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Year: 1868

tlator OF his cell, by the cord which he had used
TO confine his pantaloons around his waist. He
quite dead The feet OF the corpse still rested the
stopping posture Later III the day Coroner schirmer
held an inquest over the body The wife of the deceased
man testified that several years ago he had fallen from
The roof Of building and sustained severe injury Of the
SKULL au9 tnat since that time he had been subject TO oc
easOna fits Of alteration OF the mind II is more than
probable That while aborng Of these temporary
hts OF hauCnatOn, superinduced the arrest and
prisonment Miller committed suidde. A verdict in
accordance with the facts was rendered
Year: 1868

!


Some of our agricultural exchange.
are engaged in the discussion Of The
| question, "does farming nav 9n Ths
| quest1on comes up periodically. and
hnds abundant answers both in the al
nrmat1ve and negative-some contend
ing tnat the average profits are less
than those of other branches Of busj.
ness, and others that they are greater.
One writer very sensibiy saws NTn
the aggregate it must pay, else ali other
Yocations must be speedily abandoned.
Farming is the base on which the socisi
edthce rests, and it's remuneration to
individuals depends upon the inIeIiI.
gence which guides farm labor. with
some, owing to lack of money, the
information essential to sucsess, or to
an tmprovident use of what thev have.
farming ls not remuneratiVe; but with
the mass the case is different, and each
year shows in the aggregate increased
accumulation. Farming, therefore.
IKE other business tnteIligently and
systematically pursued, pays, and If
failures here and there occur as in
other pursuits, they are the exceptions.
while general success is the rule"


Take hundred or a thousand farm.
ers and compare their success with
that OF the same number of men en-
gagged in any other business, and the
proportion ofsuccesses OF the farmers
VIII be found as two to one of the
others. And in this estimate we do not
count those as successful farmers who
by lives of the hardest Toll and druid
gerry, not only of themselves but of
their wives and families, are enabled to
make living and avoid positive bank
Euptcy. Such farming is not success
tul. And we regret to say there is a
great deal too much of 1t in the country
"a great deal more than need be. *
man OF ordinary Intelligence, who viii
Improve the advantages that every
man has in this age of cheap literature,
who Will study his business as a man to
be successful in any other business
must do, who will keep up with The
progress OF the times, who will avail
himself OF the improvements in ma
chlnery, In stock and In the cultivation
or the sOil-such a man can har5Iv
fail to be successful in farming in the
broadest acceptation of the word.


1t Is said that in the cities ninety.
nine men of every hundred who en-
gage in mercantile pursuits sooner or
later tall. VIII any one pretend to saw
that the failures among farmers are In
this2 "S


OF course the farmer who goes plod-
ding along in the way his father and
DIS grandfather went before him, who
does not read and keep himself posted
on the improvements in his business,
VIII not succeed any more than would
the publisher of a newspaper who
should refuse to avail himself of the
Telegraph, Of fast presses and of the
many other improvements that time
mas made In the business.
Year: 1868

Advertisers should bear in mind that, in order
to insure the proper classification OF their business
announcements, all advertisements for insertion in
the HERALD should be left at the counting room by
halfpast eight O'Clock T. NJ
Year: 1868

The opening trot of the season on the Fash
ion track took place yesterday afternoon The weather
was very fine with the exception Of some few showers
that were fortunately of short Duration ont OF the
fourteen entries for the purse only six came to the post
and the first heat WAS won easily by Lady Wells who
not fancied at a by the knowing ones In the pools az
the start Top sawyer brought s25 Maggie sll; Lady
Drew SIi and Morgan and Lady Wells After the first
heat the betting about S2j 10 so on the Held but
Lady Wells rotted well and won close heat by halia
length with James Morgan q good second. The third
and last heat was also by Lady Wells with Morgan
again close her quarters Altogether the rottng was
very Good during the day Between the heats an appa
rats for detachng runaway horses from
a carriage was exhibited and worked successfully The
following l. summary OF the trot


d loo for horses that never beat three inmates mile ea es'
Year: 1868

be correct by the Registrar, shall have all the
legal force and effect of the original registration
book


Sec 2. That the County Commissioners, or in
case no Commissioner shall have qualified, the
Governor shall, on or before the Goth of October
next, appoint six electors at each precinct who
shall, with the Registrar be judges of election;
and the said six electors shall take the place of
the electors provided for in the fifth section of
the said act and shall perform all the duties which
have been conferred upon them.


Sec. B. 1t shall be the duty of the judges pro-
vided for in the preceding section to provide at
least three separate ballot boxes on the day of
the election at their precincts for the convenience
of voters, and as mauy more boxes as they may
think necessary Two judges shall preside at
each of the three ballot boxes, and if majority
of the Judges think more boxes necessary, they
shall appoint two additional judges for each ad-
dtional box The Registrar shall assist at all
the boxes.


Sec. 4. The Registrar of voters shall furnish
the original registration book and the two copies
hereinafter provided for, to the judges of the
election in the precinct for which he is appoint
ed he shall furnish one copy to the judges Of
each of the three boxes, and if there be more
than three boxes, he shall furnish one additional
copy for each additional box.


sec. D. lhe ReSlStrar snail receive one cent
for each name copied from the original registra-
ton book.


Sec. 6. Any person who shall, with intent to
commit fraud, vote at more than one time,
shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and on con-
viction, shall be imprisoned not less than six nor
more than twelve months, or fined not less than
one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars,
at the discretion of the Court and any regis
trar of voters any clerk copyist who shall
make any entry or copy with intent to commit u
fraud shall be liable to the same penalty.


Sec Z. No registered voter shall be challenged
on the day of election, but those offering to reg
lister the day of election may be challenged,
and every person applying for registration before
the election may be challenged at that time in
like manner.


Sec 8. All acts inconsistent with the provi-
sons of this act are hereby repealed


Sec 8. The Secretary Of State shall furnish
printed copy of this act to the Commissioners Of
each County.


Sec. 10. This act shall be in force from and
after its passage.


Ratified the oath day of August, A. D., 1868.
Year: 1868

An Act to make Bank Bills Set Off,


The General Assembly of North Carolina do
enact: Section 1. That where any note or bond
has been, or may hereafter be, given as renew
al OF any debt or demand due or payable to any
Bank in this State, whose Charter bears date
prior to the Goth day Of May 1861, the bills of
said Bank shall be legal set off to such note or
bond, without regard to whether such note or
bond be made payable to said Bank or to some
other party; and the bills of such Bank may be
offered, and shall be received to sustain the plea
Of set off to any suit brought upon such note or
bond in any Court of this State whether said
note or bond be made payable to such Bank or to
any other party.


Sec. 2. That this act shall be in force from
and after its ratification


Ratified the 22d day of August A. D., 1a68.
Year: 1868

By a recent Act of the General Assembly all suits
heretofore commenced and all executions either in
the County or Superior Courts required to be
transferred to set of Dockets upon application
being made by the Plaintiffs in such cases. and the
ayment of fee of one dollar in each case; and un-
less such application is made within six months from
the passage ofsad act said cases shall stand dlsmis
sed at the cost of the Plaintiffs Those who are in
terested in this matter will please send in their in
structons and their fees practicable as
case will be so transferred without the payment
of said fee according to law


Z. 4. OSBORNE.
Aug. 81, 1868 3w. Clerk of Superior Court
Year: 1868

GEN. MAGRUDER ON MAXINILIAN--A
Saratoga correspondent of the Washington Star
gives the following:


"Among the notablcs here is the ex-Confed-
crate General J. B. Magruder He delivered
an interesting lecture night or two since in the
Union Hotel ball room on Maximlian in whose
service he was for sixteen months. He had a
large and brilliant audience, and the lecture was
full of interest. He declared that it was Napo.
Icons desire to encourage the Confederate cause
and to break up the Union if possible; and the
invasion of Mexico was made to accomplish those
ends, and at the same time to gain foothold on
this continent Maximilian, he said, on the con-
trary favored the Union and sympathized with
the North, and hoped by obtaining recognition
of the North, to introduce American ideas and
enterprise into Mexico to develop it's resources"


In addition to raising food enough for its own
support, fine crop of rice and tobacco and other
articles, the South has this year raised crop of
cotton that is estimated by its own papers as
worth S25O,O00,O0O There was not SO much
done in all the six years ofthe rebelon.-IhIa-
dclDhia North Amoican


The American must rccollect that this pro-
duce was raised in despite of the arbitrary rule
and tyrannical oppression Of the radical party.
Had liberal policy been pursued towards us,
the South would have doubled its agricultural
productions, largely increased its population,
and thus have added to the wealth of its own
section and of the whole country. We should
not only have been enabled to pay much larger
proportion of the onerous taxation imposed upon
us by this wasteful and extravagant party, but
these agricultural products would have added
largely to our exports, thus furnishing basis
for our foreign trade that could have been OBJ
tanned from no other source.-NoytoM JonrnaL
Year: 1868

This law has been materially amended by an
enactment of the present Congress at its last
session. Under the law as it stood prior to this
amendment, the debtor would be discharged by
the Court from the payment of all his debts,
provided his petition and the proceedings there
under were all regular, and were filed prior to
tile first of June 1868. The law, as it now
stands, allows petitioners to file their petitions
at any time prior to the first day of January,
1869. If the petitions be filed previous to this
date the petitioner will be discharged from the
payment of all his debts, although he may have
no "ossets.' If the petitions be filed after the
first day of January, 1869, a full discharge will
not be granted unless the pettioning debtor have
assets sufficient to pay fifty per cent of his debts


Y will therefore be seen that i hsheoyes 81 who
contemplate bankruptcy to file their petitions
before the first day of January 1869, unless
their estates are sufficient to pay fifty per cent of
their debts
Year: 1868

A traveller relates that, during his visit to
Russia, an author was condemned to eat leaf by
leaf ponderous folio volume which he had writ
ten in favor of the liberties Of the people, which
had greatly offended the Czar, and, failing to do
so, he was to endure the knom. 1t was con-
sidercd just, as the book was adjudged to be a
libel on the authorities, that he should be thus
made to eat his own words. A scaffold ac-
cordngly erected, the book was separated from
the binding, the fy-leaves, and all the white
margins cut of, and the unlucky author forced
to swallow each leaf as it was put into his mouth
by the executioner, who previously folded them


into rolls like lottery tickets, to the great amuse


ment of the spectators. AS soon as he had swal-
lowed as much as the physicians, who stood by,
thought he could do with safety he was taken
back to prison and brought back next day, and
the process continued and so on the succeeding
day, until, in three hearty meals, the whole
volume was literally consumed. This poor man
was doubtless martyr to his liberal principles


and deserved far agreeable breakfasts; but
it would be a capital plan to teach some unmer-
cifully stupid writer's of our own day, in this
practical manner, how difficult their books are
to swallow and hard to digest and if the same
plan were used with printers, the whole typo
graphical corps would be confirmed dyspeptics.
Year: 1868

An Act to amend an Act entitled "1n Act to


prooile for the Registration Of Voters


The General Assembly do enact Section l.
That the Justice of the Peace appointed by the
Commissioners or by the Governor to act as Reg
strar of voters in each election precinct, as pro-
vided in the fourth section of an act entitled
IAN Act to provide for the Registration OF
Voters" shall make out two copies of the original
mentioned; which said copies when certified to
Year: 1868

EFFECTS OF TEA ON THE SYSTEM. The
Boston Journal Of Chemistry publishes a
lengthy article on the proprieties of tea in
the course Of which the writer says it is no
matter Of wonder with him that the brain.
workers, in all the years since tea was intro
tuccd, have regarded it with the highest
favor. 1t bas power to subdue irritability,
refresh the spirits and renew the energies
such as is possessed by no other agent
When the system is exhausted by labor or
study cup Of tea invigorates as no other
form Of food or beverage can. He thinks
it promotive Of longevity, and adds: "Tea
saves food by lessening the waste Of the
body, soothes the vascular system and af.
fords stimulus to the brain. The young do
not need it, and it is worthy of note that
they do not crave or like it. Children will
frequently ask for coffee, but seldom for tea
TO aged people whose powers of digestion
and whose bodily substance have begun to
fail together, it is almost a necessity"
Year: 1868

sxoKr. The short pipe Of tho hod-car-
rier is just as good to him as the regaias
conld be that cost $500 thousand in ,Ha-
vana. and sixty cents each in New York.
II you were to give him one Of those rega'
lbs he would prefer to cut it up and smoke
itin his pipe, and then he would not find IT
as good as the tobacco be usually smokes
The poor laborer's Pipe is q potent equali-
Ger. To the enjoyment Of pleasures purely
luxurious there is limit which is soon
reached; and ! maintain that poor man
gets as much of this kind Of pleasure out Of
bis pipe as prince or railroad king can
extract from oil the costly wines and viands
Of table. r, If there is man in tho world
who ought to smoke, that ancient hod car
rier is the man. A stronger case for smok-
ing cannot be selected from ordinary life
Year: 1868

vidual thought, and the most unlimited
freedom Of individual right. Whenever
our legislature has invaded this fundamental
privilege Of tho member, it is departure
from the true spiritof Odd Fellowship. We
consider tho correct understanding Of the
vested rights Of members, to form one oi
the constituents Of tho true Odd Fellow.
Such man will never, under any pretext,
either Of expediency or underlined powers
vested in the laws Of tho executive authori-
ty, trench one atom on the guaranteed rights
of his brother members. These are sacred
with him rs is the personal property or the
individual characters Of our members.
They are inalienable-they arc consecratcd
by the governing law Of Charity, and the
principle Of Fraternization, which binds US
together. ........'


We need not add that the true Odd Eel
low must be a benevolent man-not only
within the prccints Of his own lodgc-room,
but he must carry his philanthropic spirit
into general practice. The Odd Fellow that
is cold, calculating, avaricious, heartless
man in his intercourse with the world, lis q
living libel upon the Order ho has falsely
identified himself with. ..
We will not enlarge the picture We have
endeayored to sketch Of the true Odd Eel
low. 1t is not an imaginary one; there are
hundreds Of our members who might set for
the portrait; men who ate governed in all
their actions as Odd Fellows by the great
principles we profess, and are rendered
thereby more valuable citizens and better
men. The application We would draw from
our remarks is to enforce closer study Of
the real obligations we have assumed by bo-
coming members Of our Order, and by this
process avoid the disgrace attached to those
who do not act up to "the character OF A
True ODD Fellow" "-Me american Odd
Fsllov:
Year: 1868

THE following is recommended as recipe
for making Bologna sausage Take eel
skin and stuff it with ground cat; season 1t
with Scotch snuff ard parsimmou oil; lay
it on q hog pei to dry, and then hang it up
by the tail in a grocery for three months for
flies to give tho trade mark, then it is ready
for use. z oel .rf'd.3aH . r1.a4 q
Year: 1868

The results of the late elections, for all
purposes, in North and South Carolina,
Georgia and Louisiana, appear, after all,
to be pretty thoroughly Radical. The
Democrats here and there are putting in
complaints of frauds, and Investigations
will probably follow in varaious districts;
but, doubtless, they will end in smoke.
The simple truth is that the outside
Southern States are in that condition OF
political decentralization which may be
pronounced Southern anarchy. The
new organization of parties, from Vir-
ginia to Texas, on the dividing line OF
race and color, has brought about state
of things which has been aptly described
by philosophical African in these
suggestive words: De fac is, we's
beginnin' to tink dere is too many
kinds of people down yer. Dere
is de whites an de blacks an de
Yankees. OATS too many to git along
well, an somebody got to leave" This
is the pervading idea of Southern So
ciety to-day somebody's got to leave !"
and this is the idea which underlies all
the political movements on both sides in
the States concerned directly in this
business of reconstruction, and it is at
the bottom of these secret Southern po-
litical associations, such as the Loyal
Leagues and Ku Klux Klans. The ex-
istiDg law and order of the South is sim
ply suspension of hostilities between
the whites and blacks in the presence OF
the United States army. The whites,
chafng under the astounding innovations
of negro equality and universal negro
suffrage and white disfranchisement,
are not in the mood for anything like
determination and the ignorant blacks
presuming upon their strength at the
polls and the protection of Congress, and
full of false notions of equality, are
ready for anything in the prosecution of
this terribly significant idea that some
hody's got to leave"


The solution of this problem will not,
perhaps, appear till after the restoration
of the States concerned to both Houses
of Congress, as reconstructed under the
Radical programme. Then, under the
belief that all the Southern troubles are
over, there will doubtless be consdera-
BILE movement in the tide of Northern
emigration, white and black, from the
West to the South, and then we may ex-
pect to see considerable selling out and
exodus of Southern white landholders
for some other country; for under negro
supremacy, if established on the restora.
ton of these States with the army still
on hand to enforce it, the Southern
whites, in numerous moving detach-
ments, will settle the question that
somebody's got to leave" Will the
South, then, become an African paradise
or pandemonium under this policy of
Radical reconstruction From present
appearances it will not be an inviting
region for settlement to any white man
who is not prepared for negro supremacy
in the State and negro equality in the
family, but " it is long lane that has
no turn. ."-MeO York Herald.
Year: 1868

and closed by urging bis hearers to enlist
under iis folds, with King Emanuel for
their leader, and to tread with him the
path Of moral purity that leads direct 70
ihe pearly gates Of the Paradise Of God.


Monday night, Colonel Mullaly, at the
New Memphis Theater, lectured upon
the political situation. He reviewed, in
scathing terms, the destructive ienden-
cies Of Radical rule, and especially their
expressions Of the laboring poor. He
bid the oppressed people OF, the South TO
be Of good cheer, for the political skies
were Frightening. He paid beautiful
and worthy tribute to the women Of the
South. God bless them BY their
patient endurance, angel acts Of mercy,
self-denial, and noble heroism. they
have shed halo Of glorious light around
the name Of woman Of every age and
cline, that shall gid with imperishable
lustre the glittering spires Of the temple
Of Fame, that loom up in the dim vale Of
the far distant future. SPECIAL.
Year: 1868

The New York Times (RadicaD talks
sensibly about putting the ballot in the
hands of negroes. 1t says that the ballot
is political power-the highest form in
which political power can be exercised;
and its exercise involves a corresponding
responsibility. There has never been
time when the idea of voting was sepa-
rated from the idea of being qualified to
vote. Some qualifications always have
been deemed essential Intelligence,
knowledge of the questions involved,
SONS soyt Of acquaintance with the duty
and responsibility which go with the
ballot. has always been beld to be indis-
nensable Now from the very nature
of the case il is impossible that
the great mass Of the Southern negroes
should have Rny sort OF qualitlea-
tiou. They knoS absolutely nothing
Of the subjects which their votes
are to help 10 decide. They do not, in
voting. exercise their own judgment, act
unou their own opinions, or exert their
own free and independent will There
is no pretsnse that they do anything OF
the sort They vote 10 direct and i'm
nIioit obedieuoe to the will OF others, and
we cannot regard such q vote as safe, as
lust to the people who are TO be affected
by it, or as in harmony with the primer
pies and interests Of republican govern
ment. II is not because they are black,
but because they are ignorant-necessa-
riIy. inevitably and densely ignorant
that We doubt the wisdom ard the justice
Of putting the supreme power OF the bal
lot ct once into their hahds-Pfft
Post
Year: 1868

Breckinridge. 50 for Bell, and 10 for Douglas.
-Four years afterward he was reelected by
plurality Of 2l2 votes to 81 cast for Gen:
Mcclellan. He had been tried by fire, and found
steadfast to the end. In opposition to him was
placed an unsuccessful military leader to whom he
had given the opportunity to achieve greatness, upon
platform declaring the war TO be a failure. The
nomination OF such man such platform was o
striking commentary upon party that had become
dead to patriotism, and bitter upon the lh
ordinate ambition of those upon whom Nature mas
not stamped the mark of greatness. Among the OPP
p0nents of Gen. Grant this same Mcclellan, WHO
would have taken the executive authority from the
hands of Abraham Lincoln on the plea that arnles
which he had himself commanded had failed 10 sup
press the Rebellion