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Year: 1869

a majority of those voting be In favor of a
Convention, it shall be the duty of the
Governor Immediately to issue his proclama-
ton announcing the result, and said Con-
ventiOn shall convene in the city of Nash
vile on the first Monday in January, 1870,
and when so assembled said delegates shall
organize themselves into a Constitutional
Convention by the election of u President
and such other officers as they may deem
necessary.


SEC. I3. Be 1t further enacted, That said
Convention shall adopt such rules and regu-
latiOns for its government and tranactiOn of
business as it shall think proper, and that
the members and officers of said Convention
shall receive the same compensation as is
now allowed by law to the members and
officers of the General Assembly of the
State, and to be paid in the same manner by
the Treasurer.


SEC, IA Be 1t further enacted, That the
Constitution or form of government which
said Convention may adopt shall not be Of
any binding force or efficacy until the same
has been submitted to and ratified by the
people of the State in such mnnner and in
such time as the Convention shall provide


SEC. is. Be 1t further enacted, That
should any county have no Commissioner of
Registration at the time of said election, or
should the Commissioner of Registration
fail or refuse to hold said election, then in
that event it shall be the duty of the Sheriff
of each county to open and hold such cleo
tion, subject to the same rules and regula-
tions, us imposed upon Commissioners of
Registration by this act


SEC. l6. ARd be 1t further enacted, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage
Year: 1869

In the Pahranaga district, in the South
western part of the State of Nevada-dis-
tance from Austin estimated at 10 miles
is a remarkable mountain of salt, about
seventy miles south of the mines 1t is re-
ported to be about five miles in length and
600 feet in heigth. The body of salt is of
unknown depth. 1t is chemically pure and
crystalline, and does not deliquesce on expo
sure to the atmosphere. Like rock, it
requires blasting from the mlne, whence it
it saken in large blocks, and is as transparent
as glass This would afford an abundant
supply to the world could it be cheaply
mined and transported; but it now stands
in the wilderness, an object for the admira-
ton of the curious and the inspection of
the scientific 1t is believed that there is
but one other place on the globe where it
exists in such state of purity in workable
quantities, and that is at Cracow, Poland
This is but another evidence of the state of
purity in which the force of nature has left
deposits in this interesting portion of the
continent.
Year: 1869

ould respectfully notify their friends and the pub
lie in general that they have commenced PoslVel'
the Cash Business. We are receiving new and
Fresh Stock of Goods from the Philadelphia market
and we know that by selling exclusively for Cash
we can offer greater inducements than we ever did
before, and all we ask is an examination Of our
stock.
Year: 1869

TIE New MoyEMENT.--The Washington
correspondent OF the Baltimore Gazette
says:


Circumstances have transpired within q
few days past well calculated to inspire
hope ifnot confidence on the part of Virgi-
mia that she will not be called on to adopt
or reject the Underwood constitution.
The House bill which provides for an cleo
tion in May next is now pending in the
Judiciary Committee of the Senate, and
there is reason to believe that the bill will
remain on the files of the same committee
during the residue of the present session of
Congress. This will defeat the programme
of the carpet-baggers in Virginia, but will
leave the State under military government
until the meeting of the next Congress.
Howeyer much the State may regret con-
tinuance OF the military system, yet it Is
vastly preferable to q carpet-bag Govern
ment, under which it is proposed 10 disfran-
chise the white population of the State.
Prominent citizens of Virginia who are
here seem deeply 10 regret the delay. 10
continue the military government necessa-
riy excludes foreign capital and enterprise
from the State, and seriously retards oil OF
her Industrial pursuits. "
Year: 1869

A CoMMENDABLE The
ladies of Sidney Methodist church have
commenced fair and feast under the
Spotswood Hotel for the benefit of the des-
titute children connected with the Sunday
school of that church. AS many of the
scholars are very destitute, it is hoped that
the citizens will give these good ladies a
helping hand. They make beautiful dis
play Of useful and ornamental articles, and
offer many delicacies and substantials in
the eating line.
Year: 1869

LEcTrRE RY BIsHoP MCGTLL.-We under
stand that Bishop McGill will shortly deliver
an interesting lecture on Church Hill for
the benefit of the fund proposed to be raised
for q dwelling for the pastor of ST. Patrick's $
l.hrrnh
Year: 1869

LA RUE's MINsTRELs.-To-nigh the first
performance of La Rue's Carnival Min
strels will be held at the Richmond Thea
tire. This company is Legitimate one of
the first order. Our people have not for a
long time enjoyed a minstrel entertainment
of this style, and now that they have an
opportunity for pure enjoyment they should
not neglect it. In Rue's people sing new
songs, tell new jokes, and burlesque new
Year: 1869

THE COSTUMES FOR Tue TURNER BALL.
The Turner ball will certainly come off
next Monday night. Mr.. Maxwell, the cos
tuner, will he prepared to furnish almost
any dress needed this morning and each
succeeding morning until the day Of the
Year: 1869

on my return from Middle Tennessee. i
would be pleased to do so, but would
not return that way. Sister Cox now an
nounced my bed ready. So I retired to-
my virtuous couch, amid the many good
wishes of the family, and the assurances
of brother Cox, as he closed she door OF
my room, that would get UP and find
my horse all right in the morning"
Drenon was all right in the morning, aud.
had for breakfast 'fried chicken"
That was all right, tool


took an afeetionate leave of the
family, with the promise to their oft re-
peated and earnest solicitation, if l ever
visited that section again would call
and see them. just as l was in the act
of stepping out the door, one of those
big fat gals-the older looking one
slipped slyly up and poked at me little
sprig of green CEDAR with the blushins
request, that would take it. I did so,
aud thanked her as gallantly as my en-
barrassment U was not use 20 such
things would permit. carried off the
little sprig of green cedar, as an offering
that 'had found land" in that watery
waste of Unionism. Brother Cox went
with me as far as Murray town, which
was full Of Yankees.


The commander, at brother Cox's So
licitation gave me ''pass" for the round
trip, and went my way rejoicing. And
all these good things-'.fried chicken"
ircluded-came through the influence of
prayer


In the joyous strain of ;hat sweetlit-
tie christian poetess, Eliza Cook, let me
exclaim:


ain desert wilds, in midnight gloom,


In grateful joy, in trying pain;


In laughing youth, or nigh the tomb


Oh when is prayer unhedrd or Vatn -"


Now, kind reader, did sin, in assum-
ing the character of a preacher?


If l thought SO, never would have
told you'll
Year: 1869

Such securities are generally valuable
in proportion to the length of time they
have to run. The longest six per cent
gold interest bonds of the U. s. (thc '81's)
will be due in II years, and they are worth
112. If they had 80 years to run, they
would stand at not less than 125. A per-
fectly safe First Mortgage Bond like the
Union Pacific should approach this rate
The demand for European investment is
already considerable, and on the compile
ton of the work will doubtless carry the
price to large premium.
Year: 1869

Besides q donation from the Government of
$4,000 acres of land per mile, the Company is
entitled to subsidy in u S. Bonds on its line as
completed and accepted, at the average rate of
about S26, 500 per mile according to the difficult
ties encountered for which the Government takes
a second lien as security. Whether subsidies are
given to any other companies or not, the Govern
ment will comply with all its contracts with the
Union Pacific Railroad Company. Nearly the
whole amount of bonds to which the Company
Will be entitled have already been delivered.
Year: 1869

A new Pamphlet and Map was issued
October, 1st, containing report of the
progress of the work to that date, and
more complete statement in relation to the
value of the bonds than can be given in au
advertisement, which will be sent free on
application.
Year: 1869

AS the supply Of these Bonds will soon
cease, parties who desire to invest in them
will find it to their interest to do so at
once. The price at present is par and ac-
c.ued interest from Jan. l, in currency.
Year: 1869

This large amount is only an indication
of the immense traffic that must go over
the through line in few months, when
the great tide of Pacific coast travel and
trade will begin. 1t is estimated that this
business must make the earnings of the
road


FROM FIFTEEN TO TWENTY
Year: 1869

termined, nor do we know exactly aoben !;
but, though we are not quite so precipi-
lately fast in the matter of public improve
ments as some of your Western cities, we
DO not allow ourselves to suffer long over
want which money can supply, and a
tunnel Is certainly a most important need
to the crowded island of Manhattan. Now
that Chicago has demonstrated show not
to do 1t" Gotham will be warned and pro-
ceed with caution and discretion; and
when you hear, one of these days, of oar
tunnel as an established fact, you will not
be panied to hear, at the same time, that
it has been converted into shower-bath.


A prominent metropolitan hotel keeper
is already turning speculative eye
towards the deep Yo Semitic Valley Of
California, which he foresees is destined 10
become the fashionable watering place of
this continent. 1t has falls rivaling Mag
ara and such virtues in the way of scenery
and climate that our long-headed land
lord shifts great things in the net very dis
tant future. E-I.t


Horace Greeley, whom we met in Print
ing House Square the other day, is said to
be developing new and strange traits, in
his old age, which both friends and ene-
mics will regard with something of inter
est or sympathy. His growing petulance
is leading him into a world of trouble and
his bland, tranquil, almost child like face
is beginning to wrinkle up in most un-
becoming manner Mr.. Greeley's life, even
according to his own estimate of it, has
been grand success; and we write this
in ignorance of what the new Administra-
tion is going to do for him-if anything;
but to read his features as we recently be-
held them, one must come inevitably to
the conclusion that he was sorrowful
and disappointed man. What has wrought
this miraculous change in our veteran
journalist, whether the outward attraction
is evidence of an inward revolution, and
whether it be only temporary or the re-
suit OF illness--are questions we cannot
answer. In this regard we speak alone
from what we saw. It comes to us from
others, who know him better than we can
claim to, that the old mans temper is COM
pletely broken, and that he occasional ex-
hibits other and alarming symptoms of in
cipieDt mental decay.


Great preparations are making through
out this city to celebrated st. Patrick's day
in an unusually brilliant and impressive
manner, some fifty Irish temperance socie-
ties being announced as participants there
in. Every one possessing any knowledge
of New York, or who has CHANGED to wit
ness the finale of one of these Celtic festi-
walls in the metropolis, must be aware that
strict temperance is not feature of the
occasion, and can therefore judge how i'm
posing in numbers this demonstration. is
TO be, when so small division as its cold
water drinkers is estimated at fifty full So
cieties.


There is trouble in Wall street, and the
bears in that region give evidence, by
their expectant growls, that some down
ward tendency Of the money market is at
hand. .i.g


Our amusement world is busy and bril-
liant but "gossip of the green-rooms !"
must lay over for the present. e.aa3


WILD EDGERToN.
Year: 1869

The Chicago platform, upon which General
Grant was elected declared that - to the loyal
States properly belonged the right of regulating
the suffrage of their citizens" The Fifteenth
Constitutional Amendment enjoins that they shall
not have that right, but that, whether loyal or
not, the negro snail be forced upon them citi-
zen. General Grant, the nominee Of the Chicago
Convention, who accepts its platform, very coolly
kicks the latter and insists that the Fifteenth
Amendment shall be adopted Cincinnati En-
qatTer.


The Enquirer must have an exceedingly
ignorant and stupid class Of readers, or
the editor of that sheet must think so,
else he would never have ventured to pub
lish such statements. The Chicago plat
form is entirely consistent with the FIT
teenth Amendment. 1t has been held by
some Republicans like Sumner and Yates
that Congress had the constitutional power
to confer suffrage in the loyal States upon
the disfranchised class of citizens, and the
Copperheads charged that the Republi-
cans, as q party, held the same doctrine,
and that Congress intended to pass law
enfranchising the blacks in those States
where they were not allowed to vote To
refute this charge and to officially reject
the Sumner Yates assumptions, the plank
in the platform in question was inserted
by the unanimous voice of the National
Convention. But it was nowhere affirmed
in the platform that colored citizens ought
to be disfranchised by State laws 1t was
not alleged by any member of the conven-
ton that it would be improper for Con-
gress to submit an amendment for the
States to ratify comforting suffrage
upon the disfranchised class of
citizens The submission of the
Fifteenth Amendment recognizes and ad-
mits that the right of regulating the suf-
frage belongs to the States. If it did not
belong there Congress would not offer the
amendment to the States for their adop-
ton or rejection. We defy any man to
show wherein the proposed amendment is
wrong. It reads


"ARTIcLE Is. The right of the citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be denied or
abriged by the United States, or by any State,
on account of race, color, or previous condition
of servitude.''


Why should any State Government
"deny or abridge the right of citizen of
the United States to vote, or account of
race, color or previous condition of servi-
tude?" Does the complexion of citizen
of the United States furnish sufficient
grounds to Justify local government of a
subdivision of the Union called Estate,
to prevent him from voting for President
or Congressman? The State may now
do it by arbitrary power or brute
force, but not on any principle of demo
oracy or equal rights. General Grant is
not the man to uphold so gross wrong.
He therefore earnestly advises the State
Governments to ratify the Fifteenth
Amendment, and thereby secure equal
rights to all citizens of the United States.
And in thus appealing to the States in the
matter he fully recognizes the declaration
in the Republican National Platform that
the matter rests with the States. If they
refuse to adopt the proposed amendment
it is null and void. They alone can give
it vitality and force.-Chic0go Tribune.
Year: 1869

Space has been sort of enemy to en-
terprise, and great part of our energies
has been devoted to what is called the an
initiation of space, and to this end steam
boats have been invented, railroads have
been projected, which answer very well
for longer distances where many miles
have to be traversed, but for the shorter
distances, up to the invention of the velo-
cipe6e, we have had nothing adequate to
our wants. Cars and stages are always
disagreeably crowded, and filed with i'm.
pure air from the breaths OF some two
score passengers, besides that you always
have the agreeable reflection that you may
be seated next to person in the catching
stage of the measles or tt small pox; OF
that he may be thief or pick pocket, and
find on getting out your pocket book and
temper gone at the same time. Besides
that, cars and stages never take you exact
Year: 1869

Farming is a profession, not to say sci
ence. If any one doubts this statement
let him leave his city home-for no one
bred in the country will doubt it-and
undertake to cultivate even garden of
half an acre for the summer He will
then find that knowledge is as essential to
the right use of tie spade as of the pen,
and that there is as great difference be-
tween the scientific farming of Flanders,
where literally not weed is to be seen,
AMI that of many Of our farmers, the
wealth of whose soil is about equally di.
vided between fruits and weeds, as be-
tween the trade Of modern city and the
barter Of back-woods settlement. 1t is
true that agriculture has been last to re-
ceive the impetus of modern science It
is true that many agriculturists are will
ing TO 90 on in the ways of their fathers,
because experiments are costly. But it is
also true that they are unable to compete
with those who understand the use of new
instruments, methods and fertilizers. Ag-
riculture is also becoming in this country
popular recreation. Many gentleman
is content to spend on his country seat
money which he makes in the counting
room. The practical farmer is thus able
to get the benefit of experiments without
paying for them. y 1t will not
be long before something Of a library will


be a part of the furniture of every


well-orderod farm. - Harper's Monthly


Magezi7se,
Year: 1869




generally tasteless, indigestible and innu-
tIitious, because its makers are grossly
ignorant and bent on remaining so; the
butter, on most of our tables, is a poor
sort Of grease; and as to soups, we do
not know what they are, while for those
who do know How 10 make them they are
the cheapest, most palatable, most nutii-
tious form of mingled animal and vegeta-
bic food. If the "Girl of the Period"
could only be induced to leave the piano
unaffected, and devote the next year or
two mainly to Soyer and the kitchen-range
i feel very sure that her happiness, as
well as that Of mankind, would thereby
be signally promoted. | am confident
that she would thus secure good wages,
proper independence Tor rather inter-de-
pendence, which is the nearest approach
to the former attainable in civilized socie-
ty,) general respect, and qualify herself to
be "a help-meet" for the Industrious, fru-
gal, energetic farmer or mechanic who, in
due time, will probably ask her to become
his wife.


| hope few will regard me as lacking
sympathy with the many needy and i'll
placed or umplaced women of our day, who
are anxiously inquiring and looking for
something to do" 1t is because | would
have this class smaller in the next than it
is in the present generation, that | speak
so plainly as l do. We are fearfully
miseducated people, and the case is worse
with our girls than with our boys. With
in the sphere Of my observation, not one
in ten is really trained or training to earn
her own livelihood in any capacity; the
greater number seem vaguely to expect
that they will marry for position and
rear children for an occupation.


Hence, welcome the agitation for
Woman's Rights and Female Suffrage, as
disturbing stagnation which involved
"the pain without the peace of death"


The issue will not be such as the agita-
tors contemplate, for Nature is too strong
for will even SO stubborn as Anna Dick
inson's, persistency so dogged as Susan
Anthony's; but the fountains Of the great
deep will be profoundly stirred, and the
result cannot fail to be wholesome. Wo-
man is insisting that her share Of the
worlds work be allotted and secured to
her, and the demand, however unwisely
urged or mistakenly directed, is substan.
TALLY just.


What she, far more than man, needs tc
realize, is, that no useful a0ork is degrad
ing, though much may be rejected as un
suited to her sex or her strength. There
is work enough that she may laudably dc
: the need is that she be qualified for anc
rendered willing to undertake it.


So long as our more expcnsively educa
ted girls shall fancy teaching the only es
tablshcd pursuit that they can follow with
out disgrace, many Of them must live mis-
crably, and be drivcs by want to shame
but let them awake to a realizing sense o
the true dignity Of labor, the essential no
blcness whereby human life is made hap
pier and sweeter, and the world will wei
come them to fair allotment of its ser
vice, with the proper. recompense thereof
and woman be everywhere freshly hailed
and with added reason, as "the last bes
gift" of God to man.
Year: 1869

Why don't you take the papers?


Nor from the printers sneak,
Because you borrow from his boy


A paper every week.
For lie who takes the papers,


And pays his bill when due;
Can live in peace with God and man,
And with the printer too:
Year: 1869

Heaven bless the childrcnl
Beautiful and fair,
Needing ALA mothers love,
All fathers care.
Restless little pilgrims


On the road of lifo,
Eager for the journey hence,
Earnest for the strife.
Glad to push their vessel
From the parent shore
Once on life's broad billowy sea
Twill return no more.
Ever asking questions


That confound the wise;
Peering into mysteries


With their truthful eyes.
Setting us examples


Ever, day by day,
Teaching us the way of life
In their simple way.
Heaven bless the children!
AS they once were blessed,
When the gentle Lord of Love
Little ones earessed.
Lead them safely over


Life's tempestuous sea;
Keep them from the evil hour,i
Teach them to be FREE!
Free from all cxccsses;


Free from moral stain
From the glutton's heavy bonds,
From the drunkard's 8 chain
Free from SIMS allurements,
Be they what they may
Walking the narrow path
Towards the gates Of day.
Year: 1869

There are pretty sun-risings, as we
are told, and such like gauds, abroad
in the world, in summer time, espe-
cially, which a gentleman may see,
as they say, for getting up. We hold
the good hours of the dawn too sacred
tOwaste upon such Observances, which
have in them beside, something pa
gan and Persian. 1t is tiattering to
get the start of lazy world; to con-
duer death by proxy in his image;
but the seeds of sleep are in US ; there
fore, while the busy part of mankind
are fast huddling on their clothes, are
already up and about their occupation,
content to have swallowed their sleep
by wholesale, we choose to inger u
bed and digest our dreams. We love
to chew the cud of foreign vision
to collect the scattered rays of bright
phantasm, or act over again, with fir-
mer nerves, the nocturnal tragedies;
to drag into daylight a struggling and
half vanished nightmare; to handle
and examine the terrors of the airy
sOlace. We cherish dreams, we try to
spell in them the alphabet of the in
visible world; and think we know
already how it will be with US. Those
uncouth shapes, which, while We
cling to flesh and blood, affrighten US,
have become familiar; we feel attenua-
ted into their meagre essences, and
have given the band of halfway ap-
prOach to incorporated being. We
once thought life to be something, but
it has unaccountably fallen away be-
fore its time. Therefore we choose to
daily with vision. The sun has no
purposes of ours to light US tO-Why
should we get up.-ChdTtes LaDa6.
Year: 1869

EFFECT OF SORROw.-Life has long
years; many pleasures it has to give
in return for many which are taken
away; and while our ears can receive
the sound of revelry, and our eyes are
sensible of pleasant sights, and our
bodies are conscious of strength We
deem we live; but there is an hour in
the lives of all when the heart dies :;
an hour unheeded, but after which we
have no real life, whether it perish in
the agony of some cOnquering passion,
or die weaTily of sorrow; an hour
which they may strive to trace, who
say: 'Ay, | remember | thought and
felt differe IT them was mere boy
1 shall never feel the same again ~ an
hour when the cord is snapped and
the chain broken, on which depended
the harmony of existence. Shout,
little children! shout and clap YOUR
hands with sudden jOyI send out the
sound of ringing laughter over the
face of the green blossomed earth !
From you the angel hath not vet de
Parted; in your hearts linger still the
emenations from the Creator-perfect
joy.