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Year: 1863

A bashful gentleman of Holly Springs,
Mississippi, took violent "hankering'
after fair seamstress of the town, aud,
after great deal Of hesitation, finally
brought his courage up to the sticking
point, and made an evening call on the
lady. He found her busily engaged at
her work, pressing off a garment with a
tailor's goose. She, however, received
him very courteously, and continued her
work. A bevy of the seamstress' female
friend dropped in few minutes after our
heroic friend had subsided into silence,
for he found it absolutely impossible to
maintain a conversation with the lady.
The sudden entrance of the visitors, in
steal of relieving, only added to his EN-
barrassment, and he sat in silence until
his situation became painful to all, but
to none more than to himself. All eff
forts to draw him into conversation prov
ed abortive, and it became a matter OF
serious concern to the ladies how to re-
lieve the gentleman of his embarrassment
without catastrophe, for he was wei
known to all Of them as gentleman OF
great worth, bashfulness being his only
frailty. The seamstress finally got through
with her work, and called out to the ne
gro man in the kitchen


"Johnp


The door opened, and stout, burlJ
negro stuck his head through the door
way. and said,


81 is here. missus."


"John will you take this goose out?'


Our bashful friend sprang to his feet i,
an instant, and exclaimed


81 beg your pardon, madam, for in
truding on you, but will go out my
self"


And before the lady could explain he
meaning to him, he had gathered up hi
hat and made his exit, which was follow
ed b. the frantic yells of the girls. | an
sorry to add that that little misundel
standing made an old bachelor and a
old maid.
Year: 1863

Joe Rowe, who is an incredulous dog,
was listening 20 wonderful story told
by Old Brown in which his daughter Ma
ry bore CONSPICUOUS part. Joe looked
wise and doubtful.


If you don't believe it, you may go
to the house and ask Mary, and take it
from her own lips


Joe took him at his word; the old man
followed on to see tho result, and found
Joe kissing Mary very sweetly.


"What on earth are you about?'


"Oh, taking that awful tough story
from her own lips-but | am satisfied
now"


And so was Mary.
Year: 1863

1--WE ask no revolution, except
through the ballot-box. The conflict to
which we challenge you is not of arms,
but of argument. Do you believe in the
virtue and intelligence of the people? Do
you admit their capacity for-self-govern-
mcnt? Have they not intelligence enough
to understand the right, and virtue
enough to persue it? Come, then,
meet us through the press and with free
speech, and before the assemblages of the
people, and we will argue these questions,
as we and our fathers have done from the
beginning Of the government.


care we right, or you right, we wrong
or you wrong?" And by the judgment Of
the people we will, one and all, abide.


81 have spoken as though the Consti
tuition survived, and was still the supreme
law of the land. But if, indeed, there be
no Constitution any longer, limiting and
restraining the people in power, then
there is none binding upon the States
or people. God forbid. We have a
Constitution yet, aud laws yet. To
them 1 appeal Give us our rights give
us known and fixed laws give us judi
ciary arrest US only upon due process of
law give us pvesentiment or indictment
by grand juries ; speedy and public trial; (;
trial by jury, and at home tell us the
nature and cause of the accusation con-
front us with witnesses in our behalf, and
the assistance of counsel for our defence
secure us in our persons, our homes, our
papers and our effects leave us arms,
not for resistance to law or against right
full authority, but to defend ourselves
from outrage and violence, give free
speech and free press, the right peacea-
bly, to assemble and above all, free and
undsturbed elections and the ballot
take our IONS, take our money, our prop
perty, take all else, and we will wait a
little till at the time and in tho manner
appoir ted by the Constitution and law we
shall eject you from the trusts you have
abused, and the seats of power you have
dishonored, and other and better men
shall reign in your stead"
Year: 1863

A COUNTRY editor assures the thief who
broke into his office, few nights since,
that he is heartily ashamed for any de-
cent thief to see how miserably poor he is.
He says if the fellow will just send him
word the next time he intends to come,
he'll get somebody to put five or ten cents
within reach, to save the credit of the es-
tablishment.
Year: 1863

HANDLING A BRooM.-The editor OF g
provincial paper says that his attention
was first drawn to matrimony by the skill
full manner in which pretty girl handled
broom. A brother editor says that the
manner in which his wife handles broom
is not very pleasant,
Year: 1863

THE Union League Of Philadelphia,
out of two hundred and fifty men, has
furnished one volunteer in the army dur
ing the last year of this rebellion. Such
is preaching and such is practice. This
fact speaks volumes.
Year: 1863

North Carolina is getting suspicious Of
Jeff. Davis and the Southern Conlederacy.
A newspaper called the STANDARD which
is understood to be the organ of Gov.
Vance, of that State, speaks out as fol-
lows in bold defiance of the Confederate
Chief and his minions


We know that military despotism is ma
king rapid strides in these States. We
know that no people ever lost their liber-
ties at once, but step by step, as some
deadly disease steals upon the system, and
gradually but surely saps the foundation of
life. We know that tyrants and their min
ions always prepare the popular mind in
advance for their usurpations, and that
those usurpations are always based upon
the plea of the general good" or "mili-
tary necessity" The argument now is, we
hate Lincoln so bitterly, that in order to
resist HIM successfully we must make slaves
of ourselves. The answer of our people
is, eve will be slaves neither to Lincoln,
nor Davis, nor France, nor England. -
North Carolina is a State, no. Province.
She has $4,000 as brave troops as ever trod
the earth When she calls them they will
come. If the worst should happen she
will be able to take care of herself as an
Independent power She will not submit
in any event, TO law Of Congress passed
in deliberate violation Of the Constitution.
She will not submit to Mr.. Davis being in
vested with dictatorial powers; but she
will resist such a law by Withdrawing from
the Confederacy, and she will fight her
way out against all corners with a courage
and an ardor which will eclipse even any
former achievements of her sons during the
existing war. For one we are determined
not to exchange one despotism for another.


Says the Sacramento Union "If North
Carolina had not assumed position almost
openly against the Confederacy, such Ian
guage as is contained in the above article
would not be tolerated within the limits Of
the Confederacy. AS a remedy for an un-
constitutional law, the Standard proposes
that the State secede from the others. In
the Confederacy, we believe, they have no
Supreme Court appointed to decide those
matters, and hence each State is left to de-
eide for itself, upon notification principles,
whether law of the Confederate Congress
is or is not constitutional This is pow
er which the Confederate Constitution confers on
the Confederate States, and, therefore, to de-
clare law unconstitutional and determination
to withdraw if an attempt is made to enforce it,
is the constitutional right of North Carolina or

any other State in the Confederacy No such
right exists under the Constitution of the United
States We have a Supreme Court to which all
constitutional questions are referred for final ad-
Indication. No State in the Union can assume
that prerogatiye without enoroaching upon the
legitimate powers of the National Government.
In the present temper Of the State Administra-
ton the time would seem to be auspicious for The
National Administration to submit proposition
offering certain terms of a favorable character il
North Carolina will withdraw from the rebel
Confederacy and resume her place in the Union.
1t is not by any means certain that such a propo-
siton would not be fayorably received"
Year: 1863

THF INDIANS VIEW OF AGRICUL-
TURF.-We doubt if better argument
for improved agriculture can be given, than
is found in the speech of an Indian chief
to his tribe at the west. Do you not see
the whites living on seed, while we eat
feash That the flesh requires more than
thirty moons to grow up, and is then often
scarce? That each of the wonderful seeds
they SOW in the earth returns them a hun
dered fold That the flesh on which we
subsist has four legs to escape US, while " e
have but two to pursue and capture it?-
That the grain remains where the white
man sows it, and grows? That winter
with us is the time laborious hunting-with
them a period Of rest? For these reasons
they have so many children, and live long
er than we do. say, therefore, unto every
one that will hear me, that before the ce-
dars of our village shall have ceased to give
us sugar, the race of the little corn sewers
will have exterminated the race of the
flesh eaters, provided their huntsmen do
not resolve to become sewers"
Year: 1863

"Oh what shall do if John is drafted ?" said
a young girl to her grandmother, while thinking
that perhaps her lover might be obliged to shoul-
der his musket and 90 to the war. Do I" said
the old lady, her venerable eyes sparkling with
the light of other days, "do as l did for Nathan
the last time the red coats came over here
Make coarse shirts and pantaloons for him"
Year: 1863

The Momtaineer of last week contains
the following scrap of abolitionism:


"It is strange to notice the extent to
which the opinions and views of men are
modified and changed by the progress of
events Two years since the man who
counseled the abolition Of slavery, or even
avowed a wish to interfere between the
relation of master and slave, was voted a
fanatic; and hints were thrown out Of pro-
viding him with a straight jacket. Now
the whole nation has come to accept the
abolition Of slavery as the only solution Of
our present difficulties"


1t is remarkably strange Low the opin-
ions and views of men are changed so sud
denly. But few weeks ago the people of
this section called the Mountaineer a Sc
cesh paper, on account of its ultra demo-
cratic views now it is a radical abolition
journal and looks for the preservation of
the Union only through the abolition of
slavery. Because of its sudden sommersault
we presume the Mountaineer thinks the
whole nation has become abolitionized -
But the truth is that kind of solution of
our present difficulties" was 'played OUT
about the time the Mountaineer changed
its color; and if that paper thinks the whole
nation has changed simply becaused it has,
we would disabuse its mind of such erro-
neous impressions by referring it to "the
world outside" The change Is all the
other way, and the Mountaineer is being
left out in the cold, and clark night is set
ting in upon its grave misapprehensions. z"
1t is said that "extromes meet" and the
Mountaineers present position may be ac-
counted for on that principle-it had got
to the democratic extreme and it was but
a step from those nearly allied secession
views to abolitionism.
Year: 1863

LONG SsERMoNs.-It is rare in England for a
preacher to deliver a discourse less than fifty
minutes in length. Our national impatience
would revolt against such "linked sweetness long
drawn out"
Year: 1863

The Democratic party is now experiencing
a trial which cause those who are not with
us at heart to fater and slough off from the
Simon pure democracy. No matter what
the result of the present contest may be, the
party viii endure, purged und purified Of the
uncean elements that were but waiting an
opportunity to desert the cause and 90 over
TO its enemies. Union Democrat
Year: 1863

The little Prince Imperial of France attain
ed on the 18th OF March, his seventh year
The event was celebrated on Sunday, the
18th, by grand banquet given by the young
gentleman, who is a corporal in the First
Regiment Of Grenadier Guards to three
hundred entants de troupe, OF children born
iu the regiment,
Year: 1863

The ART OF DANoING.-Dancing used to
form part of nearly every ceremony of di
vine worship in the world. Some sects in
corporate it into their devotions now; but
not few persons look on dancing as the
perfection of wickedness, as a snare set hv
the Evil One in which to entrap the young
or unwary. Perhaps both extremes are
wrong in this, AS in most cases. There is
no irreigion in dancing, however the man
may say so, who concets that true p!ety con
sists in making long faces, and eschewing
everything that tends to comfort or to en-
tertain. Just as certainly, on the contrary,
dancing is not becoming part of Christian
devotion; though it may be prejudice that
brings us to such conclusion. Dancing,
however, is one of the rational enjoyments
of life We look at it as harmless, pleasur-
able, social practice, in which the body is
beautifully exercised, while the mind is ex
liberated; and that grace ofcarrage acquired
which forms one of the grand elements OF
human beauty.
Year: 1863

eEThe steamer Harvest Moon is fast ap-
preaching her complete fitting up. She is now
receiving her engine, and workmen are busily
engaged In making the other preparations
When completed she will be as beautiful and
convenient craff as thereiis afoat. She will
have about 15O berths in the cabin and plenty
OF state-rooms on deck. We learn that, If not
taken up by Government, she will probably be
put on the route from this port to Belfast,
touching at Rockland and other places, and
connecting with the afternoon train from this
city to Boston. She will be ready to run
sometime in March.
Year: 1863

was postponed to week from next Wednes-
day.


The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the bill providing ways and
means for the support of the government


Mr.. Stevens offered his substitute for the bill
of the Committee on Ways and Means.


Mr.. Spaulding, in the course of a speech,
said the Treasury requires one hundred mil
lions before bill can be passed and the notes
engraved. Fifty millions will be required
within twenty days. Our soldiers in the field
should be paid. He showed that eleven hun
dred millions was required for the current
service. He favored the passage of the bill
reported by the committee of Ways and Means,
and said the only hope Of success in any finan-
cial scheme was in a military success. If we
cannot achieve victories all is lost, because the
rebels depend on their force to sustain them
selves. No compromise can be made


After further debate the committee rose
and the House adjourned.
Year: 1863

n1cOur neighbors Of the Argus have just
erected in their establishment an upright en-
gine and boiler from the works of Messrs.
time yesterday in running their press, and
seems to work admirably. The expense of
running it is said to be much less than in run
ming the horizontal engines, while it does the
work equally as well and as rapidly.
Year: 1863

E-The levee at Lancaster Hall last eve
ming, for the benefit of the Ministry at Large,
was successful affair. The hall was filed to
such an extent as to render the space for
dancing rather limited. Still, everything
went on merrily, and all enjoyed the festivity.
We were pleased to see SO large an attend
ance, as it must add something handsome for
the relief Of the poor children of the Sunday
school connected with the Preble Chapel.
Year: 1863

ANNIVERSARY BALL.-The Pine Tree
State Club will give their grand Anniversary
Ball tomorrow evening, at Lancaster Hall.
the members are bound to have a grand time
of it. Chandler's full Quadrille Band will
perform the music. Tickets can be obtained
Of the Committee of Arrangements, whose
names may be seen in the advertisements.
Year: 1863

REMovAL.-Charles w. Smith has removed
from his old stand on Silver street to Nos
q 8, on the opposite side of the street, next
below Warren Market, where he will be happy
to supply all his old customers, and many new
ones, with choice articles In the grocery line
See his advertisement.
Year: 1863

PosTAeE SrAMPs.-Many of our merchants
and other business men have begun to refuse
postage stamps in the way of change. The
soiled stamps will be redeemed this month at
the Post Office, and not after. The attention
Of those who hold these stamps is directed to
the rules laid down for their redemption which
may be found in our advertising column.
Year: 1863

s1Don't forget that the second course of
the Temperance Assemblies opens this eve
ming at Lancaster Hall. A few more tickets
are left for disposal. Those who are not in
clined to dance can purchase gallery tickets of
either of the managers or at the door.
Year: 1863

A gentleman from the Southwest in.
forms us of the murder OF Judge Modrell,
., well known and respected citizen Of the
upper Usage country. He was murdered
in his own house for his money--no one
knowing the perpetrators OF the deed


Judge Mordell WAS pioneer Of that
section of the State--went to it when lis
territory was wild. The earnings Of TWEEN
.y-hse years of his toll had well nigh been
swept away By the ravages Of war. leav-
ing him, .. an old age, with but little
treasure and the bare remuans Of life
Even this was coveted and taken. He
has fallen, as did his old neighbor and
friend Obadiah Smith, by the hand of the
assassin. He who has travelled through
that country in other days viii remember
the genial hospitality of both thess old pie
oneers, and sigh over their gnves.-.&.
Louis Ne1s.
Year: 1863

RS- When the Aboltionists first broke the
public faith of the nation and defed its funda-
mental law-the Constitution-by their per-
sonal liberty bills, these gross and confessed
outrages were paliated and excused, for the
sake of the Union. For the sake Of the Union
the nation tolerated acts which were conceded
to be unjust, illegal, and outrages upon the
fundamental and most sacred law of the land.
This trifing with crime has ended in civil
war. Had the people then resisted the wick
edness of Abolitionists, had the nation then
shown that we chad Government" we would
not now be paying in tears and blood for Alb
clifton misrule-nor would it have cost us
millions of money and the lives and blood of
Armies to have found out whether we have a
Government.


And yet we are told we ought never write a
line or word against such party-a party
now in power and daily repeating the story of
violations of the onstitution--violations of
provisions so plain-so easily understood, that
two minds have never yet differed about them
Year: 1863

n0Our contemporaries grow alarmed
They know that the Administration is daily
growing unpopular, and they know that the
people cherished their Government Hence
to keep up the fading and crumbling fortunes
of the Administration they cry out ''the Gov
ernment~ "The Governmentr' They try 10
confound the Administration with the Consti-
tuition and laws of the country-they seek to
hide the Administrations acts from the peo-
pie by the old trick of attempting to make the
people believe that Government and the Ad-
ministration, are one and the same thing.


They denounce as "traitors" and "rebels'
all who do not sustain and uphold the acts Of
tho party in power, and think it great
wrong--a mistaken leniency-that the party
does not arrest all people who have the sense
and boldness, and the patriotism to differ witt
the Administration.


:: There are not forts and prisons enough il
the whole world to hold all such as our con
temporaries want arrested and imprisoned, fo
the heinous crime of not supporting and up
holding all that the President does.
Year: 1863

HfS-A An amendment to the Army Appro-
priation Bill was adopted by Congress, few
days since, by which S5O,00O was appropria-
ted for the purchase of medicines for the Con-
trabands. The people of this County have
c..ef-"1 -n-oralu FROM tho tnno t,rasenca nf
the Army in their midst-hany losing large
ly and some few their ali. Appeal after ap-
peal has been made to the liberality and JUS
tice of the Government for some relies in the
shape of an appropriation. AS yet nothing
has been accomplished and as the session of
Congress is rapidly drawing to a close, the
chances are that nothing will be done to re-
lieve the sufferers. While no time can be
found and no money can be spared by Con-
gress for the relief of the white sufferer, the
whole time can be devoted by the Abolition
majority in that body, and abundance of mon
ey can be found for the relief of the negro
Is it not high time that white people should
begin to take care of themselves and not en-
trust their persons, their property and their
money to Abolitionists.
Year: 1863

Nothing falls more strangely on Southern
ears than the talk of reconstruction which we
hear SO much Of in the resolutions and speech
es of Northern conservatives. How to unde-
ceive men who indulge such illusions we know
not They must put themselves in our places,
undergo all that we have undergone, and feel
all that we feel, in order to understand that of
all impossible things in this world, the recon-
struction Of The old Union is the most impos-
sible.


Reconstruction Can they reconstruct the
family circles which they have broken?-can
they reconstruct the fortunes which they have
scattered?-can they reconstruct the bodies of
our dead kindred which by tens of thousands
they have destroyed? When they can do this
they can reconstruct the old Union. When
they can do this-when they can breathe the
breath of life into the paIlid faces of our sons
and brothers and restore them once more.
living and happy, to our desolate fresides-
they may dream Of bringing back that Union
whose only principle of cohesion was the mu-
tual love and confidence of its people.


If the reconstructionists want peace, they
can easily have it upon the terms on which
they have always had it-letting us alone
Weask neither more nor less We are making
no war on them We are not invading their
territory nor giving their homes to the flames.
their populations to prison and the sword, and
their women to fate worse than death. Let
us alone, and peace will return once more to
bless distracted land. But do not expect us
to degrade ourselves and. cast dishonor upon
the graves ofour kindred by ever returning to
the embrace of those whose hands are drip
ping with the tears and blood of our people.
Year: 1863

H6F The Abolition party are in favor Of
abolishing the writ of Habeas corpus-they are
in favor of having white men arrested and
dragged from their homes and families, and
deny them hearing before the courts where
by the causes of the arrest can be enquired in
to. They thus strike down the personal
liberty" of the white man.


But what is their position respecting the
black man. Their personal liberty" bills
which furnished food for the rebellion, and
which were and are unconstitutional-Aaes
personal liberty bills are still unrepealed.-
They give the black man the benefit of the
writ of habeas corpus-thcy secure the per-
son of "the niger from arbitrary arrest, but
say not one word about the arbitrary arrest
ofwhite men.


On the contrary, after having given the
black man the benefit of the great writ Of
habsas corpus, they now takeit away from the
white man.