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Year: 1867

their picnic as happy as CLANS. The German
grove near by, for their lager beer sociable.
A large number of young and old filled
steamer for an excursion fifty miles up the
Mississippi; and what remained in the city,
and the incomers from the country, amused
themselves best suited their tastes


One fact quite noticeable to me was that
during all the day, did not see or hear of a
single individual, either at the excursions or
on the streets, who gave evidence of intoxi
cation nor have | seen an intoxicated man,
or heard the noisy street howl, the evidence
of drinking. since / have been here, now
some five weeks; Yet any man who wishes
can sell spirit under conditions of the law
The conditions are the appreciation of ma
iiority of the voters of the ward in which he
lives, and paying for the various necessary
licenses a sum amounting to three hundred
and fifty dollars per annum. This law, from
what | have seen of its workings, is more
effective for good order and temperance, than
is an ultra law, that allows man to sell
and yet under which every man sells that
chooses to, as is the case in most places in
Vermont


The colored people here use but little that
can intoxicate. My landlord says, in the
eight years Of his residence here, he has new
er seen a negro intoxicated. Nor do they
ever quarrel or fight, save for their govern
ment. Another fact much to their praise is
to be found in their moral and religious con-
dition. They have two churches, Baptist
and Methodist | attended one service with


them. The house worshipped in. capable of
seating some three hundred persons, was
crowded, and many stood at the doors and
windows, unable to get seats. A more de-
vout and orderly congregation | have seldom
seen The sermon was from colored preach
spirit and matter. listened to it with great
interest, and was surprised to find, as l did
the next day when [ called to see him. that
the preacher was a clerk or porter in a gro
cery and provision store-toiling six days in
the week, and preaching Christ to his people
on the Sabbath. He is a regularly ordained
minister, and has two hundred and thirty
nine members in his church He says nearly
one-half of the colored population are hope
fully pious.


The weather has been intensely warm day
and night, the most of the time since the
first of June which, with timely showers
has advanced vegetation in degree scarcely
ever before known. About the first week in
June | noticed piece of corn as the first
had seen out of the ground. Three days
90, walking by the sam field, | entered and
passed through the corn, the most of which
stood eight inches above my hat. The con-
ductors running on the road from here to St.
10, some two hundred and twenty-five miles
west, give glowing accounts of the wheat on
the road, which is now being cut. Never
before was there so much on the ground nor
so large yield \ week or ten days more
of favorable weather secures the finest har-
vest ever garnered since the settlement of
Missouri. :
Year: 1867

Rev. Robert Collyer, the eloquent Uni
tartan clergyman, recently preached ser
mon in Chicago on q Our Daily Bread, in
the course of which he discussed social
questions, and explained why young men
do not marry:


When one said lately in the presence
of a frank, outspoken young woman IN this
city, that the reason why young men did
not marry was that their wives would not
be content to begin to live in homely fash
ion, after they had been raised in luxury,
she replied, = the woman is.quite as willing
Year: 1867

it, but I think now that his own purpose
was clear and defined through all.


''Is there nothing l can do for you
Have you no messages to send? Oh, Har-
per. you have saved my life and you are
dying" said Forsyth Fielding, the tears
raining down his bronzed face, as he held
the poor shattered head against his breast.


Tell my mother that was not afraid
to die, and the blue eyes opened wide
and clear as if looking already out of the
world beyond this tell her that | sent
her the only gift she could ever take at my
hand-yonr life"


Those were the last words " old Harper =
ever spoke.
Year: 1867

MIsFoRTUNEs OF CLERGYMAN.-The
Dubuque Herald is responsible for the
following humorous sketch of the misfor-
tunes of an Iowa clergyman:


Thursday last, among the goods expressed
from the West by the D. d S. r. R., were
number of baskets of eggs. Two or three
stations this side of that at which they
were placed upon the car, an ex-elergy
man of huge proportions stepped into the
express car to speak 10 the messenger.
The eggs were in the west end of the car,
and our clerical friend accidentally took
his position in front of them, with his back
towards the eggs. While the twain were
conversing, the train suddenly started for
ward The reverend gentleman was taken
unawares by the unexpected jerk, and lost
his balance. He found ii in the basket Of
eggs Just in his rear. The result of this
ministerial onset-if we may so term it
battles all description. Of course the con-
tents of the basket came to an unlucky
end. Ike Partington once set a hen on
ffty-two eggs, just to see her spread her.
self: here was a man not used to- the busi-
ness, who had set himself on fifty-two doz-
en- and successfully accomplished the same
result, as any one could see. But though
backward in getting into that undignifed
position, he was by no means backward in
getting out He erected himself and ex-
amined himself Any member of his
church, if present would have recognized
in him not only faithful fellow-laborer,
but an earnest yolk fellow. For minute
he stood motionless, except as he with
spread and tremulous fingers, in an unde-
cided and uncertain way, waved his hands
with the air of man who had been egged
on to desperation. He certainly presented
a ludicrous aspect. The express messen-
ger took the stove hearth and did what he
could toward cleaning his friend off-a nov
ell way of scraping an acquaintance.
Year: 1867

The Agricult,ralist for November has
an article on ."What slialt the South
do for Manure?" The question is equal
ly applicable to, if not SO urgent, in the
North, and the answer is so good that
we gitb it entire, and invite tie close at
tention of our country friends to this i'm
portant question of increasing the fertili-
ty of their lands. 1t is a great mistake
to So cultivate land that it deteriorates.
Land, as well as man and plants, Should
improve by cultivation. If it does not
the earth cannot be made to sustain a
population made more dense than it now
does. If suffered to run down it must
reach 3 point when the race will die
out. No question of Reconstruction, of


War or Peace, of Finances Tariffs or
Education, is so far reaching and so uni
YerSal, III its importance, as that of i'm
proving the soil: We therefore Keep it
before the people, and ask all thinking
mon to give attention to the wicked
waste Of valuable manures which charac-
tcrizcs the general habits of our people.
Our air is everywhere poisoned by foul
gasses from decaying matter going to
worse than waste; while our fields are
yearly depleted to supply the demand
made upon them. The best wheat is on
ly grown on new land, whereas wheat,
the great staple of life, should be IN
proved both III quantity and quality, BY
continued cultivation. When farmers
understand their business, and cultivate
wisely, the land, which brought the best
wheat forty years ago, will bring better
and more of it, forty years hence; and
instead Of bcqucathing to our posterity
lands which shall cry out against us as
despoilers; the inheritance we leave our
children will be richer than that we re-
celyed from our fathers.
Year: 1867

There is sterling sense as well as piety
in the following remarks by one of the
most eloquent preachers of the age, on
the tendency of scientific men to deny
truths WHICH are taught both by the
Bible and by the deepest yeafnings of
the heart. He says:


Rushing into regions where man loses
himself and reason fails to guide his talt-
ering steps, some, like those of old, who
by wisdom knew not God, set forth crude
and ill-,igested notions which they dig
Nifty by the name of philosophy But
however ingeniously it be spun out of
their brains, that philosophy fhtst be
false which is contrary to the plain sense
OF the Word of God, but is also, and not
less, contrary to the universal instincts
and prompting of our nature. | could
stand on that alone.


If the soul is not immortal, why do all
men yearn for, and believe in immortal
ty? If prayer has no real, direct effica-
cy, why do all nations, civilized and saw
age, pagan rs well as Christian, resort to
1t for relief; and, as we see in the case of
the lowest and debased heathcn. rather
than not pray, address their petitions to
q stock or stone? 1t seems as much an
instinct for main iii want to pray, as for
an infant, put TO the breast, to SUCK
And He who inspired the instinct is no
more in this case than in that "a man
that lie should lie, or the Son of man
that He should repent'
Year: 1867

All, many a star whose mellow rays
Lit up the eyes of happier days,


Has sunk beyond lifes gathering haze;
And many hope and fondest dream,
Whose glory fell with golden CLEAN
Athwart each opening future scene,
Has faded from our longing sight,
Gone down mid shadows of night
No earthly day shall ever light.
o, youthful eyes, tender and true,
Ye cannot see the long way through
Thank God who wells its depths for you.
Full soon unto your wistful eyes
The shrouding curtain shall arise
To show the path where duty lies.
Soon ways with fragrance now so sweet
Grow rough unto your unframed feet
While thorns than flowers ye oftener meet
But God knows best; His tendor care
Is horne upon each breath of air,
His love, that lifts US from despair.
And when he sees our frail hearts cling
And bow before some earthly thing,
Forgetting homage to our King,
He kindly takes away our trust
In human love- and proves it dust
A treasure laid mid moth and rust
When shall we learn with trust t'await
The coming of our earthly fate,
Believing still that soon or late,
Guided by Him who kloweth best
Well reach the haven of the Blest,
Where aching hearts find perfect rest.
Year: 1867

A day or two before the sailing Of
Charles Dickens for this country, din
ncr was given him, at which were gath
cred some thirty or forty of the most IA
nous of English authors, artists and ac-
tors, all of whom united in doing him
honor. In answer toa toast hOnoring him
self, Mr. Dickens made an eloquent speech
in the course of which occurred the fol-
lowing extract:


"You will readily perceive that am
inspired besides by natural desire to see
for myself the astonishing change and
progress of a quarter of a century over
there, to grasp the hands Of many faith
full friends whom left there, to see the
multitudes Of me'c friends upon whom l
have never looked, and last but not least,
to see my best endeavors to lay third
cable-Qoud cheers of intercommuni-
cation and alliance between the Old
w orld and the New. Twelve years ago,
when, Heaven knows, l little thought
should ever be bound upon the voyage
which now lies before me, wrote, in that
form OF my writings which obtains by
far the most extensive circulation, these
words of the American nation: 81 know
full well, whatever little notes my beam
ing eyes may have deserted in theirs, that
they are kind, large hearted, generous
and great people" In that faith l am
going to see them again; in that faith l
shall, please God, return from them in the
spring; in that same faith to live and to
die My lords, ladies and genteImen-I
told you in the beginning that l could not
thank you enough, and Heaven knows I
have most thoroughly kept my word. If
1 may quote one other short sentence
from myself, let it imply all that l have
left unsaid and yet most deeply feel. Let
it, putting girdle round the earth, CON-
prehend both sides of the Atlantic at
once i'll this moment, and say, as Tiny
Tim observed, "God bless us every one"
Year: 1867

An old revolutionist gays that of all
the solemn hours he ever saw, that occu-
pied in going home one dark night from
the widow Ben's, after being told by her
daughter Sally that he "needn't come
again." was the most solemn.
Year: 1867

To wish to do without our fellows, and
to be under obligation to no one, is sure
sign of soul void of sensibillty.


He who pokes his nose everywhere VIII
sometimes poke it between thumb and
finger.
Year: 1867

WINTER FUEL-Where a wood lot is
part and parcel of farm and has '1down
timber" upon it, farmers win fnd it pay
ing operation to cut up and cord these
fallen trees before snow storms come on.
This will give the wood an opportunity
to dry, rendering it better for use and
more easily handled when tie sleighiDg
season arrives, if not wanted before that
time. 1t is difficult to gather such fuel at;
ter the snow has fallen, while every DAYS
exposure to storms renders it less valuable
for market or for domestic use.
Year: 1867

Tue Fair has been extended until Satur>
lay night Durirg the day running race
vii take place between the two celebrated
aorses Humboldt and uoosier. After
ahich the Fair will close with pacing race
We Congratulate the directors and mana
GERS upon the success they have thus far
-hleved


Tomorrow viii be the great day. The
SCOTS Of this city play the Peoria club for
he silver belt
Year: 1867

The New York tenement houses are a I
last TO be rendered habltable and if such a
thing can be done, safe residences. 1t is an.
nounced that the New York Association of
Ienement house owners, who have heretofore
been consulting as TO the best means OF contest
ing the late law OF the Legislature relative to
such buildings have recently had a consuIta.
ton with the New York Superintendent of
Public Buildings, and have agreed to accept
the situation and make all the alterations re-
CURED without further notice. There is, at
length, some hope for the unfortunate people
VINO are forced TO live in these places.
Year: 1867

A LIST OF THE PARDoNED.-The clerks of
the Attorney Generals Office are bus,ly en-
gagged IN preparing list of those engaged in
the REBELLION who have been pardoned by the
President, to be transmitted TO Congress in an.
swer to a resolution passed some time since
They are now at work on the last State and
the full list viii be completed by The time
Congress
Year: 1867

may be renewed by the proper officer if
he is satisfied that the holder is entitled
to such certificate.


The act also provides "tbat no person
shall hereafter be eligible to the Office oe
county, city or borough superintendent,
in any county Of this Commonwealth,
who docs not possess diploma from
college legally empowered to grant litera.
ry degrees, a diploma or State certificate
issued accordin5 to law by the authorities
Of State Normal School, a professional
certificate from a county city or borough
superintendent Of good standing, issued
at least one year prior to the election, or
certificate of competency from the
State Superintendent of Common School,
nor shall such person, be eligible unless
be has a sound moral character, and has
had successful teaching within three years
of the time Of his election: Prortdcd,
That serving as county, city or borough
superintendent shall be taken as evidence
of the requisite qualifications.
Year: 1867

A newly married couple from New York,
who had been visiting some relatives near
Feutonville, Mich, were being driven in to
take the cara few. days ago When within
a short distance of the railroad crossing they
discovered the tram rapidly approaching
The team was urged forward at a furious
rate and the track nearly reached when the
bride became so much alarmed at the almost
certain destruction awaiting them that she
sprang from the carriage. The momentum
received from the flying team threw her oil
her feet and she tell directly across the
truck, while tho ponderous engine was draw.
ing feariully near. With admirable pres
ence oil mind, she, instead of attempting tc
rise up, threw her body around parable
with the track, aud rolled off to one side
and safely rolled out of the way. Picking
herself up, she started for the depot, som,
80 rods distant, and arrived there in time tc
take the train.
Year: 1867

There is city, builded by no hand,


And unapprOachable by sea or shore;
And unassalable by any band


OF stOrming soldiery for evermore.
In that pure city of the living lamb


No light shall shine of candle, or of sun,
Or any star; but he who said 81 ann


Shall be the lamp, He and His holy one.
Nor shall we longer spend our gift of time


In times poor pleasures; doing needful thing
Ofwork or warfare merchandise or rhyme;


But we shall sit beside the silver springs
That flow from Gods own footstool, and behold
The saints and martyrs. and those blessed fe'
Who loved us once and were beloved of old,


To dwell with them and walk with them anew
In alterations Of sublime repose-


Musical motion the perpetual play
OF every faculty that Heaven bestows,
Through the bright, busy and eternal day.
Year: 1867

The HEAD TURNED ROUND.-A era
zy man was found at a grindStOne
sharpening a large butcher knife, and
every now and then examining the edge
to see if it was keen.


What are you doing here ?"


Don't you see? Sharpening this
big knife"


Yes, but what are you going to do
with it when sharpened ?'


Cut old Ben Browns head off, to
be sure"


What, you won't kill him, will
you?'


oh, no I'll only cut his head off
and stick it right on again hind side
before, just to let the old fellow looh
back upon his past life 1t woulc
take him all the rest of his life to re
view"


What a queer idea the lunatic haC
in his head! And what if it were so
that every man when he reached
certain age had his face turned round
and was obliged to spend the rest OF
his days in looking over his past life
4 Wouldn't there be strange sights ?
Sunday School Times.
Year: 1867

The SEA AND THE GRAIN OF SAND.
1t was a bright, sunshiny morning.
and the great sea rolled It's frOthy
waves upon the beach, lashing the
shore in its pride and strength.


Little grain Of sand said the
proud old sea. what do you here in
my path?"


o. am here, said the little grain.
by the will Of him who made me, to
stop thy waves"


To stop my waves, said the haugh-
ty sea, as he tossed his foaming name.
we will see how much Of a barrier
you make"


And yet we can do it, said the
tiny grain, " my fellows and L.


And the proud sea lashed his waves
into fury, and gathering all his forces
together, like the true brothers they
were, and stood their ground as firm
ly as the light house tower old ocean
had been warning away at for seven
. ty years. Do what he might, thus far
he was able to go, but no further, and
here his proud waves were stayed


You see what a might there is in
united effort. Now, the little children
in our land are like these grains Of
sand, and Intemperance is this proud
angry sea. 1t is for the children of
this age to say how far it shall 90. If
they will unite as a single band of
brothers, and fight back this fearful
food, its waves will be stayed. The
. sea may despiae the little children and
the strength OF their small hands, but
remember the little grains and take
courage. God has given the work tc
you for the next generation.
Year: 1867

farther north. Until they are acclimated,
sickness will annoy them.


The steamer ST. Patrick, now on her
second trip from your city, came in this
morning with an elegant trip She did
an immense way business coming down,
and proving herself one of the best
packets that ever run in the trade. She
left at noon upward, bound, with the best
trip of the season. Captain Edison and
his crew are rapidly gaining favor with
the public. The river people talk Of
throwing off on the ST. Louis packets,
which, of late, they have so freely pat
ronized, aud to sustain which great ei-
forts have been made by the Vicksburg
N erchants. These boats did their at
most to please the people, and they have
transacted large share Of the business
properly belonging to the Memphis
packets. Captain Edison is determined
to get the trade back. He is clever,
accommodating man, and understands
how 10 make friends with the people.


creole.
Year: 1867

Rn- An article in the Cleveland
Plaindealer stating that Ashley was a
third.rate druggist and never lawyer
before his election to Congress, has
elected a card from Toledo physician,
who states that he never knew Ashley to
put up a prescription anything more
than weighing pound Of salts or an
ounce ofsenns. The PldiHdealer prints
the letter of the doctor and adds We
beg pardon of ell druggists for thus
chasing Ashley even as a third-class
member Of their profession. He had
better have confined himself to the sails
and SIENNA business, for it is much safer
10 make men purge than to make them
commit perjury. If Ashley don't look
out he will get himself shut up so tight
that all the salts and senna in Toledo
will not loosen hin"
Year: 1867

n@- A twenty-four pounder brass
howitzer was fished up from the bottom
of the Tennessee river at Johnsonville
one day last week. A number of similar
pieees.are said to be lying near the place
where it was found
Year: 1867

D1~ Mexico is decidedly bad place
for unprotected females The wife of
Mendez is insane the wife of Mejia is
mad the wife of Miramon is stricken
beyond hope of recovery, and the Prin-
cess Salm.Salm is in Jail.
Year: 1867

B6y~ The Franklin Herald says q
party living in the vicinity of that place
put sentry over his watermelon patch,
one night last week, with instructions to
shoot whoever approached An hour or
two after, theplanter himself went out
to see how his sentry was getting along,
and was almost instantly killed by ball
from his gun.
Year: 1867

A private letter from Hustisford
Dodge county, has been handed us, says
the Milwaukee Sentinel, of September
9th, which relates an awful affair in O
neighboring town. The letter says:


Mr.. John Wilson, farmer living neal
the town of Lebanon, Dodge county,
had bull which for some time past had
shown unmistakable signs of viciousness,
and was looked upon bv some of the
neighbors as dangerous animal Mr..
Wilson's father, an old man nearly
eighty years of age, lived with him, and
usually let down the bars of the pasture
every forenoon, so that the cattle could
60 down to brook near by to drink


On Thursday evening last, Mr.. Wilson
and his wife returned from Watertown,
and were surprised to hear the old man
relate how he had had fight with the
bull while they were away, and had con-
quered him, giving him the finishing
stroke by striking him between the eyes
with a stone. Mr.. Wilson warned the
old man not to meddle with the bull
again, as it was peaceable enough if let
alone, but it was unsafe for a man as
old as he was to interfere with such an
animal But he said he would surely
make him mind.


On the following day (Friday) the old
man went as usual to let out the cattle,
and it was rather strange that before
going he knelt down on the stoop of the
house aud prayed very fervently. Moth
ing further was thought of him till Mr..
Wilson's daughter happening to 60 to
the front door, heard a loud believing
from the field, and on looking saw the
bull with some large object on his horns,
surrounded by the other cattle, and all
in great commotion. As soon as the
fright of the women permitted, intelli-
gence was sent to Mr.. Wilson, who was
working about a half mile of, and on
going to the field in company with some
of his neighbors, they found the old mar
perfectly dead, every vestige of his
clothing torn off him except the wrist
bands of his shirt, the bottom of the legs
of his pantaloons, and a heavy leathern
belt which he usually wore around him.
He was in an awful mangled condition
"a space of ground of about quarter
Of an acre showing, by its torn up state,
as did also the clots Of blood, lying here
and there, and the strips of clothing
scattered around, the dreadful nature OF
the conflict which had but a few moments
before taken place. The old man en-
joyed the best of health, was powerfully
built, and those who had known him
years said he probably never knew the
meaning Of fear, but lately he had be-
come little childish.