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"Jf any man attcmjtts to haul doicn tha American Jagy shoot him on the spot" John A. Dix.
VOL. I
PLATTSMOUTII. N. TV, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 18, 18G5.
NO28.
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THE HERALD
- ' ' IS rriLKJlEI EVERY
WEDNESDAY MORNING,
BY
H. D- HATHAWAY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
ffOr.'tca !i tri' t, 1 1 site Auii.ion, Io.
Sfcf & Co.'ft.
Terms: $2.50 per annum, invariably
ii. advance.
Jktilfs of A dccrlhhi"
nf liaare (sp.-n-e f f ti n lire) cue insertion,
Each ul-'-'i'i-"it i i j -1-r 1 1 n
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jb quarter c- .iri.u uric , ' i-.nuura
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t'. -nirt uui;t'. an! ia i '!:it wil give wu-
t:l,oll.
gusiucss givectonu
H. It LIVINGSTON, M. D.
Physician and SuTgeon,
Mil'' '1 ft t I ' ', I ' t'. :, Nt
WILLITT POTTEXGER
ATTO ! i Xi: V AT I . A V ,
rLATT.S.V'L-MI - - SKliKASKA.
1 71- JlAlttlt SYtvL
attoi:ni:v at law
AS1
Solicitor in Chancery.
rLATTSM' l'TII, - - NF.HR.1SKA.
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f.,r Sn ,! . t. ti t ir i lutt s iiD'l niinor lie:-. A-i-nt
Ui 'l,e I -i' 'i t ', j t.t4; of l.:itj'l airl t ity proper
ty. Le-fins f i.io.eeii:-. 1'ayi.niit of T4. iu all
laiMof Nt !-ra atitt We'eru low a. AttemU to
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to : 1 1 t o a if.nei ttl l.aua , Itliututce,
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l i Ivj.ire- n.en in Nebraska.
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PLATTE VALLEY
O. VV. CRCVV, - - - PROP-
I 3i n-cjj ir'-1 tn fiiri:i-li a'l who mav'faor me
.-.iiti.-;r piii i -nac, Woii loottv. iim i" me.ii. or
k-.-J! v fii v-tk. U. W.CUOW.
J4a:--i.. ,..th, Arr': J'l
MRS.
L. GOLDING-
IT, ACT HAL
MID-AVIFE,
Ii pi i.rr:- J s . t . s TuJ ' y
J :i.xi i-i I.- f. viiv. t th
I -!' v ia I t .l . ii. a i U
.r t t.il year in Sr.
is. in-: 1 1 j j f ni.iiit iitly !.catrl in this ci:j.
1: I. :.. .i ii.e i. au-w est jail ot tv'A u.
Jaj i:, tf
rosErn schlatee.
WAT C 3? III AKER and JEWELER,
T.v ai. i titr,
rLATTSMOUTII, - - NKCRASKA.
A t
J r w , r t
.ID
ht'ul. A.lwric com-
OR SALE !
Thirtv Jo?ir:kLle business
and resi-
;Lt)TS IN rLATTSMOUTII.
Ten tL'.- i4! I acres of rrairie and tim
tcr r.ANi) IN CASS COUNTY.
Terms tj suit cush purclnt'crs.
D. II. V. llf H.F.K.
June 5, Bi3
I!e t:-tntfl Akent.
t'oiirt M'Ue, l'laiitinouth.
NATIONAL MILLS,
DENVER. C. T.,
WHITTEMOSE& CO-, Proprietors,
I'.i.t a ! lir. ! of-rain at l':i;!ie-t market rates. The
at-.fu:;. n or the wii -at Knoiers of Net'ra-ka is call-d
10 the .upeil ir facilities nffirded them hy these imlis
la eoovartiinr ii.l.j easfi the h-at ini'-ni ed for the
Cc.isra.ia caark-1. Ixug. 5, m
Probate Notice.
iERKlTi'RY OF NKBUAS-KA,
Cuun-y t. t'i.
Us
T,':raar.t t-i an order nr the Probate Cou-t of s id
co rity. n id- on the Tib dy nf Ancn.t A V. 1"o5.
"- ' hereby IM en that all claims airainat the n
t eof Wiey Jones, Lit-o C coui.tr, deceased,
tUirl beoa fiie tu the office cfsaid Cou.t' on or before
the Sc'i day f February, A. D. IrC(3,
d which d.iy gai'l Court will be in session to hear
ad r)etrm;t. en all such Cairns.
G'.v;a uodrr mv hand and the feal of said Court
ls. thUIllidaT o'Aagust.A. 1. 1S5.
J U'.MAIHALL,
ttf. T wi r.tfc: Ji-f.
ft u. c-iTiier of
THOMAS C. CRENSHAW,
ACTCRSR or AUB BllUI !
Saddles and Harness,
BRIDLES, COLLARS, CVRRIE
Combs, Spurs, Lashes, Whip, J-c.
ill in Street,
NEBRASKA CITY, - - N. T.
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per" Weekly IoUk after wi iters, un l printeia. and
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It i at f.nce a leilinir p'Iitic;il ami historical an-uali-t
'( the na'ion. -I'J.Httih ffJiin I'rexji.
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SnIcriiilioii. SHOi.
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! lii li tlii-y can Mippiy the -Mi'iAlK anil Vki:k
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u applicatiun.
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li: he i-upplleii i;ralM for every cluli of Five Sub-fcril.-'a
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lor t:''.
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' clolh I iriiimi'. Will lie to-lit liv .vnnvi fn-. nt .f
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Kvht Voluuie, neiit on receipt of ca-Ii at tlie rate ot
St fin er volume, freight at expene of pnrfliaser
Ad-lrcM HAKl'ti: i UKOTHErt.
r'ranklin tUare, V-
WM. S. AVE ST
Will l j at the Vo-t OTica in riattsmnnth. at one
o'cliK-k every day, except duridajt, for the.purfoM f
receiving ordei kfor ood lieih
OSAGE ORA.NGE SEED !
Whirb will be delivered in PU'tMnouth about tha
l.tof Jhi. nary. W;G Earb pnrchaer will be far
athi J wiiu printed directio9 in lull f..r irerininat-
hr.U'-
vt M S. WK.-T i. aii toiliri'inrt ord 'r. fr Apple
tree? and ln'arf Apple", P'ar-tr-e. a'ld Dwarf Tear,,
y'.inre. readiei, l lmni, Aj.ri...n, Nectarines, C'her
ri.. tirapet, C'Si-b4'rrie. turrint., Ki.ickben ie,
Willi hlaikl rue., Ilapben ies, Mrawherriei aud
rcr ytii.21 ; Irou L.g Aj.ples tu Little li;rie.
ALSO:
OrnaniPnt.il Tnva. Kvergn-pn. I:nsn of all colors.
Hoik -rekl- . Lilac, 'll.iwi.i.ln. Flow-r-ni' Aluionrf
anil all varieties of iur-ery plants dePiiablc in the
latitude f Piat'Miioutri, wb:c will be ready for ne-
I.v-iy on tlie Ii of Apul. I-tcs. ap2j
Osage Orange Seed !
FRESH FROM TEXAS.
One of our firm H now in Tf-xaa, giving hi per-f-inr,l
httetiiion ti the
GATHERINC AND CURING OF
THE SEED,
and we will
Warrant them Fresh and Sound.
We txil the fel here teady to All order
IN DECEMBER.
OV EH MANN", MASS k CG.
WI- S. WEST, AGENT
riiATTSMOt'TH, X. T. sep'JS
WILLIAM. S. THATCHER,
XJ"Warratit.s a cure or no pav.-tS 0Oc at the
.torn of llutrt ii Thatcher,
PLATTSMOUTH, - - NEBRASKA
Pept, 12. "C5.
Kew Periodical JJtore!
A. K- WHITE &TcO.
A full anscrtmeut of
SCHOOL HOOKS 4- STA TIOXEIt Y
Always on hard. '
Latest Eastern Papers and Periodicals
rtceittd daily.
fAl ord'-rs promptly filled.
NEBRASKA CITY - . N. T.
Big Apple-Trees
--AND
L 1T TL E A PPL E- TR E E S,
To mil janelasers,
AMD
AH (Vf-iraMe kinds of Fmit, Flowers, Orsniental
Trees, .sbriibt ery, Kverureetis. &c , will be ready for
deiiverir.k.' in Plattinoutn as aly as the 1st or April
Im'io, urders received ty UM.S. W'tiT.
tfept 1 tf
AUCTION SALE!
-or
D KY-&O ODS
I will sell aa assorted lot of Dry-Gooil, consisting
of Cl iths, Calicoes, 14 lanes, Brraes, Mosmtiiriiies.
Uil Print and Unl! Band Window Shatl' S. Ked F.an
nl. inciuditirf nearly everyihins kept ia a retail
store. CouimcDCins- this uav ami continue nut'l all
is sohl. F. S. WU1TE, Auctioneer.
Flati.innnUi, Sept. 2d. l(-tV.
OSAGE OHANGE
SEED,
For Sale by
Wm. S. WEST.
Music ! Music ?
RAYMOyD, MiyER tf- CO.,
t BALERS IU
Piano Fortes, Melodeons, Music and
Musical M'dse,
COUNCIL BLUFFS - - - IOWA
(At the stand formerly used as the Post OSce.)
Orders by mall for Music. Books, or anything per
taining tii Music, promptly attended to
(JT Orders for tuning or repairing Piano Fortes
and Meln'ieons in Piatt .mouth and vicinity wui be
atitnded to at car ciiet convenience.
EATXOND, 511 EE & CO.
Aog.8.1St3-t
THE AM)ERSOVILLE 'POST-OFFICE.
Ho blatikiit round bis wasted limbu,
Under the rainy ky lie Elept)
While pointing his envenomed ahafU,
Around him, Death, the archer, crept,
He dreamed nf hunget, and held out
Hit had t clutch u little bread
That a wiiite astfel with a torch
Among the living a"d the dead
Seemed bearing, smiling as he went ;
Ike vitiiou waked him, us he pi d
The pot. t-boy, fallowed by a crowd
Of famUhki prisoners, who crie l
For letter, letters from their fi lends ;
Crawling upon bis hands and kueea,
lie heais hi own name called, and lo '.
A letter from his wife he a rt !
Oa-piu; for breath, hefchrieked aluud,
And l-)-t in natuie's Wiu ecliune,
Talteti g a ia id the suppliant crowd,
Calif lit it, ami premed it to his lips.
A guaid wb followed, red and wroth,
And flouri.-liinn a rusiy brand,
Ileviied turn with a taunting oath,
And snatched the letter front hi hand-1;
Fir.t pay the po.itige, whining vrreUh ! "
leapi,ir Lad UiaJe the prisoner brave.
Then frive ne back my money, air !
I am a capt.vo not a Klave !
You tock my muuey aud my clothes ;
Tak? my lifo too but let me know
DuW Mary ani the children are,
Aud I will bless you ere I go."
The very in onliht through his hands,
Aa b-i stood aiippllcatin', ahotie.
And his sharp feature shaped themselves
Into a prayer, and t-uch a touu
Of anguish there was in bis cry
For w f ami children, that the gourd
Thinking upon his own passed ty,
.rlod left him swooning on the sward.
Beyond the "dead line'' f-11 his head
The eager sentinel ilnw his mark.
And wi.h a t'ta-h the Lull t sped
Into his brain, and all was dark.
Hut when tby turned his livid c.leek
Up toward toe light, the pale Hps smiled,
Kisi-ir. K a pistuie fair and mo k
That held iu either hand a child.
From the Saturday Tretis.
.1KTE.1IUS tVAKW-SIIS ALIO-,
lUOt:iCMlIV.
Nrw Yokk, xeah Firxa Ave- )
oo Hutll, Org. 31ct.
Da. Sir Yrs, into which you ask
me to send you sum lend in incidents iu
my life, to you can write my Biogrofry
for the papers, cum dooly 10 Land. 1
Lav no Joubt that a article onto my life,
graimnauically jerked and propperly
punklcoatid, would be au auJuion to the
chois Iiteratoor of the ilr
'1 o the yoota of Aineriky it would
be vallylle ns thowing how high piu
nykle of fame u man tan reach who
CJinmenst Lis career wi;h a small can
vas tent and a pea-green ox, which he
rubbed it off while scratchin hisself
agin the center pole, causing in llah
way, N. J., a disciiminatin mob to say
humbugs would go down in them vil
lage. Th? ox resoomed agricultooral
pursoots shortly afterwards.
I next tried my hand at givin blind
man concerts, appeerin as the poor
blind-man my?e!f. But the infamous
cuss who I hired lo lead me round towns
in tlie day time, to excite sympathy
drank freely of spirituous licker unbe
knownst to trie, one day, and while
under them inflooance he led me into
a canal. I had to either tear the green
bandige from my eyes, or be drowned
I tho'i Fd re.-tore my eyesight,
In wriiiu about these things, Mr. Ed
itor, kinder smooth 'em over. Speak
of 'em as eccentricities of gen'us.
My next venmr wood have bin a
success if I hadn't tried to do too much.
I got up a series of wax figgers, and
among others, one of Socrates. I tho't
a wax fiiisrer of Old Sock would be
poplar with editated people, but unfor
tuniily I put a brown linen duster and
an U. S. Army regulasion cap on him;
which pepl with classycle eddycatious
said it was a farce. This enterprise
was unfortn t in other respecks. At
certain town, I advertised a wax figger
of the Hon'ble Amos Perkins, who
was a railroad president, and a great
person in them parts. But it appeared
I had shown the same figger for a Pi
rut named GiLbs, in that town the pre
vious season, which created a intense
toomitlt, aud the audience remarked
"shame onto me," and other statements
of the same similarness. I tried to
mollify 'em. I lolJ 'em that any fam
ily possessin children, might have rny
she tiger to play with half a day, and
I wouldn't charge 'em a cent, but alars
it was of no avai'. I was forced to
leave, and I infer from a artikle in 7Vj
vldveriisrr of that town, in which the
editor says, "Altho' time has silvered
this man's hed with its frostg, he still
brazenly wallows in infamy. Siiil are
his snakes stuffed, and bis wax works
unreliable. We are glad that he has
concluded never to revisit our town,
although incredible as it may appear,
the fellow did contemplate doing so
la tt summer; when, still true ta the
) craven instincts of his black heart, he
wrote the hireling knaves of the obscure
journal across the street to know what
they would charge him for 400 small
bills, to be done on yellow paper! We
shall recur to this matter again."
I say, I infer from this article that a
prejudiss still exists agin me in that
town.
I will not speak of my once bein in
straitened circumstances in a sertin
town, and of my endeavorin' to accoo
mulate welth by leltin myself lo Sab
bath school picnics, to sing ballads adapt
ed to the understandins of liule children,
accompanyin my.-elf on a clarione't
which I forgot where I was one day,
singin in&tid of ' Oh, how pleasant to
be a little child,"
Rip snap set 'em up again,
llight in the middle of a threeut pie.
which mistake added to the fact that I
couldn't play onto the clarionett, except
making it howl dismal, broke up the
pic-nic, and childred said in voices
choked in sobs and emotions, where was
their home, and where was their pa?
and I said, be quiet dear children, I am
your pa, which made a joung woman
with two twins by her side say very
angrily, "Good heavens forbid you
should ever be the pa of any of these
innocent ones, unless it is much desira
ble for them to expire igmynyusly upon
to a murderer's gallus!"
I say I will not speak of this. Lei
it be Bernd into Oblivyun.
In your article Mr. Edditer, please
tell them what sort of a man I am.
If you see fit to criticise my Show,
6peak your mind freely. I do not ob
ject to criticism. Tell the public in a
candid and graceful article that my
Show abounds in moral and startlin
curiosities, any one of whom is wuth
dubble the price of admisshon.
I have ihus far spoke of myself ex
clooaively as a exhibiter.
I was born in the Stale of Maine of
parents. As a infant I attracted a great
deal or attention, lue naiem .uu.u
stand over my cradle for hours, and say
"How bright that little face looks! How
much it nose!'' The young ladies
would carry me around in their arms.
sayinl was muzzer's bezzy darlin and
a sweety 'eety ntle ting. It was nice,
though I wasn't old enufF to properly
appreciate it. Fin a healthy old darlin
now.
I have allers sustained a good moral
character. I was never a railroad di
rector in my life.
Although in my early life I did not
invariably confine myself to truth in
umall bill, I have been gradually grow
iog respectabler and respectabler every
year. I luv my children and never
mistake another man's wife for my
own. I'm not a member of any ineetin
house; but firmly believe in meetiu
houses, and shouldn't feel safe to take
a dose of laudnum and lay down in the
street of a village that hadn't any with
a thousand dollars in rny vest pocket.
My temperament is bilious, altho"
don't owe a dollar in the world.
I am a early riser, but my wife is a
a Presbyterian. I may add that I am
also baldheaded. I keep two cows.
I live in Baldwinsville, Indian'. My
next door naber is old Steve Billins. 11
tell j-ou a little story about Old Steve
that will make you larf. He jined the
Church last Spring, and the ministe
said, "you must go home now, Brother
Billins, and erect a family aliar in your
own house, whereupon the egregus old
ass went home and buill a reg'lar pulpit
in his settin room. He had the jinders
in his house over four days
I am 56 (56) years of age. Time
with its relentless scythe is ever busy.
The old sexton gathers them in, he gath
ers them in! I keep a pig this year.
I don't think of anything more, Mr.
Ediier.
If you should give my portrait in
connection with my Biogrofry, please
have me engraved in a languishin' atti
tood, leanin' on a marble pillar, leavin
my back hair as it is now.
Trooly yours,
Artimcs Wabd.
J?Sf" A Copperhead paper casts a
slur upon Gen. Sherman for drawing
his sword against, "his ancient friends'
Bragg and Beauregard. We presume,
according to this reasoner, it was all
right for Bragg and Beauregard to
draw their swords against the Union,
a friend that educated, fed, protected
and supported them.
ROMANCE OX THE RAIL..
A pretty little bit of romance devel
oped itself in one of the Slate street
cars in Chicago lately, as related by the
Republican of that city:
Among the passengers was a pale,
quiet, little woman, plainly dressed and
very pretty withal. Presently a one
egged soldier labored into the car on
his crutches. The seats were crowded
and the soldier had to stand. The
young woman got up, pulled the blue
sleeve, and pointed to the seat she had
acated. For the first time, as he turn
ed, she had a full view of his face, and
neither o them paid any more atten
tion to the empty seat. They stared at
each other a minute, and then, in spite
of the awkward motion of the car, em
braced and kissed each other wiih hys
terical fervor. At first, the passengers
were somewhat astonished at so public
a'demonstration, but all of them soon
oined in congratulating the delighted
couple upon learning that the two per
sons thus suddenly brought together
were man and wife, long separated by
the vicissitudes of war.
The soldier had been desperately
wounded in Tennessee and taken pris-
a- v i I
oner, lie was supposed to nave neen
killed, and before he was restored to
freedom and able to write, his wife, or
widow, as 6he supposed herself, remov
ed to Chicago, and so his letters never
reached her. The poor fellow, ns soon
as he could travel, set out for home,
with a desponding heart, to learn why
is letters had never been answered
He reached Chicago on Friday, on
lis way thither, when the generous
uiiDulse oi a lunu lime woman to a
maimed soldier, brought her back, a
loving husband, and threw him into the
a
open arms oi a wire wno naa long
e tilt.
mourned him as among that innumer
able host who have lain down their lives
for the salvation of their country."
The extent of the Pardon Business
promises a coloisal feature for the next
census, if reconstruction is to depend
on figures. Let it be stated, along
with other manufactures, how many
patriots have been fashioned to hand,
and have gone forth with the Govern
ment's stamp on them; what kind of loy
alists have been made by the operation
and what assortment is constantly on
hand. To illustrate the amount of
business passing through the Pardon
Bureau, a Washington dispatch relates
that "a large rack 12 feet high and 8
feet wide has been erected," and ihis
same rack all poor ex-Rebels mustun
dergo. It is divided into "longitudina
sections, running the whole length" a
stretch of forgiveness fearful to con
template "each section containing the
applications from each State" in process
of passing through the great pardon
paper-mill, "Virgiuia takes the lead
her pile being over ten feet high, and
containing 3,000 applications. Alabama
follows wiihii pile of 1,500, upon which
the dust is accumulating; ' and so on
till we have a load which only the cam
el-back of the pardoning power can
bear. There is no end lo the good
which may be effected by a judicious
system of pardons certainly there is
no likelihood of being an end to the
pardons. So far there are 10,000 ap
plications, all of which the Government
well versed in making out the muster
rolls of armies, profess i'a entire ability
te lake care of. Pardons enough lo
reconstruct the Union seem lobe already
assumed, judging by the vigorous vote
with which Alabama has abolished the
admission cf negro testimony in Courts
of Justice. The fault of ihe Pardon!
Bureau is lhat it does too much aud too
liule. Like the old Boman water-clock
its minute mercies drip drop by drop;
but if the whole Rebellion can be par
doned in this Pickwickian way, let us
expect no deluge hereafter. Pardon
ing, as it is now managed, may be an
easy task; but it would be hard work if
the Government had to do it over again,
especially as the "piles" of Virginia,
Alabama and Georgia are even now
twenty feet high, so that the great body
of pardon applications from the whole
South cannot be much lower than Bun
ker Hill Monument. JV. Y. Tribune.
gyMr. Henry S. Foote has been per
mitted to return to his home at Nashville,
Term., on condition that he does not mo
lest the policy of the Government regard
log reconstruction.
EXTIUOIIIHXAKY MEMOUIE8
Morphy and other eminent chess-
players have recently given instances
of their extraordinary memories- Dr.
Wallis tells us that he could by mere J
effbrt of memory perform arithmetical
calculations, as multiplication, division, J
extraction of roots, &c, up to forty
places. Zerah Jolburn, George Bid-
er, and Jedediah Buxton were also!
wonderful mental arithmeticians. The
ast one once mentally calculated how
much a farthing doubled 140 times
would come to. and the answer wus set
own from his lips in 39 places of
i
pounds and an odd 2s. CI; mid being
sked once how many barleycorns
would reach eight miles, answered in
one and a half minutes, 1,520,640. Sir
Walter ScOtt had a marvelously reten-
. I
iiv memnrv: so had Macaulav. who it
1 ' I
is said, could repeat from memory the
whole of Paradise Lost. In the stirring
days of Athenian political greatness,
men could be found who could repeat
the Iliad and the Odyssey, and we have
read of a man in Naples who could (
repeat the whole of Tasso's Jerusalem
Delivered, and noi only recite it con-
secutively, but repeat any stanza in any
given book, repeat those stanzas in ut-
ter defiance of the sense either back-1
wards or forwards, or from the Sth to I
the 1st line alternately. We have I
heard of several persons (notably ihe
ate blind Jamie of Stirling) who could
repeal the whole of the Bible or any
required verse of it. There are, be-
s des, dozens of living persons with I
nost marvellous memories, the chief of
whom is perhaps Mr. FJihu Burritt, the
Mezzofanli of the present day.
PRES. JOII.SO AS A TAILOR
An old tailor at Greenville, Tenn.,
who used to work with Andrew John
son. says:
"There was a vast difference be
tween Andy and I when we worked on
me same oencu. tumu 5i'ciio-u:u .
and he could not; but he could 'flux me
on a pair of breeches or on a fine coat,
and could get a better price for his
work than I. He never mads a gar
ment that didn't fit, and never bad a job
returned, lie was the best tailor I
ever met. When Andy got married
he hadn't ten dollars in the world, and
his wife was as poor as Naomi's daugh
ters. Her mother said to her before
she was married (calling her byname)
I can give you all the money there is
in the house fifteen dollars to help
vou about troiue to housekeeping; or 1
tatill lil'OlhamnnpUfini rriva t'AII A Wed. i
J b J
dine which will you prefer?' -Moth-
er,' said she, I will lake, the wedding,
and Andy atd 111 work for money-
won't we?' appealing to her lover. He
absented, and ihe consequence was the
young couple bad not one cent with
which to "set up' for themselves. Afier
they were married she taught him to
read, and the world knows the rest."
A writer says, that "While the
Southern men will not consent to negro
suffrage, everything else ihe negro
wan'.s will be accorded to him. This
supposes, in the first place, that the
Southerners have granted the negro
everything else, that emancipation was
their act and deed, that the negro is
tree oy meir generosity, dui mai uav-
. . i... i
ing done so much these magnanimous
people can do more. If the negroes
had waited until the Southerners had
rriven them their freedom, they would
have died in Slavery. They were
fr,l i ,ni.. nf Smith, und .hev
will have their rights also. VV e may
havo ir vA-taif Iittli Innrrer nut it ia
... a-.,
coming.
rr3- T7., ik -V.,wl f.t,;
a47 a-, cu iuo .u.tui uiiica vi laguiuu
sometime! utive men uses. iauueu
: i . u : - T4 aa
crinoline has saved several women from
rlmirninrr nnrl a mnntlrnns "tviif (rfn M'
. , , , , , ., .
i,i.nlltr cvarl a I .tf .Villi fmm r rn
"bi
..... kt
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mat tne auempieu murucr 01 a tauv iu
- ...... J
rans oy ner coaenman was irusiraiea
by the immense quantity of false hair
she wore, in compliance with the pre
vailing fashion. The blows inflicted on
her head were deadened by the capii
lose padding.
(JTbe mail service has thus far been
re-established oa elevenjrailroad routes in
Virginia, four in North Carolina, seven
in Tennessee, eleven in South Carolina,
eleven in Georgia, four in Mississippi,
and oot is Louisiana.
OLD SEEDS SPROUTING.
The Chicago Joum al, iu speaking of
the South Carolina Convention, brings
up many old names. They have been
"absent without, leave" from, the coun-
cils of ihe nation for some five years.
They buried themselves; but like Jocust
seeds, ihe scalding they have received
seems to have brought them out. Foul
of the delegates have national rfputa
lions James L. Orr who was a rebel
Colonel and Senator; F. W. Pickens,
who was rebel Governor; A If. Huger.
Postmaster at Chai lesion : Samuel
McGowau, who was a rebel Major-
General. There appeared oa the rolie
of the Convention names made eminent.
by their owners in the past of . the pol-
itics of ihe Palmetto commonwealth-
TT I T rV "T" an t -
xiammonu, iucuuiue, oimms anu ms-
holm. Twelve of the members of this
.. , (
Convention for bringing back theSlato
were members of the convention thai
voted her out, including the Pre&idpnt.
Seventy-five of ihe Columbia Couven-
Hon were olhcers in ihf rebel army
four of them Major-Generals. Some
of ihe old political leaders are missing.
The war has sadly thinned their riu'ni-
oers-
Ee2TA good farmer will never keep
more lhan ten dogs to every five sheep.
He will clean out his stables at least
once every month. He will keen five
or six sticks of wood cui up ahead more
than what is necessary for immediate
use. He w ill not go lo town and get
.,n a spree oftener than ihree times a
week, at least in harvest time lie
will be ver' careful not lo-put up a rail
on a line-fence unless his neighbor is
there to help him. He will not injure
his health by lying in hed after eight
o'clock A. M., but will have his cows
milked and breakfast over und his men
at work as early a ten o'clock. Cuo
Farmer.
Sl'MXEU on Itie AMKXDJIE.M'.
Mr. Sumner has written n lntf,r t
me riew x ork i'oson'ii.c .utismui-on-
al abolition amendment, contending that
it lias been ratified by three-fourths of
the States, and is. virtually a part of the
Constitution. He quotes the Constitu
tion provision requiring a proposed
amendment to be ratified by the Le-
lslaturws of three-fourths cf the several
Slates, and holds thai only ihree-fourihs
of the States "actually participating in
the Government" are required, and in
support of this view quotes Mr. Bishop,
who discusser the subject in the third
volume of his commentaries on criminal
inn- i it,, ititt ttbr ...ifA r f vr.t.
tn nntr ntlir mVloi-i iK.n . 1.. ....
J . . T. u
legal person would ever doubt that,
when there are States with Legislatures
and States without Legislature, and the
Constitution submits a question to the
determination of the Legislatures' of
ihree-fourths of the several Slates, the
meaning- is, three-fourths of the'Siates
whkh have Legislatures, In fact, it
does not require either legal wisdom or
lecal acumen to see this, provided we
look at the point disconnected from the
peculiar subject of slavery."
AjCliunce foy Zlarnuiii.
The Siim Times, just received here,
says: A giant.has appeared in Napore.
110 is seven teet four inches in Leiirht,
and of an enormous amplituds of chest.
As regards the lower estrpmiUne: ha
i ... -
ui porporaoned. havim Swindle shank
When first he entered the city he was
mobbed. An immemse crowd, consistin"
of men women, and children, gathered
&rund him and stoned him for an incar.
ation of the Evil 0n- But, luckily.for
L'm' bodj, having discovered ve
headj announcerJ that he wa3 a G and
I ,i . '
..Hereupon me ticKie ana superstitious
prostrated themselves before him, and
n.rf,im11 V urnrsriinrtatl it'm nan it!.;.. 1 I
7 J ,f-.M.inagui.iJSi
i tt'l,n c . , - -, , ,
I uen be was at KatnntAA. 11 th. f,.
1
warree womcn paiJ him di?ine honors
ana literally auoied him.
I au uui-ti i-uoTHEK, Artemua ward
n.l ' .... j " ul
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? off the following paragraph
Our tallndj-jvi iters put too muoirroher
in thdr jhus we have, "Dear
'
Mother, I've come home to die" "Moth-
er, is the battle over?" "Mother, dear,
O pray for me" ' Writs abetter to my
mother," etc. The other night wo henrd
an athletic Ethiopian minstrel dismally
bleat, "Mother kiss me in my dreams,''
just as though she would do it until he
washed the cork from his face. A moth,
or is a good thing. Without mothers, in
fact, life would be unpleasant. But why
sing the maternal parent's merits eot er"
eistently and in such shaky verse? Why
not vary tha thing, and occasionally give
us a father or two. If we must continu
ally sing about our parents, let us, by all
J means, give the "old man' a ckance.
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