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I'UBLMHEW EVKBV FRIDAY,
kLLOWS FALLS, VERMONT.
V. SWAIN. Editor and PublUUer.
T all iwkswlbers la Windham ud Wind
ia advance (2 m
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It- sutwcrioflre, hi mutiuivv,
KATES OJ? ADVERTISING.
.cmaro, one Insertion . .i 50
s,lar, lUren insertion!,.. ....Jj 00
rnn t-htnttnii
line li furnished with th most Approved ma
Ins! in the art, for doing jiih miNTiNd In all
fa on sliart notice, and ua reasonable turni.
IrTT. TOT-MAM Sr. PA Munnft nr.,
Piciuert IB rino. v nwiuui. nprurw ani liem
V.SKD VETERINARY SURGEON,
L. stable, K. A. W1KR.
.r ma WALPOLB, N. H.
I U. MAXFIELD, Dealer In Watchei,
L,, Jewelry. Silrer. Fancy A Tollot Wares,
t. Cutlery. Stationery, Photograph Albums,
Icnee, VIOt.KS UIU jnr rvciiHirr'i. jiim,
i doae. Hotel Iiuildiux, CJlEa'i KR, VT.
MATHER, DENTAL SUROEON,
CU ESTER, VI.
W. POKTElt CO, Pealcn in Dry
L l. nrnnarins A Flonr. Ilnrdware A Beltinr.
ax'd aeaortineatof Zephyr Worstis and sntali
f Sl'KINuKIKLD, VT.
AN & RICHARDSON, Maufactiri
,h, Doora and tttinds.
io
TOUGIITON, Counsellor at Law and
kitor in Chancery.
nr..
'ELLOWS FALLS. VT.
BIXBY, Attorney at Law,
GRAFTON. VT.
LOW 8. MYERS. Attorney at Law,
IttLLUHS J! ALLS, VT.
A. BALL will friTa instructions in
V American Method r for the Piano
ErJan.lst, 17.
nEfinRE. Dentist. Tt.inms in TWnt
It and rubber. All work warranted.
;.Mitar attention oaid lo inaertinv tneth i
HENRY, Attorney and Counsellor
aw, and insurance Agent. vmeeorer . o.
Ire, ttiMiLft, i.
i WHITMAN, M D., (late Sor.
lj. 8. A.,) i'hysipian and Surgeon.
BELLOWS FALLS. VT.
HheStiuare. nearly opposite the Timet Office.
MERRILL, Teacher of Instrumental
bellows FALLS. VT.
fccntj aud Music furnished. Pianos Tuned.
K. ARNOLD, Attorney and Coun-
at Law. Office in Wen!worth' Block.
HELLOWd FALLS. VT.
B. EDDY A'trrner and Counsel-
It Law. Solicitor anl M'itcr in Chancery.
Arvt tor prtwurmw ienlona, boluiers
Office opposite the Bank.
BELLOWS FALLS. VT.
BlilDGMAN, AuorncT ud Conn
er at Law. and Solicitor in Chancery.
HKLLOWS tibIA VI,
mmtssioner to take the acknowlodiremeat
and other instrument, Air the State of ii ew
IRK II . CHAPMAN, Attorney and
llor at Law, and Solicitor ia Chancery,
ot fur Fire and Life Insurance Companies,
i'lunJl'OKSi ILLS, Windsor I., t.
S RT A. DAVI8. Attorney and Conn
SratLaw. FELC11VII.LB, VT.
t r and Master in Chancery, Notary Public,
a and Fire Insurance AgrnL Also Licensed
Went for the collection of Pensions, Bounties,
Aces of GoTernment and State Pay.
MADON, Watchmaker and Jeweller.
k.tantly for sale Watches, Clocks. Gold and
rk and Fancy Goods. Also a (rood assert
4 'iuns, Kifles and Fishing Tackle. Ia Wcnt
Xew Building. .
4 BLAKE, Dentist. Performs all ope
Vij in Dental Surgery, and manufactures
Berth in Blocks and Pull Sets. Office in
liock. up stairs. BELLOWS FALLS. VT.
f.E E. WALKER, Manufacturer and
r in Saddles. Harnesses, litankeu. Memo
examine my stoca oi uhuwhw wiwi. ,u,
Mscwhere. Repairing done at short notice.
TAFT, Photoprrapher,
B E LLOWS FALLS, VT.
f. P. II AD LEY,
BELLOWS FALLS, VT.,
Dealer in all kinds of
PARLOR AND BOX STOVES 1
Hi- 1 r 1 T TavaaI
fe e. I'umpfl of ftll bite. Flam liu aa
"nro oi mil Ulna", Ma-irwiB, mho. oa
lApannea v are, iruinDi .
TnaiiM. T.itntArnt.
tern Globes of all sisee. Tin, Sheet Iron
a on hand and made to order. Also,
HOT AIR FURNACES I
fches. Town Halls, or Private Dwellings, set
I in tne best manner.
lu.'ive Aeent for the sale of P. P. STEW-
Taier AK U wix'iEK COOKING .
R Kim.-i VIV(1 AIW-TtllIT rtliM-
m ciuta.
' t have Stores of various patterns from the
wo Foundry of Barstow Stove Co., Provi-
4. 1., to which I call special attention.
wve goods will be sold at reasonable prices,
pay.
'-It you waat a poor article go somewhere
'j 32 F. P. HADLEk.
AT HYDE'S
I
hv be found the best assortment of
CROCKERY
In Town.
SPICES, TEAS, SUGARS
WOODEN WARE.
TCB3,
BROOMS.
MOP HANDLES.
FARMING TOOLS.
PITCH FORKS,
MANURE FORKS,
HOES,
"-t everything usually found in a Grocery
Store.
8INOE Il'S
WING MACHINES,
finally acknowledged th ngar, for either
I HEAVY OR LIGHT WORK
ft'lj Machine that can sew all kinds of cloth,
and with all kinds of thread."
5'ibseriber has always on hand and for sale
Y AXD MANUFACTURING MACHINES.
I A. AVORTHINGTON. Agent,
Saxtons River Vt.
Grass SSeetl
TCSHELS nERDS GRASS SEED, NO. L
f'li Feb. 2fi. 1S68.
P FLORENCE SEWING MA-
PINE is the beat machine in fhe world. Tt
L four different stiti-hea. The LOCK. KNOT.
S-r, LtK'U" T.,.,-..Vr,-f-: I. -i:.l.
" both sides of the fabric.
f 2 Taxire finer thread on the under than
.100.
1 Hem. Pall I):-J -,.., t : i n..:i. ..J
h i,! ew on a ruffle at same time. It has a
.h. . motion if desired, the work runs
? tie right Or left X n !, C.lr,. (, t,in
I r range or work as the F LOKKN u K.
adk ?" Machines, will be thoroughly in
I iiW '"n" th"n on all kinds of work.
"'" 11.S.U1RB A CO.. Agent,
It HI. LOWS r ALLa. T.
? X'ONOArv T WP ATT IT
fc oM..rIV OLD KEWSPAPERS. BOOKS,
I'nts iT' 11. ? enow. Jr.. It ana
' "rtdlRL',b h'-J" '" W White
I - - V - L X, rt W
VOL. XIII.
MERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS
li. II. EDDY,
SOLICITOR OF PATENTS,
Lata Agent of the United States Patent Office. Wash
ington, under the Act of 1837.
No. 37 Stat St. opposite Kilby St, Boston.
After an extensive praetlca of upwards of twenty
years, esuunuea to secure patents in the Vnited
Sutee; also in Great Britain. France, and other for
eign countries. Caveats, Specifications, Bonds, As
signments, and all papers or drawings for Patents
executed on reasonable terms with dispatch, lte
searchee made into American and Foreign works to
determine the validity and utility of Patents of in
ventions, and legal and other advioe rendered on all
matters tuhiug the same. Oopiea of the claims of
any patent lurmslied, by remitting one dollar As
Blgnuients recorded in Washington.
No Agency iu the United Statee, possesses superior
facilities tot obtaining Patents or aeeertaining the
patentability oi inventions.
During eight months, the subscriber, In the course
ot his large practice, made on ficiee nyVcfeii applica
tions .Sixteen Appeals, Every One of which was de
cided ta kuavor by the Commissioners of Patents,
TESTIMONIALS.
" I regard Mr. Eddy as one of the most cnnnW. md
nuvritfid pracutluuersof whom I have had official
intercourse.
, CHARLES MASON, Oom'r of Patents."
I have no hesitation in assuring inventors thai
they cannot employ a man morr rfnttpttmt and frustf
ert(t and more capable of potting their applica
tions in a form to secure for them an early aud fa
vorable consideration at the Patent Office.
- a.EliM!-.KJ?J. VKliK K-,ate Co"-- f Patents."
Mr. R. H. Eddy has made fur m Thirteen appli
cations, in all but One of which patents have been
granted, and that one is now pending. Such unmis
takable proof of great talent and ability on his part,
leads me to recommend all inventors to apply to him
to procure their Patents, as thev may be sure of hav
ing the most faithful attention bestowed on their ea
ses, and at very reasonable charges.
r . t , J0UN TAGHART."
Boston, Jan. 1. 1868. 1-62
JJARDWA RE, &c,
The Subscriber has now on hand the largest
and best stock ef HARDWARE to K fm.nl in ih.
State, consisting of
BUILDERS' HARDWARE, ALL KINDS, ntON.
STEEL AM NAILS. DOORS. SASll
AM) BLINDS.
Mill, X-Cut, Circular, Hand and Wood Saws; Glass,
ail aires, vamage uaruware, (VC.
Customers in want of Hardware will find it forths!
interest to call before purchasing.
JDStPH t UAKK,
' , . . No. 1, 2 and 3, Revere Hall.
Brattleboro, Jan. 1,
M
USICAL INSTRUCTION.
S. F. IQCUR1LL.
And hi daughter. Miss ELLA MERRILL, are
prcparpd to irive ltwont opon the Piano in Profeiwor
Kobbia'c "America MetnoU," which comprisen in
addition to leKstms on the l'iano, leMona in Harmony.
We will also give leevont in the old Method if de
sire... Allnapil!ttak.njt-leont In the "American Meth
od" or us will be admitted to the "Schumann Jlub,"
a nniiieal onranitation which meets once each week
for ronnicftl in traction and study.
rv r. Mnmii will rire iwona on tne Violin.
Piano fumtshed and tuned.
Bellows falls. Dec. 5, 49
0
YSTERS! OYSTERSI!
MR. SANDERS,
Has fitted up a nice
OYSTER ROOM!
In the Square,
lie Is an old hand at getting ud good Stews and
Roasts. As nsual, yon will find him always ready to
wait on b is customers, lie will furnish Ovstera bv
the quart or gallon, and largerquantitiee at short no
tice, lie deals in
FRUITS OF ALL KINDS !
LEMONS. NPTS, CONFECTIONARY. Ae.. Ae,
constantly on nana.
Bellows Falls, Jan. S. 1868.
40
JOBACCO TWINE. '
A Nice lot just received by
ARMS A WILSON.
LANK BOOKS,
For Sale by 48
F. C. EDWARDS.
DOWNER'S KEROSENE OIL, the
Beet article in the market.at
HIDE'S
'piIERE has been so much said, if yon want
PAPER COLLARS AND CUFFS,
Oct them of Whitney, at his llair Dressing Rooms,
Bellows Falls, Vt. 44
pOTASH! r-OTASH!
Prime selected Potash for sale by the Cask or at
retail, small quantities, by JOSEPH CLARK.
In Brattleboro. March 3, 186t.
JADIKS AND GENTLKMRN,
WHITNEY'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND
Never injures the Hair, but will keep it clean, soft
and moist, remove dandruff, and core your headache.
With an experience of fifteen years among the hairs,
I know of what I speak. M. M. WHITNEY.
Bellows Falls, Vt.
IF YOlJ WANT TO DYE,
Oct a box of
Whitney's New England Hair Dye!
It is the most perfeot Dye in the world. Manufac
tured, warranted and sold, wholesale and retail, by
44 M. M. WHITNEY, Bellows Falls. Vt.
WHITNEY MAKES THE BEST HAIR OIL YOU
I EVER SAW.
He also will sell you Phalon's Night Blooming Ce
reus. Sweet Opopoonax, nice Colognes, Extracts,
Raiors, Straps, Soaps, Brushes, Ac.
NOVA SCOTIA GRIND STONES,
and
GRIND STONE CRANKS AND ROLLERS.
The above just received by
ARMS A WILSOX
J)OTY CLOTHES WASHER.
ARMS & WILLSON
mvn vno eitp TUP CVT.rnn 1TRII HOT V
CLOTHES WASHER We will warrant the Ma
chine to give the most perfect satisfaction.
GIVE IT A TRIAL.
Billows Falij. Jan. 22. 1SC8. t 4
DISSOLUTION.
NOTICE Is hereby given that the Copartnership
heretofore existing under the name of CH Afeh &
HOOl'EH is this day dissolved by mutual consent,
and the business will be continued at the old stand
by E C. HOOPER t CO.. who are also authorised
to settle all accounts of the late firm.
V. ri. V'll w ...
E. C. HOOPER.
Bellows Falls, April L 1868. 14
PREMIUM TELESCOPIC RIFLES.
i, .1 l. ,1,- Lm InrltrMi in hn F11 IXTIOf tO attT
rronuoncfu "i v.
in the country. Have in every instance
DRAWN A PREMIIM.
Manufactured and for sale by AM ADON.
Bellows Falls. Vt, Oct S. 1867. 40
Oil Meal !
TEN TONS OF SUPERIOR OUALll I roil
gale by WILLsON CO.
Billows Falls, April . iota. "
JEATHER BELTING.
ARMS & WILLSON
n ive COSSTANTY ON n AND A LARGE LOT
rf (k best OAK AND HEMLOCK TANNED
BELTING which they will sell at about m.nufacS-
BLLPoriTFALLS.Jn.22.1868.
Farm Tor Sale.
TnK SUBSCRIBER offers for sale, his farm in
South Reading. Vt, formerly known a-1 he Eb
eneser Robinson farm." Said farm eonta ns about
3U1 acres of gmKl land, well divided itl'fi
luring, and wood. Good two story house. Darns
and other outbuildings, all in giJJi nALL.
South Reading. Vt, Oct 8. laoo. 1
BELLOWS FALLS, VT., FRIDAY, ;
AVlmt is Life?
A little crib benide the bed
A little face above the tiprcad,
A little frock bohiml the duur,
A little shoe upon the floor.
II.
A little lad witb dark brown hair,
A little blue-eyed face and fair;
A littlo lane that leads to school.
A little pencil, slate and rule.
A little blithesome, winsome maid,
A little hand within bis laid ;
A little ootupe, acres four,
A little old-tiuie household store.
IV.
A little family iratherinr round.
A little turf-heajted, tunr dewed mound ;
A little added to his soil,
A little rest from bardeet toil.
A little silver in his hair,
A little stool aud easy chair;
A little night of Earth-lit gloom,
A Uttie" eortage to the tomb.
C. Stein, in the Lutheran Observer.
Bereavement.
Fair the soul's reeess and shrine.
Magic-built to last a season ;
Masterpiece of love benign,
Fairer that expansive reason.
Whose omen 'tis, and sign.
M ilt thou not ope thy heart to know
What rainbows teach, and sunsets show T
Verdict which accumulates
From lengthening scroll of human fates.
Voice of earth to earth returned.
Prayers of saints that inly burned
Saying. What is excellent,
As God lives, is permanent:
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain;
Hearts' loves will meet thee again.
Itevere the Maker; fetch thine eye
Vp to this style, and manners of the sky.
Not of adamant and gold
liuilt he heaven stark and cold ;
No, but a nest of benjing reeds.
Flowering grass, and scented weeds ;
Or like a traveler's fleeing tent, ,
Or bow above the tempeft bent ;
Built of tears and sacred flames.
And virtue reaching to its aims;
Built of furtherance and pursuing,
Not of spent deeds, but of duing.
Silent rushes the swift Lord
Through ruined systems still restored,
Broadsuwing, bleak and void to bless.
Blunts with worlds the wildorness ;
Waters with tears of anoient sorrow
Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
House and tenant go to ground.
Lost in God, in Godhead found.
Jaiph Waldo Emerao.
Majorie's Almanac
BY T. B. ALDBICH.
I.
Robins in the tree-tops.
Blossoms in the grass ;
Green things agrowing
Everywhere you paBS ;
B a dd en little breezes,
Showers of silver dew. t
Black bough aud bent twig
Budding out anew 1
Fine-tree and willow-tree.
Fringed elm and larch,
Don't yon think that May. time's
Fleasanter than March?
Apples in the orchard.
Mellowing one by one ;
Strawberries upturning
Soil checks to the sun;
Rosea, faint with sweetness;
Lillies, fair of face ;
Drowsy scents and murmurs.
Haunting every place.
Lengths of golden sunshine.
Moonlight bright' as day,
Don't you think that Summer's
Bleaaantvr than May t
Ttl.
R,orer in the eorn-patch.
Whistling negro songs ;
Puwy by the hearth-stone,
Romping with the tongs ;
Chestnuts in the ashes,
Bursting through the rind ;
RHi-leaf and gold-leaf
Rustling down the wind;
Mother " doin' peaches"
All the afternoon,
Don't you think that Autumn's
Fleasanter than Jane?
IV.
Little fairy snow-flakes
Dancing in the flue;
Old Mr. Santa Claus,
What is keeping you?
Twilight and firelight.
Shadows come and go ;
Merry chime of sleigh-bells.
Tinkling through the snow ;
Mother knitting stockings,
(Fussy got the ball !
Don't you think that Winter's
Fleasanter than all ?
Our Young Folk for October.
'fttisttlUmt).
Where ottr 3fews Comes From
Uooth Jackson.
From a Washington letter to the Hart
ford Post we clio the followine interest-
ins account of that important news cen
tre, Washington, and how it is managed
for the press :
Not to know Gobrifrht is to be un
known. He is perhaps the oldest, cer
tainly the most reliable and painstaking
acrent of the Associated Press, the charge
d' affaires at the vital point, Washing
ton. Here he has been, heaven knows,
how lone I pulling the only just and du
tiful wires that are pulled here, those of
public intelligence. He is an elderly,
most gentlemanly, very old fashioned
man, like the better kind of fathers, put
incr all thintrs on the ground of honor,
commanding by kindness, holding self-
respect to be sure of the commandments,
and truth and manhood to be insepara
ble. His features are small and delicate.
His head is gray. You are forever im
pelled to ask, by reason of his gentleness,
not his years,
"How are your grandchildren, Uob-
ricrlit?"
o . . . ....
It is this smoothly-dressed, small-loot
ed, timid little gentleman who supervises
tliB vsLilness of daily news that is sent to
you. He appreciates the responsibility
of his position more than its power. 1
never asked nor hinted it to him, but I
am willing to be qualified that he never
made an aside penny out of all this lm
mense and prompt information. Being
f),o nnl of honor he never makes mis
takes, preferring to be slow instead of
daring. Although the Washington pu
rpmi is altogether the most busy ana lm
portant of the Associated Press, it is pro-
bably more rausiatuiiii;
than any in America.
Thi celebrated dispatch on Bull Run,
which electrified the country, was sent
w,m tnis office bv John Hasson, aprote-
nf finbritrht. The latter had many
griefs during the war, and was often se
verely treated by the War Jjcpanmeiu ;
but his self-respect never suffered him to
lose politeness, while his devotion saved
him from discouragement. At oue time
Stanton forbid any clerks or subordinates
of the AVar Department telliug any news
whatever. Gobright came iu one day,
mild and patriarchal as usual, and said
to au officer:
" The Secretary has refused to let you
answer questions. That is why I will
not ask you one, though it would oblige
me greatly to do so. Suppose I ask you
the question, and then you can refuse to
answer it if you pleaae. Shall I?"
" Yes ! put your question ! "
. ' How do you do, sir 1 I hope you are
well?"
In this good-humored way Gobright
often softened even Stanton. ;
I had a talk with Gobright the other
night upon mutual experiences of the
war. A good book for newspaper folks
might be made out of " The Press in the
Rebellion." Newspaper men buy more
books than any profession, notwithstand
ing so many are sent tbem.
I asked Gobright if he could make
himself believe, on just consideration,
that the censorship of the news in the
war accomplished good. The old man
said " No ! It was a prodigious executive
failure in the interests of the vanity of
generals and the jealousy of the depart
ment." And he illustrated this in many
ways, saying particularly of a censor
named Sandford, I believe afterward a
foreign minister.
I sent a message during Early's last
raid :
" The rebels are again in Maryland ?"
This Mr. Sandford suppressed. Said I
to him, " This is not giving information
to the enemy except about himself. Will
it do him any good to know that he is in
Maryland, being there." After a day
Sandford said: "You may telegraph as
news this message which I sent to my
wife yesterday ; " The rebels are said to
be again in Maryland."
That dispatch, shown by Mrs. S. to a
friend, sent him to gold-buying, aud he
made " his little pile."
The office of the Associated Press in
Washington has always been managed
with singular honesty, as compared with
the main office in New York. There has
never been a scandal about the Capitol
headquarters, whereas the New York
office has always been a prolific house of
speculation for Wall street. In 1867 a
man came to me in New York, and of
fered a draft for 15,000 if I could ob
taiu a small despatch of, say, twenty
lines, sent over the Associated Press from
the Capitol. He wanted gold to go up
only two per cent. Af course his propo
sition was conceived in ignorance both
of my ability and disposition to do this
thing, but it was such a trite piece of ig
norance that I declined it without indig
nation. Gobright might have been
among the richest men in Washington
to-day had he used his vocation for spec
ulation. The great crime of the world after the
crucifixion, was the murder of Abraham
Lincoln. To it the death of Henri Qua
tre was a popinjay's taking off; the
death of William of Orange a soldier's
fate. It may be that some public spirit
ed hand is gathering all that relates to
the crime. For him let me relate Gob-
right's reminesceuce of the murder on
that Good Friday, not that it is peculiar,
but that nobody else may think to relate
it and thfi man and fact may perish.
I was sitting in my office, busy but
not pressed," said Gobright, when a car
riage drove up to the sidewalk and a man
came hurriedly up stairs, saying :
"The President has been killed. I
came round right from the theatre to tell
you."
' Nonsense ! " said I, feeling a sort of
thrill that anybody should trifle so.
Well I I saw him killed myself, and
looked at him dead in the box. Get in
my carriage and go round to the theatre
with me." ,
"This man who had been at pains to
ride here so promptly, I don't think I
ever knew at all. Some sense of public
duty or happy Providence probably
struck him.
" I found the theatre surrounded and
policemen mounting guard. Being a
little near, however, I got in, saw every.
thing as it was, pushed along to the box
and looked at the blood on the floor and
saw the torn flag. In this box I picked
up a fan, which I still retain. AVhile I
was getting all the information I could,
in the confusion and nervous state of the
witnesses, I was told that Seward had
been killed. This I thought a new edi
tion of Lincoln's death. However, I
pushed up to the White House, made
the tour of the cabinet officers, discover
ed the whereabouts of Andrew Johnson,
who als had been reported dead, and
that night, at one o'clock, I sent away as
satisfactory dispatch as ever left my of
fice." It was this dispatch that first took
the breaths of your readers. The para
graphs I have quoted of Mr. Gobright's
conversation, supply the links between
the murder and your hearing of it.
The only time I ever spoke to Wilkes
OCT. 30, lSGS
Booth was, if I am not at fault, on Suu
day, April 5, eleven days boforo the as
sassination. I had returned from Now
York from the battle of Five Forks, and
was again on my way to Richmond. At
tho Metropolitan Hotel, looking in Sun
day at eleven o'clock in tho morning, I
recognized John McCulloch, an actor,
whom I had met at the house of Edwin
Forrest, Philadelphia. McCulloch wa9
an amiable, companionable fellow, and
one of very few theatrical people that I
was acquainted with. He came up at
once, and then introduced me to Mr.
Booth. Booth I had often seen perform,
and had a poor opinion os his talents.
Ho was interesting to me chiefly as the
son of his father, about whom I had
heard stories enough to fill a book.
Standing together . in a group, several
other persons being of the party, I turn
ed my entire conversation'upon young
Booth and made a study of him.
The first thing that passed through my
mind was his good looks, fine brown col
or, good head, strong hair, eyebrows and
moustache, teeth and breath most envia
ble, well knit arms, shoulders and neck.
' Here," I said to myBelf, " is one of
those superb vagabonds who can drink
all day without headache, smoke iuto a
cast-iron stomach, look well in any
clothes, be a devil in quiet hospitable
families, aud a breaker of hearts of wo
men whose hearts have been broken al
ready." Leauing easily on the counter, finger-,
iug his moustache and the shaved under
lip below, his face lay close under mine, 1
looking up aud being agreeable as the
firstglimpse of the great world. I thought
again :
" What an agreeable fellow ! Soft as
a duke, modest as a virgin genius, with
out antagonism, making himself like an
old acquaintance, yet without familiar
ity 1"
He talked of oil, the stage, said he
should reappear, asked if he could find
me in New York, and took my address
in a little note-book. Not much a trust
er of actors, I heard it all like a man of
the world, and forgot it. Some one ask
ed us to go to a club room on Louisiana
avenue. There I asked Booth about his
fathei, .wondering all the time what it
must be to be a son to a tragedian, brother-in-law
to commedians, wondering if he
had ever seen old Junius Brutus come
home reeling, wondering many things,
but without the least idea that Booth
would ever remember more than my
name again, and indifferent about it I
saw him next a dead carcass, and felt
how truly I had divined that his life was
hollow.
Pleasant CosvERSATioN.-The Obser
ver gives the following admonition, both
to those glum persons who talk very lit
tle at all and to those that think all con
versation should be of a serious nature,
for the purpose of mutual instruction ;
Conversation should be the relaxation,
not the business, of life; and the moralists
who require that it should always be
of" Improving" character have no icjca
of its proper social usas. Improving!
Have we not books, lectures, institutions
aud a complicatedcdueatinoal machinery
enough of all kinds to improve us all off
the face of the earth, if nature did not
oppose a little wholesome duncehood to
this sweeping tide of instruction f Must
the schoolmaster still follow us into our
little holiday? If the " queens of socie
ty" will only give us talk which shall be
bright without ill-natured sharpness,
playful without silliness if they will
show us that affectation, vanity, jealousy,
and slander are no necessary ingredients
in the social dialogue, but that rather
they giv an ill-savor to the wittiest and
cleverest play of words if they will re
member that good-humor, syrapathy.and
the wish to please for the sake of giving
pleasure, will lend a charm to the most
common place thoughts and expressions
their conversation will, " improve "
us, perhaps, quite as much as most pop
ular lectures and some popular sermons,
The talk which puti you in good hu
mor with yourself and your neighbors is
not wholly profitless. If it has but
made half an hour pass pleasantly, which
with a less agreeable companion would
have been spent id gloomy silence, brok
en by spasmodic efforts, resulting in dis
gust atyourown and his or her stupidity,
it will have effected one of the ends for
which speech was given us."
Living without Sleep. Five young
men in Berlin lately mado an agreement
for a wager, to see who of them could
keep awake for a whole week. They all
held out for about five days and a half,
by drinking largely of strong coffee, and
keeping up a constant round of active
exercise and exciting amusements, at the
end of that time two of them yielded to
drowsiness. A third soon after full
asleep while riding, tumbled from his
saddle and broke his arm. A fourth was
attacked by severe sickness and com
pelled to retire from the list. The fifth
held out to the end, but lost twenty-five
pounds of flesh in winning the wager.
Long ago, Frederick tho Great and Vol
NO. 44.
taire, mado a similar experiment, mak
ing use of the same stimulant of strong
coffee but they did not succeed in driv
ing away sleep for more than four days.
1 1 red nature" obstinately refuses to ac
cept any substitute for her " sweet re
storer."
Art Hour With Nasby."
A writer for the Rochester Chronicle
describes an hour's interview with " Pe
troleum V. Nasby." We make few
extracts from his accouut s -
The portrait of him by Nast, as he
sits in his famous post office, onrjosite
Bascom's grocery, with his feet on the
table almost touching a bottle of whis
key, and the longed for commiehun'
firm in his hand does him great injustice.
He really don't look half so surly and
cross.,. But his trials with A. Johnson
about that 'postoffie' probably soured
him some. Aftesa few moments' wait
ing in the editorial sanctum Nasby comes
in. He has that quiet, easy, unpretend
ing manner that wins you over at once.
xou see in him the honest, candid, intel
ligent, thoroughly posted and most in
tensely earnest political writer of the
day. He has noue of that light, pun
ning, yet droll wit of the Arteinus Ward
kind, for he is not at all that kind of
man. . He is a deep, thoughtful man,
with a purpose, with a great work laid
out for him to do; occasionally in con
versation a rich nugget of wit will fall
out from the well-known Nasby vein, but
rarely in fact he says he cares but lit
tle for the reputation the Nasby papers
have brought him if he weie to be known
by them only.".
The following is the history of the
origin of the " Nasby" papers. It seems
that during the campaign for the re
election of Mr. Lincoln, when Mr. Locke
was editing a country paper in Ohio, a
petition was drawn up for circulation,
asking the legislature to banish all col
ored persons from the state. The writer
savs :
"This petition, for some time, they
were positively ashamed to circulate;
but at last a package was sent to Levi
G. Flenner for distribution. At the
mention of this name Nasby paused and
indulged in one of those quick chuck
ling laughs of his, and remarked :
' What a lucky thing for me that that
Flenner was ever born into this world.
If there had been no Flenner there
might have been no Nasby.' ' Who was
this Flenner?' I asked. 'He was a
"poor white" from Virginia, who had
come into the state years before with his
father and mother, neither of whom
could read or write it ; and his only oc
cupation had been hanging around the
bar-rooms, drinking whiskey and talk
ing politics. Neither father nor son had
ever been known to do a single day's
work in their lives, and of course they
were the great democratic oracles of the
place. For their valuable political ser
vices they were let into the ring of the
overseers of the town poor, and had
managed to steal enough of the supplies
furnished by the town to eke out a mis
erable existence. Such was Flenner;
and when I saw such a creature circulat
ing such a petition document so
wholly beneath the reach of any digni
fied or serious discussion the idea of the
first Nasby letter came to me. My main
idea was to ridicule this Flenner, and it
took so well, was copied so extensively,
and so effectively squelched him and his
petitions, that I was satisfied that I had
struck a rich vein and must work it
out. "
Force of Imagination. An esteem
ed friend of ours heard much of the
beneficial properties of the water from a
certain spring some distance from where
she resided. She had read a pamphlet
that enumerated many diseases for which
it was a specific, among which she recog
nized at least half a dozen that she was
afflicted with. Much to her joy she was
told that her son had a business call to
the very town where the celebrated spring
was located, and a five gallon keg and a
strict injunction were laid upon him to
bring back some of the water.
' The keg was put into the wagon, aud
slipping under the seat was quite over
looked. The business was urgent and
took some time to perform, and the wa
ter was entirely forgotten. He had got
near home in the evening, when feeling
down under the seat for something he
felt the keg. To go back was not to be
thought of, and to admit his stupidity
was impossible. He therefore drew his
horse up by the side of a wall near which
was the old sweep-well from which the
family had drank for a century, and fill
ing the keg went home. . '
The first question was t : , ' i 3 ,!
" Did you get the water? "
Yes," said he, " but darn if I see any
difference in it from any other water,"
and he brought in, the keg.
A cup was handed to the invalid, who
drank it with infinite relish, and said she
was surprised at her son's not seeing any
difference. There was undoubtedly
medical taste about it, and it didn't fill
her up, as other waters did, which she
bad always heard of mineral water.
Her son hoped it would do her good,
and by the time the keg was exhausted,
he was ready to give a certificate of the
value of the water, it having relieved her
of all her ails.
, f ', Flowers at Funeraln.
' ' BT HENRY W. BEECHER.
A correspondent in the West, formerly
residing in Brooklyn, N. Y., and there '
accustomed to see flowers employed free
ly at funerals, writes to us to say that he
had brought down upon himself severe
animadversion by following this beauti
ful custom, on a recent funeral occasion,
and he asks ns to explain some opinion
of the use of flowers at the burial of our
dead. t
About fifteen years ago I was called
to officiate at the burial of a sweet girl,
about sixteen years of age. Her pa
rents stood high in society, and she was
their only child. When I entered the
spacious parlors, and went to the coffin,
the face was so fair that it seemed to me
as if the world on the other sido was
shining through it But she seemed
lonely. In her narrow chamber she lay,
in pure white, without a single flower.
I could not bear it, and without saying a
word to any one I left the room. There
was, within a block, a garden and nur
sery, whose proprietor I well knew. I
fairly ran to his greenhouse, and without
salutation cried out, " Davidson, cut me
everything choice, that is white, that you
have got."
AVith my hands full of white roses,
tuberoses,- orange-blossom", sweet alys
sum, Ac, I returned and entered the
parlor. The moment I passed she door,
every one seemed moved by the same im
pulse. The father and mother rose up
in tears and came to tho coffin. Friends
took them from me and began dressing
the coffin with them, and tho mother,
with a deep sigh, said, "Oh, this is just
what we wanted. " But we were too full
of sorrow to think of them."
Will any one tell me why those flow
ers ought not to have been there? Can
any one refuse flowers to dying bodies of
"those who are disciples of Him of whom
it is said,' Now in the place where he
was crucified there was a garden, and in
the garden a new sepulchre.
There laid they Jesus."
For my own part, I shall never cease
to be thankful that John (he only of all
the Evangelists,) mentioned that com
forting fact.
i After the grirn horror of the arrest
night, the fierce cruelties of the trial,
and the burden and anguish of the cru
cifixion, it is inexpressibly soothing to
follow the sacred form to the quietude of
a garden and lay him down in a cool
rock chamber, around which flowers
hung.' There, in the morning, flowers
drooping with the weight of dew, leaned :
their heads against the stone, not know
ing whose sepulchre they mado beauti
ful, nor that the perfume which they ex
haled was a nobler offering than all the
incense of the sanctuary 1 There, in a
garden, among green leaves, and fra
grant vines, and spicy blossoms, and '
leaves murmuring in the gentle wind, he
rested, and waited Tor the auspicious day
when, lifting his head with renewed life, :
he should lift up to new hope and sub
lime destiny every man on earth 1
If there were no other reason, it is
enough that friends are comforted. What
mother but is glad to see her innocent
child, never so dear and beautiful as ia
death, lying amidst fragrant flowers? '
Who that has true sentiment but feels '
that something is taken away of the
earthiness of death by the presence of
flowers? 1 ;'-
Must we forever regard death from
the heathen stand-point? Shall we for
ever give way to grief without restraint?
Shall we studiously endeavor to make
saduess yet sadder, and grief yet more
anguishful ? Shall we muffle ourselves
in black and funeral smelling crape, and
sing doleful hymns, and weep out mourn
ful prayers, and meanwhile refuse all 1
sense of victory, all hope of immortali-
ty, all knowledge that there is no death
to a true soul, but only exaltation into
better life?
"I will not leave you comfortless,",
said tho Saviour. Yet, ten thousand
Christians have so gloomily borne their
bereavements that the young and men of
the world look upon death as the one aw- ,
ful catastrophe of life. They have
dressed their houses in weeds, and left j
the corse so bold and bare, in the bodily
dishonor of death, that men have no rea
son to believe that Christ walks with his :
disciples in the valley and shadow of ,
death, or that he plucks heavenly flow
ers and dresses therewith the hearts of
his followers, so that their griefs, like
his own suffering body, shall rest iu a
garden." " --"-.--- -
The Great Vice of Our Agje. Dr.
Kirkbridge, Superintendent of the Penn- '
sylvania Insane Hospital, in his last re
port, refers to 334 cases of insanity as in
duced by intemperance, but says that
he is satisfied that this is far below the
result of intemperance of parents, bus-
bands or others, without which the die- '
eases would not have been developed. -He
says Intemperance is steadily on
the increase in both sexes, and with
all classes of people. Of this there
can hardly be question. It is indeed
rapidly becoming the great vice of our
age and country, to the Criminal Courts
the largest share of their business, filling
up the wards of our hospitals and other
Charitable Institutions, "crowding our
Almshouses, and blighting anticipation
of whole families in every walk of life.
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