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Year: 1867

The Louisville (Ky.) Courier Of the llth
instant has the following story Of suffering:


We have not, for several years past, heard
Of q case that showed as plainly the amount
OF destitution now existing among the poor
OF our city and the South in general, as that
which came 70 our cars yesterday. A philan-
thropic gentleman, who resides in the lower
part Of the city, was on his way out in the
country yesterday afternoon, on the old Salt
river road, during the driving snow storm,
when he discovered woman crossing the
fence into q wood pasture just outside the
city limits. She was thinly clad, shiyerinR
in the cruel blast, and gave evidence of Sc.
we're destitution and hard living. Not seeing
any house near, he wondered to himself
where the woman was going; and calling her,
questioned her as to the cause Of her being
out in the storm. She replied by eyasive
answers, but on his questioning her more
closely, she told him that she lived with an.
other woman in an old hollow tree in the
pasture, and had been staying there for over
four months past ..


The gentleman hitched his horse and pro-
ceeded to where the woman designated her
miserable retreat to be, and there, wrapped
up in some old army blankets, he discovered
the other woman, sleeping in the hollow OF
board and bark. He wakened the unfortu-
nate woman up and asked her her name; she
gave II as Jane Hutton. The woman he
FIRST met gave her name as Eliza Harris.
They said they were from Cross Keys, near
Atlanta, Georgia, and had come up to this
city some months ago seeking honorable
employment, but had failed in their efforts,
and had been since that time earning live
lihood by gathering shucks, doing washing,
&c., meeting misfortune with a heroism
worthy Of the noblest Of women. The gen.
tleman who found them soon made their
and In q few hours the poor women were
taken from their uncomfortable refuge and
well provided for,
Year: 1867

The Chicago Republican announces sol,
emnly that there is number Of military
officers in the House who are ready to take
the strongest ground against judicial usurp
ation," that is, who are ready to impeach
the Supreme Court judges for deciding that
an act Of Congress is law but adds that "in
the Senate there are no soldiers, and any
movement towards impeachment would be
hopeless in the present Senate" It is, ol
course, impossible to say where this folly
will end, but the public, we feel satisfied
will have had enough Of it before the winter
is over.-The Nation.
Year: 1867

The lobbyers on the tariff bill throng the
capital in scores. To believe them would
bring one to think that the fate of the nation
depended upon the imposition of heavy
duty upon this, that and the other thing
manufactured in this country.
Year: 1867

The people of the United States have
always exhibited q large and healthy
stomach for real estate. Landed prop
erty has been their weakness from the
acquisition of Louisiana from the first
NAPOLEON, to the purchase ofthe Russian
Possessions from the Car. Mr.. SEWARD
has of late been devoting himself to
the qualification of this peculiar taste
of the people he represents, and to
read the papers, one would suppose
that the world was for sale, and that
Mr.. SEwARwD as in the market ready to
outbid all other dealers. He has only
recently purchased the Russian pos
sessions, which extend our territories
to the North Pole, and he is
said to be now negotiating for purchases
in the Gulf of Mexico, which will give
us the supremacy there. His operations
in the tropics sail =" he o" o. e'-
tensive scale. A short time ago the
public was informed that our Govern
ment was about to purchase the Bay OF
SANTANA, which is on one end of the ne
gro principality of Iayti, as naval
station. Since then it has leaked out
that he was negotiating for the Island
of st. Thomas and two or three other
smaller upheavals from the bed of the
ocean. What he wants of all these little
gems set in the water the public is not
advised, unless the policy is to buy up
the whole world with greenbacks and
make it part of the " best Govern
ment he world ever saw"
Year: 1867

Matters do not seem to be getting
along very smoothly in she negro par
adise of the South, judging from the
tenor of the news from that quarter.


In Louisiana the negro convention
voted to Issue $500, 900 in bonds in order
to raise money with which to pay its
members. Nobody will take the bonds
and the conventionists are in q bad way
to pay their board and washing bills.


1The Georgia Convention is in like
situation. The Convention of that
State voted $4,000 to commence with
towards its expenses, and drew upon
the State Treasurer for the money. A
Commissioner sent to get it returned
empty handed and reported that the
Treasurer said he could not pay with
out the warrant of the Governor, to
whom no application was made, because
it was known that it would be of no
use. The Convention then tried to ne
gotiate a loan, through its Finance
Committee, but the capitalists, not be-
ing able to see clearly when and how
they would get their money back,
would not advance single stamp.


At Nashville in o Radical Convention
on Saturday one candidate for Circuit
Court Judge knocked an opposing cam
didate down. There were 1000 negroes
present, and the gathering broke up in
a general row.


At Mobile the "loyal" Mayor has been
fined $3.50, under conviction in the
United States Court, for sentencing o
worthless negro to leave the city.


At Montgomery, Alabama, the negro
SHORTER, leader of the recent "rising"
of the blacks at Union Springs. has
been convicted and sentenced to six
months Imprisonment. The evidence
showed that SHORTER was acting under
the direction of Radicals in the north
western States. The latest report is
that SHORTER has escaped from prison,
supposed to have been aided by the
Subjects" of the negro government he
is aiming to establish.
Year: 1867

THE STOCK Is SELLING VERY RAP.


L idly, and it being the only Association in
the city that have not disposed Of all their stock
and may be the last one getting up for some
time. persons wishing 10 build or repair their
property during the ensuing season, may do 50
ty the aid Of this Association, and should make
mp their minds at once TO secure some stock be-
fore IL is all disposed Of Shares can be had by
calling on the Secretary, G. W. Connor. er Of
E Booking, before Monday. dec2'-H
Year: 1867

\ correspondent of the Boston Post
writes as follows:


When remarking that the Italian peas
SAINT had no home, did not mean that he
had no dwelling. He has dwelling and
he stvles it la caSa Here he exists when
the darkness compels him to retire to it, or
the weather Is so bad that it is more uncom-
Portable to remain out of doors than in, and
to have this effect it must be very bad in
deed In fact one often secs the rustics
laboring in the fields with sacks | mean
the coarse bags in which corn and meal
are carried, thrown over their heads TO
protect them from the hepitiless storm, which
would drive any other people under the
shelter of their roofs La casa as Is black
and dingy in its interior as the condensed
essence of midnight The windows, if
there be any, are foul with dirt, the webs
of spiders and the corpse9 of flies, whose
life blood these have sucked out. The
wooden beams OF the ceiling are dark with
smoke. and coated with the lamp black
that for ages has risen from the thick tai
low candles and the pine cones the people
burn The door is ever ready to let in,
not the refreshing air of heaven, but in
trusive pigs and hens, who naturally feel
that they have more right to this sanctuary
of domestic happiness than those who lay
claim to it. Goats hop in and out leaving
behind them trails of fearful odors that
furrow deeply the nasal membrane of those
/ in whom it has been blunted by habit
/ Dogs loiter to and fro, or lie down and
dream till with a yell and jump they
hurry out TO worry the legs of some passing
stranger They are laden with q + sharps'
and other forms of animalcule, nimbly
slipping on the slightest pretext and prompt
to evade the vindictive touch of exasper
ated man.


The beds are such as few would care Il
recline upon. They are populous will
every insect that q crawls, walks, skips
hops, jumps, creeps or flies The bed
ding is yellow, or rather brown, with dir
and age. 1t is washed only once in sil
months, and that merely from some vestig
of tradition that their fathers used t.
practice the custom before them, and no
from any feeling of necessity or decency
Hence the process has degenerated into
mere formality, and the clothing often re
turns from the wash - with all its imper
fections on its head" Their barbarou
and clumsy cooking is done with the rudes
and most uncleanly dishes, which are ofte
used for other processes, detail of whic
would shock the feelings of every perso
that heard them. The people are dresses
in the toughest and most soiled garment
Year: 1867

From DIR. Hayes New Work, q The Open Polar


Sea


| have superb turn out, twelve dogs
and fine sledge The animals are in most
excellent condition, every one of them
strong and healthy, and they are very fleet.
They whirl my Greenland sledge over the
ice with celebrity not calculated for weak
nerves. have actually ridden behind
them over six measured miles in twenty
eight minutes and without stopping to
blow, the team have returned over the
trace in thirty-three Sonutag and | had
race, and | beat him by four minutes.
| should like to have some of my friends of
Saratoga and Point Breeze up here, to
show them a new style of speeding animals.
Our racers do not reqnire any blanketing
after the heat, nor sponging either. We
harness them each with single trace, and
these traces are of a length to suit the fam
CIV of the driver-the longer the better,
for they are then not so easily tangled, the
draft of the outside dogs Is more direct,
and, if the team comes upon thin ice, and
breaks through, your chances of escape
from immersion are i'll proportion to their
distance from you. The traces are all of
the same length, and hence the dogs run
side by side, and when properly harnessed,
their heads are in line My traces are
so measured that the shoulders of the dogs
are just twenty feet from the forward part
of the runners.


The team is guided solely by the whip
and voice. The strongest dogs are placed
on the outside, and the whole team is
swayed to right and left according as the
whip falls on the snow to the one side oil
the other, or as it touches the leading dogs
as it is sure to do if they do not obey the
gentle hint with sufficient alacrity. The
voice aids the whip, but in all emergencie:
the whip is the only real reliance. Youl
control over the team is exactly in proper
ton to your skill in the use of it. The
lash is about four feet longer than th'
traces, and is tipped with q cracker y o
hard sinew, with which skillful driver
can draw blood if SO inclined and he car
Year: 1867

of worsted and cotton They put them on
and seldom or never take them off till
they fall away in rags. Thus they live,
thus they die. Here they experience what
NJ. About so wittiIy, but in this case so
truthfully, calls . les joies austeres de Ia
tamiHe.' Father, mother, and children,
all eating, drinking and sleeping in the
same filthy pen, and breathing the same
foul and pestilent congregation ofvapors.'
Is it wonderful that their church, with its
bright and cleanly walls, and all the
adornment with which time and wealth
and veneration have decorated it, should
appear to them a heaven on earth, and
draw them towards it with an influence
that nothing earthly can destroy?
Year: 1867

touch either one of his animals on any
particular spot that may suit his purpose.
Jensen had to-day young refractory dog in
the team, and having had his patience quite
exhausted, he resolved upon extreme meas
ures ss Iou see dat beast" said he, .
takes a piece out of his ear" and sure
enough, crack went the whip, the hard
sinew wound round the tip of the ear, and
shipped it off nicely as with a knife.
The long lash, which is but thin, taper
inc strip of raw seal skim is swung with a
whip stock only two and half feet long


1t is very light, and is consequently hard
to handle. The peculiar turn of the wrist
necessary to get it rolled out to its desti-
nation is Il most difficult undertaking. 1t
requires long aud patientpractice. lhaye
persevered, and my perseverance has been
rewarded {; and if | am obliged to turn
driver on emergency, | feel equal to the
task but [ fervently hope that the emer-
gency may not arise which requires me to
exhibit my skill


1t is the very hardest Kind of hard work.
That merciless lash must be merclless, or
it is Of no avail The dogs are quick to
detect the least weakness of the driver, and
measure him on the instant If not thor
oughly convinced that the eomdness of
their skins is at his mercy, they 90 where
they please. If they see fox crossing
the ice, or come upon bear track, or wind
a seal, or sight 4 bird, away they dash over
snow drifts and hummocks, pricking up
their short ears and curling up their long
bushv tail, for Il Wild, wo!tiSh race after
the game. If the whip lash goes out with
fierce snap, the ears and tail and they 20
on about their proper business but wo be
unto YOU if they get the control. have
seen my own driver only to-day sore put
to his metal, and not until he had brought
a yell of pain from almost every dog in the
team did he conquer their obstinacy. They
were running after fox and were taking
us towards what was unsafe Ice. The
wind was blowing hard. and the lash was
sometimes driven back into the driver f,
face. hence the difficulty The whip, how
ever, finally brought them to reason, and
in full view OF the game, and within a few
wards ofthe treacherous lee they came first
down into "A lmpine trot and then stopped
most unwillinglv. OF course this made
them very cross and general tight-ferce
and angry-now followed. which was not
quieted until the driver had sailed in
among them and Knocked them to right
and left with hi, hard hickory whip-Stock.
Year: 1867

talent, but Il could not see it The eX-
hibition will doubtless be Il great thing
when it is completely inaugurated and all
the articles are displayed, but that will not
be at present, and the American who comes
here before July or August or September
will be greatly disappointed.


In the American department [ was glad
to see beautiful contribution of marble
from Rutland If that marble Is beaten
by any from Italy or elsewhere, shall feel
sorry, but shall have the pleasure of know
ing that good thing from Vermont was
exhibited But | think it Will beat any
contribution of marble here 1t is splendid
and the workmanship is equal to or ahead
of anything | ever saw. \ gentleman
from Brooklyn, n Y, is the exhibitor
but the marble is in the - Vermont " de
partment | am proud of being connected
with that department. As | look upon
the Coat-of-Arms displayed over our CON
tributions and see Freedom and Unity
conspicuous upon it, an emotion of pride is
awakened at the thoughts of the glorious old
State whose record has ever been Il brilliant
one. and always for the advancement Of
humanity and ON the side of Freedom and
Unity. \. D. II.
Year: 1867

Near the First National Bctah Of Charlotte.
am now receiving from the Manufacturers North
the most complete assortment ever offered in this
market of Boots and Shoes.


will sell by the case to Merchants at New York
prices, and to the Retail Trade l will sell low as
Year: 1867

The local editor of the Danvlle IVA,
Times is the most contented man we
know Of Hear him:


We are happy in being no more miser-
able--no wood-no money-snow three
inches deep, and more, we fear, coming


ink frozen roller ditto the devil with
a bad cold, and our heels frost-bitten.
We don't care a constitutional for the
country il may sink or swim; the prob
ability now is, it will freeze. Fact is,
we've been out so long in the cold we are
Indifferent, and don't know that we'd
stand treat" if Uncle Sam would offer
to take us in. We are pretty much in
the temper of the obstinate urchin who
had kicked the cover off and woke his
nanny" in the night, crying out be
was cold "Well, pull the cover on you,
Johnny" said she. 81 shan't do it, re-
piled the youth; burned if I don't freeth
fnrthst ~
Year: 1867

The PHOENIX Of Hartford can reinsure at
the highest rates every risk new upon its books,
discharge all obligations present or prospec-
tive-of whatsoever nature, pay back to stock
holders every dollar Of its capital stock, and
retire from business with clear net CASH
SURPLUS OF
Year: 1867




The color of the sky at particular
times affords wonderful good guidance.
Not only does rosy sunset pressage
good weather, and ruddy sunrise bad
weather. but there are other tints which
speak with equal clearness and accuracy.
A bright yellow sky in the evening indi-
Gates wind; pale yellow, wet; a neu.
tral gray color constitutes favorable
sign in the evening, and an unfavorable
one in the morning. The clouds are
again full of meaning in themselves. If
their forms are soft, underlined, full and
feathery, the weather will be fine; if
their edges are hard, sharp and definite,
it will be foul. Generally speaking, any
deep, unusual hues betoken wind and
rain, while the more quiet and delicate
tints bespeak fair weather. These are
simple maxims, yet not SO simple but
that the British Board of Trade has
thought fit TO publish them for the use Of
sea- -faring men.
Year: 1867

easily grow to such an extent as to make
the white population subordinate element
in the body polite. After full delibera-
tiOn upon this measure, / can not bring nv
self to approve It, even upon local censid-
erations, nor yet as the beginning Of an
experiment on a larger scale.


yield to no one in attachment to that
rule Of general suffrage which distinguish
es our policy as nation, but there is a
limit, wisely observed hitherto, which
makes the ballot privilege and trust,
and which requires of some classes a time
suitable for probation and preparation. To
give it indiscriminately to a new class,
wholly unprepared by previous habits and
opportunities, to perform the trust which
it demands is to degrade it, and finally to
destroy Its power, for it may be safely as
sumed that no political truth is better es-
tablish than that such indiscriminate and
all-embracing extension of popular suffrage
must end at last in its destruction.


ANDREW JOHNSON.


WASHINGTON, January 5, 1867.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people 10 be self-reiiant, and shall do what we
may be able 20 induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this snd We win pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manufacturing,
and exert ourselves 70 encourage the diversih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
meut Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
VILE UNION AND AMERICAN and The
DISPATCH, and BY the generous and united
support Of the UNION AND DISPATCH By The
patrons Of both the former papers. the Proprie-
tors are enabled 70 present Newspaper hither-
20 unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNEss AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS. our paper will compare iavorably with
the best in the entire country and in sayins
this. We only repeat the expressions Of many Of
our patr0ns. who are most capable Of judging in
ugh natter
Year: 1867

And kindred topics, we shall also give an ex-
tensive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
tcr-lhs best adapted 70 the farming classes Of
our State, which viii in a great measure. sup
nlv the place of a family agricultural paper.
Year: 1867

For the twentieth time, at least, the
Democrats have opened the annual DO.
lltical campaign with the cry of "nig-
ger" Their motives for opposing the
extension Of the right of suffrage are
now being unmaSked. In the first
place, they oppose it because, ii the
Constitutional Amendment prevails, the
negro question will be forever settled,
and the CopperheadS will thereby lose
all their heavy artillery. And, in the
second place, Democrats must hare SONS.
bOoy to look do,ea upon. 1t is necessity
OF their existence, and without it they
would be supremely unhappy. They
feel and know that the negro is their
equal in everything except political
rights; and they fear that if those rights
are conferred upon him he will be not
only their equal but their superior.
Perhaps their fears are well grounded.


The majority Of men always desire to
vote for men for office whose abilities
and attainments are superior to their
own. Democrats, therefore, fear that
if negroes are given the full rights Of
citizenship, they will be irresistibly i'm
PEELED TO vote for them for constables,
supervisors, and other high and respon-
sible Offices. And then every Demo-
cratic bachelor feels in his very soul
that unless some legal barrier is inter-
posed, his natural inClinations will lead
him to marry black or copper cOlored
lady; and ii colored men are thus de-
prlyed Of their natural partners, they
in turn will be compelled to marry
white ladies of the Democratic persua-
sion. Can that be the reason why
some colored men are opposing the
Constitutional Amendment Do they
fear that Democrats will marry their
daughters7 Would it not be well for
colored ladies to sign and publish
pledge that in no event will they marry
Democrat


II there is one young Republican in
the State who fears that the adoption OF
the Amendment VIII lead him to mar
ry black woman, be should, by all
means, vote against it.


The proposition that the right Of
suffrage carries with it any social rights,
is monstrous absurdity. Judge Thur
man and all the high-toned Democrats
Of that school, do not hesitate to buy,
sell, trade, and pay taxes on terms Of
equality, not only with negroes, but
with gamblers, thieves and other dis
reputable characters. Do they thereby
recognize them as social equals And
would the extension of the right of suf-
frage to the negro entitle him to equal
rights, which even white men have not,
never had, and, in the nature of things,
never can have ?-C0lumJus Journal.
Year: 1867

e5" Bondocrat" is a term of derision
meant for class of true men who stood
by their country in the hour of greatest
peril, when throttled by traitors North
and South, and who furnished means
to the Government to prosecute the war
to a successful termination. They
backed their confidence in the power
and virtue of their country to put down
evil, and gave to the Government all
their means, at the most accepted time.
"Copocrat' is term by which to desig-
nate the traitorous thieves who are en-
deavoring to rob these true men of the
money loaned the Government to put
down their hellish rebellion, and whose
object is to repudiate our country's Just
debt, and substitute the rebel debt
GalhpoliS Journal.