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Year: 1866

YEAST THAT WILL START ITSELF
Seeing an inquiry for making yeast
that will start itself, l send you moth
er's: Boil two ounces Of the best hops
in four quarts of water for half an
hour strain it and let the liquor cool
down to a new milk warmth. Then
put in small handful Of salt and half
a pound of sugar beat up one pound
of the best -four with some Of the liquor
and mix up all well together. The
third day add three pounds Of potatoes
we'll mashed and let it stand until next
day. Then strain and it is ready for
use. 1t must be stirred frequently
while it is making and kept near the
fire. Before using, stir well. 1t will
keep two or three months in a cool
place.-Rural Ne,c Yorker.
Year: 1866

A GOOD story is told Of recent
smash up on Western railroad. A
soldier who, IN coming from Baltimore
to Rock Island, had met with four ac-
cidents, was on this occasion in the car
that completely turned over. Making
his way through window, and gain
ing an upright position, he looked
around him and cody enquired: '@What
station is this p
Year: 1866




A NEW WAY TO MAKE BUTTER.-
At Berlin they have discovered new
way Of preparing butter. The cream is
put into a close linen bag, and buried
in the ground at depth of about foot
and a half. At the end of twenty four
hours it is taken out, and found quite
firm. 1t is then only necessary to
beat it up with glass of water to get
rid of the buttermilk. To prevent any
admixture of earth, it is better to in
close the first bag in a second. This
method Is said never to fail, and the
butter to be. Of particularly fine quail
ty. Our farmers ought to try it.
Year: 1866

THE Memphis Avalanche narrates the
following: A lew months since gentle
man came to Memphis with his family, con-
sistng of his wife and five chiidren-the
eldest girl about twelve years old the
second a boy of nine. Shortly after reach
ing the city the wife sickened and died, and
was buried in Elmwood Cemetry. Having
lost everything by the war, the poor fellow
had a hard time to keep the wolf from the door.
Though fitted for almost any kind of bus
mess. necessity compelled him to work as
day laborer. A few days since he fell from
the scaffold of . new house and broke his
ribs, rendering him totally unable to work
for months. His neighbors were kind, how
ever, and mnistered to their necessities, for
which may God reward A few days since
be received letter from relative down the
river, offering him LONE for himself and
little ones. His neiahbors again came to
his assistance and contributed the neces-
sary funds to pay his expenses. Yester-
day they were to take the boat, and all
was ready but in the morning the little boy
disappeared. AS the hours rolled by with
out his appearing the father became uneasy.
Twelve O'Clock ame-one-two-three hours
passed. and still Nv iiie'' was missing. At
length, just as the neighbors were starting
in search of him. the little fellow presented
himself, evidently almost exhausted Where
have you been, sir 2 demanded the father
Papa. I've been to tell mamma good bvev
And so he had-walked all the way to Elm
wood and back alone, to tell mamma good
byev"
Year: 1866

INSTINCT OF THE POLAR BEAR-The lar
gest of all the burrowing animals is the
Artic bear, and this animal in the season of
incubation teaches man lesson which be
has never appeared to profit by, otherwise
we should never hear her of persons perish
ing in the snow. The bear houses himself
by simply scraping out hole in the snow
under the shelter of some stone or tree, and
then quietly lying down and allowing the
falling flakes to cover him. The snow is a
g oil non conductor, and he speedily finds
himself in self formed cavern. formed by
the partial meeting and then the the solidi-
fcation Of the snow. He reverses, in fact,
the devices of the Wenham Lake Ice Com
pany. who preserve their cold ice blocks in
woollv blankets. while the bear keeps his
own furry blanket warm by wrapping it in
mantle of snow. The warmth of this
cave is 50 great that the creatures breath
absolutely keeps open a connexion with the
upper air, the breathing hole never filling
up, but simply hoar frosted at the sides by
the congelatinn of the breath. Here the
bear brings up its tender cubs. remaining
for three months, rearing its young on the
accumulation of fat it has stored upon its
body previous to its accouchment. 1t ia a
very curious fact that during this partial
hybernaton the intestines are plugged up
by hard concreted substance " the tappen,"
which would appear to keep the animal in
condition.
Year: 1866

WONDERS OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and
the air we breathe are made Of the same
materials. Linen and sugar and spirits of
wine are so much alike in their chemical
composition that an old shirt can be con.
verted into its weight in sugar, and the
sugar into spirits Of wine Wine is made
of two substances. one of which is the
cause Of almost all combination of burning,
and the other will burn with more rapidty
than anything in nature. The famous Pc
ruvian bark, so much used to strengthen the
stomach and the poisonous principle of
opium, are found to be of the same mate
rials
Year: 1866

A LII MEN OF EDUCATION and reflection
n should ponder well upon the advantages of
Lille Insurance, and should promulgate their
quircd knowledge throughout the whole circle of
their acquaintance. They should remember that
it recommends itself in many instances not mere
ly as measure of eXpediency, but as Il bOunden
duty, duty easily discharged by the payment OF
Il moderate sum. The qucst tion is: shall the
rcd man trust the comfort of his family to a
chance ?-albeit a promising one; or is he net
rather bound to make sure of provision, as far
a5 can, for his wife, his children, his helpless
relations, for all those dependant upon him for
support, and through the medium of Life Insu-
rance, assure an adequate provision again t i'm
pending poverty and irretrievable distress How
many men have heard say: Yes, but want to
insure for large sum when l do insure, and it is
not convenient now" And SO, because the man
cannot crafty his vanity and pay the premium on
$50 000 he dies, and leaves his wife and child
hou clcss, sorrow-stricllen and broken hearted
thrust the cold kindness of quasi charitable
relations, without a cent to bury him or provide
loving and devoted husband, would not make
Il temporary provision, consonant with his
circumstances, for the wife who had been hi,
nurse in sickness, his friend in distress and whom
payment of S15 or SlO0, secure many thousands.
Strange that man, who owes to his wife the chief
chain of his existence, the every day comfort of
his life should be able to look hcartlcssly to that
period when their last parting shall take place.
wien removed to that world, where to him. all is
hope and consolation, he shall have wilfully left
in darkness and dcsolation, stepped in poverty
and wretchedness, to struggle with the hard JUS
tcc of Il hard hearted world. ResOrting to Life
Insurance is risking nothing, but truly securing
certain profit upon that which is, at all times, an
uncertain event.


The general Agent of the Aetna has the gratiff-
cation to state that quite large number of sober
minded men in this community have availed them
selves of this opportunity. All are invited to
inform themse .vts by applying to the subscriber.


W Fl. CROW,


feb S-2m Gen'l. Ag't for the State.
Year: 1866

in the County or Superior Courts, fifteen dollars
to be paid at the time of obtaining the same, to
the Clerk of the Supreme Court who shall before
the first day of October in each year, render to
the Treasurer of the State, list setting forth the
names of the persons from whom received, and
the amounts received, and pay into the Public
Treasury the total amounts, less five per cent.
commission for receiving and accounting for the
same.


4 Every marriage license one dollar; every mort
gage deed, marriagd contract and deed in trust
male to secure debts or liabilities, dollar and
every other deed conveying title to real estate
when the consideration is three hundred dollars
upwards fifty cents, payable to the Clerk of the
County Court. No clerk shall grant such license
admit to probate such Instrument until the
tax shall have been paid and the receipt shall be
endorsed on such license or instrument, and be
registered with the same.


s. All the property and other subjects of taxa
ton shall be annually taxed as by this act enact
ed, unless such property be expressly exempted
from taxation by this or some other act; and the
property and estate hereby exempted from taxa
ton are ali such, and their profits may belong
to the United States to this State, may be-
long to or be set apart and exclusively used for
the University, col colleges, institutes, academies,
support of the poor or afflicted, or especially set
apart for and appropriated to tue exercises of di
vine worship, or the propagation of the gospel,
or such as may be set apart and kept Tor grave
Yards and burial lots; all such property and
tates and their profits as ma, belong to the State
and county agricultural societies, and be set u
part and used by them for agricultural fairs and
all such and their profits as may belong to any
church or religious society, and be set apart and
used by them for parsonages


And be FURTHER enacoed, That all laws inn
posing taxes, the subjects of which are revised in
this act hereby repealed Prooded, That this
repeal shall not be construed to extend to the
provisions of any law, far they relate to the
taxes listed, or which ought to have been listed,
or which may be due for the year 1865, for
any year previous thereto. Ratified in Gene
raj Assembly,, this 18th day of March, A. D.
1866.


S. F. PHILIPS,


Speaker House of Commons,


G.. S. WINSTEAD


Speaker of Senate.
I, ROBERT w. BEST, Secretary of State in and
for the State of North Carolina, do hereby certify
that the foregoing is true copy of the original
file in this Office


Given under my hand, the 18th day of March,
A. D. 1866.


r. W. BEST,


See of State.
Year: 1866

TURTLE Sour At THE PLANET.-AEichel serves up
at the Planet House, No. 67 Magazine street, a
turtle soup which would do to set before an alder


man or king. 1t will be ready for his friends at
any hour between IL and 1 o'clock We advise all
those who are fond of such thing to be on hand.
Year: 1866

BooBYIsM.-Snce the appearance of Cra-
vens book. the Copperhead papers are max
ing distressingly pittiful mouths in relation
to the sufferings of the traitor Davis, who is
living on ham and eggs and oyster stews at
Fortress Monroe. Poor Mr.. Davis how he
does suffer, in comparison with the fat and
plethoric Yankee prisoners who were so
Hospitality entertained by his order at An
dersonvile and Salisbury But, are not
these chivalrous editors making their head
chief appear like a great big, blubbering boo
by? Is it quite manly to have the President
of the Confederate States of America whin.
ing like a blind puppy when the just verdict
of civilized governments would deny him the
right to live another hour, and when para
lized skeletons of his own savage cruelty are
dragging their lifeess limbs about the coun-
try? Let the blood stained traitor thank a
generous Government. a better civilization
and merciful God that his trunkless head
is not stuck on pole in front of the Nation.
al Capitol, to be stoned in the teeth by the
widows and orphans of those whom he caus-
ed to be starved to death and dragged, like
dead dogs, from the he'll holes of his cruelty.
- Fl10
Year: 1866

" The NOBLE INDIAN" AS He Is.-A cor
respondent, who has been to the Far
West" has seen the noble Indian, and been
hunted by him, writes "Much has been
said by poets and romantic young ladies,
about the picturesque aspect and the noble
form of an untamed, untamable warrior of
the prairie, and far be it from me to gainsay
them. An Indian is a noble spectacle-in a
picture or at a safe distance-but when this
noble spectacle in common with dozen
other noble spectacles,' is moving his moe
casins in your direction. aud you have to do
some tall walking in order to keep the cap
ilary substance on the summit of your era
mum, all his nobility vanishes, and you
see in him only a painted, greasy miscreant,
who will, if you give hin, chance, lift your
hair with the same Christian spirit, compos.
ed and serene, with which he would ask
another spectacle" for a little more of that
baked dog. / used to think like the poets !;
now the sight of an Indian gives me cramp
in the stomach"
Year: 1866

PROGRESS PROGRESS while Free Love
Conventionists have done vast deal, in the
way of bringing disrepute upon righteous
reform proposition, it is evident to the careful
and candid observer that woman's right to
vote is approaching formal concession through
the laws that extend her privileges for con-
ducting business in her own name, and the
general, though tacit, admission of her ''pro-
per sphere in the discharge of duties in this
country which a dozen years ago she was
popularity declared unfit to undertake or un-
suited to perform. Talk of women not being
adapted to hold Office Why, they hold hun
dreds of Uncle Sans Post Offices, to day ;
and their competency and faithfulress in
handling and delivering the mails is mat
ter of official remark and compliment from
the Washington head of the Post Office De-
partment. In very short time-we have
high authority for prophecying-the vast
majority of the Post Stations will be kept by
ladies. Hasten the day when the women
shall have precedence in applying for these
Government places! Then there will be nc
Democratic party-nor can there be, any
MORE Gold Hill News.
Year: 1866

PERPEruAL CoNGREss.-1here is very lit.
lie doubt that the present 'Revolntionary
Convention" sitting at Washington intend to
depose the President, declare themselves
perpetual body, aud assume absolute control
of the whole country. Whether that inten
ton can be carried out or not may lie a
question. They have however, as much le-
gal right to do that as a great many other
things that they have done; and there is no
reason why the people should not submit to
that usurpa'ion as well and AS cheelfuly as
they do 10 others, if it only be committed in
lie name Of loyaltv.-Tulare Times
Year: 1866

Have been used with the greatest success. Their
mission is not only to prevent disease but to
cure. They search out the various maadies by
which the patient is suffering. aud re-invigorates
the failing system. To the aged and nlrm a few
doses OF these valuable pills will prove to be
Year: 1866

For in every case they add new life and vitality,
and restore the waning energies to their prs-
tine state. To the young and middle-aged. they
will prove most invaluable as Il ready. specific
and sterling medicine. Here is dream realized,
that Ponce-de-Leon sought for three hundred
years ago, and never found. He looked for a
fountain that would restore the old to vigor and
make youth
Year: 1866

Stay the fight of years, but they can force bach
and hold aloof, diseases that mi ght triumph owe
the aged and the yonng. Let none hesitate then
but seize the favorable opportunity that Offers
When taken as prescribed
Year: 1866

Nothing can be more productive of cure than
these Pills. Their almost magic influence is felt
at once; and the usual concomtants Of this most
distressing disease are removed. These remedies
are made from the purest
Year: 1866

A SILENT WoMAN.-Miss Caroline Brewer,
aged about 20 years, died in the Aims House
in this city, on Friday last She had been an
inmate Of the House for the last thirty-fve
years-being the Oldest inhabitant She had
not spoken an ineligible word in an that
time. Having been disappointed in love, in
early life, she made VOW never to speak
another word, and she religiously kept her
vow till her tongue was paralyzed in death
One of the wonders of the world, a woman in
the full possession of her vocal faculties, and
yet keeping silence for nearly half a century |!
Who will say, after this, that woman cannot
hold her tongue, when she makes up her mind
IN do so0. 4f ifi'lrffrfl tilaTil1|r sl-ffiaB !
Year: 1866

SOMETHING " BIT HIM.-About one o'clock
Sunday night, ,watchman hearing q most
distressing noise in Fore Street, went to ascer-
tain the cause, and found an individual asleep
on a pile of loose brick, snoring as if in great
pain. Taking pine stick he made two appl-
cations of it on the posterior development of
the spinal column, which brought him instant
ly on his feet, causing him to open his eyes and
mouth, and to sing out Justify, OIL OH oh! sc.
On asking him what the matter was, he replied
that :" he did not know" but believed that
something had bitten him. He was advised to
go home and not to mistake again a pile of
bricks for straw bed, which he proceeded to
do, still keeping his hand on the place for
plaster. fflssa p. d.
Year: 1866

= Girls, help your father, give him a
cheerful home TO rest in when evening
comes, and do not worry his life away by
fretting because he cannot afford you all
the luxuries you covet. Children exert
as great an influence on their parents as
parents do on their children.
Year: 1866

jolted over Virginia wagon road, and
exposed for two days on the deck Of a
vessel which brought it to Washington,
that any one who had seen Booth living
saw what was believed to be his dead
body. The young man Harold, who was
taken at the same time, was the only per-
SON acquainted with Booth who saw the
man before his death. Booths safety, if
still at large, could be assured in no other
way so well as by allowing the belief to
remain that the body of the dead man was
his.


So long as John II. Surratt is not found
no man can say Wilkes Booth could not
be hid. We do not express any opinion
OF our own upon the subject, but simply
point out what is possible, that, though be-
lieved to be dead, the assassin of Abra-
ham Lincoln may still be alive Chicago
Ecening Post.


Our MISTAKES ABOUT EACH OTHER.
Not one man in ten thousand sees those
with whom he associates as they really
are. If the prayer of Burns were grant
ed, and we could see ourselves as others
see us, our self-estimates would, in all
probability be much more erroneous than
they are now. The truth is, that we re-
gard each other through variety of
lenses, not one of which is correct Pas
sion and prejudice, love and hate, benev-
olence and envy, spectacle our eyes, and
utterly prevent us from observing accn-
rately. Many whom we deem the porce-
lain of human clay are mere dirt, and a
still greater number of those whom we
put down in our +" black books" are no
further off from heaven, and perchance a
little nearer, than the censors who con-
denim them. We habitually undervalue
or overyalue each other, and in estimat.
ing character the shrewdest of us only
now and then make true appraisal of the
virtues and defects of even our closest in
Inmates.


1t is not just or fair to look at character
from stand d-point Of ones own selection
A mans profile may be unprepossessing
and yet his full face agreeable. We one
saw young man, whose timidity was


standing joke with his companions, lea
into a river and save boy from drown
ing, while his companions stood pani
struck on the bank. The merchant VIII
| gives curt answers in the counting-roor
may be tender husband and father, an
kind helper of the desolate and the op
pressed. On the other hand, your good
humored person, who, is all smiles an
sunshine in public, may carry oenaosl.i.,s
as hard as neither milestone in the place
where his heart ought to be.
Year: 1866

What reason there is for the depreciation of
State money below city notes, Or any other cur
renoy now in circulation, we find it impossible to
ascertain. We fancy, however, it must be in a
measure. if not wholly, owing to a misconception
of the amount of State bills issued. The legisla-
ture authorized the issue of million Of dollars.
Something over half million has been issued, but
of this sum nearly two hundred thousand dollars
have been returned to the treasury IN payment of
taxes, leaving no more than from three to four
hundred thousand aaoat, and the amount will be
constantly diminishing, in all probability, by the
payment of taxes, as seems to be almost certain
that the appropriation proposed in Congress for
the reconstruction of the evees viii pass, and its
passage will obviate the necessity of further ex-
penditure by the State The chief object in au-
thorizing the issue of State money was to rebuild
the eYees, and if the State is relieved of the bur-
den by Congress, of course no more notes will be
put ont. t a 4N
Year: 1866

story frame house on Marais street, next door to
the corner of Orleans street. was destroyed by
fire. The lower floor was occupied as cigar shop
and the upper story by two or three families.
They saved but little, if anything. Mrs. Duns'
mans millinery establishment on the corner, one
story frame building, was also partially burned
and her stock somewhat damaged. She is reported
to have been insured
Year: 1866

SoKooL VACATroNs.-Pr President Dolbear, of the
Commercial College, makes an excellent sugges
ton through our columns this morning. He
informs the public that during the next two
months special attention will be given to the
classes in penmanship, bookkeeping, arithmetic
and the modern languages. He does this to eua-
BILE boys, who have not been able to devote as
much attention to their studies as they should
have done while at school, to brighten themselves
nm and lose no time
Year: 1866




Asylum.
A writ of habeas corpus sued out for the release
of Edward G. Butler from the insane asylum, as
person now in sound mind, was tried before Judge
beaumont yesterday, in the Fifth District court,
who, after hearing the evidence. issued an order
directing the keeper of the asylum liberate But
Ter. This is the man who, it will be remembered,
in a ship-yard in Algers, last winter, took up an
adze, came behind an old man named Wheaton,
who was at work, struck him in the head and
killed him instantly. On his trial it was shown
that he was derahged, and the jury acquitted him
OF the charge of murder, because of insanity
Upon this verdict being rendered, Judge Abel or
dered him to be sent to the insane asylum. Dr.
Bayou, one Of the city physicians yesterday testi
fed that he is now perfectly sane; that his de-
raugement was the consequence of the excessive
use Of Intoxicating liquors, causing mania potn (;
that the total abstinence to which he has been
compelled in the asylum has cured him. hui that
he will De liable to recurrence of insanity should
be return to habits of iutoxieaton, Upon This
showing Judge Leaumont ordered his discharge.
What security the public have that he will abstain
from the vice which makes him such q terrible
madman it is hard to see.
Year: 1866

People who have cut their wise teeth use the
sozodont; and all who do, are willing to declare
to all who don't use it that tis the most perfect
and delightful thing for the teeth they ever
dinnaa hrnsh into. --a
Year: 1866

WITH RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES IN
w every County in Tennessee, and very shortly
throughout every southern State. This Company
insures against THEFT or DAMAGE to Stock
while stolen If not recovered within
Year: 1866

G a Il ID.


On account of bad health this day sold out my
entire interest in the firm of FRENCH & CO., to
the above House. and cordially recommend to my
old friends my successors in business. who may
be confidently relied on as gentlemen of the
highest business qualifications; and to those who
may favor them with their business they can
feel assured that it will be performed will probity.
honor, and energy.


For the many favors and large patronage have
received during the long number of years l have
been engaged in business, l warmly thank my
friends. earnestly soliciting the continuance of the
same for my successors and friends. Reid. Chad
bourn < Co.


Very Respectfully.