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Year: 1866

I know thou hast gone to the house of til rest,
Then why should my soul be SO sad
I know thou hast gone where tile weary are blest,
And the mourner looks up and is glad
Where love has put of, in the land of its birth,
The stain it had gathered in ihis;
And hope, the sweet singer that gladdened the


earth,


Lies asleep on the bosom Of bliss!
know thou hast gone whers thy forehead is


starred


With the beauty that dwelt in thy soul,
Where lightof thy loveliness cannot BIO marred,
Nor thy heart be flung back from its goal;
I know thou hast drunk of the Lethe that flows
Through land where they d. not forget,
That sheds over memory only rapcse,


And takes from it only regre;.
In thy far away dwelling, wherever it be,


believe thou hast visions of mine,
And the love that made all things as music to me,
have not yet learnt to resign;-
In the hush of the night, on the waste of the sea,
Or alone with the breeze on tie hill,
have ever presence that whispers of thee,
And my spirit lies down and i, still
Mine eye must be dark, that so long has been dim,
Ere again it may gaze upon thine,
But my heart has revealings of thee and thy home,
In many token and sign:
never look up with VOW to the sky,
But O. light like thy beauty is there
And hear low murmur like thine in reply,
When pour out my spirit in prayer.
And though, like mourner who sits by tomb,
I am wrappd in mantle Of care
Yet the grief of my bosom-oh, call it not gloom,
Is not the black grief of despair;
By sorrow revealed, as the stars are BY night
Far off bright vision appear,
And hope, like the rainbow, creature Of light,
Is born-like the rainbow-in tears.
Year: 1866

E According to the New. York Tribune,
Santa Anna has $lO,O0O,0O0 on deposit in
England, and he is soon to return to Mexico,
drive away Maximilian, and call his country.
men to his own standard; they are to listen
to him, and will fall down before him and an:
pounce themselves as ready to do his bid
ding. Then Mexico will rise from her ashes,
and new and glorious future will be open
70 tha children Of the Montezumaa
Year: 1866

thought he might have been crazy when
he did that dreadful deed. At any rate,
ne came to his home a wreck of a man.
His temper seems entirely to have left him
and he is very kind and generous. just
went down and picked up four nice APP
pies which he threw into the yard for me :;
he always does such things slyly and
stealthily. Seth" we can hear him
whisper to himself as he walks along
quickly after he has done any such thing.
Sometimes imagine it is as much his an
tagonism to Seth rs his real generosity ::
at any rate, he will keep apples, pears and
nuts hid away weeks trying to find an op-
portumty to give them away.


But this is not ALL Phelps has taken
his place as the clown of the village
When any one comes to our house. almost
the first thing done is to show up Phelps !:
he has lost all self-respect, and is more
than happy when he can secure any oue's
attention to his dances, and especially to
his talk. He has some very funny no.
tlonS; he SAYS he is to be master of the
whole world, and everything will soon be
under his control. and then there is Il tri-
umphant nod toward the old house, and
he will walk oft. dancing every few mill
ute>. twisting his hands, twirling his fin
gers and throwing his cane 1t is laugh
able TO see him when one thinks only OF
his actions and not of him. but when
think how he was brought into the world.
with such fair prospects. now all blighte'l,
and by himself. AN very sad and then
Seth. too. is Il >orrowtul Sight-a miserlv.
di>agreeable old man.


People say the two brothers never speak
to each other. but that Seth exertS an in
tuenre over his poor shattered brother is
very plain. by the fear which Phelps seems
TO feel of him. With these daily lessons
before me. have made IA resolve which
hope all my young readers will make also.
Year: 1866

EMINENTLY UNSATISFACTORY.- -
While people in general are protesting
AS well rs the cold in their heads will
let them, against the utter failure of the
promised meteoric shower, the astrono,
mers are proclaiming that it was sue
cess! The most striking of these at
Temps 10 carry the affair Off jauntill
comes of course, from Washington
where the official astronomer reports
the precise number of stars that shot a'
lo7. Perhaps they did-but official as
surances upon any subject are at a dis
count just now. Nobody else, at al
events, saw the display. Perhaps il
was only intended for the astronomers
not for the public AT all but in thai
case why did the astronomers make S,
many fine promises? They will doubt
less publish very long and learned re-
ports of the wonderful phenomenon, but
after being so sadly disappointed few
will read and fewer still believe them
-New York Times.
Year: 1866

THE SUMNER VACATION When
Theodore Parker was on his way to
the ship which bore him off on the
voyage from which be never returned,
but landed upon the celestial shore, he
said to a friend, in the bitterness Of
his regret, IF had bought a saddle
horse twelve years ago, or had taken
real rclosc in the Summer time, l should
not have come To this now" Many
later instances in other walks Of lifr,
of the same final crash of strength and
earthly hope, have reminded US of tho
folly of incessant work. 1t is only too
true rs the old proverb declares, "There
is rest enough In the grave" and those
will soon bo sharing 1t who decline
play aud scoru recreation,
Year: 1866

OF a family of six persons in Phila-
delphia, all of whom recently returned
from pleasure trip in sail-boat on
the Delaware river violently ill, five
have died. 1t seems they took on board
bundle of clothing which they found
floating on the river, probably thrown
overheard from some vessel on which
there was a contagious disease. Vio-
lent retching and fever were the forms
of the disease, and after death the bodies
assumed a dark purple hue. tits hoped
that the only survivor will recover.
Year: 1866

AS many four readers may be in the
Same difficulty under which we labor our
selves, vis Uf not knowing what Prussia
wishes TO have tho world consider as tho
cause why she went to war, wo take pleas
urc in publishing tho
Year: 1866

To capitalists who have any disposition to invest
in agricultural pursuits in Louisiana, there is no
portion Of the State that offers greater induce.
ments than the rich sugar parish of St. Mary.
Other aluval portions of the State suffered great
disasters last year and the present season from
overfows from the Mississippi river and it's tribu-
taries, whereas st. Mary, by reason of her great
natural protection against inundation has suffered
comparatively little from that cause. The fertility
of her soil is unsurpassed-her contiguity to the
Gulf gives her the full benefit of the sea breeze
so promotiEo of health and comfort during the hot
summer months-the beautiful Teche, skirted by
the outrageous and magniicentIy picturesque
live oak, and bsecting the parish from her north
western extremity to Berwck's Bay, affords an
uninterrupted navigation throughout the wear
whilst the 0pelousas railroad and the Atchafalaya
River give her easy access to New Orleans BIZ land
or water; and, taking it all in all it would be diff
cult to find on this continent section of country
offering greater Inducements for the investment of
capital in agricultural enterprise than that garden
spot Of the Attakapas-that is, unless the cuti7a-
tion of sugar cane in Louisiana is to be aben-
dOned, whehwe cannot for one moment believe


In addition to these great natural Inducements to
enterprisng capitalists to invest there in planting
ht9esIS, ol' NL'@Ey Is DlGSseu Win q hlghly cult
waited and most excellent population, and prior to
the disasters of the war, there was not more
prosperous agricultural community in the Union,
or one more characterized by an elegant and lib
eral hospitality The war found that people in the
full tide of prosperity. It left them impoverished,
almost ruined; and row the formerly wealthy
planters of that parish will find it necessary to sell
of large portions Of their rich landed estates at
great sacrifice.


1t may well be believed that during the coming
autumn and winter capitalists, both here and from
abroad, will turn their eyes to that most lovely
section of Louisaea, where so many inestimable
advantages are coEabined to make it most desir-
able place of residence, and to insure an abundant



We desire to see every portion of Louisiana de-
veloped and restored to its former prosperity, and
in direstng attention 10 the most desirable local.
ties, We conceive that we are rendering a,gervice
to those who have capital to invest in the restora
tion of eur agricultural interests We learn that
several valuable plantations in st. Mary are for
sale, at most reasonable prices plantations which
before the war could not have been bought for al
most any price. We have said enough to direct
attention thitherward. T.
Year: 1866

man who was boasting that there never was
any rope or cord, whether made of hemp, wire. ar
ssnythIng s else, in which he could not tie double
requested to tie a knot in cord of wood
Year: 1866

Thereelives man in the town of Marion, Wis
cousin, who is sixty years old, and who never
went to bar of any kind and drank drink of
ardent spirits, never attended theatre or show
of any description, never took drink of spirits,
never took chew Of tobacco Or smoked pipe
or cigar, never went to ball or danced step,
never played game at cards, billiards, dominoes,
dice or checkers, or any game whatever that is
played for money, never courted but one girl
whom he married and lives with yet, never joined
any order or organization except the christian
church, of which he is still member, and never
had his name in newspaper but once, that was
when be was married, SO he refuses to give bis
name for publication now.
Year: 1866

MIscEeENArIoN AND PURITAN PHILAN.
rHnopY: The Troy (New York; Whig tells
the following story:


Some time since there was family 10 Sand
gate, Vermont, with sable black man as hus-
band, from fifty to fifty Eve years old, and
white woman some ten or fifteeE years younger
as a wife, with four children, three of whom
we're white and the fourth muhtto, the issue
of this white and black married couple. The
woman had been the wife Of white soldier who
was killed in battle, and the three children were
the Offspring. of, this marriage.


The woman was 10 bad health and in the first
stage of consumption The family became q
town charge aod had to be supported at the ex-
pense Of the people Of Sandgate. The cute
Saadgatians concluded however, not long to
bear the load of the support, and they accord
ingly forwarded this black and white family to
Chicago, where, having no means of support,
they became q public charge on the poor fund
OF that city.


The Chicago authorities inquired into the
facts about this family, and learning the nature
of the present sent them by the Sandgate OH
cials, they Immediately started the family back
to the place from whence they came, paying
their railroad fare hence This family arrived
in Troy on Saturday night, after the train had
gone North, and having no place to stay, and
no sufficient means TO pay hotel bill, they ap-
piled to the Second Police Station house for
lodgings and shelter until they could take their
departure by next mornings early Northern
train.


The request was granted, and they were
guests at the Hotel de Police all day yesterday
The woman is in feeble health aud evidently
has the consumption. This whole affair is little
creditable to the humanitarisns Of Sandgate
who seem to prefer seading their contributions
to the freedmen Of the South, rather than te
expend them. in taking care Of the colorec poo'
st their oqn door.
Year: 1866

appetite-to the intense qualification OF


his landlady He looks upon bacon


and greens with ultra contempt, and


wants something more ethereal He


thinks about the honey-dew of Hybla


and wishes some of the drug stores in


town had supply. He studies Byron
and Moore, and quotes from each with
remarkable facility. Lalla Rookh be-
comes favorite, especially certain
portion of the Fire Worshippers


The disease is confined to no partcu-
lar age or station. We had an attack of
it when about fifteen. 1t was so severe
that our mother wanted to give us pare
goric. We told her the pain wasn't that
low down. We recovered in course Of
time Once it broke out fully in the
shape of a certain question to certain
lady. She answered in monosyllable
of two letters. 1t brought us to our
senses. 1t swept the mist from our
eyes like fog before a hurricane We
looked for the cloud, and saw a large
white bird sailing on a pond. Thought
we were very much the same kind of a
bird, with our wings clipped. A few
days after, we told our chum that we
didn't see anything in that Haunting
Dorothy Diddle to admire. And we
didn't.


The disease develops itself most sim
gularly in those who are advanced-in
years. Any one who has seen an old
man in love has seen natures harlequin.
The old dame gets up nothing more
ludicrous, or more inconsistent. Every
one feels like laughing at the poor old
fellows infrmi,y We once saw an old
man who was suffering from an attack
of it. He was we'll enough advanced in
life to have half dozen grandchildren.
We know him WELL He was the play
mate Of our illustrous grandsire who
wasn't quartermaster in the revolu-
tionary war. If he had been we would
have been better off than we are now.
We had noticed for sometime a singu-
larity in his conduct We saw him
several times with roses stuck in his
button hole. We caught him once read
ing Burns Highland Mary. We were
out with him once looking at his stock,
and we asked which was his favorite
heifer. He said Widow wilkins. y
The cat was out We knew what was the
matter; but when, several months after,
we saw him washing the dishes while the
was-nursed the baby, we
thought he was cured permanently


There is no preventive for this dis
ease. Like the whooping-cough and the
it comes to all mankind. But
it seldom kills. We have heard Of per
sons dying of it, but as We have never
seen case of that kind, We are not will
ing to record it as a fact All the cases
that ever came under our own observa-
ton, including our own promlscuous
cases, recovered in one way or other.
Most of the cures have been the result of
a wife and few children. Most any
preacher will help person to the former,
while the latter come-in time. The
more of them the sounder the cure.
Year: 1866

A Dublin correspondent of the Pitts
burg Dispatch gives this description of
visit TO the vaults of Christ's Church,
in Dublin, where the greatest of the Irish
dead sleep their last sleep. The writer
says


Our party returned to Christ Church,
where, under the guidance of the sexton,
we made visit to the vaults under the
building. The entrance is reached by a
flight of steps, near the foot of which is
an iron gate We passed through this,
and by the light of the small lamp car
ried by the sexton, groped our way along
a narrow passage to another ponderous
gate, which barred the entrance to the
charnel-hou beyond This gate the
sexton opened, and, passing through it,
we found ourselves among cofins innu-
merabe, from some of which the bones
protruded, but as a general thing
they seemed in good condition Here
in their decaying cases lie the remains OF
bishops, lords, generals and great men
innumerabe-men who in life no doubt
would have been shocked at the idea of
being allowed to rot in such place, and,
as the sexton, one by one, called out
their names and titles, thus bringing to
our mind what they had been and what
they were, we could not help rejecting
on the vanity of human life, and how
heeting is the shadow of title and wealth
and greatness, in the pursuit of which so
many sacrifice so much.


Among others whose remains lie here,
is the late Archbishop Whately, better
known as writer than as divine, and
many of whose works are to-day, text
books in the best schools. He wrote n
book once Ia Satire on Infidel works., to
prove that Napoleon Bonaparte never
existed but judging from the manner in
which his memory has been neglected, it
will not be difficnlt few years hence to
prove even without the trouble of writing
a book, that he never had a being.
Though he had a salary of over $4,000
a year, and must have died a wealthy
man, his family seems to have forgotten
that he ever lived and so he is left to rot
in obscurity in the vaults of Christs
Church while they enjoy the benefit of
his vast estate. The extent OF the vaults
under the church has never been fully
ascertained, and before We had exam
ined half of them We felt anxious to
leave the place. The whole ground is
but a mass of human remains, and TO
what depth they go or how far they ex
tend, no one knows, as the vaults have
never been fully explored.


An incident is told in connection with
these vaults which will bear relation
here. Some years ago a young officer
who was admitted in the usual manner,
ventured to explore them, and losing his
way in their intricaeies, was locked up
by the sexton, who supposed, from his
long absence, that he had come out He
groped his way eventually to the gate,
but found it locked, and perished from
starvation before he was discovered.
When found his body had been devoured
by rats {" Norways," we supposed, and
noucht but his skeleton remained. So
much for the vaults of Christ's Church.
In my next will give the result Of my
subsequent "sight seeing" in Dublin,
with some remarks on the social and
political condition Of the people, their
customs, etc
Year: 1866

We are informed that there is large
immigration Of colored people from
Georgia, Alabama and Florida to East
Tennessee. A gentleman who has just
made a trip through these States says
that at every station he saw negroes in
large numbers, and on conversing with
them they told the same stOry-they
were bound for East Tennessee. AT one
station a negro came up with his bundle
and was aecosted BY a sable brother:
Year: 1866

DEAR SIR:


We would respectfully call your attention to
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this place. with superior facilities for the trans
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Of the wants of the planting community, We
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with our long experience in the trade, we can
guarantee TO our friends and customers full
and varied stock, which will enable us at all
times to fill their orders promptly and at the
lowest market rates. One of our house will
devote his entire time and attention TO the sale
Of COTTON. Having thorough knowledge
of the same. and being sellers only. we can at
all times obtain the highest market prices. We
are prepared to make advances on Cotton con-
signed To- as. All consignments of Cotton will
be covered with Insurance in our open policy.
unless otherwise ordered. By strict attention
to business, we trust to merit a continuance of
the liberal patronage already extended US.
Soliciting a share of your business, we remain,


Very Respectfully,


ANDERSON, GAY * BUGHER.


MEMPHIS. Tenn, September l. 1866. 30
Year: 1866

Editors of Wheeling Register


Would you be kind enough to give
snace in the columns of your worthy
naner 10 a few items, which / know if
You do, will please a great many of our
citizens and many subscribers to your
paper In our village there are no less
than three whisky shops And now, un.
deTstand me, it is in open violation of
the law of our county, as there is no
license granted. Every day or SO yOa
can see men walking around drunk, and,
as matter of course, those whisky
shops are all the cause of it. We are
destrous that there should be stop put
Year: 1866

How TO TAKE UP TREEs.-One of
the speakers, at recent meeting of ag-
aericulturists in New Haven, Conn, gave
the following sensible directions for tax
ing trees from nurseries. He said: can
enormous amount Of money is annually
lost to tree purchasers from the rude and
unskillful taking up. Trees are torn up
by the rcOs, as if the trunk and branches
were the one thing necessary, and the
roots superfuous. The proper way is, to
ope a trench on each side of the tree
with common spade, keeping tie edge
toward the tree, so as not to cross root.
These trenches should be far enough
from the tree to avoid the main roots,
and deep enough to go below all except
the top root, which may be cut off. This
bein, done, the tree may be pulled up
with its roots entire"
Year: 1866

The last act of Congress was in keep


ing with its character. The Senate
voted down the bounty bill, which pro.
yides for an addition to the public debt
of sum which Congress itself did not
even venture to estimate. On rough
gness under the bill, from Sl00,000,000
to 25OOO0 900 will be required. The
Senate Welded its assent to the bill, on
condition that the House would agree to
the increase Of the salaries of Congress
men from $4,000 to $1,000. For the sake
of the paltry sum of $1,000 eacn, the
Senate of the United States saddles the
public with an addition to the war debt
of hundreds of millions Now, let US
raise huge olamOr against the rebels,
and see if the minds of the people can
be diverted from this stupendous scheme


The patience of the American people is
greater than that of Job. If the British
Parliament attempted to do what Con.
gress has accomplished, England would
be made too hot too hold them. The
English language is copious, but it has
no terms for the proper branding of this
outrage. Even those benefited will
scorn the men WIN PioPoSo W pIlue
them. Let it he borne in mind that
men of great moral ideas lent themselves
to a scheme they did not believe to be
lust for direct personal bribe. That a
Senator might get $4,000, he voted away
5000 600 600. AS the amount is incor.
porated in the general appropriation
bill, the President was compelled to give
his assent to the measure, or suspend
the whole machinery of the government
for want of means TO carry 1t on. Now,
Radical men and brethren, let US stand
by the country-apd thank God we have
a country to-plunder Daily Eagle
Year: 1866

A gentleman who has just returned
from Poptotoc, Mississippi, states that a
few nights since the agent of the Freed
mems Bureau st that place was muir
dered in cold blood, while sleeping in his
bed, by party of rebels. His body was
riddIed with bullets in the most shocking
manner TIE people of Ponto:oc hated
the Bureau intensely for interfering with
them in exercising control over their


slaves, and are heartily glad over the
summary me.hod in which its agent has
been dismissed from service. We are
informed that the people of Mississippi
generally sympathize with them in their
hatred of the Bureau, and their oppres>
sion Of freedmen. They denounce the
President in unmeasnred terms for in.
sisting on the abolition of slavery, and
speak of the Federal Gevernment as a
despotism, TO which they must yield, for
the present, from necessity, and not from
inclination. Union men are compelled
to be as silent and cautious as they were
in 1861, and look as if they were the sub
jugated party. The secessionists treat
them with contempt, and speak Of them
ON all occasions as traitors to the
South. Nashville Times, Jan. 3lst.
Year: 1866

THE VITALITY OF FIsH.-A New Bedford
dog-fish, after having been cut completely
open and relieved of his intestines, and hay
ing been left exposed to the Sun about twen-
ty minutes, upon being thrown into the
water, swan off vigorously.


This accords with an incident that took
place near Beaufort Harbor. in this State,
several years ago. A shark, of six feet in
length, was caught with a hook, taken on
board, the liver cut out of its side, and the
shark thrown overboard the same shark,
an hour afterwards, a mile or more distant
from the place, was caught second time,
and apparently vigorous, and not at all in
commoded by loss of its liver. The dog-fsh
mentioned at Bedford is a species of the
shark