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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-05
house CT REPRESENTATIVES,,
WASHINGTON, D, O., Jan. 30th, 1869.

Editors Jooundt-As 1 am in daily receipt of
many inquiries in relation to the payment of
Southern claims, for property taken by the Fed
eral forces, will you oblise me by publishing the
following card:
In the first place we have a bill pending in the
Senate providing for the organization of Board
OF Claims exclusively Southern in it's character.
This bill has not yet been acted on, and l fear
will, when met, be defeated.
II so, we fall back on the Court OF Claims, at
present organized. North Carolina will be soon
admitted to said Court. In that event much time
will elapse before all the claims can be adjudica-
ted, and propose to my constituents the follow
ing arrangement. viz: AS it is impossible for me,
in addition to my official duties, to attend to the
numerous claims of my constituents, to select al
honest, reliable and Trustworthy Claim Agent in
this city, who makes such matters a speciality,
into whose hands / shall put all Of said claim.
and exercise general supervision o. the matter,
and attend in person TO any correspondence in
connection Herewith and with said view have
consulted with firm every way reliable and they
propose the following terms, which think the
best under the circumstances which can be done,
viz To collect on the following terms-fOr
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-05

CONDITION OF THE SUFFERERs.-We are
sorry that with regard to Capt. Rankin we
are unable to give his friends assurance of
any improvement in his condition. Fears
are now entertained of injuries to the
spine or a conclusion of the brain-proba-
bly, both. All day yesterday he lay in a
stupor.
Mr.. Copes is bright and cheerful and is
getting better rapidly. His injuries,
though internal, are not serious.
Mr.. Russell suffered considerably yester-
day from his leg and the bruises in his
side, but is improving.
Mr.. Haas and the others are all doing
very well, and suffer but little.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-05
Sorghum Sugar and Sfrup.

WILMINGTON, N. c., Feb. 81, 1869
Col. VIM. F. BEAsLEY:
Dear SIR AT your request l have made a
thorough analysis of the sugar you exhibited on
the 29th January to the Cape Fear Agriculture al
Association, and after the most strict and thor.
ough tests, unhesitatingly pronounce it No.
article of cane sugar.
l have not been able to detect any impurity
whatever in it. / have used it in coffee and find
it equal to the very beat coffee sugars in every
respect.
Your sirups very fine and [ consider them
equal to The best Suga,house si'ups AS to the pro-
cess of FORMULATION, [ pronounce it decidedly
good. ard in my opinion would greatly improve
the quality of the sugars made from the cane in
Louisiana and Florida. consider it fully worthy
of fair trial and earnestly recommend it to the
farmers of North Carolina.
Yours truly,
d. M Rite nj u
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-05

the claimant to pay for stamps and notary fees,
and the Agent to be at all other expense-no
and in the event of rejection of claims no charges
to be made. This arrangement think fair. 1t
is at all events the best that can be done in this
city II this proposition meets with general favor
they will send an Agent down who will make a
number of appointments in each county, furnish
ing blanks and paying his own expenses, who will
get up all such claims in ship-sh
Although it may be some time before such
claims are paid yet it is best to get the proof of
loyalty and all the papers in connection there.
with, in due form, ready for action, when the
matter is duly considered by Congress and de-
finite plans matured
Be kind enough to publish the above, in order
that our people may see their chances of success
with appreciation I will make appointments in
each county at once.
Yours truly,
@. 81. DoCKERY.
Post, Star, Eagle and Presbyterian will please
insert.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-02-05

STATE OF NORTH CAROL INA,)
DEPARTMENT CT STATE,
RALEIGH, January 9th, 1869. }
|, Henry j. Menninger, Secretary of State
hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy
# the original act on file in my office.
&, II. J. MFNNIAGER,
&.nLLHAa.aS Secretary Of State.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12

all forgotten him. Time
and misfortune have mercifully been
permitted to impair his memory, and
use has habituated him to his pres
ent condition. Meek, accomplishing
and Jealous in the discharge of his
duties, he has been allowed to hold
his situation beyond the usual period;
and he will no doubt he will con-
tinue to hold it, until inGrmity rem
ders him incapable, or death
releases him. AS the gray-headed
old man feebly PAGES up and down
the sunny side of the little court
yard between school hours, it would
be difficult indeed, for the most init
mate of his former friends, to recog-
nize their once gay and happy asso-
ciate, in the person of the Pauper
Schoolmaster. Dickens.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12
The Oldest City in the World

Damascus is the oldest city in the
world. Tyre and Sidon have crum-
bled on the shore; Baalbec is ruin;
Palmyra is buried in a desert; Min
even and Babylon have disappeared
from the Tigis and Euphrates.
Damascus remains what it was be-
fore the days Of Abraham center
of trade and travel-an island of YER
dure in the DESERT presidential
capital" with martial and sacred as
sociations extending through thirty
centuries. 1t was near Damascus
that Saul Of Tarsus saw the. light
above the brightness of the sun
the street which was called Strait, in
which it said she prayed" still runs
through the city. The caravan
comes and goes as it did a thousand
years ago; there is still the sheik !;
the ass, the water wheel the mer-
chants Of the Euphrates and the
Mediterranean still "occupy these
f" with the multitude Of their wares"
The city which Mahomet surveyed
from a neighboring height, but was
afraid to enter "because it was given
to man to have but one paradise, and
for his part, he was resolved not to
have it in this world, us to-day wha
Julian called the "eye Of the East, -
as it was in the time of Isaiah Z" the
head of Syria.
From Damascus came the damson,
our blue plums, and the delicious APP
ricot of Portugal, called damasco,
damask, our beautiful fabric of cot
ton and silk, with vines and flowers
raised upon a smooth, bright ground;
the damask rose, introduced into
England in the time Of Henry WILL,
the Damascus blade, so famous the
world over for it's keenedge and won
derful elasticity, the secret of whose
manufacture was lost when Tanner
lane carried off the artist iuto Persia;
and that beautiful art Of inlaying
wood and steel with silver and gold,
a kind of mosaic engraving and sculp-1
tural united-called damaskening-
with which boxes, bureaus, swords
and guns are ornamented. tits still
a city of flowers and bright waters ;;
the streams of Lebanon and the "silk"
of gold" still murmur and sparkle.
in the wilderness Of the Syrian gar
dens.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12
The Parish SchooImaster.

Our schoolmaster is one Of those
men one occasionally hears of, or
whom misfortune seems to have set
her mark; nothing he ever did, OF
was concerned in seems to have pro-
spered. A rich relation who had
brought him up, and openly announ-
ced his intention of providing for
him, left him $4,000 in his will,
and revoked the bequest in a codicil.
Thus unexpectedly reduced to the
necessity Of providing for himself, he
procured a situation in a public Office.
The young clerks below him, died
off as if there was a plague among
them; but the old fellows over his
head, for the revision of whose places
he was anxiously waiting, lived on
and on, as if they were immortal.
He specialized and lost. He specu-
lated again, and won-but never got
his money. His talents were great;
his disposition easy, generous, and
liberal. His friends profted by TIE
one, and abused the other. Loss
succeeded loss; Misfortune crowded
on misfortune; each successive day
brought him nearer the verge of pen
ury, and quandam friends who had
been warmest in their professions
grew strangely cold and Indifferent.
He had children whom he loved,
and wife on whom he dotted. The
former turned their backs on him
and the latter died broken hearted.
He went with the stream-it had
ever been his failing, and he had not
sufficient courage to bear up against
so many shocks he had never cared
for himself, and the only being who
had ever cared for him, in his power
ty and distress, was spared to him
no longer. 1t was at this period he
applied for parochiaI relief. Some
kind hearted man who had known
him in happier times, CHANGED to be
church warden that year, and
through his interest he was appointed
to his present situation,
He is an old man. OF the many
who once crowded around him in all
the hollow friendships of boon COM
partnership, some have died, some
have fallen like himself, some have
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12
100000 lives LOST

yearly from the use Of
TOBACCO.
Save your money and restore your health oy using
DIR. Byrn's Antidote for Tobacco. This Is not
Snnff.Iaking. Few persons are aware Of the terri.
bic effects Of the noxious weed on the human sys
tenn. Dyspepsia, Headache, Disease q tne lf7er,
Sallow Complexion, CostiFeness OF 10 6oWeis,
Loss of Memory and othaf diseaseSs re- the Attic
lions brought on b. its u1o. The Antidote ispure
ly vegetable and hsfmless. 1t acts as q tonic on
the sTeteu purifies the blood, and enables per-
son "a digest the heartiest food. Samples sent
free for fiffy cents-$3 per dozen. Address M. j.
Yarnell, Sc Cannon st., N. Z. sn2m4O
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12

Miss Dabbs of District No. 2, Pleasant Prai-
RE, desires it to be known by the readers of
the COLUMN, that Misses Lizzie and Louie
Houston, Anna and Florence Dabbs, Eva and
Annie Holmes, Charlotte Reynolds. and Mas
tiers Lyman, Carpenter, and Delbert Holmes,
were neither absent or tardy during the
month; also that Lyman Dodge, Kate Black
man and Charlotte Reynolds have been per-
feet in all their lessons.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12
June Reports.

We insert this week, though considerably
behind time, the reports received from teach
ers for June. Notwithstanding its lateness,
it will be seen that our publication is too early
for some of our teachers. Indeed, the schools
of no town in the county are ali represented,
except those of remote Randall. We have a
goodly array however. Shall we not have a
longer list to give for July?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12
EDUCATIONAL.
ORGAN OF THE KnNosHA COUNTY TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION,

All Communications to the Editor of the
Column, - or designed for publication in
this department of the paper, should be ad-
dressed: Educational" TELEGRAPH Print
ing Office, Kenosha Wis.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-08-12

ead nerves. kidneys bladder womb and blood affections
IT tho urinary Orgrns gravel scrofula, rheumatism
tar practice Is of experiment. but of twenty
seArs standing founded the laws Nature with
II experience and evidence sustain it, Do
q" build up make make well-no harsh treatments
ae triaing; Gathering We know the cause and the
seaedy needed guess work. but knowledge gained by
s"rs in the treatment of these diseases
ef"sivelyno couragement without prospee Candid
~ our opinions, reasonable in charges claim
ksow everything or cure everybody but do claim to
son and common We invite the sick no matter
what their Aims CALL investigate before they
eon hope make nterrogatons and decide themselves
will cost nothing sultation is free This the
Sixth year that have visited this place. shall max
visits fer regularly the days thewee
every eight weeks.
Dr.. V. CLARENCE PRIcE coNsuLTED AT
Kenosha, Halliday House, during Thurs
day, the Goth of August.
kB Residence and Laboratory, Waukegan Ill,
The New York herald., 1869-01-02

great work which the people have called him
to perform. We have no reason to believe
that all the members of the republican majori-
ty are interested in the vile practices to which
we have referred Many of them may be led
to oppose the repeal of the act in question
from other motives than such as are purely
vile. Allegiance to party ties; disposition
to obey that spirit which leads every corporate
body to cling to power and privilege, whether
rightly or wrongly acquired; the solicitation
Of implicated friends, and Thousand motives
which influence human action, will all be
brought to bear upon them by the unscrupulous
men who are interested and who now aim to
create caucus which shall shield their plum
dering schemes from destruction. These we
warn against the attempt at revolution by de-
stroying the power of the President. 1t is a
revolution destructive of the rights and inte
rests Of the people; it is an attempt to perpetu-
ate the power of the oligarchy, which, since
the passage of the Tenure of Office bill, has
ruled the government and plundered the Trea-
sllry without fear or hindrance.
The New York herald., 1869-01-02
John griC;,, MT Court.

The English provincial journals give minute
and interesting details Of the cordial reception
fthe Great Commoner by Queen Victoria when
John Bright went to Windsor to take the oaths
of Office. At the instance of her Majesty the
ceremonies Of kneeling and kissing hands
we're omitted in the presentation of the
Quaker courtier. The Princess Royal OF Prus-
sia expressed desire that he should be
presented to her, and assured him that she
herself and all the members of the royal
family were greatly indebted to him for the
way in which he had spoken Of their mother.
She said she had herself read all his speeches
and she was very much pleased to see him.
In his very polite reply he told her what
Mr.. Buchanan, the American Minister, when
last in London, said of her to him-"that
wherever her Royal Highness went she shed
sunshine over all her path John Bright is
already as famous at the Court of Victoria
as William Penn was at the Courts of Charles
ii. and James H., and Benjamin Franklin,
with his plain costume, at the Court Of
Louis XVI. The friendly reception of John
Bright at Windsor is significant recognition
by royalty Of the popular sovereignty Of which
he Is the exponent.
The New York herald., 1869-01-02
rhe Charities Of New York.

We published on Wednesday an account of
the charitable institutions of New York, which
demonstrates that, if this city has more poverty
than many others, it has more wealth, and,
moreover, that large amount of this wealth
is annually and profitably devoted to the
relief of the poor. The Citizens Association,
after carefully investigating the whole field
of philanthropic labors in New York, includ-
ing private as well as public charities, finds
that not less than five million dollars have
been expended during the past year for differ
ent charitable and philanthropic objects. This
fact leads the Citizens Association rather
sweepingly to conclude that if the expenditure
Of 50 large sum was made upon abe sound
business principle of enabling the recipients to
help themselves-that is, to place them in such
improved surroundings that they would be able
to gain their own livelihood, and thus be con-
verted into producers ''the great burdens of
pauperism would soon be removed" The
Citizens Association is evidently as sanguine
as was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte when, as
Representative of the people, he published
treatise entitled ssThe Extinction of Pauper-
ism" The New York Association for Improv-
ing the Condition of the Poor, aware of the
fact that less than five per cent of the ind-
gence aided by our city charities consists~ Of
able-bodied persons, does not profess to be
equally sanguine. Nevertheless it has
accomplished a great deal during the
past year. 1t has visited S3,293 per-
sons, administering relief to 27,52S. It
has received $7l,O96, and disbursed
$72,559, leaving balance of $l,0S2 due to
the treasurer. Other societies, such as the
Society of ST. Vincent de Paul, the Ladies'
Missionary Society, the society which manages
the Five Points House of Industry, and many
other societies, have literally co-operated in
the same noble work of ameliorating the CON
dition of the poor. Meanwhile the public
charities of the city have continued in their
regular channel of operations, and the Aims
house, the Bureau for Outdoor Poor and the
Bureau for Outdoor Sick at the Bellevue Hos
pital are steadily progressing under the official
management of the Commissioners of Public
Charities and Correction. Among other i'm
provements must be mentioned the formation
of an Industrial School on Harts Island. The
Working Women's Home, in Elizabeth street;
the Newsboys' Lodging House, in Park place;
the Cbidren's Aid Society, in Bleecker street;
St. Vincent de Paul's Orphan Asylum, in Twen-
ty-sixth street. the ST. James Industrial
School, in New Bowery, are among the chari-
table institutions which have made special pro-
vision for dispensing aims to the needy poor
during the severe winser weather. Private
individual charity viii, we trust, respond
heartily to the appeals which all these charit-
able enterprises make to the public.
The New York herald., 1869-01-02

THE EMPEROR NApoLEoNs ADDRESS TO
THE DIPLOMATIC CoRPs.-The Emperor's
address TO the diplomatic corps yester-
day was quite what we hal cen
led to expect lie recognized with d iAsure
the conciiatory spirit now anmating the
different governments of Europe. IL was one
Of the encouraging signs of the times that
international animosties, through the friendly
Intervention Of neighboring Powers, were
smoothed down as fast as they arose. II was
his confident hope that the year 1869 would
be as satisfactory as its immediate prede-
cessor. IL Is well enough so TO hopc but
the political horizon in Europe cannot be said
TO be clear and satisfactory. We are willing
to echo the Emperor's wish that 'the
course Of events may dissipate untavorable
apprchensions and consolidate the peace 10
necessary TO the welfare and progress Of
civilized nations and peoples.
The New York herald., 1869-01-02

dc Perthes, DIR. Riggollos and Mr.. Prestwich
in the drift Of Abbeville and Amiens.
Certain portions of our Western Continent
entitle 1t better than most Of the European Con-
tinent to be called the "Old World" and re-
mains Of specimens of the extinct human races
who once inhabited it may yet be discovered.
But for the present, at least, we must content
ourselves with the numerous specimens of old
fossils imbedded in our political strata. There
is, indeed, no lack of these, and what is pecu-
liarly remarkable about them is the fact that
they don't know yet that they are fossils.
President johnson, Mr.. Seward, and even that
Ancient Mariner, Old Father Welles, not to
mention thirty or forty antediluvian "politi-
casters" in Congress and many more out
of it, including that superannuated king
Of the lobby, Thurlow Weed, Reverdy
Johnson, George w. Curtis, Henry A. Wise,
e t,lHi quaint, both North and South,
must be classified among our American fos-
sils. The leading republican editors of this
city, who are now busily nominating each
other in advance for high positions in the Cabi-
net or in the foreign diplomatic service or else
where, under the incoming administration Of
Grant, seem to be totally unconscious that
they are all likely to be petrified and fos-
silized long before 1872. The reported ex-
humation of a gigantic skeleton reminds us
that for calling the 'great Michigander," the
late Lewis Cass, fossil, the notorious George
Sanders once lost comfortable government
Office. George is now himself fossil, and,
like the politicians Of higher degree to whom
we have alluded, he must patiently wait longer
than the pre-Adamites for joyful resurrec-
ton
The New York herald., 1869-01-02

Scarcely q vessel, excepting the ferryboats them
selves Doughed the waters or the rivers the atmO-
the wind very high where unobstructed space gave
it play room. There was no apprehension OF COLI
sion existing among the passengers; for there WAS
to come in contact with. The ships and steamers
along the docks were m0ored up snug and
staut,n extra hawsers being thrown out with
q view to safety and one man at q time was
the average force 70 be seen a. any time on deck.
and the "sou'westers" OF even these "ahciens
ion ways and into f0recastle doors. Women, as q
rule. were to be seen looking sympathzingiy from
windows at the people who had to be out OF doors.
At ten O'Clock at night there was about eight inches
OF hal on the ground, the storm had somewhat
abated, the wind was blowing with considerable
though the sky was still overcast with cold leaden
Clouds that promised another discharge OF hail or
snow ere the night had passed. All hail the New
Year
The New York herald., 1869-01-02

THE TwIToHELL CAsE-THE VERDICT OF
THE JURY-Last night at nine o'clock, after
the summing up of the Judge the jury in this
case retired to deliberate, returning in
twenty-five minutes with verdict Of murder
in the first degree. We have no hesitation
whatever in saying that this verdict will be
received with universal satisfaction. The
trial has been unusually protracted. The
court and the prosecution have been singularly
patient. The counsel for the prisoner mani
tested great daring in conducting the case,
but the defence they set up was lame and
impotent in the extreme In the circumstances
no other verdict was possible.
The New York herald., 1869-01-02
The Petrined skeleton Of n Gigantic
Minresofun-Other Human Fossils.

Minnesofan-Other Human Fossils.
The late Edgar A. Poe could construct
hoax so ingeniously as to make it amusing even
to those whom he could not deceive by it. But
his skill has not been inherited by his most
recent imitator, the author of an account Of
the exhumation Of gigantic antediluvian
skeleton near Sauk Rapids, in Minnesota. No
geologst is liable to lend credence to this
qneer story of "a quadrangular grave dug out
Of the solid rock" "a sepulchre over which
was placed large fat limestone rock that
remained perfectly separated from the sur
rounding granite rock "a sarcophagus in
which the remains of the unknown dead were
deposited prior to the formation Of the present
strata OF rocks that now abound there The
narrator has manifcstly drawn upon his imagi-
nation for his facts. Even his pathetic phrase,
'sthe last sad remains Of this antediluvian
giant" cannot establish q link OF sympathy
between living Minncsotans and their colossal
prototype. II il can be proved, however, that
the latter was really buried 'on the square"
in quadrangular grave IL may be conjccturcd
that he was one OF those prmeval Masons who
laid the foundations of the earth.
On the whole, this apocryphal account Of his
exhumation was scarcely needed as additional
evidence Of the nnquestionabe antiquity of the
human race. The prehistoric existence Of man
has been sufficiently attcs.ed by the discovery
of q human skeleton in 1858 by NJ. Ami Boue
in the lower portion of a deposit Of loan or
l. .s1<lt ali m T.ohr In tIn r,sxit
valley Of the Rhine; by the discovery by the
late DR.. Schmerling Of parts Of human skele-
tons and Of flint implements contcmporaneous
with some OF the earliest extinct species of ami
mails in several caves near Liege, and by SINH
lar discoveries by Dr. Falconer, Mr.. Pengelly
and others in tae Brixham cave, near Torquay,
in 1860. aud from ISi7 70 1869 BY M. Boucher