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Year: 1866

AT meeting Of the State Military Associa-
ton, the following letter was received from
Gen. Sherman:


HDo'Rs MI. Dry. OF THE MISSISSIPPI, !


Sr. LOUIS, Jan. 9.
1t is impossible for me to come to Albany
on the occasion referred to, but do heartily
approve the object and wish you eminent sue
cess Now is the appointed time, If ever in
our history, to place the militia OF our coun.
try on footing honorable and useful 10 the
nation. Now 1T can claim all the honors
gained by the State volunteers. With their
experience in organization, equipment and
drlli, presume the great State Of New York
will devise some good system for the militia
OF the State, and so represent it that other
States will follow the example, and make it
uniform Service in the militia during peace
should be made attractive and honorable. so
that the organization may be Immediately
available in war, until Congress has time TO
provide national troops for the emergency.
Again wishing you all possible success, am
your obedient servant,


W. L. SHERMAN, Major General.
Year: 1866

On Monday lest one of the most frightful
accidents we have ever been called upon to
record, by which some twelve OF thirteen
persons lost their lives, and a much larger
number wounded, occurred in San Francisco.
About one o'clock in the afternoon terrible
explosion took place in the store-room of
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express Office, on the
corner OF California and Montgomery streets
The explosion was SO powerful that many
persons thought the city was visited by an
other earthquake. The accident was caused
by the combustion of a case of nitro -glycer-
inc which had been brought to the Express
Office that morning to be sent into the inte-
rior. This is the new blasting agent SO much
talked of lately. and is said to possess four
times the explosive force of gunpowder. The
immediate cause of the explosion is not known
and as every person near the case at the time
it happened was killed, it will probably new
er be ascertained. The theory in regard to
it, however, which is most generally believed,
is this: The case which contained the oil
was found to be leaking, and the freight agents
of the Express Company and the P. NJ. S.
Company went into the store-room to exam
Inc it. 1t is supposed that quantity of the
oil had run out on the floor, and that they
turned the case over on to it while making
their examination, and as nitro -glycerine ex-
plodes on being struck it is very probable
that that is the way the catastrophe was
caused. Bells assay office in the rear of
ofWells, Fargo Co.'s, on California street.
was completely demolished, and the western
portion of the Express building was greatly
damaged. A number of persons were liter
ally blown to pieces, fragments of their bod
les being picked up quarter of a mile from
the scene of the disaster. The Board of Su-
pervisors of San Francisco passed resolu-
ton. on Monday night, empowering and di-
recting Chief Burke to search out and destroy
any and all nitro glycerine oil within the
limits of the city. A great many accidents
have occurred lately by the careless use of
explosive materials. Too much caution can
not be observed in handling them.
Year: 1866

THE New York Post saws, and let soldiers
and loyal men think of it: 1.-The country
holds with general Grant, who said in our
hearing, not long ago, that the rebels We
whipped, as it was our duty TO do; they
fought US bAvely, and | for one have no spite
against them; if they behave themselves u
shall think we'll of them; but the Copper
heads and peace men at the North, the men
who during the war reviled the soldiers and
encouraged the enemy and did their utmost
to stop supplies and reinforcements to our
BOYS in the front, such men can't forgive.
| will never forget them or have anything to
do with them
Year: 1866

WEBSTER, the Infnitssimal who will prob
ably get the smallest support for Attorney
General that ever a eondidate received, made
a small secesh speech and very much of .
donkey of himself at the grocery store OF Cox
4 Irwin Yesterday Webster has large capa-
bilities in that line.
Year: 1866

A gentleman connected with the American
Express Company in Chicago. has been made
the victim of huge "self' by an Express
Agent at or near Green Bay. The latter
wrote to the former that be had captured a
pair of white woodcocks. and thinking they
might be considered cur ;osity. would send
them to him as present, upon the receipt of
a suitable cage in which 10 transmit them.
Chicago nibbled at the ba It and sent an ele>
CANT and costly cage, pure based expressly for
the occasion. In due tim E the cage arrived
back and was found to contain two comno on
beer faucets or cocks, m hde Of ,chitc GOOD.
Green Bay is slightly ahead,
Year: 1866

FILLING Ice Houses WITH SSow-One OF
the members of the ''Clfion Farmers Clb,"
OF Clifton, Ohio, gives the following descrip-
ton of the simple method by which lie
secured an abundance Of ice during last
year:


''His ice-house is situated on the sid of Il
gravel hill, covering pit ten feet deep and
twelve feet square, and is simply frame
structure over the pit, about four or five feet
in height; the sides o. the pit are boarded
up and the drainage is through the gravel.


Finding it expensive to haul ice from the
neighboring ponds and riv4rs, he last winter
filled his house with snow, simply rolling it
up in masses, and with a Eheelbarrow con.
veying it to the house-fr$t lining the sides
Of the pit with straw, and Iter it was filled
covering the snow with the same material
thus filing his house without cost, and
securing an abundant supply of good ice foI
his large family during the whole summer
The snow settled down to a compact mass
when the spring aud sunni rher heats affected
it, and portion still remains at the bottom
of the pit as solid as lacier of the Alps
Year: 1866

From the New York Times.l


A foreign dispatch informed us the other
day that an active emigration from Liver
pool to Texas was in progress. And 1t was
doubtless of this movement that our London
correspondent spoke yesterday when he re-
marked that "6, 800 emigrants, many of them
Scottish farmers, had left within short
time by the direct route for Texas" We
also learn of another emigration movement
from Europe by a recent dispatch from the
South, which announced the arrival al
Augusta of q ship load of one hundred and
seventy German immigrants, who intended
settling in South Carolina,


These are certainly small movements
when compared with the great volume Of
emigration constantly pouring into this port,
and sweeping westward to fill up the young
and fertile States beyond the Alleghanies.
But nevertheless they are beginnings which
may, in another year, grow to great magni-
tude. 1t is quite certain that the Southern
States can obtain emigration from Europe
to almost any extent, if they desire it. All
that is needed is that they should make
known their advantages abroad, and offer
their invitations. OF course they must give
assurance that political quiet will be main
tanned, and so act as to be able to guarantee
to all settlers all the rights and privileges of
American citizenship. These things being
done, they can obtain an influx of farmers,
mechanics artizans, and laborers, which will,
in few years, give them a prosperity be-
yond anything that they have ever before
possessed. 1t is certain that no country in
the world offers greater inducements to the
agriculturist than some of our Southern
States-especially if he have small capital;
while there could be no more promising re-
gion for the establishment and enlargement
of manufacturing and mechanical industries
We would like to see the South enjoy the
| full benefit of these advantages.
Year: 1866

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.l


The Radicals tell US, in their argument
for the constitutional amendment, that it is
all wrong for the South to be represented in
Congress for negroes who do not vote. Now
let us see who derives the greatest benefit
from the nou-voting classes. By reference
to the census of 1860, we End the following
state of facts
Year: 1866

y is well known that in the head there ID much
heat, the excess Of which causes dandruff, loss of
hair, and hair 70 turn gray, even while Yet in the
prime life. French's vegetable hair renewer win
rano9ate and renew the hair in its diseased state
to the natural color and growing condition Of
youth. Give it trial.
Year: 1866

Society seems to have forgotten all rules
of economy. Men, women and children
spend their money with 8 more lavish band
and more reckless disregard. apparantly,
to the provisions of the future, than at any
former period within our recollection.


During the war, in the South, there was
kind of imposed pseudo-economy Practic-
ed, and which it was reasonable to suppose
would become real and permanent, after the
unfortunate, and SO far as we as apeoPle are
concerned, disastrous termination Of the
war. But IN this, it seems every one has
not only disappointed him OF herself, but
has surprised and disappointed everybody
besides himself or herself; but especially
''herself., We have never seen or known
extTayagaRcs more unlicensed and exces-
sive, among the ''heFself " portion Of sOeie
ty. We do not see how it is possible for
some one or more persons, if not every one
in general, to avoid fight or foot race st
some future time with the sheriff. From
the forced parsimOny imposed during the
war, upon our people, they seem to have
become infatuated with the idea Of the most
lavish and costly expenditures. No prices
however enormous or fabulous check pur-
chasers or appear even to awaken any ap.
prehensiOns of pecuniary embarrassment
The ''herself" ones are not only enormous
in their expenditures, but are expansive in
their enormities of dress. It requires as
much lace and ribbon now to dress one Of
our fashionable women in single outfit, as
formerly to supply forty wardrObes, for as
many plain and respectable, as we'll as we'll
bred. fashionable women. SOMEBODY will
evidently be bursted by this mode Of ex-
travaganee. It is out of the question for it
to last and not work ruin somewhere.
The North, flooded with money and vice,
may afford and endure such wasting daily
expenditures; but if the people of the South
continue to ape such prodigious outlays for
show and vanity, they viii, sooner or Later,
reap the bitter fruit Of their folly In utter
bankruptcy and want.


It is time for our people to quit talking
or thinking or writing of politics and pub
lie matters; and to turn their attention to the
practice of virtue and economy-for the two
are inseperable-and to the upbuilding of
individual, as well as public, fortunes. But
this they will not do. The ''heTself" will
have her way, and go on buying and spend
ing, and spending and buying, until the
himself" takes his way to the grocery or
somewhere else, possibly to the penitentiary
or poorhouse.
Year: 1866

The Louisville Journal Of the 15th says:
eve heartily indorse, so far as We have
seen, every platform laid down by the de-
mocracy in the north, middle, western, aud
north western States. We are for the oblit-
Grafton of the freedman's bureau bill every
where, we are for the disbanding of the last
negro soldier, We are for the cessation of all
military Law and the universal restoration
of the great writ of freedom, We are for the
aunulment all con6seations, We are for the
equal powers and rights and privileges OF
the whole people Of the old Union, we are
for the unconditional pardon Of all the pa
rolled Confederates who have kept their
faith, we are for the immediate unlocking OF
the prisOn-doors Of all prisoners held 10
captivity upon the charge of treason, and
we are for the re-establishmsnt of the re-
public upon the plan which our noble Prssi-
dent has recommended and is ezerting all
his energies 70 carry out. -fl
Year: 1866

Two boys belonging to the Lynchburg
battery. having marked good place near
a farm house on the Peninsular, stole out
to flank q shoat.' They had seen large
number go under an out building, and while
one was to creep in and drive out the ''cFit-
ters," the other was to stand at an open
ing on the opposite side with club. The
long and short of the story is. that the
farmer, not liking the near proximity of the
soldiers, bad moved his pigs nearer to the
house, and the crsWler, not finding them,
emerged on the other side. and was knock
ed into cooked hat by his comrade. He
was on the sick list at next rolI-eall and did
not leave his bed for month.
Year: 1866

How many moving appeal is di- rected to them. A Western editor gets off about as good a one as is found, which we copy for the benefit of those who may chance to have blanks after their names on our subscription books :

 '.Hear us for our debts, and get ready that you may pay; trust us, we have need, as you have long been trusted 1; acknowledge your indebtedness, and dive into your pocket that you may promptly ferk over. If there be any among you-one single patron--that don't owe us something, then to him we say step aside, you are gentleman, If the rest want to know why we dun them, this is our answer: Not that we care about ourselves, but because our creditors do. Would you rather that we went to jail, and you go free, than you pay your debts and keep us nov ing? As we agreed, we have worked for you: as we contracted, we have furnished the paper to you, but if you don't pay we dun you. Here are agreements for job work contracts for subscriptions; promises for long credit, and duns for deferred payment. Who is there so green that he don't ad- vertise? If any, let him slide, he ain't the chap either. Who is there so mean that lie don't pay the printers? lfany, let him speak, for he's the man we're after HetiaflatsE 7 af
Year: 1866

LET EVERY MAN READ THIs.-We have probably all of us met with in- stances in which a word heedlessly spoken against the reputation of a woman, has been magnified by mali cious minds until the cloud has become dark enough to overshadow her whole existence. To those who are accus- toned, not necessarily from bad mo- tives, but from thoughtlcssness to speak light of females, we recommend these hints as worthy of consideration :: "Never use lady's name in an inn proper place, at an improper time, or in mixed company. Never make as- sertions about her you think untrue, or allusions that you feel she herself would blush to hear" Many 2 good and worthy woman's character has been forever ruined and heart broken by a lie, manufactured by villain, and repeated where it should not have been, and in the presence of those whose little judgment could not deter them from circulating the foul and tendish report. Respect the name of a woman, for your mother and sisters were women; and as you would have their fair name untarnished, and their lives unembittercd by slanderers' bit ing tongues, heed the i'll your own words may bring upon the mother the sister, or the wife of some fellow creature.
Year: 1866

I learned yesterday bridal custom of this region, so sensible and proper, that shall mention it to you for the benefit of the young folks at home. The custom of making gifts to the bride, prevails here as everywhere, but it is better regulated. The bride makes out written list of things that she will require in beginning to keep house, especially those things that are over and above what would naturally be furnished by her friends, and one of them says, q will give her this," and marks that as provided for; anoth- CT will give her that, and sometimes two or three or more will combine and furnish more expensive present. than any one would give alone.a After the wedding, the couple usually start off on an excursion, and on their return they find their dwelling filled with these presents, each marked with the giver's name. At the hotel where l lodged in St. Gallen, bridal party of the town had the wedding breakfast, when l was there all the relatives and friends making a larger party than a private house could contain.
Year: 1866

Rsg~ Prayer is ever profitable; at night it is our covering in the morn- ing it is our armor. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. Prayer sanctifies all our ac- tions. He is tested in Gods service and protection, who makes it his first work to be enrolled by prayer, under the standard of the Almighty. He caTrics all assistant angel with him for his help, who begs his benediction from above; and without it he is lame and unarmcd.-[ [Eeltham.
Year: 1866




Among the many curious old official
observences exacted by the English Gov
ernment, IS the ceremony Of the pyx, or
box, which was duly enacted on the
nineteenth ultimo, in the presence of the
Lord Chancellor and other high func-
tlonaries al the Office Of the COMPTROLLER
General, in the palace yarJ, London.
For many years this has been done
simply because il is an immortal usage,
the reason for which it was instituted
having long since passed away. The box
is a plain iron safe divided into three COM
partmenUs, two Tor silver and one for
gold. 10 is secured by three intricate
locks, each Of which is opened by a differ
eut key. From each milling Of gold or
silver, specimen coins are deposited
through an aperture in the lid until the
box Is full. In former times this box
was much smaller than now, and the
ASSAY took place as often as four times in
year The method OF examination Is
as follows:


The mass OF gold and silver coin is
rolled under heavy pressure into two
mgots, the metal of each being COM
pletely mingled and welded together. A
piece is then cut of from the end Of each
ingot, and rolled into a long and narrow
plate about the thickness of q shilling.
A number of small pieces are then cut
from each plate, and carefully weighed.
Each piece is then placed in a small bot
tie fixed in hot sand baths, and filed with
acid enough To extract aud dissolve the
alloy, The fine gold and silver remain
ing is then accurately determined, and
thus the alloy in the whole coinage Of
the realm determined. This trial is con-
Quoted before a jury, summoned by the
Wardens Of lhs Goidsmith's Company,
in presence OF the Queens Privy Council
and other dignitaries. The jury having
witnessed the process, take time 10 CON
slider, and deliver their verdict on the
succeeding evening, ia the Goldsmlthis
Hall. The time has been when all this
cum brous precaGtiOn bad some show Of
reason. In the days when the tests Of
alloy and the art Of coinage was less per-
feet than at present, and when the mint
master may have had temptation TO de-
base the coin, il is probable that the
solemn oath required Of the jOurheyman
and the strict observance Of this examin-
alton were not out Of place. The custom
Is gradually wearing out and though
Ike most Observances out Of which the
real Significance has gone, il dies hard,
few more years will doubtless see 10
abolished The first statuaTy mention IN
regard 70 It is in an act OF the first year Of
EDWARD ia whioh directs IL to be done


according 10 ancient CUSTOM The
last observance prior 70 this Of the nine
Jee;lth uItlmo, was in eighteen hundred
Year: 1866




Sir. The Ancient Society Of Tam
many, in pursuance Of its time honored
customs, viii celebrate the battle of New
Orleans. by a grand dinner, at Tammany
Hail. on Monday, January eight, eigI-
teen hundred and sixty-siE, at six o clock
Pm.


Since the establishment Of the society
in seventeen hundred and eiglty-uine il
has c0llMem0rated those events in the
history Of our country which animate
the patriotism Of our people and
strengthen their devotion to our glorious
Union and among these none were more
conspicuous or more important than the
great victory which saved our sOuthwes-
tern frontier from butchery and plunder,
and closed the war Of eighteen hundred
and twelve in blaze 0fEloTv.


The recent civil strife has given rise 70
celebrations in the opposing sections of
our Union, which are designed % COM
mem1rate the victories of brethren over
brethren. Il is with unGeigued Joy That
the Tsmmany Society bail the advent Of
a season when they can recur 70 an
event which no achievements In our sub
seQuenu history can ever dim, and which
reunited brethren in every portion Of
our glorious Republic can celebrate with
equal pride and qualification. 1t Is IN
this spirit, and with a promise Of cordial
welcome, that the Sons Of Iammany in
wife YOU % their rsemi-centenuial geiebra-
ton Of the great victory of a Southern
hero, who filed the world with the fame
of American vaI0T, and devoted his sub
sequeur life to the establishment and Sc
eurity Unconstitutional of liberty. Wehave
the honor In be- vgfTr olg9tlignT servants.
Year: 1866

selves even in professions of attachment to the
Government, and experience the feelings and
humiliation of a repentant criminal They
should respect us more for not doing so. Never
did men act under more exalted sense of duty
We ask nothing more than what we may expect
to have accorded to us, from the professions of
the people of the North during the war. We
only ask that you too will abide the decision of
the issues fairly involved in the case, and that
you will aid us to keep


'"The chairs of Justice


Supplied with worthy menl plant love amongst


US!


Throng our large temples with the shows of peace!
And not our streets with warp


| have trespassed too long upon your time
One word of personal explanation | am not
here as a spppliant for position. Whatever
your decision may be it can benefit or injtlre me
Individually but little. [, Of course, await with
anxiety the decision of question which is of so
great importance to the interests of my portion
of the State If am permitted to execute the
trust with which have been charged, / shall
labor to advance the interests of the whole State
Should you decide otherwise, [ will return to
my constituents, and we can indeed realize that
there is majesty in adversely, though it is a
king to whose purple the mocking multitude 9
will not bow down., and feeling assured that
they will approve my course.
Year: 1866

Feast Mozring and Keeping-Boil the usual
quantity Of hops alone-also suffciency of bar
ley Or rye meal alone, it can be strained through
a cloth-ssla when the juices of your hops and
barley or rye malt are cool, mix them together
with a little fine flour, and stir them well, and
after an hour or so, put your yeast away IN a
stone jug or jar for future use. If you want to
use the yeast for making beer, put in a little
salt tartar and as many grains Of Paradise as
viii lie on the point of your knife.


Best Method Of Keeping Beef-Cut up the
pieces as large as you desire Pack it in bar
rel or cask, Then make bline as follows =
u lbs. salt to l gallon of water, l OF. saltpetre
to 100 lbs. of beef, l tablespoonful of ground
pepper to 100 lbs of beef Put in the salt and
saltpetre and heat it boiling hot, skim it, and
then add the pepper. Pour it on the beef boil
ing hot, and cover closely. Your meat viii be
good at any time. The philosophy is this =
The hot brine closes the pores on the surface,
preventing decay and the meat from getting too
salt: Try-it Unnecessary, scald the brine over
in the spring, or put on new brine, Farmers
can in this way have fresh meat nearly all the
time The meat should be taken as soon as it
gets cold, before it has acquired any old taste
by exposure to the atmosphere. .-Anatcan
Agricuiturist T s


Hopc to RuJy Rancid Lard--A correspon-
dent of the Country Gentleman writes ''We
had some forty pounds rancid lard, which was
valueless as it was Knowing the antiseptic
qualities of the chloride of soda, [ procured
three ounces, which was poured into about a
pailful Of soft water, and, when hot, the lard
added. After boiling thoroughly together for
an hour or two it was set aside to COOL The
lard was taken off when nearly cold, and was
to an alabaster white, and the lard was as sweet
as q rose ~