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Year: 1868

A large proportion of the means of living
in our Western counties is derived from the
distillation of fruit. The tax on small dis
tllleries is so great that many of our small
distillers are forced to close up, while thou
sands of bushels of luscious fruit are rotting
in the orchards. a ts ,l. 49,. ....,i ! +


We understand that it has been privately
circulated that the Republican party is re-
sponsible for this, and that the Republicans
are making an unjust discrimination between
the large distillers of the North and the
small distillers of the South.


The facts in the case are simply these
These revenue laws were passed before North
Carolina soas reconstructed. Since we have
been admitted to representation in Congress,
the time has been too short for our members
to accomplish anything. And then it should
be taken into consideration that all the en-.
ergies of Congress have been directed to-
wards restoring the Southern States and in
opposing the evil Vaccinations of President
johnson. With all these great responsibilities
upon them, in which wereinvolved the safety
and thelivcs and property of all the loyal men
in the South, it was hardly to be expected
that Congress would have had time to review
the revenue laws.


We are satisfied that after the next session
of Congress the law will be modified in this
respect.


In the meantime, let the people club to-
gether, move their distilleries together, form
a joint stock company and distil their fruit
Let this he done wherever it is practicable


At all events, let it be borne in mind that
the rebel secession Democracy are RESPONSE
bic for the taxes, and that by electing full
delegation of Republicans to Congress and
giving the vote of the State to Grant and
Colfax hna large majority, the people O
North Carolina will be far more likely tt
receive favorable legislation at the hands o.
Congress than by electing secessionists and
rebels
Year: 1868

War.


The Rebels are making desperate efforts
to prevent the negro from believing that
Seymour ana Blair intend to overthrow the
State governments in the South, abolish ne
gro suffrage, establish system of serfdom
or peonage, and inaugurate war for the
expulsion of all loyal white men who now
stand by Congress and the national authori-
ty. But their appeals are of little avail.
Frank Blair's letter has been read in every
cabin in the South. Frank Blair declared
for war and against negro suffrage and
was nominated by the Democratic conven.
ton for the declaration. Vallandigham
nominated Seymour and Seymour upon ac-
cepting the nomination at the hands of the
Ohio rebel, declared for war and against ne
gro suffrage. The cry of the Democratic
party from one end of the land to the other
is" DOWN WITH THE NEGRO !"
"DOWN WITH THE LOYAL WHITE :"
"Drive them both from the South" and let
rebellion and discord and anarchy reign tri-
umphant from the Ohio to the Gulf.
Poor Whites Loyal Whites! emancipa-
ted negroes negroes who have always been
free you now see what is before you. The
first battle you will have to fight will be with
ballots on the 3rd of next November; if
that is not won for Grant and Colfax, the
next battle you will have to fight will
be with bullets against Seymour and
Blair, and an army led on by butch
ers like Forrest and Wade Hamp-
ton. If you would be free, therefore
white man or negro work from this mo-
ment until the day of election with all your
might for Grant and Colfax. Let nothing
but work of absolute necessity keep you
from the greater work of saving your own
| personal liberty from slavery to the
| worst tyrants that ever cursed the face of
the earth. Work work work night and
| day, in season or out of season, at all times
and in all places. To those who cannot
read send some one with loyal papers who
can. Let no man be ignorant of the exact
issue. 1t is Peace or War, Slavery or Free
dom and nothing else. Grant and Colfax
are for Peace and Liberty. Seymour and
Blair are for War and Slavery Your ballots
for the former will shield you from the bul
lets of the latter. One drops like a snow
flake and achieves a victory without blood.
shtd. The other crashes through your body
and drinks your life current. Clutch the
former with the names of the Grant Electors
on them and hold them with death grip
until you, yourselves, safely deposit them in
the ballot box and our word for it the latter
will never be your portion.
Year: 1868

A friend in Burke county writes as follows:
II made speech yesterday in the country to
about one hundred voters, and 1 am satisfied
that when finished, every man on the ground
was for Grant and Colfax. Unless appearances
are very deceptive we shall gain handsomely in
this county. The Rebs are working like beavers,
but it will be no go with them here. They are
evidently down in the mouth The Democratic
candidate for sheriff in the late canvass has quit
the Rebs and Joined us, and is doing good GER.
VICE. frf.l1t s,t .s
Year: 1868

This is phrase which has of.late been of
ten seen in the Coppethcad papers. Is there
such thing in the whole Sodthas q colored
Democratic Can there be colored man 50
false to his race or 80 false to himself as to
cast his vote to help to powerthose men who
if they once obtain that power, would again
reduce the colored man to condition worse
than death itself2 Can there be a colored
man who would vote to raise to power man
who by his presence and words sanctioned
the murder of hundreds of innocent, molten
sive colored men whose color was their only
crime2 Can colored man forget that
Seymour looked calmly on while his Demo-
cratic friends were hanging to lamp posts
and beating to death with clubs and stones
men of his own race2 Can colored man
vote to raise to power that party who burn,
ed the Colorcd Orphan Asylum and murder
ed and maltreated many of the poor helpless
children whom their barbarity had just rem
dered homelessa Can colored man so far
forget himself and his race as to aid in any
manner men who have done this, and who


but for Republicans, would have done far
worse. Can colored man vote with party
one of whose acknowledged leaders is the in.
famous Forrest, who murdered in cold blood


over three hundred OF their brethren, who,


trusting to the flaws ofcivilized warfare, laid


down their arms9 Can colored man by his


vote endorse those men who refused toacknw-


ledge.the colored man as entitled to the ben


fits Of the rules of war, but wished to murder


every colored soldier taken prisoner If


there be colored man so false to himself
and to the interests of his brethren let him
feel the displeasure of his race, not by vio-


lence, but by treating him as man who
bears the mark of Cain, as man to whom
no name of infamy, except the name of Ju-
das could apply. On this election depends
the salvation of the colored people; should
the Republicans triumph their rights as men
and citizens ore secured to them beyond the


power Of any party to deprive them Of it,


but should the Democrats obtain the power


they covet,a that the colored men have gain
ed by the war will beirretrievably lost. Color


ed men assist those who would aid and pro-
tect you, and let the colored vote be cast as
unit for Grant and Colfax.
Year: 1868

This splendid Tonic is now used by all classes
of people for every symptom of Stomach out
of order"


The secret of it is this: Plantation Bitters are
certain to correct the juices of the Stomach, set all
its machinery at work. and enable it to resist and
throw off the approaching danger. The tendency
of the operations of Nature is always towards a
cure; all she needs is little assistance at the
proper time. How much more reasonable and
sensible it is to help her along with gentle, yet
powerful Tonic, than to deluge and weaken and
defeat her curative processes with poisonous drugs
and fiery mixtures which only stupefy and plant
the seeds of disease and DEATH
Year: 1868

and with one accord give it their unqualified appro


baton. We now address ourselves to all who are
unaequainted with this the greatest Panacea of the
age, for the healing of all diseases of the Throat
and Lungs, assuring you that
Year: 1868

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-roliant, and sERli do what We
nay be able to induce the establishment Of
manafaetoriUs In ear midst for our home Pre-
aucts. To this end Eo viii pay special attention
to the COST and sTATrsTTcs Of manufacturing
and exert ourselves to encourage the diTersls
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uont Of Southern resources
Year: 1868

1t will be seen by the above figures that
the whites have increased their strength
in the new registration l,lS9 votes, and the
blacks have increased theirs 1923. The
whites could have added five hundred
more to the list if all who were entitled to
register had turned out. 1t is now evident
to every one that the whites have it in
their power to control this city. Let them
see to it that at the registration which will
take place fourteen days prior to the cleo
tion, every delinquent white voter records
his name,
Year: 1868

Fresh glides the brook and blows the gale,
Yet yOhder halts the quist mill
The whirling wheel, the rushing sail,
How motiOnless and stiHi
Six days Of toll, poor child Of Gain,
Thy strength the slave Of want may be;
The seventh thy limbs escape the chain
A God hath made thee free
All, tender was the Law that gave


This holy respite to the breast,
To breathe the gale, TO watch the wave,
Aud know the wheel may rest
But where the waves the gentlest glide,
What image charms to light thine eyes
The spire reflected on the tide


Invites thee 70 the skies.
To teach the soul ita n0biest worth,


TIE rest FROM mortal tolls is given
Go snatch the brief reprieve from earth,
And pass-a guest tc Heaven.
They tell thee iu their dreaming school.
or power from old dominion hurled,
When rich and poor, with juster rule,
Shall share the altered world.
Alas since time itself began,


That fable hath but fooled the hour;
Each age that ripens power in man


But subjects man to power.
Yet every day in seven, at least,


One bright republic shall he known;
Mans world while hath surely ceased,
When God proclaims His own
Six days may rank divide the poor,


Dives. from thy banquet hall
The seventh the Father opes his door,


And holds His feast for all
Year: 1868

We shall constantly sdmonish the Southern
people TO be seif-Feliant, and shall do what We
may be able 10 induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we win pay special attention
20 the COST and sTATIsTIos Of manufacturing,
and exert ourselves TO encourage the diversih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
nent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1868

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE ASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and By the generous and united
support Of the UNroN AND DIsPATcH BY the
patrons Of both the former papers. the PrOprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hithe
TO unsurpassed in this cityo or State.


IN FULLNEsS AND ACCURACY
NEWS. our paper win compare favorably lib


best in the entire country; and in saying


we only repeat the expressions Of many


patrons, who are most capable Of judging in


matters .H-
Year: 1868

pations at tho South.' How warlikei

 How bloody in its breathings is this

 expression! How Butler will fight

 when the law compcIs him to yield up

 spoons, watches, &c., to their rightful

 owners. How Grant will array his division in battle array when the law demands that the horse he rides, per haps, be restored to the stable from whence he came. We can not think for moment that any man in the south will say that the usurpations of property by Grant, by Butler, and the minions of the armies that invaded the south was right; and if wrong, justice demands that the wrong shall be right ed; and who more than the President shall have power to do these things 7 This is the extent of Gen. Blair's mean ing, when he says the army shall undo its usurpations at the south. Again, we say we want no war; we do not believe it is possible that another war can come upon the issues that divide our country to-day. But we do say that whoever the next President is, fl he fails to pursue the policy laid down by Gen. Blair, he will be false to his country, false to his oath, and false to his God. 7,e
Year: 1868

From all quarters of the globe the good news of an abundant harvest of everything that is good and useful 10 the human race, comes by telegrah and

 mail. The cotton crop of the South will approximate nearly three million bales which will sell at about 20 cents per pound, and there is a great plenty of fruit and vegetables. Indeed the bountifnl hand of providence has not been withheld from any portion of our country. An kinds of fruit and grain, in garden, ticld and vineyard will bless the efforts of the husbandman once more. The South almost exhausted from devastation and drouth is revived again amidst the plentiful product of her carcfully-tilic lands, while the crops in the West and in the North, everywhere, are unusually good. The prospects of good harvest in Great Britau are unusually fattering. The vineyards of France are laden with choice grapes, which are ripening ear Her than usual. The golden grain and purple fruits Of Germany and Italy are unusually fine and abundant. In fact, from all parts of the globe comes the same happy evidence of the good time coming

 The well filled gamers throughout the land will give impulse to trade, and the most fortunate results may be anticipated. Such blessings following famine in many parts of the country, and discouragements from various causes throughout the whole land, will infuse fresh hope and energy. When the products of the South are thrown upon the market business will receive new impetus; merchants will doff their long faces, and their countenances will again assume the happy and cheer full expression which they wore in the quiet ssand happy times of peace and plenty.

 We cannot hope that in single year of plenty business will revive to it's former health and strength, but it will have a salutary and healthful effect upon the condition of affairs generally, and when the crops of another year come in and when the condition of the finances of our country becomes more settled, of which there is great hope within the next twelve months-as the of Seymour is almosts certain ty--then we may look for the return of and our land will be abun- dantly blessed.-[L Louisville Courier.
Year: 1868

On tho evening of the 5th inst, at the residence of the brides father, by the Rev. JIG. Kennedy, MR. RICHARD SuroLlFrE 10 Miss MATILDA r. ALLEN, all of Prairie county.

 From the higher plain of married life we extend our hand to you, friend Dick, and bid you welcome. May you find in this. to you new phase of life, that joy and blessedness that only comes to those who have tasted and know the pleasures of married state. May the fair bride whose destiny IS now linked with yours be indeed your joy in peace and your solaco when the ills of life may come; and together, loved and loving, may you walk the paths of life, each to the other all in all and may the blessedness of doing good be yours all the days of your lives. a a a7,aaf 8f.a
Year: 1868

1ag- The pink-eyed carpet-bagger who does the scribblng for the Devall's Bluff pop-gun, otherwise known as the White River Journal, has, by following the bent of his Yankee nature, prying into the private business of others, dis cerned that our salary is so limited that it is matter of astohishmeni that we should live upon it; and because we took him to task for lodging ill q truly Yankee manner the defense of a principle laid down by his party, he finds sufficient excuse for dropping the issue and cnligAtening his readers upon the financial status of those who accuse him. Which of the C. B'e it was that penned that tad-pole article we are at loss to determine; for when we look and see what total lack of brains there is in it we almost con- clude twas one, and judging from the Yankee impndence that characterizcs the article we conclude twas the other :; but, be it one or the other we advise them to go slow on the line they have started to pursue. If it is their inten- ton to publish Republican paper in Arkansas, let it be Republican as this terra is understood in our State. If they as they express themselves to be pig oa the Radical platform for national government, and big pig upon the partizan bills passed by the late legislature-legal advertising and all-- in the name of common decency we protest against their being pup on this carrier bill. Their position may be as they say, Straight out Republican of this we have no doubt, for we have al- ways understood that the main plank in the platform of their party was the loaTes and fishes, and if they find loayes and fishes in advocating the extreme measures of the party, why of course it is orthodox Radicalism to do it. But this carrier bill, you see, might prove unpopular, and as there's no money in it, why its straight out Republican doctrine to oppose it. Pig or pup it makes no difference, whichever it pays to be, that's me, says the honest Re- publican editor(?) But to waste as little space as possible upon this beau tiful brace of editors, "so-called,' and as their readers may be enlightened upon the charges made against us we say our salary is small, very small but thanks to our prudence we have never been driven to the necessity of advoca- ting political doctrines or seeking place at the hands of party for the sake of the dollars thereby to be ob- taiped; and as "thick headed" as we confess ourselves to be we have man. aged always in our travels to see the way from the deck of a steamboat to the shore.
Year: 1868

hALElGll, MAY 1, 1910.


Judging from the Northern papers, our
friends North seem to he in doubt as to the
result of our recent election, and to have
little idea of the complete union and sturdy
strength of the Republican party in this
State. Strange that you Go not learn that
no reliance is to be put upon the Southern
political dispatches TO the Associated
Press" The recent Constitutional Conven-
tion in this State was a body of men of un-
usual intelligence and political ability. and
tine Constitution which they submitted to
the people was one of rare excellence, and
there has never been any question of its rati-
fication by a large majority. Neither has
there been shadow of division among the
Republican voters of the State. All contra
ry stories are mere fabrications of the lying
agents of the Associated Press"


The Constitution and every Republican
on the State ticket has been carried by more
than twenty thousand majority. Talk about
divisions in regard to Governor Holden
why Governor Holden is the most popular
man in the State. The fact honorable to
to him, that he has bitter enemies among
the unrepentant rebels, doesn't argue his un-
popularity with the loyal citizens, but quite
the contrary. And the Republicans have
also carried more than twothirds of each
branch of the Legislature, and by laundering
majoritles elected six of the seven representa-
tives to Congress-and six men who are fit
for the place, too.


There is not more reliable Republican
State in the Union than North Carolina.-
Our recent victory is as complete as it is
glorious, and built upon sure foundations !;
and yet our Northern friends seem to be in
doubt as to the result here We are all right
in North Carolina, and by the grace of God
shall remain So
Year: 1868

Disraeli, it is said, looks older and more
careworn than of yore, and there is a
dreamy, preoccupied look in those dim,
weary eyes, which can have so much life and
fire in them at times. All his glowing locks
are gone; nothing now remains of what
was once his great characteristic but one
large curl on the forehead. At his recent
reception he wore silk stockings, shoes with
buckles, and cooked hat.
Year: 1868

SThe Skowhegan (Maine) Clarion says that
a Mrs. Hall, OF that neighborhood, while in a
state OF mental arrangement, during the late
cold spell of weather, left her bed during the
Temporary absence Of her nurse, with nothing
on but her night clothes, and was soon after
discovered under q tree short distance from
the house, frozen TO death.
Year: 1868

THE LATE PROFESSOR JEwETT.-The death
Of this gentleman was announced in our tele.
graphic column yesterday. He will be rernem-
bered as having been the librarian Of the Smith.
sonian Institution for some years, and until the
original plan of establishing a great library
there was abandoned. When il was decided TO
open public library on a large scale in Bos-
ton Mr.. Jewett was selected as one OF the most
accomplished bibliographists in the country, to
be its superintendent, and held that laborious
and responsible position until the day Of his
cearh; and his sudden death may be fairly At
tributed to the unremitting and excessive La.
bers Of his Office
Year: 1868




eight inches. The hand Is remarkable
for its breadth and thickness, aud for
the great length of the palm, partly
occasioned by the extent of undivided
integument between the fingers. The
fingers are thus short, and appear as If
swollen and gouty and are conical in
shape after the first joint, by tapering
to nails, which, being not larger or
longer than those of man, are relatively
to the fingers much smaller. The cir
conference of the middle digit at the
first Joint in the gorilla is five and half
inches in man, at the same part, it
averages two and three-fourths inches.
The skin covering the middle joint is
thick and callous on the backs of the
fingers the habit Of the animal to APP
ply those parts to the ground, in occa-
sional progression, Is manifested by
these callosities. The back of the hand
is hairy as far as the divisions of the
fingers the palm is naked and callous.
The thumb, besides its shortness, accord
ing to the standard of the human hand,
is scarcely half so thick as the forefinger
In the hind limbs, appearances lead
to an inference that the gorilla resorts
to them in station and progression more
than any other ape.


The thigh has a great circumference
above the knee:joint, and more uni
form size than in man. The relative
shortness of the thigh adds to the APP
pearance of its superior thickness. Alb
it is.not of greater circumference
at its middle than is the same part in
man
Year: 1868

And old Franz, so glad and so
sorry, SO afraid to come near and so
afraid to stay away, was the great
mystery of the occasion. He was
laughing and sobbing, and taking off
his coat and putting on his hat, and
smoking his pipe at the table to such
an extent that the people called him
crazy.


And his boy, bearing up under
the great load of trouble he could
not tell Of, was as great-a puzzle as
his father. The young lady from
the city had heard his story, and she
made an effort to cheer him. He
watched her maneuvers with Curl
Gus smile and listened to her pleas
ant words with head inclined as if
calculating their weight or estimating
their value. At last he talked but
not as she wished. He startled her
with: "Young lady, woman posses
ses strange power. She uses this
sometimes unwittingly, and does
many great wrongs. 1 have suffered
an suffering. Please go away
from me with your pretty face and
pleasant words" :


This was curious speech, and it
had a curious effect. TRADDLEs.
Year: 1868

A Toad UNDRgssISe.-Audubon
relates that he once saw a toad un-
dress himself He commenced bv
pressing his elbows hard against his
sides and rubbing downwards. Az
ter a few smart rubs his hide began
to burst open along his back. He
kept on rubbing until he worked all
his skin into folds on his sides and
hips; then grasping enc hind leg
with his hands, he hauled off one
leg of his pants the same as any
body would; then stripped off the
ether hind leg in the same way. He
then took his cast off skin forward
between his fore legs into his mouth
and swallowed it; then, by raising
and lowering his head, swallowing
as his head came down, he stripped
off his skin underneath, until it came
to his forelegs; then grasping one of
these with the opposite hand, by q
single motion of the head, and while
swallowing, he drew it from the neck
and swallowed the whole.