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Year: 1867

The Cable dispatch which announces that a
new complication has arisen in the Schleswlg
question is not entitled to much credit. Prus-
sia and Denmark are quarreling about the
time when popular vote in the Northern Dis
tricts of Schleswig is to decide whether these
Districts shall be annexed to Denmark or not
BUT We doubt whether another complication
can ever arise out of this question.
Year: 1867

One million of dollars has been received by
the Board of Excise for licenses to sell liquor
in the Metropolitan District-a fact which not
only proves the financial benefit of the Excise
law, but indicates how great is the rum-drink-
ing evil with which the friends of temperance
are confronted.
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the st. Louis Re
publican writes as follows in regard to
the Kansas Valley:


Leaving the State line for the West,
we entered ut once the fertile valley OF
the Kansas river. For distance of two
hundred and thirty miles we ran
through the valley of the Kansas and
Smoky Hill, every mile of which was
through lands inexhaustibly rich in
deep soil, which under ordinary culture
would yield the largest returns to the
hand of the husbandman. Apparently
these valley lands are as rich as the
famous lands of the American bottom.
Like the latter the Kansas lands OF
which speak are level plain, hanked
on the north and south by beautiful
sloping hills, the entire valley covered
with luxuriant verdure. 1t is through
this valley, never once forsaking It,:
that the Union Pacific Railroad runs
for the distance L have named, encoun-
tering nowhere any engineering difficult
ty and nowhere being subjected to the
expense of deep cuts or fills. 1t seems
as if nature had designed the valley for
the encouragement of those undertaking
to initiate the gigantic enterprise OF
spanning the Continent with rail-
road.
Year: 1867

The United States District Attorney,
in case of counterfeiting before the
District Court in Pittsburg, made the
following explanation:


Counterfeiters are class of men that
are much known to the public in one
sense and not much known in another (;
they are known by reason of prosecu-
tions of this kind, but not much known
as class; some persons are required 10
get into the interior circle in order to
understand thoroughly the workings of
their plans. They have associations
divided into circles in graduations as
regular as those of any lodge. Away
up is the person that makes the money.
and heis very seldom found. He car
ries on his business in cave in noun
tain, in q hut far away from other
houses, in an upper garret, or possibly
in some back room in large business
house where there is show of trade in
front; but, gentlemen of the jnry, the
maker of counterfeit money hardly ever
passes it. Next to him comes the whole
sale dealer. A wholesale dealer is gen.
orally understood to be man that buys
to sell again. He seldom passes any
money he buys to sell again to his Gus
toners; with him counterfeit money is
all article of merchandise. Below these
are the retail dealers; they deal in
smaller lots. This man is generally the
keeper of drinking house; his occupa-
tion is more dangerous; sometimes he
may pass little over the counter, or
tamper with honesty, and be discover
ed. Sometimes one of his customers
NAV etinto trouble, and in the Ian
guage of the fraternity "squeal," in
other words, say where he got it. As
general thing, he does not pass much
counterfeit money. Then we come to
the "shovery.D Who are theyi You
read in the papers of a new and danger
GUS counterfeit upon investigation you
find that they are in concert and in
different localities. They are most gen.
erally passed late in the evening, after
the banks are closed, and where there
are nojudges of money about. These
men are generally travellers, and stay
in large cities until the matter is ex-
posed in the papers. Then they usual
Law visit smaller country towns. They
also deal IN large bills. Then there are
idle and dissolute persons that take
money in smaller quantities, thinking
that if they can pass it, it is so much
gained. You find young men Of this
Kind started on their downward career !;
he is the fast young man who has been
in drinking houses; sometimes an officer
arrests him upon the threshold of his
career and saves him. Women are also
employed, and other classes that you do
not know about.
Year: 1867

The returns from Maine will create
another jubilation among the Democ-
racy. The Union party have only 6,032
majority out of a 100000 vote. The
Union majority has fallen off 9,653 votes
in year Great will be the rejoicing.
Will they stop to think that with a
heavy majority in their favor parties
always grow apathetic? VIII they re-
member that 10000 votes was not
brought out and that it is fair to presume
that the great proportion of them are
Union? We like to see these results
when no vital issue is at stake and they
are needed, as they are now. to awaken
the people to the momentous Importance
of the next campaign Every Senator
and Representative in Congress from
Maine, seven in all, is Union. OF her
thirty-one State Senators, every one is
Union, and but thirty-one Democrats to
13S Uuionists in the House, giving a
Union majority of 156 votes on joint
ballot. AS matter of courtesy we can
generously give them, as the dispatches
state, :" a slight gain in representation
1t is not best to be too exclusive.
Year: 1867

by portion of the press seems to have
had no foundation worthy of that impla-
cable enmkty and unyielding opposition
which characterized the campaign, end
ing in the defeat of both the Union
candidates. The head and front of this
offending, aided and abetted by lesser
influences, was the Sacramento Union,
heretofore the staunch answering
organ of the party with a circulation of
$4,000 copies, and the controlling journal
of the coast. 1t is beyond question
that its course was the result of merely
selfish considerations, wholly inexcusa-
BILE, and that have cost it its position
as it cost the party its defeat. Its circula
ton is immensely decreased, and it's loss
ofinhuence in the Union party is not COM
pensated for by any confidence placed in
ii by the Democracy, or the satisfaction
of having adhered to a principle para
mount to the issues of the campaign.
The result at this crisis is mortifying
We could have wished different tidings
from the West, but out of this nettle
danger will spring the flower of safety,
and we are assured that when another
campaign shall give Californians an op-
portunity to vote again, they will re-
deem their State with such glorious
victory for the Union party as has never
before crowned their efforts.
Year: 1867

Some newspaper itemizer, a victimi-
zer for the time being, recently stated
that Chief Justice Chase was worth a
fabulous sum of money; we forget the
exact amount, but it was large. There
is not a so-called Democratic paper in
the country that did not reproduce and
comment upon it to show how Radicals
attened at the public crib. We be-
iieyed it falsehood from the first, and
the following extract from private let
ter, written by Mr.. Chase to a gentle
man in Philadelphia, shows not only
that, but that the Chief Justice has not
much improved his fortunes since he
left the Buckeye State


al don't want to be represented as particu-
larly poor OF particularly disinterested.
think L am worth now about 100000.
should at any rate be quite willing to take
that sum in fye-twenties, and make a clear
conveyance of all have In the world 20 any
body who will pay my debts. / would will
lingly be worth great deal more If knew
Of AN honest way to get worth more. AL
that the people are interested In knowing is
that haven't a cent which of right belongs
to them. I didn't serve them to make money
out of them, but to save money for them
and really feel that the rascals who are SLAM
dering me ought to be denounced, and tho
mean attempt to injure me in the public e.
TEEN exposed. 1t is much more important
to the people than IL is TO me that those who
have served them faithfully shall be fully
and generously sustained, otherwise rascality
will be at a premium, and those who are try
ing to make them suspect me will run their
arms TO their shoulders In their money bags
Year: 1867

THE GAME Is oUT.-The organ of the
Democratic Central Committee takes
refuge behind dead man" and claims
amnesty. Its a very ludicrous appeal
indeed, but irresistible. Go in peace,
your whole party is playing the same
game behind Andy Jackson and it is
hard to tell which death has the closest
grip on.
Year: 1867

When the gun is once sighted at u given
object, the came aim can be maintained
at the will of the operator until
thousands of discharges take place.


A lateral train motion Of the gun
may be kept up if desired while
the gun is being discharged, so
that q perfect sheet of balls can be made
to sweep section Of any circle within
its range. As there is no escape of gas
at the braech, all the force of the powder
is expended in giving velocity to the ball.
A consideration which is claimed to be
of the very first importance in this gun,
is that every cartridge must be either
discharged or withdrawn from the bar
rels, thus precluding such results as were
shown on the battlefield Of Getty
where, of the 2s,574 mrskets collected
after the battle, $4,000 were found to be
loaded $4,000 of them containing two
loads each, and 5000 being charged with
from three to ten loads each, the car
tridges oisentimes being loaded without
breaking thes,. and many inserted with
the ball down first The gun is light and
easily transported. One Of the sizes now
being made at the armory discharges
So 100 inch calibre balls, and weighs 225
pounds. The other size discharges balls
of one inch calibre (nine ounces in
weight and weighs between 500 and 600
pounds. The first named has range Of
ubout one mile, and the latter upwards
of two miles
Year: 1867

Rev. Edward Fontaine says: never
heard Sidney Johnston make a public
speech. His modesty made him averse
to any display of his talents; but he was
highly gifted in conversation, and
whether his companions were ladies or
gentlemen, he never failed to amuse and
to instruct them. He spoke huently but
deliberately, and always used the most
correc. and appropriate words to express
his ideas. In the course of many years,
in camp, garrison, in his own psrlor, and
while travelling with him through the
wilds of Texas, ] never heard him say a
rude or silly thing, or utter an expression
obnoxious to the most refined Christian
lady. Yet his conversation abounded
with anecdotes, and was spiced with wit
and humor. His knowledge Of ancient
and modern history, and especially that
of our country, was thorough; and his
acquaintance with every department Of
natural science was very extensive He
was very fond of discussing the merits
of all recent discoveries in geology, and
the various branches of natural history.


recollect an incident which will give
you some idea of his humor. A clerical
friend, who was cften his companion in
his angling excursions in the Colorado
bottom, brought upon himself severe
attack of intermittent fever by INDUCING
too freely in this innocent amusement
during the dog days" Wading in the
cold water with an August sun burning
upon his head at noon, and inhaling the
miasmatic vapor from the moss and
aquatic plants lett dead upon the sand
bars of the river, shrunk within its mari
rowest limits in the dry season, had given
him "the chills." The General, with
some other friends, called to see him du.
ring his illness. One of them asked him
how he made himself sick ? He replied
that he could not account for the attack,
unless it had been caused by getting wet
in Barton's Creek and the Colorado river.
General Johnston then said II will an
swer your questions for my friend. I
know his habits well, and have been
with him frequently lately, and but for
very strong constitution would probably
be now in his condition; but he is cler-
gyman, and as such he does not like to
confess that he has made himself sick
by frequenting too much lo~ places"


He was regular attendent at Church,
but I.never knew him to commune at the
sacrament of the Lords supper. His
wife was very pious and useful member
of the Episcopal Church. ! do not re-
collect ever to have heard him express
his opinion upon the subject of religion
but once, when he expressed firm be-
lief in the doctrine of special provi-
dence.
Year: 1867

Miss Martineau contributes to the At
la7tic an excellent article on Lady By
ron, proving that she had more real
heart than the poet of sentiment and
passion--her husband. The following
account of the marriage will interest all
readers:


They were married or thc I'd os Jan
uary. The wedding day was miserable.
Byron awoke one Of his melancholy
moods and wandered alone in tho
grounds till called to be married. His
wayward mind was filled with all the
associations that were least congenial
with the day His thoughts were full of
Mary Chaworth, and of old scenes in
his life, which he fancied be loved be-
cause be was now leaving them behind.
He declared that his poem of THE
Dream" was frus picture OF his we'd
ding morning; and there are circum-
stances not told in his Life, which
render this probable. After the ceremony
and breakfast the young couple left See-
ham for Sir Rslph's seat at Halnaby.
Toward dusk Of that winter day the
carriage drove up to the door, where the
old butter stood ready to receive his
young lady and her bridegroom. The
moment the carriage door was opened
the bridegroom jumped out and walked
away. When the bride alighied the old
servant vas aga.t. She came up to the
steps with the listlcss gait of despair.
Her face and movements expressed such
utter horror and desolaiion that the old
butler longed to offer his arm to the
lonely young lady, as an assurance OF
sympathy and protection. Various rn'
mors got abroad as 10 the cause Of this
horror, one probably as false as another,
and, for his own part, Byron met them
by false story of Miss Milbanke's ladys
maid having been stuck in bodkinwise
bctws en- them. As Lady Ryron certain
ly soon got over the shock, the proba-
bili,y is that she satisfied herself that he
had been suffering und0r one af the dark
mocds to which he was subject, both
consiiiutionaIly aud as the poet OF
moods.
Year: 1867

When trade grew slack and notes fell due.
the merchants face grew long and blue
his dreams were troubled through the night
with sheriff bailitfs all in sight. At last
his wife unto him said: rise up at once,
get out Of bed and get your paper, ink, and
pen, aud say these words unto all men


MY goods | wish to sell to you, and to
your wives and daughters, too my prices
they shall be So low, that each will buy be-
fore they go.


He did ss his good wife advised, and in
the papers advertised. Crowds came and
bought of all he had his notes were paid,
his dreams made glad, and he will tie you,
to this day, how well did printer 5 ink re-
pay.


He told us this, with knowing wink,
how he was saved by printer ink.


The other in place as tight, contented
was the press to slight, and did not let the
people know of what he had or where TO go.


His drafts fell due and were not paid; a
levy on his goods was made the store was
closed until the sale, and for some time he
was in Jail A bankrupt now without a
cent, at leisure he can deep repent that he
was foolish and unwise, and did not freely
ADVERT Sc.
Year: 1867

A SECRET WORTH KNOWING. An able
writer gives utterance to the following valua
BILE secret: The looking forward to enjoyment
don't pay For what know of it, would
as soon chase butterflies for a living or bottle
moons shine for cloudy night. The only
way to be happy is to take the drops of hap
piness as God gives them to us every day
of our lives. The boy must learn to be hap
py, while he is learning his trade ; the mer-
chant while he is 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 fer.
Year: 1867

ANEcboTE OF Doc A favorite hound
belonging to an old hunter, came to his mas
ter one morning when he was engaged in
chopping wood in the forest, and by various
ineligible signs persuaded his owner to fol-
low him to a thicket, some little distance
off in the woods The hunter, on following
his dog, found there small and very feeble
fawn, entangled in some vines and brambles
so that it was impossible for it to extricate
itself The unfortunate fawn was carried
to the house, and was fed upon milch; but
the hound, who was ever ready to hunt and
pull down the wild deer in the forest, seem
ed to understand that he had saved this an
imals life. He made it share his bed at
night, and through the day was ever on the
lookout to defend or aid it, till the rest OF
the pack of hounds learned to know it, and
to understand that they were not to modest
their companion's S pet.
Year: 1867

There is one sensible married man In this
State. He is soldier, and was reported
to have been killed, but was only prisoner.
He returned home to find that his wife had
turned over new leaf in the marriage ser
vice, and that another man occupied his
seat in the chimney corner. Did he go to
work slaughtering the false wife and new
husband Not much. He walked in, and
said


We'll, old gal, how is things p


Putty good, Bill" said the double
married woman, not taken aback greatly.


Which do you prefer, the old or the
new lOve?"


She hesitated for an instant, and then
said 81 don't like to hurt your feelings,
but-but-"


''Oh, spit it right out Don mind my
feelings nor the other chaps. won't be an
cry if you come down little rough on my
VANITY. Count on me being amiable | won t
cut up rusty if you should go back on me ;"


II m glad your SO thoughtful, Bill, and
l acknowledge that l do like my present
husband best; but if anything should hap
pen to him, l know nobody else | would so
soon join fortunes with again as you. !"


That's the way TO talk Ill now bid
you good bye, hoping that no accident will
happen to the other fellow, and that he will
live long to enjoy your delightful society.
Good day"


And the careless husband travelled off,
with his knapsack on his back, whistling
in CHEEKY, clear tone, ''The girl left be-
hind me. F"
Year: 1867

A NOBLE SENTIMENT.-In a recent
speech. in Philadelphia, General 81 ckles,
standing on the one leg left him by rebel
lion, said: Comrades let us not forget
our brave companions who fell in the war
for the Union. Their shroudless forms lie
buried in many forest and field, like au-
tumn leaves. Their nameless graves are
numbered only by the recording angel. Let
us sometimes listen TO their sad voices.
mournful as muffled drums, and heard even
through the yielding sod. They say to US
now: 'Brothers-you who are spared
leave not undone the work we did not live
to helm YOU do
Year: 1867

Breathes there man with soul so dead
who never to himself hath said will my
local paper take-both for my own and
family's sake ?-If such there be. let hm
repent-and have the paper to him sent
and if he pass happy winter-he in ad-
vance should pay the printer,
Year: 1867

The Mobile Times holds that the South
cannot be restored to equality except by
revolution and a revolution it hopes for
and labors for. As to Grant for leader ia
this revolution, the Times says it will be
better able to judge after he shall have made
his official report, which will show whether
"Grant is on the side of the destroyers or
the restorers of public peace
Year: 1867

WHAT ARE You LIVING FoR?-A pastor
walking out recently, met little girl belong
ing to his flock. And they walked on to-
gether, he spoke to her of her studies, and
was pleased to find her manfesting an inter
est amounting almost to enthusiasm in the
cultivation of her mind.


But why, Ellie, y asked the pastor, ''are
you so anxious to succeed in your studies
What do you mean to do with your educa-
tion after you get it?


''Oh sir, said the girl, 81 want to lerrn
that | may do some good in the world. |
don't want to tell the Lord in the day of
Judgment that I have lived so long in the
world without having done any good in it. -


Noble purpose Who of uryoung friends
are studying and living to so good an end
Who of us are making an every day impress
for good on the hearts and lives of those a
mong whom we move.
Year: 1867

Ex-Rebel soldiers are candidates in Mary
land on the State, Legislative and Judicial
tickets. That's not surprising when it is
recollected that the President of the United
States claims more honor for a traitor than
he does for loyal man.
Year: 1867

Negroes are not permitted to carry the
American flag in some portions of Virginia,
because ''the rag is distasteful to the re-
spectacle portion of the community. That
flag can carry itself
Year: 1867

The Copperheads are recruiting, i'll all
parts of the country, new secret society,
''the Sons of Jackson" as an offset to the
Grand Army of the Republic. The order
is to be distinguished by the rebel gray.
Year: 1867

All the Senatorial districts of West Vir-
ginia, eleven in number, have now been
heard from, and we are able to figure up a
gain of two members for the Union party.
Last year the Senate stood eighteen Union
to four Conservatives This year it will
stand twenty Union to two Conservatives
There will be no change in the House of
Delegates, so far as we can see 1t will
stand about as before, or say forty-fo
Unionists to eleven ConseI vatives
Year: 1867

PAYING DEBTs.-One of our religious ex-
changes has the following strong remarks
on this subject Men may sophisticate as
much as they please. They can never make
it right, and all the universe cannot make it
right for them not to pay their debts. There
is sin in this neglect as deserving church
discipline as stealing or false swearing. He
who violates his promise to pay or with
holds his payment of debt. when it is in
his power to meet the engagement, ought
to feel that in the sight of all honest men he
is swindler. Religion may be very com
Portable cloak under which to hide : but If
religion does not make man deal justly it
Is not worth having