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Year: 1867




with ali authority, not Only the woFldli
ness which we 80 much deplore, but espe-
cially those vicious practices which have
gained popularity among Christian peo-
pie for raising money to do the Lords
work. It is treason against God aud his
Christ to give conntenance to such evil
measures. II men will not do their duty
and pay what they owe, their tenth unto
the Lord-if they will not offer to God
Of their substanee--if they will not lay
their gifts upon the altar, then warn
them boldly and fearlessly that God
will either take their riches from them,
or them from their riches. II they will
not build churches from a sense Of the
natural decency of things, that Gods
name may be reverenced without re-
sorting to means and appliances which
outrage all sense OF religion and break
down all the barriers Of public morality,
then FAR better for US to worship under
the blue arch Of heaven.


God Is not moeked."


Be earnest, brethren, In your work.


Z" Bate no job OF heart or hope, but still
bear up and steer right onward.n


Have always printed in your Temem-
branee how great treasure is committed
10 your charge. Endure hardness as
good soldiers Of Jesus Christ, giving no
offence in anything, that the ministry be
not blamed, and make the world know
and feel the power Of the blessed Gospel
10 the Church. God has given US great
favor in the hearts and minds OF the
sober and rejecting. Men are turn
ing to the Church for rest from the
strife and divisions that vex and
distress them, and well they may.
The present attitude of the Church
in the United States, her unity
and strength Of her towers, and beauty
Of her palaces, is q spectacle which no
lover OF his country can regard with
other than profound attention and earn
est hope. No one to whom the interests
Of the Gospel are dear will refuse
TO Rnite their prayers with ours,
to Gods the author of peace and the
lover Of concord, that the comfortable
Gospel Of Christ may be truly preached,
truly received, and truly followed 10 all
places, to the breaking dowOae king
dom Of sin, satan and death; till at
length the whole Of the dispersed sheep
Of Christ being gathered into one fold,
shall become partakers Of everlasting
life, through the merits and death Of
Jesus Christ our Savior.
Year: 1867

And. my dear and reverend brethren,
7 would have you bear in mind how
necessary it is for US to do the Masters
work in His own way. The very mo-
ment we depart out Of that way, We
cause men to stumble at the law OF
Christ and make our ministry bye
word and reproach. "Therefore have
I also made you contemptlble and base
before all the people, according as ye
have not kept my ways saith the Lord.


When thoughtful men Of the world are
at a loss to apologize for practices In
whieh Christians thoughtlessly indulge,
surely it Is time for the Pastors Of Christ's
fiock to lift a voice of warning and ad-
mention. Icharge you, before God, that
We be not remiss inrebaking sharply, and
Year: 1867

lIave the courage to discharge debt
while you have the money in your pocket.


Have the courage to do without that
which you do not need, however much your
eyes may covet 1t.


Have the courage to speak to friend in
''<ecdy coat, even th"ugh you are in
company with rich o.e aud richly attir-
ed.


Have the courage to make will and
just one.


Fave the courage to tell man why you
will not lend him your money


Have the courage to ''cut the most agree
able acquaintance you have when you are
convinced he lacks principle. "A friend
should bear with friend infitinities," but
not with his vices.


Have the courage TO show your respect
tor honesty, IN whatever guise it appears;
and yours contempt for dishonest duplicity,
by whomsoevtr exhibited.


Have the courage to wear your old clothes
until you pay for new ones


Have the courage to obey your Maker at
the risk of being ridculed by man.


Have the courage to prefer comfort and
prosperity to fashion in all things.


Have the courage to acknowledge your
ignorance, rather than to seek credit for
knowledge und,r false prefer ce


Have courage TO provide entertainment
for your friends within your ineans-not
beyond.
Year: 1867

y WICKED waS says the reason young
ladies lcok so bold and fierce in these litter
days is, that they tie their hair SO tightly
on the back of their head that they cannot
shut their eyes, which give them their fierce
look, and then their tremendous waterfalls
so balance their heads up that they seem
to cock their chins" at everybody, hence
their beld defiant look"
Year: 1867

HoME PAPEns. Not tenth part Of
the local news which transpires in any
country town tinds its way into the col
ums Of city newspaper, and be who
takes the latter TO the exclusion Of his
own town or county paper, docsnot full
fll his duty as citizen. Such man n
unworthy 10 I'll town Office for he GER
tainly lacks local pride Boston Journal
Year: 1867

The Louisville Journal, In a late article In
reply to a letter from a correspondent gives
his advice to the ten States


Our correspondent iRvokes the north 60
deliver the South. His invocation Is good,
as call for Northern assistance bat not as
an excuse for Southern supineness. The
North can do little for the South, unless the
South does something for herself. The
greatest thing that she could have done for
herself would have been to reject the milf
tary scheme; by this means she would have
cut of her electoral vote from the radical
candidate for the Presidency next year but
the scheme being so enforced as to extfn-
guish the impossibility of her doing this
thing, the next best thing that she can do,
as we have repeatedly said. Is to wash her
hands of the whole business, standing aloof
from all proceedings under the scheme, so
that the Northern people may realize its
enormity, and be impelled to overthrow the
party that uphOids It If the South viii do
this for herself, the North may be able to do
the rest; but If the South not only submits
TO the military scheme, but really appa-
Fently sanctions it. the North VIII be able
70 do little or nothing. In that case. a re-
alizing sense Of the Southern situation will
never be awakened in the Northern mind.


The Memphis Bulletin admiral semmes,
editor,) remarks as follows on the foregoing


This is good advice We did not aares
with the Journal in the beginning of this
matter Of reconstruction. We Thought Con-
gress in earnest in proposing that the South
ern people shOuld put their shoulders 20 the
wheel, and help their political wagon out Of
the mire, and We recommended our people
70 do es Congress wanted them The deTeI-
opments since made have shown without
doubt. that GoHgrces 5nAerfIrd no euch


thing; their scheme. from the beginning
vas to deprive the Southern people Of ali
power in the matter and reorganize their
States By the sole agencies Of the bFigadiers
and the negroes Oar people, if ever 90
much inclined, are powerless 70 influence
! the result. one way or the other. Shall
/ they, notwithstanding, cooperate IN the M
famous work Of AfricauiziBg their States
and thus give their sanction 70 be pleaded
| against them iu tho futare, by their deadly
| enemies who have deceived them1 This IS
/ the real question, Southern men You are
/ poweFless to do anything. VIII you con-


sent 20 what is being done with you
Year: 1867

Ben Wade, lOW-fung radical told the
people of Cleveland the other day that An
drew johnson would carry out his policy at
the point Of the bayonet, and that bis am
nesty proclamation was war upon the Union i
Year: 1867

The bonded aristocraey of the North are
beginning to shake in their boots over the
storm that is arising against them. So pal
pably wrong is it to tax the poor for the
benefit Of the rich that even Old Beast But
Ter frankly admits that it would be nothing
more than right and justice for the Govern
ment to issue legal tenders for the express
purpose Of wiping ous the 800 bonds-s500,-
100000. He claims that the IN terest alone
on these bonds is payable In gold, while
the contract explicitly says that the Princi-
pal shall or can be paid in currency
Year: 1867

The New York Herald seems to be pro-
voked and alarmed at the liberation of Mr..
Davis on bail. 1t says:


But what will be the consequence of letting
the rebel chief 60 without being tried? How
will the people interpret this act? Will they not
argue that if there be no treason the war was in
vain and is fruitless? There is now in the public
mind degree of CONSERVATION and doubt. The
action of the government and judiciary has unset
tied it. Is there treason or is there not? is the
question every one asks Soon, five mistake
not, the people will interpret the action of the
government, the Chief Justice, Underwood,
Greeley, and of all the rest, as repudating trea-
son and as declaring the war failure in its re-
suits. fso, will they not regard the national
debt a national swindle, and repudiate that as
readily as the crime of treason has neen repudia-
ted ? They will say naturally enough that they
ought not to be burdened with debt of three
Thousand millions and upwards, reckoning the
debt of the States as well as of the general gov
ernment, for nothing. They will ask why they
should be taxed hundred and fifty to two hun
dred millions year, when they have been cheat
ed in the object and results of the war. Is there
treason or is there not? This is the question of
the time, before which every other must give
way. 1t involves the security of our government
hereafter and the payment or reputation of the
national debt. Understanding the action of the
government and the Judiciary as virtually declar-
ing there is no such crime as treason, we should
not be surprised to see, within five years, the
debt created by the war repudiated as an i'm
position and fraud. That, in fact, would be
the logical consequence of letting treason 90 un-
tried and unpunshed. If there be no treason the
war was all wrong, and the national debt is a
national swindle.
Year: 1867

both races; he tells the colored race tina
they must be sober, industrious and honest
and get learning and get lands, not lookin
to confscation and thisis the incendiaay,
so pronounced in the organ of Gov. Wort
and other rebel papers! We wish we ha f.
thousands of just such "incendiaries" in til
South. 1t is true, these papers are compelle
for very shame to change their tone some
what since the Judge has spoken
this State, and they affect to believe, as
justification for the injustice they have dor
him. that he has moderated" or change
his tone since he left Mobile. But not so.-
He delivered in substance the same remark
in Mobile which he delivered in Charlotte
Salisbury, and Greensborough. The onl
difference is, that in Mobile he was replyin.
in the outset of his speech, to the charge
rebel newspaper that he was the represel
tative of a faction, when he was rudely II
terrupted He then stated that he was frt
man in free country, and had the mllltar
to sustain him, and could not be put dow
in that way. The firing then commenced
the meeting was broken up, and the Jude
retired to bis hotel. There was nothin
more "incendiary" in all this on the part
Judge Kelley than there was in his speech'
just delivered at various points in Nortl
Carolina.


This charge of incendiarism is intended I
prejudice the people and keep them fro
turning out to hear Republican speakers
The habit of speaking of incendiaries is
relic of the old slave power. Those who az
continuing this habit should remember th'
the slaves are now as free as they are, an
are not more disposed than Others to act
an incendiary manner. Rebel newspaper
which thus assail the Judge, ought rather
thank him for the milo. and generous mai
ner in which he handles them. He is NJ
half as severe upon them as he might justl
and properly be.


| We trust this is not the last visit of Jude
Kelley to this State. We hope to see hil
here during the campaign for members c
the State Convention.
Year: 1867

We learn from the Salem O6sercer that the
Rev. Mr.. Hart, who halls, we believe, from
Granville County, while in attendance on
the Mayo Baptist Association in Forsyth
County, recently, went out of his way in one
of his pulpit harangues to use the following
language:


I" He said that "any man who had a soul as
big as gnat would rather be relative to Gen.
eral Lee than to be related to General Butler,
except those men who went into the bushes
rather than fight for the Confederacy and then
ought to be hung with grape vine"


The loyal men present took fire at this
language, and the next day they went to the
place prepared to administer to him good
castigation. Becoming alarmed, he made
an humble apology, whereupon they spared
him. A paper printed in Winston tries to
excuse this reverend traitor and hyyocrite
by speaking of him as "a Christian gentle
man." The Lord save this people from such
Christians They are the DEVILS own. If
there be one place in perdition hotter than
another, it must be reserved for those preach
ers of the gospel who SOW strife, discord and
hatred among the people by their political
teachings.
Year: 1867

We surrender much of our space to-day to
the opinion of the Attorney General on the
reconstruction acts.


The opinion is an able one. and has evi-
IDENTIFY been we'll considered. We do not
attach much Importance to it, however. 1t
depends entirely upon the temper the peo
pie whether the rebel States will be recon-
structed under the Sherman act. With the
rebel State organizations in existence, and
with so many rebels as voters under the act,
while number of good Republicans are ex-
cluded from the ballot-box, it is by no means
certain that such action will be taken as will
ensure the return of the States under the act.
But we hope for the best.
Year: 1867

The ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE DISSOLVED.
just as we go to press we have received
the information that Governor Murphy has
issued proclamation, based upon an order
from General Ord, dissolving the legislative
body of the State and transferring the pub
lie treasury to the hands of COL Page, of
the Quartcrmaster Department of the Uni
ted States army. We have not been able to
obtain copy of the proclamation, and give
the above as its substance upon information.
Helena (.4rk) Clarion, May l.


Gen. Ord Is determined that the recon
struction District No. 4, shall be conducted
by loyal men alone. The Legislature of this
State is more disloyal than it was in the
days of '64 We call Gen. Sickles attention
to this fact. The existing Legislature pass
ed an amnesty bill which throws the mantle
of secrecy over the crimes committed by men
in the employ of Davis, Vance, Wise, Gra-
ham. Toombs. Hampton and many Others of
similar character. They passed the revenue
bill to tax the people sufficient amount to
raise five hundred thousand dollars. This
money is not needed. There is money enough
in the Treasury to-day to meet all the State
expenses for more than twelve months
This fact is vouched for by the report OF
Treasurer Battle himself


There is no earthly use of allowing the
Legislature to assemble in August next. 1t
is an illegal body. The reconstruction act
provides that all elections shall be held
without regard to race or color" The pres
ent Legislature was elected alone by the
whites. Anything it may do will not be
binding upon ary one, since the act of Con-
gress makes all elections held heretofore null
and void.


The assembling of the Legislature will
cost the State some thirty or forty thousand
dollars without doing the State any good
whatever. We call upon our colored friends
to petition Gen. Sickles to dissolve the Leg
islature, as they had no hand in choosing it,
and anything it may do will not be binding
upon them. Our colored friends are free
men. they have the right to petition General
Sickles to this effect We trust they will
exercise this right. We call the attention
of the Republicans of the State to the above
facts. Also the Republican press. What
say you, brother Standards Let US hear
from all the loyal press of the State upon
this highly important subject.-Rsth. Star.
Year: 1867

A SHOWER OF MOLTEN IRON HURLED
THROUGH A FOUNDRY BUILDING Yester-
day morning at about 81 o'clock a terrible
explosion was heard in Dennis Longs foun-
dry, on Ninth street, near the river, which
Jared the glass out OF windows within 4.
square or two, and shook the earth for some
distance around. A fire alarm was sprung
from Box 81, corner of Tenth and Main
streets, by some parties close, as it was not
known what had taken place, and it was
expected that some of the huge boilers used
in some of the machine shops in the vicinity
of the river had burst. On fastening to the
scene, however, it was discovered that the
explosion was caused by the upsetting Of .
cauldron containing about ton of molten
iron into mould in which rain had drip
ped and water therefore stood. The man
who was working the ladle was blown out
of the window and badly injured, and the
molten iron hurled through the roof Of the
building tearing out about 20 feet square Of
it. Every window in che building was bad
ly torn up. There were other persons in
the molding shop at the time of the anci-
dent besides the party injured, but AL Of
them fortunately escaped severe injury, The
circumstance is Astrange one. There might
have been more serious result had the mol
ten metal scattered around the shop, instead
of being propelled upward, as it happened
to be.-Louisrils Journal.
Year: 1867

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Whenever the Democracy argue that the
great crime of social convulsion will ensue if
the measures of the Union party are perse-
vered in, it merely means that they them
selves are meditating such wrong. This
gives the fears of war of races" so often
predicted by Democratic editors its only sig
nifcance. In the canvass for President in
1860 the Democrats predicted civil war If
Lincoln was elected. They knew that their
party leaders had then determined on the
war of rebellion. It was the first intention
of the Southern leaders to massacre the me-
groes. The hopes held out by Mr.. Johnson's
policy induced a change of programme, and
instead of destruction they sought by legis-
lative enactments to practically enslave tho
freedmen. Now, the threat of the Louisville
Courier that Northern men will not be al
lowed to. "peddle politics and jacobin inso.
lence" in the Southern States, means the
mobbing of all missionaries after the manner
Judge Kelly was treated at Mobile. One of
the cardinal points in the creed of the old
Democratic party was to cultivate spirit of
prejudice and caste between the whites and
the negroes. The result of this Is just now
one of the most formidable obstacles in the
way of reconstruction. 1t is useless to dis
guise the fact that there exists certain en-
nifty between the white and blacks of the
South which may lead to serious consequent
ces unless carefully watched and discounten-
anced by the military authorities. There is
no good reason why the whites should hate
the blacks and seek occasion to annoy and
injure them. Providence has cast their lots
together-at least in the Southland the
sooner the white men there learn to respect
the new position Of the negro the better for
both parties. We regret the riotous mani
festations being witnessed just now in differ
ent parts of tho South, because they will
have tendency to delay the work of recon-
struction. The people of the South should
understand that demonstrations like that at
Mobile will do them no good. They will
not commend their speedy restoration to the
majority in Congress, nor will they give the
people of the North any cause to believe that
the South really wants to assume its position
in the Union. Considerations like these,
which must occur to every sensible person,
ought to induce the more orderly and res
pectable people of the South to sternly dis
countenance all attempts at interference with
liberty of speech, and with the rights and
privileges of the negroes. Aadison (lnd.)
Courier.
Year: 1867

Question that Requires an Answer


What has Become of the Premium


ON Mr. McCuIIOeh's Gold SaIesP


From the New York Journal of Commerce


There are some topics in the report of
the Secretary Of the Treasury which we
propose TO reserve for treatment more at
length in our general editorial colums, but
we can not forbear in this connection to al.
lude to some ofits most remarkable omis-
sions. Unlike his predecessors, McCul-
loeh fails TO give us any report of his sales
Of gold, the method of conducting them or
his premiums thereupon. Mr.. Fessenden,
in his report, says the very large COM
paratiye receipts from miscellaneous sources
require explanation" He then gives the
details, which include nearly twenty mill
lions premium on gold coin. No such ex-
planation follows the blind figures in Mr..
McCulloch's report. There is also an
omission 10 furnish any information con-
cerning the manipulation of the bonded
and floating debt. Those who live at a
distance from the city can hardly conceive
the disgust with which honest men resident
here and watchful Of Wall street move
ments have regarded the secret sales and
transfers made by orders or permission Of
the department at Washington. 1t is gen.
orally believed that the profits of such
transactions have been divided between
certain officials and the agents here inn
mediately concerned; but whether this is
so or not, the whole thing has been public
scandal, 10 which we have frequently
called attention in the hope of shaming the
authorities into at least the semblance7pf
decency. We have little faith in the in
vestigation of any Congressional commit
tee, and it may be that this business has
been managed 80 as to leave no trace of the
corruption which has been SO evident TO an
observer, but We live in the hope that the
whole matter win one day be pro5ed, and
the rottenness exposed.
Year: 1867

From the following, which We clip from
the Mobile Advertiser and Register of the
10th, the spirit and action of the white
people of Alabama on Cuffy's constitution
will be seen: 49,


A meeting of citizens of Mobile will be
held on Wednesday evening O'clock, at
the hall Of Engine Company No. z, on
Cont street, to organize first club to
make determined stand against the me-
nagerie constitution. This constitution
disfranchises 10000 of the best citizens Of
the State, and turns this great Common
wealth over 10 a mass of ignorant negroes,
swayed by a gang Of imported adventnrers,
whose only business down South is to
speculate in the political suferings Of our
people, plumber their substance and steal
their public Offices of profit and power.


For two years the people have submits
sively abandoned the field of politics to
foreign enmity and domestic ignorance. Ii
is now their time to speak and to act, and
forbid these banns of political harlotry.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people 10 be solfreliant, and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment OF
manufactures In our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we viii pay special attention
TO the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing,
and exert enrselves to encourage the diversin-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

By A CONSOLIDATION OF THE lash
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support Of the USIoS AND DIsPATcH by the
patrens Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled TO present a Newspaper hiths
10 unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNEsS AND ACCURACY
NEWS, our paper will compare fayorably hh


best in the entire country; and In sayina


we only repeat the expressions Of many


patrons. who are most capable Of Judging In


matters.
Year: 1867

TOgether with the ills which follow in their
train. His remedies are we'll known, for there
is scarcely a State in the Union which has not
furnished him with patients whom he has inva-
riabiy cured.


Patients who cannot come to Nashville can
have the remedies applicable to their disorder
sent them, securely put up in the least possible
compass for safe transportation.


Ladies need not hesitate to apply for advice.
A personal interview is not always necessary.
All correspondence is confidential. Instructions
through the medium of correspondence for the
proper administration of medieineis, frequently,
all that is necessary Octl1eOdtf