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Year: 1866

Before Justices Robertson Mcneil and 6a V'n
Gaiestad vs The Nuuh Apsnue Railrona c,- ofny -


10 this case IL appears that the paiu,r and how about
his own age got on ono Of the Defendants cara at epc
nard street, 10 be taken 10 Forty third street WI en-
they arrived at Fonythrd street tho plaintiff an,,
his companion requested the conductor u stop
and let them of. This the conductor refused 10
do, after which the plaintiffs companion got on
while the car was In notion going n q slack rate OF
speed When tho arrived at about the middle of the
block between Forythrd and Forty fourth srceiS the
plaintiff also attempted to alight ffom the car and
he did so the conductor took OF his cap and struck
dow ne Tell and was run over and injured On the
tial before Mr. Justice Jones tho complaint dis-
missed on tho ground that the plaintiff himself
Negligent IN attempting n alyht from the before
was stopped Counsel for the plaintif the appeal
now insists that II Is not negligence for passenger 20
aght IRON street car while II Ia In motion when he
mas previously notified the conductor stop and he
fuses 10 do so; that the defendants having by their
own act IN grossly violating their duty towards the
plaintiff had induced his action and that they cannot
attribute that action him as negligent that tho
defendants were the authors Of the wrong and had put
the plaintiff In position In which they had right
put him, and having done 50 they take sd.
vantage OF their own Illegal act He also claimed that
the question whether or not tho plaintiff acted under all
the circumstances with common prudence ques
ton solely for the jury and that the Court erred In dis
missing the complaint


Counsel for the defendants argued that attempting to
light from while II is motion In itself
elusive evidence Of negligence In law and must defeat
his recovery In this action whether he had previously
requested the conductor To stop rot. that
ductor refused TO sop when requested and PASSENGER
was thereby carried out OF his way hts remedy by
action against the company for ncglecng stop the
car. Decision reserved.
Year: 1866

wonderful success. large proportion
OF the citizens OF Memphis and sur
rounding country are now using il; but ]
am continent there are many ethers who would
avail themselves OF its advantages were they
satisfied regarding its HEALTHFULNESS
SUPERIORITY, and CHEAPNESS.


To convince such of these facts, l have OBJ
tanned a large number Of certificates from well
and favorabiy known physicians and others a
few OF which I give below. One trial viii con-
vince the most incredulOus that it is TO theiI
advantage 10 use this Flour, as an ECONOMY Y
and SATISFACTION in every respect
Year: 1866

very learned and compassionate Judge
In Texas, on passing sentence on John
Jones, who had been convicted of murder
concluded his remarks as follows q" The
TACT is, Jones, that the Court did not in
tend to order you to be executed before
next spring, but the weather is very cold
our jail, unfortunately, is in a very bad
condition; much Of the glass i'll the win.
dows are broken the chimncys are in
such "A dilapidatcd condition that no fire
can be made to render your apartments
comfortable; besides, owing to the great
number OF prisoners, not more than one
blanket can be allowed to each To sleep
sound and comfortable is out of the ques
ton. In consideration of these circum
stances, and wishing to lessen your suffer
ings as much as possible, the Court in the
exercise of It's humane compassion, hereby
orders you to be executed to morrow morn.
ing, as soon after breakfast as may be con
vcnicnt to the Sheriff and agreeable to
you.
Year: 1866

WHY MEN FAM.-A young merchant,
who had just failed in business, having
spent in four years legacy Of ten thousand
dollars In addition to any profits realized,
was met by thrifty young mechanic, who
had formerly been on terms of intimacy
with him. During the conversation which
ensued, the merchant said to him:


GLOW is it, Harry, that you have been
able to live and save money on the small.
sum which you receive for services, while
found it impossible to live in my business
with good round ten thousand dollars to
back me-"


"Oh," said the mechanic, "that is easily
understood. l have lived with reference,
mostly, for the comforts and tastes of my
salf and family while you have lived mostly
with reference to the opinion and tastes Of,
others 1t costs more to please the eye
than to keep the back warm and stomach
full"
Year: 1866

AT a Welsh celebration in New York,
DIR. Jones tod the following amusing an
ecdote:


The speaker said the editors are like
other shrcwd men who have to live with
their eyes and ears open. He related the
story of an editor who started n newspaper
in new village in the West. The town
was INFESTED with gamblers whose presence
was source of annoyance to the citizens,
who told the editor if he did not come out
against them they would not patronize his
paper. He replied that he would give them
'smasher' next day Sure enough, his
next issue contained the promised smasher,
and on the following morning the redoubt-
able editor, with scissors in hand, was seat
ed In his sanctum cutting out news, when
in walked large man with club in his
hand, and demanded to know if the editor
was In. NO, sir was the reply, he has
stepped out; take seat and read the pa
pcrs; he will return in minute Down
sat the indignant man of cards, crossed his
legs, with his club between them, and com
menced reading paper. In the meantime
the editor quietly vamoosed down stairs,
and at the landing below he met another
excited man with a cudgel in his hand,
who asked if the editor was in Yes, sir
was the response. you will find him up
stairs reading newspaper The lattet, on
entering the room, with furious oath,
commenced n violent assault on the former,
which was resisted with equal ferocty
The fight was continued until they had
both rolled to the foot of the stairs, and
pounded each other to their hearts content.
Year: 1866

THIS BEAUTIFUL WoRLD.-Ah, this
beautiful world Indeed know not what
to think OF it. Sometimes it is all glad
ness and sunshine, and heaven itself lies
not far off And then it changes suddenly.
and is dark and sorrowful, and the clouds
shut out the sky. In the lives of the Sad
dest of us there are days like this, when
we feel as if we could take the great world
in our arms. Then come the gloomy hours,
when the fire VIII neither burn in our
hearts nor on our hearths and all without
and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Every
heart has its secret sorrows, and often times
we call man cold when he is only sad.
Year: 1866

Here is the pithiest sermon ever preach
cd: "Our ingress in life is naked aud
bare our progress through life is trouble
and care; our egress out of it we know not
whore; but doing well here we shall do
well there | could not tell more by prca'
ching year"
Year: 1866

Edmund Ross, appointed by Governor
Crawford 10 the seat left vacant by the
suicide of Jim Lane, is Of Ohio birth and
breeding. He was born in Lorain county
in the year 1929, being now but thirty
seven years of age. At an early age he
was apprenticed to learn the printers
trade in the office Of the gainesville 4ete-
graph, where he became an excellent
printer. In 1854, when the Kansas ex-
ci.ement was at its height he went to that
territory as a FIee-State emigrant, and
took prominent part in the struggle
which resulted in the admission of Kansas
to the Union as free State. He estah-
lished the Lawrence Tribune and made it
a successful and fiourishing journal. At
the outbreak of the rebellion he raised a
company and took the command of it,
serving during the war, and being pro-
NOTED at last to the rank of Major. Since
the var closed he returned to his old post
as editor of the Lawrence Tribune, which
he has now left at the call of his State
Major Ross is a radical of radicals and
Will worthily represent the young and
freedom-loying State of Kansas.
Year: 1866

1t is announced from England that the
reform movement is languishing some
what, on account of the unsettled condi-
ton of the weather, which interferes with
outdoor meetings. Preparations are
still being made for the great working
mems demonstration in favor Of reform,
in London, on Monday next, but the
opposition of the Authorities, it was
thought, would interfere with its imposing
character. They refuse to permit the
use of any of the public parks for place
of meeting, and the Superintendent of
the London police has strongly con-
demned the policy of bringing great
numbers of people from. the surrounding
country into the crowded streets of the
city. The workingmen, however, persist
in the movement, and intend to make it
a most imposing one, in spite of the anti
reform proclivities OF the Derby Ministry
and the Police Superintendent.
Year: 1866

This is an agreeable world, after all
II we would only bring ourselves to look
at the objects that surround us in theft
true light, we should see beauty where
before we bcheld deformity, and listen to
harmony where before we could hear
nothing but discord To be sure, there
is a great deal of anxiety and vexation
to meet; we cannot expect to sail upon
a summer sea forever; yet if we preserve
calm eye and steady hand, we can so
trim onr sails and manage our helm as to
avoid the quicksands and weather the
storms that threaten shipwreck.


We are members of one great family
we are all travelling the same road, aud
shall arrive at the same goal We breathe
the free air, we are subject to the same
bounty, and we shall lie down on the
bosom of our common mother. 1t is not
becoming, then, that brother should hate
brother; it is not proper that friend
should deceive friend it is not right that
neighbor should injure neighbor.


We pity that man who can harbor en-
nifty against his fellow he loses half
the enjoyment of life, he embitters his
own existence. Let US tear from our
eyes the colored medium that invests
every object with the green hue of jeal-
ousy and suspicion; turn deaf ear to
the tale of scandal; breathe spirit of
charity from our lips; and from our
hearts let the rich gushings Of human
kindness swell up as from fountain, so
the golden age will become no fiction,
and the island of the blessed bloom
with more than Hesperian beauty.
Year: 1866

The New Orleans Times of late
date, says:


The question of the supply of cotton
and its prospective prices continue to
exercise the brain of economists and
others, many of whom, however, seem
to Judge of it from standpoint which
accords with their own interests or the
community in which they live, and re-
ject all information from whatever source
if it conflicts with these interests and
views Persons are thus biased in their
opinions, and while many Of them are
erroneous, doubtless, nevertheless they
are honestly entertained. Thus we find
traders in the North with, perhaps, more
assumption than knowledge, assert their
belief from sources entitled to all cred
it, that the cotton crop largely exceeds
two million bales, and we will likewise
find others in our own section who place
it at seven or eight hundred thousand
bales. We find the planter and the mer-
chant, the holder and the buyer, widely
at variance in their views, both as to the
amount of the crop, and the price it
should bring.


We need hardly go beyond the limits
of our own city to verify this statement.
Merchants with equally creditable infor-
nation disagree, while there are few
buyers who will concur with the former,
either as to the amount raised or as to
its future value. Upon one point
only is there no controversy and that is
as to its being short crop" That is


l. r. l..
and by all classes, planter, merchant
and buyer. But whether it is only one
million bales as urged by advocates of
higher prices, or amounts to two mil
lions, as calculated by those of opposite
ideas-that is subject of controversy,
and must continue to be for month or
two to come


The late decline in the great staple,
however, was the result of combination
of causes, and by no means predicated
alone on the supposition Of better
yield than was expected after the un-
favorable weather of September-the
most unfavorable for thirty years, we
have been told by planters. The fall of
gold, the condition of exchange, contin-
ued depression in the manufacturing
districts of England, and the unsatisfac-
tory state of the goods markets, these,
too, contributed to agect the market,
which so weakened that some persons
predicted low middling would touch 25
cents before there would be reaction.
The prophecy was not fulfilled; for,
whatever may be the cause or causes,
the market has ruled quite steady for ten
days, and just now it is very firm, and
number OF factors are much above the
market What prices may be week,
month hence, is another thing.
Year: 1866

In Prussia there is law which holds
every able bodied youth, from the son Of
the king down to the son of the humblesi
peasant that hoes his cabbages on the
banks of the Spree, from seventeen up
ward, subject to be drawn in the military
lottery for service in the army. After a
term of actual service in the ranks or
elsewhere, these conscripts are transfer
red to the rolls of the Landwehr, or re-
serve militia, but are still liable to be
called upon in an emergency TO take the
field, and, in fact, in the present war ex-
citement, have been put, for time, un-
der drill, it is easy to see that this in
cludes the great body Of the young men
Of the country-the class that is most
anxious to emigrate, and whose presence
in the United States is most desirable.
Every emigrant under the age oi seven
teen, though not yet fully n pitisen OF
Prussia, is held to be such when he at
tains the proper age, in whatever foreign
land he may have taken up his resi-
dsnee; and for soldier who still has
service to perform in the army or in the
Landwehr to emigrate to America is, of
course, nothing less than desertien.
What do we see then2 When the emf
grant who has been years away from his
parents and friends, after accumulating
wealth ia Tho New World, returns TO
spend a few months among them, he is
liable 10 be arrested and held 70 service
for the remainder of the term which he
left incomplete.
Year: 1866

The Newburyport Herald thus com
ments on the proposed impeachment Of
President Johnson:


Now to our mind the proposition of
impeachment is one so full Of danger
that he who fathers it must be short
sighted or terribly depraved. There is
not rational man in the country that
does not see that it carries upon its very
face the commencement of a civil war,
by the side of which the late rebellion
would appear as child's play. Before
any one accustoms his mind TO wander
too far in that direction, let him inquire
if he is prepared for state of anarchy
that would destroy the value Of property,
that would repudiate national and pri-
vate debts together, that would darken
the sun of republican liberty, that this
century would not see its face again, and
streets till every dog would lap it like
water. If any man of fighting age fa-
vors the deposing of the President in
the present state of the country, let him
Join a military company at once, and
drill as often as he eats; and if be is not
at that age, but has boys that are, let
him call them to him on the first oppor.
tunity, and looking them fairly in the
face, decide which Of them, or how many
he is ready to see die rather than see
Andrew johnson President Of the United
States till the 4th OF March, 1852


IL is time this insanity ceased. II we
are not Bll crazy. or drunk, or mad, we
shall tell all men Of all parties. who pro
pose such schemes, away devils, well
none Of you" We want no more war
no more Staying of the firstborn; no
more manned men, or disoonsolate wild
ows, or orphan children, upon our pen-
sion list. We want no more public debt,
and no higher taxes than we now have.
We want no President who would put
State against State and man against man
In deaily array, by ignoring the rep
resentatiyes of tie people; and we want
no representatives so lost 10 reason,
right, and public duty, as to propose
ia aeposition Of the President The
times sre 6-il enough Of danger without
any such madness Every good and
true manor every man who loves bis
Year: 1866

stitutionaly OF the law creating the Board q Health
The question to whether the plaintiff had tne rent
obtain general injunction protecting an 'ne Sucne,s
OF the city, was hardly worth arguing Inc code
distinctly saws that the relief afforded by an in
Junction shall only granted the plaintiff in the suit
upon his own affidavit


Judge Daiy-I believe that 10 be the law.


Mr. Tracy-Wel, then, It is useless Tor mo 70 pursue
that point any longer As to the consuonality OF the
law have already submitted my points 70 your Honor,
and do not know have anything further 70 say
shat point The Board OF Health had no intention Of
aboishipg the butchers business They only wanted TO
regulate so TO make IL wholesome for the people
They were not going ruin the butchers by prescribing
what hours they would be permitted 70 drive their cattle
through the public streets.


Mr. Bfady-why does not the Board OF Health attempt
TO regulate bands Of music on Broadway Horses ire
quenty run away in consequence Of these bands. and
accidents Does the Board Of Health pretend TO
prescribe asical regulations?


Judge DalyI would like to hear you, Mr. Tracy upon
tho point urged by Mr. Lawrence that under the cons,i-
tuition Of the state the Legislature had authority to
confer legislative powers upon any bodies except cor
poratons or boards OF supervisors.


Mr. Tracyl have heard that point raised often that
sm almost sick Of replying to It. Ny to that is
that the constitution that all legislative power shall
be vested in the Legislature.


The further argument Of the adjourned until
to-day IN consequence Of engagement Of the Court
Year: 1866

party in the proposed contest in the followin'


paragraph clipped from recent editorial:
"That question Iof secession] has been


submitted to the arbitrament Of arms and,


SO far Is the mere influence Of physical foece
can determine it, it has, for the time being,


been determined. The South accepts the


result, in respect to its present practical ap-
plication; bat shat acceptance does not imply
any abandonment, in thought, Of the princi-
pie upon which the secession movement was


founded"


s'1f the battle in the futnre, 10 the -legisla-
tive halls, that battle thst the radicals so
much fear and deprecate, should hereafter
estAbiish the right Of secession, it will prove
that in republics there 10 power miEhtier
than the sword to vindicate the right


In view Of this coming contest in the poll
tics and legislative halls of the country, shall
the loyal men Of this country be guilty of the
supreme folly Of arming the Southern traitors
with double voice in the decision Of tho
question on account of the loyal negroes that
reside in that region? What obligations rest
upon the loyal North, 70 strengthen the trai-
tor oligarchy Of the South. BY allowing them
to cast votes for the loyal blacks whom they
seek to reduce to the condition Of brutes. In
view of the temper mantle sted BY the Cop.
perheads Of the North during the war, who
doubts that their leaders will side with the
South, and that with the Southern secesh
vote, increased BY the allowance made them
for the loyal negroes, backed a. it would
be probably BY New Jersey, and possibly
another State or two in the North and scat.
terins votes here and there, the principles
and the .measures Of the secesh South would
win triumph in Congress, and thus retrieve
all they lost in the war.


Then let all who would perpetuate the
Union, saved BY the blood of patriots, vote
for the Constitutional amendment proposed
by Congreas and endorsed by the loyal people
of the North and South, that thereby the
control Of the Government may remain in
the hands of the party who saved it, rather
than pass into the hands Of those who
sought its destruction. Let no soldier nor
loyal citizen be led off by any, whatever their
record during the war, who now collogue
with traitors and Copperheads, aud seek
70 restore them 70 power again
BY conceding. not only the right Of
traitors to govern the Union they failed TO
destroy, by four years war; but also by
yielding them the right to double voice in
the Government.
Year: 1866

A BENEFICENT WoRK.-We are glad to
learn that the ladies' of this city who have so
actively interested themselves in relieving the
necessities of the Freedmen of the South, do
not relax their benefcent efforts. A large
number of ladies, from every sect and denom-
nation, have organized themselves into a
sewing society which meets every Wednesday
afternoon from two to five o'clock, at the
rooms known as the "Sanitary Rooms" in
the City Government House, for the purpose
OF preparing clothing to be sent TO teachers in
the South for distribution among the suffering
and needy. All ladies interested in the good
work of ministering to the necessities of the
poor, are cordially invited to attend.
Year: 1866

Allow me to inquire through your columns
if there is any truth in the current reports
that one of the lady (a) managers OF the
Fair now being held at the City Hall, refused,
in very unusual and indecent speech to
allow the portrait of ABRAHAM LINCOLN to
be hung up in the Hall. Q.
Year: 1866

1t is high tune that somebody told


you little plain truth. You have been


watched tor long time; a certain class Of,


you; and it is plain enough you are lay.


ing plans to cheat somebody. You in


tend to sell chaff for wheat, and there is


danger that some OF the foolish ''gudge.


ons' will be taken sadly in.


1t may not be your fault that you be-
long to the some idea party"-that the
single idea Of getting husband is the
only ono which engrosses much of your
time or attention. Your venerable
mother, of Eden memory, was called a
"help for man." and you are looking for
a man to help you to help you TO live
in the halt idle, halt silly way in which
you have commenced. Men who are
worth having want women for wives
A bundle OF gewgaws with a string of
flats and quavers, sprlnkled with cologne
and set in carmine saucer-this is no
help for man who expects to raise a
family otboys and girls on veritable bread
and meat


Inc piano ana the lace frame are well
in their places, and so are ribbons and
frills and tlnsels-but you can't make
dinner OF the former, nor bed,blanket
of the latter. And awful as these IDEAS
may seem to you, both dinner and bed~
blanket, are necessary to domestic enjoy
ment. Life has its realities as well as
its tancies, but you make it all matter
of decoration, remembering the tassels
and curtains, forgetting the bedstead -
Suppose young man Of good sense and
OF course good prospects to be looking
for wife, what chance have you to be
chosen9 You may cap him, or trap
him, to catch him, but how much better
to make 1t an object for him to catch
you! Render yourself worth catching,
and you will need no shrewd mother or
managing brothers to help you to find
a market.
Year: 1866

Honor is unstable and seldom the
same, for she feeds upon opinion, and is
as tickle as her food. She builds lofty
structure on the sandy foundation of tho
esteem Of all things most subject to
change. But virtue is uniform and
fixed, because she looks for appreciation
ouly from Him who is the same yester>
day, to-day aud forever. In the storms
of life honor is not to be depended on,
because she herself partakes Of the tu-
mutt she is also buffeted by the waves
and borne along by the whirlwlnd.-
But virtue is above the storm and has
an anchor sure and 'steadtast, because it
is cast into heaven. But no man can
purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the
only thing whose value must ever in
crease with the price it cost.
Year: 1866

GENERAL RopEHr TooMBs is said to be
sangune that he will yet call the roll OF
his slaves at the foot of Bunker Hill. He
is in Havana, ana an account of a late
interview with him declares that he defi>
antly asserts that the lpvinclble giant of
secession is not dead, but only taking
quiet snooze in order to invigorate him
self for another, and as Mr.. L. hopes, a
more successful attempt to overthrow
the government OF the United States.