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Year: 1868

Admiral Raphael Semmes, formerly of the late
Confederate navy, has published card, from
which we make the following extract:


"The New York Times, l understand, for I
have not seen the article, is quite merry over
the fact stated by me i'll one Of my lectures, that
when | captured the California steamer Ariel
did not permit the passengers to be despolled OF
any portion OF their money or personal effects,
limiting myself to the capture of the steamer and
her freight. While struck sturdy and hearty
blows at the commerce Of the enemy as was my
duty, this was my constant practice at sea, and
[ contrasted, in the lecture referred to by the
Times, this practice with the shameful robberies
perpetrated by Sherman and his 'bummers' upon
the women and children of the South, burning
from over their heads the honses which shelter
ed them from the storm, and rObbing them not
only of their jewelry, but their food and clothing.
Will the Times cease a moment its abusive rbe-
toric and deny the facts stated by me! If SO, |
call upon the FIVE hundred passengers whom 1
captured On board the Ariel to contradict it,
Will it object to the contrast have presented Of
my own conduct upon the sea where private
property is subject to capture, and the conduct
of the vandals have mentioned upon the land,
where private property is not subject to capture?
1t dare not 1t is time, then, that all this sense
less clamor about the pracies of the Alabama
had ceased. Her commission was as Legitimate
as that OF Genere Lee, and no one but an ass
will seek to draw any distinction A SANDER
Gus Northern press has poisoned the public mind
to the career Of my ship, and believing in the
fairness of the American people, design at my
leisure and an opportunity may offer, TO present
to my countrymen the tucts-those stubborn
things at which all the Radical pack, Blanche.
Tray and Sweetheart may bark in chorus, but
not one title of which can they alter"
Year: 1868

A London builder says that if people planting
orchards would give orders to mark the north
side of the trees with red chalk before they are
taken up, and when set out to have the trees put
in the ground with their north side to the north,
in their natural positions, larger proportion, it
is said, would live; as ignoring this law of nature
is the cause Of many transplanted trees dying.
If the north side be exposed to the south, the
heat of the sun is too great for that side of the
tree to bear; therefore, it dries up and decays
Year: 1868

THE BEST ADvICE-The best rule for "hard
times is to go to work. Get up two hours earlier
in the morning. and stick to your calling, if it is
an honest and useful one. Mind your own bust
ness, and with all your might let other peoples
alone Live within your means. Sell your
fancy horses. Eat and drink with moderation.
BE careful Be yourself all you would see In
others Be an honest man-work, and nereT
despair .-1-
Year: 1868

Flung it away in battle with the Turks


Years afterwards, when the brides mysterious
disappearance was almost forgotten tale, the
discovery of few moudering bones and ashes
in the fatal chest, with long locks of faded hair,
and rings and wedding trinkets, revealed the
sad story of the doom that had suddenly snatched
her away from happiness, light and lite


Precisely such fate two children of well
known family in this city narrowly escaped on
Wednesday last. They were at play in yard
near the dwelling, where number of boxes and
other things had been placed, among which was
a very large chest with hasp on the outside,
closing down over a staple so as to be secured in
the old-fashioned style with paddock


In their play the Children boy of eight and
his sister of six years-got into the chest and the
lid, which was heavy FELL and brought the hasp
over the staple, fastening the lid down so secure:
ly that strong man could not have bursted it
open from the inside.


Near nghtfall the mother of the little pris-
oners missed them, and not finding them in the
yard supposed they had, against orders, strayed
into the street She happened to pass near the
chest, and fancying that she heard a strange
moaning sound stopped and opened it, and there,
to her great surprise, she found her little darlngs
crushed down by the heavy lid, and so nearly
sufocated that they were speeches.. A little
longer, and the chest would have been their
coffin.


The boy, it appears, had a stout and pious
heart; he told his mother that when he found
they were fastened in, he prayed that she might
be sent to open the chest, and he believed that
she had come in answer to his prayer. He then
got out his little pocket-knfe and felt about for
the hinges of the chest, which he vainly endeav-
ored to cut loose, telling little sister Daisy to
pray in the meantime with all her might. That
boy life was undoubtedly spared to some good
end.--Nobile (Atd.) Register jan "a.
Year: 1868

Daniel Webster in discussion on the infu-
ence of the Press, spoke as follows EVERY
parent, whose son is away from home at school
should supply him witha newspaper lweli
remember what marked difference there was
between those of my schoolmates who had and
those who had not access to newspapers. The
first were always superior to the last in debate,
composition, and general intelligence"
Year: 1868

The last number of the Bookseller gives
US an insight into the admirable system
which prevails in the composing rooms of
the London Times. Competitors evince
the greatest desire to obtain employment
in this great establishment in PRINTING &
House square: "None but first rate com.
positors however, stand chance of being
taken, and the list of eligible candidates is
generally pretty large one. Moreover,
the Times system of raising competent
compositors from apprentices, keeps the
supply nearly equal to the demand. The
Times is the only London daily paper that
employs apprentices, and this employment
is, indeed, the chief cause of dispute be-
tween it and the society, though the ap-
prentices are only engaged during the
day, principally upon advertisements.
When compositor applies for employment
upon the Times, he is tested in room by
himself, upon piece Of parliamentary
debate copy which is liz written in
not over legible style, an abbreviated
long hand. If the applicant can compose
sixty lines of minion in q fair workman.
like manner, without doubtless 'outs,'


wrong spelling, or disproportionate num-
Der of literal or clerical errors, within two
hours, his name is placed on register of
competent hands, and he may expect TO be
called in at the first opportunity. Once
engaged, the permanency of his post de-
pends upon himself. No applicant over
thirty years Of age is eligible. aud if he
fail. upon tsial, to come up to the required
standard OF efficiency, he is paid for his
sixty liues and dismissed, no one but the
manager and himself being acquainted
With the fact of his application so that in
co case can injury arise to a society man
from asking work on the Times. In the
printing Office of the leading journal, a
capital system prevails. Men are encour-
aged in provident habits as soon as they
attach themselves to the paper. Half a
crown in the pound is deduced from the
earnings Of each regular compositor, press
man, machine MIN, and warehouse man,
the whole period of his employment, and
is given up to him on his retirement, and
on no account before. A sick fund has
been founded by the men, to which nearly
every one subscribes a surgeon is perma


nently engaged on the staff, and is al
ways in attendance or within easy call


Refreshments of all kinds are obtainable
on the premises at nearly cost prices, and
the club principle is carried out in every
department.. Thus, not only are the en-
ployees cared for during the hours of theil
working life, but no one can leave the
Times after any number of years service
without possessing that penny in the purse
which wo are told is the best friend a


court. Could not other large Offices be
conducted on like principles, and will
equal benefit to master and men Z"
Year: 1868

NASHVILLE. June 9, 1868


The Democratic State Convention met to-day and
was very largely attended every section OF the
State being represented. composed OF the leading
men Of former parties and prominent leaders on
both sides during the war. Its session was pro-
longed, and at times, considerable feeling pre-
vailed, but not Of accusing character. The
differences OF views OF policy were candidly
discussed while there was entire accord on all mat
ters OF principle. platform was adopted, formally
allying the conservatives OF Tennessee with the
national democratic party, declaring the doctrine
Of secession finally decided by the war; but asserting
the just rights Of the States Strong ground was de-
cared against the reconstruction policy OF Congress
and In favor the rghtrul supremacy OF the white
In the control OF the government. The greenback
policy was unanimously and enthusiastically adopted.
resolution audat0ry OF President Johnson for his
administration policy and congratuating him and
the country the defeat OF Impeachment, and with
out nominating him for the Presidency at New York,
1t declared In the event that his name was men.
toned IL was due that the delegation should cast
vote for him.


The delegation Ia composed Of men OF all shades OF
former politics. majority are considered Pendle.
ton men. The general impression prevailed that
PondletOu would be the candidate as he Ia the repre-
sentative Of financial policy which has proved Itself
very strong. committee was also appointed to
prepare an address to the New York Convention
Year: 1868

There was q remarkably good attendance at the
subscription rooms. No. 920 Broadway. last evening
and quite lively business was done IN the way OF
pool selling. The rain having had the eject OF max
Ing the track heavy there was q consequent change
In the betting some horses running better on moist
course and ufce versa. The following Is average
statement Of the lots disposed OF lask night each
race under the hammer OF Dr. Underworld
Year: 1868

To find one who has passed through life without sorrow, you must find one who is in- capable of love or hatred, of hope or fear one who hath no memory of the past, no thought of the future one who has no sym pathy with humanity and no feeling in com mon with the rest of mankind.

 X womans head is always influenced by her heart, but a mans heart is always intiu- enced by his head.

 The heart and brain of man is like his watch, no repose until it ceases to move.

 "Immodest words admit of no defense

 The want of decency is the want of scnsc.'

 "Practice flows from principle, for as a man thinks so will he act" Reasons whole pleasure. all the joys of sense. Lie in the words health. peace and competence

 "Slencc is the safeguard and ornament of life"

 "Thcre is a vast deal of vital air in loving words

 No man is wholly bad at oncen

 What we call eternity may be but an end less series of those transitions which men call deaths, abandonments of home after home, ever to fairer scenes and loftier heights. Age after age the spirit, that glorious nomad, may shift his tent, tated not to rest in the dull tlNHlulu or lue Ntatutu. uul CtIt iil- with it ever more its elements-actyity and desire.n

 Labor is the very essence of spirit as of Divinity. Labor is the purgatory of the er- ring; it may become the hell of the wicked, but labor is not less the heaven of the good. WEy should the soul ever repOse God, its 1 principle, rcposes never. Never accustom those you love to do ! without you.n

 "Less Judgment than wit is more sail than ! ballast" ! He who studies his body too much be comes sick, and he who does the same by hi, 1 mind becomes mad.n

 "A man need care for no more knowledg, than to know himself; no more pleasure thar to content himself; no more victory than tc overcome himself; 10 more riches than to en joy himself"

 "The world is more apt to reward appear ances than deserts.n

 "Slanderer-a person of whom the Creek showed proper appreciation when they made the word synonymous with devil i |" He that gives soon gives twice.

 "That load that is cheerfully borne becomes pleasant"
Year: 1868

think that's all fudge. Cad l generally calculate to know everything and little more, wherever am. Nothing like assump- ton my dear Sir, Put on face and keep it there. Just face the music if you want any music. All mistake to wait for the world to come along and give you helping hand. It don't deal in that style of life. If you don't blow your own trumpet, renounce me 1T anybody will. There's no number but mum Der one, and to get it you've got to scram- blc, and crowd, and push, and jump, without manners or mercy. The world believes in it, whatever it says. Impotence is only conf dence in another shape. Gold is a big thing, but there's a shine or SO to brass, and nine people in ten think just as we'll of it. l cal. culate one man is as good as another, and a great deal better, if he'll only dash ahead with might and main. Never finch. Never take a back step. Never play second fiddle. Know no number but the first. What you call modesty don't pay-don't pay at all, Sir Gets trod upon and ruined. like lady's long dress in the street. never have anything to do with it. Great weakness, Sir-great weakness
Year: 1868

IL is considered an accomplishment for h. dy or gentleman to know how to carve well at his or Der own table. IL is not proper to stand in carving. The carving knife shold be sharp and thin.

 To carve fowls (which should always be laid with the breast uppermost,) place the fork in the breast, and take off the wings and legs without turning the fowl then cut the carcass in two. Divide the joint in the leg of turkey.

 In carving a sirloin cut in thin slices from the side next to yod it must be put on the dish with the sirloin underneath, then turn it and cut from the tenderloin. Serve the guests to both kinds.

 In carving a leg of mutton, or ham, begin by cutting across the middle to the bone Cut a tongue across and not lenthwse, and serve from the middle part

 Carve fore-quarter of lamb by separating the shoulder from the ribs, and then divide the ribs.

 To carve a loin of veal. begin at the small CT end and separate the ribs Serve each to piece of kidney and its fat. Carve pork and mutton in the same way.

 To carve a filet of veal begin at the tor and help to stuffing at each slice. In breast of veal, separate the breast and brisket ana then cut them up, asking what part Is pre- ferred.

 In carving pig it is customary to diyid, it and take off the head before it comes or the table, as to many persons, the head is re yolting. Cut of the limbs and divide tn ribs.

 In cutting venison, make deep incisiol down to the bone and let out the juices; thei turn the broad ends towards you, cuttin. deep m thin slices.

 For a saddle of venissn, cut from the tai toward the other end, and on each side, il thin slices. Warm plates are very necessar, with venison and mutton, and in winter ar very desirable for all meats.
Year: 1868

NETTI.Es FROM DEAN SwIFT.-If man will observe when he walks the street, be- lieve he will find the merriest faces in mourn ing coaches.

 The reason why so few marriages are hap py is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, and not in making cages.

 We have just enough of religion to make us hate, but not enough to make Us love one another.

 The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy owe all their success to prudence and merit

 Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

 Small causes are sufficient to make a mar uneasy, when great ones are not in the way for want of a block be will stumble at straw.

 Every man deserves to live long; but nc man would be old l Love of flattery, in most men, proceed ! from the mean opinion they have of them l selves; in women from the contrary. Appollo was held the god of physc ant sender of the disease Both were originally | of the same trade and will continue. i Men are content to be laughed at for theil | wit, but not for their folly. | How IS 1t possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

 The latter part of a wise mans life is taker up in curing the folies, prejudices and false | opinions he had contracted in the former. The chameleon, which is said to feed upor nothing but air, has of all animals the nim | blest tongue.

 It is a miserable thing to live in suspense it is the life of A spider.
Year: 1868

It Is a great thing to have sound and vigorous constitution. There Is nothing that money can buy comparable ln value Go this best gf Of nature The dferauce between the Individual who has it and the unfortunate who has t not, Is Just the difference between the man who goes into the bat tie clothed In defensive armur and one who has nothing to oppose the sword and bullet but his naked breast 1.-The pestilence that walkcth in darkness; the sickness that destroyeth al noon day. while it lays low the man of feeble stamina, Is on.n conquered by the native strength Of what Is called an "iron constitution"

 Heaven, however, hns not endowed even mole iy Of mankind with this incstmable blessing, and therefore it behoovcs those who have it not, to re sort to those most efficient means of constitutions invigoration which science can supply. There i' good warrant for asserting that
Year: 1868

NEWSPAPER writers often make appeals to ''the intelligent reader" If that individual still has an existence among us, he is having a hard time of it now. He has need of all his intelligence to sift the false from the true in the partizan appeals of the day. What to read and how much to believe, are questions which might puzzle Solomon. The trouble is that in too many cases the appeal is not made to the intelligence of the reader, but to his presumed ignorance, prejudice or self-in- terest. It is fortunate that the schoOl-mas- ter has been abroad in this land, or the peo- pie might be left to believe lie. Some of our politicians seem to agree with Sheridan that conscience has nothing to do with poli- ties. They profess great love for the peo- pe-

 But optics sharp it needs, ween,

 To see what is not to be seen."
Year: 1868

The countersign of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is now a somewhat more serious well difii- cult business than 1t was a few years ago, each bottle of the genuine article being authenticated by the official indOrsement of the United States Revenue department in the form of stamp en. graved on steel, to counterfeit which is felony Sec, therefore, that this Government Countersign, well the engraved label and note of hand Of the proprietors, Is attached to the bottle. The h. bel is embelished with a superb representation of st George on horseback in the act Of spearng the Dragon, and underneath is a shield Or escutch- con, bearing warning inscription, which coun- terfeters are advised to read before they encoun. ter the penalty which is set forth. Below this again Is Hostetter S Smiths note of hand, the signature of which it would be rather serious business to forge. If the public will look these verihcations Of the genuineness Of the article be- fore they purchase, they cannot be deceived The proprietary label and Government stamp are both executed on steel in the most elaborate style of bank-note engraving, and are probably the most expensive specimen of graphic art ever attached to any medical preparation.
Year: 1868

there l. positively nothing that is not healthful and wholesome. They contain no ingredient which by any process could be converted into an active poison, and yet as constitutional stimulant are infinitely preferable to any of the sulphates and aceiates which have been recently added to thc materia nlediea. The
Year: 1868

We continue each week to send
abroad a large extra edition of the
DIGEST to true, working, live active
Democrats in nearly all the States,
asking from all whose hands it shall
fall d favorable consideration of its
merits and power as a campaigner
in these perilous times


We enter the great campaign Of
'6S which is to determine the fate Of
this country, prepared to throw hot
shot, canister, grape, and confusion
into the ranks of the Robber and
Piratical party. ~


To defend the people against
wrong sa


To defend the Constitution


To uphold governmental Right,
and to war on a government Of
wrong, usurpation and oppression


To war on Black Abolitionism
and every other ism which rises in
the land and in opposition to Dem
ocracy and Justicel


Up with the constitution, State
SOVEREIGNTY, and popular Liberty !


Down with the Rump Congress,
Dictators, Military governments,
usurpation and oppressionl
Now, or never, Democrats IL
Campaigns Digest.
Year: 1868

WHITR TIdKETs.- We are inform
ed by Senator Golden, that the
proposition u have no visible marks
to distinguished eticketfrom another
has become d law. The radicals
fought the proposition desperately,
but all to no effect. Men can now
vote their own sentiments, instead
Of those Of their employers, and
none to molebt or make them afraid.
Every ticket having any devise by
which one ticket externally can be
distinguished from that Of another,
is to be counted as a fraudulent vote,


Graveyard Institutions upon the
back Of Radical tickets are played
out, men in future will not be driven
to the polls under the lash Of party
discipline,
Year: 1868

SEE HERE.--We hope every Democrat in
the county will take hold and help circu-
late the Enquirer during the campaign.
Let clubs be formed in every town in the
county. Now is the time to work and
circulate the documents. See our terms
in another column.
Year: 1868

THElArge and vAriegatsd assortment Of
Goods now received at the we'll: known
HOuseOf 3. D. Dodge can not fail to suit
the many CustOmers in oil psrtieulars-
especially in price. Give his House a
call before going elsewhere and examine
the grand new styles Of Spring goods.
Year: 1868

YOuR ArrEN4ioa, READER New
spring Goods AIst s'sesiyea sat J. K,
WiIl'slp is on hnnodhSemsnt we venture
to say chat viii cause a sensation anon &
the ladies Of viutOn County, for the rea-
son that J.K. Will is noted for his long
experience and good taste in selecting
goods of the most beautiful and attractive
Styles He is now in the city purchasing
full assortment Of oil that may be
wanted in this market, and which will be
sold lower than the lowest.