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Year: 1866

The Boston Journal says that a letter
was recently received at the Office Of that
paper from Mississippi, complaining that
the Journal does not reach its subscribers
in that State. The writer says:


Our mail and post Office arrangements
ara at perfectly loose ends; no postmaster
and if one is found who can and will take
the oath, such are the feelings of tho -pso-
pie generally against hin that no one dsres
let him room to keep the Office in, and his
life even is threatened if he attempts to
take charge CT the mails. Onlythose who
are Southern can have anything to do with
the mails. Our letters containing money
fail to reach their destination, aud We have
found our letters containing drafts, opened.
Year: 1866

Some writer has said that young mother
is the most beautiful thing in nature. Why
qualify it2 The sentimental outside be-
holder may prefer youth in the pretty pic
ture but we are inclined 10 think that sons
and daughters, who are most intimately
concerned in the matter, love and admire
their mothers most when they are old. Hon
suggestive Of isonisthing holy and venerable
it IS when person talks Of their dear old
motherl" .,.rY 4I-r.I
Year: 1866

LIFE.SAvNG TAcKLE-The Boston papers contain
highly euogistc accounts OF the trial. few days since In
that harbor OF the patent esaving tackle" of Messrs
Level board the Revenue cutter Pawtnre
Fsugar A. In the OF the cutter Cuyahoga In NewYok
Bay month two the utmost attended the
perments which witnessed BY large number of the
tod Boston. Messrs Brown Level have received


the Secretary OF the Treasury order TO equip all the
cutters in the Revenue service with their invention.
Year: 1866

10 the Chamber Of Deputies the Minister OF the H.
terror stated that the Government cogDizant OF the
trerstons of certain oonspratos but did not apphend
any serious disturbance of the public ranqulibfy
Year: 1866

There are perhaps very few residents of the city
who bay rot been frequently dsgusted with intolerse
odor hydrogen that periodically sweeps over
from river to the other and fewer still who have been able
10 account for its existence The which have sins
enough of their for have been charged with
emitting this noisome exhaaon and number Of other
been asfgned but its origin to have been VIOLA
tile itself and efforts 10 fr 1t upon any thing
proved uitless The Board of Health. however. had


suspicion that II from the gas Works In various parts Of
the city and therefore the task Of learning what sv
denee could DO had upon the subject to its Sanitary Com
mittee.


But the Citizens Association also the scent
and The evidence has been sbs to obtain laid before the
Sanitary Committee yesterday afternoon Personally bad
been convinced long before The matter spoken In the
Soayd Of Health that fha nuisance ef which 90 apy com
Year: 1866

| suppose that coquetry, in its legitimate
form, is among womens charms, and that
there is a legitimate sphere for its employ
ment, for, except In rare natures, it is o
natural thing with your sex. Nature has
ordained that man shall prize most that
which shall cost an effort, and while it has
designed that you shall at some time give
your heart and hand to a worthy man, it
has also provided way for making the
prize he seeks an apparently difficult one
to win. 1t is q simple and beautiful provi-
sion for enhancing your value in his eyes,
SO as to make difficult thing of that which
you know to be unspeakably easy If you
hold yourselves cheaply, and meet all adj
vances with open willingness and gladness,
the natural result will be that your lover
will tire Of you. TO become 3 firt is to
metamorphose into disgusting passion
that which by natural constitutions harm
less and useful instinct This instinct OF
coquetry, which makes woman thing to
be won and which suppose all women are
conscious OF possessing in some degree, is
not a thing to be cultivated or developed
at all.


1t should be left to itself, unstimulated
and unperverted and if, in the formative
stage of your womanhood, by initiating
them, or seeking to make impressions for
the sake Ofsecuring attentions which are
repaid by insult and negligence, you do
violence to your nature, you may make OF
yourself woman whom your own sex de-
spise, and whom sensible men who do not
mean to cheat You with insineerities as
mean as yours, are afraid Of They will
not love, and they will not trust you.-Dr.
TIoIIn0H
Year: 1866

The most foolish and ridiculous position
a man standing five feet eleven inches or
six feet, and stout in proportion, can be
placed in, is in front of house of bitter
cold night, singing love ditties to his lady
fayre,p and accompanying himself on fro
zensguitar., We saw q poor devil making
himself miserable in this way few nights
since, and Gancied all the while the object
of his affections pecping her pretty nose
from under the cover, too cold to think Of
rising, and laughinga at him who was making
"a Judy Of himself on her account OF u
calm warm night it is well enough but
when old Jack Frost is about, we think o
comfortable fire preferable 70 My heart,
my heart is breaking for the love Of any
body under the window. How can young
men be so stupid as to suppose that the
girls willleave their warm beds Of a bitter
cold night to hear the pleadings of their
passionate lips, the breathiugs of the heart
through .chattering teeth ! Fudge. boys
keep at home until the season of flowers
comes round again, and then we'll have
music and romance plenty,
Year: 1866

g. A Russian bet with Pole that he
could put a bullet through his hat at one
hundred PAGES without touching his head.
The Pole. crowded his hat down so far that
the bullet went through his head, thus win
ming the bet Sues
Year: 1866

1t was summer. The moonbeams glanced
lovingly down upon little cottage. The
soft winds blew aside the leaves and found
the fair brow of sleeping infant. Asmile
rested on her baby-face, on which the sun
of but one summer had rested. Sleep on,
fair child! You little know what trials
await you and how many tears will dim
your eyes before your short life is ended
Year: 1866

i A Chinese widow, tanning the tomb of
her husband, and being asked the cause of
so singular mode of showing her grief


accounted for it by saying that he had made


her promise not to marry again while the


morter of his tomb remained damp; and as
it dried but slowly, she saw no harm in
aiding the operation.
Year: 1866

| 1t was bitter night; one of those tlue,
happily unfrequcpt in this latitude, when
everything, animate aud iuan!mate,seoms
to shrink and cover from the intense
cold The very air was full of icy partj-
cles which one was forced tc draw in with
every breath aud when the moon rose,
round and clear aud bright, and the wind
came up with 1t, penetrating every crack
aud creeice, Go mater how minute, the
passengers by the night express gathered
closer to the stove, crowding and jostling
each other, as even weii-bred people will
sometimes do, in their efforts TO keep
] warm


All but one man, who sat in a seat by
himself near the door. a tall man, wrapped
in an overcost Of army Blue, the visor oil
his cap drawn low over his eyes-deep,
dark eyes, with q strange expression iD
them-such eyes as man might have
who had been fated to stand for a time on
t! C borders IF he'll, AID having seen must
bear with him through life the memory
of its horrors


He sat there quietly enough taking
little heed, apparently, of wha. was going
on about him All the evening he had
sat SO, seldom moving, not speaking, only
ouce, when he had given up his comfort
able seat GEAR the fire to a poor looking
woman with a child in her arms and hi'n-
self taken this one farther back aud the
passengers, noticing the little act of po
iteness, and observing his dress as we'll
decided that he was "a soldier on his way
home veteran, probably" and then
dropped him out of their thoughts


And while the hours Of early evening
wore away the train thundered on, over
miles aud miles Of level prairie past farm
houses nestled down among the trees aud
barns and corn cribs; past little groups
of dwellings With their home lights shi
ning cheerily out.


The man By the window watched them
as they fitted by, an eager hungry look
coming into his eyes. Was he thinking
of house at he end of his journey,wher
the lamps were lighted by this time, and
three faces, pad enough now, would grow
suddenly bright at his coming? I do got
know. The conductor came in presently
bringing a little of the keen outerair with
him. He paused with his hand on the
back OF the seat in which the soldier eat
smiling down into the gloomy eyes lifted
to his face as he said, cheerfully.


We shall be at Nj eleven minutes.
You're almost home, sir"


"Yes, thank God 7"
Year: 1866

CHURCH ETIQUETTE-It is fashiona.


bic with some people to go late to church,


long after the services have begun, to the
ediication of the curious in the congre-
CATION, and the annoyance of the preacher.
A contemporary says it has lately been
decided, on high authority, that the fol-
lowing rules are to be observed on such
occasions -


"Let the lady advance one pace beyond
the door of the pew she wishes to enter,
halt, about face, and salute. The pew
must then BE- vacated by such gentlemen
as are in it, by flank movement. The
squad should rise simultaneously when
the lady presents herself, and face by the
right flank, then deploy into the aisle,
the head man facing the lady, and the
rest walking to his right aud rear, the
direction of the line baing changed BY a
right countermarch, and forming agaiu
into line up and down the aisle, sill facei
by the right flank, The lady, VIXEN sha
sees that the coast is clear, completes her
salute, and advances to her position in tho
pew The gentlemen break of By flies
from the rear and resume their placess
Great care should be taken, of course, by
other parties not to euter the aisle when
this evolution is in progress, until it is
Year: 1866

It is manifsstly true that the political campaign
upon which the country is Just entering h to be a
crisis Of vast Importance. Upon 1t will depend the
and people. Having passed through the ordeal of
civil war triumphantiy, IL remains to be decided
whsthsr the legitimate fruits Of the united lsbors
Of those who united, without respect ofparty, for
the preservation Of the Government shall be turned
to bitter ashes, and the disunion which Southern
rebels could not accomplish shall bs Effected by
Northern politicians.


THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
hss always battlsd for the Government and the
Gag, and now, whom disruption of the Union 70
oourtsd BY extremists Who under the suiss Of pure
patriotic principle are ravenous for political power
and place. the


NATIONAL REPUBLICAN


still battles for the Gag Of our Union.


1t is to bs an arduous struggle, and We ask in all
sincerity that the friends Of the Union--which is
our cause s against sectionalists Of every and
from every quartsr-shall give US the encourage
msnt needed BY every public journal.


Situated as We are at the capital Of the nation
and enjoying best for obtaining iaforma
tiOn Of the utmost importance to every American
citizen, 10 shall confidently undertake to furnisl
our readers during the forthcoming political cam
paign with the most valuable political newspaper
printed in this or any other city.


As We stood by ABRAHAM LINCOLN in the darl
hours of the Republic We stand by his successor
ANDREW Johnson, to whom has boon assigned th'
task Of restoring to their proper relations the peo
pie lately in rebellion, believing. as We do, that h
has sraspsd the true theory Of RESTORATION, an
that he has tn courage to abide by his convictions
Year: 1866

ASOfagg CossrITUrsoNAL AMENDMsNr.-Sena-
tor Wade has proposed another new consaitu-
sionai amendment, providing that the person
who Glls the Office of President Of the United
States, either by election or through tho death
OF the actual incumbent, shall not be eligible
to reelection to the same Office. We are in
favor OF the President being ineligible to re-
election, but we are also in favor Of his term
being extended to six years, so as 10 be as long
as that of Senator If Senator Wade will
make this correction In his proposed amend
mcnL we will supper. il. At the same time we
cannot but condemn the miserable, puerile,
malicious spirit in which the Senator has
brought il forward at this crisis, openly avow-
ing that he intends IL as . punishment for
President johnson; and this pitiful exhi-
bition Of temper will probably place
the proposed mendment--excellent as IL
is--on the shelf for several years to come.
The utter failure Of Senator Wade's attempt to
attack President Johnson is most ignominious.
Wade tries TO prevent tho Presidents re-elec-
ton, when the President has already publicly
declared that he will not be q candidate. Wade
abuses the President for not Furnishing leading
rebels, when the Official correspondence shows
that the responsibility for delay rests upon
Chief Justice Chase, who, in his turn. says that
Congress is to blame. Wade asserts that the
President of the United States "is no better
than rebel, and rebel at heart" when every
body knows that such talk as this Is treason,
that Wade Is the real traitor, and that, under
more despotic form Of government these words
would send him to dungeon. But although
the reasons which the Senator gives for his
amendment are absurd and the motives with
which he proposes II are contemplate, still
the idea is good one, and we hope at some
future day TO see IL adopted.
Year: 1866

The locomotive Troy passed. Ger the Hudson
river bridge this afternoon with tvc loaded lumber cars
There will be formal opening the bridge 70 NOR
row A announced although II s probable that train
with the directors will pass over.
Year: 1866

THE New ESGLASD RADICALS or a@oruER HoBBT-
New England is inhabited hy set of people who are
never happy except yaen Interfering IN other peopes
affairs Directly or indirectly they have caused all the
troubles IN which this country has been involved.
WheIF the south becomes sufficiently renentant and
educated to accept the constitutional amendment and
comes back into the Union dc tacto the people Of tho
middle States intend to take up these New EngnGers
and cure them as thoroughly we have cured the
SOUTH We want the constitutional amendment
adopted because we anxious to get this mission
arg work. In the meantime it is well to keep the run
of tho yankee agtaors and what new hobbies they
ora mpuntiug


IN another column our Boston correspondent
describes the TrogeeGUgs at the New England temper
auce convention recently held at that city. The old
abelitionist5, and women, were on hand ready
for fresh tussel with everybody who does not agree
with them. One might have Imagined that with the
abolition Of slavery their occupation was gone; but
they take quite different view Of the subject They
now about to begin aCrusade against uemperanee
in al its forms. They are going to abolish wine az
the communion table, they advise all liquor dealers to
commit suicide and they declare themselves to be the
only good and vlrtuous people IN the world and wish
all who differ with them to leave Il.


1t is amusing to hear all the old arguments and
soph!sms once used against slavery now revived and
applied with equal earnestaes5 to rum and tobacco
Tue church is called upon TO sustain the tempe-anca
cause rs it w28 to sustain the anti isavery tagsg
Temperance il announced the great political issue
just is slavery shoFt time ago. Liquor dealers
described IN the sers cace reserved for saVeGod
Rum is defined as the sam of all rottenness. as
slavery was of all gilauies The bible is appealed u
with great enthusiasm, although tie bible recognises
sIaFery and Christ himself performed miracle rather
tlan permit his friends to do without wine at a wed
dug feast. Evidently preparations being made
for another great agitation in the well known style OF
Wendell Phillips I CO. Nothing but a medicine alli-
as sever; as that administered the south will ewes
etlre rhesn New EccIanl lnlltiee r, Y HarnlI
Year: 1866

EXCITEMENT IN THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH
-Proposed Reunion ,Cith Rome.-The practica.
blllty and desirableness Of a reunion of the
Established Church of Great Britain with
Rome is question which has been started by
some OF the leading High Churchmen, and al
ready parties are proneuncing pro and con.
Among those who have pronounced against IL
is Canon McNeile, who contends that the idea
of reunion with Rome showed on the part of
its originators a greater acquaintance with
books than with men, and that such a step was
impracticable, II for no other reason, because
the Church Of Rome met all propositions for
mutual concession by the claim of implicit au-
thority. The journals, too, are taking part in
the controversy. The Morning Post says:


"The leaders OF the new movement are men
with whom the vast majority of the people
have no sympathy, and the consequence NAV
be very disastrous:-'lt is not difficult to see
that when reaction does take place it will be
in the direction of a rush to Parliament for the
interference of the civil power. Already the
first warning notes of the strife are being
heard. The Bishop of London, it is believed,
OF Parliament the present working of the Ru-
brio respecting the dress of ministers and the
ornaments of the Church. His object will be
to get that Rubric repealed, and there is no
reason to doubt that he will be warmly sus-
tanned by the author of the celebrated Durham
Letter. now at the head of the Government
The first effect of any such step by the Bish-
op OF London will be the division of the
Church into two new parties, and the prov
ocation of a contest far more alarming than
we have had since the Gorham case. If when
tnat strlle comes tnere should be strong anti
Church party in the House of Commons-a
Royal commission on Rubrics-a portentous
tampefing with the Prayer r-book-a number of
new and narrow restrictions-and a great loss
of the liturgical freedom which is now enioyed
in that day of utter confusion and discomfit-
ure, the burners of incense and the bearers OF
obsolete yestments will only have themselves
to thank for the mischief they have wrought
and the penalty they will have to pay. 1t is
only justice to some great names hitherto asso-
ciated with the school of (which those Ritual
lists are an offshot, to add that amongst the ad-
vocates of copes and chasubles, masses and in
cense, and all the extreme nonsense which
have made some London churches notorious
there is not one name Of note"
Year: 1866

STRATEGY.-General r. E. Lee, while tes
tifying before the Reconstruction Committee,
said be had never taken the oath of allegi-
ance to the Confederate Government. Evi


IDENTIFY, then, by his own showing. he was
only one horse traiter, after all. So strongly
was he imbued with that beautiful doctrine
of States Rights, that he deemed it his duty
to fight to prevent the sacred soil of Virginia
from being polluted by the footprints of those
whose money had educated him, and whose
arms and brains had furnished the protection
always necessary to enable the inhabitants of
that State to live upon the labor of their
slaves. What plunge the man has takeal
He was great as the leader of great rebel


on,-of course we mean great in the estma-
ton of rebels and copperheads-bp his
cowardly fears that such greatness might
under some circumstances cause the eonga-
ton of his neck, now induces him to avow that
he did not rebel against the National Gov.
ernment. but simply fought to protect his
State Government intact. Very subtle rea


soning truly, and a very cowardly position.
Year: 1866

QUICKSILVER MINE.-Some days since a
man living in this place handed to conf
Dental friend a piece of rock, and asked
what it was We have Sc n the specimen in
question, and have compared it with speci-
men Of cinnebar from the New Almaden mine.
The two are alike We cannot get at the
full history of the discovery or its extent, but
are assured that the location is very near
town. In connection with the matter, we
know that one man in the secret, and not
much given to travelling, has recently gone to
the Bay, and that he took specimens of the
cnnebar with him. We are promised full
particulars in a short time.
Year: 1866

A Coop COLLECTOR Jim, long an
employee of the California Stage Company as
driver and agent, and now agent for the Or
egon Stage Company. we believe, at Jackson
vile, was for some years on the route De-
tween this place and Trinity Centre a
hostler on his route had become indebted to
Jim in the sum of fifteen dollars. The host
Ter did not respond to Jim's frequent requests
to pungle, and it became apparent that sum-
mary measures would have to be resorted to
for its collection. Once this fact became tx-
ed in the mind of the creditor, to collect
seemed an easy process. On arriving at the
station where his debtor was, and when the
fresh team had been hitched to, Jim walked
out to the barn, deliberately laid off his loose
coat, and stepping up to his man, coolly
knocked him down and whipped him until
be cried Justify enough Jim then told his
victim that he was going to whip him every
day until the debt was paid, at the rate of 81
so to the thrashing. Returning next day
and the horses changed, Jim quietly followed
his man to the barn, took off his coat as be-
fore, and walked up to him with mischief in
his eve. The hostler told him to hold on he
guessed he would pay. Suiting the action
to the word, he forked over three 6ves. Jim
took the money and handed back 81 so. The
hostler inquired what that was for. Oh
said jim, II collected that amount yesterday.
you know; and l always settle on the
square ~
Year: 1866

DULL.-The following paragraph, from the
Pajaro Times, so perfectly describes the con
dition of things hereabouts, that we give its
language, instead of our own, on the dull
subject:


At present, the town of Watsonville is as
solemn as the amen of repeating deacon
Occasionally worn out horse may be seen
hitched to post, then thoughtful looking
individual crawling up or down the street
and no one knows or cares whether green
backs or gold is ahead. Dull is no name
for our quiet village.
Year: 1866

SURPRISE PARTY.-On MOnuay lasl tno
case of Scudder VS.. Scudder was determined,
and divorce granted in accordance with the
prayer of the complaint. In the evening OF
that day, some fifty or sixty ladies and gen
tlemen friends of Mrs. S., each carrying
something in the eating or drinking line,
made charge in force upon the residence of
the lady's parents, and by force of arms en-
tered and took possession, the ladies proceed
Ing at once to arrange in order the feast
they had brought with them while the gen.
tlemen busted themselves in the concoction of
egg nog, extracting corks, decantng wine,
and so forth. 1t was pleasant ovation to
the surprised lady, and an honor to her and
the kind hearts that thus greeted her upon
being freed from an unfortunate marriage.
Year: 1866

UNDER..date of New York, March 10th, the
Union has telegram to the effect that the
fenlan excitement is running high, and that
fabulous sums are pouring in from the sale
of bonds of the Irish Republic
Year: 1866

No WoNDER.-One of the Indian chiefs
who went to Washington recently to smoke
his pipe of peace, has been married eighty
five times No wonder he goes from home to
have pipe of peace.