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Year: 1867

We commend the following words Of
Gov. Morton to the young men of our
county. You are just starting in life,
with the world all before you where
and how to choose. Beware how you
connect your fortunes with decayed
and dishonored party indelibly stained
with treason, and upon whose tomb
stone the historian will write: '.False
to liberty, false to It's country and false
to the age in which it lived" The
Democratic party has committed 8
crime for which history has no'pardon,
and the memories of men no forgetful-
ness; whose colors grow darker from
age to age, and for which the execra-
tions of mankind become more bitter
from generation to generation"
Year: 1867

Democrats are telling soldiers that
the reason they do not receive their
additional bounty is, that Congress
passed the law for buneombe and failed
to appropriate the money. The fact
is, Congress appropriated the money,
which is ROW in the United States
Treasury, ana the delay in the payment
of the bounty must be accounted for
| By Johnson's Office holders. Congress
passed the Law and provided the money
lto pay every dollar Of the bounty.
Year: 1867

Here are the chief plsnks in the
Democratic platform:
The reputation of the national debt.


The restoration of slavery, or, if that
cannot be done, payment by the nation
for slaves.
Pensioning the soldiers widows and
orphans of the Confederate army.


Disfranchisement of the black patri-
OF who aided TO suppress treason and
rebellion.


Recognition of the right Of seces-
sion.


And the unconditional return of reb-
els to political power.
Year: 1867

a respect and regard for that party, and


have entertained the hope for many years to


see it reinstatcd in power. But the dream


has passed. We have accounts to settle with


that party, gentlemen, before at least will


consent to affiliate with it. TCries Of "gOOd,


good, and applause In my judgment it


is time for ms to seek new friends and new
alliance hence am opposed to organizing
any party in South Carolina that will
Ger mt itself TO the Democratic 0r any
other party. would not affiliate with any


party that would put a tax OF p cents
pound on cotton, when not one cent is put
on the com and grain raised in Ohio, India
ma, and other Western States. | will vote
for no party that will perpetrate such an
indignity. Therefore when we are recon-
sirueted hope that our representative will
90 to " ashington ard declare allegiance to
that party which will do US justice, and
that, in my Judgment, is the policy tor South
Carolina 10 pursue in this emergency.
Year: 1867

Occasionally a subscriber complains Of too
many advertisements. is pleasant COM
plant to the printer, for without the advertise
ments he could not print his paper and sell il
at present rates, nor pay for market and news
reports, nor keep up with the times, nor in fact
be independent in his opinions. A poor, beg
ging printer rarely can own his own mind or soul.
and is yery apt to become q subservient tool 10
somebody who has money. Surely the people
DO not want such printers as that, 90 we tell
them to look with glsdness upon solid columns
Of Advertisements. They are meat for the
printer, and money for the subscriber into the
baxsin. and in more ways than by keeping
down subscription prices and cheapeuing paper,


-WdifoR's Journal.


True as Gospel. There is not a family
into which our paper goes that cannot, save
the subscription price, several times year,
by due heed to the information contained in
our adrertisiEg columns, to say nothing Of
the others. And all should read the sdyer-
tisements
Year: 1867

The man who stands upon his own soil,
who feels that by the laws of the land
in which he lives--by the law of ciyil>
lied nations-he is the rightful and ex-
elusive owner of the land he tills, is by
the constitution of our nature under a
wholesome influence not easily imbibed
by any other source He feels other
things being equal, more strongly than
another, the character of man as lord
of an inanimate world. OF this great
and wonderful sphere, which, fashioned
by the hand of God, aud upheld by his
power, is rolling through the heavens, a
part is his--his from the center of the
sky. 1t is the space on which the gen.
eratiOns before moved in its round of du-
ties, and he feels himself connected by a
link with those who follow him, to whom
he is to transmit home Perhaps a
farm has come down to him from his
fathers. They have gone to their long
home, but he can trace their footsteps
over the scenes of his daily labors. The
roc. which sheltered him was reared by
those to whom he owes his being. Some
interesting tradition is connected with
every enclosure. The favorite fruit tree
was planted by his fathers hand. He
sported in boyhood beside the brook
which still winds through the meadow.
Through the fields lies the path to the
village school in earlier days. He still
hears from the window the voice of the
Sabbath bell which called his father to
the house of God and near at hand is
the spot where his parents laid down to
rest, and where when his time has come,
he shall be laid by his children. These
are the feelings of the owner Of the soil.
Words cannot paint them; they flow out
of the deepest fountains of the heart ;
they are the life,spring of a fresh, healthy
and generous national character Ed
tcard Fee, eH.
Year: 1867

PRUssIANs AT HoME.-A very
credible, and we dare say. correct
view, is given of the common people
of Berlin by correspondent of the
Times. Moving in the clean streets
of the city, they appear, well dressed,
orderly, sober and industrious. A
drunken man or beggar is rarely
seen, nor any one whose conduct is
offensive to a correct sense of pro-
priety. This is reckoned the result,
in part, of the excellent system Of
public school instruction, and still
more, of the military system in Prus-
sia, which, although apparently op-
pressive and attended with many dis
advantages, has the effect of estab-.
fishing the young men in vigorous
health, and in habits Of cleanliness
and order, while it develops the sense
of honor and accustoms them to re-
spect and obey law. Such results
are worthy of being regarded some
Offset to the inconvenience and loss
of spending, as every man is required
to do, several years as private sol
dier in the army. To the discipline of
the army, in connection with the
school education Of an early age, are
to be attributed many of the manly
qualities which pertain to the Prus-
sian character, and make the nation
the leading one in Germany.
Year: 1867

TIE PRINTER's ESTATE The prin.
ter's dsllars-W Where are they A dollar
here, and a dollar there, scattered over
numerous small towns all over the coun.
try, miles and miles apart-how shall
they be gathered together? The paper
maker, the building owner, the Journeys
man compositor, the grocer, the tailor,
and all his assistants to him in carrying
on his business have their demands,
hardly ever 50 small as a single doior
But the mites from here and there must
be diligently gathered aud patiently
boarded, or the wherewith 20 discharge
the liabilities will never become sues-
ciently bulky. We imagine the printer
will have to get up an address to these
widely scattered dollars something like
the following


dollars, halves, quarters, dimes, and
all manner of fractions into which ye are
divided, collect yourselves, and come
home ? Ye are wanted Combination of
all sorts of men that help the printer to
become proprietor, gather such f0rce
and demand with such good reasons your
appearance at his counter, that nothing
short Of a sight Of you will appease
them. Collect yourselves for valuable as
you are in the aggregate, single you will
never pay the cost Of gathering. Come
in here, in single file, that the printer
may form you into battalion, and send
you forth again, to battle for him and
vindicate his credit.


Reader, ore you sure you haven't a
couple Of the printers dollars sticking
about your " old clothes p
Year: 1867

BITTEN by A SNAKE,-A man by the
name. of Schram, while binding wheat
in field near Buchanan, Mich, gath
cred up in sheaf rattlesnake, which
bit him on the finger. With remark a.
bic GOODNESS be Immediately took his
pocket,knife and cut open the end of the
finger through the wound made by the
snakes tooth, quickly wound horse
hair tight around the finger to prevent
as much as possible the circulation of
the tlood, and drank glass Of liquor
The next day he was nearly well, hav-
ing suffered very little Inconvenience
except being very sick for short time
Year: 1867

LESSONS OF WISDOM Fred
Bremen, the charming moralst, speak s
tenderly and truthfully to those occupy
ing the several family relatio MS !:


Many a marriage has comm N ced
like the mushroom. Wherefore? Be
cause the married pair neglected to be
as agreeable to each other after their
union as they were before it. Seek al
ways to please each other, my children,
but in doing so keep heaven in mind.
Lavish not your love to-day, remember.
ing that marriage has morrow. Be-
think ye my daughters, what word
housewife expresses. The married
woman is her husbands domestic trust
On her he ought to be able to place his
relianc in house and family; to her he
should confde the key of his heart and
the lock Of his store room. His honor
and his home are under her protection,
his welfare in her hand. Ponder
this And you, my sons, be true men
of honor; and cool fathers of your fam
lilies. Act in such wise that your wives
respect aud love you-And what more
shall | say to you my children ? Peruse
diligt ntly the word of God ? that will
guide you out of storm and dead calm,
and bring you safe into port. And as for
the rest do pour best"
Year: 1867

To calculate the distance of storm
from the place you are standing, multi
ply the number of seconds which trans
pire between the fash of lightning and
the sound of the thunder by ll42-tho
product will be the distance in feet.
Year: 1867

The prevailing tendency in the radical


mind to ignore principles, and to treat
great public questions in purely personal


relations. is of alarming import. This ten
dency has been strikingly eXempllfed in
| the case of Sheridan, but it is manifested


all the time and on all occasions. Funda-


mental principles are not only subordinated


in importance to men, but if any man will
Jump over those principles in the interest
| of party, straightway that man is looked
| upon as more essential than the cOnstltu-
| ton and the laws, and with loud bleatings
| the whole flock follows him over the re-
straints which he has overleaped, and are
unbounded in their admiration OF him and
| of themselves for the glorious achievement.
Not content with making an idol Of every
| individual who thus signallZes himself In
their interest, they insist that all other
Americans shall divest themselves Of their
manhood, cast away the characteristic in
dependence of the American mind, and
bow down and worship ''Great is Diana
of the Ephesians," and the man is consld-
cred q blasphemous infdel, and mallg-
nant lunatic, who does not echo the cry,
and wallow in the mud and slime OF person


al abasemept Especially is this the case


if the false god is bedizened with military


trappings and wields sword sharp enough


to cut through all that the political wisdom


of ages has devised for the preservation


of the freedom and security of society.


Here, for months, we have had the press
dailv filed with Sheridan, as if the Heav-


ems would fall If Sheridan was removed; as
if there were no other officer in the army
of the United States who could carry out
the reconstruction laws but Sheridan; as If
Sheridan were more important than not
only the constitution, which has long
become obsolete, but than the reconstruc-
ton laws which, in one part of the coun-
try, have been substituted for it. Thus
we find even General Grant assuming that
it is the desire of the people that General


Sheridan should command in the fifth dis
trict, and the President of the United


States, who finds the will of the people in


the constitution, is denounced and threat
ened with impeachment, not on account of
Year: 1867

live for those who love me,


Whose hearts are kind and true,
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too,
For the human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that [ can do.
live to learn their story,


Who suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,


And follow in their wake,
Bards, poets, martyrs. sages,
The noble of all ages,
Whose deeds crowd histOry's pages,
And Times great volume make.
live to hold communion


With all that is divine,
To know there is a union


'Twixt Natures God and mine
To grow wiser from conviction,
To profit by affiIction,
Reap truth from fields of fiction,


And fulfill each bright design.
live to hail the season,


By gifted minds foretold,
When men shall live by reason,


And not alone by gold;
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted,
As Eden was Of old.
I live for those who love me,


For the hearts that know me true,
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too.
For the right that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,


And the coed that l can do.
Year: 1867

Within ten days the season for oystering
commences. We observe unusually large
preparations on the part of the large num-
ber of oystermen in this vicinity to prose
cute the business on larger scale than has
characterized the business within the last
few years. Norfolk Journal.
Year: 1867

A party of divers at Nashville hooked on
to what they supposed was the safe of
steamer sunk some twenty years ago. After
long and hard labor they succeeded in rails
ing an old cooking-stoYe.
Year: 1867

any interference, actual or meditated, with
the reconstruction laws, but because in the
exercise of his constitutional prerogative
as Commander-in Chief, he chooses one
person to execute those laws in the fifth
military district instead of another. If
this tendency shall prevail, and the old re-
publican rule of measures, not men, " is
to be reversed if men are to be deiied,
and individuals instead of principles look
ed to as essential to the preservation and
success of government, we are making easy
the transition from a government of law
to government Of force, and to period
when the clamor Of a partizan press, rep
res.enting a factious minority of the popu.
by some object of popular idolatry as the
will of the people" designating him for
wider rule than that of the fifth military
district.
Year: 1867

.tHs Ft4 as='


Stick to your home newspa-
per. No matter if you are poor,
remember none are so poor as
the ignorant, except it be the
deprayed, and they too often
go together. Keep your home
paper though it may not be SO
large or imposing as some city
weekly, but remember tits the
advertiser and local reader of
your neighborhood, and it's
daily business tells you what is
going on around you, instead
of a thousand miles away. If
it is not printed on as good pa
per as the city journals, pay
subscription promptly, and rely
upon it that the natural pride
of the publisher viii prompt
him to improve as fast as possi-
BILE. And above all do not lend
your paper to q neighbor who
is ableto pay for one himself


Clinton Democrat. aa fl


The above is sensible advice,
but the fact is remarkable that
the circulation of such papers
as the New York Ledger, filled
with sickly Sylvanus Cobbs
love stories, is far greater than
that of the home papers.


The Southern people have a
mania for importing. With any
quantity of cattle theybuy but
ter from the North. The finest
grasses in the world decays
beneath their feet and they
compete with one another fol
Northern hay. The hides of the
cattle they kill must be sent
North to be made into shoes to
be returned to us, and now ON
cattle are being bought up and
taken North by the boat. load
to be fattened. for the Southern
markets. In nearly everything
we are dependent upon them


and the first blow for. our indie


dendence in the arts and in.


dustrial affairs must be strucl


by becoming independent o
their press. The New Orlean


leadingj journals are superior t.
iany first class New York paper
vet there is no doubt but tina


the aggregate circulation of TIL
Journals of the latter cityis IA
. greater in the South than thos
of New Orleans. As for th,


country press their is often in
) deed a hard road to travel.


Thousands of Southern fam
], lilies take no paper. Rich me
T 7 economise by stopping thei
E own home paper, and q major
7 7 ty of them who are intereste


in their contents either borro'
I. the paper from some subscribe
!, or beg itfrom the Office. Ant
: ther class, take all the paper
e within their reach but neve
: pay for any. This state


affairs must not continue
Newspapers are just as indi


pensable to the minds of ii
i family circle as food upon I'll
# table around which they gath'
u is to their physical wants. I'll
: Northern people gain all the
: IDEAS of enterprise and thri


from their newspapers, al
g g their children's ambition +
q ceive its first promptings fro
= this source. Let us emula
Year: 1867

Tmr ARMY.--Gen. Grant has forbidden the enlist
ment Of married men into the army, or single men
less than five feet dye But this does not apply to
men who re-enlist to the Veteran Reserve Corps
or TO those VINO enlist as musicians.
Year: 1867

1t used to be the fashion for all the folks
in the neighborhood of New London, Ct.,
to 90 to town and see the annual eXamina-
ton of the schools. One fellow brought
his girl along with him in a wagon; but
when time for dinner came, instead of 60
ing with her to the hotel as the others did,
he went to a shed where his horse was
hitched and took out pumpkin pie:


"Come here, Cecilia" says he to his girl,
"let's have dinner. Fact is, they do charge
so monstrous high to the hotel that don't
feel like submittin' to their eXtortion. 1
guess we kin make as good meal as we
want to out here"


Cecilia, having no other resource, assisted
her beau in his practical protest against
hotel extortions, and swallowed her share
of his frugal lunch with the best grace she
could command.


After the examination was over they
drove home.


There was toll on the way, and, as they
came near it, her prudent lover turned to
her and said:


"Now, Cecilia, you know we mayn't be
married arter all, and as paid the toll one
way, 1 don't consider it no more than fair
that you should pay it the otherw


The poor girl paid the toll, but she never
allowed him to pay his addresses to her
again.
Year: 1867

THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR
L re t the fine three story warehouse No. As
W est Broad street south side suita lie for whole
sal e or retail business. The store is fitted up with
ali the modern improvements for warehousing, and
will be rented very reasonably.


RUFUS MAIN,


aug2s-d2w Corner Broad and High street.
Year: 1867

The tone OF the radical papers clearly in>
dicate alarm for the future of their party.
The elections in Connecticut, California,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Iowa, all
point to great popular reaction which is
destined to sweep away the last vestiges OF
radicalism and install in place thereof the
party of the constitution, and hence this
wide. sprcad alarm. The hand writing is on
the wall The people desire change, and
as cotemporary well says, they are sick
and tired of radicalism, and have resolved to
Illustrate its wicked desi ms upon the instl~
tutions Of our country. There is in the
hearts of the American people an uudylnS
love and veneration for the old constitution,
md no party legislation outside of that ID
strument can long maintain power in this
country. Radicalism has o'erleaped itself,
and its speedy fall is certain. The leaders
see and feel il and are alarmed at the pros
pect but it is too late to retrace aud mend
the matter. They have ridden rough-shod
over the constitution ruthlessly trampled
under foot the sacred rights of the people /;
squandered the public money. and by reck
less and corrupt legislation piled up colos-
sal debt the burdens Of which are grinding
the people 10 the very earth. And for this
they are now being arraigued before the bar
of public opinion; the verdict is foregone
conclusion; they will be adjudged guilty,
and forever unworthy the trust or confidence
of the people Their alarm is not unfounded.
1t is augmented by the lashing of a guilty
conscience. They have presumed too largely
on their power to deceive and mislead the
people The tide has already set in against
them. and their revolutionary schemes will
fail, and the failure will involve them in
hopeless political ruin and infamy. 1t is not
to be wondered at that the radicals cover
before the storm Of popular condemnation.
They have outraged justice, tramplea upon
laws, Knocked at The Constitution, scohed at
civil liberty, violated their oaths Of Office;
and now their punishment is as certain as
that effect follows cause
Year: 1867

not be expected that one of them would
vote against it. He then admonisbed
the freedmen that they must be indus
trious and save their money, ard re-
minded them II they attempt oppression
OF the whites now, while in the majority,
It might be visited upon them in the
future, when the balance Of power would
be different, as no more negroes were to
be brought TO this country. He disabused
their minds Of the idea that they would
showed that this was not even desirable
upon their part.


Governor ORR might as we'll talk to
the Fejee Islanders or Australasian saw
aUaa
Year: 1867

An ENGLIsHMAN AT THE HOTEL IN
RuEIMs.-A stout John Bull, of capacious
stomach and full purse, alighted one day
at the Lion d Or, asked if Rheims was the
place where champagne was made, and
asked nothing else. On being answered in
the affirmative, he Immediately pushed for
the dining room, where he took up the
wine-card and began business. Pointing
to the long list of the different brands Of
champagne, he ordered the first. Having
received and drank this, he sent for the
second, then for the. third, and so on, until
he was so drunk that he could neither
drink nor order more. The waiter now,
as he had been previously directed by the
eccentric Englishman, made mark on
the wine list with a pencil to in
dicate the point to which the force
of swallow of the capacious guest had
brought him. On the next day at
an early hour the Englishman resumed
his days work, beginning where he had
left off, and drank bottle after bottle until
he could drink no more. The waiter again
made his mark; and once more, on the
third day, the Englishman having partly
slept off during the night the effects of the
wine, came to his work with renewed vi
gor. He did as he had done before, and
this time finished the list, but was borne
off insensible to bed. Next morning he
was prepared to continue his labors, but
finding BY an inspection of the wine card
that his work was done, he expressed HIM
self perfectly satisfied, paid his bill, and
took the first train for Paris. He had
drank twelve bottles of champagne in
three days, during which time he had not
left the hotel, and hardly the dining-room,
and departed from Rheims without having
put a foot in its streets.
Year: 1867

A sketch-writer in the Californian de.
livers Sunday school address which is
better than anything Mark Twain can do,
and of which the following passage is AN
example:


"You boys ought to be very kind to
your little sisters. once knew bad boy
who struck his sister blow over the eye.
Although she didn't slowly fade and die
in the early summer time, when the Juno
roses were blowing, with words Of sweet
forgiveness on her pallid lips, she rose up
and hit him over the head with rolling
pin, SO that he couldn't go to Sunday
school for more than month, on account
Of not being able to put his best hat on "
Year: 1867

long survive, and without doubt, ere the
ides of December are upon us, the grass
will grow over his grave in the potter's
field. The vicissitudes of his life illus


tratc the old saying that there is much Of
romance in real life.
Year: 1867

COTTON DENTAL ASSOCIATION origi-
~ mated the Of nitrous oxide gas administer IN a


manner most approved by the medical profession nothing bui EY
TRACT TBRTh and they certainly DO that WITHOUT PAIN-ss
lSakistN