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Year: 1866

millions. Under the legislation Of the present
rotten Congress the defalcations will amount
to hundreds Of millions. Now Is the time for
President johnson to set his face firmly against
the enormous schemes Of public plunder which
Congress has already and is still attempting to
push through In his next message vetoing
some gigantic attempt upon the public treas
ury or some .piratical crusade upon the public
domain, the President should give his views
fully, positively. peremptorily. Otherwise,
and unless these Wholesale defalcations and
plundering schemes be checked, the country
before long will be involved in chaos Of
financial population and ruin.
Year: 1866

They have a style of marriage at St. Adams that
is very unique and economical. The infatuated
pair walk into hotel with a witness and order
room and fire. The parson is sent for aud ties
the knot when the brdeman draws his suqirre-skin,
selects one dollar bill and hands it to the witness
pointing to the parson and saying Give that
are to that are fellern Thereupon the hotel keep
er is notified that the loving couple are going out
for a walk, and they walk so far in search Of the
honey moon that return is impossible Cheap and
cute
Year: 1866

Rutland Herald gives the following additional par
ticulars of the accident ON the Rensselaer, and
Saratoga Railroad, Tuesday morning -" When
the morning train was approaching Comstock S
Landing, it was violently thrown off the track,
by the spreading of the track, as we are inform
ed, aud two OF the three passenger cars were
thrown down an embankment, one of them strik-
ing tree by which it was smashed to pieces.
of them being in the car that struck the tree
Two or three of the twelve, is feared are fatally


Injured
Year: 1866




Only one step more remained 10 be taken.--
jefferson aud the leading statesmen of his day held
fast to the idea that the ensavement Of the Airi-
was socially, morally, and politically wrong.
The new school was founded exactly upon the op-
poste idea; and they resolved first to distract the
democratic party for which the Supreme Court
had now furnished the means, and then to establish
anew government, with negro slavery for its cor
ner-stone, as socially, morally and politically right
TnE ELECTION.


As the presidential election drew on, one of the
old traditional parties did not make its appearance
the other reelod as it sought TO preserve its old
position and the candidate who most nearly rep
resented its best opinion, driven by patriotic zeal,
roamed the country from end 10 end TO speak for
union, eager at least TO confront It's enemies, yet
not having hope that il would find its deliyeranee
through him. The storm rose to u whirwind
who shall allay its wrath ? The most experienced
statespen of the country had failed there was no
hope from those who We're great after the flesh
could relief come from whose wisdom was
like the wisdom of little children?


EARLY LIFE or ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Year: 1866

The kITTATINNY AND WILSON
BLAcKBERR1Es.-The inquiry being
frequently made as to what is the DIFF
ference between the Wilson's Early
and the kittatinny Blackberry, two
new varieties that have recently been
brought forward with strong recommen-
dations of their good qualities, it may
not be improper TO state that both are
berries of superior excellence, and great
acquisitions to our list of small fruits.
They resemble each other in many re-
spects; both are large, luscious, and
very productive, sweet and ready to be
eaten as soon as black, and hold their
color we'll after picking. Their princi-
pal difference is in the time and man.
ner Of ripening, which will adapt them to
the wants of different classes of fruit
growers.


The Kittatinny has the habit of con-
tinuing long in bearing, yielding its
luscious fruits through period Of six
to eight weeks. We have eaten of it
fresh from the vines on the 3Oth of Au-
gust. This property will make it a
favorite with the amateur and private
gardener, who grow little fruit for
family use, and would not desire many
bushels of blackberries at one time.


The Wilson's Early has the habit
Of ripening its crop mainly together,
and principally over in two weeks, and
before the height of blackberries come
on. Like the early pea, its whole crop
is gathered at few pickings, while
the price rules high; therefore, it does
not come in competition with any other
blackberries, but is ahead of them all
in market, and brings more money.
Fruit growers who already have as
many acres of the Rochelle as they
can properly attend to, would not want
many more ripening at the same time,
yet they might with great propriety
add another field Of an earlier variety
to come ahead and precede the New
Rochelles in market.-Rural .7drer-
tiser.
Year: 1866

A PARIS blacksmith has invented
new system of shoeing horses. Instead
of the shoe being placed on the hoof
and burning its own resting place, the
outside of the hoof is cut away around
the foot tc about the depth of half an
inch; this leaves a ledge into which
the shoe fits, and is then flush with the
frog, which just touches the ground,
and the whole foot rests on the ground
instead of being raised as of old by the
shoe. The advantages claimed are that
the foot is little pared, that instead of
a great heavy shoe, the animal is shod
in what are little more than racing
plates, that the horse never slips, that
the shoe allows the foot to expand nat
urahy, and that it lasts as long and is
as cheap as the old plan.
Year: 1866

Who WILL G1vE.-The Lake City
Leader is responsible for the following
story: Alta meeting of the patriotic
ladies and gentlemen of Lake City, to
prepare for the soldiers festival lately
held in that enterprising town, young
attorney present was requested to find
out would supply the milk for the din
ner. Jumping up on chair, he loudly
asked: 'How many ladies here will
give milk for the brave soldiers % to
which an elderly lady responded, that
for one she could not-she had not Civ
en- milk for ten years which so utterly
confounded the young lawyer that he
was entirely unable to prosecute his
enquiry, and it has never been satisfac-
torily known how many ladies there
were at the meeting who would have
promised ''to give milk for the brave
soldiers"
Year: 1866

FASHIONABLE CHURCH Music. The
way in which words are often divided
when set to music sometimes produce q
rather ludicrous effect. A stranger
was once surprised on hearing con-
gregation, mostly of women, crying out


"Oh for man


Oh for man.


Oh for mansion in the skes.-
The second verse ran thus:


THAT would take pill


That would take a pill,


That would take pilgrim home TO die -
While on another occasion choir
sang to the best of their ability:


well catch the flee,


Wen catch the flee


Well catch the fiee-tng hours =,
1t is hoped nobody was bitten.-Er.
The above reminds us of the effect
produced by the adaptation of Ger
tain tune to one of Watts hymns.
When sung, it ran thus:


with reverence let the saints appear,


And bow-ow-ow before the Lord
Year: 1866

A Cincinnatian says: "Talk about filters
Just eat quart Of Ohio river water. and
stand in the sun for five minutes, and you
will find the aforesaid coming out at every
pore. beautifully filtered, while your stomach
becomes converted into sand bag, and you
can hear the gravel rattle as you walk"
Year: 1866

guess, as soon as the reconstruction ques>
tion is settled properly, shall vote the other
ticket


Masses move slowly, and It is harl to say
how much time may elap.e before people
generally take this view Of the matter. The
existing regime may 90 on until the conlrac~
uon Of the currency brings hard times" to
every door. As matters stanG row, by dint
OF Issuing money by the million week,
Government keeps up a fictitious prosperity
which enables people to pay the eXoruitaut
taxes, aud nobody complains. But slowly
as grind the mills Of the goI7 they grind
exceeding fine, and the day viii come that
the men who vote to tax the people exorJi~
family for the benefit Of this or that manu-
featuring establishment val have to look to
it for their reward
Year: 1866

EvDuring the progress of the civil war
several hundred papers in the United


States were suppressed by direct order Of
the President or by Abolition Mobs.-
Such papers were generally such as were
defending the constitution, and are now
advocating Restoration of the Union.
Such as the Boston Lberator, who faunted
the motto at its head: "The Constellation
is league Nth death and the Union a
corenant ,eith heR," were permitted to per-
sue the even tenor Of their way unmolested.
That they we're sincere and honest in their
hatred of the Constitution and the Union,
is evidenced now in their advocacy of all
measures in violation Of that instrument,
and their opposition to restoration Of the
Union. Of this class, though not quite SO
out-spoken and bold, we have some nearer
home than Boston. They>are Of . more
dangerous character than the "Liberator,"
because they sail under false colors, and
whilst protesting great love and attachment
for the Constitution and the Union are biz
ter and uncompromisiDg foes to both


Thank Heaven the deception they have
practiced and are practicing is becoming
evident to the masses, and is meeting its
reward. The wrath they have invoked
upon Others, will be found at no distant
day to be spirit. raised Up which they can
not conjars doYn. Alas! for the day
when those they have deceived fully awake
to the deception, and when the prosecuted
turns prosecutor, .'.. '',r ''.'
Year: 1866

EtsfWe regret to receive from every
section Of the county tho most discouragine
accounts of the growing crops of grain. =.
From present indications not more than
half a crop can be reasonably anticipated


From the time of seeding. to the present
the season has been very uhpropitious for
the growth of the crop, and it is now too
late to hope for much improvement. The
farmers are now busily engaged in planting
their crops of corn, with which, we hone
better fortune awaits them. y1rs.u -
Year: 1866

The public hereby notified that the silver badges
heretofore used by the regular reporters Of the NEw
York HERALD have been recalled and will longer be
used means of Identifying the attaches OF this
Uf1ce
Year: 1866

RECORDER HACKETT ON THE INSECURITY or THE
New OrERA HousE.--In his charge TO the Grand
Jury on Wednesday the Recorder called their
attention 10 the haste and recklessness with
which buildings are being run up throughout
the city, and referred 10 the construction Of
the new Opera House In Fourteenth street as
being proper subject for inquiry on their
part When Il Was first proposed 10 use the
remnsnts Of the old walls We objected to them
as being unsafe, aud urged the entire recon-
s,ruction of the building. The Recorder,
probably on the suggestion of some Of our
leading architccts, has taken hold Of the SUBJ
jcct, and he very properly recommends that
thorough examination shall he made Of the
wallis lie thinks tha. after the intense heat TO


which they have been subjected they may not
be strong enough 10 sustain the enormous
pressure which they will he called upon 10
bear, and that a fearful catastrophe may result
from II. This Is more than probable, and we
are not sure that even the inquiry proposed
will satisfactorily decide the matter. The
Grand Jury will probably only make n cursory
examination Of the building, aud lis opinions,
unless they are fortified by those OF architects
in whom the public can put confidence, will be
of very little value. The difficulty presents.
another illustration OF the necessity which
exists for the creation BY the Legislature Of .
Board of Works Had such body been in
existence the stockholders Of the Academy OF
Music would not have dared 10 risk the safety
Of the public In the deslre to economizc .
iew ,housapd dopar.
Year: 1866

men to Congress. who will be able To rule
their spirits ard not resort to brute force,
as in the case Of Gen. Rosseau. By the way,
we think this relic of southern chivalry ought
TO be Iureed from the foor of Congress
These 6sticuffs in Congress have been living
disgrace to our nation. B.. r.
Year: 1866

NEW HANP6HIkE WATKR CURE.


Since writing the above have been for the
past two months at the Granite Stale Health
Institute in New Hampshire, whittier went,
with the faint hope of recuperating in some
Year: 1866

The bitter hatred and utter detestation
that we feel, and that we express at times,
in these columns, against that incendiary
and diabolcal spirit that nanifests itself
among a large party at the North. must
not be considered by the true men of North
ern birth in our midst and elsewhere as
extending itself towards them. So far from
having any intent to say ought that would,
in the slightest degree, wound the sensi-
biities of such men, the course that we
have been pursuing and intend to pursue,
OF deDOuncing all shams and hypOcricies
wherever found, we feel certain will find O,
responding echo in the bOsoms OF these
very men-even though our chief hunting
ground be in the Northern States. In that
land the hunter of "shams" can never fail
to start his game.


There are Northern men now in our
midst who have. been tried aud have not
been found wanting; VINO staked their
wealth and their lives on the Confederate
cause, and who still remain true to their
adopted land in these her days OF "sack-
cloth and ashes" We could fill column
with the names of such men, even here inc
Mobile; we could fill numberless ones from
the muster rolls of the armies of Lee and
Johnston. Many of these men by perform
ing the duty they owed to the land of their
adoption, have severed those ties that are
dearest to the human heart-they have


placed gulf between themselves and their


kindred. But they have bound to them


selves warmer hearts in this Southern land
of ours. Let the knowledge of that. and
their consciousness of having done their
duty, be a compensation for the sacrifices
they have made.


But the denuncations Of many things at
the North that will often appear in these
columns, if things continue as they are


now going, will not be aimed even at those
Northern men whom we once considered
our bitterest enemies. Under the new con-
ditiOn of things, which have brought us all


once more under common government,


we consider it duty, that we cannot with


honor discard, to smoke the pipe OF peace
with any of our late enemies who make us
proffer of it. ........


The time has been when we would have


taken great pleasure in breaking Mr.. Henry
Ward Beecher on a rack but the course of
the man since the termination of the war of


the sword and cannon, and the resuming of
the war of words, has been such as to en-
| title him to some respect and confidence.
! And they should be freely given him, while


we accept the prOffer of reconciliation that
he makes us. AS with Mr.. Beecher so with
others like him. We speak Of-hiIn as a


representative OF that class among whom
stands Andrew Johnson-who, though not


OF Northern birth, was once Northern


enough in all other respects to suit the most
| fastidious. .r... ............


Now, while under the new order fittings,
| it is our duty to treat men of that stamp
with respect and confidence, it is equally


our duty to keep alive in our bosoms the


most implacable hatred towards those per-
jured Radicals, who, not content with hav-
ing murdered our relatives and neighbors
by the swords OF their mercenaries, are
now set to work to assassiuate our good


names with their evil slanderous tongues
Year: 1866

The Democratic evening paper of this
city. in long and carefully written edi-
torial article on the relations of the Demo-
cratic party to the President, uses the fol-
lowing significant language: "President
johnson is the natural and inevitable lead
er of the Democracy in the great battle now
going on Tor constitutional liberty. There
is on the part of the Democracy, the most
cordial feeling toward such Republicans as
shall break loose from the trammelS of
faction and take their stand with us for the
Constitution. We know no difference be-
tween such men as C0wan, Dixon, Norton,
Doolittle, and Others of like character, and
our own accepted leaders. Thev deserve
to be sustained and honOred in their posi-
tions, and they will be. We repudiate ev-
cry idea that the President looks to the for
nation of a third party to supersede the
Democratic organization, or that he sup
poses such a scheme capable OF accomplish
ment, even if it were desirable. Still less
can we believe that he cherishes any pur-
pose ofso distributing the honors and pat
ronage of his Administration that the la
bors OF the only conservative organization
in the land shall be permanently excluded
from all participation therein. Rome was
starving for office, nor need they be in
hurry. They and all sensible men know
that the President has hardly yet begun to
consider, still less to act on these questions;
but we have assurances that he will not
overlook the great party on which he now
leans for support" .riigly
Year: 1866

memory that he could not rid his mind
OF its painful recollection. When boy
he had thrown a stone at his mother
because she refused to indulge him in
some childish fancy, and although she
had died when be was but youth, hc
could never forget the circumstance
1t followed I'm into the pulpit, in the
crowded a~>ea...v. at the family altar,
at home and abroad, 'reping and wa
king, for even his dreams 1T times
were disturbed by its reproachful pres
ence. Children might take warning
from this aged mans experience, and
90 nothing to wound the feelings Of
their mother the first and best friend
they will ever meet in this world.
Year: 1866

There are few of Us in this world
who have attained to years of maturi-
ty, who can look back upon the past
without calling up some sorrowtnl in
cidents in our history of a deeply pain
full character, and which are calculated
to throw a gloom and sadness over
our hours OF pleasure and enjoyment.
Life is but checkered scene, thea
tire OF great doubt and uncertainty, and
although the earth may be fair and the
skies clear above Us. clouds will, at
times settle upon the soul, and the
burdens OF disappointment weigh heav-
lily upon US. No position which we
can gain in life, can bring to Us sub
stantial happiness. Wealth has its
cares, and poverty its numberless al
fiictions, and even mediocracy, the


most enviable OF all conditions, fre-
quently embittered by its losses and


weighed down by its sorrows and at-
fictions There are none who are ex-
empt from the vicissitudes which beset
US here, or can claim an immunity
from The changes which come and 20
like clouds upon our pathway, yet liv-
ing realities which we cannot possibly
ignore. The purest amongst US will
find in the records Of his past life, dark
/ spots which soil their pages, and which
they would cheertully obliterate, were
it in their power. The infrmities OF
our nature are pictured upon every
/ leaf, and we shrink from their contem-
-, hananSn bav- h Y1vAnT nt
our folly and evidence Of our eondem-
! nation After we have done our best
/ in this world, there is much remains
! und0ne, for the omission OF which We
/ will be held responsible according to
/ the strict rules ofjustice, tempered, 1t


is to be hoped, in our case, with the
Intervention of mercy. A conscience
| fully approved before God and man Is
rarity seldom, if ever, met with here


Errors will be forgiven aud pardon OBJ


tanned when pleaded for, yet the sting


of remorse is, at times, too deeply
planted in the human heart ever to be


successfully eradicated.


| We were, some years ago, acqualnt


ed with an aged clergyman VINO had


been a faithful minister Of the Gross


for over fifty years, devout follower


Of his Divine Master, and whose lnt1u


ence and example for good had beer


widely felt in his neighborhood tol


more than half a century, who at one


time told US that be believed firmly


that all the sins he had committed
had been forgiven, but there was one


ACT of his life which was so fixed in hi
Year: 1866

Mr. Genio c. Scott, an old sports
man and contributor to Wilkes Spirit
of the Times, writes TO that journal:


The enterprise of gentlemen of the
metropolis causes them to monopolize
the salmon rivers of the North as well
as the striped fisheries of the East, and
tue trout waters of the middle and
eastern States Already are the sal
mon rivers in New Brunswick parcell-
ed out, as in Scotland and Ireland, at
so much Il rod. | have just received
letter from the lessee of the famous
Nepisiquit river, near Bathurst. by
which | am informed that be and FIVE
New Workers have the whole river
this year, with the stipulation that
only six rods are to be used. Other
waters, away on to New Foundland
and those of Lower Canada and Lab
rador, which empty into the St. Law
renee, are chiefly hired by gentlemen
of New York.


1t is now necessary for good salmon
angling 10 60 as far as Labrador
There is prospect that the numerous
salmon rivers on the island of Anita
cost will soon be opened to competi-
ton, in which case the steamers to ply
this season between the coast of Lab
rador and the terminus of a railroad
in New Brunswick will render all
these northern fisheries much more
accessible to New Workers than they
art at present; and instead of making
the rounds to the watering places with
their extemporised accommodations of
/ large houses divided longitudinally on
each story by wide hall, on each
side Of which are cramped stalls for
: the strong oxen OF society, whose lack
of common sense renders them liable
to becoming incarnated in such pounds
instead of being led like sheep into
such miniature villas of the snobocra-
CIV, they will rendezvous early in June
at Russell's Hotel at Quebec, or at
Ferguson's in Bathurst, where they
/ will charter sailing craft or hire half
breeds with their canoes and take
steamer to the far northeast, and ar
rive where the cedar partridge (that
bird of great delicacy.) the bear, the
salmon, and brook trout are SO numer-
Gus that party never need dine with
out salmon cooked in every style, ten
derloin bear steaks, broiIed partridge,
&C, and where the ice TO cool the
champagne never disappears. A trip
of this kind, instead of serving to
enervate and demoralize, will strength
en- the body and expand and elevate
the mind
Year: 1866

E9 A subscriber writes to West
ern editor-I don't want your paper
any longer To which the editor re-
plies / would not make it any longer
If you did; its present length suits me
very we'll
Year: 1866

Hg One of the dupes of a New
York advertising swindler. who sent
the requisite amount of fractional cur
rency for the purpose of learning a
certain and quick mode Of getting
rich,' received the reply-'work like
the devil, and don't spend cent
Year: 1866

We had thought that we had exhausted
the Public General Laws when we stated
e few isaues ago that We shad completed
their publication. It turns out, However,
that we were mistaken, a supplemental
batch of these laws having been received
since that time. We give place to them
in our present paper.