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Year: 1866

Mrs. SwIssHELM ON HER DIsNIssAL.-Mrs. Jane
G. Swisshelm publishes the official notice she
received dismssing her from clerkship in the
Quartermasters Department, and comments up
on it as follows:


Personally we have no complaints to make
Secretary Stanton has always been to us con-
siderate and kind and, in this, either acts under
special order from the President, or in accordance
with general rules, and we have no desire to be
the recipient of special favors. We received
appointment at the request of about twenty
members of Congress, as acknowledgment OF
fifteen years of editorial labor for the triumph of
the principles which elected Mr.. Lincoln.


We have been excused for much lost time on
account of our hospital work, and the broken
health consequent thereon. We need position
under the Government, and feel that we have
earned one by twenty years of wasting labor for
the Govern Rment, but would not purchase the
Presidency, or even the New York Colectorship
by silence which we should regard as be-
trayal of liberty


We under solemn, sacramental oath to de-
vote our life to the cause of the American slave.
Keeping that oath may lead to all of misfortune
this earth can bring, but it must be kept. Pres
dent johnson has betrayed the slave cruelty,
deliberately betrayed him. and we must dcnounce
him.


We have committed a crime in permitting our
instincts to be overruled by arguments, so that
almost believed him honest, gave him the
benefit of doubts, and held him such.-
We now fall back upon first impressions, which
taught US to look upon him as anything but
great and good man.


The first time we saw him was at the great
Union meeting at the Capital in 'G3. His speech
then was like all his succeeding speeches-all
about Andrew johnson, and him crucifcd, and
every idea three times expressed.


We greatly regretted his nomination, bnt
friends persuaded US almost that we were mis-
taken, and made our second effort at playing
conservative, by caudling poor Andy johnson,
by way of aiding thousands of honest men in
their vain efforts to troll him along the path of
recttude, sheep led by walking before
with pan of salt.


We shall try in future to atone for this one sin
by greater earnestness in warning the people
against his deliberate treason to the principles
he processes to esponse.
Year: 1866

ABDUCTION. some time past, G,
S. Gay, Esq, says the Louisville Eren-
ing NeWs, who resides at the corner of
Fourteenth and Market streets, has had
in his employ a negro woman, who left
the house on Saturday, taking with her
Mary, a daughter Of Mr.. Gay, FIVE years
of age. What object the girl had in
carrying off the child, unless it wan to
seek some revenge against her mistress,
is not know n. The parents Of the child
are in great distress about the matter,
and any information in regard to the
child will be gladly received BY them.
Year: 1866

ANNA, the gay little growing comprehend
puliet who spread her feathers and cackled
50 spitefuliy a, Metropolitan Theatre last ev-
ening ought not to have said such naughty
things about us as we understood she did
making a public example of US bshind our
backs because of our loyalty. But what OF
it? Why, bless your little crop. Anna, we
have got used to that sort of thing long ago
and never thought it worth while to notice 1t.
Unlucky We How we have been barksd at
by poodle pups, and windy whifets, for not
supporting the president, and who is claimed
to be the government and now a orinolined
growing little hen in pantelets and waterfall,
csckles at Us because we have repented be
come reformed, and insist upon supportin z
the president. o, bosheration, how mankind
ndioccasionally a woman, is given to fault
finding. But never mind. Anna; we are
sometimes trifed with, with impunity. Go
with your pretty little speeches. and make
all the money you can out of them. 1t will
come handy sometime, to maintain lazy
husband, Davenport Democrat
Year: 1866


The following Act in relation to the scaling OF
Confederate Currency, from the time of its first
issue to the end of the war, passed at the recent
session of the General Assembly:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO
ESTABLISH A SCALE OF DEPRECIATION
OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.


WHEREAS, By an ordinance of the Convention,
entitled "An ordinance declaring what laws and
ordinances are in force, and for other purposes"
ratified ON the 18th day of October, A. D., 1865,
it is made the duty of the General Assembly to
provide scale of depreciation of the Confederate
Currency from the time of its first issue to the
end of the war; and it is further therein declared
that call executory contracts, solvable in money,
whether under seal or not, made after the depre
citation of said currency before the 1st of May,
1865 and untitled Except official bonds and penal
bonds payable to the State) shall be deemed to
have been made with the understanding that they
were solvable in money of the said currency"
subject, nevertheless to evidence of different in
tent of the parties to the contract; therefore,


Be it esacted By tie General assembly Of the State
of North Carolina and it is hereby enacted by the,
authority of the same That the following scale o..
depreciation be and the same is hereby adopted
and established as the measure of value of one
gold dollar in Confederate currency, for each
month, and the fractional parts of the month OF
December 1864, from the 1st day of November,
1861, to the LIST day of May, 1865, to-wit:


Scale of depreciation of Confederate currency, the
gold dollar being the amt and measure Of Value,
Year: 1866

To those Who get up clubs of five or more sub
scribers one copy, gratis, will be furnished


Subscribers who cut Off from us during the
Var, and whose time of subscription had not eX-
airtd, will be furnished the paper free on the
r.storation of communication, until the time be
iled. If they desire the paper longer after that
time, they must renew.


A cross x mark on the paper indicates the ex-
iration of the subscription.
Year: 1866

General Dix will be a member of the
Convention of August l4th. He will find
himself surrounded by men upon whom


he once pronounced sentence OF death,
when he said, ''If any man hauls down
the American flag, shoot him on the spot"
Year: 1866




The following Act in relation to the scaling Of
Confederate Currency, from the time Of its first
issue to the end of the war, passed at the recent
session of the General Assembly:


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO
ESTABLISH A SCALE OF DEPRECIATION
OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY.


WHEREAS, By an ordinance of the Convention,
entitled An ordinance declaring what laws and
ordinances are in force, and for other purposes"
ratified the 18th day of October, A. D., 1865,
it is made the duty of the General Assembly to
provide scale of depreciation of the Confederate
Currency from the time of its first issue to the
end of the war; and it is further therein declared
that call eXecutory contracts, solvable in money,
whether under seal or not, made after the dcpre-
citation of said currency before the 1st of May,
1865, and untitled Except official bonds and penal
bonds payable to the State) shall be deemed to
have been made with the understanding that they
were solvable in money of the said currency"
subject nevertheless, to evidence of different in
tent of the parties to the contract therefore,


Be 1t enacted By the General assembly Of the State
Of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted By the
authority Of the same, That the following scale of
depreciation be and the same is hereby adopted
and established the measure OF value of one
gold dollar in Confederate. currency, for each
month"; and the fractional parts of the month of
December, 1864, from the 1st day of November,
1861, TO the 1st day of May, 1865, to-wit:
Scale Of depreciation Of Confederate currency the
gold dollar being the unit and measure Of value,
from November 1st 1861, ito May 1st, 1855:
Year: 1866

The useful invention of the kind for saving
household labor invented


Has recommendations saving time
and the and fabrics washed than any other ma
chine Ath other machines either rub the clothes and wea
them out speedily do satisfactorily perform their
With the


HYDRAULIC CLOTHES WASHER
This not the There rubbing of the clothes an
consequently, and The washing is com
pessy and thoroughly performed by the action ef the
aIons. Send for circular, giving full explanation call and
examine them at the General Southern Agency
Good Inducements offered to agents elsewhere


s. NJ. BARTON CO.'S,


No, u TchoupitoulGs street.
Year: 1866

*. G.. C.-Members of the above
Organztlon hereby ordered report themselves the
OLD HEADQUARTERS over the Age Barroom, without
delay, during the next Six Days.


DR. Robt NJ Austin Secretary will be in attendance at the
above place inform members Of the object Of this call


q n
Year: 1866

WE take shis opportunity Of announcing to


our numerous patrons and others, whose self


interest win in future induce them 70 visit fre-


quently-that while we have disappointed a


very great number OF ladies by our failing tup


to the present) to supply the immense demand
for Spring Goods, we have on the other hand
more than ten-fold counteracted the detriment
to our trade by our present entirely new and
most admirably selected Stock OF Goods, at
prices fully commensurate with the very late
rapid decline in the Eastern markets. These
goods Dust arrived have been selected from the
cream OF very latest imporiations in New York
and viii be found to be entirely different, both
in style and novelty, from anything in the
city; Politeand attentive young men Will dis
play them to the ladies of Memphis and public
generally, who are respectfully invited TO
examine and judge for themselves.
Year: 1866

A Boston correspondent says shoddy
and petroleum now hide their heads be-
fore the surprising luxuriance of the bogus
growth Of wealth obtained from burglary
burglary confessed, gloried in, unpun-
lshed, and laVishly rewarded. We have
in our vicinity now two members Of this
class OF wealthy men. One is Charley
Adams, the robber of the Concord bank,
who, after all the hubbub made over his
detection, has settled down for life with
an Observation-Disclosures, on the snug farm
which ne made the base of his operations
against the bank safe, and drives a splen-
did span, with the bride whom his sue
cessfal speculation has enabled him to
marry within a month past, envied by
all her poor and honest neighhOr The
other is Horace Annis, the hero of the
still bOlder operation, which carried
million and half Of money in broad
daylight nom the couDting-room. of a
purblind New York broker, and who has
been here within the week, bFazen IN the
security from arrest which was one of the
terms of his bargain, and 6oasting to the
admiring detectives and sporting men
who are his familiars of the cool hundrt d
thousand which he carries in his pocket
as the result of his speeulations,
Year: 1866

Please Write as it may please you to do


AS pendant to tie above, we copy
the following from the same paper Of the
above date:


" Yesterday a discharged negro sol
dier as black as the ace ofspades, walked
into the Office of the freedmen's bureau,
with a white girl Of some Is summers
leaning Lovingly on his arm, and re-
quested that they might be united IN the
bonds Of matrimOny! He claimed that
be had known his darling love for some
two months, and she said her devotion
for him was supreme, because be had
been so very kind to her. She claimed
to be a descendant Of the negro Of all the
negroes, Ham-said that her parents
were both negroes and were slaves. Her
complexion is very fair, with clear blue
ewes, and light hair, and is evidently a
pure Anglo-Saxon. Judge Lawrence
was disguised, as great an admirer as be
is Of the negro race, and very prudently
refused to comply with the negro's re-
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Year: 1866

till my fond hopes are realized by the
knOllege Of your dear presence.


o pardon my forwardness In plain
speaking. my great fault is In speaking
10 plainly the sentiments OF my heart.


Mrs hattieee received your letter they
are all well Jefferson and James are at
home robert left home for 81 louis last
week they all send their love tOyOu pixies
magnificent cpiFa was consumed with a
number Of other buildings by fire the
small pox is raging in our city.


We have had three caces Of chOlira in
our city this spring 7 am at mrs bat
tieces at intervals ! sew out by the week
am at home only at night and sundays
kiss your dear little wife for me tell her |
am aucious to see her.


they all looked for you up TO the city
this spring as can find nothing | think
would interest you ] will Close for the
presant and send you this morsal ofnoth-
ing hoping il may find acceptance If so
shall expect an answer soon


no more but remain your friend hop
ping that peace and happiness may at
tend you throug life farewell, Annie


10 West 9TH street.


NASHVILLE, Tenn, April the 18th,
1866 Dear Hiss -Aanie-Y0ur consoling
Sheet of the 18th inst Come TO hand a
few days since its precious Gems Ware
received By me With Much affection
Dear Annie 1 donst wish to become any
WAYS Wearysome to YOU at all But as ]
feel il my humblest Gratitude 1 Cannot
forbear responding TO those most pene-
trating persuasiOns hurled into Exist
ence BY the Gentle Movings of your tiny
fingers I promised you in my former letter
I Would not Address you after this man
ner any more But as your most refine
manner of addressing me have did this
execution can but acknowledge it you
Will please pardon me for this time Most
positively VIII try TO Control myself ON
all Other Occasions YOU Seem to Charge
yourself With not having in your pos
session Mental powers for Retaliation I
must Say your beginning Ware amply
persuasive had you gust Continued il it
is true your Remarks Ware but few yet
felt myself Richly Cheered When ]
Saw that Ny address had Obtained an
acceptance With a Lady Of your Gran
deur you Seem TO Express Some desire
Of having an Opportunity to Speak With
Me personally on Which Occasion
Would become more acquainted With
your fond hopes.


Most adored Annie permit me to say
to YOU Just here I do not know Of What
kind of a Nature your hopes May be But
if they mean to be affectionate towards
me at all I think it is Good for me that
We are Existing at a distance for if !
Ware present it might be I Should have
to respect them as 1 do not feel that 1
Could bear With much irritation and
am sure the Great Contrast that is Exist
ing between you and myself by the Law
Of nature Would not permit Us With that
free association that might be desired in
I VIII again ask you to par
don me for my So free interruptance Of
your intelligence as feel myself Some |
what Carried of an am ast0nished at my
Own Self


No more at present Put remain your


mo rfaarn aHff ii
Year: 1866

No man more courteous than he, none
more highbred, none more generous, none
more kindly in his intercourse with his
neighbors And LEE lives peacefal, cheer
ful, unobtrusive life among these mountains.
So far as he is himself concerned, he would
prefer that his name should be dropped
from present talk and current news His
tory must mention him he knows, but that
time has not yet come. LEE holds himself
utterly aloof from the disputes aod passions
Of the hour and here is a proof: On Sat
urday night he was at Rockbridge Baths.
Stalwart and erect as ever, white-haired and
ruddy-hued, his eye still bright and kindly,
as Of old, he sat among the ladies Of the
neighborhood chatting as any other man
might do but with him, with his past and
present hanging about him, it seemed lik e
the dead past holding converse with the Mu-
ses. Presently there was the confusion OF
the nightly arrival from Richmond, and one
gentleman, being acquainted with the Gen
eral, greeted him, and after the common
places rendered him the newspapers of the
day. Thank you" said LEE, but never
read any of them"


Ike lives here comfortably, and calmly,
with his family and many Of his former
friends around him. His son, CUsTIs LEE,
is Professor in the Institute here, and his
former Chief of staff, Gen. PENDLEToN, is
the Episcopal clergyman Of the town."
Year: 1866

From the New York Times letter from
Lexington, Va, we make the following ex-
tracts


"a plain marble slab three feet in height;
slightly curved at the top, and bearing no.
thing more than the words Gen. THos. J.
JACKSON and an upright ,foot-stone of a
foot any half in height, with nothing more
in way of legend It. J. J.'-these are all of
words or monuments there are about the
grave Of JACKSON. But there are other
visible signs and more significant Yester-
day morning was the holy Sabbath, but the
green turf was covered with the rarest
flowers. At the head of the grave was an
elaborate wreath, and almost every inch
from stone to stone bore fowery tribute to
the sleeper beneath. Nearly all these how-
ers were as fresh as if pulled from the stalk
but an hour before, and the villagers bear
witness that they are renewed almost every
dav y
Year: 1866

4 Wonderful Hemory-The learned
Bishop Jewel, who died IN 1871, was blessed
with most wonderful memory. He could
exactly repeat what he had written at any
former period after once reading it. During
the ringing Of the bell for public worship he
could commit to memory a whole sermon,
and pronounce it without hesitation His
usual custom was to write the heads of his
sermon on his memory, and so firmly were
they, after few minutes, imprinted on his
mind that he used to say that if 10000 peo-
pie were fighting and quarreling all the time
he was preaching they could not confuse
him. To put him to a full trial, DR. Park
hurst uttered to him some Of the most diff
cult and barbarous words be could find in a
calendar and Bishop Hooper, of Gloucester,
gave him forty Welsh, Irish, and foreign
words, and after once or twice reading, and
and little recollection, he repeated them
all backward and forward. In the year 563
Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper Of the great
seal, having read to him from Erasmus s
Paraphrase the last clause of ten lines con
fused and imperfect, with a view Of more
fully trying his gift, sitting silent awhile,
and covering his head with his hand, he
rehearsed all the broken parts the ght way
and the reverse without hesitation He
professed to teach this art to others, and so
instructed his tutor, DR.. Parkhurst, at
Zurich, that within twenty-eight days, by
giving only one hour each day to the sub
iect, he learned all the twenty-eight chap
ters Of the gospel Of Matthew so perfectly
that he could repeat any verse, telling what
went before and what followed.
Year: 1866

Satisfy, or Oyster PZaRt-The Satisfy is a
hardy biennial plant, and is principally
cultivated for its roots, the flavor of which
resembles that Of the oyster whence the
popular name


The Oyster plant succeeds best in a light,
well enrichen, mellow soil which, previous
to sowing the seeds, should be stirred to the
depth of twelve or fifteen inches The seed
should be sOwn annually, In the same manner
and at the same time as the seeds of the
carrot and parsnip Make the drills four
teen inches apart; cover the seeds an inch
and half in depth and thin while the
plants are young, to four or five inches
asunder


The roots are prepared in various forms
but when simply boiled in the manner Of
beets and carrots, the favor is sweet and
delicate. The young flower stalks, if cut IN
the spring Of the second year aud dressed
like asparagus, resemble it in taste, aud make
an excellent dish.


The roots are sometimes thinly sliced, and,
with the addition Of vinegar, salt. and pep
per, served as salad. They are also recon-
mended as being remedial or alleViating IN
cases of consumptive tendency.


There is but one species or variety now
cultivated.
Year: 1866

Nanurilg Corn 1cith Salt In analyzing
the ash Of corn stalks, Prof johnson found
it to contain Of soda two hundred and eighty
six parts in one thousand, or more than one
quarter Of the mineral elements Of the stalk
The ash of wheat straw contains only two
parts Of soda in one thousand barley and
rye three each, and oats ninety-seven. Thus
it appears that soda is an important element
in the corn stalk, and the best way Of sup
plying it directly to the plant that we know
Of, is to apply a top dressing OF common
salt Chloride Of sodium.) Salt and ashes
mixed and dropped by hand in small quanti-
ties on each hill, will often have a wonder
ful effect in improving the appearance Of the
corn. Especially is that the case when the
plants look yellow, and are backward and
unthrifty. And anything which inyigorates
the young corn, and creates a rank stalk is
apt to induce an abundant yield Of grain.
This application is likewise as good as any
remedy known to prevent the depredations
of the cut-worm. We hope some Of our
readers viii try the experiment.
Year: 1866

The BacAeloT-In the vast flower field Of
human affection, says q cotemporary, the
old bachelor is the very scarcrow Of happi-
ness, who drives away the little birds of love
that come to steal away the hemlock seeds
of loneliness and despair. Where is there
a more pitiable object on earth than he who.
has no amiable woman interested in his vel
fare How dismal does his desolate room
appear when he comes home at night wet
and hungry and a cold hearth, barren
table, and lonely pillow, which looks like
the white urn of every earthly enjoyment
See the sick old bachelor In the dark after
noon of life, when his heart is sinking to It's
sunderancel Not a solitary star of memory
CLEANS over his opening grave No weeping
wife to bend like an angel over his dying
bed No fond daughter to draw his chilly
hand into the soft pressure of hers and
warm his icy blood with the reviVifying fires.
of unavailing affection No manly boy to
link his breaking name with the golden chain
of honorable society, and bind his history in
the vast volume Of the world he IS leaving
forever. He has eaten and drank, and drank
and died, and earth is glad she's got rid of
him, for he has done little else than cram
his soul into the circumference Of q sixpence-
and no human being save his washerwoman
viii breathe a sigh at his funeral.
Year: 1866

Future H0asekeepTs- sometimes


catch ourselves wondering how many Of the
young ladies whom we meet with are to per
form the part Of house-keepers, when the
young gentlemen who now eye them so adj
1niringly have persuaded them to become


wives. We listen to those young ladies' Of
whom we speak, and hear them not only ae-
knowledge, but boasting of their ignorance
Of all household duties, as IF nothing would
so lower them in the estimation Of their
friends, as the confession of an ability to
bake bread and pies, or cook piece Of meat,
or a disposition to engage In any useful en-
ployment Speaking from our own youth
ful recollections, we are free to say that
taper fingers and lilly white hands are very
pretty to look at with q young man's eyes,
and sometimes we have known the artless
innocence Of practical knowledge displayed
by young miss, TO appear rather interest
ing than otherwise But we have lived long
enough to learn that life Is full of rugged
experiences, and that the most loving roman
tic, and delicate people must live on cooked
or otherwise prepared food, and the house be
kept clean and tidy by industrious haEds.
And for al the practical purposes of married
life, it is generally found that for husband
10 sit and gaze at his wife s taper fingers and
lilly hands, or for n wife to sit and be looked
at and q lmired, does not make the pot boil,
or put the smallest piece Of food therein.
Year: 1866

The Galveston (fexas) News says: All the
accounts from the country 60 to show that
the prospects Of a cotton crop this year are
becoming more and more unfavorable every
day. The rains appear u &aYe extended all
over the South so far as We can hear Those
who were the most sanguine, a short time
ago, that we were going to have two or two
and q half million Of bales, are now proba-
bly, satisfied to reduce their estimate nearly
oue-haH Even our best planters now com
plain that their crops are getting hopelessly
n the grass.