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Year: 1867

The second session of the North German
Parliament will commence in Berlin on the
eth of August. As the Prussian Government
has recently issued number of unpopular
DEGREES, and as the split among the Liberals
has to some extent been compromised, it is
hoped that the Liberal party will this time be
more successful than at the previous election.
At convention of prominent men of the
Liberal party of all the South German States
held at Stuttgardt yesterday, resolutions were
adopted urging the South German States to
unite with the North German Confederation.
Year: 1867

The World is indignant that the election in
Kentucky should be called Rebel victory,
and argues that the State never joined the Con-
federacy. Butts it ignorant that Kentucky was
Rebel recruiting ground, and that thousands
of Kentuckians, who now vote, were disfran-
chised for their treasOn9 Is it ignorant that
the real Democratic party in that State is n
separate organization, and that no man was
elected last Monday except those who were
VIGOROUSLY in sympathy with the Rebellion ?
Is it ignorant that the Rebel Gen. Preston was
the first choice of the triumphant party and
that Mr.. Helm was nominated because of the
Year: 1867

The constitutiOnality of the Board Of Audit
was argued before Judge Barnard in Chambers
on Tuesday, on motion to make perpetual the
injunction already granted against them. To
say nothing of the legal question of constitu-
tionahty, there is one objection TO the Board
which seems to us very serious: tho city has
no appeal from their decisions, while the claim
ants have All of the Sa,0Oo,OOO of claims which
they sec fit to allow must be paid without FUR
ther demur; but for those which they throw
out the city will still be liable to expensive
suits at law
Year: 1867

average, or common depth, oi about
ten feet, and ON the bars about two,
Ono bar of about four miles across
and one ofubout tourhundrcd yards,
Many places however besides the
bars are much less than ten feet
These obsticlcs taken in connection
with the narrow channel Of the
Bayou, that would barely admit Of
the passage II two steam ships ut
any point, would almost force any
one, but the energetic and enter
prising citizens of Houston, to the
conclusion, that it is impossible to
make n roadstead and harbor here
sufficient for the great ships Of IN
importing trade. But Houston has
been made by the enterprise and
energy of the very men who are
pow contemplating this great i'm
provment, aad perhaps, the same
spirit, together with the accumu-
lated capital they can command may
enable them to overcome all these
difficulties. They have secured n
line direct to New Orleans for travel
and reduced the fare to eight dollars,
That is very cheap and will subscrvc
the purpose of large portion of the
travel east, They have direct
navigation line to New York and
goods may now be shipped to Milli-
can without any expense of reship-
mont either at Galveston or Hous-
ton. This seems to be very gene
rous, as it is an enterprise Of llous-
ton, and they pass the freight to
Millican without wariage, storage
or drayage here.


The people of Houston deserve
much at the hands Of those who
trade from the interior of the State,
and with equal chances she will get
their patronage.


| have had the honor ofconversing
with many intelligent citizens of
Houston and other portions of the
State on the subject Of the Military
Bill and the supplement- thereto and
all seem to be of one mind and that
is to accept it and make the best of
it we can. Let us have peace and
restoration, they say, and then try to
work through and correct what we
do not like otter we have secured
our place in the Union and in Con
gress. / am confident that inditlcr-
ance and defiance on our part will
work our ruin as in Missouri and in
Tennessee. We must enter into it
and do what we can to conduct it
through in the best way possible to
preserve our interests.


Yours, &.
Year: 1867

The late cold weather has caused
great destruction Of stock. This
should admonish our farmers and
stock raisers to sell off n portion of
thoir stock aud use the proceeds Of
the same in the improvement of
their farms and in procuring the
necessary comforts of life and in
making preparations to feed their
stock when such cold spells como.


We have long since been Of the
opinion that it would be better for
our country if tho stock raising
business would to some extent, go
down. Many persons would then
be compelled to turn their attention
to the Industrial pursuits Of life,
who are nGw prowling over tho
country on half staavcd mustang
ponys in their unciviIizcd appear
ancc, living an indoIcnt life, which
always leads to vicc.-Boneam NeN&.
Year: 1867

INTERESTING CONCERNING VOLUNTARY
BANKRuPrs-An important decision affect
ing the status of voluntary bankrupts was
rendered ON Wednesday in the United States
District Court at New York, by Judge
Blatchford, 1t appears that one Charles
G. Patterson, after filing his petition in
bankruptcy, borrowed $4,000. When he
was examined before the registrar the cred
itors on his schedule questioned him about
the loan. and he declined to answer on the
ground that they had no right to inquire
about property acquired by him after the
commencement of the proceedings in the
matter of his bankruptcy. The registrar.
however. overruled the objection, and the
question was certified to Judge Blatchford.
In the course Of Il very elaborate opinion,
covering the whole ground his Honor holds
that when an adjudication is made, the
following the filing of Il petition then it is
judiciously established that the proceedings
in the case commenced when the petition
was filed The date of such salaries then
become the date from which the assignee
takes all the property of the bankrupt, which
was his property at that date. Such date
also becomes the date at which the debt
must be due or exist in order to be provable.
Such date also becomes the date ut which
prOvable debts must have existed in order
to be discharged. In other words, the filing
of petition, by or against debtor, is the
date at which, if an adjudication of bank
ruptcy follows, the old order of things passes
away, and a new leaf is turned over"
Year: 1867

SCATTERING BRANDs.-We are sorry to
see that the Richmond journal called South
ern Opinion is publishing a "black list"
which consists of those men who voted the
Republican ticket at the late election in Vir
ginia. There can be but little hope for the
era of good leeling or real peace, while a
course so thoroughly mischievous and suici-
dial is followed by journals protesting to rep
resent public sentiment. For, while neither
Congress nor the people of the North are by
any means lost to all sense of charity and
Justice toward the South, they will not
witstanding, hardly sit complacently and
5milingly down and see their friends and adj
herents in that section ostracised and made
,dious-if so foolish a course can make
hem so; and the sooner this fact is realized
The better for all concerned.


We know it may be truly said that these
ncendiary sheets do not reflect the public
ceiling but it may and will be as truly an
;wered that they nevertheless have clrcu-
Iation, and receive in some way or other
living support and this fact is damaging
one. The better judgment of the Southern
people should promptly frown down the
criminal offenders.-Ece. Post.
Year: 1867

A Partisan was proceeding home in a
state eofintoxication, of when he was confronted
by robber who demanded his watch and
money His wits seem to have been sharpen
ed by the wine, for instead of graphing
with his opponent, he affected to hail him
with indescribable pleasure, to be so far
gone as not to be able to distinguish friend
from foe, and embraced and hugged the
robber to his heart. swearing eternal friend
ship. My friend,' he exclaimed, d" we will
never part; come with me, let us eat and
drink and sleep together; the drawer of my
secretaire is full of 'gold-why should you
not equally enjoy 2" Delighted with the
prospect, the robber took the proffered arm.
and the two proceeded on their way. singing
.iovial songs as they went. Two watch
houses were purposely avoided, but at the
third, the supposed victim set up shout
that brought half a dozen policemen, when
an explanation followed, and the friends
separated.
Year: 1867

| DEsPoNDENCY.-What right has person,
endowed with an ordinary share of intelli-
gence, and blessed with a respectable share
of good health, to desponda What is the
meaning of it9 The cause is a weak mind,
and the meaning is sin. Providence never
intended that one of his creatures should be
the victim of desire to feel and look the
gloom of the thunder cloud. Never de-
spond, friendly reader, for one of the first
entrances of vice to the heart is made
through the instrumentalty of desponden-
cy. Although we cannot expect all of our
days and hours to be gilded by sunshine, we
must not, for mere momentary griets, sup
pose that they are to he enshrouded in the
midst of misery, or clouded by the opacity
of sorrow and misfortune.
Year: 1867

The chief cause of the brilliant victory
Just achieved in Craven may be explained
on two very important grounds.


First, A faithful and consistent adherence
to the plan of reconstruction laid down by
Congress andss the legitimate objects and
purposes of the Republican party.


Second, A full and complete organization
of the Republican party in every Election
Precinct throughout the County.


A good cause, with its friends cooperating
together in a proper spirit and with a
mutual good understanding, can scarcely
ever fail to triumph.-Nesobern Republican.


The same is true as to Wake and other
Counties. No party was ever more thor
oughly organized than the Republican party
of Wake. This organization must be
maintained as the surest means of future
success.
Year: 1867

LIME AROUND APPLE TREES. We have
known farmers to make it regular prac-
tice for succession of years, to throw caus-
tic lime around their apple trees in the
spring and summer We once noticed that
a tree standing in the immediate vicinity of
our dwelling had, all at once, put forth with
renewed energy, and we were at loss for
some time to define the cause. On examin-
alton, we found that quantity of lime,
which had accidentally been spilled and rem
dered worthless by becoming mixed with
the refuse of the stable floor, had been
thrown at the foot and around the tree, and
to this, as the principal cause, we immedi-
ately accredited it, and purchased twelve
casks of lime, and applied half bushel to
each of the trees in our orchard, and found
that it produced Immediately beneficial ef-
fects. Not the health of the trees only, but
the quality of the fruit also, was greatly
improved. This application, will be espe-
cially beneficial in soils where there is a re-
dundancy of vegetable matter. We would
advise our farmers, in some places, especial
ly In new forest lands, to make the expert
ment, and see if it is not deserving of the
high recommendation it secures
Year: 1867

The white men are deserting the Union
Leagues in the western counties as rats de-
sert burning barn. A most gratifying re-
action in this respect is going on in that sec
ton and very soon it will be difficult to find
man who will confess that he ever belonged
to one.-WW. Star.


What a whopper The Leagues were
never'in more hourishing condition than
they are at present in the Western part OF
this State. We think it is about time the
Rebels had ceased talking about the " reac-
tion.n There will be no '.reaction" hereat-
ter save for Liberty and Union.
Year: 1867

Every fire-tried white Republican in the


State feels grateful to the colored people for
the frmness and unanimity with which they
have stood by the Republican cause. Our
colored friends have shown themselves wor-
thy, not only by the remarkable propriety of
their behaviour in the campaign and at the
election, but they have demonstrated to the
world that they are possessed in high de-
gree of that chief requisite to manhood and
citizenship, to wit, firmness and determina-
ton of character. No people in any civil
contest have ever met and overcome greater
temptations than they have. They have
been equally unmoved by artifce, trickery,
falsehood, persuasion, offered bribes' and
threats. They are poor and landless, but the
rich oligarchs could not succeed in buying
more than one of them in ten thousand
They have preferred the jewel of liberty to
every thing else.


Without the aid of the colored voters it
would have been impossible to reconstruct
the government ON loyal basis; and with
out that aid, every FIRE tried Unionist III this
State would have been this day under the
iron heel of merciless Rebel power. Let our
white Republican friends remember this. and
let us keep faith to the uttermost with the
loyal colored people who have given us their
votes, and who would pile up their bodies,
if necessary, as sacred offering to the cause
of Liberty, Union, and political Equality.


The leaven of the Heroes of America.
which was formed in this State in 1868, laid
the foundation for the Leagues and the
Leagues, with the Heroes, have been mainly
instrumental in securing to the Republicans
their glorious victory. Without the Leagues
our success would have been doubtful. No
wonder our opponents were so bitter against
these loyal organizations. Let US continue
to cherish and extend them. We will need
them in future elections. Let no true Re
publican abate one jot or little of interest
in public affairs. The State is not yet re-
constructed Much work is yet to be done.
Our new Constitution is still to be ratified;
and we must elect a loyal Governor, loyal
Lieutenant Governor. loyal Legislature, and
loyal members of Congress. To do this we
must keep our lamps trimmed and burn
inz:"
Year: 1867




PLANTING APPLE ORCHARDs.-We have
long been under the impression, brought to
it merely by observation, that as a rule the
trees in our apple orchards are planted too
distantly apart Many farmers look upon
the space usually occupied by orchards as
almost so much waste. They say, we get so
little fruit from the ground taken up by the
trees, and we cannot cultivate the orchards
as we shonld like, from injury to the roots,
&C., SO that we are forced, on the score OF
economy, to abandon apple raising. Now,
practically, an orchard should be an orchard
only Except for grass, it should be left un-
cultivated, alter the trees have reached, say
about four inches in diameter. We can see
no reason why good crop of grasses should
not be continuously produced for quarter
or a third of a century, without disturbance.
A top dressing of manure once in two or
three years, we know, has produced fine
Yields of grass annually of two crops. The
trees have little or no influence upon the
crop of grass; indeed if they possess any,
it is in affording a heavier swath under the
trees


Hence, instead of setting out young
orchards thirty and thirty five feet apart,
reduce the distance to about twenty feet, in
the quincunx form; and if at any time the
trees should threaten to become little
crowded, prevent 1t by addltlonal pruning.
This is our theory.


The leading purpose of an orchard should
be to obtain fruit; next, the crop that will
do the least damage to the trees. This is
grass. Grass, however, will not do any
damage to the apple trees, but the contrary
1t keeps the soil moist, and Of Il uniform
emperature-protecting the roots in summer
against heat and drought, and in winter
against the severe effect of alternate thawing
and freezing


1t should also be remembered, in setting
out young orchards, to get trees as low
branched as possible. They will generally
not grow SO high, while the low boughs
will protect the trunk against the intense
rays of the sun in the summer months,
which are frequently very injurious to the
health and productiveness of the trees.-Ed
Ger. Telegraph.
Year: 1867

THE TIME TO CUT BUsHEs.-A CORES
pondent of the Few Hampshire Farmer says
Repeated trials on as many different pieces
of land, and each trial a complete success
has convinced us that December, the time
we invariably do this, is the best season, at
which time the growth of the year is evil
IDENTITY at an end. A piece of valuable pas
ture-land of ours. overrun with bushes,
which had been many times cut over by
former owner to no purpose, because cut in
the summer season, was by us cut over in
December. 1862 and to this time, a period
OF nearly five years. not bush has sprouted,
and the land though moist, is we'll stocked
down to grass
Year: 1867

There are some people who never will do
things as other people do. The American
Clown Agreat, called the manly, was one of
that sort. In Berlin, a few days since, he
committed suicide in the presence of two
thousand spectators, by firing pistol in his
mouth at the moment he was hanging by his
feet to the ceiling of the theatre. A sensa-
tional way of dying. He should have been
an actor of tragedy, instead of farcical
performer
Year: 1867

A party of travellers in Hawai- lately stop
ped to lunch on the side of Maura Loa af-
ter investigating the crater, and boiled their
turkey by the volcano. They wrapped the
noble bird in banana leaves and poked it
into crack in the mountain, and it was
cooked by steam.
Year: 1867

RICHMOND, va, NOV. ID.


Chief Justice Chase was present tonight
at the dedication of the Normal High School
building for colored persons, and delivered
an address. He said that by the fiat OF
God the fetters had been struck from the
limbs of millions of aged slaves and they
had become free Being citizens it was ne
eessary that they should be educated. Teach
ers at first came from the North, then socie-
ties were formed to further the object, and
he was glad to know that the great society
of which he had the honor to be president
had been Instrumental in erecting the build
ing which was being dedicated and which
he hoped would accomplish much good
The work of educating freedman was Just
begun but by organized efforts much would
be effected, and the day was not far distant
when the States of the South would have
system of free schools in which all might De
educated-sehools in which there would be
no discrimination. He hoped the day was
not far distant when the hills and valleys OF
the South would be glorifed and blessed oy
school-hOuses. He had said several years
ago, in a speech made on a similar OCCASION
he hoped he might live tosee the day that tue
sun would not shine on the footprints OF u
slave in America, when no slave should tread
the soil of Virginia, and he thanked COO
that that hope had been realized. The WORK
of educating the colored people had com.
menced. and would not stop. 1t coulo hos
go backwards, but would be pushed torwaiu
until all of them were educated and chrfS-
TANNED 49,.


Governor Pierpont, General Brown, Judge
Bond, and other prominent gentlemen Were
present. The audience was composed Oh
about equal parts of white and colored peo-
ME .-.r
Year: 1867

Colored men who have been discharged
from employment for having voted the Re-
publican ticket, will find it to their advan-
tage to call on the Agents of the Freedman's
Bureau, who will do what they can to get
employment for them. More on this subject
hereafter.
Year: 1867

We hope that our County Court will not
adjourn without some action on the subject
of free schools. The need is urgent and the
power is in their hands. Hundreds of young
people. both white and colored, are growing
up in Ignorance. Any system of schools is
better than none at all. Laborers will be
much more easily hired on plantations the
coming year. if some provision is made for
their children's education.


If for AIRY reason final action cannot be
taken at this term, we trust that committee
of persons interested in education, inelu-
ding colored persons as we'll as white will
be invited to report tho ,tLtafis III" syse IL
to the Februs-y, Court so that there may
then be no further delay. B..
Year: 1867

The Judges Of this city are out in force
az candidates for the State Constitutional
Convention. Two Judges Of the Common
Pleas, three OF the Superior Court, a City
Judge, and Judge Of the Supreme Court,
as well as three or four ex-Judges, are
soliciting votes for the office Of delegate. To
be sure their calendars are crowded and the
business Of the public is suffering In their
Courts; but what Of that They must all be
elected; for is not the elective system Of the
judiciary, to which they owe their places,
in dangers In the case OF the Judge Of the
Supreme Court there is q slight constitutional
difficulty in the way in the section Of the con-
stitution which says, "they (the Judges Of the
Court Of Appeals and Supreme CourD shall
not hold any other ofhce or public trust All
votes for either Of them for any elective ONCE
Except that Of Justice Of the Supreme Court
or Judge Of the Court Of Appeals), given by


the Legislature or the people, shall be void


But this Is only q triHc. The "6erce demo


oracle" will elect him in spite Of the oonsti


tuition.
Year: 1867

The War In Mckee and the Lex TaIio~ss.


We give in another column the response of
the Mexican journals to what has been said Of
the killing Of his prisoners by General Esco-
bedo, and the points Of the protest Of certain
French ofacars in the city Of Mexico against
the act Of the Mexican general As these officers
contemplate the possibility Of being taken Of
an early day, It Is only natural that they
should object to such shooting; and as to tho
Mexican journals, we are glad to note that this
explanation shows their desire to stand well in
the good opinion OF the outside world Their
arguments give us an inner view also Of the
imperial status II ID urged, for instance, that
the real flag Of the Intervention was the dag Of
France; and that since that dag il gone out oe
the country, and since the French commander
declared upon leaving that all soldiers taking
service under any other forfeited the protsc-
ton Of France, there is really no longer any
Intervention as between nations, and that tho
liberal authorities have only to dsal with Some
disorderly persons whom they ohooss 10 can
bandits. We cannot forget that Macmillan
argued in the same way in 1865. Believing
the liberal cause hopeless, and that the resist
ance Of the liberals was no longer war, he
generalized all the adherents Of Juarex a.
guerillas and bandits, and ordered by Inn
perial decree that whenever taken they
should be shot within twenty-four hours. BE
also decreed death against all who con-
cealed them, gave them Information or sold
them food. Illustrious examples, therefore,
might be cited for regarding Escobedo's
act as justifable retaliation. We should con-
slider, however, that such applications of the
ler tdlionis are only excusable when they can
serve q useful purpose on the side of humanity.
Not word can be said in their favor If they
take the character Of mere revenge. If the
shooting Of prisoners by Escobedo were needed
to prevent the shooting Of prisoners by Maxi
milan, it might be proper enough to shoot
them but that necessity no longer exists, and
Mexican generals should now see that they
have an opportunity to put their conduct be-
fore the world in admirable contrast with the
conduct Of their invaders. By his own decree
Macmillan must have executed Juarez if he
had taken him last year. Let Juarez now take
his revenge, if he captures Macmillan, BY
sending the would-be Emperor safely to Mira
mar. The effect of such an act would not be
lost. Let the Mexicans not initiate the conduct
they c0nde mn.