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Year: 1866

A NICE Law QUESTION FOR SOMEBODY
The Star says, a day or two ago, business
man, who held note to collect for another,
was waited upon by the maker of the note
who offered to pay it. The note was produc-
ed, and the gentleman received it ana pushed
out bundle of bills, at the same time tearing
his name from the note which he had in his
hand. At this juncture an officer appeared in
the case and while the money was being copnt-
ed out, served trustee writ upon the gentle
man counting it, in behalf of a third party.


The gentleman refused to count furthe. ,
pushed the money away and declared it was
not sin his hands," At the same time the one
who had got possession of his note declared
that it was of his hands, and the note torn
up. How the matter was settled is not known
but there are some pretty sharp points Of
practice in the affair.
Year: 1866

FANTAsTIcs.-Those disposed to join the
companies forming for Infantry and Cataract
will meet every evening this weak, at Room
No. l, Market Hail. Turn out and join If you
wish to get up something better than has ever
before been got up in this city for the 4th of
July.
Year: 1866

ANTWERP, Sept 9th, 1866.


Dear Brother Hoge,-Having given to
the Central, a sketch of two of my Sab
baths on this continental tour, one in
Germany, and one in Switzerland, | have
concluded to give you an account of two
others, one in France, and one in this
city where 1 am writing, andif you think
it of sufficient interest, you can hand it to
DR.. Brown.


You have been in Paris and can fully
appreciate all that say in regard to
that gay and goddess city. Perhaps no
where on earth is there so complete an
impersonation of "the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, D
as is to be found there. | do not won
der that the Positive Philosophy arose in
Paris, or that its author should be a
Frenchman, for it is simply the expires
sion ins scientific forms of the French
thought and life. The present and the
seen constitute their world, and the fu-
ture and unseen have to them no exist
ence. They are as completely without
faith, in the sense in which it is "the
substance (uPOs-tasis, substrncture, basis
of things hoped for, and the evidence
(elegchos, demonstrative, palpable letting
forth of things not seen, as it is pos
sible for people to be. They seem to
have no organ of faith at all, in Pauls
profound sense of the term The pre-
sent is all they care about, or live for,
and if they believe in any life beyond the
grave, they know so little of it, and be-
lieve that so little can be known of it,
that it forms no element in their calcu-
lations. The unseen, as far as it lies be-
yond the sphere of natural science, they
think to be the realm of superstition, and
unworthy of a serious thought. Hence
the one, Unsuitable demand of their lives
is for present enjoyment, and that they
find in their theatres, gardens, cafes, &c,
&c. They however know that there is a
strange, obstinate element in human ma
ture that will have religion, or as Robes
pierre expressed it, if there be no God,
we must invent one for the people, and
this inextinguishable part of man, com
ing up irresistibly, must have something
to meet it. Hence they will have a re-
ligion, but it must be one that meets the
main features of the French nature, a
religion of the seen and the present.
They therefore build magnificent church
es, because they are fine architectural or
naments to their great capital. Indeed
l saw more church building ndrepairing
Year: 1866

We published yesterday the Presidents official
proclamation OF the reestabli shment Of peace
throughout the nsurrectionary districts, and of the
virtual restoration of the habeas corpus and with
drawal Of the military law.


Now tina, peace is restored, and the military
rule about to be Withdrawn, the civil authority
will resume its operation. What civil authority
The only Government in those States, either ex-
ecutivc, legislative, or judicial are those existing
under the reconstructed State Governments, whose
legal existence and constitutional character have
never been recognized by Congress, and without
which they have no more legal authority to gov
ern those States than they have to govern the State
Of Illinois. 1t is true that the. President, while
declaring peace to exist, does not technically re-
store the writ of habeos corpus, formally with
draw the military rule, yet he recites the fact that
there no longer exists any necessity for the suspen
sion of the writ for the military authority, and
that they should cease. Whether he proposes TO
formally attend to these matters nsubsequent proc
lamations, or whether he intends by the formal dec


ration of the restoration peace to include them,
is more than we can tell We think, however.
that while the proclamation is intended by him as
virtually recognition Of the existing State Gov
ernments, he has not ventured to place himself
in a revolutionary attitude by assuming TO do that
Which il not within his jurisdiction, but belongs
exclusively to another branch Of Congress.
Year: 1866

David Levy Yuee, who has been for long
time held prisoner in one Of the national forts.
has been released on parole. This action is
little strange. Yulee's case is notorious The
facts are well known, and if they not sufficient
to Justify his indictment and trial for treason be-
fore civil court, then why has he been held SO
long in prison without trial? The war has actually
been over nearly year, yet during all that time
personally before him, and has either done him
the grossest injustice in holding him. or is now do
ing greater injustice BY reeasiDg him, instead Of
bringing him to trial.


Yulee's crime is an unusual one, and the evil
dence is ample. While Senator, and before the
war, and before Florida seeded he was engaged
in reasonable to seize the Federal forts
and navy yards in Florida, and had negotiated
with the rebel Governor CT Georgia for the use Of
Georgian troops for that purpose If necessary
These acts were done. it will be remembt red.
while Yulee was in the Senate, acting. voting,
and drawing pay as Senator. The nature OF his
crime. and the proper punishment due to that
crime, were very clearly defined and pronounced
by Andrew Johnson in his celebrated speech on
the expulsion of Jesse ID. Bright for reasonable
correspondence with traitors in arras.


Yulee's treason was purely Of civil nature;
that is to say, he was not q soldier, and held no
commission in the rebel service. His crime was
committed in Washington while Senator Of the
Upited States. and was aggravated by the fact


that in one Of his letters he states that he better
serve the rebellion by retaining bis seat in the
Seuate, whereby he had access to official informa.
tion which would otherwise have been closed to
Year: 1866

No more truthful and apr ropriate remarks could
have been peirncd than the following from Life
illustrated:


Readers, did you ever reflect upon the subject
of supporting iberaily the press; and first of all
your local paper7 lfnot, permit us to suggest to
yoU your privilege and Also your daty on this sub
sect


Each city. town and village in country like
the United States should be represented BY Il live
local newspaper. and it would be we'll, not only
for the people ard place SC represented. to have i
paper which would reaact credit or both anl
which would be an honor to the State AMI nation.
Strangers from abroad judge rs by our newspaper
Tress. ard hence the Importance of making that
instrument as perfect and as pstert possible.


II is the duty ofevery citizen OF each place to
cont-ibste something toward improving and
strengthening the local press. He may do it by
subscribing and paying fer his paper. by advertis
ing is IL by recommending it to Others or in all
Q these ways. Where the country press is liber.
ally pa.ronzed and is well supported, as it should
be, the country is not flooded with trash, in the
shape OF love and murder stories. as it now is,
rhich poison and vivsate the minds Of the young.
There is usually moral intechy and cireu.n-
spectien manifested by editors OF the country press
than by those In the larg, cities and more
healthy tone OF mini and morals will be found
generally TO pervade them. They are more free
from the reports Of degrading vices and crimes,
and are never opened with that suspicion which
attaches to the common "Aisll" literature Of the
day.


The country press my be improved. Each in
divijual within the li-s of its sphere and circula
ton may all in its improvement. He nay be on
the look out for interesting information. and when
this is obtained, communicate it to the editor
lie may bring his own business before the public
10y an appropriate advertisement. or if he has beef
pork or grain to sell. he may annou it through
his local press, lie NAV give historical sketches of
the past, and show the progress and changes Of
the present; he may help to make his local paper
source OF instruction to strangers, and of enter
tanment 10 hs neighbcrs. i he manufacturer I
Let him invite capital and influence by setting
forth such natural advantages as the place may
possess, and indicate she route by which it NAV be
reached its accessibility to the markets. &c. There
is no estimating tie advantages to any town
village ola live local joErna, and We doubt i {
there is TO be forne at the present time editor
who gets fully paid for the services he performs,
aud we put the responsibility where it belongs
namely, on the people, whose business and duty it
is. first of all, to support their own local
capcr
Year: 1866

Never seiza a sheep by the wool on the back
IL is hurtful TO the animal. particularly in warm
weather when he is large and fat. The best wey
10 catch sheep 10 by the hind leg, or NJ the n.ck.
The animal 10 easiest held by placing one hand on
the lower Jaw and the other back Of the ears, and
slightly raising its head.
Year: 1866

Doen invaluable, and that she Is entitled to a
large share of credit for eleyatinq the tone of
s sne rress and making it SO good a paper as it


'"e iuture course Of the paper and of the
management under which it Is to he nlaced in
oroer 10 Keep up the interest in its column.
the purchasing partner Is competent to reveal
MS own purposes. He has assumed a da,;cots
and by no means irresponsible work To naot
the important questions and delicate conflicts
which are born of almost every passing hour.
SO pregnant with interests of incalculable i'm
portance. That he will wisely provide for
them there can be no doubt


He is left free and untrammelled to take bis
own course, and give such tone to the paper
as to his own judgment may seem wise and
proper, but from our knowledge ofhis instincts.
impulses and principles, we infer that, on all
great questions of the hour growing out of
the consideration of suffrage, reconstruction
and kindred topics, the paper will be found as
IL mas Deen heretofore, on the side of the peo-
PIE demanding equal and exact ju itce, impair
tia liberty and guaranteed freedom as the ba-
Sis on which all governmental superstructures
shall be erected.


win Mr. FOSTER, now sole proprietor, the
relations OF the undersigned have been nIaas-
ant and OF the most amicable character. He
VIII DO all for the PRESS that reasonable
public can demand, and in taking final leave
the subscriber commends him and tho Press
to the loyal people of Maine, feeling gratified
that paper which has been so much an OBJ
Ject OF his own solicitude is to be left in such
good hands. 1T. GILMAN.
Year: 1866

To all persons who cherish genuine love Of
justice and q true regard for the safety and
welfare of community, it will doubtless be
satisfaction to learn that the plea of insanity,
set up by the counsel in the case of Albert
Starkweather, on trial at Hartford for the muir
der Of his mother and sister, has been reject
ed, and the prisoner found guilty by the jury.
There was not the slightest evidence of aber-
ration of mind on the part of the prisoner.
In fact, the only ground on which it was at
tempted to establish such plea, was the un-
provoked and cold-blooded atrocity of the
deed, it being held that none but crazy man
could be capable of such acrime. The danger
as well as the absurdity of a theory like this IA
sufficiently apparent; since, were 1t accepted,
any individual who might have fancy to COM
NIT murder, would need only to make the cir
substances as horrible and revolving as posi-
Die, In order to secure for himself complete
Immunity. In the case of Starkweather there
seems to have been no room for doubt He
had always been "bad boy" source Of con-
slant trouble and anxiety to his mother, who
had complained to friendly neighbors that she
did not know what she should do with him.
The final crime of which he was guilty seems
to have been prompted not by any madness or
even by sudden rage but was the natural out
growth of brutal and wicked heart. The
Hartford Courant publishes confession which
he made to friend, the Deputy Sheriff OF
Manchester, a few days after the murder, and
which has not been madepublic before by rea-
son of promise that it should not be used
against him. In this confession he states that:


The week before the murder his mother
decided to him her homestead (haying in 1862
decided him Us acres of land) and required him
to give mortgage note for $500 in favor of
ms sister. He then, thinking that Miss Camp
6eli, whom he was in love with and who re-
FUSED to be engaged to him, would marry him
Il she thought he had some property, decided
the 63 acres of land and the farm to her, and
gave her the deed. His mother reproved him
sharply for so doing, and finally told him he
SHOULD not have an inch of the ground" If he
did not retain the deed himself Finally Mrs


Starkweather tore up both the deed and the
note, Starkweather refusing to take back the
deed he had given Miss Campbell. he told
his mother he would be revenged upon her.
and, according to hissconfession, from that mo.
ment the idea of killing his mother was his
ruling thought and purpose. TIE more he
thought of it the madder he became. and he
only waited for favorable opportunity, which
was at last presented by the absence of the
Year: 1866

The Wheeling West Virginia) Intelligen.
Ger relates remarkable story. About ten
years ago. a young man of finished education
and polished manners "wooed and won'
the hand and heart of daughter of a neigh
Dor. Possessed of the girls affections, and
under the promise of marriage. the young
man worked the ruin of the girl. after which
he informed her. in the most heartlesss man
ner, that, his object having been gained he
would now leave his victim to the scorn If
the world and seek his fortune in the far
West. He went The girl followed, and
for nine wears she kept on his trail, over.
taking him but once, in California, where he
again fed from her. Eventually he believ.
ed her dead. and came back to his native
place. Judge of his surprise. and that of
'the whole community. when he was follow
ed in short time by the supposed dead
girl, VINO was accompanied by bright
haired girl of some nine years of age Con.
fronted with the charge of his wrong and
deception, and the strong arm of the law
having been invoked. the betrayer was com
PEELED to make restitution as much as pos
sbie by marryi the girl whom he had so
terribly wronged. and who had followed him
half across continent. The parties are
now living as man and wife at the scene of
their former loves.
Year: 1866

her To tiud ter friends in IFoquois county
where she has since resided


Geroux returned Il his situation at Cincn-
nati. and was sent by his firm to collect
debt in Iroquois county. While there he
sought out the attorney who had him dis
charged On the habeas corpus. to learn the
whereabouts of the horse that did him such
good service, and 10 secure his assistance in
cole ting the debt He soon made himself
known, and while they were discussing
about the stolen horse, lady and child
entered the same office. There was a me-
mentary pau>e and husband and wife were
N each others arms. We shall not attempt
to describe the scene which followed. The
husband found wife and child whom he
had Fl mly believed to be dead, and the wifi
found husband over whose grave she had
shed bitter tears of woe.


Mrs. Geroux was visiting the same atto-
ney. to find out about her husbands confiscat'
property. and to apply tn the Government u
have his property restored to her.
Year: 1866

eating its way into the tissues and organs beneath
the apparently smooth surface, to burst out in the
future with a vrulence that will battle the effects of
medicine when PERFECT CURES be OBJ
tained by consulting physician whom long prac-
tce and thorough Investigation into the causes of
DISEASES of the URINARY ORGANS enables
to determine at once the nature of the disease.


In all diseases entrusted to the Doctors care,
PERFECT, SPEEDY and PERMANENT
Year: 1866

B@~A number of colored men of
Louisville, have issued call for State
Convention, to meet in that city on the
24th inst, to take into consideration
"the present and future of their
race, and to devise such means as are
in their power to educate and elevate
their people"
Year: 1866

a@r The Memphis appeal comes TO
us dressed in mourning for its editor and
proprietor, Col. B F. Dill, who died on
Thursday last. His funeral took place
from the Gayoso House on Sunday. The
Appeal was 30 be suspended until Sun
day. The death of Col Dill will no
doubt materially affect the future Of the
Appeal
Year: 1866

IcE FOR CHI0AGo.-A dispatch from
Chicago says;


The two artesian wells in this city are
turned to good account. An. area Of
thirty acres has been walled M, into
which the waters flow, and the company
have now about forty thousand tons OF
crystal ice, which they are storinR
away in an immense ice house. 1t 10
proposed by the company to furnish
our city with cheap ice next summer
Year: 1866

Everything is a labor just in proper
ton as we have to do it by separate
effort. Ii q person were obliged to do
up all his breathing once a week, to eat
his food only at rare intervals, or to put
on his clothing simply for few days in
the year, he would find very weari
some task 1t is only the frequency of
these acts, only breathing every mo-
ment, eating every day, and wearing our
clothes literally as habit, that keeps
them from being irksome. Drive your
wagon over a road where the planks are
five feet apart. and the motion is excru-
ciating; let the planks be showed up to-
gether. and it is one delicious roll So
in the Christian life, We must make our
duties come so near to each other that
they will touch, if we would have them
. pleasure. 1t is easier to give fifty
times year than it is ten, easier to go
to church every Sunday than every
month /; easier to pray each night and
morning than only now and then cas-
ier to be = Christian on every day, and
in every place, than only in the meeting
house. and once q week. Habit is the
great helper that takes away the burden
from all labor, and makes even the rough
est places smooth. And. in our we'll
doing, the best way never to be weary
is never to stop and rest-Reli9ious Nag
QziHe
Year: 1866

Books are great helps, but there have
been great men who were never helped by
them. Patrick Henry was no scholar,
and read scarcely anything. On visit to
jefferson one fall, he told him th at he had
been thinking he would read the coming
winter, and asked him to lend him book.
Jefferson lent him a volume of Hume's
Essays. The next spring he carried it
back unread, saying that he had tried to
read it two or three times, but could never
get through more than e page or SO before
falling asleep.
Year: 1866

the SenaIe--The District.


/ ... WASHINGTON, Feb. /, 1866.


The vote upon the resolution in regard


to the basis of representation in the several


States is very significant. The vote stood


l2O yeas to 40 nays on its passage There


were eleven Union members who voted
with the Democrats, among them Ray
mond, of New York, five from the North
and six from the South. The closing
speech of the old man eloquent from Penn
sylvania, Thad. Stevens, was one of the
ablest Of his life. He completely carried
House and the galleries by storm, and was
not very backward ih exposing the unten-
able position taken by Henry j. RAYMOND
and his efforts to divide the great Union
party on some of the vital measures now
before Congress.


l learn that the Senate will act with as
much unanimity as the House has acted
on this resolution, and will at once consid-
er it and send it to the Legislatures now
IN session. Sd tbat.it-maY lbaooRe9s a.IaH6o
of thSee States lately in rebellion, in re-
gard to thequestion of equal suffrage. If
these States will not let the negro vote,
then they will not be permitted to be ben
Gifted by him in making up their basis of
representation. Southern men now here
admit that the principle is right, and are
of the opinion that it will be the opening
wedge to equal suffrage in all the Southern
States. The public mind of the South is
being prepared for this, and if the poll
ticians will let truth have "free course,
run and be glorifed,o Congress will not
be troubled much longer with what is now
denominated by some "the Vered negro
question"


AN effort is being made in the District
to have Congress place the city govern
ment here under Commissioners, to be
appointed by the President. This is to
get rid of the suffrage question. But as
revolutions are not inclined to go back
ward this proposition will undoubtedly be
rejected. FRANKLIN.
Year: 1866

The tears we she'd for those we love are the
streams which water the garden of the heart,
and without them it would be dry and barren,
and the gentle flowers Of affection would perish.
Year: 1866

The Ohio Farmer says balky horse will
start right off if you put q handful of dirt or
gravel from the road into his mouth. The
philosophy Of the thing Is it gives him some
thing else to think about.
Year: 1866

Music rather units a man for wrestling with
the world. 1t softens the heart, and robs him
of suspicion, Show US fageolet player and
we will show you man who is cheated in his
change" every time he goes to market
Year: 1866

Imparting pleasure is like putting money out
at interest it benefits both the lender and Dor7
rover at once. No one can be really and truly
happy unless others symrathize and share ttat
happiness.
Year: 1866

''Hope is the ruddy morning ray Of joy, re-
collection is it's golden tinge; but the latter is
wont to sink amid the dews and dusty shades
of twilight; and the bright blue day which the
former promises, breaks indeed but in another
world, with another sin. fr
Year: 1866

Never be afraid of becoming an "old maid
fair reader. An old maid is far more
honorable than heartless wife; and single
blessedness is greatly superior, in point of
happiness, to welded love. Fall not in love
dear girls, beware, says the song. But we
do not agree with said song on. this question.
On the contrary, we hold that il il good
thing to fall in love, if the loved object be a
worthy one. To fall in love with an honorable
man is as proper as it is for an honorable
man to fall in love with virtuous and alma
bic woman; and what could be a more CRAFTY
ing spectacle, even to the angels in heaven,
than sight so pure so approaching in its
devotion to the celestial?


No; fall in love as soon as you please, la
dies, provide it be with suitable person.
Fall in love and then marry; cut never mar
ry unless you do love- That's the great
point Never marry for "a home or a hus-
band. Never degrade yourself by becom-
ing party to such an alliance Never sell
yourself, body and soul on terms SO con-
temptible. Love dignifes all things; it en-
mobiles all conditions With love, the mar
rage rite is truly a sacrament Without it
the ceremony is base fraud and the act
human desecration. Marry for love, or not
at all. Be an s'old maid' if fortune throw
not In your way the man of your heart; and
though the witless may sneer, and the Jester
may laugh you will still have your reward
in an approving conscience and a compara-
lively peaceful life.