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Year: 1866




] Anlold beau, formerly well known
in Washington City, WIS accustomed
to eat but one meal in twenty
four hours; if after this he had to 90
to a party and take a second dinner,
he ate nothing at all thenext day. He
died at the age of seventy.


A lady of culture, refinement and
powers Of observation and
comparison, became widow. Reduced
from afiuenee to poverty, with a large
family of small children dependent on
her manual labor for daily food, she
made variety of experiments to as
certain what articles could be pur-
chased for the least money, and would
at the same time go farthest, by keep
ing her children longest from crying
for something to eat. She soon dis
covered that when they ate buckwheat
cakes and molasses they were quiet for
a longer time than when they ate any
other kind of food. H a 4s


A distinguished Judge of the United
States Court observed that when lie
took buckwheat cakes for breakfast he
could sit on the bench the whole day
without being uneomfortably hungry.
IF the cakes were omitted he felt
obliged to take lunch about noon.
Buckwheat cakes are a universal favor
ite at the winter breakfast table, and
scientific investigation and analysis has
shown that they abound in the heat
farming principle; hence nature takes
away our appetite for them in the
summer.


During the Irish famine, when many
died of hunger, the poor were found
spending thcir last shilling for tea, to-
bacco and spirits. It has also been
often observed in New York, by those
connected with charitable institutions,
that when money was paid to the poor
they often laid out every cent in tea or
coffee, instead of procuring the more
substantial food, such as meal, -four
and potatoes. On being reproved for
their apparent extravaganza and i'm
providence, the cry universally was in
both cases identical, their own obser-
yation had shown them that penny's
worth of tea, tobacco or liquor, would
keep off the sense Of hunger longer
than a penny's worth OF anything else
Scientific men express the idea by say,
ing, "Tea, like alcohol, retards ,tht
metamorphosis of the tissues IN other
words, it gives fuel to the flame o
life, and thus prevents it consuming
the fat and flesh of the body"


Ifa person gets into the habit 0
taking lunch between breakfast ant
dinner, he will soon find himself get
ting faint about the regular luncheon
time; but let him be SO pressed witt
important engagements for severa
| days in succession as TO take nothing
j between meals, it viii not be long be
! fore he can dispense with his lunel
altogether. These things seemto shoH
| that, to certain extent, eating is
mere habit. Whole tribes of Indial
hunters and trappers have been knows
to eat but once in twenty-four hours
Halls Journal Of Health.
Year: 1866

the opening Of the ceremonies, among other
things said:


ut was therefore appropriate that on the
evening Of the Christian Sabbath they should
meet together and commend the country 10
God, who had signally favored the country
in the trials through which it had passed.
and plead With God that as the country was
now entering on unexpected trials. it would
not bs deserted BY him."


At the reception given BY the Pbiladel
phia Union League to the Southern dele
gates ExGov. Hamilton spoke. and il the
course Of his address said: "Prepare your
hearts and arms. perhaps for another con
tiict. (Cries Of I'VE are reaJy.") You know
the wicked element that has produced this
feeling, and it is deep regret that make
this prediction after the sad and gloomy
events Of the past four wears. But we are to
ignore our friends North and South"
Gov. Brownlow declared in speech at
the same reception, that


I'm regard to the South. he would say
that il the spirit Of the Sou,h-the rebel.
ious spirit combined With the treachery Of
the Copperheadism Of the Norlh-shaII
bring another war upon this country. and
force YOU to leave your wives and your chill
dren. your homes and parents, and invade
the South to put it down, want to have
something to say about the division Of the
force. LIT there be be three divisions.
Let the first 60 armed according to the reg.
ulatons, with small arms and artillery, and
let them do the killing. Let the second 20
with pine knots and burning torches. and do
the burning. Let the the third 60 with SUR
veyor's compass and chain, and we will sell
out the lands to pay the expenses Of the
war and settle the country with men who
will honor this glorious banner. Cheers


Add to all this, the manifest deep chagrin
and disappointment felt by these people at
tue close association and friendship Of Gen
Grant and Admiral Farrigut, the heads OF
the Army and Navy. with President Johnson
and you cannot doubt Of these treasouabe
designs.


The American people have great energy
and resources; they show a capacity, North
and South, TO taxa life and destroy that is
horrible to contemplate


That these Radicals intend If possills
turning these elements Of strength int, q
civil war. North and South, arraying neigh.
Dor against neighbor in deadly conflict, is
too manifest TO be longer ignored as fact


Nothing will deter them from executing
their design but an overwhelming d. mott.
slraton of the Conservative men If the
country.


A persons irrespective Of former party
affiliations, or opinions as to previous public
policy, should join hands against Theses
threatened horrors,-horrors our pen is in
capable Of depicting.


The evidences of the approaching storm
are not Of our imagining. they are the
resolves and utterrances Of these very men
openly threatening wha. we know they have
the will aud much strength to carry OUT
particularly i'll the States Of tho North and
West, and on the Pacific.
Year: 1866

CoNJUGAL LovE.-Affection
may be won by the sweetness
of disposition, and esteem and
respect by talents and by yir-
tue; but no other quality can
confer the nameless interest
which arises from a happy CON
gruity of tastes and of pursuits.
To feel with one heart, to judge
with one mind, and to look
tothe same high and pure sour
ces for happiness, are the most
beautiful links in the golden
chain of domestic union.
Year: 1866

A man in Texas says he once
saw his obituary notice pub
lished, and was able to read it
with pleasure. The only regret
he had was the fear that when
he did die he would not have
as many good things said about
him, for he was young then,
and-innocent.
Year: 1866

A lady in Lafayette, Ind, re-
Gently in preparing her Sum
day dinner put some beans in
a pot to bake. In a hurry to get
to church she Inadvertently
put her hymn-book in the pot
and wrapped a piece of pork
In her pocket handkerchief and
took it to church with her. Her
modification was intense upon
discovering her mistake during
service so was her husbands
at, the singularly pious compo-
sition of his repast.
Year: 1866




feeling asrevealed by the Pres
ident's journey, says" i'm
pressed as we are with the
gloomy prospect, it is not, how
ever, all gloomy. 1t is dark,
but not all darkness. President
johnson is regarded as the
friend of the South, but he is
not her friend because she is
the South. The interests, of
the South are wrapped up, at
present, in the preservation of
the Union upon the principles
of its founders; and President
Johnson happens to be our
friend because he is the advo-
cate, not of her interests per Sc,
but of that in which her inter-
ests are involved. He has not
come to the South, but the
South has come to him, In
1861 the South endeavored to
leave the Union. In
leaving the Union she left An
drew Johnson behind her. She
now returns to the Union, and
finds President Johnson Just
where she left HMM the
Union and for the Union
There is some ground of hope
that the thinking men of the
North will see the Importance
ofsustaining the President, and
by their united efforts over
come the madness which seems
to rule the hour there. Other
wise may God save the coun-
try, for the success of Radical
ism will only make the North a
scene of wild anarchy and the
South a second St. Domingo


Religious creed of J. G..
Whittier, the Quaker poet !:


Painfully sensible. of my in
firmities and liabilities to error,
| instinctively shrink from as
suming the office of teacher
and guide of others. I simply
wish to say that my ground of
hope for myself and humanity
is in that divine fullness of
love which was manifested in
the life, teachings, and self-sac-
rifice of Christ-the Way, the
Truth, and the Life. In the
infinite mercy of God so re-
Vealed, and not in any work or
merit of our nature, Ireverent-
ly, humbly, yet very hopefully
trust.


"I regarded Christianity as
a life rather than a creed, and
in judging my fellowmen lean
use no other standard than
that which our Lord and Mas
ter has given us: BY their
fruits ye shall know them.
The only orthodoxy that | am
specially interested in is that
of life and practice. On the
awful and solemn theme of hui
man destiny | dare not dog
matize but with the unfolding
of the great mystery, | rest in
the firm faith that, whatever
may be our particular allot-
ment, God viii do the best that
is possible for all.
Year: 1866

This gentleman addressed the follow
ing letter to the chairman of the recent
imposing demonstration at Brooklyn,
New York, in Endorsement OF President
Johnson's patriotic policy IL IS mark
ed with the acknowledged ability OF the
writer, and states the case clearly aud
vigorously We Commend it to careful
perusal
Year: 1866

are therefore properly held to be disloyal.
/ The reply is obvious: Let all other disloyel
claimants from other States be rejected; but
in any case admit the loyal Representatives
Of Tennessee and Arkansas. Still Cong gress
excludes the loyal, grouping them in one
indiscriminate mas with the disloyal. This
! course Of opposition has failed to be satisfae-
tory, and therefore new arguments must be
found. One Of these is that, although the
present representatives are loyal the terms
for which they were elected will some day
expire, ard they may be followed by di j.
loyal successors. The same argument would
affect every seat in both houses Of Congress.
because, although the constitutional pre-
sumption in favor of loyalty in the sew
eral States always remains coed, yet no
one can absolutely guarantee that any
one State or district in the United
States may not, at some future time,
send q dlsloyal representative. We all see
clearly that the question is not Of what is
past, nor yet Of what is future, Judged By
any standard Of patriotism and loyalty,
tnab the whole Congress eoald accept come
districts IN every State; and many Of the
States have at times heretofote suffered
themselves to be represented BY disloyal
men, and any one or all of them may con-
sent to be Represented by disloyal men
hereafter. The only sure way TO guard
against this imaginary danger would be to |
dispense with Congress altogether. Thus |
the advocates Of disseIsion seem to arrive |
at the conclusion that our entire system Of |
Republican Government is an absurd fail |
ure. What, then, is my conclusion? It is |
one at least that will be permitted to har- |
monize with my past life. l am hopeful
hopeful Of the President-hopeful of the /
ngress-hopeful Of the National Unicn /
Party-hopeful Of the represented States
hopeful Of the unrepresented States-above
all, hopeful Of the whole people, and hope |
ful Of the continued favor of Almighty God. |
When l shall return here from the field of /
public service, and shall come to mirgle
once more IN your quiet and peaceful pur-
suits, desire and hope then to be able to
look with renewed affection and pride upon
our beloved country. hope that then,
while l remember how fearfully within our
own time she has been beset, besieged an d
invested, / shall nevertheless be able to say
to all her enemies, at home as well as
abroad


Compass her walls in solemn pomp-


Your eyes quite round her cast


Count al her towers, and see If there


You hCd one stone disDlaced.n -
Year: 1866

AFRAID Oh THE PEOPLE.-The Radical
Governor of New Jersey, foreseelng that
the people of that State will sweep
his party from power at the next eleC,
tion, has called for special session of
the present Legislature to ratify the
Constitutional Amendment, and to elect
a United States Senator in place Of Mr..
Stockton, who was defrauded Of his
seat by the Radical Senators last winter.
The Radicals show by their conduct that
tbey know their time is short and they
are making the most of the opportuni-
ties they yet hold. They are afraid to
take the voice Of the people on the Con-
stitutional amendment, but propose to
rush it through before the people have
an opportunity of pronouncing their
verdict.
Year: 1866

mOhIcH VI INC AVsas


The session of the Institute commences
on the 18th of September. All the Ca
diets are expected to be there on the
10th to take part in the ceremonies OF
the Inauguration of Hubard's copy OF
Houdon's statue of Washington, which
was carried off by,General Hunter, but
which the Government of West Virginia,
InSnifesting q most creditable spirit,
caused to be returned to Lexington. The
ceremony of again elevating the statue
to its place will be more deeply interest.
ing than that which occurred when it
was first installed in the grounds of the
Institute. Governor Letcher, who was
victim of the vandalism of the same
General Hunter, will deliver an address
ON the occasion.


The interest Of the event will be very
much enhanced by the presence of Lieu.
tenant General Grant, who has promised
to attend. The presence of General Lee
and General Grant on that day, witness.
ing the installation of the statue of the
Father of his Country" will be one OF
the most striking indications of the re-
yiyed and convalescent nationality OF
the Federal Union that has yet been
presented, and cannot fail to exert q
moral influence in favor of the restora-
ton of Peace and Equality to the
Union.


The Institute will have a good school
in spite of all obstacles. General Smith
has been untiring in his efforts to make
preparations for the accommodation OF
all who desired to come. Twenty-slx
rooms Of the Institute proper are finish
ed, and thirty-four more nearly ready
for occupants. We have not a doubt
that it will soon be restored to its former
prosperity. -.


We are enabled to add very gratliy-
ing piece of information. General Grant
has not only given arms to the cadets,
but restored to them the old Cadet bat
terry. One of the officers of the Institute
recognized it at Washington, and asked
the General for it. He gave it without
Notwithstanding, in substance,
that the rising generation must be edu'
Gated, and the means for that purpose
must not b. withheld. Acts like these
do honor to the highest military officer
in the country, while they have an ire.
sistible force in diminishing sectional
prejudice and smoothing the way to the
complete restoration of the Union.
Year: 1866

sistance at the threshold. As your
Chief Magistrate I have felt, after taking
an oath to support the Constitution OF
my country, that saw the encroach-
ments of the enemy upon your sovereign
rights. I saw the citadel of liberty en-
trenched upon, and, as an honest man,
being placed there as o sentinel, l have
dared to sound the tocsin OF alarm.
Should have ears and not hear; have q
tongue and. not speak when the enemy
approached
Year: 1866

A Wife Turned Crazy by the InfideI-


ity and Abuse of Her Husband.


From the lansing (Mich.) Republican, April II.


An afair of the most despicable
character and of the most lamentable
consequences, has recently come 10
light in the village of Mason. A promi-
nent citizen of the village, whose name
we will not mention, engaged in the
mercantile trade, had in partnership
with him for the past two or three
years in the millinery business,
woman, grass widow" Of whom he
became ensmored, and carried things
so far as to bring the matter to public
notice, and make it q subject of public
gossip. This lady partner had been
boarder with the family Of the merch-
ant, and on his family being convinced
OF the improper intimacy existing be
tween the husband and father and the
lady IN question, ordered her 10 leave
the house. This so exssperated him
that he ordered his daughter and her
husband to quit his roof and coOlly in
formed his wife that he would never
again recognize her as the partner of
his bosom until she asked the forgive
ness of the lady Of questionable char
aeter for her suspicious against her,
which were pronounced unjust and
without foundation. Without giving
the many details Of the matter, which
have been kindly furnished US, we will
simply give the result The wife and
mother has become a maniac, perfectly
wrecked in reason, and probably viii
always remain 50. The family have
become broken up and estrsnged from
the father. The father hAs somewhat
relented, and is now caring for de
mented wife. The woman who has
been the cauze Of all this trouble was
waited upon by committee Of ladies,
and told 70 leave the place. She has
gone, and her departure was heralded
by the tolling Of the court house bell
Year: 1866

The following extract from a'discourse
which Rev. Albert Barnes, ID. d., of Phila-
delphia delivered to his people on last
Thanksgiving day, is so truthful and so
timely, that it deserves wide publicity
especially in consideration of the source
from which it comes:


hesitate not to say that, on the whole,
the conduct OF the South in the feelings
evinced on the termination of the conflict
has been such as to demand the confidence
of the North and to secure the admiration
of mankind. The surrender of armed
forces was so complete and entire; the ces-
sation Of hostiliti"s was so immediate and
universal; the acknowledgment that they
had been overcome was so prompt, frank
and manly; the readiness to return to the
Union has been so general and apparently
so sincere; the recognition of the fact that
slavery is extinct for ever has been so
wisely admitted as a fact, vast as are the
consequences involved, and as is the change
in their habits; the readiness to come un-
der the arrangements for collecting the
revenue has been so prompt; the disposi-
ton to resume commercial intercourse with
the great cities of the North has been so
marked; and the willingness to come into
the great arrangements to the Nation for
perpetuating freedom has been so general
that we see in this think, the return OF
the feelings of the best days of the Repub-
lie. There are XceptiOns-individual
but there has never been civil war closed
where there was less lingering animosity
or more willingness to unite again under
the same Government. Can we forget
when we think of what is in the Southern
bosom still, that long-cherished opinions,
feelings and customs DO not soon change
among a people? Can we forget how long
after the wars ofthe Roses" and after the
civil wars that resulted in the establishment
of the Commonwealth" in England on the
cessation of the forms of war, the feelings
that had been engendered fingered in the
bosom of Englishmen? Can we forget how
long after the revolution, the banishment
of James, and the accession of William anC
Mary, love for the "Pretender" fingered Ii
the hearts Ofa portion of that nation? how
firm was the conviction that he was The
rightful heir to the crown? how strong thu
hope thathe would yet come to the throne
Shall we blame our Southern brethren i
some similar feelings linger in thei
| bOSOms?"
Year: 1866

[From the New York Times.l


The fact that some half dozen persons in
Europe have been attacked with disease
which some savans have ascribed to a dis
ease in pork, is receiving more considera-
tion from the public than it is entitled to.
In the cases referred to the chief complaint
was that the pork was not sufficiently cook
ed, which is detrimental to health; and
there are ten cases of disease arising from
vegetable food to one caused by animal
food. Potatoes, unless properly cooked,
are to some extent poisonous in their ma
ture.


Pork is the most healthy animal food next
to good beef. Mutton and veal are much
less digestible, and it is the experience of
every one that they have caused aggravat-
ed illness.


The good health of our armies when ly-
ing.in camp, ted almost exclusively upon
pork, is Just testimonial to its healthiness
as an article of food. Therefore, people
NAV dismiss their fears, and cease to aid
the speculators, who are making money by
II cans of the excitement that has been
created.


We never had better corn with which to
fatten hogs than this year, and the prevail
ing distrust is absurd.
Year: 1866

The great issue before the people Is,
whether all the powers of Government
shall be concentrated in the hands of the
General Government-the States being re-
duced to the condition of counties-and a
consolidated despotism be thereby estab-
lished; or, whether those rights of local
self-government which our fathers enjoy
without which there can be no real liberty,
no wise government, no public economy,
no light taxation, shall be preserved
A powerful faction, represented by a ma
jority in Congress, have conspired to over
throw the free and beneficent institutions
of our fathers, and to substitute therefor an
Oligarchy of privileged classes, crushing
the mass of the people and all individual
liberty, under the weight Of despotic and
unrestricted General Government. To eff
feet this object, they, in plain violation of
the Constitution, exclude eleven States
from representation in Congress, and insist
upon comforting upon negroes the right
to vote-not out of regard to the negro,
but because they expect to be able,
with their money, to control his vote, and
thereby perpetuate their party ascendency-
Let every man who is opposed to the
schemes of the conspirators, who cherishes
the institutions founded by our fathers,
who appreciates the necessity and benefits
of local self-government, who is opposed to
seeing the great State of Ohio shorn of her
dignity and reduced to the dependent con-
dition of a county, or who is opposed to
Negro Suffrage, join with the Democracy
in rescuing our country from the grasp Of
the Malignants. d''l i


By order of the Democratic State Cen
trail Committee of Ohio. Ha.


JOHN G. DUN, Chairman.
Year: 1866

When the young plants of Sorgh.
um fret appear above ground they
are hardly to be distinguished from
grass Most varieties grow very
sluggishly for some weeks and do not
appear to encourage the attentions
Of the hnsbandman, Weeds are not
so deliberate in their motions, and
unless promptly arrested soon over
grow and choke the Sorghum. No
lime should be lost in cultivating
cane as soon rs the plants begin to
show themselves, and il the rows
were marked in planting, and the
weeds begin to manifest themselves
before the cane, it will do no harm
to pass through with tho cultivator,
without waiting for the cane to ap-
pear. Remember, that although
slow growing at first, Sorghum makes
up by rapid after growth for all the
time lost in obtaining good foot
hold No plant covets the attention
ot hoe and cult, ator more than Sor.
ghum, and none affords a better re.
turn for all the labor bestowed In tho
leld.-Sorgho Journal.
Year: 1866

AN ALARM OF FIRE.-The cry of fire
was heard in our streets, last Monday at
about Is minutes past nine O'Clock, PM,
when fire was discovered under Messrs
Paige and Freemans wooden store
house adjoining their brick store, near
ly opposite the Central House. A guam
tity of tow or hemp mating, saturated
with Kerosene oil, together with sticks
of kindling- wood, was found burning on
the plate or sill of the store-house. A
barrel Of shavings in the cellar was
also fire, and the whole wooden struc-
ture must have been all abla8e in flf-
teen minutes, had not the alarm been
given in time to prevent it. As it
was there was no damage donei but the
event causes a good deal of feeling
among our citizens, as there is strong
probability that a dastardly attempt
has been made to burn down and de-
stroy building containing a large
quantity of provisions, such as pork,
-four and meal, the property of Messrs.
Paige and Freeman.