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Year: 1867

bas- The Board Of naval officers appointed
by Congress to examine League Island, as to
its suitability for naval depot for iron clads,
have unanimously reported in its favor
Their rec eommendation will no doubt be final
with Congress, aud this vexed question be set
forever at rest in a manner which the best
Judgment of the country will unanimously
affirm. etm t rf ;
Year: 1867

It will be seen by advertisement dat
Davis & Lupton have purchased the in
terest Of Uriah Davis in the boot and
shoe business, and are prepared to accom-
modate customers with anything in their
line Of business. They are both prac-
tical workmen and may be found on
hand at all times. When two such men
work harmoniously together, there can
be no such word as fail. Success to
them.
Year: 1867

The report of General Swaync ad-
mits that the Mobile disturbance was
the work of but few individuals. The
action of tho better class in urging
Judge Kelly to remain and speak is con-
elusive also on that point. The police
were in the discharge of their duty
when the disturbance took place, and
all that General Swayne alleges against
them is timidity or inefficiency. Yet
the Mayor is removed, though there is
not an allegation even Of completely or
responsibility for an affair which, orig
mating in the intemperanoe Of speak
OF and the lawlessness of few ire
sponsible men, was precipitated into a
panic by an attempted arrest and the
running away of an ambulance through
the crowd, .-rE-EE T.
Year: 1867

Very fow of the white portion of the


city of New Orleans are making any ef'


fort to register themselves. The main
reason for this is stated to be that SC
many have been abruptly prohibited
from registering upon trivial grounds,
which were never anticipated would be
offered as an objection. Different de-
cisions are given relative to parties oc-
cupying the same political status. One
man was rejected because he had been
on the police force before the war; no
other objection offered. This is one in.
stance of q thousand similar ones that
have occurred of the same nature. II
an election is held under the registra-
tion which has so far been made, it will
be the most open and barefaced mock
cry of the rights and privileges OF
American citizens that has yet occurred.
Year: 1867

which are now operating against us are
exceptional and temporary. The pros
pect of good crop Of winter wheat was
never better, more spring wheat has
been sowed, and more corn has or will
be planted this season than ever before.
The people are beginning to compre


hend again this important truth, which
seems TO have been disregarded for some
years past, that prosperity is the result
of labor; that industry and economy arc
as indispensable to national as individ-
ual wealth" s ~ u y q =
Year: 1867

This is an agreeable world after ALL IF
we would only bring ourselves to look at the
objects that surround us in their true light,
we should see beauty where before we be-
held deformity, and listen to harmony,
where before we could hear nothing but dis
cord. To be sure there is great deal of
anxiety and vexation to meet but we can
not expect to sail on a summer sea forever !;
yet if we preserve a calm eye and steady
hand, we can so trim our sails and manage
our helm as to avoid the quicksands, and
weather the storm that threaten the ship
wreck.


1--WE are members of one great family !;
we are travelling the same road, and shall
arrive at the same goal We breathe the
free air, we are subject to the same bounty.
We shall lie down on the bosom ofour COM
mon mother 1t is not becoming then that
brother should hate brother it is not prop
er then that friend should deceive friend /;
it is not right that neighbor should injure
neighbOr We pity the man who can har-
Dor enmity against his fellow he loses half
the enjoyment of life he embitters his own
existence. Let US tear from our eyes the
coral medium that invests every object with
the green hue of jealousy and suspicion !;
turn a deaf ear to the tale of scandal ;
breathe the spirit of charity from our lips ;
and from our hearts let the rich gushings OF
human kindness swell up as from fountain
so the golden age" viii become no fiction,
and the ''island of the blessed bloom in
more than Hesperian beauty.
Year: 1867

From Beadle's Monthly.I


Famine How few persons in our we'll
fed community, comprehend the import Of
the word Happily, as a country, we know
nothing of the appalling affection The cry
for bread not from one poor snfferer, but
from whole city full-not from hoyel, but
from every valley and hillside-who can pic
ture it The soul shrinks back aghast from
the spectacle, and we who live in comforta-
bic homes fain would believe that the vista
ton must pass away with the day and
become a thing of the past.


Perhaps, now, the keen famine 10 India IS
past-that the efforts Of the English gov
ernment to relieve the starving multitudes
have been adequate to the need but the
memory of the fifteen months just past will
long remain, finding Its parallel, in agony
and death in the Florence plague That
great pestiauce which stands out in the his
tory of the fourteenth century as one of
Time alarms 10 frlghten the human race,
ran over the face of the country, according
to the Italian poet Bocaccio 5 statement
''like fire when it comes in contact with
large masses of c0mbustibles, till its VIC
TINS were daily numbered By thousands
In vain the hope of escaping from it, vari-
Gus plans were adopted While some walk
ed everywhere with odors and nosegays to
smell to, for the atmosphere seemed to
them tainted with the stencil Of dead bod
les, Others lived temperately, shut their
ears to all news of the plague, aud divert
ed themselves with music. Some fled
from the plague stricken city brother from
brother, wife from husband, and even pa
rent from child, for the terror inspired by
the calamity was so great that II dried up
the natural affections Another class re
manned in the city necessarily revelling in
tayerns aud deserted private houses, indul-
ging in every brutal passion, and deiyiug
every law, human and divine for those
whose duty it was to cnfore the laws were
themselves either sick or dead.


But, there was no haven of safety. The
plague seized on the temperate man divert
ing himself with his music, or the man in-
haling his nosegayy on the coward in his
Year: 1867

THE Two VOICES. When Gutenberg,
the first, printer, was working in his cell in
the monastery of st. Aborsgot, he tells US
that he heard two voices address him. The
one bade him desist; told him the power his
invention would put in the hands of bad
men to propagate their wickedness; told him
how men would profane tfe art he had
created and how posterity would have cause
to curse the man who gave it to the world.
So impressed was Gutenberg with what he
heard that he took hammer, and broke to
pieces the types he had so laboriously put
together His Work of destruction was only
stayed by another voice, sweet and musical,
that fell on his ear, telling him to go on, and
to rejoice in his work; that all good might be
made the cause of evil, but that God would
bless the right in the end. So to all Of us
still come those voices that came to Gutten-
berg; the one calling us TO work while it is
called today-to try to leave this world bet
ter than e found it; and the other tempting
us to give over and take our ease-to leave
the plough in mid furrow, and to rest on
our oars when we should be pulling against
the stream.
Year: 1867

The delight of an Indian is a blanket.
Male and female, old and young, are sup
piled with this indispensable. They carry
it with them wherever they 60, using it for
a garment by day and for a bed by night
They do not, however, spread their blank
ct when they lie down, but first wrap it
carefully around them, and then lie down to
rest Among the less cultivated the blank
ct Is the only garment worn, with the ex-
cepti0ns of leggins and moccasIns which
are indispensable in travelling in the forests.
The mother makes an additional use of the
blanket she carries her child upon her
shoulders, but makes it answer at the same
time to protect herself from the cold and
storm She doubles her blanket and lays it


at the root of a tree, with the double edge


turned up about foot on the trunk Of the
tree then sitting the little pappoose up
right in it, she stoops with her back to the
child and gathers the blanket around her
On rising the babe s head only is exposed


back Of the mothers neck its little arms


resting upon her shoulders. BY drawing
the blanket tightly around her below the
child an easy case is formed, where it rests
for hours, sometimes for half day, as the
mother travels either on foot or on pony.
An Indian woman strides horse like man
and manages the widest animal with great
dexterity, holding the bride with one hand


and her blanket, containing her pappoose
with the other, her long black hair dangling
over her shoulders When an Indian ur-
chin arrives at the age to receive a blanket


he is as much delighted as little boy with


his first pair of trowsers, strutting about
with undisguised fooliuss uf manhness,
While the older ones look on the juvenile as
sumptions and audacity with manifest pleas
ure, grinning and uttering complacent words
and grunts
Year: 1867




BY ONE IN TIE LowIANDs.
Lady on the mountains height,
Times an elevated home,
And the landscape far below thee,
Thou dost oceularly roam
But look not down upon us
With haughty-proud disdain
Us here upon the lowlandsi
Us here upon the plain.
We know that we're beneath thee;
Beings Of inferior birth,
But angels in their love look down
Upon the sons of earth
Then like thy bright companions,
Thy smiles upon us rain;
Us here upon the lowlauds
Us here upon the plain.
We humbly bow before thee,
And worship at thy shrine
Oh! to our fond petitions
Wilt thou graciously incline?
For, with thy benign approval
Shall JOY with US obtain
Us here upon the lowlands
Us here upon the plain.
We love thee, we adore thee
For thy many graces sweet,
And fain we'd gather pearls
And lay them at thy feet
Thou art lovely thou art beautiful
We regard thee without stain,
Us here upon the lowlands;
Us here upon tho plain.
Thou art peerless! thou art perfect!
As we gaze upon the now,
Aud a coronet of diamonds
We'd weave around thy brow:
For thee all India's treasure,
We'd bring across the main,
Us here upon the lowlands;
Us here upon the plain
Thine eyes are scintiIations
From brightest orbs above,
And thy gentle heart so winsome,
Is full Of tenderest love:
But speak the word, fair lady,
And we'lI follow in thy train,
Us here upon the lowlands
Us here upon the plain.
From Heaven hast thou wandered,
Far from thy place Of birth
Forsook thy home celestial
To cheer the sons of earth
One smile from thee, sweet seraph,
Is to US a world of gain,
Us here upon the lowlands
Us here upon the plain.
Dwell forever on the mountain,
Fair lady-most divine,
And with overteeming hearts Of love
Our homage shall be thine,
And thy name and virtues ever
Shall be our proud refrain,
Us here upon the lowlands;
Us here upon the plain.
Year: 1867

Grand LOdge.-The following was
made q part of the constitution at the
late session:


"NO dispensation to form a new Lodge
in any city Of this state shall issue, eX-
cept upon the recommendation of at
least majority Of all the Lodges in said
city, unless the said city shall consist of
more than one Masonic district, when
the consent of a majority of the Lodges
in the district where the new Lodge is
sought to be located shall be sufficient"


SectdridR Freem0sOn7g.- The follow
ing is the expression Of the Grand Lodge
at its late session:


"The great principle Of religious tole-
ration, as one OF the indispensable safe
guards of Masonry, we have ever fully
recognized in it's fullest and most Catholic
sense. We reaffirm it now, and should
regret to see any feature introduced into
our Inscriptions Of praise or rendition of
thanks, or supplieations for aid to the
Almighty Father OF Us all, which wound
the sensibilities or jar upon the convic-
tions of any Brother. And while saying
this we would suggest a word of caution
to those whose great zeal for their pecu-
liarities of faith and belief tempt them
sstrsy, urging them to remember that ii
has been seen in the history Of our fallible
humanity that none have clamored so
loudly for liberation as the sternly intol-
Grant, not alone of one race or creed, but
OF all races and ereeds."


Giving the Degrees Gratis The fol-
lowing Resolution was adopted


Resolred, That this Grand Lodge for
bid any Lodge within its jurisdiction
comforting the degrees of Masonry upon
any person for less sum than that
named in the Bylaws of the Lodge,
and in no case, except where the person
is to be made Tiler, shall any portion Of
the fees be returned 10 the candidate.
Year: 1867

A IT Is estimated that there were nearly
ten Thousand printers and other attaches
Of newspaper offices ia the field on the
side OF the north during the war. The
proportion on the rebel side was also
very large. Does printers ink make 3
man belligerent?-N.- y. Gazette.
Year: 1867

CcL KNArr,


Thinking perhaps your read
ers will fin sufficient information in the
following private letter to pay Cor a peru
sal, you have the liberty to publish it in
your paper -
Year: 1867

viously agreed upon between
himself and General Pember-
ton. Vicksburg is mainly upon
a high bluff; the lower part of
the city during certain hours
of the day being entirely in
the shade. Commencing at
the upper end of the city and
within easy view, M. had selec-
ted thirteen houses along the
levee, and thirteen Others
behind and above these. To
each one of these houses a
letter of the alphabet twas
given. From the window in
the farmhouse he threw the
reflection first upon one house
and then upon another, an Off
Ger of PembertOn's staff, in the
secret, at the same time stand-
ing on the levee with his back
to NJ, and yet reading every
word easily and rapidly. And
he not only gave information
Of what was transpiring in the
Union camp at Young's Point,
but also gathered from North
ern newspapers important
news relative TO the move
ments of armies elsewhere,
sending it across the river in
the same manner.


This plan was kept up until
a short time before Gen. Grant
made arrangements for going
below Vicksburg, crossing at
Grand Gulf, and coming up in
the rear. Just before that
event, NJ. was ordered to
another point, and eubse-
quently the enemy had no
light upon the subject of that
last move which finally result
ed in the capture of that
stronghold of the Confederacy.


These facts | obtained from
M. himself, while afterward an
officer on board of one of the
transports with him, and l
have every reason to believe,
from experiments made at the
same place, that it was "a
plain unvarnished tale" he
related TO me.-Albany Ere
ming Journal.
Year: 1867

The Investigator very truly
says, the great want of this age
is men,. Men who are honest,
sound from centre to circum-
ference, true to the hearts core.
Men who will condemn wrong
in friend or foe, in themselves
as we'll as in Others. Men
whose conciences are as steady
as the needle to the pole. Men


who will stand for the right if
the heavens totter and the
earth reels. Men who can tell
the truth and look the devil
right in the eye. Men that
neither brag nor run. Men
that neither flag nor finch.
Men who have courage with
out whistling for it, and JOY
without shouting for it. Men
in whom the current of ever.
lasting life runs still, deep and
strong. Men too large for sec
tartan limits and too strong
for sectarian bands. Men who
do not strive, or cause their
voices to be heard in the
stree, but who will not fail
nor be discourage d, till judg-
ment be sent on earth. Men
who know their message and
tell it. Men who know their
duty and do it. Men who know
their place and fill it. Men
who mind their own business.
Men who will not lie. Men
who are not too lazy to work
nor too proud TO be poor.
Men who are willing to eat
what they have earned, and
wear what they have paid for.
Year: 1867

There once lived on the
banks of the Beaver river a
man by the name OF Smith who
took it into his head to raise
ducks. Unfortunate for him
ducks qrOuld go into the riv.
er and swim off. He got tired
of losing his ducks; So one
morning he and his son Jake
got a boat and went on the riv-
er to capture all of them
which they did, except one
old drake who baffled all their
attempts to capture him. The
old man was not noted for his
patience, so he told Jake 10
take one of the paddles and
when the boat got near enough
to kill the drake; and, he con-
tinued, "Now Jake, be sure
and strike the fatal blow."--
When the boat got within
reach of the drake Jake
brought the paddle down with
all his might, and the old man
jumped up, exclaiming, 'Jakey
did you strike the fatal blow ?!
eyes, daddy, l struck the fglta
blow, but | missed the drake
Year: 1867

"A we'll known editor of
New Jersey, about to start for
Long Branch, requested his
wife to put in his satchel what
articles was necessary for an
absence of two or three days.
He lodged at Freehold, and in
the morning he. opened the
satchel to take out some clean
linen, when he found it to con-
tain only a bottle of whisky
and a bundle of old newspa-
pers. That editors wife evi-
IDENTIFY understood his "travel-
ing necessities"
Year: 1867

On a steamer whichrecently
passed up to Montana was a
girl scarce eighteen, who goes
to the distant land of Gold to
meet her afianced. Four
years ago she met and loved a
young student in a German
University. Their trysting
place might not have been at
"Bingen on the Rhine" but
twas at just as romantic a
spot not many leagues distant.
Her attachment was recipro-
Gated, and troth was plighted.
Three years since the "bride-
groom" came to America, and
sought his fortune in Montana,
shortly securing a. lucrative
position as superintendent of a
successful mining company.
A few weeks ago a brief mes
sage darted across two cont.
nents, and three thousand miles
Of ocean in a day, and found
this beautiful, unsophisticated
girl surrounded by all the en-
dearments of a home of wealth
and refinement. 1t told her
that near the far off shores of
the Pacific some one awaited
her coming. A few days later
and she was rocking on the
waves of the broad Atlantic,
and later still she disembarked
in a strange land, the language
and customs of whose people
we're new to her. She is now
slowly and happily ascending
the Missouri, confident that her
bridegroom" is expecting her,
having travelled alone from the
banks of the Baltic to meet
him. Suppose he should have
died, during her journey! What
then?-- Wstern Paper.
Year: 1867

-Patronize your own coun-
ty paper, for it gives you more
news of interest than any 1Or-
eign paper you can take. 1t is
the medium through which
your county in all her interests
is defended, and by its silent,
though constant voice, your
lands, your products, your
stock, your mineral wealth,
your educational interests, in
fact your all is made more


valuable to you and you're. A


stranger will discover in a
short time while visiting a
family, whether they take their
county paper or not. Their
very language and intelligent
reference to the occurrences of
the day will impress him with
the fact.-AthenS Messenger.
Year: 1867

81 do not wish to say any.
thing against the individual
in question:" said a quiet old
man, "but l would remark, in
the language of the poet, that
TO him truth is stranger than
felton,
Year: 1867

AN Ice CAvE-Nearly all the ice used
on the Pacific coast is obtained from new
er-failing ice cave in the Northern part of
Oregon. This remarkable subterranean cav
ern, where the ice remains in perfect state
the year round, is situated on stream known
as the White Salmon, which empties into
the Columbia river, on the Washington Ter
ritory side about thirty miles below the
Dalles. The entrance to this icy chamber is
near the base of Mount Adams, which
stands twenty miles from the Columbia, and
whose melting snow constitute the waters of
the White Salmon. The dimensions of this
cave are vast, extending many miles under
the snowy mountain, and the scenery inside
is supremely grand. The ice is found in col
umns formed by water falling from above
and congealing as it falls. These columns
are cut out in blocks and conveyed on pack
animals to the Columbia river, and from
thence are shipped to all the markets on the
coast.
Year: 1867

The British Consul at Fernando Po writes
to DIR. Hooker, of the Royal Society. ''It
may interest you to hear that the Cameroons
Mountain is again in a state of active erup-
tion. On the night of October 18th the lava
seemed to rush with tremendous force out
of the east side few hundred feet from the
top, then pour over in grand cataract of
fire and flow off east-southeast in q crooked
fiery stream down the mountain side. The
molten lava poured out from sunset. when
it was first seen, till after midnight increas-
ing In volume Clonds obscured the noun
tain next morning, but it has been seen
burning thrice since. 1t is apparently quiet
now There was no thunder for several
days preceding, but we had gale of wind
from the east northeast-an unusual dlrec-
Homecoming an hour before sunset on the
l4th inst, tornado, in fact, without thun
der or rain, except few drops.
Year: 1867

Temperance lecture in Grand Haven, Mich,
the other night, and was depicting in his
graphic style the condition of del,rum tre-
mems, in the rum maniac, an old lady be-
came SO Influenced by her imagination,
wrought upen by the orator, that when he
was describing the sensation of the reptiles
crawling up from below, she arose from her
seat. walked up to the table, and looked over
for the purpose of seeing the snakes This
completely upset the gravity of the meeting,
and it was some time before the speaker
could 60 on.
Year: 1867

A merchant of Richmond attempted to
cure himself of chronic rheumatism by an
outward application of wet tobacco. Per-
mitting the poultice to remain on too long
the tobacco oozed into his blood and poison
ed him. His life was, for time, despaired
Of but good treatment soon restored him to
ordinary health.
Year: 1867

II saw lady wrapped up in shawl that
she would not take six hundred dollars for"
said Smith to Jones. Il can beat that all
hollow retorted Jones, for I saw a lady
that was so wrapped up in her baby that she
wouldn't have taken six hundred thousand
dollars for It
Year: 1867

A Western Democratic paper says the
Democratic vote in Ohio would have been
increased by ten thousand if Vallandigham
had remained at home and kept his lips
sealed. The State Committee did try to
would have him on the stump.
Year: 1867

A SHREwD WAY OF CATCHING THIEVES.
The Paris papers reveal new style of theft
by which jewellers are losers. The thief en-
tiers the shop of dealer in diamonds and
asks to see some small unset stones. He is
well dressed and wears colored spectacles.
The stones are laid before him, spread on
paper. Being very near sighted as his glass
es prove, he is obliged to bring his eyes SO
near to the gems that he can pick them up
with the tip of his tongue, and he keeps
them in his mouth until out of the shop. If
he fears detection, which seldom occurs, he
swallows his treasure whence the slang
name of Swallow it raw" given to this
class by the thieves fraternity. One of
them was caught the other day The dia-
mond merchant, put upon his guard, said
he had no small stones, but would have a
large supply the next day. A policeman
was in waiting; the diamonds were laid out
upon paper previously impregnated with an
extremely bitter drug, which, when the thief
put his tongue to them, acted SO violently
on his sense of taste that he instantly re-
jected what he had just taken. The police
man appeared and the thief was taken in
the act.
Year: 1867

The oil of pennyroyal will keep mos
quitoes out of room, if scattered about
even in small quantities. Reaches are
exterminated by scattering handful OF
fresh cucumber parings about the house
No fly will light on the window which
has been washed with water in which .
little garlic has been boiled