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Year: 1869

How ANDY TAKES HIS DEFEAT.-Andy was still in
Nashville on the 25th, and gossip busy cutting out
what part he was next to play. knowing letter
writer says that it current that he will be dele
gate to the Constitutional Convention and be the lead


ing spirit of that tody His friends throw out myste-
rious hints that he will out all right after while,
which probably that he will be Brownows sue
cessor whenever that functionary throws off the mortal
COIL Or in the Senatorial parson persists in cling


ing to e then Andy will for the Governors chair
the next chance. johnson is undoubtedly over
his defeat and lays the blame sa at the door of
Edmund Cooper, because, forsooth, that gentleman
saw fit to support his own brother. He undoubtedly


felt under obligations to Johnson but did not consider
them sufficiently strong to carry his vote when his
brother the rival candidate. 1t has not yet been
decided when the Constitutional convention is to meet


but it will likely before the lst Of next year.
Year: 1869

GRANT FAvoRs ALcoRN.-It would look as though
Grant after all that Dent had said to the contrary,
in favor of Alcorn for Governor of Mississippi Sena-
tor Thayer of Nebraska lately interviewed the Presi-
dent the subject, and called his attention to pub
lished telegram to the effect that Judge Dent was rep
resented as saying that the President sustained him as
candidate for Governor The President said he had
himself seen the statement and had enclosed it to
Judge Dent asking if he had been correctly reported
To this inquiry he had not as yet received reply.
The President further stated that in August last he
addressed Judge Dent letter advising him not to con-
meet himself with the Conservative movement against
the party supporting Alcorn. The former being, he
said, the enemies of the administration and Govern
ment While he was on good personal relations with
Judge Dent he nevertheless felt bound by public duty
to oppose his election, and desire the success Of AL
corn. These views he unqualifedly and emphatically
repeated to Senator Thayer He believed, from what
he had heard, that Alcorn would be elected.
Year: 1869

MIssIssIPP1.-The Mississippi canvass is waxing hot.
Both sides carrying it on with great vigor and both
appear tv be sanguine of Each side is doing
its evelbest to the negro vote which IS in the
majority. The Radicals have thorough organisation
throughout the State, and complete canvass of the
party snow being made. The total number registered
is 1898 of which s076l colored, and 59,l76
white, giving the former majority Of q, ,5s5 The
Radical candidate for Governor appears to have the
hardest road to travel. He has record which puts
both parties against him. furious Shareholder before
the war, belted warrior the Confederate side
during the war, and double somersault turner since
the war, he finds it difficult to make things work har


moniously. Judge Dent beats him in record, and will


probably beat him in the election. He for the
negro when he down and he is now for the white
man now he is in the same fix the negro was. Wen
take Dent in ours if have to take one or the other
Year: 1869

RADICAL ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT RECoNsTRUCrIeN.-
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald under date of the oath, says, that with re-
gard to the admission of the Southern States to repre-
sentaon in Congress- may be stated that as the ses-
sion Of Congress approaches there are indications that
an effort will be made the part Of few ultra Radi-
calls to keep them out For this purpose stories are
being industriousy circulated and letters written by
interested parties in the South to the effect that there
is general understanding among the Southern leaders
that as soon as these States admitted their Leglsa
lures will undo all they have done in compliance with
the demands of Congress, and that the action of the
Tennessee Legislature. well that # Georgia, will
be generally followed 1t is known that such conduct
is disavowed by the men who have been most promi-
nent in the work of reconstruction in the South and
is believed that the purpose attributed to these
has existence except in the minds of those who are
anxious to keep these States out of Congress. The
President is known to be anxious for the speedy ad
mission of all the States not yet represented and it is
said that he will his influence for the purpose He
does not pay any attention to the stories about latent
treachery the part of the Souherners nor does he
believe that there will be any developed"
Year: 1869

Our friends over the line are having lively time of
it in the way of political canvass. Our Texas ex-
changes contain hardly any thing else but alusion to
the impending election and the merits and dement's of
the different candidates. and the probabilities of this
one that being elected 1t is not our province
the present time mingle in the battle array to any
great extent. We have former occasions urged the
importance Of eectng good and true to the legis
ature as of more Importance than the gubernatoria
election with the present candidates Wesee reason
to change former advice. What propose to
notice now is the election of members of Congress
We pleased to that the leading papers Of the
First Congressional District, have brought out General
Horace Boughton of Harrison county, standard
bearer owing not only to his availability but his sound
Democratic principles. The Harrison Flag in


He supporter of the administration of
President johnson of the delegates for the State
at large to the Democratic convention which nominated
Seymour and Blair and rendered every aid in his power
to correct the false impressions published concerning
the rebel elementin Texas. He has, until removed by
the Radical President Grant, held Federal office here
from the time of the surrender and has shown none
OF that malice or vindctiveness, which often char
acterses United States officers By reason of this he
has won the esteem of large number of the loading
men OF t0S district would receive the COrQla sup
port of the Democratic party. His relations with
prominent men at the federal capital would render his
services there of great benefit towards the reconstuc
ton of State and politically he is true to our
interests as could be required"


1t seems that the district is strongly Radical and that
unless the Democratic candidate receives three
thousand negro votes there is danger of one Whitmore
a deep-dyed, rampant Radical, being elected. 1t is
thought that Gen. Boughon is the man, and from the


light before us we are inclined to think he is the right
man in the right place to upset Whitmore's apple cart
The Henderson Times thus speaks of his availability


The principle reasons assigned by those who urge
Gen. Boughons claims that he is more available
man with whom to defeat Whitmore and that in con-
sequence OF bis record he could do for the bene


fit of those he would represent in Congress than Mr.
Armstrong. We incline to this opinion, and conse
quenty support Gen, Boughton for the position. Gen.
Boughton is northern man, native of New York,
in the federal army fought whilst the lasted,
but when the southern army surrendered he ceased his
warfare, and has met true southrons brothers
About four years ago he assigned to Marshall on
duty in the United States department. He has
since made that place his home


OF course we would like to see friends elect
man to the manner born, but as this cannot be, we
know of no man whom we would like to see represent
them, better than Gen. Boughton. We know him well,
and we feel satisfied that he is all that our cotempo
raries Of the Flag and Times represent him to be.
Year: 1869

Lord Taunton has paid back $500, 900
which his father received from q railway
company whose line cut through his lands.
He found his estate enhanced in value and
wished to be honest, even to corporation.
In this country such an act would sustain
the allegation of lunacy preferred by anxious
relatives, and the author of it would spend
the balance of his days in an insane asylum,
while his devoted relatives would do what
they could 10 spend the balance of his prop.
erty.
Year: 1869

An individual, the other day, went to one
of the drug stores in Boston and called for
pint of whisky, claiming that be wanted
TO put it on some roots for medicine. He
obtained the whisky, and Immediately raised
the bottle to his lips aud imbibed grown
persons dose of the ardent. The drug clerk
demonstrated with the customer for bis du-
plicity, and was informed that it was for the
roots of his tongue for which he desired the
whisky. It is due to the expert drinks.
to say that this constituted no part of the
whisky recently burnt in Boston BY the en-
terprising newspaper concern of this city ;
on the contrary, it vas brandt u saved
burning,
Year: 1869

The tinerant administration of Mr.. Grant



including himself and all his cabinet advis.
rs,will find time enough from their respect
i've quarters at watering places to meet in fall
cabinet array one day this week to devise
some means of guaranteeing q Republican
form of Government in Pennsylvania. So
soon as the necessary policy has been cooked
up and the machinery got in motion, it is
supposed they will all take cooling drinks
with straws at the resorts Of fashion and
craftsmanship.
Year: 1869

The colored man in Kentucky is showing
some qualifications for manhood suffrage
and to vote the Republican ticket. One of
the brothers robbed Gov. Merriwether Of that
State,a few days ago,n the streets of Louis.
vile, in broad daylight. The thief engaged
the old Governor in conversation and then
snatched his pocket book and made good
b;o asoano
Year: 1869

Somebody in Covington is said to have
secured an Office on the ground that he
helped old uncle Jesse Grant from the
ground. Uncle Jesse now asks his removal
on the ground that he has ascertained the
fellow tripped him for the purpose of having
an opportunity to help him.
Year: 1869

Grant caught dozen trout in Pennsylvania
the other day. 1t is about time for him to
catch something else than Tartars, in which
business he has been very heavily engaged
for several months.
Year: 1869

PHILADELPHIA, Ian. - In order TO test
the fact that the fire In the Burd block was
not caused by explosion OF the Harrison boiler,
tam was raised this morning in the boiler
among the runs, proving the boiler was unin-
Jured. The origin Of the fire is sull a m ystery
though generally supposed the result of incen-
dIsrism for the purpose OF robbmg the store
during the confusion
Year: 1869

"THEy SAY" that Swinton, the historian of
the Army of the Potomac, is the author of the
statement IN the New York 7Sres. that in l-63
General Banks was twice ordered to relieve
ieneral Grant from command of the army
operating against Vicksburg- Some Of the pa.
pers are calling upon General Banks to state
W hat he knows about the matter.
Year: 1869

THE TENURE OF OFFICE ACr.-In the San-
ate this morning, Mr.. Edmunds, from the Com
mittee on Retrenchment, reported a substitute
for the House bill repeating the Tenure of
Once act The substitute provides that men,
bers of the Cabinet may be removed during the
recess of the Senate, and other officers may be
suspended at the discretion Of the President,
but should they demand that reasons be sent TO
the Senate, such demand shall be complied
Year: 1869

WE are indebted 10 Mr.. ROBERT
BoYD for some interesting particulars
Of the working Of the Holly Water
Works system, which he recently saw
in operation at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
and for a pamphlet giving the details
Of the plan on which the system is
basel. We shall notice it more at
length hereafter.
Year: 1869

Biliousness, Indigestion, General Debility, and
all the complaints which proceed from q want of
proper action in the liver, the stomach snd the
bowels. are eradicated by course of this great
Year: 1869

THE New York Times says the
crash IN stocks Tuesday afternoon has
seriously affected many houses which
escaped the crash in gold last week.
Houses which suffered by The fall in
the gold market, aud were brought
almost to the verge Of ruin, could not
be expected to withstand the double
shock, aud it was expected that yes
terday would reveal the fact that
very large number Of firms have gone
under. If the Gold Exchange Bank
should fail to meet It's obligations, or,
if run should be made on that insti-
tuition. it is expected that the crash
in Wall Street will bs entirely over
Bhelming That the bank Is in a
critical condition, is felt certain.
That it has lost the confidence of the
brokers, is a fact; and, with this sup
port Withdrawn from it, the end of
that institution must soon follow.


The Tribune says the feeling against
the Gold Exchange Bank is justly
deeper than at any previous time, and
the general uncertainty in Wall Street
continues, with an expectation on the
part Of many that very troublous
times are just ahead.
Year: 1869




The FRAUDS IN THE METHODIST
Book CONCERN. - The New York
Post says the irregularities in the
Methodist Book Concern are owing
to the fact that the business has
rapidly grown TO mammoth proper
tions, without any proper system Of
checks having been adopted TO protect
the interests of the ConceFn. Every
thing was done so loosely, each per-
son concerned in the management
having placed implicit confidence in
his associates. DR.. PORTER gave the
bsying Of paper to his son, who is a
paper broker, for the purpose of seeur-
ing him a position in the business
community; and, it is probable, with
out any thought that the interests of
the Methodist Book Concern would
thus be jeopardizsd No person Off
cially connected with the establish
ment is under any suspicion of having
Intentionally done anything wrong.
Year: 1869

S Brown, who killed his wife. at
Berea, Ohio, last week, has been indict-
ed for murder in the frst degree. There
seems to be little bit Of romance con-
nected with this Berea tragedy. It is
said that Brown made the acquaintance
through the medium of matrimonial
advertisement. They met, married, and
lived together for year or two, when
the wife found that be was not all her
fancy painted, and she left him. It is
said that she was Spiritualist, and had
no affinity for Brown after a few weeks
Of married life. While in Cincinnati,
Brown wrote her, and after his return
to Berea he also wrote her note. He
said he had no intention of killing her
at first, but such words were said at
their interview that he determined to
shoot her.
Year: 1869

He lost his love, and this is the wall
he sends forth:
met her by the seller door


The look she Civ was cold and stern;
Her eyes looked pitchforks into mine


And mine looked poison in hern.
For we had loved in dase gone by:
Her daddy said that might take her;
But alas! for my dreme of welded bliss,


She got up and got with Dutch shoemaker
No more girls for me if I knows it


No more frauds me luv to dim;
In the words of the poet Not for Joseph"


And he might have added, Not for jim
Year: 1869

The KNOCK AT THE DcoR Charles
Lamb, the genial, thus alludes to that
familiar signal, the knock at the door ::
Not many sounds in life land include
all urban and all rural sounds) exceed
in interest knock at the door. 1t gives
a very echo to the throne where Hope
is seated. But its issues seldom answer
to this oracle within, it is so seldom
that just the person We want to see
comes -
Year: 1869

How TO IMPROVE YOUR CoTToN.-A
writer in a Southern paper says the frs.
stand OF cotton comes from the black,
lintlcss seed the second stand from seed
with lint, and the third, which Should be
saved and cultivated, from thick, heavy
Tinted seed. The plan for securing this
last growth Is thus given Plant the
seed any way you prefer, cover with plow.
When the first is up well. run light har
row over it, so as to kill tho lirst growth,
and if done the same way with the sec.
ond growth that comes up, so much the
better; then the last that comes up will
bear seed after its own kind, and upon
the seed, long staple lint; and by so do
ing, in few years cotton would be great
ly improved.
Year: 1869

The Spanish gunboats built at Mystic, will be all off the stocks this week, and are expected to go, by permission, to New York for completion, but they are under heavy bonds not to leave port till the injunction shall be removed. Each boat is to have two wheels, one on each side of the rudder, and each wheel is to have two engines. 'A" -u
Year: 1869

BLACKBERRY WINE-.There is no wine
equal to the blackberry wine when proper
ly made, either in favor or for medical
purposes and all persons who can conve-
niently do so, should manufacture enough
for their own use, as it is invaluable in
sickness as tonic, and nothing is better
remedy for bowel diseases. We therefore
give the receipt for making it; having tried
it ourselves, VIC speak advisedly on. the
subject:


Measure your berries and bruise them
to every gallon adding one quart of boiling
water Let the mixture stand twenty
four hours stirring occasionally; then
strain off the liquor into q cask, to every
gallon adding two pounds of sugar; cork
tight, and let it stand till the following
October, and you will have wine ready for
use, without further straining or boiling,
that will make lips smack as they never
smacked under similar influence before.


BLACKBERRY CoRDIAL.-To two quarts
of juice add one pound of white sugar !;
half-ounce nutmeg, half-ounce cinnamon
pulverized: half-ounce. cloves pulverised.
Boil all together for short time, and when
cold add pint of brandy.


This syrup is said to be almost a specific
for summer complaint or diarrhea. From
q tea spoonful to wine-glass is to be ta-
ken, according to the age of the patient,
until relieved


DRIED BLAcKBERRIEs.- gathering
of these berries the present season should
not be neglected. There is money in the
business, and when dried they command
an excellent price.


Frozen PEAcHEs.-Pare and slice close.
Beat rich cream, or condensed milk, with
powdered sugar and white of an egg, first
beaten to froth. Put peaches in freezer,
pour prepared cream over. Leave as in
making ice-cream. A delicious dish.


CURRANr WINE.-To quart of juice
add three quarts of water and four pound.
of sugar, brown or white.
Year: 1869

BY y. n. HATCHER.


O, let it be
Where summer birds will come and bring


Their minstrelsy,
And poised upon their golden wing
The requiem of the early dead will sing


o make her tomb
Deep in the vale where zephyrs blow


And roses bloom;
Where ripping waters sweetly flow.
And willows on their flow'r ry margin grow


She was not made
To linger in this world of gloom


Where all things fade
Where death winds kiss the rosy bloom
Of beauty's check and claim it for the tomb


0l come and bring
Yc beauteous ones that for her sigh,
The fiowrs of spring,
And strew them, with fearful eye,
Where blighted youth and faded beauty lie i


Let fall your tears,
And they, like stars, shall light the gloom


Ofafter years
Shall form a rainbow o er the tomb
To cheer the darkness of your coming doom.
Year: 1869

A few days since, a man well known in
New York Society-not young and who
could not dance-was sitting at party
near young lady, and watching the ma
zes of the "German." He turned to her.
as he knew her well, and said:


II wish you would let me put my arm
around your waist"


Of course she looked at him in amaze
ment..


"OhP' said he, "you know I can't
dance, but don't see the difference. All
these young men have their arms about
the girls waists, and why should not
have the same privilege, though l sit
still p
Year: 1869

A shrewd old gentleman once said to
his daughter: g Be sure, my dear, you
never marry poor man. But remember
that the poorest man in the world is one
chat has money and nothing else."
Year: 1869

These goods are known to the Trade as "CHE-
vIOTS" and "BANNoCKBURNS, and are the
strongest and most durable wooden fabric which can
be made, it is impossible to make them of shoddy
or any other material with which the manufacture
of woolens has usually been cheapened.
Year: 1869

From the Louisville Courier, an. IL
We learn from parties in whom we


believe we may place the most implicit
confidence that a great conf.agration is
now at the height OF its progress in the
celebrated Miller coal mines, on the Mo
nongahela river, at the mouth OF the


Youghiogheny, fifteen miles southeast
of Pittsburgh. The fire began some
time since. and great efforts have been


made to e1tinguish it, but 10 nC purpose.
An attempt TO check it's fierce career
was made by the erection of mud walls


ana the pumping in of large quantities


of water, and by this means the fire Was
partially smothered, but the heat be-
came so intense and the pressure of gas
I so great that the walls were burst, and
I the flames are now sweeping onward
with greater force than ever. The fire
/ is SPREADING through the old mines at
/ the rate of sixty yards per day, and it is
/ feared the entire field may be destroyed.
So much progress has been made 10y the
\ flames that it is estimated the cost of


extiaguishing them before they have
spread over n space of a thousand acres,
will be not less than $l50000. Twenty
two loaded wagons and all the tools of
the miners, have been lost thus far. The
/ Miller mines are carried on by A. Miller


* Co, of which firm Mr. Charles Miller


of this city, was formerly a member.


| The coal field over which this great
subteranean deluge of fire is sweeping,
is one OF the most valuable on the Mo-
nongahela, and extends distance of
some eight or ten miles. 1t is difficult
to say what will be the result of this
underground conhagratiOn, if it is not
checked very soon. Wherever a vein
of coal extends, the fire must follow it,
and the whole Pittsburgh coal region


may yet be endangered. Let some great
lake of Pennsylvania oil be touched by
the resistless stream of fire, let the IN
derground gases be turned on, let the
vast beds of coal throw out their
strength, and the old Keystone State,
or at least large portion of it, will form
the vent of a subteranean hell inferior
only to those which in other quarters
of the globe break out in blazing volca-
noes from the surface of the earth.


The Courier is undoubtedly excited.
Fires in ccal mines are not unusual.
Pittsburghers will remember the sub
teranean fires in Coal Hill, opposite the
city, that burned for many years, and al
though many million barrels of oil have
sihSo OOLhO w bhO SNilaS0 W CREASE bho
wheels of progress and light the nation
to glory, that were then in the great res
ervoirs, there was not anything touched
off" ear so resistlessly as the above
story. The surface "gasses" have antici-
pated the underground gasses-" We
would cheerfully take an interest in
any kind of Pennsylvania real estate
exceeding six by two, and run the
risk of all kinds of explosions except do
mestic ones.
Year: 1869

SCARCITY OF FRACTIONAL LCURRRNCY.-OnIy
$4,000 in ten cent notes remain in the vaults
OF the Treasury Department, all Of the trac-
tional currency of other denominations having
been issued. There is a great demand from
all parts OF the country for change, and much
complaint is made Of the Bank note companies
for their failure to furnish a sufficient supply
for circulation.