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Year: 1866

Count up your gains from day to day
Toll on, o miserly man of clay,


Meath your burden of shining ore.
Yet, YOU travel road that leads to death,
A few more groans and rattl1ng breath,


And the porter will open the door.
1t will open full wide for your soul and your


self,


But not for the bag of dusty pelf


Which you clasp to your fearful heart,
For the time draws near, and come it must
"Ashes to ashes, and dust to DUST


When men from their idols part.
The world is bauble, and life a span,
And death is narrow gate, old man,


Yet the whole world enters in,
But it never has happened, early or late,
That mortal has passed through the mystic


gate,


With the worth of single pin.
You have jogged along through heat and


cold
Like the ass, weighed down with ingots of


gold,


You've travelled your dusty round;
You have cropt your thistles and tottered


along,
And the chink of gold was the only song,


That place in your heart has found.
The poor you have passed unheeded by,
And a deaf ear turned to the orphans cry,


Without ever thought or care;
You have gathered great heaps of gold it's


true,


But never old man in life have you


Wiped away single tear.
Then open yonr heart to PHYS sad plea,
And give but 1.-THE of what's given to thee,
And Tighten the heart of the poor;
For they travel drear and dismal road,
Who pricked by want and poverty's goad


Are driven from door to door,
Then open your heart to your brother man,
And give from your store while yet you can,
For the Oil of life burns low,
And all your gold cannot fill the lamp
When once there gathers the chilly damp


Of death upon your brow.
But no, you will never unloose your hold,
o., one bright piece of your yellow gold.


Though the saints themselves should


pray.
And want and sorrow should watch and wait
And trembling knock at charity's gate,


Which you've kept shut alway,
But list old mani There cometh a King,
Who floats through the air on a noiseless





And ice-coid is his breath;
His shadow is dark, and his visage grim,
And the rich and poor are alike to him
That King whose name is Death
Oh, he will give your liver a twist,
And hold yea fast by pulseless wrist,


All weak and wan in your bed;
And your hand will clutch at the specks that
fly,


Haro opa fla<rro n. tho niste ,fore tho ola zino


eye
Of one that is almost sped.
o, the world is a bauble, and life a span,
And Death Is narrow gate, old mani


Yet the whole world enters in;
But never has it happened, early or late,
That mortal has entered the mystic gate
With the worth of one poor pin.


AL RASCHID.
Year: 1866

An Act to recognize the Navy Department
of the United States


Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of The United States of Anne
RIGA in Congress assembled, That there shall
be established in the Navy Department the
following bureaus, to wit:


First. A Bureau of Yards and
Year: 1866

Count up your gains from day to day
Toll on, o miserly man of clay,


Meath your burden of shining ore.
Yet, you travel road that leads to death,
A few more groans and a rattling breath,


And the porter will open the door.
Year: 1866

What would merchant think Of his
salesman, who was prompt in receiving wa
ecs and insisted on retaining his position,
who would embrace every opportunity Of
denouncng his employer rs dishonest
man Or what would farmer think Of
a laborer he might have employed who
habitualy spoke of the old farmer as a
traator, &c, AM yet insisted on retaining
the situation Bad as such things look =
they are equally honorable with the men
who hold office under tke administration
and persist in denouncing the President
as traitor. We ell Il that every man
has the right to say what he thinks of the
administration, but no honorable man
would hold office at the hands Of an add
ministration he does not support lie will
either resign the office or support the adj
ministration.-Er.
Year: 1866

WORK FOR EACH DAY.-When you rise
in the morning, form resolution to make
the day happy one to fellow creature.
It IS easily done-a le!t-off garment TO a man
needing it; kind word to the sorrowtul
an encouraging expression to the striving.
-trlhes in themselves, light as air,-will
90 it, at least for the twenty foor hours
and If you are young, depend upon it, it
will tell when You are old ; and you are
old. rest assured it will send you gently
and happily down the strca n OF time to
eternity. Look at the result: You send
one person only one, happily through the
day that is, three hundred and sixty FIVE
in the course Of the year-and supposng
you live forty years only. after you CONS
mence this course. you have made fourteen
thousand six hundred human beings, happy
at all events for a time. Is this not sim
pie, and is it no, worth accomplishing.
Year: 1866

We clip the following item from the
Madison Courier, OF the 18th, as one of
the evidences Of the secret character OF the
organization known as the Grand Army
Of the Republic" OF fcourse none but the
initiated understand the number indica>
ted by 81:


The Grand Army Of the Republic is
moving successfully on. Over two huns
dred posts have been planted in seventy
counties Of this State The organization
in Madison now numbers So members"


This is revolutionary and traltorous
society, intended to back up the Rump
Congress in It's proposed removal Of the
President from otfcc. and in the plugging
Of the country into civil war, which would
thereupon ensue. Let peaceable and we'll
disposed citizens mark the direction the
Jacobins intend to march if they are sue
cessful in the coming elections.
Year: 1866

\ greater truth was never uttered than
the following from the Springfield Repub-
lican :--"The men who put down the re-
bellion 10 not JOIN in the demand ftr the
future punishment of the rebels, but if
there is General who has never won
battle, soldier who invariably skulked
when fighting was to be done, a camp fol-
lower who was ever ON hand to plunder
towns, civilian who was always ready to
pour cut .he blood and money of every
body else to save the nation. These are
the men who are so continually making
abortve attempts to arouse old hatred aad
stir the popular heart to vengeance.
Year: 1866

A REMARKABLE CAsE-A Child
Born Under Peculiar Circumstances.
One of the most remarkable cases
that has ever come under the OBJ
servation of our medical fraternity
has just transpired at the residence
of young man named Abriel, who
resides on First street, Arbor Hill.
Mr.. A. is returned soldier. He
has been home something less than
year. When he came he was
suffering from a minnie ball wound
through the feshy part of the right
arm. It became so bad that the at
tending physician talked seriously
of amputation.. This worked seri-
ously on the mind of his young wife,
for he had but short time previ-
ously been married. She cared for
and dressed the arm regularly, and
paid every attention to it, not wish
ing to see her husband with only
one arm.


This was some eight or nine
months ago. Under the kind care
of the wife, whose whole attention
was absorbed in the thought of a
one-armed husband, the wound got
well and the arm was saved. Now
for the sequel. All this transpired
eight or nine months ago. The
other day the wife of Mr.. Abriel
gave birth to a child who had one
well-deyeloped arm, but the other
was stump, similar to the one
which the poor wife's mind was inn
pressed with at the time the sur
geons were talking of taking it off.
Amputation could not have produced
a more beautiful stump, and what is
more, the scar of the bullet-hole, 30
visible on the fathers arm, was as
visible on the child's arm at the
base of the stump, as if really in
ficted by ball. Mgas


This is the most remarkable case
of "child-mark" ever known. 1t
has attracted the attention of otr
leading physicians and surgeons.
The child is healthy and beautiful
one, perfect in every respect, save
the absence of the arm referred to.
Albany IN. Y ] Knickerbocker.
Year: 1866

Fra Heat-Alida sold in the pools for about as much
the other two but when II asccrtanod that Wood
stock would not start she backed at one hundred 70
forty 10 beat Quicksilver The betting was very brisk
until after the start. The horses had good START
but going around tho turn Quicksilver broke up and lost
four lengths Ho trotted rapidly after he rc
the quarter pole In forty seconds. Going down
the baokstretch Quicksilver closed up another
length, Aida passing the half.mlle pole in lS,
length in front On tho lower turn the chestnut chal
lenged the marc with rapid burst OF speed, and they
on the homestretch yoked together. Dan Pffcr,
was OF use; the little doing her best, and
getting beat at that Quicksilver led her TO tho
three lengths, In 2:35.


Seond H,dt One hundred to 1fty on Quicksilver before
the start The geldng broke up after getting tho
word and Aida led TO the quarter pole two lengths In
thirty and half seconds and kept mp this adv
iage hal way down the backstretch when tho chestnut
gan 10 square himself and gradually close the gap.
The little mare however length in front at the
half. milo pole In 1:lsls The chestnut increased his
speed around the lower turn and took sides with
the marc and showed his head In front at the three quar-
ter pole. An increased pressure OF him
the 'front.' and he cano home winner by three lengths
In 2:37


Third H.ct One hundred TO twenty then offered
On the Michigan Reldng, without takers The horses
got away equal terms, and Quicksilver having tho In
side managed 70 show In front around the turn, but
approaching the quarter pole the little took him
by the head, and they passed the quarter polo nearly
parallel, In forty seconds The struggle for lead down
the backstrech exciting the geding passing the
half-mio pole half ngih In 'front.' In 10 Going In
the lower turn the began ITO back and tho
geldng led length Mt the three. quart pole Up tho
homestrech Quicksilver trotted steadily and won the
heat and race by three lengths, in 2:3o
Year: 1866

oessfui party oen finds after tho ary decision, that he
has reaped but barren victory.


II Is time that when . lawyer goes the bench he
thereby does not surrender his rights voice In the
political issues OF the day But II Is serious question
for the people, whose servant he h whether his nrs care
Is not should be- directed 70 the faithful and prompt
discharge Of his duties He Ia paid for II and u, for.
sooth, he delights In the investigation or pathological
mysteries, or IN pandering 10 political AMBITION ne
should 10 justice TO the public, resign his position and
follow the bent of his peculiar genius


The Court " Appeals decide their cases At the sue
ceeding which they are submitted, and We SEQ
why the courts VI metropolis cannot FOL
low their example.


great deal moro might be said OF tho injustice OF
the bench 70 the bar tho public but enough for tho
present MEMBER OF THE BAR
Year: 1866

Of government has place for State exoep. In the
Unionn and proceeds argue directly against ths pos
sions maintained by the Protestant Pope In his ats
ietsrs Following this position there comes psnegyno
cient; for "since the adjournment things have been
done that convince the people thai radical meas
ures are needed than Congress ht 90 adopt II Ia
now seen thas this country have peace and no
security until the leading rebels deprived Of all pow
or and hope 70 rule and until full Justice done to
the loyal blacks The loyal people OF this country now
demand that rebels shall be treated to vindicste
the proper authority OF government shall be excluded
from power az least until they repent and accent IN
good faith the Issues OF the war and that the loyal
black man shall be made full citizen with te right 10
vote. These things must and Will be dono."
Year: 1866

PHILADELPHIA, April IA company of two
hundred gentlemen representing the newspaper and
book publishers of New York, Boston and this city
paid a visit to-day to the Manayunk Wood Paper
Pulp Works and witnessed the entire process of CON
vertng cord wood into paper pulp and its manufac-
ture into paper. The works are very extensive. the
building and machinery having cost S500.O0O.


The great feature in the works is the economy in
the of chemicals which dsiptegrate the wood
and bleach the pulp the refuse being carried to an
evaporatng house where the chemicals are rendered
fit for again. only % per cent. of fresh stock being
added TO make it equal to former strength.


At the adjoining Flat Rock Paper Mills, excellent
printing paper made with so per cent of wood pulp
and 20 per cent. of straw pulp. From twelve to
fifteen tons Of wood pulp are turned out daily The
works have but recently gone into operation, and
already prices of paper have been reduced three cents
NOR
Year: 1866

BURNT THRoUGH.-Mr. A. W. Lewis. Of Boothbay,
surprised to find hole in the floor of the size Of
the stove and the stove lying quiet and cool in the
cellar. 1t had burnt directly through and the flames
then went out Of their own accord,
Year: 1866

EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAVA white stole a
chicken. and black hog. in Goldsboro', North
Carolina recently. They each tied to the whip
pngpost and subjected to forty lashes save one on
the bare back,
Year: 1866

Some fellow who seems to think well of
the institution discourses of marrying.
Hear him:


Get married young man, and be quick
about Ii, too Don't wait for the Miileni.
um, hoping that the girls may turn to an
gels, before you trust yourself with one of
them.


a pretty thing you'd be along side an
angel, wouldn't you-you brute Don't
wait another day, but right now-this very
night ask some nice, industrious girl, to 20
into partnership with you to help clear your
pathway OF thorns, and plant it with flow.
ers. Suppose she kicks YOU, don't Won
know, you blockhead, that there is such a
thing as trying again, and that the min
nows having bitten at the hook and run
away, there is now chance to catch bet
ter fish 7 Marrying wont hurt you-it
won't. It'll sow the buttons on your shirt.
and mend your breeches and your manners
too-it will


Going to get out Of this subjugated
country, and try your fortune in Mexico or
Brazil, are you! Well, if you will 90.
take somebody with you who will love and
care for you, where all others may be in.
different to your welfare. But don't go
at least for time. Get married! There
never was better time, for we are all sub.
Jugaated rebels together, and no one will
make remarks about the seantincss of
your wardrobe, or the coarseness of your
furniture. You can but the wood and she
can do the cooking, with nice little stove
that won't cost much.


Plenty OF frcedwomen to wash and iron.
and clean up generally. Stop your whin.
ing about being poor, and get married


Stop drinking whiskcy, chewing and
smoking tobacco, and playing cards, aud
save the money thus loolishly-worse than
tooiishly spent. Your wife-that is to be
will take care of your savings, and fur
nish you in return with woman's affection,
and pure coffee to warm your frozen nature.


Get married-you especially who are in
the "scar and yellow leaf Of bachelcrism,
and if you don't may you freeze to death
some Of these cool nights. You ought to
freeze, you good for-nothing buttonless
creature
Year: 1866

MoNEY.-Mcn will work for it, fight for
it, beg for it, steal for it, starve for it and
die for it. And all the while, from the
cradle to the grave, nature and God are
laundering in our ears the solemn cues
ton, "What shall it profit man, if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul " This madness for money is the
strongest and lowest of the passious it is
the insatiate Moloch of the hur'an heart.
before whose remorsclcss altar all the finer
attributes of humanity are sacrificed. 1t
makes merchandise of all that is sacred in
human affections, and even tratfics in the
awful solemnities of the eternal
Year: 1866

1t is folly for men of merit to think es
Gaping censure, and a weakness to be af-
fected with it. Fabius Maximus said he
was a greater coward that was afraid of re.
proach than he that fed from his enemies.
Year: 1866

Personal responsibility is totally indie
pendent OF large income. Its greatest
secret is self respect. Poverty can never
degrade those who never degrade them
selves by pretence or duplicity.
Year: 1866

A greenhorn standing by sewing ma
chine at which handsome young lady was
at work looking alternately at the machine
and its fair operator, at length gave vent
to his admiration with:


"By golly its purity, specially the part
kivered with caliker."
Year: 1866

WORCESTER. Mass. June 18.-The express freight


train from Norwich. this morning ran into q freight
car at Auburn. which had been blown by the wind
from turnout into the main track. The engine and


nine cars were thrown off the track. and the engi-
nccr had his leg broken.
Year: 1866

MORNING SCENES IN UTAH.-A company of colo
nists, with four or five wagons on their way from
San Pete to salt Lake City, on the west side of Utah
Lake eneamped one Monday night near Pelican
just before breaking up camp, Mr. John Tucson went
down to the lake to fill keg with water. While at
the lake he heard a shot whistle past but he maid
attention to it, thinking somebody was out shoot
ing game Presently another bullet whistled past,
near has head. lie immediately returned to the
the scene of danger, where they found an Indian
concealed in the grass, whom they Immediately and
efectually Quieted.
Year: 1866

THE SLIP OF LAND BETWEEN THE CANAL
AND RIvER.-As the question, whether the
slip of land between the canal and the river
is within the corporation limits or not, is
still pending between the county and city
authorities, and is not likely to be immedi-
ately decided, it will be of considerable
interest to know the opinion of His Honor
the Mayor upon this important matter.


In the course of case at tho Mayors
Court on yesterday, Mr.. Mayo stated that
for all police purposes the slip of land re
ferrcd to belonged to the city. He said
that no one thought of asserting any claim
on the part of the county until the canal
was cut. He lived there at the time, and
knew it, and that slip of land as certainly
belonged to the city as his (Mr. Mayo's)
head belonged to his shoulders. AS no one
would be guilty of asserting that Mr.. Mayo
has lost his head, which contains such
store of curious legal knowledge, the dict,nH
of His Honor will, it is presumed, end the
whole affair.
Year: 1866

RUNAwAY-NEARLY AN ACCIDENT.-On
yesterday morning two boys were riding
down Main street in furniture wagon,
when the horse became frightened and
ran away. When the horse reached the
front of the Examiner office he was running
furiously, but negro man named Wyatt
Lewis ran out of the office and, with great
danger to himself, succeeded in stopping
him. The boys were very much alarmed,
but were not hurt, and now have to thank
Lewis for their escape.
Year: 1866

THE Den IN EXCHANGE ALLEY.--It seems
very certain that Exchange alley, to which
reference has already been made on ac-
count of the disgustingly filthy condition of
the houses in it, is also the abiding place
of colony Of negroes, who, with no law
full occupation, and very confused ideas of
me,ua and taan,, live upon the property Of
their unfortunate neighbors. Many Of the
denizcns of Exchange alley have frOmtim
to time been before His Honor the Mayor,
and on yesterday negro boy named
Charles Black was brought up at the
Mayors Court on the charge of breaking


into the store of Messrs. Burke Il Beahl and
stealing quantity Of cloth. The evidence
went to prove that the accused had the
cloth in his possession, and that he had ac-
knowleged the theft; but the prisoner
himself stated that boy named Dick
Johnson opened the store, and that por-
tion of the plumber only was given to the
boy Black, which was afterwards taken
away from him. ft


There is no doubt that Jim Bell and
Peter Myers, both negroes, and now in
Jail, were implicated in the robbery, as
were also number of other inhabitants of
Exchange alley not yet in custody. The
boy may be guilty, and is most likely so,
but he could hardly have planned the rob-
berry and carried it out by himself, and it
is probable that the whole /" family !"
of thieves was concerned, and that Black
is now made the scape-goat to bear the
sins of the entire gang.


As Blacks. case was continued, there
will be an opportunity of hunting up his
accompliccs, and, for the safety as well as
the health of the city, it is imperative that
such" rookerics of thieves and abandoned
characters as that in Exchange alley
should be at once and permanently broken
uD
Year: 1866

SANITARY CONDITION OF HENRrCo COUNTY.
Orders have already been issued for the
citizens of Henrico to remove at once all
rubbish and filth which may have accumu-
lated on their premises, and these instruc-
tons have been communicated by Consta-
bic Cole throughout the county; but there
are many persons who have not the means
of removing their rubbish, and it will be
well for the present Quarterly Court to
make arrangements at once for removing,
at the expense of the county, all rubbish,
&c., from the lots of those who cannot af-
ford to have it taken away themselves.
This plan has been adopted in the city
with the best results.
Year: 1866

TRIAL BY MILITARY COMMISSION-THE
ACCUSED BECOMES A LCNATIC.-SOmc time
ago the Military Commission then sitting
in this city adjourned to Franklin county
for the trial OF W. o. Wade, charged with
numbering negro under aggravated cir
cumStanccS, and remained there in session
ten days. The proceedings and finding of
the Commission were submitted to Gene
raj Terry for approval, and he carried them
off with him for consideration when he left
the city. General Terry has not re-
turned, and the finding has not been pub
liShed, so that the prisoner remained in a
most unenviablc condition. He seemed
convinced that he would bc hung privately,
and every day seemed to expect the arri-
val of squad Of men to conduct him to
execution. For some time he has been
confined in cell in immediate proximity
to the gallows upon which Shields was
hung, and the dread and fear of death
have so worked upon his mind that he has
lost his senses entirely, and is now per-
fectly crazed. These delays may be un-
avoidable in cases tried by military COM
missions, but they are contrary to every
feeling of humanity, and the less any
people has Of them the better.
Year: 1866

To KEEP BUTTER SWEET. d. Edison
Smith contributes to the American
Agriculturalist the following directions
for preserving butter in good condition
for any length oftime. In May or June,
when butter is plenty, work it thorough
Iy two or three times, and add to the last
working nearly one grain of saltpeter
and teaspoonful of pulverized loaf
sugar to each pound of butter. Pack
it tightly in stone jars to within two
inches Of the top, and fill the remaining
space with strong brine. Cover the
jars tightly, and bury them in the cel-
lar bottom, where the butter will keep
Nnhurt for long time.
Year: 1866

SOME one suggests that the only out
tit necessary foE those about emigratlng
to New irenada, will be a substantial
coffin fllea With provisions, as when the
provisions are consumed the owner will
be ready to take their place.
Year: 1866

FuN AT HoME.-Don't Le afraid OF
a little fun at home, good people.
Don't shut up your house lest the sun
should fade your carpets, and your
heart lest hearty laugh shake down
some of the musty old cobwebs there.
If you want to ruin your sons. let them
think that all mirth and social enjoy
ment must be left on the threshold
without, when they come home at night.
Whsn once home is regarded as only
place to eat, drink and sleep in, the
work begins that ends in gambling
houses and reckless dissipation. Young
people must have fun and relaxation
somewhere; if they do not find it at
their hearthstones, it will be sought at
other and perhaps less profitable pla-
ces. Therefore, let the fire burn
brightly at night, and make the home
stead delightful with all those little arts
that parents perfectly understand
Don't repress the buoyant spirits of
your children; and an hour of mcrri-
ment round the lamp and freight at
home, blOts out the remembrance of
many a care and annoyance during the
day, and the best safeguard they can
take with them into the world is the I'M
seen influence of a bright little domes-
tic fresidc.