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Year: 1868

If my person shall use any recreation
on the first day Of the week, he shall be-
fined. .-Repised Statutes.


RECREATIoN.-The act of recreating, or
the state of being recreated refreshment
of the strength and spirits after toll
Webster.


Will the police authorities define to us,
who mean to be law-abiding citizens, what
is the legal limit of pleasurable action
which is ultra to this statute? May we
walk on Sunday? May we contemplate
our growing pears? May we read the
Journal for 'refreshment? What is the
extent of the mission of the authorities in
this behalf? Can the north part of the
State be let alone ?-Proridence Herald.
Year: 1868

The LAUGH OF WoMEN.-A woman has
no natural gift more bewitching than a
sweet natural laugh. 1t is like the sound
of flutes on the water. 1t leaps from her
in clear sparkling rill, and the heart
that hears it feels as if bathed in the cool,


exhilarating spring. Have you ever pur-
sued an unseen fugitive through the trees,
led on by fairy laugh, now here, now


there, now lost, now found We have;


and we are persuing that wandering voice
to this day. Sometimes it comes to us in
the midst of care, or sorrow, or irksome
business, and then We turn away and listen,
and hear it ringing in the room like a
silver bell, with power to scare away the
evil spirits of mind. It turns prose to
poetry it fings flowers to sunshine
over the darkness of the wood in which
we are travelling; it touches with light
even our sleep, which is more than the
image of death, but it is consumed with
dreams that are the shadows Of immortali-
Year: 1868

1t is a pertinent question, and one
worthy of strict investigation whether the
issue of the Republican party as laid
down in its platform and urged by its par
tisan orators and writer's are the issues
sought to be obtained by its organizations
and paid for by debt of eHormous mag
nitude and holocaust Of human victims
Was the Republican party formed to OBJ
tain partial negro suifrage2 Was it in.
tended to disfranchise any portion of the
white population? Was its great military
struggle for the dismemberment of the
union, and the placing of certain portions
under military rule? Did its Inaugural
tors forsee as consequence Of its power a
permanent suspension Of the habeas cor
puss For not one of these was it brought
into existence. 1t was not for these
things that statesman thought and soldiers
bled. They are the fugi growing on a
rotted trunk-and the only way to get rid
of them is to destroy the worse than use-
less body which produces and supports
them. The present aspect as the party is
in direct opposition to the great objects
originally sought, gloriously obtained and
rascally perverted by the party which
might have ensured its preconceived ideas.
Under these circumstances all fealty, all
allegiance ceases on the part Of the honest
patriots who instituted and supported it.
The civilian who voted and the soldier
who fought for it in its crusade against
secession and caste can no longer honora-
bly, support it when it has turned all its
victories to such base uses. 1t is no long
er a Republican party, but moneved
tyranny, and if not checked, will speedily
result in Depotism worse than any of
the monarchies of the old country, and
grinding down the laboring population
beneath q burden of taxation, which will
leave them as serfs in the hands of bloat-
ed aristocracy and mere machines at the
mercy of standing army and o military
dictator.
Year: 1868

GRANT and SHERMAN have both said that
BLAIR was the ablest of the volunteer of.
ficers in the late war, and both asked for
him as General to command a corps
which, with the we'll known prejudices of
of these men against volunteers, is the
highest tribute to his merit as command
Year: 1868

One Downer. of Milwaukee, Wis.,, who
was in the constant habit of beating his
wife, was recently set upon by the women
in the neighborhood, while he was engaged
in his favorite amusement, and treated to
a terrible drubbing, which ought to break
him of his ugly trick. lie promises better
behavior in the future Ee
Year: 1868

Shall choose me wife from the city.
Accustomed to fashion and pride.
Or choose me wife from the country,
To cheer up my lone ireside!
I'm not overgood in the choosing,


How, having two maidens in view,
One city, one country--both handsome,
But know not which to eschew. ..... {
The girl from the city is handsome .. ..
In form, and in features and dress;
Accomplished in music and dancing,


And theatres loves to excess.
While she from the country, is handsome
In form and in features alone,
But versed in the work of a farmhouse,
Which for all the others atone.
have riches full many Thousand


In real estates, stocks and hard cash,
But I'd take to my heart . young maiden, q
Who'd not use my fortune a. trash.
But, if I take me a wife from the country,
Unaccustom'd to fashion and pride,
She'll soon learn to lace with the prettiest,
And then she'll have waterfalls beside.
Shall choose me \ wife from the city
ACCUSTOMED to fashion and pride.
Or choose me a wife from the country,
To cheer up my lone firesidei
Year: 1868

FROM tue New 1ork xTt0une Dec. IL, loou.
If the Cotton States unitedly and ear
nestly wish to withdraw peaceably from
the Union, we think they should and
would be allowed to do so. ANY attemp,
to compel them by force to remain would
be contrary to the principles enunicated
in the immortal Declaration of Independ-
ence, contrary to the fundamental ideas on
which human liberty is based.


From the New York Tribune Nov. SO, 1850


If it (the Declaration OF Independence
justified the secession from the British,
Empire of three millions of colonists in
l776, we do not see why it should not
justify the secession of five millions OF
Southrons from the Union in 1861.


The speech of BEN WADE is as follows /:


But Southern gentlemen stand here and
in almost all their speeches, speak Of the
di sDlution Of the Union, as an element Of
every argument, as though it were pecu,
liar condescensiOn on their part that they
permitted the Union to stand at all. II
they do not feel interested in upholding
the Union--if it really trenches on their
Erights-if it cndangers their institutions
to such an extent that they cannot feel Sc
cure under tiff their interestshre VIOLENT
y assailed by means Of this Union, | am
not one Of those who expect that they
will long continue under it. am not
one of those who would ask them to con-
tinue in such a Union. 1t would be doing
violence to the platform Of the party to
nhich it belong. We have adopted the
old Declaration of Independence as the
basis of our political movement, which
declares that any people when their Gov
ernment ceases to protect their rights
when it is so subverted from the true pur-
poses of Government as to oppose them,
have the. right to recur to fundamental
principles, and if need be, to destroy the
Government under which they lice, and to
erect on it's ruins another more condsulve
to their welfare. l hold that they have
this right. 1 ,oiN not blame any people .to,
exercising 1t, whenever they think the con.
tingency has come X You can
not forcbly hold men in this Union, for
the attempt to do so, it seems to me, would
subvert the first principles of the Govern.
ment under which we live."


The moral of which that the radical ma
lignats have dozen threats of disunion tc
answer for where one allusion to the sub
ject ever escaped from Democrat.
Year: 1868

THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN-RADICAN PRosPEoTs NORTH AND SoUTH-All the advices received here recently from the South represent carpet-bagism as on it's death bed. With tho exception of Florida and South Carolina, all the Southern States are conceded as certain to go for Seymour and Blair. The Radical organizations in the reeonstruc- ted regions are dwindling away rap- idly, and deiection has reached their very stronghold with such alarming results that the carpet-bag heroes sec nothing but ruin ahead. They have discovered their great weakness in the very spot where they looked for an impregnable tower of strength. The negroes whom they relied upon as their right arm power have become dis gusted and proclaim that the white Radical is a greater enemy to them than the white rebels who were lately their masters. The most intelligent blacks, therefore, have determined to join hands with their old masters. and thus drive away the carpet-bag adyen- turers from the South to their native element. This rcpudiation of Radical ism by the colored citizen is overwhel- ming the Republican leaders of the South, and consequently they are be- gining to realize that they have been caught in their own trap. Several shrewd Republicans who have just re- turned from different parts of the South admit that Sambo has turned the tables upon them completely, aud that now their only hope of success is in the North. This last hope seems not to have firm hold of them neither, judg- ing by tho manner in which they write to their friends in this city. The cor respondence sent home from different States in the East and West by Radical stumpers and managers is of the most desponding character. They admit that Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio are lost to Grant and Colfax beyond redemption, and one of them declares that Illinois will go the same way, un- less the strongest efforts are made to save it. Logan's defeat as Congress- man at large from the State is spoken of as certain, but the electoral ticket, it is urged, may be carried by clever en- gineering. The most sanguine Repub- lican l have seen here from Colfax's State only figures up Republican majority of three thousand in Indiana. This Republican is one of the most shrewd and influential politicians in the State of Indiana. In fact, the im- prcssion is very general here now that Seymour and Blair will be elected by very decisive majority; not on ac- count of any great popularity of their own, but because the people of the country arc determined to have a change anyhow.
Year: 1868

A TREMENDOUS PERoRATIoN.--A Western stump-speaker thus scatters him. self around in answer to an opponent:

 :"Build worm fence around winters supply of summer weather; skim the clouds from the sky with teaspoon; catch a thunderbolt in bladder; break hurri- cane to harness; ground sluice an earth quake bake hell in an ice house; lasso an avalanche; pin diaper on the crater of an active volcano; hive all the stars in a nail keg; hang the ocean on grape vine to dry; put the sky to soak in gourd; un- buckle the belly-band of eternity and paste 'To let on the sun and moon, but never sir--never for a moment, sir, delude your self with the idea that any ticket of your party can beat ours"
Year: 1868

BTWe wish to call the attention of readers to the advertisement of George w. Wicks X Co. to be found in another column. They deal in bagging and rope, cotton yarn and manufactured tobacco, and do general commission business. Cad Hanks, so well known on White river, is with this house, and will be in this place in q few days. Everybody knows Cad, and those of our friends who want anything in the line of this house, should be prepared to give him their orders. Place of bus mess 102 Main street Louisville.
Year: 1868



 THE SERENApE.-On Friday night

 of last week, Capt. Elliott, of the pop

 ular steamer Des Arc, honored us with

 a serenade by his excellent string band.

 Music hath charms for us on any occa-

 sion, but when in the ''wee sma' hours

 of morn" we are awakened from light and refreshing slumbers by the gentle strains of soft and melodious music, we seem to float in sea of ecstacy, serene and calm, with thousand poetical thoughts flowing in upon the mind Then it is our imagination creates a thousand pleasing images and forms a scene as splendid and gorgeous as an eastern vision. The youthful day dreams of ambition recur again, and from some elevated mount we behold plain covered with knights of pol ished armor, awaiting our bugle sound of command, or see in imaginative clouds two embattled hosts moving against each other. It is then we feel what nobility there is in our natures our rugged asperities are smoothed, and nothing but generous thoughts and noble impulses stir our souls. We feel grateful to the Author of all good for these finer feelings that lie buried in our bosoms, and which we some- times enjoy, and sincerely thank those who have performed the office of bringing them to the surface. May the officers and crew of the good steamer Des Arc live long to accom- modate and minister to the wants oi others and receive an hundred fold oi the like blessings for their good works
Year: 1868

Whose wives are suffering with constant pain and suffering each month. whose menstrual ton is too much or two little, or painful, or irregular, who is suffering with falling of the womb, with Leucorrhea or Whites, should not fail to carry home one bottle of
Year: 1868

Bow low thy head, boy: DO reverence to the
old man, once like you; The vicissitudes Of lifc
have silyercd his hair and changed the round
merry face to the worn visage before YOU
Once that heart Beat with aspiration co-equal
to any that you have felt, aspiration crushed
by disappointment, as yours perhaps Is des-
tined to be. Once that form stalked proudly
through the gay scenes of pleasure, the beau
ideal of grace; now the hand OF time that with
ers the flowers of yesterday has wrapt that
figure and destroyed the noble carriage. Oncc
at your age, he possessed the thousand thoughts
that pass through your brain, now wishing to
accomplish deeds equal to a nook in fame;
anon imagining life dream that the sooner he
awoke FROM the better. But he has lived tho
dream very near through. The time to o.
wsken is very near at hand; yet bis eye ever
kindIes at old deeds Of daring, aud the hand
takes a frmer grasp Of the staff. Bow low
the head, boy, as you would, in your old age.
be reyerencel
Year: 1868




i have somewhere seen the story of man
who went one evening TO steal corn from his
neighbor's field. lie took his little boy with
him TO sit on the fence and keep lookout, so
as to give warning in case any one should come
along. The man jumped over the fence with
a large bag on his arm, and before commencing
to take the corn, no looked all around, first ono
way and then the other, and not seeing any
person, he was just about to ill his bag. Then
the little fellow, his son--a good little fellow
he was, too-cried out:


Father, there is one way you haven't look
ed YETI The father was startled, and sup
posed that some one was coming. lie asked
his son which way he meant. why said
the little boy, "you forgot to look upP


The father was conscience stricken; he came
back over the fence, took his little boy by tho
hand, and hurried home without thecorn which
he had designed to take. The little boy had
reminded him that the eyes Of God were upon
him. "Tho eyes Of the Lord are in every
place beholding the evil and the good"
Year: 1868

WALL PAPER SUPERsEDED.-According b
the Boston Transcript a man in Cambridge.
Mass. has made new invention by which
wood hangings will take the place Of paper
The Transcript says:


"a very delicate, simple and beautiful ma
chine has been constructed which will take
portion Of tree, after il has been cut the right
length and width, and shave it up into thin
ribbons as wide as a roll of house paper maxi
ing one hundred and fifty TO the inch. These
rolls Of wood are placed on the walls by paper
hangers with paste and brush, precisely in tho
same manner with paper. The wood is wet
when used, and really works easier than paper,
because il is much more tough and pliable. In
these days, when variety is sought for, one can
finish the walls Of his house in different WOODS
10 suit his taste. One room can be finished IN
birds eye maple, another in chestnut ano'her
in cherry, another in whitewood, and 50 on
Thus he has no imitation, bat the real, genuine
article upon his walls"
Year: 1868

TFNHE undersigned having purchased the right


and entire and complete control OF


LANGSTR Otis PATENT BEE HIVES,
for the county of jefferson prepared to furnish
said Hives. made in the best manner Of seasoned
material with recent improvements. TO all who may
want them. For their merit aud great superiority
over any and all other hives, we refer to any ana
all persons who have them in use, OF whom there
are many in this vicinity. We can v0uch for over
three hundred pounds OF pure virgin Honey having
been taken from three Of these Hives IN lo65, be-
sides leaving an abundant supply for the winter
use Of the bees in the lower or breeding department


As there are some persons 10 this county Who
have these Hives in use who have no papers 20 show
their authority for using them, we hereby notify
thom that we viii place our claims for their use,
with damages. in the hands Of LAWYER for settle
mept in the United States Court, If they disregard
tbis notice bv not obtaining the proper authority
from us. We have paid our money for this right,
and do not intend that il shall be used by any one
without authority and payment of the patent fee.
There Is but one side TO this question before the u
nited States Courts where the costs very heavy
independent Of damages. a. we are relpetant
though determined to take tins course, we nope
no one viii disregard this notice. This patent has
been extended for seven years from the 9th oil oc'
tober, 1867. We also caution all persons not au'
thorized against manufacturing said Hives IN thl'
county.


We have ordered some OF Langstroth' new wore
on the Honey Bee, and expect soon to have then
for sale. hEAkSLEl a ohEh'EH'


Jan. l6. ls6S-tf
Year: 1868

SHOCKING AFFAIR-A negro girl is in jail
in Henrico. Virginia, charged with burning the
house of Mr.. Magruder, of that county, on Sun
day night week. While the house was on iire,
A servant carrying crockery to the second-story
of the kitchen as a place of safety saw a suspi-
cious looking bundle on the bed, and upon ex-
aiming it found it to be the infant child OF Mr.
Magruder, and beneath the bed was pile oil
shavings to which the torch had already been
applied.
Year: 1868

A REMARKABLE TRASCE.-A young lady
named Helen Hunter, living between Dycus-
burg and Princeton. Ky, during protracted
religious meeting held during tie month Of No
vember, under the influence Of religious excite
ment fell into a trance, and remained in state
Of apparent Inconsistencies for a PERIOD Of
five davs. When she was aroused from the
letbargy into which she had fallen. she related
the experience of the five days, during which she
professed to have passed into the other world
and witnessed the glorics Of Paradise, as well
as the horrors of the bottomless pit. But the
remarkable part of the story is that she pre-
dicted that three young men, then apparently
in the most robust health, would die before the
wear was out. A week after the prediction
was made one Of the young men took sick and
Ned in A few DAYS. A week or ten days later
the second died, and on the first day OF the
new year the third one expired.-L0usr'ae
Democrat
Year: 1868

CRAY HAIR CoMIyG INTO FAsHIos.-The
rich and fashionable women Of New York have
discovered that hair dyes are poisonous, and
gray hair is consequently becoming fashiona-
Die, and is held by dealers at double the prices
asked for other colors As high as forty and
even seventy-fve dollars have been pad IN


that city for very small bunch of gray hair'
Year: 1868

Al HIS NtOI


or MAIN ST., near the CARTER HOUSE,
" As on hand a stock to which the people Of this


community are invited, and he eels satisfied
that those who examine it will be constrained to
purchase He does profess to be able to sell or
manufacture at lower prices than any one else in
the community; but this he does pledge. that he
will give satisfaction to all who favor him with
their patronage. II experience and strict attention
70 business are calculated TO commend, he feels as
sured that he has these two requisites for success in
business Intending 20 work none but the most
Year: 1868

Rev. j. B. Jeter has written an article on
this subject for the Seminary Magazine, from
which the following extract is taken:


A life of idleness is not only worthless, but
contemplate. Neither wealth nor rank can
efface this blot from human character An
increasing in its weight, but diminishing its
strength and beauty An industrious shoe
boy is more meritorious than an indolent
prince. Why should not honest and useful
labor of every kind be deemed respectable
The Creator has ordained that man shall la
bor When he came from His plastic hand,
in state Of perfection and loveliness, he was
placed amidst the bloom and fruits of para
disc, to dress and to keep it. When driven
on account of transgressions from the bowers
of Eden, he was doomed, as much in mercy
as in Judgment, in the sweat of his face to
earn bread The author of our being has
endowed US with faculties for laboring- and
our bodies are formed for exertion and the
endurance of fatigue, and our hands are ad
mirably constructed as instruments of art.
We are surrounded with means of useful toll.
In obedience to well directed, effort, the
earth will yield her bountiful increase to re-
ward the husbandman. And all the riches
of the mineral, vegetable and animal king
doms, may, by skilful industry, be made
tributary to the happiness and dignity of
man. God has imposed on man the necessi-
ty of labor. If he rebel against this ordi-
nance, want. the most inexorable of masters,
will teach him subordination, and summon
hunger, nakedness and pain to enforce his
instruction. To esteem labor lightly, then,
is to reproach the ordinance of God. Has
God made that essential to man which is
derogatory to man? 1t cannot be He who
ordained that man should labor was worthy
of him.
Year: 1868

verdict is recorded before high heaven that
any party that attempts to exalt one man
above another on account of race or color, or
that seeks to elevate an individual, a COM
munity, or a.State above the nation, shall go
down to infany
Year: 1868

THE NEwBERN AcADEMY-The friends of
education have cause for qualification in the fact
that Col. VIM j. Clarke of our city has been
chosen as Principal of the Newborn Academy.


In making this selection the trustees have GER
tainly acted wisely by keeping in view the best
interests of this well known institution OF learn
ing.


Col Clarke is known to possess qualifications
of high order for the position. He is a gentle
man Of culture and scholarly attainments, being
a graduate of one of our leading Universities. Bis
urbane and popular manners, together with his
high personal character as q gentleman and a
citizen, are surely strong guarantees for sste-
cessu discharge Of duty. The institution under
his charge surely ought and must prosper.-.fe0-
bern Republican. ~