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Year: 1877

New BILLIARD RooM.-Joshua Hard
ing of Philadelphia, has leased the
large second story room in the Saville
Building and fitting it up in
first class style for billiard
hall. The appointments will be first
class in every particular, and it will
be equal to any saloon in the large
cities. The tables will be of the latest
improved make. The room will be un-
der the able management of robert
J. Hunter who is well known in this
city by billiard players, and others, hay
ing at one time being engaged here
in the same capacity in which he gave
universal satisfaction. The opening
of the room to the public will take
place on Thursday evening. and nc
boys will be allowed to play.
Year: 1877

TAKE NoTIcE.-Musi has been en-
gagged for every evening this week at
Chadwick's ice-cream garden and muse
um. Music and museum free to those
wishing refreshments. Go and spend a
pleasant hour and drive dull care away
Year: 1877

"He loved Gen. Lee and admired
him beyond measure. His only
fault is that he is too Slow he
wrote me once. The dilatOry policy
of Gen. Johnston he considered
great mistake. But he never lost
confidence in the final success of the
COnfederacy. At first many of his
officers and men We're somewhat dis
trustful of his Judgment. After he
had led them to half a dozen VictO-
ries, however, their confidence in
him became bOundleSs, and then he
never had a fear. His wonderful
triumphs in the Valley campaign he
took as a matter of course. No mat
ter what odds were piled up against
him he never faltered; his hope
never sank. His men soon came to
be fatalists, and his faith was little
short of theirs. He never feared
that he would be killed. He looked
for a long and happy life under a
government of the Confederate
States"


One of the most remarked features
of his character, as | gathered from
his wife, was his horror of war.
Nothing but the loftiest sense of du-
ty could have kept him amid scenes
of carnage. Ellis whole correspon-
dence with me-" said Mrs. Jackson,
"was full of expressed and implied
horror of war and blOOdshed. am
convinced that one of the reasons
impelling To the positive and yigor-
Gus course that he pursued was the
knowledge that it must speedily re-
lease him from the repugnant work
which he was engaged. He was the


most tender, affectionate, aud de.
monstrative man at home that |
/ ever saw. His heart was as soft as


a wOman's; he was full of love and
gentleness. Nothing but the most
positive sense of deep religious duty
could have nerved him to &c


through what he did. The stern, in.
Year: 1877

1t is unfortunate for the State that


the last Legislature did not accept


the terms of settlement offered by


the arbitors, to whom the question:


of our State debt was REFEREED


These terms were much more liberl


al than many expected, and there
! are those who have no interest ind


bonds think they are lower than thd


State should have asked, bud


when we take all things into con1
sideratiOn, they are such ms the Stntd


can hOnOrably make without dOingI


injustice to hercreditors, and without


imposing unnecessary burdens upOnl


her people. Why then Were they nod


accepted? The committee sent tol


New York failed to do their duty.
They shOld have recommended their
prompt acceptance instead Of tryingl
to get a further reduction, whichI
should not be asked, and If asked,
should not be granted. A reductiOnI
of forty per cent, or nine millions
of dollars Is all that the State canI
honOrably ask, and is more thanI
many think she should ask.


BY failing To compromise the debt
upon the terms offered, the debt Oh
the State will be increased during
the next two years, two million iiVcI
hundred thousand dollars, and
il put off four years II will amount
to five millions OF dOllars.. CunI
any State stand this whilst the
amount saved by the reduction OF
taxes is only thirty cents ON the hum
dred dollars, or three dollars ON the
thousand ? We regret to say that the
Democratic party will be and are
responsible for this action Of the
Legislature. This is unjust, because
the Legislature acted In direct OPP
position to the platform adopted by
our last State convention. There Is
no doubt that the Republican party
will I'm the next canvass bring this
up against the Democratic party.
and will advocate the acceptance Of
terms offered. If the Democratic
party should advocate anything
which looks like repudiation, Il cam
not be successful. We can not per-
NIT ourselves TO believe Ii will do
any such wicked and foolish act.
The best way to settle this whole
matter Is for the Governor 10 call
the Legislature together, and let
them accept without hesitation the
liberal terms offered. let those
who are real repudiators show their
hands. This demanding fifty, forty
or twenty-five cents means repudia-
ton; because they know no such
terms can be obtained. We do hope
the Governor and the Legislature
will not permit the Democratic par
ty of Tennessee TO rest under the
Odium of being the repudiating par
ty OF the State. Dorsey Is. Thomas
was beaten over fifty thousand
votes because he was suspected Of
favoring reputation, but even he
did not go so far in that direction as
the late Legislature has gone. No
party I'm Tennessee can succeed that
IaVors Reputation. Tennesseeans
are too honest for that. We will say
in conclusion, that the hemembers from
this county-BullOck and Brown
are sound ON this as on all other
question. All honor to them.-COi-
lHbid HerUid and Matt.
Year: 1877

Victor Hugo is never out Of trim.
Though seventy years old he works
almost incessantly. He rises every
morning at six, takes a cup of black
coffee and a boiled egg and begins
his daily task. lie works standing
at high desk and transcribes as
from dictation the result of his long
afternoon walks through Paris. In
the turmoil of the street his mind IS
most active. In the midst of the
crowd he is isloated from the rest
of the world. His memory is pro-
digious. He does not use a single
note. Yet the next morning he has
been known to reproduce without
hesitation one hundred paragraphs,
the work of the previous afternoon.
This is the latest news the French
papers bring.
Year: 1877

Stand by your friends, let come what
may, is good motto. If you don't stand
by them you needn't expect them to
stand BY you. So whether they be friends
oil high or low degree, ia afiuence or pow
erty, stick to them aud don't stop to in
qulre whether 1t will pay or whether IL
will be popular. Whenever you prove
traitor and desert those who have stood
up for you and helped your battles. Won
will find yourself without any one to con.
graduate you upon your achievements.
or comfort you in an evil hour when mis-.
fortunes come thick and fast.
Year: 1877

Remember that all questions have two
sides; one is the right side, the other the
wrong side; one is the side of justice, the
other injustice. II you take the right side,
the just side. ultimately men, however
much they may oppose you and revle you,
will come to your support. Earth, with
all its powers. will work with you and for
you. and heaven is pledged to conduct you
to complete success. II you take the other
side, there is no power in earth or beaven
that can lead you through successfully,
because it Is appointed in the counsels Of
heaven that justice, and truth, alone can
prevail.
Year: 1877

BLAINE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE.-Infuen-
tial Republicans in Washington talk of the elec-
tion of Mr.. Blaine to the Presidency of the Senate
as an event likely to ensne i'm mediately after
the re-assembling of Congress. If such action
should he taken, it would of course be to provide
for a possible contingency which might leave q
vacancy in the offices of both President and Vice


President of the United States after the 4th of
March, and devOlve the powers of the Executive
upon the presiding officer of the Senate. A
prominent Democratic newspaper lately suggest
ed that if Hayes should be declared elected by


the votes of Florida aud Louisiana, the Demo.
cratic House would refuse to go into joint con


ventiOn in February to count the votes, and
would thus make the election incomplete and
abortive. If there should be disposition show n
to take such a course it may be regarded as cer-
tain that the Senate will that the govern
ment is administered by competent and resolute
hands in the interregnum of a year which would
eapse before election could be held under
the Constitution, and the President then chosen


inaugurated. 1t is scarcely probable that Mr.
Blaine would accept the place under any other
circumstances than these. The Presidency of
the Senate is seldom desired by its influential
members, because the occupant of the chair il
deprived of opportunity for taking part in the
discussions and work of the body, and has, in the
way of compensation for this loss almost none of
the power possessed by the Speaker of the House
Year: 1877

Er The Democracy are human, after all
They are now soldering over Elzur Wright
the veteran Aboitionist of Boston, because he
has expressed an opinion that he thought Tildeu
was elected; whereas, but few years ago. any
one of them would have gladly lent hand at
the rope to swing him up on limb. On the
other hand, they are throwing mud at the rebel
Joe Shelby, for telling the truth about the North
ern Democracy, and declaring that he would
fight for Hayes if he was inaugurated. All Of
which shows that the Democratic hate of Aboli-
tionists lasted only as long as they opposed Dem
ocratic plunder; and that their love for South
erners cools off as soon as the South refuses to
help them to secure the spoils.
Year: 1877

Established for the promotion of marriage betw cen the
surplus Of the East the corresponding excess
OF men in the West between these in sections Of
country will medium acquaintance afford
ed them. pamphlet with full information will be sent
for sac Address p. o. Bor lis, Brookiyn, v. i.


jan.lI.w4
Year: 1877

MIsREPEEsINrATIoN.-The Wathens Reporter.
in referring to the Herd Law order, makes it an
occasion to take out q little spite by misrepre-
senting majority of the members Of the County
Board. 1t says that Mr.. Larzelsre is personally
in favor of the herd law, but does not wish to
enforce it against the wishes of majority of the
people; that Harpster wanted to enforce it with
ont the presentation of petitions; that Leland
felt under obligations to pander to Harpster !;
and that it will lie enforced unless large ma
jority of the people are opposed to it. The Re-
porfer's comments give the lie to themselves, and
the order itself clinches it. If Harpster was in
favor of enforcing the law, regardless of the
wishes OF the people, and Leland wanted to PAN
der to him, why didn't they enforce it, instead
of soliciting an expression of the peoplef The
truth is, Leland was not present when the order
was made, but it was done altogether by Harp
ster and Larzclere. When he came in, aud they
informed him what they had done, he remarked,
an have to file my protest" The point of the
remark will readily be seen by those whom it
concerns. As to Harpster's desire to force the
law upon the people without their consent, all
there was of it was contained in the remark, that
as far as the people of his own Township were
concerned, he believed it would be acceptable to
a majority of them, if the law were put in oper-
alton without waiting for petitions There is
nothing in the order even justfying the inferer-
ence that the law will be enforced unless large
majority of the people are opposed to it. The
language is, decided majority-which simply
means an undoubted or undisputed majority.
Year: 1877

AUBURN, N. Y, June 20.-At the annversa-
ry of the Shields Guards today, Gov. Hampton
in the course of speech said:


Your distinguished Governor has been pleas
ed to allude to the contest in South Carolina
That, my friends, was not a political struggle
1t rose far higher than any such contest ever
waged on this content. 1t was contest for civ
iization,. for home rule, good government for
life itself. 1t was contest waged by the peo-
pie of South Carolina not as demagogues would
tell you, against Northern men. 1t was con-
test waged against carpet-baggers, and when
say the carpet-bagger, l mean by that, thief
fApplause.) We do not call any Northern
man, any Irishman, any German, any English.
man who settles in our midst as an honest citi-
zen, carpet-bagger; we welcome such with
open arms.


We tell them to come to our genial skies and
fertile soil, come one, come all and pledge
them in the name of the state hosptable and
warm-hearted reception. We do not ask
whether they are Republicans or Democrats.
We did not wage political canvass. We were
lighting for every interest dear to freemen and
thanks to the brave and true men and the go-
rious women of South Carolina this war for
government was successful. They have estab-
lished it in every department of state govern
ment. They have accomplished this and they
now propose fulfilling to the very letter the
pledges made and appealed to high heaven to
witness that they should be carried out


declared that il elected would be governor
l.
should know no race, no party, no color; that
all men who stood on the soil of South Caroli-
ma, native or iforegn born, white or black
should be equal before the law, and SO help me
God it shall be done. Enthusiastic applause)


l am glad to say the bitterness which mark
ed that strife is passing away, and 1 say to you
men of New York, as say it at home owe
my election to the colored men of South Caro-
lima. (Applause.) Thousadds of them voted
for me knowing that had been good friend of
the race, knowing that was the first man after
the war to recommend they should be given
the right OF suffrage, and have never yet
changed my opinion on the subject. Knowing
this, they sustained me in large numbers, and
am happy to say that nearly all fears of the
more Ignorant are passing away, and they are
satisfied they will be dealt with as citizens of
South Carolina.


-, We intend to try and elevate them, educate
Them and show them the responsibilities as
well as the blessings of liberty. We waut
them, as other citizens of America and South
Carolina, to be worthy of the great boon Of the
citizenship of this great republic.
Year: 1877

"a 1fOC1t1I1dU1Ons Il


The completed circle of summer and winter seed
time and harvest have brought to the accustome1
season at which religious people celebrates with
praise and thanksgiving the enduring mercy of Al
mighty God This devout and public confession OF
the constant dependence Of man upon the Divine
Father for all the good gifts of life and health and
peace and happiness, so early in our history made
the habit OF our people, finds in the survey of the
past year new grounds for its joyful and grateful
manifestations. In all blessings which depend npon
the bengnant seasons this has indeed been a memo
rabe year Over the wide territory of our country with
all its diversity of soil and climate and products the
earth yielded bountfu return to the labor Of the
hust aDdman; the health of the people has been
blighted by no pesience widespread diseases; no
great disasters by shipwreck our coast or to our
commerce on the have brought loss and hardships
to merchants or mariners, and cIouded the happ
OF the community with sympathetic SORROW Ia all
that concerns our strength and peace and greatness
as nation; in all that touches the permanence and
security of our government and the benefcent nsti
tutions on which it rests in all that affects the
acter and dispositions Of our people tests
pacty to enjoy and uphold the equal and free cOndi-
ion of society permanent and universal through
out the land the experience of the past year con-
picuously marked by the protecting providence OF
God, and is full of promise and hope for the coming
generations.


Under sense of these infinite obligations to the
Great Ruler Of times and seasons and events, let
humby ascribe it to own faults and frailties if
in any degree that perfect concord and happiness,
peace and justice which such great mercies should
duse through the hearts and lives Of our people do
not altogether and always and everywhere prevail.
Let us with one spirit and one lift up praise
and Thanksgiving TO God for His manifold goodness
to our land, His manifest care for the nation.


Now, therefore, l. Rutherford B. HAYES, President
Of the United States do appoint Thursday the 29th
day Of November next, as day of national thanks
giving and prayer. and earnestly recommend that
in withdrawing themselves from secular cares and
abor the people OF the United States do meet
together that day in their respective places of
worship there to give thanks and praise to Almighty
God for his mercles and to devoutly beseech their
continuance.


In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed.


Done at the city of Washington, this 10th day
of October, in the year OF our Lord one thousand


eight hundred and seventy-seven, and OF the
Independence of the United States the one
hundred and second.


(Sgned) r. B. HAYES,
By the President.


WILLIAM nj. EvARTs, Secretary of State,
Year: 1877

Thanksgiving Day, which was once a relig-
ious feast, has become the family festival OF
the country, holiday of the hearth-stone.
At first confined to New England it has been
accepted by all the land and is now day
when sons aud daughters who have found
homes far away, come back to the old home
stead and renew under the roof-tree the as
sociations of their youth at once the merri-
est and saddest time of the year; made merry
by the hearty welcome home and the Joy of
reunion; made sad by the quickened sense of
the losses which the years have brought to
the household.


We have fallen into the habit of making
Thanksgiving veritable feast of Pan, when
the whole land pours out its fatness upon our
tables. Our Puritan forefathers lit
tie thought in their haste to do away
with the Papist Christina that they
were bringing into vogue again one
of the oldest of the Pagan observances. Hap
PLY they did not see the drift of their deed
and unwittingly revived an ancient custom,
attaching to it higher significance than was
possible for the old world to do. We who
find so much of good and high endeaver in
the ancient creeds, so much of honest aspira-
tion for the nobler faith which we hold, gladly
accept the traditional observance informed as
it is with the fuller knowledge and purer creed
of our fathers; and look with devout thank
fulness beyond Pan to the Mighty Power
whose beneficence he family shadowed forth
to the children of the world.


In both its features, as family festival and
as religious observance. let us recognize the
tender associations and the lofty significance
of Thanksgiving Day; and while enjoying the
rich tribute of the earth not neglect In our
turn to render tribute of thankfulness and
praise to heaven, whence all these blessings
come
Year: 1877

By the advice OF the Executive Council I do here
by appoint Thursday. tde twensy-ni day
of November, instant, as a day of Public
Thanksgiving and Praise to our Father in Heaven,
for his great goodness to the people of this State in
the year that is closing While uniting with our
fellow countrymen upon that day, at the invitation
of the Presiden of the United States, in solemn a
knowledgment ofthe Divine favorwherewith our land
has been blest, let the peace and prosperity and
exemption from every ill whichour State has enjoyed
in marked degree. be specially remembered before
Him with reverent thanks and gladness. May the
hearts of all be moved to make this customary SER
vice an earnest offering of gratitude and devotion,
and an occasion for befriending those who are in
need.


Given at the Council Chamber, at Augusta, this
eighth day of November, in the year OF our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and seveuty-seven,
and of the independence OF the United States OF
America the one hundred and second.


SELDEN CONNOR,
B the Governor:


S. j. CHADBoURNE, Secretary of State
Year: 1877

IT is difficult to see how Stanley Matthews
can vote in favor of the report of the minority
of the committee on elections, giving seat
in the Senate to Spofford, for that report con-
demns Senator Matthews as strongly if not
as directly as it does Kellogg himself.
Year: 1877

We DO not read anonymous etters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1877

The Democrats have got control of the
Senate By a shameful bargain with two
renegade Republicans they have secured a
majority. For the first time in our history
the Senate has been bought.
Year: 1877

THERE have been cases in which men were
delivered from Jail on condition that they
would join the army. The Democrats in the
Senate initiate this method of recruiting, and
are filling up their ranks from the penitenti-
Year: 1877

"Crazy Horse" an exchange says. "was the
possessor of thirty-four scalps, not counting his
own. and the Indians considered him quite q
rich man." And the cream of the thing lie, this
boated scalp holder was the architect Of his
own fortune. Every lock Of hair he possessed
was Of his own raising
Year: 1877

Good advice to girls and boys is al
ways abundant and, we may add, a
cheap article in the market, and perhaps
this is one reason why it is not more
frequently needed by those most in
need Of it. But here is another excel
lent piece of advice to girls, given by a
correspondent of the S. s. Times:


Cooking classes have been popular
among fashionable young ladies OF late
years. But there is no cooking class
which quite equals in its opportunity
for excellent information that which
you may find at home. Presuming that
am talking to girl who has Just left
school, 1 advise you to make use of
your leisure in taking lessons from
your mother. There is an absolute,
splendid feeling of independence in
knowing how to make perfectly light,
sweet substantial bread. Then try
your hand at biscuits, mullins, corn
bread, toast, and all the different forms
into which breadstufs may be blended.
Toast seems q simple thing enough, but
it is frequently so i'll made that it does
not deserve the name. Cruel, neces-
sity Of the sick room, is often hopeless
mystery to women who have the vaguest
idea of how it is evolved from the raw
material. After you have mastered the
bread question, try meats and vegeta-
bles. Any bright girl who can compre-
hend an equation or formulate a syllo-
gism, can overcome the difficulties
which beset her when learning to cook.
Lucent sirups, golden cake, delicately
Drowned bread, quivering jellies, melt
ing creams, and the whole set of mate
rial things glorifed, because made for
loves sake and for the good of ones
dear ones, are fit expressions for any
woman. The charm of this accomplish
ment lies in the fact that it imparts to
its owner gratifying sense of power; it
bestows on her, too, the power of bless
ing and resting those she loves best.
Wherever the cook goes she takes her
welcome along. One may tire of the
sweetest singing, of the loVeliest poetry,
Of the finest painting, and of the most
witty conversation, but of good cooking,
never. Yet I would be sorry to have
you conteniel to be only cook, only a
domestic machine. That is not my
meaning or intention. Be artist, poet,
inventor, and well-bred woman; be the
most and the best that you can, and
add, as a matter of course, ability to
keep house well and do all that good
housekeeping includes.