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Year: 1866

Tho New York Tribune thus pours
forth its enthusiasm on the subject OF
female skatcrsi


Many Of them skate with exquisite
ease and skill, and few are to be seen
" no do not understand the DoduS ope-
rUp,di in some degrec-fOr they have
the delicacy to learn how in some way
or another, out of sight. They seldom
trip and fall, and as they are usually
accompanied by companions, they re-
cover themselves quickly, and cheer
ful laugh is generally the only result OF
the accident. Besides, women seem
to excel naturally in this pastime, rs
they do in the far less graceful one OF
dancing. In truth, the singular grace
and beauty of women skaters must te
apparent to all who ever saw bright
faced, lithe-formed girl or woman
swinging over the smooth surface of
! frozen lake or stream. The skirts,
which at first might be thought to be
a hindrance, are by no means so, be-
cause one foot is seldom or never sta
/ tiOnary, while the other is gliding
Sometimes they both move at once, in
curves Of beautiful freedom, under the
impetus of several powerful strokes.
When fancy skating is INDUCED in,
the widC-swinging foot $50 to speak, is


not like the blade of n compass, but


both move at once, only one more than


the other, and thus the whole form is


always gracefully undulating, never
partially at rest.


Dancing is gross and stilted, COM
pared to the impulsive stride, the al
most noiseless sweep, the swing, the
quiet power, the grace and elegance Of
motion in fine skater.


" Along the frozen lake she comes


In linking crescents light and fleet
: The icc-imprisoned Undine huns
II A welcome to her little feet"
: The amusement Of skating, as well
, as being most wholesome exercise,
! must also contribute to strengthen


ones self-cOntidence; to judge from the


bold freedom Of the girl, whose consti-
. tuition may be somewhat delicate.
Year: 1866

How TO WASH WoOLEN CLOTHING,
In washing all woolen garments,
put them i'll boiling hot soapsuds water
so as to be covered; then move the
garments about in the water; after q
few minutes pass them through your
clothes wringef. 10 the rinsing in
boiling water and wiring as before /;
this process will to a considerable ex-
tent, prevent fulling or shrinkage.-
Boiling hot water will lessen the wash
ing of all kinds of garments. Our ex-
pcricnce is, that the hotter the water
the easier the washing.
Year: 1866

To EXTRACT GREASE FROM CLOTH
ING.-The cheapest and most effectual
preparation for extracting grease from
woollcn cloth, may be made of one
part of liquid ammonia and four parts
of alcohol, mixed with an equal guam
tity of water. If kept ON hand it
should be placed in glass-stoppered
bottle. Apply with piece of sponge,
soaking the cloth thoroughly when the
grease has reWained any considerable
time in the fabric.
Year: 1866

RC' osE or MANNER. IL Gentleness
in the gait is what simplicity is in the
dress. Violent gesture orquick move
ment inspires involuntary disrespect.
One looks for a moment at a cascade
but one sits for hours lost in thought,
and gazing upon the still water of a
lake. A deliberate gait, gentle man
ner, and a gracious tone of voice-all
of which may be acquired--give a me-
diocre man an immense advantage
over those vastly superior to him. TO
be bodily tranquil, to speak little and
to digest without effort, are absolutely
necessary to grandeur of mind or of
presence, or to proper development of
genius.
Year: 1866

sisting, he was brought in, laid upon one of the
seats, and the car went on its way.
Some one suggested that physician should
be called but the driver swore that he
would not stop for such nonsense, as he had
lost time enough, and did not. Consequently, the
poor unfortunate fellow had to remain in that CON
dtion until the car stopped at the eud of the line,
at Elysan Fields street. He told the passengers
that he had been badly wounded at sharpsburg,
but even in that dreadful conflict he had met with
men humane enough to take him to the rear to
have his wounds attended to; and he little thought
that among his own fellow citizens he would meet
with such inhuman treatment. When our inform.
ant left the stopping place of the cars, the poor
fellow was still lying in the immediate vicinity of
the car which broke his leg--with crowd around
him, it is true-but with none to help him We
have been told since that he had to make his way
home on his shattered stump. Horrible!


LATER.-It appears that the leg spoken of above
was wooden substitute, and that the sufferer
is expected to be all right to-day, as he has a
change,
Year: 1866

VALUABLE IMPROVED REAL ESTATE IN THE
FOURTH DISTRICT AT AUCTION By THE sHERlFF'-
Particular attention is called to tue sale at auction
to be made this day at noon, at the Merchants
and Auctoneers' Exchange, Royal street, by the
sheriff of the parish of Orleans, of valuable ln7
proved real estate situate on Coliseum and Fourth
streets, Fourt District. For particulars and terms
soc advertisement,
Year: 1866

The reasons why persons who have become de-
biitated from loss of appetite should not despair
as the great Indian remedy Red Jacket Bitters, will
inyigorate the system, tone the stomach, and
make life of misery one of health ard strength.
Year: 1866

Marvellous beyond precedent is the effect of
sozodont upon the whole economy of the mouth,
keeping the gums rosy and healthy, the teeth in
perfect order, giving to the breath baln45 fra
Year: 1866

the expenditures during the next year


can reach S275,0O0, 900 ON the present ba-


sis. We have a current revenue now of


nearly S50O, 100000 during this year.
The amount of the gold receipts during
the first three-quarters of the year was
S1400O000 and for this quarter viii not
fall below S200O0,000. 1t is supposed
that the internal revenue will yield du-
ring the current year not less than $780,
100000, so that, including the profits re-


allied on the sale of surplus gold we have


an income of not less than S50O,0OO,O0O


this year, and some authorities place it


higher. Thus it is evident that we have


S20O, 100000 more income this year than


we win have expenditures next year."


There have been extracted from the


country by the Government during a


single year, two hundred million dollars


more than the Government required to


pay its way. This toe, duringa year in


which the arrangement of industry and


business of the currency has had the


most damaging effect upon business


men, and laboring men, and all men and


all interests. Isit judicious, under these


circumstances, to continue our present


enormous rates of taxation? To take


philosophical view of the matter as re-


CARDS the past, we may think it well that


such revenues have been raised and such


taxation patiently borne, for one year.


1t has shown what we can do and bear.


1t has made us perfect through suffering.


1t has established public confidence in


the Government credit and given thank
full faith in our national honor. Aside
from these moral aspects of the case, it
has doubtless done vast and incalcula-
bic damage to our material interests;
but the moral aspects in this case have
palpably oyerridden all temporary ma
terial considerations. Is it wise, how
ever, to continue to tax the people and
injure industry merely for the purpose
of attempting at this time to pay off the
huge debt contracted during the war?
We have no thought of permitting this
debt to become permanent thing in our
governmental economy. We have no
idea of permitting the fact that it must
be paid to be lost sight of. We have no
notion of ceasing entirely in the labor of
reducing it. But would it not be well,
after what we have borne and accom- |
plished in the late exhausting military |
struggle, to ask of the country little |
less than to plunge at once with its en- |
tire energies into an equally exhausting
and altogether needless financial strug-
gle? Would it not be well to give the !
people and the public interests period |
of rest, or at least to tighten somewhat I
their burdens, when it is evidently fea- !.
sible to do so? 1t will take but limit |
ed time for the country to regain its for
mer prosperity, and for our industrial !
interests to reach point of develop
ment far beyond anything in our past |
experience. And the measure of taxa
tion that is not affecting to endure, will !
then seem but as feather on the back |
of this broad shouldered people.
Year: 1866

This is the New York Work. comment
on Cox's letter:


Certain uneasy Republicans are at their
old game Of forging or gorblng converse
tions of President Johnson Their labor
is wasted. The Presidents last speech
was made to be read by plain people It
can be understood without the aid Of COM
mentators, and, moreover commentators
cannot twist it.
Year: 1866

Every one, who reads at all, knows
there are but two parties-the Union
party, which fought to maintain the
Government, and the Democratic
party, which fought to destroy the
Government. These are the two,
and only two. Every man must be
arrayed in one or the other. Choose
ye, which you will do battle for. You
cannot serve two masters The
Democratic party is solidly united
North and South. Every rebel,
from the highest to the lowest, is 2
member of this party! Every man
who raised his arm against the Gov.
ernment is in full fellowship in the
Democratic party. Every man who
is guilty of starving Union prisoners
is saint in the Democratic partyl--
Every man who still boasts of his
cruelties and his crimes against the
Government, is member in high
standing in the Democratic party
Every man who is still plotting trea-
son and all its attendant evils. is an
active, working member Of the Dem
ocratic party! Let no man be de
ceiyed in these things. They are
true. Every man who casts his vote
for the Democratic party lends his
aid to the South--the men who
fought to destroy the Government
Ripley Bee. .s
Year: 1866

THE KENTUCKY ELECTION. The
Louisville Journals comment on the
result Of the election have a graver
import than the language which is
ordinarily employed to announce
defeat 1t says:


According to present appear
ances, Kentucky has gone for Duvall
by Il heavy majority This is what
VIC expected. but it is none the less
painful to US on that account We
do not believe that we have predict
cd, as a consequence OF the triumph
of the Duval party, single evil that
viii not come upon our people: and
we have solemn fears that the future
is darker than we have pictured it
Kentucky, if VIC are not more mista-
than We ever were in oar lives, will
yet bitterly rue and deeply curse the
unnatural and deplorahle work Of
yesterday.


We do not choose to comment'at
any length upon Mondays election
until we get further returns. The
task dosn't promise to be so pleasant
q one that We need be in q hurry to
perform it. Whether DuvalPs
powerful vote is attributable to the
fact that the cry of a coalition with
the Radicals was every where raised
against the conservative Union
party, or the fact that Kentucky
actually is and has all along been
secretely pro-rebel or rebel syInpa
tlizing State. we know not. We
will under all circumstances, think
rs favorable of Kentucky as we can.
We have rendered her too many
fayors, and received too many from
her, to yield a ready belief to any
thing tending to her disparagement.
But her people have not unfrequent
" gone wrong in elections, and we
do not think they ever went half as
wrong before rs they appear to have
done last Monday. tits no eonsula-
ton to us, but rather a deep grief to
think that, if they have committed
fearful error, its deadly weight will
fall chiefly upon themselves; and
our regret on their accounts scarce
ly at all Aggravated by the knowl
edge that we shall share their desti-
nv
Year: 1866

A Committee of the Detroit Board Of
Trade, appointed to report on the bill
pending in Congress relative to a ship
canal around Niagara Falls, reported that
a canal with only twelve feet draft et
water, as proposed in. the bill, will be Of
comparatively little relief to the overtaxed
commerce and increasing products of the
West They pre5enteda a resolution, which
was adopted, that the commerce of the
West demands the construction of a ship
canal around the Falls of Niagara, at the
earliest possible moment of sufficient
size to pass the largest vessels and steam
ers drawing not less than IA or Is feet o
water, which viii meet the future as vel
as the present wants of commerce
Year: 1866

Except By those whose tastes are fxedly
oid-fashiOned, the wearing of paper collars
and cuffs by both sexes is almost univer-
sal We see that paper socks have lately
been invented intended to be worn over
cotton or woolen socks as protection
from cold But we look to see them intro
dueed as substitutes for ordinary socks be-
fore long. The Chinese make use Of paper
for many articles of dress, and it is said
that their paper hats and oYereoats are
durable, warm and waterproof If paper
clothing should come into fashion a new
suit would cease to be so much Of an
event as now. How handy it would be
for reporter to take his notes on his
sleeve or the skirts of his coatI We 90
for paper.
Year: 1866

Arthur is real Union boy, but not at
all religiously inclined so that his mother
often had great difficulty in getting him
to pray understsndingly. One evening,
after much persuasion, he knelt to repeat
his usual prayer, but rendered it With
slight variation as follows: "Now / Law
me down to sleep, shouting the battle-cry
of freedom
Year: 1866

SELF RELIANcE.-The succosa of indi.
v'duala in life is greatly owing 10 their
early learning to depend upon thsr own
resources. Money, or the expectation Of
II y Inheritance, has ruined more men
than the want Of it ever did. If you
teach young men to rely upon their
efforts, to be frugal and industrious, you
furnish them with productive capital
which no man can ever wrest from tbem.
Year: 1866

HoN. CAVE JoHNsoN.-This gentleman,
formerly Postmaster General was recently
elected to the Tennessee State Senate but
that BODY has refused to allow him to take
las scat on the ground that he was disIoyal
during the war.
Year: 1866

THE UNDERSIGNED, THEMSELVES MEM
| L bcr> of the Sabbath School, propose to COM
mcnce in the city of Raleigh, on about the 1st
of next May,


"THE SUNDAY SCHOOL BANNER"
of love, being boys, ourselves, may we not appeal
to every Sunday School boy, and girl in North
Carolina to come up promptly to aid the under
taking. In our own State, there are very many
Sabbath Schools, and from the best Information
we have, the scholarship is large and increasing
and it is from them we look for that patronage
which is necessary to improve and keep floating
this native standard which propose for their
benefit 1t is not for pecuniary gain that the
&C BANNER is established it has for its aim
higher objects, and if we succeed in our enter
prise it will be to in after life source of great
satisfaction to know that, in our boyhood days,
we gave a helping hand to Sunday Schools, the
preparatory Schools for places of high trust and
position, in the work of our Heavenly Father
Its name sufficiently indicates the object which
is to control its editorial conduct There is
cessity however for the remark that it will not be
UNCONVENTIONAL, but alike open to all the Sabbath
Schools of this State for contributions, in which
there is no spice of sectarianism.


The BANNER - will be issued monthly on hand
some type, clear white paper and will contain
fourteen columns reading matter, quarto length.


We trust sufficient encouragement may be of
fered to justify the undertaking.


TERMS-IN ADVANCE:
Year: 1866

NEW YORK, July 5.-At an early hour this
morning fire broke out in the New Haven
Steamboat Freight Depot, at Peck slip, which
in a short time wrapped the building in flames.
The amoGut Of loss is not known.
Year: 1866

The diversity Of china, peculiar
to this State, and also its varied
geology, causing much difference OF
soil, renders it suited to the growth
of most of the vegetagle products OF
temperate climates, and in addition
many. of those peculiar to tropical
regions. This surely is great ad-
vantage which as yet is not appreci-
ated or valued as much as it should
be, either at the South or North. II
our lands will grow as much wheat,
rye. corn, barley, oats, sorghum, and
Whatever else they may cultivate in
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio,
as theirs. our lands would be eqnal-
ly valuable, provided, we had as
good a climate and market as they.
They have better market than we,
better becauseit costs less to have
It available; in other respects our
lands exceed theirs in value, because
they are not only equally fertile,
and will produce as much of their
products as theirs, but will also
grow cotton ana many other things,
which they cannot mature, besides
our winters are so mild that little
or no fodder is required for stock.


The expense of food and shelter
for the animals and the taking care
of them during the winter, is large
item which lessons the profits Of
the Northern farmer sometimes one
half or more. Expensive barns and
other buildings must be made, 70
all of which must be added much
trouble from unfavorable weather
and bad servants, to most Of which
the Texan stock grower is stranger
Yet farmers in the Northern States
keep sheep, cattle and horses on
lands valued at from fifty to one
hundred and fifty dollars per acre,
and make money in the business.


In Dallas and other Northern coun-
ties ofTexas, wheat from ten to forty
bushels per acre is raised. The lat.
Ter amount Is said 10 be a not un-
common crop. The grain Is excel.
lent with a full kernel, often weigh.
ing 81 or 63 pounds to the measured
bushel. and making -four equal to
the best Northern wheat taking
everything into account for many
Of the mills in Texas can be much
Year: 1866

DR. CRAvEN's BooK--Dr Craven's book Is making some sensation. It is the first of a series of personal histories for which our great war has afforded material.

 It begins with the head of the heroic men

 ofthe South, and allows tho the great pris- oner to tell his own story. The specimens we have seen are not quite up to the clear, strong stye of MT. Davis speeches, but are sufficiently characteristic for purporses of identity The story of his prison treatment ---the scene of the manaces, the internal light ever pouring full upon his aching eye balls, the unceasing tread of the guards, tho horror experienced from the reflection that human eyes were ever upon him, his speeches. solitude, the feeling that one by one the cords of his existence were loosen ing--is effectively told. The offence sup posed to have given occasion for treatment so severe, was not that for which he IS to be tried in Richmond. It was quite another; it was that of complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln The charge has been abandoned by the Govern ment. The witnesses who flew to Wash fington to charge him, have fled from ter TOTS of justice, because they were perjured villains, and dared not go into court with their damnable lies. The ofense for which he is to be arraigned in October, being of political character, need not have invoked chains and silence. It is probable there fore, that the amelioration af the prisoner condition began with the breakdown ofthe assassination charge. But the wrong

 nevertheless, has been accomplised. The story is abroad, and the world will pore over it with rare relish We have not seen the book, but the copious extracts before the public sufficiently illustrate its merits
Year: 1866

THE undersigned take pleasure in informing u the public, that they have SAW MILL in successful operation, and keep Lumber on

 hand, and will fill orders at short notice, at

 reasonable rates We also have No.
Year: 1866

We are always excessive when we sacrifice
the higher beauty to attain the lower one A


woman who will sacrifice domestic affection
conscience, self respect, honor, to love of
dress, We all agree loves dress too much.
She loses the true and higher beauty of wo-
manhood for the lower beauty of gems and
flowers and cdlors. girl who sacrifices To
dress oil her time, all her strength. all her
money to the neglect or the cultivation of
her mind and heart, and to the neglect of
the claims Of others on her heipfulness, is
sacrificing the higher to the lower beauty.
Her fault il not the lore OF beauty, but love.
ing the wrong and inferior kind. In fine,
girls, you may try yourselves by this standard.
You love dress too much when you care more
for outward adorning than for your inward
dispositions, when it afhicts you more to have
torn dresses than to have lost your temper
when you are more troubled by AN i'll fitting
gown than BY neglected duty-xhen you
are lees concerned at having made An unjust
comment or spread . scandalous report, than
Ut having worn pdsser bonnet; when You
are less troubled At the thought Of being
found 1t the last great feast without the wed.
ding garment, than At being found at the par,
ty TO- night in the fashion Of last year. No
Christian woman as ] view it, ought 10 give
such attention 70 her dress as to allow Il TO
take up all of three important things, viz:
All her time, all her strength, all her money.
Whoever does this lives not the Christian,
but the Pagan life-worships not a, the Chris-
tian altar of our Lord Jesus but q, the shrine
Of the lower Venus of Corinth and Rome,
Year: 1866

H@ To set out in the world with
no ether principle than a crafty in
tention to interest, betokens one
who is designed for creeping
through the inferior walks of life !;
but to give an early preference to
honor above gain, when they stand
in competition; to despise every ad-
vantage which cannot be attained
without dishonest art: to brook no
meanness, to stoop to no dissimula.
ton, are the indications of a great
mind, the presages of future emf
nence and distinction in life. At
the same time, this virtuous sincerity
is perfectly consistent with the most
prudent vigilance and caution. 1t
is opposed to cunning, not tO true
wisdom. 1t is not the simplicity of
. weak and prudent, but the cardor
Of an enlarged and noble mind, of
one who scorus deceit, because lie
approves it both base and un?roff-
able. and who seeks no disguise, be
Needs none 10 hide him
Year: 1866

From the National lntelligencer.l


Congress, asthecountry knows its cost, re-
fused to redeemed the pledges which the House
almost unanimously gave, early in the ses-
sion, to support the plan Of the Secretary OF
the Treasury for the contraction of the cur
rency, as presented in his report. The IN
Auences under which Congress acted IN this
matter sti1 exist, and viii operate with
greater force upon Congress ut the next ses-
sion than at the last. These were chiefly
monetary, but in part political. In full
tide of speculation the money market shrank
from the test Of contraction. 1t would have
exposed, as was feared, the unsoundness Of
the paper money system, and the business
interests which have grown up under it.


In fact, however, Congress was mistaken
in the supposition that a compliance with
the Secretary's suggestion would have pro
ducod commercial panic and crash. It
would have restricted banking and business
operations within prudent limits, without
any sudden or considerable contraction Of
the currency.


The very fact that the Secretary had the
power Of Withdrawing portion Of the green
backs from circulation would have prevent
ed the necessity Of a resort TO contraction.
But as Congress left the matter, the Secre-
tary is restricted from the withdrawal of any
amount Of legal tenders beyond small
monthly sum. The banks and spectators,
therefore, know exactly the extent 10 which
the currency can be contracted, and govern
themselves accordingly.


1t is believed that the credit machinery is
now being put into full operation, and will
be run TO dangerous extent The mercan-
tile deposits in the banks amount to six hun
dred nd seventy millions, which is virtually
an increase Of paper credit to that amount.


Financial observers look for a great in
crease Of prices in consequence Of this state
of things