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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-04-03

sarth side of Madison street, with all neces-
ssry Bank Fixtures, and two large Bankers
safes for sale. Apply to s. MOSBY, Recei11ssr'
on the premises. ~
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OLD HATS made new, 1874 Main st. 80
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Spring Suits at Robson, sneed a
Co So ---.---.----- --.---.ll.. %
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NOR RENT-REsIDEN CE S75 BEAL ST.,
has eight rooms; also, cook, servants and
Snniv 10 G. L. BLAIR,
AspoS No. 217, Adams Block.
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cold Pens RePoInied AZ s2s Main 81.
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3-2s - NO III, AuaI1s nIooS.
NOR RENT-TW0G GOOD ROOMS, SUITA-
BILE for offices, up stairs. Apply g.
NOR RENT-THREE COTTAGES; ONE
with three roems, one with four rooms, ana ,d
one with Eve rooms--well situated. cai, az az .
Avery street. l = Y !
H0R RENT--A NICE. COMFORTABLE
X Residence. containing six rooms. large
vayd. stable, outhouses. etc. Apply to W. ".
SMALL, at 65 Mosby street. Terms mode
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-21

OF each State, respectively, and that any
attempt by Congress-, on any pretext what
ever, to deprive any State of this right, or
to interfere with its exercise, is a fragrant
warrant in the Constitution; and, il sane
toned by the people, will subvert our form
OF Government, and can only end in q
single centralized and consolidated Go.
vernment, in which the separate existence
OF the States will be entirely absorbed, and
an unqualified despotism be established
IN place of a Federal Union Of co-equal
states; and that we regard the reconstrhc-
tion Acts (so-called) of Congress as such
are usurpations, and unconstitutional, re-
volutionary, and void; that our soldiers
and sailors, who carried the flag of our
country to victory against most gallant
and determined foe, must ever be grate-
lully remembered, and all the guarantees
given in their favor must be faithfully car
ried into execution. .;'.'..'','
That the public lands should be distri-
buted as widely as possible among the
people, and should be disposed of either
under the pre-emption of homestead lands.
and sold in reasonable quantities, and to
none but actual occupants, at the mini
When grants of the public lands may be
allowed, necessary for the encouragement
OF important public improvements, the
proceeds OF the sale Of such lands, and not
the lands themselves, should be 30 ap.
piled.
That the President of the United States,
ANDREW johnson, in exercising the power
of his high Office in resisting the agrees
sions of Congress- upon the constitutional
rights of the States and the people, is en-
titled to the gratitude of the whole Ameri
can people, and in behalf of the Democra-
tic party, we tender him our thanks for his
patriotic efforts in that regard. '.'oh
t,so -,
party appeal to every patriot, including all
the conservative element and all who de
sire to support the Constitution and re-
store the Union, forgetting all past differ
ences of opinion, to unite with us in the
present great struggle for the liberties of
the people; and that to all such, to what
longed, we extend the right hand of, fol-
loWship, and hail all such cooperating
with Us as friends and brethren. t>oIB =
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COLUMBIA s FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2 1868 ..s"

our debts, and plant less cotton and
raise breadstuffs, cattle and sheep,
and have less ambition for wealth, we
would be a happier and more COM
Portable people. ..a...t.
The loss of our slaves is nothing
compared with the loss of character,
integrity and manliness. L at one
time owned SGT, and, rs God is my
judge, I would not have them back.
as they we're. I have been relieved
of them by violence and brute force.
The care, anxiety and responsibility
that oppressed me in relation to them
I now feel relieved of. Trne, the
degradation and ruin of my State is
o constant source of pain to me, par
ticularly when I know, with high,
commanding statesmanship in 1868,
ut the head of affairs, the result
would have been different to our
country.
We now have nothing left but to
bear, with Christian resignation, our
fate; at least, such is the case with
those as old as I am. There is some
hope, L suppose, of change in the
Government from the election in
November next. I trust it may be,
and that God, in his mercy, will still
preserve us much of the conservative
principle of constitutional govern
ment. I have the honor to be,
yours, &C., F. w. PICKENS.
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The (so-CalIed) Legislature OF South
Carolina.-Status and Color. mi

The following is believed to be correct
list of the individuals at present holding
high court in Janney's Hall, and called
the Legislature. The Districts (or Coun-
ties) which they claim to represent have
not been specified, from the simple fact
that many Of the so-called hail from very
remote points. If we have accidentally
made black man white, or vice uersa, we
hope the unintentionally slandered indi-
vidual will inform us at once, SO that the
correction can be made. Those who are
known to be Democrats are marked with
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-21
Arms for the South---A PEetext for u
New Session OF Con gress. IS.

Arins for the South---A Prete1t for n
New Session OF Congress. p,
The Governors. of the Southern
States, it appears, are sorely disap-
pointed because Gen. Schofield has
decided that there is no law to iusti-
fy the Issue OF arms to the Southern
militia. There is, we suppose, no
doubt in the mind of any one as to-
what the Southern Governors want
the arms for. It is to control the
election against the will of the peo-
pie by the operation of an armed
militia. The Southern white people
do not require any coercion. They
are remarkably peaceable and we'll
behaved. In fact, they have, on
several recent occasions, refused to
be brought into collision with the
blacks, although the radical mischief
makers tried that game at Raleigh
and elsewhere. Even the violence of
some of the public harangues has
been toned down to moderation of
late, and there is an evident disposi-
ton on the part of the South to con-
duct the approaching election quiet
~, but firmly, against the radicals.
The people of the South have no
thing to gain by disturbing the peace,
and they are beginning to under
stand that fact. To commit acts of
violence would be to play into the
hands of their enemies and persecu-
tors, and this is the very thing which
the carpet-bag Governors are most
anxious to accomplish.
There may be another reason why
the Governors are SO urgent about
arming the militia, and that is to
bring about an early meeting of Con-
gress in September. It seems that
they have made n united appeal to
Congress for that purpose, in order
to supply such legislation as Secreta-
ry Schofield says does not now exist
with regard to arming the militia.
This may be mere pretext to get
Congress together, because there is
no necessity for on early session, es
old Thad. Stevens admitted in his
last moments. This movement of
the radical Governors of the South,
therefore, may be regarded as q mere
party dodge for electioneering pur.
poses: The radicals, who speculate
confidently upon the support of the
Southern negroes, may perhaps be
pardoned for their present bitter dis
appointment at finding things going
the other way; but that is no reason
why they should be encouraged in
provoking violence and bloodshed
Tor party ends. We know enough of
radical policy at the South to distrust
these men when they raise the CRY Of
wolf" 1t Is pretty evident, now,
that the majority of the Southern
people, white and black, mean to 90
against radicalism, and the free ex-
preston of the peoples will should
not be interfered with by military
force upon any pretence whatever.
Neau York Herald.
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-"MANHOOD.''-Another New Medical
Pamphlet from the pen OF DR.. Curtis. The
Medical Times says of this work: '.This
valuable treatise on the cause and cure of
premature decline shows how health is
impaired through secret abuses of youth
and manhood, and how easily regained. It
gives clear synopsis Of the impediments
to marriage, the cause and effects of ner-
vous debility, and the remedies therefor"
A pocket edition of the above will be for
warded on receipt of 25 Cents, by ad-
dressing Doctor Curtis, No. 199 F street,
Washington, d. G. May 271y
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DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS,

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SPECIAL NOTICES.
'tBLEssINGs BRIGHTEN AS THEY
TAKE THEIR F'LiGIIT..-Home.

AAAAn 1hGIh FL1GItT.'-Home
friends, and all the enjoymcnts of life
seem. infinitely more dear to the sufferer
from nervous debility when the probabili-
ty is that, ere long, he must leave them
forever. When the health mas become i'm
paired, and the strength is failing, then
life looks more alluring. Stimulants are
the only means of restoration in cases of
nervous debility. The great difficulty has
been to provide stimulant possessing not
only medicinal merit, but one affordng
permanent relief. If HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS is rcsorted to In such
cases, its beneficial effects will soon be-
come apparent in the buoyancy of spirits
and renewed strength of the hitherto de-
jected patient. Experience has proved
this preparation to be "the remedy of the
age" for nervous debility, as well as all
diseases arising from arrangement of the
stomach and liver.
Persons advanced in life, and feeling the
hand OF time weighing heavily upon them,
with ell its attendant ills. will find. in the
use of HOSTETTER'S CELEBRATED
STOMACH B1TTERS, an elixir that will
lnstil new life into their veins; restore, in
a measure, the ardor and energy Of more
youthful days; build up their .shrunken
forms and give health and vigor to their
remaining years. Those who are in the
least afflicted with Dyspepsia, Ague, Lam
guor, Nausea, or any other troublesome
and dangerous disease, arising from dis
ordered system. should not hesitate to
avail themselves Of the benefit derived
from this great remedy.
The immense quantities of this invalu-
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Is steadily increasing, year by year, is suf-
hcient, in itself, to disarm the most skep-
teal Aug 10 t6
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Nomination for the SMayooralty..
WILLIAM NJ. MYERS, 'Esq. IS Gafidi-
date, for the .Mayoralty, add #ilI be Sup.
ported by his '.t'Ai ccsh tgoIl aLT
May 8 NUMEROUS FRIENDS.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-04
Beassti5tAI Estctdesat.

A great inundation having taken place
in the north of Italy, owing to an excessive
fall of snow in the Alps, followed by
speedy thaw, the river Adige carried off,
a bridge near Vienna, except the middle
part, on which was the house of the toll
gatherer or porter, and who with the whole
family, thus remained imprisoned by the
waves, and in momentary danger of de-
struction. They were discovered from the
banks, stretching forth their hands, scream
ing and imploring succour, while fragments
Of this remaining, arch were continually
dropping into the water. In this extreme
danger, a nobleman, who was present, q
Count Pelverini, think, held out a purse
of one hundred sequins as reward to any
adventurer who would take boat and
deliver this unhappy family. But the risk
was so great Of being dashed against the
fragment of the bridge, or of being or Ished
by the falling stones, that not one in the
vast number of spectators had courage
enough to attempt such an exploit. A
peasant passing along was informed of the
proposed reward. Immediately jumping
into boat, he, by strength of oars, gained
the middle of the river, brought the boat
under the pile and the whole family safely
descended by means ola rope. "Courage!"
cried he, @now you are SAFE" By still
more strenuous effort, and great strength of
arm, he brought the boat and family safe
to the shore. "Brave fellow!" exclaimed
the Count, handing the purse to him, "here
is the promised recompense." "Inever ex-
pose my life for money" answered the peas
ant. "My labor is sufficient livelihood
for myself nv wife and children t.Give
the purse to this poor family who have lost
ALL" '7g
We are indebted to Horace Walpole for
the preservation of this beautiful incident
He would have been entitled to much more
of our gratitude had he evinced the same
anxiety to preserve the name of the illus
trious peasant, as he has shown with regard
to the nobleman who offered the reward
But the title and gold had full greater
charms for him than the obscure laborer.
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FEMALES OF TARrARY.-Some of the
Tartar women wear long snow-white wells,
which cover not only the face, but the whole
of the head and upper part of the body; and
as if wells were insufficient to protect them
from observation, they no sooner behold o
man than they hang their heads and en-
deavor to escape notice by fight An Eng
fish servant observing this practice, deemed
it to be an act ofrudeness on his part to
give them the trouble Of hiding their faces
and running away ON his account; there
fore whenever he encountered them, he
covered his face and took to his heels, in
order to hide himself in the first place he
could find. This passed unnoticed for some
time; at length the Tartar women, struck
by the singularity of seeing man always
avoiding them, let fall a portion Of their
wells when they next met him; butthis only
caused him to run faster than before. Such
conduct excited their curiosity more than
ever, and at last they fairly hunted him
after following him in parties to his hiding
place with their wells of, they resolved to
see man who for the first time concealed
his face at the approsch of q woman, and
having caught him, they actually commanr
ded an explanation of his unaccountable
behavior. ... Is zoTGl.nt eas
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Curious FACTS ABOUT wArrn.-Th

CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT WHARF.-THE
extent to which water mingles with bodies,
apparently the most solid, is very wonder
full. The, glittering opal, which beauty
wears as an ornament, is only flint and wa
ter. OF every 100 tons of earth which o
landlord has in his estate 400 are water
The snowclapped SUBMITS of Snowden and
Ben Nevis have many millions of tons of
water in solicited from. In every plas-
ter of Paris statue which man carries
through our streets for sale, there is one
pound of water to- four pounds of chalk
The air we breathe contains five grains of
water to each cubic foot Of its bulk. The
potatoes and turnips which are boiled for
our dinner have, in their raw state, the one
seventy-fve per cent, and the other ninety
per cent. of water. A man weighing ten
stone squeezed in hydraulic press, seven
and half stone of water would run out
and only two and half of dry residue re-
main. A man is, chemically speaking, for
ty-fve pounds of carbon and nitrogen, diff
fused through five and half pailfrls of
water. In plants we find winter mingling
no less wonderfully. A sunfower evaporr
ates one anR quarter pints, Of wafer = de , .
and cabbage about the same quantity,
A wheat plant exhsles, in IT'S days, about
100000 grains of water. An acre Of grow
ing wheat, on this calculation, draws and
passes out about ten tons Of water per day.
The sap Of q plant is the medium through
which the mass of fluid is conveyed. It
forms a delicate pump, upon which the
watery particles run with the rapidity of
swift stream. By the action Of the sap
various properties may be assimilated to
the growing plant. .i.aa
Timber in France is, for instance, dyed
by various colors being mixed with water,
and sprinkled over the roots of the tree
Dahlias are also colored by n similar pro-
cess @ csa,.
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A LION IN HIS OLD AeE.-When youn
lion reaches the age of two years he is abb
to strangle or pull down horse or an OK
and SO he continues to grow and increase
strength till he reaches his eighth year, an
his talons, teeth, and mind are perfect, an
he grows no more. Fortwenty years aftt
he arrives at maturity his fangs and talon
show no signs of decay; but after that b
gradually becomes feeble, his teeth fail him
and he grows cubbish." He is no longer
match for the tremendous buffalo, he
over-matched even by the peaceful OK, 8
he prowls around the cattle krawls, an
snatches lamb or a kid just as he di
when he set out with his parents, nearl
thirty years before. A woman or chill
at night shares the same fate. His strengt
and sight now decline more and more, til
the mighty lion grows lean and NANCY, an
crawls about from place to place, eatin
any offal he can pick up, and despising no
even so small an animal as the field-mouse
90 he starves and dies, or is fallen on an
slaughtered by a few cowardly hyenas; or
discovered unable to move, beneath a tree
and knocked on the head by some wander
ing hunter. e8
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-04
Mist&llaMents.
COedtfiOse OF the Cs.oDs.

The following is an abstract from "Con-
dition Of the Crops in the Monthly Report
of Agriculture for July:
CoRN-Fhe most remarkable fact in con-
nection with the corn crop of the present
year is the great increase Of its acreage in
the South, the difference in the number of
acres between the present and the prece-
ding year being more than two millions
and half. A slight decrease is apparent
in the eastern seaboard States, resulting
from the unpropitious character of the re-
cent cold, wet and backward spring, which
sadly interfered with planting: A careful
estimate Of the acreage shows decrease of
$1,000 acres in eight States, and an in
crease of $685. acres in the remaining
States as follows ..t-
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G.a,,ts or the Older. T.n.e.

In one Of his recent lectures, Professor
| Silliman, the younger, alluded to the dis
covery ofthe skeleton ofen enormous lizard,
measuring upward of eighty feet. From
this fact the professor inferred, as no living
specimen of such gigantic magnitude has
been found, that the species which 1t .
represented have greatly degenerated.- - :.
The verify of his position he rather singu-
larly endeavers to enforce by the allusion to
the well known existence ofgiants in olden
times. The following list furnishes the
data on which this singular hypothesis is
based: v5.sst5lt
The giant exhibited at Rouen, in 1880,
the professor says, measured over eighteen
feet
Gorapius saw a girl that was ten feea
high.
The giant Galabra, brought from Arabia
to Rome, under Claudius Caesar, was near
ten feet high. .,p.ai,..,.l ,es,,
Funnum, who lived in the time of Eu-'
gene IL, measured eleven and one-third
feet 7- stt it9e
The Cavalier Scrog in his voyage to the
peak of Teneriffe, found in one of the cav
ems Of that mountain, the head of Gunuch,
which had ninety teeth, and it was supper ,.
sed his body was not less than fifteen feet
high.
The giant Ferrigus slain by Orlando,
nephew Of Charlemagne, was twenty-eight
feet high. ia
In 1414, near ST. German, was found the
tomb of the giant Isorent, who was not less
than twenty feet high.
In 1900, near Rouen, was found skelel
ton whose head held bushel of corn, and
whose body must have been eighteen feet
long. $50 -,
Platorious saw, at Lucre, the human
bones of subject nineteen feet long.
The giant Bacart was twenty-five feet
high his thigh bones were found in 1903,
near the river Modori. $500 ii
In 1913, near the castle of Dauphine, o
tomb was found thirty feet long, twenty-six
wide, and eight high, on which was cut on
gray stone the words "KeutoIochus Rex"
The skeleton was found entire twenty-five
and one-half feet long, and ten feet across
the shoulders; and five feet from the breast
bone to the back.
Near Mazarino, in Sicily, in 1916, was
the skeleton of giant thirty feet high
His head was the. size of q hogshead, each
of his teeth weighing five ounces. ~
Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1549, was
found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet
long, and in 1860, another thirty three feet
long fal
| Wehave no doubt that there were "giants
in those days." and perhaps was more pro-
life in producing them than at present
But the history of giants during the olden
time was not more remarkable than that of
dwarfs- Large men and small are common
nowadays. 81
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-09-04
WILLIAM RICHMOND.
Cabinet Maker and Undertaken
Gp
tzE4LEIz7EzIzD

Shop on g. II. Reasin's Square. Residence opposite,
and adjoining Odd Fellows Hall,
HAvRE DE GRACE, MD.
Respectfully Informs his friends and the public that
he Manufactures and Repairs all descriptions of FURNI
TURE to ORDER with economy and dispatch
He is also prepared to give special attention to CON-
QUOTING FUNERALS in any part Of the county, keep
ing Walnut and Poplar C0FFINS constantly on hand
Also COVERED VAIN UT and MAHOGANY CASKETS
and Viewers Patent AIRTIGlIT C0fRINS supplied on
short notice. rt r4 ~
GaS-Remcmbor the address, and you will be better
pleased than by going to the city or anywhere else
: Terms strictly cash. #fi4. }@N3 au2S-ly
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These figures show an increase of over 8, :
100000 Of acres in corn, making about 49,
100000 in the United States, an advance of
nine per cent. The per eentage of Louisi-
ana reaches 90, that of Arkansas Al, that
of Kansas 80, Mississippi %, Nebraska %,
Missouri %, Texas 10, Minnesota II, Iowa
Is, Illinois and Ohio 8, Indiana 4.
The drought in the South has retarded
somewhat the growth Of corn, but its con-
dition in that section is generally good
In the west the average is high, with the
exception OF Ohio and Indiana, where the
weather has been somewhat unpropitious,
and storms destructive. In the east, on the
last of June, the growth was small, but the
hot weather of July has brought large
portion Of the crop into splendid condi-
tion.
WHEAT.-The condition of wheat as
shown in the July returns, is above the
average for last year in all the States except
Vermont, Connecticut, the Carolinas,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Texas and Nebraska. The season has been
peculiarly favorable to the growth and
ripening of this great bread crop in all ex-
cept the Southern States.
The favorable reports are 30 numerous,
in the Western States, especially, that it is
unnecessary to give them in detail. The
general tenor of reports is that ''winter
wheat bids fair to be the largest crop we
have had for many years = 1.-THE yield will
be immense !" 1.-THE prospect was never bet
ter for large CROP" "the weather has been
remarkably seasonable !" "the universal
opinion is that the crop will be the largest
ever grown in the country y "the crops all
over the country were never in 9 more
fourishing condition" Our Lafayette,
Wisconsin, correspondent says he has never
seen, in residence of forty years, q finer
prospect for wheat, as well as all other
crops; aud that the same might be ssid Of