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Year: 1868

BI LlLr LARxspCR.
OH the clouds are dark, and the wind doth blow,
And the air is full Of the white, white snow,
And the bare limbs toss like being mad,
And my soul is sick and my heart is sad,
For the Spring that makes my life so glad
Will never come, know.
Obi the morning comes like kings high throne,
And the sunshine falls where the moonlight shone;
And the earth is bright and the flowers are gay,
And the birds sing sweet as the song Of May,
But cannot brush my tears away,
For the bird loved hath fosni
Tho the night hath come, it is lovely yet,
For the fre-fies dance thro' the shades of let.
And the moon CLEANS soft as the silver snow,
And stars are bright with their timid glow,
But all the while my heart beats low,
For my one bright star hath set!
Oh the flowers they come when the south wind blows
And the violet bends, and cypress glows,
And they light our earth like golden fame
And they link our lives with fairy chain,
But my heart still beats with a dull, dull pain,
For the thorn is on my rosel
OH the years they come, and the years they go,
With their summer flowers and their winters snow
And glide along with the careless thrcng,
But my heart is sad and smile hath gone,
For the JOY that made my life song
VIII come no more, know!


PsRRYsBuRe, o., June l, 1868.
Year: 1868

"Let me tell thee proverb the Arabs
have: Chickens, like Curses, always
come home to roost." The legislation
of the Democracy in this State will
come home to trouble them when they
least expect it. For instance; There is
a prominent and rampant Democrat in
Van Vert county who has always been
noted for his fierce opposition to giving
the negroes any civil or political rights.
His daughters during the last canvass
were among the Democratic females
who rode in professions carrying ban
ners inscribed, Fathers, protect US
from negro equalityF' But since the
passage of the Visible Admixture bill
it has transpired that this leading Dem
ocratic negro-hater is himself one-eighth
negro. The Republicans of Van Vert
swear that he shan't vote at the next
election, believing that sauce for goose
is sauce for gander. And the Repubi-
cans Of Van Vert county generally
carry out what they undertake to do.
Year: 1868

We do not, in the ordinary affairs OF life,
rig up trip-hammer 10 crack walnut.


But the passages Of Mr. EvaTts' speech
most enjoyed both by the Senators and the
galleries were those in which his delicate
but emitting sarcasm was given the rein.
The speech was full of these, and they led
TO the most unrestrained merriment in the
court. Mr.. Evarts' manner was perfect in
lh~se passagg. As he laid the train for
his assault, he was as serious "a Judge,
and especially regardful Of those whom he
was about to attack. Presently, when the
Senate began to catch the coming point,
and the contagious laughter spread through
the chamber, his own face would light up,
and as he reached the point, his features
would be aglow with an expression OF
pleasure as natural and simple as a childs.
Nothing could have exceeded the innocent
and harmless delight expressed in his face
at the very moment that he was skinning
poor Boutwell, alive. That, by the way,
was the cruelest performance OF the four
days speech. Boutwell, sat through 1t all
at the table Of the managers; but his face
was flushed, he made a very constrained
effort at smiling, and he looked thoroughly
uncomfortable That night, and, indeed,
for day or two, his discontinue was the
laughter of the town. Scarcely less cruel
we're the thrusts and gibes at Butler" the
learned manager who has had the politeness
to say that We are mere attorneys, whose
intellects have been sharpened yet not
broadened by the practice Of the law"
When, after turning the ridieule Of the tit
tering galleries and ehuckling Senate upon
him by his laughable description Of his
opening speech as an effort at argument by
conclusion, after the fashion of the Fort
Fisher powder boat, he finally brought up
his declaration that the practice in Con-
gress, or rather the judgment Ofthe Senate,
should be the rule as to the propriety of
speech which the President and other Off
GERS should observe, and proceeded to quote
the coarse abuse of each other in which
Butler and Bingham had indulged in the
House. These gentlemen we're sitting next
| and facing each other, one at the end, and
the other at the side of the table. Bing-
ham faced the speaker, put good face on
il, and seemed rather to Onjoy the reading I;
but Butler was evidently wrathful. At
first he held book close up TO his face, and
affected to be engrOssed in its reading, then
throwing it down he sank into dumpy
heap on his chair, and glOwered with the
sirabismal eyes at the carpet.
Year: 1868

uJHESE WELL KNOWN AND VERY Pop


nlRr Cooking stoves have been before
the public since 1852, Each succeeding year has
added to their popularity, until the name has
become familiar in every household in the West
and South. The demand for our
Year: 1868

ENFORCEMENT OF THE REVENUE LAWS
A squad of ofcavalry has been sent to
Lincoln county to prevent illicit distll'
lation. This whisky business is cost
ing the people agood deal It is fright
full to think that more money is spent
for whisky and brandy in one year than
it would take to build a fine College in
every county Of every State in this Un-
ion. Just think of more than $4,000
per annum spent in Winchester for liq-
uor every year, and yet we have a So
ber county compared to the majority
of counties. Just think Of the Reve.
nue. officers who are making fortunes
by collecting taxes and granting under
hand permission to distillers! Just
think of the fact that the Government
gets only about 20 cents of the 81 tax
per gallon. Think of the fraud, cor
ruption, DC, morally, mentally and
physically! Isn't it a sickening thought.
Alas the times
Year: 1868

Our lot has been cast together. If we
desire it never so much we can not be
rid of each other. Is it not better to
| live in peace than in war? Lotus COM
promise the difference and avert the
possibility Of conflict. We have lands,
intelligence and numbers; you have
votes. Combine thetwo in common
interest. Release us from bondage,
and we will join those who have given
you precarious and unnatural indie.
pendcnce, by which all that you ought
to have orask will be assured to you,
and an irrepressible reud be set at rest"
This we said to the negro and if he
had accepted the ofer.--if he had ap
peared at the ballot-boX as our friend
and not as our enemy--if, through
his instrumentality, we had found our
selves free once more, which ofus would
have turned about and cast the first
stone; which of us would have propos-
ed the repeal of the civil rights bill;
which tue repeal of the franchise law;
who among us would have denied the
obligation or refused to entertain a
grateful and lasting sense Of its valucf
Not you, nor /, nor any fair-minded
man from our side Of the house, ain
sure.


The offer made by us to the negro
was his chance of chauccs, and when
he rejected il en- masse, he pcrpetrated
fatal error. BY that act he relieved
us of all obligation, settled the expert
ment against the hope OF further com
promise, and made himself the ag9res
sor in conflict from which he had
everything to lose and nothing to gain.
No better proc" of his political unfit,
ness can be found for he deliberately,
and without the excuse OF ignorance,
threw away mattock with which he
might have entrenchcd himself forever
and day, 1t is our turn to be proud
of our record. We had the courage,
and the forecast, to make the test which
must needs have been made to develop
the new order Of things; our offer OF
the olive branch was honest, and it was
delivered fairly and squarely; it was
fatty rejec cd If n war ofraccs come
upon us, who will suffer most, who will
be pushed TO the wall |? But ours be
not the fault. The sin oft, the wrong
of it, the loss Of it, the sorrow of it,
rest not with us. We did our best to
avert it. Tho negro brought it on his
own head, and he will have only him
self and his pretended friends to thank
for its consequences. Your friend,


HENRY WArTlRaoN.


Gen. Ben. Hill, McMinnville, Tenn.
Year: 1868

The men who are going to make
plenty and to spare, are the men who
care very little about the negro, wheth-
or he works or don't. They recognize
the fact that they who labor are reason
ably sure Of the rewards of labor, and
that theywho don't labor, but are wait.
ing and scheming to get the free negro
to labor for them, neither deserve its
rewards nor often get them-with q
clea conscience. They are men ofproud
spirit and scorn to be dependent upon
the whims and oaprices of lazy negro
dear at any price-to work or not to
work for II support. They are proud
of the muscle, the will, the energy God
has given them, because they sustain
their own household, and no thanks to
anybody but Him who gave them.


II the negro does the most work, he
ought to, and will, amass the property
and capital Of the country, unless the
white man cheats him out Of the fruits
of his labors, and would be unworthy
Of him.


Men who don't try to avert it. by
outworking the negro, have no right
to declaim against negro supremacy.
The right way for the white man to as.
the white mans right to govern and
rule the country, Is to quit trying to
pursuade or hire the negro to work for
him. and 90 right into the fields and
workshops, and there work for the sal.
vation of the country from the fate OF
Africanization, and leave the negro
alone to hasten his way, ifit is his IL.
clination to 80 to the devil. And, for
Christ's saks. don't follow him sa
inch.


White men, TO the field-to the corn
field! "Fall in, men w-Exchangs.
Year: 1868

THE BANKRUPT LAw.-It may not be
known to some of our readers that what is
called the fifty per cent clause of this act
takes effect on the 1st of June next; that
after that date no one can take the benefit
of the act whose estate will not pay fifty per
cent to his creditors. The adjournment of
Congress and the present state of the i'm
peachment question renders it less likely
that any extension of this time will he given
by Congress. 1t therefore becomes those
who intend to petition for adjudication of
bankruptcy for themselves Or against others,
to apply to the court in session. Wash.
Chronicle.
Year: 1868

NoTE-The announcement of the results
of elections in the Counties of Caswel and Hay
wood are made subject to final decision upon the
conclusion OF the Investigation OF charges OF
election frauds in those Counties.
Year: 1868

Established expressly to afford thu afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases Cases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1868

LYNcHBURG, April 25, 1868.
Hon. Robt Ridg,ooy:


DEAR SIR-Haying learned your determina-
ton to leave your native State for New York,
and being we'll assured that no man in all the
broad limits of our dear old Commonwealth
feels more lively interest in her future, and
that no one is more keenly alive to sense of
the degradation and wrongs which have been
and are being heaped upon her people, and re-
membering well the bold and fearless manner
in which, as journalist, you once battled for
what you conceived to be her best interests as
well as the interests of our common country !;
and being we'll assured that in the new field of
labor upon which you are about to enter, every
energy Of your being will be employed in be:
half of the rights and liberties of an oppressed
and unhappy people, we do, without regard to
former political differences, which did exist be-
tween many of us and yourself, but now stand
ing upon one common platform, beg leave to
assure you Of our best wishes in your new en-
terprise and, also, earnestly to request that
you address the citizens of Lynchburg, at such
time as you may designate, before leaving, up
on the political issues of the day.
Year: 1868

Pray, Mr.. Pipes, don't think me rude
For what here may say;
Just one more hint might do you good
truly hope it may.
You say, while wandering through this vale
If e. 'er you chance to see
A truthful maiden, old and stale,


She, Mrs. Pipes shall be.
If ere you should this notion take,


Pray first consider we'll,
How this might prove grave mistake
A tale too sad to tell.
For she already press with cares,


With heart though true and brave,
Might tread her path, with silvered hairs
In sorrow to the grave.
Remember that her noble heart


Would think to find you so,
And, if deceived, how keen the smart,
That trusting heart must know.
Then wed no maiden old and halt


Though she in heart be strong,
Unless you cease your finding fault,
She could not stand it longI
Year: 1868

AMHERST, April 81, 1868.


GENTLEMEN-Yourl letter inviting me to ad
dress the people of Lynchburg on the political
issues of the day, previously to my leaving the
State for residence in distant city, has been
received. While thanking you kindly for the
high and undeserved compliment implied in
your invitation, deeply regret that my engage
ments are OF such character as to forbid CON-
pliance with the wishes so warmly and hatter-
ingly expressed, Of SO many Of the intelligent,
influential and substantial citizens of city in
whose welfare and prosperity | feel, and have
always felt, profound and generous interest.


Among the signatures to the letter l have
had the honor to receive observe, not with
out emotion the names Of many gentlemen dis
tinguished for their virtues and accomplish
ments, with whom it was my misfortune to diff
fer widely on political subjects, in other days.
A circumstance so honorable to them and so
gratifying to me, affords NE the fitting oppor-
tunity Of saying, that if, as was doubtless the
case, amid the heat and passion Of party con-
fict, | CHANGED to wound the feelings of any,
who then stood in political opposition to me, [
desire, here and now, to express regret and to
ask forgiveness, with the assurance on my part
that | cherish neither personal nor political re-
sentiment towards any man or set of men any,
where within the broad limits of our stricken
and desolated Commonwealth With the
"dead past" beyond the recent fearful food of
war and bloodshed lies buried, so far as l am
concerned, whatever of animosity or unkind
feeling long years of partisan strife may have
engendered. The sorrows and calamities of a
fatal struggle enhanced by the ominous shad-
ows that darken the present and shut out the
future, should surely be enough to assuage un-
kindness and make friends and brethren of us
all-and so let us be.


Whatever political errors, gentlemen, 1 may
have committed in the past, can safely ap>
peal to Him who knoweth the secret intents
and purposes of the hearts of men, to sustain
me in the assertion that never at any time or
under any circumstances, entertained thought
or cherished a sentiment inconsistent with the
truest and loftiest fidelity to the honor and well
fare of my native State And rest assured
that, whithersoever | may go, or whatever for
tune may betide, | shall carry with me the Vir-
ginianism to which you and I were born, and
which I would not barter for all that earth con-
tains Of brightest and best-for, to be a Vir-
Year: 1868

The latest improvement in Family Dyes are now


being introduced throughout the country.
These colors are all prepared in Liquid form with
very simple directions tor use, and are made from
the same material used by dying new silk and
woolen goods.


A large variety different shades of color can be
made from one bottle by using more or less OF the
Dye Stuff.
Year: 1868

FoR restoring gray or faded hair to its
natural color, Browns Vegetable Oriental
Hair Remover IL said to be the best pre-
paratiol in the market. II is also . splendid
dressing for the hair, and will prevent hair
from falling of, stimulate it to grow. &c
Druggists selling this article, are author


lied BY the proprietors TO warrant every
bottle to give better satisfaction than any
other preparation for the hair. July l.
Year: 1868

Last Saturday night most sim


gular event transpired in this


county. An old and well-known


gentleman by the name of Joel


Sullivan, who resided about five.


miles northwest of Bolivar, died


in the following manner: Mr..


Sullivan, who had attained the


age of eighty years, as usual did


a good days work on Saturday,


At night he went to his home, a


double log house, ate a hearty


meal, and seemingly, in the best
OF health, retired to rest. About
midnight he rose from his bed,
crossed TIE wide hall that separa-
ted the two rooms, woke up the
members of the family and told
them that he was dying, at the
same time shaking hands with
each of its inmates and bidding
them final farewell; he then
went back to the room from whence
he came, woke up his grandson.
shook hands with him and told
him also that he was dying; after
so doing he seated himself in a
chair, his features quickly under
went a change, his limbs relaxed,
while a thick film gathered over
his eyes. He was taken from
the chair, and placed upon the
bed near by, but alas, the spirit
of the old man forever fed from
its casket of clay. His only re-
mark, after bidding the family
farewell, was that he seemed to be
choking. What a mystery is life,
how strange is death !-BOliuar
{ 7enn.) Bulletin.
Year: 1868

There was once an itinerant
preacher in West Tennessee, who,


possessing considerable natural elo-


quence, had gradually become


possessed with the idea that he


was also an extraordinary biblical
scholar. Under this delusion he


would very frequently, at the close
of his sermon, ask any of his con-
gregation, who might have a
"knotty text to unravel, to speak
it out, and he would explain it
at once, however it might have
troubled less distinguished divines.
On this occasion, in a large audi
ence he was particularly pressing
for some one to PROFOUND text,
but no one presuming to do SO, lie
was about to sit down without any
opportunity for showing his learn
ing, when a chap by the door an
nounced that he had Biblical
matter of "great consarn." The
preacher quite animatedly pro-
tessed his willingness and ability,
and the congregation was In great
excitement.


"What Lwant to know" said the
outsider, sis, whether Jobs turkey
was a hen or a gobbler


The expounder looked confused,
and the congregation Uttered, as
the questioner capped the climax
by exclaiming 81 fotch him down
on the first question =


From that time forward difficult
passages" were not asked for.
Year: 1868

The Lewiston { Mo- Journal tells
a story to establish the fact that
cats are intelligent, as we'll as dogs:


The owner of one in a place
taught Tom to trade mice for meat
receiving from his master piece
of meat for every mouse he pre-
sented. One day a mouse was
brought and laid before the clerk,
who did not happen to understand
the arrangement. Tom determine
ed not to be baulked of the reward,
carried the captive up stairs and
laid it before his mistress, who, not
liking such a present, scolded him
for bringing it into the house, and
threw it out of the window.


The cat ran down stairs, went
out and found his mouse and kept
it until night, till his master came
home, when once more the mouse
was brought in and kitty claimed
his reward and received it.
Year: 1868

: To MEND BROKEN DIsHEs.-Tie
the pieces firmly and truly togeth-
er and boil the dish fifteen or twen-
ty minutes in skim milk. Let
it remain in the milk till cold,
then take it out and place 1t in a
dry place, there to remain three or
four days before washing. 1t will
stand as much rough usage with
out injury as before broken.
Year: 1868

The editor of the Common
wealth, published at Lincoln, Ne
braska, lately saw a man driving
q team over the town site loaded
with lumber and household furni-
ture. He had a plan of the "city''
in his hand, and every little while
he would stop aud examine the
stakes. After a long search ne
succeeded in finding his lot. HE
Immediately proceeded to unload
his wagon, and in FIVE hours had
a house up and living in it.
Year: 1868

A man In Illinois is stated to
have had his boots taken off by a
stroke Of lightning. The opera
ton was rapid one. Whether
it was a safe one cannot be stated
until we learn how the foot Jared
during the operation. We think,
however, that lightning will not
become popular as a boot jack.
Year: 1868

1t is hardly worth while for
the radicals to talk any more a.
bout the confiscation of Southern
lands. Those lands are as good
or as bad as confscated already.
They sell for q mere song. A
nimble niger in favorable loca-
tion can steal enough property
over night to buy forty acres Of
ground early the next morning.
Year: 1868

The Boston Post says: Crime
is terribly prevalent in New
England. Every few days our
staid cities and quiet towns are
startled by some deed of blood,
some revelation of beastliness or
of rascality. Our Southern breth-
ern living in the midst Of anarchy
and turmoil might with reason
sneer at the morality of New En-
gland as shown in its daily record
of crime,
Year: 1868

The negroes in Alabama have
become so disgusted with some of
the Bureau agents that wherever
they can pick UP one of those in
teresting specimens of humanity,
they generously treat him to a coat
of tar and varnish.
Year: 1868

The Mobile Times is one Of the
few papers in the South that came
out for General, Grant for Presi-
dent before he had acted with
such utter disregard of his plight
ed faith to President Johnson
Since this exhibition of perfidy
on the part of its candidate, the
Times has hauled down its colors,
with the following explanation:


"The world has never witnessed
more useless sacrifice of personal
popularity than that exhibition
by the self-ordained suicide of
: General Grant. With every
chance in his favor to become the
saviour-the second father of his
country-he seems to have been
only inspired by the evil genius
of disorganization, and to have
bartered the highest chances sof
Legitimate fame for the gratifca-
tion Of petty temporary power
Year: 1868

An avalanche Little Rock special
yesterday says. refugees from the
counties afflicted with militia continue
to flock to this city confirming the
reports of outrages by the militia. The
report that Gen. Grant had sent officers
to investigate the outrages, received
wide rejoicing. By the Governors
proclamation this morning, the Little
River Company, that portion of
Lafayette east of Red river, was turned
over to the civil authorities.
Year: 1868

however, that they intended g to kill all the
id niggers,' and boasted that they had
Killed 9 coloTed man. The ruffians were
pursued the next day till the roads became
impassable, the heavy rains having swollen
the streams and carried away the bridges.
IL Is hoped that they will be captured
sooner or later.


It Is next to impossible In this parish to
punish any one for such an Offense as that
committed on this. aged colored man.
Men accused of mdrdeI are released
on bail, and iuries fail to convict
them. We hope for better things after
the election. If there is no change many of
the country parishes will be depopuated,
for no decent person can live among such
lawless and vicious people as now intimi-
date by threats and violence orderly and
well.disposed citizens who happen to assert
political opinions at variance with the SEN
timents of those who fought to destroy the
government of the United States.


The colored man who was so grossly out
ragged is known to be quiet, peaceable, and
respectable man --one who never gave cause
for offense,


On Saturday last the Democrats or rebels
held meeting in Covington, and when they
dispersed they shouted "Hurrah for Talia-
ferroi y "Kill the d-d niggers y This is
their last chance. If we beat them at the
polls their epitaph is written.


II you mention this affair, please keep the
source of your information from the public,
for am not any too safe here now.


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