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Year: 1867

The Unionists Of North Carolina heartily in
dorse the Reconstruction bill passed by Con-
gress. The Union members Of the Legislature,
together with other loyal citizens, recently held
meeting in Raleigh, in which it was unani-
mously recommended that the people promptly
accept the plan of Congress, and that the
Chairman of the meeting, the Hon. c. L. Har-
ris, State Senator from Rutherford, cleveland,
and Polk Counties, designate not less than 100
Of the leading Union citizens to assemble in
Raleigh on the 9th of March, to plan and call
for O Constitutional Convention The Chair
man Of the meeting was also instructed to as
certain the views and wishes of the colored
people Of the State, with a view to a prompt
and harmonious cooperation Of all the loyal
people Of the State in the work OF reconstruc-
ton. The Union men Of North Carolina, it
will be seem are determined to reOrganize the
State on the basis of the plan Of Congress,
without regard to the existing State organizations
which owe their existence to the votes OF ex-
Rebels. The unreserved acceptance of negro
suffrage by the Union party of North Caro-
lima is one of the most remarkable signs OF pro-
gress in the views of Southern UniOnists, since
the overthrow of the Rebellion. Not more than
two years ago both the Union papers of Raleigh,
and with them the great majority of the Union
lists of the State, declared themselves very en-
phaticaly against the enfranchisement OF the
negroes. Now there appears TO be an entire
unanimity in favor of cordially accepting it,
As regards the prospects of this new Union
movement, it will be well to bear in mind that
in 1865 the Unionists polled 2J,S09 votes, while
the Rebel candidate for Governor had only
$3.50 Last year, when the platform of the party
was much more radical, the Union candidate for
Governor polled 1919 votes against S4,35 given
TO the Rebel candidate but the reduction of the
Union vote was altogether owing to the alb
stentOn of the majority of Unionists. Accord
ing to the census of $780, the number of whites
in North Carolina was 629942, and that of the
colored people 3Gt, ,522. There can be no doubt,
then, we believe, that the cooperation of the
united white and colored loyalists may secure a
large majority of tho votes which the Recon
structiOn bill admits.
Year: 1867




The people Of Monmouth County, New-Jersey
respectfully solicit of the Legislature of that
State the privilege of constructing railroad
from Freehold, the county seat, to keyport,
their most convenient and considerable seaport
They are gardening, fruit-growing tillers OF
the SOIL who have trebled the wealth and
doubled the population of their county within
a few years, and they could readily treble both
wealth and population again if they had proper
facilities for sending their produce 10 our mar
kets. And they want no help from the State
toward building this most important Railroad
they want only permission.


Yet we cannot make room for the terse and
foreible appeal they send us, because it would
do no good. Monmouth County, like the State,
is a satrapy of the Camden and AmbOy mo-
nopoly, and chooses to remain so. She has
sent its tools TO the Legislature year after year
and they have bound her fast in the tolls of
the giant corporation, so that nothing we could
do would help her ont. Whenever she sends
10 Trenton a delegation heartily favorable TO a
Free Railroad law-nOt for a county, but for
the whole State-we will give it such aid as
we may. But she must not ask to be let out
of the prison while she helps to keep Others fast
hound within il.
Year: 1867

We hope that the Legislature viii think many
times before actually passing the bill, which
has lately gone through one branch, authoriz-
ing the driving of cattle through our crowded
streets This is a nuisance so long and loudly
complained OF that VIC wonder at the audacity
which aims to force it on us in an aggravated
shape. A bill to abolish this nuisance totally
is what we waDt--nOt one to pcrpctuate it to
the every day discomfort and disgust of the
public. Our Legislators can invent no surer
method OF making the oyercrowded pco-
pie of New-York just little more herd
like than by driving cattlo through them,
The practice is bad for beef, and bad for
beef-consumers; and is one or other way of
cruelty to animals or men. Our public protest
against being driven, particularly by cattle
and cattle bills.
Year: 1867

The State of Massachusetts, is about to try
the experiment of legalizing unlimited Usury
We cannot advise this but, while she Is about
it, we ask her to do the job squarcly and
thoroughly. Nearly every such act hitherto
passed wears sncaking, shame faced air. rs
though its authors were conscious that they
were doing a mean thing. They usually start
with a general implication that money Is II
commodity, liko cheese or sugar, which the
owner has perfect right to sell or rent on the
terms hc deems most advantageous 10 HIM
self but, in the very next section, they turn Il
short corner, and stipulate that Banks, or per
haps all corporations, shall be forbidden to do
the very thing which the first section has pro-
claimed every ones right to do. If the Bay
State is Lent on legalizing Usury, we exhort
her to ego the whole hog" Alabama did this
ON her organization IA State but she soon
backed ont of it, because Usury was eating
her up. Notes were found running at ten per
cent. per month, and plenty of fools to borrow
at any rate.


This writer has somehow acquired most
,ndeserycd reputation for wealth and bcneyo-
hnce, and is consequently inundated with
applications from those III need. 1t is quite
within bounds to say that he is urged to lend
@, give ten dollars for every one nc earns or
receives. And the tenor of the letters asking
linn for money runs generally thus:
IIhaye little farm and little family, and am dong
niddlinc well but badly need team without which
cn mako no crop this year. II you Will lend mo t25O
e. buy yoke of oxen, will pay you next Winter with
any interest you may require"


Or thus:


al hayo a small, rocky farm, and am making a fair
living on it but owe q mortgage OF 800 which the
holder insists on having paid Icannoraso the money,
and shall be turned OF house and homo just Spring
opens unless you can lend the siOO Doi for mcrcy's
sake and accept tho blessings Of my atfrightcd family
win certainly pay you within two years"


Or tbus-most touching of all:


az Am Young farmer and doing well till the
broke out when felt it myduty to hazard all for my
country Icnlstcd fought tho War out. and camo home
with crippled arm and broken constitution TO find
myself virtually a bankrupt and beggar My wife did
ler best but our children very young, and labor
vas very hgh 40 crops light. goods high, and


taxes heavy the upshot OF all which Is that am In debt
500 and must pay at once lose my farm Can't you


d mo that sum- and take mortgage Tor IL Oh my place
w.rth at least treble the amountf


These are fair specimens Of at least hund-
red letters with which We have been favored
within the last two months. We take no account
of those which virtually solicit aims; for these
have no bearing on the Usury question. But
we ask thoughtful, generous men to consider
what will I've tho probable effect of repeating
all Usury laws on the enormously numerous
class of poor, but not bankrupt persons already
oppressed with debts which tboy know not
Year: 1867

The speech which Nyo inflicted on the Hartford Rad
Gals last night complained of as unconstitutional being
"a cruel and unusual punishment"


of course, the Copperheads felt badly while
Nye was flaying them; but then they should MT
have deserved it, OF shouldn't have gone to take
it. They should have remembered that


"No rogue e'r felt the halter draw


with good opinion of the law
or the executor of its penalties, and kept out
Of hearing.
Year: 1867

The Senate and Assembly have agreed to q
Conference upon the Constitutional Amend
ment bills, and our Albany correspondent THINKS
the Senate will agree to SO delegates at large
and the Assembly abandon its plan OF choosing
delegates by Assembly Districts. This eompro-
mise should secure the speedy passage OF the
l.
Year: 1867

The statement of the Captain and Chci-
Engineer of the burned steamer Andalnsla
would seem to leave the cause of that yessels
disaster mystery. TO the steamship Man
haitian belongs the credit of saving four-fhths
of the nassengers and crew.
Year: 1867




DoYLESTowN Pa, April lS-At 10 80 o'clock,
the prison, inside and out, presented an animated
scene. The crowd all around the enclosure was
large, and boisterous to an unusual degree. AS
the number 10 be admitted was limited only to
those having tickets, the members of the bar
and the county officials, hundreds who had
longing to witness the execution were ex-
cluded.


These latter procured a ladder, which they
placed against the rear wall and about two
hundred by that means gained the top, and had
a fair view OF the scaffold. AS many more
could witness the whole operation from the
trees and neighboring house-tops. The scaftold
was erected just in the rear of the prison. access
being had to il from a door in the wall


BY this time the prisoner had become quite
easy, the convulsions being few and not vio-
lent. He had but little to say, except to COM
plain OF the pain In his chest. Al one time
he pointed to his shackles, remarking that ne
would get rid of them to-day. The priests,
owing to his condition, had no opportunity to
converse with him up to that time, but his cell
was filled with a curious throng. He appeared
to have some appreciation of his condition,
and last night wrote a letter to his relatives in
Camden, MI, warning them that disobedience
TO his parents and bad company had brought
him TO the ScaffOld.
Year: 1867

ESPECIAL DESPATCH 20 THE EVENING TELEGRAPH. |


TeufeI Takes Leave OF HIS Father.


DoYLEsTowN, Pa, April lS.-About half cast
10 last evening, the priests left the cell of the
prisoner, but his father and uncle remained
until in the morning. Teufel received his
afectionately at parting, but when the old man
turned to him again to take another leave, he
pushed him away with an exclamation of dis
satisfaction. About three O'Clock the prisoner
went to sleep-a watch being kept at the cell
door.


Teufel Attempts Suicide.


At 8 o'clock Teufel awakened in violent con-
vulsions. His whole frame quivered and shook
in the most frightful manner, one man being
unable to keep him quiet These fearful con
Vulsions continued for several hours, although
the physicians succeeded about o'clock in
however, his body at one time grew rigid,
his face being discolored, his mouth
wide open, and his eyes rolled back. At
this time his pulse was quite low, and by many
of the attendants 1t was supposed that he was
already dead. The emetics administered by
the physicians then began to have some effect,
and for some time Teufel vomited freely and
Violently ALI the symptoms went to show
that he had taken dose Of strychnine, which
he must have oOtained from some of the
The relief was only temporary. His
consciousness was restored but it was
still necessary for one man to hold his knees in
place, while another kept one hand heavily on
wretched man would again culver. and he
would complain bitterly of the inattention of
the physicians, whom he accused OF exp peri
menting upon him. He also gave frequent
as he lay stretched upon his couch, a shocking
and almost sickening spectacle About9 O'Clock
he had become so much easier that he was able
to smoke, when he called at once Tor cigar.
Year: 1867

SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRsvELISG.-The Stats
ties Of European railways bring some very dreli
resuts-it such epi;het is admissible in treating
a subject that perta ins 10 human life. They show
that the ahsolpte risk of person losing his lite IN
a rail car is less than of his being struck by light
ming. or being hanged; that passenger shooting
along by steam power, at the rate of seyenty-twe
miles per hour. is more secure from bodily injury
than the pedestrian in crowded city, or gentle
man driving his private carrisse on country resd;
and that the oil-begrimmed and soety paiE who
ride on the engine. on whom We look with pity. IS
predestined for destruction. have average imnu-
nifty from danger. and enjoy better state Of
health than We, whose personal appearance may be
more presentable but whose pity is entirely grstu-
itous. A person dehilitated by dyspepsia or pull
monary disease. would question the sanity of bis
physician if recommended to take the position OF
fireman on locomotive: yet statistics show that
the employment tends to counteract these diseases
and to strengthen all the vital functions Of The
system.
Year: 1867

on eIucdates its head above the towering nights
to welcome those splendid six horse coaches or the
heavy freight teams that form almost one continu-
al train. But enough of this. little about the
mines and am done.


Some of the small gulches are well worked al
ready, but the larger ravines not done yet. as
they yield largely when worked. ! saw miner,
short time since, walking in his claim, which was
large enough to last for all coming time, and
wishing for rain, stoop and pick up slug worth
800. But that is nothing to what they do when in
full blast. One word about the quartz. Wherever
yon turn the eye large odes in bold relief
They have been worked in no comparison in rela-
lation 10 being prospected but are tested enough to
that they will pay when science and means will
permit. SAN.
Year: 1867

THE art of conversation is the finest
of the fire arts; it is not the art of say
ing much, but of saying well. There
are preaching men who talk, but listen
not, or who speechifiy in private; or
gossiping men, who think little,are new
er still, and yet they are not conversi.
BILE men. The real art of conversation
consists not onlyin expressing your own
thoughts freely, but in drawing out by
encouragement the thoughts of others.
You will never be liked for long talking
by anybody; but you are sure to be
liked if, by your talking, you encourage
and stimulate others to think and talk
in response to your thoughts. The art
is a natural gift in the main. 1t is not
only a gift of mind, but also of temper.
1t requires condescension, indulgence,
patience, and many other moral accom-
plishments, refinement as well as pow
er.
Year: 1867

THE FAMILY CIRCLE.-If there be
any bond in life which ought to be sac
redly guarded from everything that
can put it in peril, it is that which
unites the members of family. Ifthere
be spot upon earth from which discord
and strife should be banished, it is the
fire side. There center the fondcst hopes
and the most tender affections. How
lovely the spectacle presented by that
family wich is governed by the right
spirit! Each strives to avoid giving
offence, and is studiously considerable
of the others happiness. Sweet, loving
dispositions are cultivated by all, and
each tries to surpass the other in his
efforts for the common harmony.-Each
heart glows with love; and the bene-
diction Of heavenly peace seems to
abide upon that dwelling ithsuch pow
er that no black tiend of passion dare
rear his head within it.


Who would not realize this lovely pic
ture? 1t may be realized by all who
employ the appointed means. Let the
precepts of the Gospel be applied as
they are designed to be; and they will
be found to shed II holy charm upon the
family circle, and make it what God
designed it should be, the most heaven
like scene on earth.
Year: 1867

UNEDCCATED WoMEN-One of the
most agreeable consequences of knowl-
edge is the respect and importance
which it communicates to old age. Men
rise in character often as they increasein
years they are venerable for what they
have acquired, and pleasing for what
they can impart. If they outlive their
faculties, the mere frame itself is respect
cd for what it once contained but with
uncducatcd women, when youth is gone
all is gone. No human creature gives
its admiration for nothing-either its
eye must be charmed or its understand
ing gratified.
Year: 1867

A Fawn one day said to her mother,
Mother, you are bigger than dog, and
swifter and better winded, and you have
horns to defend yourself; how is it that
you are so afraid of the hounds ?" She
smiled and said, "All this, my child, i
know full well; but no sooner do hear
a dog bark, than somehow or other, my
heels take me off as fast as they can
carry me.n


There is no arguing coward into
courage.
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the In
Gianapolis Journal, writing
from the Southern part of The
State, relates the following in
| cidene


Robert Lewis, a young man
without home or kindred, who
had to earn his bread by hard
daily labor, early in the war,
and at the minimum age, en-
tered the service as a private
in Gen. Spooner's regiment,
the SD Indiana. At the ba!-
tie of Chickasaw Bluffs, Rob-
ert lost his left arm at the
shoulder. After much suffer
ing he returned to his former
home. The loss Of an arm
seemed only to impress him


with the idea that the greater
energy would be required if he
would make an honorable liv-
ing. lie began to study at
night and every leisure mo-
ment. Soon he qualified him.
self for teaching. About this
time he did what would be
usually, under similar circum-
stances, a very foolish thing
he got married. But his wife
accepted the situation, and
was willing TO laugh at poverty
and help her husband earn
their bread. He taught a
school in The winter, and in the
spring began to build a house.
| was through his house a day
or two ago. 1t has six rooms,
is Of the Gothic style of archi-
lecture, and is neat and sub
stantial throughout. From
foundation to roof all the work
was done by this one-armeG
man, except that his wife and
her mother assisted in raising
it. Not being able to procure
joiSts to suit him, he sawed
them out of wide, two-inch
plank. He laid the founda-
tion, built the chimneys, made
the doors and sash; in short, no
sound of hammer or any other
tool was heard about that
house except Of those that
were welded by his arm. Let
any one try to start a ten-pen-
ny nail with the use of only
one hand, and he will doubt
this story, but, as strange as it
may appear, it is in every res
pect true. 1t would pay one
for trip to Ripley county to
see the ingenious devices OF
Robert Lewis to make the diff.
ficult work for q two-armed
man easy of accomplishment
by a one-armed soldier. AT
the time | was there, he was
just completing a baby wagon,
which would compare with the
neatest Of those sold in the
market. Besides earning a
living, and building a house,
Mr.. Lewis is reading law. He
has "a remarkable head, and
unless | am mistaken, he Will
become eminent. He is not
yet tW enty-one years old.
Year: 1867

alter a series of walks, and at
the same time unlastening a
new strap, 81 suppose you will
40 the same for my leg" and
he handed his left leg to The
anf'mier. snow put me TO
bed" exclaimed the old man,
passing his arm round the neck
of his attendant, who, lifting
the officer to lay him on the
bed, found himself close to his
face, and noticed that the nose
seemed TO shine like metal.


"Fili my glass and my basin
with water!." When this order
was executed, he detached one
of his eyes and repeated, "Pht
that in the glass;" and as Par
week obeyed, the invalid put
his hand in his mouth and with
drew a silver apparatus which
served him for a palate, and to
which a nose of the same met
al was attached, and handed
both to the Breton.


But he, overwhelmed, terri
fled, his head bewiIdered by
his rather copious libations,
began to believe that he had
to do with Satan. Uttering a
cry of horror, he crossed him
sell, and rushed into the neigh,
boring dormitory, pale and
trembling. An immense burst
of laughter received him, and
he fell in a swoon. A weeks
fever and delerium was the
consequence of his fright
I'ariS Letter,
Year: 1867

re- A plain and 'unassuming
man is sure to win the, esteem
of his neighbor. ag95l rpo


Let him that is assured llc
errs in nothing take upon him
to condemn every man that
errS in something.
Year: 1867

Those who keep their wag
ons and carriages in good order,
should place a wrench on eve.
ry nut at least once a month
This will save nuts, save bolts
and prevent rafting and weal
and tear. There is a great deal
depending upon looking after
the running gears of vehicles
as well as the harness. Fol-
want of a little attention acei-
dents have happened and dam
age been sustained.
Year: 1867

In the Chamber of Deputies Sgnors Pancan and Curti
nterrogated the Government respecting the inspection of the
Papal troops by French General which they declared
be fragrant violation of the September Convention being
made it supposed for the invasion of the States of the
Church.


Signor Rattazz in reply said that he believed the
OF the exaggerated and declared that they
made by the Romans themselves He did not consider
necessary for him to contradict the reports that the Italian
Government had assened participated in these prepaa
TONS He said that those under deuson who believed
that the Italian Government would tolerate any violation of
their engagements The Roman question must be solved by
moral Explanations had been he said demanded
of the French Government to the reported inspection
which would be contrary both to the spirit and the letter of
the convention which he would to be respected Sgnor
Rattaz denied that any had been entered into
with France for the restitution of Roman deserters and no
representative Franceh stated that foreign legion
Year: 1867

A friend gives us the account
of a most terrible case of the bu-
rial alive Of a handsome young Ia
dy at Jacksonville, Illinois. Some
time last summer, a young lady
of seventeen years of age, suf-
fering with the tooth-ache, went
to bed with a small phial of chlo-
roform for the purpose of quieting
her teeth. In the morning she
was found to all appearances
dead, which was confirmed by the
opinions of several physicians
who were called and examined
her body. She was then buried.
A few days since her relatives
were about to remove from Jack
sonville, having located in another
State, and had the remains Of the
young lady exhumed, for the pur-
pose of taking them to their new
home. Curiosity prompted them
to open the coffin, when they
were horror-stricken on finding
the corpse turned over, both hands
full of hair, and her clothing torn
to shreds, revealing the horrible
truth that the young lady had
been buried alive. The chloro-
form had placed her in q deep
trance, the awaking from which
was in her coffin and grave. The
lady was engaged to be married
at the time of her supposed death.
A more heart-stricken case we nev-
er remember to have read or heard
of.-Lndianapozis Herald.
Year: 1867

An extraordinary story comes
from Mexico relative to -four
1t appears that an old miller in
that locality had a very beautiful
young wife, of whom he was jeal-
GUS in the extreme, and took out
his sonlagement of that feeling in
thwacking the lovely young be-
ing. There was a certain cook, of
the male species, young, handsome
and fat, who came to mill from
the hotel to buy -four, and, hear
ing the distress of the lovely one
first, and seeing her second, be-
came, of course, dreadfully in
love. Some one told the miller.
All the town began to talk of the
fact, and to laugh at the foury
one. One day the cook and the
lovely young wife suddenly disap-
peared, and the Mexicans laughed
at the miller's misfortune-noth-
ing went down but the scandal of
the elopement of the miHer's wife
and the cook. The miller scowl-
ed vengefully upon all the town,
and so time passed by; nothing
more was heard of the cook and
the miller's wife by any one
Two years after the miller pleas
ed to die, and to inform the world
in a paper, which was left to be
opened after his death, and to be
published in the town, that the
cook and his (the miller's) wife
had, by his planning, eloped into
an oven two years since and been
baked; that he would have got
rid of them elsewise but for the
jeering of the public; therefore he
had ground them up in large
mass of corn, which the towns.
people were pleased to compliment
him for, as being exceedingly rich
and nutritious, and he only hopes
that they will enjoy the reminis-
cence as much as he did the re-
mainder of his life that he was
spared, whenever he locked upon
q tOWnsman.