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Year: 1869

MASONIC CBoIR--Last evening the Masonic
Shoir met for practice In their new hall. Prof
Scheei presided at the organ, aided by an excel
tent orchestra The choir, under the leadership
OF Professor Holmes, executed several choruses
IN most superior manner. At q business meet
ing IL was resolved to invite the Georgetown
m&some Cnon 70 join with that in this city in
forming an organization to be known As the
Masonic Choir Of the District of Columbia.
Year: 1869

SOME fifteen thousand freedmen in
Texas are in destitute condition. To
avoid labor and at the same time to es-
cape starvation they are taking up the
pleasant pursuit of robbery. Strong
appeals are new being made in their be-
half to the white people of Texas, to
contribute to relieve these freedmen in
their distress. To require them to work
for their living, as white men have to
do, would of course be "disloyal."
Should the white people fail to respond
literally to the demands of negro pau
perism, the failure will be held as an
other evidence of the irrePressible re-
belism of Texas, and the proper meas
ures will be taken to meet the case.
Year: 1869

Inc results OF Gu6 1euueoScc olcCtlOu
are almost startling. The returns, which
may be found elsewhere, indicate fear
ful verdict against STOKES, prescription
ard scalawagerie. 1t is true, the strong
hold of the proscriptionists, East Ten
nessce, is not fully reported, but if it
gave a unanimous vote, it would be
swept away in the perfect flood of SEN
TER majorities reported from the other
sections of the State.


There is no doubt of the election of
SENTER by the largest majority ever
given in Tennessee, at fair election,
for any man. There is no doubt of the
election of Conservative Leg islature,
which will speedily remove the last
vestige of the disfranchisement policy
from the statute books of the State.
There is little doubt, also, of the choice
by that Legislature, of ANDREW JOHN
son, to succeed Fowler in the Senate
oil the United States. However much
of poetic or retributive justice may ap
pear in the latter event, and however
much people may sympathize with
A. J. on account of what he has been
and done and suffered, there is so much
ground for genuine rejoicing in the
facts first named, that many might be
reconciled to seeing our late President
remain in honored and uninterrupted
retirement in view of that glorious con-
summation, the release of Tennessee
from the thraldom of Test Oaths. But
if his fortunes shall thus brighten with
those of the people who have known
nothing but trial and darkness since he
was their Military Governor, there will
certainly be witnessed q wonderful illus
tration of the freaks of times whirligig.
A stranger occurrence could hardly be
imagined than that a prominent patron
of the proscriptive policy, himself an
inventor of Test Osths, should profit
more than any other man by the aboli-
tion OF Acknowledgement system which
he, more than any ether man, aided to
force upon the people of his State.
JOHNSON, of course, has long since been
forgiven for his Military Governorship
in Tennessee, but the fair future that
now seems to await him is noticeable
as showing his own general good luck
and the caprices of the wheel of political
fortune.


JOHNSON aside, Tennessee is free; that
is reasonably certain. Having been
more cruelty and wickedly prescribed
oppressed and trampled upon than the
people of any other State, having been
sunk deeper and more hopelessly in the
mire of political degradation than any
other disfranchised community, her peo-
pie are the first to shake off their shack
les, assert their manhood and glori iously
vindicate the truth that the permanent
disfranchisement of the white race Is
impossible. May net other States take
warning by thisi Should not the pro-
scriptionists Of West Virginia read their
fate in that of STOKES, if they shall per.
sist in holding power by lettering the
freedom of their fellow-meni They
may feel assured of permanent ascend.
ency. But where was proscriptive
Radicalism ever more firmly seated
than in Tennessee They may deem
their control of the political machinery
perfect and thorough. So thought the
Radicals of Tennessee. But the very
Year: 1869

without any special complaint, except a grad.
ual declination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC a FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEYIGOR AS RE
FRESHING AND EX L HILERATING A
A POOL IN ! HE DESERT TO THE SAND
SCORCuED AND EAIN1INE TRAVELLER.
Year: 1869

To Hon. ". B. Stokes, City Hotel:


Believing you to be the true repre-
sentative of the Republican party of
Tennessee, l earnestly advocate your
election, and trust that every sound
Republican in your State will rally en-
Enthusiastically to your support. The
President is absent from the city, but i
am confident that / declare his opinion
and desire
Year: 1869

Have accumulated in the hands Of the Proprie
tors bat space will allow of the publication of
but few. Those, it win be observed, are men
Of note and Of such standing that they must be
believed.
Year: 1869

Almost up to the hour Of his death,
Robert j. Walker was engaged upon a
pamphlet, showing by the closest statistical
calculation that New York must, before
long, become so much the superior of Lon
don as to command the commerce of the
whole world.
Year: 1869

.k i"I soon saw that fellow was smitten with his pretty cousin and hated me worse than ever for flirting with her, which, of course, one was bound to do 8 little; and as she evidently disliked and feared him, and was glad to talk to me in order to avoid him, I dare say there was little apparent cause for his jealousy. Besides which the pres- ence of a stranger no doubt interfered with his designs upon MT. Bantyen's purse. r My leave was drawing to close, how ever, and as intended to spend the last week of it in London, the time came for me to quit Deadmoor; and, on the last night, an extraordinary thing happened-I saw the phantom.

 ''It was wet and chilly night, and with that anxiety to make me comfortable which had actuated the Bantyens during my stay. Ia fire had been lighted in my bedroom.

 The first fire of the season is always pleas ant, and sat up later than usual to enjoy 1t. l wrote several letrers, and then wheel Ing my chair round to the hearth, stirred up the coals, left the poker between the bars, lit up cigar, took up a book and made myself happy.

 7 'I was sitting wi tn my back to that part of the room where the bed was, and conss- quently facing the queer old mirror told you of, which was set aslant at the other end. At about one o'clock, one of my candles began to splutter in it's socket, and looking up in consequence from my book. saw reflected in the mirror the figure of the Jesuit. have no more faith in spir. it's than Sadducee, yet I was horribly frightened; so much so, that was very near starting up. Fortunately, however. kept my presence of mind, and neither did that or stare at the glass, but put out the fiickering candle, brought the other nearer to me, leaned back on my large arm chair, and had another surreptitious look at the mirror over the top of my book. It was no fancy. There, close to the foot of the bed, not three yards behind me. stood the figure, in slouching cavalier hat, and wrapped in a riding cloak, with buff boots and spurs, mask on his face, and 8 pistol in his hand. @ -5 "

 ''Why the mask? was treasured in A moment that it was burglar acting the ghost, to frighten the household into non. resistance-not the spiritual father him. self The poker, which had been left be- tween the bars of the grate, was now red hot; l grasped the handle, and began stir ring the fire, at the same time whistling n tune. Then I drew common chair to- ward me with my left foot, as if meditating putting my legs upon it, until could get hold of the back of it with my left hand.

 '"These little preparations completed. I suddenly jumped up and turned round, with the chair held before me as shield, and the red hot poker still in my right
Year: 1869

LEARN A TNADE,-Thc advice
Of Benjamin Franklin was, to give
every chill a trade by which he
could earn a living, This Is a
good and wise COUNSEL, and should
be needed where it is necessary.
There arc too many idle boys
seeking easy positions; positions
that do not require manual Ia
Dor. Parents may leave their
children fortunes but "riches take
to themselves wings" You may
give them finished educations, and
they may bo gifted with extraor-
dinary genius; but they may be
placed in situations where no cdu-
cation and no talent may be SC
available as some humble honest
trade, by which they can get their
living and be useful to others.
Year: 1869

POLICE TRANsFBR.-Lieutenan Ohas SKIN.
pom, Tor some time past in charge Of the sixth
police district. has been transferred to the
charge Of the detective force of the District
His successor as officer Of the precinct has not
yet been appointed.
Year: 1869

The NINTH Grand Annual Ball of the Circle
Friendship Association will take place this
evening al Sheldons Academy, Pennsylvania
avenue, between Eth and 18th streets, and Will
no doubt be one Of the most pleasant affairs of
the season, aS the association is celebrated for
Us rtaInmenis.
Year: 1869

LIKE REGULATION DRRSS PARADR-The
teeth shou Id always be escrupulously clean and
free from blemisn. Keep them in this condition
with the Incompatible Sozodont and when
they are veterans In the service they will still
be as ssgood as new"
Year: 1869

THE POLICE BALL.-The proposed ball by the
Metropolitan Police for the benefit OF the DO IT
OF the city, which was to have taken place on
the lst February, has been Abandoned. Major
Richards deeming the undertaking too great a
one for the force to engage in. in addition to
their regular duties.
Year: 1869

Intellect can't bear fashionable re


Enement, and dies under it in one OF
two generations. If you would selec


a Youth who is likely to make his mark
in the world, take one who is cartino
mud in a clam shell wagon, or building
houses in the sand; and not the deli


cate baby who is londling q China lap.
dogon the parlor carpet. Daniel>W eb


ster's father made cradle for little
Dan out of a pine log, with an ax and
auger; and Lewis Cass was rocked by
his staid New Hampshire mother in a
second d-hand sugar trough. The great
est architects for the manufacture of
genius arc Poverty and Republicanism.
Year: 1869

has been one long sorrow, and without
JOY or hope I await the time when
shall once more bathe in that sea OF
light, once more gather around me the
radiance Of life-everlasting.


My resuscitation was the result of an
application of electricity and the skill
Of a surgeon. For few days, until I
had partially recovered my strength, I
was concealed and then fed the coun-
try.
Year: 1869

There is nothing that will so derangt
the nervous system of a person who is
climinatiye II nervous force as TO lie
all night in bed with another person
who is absorbent in nervous. force.
The absorbor will go to sleep and rest
all night, while the climinator will be
tumbling, restless and nervous, and
wake in the morning fretful, peevish,
fault-fnding, and discouraged. No
two persons, no matter who they are,
should habitually sleep together. One
will thrive and the other will lose
Year: 1869

If some grand cataclysm, or earth.
quake, or something else would only
occur in England in order to distract
the attention Of the British press from
Summers speech, it would be an enor.
nous reliefto the people of this coun,
try The English newspapers having
gotten started on this Alabama matter
seem as little able to stop as the man
who put on the patent leg, and whose
skeleton is still going on and on, with.
out hating for u single moment
Year: 1869

An Englishman, who for twenty
dong years had taken ferruginous baths
during the summer, but without any
benefit, was entirely cured in less than
q second by flash of lightning, The
same story is related of an invalid in
one of the Austrian hospitals: being
lucky enough one day to stand in the
way of the atmospheric spark, he was
enabled without delay to leave the es-
Establishment and resume his work.
Year: 1869




Wilmington is spreading herself. She
has swallowed Brandywine Village, and
grown so portly as to expand into nine
instead of five wards. Wilmington is
beautifully and most advantageously To-
eated. The upper portion Of the city
commands an extensive view of the noble
Delaware. and Of barge section of New
Jersey: also Of the surrounding region of
New Castle county. She is a city set
upon hill, /" and is easily and effectually
drained, on account of her peculiar topo-
graphical conformation, which adds great
ly to her sanitary advantages, and renders
her one of the healthiest cities in the
Union. She is surrounded by very fer
tile region, comprising parts of Delaware,
Maryland and Pennsylvania. from which
she draws very profitable trade, and
which adds much to her prosperity. Her
manufacturing interests are growing in
Importance, and she will, at no distant
day, take position far in advance of that
which she now occupies. A little more
capital, and little more enterprise and
Usm among her business men will do the
work, and add house to house, block to
block, and square to square, until her
present suburban boundaries will be swal-
lowed up and lost in her expansive growth
and greatness, and until she nearly rivals
her larger sister, higher up on the banks
of the Delaware. Let her business men
not be afraid to take hold of the opportu-
mites which they have, and reach out
their hands to grasp more extended
trade. Why may they not intercept much
Of that which now goes past their doors
And what is there to prevent Wilmington
from enjoying as great a commerce as that
which pours its wealth into the docks of a
rival but not more highly favored city.
Let her boards of trade, her business men,
think of these things, as they doubtless
have thought of them, and then follow up
their reflections by actioni This is the
talisman of success all the world over.
Year: 1869

The opinion is current in Washington
that the extra session of the Senate will
come to close this week, nearly all the
important missisRs and eonsnlates having
>Reen filed, the Aiabasps treaty disposed
Of and nothing Of importaaee remaining
which cannot be put through with proper
diligence, &d
Year: 1869

The CoNFEDERATE DEAD AT GErrYs-
BURG General Fitz Lee has lately receiv-
ed letter from the superintendent of the
National Cemetery at, Gettysburg, stating
that of the three thousand seven hundred
Confederate dead inferred at that place.
about seven hundred can be identified. but
the remainder cannot. He states that the
farmers are beginning to pillow over the
part Of the cemetery in which they are bu-
ried, and suggests that they be removed at
once. General Lee communicated this in
formation to the Hollywood Memorial AS
sociation, and the ladies of the association
have determined to take steps to remove
the dead from Gettysburg and reinter them
in the cemetry at Hollywood 1t win be
done as early as practicable II Richmond
Eng.


The whites Of Washington are jubilant
over runaway match between negro and
a daughter of one of the white Mongrelist
Councilmen of that t'city.
Year: 1869

In an article urging upon THE PEOPLE
to attend a county convention for the pur-
pose of selecting suitable person to repre-
sent the votes of Fayette in the Constitu-
tionaI Convention, the editor of the Somer-
Vile Falcon says:


The time has at last arrived when Tennes-
seeans may hold up their heads and wear
the lofty look of conscious independence
= Convention Of the people of this county
has been called to meet in Somerville on
day after to morrow Saturday. Not a con-
vention Of cringing suppliants at the throne
Of radical tyranny, not a convention of dis
franchised ana prescribed citizens, but a
convention of the whole people of the
county, a convention of the masses whose
will is to be henceforth respected in Ten
nessee. The State Is redeemed and Olsen
thralled. The manacles have fallen from
the limbs of the people, and the bosom of
every man may now swell with patriotic ex-
ultation at the thought that he is again a
freeman. Then let every man come forward
and act as becomes a freeman. Let the peo-
pie show that they appreciate the blessed
boon Of liberty. Let them attend the Con-
ventiOn on Saturday and manifest that the
love of liberty still glOws in their hearts and
that they will watch it henceforth with eter-
nal vigilance. The security Of this newly
regained liberty is soon to be committed to
the keeping of State Convention. Let the
people meet and select a citizen in whose
hands they are willing to entrust so sacred
charge We hope there will be no lethar
gY, no want of interest upon the part of the
people of Fayette county in this important
movement Let every body come. Let US
have the Uor popuIj and let it be obeyed as
the coz del


Every word of the above is just as appli-
cable to Hardeman as to Fayette. Be sure
to attend the convention to be held in Boil
var next Monday, for the purpose of nomi-
mating a suitable person to represent the
people of Hardeman in the coming State
convention
Year: 1869

The fashionable preachers of Vienna have
made in their Lent sermons terrible attacks upon tho
newspapers Father Bremen said, In the pupst OF the
Dominican Church: Beloved brethren! tell you read
bad newspapers no bad books but read the Bbe ana
you win be TO be converted Another preacher
simphed this advice by recommending his audience not
10 read any newspaper at all; oil OF them were Dad
Year: 1869

Body and soul are interwed,


As light and fire in mingled splendor;
And where the inner soul doth tread,


The obedient forms delight TO tend her.
We change to Angels by degrees;


We rise to heaven, but not by dying;
We cross no dark tumultuous seas;


We leave no form in graveyard lying.
We chanSe, unfolding, through our love,
An inner form OF purer essence.
Until we rise to heaven above,


And worship in the Fathers presence
Year: 1869

An agricultural writes that for ten
years he has practlced packing sweet
potatoes In perfectly dried forest leaves
and gives the following directions:
"They must be effectually dried in this
sun, or around the stove, if he weather
be damp or cloudy. Pack so that they
do not touch each other, and keep in
moderate warm place They are much
nicer to handle than in sand, and will
keep as well or better than in any ythihg
else,v
Year: 1869

In the foreign scientific notes OF Ap-
pleton's Journal there is al account of
an accidental discovery of q very sim
pie but etfcctual cure for burns, by tho
use of varnish. A varnishcr of metals
in Paris, one day got his hand badly
burned and in his agony thrust it into
pot of yarnish at his side. To his as
tonishment the pain at once ceased,
and the wound rapidly healed. This
cure being reported around, persons in
the neighborhood who had got burned
came to the varnisher and were cured
in like manner.
Year: 1869

At any tine Of the year add twelve
hours to the time of the Suns setting,
and from the sum subtract the time of
rising, for the length of tho day. Sub
tract the time of settling from twelve
hours, and to the remainder add the
time of rising next morning, for the
length OF the night. These rules are
equally true fon apparent time.
Year: 1869

We take the following extract from
the United States Mail, by request of our
worthy Postmaster. Read it:


A gentleman sent lad with letter
to the post Office, and money to pay the
postage. Having returned with the mo-
ney, he said ''Guess I've done the thing
slick. l seen good many folks putin
letters in the postofice through hole,
and so watched my chance, and got
mine in for nothing"


How true this is we will not take it
upon ourselves to say, but we do know
that it is not an uncommon occurrence
for mail matter to be posted, as though
the persons who do it think they are 'do-
ing the thing slick" A few days since
we were called upon by young French
man, for information how he should OBJ
tain redress for an overcharge of thirty
six cents on letter from France, bearing
a postage stamp sufficient to prepay one
rate. We told him there was no mistake,
as the letter weighed over a quarter of
an ounce He insisted it did not. On
trial, however, it was found to be slight
ly over that weight. Now, whether the
writer thought he was "doing the thing
slick" and that the French Post De-
partment would not discover the over
weight, or whether he was ignorant of
the true weight, we cannot tell but most
probably it was the former. The letter
reached New Y ork, marked "insufficient-
ly prepaid" and was charged with thirty
six cents postage. The receiver tore off
the part of the envelope bearing the
mark of insufficient prepayment, and
when we asked to be shown it, said he
had thrown it away. He, too, evidently
thought he was "doing the thing slick, !"
but made mistake, as we informed him
that under the circumstances, there was
no redress, as the charge was proper. We
give this instance as one Of many. Wri-
ting on newspapers, or circulars, enclos-
ing circulars or hand bills as supplements
in regular newspapers, depositing letters
on which there is any doubt of suficien-
cy Of postage, ETC., are all examples OF
'.doing the thing slick" which may not
produce inconvenience and delay and
disappointment, but which, it is far more
probable, will. Postal rates are fixed,
postal laws are imperative, and postmas-
tiers have no discretion in obeying them.
Year: 1869

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF CELERY
A correspondent of the Practical Farmer
gives some very interesting information
about the beneficial effect of celery upon
the nervous system. He says I" have
known as many men and women too, who
from various causes, had become so much
affected with nervousness that when they
stretched out their hands they shook
like aspen leaves on windy days-and
by daily moderate use of the blanched
foot stalks of celery leaves they became
as strong and steady in limbs as other
people. / have known others so very
nervous that the least annoyance put
them in state Of agitation, and they
were almost in constant perplexity and
fear, who were also efectually cured


by a daily moderate use of blanched
celery as a salad at meal times. have
known others cured by using celery tor
palpitation of the heart. Everybody
engaged in labor weakening to the nerves
should use celery daily in its season, and
onions in its stead when not in season. :
Year: 1869

THE Bishop of New jersey, it is said
has given notice that he will refuse at
confirmation to lay his hands on the
piles of false hair and chignons which
disfigure the heads of so many ladies
seeking admission to the church aud
communion.
Year: 1869

The Charirari gives the following ad-
vice to young gentlemen under the head
ing, "The art of loving on the cars 3"
Permit me to suggest to you very easy
way of kissing number of pretty women.
You are in a railroad car, and two or
three ladies and one or two gentlemen
enter the same coupe. AT the first tun.
mel through which the train passes, as
soon as nobody can see you, you put a
very loud kiss on the back of your hand.
Nothing is more curious than to Gee the
faces of your fellow-travelers as soon as
the train emerges from the tunnel. The
gentlemen cast furious glances about
them; the ladies blush, each of them be-
lieving that her tsir neighbor eceived the
kiss, and ignorant of the man who gave
it to her. Everything goss we'll yop-
prospects are excellent AT the second
tunnel you boldly kiss - .ae first lady she
dares not cry out, bearing in mind as she
does that her fair companion, to whom
happened the same misfortune, did not
say anything. Can she behave more in
dignantly . Would she not thereby be-
tray the other lady TO her husbands For
the rest, the second kiss Is not as loud as
the first At the third tunnel the same
course is to be pursued toward the other
lady, who, tor the same reasons, does not
say anything, Tbas you get kiss at
every tgnnel except the first one"