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Year: 1867

than hypocritical statesmanship which disfranchises white men in order to enfranchise black men; the criminal philanthropy which provides for the sure destruction of the deluded negro race under pretense of elevating it, all these will only rise up to mock and laugh at you then. Like the he'll hounds which "death, by rape begct of sin," when Heavens Almighty hurled down to hell those who, by deceit and force, sought to destroy His suprema- cy, these very pretenses which hate be- gets of hypocrisy, in this attempt to destroy the Constitution, will become yelling monsters in the political he'll into which the genius of constitutional liberty will cast you, and will kennel in the womb that bred them," and 'howl and gnaw," and ''vex with con- scious terrors" forever.

 I know how fallen is human nature {: l know how nations and peoples have often become the mere prey of bad, ambitious rulers; know the streams of blood with which hypocrisy, under pretense of saintly purpose, has often flooded mankind; I know how coun- tries have often been destroyed, that a few wicked men might continue in power, But can it be that OUR people have become willing to violate our Constitution for our own dishonor and destruction Will they take an oath to get chance to violate it, in order that they may degrade the white race, and ultimately destroy the black race 1?

 How many will thus violate it How many will stand by it, LIVE WITH IT, OR DIE FOR IT? That is the next count.
Year: 1867

Sa~The oil of pennyroyal will keep mosquitoes out of a room, if scattered about, even in small quantities. The inner bark of white ash will, if brought in contact with snake, stiffen him like stick in an instant, and bite of fresh tobacco placed on his tongue will kill him dead as if struck by lightning, while sheep and goats feed upon it with entire impunity. Reaches are ex- terminated by scattering handful of fresh cucumberparings about the house. No fly will light on the window which has been washed with water In which a little garlic has been heilei.
Year: 1867

nTGlriA let us tell you .he stubborn truth! No young woman ever looks so well to sensible young man, ss when dressed iu plain, neat, modest at tire, without single ornament about her person. She looks then as if she possessed worth in herself, and needed no artificial rigging to enhance her value. Ifa young woman would spend as much time in improving her mind, her temper, training and cherishing kindness, mercy, and good qualities, as most of them do in extra dress charms, she would at glance be known among a thousand-her character would be read in her eountenanee.
Year: 1867

"When woman won't she won't" You can't force them to do anything. Indeed, the most of them are very much like the old mans wife, who, he said, was of so much contra Junction that when she took cum pinion of her own there was no such thing as conauestion 'nr her.
Year: 1867

The farmer is lord of tho cattle,

 The farmer is king of the soil, Tho his brow may be darkened by sunlight His hands may be browned by his toll. He looks OCT his fields and his orchards, With joy, when his days work is OCT, For Le knows the seed planted in spring, In autumn will yield rich store. He sees God in nature around him, The flower that blooms on the plain, Tho dying in winter--in summer

 Will blossom in beauty again. The corn that h dropped in the furrow, By sunshine expands into birth Ito rich ear of gold in the autumn, Add beauty and grandeur to earth. The grass that is withered and dying, The tree tho now leafess and bare. Will spring into life and new verdure, Which proves immortality there. The seed that ia sown by the wayside, Whether of tares or of wheat-- Takes root in the soil that surrounds it, And starts into life while VIC sleep.

 Fed Nothing is lost, or is wasted, That lies meath the richly turned sod, The ''seed time and harvest shall fail not" If you trust in the power of God. By the sweat of the brow shalt thor labor The wsary-faint not-but endure crown of the faithful awaits thee For God end his promise is sure.
Year: 1867

Every department Of business has an imms-
date interest in the markets Of the country. and
in its financial fluctuations and condition Ths
man who ials to keep himself properly adj
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets A.
controlled by the laws OF demand and supply
and the relative condition Of the currency. ii
exposed TO constant loss. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and enterprisiug
nsighbOrs. In order to make our paper valuable
as well a. interesting. we shall continue 10
make this a SPECIAL FEATURE. Our Daily
Market Reports. domestic and foreign. by tels-
graph. and our City Reports. gotten up at heavy
expense. have challenged the commentator Of
onr best business men while our current Finan
cisl Reports from all the leading money centre


Of the country are fuller than have ever


published by any other journal In TennsssIee
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-reliant, and shall do what wo
may be able to induce the establshment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we viii pay special attention
to the COST and sTArIsTICs Of manufacturing,
and exert ourselves to encourage the diversif-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern re5ources
Year: 1867

tongue and grooved door at tho grated
door at the entrance Of the corridor.


Shortly after his committal be was
visited by his sister Anna, and subse-
quently by his brother Isanc, both OF
whom have continued their visits, seeing
him nearly every day. The only other
visitors have been Rev. Father Walter,
of ST. Patrick's Church (who calls and
spends some time with him three or four
times each week. and his counsel, the
Messrs Bradley and Mr. Merrick.


His relatives and friends have furnished
him with number of religious books,
with which he occupies the most OF his
time. Many of thom are French works.
The first few days he spent in Jail he was
furnished with the prison fare, but since
his sister paid him her first visit ho has
been supplied with meals from restau-
rant He seldom speaks more than to
exchange commonplace remark, and
is especially reticent in regard TO any
thing connected with. the charge against
him.


He keeps himself scrupulously clean,
hair neatly combed, Otc., but not having
a heavy beard he has shaved himself but
once during his confinement Gust pre-
vious to his appearance in court on the
9th ult He is not in good health,
and since his confinement has become
somewhat thin, which is no doubt caused
BY his anxiety about the trial, but he is
at all times cheerful, and apparently
tries to shake off all feelings which tend
to make him despondent. His expressed
wish since his arrival in this country has
been for a speedy trial, let the conse-
quences be what they may.
Year: 1867

too much space, fear, with these mat
ters ! should like to speak of these
splendid avenues, "the Boulevards, "
much wider than Lake avenue at its most
spacious point OF these "Mansard "
buildings which prevail in Paris, and are
both roomy and picturesque. Six and
seven stories are quite common in New
Paris. And the complexion Of the rows
Of uniform houses is cream color.


AS | said, Paris is built for outdoor
life, and so every avenue of resort is
studded with wooden settees, put there
at public expense In addition to which
are light from chairs by the dozen, and
hundreds ranged along every place of
much resort. And if you prefer chair,
by paying two cents you can sit as long
as you please. The public places, such
as the gardens, libraries, churches, pic
ture galleries, ETC., are open mostly at
the hour of twelve "a. m, and close at
four. Breakfast is not served until
about ten or eleven o clock in the morn.
ing. You get lunch during the day,
and dine from six 10 nine in the evening
Places of public amusement open as
early as seven o'clock, at least many Of
them, but they do not close till nearly
twelve, and in one instance Of a concert
| attended the session lasted from seven
and half o clock till two am. ] think
if my sleepy memory serves me, | got
the worth of my francs that time. The
prices of admission to the places of
amusement range from ten cents to two
dollars The theaters are built to seat q
crowd; and the galleries follow so
closely one upon the other that tall
man would hit his head in rising to his
full hight. | have seen four to FIVE gal
leries in a house.
Year: 1867

A writer in an English paper gives the
following account of a singular supersti-
ton connected with the Great Eastern


She is a ship with two cases, or skins,
as they are called-thst is, she is almost
like one ship fitted inside another. Be.
tween the inner and outer skin workmen
can crawl for repairs. Dresdiully dark
aud sepulchral, of course, it is in there,
for, from the nat1re of the space, the
workmen must be completely closed n,
excepting at the spot at which he enters.
Very few smiths or shipwrights would
care to work in here alone, for two ter
rible specters are supposed to haunt the
place. Almost all the men who were en-
gagged in the construction of the vessel
believe that, somewhere there in the
darkness and thick air, lie two skeletons,
which can never be found till the vessel
is broken up. These are the remains of
a smith and his riveter, the latter being
lad. During the construction of the
vessel, these Two worked all through the
week, keeping full time, and their work
lay in between the skins. The smith
was an elderly man, of q moody temper,
who made no friends, and was not pOpu-
lar with his mates.


mo one saw him leaving work; no.
body was interested in him. But one
payday both he and his lad failed to
beat the pay table to draw their money.
They were never heard of more BY any
one who worked on the Great Eastern.
OF course their absence had been noticed
by the iimekeeper and other officials;
but the missing men being, as / have
said, unpopular with their comrades,
there had been very little inquiry about
him, until il was found that their money
was not claimed. Il was then sooa
noted that the last time they had been
seen they we're at work in the case of
the ship, and before long it became a
hxed notion that by q fall, or by the ef
feet OF some vapor, the two had been
killed OF stunned until closed in; and
all the host Of men who worked at the
great ship believed that somewhere in
the vast hulk there lay two skeletons,
which, for some reason, could never be
found the prosaio idea that the old fell
low and his helper had left without warn
ing Tor better job, finding, Of course,
no favor"
Year: 1867

Privileged orders are almost always blind,
and there is no one so obstinate as the wearer
of hereditary titles in standing up against an ir


rcsistble force and bracing himself against u
current which, unless he bends to it, must
sweep him To destruction. IL is among the
greatest objections TO aristocratic classes that
they are so apt to stand still while the rest of
the world moves onward, so slow to appreciate
the changes which every day works in the
spirit and thought of the nation, so insensible
OF the growth of popular strength, so hasty i'll
opposing that strength when opposition is hope
less, and so ignorant of the mischief which
must follow their impotent opposition. When
Louis XVI. summoned the States General of
france to seek o remedy for the disorders
which were fast ripening into the great rcvo-
luton, he might have saved both ms throne
ana his head had the mobiles manifested as
clear comprehension of the situation as the
imld Estate or even the clergy. Had not the
privileged classes at the very outset reso-
lutely turned their faces backward and refused
10 confront the revolution in public sentiment
when was rapidly bringing about grand rev
oiutlon IN society and politics, the National
Assembly might never havelbeen organized,
and the kingdom might have been quietly re-
formed without the bloody scenes which soon
followed. Even after the Assembly, amid the
applause of all France, had set ont with sue
cess upon the task of national renovation, the
mobiles, with wrong -beadedness which to later
generations seems incredible, put out their
weak hands TO obstruct the popular torrent,
and induced the king TO disperse tho deputies
by force OF arms. That was tho beginning OF


lie revolution. The current was not checked
Year: 1867

In the Convention yesterday a resolution of
inquiry into the capacity of the canals, as at
present constructed, was adopted. The article
upon suffrage was referred to the Committee on
Revision, with power to correct any inconsist-
encies The Controller of this city was in
structed to report the sums annually received
from the several sources of city revenue, with
the expenses incurred in their collection. The
Committee OH Education were instructed to in
quire into the expediency Of abOlishing the
Office of School Commissioner and substituting
the former system of school supervision.
Year: 1867

A few weeks ago a ship-load of four humid
red Mormon emigrants landed at this port from
England, and set out across the Plains for the
City of the Great Salt Lake. BY all accounts
it seems certain that they will find their
paradise in sad turmoil when they get to it,
and the Saints in a most ungOdly Tumpus.
The schism to which we alluded short time
ago has become so wide, and has made such


an ugly wound, that there is little prospect of
ITS ever being healed. Brigham Young is
boldly denounced His followers have ceased


to obey him; his adversaries set him at de-


fance. When he falls, the keystone of the
! Mormon structure is overthrown. The Latter
Day Church cannot outlast its great prophet.


1t Is said that Young is about to remove to
the newly discovered gold mines of Utah but
| We 5fe 10th to believe that le so quickly


gives up the fight, and It is more
probable that he will make deter


mined stand at his capital. At any rate,
the Mormon difficulty, which has pernlexed us
for SO many years, seems to be rapidly solving
itself without our assistance. In another gene


ration we may hope to see the polygamists of
tho great Plains quietly absorbed by q law
Year: 1867

to oppose it.


The House of Lords, in Great Britain, are
initiating the old nobility of France. With an
obstinacy and folly which will seem to the
future historian not less amazing than the
stupidity of the courtiers of Louis XVI. they
are trying, by vexatious amendments to the
Reform bill, to stop the revolution which is
quietly elcvatng the people to their proper
place in the political fabric. They appear not
to comprehend that the proposed change IN the
system of popular representation is not the
work of party, but the demand OF a nation'
and demand which there is plain proof can
not be denied or evaded To array themselves
against it will only only insure their own de-
struction, and may possibly throw the whole
empire into disorder Reform is inevitable
The absolute ascendancy of the titled aris-
tocracy in British politics has passed away LOT
ever. Let not the House of Lords repeat the
blunder of the French mobiles, or England may
feel some of the same misfortunes when a
laundering aristocracy brought upon France
Year: 1867

making every poor man the owner at some
rate of his cabin and garden.


II is quite true, as the President OF the Vlr-
pinia Agricultural Society urges, that the great
est efficiency and economy in cultivation Is not
attainable through small farms. Ihe able anu
slsillful cultiyator of several hundred acres can
afford to hire his poor neighbors and pay tnem
more money than they could make Oh theii
nettv farms But Southern Free Labor Is yet
in IFS infancy. and the owners OF great estates
lack the capital and often the capacity for
their thorough cultivation. The work directly
in hand is TO make every one cOntented, thrifty
laborer; and this is attainable only through
small farms. Sell every poor man in the South
what land he can pay for-from two to twenty
acres-and there will remain far more large
farms and plantations than money can De
found to work. or even half work.


We trust the means may be organized OF
created whereby Northern capital may be large
" devoted to the extension OF Southern agrl-
culture. One hundred millions might be 80 in
vested in the South as to increase by at least
that sum the annual production OF the SOIL
The South will this year grow more grain than
she ever did before, and will make, 1t Is estl-
mated. some 2,5O0,OOO bales Of Cotton. Yet
there are planters who, with q well-secured
loan of 81 900, could have increased their crop
by at least $4,000, giving increased employment
10 labor and rescuing the needy from famine
We trust that systematic efforts will be made
TO supply all who need loans, and can give
ample security, before the opening OF another
season.
Year: 1867

The full statement of the Federal and Con
federate Commissioners upon the subject of
the exchange of prisoners, as printed IN
another column, will throw some light upon
what should be made the subject of Il thorough
investigation by Special Congressional Com
mittpp
Year: 1867

abiding and industrious race OF new settlers.
If they withstand the combined influences OF
internal discord, the Pacific Railway, and the
tide of immigration which will be attracted to
Utah by the discovery of gold in the Territory,
tbcv will show stability and strength of
oboroctor IN which history affords no parallel
Year: 1867

Just previous to the adj ournment of Con
grcss, the President sent to the Senate a mass
of diplomatic correspondence between our
Government and the Cabinet of Juarez.. There
are no new points of importance in this corc-
ennndenca
Year: 1867

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.--The Morning Post
has special Washington Dispatch which says: Letters
have been received here from Thaddeus stevens, in
which he declares his intention 70 urge upon
Congress as soon as IL meets in November
two great measures essential 10 the safety of
the country. The first is general impeachment
law defining the offcnses upon which officer may he
impeaehed and expressly declaring that officer shall
continue TO exercise the power Of his office during bis
trial The second law which Mr.. Stevens in
tends to urge will provide that under the authority
OF the Constitution and upon the principles Of
the Declaration Of Independence, State shall have
power to prohibit citizens OF the United States whatever
their race, color religion. from voting for President
Congressman This law will establish impartial suffrage
throughout the Union Leading Republicans affirm that
Stevens Will be sustained by Congress
Year: 1867

In the vast field of human affection,
says . cotemporary, the old bachelor is
the very scarecrow Of happiness, who
drives away the little birds of love that
come to steal away little hemlock seeds
of loneliness of dispair. Where is there
a more pitiable object on earth than he
who has no amiable woman interested in
his welfare. How dismal does his DESC
late reom appear, when he comes home
at night, wet and hungry, and a cold
hearth, barren table, and lonely pill
low, which looks like the white urn Of
every earthly enjoyment See the sick
old bachelor in the dark afternoon OF
life, when his heart is sinking to its sun
drance Not solitary star of memory
CLEANS over his opening grave No
weeping wife to bend like an angel over
his dying bed No fond daughter to
draw his chilly hand into the soft
pressure of hers, and warm his icy blood
with the reviving fires of unavailing
affectionl No manly boy to link his
breaking name with the golden chain Of
honorable society, and bind his history
in the vast volumes of the world he is
leaving forever. He has eaten and drank,
and drank and died, and earth is glad
he's got rid of, for he. did little else than
cram his soul into the circumference of
six-pence and no human being save his
washerwoman will breathe sigh at his
funeral
Year: 1867

A Southern paper states the following;


A certain Georgia countrymen, not
having been splendidly educated, and
who was very successful as money
maker; determined to send his son of
for refinement, to the good Old North
State. When the young man arrived at
the destined point, the President of the
institution wanted to know what liRe Of
studies he would pursue, and failing TO
elicit the information from the boy, in
terrogated the old man, by letter as fol-
lows:
Year: 1867

The MooN.-It appears that our great ter
restrial timepisce, hitherto supposed to be
keeping most perfect time, requires correcting
and rating In the course of the last two
thousand years, ii has lost nearly an hour and
a quarter, says the Quarterly Journal of Science,
and, compared with its motion at the begin
ing of that interval, it is now losing one
second in twelve weeks. The day is also
lengthening, and will continue to do so until
it is equal in length to'the lunar day-that is,
to our lunar month. The inhabitants of the
earth may console themselves, however, for
the rate Of change will diminish continually,
and even If it did not, thirty billions
of years would have to elapse before the
change would be fully effected. . But al
though the race at present inhabiting
the earth is not likely TO be affected
either for good or for evil by the process of
change we have been considering, it is impos-
sibe not to look with interest into the vista of
the far future, and trace our earth in its
gradual progress to the condition now pre-
sented by the lnoon-=to its degradation may
we not surmise, from the pOsitionit it now holds
as life slstainer. Looking backward into
the far past, we see progress OF a like nature
through which our moon has passed while the
earths strong influence has been exerted on
her rotation, coercing it down to correspond
enoe with her revolution. We see her sub
iected, meanwhile, to other changes not less
desBuctve. The bloom of life has long since
passed from her face. Who shall say that our
own beautiful earth will not one day resemble
her .Iaf r.H.all .ali Itue.b 3..I0s.I
Year: 1867

A DEsPAIRNG WDow.-The GGzeta Nara
doco, OF Lemberg relates that the Countess
Czapska, after the condemnation of her hus-
band to hard labor, had proceeded to st.
Petersburg to solicit his pardon. But, being
unsuccessful in her application, she fell into a
state of detection, and returned to wilma,
borne down with grief and in a declining state
of health. She dragged on a melancholy
existence for some time but at length resolved
to put an end to her life. With that object
she seated herself in an armchair, having
first surrounded it With large heap Of paper
and then SO tAre to the mass. The smoke at
tracted the attention of her servants, who
found her with smile on her lips and firmly
resolved to die. She was extricated from the
funeral pile she had prepared but was SO
badly burnt that she died two days after i'm
fearful suferings, leaving FIVE children.
Year: 1867

Foreign papers relate that the closing
scene in the trial of Burke and Doran, at Dub
lin, was so dramatic as to suggest COMPARE
son between it and the similar scene which
took place when sentence was passed upon
Smith 0'Brieh and Meagher. The counsel
who defended the conspirators Of 1848 sat in
Judgment on their successors of 1857, and the
voice which pleaded for mercy on the former
occasion now pronounced sentence Of death,
Year: 1867

The Washington Union says that
whom the war first broke out a gen.
tleman possessing large property in
that city was very much alarmed lest
the Capital would be removed. That
person was on the Surratt jury, and
it is said that Pierpont's threat that
unless Surratt should be found guilty
the Capital would be removed, had
reference TO the special hobby Of that
particular juryman.
Year: 1867

Butler. one OF the leading Republi.
can Congressional impeachers, is out
in a letter in favor Of paying or the
Government debt by an issue Of green
backs. The General probably thinks
that this. measure, already becoming
rapidly popular in the West and North
West, will, ere long, sweep over tho
whole country, carrying somebody
into the Presidential Office; and that
perhaps he may be that somebody.