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Year: 1866

The balance of our stock just received at
the Free Trader Book Store.


1t is the only complete stock in the city
all the Patterns are NEW; and ranging in
price from n shilling tc $50 roll.


Don't fail to see it before purchasing else
Year: 1866

JACOB MooSEY-In spite of the dull
weather, times have been SO brisk at Mooney S
clothing store under the less than cost
system, that Jacob has resolved to keep SELL
ing for "next to nothing" for few weeks
longer. Without gas or blowing, Mooney is
selling winter clothing at remarkably lew
Erures
Year: 1866

In the debate in the Senate on the
Tariff Bill, Republican United States
Senator from Michigan said: p


sMr. Chandler said that the free.list
was made up so as to favor. New England.
Fertilizers were exempt from the tax:
they were not used in the Northwest
Thrashing machines were taxed: they
were not used in New England.


eMr. Fessenden said that was great
mistake.


''Mr. Chandler said that he had trav-
eled all over New England, and had never
seen thrashing- machine there. They
used the old-fashioned fail altogether"


If it suits New England to have an ar
ticle on the free list, it is put there; and
if it's more for her interest to have an
other article heavily taxed, it is also done
The whole policy of the Government is
now for her benefit.
Year: 1866




FREsHENING FIsH.--Many persons
who are in the habit of freshening mack
erel, or other salt fish, never dream that
there is right way and a wrong way to
do it. Any person who has seen the pro-
cess of evaporation going on at the salt
works knows that the salt falls to the bot
tom. Just so it is in the pan where your
mackerel or white fish lies soaking, and
if it lies with the skin side down the salt
will fall to the skin and remain there;
when if placed with the flesh side down,
the salt will fall to the bottom of the pan
and the fish comes out freshened as it
should; in the other case it is nearly as
salty as when put in. If you do not be.
lieve this, test it for yourself.
Year: 1866

Bar The following from the ClrcIeVllIe
(Ohio) Democrat is not bad:


Parson Brownlow says he would not
start for Heaven with the Democrat par
ty. Very true. The old whelp is too
far on the road to HELM fact, he is SO
near there, that the little devils have
stopped sitting birthstone to look out Of
the window as they see him coming down
on the home stretch meek and neck with
Ben. Butler and Thad. Stevens.
Year: 1866

am prepared to furnish Patent Corn Planters,
that with one man and mule will perform as much
work as five men, and three muesin the ordinary
way.


The old patrons of ". +. TUNNARD are invited
to renew their former patronage, as the former
proprietor will be found at the establishment to
attend to his old as well rs new customers


All work will be guaranteed, and special atten-
tion will be paid to
Year: 1866

The recent overflow in Louisiana is
the most serious ever known. Great
numbers have been ruined who barely
escaped ruin from the war. Many
persons had mortgaged their all for
capital to raise crop. @
Year: 1866

Some time since it was the writer's fortune
to attend Church in a remote part of the Old
Dominion, where the war rude effects had, by
the hand of industry and energy, been nealy re-
moved, save in the hearts of those whose sons,
brothers, and betrothed, had fallen whilst nobly
battling for their country liberty


As the aged minister assembled the pulpit,
and was about commencing service, our atten-
ton was attracted by the entrance Of several
person Of a young lady, whose surprising beau
ty and intellectual features couldn't fail to at
tract the attention ofall Her history was short
but affecting.


At the early age OF sixteen summers, she was
wooed and won by young gentleman of high
moral character, and extraordinary worth; but
alas all the joys and realities of that eventful
period, which is so fondly looked to by the
young of our country as completing their hap
piness, and rendering future life fancy dream,
was, by this young couple, never to be realized.


The horrid trump of war sounded Virgin
las bravest and noblest men were called to go
forth and protect their state from the insults
of its invading foe. With others, the hero of
our sketch was willing and ready to sever all
the tenderest ties that could bind man to his
native home, dotlng parents, affectionate sis
ters, and afianced love, all were sacrificed for
the cause Of liberty, justice, and honor, which
he had the fortune gallantly to defend in the
campaign of 1868, when the eyes of all the world
were turned with silent admiration to the noble
Confederate army, under the immortal Lee, as
it was pressing its way to the very heart of the
enemy S country, with sword in hand fighting
at the head of his company, despite the silent
prayer that was being offered in distant noun
tain home, he fell upon Gettysburg's blood
stained battlefield


In few short days, the fatal news was con-
veyed to his afHanced bride, who sank beneath
its fatal effects to arise no more A short time
since, her spirit winged its way to the God who
gave it, and now the Autumnal winds pass un-
needed O er the grave where rests that martyr
to the cause Of constancy, and devotion


MONTEREY, Va, October, 1866. z.
Year: 1866

One thing is certain-none who are educated
in home Of cheerful piety can ever afterwards
be led to despise religion, The world may lure
them into forgetfulness; folly and vice may for
time make them deaf and blind; they may
wander far in the paths of evil, and spend many
years in the tumultuous enjoyments passion !;
but the memory Of such home-the echoes of
the songs Of childhood vision of the fam
lily altar, where once an unbroken band was
sheltered under the wing of divine protection,
and father, mother, sister, brother, now dead
CT far away, sang the dear old heart hymns and
joined in the same prayer; all these will revisit
the soul of the Wanderer, and his heart of stone.
Memory's guiding hand will lead him back to
childhood's haunts and the old hearth-stone,
until his begrimed nature will loathe ITSELF and
long above all things to be restored to the puri-
ty and freshness of those early years. Alas for
the sinful wanderer whose memory can guide
him back to no such scenes Alas for the
home that sends forth its inmate into this per-
ilous world with no golden links Of pious re-
membrance to hold them by a safe home-anchor
until they outride the storms of life


Christian fathers and mothers think well of
sad changes in your homes. The bright and
gay throng of children that people your house
to-day will soon emerge from childhood and go
out from your presence to the great battle of
life. You have not long to train them for the
task. Whether they shall do well or i'll, rests
not entirely-but largely with you. If you
would have joy in their prosperity, and pride
in their integrity, plant the seeds of success in
their young hearts now, and teach them hoao to
Ive Surround their lives with prayer and
praise, and holy counsels, and holy examples. =
Consecrate their lives to God from their earliest
years, and pray God for them, and show them
how to lead lives Of watchfulness, prayer, and
selfdenial. Give them sanctifed aims of life


It is better than gold Far more precious to
them than the riches Of earth, will be holy rec
elections Of a home that was filed with the
fears and love of God Christian STANDARD.
Year: 1866




er ever wrote is this inimitable passage:


It cannot be that earth is man s only abiding
place 1t cannot be that our life is bubble
cast up by the ocean Of eternity to float a mo-
ment upon it's waves, and sink into nothingness.
Else why is it, the high and glorious aspirations,
which leap like angels from the temple of our
hearts, are forever wandering unsatisfed? Why
is it that the rainbow and cloud come over us
with beauty that is not of earth, and then
pass off to leave US to muse on their loveiness?
Why is it that the stars which ''hold their fes-
tival around the midnight throne are set above
the grasp of our limited faculties forever mock
ing us with their unapproachable glory? And
finally, why is it that bright forms of human
beauty are presented to our view and taken
from us: leaving the thousand streams of our
affections to flow back in an Alpine torrent upon
our hearts We are born for higher destiny
than that of earth. There is a realm where the
rainbow never fades; where the stars will be
spread out before us like the Islands that slum-
Der on the ocean, and where the beautiful beings
which pass before us like shadows, will stay
forever in our presence
Year: 1866

Lord, | discover an arrantlaziness in my soul.
For when am to read a chapter in the Bible,
before I begin it, look where it endeth; and
if it endeth not on the same side, cannot keep
my hand from turning over the leaf, to measure
the length thereof on the other side; if it swell
to many verses, begin to grudge.


Surely my heart is not rightly affected. Were
[ truly hungry after heavenly food, would not
complain of meat. Scourge, Lord, this laziness
of soul. Make the reading of Thy Word not a
penance, but pleasure unto me. Teach me,
that as among many heaps of gold, all being
equally pure, that is the best which is the biggest
SO | may esteem that chapter in Thy Word the
best which is the longest.-Dr. Thomas Fuller.
Year: 1866

/
'How pretty |" cried little Sam, as his little
| fat hand grasped a bunch of white lilac which
grew near the gate of his fathers mansion
The next moment the child S face grew red with
| terror, and he dashed the lilac to the ground,
shrieking.


TT stings it stings
What made it sting? Itwas bright, beauti-
full, and sweet-smelling flower How could it
hurt the child's hand? will tell you
A jolly little bee in search of dinner had
just pushed his nose in among the lilac blossoms,
and was sucking nectar from it most heartily
when Sammys fat hand disturbed him. So
being vexed with the child, he stung him. That
how Sammy's hand came to be stung.


Sammys mother washed the wound with
hartshorn and when the painwas gone she said,
Sammy, my dear, let this teach you that many
pretty things hare very sharp stings.


Let every child make note of this-many
pretty things have very sharp stings. 1t may
save them from being stung if they keep this
truth in mind


Sin often makes itself appear very pretty. A
boy once went to circus because the horses
were pretty and their riders gay but he learned
to swear there, and thus that pretty thing, the
circus, stung him.


Another boy once thought wine pretty thing
He drank it and learned to bea drunkard. Thus
wine stung him. A girl once took luscious
DdIdeut pear lIonl basket anu aIe H. nave
you eaten one?' asked her mother Fearing
she should not get another if she said yes, she
said mo, % got another pear, and then felt so
stung that she could not sleep that night


Thus yousee that sin, however pretty it looks,
'stings;" sharply too. 1t stings fatally The
Bible says, 'The sting of death is sim


If you let sin sting you, nothing can heal the
wound but the blood of Jesus. IF you feel the
smart of the sting, go to Jesus with it, and he
will cure. After that never forget that many
pretty things have very sharp stings, and be
careful not to touch, taste, OF handle such things
IS. s. AdUOcate
Year: 1866

Swearing is the fit expression of human rage,
and the most exact interpreter of its real mean
ing. He who utters the fearful word of dam
nation against his fellow-man, is giving vent to
feeling which, had it the power, would really
consign him to hell. Anger is thus not only
murder but murder of the worst kind lit would
and body into hell Swearer, see what your oath
means Angry man, see what your anger
meaDS
Year: 1866

Fly from the wine cup


Though pleasure may swim


In the bright rosy bubbles


That float round the brim


Far down meath the depths


Of the red wine that flows


Turks the syren that lures


To the vortex of woes.
And is this all f? Can reason do no more
Than bid me shun the deep and dread the shore?
Sweet moralist, afoat on life's rough sea,
The Christian has an art unknown to thee.
He holds no parley with unmanly fears;
Where duty bids he confidently steers,
Faces thousand dangers at her call,
And trusting in his God surmounts them all
And but oh can words my loss declare
To paint the extremes of transport and despair,
Oh, thou beyond what verse or speech can tell,
My guide my friend, my best tbeloved-farewell.
Year: 1866

Fearful of the results of the coming elections,
and In order to keep honest Union men in theil
ranks, the mouth pieces of the Radicals in those
localities where it is most important to keep the
real purpose of their party out of sight, pretend
that Congress has laid down plan for Union,
that it has offered basis, and a just basis, fol-
restoration, and it only remains for the South
to accept the proposition to be restored to its
ancient position under the Government. They
know that this is all sham, imposture cheat, and
trickery. Congress has made no promise OF
any sort; has explicitly refused to make prom
ise, and its constitutional amendment is simply
contrivance for obstruction and delay, intend
ed to insure and prolong Disunion, and to hold
on to the power which Disunion enables them
to retain. The Radical majority in Congress
has given no pledge whatever that the South
shall be admitted if it swallows the amendment
dose. 1t does not, in fact, want the South to
do it, and that is the only reason which could
properly operate upon the South, to induce
them to appropriate the measure 1t would be
disappointment to Radical malice, though it
would not procure Southern representation
That it would not be followed by admission to
Congress is evident from the refusal of that
body to commit itself to any pledge to that eff
feet, and from the recent declarations of the
more outspoken of it's leaders, Thaddeus Ste
vens, its master in the House, announces that
he will vote against the admission of the South
in any event, and there is not any evidence that
the demands of the Radicals will not rise with
each concession. Negro suffrage is what the
Radicals have at heart, as the New York hide
pendent frankly declares, adding that mo lead
ing Republican IN Congress means to admit The
ten aoaiting States simply on the adoption OF the
amendment These States are to be admitted
on no conditions short of the equal political
of race A reconstruction of the Union on any
other basis would be a national dishonor. I'm
til the rebel States can come back on this basis,
they shall not come back at ALL" There is
plain English, and that is neither more nor less
than the Radicals really mean.-Bah Trans
Year: 1866

The tendency of people to carry quotations
too far, was illustrated in New Haven prayer
meeting the other day by brother, who ex-
claimed in an agony of piety-'O Lord have
mercy upon us poor miserable sinners, ofwhlch
[ am the chief among ten thousand, and alto
gether lovely.
Year: 1866

PLENARY COUNCIL OF THE CATHOLIC BIsH-
ops.-Archbishop Spalding, at the Cathedral
made reference to the coming Penary Council,
and stated it would be the most important as
well as the most imposing gathering of the heir
archy which has taken place within 200 years.
The session will continue for two weeks, when
the acts of the body will be forwarded to Rome,
and upon receiving the sanction of his Holiness
Plus TX, will be canons of the church, and then
made public.


The subjects before the Council will be pure
ture receiving the notice of the body. At the
close of the sittings pastoral will be addressed
to the faithful, treating of matters pertaining to
the laity, in which course of action in relation
to the colored people will be directed.
more tSaan.
Year: 1866

II saw one day in spring swan taking his
morning bath. With easy, free, and graceful
movements he threw the waves about, which,
fresh and clear, glancing and foaming, danced
around him, made the white down yet more
dazzling, circed caressingly on his soft contour,
and rejecting on each drop their beautiful rl-
ler, who now struck them with his wings, and
now lovingly sunk his head in their BOSOM
Sometime he sunk altogether and let the waves
embrace above his head then he appeared
again, shook the silver bubbles from his plu-
mage and swan proudly and commandingly
forward, while the water divided itself obedent-
y, and its clear depths reflected his proud and
lordly figure.


| observed this lovely image on a spring
morning by the song of birds, by the murmur
of the young leaves, which were opening to the
wind I saw it with sincere delight, yet by de-
grees it caused in me a deep melancholy
''This creature" :" thought [, ''moves like bird
in his element; it closes around him only to
brighten the enjoyment Of his life and reflect
his beauty. What harmony, what freshness,
what beauty in the relation between this being
and its world This creature and mani Man in
continual STRIFE with HIS world, trammelled in
his movements, oppressed with the very air
which he breathes man, the lord OF creation
and its slave


Thought and I suffered, felt myself bound,
and knew myself slave. All! | understood
not then that man should regain the dominion
over nature which he had lost in his fall that
he once again, like the swan, should move him
felf in his life's element in freedom and beauty.
|-Frederak0 BreDaer.
Year: 1866

There are many thatset crown of glory upon
the head of Christ by a good profession, that
plat crown Of thorns upon the head of Christ
by evil conversation. BY the words of our lips
we may assume religion; but it is by the works
of our lives that we adOrn religion.
Year: 1866

A party Of school girls were whispering to-
gether in one corner of the school-room and as
another of their number came in, they exclaim-
ed,


80, Jane, do come here We have a secret
to tell you; but you must promise not to tell it
to anybody for the world"


''Well, said Jane ''then [ cannot hear it,
for Inever listen to anything that l cannot tell
mynaother.


What noble girl and how much happier
she must be than those who hide things from
their mother, and do things they would blush
to have known.


Girls, how many of you do as Jane did?


[ heard of a good man once who said, II
nerer did anything that I a0as ashamed to tell
my mother"


It is a great thing to be able to say that, and
[ am afraid there are very few boys now a-days
who can say it. Can yop, my young reader
If you cannot, will you not make up your mind
to live so after this that you can say it?


Tell your mother everything children; and
never do or say anything that you would be
ashamed to have her know Young Pilgrim.
Year: 1866

''No moments of victory are for us, no nation
al jubilee can we celebrate, no songs of triumph
can our maidens sing, or garlands of glory
weave; there is no welcoming of returning CON
querors, nor erecting of triumphal arches for
us, to console us for our great suffering. We
are all alone with our great defeat and that
heavy sorrow, which, never fitting, still is sit
ting, in our household and all that we have
left for our comfort is the sad yet tender igh
which plays around the memory of those who
died to make it otherwise. ''-Ec- Coz. Vance.


Modesty is the only sure bait if you angle for
praise
Year: 1866

DRUNKARD's TESTIMONY -''Tell me-" said
a benevolent visitor to poor drunkard when
urging him to abandon the intoxicating cup,
''where was it that you took your first steps in
this Incorporate course?


at ng tathers table, - replied the unhappy
man. Before | left home to become an ap-
prentice [ had acquired a love for the drink that
has ruined me, The first drop [ ever tasted
was handed me by my now poor heart broken
motherP
Year: 1866

A little wealth-a little friend,


A little house to live in;
A little husband, kind and true,


Would make this earth heaven.
A little smile for those we love,
A little tear for sadness;
A little food to give the poor,


A little laugh for gladness.
This little world of ours,


Twas made for our enjoyment;
The mind that God has given us
Seeks visgr and employment
We need but little here below,


The little while we're living;
Then let our little hearts be gay,
Forbearlng and forgiving.
Year: 1866

In the action of the Philadelphia Conven-
ton i'm compelling Fernando Wood and


Naiandigham to Withdraw. the principal
leaders of the Democratic party NAV read
their impending fate Wood and Nallan-
digham were not excluded from the Con-
vcntion because their principles were obiec-
tionablc to a majority of It's members; hut
because the notoriety which they had OBJ
tanned made them personally obnoxious to
few members with whom the majority
thought it necessary TO fuse. Coming from
party which had been true 10 the country
through the war, Gen Steadman and others
could not fraterniZe with Nallandigham
without forteiting the respect and support
of all with whom they formerly acted; and
they demanded his sacrifice as condition
of fusion The party will hold his princi-
piles long after it has discarded him. but the
anxiety To secure success nv the sacrifice
of men Objectionable 10 the masses of the
people will induce il to continue the work
of dropping its leaders, as il has dropped
Bright, Nallandigham and Wood. Their
time may he deferred a little longer but it
il certain that Pendlcion, Hendricks. Vor-
hees and Hanna will be pressed to one side
to relieve the party of odium. and renegade
Republicans. or men heretofore too obscure
tn become notorious, will take their places.
The plant of Voorhees, that he has never
said anything against the war. shows that he
already begins to read the sigi of the times.
and apprchends notice TO keep quiet
hereafter and not inure the party i'm the
public estimation by speaking in its behalf
Why should he not dread this. with the
suddennes and rapidiiy of the fall of Jesse
ID. Bright TO remind him that the very men
who approve treachery will strike down the
traitor as soon as he becomes a dead weight
to the party? The party must affect vir-
tue which it does not possess by sacrificing
its representative men.-Ind. Jour.
Year: 1866

y correspondent writes that a fashiona-
bic couple mp town in New York. married
but not mated, rs the story goes, quarreled
few mornings since, and the iratc wife
by the advice of her parents sued for di-
vorce. The case is noteworthy only from
the ridiculous cause of the quarrel. One
morning il seems that the husband washed
himself as usual, in the bowl used by both,
but the lady, for some reason refused to
use it that morning, and rang the bell for
another. 1t was brought. when the now
indignant husband flung it violently on the
floor, breaking it in pieces. The wife there
upon called him hard names. when he
locked the bedroom door. and insisted that
she should Use the first bowl. She vowed
that she wouldn't if she went with a dirty
face for week. He swOre that she shOd,
and he filled the bowl, seized her hands,
and using sufficient force, washed her face
for her. He then unlocked the door and
went to his business. while she went to
consult lawyer, and the suit began.
Year: 1866

TT In making up our account OF the
trip TO Lake Superior, we found it very
convenient 10 refer to the letters Of Col.
MEsERvET, who represented tie Uiscon
SIN in the party, and extract from them
The Colonel is graphic writer, and was
genial companion on the route.
Year: 1866

The Herald man says that the New
Hampshire election has decided that there
shall be no split in the Union party.
Three weeks ago this same individual
had come TO the conclusion that
1.-THE great unselish Union party
had come to an end" We told him then,
as we tell him now, that the Union party
will not come to an end, whether 1t is or
is not deserted by the President whom it
elected.