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Year: 1866

COMPENSATION TO LOYAL OWNERS
FoR ENLISTED SLAvEs.-The follow
ing is a copy of the important section
relating to the payment of loyal own
ers of slaves taken as soldiers. There
was a severe contest in both Houses
over this section, on the part of mem
bers from the border States: "That
so much of any money in the Treasu-
~ known as the Communication Fund
as may be necessary, be and the same
is hereby appropriated for the pay
ment to loyal persons claiming service
or labor for colored volunteers or
drafted men, the amounts heretofore
or hereafter to be awarded them under
the provisions of section twenty four
of the act entitled An act to amend an
act entitled an act for enrolling and
calling out the National forces, and
for other purposes, approved Fcbrua
ry q, 1864, for each person so claim
ed to be held to service or labor. who
has enlisted or been drafted into the
military service Of the United States.
But such payments shall in no case be
made to any person except upon sat
iSfactory proof that the claimant has
firmly and faithfully maintained his or
her adherence and allegiance to the
Government Of the United States, by
defending its course against the Gov
ernment and forces of the so-called
Confederate States of America, in all
suitable and practicable ways, and ac-
cording to his or her ability and OPP
portunity. Provided that no money
shall be paid under the foregoing pro-
vision until the final report Of the com
missioners under the act aforesaid
shall have been made on all the claims
embraced in the twenty-fourth section
OF said act"
Year: 1866

THE SPEcULAroR.-His wealth is
imaginary and no where. He contracts
debts aud calculates on miracles to..pay
them. He trusts everybody and every
body trusts him while the ball can be
kept up, and when it falls to the ground
they all roll away and perish together
The idea of owing more than he can
ever reasonably expect to pay, does not
rob him of a wink of sleep or disturb
his reposc for moment. Eat, drink
and be merry, for to morrow we die
is his maxim. He lives as if this world
were at his command he dcspises the
sordid maxim of cutting his coat ac,
cording to the cloth, for the cloth be-
longs to others; he goes the way Of all
flesh, and when his books are examined
by the assignees, is found that though
lie has lived like a prince and spent
his hundreds of thousands, there never
was time when he would have far.
thug left after his debts were paid.
Year: 1866

In speech at Buffalo, the other day.
the Fenian President, Roberts, con-
cluded with the following extract from
volume V. Of the forthcoming works Of
p. NJ. Wetmore:


The day Of Irish liberty is approach
ing, and in friendly spirit I ask yor
to extend your hand to every other peo
pie who are struggling for liberty; helT
to enslave no man and remember that
God created us all in his own image
that He looks not so much ut the color
of the face as at the color of the heart.
Year: 1866

We take the following eloquent trib'
ute to the memory Of Gen. John G.
Carter, of Tennessee, killed at the bat
tie Of Franklin, from the eulogy on the
Life and Character of Hon. Nathan
Green, delivered at Lebanon last June,
by Col. Horace Rice, Of that place:


The next to join that pale, silent pro
cession of the dead, was the young,
the noble, the gifted and chivilric Car
ter. In 1861, when the tocsin of war
rcverberated through the land, and the
shrill notes of the bugle were heard
along our valleys and hill-tops, sound
ing the call to arms, lie was among the
first of those gallant spirits who raj
lied under the banner Of the South.


He entered the army as a Lieutenant,
but his efficacy in camp and on the
march, his skill and fertility ofresource,
his cool courage, dashing bravery and
princely bearing in the hour OF danger,
soon rendered him the idol Of his
troops, and caught the eye of bis su-
pcrior officers. He was rapidly pro-
NOTED from one position to another,
until at the battle of Franklin, where
ended his glorious career, he held the
rank of Brigadier General, and COM
manded Que of the brigades in that far
famed corps Of Tennesseeans, the i'm.
mortal Cheatham' Division n-the "Old
Guard of the Army Of Tennessee.
There are those here who witnessed
his deeds ofprowess on that field OF
blood. The first grand charge had
been made along the lines, and the Con-
federates were everywhere repulsed,
save at one point, where handful OF
men, by skillful manGuvre had ef-
fected lodgment in the enemy's
works.


The Federals are making desperate
effort to retake the position and with
terrible odds press tiercely upon that
devoted little band. Upon the issues
of that struggle hangs the fate of the
day. There is a momentary lull in the
storm OF battle, and all eyes are turned
to that point where the dark masses are
gathering to renew the onset and come
to the rescue. A splendid horseman
is seen riding in front of the lines,
speaking words Of encouragement to
his men, and infusing into their souls
the spirit of his own daring courage
At length all is ready-the command
Forward p rings out loud and clear
upon the air, and the column begins to
move.


"The war that for space did fail,


Now trebly laundering swclls the gale


And Carter is the cry!'


Those brave men move steadily for
ward barring their noble breasts to the
pitiless storm of grape and canister and
minnie that pours on them, and the
splendid horseman is still seen tower
ing at their head, his eye lighted up
with the fire of battle, and his clarion
voice rising high above the crash OF
musketry and the roar of artillery. But
suddenly he goes down and the rider
less steed dashes madly over the plain.
The fatal ball has performed its mission,
and in the midstof that wild carnival
Of death, the noble Carter is borne
from the field. He now rests beneath
the green sod Of that sunny land he
loved so well, and for which he gave
his life. ...


His sword leaps not at the long loud cry,
Nor starts and streams with crimson dye;
He shouts no charge nor the brave line


leads,


But he sleeps in the grave of glorious


deeds"
Year: 1866

In an address the other day to the
students of Yale College, Gen. Sherman
is reported to have said look at the
flag as christian object. Obey its
dictates and follow its leaders. Asyou
60 out into life you will find opport'l-
mites enough to stand up for it--you
may even have chance to fight for it.
] tell you that before you pass from
the stage there will be fighting, in com
parison with which mine will be slight,
and I have had enough
Year: 1866

How few of us know the Importance of a
supply Of fresh air We willfully keep out
the floods of that sunlight which is neces-
sary to the health of our bodies, and the
deprivation of which is perhaps the great
est source Of scrofula and all diseases of
which it is the origin; but, as if to bring
into full development, all the maladies thus
created, we deprive ourselves! of the air
Of heaven, the pabulnm which is the sup
port of all nature, animal and vegetable.


The same contrivances, constituted to pre-
vent ray of the sun gaining access to our
dwellings, are generally sufficient to keep
out fresh air also. But these are not
enough in all cases to injure our health suf-
ficiently and so we devise other methods to
accomplish our objects more effectually--
We shut up our houses tightly, not only to
keep the sun from coming in at the windows
but we do the same on the north side of our
dwellings,. Many of our people never open
their doors and windows except when driv-
en- to do so by the melting heat but in the
cooler portions of the year every opening is
closed except in the morning when the house
is busted out" At this time the windows
are opened for afew minutes while the dust
is suffocating, but when enough has been
driven out by the wind to make breathing
just possible, down go the sashes,as if there
were pestilence in the atmosphere The
fires are replenished, land owing to the want
Of draught or the impurity of the air in the
room, burn but feebly, and their fumes of
sulphureted hydrogen and carbonic acid
gas fill the atmosphere of the room with a
still larger quantits of poison, and at night
the carburetted hydrogen of the gaslights
infect the air still more.


1t is strange that with our lungs filled
with dust and poisonous vapors, and gas
I ses from the very impure exhalations aris-
ing from several human bodies sitting to-
gether, is it strange, we say that we should
complain of headache and general debility
And then again, what little air is admit
ted is but too often poisoned before it reach.
es the door or window, and bearing evi
dence that in it's passage it has come under
the corrupting influence of the cesspool OF
the filth of our streets and cutters.


! In addition to all this, how many are
yearly killed by the supposition in regard
to the night air--that it is unhealthful Il
perchance, a window should be found open
at the approach of night, it is carefully lei
down, and the consequence is that the all
of the chamber next morning is sitting
We complain of feverishness when WE
awake, and OF headache, lassitude and hor
rid dreams, all of which We could easily ac
hours we had been breathing poison. Thi


poison is the more potent, the more pei
sons occupy the same room
Year: 1866

Spell-bound, often have I listened,
To the wild and plaintive tone
Of the wind-harp in the forest,


Wailing for the loved and gone,
There's a sadness I've endeavored
To dispel, but all in vain,
As listen to the meanings


Of the fitful autumn rain.
Gold and crimson leaves are falling
Thickly all about the ground,
And their rustic meath the football
Hath a melancholy sound.
Like the leaves our lives are fading,
Death will sometime come to all;
Youth and age alike are covered


With the gloomy funeral pail.
There's a sense of desolation,


And thrill of almost pain,
That steals DER me as listen


To the wild, sad autumn rain,
l forget each joy or pleasure


Which my life had ever known,
And remember but the sorrows
That were in my pathway strown.
Dark and dreary seems the Future,
And the Present COLI and chill,
And the patter of the rain drops
Fen my very heart doth thrill,
Oh! | love the rain of summer,
Falling in refreshing showers,
Waking earth to joyous beauty,
Cheering all the dropping flowers,
But when twilight shadows deepen,
Listening to the lonely strain
Qike an outcast spirit roving,)
Of the mournful autumn rain.
Ofttimes my heart grows weary,
AS the shadows DER me creep,
And I've felt a strange wild longing
For the last eternal sleep.
Year: 1866

one permission to make such q statement
II IS more reasonable TO suppose that some
gosslpper, thrilled by the intelligence of the
"windall, " has allowed his Imagination to
picture, as Melnotte pictured 10 Pauline, a
iairy palace with marble halls by the Lake oil
Como. Yet it would'not be surprising if the
fortunate possessor Of thirty-fve millions in
solid gold should desire to erect here-where
years of toll have been expended to furnish
daily support-a mansion suitable to life
OF luxury and ease, and credimble to the city
which she adopted as a home.


we congratulate Mrs. Walker and her
family upon their good fortune. She will be,
when in full possession of her property, the
richest woman in the United States. But
she is said to be woman of good sense, and
will not place herself beyond the reach OF
those who have been her friends during the
years she has lived here; already we learn
that it is her purpose to make one family
at least, in whom she is interested, indie.
pendent of want; and we shall probably be
called upon hereafter 10 chronicle other
charitable deeds which her generosity will
prompt
Year: 1866

Acloud upon the sky
Flowers close their cups, the butterfly his


wing,
The restless birds all cease at once to sing,
The shivering leaves foretell a shower is


nigh;


Let the gray evening darken into night,
To-morrow's sun will shine more bright
Such clouds as this pass by!
A cloud upon the browl
A palsy of the thought so free before,
A sense of effort never known of yore,
A sudden change 'twixt yesterday and now,
1t we would scan it, it eludes the sight,
And yet our spirits own its subtle might
win this cloud pass, and how2


A cloud upon the heartl
What pleased of late, has lost its charm


to-day;
The trust undoubting seems misplaced and


bold,


The kindly words sound distant, stiff and cold
The form remains the life has passed away
Each shrouded spirit acts its former part,
Smile still meets smile, but heart is far from


heart.


Will this cloud e'er pass2


What wrought the clouds we mournI
Was it some truth outspoken, love SHOULD


hide?


Some want of reverence in a playful mood
Some thought conhded and not understood
Some chill to feeling, or some shock tt


pride?
Enough they're risen-grief and tears ar


vain,
After the darkness and bursts of rain,
Such clouds as these return
Year: 1866

!. Father, dear father. come home with ne row
The clock in the steeple strikes one
You said you we're coming right home from the shop
AS as yeur days work was done.
Our fire has gone out-our house is an dark
And mothers been watching tea
With poor brother Benny. so sick. in her arms,
And no one to help her but me,


Come home come home come home


Please, father dear father, come home
Father, dear father, come home with me
The clock in the steeple strikes two,
The night has grown coIder-and Benny is worse
But he has been calling for you.
Indeed he is wo.se-ma says he viii die;
Perhaps before morning shall dawn
And this is the message she sent me to brirg
Gene quickly, or he will be gone
Father. dear father, come home With me now
The clock in the steeple strikes three
The house is so lonely the hours are 20 long
For poor weeping mother and me
Yes we are alone-p poor Benny is dead
And gone with the angels of light
And these were the We ry last words ihat he said
Il want to kiss p'pa tonight !"


Come home come home come home


Please, father, dear father. come home
Hear the sweet voice of the child,


Which the night-winds repeat as they roam
Oh who could resist the most plaintive ofprayer5
Please, father. dear father me home
Year: 1866

SIGNs.-f any person wishes to see speci-
mems of Beale's handsome signs let them 20
through Exchange Street and notice the many
he has already put up. There are many more
to come from this establishment The signs OF
Warren Sparrow on the Bank of Cumberland
building, are deserving of notice for the taste
and beauty displayed in their execution.
Year: 1866

KEENE, N. H., Deco
There was an unsuccessful attempt to enter
the Ashuelot National Bank in this place last
night The robbers broke into the banking
room and attempted to force open the iron door
of the vault by drilling through it two holes,
but failed to even disturb the lock. After ex-
amining the drawers in the bank room and
finding nothing of value, they left.
Year: 1866

In the carly settiement OF our country the
greatest anxiety was, how our people could get
enough of good wholesome food. Now the
manner of living has changed, so that many
people really suffer, and enough of every kind
around them. Why is this? 1t is because their
food distresses them. Buy one bottle of Mains
Elderberry Wine and you will getrelicf Then
buy case. dec4tf
Year: 1866

EXPLOSION AT THE GLASS WoRKs.-One of
the glory holes"-a small furnace in the heat
er, fed by oil-at the Glass Works, exploded
Tuesday, shaking the brick work upon which
stood the oil tank, and injuring eight of the
employees, four of them badly, but not fatally.
One of them, a boy, was taken to the hospital,
and the others were well cared for. AS the ex-
plosion was gaseous one, it is supposed the
vents had become choked so that the gas could
not escape. The works were not hindered in
manufacture by the accident. One workman
states that in his experience of thirty years in
glass works, he has never heard of but one case
of this kind previous to the present one
Year: 1866

THE LAST SURRENDER other day a
fugitive and rerusant Confederate soldier was
discovered in the depth of swamp in one of
The Southern States. On being questioned
As t. what he was doing there. he stated that
he was On his way TO join his command. The
situation being explained to him, he promptly
marched with all his accoulremen,s to The
nearest post, surrendered himself. and was
paroIed. The same recognition of the fact
of hostilities have now definitely ceased was
shown few days ago at Petersburg. A
small squad OF outstanding veterans Of the
Army of Northern Virginia, who have been
living in a cave in the vicinity of that city
since The surrender at Appoma'tox, sought
the officer in command at "Cockade City,"
and declardel themselves WiSoners-of war, ,
ard like the solitary dweler in the swamp
above mentioned, were duly paroled. These
final suIrenders Of the debris of the ConfeI-
crate forces surely end the war. How long
will the Radicals refuse to furl the battle-hag?
Year: 1866

The following letter was written in reply
to an invitation from the special committee
Of the Soldiers and Sailors Convention to
act as Chaplain at Cleveland on the l7lh Of
September.
Year: 1866

The amount of land in sorghum is re-
ported as very large. This certainly was
to be expected, from the great price sugar
and molasses have borne for some years
past. The manufacture of syrup contin-
ues to be the only profitable aim of the
sorghum boiler, for when we'll made, it is
valuable and marketable article. The
sugar, what there is of it, has an unccr-
tain value, as it is Of very variable
quality,


The time of harvesting is after the seed
has passed the milky state If necessary
to begin early, so as to prolong the boil
ing season, portion may be cut a little
sooner. but it is better to cut later and
stack the cane. Strip the leaves from the
cane before cutting up, and top below the
second joint. ........... ,...


We will not advise as to the best cane
mills or evaporating pans. There are sew
eral good ones, and like moving machines,
their excellencies make them very nearly
equally valuable.


The boiling should be conducted rap
idly in shallow pans, so that the scum
may be removed. If it is possible, boil
the juice and finish it before it has been
exposed to the air by standing; but that
which is somewhat reduced will better
bear exposure than that freshly expressed.
The skimming should be very thorough,
aud the hot syrup sho'ld be passed through
a filter or strainer of wire gauze to re-
move specks, etc.
Juice of good quality may be evaporat-
ed and purified without the use of defeca-
ting articles like lime, soda, eggs, milk,
ETC. but when it is necessary to use them,
lime is the best neutralizer of acids, and
eggs the best coagulator, though fresh bull
locks blood is much cheaper. These sub,
stances are only added in the finishing
process, and will all be removed by the
skimmiDg


Economy in fuel is a very important
subject. The fire should burn freely, no
more air ought to be admitted than will
aid the combustion, and all cracks where
air can enter except below the fire should
be stepped by clay and sand lutlng. The
fire should play along the bottom Of the
pan, and all the heated air pass as close
to the pan as is consistent with good
draft r .a. #0.


Nothing is gained in concentrating the
sysup too much. and it is done only at
the risk of scorching. 1t should be about
the thickness of good West India or New
Orleans molasses. .---Americ@s Agrscuttu-
riSk.
Year: 1866

For the Newsdeaer.
SONG OF HANCoCK's VETERAN CORPS.
We are a band of veterans of Hancock's Veteran
Corps,
We've served our country long and WE'LL and now
we're in once more;
We'd seen so much of war before, we thought
we'd see it through,
Rut nowthe war is ended and we'v no more to do
CHORUS Hurrah Hurrah


For Hancock's Corps, Hurrah


Hurrah for the brave old badge,


That bears the single star.
prove Hancock is our leader,-soldier tried and
true.
We often followed him before where bullets
thickly flew;
His record is well known to fame we love our
General well.
But we love his gallant deeds for history TO tell
CHORUS.
Our ranks are filled with worthy men no better
can you find,
As long as traitors We're in arms we could not
stay behind
Though home and friends we lov'd SO well might
tempt us to remain,
We buttoned on our uniform and took the field
again.
CHORUS:
IT'S true we got especial and local bounty
too,
And none but base and sordid souls will say
twas not our due
| -. AL ,bop hon 10


were not known.
And in our country's darkest days we thought OF
| her alone.
| CHORUS:
But now we claim our work is done, and ask for


our release,
From those restraints which are bore in quiet


days of peace;
Let Regulars and Mokes remain, but let the Vol
unteer
Return, to cultivate his fields, and mourning


friends to cheer


CHORUS:
Our brothers are returning home, and why should
! we remain
To waste the pleasant summer hours in shows


that now are vain
True manhood sickens at the thought of every


Grand Review,
And soldiers fit for civil life will sigh for some.


thing new.


CHORUS:
A single star was seen to guide the Shepherds on


their way,
And pointed where the sacred Babe in a rude


manger lay;
The star of Hope can cheer the heart WIENER 1t


greets the view.
And if our star will lead us home we'll sing Its
praises too.


CHORUS
The star of Empire takes Its way still Westward
we are told;
Our Country's star is shining now as in the days


of old
The sacred star of Woman's Love the soldiers
spirit guides;
Then let us cheer with right good will our star


with seven sides.


CHORUS


CAMP SToNEMAN, Washington, D. c.
June 25, 1865.
Year: 1866

We have always thought that our
workmen might initiate one practice of
their German brethren with advantage.
On attaining his majority the German op-
erative is obliged to travel through GER
tain parts of the country and learn tho
different processes and methods of practic-
ing his art before he can settle down and
follow his calling on his own account
The tendency of this rule which is imper-
ative, is to improve and enlarge the ideas
Of the mechanic. Working in one town
continually, the artisan becomes familiar
with the methods there practiced and
whether good or bad, he is acquainted
with these only. He is apt to become
man of one idea, and to think that the
mechanical world is bounded by the limits
Of his own factory. 1t is unnecessary to
remind the thinking reader that such a
course is directly opposed to progress.


10 become thorougly imbued with
sense of Importance to travel as a means
of developing and educating the mechanic,
one has only to observe the different modes
of doing the same piece of work in differ
ent places. For instance, one man has
bed plate to plane he roughs it off; takes
half-a-dozen cuts where one would suffice,
anu dallies with the work, when an euer-
getic business. like way Of going at it
would have done the same thing in half
the time New tools, new uses for old
tools, processes, material and designs, are
only found by travelling about among me-
chanics, and by getting acquainted with
what is trapspiring in the world Of art
outside Of the sphere in which an indiyid-
ual may dwell. ay.9 ffa di4 nlt
Year: 1866

GREAT MORTALITY IN PHuApELrnIA.-
There were seven hundred and sixteen
deaths In Philadelphia last week--some
thing unprecedented for that city, OF
these, eight were caused by cholera. aud
forty y-four by sunstroke This unusual
mortality Is aseribed 10 the extreme heat
which was greater than has been known
them since l77s, The deaths for the eorre-
spending week last year were not SO many
BY two hundred and seventy three.
Year: 1866

a May day festival. We doubt not that
its patrons will get their moneys worth
of rational enjoyment but even if that
were not certain, by purchasing the
tickets which will admit them to 1t,
they will be doing something 10 ala the
Rutland Missionary Association In its
efforts to purchase building for the ac-
commodahon Of the Mission School, and
the other benevolent objects for which
it was organized. That Association has
already done much good, but it would
accomplish much more if ithad a 'local
habltation" as well as 'name." We
hope, then, that the endeavors to enter
tain its friends on May Day will be
doubly successful, that it will give them
pleasure, and do something towards CIV
ing now houseless charity home.