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Year: 1867

The following story is told by an In
diana paper !:


&. and H. on one of their fiat boat
trips on the lower Ohio when the boat
tied up for the night, on the Indiana
shore, thought they would vary their
hard diet with dish of mush and milk
their peculiar weakness.


Accordingly they reconnoitered the
hills and soon came across q small
house in the woods. presided over by a
blooming Hoosier lass of some eighteen
summers, tall and graceful rs one OF her
native hoop poles. They stated their
errand, and she. with true Hoosier hos
ptality forthwith proceeded to prepare
the dainty for the waytarers. She mix
ed the ingredients in huge pot on the
fire, and with mush stick about four
feet long she set to work to stir the saw
DRY mess. As the two young men sat
directly behind her watching the oper-
alton, B. directed C.'s attention to a
small hole in the waist of the Young
lady's dress, and pointed his finger
within about an inch of it, UniuckiIy.
lust then the dafnsel made {. sudd n
movement back ward and the finger
came in contact with the bare skin.
The guilty joker broke for the woods
and escaped.


Ths infEiated lass brandistius tha
Year: 1867

Blessed be the hand that prepares a
pleasure for child, for there is no tell
ing where it may again bloom FORTH


Does not almost everybody remember
some kind-hearted man who showed
him kindness in the dulcet days of
childhood? The writer of this recollects
himself ut this moment as a bare-footed
lad, standing mt the wooden fence of a
poor little garden in his native village,
while with longing eyes he gazed on the
flowers that were blooming there quietly
i'm the brightness of IL Sunday Eiorning.
The possessor came forth from his little
cottage he was woodcutter by trade,
and spent the whole week in the woods
He had come into the garden to gather
flowers to put into his coat when he
went to church. lie saw the boy, and
breaking Off one of his carnations-it
was streaked with red and white-he
gave it to him, neither the giver or re-
ceivcr spoke Il word, and with bounding
steps the boy ran home. And now, here
at a vast distance from that home, after
so many events of so many years, the
feeling ofgEatituac which ay;ta;ea the
breast OF that boy expresses itself on pa
per. The carnation has long since with
cred, but now it blooms afresh. Dou1-
ids Jerrold
Year: 1867

1t has become sort of popular
almost national-faith that it is not pos
sible to be truly happy unless you drink
Among certain classes and they are by
no means exclusively the lowest--drnk
is the beginning and end Of everything.
The very name of liquor is held to be
synonymous with enjoyment, and the
dearer the liquor the more it Is priced
and coveted. Yet every man who j.,
not Il downright drunkard is well aware
that the pleasures of drinking are
beyond certain point, mockery, !;
delusion aud IL snare. l put it to amy
one who has stood half the night at Il
bar or sat half the night In Il club room
drinking, smoking and bandying recls
less talk, ii the enjoyment of such an
evening has been anything like II few
quiet hours spent at home with Il book
or newspaper? The evil influence 0!
tavern pleasures Oh the health is too
obvious to be denied by any one, and
the liiusory nature of the pleasures
themselves would be undeniaLle also, il
the persons who indulge in them did
not deceive themselves and put the
truth out of sight.


No one ever brought any good out OF
a q thinking bout yet. 1t is short fever
,sh spasm of animal I..,.'"'heht, which
leaves nothing behind but moroseness,
regret, bad temper, self-reproach and
headache. | should like to ask YOU, sir,
if you say your prayers when you come
home in that state? No, you don't
You are ashamed to say them. You
postpone them until you have purged
yourself, your mind, and your lips by
more sober and rational behaviour
Next night when you pass the hours
quietly at home with book or friend,
you feel that you have had real enjoy
ment, and that the time has passed
pleasantly, that you have learned some
thing, and that you have not injured
your health. You are not ashamed to
say your prayers, and you get up next
morning with Il clear head, good APP
petite, and an increased faculty for work
and enjoyment of life.-IN the Year
RO,t,iH
Year: 1867

CURE FOR FROSTED FLEsH.-We are
informed on good authority that moth
ing is better for withdrawing the frost
without injury to frozen ears, cheeks
and fingers than the immediate applica-
ton of Accommodating it OH gently a
few times. In one instance both cheeks
We're frozen, and this remedy produced
immediate relief without the usual in
flammat'on. The same person repeated
the application at another time with
equal success. In another case the rem
edy was applied to u badly frozen ear,
which, as in the other instances, it cured
without Inflammation. 1t is indispen-
sable that the application be made before
thawing. This remedy is the more val
liable because it is always at hand in
every house. Country Gentleman.
Year: 1867

restoration, while the 0nly possible and
practicable policy is To- proceed with re-
construction. It must not be forgotten
that the suffrage ives not given to the
enfranchised class at once. 1t was not
given, to them until experience had
plainly proved that without it the rights
OF that class We're not safe. If those to
whom the President would alone intrust
the practical power had shown that they
would use it for the common protection
they could have it. But they eagerly
hastened to show that they would not
use it justly or with safety to the coun-
try. Therefore Congress wisely declined
to surrender to them, and by making
suffrage general opened the way for ev-
cry man to protect himself. .a.


There will undoubtedly be much that is
grotesque and unwise i'm the action of the
new constituencies. But .he constitu-
ton which "Mr Pope's Ce.s..sntion" las
the World calls it,with touch of the
same exquisite humor that deeribes SEN
atoss Sherman and Fessenden rs disun-
ionists) frames, although some of its pro-
visions may be crude, will not have the
deep and damnable cruelty OF the old
State government before the wal; and
whatever the Virginia Convention may
do, its action can not be more savagely
denounced by the Democratic papers
than the Albany Argus denounced the
action Of our own Constitutional Con-
vention of which it said, with a pompous
absurdity that makes the Worlds gibcs
at the Southern Conventions inexpress-
IDLY tame: "Their course is the last
phase of that Higher Law drama,
which, opening in fanaticism and hate,
and the dragging on through tragedies
of blood and woe, now drifts toward an
archy and chaos, and that night of des-
potism that lowers beyond"


If the work of reconstruction-a work
in its nature slow and difficult has
deem complicated and delayed, the Pres
ident and his supporters may thank
themselves. 1t is they who have taught
the late rebels to believe that they cauld
reorganize their States as they chose,
and not rs the victorious country chose.
And it is that belief which has made
and still makes the trouble. .-Harper's
Weekly.
Year: 1867

A State fair is a queen; al agricultural
fair IS farmers daughter; q church fair
is q parsons wife; soldiers fair is the
best looking girl he can get hold of; a
charity fair is a female pauper; and the
most unpopular fair in the universe is a
boarding house fare.
Year: 1867

Some men can respect no law unless
il has the most substantial penalties
appended to it. They can sec the reali-
IS of punishment, though they miss the
silent operation of the moral force of the
statute. Such men, however, always
insist that these penalties shall be paid


of on other people. In that case they
are very certain they can comprehend
the working of the law. In Maine, for
example, they voted the other day to
add to the existing penalty for violating
the liquor law, the other and harsher
one of Imprisonment. If that has no
rprceptible effect, they will very
likely try the virtue of hanging
next, thodgh it occurs to some
that it would be much more con-
Sistent i'll them to propose to choke
off the drinkers than the sell
lers. The vote for this intensified
amendment to the old law was light,
and on that ground it Is claimed by the
party to which its paternity belongs
that it can be none of their offspring.
But it is possible that they have at
length invented and touched off the
pstard which is to give them their sum-
mary hoist in due time. Imprisonment
for selling glass of liquor is stride
beyond anything which has hitherto
been reached in the morals of Radica
legislation. 1t is Of a piece with the


rule that presumes to censure the Presi-


dent of the United States for "miscon-


duct" but declines TO wound the delicate
sensitiveness of Reverend SERENo
HOWE by a resolution of expulsion.
Verify, verify what. progress" we are
making in all things under the regime
Of radicalism!
Year: 1867

MURFREEsBORo, Tenn, May 1st, Ga.


In the providence of God this place
was the scene of one cf the fercest
conflicts of the late war Here thou
sands on both sides fell in battle, and
here died thousands more in camp, in
hospitals, ard in our houses. The
United States Government has already
cared for the remains of those who
diedin the Federal service, and beau
tiful cemetery hard by does credit
alike to the heart and the hand of the
nation. But the Confederate dead
eur own dear dead - lie around us
here, uneared for and unknown
Many Of them lie, with hurried and
imperfect burial, on the battle>fell
where they fell. Some are buried in
private lots, some in open fields, and
some sleep by the wayside, This
ought not to be nor would it have
been but for our poverty This alone
prevented US from gathering our dead
together, "anG burying them out Of
our sight" With our dear ones God
took away our wealth otherwise the
first spring that came to US, after our
beloved slept, should have covered
their precious bodies with a mantle Of
green, and wrought with flowers, Il
is not yet too late to cover the most
of these remains.


Therefore we, the ladies Of MUIR
freesbore, Tenn, have organized our
selves under the name Of The Muir
freesboro Memorial Association" for
the purpose of collecting the remains
Of the Confederate dead who lie around
here, and give them pSin but endur-
ing burial in some appropriate spot
near our town. Encouraged by our
success at home (for the people Of
Murfreesboro and its vicinity have re-
sponded most nobly to the call), the
work will be commencedimmediately


But The number to be removed and
buried is SO great we cannot accom-
plish il unaidcd. We appeal there.
fore, fellow-co -countrymen, to you t
you for whom these brave men fought
and fell--to you who stood BY then
Year: 1867

To FATTEN GEESE. Put three or
four into a darkened room, and Give
each bird one pound Of oats daily,
thrown on a pan Of water In four,
teen days they will be found almost
too fat. Never shut up less than two
together as they pine if left alone.
Year: 1867




Do WEEDS EMl6RATE WITH PEo-
PIE, is the substance Of letter from
Double" They do just as far as
the people takes the seeds of weeds
with them. The more civilized the
people, the more agricultural and
other seeds they would take from
their old home. and thus sow many
weeds with their first crop Besides,
the seeds Of weeds will be taken IN
the wool Of sheep, in packing straw
and other material, and iii a hundred
unthought-of ways. Some seeds are
carried by the winds, and Others BY
streams, but the greater number are
taken to a new country by human
agency.
Year: 1867

SELLING OFF WAR VEssELs-It is an
nounced that the Government has allowed
the monster iron clad DunderJerg to be sold
to France. Several other IRON clads, it is
stated, have already been sold, and more
are offered for sale. Now, this selling off
our navy is all nOnsense-a penny wise and
pound foolish policy. At an enormous ex.
pense our Government succeeded in building
up ravy, which for defensive purposes has
no equals, and for offensive purposes very
few, if any, superiors. Why should these
vessels all be sold off now, at great sacri>
fee +? There is no telling when we shall be
involved in another war, in which case our
present navy would be of great value to US.
We cannot afford to take the chances of
again wagiug fruitless war for two years.
while waiting to build up a navy for which
the people must be taxed threefold Let US
keep all our vessels which are good for any.
thing; improve those which can be improved,
and thus be ready for any emergency which
may arrive. The surest way to avoid war is
always to be prepared for it. The idea Of
selling the vessels of our navy like so many
pieces of old junk, while all the other first,
class Powers are busily engaged increasing
theirs, is extremely ridiculous.
Year: 1867

SHORT DREssEs.-Those ladies who have
supposed that short dresses were coming into
general use for home as well as street wear,
will find that they have been much mistaken
In fact, they will not be worn much in the
street, if we may believe the Home Journal,
which says: I'VE have seen quite num-
Der Of short dresses worn at balls and parties
this season, and, to some, they are very be>
coming, especially when there is pretty
foot and Ancle in the case, but, as general
thing, we do not admire them. For the
street, as walking dresses, they are very ap-
propriate, yet we have it from the highest
authority that they are going out of fashion;
that, in fact, their day is past The latest
style of street dresses are made short, it is
true, but they Just clear the ground"
Year: 1867

A Louisiana letter writer tells the follow.
ing good story A negro had a heavily load
ed wagon with six mules attached which be
was trying TO drive across ford The two
head mules took kindly to the water, but one
of the hind ones, a white mule, obstinately
refused to enter the stream. Jumping from
his seat in furious passion, the teamster
began beating the perverse one with might
and main, exclaiming between the blows,
eYou think you's white does you ? But III
show you dam quick colored mules is as
good as you is, Gee npF' al.s 4
Year: 1867

The newspaper is the great educator.
Show US a locality where there are but few
newspapers taken and we will show you one
where the people are ignorant, unrefned and
but poorly fitted to cope with their more ems
lightened brethren in the struggle Of life,
Year: 1867

guilty Of misdemeanor, and, upon conviction
thereof In any court Of the United States, shall
De punished by imprisonment, with or without
hard labor, for term not exceeding three wears
Year: 1867




A mysterious occurrence is causing 4 eonsid-
erable sensation at Fontainblcau. Some cxcur:
sonists in the forest three days back discovered,
near Franohart, in the underwood, at q short
distance from the road, the body OF an elegant
" dressed lady, the face Of which had been de-
youred by some carniverous animal, probably
a weasel. The corpse hore no other signs OF
external violence than the mutilation just MEL
toned. A judicial inquiry has brought to light
the fact that two ladies had about a week be-
fore, aIighted at one of the hotels in the town,
and, after breakfast, had taken carriage tor a
drive in the forest, but had paid and sent back
the driver on arriving at Franchart. In the
evening one Of the strangers returned to the
hotel in apparent Distress saying that her com
panion had Quilted her in the forest, and ask
ing whether the latter had since called there
for her. On receiving reply in the negative,
she at once started for Paris There is little
doubt that the body found is that OF the MIS-
sing visitor


JUSTICE TO AN OLD SERVANT. "A firm on
Water street, in this city, had a faithful old
horse harnessed, yesterday, for the last time
This morning derry, who has reached the age
Of about quarter OF century, and for fonr-
teen years has been the faithful servant of the
firm, is turned out to grass, no longer to feel
the weight Of harness, or the sting of a whin
His last days will not be spent 10 drawing wood
from Freetown, nor in tuggng at an omnibus !;
but he will be cared for like an old pensioner.
We say, !" Wei done "-Mep Bedford Mercury.


Blessings multiply upon that kind hearted
firm. How few alas, are mindful of the claim:
OF this class Of old servants.
Year: 1867

FROM FREDERICKSBURG to ORANGE COURT
HOUSE. "A recent hurried ride through the
war scared country from Frederick sburg 10
Orange Court House, gave abundant evidence
that time and labor are speedily removing and
healing the desolations and losses of the battles
which were fought all along the entire distance.


There is mora cultivation and many more
good crops than we had supposed. Houses
have been repaired, fences rebuilt and many
places look better than before the war.-
Charlottesville and Robinson's old tavern are
still desolate and neglected, but the "Wilder-
ness BLOSSOMS like the rose. The view
from the old Wilderness Tavern is beautiful.
"Ellwood' appears to be as thoroughly cult,
vated as in old times, and the wheat fields and
corn fields are as extensive and fourlshlng as
we ever saw them. The geld miners spend
money in this section. Stevens Il Berry seem
ed to be doing thriving business. All along
the road from Verdiersville up there are signs
of life and prospects of improvement


Nothing can be more beautiful than the
country and crops and gardens in aud around
Orange Court House. The wheat is abun-
dant aud magnificent It is a sight to cheer
the heart Of the most despondent to see the
land blooming and almost laughing with de,
light and Joy at its OVID opulence and wealth OF
production -Fredcricksburg Neaos.
Year: 1867

PAYING FOR APAPEY.-The following ex.
take from an exchange. 1t speaks the sen
timen.s Of the press generally: "Unless the
cash system is exclusively adopted and rig
idly observed, we know Of no business whose
bills are SO Difficult, to collect. This is not
because the subscribers are unwilling to pay
bot is principally owing to neglect. Each
one itnagines that because his years indeb.-
edness amounts 70 SO small q sum, the prin-
ter cannot be much in want Of it, without
for a moment thinking that the fruits Of his
entire business are made up Of exactly such
little sums, and that the aggregate Of all
subscribers is by no means an inconsiderable
amount of money, and without which the
publisher could not for single month con-
tinue to issue his paper
Year: 1867

~ tuC &Nutiouul uotcfuuIeIt.


We give the statement Of the taxes paid
BY Messrs. X. and J. H. Campbell and E.
Leach, as shown BY receipts in their possess
ion. Could anything show more clearly the
utter dishonesty Of the Copperhead leaders
of this county than the above tables?


The Copperheads represent that the First
National Bank Of this City pays no taxes.
This is another falsehood. Every stocks
holder in the bank pays three per cent. on his
stock as tax to the national government
The Congressional law imposing the tax,
contemplated that the stock should be ex-
empt from local taxation, but it has been
decided by the Supreme Court that bank
stocks are taxable and Republican Legisla.
tures are passing acts as rapidly as possible
to tax them. Our own Legislature will doubt.
less cnacta law to that effect, and ninesy-nine
hundred.hs Of all the Republicans in the
State are in favor Of it. The true System is
for the General Government to demand Of
banks an internal revenue license and leave
the taxation. to the State and local authori.
ties. As il now is, the bank stock is ac,u-
ally taxed propor'ionately with other props
er,y, but the tax goes to the national instead
Q. the State government.


The only species Of property exempt from
taxation is Z. s. Bonds. These bonds were
issued when the Government must have
money or perish. AS an inducemen for the
purchase of these bonds, Government prom.
Used that they should be exempt from taxa>
ton. That was part Of the contract. Not
only capitalists, but tens Of thousands Of
comparatively poor people invested all their
surplus money in bonds, with the distinct
understanding that they were not to be tax.
ed. and any man who TOW advocates o
breach Of the nations faith would break his
own faith If he had good opportunity.
Such person could not be trusted in an
honest mans sheep fold after dark.


We shall show up this bond question in
our MT xt issue.
Year: 1867

The Democratic papers say that the rich
man should pay taxes "just the same as
the poor man. Let us see how this would
work. As the law now stands. the poor man
has no Income tar 10 pay. 1t is only when
the income is over 81 900 that tax is to be
paid upon it, Adop. the Democratic theory
and every poor man will have an income
tax TO paw as well as every rich man. The
law which the Democrats justly charge TO
the Republican party, now discfiminases in
favor Of the poor man but the Democrats,
by their own showing. would place an addi
tiopal burden upon him.
Year: 1867

- New Orleans Judge recently passed
sentence of death upon a negro for rape on
the person Of a white woman, subject to 1.-THE
approya al Of the Commanding General Of the
District" General Sheridan returned it with
the endorsement that he believes the sentence
should be executed, but did not see why his
approval Was REQ uiIed
Year: 1867

ADVENTURES OF AN EXPLORING PARTY


Several weeks ago water was let into the great
Chicago tunnel under Lake Michigan, for the purpose
of testing It's strength and after II had remained some
Chesbrough, the engineer accompanied by three re-
portcrs entered tho tunnel from the crib at the lake
end Ina order to examine its condition. The depth Of
water az that was about three feet but at the shore
end which is four feet lower, the tunnel full 10
the crown Of the arch The party proceeded in little
sif prOpelng themselves with their hands distance
OF about u mile and quarter, and found the tunnel
perfectly tight and sound. On their return the skiff
foundered. the lights were extngushed, and the party
had to wade back dragging the boat after them. They
rcached the ladder In the shaft nearly spent with fatigue
aud cold and Of the party had TO be drawn up with
ropes.
Year: 1867

Not all the dead bodies found in and
around Chicago are taken from the
lake and river. Mother earth is made
to hide the carcass of many q poor VIC
tim of violence as we'll as the turbid
waters of Lake Michigan and its tribu-
taries. The latest discovery in the line
referred to was made yesterday morn
ing, near the northwestern limits of the
city, by Mr.. Thomas Tookey. Mr.


Tookey lives on the North western plank.
road, and at the time spoken Of was
walking up the road, in the direction
of Jefferson. When about half a mile
beyond the city limits he discovered
what looked like the arm of human
being protruding from the ground.
The spot was but rod or two
from the road, and has been made the
receptacle of offal all kinds from the
city. Proceeding to make an examina.
tion, he found that it was indeed q hui
man arm, and that the body to which
it belonged had been thrown into the
pit and buried in company with a mass
of purified meat. The stencil arising
from the place was intolerable, and al
most imperatively forbade any investi-
CATION vt the time. Consequently, Mr..
Tookey is unable to give any facts
which will lead to an Identification of
the body, nor indeed can he state
whether it was q man or woman. He
returned at once to the city and noti-
fed the Coroner, who proceeded to the
place designated.-Chicago Times.