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Year: 1860

Every Christian man, who looks steadily
at the great evil of intemperaLce and the
fearful responsibility that rests upon him,
cannot but feel that all we hold dear as free
men and Christians, is in danger and with
solicitude will he enquire; what efforts have
We put forth-what sacrifice can save us I?
The answer is easy-the effort is easy-the
sacrifice is easy. Let all the intelligent and
educated youth of our country abstain en-
tirely, now and forever, from all intoxicating
drinks, and then let them try topersuade the
whole community to do the same, whatever
other evils may destroy US, it is certain that
intemperance never will So long as we
havea vote by ballot and free institutions,
men of sense and education viii control pub
lie opinion; and when public opinion is turn
ed into the channel of temperance the work
is done. In free country like this, igno-
rance cannot extensively, nor permanently,
influence the public mind, until corruption
has pervaded the majority. Give US the uni
tedeXample and the united efforts and opinion
of one generation of such men, and we will
have nothing to fear, we can go forth with
confidence to encounter the Giant-monster,
Incompetence, and though he was as high as
the Heavens, and could bestride the land at
one step, yet we would cut him down, and
hew him in pieces, and the next generation
would only see his bones bleach in the sun.
Year: 1860

TWENTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SAvEp.-Mr. Spaldiss be.
sold two of his celebrated Prepared Glue and
a Is each bottle least dollars worth Of
broken furniture thus making aggregate Of twenty millions
dollars reclaimed total os by this valuable nyenio
Having made Glue household word he pooeeds 10 do
the greater service by curing all the aching heads With
his Cephac Pills and they good his Glue hesdssbo
will snish away like snow in July.
Year: 1860

tvOyER EXCITEMENT, and the mental and anx3ea1
incident to business study The
numerous Hesde The sodered state Of
mind and BODY incident this distressing complaint fstl
blow energy and ambition. Sufferers this disorder
always obtain speedy relief from these distressing sacis ~
It ouiets brain and soohss the strained and jar.


ring and raxes the of the stomach which always
accompanies and agaystes the dsodsred condition Of the As
Year: 1860

The of Directors have this day declared cash dividend
of thirty per the capital paid in of this Company ont of
the net earnings year ending the 0h April 1860 pay
able in accordance with Article Twelfth of the Charter of said
Company, towt:


Ten per cent the amount paid in payable on demand
stockholders theirlegRl representatives on and after th
10th instant the balance be credited insAment
the unpaid stock notes.
Year: 1860

He raised me up, and kissed me many times. " This is the pain of poverty, indeed that for these, or such as these, you should suf. fer as you have done. My darling 1 how could you do you do it How could you en. dure so long How could you let me treat you so sternly7 Dearest these were not worth your pain ]"

 saw it clearly now had burdened him with remorse, overwhelmed him with self-re- proach I, his wife had irreparably injured him. And when I prayed for forgiveness, he only begged me to forgive him ..l

 With these notes for which had worked and endured, lying at our feet, we made . new marriage compact of mutual confidence and forbearance.

 An but l did earn holiday for Ken. elm l! I was very i'll after that evening of my " triumph. When grew better, my bus band took me to beautiful little nook by the seaside there we had sweet long rest from all the weariness of the work.

 do not think that Kcnelm understood his little wife's nature the less for having read her book and when he had grown co. customed to the marvellous fact of its exis. tence, I even fancied that sometimes de- tected just little lurking pride in his eyes and about the corners of his mouth, when people in our presence spoke of A Wifs's Secret" At such times I only cared to hide my confusion. Even now, after tho lapse Of so many years, felt burning flush upon my face the other day, when I sudden ly came upon heap of newspapers and re- views which Kenelm had accumulated, and iD them read the name of my book.
Year: 1860

night lamp, but objectivey as well as subiec-
lively, lights the gas. In short, "love in cot.
tage" has become picture of almost fabulous
antiquity, and the true novel for the times must
wind up in palatial residence


If we 90 on at this rate all sentiment and
simplicity will vanish from the household.
Our homes will be woven together into one i'm
mense hotel, drawing light, heart and water
from the same source, and it may be, from the
same material. The whole domestic picture
will have an air Of labor-saving conlrivance and
elegant mechanism, with cushioned cars, noise
lessy gliding from cellar to attic; locomotive
dumb walters circulating with stiff gravity
through the table ritual, steam calliopes dis
coursing musical asthmas in the parlor, and
nimble sewing machines performing miracles Of
fancy needle work. The genius of improve
ment will have driven out the spirit of romance
from its last refuge and birth place, and home
itself be left dsenchanted


In the meantime, however, let us be consoled
with the reflection that what we are losing in
poetry, we are gaining in comfort rnd elegance ;
and that as physical convenienccs are multiplied
and diiiused, the means of domestic refinement
and social amclioration will be proportionably
increased. The masses now live as luxuriously
as their rulers of a century ago, and century
hence they may have learned how to beft, as
well as to procure, the style of sovereignty
-MHdtdphid Inquirer.
Year: 1860

OF The second session of the jackson Fe-
male Institute will commence on the Goth
inst, with an increased number of Teachers.
Every department is filled sufficient to give
full course of instruction equal to our best
Female Colleges.
Year: 1860

OF The Washington correspondent of the
New York Commercial Advertiser says that
the Wing and American nomination for the
President vii be made about the middle of
May, and It is surmised in Washington that
the Republican convention, month later,
will have to adopt it.
Year: 1860

A WHITE WOMAN RUNNING AWAY WITH A
NEGRO MAN.-The Chattanooga Reflector
says a white woman by the name of Mary
Wilson, of Adairsyillc, Ga, came up to that
place on the Georgia train on the 9th, with a
big buck negro belonging to gentleman of
the former place, who she had stolen with the
intention, it is believed, Of running him off to
free State. Mary was dressed in mems
clothes. They were arrested and lodged in
iail.
Year: 1860

PoErRY.-As long as the stars appear night
ly in the armament, and golden clouds gather
around the departing sun; as long as we can
greet the innocent smiles of infancy and the
gentle eye Of woman; as long as the earth is
visited by visions of glory and dreams of love
and hopes of Heaven; while life is cncicled by
mystery, frightened by affection, and solem-
nized by death, SO long will the poetical spirit
be abroad with its fervent aspirations and
deep spell Of enchantment.
Year: 1860

THE SoLoRED POPULATION OF GEORGIA
a Dill has PASSED the Georgia Legislature
which provides that every free person of color
VINO has reached the age of fourteen wears
may choose an owner and go into voluntary
servitude for life; that parents NAV choose
owners for their children when the latter are
under fourteen years of age and that all free
persons OF color found in that State after the
nrst OF May, 1862 who have taken 10 steps to
select owners, shall be liable to seizure and
sale as a slave for life
Year: 1860

The ENGLISH IN RUSSIA An Englishman
can scarcely form an IDEA Of the petty annoy.
ances 10 which foreigner is subjected on his
arrival at St Petersburg. He is first REQ uired
to give in writing long and crcums tan tial
declaration on variety If subjects. He has
then to undergOa personal examination at the
bureau of the secret police; and woe be to him
II he talter or make single false step, or say
anything that seems Inconsistent with his
written, and perhaps forgotten, declaration
Ii ms examination "roye satiSfactO tory to the
police he will receive a passport at the foreign
Office. This precious passport system, now
happily abolished by the other Northern DOW
ers, IS carried TO absurd lengths in Russia; III :
deed, If you wished TO invent prac tIcal bur-
lesque on the princi pie OF passports,you could
Lot do better than adopt the Russian plan of
Surveillance. You cannot legally enter town,
or sleep at an inn, or even spend night at a
friends house, without a passport. You can
not change your residence, even if you We're
going to live next door, without first sendiDg 2
your passport to the police of1ce.-Oncs
Week
Year: 1860

In behalf of the treschery and imbecity Of the Ad
mnisraton at Washington the doctrine is intokA
that each State has right peacefully to secede-tbat
notification Of any particular law Of Congress il
to be resisted and punished by the government, but
that secession e. the absolute notification and def
ance of sill such laws and OF the Constitution aud Of the
Union is perfectly right and within the power, at all
times Of each and every State The fathless members
Of the cabinet seek thus to shelter themselves and their
parsans In dsuDion from resistance by the general gov
ernmcnt, while the imbecilss aim in .he same way to
fud excuse from shrinking from their duty of aitr
native al energetic action for which they lack courage
| If not principle.


A more monstrous and absurd doctrine than that OF
the right Of any State at its pleasure to secede from the
Union has never been put forth. The government n
such would indeed be mere rope Of sand. Accord
ing to this dogma Cuba after we shall have paid $780,
600 900 for her purchase, State may AZ secede
and leave the United States Treasury plcs that small
item the account OF profit aud loss" Texas, when
she came into the Union after had paid many millions
to discharge her debts and other millions go into her
cofers was aud entirely at liberty TO seceds with the
booty Each and all the States carved out of the Loui
siana purchase for which also paid such immense
sum, may do the ike.


So too States in which the largest amounts Of the pub
lie property may be situated, NAV at any time secede
with that property When the Pacific railroad shall be
constructed at an expense Of countless millions paid
from The common treasure the two or three States
through which il will run, may decamp with the puudeT
and plant cusomhouse on the site Of storehouses
Vermont, New Hampshire, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Ken
tucky, Tennessee and the other inland States which will
have contributed to these great disbursemen and il
which States hardly dollar Of the public treasure even
expended are TO look quietly ard appovingly the
odus Of those which have been thus purchased and en-
rched at their expense and TO recognize the right
each OF them to secede and take the property with them


Again. if this right exists exists all tines, until nc
two States remain united. What then would become
Of the national debt and the national credg To whom
would the creditors Of the Government: look for pay
Year: 1860




We feel that there is need for deberadon and the
ercise Of the greatest ercumpecon. Reason and ndg
men should be invoked TO lend their best coun
sell We should do everything consistent with honor aud
right 10 preserve aud perpetuate the Union We have
believed that the Constitution and Laws, rightly inter-
pre,ed and enforced, would afford ample protection
against all evils likely to arise under the government
In an honest and faithful public administration upon the
basis Of the Federal Constitution as it Is lies the safety
of the South and the North alike aud Of the rights CT
all sections


We did not desire to trust that administration to the
hands Of sectional man, backed and supported aud
elevated to power by sectional M ority We have our
fears that tho influences which prompted bis nOmna-
ton may be used to inaugurate line of policy which


susained and carried out, would resu; in justice and
wrong to portion Of the American people. For our
own part content await the solution Of those
fears by the actual logic o! events" II they prove
welLgtouudei then we shall Tess. that policy with just
enough and Just such force will suffice to vindcae
honor and our rights
Year: 1860

II the Republicans win, say the stronger the
better tor the power they have the more their re-
sponibity, and the they will swallow each 9th
er They carried I'll before them in 1870 just twenty
years ago and 1871 they lost everything


We know opponents, and have known them for
about thirty ycars know that like other animals born
blind. they will eat poison with great ayidity. The
spois are Their bane. The great cheese is led with
It's pirus from which they beginning 10 "Gibble -
For the next nine days they will be drunk with success
and excitement and then they will 90 to quarreng and
fighting for the spos and a their success is great and
their Sppei.es 80 keen TO say nothing OF the fact that
nearly all are oieclovers, they will wage such releni
less war for the spos that they cannot fail to fall to
pieces We say, let the Republicans exult and eiJoy
their victory while the can-it pOrends their end.
Year: 1860

The election Of Mr. Lincoln in itself is not calculated
to cause any alarm the South and indeed the proba-
bity is that he will administer the government with
strict impartaty or if anything he regardlu of
the interest OF the South than Southern Presidents have
been The Southern people find it difficult to reconcile
themselves to wait and give his administration fair trial
But nevertheless it proper that they should do sO and
LET us hope that they will
Year: 1860




What will follow this result in the more Southern
States We cannot determine. But, judging from the
tone and temper Of the leading men and journals in
South Carolina Mississippi and Texas, we are apprehen
,iye that those States will withdraw from the Union
Should they do So il is probable that they will be fol-
lowed by Florida, Alabama, and perhaps Georgia. 1t
but one State secedes the question will present itself to
the Federal Government, whether or not it will admit
the doctrine Of peaceful secession Should coercion be
attempted although the other Southern States might not
take adverse action in their corporate capacity quite
certain that thousands of their citizens would be enlisted
under the banner Of the seeding States As much as
we should regret accession, coercion In our estimation
would be still more deplorable While are for the
Union we cannot endorse the sentiment which we have
seen upon some of the political transparencies during
the canvass "The Union, right or wrong We are for
the Union fright" and would be willing to suffer much
wrong in it; but say that would submit to
every wrong that ianatcim and power might feel dis
posed to nAict upon We will await with much snxi-
ETY. the developments Of the next sixty days.
Year: 1860

She comes with fairy footsteps;


S,nly their echoes fall;
And her shadow plays like a summer shade
Across the garden wall.
TIC golden light is dancing bright
Mid the mazes Of her hair,
And the fairy young locks are waving free
To the wo5ing Of the air.
Like sportfal flwn she boundeth
SO glcefGly along,
Aad, as a Wild bird, ,earolleth


The burden Of a song.
The sumner flowers ure clustering thick
Around her dancing feet,
Aud on her cheek the summer breeze
l. breathing soft and sweet.
The very sunbeam seems to linger
Above that holy head,
Aud the wild flowers at her coming
Their richest fragrance shed.
And, oh how lovely light and fragrance
Minge in the light within!
Oh! how fondly they do nestle
Round the soul that knows no sin
She comes, the spirit Of our childhood
A thing Of mortal birth,
Yet bearing still a breath Of Heaven,
To redeem her from the earth.
She comes, in brightrobed innocence,
Unsoiled by blot or blight,
And passeth by our wayward path,
CLEAN Of angel light.
Oh blessed. things are children
The gifts of.IIeavenly love;
They stand betwixt our worldly hearts
And better things above.
They link US with the spiritworld
By purity and truth,
And keep our hearts still fresh and young
With the presence of their youth.
Year: 1860

E Iwan'ta d place for young woman Of
good character and ability, who can act as q
goyerness or do plain md 6no Sewing. She
will work for her board for one month. Also


a good place to work for tidy German girl
about sixteen years Of age Apply to the Min
istry q: LaEgc, 1G9 Randolph street, third floor.
Year: 1860

T WOULD respectfully call upon all of | those who know themselves indebted to me, to come forward with the CASH to settle up, as am in need of funds. ft.

 As shall start soon for new Stock of Goods, I will inform my customers and the public gene rally, that am selling off the remainder of my Winter Goods at greatly reduced prices. All in want of bargains will find it to their advantage to give me call. A. POLLOCK, U

 Main street, next door to A. J. Hut.
Year: 1860

THE undersigned has procured the ex- \ elusive right to Manufacture and sell J. J Parker's Patent Corn Sheller in this State, and is prepared to fill all orders for the same. This is undoubtedly the best patent known for that pur- pose. One hand can shell from 0 to F bushels of corn per hour They will be made in a neat sub stantial manner. Each Sheer will be warranted to perform well or no sale. Try one and you will use no other. PriceSl2 delivered any where in the county. Address

 w M. P. PRESTON
Year: 1860

DENTAL NOTICE-Dr. H. N. @ CASE, office next door to Gov. Conway's UI1Yt4S residence, where he is prepared to operate in every branch of his profession Artificial teeth with artificial gums from one to full set inserted SO as to look perfectly natural. All full sets inserted on the suction, or atmospheric pressure principle feel perfectly natural and easy in the mouth and answers all the legitimate uses of natural teeth

 Teeth, if taken in time, can be plugged so as to preserve them for life.

 In reply to frequent nquiries-I would say, that

 am prepared to travel to any part of the state and will go prepared to do everything in the line of my profession in the neatest possible manner. Per sons wishing my services will please drop me line to that effect as shall not have time to go except where have calls, and will only charge the regular Memphis and eastern prices, same as I charge in my office. H. N. CASE, Dentist.

 Little Rock, Ark. Feb 3 '59-ly. -
Year: 1860

walk its surface ? This Union sir, is
too precious to tho people it protects.
North and South, East and West, to
be broken up, even should a Black
Republican be elected President next
November. Should an attempt be
made, an united North and three fourth
of divided South would spring to the
rescue. No, no, the remedy for the
evils of which you justly complain,
are to be found within tho Union and
not among its bloody ruins. '''4a49 70.


81 admit that the grievances which
you enumeratc are hard to be borne
but q few southern men are not with
out responsibility for their existence.
The general sentiment Of the country,
North and South, at the closo of the
Revolutionary war, was anti-slavery.
1t has changed in the South, but re-
mains unchanged in the North. a.


You havelong had in the South q
small party Of able men whose aim has
been to destroy the Union T; that, as a
preliminary to their main design, they
have sought to break up the Demo.
cratic party; that their means tor &C.
complislling this end were to, act with
it, and force upon it every possible, is
sue obnoxious to the general sentiment
Of tho North; that thoy dragged ate,
them the true Union men Of the. South
through their. fears of being partly
considered laggard in their devotion to
southern interests, and partly through
ambition for political distinction !; to
make the Democratic party as odious
as possible at the north they became
the advocates of slavery on principle
justified tho African slave trade, and
denounced the laws prohibiting it.


"In your published letter you Justly
condemn the seceders from the Char.
lesion Convention, who, you think
ought to have remained and prevent
ed the nomination of = candidate who
is obnoxious to tho South. Do you
not perceive, sir that the secession
was part OF the programme for break
ing up the Democratic party?
Year: 1860

crate equally in all the States and Territories where
by in the future the wishes and preferences of the
electors in the Republican organization in the choice
of candidates for President and Vce-Prcsident may
be fully and fairly ascertained, and that the basis Of
the nominating vote be fixed may be in the
proportion to the number of Republican electors found
to reside at the last general State election preceding
said nomination in each Congressional district through
out the Union.


After some skrimishing, laid on the table.


Mr. Ashmun then, in short remarks, returned
thanks to the Convention for the kind assistance
extended him in the discharge of the duties of
the Chair. He congratulated them on the graf
flying auspices of the result of their labors. He
indorsed the character and ability of both the
nominees with whom he had enjoyed long as
sociation in public life, and expressed the con-
viction that victory must crown the efforts of
the party in November


The Convention then adjourned sine die, with
nine hearty cheers for the ticket.


Immediately on the adjournment, one hun
dred guns were fred from the fremont House
Year: 1860

DOMESTIC FAULrs.-A writer thus speaks
OF the fatal influence of small faults on the
peace of households. We. believe that in
nine cases out of ten families are broken up
by the petty scandal of neighbors, who
magnify the little faults Of one or the other
of the parties into monster vices, and then
retail them as stubborn facts: "Homes are
more often darkcnd by the continual recur-
renee of small faults, than by the actual
presence of any decided vice. These evils
are apparently of very dissimilar magnitude;
yet it is easier to grrapple with ono than the
other. The Eastern traveller can combine
his forces, and hunt down the tiger that
prowls upon his path-but he can scarcely
escape the musquitoes that infest the air he
breathes or the heas that swarm in the sand
nc treads. The drunkard has been known
to renounce his darling vice; the slave to
dress in extravaganza, her besetting sin
but the waspish temper, the irritating Tone
rude, dogmatic manners, and the hundred
namcless negligences that spoil the beauty
of association, have rarely done other than
proceed till the action Of disgust and gradual
alienation has turned all currents Of affec-
ton from their course, leaving nothing but
a barren track over which the skeleton Of
companionship stalks alone.'