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Year: 1866

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will be furnished for Greenbacks at
Year: 1866

am schoolma am and have recently come
from eight months teaching in the South. Ihad
the courage to stand out against monsters whom
it were praise to call devils and am quite GER
tain | shall not be afraid of mere sauages. if such
are to be encountered in the journey to that dis
tant country.


Kinds as we'll as mines are to be developed ont
there-so many families know have gone and
are going. have means to pay my fare and to
bring n saddle-beast and equipments beside.
can ride with the best, and should it come to
that shoot, too


Please to say if Lcannot go to Montana with
your expedition, just as well as not. Whatever
vour answer. let it he understood that have
made up my mind to go with you anyway.
Year: 1866




Slehs, " by Hood we have seen nothing equa
to the following poem In point OF smootl
yersiflcation, flowing rhythm, and touching
pathos. The plainiive wall of a woman
lost honor will bring tears to every sensitive
breast:


Obi the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and earth below;
Over the housetops, over the street,
Over the heads of the people you meet


Dancing,


Flirting,


Skimming along
Beautiful snow IL can do no wrong,
Flying 10 kiss n fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to lips in irolicsomo freak,
Beautiful snow from the heaven above,
Pure as an angel, gentle as love!
OH the snow, the beautiful snow,
How the flakes gather and laugh as they 90
Whirling about in the maddening fun,
Ii plays in its glee with every one.


Chasing,


Laughing,


Hurrying by;
II lights on the face and it sparkles the eye,
And the dogs, with bark and 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,
Haillng each other with humor and sOng
How the gay sledges, like meteors, pass by,
Bright for the moment, then lost to the eye


Ringing,


Swinging,


Dashng 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 crowd rush
ing by,
To be trampled and tracked by the thou-
Till it blends with the filth in the horrible
street.
Once ! was pure as the snow-but fell
Fell like the snOw-fakes, from heaven to
hell;
Fell, 10 be trampled as filth in the street;
Fell, to be scoiled, to he SPIT on and beat


Pleading,


Cursing,


Dreading to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for morsel of bread,
Hating the living, and fearing the dead;
Merciiul God have fallen SO low!
And yet was once like the beautiful snow.
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eye like the crystal, heart like its
glow;
Once | was loved for my innocent grace
Flattered and sought for the charms OF my
iacel


Father,


Mother,


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


Painting,
st'-r .af' ~ Ne s'' Freezing,
.....-.r Dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for moan
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town
Gone mad in the Joy of the snow coming
down,
To be, and so die, in my terrible woe,
With a bed and shroud of the beautiful
enowl
Year: 1866

-., ......,.r Dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for a moan
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town
Gone mad in the Joy of the snow coming


down,
To be, and so die, in my terrible woe,
With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful


anoWl
Year: 1866

Just in front of my window is bill,
where the children come to coast in snow
time. 1t is very long, and the slope is so
gentle that it is quite safe. Well. this
morning, quite crowd Of merry young
sters were enjoying the sport and making
all the hills about us ring with their clear
voices. But at the top of the hill,
stood queer-looking little fellow, all by
himself. | think he must be poor, for he
was dressed In mans ragged coat, and
he had an old handkerchief tied over his
head. AS he moved forward, to look af
ter the descending sleds, | saw that he
was lame. No one seemed to notice him
for long time, except once, when a
naughty boy threw big SNOWFALL at
him. My heart began to ache lor him,
he looked so lonesome standing by him
self. Presently bright looking lad left
his mates and went to hi | could not
hear what he said, but directly saw him
DoIp Ju6 tdlG UON w q oOaH OlA MO oASu,
and down the long slope they went to-
gether. Then heard the boys hurrah,
and half dozen strong little chaps took
hold together and drew the sled up the
hill with the lame boy on it. Then he
had another slide down and another ride
up. Other boys came to help, and no
one among them all had a merrier time
in coasting than the ragged lame child.


Now, was mt that beautiful sight? [
think our Father in heaven liked to see it,
do Mt you? And think the fine lad
who had courage enough to do kind
action and influence enough to make the
others follow his example, must have
been happy boy. What do you think
about it.-Zion's Herald.
Year: 1866

should be able rightly to appreciate her.
Such was the first Napoleon, the aerial
animal who found the diamond on the
earth but threw it away for the search
of baubles that he vainly fancied would
decorate his castles in the air The union
of these two, being both physically and
atfectionately incompatible, reminds us of
the lamentation of the Bachelor Watts,
in his lyric, +" The Indian Philosopher.


Our long intercourse with the world,
has fully convinced as that the -happiest
place on earth is the freside whose in
habitants are perfectly harmonious while
the chief source of trouble and sorrow, is
the improper education cf youth, which
leads them to prefer, in the choice Of their
companions for life, the pomp and vanity,
the wealth and fame of the fashionable
world, to that harmony of intellect and
feeling, that union of aspiration and af
fection, which alone can make one out of
two, of whom the happiness of both shall
be multiplied in consequence of that COM
bination. Could bad education be
corrected, and its evils prevented, the hap
piest place on earth, would be the family
freside. so happy that few would forego
it's pleasures for those Of any other cir
cumstances Instead of lonely men and
women, or those unequally voked, :"
broken hearts and ruined constitutions,
the world would be filled with little else
than pairs, prosperous, good, useful, con-
tented and happy.


The reflections and conclusions of an
eminent historian have so strong an in
fuence on the mind of the reader, that
we could not refrain from entering our
protest against the impression that would
be made by the decision of Mr.. Abbott,
that the circumstances which surrounded
Josephine in her last days should make
her more happy than could the possession
of the treasure that was lost to her in
most affections Properly interpreted,
we regard the last clause of the sorcerer's
prophecy as fulfilled more minutely and
completely than even the former.-Ed-
Journal.
Year: 1866

Never existed being better calculated
to enjoy all the blessings that earth and
life can bestow, seldom has one had within
reach 50 numerous and great opportunities
for the perfect enjoyment Of those bless
ings, yet we can hardly conceive Of one
whose whole natural life was almost con
stantly deprived Of it-nay, We may say,
made constantly miserable by the misap-
plication Of those boundless means Of hap
piness, as was that Of Josephine, Empress
Of France. With heart susceptible Of
the warmest and most enduring affection,
and an opportunity for attachment to
another, equally impressible, she was
forever separated from her loved and
loving William. With the keenest con
sciousness Of unhappiness from a union
with a man whose soul was supremely
welded to a worldly ambition which over
balanced all the sweet ties Of q pure and
spiritual affection, she was foIribly mar
ried to one Beauharnais) who could
leave her for the mere external fascina-
tions Of proud, beautiful and artful
woman Loving more dearly than all
things else, the quiet retirement, the
beauties Of nature and the dear home
circle, she was doomed to solitude Of
heart, and residence in the confines of a
city Of human construction, the hustle Of
nonular assemblies, and the deceptionS
and intrigues Of artificial life With
heart overhowing with sympathy for
suffering humanity, ana benevoence to all
her race, she was compelled to witness the
fiendish slaughter Of thousands Ct hel
folow creatures. for no other reason than
that they were the best citizens OF France
and to anticipate, for the end, nothing
better for herself. What mine OF tht
elements Of happiness was thus exploded
and destroyed What an Eden OF bliss
was thus foreclosed to her souls asplra'
tions what hell upon earth was thus
opened for her incarceration and thai
for not one fault nor folly Of her own
but simply because Of the unfortunate
union Of persons physically and morally
unsuited to each other, for the sake q
external advantages.


What lesson is the life Of Josephine
to those parents and guardians who breai
the natural current Of affection from th'
hearts Of their daughters OF wards, merel!
for considerations Of wealth, family
fame


Let all such, read the life Of Josephin
by Abbott. Let all the Williams
too be advertised. that no wealth, no
blood, nor fame can be substituted to
such 4 heart and head as Josephine
Year: 1866




For weeks the papers lfave.fealt largely
wteh the thoIera, ana no little appfehen-
sion has been excited by the supposed i'm
minence of the dreadful calamity The
newspapers at first contributed to this
anxiety, and, had the pestilence been
really present in our atmosphere, it could
hardly have failed to have found ready
victims among the morbidly-excited peo-
pie. One of the strongest proofs that
the miasmatic condition of the atmosphere,
which produces epidemic cholera, has not
thus far, reached us is the fact that, with
such moral predisposition of the people
for its influence, it has no. been able to
reveal itself.


The inference that the disease must
come because it has heretofore usually fol-
lowed a given route, which has led it
toward us, is a reasonable deduction. We
are not at all disposed to dispute its posi-
bility; it may be prevailing among us
before this article reaches our readers
but we doubt that it will, and we hesi-
tate not to affirm that it NAV not at all
appear here as an epidemic (though it
may as an endemic }, and are quite sure
that if it should reveal itself generally,
it need not be formidable. Though med :
ical science is yet baff1ed by some of the
problems of the disease, yet the conditions
of safety, especially of early cure, are SO
we'll ascertained, and are so practicable,
that no person of ordinary health, tenn
perance, and moral courage need fear it,
any more than he should any of the com
mon forms of more or less epidemic dis
ease which occur every summer among
us.


The first ship that brought it TO our
harbor (the England) afforded proof Of
this last assertion. Not single cabin
passenger suffered. What could more
conclusively attest the safety of all per-
sons in ordinary conditions of comfort and
prudence :?


The second ship (the Virginia. repeats
this proof. Rev Dr. Hamlin, of ConStan-
tinople, who has stood for years in the
midst of all the epidemic attacks in that
city as physician as well as missionary,
declares that people Of tolerable health
and temperate habits, keeping clear of
nervous anxiety about it, need fear it no
more than they fear being swept from the
world by comets tail.


In fine, this pestilence is comparatively
harmless to right-living people, unless
they consent to be towards. 1t has been
called "God Almighty's scavenger" for
the cleansing of great cities it does its
work thoroughly where it needs to be
lone, and seems disposed to step aside
from its appointed task, only to punish
unreasoning timidity. Of course Incl
dental exceptions can be cited, but they
are only incidental, and so comparatively
few that no reasonable man should ad
nit them in his logic upon the subject.


The cases of these foreign ships should
confirm our hopefulness and courage rath-
| er than alarm US. In that of the England
Year: 1866

Willie" said Mrs Mills to her little
boy, 8" / wish you to do an errand for me
" Won't you put on your hat and &c
quickly, for am in haste -


90 mother" whined Willie, 81
want to finish this boat can't Harry go
I've brought in some wood, and-and
=" Now MOTHER responded Harry
"I don't want to go, I've been to the
pasture with the cow this morning, and
that's great deal more than Willie's
done.''


A look of pain passed over the gentle
face of Mrs. Mills at these fretful excu.
ses of her boys, but they were too alb
sorbed in their selishness tonotice it. 81
am very sorry" said she, 6" that my little
boys are so unwilling to help theil
mother"


This mild reproof aroused the boys
somewhat, for they both had loving hearts
and knew very well what was right
so Willie listened little to his con-
science, and said, "Well, I'll go Z" and
Harry, rather ashamed of the part he
had acted, added, II can go, suppose,
if Willie don't want to-" You may
go, Willie" said his mother. SO he
laid aside his boat, and prepared to obey
his mother, it was not done in that glad
willing man ner, that boys should always
have when waiting upon or doing any
thing for their mother.


And now | wonder what my little
friends will say about this. kind OF obedi-
ence. Some of you l fancy, will say
that it is a very poor sort. Others will
perhaps think. if they don't like to say it
aloud" Q, dear, you make great ado
about such little thing as that-Willie
reminded his MOTHER. But / can't make
it seem little thing for any boy or girl
to wilfully or carelessly give their mother
one pang of sorrow. Willie did the err
rand, to be sure, but in what kind of
a spirit did he do it And am sorry to
say that it had become quite habit, both
with him and Harry, to always have such
trivial excuses ready when asked to do
anything, so that it became very unpleas-
ant to ask any favor of them. And even
though they performed the request do
you think it gave them the same pleasure
that it would it they had done it in a
cheerful manner? O, no indeed, it did
not, for they so plainly showed that it
was not for love they did it. And how
many times that mother will do things
herself, rather than see those cloudy looks
she knows would come.


0, boys, love your mothers, and not
only love them in your careless way,
but show your love by being tender and
attentive towards her. Watch for chances
to Tighten her cares, and when she speaks
to you, stop your talk or play. and listen
to what she says. If you only knew in
how great degree you are responsible
for her happiness or sorrow, you would be
very careful how you caused her pain, but
always try TO give her joy, and SO save
Year: 1866

We claim for the Florence the following advan.
World.


1t makes four different stitches the lock knot,
doublc-loek and double knot on one and the same
machine-eaeh stitch being alike on both sides Of TIE
fabric.


Every Machine has the reversible feed motion,
which enables the operator, by simply turning
right left to stay any part of the seam asten
the ends of seams, without turning the fabric.


Changing the length of stitch, and from one kind
Machine is in motion.


The needle is easily adjusted, and does not
II is almost nOiseless and be used where quiet
Its motions all positive there are no springs to
get out of order, and its simplicity enables any
to operate it.


It does not require finer thread on the under than
for the upper side, and viii across the heaviest
seams or from to thieknesses of cloth with
out change OF needle, tenison breaking thread, or
skipping stitches.


The Hemmer is easily adiusted and will tnrp
any width of hem desired


It viii hem, fell bind, gather, braid, quilt and
gamer ana sew on ruffie at the same time. It
lifetime.


1t is very simple, and easily understood and
The taking up of the slack thread is not performed
by the irregular contraction of wire coil uncertain
operation Of springs The precision and accuracy
with which the Florence draws the thread into the
cloth Is unapProaehed in any Sewing machine hither


We furnish each Machine with '.Barnums self
Sewer" which guides the work itself and is of meal
culable value especially 10 inexperienced operator


While possessing the above and many other advan-
tages the Florence is sold at corresponding prices
with other first-class Machines and careful exam
nation viii fully substantiate all that We have claim
al for il and iustify the assertion we now make th
IL is the best Sewing Machine in the world.
We warrant every Machine to be all that we claim
for IT, and to give entire satisfaction and win give
written warranty, If required


~ Agents wanted everywhere In Alabama and
Mississippi with whom liberal arrangements win
be made.


KEyEs. EsTEs q. co. GenI Agents s
febls-u p o. Box Ga
Year: 1866

Conscious of public demand for reliable medi-
cinal compounds, possessing intrinsic value and
merit and aware OF the unreliable and inadequate
supply, mostly from Northern sources and pre-
pared by parties possessing experience in South
ern treatment a number of able and experienced
Southern Physicians have quietly and deliberately
prepared, and are endeavoring TO supply that de
mand, by offering class of
Year: 1866

We would respectfully annoaEce to the public shat recent
experiments both in Europe ami New York. proven that
our Grey Jacket BIttorH act like charm in the cure
of AslAF1C CHOLERA, as well as in DIARRHG8A, DYs.
EMERY, CHRONIC INDIGESTION, and all other afIec-
tons of the SomaGh and Bowels been tried in several
cases of Cholera Mobus this city and each time the sufferer
was relieved almost ustantancously As is undoubtedly
tonic of the most valuable description persons taking hatu
ally viii not be abio to Cholera other diseases of kindred
nature It strengthens the system gives tone to the stomach
and guards the constitution generally from the nroads OF
disease possessing the additional advantage eerg pleasant
to the taste and containing any dessous drugs
which have made most Cholera obnoxious to the
public 1t mast prove popular with all wire try it. Believing
that nature has provided remedies all complaints in every
locality have cued the mpes which the basis of our
Grey Jacket Bittes from the vegetable ngdom in State
Their separately of the Digestive Organs
not new, and all the originality clam in the campauuding
Ofhe valuable medicine is in combining dsng together
in particular quantities. well known herbs 50 as to gst ALI
the virtues of each to act in concord with the rest


We advise heads of families provide themselves with
bottle of GREY JACKET BITTRs so as to have it read5
for immediate USE should children be suddenly attacked
with dangerous symptoms.


It be had all the principal rssah Drug Stores and
Groceries in the city and country very low price, by
the trade at Wholesale, g,Ota


BARNETT s LION,


Manufacturers,
Year: 1866

The lronton tAo,) Enterprise gives currency to
the report of the discovery Of gold in Dallas, the
county seat of Bolinger county, Missouri. The
discovery was made on breaking rock which was
in the foundation of one of the houses shat was
burned during the war. It is said that an grinding
up the rock some sixty dollars worth of gold was
obtained The rock was DISQUALIFICATION out of
quarry close to town
Year: 1866

~A bachelor and young lady bought some
tickets in partnership in a lottery at the recent
Sanitary Fair al Milwaukee, agreeing TO divide
the proceeds equitably. They drew a double
bedstead, baby-crib and lunch basket, and
the question is how to divide them, or whether
they shall not use them sjintly."
Year: 1866

TEETH AND PAINLESS. pESHISTRY.
Il corner Camp and Canal streets, New Or


leans. A fun Set Of Teeth made In Thirty
Hours. Teeth inserted on Vulcanite Base.
vastly SUPERHERO gold In every respect, being
much stronger and more durable, and can he
furnished at Half the Price.


The most nervous persons can have their
Extracted without pain n, d sep97-stoo.d
Year: 1866

The TRENT RIVER RAILROAD BRIDGE
The timber for this bridge has been cut
down in the forest transported to Newbern,
squared, and cut, and the entire bridge
framed and ready to be put up over
month Finer timber we never saw, and
finer workmanship it is difficult to find as
any person can see by stepping over few
yards from the depot The Superintendent
of Bridges and Repairs, Mr.. JOS J. Rob
erson, has done the Company good service
in this matter, and himself great credit
Everything being now ready, the erection
of the bridge will at once begin and be
carried on without any delay in the passage
of trains. This bridge is 1900 feet long
The re building of the Neuse River bridge
will Immediately follow.


Neaober7a Commercial


Nor BAD YEARS WoRK.-A gentleman
who has recently been travelling through
the State of North Carolina, and who has
had good opportunities for observation, in
forms us that things in that State look very
favorable for hopeful progress. The people
of the State are adapting themselves to the
altered condition of affairs with prompt
ness, and are evincing sagacious DISPOSE
tion to encourage business enterprise in the
State through the Introduction Of capital
and business experience from abroad. Men
of enterprise and capital from the North,
disposed to settle in that State have not
been repelled or driven out as they have
been from other portions of the South
and the consequence is that many have
staked their fortunes and interests there,
and are cooperating heartily with public
spirited citizens of North Carolina in es-
tablishipg business enterprise in the way Of
manufactures, canal, railroads, drainage,
planting, &C., &C., calculated to place North
Carolina in the front rank Of Southern
States.


Some experiments this year in the way
of drainage, and in the use of the immense
store of mari in that State, have demon
strated that the planting interests of North
Carolina are capable of the most extraor-
dinary development and expansion AS an
evidence, in the language of Sam Patch
that ' some things can be done as we'll as
Others" our informant states that two
Northern men who paid SO, 900 in gold for
plantation in Pitt county, have realized
already $780, 600 on their investment. Two
years ago neither of them knew cotton
from rice. They have hired freedmen,
opening school for their benefit evenings,
and IN other ways encouraging them to
steady, industrious habits and the result
has been most satisfactory, as above indi-
Gated The gentleman from whom we
gather this information states that it will
be requisite for the people of North Caro-
lima to at once re-establish their school sys-
tenn, broken down by the war, unless they
are willing that the freedmen should out
strip the "poor whites" in education, as
at present with the Freedmen's Bureau
schools, &C., the blacks are getting about
all the free schooling afforded in the State
Thus at Raleigh there are fifteen schools
for negroes in operation and none for
| whites - ITlShinQtOn Star.
Year: 1866

81 Within radius Of five miles of Philips
burg, New York, during the month OF Febru-
airy, March, and April last, one hundred
cases OF alarming sickness occurred, attacking
in some instances all the members of a family
at the same time, and unmistakabiy indicating
the presence OF an active poison. Investigation
al last detected small particles OF lead in the
flour made At the mill in the vicinity, but not
In suficient quantity TO account for the extent
and violence OF the disease At the late session
Of the Pharmaceutical Association at Detroit
Mr.. King presented paper on the subject, ex-
pressing the opinion that the carbonic acid
generated In fermen tation, and acting on the
fine particles OF lead produced most poisonous
salt well known TO chemists. This al any rate
furnishes an ample explanation OF the whole
affair