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CHARLESTOWN, VIRGINIA, j TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1869
spirit xif Jrfimau.
BE\JMII\ F. BEALL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION IX ADVANCE:
For One Tear. ? $3.00
For Sir Months, - 1.15
For Three Months, - ? 1.00
O.-ders for the Paper must be accompanies!
by the CASH
15 A L T I M O 11 E C A KI)S.
Pianos- 3?ianos.
GOLD MEDAL FOR 1SG7
lias just been awarded to
CIIARLI5S M. STIEFF,
For tho Best Pianos now made ever Baltimore,
Philadelphia and New York Pianos by the
MAKYI-AND INSTITUTE.
Office and Wanerocm No. 7 Noiith Liberty
Sr., near Baltimore street, BALTIMORE, MD.
STiEPF'S P* A NOS have all the latest improve
ments, including* the AGRAFFE TJtKBLE,
Ivory Fronts, ancf ilie Improved French Action,
fully warrauted for Five Ycuts, with the privilege
of exchange within l*J months il not entirely satis
factory to purchaser.
Second .hand Pi moj and Parlor Organs always
on hand, from ?50 to ?*3'0.
Jlrfe/ctx .who have our Pianos in use:?
Gen. It. E, Lee, Lexington, Virginia. Gen.
Hott. Ranson, Wilmington, N. C. J< hn Burns,
Dr. L. C. Cord* 11. \V ?rr n F.by. John li. Packett.
Cnarlestown, I'hos M. Isbell of Jefferson county,
L. B. Burns, of Clai ke county, Mrs. Schwartawcl
tler, Mozart Musical Association of Winchester.
TERMS LlKl-.IiAL. A call is solicited.
April 1-1 bfi'i-o. d. Oct. 2.
GREAT SALE Or CLOTHING.
5,000 PAIR OF PA.NTS from to $G.
6,000 PAHS OF PANTNiYout *?*2 to
6,0 00 PA lit OF PANTS Iioni fcSi to sG.
5.0tK) VF.S I S Twin S-l ">0 to C.3.
6,0U0 VL-V1S from S1.6U fo -vli
1,000 BUSINESS SUITS, S'2 to $20.
1,0110 BUS. NESS .?=? ITS, ^ 12 to ^ JO.
1,000 B US IN E>S ^ U i TS, t- 12 to S 20.
1,0 JO B US IN ESS S U1TS. S 12 to $? 2??.
500 IMJESS SUITS, ?15 to $25.
5HO DRES*? SUITS, $15 to >*25.
5UJ DUOS SUITS, <>15 to $25.
OUR IMMENSE STOCK AT PANIC PRICES
Our Immense Stock of Clothing.
Our Immense Stoc k oj' Chjthliirj.
Our Immense Stock of Clothing.
AT REDUCED PRICES.
Remember the Cooth must be So/if.
Remember the Goods mint be Sold.
THESE GOODS MUST I5E SOLD.
A T JftI A It BI-E IIA 1.1,.
MARBLE KAKL CLOTHING HOUSE.
1,000 BEST WHITE SHIRTS firm s*2 to c- > 50
1,000 BEST WHITE SHIRTS ft Cm ? 1 to $2 53
CLOTHING, CLOTHING.
CLOTHING, CLOTIIL\G.
CLOTHING, CLOTHING.
CLOTHING, CLOTHING.
Orj- Bear in mind these Goods must be sold wish
out regard t<- Cost at
hi a it iz r. e ii a i. r,.
s\;rni. i:;tos. * ro.
3* and -10 West Baltimore street.
January 5, JSti.'i?ly.
j. a. wu?n ijps. >. it. L-AJfCPos.
ROUGH, KIDE1T0UB & IAITGDOiT,
Consa eails'is M erehsa si is.
No. lit Sou'.h Kut;i.v Street,
[OPPOSITE D ALT. O. I.. I. IiKPoT. ]
13AL.TIMOUF.
0^-ORDERS f jr all kinds of Merchandise. Salt,
Fioii, Plaster, Ouano, and the various Fertilizers
and Fat iiiin^ Implement j, piomptly filled.
7? E F E R EX C E S:
Hopkins, Haanpbn ?c Kemp, Paltimore.
Candy, Gilpin Sc. Co., 44
Brooks, Fahncsjock 5: Co., "
PeVSI.MAN ?$" BbO., "
Daniel Miller, Pres. Nat. T'.xc. Kanlr, Ral'morc
C. W. Button, Enq., Lynchburg-, Va.
IiA vis, Ropes & Co., Petersburg, Va.
R. H. Miller. Alexandria, Va.
August 20. I*56S?l3r.
.5?sates EE. Afiisjsiits,
Draughtsman and Consulting- Engineer,
No. -1 Light Street Wharf,
i;a i/hsiore,
DEALER in
Engineers' & Railroad Supplies,
And Every Arlicb: L'.^d in Con xtrn--tiny and
Operating f'f D'tfrrmt Kinds <j
Much inert/.
QCJ- All'sizea of Holts and Wood Scicwa on hand.
Steam and Vacuum Gauges R-pnirrrf Accurately
and with "Dispatch. Hydraulic Jacks to Lire or
Sell.Ten to Fifteen Tons.
September 1, 1S68 ? ly.
HORTICULTURAL WARER003IS,*
No. 2,Noith Hut aw Street,
ISA 1/r 131 ORE.
GARDEN SEED, f'LOWKR SEED,
FLOWEHING ASD
Vosotofolo ZP-irx-^-fcra.
fTlIIE advertiser would respectfully advertise tlie
.L public that he h:i j rec? ived !j 13 stock of SEEDS,
IMPLEMENTS. IIU MIS anil PLANTS, and would
name,in part, the following- Seeds,
Asparagus, Deans* Heel, Cal/oacc, Cauliflower,
Carrot. Celery, Corn, Cucumber, Eg-g- Plant. Let
tuce, Melon, Onion, Salsify, Parsnip, Peas, Toma
to. Ilerbs, &e... &c.
Plows, Cultivators. Pruning Shears, Castings,
&c., Garden Tools, Pansey Seed, Phlox, Asters,
Carnations, sc., Roses, Verbcnns. Ileliotropep, Ge
raniums. Fuse bias, Stocks, and Fruit and Orna
mental Trees, and all kinds of Vegetable Plants in
season.
dCJ-This is the only store in town where the Far
mer, Gardener ami Amateur Florist can cet ail
they may want. FRANK L. MORLING,
Florist, Scedman and Nurseryman.
April 7, ISCi.
E3ourSa5\'3 B2oss?c,
Nos 5 A-. 7 North Howard Street,
(Two Doors from ILiltimoie Street,)
n A LTJ r?i O R E.
"MIIS Hotel has recently been enlarged, thorough
. ly renovate.land ? tenant ly refurnished through
out ; ami is now capable of accommodating over
500 guests. Under the management of the present
proprietors, it has attained a popularity excelled
by no Hotel in the country* Everything-which ran
conduce to fhe comfort "of g-uests, is furnished with
an unsparing hand; and the Howard House offers
accommodations to the travelling* public equal to
any other hrst class Hotel in the United States.
HATIIS,MILLIARD ROOM, BAR. Etc.,
arc all unexceptionable. The .Proprietors solicit
the patronage of the public.
CCJ-Stagea will he at the Depot?, op arrival of
trains, also at the st? amers on their arrival, to con
vey guests and their bag-gage to the Houae."
TJBHM3?$3.00 i'Kll DAY.
N. P. SKWELL,
March 21, ISSS?ly. Manager.
WA LTE K ?K00K. J I!.,
220 West Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE,
Dealer in and Manufacturer of
Window Cass* tat sis,
Upholstery Goods, Tenitian BUnds,
? AND
WINDOW SHADES.
T
MATTRESSES <?? BEDDING
Furnished at Short Notice.
March 21, I8&J-ly.
CCOLOGNES, Extracts and Toilet Soaps, for sale
j by W. S. MASON.
1) A L T I M O It E CAUDS,
J. II. Windsor.] [Bernard McGinn.
J. II. WINDSOR & CO.,
WHOLESALE DBALEK8 IN
Hats, Gaps & Straw Goods*
NOS.'7 A. O.N. HOWARD ST.
UP STAIRS,
BALTIMORE, MD.
M.iy 12, 1S6S?ly.
M. TRE1DER, THOMAS B. BEALL. J A MES I. WADDELt,
Maryland. West Va. Noitb Ciroliuft.
Treibar* Eeall & Co.
IMPORTERS
English and German Hardware,
AND MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS
AMERICAN HARDWARE,
No. la German street.
BALTIMORE.
Speciality.?Wade & Eutchcr'd Ci lcbratcd'Edgc
T.Hila. *
Scptembar 1, 1563?tf ?
~ CHAsTm. CII HI STAIN,
WITH
Geo. \vr. 53. ISau'filelf,
SUCCESSOR TO It. IIICKLEY &. 1JRO.,
Dealer in
Foreign & Domestic Hardware.
AO. 8 NORTH HOWARD STREET,
Opposite the Howard House,
BALTIMORE, MD.
Orders from the trade solicited. Goods sold
at low tljrurrs. and on accommodating* tonus.
June 30, 1-S6S?I/.
GEO. R. C0FFR0TII & C0.~
Commission and Wholesale Dealers in
Tobacco. Snuffs & Cigars.
330 BALTIMORE STREET^
Jjcconj Door West of Howard,
BALTIMORE, MD.
May 12, 1SGS.
BECSKAJI, CWIN & CO.
Cosifisaiis'w ftlercSssmit^
ISO 70 SOUTH STREET,
SECOND FLOOR,
BALTIMORE, MD.
January 5. 1SG9 - ly.
Msil'by Mok?<*,
A. B. MILLER, PBOPBIETCR
DAI.TIMOKE, .11D.
July 30, 1SC7?ly*.
ises.
LARGE AN'ii i'KltKUPIOitY SALE OF
MENS' AND BOYS' CLOTHING.
\X7E have stocked our retail department with a
* * full line 01 ?Mens', Hoys', and Children's
Suits, at prices to suit all classes of hovers.
FALL OVERCOATS at from $7, .>*!), $10 and
? 12 to $14.
CUSTOII DEPABTME3MT :
CLOTIIS,
C A SSI MERES
AND VESTINGS,
In inrce variety ?o eelcct from for nwa^urc.
Foil line ol lien's and lioys' FL Jt.NISni.NG
UUOLt:J.
NOAH WALKER & CO.,
Washington Boildin/r.
ICo and 107, W. Jiultimnro atrcrt.
January 5, lr't>') ly. Haitimore, Md.
Pl?OFiSSS I ONAL CA11DS.
N. S. White.] [Joseph Trapnell.
WHITE & TRAPNELL,
Attorneys cit 3Lecwct>
Clmrlcstovfii, W. Va.
f *711.L Practice in the Courts of Jefferson and ad
* 1 joining Counties of Virginia and West Vir
ginia. Prompt attention given to all business en
trusted to thcin..
January 12, 1SC9?Cm.
Thos. C. Uueks ] [Das'l, II. Lucas.
GREEN & LUCAS,
Attorneys cvfc Zhctxrv,
HAVING associated ourselves as partners, we
will practice in Jefferson and adjaiuinpr Coun
ties.
$3-OiIiccs at Charleetowo, Shephcrdstown and
Lfesbur^.
Scptctuber 22,flS6S? tf.
"~E D"wA ItD C. FREEL,
Attorney at
r)I! ACTICF.S in the Courts ..f JKFFKRSON,
i ItRHKKLEV, and MORGAN Counties. He
will have ilic advantage of consultation with and
advice of Me^rs. GREEN & UCAS, in all busi
ness entrusted to him.
{{??-Office, opposite Entlcr's Hotel Shepherds
town, West Va.
S'.vs mber 6, 1SG7?tf.
ISAAC FocKbT
Attorney <r&t Lctro i
Charleston!!, Jefferson County,
PRACTICES in the Courts of Jefl~erson, Berkeley
and Morgan Counties, W. Virginia, and in
those of Loudoun, Frederick and Clark Counties,
Virginia; also in the United States District Court
in cases in Bankruptcy.
0Ofiicc in Hunter's Law Row, next door to the
Carter Hjufc.
July 30, 1867?ly.
WM. II. TKAVKIuS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CltnrlcstoiTti, Jellcrson County, Virginias
1I7ILL practice in the District Courts of the Uni
v V ted States for the District of West V.rginia.?
Particular attention paid to cases in Bankruptcy.
July 30, 1S67.
ANDREW"HUNTER,
SOLICITOR IK MATTERS OP BANK
RUPTCY,
HAVING specially prepared for the business;
and not being" excluded from the United States
Courts; will prosecute, diligently, all applications
for the benefit of the late Bankrupt law, committed
to him.
?>? He will reg-ularly attend the Federal Court
at Clarksburg", and elsewhere as the cases may re
quire.
Charlcstown, July 16, 1S67?tf.
New Era. Martinshurg', and Winchester Times,
copy each 3 times. _____
PJ.csi?Sciit Dontist.
DR. J. V. SIMM O.N S,
"f)EING oermarrntly located in Charlcstown, Va.;
JL> offers his services in every branch of his pro
fession. Freezing or Narcotic Spray used in ex
tracting- Teeth.
ftJ-Cnarfrco very moderate.
July 23. 1867?ly.
PROFESSIONAL CARD.
DR. N. ANDERSON "WARE,
OFFERS his Professional services to the citizens
of Leetown and vicinity.
(XT- Office at the residence of Mr. Geo. W. Nicely.
April 7, 1863?lv.- F. P.
DR. C. 7. RICHARDSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
CIIVRLESTOWN.
()&- Mespag-os left at his residence, or at the Drug
Store of Aisquith & Bro., will reccivo prompt at
tention.
December 21,1S67?6m.
gpiril ajf
BKXJAMIN F."BKALL,~Kdrtorl
C II ah lustown, va.
Tuesday Morning, January 23, 1869.
[For the Spirit ol JcftcrEon ]
Tha Usury Law,
To the Editor of the Spirit of Jefferson i
In my article upon tbe repeal of the usury
laws in \\ est \ irginia, so-called, I mentioned
the .'act that this same expejimeut had been
made in Indiaua, Wisconsin and .New York,
and had failed entirely of anv good to the
people; in l'aet was accompanied with such
ruin to them, and produced such disasters,
that the people demanded relief from the ex
tortioners, and it was fouud absolutely neces
sary to re-cnact laws against usurers, and it
was dope. I send you. for tho present, the
copy of a letter of W. W, Wick, formerly a
member of Congress from Indiana, and from
which the people will be able to see what is
in store for them whenever this experiment
is tested on them. This letter is copied from
exhibits and documents sent with his mes
sage by Governor Wise to tho Legislature of
Virginia, December 7th, 1S57, and when the
Legislature of Virginia, it was supposed, was
about to repeal the usury laws. Knowing
that tho experiment had been made in In
diana, Gov. Wise wrote to Mr. Wick?who,
besides having been amemberof Congress,had
also been on the bench in his State?to know
the result of the experiment. Ilis reply is
in the following letter :
" Washington, D. C., March 7,1S49.
" Sir :?Y our note of enquiry is before
me. I propose leaving for home this eve
ning. and my response must be brief.
"In Indiana, the usury laws were repealed
twelve or fourteen years ago?perhaps more
?and were not re-instated for three or four
years. The frightful results of tho repeal
wero not immediately developed. Many a
"strieken deer" retired to die in secret, too
proud to make known liis ruin, induced by
liis over imprudcncc and tho absence of legal
protection against it. Many were sold out of
house and home, ere public atteution was di
rected to tho subject; but no sooner bad the
efleets of the repeal been developed and be
come the subject of public discussion and
conversation, than an irreu'stiUe public opin
ion eulhd for usury hues. The first step was
to fix the rate of legal interest at six per cent.,
and to sanction contracts at ten per cent.?
In two or three years the taking more than
six per cent, was prohibited.
_ '? If I had time I would be glad to make a
sketch of the desolations left in the traek of
the usurer, during bis brief reign in "Iluosicr
land." I was judge of one of our circuit
courts at the time, and was a shuth/eriny wit
ness to these desolations. I have rendered
judgment upon contracts for the payment of
50 or 20 cents per day, or per week, for a
loan of or ?100, and in some instances the
interest had become more than ten times the
amount of the principal. It is worthy of re
mark that the usurer rarely brought suit for
his money until the accumulating interest had
swelled the debt to an amount approximating
closely tho value of the debtor's estate, or un
til notified to do so by the surety or endorser
of the debtor. Tho usurer, in tho meantime,
counted and gloated over his daily or weekly
accumulation of interest, and the debtor (poor
fellow) lived upon the hope of extrication
through some miraculous intervention. I am
convinced that in some instances they had ti
secret faith that the creditor could not find
it in his heart to demand the entire sum le
gally due, or relied upon private assurances
from the creditor to that efleet.
"Ilad the Legislature not interfered and
tied the hands of the spoiler, an immense
amount of property would have changed
bonds in a few years. As it was, clerks in
stores, venders of spirits by retail, &c., in
many instances, became wealthy, almost with
out capital of their own ; or by tho use, at
a limited interest, of the money of some
friend, who knew them well, and eould watch
over their operations; and to make them
wealthy, a great number of small farmers,
owning iu fee land worth five to fifteen hun
dred dollars, were ruined. Iu many instan
ces the ruin had not half done its work when
the estate of the borrower was engulphed.?
Discouraged, shamed and indignant, he cither
fled to dissipation, or became a man hater.?
I know many men of natural qualities, and
much inclined to be moral and gay, who be
came hopelessly demoralized and misanthrop
ical. The moral (tcuasfatioiis created by the
abscncs of usury laws will tell upon any com
munity to an extent almost infinitely beyond
the mere ruin of estate.
"To show that it is not best to repeal usury
laws as tin experiment, it is only necessary to
say that tho contracts made in one year of
the absence of such laws would not naturally
develope their consequences during that year
to any extent. As years pass away, the evil
results will develope themselves in a geomet
rical ratio. Long before they develope their
full force and effects, the community will de
mand usury taies, and the blighting curses of
many a withered or aching heart, will follow
the advocates of their repeal to their graves.
Iu haste, yours truly,
W. W. Wick."
Wisconsin, too, had repealed bcr usury
laws in 1840, and the Governor wrote a let
ter to her Senator?United States Senator?
J. P. Walker to learn the result. His reply
is dated Washington, January 24, 1850, and
in the extract given by the Governor, he
says in speaking of the repeal:
'?The argument in favor of this policy was,
that competition in the loan of money, the
rate ol interest being unrestricted, would
produce a great influx of capital to the State.
It certainly has produced an influx of money,
but not of capital. The result is (and is to
be) that money has been freely taken at an
interest from twenty to fifty per cent. The
money loaned was that of non-residents : Jiow
taking tho average of interest to be twenty
five per cent, it is obvious that, at the end of
four years, the amount loaned in the State will
again be sent out; and that, too, with an
equal amount for the interest.
"This is a poor way, in my opinion, to in
crease the real capital of a State. You will
appreciate the distinction I make above be
tween money and capital in this relation.
"1 have no doubt that the results to our
state will be most disastreous."
The Governor, then proceeds to say :
'?Tho predictions of Senator Walker, and J
of others who had confidence in stringent
usury laws,were fully verified. Interest ranged
from two to ten per o int. per month, and loans
were execufed for 1 mg periods of time, on
speculation, as higl as forty per cent, per
annum. Although i le experiment lasted but
a few months, it is tl o deliberate opinion of
some of tho most int slligent and respectable
citizens of Wisconsin that the enterprise of
tho State recieved a check from which it can
not rccorer for twent; years.
"After the experii lent had been /fleet, and
usury laws re-enacted, wo addressed a letter of
enquiry to R. W. Wr ght, Esq., of Waukesha.
Wisconsin, in regard
ing reply, dated Dec
disastrous to the best
to tho practical results.
Tho following is an cxtract from his interest
16th 1851 :
"The results of thcjlaw (of repeal) were so
nterests of the State and
so contrary to the expectations of its friends,
in increasing insteid.of diminishing the rates
of interest, that vttio experiment was very
readily abundoned. Its bitter fruits were left
behind. The high rates of interest paid by
borrowers had destroyed the confidence of
lenders, and the consequence was that money
became scarcer than ever. Instead of beget
ting a spirit of industry and frugality, the
borrowing ot largo sums of money at these
high rates of interest increased the prodigality
and expenditures of those who were already
involvedin debt,and brought ruin upon others
who sought to traffic in money as an article
of commerce. Mjn-got a passion for borrow
ing, and as the demand for money increased,
and with tho demand the hazard or danger
of losing it, tho rate of interest advanced, tho
rate being always in a ratio compounded of
tho inconvenience and tho hazard. As the
result of all this, we find nearly one third of
the entiro improved real estate in Wisconsin
under mortgage, a greater part of which will
have to be sold, sooner or later, at the end of
a docre3. Men are now paying tho most ex
orbitant rates of interest to rescue their farms
from destruction, when, had it not been for
tho law of 1819, and the spirit of recklessness
and extravagance which it iuspired, not a
dollar's incumbrance would ever have been
put upon them : Hundreds of persons are now
laboring in the mines of California to keep
down the interest on the bonds and mortgages
hanging over their property in this State.?
Such, in my judgement, has been the result
of this great experiment to divert money from
lis legitimate purposes?the purposes of ex
change in Wisconsin."
Having, now, re'ferred to the history of the
repeal of the usury laws in Indiana and Wis
consin, I come to New York, where the same
experiment was made; and to show what the
result was I will again quote briefly from the
message of Governor Wise. He says:
"lJefore 1837, the State' of New York
trusted to tho fallacious policy, so often de
manded by money lenders, and found out by
sad experience that it was fatal to the indus
try of the people. At that time the Assem
bly applied a remedy, which continues to be
tho lav,' ol the Stale, and is tho roost severe
of any in tho United States against usury.
The usurer is made liable to lose his whole
debt, to be fined a thousand dollars, and to
be imprisoned six months."
I will, now, in conclusion only add, that
wise is tho man who takes warning from the
experiments of others, and if we, with these
facts and experiments so plainly brought
home to us, are resolved to try the thing
over, we shall do so with our eyes open, and
will deserve no pity. Not only in these in
stances, but in all others throughout the
world wherever this experiment has been
tried, tho same sad results and worse have
followed ; and, invariably the evils resulting
have compelled iheir re-enaetment.
Very respectfully,
OBSERVER.
Summit Foint, January 10th, 1809.
A Republican Estimate of Carpet-Bag
Congressmen.
Pen Piatt, tLo Washington correspondent I
of the Cincinnati Commercial writes as ful- '
lows of the carpet bag Congressmen from the
South :
And in all sober earncstnest, to write in
"a frank and manly way," the nett purport J
and upshot of our reconstruction measures at |
the South, as seen in Congress, is not pleas
ant. No amount ol' certificates of election
and formalities of an oath can make these
getitlemcu of the hand-baggage real 31. C's.
When one makes liis appearance on the floor,
we cannot look each other iu the countenance
without auuible smiles that are indecorus.'? |
If the gentlemen would only indulge in a
little disguise to help on the delusion, some
thing might be gained ; but not only is the
voice of the enemy, but the look, manner,
dress, and above all, the vote, is the vote of
the alien.
The antagonism between New England
civilization and that of the South, previous to
the war, was not mora deadly than is the an
tagonism of interest now between those local
ities, and yet these gentlemen of the paper
color and extra dickey, follow New England,
and vote all the time against the interest of
their own constituents.
I had a long talk with one of these repre
sentatives ad interim last night, and tried to
convince him that it would be well, just for
the appearance of the thing, to cast a vote
now and then for the region bo claimed to
represent. But, no ! I tound my friend had
an intense contempt for one-half of his peo
ple, and a deadly hatred for the other half.
It was a Connecticut Congressman elected in
the South.
Having no very high opinion of myself,
and a contempt for the rest of humanity, I
can put up with the grotesque and absurd as
well as any one. But there is a point, you
know, beyond which I find it difficult to keep
my countenance, and the New England car
pet-bagger carries me there. I wrinkle and
haw-haw?I cant help it?when the gentle
man of the paper dickey, from New England,
gravely takes his seat as a representative from
the South.
Better cut the South into provinces, and
give them military Governors to keep the
peace until the negroes are educated, the
white master subdued, and time, the conso
ler, heals tho wounds of war, than thus to
make a carricature of a representative Gov
ernment and stultify ourselves.
? Ladies are begining to adorn their note
paper with small photographs of themselves
instead of monograms.
? Why is a kiss like a rumor 1 Because
it goes from mouth to mouth.
POETICAL.
THE ANGELS' SONG.
It came upoD the midnight clear,
That glorious eong of old,
From augels bending- uear ihe earth,
To touch their harps of gold.
"Peace on the earth, good will to mrn,
From heaven's ail gracious king
.The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
S?ill through the cloven skies they come
With peaCelul wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world.
Above its sad and lonely plains
They bend on hovering wing,
And o'er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world hath suffered long ?
Beneath the angel strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong.
And man at war with man heats not
The 1 jve song which they bring ;
Oh ! hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.!_.
And ye,beneath life's crushing load.
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil alonsr the climbing way
With painful steps and slow ;
I*ook now ! lor glad and goMeu hou-3
Come swifily on the wing ;
Oh ! rest be<u<le the weary road,
And hear the angels sing !
For lo ! the days are hastening ou.
By prophet bards foretold.
When with the circling years
? Corne round the age of gold;
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling.
And the whole rarth send back the song
W^hich now tl?e angels sing.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Wrong Notions Corrected.
A correspondent of the .London A thcnicuni
writes :
"In most of those wrong notions mentioned
in your journal of tlie 1st of August, you w ill
find some substratum of fact. There is no
smoke without fire, and there is generally a
foundation for some of them?at least we know
or cau guess at a foundation. That of thirteen
persons at table one will die within the year,
is distinctly traceablc to Our Lord s last supper,
where there were thirteen and lie died. 1 ho
spilling of salt is derived from the Kastcrn
idea, that eating salt with a man, or having
eaten of his salt, binds you to him. 1 ou may
remember in the Iudian mutiny, that hawng
eaten of John Company's salt kept many men
faithful; and it was constantly thrown in the
teeth of those who broke faith with us, "that
they had eaten our salt;" therefore spilling
or wasting this symbol of friendship would
be considered unlucky?though why the
unlucky should be purged by throwing a pinch
of it over the leit shoulder I do not see,
unless because the left is also the unlucky side.
Stammering at beginning a speech means that
if you begin ill you are likely to go on ill, and
end badlv. Breaking a mirror is referable to
the days when mirrors were most rare, at least
"lass ones,and accounted magical instruments.
No magician was properly set up in trade with
out his mirror. Breaking a wine glass is also
thought unlucky. _ . .
"Mnirpies being unlucky is a superstition
as old most likely as the ark or older; it is
both Celtic and Teutonic; and I believe the
odd numbers arc those most unlucky. Certain
animals crossing our path is the same and lias
a parallel superstition in India ; but the reason
why is probably lost in the mists of antiquity.
That animals should be killed at certain times
of the month, is most likely founded on the
fact of their meat keeping better at one time
than another, and being less likely to he
putrefied by a weak and waning mo m than by
a strong and waxing moon. Washing hands
in water which has been used by anothei,
causing them either to kiss or to quarrel, has
been referred to Pilate washing his hands;
but I think it must bo referred to the older
use and custom which he illustrated oi \npsh
in.' an evil deed off bis hands into the water
which would contaminate the water or any
that touched it.
"The raven (not the common rook) is a
| very strong, wise and wary bird, and being ex
treinely common anions the northern nations,
was adopted as their emblem, much as an eagle
was by the Romans and others, and Irom us
feedin<' on corpses w ould be considered as un
lucky by all the Northmen, to say nothing of
I any traditions that might remain from the
ancient aruspices, and remnants of Baal wor
| ship and Ashtoretli worship that still linger
anion" us. How many ladies tell you to bow
to tlio"new moon; that it is unlucky to see
! the new moon through glass ; to turn a piece
of money in your pocket for luck the first time
you see the new moon, which was as ancient
as the time of Job, who emphatically declares
that he never kissed his hand to the new
moon, also, I think, David ; but I have not a
Concordance handy to find out the chapter
and verse. . , ,
"A great deal of curious matter is to be
found in these wrong notions. Among fish
ermen there is a belief that a salmon weighs
more dead than when just caught; apropos of
a man weighing more when dead than when
alive, and which is very likely true, us when
the lungs are inflated a man really weighs less,
otherwise why docs ho float higher in water.
The twelfth wave on the sea coast is really
the largest. The belief in the rowan on
mountain ash being efficacious against witch
craft is known all over Europe, but I should
like to know the reason of it.
"Many other wrong notions with some that
are not wrong, too, might be brought forward ;
also, the reasons for them ; and 1 shall be glad
if some of your correspondents will give a
reason for some of those of almost universal
currency: Putting the tfrong shoe on first
dates from Augustus, at least he considered it
unlucky. Why ? lias this also an Eastern
origin ?"
Volcanoes in- the Moon.?Professor
Winloch, of Harvard University, reports that
he has seen a volcano in active eruption in the
moon during the nights of December 1st and
2d, During the past year astronomers have
differed in opinion as to the disappearance of
the crater Linnaeus, marked on the best charts
of the moon's surface till lbG8. The destruc
tion of this crater, if it should be the case, is
stated to be the first evidence or actually "ob
served changes going on at the surface of the
moon. The observation of Professor Winloch
would seem to confirm the conclusion of other
astronomers on this subject. The foreign
journals announce that Professor J- H. Madler,
of Bonn, who is celebrated on account of the
moon charts prepared by himself, has written
a letter on this subject. Madler has been for
many years nearly blind, but the disappear
ance of the crater Linnaeus interests him as
well as othft- eminent astronomers.
Romance Esgtded by Reality,
An Exciting CAajg-A Child Taken off by
(111 Ea<jle (I?.f Carried Tico Miles"
A gectlemau fDMOed Bowers, from Meigs
ville, Jackson CJbtMv.Jipw in town, informs
us that on Christmas Eve, about three o'clock
in the afternoqs, the farm of a Mr. Whiteside,
about five inileairoiu 3Iaigsvilie,was the scene
of a most esc:(!ng and nearly fatal ovent. It
is briefly this ..
Mr. Whifc-Wifirps itf the little town doing
some business ; lib wile was away at a neigh
b'ot's where a sick child was struggling, with
cholera inlaututn. and the only in-door servant
they had was ouf in the baru looking after
some cattle, wleuHheir child?a bright little
boy. j i-tjoarn^ Jb Jridlajp'otttftf'oi) its little
feet and pruttk) flle name of 'Jjm"?tumbled
which it was
USt moments
before, and managed somehow to get to the
door, which was unfortunately open at the
time, although the girl left in charge of the
place averts that she bad closed iv on going
out. The child tumbled into the frontward",
it is supposed, and was crying and sprawling
around, when a great gray ergle, seen by the
girl as she was leaving the baru, came creep
ing down, and, fastening its imtnensi and 1
cruel talons in the clotliing of the littUboy, !
rose up, apparently with much difficul t, as
" high as it could, which was not very ngh,
and sailed off across iiio adjacent woods, Just j
skimming, as the servant says, the tops o'the i
trees. When the servant saw the eagle (am- !
ing down, as she was leaving tho barn, she
had a presentiment of the strangest kind, 4id '
says she felt that the cbild was out doors, aid ?
that the fierce bird of prey was pouncing dt*-n
upon it; but when, in a moment after, ie
beheld the great tyrant of the air rise abeve
the house top with the little child in its clats,
she grew dizzy and fell to the ground, l$r
weakness, however, did not continue long, tie
cold air blowing across her face revived ler
quickly, and jumping on her feet and gaziig
round, wildly, she saw the ea<rle disappeariig
over the woods in the direction of the Com"
bcrlatiJ River. She was filled with but Jne
impulse?to rescue the little boy. She heinme
as one Irantic, for she had a remarkable iffec
tiou for the child. She rushed foiward,
bounded over the fence as ifshe were endowed
with the lightness and agility of a deer ;
dashed into the wood, dark and tangljd as it
v/as, cot taking time to hunt out foot paths or
cow-tracks. She instinctively felt that the
thieving bird would keep in a strain/it line,
and she kept iu a straight line also. With
tho strength and unthinking courage of a
strong man who has become suddenly derang
ed, she dashed the undergrowth aside, crossed
ravines as il she were on the level plain,
spurned the fallen trees and jagged rocks as if
they were the smoothest and softest moss.
The patch of wood was fully a mile .and a
hall through ; but the girl made the run to
the oilier edge of it without feeling in the
leas! fatigued. IJeyond the wood, and between
j it and the river, lay a patch of cleared ground,
| partly niar.- hy and partly cornfield, full of old
stumps. \\ hen -ho left the wood, and had a
clear view, she saw the eagle as if he were
inclined to alight with his burden somewhere
iu the neighborhood of the river. This gave
her new courage aud fresh-hope, and she ran
forward with increased speed. It luckily
happened at t!<at time that there was a man
limiting in the neighboring marshes, and just
at the particular moment, when the eagle
reached the ground with his burden, a shot
went off so dangerously arfd alarmingly near
him (for the hunter was behind a clutrp of
bushes, about twenty yeards oft, and had his
bark toward the spot where the eagle and the
child were), that ho mounted into the air
again, but this time without tho burden.?
The pursuing girl was filled with joy, when
she beheld the bird rise without the child.?
Hut fearing l?e would return, as he seemed
inclined to do, she set up a vigorous shouting
as she ran, which attracted the hunter's atten
tion in that direction, who, seeing the eagle
quite near him, and a lady running down the
slope with streaming hair and garments, and
wildly shouting, concluded at or.ee there was
something strange and, perhaps, dreadful in
his immediate vicinity, and ho also set up a
vigorous hallooing, and proceeded to re-load
his gun with much precipitation, forgetting to
go alter the game which he had just shot.?
J he eagle soon became aware of the formidable
opposition he would meet if lie attempted to
recapture his prey, and thinking better of it,
ho wheeled around and swung himself in one
grand swoop across the river and disappeared
behind the shelving rock which forms tho
opposite bank.
A Nen Trick.?The Providence rtullctin
says that recently a man who could talk horse
learnedly,and who thought he was well inform
ed on horse flesh, swapped a small white for
a fine cream colored horse, by paying such
"boot" as he thought gave him "area! bargain."
Shortly afterwards he met a man with a beau
tiful, glossy, coal black horse who was willing
to swap for the cream for amouut of "boot"
named. The business man acceptcd the offer
very readily, paid the required sum and took
posession of the glossy coal black. Very soon,
however, the coal b'.ack began to grow rusty,
and in spite of great care in currying and
washing the rusty tint increased in rustiness,
when upon making a "scientific examintion,"
the glossy coal black was found to have beeu
simply another manifestation of the remarka
ble progress the county is making in the fine
art ol hair dying, and especially horse-hair
dying. Ihe business man's new coal black
horse turned out to be his original white one,
which he had swapped for the cream-color.
Anger.?Xever get angry. It does no
good ! Some sins have a seeming compensa
tion or apology, a present gratification of
some sort, but anger lias none. A man feels
no better for it. It is really a torment, and
when the storm of passion has cleared, it leaves
one to see that he has been a fool in the eyes
of others, too. A pa-sionate man adds noth
ing to the welfare of society. He may do
some good, but more hurt. Heated passion
makes him a fireband, and it is a wonder if
he does not kindle flames of discord on every
hand. Without much sensibility, and oftqp
void of reason, he speaks like the piercing of
a sword, and his tongue is an arrow shot out,
and found only "in the bosom of fools. ??
Why should it be indulged in at all ?
When you want a warm bath and can't
pay for one, just pull your neighbors nose and
| you'll soon be its hot water.
?jnnt 1&9?P99N
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A Sicgular.Aclventura.
Ooce upon a time if traveler stepped into
a sta^e coach. lie a youog nun starting
in liie. lie found six'passengers about hiai,
nil grey headed aod.extremcly njed men ?
The youngest appeared to have seeu at least
eighty winters. Our young traveler, struck
with the siugu'arityC luild and happy aspect
which distinguished ,all his fellow passengers,
determined to ascertain the secret of long
life and art of making old age comfortable.
lie addressed the one apparently too oldest,
who told hiui that Bo had always led a regu
lar and abstenious life; eating vegetables and
drinking water. The young mm was ratlior
daunted at this, in as much as ho liked tbu
pood things of this life. 1!? addressed tha
second, who astonished hitn by raying he htd
always eaten ('cast beef and gono to bed reg
ularly fuddled for lb?J?st seventy years, udd
ing all depended pri*~iegalanty. Tuo third
JwLnml.inyMr i.is day* hyvnevcr acokitji;
aocepiWgofiw; uie^SburtaTj.rresorutt'.'jr'sB
staining from all political and retigiotts^'Tfln
troversies; and the fifth by going to bed at
sunset and rising at dawn. The siilh was
apparently much younger than :!io other Cvo
? his hair was less grey and thoro was more
of it?a placid smile, denoting a perfectly
easy conscience, mantled his faco, aad Lid
voice was joct'nd and strong.
They were all surprised to learn that ha
was by ten years the oldest man in the ccacu.
"How is it that you have preserved tho
freshness of life t" exclaimed our young trav
eler.
The old gentleman immediately answered
the young traveler by saying?"I have drunll
water and wino?I have eaten mr.at and veg
etables?I have dabbled in polities npd writ
ten religious pamphlets?I have sometim .1
gone to bed at midnight; and got up at sun
rise and at noon ; he then fixed his eyes in
tently upon the young mun, conctuJcd with
this remark, "Out I aiicaya piy pi-onipf'y fur
my newspaper !"
Then tho other old men also cuimcd in
with?"Of course, we always pay promptly,
and in advance, for our newspapers. 1*0
man deserves long liie who does uot do this
Then the young man resolved that ho bIsj
would reuticr liiui^olf dctorviug of long life
?and immediately subscribed for fire news
papers, paying for them all iu advauco lit
is living yd !
Header?go thou nod do likewise '?
A Warning to Dram Drinkers.
Having stirred up a genuine sensation
among the retail grocers of New York city,
by its exposures of light weights and adultu
rations, the World has now uttacked a far
more vulnerable and mischievous class of
dealers?the venders of liquors by the glass.
To make its exposures the more effective
samples of the most expensive whiakey and
brandy were bought some time since by the
World's "commissioner" at several of the most
fashionable bar-rooms in that city, find sub
jected to chemical analysis by Professor John
0. Draper. The results obtained will utooish
and horrify the gentlemeu who have been iu
the habit of taking their '-toddies" at suclt
places, under tho delusion that high prices
insure n pure and undiluted article. At bnt
one bar in the list was the brandy obtained
pure, and in this instance it wjs greaily dilu
ted. The whiskey was better, but generally
contained more or less of tho poisonous fusci
oil, and of tannin, and was invariably diluted.
The generalization of the Sicts obtained is,
that "in our day there is barely one gallon iu
a hundred thousand manufactured that is not
adulterated or badly rectified." This fearful
fact should bo burned into the mind of every
young man in the country. Tho beginning
of the New Year is a gojd time iu which to
burn it, and we hope our young men will to
day make their resolutions accordingly.
[Sprinnjield (III) Journal.
Position in Sleeping.
It is better to go to sleep on the rig!:t sice,
for theu the s.tomach is much in the position
of a bottle upside down, and the contents ar?
aided in passing out by gravitation. It ouo
goes to sleep on tho left side, the operation
j of emptying the stomach of its contents i?
j more like drawing water from a nell. After
! going to sleep let the body take its own posi
tion. If you sleep on your back, c'peoially
soon after a hearty meal, the weight of the
digestive organs, and that of the lbo-j, rest
ing on the great vein of the br;dy, ucar the
back bone, compresses it. and arrests the flow
of blood more nr less. If the arrest ij par
tial, the sleep is disturbed, and there are un
pleasant dreams. If the meal has been re
cent or hearty, the arrest is more decided, and
sensations, such as failing over a precipico, or
the pursuit of a wild beast, or other impend
ing danger, and the desperate effort to get
rid of it, arouse us; that send on the stag
nating blood, and we awake iu a fright, or
trembling, or feelings of exhaustion, accord
ing to the degree of stagnation, and tlio length
or strength of the effort made to escape tho
danger. Eating a hearty meal before going
to bed, should always be avoided ; it is tho
1 frequent cause of nightmare, and soiucliuit-d
of sudden death.
To Make Cov.s Give Milk.?A writer
who says his cow gives all the milk that he
wanted in a family of eight persona, and from
which was made 2C9 pounds of butter tho
? year, gives the following as his treatment.?
lie says : "If you desire to get a large yield
of milk, give your cow three times a day water
; slightly warm, slightly salted, in which bran
has been stirred at the rate of one quart to
i two gallons of water. You w ill find if -you
have not found, that by this daily practice,
your cow will gain twenty-five per cent, im
mediately under the effucts ol it, and she will
become so attached to the diet as to refuse to
drink clear water unless very thirsty, but this
mess she will drink almost any time, and ask
for more. The amount of this drink is an
ordinary pailful each time, morning noon and
night. Your animal will then do her best at
discounting the lacteal. Kour hundred pouuds
of butter are obtained from good stock, and
instances are mentioned where the yield waj
even at a higher figure."
T
Stewed Otstees.?Take one gallon good _
oysters, remove from them the juice, theu
i add to the juice one quarter of a pound of
j batter and one quart of sweet milk. Pep
per and salt to tho t.nte, and boil for twenty
minutes. Now add the oysters, nod let them
come to a boil; then *erve.* Yon will have a
rich stew, and the oyster will retain its plump
shape and natural flavor.