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Year: 1867

George hendall, OF tne NJ" Ni'e""s
Picayune, tells the following story


While talking with Captain Wilson,
who is an old salt and good one, l tnd,
on comparing notes, that / sailed or
steamed with him some, sixteen or eigh,,
teen years ago, between Charleston aud
Philadelphia, on the Osprey, then run
ming regularly in that trade. She was q
slow steamer, but staunch one; we had
a species of adventure on board which 1
shall not soon forget. The first morn
ing after crossing Charleston bar, some
where off Georgetown, IL my memory
serves me, we were all, good number
of passengers, quietly enjoying ourselves
under the awnings, the weather delight
full and the sea smooth, when suddenly
the bow Of the steamer struck some hard
substance kchug, checking her up sud
denly, and causing her to quiver rom
stem to stern. All rushed to the sides,
both larboard and starboard, expecting
10 see a huge log or piece OF wreck
pass by; but nothing could be diseov-
ered-not even limb or piece OF plank
There was excitement and wonder on
board, and, as the steamer passed on,
many eyes were cast astern expecting TO
see some kind of drift turn up; but all
was smooth-not speck came to the
surface-the passengers soon returned
TO their books or cigars, and in hall an
hour all was forgotten.


This was about 10 o'clock in the
morning After dinner, while was
talking with the captain, tho engineer
came up and quietly said that something
was wrong. He had on his usual head
of steam; but the Osprey was running a
knot or a knet and half slower than
usual. He had examined every part Of
the machinery, had found all right and
could not account for the falling of.
The mate was called, and he, too, was at
a loss; had noticed that the vessel was
not up to her usual speed, yet could not
account for it. But in looking well over
the bow. the whole thing was explained:
the cut.water of the Osprey, rank and
deep. had struck an enormous trunk
turtle directly in the side, had gone
about half way through the monster, had
fastened to him, and was pushing him
through the water ahead, to the great
detriment of her speed A church door,
showed sideways, could not have impeded
the steamers progress much more than
did this huge turtle, who was, Of course,
lying fast asleep on the surface when
struck. Nor was it an easy matter TO
disengage him. A number of men, with
hatchets and axes, were sent down, and
first cut of the turtles head, which, as
large as a bucket, was drawn on deck,
and taken on to Philadelphia as tro'
phy. The carcass. which was thought to
weigh some eleven or twelve hundred
pounds, was next cut away, and when
once loose from her strange companion,
the Osprey sped on at her usual rate.
In all my nautical "reminiscences, l do
not recollect having read of a similar
Year: 1867

When phrenology first began to attract
attention and claimed to be q science,
high foreheads of women as well as men
we're associated with intellect. Every
member of the opposite sex however
dull or uncultivated she may be, admires
mental gifts, and has no objection to the
reputation OF possessing them herself.
Consequently she determined to have
the seeming if not the reality; and
stripped her forehead Of clustering
tresses, and even removed the hair by
artificial means that she might present a
front that would awake the enthusiasm
of Gall or Spurzheim. For q number OF
years this mania for high foreheads ragged
in spite of the patent fact that they de-
tracted from feminine loveliness, giving
it a hard, bold, masculine expression
that should be sedulously avoided All
the classic models of beauty, whether in
marble or in flesh, from the Venus and
Pryhne down to the Marys of Raphael
and Magdalens Of Murillo, the pictu-
rescue dsmsels Of the Campagna and
the classic Suliote maidens, instead of
high, having quite low foreheads-some-
thing our own women seem at last to
have discovered.


Horace and Catullus and Ovid all sang
Of the fair, fond creatures whose white
foreheads cleaned like the crescent
moon beneath the dark cloud of silken
hair. Artists have so painted feminine
beauty. Men Of taste and gallantly have
admired such. Phrenology has ceased
to be connected with aesthetic subjects ;
and therefore we have returned to ma
ture and to art


Indeed the passion now is rather for
exceedingly low forehesds, for hair over
the temples, and love-locks that shade
the luster of deep eyes. This is rather
overdone; but still it is preferable to
lofty foreheads and stripped brows that
make the face more fitting for Roman
senator than a gentle, tender, womanly
woman. Every man Of taste must re-
ioice that something like an approxima-
ton to the old models and the correct
standard of feminine loveliness has been
established and that we are no longer
painted with


high white fronts that tell Of power


Which ne'er is fashiond by the gentle heart.
Year: 1867

We have just heard of a rather queer
will which was lately admitted to pro-
bate in one of the counties bordering on
the upper Cumberland. A wealthy old
citizen had two sons, one Of whom was
in the Federal army, and the other in
the rebel ranks. During the early part
of the war, the old gentleman was taken
suddenly i'll, and wishing to di-
vide his property equally between
his two sons, bequeathed to Henry
(the Federal soldier), all his slave
property, embracing about fifty ne
groes, and to Thomas (ths boy ia grey(
his entire landed estate. He died, and


thus the will stands Both brothers
lived to return from the war, and the
gallant soldier of the Lost Cause, being
perfectly satisfied that slavery was no
more, generously divided the lands with
his brother, and both are living happily
together, and are bitterly opposed TO the
Radical programme.-NdshUille Gazette
Year: 1867

ON THE POPULAR ONE PRICE PLAN,
ORiying eyery patron handsome and relia.
BILE watch for the low price OF Ten Dollars
Without regard to value. and not to be paid
for unless perfectly satisfactory
Year: 1867

MEDICAL ADVICE-Dr. VIM. X. Doherty's
Medical and Surgical Institute is becoming sine
qua non to the welfare of our State and health
of our citizens; and his rapidly spreading reputa-
ton, although it may excite surprise, is but the
signal OF SKILL and follows as the natural effect
of such cause. We are personally acquainted
with gertcmen who had suffered for years under
chronic disease, and who had taken advantage of
every available means that promised relief, but
without success, until they called upon Dr. Do
herty, who in an incredibly short space of time,
has given them entire relief. 1t is gratifying to
announce this fact, because the Doctor is gen
teman who seeks, not by defamation of others,
to establish his reputation, or to rear the super
structure of his own upon the ruin of another's
fame. The Doctor conducts his Institute in snch
a manner that must be gratifying to all his pa
tients He examines, advises and recommends
without charge, and the patient after hearing
his terms for treatment can accept or reject at
pleasure In no case does the Doctor make
charge unless he effects cure. This, he is able
to do because he feels the confidence which long
experience has given, and no doubt the cOnsola'
ton which appertains to that confidence. Per.
sons afflicted with either acute or chronic disease
would do we'll to consult the Doctors at all events


it can do no harm, as for consultation he asks no
fee: nor does he insist on obedience TO his advice
unless the patient places himself under his care.
His offices are on Sacramento street, opposite the
Pacific Mail Steamship Offices. F. News.
Year: 1867

SPECIAL NOTICE. -Wewould call the atten-
ton of of our readers to the Grover d. Baker Ma
chimes. Their reputation is too well established
for us to attempt word in their favor, but
would advise any person wanting reliable Fam
lily Sewing Machine, to investigate these before
buying ga word 10 the wise is sufficient"
Year: 1867

The London Times of the ist instant has an
interesting article upoD the financial condition
OF England, from which we make the follow
ing extract:


"It is a word so eften used as almost to have
lost its force, but ID Is nevertheless true, that
the present state Of the money market is sun-
precedented' IT Is true that twice since the
passage of the Bank Charter Act the bank rate
OF discount has been as low as it Is now; but
instead OF its railing two per cent. within a
twelyemonth OF the pauic. as IL has Just done,
that depth was only reached in d We wears altar
the panics OF ls47 aud 1857. There is now ave
millions more bullion in the bank than on
the last occasion when the rate of discount
was rs low, and three and half more than A.
the present period. Ten years ago there was A
repletion OF money. and q depletion OF the
nervous power requisite for its use That
dispyoportion is now aggravated TO the extent
OF five millions Of bullion in the Bank OF Eng.
land. and three millions OF ssrest." But the
Bank Of England is only one OF many capital
lists and money lenders, and all the others are
under.bidding II for custom, not to have their
money lie idle in their Golfers. 1t is the case
OF Mdas-gold all around and no power to use
companies without numbers, and with pomi.
nal capital which 1t is difficult to oyerstate
are insolvent, and unable to get loans on any
terms. The more they ask the less they get
and the old stock picture, so much EMPLOYED
by the league. OF huge granaries, crushed TO
the earth, with corn spelling as it lay, in the
midst OF starving population, is applicable


s'Never was there so much money Never
such want Of it. Many thousands OF we'll
to-do people. genteel people, reputedly rich
people, are at their wits emo for the money
which they possess in some nominal form, but
which they cannot solidify by any process
and reduce to an available form. The more
money there is, the worse for those who haven't
1t So they think, at least. People are all ask
Ing the reason of this state OF things, as we'll
they may. If q reason can be discovered a
remedy, also, may be discovered: or it NAV
be shown that the complaint is imaginary.
and the disorder has no real existence. Per-
haps 1t Is the apprehension OF war. Certainly
he would be raah who undertook to say that
there shall not be a war in this or next year
There are so many people just now who
would like france TO 60 to war with Prussia
that perhaps the wish is only the father to the
thought. or perhaps SO many i'll wishes amount
to good opportunity. or perhaps wiful
world will have its way. and neither France
or Prussia can help itself But it seems to MS
there is no need at all to speculate on the
chances ct war, and the question before us is
Of more everyday and homely character
We need not look across the channel unless
curiosity or self-complacency should lead us
to inquire whether our neighbors are very
much like ourselves. The plain fact is that
the British public. which has always UNDER
gone Gibbs and flows Of confidence, has lost it
altogether"
Year: 1867

special meeting OF The Executive Committee Of the
Union Republican General Committee TO hear reports Of
the several district committees held last evening -
the Republican Headquarters corner Of Broadway and
Twenty third street The committee from the Fifth dis
sxict stated that they would be able complete ticket
Tor the Constitutional Convention and run II success-
fully Tho committee from the Seventh district met In
an adjoining room during the session Of the Executive
Commttee and letters were read from Hamilton Fish,
J. r. White and DR.. Bellowh declining nominations
from the convention Of the Seventh district weed and
Raymond wing) and suggesting that they unite with
The radicals in support Of the regular tckot After
some remarks from Postmaster Kelly, on the sxpediency
uartv reso lutions were offered 70 that effect Thesg
resolutions were after some debate, ratified by shs
Evocutive Committee In session.
Year: 1867

English Views Of Oar National Finances.


The large reduction OF our national debt, 40
cording to Secretary McCulloch's figures, with
In the last year, was the subject Of remark by
Mr.. Gladstone In the House Of Commons
during the debate on the British budget He
made complimentary illusions to our wonder
full resources, to the ease with which we have
borne the burden Of our enormous debt, and the
wise policy Of reducing that debt a. soon and
as rapidly as possible. He called upon the
British government to follow our example In
reducing II debt Then he says, referring to
this country, "The secret Of their future power
lies in the steady and rapid reduction Of their
debit


Now, while we have reason to congratulate
ourselves on . great reduction Of the debt
within the last year or eighteen months, We
must not be misled by Secretary McCulloch's
figures, nor attribute this reduction to the
wrong cause. A considerable amount reduced
i In the non-interest bearing debt which does
not actually lessen the burden Of taxa
tion. Nor do we think It facilitates the
payment Of the debt by increasing relatively
that portion Of 1t bearing coin interest The
abundance of money or an abundant currency
below the specie standard, has been the princi-
pal cause Of swelling the income Of the Treas
ury, enabling the Secretary to pay of SO much
Of the debt, and not the management Of Mr..
McCulloch. Indeed, if the Secretary had been
permitted to carry out his crude theories
unchecked by Congress our means would have
been limited, the revenue would have been
much less, and the debt consequently, would
not have been 80 much reduced. 1t Is, as we
said, an abundant and deprecated currency
that enabled us to reduce the debt to the
extent 1t has been reduced. Yet, strange to
say, the resumption theorists clamor for an
immediate return to specie payments. Every
one who can see beyond his nose, or who is
not incurably welded to the bullionist doc
trine, must be aware that If we could return
to specie payments tomorrow the means of
the people would be greatly reduced, while
the weight Of the debt would be immensely
increased. Then, instead of q reduction of the
debt, we should find the revenue inadequate
to meet the interest and current expenses Of
the government The chances are that the
people would groan under the weight and
soon begin to mutter reputation. No; the
true policy is to pay of the debt with an
abundant and deprecated currency, and not
attempt to force resumptio till that is accom-
plished, or, at least, until the greater portion
Of the debt ID liquidsted. II Secretary McCul-
loch win endeavor 10 do this, instead Of unduly
contracting the currency and increasing that
portion Of the debt bearing coin interest, he
win then merit the praise both Of foreign
statesmen and our own people.
Year: 1867

Letters, says Ike Marvel, 'are the only true
heart-talkers and are worth all the ip-talk in
the world" Whether or not we are prepared to
admit quite as much, we yet do know that let
ters are our good monitors, they are, also, our
great comforters, and from our hearts we say,
blessed be letters. Oh the glory, the freedom,
the passion of letter. have little packet,
not very large, now soiled with frequent hand
ling, which often [ take out from its hiding
over with such sorrow and such joy, such tears
and such smiles as [ am sure make my heart
kinder and holier, and send me forth stronger
for the battles of life. There are in this little
packet letters in the familiar hand of sister, =
What tender affection What repeated assur-
ances that there is a vacancy in the home circle
I pity those who have outlived the tears that
such letters cali up to the eye. There are 9TH
ers in the budget in the trembling and unsteady
hand of an invalid. Icould almost thank heaven
for a sick sister. She is so gentle she gains a
mastery over our sterner nature by very con-
trast She is kind, shedding her kindness as
Give where the angels Ive" Her kindness
and gentleness are sWeetly tempered with that
meekness and forbearance which are born OF
faith Trust comes into her heart as rivers
come to the sea- But to return to the letters
There are still others in the packet, with some
times scrawling postscript at the bottom with
its gigantic is SO carefully crossed and extra p's
so heavily marked by the careless hand Of a
dear brother, written when his heart was full Of
glee, and the hopeful joy of buoyant youthful
ness And there are still other letters In my
packet of some of which may not write. But
the contents of all are stored far away in the in
ner chambers of the heart. So now will gather
up my letters carefully, to be read again when
the heart is faint and sick of all there is unreal
and selfish in the world, when it is weary of
strange faces and new voices, and longs for the
old familiar sounds of the home loved ones, and
the friends of other days. May God bless all
the writer's of my letters, and in the dark hour
ly to His sustaining Grace, and lean confidently
upon His strong arm, begging that He will lead
us away from the vanities of this world to the
fulIness of that joy which the good inherit.


January /, 1867. LOCK HAVEN.
Year: 1867

Father Oh let my cry be heard, and an
swered for the eternal safety of father, mother,
sisters and brothers. Oh +! that the last day
may not be day of wrath and vengeance to
any of us, that may not hear one of those be-
loved voices calling on the rocks to fall and hide
them from sighted and despised Creator.
| will not take back my prayer it shall lie be-
fore Thy Throne, my Heavenly Father, offered
with a strong crying of the heart Thou canst
not deny to hear me, for plead the sufferings
and death of Savior. Oh! Jesus, be Savior
"a precious, priced Savior to these. By Thine
agony, by Thine hour of desolation, | plead
with Thee. | know that thou lowest to save
the souls of men; they are more valuable to
Thee than to their blinded owners, for Thou
canst see unveiled the eternity unrealized
by them. Oh, hear me, Jesus | will nottake
back my prayer 1t shall lie before Thy Thine,
and Thou wilt hear me, | know Thou wilt, but
until the answer comes, and | may not live to
see it, l will not cease to cry and would have
more, | would have these dear ones give up all
for Christ; | would have them so realize the
unspeakable value of things unseen, in COM
parison with the present, that they may earnest
ly desire and strive to give up time talents, in
fuence, means, life, to glorify God while ON
earth, knowing that a reward is laid up for the
faithful servants of God.


This, oh my Savior, is the intense cry of nv
soul. ask tnlS Ior tnenl, ana II tney must be
sanctifed by aff1iction, l ask it for them; yes,
in the depth of my love for them, ask 1t for
them, if by this means only they could be made
to see Thy face. Men think it strange that
God sends affliction to bring hearts to know
Him, but it is their own fault. Men have no
time to think of their souls, they are so busy
with earth's trials But in afiiction how do
these all stand back and leave the soul face to
face with its Maker Yes, if by means of deep
sorrow only can those love be saved, ask Thee,
[ pray Thee, O my God, to give them that
anguish, for well | know that an eternal
weight of glory can repay abundanty for any
earth pain; and Oh if their sanctifcation and
conservation to God can be promoted by Thine
infinite will, by anything that l can suffer, ]
freely offer myself. As Thou wilt; but Obi
let this be prayer accepted and put by to be
answered in Thine own good time Amen.
Year: 1867

LIMA, OHIO, Jan. Z, 1901.


Messrs Editors :-Yo our toady Governor not
only undertakes to get you to disfranchise your
selves and to enfranchise the negroes by threats
of greater exactions from his masters, whose sa-
trap he is, but, in addition, he undertakes to
call the conservative men of the North rabble,
or what is equivalent to that. [ wish him to
know that he is as wide of the mark as the toad
that undertook to enlarge itself to the dimen-
sions of the OK If he will come here he will
find that the hardfsted yeomanry of the coun-
try are those in opposition to the despotism
that he and other demagogues in and out of
Congress are wishing to fasten on the country
in the place of the government, State and Fed
eral, made by Washington and his fellow patrl-
OTIS.


This is the third Judicial district of the State
and is a farming community and has conserv-
ative majority of over 5000, and in our Con-
gressiona district, we have commanding ma
jority and send conservative man to Congress,
but, on account of the demagogism around him
he is powerless for good.


The Fall elections, doubtless, surprised the
friends Of civil liberty throughout the world
1t is, however, a matter of easy solution: We
have here a corrupt political clergy with an oc-
casional exception) who have made their dupes
believe that they are the special messengers of
Heaven sent to punish outside barbarians, such
as their opponents North and the white men
South. What corrupt clergy in all ages has
done for the world, need not tell your readers
here they are the power behind the throne
greater than the throne itself, and to which the
demagogues in and out of Congress are pander-
ing. Such being the case, the contest will be
stubborn but with their limitations of Barebones
Parliament, hope they will ultimately disgust
even their own dupes. Our conservative vote
was in round numbers 2l4,O 900, but with negro
votes in violation of the State constitution and
other appliances, equally disreputable, they out
voted US $4,000. My best wishes to all my old
acuuaintances. JOHN IRWIN.
Year: 1867

o, brother and sister, growing old,


Do you all remember yet


That home in the shade of the rustling trees


Where once in our household met?
Do YOU know how we used to come from schoo
Through the summers pleasant heat;
With the yellow fennels golden dust
On our tired little feet?
And how sometimes in an idle mood
We loitered by the way;
And stopped in the woods to gather flowers,
And in the fields to play?
Till warned by the deepening, shadows fall,
That told of the coming night,
We climbed to the top Of the last, long hill
And saw our homes in sight
And brothers and sisters older now
Than she whose life is DER,
Do you think of the mothers loving face,
That looked from the open door?
Alasl for the changing things of time;
That home in the dust is low;
And that loving smile is hid from us,
In the darkness, long agol
And we have come to life's last hill,
From which our weary eyes
Can almost look on that home that shines
Eternal in the skies
So, brothers and sisters, as we go,
Still let us move as one,
Always together keeping step
Till the march Of life is done;
For that mother, who waited for us here,
Wearing a smile so sweet,
Now waits ON the hill of Paradise
For her children's coming feet
Year: 1867

''Daily beneath his mothers eyes,


Her lamp matured his lowliness;
Twas hers the lovely sacrifice


With fillet and with flower to dress.
Beside his little cross he knelt,


With human heavenly lips he prayed,
His will within her will she felt,


And yet his will her will obeyed.
He willed to lack he willed to bear;


He willed by suffering to be schooled,
He willed the chains of flesh to wear;


Yet from the world her arms he ruled.
As tapers mid the noontide glow


With merged yet separate radiance burn
With human taste and touch, even so,
The things he knew he willed to learn.
He sat beside the lowly door;


His homely eyes appeared to trace
In evening skies remembered lore,


And shadows of his Fathers face
One only knew him. She alone


Who nightly to his cradle crept,
And lying like the moonbeam prone


Worshipped her Maker as he slept"