which have been selected, and you
will discover almost to a certainty that the
woman has singled out the most expensive
dress in the room, whereas the man has sim
ply asked himself which is the most becom-
ing. The one has suffered herself to be so
impressed by the richness of the material,
the elaborateness Of the embroidery, the
costliness of the trimmings, that in the end
she has found it simply impossible to leave
these things out of the calculation. The 9th
er, happy il his ignorance, has looked only
at the general effect, and has probably given
the preference to a young lady whose gown
has no other merits than those Of being scru-
pulously neat, becomingly cnt, and perfectly
nell Saturday ReUiely
Year: 1866

it may even be, as some fear, that it is a
copperhead device that does not matter
it will be a convention of delegates
from all the States, and thus a meeting
for counsel of citizens from every part of
the Union.


The loyal masses wait to see what this
convention will do; whatever it does,
they will not be moved from the deter
mination that equal rights to all men
shall be maintained in every part of the
Union, and that free speech and free
press shall be left to instruct the people,
and free labor and free trade to enrich
them, and local self government to train
them in the true ways of liberty.
Year: 1866

WE have always been a friend in need to
Secretary Stanton, and have often given him
friendly advice If he had followed it, he
would not be surrounded with so many diff
entities The disclosures concerning the Bu-
reau of Military Justice, the Baker case the
Paulding trial and the Fry Conkling inVesti-
CATION are making the Secretary's Office al
together too warm for Mr.. Stanton. He has
probably done more wrong, violent and de-
spotic deeds than any other American official,
and all these things are coming home to him
at present, like the Arabs curses. We there
fore advise him to consult prudence, main
tain his personal dignity, and save appear
ances by a prompt resignation. If he does
not resign, be may soon be turned out; and
how would that look in history ?-New York
Herald
Year: 1866

all, 1 am taxed to pay interest money to
rich bond holders, who live in ease, whose
hands are soft who pay no taxes, yet
live on what earn, and what all Of US
poor men earn. Now what chance has
a poor man under such a republican
government? A chance to work hard
and die poor l-BRICK POMRoY.
Year: 1866

GIVE got a new machine, said YANKEES
pedlar for picking bones out Of 6shes.-
Now, tell you, it's lettle bit the darnd-
est thing you ever did see. All you have to
do is to set it on a table and turn crank.
and the fish flies rite down your throat, and
the bones rite under the crate. Well thers
was country greenborn got hold Of il
the other day, and he turned the crank The
wrong way; and I tell you the way the
bones few down his throat was awful, Why
It stuck that fellow so full Of bones that be
couldn't get his shirt off for whole week
Year: 1866

TIE URBANA UNION will be furnished 10 spb.
scribers from the 1st day Of July until after The
election, at the


Lou Price Of Fifty Cents
per copy. We will use every effort to make an
effective and vigorous Campaign Paper and ask
the cooperation Of our friends in the County to
give us an extensive circulation. A copy Of the
paper will be sent gratuitous to persons who viii
send US ten subscribers
Year: 1866

MoNEr.-Men work Tor it, tight for it, btk
for it. steal for it, starve for it and die for it,
And all the while from the cradle to the
grave, Nature and God are Numbering into
our ears the solemn question What shall
it profit man if he gain the whole world,
and yet lose his own soul p This madness
for money is the strongest and lowest Of the
passions It is the insatiate Moloch Of the
human heart, before whose remorssless altar
all the finer attributes OF humanity are sacri-
ficed It makes merchandise OF al that is
sacred in human affections and even trs6Cs
in the awful soIemnities Of eternity.