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Year: 1867

UTILITY OF BEARDs.-There are moro
solid inducements for wearing the beard


than the mere improvement of mans per-
sonal appearance, and the cultivation of such


an aid to the every day diplomacy Of life.


Nature combining, as she never fails to do.


the useful with the ornamental, provides us


with far better respirator than science


could ever make, and Ie that is never 80


hldeous to wear as that black seal upon the


face that looks like passport to the realms
OF suffering and death. The hair of The nous.


tache not only absords the moisture and
mlasma OF the iogs, but it strains the air
from the dust and SCOT of our great cities.
1t acts also in the most scientific manner.
by taking heat from the warm breath as il
leaves the chest, and supplying it to the cold
air taken in. 1t is not only a respirator,
but, with the beard entire, we are provided
with comforter as well; and these are never
left at home, like the umbrellas, and all such
appliances, whenever they are wanted. Mof>
fat and Livingstone, the African explorers.
and many other travellers, say that in the
night no wrapper c&n equal the beard. Tho
remarkable thing is, too, that the beard,
like the hair of the head, protects against
the heat of the sun but more than this, it
becomes moist with the perspiration, aud
then, by evaporation, cools the skin. A man
who accepts this protection of nature may
face the rudest storm and the hardest wins
ter. He may go from the hottest room into
the coolest air without any dread and we
verify believe he might almost sleep in mo-
rass with impunity at least his chance Of
escaping q terrible fever would be better
than his beardless companions.
Year: 1867

Her hands are cold; her face is white;
No more her pulses come and go;
Her eyes are shut to life and light:


Fold the white vesgure snow on snow
But lay her where the vloless blow.
But not beneath craven stone,


To plead for tears with alien eyes;
4 slender cross of wood alone


Shall say that here maiden lies


In peace, bene tn the peaceful skies.
And gray old trees Of hugest limb


Shall wheel their circIing shadow round,
To make their scorching sunlight dim
That drinks the greennes IS from the ground
And drops the dead leaves on her mound.
When Ger their boughs the squirrels run,
And through their leaves and robins call,
And ripenIng in the autum's sun


The acorns and the chestnuts fall,


Doubt not that she will heed them all.
For er the morning choir shall sing
It's mathis from the branches high
And every minstrel voice of spring


That thrills beneath the April sky,


Shall greet her with its earliest cry.
At last the rootlets Of the trees


Shall find the prison where she lies,
And bear the buried Dust they seize


In leaves and blossoms to the skies;
So many the soul that warmed it risei
If any, born Of kindlier blood,


Should ask: What maiden sleeps below?
Say only this: A tender bud,


That tried to blossom in the snow,
Lies withered where the yiolets blow 4!
Year: 1867

faithful servants, "a living child was wash
ed ashore from the wreck and such wee
winsome thing she is, that we thought
you would like to see her. 1t might put
you in mind Of dear little lady Annette. !"


Very pale aud exhausted looked our
Minnie, for it was she. She had been
very neatly drowned with her Indian
nurse, but the efforts of the kind cottas-
ers restored her; and the lady of the hall
bent over her and kissed her, promising
to be mother tt the little one until her
own mother should come and claim her.


That little French village became Min
MES home until she almost forget her own
language, and learned that Of her adopted
parents. She did not know what noble
life was risked to save her from the burn
ing ship.


Years went by, and one day postmah
brought letter with strange stamp. Tt
was from Arthur, and it told long story;
how he had been rescued by passing ship,
after being two days on that little raft,
and how he had been carried far away, for
the ship that rescued them vas bound to
distant port. He had tried, he wrote
far and near to trace each vestige Of the
wreck, and had at last found out where
she was. He was now on his way to take
her to his mother, who had recovered and
returned to England


Minnie heard it with bewildering sur
prise, and SO did the Lady Eleanor, her
adopted mother; but when Arthur came
she went with him to England


Very sweet it was to the invalid moth
er to see hel own English home again;
butit was sWeeter yet to clasp her chill
dren to Ter bosom, given back to her, as
1t seemed, from the very shadow of death
given back to be hers forever.
Year: 1867

Correspondence OF the RepuDncan-


As in our former letter, we stopped in
the mud with about sixty miles Of night
before us we will now proceed to COM
piete the description. After changin 6
teams at Smiths we rode along without
tpoling our way except where there was
a v61y bad place. To sleep was out Of the
question, but lively stories and jovial com
pahions served to make the time pass off
pleasantly We met the coach from En-
poria somewhere between Smiths and
Ridgeway; the drivers changed; our
new driver not having had supper, conse-
queLtly appeared very angry towards our
old one for being so much behind the
usual time. When we arrived at Ridge
way the driver found fifth passenger,
and was about to take him and his Dag
gage to Burlingame, some fifteen or twen-
ty miles ahead We thought it poor pol
icy for the stage to have any more passen-
gers, and so expressed ourselves to the
driver. We told him we were willing
to submit to anything within Reason, but
did not think he could reasonably ask us
to have fifth passenger packed in with
US to sit three on seat, while we were
paying nearly twelve cents per mile, and
with a prospect of walking one-half the
time with the present load. He flew in
to passion, and swore that he would let
US know that he was running that coach
himself "The man should go, and should
ride inside" As we had made a special
agreement with Mr. Pike, the agent for
T;nsdale & Co., that we were to constitute
the load, we did not yield and the con-
sequence was, the passenger did not ride
to Burlingame that night.


We did not get out Of the coach until
daylight, when we found ourselves on a
most beautiful rolling prairie, with belts
of timber on either side but not house
in view. A little before sunrise, the
prairie hens commenced "curr rooing," and
it sounded as though thousands of these
| prairie birds were striving to see which
should outvie the others In their doleful
'curr-roo, curr roo" We found that our
team was about tired out, and that the
driver was plying the lash without mercy
One of our company wss seasick, affected
precisely as we have seen persons at sea
during storm, the rocking Of the coach
andthe extensive prairie view probably
caused the sic czness- When within about
a mile Of Burlingame, out horses gave
out, and we walked up to the village and
took breakfast while the driver procured
an other team, and brought up the coach
Burlingame is he county seat Of Usage
county, is situated on a small creek, with
a beautiful prairie country around Here
we found some timber, an abundance 0.
building stone, water enough for steam
works, and stone coal for fuel The coal
is found at the depth of twelve or ffteer
feet below the surface and is of an excel
leut quality We changed teams ano
drivers at Burlingame When We
learned that the driver was to stop here
ge felt like crylns out amen.


The county from Burliugame to En-
porla, a distance of thirty FIVE miles, il
Year: 1867

UAVING permanently located himself would
4 j respectfully inform the Citizens Of Water
town and vicinity that he is prepared to do all
kinds of DENTAL WORK All work warran-
ted to give entire satisfaction. Office on Main
Street, over Spragues drug store.
Year: 1867

at Orange Court House, and again on Mon
day last at Richmond, when he had an i'm
mense audience, of some 5000, chiefly
blacks. He gave them a good square talk.
urging all cIasses-white and colOred. loyal
and rebel, Wings and Demoerats-to unite
on the basis of the Republican party, and
intImating that even the disfranchised rebels
need not despair of favor, if they became
good Republicans.


The leading democrats at Washington
apparently fear that the Senator viii make
too many republican converts, and it Is said
they are arranging to send Democratic
speakers throughout the South to speak in
favor Of submission to the reconstruction
act but at the same time to denounce re
publieanism.
Year: 1867

We do not know that it is o! any practi-
cal Tee nowadays 20 discuss plans for water.
Tha: iepends, Of course, upon whether or
no t, city fathers are 50 welded to one plan
that hey will consider no other. BE tha;
as it may, our citizens generally have not
yet lost all interest IL a question affecting so
vitality .a,r pockets and their welfare, or
reached such point of wisdom that what
they DO not know about it Is not worth
knowing. \ correspondent presents below
a plan. not hitherto discussed. which will be
read with interest The communication
-peaks Tor itself in the main; but it Is
proper to say Of it, that it ombodies the
views Of a civil engineer Of ability and re-
putation, who has looked the ground
over. and who believes, from such eNamina-
Ination as he could give, .nor, Of an instru-
mental survey, that the plan suggested is
entirely feasible. 1t will be noticed that the
writer confines MS comparison Of cost, 20
that required for full and permanent sup
ply for the eity-regMdiag. as Do many
Others, the 900 plan which has been
adopted by the City Council, as utterly IN
adequate, and effective only as an entering
wedge to open the way for an expenditure
equal to the largest outlay as yet cOntem-
plated, OF course # it were worth while
to consider the matter on the basis Of a sup.
ply Of 100000 gallons day, the estimates
for the cost Of a supply en- the plan suggest
cd, could be very largely reduced.


We have 10 knowledge or opinioa Of Jul
own, &c to the feasibility OF this plan nut
We are quite clear tha. the subject Is imPor-
tent enough. TO demand consideration of al
plans p2poscd, before any one is finally
adopted.


For the Free Press


supply Of water for the city OF Burling


The reports which have been heretofore sub
mit.ei 10 the city council relative to a supply o
water for the city Of Burlington, lead to th
conclusion, that in the opinion Of the writer.
Year: 1867

PAY OF U. Army OFFIcsRs.-The following
statement of the pay belonging to each grade
has been carefully prepared, and represents
the amount per annum received in each
grade. after deductlny the income tar:
Year: 1867

Now, what are some of the argr-
ments that, in England, to-day, they
are making against the right of the
great mass of the people to have a voice
in the government Of that country Z
There is no man there who is so igno-
rant but they are willing and ready to
hang him il he trsnsgresses the law
The law excuses no man on account of
his ignorance. 1t is a maxim of com-
mon law as old and rigidly administer
ed as any in the whole catalogue of
their laws, and yet a man may be so
ignorant that he shall not have a voice
in making that law whose action may
finally bring him to the block. Well,


they say he is ignorant; these great,
Year: 1867

The London Star tells the following
of the Prince of Wales; when he
walks into the smoking-room of club
instead of everybody rising and taking
of their hats to receive him, they only
nod their heads, with familiar How
are you, Walesr No doubt there ia
some ground for it; but the Prince o.
Wales is not himself so very strict IL
his manner as to be able to require the
highest standard of courtesy from 9th
era. A young man who wears bobtail
coats and billyeock hats, and smokes IN
IA carriage with ladies, can hardly insist
on q rigorous etiquette
Year: 1867




The recent reciprocity treaty between
the United States and the Kingdom Of
the Sandwich Islands, is but the first
step towards the acquisition of these
Islands by this Government. The ma
tive population of the Islands is decreas'
ing year by year, and will likely become
extinct, leaving in their place popula'
ton composed mostly of Americans and
their descendants. The government OF
the Islands is composed mainly of for
eignerS, the King being mere nominal
sovereign.


There are many reasons why II Is
likely that these islands will fall Il prey
10 the acpuisitlve greed of this country,
and there are some good reasons why
thiS should come TO pass. Not that the
mere lands of which these islands are
formed is necessary for use or occupa-
tior. but that they secure our path OF
commerce from the Pacific shore to the
Indies, China and Japan, ana that they
more naturally belong to the America
than to either of the other countries.


Ii is scarcely necessary to negotiate
for the acquisition of these islands
They will fall to IT'S without any effort
on the part Of our Government to 3D.
curc them, except to take them when
the proper time arrives. The king OF
,he Islands is childlesS, and h" is said
10 he without heirs who are competent
20 Inherit the kingdom. There is only
need IA do what has been done till the
death of the king. and the Sandwich
Islands will become ours. The recip'
rocity treaty will accomplish the de-
sired end. and no one will he the loser
from the acquisition which is certain to
take place.
Year: 1867

q An elderly woman, was brought by
the London police lately before the
magistrate of Marlborough, charged
with sitting on the steps of the Army
and Navy Club at two o'clock in the
morning, singing at the top of her
voice "God save the Queen and when
requested to desist, singing aRule Brit
annia.' Her defense was that it was
coronation day, and that she ''felt
loyal
Year: 1867

ACCIDENT afternoon while a
Mrs Mitchell was passing over the root OF a
rear building on the corner of Broad and sixth
streets, she fell through the skyllght down
upou the second loor. She was badly bruised,
though her injuries are not serious
Year: 1867

The management, having every facility at their
disposal, capital at their comma nd, and know
ledge of what style Of entertainment would suit
the people and meet the appreciation and cordial
support of the intsilectuat, refined, and religious
portion of the community, determined to form an
institution of which they could be Justly proud,
and that would enable them to rest assured that
when their manifold attractions were presented,
and had been seen, that full satisfaction would be
given to and acknowledged by th cir patrons
TALENT, NOVELTY, WONDER, SUPERIORITY
IN EvESY DEPARTMENT, ARE SA-


LENT POINTS PLAINLY


DISCERNIBLE


IN THE


GREAT SNOW
Year: 1867

THAT there will be no immediate war in
Europe is rendered certain. The London
conference will insure peace-ior time.
That it will secure permanent peace is
scarcely probable, but it will give France
and Prussia time to prepare for the contest
which Victoria seeks to avert the time for
preparation which, it Is not improbable,
10th most desire. The question of Suprom-
acy underies the whole business and it is
scarcely probable that any conference will
be able to devise any permanent settlement
of that question. 1t is the growth and at
titude OF Prussia which irritates the French
Emperor; and it is because she feels herself
strong and capable that induces Prussia to
irritnte him. The elements are not such as
can be handled by conference to the salts
faction Of either side. Ultimately the qucs'
ton must be settled in the field; the confer
ence is more likely to give time for France
and Prussiu-and. as for that matter, all
Europe-to prepare for the stupendous con-
test Pin. CDBtl
Year: 1867

The Revenue Department has devised an
instrument for detecting whiskey frauds,
whereby the manufacturers will be compel>
led to pay the tax on all the fluid they make.
So much for the money consideration-very
important no doubt. and, withal, nearly re-
lated to certain moral aspect of the subject.
But if the quality of the fluid manufactured
could be ascertained and all but the very
best destroyed, nearly, if not the entire NOR
al ground would be covered and little would
remain to be done; unless, indeed, the man
ufactuIs Of whiskey were confined to med.-
cinal and mechanical purposes. No doubt
it is very important the G1vernment should
get the taxes-for the money is needed. But
tile lives of men are precious, and if the Rev
enue Department will invent an instrument
that will save them as well as the money,
by insuring as much certainty as to the
quality as the quantity of whiskey made,
we think it will be found state of things
has been introduced into the country that
will do more towards paying the national
debt than any Revenue measure yet devised
Pit. CONT
Year: 1867

THERE is considerable good sense in the
followsng: A woman is either worth moth,
ing or great deal. If good for nothidg,
she is not worth getting jealous for; if she
be true woman, she will give no cause for
jealousy. A man is a brute to 5e jealous Of
a worthless one, but double fool to cut his
throat for either of them.
Year: 1867

IF blind man should affirm that there is
no light, an atheist that there is no God, and
an owl that there is no darkness, it would be
hard to say which was the veriest owl of the
three.
Year: 1867

The Louisville Journal says: A
proposition is made in Congress to
require that the supreme court shall
render no decision unless the judges
are unanimous. Well, just suppose
and suppose and suppose that the
supreme court should decide that
Congress shall render no decision
unless Congress are unanimous.


All of these three branches Of the
government have. by the constitu-
tion, co-prdinate power. If either
of the three attempts, directly or
indirectly, to annul practically or
theoretically one or both of the
other two, it is an attempt at rev.
nlntion and should be resisted
Year: 1867

An unmitigated wretch complies
the following memoranda for young
ladies: Have a good piano or
none. BE sure to havea dreadful
cold when asked to favor the com.
pany.' Cry at wedding, but don't
faint. Always scream at spider.
Never leave your curl papers in tho
drawing room. Drop your handker-
chief when you are going to faint.
Mind you are engaged if you don't
like your partner. Abjure ringlcts
on wet day. Never faint unless it
is convenient to fall into the arms Of
the young gentleman you love. Re-
member. it's vulgar in the extreme
to know what your mother is going
to have for dinner. When you 60
shopping. be sure to take your ma
along to carry the bundles"
Year: 1867

The Philadelphia Ledger's New York let
ter says


There has been a very prominent New
York merchant in Washington during the
week, lobbying for the defeat of the bank
rupt bill, and the understanding is that he
has telegraphed this afternoon for a num-
ber of other gentlemen in the same line of
business with himself to come on and unite
their influence to his to upset it. The tel
egram, it is further said, will be promptly
responded to, and so Monday morning will
probably find New York with good many
more representatives in Washington than
are to be found in Congress. That is the
talk on Change this afternoon, at any rate,
and I am inclined to think the talk is cor
rect. As there are equally powerful and
commercial and financial interests pulling
with equal pertinacity the other way, how
ever, these merchant princes, after all, may
fail to carry their point.


The National Republican, in referring to
the same subject, says:


The bankrupt bill hangs fire. This is
its second session. We learn that it has
recently received check from a wealthy
merchant of New York, who was member
of the lobby only few days ago, and who
declared to the members of Congress that
the South owed him 81, ,000, O00 and if the
bankrupt bill passed he would never get
cent of it, This being the case we suppose
Congress will not dare pass it.
Year: 1867




| The Southern Famine Relief Commission,
of which Mr. James N. Brown, 81 Wall
street, is Treasurer, have received many
letters from South Carolina, all of which
agree in representing the scarcity of pro-
visions in that State as being of the most
serious character 1t extends over nearly
the whole State, and unless relief be given
nothing can prevent absolute starvation
among the poorer classes, while large
number Of the planters and farmers will be
left without seed for the next crop.
Governor Orr writes that the destitute n
is SO great and severe that five hundred
Thousand bushels Of corn estimated to
be needed to feed the people over and
above all that is obtained within the State
Colonel William Nettles, a gentleman Of
high standing in Sumter District, has been
III this city with bond signed by about
seventy-ive planters, in which they pledge
their next cotton crop as security for about
forty thousand dollars worth of corn and
bacon. He could find no one to take his
bond, and has left the city, after obtaining
two thousand bushels Of corn from the
Commissioner for the relief of the very
poor of his district saying, that unless he
could find some persons III some other city
to make the necessary advances, he did not
see how it would be possible for the plant
ers of Sumter District to put in their seed
the present season.


A similar statement comes from the
most prominent men in Lancaster District
of the same State, who offer to mortgage
their real estate as security for the corn
and bacon needed to supply the wants of
the people until another harvest can be
gathered in.


Representations of the same character
come from Richland, Greenville, Darling
! ton and Greenwood Districts and it is be-
lieved that at least one hundred thousand
people, one quarter of the population OF
the whole State of South Carolina, are now
in absolute need of provisions, and, If re-
lief is not given, the number must increase
every week until July.
Year: 1867

In the United States Supreme Court a
suit has been commenced by the State of
Texas against George w. White, John
Childs and others. The bill in the case
sets forth that in January, 1865, the Rebel
government of the State of Texas made
contract with White and Childs, agreeing
to deliver them certain United States Tex
as indemnity bonds, to the amount of seve-
raj hundred thousand dollars, which the
Rebel government found in the Treasury
of Texas, in consideration of White and
Childs furnishing to the Rebels munitions
Of war for the purpose of prosecuting the
rebellion against the United States. White
and Childs still hold a large number of
these bonds, but have disposed of some of
them to other parties after maturity, and
the holders now demand the payment of
the bonds at the Treasury of the United
States. The bill is filled for enjoining the
holders from receiving payment and obtain
ing decree ordering the present holders
to deliver them to the present government
of Texas


The bill alleges that the bonds were in
possession of the State of Texas until 1861,
and at that time they were seized and ta-
ken by certain unlawful combinations of
individuals in armed hostility to the Gov
ernment of the United States, which COM
bination seized the archives, treasury and
property of the State of Texas and assumed
to use and dispose of its property for the
purpose of subverting the legitimate Gov
ernment of the State of Texas and for the
purpose of carrying on war against the
Government of the United States and in
the execution of this purpose these bonds
were given by this unlawful combination of
men to the defendant, White and Childs.


The legitimate government of the State,
now re-estabished under the Constitution
Of tho United States, is seeking to recover
the property thus forcibly seized by the
armed combination. Leave was granted
to file this bill and an order was entered
setting the hearing of the motion for in
junction for the I'd Monday in May. This
case brings up the direct questions wheth-
er Texas is State or not and whether
property seized by the armed forces of the
rebellion and belonging to the States of
the South can be recovered back by them.