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Year: 1866

ANDREW JoHNsoN.-T Newsburyport
Herald, a Conservative Massachusetts re-
publican journal, says of Andrew johnson:
+" A strong man and statesman, who had
assumed the helm in the storm, is a skillful
pilot, one whose chart was the Constitution,
whose precedents were drawn from the found
ers of the Republic, and whose point of com.
pass was directed by love Of justice, liberty
and country. He laid down a platform that
covered from sight and sound all caucus plat>
forms and all party resolutions. He set
vigorously to werk for the restoration of the
Union Reconstruction he did not seek
the Union had been constructed seventy
years before on a model that could endure
forever. ReadmissiOn of States he did not
talk about, for no State had departed from
the Union, and no star had disappeared from
the flag He was Southern man and knew
who were the parties for that restoration
He appointed his ofieers-the people re,
sponded in good works, and the majority of
the people in rebellion have renewed their
allegienee, and the States are resuming their
old and true position"
Year: 1866

On the reading of the Bill in the Massa.
chusetts House, for the sale of the yacht.
Whisper, a stout looking member from Berk.
shire quickly arose, much elated, asking the
clerk to be so kind as to read that again.
The clerk complied, in a clear voice. "Ah,'
said the member from Berkshire, with a
sigh, Il understood you to say a bill for the
sale of hot whisky, and was about to move
the passage of the bill without debate"
Year: 1866

A STORY is told of two New York Alder>
men. who were jealous of each other, and
had tried on every occasion to put each other
down At one meeting one of them made
notion when his opponent insisted that it
should be reduced to writing and unable to
resist the temptation to exult at his advan>
tage, cried out with a triumphant chuckle (;
All! Teddy, I've got you now; for divil a
stroke can you write at all at ALL"
Year: 1866

A WOMAN being eujoined to try the effect
OF kindness on her husband, and being told
that it would heap Goals Of Gre on his head.
replied that she had tried boiling water and
it don't do bit of good.
Year: 1866

To be womon Of fashion is one Of the
easiest things in the world. A late writer
thus describes it; "Buy everything you DON.
want, and pay for nothing you get smile on
all mankind but your husband ;; be happy
everywhere bat at home; neglect your chill.
dren and nurse lap dogs; go to church every
time you get new dress"
Year: 1866

EVILS in the journey of life are like hills
which alarm travellers upon their road they
both appear great at a distance, but when
we approach them we fnd that they are far
less insurmountable than we bad conceived.
Year: 1866




The funeral of Lieut.. William Paul Grivot, First
Louisiana Regular Infantry, who died in Georgia.
of wounds received at the battle of Jonesboro
viii take place from the residence of his father
Gen. Maurice Griyot, on Poyfarre street. this af
ternoon. Lieut.. GriVot was worthy scion Of a
noble stock. His remains have been brought here
for sepulture with the ashes of his kindred. He
was brave, and to the last faithfully devoted. He
was of that stamp who are an honor to their coun-
try to their race and to their family and it is sad
to think how many such gallant spirits we have
lost


The Office of the Recorder of the First


District.


Notwithstanding the frequent notices of the
press of the disgusting condition Of the office OF
the recorder Of the First District, we fail to see
any disposition on the part of the city authorities
to make a change. The room altogether is badly
arranged, the mating is extensively filthy, and the
gas light for night business is entirely insufficient
II is to be hoped that those whose duty it ia to
to the matter will no longer defer the steps need
lul to put the room in decent condition.
Year: 1866

DEATH AND TAxEs.-Governor Allen
tells the following story in his paper, the
Mexican Times


Once upon a time while seated before
an immense hickory fire in the log cabin
hotel in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, during
the cold weather of q ctrtain February, q
tall, long-legged, sallow-complexioned,
bushy-headed individual came in and
took seat beside us. He first relieved
his huge mouth of his quid of tobacco,
and looking at it with "lack luster eye"
threw it into the fire then draAing from
his coperas-colored coat pocket plug of
1.-THE weed" be cut with his knife huge
piece of the aforesaid weed and stuck it
right into his aforesaid huge mouth, chew
ing this cud Of "sweet and bitter fancy,"
(mostly bitter,) and Illuminating for an
hour or All hour and half or two hours,
and looking straight into the fire till his
face became as red as boiled lobster,
be stretched out bis long legs and OK.
tended his long arms, and thus quoth he:


stranger. / have come down from the
mountains long way to pay my taxes
in this here town, and Pm now gwine to
see if can't find the man what kerlects
the taxes. Stranger, this is mighty hard
and desateful world. There is only two
things sartin and sure. Them is death
and taxes. And when they come, there's
mighty few Of us that is prepared.
Year: 1866

The San Francisco Alta says that the
cod fisheries of the North Pacific have al.
ready assumed such Importance As to wa'-
rant the conclusion that they are to be
ranked among the prominent sources Of
our wealth hereafter.
Year: 1866

Future HoUsEKEEPERs.-We Sometimes catch our
selves wondering how many Of the young ladies whom
we meet with to perform the part of housekeepes


when the young men who now eye them so admiriugIy
have persuaded them to become wives. We listen 10
those young ladies of whom speak, and hear them
not only acknowledging, but boasting, of their ign5


rance of all household duties, as nothing would 80
lower them in the estimation of their friends tie
confession of ability to bake bread and pies cock
piece Of meat disposition to engage in any use
ful employment. Speaking from own youthful
recolectons we free to say that taper fingers and
lilly hands very pretty to look at with youEg
mans eyes, and sometimes we have known the artlcas
innocence of practical knowledge displayed by youGg
miss to appear rather interesting than otherwise. But
we have lived long enough to learn that life is full Of
rugged experiences and that the most loving, romantic,
and delicate people must live cooked otherwise
food and the house be kept clean and tidy by INDUS


trious hands. And for all the practical purposes Of
married life, it is generally found that for husband
to sit and gaze at his wifes taper fingers and lily
hands, or for wife to sit and be looked and admired


does not make the pot boil, put the smallest piece
of food therein.
Year: 1866

CHILD WITH THREE ToSGUEs-We read in an es-
change: Recently the wife of John Crawford, slater
Eve and Close, Dumfes Scotland gave birth to son.
Of having three tongues We saw the child and found
it to be seemingly in good health of full size and in
other respects well formed The middle tongue is tie
largest of the three; it is rounded at the top and Is
fastened to the lower part of the palate in such way
as to prevent the child from sucking readily Each Of
the tongues is separated from the other and those On
each side do not appear the infant much incos
venence The curious information does not so far IS
appearances Co. result from any disease. The child hts
been seen by several physicians and they of opi
ion would be advisable after he is little older 20


berate the middle tongue from the palate by an ope-
ration. Meanwhile, the infant is sucked by means If
bottle
Year: 1866

An average annual cash dividend to Stock
holders Of fourteen per cent. upon its capital
stock since its incorporation, pOrtrays the great
success and stability Of this eminent Institu-
ton. the superior financial accuracy displayed
in is Investments, and the important truth that
the management of the PHGNIX is ia the
hands Of those who know how, successfully, to
couduet
Year: 1866

share These last figures indicate the in
dustry and activity which shall succeed the
ravages of war, and the abundance and
prosperity which are the crowning results of
the glorious victory here achieved.


Upon the richly moulded cornice rests an
octagonal plinth, bearing in 5dsso relieUO the
coat OF arms of the United States On the
shaft above and encircling it are eighteen
stars in Jasso reIieUo, representing the States
which remained loyal throughout the fiery
trial.


The capital is finely moulded, and sup
ports three-quarter globe, upon which
stands the colossal statute, fifteen feet high,
representing the Genius of Liberty clasping
within her leil arm the folds of the Ameri-
can flag, while in her raised right hand she
hoius the victor's wreath of laurel. The
pedestal is to be made of fine white granite,
ana the statues of white American marble.


The monument will stand upon the crown
OF the hill where the cemetery is located
Around IT, in semi circular slopes, will lie
the bodies being now bured-the honored
dead, each man being being separately cof-
fined, and the men of each State together in
sections. The divisions between the States
are marked by allies leading from the monu-
ment to the outer circle; the cofIined rows
are divided by continuous granite blocks six
inches in height, upon which the name and
| regiment OF each soldier, 30 far as ascertain
ed, is inscribed as for his proper headstone
None but loyal soldiers of the Union lie
here, and depositing their remains around
one common memorial of their yalor will
serve as perpetual argument for national
unity, which they died to preserve. And as
those who make pilgrimages to the spot
years hence shall stand at the base of this
monumental stone may not the words of the
iamented Lincoln uttered then come fresh
to their mindsg "Let us resolve that the
dead shall not have died in vain; that the
nation shall, under God, have a new birth
OF freedom, and that the Government of the
people, by the people, and for the people,
shall not perish from the earth"
Year: 1866

Our attention has again been called to this
scllcning subject By friend pointing out Sec
lion 42, Article !, Title VI. Rev. Statutes New
York, which is as follows:


"The Mayor, Aldermen ard Commonalsy Vi he City Of
SwYo o shall In oil be responsible ior tie application
Of I'll money. received BY tho Public Administrator according
law and FOX the Cue AMI faithful execution Of al Tie dulles
Of his Office


While we congratulate the heirs and claim
ants to the estates Squandered and devoured by
Dr. Bradford upon their remedy against the
City for all of his dcpredations, We cannot but
think that, in view Of this statute our citizens
may now perhaps take some interest in the sub
iect matter And here we might ask Of our
Disirct-Attorney and Grand Jury If II VIII
make any difference as to their action in this
case should il turn out that Bradford did not
lose this money in stock Speculations, but at
gambling with cards and riotous living
Year: 1866

The Bor'd has employed Capt. Jack Bnsby
to do its Albany correspondence this Winter
Here is his first effort:


II feel safe In saying that Mr. Trenaln eopd have
been beaten he could have been beaten Ins Is IN
questionable"


The Captain must be cautioned against
making such efforts too frequently. Once q
week is all the strain that even his remarkable
faculties can reasonably be expected to bear
Year: 1866

Nature alone has given the hu-
man being two distinct kinds of
voice, that are again divided and
sub.divided. In order to make
the causes of this clear, let us cast
a glance at Que of the simplest laws
of .onal vibration. For example
w, take II string OF o certain
length aud strength, and give it a
certain tension. Ii with bow, or
simply with the finger, wo set it
in motion we shall perceive a tone
which we shall call q. Hero is
another string of the same strength
and tension, but only half the
length of the last. If we set it in
motion it also gives out the tone
O, but not the same it is finer,
higher and more penetrating. In
order to give forth the high q, the
short string is obliged to give forth
twice as many vibrations as the
long, but in tho same time
Without knowing it or willing it,
we obey the same laws Of vibra
tion. Aska young girl to sing on
air that has just been sung by d
man, and in the same key she
will sing it IN octave higher. The
finer and more delicate voice Of a
woman makes more vibrations in
the same time than that Of a man,
and is higher from fiat cause
The woman is the octave, the half
ofthe man. The good citizens who
cali their wives their better
halves "are right, musically speak
ing. The octave exists through
the might of the right divine.


In the male and female voice
there are again two principle sub
divisions, man eings tenor or bass,
woman con;ralto or soprano. The
contralto is the octave Of the lass,
the soprano the octave of the ten
or. Each Of those voices has its
own peculiar character that does
not depend merely on tue compass
or on anllness, but rather on tone
cUloring.
Year: 1866

Nor Too SooN.-They misrepresent
and do it knowingly, who assert that
the Union majority in Congress seek
to prevent the restoration Of the rob
ell States. On the contrary, the I'M
ion majority in Congress and the
great Union party of the Country de-
sire the admission of every State into
full fellowship just as soon as il is
possible to effect it with safety to the
Nation. The lessons of. the past four
years demonstrate the necessity of
care and caution. And hence we in
sist that the men who plotted treason
in Congress, and with perjury on their
souls used their positions under the
Government to effect its overthrow,
shall not be allowed to resume their
positions and power in the Republic,
to effect by diplomacy and statesman
ship what they failed to effect by wan
ton wsr.-Morro;s County Sentinel
Year: 1866

Not having had time or space last week for
is now attended to, though the day is rather
late. To those depending on their weekly 10
cal paper for synopsis of these proceedings,


a little tardiness will not, perhaps, be fatal 10
appetite. .


The second session of the thirty-ninth
Congress commenced at Washington
Monday, at noon, large proportion of
the members of both Houses being pres
ent. The presidents message was prompt
ly presented aud read, the motion of Thad
Stevens to postpote the reading in the
House to the next day being voted down.


After the reading of the message the well
come to Congress had to be attended to
and the House proceeded to the east bal
eony to see the procession, and to listen
to the speech of welcome by Judge Car
ter and the reply by Speaker Colfax,
which was in his best vein. In the eve
ming there was banquet generally attend
ell by the radical republicans, and more
speeches of welcome were made aud an
swered. The House also found time on
the first day Of the session to pass bill
repeating the section of the act of July
1862, authorizing the president to grant
pardon and amnesty, which was put
through on motion of MIR. Eliot of Mass.


The Senate refuses to pass the bill till it


has been the regular round of the com
mittee, Its passage will effect but little,
as the opinion is entertained that the
president has power under the constitu-
tion alone TO pardon offenders before as
well as after conviction. Both branches
resolve to keep the joint reconstruction
committee of last session, and the House
has determined to have standing COM
mittee on freedmen's affairs. The lower
branch has also passed resolution insist,
ing on the adoption of the constitutional
amendmenS before the admission OF south


ern members to congress, and another in


structing the committse on territories e
Year: 1866




Music in every home is thus cloquently
advocated by Rev. NJ Ware:


regard music as combining in happi-
est proportion instruction and pleasure,
as standing at the head of the home eve
ming enjoymeats, What a neverfailiDg
resource have those homes which God
has blessed with this gift How many
pleasant family circles gather nightly
about the piano. How many home is
vocal with the voice of song or psalm
In other homes-in haw many village
he m,s the fathers yiol led the domestic
harmony, and sons with clarionet or flute
or manly voice, and daughters sweetly
and clearly filing in the intervals sound,
made joyful noise There was then
no piano to tha house Of this generation,
the great, the universal boon and comfort
er. One pauses and blesses it, as he hears
it through the open farmhouse window,
or detects it's sweetness stealing, out amid
the jargon of the city-an angels benson
upon wilderness of discord, soothing
the weary brain, lifting the troubled spi
rit, pouring fresh strength into the tired
body, waking to worship, lulling 10 rest


Touched BY the hand We love, sister
Year: 1866

wife-is it not o mnistrant of love to the
child, to mana household deity, now
meeting our moods, answering to our
needs, sinking TO depths we cannot fathom
rising to nights we cannot reach. leading
guiding, great and grand and good, and
now stopping to our lower wants, the
frolic Of our souls reyerberating from It's.
keys? The home that has piano, what
capacity for evening pleasure ndproft
has it Alas, that so many wives and
mothers should speak of their ability to
play as mere accomplishment of the


past, and that children should grow up


looking ON the piano as a thing unwisely
kept for company and show lHf34li.Isr
Year: 1866

A certain nominee Of the National
Union Conservative party-formerly
Democratic--of this district, who h ad
been in the habit of drinking con.
siderably, quit last January for the
purpose ofgetting a nomination. He
received the nomination at Wapok


and that very night was as tight as
a fiddler. Do you know who 1t was
Bro, Glessner? Please answer with
initials only. for we shall understand
Year: 1866

THAT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE


Our readers win bear in mind that on the


l4th OF january, 1868, Mr.. Salisbury intro


aueed into the Senate of Delaware reso'


iution for the appointment of committee to


investigate the causes for the introduction of


United States troops into Delaware on the


occasion of the State election of 1862 The


result of this act was that the State was


mulcted into an expense of about ten thou


sand dollars, without producing any good


results. The party to which Mr.. Salisbury
is attached, by its action in admitting a re
preventative of Mississippi to the Hall of the
House of Representatives, TO poison the
minds of the people with the dogma of se-
cession, and urge the Legislature to take our
little Commonwealth into the slough of trea.
son and rebellion, together with threats of
violence against the loyal voters ifthey dared
attempt to exercise the right of the elective
franchise, induced the General Government
to send troops to Delaware to give protection
to the men who were loyal and true to their
country Even the declarations elected bv
the questions of a one-sided committee clear.
~ proved that no man who conducted him
self properly was interfered with, but that
every legal voter was permitted to cast his
vote Mr. saulsbury's real object was TO
make political capital out of it for his party
and to accomplish that object, he was willing
to entail on the State a debt of about ten
thousand dollars. A man who will stoop to
such small business is unfit to occupy the
high position of Chief Magistrate of Della
ware and the people will teach him in No.
vember next that the honest masses appre.
ciate the privileges of civil and religious
liberty too highly to permit them to be
wrested from them by force, by rebels and
their sympathizers.
Year: 1866

GEN. JAcKsoN's biographer expresses the
opinion that the great hero of New Orleans
firmly believed in the ancient theory that this
earth of ours is " as fat as pan cake


That was comfortable belief for the old
General and the rest of mankind. and it is
barely possible, Notwithstanding the boasted
intelligence of the present generation, that
modern " agitatorsn in the world of science
were just as pestilent innovators on the habits
Of thought, and the conservative customs Of
good society as the moral ''agitators' of the
abolition persuasion of the present age.
Evidently they turned the world upside
down. most literally and Galileo's disciples
have worried the Church in later days with
their heretical discoveries, almost as much q.
Gallileo troubled the Pope in his day.


But after all, what is the shape of the
earth? The ancients and Gen. JACKSON,
with many modern Jacksonians, held that it
was fat as breakfast table, and more sta
tionary. Copernicus " knocked out the pins Z
from under this theory, and set the earth to
revolving, and hence must be round US ball.
Subsequently it was demonstrated that the
shape was like that of an orange, a little fat
tened at the poles. And now an English
philosopher by the name of ADAMS comes
with his incontrovertble logic, and demon
strates that this hattening process is going on
with accommodating force from year to year,
and that the earth is enlarging at the Equator,
and hattening up at the poles day by day.
And as d final result, that it will become as
thin as i board, or as circular saw, and
fellow won't have any chance but to straddle
the edge and hold on while old mother earth
pursues her gyrations.


We don't ike the prospect, for we don't
see how the women will manage, especially
if the world is to I" fat OUT before the pre-
sent fashion Of hoops goes out of date. And
how, we venture to beg of Mr.. ADAMS, are
we to keep our sanctum and our editorial ta-
BILE in ostion on the "perilous edge" of the
distended periphery which his theory is pre-
pairing for the earth. How, indeed, with
ADAMS circular saw staring one in the face,
like the sword of Damocles, can a fellow in
dulge the bright anticipations Of that "good
time coming which has cheered US in so
many despondent hours Indeed, give us
back the old faith, which commended itself
to Gen. JACesoN's 5 strong horse sense,
rather than this new-fangled and annoying
theory of this latest of the philosophical sag
itators."