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The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29

Madeline, Iwant you to answer me one
WHATS it2'
what have you done with your dia-
monds?'
81 sold them long ago; they paid several
heavy bills, besides settling halfa years rent
here"
"But, Madeline, you were so proud Of your
diamonds"
II was once; now they would be the Bit
terest reproach nv ewes could meet. On.
Gerald, had / been less vain, end Thought
less, and extravagant'-
! checked myself, and a robin singing in
the perfumed depths of apple blossoms,
took up the dropped current of sound.
That's right, little redbreast, said my
husband, half iokiugly, talk her down.
She has forgotten that our past is dead and
gone, and that we nave turned over q new
page in the book Of existencel Madeline, do
you know how ! feel, sometimes, when I
sit and look at your
'tNoI'
"well. I feel like a widower who has mar
ried AGAIN.
My heart gave a little superstitious jump.
like a widower who has married agnin,
Geraldr'
N"leS, 1 can remember my first WHOA
brilliant thoughtless child, without any
idea beyond the qualification of pleasant
whims-a spoiled playtbingi Wen, that
little Madeline has vanished away into
the past somewhere; she has gone away to
return TO me no more; and, in her stead, ]
behold my second wife, a thoughtful, ten
der woman, whose watchtul love surrounds
me like nn atmosphere, whose character
grows more noble, and develops itself into
new depth and beauty every day.
l WINS kneeling at his side now, with my
cheek upon his arm, and my eyes looking
into his.
"And which do you love best, Gerald
the first or second wife?'
az think the trials and vicissitudes
through which we have passed are welcome
indeed, since they have brought me, as theii
harvest fruits, the priceless treasure of my
second wife
That was what Gerald answered me-the
sweetest words that ever fall upon my ear.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29

A LIE STIcKs.-A little newsboy, To sell
his paper, told a lie. The matter came up
in Sabbath-school. 'Would you tell a lie
for three cents p asked a teacher of one OF
her boys.
mo, ma'am,' answered Dick very de
cidedly.
'For ten cents ?"
"No, ma'am.'
Fora d%ollarY"
mo, ma'am."
For a thousand dollars?"
Dick was staggered. Athousand dollars
looked big. Oh, would il not buy lots of
things 2 While he was thinking, another
boy behind him cried out, "No. mn'am,"
"Why, not?" asked the teacher.
Because, when the thousand dollars
are gone, and all the things you've got with
them are gone, too, the lie is there all the
same" answered the boy. All, yes ! That
is so. A he sticks. Everything else may
go, but that viii stay, and you will have to
carry il round with you, whether you will
or not; a hard and heavy load.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29

Tho Grand Jury ofSt. Louis county. No,
has found a bill Of indictment against II. A,
Nhittemore, controller of that city, charg.
ing him with embezzling and converting q
his own use while an officer Ofthe city S15, OOC
in bonds and coupons amounting to $50, 400
Also a bill against Joe. Deggenderf, the pres
ent city controller, charging him with embez-
cling 500, 1888 belonging To the city.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29

ANEcDorE OF GEN. SIoKLEs. The Sol
dier's Messenger says While General
Slckles' gallant Excelsior Brigade was quar-
tered in Lower Maryland, during the win
ter of lS6l-62, our regiment the Second
Fire Zouaves, were one day being inspect
ed by General Slckles in person. The
General had u pleasant way of reprimand-
ing those, who while OF duty, committed
any irrregnlarity, and especially il the of
fender was an officer.
On this occasion, while the General was
examining silently and critically the make
up" of each man in the ranks, Captain g..
n perfect sumner on music, rather uncon.
sciously drifted into his usual train oI
thought, and INDUCED in a low whistle,
which, however, was sufficiently audible To
reach the acute ear of General Sickles, who
stepped up TO him and inquired gravely:
captain, what air is that
Capt. g., with some misgivings as Ia
what was in store for him, blushingly re
piled, Come where my love lies dreaming, .
10 the min amusement of everybody but
one. The General gave the puckerer his
quietus by saying, ''Well, captain, il you
win wait until after inspection wen all 60
The captain assumed the position of a sol
dier and kept il throughout the remainder
OF the Inspection.
AN Ohio editor is getting particular
about what he eats. Hear him. 'The
woman who made the butter which W.
bought last week is respectfully requested
to exercise more Judgment in proportion.
ing the ingredients. The last batch had
too much hair in for butter, and not quite
enough for a waterfall. There is no sense
in making yourself bald-headed if butter
is thirty-bye cents a pound.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29
A Rat Conflict.

From the Pittsburgh Gazette.l
yesterday morning we saw a crowd OF
nom fifty TO seventy-iive persona, men, wo-
men and children, standing on the lower
side of the Allegheny suspension bridge,
eagerly watching eight men and two dogs
ON the wharf below, e%ndeavoriug TO kill or
capture n rat which had taken refnge ON n
spar which was floating between the boats
and the wharf. The sagacity and agility of
the rodent proved too much for the sticks
and stones of hisassailants. One man bold.
ly got into II skin, and armed with a stout
pole got near enough to push the scared
animal from his perch ON the spar
iuto the waite among the broken ice.
Several times tle drowning animal brayely
clambered out, only. however, 10 be thrust
back by the brave 81. George in the skih.
B%reathlessly the dogs and eightmen watch.
ed the struggle, aud the final agonies OF
the audaclons animal were heartily greeted
by them and by the crowd on the bridge
above. We think the admiring army which
gazed from the bridge might testify their
appreciation by having handsome com
melnoratiye badges made for the victors,
on which might be some legend as These
eight assisted only by dogs, pole, aud
sticks, vigorously succeeded, after a spirited
conflict, IN drowning a rat, January 18th,
1868.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29

The negro militiamen, who outraged
Mrs, MCGEE and Mrs. Galloway, were shot
at Memphis, Tenn, on tho 10Th, by order of
a courtmartial. The youngest girl, who was
outraged ON Friday night, Is reported dying
from injuries received.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29

A FRIEND or GE1RGE PEABopY has been
reviving recollections which add a military
reputation TO that which he enjoys as a
philanthropist, lie figured, according TO
a letter of Mr., w, W. Corcoran, in the
Georgetown Courier, in the Georgetown
Artillery Company" during the War of
1912. Mr., Peabody was the hammer and
sponger of gun No. 1. He after speaks of
the fight with the British frigates ON the
Potomac, when the company was acting
under the command OF Commodore Perry
or Commodore Morris. He afterwards oh
tanned a land warrant for 1860 acres for his
services. Francis s.. Key, the author of
the Star Spangled Banner" was a mem
Der Of the same company.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29

Snow is three feet deep, OH a level, in
the upper portions OF Name
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-29
A Good Yarn.

In the village OF -- lived a man whc
had once been a judge of the county, and
well known all over it by the name oil
Judge Il. He kept n store and q
Saw-mill, and was always sure to have tn,
best of the bargain on his side, by which
he had gained an ample fortune; aud some
did not hesitate TO call linn the biggest
rascal in the world. He was very concerted
withal, and used TO brng of his business
capacity whenever any ono was near 10
listen. One rainy day, as quite n number
were seated round the stove, he began as
usual to tell of his great bargains, and Mt
last wound up with the expression:
Nobody has ever cheated me, nor they
can't neither"
Judge" said m old man of the COM
pany, I've cheated you more than you
ever did me-
''How SO p said the Judge.
eli you'll promise you won't 90 TO law
about 1t, nor do anything, III tell you, or
else L won't; you are too much Of n law
character for me-
Lets hear, cried half a dozen voices
at once.
ON promise" said the Judge, land
treat in the bargain it you have"
''Well, do you remember the wagon you
robbed me off"
II never robbed you of a wagon; ] only
got the best Of the bargain" said the
judge.
',well, I made up my mind to nave it
back, and "
You never did" interrupted the cute
judge.
Eyes, ! did, and interest, too"
'How 500 Numbered the now enraged
judge.
"Well you see, Judge, l sold you one day
Il very nice pine log, and bargained with
you for Il lot more. Well, that log / stole
of your pile down at the mill, the night
before, and the next day l sold it to YOU.
The next night I drew IL back home, and
sold IL TO you tho next day; and so | kept
ON till you had bought your own log of me
twenty-seven times"
"That's n lie !" exclaimed the infuriated
judge, running to his book and examining
his log account; ''you never sold me twen-
ty-seyen logs of the same measurement
81 know it," said the vender in logs;
''by drawing il back and forth the end
wore of, and as it wore l kept cutting the
end OH, until 1t was only ten feet long
just fourteen feet shorter than it was the
first time l brought it-and when it got 30
short i drew it home and worked Il IN
into shingles, and the next vi elk YOU
bought the shingles, and / concluded 1 had
got the worth of my wagon back, and
slowed away in my pocket-book.
The exclamation Ofthe Judge was drown
ed in the shont of the b~ystanders, and the
log driver found the door without the
promised treat.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
GOT ENOUGH OF TT.

The New York Eveni',g Post is OPP
posed to the acquisition of Cuba on the
ground that it will introduce more negro
suffrage, of which the Post thinks we
have as much already as can be well
managed. We are glad to see leading
Radical paper coming to that conclu-
sion. The Post says:
We have already, in the Southern
States, large population. of very igno-
rant people, to whom, for their own
protection, it has been thought ,neces-
sary 10 give the vote. However that
experiment may turn out, even those
who most vehemently urged it will &C
knowledge that it is an experiment /;
and no one probably denies that it is
disadvantage to the country to have
as part of its population so many ig-
norant citizens, unaccustomed to and
unacquainted with the forms of free
government, and to great extent, una
ware Of the Importance of the vote they
are to cast. 'H l8as1aesg ho7
There is reason to fear that the more
ignorant of the blacks there, like the
more ignorant of the whites here, will
become the sport and tools of political
demagogues; and the immediate future
of the country is certainly not made
more hopeful by the fact that they form
part of our population.
Now, if this is SO, should we not make
grave blunder to take into our Union,
even if we could get it for nothing. a
new State in Cuba, an island, large
part of whose population consists Of bar
barians, not very long ago imported
from Africa, and of the very lowest class
of Chinese 7 Can we with safety OF
comfort to ourselves adopt this popula-
ton as part of ourselvesG 1t may be.
as most people say, that Cuba's "mani-
fest destiny" is TO be State of the I'm
ion; but have we not the right, and is il
not our duty to ourselves and our coun,
try to keep her out as long as possible
Should we not, in all that we do in rela-
ton to Cuba, insist that if the island is
to be free from Spain, it shall become an
independent State May we not right
ly prefer to see Cuba remain under the
Spanish flag in preference to having it
under the American flag.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
EVERYTHING LOVELY.

According to Republican promise we
are to have balmy time in Congress
next session inasmuch as every disturb
ing question has been settled to the sat
isfaction OF the dominant party. This
would be encouraging if true, but UNI
fortunately it is not. Nothing has been
settled, except that incompetents are
still permitted tomismanage the political
and financial affairs of the country, to
wiring enormous taxes from the people to
fatten an army of officials, whose highest
aim is to maintain their places and whose
only knowledge consists in deluding a
portion of the people into the belief they
are the main supports of the best govern
ment the world ever saw.
Whilst labor and capital are oppressed,
and industry everywhere staggering
under the heavy drafts upon its profits,
the taxgatherer, the oficeholder and,
bondholder and Republican press assure
us the country was never more prosper
GUS nor satisfied. They have pecuni
airy interest in constantly declaming this
untruth. They do not share the peoples
burdens, but divide among themselves
the peoples taxes. To collect and han
die hundreds of millions more than is
necessary to carry on the government,
is too good thing to be given up so
easily. Eloquent declaimers can be
hired to travel through the land during
political campaigns, not to enlighten the
people as to the true state of affairs, but
to arouse their passions against the Demo-
cratic party, newspapers as unscrupulous
es the hired speakers are also paid to
misrepresent the situation, local commit
tees are abundantly supplied from the
same fund to carry on the work of de-
ception. BondhoIders don't want to be
taxed, don't want to give up their annual
millions of gold for grecnbacks, they feel
secure in their possessions as long as the
Republican party rules, that the debt
will never be paid, nor the interest r.
duced or changed. Ofcourse these men
are all happy, the country is prosperous
for the Republican party triumphs.
however, our iASPoOliSo" AiiSi'NS Ai"J
be mistaken. A breeze may spring up,
eventually grow into whirlwind and
eliminate in hurricane of no ordinary
dimension. Members of Congress from
Western districts, know that they hold
their positions by virtue of their promises
of more equitable adjustment of taxa
ton. 1t is less than year until new
Congress is elected, and they will have
either to redeem their pledges in man
ner, or lose all prospect of a reelection.
These gentlemen will set the thing to
brewing. Then there are other ques-
tions that will come up.
The foreign policy of the government
or rather the lack of policy,-and the
distribution of the spoils of office-will
come up, so that all in all the happy
family of Congress will be about as fra
ternal as a crowded cage of Bengal Ii
gers.-PiHsJmg (Pa.) Post.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
Georgia Cobb County:

Ordinary's Office, Marietta, Nov. Sd, 1869.
Whereas application has been made to change the
road leading from Powder Springs 10 Dallas. The
proposed change is to leave the line Of the present
road near the residence Of J l. Camp to continue
along the fine of old settlement road TO mtersect
the present road near the residence Of John Rake
straw Also to make public road running from a
a point on the Roswell road near the residence OF
Thomas Wright and to continue near the line Of said
settlement road in Outhery direction to intersect
the Atlanta Road at Smyrna This is therefore to
cite all parties interested to appear at the next term
of the court on Tuesday December 9TH 1869. to show
cause if any they have why said applications
should not be granted III
9 @. j. Shepard, Ordinary.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
NEGRO LAWYERS.

They are having queer times down
in South Carolina with negro lawyers
and legislators. The negro Legislature
at Columbia last year was droll enough.
Tourists from all parts of the country
stopped there to see the black Solons,
as they would look in at a menagerie.-
But the way the laws are administered
from day to day is so extraordinary that
white man in South Carolina Courts
might wonder whether he had emigrated
to Liberia, or was citizen of mongreI
Republic. A letter from Edgefeld thu.
speaks of the Circuit Court, now in ses'
sion:
TUESDAY was occupied in organic
ing the juries. The grand jury consist
cd of eight whites and eleven blacks
petit jury, No. /, was composed entire
ly Of blacks, and No. 2 had a considera
bic sprinkling. Several negro consta-
bles were employed about the Cour,
House. Solicitor ?. L. Virgins wal
present for the first time though it has
been nearly year since his election tc
office. He is Northern man, resides
at Beaufort, and, it is said, was buying
cotton there at the time of his election
r. B. Elliott, negro, was present. and
it is reported, at the request of the Solic
itor, to assist in the discharge of his du'
ties" e.o
On Wednesday, the Court was occu
pied in the trial of the case of the State
VS.. Thomas w. Blease, for the murder
of John A Rutherford: These were boil
white men, and the. jury consisted o
nine whites and three blacks. l7
With the aid now received, SoutE
Carolina cannot long be ignorant of he
duties under the Constitution.-Neu
! York ReDubIic.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
GoLpsBoRo', n. c., October 24th.-

GoLDsBoRo', N. c., October Oath
Our town was thrown into state of the
widest excitement last night, by a riot,
which commenced early in the evening
and lasted until ten O'clock P. NJ, be-
tween the U. S. troops stationed here
and the negroes. About seventy five
guns were fired, and one soldier and
one negro were wounded. The negroes
could not stand the fire; they retreated
after the first volley. The negroes
walked up and down the streets cursing
the damn Yankees, individually and
collectively. 1t is now twenty-four
hours since the riot and our authorities
have not made or attempted to make
the first arrest. The negro leaders are
we'll known. There is strong proba-
bility Of the fight being renewed again
tonight. There were three fights, the
retreating in the last.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
TEXAS GIVEN Up.-The Radicals

TEXAS GIVEN UP.-The Radicals
have given up Texas, as will be seer
from the following Washington dispatch
to the Tribune:
Texas advices received here to-day.
both from Radical Conservative sources
seem to indicate the election of Hamil
ton as Governor over General Davis
1t is stated that the rebels and mildeI
Democrats and Conservatives are doing
their utmost to secure the success OF
Hamilton, merely because the admins
tration and the people ofthe North pre-
fer Davis. The campaign against Da-
Wis is managed with great energy and
outlay, while the Davis party arc not SC
hard at work.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
POSTPONED Cherokee Sheriff. Sales.

WILL be sold before the Court House door in
Canton, Cherokee county, Ga. within the legal
hours of sale the 1st Tuesday in December next the
following property to-wit: All the Lands Mines,
Minerals, Mining Interest, Engine Machinery and
Appurtenances, Lots of Land No. 467, and all Of
Lot No 395 south OF the Etowah River, in the
Third District and second SECTION of Cherokee coun-
ty, Ga Levied on as the property of the Pascoe
Mining Company to satisfy Superior Court fila in
favor Of j. c. Simmons and one Attachment fifa
from the Superior Court in favor Of Crane, Boyston
& Co. one Inferior Court ia in favor of George w
Williams d Co., Inferior Court fl ia in favor of
Crane, Boyston & Co, and sundry other fiias in
my hands. Property pointed out BY Plaintiffs At
torney.
Also-the one undivided half of a Merchant Mill
known as the Orange Mill, situated ON lot of land
No 8S4 in the }rd District and 2nd section of Cher
okee county. Ga. Levied the property Of
Thomas Hogan, to satisfy Superior Court Fifa in
favor of James A Fowler. Property pointed out by
Plaintiff.
Z. G. Granting, Sheriff.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
A BIT OF ORANGE PEEL.

The Hartford COurdlat states the fol-
lowing curious result of five cent in
vestment: A man from the country in
vested five cents in the purchase of an
orange, and, preparatory to getting him
self outside Of it, threw the peel on the
sidewalk. Soon after young woman
came along, slipped upon the peel, and
fell upon the walk, breaking her leg
The young woman was to have been mar
ried next day, but wasn't. The man who
was to marry her had come from st. Paul,
Mimi, and was obliged to return on ac-
count of business to await the recovery
of the girl. On his way back he unfor-
tunately took train on the Erie Rail
road which ran off the track, and his
shoulder blade was broken, forcing HIM
to stop at Dunkirk for repairs. The
travellers Insurance Company, in which
he was insured, had to pay $l5O in
weekly installments before he recovered.
On getting back to St. Paul he found
that his forced absence had upset bust
ness arrangement which he had expec-
ted to complete, at pecuniary loss to
him of So, 900. Meantime the injured
girl suffered relapse, which so enfee
bled her health that her marriage was
delayed, which had bad effect on the
young man, and he finally broke the en-
gagement and married widow in Min
nesota with four small children. This
so worked on the mind of the girl that
she is now in the insane hospital in Mid
dletown. Her father outraged by the
conduct of the young man, brought a
suit for breach cf promise and has just
recovered $4,000. The anxiety and
expense Of the whole affair thus far have
been enormous, as any body can see
Similar cases are likely to occur, so long
as the people will persist in thIowing
orange peel about loose.
Often consequences of the most impor-
tant character result from the merest
trifes but it is very foolish for any one
to expect period in human economy
when there will be no trihes. That is a
condition to which even Puritanism will
never reach.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05

FRUITS OF THE CONVENTIONAL ne
gro porter who has for long time held
good position in large establishment
located in Third street, yesterday morn
ing took his employer one side, and sub
mitted his new scale of prices, stating
that if he did not receive the price he
demanded, he should leave on the first of
next month. Good as wheat - was
the only response, and in less than an
hour the place was offered to, and ac-
cepted by white man, who was glad to
take the position. A few hours later,
the colored gentleman became trihe
uneasy, and suggested to his employer
that he had thought over the
matter, and on the whole, had con-
cluded to remain at the old figure
EYour place is already taken," was the
reply ). don't give yourself any uneasi-
ness"; and the discounted darkey has
the chance of going after a situation as
soon as he likes. 1t is about the way
we thought that the grand labor move
ment might possibly work, after fair
trial.-Macon Journal & Messenger.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05

II is intimated in Washington that an
attempt will be made by a few ultra
Radicals to prevent the re-admission of
Virginia, Mississippi and Texas by rep
resenting to Congress that these States
intend to undo all that they have done in
compliance with the Instructions of Con-
gress. The President, it is said, gives
this movement no encouragement, but is
anxious for the speedy re-admission of
all these States, aud will use his inhu-
ence to that purpose.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-11-05
Administrators Sale.

STATE OF GEORGIA, Agreeably to an order of
Cherokee County. the Honorable Court of
Ordinary of said County will be sold before the
Comt House door in Canton, Ga, within the legal
hours Of sale the first Tuesday in December next
Lots of land Nos. 90 81, 3D. 50, S. 125 and 1876 all
in the 22nd Dist, and End. section of said County,
subject to the Widows Dover Sold a the property
Of Joseph eagle deceased for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors Of said deceased. Terms cash.
= James w. Hunnicutt and
= Isaac j. eagle, Admr's.
1nlYrinter's Fee 4