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Year: 1867

INDEPENDENT AcuoS--How useless
it is to rely for happiness on "the
world." If you would pass through
life in the easiest possible manner,
shrink from nothing in itself virtuous
and rational. venerate only that which
is inherently and changelessIy right.
Release your minds from the tramHieIs
of 4conversationalism, and suffer no
other restraint upon your acts than
that imposed by conscience and the BIZ
blei so will you insure a sweet immu-
nifty from countless petty cares and
acquire an ever-increasing
strength of character, and build on a


firm and durable basis that inward re-
spect for yourself which is incidentally
more to be valued than the changefnl
approval of artificial people.
Year: 1867

SUNsHINE-WoRK FOR YoUSG MEN.-The
warm, bright hours of yesterday and the
day before were in cheering contrast with
the clouds and fogs and general depression
of nature for several preceding days. The
pleasant weather revives trade and i'm
proves the spirits of our people, so deeply
cast down by the dark shadow Of that black
and portentous thing sitting, like the poets
raven, evermore" and everywhere,
named Reconstruction.


The grass Is growing, the hens are lay
ing, the ploughs are running in gardens
and fields in the suburbs and around the
city. The forces Of nature have not yet
succumbed to the power of Congress, nor
oil the life gone out in the hearts Of the
people. Hard work is . cure for care.
Digging and spading are found to be better
than talking politics, especially such poll
tics Is ours, which have in them nothing
bat mourning, and lsmentation, and wo."


There are many who have nothing to do,
To such who are able to handle the sho.
vel and the hoe" we commend that most
noble and primitive pursuit, agriculture
on which eli material comfort and pr0spe.
yity depend. II on be hloFed without
Year: 1867

JACKSON MEMORIAL CHAPEL.-The So
ciety Of the Alumni of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute at late meeting passed
resolutions concerning the erection of a
memorial chapel in Lexington to their
former professor, General 7. ]. jackson.
Captain Samuel Wilson, graduate of the
Institute, who lost his leg but few days
before the surrender Of General Lees
army, is the authorized agent for raising
the means for the object in view, and is
now stopping at the Exchange, where he
would be glad to see those Interested In
this tribute to the memory Of Virginia's
hero.
Year: 1867

The CONCERT OF TONIGHT at the thea
tre, being the voluntary compliment of our
musical professors and amateurs, will un-
doubtedly be one of the finest ever given
in our city. Already the seats are secured
for large portion of the house, and we ad-
wise our readers to secure seats during the
day, as it may be done without extra
charge, and will save them much trouble
at night. The programme is one of the best
yet presented, and we hope the attendance
will be commensurate with its character
and the merit of the beneficiary.
Year: 1867

FREsHET IN THE RIvER.-James river
suddenly rose yesterday about six feet,
and was still rising slowly at dark last eve
ming. It was several inches over the lower
wharves, and in consequence Of the strong
current, several vessels are detained below
in the river. u
Year: 1867

II may seem unnec 'sary to add a single word to
the above address, bnt the calls upon the institu-
ton have been so numerous and pressing, and the
struggle through which IL is now passing to widen
the circle of Its charities, is of such an arduous
nature nat the IN arrangement cannot too strongly
urge upon the humsne and sympathetic every
where an active participation in this additional
attempt to alleviate the sad condition OF great
numbers Of helpless children, rendered thus by
the terrible war through which we have passed.
And assuredly, whatever may have been the rela-
tofore, all must sgree that the children referred to
could not, by any possibility, have had an agency
destitute condition, and are suitable objec for the
charity OF all persons of whatever shade of poiti-
cal opinion. The " Home and school" which
endoto will be OF incalculable benefit by provi-
ding not only food and raiment for these helpless
ones, but likewise solid and thorough education,
thus qualifying them for future usefulness to So
ciety Al large. in order that this appeal may be
efsctuai In enlisting the active intersst and CO.
operation OF all classes of persons everywhere,
we have concluded 10 issue for the
Year: 1867

ELOPEMENT EXTRAoRDINARY-A MAN
ELoPEs WITH HIS PARTEER's WIFE.-Alas
for frail humanity, there are many men
in this world who cannot let other mems
wives alone and we might as well out
with it-there are too many of other mems
wives who will allow themselves to be med
died with. Richmond does not afford ex-
ample of this woful fact as often as many
other cities of its size, but when it does,
its examples are Of the most striking kind.
To this fact, witness the following:


On yesterday morning, as we wended our
wayfrom the Mayors courtroom, we were
hailed by friend in manner that made
us conjecture at once that he had an
item' for US. Our conjecture proved
correct for he "did tale unfold " such
as is only unfolded to us once in year or
so. Here it is:


The hero of the story, $50 called" is
one Robert I. Fleming the heroine,
"ditto," Mrs. Edward r. Hopkins and the
aggrieved man, the husband of the last
mentioned, an honest, well-to-do mechanic.
Edward r. Hopkins and lady have not been
married very many years, and 1t is proba-
BILE that their marriage would have proved
q source of happiness to them both but for
the appearance of our hero as his partner.
Fleming was good fellow good me-
chanic, and an unmarried man, and of
course just the man for partner in busi-
ness. A partner, and an unmarried man,
what better place could he find to board
than in the house of Hopkins3 What a
pity he could not, or else we should never
have had to tell this story. The firm
lived peacefully together, and nothing
ever disturbed its quiet until Tuesday
morning, when Hopkins's mother dis
covered that her sons partner was car
rying his rights as such too far, and
was infringing upon relations which should
only exist between man and wife. Natu-
rally, "high old time might have been
anticipated from this discovery, but the
row was prevented by the sudden disap-
pearance of Fleming and Mrs. Hopkins.
The wronged husband instituted search
for the missing pair, and found that they
had gone off on the evening train on the
Central road. Nothing has since been
heard of them, but it is supposed that they
have gone to the place Of Fleming's birth.
Nothing good can come of the affair, how
ever, and we expect yet to have to speak
of Mrs. Hopkins as sadder and wiser
woman"
Year: 1867

Ii will be seen by reference to our
columns that portion of our Legislature
assembled at Little Rock and inquired Of
the sub-majesty there located, if they
would be allowed to make more laws and
do other things in the name of the State Of
Arkansas, and they we're briefly answered
they had better 60 home King Ords
edict overrules every other consideration,
and We only wonder al the temerity of the
members who dared 10 offer any civil ac-
tian in the face of Radical military usur-
patton The King has already the treasury,
and as soon as Congress adiourns will have
every civil Office at his disposal, which, of
course. vill fall into the hands Of his own
subjects and hirelings; then farewell ell
our civil rights. But we advise no com
plants. Bow down your neck to the
yoke, but let no unmanly action comefEon
you, for fearful day Of retribution is close
at hand, and those who now rule with a
rod of iron may soon be glad to grasp a
straw foI safety. b irm.
Year: 1867

"A matrimonial y-inclined couple in
The rural districts of Indiana could not


wait for the minister who was coming to
marry them, and went out on the road TO
meet him, where, says local paper, " they
we're united. with the blue canopy of heaven


overhead and corn field on either hand"
Year: 1867

GREELEY TO THE "LoYAL" LEAGUE GREETING
Horace Greeley has given mortal offence to
the 'Loyar' Leaguers of New York by going
bail for Jefferson Davis, and has accordingly
been placed "under the BAN" The League held
a meeting, and summoned Mr., Greeley before
them to arraigu him for his conduct A letter
was accordingly sent to him, citing him to ap-
pear before the august tribunal, in reply to
which he threw bombshell among them which
must have proved intensely disgusting. He de-
clined to appear in a communication of which
the following is portion:


GENTLEMEN Il shall not attend your meeting
this evening | have an engagement out of
town, and shall keep it. | do not recognize
you as capable of judging, or even fully appre-
bending me. You evidently regard me as a
weak, sentimentalist, misled by maudlin phil>
osophy. | arraign you as narrow minded block
heads, who would like to be useful to q great
and good cause, but don't know how, Your
attempt TO base a great enduring party on the
hate and wrath necessarily engendered by a
bloody civil war, is as though you should plant
colony on an iceberg which had somehow
drifted into tropical ocean. tell you here
that out of life earnestly devoted to the good
of human kind, your children will select nv
going to Richmond and signing that bail>bond
as the wisest act, and will feel that it did more
for freedom and humanity than all of you were
competent to do, though you had lived to the
age of Methusalah. ask nothing OF you, then,
but that you proceed to your end by direct,
frank, manly way. Don't slide off in mild re-
solution of censure, but move the expulsion
which you proposed, and which deserve if /
deserve any reproach whatever. All l care for
is, that You make this a square stand up fight,
and record your judgment by yeas and nays.
care not how many vote against me; for know
that they will repent it in dust and ashes before
before three years have passed. Understand,
once for all, that dare you and defy you, and
that propose to fight it out on the line that
have held since the day of Lees surrender.
Year: 1867

GIVE JOY TO A CHILD.-Blessed be the
hand THAI prepares pleasure for a child, for
there is no saying when and where it may
again bloom forth. Does not almost every.
body remember some kind-hearted man who
showed him kindness il the duleet DAYS of
his childhood2 2 The writer of this recollects
himself at this moment as bare>footed lad.
standing at the wooden fence of the Door
little garden in his native village, while with
longing eyes be gazed on the flowers which
were blooming there quietly in the brightness
of Sunday morning The possessor came
forth from his little cottage be was wood.
OuttOr by trnde, and spent the whole week
at work in the woods. He had COME into
the garden to gather flowers to stick into his
coat when he went to church. He saw the
boy, and breaking off the most beautiful of
his carnations-it was streaked with red and
white-he gave it to him. Neither the giver
nor the receiver spoke a word, and with
bounding steps the boy ran home. And now
here, at a vast distance from that home,
after SO many events of SO many years, the
feeling Of gratitude which agitated the breast
of that boy expresses itself on paper. The
carnation has long since withered, but now
it blooms afresh.-DOUgLas Jerrold.
Year: 1867

WOMEN USDREssED DCAPSA-PIE.-Wilke's Spirit
thus describes n soeue ia q PiooO pIa ying
at the most Legitimate" theatre in New York:
al had hoped that at least one theatre might be
left 10 US where ladies might 90 without seeing
more of the "naked truth" THAI pertains to the
regular drama; it was not supposed that the
ocular development of the human form divine
was necessary in the house claiming to be fore
most in all the country as the legitimate home
of dramatic art; yet the naked fever has broken
out even there. Without any sufficient reason,
there ten girls or women put upon the stage
Aas jockeys or riders of the supposed race horses.
The questionable taste Of having females to such
a position at all is magnfed into positive Of
feuse in the manner of their dressing. When
it comes to deliberate display of the form
from the hips to the knees, when there is not a
wrinkle in all that section of female anatomy,
not faithfully developed by the skin close silk
tights, it is time to protest. This is the case in
the Flying Scud. The ten women who come on
as jockeys not only dress SO to shock the
public propriety, but put an end to any doubt
one may have of their exact shapes by dancing
a sort of fhorse ,hornpipe, which gives play to the
human form divine, and brings out all the
points, fine and otherwise, of the fair jockeys.
The 'pg-skin fit will do well enough on boys,
but upon fully developed women it fits too much.
We have heard great deal about the indelcaey
of the Black Crook ballet, but l am unable to
recall anything in that much abused play equal
to the pig skin cluo' dress and dance"
Year: 1867

A HE'LL UPON EARTH-Theodore Tilton
has been looking into New York by gas
light, and dare not tell all that be saw. He
says in the Independent: "In company with
several well known public men, and under
guidance of the police, we made tour, on
Saturday night, through the nethermost
haunts of misery, vice, and crime in the
city Of New York. This is an exploration
which every man connected with public af-
fairs, either by civil or editorial duty, ought,
if possible, to make, at least once in his life.
Born in New York, and having always
either resided or labored within it, we never
saw or knew our own city until last Satur-
day night. Never until then had we any
adequate conception Of its poverty, or of its
squalidness, of its villainy, of its debauchery,
of its leprosy The sight can never be for
gotten The story, even if VIC had the heart
to tell il, must, for decency's sake, remain
untold. We can only say that none of the
familiar descriptions had adequately pre-
pared US for the actual scenes. We were
shocked, confounded, sickened And as
we now look back upon the awful revelations
of the one nights descent into hell, we can
hardly persuade ourselves that what we saw
was reality it seems hideous dream"
Year: 1867




THE TRIFLER. .-Triding is ranked among
the venial faults. But if time be one grand
talent given US in order to our securing eter-
nal lite /; if we triAe away that time so as 10
lose that eternal life, on which by not trifing
we might have laid hold, then will it answer
the end of sin. A life devoted to triAes,
not only takes away the inclination, but the
capacity for higher pursuits. The truths oil
Christianity have scarcely more influence on
a frivolous than on proaigate character
If the mind be SO absorbed, not merely with
what is vicious, but with what Is useless, as
70 be thoroughly disinclined to the actiVl1
ties of life Of piety, it matters little what
the cause is which so disinclines it. Ii these
babits can not be accused Of great moral
evil vet it argues low state of mind that
being who has an eternity at stake, can aban>
don itself to trivial pursuits. If the great
concern of life can not be secured without
babitual watchfulness, how is it to be secured
bv habitual careIessness. 1t will afford little
comfort to the triher when at the last reckN
oning he gives in his long negative catalogue,
that the more ostensible offender was worse
employed. The triAer will not be weighed
in the scale with the proAigate, but in the
balance of the sanctuary.
Year: 1867

The bases of the massive pillars in front of our Temple of Justice have been repair ed just in time to sustain the November session of the Superior Court which com- menced on Tuesday. The first business was the trial of the Green murder case. On Tuesday little progress was made owing to the absence of one of his counsel. The prisoner is, we understand, entirely, with out funds so that he defends his case under g1eat disadvantages. Judge Granger is associated with Judge Loomis for the trial of Greene. We are not yet used to seeing him on the bench instead of at the bar, and our recollections reverted, somehow, to the verses perpetrated long ago at the expense of the late Clerk of the Courts, al- though nothing in the demeanor of the bench furnished the slightest apology for so irreverant and irrelevant train of thought.

 Judge G. has been highly commended in every county to which his new duties have

 called him.
Year: 1867



 Mir. George L. Brown of Stamford, is repairing and reftting the Gen. Brinsmade place. The house is one of the ancient fixtures of Old Judea, having been built by Daniel Baker, some twelve years before the commencement of the Revolutionary war. It was in this house that the noted Reuben Baker, M. D. was born, who might have become one of the first physicians and sur geons of his age, had not the passion for infiicting wounds past surgery on the ani- nal creation. proved more pleasing occu. fractures of the human species. The Doc tor removed to Susquehannah County, Pa, and here he fitted himself lodge in tree beside the water where deer were in the habit of coming to drink. He had taken his station one night to be ready for the deer, In the morning, when he was sent for to at- tend to very dangerous wound made by an axe. He refused point blank, saying he had got every thing fitted up for nights rest on his perch, and could not come down. As the first messenger returned without him, another catching up an axe started, saying, "I'll fetch him." Arriving at the tree, the Doctor told him he would not come down. Very weli," says the man of the axe, .'then I'll bring you down" and he laid the blows thick and fast at the root of the tree Having cut away one side, he turned and began upon the other, when the Doctor called out, ''Hold on! hold on! If you have got such pluck as this comes to, I'll come down." So down he came, and went to attend the case

 Mir. Brown has moved the barn and out buildings to the North West, in a line with the horse-sheds, and is grading the ground and making fine yard around the place.

 MT. T. F. Brinsmade is also to remodel his dwelling-house into quite q mansion, next season. Improvement is the motto

 Although We boast good deal of pub- lie spirit here, yet we have it to confess, that we have not Justice of the Peace within about two miles of our Green. 4 few days since fellow wanted deed drawn, and had to go to Birch Hollow, some seven miles to get it done Our Town Clerk is two miles off from the Hub.

 Now what is the reason of this? Gan there not be found man or woman either, fit to be J. F. ill Judea Centre? No, say the Democracy, if you want law or justice, it shall be the two mile kind, not whit less. For this convenient state of things, we are under lasting obligations to New Preston. Oh, Waramaug! are thy infictions always blessings in disguise? Now, Oh, Unterri- fled! haven't we given you everything you've asked for? 4 six thousand dollar road for your fast men to ride to destruc- tion on, or any where else, all around your hilllocked lake, and can't you give us one man. not to swear at us, for we have enough of that kind already,) but a man to swear us when we need it? We don't ask to have the old cow-shed of Town Hall repaired with an extension of twenty feet, and painted and shingled; but We do ask for one dispenser of justice to save us from utter demorallztion.
Year: 1867

The religious interest still continues, and union prayer meetings are holden four days ln the week st 9 A. M. in the chapel of the I'd Congregational church. Rev. H. Clay lrumbull breaches here this week commencing with Tuesday evening. The

 Fraylag Band from tie Wesleyan Uni yerslty come on Saturday next, and remain over the Sabbath. They will conduct the services after their own style, and are said to be zealons and fervent band of Chris tian young men

 - A sad accident occurred heI:e last week caused by the bursting of grindstone in the shop of the Beardsley Scythe Co. \ workman by the name of Michael Me dernv had hung new stone and used it one day and commenced work the second when it flew in two pieces One of them struck him on the head and carried him up some ten feet to the floor above, from whence he was precipitated back into the pit where the stone had before been hung and run ming. He lived in an unconscious state through the day and died just at night The stone that burst weighed some $500 pounds. and the larger piece was thrown with such force that it carried shafting and all out Of the pit and against solid wall of stone masonry So as to crack it through and through. This is the fourth or fifth person who has been killed by the bursting of a grindstone in the aeytha shop of this place within the recollection of t 1 middle aged man. Several others have been seriously injured from the same cause.

 This week, news of the death of an en tire family, except one, has been received form Texas The disease was yellow fever. The name is Goldsmith. The father had lived through the WAT in Texas and his wife here, where she was engaged in the millinery trade. \ year ago this month he came on for them and they all went to his southern nome. He had three children, and one, a daughter, who was married to a youuS msAl! Here, lust DeioTe Stafilng SOutn Yesterday, came the terrible news that ont of that family of six person an but one, the daughter, had fallen by that terrible scourge of the southwestern states, the Yellow Fever.

 At Q special town meeting holden on the 4th of this month, the subject of pur. chasing 8 town farm was agitated. The

 matter was finally referred to the Select men, and they are to report at the next al nual town meeting, when the question will be settled This town for number O years has put up the poor to thel owest bid der-a disgrace to any decent community and they are beginning to see the fact.
Year: 1867

Some people suffer, and their friends suf fer, from severe pain: while they spend more money foolishly, than it would cost to cure them, if they used Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil. Take our advice and use this popular and certain cure for snch ills as flesh and bone are heir to.
Year: 1867

The Naugat uck railroad have put a new mail and express car on their road. The mail department is in the centre, and the rival express companies have good ac- commodations-one in each end.
Year: 1867

HELMBOLD'S EXTRACT BUCHU and IMPROVED ROSE Wash cures secret and delicate disorders in all their stages at little expense little or no change in diet, no inconvenience and no exposure. It is pleasant in taste and odor immediate in it's action and free from all injurious properties
Year: 1867

snely as Radical triumph in Pennsylva- mia in October involves Radical triumph in New York in November. It was the downfall of the Rebellion that made the passage of the Reform bill necessity. h. tending, therefore, to do all We can tow ards the overthrow of the English and par ticularly of the Irish Establishment, tow ards bringing the English church to re- liance on the voluntary support of the peo pie, and to propagate the living gospel of political equality, we are not weak enough to suppose there can be any real friend ship between an American democracy and such such bulwark of aristocracy as the English Hierarchy.

 In conclusion we offer single witness to prove the intolerant spirit of the English Church towards other Protestant denoml- nations,--Miss Yonge. an English lady and strong Churchwoman. authoress of 'sThe Heir of Redclyffe" and .sHeartssase, ]" two of our best and most popular religious novels. In ''The Two Guardians" q later work, she casually expresses her feelings towards dissenters The younger s.guar

 dian" one of those miraculously perfect in dividuals we find oftener in that species of novel than out of it, has row with the other guardian about the lease of farm of their ward to dissenter, g nephew of the old tenant. We quote his dialogue with