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Year: 1867

An editors work is never DONE He is called upon
to furnish others not only with ideas but brains
WELL He has every to please, and struggles hard
to accomplish this end Yet the difficulties are so
great he rarely succeeds The editor of tie Ohio
State Journal is thoroughly sound on this point, and
in discussing it says with truth somebody will always
be found to find fault with him, either for what he
publishes or else for what he leaves out 1t is sin
guar fact that the articles writer considers his best
are frequently passed over by the reader without
tice while another which costs little labor and is
sdcred of little consequence, is extensively reprinted
The editor must follow lis own taste; if he
does he pleascs himself alone. He may feel all in
tense disgust for 'horribe accidents "a large share
of bis readers crave them as person with disor-
dercd stomach docs unwholesome food. lie may be
nauseated by marvellous stories-many OF his read
ers will leave his profoundest discussions Of political


principles or want of p1ince unread, for story Of
some monstrosty. The politician wonders why he
has no exhaustive leader on the taxation of town
pumps; if he has stunning article on that subject
everybody else wonders why so unlnteresting mat


ter allowed to occupy so much valuable space


Young gentlemen just beginning to discover the
shadow of a coming event on the upper lip think it
dooid hoah that there is not more nice poetru ladies
would like to see something about the newest and
sweetest thing i'll bonnets Old Cenpercent wants to
know the state Of the markets. as also does our friend
Dandie Dinmont, who has cattle for sale. The Rev.


Mr. Sleek thinks we are running the morals of the rs
ing generation by publishing accounts of horse races


base balls, and other wiekedness; old Miss Prim
wants to hear lovely scandal elopement or sui
eide Farmer Broadacres waits to know the best breed
of sheep and the turner's wife and pretty daughters
want to read rice story. All these dif1cred tastes
and thousand others have to be gratifed. Every
body may get the particular thing he wants, yet he is
dissatisfied and distressed because there is something
in the paper he don't want, never dreaming that the
something the very thing another will read with the
greatest delight. ADV. Gazette
Year: 1867

THE PEABODY EDUCATIONAL FUND.-The following
letter was received from Mr.. Peabody at the meeting
of the trustees of the Peabody Educational Fund in
New York city:


NEW YORK. March 90, 1857.
To Hon. Robert c. Winthrop, Hon. Hamilton Fish, Gen.


Grant and others:


Observation-Disclosures that doubt has been
expressed in regard to my intentions and Instructions
on the subject of the distribution of the fund entrusted
to your cal for the purpose of education in the South
ern and Southwestern States, I desire distinctly to
say to you that my design was to leave absolute
discretion to the Board of Trustees the particular
localities in which the funds should from time to time
be expended. =
hope that all the States included in that part Of
country which is suffering from the results Of the
cent may LATER according to their needs
receive more OR less of the benefits of the fund.


But it was not my design to bind my trustees, col
lectivelv individually to any responsibility to those
intended to be benefited to any individual respon
bity of any sort, for the management Of the fund
committed to them.


have entire confidence that they will discharge
the trust with wisdom, equity and fidelity and leave
all the details of management to their own discretion
With great respect, your humble servant,
GEORGE PEABODY.
Year: 1867

The yicksburg Herald, of the goth uIt., in an art
Gle headed Let Every Man ResolTc 70 Vote makes
the following pertinent remarks:


Now that Radical rule is inevitable and the indiea
tons being that the ercey resisted by the South
the more Violent the virulen and the stronger
and the more nmovable that rule will become, Che
absorbing question is what shall the South do to ef
fecually mitigate that rule and possible to remove
its harshness as soon as possible? How much we can
bear how long we endure the continuous turmoil
and agitation. which must seriously ilitae against
the material and essential prosperity of the South, we
cannot tell.


To US the duty to submit quietly to what We cannot
help, however hard, is plain The only question Of
difficulty in the matter is this Shall all of those who


do not approve the reconstruction act lie still and do
nothing, and allow those who do approve of it, white
and black, to form State consttution-or shall
all who are permitted By Congress to take part in the
Congressional reconstruction bear their share in that
important matter? The lights before US seem plainly
to indiaate the policy that all should participate
Year: 1867

A NEW STRIKE.-The Pail Mall Gazette
says: IAN odd development of the practice of
strikes has Just occurred at the Car-house
colliery, near Rotterdam. This time it is not
the men who have struck against the m asters,
bntthe boys who have struck against the men
A fine had been imposed on several OF the lads
for breaking lamps. which they deemed un.
JUST the rest OF the boys. forty in number,
made common cause with their comrades and
refused to 60 down the pit unless the fines
were remltted. The result was that the work.
ing OF the pit had TO be suspended. The men
who had gone down were obliged to return
and some tour hundred miners are in conss.
Quence thrown out Of work Perhaps the
men may now discover that there may be two
sides of the question OF strikes, and may be en-
abled in some degree to enter into the feelings
OF the MASTER
Year: 1867

iSwEAe1Nc.-Swearing is the fit expression
of human rage and the mostexact interpI,e-
ter Of. lis real meaning. He who utterS the
fearful word of damnation against his fellow
man, is giving vent to feeling which, had
he the power, would really eonsigpa him TO
hell. Anger is thus net only murder, but
murder Of the worst kind; it would not on,
ly kill the body but would cast both soul
and body into hell. Swcarer. SEQ what your
oath means Angry men, see what your On
ger means
Year: 1867

Il He Subscribers are now receiving their
FALL AND WINTER GOODS, which were
bought IN tho best markets in this Country, and
which IN point Of STYLE, QUALITY and
PRICE, defy competition.
Year: 1867

An INDIFFERENT JUDGE.-A de-
ceased, upright and able chief JUS
tice was once obliged thus to ad-
dress jury "Gentlemen of the
jury, in this case the counsel on
both sides are unintelligible, the
witnesses on both sides are incredi-
bic, and the plaintiff and defendant
are both such bad characters, that
to me it is Indifferent which way you
give your verdict. r..
Year: 1867

extends-and we probably know as
much about it as anybody--it is far
preferable to any of her sister PLAN
cts as a permanent residence. At
least, we are satisfied with it, and
intend to remain here so lone as we
are con EARTH -....
Year: 1867

A young lady stepped into the
store Of a merchant by the name Of
Wade, and very innocently said she
would Ike to be WEIGHED. (Wade)
Really, | am very sorry" said he,
"but my wife will tell you that you
are too late by a couple Of years"
Year: 1867

II have a place for everything,
and you ought to know it," said a
married man who was looking for
his bootjack after his wife was in
bed. Yes" said she, s'and I
ought to know where you keep your
late hours but 1 don't. sTs9
Year: 1867

A greater truth was never uttered
than the following, from the Spring
field ( Mass. J Republican: e."


"The men who put down the re-
bellion do not join in the demand for
future punishment of the rebels; but
if there was a General who never
won battle, soldier who invaria-
bly, skulked when fighting was to be
done, a camp follower who was ever
on hand to plunder towns, some
treasury agent or his pimp, who has
enriched himself by levying black
mail on traders or the inhabitants
of the South, a civilian who was
ready to pour out the blood Of every
body else to save the nation-these
are the men who are now so eager
to kick the PROSTATE foe and confis-
cate his valuables; these are the
men who are continually making
abortive attempts to arouse old
hatreds 1and stir up the popular
heart to vcngence.
Year: 1867

Our Legislature has voted that


Wisconsin wool-growers ought to be
protected by tariff on wool. We


hope that learned body will not stop
here. If the people of the nation
ought to be taxed to help the wool
growers and the manufacturers, of
course the people of the nation ought
to be taxed to help the wheat-grow


ers, the -four dealers, the grocery
and dry goods merchants, the ship
owners, together with all the me-
chanics and day laborers. No rca-
son for discrimination in faver of
one class and against another is yet
made to appear. One sort of indus
try is as much entitled to protec-
ton as another. The higher the
prices obtained by each, of course
the greater the prosperity of the
state. Ifthe 'protcctive" princi-
pal is a good one let it be extended
to all, SO all may become rich alike.
In the end everybody will be a nabob
and the proposition will be finally
demonstrated that every man can
lift himself by pulling on his boot
congress helps him.
Year: 1867

The individual who tried to clear
his conscience with an egg is now
cndeavoring to raise his spirits with
Yeast. If he fails in this it is his
deliberate intention to blow out hls
brains with bellows, and sink
calmly into, the arms of q young
lady ~ ,. art t4~r -.f..TaI
Year: 1867




istration.


Correspondence Public LEDGER


HuSrsyILLI. Ala, August 7. 1867.


Our prospects for crop are very good
both corn and cotton-in this vicinity.
The South is making, generally an
abundant supply of corn for the next
year. so I hope there will be no more
cries Of starvation among the "rebels,
though we seem to be cursed at both
ends and damned in the middle with lit
tie military kings and disgusting sstraps
Of one sort or another, emanating from
the headquarters of the best govern
ment the world ever saw l was in
Gainesville yesterday, when registration
was going on, preparing Cuffy to vote
de Radical ticket; which, doubtless, they
nearly all will do, and thoroughly
Radicalize our State and the South.
Comparatively but few of the whites are
permitted to register, throwing the voting
power of the State into the hands of the
ignorant negroes by an overwhelming
majority. Then won't we have glorious
country. l suppose Tennessee has re
elected that old curse of the earth (com
pared with whom the devil is pink, old
Brownlow, Governor Of your State again
Is there no hope that the Lord will re
move HIM hence to the care of the devil
where he properly belongsP J, c.
Year: 1867

1t appears that our great terrestrial
time piece, hitherto supposed to be keep
ing most perfect time, requires correcting
and rating In the course of the last two
thousand years, it has lost nearly an
hour and quarter, says the Quarterly
Journal of Science, and, compared with
its motion at the beginning Of that inter
val, it is losing one second In twelve
weeks. The day is also lengthening,
and will continue TO do so untilit is equal
in length to the lunar day-that is, to
our lunar month. The inhabitants Of
the earth may console themselves, how
ever, for the rate of change will diminish
continually, and, even if it did not, thirty
six billions of years would have 10 elapse
before the change would be fully effected.
But although the races at present inhab-
iting the earth are not likely to be af-
fected either for good or for evil by the
process of change we have been consid'
ering, it is impossible not to look with
interest into the vista of the far future,
and trace our earth in its gradual pro-
gress to the condition now presented by
the moon--to its degradation, may we
not surmise, from the position 1t now
holds as a life. sustainer. Looking back
ward into the far past, We see a progress
of like nature through which our moon
has passed, while the earth's strong in
fiuence has been exerted on her rotation,
coercing it down to correspondence with
her revolution. We see her subjected,
meanwhile, to other changes not less de-
structive. The bloom Of life has long
since passed from her face. Who shall
say that our own beautiful earth win not
nne day reEemhle her 2
Year: 1867

BO-0f the immigrants to this country
eighty-one per cent during the past year
have crossed the water by steamship
The sailing vessel as a conveyance of
passengers of any class is fast going out
of date
Year: 1867

n@. A very singular disease has made
its appearance in portions of Wisconsin.
Men are taken suddenly sick in the har-
vest field and die in few hours A slight
chill is the only premonitory symptom
of an attack.
Year: 1867

TIE Rev. Henry Morgan has been lee
turing in Boston upon Young Men and
Early Marriage He came TO the fol
lowing interesting conclusions: Ma
ture, history and revelation declare that
it is not good for man to be alone. be
needs a helpmste. A wife is the bal
Year: 1867

nA- The West Bend Democrat states
that a man living about two miles west of
Richfeld was killed few days ago in the
following manner: While driving along
the road his horse took fright and ran away;
he was thrown to the ground, and his legs
catching in the wheel, he was whirled
around some fifty or sixty times, his head
and shoulders striking the ground at every
revolution OF the wheel. After time he
became lossened and was left in the road
His son, who was in the wagon, stopped the
horses and returned to look for his father,
who he found lying in the road stone
dead.
Year: 1867

!. S~ The King of the Hatemhads, whose
brains are on the wrong end of his body,
gays something about the pecuniary affairs
Of this Office in his last weeks receptacle
of filth, in reply to which we viii say that
we are perfectly able to purchase the BOBBY
whoruns that concern, and willing to ex-
hbit him as a curiosity throughout the
country were it not for the expense of keep
ingssi, attendant constantly waiting on him
to prevent him from pettiag himself
Year: 1867




The Wheeling wv Val htelhgcnccr has the
following:


Mr.. Smith Trent, Sheriff Of Mcdowell Coun-
ty, was in the city yesterday, engaged in the
payment of taxes into the Auditors Office, In
a conversation with him touching matters and
things in that region, we learned some curious
factsconcernng the remote country from which
he comes. OF all the counties in the State,
Mcdowell, one of the largest in territory, is the
least in population and Improvements OF every
kind The population was never anything
but sparse; but during the rebellion the Union
men were driven away and when. they were
able to return, the rebels had been behaving so
badly that they in their turn were afraid to
stay, so that small as the population was before,
it is still less now. There is net postotiice in
the county, nor town. or village even Of tho
most diminntive proportions; there are but
few roads, and they are Indifferent. Thecourt
houseis log cabin there is not lawyer or
doctor in the county, and, as a consequence,
the people are healthy and free from litigation.
1t is difficult to find men in the county who
have sufficient acquaintance with the arts Of
modern times to fill the various county Offices.
Some Of them have to employ deputies on this
account, and one gentleman who happens to
have enjoyed unusual advantages acts as depu-
ty to some half dozen of them.
Year: 1867

How To CLEAN Orr Ssow.-The snow may
be easily softened and cleaned. from pavements
and yards, even when it is hard frozen and
trampled down, by sprinkling common table
or fish salt over It. In ten or fifteen minutes
it will be soft, and may be swept off with
stiff broom. We have seen it tried frequently
Five cents worth of salt will be enough for the
pavement in front of any hotise, and fifteep
minutes after You read this you may clean up
in front of your house, reader, and perhaps save
yom neighbor severe fallon that slippery
walk way of yours.
Year: 1867

A lady in one Of the western cities was anx-
ious to buy a camel's hair shawl, and the price
of the only one that suited her was Sl,50o.-
After she vainly tried TO get it for $1,000, the
clerk told her that her husband hadofered that
for it and been refused. OF course he had
wanted to surprise her, and in order to help
him to do it she privately paid him $500, aud
directed the clerk to send him note, telling
bin he might have it for $1,000. Then she
waited for the shawl, but it didn't come; and
after several days of wondermcnt she saw the
identical article worn in public by woman Of
the town.
Year: 1867

w caItn.


Excessive wealth is neither glory nor happi-
ness. The cold wretch who thinks only OF
himself: who draws his head within its shell,
and never puts it out but for the purpose of
lucre and oStentation; who looks upon his fel-
low-creatures not only without sympathy, but
with arrogance and insolence, as if they were
leade to be his vassals and he was made to be
their lord as if they were for no other purpose
than to pamper his avarice, or to contribute to
his ACCOMPLISHMENT; such a man may be rich,
but he can never be happy, nor virtuous, nor
great. There is in fortune golden mean,
which is the appropriate region Of virtue and
intelligence. Be content with that aud if the
horn of plenty overflow, letits droppings fall
upon vour felow-men let them fall like the
droppings of honey in the wilderness, to cheer
the wayworn pilgrim. You may wish to be
distinguished: but wealth is not essential to
distinction. Look at the illustrious patriots,
philosophers and philanthropists, who in va
rious ages have blessed the world was it their
wealth that made them great? No. Where
was the wealth of Aristides. of Socrates of Plato
of Epaminondas, of Fabricius, of Cncinnatus,
and a countless hostupon the rolls of fame ?
Their wealth was in their mind and heart


These are the treasures by which they have
been immortalized and such alone are trea-
sures that are worth serious struggle.
Year: 1867

INFLUENCE OF HAPPINESS OVER THE MIND.
It should never be forgotten that the happier
child is the cleverer he will be. This is not
only because, in state of happiness, the mind
is free, and at liberty for the exercise o! its
faculties, instead of spending its thoughts and
energies in hrooding over troubles; but also
because the action of the brain is stronger when
the frame is in state Of liilarity; the ideas
are more clear; impressions of outward objects
are more vivid and the memory will not let
them slip This is reason enough for the mo-
ther to take some care that she is the cheerful
guideand comforter of her child. If sheis anx-
ious or fatigued, she will exercise some control
over herself, aud speak cheerfully, and try to
enter freely into the subject of the moment; to
meet the child's mind, in short, instead of max
ing him sink for want of companionship.


Mss Mdrtinean
Year: 1867

An old oil well in Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
one day last week suddenly began to throw up
stones and water to the hight Of more than a
hundred feet The phenomenon continued for
over an hour g
Year: 1867

Yesterday man strongly under the influence or
liquor rushed Into lager beer saoon at No. sT4 Bridge
street.. Brooklyn, kept by named B. Bonnsrt, aud
demanded somc lager and other refreshments As
Mr. Bonners and his clerks were engaged OF the
time. Mrs Bonnert proceeded to wait upon the ndiv
dual but did not notice hat s was under be influence
OF liquor She handed him HIS lager and small plate or
piece of sausage upon the counter Immediately she
turned her back the insane wretch, who was pro-
baby bordering dslirium tremens sprang from his
scat seized Mira Bonnert by the throat and attempted to
draw the carving knife across IL The woman scream cd
and caught hold Of the blade OF the knife BY which she
cut her fingers 10 the bone In moment Mr. Bonnert
caught the man. and with the assistance OF some gentle
threw him upon the door and took the knife fro m
him. He was thsn handed over 10 officer Whitney OF
the FoIs first precinct who took him 10 shs satio
house. He sad his name was William Conroy, and th! q
was all thai could be learned from b i'm.
Year: 1867

Tho third annual promenade concert OF the Brooklyn
Yacht Club will take place tomorrow evening. AZ the
Academy OF Music The interior Of the building VIII be
tastefuy decorated with marine emboms. There will
be excellent music by the Twenty-thi regiment band,
fashionable company present. and the festivities
generally will no doubt be OF select character.
Year: 1867

The head clerk ofa large firm in
Charlestown promised an old customer
one day, half bale of Russian duck to be
on hand precisely at oho" O'clock, when
tho man was to leave town with his goods
The firm was out Of duck, and the
clerk went over to Boston 10 buy some
Not finding the truckman, he hired man
to take it over in his whcelbarrow.-
Finishing other business, on his return To
Charlestown, the clerk found the man
not half way over the bridge, sitting on
his barrow, half dead With the heat.


What was TO be donel 1t was then
half past twelve, and the goods were
promised at one. There was not mo.
ment to lose. In spite Of the heat, the
dust and his light Summer clothes, the
young man seized the wheelbarrow and
pushed on.


Pretty soon a rich merchant whom the
young man knew very well, riding on
horseback, overlook him.


"What," said he, "Mr. Wilder turned
truckman~


YES" answered tho clerk. "The
koOus are pFOIuIseu III one ciockt anu
my man has given out; but, you see, l
am determined to be asgood as my word. "


"Good, good p said the gentleman,
and trotted on.


Calling at the store where the young
man was employed, he told his employer
what he had seen. "And i want you to
tell him." said the gentleman, that when
he goes into business for himself, my
nam. il at his service for $50 900"


Reaching the store, which he did in
time, you may be sure the high price set
on his conduct made amends for all the
heat, anxiety and fatigue Of the job.


Keeping his word. You see how i'm.
portant il is regarded. 1t is one of the
best capital business man can have
To be worth much to anybody, boy
must1orm character of reliability. lie
must be depended en-. And you will like
to know perhaps that this young man be-
came one Of the most eminent merchants
of his day, known far and wide, both in
Europe and in this countrY.-[Child's
Paper.
Year: 1867

All travellers have mentioned with as
tonishment the peculiar buoyancy of the
water Of Great Salt Lake, and it Is truly
surprising. No danger Of shipwreck need
ever cross the mind Of those who navigate
the lake, for it would be impossible for
them to siuk if thrown overheard. With
my .ands claspcd together under my
head, and my feet crossed, foated on


the surface Of the lake, with at least one
third of my body out of the water
Upon warm summers day there would
not be the slightest difficulty in going to
sleep upon the lake, and allowing your
self to be blown about as the wind per-
mitted; only one would need an umbrella
to keep off the rays Of the sun. Mr..
Bowles has stated that three buckets Of


this water will yield one bucket of solid
salt, but inasmuch as water will not hold


above twenty-five per cent, of saline mat
ter in solution, and if more be added it il
instantly deposited upon the bottom, his
estimate is, Of course, too large. On in
quiring Of the Mormons engaged in pro-
curing salt, they unanimously stated that
for every FIVE buckets Of water they OBJ
tanned one bucket Of salt, which gives the


proportion as no less than twenty per
cent. No visitor to the lake should omit
the bath; the sensation in the water is
most luxurious, and leads one to think
himself floating in the air. On the way
back to the city, it will be as well for the
bather to stop at the superb sulphur baths
just outside the town, and remove the
incrustations which will have formed up
on him, by plunge into the fine swim.
ming baths, whose only objection is its
peculiar odor and its great heat, which


requires large admixture of cold water.