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Year: 1866

lis well to WOO, tbs well to wed,


For so the world hath done,
Since myrtles grew and roses blew,
And morning brought the sun.
But have care, ye young and fair,


Be sure you pledge with truth
he certain that your love will wear


Beyond the days of youth!
For if We give not heart for heart,


As well as hand for hand,
You'll find you've played the unwise part,
And "built upon the sand"
lis well to save It's well to have


A goodly store of gold,
And hold enough of shining stuff,


For charity is cold
But place not all your hope and trust
In what the deep mine brings;
We cannot live with yellow dust


Unmixed with purer things;
And he who piles up wealth alone


Will often have to stand
Beside his coffee chest, and own


IT'S 6. BUILT upon the sand
'Tis good to speak in kindly guise,


And soothe, where'er we can;
Fair speech should bind the human mind
And love link man TO man.
But stay not at the gentle words.


Let deeds with language dwell;
The one who pities starving birds,


Should scatter crumbs as well,
The mercy that is warm and true


Will lend a helping hand,
For those who talk, yet fail to do,
But "build upon the sand"
Year: 1866

pers, the publication Of which increased the
universal panic. The poorer classes Of the
population, who besides potatoes and rye
bread live chiefly on pork, either fresh or
salted, we're in the worst dilemma Of all.
having the alternative Of going without
meat altogether, or Of eating food which
they knew or suspected to be unwhOlesome
and which the first medical authorities af-
tirmed to be dangerous to health and 10 life
itself


PRECAUTIeE4RY MEASURES.


Il was proposed, therefore, that every
butcher should be ordered. under severe
pains and penalties, to have the animals
slaughtered by him submitted to a micro
scopic examination, and on Friday last a
great public meeting took place. in which
the question was debated, and both pro and
anti-trichinist, the latter consisting princi-
pally of pork butchers and their retainers,
were assembled in great force.


The meeting broke up, as is usual with
such meetings, after concluding that ~some-
thing must be done; but no action has
been taken as yet by the city authorities
The butchers however, finding the tide of
opinion running against them, have given
way so far as to have their meat examined
in the manner proposed, and in almost every
butchers shop YOU now see handbill posted
mp with the information that the joints Of
pork, HAMS sausages, &c, have been chem
ically analyzed BY Doctor Such-a-one, and
found free from irichinep Ii remains to
be seen whether this will suffice to calm the
apprehensions of the public, who do not
often attach much weight to such testimO-
malls In Berlin there have not been many
cases Of the disease, about thirty in all, of
which thirteen have ended fatally, and it Is
alleged that of ten thousand hogs slaugh-
tered here not more than one has been found
infected with tricliine; but Of course this
does not prevent people from being fright
ened, for, as every one who takes ticket in
a lottery expects to draw a prize, so every
one is afraid that if he eats pork it may just
happen to be part Of that particular repre-
sentative of the swinish multitude which
forms the single unlucky exception among
his myriads Of healthy brethren.
Year: 1866

Il do not decide. nor have | even considered,
the question whether the volunteer fsrces OF
the Tnited States were a part of the regular army
or Of the militia in service. In the Mexican war;
as well as IN the war of the rebellion, they were
treated by the Government as militia, and
should be reluctant 70 hold that this practice Of
the Government is uniounded in law.
Year: 1866

A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred at Cairo
ILL.,, on the 9Th. A woman named Liber.
man, wife of an employee in the brewery
attempted to murder heriwO children, hack,
ing them in a horrible msnner with an axe
then cutting her own throat in a most
shocking manner, almost severing her head
from the body. The boy will probably die
1t is hoped the girl will recover. No cause
unless sudden insanity, is assigned for this
dreadful act. 1t is stated that the woman
and her husband had lived agreeably and
happily together. The surroundings, how
ever, would not indicate much happiness
1t is probable, on the contrary, that only
squalid misery surrounded the family. The
affair is being investigated by the proper
authorities.
Year: 1866

THE Louisville correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette furnishes the following
incident:


A Kentucky gentleman and his wife, of
the highest character, resided before the
war sometimes at Frankfort and sometimes
at Chicago. On the breaking out of the war
the husband went into the COnfederacy.
In 1862 he embarked on ship and ran the
blockade. News came that the ship was
lost, and he was not heard from until re-
Gently, when he made his appearance to
find his wife married again.
Year: 1866

literature, and medical science; a name
was written by each lady, and thir.
teen times, to the unspeakable amaze
ment OF all present, the writing on the
correspondent with the writing on the
arm crumplcd paper in the lady's hand.
This was Fosters great spiritual trick;
and it is to the credit of Dr. Lynn that
he utterly disclaims and laughs at tho
idea OF spiritual agency in its perform
ance.
Year: 1866

DE CAUTIOUS when you are told by any
ID one that they have as good Sewing Machines
for sale as any one, etc. The Singer is the
Oldest and most reliable machine and best
now in use, will do all kinds of work from the
finest to the heaviest that any family ever wants
done, and will last a lifetime if properly taken
care of / have been agent for other machines
aud have got rid of them. Please give me a call
and examine tor yourselves.


Sewing neatly done to order.


also have machine twist and thread for sale.


Any one wishing to purchase please give me a
call. w. I. NORRIS, Agent,
next door TO Babcock's new hall, up stairs, on


Illinois street.
Year: 1866

ILL BUSINESS AND PROBES SlONAL men


Should Advertise in the Argus
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN


Should Advertise in the Argus.
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN


Should Advertise in the Argus
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN


Should Advertise IN the Argus
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN


Should Advertise in the Argus
ALL BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL NEE


Should Advertise in the ArxrA
Year: 1866

THE Pittsburg Republic says those who
support Jjhnson are bread aud butter men
men who earn their bread by the sweat oil
their brow, and do not steal themselves rich
as most men who now oppose the Govern
ment have done.
Year: 1866

A WEALTHY widow in Pittsburg fell in
love with a coachman who drove her to her
husbands grave and finally married him


He unfortunately had a wife living, was
arrested for bigamy and implOred her to fur
nish bail She chucked him pIayfully under
the chin and bade him go to jail like man.
Year: 1866

NrvkR FREr.-Chldren, have a capital rule
10 Give you about fretting and grumbling-a
very short rule which is worth your while to
recolIect if you want to cultivate contentment.
Never fret about what you can't help, lee iuse
It won't do any good. Never fret about what
You can help, because if you can helP II, % So
when YOU are tempted to grumble about any
thing. ask yourself "Can help tbs2" and you
cam don't fret; but if you can, do so, and see
how much better you will feel.
Year: 1866

we're filled with people from every direction hurryins
toward the Continental


by haifpas seven Chestnut street was packed win
human beings for two squares in each direction soon
AFTER eight o'clock the President took his stand at mo
head OF the stairs the second floor surrounded by hs
stan, Cabinet officers and frensd aud received the saul
taiions Of the people npdly they could pass him
in single file for upwards of an hour. The swelling and
surging Of the immense breathing and moving mass Of
humanity in the streets, in the Iobbics and on mo
stairs was grand tsblcau worthy tho study of
painter, and never 10 be forgotten by those who W.T.
messed II. Each individual who camc in front OF the
Prcsdcn: was kindly spoken to and taken by the hand
Several thousand persons thus Afforded opporu-
nifty OF seeing him and forming their estimates from his
Year: 1866

The two railroad depots in Montgomery. together with machine shops, and nearly all the rolliug stock, were destroyed in the last days of the war. The energy displayed, however, in reftting and restocking them has been commendable. At the West Point depot neat and well arranged building is rapidly going up, which combines many comforts for those who wish to take tho trains. and much convenience for the railroad company. The passengers who go out on the Alabama and Florida railroad, now get on the cars at the West Point Depot, and for the present it is not likely that another depot building will be con- structed The offices of the west Point road are in the old Murphy warehouse, and of the Alabama and Florida road in the winter iron works building.
Year: 1866

TIE LABOR SYSTEM IN MIDDLE GHoR- GIA.-An intelligent gentleman, writing to the Augusta Constitutionalist on this subject says:

 It las become evident that the older sec- tions of Georgia, especially the .'Black Belt, |" as Middle Georgia was formerly called, will in the course of a few years, be drained not only of their surplus labor but of that which will be necessary to the cultivation of the soil. Without any interposition of the Freedmen's Bureau, such result must sooner or later be consummated. Following the immutabe and irresistible law of supply and demand, free labor will go where it is most valuable. On the rich prairies of the West, and on the al- luvions of the Mississippi, negro labor is more profitable and better in other respects than white but on the lands of upper Georgia and throughout all that hlly and healthy belt which extends between the mountains and the Slow country" from Virginia to the Missis sipp1 white labor must take the place of black, and as the Freedmen's Bureau only hastens the emigration of the negro westward, so 1t becomes those who wish for the future welfare and prosperity of Georgia to hasten, so far as in their power, the filing up by white emigration of the vacuum caused by the departure of the blacks.
Year: 1866

LEARN A TRADE Teach your son to work to work with his hands-to combine muscular power with brain power, and he will seldom turn thief, vagabond or vagrant The great misfortune with majority of our young men IS that they have been taught no regular trade or employment. They now feel sadly the want of this useful training. Impress boy with the value of time, teach him some honor- able calling, however humble, and if he has the man in him it will develop itself in time He will teach himself, fom observation and association with the best class of persons who always recognize and appreciate true merit-to be, and not merely to appear to be gentleman. The silly notion, so prevalent heretofore in this country; says, the Atlanta (Ga.) New Era, that physical labor is inconss- tent with good breeding must now give way | to moro practicable, more sensible. and more healthy sentiment. We will then have fewer forgeries. fewer gamblers, fewer drunk- ards and consequently less demand for space

 in our State Prisons. We will have more l workshops, more factories; more schools, more and better filled churches, and a more thrifty

 selfreliant, intelligent hardy, and entcrpris- ing population.
Year: 1866

ssas~ The Charlottesville (va.) Chronicle thus spontaneously speaks of the straits to which the Southern States are driven by the Radical disunionsts:

 It seems flo sus to be as hard to get in the unlon as 1t IS to get out. The South respect fully asks to move one way or the other We are like the fellow that was forced to % to the show, and then not allowed to go any further than where he had paid for his ticket We have been dragged into the doorway of the Federal tent, and are not allowed to see any Of the performance except to settle with tax collectors We can hear the animals growl- ing inside, and the cracking of the ring maste's whip, but we can't see the show un- less we pay for two, and take in a colored lady And the worst of it is, they keep great eagle perched over the entrance, which, if you at tempt to go back, swoops down upon you and picks hole in your head. We justly think tLis is unreasonable; they ought either to let ns pass in or refund our money and tie up the eagle.
Year: 1866

"A letter from the widow ofthe lamcnted hero, Stonewall Jackson, will be found in our supplement. It will be seen that she corrects the misapprehension that she is in condition to suffer from want of the comforts of life. A kind father extends over her and her child paternal care. Still she is dependent, and the country of Stoncwall Jackson would have her independent Tn her own right and for this reason we hope the good intent ions of the Southern people to honor the great hero by substantial compliments to his family, will not cease on the appearance of Mrs. Jackson's modest letter.-Macon(G Ca. Telegraph.
Year: 1866

only dread him when he would go in disguise, his footstep noseless. Ife is blood they want let them have courage enough to strike. GAp- plause. If my blood is to be shed because vindcote the Union and preservation of the Government in its original purity and chasti- ty, let 1t be she'd Let an altar to the Union be erected, and then, if it is necessary, take me and lay me upon it, and the blood that now warns and animates my existence shall be poured out as fit libation of the Union of these States. [Great applause But let the opponents ofthis Government remember that even if it is poured out, that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

 Gentlemen, this Union will grow, il will continue to increase in strength and power, thol gh It may be cemented and cleansed with blood. Ihave talked longer now than I inten- ded to- let me thank you for the honor you have done. So far as the Government is con- cerned, let me say one other word, in refer ence to the amendments to the Constitution of the United States. When reached Wasbinq- ton to be inaugurated as the Vice e-President of the United States, I had a conversation with Mr. Lincoln. We were talking about the | condition of affairs, and in reference to mat ters Tn my own State. said they had called Convention, and had amended our consti- tuition, by abolishing slavery in the State-a State not embraced in his proclamation: all this met his appreciation. gave him encour- agement, and, in taking up the amendment to the Constitution, he said, when the amend ment to the Constitution is adopted by three fourths of the States, we shall have all, or pretty nearly all. I am in favor of amending the Constitution, if there was one other adopt ed. Said What is that, Mir. President Said he--I have labored to preserve this t. nlon Have toiled four years; I have been subjected to calumny, and misrep presentation Yet my desire has been to preserve the union of these States in tact under the Constitution as they were before. But, said I, Mr. Presi- dent, what amendment do you refer. He said he thought there should be an amendment ad- ded to the Constitution which would compel all the States to send their Senators and Rep resentative to the Congress of the United States, yes, compel them. The idea was in his mind that it was q part of the doctrine Of secession to break up the Government by States withdrawing their Senators and Repre- sentatives from Congress, and therefore she desired Constitutional amendment to compel them to be sent. How now does the matter stand in the Constitution ofthe country; even that portion of it which provides for the amendment of the organic law, says that no State without it's

 Here the line gave out.
Year: 1866

volume of his History appered in 1860.
tie was staunch supporter of the I'm.
ion and the National Government dyrisg
the rebellion, and his grafton to the
memory of President Lincoln will add to
bis solid fame and endesr him still more
to his countrvmen.
Year: 1866

The Pope mado speech tho other day to some
Fronch officers who had called to bid him goodbye
His Holiness was as usual, despondent ana unhappy
He felt assured that as soon as bis temporal throne
toppled over revolutions would shake Italy to Its cen
ter; and that his temporal throne going to toppo
pretty soon he seemed to entertain no manner OIL
doubt In this latter particular we entirely agree WIN
the Holy Father, though we zee no reason 10 appre
bend the dread results which he predicts when the
poatiioal kingshp shall have passed away. Inc oau
and blunderng system Of converting bishops into civil
magistrates and priests into politicians and police
oicers-bad for tho State, and still worse for the
Churoh-has come TO al end we hope, and all the
Christian world seems In fair way Of attaining the
same blessing which We enjoy free Church in free
State


Many good people are needlessy bothering their
heads with the question. where will the Pope 60 wnen
this ecclesiastical millennium arrives1 Some propose
that he should set up new establishment al Jeru-
salem and there does soem q certain congruity ID
fixing the headquarters of Christian Church IN the
very birthplace of the Christian religion Others
would have him 60 to Malta, where 'he British
Government has offered him an a I'M. But we see
no reason why tho Pope should leave Rome. and we





said, in his unfortunate address in London few days
ugo. that no Christian prince has ever treated the
Popes az subjects and he led his hearers to tho infer
encc that the Pope would cease to DO pope as
soon as no ceased to be a king. 1t Is q rash and
impous thing we know. to differ from an archbishop;
but Dr. Manning ought to remember that it was not
until tho lattor part Of the eighth century that inc
States Of tho Church became even nominally inde'
pendent; that for long years during the middle ages
the Roman ponts were little better than vassaIS oi
France or Germany; and that during the present and
the last century they have never been really Tree RON
foreign dctation so for as religion is concerned
we have little doubt that Plus TX. will enjoy more
complete freedom and independence after the last o
bis territories has bcon added to the Kingdom OF Italy
than he ever enjoyed before. The danger that the


faithful will ever be denied free access to him. when
tbey como on religious business or that when he tries
TO speak to thom an enyions monarch VIII stliie DIS
voice is too trivial TO 10 worth considering; Is vastly
less than the danger that long as he clngs to his
double sovereignty an undue regard for tho exgencies
of State may make him timd and inefficient in the
discharge Of his duty toward the Church. The Italians
have no desire to got rid Of him. they would be sorry
to lose the grandeur and uster which the Popes con-
fer upon Rome; and when the Holy Father no longer
stands in the way Of thor material prosrsSA We aha"
go. ,hsu bovina down before his spiritual throne
with moro reverence and docty and contributing to
his exchequcr with moro lavishness than thcy nave
displayed for many a generation.
Year: 1866




The fact has come to light that during the Cholera
visitation a vessel had to 30 moored to one of
piers and there guarded by the police till its pas
sengers and crew had recovered from the epidemic
The circumstances under which the city was
thus of necessity imperiled do no discredit to
the Board Of Health, but the peril itself is but
single specimen of the evils resultant
from defective quarantine, the practical want of
one altogether. The report Of the Board of Health
viii show that it has not been idle in the face Of
almost hopeless difficulties, such as the question Of
site for Quarantine Hospital appeared TO present six
months ago. The State and the General Gov
eminent have so far como TO agreement ss
to guarantee that we shall not be
exposed to the same of unquarAntined evils as
hitherto. The Quarantine Commissioners are about
to lay bulkhead foundations preparatory to fitting
West Bank for Quarantine Depot and Hospital
ground; and the Board Of Health will recommend the
seizure by right Of eminent domain Of some suitable
spot on the Bay whereon TO keep oonvaescsnt and
we'll passengers from infected ships.
Year: 1866

abroad for what we can buy Of home. Keep up the
present flow of gold out Of the country and specie
payments cant be resumed till doomsdsy. In order
TO resume, and TO maintain resumption, the gold OF
the country must bo kept within the country


Congressman, look at that formidable foreign deOt
up there 1t is growing hourly If its growth be not
checked the nation will be brought to the graVest
trials and pers-fnancial industrial, and political
Wa coniure you, Immediately on your return TO your
duties at Washington TO set up tarh barrier 70 inc
importation of foreign goods, high enough and tsnt
enough to give us a chance to return TO specie pay
Year: 1866

Unsound Flour. which is the name and title
Of another, Of the catalogued discomforts of q
crowded population, having few laws OF an
economic character to guard them, becomes
the subject Of report TO the Farmers Club.
"A committee Of this influential Club recommend that
an Inspector of Flour for the City and County New


York be appointed by the Governor in the manner
prescribed By the Revised Statutes, maintaining that
the laws respecting Flour and the appointment OF
Inspectors have not been abolished The sentence
which supposed to contain the abolition provides
that shall not abrogate any Office created tOT tho
pufbosc q protecting the public health, ETC. mani


fest and fatal injury to pubic health is unsoupd
FLOUR an incurable one il the visible means pre-.
scribed Iby the State paws are not taken hold Of
and daily poison, called unsound Flour, and some
times msnaned bread is not kept oot Of the market
Year: 1866

eyo that Judge Whiting intends TO sweep. as no cor
tainly ought, with more skillful adaptation Of his
broom; and in doing this he will, for his own proits
sake take few hints from the Boston method Thore
ia no reason why garbage and rubbish, for which
farmers and othefs will pay fair price should be
wasted, or why machinery should not speedily be put
in operation, by which every mcrohantabo constitu
ent Of the ctys refuse may be utilized to the benefit
OF lis hoalth and the contractoT's pocket
Year: 1866

We present our readers this morning with tho first
letter Of our regular Madrid correspondent SO little
is known Of Spain, that q regular correspondence
from the capital of that Interesting country cannot
fail to deeply interest many thousands OF habltua
newspaper readers, especially at time when every
thing indicates the imminence Of sweeping and sue
cessful revolution. Our first letter gives graphic
description of the political situation Of the kingdom in
Year: 1866

CoUGHs and colds at this season are alarm
ingly prevalent and should be guarded against
with the most vigilant care. For all COM
plants of this nature we know of no remedy
so highly endorsed as DR.. Ldrookah's Pulmonic
Syrup. Those who use it once will live to use
it again, and thank us for calling their atten-
ton to it in this paragraph. So
Year: 1866

A DIVISION OF MARYLAND.-The Radi-
cal papers of ALE gany and Frederick
Counties, Maryland, are advocating the
project of creating new State out Of Frank
Thomas's District. or of joining the same
to West Virginia, so as to escape the reb-
ell dominion of the balance of the State.
We decidedly object to this scheme, par
ticularly to Carroll County being carried
along in their secession. We hope it will
not be harder for them to endure the rule
sfthe Conservative majority in our State
than it is for the Secessienists down South
TO endure Radical rule. Sorry they feel
so bad; but really VIC cannot let them escape
in that way..-Carrol Go. Advocatc.
Year: 1866

EHOli Thad rather astoni shed friend
and foe last week by aunuaciating in the
U. s. House of Representatives the belief
that neither, Jefferson Davis nor any Of
those concerned in tho late Rebellion were
guilty of treason. With such sentiments
from their leaders we rather guess the
Radicals will make slow progress in the
great work Of rendering ''treason odious''
We expect at no distant day to hear then


justifying the rebellion. ar..u