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Sun and Rain.

A young wife stood at lattice pane,
In study sad and brown,
Watching the dreary ceaseless rain,
Steadily pouring down
Drip, drip, drip,
1t kept on its tireless play;
And the poor little woman sighed, "Ab, me
What a wretched, weary day."
An eager hand at the door,
A step as OF one in haste,
A kiss upon her lips once more,
An arm around her waist,
ThrOb, throb, thrOb,
Went her little heart, grateful and gay,
As she thought, with a smile, "Wefl, after all,
1t isn't so dull to day."
Forgot was the FLASHING rain,
And the lowering skies above,
For the sombre room was lighted again
By the blessed sun of love,
Love, love, lovei
Ran the little wile's murmur'd lay;
"Without, ii may threaten and lrown If it will,
Within, what a glorious dayl'
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Husband-Hnnting-How American Wo.
men Find Titled Husbands Abroad !,
The European Match Makers.

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1t has been and is now apparently the aim
of some American women to &C abroad to find
husbands, either for themselves or their
daughters, so that the whole subject has as.
sumed serious Importance, snd probably at
this very hour there are scores, perhaps hun
dreds Of American girls abroad who are
thinking of the matter themselves with an
eye to direct applicant for their hand.
We know, very we'll that good matches are
sometimes made there, and that Germans,
and even Frenchmen and Italians, have
made good husbands to our daughters. But
the chances are quite the other way, and the
difference of birth and manners is apt to be
a root of discord. There is difference in
the very starting idea of the marriage rela-
tion between the two worlds, and an Ameri-
ican woman cannot expect to find in for
eign husband the same thorough recogni-
ton of her asserted equality to him that
prevails in our own American men. In one
respect there is generally no mincing the
matter on the part of the European lover.
He goes at once to business, and before he
makes open love to the daughter he puts
the matter of money to the father, and
finds out precisely what he may expect.
This is not charming aspect of the love
relation to our American vision for we take
it for, granted that man ought to marry
mainly for love, while we do not object to
having little thrown into the bargain if it
happens to be convenient We have what
we call the American system on this subject,
! and it is the best system with all due wis
dom in carrying it out. 1t seems to keep
| its place with our best American families
| in Europe, and 1 was greatly pleased, in
Paris, to hear fine girl who had been asked
in marriage by an Italian prince, on certain
| financial conditions within her ability, say
that she was wholly American ON that point
American think she said, "to the back
bone;" a very memorable comparison in
case OF one whose vertebre were so prettily
strung together and gracefully poised as
hers. She meant to say that she should
marry the man who loved her and whom
she loved, and she was not in the market
for bid, and that the prince might go to
his own sulphur estates, or down lower, be-
fore he could have her or her money
There is something, indeed to be said in
behalflof this sIopen bargaining for a wife, for
man adds 10 his expenses by marriage and
it is comfort to have A. little help in meet
ing the extra outlay. Yet the foreign Gus
tom robs mar riaee Of its sanctity by making
money the first thing, and tempting men to
bestow their affection upon mistresses, and
reserve their cold thrift and prudence for
| the wife. TOO often q reprobrte who has
souandered bis patrimony' in gambling and
Neutrality-suspicious. to q wife to- save him
from utter ruin., And perhaps nav, what, are
called the debts of honor, We have bad
full enough of this thing, and it is time that
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AIT Political Distinctions on Account
|ls,,e,,.ssTse of Color Abolished. IHu
n fF,omm N. NV wan h'''cb 'cbronic,e Marcb s,l,

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|fgs rpom, Il, .s,yVv 81, 'cbr,or,cs March M
,yss.srtsv .hs p,esi5 est sent IN rongrsss
.ha Soisnw;9n % u uesssas accomnsny;na The
nroc1smo,;oH ~, of The Secretarv Of State nub.
EEsh;n., tho ro,;fcot;on ~ tbe ftfepenth
n.n l y ~ Sonst;tut;on y III 4, [ ~ s,Tt = !.
aa.eI.neu' " 'no oon''s'o "l su'I D's1 y "'
hue o.s.es :.
g AESSA"E " EHA' ns IL nNt"
10 the Senate and House 81 representatives /:
1t is unusual tonotify the two houses o.
Congress, by message, Of the. promulgation
BY proclamation Of the Secretary OF State OF
the ratification OF q constitutional amend
sment.i InHiew, however, Of 1.-The vast mn
portance of the fifteenth amendment of the
Consultation, this day declared part OF
that fevered instrument, deem departure
from the usual custom jus dfiable-a measure
|guhich ma2sss stoneef feee miltiens OF people
voters VINO were heretoiore oecialea " Me
highest tribunal IN the lana not citizens 81
the United states, nor eiig1nie 10 oecome So
with the assertion tnat 'at the time OF .ne
DeciaAtion OF indepcnaence the opinion
was 1xed and universal IN the civitized por-
tion OF the white race, regarded as an aHlom
in morals as wei! as In pclitlcs, that plack
hen i,au ~ iigu,S "nSn u. mn u
bound 70 respect. Is inoeea a am, measure .. 2.
grander imPortance tnah any o'ner ohc ac'
Of the Kind, from the 1oundation OF our Iree
Government 70 sne present lime IN .o... :.
institutions nKe ours IN winch all power
is derived directly from the people, must oe-
pend NANNY upon tne.r inteilgence, pa.iio'-
Ism, ana INDUSTRY. caii lle as'en'lon,
therefore, OF the newly -enirancnfisee race 70
the importance OF their striving, In every
honorable manner, to make themselves
worthy OF their new privilege. 1 the race
more favored heretofore by our laws would
say withhold NO legal privilege OF advance,
ment to the new citizen. The trainers OF
our Constitution firmly blieved that repup-
lican form OF government could not endure
without intelligence and education generally
difused among the people. The Father OF
his Country" in his Farewell Address, uses uses
this language: h'@ ~" =
~ "Promote, then, as matter of primary
Importance, institutions for the general dit
fusion of knowledge. In proportion as the
structure of Government gives force to puollc
opinion, it is essential that public opinion
| should be enlightened" "N " 'ii
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ls.1. No member of the Republican, party shall
become candidate for any office until he shall
have been regularly nominated BY the proper
| authority and all Republicans are required to
support nominations when 30 made. Any Re
publican desiring an office msy Become candi-
date for the nomination. but not for the Office
itself until he shall be regularly nominated,
g. Candidates for Office shall be placed IN nom
ination as follows: .a,uH H.yg.lh,,I.l ,iiga,,9
For City, Town, or Precinct officers by City,
Town or Precinct Conventions. :3'nrlb2M
For delegates to Constit utiopal Convention,
Members to Lower House Of Legislature, and
County Officers BY County Conventions.
For Members to State Senate by Conventions
OF their respective Senatorial Districts ivy "
For Members to Congress by Conventions Of
the Congressional Districts and for Governor
and other State officers by State Convention.
8. Each County shall be entitled to the same
number Of votes In State and District C0nven-
lions, as 1t Is entitled to Members In the House
Of Commons Of the Legislature, For County
Conventions to nominate members OF the
General Assembly and County officers three dele
gates from each Township, and a Ike number
from each ward of, Cities; and all Conventions
ofthe Republican party shall be open and public.
Yo.h1 M sa NOTICE g9 ly1hurd Ioq
No Conventions will be recognized bnt those
called by the regularly constituted authorities
"
State, Congressional districts, Counties and
Cities. In order to ensure harmony nndsucccss
every good Republican will SUPPORT the nomi-
nees of Conventions thus regularly called and
held, and no other is earnestly requested
that all Republicans exert thenselyesto pro-
mote harmony In the ranks Pay no httention
10 the devices of tho Opposition, and see TO It
that all Republicans are united as one man, and
that they thus march shoulder to shoulder to
the ballot-box. Let us do this, and success is
certain on the 4th day OF August next, f,a
W. w. HOLDEN, Chni'n p
F-t .rfl.I 20 Rep. State Com.
The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted at meeting of the State Executive
Committee, held at Raleigh, Feb. q, 1870; ,,
ReSolced, That it is the judgement Of this Com
mittee that a Mass Convention Of the Republi-
cans of North Carolina be held in Raleigh on
Wednesday, the 1lth day of May, 1870 l-r..
That all good citizens Of the State who regard
the Reconstruction acts as q finality, who are
friendly to the administration of President
Grant, and who nre in favor OF building up North
Carolina and restoring good feeling among all
her people without regard to party, be earnestly
invited to attend. .s.....- r,r-.e..-o,ty
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Com
mittee that an election should be held in this
State on the first Thursday in August next. ii
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II q atlEffi !. -lf4 IT, aafltt-lA 4Ilil.|Hsf
| PRENTICE's PICTURE OF GEORGE FRANCIS
TRAIN One Of the last paragraphs written
by Geo. d. Prentice was this in regard to
Geo. Francise Train:i. Is ,si10) ~ uF
A locomotive that has run, off the track.
turned upside down, with its cowcatcber
buried in a stump. and the wheels making
| thousand revolutions a minute Ia kite in the
AIR, which has lost its tail-a human novel
without hero-a man who climbs tree
for birds nest tout on the limb, and in or
der to get it saws the limb off between him
self and the tree-a ship without rudder
| Ia clock without hands, sermon that is
all text--air- apotheosis of talk-the
incarnation of CAB. Handsome, vivacious,
versatile, muscular, as neat as a cat, clean to
the marrow, ajudge of the effect OF clothes,
frugal in food and regular only in habits
a noon-day mystery-a solved conundruln-
q practical joker in carnest--a cipher hunt
ing afgurei to pass for something with the
brains of twenty men in his head oil pulling
different ways; not bad as to heart, but a
! Imam who has shaken hands with reverence
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THE pRoeREss OF AUSTRIA

/ THE PRoaREss OF AUSTRIA. is real
pleasure to see that one of the most seclusive
and autceratic governments of Europe-that
of Austria-has SO radically relaxed in its
policy. 1t is in TACT becoming one of the
most liberal Of nations in its institutions
We all know how thoroughly it has thrown
off the trammels of Rome in regard to re-
'ligious matters; and in political matters it
has made complete somersault The new
election law for the empire has just been
promulgated, and provides that the popular
branch of the Legislature shall consist of
Iii members chosen by the landed -proprie.
tors, 152 members by the rural communes,
and 115 by the cities, making the large to-
tai of 37s. This would seem to be fair
distribution.
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A New Blasting Agent-Interestins Ex.
az rrr.H.. 04-44.r

A New Blasting Agent-Interestins Ex.
-I' nl ,uHmJ.iI1- periments. afof
An interesting experiment was tried on
Saturday at the East St Louis Rolling Mill.
At the sale of ordnance, etc., at the Arsenal
some time since, the proprietors of the roll
ing mill purchased for old iron quite num-
Der oflarge smooth-bore cannon, weighing
about 9200 pounds each. The purchasers
found they had bought an elephant, as all
efforts to break the guns in pieces were
fruitless. They first tried to break them
with drop weighing 1900 pounds, which
fell from heigh of forty-five feet, but no
apparent effect rewarded their labors. They
next tried hydraulic pressure with no better
success, and finally had a man experiment
ing week or more in endeavoring to burst
them with powder At last, when the idea
OF breaking them was almost given up, a
young German named Ludwig Schsntl,
agent for Messrs. Kiebs Brothers & Co., of
Deutz, near Cologne, proposed to burst the
| guns with a comparatively new Blasting
power. called Lithofracteur, invented and
manufactured by Kiebs Bros 6 Co. The
| proposition was gladly accepted, and the
| experiment was tried. The guns were lying
near the roiiing-miil and surrounded by
large piles of pig iron; they were nine inches
| in the bore, and several of them showed
| large dents in the side where the drop had
fallen without breaking them. Holes an
inch and a half in diameter were drilled in
the sides of three of these, and the operator
was engaged in charging these holes. The
substance used is of deep blush color, and
resembles mud, being about the consistency
ofputty, and quite damp The lithofrac-
teurJit is claimed, will mot explode, like
nitro-glycerine, by coneussion, but must be
fred by fuse terminating in copper cap
made especially for the purpose.
Mr.. Schantl says, when lighed by match,
the composition burns like wet powder, but
does not explode; the edangerattending bias.
ting with this substance is much less than
| by ordinary powder.
The charges used weighed one and three
quarter pounds, and were put in the holes
drilledlin the guns, without covering of amy
kind except handful of fire clay to keep
them in place. The fuse was then attached
and lighted, when three tremendous explo
sions seemed to shake the ground. On ex.
amining, the guns, one-Nas found shattered
in every direction from the hole which had
contained the charge, and the other two
were more or less broken. jog 'rs %
Owing to the close proximity of the roll
I ing mill buildings, it was decided not to
carry the trial any further until the guns
were. moved. The agent now proposes tc
have one of the guns carried to some place
where no damagsacan be done, and with
five pounds of the Explosive merely placed
Z upon the side. tear it to pieces. The litho
fracteur is said to, have five. times the fore,
of nitro-glycerine, and twenty times that o
powder i"H-'-s''' -''''' ''' '..
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Valentine.

''0h, say not it is wrong to love,
To love, to worship thee;
The sea yearns for the stars above,
The stars look on the sea, slH
The hot moon woos the scented gale,
The parched flower the dew ~.
Their love, their loving does not fail,
And why should mine for you? '
Likea bird all spent with wandering,
All weary must roam
Until | droop my restless wing
In the dear nest OF home. t
But what were home without thy face,
o fairest love OF mine!
Then deign that humble home to grace
And bless your valentine"
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Western n. C. Railroad, Eastern Dlyi.
sion...Communication from Messrs.
Woodfn and Henry, Committee for
70 Commissioners. 1ig'r }r7 a-ts
To the Board Of Directors of the li.-aa
d'iaI 3i W. NJ c. r. r., Eastern Dicision:
The undersigned, Committee appointed
by your body at the meeting in Morganton
on the Sth January, whose duty it should be
to at once examine into the accounts and
transactions of the President, Superinten-
dent, Secretary and Treasurer, to ascertain
and report to your body at an adjourned
meeting whether the same were correct, and
generally upon the financial condition of
the Company. This investigation was ask
ed for, and desired by the officers mention
ed, and was thought to-. be alike due to
them, this Board of Directors, and the Board
Of. Stockholders. -
To accomplish the purposes Of our ap-
pointment, We, without delay addressed our
selves to the business in hand, and haye had
occasion in pursuance thereof to visit the
City of New York, where all the monetary
matters pertaining to large corporations are
transacted, and have patiently and carefully
examined and sinspsoted the accounts Of the
President, DR.. Mott, at the Banking House
of Henry Clews & Co., Wall street, to whom
we are under obligations for the courtesy
extended us in showing us their books, and
| permitting us to count and verify the Bonds
connected with DIR. Motifs account; Soutter
& Co., William street, and the Bank of the
Republic, etc.---------
| Our business was more particularly with
the amount of funds on. hand, and assets
available to the Company.
| DR.. j. j. Mott, President, has the follow
ing bonds on hand at date of our examina.
tion, the 10th of January, 1870,
At Henry Clews & Co., 443 bonds
| Sold through do 20 do
AT Souter & Co., deposit, 100 do
/ l,-,,.,.l. -........ 613 bonds
Il He drew from the State Treasury 613
He is due to Clews 6 Co., on
hypothecation of bonds, the
| sum of - $16,774 3G
., He is due Souter & Co., on hy-
| pothecation :. 16,299 So
| Col. s. Med. Tate, Superintendent, has
deposited at the Bank of the Republic, 31G
bonds. Of these there are unpledged PAL;
hypothecated rs; total 316 At Souter s.
Co.'S, he had deposited at different times,
200, 33, 100, 200, 100, 800 bonds; in all 933
bonds. Of these the whole amount has been
sold except 199 bonds. He owes to the
Bank of the Republic and Souter & Co., on
hypothecation, $4,000. .f.
We append herewith Accounts current of
the officers with the following houses, to.
wit: iHa btu d. ~ Io lseI fa
DR.. Mott with Souter s. Co., marked A.
| Col. Tate with Souter & Co., do B.
do with Bank of the Republic.
| through W. W. Ford, mark.
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Rest. -..-t-s
Rests not quitting a'-i
The busy career; i. la4t.
Rest is the fitting -.s.l..t,.
OF self to ones sphere. 5
IT'S the breakers motion
Clear without strife;
Fleeing to the ocean ..
't After this lie. I q
20 .u.-..at
., 'Tis loving and serving ..-.r.
i. The highest and best;
'Tis onward answering,
And this is true rest. Goethe.
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FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
PROCLAMATION OF THE SECRETARY OF
STATE ANNOUNCING ITS RATIFICATION.

Message of the President in, Regard to
: 1d f4fthe Fifteenth Amendment. 'si
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.sfif. /
ateklY Staaaath
Rest.

w A. SMITH q. CO..
-7-.-slr. - ID. PROPRIETORS -,i
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Suspicion soon attached to Bob Gum,
Tom Young and Joe Lutterlough, negroes
who had been seen lurking in the vicinity
OF Blalock's store on the night the deed
was committed. They had mysteriously
disappeared from the neighborhood, imme-
diately after the tragedy, and the evidence
at the inquest at once justified magistrate
in issuing warrants for their arrest Gum
was arrested at Greensboro, Young was
captured at Oxford in Granville county,
and Lutterlough in this vicinity. They
were all railroad hands and had been work
ing in this section of the country for con.
siderable period. They were imprisoned
here and the trial took place on the 4th oil
February last.a 1dl iial j reph yGN
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REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.

Resolutions adopted By the Republicans Of
North Carolina, at Coauention heLd in
The HaN of the H0use Of Representatipes, on
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As the day upon wich the condemned
wretches were to expiate their crime ap-
preached, Young, who was the principal
character in the tragedy, began to repent,
and he exhibited the strongest symptoms Of
crontrition that his negro nature was capa-
BILE of. He prayed necessarily, sometimes
breaking into the widest lamentations I'm
aginable, making the most fervent and
heartrending appeals to his Maker for for
giveness, uttered with a desperation and in
tenslty that were sometimes agonizing. to
witness. The ghastly form Of the murdered
man seemed present to him in his sleep;
ing and waking hours, and at times he
would exclaim, in accents of utter despair
"Oh, Lord save mel forgive me, forgive
mel see him now looking at me }" Ere
quently he seemed to be terrified, SO fearful
were his thoughts, and, like a hunted down
criminal or Ishmaelite, be dreaded to en-.
counter the face of any living being, be
lieving everybody to be an avenger, and
| that every mans hand was against him.
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They had gained an entrance by knocking
at the barroom door at some hour after mid
night, under the plea of wanting drink.
The young man arose and admitted them,
when, it is supposed, they completed their
bloody work. As a, precautionary matter
they closed the doors and window shutters.
The watch, chain, knife and other articles
belonging to Blalock were then appropria-
ted. The till of the store, containing about
S175 in currency, and small qpantityrof
silver and coin were also taken; and these,
with several articles of small value, com
prised the booty, with which they compen-
sated themselves for the awful tragedy they
had committed. ta rotf n :.
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$16,774 36

He drew from the State Treasury 613
He is due to Clews & Co., on
hypothecation of bonds, the
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Dr. Mott with Souter & Co., marked
Col. Tate with Souter & Co., do
do with Bank of the Republic,
through W. W. Ford, mark.
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A II Joyce, j Marlin, Geo W Barn. R + Pc
tree, Walker lsal Gum, Wn g y Matthews ~
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Milton Hobbs, Eli Hartman, Anderson Smith,
james Hauser, VIM Morgan, Rufus Clement,
| Orange Gray. -ahi N LElla ID. An-L -L--a |
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1870-12-10
OUR RAILROAD.
TREMENDOUS
3 \ G. | 7 E NJ E N T!
Now is ihe lime 10 push die Great

Now is the time TO push the Great
IN Enterprise along, for 1t Is well
Af known fact that have always con-
EA sidered the true interests OF ever!
one in selecting such Goods as Will
please and be Of The most service 10 them.
And now lei me tell the good citizens OF ohep-
herdstowr and vicinity that am Thankful Tor
the liberal share of patronage ] have received
in the past. and do assure them thatl have just
received The largest assortment OF Dry Goods,
Fancy Goods, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, &c,
Sc, ever exhibited in this County, al one
time. name in part as follows
DRESS GOODS.-Tailor Flads, Wooden
DeI.aines, Flannels, Muselius, SC, &C.
DOMESTIGS.-Calicoes of every Print,
Ginghams, Bleached and Unbleached Ccttors,
Sheetings Tickings Shirling, &c.
MOURNING GOODS. -Nvuse,iues, AiP2-
ca, Bomoszines, Crepe Wells, Sc.
MEMS AND BOYS R-OvercoatirE,
Cloths, Cassimeres. Sc, OF every de-cr,ption'
WOODEN WARE.-Churns, Tubs, Bowls,
Corn and Clothes Baskets, Wan boards, SC
HATS. CARS, Boots and Shoes, Of every
kind, description snd p;jc:.
GROCLRlES.-I @m pleased TO say that |
have well assorted slrc& and do cali paEucu-
lar attention 10 my supply Of Fresh Teas o.
rect from China, srch as Ooloug, Young Hy-
son, Imperial ard Gunpowder, via the Great
Merchants Union Tea Company Of New ORR
H. Remember, il IS Pleasure TO sho" my
Goods, SO please call and examine before por,
chasing e,ew hero, as ON conadent YOU VIII
not g. away dissatisfied.
- Terms Cash or Country Produce.
WM. 4. CHAPLiNE.
Stepherdstogn. October Is, 1870. Il