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Year: 1867

SENSIBLE TALK FROM THE SoUTu.-George W.


Kendall writes from Texas in the following SEN
sible vein to his paper the New Orleans Piedyune ::


The lessons which adversely teaches are hard ;
yet they must be learned. And these lessons
are always useful. know that it comes hard for
young man to walk behind plow who once
rode behind a fast trotter nor is IL agreeable to
young lady to make and put on her dresses all
by herself who formerly had n couple of servants
to take these irksome jobs off her hands. Yet
can see other remedy, at least for those who
have simply been ruined by the war, and the list
is a long one, That n large majority have ac-
cepted the situation chcerfuly, am glad to say
is true-I mean the situation to earn their own
living all must do it. And there are many who
think and | am one of them, that in the long
run it will be all the better for the rising gener-
alton Of the South-a generation which is 10
follow one notoriously brought up in ignorance
OF work and Incidence as to any useful occupa-
tion. The race of men growing up will be more
muscular-the women stronger and henrtier-
and their children again improve upon the stock.
/ have never heard that exercise was hurtful, and
| have consulted good physicians on the subject


II it is true that Wendell Phillips said that
" the best education in the world is that got BY
struggling to get living, Wendell Phillips said
one true thing at least. 1t is free school, and
we shorid all enter it, this q struggling to get
living" 1t is folly to sit upon the bank of the
RIVER and hesitate, rs does BOY IN spring time
before taking his first bath in the water he
thinks is too cold. Better plunge in at once. and
be out Of misery. How often do we hear people
complain that they have been out all day hunt
ing for servant without success. Had they
turned to in the morning they could have done
all their work themselves in a couple of hours,
and saved money and shoe leather by the opera
ton. Too many waited upon they must now
tie their own shoes, and repeat that the sooner
thAv heui he hett he |
many think they can escape this state Of things
by going to Brazil some other out-of-the-way
country but toll is the common lot of the poor
man the world over, rs far as have seen, and in
no part of the world is toll as remunerative as
in the Southern States of America. Let US work
Year: 1867

Ma. SARoESr's SPEEcH AT AARYsvILLE.-This
able speech of Mr.. Sargent contained the follow
ing peculiarly eloquent and significant passage !:
"Shall this man, who was made President by
the hand of. Wilkes Booth, be allowed to con-
fess judgement in favor OF the South, after a YER
dict for the North has been recorded by the Gen.
ius Of War? thousand times no. Three hun
dred thousand slain heroes Of the war, from
their graves, answer no Half a million of liv-
ing men, mutilated and torn by the sho: and
shell, answer no Thousands Of the nations
In rebel slaughter pens, feeby cry No /! As pa
tiently they wait for death to take them to the
companionship OF their old comrades who per-
ished before the hour of their deliverance came.
And these last-sixty thOusand-who deep in
their graves were undisturbed by the worms,
which could fud no flesh upon their skeletons
their spirits hover throughout the North, and
bid US cry No Who dare disObey their COM
mand? million Of women in weeds, mourn
ing over lost husbands, sons and brothers, for
bid the consummation of the wicked scheme.
Justice and Honor and Liberty, Passion and
Hearts and Brain Religion and Humanity, all
cry No and demand not Indemnity for the fear
full past but ample security for the now uncertain
future. When the people see the President more
humble in his great Office, and learn from him
that he regrets having made the baseless accu-
sation, echoed from traitorous mouths, that the
lovers Of liberty were as much to blame for the
war as were the devotees of African slavery;
when he is repentant and withdraws his rebel
lious threats to hinder legislation unless Con-
gress decides that they wrong and he is
right, and that the representatives of rebellion
shall have vote upon the guarantees they are
to give as security for their own future good
conduct; when, in short, the President recogni-
xes the United States Government again as it is,
and is ready to allow the work of reconstruction
to 90 in its legitimate way, then there will be
harmony. But if he demands an unconditional
surrender of Congress and the people to his Pc
cular ideas, there will be end to his dictator
ship, and he will, under the provisions of the
Constitution, be compelled to surrender the Of
fee to which only the heavy stroke of violence
elevated him"
Year: 1867

fA1ss AND PoLIrics.-The Nevada Gazette con.
eiudss An article in relation to the above item As
follows =" In this State it is especially refresh
ing to hear Democrats talk about heavy taxation,
when it is known that the greater portion of the
ic administrations. California was almost bs MI.
supt under Democratic rule. The State Prison
swindle and the corruption that marked the
early history o: Democratic rule in California
win not be forgotten so long as the heavy State
debt remains as a burden upon the people. The
administration Of the Union party has been eco.
aomical 10 the State, and last year our taxes
were materially decreased. The party has a
record upon the question of finances and taxa
sion Of which it may we'll be proud. The Ma
tional and State credit has been built up and
sustained during one Of the most trying rebel
lions that ever threatened the existence OF any
nation. Now the policy of the Union party is
to reduce taxation as rapidly As it can be done.
The last session of Congress has given proof oi
this
Year: 1867

A DILEMMA A singular case is pending in one of the police courts of New York city A woman claims that a man, who is defendant in the case, is her husband. It is said that her two children looks very much like him ;her sister positively identifies him; his name is confessed to be the same as hers and the woman swears positively that he was married to her eleven years ago, in Montreal, and is the father of her children. On the other hand, the de- fendant stolidly protests that he does not know the woman or the children that he was never married in Montreal, and brings witnesses to prove that he was in Norway at the time the mar riage is alleged to have taken place in Montreal The Judge has not yet been able to decide the question.
Year: 1867

pJ- There is diversity of opinion among Congressman who have arrived at Washington as to the policy which will be pursued by the Radicals on the resembling of Congress. The gem eral impression among the Democrats and even moderate Republicans is that if New York shall go largely Democrat the dominant party in Congress will modify their views. Such is not the opioion of John A. Logan, of Illinois, who declared that nor previous defeat will affect the detirmination ofthe Rad ical wing of the party to carry out to the fullest extent the measure they deem necessary. In his judgment the house will proceed with the Impeachment measure. regardless of the report of the Judiciary Committee. Mir. Logan coH- eedes that New York will be carried by the Democrats. Advices received to day from bothRadical andDemocrat- ic sources admit of no doubt that such will be the result, and that by great majority.
Year: 1867

It is singular fact that while the States of the North are throwing off the Radical yoke, and by their voices repudiating republican rule, Vir- ginia, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia are hugging the reconstruction policy which in the judgment of the best men of the country, is ruinous to liberty, and destructive to tho interests of the States. Ohio, Pennsylvania and other States have made their record against negro suffrage, where, heretofore, it was thought the measure had most friends. But here in the South, in Alabama, in Louisiana, in Virginia and in Georgia, the hateful policy of the party in power, has by its oppression driven the people into voting upon themselves what the republican party of the west would not have. We say driven, for we cannot believe that these States would have sanctioned negro suffrage, had they been left to exercise their will without compelling circum- stances forcing them to this course of action. Be this as it may, we must condemn that policy that is so foreign to the true principles of the southern people, and fraught with consequences the evil of which no man can measure. Under this policy the South must be- come the asylum for the negroes or north America, for surely the intelli- rent of this race will not remain north when their privileges are so much greater in the South. It is true many good men in the South, men as brave as any; men interested in the welfare of the country. favor this reconstrnc- ton upon the Congressional plan. All we can say of such is, they are mis- taken in our judgment, in deeming this the best policy for the southern States. Nor do we think it wise to confer npon the negro that privilege which he is so poorly qualified to ex- ercise. While we acknowledge him greatly in the minority, still if he be- comes voter, he is placed at the mer- .cy of designing men who oppose every southern sentiment, and who will so control the negro vote, as to make it too powerful ill opposition to the in- 'terests of the southern States. Op- pressive indeed, must be the condition of people who vote upon themselves a measure which they have always heretofore opposed-many, very many even unto death. What change in seven years. Once Ohio and Pennsyl- vania met Alabama, Georgia and Lou isisna upon bloody fields, for this very cause, now they of the north reject

 while we of the South accept the very thing, that caused those bloody pages with which we are all too familiar, to be written in American history.
Year: 1867

DS- The Republican press seems to be almost unanimous in their desire to place Grant on their Presidential ticket. They think iftheir principles can't win, the popularity of the man will give them guccess
Year: 1867

gE~ A special toa New York paper says it is now well known that the ne- groes in the South are organizing and arming for some purpose which is not peaceful, and it is also known that some of the district commanders per init them to arm and having furnished them with equipments. President J ohnson has referred the facts in these cases to the head of the War Depart ment, and it is probable that he will increase the military force in the South.
Year: 1867

a TIE TRUTH.-The Cincinnati Com- mercial, referring to negro suffrage prop osition in Ohio, speaks the truth after the following fashion:

 Of the proposed amendment we will say that it was unwise in Congress to make it political necessary for the friends of Congress to offer it and sup port it at this junction: and its conclu. sive defeat in Ohio must be accepted as absolute evidence that the Radical policy of converting the South into black is not acceptable to an immense majority of the people of the North.
Year: 1867

An exchange paper tells the following
very affecting story:


A darkey stood on the banquette bare,
brooding over his woes sad was his heart
and kinky his hair his gizzard feet were
exposed to air. and exceedingly seedy his
clos Oh why did dc cuss "id de blue
coat come to set dis darkey free was
happy wild Cuffee and Jumbo jun wild
plenty to eat and plenty OBJ rum, and Dlnah
was happy wild me. Old massa was good,
for when I was sick i'll my snug old cabin
home, de doctor was sent for to cure my
pain was sheltered from sun, and storm
and rain On why did de buro come p
Now dis al .sger stands i'll lie crowded streets,
wild his clos all tteered and torn ; and Io
one gives me work to do, nor wittles to eat !;
and de man in blue doesn't pity dis d;erkry
forloln. Ii massa would only take me home
on de old plantation once More !. d Trck de
cotton and tend de ct.ue and never think OF
freedom again as used to did before.


The darkey ceased : the tears tom his
ewes stool on his black cheek bone. The
sun s hot rays fell on his head. and a hearty
wish that he might " go dead . Was the last
we heard him groan.
Year: 1867

Horace lectured in Washington Thursday
night In the course of his lecture he said
that he thought that Washington, Jefferson,
Adams, and the early founders of the gov
ernment were responsible for the late war.
If they had, with a sense of justice, been
as keen to limit the duration of slavery as
they were to abolish the slave trade, the
late war would have been avoided.


On the subject of reconstruction, he said
this was republic, and true republic can
have no subjects, any more than true re-
publican can have slaves If you ask what
the condition must be for the admission of
the late Confederate States, I would say
that when a black man, wearing the Fed
eral blue, with black skin, can travel
through the South with as much impunity
as rebels in gray can through the North, I
shall believe they are truly fit for recon
struction.
Year: 1867

FIKE.-1he alarm of fire Wednesday morning,
was occasioned by the burning Of a hole in the
roof of the residence of Mr.. H. NJ. Bishop, Sixth
between Chestnut and Mulberry Streets which was
caused by sparks from the chimney. The fire was
discovered before it had made any progress of
sequence, and prompt action being taken it was
almost instantly extinguished, otherwise the de-
struction of property would have been great,
owing to the scarcity of water in that quarter.


We think it is due the citizens residing in that
locality, that some measures should be taken by
the city to construct cisterns for their convenience
in time of fires. In the present condition of af-
fairs they are at the mercy of the tiames, simply
because of the difficulties which exist in the way
of procuring sufficient quantity Of water to make
their efforts avaug
Year: 1867

Ny heart is sad and lonely now,
The future looks gloomy and dark,
For Bet has sent me up the spout,
Alas, for poor old Mark.
know loved her all too well,


The truth I'll not deny,
But my devotion was in vain,


For now Pm kicked" sky high.
I will not murmur at my fate,


Nor the Lords DEGREES gainsay,
His spirit works upon our hearts
In mysterious way.
l will not stamp my Sunday hat,
I'll neither cry nor curse,
Although it is hard old case,


Thank God it is no worse.
Year: 1867

= The Southern press have put Butler down to a
Great degree and he il Indebted for present atten-
tions mainly to Northern editors. Here is one
OF the last-which we take from the New Haven
Register


EPIGRAM.


How brave soldier ButlGr was,


Let this one fact reveal.


That even silver sooons and forks


Were worthy of his Steut.
Year: 1867

A Gift to Princess The inhabitants of North
schleswig made a subscription for the purpose
Of presenting gift 10 the Princess Dagmar on
painter skovgaad has furnished picture of q
spot in the neiehborhood of Apenrade, one Of
the most beautiful districts of schleswi On
the frame Will be painted the names OF all the
towns ana villages In the north part of the
province.
Year: 1867

A recent settling Of large section ol


Vicksburg, bordering Oh the Mississippi
River causes alarm. A peculiarity cc the
slide is that horrible stencLes arise from the
tissurcs made, and the authorities are busi,v
at work filling them up in order to preserve
the health of the city. Tho movement is
t0nporarily arrested, but is likely to DO re.
ncwed. 1t is well known that beneath the
hard blue clay that generally underlies the
alluvium at tho surface there is quick
sand, which is very easily washed out by
any current striking against the bank, as is
the case along this land slide. The weight
oftlc superintendent mass, being no longer
supported, breaks of from the main land
and tumbles into the river. Such an occur.
renee happened at Davis Bend two years
ago. A lot Of suffers landed on the shore
in apparent safety. All things appeared Us
Tor weeks before, but in a short time the
bank, for three or four rods in width and
several more rods in longth, suddenly crack
ed oil and fell into the river, carrying the
goods and whatever else was on the bank
dowa the swift current, that scattered them
all around the bend for twenty-five miles
This process has been continued on both
sides Of the ''cut,olf," until the whole
breadth Of the clay bed was thus broken up,
and the whole mighty current of the river
swept through the new channel ike mil!
dam, and twenty-five miles of the channel
was at once saved to the stcamboatmen.
The Bend is nOw an island The same
thing happened at Tcrrapin creek last year,
cutting of bend Of eighteen miles; and
thus generally is the crooacdness of the
river increased and diminished by the wash,
ing away of the quieksand.
Year: 1867

During the war there was LINTON
Party" Its platform was ''ihe Union, the
whole Union, and nothing but the Union.
The boys in blue" fought upon this plat
form. The war over, the radical negro in
iiuence commenced reconstruction Of the
platform of the party and succeeded in dis.
organizing the party by faling f'om the
platform the Union plank and putting in its
place ncgro pOhtical equality Since then
the platform has been going down-down-
until public opinion has determined to COM
plete!y crush it. The black thing is already
a wreck, and by the time the November
elections are over the radical platform will
be among the things that orce had an exis.
tence.


What next? Will the leaders persist in
the wrong persist in pursuing course
which must continue to drive the Union men
of the war to the support of the old Demo-
cratic organization ?-or will they open tho
door to all loyal men opposed to negro po.
litical equality and the Democratic organiza.
ton and its leaders? We have no doubt
the same leaders who controlled the Demo.
cratic party during the war will have con-
trolling influence in that party should it
again get into power, but We cannot see that
any measures they would propose would be
more destructive Of the Union, the happi-
ness and prosperity Of our people, than the
measures which have and may DO forced
upon the country by the radicals who have
thus far been too successful in controlling
the party organization opposed to the Demo
cra,ic party --Huatngdoa Globe
Year: 1867

The Bird OF TUE ToLLlNG Ball.
Among the highest woods and deepest glens
OF Brazil sound is some times heard, so
singular that the sound seems quite unnat-
ural 1t is like the distant an d.olemn toll
ing of church bell, struck at intervals. -
This extraordinary noise proceeds from the
ara wanda. The bird sits on the tops Of the
highest trees in the deepest forests, and
though constantly heard in the most desert
places is very rarely seen. 1t is isimpossible
to conceive anything of more solitary char
acter than the profound silence Of the woods
broken only by the metallic and almost SUI
pernatural sound of the invisible bird, COM
ing from the air and seeming to follow
wherever you go. The arawanda is white
with circle Of red around its eyes, Its
size is that of small pigeon,
Year: 1867

nsy- GRANT IN A QUANDARY.-General
Grant and the Mongrel party are both in a
bad situation as neither understands what
the other is going to do. Since the late
elections, the General is not half SO radical
as he was, and if he makes up his mind
that the Mongrel candidate for the Presi-
dency is going to be defeated in 1868. he
will not allow himself to be the man. Poor
GRANT, he is much confoundsd by the po-
litical din as he was by General LEES su.
perior strategy in the great Wilderness
campaign. .-Belletonte Centre County Pa. J
Democratic Watchnsan.
Year: 1867

One of the most brutal outrages we have
ever been called upon to record was perpe-
trated about nine O'Clock last evening, on
Pennsylvania avenue. Lizzie Sewer, girl
Of about eighteen years of age, employed at
the Eagle House, kept by NJ. Levi Wolfn-
ger, in the above street, in the Fifth Ward,
proceeded early in the evening to her home
in the lower end OF the city for certain art;-
cles {. clothing. About nine clock she
returned, aud was seen at North street by
several persons who board at Mr.. VIOLIN
GERS, Within fifteen minutes afterwards
those men proceeded towards the hotel, and
found the girl prostrale on the side walk,
about forty yards from the Eagle House,
and in an inscnSih!e condition. She was
carried to the hotel and physician called i'm
mediuteiy, when it was discovered that her
head and face had been horribly beaten and
acerated and her body outraged in a shock
ing manner. All possible attentions were
given her and everything done that could
tend to her relief Miss Sewer was still in.
sensible at three clock this afternoon, and
scarcely any hope for her recovery was enter
tained. Who committed the outrage is not
known. Whoever he was he chose the dark
ness of the night to effect his escape from
the scene of his butchcry.


This occurrence has caused greaat scnsa-
ton in our midst, Our citizcas are scarcely
able to realize that so heinour IN outrage
could be committed on our streets so early
in the evening, when hundreds of the citizens
are moving to and fro. We trust the city
authorities will take the matter in hand and
by Offering liberal reward aid in effectiug
arrest OF the fenl who could thus ltack an
unprotected female, and ruin her, if not
cause her death. Ifcaptured he should not
be allowed hearing before judge or jury,
lie should be swung from the nearest lamp
post until dead, aud his vile carcas then dis
played between heaven and earth us warn
ing to other wretches that our people will
not permit such creatures to live in re-
sycctable community. .-HunISymy Tclc-
graph.
Year: 1867

Let the Soldier be abroad he will he nothing in this
There another less imposing the eyes OF
IOme-perhaps The SchOOmser abroad, ard


trust TO him armed Sih bis primer against the soldier in fall military
srrayS-LORp BROUGHaM,
Year: 1867

The NoNPAREiL.--The announcement
that the little raft, Nonpareii, has arrived
safely at Southampton, will he and has
been received with many ordinations of
surprise and wonder. IL will be- sAid
that soon the ocean will be crossed in
skiffs. and wash tubs, or ina bowl like
that in which the renowned three wise
men Of Gotham tempted the dangers Of the
deep. But there is another and more SEN.
sible light in which to regard the achieves
ment, and which robs it Of all3, its wonder.
The Nonpareil was built for life boat
II was intended that whatever else she
might do, she could not sink. Given, then,
that she was provisioned for a long cruise,
the wondcf would be that any serious dis.
aster should happen to her or her little
crew. Had she sunk it would have shown
that tho principle ON which she is built is
worthless for the purpose intended. That
she crossed the ocean safely, is simply
proof OF her value as life preserver, and
the best possible advertisement for her in
vent0r and
Year: 1867

Cheap Pleasure. ....


Many great man has owed his great
ness to kind word in his early years. II
is SO easy and cheap to please children by
pleasant word or trivial gift, that We
wonder more do not practise it. Douglas
Jerrold, in one Of his papers, thus elo.
guently testifes to the value Of these little
things


The writer of this recollects himself at
this moment barefooted lad, standing at
the wooden fence of poor little garden in
his native village, while with longing eyes
Ire gazed on the flowers which were bloom
ing there quietly in the brightness of a
Sunday morning. The possessor came
forth from his little cottage; he was wood
cutter by occupation, and spent the whole
week at work in the woods. He had come
into his garden to gather. flowers to stick
into his coat when he went TO church. lie
saw the boy, and breaking off the most
beautiful of his carnations-it was streak
ed with white and red--he gave it to him.
Neither the giver nor the receiver spoke a
word, and with bounding steps the boy
ran home. And now here, at vast dis
tance from that home, after 50 many events
Of so many years, the feeling of gratitude
which agitated the breast of that boy ex-
presses itself on paper. The carnation has
long since withered, but now it blooms
afresh.