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Year: 1867

Something acceptable to everybody: Let all
who want the best material for its production
send to their grocer for Pyles Saleratus, and
take no other. 1t is always put up in pound
packages.
Year: 1867

Who are these blacks whom we disfran.
chse on account of their color? Are they
bad citizens, law. breakers, criminals Our
constitution processes to dislranchise for
Infamous crimes. Is it then an infamous
crime to have been born with black face?
Shame, shame on the civilization that calls
il such! Shame, shame on the party that
sets up such monstrosity as part of its
creed 1t is a heresy set up, not only in
defiance Of justice, but in defiance OF facts
Whatever other odium the colored popula
ton may bear, it has not that which comes
from violence or lawlessness. Point out
the race which does most to busy Onr police
courts aud fill our jals, aud it will not be
the negro. We have Reform School to
which our charitable philanthropy does not
admit black boys or white girls, but leaves
them parentless aud homeless to roam at
will on the road to ruin. Yet public opin-
ion by no means admits that either females
are the most lawless classes in society
The restraints which our partial public
benevolence throws around the male white
boy to keep him from crime aud disgrace
do not alter all secure him greater credit
than the tender female orphan or the
despised negro 20 an observer OF tie law.
The crime for hich the coored race is





and simply.


But willie it should be no legal denerit
to be black let it not be supposed that any
one holds it q merit to be SO. II would be
just as absurd to enfranchise a man simply
on account of his complexion. Republicans
claim that the color of a mans face has
simply nothing TO do with his ability to
vote, and that common sense teaches that
his qualifications for that high prerogative
should be sought for elsewhere than in the
pigment Of his skin. We do not offer the
negro the ballot because he has a color
which is socially osiracsed, but in spite
OF that fact We do not offer it as a bounty,
as we certainly should not withheld it as
punishment for an incident of his birth
ordained by his Creator, and for which he
is neither to be consured or praised.


But aside from the negative reason why
the elective franchise should not be with
held from the colored citizens OF Ohio, there
are strong positive reasons why IL should
Year: 1867

The waves of sound 60 only 377 yards in
second, while the earth itself goes
eighteen and one-third miles and light ten
thousaId times faster than that while cleo
tricity (which again is probably another
kind Of vibration of the solid atoms of
bodies, and certainly not Auid) runs along
wire about half as fast again as light.
so, if the earth were cannon. ball, shot at
the sun from its present distance, with the
velocity it now travels. and the moment of
explosion telegraphed to the sun they
would get the telegram in about five min
uies, and would have nearly two months to
prepare for the blow, which they would
receive about fifteen years before they
heard the original explosion. This is
merely taking the sun as q target to be
shot at, without regard to his power Of at
tracing the earth at the final rate OF 800
miles sscond.-DeHis0Hs astronomy
lefthom Mathematics.
Year: 1867

He that indulgss himself IN ridiouling
the little imperfectious and weskueEses Of
his friends, will in time find mankind united
against him. The man who secs another
ridieuled before him. though he may, for
the present, concur in the general laugh.
yet in cool hour. will consider the same
trick might be played against himself.
Year: 1867

This establishment is now


COMPLETE IN ALL ITS APPOINTMENTS,
having been newly and elegantly furnished
throughout.


II is acknowledged to have no superior in the
southern States, and to be equal to any in the
North.


equal every respect to any hotel in this country
aHd pledges his best efforts to MAKE HIS GUESTS
IN EVERY WAY COMFORTABLE.
His long and successful experience justifes him
in saying that the accommodations of no hotel
shall be superior to his.


He asks the support of his friends and the public
generally.


ap2 JOHN p. BALLARD, Proprietor.
Year: 1867

DEATH OF You've SAMUEL TYLER.-It is
with much sadness that we record the
death of young Samuel Tyler, of this city,
at the residence of his father, Mr.. John
Ii. Tyler, at IL o'clock yesterday morn
ing. His many high traits of character,
amiabe disposition, and his gentlemanly
conduct, won for him the esteem of all
with whom he came in contact, and there
were few young men who enjoyed a greater
degree of popularity than he among his
comrades. He served during the earlier
part of the late war as a private in the
Army of Northwestern Virginia, and was
during the latter part a member OF the corps
of Typographical Engineers. The con-
slant exposure to all sorts of weather to
which he was subjected while in service
laid in him the seeds of the disease OF
which he ded-consumption. This dread
enemy of so many of the young and gift.
ed commenced to show itself on him
shortly after the close of the war, and he
sought in a more southern climate tc
arrest its progress, but in vain. He re-
turned to his home week or two ago
and on yesterday breathed his last.
Year: 1867

DIvIDEND.-The Board of Directors OF
the Planters National Bank on yesterday
declared dividend of four per cent. out
of the profits of the institution to the Isl
instant, which will pc paid on and after the
18th. We congratulate the stockholders
on the continued prosperity of the bank
and the evidence which is given Of the
fidelity and popularity of its officers.
Year: 1867

MEETING OF THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
There will be called meeting of the Aca-
deny of Medicine tonight at s o'clock.
This meeting is requested by the Board OF
Health, and is probably in reference to
some measure for the prevention of epide-
mics the approaching season.
Year: 1867

ALMOST A FIRE.-A young gentleman,
wishing to ride in one of the " ball cars !"
yesterday afternoon, and too polite to
smoke in the company of ladies, quietly
pockcted his pipe as he stepped upon the
platform Of the car. Seating himself, after
travelling several squares the attention of
a lady who sat near him was attracted by
the smell of burning cloth. A diligent
search was at once instituted, but with no
success, and the passengers were ready to
give it up, when suddenly the coat pocket
of our absent minded friend burst into a
blaze, much to his astonishment and
greatly to the alarm of the female occu-
pants of the coach, who INDUCED in seve-
raj pretty screams of sympathy. No bells
were rung, but the fire was extinguished
without the aid of the fire department and
steam engines. We are informed upon
good authority that this was not a case of
spontaneous combustion.
Year: 1867

ELLENGER & FooTE's COMBINATION
The inclement weather of the last day or
two has interfered in a great measure with
the success of the entertainments OF the
Combination; but we are confident that II
will be resumed as soon as good weather
shall return again. Remember, the per-
formances are all given for the benefit OF
the BAZAAR,
Year: 1867

SUSPENDED WoRK.-The city dredging
machine, which was at work in the river
around the wharves at Rockets, was COM
PEELED to suspend operations yesterday on
account of the freshet in the river.
Year: 1867

1t Is an old and accepted theory that Turkey
y "sick, !" and that dissolution cannot be long
deferred. The theory has been accepted as
true any time during the last eighty years. It
y quesdonable-not to put 1t more strongly
whether such theory be the correct one. IF
Turkey b dying, she has been dying for such
an uncomfortable length of time that, like
Charles the Second of England, of merry
memory, she Is almost bound to confess herself
under the necessity Of ma king an apology
Turkey not only is not dead, but she is revealing
more hopeful signs of life than she has done
for the last one hundred years. The Sultan's re-
turn from his visit to the West promises to
mark the commencement of q new era in the
Moslem empire. Hopeful results are already
flowing from that visit Reforms have been in
trQluged, and the Sultan has shown his will
anenass to advance on the pathway Of pro-
gress BY cslling to his aid the leaders of the
reform party, or, as it Is otherwise named,
Young Turkey" 1t is not to be denied that,
10 the Mohammedan and Greek religions, dan
gerous and Obstructive elements exist, and that
to make progress compatible with the con-
hnued existence of these institutions will re-
quire large measure of the highest kind OF
craftsmanship. Still, the work is not impossi-
BILE. Both Mohammedanism and Greek Chris
tianity are verging on that boundary line be-
yond which religion ceases 10 be power, and
loses itself in the mythical and the fabulous.
Even If these systems had in them more vitality
than they have, their influence would not be
permanently obstructive. Religion Is, no
doubt, power in every community, but it is
less governing power than it once was.
Steam, electricity and the printing press-the
general diffusion of knowledge and application
OF mechanical power-have pushed the reli-
gious element slightly into the shade r the
Sultan honestly persevere in his work of re-
form, he may become to his country what
Peter the Great became to Russia.
Year: 1867

The newly-elecied Senator from Penn
sylvania has his portrait taken by a
skillful artist Of his own party. The pic.
ture tsker is one Col. Mcclure, a leading
Radical and editor of the Chambersburg
Repository. This is his sketch Of Cam
eron:


Disgraced on the records Of the Gov
ernment in the discharge Of the Indian
trust; stamped with corruption in every
Senatorial struggle he has ever made by
the records of our Legislature made q
Cabinet Minister by fraud, aud dismissed
to save the administration from the
odium of his name; denounced as unfit
and unworthy for public trust by the
solemn verdict of Congress two thirds
Republican, and whose blistering record
still remains with the sanction of all;
and suppliant for the patronage and
plunder of the apostate johnson until he
was compelled to desert him to make the
Senatorial contest, is il singular that he
should be opposed in struggle for the
highest honor Pennsylvania has to con
fer upon statesmen
Year: 1867

Fall Of Table Rock at Niagara Falls.
From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, Feb


ruary l6.l


On Monday last, about midday, large
portion of table rock, at Niagara Falls,
estimated at several thousand tons, broke
loose from the river bank, falling to the
beach, or river side, with tremendous
crash, fortunately no one being on the
rock at the time, and no one killed or
injured by the fall OF it. The remaining
portion OF table rock has every appear
ance of insecurity. Large fissures, sep
arating the rock from the main river
bank, are plainly to be seen.


The St. GATHERINGS Journal of Wednes-
day evening gives some further particu-
lars of the fall of table rock, as follows ::


at will be remembered that some
years since very large section of this
rock, which had been hanging in very
threatening position for some time, broke
of with loud noise, and tumbled down
the precipice into the bosom Of the Mia
CARA and that, only few years since,
another large portion ofthis once famous
rock went the way of all rocks about the
Falls.


at is probable that the heavy snow
storms and sudden and violent thaws of
the past month or six weeks had loosened
the balance of the rocks, and thus caused
its disappearance. The loss Of this fa-
vorite resort for tourists to the Falls
will be severely felt, at least on this side
of the river, as very many were induced
to visit the north shore for the sole pur-
pose of seeing it. Colonel Peacock,
who commanded the wing of our army
during the Fenian raid in June last, and
also moved his column just fast enough
to miss the boys in green, was on the
table rock only few minutes before the
last of it fell
Year: 1867

POCKET P1cKED.-A lady leaving on the Pc
tersburg train had her pocket picked OF 4
purse con tanning fifty dollars on yesterday
morning. Unless the City Council allows the
railroad company the privilege OF enclosing
their depot, aud governing the enclosure with
their own police force there will be many
other pockets picked.
Year: 1867

THE FAIR.-Anything in the way of fancy
articles or edible delicacies can be gotten at
the Catholic Fair at outside prices. The
ladies will be glad to see their friends in any
n nnTnh
Year: 1867

HESRTCo COUNTY CoCRT.-This court was in
session yesterday, but transacted no business
of public interest


The grand Jury has made number of pre-
sentiments, but none OF them have been made
public
Year: 1867

A STRANGE SORT OF PET.-A
French ioDrual tells the following
story: Two ladies, leading a sucking
pig by string, entered the Agen
railway station a few days since, but
before they took their tickets, they
asked whether they would be allowed
to carry their pet into the carriage
with them. This was refused, and
the two intending travellers went
away. Some time alter returned,
one Of them carrying what appeared
to be "a baby, with its face carefully
covered over. They took their tick
cts and We're about % get into the
tain when the station master, who
had not forgotten the igevious re-
quest, advanced, and rsmarking,
'sOh, what Il beautiful child" passing
his hand over its head. A grunt of
dissatisfaction was the reply to his
caresS The ladies, finding that their
scheme was discovered, preferred to
abandon their journey than travel
without their strange coTp.Iion.
Year: 1867

NEGRO CONGRESSMEN.-The re
suit of the Virginia election. says a
Virginia paper, should satisfy every
observing man in the North, that
Congress will be lilled with negro
representatives from the South.
This will be the legitimate fruits Of
universal negro suffrage, and, so far
as we are concerned, they shall enjoy
il To Their hearts content, and their
personal annoyance too. We trust
that not a white MAN in the whole
South, VIII ever be sent to a Radical
Congress. We would dose them with
nigger until they cry, "hold, enough!'
Year: 1867

A stranger who supposed that he knewmine
host well, put up the National Hotel. Since
this house had become crack hotel at the
Capitol, 1t was quite filled all the time, and
the new conner was necessarily for the first
night sent to the upper floor to sleep. Com
ing down stairs in the morning, little cross,
he met Gen. Cass there, who had fine siitc
of rooms, in the hall, he stepped up to him and
said:


81 will not stand it! You have put me at
the top of the house. must have my room
somewhere else, lower down." Gen. Cass lin
terposing nervously) said ''Sir, you are mis-
taken in the person; you are addressing Gen.
Cass of Michigan" Stranger confusedly:-
BEG your pardon, General--thought it was
my old friend Guy. Beg thousand pardons,
sir. All a mistake, all mistake, assure you,
sir" The General passed out Of the building,
but soon returned; but, as luck would have it,
the stranger met him full in the face again but
in another position This time he was sure
he had met mine host, for the Senator from
Michigan he knew had just gene out So the
stranger stepped boldly up, slapped the Cen
eral heartily and iamiIiarly on the shoulder.
exclaiming; "By heavens, Guy. I've got
rich Joke to relate. / met old Cass up stairs
just now thought it was you, and began curs-
ing him about my room" General Cass with
empbasis) "Well, young man; you have met
old Cass againp Stranger sloped and has not
been heard of since.
Year: 1867

Some time ago a boy was discovered in the
street, evidently bright and intelligent, but
sick man, who had the feeling Of kindness
strongly developed, went to ask what he was
doing there.


"Waiting for God to come for me" he said,


"What do you meam?' said the gentleman,
touched by the pathetic tone of the answer,
and the condition Of the boy, in whose eye and
flushed face he saw the evidence of a fever.


"God sent for mother, and father and little
brother" said he 'and took them away up in
the sky; and mother told me when she was
sick, that God would care for me. have no
home, NJ body to give me anything, and so !
came out here, and have been looking SO long
in the sky for God to come and take care ofme,
as mother said he would He will come, wont
he? Mother never told lie"


eyes my lad said the gentleman; overcome
with emotion" "He has sent me to take care
Of you"


You should have seen bis eyes flash, and the
smile Of triumph break over bis face, as he
said:


"Mother never told lie, sir but you have
been so long on the way"


What a lesson of trust, and how this Incl
dent shows the effect Of never deceiving child
rem with tales.
Year: 1867

From out her founts behind the Caspian Sea-
Thro vague tradition. and old 0rphic hymn;
Loud walls the mournful voice of History,
And Vanity is the only crop of Time!
The Earth is quenched with all celestial fires,
The Heavens reinvolve themselves a scroll,
The Universe in vanity expires,
Save that Immortal Trouble called the SOUL
Magnetic harmonies Of woman's voice,
Pure eloquence from crystal-hearted men,
Gardens which in perennial bloom rejoice,
Majestic forms Of beauty-all are vain
In vain the martyrs crown, the poets wreath,
The moving canvas, and the chiseled thought
The Arch of triumph, and the Forums breath,
The statesman's civic honors dearly bought.
The Doric column, and the Tuscan pride,
Basilic old, and mosque, and Gothic fame
All monuments are sermons petriied
To teach US that the dead have lived in vain
And hopes newborn to-day, tomorrow die...
And all beneath the Sun is mystery.
High Heaven itself lies in tranquility,
And every meaner thought is vanity
Or eer the silver chord be loosed, the bowl
Of gold be broke, or pitcher at the fount,
Back back to God the anastolic soul
From out the be 1y's dust and crypt shall mount! j!
Therefore, mid shadows of a world effete,
Go clip the wings of every faithless dreamj
Bid every passion stay while you repeat
This challenge-"all but tanityI deem!'
Believe that only Duty is not vain!
And il not more than this, nor less, can be-
Obedient to God, and Just to man,
True to thyself, and thy high destiny
What more by the Year, of the living or dead,
OF tie past or to come, remained to be said,


Will never be known, fear,


For the clock in the tower


Struck the midnight hour


And he fell from the throne to the bier !!
And clarion voice on the air rose high,
And the jolly New Year trode down from the sky


With frosty step and light,


And my heart beat lighter,


And the fire burned brighter,


And the stars blazed out more bright!
By the side of his car herald stood
And cried to the glen, and field and wood,


To the valley and mountain afar;


While down at his feet


A prophet sat


And sang to the morning. star!
And caught at his song all eagerly,
For he sang of our copntry's destiny


Her future in war or peacej


And he touched his Tyre


Like thing on fire,


And gave ont song like this.
Year: 1867

And the following for tho city bank stocks The
American Exchange National Bank leads oft in the
November half-ycarly dividends by declaring five
per cent on its capital of $5Oo0Oo The City National
declares six per cent The Mechanics and Traders
National five per cent. The Fulton National five per
Year: 1867

Nooody would now undertake no do,and


hanging as a punishment for stealino tho vol


ue OF shilling. In all civilized nations ,ha


percentage OF executions and of he;,o,a


crimes as compared with the total populat;on


is on the whole decreasing. Whether these
two facts stand in the relation of cause and
effect or only as coordinate results OF a cene,.
al improvement in social relations, it must he
admitted that the necessity for capital pun
ishment is equally disproved. The Argus
speaks of the italian banditti as if robbery
bad been a crime unknown before the reform
d penal code was adopted, and as If
msgovernment in other respects had
nothing to no with the existence OF
brisands. Y refers to- the crimes which
have lately been perpetrated in this State, as
J" there We're no atrociOus crimes in other
States where the extreme penalty of the law
Is stl'i applied. as ii the war from which we
have Just emerged had not prepared the way
for scenes of violence. If there are other
sufficient causes for "a temporary increase of
crime we cannot tbeleve that such increase
should be charged to the practical abolition
of capital punishment. If in other countries
crime has diminished notwithstanding the
abolition OF capital punishment it would
seem TO be proved that the penalty has no di-
rect bearing upon the amount of crime, Is
consequently unnecessary, and if unnecessary
indefensible. ..-
Year: 1867

it in this bill. Ii we should pass this bill with
out the amendment, do not suppose it will
be likely to be Inexperienced by the Ameri.
can people. do not suppose, that il we mass
this bill as measure ofprotection TO-DAY the
people would fear that we intended to make
this military rule permanent. i am sure
nothing has gone from the American Con-
gress which authorizes any such inference or
Justliies any such presumption. No one can


Iail TO see the difficulty of instant protection
nna 1 reconstruction; that this is an advance


nm;,s measure demanded BY the times measure


fu''e 700 long postponed, in my Judgment.
Year: 1867

The present time is a most excellent one for
working the roads in the county. The weather
is dry, cool and pleasant, and the crops in the
county, to a great extent are gathered and
housed. Hardly anything would conduce
more to the general prosperity of the county,
than the matter of good roads, through its
length and breadth. The roads most needed
to be worked well and put in good repair are,
the stage road from this place to Mulberry on
the Franklin county line; and the roads lead
ing North to Washington county; viz: that
to Evansville and those leading to Fayette-
vile these roads should be well worked and
put in good repair, before the winter and wet
season commences Our enterprising neigh
bors of Fort Smith, have lately marked. and
perhaps, cut out a road from the Dutch Mills
on the State line, through the Cherokee ma
ton which they claim to be q shorter route
from Fayetteville, than the old roads, which
we hardly believe, and moreover, we think
can be hardly Travelled during the wet season.
But be this as it may, it should be an incentive
to the people of Crawford county to put all
their roads in good repair and thus keep tray
ell from going in the smallest degree to or BY
any other route. All the citizens of the coun-
ty have an interest in this matter, let them
take hold of it and it can be accomplished
without any trouble.


There will soon be a good Steam Ferry Boat
put on the river at this place, so there will be
no detention to travellers or drovers. Wash
ington county has the same interest in having
good roads leading from there to this point
as we have; and we have no doubt, they will
take heartily hold of the matter, for road
that should take the travel from that county
through the Cherokee nation, would cut off
Fayetteville and in fact nearly all of the
county from all the benefits occurring from
through travel. .... ..... .....


Although not much acquainted with the
locality, we think in winter the road directly
over Boston Mountain would be the best.
Could not the route over the mountain be re-
signed and more eligible location for road
be found, in passing over it than the one now
travelled. .