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Year: 1867

The Richmond Dtspdfch induiges IN
the following hit of reminiscence;


The famous old prison for Confederate
prisoners, etc, is rapidly fitting up by
Captain John H. Greanor for the manu-
facture of tobacco-the same purpose
for which il was used before the war II
is an immense building and Captain
Greanor is preparing machinery aud
other arrangements which will enable
him, IL necessary, to turn out one thou
sand pounds Of manufactured tobacco
per day. A walk over the old factory
brings to mind many rocollectlons OF
Confederate times Here, In the fourth
story, is the gable window from which
leaped the spy Webster, with his irons
on; there the steps down which be was
borne on his way to execution; there on
the lower floor are the apartments OF his
wife and DR.. Mary Walker and other
females, whose names became notorious
during the war. The dungeons, which
used to be tobacco sweat houses before
the war, remain as they were left BY the
authorities, and one of them. still has a
hole which was cut through the eighteen
inch brick wall by some enterprislng
Confederate. Every part Of the building
has some incident connected with 1t. AT
this window a prisoner was shot dead for
putting his head out against orders; in
this alley petty officer Of the Coniede'
rate navy was instantly killed by the
guard for "fooling" with him, and in
that dark underground place the prison.
ers used to tunnel themselves out into
the open air, or into close dungeon II
they were caught Lying dismantled in
a loft formerly used as hospital is the
old flagstaff from which hoated the col
ors that we're followed by so many brave
men during the four long years, and
which are now furled forever.
Year: 1867

LICE ON CArTI.E.--A correspondent of tho New England Farmer finds that mixture of lard and kerosene oil--a little moro lard than oil--well mixed and thoroughly rubbed into the hail. of lousy cattle once or twice, to be q dead shot; not lousc will escape.
Year: 1867

at home, but the belt and knife we're never
forgotten When assembled, all was at
tention and order till the service concluded.


"James B. Finley says, that In order To
repair pecuniarv loss, sustained by going
security for a friend at Chillicoths, he
spent a whole winter hunting ON White
oak, most Of which time he lay out Of
nights before his campfire, wrapped in
skins. He slew large number of bear,
selling the skins in the spring at from
three to seven dollars each"
Year: 1867

An lrishman passing through field
of cattle the other day, said to friend,
"Whenever you see a herd of cows all
lying down, and one of them only
standing up, that one is sure to be the
bull"
Year: 1867

A little girl in school being asked
what a cataractor waterfall was. replied
that it was chair wrapped around her
dads old stocking" The teacher and
scholars were considerably enlightened
Year: 1867

A YouNa MINISTER HUGdED AdAINsT
HIS WmL.-A most ludicrous scene
transpifed one night last week in a city
not thousand miles from Louisville.
Two sprightly and beautiful young la
dies we're visiting their cousin, another
sprightly and beautiful young lady, who
like her guests, was Of that happy
age which turns everything into merri-
ment. If the truth were told, we fear
we should have to record the fact that
these three misses were just little bit
fast They were fond Of practical jokes,
and continually playing all sorts Of
pranks upon each other. All three oc-
eupied room on the ground floor, and
cuddled up together in one bed. Two
Of the young ladies attended a party on
the night III question, and did not get
home till half past IL o'clock at night.
AS it was late they concluded not to
disturbe the household, no they quietly
eteFr~I ;-'tp thoiE room through the
low, open window In about half an
hour after Invy l-sa ~. fha na.k.,


young Methodist minister called i15 ulis 4
house and craved nights lodging,
which was OF course cheeriully granted
As ministers always have the best Of
every thing, the old lady put him to
sleep in the best room, and the young
lady (Fannie) who had not gone to the
party was instructed to the duty Of sit
ting up for the absent ones, and Of in
forming them OF the change Of rooms
She TOOK up her post in the parlor, and
as the night was sultry, sleep oyercame
her, and she departed on an excursion
to the land Of dreams


We will row return 10 the young la
dies who had gone TO thor room
| through the window BY the dim light
of the moo1ibeafns as they struggled
through the curtains, The ladies were
enabled to descry the outline Of Fannie
(as they supposed ensconsed in the
the middle Of the bed They saw more
to wit, pair of boots. The truth flash
ed upon them at once. They saw it all
Fanniehad set them in the rooIQ to give
them n good scare. They put their heads
together and determined to turn the Ia
bles on her. Presently they disrobed
and stealthily as cats they took their po-
sition each side Of the bed, one on each
side Of the unconscious parson, laugh
ing and screaming, oh, what a man
They gave the bewildered ministersucl
a promiscuous hugging and toushng ai
few persons are able to brag Of in tht
course Of life time. The noise Of thi'
proceeding awakened the old lady, who
was sleeping in the adjoining room
She comprehended the situation at once
and rushing TO the room, she opened
the door and exclaimed: 'My God, gall
it's q man, its man, sure enough p
There was one prolonged scream, |
fash of muslin through the door, and al
was over. The thing Of the joke is tha


the minister took the whole thing il
earnest. He would listen 10 no apol
ogies the lady could make for the girls
He would hear no excuse, but he sud


denly folded his clerical robes arouns
MIN and silently stole away. Query


Was he mad at the girls or at the oil


woman
Year: 1867

r, We are always moving and lifting at the stone
OF corruption, which lies upon our hearts, but
yet we never stir it, or at least never roll it off
from u.s. We are sometimes a little troubled
with the guilt of our sins and then we think we
must thrust our desires out of our hearts; but
1afterward, we sprinkle ourselves over with I
know not what holy water, and so, are content
ed to let those desires still abide with u.s. We
everyday truly confess the same sins, and pray
against them and yet, we still commit them as
much as ever and lie as deeply under the power
OF them We have the same water to pump
out, In every prayer: and still we let the same


leak in again upon us. We make great deal
OF noise and raise a great deal of dust with our
feet, but we do not move from off the ground
on which We stood, we do not at all go forward.
Or, If we do sometimes make little progress,
we quickly lose again the ground which we had
gained; like those upper planets in the heaven,
which, as the astronomers tell u.s. sometimes
move forward, sometimes quite backward, and
sometimes stand perfectly still !; have their sta
tons and retrogradatlons, as well as their direct
motions. As if religion were nothing else but a
dancing up and down upon the same piece of
ground, and making several motions and frisk-
ings on it; and not a sober journeying and
travelling onward toward some certain place.


We do and undo we weave sometimes o web
OF holiness, but then we let our passions come
and undo and unravel all again. Like Sisyphus
IN the fable, we roll up mighty stone, with
much ado, sweating and tugging, up the hill !;
and then we let it CO. and tumble down again
into the bottom; and this is our constant work.
Like those Danaides, whom the poets speak of,
we are always, by our prayers, duties, and
performances, filling water into sieve, which
still runs out as fast as we pour it in.-Cud-
north -e~ a.. 4r
Year: 1867




To men who commit their eternity to the
chance of a life which any one of ten thousand
accidents may, the next moment, bring to an
end who lie down securely on beds which they
may change that night for couches of fire and
act asif they alone (of all men living, had made
a covenant.with hell, and could muzzIe the jaws
of the grave till they were themselves disposed
to enter it: to fools like these, what argument
can be successfully offered? I know no course
but to alarm their instructive fears, with ex-
amples of early and sudden mortality; to tell
them how such an one went to his bed healthy
and prosperous man, on whose countenanee the
shadow of death was dark in the morning; how
the marriage feast was spread in such house
and the young bride passed to her chamber,
and knew not that the mirth of her friends would
soon be changed into sorrow over her grave; of
such neighbor who went forth to the gate of
the city and the crowd trod on him that he died;
of those men slain by robbers; of those swallow
ed up by the sea of some that fell victims to
the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and
others whom fly, grape-stone, a flint in the
path, or tile from the housetop took away, in
the morning of their lives, and middle of their
schemes and the heat of their blood and their
transgressions, without day, an hour, moment
for reflection or for prayer. s.4o8f ~
Year: 1867

G+ The circulation of the SpEcrAToR is
about as great as the combined circulation
of both the other papers published in this
place, and has as many subscribers in this
county alone as are contained in the whole
list of either of the other papers. d'8
Year: 1867

nr ScoLD1NG. Il never knew scolding person
that was able to govern family. What makes
people scold because they cannot govern them


selves. How then can they govern others
Those who govern well, are generally clam.


They are prompt and resolute, but steady and
Year: 1867

. In the zeal against the sins of others, be mind
full of thy own exceeding sinfulness; call to
remembrance thy great offences, which, though
they be unfeignedly repented of, give thee to
understand what cause thou hast to be meek,
humble and patient towards all men.
Year: 1867

ABOLITION OF THE REPUBLIC bill to
abolish republican government on this continent
became law by Congressional enactment on
last Saturday. DO


We do not misstate the case when we say
that the military bill is the death knell to free
institutions in this land. ~


Processing to oon6ne its operations to ten of
the lately rebellious States, it may with equal
propriety be applied to the government of any
of the States considered loyal. as3


1t would be no greater violation of organic
law, no grosser transgression of constitutional
provisions, to establish martial law in New
South will henceforth be placed


It is revolution the less effective be-
cause it is peaceful-it is total subversion of
our form Of government in either case Wheel
in0 Re0isteT r..
Year: 1867

Our newly acquired possessions lying far up
North on the Pacific coast, render any inform
alton in relation to the climate on that side of
the continent of special interest Cape Disap-
pointment, a bluff some 200 feet high on the
north side of the entrance to the Columbia, is
in 46 degrees 10 minutes North-nearly as far
north as the northern part of this State, and
yet we have seen on the top of that bluff, the
1st day of May, the new grown grass at least
foot in height. The winter of 185O-51 was cold
one in New England, and yet at Portland. Or
egon, about "A North, the mercury did not 90
SO low as the freezing point but once for the
winter, and only for single day. Ice formed
on the shallow puddles in the streets but there
was not the slightest trace of ice in the
streams. On the prairie, few miles back
from the river, cattle found good feed all win
ter, and as early as the last Of February and
the first of March the farmers were blowing
and sowing their seed. Peaches were in full
blow early in April. From an article in the
Philadelphia Press on our newly-acquired pos
sessions we cut the following:


The climate of the Pacific coast does not cor
respond with that OF the Atlantic coast in any
given latitude. A mighty current, similar TO
the Gulf stream, flows from the eastern coast
of Asia, by the Aleutian Islands, towards
northwestern America, tempering the rigors
OF the climate, and making it correspond to
the western coast Of Europe. 1t is related in
Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea, that
"the natives OF the Aleutian Islands, where no
trees grow, depend upon the drittwood cast
ashore there for all the timber used in the con-
struction OF their boats, fishing tackle, and
household gear. Among this timber, the cam
phOr tree, and other woods OF China and Jap
an n said f. bp OffQn rpcO0Uizad In this asf
we have additional evidence touching this
China stream" The latitude of the extreme
southern limits OF the new acquisition cores
ponds with that of the south Of Scotland, and
the latitude of its northern boundary is almost
identical with that OF the north of Norway,
while it is below the extreme northern settle-
ment of civilized mankind, which is Uperna-
vik, in Greenland.
Year: 1867

COUNTERFEIT GREENBACKs.-There is an
unusual amount of counterfeit money now
in circulation, and any means of detecting
it will be of benefit to our community.
Among the many books which have been
written on the subject, none seems more
deserving of patronage as an assistant to
bankers and all others who have the
handling of greenbacks than Heath's
Infallible Counterfeit Detecter," which is
published by authority Of the United
States Treasury Department. 1t has been
subscribed for by several Of our banks
and bankers, which is to some extent a
guarantee of its excellence.
Year: 1867

STEALING LEAD.-A couple of men at
tempted on Thursday morning at about B
O'Clock to cut away a lot of lead pipe in q
water-closet belonging to the establishment
of Lowe g. Brother, corner Main and Ninth
streets. The rogues were frightened OIL
without securing the spoil.
Year: 1867

The LADIES OF LEIGH-sTREET CHURCH
will continue their feast on Monday and
Tuesday of next week. We are requested
to state that the Sunday school Of this
church will be held as usual tomorrow
morning
Year: 1867

MEAN GRowLERs.--A large number of
preachers who invested their lucre in GER
tifcates in the Crosby Opera House enter
prize and were disappointed are vigorously
denouncing the whole scheme as desperately
immoral. Several newspapers having just
settled their accounts for advertising and
editorially promoting the scheme, have now
discovered that it was not only immoral, but
Illegal Other newspapers are bitter on ac-
count of the fact that Mr.. Crosby has made
a profit by the scheme. But the only fault
We have to find is, that we could not find
5S,60e on any or our certificates. We have
no doubt about the affair being fairly and
honorably conducted-but we didn't hold
5S,600-that;s whats the matter with Us.
Year: 1867

DRINKING is a most pernicious habit and
the cause of much misery in the world-but
You will drink, don't poison yourself with
poor whisky, butsgo to Peter Fries, on the
levee, whore Won can get q pure article.
Year: 1867

g@ From the crowd of persons that move in and out of Gill & Bros, we opine that these gentlemen are doing good business. This is as it should be, for there is no cleverer firm to be found, or none more worthy of the patronage, of which they receive so large a share Their sto-k is complete, consisting of everything to be found in a first class Dry Goods Store, and they are willing to sell at living prices. We cheerfully recommend tn ln as clever gentlemen and experienced merchants.
Year: 1867

subject to the following regulations:

 Certificates of the various articles, without regard to choice or value are first put into en- velopes sealed up and mixed and. when or dered, are taken oui by Blindfolded boy. and sent ny mail, thus giving alI a fair chanel On receipt of the Certificate. you will see what you are to have. ami then it IS at your option 70 send the dollar and take the article or not. Purchasers may thus obtain Piano, Melodeon. Sewing Machine. told Watch, Diamond Ring. or any set of Jewelry on our List for One Dollar. mrr
Year: 1867

sss~ To Subscribers--Theser indebted to the CITIZEN OFFICE for subscription will please remember that the time for payment has come. We have waited so far with pa- tieuce; we trust that our patrons will re- member us now that cotton is being sold, and money with them is becoming plenty.
Year: 1867

the one side, and for the omission of bank stock on the other, there remains an in- creased assessment of at least S45O. OOO Of this over r-assessment the Board of Equal lzation relieved us of not quite one -secsnh,

 granting reduction only on land and cat tie. Our houses still average double the

 assessed value of houses in Morris-our

 horses nearly, and our cattle quite double

 the assessed value of the like animals in

 Kent. We mention the case of Litchfeld,

 particularly, because it is the one with

 which we are most familiar, and because it

 was exactly the case which the Board was

 expected to correct, and which it has pro-

 ved utterly inadequate to correct. We

 have no doubt our readers in other parts

 of the county will discover short comings

 almost as fragrant in their respective local

 ities.

 1t seems to us that we need occasional thorough assessments by State authorities, at least of real estate We all know how these town assessments are made year by year. The old lists form the basis of the new. Land is scarcely ever changed hous- es, seldom. Nothing goes in at its true val ue; yet each town has its OWL practice as regards the amount of abatement from that value. No thorough careful comparison has ever been made between the assess ments of different towns in this county or state; and the matter has at last reached that point where relief is imperatively necessary. We do not believe that the lands of Litchfield are by any means one half more valuable per acre than those of Goshen, and worth as much per acre within 50 cents, as those of Watertown; nor that the houses in Washington are nearly double the average value of houses in Warren or lands in Washington, quite double the val ue per acre of lands in Warren-all which would appear from our present lists.

 An assessment by the State once in ten or even once in twenty years would estab- fish a basis for boards of equalization such as they do not now possess, and enable them to act intelllgently in the adjustment of our State taxation. This question has already, we notice, attracted the attention of the Legislature, and with our present heavy State taxation, it is matter that towns which, like Litchfeld, are certainly over assessed, can no longer afford to neg lect
Year: 1867

On Weenesdoy night, May 22d, the store of A. W. S G. w. Kellogg of Corn wall Bridge, took fire from the bursting of a kerosene lamp, and was consumed. The goods were mostly saved One of the Mr. Kelloggs was severely burned The loss was covered by insurance

 Fruit prospects are good, although the apple bloom is not as profuse as it is some times, yet its appearance is healthy, while pears, as if to make up for their almost en- tire failure last year, are setting in great abundance, and grape vines have wintered we'll, and though backward on account of the extreme wetness of the Spring, are now coming forward rapidly, and promise we'll

 -The warm weather of the last ten days has heightened up farmers faces wonder fully, and probably the usual breadth of land will be cultivated and when we gath CT in the summer and fall bountiful crops. we may understand that the Lord knows how to manage the weather better that we do.

 "" In the morning SOW thy seed and in the eyen- Ing Wlthod not thy hand; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that or whether they shall both be alike good"
Year: 1867

In your paper of last week, notice an article that the success of that project would "postpone, perhaps, indefinitely, the building of the Fishkill road" l know such 8 report has been industriously circu- lated, by those employed in opposing the bridge, to affect votes of numbers in your county. As subscriber to your paper, and as one of the counsel in the case, l ask ill justice that you will publish this statement in behalf of the friends of the proposed road to Middletown.

 1 l was one of the counsel who made the arrangement, by which the Boston, Hart 1 their opposition to the proposed road. There is not one word of truth in the claim. that the Boston, Hartford and Erie Co.,, are to have the new charter and run to New Haven, instead of building westerly from Hartford to Fishkill On the contra ry it will help the Boston, Hartford and Erie Co.,, in building their line west. to have other parties build road from New Haven to Willimantic; as it will furnish business from New Haven and New York and other places on the line, which will go over their road from W'illimantic to Bos- ton. It will be help to have such road for feeder, as 1t is for the New York and New Haven to have the Naugatuck and other roads furnish business for it. All there was to the arrangement is this: The petition asked for charter from New Ha- ven and Willimantic to the East line of the State The Boston, Hartford and Erie Co. reconstructed, on the ground that the road would run on, or parallel to, their route from Willimantic to the State line and would injure their charter, and prediu dice their pending loan from Massachu- setts; and their counsel offered to with draw their opposition, if the petitioners for the new road would withdraw their claim for charter beyond Willimantic That was agreed to- and that is all there is of the story. The Boston, Hartford and Erie Company have no more to do with the proposed new road, than they have with the Housatonic. The fact that the Boston, Hartford and Erie Co. have their road built from Willimantic to Waterbury, acM brioge already JuiA orer Me Connecticut, ought to be a sufficient answer to so foolish story. The idea that Company would abandon their road already built so far on the way to Fishkill, and build new road from Willimantic to New Haven, bridge and all, and then to Fishkill by Derby and Danbury, is too much to believe I know what I say, when I declare the whole story utterly without foundation in fact

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Year: 1867

political adventurer, void of those high
attributes, moral consistency and fixed
principles. He is all things to all men,
selling himself to whoever will buy, and
the price of the purchase is-your vote.
He is not of this people-a discarded
hack. from the over-crowded political
circles of older communities, trying to
palm himself upon You as your represen-
tative man. An outsider, without any
recommendation in his favor, except his
capacity to bolt the Democratic party in
Colorado and their platform here. There
is not one of these assertions but can be
proven by the testimony OF hundreds of
men in this community. Between these
two men you must make your choice ; q
man of fixed principles, or one who veers
with the views of every voter; one who
is identified with you, or a new importa-
tion from abroad a man of yourselves,
of ability and influence. or one who has
only shown his shrewdness by running
for Office before he was in the Territory
long enough to be known to it's people.
You ask favors from the government.
Will you send man there who is in
harmony with the government, upon a
platform loyal and devoted to your inter
ests. or one who is asking your suffrages
upon a platform hostile to Congress, pro-
nouncing it an assemblage of tyrants,
and our soldiers despots, and presuming
by its resolutions to sell out the pledged
honor of the nation. We have too much
faith in the people of Montana to doubt
for one moment that Wilbur F. Sanders
will be triumphantly elected. Until he
is, there will still be wanted-a Dele
gate TO Congress.