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HD SB A BEDS AJtD THBItt HABITS.
Soroa husband* never leave home In the
morning without kitsing their wires and
bidding them, “good-by, dear,” in the
tone* of unwearied lore; and, whether it
be policy or fact, it hat all the effect, and
those hornet are generally pleasant one*
providing always that the wires are appre
ciative and welcome the discipline in a
loudly spirit. We know an old gentleman
who lived with hit wife over fifty ycart, and
never left home without the twa and the
“good-by, dear.” Some husbands shake
hands with their wives and harry off as
fast as possible, as though the effort were a
something that they were ftpjiou* to for
get,ho!diug their heads 4owa and darting
round the first corner. Some husbands,
before leaving borne, ask very tenderly,
“What would you like for dinner, my dear?
knowing all the while that the will select
something for hit particular palate, and off
be goes. Borne husbands will leave home
without say mg anything «t all hut thinking
a good deal, at evinced by their turning
round at the last point of observation and
waving an adieu at the pleasant face or
facea at the window. Some husbands
never say • word, rising from the breakfast
table with the lofty indifferenoe of a lord,
and going out with a heartleta disregard of
thoae left behind. It is ,a fortunate thing
lor their wives that they «an find sympathy
elsewhere. Some hntbtods never leave
home without tome unkind word or look,
apparently thinking that such a conrse
will keep tilings straight in their ab
sence. Then on 'returning, some) hus
bands come borne jolly and happy unsolv
ed by the world; tome sulky and early
with its disappointment. Some husbands
hring home a newspaper or a book, and
bury themselves for the evening in its
contents. Some husbands are called away
every evening by business or tooiel engage
ments; some dose in speechless stupidity
on a sofa until bedtime, Some husband*
are curious to.learn of their wives what has
transpired through the day; others are at
tracted by nothing short of a ohild’t tum-
bling down stairs or the house taking fire.
“ Depend upon it,” says Dr. Spooner, “that
home is the happiest where kindness, and
interest, and politeness, and attention are
to rule' on U>. r ~* «i tk. Whand-rfd
course, all the reponsMily reste with them
—and temptation finds no footing there.”
AStOßir jo Task Aw at Wwmxus.
—There is an old book called The Toilet
Os flora. Hand it me down; it is on the
fourth shelf there, third volume from the
window. Thanks. It says in the preface,
“The chief Intention of this I’erformanco
fs (o point out to the Fair Be* (that means
wemen) the Method by which they can
preserve and add to their Charms,” There
am many curious hints in it, but just hear
what the author proscribes as “A Secret to
Take Away Wrinkles.” bio, you aro sot
goiag to ho sold wjth a sentimental old
moral about cultivating benevolent seuti
meets, and then your wrinkles will not he
noticed—the ladies of that day would have
pitched away the bock, and caltod the wri
ter’s confirm’d prig. listen to tlio words
of power ;
■uJhllot au iron shovel red hot. Throw
thereon some pwoeTof fiyrrhj’recoive the
Bmcsk on your Face, covering your head
with a Napkin to collect the Smoak. Do
{this three times. Then heat the Shovel
again, and when Fiery Hot Bpit on it a
Mouthful of White Wine. Receive this
Vapour also in your face three times.
Continue this proceeding every Night and
Morning as Lang as yon find Occasion.”
Now, go home and try that, some of you
who don’t look quite so young as when I
first knew you.
Ladies’ Newspapers— -An able En
glish critic, on this subject, briefly but
sensibly argues; “Asa rule, ladies prefer
those journals which combine sens* with
taste and fashion. They do not care for
the political or party paper, but they do
wish to know of Ml great movements in
government, in publio enterprises, in
education, religion and in the various
reforms, temperance, hygienic, etc. Pa
pers or magazine*, written exclusively for
ladies, lack that vigor and power which all
true women admire. The best paper,
therefore, combines the two elements, male
and female, to blended aa to represent the
two nature*, and u> W both the intellect
and the sentiment; W from feeding on the
wishy-washy (waddle of sick, simpering,
literary ‘hacks’ of either sex, we beg to be
delivered. Sensible men and women want
vigorous, sensible thoughts, expressed by
baalthy minds, and not the emptv chaff of
empty skulk.”
THE UNKNOWN SEAS.
- T]m - ** Hsmnf thump. ,
The rain i* pit.hing on my sill,
But all the wind* of Heaven are still;
And JO it Jails with that doll sound,
Which thrill* oa in the church yard ground,
When the first spadeful drop* lik* lead,
Upon the coffin of the dead,
Beyond my *treamisg window-pane,
I cannot see the neighboring vane,
If at from it* eld familiar tower, •
The bell come*, muffied, through the shower,
What strange and unsuspected link,
Os feeling touched, haa made me think—
While with * vacant eoul and qyo,
I watch that gray and atony sky—
Os nameless groves on battle plains;
Washed by a single winter’s rains.
Where, some beneath Virgin inn hills,
And some by green Atlantic rills.
Soma by the waters of the West,
A myriad unknown heroes rest,
Ah-i not the chiefs who, dying, sea
Their flag* in front of victory,
Or at their life-blood’s noble cost.
Pay for a battle nobly lost,
Claim from their monumental b«ds
The bitterest tear* a nation ahtda;
Beneath you lonely mound-—the spot,
By alt sere tome fond few forgot—
He the true martyrs .of the fight,
Which strikes for freedom and for right.
Os them, their patriot seel and pride,
The lofty faith that with them died,
Ho grateful page shall farther tell,
Than that so many bravely fell;
And we nan only dimly gueea
What worlds of all this world’s dUtrcm,
What utter woe, despair and dearth
Their fate ha* brought to many a hearth.
Just such a «ky aa this ehould wasp
Above them always where they deep;
Vet, haply, at this very hour,
Their graves era Ideas lover’* bower,
And Natore’a self, with eye* unwet.
Oblivious of the crimson debt,
To which she owee her April grass;
Uugh* gaily o’er their borial place
ROMANCE. '
»T OLIVER WEiTOAU BOI.XB*.
Ohl aha was a maid of laughing eye,
And she lived in a garret cold and high,
And ha was a threadbare, wbWcefed beau,
And be lived in a cellar damp and low.
lint the rosy boy of the cherub wing,
Hath tusny a shaft for hi* slender string,
And the youth below end the maid above,
Were touched with the flashing darts of lov*.
And the would wake from her troubled deep.
O er hit tender tmiet-atmx to weep, '
Or eland like a statue cold and fair.
And gaze on n lock of hie bright red hair.
And ha who was lata so tall and proud,
With hie step so firm and laugh ao loud.
Hit beard grew long and hi* f lo e grew thin,
And ha pined in tolitude over hi* gin.
B*t one soft night in the month of June,
A* she lay in the light of a cloudless moon,
A voice came floating soft and dear,
To the startled maiden’s listening ear-
O then from her creaking couch aha sprang,
And her tangled trcaeee hack ahe flung,
Bb# looked from the window far below.
And ha stood beneath—her whiskered ba*u I
She did not start with a foolish frown,
But packed her trunk and scampered down,
And there wae her lover tail and true,
In hie thread-bare ooat of the brightest blue.
The stars that rose in the evening shade,
hooked sadly down on a weeping maid,
The sun that come in bis morning pride,
Sh*J golden light o’er n laughing bride.
Vic* asd Virtue.— That the virtuous
person, or ho who performs his duty by
obeying the will of God, enjoys much
happiness; and that the vicious person, or
he who lives in the habitual violation of
law intimated to him by reason and con
science, is subject to much infelicity, are
truths *o obvious, that they ha.* BO t
escaped observation in any age. AU men,
indeed, suffer a greater or less degree of
uneasiness and pain; but the virtnona man
experiences far less than the vicious. The
first tastes all those joys whioh the moral
constitution of his nature impart*; the last
not only loses those joys, but suffers the
miseries flowing from a disapproving mind.
The good person also enjoys the esteem and
affection of his fellow-men. Look at two
character*; the one is pious, upright, hu
mane, temperate and industrious; the other
is irreligious, unjust, malignant, treacherous,
indolent and debauched. Which of these
two would you choose for your friend! To
which of them would you commit a trust!
All men Distantly, and with one votoe, give
the preference to the virtuous character.
They esteem him; they love him; they
wish him well. Put the vicious person is
the object of contempt or detestation,
A damsel was asked, “When a lady and
gentleman have quarreled, and each con
siders the other in fisult, which of the two
ought to be the first to advance towards a
reconcilation t” Her reply was. “The best
hearted and wisest of the two.”
Cuaioemxa ov Hcmasitt. —The hus
band that says to hie wife on a Monday
night, when code is in revolt, dinner i*
behind hand, and “shock down,” “My
dear, you look tired —let m walk up and
down with the hflij while you rest!”
The wife who expends aa much pains
upon her toilette $b a rainy morning when
there is no one but “John" at the breakfast
table, as she does otabe evening when her
old sweetheart is coining to call 1
The husband who reads all the Con
gressional debatea to his wife without
meanly skipping Avciy other paragraph,
and always kecps'Bisr posted in floating poi
Tb#)wife who"provides herself withspods
of cotton thimble* and sewing work before
the reading don’t have to jump
up once in five minutes to “fetch something
from the other mom!” I ,
The man who inconsistent, and goes out
to chop kindlings for exercise after having
recommended bed-waking to hi* wife as a
laalthfui mtthodTT expanding the chest !
The woman who tells berbusSlnft-jost
exactly how mnnKtnoney »be ‘pent in that
shopping expedition yesterday!
The man who is always delighted with
the domestic puddings and pies, and don’t
expect a daily bill of fare like unto a
French restaurant 1
The sc.*..,who never saw a collar pattern
that fits so much hotter than bis aver did!
The woman who can't tell the color of
her neighbor’s new winter bonneti
The husband who, especially during
northeast storms, and during the preva
lence of domestio toothaches, makes up
his mind that it is a great deal cheaper to
be amiable than to soold.— Phrenological
Journal.
Tat Miixessicm —A literary curiosity
has just appeared in London tinder the
title of “Lotus Naporeon the destined
Monarch of the Wtuid,” Ao., by the Rev.
M. Baxter, author of “Tbs Coming
It is said that twelve thousand copies have
been sold, the book finding readers, notwith
standing its apparent absurdity, on accout
of the noteworthy names used by tbe
author as authorities. We are indebted
to Mr. Baxter for the cheerful news that
the world is to end in 1873—a0 that
may set a tout their preparations
fofftal event aa sdßn as they like; but
during tbebiief interval of six or seven
years the Emperor of the French is to
become sole monarch of the world, person
ally representing the Antichrist of the latter
day. He is become sapremo over England
and moat of America, the rout of Christen
dom submitting to his sway. He is to
make a covenant with the Jews, who by
his aid are to return to Palestine, resume
their rank as a nation and rebuild Jerusa
lem. Napoleon is than to begin and carry
on the persecution of Christians which
answers to the pouring out of the vials.
“,Two years and six weeks” after the date
of the oovenant with the Jews, “tbe ascen
sion of the one hundred and forty-four
thousand wise virgins” is expected to occur.
The Jews are to bp favored only for seven
yoars and two and a half months, and then
tho great battle of Armageddon is to taka
place, in which Louis Napoleon (the “great
best”) is to be defeated and slain. This is
a revelation mom startling than any of
Dr. Cummings’ inventions.
Indian CorrCt.—lndia, perhaps, more
than any other part of the world, ia fitted
to supply our markets with au abundant
good apd cheap flipply of oottou. Hither
to the quantity Os this important staple
that has found tie way into Liverpool and
our principal posts has disappointed the
anticipations of loose best acquainted with
its immense resources and capabilities;
but when we co aider the difficulties which
had and are «til to be surmounted, we
have reason to (angratulate ourselves th*;
so much has alfeady been accomplished.
A glance at of countries contribu
ting cotton will (how that a very consid
erable iocreasa lias taken place in the
quantity now i nported from onr eastern
empire; andhereute must,injustice,remark
that this result is In a great measure, if not
altogether attributable to tbe persistent
exertiofls the Cotton Supply Association
of Manchester have put forth to overcotire
the prejudices raff natural conservatism
of tits native mild, and to stimulate both
th* large and rural! ’proprietors to the
cultivation ot ihk cotton plant, wherever
it could he grofu with success. It haa
noW- been domabstrated satisfactorily that
tka landowners of India will, as elsewhere,
give up the culture of their accustomed
crops where they find it profitable to do
90 and* if only the forces of the soil arc
seconded by (fie use of mode in
cleansing and pressing maditoery and the
means of transport improM, We ntey con- :
fidently look to oftr possess!#;}* to the East
ultimately standing at the list tea source
of supply. x 'O’lSPteHjßj!
In ail thesa raapeota, however, India k
bora under very terious disadvantages.
The culture of tho plant is carried on in
the most primitive manner, and with
implements of the roughest and most anti
quated character; the product ia imperfectly
cleaned; frequently no attempt whatever is
mad# to subject it to effective adadequate
pressor*, and the means of transport and,
intercommunication are positively disgrace
ful. If we add to these drawbacks the
fact that the article at present grown is
mostly of inferior quality, simply because
it is raised from- inferior seed, we have a
state of the attention not merely of the
mercantile community but also of the Gov
ernment.
Th* Present.' —ln order to enjoy the
presenj, itTm»«sury to be intent on tbe
.present. To be doing one thing, and
thinking of another, is a very unsatisfactory
mode of spending life. Some people are
always wishing themselves somewhere but
where they are, or thinking of something
else than whst they are doing, or of some
body else than to whom they are speaking.
This is tho way to enjoy nothing, to do
nothing well, and to please nobody. It is
better to be interested with inferior things
thauto bo indifferent with the best. A
principal |*us« of this indifferenoe of other
people’s tsi.t.'s instead of tbe cultivation of
our own—the pursuit after that for which
consequently, we are not in reality inclined.
This folly pervades, more or less, all classes,
and arises from the error of building our
enjoyment on tbe foundation of the world’s
opinion, instead of being, with due regard
to others eaeh our own world.
A nosegay is easily obtained. Four
brandy teddies a day for a couple of
months will put you in the way of one
that will astonish all your frineda.
GOOD NEWS
FOR THE **
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Os Washigton and Vicinity.
11 RECEIVED,
A. LARGE STOCK
OF
SPRING GOODS,
FM€¥ GGMB,
A LARGE STOCK OP
BESTS’ CLOTHKG ASD
FURNISHING GOODS.
CONSULT YOUR OWN INTEREST BE
FORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE.
Respectfully,
J. WILES & CO.
WaKhiogtoo, April 36, 1-ts
MACHINE SHOP
, s, ASD
W. L. & I. T. KEOIGH,
AT GOLUCKES OLD STAND,
XVTB would respectfully inform the public
T V thst vi are now prepared to mak*
and repair Furniture, with neataee* * IT -’ dis
patch. COTTAGE CHAIRS and BED
STEADS, of different kinds and qualities al
ways on hand. » '
WINDOW BUNDS,
SASHES.
DOORS. Ao., Ae.
Order* for COFFINS will receive prompt at
tention night or dev- Versons wishing to pur
chaee Furniture, will find it So their interest to
cell and examine our atoek before purchasing
elsewhere. W . L. AJ. T. ENOUGH. 1
April 26,1866, l-2m
00 tMJij
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EMERIES,
HARDWARE, &C.,
AT CLEVELAND'S OLD STAND.
WE desire to call the attention of the p*b
lic to onr complete Stock of
GROCERIES,
which we offer cheap for CASH. Our assort
ment.consuls at
SUGARS, COFFEES. TEAS. PICKLES, VIN
EGAR, LORSTERS, OYSTERS, SAR
DINES, mackerel, salt canT
NED FRUITS, JELLIES, FINE
WINES, BRANDIES, ALE,
WHISKEYS, PORTER,
CANDIES OF ALL
KINDS, SOAP,
P I PESj
INK,
PAPER,
CURRANTS,
FINK CHKWJNG
AND SMOKING TO
BACCO, FINE CIGARS,
COTTON AND WOOL CARDS,
BLyCKING, ALMONDS, RyISINS,
HARDWARE. HOES, TRACE-CHAINS!
BUCKETS, TUBS, SHOVELS, SPADES;
Axes, Hatchett,
File*, Screw*,
Nail*, Drawknives,
Sifter*, Padlock.,
Broom., Smoothing Iron*,
* Shear*, Sythe Blade*,
Koirea, Fork., Pocket Kniree,
Measure!, Shot and Cape,
CROCKERYWARE,
TINWARE, &U.
tW Produce of all kind* taken in exchange
L-rj-ootia at tho HIGHEST price*.
Just Received,
A line lot of SUMMER HATS end SHOES at
F. ARNOLD A.GOB.
Washington, Aprils?, 1866, 1-ts
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Stand* for Clothing when fashionably made;
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For Light Fabric, to auit th* spring trade;
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Our establishment, where pies** to cell;
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Tidy garment! should be worn by sU;
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Hot weather, without fear;
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Invite you to buy yow. clothing here;
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New styles we we receiving every week ;
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Glad to ae* yon vhe& onr establishment you
seek.
REMEMBER
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Fashionable Clothing Emporium
214 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, OA.
M»y 18,1866, s— ts
NEW EUITION, JUST PUBLISHED,
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the Elementary Book
of tho kind.
SIMPLE, EASY, GRADUAL-'
NEARLY 50,000 ttINSS ALREADY SOLD!
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For sale by A. BLEAKLEY.
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