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The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-04-22
THE KU-KLUx KHAN.
oIpTRAGEs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

OUTRAGES BY THEKLANI NGEoRGIA
nPoRrANT oRDEI BIZ GENERAL MEADE
THE AsHBuRN ASSASSINATION THE WORK
OF A SECRET POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
LAw-ABrDING CITIZENS TO BE PROTECTED
-INcENDIARY WRITER'S AND SPEAKERS
ADMoNIsHED.
ATLANTA, Ca, April 4.
Gen. Meade returned yesterday from an
official tour in Southern Georgia, and to-
day promulgated an important order refer
ring to the late Asliburn assassination at
Columbus. Other acts of atrocity simulta-
neously with the publication of incendiary
articles, and the sending of threatening let
tiers, indicate concert of action to effect the
result of the election by intimidation and
violence, and emanating from secret or
ganization. All are warned against parti-
cipation in the acts of this organization,
and the law-abiding are assured of protec-
ton. The General forbids the publication
of anything counseling intimidation or tend
ing to bloodshed. Newspapers containing
such articles are warned that the General
will stop their publication and try the Of
Tenders by military commission. Public
writers and speakers are admonished to re-
frain from infammatOry appeals. Military
commanders are authorized, when in their
judgment it may seem necessary. to organ
ize forces from among the law-abiding citi-
zens to preserve order the expenses at
tending pay anG maintenance of such forces
to be borne by the Counties or municipal
tiles where required. The Commanding
General enjoins all good citizens TO aid in
the arrest and punishment of violators OF
this order and of law, and admonishes them
that unless acts of intimidation and vio-
lence are checked and punished. bloody re-
taliation may be provoked, society endan-
gered, and innocent blood shed.
Attempt to Blow Up Republican
Meeting. I
ya 9.a-.a SAVANNAH, April 5.
The Republican meeting at Valdosta, Ga,
yesterday, was broken up by band of Reg
ulators or Ku-Klux Khan Powder was
placed under the building in which DR.. ].
w. Cliff, the Republican candidate for Con-
gress, was to speak. rrg
MURDER OF RADICAL-sUPPOSED BY THE
KU-KLUX.
The Columbus papers contain all the par
ticulars of the assassination of George w.
Ashburn, with the testimony given by a
number of witnesses before the Coroner's in
quest. Nothing is known of the identity of
the parties. All that is testified to is that a
body of men from twenty-five to fifty in
number, all disguised, surrounded the negro
boarding house where Ashburn was lodging,
broke open his door after his refusal to open
it, when number of shots were fired by a
portion of the party, three of which took
effect, one in the forehead, of which he in
stantly died, one in the nate. and the third
in the leg. None of the witnesses could
identify any of the number engaged in the
transaction. The press of Columbus repu-
date the idea that any respectable man in
Columbus had any connection with it, and
intimate that Ashburn fell by the hands of
enemies in his own party. The Mayor has
offered a reward OF $500 for the discovery of
the murderers.
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Baltimore, April 2Q-Cotton firm at 81.
Nes- York, April 20-Cotton opened q shade
hrmeF, and closed quiet Turpentine 651l@@
Resin &S5 Freights firm. Gold sSH. stcr-
ling 1917.
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Tennessee.
KU-KLUX oUTRAGEs IN MAURY COUNTY.

KU-KLUX oUTRAGEs IN MAURY COUNTY.
NASHVILLE. April g.
Last Wednesday an ex-Federal soldier
named Graham, wellknown in Nashville,
was driven out of Mount Pleasant County,
Tenn, by Ku-Klux mob. He had gone to
the place with view of securing employ
ment as a teacher While at the Post Office
he was surrounded by gang of fifteen Or
twenty armed Rebels, who demanded to
know where be was from, and what was
his business. He politely and frankly an
swered the questions, when he was told that
they had determined that no id Yankee
who had fought against the South during
the war should live in Mount Pleasanc, and
be must, on pain of death, leave the place
within five minutes. He was followed three
miles from the town, and cursed, tantalized,
and repeatedly threatened with instant
death. The mob was headed by Nixon, the
town constable, who claimed to have nine
ty men under his command. who would
swear that no Radical Yankee should settle
within his lines. Mr.. Graham returned to
this city yesterday.
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A FEW BBLS. A, b AND C SUGAk
IA from the Richmond refinery, in store, at
$50 TONN0FFSKTS,
5 .aDs- 81 Fayetteville street.
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Attempt to Blow UP a Republican
Meeting.

"a - DIV SAVANNAH, April D.
: The Republican meeting at Valdosta, Ga,
yesterday, was broken up by band of Reg
ulators or Ku-Klux Klan. Powder was
placed under the building in which DR.. J..
W. Cliff, the Republican candidate for Con-
gress, was to speak. a-a SEQ
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labor.
Ratify it, and the labor system so much
complained of now by former slave drivers,
will, under the progressive Republican policy,
regulate and govern itself SO as to improve
the condition, and add to the interest of
employer and employee.
Ratify it, and the mechanic will have a
lien in future as an assurance for his money
and labor expended in erecting buildings
&C., procuring homestead it will attach
him to his country and secure his defence in
peace and war.
Ratify it. and justice will, through strong
hand, be brought to every mans door at the
least possible cost, relieving the people of
swarms of law teaches, living on a set of
odious Court rules which denies the right of
petition or motion except through limb of
the law.
Ratify it, and these, and thousand such
unjust lmposItions will I've wiped awy, and
the honest working people will begin to
reap the real blessings of freedom and JUS
! tee under just and equal laws.
Ratify it, and a new era will set in, that
| will bring back the olden time with the
blessings of Heaven showered upon us in
| higher degree than ever before But if you
omit to accept this offer of peace in the
present contest, and the opposers of these
things and the ratification of the Constitu-
ton, succeed in defeating them by rejecting
the Constitution, the reconstruction laws all
fall to naught. Congress will then impose
more severe measures, and will compel, per-
adventure, their adoption at greater pains,
| penalties and cost to the State; military
rule will be continued under more rigid or
ders, and instead of improving, we will
grow worse in poverty, and increase the
dangers to our liberties
What is the policy of those who oppose
the ratification of the Constitution I? It is
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~
The oyster when spawning does not cast
Its eggs like other fish, but dissolyes as it
were part of its own body, which passes
OFT in long, slender threads, as fine as a
spiders web, upon which are congregated
mllliors of little eggs, not visible to the
naked eye; but which when put under a
powerful rnagnifying glass astonish the
beholder by Their number. It is estimated
that about seventy per cent of the spawn
is destroyed by fish, and about ten per cent.
from other causes, leaving twenty per
cent. to lind their way into market. These
little "seed," clinging to whatever they
touch, generally to old oysters, and the
many little shells one often sees ciinging
to large oysters, are but the growth Of
these seed. When oysters have spawned
In clear place, and free from their fish
enemies, their growth'is very rapid until
they attain the size of quarter of dol
lar and it is at this period of their exist
ence that the oystermen take. them for
transplanting. The shells are very thin,
and the inside meat scarcely larger than q
shirt button, and having the rest of the
shell filled with milky fluid which in
time forms the body of the fish. Oysters,
after they are transplanted, are, with few
exceptions, not fit to eat under three years.
1t might be supposed that the oyster, with
Its hard shell, was free from all danger,
but such is not the case. He has two
deadly enemies-the starfish and the borer.
The former will fasten on the mouth of an
oyster, and in a short time suck the life
out of him. The latter, with his little
saw and gimblet lii, bores through his
shell, and once through the oyster is soon
DESTROYED -a.t p z#-7 's.t-- g.
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The Latest DOG Story

A travelled friend of ours recently found
himself IN Monroe, one of the towns in
the lower tier of counties of Wisconsin.
In getting on the cars to go to GAINESVILLE,
and from thence to Chicago, he found q
family en- route for New York. They had
fine Dalmatian hound with them, and
the woman was DESTROYS of taking the ami
NAL into the passenger coach, but the
brakeman was ineXorable. against the
rule, ma'am, for dawgs to ride IN this ere
car. always pnts 'em in the baggage car,
ma'am, where we ties 'em up with string
safe and convenient. Ride 1ast as well
ma'am. Don't make any difference,
| ma'am." And with horrid eloquence he
| bore the "dawg" off and tied him up,
making the owner pay fifty cents besides.
| The woman was indignant. The dog
| wasn't going to ride in baggage car all
the way to New York, she knew.
Our traveller listened to her complaints
with amused interest, but lost sight of
her at GAINESVILLE, where he took train to
Chicago. Hardly was he seated, however,
before the amiable family entered his car,
the woman bearing an "infant" wrapped
up in her cloak. This puzzled our friend.
She had no baby when she arrived at
GAINESVILLE. Where did she getit9 Pretty
soon along came the conductor. "Fare,
ma'am. Gotta child" eyes, sir" Grossly.
"How old is ito" eighteen months. .
Large for its age. Is it sick ?" "No
sir" Indignantly. just then a yelp and a
scuftie was heard beneath the cloak, and a
dogs head shot out of the woman's water
proof Unknewn to the woman, the dog
had thrust his caudle appendage through
the armhole of her cloak, and the conduc-
tor, seeing the cheat, had emphasized the
last question by giving the tail pinch
Peoria transcript -,a
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Climate Changes ON the Earth

1t is now pretty well established that the
earth has two more motions than its dur
nal and annual. First, there is the diurnal
motion, in which the globe turns on its
axis every twenty-fo hours, causing day
and night Second, there is its revolution
round the sun, which takes 365 days, 5
hours, 48 minutes, SIT seconds to accom-
plish. Third, the motion Of the whole
solar system In space, that is, the earth,
with all the planets and stars, moving
around what Is supposed to be central
sun. Fourth, motion in which, thu ough
long period of years, the poles of the
earth are changed, the equatorial region
In time becoming the polar region, and
0ace yersa.
Through the influence of this motion we
OF the temperate zone are gradually ap-
preaching the equator; indeed, it can be
shown from history, taking given zone,
that it has become warmer as time ad-
vances. Many trees and plants-the vine
and olive for instance-fourish in places
where two thousand years ago they did
not grow. The change is SO gradual and
SO slow that the longest lived being can
not perceive it; but that the climate
change takes place is very evident, never
theless. Another evidence is adduced in
the peculiarly of the animals. the remains
of which have been found in the polar
regions, which only have existed when
that region had much more eQuatc rial
bearing than it has at present. The proof
that tropical plants grew there ID also I'M
disputed. The bearing of ancient Christ
ian churches, which were invariably
built facing east or west, but which now
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Literary Notices.

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Women as Physicians.

The prospect now is that large portion
OF our medical practitioners will be
women. Rapid progress has been made
in this direction since Miss Blackwell
began the movement, in 1840 The New
York Medical College for Women gradu-
ated nine female physicians last year. In
1866 eighteen female students were attend
ing Bellevue Hospital. At the Eclectic
College female students have been freely
admitted but, on account of the numbers,
new college is being organized for women
alone. es. adj t5iT5 as r
Opposition has been made, both in this
country and in England, to the policy of
educating women for physicians. In
France, however, the greatest h5erality
has Been shown to women in this regard,
anc many of our best physicians have
graduated from French schools. When
Miss Nightingale undertook to prepare
herself for the education of nurses, there
was no institution In England suited to
her wants, and she went to Germany to
study. ea.l $3.50 n
In 1856 Miss Merton White applied at
fourteen Of the London medical insti-
tutions for admittance to the benefits
their instruction, but she was refused
by every one of them, though several
were legally bound by their charters to
receive them. eos l la.E7-a 1.f 3
Miss Garrett, another English lady,
obtained admission only by legal com
pulsion, having means enough to enforce
her rights, but che was forced to pay ten
times the ordinary fees. Institutions
have finally been established in England
for the education of nurses-one of
which Is at Liverpool, with sixty stu
dents. All - e.g- ~.
In New York female physicians have
been remarkably successful. Many of
them have large practice. Among the
first in that city are Drs. Elizabeth and
Emma Blackwell, DR.. Hayden and DR.
Lo2ier. In Philadelphia six ladies who
practice medicine have incomes ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000. The highest In.
come of female doctor in New York is
$4,000. There are female doctors of note
In Boston, Utica, Rochester, Elmira,
Ithaca and Milwaukee a..T
Of the two sexes, women most need
medical education, and we hope to see the
day when knowledge of medicine will be
necessary at every female college to secure
diploma.-C incinndtS Times. ~
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amer masstlssy from. those points, Is said

differ masefi4Hy from chose points, IS said
70 be another proof of this terrestrial
change. O ~ fireT-7 - 49,
The phenomenon called the procession
OF the equlnoxes, in virtue of which the
| hrst point of Aries recedes upon the
lsecilptic OF about fifty seconds in year.
graduaiiy causing a complete change in
the seasons; and, counting from any given
time, there must elapse at least Il 900
years before the season can return to pre-
cisely the same period of the year. 1t
has been ascertained, SO it is asserted, that
up to the year 1242 of the Christian era, a
year in which the first day of winter pre-
| cisely conceded with the earth's passage
through It's perihelion, the temperature Of
the southern hemisphere had been in con-
slant course of diminution. Aud 1t Is,
moreover, made plain, according to the
calculation, that after lapse of 10, 500
years the seasons on our globe will be ex-
actly reversed. E d ~ H+n3t
Therefore, about 10,500 years before the
year 124S, or about II 900 years before the
present time, it was the north pole, and
not its opposite one, which was in its
maximum of refrigeration our present
continents were then submerged, accord
ing to the Mosaic account of the deluge-
not, however, cbronologically considered,
II we interpret the Bible too literally, as
many who interpret it for themselves often
do-and there were continents unknown
to US in the southern hemisphere And
again, by the same astronomical and ma
tural laws, 10000 years after the last
catacly snna new one will occur, which will
again submerge the northern hemisphere,
and allow new world to emerge from the
southern ocean. dia 4.zs- 81 1e
1t is with this motion of tae earth we
have to deal when treating on the deluvian
| phenomena.--DeBo1s Repaeac. va ul5 70
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~ - i -
When q description of Mr.. Deddrick,s
steam man was published, not only the
Newarkers, goodly number of whom,
like the Athenians, eighteen centuries ago,
"spend their time in nothing but either to
tell or to hear some new thing" all rushed
to the shop, where, under the hands of
skIifal mechanics, he was slowly but sure
" assuming the "human form divine, .
and SO -thronged the doorway and dark
ened the windows of the shop that his
completion was at one time made doubtful,
but scores of gentlemen from other cities
ventured into Jersey, and all, men, women
and children who could not go wrote, in
curing about this new wonder. An en-
thusiastic committee OF five Travelled all
the way from Albany, one day last week,
to decide bet that the whole thing was q
newspaper story" Many of the letters
ask for more minute descriptions than
have already been published some con-
lain orders Tor men; some writer's want
travelling agencies some will buy terri
torlal rights to manufacture and sell them,
! and others wish to hire the man on a spec
ulation. A Chicagoan thinks the most
profitable work to which the thing can be
put will be farming on Illinois prairies, and
proposes that it walk to Chicago on q
wager. a Pennsylvania orders a pair,
proposing 10 repOpulate his place. Five
women write, ordering cast-iron husbands,
and one gentleman sends for wife. as
the machine is specifies, the inventor re-
plies to the last that he was doubtful
whether q aoomaan could be made success.
Many experiments have been made with
| the man" during the past fortnight, and,
although some accidents, such as are Incl
dent to new machines, occurred, he finally
works perfect. The old spiral springs
have been replaced by stronger ones, so
that the steam man is no longer weak in
| the knees, and upon steam being generated
on Thursday, he stumped off like live
Trojan. In the evening he appeared on
Broad street, at Crump's Garden.--Neao
York Ty,jb7y,,o In, OH
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Fires from steam ana water

The causes of fires are sometimes very
| curious. For instance, who would think
that 1t would ever arise from hot water 2
But nothing is more certain than that
many extensive conflagrations have been
| occasloned by the hot water pipes with
which buildings have been warmed Hot
water and steam pipes are often heated at
very high rate; three or four hundred
degrees is sometimes attained, and the con-
! sequence is that any wood which is used
/ to support such pipes speedily becomes
charred, and so dried that it gives out q
most lnf1ammable gas. The late Mr.. Braid
wood has given evidence to the effect that
| heat not exceeding two hundred and
twelve degrees, if long applied, would
ignite woodwork. 1t is true, period of
many years is required to bring wood to
THIS condition !; but hot water apparatus
Is put up as a part of the fixtures of
house, and is expected to last as long, and
and all the tims, it must be remembered
1t is producing It's effect out of sight.
If fires arising from water in the form
| OF steam, or circulating through pipes, can
be accounted for satisfactorily, how shall
we make out the cause of fires arising
from a high tide +? Yet under this head
| Ing several have occurred, according to q
return made by Mr.. Braidwood One can
understand hoWSa high tide may put out q
tire, but it certainly is puzzle to under
stand how 1t could bring one about. In
many of the river side wharfs large GUAM
Titles OF lime ere stored; the overflow of
water into these stores of course produces
at once great heat, which is, however,
harmless so long as 1t only comes in con-
tact with wood; but when iron is present
ed to the lime in this manner, after time
1t becomes red hot, and fires whatever it
is In contact with The Fire Brigade,
which existed before the transfer of the
fire engines to the Board of Works kent
register of all the causes of fire, so far
as they could be ascertained, and-in this
register the loss of several sboats laden
with lime is mentioned, by reason of the
iron knees and bolts thus heated by slack
ened lime burning holes In the bottoms
of the barges. Cassesy's Magazines
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"A singular and important law case
has just been decided in the New York
Supreme Court. The plaintiffs father, a
Mr.. Giles, mortgaged some property in
1886, and died in 1910 without removing
the ineumbrance. Shortly after his death
the mortgage was forecloged, the widow
aid children receiving due notice. Six
months after Mr.. Giles death, however,
and after the date of the foreclosure, the
widow was delivered of child, who is
the present plaintiff Now the property
is very valuable, and the plaintiff claimed
that although The equity of redemption of
her. mother and six other children was
foreclosed, hers was not, as she was not a
party to the foreclosure. She therefore
claimed one-seventh of the property as
hers in law, and its Income from the day
of sale, less one seventh of the amount of
the mortgage, and interest, and taxes and
interest, and value OF permanent improve
ments and interest. The court decided in
favor Of the plaintiff, ordering referee
to adjust tie apportionment of her claim.