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Year: 1866

more averse to going out, and to receive
visitors-more Indifferent, in fact to all
outward things He used to sit and read,
or at all events, hold book IN his hand
and would sometimes write and some
times give way to passion. 1t was the
swell Of the sea after the storm, before
the final calm" wrote friend in Flor
ence. Landor did not become physically
deafer, but the mind grew more and
more insensible to external impressions,
and at last his housekeeper was forced
to write down every question she was
compelled to ask him. Few crossed the
threshold of his door saving his sons,
who went to see him regularly. At last
he had difficulty in swallowing, which
produced kind Of cough. Had he been
strong enough to expectorate or be sick,
he might have lived little longer; but
the frame work was worn out, and in q
fit of coughing the great old man drew
his last breath. He was confined to his
bed only three days. lam told he looked
very grand when dead-like majestic
marble statue. The funeral was hurried
and none but his two sons followed his
remains to the grave


One touching anecdote remains to be
told of him. as related by his house-
keeper On the night before the lst Of
May, 1864. Landor became very restless,
as sometimes happened during the last
year About two o'clock am. he rang
for Wilson, and insisted upou having
the room lighted and the windows thrown
open. He then asked for pen, ink and
paper, and the date of the day. Being
told that it was the dawn Of the first of
May, he wrote few lines Of poetry upon
it; then, leaning back said, II shall
never write again; put out the lights,
and draw the curtains" Very precious
would those lines be now, had they been
found. Wilson fancies that Landor
must have destroyed them the next
morning, on rising Atlantic Monthly
J,,,,e
Year: 1866

The last Of May in Richmond was DE-
voted to paying tribute to the heroic
dead who lie buried in the Hollywood
and other cemeteries. The following elo-
quent description of the ceremonies ap-
pears in the Examiner:


The dead encampment was sup
posed to be the scene Of the floral offer
ing in the Ladies Hollywood Memorial
Association, more especially, and thither,
climbing the steep grsvelly hill, the
great portion Of the multitude first di-
rected their steps The sight Of this
opening period Of the ceremonies was
grand. Spread out in view was the
vast expanse Of grAves-the army in re-
pose awaiting the decoration Of love and
vensration, the wreath Of honor This
was the poor privAiss" encampment,
and they slept in humble graves, but they
Year: 1866

naturally prevails among those WHO,
feeling themselves entitled to share OF
the reward, find themselves entirely ig
nored


The Times special says: The dispatch
of last night to the effect that the Senate
committee on Commerce had unanimous
ly agreed to report the name Of Mr..
Smytbe for confirmation as Collector OF
the port of New York tnrns out to-day
to be at least premature. The Chairman
of that committee was to day ascertain
ing the feelings of the New York mem.
bers, few of whom are not favorable to
Mr.. Smythe.


The Tribune's special says: The Senate
Committed on the Pacific Railroad, to day
unanimously agreed to report resoln
tion extending the time for constructing
the first hundred miles Of the Eastern
or Kansas branch of the Union Pacific
Roailroad to June lst, providing that
they finish the second~hundred miles in
the same time as they would have com
pleted it if they had finished the first
hundred in December last.
Year: 1866

S. T.-lS60. .-X-The amount OF Plantation
Bitters sold in one year 1t something startling.
They would fill Broadway six feet high, from
the Park to 4th street. brakes mandatory Is
one of the institutions of New York. 1t is said
that Drake painted all the rocks in the Eastern
States with his cabAlistic "S. -lsBO.-X.,' 80
and then got the old granny legislators To pass
a law preventing disiguring the face OF Ma
ture which gave him monopoly. We do not
know how this is but We do know the Plantation
Bitters SELL as no other article ever did. They
are used by all classes of the community aud
are death Oh Dyspepsia-certain. They are very
invigOrating when languid and weak, and q
great appetizer


Saratoga Spring Water, sold by all
Druggists.
Year: 1866

WHAT HOES TO UsE.-1n planting or
hoeing corn, use the ordinary hoes in gen
eral use. Neither India Rubber hose nor
cotton hose would be Of any account in a
corn field; no more would one of Hoes
eight cylinder presses.


How TO HoLD THE PLow.-Dont try
to hold it out at arms length. You can't
do it.


If you amt Plow Of your own, get out
an attachmenton your neighbor's who owes
you. Any justice will tell you whether
you can hold it or not.


THE BEST TINE TO PUT IN RYE.-I
asked an old farmer once what was the best
time to put in rye? He looked at his
watch aud replied =


"IHis IS about my hour"


The rye was Immediately put in.


All seasons are the same for putting
in rye.


How TO KEEP CoRN.-The best place
to keep corn is IN a good corn house though
some prefer co keep it in the system III
the jaice. If they don't keep corn they
keep corn'd.


FENCES AND FfNCING.-Good fencing
is essential on farm. Get good fencing
master to learn you. A rail fence is bet
ter than an imaginary one. You can't re,
pair gom fence by taking vermifuge
Neither can you cut good whitewash
brushes out of brush fences.


To MAKE YoUR STABLES WARN IN
WINTER.-Set FIRE to them.


To DRAIN LANDs.-Drink whisky, and
spend all your time at the village tavern
This will drain you Of all your lands in {
short time.


To MAKE STONE FExCE.-Equal part,
Of whisky and cider. This IS lie recipro
cal stone fence: the more you lay Of it tht
more it will ''lay" gou,
i Easy WAY TO Draw SAw-LoG8.-
Draw them on piece of paper with cray
on pencil. After a little practice you vii
be able to "draw" the largest kind of saw
logs with ease.


PoRK.-Packmg thread is Of no use il
packing pork. In curing hams the tim
varies. Hams that have got trichinia can
be cured at all.
Year: 1866

The presidential policy, as announced
and explained in his recent speeches, finds
no sympathy with the loyal voters of the
North, and they have and will repudiate
it in an unmistakable manner when the
question is brought to the arbitrament OF
their ballots.
Year: 1866

A strenuous effort is being made in the
Gulf States to resist the payment Of the
tax on cotton, on the ground Of its alleged
unconstitutionality. 1t is pretty well
established part of the rebel and Copper
head creed that nothing is constitutional
except attempts to overthrow the Govern
ment, and utterly destroy the Coustitu-
tion,
Year: 1866

The late Stephen Girard, when sur
rounded by immense wealth, and supposed
to be taking supreme delight in his accu-
mutation, wrote thus to friend:


GAS to myself live like galley slave
constantly occupied, and often pass the
night without sleeping. I am wrapped in
a labyrinth of affairs and worn out with
care | do not value fortune. The love
of labor Is my highest ewotion. When [
rise in the morning, my only effort IS to
labor so hard during the day; that when
night comes may be able tosleep soundly."
Year: 1866

The South will by and by begin to
think lightly of Democratic veeacity. At
the outbreak of the war, they promised to
help them in the battlefield; but didn't.


More recently promised to back them at
the ballot box; but they couldn't. They
are alike unreliable with bullet and ballot.
Year: 1866

The new regiments do not promise to
be skeleton ones. Adviees to the Depart
nent show that recruiting was never more
brisk than now. Nearly all who are en-
listing in the regular army have seen ser
vice during the war.
Year: 1866

AS the time approaches for the re-eIee-
ton of President and Vice President,
public attention is naturally attracted to
men most likely 10 be made candidates
and elected to these positions. Gen Grant
is evidently the favorite Of the Union men
for the Presidency. He will be nominated
by acclamation and elected without orpo
sidon. 1t is now proposed by Phlladei-
phia paper to make John w. Geary the
candidate for the Vice Presidency on the
ticket with Grant for President. We have
no objections to such ticket. Our faith
has always been very great IN Gearys
ability as a statesman, and we believe that
before he is Governor year he will be
recognized as one Of the very ablest men
that ever controlled the affairs Of the State.
By the time Geary could be inaugurated
as Vice President he will have almost filed
his term as Governor We Of Pennsylva-
MIA. who nominated and elected Geary
Governor, can therefore afford to surrender
his service to the nation as Vice President.
'-Rarrisburg Daily Telegraph.
Year: 1866

One or two good colored Plas terers
and young man to learn the trade. The
young man will have to go to Minnesota
For further particulars inquire at so
David Street, between Jones and Cutter
Year: 1866

The finest thing that George D. Prem
iice ever wrote is this inimitable passage


1T cannot be that earth is mans only
abiding place. 1t cannot be that our life
is bubble cast by the ocean OF eternity
to float a moment upon its waves, Fnd
sink into nothingness. Else why is It
The high and glorious aspirations which
leap like angels from the temple Of our
hearts are forever wandering unsatisfed?
Why is i. that the rainbow and the cloud
come over US with beauty that is not of
earth, and then pass on and leave US 10
muse on their faded lovliness? Why is
it that the stars which "hold their festival
around the mdnight Throne, are set above
the grasp of our limited faculties; forever
mocking us with their unaPproachable
glory! And finally, why is it that bright
forms Of human beauty are presented TO
our view and taken from us; leaving the
streams of our affections to
flow back in an Alpine torrent upon our
hearts We are born for higher des-
inv than that Of earth. There is realm
where the rainbow never fades: where
he stars will be spread out before US like
he ocean, and where the beautiful beings
Thich passed before US like shadows will
isy 10 our presence forever"
Year: 1866

Give me old songs, those exquisite bursts Of
melody which thrilled the Tyres of the inspired
poets and minstrels of long ago. Every note
has borne on the air tale Of Joy and rapture,
Of sorrow and sadness. They tell Of days gone
by, and time has given them voice that speaks
to us of those who breathed those melodies !;
NAV they be mine to hear till life shall end !;
as al launch my boat upon the seas of eter-
nity. NAV their echoes be waited on my ear, TO
cheer me on my passage from earth to father
land Give me the old paths where we have
wandered and culed the flowers Of friendship
in the DAYS of " Auld Lang Syne." Sweeter
far the dells whose echoes have answered to our
voices whose turf is not stranger to our foot
steps. and whose rills have in childhood's days
reflected back our forms and those of our merry
playfelows from whom we have parted, and
meet no more in the old hooks we loved so well.
May the old paths be watered with heavens
own dew, and be green forever in mymemory
Give me the old house, upon whose stairs we
seem to hear light footsteps and under whose
porch a merry laugh seems to niingle with the
winds that whistle through the old elms, be-
meath whose branches lie the graves of those
who once trod the halls and made the cham
bers ring with glee. And o, above all; give
me the old friends, hearts bound to mine in
lies stiii:hinv hours, and link so strong that
all of earth might not break it asunder; spirits
congenial, whose hearts through life have been
in unison with their own. o! when death
shall still this heart, would not ask for aughr
more sacred to hallow my dust than the tear
of an old friend
Year: 1866

al learned q good lesson when I was little
girl" says a lady. One frosty morning was
looking out of window into my fathers farm
ward. where stood many cows, oxen, and horses
waiting to drink. The cattle stood very gentle
and meek, till one OF the cows in attempting to
turn round, happened to hit her neighbor,
whereupon the neighbor kicked and hit anoth-
er. In five minutes the whole herd were kick
ing each other with great fury. My mother
laughed and said:


'See what comes Of kicking when you are
hit"


Just so. ] have seen one cross word set
whole family by the ears on frosty morning.


Afterward if my brothers or myself were a
little irritable, she would say


"Take care my children remember how the
fight in the barr-yard began. Never return
kick for hit, and you will save yourselves
good deal of trouble"
Year: 1866

A correspondent furnishes the following pro.
cess for curing hams, which he says has called
forth the admiration of the American Agricul-
tural Association and other bodies: made
pickle of two quarts of salt, to which added
one ounce of summer savory, one ditto sweet
marjoram, one ditto allspice, half ditto saltPo-
tire, and one pound brown sugar boiled the
whole together, and applied the mixture boiling
hot to one hundred pounds Of hams, and kept
them in the pickle three or four weeks. Ny
process Of smoking was not the most expensive.
but NAV not be less available ON that account.
| smoked the hams in a seed cask, with one
head in, with a small hole for the smoke to pass
out. and hung my hams to the head. ls
Year: 1866

We love that song. Itspathos steals over Us
like its associations move. What more becomes
a lady than gentlenesss 1t has won manyA
hcart-it has checked many hasty and wicked
rcsolve-it has soothcd many a torn bosom, and
called many wanderer to the paths Of virtue.
Wonder why women ever study to be pert. when
softness and kindness do so much more good
Why are they ever so quick and sharp, ever
resentful and feverish, ever talk with barbed
tongue, when their quiet modesty, their meek
and gentle manner, may conquer the world y
Year: 1866

The EXISTENCE or THE SuY.-1t will be
most gratifying to our readers TO know that an
eminent mathematician has demolished various
theories of solar heat, and demonstrated that
for 30,000,000 years to cone the sun will con-
tinue to afford sufficient caloric to sustain hui
man life upon the surface Of the earth. This
is about as long as any Of us will be personally
interested in the matter, and the prospect Of
our descendants being frozen to death is too
remote to cause any serious uneasiness.
Year: 1866

Some one writes both gracefully and forcibly:


! would be glad to see more parents under
stand that when they spend money indiciously
TO improve and adorn the house and the ground
around it, they are in effect paying their chill
dren premium to stay at home, as much as
possible to enjoy it; but that when they spend
money unnecessarily in fine clothing and jew
elrv for their children, they are paying them a
premium to spend their time away from home
that is, in those places where they can attract
the most attention and make the most display.
Year: 1866

A correspondent writes to us that six yearS
experience has convinced him that coat Of
gum copal varnish, applied to the soles of boots
and shoes, and repeated as it dries, until the
pores are filled and the surface shines like poll
ishcd mahogany will make the soles waterproof.
and also cause them to last three times as long
as ordinary soes. Ea ~
Year: 1866

The impression having gone abroad that
Washington College is full, and that students
have been already sent back for want OF accom-
modation, we are requested TO state that large
number Of additional students can be received
and comfortably accommodated at the College
and in Lexington.


Allpapers friendly to the College are request
TO give prominent insertion TO this notice.
Year: 1866

We find the following very beautiful ex-
tract going the rounds Of the papers, credit
ed to no paper-no author. It's exceeding
great beauty leads us to call special atten-
ton to it. Let the young read it and treas
ure up the moral it would illustrate and in
culcate in their hearts:


"Over the beauty Of the plum and the
apricot there grows bloom and beauty
more exquisite than the fruit itself-a soft
delicate blush that oyerspreads its blushing
cheek. Now, if you strike your hand over
that, and it is once gone, it is gone forever;
for it never grows but once.


"Take the flower that hangs IN the morn
ing impeareled with dew-arrayed as no
queenly woman ever was arraye6 with
jewels. Once shake It so that the besds
roll of. and you may sprinkle water on it
as carefully as you please, yet it can never
be made again what it was when the dew
fell silently upon it from the heaven!


On a frosty morning you may see the
panes Of glass covered with landscape
mountains, lakes, trees, blended in beauti-
ful fantastic picture. Now lay your hand
upon the glass, and by the scratch Of your
finger, or by the warmth Of your palm, all
{ the delicate tracery will be obliterated. So
there is in youth beauty and purity of
character which, when once touched and
defled can never be restored; a fringe more
delicate than frost work, and which, when
torn and broken, will never be reembroid-
cred.


a man who has spotted and spoiled his
garments in youth, though be may seek to
make them white again, can never wholly
do It, even were he to wash ihem with his
tears. When a man leaves bis fathers
house, with the blessings Of his mothers
tears still vet upon his forehead. If he once
loses that early purity Of character, It IS a
loss that he can never make whole again.
Such Is. the conseq quenee Of crime. It's effect
cannot be efsdicaled. L can only be for
given. It ia stain Of blood that We never
can make white.
Year: 1866

WITH half an eye the difference may be seen be-
tween coarse flbrie and fine one, and any one
with the moiety of the sense of smell will lind no
difficulty in selecting Phaon's "Night-Blooming
Cereus' from all the perfumes in the market as the
most delicious and refreshinE Sold everywhere.
Year: 1866

Tho total number of emigrants arrived at the port
of New York for the month ending March 81, 1866


was H. 2O The following table, showing the arrivals
for the first quarter of the present year as compared
with the same period of 1865, will be found inter
Year: 1866

FIVE knew the cares and crosses


Crowding round our neighbor's way:
five knew the little losses


Sorely grievous day by day,
Would We then so often chide him
For the lack of thrift and gain
Leaving on his heart a shadow,


Leaving on the heart stain
1--WE knew the clouds above us


Held by gentle blessings there,
Would we turn away all trembling,
In our blind and weak despair?
Would we shrink from little shadows
Lying on the dewy grass,
While It's only birds of Eden


lust in mercy flying past
five knew the silent story,


Quiyering through the heart of pain.
Would our womanhood dare doom them
Back to haunts of guilt again?
Life hath many tangled crossing,
Joy hath many break of wo,
Ana the cheeks. tear-washed, are whitest-
This the blessed angels know
Let us reach into our bosomS


For the key to other lives.
And with love toward erring nature


Cherish good that still survives;
So that when our disrobed spirits


Soar to realms of light again.
We may say dear Father, judge rs
As we judged our fellow men.
Year: 1866

Do You WORK FOR \ LIVING "A young
man commenced visiting a young woman,
and appeared to be we'll pleased. One
evening he called when it was quite late,
which led the girl to inquire where he had
been.


Il had to work 10 night" ," he replied.


DO you work for a living 2" inquired the
astonished girl


"Certainly am mechanic"


L" My brother doesn't work, and dislike
the name of mechanic" and she turned up
her pretty nose.


That was the last time the mechanic Wis
tied the yourg woman. He is now
wealthy man, and has one of the best wo-
men for his wife The young lady who dis
liked the name of mechanic, is now the
wife of a miserable fool, regular vagrant
about grog-shops, and she, poor miserable
girl, is obliged to take in washing in order
to support herself and children.
Year: 1866

BEAUTIFUL SIMIIE-The pious Jonathan
Edwards describes Christian as being
like "such little flower as we see in the
spring of the year, low and humble on
the ground, op' ming its bosom to receive
the pleasant beams of the SUMS glory re-
iocing, as it were, in calm of rapture, diff
tusing around sweet fragrance, standing
gracefully and lowly in the midst of other
flowers" The world may think nothing Of
the little flower they may not even notice
it but nevertheless, it will be diffusing
arounn sweet fragrance upon all who dwell
within its lowly shore.


"Act considerably" it is the practical
version of know Thyself."
Year: 1866

This is a German word aud means sea-
foam, that is, the color of the sea-foam.
The:idea that the pipes of that name are
made cut of sea-foam, or anything like it,
is erroneous. Meerschaum is mineral
proper, found in the serpentine or magne-
sian rock. 1t occurs chiefly at the head
of the Mediterranean, where it is dug out
of its native bed, and sent to Europe in
blocks or rude pipes 1t is of a white OF
whitish color. The brown or reddish
cast is obtained by saturatlng them with
oil or wax. Meerschaum is composed OF
flint silex, magnesia and earbon--iihLa
carbon and flint in an oxydized state. It
is soft aud porous. It's porosity gives
1t its properties as a pipe, absorbing by
it the poisonous qualities of the smoke.
1t is, however, inferior to clay pipe in
this respect but better than the briar
pipe, which is next to it. There 10 one
fault with the meerschaum pipe-the
bowl is too short. Tobacco itself is an
absorber of the poisonous qualities Of the
smoke--a0d when the smcke passes thro'
tobacco--as it will 10 long bowl the
column of smoke in it being long--it will
become purified precisely the way it does
in cigar. The first half of the cigar
affords harmless smoking, the latter half
less and less SO, till the poisoned stump
remains. So with tobacco in the bowl of
a pipe. A long bowl puts it in toe foFu
of cigar. The first smoking is tue best
Gas every smoker knows is the case with
pipe-smokiug), especially if the distance
through the tobacco is great One st0u,d
always stop smoking when the tobacco is
half out. The remainder is permeared by,
the poison-aud in that is the hurt We
get from smoking. ... -...-
Year: 1866

NOBLE SENTIMENTs.-Conde no
man, says John Wesley, for not think
ing as you think. Let every man en-
Joy the full and free liberty of think
ing for himself Let every man use
his own judgement, since every man
must give an account of himself to
God, Abhor every approach, in every
kind of degree, to the spirit of perse-
cution. If you cannot reason or per-
suade man into the truth, never at
tempt to force him into it. If love
will not compel him to come, leave him
to God, the Judge of all