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Year: 1866

of boxing up all the confscated fnrni-
ture as soon as he should take command,
and hold it subject to the orders of the
authorities, furnishing his quarters him
self, as he thought it dsgraceful for
United States officers to use furniture
so acquired Such conduct, so essen
tally different from the course pursued
by many officers, proves that the new
commander at the fortress is imbued
by the honorable instincts which are
supposed to characterize the profession
of arms, and lead to the hope that the
illnstrious captive will be treated with
the courtesy and consideration so natu-
raj to brave men, and which will allie
viate in some degree the inevitable rigors
of captivity.
Year: 1866

After Grant and Farragut were seen
and eheered Mr.. Seward said Are you
sure my time has come? [Cries of go
ahead, let's hear yon.


think it was this spot; yes it was
Just about this spot, that some years ago,
/ do not remember very well, perhaps
you remember better than | do, that
announced here, in the presence of the
citizens of Rochester, and in the hearing
of the whole nation, that an irrepresslble
conflict was at hand. Cheers. think
you are more known from your asso-
Citations with that speech than you are
by anything else that ever happened
here. Laughter and applause wish
to tell you what my reception here was
Carried by my friends through a back
way and hid in the private parlor Of a
citizens house, to shelter me from or
ganized public opposition. | was too
radical. Laughter and applause. But
came out all right, and gota splendid
supper fiat that time | had told you
at the end of the conflict, which | in
vain tried to avert, that after you had
sacrificed millions Of men, and rivers
of blood and mountains of gold, that /
would come back to you on the first
day of September, with the President
of the United States, bringing you the
surrender of slavery, the surrender Of Sc
cession, and the restoration Of the Union,
would you not now have called me a
prophet2 Laughter and applause.
Would you have believed Il at that time
LCries Of mo. That is just what has
come to pass. The President and are
not agreed in our views He thinks it
is very serious business, and he talks to
you earnestly, fearing the people are not
going to accept the terms of peace. |
think entirely different think you
are going to accept the restoration Of
the Union on the terms that have been
offered. as old Noah is reported to have
Year: 1866

PORTABLE CUPBoARD.-Messrs Prescott q,
Gowen of this city have exhibited to us spec
linen Of portable cupboard, made light, neat
and tasty, which must come into use in every
family, not only for their value in preserving
articles from rats, mice and flies, but also for
their great convenience in saving many steps
from the pantry or cellar to the table. The ar
ticle is so light that half dozen different
dishes can be easily carried at once, instead of
making journey for each article. 1t only
needs be seen to be admired as one of the most
convenient articles of household ware that has
been got up.


For the present the headquarters of this
frm-where the article can be seen-are at
GowelPs shoe store corner of Congress and
Chestnut streets -.s--s..--. = slars--t,
Year: 1866

ENTERTAINMENT.-In another column will
be found the advertisement of the new year en-
tertainment by the Allen Mission Sabbath
School We understand the presents to be Civ
en- the children will consist mostly of clothing
suited to this season of the year. The officers
and teachers of this school have been indefat-
igable in their efforts to promote the spiritual
and temporal interests of those under their
care, and have taxed themselves heavily in
getting up this entertainment, and deserve
full house. The school has proved a success
and we bid them God speed.
Year: 1866

The RELIEF FUND.-At the last meetip, q.
the Relief Committee, it was voted:


That in the opinion of this Committee fba
fund committed to them for distribution ysat
intended to be offered to the relief of those in,
distress, and that we should not be authorized
70 appropriate any portion of it to the aid ot
any religious society in rebuilding its ehurcl
Year: 1866




lis usually considered to mean the same
thing as a kind of starvation. The idea
which the educated physician attaches to the
term, is a judicious regulation of the auan-
tlty and quality of the food, according to
the circumstances of each case. A healthy
manmay diet himselfin order to keep well;
an invalid may diet himself with view to
the recovery of his health yet the things ca
ten by the two will widely differ in their
nature, bulk, and mode of preparation. A
vast multitude are suffering hourly by the
horrors OF dyspepsia; no two are precisely
allke ln all points, since there is an endless
variety of combinations as TO age, sex. oecu-
patton, air, exercise, mode of eating, Sleep
ing, constitution, temperament, ETC. Yet
dyspepsia is always brought on by over and
irregular eating it could be banished from
the world IN a generation. If the children
were educated to eat moderately, regularly,
and slowly; the parents who do this will do
their offspring higher good than leaving
them large fortunes, which, in three cases
out of four, foster idleness, gluttony, and
every evil thing. As the rich can get any
thing to eat or drink when they want it, they
with INDUCED children, bring on dyspepsia
by eating irregularly and without an appe-
tite The poor-those who have to work
fora living induce the horrible disease by
eating too rapidly and at unseasonabl hours:
mainly by eating heartily at supper, and 90
ing to bed within an hour or two afterward.


In the heyday Of youth and manly vigor,
there may not for while be noticed any
special i'll effect from such a practiee-in
truth, 1t Is at first inapprecible, but it is GU
mnlatiye, and impossible not to manifest it
selfin due time Infinite benevolence for
gives a moral delinquency; but, omnipotent
as he Is, and loving towards all, it is not In
the nature of his government of created
things to work mircale to suspend nat
ural law: in order to shield one of his crea-
lures from the legitimate effects of VIC
llenee offered the physical system by excesses
IN eating drinking, or exercise.


Perhaps hearty suppers make more dys-
peptc than any or all other causes combined.
1t dinner Is at noon, nothing should be ia
ken for supper but single cup of weak tea,
or other hot drink and piece of stale bread
and butter. After forty years of age, those
who live indoors, sedentary persons-that is
all who do not work with their hands as
laborers-would do better not TO take any
supper at all. Half the time the sedentary
who eat at noon, do not feel hungry at
supper; especially if they see nothing on the
table but bread. and butter, and tea. But
nature Is goaded to act against her instincts
In almost every family in the nation by
'rellshes being placed on the supper able.
In the shape of Clipped beef, salt fish, cake,
preserves, or other kinds of sweetmeat, and,
before the person is aware, a hearty meal
has been taken, resulting in present un-
comfortableness, in disturbed sleep, in a
wearey In the morning, bad taste in the
mouth, and little or nc appetite for break
fast, all of which can be avoided by begin
ming ear y to eat habitually, according to
the suggestions above mad e.--HaFs Joar-
MI Hcnlth
Year: 1866

In the first place make up your mind to
accomplish whatever you undertake; decide
uEon some particular employment; perse-
we're in it. All difficulties are overcome by
diligence and assiduity.


Be not afraid to work with your own
hands and diligently too "A cat in gloves
catches no mice


He who remains in the mill, grinds; not
he who goes and comes.


Attend to your business and never trust
to another. : A pot that belongs to many
is i'll stirred and worse boiled.


Be frugal. That which will not make a
pot will not make a pot lid. y


Save the pence and the pounds will take
care of themselves.


Be abstemious. "Who dainties love shall
beggars prove.


Rise early. The sleeping fox catches no
poultry. Plough deep while sluggards
sleep, and you win have corn to sell and
keep


Treat every one with respect and courte-
sy. Everything is gained and nothing lost
by ciyilty. Good manners insure success


Never anticipate wealth from any other
source than labor; especially never place de-
pendenee upon becoming the possessor of an
inheritance. He who waitsfor dead men 5
shoes may have to go for long time bare
foot, He who runs after shadow has a
weariesome race.


Above all things never dispair "God is
where he was" Heaven helps those who
help themselves


Follow implicitly these precepts, and moth
ing can hinder you from prospering.
Year: 1866

The New York Erpress has an article on
this vexed question-the proposed union Of
the Anglican, Roman and Greek churches
under the auspices of Rev. DR. Pusey, who
seems to be using all his powers to bring
about union with the Church of Rome. It
appears that not only Is it advocated by DIR.
Pusey, but many of the most eminent in
fuential scholars and the ologians attached
to the establishment are giving it counte-
nance And what is to be especially noted
Is the further fact, that the proposition is
apparently finding marked favor with some
OF the most eminent OF the Roman Catholic
hierarchy themselves, in England as well as
in France


The ways and means of promoting such a
Union, ofcourse are bur dimly foreshadowed.
On both sides the utmost cautionis observed
with prudent avoidance of specific details
which indicates lively conviction in the
minds of both parties of the extreme delica-
cy Of the subject, to say the least of it.


This much however, seems to be certain
that at the very start both sides must be
prepared to surrender something both as
regards things temporal and things spiritual
For example, the Anglican Unionists, as
represented by DE-. Pusey, will have to give
up their prejudice against praying for the
Saints, while the Romanists must abandon
the dogma of the immaculate conception of
the Blessed Virgin The Anglicans must
-eserye the Tridentine Greed, not as at pre-
sent interpreted, indeed, but in such a way
as to render it capable of acceptance by the
English Church. while the Romanists must
abandon the universal primaey of, the Pope
that is TO say, they must be content to have
him reduced to the level of Bishop-not
the head of the Visible Church on Earth,
but simply as Bishop OF Rome, neither hay-
ing nor exercising powers superior to those
which may be lawfully claimed or exercised
by other Bishops


The Re-Unionist, however, do not propose
to stop here Some of them propose to
bring in the Greek Church also, and to this
it is contended that there are no obstacles
in the way that need b. deemed insuperable
with men imbued with a sincere spirit OF
Christian unity 1t is a well known fact
that some such overtures to the Greek
Church have already been made, on the part,
not only of the English Church, but by the
Episcopal Church in The United States, -
and with degree of encouragement, we are
informed by those wlo favor the project,
justifying the expectation of ultimate sue
Year: 1866

The wretch who wrote the followin has
very wisely, for his sWR safety, omitted 10
give Us any clue by which he could be iden-
tilted;


Bachelors are styled by married men who
have put their foot into it, as only half per
fected beings, cheerless vagabouds, but half
a pair of scissors, and many other titles are
given them; while, on the other hand, they
extol their state as one of perfect bliss, that
change from earth to heaven would be
somewhat of doubtful good IF they are so
happy, why don they enjoy their happiness
and hold their tongues about it? What do
half the men get married for? Simply that
they may have some one to darn their stock
iugs, sew buttons on their shirts, and trot
their babies; that they may have somebody,
as married man once said, to pull off their
boots when they are little balmy. These
fellows are always talking of the loneliness
of bachelors. Loneliness indeedl Who is
petted to death by ladies' who have daugh-
ters? invited to tea and TO evening parties,
and told 10 drop in just when it is convenient
The bachelor. Who lives in clover all his
days, and when he dies has flowers streWed
on his grave by the girls who couldn't en-
trap him? The bachelor. Who strews
flowers on the married man S grave? His
widow? Not bit of it; she pulls down his
tombstone that six weeks grief has set up
in her heart, and goes and gets married
again-she does. Who goes to bed early
because time hangs heavily on his hands?
The married man. Who has wood to split
house hunting and marketing to do, the
young ones to wash and the lazy servants to
look after?The married man. Who is arres-
ted for whipping his wife? The married
man. Who gets divorced? The married
man. Finally, who has got the Scripture
on his side? The bachelor st. Paul knew
what he was talking about when he said,


He that marries does well; but he that mar
Year: 1866

The following article should be read and
pondered well by every man who takes a
newspaper without paying for it.


My observation enables me to state, as
fact, that the publishers of newspapers are
more poorly rewarded than any other class
of men In the United States who invest an
equal amount of labor, capital and thought
They are expected to do more service for less
pay. to stand more sponging and dead head
ing, to puff and defend more people with
out fee or hope Of reward, than any other
class.


They credit wider and longer, get oftener
cheated suffer more pecunlary loss, are of
tener the victims of misplaced confidence
than any other calling in the community.
People pay printer bill with mnch more
reluctance than any other. 1t goes harder
with them to expend dollar on valuable
newspaper, than ten on a needless gswgaw;
yet every body ayails himself of the use of
the editor pen and the printer ink


How many professional and political le-
putations and fortunes have been made and
sustained by the friendly though unrequited
pen of the editor? How embryo towns and
cities have been brought into notice and
pulled into prosperity by the press? How
many railroads now in successful operation,
would have feundered but for the lever
that moves the world? In short what
branch of industry or activity has not been
promoted, stimulated and defended by the
press2


And who has rendered it more than
miserable pittance for its mighty services?
The bazaars Of fashion and the haunts IF
dissipation and appetite are thronged with
an eager crowd, bearing gold in their palms
and the commodities there needed are sold
at enormous profits though intrinsieally
worthless, and paid for with scrulmlols
punctuality; while the counting room Of the
newspaper is the seat Of Jewing, cheapen-
ing, trade, orders and pennies. 1t is made
point of honor to liquidate grog bill, but
MT Of diahnnn,. To r.eniadi.tl. r,,int.ar : bill
Year: 1866

General Grant gives his opinion that it is
not desirable at present to remove the Uni
ted States troops from States lately in re-
bellion, nor wise to put arms in the hands of
the militia as method to be relied on to
preserve the tranquility of the South
Counsel from such source viii probably be
needed
Year: 1866

Pray, sir, said judge, angrily, to a blunt
old Quaker from no direct answer could be
obtained, ''do you know what we sit here
for?'' Yes, verify, do. said the Quaker,
three of you for four dollars each day, and
the fat one in the middle for four thousand
a year. y
Year: 1866

THERE is nothing that takes the starch
out of an aristocrat SO soon as to nominate
him to some Office that comes before the
people. He's fawning as dog, and as pe-
lite and neighborly as a French dancing
moster Elections by the people do more
to take the starch out of the rufied shirt
gentry than anything else.
Year: 1866

aA- Whenever man renegades from one
party to another, he naturally expects to be-
come the especial pet of his new associates,
and if their is any fat Office in their gift, he
has right to look for its bestowal.
Year: 1866

A bachelor and young lady bought some
tickets in partnership in lottery at the re-
cent Sanitary Fair at Milwaukee, agreeing
to divide the proceeds equitably. They drew
a double bedstead, baby crib, and lunch
basket, and the question is, how to divide
them, or whether they shall not use them
Unity"
Year: 1866

Bad luck ID simply man with his hands
in his breeches pockets and a pipe in his
mouth, looking ON TO see how it viii come
cut. Good luck is a man of pluck to meet
difficulties, his sleeves rolled up, working to
make it come out right
Year: 1866

GNE pound Of gold may be drawen in
to a wire that would extend round the glcbe
70 one good deed may be felt through NH
time, cast its influence into eternity, Though
done in the first hush Of youth il may glide
the last hours Of a long life, and form the
brightes. Spot init,
Year: 1866

NEW YORK, March 3.-The Committee
appointed to wait upon President john.
son and present him with the resolutions
of the Cooper Institute meeting, were
met With cordial reception by the Presi-
dent.
Year: 1866

WASHINGTON, Jan. a.


The Secretary of War communicated to the
House to-day, in compliance with resolu.
ton, the correspondence of the New Orleans
Military Academy with the Chief Engineer
of the Army, relative to marking with the
names of battles all captured guns.


1t appears that there are now upwards of
thirty cannon, among them some of historic
value, and not few of foreign manufacture,
In charge of Capt. Bache, who has asked In :
structions relative to marking them with a
suitable inscription.


Gen. Delafeld suggests that it is not desira-
BILE to inscribe on any of these guns evidence
of capture as trophies of war, to remain in an
institution where young men from all parts
OF our united and once happy country are to
meet and>contract friendships. He says it
should be our study with these young men to
present nothing of an irritable or hostile
spirit to be placed constantly before the sight
of those whose section of country sufferedby
the rebellion. Let history tell the evils this
rebellion has produced, and let us through
the instrumentality of the Military Academy
renew its powerful influence in establishing
national feelings through the friendships that
are sure to flow from scholastic fellowship
under military training for years.


Those guns should be preserved only as
historical of the artillery arm of the service,
the period and place Of manufacture of each
calibre, and description of gun-omitting
everything connected with their capture or
Year: 1866

Lawrence Oliphant. whose name appears
in the list of English bondholders to the Con
federate loan, writes from Cincinnati to the
New York Herald that his name had been in
serted in that list without his knowledge or
consent, and that he has never held bond.
or had anything whatever TO do, either direct
ly or indirectly, with the loan.
Year: 1866




Paris Correspondence London paper.


A poor, pale, wan seamstress was arraign-
ed for theft She appeared at the bar with a
baby of eleven or twelve months in her arms,
her child. She went to get work one day,
and stole three gold coins OF 1Of each. The
money was missed soon after she left her EN-
ployer, and servant was sent to her rooms
to claim it, The servant found her about 10
quit the rooms with the three gold coins in
her hand She said to the servant, 81 was
going to carry them back to you - Never
theless she was carried otbe Commissioner
Police, and he ordered her to be sent before
the Police Court for trial. She was too poor
to engage q lawyer, and when asked by the
Judge what she had to say for herself she
answered: ...........


"The day went to my employers I car
ried my child with me. It was in my arms
as it is now. was not paying attention to
it, There were several gold coins on the





ed out its little hand and seized three pieces,
which ! did not observe until got home.
at once put on my bonnet, and was going
to return them, when was arrested. This
is the solmn truth, as hope for Heavens
mercy"


They could not believe this story. They
upbralded the mother for her lmpudence in
endeayoring to palm of such a manifest lie
for the truth. They besought her for her
own sake to retract so absurd tale, for II
could have no effect, but oblige the court to
sentence her to a much seyerer punishment
than they were disposed to inilct on one SO
young and evidently stepped So deep in power.
ty. These appeals had no effect except to
strengthen the poor mothers pertinacious nd.
hcrence 10 her original story. As this firm
ness was sustained by that look of innocence
which the most adroit criminal can neyei
counterfeit, the court were at some loss ia
discover what decision justice demanded. TC
relieve their embarrast ment, one Of the jud
ges proposed to renew the scene described
by the mother, Three gold coins were pac'
ed on the clerks table The mother was re-
quested to assume the position in which snt
said she stood Mt her employers house.
The baby soon discovered the bright coin
eyed it for moment, smiled and then stretch
cd forth its tiny hand, and clntched then
in its fingers with a misers eagernesS. Tn
mother was acquitted. ......
Year: 1866

For hs Union Flag.
Speak gently, it is better fur,


To rule by love than fear
Speak gently, let no harsh words mar


The good we might do here.
Speak gently, love doth whisper low


The VOWS that true hearts bind,
And gel tly friendships accents How


Affections voice is kind.
Speak gently to the little child,


Its love be sure to gain
Teach it in accents soft and mild,


1t may not long remain.
Speak gently to the young, for they


will have enough to bear,
Pass through this life as best they may,
'Tis full Of anxious care.
Year: 1866

The Reconstruction Committee reported
to the House on Tuesday large amount Of
testimony, in reference to the political cor
dition of the Southern States, which from
the standing of the witnesses, and the nature
of their testimony, will command attention.
Major Gen. Thomas, a Southern man by
birth and training, tcsti6es that the people
Of Alabama are extremely anxious to be un-
der the Constitution OF the United States,
and to have that State in its regular position
in the Union, but they are not personally
friendly to the Union that it is Difficult. to
say what portion Of the population are reli-
able Union men, the preponderance Of SEN
timent varying in different portions Of the
State. In central and southern Alabama,
the successful candidates, in the recent eloc-
tions, had been either in the rebel army or
active rebels He did not think it would do
to remove the United States troops He
says:


am satls1ed that until better state OF leel-
ing shall arise there-if all restraint should be
removed-the freedmen would be thrown back
into condition Of virtual slavery that Is, they
would be compelled by legislative enactments to
labor for little or no wages, and legislation
would assume such form that they would not
dare leave their employers for fear Of punish
ment; and unless white men, who had been
Union men through the war, had very strong
personal friends they could not live in the State


Gen. Grierson testifes Of the State Of
things in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and
Tennessee. He says:


1t is my firm belief, after sll I have been able
to learn Of the Southern people, during the war
and since the surrender, that the spirit Of ress-
tance still exists there as strong as ever, and
that in the event Of this country engaging Ia
foreign war, the enemies Of the Government Of
the United States throughout the South do
mediate and will not fail to seize that opportnn-
ity to attempt again its destruction"


Gen. Thomas and Gen. Grierson both ex-
press the belief that secret organizations for
disloyal purposes are being organized to
some extent at the South, to embarrass the
Government in all its efforts to restore the
Union; to resist the payment of the national
debt, or plot for the resumption Of the rebel
debt; to agitste for compensation for dam
ages inflicted during the war BY our armies