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Year: 1867

A Virginia banker who was the chair
man OF noted infidel club, was once
travelling on horseback through Ken
lucky, having with him bank-bills of
the value of twenty-five thousand dol
lars. When he came to lonely forest,
where robberies and murders were said
to be frequent, he was soon "lost,"
through taking wrong road. The
darkness of night came quickly over
him, and how to escape from the threat
ened danger he knew not, In his alarm
he suddenly espied i'll the distance
dim light, and urging his horse onward
he at length came to wretched looking
cabin. He knocked and the door was
opened by woman, who said that her
husband was out hunting but would
shortly return, and she was sure he
would cheerfnlly give him shelter for
the night. The gentleman tied up his
horse and entered the cabin, but with
feelings which may be better imagined
than described. Here he was, with
large sum Of money. alone, and perhaps
in the house of one of those robbers
whose names was a terror to the coun-
try.


In short time the man of the house
returned. He had on a deerskin hunt
ing shirt, bear skin cap, seemed much
fatigued, and in no talkative mood
All this BODIED the infdel no good. He
felt for his pistols in his pocket aud pla-
ced them so as to be ready for instant
use. The man asked the stranger to
retire to bed, but he declined, saying
that he would sit by the fire all nj ght.
The man urged, but the more he urged
the more the infdel was alarmed. He
felt assured that this was his last night
on earth, but he determined to sell his
life as dearly as he could His infdel
principles gave him no comfort. His
fears grew into a perfect agony. What
was to be done?


At length the backwoodsman rose,
and reaching to wooden shelf, he took
down an old book and said:


Well, stranger, if you wont go to
bed, | will but it is my custom always
to read chapter of holy Scripture be-
fore l 60 to bed"


What change did these words pro-
duce! Alarm was at once removed
ilOin lle SheptlC IHIllu though dNOW
ing himself an infdcl, he had now con-
tidence in the Bible He felt SAFE He
felt that the man who kept an old
Bible III his house, and read it, and
bent his knees in prayer, was no robber
or murderer! He listened to the simple
prayer of the good man, at once disnis-
sed all his fears, and lay down in that
rude cabin and slept as camly as he did
under his fathers roof From that
night he ceased to revile the old Bible.
He became sincere christian, and of
ten related the story of his eventful
journey to prove the folly of infdelity.
Year: 1867

Those who VOW that they will never
consent to reconstruction on the repub-
lican basis, propose to undo all that Las
been accomplished by the war, and re-
mand the country back to the chances
of disintegration and ruin. Before this
could be done, another war of une xam-
pied ferocity, and perhaps of almost
endless duration, would have to be
fought, and then, if the doctrine of Sc
cession and its kindred dogmas were
established, it would hardly be a score
of years till the States would fall apart
for the want of cohesion; and the nee
essary conflicts between petty sover-
eighties, having no federal head, would
end finally in the setting up of king
ly government-which is indeed, just
the thing that many men already prefer
to our system of republicanism. 1t is
for the people to say whether they will
have this country desolated again by
war, when nothing is promised them
but these direful results. Let every
man think for himself, and settle it in
his heart whether he will have peace or
war, prosperity or ruin.
Year: 1867

A DELICATE SrYLE.-The Editor of the Steu-
nenvile Herald has seen new style OF bonnet.
II was a white bead, worn on the top of the
chignon, with thread of fine lavender floss
running through it for strings.
Year: 1867

One is at a loss to imagine, says the New
York World, what reason Jacobinism will as.
sign why pardon ought not to be granted
to DR.. Mudd. This man was convicted
among others, by StantOn's military inqusi-
ton, for alleged completely in conspiracy to
assassinatc Mr.. Lincoln. The proof against
him was, that a person with a broken leg
came to his house and asked him to perform
the surgical operation of reducing the frac-
ture, and that he did so. From various cir
cumstaDces, the military court concluded that
the person with the broken leg was John
Wilkes Booth. And, for this wicked act OF
setting broken leg for a man believed to be
John Wilkes Booth, Doctor Mudd was SEN
fenced to penal servitude on the Dry TOrtugas
islands for life. DIR. Mudd was a practicing
physician and surgeon. As such, it was, Of
course, his professional duty to perform the
operation which the man with broken leg
asked him to perform. 1t was not only an
act done in the line of professional duty, but
it was aD act of common humanity. a refl-
sal to perform it would have been both unpro-
iessiOnal and inhuman.


OF course, none but the internal spirit of
Beelzebub would have found this act of pro-
fessiOnal duty and of humanity to be a crime
worthy OF penal servitude for life. And
none but the same spirit can find reason why
this still living victim OF Jacobin vengeance
ought not to be pardoned. That, in the exer-
else of his skill as a physician, he has saved
the lives of many among his fellow prisoners,
and among his keepers, from the ravagcs of
yellow fever, is not the reason on which his
pardon ought to be based. The latter is no
more an act Of humanity, or an act worthy Of
praise than was the act Of setting Booths
leg, for which this mans sentence was pro-
nounccd. That sentence ought to be remitted
simply because it is right and Just that it
should be.
Year: 1867

Il is the common received notion that hard
study is the unhealthy element of college life.
But from tables Of the mortality of Harvard
University, collected by Professor Pierce from,
the last triennial catalogue, it is clearly dc.
monstratcd that the excess of deaths for tho
first ten years after graduation is found in
that portion of each class inferior in scholar
ship. Every one who has been through tho
curriculum knows that where lEschuyius and.
Politica! economy iDjure ono, late hours and
ruin punches use up dozen and that tho
two little fingers of Morpheus arc heavier than
the loins Of Euclide. Dissipation is a suro
and swift destroyer, and every young man
who follows it is as the early flower exposed
to untimely frost. Those who have been in
weighed in the path Of vice arc named
Legion" for they arc many-enouSh to
convince every nOvitiatc that he has no Sc
curity that he shall escape similar fate. A
lew hours of sleep each night, high living
and plenty Of ''smashes" make war upon every
function of the human body The brains,
the limbs, the bones-every part and faculty
are oyertasked, worn and weakened by tho
terrific energy Of passion and appetite lOosed
from restraint until ike diIapidated mansion,
the earthly house Of this tabernacle" falls
into ruinous decay. Fast young men, right
about!
Year: 1867

Dull TIMES IN New YoRK.-There is
much complaint in New York of dull times
among the merchants. The correspondent
of the Philadelphia Le9gcr writes:


'Ninc out of every ten of them will tell
you they are not making money enough to
pay clerk hire or store rent, while the tenth
will declare that he only effect sales by
submitting to enormous sacrifices. The fact
is, buyers and sellers alike seem disposed to
hold off for while to see what course con-
grcssional legislation is going to take on the
financial question, and also to see what is to
come of the impeachment talk. The future
is considered uncertain, and until the fog
clears up, these complaints of dullness are
likely to prevail The wholesale dry good
dealers of Brooklyn have been in consulta-
ton upon proposition to reduce the salaries
of their clerks thirty per cent. on and after
the lst of January, owing to the ruinous de-
cline in goods and consequent heavy losses"
Year: 1867

II is understood that the new fifteen
cent denomination of the fractional currency
is now ready to be issued, but that the delay
is oecasioned by desire to know the opinion
of Congress OF the subject of issuing it. 1t
seems that SO far all the members who have
been conversed with in regard to it are ia
Yorable to the new denomination.
Year: 1867

- The work of " cOnciliating" the In
dians is still vigorously prosecuted. The way
it is done is to kill all tho Indians that can
be found, and give the others to understand
that they will be shot at sight. The Indians
don't Ike it much but it would be prepos-
ferrous to consult their wishes on the subject
Year: 1867

about the storm bird came to my
mind, and ] thought that if the bird
remained on board we should all
perish. 1t seemed to me as if the
animal was the soul of some drowned
sailor, so / fetched it from my cabin,
covered it with my pocket handker-
chief, and took it on deck, where l
Set it at liberty"


Another passage describes his
feelings on completing the ascent Of
Vesuvius:


81 was now on the edge of the
crater, and felt as if l were lost. 1t
seemed to me that / was no longer
on earth, but stood on the frontier
world of another region. ] felt alone
III all this horror Of nature, in this
silent chaos. A mysterious shudder
came over me; if my friends had
not been present a namelesS fear
would have dgyed inc from the spot.


Even less terri
BILE scene fills the visitor with a
secret terror when he is alone. The
rush of a waterfall from rock to rock
then induces belief that the stream
is drawing him towards it, and ii the
thunder roars i'll the sky and the
storm RACES, and the lightning draws
a net frame around him, how his
heart beats how he looks wildly, as
if each thuuderbolt and Lightning
flash were meant for him! Eow,
powerfully, then, must the sight Of
vesuvius impress him, when only a
thin crust separates him from the
hot Iava-a crust which may crack
at any moment. But when several
men come together, each feels no
longer solitary IN presence OfAature,
and hurries thoughtlessly away from
the horrid scene"
Year: 1867

The first four volumes OF these IN


teresting Remains" which, it is
said, are preparing for the press at
the express desire of the Emperor OF
Austria, have been published. They
contain q description, in the form OF
a diary, of the Archduke eighteen
years old, when he made his first
,jour6eyj in Italy, SPAN, rorUus A.,
Greece and Algiers, between the


years 1851 and 1858. In regard to


manly sports he says:


81 like games in which the origi-
nal nature of man il shown i'll its full
truth, better than the enervating
and indecent amusements of our
luxurious modern society. Here it
is bulls that perish; there the spirit
and the soul disappear in feeble SEN
timbntal frivolity. love the old
times l do not deny it; not the
times when men lived in a cloud OF


hair powder, amid wild flowers and
maudlin idyls, but those when the


feeling of chivalry was developed in


tournaments; when brave women


did not pretend to faint and ask for
scent bottle on seeing a drop of
blood when men hunted the Wild
boar and the bear in the free forest
not, as now, behind a barricade.
That strong age brought forth strong
children. What has remained to us
from the manly sports ofoG" fathers
1t is not hunting, for what we call
hunting is to send fatal ball from a
safe distance at a tanned boar. There
remains only war, which philanthropy
lists, Notwithstanding their thirty
years. efforts, have not as yet sue.
ceeded in abolishing, and two other
sports which are still retained by two
peoples who have not yet sunk into
effeminacy. The first is foX-hunting
In England, in which men expose
themselves to risks that are worthy
of them, and shrink from no obstacle
in their efforts to reach the goal; !;
and though people say it is unneces-
sary to endanger ones life for so in
significant an object, / believe that
those who shrink from unnecessary
danger will not find courage where
it is indispensable. The other sport
to which allude is the Spanish bull
fight, which is true national game
of the blden time. 1t Is true that it
excites the savage passions which
are innate in man, but it also eXcites
the desire to use their strength; and
he who takes an enthusiastic interest
in such scenes will not want inclina-
ton for other things, and will at least
not perish in apathy. There is still
steadfast and proud chivalry in the
Spanish character, and notwithstand
ing the sport which has descended to
them from their ancestors, the Span
iards are pious and charitable


In another characteristic passage,
described an incident
which occurred during storm at
night ON the voyage from Naples to
Leghorn:


Scarcely had | fallen asleep,
when the sudden falling of my book
case, with all that it contained, awoke
me. The noise was extraordinary
all was dark. l felt my way across
the barricade of books and assembled
to the quarterback. l had hidden
in nv cabin one of the storm birds
which had been caught the day be
fore yesterday, inteIdings in my
mania for animals, to keep il and 10
take care of it. When | heard the
storm, however, and wave after wave
rushed over the ship. the superstition
Year: 1867

An interesting opinion was delievered
by Chancellor Zabriskie, at the present
term ofthe Court in the case Of ii. Obitz,
administrators of Quidort vs.. g Pergeaux
and wife. The defendants were sued by
bill In equity to appropriate the premises
No. 52 Mechanic street, in this city, which
were held by deed in the name of the
wife, to the payment of her husbands
debts. 1t appears that while Mrs Per-
geaux had advanced part of the purchase
money, much larger portion of it has
been paid by the proceeds of the restur-
ant and liquor business which was carried
on by both husband and wife. 1t was
shown that he did most of the work, az
though protesting to do it on her account.


The Chancellor reviewed the various
decisions, and said, while husband may,
as against his creditors, allow his wife to
have f1r her separate use the earnings Of
herself and of the labor of their mipos
children, he may not give to her, to be-
invested in her own name, the proceeds
of his own business, skill and labor. Else
it would follow that any married man,
who became embarrassed, could transfer





himself in his name, with all his skill and
ability ; and if she only took, or seemd to
take, some part in the transactions off it,
might invest the proceeds of his labor
and management in the name of his wife,
and set his creditors at defiance.


The law intended to protect the pro-
perty and earnings of a married woman,
end not the property or earnings of her
husband, against his creditors and when,
as in this case, they mix up the earnings
of the wife with those of the husband, SO
that they cannot be separated, the hus-
band cannot make clear distinct gift of
his own earnings to his wife, aud they
remain, as atlcommon law, his property.


A decree was ordered that the land be
held in trust for the payment of his credi--
tors, subject to an original mortgage anf
to the sum advanced by the wife out Of
her separate property. Stone and Jack
son for complainant, Borcherling for de-
endants.-Nerarh Daily AdUeiriser.
Year: 1867

Though no doctor, | have by me some
excellent prescriptions, and shall charges
you nothing for them you cannot grum-
Bile at the price. We are most of us SUBJ
juect to fits l am visited with them my
self, and dare say you are all. Now,
then for prescriptions:


For fit of passion, walk iu the open
air, you may speak to the wind without
hurting any one, or proclaimins yourself
to be simpleton.


For fit of idleness, count the tick
ings Of a clock. Do this for one hour,
and you will be glad to pull of your coat
the next time aud work like a horse


For a fit of extravaganza or folly, GO.
to the rkhouse, or speak with the rag
ged aud wretched inmates of a Jail, and
you will be convinced


"Who maketh his bed Of briar and
thorn,


Must be content to lie forlorn."


For fit of ambition, go into a church
yard aud read the grave stones. They
will tell you the end of ambition. The
grave will soon be your ehamber-be bed, the
earth your pillow, corruption your father,
and the worm your mother aud sister.


For fit of repiuing, look aboat for the
blind, and visit the bed ridden aud affiiet-
ed aud derauged, aud they will make you
ashamed of complaining of your lighter
Affections
Year: 1867

When We walk near powerful machin-
cry, we know that one misstep, and those
mighty engines will tear US to ribbons
with their filing wheels, or grind US to
powder in their ponderous jaws. So
when we are laundering across the land
in rail car, and there is nothing but an
inch of iron hange to hold US on the track.
So when we are in ship and there is
nothing but the thickness of plank
between US and eternity. We imagine
then that we see how close we are to the
edge of the precipice. But we do not see
it. Whether on the land, the partition
that divides us from eternity is something
less than the oak plank, or half an inch of
iron flauge. The machinery of life and
death is within u.s. The tissues that hold
the beating powers in their place are Of
ten not thicker than piece of paper, and
if that thin partition ruptures, it would
be the same with US as if cannon ball
struck US. Death is inseperably bound up
with life in the vary structure of our bod
les. Struggle-as he would to widen the
space, no man can, at any time, go far
ther from death than The thickness of
piece of paper.
Year: 1867

The farmers in this region of country
have great difficulty in keeping sweet po-
tatoes through winter. A "Jerseyman,"
who was partly raised in sweet potatoe
"patch," informs us how they keep their
potatoes in Jersey. We ate few days
ago potato of last years production,
brought from Jersey, and it was ''just as
good as new" The Jerseymen have long
since discarded the different modes of
packing in sand, leaves, saw dust, or say
thing else. They simply dig their pota-
toes in dry spell, before frost, lay them
out on the ground to dry in the sun, and
before the dew of evening begins to fall
they haul out to the "patch" the boxes
and barrels they propose to put the pota :
toes in, and lay them carefully, handling
them all the while as carefully as eggs,
SO as not to bruise them) They then
hual them to the houfe and pile up the
boxes and barrels in a corner of the kitch-
en- carefully, so as not to bruise them and
if kept at the right temperature through
the winter they are bound to keep, if you
don't eat them.
Year: 1867

The Revenue Inspectors of this sec
tion are busy looking after canned fruit.
They claim that each can requires stamp
and we hear they contemplate seizing
some now offered for, sale on. the streets.
The revenue law explicitly exempts can
ned fruit from taxrtion.-Easton Free
Press.
Year: 1867

A servant girl was set on fire and burned
to decth from the XrloSion Of a lamp, last
evening at the residence Of Dr. Shrqis,
West Main street. The telIowiny are the
particulars of the meancholn affair: The
| accident happened about half past ght o.
clock. Two servant girls were just about
to leave the dining room. after closing the
evening work. One of them, Minerva Me-
Neal, was left behind to put out the light,
while the other went TO the kitchen with
tableware The lamp hung in bracket at
the side and near the top of the door. 1t
was high up, and it is supposed that the
girl, in trying to extingu,h it, pulled it
down, as the bracket was broken in two
places. | exploited and the burning oil
was thrown over the girl, and on the carpet
and chairs adjacent. The girl gave no
alarm, bur ran toward the front part Of the
house, through two rooms, and through the
hall into the library su the right side, shut
ting all the doors after her as she went


The other qirl in the kitchen. hearing the
noise of the explosion, ran into the dining
room, and seeing the CARPET and chairs on
fire, gave the alarm to Mr.. Sturgis and
daughter, up stairs, who wale the only adult
members of the family about the house -
i ne idttcF ran uoWU, aDu all SuppOSlng
the explosion spontaneous, first directed
their efforts to the putting out Of the fire.
This accomplished, the scent Of the fire at
tracted them to the other rooms through
which the girl had passed Followng on
they found her lying on the library floor,
breathing heavily and burned to a crisp
Every particle OF clothing was gone except
her shoes. Part OF the lounge and one or
two chairs were burning, and one Of the
windows had several panes OF l!ass broken,
the poor girl having attempted to get out
by breaking through the window. The
steel hoops that had dropped from her per-
son had burned their way through the car,
pet to the floor.


Medical aid was summoned Immediately
and every thing done that could be done to
alleviate the sufferings of the victim. She
died in about three hours, conscious to the
last, but unable to give any ineligible ac-
count Of how the accident happened. Her
remains were taken to Cherubusco, Whitley
County, this morning, where her mother,
widow, resides. Fort Wayne (ind) Ga
2ette,
Year: 1867

mcmbers 0f The General Assembly wh left out In


the Constitution OF 1884, is restored The state
ProhlDited from loaning Its credit TO work. VI i'
improvement


The basis of representation Is reekoned us wOt
Constitution.


The provisions in regard TO the elective francls 10
not differ materially rom the article in the present CO
stuton excepting the expurgng OF the test OATH every
white male citizen being entitled TO vote who has the
registration and the registry is TO be conclusive evidence
OF the right 10 vote the present law 20 continue in force


h another shall be enactea except far IL may be
inconsistent with the provisions OF the Constitution.
An oath OF Office s prescribed IN which pledge by tho
holder not to receive the profits of the profits
or any other Office during his term.


Inc entire body of the present 5tae Office holders with
the single exception OF the Governor who will until
the end OF the term for which he elected will be dis
placed on the adoption OF the Constitution and the elee
ton and qualification Of their provided for
therein.
Year: 1867

The Republican records a sad case of suicide of
accomplished young lady Of South Glen's Falls. IL
says that Elva Doy aged about % years. daughter
OF Mr. VIM Doty who lives in South Gens Falls
ceved the attentions Of young man living at Moresu
Station employed in the Office Of hesaratOga and White
hall Railroad Their intimacy has continued apparently
without interruption for nearly six years and until the
world large had regarded them as aianced lovers On
Saturday evening the young lady attended the theatrical
exhibition at Union Hall Scarcely had the performance
commenced when the MOreau Station gentleman was
observed TO enter the hail. accompanied by young lady
Evra seeing her ruant lover soon rose aud ert the a


and refusing the company Of her brother started alone
for home She crossed the bridge and vending her
way down street which leads directly to the river she
plunged into the water and drowned. Early Sunday
morning neighbor discovered jockey hat lying upon
platform used for sorting logs and at o'clock the feess
body of the unfortunate young lady was recovered.
Year: 1867

The July report of the acting Commissioner
of Agriculture gives what information 1t can ON the con
dton OF farm crops article on the price OF WOOL one
on the advantage of change in cottonseed. with some
minor noe treatise on the manufacture of perfume In
Europe some foreign and domestic statistics, aud the
weather tables of the Smithsonian Institute.