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Year: 1866

The Radicals Of the North are attempt
ing to alter human nature, and reverse
the current Of human feeling They
think to make a people towards whom
they are maniiesting a fendish hate, and
loading with orProbrium and oppression
admire, initiate, fraternize and love them.
The New York Tribune in one issue has
an article feic;tating itself on the poverty
Of the Southern people, and another
gloating over the actual destitution in
some parts of southern coun ~.
Year: 1866

New York, Dec. 3.-The Associated
Press quarrel excites little interest here
The policy Of the Association has no
changed. The World announced this
morning that it would take Craig's news
and it was then Immediately dismissed
from the Association. The Herald, Times
and Tribune, it is understood, had a con.
ference to-day and agreed to interchange
special dispatches and send them over the
country. They also agreed to advance one
hundred thousand dollars each during the
next three months towards strengthing and
developing the facilities Of the Association
At this conference it was felt that the con-
test is not with the country press, but to
prevent the creation of one man tyranny
over news like that exercised by Mr.. Reu-
ter, of Europe The most liberal arrang-
ments are being made with all papers that
remain true to the Associated Press.


Delegations from the West are here pro-
testing against the action of Messrs. Hal
stead Il White The action Of the Herald,
Tribune, and Times, of course, ends the
contest, and it is now said that Mr.. Craig
will continue to send only commercial dis
patchs and ship news abandoning the col
lection of general intelligence
Year: 1866

~ An ardent temperance man was talking
10 crowd Of arinkers once at Sharon Springs,
telling them Of the awful effects Of drinking ar.
dent spirits. A noted topper In the crowd said


Now, mister, Just want 10 tell you why
take dram occasionally. knew man oncs
who believed exactly as you do never drank
anything but cold water lie died suddenly, n
the doctor said. Of apoplexy but When they
came 10 open him they found him fall Of ie'oies!'
Year: 1866

WASHINGTON, April Is.


The following memorial was presented in
the House yesterday:


To the Honoabls the House Of Representatives Of the


Gated States Of Annsrica:


Your memorial humbly represents that in
common with the loyal people of the repub-
lie, he has been anxiously waiting for justice
to be done the soldiers Of the Union army,
particularly those who have been disabled,
and the parents, widows and orphans of those
who have been lost. Resolutions of thanks
and proclamations Of recognition may be SUN
cient for those whose gamers are well filed,
but it is notorious fact that the great mass
of the ranks of the army were not from the
high in civil life, of those rejoicing in wealth
and luxury, and the nation was saved by the
agony, the privations, the tears and the blood
OF those whoapparently had the least interest,"
in its preservation. Declarations that the
debt We owe The soldieTfs one the nation can
never pey, seems SO to paralyze the Govern
ment, that no successful attempt hasYet been
madeto pay it, and the obligation is looked
upon as of such magnitude, that it is partially
Ignored It's matter of regret that the de-
partments of the Government are almost
sealed against the applications of the living
heroes Of the age, and too often when the
hmping clipple and the empty sleeve ask the
privilege of an honest livelihood, they are
turned away as the wandering mendicant or
the insolvent beggsr on the highways and
street corners Those whom the nation should
delight to honor, are compelled to beg for
their daily bread. Should we do less for our
soldiers than rebel communities, who periled
everything, and find in the struggle the people
of Florida in their Legislature few months
ago, made a liberal appropriation for the
support of disabled soldiers, widows and
orphans, graduating the amounts only by the
wants Of the needy. Shall we fail to do as
much promptly and cheerfully. The mere
pittance of eight dollars per month was fixed
when the nation was poor, and that sum
would purchase more than double the neces-
saries Of life then than now. The
faith of the republic was pledged in
advance to the wounded soldier and
sailor, the widow and the orphan. Let it
be redeemed, SO that gratitude may be
shown in deeds and not in empty words only
Is it asking too much that while eight dollars
was formerly paid twenty should be gieea
now, and that the pension laws may be re-
modified that the pensioner can obtain his
bounty with less OF annoyance and perplexi
II than Is now the case. Four years of war
clearly show that the Almighty will be
avenged on nations for great oficnses. May
we not provoke this indignation by commit.
ting the basest of crimes, ingratitude to those
who saved the nations life?


(Signed) c. P. VAs NICK.
Year: 1866

box No. 2. the arm on box No. /, being
rigid, creates a resistance to the arm OF. the
framework Of the second engine, and the
effect Of this resistance is that the arm from
the second engine acts at once on its engine
whistle in q manner which gives instant no
tice to the driver and the other persons in
charge Of the train that there is a stoppage
on the line within thelimits OF box No. 2.
TIE same principle and nfsde Of action apply
to the intervals between all the other boxes
throughout the line. By the foregoing il
will be seen that the signaling Z Signor
Nincenzi dispenses with all human ed It
depends for its efficiency upon the msints.
nance Of the electric current from the bat
teries. The inventor is so sanguine as to its
success that he is willing to lay down, at his
own expense, upon an English railway, a
length Of it sufficient to test the sysien
thoroughly MscAantc's Magazine.
Year: 1866

The Federal commander, content
with this plain and manifestiy honest
narrative, changed his orders, abandon.
ed the easy route on the pike to the
mountain, and soon the army Of the
Union was in motion In the direction
pointed out by Henry. Leaving the
main road at the foot Of tho mountain,
they wound round ravines, and over
ugly gorges, to tho spot indicated by
their fearless little guide. Here the ar
my halted, while the General with his
staff and Henry, proceeded Ia examine
the way up the mountain. Thc laurel
was there, AS Henry had stated small
bush or tree standing thickly together
with spreading tops, hrmly interlocked
and dovetailed, forming q complete and
continuous roof over the ground from
the base to the summit Of the great
mountain. The quick eye Of A&cp cplellsn
saw at glance the feasibility Of Henry's
plan, and though 1t was past midnight
| when the army arrived at this point, q
thousand men wero soon busy cutting
away the superintendent laurels, with
knives and hatchets. silence reigned
throughout the work, save the sharp
click of the blades which were dexter
ously piled, and the rustic Of the falling
laurel. Before daybreak, long rows Of
laurel lined either side Of the way up
the rugged steep, and the ascent bag an,
The horses were tied to the trees below,
The artillery horses were taken from
their carriages. Ono by one the heavy
cannon were moved up the mountain
by the strong arms of the soldiers, and
left In position where they ponld be
easily and rapidly moved krward,
when the time for action should arrive,
Light was dimly breaking In the east,
when the army commenced the march
up the mountain by companies many
falling, but rapidly recovering their
places, and patiently rushing ON aud
when the enemy were looking for the
coming of the army Of tho Union far
down the main rond over the impregna-
bic hreastworks, the Yankee cannon
were booming In their rear, both ut an
unexpected moment, and from an un-
expected quarter. The rebels were
thunder-struck, rs well as struck by
shell and canister. ....


The resultisa matter Of history. They
made feeble resistance, and fed pres
oipitately down the mountain hotly
pursued by the triumphant Yankees, to
Cheat River, where the brave rebel Con-
eral Garnctt was killed. Two hundred
men were killed OH the mountain, and
lie buried by the roadside, with no 9TH
er sign of the place Of interment, than a
long line of indcntatians caused by the
gradual sinking of tho earth where tho
bodies repose.


Henry Hart is now four years older
or thcreabouts, than he was then, and
is quietly and cOntentedly working on
his fathers farm. DO you not think he
deserves to be breveted a Major Gener-
al In the army Of the Union, 10 date
from the morning of tho capture Of
Rich Mountain?
Year: 1866

The furrow to be cut shall not be less
than six inches deep. No allowance
made for team being untactable, as
the training of the team shows the
plowman rs much as the plowing.


The contest will not be as to who
shall have his work done first, but the
best In the shortest time, all things be-
ing equal.


Entries must be made in the name of
him who holds the plow.
Year: 1866

s Soft is thy gloom,
Oh purple Twilight, and meath its spell


The worlds rude sounds have sunk to rest.
The silence which is thine comes like the hush
Succeeding to the battles roar,


When gaping wounds are bound,
The dead are laid away,


And the shattered ranks gather together
For the struggle which must again commence
With the uprising Of the norrow's sun.
Or mayhap thou art more like


Unto benediction


Upon the toiling day, as thus


Thou trailest thy dim robes athward the sky,
Thy breast adorned with one lone glittering sta
VA benediction from on high,
Tender as thy light and outspread afar.
Soft is the gloom of thy brief hour,
And with it waken memories which hitherto
Have lain SO still, they seemed the dead corpse


only


OF past joys, past hopes, past fears,
But which now come fourth from out thy real
To stir the deep fountains of the human heart
With all that was, and meier can be again.
Memories like these thou bring'st for those
Whose love lies earthed in some green mound,
Or who, more wretched still, have seen
Affection slowly sink


To cold Indifference, or to bitter hate.
Not more unlike than thy dim haze,
And the gorgeous tints Of sunset clouds,
Are the wild retrospective visions
OF the heart forlorn, to the reveries
I OF the young dreamer in thy mystic hour.
The dull present and its belongings


Fade and disappear, and already


The fair estates of happiness,


Which seem to lie so far away towards
The boundless reaches of declining life,
Are given to full possession.


The cheek flushes and the eye beams,
The heart swells, the pulses bound,
And all the fair domain


OF that enchanted land
The coveted future


Lies open for the eager feet


Which speed to tread it.


To thy blissful hour is consecrate
The charmed circle that blesses
Every hearthstone, round which little children
Gather from their guileless sports.
There in thy pleasant gloom,
Enlightened only by the ire's red glow,
The jest goes round, the ripping laughter
OiHSHt, yOutalui hearts,
And the soft snatch of song, 4
So silver sweet from childish lips.
Then the household treasure,
The youngest born, leans its downy head
On the soft pillow of its mothers breast,
And famed by the pinions of the drowsy god,
Lets droop the blue-vened lids
Above its liquid eyes,
Until the long lashes lie
Upon its round and rosy cheeks.
Silence, retrospection,
Anticipation's bliss and deep tranquility
Are thine, thou shadowy twilight,
With thy purple veil and as thou lean'st
Der the land and sea, thou layest
Thy hand upon the surging human tide,
And sayest, like him Of old,
" Peace, be still.'
Year: 1866

Governor Peirpoint refused General Colston
the use of the Hall Of the House Of Delegates
to deliver his excellent lecture on StoneWall
jackson. The Governor is reported to have
said that he saw nothing in the character Of
SoueWall Jack on to admire -- 4
Year: 1866

mand of regiments IN the Confederate
service; when the State went out ]
suppose they felt they should 20 with
their State / do not remember that
any other Of them was, i'm the rebel
lion; Mr.. Alcorn. my colleague. was
IN the militia, hut l do not know that
he ever held a commission I'm the Con
federate service.


2. What are the facts lin regard t8
Gov. Humphreys and tile present Sreta
Government generally Is tt com
posed Of men who were opposed to
secession, or of men who favored i-,
A. In regard to GOV IIumuh~-vz
there was no man tn the State of Mis-
sissippi more opposed To secession
than he was; and viii tell You more
he did not believe that the Coulai
crates could establish a government if
they were free and independent. he
told me that himself some months ha-
fore the rebellion closed I know his
antecedents well there vCs u1 man
more opposed to secession than Gov
Humphreys; he was ultimately got iu
to the rebellion by accident. Won might
say; he went out with company as
its captain, and was promoted lj he a
General; being a very popular man iu
the army, he was elected Governor bv
the military vote. contrary to my
wish he is a good man, am excellent
man, and believe he ardentjy desires
to see harmony restored between the
North and the South The State Gov
ernment, with one exception I regret
to say, is in the hands of u0uscrva-
tive men the judicial department has
fallen into bad hands the judges oil
the high Court of Errors were an sc-
cessiOnists there was hut q weak op
position to them. or they would not
have been elected they would have
been beaten, we really had uo mate.
rial of respectability to run against
them, and they run i'm almost without
opposition; the Attorney General is
in the same category SIS to the minor
officers, do not know So much about
them, but the election of these Judges
to o'the highest tribunal IN the State
was q very sore thing to many of us
but / viii say this of them, they have
given manifestations of am ardent de
sire to return to the Union and to act
in good faith they admit their error
frankly and freely one ortwo Of them
have been pardoned by the President
and | think they are as loyal as any
one.
Year: 1866


RAYA6Es OF THE HOG
CHoLERA,--We had hoped that the
alarming accounts of the ravages OF
the hog cholera in this and adjacent
counties would not turn out TO be so
bad as formerly reported, but in this
we have been disappointed. Several
of our farmers have lost every hog they
had, while others are almost equally


unfortunate. The disease is not con-
fined to a particular districts, as usual
but extents throughout the country
and the complaints are alarming, III
this state Of affairs continues long we
will not have enough left for home sup
ply, and likely much suffering must be


the result among the poorer classes of
the people during the coming winter.


Il Ionesboro (Tennessee) Flag r
Year: 1866

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Thirty six stars again threw their
rays into one grand focus, where might
be seen in letters Of living light
"Union and liberty, now and forever
one and inseparable" [Applause.1 !


1T is a sad commentary on the weak
ness and wickedness of human nature,
that no sooner had the disunion party
Of the South dald down its arms, when
all seemed bright and beautiful and
happy, as when the morning stars sang
together at the birth of creation; when
you had turned your longing eyes and
hurried steps to home and the loved
ones there, that cloud should arise
upon the Northern sky That cloud
at first was no larger than mans
hand, but driven by the tempest of
passion it increased, and rose, and
spread itself, until its shadow fell on
evory household in the land. When
you came home with the tidings of
peace, you were told, there il no peace,


and when you exhibited the trophies
OF your victories, and pointed to that
old flag floating over the capital Of ev-
cry Southern State, you were answered
with sardonic laugh that you were
lighting for States which had ceased to
exist, and you were fighting for stars
which We're blotted out forever-your
Union was a myth, your flag flaunt-


ing lie, your war-cry and battle-song
Year: 1866

VINO WILL oTvE.-The Lake City
Leadcr.is responsible for the following
story. lug t.1.g He1iti ta.g yes


At meeting Of the patriotic ladies
and gentlemen of Lake City, to prepare
for tho soldiers festival lately held in
that town, a young attorney present
was requested to find out who would
supply the milk for the dinner. Jump
ing upon q chair, he loudly asked b.


GLOW many ladies here will give
milk for the brave soldiersP P''A q


An elderly lady quickly arose and
said that "she could not-she had not
given milk for ten years,"5


This so utterly confounded theyoung
lawyer that he was entirely unable to
prosecute his inquiry, and it has never
been satisfactorily known how many
ladies there We're at the meeting who
would have promised ''to give milk for
the brave soldiers"
Year: 1866

O heart, sore tried thou has the best
That Heaven Itself could give thee-rest-
Rest from all bitter thoughts and things,
How many POOR ones blessing went
With hee beneath The low green tent


Whose curtain never outward swings
Year: 1866

BAINEs, the traveller in Southwest
Africa, in describing female costume,
says of that of the Damara women:
"The bonnets are very elaborate pieces
of furniture. The head-piece is of stout
hide, bent while still soft to fit the head,
and kept in form by rows of ornamental
stitching; the ears seem to be slightly
thinner, and are also stitched in such
patterns as to give them the proper hol-
low. The curtain, or sunshade, or ugh
ly,' in front, is of very soft leather, and
is rolled more or less back at pleasure;
and the long strings of the iron tubing
pendent down the back We're formerly
made of good, thick, honest iron, pur-
chased, like their assagais and other or
naments of metal, from the Ovambo.
Now, however, since the country has
been visited by Englishmen, pieces of
hoop and tin are generally substituted.
The weight of such head-dress is no
tritie, and thinking on one occasion that
my sister must be weary, l told her to
leave her bonnet with me and go to my
hut-abOut the most fearful breach Of
etiquette, l presently found, a Damara
woman could be guilty of; for Dikkop,
if he did not die of shame at seeing her
shaven head uncovered, would infallibly
kin her for appearing before him in such
dishabille, Actual infidelity would be
laughed at compared with such offence
against the conventionality of Damara
land. The iron ornaments worn like
gaiters on the ankle are also generally
of Ovambo make. The sandals, which
in picture might appear too large, are
purposely made so, the pointed ends
projecting three or four inches beyond
the toe and heel; the thong passes up
through the sole between the great toe
and the next, encircles the heel, and is
confined about the middle of the foot by
a smaller thong on each side knotted
through the sole.
Year: 1866

THIS aflliction of the streets has
grown up to its present monster proper
tions within the current century; and
it continues growing. 1t would be
against the grain Of reason to suppose
that in the old stately ages of our histo-
ry, or even in the jaunty days of Rane-
lagh, boys could have been what they
are now. We take it for granted that
they were born with an entirely differ
ent set of notions of themselves, and of
the surrounding world in which they
were permitted to expand. Probably
the low posterns; or the dim lattice win
dows; or the narrow causeways; or the
mighty farthingales that created awe
wherever they moved; or the long waste
stretches of ground, relieved here and
there by gardens and orchards that in
terposed between the patches of streets,
may have had something to do with it;
but it is not to be conceived that in
times when there were great city pro-
cessions and Mosques and mummeries on
the highway; when there were sights to
be seen out of doors which filed the
eyes and thoughts of old and young;
and when reverence was paid to func-
tiOns and offices which have since fallen
into contempt, it is not to be conceived
that boys had it all their own way, and
maintained such reign Of terror as
they do now. From the earliest ages
they have been wiser than men; but
that seems to be providential arrange
ment, by which practical lessons are, as
it were, taken by storm out of life in the
first ardor of youth, that could not be
obtained by the natural process of
growth. We do not object to their SUI
premacy as philosophers, because that is
Il dispensation which, whatever social
disturbance it may occasion, is pretty
sure to come right in the end. But we
do object to their violent assertion of
exclusive rights on the pavement of the
metropolis. Old heads upon young
shoulders is one thing but heads with
brass throats and corresponding supply
of implements of war is another. We
are ready to admit that "Youth's tho
season made for joys" but we strenu-
ously object to the new reading,
Youths the season made for noise"


Why the existing generation should
be more riotous than its predecessors is
Il question that we will not undertake
to solve. Perhaps the diffusion of
knowledge is implicated in the respon-
sibility, or the rapid increase of popula-
ton by which the young may be des-
tined to force the old off the scene, as
the enlightened white man pushes for
ward on the hunting grounds of the
Indian; but whatever may be the cause
the fact is patent. Take an example or
Year: 1866

mirror much more congcnlal to her taste
than the one that confronts her in her
dressng-room. The "widow indeed"
derives sweet and solemn consolation
from the letters of the beloved one who
has journeyed before her to the far-oH
land, from which there comes no mes
sage, and where she hopes one day to
join him. No photograph can so vivid
ly recall to the memory of the mother
the tenderness and devotion of the chill
dren who have left at the call of Heaven
as the epistolary outpourings of their
love. The letter of a son or daughter to
true mother Is sometimes better than
an image of the features; it is reflex
of the writer's soul. Keep all loving
letters. Burn only the harsh and cruel
ones; and in burning them forgive and
forget them.
Year: 1866

NEVER burn kindly-writton letters


it is so pleasant to read them over when
the paper is yellow with age, and the
hands that traced the friendly words are
folded over the heart that prompted
them, under the green sward. Above
all, never burn love-letters. To read
them in after years is like resurrection
of ones youth. The elderly spinster
finds in the impassioncd offer foolishly
rejected twenty years ago a fountain OF
reiuvenescence. CHANGING over it she
realizes that she was once a belle and a
beauty, and beholds her former self in a
Year: 1866

the resolutions of the Legislature en-.
dorsing his policy for the reconstruction
ofthe Union. The President read bliet
reply referring to and reiterating his
previous declarations in regard to re-
construction, and said he had only to
thank them for the encouragement given
by the resolutions. He said his future
acts would show that their confidence
has not been misplaced. He said it is
not necessary for me to state the prin-
ciples I have adopted for my guidance
They are understood and there can be no
mistake as to the position occupy.
have acted from principle ever since my
earliest entrance into public life. There
has always been with me fundamental


ideas regarding the nature of the Union,
and have never departed from them.
1t is also gratifying to me that after the
ordeal through which l have passed,
and throughout the chaotic state of the
public mind, this idea still lived, that
these principles are still enun ciated,
that there is still an appreci alton of
them, around and about which there
seems to linger a capitalization and a
formation of views that will in future
sustain the country and the principles
on which it lives.