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Year: 1868

The following is synopsis of the State
bond bill which yesterday the committee of the
whole recommended to the House for adop-
ton, and which will doubtless pass the House
this week. We here state that when the sub
ject was first brosched a strong effort was
made to make the bonds and interest paya-
BILE in gold. This was, however, defeated,
and the bill now stands thus:


Section one authorizes the governor to
issue s2,000,0C0 worth of 40 year bonds,
bearing .07 $40 per cent interest, and to
advertise for sixty days inviting proposals for
the bonds, the bonds to be sold to the high
est bidder.


Section two makes the interest payable
either in New York or New Orleans.


Section three provides that it shall be
the duty of the auditor and treasurer, on the
first Monday of August and February of each
year, to set apart from money in the treasury,
at the credit Of the general fund, an amount
sufficient to pay the semi-annual interest on
the outstanding bonds issued under the pro-
visions of this act"


Section four we give uerbatim:


BE a further enacted, etc., That to provide for
the redemption OF bonds issued under the provl-
SONS Of this act, and for the prompt payment OF
interest accruing thereon, the auditor Is hereby
directed within TIM ~ days after he shall have re-
ceived the assessment rolls from the several par.
ishes and the city of New Orleans, to determine
by accurate calculation what rate Of taxation on
the total assessed value of all the movable and i'm
movable property in the State will be sufficient for
the purpose of paying the said interest and for the
annual reduction Of fifty thousand dollars of the
seid principal; and il shall also be his duty to
tfy the several sherifs and tax collectors of the
rate Of taxation ascertained and fixed for the
purpose aforesaid and said tax, as annually as.
certaned and fixed, is hereby annually levied up
on sll the movable and immOvable properly that
may he annually assessed in this State; and it
shall be the duty of the several sheriifs and tax
collectors to collect said tax and the collection of
the same shall be enforced as the law provides
or may hereafter provide for the collection of
be paid into the treasury, the same shall be placed
10 he credit Of fund to be known as the % Two
Millions Relief Fund F" which fund is hereby de-
claTed sacred deposit, for the sole purpose Of
paying interest on and efecting the redemption OF
the bonds issued under this act


The balance of the bill provides for the
semi-annual redemption, by purchase from
the lowest bidder, of such bonds as the money
appropriated for the purpose will pay for, for
the crediting of all moneys received for the
bonds to the general fund of the State, for the
appropriation of $1,000 to pay expenses of
lithographing, ETC., and for the act going into
effect from and after its passage.
Year: 1868

The procession of the Seymour Southrons
last evening was a matter which the CRESCENT
cannot find words to describe the beauty of.
No regular. troops ever marched or made their
evolutions with more promptness and pre-
cision. There were about one hundred and
fifty of them, under their grand marshal, NJ.
Mcnamara, Esq, that came with their trans
parencies and lights and gave three hearty
cheers for the CRESCENT. Their maneuvering
was truly admirable, and a hsndsomer as
sembly OF young gentlemen it has rarely been
our lot to see. Three times three and tiger
for the Southrons. There was feature in
this gathering we wish to notice. In the rear
Of the Southrons were gathering or process
sion of little fellows, with their transparencies
some of them hardly out of their swaddling
clothes. How holy and confding is the trust
of woman in the goodness of the Almighty
In any other cause those little boys would not
be out of their mothers sight five minutes but
those mothers trust to the sacred honor of the
Democratic cause, and let their little ones
come forth to swell the concourse which is
marching towards the temple of Freedom.
Year: 1868

Senator Davis of Kentucky, speaking in
recent letter, of the extraordinary means
which are appealed to for making Gen Grant
President, remarks that when he is thus
elected and inaugurated, then will the revo-
luton of our government be complete and
permanent and long, dismal night of des-


potism will brood over our country" The
Radical politicians are, perhaps, for the
most part too much preoccupied with des-
perate expedients Tor keeping the opposite
party from power, and for protecting them
selves from the just resentment of the people,


to calculate the eventual effect which the ac-
eession of such a man as Grant to the su-
preme executive power would have upon the
general political situation. Many of them,


however, suspect that his elevation to that


position would be the prelude to such
change as took place in England when
Cromwell dispersed the Rump parliament,
and in France when Napoleon dispersed
the Council of Five Hundred. These have
become SO vitiated in their political
ideas and so envenomed in their par
tisan animosity that they no longer
cherish the muniments of free government,
and are willing to lay their own hber-
ties at the feet of an autocrat, if by so
doing they may defeat the hopes of their
political opponents and force them to the
level Of a common degradation. An analysis
Of the acts and words of Gen. Grant within
the past two years, will result in this conclu-
sion-that he is not satisfied with his present
position; that he is not satisfied with the con-
dition of the country; that he has set his
head on being President, and something more;
that he despises the political coterie which
processes to have him in its keeping, and in
tends to use it while it thinks it is using him;
and that, when once seated as President
dictator or imperator-he will not be content
with a merely partisan or merely sectional
support, but will lay hold of all elements that
may be combined to strengthen his tenure
and to universalize his power. In accepting
the Republican nomination he expressly re-
served the full discretion of shaping his policy
to suit future contingencies. There is vast
import in such a reservation by such a man.
The Radicals fatter themselves that he will
be impelled by gratitude to sustain the Radi-
cal theory of government, whatever that may
be. Sheer delusion! Gratitude has nothing
to do with such coalitions. As appositely re-
marked by the Louisville Courier, if he be-
comes President, "he will hold a terrible and
dangerous balance of power between them
and their opponents. If he should then
threaten to carry out the Radical idea of gov
eminent, their intended victims preferring
the despotism of one man to that of cruel
and corrupt faction, would be in condition to
accept the relief which he could Offer and
which would be acceptable, because his ac-
cession to unlimited power would involve the
Radical and Southern man in the same fate
precisely. The power conferred on him as
the tool of vengeful and despotic policy
could be easily allied with the resentments of
a desperate people and thus become the step
iDg-stone to an imperial throne"
Year: 1868

The ninth ward Democrats have our best
wishes and our admiration for their loyalty
and steadfastness; but their place of meeting
last evening was so far down town that our
reporters, who are puzzled with the numerous
clubs around the heart of the city, had really
not time to go down there. The ninth ward
club, we repeat have our hearty sympathies,
and they shall hereafter be fully reported.
Year: 1868

We are happy to see that the Democrats in
the upper part of the First District have
formed a club named after that excellent man,
soldier and gentleman, ]. B. Steedman.
Their number already reaches nearly two
hundred Under such name, and with such
patron to advise and to lead, the Steedman
Club are bound to do great service in the
cause of Seymour end Blair.
Year: 1868

A beautiful banner is to be the prize of GAL
liant struggle at the Fair Grounds to-day. The
occasion Is the last days festival of the gallant
nremen OF New Orleans for the benefit Of the
WIDOWS and orphans. The banner is the gift of
our highly esteemed and efficient civil sheriff,
Col. Thomas L. Maxwell.
Year: 1868

T The CRESCENT thanks the Blair Sentinels
for the honor conferred by them in electing
its proprietor and chief editor an honorary
member of their efficient and excellent or
paniZation.
Year: 1868

4 meeting Of the Central Club will
be held at Headquarters tonight.
Every working Democrat should be
present. Business Of the highest i'm
portauce will be brought before the
meeting.


Our State election is approaching
Preparations for polling our full vote
must be made. Ohio county is able to
give larger Democratic majority thar
ever before. With proper effort such
majority can be polled. To do this,
however, we must work.


Systematic arrangement will tacil'
tate our success. Let as make all
aeeded provision at the Club Room to-
night. Democrats of Ohio county, lend
rs Your presence and counsel at this
meeting. Let all who feel an interest
N the great canse be promptly or
hand
Year: 1868

ton. General Thomas says he can not
send any from Tennessee. Both gem
tlemen were in conference with the
military authorities this forenoon"


FELLOW CITIZENs:-You all know
how unfairly the registration has been
conducted in this State; how the Board
of Registration in Jefferson county was
removed by telegraph for doing its du-
ty, and anotker appointed in its place
to execute the behests of the Governor,
and in other counties large classes of
our citizens have been disfranchised
without law or precedent, and yet how
patiently and uncomplsiningly the peo-
pie have borne it, and how untrue the
charge is that "the DISTINGUISHED rebels
threaten to vote az all hazards" and
we all know how much the interests of
the State have suffered by the reports
that have gone abroad from time to
time, that we were lawless and insub-
ordinate people, and that it is necessary
TO keep troops stationed among us to
preserve order. Whenever a company
of troops is sent to this State, or de-
mand made for them in Washington, it
is telegraphed and published all over
the country, and West Virginia is set
down as desperate and lawless State,
where it is unsafe to live.


Is this true i-and are we doing our
selves justice by upholding and sustain
ing in office a party who have no regard
for the interests and prosperity of the
State Where is there any insurrec-
tion against the laws of the State, or
har 10 10
that "a guilty conscience needs no &C
cuser." The Radical leaders are alarmed
and feel that the State offices are pass
ing from them unless they can control
the people by arbitrary force and they
know, to do more than has yet been
done would be such an outrage and
wrong to the people that their con-
sciences are making towards of them,
and they call for bayonets against the
quiet people. They mean violence, the
people of West Virginia do not.


Fellow citizens, will you sustain such
a course to the ruin of your interests
Will immigration come amongst us7
Will any person buy our landsi Will
any one invest money in our State 7
Will our own people stay here if they
eau peJ away III any FuullO iAl-
provements be projected 7 Will not the
roads through the country grow up and
become bride paths, and our towns be
deserted unless this policy is stopped,
and confidence and respectability re-
stored to our State.


If you believe we are a lawless and
insuberdinate people, and should be
by military rule, vote for the |
Radical State ticket, and it will be
continued year after year to retain
power. If you believe we are a law
abiding and free people, entitled to the
confidence that brings population and
prosperity TO the State, vote for the
Conservative ticket and you will need
no more soldiers.


Decide for yourselves which is best,
for the choice is with you.


Very respectfully,


J. n. CAMDEN.


PARKERsBURG, Oct. 13, 1868.
Year: 1868

The Democrats of Triadelphla town
ship hold a meeting this afternoon, at
Tnadelphia. The Committee hoped to
procure special train for the OCCASION
but owing to the breaking of one oi the
engines on the Hempfeld road nave
been disappointed. notwithstanding
this. many parties from this city Will
attend in private conveyances Inc
meeting will be q large one.
Year: 1868

The Albany EreniRg Journal says that
the Democratic doctrine is that the mig
gers have no business to be niggers." No
it isn't; but the Democratic doctrine
is that white men have no business to be
niggers.
Year: 1868

A strong and sensible writer says a good
sharp thing, and true one, too, for boys
who use tobacco. SIT has utterly spoiled
and utterly ruined thousands of boys 1t
tends to the softening and weakening of the
bones, and it gently Injuries the brain, the
spinal marrow, and the whole nervoas fluid.
A boy who smokes early and frequently, or
in any way uses large quantities of tobacco,
is never known to make a man of much en-
ergy, generally lacks muscular and physical,
as well as mental power. We would partic-
ularly warn boys, who want to be any thing
in the world, to shun tobacco" The laws
of health are infallible; the relation between
transgresson and the penalty is invariable
and the infiction Of the latter is certain to
follow upon the former. There is nothing
about which young persons are more beguil-
ed and deluded than the belief that they can
transgress natural laws and jump the penal
ty Punishment for violation of natural
law IS just as certain as that the sun itself
shines, and one cannot violate law of his
body, or anv part Of it, that there is not
registered in him a penalty.
Year: 1868

Did you ever study the cheapness of
some pleasures? asks some excellent writer
Do you know how little it takes to make a
multitude happy? Such trifies as penny,
a word, or smile, do work. There are
two or three boys passing along-give then,
each a chesnut, and how smiling they look
tbev will not be cross tor some time. a
moor widow who lives in the neighborhood,
who is the mother of a half dezen child
rem: send them halfa peck of sweet apples
and they will be happy. a child has lost
his arrow-the world to him, and he mourns
sadly: help HIM find it,or make him anoth-
er, and how quickly will the sunshine play
upon his sober face. A boy has as much as
he can do to pile up load of wood; assist
him few moments, or speak pleasant
word to him, ond he forgets his toll, and
works away without minding it. Your ap-
prentice has broken mug,or cut vest too
large. or slightly Injured piece of work.
Saw. You scoundrel, and he feels misera-
BILE but remark, Il am sorry, and he will
try to do better You employ a man-pay
him cheerfully, and speak pleasant word
to him, aud he leaves your house with a
contented heart, TO light up his own hearth
with smiles of gladness. As you pass along
the street. you meet familiar face--say,
sgood morning" as though you felt happy,
and it will work admirably in the heart of
your neighbor Pleasure is cheap-who
will not bestow it literally? If there are
smiles, sunshine and flowers all about us, let
us not grasp them with miser's fist and
lock Them up in our hearts. No. Rather
let us take them and scatter them about u.s.
in the window of the cot, among the groups
of children in the crowded mart, where men
of business congre gate, in our families, and
everywhere. We can make the wretched
happy, the disconted cheerful, the afflicted
resigned, at an exceedingly cheap rate.
Who will refuse to do it?
Year: 1868

THE WEDDING RING.-The ring is the
emblem of fidelity whenever it is looked
upon the marriage vow should be remember
ed. The Russians have several emblems
not at all greatful to the feelings of the
welded pairs, which they make use of at
their marriage rites. The bride, on her
wedding day, is crowned with garland of
wormwood-implying not only the bitter
ness of trials of the marriage state, but the
duty of married women to triumph over
these difficulties and thus make them what
they rerlly can be made, crown or emblem
of victory.
Year: 1868

A HAPPY ILLUsTRIOUs.-Elde Knapp
occasionally hits off good thing, notwith
standing his bad ones During his recent
stay in this place he was one evening speak
of the prevailing tendencies of some religion
lists to long prayers, says the Dover Tele-
graph, and remarked that we could find
no example for these in the scriptures. The
the point. The prayer of the penitent pub
lican was a happy specimen. When Peter
was endeavoring to walk upon the waters to
meet his master, and was about sinking,
had his supplication been as long as the in
PRODUCTION to one of our modern prayers,
before he got half through, he would have
been fifty feet under water.
Year: 1868

One may live conqueror, a king or
magistrate, but he must die man. The
bed of death brings every man to his pure
individuality, to the intense contemplation
of that deepest of all relations the relation
between the Creature and the Creator
Year: 1868

Let any one, while sitting down, place the
left leg over the knee of the right one and
permit it to hang freely, abandoning all mus
cular control over it. Speedily it may be
observed to sway forward and backward
through limited SPACE at regular intervals.
Counting the number OF these motions for
any given time they will be found to agree
with the beating of the pulse. Every one
knows that at fires, when the water from
the engine is forced through bent hose, if
the bend is sharp one, considerable force
is necessary to overcome the tendency. just
so it is in the human body The arteries
are but a system of hose through which the
blood is forced by the heart When the leg
is bent, all the arteries within it are bent
too, and every time the heart contracts, the
arteries tend to straighten them, and it is
this effort which produces the motion of the
leg alluded to. Without such peculiar de
monstrations, it is difficult to conceive the
power exerted by that exquisite mechanism,
the normal pulsations of which are never
perceived by him whose very life they are.
Year: 1868

A HAPPY MAN.-Thc editor of the Pitts
burg Chronicle must be a happy fellow. Just
hear how he talks Talk about the enjoy
ment of wealth--it never was-never will be
enjoyed. An abundance of money heap of
misery. A man who owns a small house, a
small farm, a small wife, big dog, a good
COW, two or three fat pigs, two children,
ought to be satisfied If he isn't he never
can be"
Year: 1868

CHOOSE WELL-The line of conduct
chosen by young man during the five years
from fifteen to twenty, will in almost every
instance determine his character for life.
AS he is then careful or careless, prudent
or imprudent industrious or indolent, truth
full or discriminating, intelligent ignorant,
temperate or dissolute, so viii he be in after
years, and it needs no prophet to cast his
horoscope, or calculate his chances i'll life.
Year: 1868

There is no medicine sxtant equal to these REM
edies in such cases. A tone and vigor IL impaired
to the whole system. the appetite is strengthed
food is enjoyed the stomach digests promptly the
blood is purified, the complexion becomes sound
and healthy. the yellow tinge is eradicated from
the eyes bloom is given to the cheeks and the
weak and nervous invalid becomes strong and
healthy being.
Year: 1868

7
Are made strong by the of either Of these
remedies They will cure every case of MARAS
MUS, without fail.


Thousands of certificates have accumulated in
the hands of the proprieto but space will allow
of the publication of but few. Those,it will be
observed, are men of note and of such standing
that they ust believed
Year: 1868

SUPPOSED TO BE SToLEN.-Mr. F. G. Will
son took lot of jewelry from small ne
gro boy on Christmas day, which he pre-
sumed had been stolen. The owner may
get it by calling at Ills Main street and
proving property.
Year: 1868

A TRAIN OF CHEAP WooD will be sold to
those unable to buy at the regular prices on
Tuesday afternoon next on Brood street.
Dir. Parker has authorized his agent to sell
any quantity from one stick up.
Year: 1868

CRAZY NEGRo.-On Friday morning a
crazy negro was found in the woods some
three miles from the city in great physical
pain. He was picked up, brought to the
city, lodged in the Third Ward station, and
was sent on Saturday morning to Howard
Grove hospital for treatment.
Year: 1868

Rows.-On Christmas day the corner
of Twenty-ffth and Main streets was the
scene of what at one time was thought by
the bystanders would turn into general
riot, but the friends of the two parties who
were the originators Of the difficulty inter
fered and carried them off. The Basin
sin bank and Robert Sprigg's dance-house
were the scenes of several disorders, mostly
among negroes and very low class of
white men. The police interfered and ar
rested several Of the party. A negro was
arrested in the Third Ward by police Off
GER, and was followed to the cage by an an
cry crowd Of drunken negroes, who threat
ened to take him from the ststion-house.
With the exception of these disturbances
the day passed off quietly.
Year: 1868

Threatened.


[From the Evening Telegram Of yesterday.l
NASHVILLE, August Is, 1868.


AS might be supposed, the first reports concerning
the terrible murders at Franklin, Tenn which were


telegraphed. night before last were In some re-


spects inaccurate, although in the main correct.


IL seems now that only some twenty-five or thirty


OF the murderers came into the town. while the main


body, reported at two hundred to four hundred


strong, Is said to have remained within supporting


distance outside The name of the white man killed


was 8. A. Bierfeld. He was young man and


kept store In the town. Although an earnest


Union man, he was quite an fnoffensive gentle
man. or all who knew him none say aught against
him. He was quietly sleeping in his store on Satur-
day night. His clerk, who was cOlored man,
named Lawrence Bowman was also sleeping In the
store RobinsOn's circus was at Franklin that day.
and number OF people were still In town when the
masked horsemen came dashing In. They fired
number OF shots Unfortunately, driving everybody
indoors: They then went TO Bierfeld's store and
and they replied friends. He told them to go the
front door, and went to it himself and opened
II. They Immediately rushed In and secured
Bowman, while Bierheld ran Off, but they
the blood they tracked him to an adjoining
stable, dragged him out, placed rope around him
and put him on horseback. He, however, struggled
to the ground and pteously begged to be permitted
to see his mother before they killed him. The reply
was, 'Damn your mother; you shall die now" Sew
eral shots were then fired into his body, which,
those who afterwards saw 1t say was literally rid
died. Bowman was then brought out and shot, and
the assassins took their departure. Bowman was
mortally wounded, but dragged himself to o grave
yard and died during the night.


Such 1s the best account have been able to OBJ
tain Of these frightful murders. cannot vouch for
the accuracy OF each particular detail hut all the
main points are confirmed by a number of witnesses
1t ID undoubtedly substantially correct Gentlemen
arriving from Franklin last evening say there Is
much excitement there and fears are entertained OF
riot on large scale.
Year: 1868

Mrs. Webster received many kindness
from those who were more destitute than
herself.


Ray Eilbert went heme, and retired TO
rest, not With the easy conscience Of hsp
py man, but with an indefinite belief, that
ior brisf season at lcast, he had worn the
livery Of heaven to sc-7e the devil in.