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Year: 1867

The following biographical sketch
of our candidate for Supreme Judge
has been carefully prepared, and was
delivered at public meeting held in
Pittsburg a few days since, by c. B. M.
Smith, Esq, 1t will be qualification
for every Union voter to have the
pleasure of supporting such an able
and pure minded gentleman. Read
the biography.


Mr.. Smith was received with rap
turous applause, and proceeded to de-
liver the following biographical sketch
-four worthy candidate. He said:


/ come here tonight, my fellow
citizens, to perform what is to me a
pleasant duty--to join with you in
giving our adherence to the platform
of principles adopted by the great
Union Republican party of this State,
at the Convention lately held in Will
Transport, and in manitesting our salts
faction and pleasure in the nomination
by that Convention, of our fellow-citi-
zen, Hon. Henry W. Williams, as a
candidate for election to the highest
judicial position of this Common
wealth.


While l shall express my cordial APP
proval of the principles enunciated in
that wise, moderate and patriotic creed
of political faith, which breathes, in
every line, a love for freedom and
human rights, and mixed with no de-
mand for vengeance, by saying that !
would hardly add to, or detract, one
word therefrom, l shall leave its dis
cussion to those able gentlemen who
may follow. and devote the brief time
allotted me upon this occasion in speak
ing ofthe personal, moral, political
and judicial character of our candidate
and it is, perhaps, fitting that should
do this, as l have known Judge Will
liams longer, and more intimately, than
any person in this house.


My acquaintance with him COM
menced in college in 1888, as class
mate, and since that time l have stu
died with him, taught with him, and
practiced in my profession with, and
under him. l have known him as 6
student, as teacher, as lawyer and a:
Judge; and what is more, during al
that time, 1 have known him as al
intimate, personal friend. l have
known him more thoroughly than ]
have ever known any other living
man, not excepting my own brother
and l say here tonight, in presence o
this large audience, that, even were
so disposed, 1 could truthfully speal
no i'll ofhim.


Judge Williams is ofthe good ole
revolutionary Wing stock, whicl
achieved our national independence il
1776, and from his ancestors he ha
inherited steady love Of liberty, in
dependence, freedom and national un
ion, which has been strengthened b,
the great events of these latter times
He was born in the beautiful valley O
the Connecticut-a State that has giver
birth to such men as Henry Baldwin
Walter Forward, Garrick Mallory ant
William Strong-and is now in tn
full prime and vigor of manhood
From the people and Of them, he ha
baen mainly the architect of his owl
fortune. His father, well-to-d'
farmer, held with most New England
fathers Of that day, that it was bette
for boys to help themselves than to b
Year: 1867

I.
A man passed over the road
In the early day offspring,
When the grandest flower that ever bloom


ed
Was brightly blossoming.
And never word he spoke,
And his face was marble cold,
But millions of men above him wept
And millions of bells were tolled.
And the cities were draped in black,
And the towns were wrapped in gloom,
'For he is dead" the people said
"Who made the flower to bloom"
Down many aswar,hy face
Unnumbered tear-drops flowed.
"For he is gone" the bondman spoke
"Who lifted our weary load"
And they builded him tomb
Afar in the silent West,
And that beautiful flower that men call


Peace


Spread Its leaves above his breast.


III.
A man passed over the road
Ere the summer days were dead.
And the leaves of the flower that bloomed


in Spring


He trampled with ruthless tread
And many word he sp Ike,
And his arrogant face was flushed;
And laughed aloud with the noisy crowd
When the lcayes ofthe flower were crush


ed.
But down many swarthy face
Flowed tears Of bitterest pain,
"For he Is come"-the bOndman spoke
TO forge our chains again"
He must seek the the tomb some time
Afar in the silent west,
But will ever the flower which men call


Peace


Spread its leaves above his breast1
Year: 1867

ne The ouly way to be happy is to
take the drops Of happiness as God
gives them to us evcsy day cf our lives.
The boy must learn to be happy. while
he is learning his trade the merchant
while he is making his fortune. If ho
fails to learn this srt, he win be sure
to miss his enjoyment when he gains
what he has sighed for.
Year: 1867

A MYsTERY.-The Sacramento Union publishes
At party in neighboring city recently, lady
was the object of great admiration by reason of
her plump and white neck and shoulders. Her
face and arms were noticeably thin, but her pee
toral development was deliciously plump. An
impertnent observer conceived an absurd suspi-
cion she touched that fair neck, and its owner
did not shrek. The infatuated young woman,
the victim of overpowering curiosity, ventured
still further in her experiments she stuck pin
into the alabaster surface of the neck no scream
followed not even movement on the part of
the admired lady. Just at that moment the
latter was asked to dance, and went out on the
floor with pin half hidden in her neck. 'What
is this mystery?"
Year: 1867

THE TRINITY JOURNAL has hoisted the name of
John Bidwell for Governor at the head of its col
umus. and he is endorsed by nearly three-fourths
of the Union press of the State. The Copper
heads are opposed to him of course, and want
some milk and water Union man on the Union
ticket but their objections only increase man S
popularity in the Union party.-Irekd Journal
Year: 1867

We are sure the entire country approves the
action of son of General Robert f. Lee, who,
at a recent dinner party in Richmond, was asked
to join toast to ''The Fallen Flag" but instead
of doing so rose and said " Gentlemen, this
will not do. We are paroed prisoners. We
now have but one flag, and that is the flag OF
our whole country-the glorious old stars and
stripes. can recognize no other, fight for no
other and will drink to no other"
Year: 1867

~ County W,srrsnss and ssrsssbselss taken at
their ruling value in payment for subscriptions to this
paper To soldiers in the Governmet service the JOURNAL
will be furnished for Greenbacks at PAR
Year: 1867

The Albany Kntcker6oeker says truly
enough that the great cause Of all the
misery in this world, is not that men
earn too little, but that they spend their
earnings unwisely. Almost every man
spends as much for cigars, juleps. and
other nonsense, as would pay his board
and keep him halt the year in idleness;
and what Is true of Individual folly, Il
equally true of national. We are
spending a million weekin hunting
down the Indians, that q PACK ofs8hiLe
sconndrels on the frontier may make
fortunes.
Year: 1867

suffrage to all who can read and who pay
a certain amount of taxes, and / agree that
ali, white as well as black, who do not pos.
sess these qualifications shall be excluded.
I would not take this right from any who
have heretofore exercised it, but | wish to
see an educational and property qualifica-
tion for voters adopted for the future. Let
this qualification bear on white and black
alike, and while it will cut off from voting
some of both races, it will be strong in-
ducement to all to seek education and to
obtain for themselves real and tangible
interest in .he State. 1t will serve 10 ele-
vate all classes, and contribute not only to
the material prosperity Of the State, but to
the increase Of virtue and education among
her people. No one under tWenty-one
years of age Is allowed to vote, nor can
foreigners do 50 until they have been in
this country some years.
Year: 1867

A correspondent Of the Memphis Ap-
peal, writing from this city, gives the
following gossippy exposition Of the rela-
tions between the Governor and Secre-
tary Of State


Don't believe any stories that you may
hear about our Radical State government
not being entirely harmonious. There has
to be two sides to a cake There is always
an upper and a lower crust to pies
and parties. Everybody can't be more
Radical than everybody else. In the very
nature of things our excellent Governor
can be more furiOusly Radical than Thad-
deus Stevens or any other man. On the
other hand, Mr. Secretary Fletcher is the
brains Of oar present State government.
He deserves the credit Of three-fourths Of
the sensible things done at Nashville dur
ing the last two years. He don't get that,
but he is blamed by those who don't know
him with all the meanest and most unwise
measures that have been adopted. An able
lawyer and sensible man, he couldn't be
as Radical as many members of the Legis-
lature. He has been a kind of scape-goat
TO bear the sins of others into the wilder
ness.


If / was Governor | would myself like
to have an able Secretary who would get
no credit for what he suggested, and would
be blamed for all that / did wrongly.
Gov. Brownlow is not to blame. He is too
independent and self-confdent to wish to
take any credit not justly his due; but be
is surrounded by q pack of hounds who
would chase him ii he stood between them
and their game, and Fletcher is too mod
crate to suit them. He don't howl for
more blood. He don't keep all the time
snarlIng at those who are sorry they ever
were Rebels. Well, a short time ago
brOther-in-law, or some other relative of
the Secretary, was pressed for an office.
He was afterward elected, and then the
Governor, poisoned by these who want to
use him, refused to give a commission TO
the young man, who was every way worthy
and qualified This slight, added TO the
modification of having TO father numerous
blunders in and outside the Legislature,
would have induced the Secretary TO resign,
bat he would not crafty his reptile enc
mics. He earnestly desires quiet and re-
lief from the cares of Office. He will be
glad when he can, like Cincinnatus, culti-
vate his little farm. There is no breach
between BrownlOw and Fletcher One is
extreme, the other moderate-that is all.


Yours, ID.
Year: 1867

WASHINGTON, March 28.-The Presi-
dent has approved the bill providing that
from and after Tuesday last wrapping paper
made of wsod and corn-stalks, or any other
material, shall be exempt from internal tax;
that every national banking association,
State bank, or banker, or association, shall
pay a tax of ten per cent on the amount of
notes of any town, city, or municipal cor
poration paid out by them after the first
day Of May, 1857, to'be collected in the
mode and manner in which the tax on
notes of State banks is collected and that
from and after the passage of this act lad
ders made wholly Of wood shall be exempt
from internal tax.
Year: 1867

TIE Republican newspapers are already
growing over the Columbia (South Caro-
linal meeting; and over the implied will
lingness Of the South to accept the Sher-
man military reconstruction bill. The
Radicals do not want negroes and whites to
hold amicable meetings, nor do they want
the Southern people to accept this or any
other bill. What Is wanted is to keep the
South ont Of the Union, so that radicalism
will not lose its maiorities in the North.


The only reconstruction bssisupon which
the Radicals will willingly admit the South,
will be one in which all classes shall forever
be debarred from voting unless they will
sgree to vote the Radical ticket Chicago
1gaes.
Year: 1867

A PosTsCRIPT.-"I love to look upon a
Young man. There is hidden potency
concealed within his breast which charms
and pains me"


The daughter Of clergyman happening
TO find The above sentence at the close of
her fathers manuscripts as be had left it in
his study, sat down and added


"Them's my sentiments exactly, papa,
excepting the pains
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-reliant, and shall do what We
may be able TO induce the establishment Of
manufactures in cur midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
70 the COST and STATISTICS Of mHnufaetnring'
and exert ourselves 20 encourage the diversih-
cation OF Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support Of the UEIoS AND DIsPATcH BY the
patrons Of both the former papers the Proprie-
tors are enabled 10 present Newspaper hither-
20 unsurpassed In this city or State


IN FULLNEsS AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS. our paper will compare favorably with
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this we only repeat the expressions Of many OF
our patrons. who are most capable Of Judging in
uch matters.
Year: 1867

HUBBEE'S
@ o L ID + n b L L + r S
Is most emphatic endorsement Of their vir-
tues. We claim them TO be the best
Tonic EsiIIers i'm the VVOrIdI!.
The unsolicited recommendations we receive
from all parts of the globe prove them TO be
just exactly what we claim.


They are purely vegetable.


They will inyigorate and strengthen.
They fortify the system against the evil ef-
fleets of unwholesome water.


They viii cure Dyspepsia.


They Will cure Heartburn.


They viii cure Headache.


They will cure Jaumdice.


They will cure Sea sickness.


They Will cure General Debility.
They VIII create a Healthy Appetite.
They contain no poisonous drug.
They will inYigorsLe the organs Of digestion
and moderately increase the temperature Of
the body; and the force Of the circulation act
ing, in fact, a general corroborant Of the
Year: 1867

Owing to a severe inflammation OF the
lungs accompanied with very distressing
cough, DR.. Lands found himself utterly
unable to officiate on Sabbath last, and 10
deliver the concluding lecture Of his course
on the Immortality Of the Soul. We are
told that he still entertained the hope of
being able 10 deliver this lecture ON Sabbath
until it was too late TO publish notice to
the contrary in our Fridays issue, and as a
consequence, many who knew not OF his
illness, attended the Institute, and OF course
were disappointed. We have heard nothing
definite as yet, respecting tho action of the
First Church in view of the refusal of tho
New Castle preshytcry to lay .heir Record,
before Synod so as to enable it to decide Tho
case but presume tile public Will be duly
informed OF the whole matter ere long.
Year: 1867

"A newspaper is Ikea church; 1t wants
fostering at the commencement and for few
years, then as general thing it can walk
alone, and reflect credit upon its location.
Take your home papers; it gives you more
news Of immediate interest than the New
York or other distant city papers; it talks
for you when no others will speak in your
favor; when other localities belle you it
stands up for your rights you always have
champion in your home paper and those
who stand up for you should certainly be
well sustained. Your interests are kindred
and equal, you rise or fall together. There
fore, it is your interest to support your home
paper, not grudgingly, but in liberal spirit,
as pleasure, not as a disagreeable duty, as
an investment that will amply repay expen-
dture
Year: 1867

rev persons acquainted with the


ORBITS, sometimes dubious and eceen.


trlc, OF theatrical luninari ries. but have
recollection or have seen Mrs. Franz


Drew, formerly a bright particular


star IN the profession. She was for


some years lessee of the Arch Street


theatre, Philadelphia, one of the most


reputable place of amusement in tho


country, and herself, possessed of cx.
t traoraiEary talents as actress, NIGHTLY
! Played to refined and delighted audi


enees m the city of brotherlv love
| her llte was 4 perfect ovation. and
pecunlary success crowned her talent


to such an extent that four wears AGO
she was reputed to be worth in tho
ne'ShboIliood of 4 quarter of n mil
hon. She had a daughter. n bcant;f,1
chlid, then about Is years Of age. who


eIectrIhcd beholders with her grace
and skill as a danseuse. The daily


HE of the mother and daughter was
one of luxury, extravaganza. eaetv


and excitement


But behind and beneath all this
apparent success and happiness there
was secret which palled the cup of
pleasure. The mother was victim
to the appetite for strong drink. The
lntoXlcaticn of popular applause. the
Garlsh glare of the foot-liehts, the
enraPtured attention accorded to every
step, every gesture, was not enough.
and Mrs. Drew drank deeply of the
cup which was so soon to ruin her
and her aughter-ruin them body
and soul


Eacilts est decensus Arerni, and rapidly
the wretched woman trod the down
ward path. Soon so welded was she
to her besotted appetite that she could
no longer retain her hold on public
favor. As she descended she sank
from public view, and the ever-fckle
populace turned from contemplation
of the fallen to hail the rising star.


But the saddest feature of this sad
tale is the fact that the miserable
mother, III her fall drew down with
her her young daughter, and forced
her to drink to the full Of the cup of
wrctchedncss and shame


Now, at the time VIC write. the
mother and daughter are playing an
engagement, so-callcd at miserable
varieties concert room which the citi-
zens of our reighboring city of Jack
son allow TO pollute their midst.-
Here, surrounded by the dregs of So
ciety, themselves do better than the
worst about them, these two cke out
a miserable subsistence. Bloated bv
dissipation and licen-
tiousness, for the crime OF drunk
enness rarely goes alone, and disfig-
ured almost beyond recognition, it
seems as though liquor had done its
worst with this wIetched couple; that
from the topmost round of the ladder
of professional fame, these two, who
SO lately delighted audiences of the
best society, had fallen to the utter
most depths of degradation. But if
there IS a lower depth than this, as
suredly they VIII find It. In the rain
which liquor brings there is no half,
stopping place.-Adrian (AIich.) Ea,
positor.
Year: 1867

] bs The Louisville Democrat publishes an
extract from a letter written to gentle
man in that city. by one, of the first
minds in Georgia, and once one Of the
fwealthiest men in that fine old State:


There is no money. here. Cotton
sells at ten cents, tax paid, and does not
pay half the cost of production, and
universal fraud to prevent the payment
of debts is the consequence. We can
hardly get food to- eat can not sell
! property or collect debts. God
! only can tell what is to be the re-
suit. The negro convention meets to-
day in Atlanta. In view. of its action, all
is distrust and uncertainty. Mobs,
insurrection and violence are impending
The entire community sleep with doors
barred and guns loaded to protect itself
from violence. The negro is destitute,
suffering and insubordinate. He believes
the whites have reduced the price of cot.
ton for the purpose of starving him to
death. Such are the teachings of the
demons who think for him, and educate
his passions up to violence and blood
shed, that certain ends may be achieved
l would leave here, but have not money
enough to enable me to move, and it is
questionable if have enough to remain
where I am. The present is threatening
but the future is despair.
Year: 1867

The Bank men were in Washington day or
two ago in full force. OF course they were
not there without an object. 1t may have been
to help along Mr.. HOOper's bill, or so much OF
it as provides for an abatement OF the taxes Oh
the Banks. 1t seems a little hard, we confess,
that these institutions, which can pay OuI n
pcr cent per annum to their stockholders, snould
not be relieved from taxation But the Dahk-
ers may have had another object, and that Is
to secure the passage through the House OF the
bill lately passed so silently by the Senate,
converting the six per cent legal-tenders INTO
three per cents, to the extent of eighty millions;
and thus preventing the contraction OF just
that amount of legal-tender notes when was
stimulated for at the last session.
If this were 80, they nave laneu
in their purpose, for dispatch OF last hIsnt
informs us that the bill was yesterday reterreu
70 the Committee on Banks and Currency, anu
that the Speaker remarked this disposition OF IL
was equivalent 20 killing it for this session.


We hone Mr. McCulloch will now go on and
take ND these compound six per cent notes ac-
cording to the original plan of last year, either
hv having them from cash in hand, or by means
of an ordinary loan. And as we are III the llhe
of suggestion. we will further observe that ne
might meantime advantageOusly stop the banks
from deliberately and constantly violating the
law as they now do, and have long been dong
by returning these compounds as part OF their
lawful money reserves when the law under
which they were issued expressly forbid


such use of them. We hope further
that the House will see TO it that If this bill
should be rcsuscitated now or hereafter, or any
other bill should be offered in regard to the
issue of legal tenders, all further issues OF this
sort shall be without interest. The banks
have had about enough ont OF the Government,
and may as well suspend all further drains OF
this description. We hope however, Dir. McCh-
loch will rorcgo all such leaps backward IN his
progress toward resumption, and suggest no
more legal tender extensions of any kind.
Year: 1867

employment, who would have been industrious
and earned good living had we been making
our own Iron, Cloth and Wares. Many OF
these are widows and orphans of dead soldiers
especially at the South. These would gladly
have found work in factories; but those hau
been burned in the War, or were never
erected. We defy you to erect a hundred
furnaces, rolling-ms, factories, &c, Ill any
agricultural State without increasing the mum
Der who work in that State, the efficiency Oh
their labor, and the sum total of their earnings.
Diversity of employment insures increase OF
industry. And it by no means follows from
the fact that more factories and furnaces were
not built that doing nothing and wandering in
quest of work is more profitable than WorNlns
in factories would be.
Year: 1867

The Cable dispatch we publish this morning
relative to the Fenan outbreak in Ireland is of
the same vague, contradictory, puzzling char
acter as those previously received on the sub
ject. The armed Fenians, we are told, have
"all disappeared" and this is the sum total of
the information now given us about the 800
men who, we were informed a few days ago.
had taken the field. Then, the peasantry are
willing to give intelligence of the whereabouts
of the insurgents, but object to assist in the
arrest of their cOuntIymen-that is, they are at
one and the same time willing and unwilling to
assist. Eight hundred have dwindled down to
120 and although "no new rising is appre-
"hended, the Government is still sending troops
''to Ireland" We are persuaded that the true
story of this outbreak is yet to be told.
Year: 1867

Gen. Thomas has sent letter to the
Mayor Of Rome, Georgia, which will obtain the
approval of all loyal citizens. lie very en-
phatcally informs the people of the Depart
ment OF the Tennessee that the display OF the
Confederate flag is an Offcnse to
be punished. They are told that the late war
was not a revolution but Il rebellion, and that
treason is a crime that must not be paraded as
a virtue He adds that everywhere in the
Estates lately in rebellion treason is respect
cable and loyalty Odious" We presume this
letter will prevent any renewal of those exhib-
itions of the Rebel flag, which seem recently
to have been more frequent in the South than
the display of the Stars and Stripes.
Year: 1867

Freedmen. He mentions that though Emanci-
patton Day was celebrated in all parts of the
State, no disturbance of any kind OccuTed-a
fact which is not more to the credit of the black
man than the white. Proof is not wanting that
the relations of the races are steadily improy-
ing in Florida under the influence of the natural
laws of labor.
Year: 1867

Congress is resolved to continue costly. Yes
terday in the Senate Mr.. Wilson called up the
bill increasing the pay of all officers of the
army below the rank OF MajOr-G 81 per
cent. 1t was driven through without debate
following in the fashion of other speedy but
not cheap legislation. Having this and the
Bounty bill, how much more will the army de-
mand and Mr. Wilson engineer throughY