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Year: 1869

A LATER and probably truer report OF
the Grant-Ross interview says that
Senator Chandler who was present,
says that the conversation on each side
was in very low tones, and with no ap-
parent excitement; that when 1t closed
Ross took his leayein the most courteous
manner, to which the President re-
sponded as scourteously. 1t is understood
that the President declined to do what
the Senator desired, but beyond the
earnest presenting of a case on one side
and refusal on the other, and all couch
ed in proper language, there is no fcun-
dation for the story in circulation.
Year: 1869

This question was propounded in our
hearing, a few days since, to a young man who
had been for several months unsuccessfully
seeking employment as aclerk or salesman in
some of our leading houses. Complaining
of his ill-luck, one of his friends, who knew
he had mechanical talant, but doubtful
whether he could make himself useful, eli,
ther as clerk or salesman, put the inter.
rogatory to him which we have put at the
caption of this article The reply was,
that mechanical trade was not so respect
able as mercantile occupation.


Under this delusive idea our stores are
crowded with young men who have no ca
pacity for business, and who, because OF
the fancied responsibility of doing nothing,
waste away their minority upon salaries
which cannot possibly hquidate their ex-
penditures. Late, too late in life, they dis
cover their error, and before they reach the
age of thirty, many of them look with envy
upon the thrifty mechanic, whom, in the
days of their boyhood, they were accustom-
ed to deride.
Year: 1869

During the rebellion the staff of General
Wise were riding through a rather forlorn
part of North Carolina, and young Vir-
giDian of the staff concluded to have lit
tie fun at the expense of long legged
specimen of the genus homo, who wore a
very shabby gray uniform, and bestrode a
worm fence at the roadside Refining In his
horse, he accosted him with. How are you,
North Carolina ?"


How are you, Virginia ?" was the ready
response.


The staff continued 1.-THE blockade on
turpentine makes you rather hard up don t
it? There is no sale for tar now is there ?"


well yes" was the slow response. "We
sell our tar to JEFF Davis now"


''The thunder you do. What on earth
does the President do with your tar?'


North Carolina answered: He puts it
on the heels of Firginians to make them
stick to the battle field" The staff rode
Year: 1869

our aims are all too high we try


To gain the summit at bound,
Ubsn We should reach it step by step,


And climb the ladder round by round.
H. Who would climb the height sublime,
Or breathe the pure air of life,
upst not expect to raise in ease,


Rut brace himself for toll or strife.
Va sbould not in our blindness seek,
To grasp aIene for grand and great,
pisdaining every smaller good,


For trifes make the aggregate.
And if a cloud Should hover Ger


Our weary pathway like pail,
Remember God permits it there,


And His good purpose reigns Ger all.
Life should be full of earnest work,
Our hearts undashed by fortunes frown
Let perseverance conquer fate,


And merit seize the victor's crown.
The battle is not to the strong,


The race not always to the feet,
And he who seeks to pluck the stars,
will lose the jewels at his feet.
Year: 1869

TAKE WARNING, man in this country,
who stopped his paper Slice the first of JAN
uary, has since died. We do not know that
the act was the cause of his death, but we
have known number who neglected to pay
for their paper and have since had sickness
in their families; one mans little boy had
his fingers cut off, and another delinquent
lost good horse anothers wife died, and


two others have gone into insolvency.-Er.
Year: 1869

Jones told his wife that the reason he
could not get home earlier during the even
ings of last week was cause er water was
s extraordinary thicl high, my dear. y
From the smell of his breath she decided
the water must have been very high, in fact,
entirely out of his reach.
Year: 1869

AN Independent ticket for House OF
Delegates Is running In Marion coun-
ty, on the issue Of new county with
Warrington as the county seat. f.
Burt, liberal Republican, and Fontaln
Smith, Democrat, are the candidates.
We are told the movement Is quite
formidable, both parties In the Western
end of the county being pretty much q
unit for the new county ticket.
Year: 1869

! That man is q murderer / said,
'and must be arrested. If you tele-
graph at once to Bath, the message


will be there long before .he train,
and he can be stopped


And so this terrible experience
the particulars of which have related
just as they occurre,l--came to an
end. The murderer was arrested at


Bath, and on his being searched, the
hundred pounds-except the small
sum which he had expended on his
railway tieket-were found upon HIM.
The evidence against him was in all
points overwhelming. The body of
poor Mr.. Irwin was discovered in the
little wood. myself directed the
the search. When it was concluded
| wandered away to the WILLOW pond
to look for the butterflY-net. One
end OF the stick was visible above the
water, the other end being sunk by
the weight of the metal ring which
was attached to 1t.


There was no link wanting in the
mass of proof. The evidence which
i it was my part TO give on the trial
was irresistible. Great attemp pts
were made to shake il, to prove that
| might easily have made a mistske
of identity; and that such details as
l had described could not have been
visible through the telescope at such
a distance. Opticians were consulted;
experiments were made. 1t was
distinctly proved that it was really
possible tor me to have seen all that
l stated had seen; and though there
was much discussion raised about
the case, and though some of the
newspapers took it up and urged that
mems lives were not to be sacrificed
to the whims OF 'an idle gentleman
who chose to spend his afternoons
in looking out oil the window through
spyGlass,' the jury returned Yer
dict against the prisoner, and William
Mason was convicted and hanged.


The reader may, perhaps, be sufli-
ciently interested in the facts of this
case TO he glad to hear that the poor
woman who was the innocent cause
of the commission OF this CHASTITY
crime did get her hundred pounds
after all, though not from the hands
of Mr.. John Irwin.-AH tie Year
Round.
Year: 1869

Iris wonder that Christians of
different denominations do not see
that while they are spending the
precious hours contending for the
non.essentials, which are but as the
fringe to the wedding garment
souls are slipping past them into
eternity, uncared for, and unpre-
pared. One is often painfully struck
with this thought in reading or hear
ing, the acrid disputes of mistaken
but well-meaning zealOts.
Year: 1869


The light at home, how bright IL beams.
When evening shades around us fall.
And from the lattice far IL gleams


To love, and rest, and comfort ALL
When wearied with the tolls of day.


And strife for glory, gold or fame,
How sweet TO seek the quiet way,


Where loving lips win lisp our name


Around the light at home!
When through the dark and stormy night
The wayward wanderer homeward flies.
How cheering il that twinkling light.
Which through the forest gloom he spies
IL Is the light OF home. He feels


That loving hearts will greet him there.
And safely through his bosom steals
The Joy and love that Danish care


Around the light at home!
The light at home-how still and sweet
IL peeps from yonder cottage door,
The weary labOrer 10 greet,


When the rough tolls of day are Ger!
san Is the soul thai does not know
The blessings that the beams impart
Inc cheerful hopes and joys that flow,
And tighten up the heaviest heart


Around the light at homei
Year: 1869

Having made large additions TO our establish
n1ent In the shape OF material Of the --latest
style, and having employed experienced and
careful workmen, We are prepared TO execute
orders for every variety Of PLAIN AND FANCY
JOB PRIsTISG with neatness and Dispatch
The addition of Steam Power to our establish
ment affords us great advantages over most
country offices in the way of low prices and
fast work. Call with us, apd be convinced.
Year: 1869

The two have made tie


Which time nor man should sever,
Which God hath willed should last
Forever and forever.
Two souls unite for one


To sail the endless river;
Their lonely life is gone


Forever and forever.
The self which was is lost,


That self will know thee never;
Another soul is thine


Forever and forever.
Year: 1869

Died, at the residence of her father, in this
county, on the 7th of March, after painful and
protracted illness, which she bore with chris
tian fortitude, MARY, beloved wife of Will
LIAM DUNNINGToN and daughter of JAMES F.
MADDOX, Esq, in the 2lst year of her age.


In Offering this feeble tribute to the memory
of her who has been taken from the midst of
a loving family and large circle of acquain-
tances, just in the beginning of her usefulness,
the writer feels incompetent to do justice to her
by all who knew her. Of kind and obliging
disposition, affable in her manners, devoted
wife and parent, an affectionate sister and
daughter, and true christian. A short time
previous to her death she called her mother and
said "Mother do not weep for me, l am going
to a better world" Her last words were, 81
am going home to die no MORE" On the
morning of her death she expressed desire to
see the Rev. Mr.. PROUT, who was Immediately
sent for but before his arrival the brittle thread
had snapped and she had ceased to exist. 1t
should be source of great consolation to those
who have been thus bereaved by the death of
this estimable lady, when they reflect how full
ly prepared she was to meet death, and that
their loss is her eternal gain.


"Weep not for her there is no cause of woe,
But rather nerve the spirit that it walk
Unshrinking DER the stormy path below,


And from earth's low deflements keep thee


back;


So, when few feet swerving years have flown
She'l II meet thee at heavens gate-and lead


thee on"


F*x*x**x
Year: 1869

lCCMMUNICATED.J


Reading Room and Circulating Library.


Mr.. EDITOR: IL was much grati6ed to
learn, whilst visiting your ancient town day
or two since, that the call to form Temper
ance Society was q decided success, and
have, ssiice that meeting, been still more gra-
tilted to learn that number of our young
men had determined to join this organization,
thus placing between themselves and tempt
alton barrier, which cannot be surmonnted
as long as one spark of nanliuess or self-re-
spect remains with them. The cause is a
worthy one and 1 bid it God-speed. But,
Mr.. Editor, do not think the evil of intem-
perauce, alas ! SO common among us, is to be
cured and thoroughly eradcated by Temper
ance Societies alone. The young and the
old, alike, require some relaxation, some So
cial intercourse, some occupation for the mind,
and in the absence of that of a more intellec-
tual and elevated character they gradually
become degraded to inebriation. Until this
great want, in our community is supplied,
fear our Temperance Societies will only be
able to effect q temporary check to, without
being able to eradicate the evil. Now, can
not this great want be supplied3 think it
can. II step by step We can elevate the in
tellectual land perforce the moral character
Of our young men, so do we remove them,
step by step, from the temptation to which
| the more ignorant and debase are, alas for
the frailty Of our common nature, more apt
to yield. How is this to be done? The pro-
cess seems to me very simple, and one, am
sure, would meet with entire appreciation and
success. Let these young men. who have
taken hold Of this Temperance movement
with so much energy, call a meeting for the
organization Of a Reading Room and Circu-
lating Library and, my word for it, success
will attend their efforts. Let the Reading
Room and Library, be a separate and distinct
Organization to which all may belong, wheth-
er members of the Temperance Society oil
not. Charge so much entrance fee-so much
quarterly contribution from each member
Fix the price so that all may join-rich and
poor, old and young. Appoint committees


seek subscriptions in money and books, and
you may be assured you will soon form the
nucleus of Library, which will be worth


morally, more than its weight in gold. Above
all, enlist in your behalf that "ministering
angel" dear woman, and success will crown
your efforts most speedily. might amplify
on this subject, Mr.. Editor, and show how,
in time, Debating Society, &C., in which
ambitious youths might ventilate their untu-
tored eloquence, but, as l do not want to
smother the bantling with too many swad-
ding clothes, will leave the matter 10 yours
and abler hands, provided you think these
hastily thrown together suggestions are wor-
ttthy 81 notice. ExcEIsIoR.
Year: 1869

l. =


MR. EDITOR My attention having been
called to statement, which was copied from
your paper into the Prince Georgian Of re-
cent date, the effect Of which is to say, that
owing to certain promises made by Governor
Bowie, our County Commissioners had decid-
ed to give to the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad the States appropriation to this
county, which was intended to be used by
the county to aid her generally in works of
internal improvement. If our worthy Com
missioners had so decided prior to the day
fixed by them for our County Convention to
assemble in order to settle this question, then


why not SO notify our citizens, in order that
they might not be called together to settle a
question which, from this statement, had
been previously settled by our Commissioners
and Governor Bowie? My object in troubl


ing your readers at this time with any views
of nine is, as citizen of Charles county, to
ask you to make known my humble protest
against any such disposition of this fund. 1t
is we'll known to US all, that long before the
State made any appropriation to this county,
a contract had been made by Gov. Bowie,


President of the Baltimore and Potomac Rail-


road, with parties non-residents Of our State,
and that great fears and doubts were enter
tanned by many of US as to whether those


parties did really intend to build the entire
line from Baltimore to the Potomac or not; or
did they intend to use the charter to only
build a road to Washington. This subject


was fully ventilated before the General As
sembly of the State at the January session of
1867, at the time Governor Bowie was State
Senator from Prince Georges county. 1t


was then and there stated before the Senate


and the form of bill brought forward from


the committee of which Gov. Bowie was
member, think, that this party (the Penn
sylvania interest would agree to build the
entire line from Baltimore to the Potomac, or
forfeit the charter and all rights Of the con-
tracing parties in this work to the State !;
and upon this condition, and no other, the
Legislature at that session declines to inter-
ere in any way with the charter. The fears
then expressed and entertained by many were,
that the Pennsylvania interest only desired to
use this charter as cover to get to Washing
ton; and the following memorial, with bill


covering the views, was presented to the Le-


sslature at the session above referred to-


"Whereas. the General Assembly, on the
9th day Of May, 10 the year of 1858, passed
an act to incorporate the Baltimore and Po-
tomac Railroad Company, for the purpose of
constructing railroad from a suitable point
in or near the city Of Baltimore, and thence


within one mile Of the town of Upper Marl-


borough, in Prince Georges county, and by
or near the town of Port Tobacco, in Charles


county, to point on the Potomac river. not
higher up than Liverpool point and not low
or down than the mouth Of St. Mary's river.
with power to make branches or lateral rail-
Year: 1869

~The Spring term of the Circuit Court
Of Prince Georges County will begin on Mon
day next. The Gazette says:-"There are a
number Of law and equity cases, and the
usual number Of criminals, to be attended to,
and it is thought the Court will be in session
for at least three weeks"
Year: 1869




The National Life Insurance Company,
which received its charter from the national
Congress in July last, has already made its
record in unmistakable characters. With its
agencies as yet only in process Of organiza-
ton, it has, as we learn, issued insurance to
an amount exceeding seven million dollars.
This we think is very marked success-it is
so much needful work we'll done.


The Company does strictly cash business
as being in its judgment the simplest and best
for both the insurer and the insured, and it
never complicates its affairs with either notes,
loans, OF dividends, and thus leaves no door
open to misapprehension or disappointment
in the future. While the principle of $50
much insurance for SO much money" is rigid
ly adhered to, and every policy has thus a
fixed and determinate value, all accumula-
tions that might otherwise be declared as di-
vidends at some future time, discounted in
adcance, and the exact pro rata is counted in
with the amount Of each policy when it is is
sued.


Managed by men Of the highest financial
ability and undoubted integrity, protected by
large paid up cash capital, and possessing
all the elements that have given success to
other similar enterprises, we should expect
this would become one of the most successful
institutions of its kind.
Year: 1869

of this amount into the hands of Commission
of Friends, to be disposed of according
TO their best judgment among the Indians,
promises well, but, after all, it is one of those
measures which can only be Judged by the
result. We have the consolation that, In any
event, they can hardly make things worse than
at present. The grant Of further time to the
liquor-dealers for taking spirits out OF BOND Is
one of those unfortunate pieces OF Legislation
which now and then become a law In some
mysterious and doubtful manner.


We have enumerated the main features OF
this short sessions work. The Memphis and
Ell Paso bill, offering O chance to Company
which proposed to build a Pacific Railway
without subsidy, failed; and SO did the Census
bill; but, on the other hand, three or four OBJ
jectionable measures that once seemed likely
TO pass, the National Bank tinkering, the West
India buncombe and the beggarly disability y
peddling, met the same end. Altogether, these
thirty three days of the XLlst Congress have
given us some valuable legislation and nothing
very bad. 1t is not always that we are able
70 signalize the close of q session by verdict
80 complimentary.
Year: 1869

Under the new law recognizing the Judi
ciary system, the appointment of ten or twelve
| Judges of the highest class is devolvod upon
President Grant. We note that the campaign
for the places has already begun, and hasten
to enter our protest. Ordinary ofice-hunting
is bad enough but we insist that canvass
at this particular moment for any gentleman,
for a place on the Supreme Bench, or an ap-
pointment as one of tie new Circuit Judges,
should be held as peremptory bar
to consideration of his name. Let
us have sOme places left that are TO
be filed, not because the candidates
have hunted them down, but because the Off
ces seek the men. Probably one of the two
Supreme Judges at liberty, under the law, to
retire on full pay, will embrace the opportun-
ity, and. there being already one vacancy, we
shall thus have two places on the Supreme
Bench TO be filled, besides the whole
list of Circuit Judges. The choice Of these
men determines, in considerable measure, the
character of our higher Judiciary for almost a
quarter of century. Gen. Grant has no duty
to perform that requires more careful, deliberate
consideration in which he should be moro
entirely delivered from the opportunities of
mere office hunters.
Year: 1869

A friend writing privately from the heart OF
Kentucky to the Editor of THE TRIBUNE gives
casually the following illustrations of the spirit
that still refuses to come out of her:


MANY professed Christians, It appears to mo- are en-
tire strangers to the spirit Of Christianity To show
the animus OF sone will say thatI have heard church
neuber say that Il have been made 30 mad at seeing
the negro children passing the streets with books IN
their hands going TO school, that have felt that could
ake the books from them and beat thom TO pieces on
their faces' CThls specimen Missionary Bapstl
A short time previous the election, in an adjoining
county was asked by gentleman at his hreside how


Thought the election would CO. Iropied that thought


ran would DO elected The response from the husband
was Il am afraid so' From the wife IL was liz he Is
hone another wilkes Booth will arise The converse,
ton turning upon the negroes she said They ought all
TO be killed or And this woman is member OF that
order Who In this and other States contend that
all their Churches shall be known as The Christian
Church thus claiming for their denomination the dis


nctiye name OF Christian. Such utteTances frequently
emanate from both men and OF oil professions and
OF no profession, but all embraced In the great Demo
cratic party Yet Notwithstanding 1t is plain to be seen
thnt many who have been warm, active sympathizers
with the Rebels are expressing salsfaction-some
even grattudethat Slavery Is abolished and say that
they would not relnstate It they could do so by wave
Of the hand But Others again, feel that life has been
stripped all that Of any WORTH and think the neees.
sity OF personal oxertiondoing ones chores or
drudgery-ls intolerabe and ought not. cannot be
dured by any possessing moiety OF selfrespec"
Year: 1869




The thirty three days, to which the XLlst
| Congress limited its first session, were, on tho
whole, well spent We are grateful for some
excellent legislation completed. for some very
| bad legislation prevented, and for the early
adjournment. One or two measures that ought
to have passed were lost between the Houses;
but on the other hand some exceedingly worth
less ones shared the same fate.


The 6ct by which the session will be longest
remembered il one for whose prompt passage
we have to thank the sagacious craftsmanship
of Gen. Grant. We mean the law that closes
the series of Reconstruction measures, and
provides for Z" the crowning of the edi6ce." No
tmelier, wiser enactment has, in these latter
years. marked our progress toward resto-
ration. We hail it as the end of
the policy of hatred and revenge /;
the end of irritating and useless disfranchise-
ments and the means of bringing to the next
session of this Congress full representation
once more-for the first time since 1S6O-of
every State in the Union. IL has another and
not less grateful significance 1t is the first
movement Of the new Administration in mas
ters of national policy.


Next to this we reckon the act TO strengthen
tho Public Credit, a measure which this Con-
gress only gained the honor of passing because
Of Mr.. Johnson's perversity in depriving the
last one of il through his Pocket Veto Its
excellent effect was Immediately perceptible -
if now we can only reinforce it by using our
surplus gold to buy up our bonds in the mar
ket, and by relentless and thorough collec-
tion of our Customs and Internal Revenue, we
shall soon be on the highway TO an
era of sounder finances. The bill to enlarge
the judicial system by the addition of one Jus
tice to the Supreme Court, and by the appoint
ment of Circuit Judges who shall relieve the
Supreme Judges Of q part of their present
Onerous duties, is measure the necessity of
which the court dOcRets have long demon
strated, and the good results Of which may
soon be seen in the more rapid disposal Of
causes throughout the various circuits. The
conclusion Of the Tenure-Qf Office discussions
we can hardly commend 30 highly. 1t
retains the principle which we hold to be inn
portant. but does it in blind bungling way
that was only accepted with satisfaction be-
cause il seemed under the circumstances to be
the best thing then attainable. Tho long.dis-
ppted Indian Appropriation bill, which was
finally cut down TO six And a Quarter millions,
ought. we fear, to have been reduced yet
lower 4As exQeriu2at & giving two millions