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Year: 1868

with pistols. The music was playing, and
the crowd noisy and threatening in their
conduct Murphy and one Joiner, negro,
in buggy i'll the rear. As the head of
the column approached the square, one of
our citizens, James Johns, who was in
toxicated, approached within a few feet of
the column and oEdefed the music to stop,
which was not done. The column moved
on, and when about twenty steps from
him, his gun was fired, whether intention
ally or not it is not known, but it was
pointed in different direction, and the
shot struck the ground about twelve feet
from him. The column fired volley,
some of the shots at Johns, but most of
them in the direction of Maples's store,
thirty or forty steps from the column, at
which place there was number of our
citizens, all unarmed, wounding six of our
citizens. Immediately about twenty of
our citizens sprang to their arms, aud fired
into the column, by which two negroes
were killed and an unknown number
wounded. The negroes immediately broke
into Il thick cluster of timber, one hun
dred yards north of the Courthouse.


At this point there was an attempt made
by Pearce to rally his routed forces. Our
citizens Immediately, to the number of
about thirty--a part of them mounted
made a charge, and completely routed the
whole party, Pcarce flying through the
woods and fields, and Murphy and Joiner
escaping in buggy up the road, towards
Albany. Seven negroes were killed, from
the best information we have been able to
procure. Between thirty and forty were
wounded, all of whom have been properly
cared for. 1t is a source of deep regret
that the calamitous consequences of this
affair fell exclusively upon the poor delu-
ded negroes, led on by wicked white men
Murphy, Pcarcc, and Putncy-who
made good their escape in the hour of dam
Ger with but little injury to themselves.
This sad result is to be attributed more to
the sharpness and shrcwdncss of these gal
lant leaders, who succeeded in effecting
their escape, than to the want of peaceahle
intention on the part Of our people. We
hereby disavow any purpose or intent on
the part Of ourselves or our citizens to vi
olate the laws or peace of the State in
what was done. We were willing and 50
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expressed ourselves to these leaders. for
them to hold their political meeting at the
courthouse in our town, if the negroes
were disarmed but we did think, and still
think. that it was our duty to obey the or
der of the sheriff as a civil officer of this
State, in breaking M this unlawful assem-
blage. We felt that as their numbers
vastly exceeded that of our citizens pres
ont, that if this meeting had taken place
the lives of our wives and children would
have been at the mercy of an infuriatcd
mob While the consequences are to be
regretted and we do not boast of what
was done by our citizens, we feel that they
have but discharged painful duty i'm
posed upon them by wicked and corrupt
men now engaged in leading estrav, into
acts of lawlcssncss, the colorcd people OF
our country"
Year: 1868

A writer in the Deldware Gazette sug-
gests that Major Biggs shall challenge
Gen. Torbcrt to joint discussion Of the
issues involved in the present campaign.
We make no doubt that their respective
party friends would like to hear them, and
we think there is as little doubt that the
Major would put the General hOrs de COM
Int
Year: 1868

A STRIKE.-The hod-carriers engaged
upon the fown Hall, seven in number,
struck for higher wages, on Monday week.
The contractors at once rugged up block
and tackle, attached horse to the rope,
and with the assistance of little boy to
drive, and two or three laborers, ran up
the brick and mortar with great facility
thereby dispensing with the services of the
hod-carriers.
Year: 1868

The decease recently, of two or three emil
nent persons whose private lives Gt is assumed)
had not been free from error, has brought
prominently under consideration the propriety
or impropriety of prOclaiming and reproving
the failings and vices of public men, whether
during their lives or in announcing their
decease. The question is not free from diff
Guilty, yet we are inclined to deem f0rbearance
the better course.


Most certainly, if anything is to be said on
the subject, it should be the exact, literal
truth. There should be no vanishing OF vice,
and, above all, no intimatOn that the wees or
great men are less heinOus, more venisb than
those of little men. Yet we cannot realize that
mankind is to be profted, improved, or truly
enlightened, by obtruding on their attention
the private faults of either the living or the
dead.


If any one pushes his vices into the face ana
eyes of the public--if he parades and blazons
his deDravty-if it be made manifest through
police arrests and proceedings in courts-the
new spapers are compelled TO speak OF It, NOT
so of the vice which shuns observation ana
evades notOriety.


But may not silence with regard to an
eminent persons private vices be deceptive and
virtually misleadingf


We think not. We nOwise affirm or imply
the moral purity of one concerning whose prl-
vate life we are silent The public is nowlse
too apt to infer that mans morals were pure
from the mere fact that nothing is said OF them


Besides statements wholly, absolutely true
may convey false impressions. AS no mans
whole life is equal TO his nOblest moments
his highest aspirations, so very few are so bad
as their worst deeds would indicate. Many
man has been drawn into a momentary aber-
ration which was at war with the general tenor
of his life. Judged by that alteration, he
would seem far worse than he really was


On the whole, we judge that the feeling
which iGpels most of us to say of the dead
only what their sOrrOwing relatives might hear
without pain, is correct. Let us guard strictly
against eulogizing lives that were faulty, or
ascribing virtues to those who had them not;
but let the private vices and errors OF the
dead successfully invoke, SO far as may be, the
charity of absolute silence.
Year: 1868

Again Mr. Seymour says; Thoughtful men feel
that there have been wrongs in the financial
management which have been kept from the
public knowledge" Thoughtful men do not
feel anything except on the evidence of what
they know. If Mr.. Seymour knows of any
wrongs in the financial management, which
/" have been kept from the public knowledge
he is himself guilty Of keeping them from 'he
public knowledge. If he does not know of
any, but makes his statement without any facts
to base it upon, and from mere partisan malice,
then he is guilty of Misrepresentation. One OF
the first qualifications for President should be
the candor to avoh saying what he Adoes not
know to be true.
Year: 1868

without distinction of party, there is q
strong feeling in favor of that line of action
which shall restore order and confidence, and
shall lift of the burdens which now hinder
and vex the industry of the country"


SO says exlGov Seymour, and SO say we.
But the Democratic Convention has committed
the party to the policy of OverthrOwiug the
governments organized by Congress in the
Southern States, and using the army to crush
out the law, silence Congress, and trample
loyal men North and South under foot Is
this a policy likely TO restore order and conf
denceP Instead of tightening, it would double
the burdens which vex the industry of the
country .... - .
Year: 1868

We print on our second page fun report
of the splendid Republican meeting lately held
in Atlanta, Georgia. The people OF that State
viii do well to heed the advice of such men
as cx-Gov. Brown and Joshua Hill. The former
made is clearly apparent that the DeaociatIc
party was a revolutionary one, and its triumph
would jeopardisc the peace Of the country
Year: 1868

The campaign in Maine is live one. The
Republicans arc working with an enthusiasm
and energy that augur victory for the State
ticket Our special correspondent sends us q
letter from the capital of the state, which We
publish this morning ..
Year: 1868

WoNAE's GRAVE.-I can pass by the
tomb of a man with somewhat of 8
calm indifference, but when [ survey
the grave of female, a sigh iuYolun.
tarly escapes me. With the holy
name of woman L associate every soft
tender and delicate affection. | think
of her a. the young and bashful virgin,
with eyes sparkling, and with cheeks
crimsoned with each impass;oned feel
ing of the heart as the chaste and Vir.
tuous matron, tired with the follies OF
the world, and preparing for the graVc
TO which she must soon descend
There IS something in contemplating
the character of a woman that raises
the soul far above the level of society.
She is formed to sdorn and humanize
mankind, to soothe his cares and
strew his path with flowers. In the
hour of distress she is the rack on


which he leans for support, and when
fate calls him from existence, her
tears bedew his grave. Can you look
upon her touch without emotion p
Man has always justice done his mem
ory; woman never. The pages of histe-
ry lie open to the one-but the meek
and unobtrusiTe excellencies of the


other sleep with her unnoticed in the
grave. In her may have been shown
the genius of poet with the virtues
OF saint. She too, may have passed
along the sterile path of existence, and
felt Tor others what l now feel for her.
Year: 1868

LIVE ToR GooD-Thousands of men


breathe, move and live, pass cff the
stage of life, and are heard of no more.


Why? Tley did not see a particle of
good in the world, and none were bles-
sed by them as instruments of their re-
demption; not a word they spoke could
be recalled, and so they perishsd, their
light went out in darkness, and they
were not remembered more than the
insects of yesterday. VIII you live
thus and die, o man immortal? Live
for something. Do good, and leave be-
hind you monument of virtue that
time can never destroy. Write your
name in kindness, love and mercy on the
hearts of thousands you come in con-
tact with, year by year. and you will
never be forgotten No, your name,
your deeds will be as legible on the
hearts you leave behind, as the stars on
the brow of evening Good deeds will
shine as brightly On earth as the stars
Of heaven.
Year: 1868

SOLEMN THoUGHTs.-Paragra like
the following from she NORTH British Re.
Uielg. are calculated 70 make one feel his
nothingness: What this change is to be
we dare not even conjecture but we see
in the heavens themselves some traces OF
the destructive elements and some indica-
tions of their power. Tde fragments OF
broken planets, the descent of meteOric
stones upon o1r globe, the wheeling COM
cts, welding their loo.e material in our
own satellite, the appearance Of new stars
and the disappearance Of others, are as the
solar furnace, the volcanic eruptions, all
foreshadows Of that impending eOnVuision
to which the system of the world is doom
ed. Thus placed on planet which is to
be burned up, and under heavens which
are to pass away; thus treading, as it were
on the cemeteries, and dwelling upon the
mausoleums of former worlds, let US learn
the lesson of humanity and wisdom, if we
have not already been taught in the school
of Revelation"
Year: 1868

Being invited recently to deliver an
agricultural address before a Harvest
Home Association in Central New
York, on the occasion of their annual
festival, the Fat Contributor con
sented. We nuke the following elo-
quens extract from his address: al
though fortune Tor perhaps the want
of itl cast my lot amid the struggling
multitude Of great city, where yoI
wouldn't see a farm in q walk Of sever
al squares, where there are ne mead
ows with their waving potato tops, or
wheat fields ripe for the woodlands
axe, yet I have always felt q deep in
terest in the tanning classes, and l
Hatter myself that l know somethin 9
about the noble pursuit you follow
l will say here that it has been the
ambition Of my whole life to be an
honest old farmer-to earn my bread
by the sweat of hired mans brow
How delightful life on farm must be.
L can imagine what Vigor is impaired
to the frame, and what strength to the
muscles by reclining in the shade and
watching the mowers as they gaily
swing their threshing machines and
then what an appetite one must ac-
qulre for the noontide lunch by obser-
wing the merry reapers at work digging
their wheat and raking and binding
their potatoes and their fall apples.


.'How often, in imagination, 1 have
followed you, as you went forth of q
summers morning when the dew was
on the grass seed, neatly attired IN
neat linen suits with patent leather
boots, with your eoFnshellers swung
lightly over your shoulders, to cut
your winters wood. have seemed to
hear your merry songs sweeping up
from the meadows, ss you gathered
your watermelons and turDips into
your-corn houses, while mingled with
the busy hum Of your sorghum evapo-
rators, came the musical bleatings of
your cattle, and the lowing of your
sheep and poultry. 1 can imagine nc
greater delight than to gather aroun
the blazing fire place, regardless of tn g
destinations of the storm without
amuse yourself with apple. pairing, knit
ting, base ball, seven up, and Other
athletic games"
Year: 1868

A grotesque simile is sometimes very
expressive. We may mention those of
Daniel Webster, who hkened the word
would" in Rufus Chcate's handwrit-
ing to P small gridirOn struck by light
ming: of a sailor, who likeued a gentle
man whose face was covered with
whiskers up TO his very eyes, to q rat
peeping out Of bunch Of oakum; of
! q western reporter, who, IN a weather
item on q cold day, said that the sums
rays in the effort TO tbaw the ice were
as futile Is the dull reflex Of a painted
yellow dog; and Of conductor, who,
in a discussion as to speed, said that
the last time he ran his engine from
Syrscuse the telegraph poles on the
side looked like a fine tooth-comb.
Smiles Of like character are often
heard among the common people, and
are supposed to be the peculiar proper
! ~ of Western orators. Instances: As
sharp as the little end of nothing; big
as all outdoors it strikes me like a
thousand of bricks; slick as grease or
as creased lightning melancholy as a
Quaker meeting by moonlight; fat as
a founder; quick as wink; aot enough
to make cruel for a sick grass shopper !;
not clothes enough to wad gun; as
limp and timber as an india-rubber
stoVe-pipe; uneasy as a cat in strange
garrett; not strong enough to haul a
broiled Goldfish off agridiron; after you
like a rat-terrier after a chip-monk
squirrel: useless as whistling psalms to
dead horse; no more than a grass
hopper wants an apron don't make
the difference of the shake of a frogs
tail; soul bobbing up and down in the bo-
som like crazy porpoise in pond of
redhot grease enthusiasm boiled over
like bottle of ginger pop; as impossi-
bic to penetrate his head as to bore
through Mount Blanc with q boiled
carrot; as impossible as to ladle the
ocean dry with clam-sheli, or suck the
Gulf of Mexico through a goose quill:
or to stuff butter into a wildcat with a
hot aBl; or for shad to climb up a
shad-pole with fresh msckerel under
each arm or for a cat to run up stove
pipe with a teasel tied 10 its tail; or
for a man TO lift himcelf over a fence
by the strap of his boots. A smile
resembling these was used by Lady
Montague when, getting inpatient, in
discussion with Fox, she told him she
did not care three skips of louise for
him. He replied in few minutes with
the following:


'-Lsdy Montague told me, and in her owr house,
i do not care for you three skips Of a louse.'
! forgive her. for woman. however well-bred.
VIII still talk Of that which runs most in their


head"


There is another class of smiles
scarcely as pertinent, as, for instance; /;
straight as a rams horn; it will melt
in your mouth like red. hot brickbat;
talk to him like Dutch uncle; smi-
ling as basket of chips; odd as Dicks
hatband; happy as clam at high wa
ter; quicker than you can say Jack
Robinson; ike all possessed; like fury;
like all natur'; like all sixty; quick as
anything; mad as hops: mad as Hall
fax; eleep like top; lun like thun-
der; deader than a door-nail.-Roiu1d
Table.
Year: 1868

There were nine bridal parties at the
Phillips's Rouse. Dayton, on Christ


mas eve. Apropos of this fact, the
Journal tells the following hard story


at was midnight-it might have been
q few minutes later-When the inmates
Of the hotel were aroused by the voice
of one in distress. 1t was not a sub


dued sobbiag,' nor yet "a hearty crying


but it was the style Of lamentation
usually denominated heart broken,
and INDUCED in only by those who are
overwhelmed with a sorrow that saVors
Of despair We will not undertake. to
give our readers the faintest descrip-
ton Of the situation, at that hour in
the hall of the Phillips where o
crowd of hastily dressed persons were
gathered, apprehensive that something
dreadful had happened-murder it
might be right in their very
midst. They all very naturally fell
back on the landlord and Mr.. Rel
bold was sent for, brought 70 the scene
and besought to verify their widest
fears, or dissipate them. This brought
Mr.. r. to the threshold of the room in
which, at an early hour the previous
night, the more Juvenile couple of the
weddingers were deposited. A demand
for admission received no other recog-
milton than a fresh outburst of the
wailing which had filed the people of
the house with the most terrible ap-
prehensions. The demand for admit
tance was repeated with more vigor of
tone, and was accompanied with an
intimatiou that it was not unlikely the
door would be forced if not unfastened
Then the door was slowly opened, and
the landlord quickly slipped into the
opening, and the door closed There
was no scteam-as some feared there
would be. Even the lamentations low
cred into a kind of conversational sob
not unlike the gruntng of a hog
while crunching corn. Then for few
moments utter, silence prevailed
could it be the silence Of death And
this condition was becoming painful,
when the landlord reappeTed, and the
wailing was resumed. What can be
the matter 2 was the general exclama.
ton, as the landlord emerged from the
door. why, the fact is Ssid r., con
fusedly, the bridegroom is a very
young man; he has neye, been from
home before the thought that he Is
among strangers fills him with uacou-
trollable grief; and, like a calf that
has been penned up the fist time, he
is bawling for his mother That is ALL"
Year: 1868

LIFE.-The following beautiful thought;
are from the pen of George d. Prentice
There is but breath of air and a beat
of the heart, betwixt IL world and the
next. And in the brief interval of pain
ful and awful suspense, while we feel that
death is present with Us, and that we are
poSerless and He all powerful, and the
last pulsation here, is but the prelude of
endless life hereafter; we feel in the midst
of the stlnning calamity about to befall
Us, the earth has no compensatlng good to
mitigate the severity of the loss There is
no grief without some benefeent provision
TO soften its intenseness. When the good
and lovely die, the memory of their deeds,
like the moonbeams on the stormy sea,
light our darkeued hearts, and lend to the
surrounding gloom beauty so sad, so
sweet, that we would not if We could, dis
pei the darkness that enyirons it.
Year: 1868

BE patient WITH THE LITTLE ONES.
BE patient with the little ones. Let
neither their slow understanding nor their
occasional pertness offend you, or revoke
the sharp rebuke. Remember the world
is new to them, and they have no slight
task to grasp with their unripened intel
lects the mass of facts and truths that
crowd upon their attention. You are
grown to maturity and strength through
years Of experience, and ill becomes you
TO fret at the little child that fails to keep
pace with your thought Teach him ps
tiently, as God teaches you, "liue upon
line, precept upon precept; here q little
and there little" Cheer him in his con-
ffict of mind; in after years his ripe, rich
thought shall call you blessed
Year: 1868

Some wise man takes the following
view of the econ omy question: "When
you see man spending two or three.
dollars foohshlY, the chances are Eve
to one that he'll live long enough to
know how many cents there are in q
dollar; if he don't, he is pretty sure to
bequeath that privilege to his widow"
Year: 1868

friends, and is seen no more till the ris-
ing of tho committee, which during his
absence, scarcely rises to the dignity of
a political caucus, much less to that of
a town meeting or debating society.
From all of which we infer that there
is very little moral power in the Speak.
er's hammer, and that parliamentary Or
der and decorum and the amenities and
courtesies of debate are dependent upon
a higher principle than can be evolved
from any physical agency whatever.
Year: 1868

To FREsHEN RANCID BUTTER.-Here
is fact worth years subscription to
pnper.


To pint of water add thirty drops.
about one teaspoon full, of liquid chic
ride of lime. Wash in this two and a
half pounds of rancid butter. When
every particle of the butter has come in
contact with the water; let it stand an
hour or two, then wash the butter well
again in pure water. The butter is then
left without any odor, and has the sweet
ness of fresh butter. These prepara-
tions of lime have nothing injurious in
them.
Year: 1868

A Detroit paper a story of honest in
dustry sufficiently rewarded. 1t is of a
Cincinnati editor who, it says, makes
one suit answer for the changes of the
year. He gets suit of thick clothing
as cold weather comes on, and by the
time hot weather arrives, it is worn suf-
fciently thin to serve for thin clothes.
When he wears them out, then he don't
wear them out any more---that is to say,
he wears them out until they are so
much worn out that he had rather not
go out than wear them out any more
then he gets another suit.
Year: 1868

Fearful cruelties to singing birds are
practiced in Belgium and the north of
France. They are blinded with red hot
iron and then imprisoned in dark cellars
for fortnight. After this they are
brought into the fresh air and their joy
shows itself in song. Contests are com
mon and much money is bet by owners
on their birds.
Year: 1868

GooD ADvIcE.--Never make use of a
lady's name at an improper time, or in
mixed company Never make assertions
about her that you feel she would blush
to hear. When you meetywith men who
do not scruple to make use of a lady's
name in q reckless manner, shun them,
as they are lost to every sense of honor
Year: 1868

A New York evening paper says:
"Lucy Stone came into the city this
morning on the Morris and Essex Rail
road. She was dressed very neatly in
a plain walking suit and chignon
She had carpet-bag and husband
with her"
Year: 1868

A French actress, more celebrated for
her beauty and her frankness than for
her intelligence and virtue, was in the
habit of attribnting her Inconsistency to
her bad luck. "The moment become
really attached to anybody" she used
to say, "I am certain to be introduced
to somebody else like better.''
Year: 1868

Exposure of the bare scalp to the rays
Of the sun is said TO promote the growth
of the hair by stimulating the skin to
healthy action. A bald headed Montana
miner last spring commenced working
In the open air, and in the fall he had a
Iuxuriant crop of hair
Year: 1868

It is reported that Yankee in Paris
has invented style Of luminous printing
which can be read in the dark. He will
make all parts of paper light reading,
although in some cases that would seem
a hopeless task.