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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-04-23
WASHING MACHITES.

WASHING GACHlRES.
4 MEXICAN CHAMPION
Il PATENT WkINGER
AND WASHING MACHINE
Time and Labor Saved.
We have taken the agency OF this justly celc-
brated machine Housckccpcrs are PARTICULAR
ly requested to call and examine it for them
selves, whether desiring to purchase or not. BY
its use the washing of Il large family can be done
in one fourth of the ordinary time, and with
comparatively little Or no labor. 1t is perfectly
simple, and not at all liable to get cut Of repair.
a child is strong enough to work it, and it
washes the clothes beautifully, and with not
half the wear that they are subjected to in the
ordinary way. 1t will be loaned on trial for
one day to parties desiring to purchase. The
following are the manufacturers prices, az
which we hold them For Washing Mach!hc
and Wringor complete SD; Washing Machine
alone, 2l5; Wringer alone. 80
JANNEY s. co.
NH 6-ti Agents, No l4j, King street.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-14
louisiana.

We publish a telegraphic synopsis of Mr..
Eliot's bill, recently passed by the House of
Representatives, recognizing the State of
Louisiana. 1t is merely synopsis, giving
only the general outlines of the bill, which is
understood to be gilmore than ordinary length.
The bill is exceedingly stringent in all its
particulars; and our readers should remember
that it applies only to Louisiana. However,
we can now appreciate the manner in which
treason will be dealt with in this State. The
Secessionists can also realize the fact that
they sinned against light and knowledge in
rejecting the Howard amendment. For now
"Ther hands do shake
And tremble like leaf of aspen green,
And troubled blood on the pale face is seen ]"
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Row at Wilson.

The following is clipped from the cores
pondence of the Sentinel, dated Wilson, Feb
18th:
The good people of Wilson were somewhat
alarmed last night, by serious row between
some drunken negroes and white men. One of
the white men, AMIR. Pate, it is feared, is MORALLY
wounded, and several negroes slightly hurt. The
white man was shot by one of his own party,
through mistake. Several of the negroes have
been arrested and are now in jail"
Such disturbances are to be much deplor-
ed. While we have heard nothing of the
origin of the difficulty, and few of the parti-
culars, yet we know that the want of proper
ly constituted governments in the Southern
States-in fact, the utter Generalization of
the present concerns-is sufficient reason to
account for all the riots, murders and rob-
berries daily occurring within their borders.
We trust that Congress will act speedily, and
give US governments, with ample powers for
the protection of all classes.
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Cooling Down.

The Hanes-Boyden-Or Orr proposition was in
troduced into the House of Commons yester-
day, laid on the table, reconsidered and re-
ferred. These proceedings remind us of
joke, told by friend.
A Dutchman, in Tennessee, having caught
his son in wrong doing, determined to adj
minister dose of hickory. So he trimmed a
switch and went to look for the youngster,
who incontinently took to his heels. After
chasing the boy around for awhile, the old
man thought he would persuade him to stop
and take the licking. So he halted and
hailed the wary fugitive:
"shon,'' said he, "Shon, shtop! I'm not
so mad as cot 1 rashr'
Our Secession friends seem to be cooling
down, they are mot SO mad as vot they
wash !"
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We have frequently been asked would
there be war in the event of President john
sons impeachment Now while we know
there is disposition on the part of promi-
nent rebels South and windy Copperhead
orators North, to precipitate war upon the
country In that event, yet we ask who is to
do the fghting9 Suppose they've don't
know who-have the men, where are the
weapons?
Every loyal State except, two perhaps, has
radical Governor-every Southern State is
garrisoned, and the negro population no
longer in the chains of slavery. What are
the chances Of success for traitors9 None at
ALL
Besides it is fact that jeff Davis could
not have resisted the armies of the United
States after the defeat of Gettysburg, unless
he had filled, as he did fill, his armies by
CONSUMPTION. Who volunteered then2 No
body. Who will volunteer now at the call
OF MIR. Jack Rogers or Mr.. anybody else p
a few from the towns, perhaps, who are too
lazy to work for a living and too proud to
beg; but not a single man from the coun-
try-no, not one. For who will leave his
family unprotected at such time, to fight
for parcel of unhung knaves9 How then
are you going to get up a fight without q
conscript law in each State2 Where are the
troops to come froma If you get the troops,
then where are the arms and ammunition
Now look it in the face, ye windy orators
of blood and fire. Ifyou get up skirmish,
how will it end We can tell YOU. At
the gallows tree!
The only power for evil which you have
left, is the power of Office in the rebel
States This, too, will be taken from you
not because you are feared, but because you
are unworthy to retain it, and use it to the
detriment of loyal men, who are your neigh
bors and political masters-to the encour-
agement of murder and robbery, which are
crimes regulated by committees" of your
political sympathisers.
So much for the question of another war.
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"Tm PLAN OF ADJusTMENTn-W pub
lish, in another column, plan proposed by
certain Southern gentlemen who recently
met in Washington Hon. N. Boyden and
Hon. Lewis Hanes of North Carolina, among
the number1 for setting our national difficult
ties. We also give the remarks of the Raleigh
Sentinel on the subject. : J 49,.
1t will be seen that the plan proposes ne
gro suffrage, and the only remark that We
are disposed at present to make on the sub
ject is, that it is strange that those who have
opposed the adoption of the Howard amend
mcnt, should now favor such plan as is pro-
posed. They professed to consider the How
ard amendment, which left the question of
suffrage with the States, as degrading; but
they are now ready to favor plan which
really degrades the Southern white man to
an equality with the negro at the ballot
box. ... .a..- ...
We warn the people that many of their
Representatives in the Legislature, and poll
tical tricksters and demagogues generally,
are doing great deal of harm, and are un-
worthy of public confidence We say, with
out any sort of hesitation, that the great mass
of the people are being deceived by so-called
"leading men" We are not radical and
neither do we sympathize with the radical
party in any respect whatever; but at the
risk of displeasing the public saints " and
"salt of the EARTH" and in defiance of the
strong party combination which now con-
trolls this State, we intend to speak out in
opposition to bad management.-C Charlotte
Democrat.
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'Tbes. Giapt frees Of California.

Mr.. James F. Hall, an overland
tourist to California, publishes In the
New York Citizen the following &C
count of the mammoth trees in Gala
veras county. q
SO After q comfortable night at Cottage
Springs, we took an early start for the
Big Trees, only nine miles. The whole
forest is of big trees, but when we came
to the" Mother of the Forest" the first
one of the big trees proper we met up
on the road, we were struck with won
der and admiration. This tree is 80
feet in diameter. 1t is easy to write
80 feet, but consider a moment; with
us tree 80 inches in diameter is thought
quite respectable; but 80 feet Why,
it will give you more than double the
area you have got in any room in your
house. The bark was taken off this
tree to the height of 1I6 feet, and | be-
lieve taken to the Worlds Fair in
London.
"The Father of the Forest" a fallen
monarch, is 40 feet in diameter, and is
estimated to have been $50 feet high.
Near to the house largetree has been
felled, and ballroom built over the
stump, which is 90 feet in circumference
and the tree was over 800 feet high, and
took five men twenty-five days to fell it.
1t easily accommodates thirty-one dan
GERS. Of course, the Colonel and / had
our dance uponit. A bar-room and an ex-
cellent double alley bowling saloon
was built upon the fallen tree, but
they were destroyed when the old ho-
tel was burned. Through the heart of
another fallen monarch you ride on
horseback, and when you climb up the
lader and stand on it, yon almost mag
inc yourself on the deck of an immense
ship.
Here we find Generals Grant, Sher-
man, Sheridan, Thomas, Mcpherson,
Wadsworth; then Abraham Lincoln,
VIM. H. Seward, W. G. Bryant, La
fayette, Sir John Franklin, DIR. Kane,
hosts of others. Each one is wonder
ofitself; but for symmetry and beauty,
I think the George Washington exceeds
them all, though it is not the largest
tree of the forest. Here, also, is the
" Florence Nightingale" and near to it
another beautiful tree, not named. We
spent the morning in examining the
wonders and beauties of all and each
particular tree until the mind and heart
were full of the glory of them, and of
Him who created them.
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Tri- Week1p STANDARD.
RALEIGH. N. g.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IA, 1867.
important News.

We are informed that the bill introduced
by Mr.. Eliot, of Massachusetts, from the
New Orleans Riot Investigation Committee,
to reorganize the present disloyal State gov
eminent of Louisiana, passed the lower
House of Congress on the 18th inst, by more
than two-thirds majority. Also, that the
present Congress will probably act for all the
Southern States.
This is indeed important news. The
principle of reorganization is thus es,
tablished, and all the Southern States sooner
or later will be placed, and kept, under loyal
governments.
Day is breaking! The long night of trea-
son, with its shadow of death-its sorrow
and suffering, will soon be overpast The
lamentations of the loyal will be heard no
more in all the land Day is breaking!
Dec!
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-14
TIE BEAUTIES OF CREAT1oN.-Oh,

THE BEAUTIES OF CREATIoN.-Oh,
how can we be unhappy in this fair and
beauteous world, with everything in it
to make US happy What an indescriba-
BILE scene of tranquility the contempla-
ton of nature brings to us, as it brings
to me, while gazing upon yonder grand
prospect of hill and vale, with the charm
ing valley, clothed in pleasing variety
ofgreen, that blend and mingle in har-
mony with each other. The setting sun
is just tipping with floods of golden
light the forest beyond, the birds are
singing the last notes of their evening
hymn, the sky is beautiful, the air is
soft and balmy, and comes laden with
the cheerful chirp of the cricket, the
drowsy buzzing Of the happy insects,
the distant lowing of the returning kline,
the faint echo of a far-off hell, the thou
sand indescribable sounds that bring
me feeling of divine tranquility. How
completely we ignore the love of God
in most our pleasures but we cannot
do it in contemplating nature, we "look
from nature up to natures God; ""God
is love-" and we see it in every green
tree, in every futtering leaf, in every
flower and plant, in every blade ofgrass,
in yonder sky, that bears living record
in letters of golden light do we not
feel it in hours ofpain and sorrow, sick
ness and death, joy and peace? We
know that He is good, and when our
faith fails us we ought to write this on
our hearts. He made all things good
and for our delight and happiness, and
this faifscene, one of the most beaute-
ous spots that mother earth bears on
her bosom, could the concentration of
III the artist power on earth, the efforts
# great minds, the cultivated, exquisite
kill, the most profound ideas of genius,
,roduce anything like the matchless
,ower Of created nature, Gods handi- !
Eopk,
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For the Standard.

For the Standard
soliloquy of Brother Pell ON the Recep-
ton of the News of the Passage
of the Bill giving Loyal
State Government to
Louisiana. 81
Farewell, a long farewell to all my beefsteak
This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth
To the market for tender sirloin,
Which bears great fleaks of fat upon it-but
The next day comes a telegram from Congress
And-when he thinks good easy man full
surely
His beefsteak is frying-turns the pan,
And then he falls as do. Bah I've ventured
Like little wanton boys that swim on blad-
ders
These many summers in sea of gravy
But far beyond my pow ers of digestion.
All how wretched is that man whose hopes
OF beefsteak hangs on Congress favors
Unto rebelsi "
IT. Nay, an you weepi I'm fallen
Indeed.
Seaton, did not think to shed
A tear, but thou hast forced me. lad.
Let's dry our eyes, and thus far hear me,
Scaton,
And-when I am forgotten as shall be
At an early day-say Taught thee,
Say that Brother Pell who once trod the path
To market every morning. found thee way
Out of his wreck to rise In. Seaton. charge
Thee love thy stomach, man, as have done.
Let all the ends thou aimst at be thy beef
steak
Bread and butter; then if thou fal'st, o
"t Seaton,
Thou fall'st blessed martyr.
And pr'ythee lead me in:
There take an inventory of all have
To the last greenback. IT'S the butchers.
This sirloin is all dare now call my own.
o, Seaton, Seaton, mark but my fall
Had but served my God with half the zeal
I served my mouth, he would not in mine age
Have left me hungry with these radicals.
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Lead Pencils.

1t is estimated that 5oO,ooo,ooo pen
ellis are used annually. In the United
States alone more than 100000 of this
number are used, the most part of which
are received from abroad. The Cum
berland mines, in England, have hereto
fore furnished the best quality Of the
mineral, graphite or plumbago, from
which the lead is had but the supply
has been nearly exhausted by constant
working, and few of the genuine Cum
berland pencils are now made. In Ger.
many, where the pencil trade is most
hourishing, there are several manufac-
tories, the largest of which is at Stein,
kept by the Faber Brothers. 1t is a
family business with them, their father
and grandfather having been engaged
in it before them, and has been carried
on until the name of Faber, as pencil
maker, is renowned. A mandatory
has existed for some time at Concord,
Mass, and another extensive one has
now been established near Hoboken,
New Jersey. AT this establishment
nearly all the work is done by machin-
cry, which is constructed by machinists
at the factory, while in Germany the
pencils are made by hand. For the
wood of the pencil Florida cedar is
used, being cut up small saws. One
set of the wooden slips are grooved,
and fitted to other pieces called covers,
and then till the lead is inserted. The
plumbago is not properly prepared IN
til it has gone through a process of
breaking, cleaning, mixing, pressing,
and baking. When it comes out ofthe
grinding mill, it goes into large tanks,
where it is refined and separated from
all ingredients, and it is then placed in a
bowl-shaped machine, where it is roll
ed and mixed. 1t is next pressed, and
this is the most interesting of the va
rious degrees of preparation it under
goes. A cylinder with tubes in the
bottom is used, and through these runs
the lead in hexagon, square, round, or
any other shape wanted, and is receiv-
ed in coils underneath by small boy,
who manages the board on which it
falls with great dexterity. Other boys
take the lead afterward and put it in
models, which are then sent to the
heating-room for drying and hardening;
for the lead, when it comes from the
press, is soft and flexible, and wanting
in tenacity. 1t is left in the heating
room one day when it is removed to a
kiln, where it is put in crucibles and
burned after the manner of burnt-brick.
When this is done, about twenty girls
are kept employed in putting leads into
grooves, and glueing on the covers, and
this work is performed in a very rapid
and systematic style. The cutting of
the strip is done by knives run by a
and after they are turned out
are put into another machine, where
they are smoothened. From there they
go to the carpenters shop, where the
ends are neatly cut, and they then pass
through the polisher's hands, the print
er's, and the counters and are finally
put in boxes ready for sale.
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The Legislature. s-as.

Mondays proceedings will be found else
where. srz a g..
On Tuesday, supdry private bills passed
the Senate, when the special order, it being
the bill laying off the new County of Vance,
was discussed. The name was changed to
Pamlico on motion of Mr. Speed, and the
bill was defeated by the negative vote of the
Speaker. g. -. l.y G.
In the House, the bill to authorize the
public treasurer ia negotiate loan in Europe
of 100000 was referred. The bill to
amend the charter of the Western N. @. r.
R. company went over, several unimportant
bills on the calendar were passed and the
House adjourned. ...-..
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What it Is.

Where is the idiot that is now ready to
fall down and worship those " distinguished
statesmen" or rather extinguished, who de-
coyed the Southern people into the gins and
snares and pitfalls of secession and who are
trying to lead them further in every day 3
Where is the political lunatic, the new con-
vert-who worships at that shrine9 If there
be such an one
"The hearts
OF all his people do revolt from him."
Distinguished Southern statesmen !! What
principle led them to inaugurate the war 7
Office What principle impelled them to con-
tinue the war; Office! What principle
animates them nowa Office. 1t is ever the
same-otEee, OFFICE, OFFICE, for &c distin-
guished Southern statesmen %
What was their stock in trade before the
war, during the war and after the war.-
Abuse of the yankees and radicals. In every
state and condition of affairs, it is the same
their wisdom is measured by the amount of
abuse which they can pour out on the yam
KEGS and radicals. Whether flushed with
victory or PROSTATE and utterly helpless, they
always play on one string to the same tune
d-n the Yankees and radicals.
What have they succeeded in accom-
plishing7 We ask in all candor, what p
One thing only they have Impoverished
their country, and thrown obstacles in the way
of its restoration; they have increased the
prejudices of the loyal North ten-fold, and
called down Upon their own beads severer
punishment. That is the practical effect of
their craftsmanship, and they deserveit.
When these distinguished Southern
statesmen" had secured Pres. johnson, they
were suddenly inflated with defiance towards
the radicals. They we're going back to the
Union when they got ready, upon their own
terms. But the Northern people spoke
meanwhile. They voted down Messrs John
son and Seward in the same business-like
manner that they fought down the rebellion.
Notwithstanding the threats of distinguish
ed Southern statesmen" they never lowered
their terms one jot or little, and never will
until the crack of doom. Amen.
What then is the question, which now pre-
sents itsalf2 Whether the North shall rule
the South or the South the North That was
settled by the bullet and the ballot. The
question is simply this: whether the seces-
sionists will peacably submit hereafter and
let politics alone, or be ruled by force -
rl, ~, - :, -, N nuteIon r o+ than, ,>on5o~
it over, and come to speedy conclusion.
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THE GREAT TOBACCO FACTORY IN
SPA1N.-A sojourner at Seville writes:
The change from the fairy scene in
and around the Alcazar to the tobacco
factoryis like nothing on this planet.
Put your hand into pitcher of hot
water aud quickly plunge it into anoth-
er of cold, and the change will not be
whit more strange than to pass from
the beautiful Alcazar to the presence of
5000 young girls, all in one room, and
Sevilleians, too, in the factory. They
are old enough to be mischievous and
"put on airs" / doubt if as many black
eyes can be seen in any one place as
in this factory. Their fingers move
rapidly and their tongues little faster.
Both factories consume 10, 900 pounds of
tobacco per day, but you must not sup
pose that they use tobacco in any shape
no, but they must talk, and talk they do
with a rapidity that is amazing /
have often heard that woman's weap-
on is her tongue, and that the sex
were notorious for using it, but, like
many other unkind statements against
Heavens best and last gift to man, /
doubted it until 1 peeped into the Fab
rico de Tobacos of Seville. What may
be the weight of mischief manufactured
each day along with the cigars, l don't
know, but feel safe in stating that it is
at least equal with the tobacco. This
factory was erected in 1850, is six hun
dred and sixty feet long by five hun
dred and twenty-five wide, and is sur
rounded by a moat. 1t is the principal
factory in the kingdom, as every one
uses tobacco in some shape in Andalu-
STA, not excepting the ladies, but it is
when they are on the shady side of for
ty that they puff and cogitate. Snuff,
cigars and cigarettes are all manufac-
tured here. The hest workers among
the girls earn about forty cents per day
the poorest about half that amount.
Every night they are all searched.
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We learn that DIR. Jobe, Special Agent for
this State, P. o. Dept, has just returned
from Huntsville, Yadkin County, where he
arrested mail-robber, named L. A. Tod, ac-
ting as deputy postmaster. We would gen.
thy remind those who have custody of the
mails, that they must not trespass too far
upon the patience of Jobe
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The Magruder Case.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
The District Supreme Court decides the Ma
gruder case who after disavowing allegiance t o
the United States was admitted to practice. He
became o Confederate officer.
In extenuation of breaking the oath Magruder
plead that lie believed he owed fealty first to his
native State and next to the Federal government
This Judge Garter maintained was sufficient
of itself to bar his adminission, even if the test
oath did not exist.
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WILMINGTON, Feb. IL.
Great Britain.

LONDON, Feb. 8, 1867.
The holders of Confederate bonds in this
country have united in petition to the Brit
ish Government to back their claims.
Earl Carnarvon will next week introduce into
Parliament bill for the Union of the Canadian
Provinces. The trial of ex-Gov. Eyre, of Jamaica,
has commenced. Dargan, the Irish Railway Con-
tractor, who failed short time ago, and whose
liabilities were very heavy, is dead.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-14

The Special Agent for the P. o. Dept, for
this State, desires to warn the people against
the impression that the Department is re-
sponsible for money sent by mail. Letters
registered or unregistered, containing mon
ey, are sent ut the Yisk Of the owner only.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-14

DIR. RoUNTREE, of Greene County, has been
prevented by indisposition from occupying
his seat in the House for several days. He
Is still quite unwell and may be obliged to
go home for the present. He has been very
attentive member, and we regret his absence
from the hall, and hope it will be but tenn
porary.
The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-02-14

1t is evident that the telegraphic wires,
running from Washington City through the
Southern States, are manipulated in the in
terest of the secessionists. We advise our
friends not to rely upon their statements
hereafter, when political matters are touched
upon.