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Year: 1866

Willie Francis, twelve years of age, a
bright little fellow, who was perhaps as
competent to take charge of two unpro-
tected girls as half Of those who sport
boards


The first stoppage was at Porkopolis,
but they did not desire to tarry there.
An uncalculated inconvenience, however,
overlook them They spent their small
stock of greenbacks literally, and it
gave out before they we're well aware OF
it. They bethought them that they would
like to visit the Mound City, though they
had not the means with which to pursne
the journey


The parties arrived at st. Louis on
Thursday last. Not knowing the city
they took lodgings at the City Hotel, but
not finding things to suit Them there,
they went next day to the Western House,
on Broadway. s.. q.


Having thus become settled, they went
TO the Varieties theater and made an en-
gagement with Mr.. beagle as ballet dan
GERS. Willie also got situation, and all
things seemed moving along lovely.


But distracted parents, who were for
saken in Cleveland, telegraphed for in
formation in regard to their lost girls all
over the country The Chief of Police
of this city received a telegram request
ing him to use all due diligence in ascer-
tanning the whereabouts of the girls in
this city. The matter was put in the
hands of officer Gray, and he soon got the
track of the estrays ....
Parents were Informed and they arriv-
ed here They were escorted up to the
Western House. The girls were in bed,
and we're taken completely by surprise.
Such begging and imploring for forgiv-
ness the officer never saw before. The
runaway girls were very glad to return
home with their parents, and promised
never to leave home again. st Louis
Democrat
Year: 1866

witness cannot be produced; and if not
indicted and tried in the second term
or session, he shall be discharged from
his Imprisonment for each imputed Of
fense


1t is not likely our judges would take
a less favorable view of the prisoner 5
application than in the rule furnished by
this statute. The serious question would
be, how many terms of the court have
passed since the prisoner was first ar
rested? His counsel would, in all proba-
bility, contend that by intendment OF
law, United States courts were holding
their regular terms for the last twelve
months in the State of Virginia, or at
least might have done so. A further
provision Of the constitution might per.
haps, in the event of disagreement OF
the jury, be invoked in behal II OF the prls-
oner--that one which sets forth as fol-
lows. Nor shall any person be subject
for the same offense TO be twice put in
jeopardy Of life or limb. The meaning
Of the rule is, that defendant isin le-
gal jeopardy the moment a petit jury IS
charged with the decision OF the case.
But though there has been some differ
ence of opinion on the point, it may be
assumed that when the Jury was dis
charged from the further and final deci-
sion of the case, because of their inability
to agree, the prisoner may be held to be
tried anew. At one time in England,
where the jury could not agree on ca
pital case, the judge, instead OF dischaarg
ing them at the end of the term, had
them carted round the circuit with him
This practice, however, is exploded. In
case, then, of the inability of the jury to
agree, the utmost the prisoner could ask
from that fact alone, would be the righl
to be out of prison on bail. }
Year: 1866

The st. Louis Democrat has a story
about two young girls, named Mary
c., and Mary P, the former
sweet sixteen, the latter budding
fifteen" who ran away from Cleveland
in order to see the world and nave some
fun. Mary C. is the daughter Of an oil
merchant; Mary p. the daughter Of a
widow.


In this strait, they applied to the gal
liant captain OF the steamer Lady Frank
lin, booked for this port, who, ever alive
TO beauty and innocence in distress,
brought them to ST Louis without re-
muneration. Previous to leaving Gin
cinnati, the two Marys-there is some
thing soft and sweet in the nsme-got an
escort in the person of a lad, named
Year: 1866

There are no truer Unionists than those of
the South. We trust our Northern friends
and the Congress will bear this fact in mind.
1t was an easy and profitable thing to be a
Union man in the Northern States during
the rebellion; but Southern Unionists had
to maintain their principles-and they did
maintain them-against the bayonet, the
dungeon, and expressions and contumely of
all kinds. Traitors are. demanding their
rights" Loyal men only ask for protection
and for permanent civil government on loyal
basis. 1t can not be that a loyal and patri-
otic Congress will disregard this request.
Year: 1866

PosT OFFICE Routes OF THE SOUTH
The net postal receipts from the late insur-
gent States for the year ended 3Oth June last,
were only $75, 1888 less than the liabilities for
the mail service in that section. This is a
small deficit. Previously to the war the pos
tai service in many of the Southern States
was an expense to the government The
postal service in the South ought to be in
creased.
Year: 1866




We predicted that the Presidents message
would disappoint the tire-eaters of the South.
Their organs bestow doubtful compliments
upon it, and some of them receive it with an
"unmistakable" sneer.


The Wilmington Dispatch says:


As far as he goes he is very conservative, and
is disposed to do the South what he regards as a
service-secure for her the admission of repre-
sentation. But he does not 60 far enough by half
Indeed we are forced to believe that he is either
lnsincere, or OF weak intellect. He ought to tell
Congress that the test oath which it has passed
for the exclusion of Southern men from office not
only unconstitutional, but an outrage on the coun
try. He either knows that this is so, or he is no
statesman; and his opinion on any point Of Con-
stitutiona law, in the last case, is utterly worth
less. If he knows that the test oath is unconsti
tutional, then he should say SO like man, and
not in all his public utterances avoid committing
himself, like some miserable county cross roads
politician. He occupies position in which he
may afford to despise the arts of demagogism,
and should do SO. If it is his purpose to be frank,
and he does not believe that the test oath is un-
constitutional, he should employ the services of
some one of sufficient capacity to enlighten him
on that point. The letter of Gov. Graham, pub
lshed during the last twelve months, might serve
to assist him in his research after the truth in re-
gard to this question. Taking the message all in
all, it is a disappointment"


It is little remarkable that the President
does not recommend in his late message, as
he did in his message Of December, 1865,
modification of the test oath. Indeed, when
he says, as be does, that only loyal mem
bers" of Congress should be admitted, and
forbears at the same time to repeat his re-
commendation that the oath be modified, he
inpliedly endorses 1t. This is what vexes the
Dispatch and Others of that ilk.


The real feeling of the /" Southern leaders,
towards the President, is shown in the cool
and contemptous manner in which the Dis
patch advises him to employ the services of
Mr.. Graham. This is nearly as good in its
way as the opinion Of Gov. Swain, that if
Mr.. Graham and Mr.. Perry had been admit
ted to seats in the Senate they would have
induced that body to adopt "a wiser scheme
Of adjustment" than any yet presented.
Year: 1866

The Sentinel regrets that action has been
so long deferred by our Legislature on the
Howard amendment. We concur with that
paper in this regret. There was no good
reason why the Legislature should not. have
adopted it at once, unanimously.


{ The Sentinel adds, We are ready to sur
render any personal or political feeling to
effect the great object ofnational tranquility
and Union" That is very pretty express
sion, but unfortunately the facts do not sus-
tain the Editors in making it. The Sentinel
also adds:


"But we never can vote for the enlarge
ment of the powers of the Federal Govern
ment, or the Congress and Executive, which
look to the destruction of the old government
as the Howard amendment proposes to do,
or the humiliation and degradation of our
own people. If they are to be disfranchised,
let others do it."


To all which we have no particular objec-
ton. 1t is very refreshing, however, to hear
the Sentinel and its friends praising " the old
government" Every one knows how they
love the old government" and how they
hate the present one They went out from
the old mansion five years ago, and labored
to the last moment to fire and destroy it,
Since they left, many changes have occurred.
They will condescend to return to it, if the
occupants will beg their pardon for having
left it and sought to destroy it, and if in
addition, they will put every thing in the
mansion in the same condition it was
when they left. This is so kind and reason
able that any thing else would be "humili-
ating and degrading" and true Confede-
rates." who scorned to "cowardly abandon
the cause of the South, y will suffer any thing,
no matter how terrible or awful, before they
will obey any will but their own. Never
theless, they are as submissive as lambs, and
much more loyal than any other class in the
country. All other classes are common,
when compared with them. They are the
best :"
Year: 1866

TN TIE YOUNG AND RISING GENERA.
n tion, the vegeative powers Of life strong but in
few years how often the palld hue, the acklustre
eye, and emaoaed form and the mpossiOity Of app-
cation to mental effort show It's baueful influenced It
becomes evident the observer that depres-
ing influence is checking the development of the body


II the patient be female the restraints Of fashionable
dress and the ballroom with the body half clothed the
mind eagerly intent pleasure When one excitement
is Anished another In prospective keeps the mind NOR
bdly sensitive and absolutely forbds the exercise lnds
pensibe organic strength Exposure TO night air. and
body rcexing with excessive dancing, produce their
legitimate effect and the unfortunate female, regardless
the plain dictates Of unerrng naue becomes an un-
willing subject TO medical treatment. The approach Of
the beautiful and wonderful period in which body aud
mind undergo fascinating change from child to
woman, and in which nature is TO show her saving
powers in difusng the circulation and visiting the cheek
with the Gloom OF health-is looked for in vain Con
sumption As talked Of


Alasi increase OF appetite has grown by what 1t fed
on the energies OF the system are posraed, and the
whole economy IS deranged.


reviewing the of these distressing complaints
Il Is most painful TO contemplate the attendant evils
consequent upon them II is but simple justice to the
subject TO enumerate a few of the many additional
causes which argey affect The life hea tn and happi
ness of all society, and which consequently
affect more less directly the welfare Of the entire
human family and at the time placing in their
hands remedy the removal OF the consequences.
Year: 1866

Of eighteen miles, is filed with desorters, and tines,
are the very men who boa ted loudest aud did ,ne
most taking. These sor. OF men were the frat to
desert the cause and by their language and act ons
have set bad example to those remaining, winch
cannot be easily remedied Deserhons have taken
place BY whole companies and in some instances,
cOlonels have led their commands ack again over
the border. General Spear met a company on Their
way to Vermont, and tired 10 induce them to remain
until mornlne; but they told him TO 90 TO Al aud
continued on their way homeward. The only reason
why detachment was not OF dered out to shoot
them down was because they had not yet been sworn
into the service OF the "Irish Republic "


The report of the trOuole at Camp Sweeney
reached ST. Albans tins afternoon, and two mounted
couriers have just arrived from General Sweeney
with dispatches. counoi Of wal has Just been
held by General Spear and the commanding
officers, and they determined TO maintain themselves
as long as possible where they are If they can
advance no further into the interior General
Spear saws that they may drive hun of of Canadian
soil but shall never be said that he turned around
and wakeo deliberate back again into Vermont.
Most OF the officers VIII stand BY General Spear in
this emergency. Unless the henians in the large
cities send supplies and ammunition Immediately,
there will be a useless loss OF many lives.


As close quiet and order have been somewhat
restored but there is stil large amount OF indIs-
eriminate firing by the men, who fire at everything
they see in the shape oil horses cows pigs, and
poultry.
Year: 1866

TROUBLE IN THE RANKS OF THE INvADERs-HALF


WHOLESALE DKsERTIoNs OF THE RANK AND


FILE-CoLoNELs LEADING THEIR REGIMENTS


BACK TO THE STATES ETC.


RIGHT WING OF THE FENIAN ARMY CAMP
SwLENEY, Canada, June 8-P. M.-Troubei is brew
iIg at tins place among tue men calling themselves
soldiers OF the army OF Ireland AT the present
melt fifty GOOD cayalrymen could put the whole
camp 10 rout, The entire force does not now num-
Der over one thousand men, and more than one. e.nalf
OF that number beastly drunk. The cause of the
fhculty is owing to the present dsorganzed state
OF the torce and the lack of sufficient discipline The
officers are unable to enforce the necessary and pro-
per respect and the men cannot be brought under
p oper subection 10 form any military organization
IN the United States, on account of the neutrality
laws


General Spear crossed over the borders with
nothing moIe nor less Than mob OF despVradoes,
some OF whom were armed but by far the largest
portion of them not. 1t cannot be denied tnat
tie officers and some OF the men came from purely
patriot sic motives but many OF them crossed to Ca
Lada solely for the purpose OF p.undertng Lawless
depIedattODs commenced almost immediately after
crossing into Canada The men started off singly
and N fours and fves on independent maTaUding
expeditions, their officers being utterly poweress to
prevent IL and ticre is no calculating the amount OF
mischief that has been committed These acts have
been severely condemned by one and all of the Off.
GERS and they threaten TO visit the next ofense
with condgn punishment. The officers have taken
all the liquor that could be found in camp and have
spilled il out upon the ground.


The road between here and st. Albans, q distance
Year: 1866

O, if GLOOMY" women did but know
what comfort there is in cheerful spir-
it! How the heart leaps up to meet a
sunshiny face, merry tongue, an even
temper, and a heart which either natu-
rally, or what is better, from conscien-
tious principle, has learned to take all
things on the bright side, believing that
the Giver of life being all-perfect love,
the best offering we can make to him is
to enjoy to the full whathe sends of good,
and what he allows of evil; like a child
who, when once it believes in its father,
believes in all his doings with it, whether
it understands them or not.


Among the secondary influences which
can be employed, either by or upon a
naturally anxious or morbid tempera-
ment, there is none SO ready to hand, or
so wholesome, as that so often referred
to--constant employment. A very large
number of women, particularly young
women, are by nature constituted so ex
ceedingly restless of mind, or with such
a strong physical tendency to depression,
that they can by no possibility keep
themselves IN a state of even tolerable
cheerfulness, except by being continually
occupied Mulock.
Year: 1866

We find in the Presbyterian, the fol-
lowing beautiful and instructive incident
in the life of an esteemed Christian lady,
Mrs. Agnes Carter, the mother of Ro-
bert Carter & Brothers, of New York,
lately gone to her reward.


"Last autumn an aged Christian, a
widow of four-score years, related to me
an experience of her early days. The
haunts of my childhood had been the
haunts of hers. And other sympathies,
too, closer than those of country or of
kindred, led her to speak freely of what
she had seen and felt during a checkered
pilgrimage. When she first entered upon
her married life, she and her husband
could lock their cottage door, and 90 to-
gether, morning and afternoon, to the
house of God. After the birth of their
first son they had to enjoy this privilege
in turn; one going in the forenoon, and
the other in the afternoon. But the
sickness or fretfulness of the child not
unfrequently detained themother at home
during the whole of the Sabbath. This
she felt to be a great privation. On one
such occasion neighbor, coming in to
inquire about her welfare, found her in
tears. The detected young mother was
already Christian; she had early been
brought to the knowledge of the truth
as it is in Jesus; she was lover Of the
Lords house, and of the Lords day; she
trusted in Jesus as a Saviour-but she
had not yet learned lovingly to accept al
his discipline. There were things con
nected with it "too painful for her. .
She did not know what was to compen
safe her for the want of the days in the
courts of the Lord; and so she told heI
neighbor the cause of her detection
Woman, . replied her neighbor, in th'
broad dialect of that land "d'ye nominc
the word that says, Take the child, ant
nurse him for me; and l will give the,
thy wages p" 1t was a wordin season
and, with greater or less power, it sus
tanned and comforted that mother during
the whole of her subsequent nursing o
ten children.


Her home in the valley of the Twee
was long ago exchanged for one on tn
banks of the Mohawk. But the Go
Year: 1866

sweet praise sung. Not there shall 1 be
able to draw near to God, where the hu-
man medium binds my soul as it goes
after God, "even the living God.' And
if I go out upon chase after eloquence,
or popular preaching, or originality, or
sweet music, my heart will not be in a
state to desire, supremely, communion
with God, spiritual refreshment, growth
in grace, and the many blessings which
they receive who "wait upon the Lord"
rather than upon men. Perhaps the
evil of vagrancy is too difficult and sub
tie to be cured, but it might bemitigated
in the community very much, if all
Christian people would unite with and
regularly attend some church of Christ
in their own neighborhood, and if Chris
tians, when away from home, would re-
member that the primary object of at
tending the house of God is to worship
Him who is Spirit, sin spirit and in
truth" alo5
Year: 1866

The heavy charges against the author
ised translation may have certain
amount of truth as applied to partic-
ulars. There-are passages inaccurately
translated; the sense of the original is
at times missed or confused, or even re-
versed it is also occasionally obscure
and unintelHgible. Verses could, with a
little care, be picked out to support each
of these charges. But to make them in
the general as characterising the English
translation is grossly unjust. 1t is as if
we were to makesweeping charges against
the character of an individual which
might each be sustained by some isolated
fact in his history, but which would be
utterly untrue and libellous as descrip-
tive generally of the character Of the
man. 1t is well known that with all the
emendations by scholars of our transla-
ton, it is only very few passages scat
tered here and there that have essentially
changed their meaning. There may be,
indeed, certain books of the Old Testa-
ment, especially that of Job, where the
original is often obscure, and where
changes of Importance may be suggested,
but scholarship has as yet done little
more for the Interpretation of such
obscurities that it did three centuries
ago. AS to the greater part of the
Old Testament and almost every part
of the New, the changes effected in the
essential meaning are few and far be-
tween; the emendations are generally of
character which affect but little the
main purport of the text. 1t is, we be-
lieve, grossly incorrect to say that the
knowledge of Greek and Hebrew pos
sessed by the pious translators of 1911
was singularly superficial and incomplete,
and incomparably inferior to our own.
OF course there are discoveries of more
recent research and criticism of which
the learned of that period had not the
advantage; but to speak of the scholar
ship of England in the age of Bacon
and Milton as superficial is absurd. The
knowledge of Hebrew, and even of
of Greek, was far higher in the English
Universities of that day than of the pre-
sent, as shown by the admirable trans
lations of ancient authors, and the nu-
merous works of highest reputation
written on classical themes. Which of
our English scholars can approach Milton
in his thorough mastery of the ancient
languages, in their spirit and not merely
in the letter In minute, fnical, pedan-
tic scholarship, we may excel, but in
that mastery of the ancient languages,
and drinking into the spirit which alone
can fit to translate them with force into
into another tongue, the English Univer-
stiles are far inferior to what they were
in the golden age of English literature.
Our translators have generally seized the
meaning of the original with a power
that NAV be felt, and have given it forth
in pure and vigorous classic English,
such as scarcely any writer's can attain
to in the present day.
Year: 1866

"Who is going to preach?" L over
heard gentleman ask this question from
the sexton of city church one day this
summer, and upon the question being
answered, the inquirer started off to an
other church to ask the same question,
and if the answer was not such as he
coveted, to continue his wandering in
search of a preacher who should suit his
fancy. Now, in one view of the case,
the yagrant hearer was perfectly justi-
fed in his wanderings. He evidently
thought, as too many good people do
think, that the chief end of going to
church is, not to glorify God, but tohear
agreeable preaching. There are differ
ent ideas, too, as to what is agreeable,
for that which feeds one is very distaste-
full to another; and hence there is great
chance for vagrancy on Sunday, if all
who are unsettled, or strangers In a
place, wander until they find satisfactory
spiritual provisions.


The question of every Christian on a
Sabbath morning ought to be, not where
shall L hear the best preaching, but
where can [ worship and serve God most
acceptably to-day? If l am stranger
in a place, where shall 1 be able to draw
nearest to my Master, and in what place
of worship shall l be most likely to fine
him? Certainly the answer will not be-
in that place where man claims the
greater part of the attention of the au
dience-where more is thought of the
periods of the orator, or the solos from
the choir, than of the Word of Goo
which is read, and the Being to whom
the eloquent prayer is offered, or the
Year: 1866

HELP FROM ABovE.-A number of
boys were slowly walking home from
Sabbath. school, and speaking of some
remarks to which they had just listened.
The subject of their lesson had been
g The Sin of Profanity and their
teacher had tenderly and earnestly expos
tulated with her class, some of whom,
she had reason to fear, were not free from
the shocking habit of swearing. As
they were talking, one of them turned to
a boy by his side, bright lad of four
teen years, and said:


George, how did you leave off swear
ing? I've tried and cannot; and / do
not see how you did it.


"Ah! Johnnie" was the reply; "you
don't seek help from abOve. l never
should have left off swearing had it not
been for the prayer, "Lead me not into
temptation. God helped we when |
asked Him. know He did; and He'll
do the same for you"


You do not swear, | trust, my young
reader; but Georges advice will suit
every other habit as well. Go to God
with it, and you will be made more than
conqueror through Him who hath loved
Won
Year: 1866

whose word thus comforted her in early
womanhOod is with her still when she is
old and gray headed; and she can crate
fully speak of her eleven children,
"nursed for Him, as all walking in the
ways of God on earth, or taken away to
another home, into which sickness and
death can never come.
Year: 1866

To BE ALWAYS intending to live new
life, but never to find time to set about
it, is as if man should put off eating
and drinking from one day to another,
till he is starved and destroyed.