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Year: 1869

The Southern papers are now busily engaged,


with udcrous seriousness I'm discussing the proposition
Of the Mobile Board OF Trade that the people Of the Cot
ton States should demand gold for cotton in the sale OF
the coming cotton crop According to these hnaneers


the financial system OF the United States is at their mer
cy writer In The Charleston Courier gives the follow
ing graphic picture Of the consequences tha Will ensus
upon the adoption Of the policy referred to:


The only resource OF the United States Government TO


meet the gold due its bonds Is the revenue de
rived from taxes foreign importatons. Tie gold
value OF the cotton crop and the sale OF United states
bonds are almost exclusively the only means OF meeting
the balance OF trade from Europe II is admitted thai
the further sale OF bonds must soon ceasesOoner, per
hans than some people think With the cessation IN the


sale OF these bonds the foreign trade must stop TO that
extent. With its stoppage, must be closed TO thai
extent the of revenue by which alone the Uhed
states Government Is enabled 10 meet the gold Interest
ON s bonds Should the South demand gold for cotton
and like Texas and California establish specie currency
the gold value the crop now used by the North
to meet their balances viii De Withdrawn from theiI
mower To THIS extent, also, the foreign trade must
cease But the sale OF bonds and the rise OF the gold
value OF the cotton crop is that which furnished the
means OF carrying the foreign impOrtations Failing
in both the trade must cease and with tue failure OF the
foreign trade the failure OF the United states
Government TO meet the Interest ON It's bonds Failing
i'm this ls credit destroyed, and its financial system
crumbles to the ground.
Year: 1869




I In October last, Herbsl


Vell known young gentlemanrof this
place, died suddenly, having not a month
previously taken out policy of $4,000
on his life in the Mutual Benefit Life
Insurance Company of New Ark, New
Jersey. We were on yesterday shown a
check on the Mechanics National Bank
of New Ark, by Judge Samuel Lam
drum, the agent of the company -at this
place, for s4,926 27, being the amount
due to his administrator on the policy,
which he goes to Blandville III a few
days to pay. This certainly should en-
courage all prudent men, especially men
of families to insure their lives.
Year: 1869

THE BEsT.-The public are dcsirous
always of patronizing the best workmcn,
both from personal interest and as re
ward to merit. The new boot and shoe
store establishment of Gaines & Nelson,
under the COURIER Office, present this
opportunity. n. L. Nelson, of the firm,
is an old and well known citizen, and In
former years engaged in the business,
and his name will be good endorsement
to all old citizens for the work turned out
from this house. The house expects
shortly to have in store, AMI to keep
constantly on hand, every quality and
variety of boots and shoes, from the
coarsest brogans to the finest of ladies'
wear. The attention of ladies particu-
larly directed to their shop.
Year: 1869

By a dispatch from New 7 ork we
learn that the American end of the
French Atlantic Cable has been
landed at st. Pierre, and that the
signals were perfect This is another
great scientific achievement, which
has not hitherto met with the atten-
ton its merits deserve. The compile
ton between the two cables will make
the transmission of news cost less
money, and we may confidently ex-
pect TO furnish the readers Of the
JOURNAL with as complete a sum
mary Of European news every day as
Of our home affairs. If the Great
Eastern had never accomplished any
other achievement, the successful
laying Of two ocean cables is sufficient
to make her immortal.
Year: 1869

The New York State Temperance Con-
ventlon met at Saratoga Tues day, and
passed resolutions urging temperance men
30 vote for none but temperance men for
ofiee; and that they should demand of the
next Legislature the passage OF q law al
lowing a majority of votes in any city or
town 10 prohibit the sale OF Intoxicating
liquors.
Year: 1869

1 IL you wish to have flavor in fruit, you
must hang it outside of the tree. Inside
fruit, or fruit grown in the shade, is sure not
10 mature. 1t will lack color; it will lack fra
grance and flavor; will be less crisp and juicy
II is less healthy, also. All fruit should be
kept OF the outside Of The tree, and distribu-
ted uniformly. 1t is no excuse TO say the or
chard is large. What pays in one tree will
pay in thousand. We may as well have
good fruit, all OF 1t as not. Some trees will
do their own thinning; but many will not,
and must be attended to if good, fair and uni
form fruit is desired.


BY thinning and distributing the tree will
be strengthened for future bearing. 1t will
have good look, with the fruit all visible and
all alike and all good, as good as sun and air
can make it, and it Is not so apt. in a rainy
time TO become m0uldy.


Where the top Is dense and the clrcumfer-
ence close, there should be an opening made
at the apex, a thinning out OF the branches.
Some trees will DO this Of themselves bat IL
not it must be done by the pruaer. This is not
only to let the moist air out, but the moisture
from the ground where the branches reach it,
the tree seeming like an inverted cup, hold
ing the moisture. Fruit inside Of this IN a
wet season will necessarily be Spoiled
There must be air and light, and degree of
dryness for the fruit. If little sun gets
through the apex or elsewhere, ii will not
hurt any b 1t breaks the monotony also, and
adds to the beauty OF the tree. An orchard
may thus be treated artisticaliy and aestheti-
cally, and be made an object Of interest to
the eye, while at the same time the beauty
will be heightened by the sense of the profit.


Utility is always a good foundation for
beauty. ,tH -lse.
Year: 1869

ga controversy is now going on between
the eight and ten hour men of San Francisco,
as to which organization shall predominate aad
control the work Of the city. Each party is
bringing its strongest men into the field and the
fight Is becoming more and more furious every
day. The eight hour men have already decided
that they will not use material manufactured in
the mills employing ten hour men.
Year: 1869

SURVEY PoR THE NATIONAL JUNCTION
RAILRoAD.-An engineer corps commence to
day the survey Of the route of the Nationa
Junction Railway, as incorporated by late
act OF Congress, at the south bank of the Poto
mec, above Georgetown. opposite the island
known as the "Three Sisters - ard to run thence
through Georgetown and Washington. The
object in commencing the survey at the poin
mentioned is to ascertain the practicability OF
a railroad crossing In conjunction with tree
bridge there.
Year: 1869

THE LoUDoN AND HAMPSHIRE RAILROAD
CoHNRCTIoN.-Tne Directors OF the Washing.
ton and Alexandra Canal, Aqueduct, Bridge
and Railroad Company held protracted meet.
ing last week at their Office in this city, the re.
suit Of which was the passage of an order for
the immediate construction of a railroad tn
connect Georgetown with the Loudon and
Hampshire railroad, commencing at the Vir.
ginia terminus Of the Aqueduct, and running
thence along the BERN bank OF the canal
and connecting with the Loudon and
Hampshire railroad near the Four.Mile
Run. The depot will be established at
Rcsslyn, on the south side Of the Aqueduct
bridge, to the north end Of which it is believed
the Washington and Georgetown street rail
way will be extended, so that there is at length
fair prospec. for the realization OF the long
deferred hopes Of all who desire increased
railroad facilities for this District. In the
meantime, if the National Junction Railway
Company proceed with the construction of
their road, the needed link to connect the
system of northern and southern railroads will
be supplled-a matter Of great importance not
only to our District cities, but to the whole
country.
Year: 1869

=
The following remarkable passage
is the last ever written by James T.
Brady, the eminent New York lawyer,
who died short time since:


"Our brothers in the pilgrimage
will fall at our side, but however
thickly the arrows of death may show
er, we can, while our powers continue,
do naught, but move on until we reach
the awful instant, when we are to ex-
change the feeble pulses of transitory
existence for the ceaseless throbbings
of eternal life. There, even there, at
that mysterious frontier, if we have
been faithful and fearless in the march,
we may lie down obedient to the des-
tiny, with the exalted hope, after all
the objects of this world shall have
become lost forever to our mortal
sight, there may be unto our new and
spiritual vision another realm of un-
imaginable glory, where We, and all
whom we love on earth, may realize
the promise which the Great Ruler of
the universe has made unto the just.
|,
Year: 1869

We learn that Captain Perry, of the
Lighthouse schooner, who has charge
of the buoys in this district, discoT-
cred on the 9Th inst, off St. Simons,
what he supposed to be dead sea
monster, floating on the surface of the
water. He says that the portion
above the water was some twenty-five
feet in length, and five or six feet in
height. He estimated the length of
the head to be twelve feet. The up
per jaw was thrown back, presenting
a mouth of extraordinary dimensions.
How many feet of the body was con-
cealed beneath the surface of the
waves the captain could not pretend
to form an estimate. In its back were
three or four grooves running the ell
tire length of that part of the body
which was visible. 1t had fins simi-
lar to those of a whale. The Captain
says that he saw the same monster
again off Cumberland Sound, and that
the lighthouse keeper at Cumberland
Island reported to him that it hac
foated in and out on three or fou
tides, and that he had "pulled for it
but upon near approach he became
fearful that it was not dead, and there
fore thought it best to give it wild
berth. 1t is further alleged that dis
tinguished naturalist, now in this city
has offered reward of one thousant
dollars for the head of the monster
and that Captain l'erry, with his yes
sci, is now in active pursuit, and ex
poets to be able to claim the rewar
in the course of few days. If Ii
should succeed he will not only gai
handsome reward, but be the mean
of adding an interesting chapter t


some valuable work on natural histo
ry.-Savanno Georgia. Republican


Ap1fl 20.
Year: 1869

IT has been discovered that fish can
be made, dead drunk with brandy,
packed in straw and sent ON n ten
days journey withoutany other dam
age than that their morals suffer-
When restored to water they sober in
a few hours and are all right again.
Year: 1869

The best reading is what we get out
of each others faces. What line is so
interesting as lady's pretty face and
who don't want to read it through and
through and repeat the perusal next
day. Old bachelors, do ye hear that ?
Year: 1869

Do YOU BELIEVE IT?-A writer in
Lippincott's Magazine, April number,
says:


"For every man whose heart is bro
ken-we use phrase current in its
romantic sense among women, and
which among men denotes state of
mind revealed by profuse smoking
and spasmodic devotion to billiards
twenty have their eyes opened and on
the whole considerably improved by
the process. We forgot to whom is
due the credit of the remark that a
mans usefulness generally dates from
the time he loses his interest in wo-
men !; but, without going so far, we
are content to rest upon the conclu-
sion of our own experience-that un-
til man has had one OF two serious
firtations he is not to be relied on for
earnest effort"
Year: 1869

In the Supreme Court of the United States,
on Thursday last the case of Thorniugton vs..
Smith & Hartley, involving transactions in
Confederate treasury notes at the South du-
ring the war, was argued by Mr.. Phillips for
the appellant, the appellees not appearing.


The action, was upon a note for 1000
made at Montgomery, Alabama, in November
1864, by the appcllees and payable one day
after date. The defense was that at the date
of the note there was no lawful currency in
circulation in Alabama that the medium of
exchange was at the time treasury notes of the
Confederate States and that the contract was
made with the understanding and agreement
that it should be discharged in such Confed-
crate notes and not in money lawful or cur
rent by the United States.


The note was made, by its terms, lien or
mortgage on certain real estate for which it
was given in payment, and the action sought
to hold the property for $40 900 lawful money.
The Court admitted certain parol evidence.
in consideration of which it came to the con-
cusion that the dollars expressed in the note
meant Confederate Treasury notes, and found
for the defendant, holding the contract wholly
illegal and void because it was payable in Con-
federate Treasury notes.


The case was tried in the United States
District Court for the Middle District Of AL
ALBANIA, from which an appeal was taken to
this Court, the appellants contending that as
the contract was not entered into for the pur-
pose of giving currency to these notes and
thus in directly attempting to aid the rebel
lion, it 10 not affected by the circumstance that
it did give currency to the notes If there
was no illegal design, the contract was neith-
er immoral nor illegal. There was no other
currency by which the daily transactions Of
business could be carried Oh ; and it had been
imposed on the country by irresistible force.
The necessity for using this currency was al
most the same as the necessity to live. No
protest or resisance-no rejection could ayeil
ANYTHING
Year: 1869

WONDERFUL EsCAPE.-We learn by
passenger that the fast line yesterday morning
encountered rock on the narrow slip, between
Paw Paw and Little Capon, which threw the
Engine tender and baggage car into the River
No lives lost. The Passenger cars become
uncoupled, this sa7ed the lives of many people.


GNeU Era.
Year: 1869

= The newspaper borrower is, as gen.
eral thing, the meanest person in the com
munity, (always excepting those who sub
scribe for paper and don't pay for it, apd is
entitled to none of the courtesies which hon
orable men love to extend to each other
The newspaper borrower would borrow
tooth. brush if he wasn't too mean to lose that
portion of his dinner which semains between
his teeth.
Year: 1869

When you begin talking to these prohibit
tionists about their legaizcd rascality, you are
met with volume of jargon, uttered in the
most solemn manner, as if it were the pro
foundest wisdom, and you are silcnced and
confounded by technicalities that are as in
comprehensive to you as they are to the peo-
pie who use them.


1t is said that all learning consists in giving
names to facts. Knaves understanding this
closely initiate the philosopher; and cover
their shams with high sounding titles that con-
found honest men. Thus, when you attempt
to discuss your right to sell your produce in
the market that pays the best prices, you are
met by tho assertion that the balance of trade
is against u.s. and my individual profit is the
nations ruin, and the chap uttering this looks
as solemn as a bull, and as solid as a grind
stone. 1t is perfectly ludicrous, when you
sift out the meaning, to find that the sentence
so solemnly uttered begins in an insult and
ends in lie 1t insults your understanding,
and misrepresents the fact.


l don't ask what the fellow means. for that
were waste of time. He probably don't
know himself But what is the meaning of
that magical term "balance ?" Well, I'll tell
YOU 1t means deducting at home the value
of your exports from the value of your i'm
ports, and the result is called the balance, or
balance of trade, and really means the profits
of the transaction.


That is, to illustrate, you take carload of
wheat to Cincinnati, and bring back in ex-
change car>load of groceries. Now deduct
the value of your wheat in Logan county from
the value of your groceries, and the difference
makes the balance. And ifyou have brought
back in value more than you took away, you
have made profitable exchange. But this is
the balance of trade that is to ruin US. 1t
will ruin the country. Well, we like that sort
Year: 1869

EFThe action of Tennessee upon the
Fifteenth Amendment should command
the appreciation of every lover of justice
in America Having for herself, as was
her unquestionable prerogative, confer
red the right of suffrage upon all races
within her own borders, she comedies to
her sister States the privilege of regula-
ting their own affairs in that respect in
their own way. In refusing to assist
Radicalism in trampling upon the equit-
able rights of others, the members of
the Tennessee Legislature have exhibit
ed conscientious regard for the prin-
eiples of comfy. which entities them to
the gratitude of all who would preserve
what yet remains to US Of the Govern
ment founded by the patriotic statesmen
of the Revolutionary era. I
Year: 1869

Why is your nose in the middle OF
your face? Because it is the scenter.


Why is dancing like new milk? Be-
cause it strengthens the calves.


When is blow from lady welcome ?
When she strikes you agreeably.


Why is a dogs tail a great novelty !?
Because no one ever saw it before.


The public schools of Mobile are at
tended by 1887 children


1t lis said that seventeen men control
the 10000 Pennsylvania miners.


A poor fellow who pawned his watch
said that he raised money with lever.


An Englishman paying an Irish shoe
black with rudeness, tie dirty urchin
said: "My honey, all the polish you
have is upon your boots, and | gave you
that"
Year: 1869

EEIt is estimated that half a million
sheep are annually killed in the United
States by vicious dogs. Some of the
papers are demanding that the law shall
institute reciprocal slaughter, as the
sheep can't; whenever a sheep dies of
the dog nuisance, let canine represen-
tative be curtailed just behind the ears.
There would soon be more sheep and a
scarcity of dogs.
Year: 1869

~We have grave fears that the New
York Evening Post is falling from grace
in the loyal church. 1t talks about "the
dullness of trade, the burdens of taxa
ton, and the depression of agriculture"
as fluently as any unregenerate Demo-
crat in the land. All of these things are
so palpable that there is nota Radical in
the land who does not "most powerfully
and potently believe in their existence,
or who doubts that they are the legiti-
mate fruits of the policy of his party
But, according to the inverted morals Of
Radicalisn, it will never pass for loyal
honesty that it should be $50 set down."
Year: 1869

THIs Hotel has been rcftted recently, and


i is now in first rate order. The table is
supplied with the best, and the traveller will
find his lodgings superior to most country
hotels. The stabling is new. sjl5Y.
Year: 1869




Let me hear, when / am on my death
bed, that Christ died in the stead of sim
ners, of whom l am chief that he was
forsaken of God, during these fearful
agOnies, because he had taken my place,
that on his cross l paid the penalty of
my guilt. Let me hear, too, that his
blood cleanseth from all sin, and that |
may now appear before the bar of God,
not as pardoned only, but innocent. Let
me realize the great mystery of the
reciprocal substitution of Christ and
the believer, or rather their perfect
unity, he in them, they in him, which he
has expressly taught; and let me believe
that as / was in effect erucifed on CAL
vary, he will in effect stand before the
thorns in my person, his the penalty,
mine the sin; his the shame, mine the
glory; mis- the throne, mine the crown ];
his the merit, mine the reward. Verify
thou shalt answer for me, o Lord, my
Redeemer. In Thee I put my trust. In
Thee have | trusted I; let me never be con-
fOunded.-BishOp LIE .IeaIRe.
Year: 1869

depends on the nature Of its citizens,
and since the nature Of lbs citizens is
more modifable by early training than
by anything else, we must conclude that
the welfare Of the family underlies the
welfare of society"


The womsh suffrage question seems 20
turn upon this points the right of
representation identical with the right
of being a representative ? If to be
ones, own representative in the govern
meRtis 4 natural right, should not all
be electors including infants? ? If not,
where shall the line be drawn2 Taking
this view, should there not be an elee-
ton in each family for the purpose Of
choosing an electOr ? Would this be an
improvement upon the present system of
letting the natural protector of the
family represent it in the state2 even in
the formation of organic laws?


That government is a progressive
science many are ready to admit, but
whether its progress lies in the direction
Of the dissolution of the family is
worthy of the most deliberate and care
full consideration. -- -E
Year: 1869

/ Very estimable and, we trust, very
religious young women, sometimes enter
the house of God in costume which
makes the acts of devotion in the SER
vice seem almost burlesque. When a
brisk little creature comes into a pew
with her hair frizzed till it stands on
end in most startling manner, rattling
Of beads and bits of tinsel, she may
look exceedingly pretty and piquante ];
and if she came there for game, of
croquet or tableau,party, would be all
in very good taste; but as she comes to
confess that she is a miserable sinner,
that she has done the things that she
ought not to have done, and left undone
the things she ought to have done-as
she takes upon her lips most solemn and
tremendous words, whose meaning runs
far beyond life into sublime eternity
there is discrepancy which would be
ludicrons if it were not melancholy.
Year: 1869

! MESsRS. DEW oLFE In lo0M&
over my papers, a few days since, my
attention was arrested by the follow
ing hints, which / hand you for a
place in your paper, as not inappro-
pirate for some persons hereabouts.


OBSERVER. RI
'KEEP YOUR EYE ON YOUR NEIGHBOR. ,


"Take care of them. Do not let
them stir without watching. They
may do something wrong if you do
To be sure, you never knew them to
do anything very bad, bu. it may be
on your account they have not. Per-
haps if it had not been for your kind
care, they might have disgraced
themselves and fsmiiies q long time
ago. Therefore do not relax any
effort to keep them where they ought
to be; never mind your own busi-
ness; that will take care of ITSELF
There is man passing along--he is
looking over the fence-be suspicious
OF hun; perhaps he cou templates
stealing some of these dark nights :;
there is no knowing ahat queer fan
cies lie has got into his head.


''If you find any symptoms of any
one passing out OF the path OF duty,
tell every one else what you see, and
be particular TO see great many
1t is Il good way to circulate such
things, though it may not benefit
yourself or any one else particularly
Do keep something going-siienee is
a dreadful thing; though it is said
there was silence in heaven for the
space of half an hour, do not let any
such thing occur on earth !; it would
be too much like heaven, for this
mundane sphere. III, alter all your
watchfui care, you cannot see any
thing out OF the way in any one, you
may be sure il ie not becanse they
have not done anything bad; per-
haps ia an unguarded moment yon
lost sight of them throw out hints
That they are no better than they |
should be-that you should not won
der if the people found out what
they were after awhile, that they may
not carry their heads so high. Keep
it going, and some one may take the
hint and begin to help you after
there will be music, and |
everything will work to a charrn.''
Year: 1869

The game was one in which more in
tcrest was manifested, than any that has
yet taken place in our city, Taking into
consideration the disadvantages under
which the Frontier labored from being
unacquanted with the grounds, absence
from home, etc, they played remarkably
well. Their fielding was excellent, and it
was only sat the bat that the Rock City
had the advantage. Much credit should
be attributed to the Frontier rvl ". - -,
and energy in travelling so Tonga distance
to contend with the different clubs Of the
State, at the fair, and we regret exceed
ingly that they were disappointed in get
ting here in time. rs -l1aa