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Year: 1866

All changes are sudden and CON-
plete in Russia. Summer goes in a
day, and winter comes. One may
cross river in boat at night and
walk back On the ice in the morning.
Doors and windows stand wide open
in the summer for a breath of cool
air; but in winter the cool air is bar
red out with double windows, triple
doors and heated stoves. So In re-
gard to clothing, thin linen summer
habiliments are thrown aside in a day
and the reign of furs begins. Wheels
are upon all carriages of every sort
one day; snow comes during the
night and the wheels all vanish; in
the me ming nothing but sledges are
seen.


The transitions from class to class


are of the same character. One class


is of gentlemen and barons; the next
step is to moushicks, peasant-serfs who


live on black bread and salt, seasoned


with sour cabbage and garlic; and


who are covered with a dirty sheep


skin instead of being clothed in ermine,


sables and fine linen.


Cronstadt is reached by steamers


one week; in the next, the traveller


rides over the same water with three


horses before him. The people will


leave hot bath and plunge into a


hole made in the ice; they will leave


a room heated to 10 Or so degrees,


and follow funeral for six miles, with


no covering on their heads, in a frost


Is degrees below zero; they will fast


seven weeks on cabbage and garlic,
and then guzzle themselves in a few


hours into the hospital, take cholera
and die. Diseases are generally
swift and fatal-to-day well, to-mor
row dead. More than two-thirds of
the cholera cases die. Women are
interesting, marriagable and plump at


fourteen; they are shriveled at thirty.


Despotic power works in extreme
without control, religion without NOR
ality, commerce without honesty
There is land illimitable, without cul-
tivation. There are splendid laws,
and poverty of justice. Some of these
contrasts are now being sOftened
> down by the wise progressive policy


of Alexander the Second.
Year: 1866

o, let the soul her slumbers break,
Letthought be quickened and awake,


Awake to see
How soon this life is passed and gone,
And death comes stealing on,


How silently!
onward its course the present keeps,
onward the constant current sweeps,


Till life is done,
And, did we think of time Alright,
The past and future in their flight


Would be as one.
Our lives are rivers, gliding free,
10 that unfathomed, boundless sea,


The silent grave
Thither all earthly pOmp and boast
Roll, to be swallowed up and lost


In one dark wave!
Thither the mighty torrents stray,
Thlther the brook pursues its way,


And tinkling rill.
There all are equal. Side by side,
The poor man and the son of pride


Lie calm and still.
Earthly desires and sensual lusts
Are passions springing from the dust


They fade and die.
But in the life beyond the tomb
They seal the immortal spirits doom


Eternally.
The pleasures and desires which mask
In treacherous smiles lifes serious task,


What are they, all
But the fleet coursers in the chase,
And Death an Ambush in the race,


Wherein we fall.
And yet this world may be the road
Which leads us to the bright abode


Ofpeace above.
So let us choose that narrow way,
Which leads no travellers foot astray


From realms of love!
Our cradle is the starting place,
In life we run the onward race


And reach the goal
When, in the mansion ofthe blest,
Death leaves to its eternal rest


The weary soul.
Did we but use it as we ought,
This world would school each wander
thought


To its high state.
Faith wings the soul beyond the sky,
Up to that better world on high,


For which we wait.
Year: 1866

This rather perplexed us, but at
last we determined that he must have
deceived his employers; and although
we did not think that we had sufficient
cause to arrest him, still we determin-
ed to track him awhile. With this
purpose we went to Vermont and fell
in with him at Montpelier. For a
week we observed his every motion
but at the end of the time had discOv-
cred nothing, save that he would stay
in town about one week longer
Feeling that my friend was fully sapa


BILE of watching him alone, | deterInin


ed to go to Boston to see if | coulc
Year: 1866

ALAS Union men with their fami
lies ar constantly passing through Wash
ington on their way North to settle
They are obliged to leave their homes in
the South on account Of the prosecutions
to which they are subj ected at the hands
Of the Reconstructed rebels They state
it Is fast becoming impossible Tor men
entertaining / yal sentiments to live in
most parts Of the South.
Year: 1866

From a treatise on races by Griswold,


(the Fat Contributor,) we quote para
graph or two;


sI fiatter myself that l know something
about the horse race. had passion for horse
racing when lad, and used TO run horses with
ueighbor's boy in Tompkin's lane. How
vividiy do 1 recall my last race. rode the
governors grass fed mare sorrel roam, If re-
member correctly, with two white feet IN the
forehead She was little foundered in one
eve, but with the exception of something like
watermelon on each knee, her intellect was
impaired She was sired by Canal Horse
| and id BY every one who drove her. Neigh
bor's boy rode cream colored chestnut with Q
spring halt to harness. On the home stretch
was neck and half shoulder blade behind
gently encouraging the old mare to do her level
best by the application of a corn cutter to heI
aged ribs. The limp which she had in her
eve prevented her taking clear view OF a heap
Of cobble stones in the lane, and when she


struck them there was a stumble, clatter Of
stones, horseshoe end old bones, and the old
mare was wrecked and no insurance.


"I was picked up bleeding and insensible
and made the remainder of the homestretct
on a s,retcher, coming in under one blanket


The race was decided in my favor. The judges
allowed, although 1 was a neck behind wher


the old mare stumbled, yet, as escaped with


out my neck being broken, came out neci
ahead"
Year: 1866

I've found some wisdom in my quest,
That's richly worth relating;
I've learned that when one does his best,
There's little harm in failing.
thought to gather wealth untold,
And made my boast about it;
My wit and toll bring little gold,
I'm Just as great without it.
said, aThe world shall hear my name,
And down the ages shout it,
shall not win the bauble fame;
I'm just as great without 1t.
Another thing I've had to prove,
Though much l used to doubt it
One can't be sure of human love,


But one can live without it.
saw the world with wrong o'ergrowD,
And set myself to rout it;
Some age will see it overthrown,
So can die without it.
thought 10 know philosophy,


And teach mankind about il;
NV plummet will not sound the sea,
My ship sails on without 1t.
may not reach what l pursue,


Yet will I keep pursuing;
Nothing is vain that l can do,


For soul-growth comes of doing.
But wherefore tell you what | know,
When you will not receive it
When you have lived and learned, l trow
You're certain to believe it.
Year: 1866

BY RICHARD c. M'coRMIcK, GOVERNOR or THE TERRITORY or ARIZONA, ANNOUNCING

 THE GPPoRTIoSMEsT or MEMBERS

 or THE LEGISLATURE UNDER

 THE CENSUS or 1866.

 TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN WHEREAS, under chapter XIV of the Code of said Territory, it is provided that in the month of April, in each year, the Assessor of each County in the Territory, shall take census or enumeration of the inhabitants thereof, and return such census or enumer- ation to the County Recorder, whose duty it sbaIj be so fife the same in his office, and
Year: 1866




The Landholders Convention to
assemble in this city on the 10th of
January next, WILL. no doubt, be
largely attended. We concur in the
suggestion of the Galveston News,
that primary meetings should be
held in each county and delegates


appointed and accredited in form, to
the Convention. This will insure
them free passage over the differ.
ent railroads, as they have agreed
to transport delegates free of charge.
Beside. it is the proper way to bring
the subject before the people, and
induce them to appreciate the OBJ
jccts IF the Convention. 1t is a sub
ject Of the first importance to the
people Of Texas.-H0ust0n journal
Year: 1866

AN oil well has been "strucll" at McMinn-
vile, at a depth of about one hundred feet,
and twenty barrels Of oil can be procured
daily by using the pump. Gen. Milroy is
one of the managers and the boring is being
continued.-Sheibwile Union.


Now, we see enough in the above item to
base a long article upon, without alluding
at all 10 petroleum, but we shall not do it.
We merely wish TO say that il gives the lie
TO the reports circulated by Radical news
papers and hired scribblers, that the South
was still rebellious and il was dangerous for
a Northern man TO come among us. Gen.
Milroy comes among US, bores among us,
and makes money among u.s. Nobody mo-
Tests him. And vet the Southern people
have cause 10 hate him. From all we have
heard of his ways of waging war if the
people haven't cause to hate him, then we
see no cause for anybody hating the devil
himself Yet, heis not warning upon us now
with bayoncts, and he is safe from bush
whackers. The Southern people are stand
ing by their contract, and we believe if the
brave soldiers Of the Federal army had
sway, there would be restoration and good
faith on the other part. But the last in the
field are now the quickest TO foment discord
in the forum Winchester Home Journal.
Year: 1866

WITH RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES IN
| w every County in Tennessee, and very shortly
throughout every southern State. This Company
insures against THEFT or DAMAGE to Stock
| while stolen. If not reeoYpred within
Year: 1866

AN unknown woman, too poor to pay the
fare across the regular bridge at Troy, ON Sur
day evening, attempted TO pass on the long rail
road bridge, and, becoming dizzy, fell through
into the water and was drowned. No one kneV v
her name or history, but II is supposed that she
was the mother of little boy who was found
crying in the streets for his mother on the same,
evening.
Year: 1866

A NEW disease has, attacked the wheat
near Avon, New York. The husk turns
brown, and decay begins at the end of the
berry nearest the stalk. Farmers in that
section are alarmed by the appearance of this
new enemy, which they don't understand.
Year: 1866

horse belonging to Houston Devine Of
Winooski, escaped from his pasture and got
upon the railroad track just as the passenger
train came rushing along at full speed. The
frightened animal kept the track ahead of the
engine for nearly three-q larters of mile,
crossing two bridges, lsaping two cattle
guards, and reached the Inns kiln station,
there leaving the track unhurt after its wild
race with the steam horse.
Year: 1866

Il.


The Westminster Rsviei0--certainly very
high authoIity-pronounce the speech of
Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, the finest
that ever fell from human lips. In view of
this fact and that It is even more psrtinen
than ever, in the present political condition
Of the country, and being so brief as we'll as
so good, we republish it below entire:


"Four score and seven years ago our faith
ers brought forth upon this continent a new
nation, conccived IN liberty and dedicated to
tho proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in great civil war,
testing whether that nation, or any other ma
ton so conceived or dedicated, can long en-
dure. We are met on great battle field Of
that war. We are met to dedicate portion
OF it as the final resting-place OF those who
here gave their lives that that nation might
hse. Il u ANogsther titiing and proper that
we should do this. But in large sense we
cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here, have consecrated it far
above our power to aid or retract.


The world will little note nor long remem-
ber what we say here, but il can never forget
what they did here. 1t is for US, the living,
rather to be dedicated to tbs unfinished work
that they have thus far so nobIy carried on.
It is rather for US here to be dedicated to the
great task remaining before us--that from
these honored dead ws take increased dsvoiion
10 ne cause for i0hieh they here gaze the last
full MEASURE Of depotioa--that zoe here resolue
that the dead shall not haze died ia vaia---that
tie nation shall. under Cad. have ne,o birth
of ffreedoR. and that the government of the pso-
pie, by the people, aud for tho people, shall not
perish from he earth"
Year: 1866

Under the above caption an exchange gives
long obituary notice Of deceased brother ed
itor, from which we have room only to extract
the closing paragraph


"Should we then not rejoice that our late
friend ofthe scissors and quill is in Heaven p
In that paradise the cry of :" moro copy" will
never again fall upon his distracted cars.--
There his cnjoyments will no more be einterrup-
ted by the growls Of the unreasonable subscfi-
Der, or the duns Of the papcr-maker. There
he will enjoy entire freedom from the detrac-
tlons and Misrepresentation Of political oppo--
nents, and the carcsses Of ambitious political
aspirants In that blest abode he Is no moro
to be troubled with illegiblc manuscript or a.
bominable poetry. No rival editors will there
steal his thunder or his stems, and Topographic
cal errors shall know him no moro forever
Year: 1866

The Washington correspondent Of the Gin"
cinnat; Enquirer tells that the negro galleries
in the House have become infested with one OF
the plaques with which the Egyptians were
cursed and that renovation Of that part OF
the building and the burning Of the seats has
been ordered.


Alas alas that the Capitol Of our country
should be given over TO creeping things. How
thankful the Southern representatives should
be that admittance is refused them.
Year: 1866

Does the road wind uphill all the wayi


Yes, to the very end
viii the days journey take the whole long day
From morn to night, my friend!
But Is there for the night a resting-place?


A roof for when the slow dark hours begin.
May not the darkness hide it from my face?


You cannot miss that inn.
Shall meet other wayfarers at night?


Those who have gone before.
Then must | knock or call when just in sight?
They will not keep you standing at the door'
Shall find comfort, trayel-sore and weak


OF labor you shall find the sum.
Will there be beds for me and all who seek?


Yea, beds for all who GOMEZ
Year: 1866

Young man, thy mother is t,y best earthly
friend. The world may forget thee--thy mo-
ther. never. The world may wilfully do you
many wrongs-thy mother, never. The world
NAV persecutc you while living, and when dead,
plant the ivy and nightshade of SANDER upon
your grave; but your mother will love you
while living, and lament you when dead
Love your mother.
Year: 1866

Several leading members of Con
gress are in favor of making an ex-
pertinent to see If the Postofllce De.
partment cannot advantageously man.
age the telegraph. The proposition
is to build a line from here TO New
York, declare it post route, put II
under the control of the Postmaster
General and require each message to
bear three cent stamp for every
twenty words. Ii is believed that the
line would yield a handsome revenue.
The present Postmaster General is
understood to think the scheme entire
ly practicable Wen see
Year: 1866

BIsHoP WILMER.-From a gentleman
just arrived from Montevallo, We learn
the gratifying intelligence that this
distinguished divine, who has recent
ly been seriously ill at Elyton, is now
much improved, and is regarded by
his attendants as fairly convalescent.


We trust he may soon recover his
wonted vigor, and that he may be long
spared to minister that sacred love
and good win towards men" for
which he is so eminently qualified and
for which he is so widely known and
loved Selma Messenger.
Year: 1866

The New York Tribune endorses a
proposition for the laying of an At
lantic cable at government expense.
1t is estimated not to cost more than
s6,OO0,0O0. Apostolic difficulty with
Great Britain is the argument in be
half of this government outlay.
Year: 1866

An Act to increase the clerical and other Force OF


the Quartermaster- Generals Office, and for


other Purposes.


Be it enacted by the Senate and House OF Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That there shall be ADDED a 1e
to the clerical and other force in the ofhce OF the
Quartermaster-Ge General, to be appointed by the
Secretary of War; four clerks of class tour, and
ninety clerks of class one; also, thirty copylsts
and six laborers, at an annual compensation OF
six hundred dollars each.


Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That IN set
tling the accounts of the commanding officer OF
company for clothing and other military suppnes,
the affidavit of any such officer may be received
to show the loss of vouchers, or company DOCKS,
or any matter or circumstance tending TO prove
that any apparent deficiency was occasloned py
unavoidable accident, or lost in actual service,
without any fault on his part, or that the whole
or any part of such clothing and supplies mad
been properly and legally used and appropriated;
and such affidavit may be considered as evidence
to establish the facts set forth, with or without
other evidence, may seem to the Secretary OF
War just and proper under the circumstances OF
the case


Approved, February 2, 1868.
Year: 1866

ONE GLASS OF WINE.-The Duke of Or
leans, the oldest son of King Louis PHILIPPE,
was the inheritor of whatever rights the roy
al family could transmit. He was noble
young man physically and intellectually
noble. One morning he invited few COM
panions with him. as he was about to take
his departure from Paris to join his regi-
ment In the conviviality of the hour he
drank too much wine. He did not become
intoxicated he was not in any respect dis
sipated man. His character was lofty and
noble But in that joyous hour he drank a
glass too much. He lost the balance of his
body and his mind. Bidding adieu to his
companions. he entered the carriage. But
for that extra glass he would have kept his
seat. He leaped from the carriage. But for
that extra glass of wine he would have
alighted on his feet. His head struck the
pavement. Senseless, bleeding, he was taken
into beer shop and died That extra glass
of wine overthrew the Orleans dynasty, con-
fiscated their property of one hundred mil
lions of dollars, and sent the whole family in
to exile.
Year: 1866

powers of arresting, imprisoniDg or bailing
offenders against the laws of the United
States, the officers and agents of the Freed
mans Bureau, and every other officer who
may be specially empowered by the Presi-
dent of the United States, shall be and
they hereby are specially authorized and
required, at the expense of the United
States to institute proceedings against all
and every person who shall violate this act
and cause him or them to be arrested and
imprisoned or bailed, as the case may be,
for trial before such court as by this act has
cognizance of the offense. ..


Section S. That any citizen who has
been slave, or is the descendant of slave
or who does not belong to the so-called
white race, that may hereafter be unlaw-
fully deprived of his vote by any person,
may maintain suit or suits, and recover
damages of any such person in any district
court of the United States for the district
in which such person may be found.
Year: 1866

BUTTER secret of making good
butter is cleanliness and thoroughuess, and
the time for the most profitable exercise of
the art of butter making is June. The
grass is obundant, the COWS in full milk
the weather favorable The milk should
not be kept too cool, though this is rarely
fault in dairies. 1t is enough if it be
kept as cool as 60 deg. Fahrenheit, though
80 deg, is not to COOL Cream will rise at
about this temperature better than at any
other, and the same is best at which to
churn. Milk should stand where tie air
is sweet and fresh; odors from the kitchen
or from the stable, or odors of any kind,
indeed, except that of fresh air, should be
excluded. Stone floors are desirable, for
these can be kept constantly moist aud so
much cooler than others, and the air ought
to circulate freely over and under the pans


Shallow pans are better than deep ones.
Work out the buttermilk wthou touching
the hands to the butter, using as little WA
ter as possible, or none at all. If the but
tcrmilk is all out and with it. all the milk,
butter will keep with very little salt. The
imperfect the working, the more salt is re-
quircd. In keeping cream several days,
put it where the temperature will be uni,
form and cool, and stir we'll if more added
Year: 1866

pected checks. The 'sober second thought
of the people" is bringing out a strong cur
rent of feeling against their revolutionary
schemes. This feeling, is strengthening
every day, and by October it will be over
whelming. The name of Thad Stevens
will soon be as odious throughout the whole
country as it was in Pennsylvania after
the "Buckshot war" Those who adhere
to him will share his odium, and. all of his
present followers who do not want to sink
with him had better get out Of his boat at
once.
Year: 1866

A WONDERFUL CHANoE.-It is quantity
observed by a cotemporary, thatlast spring
a traitor, rebel or copperhead, was one who
did not sustain the policy of the President.
This spring rebel or copperhead is one
who does support the President. Last
year to speak lightly of the President was
treason. This year the test of loyalty is
denunciation of the Executive.
Year: 1866

AFFECTING SCENE N CoURT.-What yo-
lumes an attendant upon criminal court
might write from the scenes which daily
mass there. What must strike an observer
above everything else that he sees there
i the greatness of woman's heart and the
depth of her love, even midst scenes Ibf
crime and wickeduess. The mother mhy
often be seen leaning over the prisoneNs
box whispering kind words into the ear OF
a son who, BY evil deeds, has almost drag
ged her TO the grave; the sister may be
seen weeping at her brothers side when
he has almost broken her heart; and the
wife often caresses a Seedy-looking hus-
band while her person shows marks Of his
brutality. We have heard the wife give
evidence Of the cruelty q her husband.
and in a moment afterwards weep and
plead for him when he was about 10 be
sent to jail.


Yesterday morning there was brought
before the Mayor woman charged with
being drunk and abusing a man named
Gerding. The man expressed . wish to
get her away from his house. The mans
dsughter--a little girl Of about fifteen
Year: 1866

MAS-TRAP.-Therc is in front Of the
new buildings on the corner OF Ninth and
Main streets hole which is source OF
great danger 10 passers-by. Night before
last gentleman, in passing along the
street, fell into this hole, injuring his leg
quite severely. Close Ii upi
Year: 1866

MAN-TRAPs.-Willo our police please look
after the open coal vaults 10 be found along
the pavements in several portions of the
burnt district, and have them securely
closed before people get into these danger
Gus holes,