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Year: 1869

Please don't smoke If you hav'


not formed the habit, keep yoursel


out of temptation. If you are jus


beginning to like the smell, perchane'


the taste, of a fragrant Havana,


don't 90 beyond the beginning. L


the habit has fairly got hold of you


shake it of. It is much better, il


very way, that you should abstain


from the filthy, ineonyenient, delete


rious practice of smoking. Better


for your pocket; better for youl


health better for your intellect, and


better for your morals. And that is


just the point we are after-the ami


mus of our injunction. And now we


know just what will happen. Nine


tenths CT those who read this will


turn at once to not less than a dozen
of excellent people-pious Christian
pe0ple-folks who live virtuously,
aud make the world better for their
liviug-but who, nevertheless, do
smoke, and that habitually and per-
sistentlY. But, allowing this to be
trus-whi.h we do-what does it
prove2 Just what can be proven by
the prevalence of any other deleteri-
GUS habit-the power of divine grace
aud well settled human convictions to
Withstand the tendencies Of evil. A
man is not better for being the slave
of a foolish or evil habit. He is, by
so much, the worse. Show us an ex-
cellent man who is an habitual smo-
ker, and We will show you one who
would be a better man were he to
break the thralldom. We have two
individuals in onr mind, (both minis
ters Of the Gospel, in good stand
ing,O both inveterate smokers. We
have met them frequently, and under
various cireumstances-at home and
abroad. in the pulpit and out of it.
They are strangers to each other, but
are both good fellows, and have
'lots of friends. When they travel,
they carefully stow away their wives
and habies in the regular passenger
car, while they repair to the 'smok-I
ing car, to enjoy their favorite weed
and the company of all the blacklegs
and loafers on the train. At public
hotels, their families have access to
the parlors, while they are driven to
the filthy bar-rooms. The society
into which their baleful habit throws
them is almost invariably pernicious,
and the habit itself is a perpetual
stumbling block in all their efforts to
lead others in the better way. They
are in constant warfare with con-
science, which cannot be smoked into
somnolency, and their usefulness is
impaired even beyond their own con-
sciousness. We have heard these
men preach. but never without a con-
slant underlined sense of their unfit
ness. Their moral truths always fall
short of the mark. Their exhortations
are invariably tainted with the fumes
of tobacco. When they speak OF 'the
power of Satan, we think of the pow
er of evil habits. When they exhort
sinners TO repentance, We feel like
saying, Physician heal thyself.' We
like them bOth-they are our personal
al friends-but we cannot withhold
from them a kind of pity, such as we
feel for some excellent fellow who is
a slave to drink. And to say the
truth, so far as the nero habit is con-
cerned, we cannot see the difference.
So We are constrained to say of our
clerical friends, 'Nice fellows Pity
they-suloke g-Pdckards Monthly.
Year: 1869




The North German Parliament hare adopted the
Federal budget The annual revenue and e1peud.
ttu1es Of the confederation Are about equal being
estimated IN the budget n ssooo, ,0oo thalczA
Year: 1869

AS if to realize the glowing anticipations
of our people who have labored so hard to
secure one of the grandest agricultural
exhibitions ever witnessed in the Southern
States, the third day of the Fair proved
bright and beautiful, and the Grounds
were early thronged with a dense crowd
of eager visitors. They came in hundreds,
and each train that arrived every half
hour was packed, jammed and rammed,
until, after their several burdens were de-
posted, the Grounds presented perfect
sea of human faces-one grand living,
moving tide of human souls. The visit
ors were going and returning on the cars
during the whole day, but it is fair esti-
mate that there were fully eight to ten
thousand persons on the scene at one time.


JUDGE HowARD's ADDRESS.


At one o'clock, Or a little thereafter,
Judge Howard delivered the regular annu-
al address. On all sides of the stand, the
crowd focked from every portion of the
grounds, and from the Exhibition Hall the
scene was viewed by large throng of la
ulcS duO SoutlSLuCu, WIZ LtslA AOuAN ~ ALL
possible to get near enough to hear the
speaker. AS We hope soon to publish the
address of this able speaker and true son
of North Carolina in full at an early day,
we will make 10 extensive comments here.
We regret exceedingly that Judge Howard
should have been compelled to speak un-
der such disadvantageous circumstances,
there being much confusion consequent
upon so large crowd, which in itself was
exceedingly annoying and embarrassing
to the speaker, and besides the Judge had
been suffering from indisposition. At one
time during the delivery of the address
there was threatened serious


DISTURBANCE.


Some difficulty occurred on the outskirts
of the crowd between two men, and OF
course everybody wanted to see who it was
and what was the trouble, and many made
themselves excited. In forcing back the
crowd who refused to obey his orders,
Gen. Ransom, the Chief Marshal, struck a
negro with stick. Immediately the col
ored portion of the crowd became furious
ly exasperated and rushed forward with
large sticks in their hands, threatening a
Year: 1869

DIDN'T WANT TO BE ARRESTED. Michael
Gay, of Maddox Hill, Henrico county, was
arrested yesterday morning by Constable
Robinson on the charge of maltreating bis
wife. When the constable drew nigh to the
house Gay was trying to cut it down with
an axe. Catching sight of the officer he
jumped into cul7ert fed by sinks, and
found these quarters so close that he would
have been suffocated had not two or three
persons helped the constable pull him out
Once landed he was tied, placed in q cart
and finally lodged in Jail. H.
Year: 1869

METEoRoLoGrcAL.-We present below q
statistical table showing the state Of the
weather for the month of March. The de-


gree Of the thermometer (Fahrenheit) was


taken at or about sunrise:
Year: 1869




LIFE LENGTHENED.-Cultivate an
equable temper many man has fall
en- dead in a fit Of passion.


Eat regularly, not over twice day
and nothing between meals.


Go to bed at regular hours. Get
up as soon as you wake of yourself,
and do not sleep in the daytime, at
least no longer than ten minutes be-
fore noon.


Work always by the day and not
by the job.


Stop working before you are very
much tired-before you are Gagged
out"


Cultivate a generous and an accom-
modating temper.


Never cross a bridge before you
come to it; this will save half the
troubles Of life.


Never eat when you are not hungry,
nor drink when you are not thirsty.


Let your appetite always come IN.
invited.


Cool off in a place greatly warmer
than the one in which you have beer
exercising; this simple rule would
prevent incalculable sickness,and save
millions of lives every year.


Never resist a call Of nature for q
single moment.


Never allow yourself to be chilled
"through and through it is this
which destroys so many every year
in a few days sickness from pneumo
MIA, called by some, lung fever, or in
fammation of the lungs.


Whoever drinks no liquids at meal
will add years of pleasurable exist
ence to bis life. OF cold or warn
drinks, the former are most pernic
ious; drinking at meals induces per
sons to eat more than they other
wise would, as any one can verify b,
experiment; and it is excess in eat
ing which devastates the land will
sickness, suffering and death.


After fifty years of age, if not
: day laborer, and sedentary person
after forty, should eat but twice day
in the morning and about four o'clocl
in the afternoon; persons can sooI
accnstom themselves to seven-hou
| interval between eating, thus givini
7 the stomach rest; for every orgaI
without adequate rest will "give out
, prematurcly.-Halps Jar. Of Heald
Year: 1869

The present Duke OF Wellington is
said to be one of the most dissipated
men in England, prematurely old and
broken down, without the ability of
an ordinary workman, and who has
never in his life, apparently accom-
plished anything.
Year: 1869

RATS AND Grows on A BENDER
Whisky is a fluid used chiefly, either
"neat' or in toddifed combination, as
an intoxicator of man. Not until now
has it been applied with success to
the inebriation of rat and crow. 1t
came to pass recently that the maid
servant of an agriculturist in Illinois
conceived the idea that as whisky was
killing many men in the neighbor
hood, it might possibly be made use
full as an, exterminator of rats; so
the maid-servant Of the agriculturiSt
took an ordinary "horn" of the arti-
Gle, made it sweet with sugar, crum-
bled some bread therein, and placed
it in the cellar. A few days after
wards she went down and found sew
eral rats, gloriously fuddIed, engaged
in throwing potato parings, and haul
ing one another up to drink! No
doubt about it.


But accurate as this is, it is sur
passed by an occurrence that recent.
ly took place at Napa, California
where the crows had made themselves
obnoxious by their persistent invasion
of the corn fields. A man who had
been hired to watch a particularly
promising field, and notify these bird;
that it was against the rules to pick
,up any thing therein, bethought him
self how he could make "soft thing
of it for himself, and at the same time
meet the requirements of his contract
Finally, by a beautiful instinct, he hi
upon the plan of soaking some corr
in whisky and placing it in the field
so that the crows would eat it an(
get drunk, and thus enable him t.
have sure and easy thing Of killing


them. He had tried the shotgun, bu
crows smell powder long way. Al


ter soaking some corn over night h


put a good supply in the field mex


morning, and in two or three hour


went out to see how things were pre-


crossing. Mark you the result: On


of the crows a little larger than til


rest had taken possession of nearl


all the corn, had built himself ba
out Of some clods of earth, and wa


retailing the whisky-soaked corn t
the other crows, charging them thre
grains of sprouted for one of soake
grain The man thought the man@l
vre so human that he killed not
= crow, but came back to the house an
: took a "nip" himself.
Year: 1869

New LONDON, Conn, April &c, 1869


REMEMBERED FRIEND-I thought it well to
wait another week before writing, to see if con-
tinued to improve as | have been doing some-
time, under the treatment of the new medicine
and L am happy to tell you that l getting
better-eYen faster than when you were here.
commenced the use of DODD'S NERVINE
without anybody advising me to it. When be
gan with it l could only walk from my bed to the
chair. My trouble has been extreme pain in the
head and has lasted over three years. All the
medicine have heretofore taken has failed to
give me any relief. l am now able to go up and
Nervine the best medicine ever found, and thal
continue its use for l am confident of entire re-
covery. l have taken only three bottles and
would not be without it on any accounl.


24wS Very truly, Mrs. l. S. MUTE.
Year: 1869

Agent for The Orleans County Marble Works at
Barton, would return his thanks to the public
for their patronage the last eight years and would


say that he is now prepared to finish
Year: 1869

HAYING faciiities superior to any Book Binding
IL EstAblishmentin this part Of the country, and
equal to any In the United states-sast orwest-ve
are enabled to execute work in any style from the
most Elegant Turkey Morocco, to the pIAinsst Hall
Binding and at even
Year: 1869

FEsT1vAL.-There will be festival at
West Point on the lst day of July. The
affair is under the control of the ladies of
the place, and is in behalf of q church
about to be erected in that promising
position. An excursion train lat half fare)
will leave this city and return on that day.
The occasion will doubtless be one Of much
interest.
Year: 1869

UNITED STATES CIRCUIT C0URT.-Judge
Underwood announces that further recess
of the United States circuit court will be
taken until the 18th day of September
next. Consequently there will be no session
of the court on the Sth of July.
Year: 1869

MONROE WARD.-A meeting will be held
at headquarters, over Williams drug store,
corner of Fourth and Franklin streets, this
evening at o'clock. The rooms are open
all day every day.. ANY information in
regard to fraudulent registration of ne
groes, or that will in any way benefit the
Conservative party, may be left with the
clerk -.
Year: 1869

ZETELLE is carrying on a grand campaign with
summer, and with entire success. His bar and
board are richly supplied with everything Of the
very best which can revive the appetite of his
customers and fortify them against the cxhausting
sp1SOu
Year: 1869

the man who shot Kelly, is very different
kind of person. He was a captain il! the
Confederate army, and was at one time an
under superintendent in charge of the po-
ltical prisoners at Castle Thunder. Since
the war he has been on the police, and some
time ago, taking the iron-clad oath, was
promoted to q captaincy. Between him and
the deceased there has long been feud,
and it is understood that Kelly some weeks
ago fled with the Mayor formal charges Of
perjury against him-a fact of which the
accused was not ignorant on the the day of
the murder. ....--.
Year: 1869

DIR. jackson was the first witness exam
ined. He said The deceased kelly WAS
brought to my Office in the afternoon of the
9th instant. He was bleeding profnsely
from the left arm. Before ! succeeded in
checking the hemorrhage from that part a
considerable quantity Of blood was lost. ]
then gave him brandy as q stimulant, and
examined the wound in the abdomen. There
seemed to be two wounds, apparently pro-
duced by pistol ball. y


The testimony was here interrupted for q
recess, during which the jury retired, and
Year: 1869

Early Saturday morning the news of
Kely's decease became known on the
streets, and was received with profound
rcgret-not only by his personal friends,
but by everybody who had heard of the
manner in which his death wounds were
received. This sentiment was universally
mixed with an Indignation intensified by
the prevailing impression that he was
martyr to the cause Of which he was known
to be an ardent supporter, and which his
alleged murderer is supposed to have be-
trayed.
Year: 1869

All but one of the nominees on the
Republican ticket in Franklin county,
Iowa, this year, served in the Union army
during the war That county is grateful
to the 'boys that wore the blue"
Year: 1869

Resolved, That it is right in principle and
practice to make all persons equal before the
law, and to deny no native or adopted citi-
zen the right to vote, except on conditions or
qualifications equally applicable to all citi.
zens.


ResOlUed, That we are unalteFably op.
posed to Chinese suffrage in any form what
ever, or to any change in the naturalization
law tending to that result; and that the
charges made by the Democracy, that the
tendencies Of the Republican party are to
the amalgamatiCn f races, lr 'ducrion of
social equality betw' en- the NEGRO" and
the white" are without foundation, and
that such tendenc es can be found to exist
in practice only among Constitutional Dem
ocrats and the advocates of an exclusive
White Mans Government.


ResolUed, That devotion to Free Labor has
ever been one of the cardinal principles of
the Republican Party; that voluntary labor
is rightly regarded as honorable in the
United States, and that as our National
greatness and prosperity is greatly attribute
Bile to the labor of our working men, we
therefore pledge ourselves to oil measures
tending to promote the interests of this class
of our population, who really constitute the
back bone and intellect of the nation, ond
are an honor and safeguard to the Republic


Resolped. That we view with alarm the
organized efforts now being made by land
monopolists and ex-slaveholding Democrats
to food the Southern and Southwestern
States with Cooie serfs, which they propose
to import from the Chinese Empire, in orjer
to build up another system of slavery or
peonage on the ruins of Africans slavery,
to the detriment of Free Labor and its prac-
tical exclusion from those States


Resoioed, That sound policy and justice
suggests and demands that the rich and ex-
tensive domain of the South and West be
forever kept free from Coolie importation and
monopolization, and reserved for the use and
benefit of free American and European set
tiers who may desire to there obtain farms.
build up homes, establish manufactures, de.
velop the resources of the country, and ex
ercise the privileges of Free Labor


Resolred, That we pledge our Legislative
nominee TO use all Efforts to assist in seeur-
ing such legislative action as may be legally
had to prevent the further influx or importa
tion Of Coolies into this State and aid all move
ments calculated to bring the evils of Cooie-
ism prominently before the Representatives
of the people in Congress.


Resoiued, That the Republican Party is
now as it ever has been, pledged to an eco
nonical administration of the affairs of gov
ernment, and that the policy adopted by the
present administration is guarantee of the
fulfllment of such pledge.
Year: 1869

Twenty four states have passed the Fif-
teenth Amendment and only four more are
necessary to secure its adoption-the concur
renee of twenty eight States being necessary
to render it part of the Constitution. The
Legislatures of Vermont, Rhode Island, and
Iowa are overwhelmingly Republican, and
will ratify the Amendment at their regular
sessions soon to take place. The Legislature
elect of Virginia is unanimuousy iu favor of
the Amendment, and the new Legislature of
Tennessee is also pledged to ratify Missis-
sippi is soon to vote for restoration to civil
government and will undoubtedly ratify the
Amendment at the first meeting of her
Legislature, as will Texas, also. Thus it will
be observed that the ratification of the
Amendment is simply foregone conclusion
and is no longer mooted question. Is it
surprising, then, that men of sense should
begin to look with contempt or pity on the
silly rant still feebly kept up against the
Amendment by set of illiterate old fogys
and blow -hards residing up here in the in
terror of California? To hear them blow and
howl, one too ignorant to read would infer
that Califurnia's vote would decide the fate
of the Amendment, when in reality her vote
can have no bearing On the question what
ever.
Year: 1869

New ENGLAND PREPARInG FOR THE
COMING CENSUS. The New York Com
merical Advertiser, has the following:


The journals of New England are be-
ginning to discuss the probably aspects of
Congress under the new apportionment to
be made after then census is taken.-
They fear that from the growth of the
West the New England States may be
largely shorn of their strength or left out
in the cold. The providence Press has an
article on the subject, IN which it remarks:
4" The West is superior in numerical
strength, the East is far superior in fnan.
cial importance. This fact will necessitate
the consideration of tbe just basis of ap-
portionment, that the section which con-
tributes of its capital to promote the mate
rial growth of the country may not be COM
PEELED to be satisfied with small minority
in the House of Representatives, while the
West, dependent, at least in the early
part of its history, upon the favor and
patronage of the East, may not have con-
trolling vote in Congress, and so distribute
the capital which they do not own as 10
enhance itself at the expense of the rest Of
the country"


This seems to signify that while the
West is to have Representatives in proper
tion to population rule is to be devised
for New England whereby it may have
an increased representation by virtne of it
money bags and brains plus its inhabitants.
The idea is not bad for New Englander,
butt is hardly within the clause of the Con-
stitution in regard % Representatives
Year: 1869

The Marysville Appeal says the Vallejo
Railroad is expected to be completed to
that city, or the west bank of the Feather
river, by the last of September, ind the
California and Oregon, passing up the
west bank of the Feather river direct to
Chico, before next spring. Iron and ties
for one hundred miles of this railroad are
lying at the Junction, and work will be
commenced Immediately after the compile
ton of the Western Pacific Railroad from
Stockton to Oakland. Probably the thou
sands of laborers now on the Western
Pacific will be transferred to the California
and Oregon line about the first of October;
and if the Winter season should prove ia
vorable for railroad construction, not many
months will elapse before the iron horse
will be heard snorting through the pros
porous town of Chico.
Year: 1869

We do think the people of San Francisco
have generally arrived at years of discretion
and should have. at least, the compliment
paid their intelligence that they cannot be
guiled by this astounding trash spouted bv
callow lawyerlings and pin -feathered poll
ticians,- - vote the whole ticket or the Fif.
teenth Amendment is carried"


The frantic appeals to the Democracy TO
vote the Democratic ticket through fear Cal
ifornia shall cast her vote for the Fifteenth
Amendment, is supremest balderdash. Cal
ifornia's vote for or against the Amendment
cannot effect the question in the remotest
manner.


If, then, California can do nothing in the
matter. how preposterous to call upon the
voters in that private made house manner
in which those shrieking appeals are made,
to "vote the whole ticket-from the first to
the last name,' lin order to defeat the Fif-
teen'h Amendment? We did think some
men had too much sef-respect to be guilty of
such glaring absurdities.


Such appeals are hackneyed and thread
bare, and appear extremely silly when one
thinks of the purpose to which they are ap-
piled. 1t has been the custom. to be sure,
ofpoliticians in times of great political ex
citement, when great national issues were at
stake, to exhort their party to stand shoulder
to shoulder and present an unbroken front
to the enemy, for the reason that any lack
of harmony in the ranks might endanger the
plan of battle; but here such exhortations-
considering the relative Importance of the
matter-aie as much out of the place and as
unbeftting as would he the garments of the
Irish Giant on the diminutive shoulders Of
General Tom Thumb San Francisco Daily
Herald, Democratic, and edited by Hon. John
Nugent.


The Herald's remarks fully substantiates
the position assumed by US in regard to the abb
surdity of harping on the Amendment as an
issue. Men of intelligence cannot fail to see
that the Democratic clique of this County
are attempting to humbug them on this
question. However we think the bumbug is
becoming pretty we'll exploded. aud that the
men who have raided over Shasta County
bowling Fifteenth Amendment" are get
ting mighty sick of their exploded issue ~
They have been SO short-sighted as to make
a campaign for County Officers on no other
platform than opposition to the Fifteenth
Amendment "a question that California can
not eff.ct-and now on the eve of election
thew find themselves without any platform
whatever, and with the cold disagreeable
corpse" labled "our ISSUE" on hand await
ing burial. But really the Herald should
excuse the Democratic leaders up here in
the mountains; they don't keep closely post.
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