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Year: 1867

The squirrel has made his winter bed,


And in it is snugly lying
The chestnuts have ceased to drop overhead,
The ducks have sailed by with wings outspread,
The clouds are all painted in purple and red
And the Autumn in glory is dying.
Hurrah for the winter! down from the sky
Comes the snow in a noiseless hurry;
the snow does 80 much, SO quietly!
And the bells they jingle, the sleighs they fy
The skaters shout when the moon is high;
And the stars look surprised at the furry.
Who says that Winter is grim and old?
He's a royal, merry good fellow
What games are like his so gay and bold?
What stories like his were ever told :?
His nuts-they are worth their weight in gold
His apples are choice and mellow.
Have out the mittens! put up the ball
See that the mufaers are ready
Get down the sled from its nail on the wall
Sharpen the skates for fear of fall
The river is frozen /! viii soon be the call;
And then who will think to be steady?
Then give him welcome bid him draw near;
Enwreathed with pine and with holly,
He brings you presents-he brings good cheer
'Tis in fun that he slyly nips your ear!
He freezes your nose to make it look queer
For Winter is good, and is jolly.


Sydney E. Holmes.
Year: 1867

lars. | saw the treasure yesterday piled IN
three heaps on the floor, and the jeweler
informed me that it must have cost over
three millions of dollars, but in consequence
of the old fashioned style of setting its
bruised, battered, and corroJed condition,
that It's value was reduced to about one
half. A little over one bushel how queer
it sounds to talk of jewelry by the busheD
has been sorted, and among it has been
sorted, and among it has been found one
diamond ring valued at sixteen thousand
dollars, two more valued at five Thousand,
and half dozen valued at five hundred
and upwards. The most curious is plain
gold ring inscribed on the inside in Dutch,
"Stuyvesant to his wife," 1t is an heir loom
of the Stuyvesants and was stolen with
other jewelry last March by bulglars, How
it came in the sewer is problem for phi
losophers to speculate about.


Miss Walker and her brother; who find
themselves thus lifted suddenly from penury
to great wealth, intend to proceed to
England, where they have relatives. The
adventure is talked of everyw where, and there
are others preparing to follow in their foot
steps.
Year: 1867

There's many gem unpublished
And many star unknown
Many bright bud perished,


Neglected and alone
When had word been spoken,
In kindly, gentle tone,
The bud had bloomed unbroken,
Tne gem had graced a throne.
Then o scorn not the lowly,


Nor do them any wrong,
Lest thou crush an impulse holy,
Or blight a soul of song.
Year: 1867

Inc Conservative party has every rca-
son to be confident that change for the
better is rapidly coming over the minds
ofthc people. California, Montana, Yer.
mont and Maine have all shown by the
results at the ballot box, that the coun-
try is tired of the policy of the Rule or
Ruin party and is determined to release
itself from the deadly folds of the Boa
fsectionalism. California and Montana
have gone largely against the Radical
party and the immense falling off,in Maine
and Vermont, sufficiently attest the
change progressing in the minds of the
people Of those States. The States of
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Iowa hold cleo
tions on the Sth of the coming month,
and we have reason to believe that the
first two will be lost to the Radicals. The
moral effect Of the elections in California
and Montana is being felt throughout the
States of Ohio and Pennsylvania, to such
a degree as to make the old and feeble
Thad Stevens tremble for his power and
predict defeat of his iniquitous party
through APATHY" in its own ranks.
Well may he expect "apathy" to seize
them. Swift-footed vengeance, in the
form of popular indignation, is fast over
taking them and they will soon be over
whelmed by the merted contempt of all
good and law-abiding men, The lovers
of Constitutional liberty may look for.
ward with the purest delight for the ris-
ing ofthe star Of hope from out the bos-
ON ofthe storm cloud of evil, that has
so long hung like apall over our devoted
land Fanaticism cannot long rule the
minds and hearts Of an enlightened peo-
pile with it's rod ofiron. Reason, will as
sert her sway and make herself felt. In
justice will invariably overleap itself and
often produces the instrument of its own
overthrow. The puritanical hypocricy
of the Pilgrim fathers of New England
drove from their midst, the even temper
cd and just Roger Williams, to be for the
period of his life thorn in the side of
prescription and intolerance He had
long been among them, but not of them
and finally became the means of opening
the eyes of many to their meanness and
hypocritical cart and opening new road
to heaven, other than the one these fel-
lows, pretended TO monopolize BY the
same means the Radical party is now
driving men of reason and just feelings
from their ranks and compelling men to
reflection, by the very monstrosity of
their wickedness. The excluded States
are now barely living; the political life
nearly extinct, and wealth fed from them I;
confidence in the stability of the gov


ernmont is entirely destroyed; capitalists
have no faith in the future; trade droops
and energy is almost paralzed, and all
this the effect of bad government. Sure.
" there is reason in our earnest desire
fora change. The political condition of
the country once being settled, people will
60 to work with will capital will flow
into the country resources be developed,
railroads built and the wanted avenues of
trade opened. Is this not "consum.


nation devoutly to be wished?"
Year: 1867

All persons indebted to this Office, for
subscription, or otherwise are respectful.
ly urged to call and settle up We are
making arrangements to enlarge our pa
per- and must necessarily, have what is
due rs, to accomplish this end We trust
our friends will meet our necessities at
once and not wait to be called on.
Year: 1867

Rockies friends declared against il rhe rsss,sa nov
ever, said the parties should not Tight any more and
that he would give nnal decision ct the ketropctan
that his At decsion was the nna one and that ended
the matter; and Rookie willing and capable OF nshing
. foul blow, which he never struck The fight lasted
an hour and quarter.


The crowd then took 70 the schooner and when ali
were on board abe headed for New London and landed
her living freight In safety In that town early the
afternOon
Year: 1867

be might get too much of it-so he prudent
ly postponed returning consciousness until
his enemy had disappeared.


As he rose to his feet he said to Jacob. in
a subdued tone, ''Why did that man strike
me?'


Because you uttered the Masonic pass
word, but could not respond to the counter
sign lie Is Mason and, as he is solemn
~ bound to do, immediately answered the
password by making the countersign with
MS hand You were unable to answer his
countersign, and for that reason he knew
you to be a clandestinc Mason-a man who
had learned the secrets in an improper way.
Therefore, it Was his duty to chastse you. -
Your life may yet be forfeited for that indis
cretion."


My life By the great Jehovah, l
thought you were only humbugging me when
yoa said that spoons was the password


Sh-h-h Beware /" said Jacob, putting q
his hand on Ralph's mouth. Never utter
that word again. Masons are Ubiquitous,
and you might lose your life. As it is you
are in danger; for all the lodges in the city
Will be Immediately convoked to adopt
measures that may discover who has betray
ed them. My life, rs well as yours, is in
jeopardy. Promise me that you will never
again utter the password


And 80 spoons is tie password ~ Ralph
was ut last convinced that his old friend bad
been telling the truth. Well, may | be
broiled On a Masonic gridiron, and turned
over with red-hot trowel, if ever l hollow
spoons again!'


Ralph has most religiously kept his word.
Should he need a spoon while at the table be
now asks his wife for sugar shovel fear
ing that. if he men ioned the proper name of
the required article, some pugnacious mem
Der OF the mystic brotherhood might respond
to the Masonic password.
Year: 1867

A LOCAL FLOOD An English author and
compiler asserts that he has made one Of the
most important discoveries of the present age,
namely, that of demonstrating the identity
of the great pyramid of Egypt with the
ancient biblical Tower of Babel and proving.
by conclusive evidence, that the Mosaic
deluge was a local food, produced by the
bursting of an ancient African lake. the
remains Of winch he poirts out, and also in
d'cates, in detail, the cause of the great ca
tassr0phe,
Year: 1867

GENTLEMEN FARMERS IN PRUssIA.-A
Paris correspondent says: NJ Emile de
Laveleye has just contributed an article to
the Revue des Deau Mondes, in which an
interesting account is given OF the progress
made by Prussia during 60 years of peace.
Writing on agriculture, he points out that
nearly all the land owners cultivate their
own estates except for detached portions,
renting Is the exception. They are, there


fore retained IN the country by the care of
their own interests for nothing more impe.
riously requires the eye of a master than
rural industry. 1t is true they are aided by
class of employees who are not found in
any other country. They are educated young
men belonging to families in good position,
often Just leaving an agricultural college who
remain for Il certain time on some large es


tate to initiate themselves in the practical
direction of one of their own. This novi-
tlate Is an ancient custom still preserved in
many trades. Thus frequently the son Of IA
rich hotel keeper will not hesitate to enter
another hotel as butler or waiter. to be
initiated into all the details of the service
over which he will one day have to preside.
When any one visits the farms, he is aston
ished to see as superintendents the son of a
banker, a baron, or rich land owner
These young people drive a cart or guide
plow. At noon they return, groom their
horses, and then 60 and dress themselves and
dine at the owners table, to whom they are
not inferior, either in instruction, birth or
manners. After the meal they resume their
working dress and resume, without any
false shame. their rustic occupation. Thus
We find in feudal Prussia trait of manners
suited to the emocratic society of the
United States, and which hereafter will be-
come general. In France, in England es-
pecially, young man of the upper class
would believe his dignity compromised in
performing the work of farm laborer.
Year: 1867

ELASTIC PIETY.-The Virginia Trespass
says: 1t is a good thing to have about the
house. We agree with the writer who said
he would sooner trust the man whose pietv
would bend just little, under pressure, and
fly back, than him who was entirely unelas-
tic, for he would be afraid that some time the
unbending article would snap short off. We
do not believe in the pety which eats cold
potatoes on Sunday to avoid the wickedness
OF cooking; nor that which never gives up a
cent in charity, for fear the object is not
worthy There's one of our sort of pious
chaps living up town, but we'll not give the
ttreet-for he's healthy fellow. He knew
that some friends would dine with him on
Sunday, so he fired up and had big praper
meeting Friday evening-so as to have his
Sunday duties through with and credited up.
That was all right. Then, early Sunday
morning be commenced chopping off the
heads of his chickens, for huge dinner
That was all right; but. just as we were
going past to attend morning service,
chicken in hand lodged from the block, and
our pious friend swore at it for dodging.-
There he was wrong. 1t is as natural for
chicken to dodge as for a man to try to get
out of Jail and our friend ought to have
done up his swearing on Friday night
Year: 1867

The New YORK PosT OFFIcE.-The Eve.
ming Post says: Forty years ago the Post
Ofhce at the corner of Garden and William
streets, in this city, employed five clerks,
under the administration of General Dailies
The mails for the Southwest were sent by
one man, generally once or twice q week
the mail was so small that the man carried it
under his arm over the North River to meet
the mail stages on the New Jersey side
AT that time the combined press of the city
did not probably publish as many news.
papers, IN the aggregate, as the Tribune,
Herald, Times or Evening Post now do.
and all the mercantile letters received were
less IN number, in one year. than the acpre-
gate received by some thee or four of our
largest houses at the present time.


Our Post Office, which has never been
more satisfactorily mananged than at the
present time, now employs over five hundred
clerks; and four large sized four horse
wagons carry the mails from the Office to the
railroads. The average weight of these
mails is, daily, over sixty tons. Last week
one European steamer mail took from the
New York Post Office seventy-nne thous-
and letters-aud the mail for Havana took
over eight thousand. The circulation of
the Independent required last week two
hundred and forty United States mail bags
The venerable Mr. Dunn, who carried the
entire mail under his arm forty years ago, is
now eighty years Of age, and still active in
the office, and is looked upon as its father
Year: 1867

WONDER WORKING IN IRoN.-The Court
journal (London) says, in recent issue:


The ancient spectacle of Titans forging
thunderbolts for Jove has received in modern
history realization as complete in its way
as that which Puck's girde round the earth
obtains in the electric telegraph. The
marvels of science and of art bid fair to throw
into the shade all the miracles of ancient
story and all the dreams of the poets. The
picture of Eolus curbing the winds in the
icy cave is not more wonderful than that
which the Times drew this week in plain,
unvarnlshed account of iron plate rolling at
the Atlas Works in Sheffield. The narrator
showed us two hundred men half clad in
;seel armor, and .enveloped in wet sackcloth,
moving from furnace ito the mill a white
hot mass of iron, twenty tons in weight and
as many feet in length. No man dared
approach the fiery block nearer than to touch
it with implements of gigantic proportions.
Even the besoms with which they swept Its
surface were fitted to handles twenty feet
long. and the bucketfulls of water discharged
upon it exploded in volumes of steam. As it
passed through the rollers vast Jets of liquid
fire flew from its sides, with sound like the
rattle of musketry in battle. Yet it was
rolled, and guaged, and manipulated, till in
quarter of an hour it was turned out a
smooth polished plate of uniform thickness
of fifteen inches. This is the greatest tri.
umph yet achieved by the iron rollers Four
years ago it was esteemed impossible to roll
SIX inch plate, and it required ocular de-
monstration to convince the crowd of Admi


rally lords, secretaries state, and scientific
authorities, who went down to these same
works to see the thing done But the demand
for monster plates for iron coated forts has
produced this far more astounding achieve


ment and this fifteen inch armor is as much
superior in quality as in size to the plates
which first drove numerical armor out of
favor taas-. assf ras.s vn
Year: 1867

BEGGING has been reduced to a science in
Columbus. The latest application was from
a little girl at the street corner, who earnest
ly pleaded for "chaw O. tobacco for her.
sick dying mother"
Year: 1867

and with one accord give 1t their unqualified appro-
bation We now address ourselves to all who are un
acquainted with this the greatest Panacea of the age
for the healing of all diseases Of the Throat and
Lungs, assuring you that
Year: 1867

COME OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY
y you You have tried every remedy but the ONE
destined by its intrinsic merit to supersede all SIM
liar preparations is not surprising you should be
reluctant to try something else after the many
periments you have made Of trashy compounds
foisted on the public as a certain cure; but
Year: 1867

CHURCH ETIQUETTE.-Le the lady advance
Que pace beyond the door of the pew she
wishes to enter, half about face and salute
The pew must then be vacated by such
gentlemen as are in it, by flank movement.
The squad should rise simultaneously when
the lady presents herself and face by the
right flank, then deploy into the aisle, the
head man facing the lady, and the rest
walking to his right and rear, the direction
of bis halt being changed by right counter
march, and forming again into line up and
down the aisle, still faced by the right flank.
The lady, when the coast is clear, completes
her salute and advances to her seat in the
pew. The gentlemen break off by files from
the rear, and resume their places. Great
care should be taken, of course, by other
parties, not to enter the aisle when this
evolution is in progress, until it is CON-
pleted.
Year: 1867

ARTLEss SIMPLIcITY.-One of the sweetest
incidents we have noticed for many day,
and which shows the effect of early training,
assisted by pure and undefled imagination,
has just fallen under our observation. 1t is
thus related: "A lady visited New York
city and saw on the side walk ragged, cold
and hungry little girl, gazing wistfully at
some Of the cakes in the shop window. She
stopped, and taking the little one by the
hand led her in.o the store. Though she
was aware that bread might be better for the
cold child than cake, yet desiring to CRAFTY
the shivering and forlorn one, she bought.
and gave her the cake she wanted. She
then took her to another place where she
procured a shawl and other articles of com
fort. The grateful little creature looked the
benevolent lady full in the face, and with
artless implicitly, said: +" Are you Gods
wife Z" Did the most eloquent sr eaker ever
employ words to better advantage?
Year: 1867

THE Japanese in Paris have taught the
cooks at the Grand Hotel how to bake ice
creams. Freeze your ice as hard as possible,
wrap 1t very quickly in thin crust of pastry,
and put 1t in the oven. The pastry will be
baked before the ice mets (for the pastry is
good non-conductor of heat) serve hot,
and you may enjoy the pleasure of eating hot
pastry and ice cream at the same time.
Year: 1867

A STRONG PULL AND A PULL ALTO
GETHER.-Holme tells US that once
upon a time all the inhabitants of the
earth agreed to cry out at the same
moment, in order to ascertain what
a mighty noise they would make
When the time came, however, in
stead of shouting, everybody listened,
except one old deaf woman in China
The Boston Transcript thinks SIM
liar failure appears likely to be the
result of the sage proposition to pay
the national debt by imposing on
every person in the country the duty
of daily destroying FIVE cent speci
men of our fractional currency. We
have heard of only one man who
has done it for one day, and he, con
sidered himself swindled, has writer
to the Secretary of the Treasury tt
have his money refunded. Mr.. Nc
Culloch gets off by saying that it can
not be done without an act of Con
gress.
Year: 1867

ACCIDENTAL.-Two sons Of Scyler
Whittemore, of Waterville, got into
a dispute about an AK, the older one
had the best ak, which the younger
one wanted, but which his brother
would not let him have, so while US
ing it, the younger one kept thrust
ing his foot into the cut in the log as
the Ak was descending, the blows
were arrested several times, but at
last the ak descended clean through
the right foot of the small boy, cut
ting from just above the great toe to
near the side under the instep.-
NecsdedLer.
Year: 1867

OF thousand Senates or the banners
OF thousand legions.


You are here tonight to see the
snowy white flag of temperance as ii
is unfurled over the Capitol of your
country, as it rises and rises, and un.
folds to God and spreads until it shall
cover the whole land, and until there
shall not be drunkard nor moder-
ate drinker to take away the bloom
from the cheek of female beauty, and
until all the hearthstones of this land
shall blaze with comfort and joy, and
happiness and gladness shall dwell
in green freshness there.
Year: 1867

Factory cheese brings nearly E.
nough more in market over cheese of
private dairies to pay the cost Of
manufacturing at the factory. Thus
the dairyman almost literally gets his
cheese made for nothing at the fac
tory, and saves his family much hard
work.
Year: 1867

SHE Cor EVEN ON HIM.-A dissatisfied couple
in Cleveland, Ohio, quarreled, and the husband
converted his property into cash, intending to
separate altogether, and leave the city next day
He deposited S4 800 between the cloth and lin
ing of his vest, where the wife found it in the
night She substituted an old almanac and the
next day they took different trains, he going to
Toledo in bissful ignorance of his loss, and she
to her friends in Indiana with the money.
Year: 1867

A NOVEL LOVE CuRE.-A young couple plan
ned an elopement, the girl descending from her
room upon the traditional ladder but at the gate
they met by the father Of the girl and a
minister, by whom the young people es-
corted to the parlor, where, to their surprise,
they found party collected for the marriage
ceremonies, which took place at once. 1t was a
neat paternal freak Not as neat as that of
fond parent know Of He heard his daugh-
ter and her fellow plan an elopement. The next
day the old man waited upon the young man and
addressed him thus -'' You re fine, brave
youth, and don't object to you for son-in- law.
Here's hundred to aid you in the clopement.
May you live happily in the same house, and
may no accidents occur to throw the least shade
on the sunshine of your life. All that | request
is that you elope with my daughter she is a
mighty nice girl, you know, but somehow her
mother and could never travel smoothly with
her, we don't know her good points elope with
her to such distance that she won't return to
her loving father and mother any more. Good
by, sonny, and may you be happy" There was
an elopement that evening of one. The young
man went unaccompanied He thought every
thing couldn't be entirely right when the Ola
cock was so anxious to get rid of the girl Inc
father looks upon his act as very neat nlt OF
strategy for one who had never been on McClei-
Ian S staff Dramatic Chronicle.
Year: 1867

How does a COW become landed estate ?
By turning her into a field.


Question for actors: Can a man be said
to work when he playsY


1t is supposed that the man who left the
house was not able to take it with him.


What would be likely to give the best re-
port Of fire 7 A powder magazine.


Signal for bark-Pulling dogs tail.
Year: 1867

The Governors message was received
and read in both Houses before the
noon recess. 1t seems to give good
satisfaction in the main, but does no;
pass without comment for some things
that are omitted, and especially for the
lack of any reference to the question
of equal suffrage in the State.
Year: 1867

IN obedience to dispatch from Hal
flax, the New York police arreste d q
lady and her lover, who had just ar
rived in a packet ship and passed as
man and wife. The lady was OF rich
and aristocratic family in Ireland,
engaged TO a gentleman in China
whose income is Sl50,000 a year, but
she loved the young farmer from child.
hood and fled with him, as they could
not get married in Ireland. Her broth
er and cousin pursued by steamer and
telegrapked from Halifax. Superin-
tendent Kennedy reconciled the
brother to the marriage, which took
place in his Office, by an Episcopal
minister.
Year: 1867

Mr.. Houston offered a resolution to
amend the Constitution so as to extend
the elective franchise to al male and
female citizens of the State of twenty
one years and upwards. Both resolu-
tions were laid on the table to be prin-
ted