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Year: 1866

Since. then, the kingdom of God cometh not with observation, we need not look for fearful sights and great signs in the heavens. They are but false prophets who cry "Lo, here Y or s'Lo, therew when the still, small voice is whispering all the while, '"The king dom of God is within you" Yes. within this framework of society, ill the midst of this busy, trivial, daily life, which sef1ns so full of small cares and selfish seeking, the Divine Spirit lives and works, and will yet raise it to the heights of heavenly fellowship. It breathes in the thousand methods devil sed by ingenuity to tighten the burdens of labor, by benevolence to soothe away the bitterness of sorrow, by taste to beautify the homes of poverty. The little photograph leaves that tlutter down into every household in the land are great cloud of witnesses showing us that science is but the handmaid of God, whose service is to bear to all the blessings once reserved for class. In the old time it was only the few who could fix for future years the beloved features of friend. Now every fond mother may transcribe from birthday to birthday the face of her darling, to note it's beautiful changes, and every lowliest bride preserve for her chil- dren's children the bloom of her build ing youth. The religious world has hardly learned to look for it's millennium in the horse-cars. Nevertheless, its signs are there, not to be mistaken. The poor sewing woman feels their presence, if she does not trace them to their source. The humble invalid knows them, the domestic drudge, the ailing, puny child, the swart and stall

 wart workman, who ride their one or ten miles as swiftly and smoothly as a millionaire, and are set down at shop or home, or among the freshness and fragrance and song of the beautiful country. The horse-car is the poor mans private carriage, as carefully fashioned for his convenience, as tidy and comfortable and comedy, as if it cost him hundreds of dollars, instead of the daily sixpence. With a lifted finger he commands his coachman, who waits promptly on his wish. Without care, he is cared for. Without capital, he controls capital, Free society does more for him than the highest despot does for the enslayed people whom the instinct of self-preseryation forces him to cajole and does it too, without any infringement upon his manhood. We call it energy, enterprise, modern con- venicnces. 1t is the millenium.-TG Gail Hamilton.
Year: 1866

BE KIND TO YOUR SIsTERs.-Boys, bel kind to your sisters You may live to3 be old, and never find such tender, lov-l ing friends as these sisters. Think howl many things they do for you; how, they love you in spite of all your ill-l temper or rudeness; how thoughtful they are for your comfort, and be you thoughtful of theirs. Be ever ready to oblige them, to perform any little office for them that lies in your power. Think what you can do for them, and if they express a wish, be ready to gratify it itifpossible. You do not know. how much happiness you will find in so doing. l never yet knew happy and respected man who was not in youth kind to his sisters. There is al beautiful song which says: Be kind to your sisters--not many may know,

 The depth of true sisterly love;

 The wealth of tue ocean lies fathoms below The surface that sparkles above.
Year: 1866

Apprehensions are expressed that next year the grasshopper plague will extend itself to the east of the Missouri river, and cover wide area of country. The grasshopper column that started up on the far western plains month since, has swept through strip of country about 60 miles wide--the Kansas-Nebraska dividing line being about the centre of their march--and have come to the Missouri river too late to cross. But they have laid their eggs, and left their mission to those that shall come after. The ground is thickly strewn with dead grasshoppers, and is perforated with holes wherin their faithful females have deposited their larva. The Atchison Free Press says: "Dig in at random with knife blade. lift up little of the surface of the soil. and very likely you will at the first attempt unearth little white col umn like the pith of @ rush, and open ing this, you find number of eggs like ants eggs, closely packed together. We dug up some of their deposits and counted in one of them 2S of the larv9, and in several others upwards of 20. The cavityis lined with an impcrvious coating of whitish gum, which inclosed the eggs or larv@, and the aperture above the eggs is filled also nearly to the surface with this white substance, which probably serves the double pur- pose of protection to the larv@ and food for the young. Next summer these will come out as minute grass hoppers, and in the fall, if some acci- dent don't destroy them, they will be such pests as have just now been among us,"
Year: 1866

VALUE OF ACCURACY.--It is the re- suit of every days experience that steady attention to matters of detail lies at the root of human progress, and that diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck. Accuracy is also of much importance, and an invariable mark of good training in a man-accu- racy in observation, accuracy in speech, accuracy in the transaction of affairs. What is done in business must be done i; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work than to do half or ten times as much. A wise man used to say, "stay little that we' may make an end the sooner" Too lit- tie attention, however, is paid to this highly important quality of accuracy. As man eminent in practical science lately observed, it is astonishing how few people have met in the course of my experience who can define a fact accurately" Yet, in business affairs, it is the manner even in which small matters are transacted that often decides men for or against you. With virtue, capacity and good conduct in other re- spects, the person who is habitually inaccurate i'll other respects cannot be trusted, his work has to be gone over again; and he thus causes endless an noyancc, ycxation and trouble.
Year: 1866

BFWe are journeying through this life in most hurried manner, jostled daily by numerous snares that tend to make our pathway difficult and rough.

 Bas~Truth is the only real lasting foundation for friendship; and in everything but truth there is princi- pie of decay and dissimulation.
Year: 1866

STREET LAMPs.-We are informed by one
Of our aldermen that the city council will OF
der street lamps at the corner of Illinois and
Adsms streets and at any other point about
town, wherever they may be needed. when
ever the gas company will do its part of the
work, viz: lay down the main pipes. We
think the contract Of the city with the gas
company should require the gas company to
lay down pipes wherever public necessity
cals for lamps
Year: 1866

The Republican press of the State are
giving no uncertain sound upon the subject Of
abuses of trust and official power on the
part of Republican ofice-holders. There is
no disposition to throw the shield Of party
around delinqusnis. The Republican orgsn-
ization, with its history and present status,
cannot afford to 50 sully its political purity,
From its commencement, the party tough
against, not only Democratic subserviency te
slavery, but also Democratic corruption and
dishonesty. On both these grounds was It
that it became FIRST in popular favor,and pre-
dominant in the national administration. l
it would preserve that ascendeacy Il mns
require the strictest fidelity and upeightacs'
in its officials, sAs


In the minority Of party, With stzoa,
bond Of unity and strength in its very weak
ness its dangers from outside foes. Whel
that party has become the rulias one, sas
Year: 1866

says;


Although you appear TO be stubhornly OPP
posed to that Ito yo0) obnoxious article Of
female apparel called tilters,' yet / doubt not
that you will be impartial enough to hear the
other side Of the question, and let the ladies
say word in self defence. In the first
place, if they choose to do so they are at per-
feet liberty to wear any article OF apparel in
trodnced as fashion BY the best circles Of
society, and worn. as these innocent tilsersi
are. by all the fashionable ladies' Of our large
cities. And innocent they are, too, sAy what
the spitetai newspaper men may about their
'immodesty' and lack OF refinement
have no doubt that these gallant men have
just as much admiration for q dainty pair q,
feet and ankles as any other man, aud would
exert themselves to obtain view whenever a
young lady sees fit TO offer an opportunity


. If there is anything bad in a pair of hoops
that expose to view. uy-dressed feminine
pedal extremities, the ladies as vet fail to see
it. When editors talk about indecent expo.
sure of persons etc. they display Their
lamentable ignorance Of female apparel. and
utterly ignore the fact that tho pantaiettes art
worn with the fitting hoops as well as withou,
them


. In short, claiming that a lady has as goot
right to show her graceful iset. as man hi.
great, unSainly, uncduth appendages, we can
not see why our much abused sex, since they
must wear hoops, should not be allowed te
wear in peace that particular kind which j:
the most graceful, convenient, and in every
way the most serviceable.
Year: 1866

An affections Of the Womb treated with sue
cess Those married ladies who have been 20 an
fortunate as 70 miscarry, or prove ah0rttFo, can
be carried to their full time. If found pregnant,
By giving me a call.
Year: 1866

In one-fourth Of the time that Il takes with the
old mode of treatment. In this treatment no
medicine is taken internally. You receive the
baths seated on your chair. with no inconvenienee


Those diseases are treated at any distance.
Year: 1866




iNessrs. Edttors-I beg leave to submit to you
an extract from letter lately received by me,
from well.known and highly respected lady of
Richmond, the sister of one of our well-known
poet and authors, one of the true ministering an
gels, who during the trying times of the past ez-
hibited selfsaorifcing devotion for the
welfare of our gallant men on all occasions.
Though widow, with family to look after, and
suffering losses and priVations in common with
many, her heart and house were ever open to the
distressed soldiers of the South, from whatever
State they came and she was besides constant
and untring visitor and minisrant in the hospitals,
which, in Richmond, considering all things, was
no light task. l can Vouch personally for her
jealous and unselfsh desire on the subject of the
extract below given, and that any thing contribu-
ted for the purpose, will be faithfully judiciously
and conscientiously applied to the purpose;


The ladies of Richmond have formed them
selves into an association for improving and beauti-
flying the graves of our Confederate dead but the
work is great, for there are IL 600 inferred at
Hollywood, besides large number at Oakwood.
Money is needed, and this is scarce article here.
Can't you raise some among your old companions
in arms? You know it is not alone fer Virginia's
dead, for all the States are represented and many
noble Louisiana soldier found his last resting
place on our soil.


9 Do try and send me some, as soon as possible,
for we are anxious to begin operations. Perhaps
Captain R. would interest himself if You would
communicate with him; would do so myself, but
do not know his address. The intention of the
ladies is to enclose me graves turf them and place
head boards to all of them, and after this is done
kept in order"


This is a matter that commends itself to our best
feelings and sympathies, especially to Louisanians
know that our community has already been heaVi
ly taxed for various purposes growing out of the
late war, but this is matter that touches US near
ly. The smallest contributions from many will
make respectable aggregate.


Respectfully, AK
Year: 1866

Some time ago you published an article from
physician'who stated that hard water caused
cholera, and who cited asa an example that out of
fifty or seyenty-fye negroes on a certain place,
only one survived the ravages of the disease and
attributed it to his having drank only rain water,
whereas the others drank well water


To day there is a long communication in your
paper headed Cholera and Mississippi water" In
it are these lines THE jail was filed with Grim.
mails who drank well water only, and not case OF
cholera occurred among them, although they were
equally exposed to epidemic influence as those
%ho fell victims to it ~


Now, when doctors disagree, what will patients
do : What, with not knowing what to drink, nor
what to eat, on account of tricnosis in birds, pork
mutton and fish, what will we do? I'm resolved
to go it blind. Yours truly,


WANT TO KNOW.
Year: 1866

NATIONAL EXPRESS COMPANY. As was an
nounced by us last week, the agent of this GEM
pany ia New Orleans is now ready for business,
and will forward letters or packages TO any point
in the Union. One important and novel feature in
the express business, introduced by the managers
of the National Express Company is that they
have an open policy in one of the strongest insu-
rance companies of New York, which covers all
freight and vaiuables shipped by it, and no extra
charge is made to the shipper therefor. We hope
that such enterprise will meet with remuneratiye
announcement
Year: 1866

ports. Hence, probably a slight decline in


the number Of cargoes inward as well as


outward.


If an overwhelming military necessity


had not required the colored population


down here 20 assist the twenty-four millions


Of the loyal North and the rest Of mankind


70 subdue Eve millions Of ignorant and bar


barous coloriess Southern rebels, perhaps
you might have found a greater demand for
your Patent Universal Cotton Gins and
Condensers." Perhaps you might have done
pretty well il this military necessity had
not increased in force as the rebels grew
weaker and came into full play only when
they had all laid down their arms and given
up the contest for the right Of selfgovern-
ment. The military necessity, operating
with increased force after all military oppO-
sitiOn was at an end, required the immedi-
ate and universal abolition af African slave
ry. Hence the revolution in Southern
agriculture revolution which you will
feel in the limited demand for 'Patent Uni
versal Cotton Gins and Condensers;" and
thousands Of Others, in every department OF
business and in every part Of the empire,
will feel in like manner.


And be assured, the more you abuse, per-
secute, tax and impoverish us, the more
universally and keenly are you destined to
feel the righteous recoil. There is a divine
instinct in the soul of man which compels
him to feel undying hatred Of all injustice
and oppression. You may disarm, manacle
and shackle his body; you may hedge him
around on all sides with all the internal
apparatus Of despotism, bat you can not
this instinct. Nay, the very ef-
forts you make to that end do but arouse it
into more vigorous action. You cannot
reach the invincible soul Allegiance to
is a moral impossibility. All
good men feel this. Extorted oaths are the
idle expedients Of towards and tyrants. A
just and magHanimous government alone
can win its way to a true allegiance in the
hearts Of people, and enthrone itself Sc
curely and permanently in their affections.


Your obedient servant, S. f.
Year: 1866

NEW YORK, Jan. 3l.-The World s
Washington special says that if the bill
giving Gen. Grant the rank OF full Gen.
eral becomes a law, it is TO be followed
by another bill, comforting the rank of
Lieutenant General upon Sherman and
Sheridan. Admiral Faragut will be
likely to be made full admiral, the
Vice Admiralty in the Navy being equal
to that of Lieutenant General in the
Army


General Thomas gives very cheer
ful account of affairs in Tennessee,
quite the opposite of the tone of Govern
or Brownlow's letter to Speaker Colfax.
He will probably be called upon to give
evidence before the Committee on Re-
Year: 1866

The late historian, Macaulay, sums up the
history, progress and present condition of
the Catholic Church, in the following terse
and expressive language -


There is not, and there never was, on
this earth, n work of human policy so well
deserving of examination as the Roman
Catholic Church. The history of that
Church joins together the two great ages of
human civilization. No other institution
is left standing which carries the mind back
to the times when the smoke sacrifices rose
from the Pantheon, and when leopards and
tigers came bounding in the Flavin am
phitheatres. The proudest royal houses are
but of yesterday, when compared with the
line of supreme pontiffs. That line we
trace back in All unbroken series from the
pope who crowned Napoleon in the lnth
century, to the pope who crowned Pepin
in the eight; and far beyond the time OF
Pepin, the august dynasty extends till II Is
lost in the twilight of fable. The Republic
of Venice came next in antiquity. But the
republic ofVenice was modern when com
pared with papaey; and the republic OF
Venice Is gone, and the papacy remains


The papaey remains, not In decay, not In
mere antique, but full of life and youthful


yiCor. The Catholic Church Is still send


ing forth to the furthest end of the
world missionaries as jealous as those who
landed In KeAt, and Augustine, and con-
fronted Attilla. The number of her chill


dren Is greater than at any other age. Hell


acquisitions in the new world have more
than compensated for what she lost
in the old. Her spiritual ascendency
extends over the vast countries which .
century hence, may not i'm mprobably contain
a population as large as that which now in
habits Europe. The members of her com
muniou are no fewer than one hundred anC
fifty millions and it will be difilcultto show


that all other christian sects united, amoun
to one hundred aud twenty millions. No
, do we see any signs which Indicate that tn


end of her long dominion is approaching.
Year: 1866

1t is proper to add that this burn
ing and piIlaging was begun be-
tween two and three O'Clock in tho
night, when our people were nearly
ali wrapt in slumber, | did not
myself know OF it until the build
inrs were burned entirely down.


X \; X
Year: 1866

The Chicago Times publishes the evidence
in the celebrated divorce suit of Baron Won
Claim. We make the following extract:


Catharine kaufman swore that she knew
Mr. and Mrs Claim. She saw at one time
in 1865 that some difficulty bad taken place
between Mr. and Mrs. Von Claim; Mrs
Won Claim was scratched, and said that Mr.
Won Claim had hurt her At another time
Mrs Won Claim had laid diaper on the
table. and Mr.. Won Claim threw it upon
the floor She demonstrated, and told him
10 let the diaper alone; he would not do it,
but got fork and threatened to stab her
She then told him to lay the fork down and
desired him to leave the room but he held
up piece of bread and said that he could
get rid of her as easy as he could throw that
bread away. Again. when Mrs. Won Claim
was nursing the child, he came in and seized
her bv the neck and bent it back so that it
cracked He told her that he had desired for
three months to get rid of her, and he said to
her, 90. you id petzo," which is, being
interpreted. "go. you id b-h.n In De
cember. 1865. | was ironing, and Mr. and
Mrs. Won Claim went out of the kitchen
into their room. heard a noise, and soon
AFTER Mrs Won Claim called me. | went
in and saw Mrs Won claim lying on the





Her face and arms were scratched and much
of her hair was pulled out. Next day her
face was purple in spots and Mrs Won Claim
said her husband had struck her. On the
18th day of January 1866, Mrs. Won Claim
wanted her to 60 and get some potatoes but
Mr.. Won Claim told her not to do it. Mrs
Ven Claim then told her a second time that
she must get some potatoes, as it was near
IL O'Clock and she went and got some
When she came in with them Mr.. Won Claim
struck his wife, and continued to strike her
for about ten minutes; Mrs. Won Claim was
aroning. Mr. Won Claim then went into
an er room and Mrs. Won Claim threw
the fiatiron after him, SAYING this is q
miserable d-d way Of living" Mr.. Vor
Claim broke one of the doors, because she
had locked herself into the room, after heI
husband had abused her; he broke open the
door bv kicking with his boots. Mrs. Vor
Claim could not get enough to eat. Mr.
Won Claim would not furnish money. The
meals usually consisted of potatoes and meat
and sometimes of potatoes alone.


One day Mr.. Yon Claim came ont ot m;
bathing tub and approached her ard Mrs
Won Claim in naked condition. Mrs. Won
Claim chided him for it; but he said it was
"all hnman" Again Mr.. Won Claim threw
some soap into the bed occupied by Mrs. Vor
Claim and the baby Mr., Von Claim used
to tell stories of low and Vulgar character
of his criminal relation with niger girls al
the South at which Mrs. Won Claim COM
menced to weep and left the room. In the
morning Mr.. Won Claim was in the habit oI
coming into the kitchen with his drawer.
half on and sometimes naked,
Year: 1866

THE LECTURE Of Rev. DR.. Stone, of Boston
was very satisfactory, elieting at its close the ap-
plause of the audience. The number in atten-
dance was less than it would have been on longer
notice, but not so large as It ought to have been,
and must be, If these entertainments are to be
continued Our people need more "public spirit
in this very thing-a will to spend their money
for profitable amusements and instruction quite as
Literally at least for entertainments of degree
vastly lower in true value.