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Year: 1866

OF six years, shall become life member


OF the House Of Refuge of New Castle


County and every person paying the sum


OF two dollars annually, shall be a member


while he continues to contribute the said sum.


which amount shall be paid to the Treasurer


ior the use of said corporation" "


We presume that there is not Citizen of
the state, who reads the proceedings of our
Criminal Court, but feels the necessity of an
institution Of this character For years past.
at every session, there have been numerous
culprits arraigned for theft, too young to war
rant their being sent to jail yet these boys
arc great annoyance 10 the community,
and should be cared for in some manner
Inc House Of Refuge will supply a place for
Ihat purpose. There are many men of wealth
and influence in New Castle County who
nave stood aloof and taken no part in the
matter, as far as it has progressed, but we
trust that they Will see the propriety of Civ
Ing il their countenapce and support. A
meeting will be held in the Council Chamber
1t the City Hall, o-morrow-We "Wednesday
'iternoon, at O'Clock We hope that every
nan who feels an interest in promoting sound
morals, and the general welfare Of our youth,
will be present and lend their aid 10 the good
york.
Year: 1866

STRONG Strength of char,
acter consists of two things-power of will
and power of self,restraint. 1t requires two
things, therefore, for its existence-strong Q
feelings and strong command over them


Now, it is here we make the great mistake !:
we mistake strong feelings for strong charac.
ter. A man who beats all before him, be.
fore whose frown dOmestes tremble, and
whose bursts of fury make children of the
household quake-because he has his will
Obeyed, and his own way in all things we call
him strong man. The truth is, be is the
weak man; it is his passions that are strong;
he, mastered by them, is weak You must
measure the strength of man by the power
of the feelings be subdues, not by the power
Of those which subdue him. And hence
composure is very often the highest result of
strength. Did we never see man receive
fragrant insult, and only grow little pale,
and then reply quietly? That is a man
spiritually strong Or did we never see man
in anguish stand as if carved of solid rock,
mastering himself? Or bearing a hopeless
daily trial, remain silent, and never tell the
world what cankered his home peace That
is strength. He, who with strong possions
remains chaste he who keenly sensitive, with
many powers of indignation in him, can be
provoked, and yet restrain himself, and for>
give-these are the strong men, the spiritual
heroes.-ReU. f. W Robertson.
Year: 1866

HINTS TO HUSBANDS. If your wife does
her own work to save the expense of hired
help do not let her get up and make Ere
cold mornings while you are lying csmforta.
bly in bed. Do not let her go and tend the
barn, milk the cows, see to the poultry, come
in and dress the children, prepare break fast


and still hnd you in bed. After breakfast


DO not put on your great coat and gloves and
walk down street. while your wife brings in
wood and water, docs her morning work in
the house, and gets dinner 10 time to see
you walking back. You eat your dinner,
nave smoke, aud then walk out Don't do
u II you have any love for your wife; she
may bear it all aud not murmur, but love
must be strong that will not get chilled by
such treatment
Year: 1866

a Great South American Slaughter House.


From the Buenos Ayrcs Correspondence Of the
Providence JouTnal.I


THE iSa7adera is truly feature ofthis


country. Let me give you picture Of


the largest in South America. It's that


Of Sir De Fonde, across the cove or inner


harbor. from Montevido. The Surgeon


Of the q. S. steamer Susquehannah and


vour correspondent visited it one morn


ing before breakfast by way Of getting


up an appetite. Well mounted and spur


red, We started from the Hotel Oriental
at sunrise. and after a pretty morning
ride Of five miles We approached the es-
Enlistment. The strong ordor from the
tallow boilers and the bone kilns, signi-
fed our approach, while yet almost a
league away. Over the plain before us
as we rounded the head of the cove, we
saw an enclosure, perhaps of thirty acres,
in which we're broad, low, black looking
roofs, covering a large area, in the center
of which stood a tall brick chimney
from which rolled the foul black smoke
of the bone kilns We found the cattle
pen on the side next US in our approach
The pen is a circular area of two or three
acres, surrounded by fence about nine
feet high, very strongly built. From its
gate on the side next us. two great fences
opened into the plain, like very jaws of
death as they are, the distance between
constantly widening as they extend from
the pen. Opposite this gate is>another,
which opens into a lane OF passage about
one hundred feet long and fifteen feet
wide at the head and eight at the foot
Into this the cattle are driven in lots of
80. more or less, at once. At the further
end of this is the slaughter house, a
building several hundred feet in length
and about 40 feet wide sloping toward
either side from railway track in the
center running the entire length on either
side. On the outer border of the slopes
is a deep gutter for carrying off the blood.
The floor of the lane above referred to is
of plank. and the ground has sufficient
fall from the pen to the slaughter floor
to give an elevation of about two feet to
this floor at its lower end. Into this and
forming a part of it, truck fits upon
which the slaughtered OK is carried, to
such dresser along the route as may have
dispatched his last. On the outside of
the passage of death, as I shall call the
lane above described, and fitting against
the fence, is a platform about five feet
high and four feet wide, running its en-
tire length. Upon this stands the Matador
with his lasso, the other end of which
runs through a pulley, and to it are at
tached two horses harnessed side by side,
each with a rider, whose beat is at right
angles to the passage of death at its
lower end, and on the same side with the
platform. The NatGdor throws the Iasso,
catching by the horns or head, one, two,
or three animals, as the case may be-
He sings out " F8ta 6uenaI" which mean,
cit is WELL" or " all right" and away
galIop the horses, snatching the cattle
Year: 1866

THE law of health requires activity f;
for, as soon as a man is inactive in body
and mind he begins to have thousand
namelcss ills and aches, thousand sleep
less nights and tormented days. It is
quite enough, in many cases, for the ply
sician, when he comes to see the patient,
to look upon the person, tojustify him in
saying, even without examining the
tongue or feeling the pulse, "A violent
attack of laziness has undermined your
health ;" and the remedy in such cases
is moderate doses Of work long continued. I"


And not only is work necessary to
happiness and health, but it is of the ut
most moral benefit. Inriding, it issome-
times the case that you move just slow
enough to carry the dust with, and you
ride in your own dirt. It is exactly so
on the great road OF life. Men go just
fast enough to keep their cores, and
troubles, and dust along with them !;
while if they would drive little faster,
their dust would roll far behind them,
and they would keep themselves clean.
It is good to be active enough to leave
behind you the temptations by which
you are surrounded. More than half of
what men call temptations are nothing
but the protests Of violated natural fac
ulties of the mind whose law is offended.
If you will not give those faculties activ-
ity, they viii be active of themselves !;
and if you do not regulate them, ought
you to be surprised if they are unregula-
ted? Half of what men ordinarily call
temptations are nothing but the attempt
of the mind to be active according to its
own law, unregulated and unsupervised.
By simple occupation a man forestalls
more than half his temptations. Men
who are normally industrious, who have
an even temperament and a good consti-
tuition. who have a pleasing avo3ation,
who are kind and benevolent in disposi-
ton, who have been taught to be devout
toward God, whose life flows on peace
fully. and who are content and satisfied,
have great reason for gratitude and
thankfulnoss. Such men are sometimes
afraid that they cannot be children Of
grace. Under such circumstances give
yourself no anxiety, You are complying
Year: 1866

with the great fundamental conditions of


existence, and you are rsaping the re-


munerations of obedience, and your hap


piness in over-measure is the result Of


the mind in the situation in which yeu


are placed In life. Blessed are the men


that work so that Satan cannot find


them, nor tempt, nor hurry them;


Moreover, in work there usually is


moderation It sobers us. The body


needs discipline and trial, and work gives


them. There should be bodily work


therefore. The mind needs exercise in


every faculty, and works gives it. There
should be mental work therefore. The
steeds in our stable, If we keep them up
too many days, and feed them too high,
are, when we take them out, more ft for
-capering than for work. And as it is
with a steed, so it is with each faculty.
It needs the steadying power Of labor to
keep down its temper, and bring it with
in the limits of due moderation.


Work, then, is important as a means Of
moral benefit, of health and Of happiness
And God from all eternity has said,
+" Cursed be the indolent. and blessed be
the active" It is plain as though it
had been proclaimed from Mount Sinai.
And if there has arisen in the mind of
any one the notion that there is q normal
state in which a man shall be relieved
from work, either in this world OF the
next, it is false. There is no such con-
ception consistent with the creative idea
of God. Man was created according to
a plan, the primal element Of which was
to work. Work is not only philosophi-
cally but practically the condition Of
human life. It is the actual law of ex-
istence in this world. The population
of the globe, comprehensively considered,
are not a population lifted above the ne
eessity of laboring. Men work for liv-
ing literally. Their life is paid for by
the price Of labor. They work for the
liberty of living. Where, in tropical
climates, there is no necessity for work,
Nature takes out Of the full measure of
mans life as much as they lack in activ-
ity. In the tropics men viii not work,
and they are only half men. In the
temperate zones they do work, and they
are full men. In the frigid zones they
cannot work, and again they are only
half men. Such are the general facts
but wherever the law of wholesome work
is obeyed, there manhood is developed,
you look at latitudes or classes
in society. And it may be laid down as
not only a philosophical statement, but
. practical law of the human family,
that work is always an indispensable
condition of proper ezistenoe.-Henry
Ward BeecEer
Year: 1866

ian love- In this spirit we propose to meet
our Southern fellow-citizens in the National


Union Convention. [Cheers. This is a
first and necessary step towards a cordial re-
union. Bitter deyotees Of one or another
party may oppose this effort to restore peace
and good will to a distracted country and an
alienated people, and heap imprecations on
the heads Of those who, preferring their
country to their party, have United in re-
commencing it, but it cannot fail TO receive
the appreciation Of great numbers of the
wise and patriotic; and, if we may believe
that the councils of men are ever directed
by the Almighty, we may reyerently hope
that His guidance and support will sustain
and direct those who are engaged in this
noble work of reconciliation, and His per-
feet wisdom show them the blessed path of
peace. Cheers. ~
Year: 1866

In One-fourth Of the time that it takes with the
old mode Of treatment. In this treatment no
medicine is taken internally. You receive the
baths seated on your chair, with no Inconvenience
whatever.
Year: 1866

Young married ladies whose misfortune it has
been not to bring forth in due season, remember
God has said you should multiply and replenish.
If this is your desire, you can consult me either
by letter or in person. No lady over thirty-tive
years Of age need make application. All commu-
ncatiOns by letter or person strictly confidential
Year: 1866

Wehave hosts Of testimonials from all parts of the coun-
try but space will allow of the publication of but few of
them hence select those of well known persons whose
Intelligence and discrimination beyond doubt we


VIII Fay $1,000
any producing certificate published by us that is not
Year: 1866

heard a sermon once from venerable itin-
eraut preacher on benevolence. | thought the
effort very lean, but one thing impressed me a
little. Co. said be, 'aDd do something after
have done preaching. Have it to say, when
come back, four weeks hence, that you have
done something, and my word and Gods word
for it, you will be better aud happier man. ,
knew poor widow living on the edge of some
woods about a mile from my home. Her hus-
band had been dead two or three years, and with
three helpless little girls she had hard conflict
with poverty. had often spoken kindly to her
and thought my duty ended when the words
were uttered; Tut when the sermon of the old
white-headed preacher was done, the resolution
was formed to 20 and do something. Next day
| visited the cellar and measured out bushel
of potatoes, bushel of apres, and a variety Of
other things, and having pat them into wagon,
started for the cottage of the widow A load of
wood, for which | paid three dollars preceded
me. An hours drive brought both loads in
front of the house, and when my explanation
given there were wet eyes and warmer
hearts in the parties. The widow wept for joy,
and the children joined in, while |, fiuding my
feelings too much for my strength, had to give
away also to tears The act one that gave
me spiritual start, and when the preacher
came back thought the discourse one Of the
most eloquent | bad ever listened to The
change was in myself, not in him or his preach
Year: 1866

HOTEL RoBBERY.-A young man who
registered himself as I. D. Williams, OF
Portsmouth, stopped at the Monumental
Hotel on Wednesday evening, and paid for
room for one day in advance. Yester-
day morning, while the clerk was absent
from the office, he had his trunk brought
down from his room and put upon hack
after which he drove of. After he had
left, it was found that he had carried of
with him all the bed-clothing that was in
his room
Year: 1866

. FIRE.-Last night at about 8 a-oclock
dense volume of smoke was seen to issue
from the shoe store of May, Heller &
Brother, near the corner of Sixth and
Broad streets, and for time it seemed as
though the whole building was threatened
with destruction. The alarm was sounded,
and the fremen were promptly on the
ground. The door was broken in, and it
was discovered that few shoe boxes had
taken fire from red-hot stove. These
were soon extingushed, and no further
damage was done.
Year: 1866

RoBBERY.-On Wednesday evening last,
Mr.. Kennedy, who has a store on Broad
street near Brook avenue. desired to step
ont q moment on some business, aud wish
ing to place sum Of money amounting to
5000 in some place of safety during his alb
sence, put the money undera barrel in the
back room of his store. He went out, and
when he returned some one, who had pro-
badly seen him hide the money, had taken
it and travelled. He has since been unable
to hear of il,
Year: 1866

sons of Adam-very Indifferent. If tho
first mother drove man from Paradise, her
daughters have devoted themselves TO tho
great undertaking of restoring him to tho
abode of eternal peace and JOY. IL 10,
indeed, heavy work. But they never
tire or flag in their exertions :--God bless
them


Now, in these times of hardships, our
women are endeavoring to gather up here
and there little money both for patriot
ism and religion. They would keep the
graves of our poor dead boys green, and
they would keep the houses where God ID
worshipped in becoming order and decen-
cy. SO they work, they beg, and then
they take the results Of their labors and
their solicitation, and putting them In fine
rooms, which are decked out tastefully
with the always lovely eyergreens and
flowers, there they vend their goods from
tables, with the sweetest and brightest
manner. How are even the worst Of us to
get away from doing good action when
tempted in this beautiful way? i


There are great many fairs now being
held in this city. They are cheerful
places. They combine a great deal Of
amusement with pious objects. Our Christ
mas is thus made to take q somewhat mo-
vel as well as lively turn: Thanks to the
ladies; for it is well in these sad times
that we should have some new modes Of
diversion from things disagreeable.
Year: 1866

BURGLARY.-Thc pump shop of Lord Y
Johnson, ON Ycnablc street, was broken
into on Wednesday night, and every tool
in the shop was stolen. Subsequently the
thieves went to EImOrc's grocery, few
doors below, and cut out a panel of the
front door, and were making their way into
the store when some one sleeping inside
awoke and drove them off.
Year: 1866

THE FAIR of the ladies of the Second
Baptist church, in the Spotswood Block, is
"quitc success" The variety of things
SO admirably suited TO Christmas are going
off rapidly. We all know how thrift in
trade makes the merchants face bright,
and it is treat TO see how very content
these ladies are with their traffic. They
count their gains with miser's delight,
and were they destined for their own spin
money" they could not be happier.
Year: 1866

THE THIRD STREET BELL.-The bell for
merly on the Third-street engine-house,
which was broken some days since while
ringing the alarm of fire, will soon be
replaced. The Council yesterday passed
a resolution granting the Committee on the
Fire Department authority to purchase a
bell. The committee have. determined TO
purchase the bell formerly used on the
steamer Glen Cove, weighing 500 pounds.
Year: 1866

In MEMORIAM.-It was with deep regret that
we announced in the Dispatch of yesterday the
sudden death of Miss Nellie Palmer, stated TO
have been caused by that fearful scourge, the
Asiatic cholera, which, we earnestly trust
may not find in our community one other vic
tim. Miss Palmer, the only child of Mr.. J. j
Palmer, the Superintendent of Public Print
ing, was q young lady of great personal at
fractions, but the batteries and homage of
society had never succeeded in robbing her in
the slightest degree of that modesty and SIM
plicity in thought and word which must ever
be the brightest crown of woman. She had
been tried by adversely and sorrow, but in
every event of her life she acknowledged the
wise decree of a beneficent Providence, and, TO
her, every additional trouble or temptation
was but the means of displaying more plainly
the unobtrusive virtue and simplicity of her
character. To her father, in his sad bereave-
ment, we can only offer our sincere and heart
felt sympathy, hoping always that the bright
spirit which cheered him so often in life may,
in the mercy of Heaven, teach him resigna-
ton and submission to the will of Him that
guideth all things Alright Those who are
nearest and dearest are too often the first TO
pass away; for


G. oh, sir tho good die first,


And those whose hearts are dry as summers dust


Burn To the socket -
Year: 1866

IMPORTANT MRETISG.-A meeting OF the
Committee on Health was held in the City
Hall yesterday afternoon. The members OF
the Board of Health and several eminent
physicians were present. Mayor Mayo and
Drs. Houston, Bolton, and Hancock addressed
the meeting OIL the importance of cleansing
and purifying the city. The committee Will
in all probability, report an ordinance on the
subject AT the next meeting of the Council
Year: 1866

REcoSsTRrcrIoS PoLrcr.-Big words and
big deeds, hard fighting and loud talking,
were some of the visitations and painful tri.
bulatons of war and when peace came down
like an Assyrian, those who had expected a
period of pleasant. placid existence were
shocked and mortified ut witnessing the sud
den growth of hundreds Of Munchausen's 8
who could have swallowed up armies and
changed the fate of battles had they only been
there. The string was cut, the cork popped,
and that gaseous fluid which had been kept
down by four years of conscription-dodging
and luxurious living in comfortable bomb
proofs, flew recklessly forth, effervescing and
flzzing. But it did not last, and now the same
sparkling fluid is fiat and tame as ditch water.
Throughout the whole country the feeling is
the same; and as an evidence of rapid recon-
struction, we are informed by gentleman
who is in the habit of attending the Chester
field County Court, that at the court held on
Monday last there was but one s0itnryfgh
Now may we cry hallelujah with all the
strength of our lungs, forif, at monthly meet
ing talk on politics and convenient whisky
can only raise one fight, then, indeed, has the
era of peace and good will-returned. The
millennium may now be confidently expected,
and we are not surprised that our correspond
ent should inform us that temperance So
ciety may be organized 1T the next Chesterfield
Court.
Year: 1866

The Imaum of Muscat, who recently met his


death at the hands of the tribes the shore of the


Persian gulf, was at the head Of of the richest
and most powerful of the Arabian States. At the
commencement Of his reign he was on good terms
with the English, to whom he made great conces-
sions; but those friendly relations have for some
time been suspended on account Of his refusal TO
cede to them Zanzibar, one of the most important
islands in the Indian sea- on the Zanguebar coast.
Year: 1866

Mr.. Editer-Please announce the name
of Mr. VIM H HOLMES Candidate for SECOND JUS
TICE OF THE PEACE subject to the nomination Of the


National Democratic Convention As gentleman OF sterling


integrity filing requirements of the position, he will be
cordially supported by n,Nv rp7rHns