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Year: 1867

If it possibly can be avoided, do
not ask for credit. The secret of
the planters want Of success, the
key to his troubles, is the accurs-
ed credit business. The most
economical will overbuy himself if
he does not have to pay out mon
ey in each transaction. Pay as
you go and you will halt over
every purchase and haggle. with
yourself over the self asked ques-
tion "can I do without it." Open
an account at any store and you
will buy, buy, buy. You will buy
that which you want and articles
that you could make at home or
do without. 1t is hard to break
from custom. 1t is harder still


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for those who are always a year
behind, to make a sudden leap and
catch up. But it can be done. Open
no new accounts, buy what you
must have, as long as you have
money. AS each green or red
back slips through your fingers
you will find yourself pinching it,
for you will always be well aware
how few there are behind. Then
when the money is all gone and
you must have more, squeeze the
plantation" for it. A load of hay
sold, a load of wood hauled to
town, a dozen chickens out of the
flock, a straying hiefer, a willful
ox-all or any will bring money
in hand, no matter how little
there is oft, its better--far better,
than an open account of thou
sands, the basis Of which may be
the basis of a mortgage-one of
those irradicable evils that gently
glide ON with the course of years,
until suddenly you are made ac-
quainted with sheriffs, appraisers,
etc. If you cannot manufacture
an article at home, and must have
it, buy it for cash. If you have
no cash, look around and ascer-
tain what article there is that you
can best do without-convert it
into money, and buy what you de
sire with an air like unto Prince
and gonot seeking for credit that
will sooner or later devour your
substance Baton Rouge Advo-


cate. a..uag - fe.n4
Year: 1867

The road along which the man
of business travels in pursuit of
competence or wealth is not q
Macadamized one, nor does it or
dinarily lead through pleasant
scenes and by well-springs of de-
light. On the contrary, it is q
rough and rugged path, beset
with swat a bit7 thorns, and full
of pitfalls, which can only be
avoided by the watchful care Of
circumspection. After every days
journey over this worse than rough
turnpike road, the wayfarer needs
something more than rest; he re;
quires solace, and he deserves it.
He is weary of dull prose of life,
and a thirst for poetry. Happy
is the man who can find that poe
try at home. Warm greetings
loving hearts, fond glances from
bright eyes, and welcome shouts
of children, the many thousand
little arrangements for comfort
and enjoyment that silently tell
of thoughtful and expectant love,
the gentle ministrations that dis
cucumber lis into an old and easy
seat before we are aware of it;
these and like tokens of affection
and sympathy constitute the poe
try which reconciles us to the
prose of life. Think of this ye
wives and daughters Of business
menl Think of the tolls, the anx-
ieties, the modification, and wear
that fathers undergo to secure for
you comfortable homes, and com
pensate them for their trials by
making them happy by their own
fire sides. [-Ex. a9 1
Year: 1867

THE Poor IN NEW YoRK.-The annu-
al report of the Board of Health gives a
view of the way the poor live. Sixteen
thousand tenement houses, that Is rookeries
devoted to this class, contain five hundred
and fifty thousand inhabitants, being eight
families to a house, besides those who live
in stable lofts and attics. Some of the large
tenements contain a population of eight
hundred. In the Fourth ward two hundred
and ninety thousand persons live on a square
mile. The mortality from this mode of eS-
istence is twice the rate in Liverpool, where
the heaviest population is one hundred and
thirty y-eight thousand to square mile
Many of these tenements have no rooms suf-
ficiently lighted to permit of sewing on a
cloudy day without the aid of candles The
size of these rooms is generally eight feet
by ten, or, at the outside, ten by twelve.
These, as report says, are overhowing, and
still there is demand for holes to creep into.
We forbear any further recital of these hor-
rors, which, if read in the history of Canton
or of Pagan Rome, would seem Incredible !;
but here they are but common fact in our
daily experience.
Year: 1867

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FACULTY OF THE
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA.-At a
meeting of the Faculty of the Medical
College of Virginia on the 10th Of
| April, 1867, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted and ordered to
be published:


Whereas the Faculty of the University
of Virginia, in their memorial in oppoSi-
ton to the proposed fusion of the two
State medical schools, and the Rector and
executive committee of the Board Of Visi-
tors, in their report on said memorial, en-
deavor to produce the impression that the
Faculty OF the Medical College of Virginia
brought the subject before the Legislature,
and attempted, by unfair and secret means,
to force "their bill" through, before the
authorities of the University could act in
the premises, and charge the Faculty with
agitating the subject from selfish motives,
and with the purpose of drawing $4,000
a year from the Treasury of the State, be-
sides making other statements tending to
mislead the public and prejudice this in
stitution therefore


ReSo!ved, |. That the Faculty Of the
Medical College OF Virginia consider it
due to themselves to state that the propo-
sition to unite their institution with the
Medical Department Of the University did
not originate with them, but was a subject
of discussion among members of both
branches of the Legislature during the
winter; and any information which may
have been given them has been the result
of individual action, for which the Faculty
is not responsible.


2. That it is difficult to explain how the
University can misunderstood these facts,
since on the l4th of March, in the presence
of the representatives Of both Faculties,
who were summoned by the Committee OF
Schools and Colleges of the House of Dele
gates to appear before it, the chairman OF
the committee stated most emphatlcally
that the whole movement had its origin in
the Legislature, aud not with this Faculty.


3. That the Faculty of the University
misrepresent the facts when they charge
this Faculty with originating "their bill ="
in the committee "to secure the great ad-
vantage of favorable report before the
movement should have come to the know
ledge of any person interested in preserV-
ing the integrity of the University
whereas this bill only went before the COM
mittee on the 18th day of March, and Mr..
w. A. Turner, delegate from Albemarle
and member Of the committee, was In
structed to inform the Faculty of the Uni
versity Immediately of the fact by tele.
graph. In response to this communica.
ton, the receipt of which is acknowledged
by that Faculty in their memorial, one O
their number arrived in Richmond on the
following morning, and was present during
Year: 1867

GRAND DIVISION SoNs OF TEMPERANCE OF
THE STATE OF VIRGINA.-We learn that
this body will meet in their fourth quarter
ly session in this city on Wednesday next,
the 24th instant. Representatives from all
parts of the State will be in attendance,
and matters interesting to the /" Sons" will
be deliberated upon. 1t is expected the
attendance will be large.
Year: 1867

THE WHEAT CRoP.-Farmers from the
lower end of Henrico county represent the
wheat as being in better condition than
usual at this season of the year. 1t has
grown very rapidly within the past two
weeks, and is now knee-high or more.
The prospects are that the yield will be
very large one.
Year: 1867

THIEF SuoT AT.--A thief, while making
m attempt to break into Mitchell's paint
shop night before last, was shot at Dy a
policeman, and from the yell ne gave IT is
believed that he carried off halfounce
OF lead or SO.
Year: 1867

EXTENSION OF CITY RAILwAY.-We un-
derStand that the Board of Directors of the
City railroad will meet in few days, and
probably take into consideration the eXtcn-
sion of their road from the head of Broad
street to Hollywood or its neighborhood.


1t seems to us that, as pure matter of
pecuniary interest, all persons who own
property along the line Of this contcmpla-
ted extension should cooperate in every
way to secure the success of this improve
ment. Their property would be enhanced
almost Immediately from twenty to fifty
per cent. There are men of considerable
wealth interested in this extension-somc
who own many vacant lots, and others who
have valuable improved property in this
part of the city-and these gentlemen
should come forward promptly and aid the
company; besides, many citizens living in
the heart, and indeed in almost every part
of the city, will be accommodated by this
extension. All who have sections" in
Hollywood would find it great conve-
nience.


1t is supposed that the road will not cost
more than $4,000 or $4,000. 1t has been
suggested by some not to carry the road
as far as Hollywood, but up Broad street


in line with the upper or western boun-
dairy of the Old Fair Grounds, near Elba
Park, and thence southwardly to Main
street in Sidney, at a point near the west
ern corner of the Fair Grounds. Others


insist upon carrying it to Hollywood. The
ground is most favorable to the construc-
tion of the road, and many sensible bust
ness men say it can be built.


We understand that the company can
build the road in thirty days if those inte-
rested in the extension will promptly sub
scribe for the additional stock required.
Year: 1867

That's beautiful song on the slumbrous air


That drifts through the valley of dreams;
1t comes from a cline where the, roses were,
And a tuneful heart and bright brown hair


That waved in the morning breeze.
Soft eyes of azure and eyes Of brown,


And snow-white forehead are there;
A glmmering cross and a glittering crown,
A thorny bed and a couch of down,


Lost hopes and leaflets of prayer
A rosy wreath in a dimpled hand,
ring and sighted VOW
Three golden links on a broken hand,
A tiny track on the snow. white stand,


A tear and stainless brow.
There's a tincture of grief in the beautiful song


That sobs on the slumbrous air,
And loneliness felt in the festive throng,
Sinks down in the soul as it trembles along.
We heard it first at the dawn of day,


And it mingled with matin chimes,
But years have distanced the beautiful lay,
And its melody loweth from far away,


And we call it now Old Times.
Year: 1867

*See Exodus
I'm my days of childhood heard an old hymn,
the air of which much admired but have been


unable to recall any of it but the first stanza to
memory. | have here attempted to reproduce it
entire
Year: 1867

CAL1FoRN1A COAST RAILROAD The Di.
rectors of this enterprise have been in ses'
sion the past week, says the Santa Cruz Sen
tinel of July 20lh, and went out to view the
route and find it practicable. "A contract
has been made with Blake, civil engineer
of high standing, to make preliminary and
final surveys, after which books will lie
opened for the subscription of stock, and as
the company do not expect to get any State
or county aid, every person should subscribe
as much stock as his interest iu the compile.
Ion Of The road will Justify.
Year: 1867

The Houston Telegraph tells an snec-
dote of Gen. Sam. Houston. On one
occasion, when he was expected to
make furious waE.speech to much
excited crowd eager to invade Mexico,
he gave, on the contrary, an agricul-
tural address, and ended by advising
them to ego home and raise corn -
Twas one of the wisest speaohes ever
made by the old worrior. In our hum
BILE way, we wouldlmitatehis example
and give the same wholesome advice.
II is idle to talk politics, tits side to dis
cuss the future Of the negro it is idle
to speculate as to whether he will
work or will perish, it is idle to lnquiro
who will be Chief Magistrate, the Pres
ident or Congress, All this availS
nothing. But we know that We scan
take off our coats and work ourselves
with or without the negro. And we
know, whoever may be ruler of the
United States, work is king of the
world. The great duty now is to lei
politics alone, lay aside foolish PRIDE
and raise corn,


When we livedih RoCkbridge Va, the
native country of Gen. Houston, we
Year: 1867

Tho washer-momen of Holland
and Belgium, who get up thsirlinen so
beautifully white, use refined borax as
washing powder, instead Of soda, in
the proportion Of one large handful OF
borax powder, to about ten gallons Of
boiling water. They thus save in
soap nearly half For laOes, cambrics,
&c, an extra quantity Of powder is
used Borax being nuetral salt does
not in the slightest degree injure tho
texture Of the linen. It's effect is to
soften the hardest water, and therefore
1t should be kept on every toilet table.
To the taste it is rather sweet; it il
used for cleaning the hair, and is an
excellent dentrifice. Coed tea cannot
be made with hard, but all water may
be make soft by adding a teaSpoOnful
of fborax powder to an Ordinary-SiEsd
kettle Of water, in which it should boil.
The saving inths quantity of tea used
will be at least one fifth.
Year: 1867

The meeting at the City Hall on Friday
evening last, was a splendid affair. The
Hall was filled to its utmost capacity at an
early hour, and after the election of Mr..
Jacob Shots as President, the Hon. A.
Mayo was introduced to the audience, and
proceeded to deliver one of the most COM
ever delivered in Chillicothe, of about two
hours in length. At its conclusion every
man in the crowd seemed to vie with his
neighbor in shouting for Mr.. Eshelman,
and when he'appeared upon the stand there
was perfect torrent of enthusiasm, and
such an earnest and hearty expression of
the attachment our people have for their
late editor and fellow townsman, as we
have seldom seen exhibited for any man.
On account of the lateness of the hour, he
only spoke about half an hour, and was
interrupted at almost every sentence with
applause.-Chillicothe Advertiser.
Year: 1867

GARDEN SEEDs.-Every good gardner
should now be looking after the seed
that he is to SOW. Of tie choice variO.
ties, the supply will probably be much
less than the demand; and the stock
frequently gives out before planting time,
as was the case with some seed last year.
Ii is scarcely necessary to remind farm4
erS and gardens OF the importance ofgood
SeedS--good, not only as being of good
variety, but good as to their terminating
properties. Old seeds are often sourse
of great loss and disappointment and
many are offered for sale which are only
6t to be thrown away.
Year: 1867

ONE of the most touching instances Of
fidelity of which We have ever read, and
one which has lesson for human beings,
is said to have occurred on the Siene at
Paris: A young man who wanted to
drown his dog took him in boat and
threw him overheard. While pushing
the Fanimal from the boat with his oar
he fell overheard, and would have been
drowned had not his dog held him up
till assistance came and rescued him.
Year: 1867

BYc.s.
Oh. the Earth is very dreary,
And the Heaven so far away;
And my heart grows weary, weary,
And heavier each day


In the shadow.
In the shadow. Far above
Shines the sunshine calm and bright.
Not for me are hope and love,
have but the night


Earth's cold shadow.
Long but vainly have l waited
For the happier day to come;
To dreary future fated,
Sit, chilled and dumb


In the shadow.
From the valley Of despair,
From the loneliness of night,
Until Thee goes up my prayer,
God of life and light


Pierce the shadoWl
Lift me, lift me up to Thee,
From the lonely, weary night
i. Let my eyes the morning see;
Raise me up into Thy light


Raise the shadow
Year: 1867

look on COW as similar to steam
boiler; no matter how good they may be,
unless the boiler is well supplied with
water and good fuel, also we'll attend
ed to, the supply of steam will be short,
or it will be in proportion to the fuel
and attention. So also is the COW; no
matter how good she may be, if she is
not we'll supplied, fed and cared for, her
product will be shortened.


Another very important matter with
cows is that they should be protect ed
from storms and bad weather. They
should be fed and kept under shelter
when the nights are wet and inclement;
this more particularly in the early sea-
son, when the COW is fresh and i'll full
milk; one exposure to cold wet night,
has frequently reduced the milk 10 one
half. Also in the fall, when the nights
become frosty, never let them remain
ont; be particular to stable them; and ia
! the morning never turn them ont on the
pasture till the frost is melted off by the
sun, as nothing, perhaps, dries COW OF
reduces her milk moro than eating grass
with the frost on it. To many of these
requirements the generality of farmers
nav no attention whatever. In the
early season, as soon as there is any pas,
ture whatever the cow is turned out OF
the barnyard, to eat what she may find


and remain day and night until the
winter comes: there is also nothing
grown or fed to exc out the scanty sup,
ply of pasturage that almost inevitably
occurs at some time each season. Thi:
is all wrong, and should be remedied by
the cultivation of roots or corn.
Year: 1867

From the Memphis Appeal


Three or four days have elapsed since
the daring and horrid transaction mar
rated below transpired, at or near Flew
elling's Y Roads, Mississippi. A young
lady of the highest respeetability and
most amiable character, was proceeding
to neighbours house, where a party TO
which she had been invited was given,
when she was overtaken by a negro
man, and forcibly drawn from the high
road into the woods, her cries stiied by
a cloth of some sort pressed over her
mouth. Taken to a secluded and desc
late spot she was tied by the negro,
and there detained for a week, while the
black scoundrel effected his vile purpose,
without the miserable victim being able
to offer the slightest resistance. While
thus subjected to the infamous lust Of
the william, Unexpectedly made n propo-
sition to take her to the State of Him
ois, provided she would pledge herself
to marry him when they should arrive
there. Retribution was speedily to
overtake the black rascal. Two men,
who were out hunting, unexpectedly
came upon her, still tightly bound, and
alone. Her captor had left her at the
moment, either to procure food or pur-
sue some other purpose. Learning from
the wretched girl the circumstance of
the atrocity practised upon her, they
concealed themselves until he should re-
turn. Nor had they long to wait; and,
upon his coming, they at once seized and
secured him. Believing that the victim
should pronounce sentence upon him,
they awaited her decree. 1t was tofiay
him alive. They at once proceeded
with their hunting knives to relieve
him of his epidermis. The forest re-
sounded with his cries and imprecations,
as they stripped the skin from the soles
of his feet to his body. By the time
they had progressed to his middle,
nature could stand no more, but COM
pletely exhausted yielded up the ghost
the monster dying a most horrible death.
The girl was conveyed to her home,
where everything was done to relieve
her suffering, but she died the next day
in great anguish. This is one of the
most horrible transactions that pen ever
recorded. 1t is really too horrible to
contemplate. 1t is an apt illustration of
the consequences ofconverting mass of
concentrated ignorance into freedmen
with an Unlimited conception of the lib
erty and power they acquired at the
same time. Atrocities are of daily Oc-
curence, but none have come to our
knowledge more black than this.
Year: 1867

able and respectable representative in
the next Legislature.


AS the conclusion of the speeches, the
meeting adjourned in the best of feeling.
Good order prevailed throughout the
whole of the day, and all present seem
ed to feel the deepest interest in the
exercises. From the enthusiasm mani
tested. as well as from the substantial
character of the audience we predict
that the Democrats of Marshall and
Wetzel will give a good account OF
themselves at the coming election.
Year: 1867

Negro Girl for the Murder OF
White Child-ShoclSing Revelations
of the Murdercss.


A letter from Newcastle KY, in the
Louisville Courier states that, the negro
girl Eliza who few months since afro
ciously murdered three year old son OF
Mrs. Graves, has been sentenced to be
! hung on the Goth of December. She has
made confession duplicating negro
woman named Lucy. The confession
was as follows:


Il gave Walter piece of candy early
in the morning, and that made Lucy
mad-becanse did not giveit to Lucy's
children-and she said, "what do white
folks care for niggers now I" Little
Walter got up and dressed him, and
told him to 90 and kiss his little sister
which he did. She was asleep in the
cradle. l then gave him another piece
and said "sweet boy" and Lucy said
eyes, he will be sweet before night
| asked her what she meant, and she
said ''mind your own business" and
then went into the house. In the even
ing | was hauling him around in his
little wagon, and Lucy called me to get
her some hay out of the loft, which
did. Miss Kate Mrs. Graves was max
ing some cherry preserves, and while
she was in the house with them Lucy,
who was washing, took the buckets and
went for water. She set the buckets by
the well and went into the mulberry
lot and took Walter and made him say,
"good-bye, Mamma, and goodbye Pa
pa" "What are you going to do. Luz
cyY" said |. She took up large stone
and struck him with it in the head and
he fell. ran and said was going to
tell Miss Kate, and she caught me by
the dress just as l was getting over the
fence, and pulled me back and put the
rock in my hand and made me strike
him three times. ! struck him in the
stomach and two blows on his head.
Lucy then put the straw over him and
polk stalk on his face, and then ran
with her water to the kitchen, and got
in Just as Miss Kate came with the jars.
| was scared and asked her what she did
it for, and she said Miss (Or Mrs. Graves,
Il did not understand which, y had whip
ped her Susey the day before l went
there. Lucy made me do what l did,
and said she would kill me if did not.
| loved Walter and his little sister, and
wanted to tell Mrs. Graves, but was
afraid Lucy whipped Walter twice
before that in the buggy house, and |
showed the marks on his legs to his
mother, and she scolded Lucy little
about it. l asked her what made her do
it, and she told me to mind my own
business. Lucy killed one of her own
children at Mr.. G.'s-she says she smoth-
cred it in the night-but her Susey held
it by the heels and let it drop on rock
on the top of its head. She also said
she had killed two of her older ones
while living with Mr.. Henry Smith, and
that she did not mind killing niggers,
and would kill me if told where the
child was. was scared and was afraid
of Lucy. | was the first to show where
Walter was, and would have done 1t
sooner, but Lucy kept shaking her hands
at me not to do it. l am sorry, but
can't say any prayers; nobody ever
taught me any, and never heard any,
only little boy saying his, and did
not stay there long, for got the itch
and they sent me away"
Year: 1867

VINEGAR FROM APPLE POMACE.-A
correspondent of the New York Farmers
Club saws: Do not allow your sweet
apple pomaee to go to waste after the
sweet cider is expressed, but put them
in some water-tight box: allow them to
remain until they are well heated: then
return them to press, and add, say, to
the production of thirty bushels of ap,
pies, six or eight gallons of water, and
you can press from one and half to two
barrels of vinegar from the same, and
good article at that. Vinegar made IL
this way will sour much sooner thar
otherwise.