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Year: 1866

We are told that the clique which has
ridden the Union party of this county
roughly, and at its pleasure, is loosing its
grip, and that strange things are daily hap
pcning, Who can inform US why it is p
Plain Dealer.


If the Dealer refers to the clique under
the dictatorial management of the Head
Senter, We are happy 10 confirm its intel
ligence. That clique is indeed losing pow
er in Cleveland, and all gOOo men will be
profoundly grateful that it is SO. It i:
rumored that its members are going tC
Join the Democrats, and rule Eye fierce
Democracie" of the Fifth and Eleventh
Wards.
Year: 1866

FROM very intelligent gentleman, a
resident of Alabama for many years and
all during the war, we learn that it is
hardly possible to conceive the change in
the fortunes of the people of that sec
ton Despair is rapidly taking the place
of every other feeling Speaking OF the
approaching Philadelphia Convention,
the gentleman referred to remarked, that
if any of the men who brought SO many
misfortunes on the people of the South
should unfortunately ind place there,
they will not represent their people.
The South foug ught as long as it could-it
is beaten; il is humbled. Her people
ask to share in the government of their
fathers, and ask no more. From the
temper of the people of the North, so
far as he can ascertain it, our Alabama
friend believes that all will yet be well,
and that our politicians no more truly
represent us than the Hotspurs of the
South represent that section. If the
people could get together, our present
differences could be settled in day, he
thinks, and the Southern people would
take MP with renewed heart aud hopes
the work of restoring what is after all
common country. Brooklyn Eagle
Year: 1866

Children hunger perpetually for ideas, and
the most pleasant way of reception is By che
voice and ear not the printed page. The
one mode is natural, the other is artificial
Who. would not rather listen than readf An
audience win listen closely from the beginning
to the end of an address which not one in
twenty of those present would read with the
same attention. This is emphatically true
Of children; They will learn with pleasure
they have the misfortune to be deprived of
the educational advantages which they de-
sire they cannot fail to grow up intelligent
if they enjoy in childhood and youth the
privileges of listening daily to the converse
ton of intelligent people Let parents,
then talk well at home.
Year: 1866

WAKING GRANDMA WITH A KISS. "A
sweet little incident is related by writer.
She says | asked little boy last evening;


"Have you called your grandma to tea?'


Yes. When [ went to call her she was
asleep, and didn't know how to waken her
/ did wish to holler at grandma, nor to
shake her; 50 | kissed her cheek and that
woke her very softly. Then / ran into the
hall and said pretty loud, grandma, tea is
ready. And she never knew what woke
her. -


Do we find anything more sweet, delicate
and lovely than this in the annuals of poetry
Can eonvenfionalty improve npon such
politeness, spontaneous in the heart Of SIX
years old bow
Year: 1866

ONE of the editors of New Orleans pa
per soon after beginning 70 learn the prin-
ting business went to pay his addresses to a
preacher s daughter. The next time be at
tended the meeting he was taken down BY
hearing the minister announce as his text
My daughter is grievously tormented with
a devil
Year: 1866

MUNICIPAL FLAyoRs. The editor of a
Chicago newspaper declared in speaking Of
the filth Of thet city he mad two bundled
and twenty seye and distinct smells with
three wards still to hear from.
Year: 1866

aea Little three year old Jennie was play
ing very roughly with her kitten, carrying it
BY the TAIL Her mother told her that she
would hurt pussy. why no, ! won t, :
said she a m carrying it by the handle
Year: 1866

SoUR GRAPEs.-A friend related to us
one morning q scene in school room,
which we think will do to publish, and is too
good to keep. 1t Is tho custom in tho
school to read moral lesson each nom.
ing. when the teacher questions the schol-
nrs ON what has been read. Tho day our
friend visited the school, the lesson was in
regard to the taking Of fruit, and was sort
Of narrative, in which il was sta,ed teach
or bad told his class not to touch tho fruit
which grew in q neighboring orchard, but
to wal, until Il was perfectly ripe, and they
should all have share Of it, They all dis
obeycd the command with the exception of
one little gih-she alone retaining from
touching the fruit. The ist question asked
by the teacher was-


"Whieh did right, the little girl or tho
Others Of the clas7"


The unanimous answer was


"The little girl"


The next question was-


"Why did not the little girl also take tho
fruit7"


This appeared to puzzle the class, and
for long time no one was ready to answer.
Al length little fellow at the bottom Of
tho class held up his hand, which was
equivalent to saying that he could give tho
answer Hc was told to proceed, when ho
astonished the teacher and convulscd our
friend by exclaiming-


@Pieath, sir, she wath too little to reach
the fruit 20
Year: 1866

VIRGINIA TRADE.-The persistence with
which some of our citizens still continue to
patronize the Northern markets in preference
to their own, sometimes reminds US OF the old
fable in which the other members of the
body declared war upon the indolent stomach,
and combined in an attempt to starve out that
worthless member of the frame with success
which will be remembered by all readers Of the
story in question. People exclaim how abb
surd" was such conduct, and yet it is not with
out counterpart in the mercantile transactions
Of too large portion of the Southern people.
In our body polite we may compare the rural
districts to the actively laboring members OF
the body, while the great Commercial and
Manufacturing centres may be compared not
naptly to the stomach which receives the food
produced by the other members, and assimilat-
ing and dgesting it in a manner which adds to
the general health and prosperity OF the whole
frame, returns to the most distant extremltles
through the railroads (which may be likcncd to
the arteries) the nutritive elements which it has
received


The welfare of our cities and rural districts
stherefore inseparable, and one cannot be de-
prived of its natural nourishment without a
corresponding injury being inflicted on the
other II the stomach be starved the inteebled
body must languish; and it is only when all.the
mem bers are healthy that the whole frame can
develop its most vigorous efforts.
Our people have too loug been unmlndtul OF
these plair old truths, but the time has come
when they should no longer indulge in blind
ness which is ruinous to the best interests of
their State and section. We must rely upon
ourselves we must be true to each other we
must ignore as far as possible extraneous inter
ests and consult our own, by the production
at home Of every article needed in the house
and in the field.


The money paid into Northern Golfers by
Virginia alone would; if retained at home,
make our country almost an Eden; would
oulld up factories and fleets, and colleges, and
s!urantee employment and competence to every
citizen,


Ii the good work has been long delayed, SO
much more pressing are the reasons for. com.
nencing it Immediately, and prosecuting it
Vigorously, until it shall have reached a glori-
GUS completion. Richmond EnQuiyer. -
Year: 1866

We make the following extract from
speech of Mr.. Lincoln on reconstruc-
ton, delivered in Washington but few
days before his death We commend 1t
10 the consideration of that class who
are so bitterly assailing Mr.. John
son and his reconstruction. We pub
lshed the whole Of Mr Lincoln speech
on the 10th of May last


We meet this evening not III sorrow
but in gladncss Of heart The evaeua
ton of Petersburg and Richmond, and
the surrender OF the principal insurgent
army, give hope OF righteous and
speedy peace, whose joyous expression
cannot be restrained


By these recent successes, the re in
arguration of the National Authority,
RECONSTRUCTION, which has had a
large share Of thought from the first, is
pressed much more closely upon our at
tention.


| have been shown 4 letter on this
subject. supposed to be an able one, in
which the writer expresses regret that
my mind has not been definitely fixed on
the question whether the seeded States,
so called, are in the Union or out OF it.
Whatever it may hereafter
become, that question is BAD as tbs
basis of a controversy, and good for
nothing at ALA MERELY PERNICI
Gus ABSTRACTION. We all agree
that the seceded States, so called. arc
ont of their proper practical relations
with the Union, and that the SOLE OBJ
JECr of the Government civil and Mill
tary in regard 10 those States, is to again
get them in that proper practical rela
ton. l believe 1T is net only possible
but in fact easier to do this without de
ciding, or even considering whether
these States have ever been out of the
Union, than with it. Finding themselves
safely AT HOME, it would bc utterly
immaterial whether they had ever been
abroad. Let us all JOIN in doing the
ACTS necessary to RESTORING the
proper practical relations between these
States and the Union, and each forever
AFTER indulge his own opinion wheth-
er, in doing the acts, he brought the
States from without INTO the Union, OF
only gave them proper assistance, they
never having been OUT of it.
Year: 1866

= RECEIPr WORTH ONE TuorsAxp
DoLLARs.-So says the Ohio Cultivator,
Take one pound of sal soda and half A
pound of unslacked lime, put them in a
gallon Of water ard boil twenty minutes:
let it stand TIL cool, then drain off and
put in a strong jug or jar Soak YOUR
dirty clothes over night, or until they are
vet through, then wiring them out and
rub on plenty ef soar ana u enc boiler
of clothes we'll covered with water, add
one teacu2 full of washing Gujd Boil
half an hour hriskly. then wash them
thoroughly through one suds. rinse. and
your clothes will look better than the old
way OF washing twice before boiling.
This is aT snvaiuable receipt. and I want
ekeEy poor tired woman to try it. /
{hlnS with patent washtub 70 do the
littIe rubbing. the washer.worap rni-h+
take the old Bible and compose herself
on lounge, aad let the washing do it
self
Year: 1866

The OPERA.-The operate season at Holiday
Street Theatre was opened last evening, when the
fayorite opera of Faust" was presented in such
manner as to win the unqualified admiration of a
brilliant and crowded audience. The singing and
acting superb throughout, Hermaus eciting the
most enthusiastic applause by his Inatchless render
ing of Mephistopheles. His gold song in the second
act. and "Serenade" in the fourth act were sung
with surprising power and expression. and were
both encored Hermans as Faust" and Madame
Rotter Marguerite" sang with spirit that quite
won the hearts of the audience. The tableau which
closes the final act was given with fine effect. We
congratulate Mr. Grover upon the brilliant Of
his opening night, and the musical public upon the
rare treat offered them during the ensuing week.
Fra Diavoo will be given this evening with bril-
liant cast.


FASHIONABLE E SoIREE.-A grand complimentary
Hop will be given at the Gilmor House tonight to
its proprietors, Messrs. J. T. Trego & Co. The front
of tie hotel will be illuminated with gas jets and all
the indications that the affair will be most bril-
liant and recn,a ,arche.


FRONT STREET Ii,EATRE.-The Circus with all its
attractions of Gymnast;c and Equestrian Feats,
Trained Ponies, Comic Mules &c. continues at this
house. The New Programme introduced with so
much success last night will be repeated this evening


MARYLAND INsTITUTE.-There will be no exhin;
tion of the Miltonian Tableaux tonight the hall
being engaged for other purposes


Paris is about crowning all its street lamps
with blue glass; which the passenger may read the
name of the street.


Never in the history of East Tennessee
has greater interest been manifested by citizens
on the subject of religion, religious revvals being in
progress all over the land and hundreds are being
added to the various denominations of the Christian
church.


AT the great charity ball in New York,
coaehmen were not allowed to take home the party
which they brought but were compelled to fall into
line and take whoever offered at dollar for each
passenger, no matter what was the distance Short
fares" were consequently in demand. One driver,
greatly against his will, obliged to take in two
ladies and gentleman for Sixty street. The
shrewd QUICKER" or solicitor of custom for the car
rage followed it up the street, and called in loud
voice to the driver: II say. Jim, what did you dc
with them smallpox cases you had last night? Be-
fore the driver answered aadys head was thrust out
Teach of the carriage DOORS the driver stopped toas
certain what wanted; in half minute the ladies
were in the street; in another half minute the driver
had his three dollars and ready to take his place
IN the line Of carriages to wait for other passengers,
Year: 1866

DENVER, Feb. 12-Santa Fe dates of the Sd inst
have been received The Legislature just adjourned
had repealed the odious negro law. The peon law
was amended so to make scrvtude under it entire
ly voluntary. convention had been instructed to
frame State Constitution. The election of dele
gates was to take place on the first Monday in March
and the Constitution submitted to the people the last
Monday in April. No State may apply fc. admission
before the adjournment of the present session of
Congress
Year: 1866

SUICIDE IN OHIo.-A most heart-rending affair oc-
Ohio. one day last week. in the suicide by hanging,
Of Mrs. Deborah Baxter aged forty-three. wife ofD
during the month of July last and since that time
Mrs. Baxter has been inconsolable. which resulted
in deep melancholy, terminating in suicide. She
little boys. her nephews. who living with her.
came upon her while in the act of hanging, and
consented to desist provided they would keep silent
in regard to d her folly The boys although much
ing about half seven o'clock. telling her nephews
that she would return IN a few minutes she went
her return ran to the nearest neighbor and told him
of their suspicious and returning with him found
Mrs Baxter was member of the Presbyterian church
and was most estimable lady. She leaves a large
circle Of relations and friends to mourn over her
sad fate
Year: 1866

A steam railway 10 the summit Of
Mount Washington Is being built. The
track has two smooth rails, and between
them lies a wrought iron ladder, in
which the fingers Of the cog red driving
whsels tske bold and climb on. lie
ascent y one foot in three.
Year: 1866

A large proportion of the operatives in our various
kinds OF shops not worth $1,000. A wife be-
loved and confdng children cling with fond regard
to the father liable at any moment to be taken away
with nothing laid by for their comfort and protec-
tion The annual sum of S25 would pay life poll.
CIV that would in the event of death 90 far towards
making them comfortabe and who can not lay
aside for such purpose this small sum, and who
among you ought not to lay it aside If the family
is poor so much the greater need that this wise pro-
vision be not neglected. AS the ordinary accumu-
lations necessarily slow, requiring years to lay
aside few hundred dollars, how much wiser to make
sure at once u large sum by Life Insurance. Take
warDinO befOre IL is too late
Year: 1866

There are many persons who have been deferred
from Insuring their Lives for the benefit Of their
families ON account Of not being in sound health
The undersigned is agent for the UNIVERSAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
which company takes risks on the lives of IEvAIIDs
and is also agent for the
Year: 1866

The poverty and suffering of widows and orphan
with cold and checrlcss prospects, worn with excess
sivc toll and scanty subsistence and cOrrodng anx.
iety, are a speaking commentary upon the evils OF
husbands negecting this benefcent provision. How
many families have been thrown into a state of ab-
solute want by the culpable neglect of husband or
father to fulfil to his famil (which he is bound by
sacred obligations TO protect, honor, cherish, and
provide for-thc important duty of Insuring his
Life for their benefit? Few homes free from
cncumbrance by mortgage otherwise, and iii very
many cases, on the deccase of the husband and ia
ther the wife and children who had confded in him
to shield them from poverty, are forced from their
long cherished homes, which they in their younger
days helped to adorn with all that the heart could
desire Could that departed husband and father look
back upon the suffering condition Of his family,
would he not admonish husbands and fathers,
aud all TO guard against similar calamity to their
own families by Life Assurance


Men, when the subject of Life Assurance is men,
toned to them, too apt to say il s too heavy
tax and yet, if they would reflect for moment it
in reality is tax, but savings bank for the bene.
ft OF their wives and children.


An insurance the life of n man for the benefit
of his wife or children, is free from attachment by
crcditors but is paid directly to his wife and child
rem sixty days after the death of the husband.
Year: 1866

low in the South, would have damaging eff


feet upon the party when brought to Judgment


before the people; but it is strikingly apparent


from the result of the late elections in Maine


that the popular mind is controlled by larger
questions, against which the sayings or doings
Of this or that fanatical politician 20 for moth
ing That great body Of the American people
to which we are indebted for the suppression
of the most formidable rebellion in the history
of mankind, are evidently determined to have
substantial securities for the future before they
pronounce the good work of the restoration of
the Union complete-that, in short, Southern
reconstruction shall rest upon the solid founda-
ton of the Federal constitution, regardless Of
the disturbing forces of radicals, cOpperheads,
rebels, ruffans or fanatics, North or South.


From the elections which have occurred
since the Constitutional Amendment was adopt
ed by Congress for the reconstruction of the
Southern States, We are satisfied that that
amendment is to become the basis Of South
ern restoration-that it will carry and be car
red by all the Northern State elections yet to
come, and that with New Jersey heading off
it will be ratified by them all and become part
and parcel of the supreme law of the land


Having followed the drift OF political affairs
so closely for a long time, its sudden ''chauge
of base" is worthy of note.
Year: 1866

A DAILY IN WILMINGToN-A daily news
paper is to be started in Wilmington on Mon
day next. 1t is in the hands of a firm fully
acquainted with the publishing and printing
business, and backed up by capital sufficient
to carry it through year or more at all haz-
ards, we are informed. The enterprise was
originally commenced by man named Tyler,
who recently sold out to the firm now putting
1t in operation. Its political complexion will
be Republican. We hope it will merit and
receive patronage which will insure its sue
cess
Year: 1866

A correspondent of the New York
Tribune thus describes the mixture Of
all styles and manners at the dinner
table of a Saratoga hotel


Dinner is served from two o'clock till
five, and before you dream that it is
twelve you find it is time to dress for
that exhibition, for sharp are the eyes
and vouble tongues that see and discuss
every wrinkle in your flounces and every
link in your guardchain. 1t really con-
Germs ones moral welfare to be we'll
dressed, because if you know that your
garments are well made and can defy
criticism, that moment you cease to re-
member that you have garments at all,
and can emerge from that circle whose
centre and conference is self, to the
contemplation of the external world.
Whereas, if you see that you are dowdy,
you carry yourself about On your back
continually, burden importunste and
adhesive as Sinbad's Old Man of the
Sea.


All costumes you see at dinner, from
serge to satin; all characters, from ex-
cluse to honnel manners from Belgra-
Wan to barbarian; people who wear
diamonds enough to redeem the national
debt, and eat energetically' with their
knives, imbibing their concluding coffee
with audible satisfaction fond wives,
who, across the drawing room, address
the partners of their lives by the endear-
ing name of Pop" damsels whose
breakfast costumes are incomplete with
out the glare of broad gold bracelets,
and who at dinner are puzzled to devise
new effects of toilet, and so torture their
bright hair into all sorts of hirsute obe-
lisks, which commemorate only the bad
ia ste of their authors; little children,
who are milliners' figures, and walk by
rule. instead of climbing fences and
tumbling on the hay, in linen sacks as
they ought te be doing; and among all
these some dear, sweet lovely woman,
rich in all graces Of womankind, who
are ladies by inalienahle hirthright,
whether in diamonds at Saratoga or lin
sey woolsey in Idaho and few, very
few, men whom it is an honor TO know.
Year: 1866

work with President Johnson, to inter
pose his strong arm in this case; and
while such men as..Mr. Greeley and other
noted Republicans are willing TO become
bondsmen for Davis, why should the
Radical party dissent from granting the
unfortunate captive his freedom on pa.
role? This very day there is a capital
of S., 900, 900 ready to be pledged for Mr.
Davis, to appear either for trial or be on
his good behavior A few more weeks
will demonstrate how far the Radical
Secretary Of War dare yet to go, and
when the Supreme Court of the United
States for this District again conyenes
he can still retain his prisoner under the
mighty bayonet


Mr.. O'Conner leaves tonight for New
York, when he will lay the result of his
consultation with Mr. Davis before Mr..
7. Brady and his other colleagues, and
they together will work on that for the
defense of Mr.. Davis.
Year: 1866

A Boston letter says:


The approaching Philadelphia Con-
vention continues to be the absorbing
topic of conversation in the hub, and
is really stirring the political waters Of
Massachusetts, to depth little expected
by the citizens of other States When
the call of the Union National Commit
tee was first published it was nothing but
a "byword and reproach" to the super
cilious Bostonian He ridiculed the
bare possibility of the new party move
ment becoming power in the land, and
curled his lip with affected scorn at those
who saw in it the possible germ Of a
great party and political revolution.
But his faith was somewhat staggered by
the unmistakable manifestation of public
favor with which it was received through
out the country, aud his fears we're
finally aroused for the possible effects of
the call even within the boundaries of
the staid bay State.
Year: 1866

OF family of six persons in Phila-
delphia, all Of whom recently returned
from pleasure trip in sail beat on the
Delaware river violently i'll, five have
died 1t seems they took on board a
bundle of clothing which they found
floating on the river, probably thrown
overheard from some vessel on which
there was contagious disease. Violent
retching and fever we're the forms Of the
disease, and after death the bodies as
sumed dark purple hue. 1t is hoped
that the only survivor will recover.