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Year: 1868

Every department Of business has an imme-
date interest in the markets Of the country, and
in its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who fails to keep himself properly ad-
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets. as
controlled by the laws Of demand and supply.
and tho relative condition Of the currency. is
exposed TO constant loss. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprising
neighbors. In order TO make our paper valuable
as we'll rs interesting. we shall continue to
make this n SPECIAL FEATURE. Our Daily
Market Reports. domestic and foreign by tele-
graph, and our City Reports. gotten up at heavy
expense. have CHALLENGED the commentator oi
our best business men while our current Finan-
rial Reports from all the leading money centre
Of the country are fuller than have ever


published by any other journal in Tennessee
Year: 1868

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE lash
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support Of the UNION AND DISPATCH by the
patrons Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled TO present Newspaper hiths
to unsurpassed in this city OF State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEws. our paper will compare favorsbly ith


best in tho entire country; and In ssyinn


we only repeat the expressions of many


patrons, who are most capable Of judging in


matters.
Year: 1868

THE chiguon is now rarely seen-never
in fashionable life. CuEls, short and long
are in immense favor, and for balls in the
curls are stuck small sprays of flowers aud
berries Of all bright colors-they are ar
ranged at the pleasure of the wearer. Two
or three carls Of different lengths fall on
the neck or down the back.
Year: 1868

Many peop'e even with plenty of money.
never know how to live. Their houses may
cost good deal of money and yet they all
low them to look out of order; their fences
are always down; the gates broken off the
hinges; til pancs of glass out of the windows;
aud pillow or belquilt stuck in their place.


Inside their houses everything looks dirty
and miserable. And when it comes to eating,
they never know what real good meal of
vituals is
Now, if you could visit the northern States
and see how the poor farming people live,
you would learn lesson f


Many farmers in the northern States who
do not make as much money as our Freed.
men do on their plantations, live great deal
nicer and better than the richest people in
Texas do. And why? t haa @ a.


Because they know how to live


They keep their houses neatly painted.


They keep their fences always up and
whitewashed in front their houses


Inside their houses everything is as neat
as pin, no matter If it not fine.


They may not have much good beef or
other things as we have in Texas but they
take pains to cook wel and last, but not
least, they keep clean and read the newspapers.


We want to impress upon every person who
reads the Free Mau's Press what great thing
it is to know how to live 1t is kind of knowl-
edge which makes up for the want of riches


First Goodness and then cleanliness. use
plenty of soap and water about your self and
house. sr


Spend your idle hours in fixing up your
homes keep every thing clean about your
homes.


The women should all learn to make good
bread and to broil stake, and be handy with
their needles


You can make the humbIest cabin perfect
little paridce if you are a mind to, and
take newspaper and try to be learning some>
hing every day. .4 80 ..-e s...,...


1t has been too much said that the colored
people were shiftless no<account people if
eft to themselves. Now, we know better,
Ind we intend to help you get up your pride, by
ellng you your faults aud how you can bet< |
er them.
Year: 1868

TIE MS:


We Lave thought it best to make our first
volunn end with half year or six months
For six months the subscription is


81 in specie, OF 81 so in currency


This is q low price paper, and VIII sn we increase
cur size, it will be very cheap paper; so cheap
that every freedman viii be able to take it,


We want an agent in every town in the
State. Our agents will receive the paper free o
charge. We call upon all good Republicans to
give the Press a wide circulation-it will be
seed we'll sown and fine harvest will be the
certain result. tt.t
Year: 1868

A fellow, on being asked to write a
testimonial on patent clothes wringer
produced the following" Il am immense.
ly pleased with it. I bought a load of
wood which proved to be green and unfit
to burn, | run the whole load through
your clothes-wringer, and have used
the wood for kindling ever since"
Year: 1868

We are persuaded that Shade is an adj
vantage to bees We have seen the best
success where hives were set among trees
not dense, but scattered sufficiently how
ever to form a tolerabie shade, enough to
brake the strong rays of1he sun; and it
stands IN reason, the extremc of heat is
avoided. There is also not that invitation
to fly early when the air surrounding the
hive is cold, and snow perhaps lies on
the ground. 1t is il this way that bees
in the forest are situaled--not in the den
sest shade, but in The. tops Of trees where
there is light air, and sufficient warmth
without great heat. The direct heat of
the sun strikes the hive is our doings.
not The bees; and we do not blame them
when they show disposition to leave
such place and go to the woods. An
other confirmation that is favorable to bees
is the fact that they do bestin temper
ate Latitude say forty degrees. Journal Of
H5Ttt~fuTe.au sa5 reed gu1 a a2 .o.
Year: 1868

THE blood d-and-thunder Democracy
who hate the negroes SO badly will at
least be rid Of their nightmare after the
suferings of this life are over. There
are no negroes where they are going.
Year: 1868

SorND oN FIyANCE.-The Commercial
convention at Boston last week adopted
the report Of their committee on currency
and finance, which declares that national
honor and good faith alike require that


the government should redeem the five
twenty bonds in specie-and that the ex.
pans'on OF the currency should cease.
They affirm that the whc.e business in
terests OF the country require speedy
resumption of specie payments to pro-
mote which contraction Of the currency
ut the rate OF 100000 a month after
January /, 1869, is recommended, and
Year: 1868

TIE DYING SERGEANT The follow
ing is told by a delegate at Mission
Ridge:


We met four soldiers bearing back "A
eomrade on blanket The men halted
when they saw us and laid down their
burden asking if we would see if the
color-ser5eant was badly wounded /
kreli down by him and said, Sergeant
where did they hit you.' Most up the
ridge sir" Il mean, sergeant, where did
that ball strike you = Within twenty
yards of the top-almost up" NO, no.
sergeant; think of yourself for moment
tell me where you are wounded :" and
throwing back the blanket | found his
upper arm and shoulder mashed and man
gled with she'll. Turning his eyes to
look for the first time on his wound, the
sergeant said, That is what did it, l
was hugging the standard TO my blouse
and making fo9 the top. I was almost up
when the ugly shell knocked me over. If
they had let me alone little longer--two
minutes longer-I should have planted
the colors on the top. Almost up almost
up" We could not get the dying color
bearers attention to himself The fight
and the flag held all his thoughts; and
willie his ear was growing heavy in death,
with flushed face he was repeating, al
most up, almost up The brigade to
which he belonged had carried tie ridge
and his own regiment, rally;1g under
the colors which had dropped from
his shattered arm. was shouting the victo-
ry for which he had given his young life,
bst of which he was dying without the
sight
Year: 1868

DENIAL.-Our attention has been called
to paragraph copied by several news
papers in which it is stated on the author
ity OF writer in the Protestant Church
man, newspaper of New York city, that
the "late Bishop Hopkins compelled every
deacon whom he ordained to sign a
promise that he would never in any way
associate with~non-Episeopal ministers :


We are assured on good authority that
this accusation is false, and a wanton libel
Year: 1868

q Bryant told this anecdote of Fitz-
Greene Halleek at the Sturges dinner:
| remember what witty acquaintance
OF mine said, some twenty years since, Of
certain persons engaged in trade, who were
of the denomination of Quakers-and
none the worse for that, hope He said;
They are the most dangerous of dishon-
est men. They will never cheat you, not
they: but by the help of plain, friendly,
and apparently sincere manners, they win
manage so that you viii cheat yourself
The person who said this was the poet
Halleck
Year: 1868

Explanatory Note from Rev. MIR. H0wlnnd.
To THE EDIroR OF THE HERALD:-


l ask permission to modify the notice made in


the HERALD of sermon preached by me at
Trinity church on Sunday evening. That notice is


headed "a response to DR.. Tying" and it states


that it was generally understood among the re-


ligious community that it was the intention Of the


reverend gentleman to excorate his brother


Tyng.Y do not know what was understood"


but certainly was conscious of no desire to use


the pulpit for the disparagement of a brother


clergyman. My subject was, "a justification of


the principle involved in the canon on parish


boundaries" thought such vindication was


needed because I found the country ringing


with charges against the Church to which


have the happiness to belong for prohibit


ing the preaching of the Gospel. And l was


personally moved to attempt this vindicaton


because had been publicly arraigned with others


by name in city pulpit as having declared that


the preaching Of the Gospel was crime. The


only ground for this gratuitous insult the cir


cumstance that had been requircd-much against


my own will-by the ecclesiastical authority Of
the diocese to act as Of board of preachers,
who correspond to grand jury, and that, in that
| capacity, l had decided that there was prina
facie evidence Of the infraction of the written
law of the Church. l regretted very much that


the. case should have been brought before us.


thought that it would have been better to suffer
wrong than to expose the Church to the obloquy
which would necessarily result from misunder.
| standing Of the merits of the case. But could
not, with honesty, deny that there had been a
violation OF the can0n-a violation aggravated
by three facts First, that the act was
committed In despite of the courteous
entreaty Of the clergyman whom the Church had
appointed her representative before that commu
nifty second. that the pulpit filed was already sup
piled by clergyman who had come all the way


from Chicago for the purpose and third, that If Mr.


T. felt it his duty to preach that day the people
of his own care would have only been too glad to
have the benefit of his instruction.


In the treatment OF my subject, on Sunday night
did indeed hypothetical illustrations suggest
| ed by current events but these illustrations would


have lost their force had such person as Mr.. I.
ever existed. And from the nature of the case 1t


was utterly impossible to vindcate the principle Of
the canon without showing the evils and dangers
of the course Of conduct against which the canon
was directed. But so far was from being guilty
Of the discourtesy and the mpropricty of attack
ing Mr.. I. that at the very outset Of my
sermon ! stated that l would not med
die" with the question of the violation of
the canon a particular occasion, and "that in
whatever had TO say with reference to the canon
wished to be considered as considering the ques-
ton in the abstract without intending to reflect on


individuals or TO pass judgment in cases which
have come or will come before their proper tri-


bunas." Very respectfully,


r. 8. ROWLAND.
Year: 1868

with their belief as well as themselves personally
that no religion in the world equals theirs in sim
pie Practcability. Here are It's two fundamental
points:-First the worship OF the Lord Jesus
Christ as God, and second a life according to His
commandments as contained in the Bible Upon
these two points our whole system of theology and
practice is founded. and l ask your readers
whether there is anything In them which justifies
the charge Of transcendentalism
Year: 1868

As the Bates Mills also manufacture woolen
goods suppose the amount is included in the
above. There is one other small cotton mill in
the District, that OF Mr.. Farwell at Lisbon
but no returns of sales for the quarter have
yet been made
Year: 1868

This has been quite good all summer, but is
improving now. Cotton has got down to 25 to
26 cents for middling Supply on hand is
small, nor is there large stock of goods. The
Bates Mills, which are starting up as fast as
they can obtain help, will soon be in full oper-
alton. The woolen department has not been
lie at all. That portion of the Continental,
which has been stopped for few months, is
getting under way again. Indeed everything
promises soon to be about as lively as lively
can be-
Year: 1868

There may be many persons who believe
that the profession of the mechanic and his
Iabors are inferior in value to those of 9TH
ers in different departments of human labor;
but does it occur to these that without the
aid of the mechanic. as such, the world
would now be at least three hundred years
behind 10 civilization?


Where would have been the steam-en-
giue without Watt? Where would have
been spinning machinery without an Ark
wright? Where would be the lransports-
tion on our rivers, lakes and oceans with
out Fulton? Where the vast agricultur.
al interest in the production of cotton with
out Whitney? How should We cross a
continent in six or seven days without a
Stephenson? How should we converse
with our friends ACROSS the Atlantic with
out Morse? Yet these men were all me-
chanics
Year: 1868

When your husband returns home at
night let him find the FIRE out. his tea and
toast cold, and you reading a novel.


If he tells you that his expenses are more
than his income, and proposes to move in
to smaller house, sit down and cry about
it Tell him you always lived sin large
house before you were married.


If at the end of few months he fails in
business. don't make the best of his mis-.
fortunes. or help him bear his troubles by
giving your sympathy, but cry as though
your heart would break.


Hint occasionally the much higher posi-
sition you held in society before your mar
risge.


If be has business to call him out in the
evening. be sure and fret, when he returns.
about his being out Of nights. and about
his disliking to be at home with bis family.


Whine every time be comes into the
house about being tied at home. Then il
he proposes TO take you and the children
out to ride. tell him you are tired half to
death, aud don't want 70 ride.


Follow out these hints faithfully, and 10
return you will have as impatient and dis
contented husband as can be found, and
one who will come home only at eating and
sleeping hours; and you MAJ be thsnkful to
see him then.
Year: 1868

Importance Of Presence Of ind.


If man faints, place him on his back
and let him alone.


If any poison is swalo we'd, drink instant-
ly half glass of cold water, with hesp.
ing teaspoonful each of common salt and
ground mustard stirred into il; this vomits
as soon as it reaches the stomach; but for
fear some of the poison may remain. swal-
low the white of one or two raw eggs. or
drink cup of strong coffee, these two be.
ing anudOtes for greater number of poi
cons than any dozen other articles known.
with the advantage of their always being at
hand; if not, pint of sweet oil. or lamp
oil, or "dripPings" Of melted butter or lard
are good substitutes, especially if they vom.
it quickly.


The best thing to stop the bleeding of
moderate wound instantly is to cover il
with cObweb, -four and salt, half and half.


If the blood comes from a wound in lets
or spirits. be spry, or the man will die in q
few minutes, because an artery is severed:
tie handkerchief loosely around, near the
part between the wound and the heart; put
a stick between the handkerchief aud skin.
twist it around until the blood ceases TO
aow; keep it there until the doctor comes:
if in position where the handkerchief can
not be used, press the thumb on q spot
near the wound, between the wound and
the heart; increase the pressure until the
bleeding ceases, and do not lessen the pres-
sure for an instant until the physician ar
rives, so as to glue it up by coagulaiion or
cooling of the hardening blood.


II your clothing takes fire. slide the hands
down The dress, keeping them as close to
the body as possible. at the same time sink
ing to the floor by bending the knees; if
not extiuguished OF great headway gotten.
lie down on the floor and roll over aud over;
or, better, envelOp yourself in carpet, rug,
bed cloth, or any garment yeu can get hold
of, always preferring wooden.


If the body is tired. rest; if the brain is
tired, sleep.


II the bowels are loose, lie down in =
warm bed; remain there and eat nothing un-
til you are we'll.


II the action of the bowels does not occur
at the usual hour, eat cot an atom until
they do act at least for thirty-six bours;
meanwhile. drink largely of cold water or
hot teas, and exercise in the open air to
the extent of a gentle Precipitation. and keep
this up until things are righted. This
suggestion, if praoticed. would save myri-
ads Of lives every yesr, both ia the city aud
country.


The three best medicines in the world
are warmth. abstinence and eposs.-RaIrs
Journal Of Health.
Year: 1868

To fully understand, to entirely realize,
the amount of money raised by taxation
and expended in this country since 1861,
each person should consider that one-third
of his whole property and one-third of his
whole earnings at his hard daily labor are
mortgaged to the Federal Government, and
that all his property can and will be seized
if the taxes are not regularly paid on de-
mand-paid far more regularly tnan he can
ever hope to collect any debt from his cred
tors. If be owns a dwelling house, one
third Of it is claimed by the Government,
and 40 with the warehouse. the ship, the
steamboat, or the farm. Wherever there is
property of any kind there is terrible taxa
ton, the only exception being in favor of
the blOaled, purse-proud. putting. wheez-
ing, gouty bond holder.


Not only property, but labor, daily toll.
is oppressed by an uneudurable taxation.
One-third of every dime earned by the poor
man. who is working early and late. work
ing with all the energies of his perhaps
most unhappy life to support his wife, his
mother and his little ones, is seized by the
tax gatherer. The laborers and their fam
lilies starve, they are cold. in order that the
aristocraev may be pamPersd.
Year: 1868

Did you ever live 10 the country?
mean a regular country village, where ev-
erybody knows every body else and all their
relations, and the ''neighborhood' through
out the entire town and outskirts Il you
have, you know how dreadfully familiar
people can be. You cannot wear a C
dress to church, or anyW here eles. bqt


erybody knows just y here you boughr


how many yards you bought and what yod
paid for it. And, if they don't know. they
will ask, and you must either give them The
details or offend them. In such q place,
politeness consists in telling all you know
to everybody you meet-about your own
affairs. and those of your neighbors, and if
any one maintains little prudent reserve
about those matters, they must be known
theaeafter as stuck up" proud" big
feeling" and the like. Your neighbor
knows just how many pieces you have in
the wash every week; they know whether
you wear your stockings out at the heel or
toes first; aud 1 actually heard a woman who
lived next door to the village pastor say -
Il am afraid our minister does Got pray as
much as he should, for he does not wear
his drawers out at the knees half as quick
as our last minister did," and the observ-
ing woman who lived the other side of him
made answer: ''He is the LATEST minister
We ever had; he does nothing but sit round,
for can tell by the clothes line; his shirls
always come to mendiDg on the back Zap
the first place of anywhere" The neigh
bors know just what you are 10 the habit of
having for dinner on Sunday. aud whether
you get regular dinner or only lunch on
that day. They know to a certainty how
much you paid for your furniture and
clOthes-how many beds you make up
the quantity and quality of provisions iD
your store room; they even know if you
have or have not rats in your cellar. They
will take their work aud drop in to spend
the afternoon, when you leas. expect them.
that they may know if you are always pre-
pared for company-snd change vOur dress
every day. II they think you extravsgant,
they will tell you SO If you buy anything
new, they must know what you paid for it,
| They know if your husband works or trades
/ for living; and how much be gets per day
! They ask you all sorts of unheard- of ques-
tions; even to how many eggs your hens
lay day; aud if you use them all. or sell a
part. And if you hesitate to answer their
numerous questions, you are not at all pop
ulsr. And the slrangest part of the story
]


is--country people do NOT know when they
are iuquisitive. Curiosity has become
chronic with them. snd all you can do is TO
''grin and bear IT, for after you have lived
in the country awhile. you will become as
inquisitive as the rest, and not mind the
habits so annoying at FIRST.
Year: 1868

A gentleman recently from California
has shown the Prairie Farmer q variety of
white rye. which is said to be Indigenous
to that country, being found wild in the
mountains. 1t is now being considerably
cultivated in that State. Tie berry is very
long and plump and of beautifully clear
color, making superior -four.
Year: 1868

BEST WAY To Be HAPPT.-Nevsr sit
down and brood over trouble Of any kind
l. you are vexed with yOurseIfor the world
This is no way to obtain satisfaction. Find
yourself employment that will keep yOsr
mind active; and depend upon it, this will
force out unwelcome thoughts.
Year: 1868

Though we seem grisved at the short
ness of life in general, We are wishing eve
~ period Of it at an end. The minor longs
10 be OF age, then to be man Of business,
then to make a fortune, then to STRIVE At
houore, then 70 retire.
Year: 1868

Scratch the green rind of a sapling, wan,
'only twist it in the soil, and SCARED or
crooked oak will tell the act for centuries
u come. How fOrcibly does this figure
leach the necessity of giving right tsDden-
les 70 The minds and hearts Of the young. .
Year: 1868

The Senate of Alabama has passed q
bin making The wearing of disguises and
masks by any number Of men a crime pun
ishabie by fine and Imprisonment. Told
You We would set BrowDlow after You.
Year: 1868

the new Senator from Maryland on the ground
that Maryland has not "a republican form of
government" because she does not permit mig
gers to vote. Under the same ruling New


York might also be excluded from the United
States Senate. Even Massachusetts herself
had not republican form of government at
the time Of the adoption of the constitution, if
her Senator's view of such government is
correct one. Indeed, only six States Of the
wholeUnion would be entitled to representa-
tion on Summers theory. Senators from those
States would, therefore, make laws for the
whole Union, and yet the Senator pretends to
urge his folly in behalf of government "by the
whole people" When the illustrious enthusi-
ast whose progress" has been written down
by Bunyan first discovered what badly man
aged world this was, and bothered people with
his talk on the subject, his sensible relations
perceived what was the matter and immedi-
ately put him to bed. Somebody should do as
much for Sumner.