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Year: 1866

Pour four gallons of boiling water
over six pounds of washing soda (sal
soda) and three pounds of unslacked
lime: Stir the mixture well, and let it
settle until 1t is perfectly clear. It is
better to lett stand all night, as it takes
some time for the sediment to SETTLE
When clear, strain the water, put six
pounds of fat with it, and boil for two
hours, stirring it most Of the time. If
1t does not seem thin enough, put
another gallon of water on the grounds,
stir and drain Off, and add as wanted to
the boiling mixture. Its thickness can
be tried by ocoasionly putting a little
on plate to cool. Stir in d handful
of salt just before taking it from the
fire. Have a tub ready soaked, to pre-
vent the soap from sticking pour it in,
and let it settle until solid, when you
will have from the above quantity Of In
gradients about forty pounds of piee
white soap. MA Il
Year: 1866




The Shirleysburg Herald says
that about the first of January last,
Joshua Morgan, of Cromwell township,
thrashed a quantity of grain, and threw
the straw on pile in the barn yard.
About the same time, a good sized
sow, weighing about 200 pounds, mys-
teriously disappeared, and no trace OF
her could be found. A few days ago,
having occasion to remove the straw,
the SOW was found underneath, stand
ing erect, and still alive, though wasted
away to a skeleton. She was about
six feet from the surface Of the pile in
the nearest direction, and had worked
small cavity in the straw around her.
She had been thus buried four months
less four days. AT last accounts, she
was doing well and was expected to
recover.
Year: 1866

Arbitrary Imprisonment may be justifable in


war, but with the end of the war il should cease.
| The president abandoned all intention of holding


Jefferson Davis to penalties for the war when he
| decided not to execute them by military means.
To hold the leader of belligerent power, which
has had half million of men in the field. anu
| has maintained public war for four years, and
has settled it by treaty between the two armies,
to trial by jury, is simply absurd. And when
this trial must by law be held among his adher-
ents, and the jury selected from them, the appar-


ent absurdity bears the appearance of method.


Those fearful declarations Of the monstrous


nature of treason, and of the severe penalties


that were now going to be executed, that traitors
might be punished and treason made Infamous
with which the public mind was diverted for q
month after the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln,
have now dwindled to the demand that Jefferson
Davis should be tried for treason by q Virginia
jury, to settle the matter beyond all peradven-
ture that no state has the right TO secede; with
the alternative That if the jury should fail to con-
vict him. the nation would be convicted of the
guilt of million murders and of all the cevasta-
tion of the land, in resisting the rights of the
states.


This absurdity has served its purpose, and it
is time it were exploded. Mr.. Davis could not
be convicted by Virginia jury, selected accord
ing to law, And even if he could be, main
tain that the leader in great war, which took
on all the character and conditions OF public
war, is not a subject for a jury trial. And this
government, after maintaining its right of exis-
tence by a four years war, cannot put its right
to do so on trial. by jury of its late enemies, or
any other man. The intention to execute justice
on him was abandoned by the refusal to do it by
rights which the called into existence This
was the moro marked from the fact that, at the
time when he was taken, private assassins, whose
case belonged to the courts of law, and could be
safely left to them, were hurried through mill
tary trial and execution.


The intervention of Virginia jury would be
simply a subterfuge for responsibility. Having
announced his intention not to proceed in the
proper manner to admisister the penalties of war.
the president has no right to hold MIR. Davis in
perpetual imprisonment. The responsibility is
wholly on him, and cannot be shifted to anybody
else
Year: 1866

Andrew johnson was q member Of the
United States senate in 1858, when the terri
tory of Minnesota made application for ad-
mission into the United States. Objections
were made By some against her constitution,
because it conferred the right of suffrage on
unnaturalizsd aliens; but Senator johnson
oontendsd, as he does now, that outrage soas
the Constitutional prerogatiue of the states
alone, scith sOhich congress had no fright to
nsedde. The following extract from his
speech will show that he is only consistently
acting upon the convictions announced eight
years ago, and we commend it to the careful
reading of his radical opponents:


1 desire to enter my protest against doctrine
which may be supposed to be advanced here in
reference to the qualifications of the voters Of q
state. The government has power under the
constitution of the United States to q the quail
fcation of voters in any sovereign state OF tie
confederacy. want to enter my protest against
the doctrine being INDUCED in or cultivated to
any extent, that this government has pow
er to 60 inside a sovereign state and prescribe
the qualifications of her voters at the ballot box.
1t is for the state and not for the government to
do that. If the doctrine be once conceded tha,
the federal government has the power to fix the
qualifications of voters in a state, the idea oi
state sovereignty is utopian. There is no such
thing as state sovereignty if this government fix
the qualification of voters. There are simply
two things to be ascertained here: First, have
we evidence that a state has been formed? Sec
ond, have we evidence that it is republican in
form These two things being ascertained,
every thing else is for the state that applies fol
admission.
Year: 1866

Tue LADIES PRoNUNCIAMENTo.-W While
protesting against all the old worthless denti-
frices now in the market. the ladies, with one
consent, have adopted the sozodont IS the
thing needful to insure the integrity of the
teeth and a fragrant breath.
Year: 1866

The radical disunionsts of this city, on yester-
day, hred great many guns and had good deal
of rejoicing, the fact that there is split be-
tween them and their president. But they did
not rejoice any more heartily than did the demo-
Gratis at the same thing. 1t is glorious for the
country, the constitution and the democracy-
Qaincy Herald
Year: 1866

The above is one of the associated press
dispatches. This is not the FIRST exhibition
the chief justice of the supreme court of the
United States has made of his appreciation of
the dignity of his official position. in descend
ing to the political arena. Chief Justice
Chase knows that the constitutionality of the
civil rights bill has been brought into ques-
tion by some of the ablest legal talent in the
land, many of its features antsgonis,ic to the
spirit of the constitution having been forcibly
pointed out by President johnson. He
knows it is not unlikely, but on the contrary
very probable, that the supreme court may
be required TO pass upon the validity of the
act;. yet he does not hesitate to prsiudge
in the matter, for We take it he would not
nave -sIIuueu ~ Ins Vivn rights Dill at slI
had he not reioiosd 10 it. To cay that his ad-
vocacy OF negro suffrage was in bad taste is
to make only slight comment on this psrti-
san electioneering business.


The radicals have been pitching into Pres
ident Johnson for having made a speech on
the 22d of February TO number of people
who called at the White House to do him
honor, and for having used some expressions
not complimentary to Wendell Phillips, Thad.
Stevens, Chas. Sumner and John W. Forney-
But they will find nothing to condemn in the
stump speech of Chief Justice Chase, for in
the latter their OK is not goted.
Year: 1866

Men have different spheres. 1t is
for some to evolve great moral
truths, rs the heavens evolve stars
to guide the sailor on the sea and
the traveller on the desert and it is
for some, like the sailor and traveller,
simply to be guided.
Year: 1866

PHILADELPHIA, July 2G.-The Wigwam for
the accommodation of the grand National
Union Convention is already in process of
construction on Broad and Wallace streets.
1t is to be a monster in size, covering the
whole block and having three main en-
Year: 1866

One thing the National Congress ought


to do before its adjournment on Saturday,
: and that is to admit The state of Nebraska
10 the Union. This young, prosperous


and growing state has recently framed
and adopted state constitution under


the forms of law, and has elected state


officers and senators and representatives,


in Congress. Nothing is needed TO make


her a state in the Union but the action of


Congress. The exigencies of the times no


less than Justice to Nebraska herself call


upon Congress to take the necessary ac-


tion and place her among the galaxy Of


states. This is especially necessary to
| check-mate the Presidents revolu-


tionary scheme, foreshadowed in his


own actions and in the threats of


his mouth-pieees in Congress, of calling


the Senate together in special session, and


summoning to take part therein the Sen


ators elect from the Southern States


Should this be done, and the President by


the exercise of force, compel the Senate to


receive the Southern delegation, the Pres


identisl party would have majority in


the Senate. The Senate now stands,


counting the Tennessee delegation: Union
80; Johnsonites IG, vacancy from New
Jersey 1. This count gives both the
Senators from West Virginia to the Un-
ionists against johnson. The twenty |
Senators from the unrepresented Southern
States are solidly Johnsonite, that is to
say, rebel. Thus if they were admitted, or
forced, into the Senate, the johnson party
would as matters at present stand, have a
majority of one. Should the Senate sue
eeed in excluding them, however, the pro-
gramme is for them to withdraw, followed
by the entire johnson party, and set up
separate Senate, which, being the most
numerous, would be recognized by the
President as the true Senate. All this
revolutionary scheme can be nippedin
the bud by the simple admission of Ne
braska, which would make the Unionists
in the Senate 81, and give them a clear
majority in any contingency.



the Late Senator Lane


Sometime since we published scrap
of Intelligence concerning the late Senator
Lane, clipped from an exchange, to the
effect that on the very day the vote was
taken in the Senate on the Civil Rights
Bill, Lane received dispatch from the
EDITORS of the Chicago Tribune, advising
him to vote for the bill, warning him that .
~ would make the mistake of his life if i
ne should vote against it, which he show
ID to friend, with the remark that the
Mistake had been made-he would give
900 if it were undone. The Tribune f
,orrects an error in the statement. The q
lispatch was sent five or six days before ]
he vote on the Civil Rights Bill was
aiken, and Lane voted against it deliber-
Itely. He had agreed with the President
o vote against it, and the President had Il
promised to appoint Judge Davies-bro- c
her to the well-known author of Davies
Algebra relative of Lanes to the a
,fice of New York Collector. 1t was a C
egular bargain and sale arrangement,
avs the Tribune. Lane voted to sustain :
he Civil Rights Bill, but his vote failing Ii
0 kill the bill, the President event back" d
N his promise and refused to appoint
Davies Collector of the port of New
York.
Year: 1866

Masonic ACTION OF THE KING OF
PRUssIA.-The New York Masons held q
meeting recently, for the purpose of con
sidering matter to be laid before the
Grand Lodge, in relation to the Grand
Lodge of the Three Globes. through her
Grand Master, the King of Prussia, who,
it is understood, refuses to make any
masons Che being the Grand Master OF
that province) except those who &C
knowledge the Christian religion. This
action has particular reference to the
Jews. A committe was appointed to lay
the matter before the Grand Lodge, and
have that body protest against it.
Year: 1866

A CORRESPONDENT who has been over
the Pacific railroad, says: Two miles
above Colfax you pass around a precipi
tous mountain in q notch blasted in the
rock. The view is terrific. You look
down almost perpendicularly thousandi
of feet. The road from Illinoistown Is
seen winding down to the river, and On
up the other side to Iowa Hill. 1t is q
fearful view. Should train of cars ever
run off in passing round "Cape Horn
death to every living thing on board, and
complete destruction must inevitably
result
Year: 1866

seems incredible. Can such disloyal
conduct be denounced in too severe
terms? At the present hour. when the
feelings and prejudices that prevail at
the South should be assuaged and re-
strained, how utterly debased are these
Northern miscreants. who seek in this
insidious manner to stimulate them to
the utmost-the verge Of treason itself.
But these efforts are temporary in their
effect. The day will come when the
descendants of those that fought against
the government will be as ashamed of
the conduct of their ancestors as the
grandchildren of the tories of the revo-
luton.
Year: 1866

There will be a vacancy in the Terri
tohal Legislature, caused by the resigna-
ton of Mr.. Maxwell. who was elected TO
to the assembly from this county. This
will be the occasion of a special election.
There is some talk of the man for this
Place which need not now be made pub
lie; but we hope to be able to send to
Virginia from Edgerton county, at least
one good Union man, and perhaps a
seif-riser" at that. HAL.
Year: 1866

hR- EplToE


/ heard . robin and blue bird say.
that " the coid weather had mostly gone
hy. But perhaps Won are so much of =
sceptlc as 70 inquire. as they do not
study astronomy or almanac making.
how can birds tell ?" l reply. they live
out of doors, and have very nice in
stincts, apd often guess very correctly
IF they are right this time You will not
send out many more weeklies, till those
who have maple orchards will be making
Sugar Now, Mr. Editor, | wish TO
make one trade with these men. that if |
will tell them secret hy which they can
save one fifth of their wood ttev will
bring in to you and me one tenth OF all
they save by II in good molasses. You
know that in these times ministers and
editors are too poor TO indulge in such
luxuTies.


You promise. do YOU. sugar makers p
Then | will tell YOU the secret Put lids
or covers upon all your kettles, leaving
n little corner open for the steam to es
cape. and keep this hole stopped till il
begins TO boil The steam, that is, the
evapogS.ed water, is SO much lighter
than the air, that it will all escape
through small opening, and this cover.
together VITA the current of steam
through the opening, viii keep all SCOT
and dirt from falling into the kettle to
color the sugar.


The philosophy of the matter is, that
the cold air constantly falling on the
surface Of the kettle will make it require
a fourth or fifth more heat 10 make a
kettle boil with the cover off than on
Who has not noticed how quick a kettle
will stop boiling over as quick as you
take the lid off Try it. Sugar Maker,
and if l have told you the truth, don't
forget your promise.


Sorghum Makers, if Won will make US
the same promise, ! will tell YOU of q
man who makes maple and sorghum mo
lasses in the same eyaporators, and save.
with both 1t least one fifth Of his wood.


HENRY LITTLE.
Year: 1866

The new year had hardly been en-
throned before a witty :. knight of the
quill is making the following sage pre-
dictions:


The year 1866 will be an eventful one
to every maiden who gets married.


Throughout the whole course of the
year. whenever the moon wanes the
nights will grow dark.


Whoever is in love this year will
think his mistress an angel Whoever
gets married will find out whether it is
true.


He that loses his hair this year will
grow bald. He that loses his wife will
become a widower.


If a young lady should happen to
blush she will look red N the face II
she dreams of young man three nights
in succession, it will be sign of some
thing If she dreams of him four times
or have the toothache, it is ten to one
that she is long time getting either one
Of them out of her head.


If any one jumps overheard withou;
KNOWN how 10 swim. it is ten to one be
gets drowned.


IF any one lends an umbrella, it is
ten to one he is obliged to 60 home in
the rain for his pains.


Whoever runs in debt this year will be
dunned.


MANY an old sinner will resolve tc
turn over a new leaf this year, but the
new leaf will turn ont blank
! It is probable that if there is no bus
iness doing. people will complain oI
hard times, but il is certain that those
who hang themselves will escape stary.
! ing to death.
Year: 1866

Ir hfe's journey-as we see
'Ts indeed by many a token
Oh, then, trow, the road will be
Not always smooth or always broken.
But march we over rugged stone,
Or march we over trodden gravel,
With friends around US, or alone,
We must keep moving on our travel.
Tramp, tramp, when skies are fair,
Tramp, tramp, when storms blowing


If we find


We lag behind
steadfast heart viii keep Us going
Many path will seem more plain,
Many knave will lie and cozen:
But hold thine own with might and main,
And keep the track that thou hast chosen.
It's in the light and in the dark,
It's over hill and through the hollow;
Well fix our eyes upon the mark,
And if we cannot lead, We'll follow.
Tramp, tramp, when skies are fair,
Tramp, tramp, when storms blowing


If our strength


Should fail at length,
A steadfast heart will keep Us going.
The hOrseman and the charioteer
Go Fastening by with mighty clatter;
God speed them all and if they jeer
The tramps afoot, what does it matter7
Grudge them not the present hour,
Nor faint and murmur like a carven,
For when the day has lost its power,
There is for all a common haven.
Tramp, tramp, when skies fair,
Tramp, tramp, when storms are blowing;


As the light


Dies down night,
A steadfast heart will keep us going.


Cassel's Family Paper.
Year: 1866

EE-Several hundred miles Of the core or
interior portion Of the new Atlantic telegraph
cable are completed. The Great Eastern is
chartered to 60 to sea in June, 1866, for
the double purpose of laying an entirely new
cable and Of raising the broken end of the
one thousand one hundred miles of cable
laid last year, 80 as to splice additional cable
thereto, and thus, if successful, furnish the
public with second means Of communica.
ton. This one thousand one hundred miles
Of submerged cable is ascer,ainsd to be in
the most perfect order by daily tests taken
from the time it broke, and still continued
daily. The buoys at the end of it are wash.
ed away, "but this" writes Mr.. Saward "is
of no consequence, as they were intended
only for temporary purpose, the spot for
grapneling having been laid down by solar
observations, so that good navigator can
at any time sail to within half mile of the
broken CABLE"
Year: 1866

AZ few days since resolution was in.
troduced in the Assembly declaring that the
Union, and it was instantly voted down.
Another was brought in, to the effect that
those States were not in the Union, but it
could not pass. Somebody suggested that
they ought to be if they we're not lie was
hooted down. Another thought they ought
not to be in. He was pronounced traitor.
A reverend member declared they were
neither in nor out, and never ought to be.
That settled the matter. This may not have
been the precise course of proceedings at a
particular time, but it is a fair epitome of
the whole course Of the Legislature, as we'll
as of Congress, on the subject.


1ulare Times.
Year: 1866

We never saw a newspaper that was not
worth greatly more than its cost in family.
1t is to great extent true Of every collection
of written matter, book or newspaper, but more
especially of the latter, for it covers much
greater variety of subjects, and is necessarily
more condensed. 1t is well known fact that
there is no royal road to learning. The brain,
full of knowledge whose activity sends light
over our daily pathway has been acquired by
hard and constant study. Every book and
newspaper whicj, the careful or careless reader
picks up is filled with results of laborious in
vestigatiop Take The single Issue of weekly
paper, 1.-THE Free Press for instance and see in
It's editorials, its financial articles, its reviews,
its mere drudgery Of daily facts, its quips and
quidditics, its philosophy and fun, how much
care and labor must have been bestowed to fur
nish it all with the regularity of ones meal
1t makes no pretensions. 1t is furnished to
every man for fraction of what his ice or any
one of the simple luxuries of hishousehold costs
him, and yet it is teeming with thoughts which
are constantly influencing hisactions, and form
ing the opinions of his children to govern their
after lives. Into the columns of the newspaper
come thematured opinions ofthe greatest think
ers and statesmen of the old world and the new,
and at cost, compared with the value of the
information acquired, utterly insignificant in
amount. No man, no head Of a family espec-
tally who would properly qualify bis children
to pass respectfully, proftably and with salts
faction to themselves through the world, should
ever deny to them the advantages of daily,
or at least, weekly newspaper.
Year: 1866

tIiuVSNVCC'


A new instrument has been invented by the
aid of which an individual is able to see all
that is going cn in his own eye. 1t is simply
an opaque shell to cover the eye pierced in tho
center with very small hole. On looking
through steadfastIy at the sky, or at any diffu-
sed light, the observer may watch the tears
streaming over the globe, and note the dilation
and contraction Of the iris, and even see the
aqueous humor poured in when the eye Is fa-
tigrcd by long observation. 1t is needless 10
say that with the aid of this instrument man
can easily find out whether he has cataract
or not. If he has, he will only see sort OF
veil covering luminous disc, which is seen by
healthy eye. The instrument is certainly
simple and curious, and will no doubt excite
attention in those who are anxious TO know
more of themselves. An " iridoscope may bo
readily extemporized by making hole with .
fine needle in the bottom of pill-box.


Medical Reporter.
Year: 1866

TIE Washington correspondent of the Bultetn
writes as follows in regard to the passage of the
Civil Rights bill


If there is any truth in the grateful doctrine
that past generations can take cognizance OF what
is going on in their lifetime abode, with what de-
light must the spirits of our revolutionary sires
have looked down upon the American Senate on
the memorable day when, sitting beneath the
snowy dome and bronze statue of Liberty, this
corrolary of the Declaration was finally approved


We respectfully suggest to the editor of the
sounds very much as though it should have been
written by Benz. P Avery.
Year: 1866

Result OF A HORSEBACK RIDE.-From one OF
the amusing and entertaining Honolulu sketches
which " Mark Twain " is writing for the Union,
we make the following extract" have ridden
fifteen or twenty miles on horseback since 5, P.
NJ, and to tell the honest truth, have delica-
cv about sitting down Mt all. am one of the
poorest horsemen in the world, and / never mount
a horse without experiencing a sort of dread that
| may be setting out on thatlast mysterious jour-
ncv which all of us must take sooner or later,
and never come back in safety from horseback
trip without thinking of my latter end for two
or three days afterward. This same old regular
devotional sentiment began just as soon as | sat
down here five minutes ago"
Year: 1866

EVIDENCE of the prurient curiosity which wo-
men of virtue sometimes feel about the ways Of
the depraved of their own sex, was given 10 Gin
cinnati the other day. The occasion was the sale
of the furniture of q well-known brothel The
house was crowded with women Of all social and
moral grades. well-bred ladies jostled keepers
and inmates of establishments like that they had
come to see, and bid against them for whatever
article took their fancy, with no apparent sense
of impropriety. Among the meetings recorded
was one Of lady who made her way through
the crowd to her husband, and pinched his arm,
saying, 81 thought should find you here -