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Year: 1860

( IL there is one thing that drives man dis
tracted beyond all others, II is baggage. II
there is one season more than another when
a bachelor rejoices over his freedom, and q
married man wishes he hadn't "been and
| gone and done it, il is the time of travel
Ladies, if you wish to make yourselves
charming in the eyes of the other sex. cur.
tail the amount of your trunks and band.
boxes. If you are going to Newport, or
Niagara, or the White Mountains, il is not
necessary to 'pack up" for it, as though
you were TO be gone ten years, and the dry
goods stores were to close tomorrow. You
can not wear fifteen or sixteen dresses AT
once--then what is the use of crowdipa
them into your trunks? You don't expect
to open a furnishing bazzar-then what is
the meaning of so many yards of embroidery
and square feet of ''tucks" and "puffed
skirts 2


1t is no more than natural for the male
sex to Hedge off, when they come in contact
with travelling lady nowadays. The
shawls and oil-silk bonnei-preserver that
she carries for fear If is going to rain-the
parasols and walls for fear it isn't! The
baskets and bags and brown-paper parcels
the fans and bird cages and books and boxes !
Ladies, don't make yourselves the foundat.
ion-stone of an edifce of baggage. If the
female world can not travel without five
trunks and an indefinite number of Garnet
bags, we do not blame their husbands for
ayailing themselves of all sorts of ignomin-
ious excuses, and slipping off without them.
Ii any such case came before our judiciary
we should render verdict of 'served them
right y You see, men are but mortal. after
all, and IT is so much easier to stretch your
lazy length along the velvet luxuriance OF
car seat, with nothing but newspaper
and valise TO look after, than to enact the
part OF "beast of burden" TO any fair one
living and transport her multitudinous
traps" from boat to car, and car to stage,
and finally have the satisfaction of hearing
that your slippers and favorite coat were
left behind to make room for her extra
skeleton skirt 1t is very inspiriting, too. TO
be told by your wife that she wishes Won
would hurry and take yourself off some
where, she can't do anything at all, with
you bothering round, and all that baggage
in the way. And ifyou hint that there was
no necessity for SO many trunks, you are
told that you don't know anything at all
about the matter No, no, the only remedy
is TO make yourself scarce, as dutifulIy as
possible, and lay in as large stock of patti
ence as possible, against the next morning.
when the pile of trunks, bonnet-boxes, pack
ages, and leather=bags have got 10 transfer
red once more TO the cars


Again we say to the ladies, unless they
wish completely to embitter the pleasure of
travelling. Beware of too much baeq-
age =
Year: 1860

a MAGNANIMoUs DoG.-Mv eldest son
was crossing the fields in the country, when
he was pursued by large and fierce dog,
belonging to the gentleman whose land he
was crossing. The lad was alarmed, and
run for his life. He sruck irto piece of
woods, and the dog gained upon him. when
he looked around to see how near the crea-
ture was, and tumbling over stone, he
was pitched over precipice and broke his
leg. Unable TO move, and at the mercy Of
the beast, the poor fellow saw tie dog clm-
ing down upon him. and expected to be
seized and torn when, TO his surprise, the
dog came near, and perceiving the boy was
hurt, instantly wheeled about, and went off
for that aid which he could oot render him
self. There was no one within the reach of
the child's voice, and he must have peri he'd
there or have dragged his broken limb
along. and destroyed it as to render ampu-
Year: 1860

\ few years since, a hardware merchant,
who had made his fortune Mt the business
in the city Of New York, determined TO sell
of his stock and retire. His goods were
soon disposed OF, and TIE shop empty. In
swoepinss out the store one day he found,
in the crevices and corners, few shot,
Cabout twenty of all sizes he gathered
them mp in the hollow of his hand, and
stood for some seconds gazing at them, at
length, seizing his hat, he rushed into an
adjoining liquor store, where they also sold
shot, and tl'us addressed the proprietor
I'm clearing out my store | found few
shot; they are worth something | don't
value them very highly, but perhaps (hcre
ne lowered his voice. you would givelne hall
n glass Of beer for them"
Year: 1860

now, as if you began to remind him of the
party who took the great coat last winter
Your bill at last brought and paid, at the
rate OF sixpcnce mouthGul, your waiter re-
minds attendance is not charged for sin
gle meal and yon have to scratch in all
pocket; for sixponce more. He has a worse
opinion of you than ever when you give it
to him, and lets you ont into the street with
the air of one saying to himself, as you cam
not doubt he is, II hope we shall never see
y0u AGAIN.
Year: 1860

Support the Democratic ticket and save
the Union" says the democracy. If the
Union is in aspoiling condition, they have
rendered it so, for they have had control of il
fora long time. What better opportunity do
they want than they had to save the Uuion.
Better change pilots, and put the ship in
command of another set.
Year: 1860




CAPTAIN TRAVIS, of st. Louis, the Won
dcrful pistol shot, keeps his admirers in
constant excitement by his novel fents with
his t"Voritc weapon. lie has a match ON
now, soon to be decided, in which his
opponent is to shoot directly at the target
while the Captain will cause his bullets 10
first strike the floor and then glance and
strike the target Thatis certainly a story
tough enough for ordinary creduIity, but
the Memphis papers tell one more difficult
to believe. They say thnt Captain Travis
will wager two hundred and fifty dollars
that he can hit mark without seeing il.
and that the mark shall be placed behind
the tree from him. He further SAYS the
judges shall select tree not less than six
feet in circumference. A board tnrget, six
by five inches, in size, shall be placed be-
hind the tree, at a distance of thirty yards
from his position. lie shall not see the
around the tree, and out of twenty shots
will hit the target fifteen times at least,
making the ball go round the tree before
striking the target. The match to come
off within twenty days from the 2lst in
slant, in Arkansas, within three miles of
the city of Memphis; the place be select
ed by the judges.
Year: 1860

FAR1NI, the tight-rope man, is pursuing
his profession with great energy He has
now a $500 purse pending that he will
walk one mile back and forth on his rope
in 80 minutes, and stand upon his head
three times during the walk This fete
will be attempted on the 18th, when the
Prince of Wales is at the Falls. On the
same day he will cross without balancing
pole, and will descend to the river below
aud drop from the end of rope fifty feet
Into the water He has tested the currents
below by swimming across the Niagara
number of times under his rope. He will
carry to the centre of his rope the Empire
Washing Machine, set it down, draw up
water from the river, and do days wash
ing midway between shores. Farinis ad-
mircrs claim that his man-cnrrying feat
was not a failure, as has been alleged. He
carried Il man and pole, weighing over
two hundred pounds; set the man down at
the centre of the rope, and then delivered
him safely on shore. The man was never
on rope before and unused to rope walk
ing, thus making the task more difficult.
Blondin carried his man far less distance,
and he only weighed one hundred and
twenty-five pounds. Farini's rope is nearly
three times rs long as BIondin's, and OF
course, is far more depressed in the centre
by its length
Year: 1860

TuE Wide Awakes of New York city are
making arrangements for grand Wide
Awake demonstration in that city on the
Sd of October. All the Clubs of the Uni
ted States will be invited to participate,
and the demonstration will undoubtedly be
the largest and most brilliant affair ever
held in this country.
Year: 1860

An election has been ordered in Caswell for a
member of the House of Commons, to fill the vacan-
cy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. John Kerr
The election will take place on the 18th of this
month.


1t is not our purpose to thrust our advice on the
people of Caswcll; but we will be pardoned, we
hope, for expressing the belief that Caswel Coun-
ty-the native County of Bartlett Yancey, and Bed
ford Brown, and Romulus NJ. Saunders, and Calvin
Graves-will return a true Constitutional Union
man in place of Mr.. Kerr.


The County of Caswell has never wavered in its
support of Jeffersonian State rights principles 1t
has always been true to the Constitution and the
Union In the war Of the revolution there were no
tories in Caswell-during the war of 1912 her peo-
pie to man were on the side Of the country, while
during the Mexican war she contributed her full
share of brave men to vindicate the honor and up
hold the flag of the Republic on foreign soil. No
draft kno,on in Cas,oe for her people have
always sprung as volunteers to the defence of the
country. We believe that the people of Caswell are


fifty to one in favor of Constitutional Union; that
while they will be ready in the future, as in the
past to assert all their rights, they not yet pre-
pared to destroy the noblest form of government
ever devised by man and that the term submission
ist as applied to them, is q SANDER on brave and
loyal people.
Year: 1860

w- Is it true that Mr.. Cantwell, the Clerk of
the House'of Commons, altered the oath prescribed
for the members of that body? And if true, did he
do so ignorantly or designedy? If ignorantly, is
he t for his placer If desgnedly is he fit for his
place And if the oath was altered and if the oath
not prescribed by law administered is the House
of Commons legally organized? And if not legally
organized, is not all that has been done since that
body met null and void?


This matter is now before Committee. We trust
that justice will be done to Mr. Cantwell and to the
State. One thing is certain, as we have heretofore
stated, Mr.. Cantwel violated the law of the State
in giving out the printing Of this very oath to an
other office in this City than this office, We being
the State printer up to the second day Of the session.
Year: 1860




MY OLD HAT.
There is no use in winks and jecrs,
And railing, and all that;
1t only makes me prize the more,
My much-abused Old Hat.
There was n time perhaps when
Might felt a little fiat;
Thus to appear 'mong ladies fair,
With so uncouth Hat.
But good long years have run between
The present time and that;
And I've but little care about
The fashion of my Hat.
Now this has been as true q friend
As ever by ME sat;
This same old tattered slouch Of mine
This much denounced Old Hat.
Faithful in sunshine and in storm
Jams, squeezes--and all that;
1t would be quite ungrateful to
Forsake So good Hat.
And what to me is shining silk
Or beaver fine, or eat?
My head, | ween. would be "a grey
In any other Hat.
1t hath, indeed, seen better days
And many one says that;
When fortune wanes, or beauty fades,
And 80 may my Old Hat.
Twas once trim and graceful thing
As ever one looked at;
And won good praise from all around
This same old dingy Hat.
But hardships thickened long it's path
Kicks, peltings, and all that;
The greater marvel is TO me,
'Tis now u living Hat.
Hard battles hath it fought, and well,
With Butterfly and Bat;
For every boy about the house
Has claimed it for his Hat.
And it hath slept full many night
Out on the old straw mat
No wonder It's so shabby now
So little like Hat!
And yet I'm 10th to give it up,
No matter for all that;
1t has more comfort still for me
Than any other Hat.
And comforts what we're seeking here,
Mid Lite's rough tit-for-tat;
Then why for style or fashions sake,
Discard the dear Old HIATT
Fashions nondescript at best,
And style is often fat;
And many pate as green as mine,
Dons quite stylish Hat.
"The Worlds deceived with ornament"
The saying has grown pat
But witchery lives in bonnets fine,
1t may live in Hat!
Heads Oft are turned and hearts are warped
BY comic crowns and flat
But no such dangerous spirit turks
About this holy Hat
And yet my better. half will chide,
Scold, threaten, and all that;
Because viii not cast away
My innocent Old Hat!
Herwords have quite melting fow,'
Yet surely as to that
lmust maintain my right Of choice,
And taste about my Hat.
She trims her bonnet red or blue,
I've nought to say to that
Yet, standing On my rights reserved,
hold on to my Hat!
June q. OLD FOGY.
Year: 1860

ing Of millions Of dollars in the purchase oi


stores to be carried to that country, and this


money will not be disbursed in any particular


locality. bat all along the valley Of the Upper


Mississippi.


| There was great reason TO believe that the
commercial crisis which came upon the country
in the fall Of 81 veuld have Q tendency to
greatly increase emigration to the West to .
| considerable extent this has been the case
The reduction 10 price Of land-generallv
spesting-doss not 50 strongly allure the
Eastern citizen as the rise but We expect to
zee full tide Of Eastern farmers. mschan.
les. merchants and capitalists still pouring into
this country from the East Let it be UNDER
ssosd BY our Eastern friends that our lands are
just ~ good and somevhat reduced 10 price
from last season. and lot it be understood, too.
that they will produce just as much to the
acrs. and are subject to rise again in value and
they will not hesitate to come and settle among
us.


The commercial interests Of this locality
should be better protected than for . year or
two past The credit syatsm which has had an
unbridlsd run. mast be held in check Our msr-
chants will be gasers by it and SO will the con-
'umsrs. The ability to become possessed o.
everything one may desire merely becsus. he
has the credit to purchase upon, has ruined
thOusands Of dealers snd tens Of thousands Of
consumers within the psst two years. This the
sound sense Of the people should hold in check
The merchant must sell lees on credit though
they sell less goods. 1t will be better in the
long run. and be an ever present security
against financial disaster. Better far 10 it
that goods lay upon the shelves, than to have
them peddled out to parties from whom the
pay cannot Be collected whom called for and
much better 10 1t for the consumer to eschew
the loxuriss Of life. pay ~ they 60, and thus
erect . strong barrier between themselves and
financial rsin. Live We must within our
mssns This will produce . healthy state Of
sffairs. and make our gro WITH as . town, as a
community. solid and healthy. We may hope,
nov that We are again drs wing to our city
good class Of currency. to be able to meet our
foreign Indebtedness without having to suffer
an outrageous shave in the way of exchange
Indeed. We think We are now once more on the
high road to prosperity.
Year: 1860

In the lst ward Price has a majority Of ss.
which makes his total majority 27O.


There were several things that went to as-
sist Mr. Price in obtaining this large majority.
one OF which was solemn pledge that should
be be elected Mayor the city should not be al.
lowed to 60 to protest. but if necessary he
would put his hard in his pocket and pay the
interest himself Another was pledge made
our German fellow citizens. thatif they would
assist in electing him they should not be dis
turbed in their Sunday amusements, and that
they might drink and sell just - much lager
on Sunday as they choose.


Mr.. Price is elected-the honor of our city
10 safe. and our German friends can now go
In on their muscle" seven days out Of the
week. We shall see if Mr.. Price will redeem
his pledges.
Year: 1860

BUSINESS, GC.-The business of the
past week was undoubtedly the largest and
best our city has enjoyed for seine months. A
large amount Of grain-principslly wheat
found its way into market from all quarters,
giving our streets an unusually busy appear
snce, and this taken In connection with the
presence Of the holidays, has created degree
Of trade which must have been highly salts
factory to all business men. The cause of this
sutburst Of the wheat trade is owing to q
large demand to fill contracts ter grain with
parties in other places. This, however, matters
very little. go long as We actually enjoy the
benefits Of the trade.


We hear OF but few real estate speculations.
but We are inclined to believe we may look
for great impr vemens in this branch of bust
ness the coming spring. Those who have real
estate and are able to hold it, need have no
iears as to future results times will mend. and
An entire restoration Of confidence will be ex-
perieuced. Last summer was one of unusual
activity in public and private enterprises.-
Streets were improved and goodly number Of
buildings were erected. We may look for an
increase in this feature during the coming sea.
con and . steady and healthy prosecution Of
works Of improvement There will be less
money invested in the building Of stores. and
We trust more in the erection of dwelling
houses below the bluffs. Of the former our
city has good supply-enough at least for
the next year or so; while for the latter there
will continue to he a steadily increasing de-


mand. The style Of these ediices built fol
family purposes should be such as will be per


msnent. and more conclusive of comfort Oul


commercial relations with the East and South


will continue stsadily to increas,. The mum.


Der Of regular boats running in this trade mex,


summer will be considerably increased. Tn.


Pixies Peak excitement viii lead to the expend
Year: 1860

Which is free from all unpleasant odor, and is of
. very light color, at s1,25 per Gallon. We


would invite oil that are in want of safe light,
and the best and cheapest light in the world, to
call and satisfy themselves that
Year: 1860

with undispbted umpire. There we


were, shut out from all commune alton


with the external world. The thought
that there was no way to get out of
the country let what would happen, till
the lake should open late in the spring
and that we could not convey nor re-
eeive any intelligence beyond the bor-
ders of the Indian country, and that we
were strangers among the saYages and
entirely in their power, would OCCASION
ally come across the mind, leaving no
pleasant sensation for a moment Oc.
casionahy there would be a feeling Of
desolation within-something like that
which reigns over the frozen lake and
snow-coyered hills that surrounded US.
But there were only transcient states Of
mind. They soon passed eff, and do
not know that any of our company re-
GREETED the steps we had taken. We
knew God could protect US and make US
cheerful in our work. He did do it
No letters nor papers, no communica-
tion of any kind did we receive from
our friends at Mackinaw or the States
till the next June. II was a long
dreary winter, but it passed awey not
without some enjoyment.
Year: 1860

"The love and approval of her hus-
band is all that wife ought to desire ="
So says some sever moralist. The
Turks and most Oriental people are of
this opinion; but it does not seem to be
very popular with Americans. Are the
hundred-dollar silk dresses and twenty
dollar bonnets, with all the rest of the
dry-goods, intended to secure the love
and approval of the husband The
fact is, when an American gets hand
some wife, he wants everybody to ad-
mire her. That is what he earns and
spends his money for. You cannot
please him better than by paying atten-
tion to his wife; you cannot offend him
worse than by neglecting her. Our
moralist's doctrine may be all right, bu
it 10 very far from being popular in this
part of the world.
Year: 1860

In the last number of the Nashville Banner we find the
folio wing earnest address Of the Union State Cenra Ex
ecutive Committee of Tennessee In all its main points
the address is as appropriate to the Union men of Vr.
ginia as IL is to those of Tennessee:
Year: 1860

among ourselves be displaying wounds and opening
our sores and ashing ourselves into uucompromising
fury and madnessl With what hope, with what exp
a,ion, with what design is all this doneg Is it done to
drive people into expression Of this temper by the
election Of Breckinridge, who is its representative aud
thus off all hope of concation Is IL not in many
instances from the lower and meaner motive Of keeping
temporary local power in the several States for keeping
party and party men 10 power.


Vote for Breckenridge, say you Tennessee and thus
keep united South! Why do you not speak out palm
ly and say keep Mesrs johnson and Nicholson in the
Senate and the subordinate officers under party
troll And is not this monstrous and almost past belief
that while country is hanging on the edge Of pre-
cpice while civil is erecting lis hdeous front, when
almost at the beginning Of the end, men should
be found who be engaged in this miserable scramble
for Offices the very foundations Of which just ready
to be swept away The madness Of the peope Of Jerus
aem when the city beseiged by Titus-ihe madness
Of the Of sinking ships who quarrel tie spir
it casks before they engulphed is wisdom compared
TO this


How then should the South be united? It should be
united in spirit Of conciliaton towards the North
should be united in holding out the olive branch Of
peace Gentleness and kindness should be united with
hrmness. We should uuite upon some man who is true
son OF the Union; some who while be has maintain
ed all Of rights has respected and conceded the
rights Of other sections; who has not yet mar
rowed bis mind 10 the idea Of Southern Coaiederacy;
some man who, like Washington and Jackson, has
garded the union of these States embracing ther lib
erty their glory their peace and their happiness And
such mad is John Bel. Unite upon him aud you may
have united South united North, united East,
united West and they may all be united.


Bell men stand by your coors your cause is the cause
Of your whole country Listen TO the siren song Of
the narrow.hearted men who tell you of Southern
Union. Know no country but your own--that mighty
country TO which belong the elores of our Revolution
and our past history; to which belong the names OF
Washington and Adams, OF Jefferson and Jackson, OF
Webster and of Clay.


Edwin II EWING,


An A
Year: 1860

RETuRNED.-The gentleman who started
in pursuit of his fugitive wife, who had
taken two of his children, some days ago,
returned from New Orleans, at which city
he Overhauled them and the destroyer of his
domestic bliss, on Thursday last, with his
children. The wife accompanied him as far
as Olney, Ills, but had not theheart to re-
turn to the home she had made deSolate and
meet the friends whose cup of bitterness she
had caused to overflow. The seoundrel that
had caused all of this trouble and sorrow
was left nnrebuked in the city, rs he could
not be reached by the arm of the law, and
the wrohged husband could not get sight of
him only for a moment, and that in the cell
of one of the city prisons, where he stayed
for fear, even after he was legally discharg-
cd. Such case, we believe, never occur
red in our community before, and we hope
this will be the last, as it has been the first.


Yin. Gaz
Year: 1860

DGs~ Our readers will notice, with a thrill
of Joy, that the Homestead Bill has passed
the House by Il large majority. But cloud
will darken this cheering emotion when the
sad conviction forces itself on the mind that
the party in power are bitterly opposed to
tie measure; that it can not survive the
ordeal of the Senate; that if it should mi
raculously do so, the Presidents veto will be
the death of it. There will be no Home
stead Law SO long as the present party is in
power. ..
Year: 1860

E1We shall cut short the Sunday con-
troversy with the Enquirer by asserting
that that paper cannot possibly be published
on Sunday without considerable out and
indoor work on that day; while with us,
in publishing the Journal on Monday, Sun
day work is the exception, rest on the Sab
bath the rule. The Enquirer may continue
to misrepresent till next Christmas, if it can
find no better use for its columns. We aro
done.
Year: 1860

B6s-We are informed that we were mis-
taken the other day in stating that the es-
cape of prisoners from the Jail happened at
the time of the alarm OF fire. 1t took place
half an hour before the alarm, was given.