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Year: 1868

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2, 1868.


Mr.. Sweet rose to a question of privi


lege. He had seen in one of the morning
papers an editorial article called " "Practi-
cal Reconstruction, which, after charging
himself and Senator Robbins with being
in political sympathy with each other, and
with selling out their political principles,
concluded with the following paragraph {:
" Senator Robbins claims to bf Demo
crat and Senator Sweet claims be Re-


publican, yet SO complete is the sympathy
between them that it is difficult to tell
which is the Republican aud which the
Democrat. They have become moral
Siamese twins. and their separation now
would be almost impossible, and the only
existing doubt is-rOhich party can claim
both Of them." He desired to say that these
charges were false as. hell, and that the
writer Of the article knew them to be so
when be made them. He was as firm in
his faith in Republican principles as any
man. Those principles were implanted in
him at his birth, aud had always given
them an earnest aud unqualified support.
| He believed as entirely i'll the justice of the
| Republican party as men believed in
| God. It was party that went in the high
ways, byways and hedges. and when it
| found man created in the image of mis-
| COG, prostrated by unequal laws, elevated
him to the condition OF man. Repnbll-
can principles were part Of his very ex-
istence and blood, and he who wrote that
article we'll knew this, and had written it
for purpose. Why did certain persons
thus gratuitously object to this investiga-
ton and try to bring this committee into
ridicule He would give key to unlock
this mystery, that would disclose the mo-
tive of this article and the course pursued
with reference to the committee. Every
member of the General Assembly. whether
of the House or Senate, or only an humble
| member of the third house who sought to
destroy confidence in the committee, are
actuated by purposes of his own to prevent
the committee from having the power to ex-
pose his own corruption, and he who wrote
this article knew that he was implicated
He would say to all that these attacks
upon the committee woald have no other
effect than to accelerate pursuit. He would
not descend to the cess-pool Of abuse, but
.ycu.d say that individuals were trembling
like aspen leaves because they knew they
were guilty and that their guilt was going
to find them out. He knew the rectit1de
of himself as chairman of the committee
and thought each member of the committee
controlled by the same aspirations as him.
self. He was also charged with claiming to
be repre- sentative man OF his party in the
Senate. No man could say he had ever pro.
posed Or suggested personal promotion. and
he who made such charges made them for
falsehood and for bad purpose. He
would conclude by saying that he had no
aspirations but aspirations for the welfare
of North Carolina, and to be honest, and
he should always expose corruption when
ever it raised its hideous head.


Mr. Galloway would respectfully suggest
Year: 1868

ATLANTA. Dec. 1.-The mayor and mu-
nicipal council have ordered the postpone
ment of the municipal election until the
assembling of the Legislature in January,
taking the ground that negroes are not en-
titled to vote under the law granting the
city charter, and that the election will be
null and void unless the present Legisla
ture strikes out the word white in the
city charter.


The Democrats claim that the State con
stitution and reconstruction laws give ne
groes the right to vote, notwithstanding
the municipal law, and propose holding u
regular election, allowing blacks to vote,
leaving the Legislature to decide as to its
legality.
Year: 1868

It will be seen by the dispatches
this morning that the Rocky Noun
tains this week echoe back the shout
Of Victory and Peace which was
sounded from the Green Mountains
last week. Colorado answers Yer
mont by swelling its Republican ma
jority and electipg a loyal representa-
tive to Congress. Next week Maine
gives its verdict upon the issues now
before the people. The country
awaits the result with much interest
and anxiety.
Year: 1868

We regret that the sickness of this
distinguished gentleman has prevent
ed MIN from filling his appointments
this week in the First District. 1t IS
q matter of deep disappointmentkto
the people, who were anxious to hear
him upon the political issues of the
day; but we trust that he will yet be
able to visit the District before the
campaign closes.
Year: 1868

A good wife is the greatest earthly blessing. A man is what his wife makes him. Ii is the mother who moulds the character and destiny of the child.

 Make marriage matter of moral judgment.

 Marry into your own religion.

 Marry into different blood and tenn perament from your own.

 Marry into a family which you have long known.

 Never talk at one another either alone or in company.

 Never both manifest anger at once.

 Never speak loud to one another un- less the house is on fire.

 Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other.

 Let self-abnegation be the daily aim and effort of each.

 The very nearest approach to domes- tic felicity on earth is in the mutual cultivation of an absolute unsefishness.

 Never find fault, unless it is perfectly certain that q fault has bcesl committed !; and even then prelude it with kiss, and lovingly.

 Never taunt with past mistake.

 Neglect the whole world besides, rather than one another.

 Never allow request to be repeated. Il forgot" is never an acceptable ex- cuse.

 Never part for day without loving words 10 think of during your ab- scence besides it may be that you will nOt meet again in life.
Year: 1868

They were married. Three shining aces passed before me. One was old, wo were youne--all were beautiful, The central ii isure was an angel iD q mist of floating white. His hand and hers touched miue--l wished them joy, and said--"Ah, Winsmeede, my friend, had you indeed slept in the low thick ranks sown on the field of glory, you would stsll have been blest in the love and grief of such q woman r
Year: 1868

Ruth first broke the silence which followed my departure-"Mother, are you thinking of him ?" The soft wither- ed hand pressed hers gently. A child wind huttered the curtain and put out the light. As Ruth closed the wind W she saw mans figure showed by the moonlight on the ground. Instead of
Year: 1868

A few days after the disastrous battle of f- pale anxious throng might have been seen crowding around our village post office. Mrs. Fallon leaned on her cane apart from the crowd, while the list Nf dead, wounded, and missing was eSd. The sun was hot, her walk had been long, so her feet ached and the cane shook in her hands. She was growing old very fast. The man inside the office read on.
Year: 1868

The Louisville Journal, speaking Of
Brewnlow, says;


He is q miserable coward, who knows he
is Gus Of reach Of all personal danger, with
out dignity and without intelligence. The
best argument that the Kuklux Klan do not
exist is that they have not knocked him.on
the head long ago. ''The mesnest thing the
ConEsderates ever did," the editor Of that
paper heard Tennessee Union Colonel say
the other day, s.'was that when they had
Browulow in prisos they let him go again"
We think so. If they had hung him they
would have conferred a general blessing
upon society.


We predict that his legislature-compos-
ed as it is Of rogues who could be bribed to
do any Job however loathsome for fifty dol
lars head-wilI meet and double the taxes
an create an army and steal what they can,
and then sepsrate until they are again con-
vened to do some other dirty work. This
is legislation in Tennessee. The people are
not consulted they are destroyed and IN
til they rise in their might and throw of
the yoke of the despOt, or until the ven
geance Of God overtakes the monster, they
will not be free. We have no patience to
write about it without becoming temper
Il is an abomination in the sight Of nature.
It is 90 foul that hell itself is clean By COM
parison. Yet, after all, it is what radical
ism would bring US all to. and BrOWnlOw,
corrupt as he is by universal confession, is
no worse at bottom than the rest Of bis
DartV.
Year: 1868

One Of the saddest misfortunes that could
befan this country, says the New York
Journal Of Commerce, would be the array
of black and white into hostile Parties.-
We cannot believe that the effort to that
end are encouraged by others than the frest
and impraeticable of Radicals. But if the
latter are few in number they are jealous
and very dangerous. They ara the men
who not only in the district of4Columbis,
but all over the South. are inAaming the
negroes against the whites. It is their am
bition to separate all the freedmen of the
South into one party, which shall be OPpos-
ed to all ex-slaveholders and conservative
whites. The latter, curiously enough, are
not working in the same narrow spirit, for
8 white mans party. They are desiFous
to cultivate friendship with the negroes,
and 10 3 considerable extent they are suo-
cessFul. At the recent elections great
many thousand negroes voted the COnserv-
ative tickets. We do not say that there
are not white men at the South who are
hostile to the freedmen as q class. But the
fact remains beyond dispute that il is the
Radical whites Of the intense partisan type
that are making the most successful effort
to alisnsts the blacks from the whites, snd
thereby TO bring such conflict Of races as
has broken out ct Washingtos.


The existence Of such bad feelings be-
tween the Whits and black races in this
country ct this tins is another convincing
reason Of the necessity Of the speedy rs-es-
tablishment Of prudent moderation-in 3
word, cOnservativs-ssntiments in the
councils of the nation.
Year: 1868

In an article oautiOning farmers not to
PloW land when vet, q correspondent Of
the Western Rural says be once planted
corn on Geld, part Of which was PlOw-
ed before and part Immediately after >
rain. As soon az the corn Was up, We
could see the place, to = row, where the
vet and dry work was done. The corn on
the wet land Was yellow, did not grow IS
fast as the rest, and at harvest time the
wOFkmen (though net aware of the reason
noticed the difference as they came to it
that which was worked wet yielding one
third less.
Year: 1868

Butler has not ye. declared for Grant,
No reconciliation has taken place between
the two. AS things now stand, Grant is
not likely soon to unbottle Butler. If he
were to find the empty space in the bottle
filed with whisky, two chances to one he
would drain of the liquor and leave Butler
still there.
Year: 1868

One Of the North Carolina carpet. t.bag
Senators started to Washington q few days
ago and has never been heard of siuee.-
1t was cruel in the North Carolina negroes
to start the poor devil alone upon such a
journey. They ought TO have known that
be could not end the way by himself.
Year: 1868

"Take the bright shell


From its home On the lea,
And wherever it goes


It viii sing Of the sea
So take the fond heart


From its home and its hearth,
Twill sing of the loved


To the ends of the earth"
Year: 1868

The FIRE department of Washington City
has been thoroughly demOralizsd By the
introduction Of the negro element. On The
evening Of the 5th q hotel took FIRE and
burned to ashes, scarcely an effort being
made TO save it. The Baltimore Fire In
suranes Company have instructed their
agents to take no risks on city property at
the capital.
Year: 1868

1 g


In the summer of 1866, Fenian
procession in st. Louis went some
squares out of their line of march
to compliment Frank Blair. Of
course, they expected a speech, and
they got it. He commenced by say
ing ''God bless you, Fsnnegans r'
Some one in the crowd suggested
to him that he should address them
as Fenians. ssNo," said Frank, II
know what am talking about, and
I say Finnegans"' He then went
on to tell them that he wished all
kinds of success to the cause; that
he, himself, would go with them to
New York, see them embarked on
board fleet to transport them to
Ireland, and that then, standing on
the highest bluff in the vicinity, he
would bid them God speed and good
bye. He closed his speech with the
following eloquent and affecting in
vocation "May you lift the British
lion out of his boots, and wrest
from his grasp the emerald gem of
the sea; but whether or not you
shall succeed in this endeavor, may
you each and all remain in ireland,
or elsewhere, and never again set
foot upon these shores! You are
wanted there, and we can get along
without you"


The Irish are expected to shout
themselves hoarse for Blair; and
perhaps it was this speech which
makes Stephen I. Meany and other
Fenians so enthusiastic in his favor.
Ohio State Journal,
Year: 1868

When the New York Democratic
State Convention met at Albany,
Horatio Seymour, who had been
chosen one of the delegates at large
to the National Convention, made
perhaps the most elaborate speech


of his life. He was especially re-
quested to speak for and express
the views Of the N. Y. Democracy
on the subject of the currency, f.
nance, payment of the bonds, DC
He expressly declared that the SEN
timents he uttered were the senti-
ments of the Democratic party Of
his State. That speech, as reported
in the New York w World, concluded
as follows: rs........--. ~.s-g.


1t is a mistake to suppose the in
terests of bond holders and tax pay
ers are antagonistic. The fact is
overlooked that, in order to make
any saving by giving the bond
holders worthless paper, we would
bring upon ourselves disaster and
dishonor, which will cost a hun
dred fold what we save. It means
that the honor Of our country shall
be stained; that our business shall
be kept in uncertainty and confu
sion; that the laboring man shall
suffer by the increased cost Of the
comforts of life; that tax payers
shall be burthened by Government
proved to be corrupt and imbecile
by this very depreciation ofits mon
ey. We can't afford to speculate
upon the nations honor at SO fear
full a cost. If we come into power
there vii be no discredit on our cur
rency, no speculation in paying our
bonds in paper. I thank God the
faith which we hold as one man,
seeks to level up, not to level down.
While, therefore, we may differ as
to the construction of the contract
with the public creditor, we must
not confound the position of those
who think it right to pay in paper,
but who battle to make that paper
as good as gold, with the position
Of those who mean to pay not only
in paper, but, who are destroying
the value of that paper. This is re-
pudiation. We are not trying to
give paper to the bondholder, but
gold and silver to the people.
Year: 1868

IT.
MR. EDIToR-Accompanying that beautiful
Panorama of the Mississippi, that passed
through some of the Northern States after the
close Of the war, was u little North Carolina
dwarf who, when the canvass was half run
of, would come out in front and talk to the
people in very simple and homespun way.
giving them some little account of the place
of his nativity, and the history of his life thus
far The object of hisl appearance was to
amuse the audience till the operator could so
adjust his machinery as to present the remain
ing views But as he was by means De-
mosthenes, and found some difficulty in tell
ing his simple story, with the view of giving
form and facility to his part of the perform
ance, (when committed to memory tho prin-
cipal details were gathered up and presented
in the form of a poetical speech


BY THE YORKER.
You would scarce expect one of my size
To stand before the eager eyes
OF such d crowd as this, or smaller,
And speak without at least dollar.
think 'twould take about that sum,
To Timber up my sluggish tongue.
That SO dislikes to talk in vain.
But always loves to talk fer gain.
Let some one, then. attend to that,
And quickly pass around the hat,
And raise ut once the needed fee,
And straightway hand it up to me.
And if find by actual count,


That you have raised the full amount,
Avoiding all unsightly pranks,
I'll tender you my hearty thanks.
And then I'll stand and talk awhile,
The passing moments to beguile,
Till Mr.. A. the scenes shall slip,
And then we must pursue the trip.
was born and always lived, till late,
Down South in North. Carolina State;
j. And then perhaps 'twOuld be no harm
To say my father owned farm.


And though am SO very small,
have some brothers who are TALL!
Who were to me exceeding clever,
And so we worked the farm together.
Thus passed the time for many years,
Through varied scenes of smiles and tears,
Till war with hateful visage come,
To drag me from my quiet home.
left the farm and went to camp.
To encounter heat and cold and damp;
To live or die, as luck might be,
For all look out for self you see.
Sometimes Ilay in some frail tent,
with night winds whistling throug gh vent,
Sometimes lay in open air,


On rails or brush, If such were there.
My business there was not to fight,
Because was, of course, too light,
But though too small to WELD a gun,
handled ammunition some.
In fact I always seemed to be


The chore for the company;


A man of all work, as we say,


To call upon by night or day.


Thus passed the tedious days and nights,
Replete with hunger, cold and fights,
Till death, desertion and disease,
Had brought us almost to our knees.
When, 10! the thrilling news was brought
That Grant. our General Lee had caught;
johnson to Sherman had succumbed,
And we were all to start for home.
Had we have dared to vent our joy,
Methinks that every soldier boy
Would toss his cap in widest glee,
And cried, amen, SO let it be.


Now. friends, farewell, I'll make my bow,
For Mr.. A. is ready now.


To show you all from where you sit,
The rest of this delightful trip.


Columbus, O., Aug. 10, 1865
Year: 1868

ocrats have insisted upon their old
and favorite ideas that the war was
essentially failure; that the pub
lie debt is national disgrace, and
that any plan of restoration which
insists !upon securing the nation
against future disturbance, is q ri
diculous humbug.


Thus the Republican Party stands
upon an essentially just platform,
and seeks to identify itself with the
sentiment Of the people; while, on
the other hand, the Democratic
Party has learned nothing from for
mer defeats, and insists upon its old
ideas more than once repudiated by
the people. 1t, moreover, appeals
to the most ignorant and inveterate
prejudices of the past, ignoring the
progress made during the most i'm
portant decade in American history.
Making vain pretence to conserv-
atism, it seeks to disturb, to agitate
and to conyulse the nation.


Is the Republic to be Mexican
lied by the success of this disturb
ing element That is the question
for the people to decide. We are
not 10th to leave the question with
them. They on the one hand a set.
tied plan of restoration already es-
tablished in seven out of the ten
lately Confederate States. They
see On the one hand settled plan
of restoration already established in
seven out OF the ten lately Confed-
crate States. They see the Legisla-
lures of these States taking prompt
steps to remove disabilities from the
disfranchised whites. On that side
they remark the disposition toward
cancellation, harmony and peace
From the other side they hear only
defnant mutterings, threats of vio-
lence and Of continued discord.-
Can we doubt what their decision
will be I?
Year: 1868

Senator Sherman On Finance.


Hon. John Sherman made a speech
at Hillsbore, Ohio, on the 20 ult.,
and we give below what he said on
finance. AS Mr.. Sherman is Chair
man of the Senate Finance Commit
tee, his views will have great weight


The distinguished Senator said:


"There is one other object of pub
lie expenditure which, for years,
must be the chief burden upon our
national finances, and that is the pub
lie debt. Now, in dealing with this
subject there is one inflexible rule to
be observed, and that is to pay this
debt, principal and interest, precise
ly as we agreed to pay it. This not
only national honor: but the public
interest demands. There is another
rule, we'll stated in the Chicago plat
form, which is but an amplification
of the other rule, and that is we must
pay it according to the letter and
spirit Of the laws authorizing it
Now, according to these, no consid-
erable portion of the debt is due and
payable for several years but large
masses of it may now be, at the op-
ton of the United States, redeemed
or paid, and some $1,6OO,OOO, 900
may be thus paid within five years.
Now, as this was an option which
the creditor agreed might be had by
tho United States, it is perfectly
right and proper that the United
States should avail itself of this
privilege as soon as it is it's interest
to do so. But here the difficulty
Earises-may the United States pay
this debt in lawful money, such as
the law compels all other creditors
to take, or must it be in gold or sill
yer coin? Now, this depends upon
the contract between the parties.
When the nation deals with party,
and stipulates to pay money, the
presumption is that the money to be
paid is that kind of money recog-
nized among nations, unless some
other money is stipulated for in the
contract. Now, when we come to
look at the law, which is the essen
tial part of the contract, we find a
provision that a kind of money de
fined in that act and called lawful
money, shall be lawful tender in
payment of all debts, public and pri-
vate, except the interest of the pub
lie debt, which must be paid in
coin. Now, have reasoned about
this matter very often, in public and
private discussion, have made and
answered collateral arguments in
speeches and reports, but nv mind
always comes back to this conclu-
sion: that under the law, the con-
tract between the creditor and the
United States was that the creditor
should loan the United States lawful
money, or paper money-that the
United States would pay the interest
at six per cent. in coin, and that the
United States might, at the end of
the five years, return to the creditor
his principal sum in the same money
loaned to the Government, or might
postpone this for twenty years. But
upon this question there is diver
sity of opinion, not confined to par
ties, and the whole Of it grows out
of the condition of our currency.


"The real breach of faith IN this
matter is not with the bondholder-
it is with the note holder. Itaffects
the bondholder only as it affects all
other creditors. The bondholder is
no more the creditor of the United
States than note holder. We have
always complied with our promises
Year: 1868

In Salem, Mass, lately, a runa-
way horse was dashing up Central
street at a furious rate, when a we'll
dressed lady rushed in front of him
with her sun umbrella spread, and
fourished it towards the frightened
animal. The horse thus suddenly
checked, went down on his haunch-
es and was kept there by the lady
until the driver came up and took
care of his team. The lady quietly
walked off, as though nothing un
usual had occurred. -.
Year: 1868

me with the air ofa woman who had
made up her mind, and wasn't to be
triflcd with any longer, and in firm
and resolute voice said:


Something must be done"
But what is to be done?


| have heard of several remedies for
rats, warranted to be effective.
One of which is to pour half pint of
nitro-glycerinc down rats throat,
then apply match to his tail and blow
him up. This is as dangerous as the
sponge remedy.


Beside which il involves the necessity
of first catching your rat, which is just
the difficulty in my case.


l begin to feel desperate.


If you know of any sure way of get
ting the rats out without burning the
house down, | will try it, and regard
you rs the bencfactor of


Yours er-rat-ically,


CoRRy O'LANUs.
Year: 1868

INK spring elections every where
show large Democrtic gains and If they
may be regarded as true criterion of
the feeling of the people, there awaits
the Radical party at the fall election,
such defeat as was seldom known. No
wonder that party wants the negroes to
vote. 1t is their only hope, for the
white men are all turning against
them.
Year: 1868

The following is recommended as Il
receipt for making Bologna sausage,
Take an eel skin and stutfit with ground
cat season it with Scotch snuff and per-
simmon oil lay it on hog pen 70 dry,
and then hang it up by the tail in u
grocery for three months for flies to,givs
1t the trade mark; then II is ready tor
Use,