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Year: 1866




Future HoUsEKEEPERs.-We some
times catch ourselves wondering how
many Of the young ladies' whom We meet
with are to perform the part OF house.
keepers. when the young men who now
eye them so admirngly have persuaded
them to become wives. We listen To
those young ladies Of whom We speak,
and hear them not only acknowledging,
but boasting of their ignorance Of all
household duties, rs il nothing would 50
lower them in the estimation of their
friends. as the confession Of an ability 10
bake bread and pies. or cook a piece of
meat, or A disposition to engage in any
useful employment. Speaking from our
youthful recoleclions, we are free to say
that taper fingers and lily hand are very
pretty to look at with a young mans
eyes. and sometimes We have known the
artless innocence Of practical knowledge
dlsplayed by a young miss, 10 appear
rather interesting than otherwise. But
We have lived loog enough to learn that
lie is full Of rugged experiences. aud
that the most loving, rortisntic. and deli
cate people must live on cooked or other
wise iood. and the house must be kept
clean and tidy by Industrious hands.
And for all the practict. irposes of mar.
ried life, it is generally found that for 4
husband to sit and gaze at bis wiFe's taper
fingers and lily hands. or for a wife to
SIT aud be looked at and admired, does not
make the pot boil. or put the smallest
piece OF food therein.
Year: 1866

To- Keep out of debt. Buy moth
Ing except the money is in your pock
ct. Have no account current at the
groceries or butchers. Go without
new clothes till you can pay for them.
Give your note of hand to nobody.
Eschew credit. Deal for cash only.
Year: 1866

A widower with seven children recently
married in Western New York widow with
FIVE. Each had concealed from the other the
fact Of the offspring. and the discovery made
pleasant episode.
Year: 1866

goodbye" and at six o'clock ithat
Sabbath evening the gentle-spirited
Horton fell asleep in Jesus.


Thus perished martyr to freedom
and equal rights, as sincere and pure
a man as God ever welcomed Through
great tribulation" to the immortal
pleasure of His presence.


To the tender consideration of her
friends, never so numerous as now,
and to the merciful consolation of AL
mighty God, who never pitied her as
He now pities her, we commend the
weeping widow, and pray that she may
long live to share the honor of her
martyred husbands fame. I. B.
Year: 1866

The negotiations designed to make
arrangements for a through mail to
and from Cincinnati, going by the E.
& G. r., and returning on the morn
ing train on the same road, have now
realized a point where the starting of
said mail depends on contributions of
money to pay the expense of trans
ferring the mail from one depot to the
other at Vincennes, and of carrying
it to and from the depot here. This
point gained, and the mail started,
the continuance of the mail would
depend on the permanence of the
Vincennes accommodation train on
the, E. & G. r., and on the raising of
money, from time to time, to pay the
expense of transfer to and from and
between, depots


The Post Office Department will
not consent that the mail shall be
transferred at Vincennes by any 9TH
er means than through the regular
mail messenger. Neither viii the De-
partment incur any expense for the
extra service. Hence the transfer
J can not be made at the R. r. June
Year: 1866

As gold is found but here and there up
on the earth, so it is with love in human
life. We meet it little in the hearts OF
children and in our households but it is
here and there scale of gold and whole
continent of dirt. s7a
Year: 1866

ENDORSEMENT OF The PAYMAsTER


GENERAL
E.B. johnson. the writer Of this, is q
very Young man, mot yet of age,y and
was appointed to a first class cierkship
in this Department lst Of April, l56l,
which place he still holds learn,
through the chief of his division, that he
is of unexceptionable character and
conduct, and, as a clerk, unsurpassed for
diligence and efficiency.


Previous to this clerkship he had been
Year: 1866

The Richmond papers Friday received telegraph
the platform the Philadelphia Convention and they generally withhold
their until the resolutions full shall reached them What
they have sufficient give them idea OF the to the
platform How received will be seen by the following extract
From the Richmond Enquirer


We publish to-day report proceedings of Wednesday, of
which yesterdays kilograms only imperfect synopsis The speech OF
Dool taking the chair President the principal
that day It declared cordial in the previous speech





especial which South Carolina
and Massachusetts, played of against other and bte
great national tragedy by sort of hooboy performance Mr. Doo
them heneoh
along the walks of history The would
have been to the point the proxies had been representative
the SaHampton and the Beast of


The interest of yesterdays proceedings the platform
tons OF these the telegram synopsis and it tells that
they unanimously and enthusiastically adopted 1t would prema





resentation that
eeedings which had that shown enlarged cahocty
suddenly
strained also to declare astonhmen and notification
stronger Southern delegates should be found voting
asn indeed they did Certain that the declara
asked
could
grossly compromising the dignity of his State and outragng
of his people 1t thing ubmito abide resu-to
justify applaud brought
Convention North
the authority the Constitution when the Convention called
Constitution
under foot? How could Southern
the coercion of State?
enthusiastically vote pudate the Confederate debit And epe
the obligation the robbed widows and
debt justly
them those made them so? submit violence
nobes
beneath the sod they will dhonor the
heroes enthusiastically applaud such ueance
have The North might well adopt declarations
that should amid the denuncns
Civilizations her defeat.
Year: 1866

By reference special telegram to this paper be found the
pg will be that the of noble Governor the dele


gates attending him. in his trip to the great Union Convention has been
marked with unbouded enthusiasm The people turned out to
the representatives of Tennessee loyalty with demonstrations Of the
rd welcome will the hearts of the Union citizens Of
commonwealth the dispatch how thoroughly the
of the Northwest the untering stand taken in this
amidst oquy and persecution in the of justice and 1t


the overwhelming maorcs that will be rolled
against My Policy sounding like kne of doom IN the of the little
despo he covers in the White HouNahrs Press and Tines
Year: 1866

great South, was rapidly increasing, and
New England saw at no very distant day,
the loss of her power in Congress, and
the consequent repeal Of the protective
tariffs and fishing bounties Itwas these
selfish motives that impelled these States
to seek dissolution of the Union. Sla-
very was not the cause. The most ab-
ject slaves and the hardest ask-masters
in the United States, have always been
in New England. Abolition was simply
the hobby upon which to carry out the
design of disunion. The leading men of
the Abolition party were traitors purely
through the love of money. All of them
who were not thus actuated, were the
dupes and fools of those who were. It
not new discovery Of the President,
that an Abolitionist is a traitor. In a
speech which Andrew johnson delivered
at Columbia, Tenn, June 2, 1862, he
said IAN Abolitionist is disunionist,
disunionist is a secessionist, a seces-
sionist is disunionist. There is not a
particle Of difference between them"


Daniel Webster, who knew them well,
gave the following opinion of these scoun-
drels in his last days: If the Internal
fanatics and Aboitionists ever get the
power into their hands, they will over
ride the Constitution, set the Supreme
Court at defiance, change and make laws
to suit themselves, lay violent hands on
those who differ with them in opinion, or
dare question their infalliblity, and
finally, bankrupt the country and deluge
it with blood This prophetic warning
has already been verified to the letter,
and this idea will forever prevail in the
future, aud be so noted by the impartial
historian, that this Government began at
the wrong place TO put down the rebel
lion. The rebellion proper, originated
with the Abolitionists of New England,
and there is where the bloody work Of
vindictive retribution should have com
menced. 1t is the influence of Eastern
capital, expended among vile, unprinci-
Piled newspaper men, and broken-down
politicians all over the country, that
causes the preseut disunion of the States,
and in all probability, will continue to
prevent all hope of reunion, until pun
lshment is meted out where il is deserved.
Sumner should be substituted for JEFF.
Davis, and Garrison and Phillips for
Wirz and Gee; and instead of the pre-
posed law to prevent all Southern men
above the rank of Colonel from holding
office, there should be law passed, that
every Alb ,lition legislator who had.yoted
for the Personal Liberty bills, and all
members of the present Congress, as well
as all those Northern men who have
made themselves prominent as disunion-
lists and in stirring up and melting the
war of the rebellion, should be forever
incapable of holding any office of profit
and trust. When this bill is passed and
put into execution, then, and not till then
will justice be appeased.


BEARDsTowN
Year: 1866

The Baton Rouge Adrocate says Of
Wednesdays storm, beneath which the
great levees broke through:


We have never known the river to be
so rough as on that day. Great waves
that would have done honor 20 the Allan
tic lashed and beat the frail leyees until
the alarm of the people living behind
them became general At the railroad
depot in West Baton Rouge an overflow
seemed at one time inevitable, and would
certainly have occurred but for the ac-
tivity and energy displayed by Messrs
Barrow and Hill in preventing it.
Steamboats, and other craft were unable
to face the furious gusts that swept the
face of nature, and fortunate indeed
we're those that found friendly bend to
protect them from the storm.


Besides the Morganza and Grand
levees, the parish levee on the upper line
of West Baton Rouge broke through, and
will of course add its waters TO the over
flowing foods of Chinn' and Robertson s
crevasses and afterwards joining with the
great Morgana food below, deluge the
whole of Southern Louisiana During
the cold, pelting rain, also, the young
cotton was literally beaten to death A
gloomy prospect, indeed.
Year: 1866

A six pound she'll, from Rich Noun
tain, preserved as a sacred memento OF
the war, in a house on Ninth street. got
into the hands Of the children last Satur-
day, and, Just for fun, they built a bon
fire to explode it. 1t hung FIRE They
we're called to dinner, and while absent


the she'll exploded, scattering the fire in
all directions Had the boys there were
six or eight in the party been about the
FIRE at the moment, they could not have
escaped serious injury. A young calf,
Year: 1866

A PRorITLEss TRANsACTIoN.-An old
negro man from the Southside, who has
been for the last year trying to make an
honest penny or so by cultivatiDg "small
crap" of tobacco, brought down the result
of his labor few days since in the shape
of thirty pounds of the weed, which he got
commission merchant to sell for him.
The tobacco was sold at two cents per
pound; and when he came to settle the
charges on the sale, he found that breakage
amounted to twenty-fiv cents and COM
mission the same, which left him balance
of ten cents for his scrap" Raising to-
bacco amt that old mans forte. He would
have done better to have "chawed his
weed.
Year: 1866

WHIPPING WHITE MEN.-At the city
Jail yesterday afternoon three sentences
for whipping white men, pronounced by
the Hastings Court, were carried out.
Three white men received from five to
twenty lashes each. They bore it pretty
well, and walked of, apparently satisfied
that it was no worse.
Year: 1866

TIE CITY RAILwAY.-The track on this
Improvement has been laid to the corner of
Twelfth and Main streets. The supply OF
timber holds out well, and the road will be


finished to Ninth street by the first Of next
week, when the cars will be put on.
Year: 1866

WooD FOR THE P0OR.-The wood for the
poor will not be distributed until about the
10th of December. This wood is pur-
chased and distributed by the City Coun.
ell, and will be furnished as soon as it is
received
Year: 1866

There is a species of humor, pecul- |
iarily American, which consists in gro
tesque byperbole, the caricature ofsome
fact which expresses it better than a
faithful portrait would do. Some peo-
pie take the snake and kill 1t when
they wish to show it to us; but the
lively Yankee humorist just catches it
by the tail as it passes, and stretches
it into ludicrous proportions, as actors
in pantOmines do the tails of those
ductile dragons, which so astonish and
delight children.


Instances of this wild and eXtrava-
CANT humOr are as common as pro-
verbs. Everybody has heard of the
weather which was so cold that the
mercury went out of sight, and which
no doubt would have been good deal
colder if the thermometer had been
long enough. A similar eXaggeratiOn
was that of young man who took
ealomel on a morning so cold that the
mercury ran right down into his boots.
And speaking of boots reminds us of
the stage-driver who wore, such large
ones that he had to use the forks of the
road for boot-jack. tire -.
/ The following passages are illustra-
tio4ls: The man out West whose legs
are SO long that he has to go down eel
lar to tie his shoes. The man who is
so large that he had to go out of doors
to turn over. The man who snored 50
loud that he had to sleep over in the
next street to keep from Weakening
himself. The man whose nose is so
long that he has to step forward three
PAGES to reach the end of it. The man
who was so large and heavy that his
shadow killed a little boy when it fell
on him. The man who was so fat
that his shadow left greasy trail
along the road as he walked along
and the man who was so thin that he
did not have any shadow at all. And
among these deserves to rank the horse
that ran so fast around a ring that the
spectators could only see one continual
circular horse together with that 9TH
er famous racer, that ran so swiftly
about the arena that he nearly caught
up with himself, and could see his own
! tail just before him. ri .r
A fireman once related an adventure
in which he found himself in a ricl
saloon, surrounded by wealth and fine
company.


al didn't know myself, until l fell
in my pockets and found 'em empty
! Some one inferred that he was Gus
tomarily short of funds.


"That's so. If steamboats, were
selling at two cents apiece" said he
81 haven't enough to buy gangway
plank" .....


We once heard a person tell of a
fright he once received from a big dog
D.. "I lost flesh," said he, "at the rate
of ten pounds minute, till the owner
came and called him off"
Along with this we may place the
story of the man who, in consequence
of fright, ran so fast and SO far that
when he stopped, it was more than
twenty minutes before his shadow
came up with him. He was probably
watched by the man whose dickey
was so high that he had to climb on a
fence to see over it. u rl. 70. at'.IH
Year: 1866

Never take ''come and see me" as a.
phrase meant in earnest, unless it is ac-
companied with a date. An invita-
tion without circumstances is no invi-
tation at all. Depend upon II, If any
gentleman or lady desires your comps
ny, he or she will appoint a time for
your visit. "Call on me when you can
make it convenient" !" "drop in as you
are passing," "make us visit whcnev-
er you have an hour or two to spare"
are social idefinitisms by which men Of
the world understand that they are not
expected to do the thing requested.
When people wish to be cheaply po-
lite, thereis nothing like this kind of
vagueness. The complimentary small
change of society should always be ta-
ken mt a large discount. 1t is never
worth its face or anything like it,
Yet it is a convenient medium of ex-
change for all that, and heavy debts
of gratitude, that ought to be 'requited
in better coin, are often paid with it.
People who have more polish than
principle use it lavishly-plain, blunt,
honest men sparingly, or not at ALL
Whoever makes a friendly visit mt the
fashionable house on the strength of q
mere "Come and see me-" will be like.
ly enough to find that the family cir
which he has dropped into by re-
quest isas ungenial.as the arctic circle
and to leave it with a chilly feeling
about the heart that will prevent him
from venturing into the same high lat
itude thereafter. But when a whole
souled fellow, whom you know to be
your friend, grasps you vigorously by
the hand and says: "Come and dine
with me to-day-dinner on the table al
five o'clOck-be sure to come, we shall
expect yOu"-go if you can, and you
will be all the better for it, both in mind
and body. One likes to meet friends
at the hospitable board--one's own OF
theirs it matters not which-but nod
in the street is all sufficient from 8
fashionable acquaintance.
Year: 1866

William Cullen Bryant gave the fol-
lowing advice to young man who
offered him an article for the Evening
Post: H -aHt


My young friend, observe that you
have used several French expressions
in your article. / think If you will
study the English language, you will
find it capable of expressing all the
ideas that you may have. have al
ways found 1t so, and in all that have
written LIDO not recall an instance
where was tempted to use a foreign
word, but that on searching, found
a better one In my own language.


Be simple, unaffected; be honest in
your speaking and writing. Never
use a long word where a short one will
do. Call spade, spade not well
known Oblong instrument of manual
industry; let home be home, not a
residence; a place a place, and not To-
cality, and so on. When a short word
will do, you lose by using long one-
You lose in clearness,you lose in honest
expression of your meaning; and, in
the estimation of all men who are COM
petent to judge, you lose in reputation
for ability.


The only true way to shine even in
this false world, is to be modest and
unassuming. Falsehood may be avery
thick crust, but in the course of time
truth will break through. Elegance
of language may not be in the power
of all of us, but simplicity and straight
forwardness are.


Write much as you would speak
speak as you would think. If with
your inferior, speak no coarser thar
usual, if with superior, speak no finer
Be what you say, and within the rule
lOf prudence. No one ever was gainel
by singularity or in pronunciation
| The truly wise man will so speak tina


no one will observe how he docs speak


A man may show a great knowledg,
, ofchemistry by carrying about bladder
, of strange gases to breathe, but he vii
enjoy bottor health who lives in com
mon air. ...-.. .,. 10 @


Sidney Smith once remarked. AT


ter you have written an article, take
pen and strike out half the words, an,
you will be surprised to see how mucl
stronger it is. a y
Year: 1866

THE "DEAR BABIES. Convention
ally, infancy is only another name for
innocence. Practically they are often
wide as the poles asunder. Mothers,
as a matter of course, will dispute this
proposition, yet they know in the depth
of their affectionate hearts that it is too
true. A baby is specimen of human
nature uncontrolled by principle. 1t
is a being of fierce instincts, with no
morals. Infant NerOes and Caligulas
are as plenty as blackberries, but where
will you find your sucking Howards :?
Produce your philanthropic baby
Show sample of the race that viii not
gouge. Do they not all seize us by
the hair and whiskers and tug there
at with eXulting warwhoops, as if they
longed to scalp us ? Is it not necessa-
ry to keep their nails short, in order to
avoid scarificatiOn Are they notguil-
ty of the most feroeious assaults upon
the cOmmissariat whence they derive
their hourly ratiOns? Has any baby
ever been known to exhibit the slight
est emotion ofgratitude Do they not
rob us of our sleep, out of sheer malice,
and compel parents to rise at the dead
hour of night and walk marches against
time, until daylight? ? Is it not COM
mon thing to see them become partial
ly appoplectic with unbridled passion I?
And then look at their hypocrisy. Do
they not indulge in blood-curdling
shrieks of seeming agony, and when
undressed in consequence of suspicion
of pins, do they not kick up their heels
and crow at the thought of having
hoaXed the mothers that bore them.- -
It's all very well to say that-7.,v


h. 4" Heaven is near us in our infancy"


but the majority ofparents know from
bitter experience that it is quite the re-
verse. 1t is the. opinion of adult per-
sons, who have studied babies from a
philosophical standpoint, that, if their
capacity for mischief were equal to
their ferocity, they would soon ex-
terminate the, adults of the human
family.
Year: 1866

The Spectator thinks that the modified
bloomer dress worn by DR.. Mary Walker,
now in England, is ugly, and not defense
able on the ground of being more health
full than the dress commonly worn by
women; but it asserts the right of any
woman to wear the dress.


II adds that this and some other similar
matters 1t is useless to argue with
prejudice bound Britons "The true ar
Cument is the right of choice, and in
denying it society is iDjuring itself, just
as 1t Is in denying women the right OF
riding as they choose. So fixed is this
particular form of oppression that Eng
lish society will not even discuss it, re-
fuses to entertain the question, would
condemn q dozen leaders of fashion if
they made the attempt to introduce o
reform. They might walk into a ball
room dressed q Ia Josephine--that is,
undressed to the waist--and the only
result would be general disappearance
of tuckerI but they dare not for their
lives ride astride. Yet there is abso-
lutely no reason, either of convenience,
or serutIay, OF modesty, In favor Of the
side saddle, not one single argument
which ought even to have hearing when
opposed to the distinct right, subject to
the laws of morality, to ride as they
please, We do not say there arc reasons
for abolishing the side saddle, for, though
we think there are, that is not the point.
4 woman has a right to ride English
fashion, or Turkish fashion, or Chinese
fashion, if she chooses, and society loses
in refusing to copoede the choice"