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Year: 1867

Our devotion 10 the Republican cause alone
prompts us 70 urge every Unionists in East Tennes
see 10 use his whole influence 10 circulate the
KNoKvILZE Who, and TO do it Now, We are
Just entering upon four months campaign, wAich
for bitterness fierce and terrible work, has n5ver
been equsled in Tennessee. The State viii be
flooded with speakers both Sides ard every inch
Of ground viii be contested. And why2 Because
Governor is 10 be elected, eight Congressman are
10 be chosen, as we'll as all the members Of the Cen
crsl Assembly. The contests in ali these elections
will be between the friends and enemies Of the
.Trpion-between Patriots and Traitors-and one
party or the other goes under in Tennessee the first
Thursday in August next


Out OF the tlceiUs papers in East Tennessee, only
tgur arc the advocates Of the Radical Union ticket
whilst the people are for the ticket in the proper
tion Of fire 10 one. Our paper is large aud shall
contain quantity Of reading matter each week
proving to all who take il a candid and tr1st-Wor-
Thy counsellor in the contest. Considering the
heavy expenses Of our Office and the dimensions Of
our sheet the paper is cheap at TWO DOLLARS per
year We have reduced the rates with a view TO IN
crease the circulation. Give us large increase at
once, and We promise sheet weekly filled with
stirring news. Our cause depends upon our post
ing up the voters, and thus being posted, depends
upon the circulation Of sound papers


In portions Of the State west Of the mountains,
rebels are banding together, and are actually muir
dering and rObbing Union men Soon the state
Guards will bein the field, armed and EQUIPPED, IN
der the command Of brave and experienced officers
and then we may look for stirring times. No
Union family in the State should be without 10y
s paper Take the paper at once and start out with
The opening ofthe contest Unless the Rebel lead
err pause in their mad career, there is no telling
where the next FIVE months viii land us. May the
Great One above save us from another civil war


BROWNLOW & HAwS.


March 9th 1867.
Year: 1867

A NICE little story is told of General Washing
ton, by Parton, which will be fresh to many Of ouI
readers, and will show him to wives in the light
of model husband


The General and his wife lived happily together
bat it is evident that like most heiresses she
little exacting, and it is highly probable that the
great Washington sometimes favored with a
curt ain lecture The celebrated author, Miss Bre
mer, relates that gentlemen once slept at Mount
Vernon in the room next to that occupied by the
master and mistress of the mansion and when all
the inmates were in bed the house was STILL heard
through the thin partition, the voice of Mrs Wash
ington. He coald not but listen and it was cur
tain lecture which she was giving her lord. He
had done something during the day which she
thought ought to have been done differently and
she was giving him her opinions in somewhat ami
mated and quite decided tones. The great man lis
tened in silence till she had DONE and then, without
remark upon the subject in hand said:


"Now, good sleep TO you, my dear"


1t isplain the General believed that lit takes two
TO quarrel"
Year: 1867

community nor they ought not to be. BY the way,
are not you, "every mothers son OF you, opposed
to the present Congress What Opposed to the
Congress who voted men and money to carry on
the war and put down the robellion opposed TO the
Congress who are clothing and feeding the poor
maimed soldier, the orphans and widows you made
in this unnatural and wicked war. Now, brethren,
let me tell you secret. You are doing more to
prevent reconstructon, and to keep up that aliena
tion Of feeling and strife that pervade the South
than any other class Of men. Just your everlasting
whining and grinning cant of Yankee Abolition,
Negro Equality. If you viii examine the statistics
of your country, in regard 10 the colOred race you
will find in proportion to numbers, two Cgay0a'1ES
in the South, TO one in the non-savehOding States


THEOLoGUs.


Bount county, March 25th, 1867.
Year: 1867




THE SUPPLEMENTAL MILITARY BILL.


The following is an abstract of the bill supple
mentary TO an act entitled aAn act TO provide fol
the more efficient government of the United States,
and to facilitate restoration, which was introduced
in the United States Senate by Senator Wilson. We
think the bill has passed both branches


Section one directs the Commanding officer Of
each district to registration to be made be-
fore September l. 1861 in each county or parish in
his district of the male citizens over twenty-one
years of age resident therein TO include only those
qualified to vote by the act to which this is sup
plement, and who shall take and subscribe the fol-
lowing OATH


"I, --, do hereby solemnly swear or affirm,
that / am sincerely and earnestly attached to the
Union and Government of the United States; l
viii steadfastly support the Constitution and obey
the laws Of the United States and that l viii, to
the best of my ability, engage all others 10 support
and obedience so help ME God


Section two directs the commanding general AS
soon rs the registration is completed to cause an
election for delegates to convention, to be held on
day not less thGnthrty days from date of procama-
ton of election, for the purpose of amending the
existing or framing new constitution, of firmly
esta bishing loyal civil governments, and passing
needfu ordinances TO put the same into operation.


Section three directs that the said conventions
bIall OS CdlieQ On the DhSlS OF representation ph
which the number of members of Congress is ap-
portioned.


Section four provides for the appointment, by the
commanding general, of officers or persons to make
the registration preside at the elections, receFe
sort and count the votes and make return thereon,
and of the persons elected, and he shall then make
proclamation of the persons elected, and notify,
within sixty days, when and where they shall as
semble to organize the convention and when the
said convention shall have amended the existing,
framed a new constitution in accordance with the
act to which this is a supplement, it shall be sub
mitted to the people at election to be held after
the expiration Of thirty days from notice thereof
given by the convention.


Section five provides that if the said constitution
is ratified by majority of the votes cast, the Pres
ident of the Convention shall transmit the same to
the President Of the United States who shall trans
nit it TO Congress- if in session. and if not IN ses-
sion, then upon its next assembling; and if it be
declared by Congress to be in conformity with the
provisions of the Act recently passed by Congress,
known as the Military bill, the State shall be de-
clared as entitled to representation and Senators
and Representatives shall be admitted as provided
in said Act.


Section six provides that the duties and powers
delegated and conferred upon the commanding gen
eral may with his consent be transferred to the act
ing Governor of the State, upon his taking oath
faithfully to perform and execute the same.
Year: 1867

any Office under such provisional governments all
persons shall be entitled to vote under the provis-
ions Of the fifth section of this act and no person
shall be eligible 10 any Office under any such pro-
visional governments who would be disqualified
from holding office under the provisions of the third
article of said constitutional amendment
Year: 1867

nea- During a recent wedding in a church
in village near Troy, when the clergyman
asked if anybody knew any reason why the
ceremony should not proceed, woman rose
in the audience, and forbade the bans on
the ground that the groom had promised td
marry hst when her husband diod. Tha
clergyman decided that she had no right to
look 50 fsr ahead, sid vent on With the
service,
Year: 1867

At just about the time when We were lib- erating tie chief man ot our rebellion. comes the report that the Republicans of Mexico have shot in cold blood the men who, for three years, have governed that country. While we hope this horrible tale may prove incorrect, experience has taught US that such barbarism is no more than we may expect from people who are of the cut-throat Spanish, and of the cut-throat Indian blood, and who profess, we might almost say, cut-throat species of Christian faith. The contrast is one of which we may justly be proud-it is a contrast, in fact, between the civilization of the six teenth and the most advanced civilization of the nineteenth centuries.

 We have no high opinion of NIaximihan but If our Mexican friends have perpetra- ted this outrage, they are like to learn that many very small man is converted into 9 very great hero by public execution; and we shall soon perceive some of the evil effects of the political blunder. we have ourselves avoided The recognition of the new republic in Europe cannot but be greatly delayed by such an act o1 atrocity.
Year: 1867

We learn that the movement in favor of bridging the Connecticut river, is being urged, this year, principally by the Boston and Erie Railroad Company. They consid- CT that it will be more to their advantage to bridge the Connecticut and connect with a proposed road running parallel with and near the New York & New Haven railroad, to New York, than to put through their road to Fishkill Their success in such a project would necessarily postpone, perhaps indefinitely, the building of the Fishkill road

 If such are the facts, and ourreports from Hartford are confirmed by the evidence al- ready taken in the case, this county is man. ifest]y and strongly interested against the Bridge project.
Year: 1867




were induced to testify under an assurance
from the Government that they should
not be prosecuted for any part they had
taken.


The resolution under which Buffers
committee was appointed, it will be OBJ
served, provides for the protection of such
persons, who are furnished with a good ex-
cuse for not coming forward before, by Of
fering immunity to all who were connect
ed with the conspiracy who will come for
ward and disclose their knowledge on the
subject.


4th. That Booth, just after the 4th of
| March, stated to Intimate friends in New
York, whom he endeavored to enlist in the
conspiracy, that he was acting with the
knowledge OF the Vice-President; and that
it had been arranged to kill Lincoln on the
day of the Inauguration, which would ac-
4 count for Mr.. Johnson's strange conduct
on that occasion, which had provoked so
much comment by the press; that you eX-
pected the tragedy to be enacted then and
had taken several potations to compose and
nerve you for the event, and that you were
not so much intoxicated as nervous and
/ excited.


feel much delicacy in referring to such
topics, but 1 cannot inform you of your
enemies plans and projects without being
plain, and 1 am obliged to write in too
i great haste to be choice in my language.
: assured Ashley that I should have no
difficulty in finding persons of good stand
ing and moral character to prove these
matters, and it was agreed that 1 would do
SO as soon as i was released. A. F. g.
Il AS an earnest that possessed the ability
to do whst engaged, and in order to satisfy
some of their party who doubted the exist
ence of evidence to connect you with the
assassination conspiracy, Ashley and But
Ter desired and pressed me to send for two
4 or three persons, of whose intelligence and
j qualifications they could satisfy themselves
Il and whom they could parade before their
III incredulous friends.


Il l. consented, and Ashley supplied the
facts 1t was desired they should know and
repeat and forwarded them to trusty
T friend, with secret explanations as to my
g own purpose, and instructions for him tC
u procure two other friends to commit tC
- memory the statements enclosed to him
Year: 1867

GETTING PosTED.-A Boston paper says
that at the recent election in that city the me-
groes all voted the Democratic ticket, be-
cause the Radicals refused to divide the spoils
with them. The negroes are beginning to
learn that the Radicals favor negro suffrage
only because they expect to get the negro
vote for their own party, and by it to gain
and hold power, to receive and dispense the
spoils, and to fatten themselves upon the pub
lie treasury. Let the Radicals become satis-
fed that the negroes will not vote their tick
ct, and they will be as rabid and vehement in
dfsfranchising the negroes as they have been
in enfranchisng them. It is with them not
matter of right or principle, but simply of
expediency and power. They are willing to
use any club to knock Democracy in the head,
and are now using the negro for that pur-
pose. They will turn around and persecute
the negro the moment be fails to sustain
them.
Year: 1867

party Of this State to say whether this


shall be or not. The party of the


"proud record" will take every adyan-


tage possible to defeat the measure


they will work upon the preiudices of


many in ottr party, and in that way try


to recruit their ranks sufficient to defeat


the resolution. They will try to prtve


what they have heretofore preached,
that the negro is too ignorant to enjoy


and make good use Of such a privilege
that he is but one remove from the an
imai, or ape, and that confering the
right Of suffrage on them would be
prejudicial to the good Of our govern
ment. If the negro had intelligence
enough to know what cause to sustain
during the late gigantic rebellion, has
he not intelligence enough to vote pa
trlotically in times Of peace? If red
handed rebels, the murderers of our
fathers and brothers, are to take part in
the management of our national affairs,
surely the loyal black man who periled
bis life to defend that of our country,
should have a voice in its administration
also. Let us remember the many historic
fields of battle made so by this oppress-
ed race; at Port Hudson, the Mine be-
fore Richmond, and Fort Wagner, and
upon many other fields of battle the
colored volunteer not only gave suffi-
clent evidence of his courage, but also
his intelligence and patriotism, and let
us remember the Fort Pillow butchery
of the black men which did not daunt
them in the least, they fought on with
their white comrades, they aided in
conquering the rebellious South, and
secured for us a permanent peace
What loyal man can stand up in the
face of such devotion, and say that
these men are unworthy OF so slight
recompense for their services? To deny
this class of men suffrage, and allow
unrepentent rebels to make our laws,
would be crime against humanity, and
the better instincts of our nature, a
crime against the loyal black men who
now ask the favor. Do not let it be
said that we of the State of Ohio have
been guilty of such crime in the noon
day splendor of the 10Th century, in
the full blaze of our republican form of
government. -MeSs Co. Press.
Year: 1867

The coming fall it will be left with
the legal voters Of the State of Ohio,
to say whether they will be just and
humane to a prescribed race; whether
we will say by our ballots, that all loyal
men irrespective Of caste or complexion,
shall have a say in the administration of
district, state and national affairs or
not; whether we will grant to the negro
man who has borne our victorious flag
through fields of blood, that our coun-
try might be saved; he who when he
was called upon, shouldered his musket
and marched forth in defense Of our
glorious republic when It was Troubling
in the balance and ready to tumble to
destruction; whether he shall have the
right after thus heroically fighting for
its preservation, to say by whom, and
how its affairs shall be administered


1t will be with the great Republican
Year: 1867




The sweet South wind, so long
Sleepmgin other climes, or sunny seas,
Or dallying with the orange trees.


In the bright land of song
Wakes unto us, and laughingly sweeps by
Like glad spirit of the sun-lit sky.


The laborer at his toll
Feels on his cheek the dewy kiss and lifts
His open brow to catch his fragrant gifts


The aromatic spoil
Borne from the blossoming gardens of the South
While its faint sweetness fingers round his mouth.


Bursting buds look up
10 cheer the sunlight while 1t fingers vet
On the warm hill-sde-and the violet


Opens its azure cup
Weekly, and countless wild flowers wake to fling
Their earliest incense on the gales of Spring.


Continual songs arise
From universal nature-birds and streams
Mingle their voices, and the glad earth seems


Asecond paradise
Sunshine and song and fragrance, all are thine,
Thrice blessed Spring thou bravest gift divine !!


Not unto earth alone
Thou hast blessing for the human heart
Balm torits wounds, and healing for its smart


Telling of Winter flown
And bringing upon thy rainbow wing
Type of eternal light thrice blessed Spring
Year: 1867

Old Cooper is Dutchmau, and
like many another of that nationality,
has a wife that is ''some." One day the
old man got into some trouble with
neighbor, which resulted in a fight.
The neighbor was getting the better of
the old man, who was resisting his an
tagouist bravely, when his wife broke
out with: 'Lie still, Cooper; if be
kills you III sue him for damages"
Year: 1867

A HOME FOR EVERY MAN.-The Mutual
Building Fund and Dollar Savings Bank OF
this city proposes to provide every man
with a snug home upon principles which
must commend themselves to the man OF
limited means and frugal habits. This is
not the old building fund scheme, so well
known here before the war, but something
different and better, inasmuch as one can
borrow money at better rates for liked
number of years, and receive his full share
of all the profits made by the company.
By a visit to the Office of the company,
corner Wall and Main streets, you may
learn how, by the monthly payment OF a
sum about equal to your monthly rent, q
snug home may be at once secured for
your family and these monthly payments
will be appropriated to the liquidation, OF
the loan with which you are enabled to
purchase your house.


This company is also savings bank, and
receives deposits in sums of one dollar and
upwards, and allows six per cent. interest
thereon. All classes-from the little
child to the grown-up man and woman
black and white-have here an opportunity
of laying up a small sum weekly for a
"rainy day."
Year: 1867

This establishment Ia now


COMPLETES IN ALL ITS APPOINTMENTS,
having been newly and elegantly furnished


throughout.


Its acknowledged to have no superior In the
southern States, and to be equal to any in the
North.


The owner has spared no expense to make 1t
equal in every respect to any hotel in this country
and pledges his best efforts to MAKE HIS GUESTS
IN EVERY WAY COMFORTABLE.
His long and successful experience jnstihes him
in saying that the accommodations of no hotel
shall be superior to his.


He asks the support of his friends and the public
generally.
ap2-s JOHN P. BALLARD, Proprietor.
Year: 1867

FEAST FOR THE BENEFIT OF FOUR-MILE
CREEK CHURCH.-This church, originally
built and used as place of worship more
than hundred years ago, was destroyed
by the Federal army just before the close
of the late war. Many Of those who
formerly attended this church desire to
rebuild and reft it, and for this purpose
have determined to hold feast and fair at
Laurel Hill on Wednesday next. The
residents of this ncighborhood suffered,
perhaps, more than those of any other IN
Eastern Virginia. First one army and
then another swept over it, destroying
everything in their march. Houses were
burned or pulled down, fences were de-
stroyed, farms were run over by artillery
and army wagons, and breastworks and
rife-pits run in every direction over and
across what were fertile fields and now the
owners of the soil, themselves unable, ask
assistance in rebuilding their ancient
place of worship. As a means of raising
a portion of it, they have determined, as
we have said, to hold feast and fair on
Wednesday next. They will offer to the
public fine supper of meats, and pies, and
things of good taste and quality, and
whatever of useful and fancy articles they
NAV be able to get. Any one desiring to
contribute anythingin this line can leave
it at this office, and it will be forwarded II
left in time. Their object is TO improve
the moral and religious condition of their
people; and it is one which commends IT.
self to all.
Year: 1867

PAINFUL Yesterday after
noon little boy named Connolly, while
playing on the portico in front of the Ca.
tholic cathedral, fell over backwards, and
struck his head against the corner of q
rock, cutting it very severely. His wound,
though serious, is not considered fatal.
He was taken up and carried to his home,
near by, where all necessary surgical aid
was giyen him.
Year: 1867

IMPORTANT DECISION ABOUT SIGNs.-A
case of violation of the ordinance concern
ing swinging signs was brought before the
Mayor on Saturday, in which he decided
that those who hung their signs before the
ordinance was passed could not be forced
to take them down, as er post tdcto laws
were unconstitutional. This settles much
mooted question.
Year: 1867

FIRE.-The alarm of fire about o'clock
yesterday afternoon was caused by the
accidental burning of bed in kitchen of
house on Clay street between Seventh
and Eighth. 1t was extinguished, with
slight damage to the premises.
Year: 1867

CHURCH HILL LITERARY SOCIETY,"
Through the kindness of friend, who IS
one of the initiated, we were allowed to
be present at the regular meeting of this
society at Springfield Hall on Friday night.
We had heard that the body of young men
constituting this organization were making
fine progress as debaters and declaimers,
but were totally unprepared for the agree
able surprise which awaited us in several
Of the speeches.


The question for discussion was an in
teresting historical one" Was Napoleon
justiiable in banishing the Empress Jose
Prime ?" Several gentlemen participated
in the very spicy debate: Messrs. Thomas
and J. B. Turpin in the negative, and j. j.
White and Lawder in the affirmative. Both
sides argued with considerable enthusiasm,
and some of the speakers brought the re-
suits of varied reading and study to sus-
tain their points. After two hours de-
bate, during Which the interest Of the
audience did not seem to flag, the question
was put, and resulting in a tie vote, was
decided by the president in the atiirma-
tive.


We are pleased to see upon the part of
our young men such determination to
improve themselves by practice in such
pastimes as will not only serve as delight
full recreations but also to fit them for the
active duties of life. There is no better
school for young or older men than de-
batting society, and the latent talents of
many of our most distinguished statesmen
have been first aroused and displayed when
they argued as members of literary as
sociation.
Year: 1867

II may seem unnecessary TO add single word 70
the above address but the calls upon the institu-
ton have been numerous and pressing, and the
struggle through which 1t Is now passing to widen
the circle Of It's charities, Is OF snch an arduons
nature that the manag cement cannot too strongly
urge upon the humane and sympathetic every:
where an active participation in this additional
attempt tc alleviate t!e sad condition OF great
numbers II 'yless children, rendered thus ~
the terrible through which we have passed.
And assuredly, whatever may have been the rela-
tive political vi VS. OF ladies and gentlemen hero.
tofore all ust agree that the children referred to
could not, by any possibility, have had an agency
destitute condition and are suitable objects for the
charity of all persons Of whatever shade of polit-
cal opinion. The /" Home end school which
they now more particularly seek 10 establish and
endow will be Of incalculable benefit by provi-
ding not only food and raiment for these helpless
onss, but likewise solid and thorough sdusations
thus q aifyiug them for future usefulness TO so
cisty at large. In order that 'his appeal may be
efsctuai In en.isting ths active Interest and CO.
We have concluded to issus for the