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Year: 1866




The Southern people are displaying
considerable energy i'll the establish
ment of manufactures of various sorts
throughout the country. Attention has
been turned particularly to the erection
Of factories for working up the great
stople of the South upon the soil where
il is grown. In Georgia, North Carolina
and South Carolina manufacturing COM
panies have been formed and are now
going to work with the most flattering
prospects of success. The same is true
TO a still greater extent Of Mississippi.
At Carrolton, Jackson, Weston, Merid-
ian, Woodville and other places in that
State, mills are already successfully op-
Grating in the manufacture of South
ern staples. Throughout several of the
Southern States the subject of sheep
raising is attracting very general attcn-
ton, and capitalists are considering it
with a view to the manufacture
of wooden goods upon Southern soil.
This disposition on the part of the
Southern people to render themselves
independent of New England capital
aud productions is as commendable as
it is general. For many years the re-
suits of their labor have given employ
ment to the spinners and weavers of a
section bitterly hostile to their own,
and have built up in New England a
manufacturing aristocracy whose means
and influence are continually employed
to their prejudice. The very wealth
which the Southern people have ena-
blcd the cotton spinners of New Eng
land to amass has controlled the nation
al legislation to Southern injury, and
sclf-protcction would seem to demand
of the South such action rs will save
the enormous tax she has annually
paid to the great adversary of her pros
perity. The incalculable profits
derived from the manufacture of
cotton, cannot OF course be immediately
and entirely diverted from their former
channel, but with proper attention to
the subject the South can soon realize
sufficient to relieve greatly the financial
embarrassments under which she labOrs,
and to assure New England that
a vast proportion of the tribute hitherto
paid her is to be hers no longer. Mis-
fortunes are frequently found to be
blessings in disguise, and if the haughty
and selfish policy of the North shall
compel the South to develop her own
resources and labor for commercial in
dependence, she may yet be grateful for
the treatment which forced her to rely
upon her own energies and to utilize the
advantages with which nature has en-
riched her.
Year: 1866

In caioling article, published a few
days after the late election, the editor
of the Intelligencer wished TO know the
reason why the lrish-born citizens of
this country generally vote with the
Democratic party. He could not ina
ginc why warn-blooded impulsive
IriShmcn who were, just then, the re-
cipicrts of his 1attery, should refuse to
lend their aid to the advancement of the
glorious and superlatiyely lofty aims of
modern radicalism. The answer to his
query "Why should not Irishmen vote
the Republican Union ticket" is
found in the article from the
Ritchie Press which we pub
lished yesterday morning. The radi-
cal party has been and is now the ene-
my of every Irishman in the land, and
this the Irishman knows too well to be
deceived into its support. 1t is the foe
of all foreigners whose votes 1T cannot
control, and, right here in Wheeling,
where two thirds Of our German fellow
citizens are Democratic, it wonld, if it
hiiu tnv Pv"0i, .-.o'-a- from the ballot
box every citizen Of foreign Dlrtu.
1t has already thrown every
obstacle it could in the way OF
foreigners wishing to vote, by compel
ling men who have been citizens and
have voted without question here for
thirty years, or more, to hunt up their
naturalization papers and exhibit them
to the registrars. 1t. hostility to for
eigners and its hatred of both religious
and political tolerance have been exhib-
tied in hundred ways and during the
whole history of the party. He must
have q very contemplate opinion in
deed of the intelligence of our foreign
born citizens who thinks they can be fiat
tered, at this late day, into voting the
radical ticket.
Year: 1866

The farmers of our Eastern States,
compelled to till the rocky and uneven
lands. and used to small holdings do not
know by experience all Of the changes
which improeed machinery has wrought
i'm agricultural operations on the great
Western prairies. There machines do
the labor of men to such degree, that
the farmers heaviest tolls are lightcncd,
and one man is enabled to achieve, with
ease, the work Of n half n dozen.


We saw, recently, u corn-tield of one
hundred and sixty ACRES, Oh the Grand
Prairie" in the blowing, planting and
cultivation of which, no man walked
step. A rotary spade, drawn by four
horses, and driven BY man upon the
box, plowcd the field to uniform depth
of eight inches, and gave such thorough
tilth that it was not necessary to use
the harrow at all. A cultivator drawn
by two mules, one walking upon each
side of the knee-high corn, and driven
by man upon the box, completed the
culture of row at single operation;
and in the tool house lay another ma
machine, also to be drawn by horses,
which will cut down the corn
when it is ripe and lay it in regular rows,
to be finally gathered by hand. But it
is expected that by next year this ma
chine will be so improved as to gather
up the corn also.


When it is remembered that the
farmer who follows the common plow
or cultivator during a long summers
day, performs q march of from ten To
fourteen miles, it will be seen what n
boon is the machinery which relieves
him from this toll. And when we re-
member how scarce were men during
the last four years in the west, we shall
see that but for such labor-saving i'm
plements our vast crops of cereals could
have been neither planted nor gathered.


The farm of which the corn-field we
speak of was part, has seven hundred
acres in single field of timothy. OF
what use would this be if it had to be
cut by handi But half dozen harvest
ing machines tsufficed to cut it all in
good time; and it will do without
Hgroanin," the work of half q regiment
of men; patent horse-rakes gather it up,
and two hay-presses upon the place
squeeze it into bales fit for shipping.
Seventeen and half miles of board
fence inclose little more than half of
this farm, which has, as part Of its fur
niture, comfortable sheds for 10000
sheep, q rat-proof corn crib holding
1900 bushels of corn, and extensive
stabling for horses.


What machinery has thus done for the
west it will do for the south, now that
free labor is substituted for that of the
slayes.-EreniNg Post.
Year: 1866

who fraternized with FRED DOUGLASS
and DR.. p. b. RANDOLPH at tho Torch
and Turpcntine Convention would all
be efficient agents. There are hardly
enough negroes in West Virginia, if
they were all enfranchised, to keep the
State in radical hands, if all the white
men were permitted to vote. An impor-
tation from the Southern plantations
will be absolutely necessary to
elect either HARRIS or FOREMAN
to be Governor of West Virginia
in 1868. The slight obstacle which the
constitution offers in the way of the i'm
mediate enfranchisement of the blacks,
OF the Acknowledgement of Irishmen
will not stand in the way of our Govor-
nor and his radical friends. The whole
thing can be done by means of q simple
resolution of the Legislature amending
test oath and altering, in few unim-
portant respects, the present election
laws. The constitution never has stood
in the way of the radical party when it
sought to accomplish a party scheme,
and it will not be permitted to hinder
negro suffrage when so important mat
ter as the election of General Tom HARRIS
to be Governor is in the scale.


By inviting the negroes to swarm to
and settle in West Virginia, the Gov
ernor may "kill two birds with one
stone" He may not only exhibit prac-
tically his sympathy for the "down-
trodden African" for whom tho radical
bosom throbs and the radical bowels
yearn, but he may also contribute much
in that way to keep the State in radical
hands and for General HARRIS election,
Make assurance doubly sure


And take bond of fate"
Year: 1866

The Confederate Democracy of this
State apparently want to get up anoth
er var The organ of the partyin this
County publishes approvingly articles
from the N. Y. News, in which the
President isviolently urged to act-the
role of Cromwell and turn the Repre-
sentatives of the People out of the
halls of Congress. In last weeks
Gazette we find an article from the
News, urging the President to violate
his oath of office by refusing to execute
the Civil Rights law, because, as. the
News says, 1--WE have no national Con-
gress" The News speaks of Congress
as San assemblage of usurpers," and
'i'an Unconstitutional Legislative body.p


The call for State Convention of
the Confederate Democracy in Ohio is
in the same strain.


Now, whose fault is it that these
Rebel States are not represented in
Congress They voluntarily left their
seats in Congress and engaged in war
to overthrow the Government, and at
the end of four years failed. Because
of their doing this, must we declare
that the States that remained loyal and
gave their blood and muscle and money
to sustain the Government, have no
power to legislate If the present
Congress is an unconstitutional legis-
lative body" then every Congress that
has assembled since the winter of
1S60l6l was san Unconstitutional
body" and all Of our legislation during
that time was illegal.


Let the People bear in mind that the
Representatives chosen by these Rebel
States are, without exception, fresh
from the Rebel armies and the Rebel
Congress; and that in none of those
States could man be elected unless he
had taken an active p art in the Rebel
lion, eitherin the council or in the
field They have in every instance
purposely elected men who could not
take the requisite oath. Must the
wheels oflegislation stop entirely until
these States are admitted to reprcsen-
tation. which, as ut present organized,
refuse to seni members entitled to ad-
mission, and insist on thrusting men
into Congress whose hands are. drip
ping with the blood Of loyal menP


These questions the People must be
prepared to meet the coming Summer
and falkland upon their decision de-
pends the veal or woe Of our country
for ages to come.
Year: 1866

Many persons suppose that the institution
OF Freemasonry is altogether benevolent in
its character; that its constitutions and gen
eral regulations require that certain provi-
sion shall be made weekly for the sick, the
disabled, or the distressed This mistake.
No Masonic lodge is bound by constitutional
law to contribute to the support of any sick
or disabled member any stipulated sum per
week. Neither are they caliei upon to in-
eur expenses on behalf ofdeceased brethren,
in liquidating funeral expenses, &c. Nor
are they called upon, by any recognized law,
to support the widow of deceased brother,
or to foster or educate his children. Free
masonry is not an insurance company. 1t
does not require of those who knock at her
door for admittance that they all nay so
much per week, and have it returned to them
again in the form of benefits when they are
really sick, or would fcign the reality OF
indisposition. Nothing like this in Masonry.
And it has never deceived any OF its initi.
ates by telling them that the constitutional
rules and regulations of the order required
that few dollars should be doled out to
them per week, and that the order was
bound to furnish funds fer their decent
interment.


Freemasonry is a brotherhood. The
order recognizes and maintains the sublime
principle, that as one God created US all we
have a common parentage; and as God is
the father of the spirit of all flesh, those
who were created in His own image" are
brethren. The tenets of Freemasonry, in
incucating and enforcing these sentiments,
establish principle that does not require
stringent laws to show the brethren their
| duty nor are promises necessary to excite
the selfish propensities of our nature. The
whole system of Freemasonry is designed to
purify the heart; to make man deserve
the station of that race who were created
but little lower than the angle, and, while
the fraternal fire warns his breast, and makes
him feel that man is his brother, that no
law, save that of love, is necessary to force
him to the nath of duty. The one who un-
derstands Masonry as a sublime moral sci
ence, will here perceive that the duties which
he is called upon to perform in the fulfill
ment of his Masonic obligations, rise from
dignifed sense of his relations with his
fellow-men. The suffering man is his broth
er, and he should assist him. 1t requires
no law of lodge or council to enforce the in
junction, IF thy neighbor hunger, give
him meat; if he thirst give him drink; aud
if he lack raiment clothe him. - Wiggin.
Year: 1866

A DISPATCH to an evening paper an
'nounoes that President johnson will this
evening address the colored citizens Of
Washington. A private dispatch informs
US that the subject Of his discourse will be
The I'VE and public services Of Moses. IN.
Year: 1866

The licentious extravagance Of this
body exceeds anything that ever dig
graced the history of the American re-
public. IL is hard to determine which of
its jobs and profigate acts is the worst.
The Boston Post thinks that the smallest
thing it did was striking out the moder-
ate sum proposed for repairs and furnish
ing of the Presidents house to shew their
spite and malignity toward the present
occupant. They took good care, howev-
er, to unconstitutionally advance their
own pay sixty per cent. over what they
had agreed to serve their constituents
for when they were elected, to date back
from the commencement of the session.
More barefaced robbery of the public
treasury was never known in any civil
lied country, and yet these bold specu-
lators and dishonest scoundrels have the
unblushing impudence to 60 before the
people and ask their constituents to sus-
tain them. Could brazenfaced effrontery
90 farther2
Year: 1866

A CORRESPONDENT of the Common
realM says there never was plan
more nearly approaching idiocy than
that which some of our friends had
Matched for making Grant our next pres
idential candidate" And the Common
uealth, commencing the writer, says "the
loyal community should have informs-
ton before cherishing too fondly the
thought of making General Grant the
next candidate of the Republican Union
party for the Presidency"
Year: 1866

We call attention to a list of names of property
holders on Royal street not heretofore published,
who are in favor Of the completion of the railroad
in that street, and urge the same over their sigma
lures. Let the matter be decided.
Year: 1866

Let youth eing the praise of bushes.


And thrill with the rapturous bliss
That rises unbidden and hushes


The brain at the thought of kiss.
1t is all very we'll 10 be laden


With passionate joy when you see
The innocent blush Of a maiden,
:. But the glance of a widow for me.
Not fig would give for the rapture


That swells in tho breast Of boy,
When Cupid has helped him to capture


A boarding-school casket of Joy.
don't care for bloom and f ne dresses,


But Paradise comes when l see
widow in weeds and fine tresses,


Oh that is n charmer for me.
Then let youth sting the praises of beauty
And kneel before maidenhood's shrine
To ringlets and blushes pay duty,


And dream that such ,hinys are divine.
But give me the flash that entrances,


The heart that was bound and is free.
The eye with a soul in its glances-


Oil gentle young widow for me.
Year: 1866

when he has made complaint OF ap y,hing
in his treatment, General Miles has rectified
it; and the prisoners only further ground
of dissatisfaction was, that it was not done
at once, the General taking his own time
to work the reform.
Year: 1866

H0 NEVhIh LsbOA SAO!
Never Look sad nothing 40 boil


As getting familiar with sorrow;
Treat him to-day In cavalier way,


And hen seek other quarters tomorrow
Long you'd not weep could yon but keep


at this bright side Of cvcry trial
Fortune you'd lnd Is often most kind


when chilling your hopes with denial.
Lot tho sad day carry away
. Its own little burden Of sorrow.
Or you may miss half Of the bliss g..
That comes in the lap Of tomorrow.
Year: 1866

RAPD INCREASE IN THE POPULATION OF THE
UNITED STATEs.-Returns lately sent in to the
Census Office give us an interesting glimpse
into the growing prosperity Of the country, 1t
would seem from these returns that, notwith-
standing the terrible ravages of our late war,
the population of the United States has been
and is increasing at the rate of million
a year. The Western and Northwestern States
are mainly absorbing this added population;
but after the South has accepted the constitu-
tional amendment and re-entered Congress
strong tide of emigration will set In
southwark. Colonies of Scandinavians are
already leading the way. The climate OF
many of the the Southern States is prefer
able to that of the Northwest, and in the variety
of their products and the fertility Of their soil
the Southern States have great additional ad-
vantages Emancipation opens the way for
immense changes land developments in the
South. The Old World system of agriculture
which slavery perpetuated must disappear.
Agricultural machinery and white labor will
gradually supplant, in fact is gradually sup
planting, the uncertain hand labor of the negro.
The effect Of such change will be to multiply
almost indefinitely the producing power of the
country. There is grand future before the
South if she does but recognize her true in
terests, and grand future before the country
at large. Our population to-day is probably
not less than thirty-fve millions In 1870, when
the next government census is taken, it will
probably exceed forty millions.
Year: 1866




Once there, they are fattered with the atten-
tions OF some monarch or scion OF royalty, and,
instead Of planting themselves upon the broad
platform Of their nationality, become the
toadies Of Powers inimical to republican in,
stitutions. The toadying policy has marked
the career Of the present administration to
sufficient extent already. 1t is time it were
checked or peremptorily stopped. No minis
ter to foreign court should be allowed to
retain his place if found incompetent or swerv-
ing from his plain duty towards the govern
ment and the American people. We want
conscientious, high-toned and educated gentle
men to represent us abroad, such as we have
in Major General Dix, who has been rendered
the mission to France. We have no doubt our
Minister at Vienna will in due time personally
explain away the unpleasant reports respecting
his conduct as our official representative at the
Court Of the Hapsburgs.
Year: 1866

! SHAMEFUL There are a number Of
men, we came near saying, but they are


unworthy of the title-Saloon Keepers i'm
this community, who are i'm the habit of
permitting young boys to come TO their Sa-
looms to gamble and drink. Such people are
a disgrace to the community, and would
shame Satan. whose image they bear
How they can ever look these boys par
ents in the face, and why they are permit
ted to continue on in this shameful and
open violation of the law, we are unable to
conjecture, and can only express surprise
that they have been allowed 10 keep it up
so long. We hope they. will consider the
prospects they are blighting, and the many
tears of anguish they are causing to be
shed from fond mothers hearts, at the ruin
of their boys, and discontinue this infa-
nous as well as inhuman practice. We
don't include all of them in this category,
as there are some who have manhood
enough mot to allow minors to loaf
around their saloons.
Year: 1866

POP CORN PUDDlNG.-This dish, the in
vention of which is attributed to SolOn
Robinson, is highly commended by him
for good flavor, healthfulness, and facility


OF making. Crush pop Corn with a roll
ing pin on stable, and then grind it into
COARSE meal in a common coffee mill, or in
n MIL of large sire, it may be ground at
once without rolling. One sints of corn
Will make about sixteen pints when pop
ped, and This reiti' measure at,6ht eight
pints when ground. To make the pud-
ding: mix five pints of the meal with fout
pints ofsweet milk. place it where it will
warm slightly and iefit stss'k an hour or
two. Then let it soak an hour or two
Then let it cool, and add two eggs, sugar.
raisins, and spice as for "a rice pudding.
Set it on hot stove aith boil a few min
utes, stirring it several times to get the
meal mixed with the milk. Then bake it
about an hour, serve it while hot. e
Year: 1866

ARREsTED.-The thiet that stole the
horse from over the river-nfentiori 6i
which was made in the Courier IA few days
ago-was arrested ~ n Constable near
Agency the same day he stole rim, and
before he had time to get rid of him. He
is now recipient of the hospitalities of
our worthy Sheriff. He is mere boy six
teen years old, and gives his name as JOHN
Myers Of Miss uri There is another gent
of this persuasion, one James Elsinger by
name, in our county Jail, lodged there by
Sheriff Wright, of Appanoose County for
safe keeping. We are indebted to Sheriff
Derby for the above itSfns.
Year: 1866

Father Murphy has stated the case sc
much better than we can do it, that we have
taken the liberty TO publish his letter. We
think it was wise not to allow Mrs. Tobin to
make the journey, alone, and we trust, now
and the SSH is on It's way home, that suff-
cient funds viii be raised, IN addition to the
liberal contributions already made by few
OF eur citizens, 10 recover the remains of the
gallant captain, and convey them to this city,
with proper honors.