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Year: 1866

SLIGHTLY AIR1.-A newspaper CORES
pondent, describing the costume of a belle
at a recent ball, says: Miss B., with that
repugnance to ostentation in dress which is
so peculiar to her sex, was attired in a SIM
pie white lace collar. fastened with a neat
pearl button solitaire


A very 'striking" costume fort ball room.
certainly. She would have been a good
partner for that Georgia major, who made his
appearance in ball room so simply attired
as to attract the attention of all. His dress
consisted of "collar and pair of spurs"
Year: 1866

LOOK Our "A great reduction has been
made in the price of calicoes and other dry
goods at the One price store" as Mr.. Da-
wilson is determined to close out his Sum-
mer stock. We noticed that there was an
immense rush to that establishment. and on
fnquiring the cause, were informed that it
was in consequence of the great reduction
which has recently been made in the price
of goods at that emporium. The ladies should
make note of this and act accordingly.
Year: 1866

We are under great many obligations to
Mr.. Bryant. of our town, for bountiful
supply of the kind of fruit which grew in the
garden of Eden, and the eating of which re-
suited so disastrously to mother Eve and
father Adam. If the fruit of which they par
took was as delicious as that presented to US
by Mr.. Bryant, we do not blame them for
eating it if they were forbidden to do so. The
fruit grown by Mr.. Bryant cannot be sur
passed in the State.
Year: 1866

say to Cincinnati, Louisville, Mem
phis and nearly all the other cities of
the Union, we are ahead of you in
this particular at least. This institu
ton is not shanty with half a
dozen bottles of paragoric and few
boxes Of liver pills as stock, but it is
really a stylish looking first-class
drug store, with all, or nearly all, the
modern improvements. We hope
our colored citizens will give it such
patronage as will enable the propri-
etors to enlarge it and double the
stock by the opening of another year.


HE TABLEAUx.-On Thursday
night last we attended the tableaux
given by the young ladies and gentle
men of the Christian church for the
purpose Of raising means to aid in the
erection of the new building. The
church was decorated in the most
tasteful style, and everything was
done to make the occasion an inter
esting one After some little delay
the exercises were opened with the
piece entitled "The Rejected Lover"
which was performed in the most
charmingly appropriate manner. The
Lost Child" in which several young
ladies and gentlemen took part, was
an excellent specimen Of dramatic
performance, and the force with which
the sentiment Of the piece was
brought out seemed to affect the en-
tire audience, who complimented it
with vociferous applause. sThe Dy-
ing Soldier" was decidedly the best
piece on the programme, the per
fOrmance of which sent thrill of ad-
miration through the spectators for
the sublime heroism manifested in the
presence Of the grim monster Death.
Other parts Of the exercises were of
equal excellence, and we should not
omit to mention the excellent music
provided for the occasion. The song,
" Juanita," or the Indian girl, by
Miss Jackson and Mr. Tate, brought
down the house, and they were com
plimented with an encore, with which
they gracefully complied, repeating
the beautiful ballad with, if possible,
better effect than before.


AS the house was tolerably well
filed, we judge that the Tableaux was
pecuniary success. Such exercises
as these tend to elevate and refine the
tastes, and we hope to have more Of
them
Year: 1866




PROUD Of Ir.-The colored people
q Nashville are steadily advancing in
many directions, which is a fact Of
which we are reasonably proud. We
are erecting churches, founding
schools and engaging in the various
departments Of respectable buiness.
r., while we take lively interest in
everything pertaining to our advance
ment, there has been no enterprise
started in our city Of which we are
more proud than Of the Drug Store
opened by an association Of the GO
ahead colored men Of this city. We
Year: 1866

They agree with the most delicate
stomach, removing Nausea, Pain and De-
bility from that organ, and through it
impart tone and vigor to the whole sys-
tenn.


AS A CATHARTIC,
They influence more the motOry and
less the secerning power of the bowels
than any other combination in common
Year: 1866

The lSrH.-Great preparations are being
made by the Chilenos to celebrate the coming
anniversary of their National independence
in manner that will throw all their past
efforts into the shade. A band of music has
already been engaged for the occasion, and
invitations have been issued to the various
civic and military companies throughout the
county. For number of years past they
have celebrated the 18th of September, in our
town, and contrary to the general expecta-
ton, in every instance the proceedings on
that day have been characterized by their
good order and decorum. The Chilenos ex-
hibit very laudable degree of pride in eel
ebrating their natal day in becoming man
ner, and evince spirit of liberality and pat
riotism in such matters which Americans
would do well to emulate. The ball in the
evening will be splendid affair. The duty
of making the necessary arrangements to
ensure its success. has been entrusted to
committee of gentlemen who are thoroughly
competent to the task, and who will spare
no pains in its performance. The proceeds
will be devoted to worthy object, and we
confidently expect to see the hall crowded on
that occasion.
Year: 1866

QuARTz.-Several new quartz leads have
been discovered in this vicinity within the
past two weeks. Near Middle Bar, on the
Mokelumne River, Mr.. George Smith recent
ly found large, well-defned ledge, the top
rock of which prospects handsomely. A
company has been organized and work COM
menced. If indications are any criterion to
judge by, this vein will prove to be one of
the best in this section. From Railroad Flat
the news continues cheering. Rock from all
the claims has been taken to Harris mill and
crushed. and in every instance the result has
been most gratifying. This mill is situated
at SO great distance from the claims, how
ever, that the cost of hauling is so great as to
preclude the possibility of working large
quantity of rock by that method, and neces-
states the erection of the requisite machinery
in the immediate vicinity of the leads, We
understand that active preparations for the
erection of a mill are being made by Mr..
Clark, which, when completed, will furnish
the miners of Railroad ample facilities for
working their quartz at a reasonable expense.
When this is accomplished we have no doubt
but that Railroad Flat will ship as much
quarzt gold dust as any camp in the county.
Year: 1866

The PrussIan Military system.


No nation with anything like its
population can raise SO large an army
as Prussia. Here is the military sys-
tenn by which it is accomplished ts


every Prussian at the age of nine
teen Cor, as the German always says,
with his twentieth Year, enters the
army. TO this rule there are no ex,
ceptions, except in case of absolute dis
ability Three years he serves in the
regular army ,devoting to military duty
his whole time, and living in barracks
or in tents. Four years more he serves
in the reserve, then seven in the militia
of the first levy and FIVE in the second,
80 that he is not free from military
duty till he is thirty eight years old,
though after tire first three years he
only performs certain amount of
drilling per year, except in. case Of war.
In France, Austria and the smaller
German Statss, the citizen is allowed
to furnish a substitute, but in Prussia
this is not permitted. High andIlow,
rich and poor, must all enter the army
at the age Of nineteen. 8a' IL Eie1r
"Still, there is provision made by
which certain few may perform in
one year the service of thewhole three,
and that is that any young man sufi-
GENTLY well educated to become q
teacher of a certain grade in the high
schools, and can support and clothe
themselves during that year, may, by
80 doing, be exempted from the re
naming two years Of army service
| This is the only exception 'E


This may not be called slavery but
in fact it possesses many of the wors


features of terrible involuntary ser
vitude. f..i.r fa 4
Year: 1866

NATIONAL BANK.-By lately received
New York dates, we learn that the First
National Bank of Fort Smith has been
authorized to commence business with 4
capital Of SJ0,OO0


Sixteen hundred and thirty National
Banks are now in operation.
Year: 1866

III there is one want more than anOth-
cr, under which Van Buren at present la
bors, it's the need Of Il good school for
young ladies and misses. We have now
no school of this class. And for an
accomplished and competent teacher no
better situation and opening for a -four
ishing seminary could be selected. Weun-
dcrstand that a lady, everyway qualified
for such position, passed through our
city, on her way to Fayetteville, few
days since, for the purpose of opening a
school there AS there is one or two
good schools already there, we are not
sure but she might be persuaded to settle
at Van Buren,. Let our citizens make an
effort to establish n school here that will
command the patronage of the surroun-
ing country. Will they do it?
Year: 1866

Rt" We learn that the citizens of Fort
Smith have had meeting for the pur


pose Of devising some plan for therelief
of the dcstitution Of Sebastian and con
tiguous counties. We have had no pa
pers from our sister city, this week, and
do not know the result of the meeting--
We hope however, that some system may
be adopted, so that relief may be afford
ed to those who actually need it; and to
prevent imposition upon the Commissari-
at, at Fort Smith We can safely prom
isc the hearty cooperation of Crawford
County in this laudable and charitable en-
terprisc. We will notice the matter again
Year: 1866

To give those at a distance,
who are not used to such things, an
idea of how they vote in New
York, we would refer them to some
of the testimony that has been ta-
ken in the contested election case,
Dodge VS.. Brooks, both claiming
to represent the Eighth District.
One of the witnesses testified that
one person who was recorded as
having voted had been dead a
year; that che therefore could not
have voted unless he had a subst-
tute;" that he was at the polls all
day, and saw men voting in the
names of principals who had been
dead for years; and that at one OF
the election districts thirty or more
whose names were given were SO
used. He further stated that he
always kept list of those voters
who were dead or known to be
away, and that they substituted
q NAN to vote on their names, and
so kept their names on the list
In answer to the question if he
did not know that in SO doing he
was guilty of a felony, the witness
replied, generally we take that
on risk"
Year: 1866

4 20 -
They tell us that pleasures are feeting,


That hopes are but born to decay,
That the life in our bosoms row beating


Will fade like the blossoms away; e-1
And how many brave hearts have strlven,


And struggling have sunken and died,
As ship with her strong cable riven,


Is thrown like crushed reed aside.
They say there is nothing but scheming;


Our trust brings us only to grief;
But surely those sages are dreaming


Who scof at our earnest belief.
We know there is trouble and sorrow,
We know-there is passionate pain;
Then why should we darker care borrow,


And weep for woe that is vain
For life has not lost its beauty,


A sweetness it hath ever new;
And, joining our pleasure and duty,
Well find it as fresh as the dew. Z
So long as our hearts fail us never,


And faith on our footsteps attend,
The peace that abideth forever


Will brighten onr lives to the end.
'Twould be hard to live in the sadness,


Nor bask in the light from above, yE'
I. To turn from the music and gladness,


And beautiful, heaven-born love.
For It's sweet to list to football,
~ To feel your heart thrill at tone, fence
While the earth grows bright with the pres
Ola love you claim for your own.
Year: 1866

+ Townsend Fugett, of Bellbuckle.


Tennessee, has furnished the press


for publication, his celebrated re-
Iceipt for the cure of cancer, the


same used by DR.. January. His


as follows: ~ l,s yiq,ea.
Take pulverized beech f


drops, % grains.


Red Puccoon Root 5 e


Pure Arsenic, II /"


Mix thoroughly together and
keep in a dark place. ) bi4a


To MAKE OiNTMENT.-Take a
handful of slippery elm bark, a
handful of the weed life-ever-
lasting; put them in pot and COW
er them with water, and boil until
you get the strength thoroughly
out; then remove the herbs and
strain the liquor; then cleanse the
vessel and return the strained liq-
uors. and boil slowly down TO one
pint; then add about one pound
of rosin and one pound of mutton
suet. Continue to simmer down
until the water is out. While the
mixture is cooling you must stir
it.


APPLLCATIoN.-f the cancer be
not raw, scarify it, and take a thin
cloth, half an inch larger in diam
eter than the cancer, and spread
the salve over it and apply it to
the cancer at night; the next
morning remove it and put on a
good coat of powders with the
salve only on the good flesh SO as
to hold the powders on the parts
which are raw; let the powders
remain about thirty-six hours and
SO continue until the cancered
flesh is all eaten out; if the dead
flesh should not come away of it
self, or sticks to the bone, you may
hasten the operation by cutting it
away before applying the powders.
Be not alarmed at this medicine,
for it will not waste away good
flesh. After you know the cancer
is killed and all the cancered flesh
is out and cleaned off well, you
must keep the salve on the can
,ered parts until cured up, keep
ing all water from the cancer from
The commencement.
Year: 1866

One night not long since, a man


living in Caroline county, Nd,
found ferocious looking animal
in his meat house. He procured
a gun and shot the creature. The
first fire with shot was Intellectual
but minnie bullet brought him
down. Upon examination, it was
found to be negro, wrapped in a
mule skin, which he had padded and
fixed up to render it impervious to
shot, while he committed the rob-
berry, o.g9 b aa1l..1l l.a
Year: 1866

Take common glass pickle
bottle, wide mouthed, fill it within
three inches of the top with water;
take a common Florence oil flask,
removing the straw covering and
cleansing the flask thoroughly,
plunge the neck of the flask as
far as it will go, and the barome-
ter is complete. In fine weather
the water will rise into the neck
of the flask even higher than the
mouth of the pickle-bottle, and in
wet, windy weather, it will fall to
within an inch of the mouth of
the flask. Before a heavy gale of
wind the water has been seen to
leave the flask altogether at least
eight hours before the gale came to
its height,
Year: 1866

A smart southern darkey per-
suaded two of his colored brethren
in Providence to buy an iron trunk,
which he represented to be filled
with valuables stolen from a cap
tain of a vessel lying in Boston,
and the purchasers paid him SSoC,
all the money they could raise
The trunk was delivered in Boston
and opened in Providence, when
it was found crammed full with
precious paving stones. sr sss9
Year: 1866

The number of Southerners, of
both sexes, who are at present
seeking employment in the North
ern cities is almost Incredible. It
is said that in New York alone
there are more than fifty thousand
Southern born-and-bred persons
seeking their fortunes.
Year: 1866

ANECDoTE OF When
the American troops were quartered at
Newdury, at the close of the revolution
ary war, and the soldiers were stirred
up to rebellion against the government
by the famous anonymous letters, which,
it has since been ascertained, were writ
ten by General Armstrong, then a major
in the army, General Washington con-
vened the officers for the purpose of ad-
dressing them on this subject, and calm
ing the tumult which was beginning to
rage in their bosoms. He held a paper
in his hand on which the remarks he in
tended to make were written-and then
it was, that finding himself unable to
read without assistance-as he was
drawing his speetaeles from his pocket
that unprecedented expression broke
from him-one of the most parthetic
that every fell from human lips-"Fel-
low-citizens," said he, you perceive
have not only grown gray, but blind in
Your service" The effect of this re-
mark was electrical. No bosom, no eye
was proof against it.
Year: 1866

er, or for the speedy execution of any of the
powers by this act conferred on court of equity


Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the filing by
or on behalf of any Bank, of bill in the court of
equity, under the provisions of this act, SHALL
upon the appointment and qualification of COM
missioner Hereunder, be deemed and taken to all
lntents and purposes to be surrender by such
Bank OF all the corporate rights and franchises
granted to such Bank; and all laws by virtue of
winch any such Bank then exists as a corporation
are hereby repealed, and such corporation shall
be thereupon dissolved, and all the effects and
consequences following or incident to the disso-
luton OF corporation at common law shall ensue
thereon; and any statute law of this State to the
contrary Notwithstanding PrOvided hoaueger
Ihnt the estate, property, and rights of action
vested IN the commissioner, provided by this
act, shall not be In any way diverted or impaired
LhereDy, nor shall the rights of any creditor of
such Bank against such commissioner or against
the estate or effects SO vested in him, be thereby
missioner shall thcreupon be considered as the
plaintiff in the pending proceedings; and, pro-
vIded, FURTHER, that should there be any balance
remaining in the hands of any such commissioner
after the satisfaction of the claims of such credit
ors, the commissioner under the direction of the
court shall distribute and pay the same to and
among those who shall be Justly entitled thereto
as having been stockholders or members of such
corporation at the time of its dissolution as afore
sad or their legal representatives.


sec. ~ he 1t further enacted, That all suits on
debts due the Banks contracted with branch
Bank shall be brought in the comfy where the
branch was established, and if broug ght in any
other county may be dismissed on motion


Sec. TO- BE it further enacted, That this act
shall be in force from and after its ratification


lRatiied the 18th day of March, 1866.
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, 4. D., 1865,
1t 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 all executory contracts solvable in money,
whether under seal or not, made after the depre-
ciatfon of said currency before the LIST 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,n
subject nevertheless, to evidence of different in
tent of the parties to the contract; therefore,


Be it enacted 6y the General Assembly Of the State
Of North Carolina, and 1t is he7eby enacted b 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, 1854, from the LIST day of November,
Scale Of depreciation Of Confederate currency the


gold dollar being the anti and measure Of vate,


from November 1st 1861, to May LIST, 1855:
Year: 1866

Here is good thing that Twill tell
as twas told to me


An old fellow in neighboring towr
who is original in all thing, especially in
excessive egotism and profanity, and
who took part in the late great REBEL
ion, was one day blowing in the village
tavern to a crowd of admiring listeners
and boasting of his many bloody explo
its, when he was interrupted by the
question:


"I say, old Joe, how many rebs did
YOU kill during the war %


"How many did kill, sir /? hoao nao'ay
rebs did kill Well, don't know
just 'zactly hoao many but l know this
much-I killed as many O. them as they
did % me !''
Year: 1866

The COTTON PROSPECT. The Au-
gusta Coaastit,aionalist publishes let
ter treating of the prospect Of the grow
ing cotton crop, from which we make an
extract The writer says:


ssI returned a few days since from a
short visit to my plantation, during which
l carefully studied the crops of this Sec
ton. The main facts of the situation
1 would state thus: Labor, 60 per cent.
of old supply land in cotton, about rs
per cent. of acres before the war cot
ton full two weeks behind time, or late,
from ordinary seasons :; the stand in
iured by defective seed used in plant
ing but mostly and chiefly, the grass
seems at present the greatest enemy to
be contended with. In many fields it
is so strongly matted in the rows that
the grass cannot be destroyed without
destroying at the same time half the cot
ton. Think the greatest injury to the
growing crop will be found to be from
the grass and, OH the present prospect,
half of the former average crop would
be liberal estimate for this section, ,and
we are probaly much the most favored
region east of Texas. But while, just
now, could rot put the crop of this
section at over half old receipts, and
while now 100000 bales would seem a
liberal estimate for the whole crop, yet
cotton has great powers of recupera-
ton, and spring estimates crops are
not worth much. Thus backwardness
OF the season may be compensated by
fall correspondingly late, and very ia
vorable growing seasons may cause the
cotton so to spread that it will fruit all
the better in consequence of the room
and air afforded by defective stand
Dry weather now would enable most
planters to get start on the grass.


Whilst, therefore, I admit the pros
meet now to be worse than / have ever
known it, and the chances to be decided
ly against half crop for the country,
yet 1 wish to say as decidedly that a
fair crop for the land planted is by no
means impossible"