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Year: 1867

Coon CoUNsEL.-Sidney Smith cut
the following from newspaper and pre-
served it for himself: When you rise in
the morning form resolution to make the
day happy one to fellow creature. 1t is
easily done a left off garment TO the man
who needs it, kind word to the sorrowful
an encouraging expression 10 the striving
---trifles in themselves light as air-will
do it, at least for twenty-four hours. But
if you are young, depend upon it, it will tell
when you are old and if you are old, rest
assured it will send you gently and happily
down the stream of time into eternity. By
the most simple arithmetical sum, look at
the result. IF you send one person, only
one, happily through the day, that is three
hundred and sixty-fve in the course of the
year. And supposing you live forty years
only after you commence that course of
medicine, you have made fourteen thou
sand six hundred beings happy, at all
events, for time.
Year: 1867

MAKING THE Best OF EVERYTHING
Though every thing is not right and per-
feet in this world, we can not help thinking
that if We took half the pleasure in seek
ing out good things that we do in the search
for evil, we should find ourselves better
men, and discover much hidden treasure
which we tread daily under foot
Year: 1867

There is a habit Of walking which some
Young ladies have fallen into, which, for
want of better word, we must call jig
Cling. To accomplish it they pin their
arms down straight to their side, and go
through series of twists and contortions
which possibly may seem 10 them grace
ful, but which seem to every one else abb
surd afectation, deserving of summary
chastisement.


An easy and natural carriage Of the
body is one OF the greatest charms in a
young lady, and survives the loss of many
other attractions.


II is not the fashion now to minee and
sigh, and talk as affectedly as young ladies
used to do; but our modern bellies not un-
frequently go TO the other extreme, talk
loud, and affect frankness which is rude
ness, entirely disregarding the respect and
consideration due to the feelings, opinions,
habits, and even prejudices Of others.


1t is above all things vulgar and dis
gusting TO hear young ladies continually
talking about gentlemen. There are some
who hardly open their lips except to re-
count their calls, their conquests, the COM
pliments they receive, and the havoc they
have made.


Moreover, when gentlemen do call, try





which will be interesting TO every one
present, instead of whispering stupid moth
ines in corner.


This absolute appropriation of the WIS.,
its Of any gentleman in family is foolish
and embarrassing, and often source of
great modification. Gentlemen frequent
ly wish to visit without any positive inten-
ton of taking a wife, and this exclusive
monopoly frightens them, and induces
them to stay away altogether.


Treat young gentlemen, unless they are
declared and accepted lovers, and even
then it is just as well to be a little chary,
exactly as you would any other visitor.
Be polite, do your best to entertain, but
do not appropriate f; attend TO your occu-
pations or amusements exactly as usual.


Complete your morning toilet before
leaving your room; wash thoroughly,
clean your teeth, arrange your hair neat
ly, so that if visitors come, you will not
have to run away to make yourself " de-
cent"


1t is English usage TO stop sewing,
should you happen TO be engaged in it
when callers arrive, and only resume it at
their request but this is not American
usage Some English ladies of rank call
ing with elaborate ceremony on the wife
of General Washington, found her in a
checked apron, knitting. They were re-
ceived with all the gracious dignity for
which Mrs. Washington was distinguished;
but she continued composedly knitting till
the close of their visit, and neither apollo
g;zed for it nor for her checked apron
Demoresfs Monthly Magasine.
Year: 1867

BENEDICT ARNoLD.-A relic Of the
Traitor. The New Haven Palladium says:
We have seen the identical sign that used
to hang over the store of Benedict Arnold
when he traded in Water Street in this
city, and we present below copy of it a.
near as sign can be copied on paper. It
is about three feet and a halt long and two
and a half broad. The aign is black, and
the letters look at first glance as if put on
with yellow paint but on close inspection
they are discovered to be gilt


The sign was found some time since in
the garrett Of the house in which Arnold
lived Opposite his store). and is now the
property, we learn, Of Mr.. Jabob Hotch-
kiss, who has permitted it to be deposited
in the Museum. We have followed the
style, proportions and pointing Of the let
tiers of the sign very nearly. There was
one popularity, however, that we could not
well initiate, viz: the dots of the i's in the
motto, which on the sign are inverted COM
mas instead of mere dots. It will be seen
that there is no point between the name
and the occupation. Both sides Of the
sign are precisely alike. The motto, Sibi
Totique," is translated thus" For himself
for the WHOLE" or for ALL" The first
sentence is most decidedly appropriate to
the man, who was /" for himself in al
things" @


B. ARNOLD DRUGGIsT,


Book Seller, &c


FROMTOND0N
Year: 1867

MEDIocRrrY.-The absence of intellec-
tual brilliance is not so much felt in q life
where good offices and encouraging SYM
pathetic words and graciousness and gem
iality can diffuse such glow Of tender
light over existence.
Year: 1867

The New Orleans Times report the fol-
lowing Solomonie way Of deciding q
case which was resorted to in that city
a few days ago: In decision of Judge
Fellows, reported recently, the Judge
remarked upon the extreme difficulty
Of proving identity of property where
that property is mule. The rule in
these cases where both plaintiff and de-
fendant swear point blank to the prop
erty, is to take that evidence as truth
which predominates. But Justice of
the Peace Braughn had mule case be-
fore him recently where this rule could
not be followed. So the wise Justice,
on the principle that "every ass know
eth its masters crib" determined to ap-
ply the test in this wise: If the mule in
dispute should, when taken to spot
within 200 yards of the plaintiffs crib,
60 to it of his own free will, the mule
should be adjudged to the plaintiff; if
he shouldn't 60 the mule was to be ad
judged to the defendant, the present
possessor. The mule was brought to
the spot, but failed to bulge an inch.
BY few well administered blows he
was prevailed upon to move, aud did so
at such rapid rate that he was soon
out of sight. He was followed, headed
of, returned back, and seeing the door
Of the plaintiffs yaId open, rushed in
sure enough. Like a sensible mule he
made for his fodder. But the plaintiff
did not triumph; the mode was deemed
compulsory, and the mule was given
over to the possessor. This mode is not
so just as deciding according to the
weight of the evidence.
Year: 1867

W,believe it is conceded on all hands
that clover is best sOwn in the Spring,
and his is the best Spring you ever saw
for putting in red clover, and new is
the tost time to put in. Red clover, as
an alternating crop, is, and is 20 he, the
great tfegenerator of our soil. As for
age cop, it is unriyalled. by any of the
class # legumes, to which it belongs,
being not strictly one of the grasses.
There Is nothing better than red clover
for q simmer hog pasture; no kind of
hay bitter for horses and cows than
cloveI,l properly cured, and no better
green crop to plow under for wheat
land. A good deal more might be said
about red clover, and how nicely it
comesm with sheep raising, and We
advise Gil farmers having land suitable
for this crop, to pitch right in now and
SOW lots of red clover.


There ars q variety Of opinions about
the pr.priety of raising oats as general
farm cSp; but many farmers will con.
tinue ID cultivate oats, and the grain of
oats will very properly continue to be
staple led for horses and sheep, when
ever il eau be had. The best time to
put in oats is rs early in the Spring as
the ground is fit to be worked, and ear
lier than farmers generally think best
to worhlsnd for other Summer crops.
Oats may be sown in the mud, if the
mud is Of the kind that will not turn
to brick by the operation.


Now Is also the time for sewing tho
seed of Kentucky blue grass in open
fields. For q permanent pasture, no
grass is more generally esteemed, and no
Cultivated grass that will stasd by, like
the Kentucky blue grass. In Northern
Ohio this grass never shows the luxuri-
ance which it attains in its best state,
in the latitude Of Southern Ohio and
Kentucky, where it is truly the glory
of the feld and wealth of the farmer
Ohio Fdrmer.
Year: 1867

TNHE undersigned would first notify
IL those who are indebted to him to
come forward and settle within the next
thirty days, at the expiration of which
time the accounts left unsettled will be
placed in the hands of a Collector.


From and after this date the under
signed will strictly adhere to the cash
system, making small profits and quick
sales, and thereby being enabled to sell
his goods at New Orleans cost prices.


His assortment of
Year: 1867

Lafayettee S. Foster yesterday concluded his twelve years of public service as the rep. resentative of Connecticut in the Senate of the United States. He titly closed long and honorable Congressional career by casting his vote in favor of the method of reconstruction adopted by Congress, and in opposition to An drew Johnson. Senator Foster has been a valuable member of Congress. He has al- ways acted in view of his own ideas of right, and ends his long term of service with an ir- reproachable record for integrity and honor. His duties as President of the Senate during the last two years, have been performed with a dignity, a courtesy and an accurate acquain- tance with parliamentary law which places him to-day among the very first presiding of fcers in the country. Called to the public service at a period of the utmost moment in the history of the republic, he has performed his duties well, and the State which selected him for its highest honors twelve years ago, is we'll satisfied with the manner in which he has fulfilled his trust. His speech in the Sen ate upon the District of Columbia Suffrage bill, in which he urged the great necessity of an enlarged system of public education at the South. was one of the best delivered in Con- gress for years.-Neso HdUen Pal2adsana
Year: 1867

BUILDING IN NFW YoRK.-mrade dull,
finances shaky labor high, material ditto, and
vet the march of improvement goes On. New
York grows larger, more solid and more beau
tifu each week. Que cannot help wondering,
after hearing the general grumble about hard
tunes and blue prospects, at the steady pro
gress Of building in the best parts OF the city.
The finest, strongest and most expensive build
iugs yet erected on Broadway are now going
up One peculiarity of the buildings ap-
preaching completion at this time, is their mas
sive solidity. speak Of the houses put up for
business purposes.


Nearly all of this class have white marble
fronts and in many the framed work inside is
exclusive Of iron. The Her ID building and
the new bank building on Third Avenue, oppo-
site the Cooper destitute, are perhaps the
strongest On Broadway between Grand street
and Union Square, several massive marble
buildings are replacing uns'shty OLD houses OF OF
brick or stone Some of the new ediilces Will
cosL not less than q halt million each Up
town, that is, above Thirteenth street, the
building movement is going on in rapid strides.
Churches and private houses are going up every
where.


The most notable of those on Fifth avenue
are the Catholic Cathedral, near Fittieth street,
covering whole square Stewart 81, 100000
mansion, that looks more like an elaborate
prison, and the new Jewish Temple. Fifth
avenue will probably be built up to the Central
Park before the Cathedral is finished Fifteen
years is the time estimated to complete it, and
$4,000, 900 the expense. Stewards mausoleum
will probably be ready for its owner by next
May. Scores of brown stone fronts are being
built on the cross streets above Murray HILL


Some are mere shells, put up by spectators,
to be sold as soon as finished Nearly all are
crowned with the French roof, that slopes back
and gives the building an airy, comfortable
appearance One would think that with such
blue prospects before u.s. would be hard to sell
these buildings at profit, for the expense of
buildings at this time is inordinately great -
But they do sell, just as soon as the carpenters
and pIas,erers evacuate them, and the demand
for more continues undated 1t will be so for
many years to come, tor our rapidly increasing
population must be housed in some way.


All the new houses are Intended tor the rich.
No capitalist gives a thought to the poor. Me-
chanics and laboring men must put up with
the meanest and least comfortable accommoda-
tons in crowded and unhealthy tenements:,-
Bat there is no help for them. A few OF the
more energetic may find homes for themselves
and families in the suburbs, but the great mass
will continue to poison their overworked lives
with the foul air of unventilated apartments.
Letter from, Ne,o York
Year: 1867

In building a chimney, put quantity
Of salt into the mortar with which the
intercourses Of brick are to be laid. The
effect viii be that there will never be any
accumulation Of SCOT in that chimney
The philosophy is thus stated: The sail
in the portion Of mortar which is ex
posed absOrbs the moisture every damI
day. The SCOT thus becoming damp fall:
down the fireplace. Our readers should
remember to preserve this little piece o
valuable information.
Year: 1867

Nothing is more remarkable in the
Bible than to see how God, as If to
teach us TO trust in nothing and none
but himself, selects means that seem
the worst fitted to accomplish his end.


Does he choose an ambassador tc
Pharaoh2 1t is a man of a stammer-
ing tongue. Are the streams of
Jericho to be more sweetened2 Salt
is cast into a spring. Are the eyes
of the blind to be opened? They
are rubbed with clay. Are the bat
Elements of a city to be thrown down
The means employed arc not the
blast Of a mine, but the breath of an
empty trumpet. Is rock to be riY-
en-? The lightning is left to sleep
above, and the earthquake with its
thrOes to sleep below, and the instru-
ment ID one--a rod--much more
Year: 1867

Chsfed and worn with worldly care,
sweetly, Lord, my heart prepare;
BID this inward tempest ceasej
Jesus, come, and whisper peace
Hush the whirlwind of-iny will;
With Thyseif my spirit Gil;
End in calm this busy week
Let the Sabbath gently break
Sever, Lord, these earthly ties
Fain my soulito Thee would rise,
on entangle me from time
Lin me TO purer cline;
Let me cast away my load
Let mo now draw nigh to God
Gently, loving Jesus speak,
End in calm this busy week.
Draw the curtain Of repose,
While my weary eyelids close;
Steal my spirit while rest
Give me dreamiugs pure and blest;
Raise me with a cheerful heart;
Holy Ghost thyself impart;
Then the Sabbath day will be
Heaven brought down to earth and me.
Year: 1867

4 Coon Will We heard the other day Of
man Who once lived within a hundred miles Of
Toledo. who was possessed OF large property
but like all men bc their property large OF small,
he had to die, though dying be did what most
men won't DO he len will bequeAthing half Of
his wealth being childless) TO bis wife fof her
use a. long as she remained single, the other
half 10 be given 10 her when she marries again.
II such acts were more frequent, charming Wild
ows would he more charming, and widowhood
much shorter lived - CiaciERln Eg
Year: 1867

RIDE AsTRIDE.-In Solano county, last
week, Miss Mary Marthwood, aged fifteen,
was killed near Rio Vista, by falling from the
horse on which she was riding. While her
animal was running at full speed she fell,
her skirts hanging to the saddle, dragging
her for the distance Of half mile, and hor.
ribly mangling her body. After announcing
that fact the San Jose Mercury adds:


If she had been dressed in a suitable riding
habit, and had been seated upon her horse in
the only safe manner in which a horse can
be ridden-that is, astride-no such accident
could have occurred. A young lady from
this city was thrown from horse, last week
and barely escaped with her life. Accidents
of this kind are alarmingly frequent. 1t is
well that ladies who practice horseback rid
ing are usually furnished with gentle horses,
or they would meet with far more accidents
than they now do. There is death in the
side saddle, sure, for every woman who fol-
lows the present dangerous fashion of riding
sidewise. 1t is only a question of time they
are all bound to break their necks in the end
If ladies would enjoy the healthful pleasure
of horseback riding, safe from such danger
Gus accidents as that noted above, they
should wear the modest and beautiful Turk
ish riding dress, and ride astride
Year: 1867




This most disagreeable of all subjects is
again forcing itself upon public attention.
Efforts have been made to modify it from
time to time, but they have'been rendered
abortive by cant and false delicacy, and it
has gone on growing and increasing, becom-
ing more open in its allurements and more
injurious in its effects, till it threatens to
faint the blood of the entire race of human
beings On this continent The medical sta
tistlcs-and more especially those obtained
IN the army-are terrible; and it is to be
hoped that some scientific plan will at last
be adopted to reduce the evils that now exist.
10 do this, human nature must be regarded.
Divine law has given men passions unknown
to women generally. The vast majority Of
young men are impure the vast majority of
women-thank Heaven-are pure; but
there are cases Of disease among the female
sex for which they are hardly morally re-
sponsible, and which are really insanity.


There are merely two facts to which we
desire to call the attention of those that have
this matter in charge, as they underlie all
sensible and possible reform. woman of
respectable position who falls, descends to
the depths of degradation; she goes lower
and lower at every step, till, diseased and
destroyed, she perishes in public asylum,
to be buried in Potter's Field. The miser-
able, half-clad, dirty, and ill-clothed child
of drunken parents, who graduates from
street begging and petty thieving into lewd
woman, rises steadily in her course. She
has knowledge and experience enough to
fight her own way, and ii all outward mat
ters-in conversation, appearance and man.
ner-she is improved by her new associates,
deadly as they may be to her already de5ased
nature. These girls become the proprietress
es of the establishments, and are often
wealthy. To them, from the start, 1t is
trade. As long as such children are found
in our streets, such women will exist
and if anything is to be done for them, it
must be done in their first condition.


But to the decent girl-betrayed perhaps
by a false lover, dragged intoa a house against
her will, or drugged and abused, with no
future then but continued course of infamy,
and often no physical means of escape from
1.-THE care Of our law makers should be
directed. Let them protect her preserve
her, if possible, but as that cannot always
be done give her the earliest possible means
of escape. This will be effected by forced
registration of all abandoned women. No
establishment could then keep girl in con-
fnement; every arrival would have to be
accounted for, and tke open registration,
while its disgrace would often deter the will
ing, would offer an immediate escape to the
abused The accounts that sometimes reach
the public ear of the treatment of ignorant
and innocent girls, who arrive pure and fresh
from the country, or from foreign lands, are
horrible. If the proposed law should diminish
this evil, it would have done much to remove
the greatest reproach to Christian codntry,
and would have made one step in the right
rection.-Nelc York Citizen.
Year: 1867

CLEAR HEADED.-A member of the Ala
bama House thus addressed that body upon
the subject of an educational bill:


Mr. Speaker: Look at the king of the air,
the noblest of birds, the eagle of the Alps +;
watch him as he stands erect, with his proud
and noble form on some high point upon the
rock of Gibraltar, with a keen eye peeping
up at the sun. He looks sleepy, drowsy,
droopy, with the dew and mist Of the morn
ing covering all over his frosty form. Thus
he is before the break of day. At length
the great Col Of the morning, as he shines
through this mist, warns him up little. and
he begins to feel like soaring upward some.
what and he does soar, and soar, aud soar |
away up above the smoke and dust and
clouds, kicking back at the laundering
noise and rampant confusion and uproar
going on below him. So will it be with
Alabama, if we adopt this law. She will
rise in intellect above all the surrounding
trash and rubbish which lies piled up thick
about us. But fail to pass it, and you will
have to send out of the State for your intel
lect, and you become = heweTs of wood and
drawers of water to those who will educate
Year: 1867

q ONE OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY


~ you You have tried every remedy but tho
oNE destined, by its intrinsic merit, to supercede
al similar preparations. it is not surprising you
should be reluctant to try something else after tho
many experiments you have made of trashy COM
pounds foisted on the public as certain cure but
Year: 1867

A CURIosIrY.-The Gold Hill News Of the
18th inst. says;


Last evening we saw, in front of store
on the divide, that German by the name
of B. Bendle, who is sort of natural genius,
had taken hatchet and shovel and cut from
a large pile of snow a Polar bear. We
have seen great deal of fine marble sculp-
ture work, but we have never seen a more
natural work of art than this snow bear
This morning some dogs found it, concluded
it was genuine article, and raised terri
BILE yelp. In few minutes all the dogs in
the neighborhood were around, and general
row was raised. The more courageous
ones would venture within ten or twelve feet,
but the timid ones kept several rods away.
Year: 1867

ton the Republican party is defeated, the
political and the civil rights of the negro go
down with it, and probably his very liberty,
Mr. Phillips says he cannot take sides, but
will occupy the position of an armed
neutral. For twenty years before the war
he refused to vote at any election, because
by so doing he said she should recognize
the Constitution of the United States as a
valid instrument and the government
under it as legitimate" He made the
cause of anti-slavery odious and revolving
to the masses by connecting it with treas
enable disunion sentiments. and, as Mr..
Greeley says in his Conflict ''thus brought
obloquy and contempt uponall who espOus
ed the cause of the slaves" and now that
slavery is abolished and the negro is invest
ed with political equality with the whites
throughout the South, he still refuses to
vote, and proposes to stand as an indiffer-
ent spectator in the forthcoming struggle
between the freedman and his late master.
Ind Jour
Year: 1867

One Of the LATEST men in this coun-
try resides in Iowa. As a sample of his
inertia, we would mention that the only
reason be doesn't get married is because
he is too lazy to "stand up" Whenev-
er he feels like gaping, he employs a
little boy to pull bis mouth open.
Year: 1867

4 GENTLEMAN who had built small
house in sequestered part of his grounds
for his private study, showed it to a
friend, remarking, "Here l sit reading
from morning till night, and nobody a
bit the wiser
Year: 1867

AMONG the Kaffirs a woman is not
allowed to live in the hut with her son
in-law, nor even to speak to him. Who
says that the negro in Africa is not ca
pable of the highest degree Of ciyiliza-
ton?
Year: 1867

L. G. BAKER, formerly Government de-
tective in the employ of the Secretary of War;
who impudently placed detectives" in the
White House to report the doings of that
department of the Government, for which he
was reprimanded, and finally mustered out
Of the public service, is in town, in answer
to a summons to appear before the "im-
parchment committee" Was ever such
farce known before in the history of the
world?