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Year: 1865

In consequence Of the increased cost of paper ink,
wages, fuel, and Other materials, the Proprietor of
the KNOXVILLE Wing has been compelled to ad-
vance the price Of subscriptions and advertising
This step has been taken reluctantly, but from alb
solutc necessity and after mature dclibcraton. We
have had either to do this or suspend publication,
and we know that our Union friends don't want our
paper to stop. A few facts stated may serve as an
excuse for this reform


The paper laid down to us here, before the rebel
lion, at 81 per roan, now cost us ELEVEN DOLLARS,
Ink is double labor is doubis frc-wood is doUblej
and all we purehase to live upon, or carry on the
office, costs oice or thrice the prices paid before the
rebellion. We were the first Publisher in East Ten
nessee in 1899, to put down a weekly paper to TWO
DOLLARS per year, and we have been the last to
raise to higher ratepyAs soon us circumstances
will Justify it, we will return to old prices. This
war will be put down in the course of the year 500
and then the country will be relieved Of the high
prices which are draining the resources of business
men, and shall be among the first to return the
old rates.


In future we must have THREE DOLLARS per
year. and those sending us ONE or TWO DOLLARS,
will have the paper furnished for II Hird or t~o-
thirds of year Our advertising rates will be ad-
vanccd in proportion In the meantime we solicit
the continued support of the friends of the Govern
ment and the enemies of the Rebellion; and in
turn, promise to fight for the one and tho other,
until victory perchcs upon our standard.


w. g. BRowNLow,


Editor and PrQprictor
Novornb nbnr 18th
Year: 1865

On Sunday morning near Concord, the breaking
of an axle threw the down train Off the track and
killed four of the Second Ohio ARTILLERY, and
%ounding sixteen Others, six or eight of them bad
wounded are in the hospital here, and are well
cared for 1t was one of that class ofaccdcnts that
could not be provided against. The train was emily
running ten miles an hour at the time. The very
cold weather may have contributed to the breaking
of the nxlc
Year: 1865

The DispGtcH is published at Two CENTS per
copy and TWELVE CENTS per week. Irregular car
rers are selling the paper to transient customers at
higher prices These we cannot control. But the
regular carriers only charge the prices above
stated. Any citizen who wishes to take the paper
can have delivered 1t the rates established at the
office either by obtaining from the regular car
rier or leaving his name at the Dispatch counting
room,
Year: 1865

Our advertising columns show that our old friends
have not forgotten through what channel they can


most certainly reach the largest number of readers
They shall not be disappointed in their estimate of
the ubiquitous power Of the DISPATCH Wherever
tie mail, the express company, our special messen-
gers the city carriers, and our agents in ell the
t>vns and villages Of Virgi North CarolinA and
Tennessee reach family, there We are resolved
that the DIsPArcH shall be found, cost what it may
Of capital, energy and labor.
Year: 1865

THE CIVIL DocKEr.-The Mayor has had
such m immense amount of criminal business
before him for the past week that he has not
been able to hear any Of the civil cases in the
hands OF the High COnstabl We are re-
quested to state that the docket will be called
on Thursday morning next, when all parties
interested will doubtless be in attendance a'
the City Hall.
Year: 1865

After very beautiful day on Saturday, the
skies became suddenly overcast, and our citi-
zens arose yesterday morning TO scene OF
sleet and slippery payements, causing every
pedestrian who valued his limbs-to take the
middle of the street. II was in short, one OF
the most disagreeable days within our recol-
lection, and disappointed the anticipations OF
many bibulous souls who anticipated merry
run around among the bar-rooms
Year: 1865

Here we have the case in nutshell,
and it is only necessary to keep the
matter standing and change the names
from week to week, and you have the
important news from these republics
ready for instant use.
Year: 1865

as little sister They would consider
how she had been brought up, and not
exact too much. None we're more com
petent of feeling than Mrs Flagg and her
daughters Mrs. Flagg would see her
child was fed properly He felt delicate
in speaking of one thing He must do
it. Mrs. Blow must adopt the habits of
the family. At the table, and through
the house, she must not act as though
him and his family were made TO slave
for her In short. she must remember
that in his house she cculd not revive
the scenes of her fathers plantation
Slavery WAS a play, pretty enough in its
day, but it is played ont now She had
sense enough to understand. " hat did
she saw


She would do all he wanted her to-
She woIld. she would, she would' She
wanted to bury everything; she would
begin new life. If they would only
have patience with her, she was certain
she would do we'll If her dear husband
ever should come back, he wound find
her changed.


She did 90 to work When, the Bills
ters on her feet got well she stepped
lively. She'was up early, was attentive
in learning, and learned FAST. and in
liIIe Was OI real SCTh ice III IllG lhil1lfN .-
She would drink neither tea dor coffee,
and she abandoned snuff and tobacco
Her child SO improved that is face be
gan to beam with intelligence


Once in her work she stopped and bit
her lips. She amt two Of thesgirls were
washing, and in hurry, til at they mi ght
get through, according to custom, by 10
o clock. The three were singing Sad
dnply ba nntino1 that uF0c
Sans crimson flannel shirt That she
should wash the shirt of her fathers
slave, was almost too muclr. But she
thought of the passage of scripture:-
And whosoever shall give to drink an
to one of these little ones cup of cold
water only, in the name of a disciple,
verify | say unto you he shall in nowise
loose his reward 4 sweet smile beam
ed On her face, and she Joined again in
the singing.


This spring. when the 18th Army
Corps came up to Cairo from Sicksburg,
Mr.. Blow, as one of the soldiers. came
also. He made inquiry as to what had
become of his wife, and was surprised to
learn that she was still at Mr.. Flaggs,
and hearty and doing well. He got 4
furlough to go and see her.


He came into the house, and surprised
her making bread He hardly knew her.
She did not weigh by a quarter as much
as when he left Her face was as rosy
as if she were girl, and was dressed as
neatly.


She sprang towards him and embraced
him, and gave him such good kiss that
he he felt he never had such a one from her
busted on his shoulders; after o little. on
observing it, he said it was as hOnora-
bic as a Major Generals.


Before he left, he paid Mr.. Flagg in
fun But he said he never could pay
him for learning his wife to be useful
and for making a true lady of her
Year: 1865

Gen Fremont will take up his resi-
dence in St Louis, and take immediate
measures for putting into operation q
very extensive manufactorv of railroad.
bar. and sheet iron. He will reside at
the Brant mansion, on Chateau Avenue.
memorable as his official headquarters in
1861


Pit Hole, the great Eenango county
oil city, was thus named in consequence
of an extraordinary pit or cavern that
exists near that city. In this pit stones
may be thrown but they are never heard
to drop. Its depth has not been faith
omed.


MADAME ANNA BISHOP sailed last week
for California After making a concert
tour through the golden state. she roes
to India and Europe, and will return to
this country in about two years from
this time.


The municipal tax levy of the-citv Of
New York for the next year viii be eigh-
teen millions OF dollars
Year: 1865

\ WORD FOR NFwSPApERs-We clip
the following article from an exchange
1t is true, and we commend it TO every
man who has an interest where he re,
sides:


Nothing is more common than 10 hear
people talk of what they pay newspapers
for advertising, &c. as so much given in
charity. Newspapers by enhancing the
value OF property in their neighborhood.
and giving the localities in which they
are published reputation abroad, bene-
fit all such. particularly il they are mer.
chants or real estate owners. thrice the
amount yearly of the meagre sum they
pay for their sapport. Besides, every
public spirited citizen has laudable
pride in having paper of which he is
not ashsmed, even though he should pick
it up in New York or Washington.


y good looking, thriving sheet, helps
TO sell property, gives character to the
locality, and in all respects is a desirable
public convenience. If from any cause,
the matter in the local or editorial col
umns shonld not be quite up to your
standard, do not east ii aside and pro
nounce it of no account, until YOU are
satisfied that there has been no more In
Dor bestowed upon it than is paid for
If you want q good readAbIef shee il
must be supported. And it must not be
supported in q spirit of charity, either,
but because you feel a necessity to sup
port it. The local press is the ''power
that moves the people" w Y Tribune.
Year: 1865

RESISTING rHE BEGfNNINGs. The Arabs
have fable OF "A miller who was one
day startl BY camel's nose thrust in
ut the win ow Of the room where he was
sleeping.


1T IS very cold outside" said the
camel Il only want to get my nose in.


The nose was let in, then the neck.
and, finally, the whole body, Presently,
the miller began to feel extremely in
con..enienced at the ungainly companion
he had obtained, in a room certainly not
large enough for both


IF yon are inconvenienced you may
leave, said the camel as for myself, i
shall stay where ! am"


The mogal OF the fable may be stated
thus When temptation occurs, we
must not yield to it. We must rot allow
SO much as its nose to come in He who
yields, even in the smallest degree. will
soon be entirely overcome.
Year: 1865

Where the wintry winds DER the forest pass.


In climate strange and far away,
/. From my own dear land of the gay, green hills,
roam with saddened heart to-day:
Yet, dearer,to me is the forest wild,


Or the furrowed breast of the deep. deep sea,
Than home in bright and beautiful land
s When it is not home from tyranny free.
'Tis shd to gaze on the scenes of the earth,


Where nature has lavished her beauties rare,
And to know that q demon spirit Of death,


Created by men, is workingthere.
OH what is the beauty of regions bright,


Where the rule of the tyraat must bes
OH what is the beauty of gay, green hills,
When the dwellers around them are not free!
/ would not livein land where men


Bow down to monarch, in seryile chains;
But in any land would gladly


10 break the rule where monarch reigns.
Despots are nothing but tiends on earth


And kings are a curse where eer they be;
But worse than all is the man who'd deprive
of its sacred rights a Republic lee!
Iurrah for the men that freedom love-


Hurrah for the men that for right would die!
Hurrah for a people resolved to be free!


Wherever the cline is under the sky.
The voice of the passing winds of Heaven


Proclaim, as the voice of the mighty sea,
That the spirit of Man was ever designed


10 exult in its grandeur, sublime and free.
Year: 1865

This is getting to be a wonderful age. Not
"a week passes but something new is added TO
the list Of wonders.


Among the list Of new societies recently
formed we notice one called the Gossiping
Society.


The members of this society have been
rapidly increasing ever since its formation.


Old men and young men, women and chill
dren, are admitted as members if they possess
the following qualifications:


l. They must devote their whole attention
to other peoples business, and entirely neg
lect their own.


q. When they hear a scandalous report
about neighbor friend, they must not eat,
drink nor sleep, until the chief officers Of the
society are informed of the same.


3. No person shall become member un-
less he or she be person of leisure; and
can loaf about town, or make about seven
teen calls week, and watch the actions of
the people generally; and be ready.to report
at headquarters the slightest intimation of a
report


The following are some of the by.laws and
regulations Of this society:


Art. /. This society shall be known as
the Tattle and Gossiping Society. The
principal and ruling officers shall be as fol-
Eows: One great liar and two Lesser ones,
three tsttlers and four gossipers: any one of
which shall constitute quorum, and shall
have power to transact business at any time.


Art. 2. IF any member of this society
shall be found guilty of knowing more about
mis- own business than that of his neighbor' s.,
he shall be expelled forthwith.


Art. 3. ANY person who belongs to this
society who makes practice Of telling the
truth twice or three times, shall be expelled
without hearing


Art. A. Any member who does not report
regularly what his neighbors residing within
three doors of him have for dinner on Sum
day, andfor tea every time they have COM
pany, shall be cut off from all the rights and
benefits of the society.


Art s. If any member of this society
shall see, hear tell of, or even suspects that
young man has waited on a lady twice, he
must report them to be married soon, or al
ready married, or be shall be looked upon as
no tattler, and shall be fined to the extent of
the law for any such misdemeanor.


Art. 6. Any man or women who shall
neglect their own business and take the
trouble to circulate about town scandalous
reports which they know to be false, shall be
deemed by all respectable citizens, as Com
mander-in-Chief of said society, and shall be
looked upon as such by all of its members
Year: 1865

A GOOD many wealthy Southern planters
are moving to Brazil and settling there. They
go in there in order to hold their slaves in
peace. They won't have peace long. AS
soon as the Abolitionists ruin North America
they will be after South America.
Year: 1865

The MEMORY OF AN EYE.-Haye you ever
thought Of it? The memory Of an eye is the
most deathless of memories, because there, IF
anywhere, you catch a glimpse of the visible
soul as it sits by the window. s
Year: 1865

IL IL n question--which may Mt some time
be deemed worthy to be cXainined-whethpr
che peopleof a State, whose representatives
are excluded by force from the legislative
body of the Union, are hound by the laws
passed by that legislative body: whether
- majority which. without law, shuts the
doors of Congress against the minority.
can bind any more than themselves and
their constituents by the statutes they
enact. In the moral aspect of the case
there is no question: and we believe there
is just as little In the legal aspect. The
same force which excludes from partiCipa--
tion in the making of laws, may compel q
temporary and unwilling obedience TO
them, and n fanatic or an Interested Judi
cimy may sanction the proceeding; but
this will not settle the question of right,
which is beyond the reach of tribunals or
maiorities.


The reason why the representatives OF
the Southern States are denied the seats TO
which they were elected, Is that the repre-
sentatiVes of the Northern States want the
whole field of legislation to themselves :
because they are afraid of the moral power
of n protesting minority, to prevent the
passage of measures In which they know
that minority will not concur. The act of
exclusion points Enthusiastically to the oh
ject aud the object is so unjust in itself as
20 vitate by Its injustice every thing done
in its pursuit.


The case, as il stands, is simply the for
chile disiranchisemcnt of the members from
minority of the States of the Union by
the members from Il majority of the States.
Ii is virtual expulsion from the Federal
body of one section by another. There are,
of course, abundant efforts TO give legal
appearance TO the act but the nearest APP
proach to success is several excuses, which
are only plausible, not valid; and which
conflict with each other. While this thing
continues, the idea that we have reinstated
the principles of the Constitution IN our
Government, or even that we have restored
the Union, Is palpably incorrect. We are
living under an extra-constitutional Gov
ernment, of which force Is practically the
organic fact; which force we are endeavor-
ing to legitimatize and transform into q
principle.


1t would, several years ago, have been ao-.
counted u truism, 10 say that in Republi-
can Government the obligation of obedi-
ence to the law depended upon the fact Of
representation in its enactment. If there
Is ANY doctrine which may be said to be
fundamental in representative government,
it Is this. If maioritles In our Legislative bod
les are In any ease at their discretion, at
liberty tO exclude minorities from partici-
patton in Legislative duties, they are nj lib
erty to do SO In all cases. As soon as dis
erection is allowed TO enter in, it becomes
absolute; and when the authors of the pre-
tense for exclusion make themselves the
Judges of its validity, II is II palpable abuse
of terms to call the Government any longer
iree or republican.-Ci Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1865

The Bombay Tines inserts the following
statement: f ss s.fsnnel + ada


aThirty miles northeast of Sholapoor, at
Toolazapoor is the great temple of the goddess
Bhowani, and twice in the year the place is
thronged by men and women of every grade,
who come to pay their VOWS and sacrifices to
the idol. Besides this, at every full moon, long
trains of pilgrims may be seen focking thther,
and such is the faith of the people in the heal
ing power of the goddess, that the sick are re-
sorting there constantly in the vain hope Of
some relief.


a' "The temple at Pundapoor is still more re-
noWned, not to speak of the nyraids who go
there at the great festivals, persons make a pill
grimage thither every month from a distance
of so to 100 miles, and the practice is kept up
for many years. 8.asni


zone man, who had apparently come from a
distance, the writer saw near gBar3ee, making
the journey by prostrations, measuring his
length upon the ground. 1t was under the
burning sun OF monday; and hardly able to
proceed, he seemed the very picture Of des-
pair. n. ,.s fes s,a- IL


aBut a case still more remarkable was that
of man performing the journey by rolling
upon the ground. We came up with him two
miles east of Wairag, and asked him where he
was going, and why he was thus torturing
himself He at first did not seem to hear, but
at length stopping, he lay exhausted upon the
ground, and answered III a faint voice that, he
was going to Pundapoor After some more
questions as the writer demonstrated with
him upon the folly of such course, he. raised
his head from the ground, and, hall reclining
said that he had come SO far already that he
could not desist now. He stated that his vii
? lage was near Grandapoor, 450 miles to the
east from there, and that he had spent fifteen
months on the way thus far, and taat it was
40 miles more, and he wished to complete the
pilgrimage. He was accustomed, to SO about
a mile each day. He would then note the
place where he had stopped, and walk back to
the nearest village would remain till the next
day, receiving his food from the villagers
Then from the place left the previous day
ne would begin again the t0ilsome pilgrimage.
ii he came to river that could not be passed
in tlls manner, he would 90 back a distance
equal to this space, and roll over the Ground
q a second time. He had for cAotb;ns only 4
coarse cloth bound tightly about his Ions. and
another about the head, and thus almost ma
ked, over roads extremely roueh and stonv
exposed to heat and cold sometimes "a
with rain or covered with mud. for a veaTSand
three months this poor man had baen rolin :
himself along toward the shrine of Yithoh31
Yet it was not sense of sin or a desira
for pardon that induced him to undertake this
painful Journey. But it was evident, upon
further conversation, that he was urged on by
no HIGHER motive than selfish pride. He
sought reputation for holiness"
Year: 1865

Es The New York Commercial after
deduciing the probable amount of cotton
that has gone out of tie ConfeGeracy,
since the commencement Of the war, or
been destroyed within it, thinks there can
not be less than three million bales l.f. a,
the present time.
Year: 1865

will be your warrant 10 ask Gen. ord to
pass them through as directed in the let
ter Of the secretary Of war. If by their
answer they decline 10 come or propose
other terms 90 lot have them passed
through, and this being your whole duty,
return and report TO me.


Yours truly,
Year: 1865

A man in his carriage was riding along,
A gaily dressed wife by his side;
In satins and laces she looked like queen,
And he like king in his pride.
A wood-sawyer stood on the street as they


passed;


The carriage and couple he eyed,
And he said, as he worked with his saw


on a log,


II wish was rich and could ride"
The man in the carriage remarked to his


wife:


Zone thing would give, if could
would give all my wealth for the strength


and the health
ofthe man who is saving the wood"
Year: 1865

To Our Havana Readeras
On and altar The arrival Of the steamer Eagle due IN Ha
ssna Monday May a. all the New York daily paper ca
Se had the Universal Book Agency cais del Oaisve No
Year: 1865

In these days, when mining claims have
turned out so badly, and so many men have
been ruined by speculating in bogus stocks,
the men who have money to spend and in
vest, have been obliged to look for other
means of making money, and accordingly,
the raising of cotton has become a promi-
nent branch Of business. The Mexican
provinces of Sonora Ind Sinaloa, at pres
ent are the familiar grounds, and everv few
days companies and individuals are going
from here with view to cultivating the
cotton lands in those provinces. The new
government of Mexico is said to be yery
favorably disposed towards the business,
and somo parties that have been there
about eighteen months, have already sue
seeded so well that the it is reduced to q
certainty that the Pacific coast is to be one
OF the greatest Gotten growing countries in
the world. The expense is said to be but
very little compared with the profit, and the
profit 10 such that the rush to get into the
business is now commencing to be very
great. Those whe have cotton growing are
now looking very proud, and hold their
heads high up in the air, and those who
have not, are hoping when they shall be in.
In fact, for those who have small capital
and energy, there is no safer investment
In the world, and when your miners have
made their pile of two or three thousand
dollars, they can go to Mazatlan and live
easily, in the very finest climate in the
world, and make money with very little la
Dor. The only objection to Mexico is the
internal troubles that have been, and still
are convulsing that unhappy country, and
those who fear to invest on that account are
locking to the islands of the Pacific. The
Sandwich and Society Islands are found to
be far ahead Of any cotton countries, both
for cheapness Of labor and fertility of soil,
and the French government at Tahiti offers
every iadueement to capital and labor tv
come there. In short, in every direction
from San Francisco new fields of labor are
opening, new means of investing capital are
found, and though the Pacific is . new
held, the seeds are being sown, which, when
time has allowed them to mature, will place
her, for industry and wealth, far ahead of
the Atlantic shores, and our children will
hereafter see such an improvement in all
her bounds, they will forget from whence
their prosperity arose, and the old Atlantic
be considered as an old fogy country and
Young America will have taken leave of
the Bowery and Chatham streets, and taken
up his residence at San Francisco, where
even now you find very fair likeness of
him around the engine houses and standing
on the favorite corners of Montgomery
street. BY the way, l must hereafter tell
you something of our fire boys and fire de-
partment, and give you an insight, if pos
sible, into one of the greatest and most
growing interests Of California, viz: the
wine making. We now have all kinds of
native wine and brandy, from light red to
champaine, and equal, in every respect, to
the imported articles. Till then au reroir.
DESDIsCHhDO