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Year: 1868

We refer our readers elsewhere for an
account of the speech of Judge PERSON at
Whiteville. This gentleman is rendering
much service. His able speech in this city
will long be remembered as one of the
most elegant and telling speeches ever de-
hvered in WILMINGTON.
Year: 1868

For payment of interest alone, therefore,
we see the tax must, under the proposed
Constitution, be made more than THREE
TIMES LARGER, and even if the current ex-
penses should remain the same, that the
whole tax will be more than FOUR TIMES
heavier than last year. But under the pro-
posed Constitution the current expenses
will be far greater, as wilt appear from the
following estimate of increased expenses.
Common Schools for white children cost
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
before the war, half of which expense was
betrayed by the Literary Fund and the
other half by the counties. We think,
therefore, that five hundred thousand for
whites and blacks is very moderate esti-
mate of increase, as the Literary Fund being
destroyed, the whole expenditure now falls
on the State. The militia of reconstructed
Tennessee cost last year three hundred
thousand dollars. Holden's militia will not
cost less than BroWnlOW'S
Year: 1868

Taxation under the Proposed C Constitution.


We stated ii few days ago that the amount
of money to be raised by the impoverished
people of North Carolina, each year, to
meet the interest on her public debt under
the provisions of the proposed Constitu-
ton, would probably amount 10 one mil
lion two hundred thousand dollars.


Not having at tie time access to official
data, we preferred to go below rather than
above the mark. Since that time we have
read with earnest attention 4 series of ar
ticles called "Thoughts for the People, !"
published originally in the columns OF the
Raleigh Sentinel and since in our own, pre-
pared by different gentlemen thoroughly
familiar with the subjects discussed. We
beg leave to call the special attention Of
our people to these articles, and to bespeak
for them second and third careful perusal.
From the second number of this series, on
Taxation and Revenue (the best in the
series), we are enabled to give the figures
':.fr'ona official data, showing the amount of
interest money to be raised and also III
general terms showing what our expenses
will be under the new order of things. For
details we refer our readers to the original
article:
Year: 1868

The inquiry of Senator Edmunds,
asking the Secretary Of State TO re-
port what States have ratified the
Fourteenth Constitutional Amend
ment, will develop the interesting
and important fact that, with the
ratification of the amendment by the
State Of South Carolina, now pending,
that amendment will beDa part OF the,
Constitution of the United States


1t win be remembered that the last


Legislature Of New Jersey and Ohio
revoked their assent to the amendment
and called upon Me. Seward to return
their certificates of ratification, but
that officer declined TO comply, taking
the ground that the act was in itself
an irrevocable one, and must stand or
fall alone by the success or failure of
the requisite number of States to rat
ify the same after all had passed upon
Il. But independent Of the action
of these two States, the amendment
will be ratified within the next week
bv tho Legislatures Of Georgia and
Alabama, which will place It's valid
ity as par of the Constitution beyond
all question. This amendment settles
tho matter Of suffrago IN the South
ern States beyond the power of the
rebels to change it, even if they had
control Of the Government. Its po-
tent provision Is that where any por-
ton Of the citizens Of State are de-
MED the right Of suffrage for any
cause but crime, duly established, said
citizens shall not be counted in the
basis Of representation If, therefore,
South Carolina concludes TO return to
white mans Government, she no.
duces ber representation from five to
two - NdfioaHl Rddicdt
Year: 1868

Are made strong by the use of either of these rem
ed1es. They will cure every case Of MARASMUs
without fail.


Thousands Of certificates have accumulated n
the hands OF the proprietor, but space will allow
OF the publication OF but few. Those, 10 will be
observed. of note and of such standing that
they must be believed.
Year: 1868

And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
epon them with all its atte ndsnt Ills will find in
the use of this BlTTERS, or the TONIC an elixir
that Will iDstil life into their veins restore in
q measure the energy and ardor of more youthful
dsys, build mp their shrunken forrns and give
health and happiness TO their remaining years
Year: 1868

We yesterday saw a curiosity in the
shane Of buggy built by j. B Whitney,
of l72 Grand River street, under patent
granted to HIM January %, 1868, and
which is applicable to every descr pt'on
of wheeled vehicle, aud ia adapted TO
heavy as we'll as light work. To under
stand this fully one should see it, but to
a person conversant with mechanics, the
following description will give an idea ef
the plan of construction. There are no
axles, but short shaft of mandrel, made
fast in the hub, each shaft running in two
independent metal boxes, secured BY
proper fastening to framework Of wood
or iron, in the shape of a capital d, with
The addition of three light stay-bars run
ming across the d, thus making a very
neat, light, aud substantial gear. All the
weight of the load and strain Of draft is
,hrown upon the main Journal Of the hub,
securing at the same time hght but
strong and durable vehicle.-Defroff
Hni0u
Year: 1868

The sound Of your hammer says
Franklin at five in the morning or at
night heard by creditor, makes him
easy six months longer, but if be sees
You at tavern, when you should be
at work, he will send for his money
the next day
Year: 1868

Railroad accidents nowadays are invested
with new and horrible interest. In most OF
the later disasters a collision. misplaced
switch or broken rail is attended with the
destruction Of the train by fire. The terrible
scene at Angola IL still fresh In our recollec-
ton when q similar accident, fortunately
unattended with loss of life, is reported from
Ohio. The train struck broken rail, was
thrown of an embankment and set on fire by
the overturned stoves and broken kerosene
lamps. There Is not the slightest reason why
railroad companies should subject passengers
and their motive property to the danger of
fire. Stoves and kerosene lamps are entirely
unnecessary, for the cars may be heated by
steam or hot air pipes from the engine, and q
sufficient supply Of candles would be better
than dangerous fluid for lighting purposes.
These are obvious risks to travellers and
should be removed. If the legislatures of the
different States take the matter In their hands and
compel railroad companies to adopt the neces-
sary precautions against fre, which assumes
its most frightful aspect in railroad car,
there will be none of the Angola style o!
massacre to chronicle In disasters on railroads.
II Is bad enough to be smashed and ground
between cars in a collision or fall from a
precipioe without having the supplementary
horror Of being roasted TO death.
Year: 1868

The imperial government in France does
not appear to be getting into happier relations
with the press OF. the country. 1t is now
reforms which II was his intention TO introduce
on as early day as possible. The press,
according to the proposed arrangement was
to be placed on an entirely new footing and to
be comparatively free. |. il rather s;gnif-
cant circumstance that at time when Ii was
expected these reforms should become law
seventeen editors should have been arrested
and brought to trial, ten Of whom have since
been found guilty and condemned TO pay
fine Of one thousand francs, 10 be imprisoned
for six months and to bear the cost OF the legal
proceedings, for no higher offence than print
ing report of debate not taken down by
the government reporter. Such is liberty
under the empire BY cable despatch dated
January 80 we are Informed that the new
project of law for the government of the press
had been discussed in the Corps LegislatiE M.
Theirs had eloquently advised the concession
of further liberties and the removal from
the press Of absurd restrictions which had
proved the ruin OF many dynasties. NJ.
Pinard. who spoke in the name of the govern
ment, deprecated the granting Of further
liberties, and declared that French journalists
had, during the year which had elapsed since
the concessions we're promised. proved their
entire unftness for the liberty which their
friends wished to secure for them II may,
therefore. be taken for granted that for the
present the French press must continue in
bonds. If the French people will have a
Cesar they must content themselves with what
liberty Caesar is pleased TO give them.
Napoleon's fear of the journalists does not
augur well for the stability of the empire.
Year: 1868

The eleventh annual ball Of the New York Caledonian
Club came OF last night at Irving Hail II was acomplete
in evory senso Of the word largo number Of
invited guests from the different cities throughout the
country present the OCCASION and very many OF
tho officers the European line OF steamers now In port
took part in the festivities The room was Handsomely
decorated with the national colors and at the upper emu OF


the hall the old Scottish hag-a rampant lion on white
ded-occupicd prominent position me standard
Of the Caedonan Club backed by the standard OF 81
Andrew, hung immediately opposite 10 u At the lower
end OF ths ballroom The company, although large,
very fashionable yet plads seemed to predomnate
among the toilets Of ades The members OF the ciuo
appeared in full costume and presented exceedingly
handsome appearance viewed from tho balcony. There
very many ladies' and gentlemen in the galleries
and 10 the private boxes who we're present merely as
spectators who took no part in the dancing which
was commenced early in the evening and continued
until an early hour Ia the morning, wnen sii returned
10 their homes well satisfied with their nights pleasure
al the eleventh annual ball OF tho Calsdonan Club.
Year: 1868

INrERNArIoSAL CoPYRIGHr.-The meeting
which took place on Thursday evening at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel calls our attention once
more to the vsxed question of international
copyright We wish the International Copy
right Association all success and promise
them every encouragement The present sys-
tenn is no advantage to the American people,
but the reverse. To class of publishers IL Is
certainly an advantage, but 1t is The advantage
of the thief To the public, however, and 10
literary men in particular, 1t is a great and
crying evil. American literary men will never
be able succ ess fully to compete with the
literary men Of other nations until some inter-
national copyright system is established.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Stevens has reported bill from the
Committee on Appropriations TO provide for
the expenses Of the different branches OF the
civil department of government for the fiscal
year ending June, 1869. The total amount is
little over seventeen millions. The Commit
tee has reduced the original estimates six
millions As Congress is making great fuss
about the expenses of the State Department, 1t
may be well to notice that the whole amount
of appropriation called for is only one
hundred and eghty-nine thousand dollars.
This is a very moderate sum for such an
important department of great nation.
Congress might complain with reason Of some
other expenses altogether out Of proportion to
the service rendered. For example, one
million two hundred and seventy-one thou
sand dollars for public printing is too large a
sum, and evidently carries some big jobs with
IL. But six millions one hundred thousand
Year: 1868

dollars for the service of the Internal Revenue
4 eaormoss- Witt proper systsn Propssly
managed half thas amount ought % be sum
cient. What an army Of ofacshoiders there
must be TO require over six millions TO pay
them Yet the Internal Revenue Department
is SO badly managed that the government loses
hundreds Of millions by frauds In fact, IL is
the cumbrous machinery and the innumerable
ofaceholders that lead to these frauds. As
soon as we get the country restored to peace
and the excitement of the Presidential election
is over one of the first things Congress should
do is to thoroughly reorganize our internal
revenue system, so as to make it less expen-
sive, less oppressive, less subject to frauds and
comparatively more productive.
Year: 1868

Rivers.


II appears that whatever differences existed
between the citizens of st. Louis concerning
the building ofa bridge across the Mississippi
are settled, and there is now every likelihood
that the great,Father of Waters will soon be
spanned and Missouri united to Illinois. Now,
If the vast body Of water which rolls between
St Louis and Tlinoistown can be bridged,
what is to prevent us from bridging the mar
row stream that flows between New York and
Brooklyn at Fulton ferryg The bridge over
the Ohio at Cincinnati is more extensive
work and was fraught with more difficulties
than any structure which might be required to
cross the East river, and the latter would be
a triae compared with such bridge as must
be built over the Mississippi at st. Louis. If
all the peddling and squabbling were put an
end to and few enterprising individuals
would take The matter in hand we would have
bridge to Brooklyn in two years. We will
not now dilate upon The advantages of the
structure TO both cities, for they arc palpable
Year: 1868

enough. The West is going far ahead Of US in
facilitating the modes Of oemmHnioatisa be-
tween various important points, and enterprise
there is not deferred by dinaculty or expense.
The fact is that, in order to keep up with the
spirit of the age, Manhattan Island and Long
Island should have been joined years ago.
They are just as much part Of one city as the
Surrey side is part Of London.
Year: 1868

The INFLUENCE OF WIFE.-A iudicious
wife is always shipping off from her hus


bands moral nature little twigs that are
growing in wrong directions. She keeps
him in shape by continual pruning. If you
say anything silly she will afectionately tell
you SO. If you declare that you will do
some absurd thing. she will find means of
preventing your doing it. And by far the
chief part of all the common sense there is
in this world belongs unquestionably to
women. The wisest things man commonly
does are those which hiswife counsels him to
do. A wife is the grand wielder of the moral
pruning knife. If Johnsoa's wife had lived.
there would have been TO boarding up Of
orange peel-no touching all the posts in
walking along the streets-no eating and
drinking with a disgusting yoracity. Ii
Oliver Goldsmith had been married. he
would never bave worn that memorable and
ridiculous coat. Whenever you find a man
whom You know little about, odlly dressed.
or talk absurdly, or exhibiting any eccentric
ity of manner, you may be tolerably sure
that he is not married man; for the cor
ners are not rounded off the little shoots
are pruncd away-in married men. Wives
generally have much more sense than their
husbands, especially when their husbands
are clever men. The wife's advices are like
the ballast that keeps the ship steady they
are the wholesome, though painful shears,
shipping Oft little growths of selfconceit.
Year: 1868

Captain Rogers, while in Africa. accented
the invitation of brother officer. in totally
different part of the country, to try few
days hostlllties against the elephants of
that heighborhood, and had arrived after a
Gays sport, within a mile or two of the
bungalow, where his host and hostess were
Wa!ung his arrival; when passing by a
ehghttally coo-looking river, he thought
that plunge would be the most renovating
luxury IN existence, so a plunge he deter.
mined to take, sending on his servants with
his guns, and an intimation that in ten min
utes he would arrive at dinner.


80 stripping and placing his things very
carefully upon stone, he began to luxuriate
In the water. lie was a capital swimmer,
and had swan some distance when, to his
horror and disnay, on looking to the place
where be had left his habiliments, he per-
celyed dozen monkeys over hauling his
entire wardrobe.


One was putting his legs through the
sleeves of his shirt; another was cramipg
his head into his trowsers ; another was
trying TO find if any treasure was concealed in
his boots while his hat formed a sort of
wonderment and amusement to some two or
three others, who were endeavoring to rn.
ravel the mystery by ripping the lining. and
taking half dozen bites ont of the brim.


As soon as he had gained his mental
equilibrium (for the thing was so ridiculous
as to make him laugh heartily, notwithstand-
ing his disgust at seeing his garments turned
to such =" vile purposes lie made with all
haste toward the shore; but judge of his
horror when he saw these 8" pre- cious rascals''
each catch up what he could lay hold of, and
rattle Of at full speed into the Jungle, not
leaving poor Rogers even tho vestige of au
article Of raiment with which to cover him
self


All that he heard was the glorious chat.
tering as they one by one disappeared, the
last Juggling of his shirt, which, being rather
awkward to carry, was continually tyipping
him up by getting between his legs.


lie was pretty pickle for a Christian
under boiling sun and here he STAYED
until the inmates OF the Bungalow, beginning
to suspect some accident, came out in search,
and found poor Rogers sitting up to his neck!
IN water, IN frame Of body and mind which.
We may conclude to DO =" more easily imag.
ined than described
Year: 1868

The New Albany (Indiana) Ledger vouches
for the truth of some of the statements in
the following story-how many it does not
say


A well-to-do man of that city had neevish
wife, who at length became crazy and par
tally paralyzed. One evening she fell into
the fire, and her husband, who had become
tired Of her, refused to help her up, telling
her to get up herself. She was badly burn
ed and soon died. In less then year he
married a young lady under Is wears of age.
The new wife knew nothing of the woes of
her predecessor, but as she was sitting one
evening in the room occupied bv the first
wife, and gazing on the fire place into which
the deceased had fallen, there rose before
her the form of a woman, clothed in the
habilments of the grave, with the scar of a
burn upon her neck and shoulder The ghost,
spirit or whatever it was, spoke not word
but with its fleshless hand pointed first to
the scar upon its neck and shoulder and then
to the smouldering fire upon the hearth of
the young brides chamber. She was so
overcome by fear that she could neither cry
for help nor flee the hated spot. While she
sat in this helpless condition the object van
ished, and she was alone again. Soon as
she was fully recovered from her fright she
left the room, not to return again, except in
the company of her husband. She told him
of the strange and frightful object which
had appeared to her, but he laughed at it
and pronounced it delusion and his wife
coward. Together they went into the room
and took their seats by the fire, the wife
insisted she was not misunderstanding
did make its appearance in the room, but
husband still laughed and doubted. Not
long, however. did he laugh and doubt, for,
in the twinkling of an eye, the form again
appeared, painfully distinct in form and
feature. The husband doubted no more
fear froze his very blood he was motionless.
speechess, helpless, unconscious. until his
bride seized his arm and in her terror
screamed, "who is it" All this time the
form stood before them, pointing first to the
fire-then it vanished, and, as it vanished,
the miserable man exclaimed, as if in an
swer to his wife's question. 1T is Mary's
ghost ?' MARY was the name of his first
wife, His new wife began to enquire how
his first wife was treated, and soon learned
the story. She wrote her father, who lived
near to this city. all the facts. and asked his
advice. He told her to come back home,
and it is thought she will do SO, though efforts
are being made to hush the matter up. In
the meantime the husband is anxious to sell
his 6 haunted house."
Year: 1868

How PRIEST STOPPED FIGHT.-An
English paper, the Hexham Courier, tells
this story:


The Rev. Father Flint, of Belingham,
acts. it appears, the part of peacemaker" in
n double sense. On Thursday last we are
informed, as the reverend gentleman was
coming down the main street of that place.
he came accidentally upon an Irish row, in
which brace of pugilistic encounters were
progressing rather warmly at the same time.
Finding remonstrances Intellectual in putting
a stop to the mills" the priest went in
search of policeman, but the Bobby being
absent, as usual in such emergencies, Father
Flint borrowed the insignia of authority, the
staff, and returned hastily to the spot where
the fights were still proceeding with the most
ardent enthusiasm, and finding his powers of
moral suasion still contemned, he adopted the
more forcible argument of planting vigor
Gus and well directed thwack on the nut, y
of the most sturdy antagonist of each pair,
dropping two of his doves in the most
approved fashion of police tactics, and chas-
ing another of the combatants considerable
distance from the field, effectually putting an
end to the sport. Such was the energy of
the reverend gentleman's movements in the
last blow that he broke not only Pats head,
but also the policeman's truncheon so there
was assuredly no hattery in the compliment.
All honor, say we, to Father Flint
Year: 1868

GREAsING WAGoNs.-But few people are
aware that they do wagons and carriages
more injury by greasing too plentifully than
in any other way. A well made wheel will
endure common wear from ten to twenty-five
years, if care is taken to use the right kind
and the proper amount of grease but if this
matter is not attended to, they will be used
up in five or six years Lard should never
be used on a wagon, for it will penetrate the
hub and work its way out around the tenas
of the spoke, and spoil the wheel. Tallow is
the best lubricator for wood axletrees, and
castor oil for iron. just enough grease
should be applied to the spindle of the wag-
on to give it slight coating this is better
than more, for the surplus put on will work
out at the ends, and be forced out bv the
shoulder bands and nut washes into the hub
around the outside of the boxes. To oil an
axlet!ee, first wipe the spindle clean with
cloth wet with spirits of turpentine, and
then apply few drops of castor oil near the
shoulder and end. One teaspoonful is suff.
cient for the whole.
Year: 1868

AN ADRoIT HUsBAND.-A gentleman who
was whirling his buxom partner through the
figures of a dance, short time ago, at a
Teutonic ball. when friend whispered to
him that his wife was at the door inquiring
for him. He handed his lady to seat,
escaped through the back door and ran home
When bis wife returned she found her truant
lord seated at the table in dressing gown and
slippers. demurely perusing the pages of the
prayer book His wife (dear little innocentl
was satisfied that she had been misinformed
of his whereabouts.