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Year: 1866

We stand hcneath the sunny skies,


And we feel the softened air,
And catch the songs of merry birds,
And scent the flowers fair:
And like an incense from the heart,


Rise unspoken words of praise
To the Maker of all beauties,


For the spring golden days.
Golden days each season bringeth;


Summer has them burning bright,
Lying with a quivering heat


Over pastures daisy-white
And they shine ON fruit and harvest


Richer through the autumn haze;
And the snowy rose of winter


Gem-like CLEANS on golden days.
Golden days has each swift season,
Cloudless skies and sunshine bright;
Happy hours has each life epoch,


Filled with friendly love and light;
We look around on human life,


And in sins deadliest ways
We find no life sofwholly dark


That has no golden days.
Golden days in the far future


Shine DER intervening years,
To the young eyes no shades revealing,
Arching rainbows over tears.
All, young form, with high hope thrilling,
There are depths of shadow dark
Weary toll and fruit of ashes,
Ere you reach the shining mark
In the worlds turmoil and struggle,
Turning from the weary maze,
Manhood thoughts roam ever backward
To his childhood 5 golden days,
When the parents love protected,


And there came no thought of care,
And bright angels hoyered near him


Waiting up his evening prayer.
Aged forms that linger waiting


Close beside death river brink
Ask them where is greatest blessing,
What of golden days they think
They have caught the distant cleaning,
Seeing dimly US through haze,
And will point beyond the river,


Saying, there are golden days"
Golden days we each remember,


Sunny with the light of eyes
That are closed in dreamless slumber,
Opened now beyond the skies.
Burdened hearts, o wait in patience,
Murmur not, and in your future
There will come some golden days.
Life's true golden days depend not
On the brightness of the skies,
For to make them dark or sunny


In our hands the magic lies:
For a life of noble action,


Although grief may dark the way,
Brings happy hours, and leads at last
Where liie is one golden day
Year: 1866

THE MARTYRS OF THE SoUrH.-The New York
Independent concludes fine article in the follow
ing strain 90 Their great act shall live forever
in the history of America. The pistols and knives
of their assassins can never slay their fame The
score of stabs in Dostie's body will only make it
the more immortal. New Orleans will yet rear
monuments to their memory-the chef monu-
ment being the establishment of their great prin-
ciples in all her religious, social, and civil insti-
tutions of life Man shall dwell yet in that Sod
ON honored for himself, and not contemned for
traits given and beloved of God. And in all the
land the battle thus begun shall go forward, till
the national heart shall be cleansed of this cor
ruption of caste. Then shall the fearless Dostie
and the faithful Hahn burn among the starry
few whose adherence to Christ in these most
vital and essential obligations of Christianity in
America to-day has won for them this renown ;
and all their associates, many of whom now lie
hidden in bloody and abhorred graves, shall come
forth from their obscurity and adherence, and
shine in the armament of human gratitude and
divine approval forever and ever


They bore the cross. they drained the cup


Racked roasted, crushed, wrenched limb from iimo


They the of-scouring of the world:


The heaven Of starry heavens unfurled,


The before their face 10 DIM "
Year: 1866

SPLENDIDLY SAID.-Thomas Fitch concluded
his late speech at Gold Hill with the following
brilliant passage go Hail to the advancing cause
of the people ! The bugIe note of victory is
sounding from among the feathery pines of Maine
and the yerdured hills of Vermont. 1t will swell
in sweet cadences of consolation to the oppress-
ed across the Empire State and along the borders
of the mighty lakes. 1t will mingle with the
mnrmur of the Mississippi it will scale the sum-
NIT of the Rocky Mountains and sound along the
Great Desert and when the sun of the 9th of
November shall have set behind these sterile
hills, it will proclaim that the last born of free
dom is true to her instincts and her history"
Year: 1866

THE rebel torpedos seem to stand immersion
we'll The Mobile Adrertser says that one sunk
. near the mouth of Dog river in rebellion time,
was exploded by fiat boat which drifted upon
it, and which fiat boat was blown into kindling
wood to the great terror of the old ladies in that
neighborhood, who imagined that the pesky
Yankees had come again
Year: 1866

BRAzEx-The Alta manifests the impudence
to say that majority of the Union press OF this
state support the reconstruction policy OF Andy
Johnson. The Alta cannot name six.-Adrys-
vile Appeal


we are only surprised that the Appeal should
soemauze as brazen any political statement
which the Alta may make.
Year: 1866

TIE Napa Register closes an article on the New
Orleans massacre in the following pertinent and
warning language =" And yet everything is
lovely, and the South willing to accept the sit
nation. and all vieing with each other in their
hollow protestations of loyalty. And again, we
learn that the stars and bars yet
Fort Jeferson,at Tortugas Island, Florida, where
the conspirators aginst the lamented Lincoln are
;r,nr;soned. was fred upon by armed vessel
aying from its mast head the Confederate flag
Were It not that the first officer of the pirate
E7or;da now stalks the streets of San Francisco
at noon-day, bold and as defiant as when tread
inc the decks of his bloody ship,


As mild a hammered man


As ever scuttled ship or cut throat
we should be led to believe that he was in com
mand instead of lodging in our principal hotels
and fattening on aid and comfort furnished by
his secession confreres. Let President johnson
beware how he tampers with the great loyal senti-
ment of the American people. As long as he
pursues his present policy, the lives of Union
men in the South not safe, and, if he persists,
then to Congress must we look to carry us through
Year: 1866

Health above all Things.-How 10 SECURE tn.
BLEssISGIn another than the unkind one OF ham
may we truly say, "Fraty, thy name is woman so
is her structure to many dangers from which man
empt she LIABLE that all the safeguards which medical
throw around her. should always be within her


In that original and comprehensive curative system
rated by Holloway the successful physician OF our day'
all the peculiar ailments which nature and circumstances
have entaled upon the included Mans province H
action and action is the handmade of health But woman
at stage of her existence less fetered py
exercise in the open which contributes largely to
physical Her sedentary habits the tyranny OF fash


on and than ALL the perils nseparabe from the posi-
ton she fills in the of nature subject her TO mucn
pain and suffering Hysteria, fanting fits, nervous head
ache coness Of the extremtes and many local complaints
special TO her organization her physical annie
often brings sickness in its train In saying
that the mild and genial operation of Holloways Pills rem
des them the safest and best OF relieving the suHer


ngs Of the the various physical emergencies at which
have hnted simply echo the opinions Of thousands OF
wives and in this and other countries. They are
practitioners who have made that branch OF
medical which refers exclusively to females their
study absolute specifics in the most critical epochs OF wo
mans life and if this be the who will be so fstdious
that fact of such paramount Importance should De
denied publicity through the press.


The health of those dear without whom the world
would be desert consideration of the highest interest,"
and il would he something than false decacy to with
hold could tend to them that
greatest earthly blessngs.-London Christian Times
Year: 1866

leg to the heel, where they both turned up
ward to the toes. Ono of these roots form
ed slight crook at the knee, which made
the whole bear very close resemblance to a
human form.


This singular root is preserved with great
care, not only as an illustration of great
principle in vegetation, but for its great his
torical association. There were the graves
emptied of every particle of human dust |
Not trace of anything was left 1t is
known to chemistry that all flesh, and the
gelatinous matter giving consistency to the
bones, are dissolved into carbonic acid gas,
water and air, while the solid lime dust
usually remains. But in this case even the
phosphate of lime of the bones of both graves
was all gone There stood the guilty ap-
pie tree, it was said at the time, caught in
the very act of 'robbing the grave


To explain, the phenomenon is not the de-
sign of this article. Such an explanation
could be given. And many other similar
cases adduced But this fact must be ad-
mitted the organic matter of Roger Will
liams must have been transmitted into the
apple tree it had passed into the woody
fibre and was capable of propelling steam
engine it had bloomed in the apple bios
SONS, and had become pleasant to the eye !;
and more, it had gone into the fruit from
year to year, so that the question might be
asked, who ate Roger Williams
Year: 1866

JOSH BILLINGS ON MosQUIToEs.-Mr. Bill
lings thus expresses himself on mosquitoes:


We ere told that there want anything
made in vain. This is so, but have tho't
the time spent in manufacturing musketoze
must have been wasted if the musketoze
want How they were put together, new
er could tell and there was one CONNER
cial peculiarlity about the muskeeter
trade, and that iz, the supply always ex-
ceed the demand, and yet the production is
not diminished | kant understand this no
how. They are born of poor but industri-
Gus parents and are brought up with great
care under the auspices of some Nv our best
families. They have great impudence, and
don't hesitate to stick their trends with a
bad bill. They have also consummate cour-
age have known single muskeoter to
fight man and his wife all mite long and
draw the first blood. 1t is very easy to kill
musketoze when you kan. But in striking
them you are apt to hit the exact plase
were they recently wuz They are cheer
full little cusses, singing as they toll"
Year: 1866

The following curious and interesting
statement is from the pen of Rev. j. H. Nc
Carty, who is writing a series of articles
for the Ladies' Repository, on Roger Will
liams, the founder of the State of Rhode
Island


Ninety years after his death, in III.
steps were taken to ereXt to him some suit
able monument but the storms of the revol-
utiOn came on and the work was forgotten
And recently the question has been agitated
anew, and Williams may yet at least, have
some outward sign to mark his greatness
and perpetuate his name. During period
of one hundred and eighty three years not
even a rough stone has been set up to mark
the grave of the founder of Rhode Island,
till the precise locality of his grave had been
almost forgotten and could only be ascer-
tained by the most careful investigation
Suffice 1t to say, however, the spot was
found short time ago, though there was
little to exhume, on scraping off the turf
from the surface Of the ground the dim out
lines of seven graves, contained within less
than one square rod, revealed the burial
ground of Roger Williams


In colonial times each family buried near
their residence. Three of these seven graves
were those of children the remaining four
were adults. The easterly grave was iden-
tilted as that Mr. Williams. On digging
down into the 'charnel house, it was found
that every being had passed into oblivion
The shapes of the coffins could My be ira
ced by black line Of carbonaceous matter
the thickness Of the edges of the sides of
the coffin could, with their ends, be distinct
ly defined The rusted remains of the him
ges and nails, with few fragments of
wood and single round knot, was all that
could be gathered from his grave In the
grave of his wife there was not trace of
anything save single lock of braided hair
which had survived the lapse of more than
one hundred and eighty years.


Near the grave stood venerable apple
tree, when and by whom planted is not
known. This tree had sent two of its main
roots into the graves of Mr. and Mrs. Will
liams. The larger root had pushed its way
through the earth till it reached the precise
spot occupied by the skull of Roger Will
liams, There making turn, as if going
round the skull it followed the direction Of
the backbone to the hips. Here it divided
into two branches, sending one along each
Year: 1866

often think each tottering form,


That limps along N life's decline,
Once bore heart as young, as warm,


As full of idle thoughts as mine!
And each has had it's dreams of joy,


It's own unequalled, pure romance;
Commencing when the blushing boy


First thrilled at lovely woman's glance.
And each could tell its tale of youth,


Would think its scenes of love evinee
More passion, more unearthly truth


Than any tale before or since.
Yes they could tell of tender lays,


At midnight penned in classic shades,
of days more bright than modern days
And maids more fair than modern maids.
Of whispers in a willing ear;


Of kisses on a blushing cheek
Each kiss, each whisper, far too dear
Our modern lips to give or speak.
OF passions too untimely crossed
Of passions sighted or betrayed
OF kindred spirits early lost


And buds that blossomed but to fade.
Of beauteous eyes and tresses gay,
Elastic form and noble brow,
Aud forms that all have passed away,
And left them what We see them now.
And is it thus-is human love


So very light and frail thing?
And must youth brightest vision move
Forever on Times restless wing?
Must al the eyes that still are bright,
And all the lips that talk of bliss,
And all the forms SO fair to sight,


Hereafter only come to this >?
Then what are all earth's treasures worth,
II we at length must lose them thus
Il all We value most on earth


Ere long must fade away from us
Year: 1866

There are lonely hearts to cherish,
While the days are going by,
There are weary souls who perish,
While the days are going by;
If smile We can renew,


AS our journey we persue,
Oh! the good we all may do,


While the days are going by.
There's no time for idly storming,
While the days are going by:
Let our face be like the morning,
While the days are going by;
Oh! the world is full of sighs,


Full of sad and weeping eyes:
Help your fallen brother rise,


While the days are going by.
All the loving links that bind us
While the days are going by,
One by one we leave behind us


While the days are going by;
But the seeds of good we SOW,


Both in shade and shine will grow,
And will keep our hearts aglow,
While the days are going by.
Year: 1866

- 1t cannot be that earth
is mans only abiding place. It
cannot be that our life is a bub-
BILE, cast up by the ocean of
eternity, to float a moment
upon its waves, and sink into
nothingness. Else why is it,
the high and glorious aspira-
tions, which leap like angels
from the temple of our hearts,
are forever wandering unsatis-
fed? Why is it that the rain
bow and the cloud come over
us with a beauty that is not of
earth, and then pass off and
leave us to muse on their faded
loveliness2 Why is it that the
stars which "hold their festival
around the midnight throne, y
are set above the grasp of our
limited faculties; forever mock
ing us with their unapproach-
able glory +? And finally, why
is it that bright forms of human
beauty are presented to our
view and taken from us; leav-
ing the thousand streams Of
our affections to flow back in
an Alpine torrent upon oul
hearts? We are born for 6
higher destiny than that o.
earth. There is a realm where
the rainbow never fades; where
the stars will be spread out be.
fore us like the islands that
slumber on the ocean, and
where the beautiful beings
which pass before us like shad
oWs, viii stay in our presence
| forever.
Year: 1866

LovE.-Loveis the wellspring
of all good. 1t is the over
flowing fountain of every God
like act. Love is the soul of
virtue. It's the spirit of every
high and holy enterprise calcu-
lated to bless man. Love is of
God. Tt is the image of God
-"God is love-" 1t acts the
part of God in the lives and
hearts of men. Love is the
germ of moral excellence; the
fullness and completeness of
all the excellence of Cod
Where love is wanting, there
can be no true good. Where
love abouds, everything that is
lovely will be found. 1t is only
love that is needed to dry up
the fountains of misery and


change the dwellings of men


throughout all nations of the


earth into a vast paradise OF
iOy.
Year: 1866

EXTRAyAGANcE IN DREss.-In late number of
the atlantic Monthly, Mrs. Stowe devotes her
Chimney Corner" paper to the subject of wom-
ans dress, which she handles with more than
ordinary sense and skill. After touching upon
the fact that most of the absurd, exaggerated
and gaudy fashions which have prevailed for the
last lew years have had their origin among the
disreputable, the demi-mondc, and that for this
reason, if not for their atrocious bad taste eve
ry decent woman should blush to initiate them
she goes on to make the following timely sug-
gestions:


ain France, rs Monsieur Dupin, Edmond About
and Michelet tell US, the extravagant demands
for dress lead women to contract debts unknown
to their husbands, and sign obligations which
are paid by the sacrifices Of honor, and thus the
purity of the family is constantly undermined
In England there is voice of complaint, sound
ing from the leading periodicals, that the ex-
travagant demands of female fashion are bringing
distress into families, and making marriages i'm
possible and something of the same sort seems
to have begun here. We are across the Atlantic
TO be sure, but feel the swirl and drift of the
great whirlpool only, fortunately, we are far
enough off TO be able to see whittier things are
tending, and to stop ourselves if we will.


We have just come through great struggle,
in which our women have borne a heroic part
have shown themselves capable of any kind Of
endurance and self-sacrifce and now we are in
the constructive state which makes it OF the
greatest consequence to ourselves and the world
that we understand our own institutions and
position, and learn that instead of following the
corrupt and worn-out ways of the Old World,
we are called upon to set the example Of new
state of society-noble, simple, pure and religi-
Gus and women do more towards this even
than men, for women arc the real architects of
society"
Year: 1866

JusT So-One Of our Atlantic exchanges gets
off the following concerning the complaints OF
readers 80 We don't publish all the local items
readers desire, from the fact that it is often
their own fault in not sending in the facts. We
don't like to publish a birth after the child has
been wcancd, marriage after the honeymoon is
over, the death Of after his widow Is
married again.
Year: 1866

NATIONS have their lives as well as indi-
viduals, only they lack the clear and uemis-
taxable symptoms by which nature marks
the progress from youth to manhood, and
from manhood to old age; they are as the
finite as the persons who compose them,
only without the same data for determining
the progress Of their existence.
Year: 1866

might dethrone him, as she vas so much his
superior. So the old woman is yet condemned
to wander over the world, creating quarrels and
strife in peaceful families and neighborhoods.


Would you know her name


1t is Madam Scandal When she died, the
little Scandals were left orphans, but the Devil
in consideration of past services done by the
mother, adopted them; and so you see ho is ia
theI to that respectable class called scandal-mon-
Year: 1866

We frequently hear young men complaining
that they are out of employment. Many of
them seeking positions in various employ
ments 10 the Northern cities. We do not OBJ
ject to this but they cannot all succeed in their
efforts They cannot all become merchants or
professional men. Then what must they do z
Let them go to work and assist 10 developing
the resources of the country. Let them till the
soil if they can do no better Indeed what bet
ter thing can they do. There is nothing de-
grading in labor-there never was, and it will
be much less so now that slavery has been abel
ished. Many of tho greatest men that ever liv-
ed have been laborers, and we respcc: them none
the less, but rather the more because they were.
Cincinnatus called from his plow TO save
his country. Washington was Surveyor
Franklin, who was, not only patriot and a
statesman, but who even extended the empire
of science, was practical printer. Roger Sher-
man shoemaker. Henry Clay was known
as "the mill boy Of the slashes." Abraham
Lincoln was rail splitter. Andrew johnson
was tailor Let our young men take courage
from these examples and go to work and work
out their destiny and the salvation of their coun
try. There are plenty Of farms to till. Car
penters will sOon.bc wanted to build up the
towns and cities of the South, who with all her
misfortuncs still has high destiny before her.


There is mach printing to do, aud we hope
there will. soon be much more Indeed, oppor-
tunities present themselves without number in
various avocatons Then take advantage of
them and go to work. We assure you if you
will take our advice you will not regret it. 1t may
save you from all the vices incident to the pre-
sent condition Of thisgs, and naturally resulting
from the late war. 1t may elevate you to po-
slton in society which you would otherwise be
unable to reach. But in the midst of your tolls
do not forget to cultivate your minds Read
all the valuable books you can, get, and especial
y do not forget to take newspaper.
Year: 1866

II
In the Store under the Democrat Printing Of
fce, nearly opposite Scorr's Drug Store
The subscribers inform the public that they are
now receiving a GENERAL ASSORTMENT Of


DEsK GOODS
and Hardwa
Which they offer for sale at low figures for cash
Their stock of Dry Goods embraces all the
LATEST STYLES AND FASHIONS,
and they respectfully invite the Ladies call and
examine their Goods
Hardware and SVOOden-Ware,
good assortment, for sale at prices to suit the
times.


They have a small stock of


Groceries
on hand, which they wish to sell at low prices to
close out in that line.
Call and examine our Goods, think we can
give satisfaction both in price and quality.


COCHRANE, WILSON & co,


Under Democrat Office.
February II, 1866 If
Year: 1866

CANE SUGAR Rev. Mr. Hood of this coun-
ty, presented last week, specimen of very
good sugar, made by himself from the sorghum.
The process is as follows:


Divide the stalk, using the upper part for
making molasses, and the four lower joints for
sugar. Boil the juice to very thick syrup,
carefully skimming Let it stand in wide
mouth vessel until well grained, and considera-
bly, hardened, then put into small conical sacks,
of about the size and shape of loaf Of sugar,
made of material Of very open texture, hang up
to drain. The grain will appear in three or four
days The indispensable condition of success is
to have the cane thoroughly ripe.


We saw last August in Illinois good brown
sugar made of the sorghum as was ever made
from the best Louisiana cane--AsheviUe Neus.
Year: 1866

New ENGINE HousE-The Fire Kings,
who arc progressive set Of boys, have de-
cidcd upon building new engine house
next season near where the old one stands.
II is . worthy object, in which they will
have the sympathy and aid Of the public
They commence raising funds ON the eve
ming Of the oath inst ut which time they
will give . grand Christmas Eve Ball at
Lahrmsnn's Hall. See Advertisement and
buy . ticket to aid in this excellent i'm
peovement- price only one dollar