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Year: 1867

The GREAT MILITARY LEvEE.-The tickets
are out for the great Military Levee to be given
by the Portland Army and Navy Union, to
come off at City Hall Thanksgiving evening.
1t VIII be the great affair of the season, and
tickets are going off rapidly. And why should
they not? Every dollar raised by this ball is
to be appropriated to the relief of widows and
oa,dren OF deceased soldiers-su supplying them
with fuel, wood ANA clothing during the win
ter Anu then, person wlu purchases a tick
et gets more T. an his moneys worth of pleas
nre that evening, besides having the satisf;.c-
ton of knowing that he is aiding the widows
and orphans of those who fought for their
country in its hour OF peril We hone and
trust that thousands Of tickets will be >o,i for
TINS noble purpose. Many will purchase 10 aid
the affair who do not intend going to The hall :;
the more the better.


Ihe managers have been al much expense in
getting up this affair, and they are determined
that 1t shall be the most brilliant thing of the
klhd that takes place in our city this season
Year: 1867

sThe investigation of the New York
custom house frauds appear to ilnplicate
Judge Doolittle and Judge Patterson. Mr..
Smythe, the collector, testifes that she
had to agree to give a. portion of the gene
raj order business to Senator Doolittle's
son, and a portion to General Patterson,
the Presidents son-in-law, and one other
person who [m] cannot now think of,
before he would be confirmed" Speaking
Of this matter, the Chicago Journal says
"When the Wisconsin Legislature request
ed Senator Doolittle to resign, an over
whelming sense of obligation to nation
rushing madly towards the vortex of radi-
calism held him back but completely with
custem house frauds may yet compel him
to vacate his seat. We do not suppose
that personal loss or even disgrace would
weigh down his patriotic soul, but the
thought that he could no longer serve, his
country for his country's good would be
Killing
Year: 1867

The Mineral Point Democrat of last week
inserted an article signed "Highland," de-
lending the drunken dog which we spoke
of a few weeks ago. The writer of that
article thinks that the fact that dog will
get drunk in the village of Highland is
"disparaging to the people, we were not
aware of this fact; we did not~sthink that
the people of that model village were so
sensitive on the subject of drunkenness.
He calls the dogs drunkenness an "acci-
dental position;' - this also is something
new; we had not heretofore regarded ha-
bitual drunkenness, as an accidental posi-
ton. He claims that the dogs exposure
is disparaging to ''the character of the en-
tire community" If we had known the
sensitiveness of the community, and be-
licved the statement of the Democrats cor
respondent, we might have been more
careful, for we dislike to hurt the feelings
of an entire community. The article oc-
cupes an entire column, and is mean low
personal attack on the editor of this pa
per, entirely uncalled for, and unworthy
of notice. The fact which we chronicled
in relation TO the dog IS uotsand cannot be
denied; it is not attempted, but from the
spirit of the article, we should think that
the drunken pup who wrote it objects to
his mother's exposure, consdering it a
personal fling at his family. He however
shows his breed by his bark, he is a harm
less pup, and won't bite.
Year: 1867

W"The Circuit Court is at present in
session at this place. There is quiet a
number of legal gentlemen and others in
attendance. There appears to be no very
important business to come up at this ses-
sion.
Year: 1867

ny@ Where does the Grant County
Herald get its authority for saying that
the town meetings and election will be
held this year on Saturday, the 30th day
of March ? We were not aware that any
change had been made. We propose to
hold the election in this County On Tues
day, the I'd of April. .t5
Year: 1867

The aggregate of short debt Cancelled during the
year ending on the lst inst is $J0O0OOO0O, and
the aggregate of direct and indirect legal tender
celed in the same time is $l3S5OOOOO We class the
compounds and the temporary loan or Clearing
House certificates indirect legal tender for they
were both good as a bank The gold in the
treasury is $25OOOOCO increased while the currency
is S9.OO0,0O0 decreased


The general aspect of this exhibit shows that Sec
retary McCullOch has, since the 1st of September,
1866. travelled more than half way to the goal of
specie payments. How sol Gold is now 142; year
ago it was 146-half way to specie payments, and
only four per cent decline in gold The reason is OBJ
vous when we contemplate tho political troubles of
the country.


The earnings of the NewYork Central for the
fourth week in August show loss on the passenger
traffic of $1,000 and gain of $4,000 on the freight
business For the month the loss on passengers was
$4,000 and the gain on freight slO3OOO showing an
increase for the month of $SS,000.
Year: 1867

Financial matters are the stringent condition
that they have been in for months. very few days
however that cotton Is maturing Will have a
beneficial effect We really anticipate a percept
bic degree OF ease daily from this time out. With
gut OF money all the Eastern markets the high
rates of interest here seems unaccOuntaDle UneXCc
tionable paper can find market with even at the
enormous discount Of TO per cent per month upon the
street while banks doing we may Say, nothing
whatever


9he Clereland PlaiRdodler of Tuesday says:


The monetary situation continues unchanged and no
relief from clOseness he expected for some time


Currency rs in request again owing to the large calls by the
railroad companies Eastern Exchange II heavy at par
buying and llO premium selling Gold steady ana strong
Governments without any material change


The Boston Daily Advertiser says


The money market is very quiet the requirements OF
huspess being still moderate, and the dulness III the
stock market limiting materially the wants OF brokers'
Money In many quarters drug even al the low rates
which now prevail much difficulty being experienced In
finding satisfactory employment for the funds which are
daily aecumulating The banks Offering money freely
as thew would like that rate and transactions at per
cent Oh Government cOateras are now frequently re-
ported On business paper the rates show niue altera
ton. Bank customers requiring but te III the way
OF DISCOUNTS aud good short notes are taken al per cent
the longer maturties going at q 10 T. In the OUTSIDE
market differ but slightly from the regular BANK
rates on the notes but beyond the class which passes
AT from per there other good notes accessl
bic at from TO per cent.


The Neo- Orleans Times IN its annual review OF the
business of that city, of the Cotton movement:
We now give the following which indicates the gen
Year: 1867

viii be special feature of the WEEKLY.
A correspondent will be employed in
EVERY COUNTY of the First District.
One of the editorial corps viii remain at
INDIANAPOLIS during the session of the
LEGISLATURE, and keep our readers
fully advised of its proceedings. We hope
to furnish Weekly Letter from WASH
INGTGN CITY during the CONGRESS
SIONAL TERM.
Year: 1867

Will be kept up with full interest. The
WEEKLY will contain the LATEST
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES up to the


hour of going to press. A full summary of
the NEWS OF THE WEEK, and a collec-
tiono of interesting STATE ITEMS, will be
given in each issue. 4fafs.f us-fl
Year: 1867

of the JOURNAL will be in charge of a
competent editor, and will add much to
the interest of the paper. We design to
make the WEEKLY especially valuable
to the FARMERS. Our correspondent
will keep us regularly advised of the con-
dition of the CROPS in all sections of the
country. SHIT
Year: 1867

1t is q graceful habit for children to
say to each other, evil you have the
goodness 2" and 4 thank you" We
do not like to see prim, artificial chit
dren there are few things W ,ich dis,
like so much as miniature beau or
belle. But the habit of good manners
by no means. implies ssatfcctation or re.
straint 1t is quite as easy to say,
"Please give me piece Of pie" as to
say, 81 want piece Of pie" The idea
that constant politencss would render
social life too stiG and restrained,
springs from a false.estimate Of polite.
ness. True politencss is perfect ease
and freedom Itsimply insists in treat
ing others just as you would like to be
treated yourself. A person who acts
from.this. principle will always be said
to have "sweet pretty ways with her.
1t is Of some consequence, that your
daughter should know how to enter
and leave ballroom gracefully; but
it is Of prodigiously more consequence
that she should be in the habit ofavoid.
ing whatever is disgusting or offensive


to Others, and Of always prcferrng their
pleasure to her own.
Year: 1867

No notice can be taken of Anonymous Comm"h'ca
tions. Whatever is intended for insertion in
The Home Journal must be authenticated by
the name and address of the writer-not nee
essarily for publication, but as guarantee for
good faith and responsibility


All business letters for this Office should he nd
dressed to "The Home Journal" Winchester
All communications for publication must be writ
ten on one side Of the page, and with all other
matters connected with the editorial depart
ment, should be allreSsed Editor OF The Home
Journal, Winchester, Tenn.


We cannot, as rule, undertake to return articles
not found suitable for publication.
Year: 1867

One Of the carved designs of the
splendid building which Brick Pome.
roy is erecting for an Office and print.
ing establishment, is a hand with Q
drawn dagger. A radical correspon-
dent says that the original design was
to place over it the inscription, Sic
Semper IyranDis, but for some reason
he has not done so.
Year: 1867

A JOURNALISTIC CATASTROPHE
The Glasgow Mail says:


"An incident occurred in connection
with the printing of our paper on Mon
day, which, we imagine, is unparalleled
in the annals of the press. A cat had
esconced herself in the large cylinder
of the four-feeder Hoe printing machine
employed to throw off the first side of
our impression. Before starting a ma
chine of this sort there is considerable
noise and hustle in putting on the
forms of type, ETC., and during the
first few revolutions are driven very
slowly. The cat however, remained
quite quiet during these preliminaries,
and escaped notice until the machine
was running at full speed, and had
thrown off some 800 copies of the PAPER.
She then apparently thought she had
enough. of it and attempted to spring
out of the cylinder, but, being giddy
after her 200 full-speed revolutions,
fell underneath it and was crushed to a
jelly by the revolving forms, her head
making a large dent against one of the
columns, and her flesh, blood and bones
being so evenly distributed over the
type that it was only after great deal
of washing that printing could be re.
sumed. So completely triturated was
the unfortunate animal, that, as one of
the hands expressed it, nothing was
left of her but the skim"
Year: 1867

Among the beautiful pictures


That hang on memory's wall
Is one of dim old forest,


That seemeth best of all;
Not for its gnarled oaks olden,


Dark with the mistletoe;
Not for the yiolets golden


That sprinkle tie vale below;
Not for the milk white lilies


That lean from the fragrant hedge,
Coquetting all day with the sunbeams
And stealing their golden edge;
Not for the vines on the upland


Where the bright red berries rest,
Nor the pinks, nor the pale sweet cowslip
1t seemeth to me the best.
1 once had little brother,


With eyes that were dark and deep
In the lap of that dim old forest


He lieth in peace asleep;
Light as the down of the thistle,


Free as the winds that blow,
We roamed there the beautiful Summers,
The Summers of long ago;
But his feet on the hills grew weary,
And, one of the Autumn ewes,
made for my little brother


A bed of the yellow leaves.
Sweetly his pale arms folded


My neck in meek embrace,
AS the light of immortal beauty


Silently covered his face;
And when the arrows of sunset


Lodged in the tree-tops bright,
He fell, in his saint-like beauty,


Asleep by the gates of light.
Therefore, of all the pictures


That hang on memory's wall,
The one of the dim old forest


Seemeth the best Of all.
Year: 1867

THE BAKERS HoRsE.-Some years
ago, a baker in London purchased
horse, on which he rode when supply
ing his customers with hot rolls and
cakes. One day he passed the gate at
Hyde Park at the moment when the
trumpet was sounding for the regiment
of Life Guards to fall in.


No sooner did the sound assail the
ears of the horse, than he darted
through the park, with the bewildered
baker on his back, into the midst of
the squadron. The poor baker, morti-
fed at being in military line, in the
front rank of the Life Guards, began to
whip and scold, but all to no purpose.
His old charger was so aroused at the
sound of the trumpet, that to move him
from his station was impossible. The
soldiers were exceedingly amused at the
grotesque appearance of the baker, and
the department of his steed, and were
expressing their astopishment, when an
old comrade recognized the animal, and
informed the corps that the horse once
belonged to the regiment, but had been
sold, on account of some infrmity, a
few years before.


Several of the officers kindly greeted
their old companion and the colonel,
delighted at the circumstance, gave
the signal to advance in line, when the
baker finding all resistance useless,
calmly resigned himself to the situation.
The trumpet then sounded the charge,
when the rider was instantly carried,
between his two panniers, with the rap
idity of the wind, to great distance.
Various evolutions were then performed
in which the animal displayed wonder
full skill. At length the sound of re-
treat was proclaimed, when off went the
sagacious creature with his rider Hav.
ing enjoyed his exercise in the field, he
was content to esign himself to the
guidance of the bakers bride.
Year: 1867

THE SNOW STORM.
Unwarned by any sunset light.
The gray day darkened into night,
A night made hoary with the swarm
And whirl dance of the binding storm,
As zigzag wavering to and fro
Crossed and recrossed the winged snow;
And ere the early bed time came,
The white drift piled the window frame,
And through the glass the clothes line


posts
Looked in like tall and sheeted ghosts.


Whittier.
Year: 1867

THE NIGHT WIND.
Alone and aloof,
Over the roof,
Hear the tempests swell and roar!
Though no foot is astir,
Though the cat and the cur
Lie doing along the kitchen floor,
There are feet of air
On every stair
Through every hall
Through each gusty door
There's jostle and hustle.
Like the meeting of guests at festival.


II. B. Read.
Year: 1867

The story of cat in one Of the con.
vents of the Rue de Sevres is the Paris
town talk just now The friar charged
with the kitchen had noticed for some
time past that dish always disappeared
at dinner time, just after he had divided
dinner into as many dishes as there
were brethren. He scarcely knew how
to account for it. In these days friars
are as skeptical about the Intervention
of Old Nick in the affairs of men as
Bishop Colenso or your Rev. Mr.. AL
geo. So the friar set to work to dis
cover the cause of this wonderful effect
because whatever freaks cheese at GER
tain stages may be guilty of, meat never
walks off from the table. The friar re-
manned in the kitchen one day until the
brethren came for their dishes and upon
the occasion not dish disappeared. He
determined to make this rule, as ie
was evident his presence kept the thief
at distance. But the following day,
while he was keeping watch and ward
over the dinner, the door bell rang and
as it was his duty to open it, he hasten
ed thither. Nobody but, on the other
hand, one dish had disappeared from
the table. The friar was greatly an
noyed; who would not be? A double
trick had been played upon him-a dish
had been stolen, his resolution to keep
watch had been discovered and broken.
Next day the door bell was heard at the
same time, but the friar instead of an
swering it hid in large press whose
door he left ajar that he might see ev-
erything which occurredin the kitchen.
A moment after the bell rang, the cat
of the convent bounced through the
window, leaped on the table, seized the
contents of dish and made out of the
window before the friar could calculate
devil of a cat or anything like Jack
Robinson. The thief was known, but
the friar wished to discover the imper-
tinent bell-ringer, who sent him on a
sleeveless errand to the door. At din
ner time the following day he posted
himself at window which commanded
a view of the door bell. At the proper
time the cat ran to the bell-rope, leaped
up to it, let it go almost as soon as it
clutched it, and scampered off to secure
the unguarded dish. The friar did not
fail to report the proceeding of the cat
to the Father, and it was at once noised
about among the brethren. They
amused themselves with the cats dex-
terity and cunning, and now invite
their friends to witness it. The friar's
cook takes care to prepare an additional
dish for the cats benefit.
Year: 1867

NO MORE.
This is the Burden of the Heart,
The Burden that it always bore;
We live to love ; we meet to part;
And part to meet on earth no more;
We clasp each other to the heart,
And part to meet on earth no more.


-ForcYthe Wills.
Year: 1867

Forthe Girls How to get a-Husband.

 From an excellent communication pub lishedin the Columbus Mississippi Index of June Sth, we copy the following "ex- pressly for the girls:

 Benig old and therefore allowed license for teasing tic gitis oh matrimonial sub jects, consult 'thdih about their future prospects often and find that opinion obtains with them, that the young men were never so slow in proposing as in these days; which we must admit gives them good, not to say, allpowerful reason for not taking a husband Now young ladies, the whole secret with nine tenths of you, of not being able to get off your parents hands, is simply this You can't work. You don't know to keep house. You can't make pair ofbreeches You can't tell for the life of you the diff ference between bran and shorts or which COW gives the buttermilk. The young men generally came out of the war with the skin Of :lieir teeth, with no fortune, I might say, but their wardrobes of gray and their canteens, and to marry with them now, rest assured, relates more to making living with the assistance of loving n- dustrious help mate than indulging in opera music, moonshine and poetry. Do you know what thcy say of one of your but terHy young ladies who has held them in the parlor engaged by the hour listening to the elegant nothingsy" Nineteen times out of twenty is this--Well she is all right for an evening entertain ment, but she will not make good wife 7

 There is no possible objection to the ac- complishments of music painting and the like, as such, but the idea is to be able to set these parlor amusements aside for the period when the stern duties of married life call for your practical knowledge Show the young men that you can do your part of double business; that you can cook a meals victuals on a pinch; that you can sweep up, and dust, and darn old stockings and save penny to@sra an accumulated pound; that you will not De dead expense to hfth through life. Believe me young friends, as many trde heroic hearts beat over Household duties as Autter beneath the soft light of porlor chandelier. Your kiss is just as sweet, your smiles just as bright, your heart us happy and tender after a days exertion in sphere worthy of true womanhood, as in places of dissipa- ton. frippery and silly amusement. Have an ambition to do your part in life; culti;. vate industrial habits, and let the parlor accomplishments go with the higher ac- cornplishments have rtughy cnumer- ated. Iris astonishing how soon domes- tic young lady is found out and apprecia- ted. R.is because she is such rare cx- ceptioh to the general rnh.
Year: 1867

psy The earth is the globe on which we are supposed to be at present, and is noted for being the birthplace of the Father of his Country, and for containing large quantities of pctrole- um in it's centre. The earth is said to have been dclugcd some years ago, and there is yet some speculation that if is soon to be destroyed by fire. In view of this fact. we would suggest to our readers the propricty of getting their lives insured in some life insur- ancc cohtpaHy, of which the cheapest is the best. The earth Is considered part of the United States. The earth is round-its sphericity having been discovered By two newspaper report CTS, Who started out in opposite direc- tions to pick up items, and met at Cape Horn. Any man can prove that the earth is round, by starting off from any given point, and going in direct line until he meets himself. The earth turns upon it's axis, making ono rcvo- luton every twenty-four hours, except in Mexico-there they have revolu- ton two or three times day. The earth IS not such dismal place to live upon as many try to make out. So far as anybody has yet been informed up- on the subject, it is far preferable to any of her sister planets as permanent residence. Those who don't think so, ought to moSe as sooh as conFenicnt.
Year: 1867



 It is unacceptable to expect that the public press will always publish only such things us we, ihdividHaliy, shall isAc. A person of strictly religious habits and tastes Will be offended if he sees in Il newspaper the account of a prize flight, or of something obscene and sinful. He forgcls that the news paper Is but tho reflection of the world At large and if Nc is so fadidicus hc should retire altogether from life, for in single street he. will find, at any given hour of the day, what will offend almost all his sehses. He need not read what hc cYAsisiers objectionable in like nahnci', he need not eat at a table q hotS Any highly seasoned dish. He may hot like venisoh ahd game, high. Let him order s3methihg to taste-veal chtlet without sauce. BHt my Lady Godiva may like n few of the in delicacies of the season, and Lord Coventry may have stomach for any thing. A Newspaper would have few readers we're it's dishes of News to con sist solely of pious pastry and flinisey phfis. While the tone of a hewspaper is moral the public cannot complain. The music of an organ grinder may be of the pnrest thract CT. and show symp- toms of the mud and filth that are pisk-- ed up by or scattered npbn throughout the ramblings of the day. To the pure all things are pure, ahd to find fault with newspaper fnr every nice df- fence" is to display hypocrisy of d prude, or silIiness os an ignoramds.- London Examiner.