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Year: 1865

The Crowning Discovery-THE WORLD APPRE-
GATES TThc progress of practical science during the last


hryve years. been unexamped in the history of the
world Intelligence which in the early part of the present
century travelled slowly by stages and horsepos the
land and by sailing vessels the literally lghns
through all lands Ocean navigation, upon which
looked with astonishment at its commencement is COM
parativey stale affair." and Submarine cables from
shore in the twnkng of all that of Importance TO
the merchant the private citizen in
walk of life There is but discovery, made within the
period We have Importance mankind than
all the rest neither less than the of
curing all the painful and dangerous of human ailments
and to THOMAS the originator of this great boon
To the sick suffering belong of right the highest hon
ors Pills and Ointment those sovereign remedies for
internal and disease before which dyspepsia and
scrofa complaints which most prevalent in
this and countries. succumb intrinsicay OF
value in plantlrOpc than invention for the
annhaton of time and space Steam however, is the great
AGENT of their diffusion. II literally bears them to the ends


If the earth When thousand ctterng theories of the
present shall have been forgoen the substantial bene-


fits upon mankind by Professor HOLLOWAY Will be
held in grateful remembrance--Nec York Mercury
Year: 1865

LAST 0ProRruSIrY-Go BY ALL MEAys.-We
are glad to announce that Mr.. Wormer has de-
cided to give more sight at the Stereoscop-
tican at the Theater on this Saturday evening.
Many who were debarred the previous privilege
by incement weather desired to witness the ex-
hibition, and the proprietor has consented to DO
so at Inconvenience to himself The rates of
admission will be 80 and % cents, and a choice
selection of views to the number of about l20
will be given. We hope to good turnout
if the weather is pleasant. The ladies and little
folks should all be allowed to go, as it is an
entertainment which will interest and instruct
them
Year: 1865

MIscnEF.-The Salt Lake Tedete is perfect
thorn in the Mormon side. The polygamic ras-
Gals couldn't get any other way so they
destroyed a cargo of paper and other material
belonging to that Office which was on its way
from the East Two hundred dollars reward is
offered for the perpetrators
Year: 1865

VERY Coon LoGIc.-Johason, Provisional Gov
ernor of Georgia, said in his Message to the
State Convention: The debt contracted before
the war is an honorable one; but the other is on
very different basis having no legal or moral
obligation The Confederate currency and cause
fourishcd together in life, and must be hurried an
the same qrdre -
Year: 1865

VALUABLE REGIsrER.-The War Department
has caused a register to be compiled, which is
now in the hands of the printer, giving the
name and rank of every volunteer officer who
served during the late war. The register will
contain all other official information concerning
each officer which may be of any interest to him
or his friends
Year: 1865

THANK YoU-We are indebted to the Tower
House people for box well filled with green
corn, mice, too,) Egg Plants and other delica-
cies of the season for which that favored spot is
noted. They were very acceptable.
Year: 1865

The best Family Machine.-We would call the
attention readers the GROVER BAKER MACHINES
Their reputation well established for to attempt
a word favor but would advise any person want
ing a reliable Family Sewing Machine to investigate the
merits before buying "A wcrd to the wise is
uaicieutr 4l.v9.
Year: 1865

the life Of any other man. A corporals
guard would do as we'll Indeed, corpo-
rails guard nor any other guard is prodf
against the assassin when his arm is nerved
and his head is clear.


1t Is the purpose of the President to bring
back the Government to civil rulo. Then
we hope, with nine tenths of the loyal people
of this country, that he will as carly as pos.
siblo, with a single stroke of his pen, abolish
the detective force now In existence.


Espionage, in times of peace, is disgrace
to any nation. We are not only now at
pence with ourselves but with all the world.
A spy may be seen at every corner of the
street in France, but he should only be seen
in America after this, to be put under the
ban unless properly employed by the civil
and subordinate branches of the Govern
ment for the detection of counterfeiters, or
other criminals for civil court trials.


Espionage is incompatible with n rcpubIi-
can form of government. Our Government
was never so republican in form-was never
so we'll able to protect itself-was never so
highly respected abroad-was never so rich
In resources-was never so we'll fortified
against rebellion mt home or foreign invu-
sion, and was never more powerful on the
soa than now Then abolish the weapon of
tyrnnts, and let us return to the good old
times, trusting in the fidelity of our munich
palities and the common glory Of our nation
ality, as reflected through the Executive, the
Legislative, and Judicial branches of the
Government.
Year: 1865

To be saved from demagogues is one
of the prayers which the people of the
United States will hereafter put up every
day. To be saved from ward commit
tees and cross-road politicians; to be
saved from candidates for Congress and
the Legislature; to be saved from can
didates for Office of any kind, will be
their unceasing supplication. To be
mercifully let alone; never to see pa
triot; never to be complimented on their
intelligence and virtue; never to feel
that the simplicity of their understand
jngs is to be made game of by place
hunters. This they will devoutly ask,
and, come all other calamities, they will
endeavor to submit, if this calamity can
be avoided.


All monarchs have their yicissitudes
and misfortunes; but none of them all
not Alexander, Caesar, Hannibal, nor
Napoleon,-ever came to such days Of
humiliation as King People. Only q
few years ago, and he sat upon his throne,
surrounded by courtiers who prostrated
themselves to the earth at his feet, con-
sidered it privilege to black his boots
and powder his wig, declared that he
was the most virtuous and intelligent Of
the sons Of men, that the king could do
no wrong, and that his voice was the
voice Of god. He was clothed in pur-
pie and flnc linen, and held royal
sceptre in his hand, aud had more pa
tronage in his gift than any king Of Eu-
rope, and permitted no man to tell him
the truth, o., # hs did, dismissed him
Year: 1865

from his service, and lived . most jolly
and satisfied life, thoroughly convinced
that though other kings had come to
grief there should be no end to the do
minion Of King People. And now, alas,
poor soul, he is eating grass, like Nebu-
chadnezzar; asking himself for pass,
like . negro slave; dressed in an old blue
coat, dodging from conscript officers, and
as dropping and disconsolate as chanti-
cleer in hail storm so helpless, for
lorn and miserable that there are "none
so poor as do him reverence"


If ever this deposed and unfortunate
monarch be restored again to authority,
he Will be q sadder but wiser man.
He Will eschew the batteries Of. courtiers,
and esteem that man his best friend who
induces him to put checks and balances
upon his own authority. He will turn
an evil eye upon fanatics and dema-
gogues, and when they prate to him of
his infallible virtue and intelligence, will
hold up to them the bloody record of this
war, and scourge them from his presence.
Year: 1865

The resolutions which have been
passed by the various regiments of the
Confederate army, and which they have
published to the world, ring like inspi-
ring trumpet tones on tho air. Wherever
else the paralyzing suggestions of de-
spondency and doubt are heard, they
cannot affect the iron nerves of those
heroes who have borne the brunt of this
war; who have endured the winters
frosts and the summers heat; who have
slept on the bare ground, have lived on
the coarsest food, marched weary miles
in bare feet, poured out their blood like
summer rain, and stood like a living wall
between their country and its enemies.
These are the men who send forth words
of hope and cheer and high resolve,
and whose heroic souls, like the 1Eo.
liam. harp, give forth stronger strains as
the tempest increases. Whatever others
may dream, subjugation is word which
is not found in their vocabulary, and
which it would not be safe for friend or
foe to utter in their presence. They
proclaim their fixed and Interchangeable
determination to conquer or die; and it
is the army which is the country. They
have no thought Of permitting all their
labors, privations, perils, to 60 for naught,
nor of suffering the blood Of their fallen
comrades to cry in vain from the ground.
Whatever others may do, the heroes of
the Confederacy neither intend nor de-
sire to survive their country. They love
her, and they believe in her also; their
faith and hope are equal to their valor
and devotion, and their trust in God is
firm and unwavering. Noble men!-
The world has never seen their like.
Year: 1865

country is the apparent ignoring Of the
great American question, "Will it
payr We can see in the measure blind
fanaticism and sweet revenge !; but is the
graft 6cation of vindictive sentiments
worth purchasing at such cost We
take it for granted that the shrewd,
money~loving politicians of the Republi-
can party must be as well aware as any
one living in the Gulf States that cotton
and rice cannot be as profitably cultiva-
ted by free as slave labor; #, indeed,
these staples can be cultivated by free
labor at all. The white man cannot work
in great portion of that country, and
the black man will not unless he is COM
pelled. Ifsthe emancipation decreed by
the Washington Congress is to be real,
genuine freedom of the blacks, then the
United States, in its eagerness for ven>
geance upon the South, will involve it.
self, if successful, in the common ruin.
The South will become a desert waste,
and the great fountain of Northern manu-
featuring industry and commercial en-
terprise be forever dried up. England
will obtain all she has sought
by her persistent instigation of this
war, and compel the world to look to
her for cotton and manufactures. We
can scarcely believe that the United
States will consent to such result. On
the contrary, Yankee ingenuity will de-
wise system which, under new name,
will be the old thing in more rigorous
form than it ever before existedin the Con-
lederacy. 1t may be an apprenticeship,
such as has been already established in
such portions Of the cotton States as
they have already subjugated, and in
which the negro receives a small sum
for his labor, subject to deductions for
any loss of time, the result of which
often is, that when pay day comes the
amount of Indebtedness to the laborcr is
next TO nothing. We have not heard.
however, that the yield of the staple,
under the present plan, comes up to the
expectations of the friends of liberty
If not, it is easy to see that, should the
cotton cultivation ever fall generally into
Yankee hands, some new plan must be
adopted, which, perhaps retaining the
name of apprenticeship, will be sys-
tenn of enforced labor of the harshest
kind, and produce more cotton, rice and
sugar than ever before, and kill off more
Africans than the revival Of the African
slave. trade can supply.


There is no portion of the Confederate
community more interested in the de-
fence of the country than it's slave popu-
lation. Of all the sufferers by subjuga-
ton, their fate will be the most hopeless
and irremediable. They will sigh in
vain for the Christian sympathies and
physical comforts which once elevated
their lot. No class of laborers in the
world is as we'll fed and happy as they
now are. No class of laborers in the
world is as poorly fed and as miserable
as they will become should the Genius
of Universal Emancipation ever enfold
them in it's deadly embrace.
Year: 1865

The correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette who accompanied the recent ex-
eursion through Oil-dom furnishes the fol-
lowing graphic description of the depar-
ture of the party from Pithole City:


There was a lively competition in the
choice of horses-all the good ones being
taken as soon as brought up. Unluckily
our urbane friend, formerly mine host Of
the Gibson, was unable to find his steed
until after the entire party had started, so
that he enjoyed the distinguished honor of
being the last man leaving Pithole. A
few of the disabled, those to whom the
first days ride proved too much, were
placed in strong spring wagons and so,
tossed and jostled over these miserable
roads like men sailing on rough sea, they
were transported without accident. But
it was amusing to see the fragile form of
Erastus Brooks, carefully supported by
the arm of the portly President of the
Underwriters Insurance Company of Gin
cinnati, as the wheel would drop into one
of the many bottomless pits of these roads
and threaten the capsizing of the whole
craft and crew in such manner as to
place Brooks below, and his kind-hearted
protector above. But there is legend of
this land that wagons never upset here,
and it was not falsifed on this occasion
Among the number of those who had to
be transported, was Benz. Perley Poore.
the hero of the wheelbarrow
Year: 1865

Henry Ward Beecher yesterday delivered
a sermon in which he gave his unqualified
endorsement of President johnson and his
reconstruction policy and urged forbearance
and kindness toward the South insisting
that they must regulate negro suffrage for
themselves and discUuntenanced Northern
interference. lie claimed that we must have
confidence in the loyal professions of South
erners and that their selfrespect must not
be offended. He also put forth kind words
for General Lee.
Year: 1865

SUPERINTENDENT or PUBLIC INsTRUc-
TIoN.-Our State was most fortunate in
the election of Prof Hoss, as Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction. A. man
of sterling integrity, untiring industry
and large experience as teacher, and
stimulated with love for his profession
most remarkable, he has thrown him.
self into his work with an enthusiasm
that has already brought forth much
and rich fruit We learn from the fol-
lowing paragraph, which we copy from
the Indiana School Journal, kindly
handed us by Prof Rice, that our Super
intendent has already hunted up no less
sum than 1890, which, with less
zeal and earnestness on the part of the
Superintendent, might have been lost to
the schools altogether:


The law makes it the duty of the Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction to
look after and hunt up, and so far as
may be preserve, the school funds held
in trust by the several counties of the
State. In compliance with this requisi-
tion of law, the present Superintendent
has given very considerable attention
to the fund, which attention has resulted
in the finding, and having added to said
funds, the large sum of $l8,300 This
work has been greatly facilitated by the
skillful and efficient labors of the first
clerk, Granville G. Moore.


1t is believed several thousand more
can be added during the present term of
office The Department has other plans
under consideration, looking to the in
crease and protection of the funds.
Year: 1865

FALSE RETURNS Assessor Bradshaw,
under authority of the excise law, day
before yesterday seized the books of a
firm largely engaged in the manufacture
of fashionable clothing, and house
that enjoys the confidence and patronage
of our people to an extent equal to any
of It's cotemporaries. The head of the
house has been, since September, 1862,
returning the amount of his manufac-
lures at. an average Of $400 per month,
and it began to be whispered that he was
thereby defrauding Uncle Sam out of a
snug g'sum of menufacturer'stax So far
as examined, the books of the firm show
manufactures to the amount of $4,000
per month. The name of the firm would
be fine advertisement for its business,
but crushing one on its honesty. The
Government tax is six per cent. upon
the manufactures. In case of fraud,
one hundred per cent is added, which in
this case will be a snug little sum ol
money. In addition to this, others oc-
cur, where parties neglect to make
returns of their business promptly every
month, upon which negligence the law
adds penalty of fifty per cent. In al
cases, honesty and a good conscience
as well as good memory, will be found
highly beneficial Indianapolis Jour.
nat
Year: 1865

Some of the Democratic press give
vent to the spleen excited by the result
of the late elections, by scurrilous re-
marks against the Union ladies' of the
land. Well, we guess the loyal ladies
can stand abuse from such source.
Year: 1865

CoTToN GRowING IN THE SoUcH.-t is
the general opinion of those who have
the best opportunity of judging correctly
that the high prices of cotton will cause
the most energetic efforts to be made
for it's production next year. A great
many obstacles now existing will disap-
near in part by the coming spring,
among them the labor trouble; and esti-
mates of production made at present
cannot, therefore, be in any respect
relied upon, as they are manifestly
not based on the idea Of improving cir
cumstances.-MempAis Argus.
Year: 1865

A messenger has arrived in Washing
ton with copy of the Constitution of
North Carolina, and the amendments
thereto; also, copy of the ordinance
declaring the ordinance of secession
null and void, as well as the ordinance
repudiating the rebel war debt
Year: 1865




We are no alarmst. We do not wish to add to
the excitement already prevailing among the peO'
pie. But we feel bound to declare that the Confed-
eracy is in the very crisis of its fate and that the
greatest wisdom and prudence are necessary to pre-
serve society itself from anarchy and bloodshed
The most monstrous propositions are started in
Congress and elsewhere, and every effort will be
made to force these propositions on the country
Many of those who should be pradent and cautious
at q time like this, and who should bring common
sense and an ardent attachment to constitutional
liberty to the discharge of their public duties, ap
pear to have mbibed the desperate spirit of the
times, and to be 6eterminsdsn en- measures which, if
carried out will inevitably terminate in the loss Of
independence of property aad in the total destruc
ton of Southern society. We state the fact that
Gen. Lee himself is in favor of emancpatng all the
slaves in the South, and of putting three hundred
thousand negro fellows into the army at once as
soldiers We state this fact with the utmost con-
Germ. We fear that Congress in secret session, by
the votes of the foreign States Of Missouri and Ken
lucky will pass the measure, and that these negro
fellows will be collected at once by impressment
and armedl


The proposition to emancipate our slaves OF both
sexes, and arm the male slaves, is not merely an
abolition measure, but it is confession of su5ju-
CATION. 1t surrenders the great point upon which
the two sections went to war. If adopted, it will
release every State from its obligations to the Con-
federate compact and will leave them free the
winds to do as they please. Such measure, if
submitted to, will commence with abolition and
end in negro and white equality, in amalgamatiOn,
and in al the horrors of St. Domingo Insurrection
These things, if not certain, are probable. The
people of this State might be willing to part with
their slaves if they could do no better to end the
war; but they not willing to part with them in
order to prolong the war.


Under these circumstances, not to mention others
of vital character, We feel that the Legislature Of
this State ought not to think of adjourning Mat
ters of the last importance may require the action
of that body at any moment The opinions and
views of our members of Congress are entitled to
the most respectful consideration. They have means
of information which the people at home cannot
have We are not authorized TO speak for them
but we happen to know that such men Us Graham,
Gilmer, Logan, the two LeacheS, Fuller, Turner,
and Ramsay would regard an adjournment to any
distant day as exceedingly inIudicioss The time
may come and may not be far ahead, when they
will advise the State to act as to save her people
and her social structure from utter ruin. Let the
Legislature at least remain until the commissioners
sent to Richmond can return and make their report
We still think however, that Convention should
be called and the the question is submitted
to the people the better. We will have to come to
that at last and why not now?
Year: 1865

Our readers will bear witness that it is not our
habit to critcise the conduct Of officials without
having good reasons for so doing. Some Of these
officials are not only disposed and anxious to do
their duty, but they bear themselves in such way
in their official character to secure and retain the
confidence and respect Of the people. For these
we have nothing but commendaton. But there are
others who are rough, overbearing, and insulting
in their manner, and who seem to take pleasure in
domineering over and wounding the feelings Of the
humble, the helpless, and the uninformed. Such
officers are disgrace to the service and clog to
the cause.


We learn that the habit still prevails in certain
quarters, of taking papers from soldiers, details
and the like and refusing to return them, thus pla-
cling those thus deprived of their papers again in
camp. We heard of an aggravated case of this
sort few days since. Such conduct on the part OF
an officer ought to oe punished. Fhe Legislature
Of Alabama has passed q law providing for adequate
punishment in such cases and we think it would
be well for our Legislature to pass similar law
1t the first duty of all legislative bodies to pro-
tect the weak and friendless and especially the SOL
ders, against wrong and oppression.


We also learn that by an order from Richmond,





soldiers who belong to the Invalid Corps" and
who have been discharged on account of the loss
of an arm or leg are being assigned to light duty
and are required to stand guard for hours during
these cold nights. Now, in the first place, these
veterans are entitled to Gnal discharge; in the
second place. they are necessarily inefficient light
duty men and in the third place, i: is cruel to put
them on duty, with their stumps of legs and arms,
in the cold at night We were told some time since
in the newspapers, with flourish, that a certain
General who lost an arm in the Mexican war even
now frequently experienced pain in the stump of
the lost member; are if this be so of General,
who is well clad, well housed and who fares sump-
tuously every day, how must it be with the poor
invalid private, thnly clad, on half rations, who
stands or walks his rounds for hours in the bitter
coldH Is there no feeling among officials for the
pain which he suffers in his mutilated limbs9


If light duty be what it is represented, what
must heavy duty be? Surely the government can
dispense with the services of these mutlated vete
rams. Let them go home to their families, where
they can be of some service. They are not only
necessarily inefficient in any capacity soldiers but
it is cruel breach of faith With them to keep them
where they are.
Year: 1865

Is THE ARMY FOR PEACE ?-Destructivc papers
assert that the army is opposed to peace, and in IA
vOr of fighting indefinitely. If this be So why that
vehement cheering of the peace Commissioners by
our troops they passed the lines at Petersburg'
The truth is the army is as much for peace as the
people arc at home. We have talked with SOL
diers, and we have received letters from officers
and soldiers, and we hear of letters received by
friends, all showing the intense desire of the army
for peace We do not publish these letters, be-
cause they contain statements which it is prudent to
withhold. But as general rule, tho is but one
sentiment in the army, and that is for peace