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Year: 1866




A correspondent of the New York Neies,


writing from Charlottesville, says of this ven
erable institution, founded and nurtured by
Jefferson, and at which so many of the best
men of the South have been educated:
During the war, as matter of course,
there were but very few students, indeed the


University existed but in name, and now
that peace, with its doubtful blessings, visits
our unfortunate country the manned and


mutilated soldier crawls from the battlefield
to this fountain Of knowledge, striving to
find in its healing waters balm, not only
for bodily wounds, but the more serious lac
erations of mind and heart from which he
suffers.


The desire for education throughout our
country is rather increased than diminished
by four years Of war, but the poverty of the
people is such that comparatively few can
afford college education. The number of
students here is only two hundred and forty,
not sufficient for the support of theainstitu-
ton. The literary fund of VirginzR from
which it was endowed, has ceased to have an
existence So thatth noble institution is
suffering almost the pangs of dissolution.
The Professors are striving energetically to
weather the storm, and with the help which
is hoped from the action of the Legislature
this winter they will doubtless succeed.
The library of the University is an unus-
| ually fine one. Its nucleus was selected by
Mr.. Jefferson, and it has been added to from
year to year until the number of volumes
amounts to thirty-fve thousand; it embraces
| but a small portion of the light literature OF
| the day the character of the books being
more solid than is usually the case in col
| lection of this kind.
A life-size statue of Mr.. Jefierson-which,
| for want of the means to erect it, has re-
| mained packed for four years-is still in the
| rotunda II is mastery piece Of Calls,


and will be great addition to the interest
and beauty of the place.


But once during the four years war did a
| force of the Federal army succeed in reach
| ing this place, and that Wnslast Spring, when


Sheridan made his raid, taking this county
| in his course Being State institution, the
greatest apprehension was felt that the


course pursued in Lexington might find its
parallel here and that the torch of the in


cendiary might lay waste in an hour this
work of nearly half century, but the fear
| proved groundless; even this army, which
had spread ruin and desolation along its


whole course passed by this beautiful spot
| without leaving trace of its presence. The
| greatest pains were taken to prevent injury


to the buildings and grounds guards were


placed around, and no one permitted to
enter, but by special permission.
Year: 1866

with solid and instructive matter for the adyan-
tage of the rising generation, and for the enter
tainment and comfort of those more advanced in
life. The proprietors of the UNION AND AMERI-
cay' have lived and been engaged in the
newspaper business long enough to obtain a knowl-
edge of the true wants of great, honest and vir-
tuous people. who, though unfortunate striving
to transmit to their descendants, in culture and
nurture. the highest and most noble qualities,
industry, selfreliance, and dignity of character.
Pai.y appreciating the power and benefcence OF
woman, they will endeavor to make this paper an
acceptable companion to the mothers and daugh-
ters of the country, wherefrom they may derive
both profit and pleasure.


To persons desircus of making known to the
public their business, may say that our circula
ton by mail, reaching every Post Office which has
been re-opened in the State, besides extensive
circulation in adjoining States gives advertis
ing columns superior advantages.


The advance in the priccsoi every article which
enters into the production of newspapers is such
that the terms upon which they are furnished
must necessarily correspond. In common with
our city contemporaries. we have adopted the
following as the
Year: 1866

en- bummers on the edge Of a spittoon
watching him jam fur overcoat into his
left ear. he was foolish-foolish enough
for brigader general or member OF
congress. A little cuss with black legs,
crimson stomach and double jointed bill,
was vomiting in a satin slipper, while
his wife, sickly looking lady Of her
tribe, was gnawiug at the bed post, think
ing it q bologna Another one, evidently
an old maid, sat under the sofa milking
the cat, while her sister was crowding a
pair of woolen drawers into her water
fall, singing in subdued strain.


Come rest in this bosom.


We have applied for a season ticket
front seat.


Another one with a certificate OF mar.
riage over his head in the shape of a
welt the size of candle mould, was
dancing fandango with two mosquito
virgins on watch crystal, while a dea-
con in one Of their churches sat playing
old sledge with a cork-screw, to see
which should 20 for gin cocktail. An
artistic delegate was standing on his
head in a champagne tumbler, one hind
leg run through it, while with the other
he was pointing out the road to Rich
mond to a lot Of skeets still drunker, than
himself, which were sitting dog fashion
on the pillow. We should say it was a
gay party--quitely so .


Talk about shows, concerts, dog fights,
amputations circuses, negro funerals,
draw poker, sparkin, or other amuse.
.ments, there is nothing to be compared
to flock of mosquitoes on a bender. II
you don't believe it, fix them up with a
piece of beefsteak soaked in whiskey,
and laugh your sides sore at the antics
the drunken warblers cut.
Year: 1866

house displayed flag in honor Of the
occasion. From the flagstaff Of the
Telegraph House the Stars and Stripes
Aoated gaily. The big ship also carried
the American banner beside the Union
Jack, and the Atlantic Telegraphic flag
presented by Mr.. Field on the occasion
Of the first cable expedition.


The Great Eastern came to anchor
precisely at 10 am, and was boarded
Immediately by great crowd of visi-
tors, male and female.


In the meantime the splicing feet pro-
ceeded slowly ON with the work Of con.
meeting the shores and main cable. The
end Of the main cable was taken on
board the steamer Medway about quar-
ter to two pm, and splicing began,
Year: 1866

History of the Great Work-Success


Through Failures.
The following special dispatch to the
New York Herald giving an account of
the landing of the Great Eastern at
Hearts Content, viii be read with in
toraat
Year: 1866

Who has not been guilty Of
undue severity in impeaching
the motives and conduct of his
fellow men We do not mean
to command the morbid sensi.
bility which shrinks from an
honest expression of opinion,
and hesitates to maintain truth
and right for fear of hurting
ones feelings, and yet every
one needs to learn q lesson OF
charity on this subject. The
Incompatible prescription of
our urSaViourrespecting the beam
in our own eye and the mote in
the eye of our neighbor, can
not be too frequently studied.
No man, unless he were omnis-
cient, can be fully competent to
judge and pronounce perempto-
rily on the motives of others.
To judge his own heart and
condemn with unsparing sever
ity, he is competent, since he
can know more of himself than
he can of others. He violates
no low of charity when he ar
raigns himself traces his own
motives through all their wind
ings, and pronounces a stern
decision. He may be said to
be at home here he speaks of
that which he knows, and the
more he is accustomed to this
kind of self-inquisition, the less
harshly will he judge Of others.
Half the misery in the world
arises from uncharitableness
and censoriousness they are
daily interfering with our
friendly relations with others ;
and the only method to alIay
and prevent these evils, is to
adopt the profound and admir-
able ethics of Christianity,
which require us to be kindly
affectionate, pitiful and courte-
GUS, Judging no one harshly
and intemperately, seeking
rather to amend our own grave
defects, and putting the most
charitable construction on the
conduct of others.


This we would desire to apply
to ourselves as well as others.
L Exchange.
Year: 1866

The rights Of woman, what are they7


The right to labor, love and pray;


The right to weep with those that weep,
The right to wake when others sleep.
The right to dry the falling tear,
The right to quell the rising fear;


The right to smooth the brow of care,
And whisper comfort to despair.
The right to watch the parting breath,
70 sooth and cheer the bed of death;
The right, when earthly hopes all fail,
To point to that within the vail.
The right the wanderer to reclaim;
And win the lost from paths of shame
The right to comfort and to bless
The widow and the fatherless.
The right the little ones to guide
In simple faith to him who died;
With earnest love and gentle praise
To bless and cheer their youthful days.
The right the intellect to train,
And guide the soul to noble aim;
Teach it to rise above earths toys,
And wing its flight for heavenly joys.
The right to live for those we love;
The right to die that love to prove
The right to brighten earthly homes
With pleasant smiles and gentle tones.
Are these thy rights? Then use them well
Thy silent influence none can tell.
Ii these are thine, why ask for more
Thou hast enough to dRSWer for
Year: 1866

WEAR A SlIILE.-Which will
you do, smile and make others
happy, or be Grabbed, and make
everybody around you miser-
able2 You can live among
beautiful flowers and singing
birds, or in the mire surrounded
by fogs and frogs. The amount
OF happiness which you can
produce is incurable, if you will
show a smiling face, a kind
heart, and speak pleasant words.
On the other hand, by sour
looks, cross words, and a fretful
disposition, you can make hum
dreds unhappy almost beyond
endurance. Which viii you
do? Wear pleasant counte-
nance, let joy beam in your eye
and love glow on your forehead.
There is joy SO great as that
which springs from a kind act
or pleasant deed, and you may
feel it at night when you rest,
and at morning when you rise,
and through the day when
about your daily business.
Year: 1866

LIFE TOO SHORT FOR STRIFE.


Charles Dickens relates the fol-


lowing of Douglas Jerrold:


"Of his generosity L had a


proof within these two or three


years, which it saddens me to


think of now. There had been


an arrangement between us


not on any personal subject,


and not involving angry words
a good many months had


passed without my ever seeing


him in the street, when it fell


out that we dined, each with


his own seperate party, in the


Strangers Room of the Club.
Our chairs were almost back to


back, and | took mine after he


was seated and at dinner, U
am sorry to remember) and did
not lock that way. Before we
had sat long, he openly wheel
ed his chair round, stretched
out both hands in an engaging
manner, and said aloud, with a
bright and loving face, that /
can see as | write to you: "Let
us be friends again. A life is
not long enough for this!" Jer-
rold was not a Christian, but
his conduct in this case was
worthy of the Christian charac-
ter. On a dying bed, how in
significant viii appear many
things about which we contend
in bitterness and wrath Life
isso short, its inevitable sorrows
SO many, its responsibilities so
vast and solemn, that there is,
indeed, no time to spare in
bruising and mangling one
Let not the sun 90
down on your wrath. Never
close your eyes to sleep with a
heart angry towards your broth
er and fellow sufferer. See him
and be reconciled to him ifyou
can. If you cannot see him
write to him. If he is a true
man and a Christian, he will
listen. If he is not you win
have done right, and your soul
will be bright with the sunshine
of Heaven" /"
Year: 1866

" 10 puySlCttIly lllipOSSlDle IOI


a well educated, intellectual, or


brave man to make money the


chief object of his thoughts; as
physically impossible as it is for


him to make his dinner the


principal object of them. All


health people like their dinners,


but their dinner is not the main


object of their lives. So all


healthy minded people like


making money-ought to like


it, and to enjoy the sensation of


winning it; but the main oh
Iject of their life is not money


it is something better than


money. A good soldier, for in


stance, mainly wishes to do his


fighting well. He is glad of his
pay-very properly SO, and
justly grumbles when you keep


him ten years without it-still,


his main notion of life is to win


battles, not to be paid for win
ming them. So of clergymen.


They like pew rents and bap-
tismal fees, of course; but yet,


if they are brave and well edu-
Gated, the pew rent is not the
sole object of their lives, and the


baptismal fee is not the sole


purpose of the baptism; the


clergyman's Objects essentially


to baptize and preach, not to be


paid for preaching. So of doc
tors. They like fees, no doubt
Ought to like them; yet if
they are brave and well educa-
ted, the entire object of their
lives is not fees. They on the


whole desire to cure the sick !;
and if they are good doctors,
and the choice were fairly put
to them-would rather cure


theirpatient and lose their fee,


than kill him and get it. And


SO with all other brave and
rightly trained men; their work


is first, their fee second-yery
important always, but still Sc
cond. But in every nation, as


| said, there is a vast class who
are ill-educated, coWardly and
more or less stupid. And with
these people just as certainly


the fee is first and the work
second, as with brave people
the work is first and the fee is
second. And this is no small
distinction. 1t is the whole
distinction in a man; distinc-


ton between life and death in
him, between heaven and hell
for him. You cannot serve two
masters-you must serve one
or the other. If your work is
first with you, and your fee
second, work is your master,


and the lord of work, who is
God. But if your fee is first


with you and your work second,
fee is your master, and the lord


of fee, who is the devil and


not only the devil, but the low


est of devils-the '1east erected
fiend that fell" So there you
have it in brief terms /; work
first-you are Gods servants i
fee first-you are the fiend's.
And it makes a difference, now
and ever, believe me, whether
you serve Him who has on His
vesture and thigh written,
"King of King and whose
service is perfect freedom; orl
him on whose vesture and thigh
the name is written, s'slave ofI
slaves" and whose service isl
perfect slavery II P1FeIsiq
Year: 1866

A recent lecturer on common
law says that, according to that
code, a woman when she mar
ried lost her identity, her dis
tinctive character, and was like
a deWdrop swallowed by a sun
beam.
Year: 1866

In a former paper, l gave your readers the
direction of WILLIAM FORSYTH, King Georges
gardener, for making a composition for curing
the diseases, defects and injuries in all kinds
of fruit and forest trees, and the method of
preparing the trees and applying the compost
ton. The king gave him $4,000 for the recipe.
which has been worth more than that to the
people of England. then gave his original
recipe, which required the composition to be
applied with trowel or other smooth instru-
ment like a thin coat of plaster. This, no
doubt, is good and effectual method; but as
some might prefer to apply the composition in
more liquid state, with painters brush,
Mr.. Forsyth, after publishing his first method,
made some additional experiments, by means
of which he was able to re-state his compost
ton with this amendment As some Of the
frult-growing readers of the Press may prefer
the latter form of application, shall venture
in the present paper, to give the component
parts of the composition anew:


Take one bushel of fresh cow-dung, half a
bushel of lime rubbish of old buildings, THAT
from the ceiling of rooms is preferable half a



bushel of pit or river sand the three last
articles are to be sifted fine before thew ara
mixed; then work them well together with a
spade, and afterwards with wooden beater.
until the stuff is very smooth, like fine plaster
used for the ceiling of rooms.


Where lime rubbish of old buildings cannot
be easily procured, take powdered chalk, or
common lime, after having been Stacked q
month at least.


To reduce the above to liquid state, mix
the mass by putting sufficient quantity OF
urine and soap-suds till it comes to the con-
sistency of common paint. Then apply 1t >.
the prepared wounds of the tree with paint
er's brush. This method is more easy and ex-
peditious than the former one, and answers
the purpose as well.


When trees are become hollow, all the rot
Year: 1866

The New York papers we see are cautioniny
country workmen against seeking employment
in New York city, telling them that the labor
market there is overstoc ked, business dull. and
multtudes OF workmeR are discharged while
the rate OF wages is falling. We feel it duty
to give the same warning to persons coming to
Washington in quest OF employment. In our
long experience in the newspaper business
we have never before known SO mauy
persons out Of employment in this CITY


A lorge portion OF the floating population
brought here by the war still iinger long after
the demand for their labor has ceased, ana
jostle each other for . livelihood in all the
trades, and in a fierce contest for the smallest
governmental office. Descending the social
scale we have some thirty thousand coll


ored people. contrabancs, &C., seeking
employment here, OF whom 1t is safe 10
say that twenty thousand will not average
days work in week during the coming win


ter. The poor house is already overfowins
and unable TO afford shelter for the swarms
of vagrants and houseless ones ahoat upou
our streets, and Heaven only knows what Will
become Of the thousands OF the unemploved
here when the severity of winter comes upon
Year: 1866

@The Methodist Episcopal Conference
(South) in session at Norfolk on Saturday ap
pointed committee TO attend the Baltimore
Conference Of the same division of the Church
for the purpose OF forming a Conference from
the territory occupied respectively by these
bodies. A long debate was had on the propo-
sltion to drop the word "Soath" from the name
of the Church
Year: 1866

GOING To LAw-It is rumored i'm BaItimora
That the legal counsel Of the sheriff and the
new police commissioners Will Immediately
institute civil action for damages, for false
arrest and imprisonment, against all persons
who were parties to their arrest and Incarce
ration In Jail, Immediately preceding the late
State election
Year: 1866

kA draft Of bill to equalize and reduce
internal taxation, prepared by Special Re venue
commissioner Wells, will, it is said. be sub
United 70 Congress with the Secretary OF the
Ireasurys annual report
Year: 1866

To-day brought the White House the usual
attendance OF visitors, among whom were
many ladies' Gen. Sweeney also called The
Attorney General and the Secretary OF the In
terror had interviews with the President
Year: 1866

REMOVAL or POLICE EHKADQUARrRRs,-This
morning. porters and carriers are engaged in
removing the property Of the Police depart.
ment from the building on 10th, near street
TO the new headquarters opposite the CITY
Hall. on Louisiana avenue. The greater nor.
ton Of the police property will be removed TO-
day, but the work of transferring the fire alarm
telegraph requires great care TO prevent any
loss OF its service in case IL should be REQ uired
and II will not be permanently fixed IN the ne W
ofice before the LIST of December
Year: 1866

LOST CHILD.-A little fellow was picked nm
struggling on the streets to-day by one of the
4th Ward police and taken to the station N the
City Hall TO await Information as to his parents


He gives the name Of Mike Foley" and saws
he lives on the Island.
Year: 1866

A travelling correspondent of the New
York Herald gives a resume of pretended
trip over the battle-f fields of the war in the
South. 1t is evident from his letter that he
did not leave the cars except to shift his
precious body and carpet sack from one
train to another from the time he left New
York till he reached New Orleans. He
gives long conversations purporting to have
occurred between himself and Virginia ne
groes somewhere between Gordonsville and
Lynchburg. The idea of these dialogues
was doubtless suggested by some talk he
may have had with the negro brakesmen
on the Orange or Central railroads. The
Herold thus sums up this valuable CORES
pondepce


lie (the travelling correspondent reports that
ne found the people well disposed and orderly and
they express the wish almost universally that the
GoVefnment Will reconstruct the States as speedi-
~ as possible, that Northern capital and industry
may ftoW IN. But few traces of the recent bloody
struggle remain in some places, and in others the
evidences are painfully visible. The negroes were
generally well dressed and appeared in good hu-
NOR. They entertain the same respect for their
late masters that they did before the war; and do
not appear to desire an equality with them. in
case OF negro suffrage being admitted, they would
undoubtedly vote the same tickets that their for
mer masters would
Year: 1866

A writer in the August number of The
Land We Looe, in an article on the charac-
ter of Lieutenant General N. B. Forrest,
gives the following estimate of him:


His character as a whole was union of
that of Lannes and Suchet. With the i'm
petuosity of the first he united the cautious
calculation of the second. He we'll weighed
the probabilities and counted the cost of
every plan. When the time for action
came he was terrible as q thunderbolt. With
the qualities of the marshals in the respects
named, he united to the fxedness of pur-
pose, the tenacity of Massena. His dog
gedness of resolution was proverbial. It
was like the grasp of death. An under
taking was never abandoned unless forced
by orders--a battle never over until it was
won. The doubts, even the panic of others,
had no effect to tame his obstinacy of pur-
pose, but falling back upon his own iron
self-rellance, he WIS every inch man in
the darkest hour of the storm. It was
then, in the midnight darkness of trial, that
his genius, like stars in the night, shone
most brightly.


He was accustomed to look upon nothing
as impossible. Bad roads and the waste of
waters could be overcome by " Il shall be
so !" Small numbers with rapid marches
and concentrated efforts, was passionately
4OAu VI dIIllleIy. aHu WOulu SCanu DonlnQ a
working battery, enjoying its exercise with
all the gIee of delighted child. Not un-
frequently has he been known to direct
section of a battery i'll person, superintend-
ing the MINI est details. Personal daring
IN leader, the army never doubling the
fortune and game OF its possessor, he felt
was the strongest point he had to gain
With it he appeared to wear a magic girdle
Not like Aristides-


6 Beyond the missile iavelins' sounding flight,
Safe let lis stand; and from the tumult far


Inspire the ranks, and rule the distant war;


Hence, in this respect, he is without
peer in the annals of the revolution
Leading a charge in person was his favorite
pastime. The glory of single combat he
too often courted-oftener than wisdom
justifled-riding like young Bedouin, an
excellent pistol shot and skillful swordsman,
with frame of great muscular power, he
has, with his own right hand, won more
success than any officer of the war