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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-05-07
The EaIillul nt.

The Fatfllme
President Grants sententious utterance,
LET us have Peace was no unmeaning
pla,itpdeA Carlyle Says-''the weight OF
remark depends upon the man behind
H." and the significance OF the expression
Just quoted is attributable to the same
Cause-there 10 man behind il, who
means what be saws, and is capable OK
maintaining it, Andrew johnson migmt
invoke peace in vain, because MS acts
spoke different ianguage--but Genl'
Grant has been in power barely Two
months. and already peaceful state OF
affairs Is taking the place OF lawlessness
and violence. Southern deSperaioeS
have attempted, up TO within short time,
10 dictate who shall hold Office in their
midst, and by violence tn prevent white
Northern IN, n from $ horging the dGtleS
of offices 10 which they are legally elected,
while black men were not allowed 10
vote, 10 say nothing of holding office
But Genl. Grant very quietly changes
this order ofthmgS by appointing TO of
fee black men, and making them the
representatives of their country in foreign
courts, And the Southern leaders are
quietly acquirSciug. because they are
power'ess, and there is a man.5ehind the
appointments able to sustain them
Ii i said that peace has her conquests
a. well a war. Genl. Grant, having aS-
serted his proves on the battlc-t field, can
extend comtesieS to his late opponents
without mcurring the charge of Syco-
phancy. What in others might be con,
sidered pusillanimous, in him is magnan-
imity-SO he exercises his preUgative,
and extends thu olive branch 20 rebel
officers, and appoints them to office, as
well rs black men-thuS showing that
while he intends 10 act Justly To one class
his favors depend upon meritorious
conduct They have only to show dis
Po>iuoh 10 MAKE peace anu nc "''e'>
them IN tue same spirit Last SATURDAY
he held a conference WIN zen Lee, me
rebel eh'ei' Al the 7" hi'' h'uSe' ." ""'SH
nearly ah h'ur was spent Inc 'eP'r' -
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ana courteous c"S' A''''I' '"''e " d '''''''-
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tested on Tue part "i '"Ch ''''''" 'e-
serve ana Tue utmost N'H"''S ""> pre-
ser' eu' No r''''t'', was "'''''S 80 ''''''
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'--N'"n OF The ne" ON
".e 81 iH' people ana
I"""S"i * u..'.t'''l 'A'' they should have
night 10 "a separate vote on 'He ol>'r"h-
chl>'ng ciau>e, aad that there should ne
separate votes on clauses affecting the
local interests when railroads and other
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-05-07
East RunfOr8.
one

Your correspondent here is not dead
vet, but has been quite busy, of late. He
will try now to make up for lost time.
All were rejoicing last week, in the
beautiful spring weather. The sugar
season proved to be poor one, as We
predicted.
Some improvements are going on, in
our village. Mr.. j. I. Hall has removed
an old building, and is intending to erect
very nice stable
F. z. Putnam is re-modeling and I'M
proving his house.
Wilson Thomas is finishing very nice
stable.
Hosea Austin, of Dixfield has bought
the Jeremiah Hall farm for $1,000. He
has let his place for one year, to Scion
Virgin.
Mrs. Octavia Abbot has bought the
parsonage.
Capt H. c. Rolfe has let his farm to
Darius Burgess, of Peru.
Mrs. J. Bryant has lei her farm to Lorin
Swain.
Mr.. George Wise has opened very
nice marble shop at the Falls. F.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-05-07
NOr,rdy Items.

The snowfall in Norway last winter
according to my diary, was ~ inches III
November, 20 in December, 10 in Janua-
~. 43 in FEBRUARY, Ism March, 8 in April
and 3 in May in all, 9 feet II inches
c. c. Sannerson il Building an addition
of twenty feet to his wooden mill.
VIM. Halls big oxen weigh four thou
sand five hundred lbs.
Solomon y. Edwards says that on the
same ground where his beans grew, he
also raised nearly 800 bushels ofpotatoes,
with no dressing excepting little plaster
and superphosphate of lime in the hill
He sold 800 bushels at harvesting time
at IS cts. per bushel.
He sold his potatoes well If he did mss
It in keeping his beans.
The ice left the PennesseewaSsee the
4th OF this month, last year it went out
week earlier.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-05-07
FRosr's CORNER.

Albion Stevens has bought the Store
occupied by w. S, Benson, and mas
moved his family into the second story.
Anthony Bennett has bought the little
red store across the bridge, and has put
in stock of nuts, confectionery groceries
&c. He is polite to everybody, and will
always be happy to wait upon his old
friends.
j. l.. Partridge, has returned, and re-
sumed his old business here. We are
glad to see him back again. We can i'll
afford to lose 4 good citizen, and he is
one DYKE.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1869-05-07

-Ephraim Bryant, of Bethel has hen
which has laid two eggs, each measuring
eight inches in circumference, and both
weighing one half Id. which is the weight
of about five common eggs,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
NOZZLE SENTIMENTS.

A Medical Professor recently conclud-
ed an address to his graduating class as
follows:
'It has often been remarked that the
physician, above all other men, should
be a gentleman and man of honor. !
avow myself as Of those who hold in pro-
found reverence tile grand old name
of gentleman, whether it represent the
chivarous knight of the ancient legends
til, Bayard without fear and without
rcproach-or the mailman Of Ccrvantes,
the peerless Don Quixotc; the hero of
Thackeray's charming fiction, the dear
old Col. Newcomc, the bright poctical
picture of noble King Arthur, as drawn
by Tennyson, or the glorious statuesquo
model of history, Sir Phillip Sidney !;
and | regard honor as the bright, fra
grant flower of morality and virtue. -
Our profession is one of the highest and
most sacred trust, which to violate must
entail ali the penalties of the basest
treachcry. Our relations with our
clients, and especially with woman, are
incxpres IDLY confidential and delicate,
and afford opportunities which should
never be dircgarded, of sustaining the
feeble and protecting those who need
sympathy and hclp-whose faces we
should not permit the winds of Heaven
to visit too roughly Depend upon it,
that in proportion as you fulfill such
duties in the domestic circles where you
are received as guardian and guide, will
be your future success. am proud to
say that large part of the purest hap.
pincss l have enjoyed in my checkered
course has resulted from my professional
relations with women, and the close and
valuable friendships originating therein.
1t is to them that we must look for ten
derness, gratitude and fidelity.
"'Womans soft hand my early cradle spread,
Her gentle care bedeclsed my bridal bed
BY Woman let my dying hours be hurst,
Her love the last fond solace, as the first ~
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30

General Grant, or the coming man"
who is destined to rule America.
We hail with joy the coming Empire.
We hail with joy anything that will
change our condition, for it cannot be
changed for the worse in place Of of
fee seekers and of members of Congress,
we shall have titled nobility, whose ex-
penses cannot exceed those of the men
who now live and fatten upon the foul
corruptions of Washington city. We,
people Of the South, will have none of
the titles nor any of the perquisites, but
we can have tho solemn, serene satisfac-
ton of seeing those who have SO long
tramplcd upon us, and who so long have
outraged every principle of law, both
Divine and human, sent back to the par
Heus and slums of the great Northern
cities, once more to swell the great vol
ume of crime in the North while the
South will be ever free from their pestif-
erous presence. Of one thing the Caesar
of America can rest assured: No Brutus
can be found in all North America to
stab him to the heart for his assumption
of Imperial robes; no Cassius, with
clean and hungry look" to mar his
slumber, but tame, quiet acquiescence
in anything that he may choose to say
or do.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
A DISTINCTION OF COLOR.
Mr.. Grant, says the New York Wml

Mr.. Grant, says the New York World,
fatigues one with his Qbscquiousness to
the infinite "nigger." 1t is all well
enough to treat these blacks with civil
ty; it is their due but, then, is it not
also the right Of even the inferior white
race to receive some measurable respect?
We note it as remarkable, a very re-
markablc circumstance that, when a
delegation of citizens of these United
States goes to the White IIous,, it is
almost matter of~coursc that 1t meets
hindrances to admission, while equally a
matter of course that a dcputation of
negroes is at once received and for the
most part, favored with set address,
Now, it cannot be that the white depu-
tations are presumed to come for office
and the black only to burn incense, as
we not only hear that Cuff is as keen for
place as any of the worthless of the vilor
hue, but we know from the appoint
mcnts before the country that black
sycophants receive office as well as the
white. Why, then, the. insulting dis
tinction 2 We recall at least three in
terviews granted by the present occu-
pant of the White House to negro dele.
cations, and in each interview speech.
Will any journal friendly to the adj
ministration point us to any three white
delegations similarly favored under the
new regime? Not long since we rcmem
Der, in particular, that number of
Methodist clergymcn, after the close of
their convocation proceedings in Wash
ington, paid visit to the functionary
whose success their denomination did so
much to secure, and were then and
there fobbed off not only without a
speech, but without even the ordinary
salutation of hand-shakc all round
And yet, look you, here on the 10th
inst, another clerical dcputation, this time
black as Erebus, calls at the White
House, is forthwith admitted, unlimbers
its spokesman and fires a speech, and,
in turn. is salutcd with confessional
sort of declaration from the great man to
the effect that he "was glad his adj
ministration thus far had been satisfac
tory to them. 1t had been conducted
according to conscientious principles,
and would be henceforth." 1t is a mat
ter of conscience, then, is it, to exhort
these blacks? But where comes in that
equitable consideration which apportains
to those whose blood and whose suffragcs
exalted this scorner to military reputa-
ton and civic place!
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
IMMIGRATION.

A writer in the Atlanta IRtelHgencer
wants no recruits from the outside
world. We have, he thinks, enough la
Dor and the increase of the Southern peo-
pie will soon give us all the population to
be desired. Better to keep our lands as
an inheritance for our postefity than
divide them up and sell them to other
people.
There is force in the argument if we
wish to preserve our distinctive charac-
ter as "the Southern people" But it
We wish to facilitate the development of
eur productive industry; if VIC wish to
augment the productions of our soil, and
of the arts; to build cities and make this
sunny land scene of wonderful indus
rty as well as one of great beauty, then
the writer is not wise, and especially
not so from the additional fact that white
immigration is to be an important auxil
liary in rclicvus from our social troubles.
We do not expect the Immigration
Bureau to bring many laborers from
abroad. 1t may prove of some service
to the State in presenting its attractions
to many at present ignorant of them
We would have preferred, however,
saving to the outside world, of Georgia.
as WEBSTER said of Massachusetts,
"thcse she is" and leaving the whole mat
ter just as it stands, satisfied that pri-
waite interest will bring immigration fast
enough. Indeed it is coming already
coming into all parts of the South-com-
ing to Georgia, not asking for invita-
ton; but Knowing the advantages of the
South and asking only for secure foot
ing. Let it come
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30

G-Y Mr.. Beecher's latest cccentricity
is to take up the cudgcls foratho prac-
ticc which some persons, we are told,
have of dyeing the hair. The reverend
moralist writes to the New York Ledger:
eff man is young, and from some
popularity of constitution, or by reason
of sickness, is prcmaturcly gray, wheth-
err he shall dye his hair or not, is matter
of his own. If he will be the happier for
it, let him do It. If his wife will love
him any better, or if she will be made
any happier, in the name oflove let him
dye. Family happiness is great bless
ing to purchase at so small a cost as q
bottle of hair dye. But is it scemly fol
an old man to put on the appearance Of
youth, and not to meet his fate bravoly
That is a question of good taste. Fol
ourselves, we prefer, gray hairs. a
buckish old gentlemen of scvcnty-tve
returning every month from his barber
with glossy brown locks, is not oul
style of manhood. But if he likes it, ne
might do things far worse. We admire
the bravery in woman by which, a
thirty five, she carries her locks full
of silver. And yet, if her happiness
may be promoted by hiding the carly
gray, we sec no reason for criticism"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
sIarictta. Georgia.
Friday MORN. April so, 1869.
EDUCATION.


The subject is becoming one of inter
csting discussion in Georgia. Without
stopping to inquire "what is education 2"
without rejecting upon the question
able benefits of ordinary scholastic train
ing without reference to any plan of ed
ucation--c 5cry one viii be apt to assent to
its Importance. But, when you present
plan, difficulties formidable, if not in
surmountablc, present themselves to
view. If it is the Common School sys-
tenn of New England, you arc asked,
how do you propose to adapt this to the
the present mixed population of Gcor-
gia7 You answer ''wc will have scpar-
ate schools for the races" But, says the
qucstioner, as tho object is to give the
negro all the advantages secured to the
whites is not the end to be social as
well as political equality, perhaps ming
ling of races7 The reply is if you do not
adopt this system the education of the
whites will be neglected and that aid will
como from abroad for the education of
the negro.
While every one is disposed to com
mend all voluntary aid for the education
of white and black, many object in view
of our present depressed financial condi-
ton to the coersivc and expensive sys-
tenn Of common schools. Others again OBJ
ject to any system which has the slightest
tendency towards the obliteration of the
distinction of races. The period, in the
history of a people, it is believed, is not
one of long duration, when, if the white
race of tho South preserves its natural
characteristics, we will have escaped
forever the fate of Mexico, and better
that they think, without scholastic
knowledge, than know all the books can
teach a degraded people.
There are others again who arc COM
ing to think that ordinary scholastic
learning is not the most important part
Of mans education. Even Mr.. Greeley
has come to the conclusion that there
are habits which the schools, so far from
encouraging, actually suppress, OF far
greater educational Importance than all
the common school system teaches and
these habits may be acquired, arc &C
quirc1 if at all, away from the influence
of schools. And, it is said, these habits
arc just what we need to build up, by
their energies, tho prosperity of the
country, and they must be acquired, not
at school, but at the homestead, in the
field, or shop, by imparting love Of
occupation in the production of the use
ful.
Upon the whole we would say let all
who win, aid and encourage the educa-
ton of the negro. Let all, not insensi-
bic to the claims of children and race,
encourage and sustain judiciously good
schools in every locality and with the
fruits of such efforts let the matter rest
until more suspicious day dawns upon
the South.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30

E-g~The Presidents negro appoint
ments for Georgia and elsewhere leaves
us in doubt whether he is more of a rad
zeal than Greeley or whether the motive
is not personal With the use of the
negro the radicals destroyed the Con-
stitution with the same means the
President may hope to accomplish
well, no matter what-we will sec.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
FEARS OF WAR.

Complications with Cuban affairs and
the unsettled difficulties with England
give rise to apprchensions of War
The Savannah Meas says:
"T'here is, in our judgement, enough
danger of rupture to justify our farm
ers in looking we'll to provision crops and
abating over-cagerncss to swell the cot
ton product"
The Savannah Republican says:
"The real source of all this discon-
tent and desire to plunge the country
into the horrors of bloodshed-and there
are those who so dcsire--is New Eng
land. The manufacturers grew rich on
the late intestine struggle; times are
getting dull again, and they wish to add
still more to their already plcthoric
purses. Their shipping interest was
pretty well destroyed by the two or three
cruisers that we sent out upon the high
seas, so that is now no material obstacle
in the way. About all the vessels they
have left might be protitably employed
as coasting transports i'll the event Of
war"
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
AN AMERICAN EMPIRE.

We publish the following article from
the QuitD,an Banner as an Indication of
popular sentiment:
"All people arc first rude, then half
civilized, then rich and refined. All
people are first governed under some
Republican form of Government, then
an Oligarchy, or an Aristocracy, then, a
Kingdom or an Empire.
Rome was free for hundreds of years,
then she followed the order of Govern
mcnt that we have above enumerated
Greece, the literary Queen of the world
for hundreds ofyears, finally succumbed
to the principle that man is incapable Of
self government. Can man govern him
selff Guided by the flaming beacon lights
of history, we are sadly forced to the
conclusion that the answer must be in the
negative.
The once trembling despots ofEurope,
standing on the time worn battlements of
the Old World, can nov point the finger
of cxulting scorn to the ruins of liberty,
in America, and exclaim as they redoub
lie the chains upon the limbs of their
subjects: MAN is incapable of self-gov-
ernment."
Wctoo, once the proudcst people in the
world of our freedom and free institutions
are making rapid strides in the road that
leads to an Empire. The U. S. following
the example Of the Republics of Greece
and Rome, has just finished most form
liable civil war they have expanded
their territories from the frozen zono to
the Tropics; from Alaska to Florida !;
they have taken the first initiatory steps !;
for they now have "Shoddy Aristoc
tacy," which only needs the eliminating
gorics Of an Empire, to burst into Mar
pulses, Earls, Dukes and Counts. We
shall live to SEQ Miss Flora McFlimsey
the "bright particular star" of Shoddy
circles, as a Countess; Mr.. Dolittle, the
dandy of Broadway, as the Duke of
acknowledging" while Mr.. "Knock 'em
Stiff" the celebrated prize-fghter, will
be created the Count of Maui 'em Quick,
by euphonious change of name which
will Indicate his former darling profess
sion, and the esteem in which he is held
by profoundly discriminating public.
Butchers who have amassed fortunes,
ignorant, low people who have ''strnck
ilc," gamblers, thieves, pimps, runners,
drummers whiskcy ring men, members
of Congress, Generals without battle
and even Mr.. Seward, will be the new
Aristocracy of these United States of
America. Tiue Ia Hamboyae! "Hur-
rah for Humbug!" Yes, hurrah for any
thing that will rid lis of the army of
leechcs and parasites that now prey and
fatten upon the South, that now fasten
themselves upon the poverty stricken
people with .enacity CT grasp that can
only be loosencd by an application of
that weapon by which Alexander solved
the long, puzzling Gordian riddle-thc
sword Yes, better a thousand times
better, the Government of the sword,
the pomp and glories of an Empire, than
the oxasperating, the humiliating degra-
dation of negro suffrage. When the en-
pre comes, as come it must, then, thank
God, no more negro suffrage No more
Cliffs, no more Bullocks, no more Car
pct-baggers, no more Yankee oificc-seek
crs, but plain, direct appointment from
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
CoLoRED MEN IN OrrIcE.-Gcncra

CoLoRED MEN IN OFFIcE.-Gcncral
Grant, since his Inauguration as Prcsi-
dent, has made the following appoint
monts of colored men: Postmaster at
Columbia, S. c., worth $4,000 a year /;
assessor of the first district of Louisiana,
worth 81, 100 year; Assessor of the
second district of Georgia; two Justices
of the Peace in the District of Column
bia, worth 81, 900 a year each /; minister
to Hayti, worth Si,500 year; minis
ter and consul to Liberia, worth $4,000
a year.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
CONFEDERATE sPou.s.

The remains of arms, at the Augusta
Arsenal, post captured by j. E. Brown
assisted by r. b. Bullock at the begin
ing of the war, was sold on the 2lst.-
The most notable feature in these arms
were 900 of Joe Browns Pixies.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30

WASHINGTON, April 26.--The HeraM's
London special says, it is rumorcd that
the Government will adopt bold Cuban
policy, considering belligerant rights to
insurgents, and by assistance, insuring
an Independent Island. Thus preventing
absorption by the United States, and
maintaining consistency regarding the
Confcderacy.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30

T BY invitation from citizens of
Barlow County to those Of Atlanta and
Marietta a general Picnic comes off at
Gainesville on May Day.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-04-30
COBB SHERIFF SALE.
G .orcia Cherokee County !:

Notice is hereby given TO all persons concerned
that in ;he wear 1cti9 James Roach late ct Cherokee
county departed this life interstate and no person mas
applied for Administration the estate OF SAID
lames Roach and that in terms OF the law admins
tration will be vested in the Clerk of the Superior
Court or scme other fit and proper person thirty
DAYS after the publication of this citaiioa unless
some valid objection is made TO his appointmenl;1
Given under my hand and official signature tiiS @o'
day of April 1869 :.
w. L. D. Moss, Ordinary.