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IT. I*. Vaughan.
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Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
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BUOW1.SVII.LE, AEUANSAS.
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' From the Richmond Kxaminer.]
Poor Old Virginia—An Eloqneill
Reply to an Epitaph.
; "Poor Old Virginia !’’
Wc accept the epithet, and the genu
‘ ino sympathy it embodies, not without
a sense of mourful pride. Beyond
question we are poor; beyond quel
- tion there is great misery among out
! helpless ones; and our undying grutl
1 tudo \yill ever go forth In recognition
6f that true charity, which, as in the
i ense of tlie Baltimore ladles, lias been
i so munificently bestowed upon ns.
We are not ashamed of our misfortune
mid misery, nor of the alms that have
been so generously sent ns, because of
them. Those who are despoiled must
needs bo poor; those who arc tram
pled upon must needs be miserable,
and we not deem it to he any crime of
our own that the spoiler's hand lias
been upon us. and iiis bee! has ground
I u« into the dust.
But there is a sort of compassion in
tlie tone with whie.li the Northern
press lavishes pity upon us that is
quite uncalled for, quite supcrcroga
! five, quite thrown away. The sneer
; does not hurt us. since it is misplaced,
j and we can laugh at an excess of senti
j mental sympathy, for which there is
not a shadow of occasion. Wc are not
| poorer than we were weak when
I Patrick Henry’s clarion awoke the
1 dawn of the Revolution in the House
of the Burgesses, nor are we poor in
fact. No one can look around with
half a glance at. tlie oxhuberaut and iu
! exhaustible resources of our great
! State and call Virginia poor. No
| where has nature been so kind; no
where in river, mountain, slope and
. forest and plain ; in the bend of tlie
sky, in the mellow tilth or grassy ver
j due of the soil, and in the deep nnd
; secret bowels of tlie earth, nowhere
: ims nature been so lavish of her good
I gifts as in Virginia. This kindly sky
of ours is itself an endowunient and a
perpetual possession ; one hour of Vir
ginia sunshine is worth more than a
week's sojourn under those palid rays
! that glimmer over Cape Cod, and lend
i a sickiy yellowness to tlie murky fogs
1 i»f •» ca>v<> K ii c u t1 a Ua t
Nor have these good aud generous
gifts of nature been thrown away upon
a poor or un ■ a spirited people. Vir
ginians are emphatically a race of men
—of men who stand erect, who honor
sunshine, and look kindly nature in
the face. We have the pride, the
energy, the physique, the endurance of
i u governing race. The pure oxygen
! ated biood that flows iu our veins
l makes onr hearts strong, our muscles
| firm, our minds serene and self-poised.
| Despair and despondency hide tliem
I selves abashed from the presence of
1 our composed, healthy spirit, and
i obstacles aud difficulties yield before
; our resolute assault. Look at our men
i and women, and dare to think us poor.
Were those men paupers who stood in
| the trenches all the long months,
.-tarvlug and in rags? Were those wo
men paupers who smiled still at home
i a ini still urged us to battle, iu their
suits of scanty home-spun, while the
children cried at their knees for bread
when there was none, and every mail
! brought the news of another loved one
slain at his post of duty? Nay, we are
j rich indeed in our men and women;
1 doubtlv rich Iu that remnant of heroes
who walked away from the lost field
of battle and calmly bestowed their
j hands to labor; in the sweet patience
land Christina faith of our women,
cheering us on with smiles to this task,
! as they smilingly cheered us on to that
one. We arc rich iu the examples our
heroes have set us, and it is perpetual
riches to us and a grand legacy to our
children, that we can point to the no
ble old man there at Lexington calmly
sitting down to teach the coming men
of Virginia lessons in the truth and
honor that made their fathers' lives
illustrous.
And we are doubly rich in our
j snored memories. Thereat Lexington,
I oesuie xne living nero, sipcpK nnoiner,
! dead indeed, but teaching us by his
! most unparalleled example how much
| Virginia’s sons can do and dare when
j her honor is at stake. Never shall we
| be poor while those memories remain.
Never can we feel ourselves poor
while we are able to invoke these
memories. Richer than placer or
! mine, more fertile than the deep val
ues of the West or Indian plains,'are
our hallowed battle-fields, the places
where our glorious record was won,
the places where our beloved sleep.
No, Old Virginiu is not poor, nor
i can be! By all those graves which we
: cherish, and the places which beheld
their deeds ; by the storm-swept, battle
• harried desolation of Mauassas ; by the
! bine hills that gird the Valley and look
j down upon a thousand fields of vic
tory ; by that broad Potomac, thrice
, crossed in iriitmp; by the banks of the
| Rappahannock, and the immortal re.
. | cord of Fredericksburg ; by the tangled
thickets of the Wilderness, and the
; blood soaked plain of Spotsylvania
; by Cold Harbor and embattled Peters
; burg, and the gaps that still mark ii
our own streets hero how stem wa
our last despair; by the dead whom we
i mourn; by the maimed whom wt
I honor and care for; by the survivon
not less noble; by our brave wotnet
and out-patient children ; by our lionot
, i in the past and our hope in the fulurt
- —by all the'j grand memories anf
| solemn reminders, we swear it! OU
Virginia is not Poor!
Lea<lliik Radical* Apprehenulve
that Grant will Jolinsonlee.
The Washington correspondent ol
the Cincinnati Enquirer writes:
Will Grant incline to Conservatism ?
I Should be so incline, will lie br able
I to match bis inclinations by perlorm
I anee ? These arc the questions which
engross the solicitude of tlie Uadiral
and Conservative politicians here. The
Democrats arc serene. Whether, as
they expect, they arc to be the party
of criticism, or whether, as some of
their opponents fear, they are to #ep
resent the policy, if not. to share the
patronage of the Administration, they
are equally satisfied to stand on prin
ciple in either case. In no event will
1 they strnin a point or yield an iota of
! conviction to please or antagonize the
ensuing Executive. Why do the Ilc
publicans fear, and why are they
troubled? For three reasons: First,
they are never sure of the fealty of
their candidate. They professedly
nominated him because lie wns an
available, not because lie was a sure
man. They do not know to-day
whether Grant stands with I he party
lie belonged to at the end of the Lin
coln administration, or whether he bus
stood on the Chicago resolution of
1868, as stepping-stones to success, or
from Changed convictions. Secondly,
they fear the moderating influences of
power and position tipon Grant, and
apprehend that it may work the same
change it did in President Johnson,
who began as a hangman and ends as a
Conservative. Power softens. It docs
not require a week for a man to learn
that he is President of the United
States of America and not of a faction.
As Executive, courtesy, custom and
necessity make him accessible to all
parties. They all have their say.
They all have reasons to give, influence
to press, and they all represent power
ful interests and constituencies. Thus
it was with the present Chief Magis
trate. Before lie had been iu a mouth,
the sober and practical sense of Mont
.. Tit.!., iir: iit
Robert J. i^alker, James R. Doolittle,
and sucb men, was potential in his
councils. His Cabinet, too, not ex
cepting ereu Stanton, felt the same
sweet odor of place steal away their
sharpness ere they were aware. That
the same influences will not he pre
sented to Gen. Grant cannot he affirm
ed. As President lie will ho hound to
be every man’s hearer. That the same
influences will move Gen. Grant is a
question which the future must solve. 1
It all depends on what manner of man
he is. To declare that these influences
will not avail presupposes remarkable
stolidity on the part of the Geueial.
This stolidity is a sense he always 1ms
had. It lias been evident in his silen
ces and in his driving persistence. But
it has never, popular impression to the i
contrary notwithstanding, been char
acterized hv an indifference to the
counsel of otliers. la all his relations
with the Government, General Grant
lias ever taken counsel with other and
older heads. His singular and stulti
lying attitude in modern politics
marks exactly the degree of facing
both ways, which lias commonly char
acterized every politician ol' the Radi
cal party in tho' country. He is an
eminently impressible man in every
tiling not connected with his army ad
ministration and military tactics.
Even in them lie is animated ill tile
sense of following the hammer-home
course, and in the traditional belief
tlint five can whip two. But in all
new subjects lie is docile, and in the
the new field open before him he will
he exposed to the best teachings (Tom
the whole country, and from men who,
| having no personal favors to seek, do
seek with self-abnegation tho good of
the people of all sections. That Gen.
| Grant will be deaf to all these voices
from the press is more titan his worst
\ opponents ever painted him. That
ttiesc voices will be exceeded ill per
sistence «nd policy by the opposing
counsellors of the Rudies! party, is an
{assertion which is so hardy as to ap
prove a great ignorance of how setiti
i ment is made and how influence is ex
1 erted at the capital.
The Rights of American Citizens.
—To know any trade or business with
out apprenticeship or experience.
To marry without regard to fortune,
state of health, position, or opinion of
parents.
To have a wife and children depend
ent on contingencies of business, and,
in case of sudden doalh, to leave them
wholly unprovided for.
i To teach our children no good trade.
| hoping that they will have, when
j grown up, wit enough to live on the
industry of oilier people.
To enjoy the general sympathy when
j made bankrupt by reckless specula*
; tion.
To cheat the Government, if possi
j hie.
To hold office* without being com
petent to discharge the duties.
To build houses with nine nod six
incli walls, go to the funeral of tenants,
'firemen, and others killed by the fall,
weeping over the “mysterious dispen
sations of Providence."
To build our cities and towns with
out any parks, public squares, broken
streets, aud ventilated blocks, and call
pestilence a visitation of God.
Western editor, in one of hie
papers, says: “For the elfcet of intern
perinea see our inside.”
Heir Education.
It is emphatically true that the great
men of the earth in all ages have been
those who in early life have had to
buffet the current of adversity. Born
to the inheritance of no patrimony,
theirs was a lot of toil and incessant
labor. With firm and unshaken reso
lutions to surmount the tide of unfa
vorable circumstances, they have dem
onstrated the truth, that every man is
the “Architect of his own fortune.’’
' In this enlightened Iicpublic, where
j every facility is rendered for the on
ward and uninterrupted progress of
him who would launch hie little barb
; for the haven of renown and dlstine
i lion, with every breeze in his favor, a
I young man is chargeable with culpable
i remissness who docs not better ills
I condition in life, morally, intellectual
ly and pecuniarily. A good, thorough,
and practical education is within the
reach of ail endowed with ordinary
rapacity. A want of funds is no ex
cuse for untried effort. There are two
prerequisites— the will to do, and tlie
physical ability to execute. With
these at his bidding, he can outride
every opposing obstacle.
young men whose circumstances in
life will not compare advantageously
witli those of the more favored, are
too prone lo yield to a false notion of
pride, shrink front labor as as undig
nified or humiliating, and hug with
supineness and inactivity to some de
lusive schemes, which, in their imagi
nation, by some sudden revolution of
fortune’s wheel, will end in the lull
realization of all they hope for. No
error is more pregnant with fatal con
sequences. IIow many miserable vic
tims of disappointment can cite back
to this as the tirsi point of their aber
ration from the path to success and
happiness. No matt should be ashamed
to labor, nor should lie allow the uto
pian dreams of fancy to supplant tin*
facts of stern reality. If early habitu
ated to close and attentive application
lit; lias me two-told advantage ol be
ing equipped for unfavorable emer
gencies on tliu cue hand, and of being
the recipient of whatever fortuitous
and unexpected 'blessings may for
sooth fall to his lot on the other. La
bor instead of being a disgrace to a
man, is an honor and a recommenda
tion. We want no better proof that a
person will be of no use to himself and
society than to see him day by day
lounging and loitering away the gold
en hours with which a benifieent Prov
idence lias favored him. Indolence is
the foster parent of vice in its most
malignant forms. Labor, aside from
ensuring a direct and immediate re
muneration, excludes the possibility of
corrupt and contaminating assoei-\
ations.
With the truth of these facts before
him, demonstrated alike by observa
tion and reason, it should be to the
young man just entering the arena ot
life's struggles, an incentive to high
and noble achievements. It bn be a
person of poor parentage, let him go
to work. In a short time ho will, by
the use of proper economy, have accu
mulated enough to support him at
school until lie shall acquire at least
the rudiments of an education. When
his funds become exhausted, let him
recur again lo labor for their replen
ishment, thus to resume his studies.
Bv so doing, he linds, in the course ofj
a tew years, that his prerogative for
claiming increased compensation is
undisputed, and that he can earn in
one year, what at the outset, required
the toil of two and even three years.
His e lucatiou is practical, thorough,
and here, it may be observed, is the
ground of his success in after life.
Fishing for 51 ice.—There are seve
ral ways of catching rats and mice, but ,
in these days, when there is a rage for j
everything new, perhaps the following
anecdote, related by a country corres-j
pondent, may furnish the liiut of an
original mode of capturing these ani
i trials:
“Several years since my cousin, Miss
Among those who attended it was a
I little boy of perhaps four years of age,
i but too young to speak plain. One
day, while the others were ut their
; studies, he got possession of a pin and
string. He bent the pin into the form
: of a fish hook, tied the string to it, and
put on it a small piece of cheese. He
; bad seen a mouse come up through a
hole in a corner of the hearth, and set
himself to bob for it as if it were a fish.
He was observed and asked by m\
j cousin what he was doing. ‘Fishing
; for a mouse,’ was his reply. As liii?
pastime was not allowed in school
! hours, the teacher, by way ot punish
ment, ordered him to continue bobbing
for the mouse. So the little fellow sat
as grave as a judge, bobbing a wav,
until soon the mouse took a strong
hold of the cheese, and the boy giving
' a sudden pull, sprang Into the middle
of the room, ami swinging toe inoust
around bis head, astonished the whole
school with the exclamation. ‘1 thwar,
I’ve got him.’ ’’
—«. mm .
An Interesting ITzka.—When a
girl of 15 years of age marries a man of
45 years, he, of course, is three times as
old as she. After having lived togeth
er for 15 years, she will be 30 and lie
' will be 00 years, the husband being but
twice as old as his wife. Iiuw long,
according to this' rule, would they have
to lire together till sho would be of the
tame age ns he? "
Brother ( riiwfbrri’n Sermon.
A Southern exchange gives this at
the first sermon of a new minister in a
village in that section. lie began
apologetically as follows:
You don’t see me to-day in the drese
I fillers wear; 1 come among you as a
stranger and am now tricked out in
my store clothes. I am not a proud
man, but I thought it would be more
becoming among strangers.
Alter t It its be raised a hymn in which
the congregation joined. He theu be
gan liis sei mon :
My dear brethren and sisters, first
and foremost, I'm guine to tell you the
affectiu parliu I had with my congre
gation at liethel Chapel. After 1 had
got through with my farewell sermon
as I come down outeu the pulpit, the
old gray-headed brethren and sisters
who listened to my voice twenty
years, crowded round me and with
sobbing voices and tearful eyes, said—
Farewell, brother Crawford !
As I walked down the aisle, the
young ladies, tricked out in their
finery, brass jewelry, geegaws, jim
cracks, paints and llounces, looking up
with tbeir bright eyes,and pronounced
with their rosy lips—Farewell, broth
er Crawford!
The young men, in their tight pants,
boots, high collars and dashy waist
coats, smelling of pomatum and cigar
smoke—with shanghai coals and stri
ped Zebra pants—they, too, said—
Farewell, brother Crawford I
Thu iiule children—lambs in the fold
—lifted up their tiny hands and small
voices, and with one accord said—
Farewell, brother Crawford!
The colored brethren of the congre
gation now came forward (black sheep
who had been admitted to the fold mi
ller my ministry) with tears running
down their cheeks, they too said—
Farewell, brother Crawford!
As l got on my horse and hade
adieu to my congregation forever, I
ttinned u< take a lam look at the church
where I had preached more Ilian
twenty vein's, anil as I gazed at its di
lapidated walls and moss covered roof,
it seemed to say—Farewell, brother
Crawford!
As 1 rode through the village, the
people who poked tlicir heads out of
tiio windows, mul the servants who
I • ini on their brooms, all seemed to
say—Farewell brother Crawford!
As 1 passed along down the high
way, through the forest, the wind, as it
sighed and whistled through the tree
tops, playing o:i the leaves apd branch
es the burden of salvation, it too seem
ed to say—Farewell, brother Craw
lord !
Crossing a little creek that was gur
gling and singing over its pebbly loaf,
ns it rejoiced on its way to the great
ocean of eternity, it too seemed to say
—Farewell, brother Crawford!
As I rude along down a hot, dusty
lane, an old son that was asleep in a
fence corner, jumped out of a sudden
with a loud bruo-too, broo-loo; she
too seemed to say—Farewell, brother
Crawford!
My horse got frightened and jumped
from under me, and as he curled his
tail over his back—kicked up his heels
and ran olft ho too seemed to say—
Farewell, brother Crawford!
Influence of \ewtpa]iers.
A school-teacher, who has been en
gaged lor a long time in his profession,
and witnessed the influence of a news
paper upon the minds of a family of
children, writes as follows:
I have found it to he the universal
fact, without exception, that those
scholars of both sexes, and of till ages,
who have access to new spapers at home,
when compared to thosu who have
not, are:
1. Better renders, excellent ih pro
nunciation, and consequently read
more understandingly.
2. They are better spellers, and define
words with ease and accuracy.
3. Thev obtain nraelleal knout, doe
of geography in almost huff the time it
requires of others, as the newspaper
has made them acquainted with the lo
cation of the important places of na
tions, their governments and doings
on the globe.
4. They are better grammarians; for
having become so familiar with every
variety of style in the newspapers, front
the commonplace advertisement to the
finished and classical oration of the
statesman, they more readily compre
hend the meaning of the text, and con
stantly analyze its construction with
accuracy.
6. They write better compositions
using better language containing more
thoughts, more clearly and more con
nectedly expressed.
Those young men who have for years
been readers of newspapers are alwajs
taking the lend in tin' debating socie
ties. exhibiting a more extensive
knowledge upon a greater variety ol
subjects, and expressing their views
with greater fluency, clearness and
correctness in the use of language.
tOf-Wc give the following puzzle for
the benefit of our subscribers fvbo are
in arrears, to study and answer:
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Civil KIkIiIh for all oi tlie
Cate Couliedrrac)'.
Washington, December 24.—The
| following was issued to-day:
By the President of the United States—A
Proclamation :
Whereas, The President of the
United States lias heretofore set forth
severa! proclamations, and ottered am
nesty and pardon To persons who bad
been or were concerned in the late re
bellion against the lawful authority of
! the Government of the United States,
i which proettinmtioiis were severally
issued oil the 8th of December, 1RG3, on
the 2Hth day of March, 1804, on the 28th
, day of February, 1805, on the 7th day
of September, 18G7. and on the 4tli day
of July in t lie present year; and, where
as, the authority of the Federal Gov
ernment having been re-established in
all of the States and Territories within
the jurisdiction of the United States, it
is believed that such Presidential re
servations as at the date of said several
proclamations were deemed necessary
and proper may r.ow be wisely and
justly relinquished; and that an uni
! versal pardon and Amnesty for partici
! pation in said rebellion, to all who have
i borne any part therein, will tend to se
cure permanent peace, order and pros
perity throughout the land, anil to re*
new and fully restore confidence and
fraternal feeling among the whole peo
ple, and their respect for and attach
ment to the National Government de
signed by its patriotic founders for the
general good. *
Now, therefore, be it known, that I,
Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States, by virtue of the power
and authority in me vested by the Con
stitution. nud in the name of the sover
eign people of the United States, do
hereby proclaim and declare uncondi
tionally and without reservation, to all
and to every person who directly or
indirectly participated in the late in
surrection or rebellion, a free pardon
and amnesty for the offense of treason
against the United Stales, or of sillier
ing lo their enemies during tlie lute
civil war, with the restoration of nil
rights, privileges and immunities un
der tiie Constitution and the laws
which have been made in pursuance
thereof.
In testimony whereof 1 have signed
these presents with my hand, nml have
caused tho sea! of tho United States to
he hereunto affixed. Done at the City
of Washington in the District of Co
lumbia, the 25th day of December in
the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-eight, and of
the independence of the United State.;
tire ninety-third.
[Signed] ANDREW JOHNSON,
tty * it— 1’re-idtuit,
K. W. Si:wAHi>, Asst. Secretary of State.
One BtSstt Marla.
There was a funny little episode on
the car that helped to arouse tts. At
Montana a young man and a young
woman came on board of the sleeping
car, nml the former said: "Sec here,
Mr. Conductor, I want one of your
best hunks for litis young woman and
one for myself imiividually. One will
do for us when wo git to the liiuti's,
hey, Muriel ? (u playful and affection
ate poke at •M irier' with his elbow, to
which site replies, mow, John, quit I’)
for you sec wo re goin’ to git married
at Marier's uncle's when we git there.
We might a been married at Montuu
ny, lull we took a habit to wait till we
got to the it I n ID. bein’ us Marier's uncle
| is a minister, and they charge a gol’
: tired price for hitehin folks at Moutan
i ny." Maria was assigned to one of the
“best Hunks,’’ and John was given one
nut faraway. After a time the inmates
of the car were all stowed away in
their berths to go through tho inevita
ble alternations of sweltering anti
freezing.
During a stoppage of the train at one
station the voice of John was heard,
raised in pleading accents, a!) uncoil
I scuous thtti (he (lie train luul stopped,
' and that (ones which the noise <>t' the
rattling wheels had drowned white the
cars were moving, could lie distinctly
heard hy all when they had stopped.
“Now, Ma-ri, you might give a feller
; jes’ one kiss.’’
“John, you quit, or I’ll git right <>ut
here and HOOF it back to Montunny in
(be snowstorm.”
“Only one little kiss, Marier,and I’ll
go : hope to dlc'f I don't.”
“John !-”
Just at that interesting moment a
gray head protruded front a bertli at
the other end of the car, and nu old
! man cried out'so that alt could hear,
j “Marier, for God's sake give John one
kiss, so that we can go to sleep some
time to-night
It is needless to remark that a pent of
laughter rang from one end of the car
to the other, under cover of which Joint
slunk back to the solitary seclusion of
his “hunk, leaving Maria to the un
disturbed possession of her marriage
. licence, which site interpreted to per
mit no license to John, until accompa
nied by the proper certificate. Aud
Maria was right.—Kilt Contributor.
IMt-Man is an animal which goes on
two logs, reads newspapers, cats like an
anaconda on Thanksgiving, falls in love
with pretty faces (.also from grace in
doing the same), is fond of talking
scandal, likes to get tipsy, bets on elec
tions, is given to laziness and sunshine,
thinks a good deal of machine labor,
wnnts to bo rich, believes he is good
looking, aud laughs at tnonkoys.
Trout lit** Southern Cultivator.]
Muting Baron.
In higher la'itude, I suppose, there is
little diUicully in saving bacon, but there
is, here and South of this. I know thou
: sands of pounds are, if not totally lost,
much injured yearly, llogs of any size
should not bo killed in unsettled weather.
The wind should blow from the north
west and ice, be, in favorable places, at
least half an inch thick, to constitute
what we consider a good .spell. The
operation of killing, scalding, scraping,
should be hurried through as rapidly us
possible in ordor that those who have
charge of the lard department may get the
tat in time to finish "drying” the day of
killing, as this will cause the lard to he
i sweeter.
The hogs should be cut tip as soon as
| possible, alter the day’s killing has been
| accomplished, and every piece oovered
1 with all the salt that will lay on it without
falling off, and spread over the smoke
house, so that the animal heat may have
an opportunity of escaping by morning.
Should the weather unexpectedly turn
warm, I prefer letting it lay spread until
the second morning after beiug killed, in j
order to bo certain that the animal heat j
is out of it. 1 then have each piece well I
rnbbeu with wet salt, on both sides; I wet i
the salt with boiling red pepper tea. j
Whether red pepper exerts any influence j
in saving the meat, I can’t say, but even
suppose it does not, it givos the meat a
good flavor, and, by the salt bqjug wet,
causes it effects on the meat to be devel
oped more rapidly, which should be the \
object in every instance, as ours is a '
changeable and uncertain climate —cold j
to-day and warm to-morrow. I use about
a tcaspoonful each, of soda and saltpetre,
to each joint, sprinkled on the flesh side
directly over the bone. Pack the pork j
in boxes or hogsheads, as close as possi- j
bio. I use a sack of Liverpool salt to the
thousand Bounds of nork. determinin': I
that, it' my pork does spoil, it .shall not bo
for the want of salt; hut it does not spoil,
and 1 never saw a tainted piece managed
in this way. After remaining in suit
from thiee to five weeks, 1 rub a thick
paste, composed of finely ground pepper
and came syrup, over the flesh side - of
each joint. Over this sprinkle a fine
meal or fluui and pal it with the hand
gent.y as it will stick ; hang it up I do
not believe a skipper would trouble it in
five years. •
Saturday Mght.
Ilow many a kUs lias been given—1
how many a curse—how many a caress
—how many a look of lmte—how many
a kind word—how many a promise has
been broken—how many a soul lost—
how many a loved ouo lowered into \
the narrow chamber—how many a lit- j
tie crib or cradle stands silent now,
which last Saturday night hold the |
rarest of the treasures of the heart 1
A week is a life. A week is a histo- j
ry. A week marks events of sorrow j
and gladness, which people never heard.
Go homo to your family, man of busi
ness! Go home you heart-erring wan
derer. Go homo to the chair that
awaits you, wronged waif ou life's
breakers! Go home to those you love,
man of toil, and give one night to the
joys and comforts fast flying by!
Leave your book with complex fig
ures—your dirty shop—your busy
store! I£e»t with those you love, for
God Duly knows what the next Satur- :
day night will bring fo you. Forget '
the world of care and the battles of i
life which have furrowed your week!
Draw close around the family hearth.
Saturday night Inis awaited your com
ing in sadness, in tears autl silence. Go
home to those you love, and as you
bask in the loved presence, and meet
to return the loved embrace of your
lieArt’s pets, strive to bo a better man,
ivuu uiveo v.iuu iui iiio H Ual \
children so dears stepping-stone in the
river to the eternal, as Saturday Light.
Small Pox.—From extruded and
close observation, the following gen
eral deductions seem to be warranted:
1. Infantile vaccination is an almost
perfect safeguard, until the fourteenth
year.
2. At the beginning of fourteen, the
system gradually loses its capability of
resistance, until about twenty-one,
when many persons become almost as
liable to : mall pox as if they had not
been vaccinated.
3. This liability remains in full force
until about forty-two, when the eusvep
1 tiblllty begins to decline and continues
for seven years to grow less and less,
becoming extinct at about liftv. the pe
riod of life, when the general revolu
tion of the body begins to take place,
during which the system yields to de
; cay, or takes a new lease of life, tor
two or three terms, of seven years
each.
t. The great practical use to he made
of these statements is—Let youth be
re-vaccinated on entering fourteen.
Let several attempts be made, so ns to
be certain of safety. As the malady is
more liable to prevail in cities during
winter, special attention is invited to
the subject at this time.—Hall’s Jour
r.nl of Health.
WfMrs. Partington says that noth
ing despises her so much as to see peo
ple who prolesscs to expert salvation,
go to church without their purses,
* when a recollection is to be taken.
HI.UAOIVDI.
•St* If a man bo given to liquor, lei
not liquor be given to him.
MP*tf a man’* wife i* well bread, he
never wants any but-her.
W*Motto for the female suffragists—
“Once more into the breeches, dear
friends.”
M9~Lifc without love, is like a bird
without a song, a garden without flow
ers, trees without leaves, night without
stars, and day without light.
Jt®t*Says Kate to her new husband,
“John, what rock does true love build
upon?” Quoth John, and grinned
from ear to car, “The rock of yonder
cradle, dear.”
SST-AVc caunot name, nor can any
one name a single battle in which the
Federal troops defeated a Confederate
force equal to themselves in number.
No such incident either upon a large
or small scale, occurred during the four
years. That's one of the truth’s of his
tory, and not ali tho world caii make it
ought but a truth.—Louisville Courier.
Goon fois Pollard.—In a recent ar
ticle in ids magazine, tho “Land,We
Love,” Gen. D. H. Hill, in noticing
Pollard, the wrectched historian of tho
•‘Lost Cause,” says Of him and his
history:
“There was not a drummer or ool
ored servant iu Lee’s army who had
not more accurate knowledge of tho
battles of tkc late war than tho bomb
proof pcuny-a-liner who set himself
up ns their chronicler.”
Hejioving Disabilities.—A Wash
ington special to t lie New Orleans
Times makes the following announce
ment :
A close canvass of the sentiment of
members of Congress discloses a dis
position to remo.vc the disabilities of
citizens in nil the Southern States, and
there is scarcely a doubt that at this
session a bill will pass both Houses
placing the people of the Severe! States
South oiran equal footing as to the
elective franchise!
86g“ Our ‘•Jim” lias a precocious
nephew—a lnd just three years old.
Playing with his kitten yesterday, Miss
Kitty "got her back tip” about some
thing (kittens, as well as folks, often
get their backs up,) and scampered over
the floor. Little nephew was delight
ed, and sang out:
"Look, ma, kitten’s got a Grecian
bend!”
"What's tho Grecian bend, my son?”
asked liis ma.
“Why, dittin tho back and tail up
just like a kitten.”
CST"A romantic pair in Pennsylvania
are blessed with a number of daugh
ters. The eldest was called Carcliue,
the second Made-line, tho third Eve
line, the fourth Ange-linc, when lo!
the fifth made its appearance, and no
name could be found with the desired
termination. Determined, however, to
“fight it out in that line if it took ail
summer,” tlie parents at length pounced
up a name very popular in their neigh
borhood, and forthwith the baby was
called Criuo-Iine.
It^A schoolmaster, after giving one
of his pupils a sound drubbing for
speaking bad grammar, sent him to the
other end of the room to inform a boy
that he wished to speak to him, and at
the same time promised to repeat tho
dose if he spoke to him ungramatical
ly. The youngster, being quite satis
fied with what lie got determined to be
exact, and thus addressed his fellow
pupil: “A common substantive of the
masculine getuler, singular number,
nominative case, and in an angry
mood, that sits perched upon the emi
nence at the other end of the room,
wishes to articulate a few sentences to
you in the present tense.”
now MUCH, m ARM r—A clerk ill a dry
goods store retired one night, having
for his bed-fellow an acquaintance
dating back to school days. Our in
formant slept in the next room adjoin
ing, the door of which was partly open,
In the middle of the night he says ho
was awakened from sleep by hearing
the clerk in a loud tone of voice ex
claim, “how many yards did you say
you wanted, marm ? Three yards
enough?'’ and the next thing heard a
tearing noise, and the bed-fellow of the
clerk shouted out, “what are you doing
—you have torn my shirt from top to
bottom 1” The poor dreamer imagined
himself in his store waiting ou a lady
customer, who wanted three yards of
calico. The shouts of merriment which
the eveut created van well bo imagined.
Tub Coon and the Carpet-Bagger.
—The Baton Rouge Advocate is re
sponsible for the following good story
of coons and carpet-baggers:
"Is tiiat coon lively ?”
“Oh, yes sir,” replied the black
possessor ol as wild a specimen as ever
made tracks in the Coinite swamp.
“Well, 1 waut a real lively fellow;
put him on that root,” poiuUng to the
lower knob of a very tall oak, “aud
let's see if he will stir himself.”
No sooner said than done, and the
coon went up the troe like a greased
streak of lightning. “You satisfied
boss, lie’s lively?”
‘‘Well yes; but I don’t want a coon
in a tree trop.'1
The freedmau looked up the tree,
whistled, and scratched his head for an
idea, and said, “Well boss, dat coon is
like a carpet-bugger, werry promising
when he’s down, but when he’s up ain’t
, no use to nobody.”
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