Alleganian (Newspaper) - May 10, 1865, Cumberland, Maryland VOLUME IL CUMBERLAND MARYLAND WEDNESDAY MAY 16 1865 NUMBER EVERY WEDNESDAY MOBNING oa Mechanic Street near the House TWO Ko n IfS sh uf the 1 SMITH of tlie Circuit of T A Jis J of 1 11 11 0 A M 1 ELIJAH J II J I I to CHAS C CO WHOUISAI.K i IX DRUGS CHEMICALS i LAMP r and Corner of U und June 8 y ji UP CREEK MB AT nf Wills in tin HS uf llw kite 11 n t GO DRUGGISTS CHEMISTS On t MIL K BUOK anil Anil in Wall Paper Blinds Curtains etc etc H M Dealer in TEAS i ir A M I IM Slure Mil In Dealers in Iron etc uM stand corner nnd M ili inic Do tier in raps clc n Storr WILLIAM uf Tin Copper nml near tlic in Books and Tancy Hull street Duller In Collars Cravats rrc street the MERCHANT A X V C I O T I It llrcct tho A P in Dry etc 3 Rillo t in and He lo KLAKE MERCHANT TAILOR And in HATS CAT'S ACCOUTREMENTS Ain GOODS New opposite Ihc WIDENER JUSTICE OP THE on street near the Sinnro SAMUEL Restaurant nnd Saloon on li mil Baltimore WILLIAM SADDLE K MAKER Mechanic frw north of Bridles Collars Whips Harness Kept constantly on toil arc for stile M the lowest prices LOUIS ad Hair D all who services in to mil Ant Shop M near t January 2 A OLD POEM Who thill n mnn from Who lir Ills dress miy fit for fit nml dirtt juke Mai the Of the thouyhu could do ito There urn f of out of nre purple and mid Oml who finals lir not nnd me While lie the Hut ns bubbles in the tu M in his I ft his fellum j turns it That hinds are men labor men Mm by thought nud imn hr f right? Jn n man's n There nre fo un oceans link nils Tin re nre tunic inih nre on tlie Cod bj pouls nut and to Him nil distinctions Are as pebbles in the sen alone are builders Of n n or fame Titled fo Till nLd oil the Ihi of nh out lo While the poor m lifted up Truth and nre Horn And t li ill prosper bile 13 a lod lore tii nnd me its As the of the of Wholesome Beds Sleep to the working nnn ia the much toil lias ami keeping up flow ol ife which arc necessary to the of tlic arduous of life A lied as we arc ill aware conduces greatly to rett On this ti recent writer Of thu eight a man cats mil drinks in a day it is thought that riot ess five pounds leave the hotly through the akin And of these five pounds a per escapes during the light while is in hcd The larger pirt of this is Water but addition there is inch and poisonous matter This ng in great part gaseous in form permeates part of the tad Thus all parts of he bed as well as sheets foul and need purification The mattress needs the ation quite as much as tlic To allow the sheets o be t washing or changing or sit month would be regarded as nil housekeeping but I insM if a thin licet can absorb enough of thu of the body to make it for ise in a few days a thick which an absorb and retain a thousand times us of poisonous needs o be purified aa often certainly as once in hrce months A sheet can be washed A mattress lot be renovated in this way Indeed there s no other way of cleansing a mattress but y it or picking it to pieces and jus in exposing it to the ays of sun And these processes are practicable with nny of the y I am decidedly of the in that the good straw bed can every three months be changed for straw and the tick be washed is the wettest and healthiest of beds If in the winter season the porousness of ic straw bed makes it a little uncomfortable over it a comforter or two woollen which should be washed 09 often two weeks AVith this if you wash all tho bed coverings as ften as once in two or three weeks you have a delightful healthy bed if you the bed to air with open during the and not it up the night before evening you will have greatly to tho sweetness of your rest id in consequence to the tone of your T heartily wish thin good change could introduced Only those who thus attended to this important matter in judge of its influence on the general and spirits win docs not feel a bit the stronger or feeling rarely nnd IIP who resolutely all of feeling docs more an that ho puts down the thing itself Henry you ought to bo ashamed to throw way bread like that You may it day Well mother would I stand iiy bettor of getting it should 1 cnt it tip TALK ABOUT EI T P in youthful bloom and beau- ty sat earnestly talking Their thought was reaching away into thu future their theme was marriage I like him well paid one of them She paused the objection un- spoken What is the impediment Alice His income is too email What is Eight hundred dollars year Vou might lit e What Kind of Xot in princely style I will admit Nor scarcely in plebeian hundred father pays six hundred rent and I'm sure our style of living is plain enough Kight dred Oh no I like Harry better than any joUng man I have uiet 1 could love him no doubt lie can't support a wife in any decent kind of Did Jour father and mother begin their married life on a larger income than now Mine did nut a I have often heard them relate Father and Oh according t Job's f turkey was poor cr than they were in the beginning Moth cr did all her on n work even to the wash ing and ironing I believe Father's not over three or four hundred dollars And they were happy together I ail sure doubt In fact heard mother siy that the first hard struggling o heir life were among the happiest she hai that doesn't signify for me That is no reason why her daughter shoul elect to go into the kitchen and spend her i ears in washing ironing and cooking I i man isn't able to support n wife genteelly and in the style which she has been let him marry some Irish cook sowing girl or who ill age his household with the needed economy Young men who can't earn more than eight hundred or a thousand dollars a year shoult not lock into our circle for I don't like to hear you talk in this waj paid her companion We are not superior beings but only the equals of the men Did I siy we were One might infer from your language that you thought so I don't see how the inference can be drawn Our circle for wives you said just now What do 3011 mean by A circle of intelligence refinement taste and said Alice don't say wealth Xo My father though living in good style is not I have heard him say more than once that ne were living up to our income Then We have our own sweet with which to endow our husbands No houses or lands no stocks from which to draw an income nothing substantial on which to claim the right of being supported in costly idleness We must he rich indeed as to personal attractions Wo are educated and accomplished and Alice was a little bewildered in thought nnd did not finish the sentence Xot better educated or accomplished ns girls than are most of the young men who aa earn from seven hundred to a thousand dollars a year In this regard we are simply their equals lint it strikes me that in another view of tho case we cannot even claim an equality They nre our Xot by any replied Alice 1 We shall see Hero is Harry for instance what is his income I think you mentioned the sum just now Kight hundred dollars n year That fa the interest much 7 let me twelve thousand To he equal ns a match fur Harry then jou ho worth thousand lars How you talk Fanny I To the point don't I If we are not superior to tho young men who visit ns simply in virtue lo our sex then our only claim to he handsomely supported in idle self indulgence must lie in the fact that we endow our husbands with sufficient ly goods to warrant tho condition Vou are ingenious No matter of that What havo you to ay against my position Aro we Hitler than young men of equal intelligence nnd education No I cannot say lint we aro If we marry wo must look upon these for husbands men as a general thing elect their wives from rich daughters Our chances in that direction are not very encouraging Your father has no dowry for his child nor has mine Their families are large and expensive and little or ing of the year's income is left at the year's The best they can do for us is to giv e us homes and I feel that it is not much to our credit that we arc content to lean on our fathers already under the dens of years care and toil instead of porting ourselves The thought has led me of late A sober hue came face of Alice as tho sat looking into the cy es of her friend She did not reply and Fanny went on There is wrong in this On what ground of reason are we to be exempt from the com- mon lot of useful work Wu to be- come wives and mothers Is this our pre- 1 Can you hake a loaf of light Nor can Or roast a No Or broil a Just think of it We can manage a little useless em- broidery or fancy knitting can sing and play dance and as to the real and substantial things of life we nre rant and And with all this for- sooth ue cannot think of letting ourselves down to the level and condition of virtuous intelligent young men who in daily useful work arc earning n fair We are so superior that we must have bands able lo support us in luxurious ness or will have Wears willing to pass the man to whom love would unite us in the bonds because hta income is small and marry for position one from whom the soul turns with instinctive sion Can we wonder that so many are un- happy eight hundred dollars How is it possible for a married couple to live in any decent in this city on eight hundred dollars a They mny live in a Very comfortable style if the wife is willing to perform her part What do you mean by her pirt We will take it for granted that she is no better than her husband That having brought him no fortune beyond her dear self she cannot claim superior privileges He ban to work through all the day Under what equitable rule is she ex- None She must do her part if there is anj thing to do with She must keep his bouse if he can afford a But if have only eight hundred dollars year Why rent alone would consume half or more than half of that There would bo no in the case They must And tho wife sit in idleness all the day She would have nothing to do Could she not teach 1 or by aid the of a sewing machine earn a few dollars every week or engage in some other useful work that would yield an income and eo do her Yes the might do something of tho if marriage is to make of 113 it wore better to remain single And live in unwomanly dependence on our parents and relatives No Alice there nearest approach fo heavenly here must be in that state into wife comes when she stands by her husband's side and out of lore far him removes one burden and another from his shoulders end so lightens his work that smiles lakes the place of weariness and tile of care If lie bo rich sho can hardly have is a false sentiment prevailing on this sub- eel and as I think and talk I see it more ind more clearly Our parents havo been in their love for 113 and society as constituted has given us wrong estimates to do useful work in tho household from the nnd we have been taught lhat idleness and were Our brothers are put lo nnd and mado to comprehend From the beginning that industry is able and that the way of useful work is the by which the world's brightest places aru fo be reached we are raised daintily and uselessly so to our duties as wives and Our pride and self-esteem aro d and wo como to think of ourselves as uture queens who aro to bo ministered to n all thing instead of our being rant in loving to others wonder that an anti marriage sentiment s beginning lo prevail among young men of incomes in all our large The fault is in us Alice The ein lies at ur door Wo are not willing to do our hare of work Our husbands must bear 11 the bunions heavily Her friend I have read that tho delight of is the elight of being useful And it seems to no aa I dwell upon the thought that tho to great a but if arc alike poor and know how to moderate llieir de- their home may become an imago of Paradise Eight hundred dollars Alice if you were really fitted to become Henry's wife you might lire with him doing your part happier than a queen That is I must Like in work and card money if wo board is out of tho question No it should never be out of the tion in marriage I think But house rent alone would take half of our That does not follow It does for any house I would consent to live So pride ia stronger than love But pride hag its wages as well as love and the one is bitter while the other is It is the pride of appearance this living for the eyes of other people vv ho do not care a ny for us that is marrying the fair fabric of our social life Fine houses fine furniture dresses shows and costly uries of all kinds are consuming domestic happiness and burdening fathers and bands in all grades of society with and wretchedness Alice wo must be wiser in our generation That is coop ourselves up in two or three little rooms with our eight hundred dollar a year husbands and do our own cooking and housework la is that iny pretty Alice 1 You do not good man You nre not worthy to wed Harry and I trust you will pass him by should he bo weak enough to offer you his hand He can't afford to marry a girl of jour expectations he must content himself with one who like himself regards life as real as earnest and the way of usefulness and duty tho way lo true honor nnd the est happiness OVE OF N of Sir Wilson contain ing statistics an to the size of Napoleon's army in the Russian campaign It rather beats us out in of numbers ted in a single army Tho army which sed the under Napoleon's ate orders was composed as follows to official returns in the French War Infantry cavalry horses exclusive of for the artil- lery artillery pieces exclusive of 130 cicge guns Of this vast host there remained on leaving Moscow try cavalry and detached or disabled men On the 2d of December the same year the army was reduced to 000 infantry and i GIMM A UN The latest personal anecdote of Gen Grant is told of a recent journey of his in a train where he displayed as usual none of the insignia of his rank A youthful book traversed the cars crying Life of General Grant A mischievous aid ted to the General's seat suggesting to the boy that man might like a copy eral Grant turned over the pages of the book and casually-asked Who is this all The boy giv ing him a look of indignation and disgust replied You must be a ed greeny not lo know Gen Grant ler this volley the Lieutenant General of course surrendered graphy and bought his bio- A v I was a young man there lived in our neighborhood a fanner who was usually reported to bo a very liberal man and uncommonly upright in his dealings he had nny of the products of his farm to of ho mado it an invariable rule to make good measure rather more than would bo required of him One of his friends observing him frequently doing so questioned him aa to why ho diJ it ho told him he gavo loo much and said it would ho lo his advantage Now dear er mark the answer of good God has permitted mo but one through tho and when I am gone I cannot return to rectify mistakes Think of this There is hut ono through life No man who is over thoroughly ashamed of himself should bo classed among the ir- reclaimable Tho real fool regrets tho right thing or for tho right reason and under no circumstances sees himself aa ers sec him Attempt upon of How that tho lias deprived tho nation of Its ing account of an attempt upon the life of General during Ms second will bo found interesting We extract it from Colonel Thirty On Friday QIC of lie President with gome members of his Cabinet attended the funeral ceremonies of Warren It Davis Esq in the Capitol ia tlic hull of tho House of Representatives of which body Jlr Davis had been from the Stole of South Carolina The cession had moved out with the body Sea its front had reached the foot of the broad steps of the eastern portico when the ident with Mr Secretary of tha Treasury and Mr Mahlon Dickerson rotary of the Navy were issuing from tha door of the great rotunda which opens on the portico At that instant a person stepped from tha crowd into the little open spaco in front of the President a pistol at him at tho distance of about eight feet and attempted to fire It was a cussion lock the cap exploded ing the powder in the barrel Tlie sion of the cap was so loud that many thought the pistol was fired I heard it at the foot of the steps far from the and a great crowd between Instantly the person dropped tho pistol which had missed took another which he held ready cocked iir his left hand concealed by a cloak leveled it and pulled tho trigger It was a percussion lock the cap exploded without Cring the powder in the barrel The ident instantly rushed him with his uplifted cane the man shrunk back Woodbury aimed a blow at him of the nary knocked he was secured by the bystanders who de- livered him to the officers of Justice for examination The examination took place beforo the Chief Justice of the Dis- Mr Cranch by whom he was com- mitted in default of bail r His name was ascertained to be Richard Lawrence an Englishman by birth and house painter by trade at out of employment melancholy and The pistols were examined and found to bo- well loaded and fired fail carrying their bullets and driving through inch boards at thirty feet distance nor could any reason be found for the two failures at the door of the rotunda On his examination the prisoner be at his case as if unconscious of having done thing to cross examine witnesses who testified against him or to give any explanation of his conduct idea of a unsound mind strongly itself upon public opinion the Marshal of the District invited two of the most table physicians of tha city Dr was one of them to fisit him and examine bis mental condition ing is the report which they made ease Wo omit the the which Is to the effect that Lawrence was of a morbid melancholy who had been induced to believe lhat the financial condition of the country was owing Jackson's Telo of the bank and bis war on the currency that it ho was way no matter who might be his successor business would improve nnd money become plenty i It clearly to be seen from tots eal examination of tho man aU tempted assassination of tho President wai one of those cases of which many diseased mind acted np on by a general outcry against a man Lawrence was in tho particular con- dition to bo acted by what he heard ai gainst General workman out of employment needy idle mentally and with reason enough regularly from false premises Ho heard the dent accused of breaking up the the country 1 and believed making money scarce I and ho believed being a tyrant and being an cle to all and believed it And com- ing to a regular conclusion from beliefs he attempted to do what he believed the of things required him take the life of the man whom he consider-1 cd tho whole canso of his the oral tho solo obstacle own and tho general happiness nation of the mind was evident and the wretched of a dreadful delusion afterward treated to trial tho leap and carried many to belief in a superintending tlie extraordinary tols in well handled and which such readiness fi ing firo each in ila tart feet at tin t 1
