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Year: 1866

ErNA LIFE INSURANCE CoMPANY.--We
invite attention to the advertisement of this
Company in our paper to-day. We have
no doubt of the ability of this Company to
pay. A man can do NO wiser thing, at
time like this, than to insure his life for the
benefit IF his family.
Year: 1866

The submission of the South to the decree
of the master of history is frank and loyal,
and none the less frank and loyal because the
people do not and will not resign the creed
which is wrought into the very texture of
their lives .-Eraminer.


Well, then, if the secession leaders will not
resign their creed let them retire to private
life. 1t cannot be expected that the creed of
secession is to be honored hereafter. If it is
to be, and if those who will not resign it are
to control the affairs of these States, then We
shall have the Confederacy in the Union.


We know secessionists who have resigned
their creed and submitted in good faith to
the government. We have none other than
kind feelings for such men. They are hon.
est and can be depended on; but to submit
to the government, and still say that the doc
trine of secession is to be maintained and
honored, is of the very essence of insincerity
and hypocrisy.
Year: 1866

They STRENGTHEN and INN. GoRATE the SYSTEM.
They are UNEQUALED FOR GENERAL DEBILITY
They are A SURE CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA.
They GIVE GOOD and HEALTHY APPETITE.
They ASSIST DIGESTION
They PURIFY THE BREATH and Acidy of the Stomach.
They CURE DIARRHEA aud CHOLERA MoRBUs,
They CURE LIVER COMPLAINT
They are AN ANTIDoTE To CHANGE OF WATER
AND DIET


They are the BEST sTTMUBANT IN EXISTENCE.
They are PREVENTIVE Of FEVER and AGUE
They RELIEVE CONSTIPATION
They CURE NERVOUS HEADACHE.
They are perfectly PURE and PALATABLE
The genuine RED JACKET BIrTERS are only sold in
quart boes never by the gallon quart pint See that
our private government six stamp unbroken ever each
cork Sold bya Druggists and Dealers throughout the coun
try Call for Red Jacket and other Circulars to
the Trade supplied on application to


BENNETT, PIETERS & CO.,


81 and 80 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.


JNO. W. NORRIS & CO.,


Wholesale Southern Agents, 50 Canal street. N O.
Year: 1866

BIG MIN can md pants to fit them at Hen
ming s One Price Clothing Store, on the corner
OF Seventh street and Maryland avenue, and
don't forget one thing that he has but One
Price and no less.
Year: 1866

A New VEGETABLE IN ENGLAND. = The


last new thing in vegetables is really
quite startling wonder Think of rad
i>h with seedpods, about three feet long


and sometimes growing i've or six inches in


twenty four hours. we can think Of 20.


thing like except Jack S immortal beanstalk
which authenticity described plant is


nevertheless not spoken of as good to eat,


whereas this radsh is said to be IS palats


ble as it is monstrou7 Tho pods are its
edible portion, and when half grown you
may pickle them or eat them ns compoG,
ent part in salad. When they are full
grown you boil them, ond they taste like
combination OF asparagus and green pras
The plant comes from J4=A but we are
told that it has been fatty tried in the
open ground in Engand, and succeeds per
fectly well. To add to its merits, its pods
are ready for use in less than three months
after the seed is sown. At present, uuforl.
una'ely these seeds are lsmcntably scarce;
but If all that is said about the virtues OF
the plant is true, is ought to be quickly
prolific, and people who cannot afford to
give guinea for about half dozen seeds
will soon be able to Try what it is Ike for
themselves.
Year: 1866

The following characteristic paragraph,
from Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, gives
the pointed views Of the parson Governor
on the vice Of ntemperance


Senator McDougaIl, Of California, and
Salisbury, Of Delaware, have been excu-
ded from all the committees of the Senate
oD account Of their hesotted condition.
They have long been in q state Of chronic
drnpkenness. This is as it should be. No
habilual drurkard onght to occupy any po.
stion of honor and trust. A drunkartl
should not preside in q court of Justice or
make laws for a State or nation. He
should not run on railroad steamboat, or
q stage coach ho should not have the
charge Of goods and funds Of store of
the books and papers of clerks Office, or
Of the management Of dead mans estate
The hAbitual drunk9rd ought not to preach
and if he will preach, as many do, the peo-
pie owe il to themselves and the holy cause
of religion to stay away from their drunken
services. The habitunl drunkard has no
right TO marry decent woman, and thus
iavove her in trouble and sorrow such
one ought not to be taken into good socie-
ty, and hos no right to complain when he
is overlooked on all occasions of social
fcnstiDgs. The babi!ual, or what is more
expressive, the chronic drunkard, is not ft
TO live, as he is in tire way of everything
that is right and he ought not 10 die, for
being the representative Of everything
wrong there is no remedy for him but TO
go to the devil and once there, there is
no chsCce of escape.
Year: 1866

% This is simple songs It's true,


And songs like these are never nice
And yet well-try and scatter through


A pinch or two of good advice.
Then listen, pompous friend and learn


Never to boast of much renown; ., IT..
For Fortunes wheel is on the turn,
And some go up and some go down.
We know a vast amount of stocks
. a vast amount of pride insuresj
But fgit has picked SO many locks,


We wouldn't like to warrant yours
Remember, then, and never spurn
The one whose hand is hard and brown
n For ho is likely to coup, ..L ~


And you are likely to come down
Another thing you will agree,


CThe truth may be as well confessed,)
That, "Codfsh Aristocrncy' q -...


Is but scaly thing at best
And though the fishes large and strong


May seek the little ones to drown,
Yet fishes all both great and small,


Are going up and coming down.
Our lives are full of chance and change,


And chance, you know, i9 never surci
And twero a doctrine new and strange


That places high are most secure.
And though the tickle god may smile,
And WELD the sceptre and the crown,
'Tis only for little while


The goes up and A comes hown.
This world for you and me, my friend,


Hath something more than pounds an
Dr- pence; .tJI.r.f. rrpI-
Then let me humbly recommend


A little use Of cordmon-sense
Thus lay all pride Of place aside


And have care on whom you frown,
For fear you'll see him going up,
,, When you are only coming down.
Year: 1866

~A New York inventor proposes 10 build
a ship for s., 600, which will cross the Atlantic
in two days and a half. His theory Is that by
means Of a vacuum at the bottom Of his craft
IL W i'll rest on the surface OF the water. and
thus receives no resistance TO its motion.
Probably he is the same man who once seized
the straps Of bis own boots and lifted himself
into seat in his State legislature.
Year: 1866

DAILY MAIL.-Under the new arrange
ment we have daily mail through to Salt
Lake, at which point there is connection
with the great California Genital mail Ar
rlngemcnts are now being made, and in a
day or two We will have daily overland
mail to the Dalles. During the winter sea,
soD, wh"n the boats cease To run, this daily
mail will prove a great public convenience
Whatever other complaints the people of
this country have, they certainly cannot
charge that Government is neglecting them
in the matter Of mail facilities.
Year: 1866

Fixing THE PRIoE OF GUILD DUsT.-lt
will Se seen from the report in another col
umn that the merchonts and business men
Of Umutilla have held meeting and fixed
the rates at which they will receive gold
dust in exchange for merchandise and in
other transactions A measure of this kind
will drive from circulation the mixed and
inferior article that has heretofore passed
current under the name of "BOise dust. "
Much of the dust that circulates in this mar
ket is actually worth from two or three dol>
lars less than the price at which it is re-
eeived To continue this system, particu'
larly after communities have declared against
it, is ouly to invite flood Of the inferior OF
ductored dust A proper system, rossibly
would be for the III erchantS to agree to re-
ceive gold dust only at its actual value. If an
Arrangement of this kind could be effected


there would no longer be any inducemeut to
the commission Of fraud, and business woulc
be conducted on Legitimate basis. Tn,
action of the Umalia merchants, doubtless
will lead to the adoption Of similar measure!
elsewhere, and possibly in the end, we shal
be relieved from the gpld dust nuisance
Year: 1866

CoUaTY ExPESDITUREs.-It is due the present
Board of County Commissioners to say that they
exhibit commendable economy 10 the manage
nent Of the county affairs. In former years
heavy expenditures have been incurred from the
care Of PauPers. For the fiscal year commenc-
ing with June last, not a dollar has been ex-
pended on this score, and what is still more cred


liable, there has not been single person that
properly could be made a county charge. We
doubt that there is another county on the Pa
cihc coast that can boast such an exemption from


pnuperism. In former years from FIVE to six
thousand dollars was expended for the care OF
the county poor. This year this leak is entirely
stopped. Should there be no unexpected call
upon the treasury, the Board calculate that they
will be able to reduce the county Indebtedness
some So, 900 this year. This is much better
showing than an increase Of the debt. For sew.
sral years to come, the most rigid economy
sho uld be practiced 10 the management of the
county finances. A new Court House is almost
a necessity, and yet with the present deb: hang>
ing over US, tax payers will never vote the tax
required for this purpose. With proper econ.
omy, and q continuance of the system now in
practice, the county will be fully able to make
all necessary Improvements, and that too, with
out burdening the people. An unnecessary eI-
Pense for the last year has been The holding OF
three terms of the District Court which has
involved the county in heavy and altogether
useless outlay. We understand that the mem
berS Of the Legislature from this cOunly will
introduce bill restricting the District Court to


two terms per annum. This will be amply suti-
eisut to meet the ends Of justice and will lOp Of
large item Of county expenditure. Manage
our affairs as We may, our expenses are sure to
be high. and hence it is that all persons in any
way connected With the control Of the county
finances should feel iG a duty to practice rigid
economy. IL.
Year: 1866

DOVER, January 81, 1866.


The subject of paying to the National
Government the amount of the direct tax
under the act of Congress of August 1, 1s61
is now attracting some attention in the Legis'
lature. The quota of this State is $74, ,6s3. SO
and it is supposed interest from June 1st,
1862 will also be demanded This subject
was brought to the attention of the Legisla.
ture during the winter of 1862, but the mem
bers who represented the Democracy" pre-
vented any action at that time. Ifprovision
had been made at that time, to meet it, there
would have been deduction of fifteen per
cent. Now there will be an addition of three
or four years interest. So much for the
management Gf the State finances by the
party now in power. On Tuesday last, Mr.
Allderdice introduced a resolution instruct.
ing the committee to whom this subject was
referred to report bill providing for the in
corporation of this debt in tho general State
debt, by the issue and sale of bonds for the
payment Of the same, This resolution was
voted down, and in the debate which arose
il was given out, that it was the intention OF
the "powers that be'' to take the amount
from the School Fund to meet this debit
This Fund has heretofore been looked upon
Year: 1866

A NEGRO actress is about to appear in a
tragedy at the leading theatre in Paris, and
it is SAID that Aldridge, the mulatto actor,
who has met with such success in London,
is now in negotiation with an American
manager to play in New York, Philadelphia
and Boston.
Year: 1866

He is dead, the beautiful youth,
The heart of honor the tongue of truth
He, the life and light of US all,
Whose voice was blithe rs the bugle call,
Whom all eyes followed with one consent,
The cheer of whose laugh, and whose pleasant


word.


flushed all murmers 9f discomfort.
Only last night as we rode along
Down the dark of the mountain gap,
To visit the picket guard at the ford,
Little dreaming Of any mishap.
He was humming the words of some old song
" Two red roses he had on his cap,
And another he bore mt the point of his sword -
Sudden and swift whisting ball
Came out of the woods and the voice was still
Something heard in the darkness fall,
And for moment my blood grew chill;
| spakc in a whisper, as he who speaks
In a room where some one is lying dead
But he made no answer to What | said.
Welifted him up on his saddle again,
Aud through the mire and the mist and the rain
Carried linn back to his silent camp,
And laid him as if asleep on his bed;
And saw by the light Of the surgeons lamp
Two white roses upon his checks
And one just over his heart blood red
And saw in a vision how FAR aud fleet
That fatal bullet went speeding forth,
Till it reached Ii town in the distant North,
Till it reached house in a sunny street,
10 a., ,4I ia Ina
Without n muI1nur, without a cry;
And bell was tolled in far of town.
For one who had passed from cross to crown
And the neighbors wondered that she 4hoult


die. II. W. LoNGFELLow.
Year: 1866

THE EDUCATION OF THE NEGRO.
Finding that the freedmen will be
educated, through the efforts of the
Northern people, despite the oppo-
sition of their late masters and the
Southern white population general
ly, the papers Of the South are be
ginning to urge upon their readers
the duty of taking the education of
the negroes into their own hands, 50
as to get rid of Northern school
teachers and prevent the freedmen
from becoming imbued with North
en IDEAS. The Augusta (Ga.) Coa-
StitHtioHdliSt concludes a long article
on the subject as follows:


:" If the freedmen are taught to
read, they will soon come in posses
sion of the truth concerning them
selves and the slave trade, and the
part performed by the North in that
trade. They can also learn that
their emancipation by Mr.. Lincoln
was defended as Il war MEASURE
and was not based upon love fol
the negro. They will discover that
the secret of the Radical party i.
not that it hates the negro less, bu
his former master more. The Soutl
has everything to hope and nothing
to fear from a proper education o
the negro"
Year: 1866




GLACIAL AcTIoN.-A number of prac-
tical gentlemen, who have done consid-
cradle exploring in the upper part of the
county this summer, informs us that
they have discovered the undoubted
marks of glacier in Bear valley. The
mountains on each side of the valley rise
to the hight of seven or eight hundred
feet, being about a mile apart, and along
the sides are parallel grooves cut in the
solid rock, which answers the descrip-
tion of the glacial action. The belief
now is that the valley was formed by the
action of huge glacier, requiring, per-
haps, centuries of time, and by its great
weight plowing the deep gap in the
mountains. The valley is between four
and five thousand feet above the level of
the ocean, and at about the altitude at
which, according to the theory of Agassiz
we might expect to find the most certain
traces of glaciers. Lower down in the
valley, where the ice was nearly mile
in depth, its weight was so. enormous
that the rocks were ground to opowder,
and as the ice melted away the evidences
of its action was obliterated; while at
higher attitudes the marks eff the gla-
eiers would be left in the gorges, cut in
the solid rock We should think Bear
valley would be an interesting locality
for examination by scientific men.-Nf-
gddG Gazette.
Year: 1866

JOHN BRIGHT said in his great Bir-
minghanl speech: If you go to those
great and glorious colonies of this coun-
try--the United States of America
there you will find the people exhibiting
all the virtues which belong to the great
est nations on the face of the earth three
you will find d people passing through y
tremendous war, a tremendous revolu-
ton, with conduct and success, with
a generosity and a magnanimity which
have reused and attracted the sdmira-
tion Of the world
Year: 1866

LECTURE BY COLONEL FARRAR.-There
will be an interesting lecture tonight at
Leight->treet Baptist church for the bcne-
lit of the Oakwood Memorial Association.
1t will be delivered by Colonel Farrar,
who has won such an extensive and well
merited fame by his "Johnny Reb." To-
night he gives US "Johnny Reb's Wife,,
who should be far more interesting and
captivating than johnny" himself. OF
course the church will be filled on the occa-
sion. The object OF the lecture and the
ucnius of the lecturer are each of them
sufficiently attractive to crowd the build
ing: when taken together, the result will
We are sure, be handsome sum to help
the noble cause of the Memorial Associa'
ton
Year: 1866

We received from friend on Saturday
. fine specimen Of very superior yellow
tobacco, grown by DR.. Foster, of Halifax
county, Va. There seems TO have been
a renewed impetus impaired 10 the grow
ers of the leading staple Of that county
from the many rare samples we have seen
this season in our market. We tested the
quality OF that sent Us in a genuine Pow
hatan, and found il fragrant and delightful.
The diminutivc size OF the precious pack
age was the most Objectionable feature in
the weed
Year: 1866

TAX ADoLHHED.-Thc tax Of ten cents
which has been heretofore collected on each
message sent over the telegraph line, in
order to pay the city tax upon the tele:
graph company, has been abolished, and
the price will be hereafter that much
Year: 1866

Boy SHor.-Yesterday morning while
two colored boys were playing with pistol
in rear Of the Exchange Hotel, it exploded,
and lodged the ball in the thigh of Otway
Pollard, one Of the boys. The wound is
considered dangerous one.
Year: 1866

A COUPLE in Litchfeld County, Conn.,, late
" tried to get divorced after ten years of we'd
ded life, but in the course of the trial it appear
ed that they had never been legally married,
and they gave up the idea of divorce and were
married in due form.
Year: 1866

II is stated that the most radical of the mem
bers in caucus at Washington lately begin to
doubt success with bill granting indiscrimi-
nate suffrage to negroes of the District of Col
umbia. They begin to understand that Presi-
dent johnson has some regard for the SEN
timents of the people, and will not sign bill
unless it provides for rational experiment,
not a blind partisan measure.


A writer to Northern paper states that
Thad. Stevens was so disgusted when the House
caucus voted to put the reading and writing
clause into the District suffrage bill, that, after
denouncing the act as ridiculous sacrifice Of
principle he left the caucus.
Year: 1866

NEGRO INsURREcTIoY.-Al lot of negroes in
a parish on Red River were making prepara-
tions for an insurrection, but the local militia
captured them ALL Arms and ammunition
had been sccreted. Previously the freedmen in
that section had refused to work
Year: 1866

AN application ola colorcd girl for admission
to the High School in Troy, New York, which
was refused by the principal, was taken to the
Supreme Court, where it was recently decided
AGAINST the applicant.
Year: 1866

BALTIMORE, November3- p. M.-Atnoon
the new Commiss ssioners, after spending aboni
an hour with their counsel at his Office, got into
carriage, having document understood To he
formal demand for the delivery of the office to
their possession.


They took circuitous route and after making
detour OF about one mile TO avoid the crowds.
approached the Commissioner office, where
their appearance was the signal for tumultuous
demonstrations of dIsapproval by the now
largely increased crowd. f11l llI


They were Dgain admitted to the incosure
and at the door of the Office were met by the
Clerk OF the Commissioners, who received their
document telling them that the Commissioners
would Immediately consider the matter and
make their reply in writing. Messrs. Valiant
and Young then returned to their carriage amid
mingled groane and hootings.


The carriage drove off to the corner of North
and Baltimore streets to the conservative head
quarters, where they were received with loud
cheering. by the crowd gathered there. 1t is
now understood they are organizing q new
force. Some FIVE or six members of the old
force resigned last night and reported to
Messrs Young and Valiant this morning.


There are reports of an arrival of troops q,
Harmon's Bridge, on the Washington road; but
the reports cannot be verified. There is, in
deed, much excitement and deep feeling, but
so lar no disturbance has occurred.
Year: 1866

Rise early. God requiresrone seventh part
Of your time The Sabbath IS Just as long as
any other day. Ifyou indulge in sleep Sabbath
mornings one or two hours later than usual,
you rob God and your own soul of SO much holy
time; and If you begin the day by robbing God,
you cannot expect he will bless you.


Pray for your Minister; he will then preach
by his preaching. He needs your prayers. He
tasked his energies to prepare good sermons to
interest and instruct you. Exhausted by the
labors of the week, and trembling under his
awful responsibility, he will be cheered and en-
couraged if he believes he is remembered in
your prayers.


Pray that the preaching may be blest to your
SOUL He is foolish man nwho sows his seed be-
fore he breaks up the soil. You are more fool
ish if you expect blessing without asking for
it, or preparing your heart to receive it. IF a
blessing is not worth asking for donot complain
if it is not bestowed. ags


DO not indulge in secular conversation. To
spend the interval between the services of the
sanctuary in talking about business, or pleasure
or politics, is not remembering the Sabbath day
to keep it holy. fyou spend your intermission
IN this manner, you must not wonder if in his
afternoon you feel sleepy, and the preacher
seems dull


Danish worldly thoughts You must not, on
oiAO OotOO"ehj @oAliiih yOui OhA tIlOuSHIS. Ii
your thoughts are allowed to wander unrestrain-
ed over the business of the past week, or the
plans of the week to come, you will suffer for
it.. God will leave you in darkness; your love
will be cold, your prayers formal, and you will
be disqualified to engage proftably in the serv-
ices of the sanctuary


Do not criticise the performances of your
minister. If he has preached poor sermon,
make the best Of it; if good one, be thankful
and improve it. Your praise or censure can do
no good either to him or yourself, but may do
hurt to both. You will profit far more by pray
ing over the sermon, and appyingit to yourself,
than by criticising it.


Spend every Sabbath as though it were your
last Your last Sabbath will soon come. Per-
haps the next will be your last Spend it. then,
as you will wish you had done when you review
it millions of ages hence. fyou knew it would
be your last, you would be much in prayer, you
would Danish worldly thoughts and conversation,
you would mediate much on divine things, and
examine the foundation of your hope for eterni-
ty. Do this, and your Sabbath will not be
spent in vain