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Year: 1866

THE Subscriber has tax n the Agency and
i spent some time in visiting some of the best
and most popular Sewing Machine Establish
ments in New England, and is now prepared to
furnish Single and Double Thread the
Year: 1866

REPAIRS TO THE HUsTINGs COURT ROOM
The workmen were engaged yesterday in
thoroughly renovating and cleansing the
Hastings Courtroom in the City Hall.
That this has been much needed for some
time will be readily conceived when it is
known that under the carpet taken up
there were three inches of solid dirt.
The arrangement of the bench, bar, and
jury-box, is to be changed. The southern
door is to be closed, the bench to be
erected against the southern door, and the
bar and jury-box to be arranged in ac-
cordance with this. The room now occu-
pied by Sergeant Dudley is to be the jury
room. These repairs will improve the ap-
pearance of the courtroom very much ;
and we hope that they will be extended to
the Mayors Courtroom.
Year: 1866

The BABY ForND UNDERGROUND on
BROAD STREET.-Thc Chief of Police re-
cciycd information yesterday that the lit
tie white infant rescued by himself and
Mr.. Lee on Wednesday, and adopted by
a benevolent lady, was expected to die.
The negro, Catharine Anderson, in whose
custody it was found in half starved con-
dition, has sought the aid of the Freed
mems Bureau to assist her in its recovery
With view to this, one of the agents took
the initiative steps, but will proceed, we
imagine, no farther, now that he is in
formed that the little girl will probably
soon be beyond the reach of hunger, care,
or neglect.
Year: 1866

OUR MUTILATED S0LDIERs.-It is with
great pleasure that we publish the follow
ing letter in response to an appeal from a
"one-lcgged eX-COmfcderatc," contained
in the Dispatch of Wednesday last. The
words of "a Member of the Ladies Memo
rial Association" are as warm and generous
in their character as we should have eX-
pected from Virginian lady, and our
mutilated soldiers will understand that the
delay in providing for their necessities is
only caused by the absence of the means
to do so at this present moment. Our sol
dierS' graves require immediate care and
attention, and we are sure that an Eek
Confederate had rather stump about a
while longer on his wooden leg than allow
our dead soldiers graves to remain in
their present sad condition for an hour
more than is absolutely necessary. 1t will
not take many months, we hope, for the
ladies of the Hollywood and Oakwood
Associations to complete their labor of
love, and then they will readily devote all
their energy of will and heart to the for
nation of a society which shall have for its
object the collection of funds to supply our
mutilated soldiers with artificial limbs to
replace, however inadequately, those which
they lost during the late unhappy war.


"CHuRCH HILL, May 2, 1866.


"Mr. Editor,-I read with painful in
terest in your columns yesterday morning
a communication from an "Ex-Confede-
rate" asking that the ladies Of Virginia
propose some plan by which the Virginia
Confederates, who were so truly unfortu-
nate during the war as to be disabled by
the loss of leg or arm, can be supplied
with artificial limbs. Such an appeal as
his can never fall on deaf ears when made
to true Southern women. And while we
believe it to be our imperative duty to
do all in our power to perpetuate the me-
mory of our gallant heroes, yet we can
never be unmindful of those who, though
less unfortunate, were not less brave. /
would say to him, be Of good cheer, for
| can assure him that the feeble efforts
which we are now putting forth in behalf
of the memory Of our noble dead shall in
due time be devoted to the comfort Of our
living heroes.-A MEMBER or THE LADIES'
MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION FOR CoNFEDERATE
DEAD AT 0AKwO0D." 4E
Year: 1866

Example has deep and lasting influence


upon the lives of all. Il is a living lesson
always before us, which is constantly inhuen-
cling us for good or evil Every action is a
word, for actions speak as well as words,
and often have a stronger import. Every
thought word act and even look of ours, is
helping to build up the characters of those
around us into monuments of everlasting
beauty or deformity. And thus upon our
action in this world there rests no slight
responsibility.


As we look back over the pages of history
we see how men have in all ages of the
world been remembered by their examples.
Some have left record bright with noble
deeds and actions, which awaken our admi-
ration and cause within us a desire to be
nobler and truer-while others have left US
a record black with evil deeds, which ava
ken our pity for them, not only for the evil
example which they have left to posteirty
but also when we think what they might
have been had they been upright and hon
est. And as their example has lived after
them so will ours, though perhaps in more
limited manner. Although our example
may not be handed down to posterity from
the historic page, yet it may exercise great
influence upon those around us. For if we
avoid evil habits and endeavor to do right
in all things, many others will be induced
to act accordingly Those who are younger
in years are looking up to us for an example;
and whether that example be good or evil,
it is for us to determine IF we were to
think oftener of the example which we are
placing before our fellow men it would not
only save them much trouble, but also our
selves.
Year: 1866

Governor Brownlow, in vigorous and
powerful speech at Knoxville few days ago
said


The leading traitors Of the South have
already been pardoned and turned loose up
on the country, to get up Rebel meetings
and make Rebel speeches, and to exert a
bad influence As a general thing, these
pardoned Rebels have displayed no
gratitude or generosity. They are arrogant
insulting and intolerant Had they becom-
ing modesty and commendable diffidence,
they would take back seats In the great ed
ifice of reconstruction, and not rush with
hot haste to control the State and nation.
But they thrust themselves into places they
have no constitutional right to FIJI, and
grasp with greedy hand at every light and
high Office made vacant in the country.


Now this is severe language, but the Lou
isville Journal, a conservative organ, an ar
dent supporter of the Presidents restora-
ton POLICY, fully sustains every word of it.
We extract from a leading editorial in that
paper Of the I'd instant:


But it cannot be denied that there is
danger Of the exercise of a malign influence
upon these masses; however good their in
tentions may have been or may still be, by
their leaders, the busy and pestilent and
unscrupuloue spirits that are determined to
control them for evil and only evil. These
Rebel leaders, the getters-up of the Con-
yention, are not satisfied that they and their
rank and file should be upon mere equali-
ty with citizens who remained loyal and op-
posed the rebellion Their ideas soar far
higher than that They arrogate for them
selves and all engaged in the rebellion great
aud peculiar honor, They talk, through
their organs, about the need of glory that
is awarded to the Rebels by the present gen
Grafton, and win be awarded to them by
posterity. They tell us about the unright-
eousness and guilt of the war on the FEEDER
al side. They speak of the operations Of
the Federal armies with illdisguised or
undisguised rage and ferocity. They have
all words Of praise for the Rebel officers and
soldiers. They still appear to think, some
of them at least, that the Rebels can whip
and did whip five to one. They undoubt-
edly think that the time IS at hand when a
badge worn upon the shoulder OF bosom,
importing that the wearer fought in the re-
belIion, viii be as enyiable a distinction as
the cross of the old French Legion of Hon
or. They are not repentant but exultant,
defiant, proud, naughty, dommeering, inso-
lent, and presumptous They think TO car
~ their heads as high as the clouds Nay,
like Sejanus, they expect at each advanced
step to knock out star in heaven
They have got great lesson to learn, but
a mighty schoolmaster is aboard.
Year: 1866

One would think that even the most rabid
politician might be Modified toward the in
terests which benefit him as well as others.
The factories Of New England, under the
tariff Of l842, reduced the price Of cotton
cloths from Is to 10 eeats per square yard.
Their competition hereafter viii continually
tend to similar results, and when many
competing factories shall rise up all over
the country, as the protectionists so ardent
ly desire, we shall have our staple manuEac


tures at the lowest possible prices consistent
with the pressure of internal taxes. Let
our copperheads rest content New Eng
land and Pennsylvania did their best to put
down the great rebellion, because it was a
wicked and monstrous thing threatening
evil and evil only, to all the dwellers in this
land, including even the rebels themselves.
The national cause has gloriously triumph
ed, and so, we doubt not, will that other
great cause, that of our national industry,
seeing that the enemies of both are the
same, and recent defeat has weakened their
ability to do mischief NORTH Ante1can.
Year: 1866

PER1IANENcE OF MATTER. R.-What can
surpass in grandeur those bold yet simple
inductions Of the invariable permanence of
matter and of force. No natural agency, no
created being can alter the amount of mat
ter in the universe to the extent of an atom,
or change the sum of force to the extent of
the feeblest impulse They can add moth
ing to it; they can take nothing from it.
They may burn, pulverize, scatter to the
winds, strew upon the sea, convert into in
visible vapor, but they cannot annihilate a
particle or destroy one of its essential pro-
perties Every atom of oxygen that the
world contained at its formation, is in itnow,
AMI viii 50 continue to the end of time, with
all its properties precisely as they were at
the beginning. 1t may have been breathed
in air, and drunk in water, and eaten in
food. it may have waved in the forest and
r0amed in the animal, il may have been
hewn out in the rock and smelted in the ore,


lit may have entered successfully into
thousands upon thousands of combinations,


land yet through all these shifting forms,
and after all these various uses, it remains
unwasted, undiminished, and uualtered,
without the slightest modification IN any of
its properties, s,-the same unyarying atom,
changeless in the midst of imitless, inees-
SAINT change.
Year: 1866

The Proprieors wish it dacty understood that the en-
trance way to the Pavilion be made very commodous
that the entrance to the dt class will all be sepa-
rate and that respectable tlemen are engaged as ushers
whose duty ii will be to sect every lady and gentleman is
comfortably placed.


In the selection Of Artstsths Colossal Alliance, it has
been the Poprieors deto secure such variety that
patron shall fail find inSuch that will interest the mind
and euchain the attentionpe br1llant
Year: 1866

A foreign correspondent writes Al
though Vienna is already vast city of
nearly thirteen miles circumference, yet
the amount of Improvement and building
that is going forward is very great. The
old city of Stadt is about three miles in
circumference, and was built chiefly in the
middle ages, and was consequently densely
packed together within a wall that was
erected for defense. It is curious old
honeycomb, that old city. The streets run
crowded about; they are generally only
from twelve to twenty feet wide, often not
more than eight; the houses tower many
stories high, and away down between them
the sun is scarcely ever seen.


Hundreds of houses are built entirely
over the streets, so that carriages drive d.
rectly through the house, as it were, under
arched ways, long and narrow and dark.
Gas burns here day and night. 1t is sur
prising what limited extent of the room
poor family will occupy, the tradesman
working III the same room occupied by his
family. Here you are shaved for two and
quarter cents, your boots are mended for
five cents, you make,a substantial dinner of
soup, beef, potatoes and pudding for four
teen cents, and so forth. The same pave
ment OF solid, square stones extends all the
way across the streets, and you walk in the
middle or on the side, as you can find room
among the rattling carriages. You seldom
enter hotel or store or large private
dwelling from the front, but 20 in the
coach way, which leads to the inner court,
and turn to the right or left.
Year: 1866

The gallant Stuart has not been forgot
ten abroad. The military correspondent of
the London Times thus writes from Pow.
lowitz:


Were there such a cavalry General ON
Austrian side at present as the Confederate
General Stuart in the American civil war.
he would have granted chance to-day to
win glorious stake by raid upon Brunn.
The King of Prussia is in that town at the
present moment, and only two battalions
of infantry and one squadron of cavalr V
have been left as his escort. With him
are Count Bismark, General Won Room,
and large staff of officers If these could
be captured, or even one alone, on what
different terms could Austria sue for peace?
But it would need man of Stuart's in
trepidity to attempt to seize the prize, and
the prize, and the capture would not be
effected without severe costs but to secure
the King would compensate for any sacri-
fee"
Year: 1866

A German paper relates the following
story OF one of the late battles, which is
not altogether incredible: A young sold
ier in the mids: Of the tumult Of battle
thought he saw on the grass four.leaved
shamrock growing. AS such a plant is
rare, and is considered to bring good luck
he stopped to take it. At that very instant
a cannon ball passed over his head, so near
that he must have been killed if he had
not been bending down. The man so mi.
raculously saved, has sent the plant to
which he owes his life to his betrotked at
KocnigSberg.
Year: 1866

A SECRET WORTH kNowING--An able
writer gives utterancc to the following val.
liable secret:


"This looking forward to enjoyment
don't pay. From what / know of it, [
would as soon chase butterflies for living,
or OF, bottle up moonshine for cloudy nights
The only true way to be happy, is to take
the drops OF happiness rs God gives them
to us every day Of our lives. The boy
must learn to be happy while he is learn.
ing his trade; the merchant while making
his fortune. If he fails to learn this art
he will be sure TO miss his enjoyment
when he gains what he has sighed for"
Year: 1866

they are tearing silks from women, dia-
monds from female fingers, prying open
drawers with their bayonets, and insulting
the detenceless victims of their hate


And here is another picture of Ameri-
can soldiers-not at war for the right, but
breaking in the doors ola democratic news.
paper and numbering the editor thereof to
win promotion from Stanton or his master
while the crowd on the front seats are the
selict elect Of the God and morality party.


Here is widow in black-her husband
slain in the crusade for cotton and niggers.


Here is an orphan tolling on farm to
pay interest money to the pampered, pro-
tected bond holder who is able to work
but protected in his laziness by radical
congress In obedience to the dictum of
New England


Here is view Of Southern plantation,
in two parts. The first view shows hap.
py negro servantage, dancing on the lawn,
at work in the cotton field, driving to mar
ket with the crops. The next is a view
OF monumental chimneys, dcsolatc yards,
uncared for negroes dead or dying in the
blessings of freedom. Strictly republican.


Here is picture of n poor white man
working ut his saw buck while nigger is
in idleness close by, admiring the new bu-
reau just given him by Government, which
the white man is working to pay for.


And here is gang of thieves with But.
ler the brute, Curtis the cotton collector,
Prentiss the piano stealer, Banks tho cot
ton robber, and others Of that class in line,
waiting for posterity to pass sentence upon
them. a scrt of puIgatorial pot pie made
from rotten democrats seasoned with dis.
honesty, sandwiched between abolition
fools and covered with crust Of dead Mig
gers. This is S loyal picture


And here is map of the country and
congress trying to keep half of it out of
sight.


And here is beautiful hospital scene.
Those full boxes contain jelics, fruits,
preserves, cologne, and all such articles
carefully prepared by the loved ones at
home ior the use of the sick and wounded
soldiers half sacrificed on the negro altar
Of Abraham the good Those men you
see eating the delecacies and Juggling them
away to private quarters are the hospital
officers, the christian army chaplains who
play cards, drink whiskey, mulatto mean
der and grow fat on the sanitary articles
stolen from the soldiers. Genuine members
Of the God and Morality party.


Here is picture of woman paying
forty cents q yard for the sheeting she
bought six years ago for six cents.
Here is picture of man tapping a
little bell and ordering innocent men into
loathsome dungeons.


Here is picture of pale haggard
bleached skeleton just released after a years
confinement in military fort ignorant of
the offence he had committed, released
without trial Tor trial would have but
proved his innocence


We have lots Of these pictures in that
little box, but here is enough for to-day.
Show them to Republicans-thcy will re-
cognize tlsem very readily.


La Crosse { Wis) Democrat.
Year: 1866

n curious case of love and persecution
has come to light in New York. A man
named Romero fell in love with his son S
intended wife, and in order to marry her,
sent Romero, Jr., to Cuba. The latter
was soon after reported to be dead and the
wedding took place. subsequently the
young man returned home, when his faith.
er caused him to be arrested and put in
the lunatic asylum. The wife has discoy-
cred the facts in the case, and secrrcdythe
release of her first, and perhaps only love
and an interesting and spicy lawsuit is now
said to be probable, growing out of this ex
cecdingly romantic affair.
Year: 1866

a little white girl, five years of age while
playing near the railroad track in Nashville.
Tenn, on the 9th, became so helpless through
fear of an approaching train, that she sank
down upon the track, and was cut directly in
TWO. Her mother came up in n few minutes
In search of her, and the sight of the manglcd
remains was the first intimation she al of the
dreadful loss she had sustained The child $
father was killed by the cars near the same
spot about two years ago.
Year: 1866

A clergyman, at the examination of the
young scholars of his Sunday school, put
the following question Why did the chill
dren OF Israel set up q golden calf 2" "Be.
cause they had not money enough to set
up an OK" was the reply of little chap
who took dollar. and-cents view of the
matter.
Year: 1866

Many true heart that, like dove to
the ark, would have come back after its
first transgression, has been frightened
beyond recall by the angry look and man
ner of an unforgiving spirit.
Year: 1866

AS we'll might the chemist hope for
universal elixir from the polluted water of
a stagnant lake, rs mankind expect from
earthly things the light and bliss Of their
Immortal souls-Dr. Beaumont
Year: 1866

bottom of the trunk to short distance
above the lower rib, and throughout the
point of contact there is only one spinal
column. Above, the spine branches off,
forming two distinct human beings, with
separate stomachs, two hearts, two
heads, the regular allowance of arms,
&c. Below the point of contact there is
the proper supply of legs for two per
sons but in each the nerves of sensation
which centre in the spinal column affect
both girls in precisely the same degree,
while there is independent action above
the point Of contact. Most curious
among the exceptions is the fact that
while the heart of one of the girls is in
its proper place, that organ is upon the
right side of the other. Their pulses
never beat in common, there being a
complete alienation in the beatings,
and both working with the regularity of
pendulum. The girls are bright and
intelligent for their condition in life
The girls are fourteen years old, and
were born in North Carolina
Year: 1866

Editors Of the Register


Being subscriber to your weekly pa
per, and as you have not been favored
with letter from this township, have
concluded to give the public small
sketch of affairs in this locality We
have laid off town lots at this station,
which is a beautiful place for q town.
There were some twenty-five or thirty
lots sold on the 18th of this month at
public auction, by Colonel Benjamin
Wilson. We have n machine shop in
our little town which employs some for.
ty hands and turns out about one hun
dred oil barrels per day | believe Our
township is the only conservative one in
the county, and fear too many Of the
conservative men have have been tied
hand and foot by ropes which will have
TO be paid for out Of their money We
had a convention at this place on the
llth day of this month and made nomin
atiops to fill the various Offices OF the
township. Our majority at the last
October election was seventy-one in
opposition to our representative The
Rev, Eli Riddle, who is blacker than the
ace of spades, is in favor of high taxes.
The taxes on his property last year
were thirty six cents. No wonder our
government is in an awful condition when
It is represented by beggarly preachers
who have disregarded their oaths, con
stitution. laws and everything sacred to
man. | think all that keeps such men
ON this earth is that the devil can't
furnish quarters as fast as they are need
ed f Shepard, who was Second Lieu
tenant in Captain Skeletons company of
the 9th West Virginia ttdtber bed regi-
ment ia our registrar His color is
about half way between white and coal
black but his features are not so good
"a the features of a common darkey.
when hu walks baEe-fOOted on soft
gronnd the bottom of his foot makes a
hole in the ground. He is considered by
conservative men to be one Of the most
degraded old villains in the county, and
il Is a common word TO call him a negro
to his face He has hunted up and reg.
istered every radical in the township,
and has positively refused TO register
some forty men who have applied to
him and told him in the presence Of
witnesses that they were ready 10 com
nlV with the law. He returned his
hooks before the time expired. Some
ten or fifteen men went to the Board Of
Registration, h and made complaint. and
the the Board sent the books back to him by
tbe;r names. He cared so little tor his
oath and the law, that be refused to
comnly with the order. Before this
sWart6y beggar went into the army his
Clothes were not sufficient to hide his
nakedness. Counsel has been employed
to bring suits against TINS man whose
clothes are low threadbare.


Married, short time ago, by the Rev.
Jacob c. Jones, Mr. Robert Jones to Miss
JsmiEna Jones; also By the same, James
ZONES to Miss Eliza Jones, all Of Ritchie
county. " NJ ).