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Year: 1867

In the proper column Of this paper will bo
found notice Of the marriage Of Miss Eluus.u
2. Jones to Mr.. William s. Anderson. which


occurrence took place last Sunday morning at
st Georges church.


This announcement viii doubtless astonish


many of the friends and acquaintances Of the


bride and groom, and they will doubtless


make use OF the trlte expression, "Truth is


stranger than fiction" So it would appear


in this case; but short and romantic en-.


gagement between the parties eliminated in


sudden aud unexpected facts. The Young


lady Is resident of Carthage, ILL.,, and was


on visit to some friends in this citV. When


she left her friends at home she had not the
most remote idea of changing her name. She


knew of no other name that would become
her half SO well.


Her heart vas free and untrammeIed as
the winds that OOursed over the prairios
around her country home. A look, a touch.
or word, may sound the depts of the soui
Ike PIummet. The sensations of moment
may expand into an eternity bright with bliss
full visions and rich with the frnition of fond
est hopes. In such moment the country
girl who figures in this romance experienced
a life change which cast golden glow over
the horizon of n welded future. The gen
tleman who was SO happy as to meet his ideal
OF beauty at such a time urged his cause with
ierSid eloquence, aud pleaded not in vain
This happened on Saturday evening. On
tue following Sunday morning u small we'd.
ding party entered St. Georges church, and
two hearts were made one by the sacred bonds
OF matrimony. After the marriage knot was
tied, the happy bridegroom told the bride
that he was the son OF an English nobleman,
and possessed his proportion of this worlds
goods in his own right, without references 70
great expectation" of parental inheritance.
This fact he had hitherto studiOusly with
held, and the disclosure proved 4 most q
llghttul chapter of this romance of reality.


Another, and concluding chapter was ID
follow, which was not so pleasant to the COM
temptation Of either of the twain made one,
and contained a most unusual incident 70
such occasions. Indeed. it was the most 4O-
mantle circumstance of this most rUusantio
story. After the usual congratulations were
over. the wedding party retired from tn
church. While % the steps of the sleret
edIhce the bridegroom informed the bride
and the astonished company that business q
Importance called him TO our western frontiC
and that he would be compelled to leave inI\
mediately for Fort Reilly. A carriage was
IN waiting, into which he stepped, and bid
ding his fair bride adieu, soon vanished from
sight. She did not faint, fall, and contribute
to an exciting scene, for he had taken the
PrecautiOn to whisper in her ear that he would
be absent only five weeks, and he advised
her, IN the mean time, to be as happy rs she
could, and make preparations for voyage 10
England on his return
Year: 1867

THE END OF THE WoRLD-To thousands
this IS no fiction, no illusion of an oyerbeatea
Imagination. To-day, tomorrow, eve,y dav.
to thousands, the end of the world ia close at
hand And. why should we fear Il? We
walk hers as it were in the crypts of life at
times, from the great cathedral above US. we
can hear the organ and the chanting of the
choir We see the light stream through the
open door, when some friend goes up before
US, and shall We fear to mount the narrow
staircase O. the grave that leads US out Of this
uncertain twilight into the serene mansions
of the life eternal9
Year: 1867

a RECEIPT. OF HAPPINEss.-Iti is simple.
when you rise in the morning, forrs resolu-
tIoR to make the day happy one to- a fellow
creature. 1t is easily done. A left-of gar
ment to the man who needs it kind word
to the sorrowful an encouraging expression
to the starving-trifes in themselves as light
as air-will do it, at least for twenty four
hours and, i you are young, depend upon
IT. 1t will tell when you are old and, if you
are old, rest assured it will send YOU down
the stream of time to eternity. Look at the
result You send one person-only one, hap
ply through the day; that is three hundred
and SIXTY i've in the course ofthe year-and
supposiug you live forty years only, after YOU
commence this course, you have made four
teen thousand six hundred human beings
happy at all events for time. Now, worthy
reader, Is this not simple? We do NOT often
indulge in moral dose, but this IS 60 small
pill that one needs no red currant jelly to
disguise its favor, and it requires to be taken
but once day so that We feel warranted in
prescribing it. 1t is Hsozt excellent for dioes.
tIon and producer Of pleasant sIumber.
Year: 1867

BLACK HOgE.-Seye-ai parties from Ihico naTe
recently returned from prospecting tour 70 tie
Black Rock mining district. and make aatrering
reports OF the richness Of that country. and pro
tace many ine specimens in evidence Of the cor
rectness Of their report. The Humboldt, Nevada.
Register, is also Informed that tests Of the ore
made in San Francisco prodaeed almost fabulous
results and affords satisfactory proof of the exist
Of the precious metals in paving quantities in
those ores. The continuation in which they
found TO exist, however isiill an enigma to men Of
science oyer;arning the accepted notions that all
the elementary combinations OF gold aud silver are
known and understood BY meiallurgists. When
the time does arrive arrive it must soon, thai
these ores can be successfully worked it Is thought
that Black Rock will be tie most productive min
ing field the globe 4 large quantity Of the
ore has been sen. to the Virginia Mills, where a
thorough and careful test by every known method
Of separation is to te made. II successful there Is
bright future for Northern California, which is
the richest minigg section in the world, bu,
whose mines aud people are denied Improvements
which nature has given them as a right, and are
taxed for less available improvements elsewhere.
We trust the day is not far distant when our people





those improvements TO which the resources and
natural advantages Of the section are entitled
Then viii the State and nation have proper thor
oughare. and the quartz veins and copper mines Of
Plunas and Iassen be made available The people
should understand before voting for any represent
alive that. those not wholly and unreservedly
favorable TO these contemplated improvements,
are "wrung in On them for the advancement of
interests elsewhere. and fer the purpose Of retard
ing those demanded by interests here. Let ns have
men who will represent cur interests, or dispense
with the laxury altogether. Then may hope
for business prosperity, and the fail development Of
Black Rock and other mineral districts. We may
continue to prospect politicians, and to vote for
representatives who Will support This or tha; man
ior some higher position uuiil ear rich mineral
resources are exhausted for the benefit of other
calites Let Us have men who vii! represent our
material and substantial Interests and let 9th
er sections attend to their own.
Year: 1867

FATAL AColpENT-A little girl aged four years
named Frances Meilen, rret with sudden death al
Cisco, between six and seven o'clock on the even
ing of August 4th she and her eldest sister says
the Bee. were PLAYING pile of railroad iron on
tie !ue OF the lower track, when portion of the
iron TELL striking her on the neck and tractuling
the spine killing he instantly
Year: 1867

THE CONTENTION AND THE JUDICIARf.


The majority report of the Judiciary Com
mittee of the Constitutional Convention, con-
Cured in by all but two members OF the Com
mittee, provides for the election of all judges
of the higher courts by the people for, practi-
cally, life term. One of the Committee dis
sents, recommending n term OF twelve to four
teen years. All agree in leaving the Surro-
gates courts, and the criminal and inferior
courts of cities, to be regulated by the Leglsla-
ture This last point is one OF such import
ance, and involves so great an Improvement
upon the present Constitution, that we could
forgive many shortcomings In other respects,
if the Convention would adopt this change.
There is no worse feature in the Constitution
of 1S46l than that which puts the criminal
Judges of cities absolutely under the control
of the electors, who, as q matter OF course
in all large cities, are TO great
extent composed of dangerousl classes
Undoubtedly good judges have been occasion
ally elected under this system, but these are
the exceptions and they are rapidly growing
fewer; and even the good men are so hampered
by the influences to which they owe their cleo
ton, or at any rate by the interests which they
must conciliate in order to secure reelection,





that they dare not do all that they would or
should do. Even a corrupt judge will do better
in q criminal court, if freed from such re-
strants for we know of few if any instances
in which a judge has lost his reelection on ac-
count of his corruption, but many in which he
has lost it on account of his refusal to decide
according to the wishes of bar-room politicians.


The Committee on Cities however trans
cending their province, have undertaken to de-
stroy this most meritorious feature of the new
judicial system, by reporting section in direct
antagonism to it, requiring all judicial officers
in cities to be elected by the people for short
term. IL this recommendation should be adopted
by the Convention, together with the rest of
that Committees report, there would be nothing
in the new Constitution that would merit the
vote of any one really desiring TO restore purity
to our judicial affairs.
Year: 1867

We publish elsewhere a letter from our spe
cial correspondent, "Mark Twain describing
the reception given by the Emperor of Russia
to the tourists of the steamer Quaker City who
lately visited the Crimea. Nothing could more
effectually prove the sincerity of the profess
sions of good will toward the United States
made by the Russians, from the Emperor down
ward than the cOrdiality shown to private
American citizens by the Imperial family on
that occasion. The whole affair wore charm
ing republican simplicity altogether at variance
with the popular ideas about the autocrat of
"all the Russias."
Year: 1867

Evidently the Presidents favorite idea of peace
is q grave-y yard. "When we look on your battle
field" said Mr. johnson at Antietam, " and
" think of the brave men on both sides who
" fell in the fierce struggle of battle, and who
" sleep silent in their graves-yes, who sleep
" in silence and peace after the earnest con-
" flict has ceased-would to God we of the liv
9" ing could initiate their example as they lay
" sleeping in peace in their tombs and live to-
" gether in friendship and peace" We COM
mend the fervor of this aspiration, though it
partakes of the impossible. Doubtless the
country would be set at rest with Congress
of tombstones and an army of dead men. But
we ask for better example than cemetery
a live policy, if the President wills it, con-
ceived in the interest of living loyalty, and not
of dead treason. And it ought not to be
such dead -and-alive sort of policy as would
kill the one and resurrect the other. A grave
yard of this kind would be the worst one in
the world for peace .r ...
Year: 1867

The proceedings in the State Convention yes
terday were of more than usual interest.
The section of the report of the Committee on
Finance and Canals which provides that the
Legislature shall not sell or lease any OF the
canals, but that they shall remain under the
management of the State forever, being under
consideration, Mr.. Greeley moved a substitute
providing that the Governor, Lieutenant-Go
nor, Secretary Of State, Controller and Attorney
General shall advertise for proposals to pur-
chase the canals under certain conditions, the
principal of which are as follows: the
tolls shall not be raised 10y the pur-
chaser above the present rates the
canals shall be kept i'll good navigable order
for six months in each year, under penalty of
forfeiture to the State of One-tenth their cost
for each year of failure; the question of sale
to be decided by vote of the people at the next
election after the receipt of bids; if the ma
jority vote to sell, then twenty-five per cent of
the purchase money to be paid monthly until
the whole is paid, the money so paid to be
applied to the payment of the State debt.
This proposition provoked very active discus
| sion, the mover quoting Gov. Curtin TO the
effect that Pennsylvania would not take back
her canals if she could have them for nothing.
The amendment of Mr.. Greeley was lost, and
the section prohibiting the sale adopted.


The section declaring that no credit or prop
erty of the State should be given or loaned in
aid of any association or corporation was, after
discussion upon the question of aid for charita-
bic institutions, passed over until the report Of
the Committee on Charities should come up
The section providing that no State debt shall
be contracted unless authorized by law fol
some single object specified therein, was taker
up, but without action the Convention adj
journed The Republican caucus last evening
resolved to continue In session until the work
in hand is accomplished.
Year: 1867

A railroad accident occurred yesterday upon
the Northern Central Railway, through mis-
take which should have been impossible. The
engineer of an excursion train saw the hagman
who had been stationed to give warning of
broken train ahead, but misconstrued his sig
nal to stop into one to go slowly. The miscon-
ception was inexcusable, and its result was the
killing of two persons and the manning of five
more. We hope the Coroner's Jury will not be
afraid to do its duty in this case.
Year: 1867

The school season is just reopening, and
parents in search of suitable places for the
education of their children will find in the
advertising columns of The TRIBUNE fuller
record than any other paper affords of the
mossSpopular and respectable institutions of
learning in the country.
Year: 1867

Letter writers at the West assure us that the
Peace Commissioners are delighted" with the
amiable disposition Of the savages, and have
no doubt that affairs on the Plains will soon
mend The amiable Indians have just attacked
another station on the Smoky Hill route, and
made several captures. The Commissioners
appear to be very sanguine gentlemen.
Year: 1867

In the first table the Democracy claim, for
the States we have given above, gain OF
$4,000 votes. We show, by actual returns that
cannot be disputed, that their entire gain is
only t,ro thousand, or not quite one per cent.
All this shameless Growing over pretended gains
is done to affect the result in Pennsylvania and
Ohio; but they must be very tame birds who
can be caught with such chaff.
Year: 1867

The Herald is very much excited over its
threat to leave the Associated Press. If that
newspaper is so anxious to retire, why did it
not go some months since when the oppor-
tunity was rendered by the unanimous vote Of
the Association
Year: 1867

The Herald is making great deal of noise
about its purpose to leave the Associated Press,
and do without the news-printing stories, we
presume. We entreat The Herald not to stand
upon the order of its going, but go at once
Year: 1867

Here is total Democratic gain In seven small Sto ne
nd ono Tcrritory OF nearly 10000 votes-nearly one
Quarter OF the entire popular majority for Lincoln IN
1864 in tho loyal States.


Now let us compare this with the truth, ana
TO make it more clear we place it in tabular
form.
Year: 1867

To those who have daily access to the
local news of the city and country, the rec
ord of crime is indeed alarming. Theft.
robbery, murder, arson, rape and the like
crimes are committed openly, daringly, in


every part of the State. These crimes used


to be chiefly confined to the purlieus oflarge
cities, but now the most secluded spot in


the interior of the State is not exempt from
daring crimes. The inquisitive naturally
asks for solution of this unprecedented
growth OF crime, and it is not difficult
matter to give at least one solution. EX-
ample is said to be stronger than precept.
and when the citizen, whose duty it is to
obey the law, finds the Lawmakers them
selves stepped in iniquity it is not unnatur-
al to follow their example. If il is pub
licly known that our Congressman and
Legislators, falsify and plumber, steal and
rob, take bribes for acts of iniquity, vote
themselves public money just as thev
please, and commit other diabolical ont
RACES, it is not astonishing that the ruffian
in private life should take courage from the
ruffian in public position. If our law-mak-
ers desire that their enactments should be
obeyed let them set better example of pu-
rity and virtue than the last Legislature and
the last Congress have done. What de-
basing thought, that the men who are sent
to make wholesome laws for the safety OF
a confiding people, should themselves be
the boldest thieves and robbers in the State
or Nation 7 sEe,~S e1vsr rrF4 ~ = = -
Year: 1867

Tell me not that he's poor man,


That his dress is coarse and bare;
Tell me not his daily pittance


Isa workman's scanty fare.
Tell me not his birth is humble,
Tha. his parentage is low;
Is he honest in his actions!


That is all L want to know.
Is his word 10 be relied on? /
Has his character no blame.
Then care not if he's low born
Then care not whence his name,
Would lie from an unjust action


Turn away with scornful eye!
Would he, then, defraud another :?
Sooner on the scafold die.
Would he spend his hard-s gained earnings
On brother in distress
Would he succer the afflicted


And the weak ones wrongs redress
Then he is u man deserving


Of my love and my esteem,
and care not what his birth place
In the eyes Of man may seem.
Let it be a low matched howell


Let it be n clay-built cot
Let it be the parish work house


in my eye it matters not.
And if others will disown him,


As inferior TO their caste,
Let them do it'll bcfriend hin
As a brother to the last.
Year: 1867

~One day Jack WhaIey's wife
chanced to find an elegant piece of white
leather on the road, and she brought it
home with her in great delight to mend
Jacks small clothes, which she did very
neatly. Jack set off next day. Little
expecting what was in store for him; but
when he had trotted about FIVE miles-is
was in the month of July-he began to
feel mighty uneasy in his saddle, feeling
that continued to increase at every mo-
ment, till at last he said sit was like tax
ing a canter on be hive in swarming
time," and we'll it might, for the piece of
leather was DO other than blister shat
the apotheeary's boy had dropped that
morning on the road.
Year: 1867

Every department Of business has an imme-
date interest in the markets Of the country, and
in its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who fans to keep himself properly ad-
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets. ~
controlled by the laws Of demand and supply


and the relative condition of the currency. Is
exposed to constant loss. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprising
neighbors. In order to make our paper valuable
as well rs interesting. we shall continue to
make this SPECIAL MATURE. Our Daiy
Market Reports. domestic and foreign. by tells
graph. and our City Reports gotten up at heavy
expense. have challenged the commendation Of
our best busines men white our current Finan
eial Reports from al the leading money centris
of the country are fuller than have ever bssn
nuhlished nv any other journal in Tennessses.
Year: 1867

THE stand of wheat in the West and
North is represented as generally looking
better than il did last spring, although the
plants are not very forward We hear some
fears entertained that, should the crop
prove a short one, there will be a scarcity
Of grain throughout the country, "a there is
at present very little wheat in store at the
great Western depots, it having been gen
erally Withdrawn for Eastern consumption
The apprehension of a short crop seems to
be based on the idea that we are 10 have a
cold dry summer, it being remarked that
everv tenth season has been Of that char
acter for a series Of years; bot we see
nothing at present to indicate any such re-
| suit
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-reliant. and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment OF
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
Iusts. To this end we will pay special attention
to the cosT and STATISTICS Of manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diyersih-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
nent of Southern resources
Year: 1867

By A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and united
support of the Union AND DIsPATcH By the
patrons of botn the former papers, the Proprie
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hither
to unsurpassed in this city OF State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS. our paper will compare favOrably With
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many Of
our patrons, who are most capable of judsins in
uch matters.
Year: 1867

That you can receive one dollar
a day-spend two and get rich.


That a man who can't pay for
his breakfast, can't raise the mon
ey to go into circus. o "3


That to do a man a favor and
then refuse another, won't make
him twice as mad as if you had
refused him at the first. aar


That when your friend presents
you a hound pup, that the gift
will cost you nothing. ...a.


That when you buy on a credit,
knowing very well you will not
be able to pay it, is not stealing.


That next year the taxes are to
be lighter. '' a'''''


That every other man is bound
to die except you. ~'


That if you have a good cause
in love, war, or law, pitch in You
are bonnd to win. .9l HeJ al gia-
That you can play draw poker,
and lose just SO much and no
more. .a ,fa- 2, ...fs sad ras.fi i


That there is one way, known
only to yourself to break a faro
bank.


That when you buy a horse he
will be certain to turn out as rep
resented. I 9 10 ltl3a u 1aad n


That when you undertake to
sell one, you are not going to lie
about his qualities aII yfgoq
That a man with a large family
and no none, can live better in
Honduras than. in East Baton
Rouge. aa araas-
| That if you always say what
you think, you win the regard OF
the entire community.-TBato
ROupa Advocate.


faf1aca
Year: 1867

The MEASEsr YEr.-The New York Times
justly characteristics the conduct of the Judi
ciary Committee, in their course toward the
Presidents


awe certainly do not pretend TO set forth
the scorn which must have been felt by every
self respecting American citizen on reading
Of the investigation just made by a commit
tee of Congress into the private banking ac-
count OF President johnson. meaner or
more pitiIul insult it would be impossible TO
conceive, or one more fit TO come in at the
end of the patry assaults Which have been
made by congress upon the Executive To
be impeached for "high crimes and msde-
meanOrs may not be the most agreeable
thing in the world, but II is honorable com.
pared with being compelled TO submit to
such inquisitons as this. We suppose the
Judiciary Committee, will give to the coun-
Try the result Of their researches into Mr..
Johnson's bank account, and furnish US the
date and amount OF deposits with the num-
Der and magnitude of drafts. II would be
as well, after carrying matters thus far, TO
prosecute the investigation still further, and
ascertain how the president came by each
hundred dollars put to bis credt-how much
he saved from his salary, how much he ac-
crued from bis property, how much he made
by investments, and so forth. IL would be
better the work shond Q done thoroughly
If done al all. But still We do not believe
that the American people, whatever they
may think OF the Presidents policy, will re.
gard with patience such petty exhibitions of
partisan malice"