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Year: 1866

THAT our lives may be right, we are to
put our hearts under right influences and this can
be done in almost numberless ways


WooDsAwYER's So1nooUY.--"Of all the
saws l ever saw to saw with. I never saw saw to
saw as this saw saws
Year: 1866

large proportion of the operatives in our various
kinds Of shops are not worth $1,000. A wife be.
loved, and cOnfding children cling with fond regard
to the father liable at any moment to be taken away
with nothing laid by for their comfort and protec-
tion. The annual sum of S25 would paw a life poli.
ey that would in the event of death 90 far towards
making them comfortable; and who can not Law
aside for such purpose this small sum, and who
among you ought not to lay it aside If the family
Is poor much the greater need that this wise pro-
vision be not neglected. AS the ordinary accumu.
latons are necessarily slow, requiring years to Law
aside few hundred dollars how much wiser to make
sure az once large sum by Life Insurance. Take
EARNING before il is ton late
Year: 1866

There are many persons who have been deferred
from insuring their Lives for the benefit of their
families on account Of not being in sound health
The undersigned is agent for the UNIVERSAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
which company takes risks on the lives of INvALDs,
and is also agent for the
Year: 1866

Doubtless you have remarked with sat
isfaction, how the little oddities of men
who marry rather late in life are pruned
away speedily after their marriage. You
have found man who used to be shabbily
dressed, with a huge shirt collar, frayed at
edges, and a glaring yellow six pocket
handkerchief, broken Of these things, and
become pattern Of neatness- You have
seen man whose hair and whiskers were
ridiculously cut, speedily become like 9TH
err human beings. You have seen man
who took snuff conspicuously, and who gem
orally had his breast covered with snuff,
abandon the vile habit. A wife is the
grand wielder of the moral pruning knife.
If Johnson's wife had lived, there would
have been no boarding up Of bits of or
ange peel; no touching of all the posts in
walking along the street; no eating and
drinking with disgusting voracity. II
Oliver Goldsmith had married, he new
er would have worn that memorable and
ridiculous coat. Whenever you find man
whom you know little about, oddly dressed
or talking ridiculously, or exhibiting ex-
centricity of manner, you may be sure that
he is not a married man. For the little
corners are rounded of, the little shoots
are pruned away, in married men. The
wife's advices are the tiller that keeps the
ship steady. They are like the wholesome.
though painful shears, nipping off the
little growth of self-conceit and folly
Ernzer.s Ma1nzine.
Year: 1866

can not say it is sin, but it is an uncuoth
habit.


Playing with the pocket-knife, jingling
keys and loose change, are in very bad
taste. Looking at the watch in an open
way makes one think person wishes to
make display of that valuable article
1t is considered i'll manners to look at ones
watch in company, but we now speak of
public places, concerts, church, etc, and
not private society. One may take peep
at his watch in public places if he does it
quietly, not to attract attention, and it is
allowable.


Loud talking is very rude on the ferry
boat, in the railway car, in church, in the
lecture or concert room before the seryi-
ces commence, and detestable afterward.
Little parties should keep their personal
conversation to themselves. Nothing, we
think, shows good breeding more than a
quiet manner, a mellow voice, and that
deeorousness and gentleness which accom-
pany that style Of speech.


One more very common and very an
noying habit may be named, and that is,
not going when one starts, but standing
in the open door. Many cold has been
taken by the patient lady of the house
with nothing on for protection, being de-
tanned by gossiping friend, sometimes
ten minutes, to hear last words and conf
Idential communications; talking thus in
the noise and roar of the street necessi-
tates loud talking, and sometimes the most
confidential things are heard all over the
house and even across the street.


We remember, in particular, family
that lived next door to us. The young Ia
dies would stand on the steps and talk
sometimes ten minutes, and we were
obliged to go away from our open parlol
window or hear all their arrangements and
confidential conversations, aud, forgive us
for saying it, we have seen some people
make display on the steps on purpose,
as we thought to attract attention Of peo-
pie across the way-they have talked
loudly and laughed heartily onpurpose to
make display.
( Never stand, and talk when you propose
to go.


i We have seen a delicate woman rise tc
dismiss her company after they had reach.
ed the door and "must 60 right away >
we have seen such a lady stand till she
turned pale with fatigue, while the visitor,
ruddy, and strong, and jolly, would spin
long yarns, and then stop again in the
cold ball, and on the steps, and again afteI
reaching the sidewalk. The proper rult
lis, when you have decided to leave, to b
off in sixty seconds. Never keep per
son standing in the hall or at the parlo
door, but take leave of your friends where
they are, and go at once.-Phrenologica
Journal
Year: 1866

Homes are more often darkened by the
continual recurrence of small faults, than
by the actual presence of any decided
vice. These evils are apparently of very
dissimilar magnitude; yet it is easier to
grapple with the one than the other. The
eastern traveller can combine his force and
hunt down the tiger that prowls upon his
path: but he scarcely eau escape the mus
duitoes that infest the air he brethes, or
the fleas that swarm the earth he treads.
The Drunkard has been known to renounce
his darling vice; the slave to dress and
extravaganza, her besetting sin, but the
waspish temper, the irritating tone, rude,
dogmatic manners, and the hundred name
less negligence that spoil the beauty Of
association, have rarely done other than
proceed till the action of disgust aud grad
ual alienation has turned all the currents
Of affection from their course, leaving
nothing but barren track, over which the
mere skeleton of the companionshiP stalks
along.
Year: 1866

When child is hurt never hush it. It
is inexcusable barbarity; it is repressing
its instinct; and for this reason if physical
punishment is inflicted on child it is per-
feet brutality. A thousand times better
is it to soothe by kindly words and acts,
divert the mind by telling stories, BY ex-
planning pictures, or by providing it with
new toys. We have many time In our
professional experience as to sick children,


found more benefit to be derived from a
beautiful or interesting toy than from a
dose ofphysic. The greatest humanity
mother can exhibit in respect to her sick
child is to divert it divert 1t, DIVERT IT, in
all pleasing ways possible, as we ourselves,
who are larger children, feel sometimes
really sick, when cheerful face and much
loved friend has come in, and before we
know it NE have forgotten what was the
matter with us-HaRs Journal Of Health.
Year: 1866

THE CHoLERA.-The reports Of the New
York Board Of Health make il certain that
there have been between thirty and forty cases
Of Asiastic cholera in that city, between the
first Of May and the middle of June Tne
board takes the sensible ground that it is inn
facts. On the other hand, they maintain that
the people should be apprised of them and the
only known means Of stopping the further
any one to be alarmed. They are of the opinion
and they are supported in it by medical an.
thority-that the poison which causes TT
disease is confrollable-that IL can be neutr,l.
Iz-d and killed. To this end the ffecal dis.
charges of a cholera patient should never be
allowed TO be thrown into a water closet or
sink without first being thoroughly dlsinfected


These discharges are the most fatal, and prob
ably the only means OF spreading the disease.
Year: 1866

In the casemate recently fitted up in For
uess Monroe for the accommodation of Mr.
and Mrs. Jefferson Davis and their family.
they are now living very comfortably. Their
friends furnish them with all the luxures OF
the season, and the Government is stirting
nothing. The relaxation by the military au.
thorities of the restraints upon the movements
of DAVIS is having a beneficial effect upon his
health


The miscellaneous statements connected
with The release or parole Of Jefferson Davis.
and even the much -agitated question of his
failing or improving health are fast ceasing TO
be matter of discussion. With the freedom
OF the fort granted him, and the consequent
reiaXatlon or vigilance over his movements 8,
ceases all the anxiety of an anticipated release
or escape, and visitors sojOurning temporarily
on the Point would scarcely be aware of his
imprisonment In The recently fitted up case
mates in the fortress, designated by Gen Miles
tor their accommodation, Davis and his fam
lily live far more comfortably than any of the
officers OF the garrison, and their residence by
the seaside is by no means as unpleasant as
many persons might imagine.
Year: 1866

The REWARDS OF PATRIorIsM.-Th new
Democratic municipal administration at
Hartford has turned out from a messengers
place one-legged soldier who was appoint.
ell to the place last Winter and had been
able to discharge his duties with some help
from his wife and son.
Year: 1866




THE following story is tod Of a father
Of the church. At al association dinner
a debate arose as to the use of the rod in
bringing up children The doctor took
the affirmative. and the chief opponent
was a young minister, whose reputation
for vercity was not high. He main
tanned that pqrent, often do harm to
their children by unjust punishment,
from not knowing the factsof the case
Why, said he, the only time my fatheT
whipped me was for telling the truth
q Well retorted the doctor it cured you
Of it, didn't it.


THAD. STEVENS said, during the last
Congress that " Union never shall,
with my consent, be restored under the
Constitution as it is" That is what
Thad. is driving at.


The Buffalo Christian Advocate says
the hand Of Providence removed the late
Mr.. Lincoln from this vale of tears,
while the Detroit Tribune insists that
the Copperheads performed that Office
Which shall we believe
Year: 1866

question will be discussed as II wa, lat year
: secretly in committee, IN when all the inhu
encc, coed, bad and indifferent. OF Job0lng depu-
atiOns frt M the various Interests" VIII be
brought into piay that MIR. David A. Wells
report, which he is now framing, will be totally
neglected; and bill will be thrust into the
House marked by every fault which a bill can
have, in the last days of the session, and forced
through under the previous question:" to be
stopped in the Senate, thus leaving the country
for another year prey to the existing disorder.
We can at present have neither such tariff as
the proteCtionists nor the freetraders desire, for
the simple reason that, whatever the correct
theory may be, neither party is strong enough
to enforce its own policy, and all attempts made
by the protectonsts to carry their tariff by
coup de main, as last sassion, are pretty sure to
result in reaction, carrying us for blief period
Just as far in the other direction.


The fact is, the country can bear up under
any reasonable amount of financial blundering,
provided there be some method and persistence
uncertainty. and uncertainty is the soul Of the
present regime. The American man is pretty
sure TO make his way either under protection or
tree trade: but he must know which il is to be-
and be let alone once he has made his arrange
mCnts. One of the sins which most easily beaet
a strong majority, is the tendency to believe
that great power conferred for one purpose may
sent Congress has acted all along as if its posi-
ton on the tariff question were just as sure and
as emphatcally indorsed by the country as its
position on the question of reconstruction.
This is a mistake into which, we trust, it will
not fall again. The tariff question has still to
be discussed, for the public mind is not yet
made up about II, and men of all shades OF
opinion are still entitled to respectful hearing,
privilege which Congress Systematically
rplIlSeS to hplplesS minOrtips.
Year: 1866

An agreeable warmth diffuses itself through
every fiber Of the frame after a dose of the Red
Jacket Bitters, and unlike wine and unmedicated
stimuants,. they never sour even on the weakest
e+oponEg-
Year: 1866

Fortress MONROE. Sept 2l-The visit Of Bishop
Green and Rev. Mr. Kelly to Mr. Davis was strictly
Of private and social character, and in it thev
expressed to Mr. Davis the universal and intense
desire prevailing throughout the entire land thathe
should be released in the event Of trial not being
granted him at the next term Of the United States
Year: 1866

RAISED COTTAGE AT AUcTIoS.-Among the
many pieces of property that are offered lately at
auction, none deserve a more especial mention
than the raised cottage with grounds attached, at
the corner Euterpe and Bacchus streets, which
will be sold this day, by Montgomery & Bro, at
Il O'Clock at the Merchants and Auctioneers'
Exchange The building is built Of the best mate
rial, with all the modern improvements attached
combining elegance, durability and comfort. The
garden is well stocked with a variety of fruit
trees, shrubbery and flowers, and any of our
readers desirous of becoming possessor of a fine
residence where all the ease and comfort of home
can be enjoyed should be present at the sale. It
beng conveniently located and in good neigh
borhood are strong inducements in addition to the
above mentioned. For more particular descrip-
tion we refer to the advertisement Of those gentle
men in another column
Year: 1866

The object ofthis suit is to attach the interest of
Tho mas c. Smith in the estate of William Smith, de-
ceas I'd real and personal in Charlotte county and sub
eet it to the payment Of debt due the plaintiff by
Thomas G. Smith.


1t appearing by affidavit that the defendant Thomas
C Smith Is nonresident of this State, mo-
ton of the plaintiff, by counsel, 1t is ordered
that the said defendant do appear within
one month after due publication hereof and
do what is necessary to protect his interest in this
suit and that copy Of this order be published
once a week for four successive weeks in the Rich
mond Wing newspaper publishedin in the city of Rich
moud and that another copy be posted at the front
door Of the Court House of the said County, the
first day of the next County Court.
ACopy-Teste:
Year: 1866

The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gaze tic describes an invention
in the way Of wrecking and deep sea
sounding, which, when it is once publicly
exhibited, will create revolution in what
may be called the diving world. The
New York Submarine Company, recently
organized, is the proprietor of this inven-
ton, and Dr. T. G. NCKEEN is the inven>
tor The invention itself consists in the
superior consendaton and conveyance of
of air beneath the surface Of the water, so
as not only to supply the divers with
breath, but to make the atmosphere a
motive power for lifting wrecks.
Year: 1866

The REBEL PRIsoSERs.-The commu>
nications transmitted to. Congress, (Which
will be found on the second page Of to-
days rapeD in answer TO resolution OF
that body, with regard to JEFF. DAVIS
and the other prominent rebel prisoners
give us a clear idea of the case OF these
men and the situation Of the government
with reference to it. The Secretary OF
War holds them as prisoners captured IN
war, and awaits the action of the proper
authorities of the United States before be
transfers them 10 the civil power or releases
them, as the case may be. That is all be
has 10 do in the matter. Attorney Gen.
SPRED states the charges upon which they
are held and the object in holding them.
He thinks they ought TO be tried, but sees
difficulties in the way, and he seems to
hold the opinion that it would be better
TO let them 90 than to violate the ? ain
meaning of the constitution or infringe ID
the leas, particular the living spirit OF that
instrument" Chief Justice CHASE refuses
to trv them, because he cannot or will
not hold court within the limits of the
rebel Stete.. where only they can be tried.
The President has performed his duty in
the case, and now leaves it with Congress.
Year: 1866

GE A certain class Of papers are
constantly saying tba: there exists in
many portions of the south An intense
hatred of the northern people. Do the
northern people, as body, do anything
to remove this antipathy, if it be true that
it exists? Instead Of trying to live in
harmony and peace with the southern
people, papers Of this class send penny-a
liners to travel through the South AID
invent flaming fasehoods, and every
tboughtess speech of planter, or p an
ter's wife every bitter utterance of a
returned soldier broken down in the wars,
and suffering from mortified spirit, is
seized upon to show that there is still
danger Of rising rebellion, and to justify
the maintenance oft the military instead of
the civil government, In the states. The
passionate expressions Of deeply excited
people, contemplating the ruins Of their
towns and houses in ashes, while their
Somen vanly implore food and raiment,
is construed ip,o spirit of continued
resistance to the conquered authority !;
and from these expressions Of most
natural Indignation OF resentment, are
manufactured falsehoods, which are tele
graphed over the country and are seized
and harped upon by those who think the
war ended two years to soon-for their
interests
Year: 1866

YoUR UoNE PAPER An exchange
gives the following sensible ADVICE;


Stick to your home paper No
matter il YOU are poor, none are so poor
as the ignorant, except the deprsved, and
they too often GO together. Keep your
home paper Remember that if i, is not
so Iarge and imposing as some, it is the
advertiser of your noighborhood and daily
business, and tells you what is going Oh
around you instead Of thousand miles
away"
Year: 1866

@ The editor is absent this week
visiting schools in the county. We hope
that he will not undertake to run another
race with bis horse, for We warn him that
he will be worse beaten than before. In
the meantime, any person wishing 10 pay
up, or subscribe for the Pilot, will find
competen. hands to wait upon them,
aud ready to receive the CASH.
Year: 1866

- The usual monthly statement of the
national debt has been issued by the Sec
retary Of the Treasury, MCuILocH. The
total amount Of our national indebted ess
is a little over two thousand eight hundred
and seven millions Of dollars showing an
increase during the month of December of
over ninety-two millions and half
Year: 1866

The PooRER CLASSES or ExGIAxD.-John
Bright, in . recent speech at Birmingham,
thus spoke Of the poorer classes in Great
Britain


There are amongst them one million-eon-
siderably more than million, believe, in
the United kingdom-of those who are
classed in the unfortunate list Of paupers.
There are At least q million who are Just
above the psupers-always in peril lest they
themselves should become paupers. Their
condition and their prospects are no more
favorable than that. Then, look at the
ignorance Of the lower strata Of this ottion
OF the nation. Look at their poverty, their
sufenngs, their utter hopelessness Of aood.
Why, in the American Southern States. /. du-
ring the reign of slavery, every negro had an
idea that there was . day Of jubilee for him
VERIFY they used to say, 1.-THE Lord will
come aud deliver u.s. But in this class, this
lowest strata Of the population Of your coun-
try, venture to say there is neither belief in
anything better for them, nor scarcely il there
any aspiration after it.
Year: 1866

The day had been exceedingly cold and
stormy, and the night had already set in,
dark and d smal. with fierce gale and a
driving storm of rain aud hail, when
again stood beside my patient. The mo,
ment look ed at him, perceived unmis-
taxable indications of the near approach OF
death, upon his features. lie was free
from pain, his mind perfectly clear. but
his life Wa. ebbing away with every feeble
breath like the slow burning of an axhaus-
ted lamp
Year: 1866

VINO is OLD, A wise man will never
rust out As long as he can move and


breathe, he willdo something for him,
self, for his neighbor, or his posterity.--
Almost to the last hour of his life, Well
lington was at work. SO Were Newton,
Bacon, Milton, and Franklin. The Wig
or of their lives never decayed. No rust
marred their spirits. 1t is foolish
idea to suppose that we must lie down
because we arc old Who is old I? Not
the man of energy; not the day-laborer
in science, art, or benevolence, but he
only who suffers his energies to waste
time, and the spring Of life to become
motionless, on whose hands the hours
drag heavily.
Year: 1866

The Democrats who favor the Au-
gust Convention to be held in Philadel-
phia, insist that in doing SO, they yield
none of their allegiance to their old party
organization, What they want is to BEN
eft the Democratic by. breaking up the
Republican party. What do the Repub-
licans who have been sedueed into this
movement, think of this position?
Year: 1866

The Gardiner journal says cargo of cot.
ton waste, the first since the commencement of
the war, was delivered in that city last week


The Belfast Age says the offices are likely
to prove the death of the new copper-Johnson
party of that city


The Bangor Whig says the potato tops in
that vicinity have been struck with rust ouite
extensively within few days, but whether the
tubers are touched with the old fashioned pota-
to disease or not, is not yet known


"A respectable woman of this city was walk
ing down Main street this A. NJ, leading
drunken husband home from nights debancb
wnen one OF his crones drove down the street
and called him to join them. The man sprang
Tor the carriage, when his wife seized hold al
good sized board that lay near, and gave five
or six good fiat blows across the extreme which
lies under the coat tail. The drunken husband
az last made out to get into the carriage, but
not until he had received q sound drubbine.~
Le'osston Journal.


An enthusiastic Union meeting was held in
Auburn on Tuesday evening, at which General
Banks and Hon. Sidney Perham were present
and spoke to a large and attentive audience.
The best possible spirit prevailed, and the evil
dencesin that quarter of what is to be the ver
dict on Monday are of the most cheering char
acter.


The Rockland Free Press saws:


The johnson convention notified to take
place at Ellsworth to nominate Candidate in
opposition to +. A. Pike, was attended by three
delegates who elected themselves They nomi-
mated Ex-Governor Crosby of Belfast, but be
has since declined being candidate. 40 this
great party Of three is all adrift.
Year: 1866

BASE BALL.-The first match game of the
home-and-home series to be played between the
Eon and Athletic Clubs of this city came off
on Wednesday afternoon before quite large
and enthusiastic gathering of ladies' and gen.
tlemen.


The game opened with the Eons at the bat
and very favorably for the Athletics; for they
sent their opponents to the field with blank
score, and in their turn scoring three runs
During this inning the finest play Of the game
was made by the LIST baseman of the Athletics
holding high and very swift sent ball from
the bat, taking him completely off his feet, yet
recovering his base before the man running
the second could return. 4.-I.,.


The next inning the Eons took the lead. by
scoring seven runs to the Athletics one, and
until the sixth, appeared to have all their own
way; the game at this time was % toS


During the sixth inning there was very
marked change in the playing of the Athletics
Their fielding was particularly good, and for
the rest of the game their general play was
much the best. i attlf aa


AT the seventh the Eons were again sent to
the field with blank score, while the Athlet-
les scored four runs. Game-28 to 13.


During the eighth the score of the Athletics
was increased by five, and the Eons' by three.
An attempt was made to play another inning
but darkness and fog coming on, the Umpire
decided the game called at the eighth, and de-
clared it won to the Eons by the following