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Year: 1867

Two centuries ago it was thought an
insult in the Highland of Scotland to
ask a note from a debtor. It was con-
sidered the same as saying, 81 doubt
your honor" If parties had small
businessmatterst to transact they stepped
out into the open air, fixed their eyes
on the heavens, and each repeated his
obligation with no mortal witness. A
mark was then carved in some rock or
tree near by to be a remembrance OF
the compact. Such a thing as breach
of contract, we are told, was then very
rarely met with, so highly did the peo-
pie regard their honor, and so truly
did they fear Him beneath whose eye
they performed such acts.


When the march of improvement
brougbt in.the new mode of doing busi-
ness, they often were panied by these
innovations. An anecdote Is handed
down of q farmer who had been to the
Lowlands and learned worldly wisdom.
On returning to his native parish he
had need ofs sum of money, and made
bold to ask a gentleman of means,
named Stewart. This was cheerfuly
granted, Mr.. S. counting out the gold
on his. library table. This done the
farmer took pen and wrote a receipt
and offered it to the gentleman.


WHAT is this, manl" cried Mr.. Stew
art, sternly cycling the slip of paper.


alt is a receipt, sir, binding me to
giveye back yer gold at the right time"
replied Sandy.


binding YET Well, my man. if ye
Gamma trust yerseP Pm Pll ma trust
yel Ye Gamma hs' my gold y and
gathering it up, he put it back in his
desk and turned his key on 1t.


"But, sir, might die" replied the
canny Scotchman, bringing up an argu-
ment in favor of his new wisdom,
land my sons might refuse it to ye.-
But this bit O. paper would compel
them"


Compel them to sustain dead faith
er's honor p cried the high-minded
Scot. They'll need compelling to do
right if this is the road yer leading
them: I'll neither trust ye nor them.
Ye can gang elsewhere for money :
But ye'n find nanein this parish that'n
put more faith in bit o. paper than in
a neighbor's word O. honor and his fear
o. God W
Year: 1867

Southey, in his History of the Pen
insular War;" relates the following:


Two of the Spanish regiments which
had been quartered in Funen were
cavalry, mounted on fine black Anda-
lusisn horses. 1t was impossible to
bring off these horses-about eleven
hundred in nunber-and Romano was
not a man who could order them to be
destroyed he was fond of horses him
self, and knew that every man was at
tached to his beast which had carried
him so far and so faithfully. Their
brides were therefore taken off, and
they were turned loose on the beach
A scene ensued such as was never be-
fore witnessed. They became sensible
that they were no longer under the re-
straint of any human power. A gener-
al conflict ensued, in which, retaining
the discipline they had learned,
they charged each other in squadrons
of ten and twelve together, ther close
ly engaged, striking with their forefeet,
and biting and tearing each other with
the most ferocious rage, and tramping
over those who were beaten down,
till the whole shore in the course of an
hour, was strewn with the dead and
disabled. Part of them had been set
free on rising ground at distance. =
They no sooner heard the roar of bat
tie, than they came laundering down
over the hedges, and catching the con-
tagious madness, plunged into the
fight with equal fury. Sublime as the
scene was, it was horrible to be con-
templated, and Romano, IN mercy,
gave orders to destroy them. But it
was found too dangerous to be at
tempted, and after the last boat had
quilted the beach, the few horses that
remained were still engaged in the
dreadful work of mutual destruction. ="
Year: 1867

Who are the men that are needed in


this world2 Young men that shall
bear burdens. We have enough null
en-stalks; we want oak-trees We
have enough men that are wiling to
do anything for the sake of getting
along; but what are they worth? They
are bridges for men to walk over
They are tools. Men use them, like
sand-paper, to scour with, and then
throw them down and trsmple them
under foot. A young man that does
not know how to say "No;" a young
man that has not power TO resist the
cup when it is-presented to him-what
is he but poor, miserable wssh-cloth,
but a rag, dishonored, and put to the
vilest usesl Who cares for him, or
mourns over him, but some Christian
mother or Christian minister? But
young man that knows how tossy "No;"
that knows how to resist evil; that
knows how to give buffet for tempta-
tion-is not he hardening himself? Is
not he making his bones tough-par-
ticularly his bsck-bones? He is be-
coming columnar.-And It is such as
ne that are sought after in business
A man says: "Here is a difficult de-
partment in my establishment, aud l
would pay almost any price if 1 could
find man that 1 could trust" Says
the man whom he addresses, " know
an impracticable sort of fellow that l
think might suit you. He will stick
TO what he thinks right at all hazards.
You cannot turn him from il by any
power on earth" Says theother man,
Il want q lignumvits man; send him
to me-" Let it once be known that a
man cannot be cajoled; that he will
not lie, even for himself; that he will
not steal, and has prejudice against
stealing; let it be known that he has
been tried, and that there is inward
principle in him and let US put him
up at auction, and will get one mill
ion bid on him Men are the things
that are the most needed in New York.
Why, there is no timber in the market
that is gathered up SO greedily as they
sre.-There is nothing so much needed
in bank businers, in all departments of
it, as moral principle. And vet mer-
chants will teach young men to lie;
and, for the sake of momentsry profit
to cajole customers. And when, by
snd-by, these young men grow up,
they become, on their own account,
filchers, and stealers, and liars. You
think that the young men of this gen.
Grafton are corrupt and worthless
They are, but the blame rests on your
shoulders. You were their school mas
ters. You taught them to lie and
cheat in your interest and now they
do it in their own. Now your own
chickens come home to roost. Mer-
chants North and South have been raj
sing by the wholesale damnable
yo6ng men without principle. And a
young man, if he would save himself
from destruction, must cling to that
anchor of the soul, both sure and
steadfast, which entereth into that
within the vail" Nothing else can
insure him safety.
Year: 1867

81 make it a point of morality" says
writer, never to find fault with an
other for his manners. They may be
awkward or graceful, blunt or polite,
polished or rustic. care not what they
are, If the man means well, and acts
from honest intentions without eccen-
tricity or affection. All men have not
the advantage of good society," as it is
called, to school themselves in all its
fantastic rules and ceremonies, and if
there is any standard Of manners, it is
well founded on reason and good sense,
and not upon these artificial regula-
tions. Manners, like conversation, is
extemporaneouS, and not studied. l
suspect a man who meets me with a
perpetual smile on his face, the same
bending of the body. and the same
premeditsted shake of the hand
Give me the hearty-it may be the
rough-grip of the hand, the careless
nod of recognition, and, when occasion
requires, the homely but welcome salu-
ton, How are you, my friend"
Year: 1867

WHAT HAPPENED TO AN INPERTINENT
PUPPY.-About ten o'clock this morn
ing a wellknown grocer, whose name
we have been unable to obtain, was seen


emerging from an alley on South street
with a pair of number nine boots in
close proximity to his coat-tail. He
was evidently in a hurry. 1t seems
that he had become enamored of the
personal appearance of a respectable
married lady, residing on that street.
and had intimated to the servant girl
that $50 would be no object to obtain
an interview. In fact, he was ready to
squander that amount of currency for
the felicity of a single hour in her
sweet presence. The proposition was
made in this form by the servant girl
to her mistress, who, like true wife,
told her husband of the insult and ask
ed his advice. The first impulse of the
enraged husband was TO wiring his neck,
but upon reflection, he determined to
set trap for the gentleman and warm
his jacket. BY his advice the wife as
sented to an interview at the house,
and ten o'clock this morning was named
as the blissful hour. Prompt to the
minnie the festive dealer in dandelion
coffee, brooms and sich, made his ap-
pearance disguised in clean shirt, a
broadcloth' coat, and other stunning
paraphernslia. He was evidently got
ten up for the occasion. he knocked
timidly at the front door, and was ush-
cred into the parlor by the servant girl
He was not kept long in suspense
The back door opened, and in came the
lady with her husband. Mr.. Grocer
turned very red In the face and grew
very pale. The husband made no
apology for an appearance in his shirt
sleeves, but proceeded to business,
drew heavy raw-hide from his vest
pattern, and began to lay it on in fear
full earnest. The blows fell thick and
fast. Mr., Dandelion begged piteously,
but. the irate husband only sand-paper-
ed him the more fercely, and he was
glad to escape by the back door with
his life. He went out the back gate
snd out the alley as though he had been
shet out of a cannon.-LGfayettc Ind
Courier, Sept. %.
Year: 1867

Do SNAKES CHARM BIRDs2-A week
or two since two gentlemen, visiting
the farm of Mr.. Charles Collins, shout
two miles north of Northumberland,
were attracted to certain shrub by
the distressed cry of a catbird lowering
near it. Approaching. they discovered
a large black snake with his body
twined around the shrub, while his
extended head was following every
motion made by the bird, which con-
tinually idrew nearer and nearer to the
snake. Neither bird nor snake ap-
peared to notice the presence of the
gentlemen, though they approached
very near, while the head of the snake
glowed with an unnatural brillisncy
The excited scene was terminated
when the bird was only some six inches
from the snakes mouth. by lodging
the contents of a shot gun in the head
of his snakeship, when his intended
victim, relieved from his influence,
Immediately flew away.
Year: 1867

that; and to do it, and bear the respon-
sibility, he must receive wages accord
ingly. Is it then, so very unjust that
woman, who has no such responsibility,
should not receive so high wages? You
blame employers, and demand that
they give females more-a vain demand
so long as there are thousands ready to
underbid them and do the work cheap
er. The demand will pay in proportion
to the supply, and no human power
can alter this. Woman can't endure
such heavy toll, she can't toll as many
hours, year after year she expects not
to continue the employment but short
time, and the result is. she has 10 take
for her labor the market price for that
commodity.-John Todd, d. D., in the
Congregational and Recorder.
Year: 1867

The last number of the Court Journal
says: The ancient spectacle of Titans
forging thunder-bolts for JoVe has re-
ceiyed in modern history realization


as complete in its way as that which


Puck's girdle round the earth obtains


in its electric telegraph. The marvels
of science and of art bid fair to throw


into the shade all the miracles of Sn-
cient story, and all the dreams of the
picture Of Kolus curbing the winds
in his icy cave is not more wonderful
than that which the Times drew this
week in plain, unvarnished account
of iron-plate rolling at the Atlas Works
in Sheffield. The narrator showed Us
two hundred men half clad in steel ar
NOR, and enVeloped in wet sack sloth,
moving from furnace to the mill a
white hot mass of iron, twenty tons in
weight, and as many feet in length
No man dared approach the fiery block
nearer than touch it with implements Is
of gigantic proportions. Even the bes-
oms with which they. swept its surface
were fitted to handles 20 feet long, and
the buckets Of water discharged upon
it exploded in volumes of steam. As
it passed through the rollers, vast jets
of liquid fire flew from its sides, with a
sound like the rattle of mnsketry in
battle. Yet it was rolled, and guaged,
and manipulated, till in quarter of
an hour it was turned out smooth
polished plate of the uniform thick


ness of fifteen inches. This is the
greatest triumph yet achieved by the
iron rollers. Four Yeas ago it was es-
teemed impossible to roll a six-inch
plate, and it required ocular demon
strations to convince the crowd of Ad-
miralitY lords, secretaries of state, and
scientific authorities, who went down
to these same works to see the thing
done. But the demand for monster
plates for iron-coated forts has produced
this far more astounding achievement,
and this fifteen.inch srmor is IS much
superior in quality as in size TO the
plates which drove hammered armor
out of favor.
Year: 1867

ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL.-At a festival
party of old and young, the question
was asked, which season of life is the
most happy? After being freely dis
eussed by the guests, 1t was referred
for answer to the host, upon whom
was the burden of four score years
He asked if they had noticed a grove
of trees before the dwelling, and said /:
When the spring comes and In the
soft air the buds are breaking on the
trees and they are covered with bios
SONS, think. how beautiful is spring !!
And when the summer comes, and
covers the trees with its foliage, and
singing birds are all llamongRhe branch
es, think, how beautiful is summer
When autumn loads them with golden
fruit, and theirleaves bear the gorgeous
tint Of frost, 1 think how beautiful is
autumn And when it is sere winter,
and there is neither foliage nor fruit,
then look up, and through the leaf
less branches as l could never until
now, see the stars shine through.
Year: 1867

There Is q great complaint made be-
cause justice is not done in compensa-
ting labor. 1t is hard problem to solve
to do this. l know q most excellent
pastor, with a noble head and heart,
second to few in this commonwealth,
who receives only four hundred dollars
salary; less than he would have to pay


q raw Irish laborer who boarded him
self. i know of many receiving FIVE or
six hundred dollars. We can't have
justice in these matters. But bear in
mind that God has put the labor and
the duty on men TO support the fsmi-
lies, wives and children. The man is
recreant and guilty if he does not do
Year: 1867

There ara some inequalities in our new
postal law which are TO go before Congress
for remedy next session Our law re-
fuses to take book packages exceeding
five pounds. At that rate to send Web
sters dictionary from New YORK to Lon
don would cost Sc, at letter postage by
the English law, which discriminates a
book OF the same weight could he sent
from London to New York for S2,40.
Year: 1867

''9 We invite attention to the communication
over the signature Of S. F., in the Standard
to-day. Our correspondent has handled the
subjects discussed withlnuch ability, and we
agree with him in the main. We think that
all property qualifications for rofice should be
abolished that, as, q general rule, the people
themselves should elect all the officers, and
that as few elections as practicable should be
given to the Legislature; and We believe also
that the ad oalorem system of taxation should
be established, and that there should be no
poll-tax except for educational purposes.


The time is at hand for considering these
constitutional questions, and we should De
pleased to hear from other correspondents as
well as s. F. The latter Is assured that his
zeal in the Republican cause is appreciated,
and that VIC shall always be glad to hear
from him.


...s.f
Year: 1867

Il went to the Legislature last
year, said Q Georgian. "W ell sent
r. Augusta and took dinner at hotel.
Right beside me at the table sat
member from one Of the back towns.
who had perhaps never taken dinner
at hotel before in bis life Before
a1s plate was dish Of peppers, and he
kept looking at them Finally. As
walters were slow about bringing up
the things. BE took up his fork aud
soused one into his mouth As he
brought down his grinders upon 1t. tie
tears came into his eyes. At last.
splitting the pepper into his hand, he
laid It down br the side Of his plate.
and with voice that set the whole
table iH roar exclaimed just lie
there and cool ,'
Year: 1867

Chief Justice Chase wishes 20 have
il publicly known that Ire is in favor
Of female suffrage being established
dr law. lie told Miss Lucy Stone To


be free 70 say for me taatI think
there VIII be no end ID the good that
VIII come IL IL and he further ex-
pressed the opinion thatat no distant
day women wil possess tLe franchise
is freely as men
Year: 1867

Carrying polIteness tC excess Is
said 10 be raising your hat - bow to a
young lady in the street. and allowing
a couple Of dirty collars and pair Of
socks 10 fall upon the sidewalk.
Year: 1867

AN irrevercnt rascal publishes the
following atrocIous conundrum -
What IS the difference between
maiden Of sixteen and maiden of
sixty One Is careless and happy
and the other Is hairless and cappv.
Year: 1867

Ny son, would Won suppose that
the Lord prayer could be engraved
in a space no larger than the area Of
# a halfiartLiug r Well. yes,
father, If half-iartAiug is IN every
body's eve as it Is in yours, l think
there would be no difficulty In putting
It on about four times
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing that paper from Havana,
says


The many reports about the uprising
of the military in various sections OF
the island are so many inventlens OF
idle parties, no disturbance of any kind
having taken place in Cuba, although
such an occurrence is not very improba'
BILE, and may take place when least ex-
pected, but will always meet with the
same result. The reason why all revo-
lutions have miscarried in Spain, has
been from the fact that they were purely
military organized by some officers de-
sirous of fame or promotion. The peo-
pie have had very little to do with the
revolutionary outbreaks in Old Spain,
and the Government is we'll aware that
military insurrectionists can count only
on a slight assistance from the populace.
The people and the army are not united,
and from the moment that the young
conscript dous the soldiers dress, he be-
comes another being and the natural
enemy of every civilian. All the state
ments reaching the outside world about
revolutions in Cuba must be taken with
great deal of caution, as there are
about as many reports of this character
as persons desirous of holding some po.
sition under the Government, and their
number vet has never been Rscertained.
Year: 1867

Bay A Government surveying party
has just returned from an exploration OF
the Ottawa river in Canada. They re-
port the length of the stream 1000 miles
instead of 500 as heretofore supposed.
They also report the discovery of new
lake said to be 400 miles in circumfer-
Year: 1867

nA- The following description of the
personal appearance of the Pope is given
by the correspondent OF an Eastern
paper from Rome 81 met him the other
day on the Via Angelica, a pleasant,
shady street that runs out north under
the walls of the Vatican, where he had
gone, as is his wont, to take an evening
drive. He generally drives out between
FIVE and six o'clock, goes out a few hun
dred rods, and then dismounts and walks
/ saw him walk over a mile, and then he
disappeared from sight, still walking
while his carriage followed slowly on
behind. He walks with the totter pecu-
liar to old age, and with a considerable
stoop, and yet with not a little rapidity
and energy. am bound to say Plus IN
has the pleasantest face | have ever seen
in Europe; his good.nature amounts to a
weakness, and his hesitation is said to
give his councillors much trouble"
Year: 1867

At Union meeting held In Napa on Satur
day evening, July 90 the following letter was
received from General Bidwell:-


CHICO July ls.-Major william Governeur Norris
My Dear sir;Your favor is at hand. To me IL is no
active supporter of the Union cause. Your ardent
nature will always you where the battle RACES
hercest. The issues upon national questions.
always clear and well defiued and scarcely less i'm
Portant than they were during the slaveholders'
1t must be evident to every impartial mind that in
this State there can be but two parties during the
pending campaign, unless we are ready 70 sur
the hands of the so-caled Democratic
In its dying struggle against freedom in 1854. AS for
myself am not prepared to welcome such o result.
Can any loyal man for moment hesitate where TO
go II he does, let him but hear one Democratic
ech and he will be radically cured unless his
be indeed hopeless. The Copperhead candidates sing
the same old songs that cheered on the pro-slavery
Rebellion, abusing Wade, and Sumner, and Tnad.
Stevens for being AhotiOnists, and quoting the Crit
tenden resolution OF 1861 us TO the objects or the
And this ALL except their futile opposition and wall
ngs against the reconstruction measures of Congress
futile, say, because they might we'll undertake
10 repeal the army of the United States prevent
General Grant from being the next President as to
oppose them, for they upheld by the national WILL
The fact is the Coppernead party Is almost as much
date In their political thesis and teachings
Noahs Ark They are entirely behind this progress
age OF freedom aud must and Will be defeated in
this State. 1 plant myself unequlvocaly with the
defeat this misnamed Democratic party; aud say 1t
to my friends everywhere, this is our only hope. 1
have the honor TO remain In haste very truly yours,


j. BIDWELL
Year: 1867

King William arrived in Wiesbaden July 81,
and met with an enthusiastic reception. In
reply to an address presented TO him by the
Burgomaster, his Majesty said:-


"This is the first time that we meet under the
altered circumstances The change has certainly been
radical and we observe It most in this your former
Dukes capital 1t panied me to have TO act as did,
and the decision came to cost me great amount of
resolution; but history cannot stand STILL IL must ad
vance, The sentiments with which you have ad-
dressed have heard frequently uttered through
out the country. and hope that you have really
pressed the feelings Of all good citizens also trust
my officials shall act with that object in view. Thanks
for your good wishes"
Year: 1867

Among the several missions with which the
Empress is said to have been charged during
her visit to Osborne, was one asking the Queen
to use her influence with the Duo d'Aumale to
persude him to give up the papers confided to
him on the part of The late Emperor Maxi
milan. Such at least is one of the rumors of
The dav
Year: 1867

On Tuesday last Mexican miner was
killed on ShafFer's Gulch, branch of Middle
Creek, about mile and a half east of this
place, under the following circumstances, as
near as we have been able to learn:


1t appears that the Mexican was living
with a squaw at that place, and that she
owned several dogs, which had been commit
ting depredatons on some poultry belonging
to John Hoy, who resides in the same
neighborhood Hoy, in order to protect his
poultry from future depredations, went to
where the dogs were and commenced shoot
ing them, whereupon the squaw, and several
more of her tribe who were present, set up
great outcry, which soon broughtthe Mexican
to the scene. Hoy, who was the only white
man present, states that the Mexican ad-
vanced upon him with knife in his hand land
that be several times warned him to approach
no closer. The Mexican continued to ad-
vance until within a few feet of Hoy, who
fired his gun at him, when the man instantly
fell forward, dead. Hoy then came into
town and gave himself up to the authorities,
and had an examination before Justice Knox
which resulted in his acquittal.


Coroner Lynch, on being notified of the
occurrence. empannelled jury and repaired
to the scene Examination showed that
deceased was about thirty years of age, and
that his death resulted from gun shot
wound, the ball having entered the right side
of the breast, below the collar bone, and
ranging downward, passed out below the
fifth rib, making hole an inch and half in
diameter. The jury rendered a verdict that
deceased came to his death from the effects of
gunshot wound, inflicted by John Hoy, on
the 1st day of October, 1867.