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Year: 1869

Elk up as nice as you can, for we are
having a new shirt made and have got a
new hat. We are now trying to get Stone
here to make a speech-you know he has
one already Raleigh Standard address
ing the 'Chronicle.'l -.',...--. .... i-


elk upn you say! How in the thunder
can we do it when ou trunks lost on the
Danyille Railroad 2-MiltOn Chronicle .


From the above we infer that our esteem
ed cotemporary has become q earpst-bagger
Gracious evans, can it be! However, if you
hare lost your trunk you haven't lost your
head, and can partake of feast of reason and
flow of bowl. So, come, along and well
divide wardrobes with you. Being some
what broad across the shoulders our coats
would fit you the most of any you ever wore
and the pants would be frst-rate for you tt
carry home agricultural specimens In
Year: 1869

We have been appointed one of the judges
of fruit at the State Fair next month, and
are glad Of it, as we are anxious to see a
Pike that will weigh $50 lbs. Greensboro
Patriot. .F-


All right, come along and well show you
one that weighs 1S0 and cooked with cham
pagne sauce. How well you can see after
looking while, wen not venture to guess.
Bring that horn along and we'll fill it.
Year: 1869

A vegetable war is to be commenced by
the papers in this State. The Sentinel thinks
cabbage heads are plenty in the STANDARD
office, while we know that that sheet is run
by dead beets. Y Also, strange to relate
that said beets are 4small potatoes" and few
in Hill. This is the first turn-up of the
vegetable wal, and we think we have squash
ed the pumpkin head of the Sentinel. i .
Year: 1869

ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM THE PEN1TEN-
TIARr.-On Monday evening while police
man Charters was standing on the corner of
Canal and First streets he saw man fall
over the penitentiary wall to the ground
beneath, distance of nearly twenty feet.
In company with policemen Orange and
Barefoot, he repaired to the spot and found
negro convict lying upon the ground,
seemingly badly injured. They picked
him up and carried him into the peniten-
tiary, where no one knew anything about
the attempt to escape. It was found that
a ladder had been placed against wall
from the inside, and that several others
were to have followed the negro, among
them the garroter Wilson. The injured man
had his thigh badly broken, besides being
injured otherwise.
Year: 1869

CoRRECTION.-We were led in our ycstcr-
days issue into the error of naming Pat.
Jackson IS the faithful servant of the late
Colonel August. Patrick Henry Byrd is
the one alluded to.


The Evcning Nc,rS of yesterday says !:
The Dispatch Of this morning docs an
unintentional injustice to Patrick Henry
Byrd, the faithful servant of the late Col
oncl August, whose name is incorrectly
given rs Pat. Jackson. The constant pa
ticnt, and unwcarying devotion of Pat. to
Colonel August, and the warm, reciprocal
attachment of that rarely noble gentleman,
so touchingly displayed in his last hour,
have created tender tie between the
friends of the deceased and his late servant.
For nearly month past, almost without
rest by day or night, this colored man, with
an unsurpassed fidelity and tender atfec-
ton which would have done honor to n
nature trained under the most refining and
elevating influences, was an anxious attend
ant at the bedside of him whose loss he now
mourns as irrcparable."
Year: 1869

LErGH-SrREET PIc-NIc.-One of the most
pleasant pic-nics of the season was held on
Monday last by the school of the Leigh
Street Baptist church. In accordance with
previous arrangement, not less than nine
hundred persons assembled at the steam
boat landing about sunrise, only to be In
formed that the boat which had been char
tered to take them to Curtis landing had
Just become unfit for service by an acci-
dent. They then marched in procession to
the York River Railroad depot and secured
train of cars, which, in q few hours,
landed the party at West Point, where all
passed off pleasantly. With quite an ex-
tended experience in such matters, we can
truly say that we have never seen more
ample accommodations or happier COM
pany on such an occasion. The occasion
will be long remembered, and those who
participated in it will be glad to 60 again.
Year: 1869

SUNDAY ExCURsIoNs.-Theg great success
which has attended the Sunday excursions
from this city to Petersburg and Norfolk
has excited the indignation Of the religious
members of our community, and severe at
tacks orc being made upon them from the
pulpit. Despite this, however, ve learn
they ore to be kept up until the novelty of
the thing wears off, and the unrighteous see
fit to seek some other mode of passing the
Sabbath
Year: 1869

To RE Put TO WoRK.-The superin-
tendent of the peuitentiary advertises for
basket timber. The institution over which
he presides is now pretty we'll filled up,
and knowing state of inaction is good
neither for the mental or physical condi-
ton of his prisoners, he is determined to
put some of them to work. Should this eX-
pertinent succeed, he will enlarge his bust
ness, and 90 into several other kinds of
c,,ol IL 1rnrl-
Year: 1869

We notice large cargo of superior red ASA
anthracite coal in the Dock dlscharging Tor
Mess-s. Jones & Brooke. These cntcrprislne
Young gentlemen are sole agents for the sale o. the
Dover coal and Carbon Hill soft coke--tAe former
very Justly celebrated rs superior crate fuel, the
latter as the best cooking fuel In our market anu
Is becoming very popular for Latrobe stoves. They
deal in Glover Hill as we'll as anthracite coal. and
wood of all kinds. We would advise the public 10
give them n call 1T their yard, Oh Sixth strcct near
Year: 1869

We would call the attention of strangers visiting
the city large and varied assortment of choice
CLOTHING to be found at BALDwIS'S, corner OF
Tenth and Main streets. This Is an old house,
having been in business here over thirty years and
what they represent rs good and cheap can be re-
lied on. Call and see them If you wish anything
In their line, and you will be plcaSe3.
Year: 1869

TIE Washington Chronicle says Even
Chief Justice Chase is not making much
Roadway down South as candidate Tor
the next Presidency, he at least is getting
off some queer opinions. His last, that
the statue OF limitations runs against the
government as we'll as iDdiviauals, will
startle most of our Judges, and cause
them to review the accepted law for a
century back 1t is needless to say that
the government departments are thrown
into bewilderment and confusion on ae>
count Of rendering SO fatty opposed to
their long established constructions.
Year: 1869

lifetime in the former State and represented IL for
several sessions In Congress.


conversational way commune with those present
on the advantages offered by the South 10 emigra-
AZ ro% cn bere tSe nrice ~


land has risen too high The Information which
Mr Fuller has received must be unfounde0.
,Lney IN the south had lost al except their
lands. They have no future before them put
IN the increase In the value OF these lands that can
Sg tae a Fl o
II IL therefore their interest to offer every induce
ment TO and invite immigration. instead OF repelling
II. dovernor Wise was known as q man OF ex-


IRENE opinions on the Southern side during the war,
anu anu ne tie speaker had asked him what his teel-
ernor replied, 60 tell them to come and God bless
tnem Tor coming" There may be individual In
snnces s, where rancorous feeng Is expressed, but


m.n nnineteen-twen.ieths Of the Southern people al
the aninosties OF the war are buried. They fought
tne nght US best they could they believed 1t honestly
common accord, they are all determined to show by
tneir acts that they are henceforth and forever
o%ar aba s.t o. common country Those who
spar had left the country have returned to the LAND
which was the grave OF their ancestors and will be
the nome 0f thelr children; and whatever complaints
they may have against measures OF administration,
they believe the sytem Of government to be the pest
make themselves specially Odious, as he knew case
where late Confederate officer visited the house OF
Are Freedmen's & Bureau agent, and, on leaving the
had never before contained SO much spoiled meat.
or course in the nOn-reconstructed States il could
not be expected that the military officers OF the gov
ernment would be regarded with peculiar affection.
There was no feeling OF equality between the citizen
and the military; the one was the subject and the
other the ruler and hence there could be cordial
ity between them.


The hour for adjournment having arrived It was
agreed that that subject should be further discussed
at the next meeting OF the Club. After few words
from DR.. De Leon-t0 the same purport as those OF
General Cabral-General Imboden thanked the
Club for the courtesy they thus extended to him. and
stated that he would write to a number OF Northern
men VINO have lately sealed in various parts OF
Virginia and read their answers at the next meet
ing. And he was, he SAID more encouraged In this
by an event which had lately happened. The man
who alone among men possesses the full reverence
OF the Southern people met with President Grant.
at the latter's invitation, in te White House-the
two representative men OF the two sections. He
considered this Of greater importance for the future
OF the country than anything that had happened since
they laid down their arms at AppOmattOx, and he
hoped that the people the North would initiate their
President Mr. Carpenter expressed the thanks Of
all present to the gentlemen from the South who had
thus acceptaDly spoken and explained the condition
OF sentiment among their people, and then the Club
adjourned.
Year: 1869

THE WEATHER YEsTERDAY.-The following record
will show the changes IN the temperature for the
past twenty-four hours In comparison with the cor
responding day OF last year, as indicated by the
thermometer at Hudnuts pharmacy, HERALD Build
ing, broadway. corner on Ann street,
Year: 1869

A practical mechanic sends us
the following, with request that
we publish it for the benefit OF the
public:


To any quantity Of glue use
common whisky instead of water.
Put both together in bottle, cork
it tight, and put it away for three
or four days, when it will be I'll
for use, except in very cold wealth
er, when it should be set in warm
water before using. To obViate
the difficulty for the stopper get
ting tight by the glue drying IL
the mouth Of the vessel, use g
tin vessel with the cover fitting
tight on the outside, to prevent
tue escape of the spirits by evapo.
ration. A strong solution of isin.
glass, made in the same manner,
is a very excellent cement for leath-
or.
Year: 1869

Though most farmers keep fowls,
and raise their own eggs, there
are many who have not learned
the difference there is in the rich
ness and flavor of eggs produced
by well-fed hens and those from
birds that have been halfstarved
through our winters. There will
be some difference in the size, but
far more in the quality. The yolk
of one would be large, fine colored,
and of good substance, and the al
bumen, or white, clear aud pure ;
while the contents of the other
will be watery, as if the parent
fowl had failed to properly carry
out and complete the work nature
had sketched. In order, therefore,
to have good eggs the fowls should
be well fed, and also provided du-
ring the months they are unable
to come to the ground, with a box
containing an abundance of fine
gravel, that they may be able to
grind and prepare their food for
digestion. Ofeggs, those from the
domestic hen are decidedly the
best but those Of ducks and geese
may be used for some of the purpo-
ses of domestic cookery.
Year: 1869

CURE FOR IN-GRowING NAILS
1t is stated that cauterization by
hot talIow is an immediate cure
for ingrowing nails. Put a small
piece of tallow in a spoon, and
heat it over a lamp until it be-
comes very hot, and drop two oil
three drops between the nail and
granulations. The effect is almost
magical. Pain and tenderness are
at once relieved, and in a few days
the granulations all go, leaving
the diseased parts dry, and desti
tute of all feeling, SO as to admit
of being pared away without any
inconvenience. The operation cauS
es little if any pain, if the talloW
is properly heated.
Year: 1869

"The times are so hard l can
hardly manage to keep my head
above water" said a husband the
other day to his wife who was i'm
portuning him for a new dress
mo, /" she replied, with some as
perity, "but you manage to keep
it above brandy and water easy
enough"
Year: 1869

A young married lady of St.
Louis, having occasion to leave
home for a few days, placed about
one hundred dollars worth of Jew
elry in the stove, thinking it
the safest place to hide it during
her absence. Monday morning
last she returned home and the
servant made fire in the stove.
Before the lady remembered
that her jewelry was there, it was
completely destroyed by fire as
jewelry, and only good as gold.
Year: 1869

Quite recently an Iowa hog mer-
chant bought on the strength OF a
dispatch from Chicago, which er-
roneously gave the price of dressed
hogs as the price of live hogs
He lost money, sued the telegraph
company and recovered the amount
Year: 1869

The vARIAN TREE.-The veteran tree planted by
member OF the old Huguenot yaran family. on
Broadway, opposite what is now known as l,15l
Broadway Is gradually falling before the axes OF tho
men employed unuer the direction OF superintendent
Ward or the Bureau Of Lands and Places. Last
night its last branch razed to the ground before
the workmen knocked on. The trunk, which still
ing, and by daylight not yestge oil the veteran
will remain.


CENTRAL OFFICE QUIErUDE.-The contrast be-
tween the Central Police ONCE on Tuesday and
last nights was most remarkable. On the former
occasion the building was thronged by eager appli.
cants for returns or the election and the rooms OF
the superintendent were crammed by the ready
writers OF tho press Last night IL was entirely
deserted except by Inspector Walling, who Is
seriously indisposed from laborious work; the vet
eran detectives Tieman and Nevins, the detail from
the Broadway squad and the reporters Of the press
There were few business calls and In every instance
the Inspector and Kesos deputies were prompt to
impart information or render assistance.
Year: 1869

MR.. EDITOR ask the favor of a small space
In your columns to enter protest against one
OF the nufsances that is permitted IN our streets
"from the rising Of the sun even unto the
trnmpets Of the oystermen. They are not only
unpleasant TO every ear, but they are the cause
OF vast amount Of annoyance and misch hief
infant children We know must have much
sleep through the day, and / have the daily
complaint through q fatigued mother that al.
most as soon as she succeeds In getting her
child to sleep 1t is awakened by one Of these
norns blown under her window. They ara the
cause of serious barn to the sick. whether
young or old, either by shocking the nervous
system when awake, or by arousing them from
sleep that Is absolutely necessary for them
Will not our city authorities put q stop to the
nuisance? The oystermen can sell as many
oysters without as with this wretched noise


AN OLD PHYSICIAN.
Year: 1869

IMMEDIATELY upon going into executive ses-
SION this morning the Senate took mp he natu-
ralizatOL treaty with Belgium, upon which a
favorable report was made by the Committee
On Foreign Relations.
Year: 1869

THE several Executive Departments of the
Government were crowded to-day with Sena-
tors and Representatives who are looking after
the various appointments for their respective
districts, and are anxious to have the same
determined upon as soon as possible, in order
ttat thew may leave for their homes
Year: 1869

BY I'll. ADIoUENsKST many bills are lost
for the time and among them the explanatory
eight-hour act regarding labor for the goveru-
ment The bill 10 pay the Southern Senator's
for the whole of last session of Congress also
failed The resolution TO revive tue New York
naturalization committee also died, as likewise
did both the House and Senate bills to remove
political disabilities, and the bill for a more
equal distribution Of national hank currercy
The House resolution of sympathy with Cuba
Jailed TO get through the Senate.
Year: 1869

''In do it, now" and with trembling fingers he
undid the casp-then letting it drop from his
hands as if it had been serpent, exclaimed: mo
III not fight you. Take him away some one-take
him away, for Gods sake


'Not fight. Then you will die like dog, and
Whiteman raised his weapon and motioned for the
word to be given.


1t was sometime, however, before his request
was complied with. The sinewy frame of the
gambler trembled like dry leaf in the autumn
wind; all the color had left his face; his lips were
like ashes; his pistol was pointed muzzle down.
wards, and shook in his hands. At length he sue
ceeded, by mighty effort, in calming himself
He braced his nerves-glared wildly around-and
with all the calmness of despair, stood upon his
ground.


'Are you ready7 Both ready?' was asked.


eyes, came simultaneously from two pair of
lips"


Observation-Disclosures!


The report of the pistols cut the last word IN
twain. The seconds rushed forward and lifted the
men up again, for both had fallen. One, however,
would never breathe again. Luke Bouton had
fought his last duel-had gone to his final account
with his heart bullet-cleft Whiteman, too, was
dangerously wounded. With his breath bubbling
forth through blood, he called the Ranger to him
and asked him for the miniature. 1t was given
him-the fair face of young man. He covered
it with bloody fingers; whispered, bury it with me-
and he too ceased to live.


With fearful eyes that form was prepared tor
the grave the Ranger insisted that his promise to
the dead should be fulfilled to the letter. But all
were satisfied that he who called himself White
man was young woman. And years later they
found clue to the mystery. 1t was wife who
had then revenged the murder of her husband; ;
murdered for saving her from dishonor. From
bloody grave in the chappara, she had gone to join
him she loved so well, in the land that lies beyond
the dark river.


Was her last act one Of sin? 1t is not for US to
Judge of such thing We know nothing of the
maddened heart and insane brain; know nothing
of the long days and longer nights Of suffering;
nothing of how we would have acted under such
circumstances. Better leave judgment to Him
who can read both the mind and the heart and
whose will directed the avenging bullet. None
other is without sin, and who will dare to cast the
first stone? .
Year: 1869

In the Nineteenth Ward, bordering on the East
River can be seen avery neat little twostory frame
house. covering almost an entire square, surround
ed by beautiful garden, the occupant and owner
of which, though German, is what we call one of
the selfmadc men of New York, and ranks among
the wealthiest. Though man of little or no edu-
cation, it would make ones blood run cold to listen
to his daring exploits, and the many adventures
that he has passed through under the streets Of
our city, Some fifteen years ago he landed in this
country, perfect stranger, and with but little
money. This, he had the pleasing satisfaction, if
such we may call it, of being robbed Of on his very
first night in the city, at German boarding house
in Greenwich street. His vocation at home was
that of night scavenger, and he was not long in
procuring a situation in the same business in this
city. For five years he followed the same as an
employee, which enabled him to save considerable
money. During the time, he had frequently found
many yaluabes and so persistently were applica-
tions made to search for lost property that he con-


ceved the idea Of working the sewers of our streets
in its search. He had also become quite accus-
toned to sewers, as he had frequently been COM
PEELED to clean them out, and was as much at home


in these narrow and filthy passage ways as upon
the streets. The leading contractors in the above
business found him so valuable and so daring an
explorer that they were continually calling his SER


vices into requisition. There is hardly sewer on
the island in which he has not been and he SEEM
ed to take great interest in watching the building
of new sewers and drains. He knows their size,


length, and every turn and crook, their inlets and
outlets, and claims to have many haunts below the
ground, where, by the force of water, valuables
that are lost are sure to settle ere they can be


ried out into the river. 1t will be remembered it
was few weeks ago that man was arrested in
Hoboken with quite number of valuable articles
in basket, and it was discovered that he had got
them out of the sewers Of New York. Now many
Year: 1869

SELF-MADE MEN.-We do not wonder that
great men have been born mechanics; for those
who have been brought up exclusively in drawing
rooms, intelligence is game, a recreation; for
those who have held the sword or the helm, who
have driven the plow or worked with the chisel,
intelligence becomes passion, a force, beauty, a
worship, and love divine. 1t is from the stall,
the shop, the work-room, that the most powerful
minds have issued Moliere from the uphosterer's s.,
Burns from the farmers, Shakespeare from the ho-
sier's shop, Rousseau from the wheelwright's- s.
long engaged in a struggle with physical nature,
they all took refuge in the free domain of thought
Even an inferior mind would soon become temper
ed to strength in these mechanical apprentceships;
and if ever the spirit of reform which has seized
on the world should extend to the act creating cit
liens, We doubt not that good sense will gain a
victory over custom, and that one of the most i'm
portant parts of every education will be henceforth
the due admixture of the developmentof the mind
and its action on nature.
Year: 1869

The Intelligencer has discovered 6
mOnstrous mares nest. II has ascer


tanned that the REGISTER favors negro
suffrage. This is the more remarkable
in that the editors of the latter paper
never dreamed this to be true until in
formed by the Inteliigenoer of yesterday


Our cotemporary jumps to conclusions
rather rapidly. The Point Point Pleas
ant Register said in substance that mas
much as steps had been taken to enfran-
chise the blacks, the disfranchised reb-
els of our State ought to be admitted to
the ballot. So say we. That paper
opposed Negro suffrage; so do We. But
when our Radical Legislature acted
upon the matter and gave West Vir-
ginia's CONSENT to the enfranchisement of
the blacks, the Point Pleasant Register
thought the remainder of our disfran-
chised people, viz: the rebels, ought to
receive at least as much consideration


at the hands Of the Legislature as the
negroes. Therein we agree. But that
this commits US to the support of negro
suffrage is a view that could be reached
by nobody but the IntelligeHoer man.
For his vagaries we are not responsible
Year: 1869

1t is whispered in Washington that
Mrs. Grant is in that interesting condi.
tion In which ladies who love their
lolds delight to be, and will add another
heir 10 the hOnors of the house of Grant,
another olive branch at his table, and q
little arrow to his qniver. That ubiqit-
Gus court journal, the New York Herald,
has delicately prepared the public miud
fer the event by mysterious allusion
to the lady's health; and as she will be
the first Presidents wife who has ever
given birth to a child in the White
House, the occasion will doubtless be
the cause of honest rejoicing among all
of the people who voted for the happy
father that is to be, who will lie per
fectly satisfied in their own minds that
"the nation" will owe this auspicious
event to the fact of their having been
original Grant men. If a boy, the COM
ing young man, being bona .fde orig
inal Grant boy, should be Immediately
appointed to some Office in order not to
interfere with the time honored custom
of the family. 1t will not be necessary
for him to do the duties of his Office.
His pa can publish an order relieving
him and let him draw his pay.-LoUiS-
rille Journal.