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Year: 1866

He long felt the moral effect Of his pun
ishment. / can not say he never told an
other lie, but as he was always punished
in this rational, kind way, and not in a
way that inspired terror, he grew to be
truth-loving and frank and sincere. In
credible as it may seem to many fathers
who know no other punishment than whip
ping, and believe that there is no other
that is eficacious, my boy kept promise
he made me to come and tell me whenever
he failed to speak the truth.


My wife and / have great joy in the
boy. He is still child, with child's
faults and imperfections, many of which
we think it wise to let pass with little or
no notice, but we see continually the good
effects of discarding brute force, and learn
ing more ercellent acay. @ d


And 1 thank my God, who gave me
the child, that he made me wise, and
showed me this more excellent way before
l had blunted my boys finer sensibilities
and DESTROYED his moral sense. His moth
er thanks God with me, and she sighs
with me, too, for neither of us can forget
that our Harry died before we learned
the more excellent way. Sometimes ]
think she is more self-reproachful than l.


al was pleasure-loving woman," sh'
often says, (" and | would not take th'
time and trouble to punish him humanel.
and nationally. | either whipped hin
myself, or took the easier way and hand
ed him over to you for punishment, and


was often the cause of his heaviest blows


But / tell her that what has been don
cannot be undone, and that we must solac
ourselves by trying to win others to u
more erceliea scay. A. A. G.
Year: 1866

Our exchanges, by answering our que
ry, may bring joy to some fond heart, that
mourns as dead an unfortunate man whom
we saw at the hospital in this place yes
terday. So sad picture as his anxious
face presents it has not been our lot to
look upon. No account whatever can be
gathered from him here. When the Uni
ted States forces took possession of Tai
lahassa, they found this man in the (then)
Confederate hospital, and he has not been


heard to speak since. His face ever


wears an expression of most anxious care


The moment any one enters his room he


turns with an imploring glance, intensified


by an expression of fear. Oh that look


can never be forgotten! So full of peti-


ton, dread and woe! He wrings his


hands necessarily, and seems just utterng


some earnest request, bat never speaks.


Repeated efforts have been made to in


duce him TO write. But he takes the pen
mechanically, as he does everything else,
and gaze up into your face with that same


earnest look of underlined supplication and
dread.


| When he is left alone with his food he


eats heartily, and until recently his gen


eral health has been good. He is now


little emaciated. Occasionally he has


been known to creep stealthily to his win


down and open it cautiously, But in do
ing so he seems to dread some catastrophe.


We have made considerable inquiry


about him in the city, and can gain no


clue as to the exact time when he was


brought to Tallahassee, or from where.


One account supposes that he was brought
up here month or two before the sur
render from the hospital in Monticello
Another says that some Confederate sol
diers who have seen him here, remember
that they saw him in the Natural Bridge
fght-that he was then wearing Majors
star, and that he fought bravely. He sup.
poses that an explosion of shell near his


head paralyzed his speech ard deprived
i him partially of his reason.


I 1t is passing strange that he shoule
have remained here so long without being
identified. Perhaps DR.. Bacon of Fer
l. nandina, who had charge Of the hospita
here at the time of the surrender, nigh
e give some information. We appeal +
o any who can give us information concern
ing him to do so.


e He is a man of commanding figure
we should think six feet and one or tw
q inches in height-if strong and robu'
e would weigh about 160 pounds-seen
q to be between thirty-fve and forty yeal
y of age--has a prominent forehead-dar
u hair-a large gray eye, and rather prom
~ inent nose.


y We wish some arrangement could


made whereby he could find quiet pla
d. in the country. He is as docle as chill
e obeying mechanically every comman
a and with such an expression as wou
in move heart of one.-Tdlahassee Sen
in mel.
Year: 1866

exclusively demand
light that will do



Ibis machine has all the distinctive principles and of the
eleve
the and
Itis light weighing four hundred
simple handled and beautifully
sold


Every machine warranted satisfaction Price 800 cash.
Year: 1866

weather prove propitious there need be no
fears about large yield. This is the
character Of our Information from several
Southern States where planting has already
begun. In view of this favorable condition
Of the cotton supply, is it not remarkable
that the prices Of all our cotton fabrics and
domestic goods to consumers keep so enor-
mously highi The dry goods trade Of import
ers, 1t is true, is dul but that is the result Of
excessive importadons, without taking into
consideration the facilities of home manufac-
turers for steadily and rapidly supplying the
newly opened Southern market We expect
very soon to hear Of heavy auction sales OF
imported dry goods, and then, in view also
Of the large cotton supply, We imagine our
home manufacturers will be gracious enough
to relax the tension Of present prices upon
domestic goods.
Year: 1866

swNDLNo Grrr AND OTHER LOTTERIES. We
have repeatedly cautioned the public, especially
the country people, against being deceived by
swindling gin and other lotteries; and we have
lately received communications on the subject
which indicate that the scamps concerned In
getting them up are still ct their rascally work


1t seems that the Southern country has lately
been the scene Of their operations, and that
that section Of the country is flooded with cir
culan offering prizes Of very attractive de-
scription TO those who may be induced TO invest
in the schemes. One dodge is TO send circu-
lar 70 some citizen whose name has been pre-
Year: 1866

viously ascertained, suggesting how he can be
made the recipient of certain prize, say few
hundred dollars, on the payment OF nominal
sum, generally ten dollars. All that Is requir-
ed of him is to show the prize money to his
neighbors, and represent that 1t is the fruits OF
a fortunate Investment in lottery ticket, there
by inducing his friends TO invest in q similar
game This, of course, is the last the victim
hears or sees Of his ten dollars, and the swind-
lers pocket the money. The cry against the
swindling gift jewelry enterprises is universal,
and the feeling is general that they ought to be
suppressed and the managers served as pro
minent mock auctioneer recently was-to vii,
sent to the State Prison. The Post ONCE detec-
tives have broken up several Of these concerns
but the number does not appear to diminlsA-
in fact. the rrasccals who manage them shew


more and moro audacity with every exposure.
A swinging wholesome example should bs


made of some prominent one Of these swindless,


and then, perhaps, the little gift villains would


cease to commit their depredations on tAs


unwary.
Year: 1866

A RADICAL FIcTpS.---A story has been going
the rounds Of the radical press to the effect
that before the passage Of the Freedmen's
Bureau bill II had been read to the President by
Senator Trumbull IN the presence Of General
Howard, and that the President had then
agreed to II, and expressed his intention 10
sign IL This whole story, so evidently false ON
its face, is simply radical coinage, though
the meaner portion Of the radical press adheres
10 is fiction spite of denial We are able 10
declare positively that General Howard never
was present on any such occasion, and that
the Prssident never told him be would sign
The biz 80 -
Year: 1866

The SuPPLY OF CoTToS AND THE PRICE or
CoTToS Goops.-Just after the surrender of
General Lee, in April, 1865, we presented
an estimate of the amount of cotton on
hand, in store or concealed in the South
ern States, and showed that in our judg-
ment there could not be less than two million
five hundred thousand bales, and possibly,
including surplus from previous crops, three
million two hundred thousand bales ready for
expectation as soon as transportation could be
procured. This calculation eNuited much atten-
ton at the time, and various counter statements
were made, all pretending TO show that our
estimate was an exaggeration, and that the
amount Of cotton in the South at the close Of
the war could not exceed million bales-some
set It a. low as six hundred thousand. Statis-
tical evidence on the subject, however since
received, sustains our calculation and shows
that those who disputed its correctness were
either wilfully ignorant or grossly mistaken.
II IL well established fact that about one
million eight hundred thousand bales have
already reached the great cotton marts or been
shipped from Southern ports 70 Northern or for
cign ports since last May; and II is conceded
that q million bales or more are now on hand
In the interior, awaiting conveyance to market
This, taking the entire old crop, and without


renching upon the present or new crop,
which Is gathered In the month OF Sep
tcmber, gives us, 10 make good our esti-
mate until that time, seven hundred thou
sand bales TO be exhumed and to reach the
Southern seaboard from the interior Our in
formation on this subject is clear and definite.
II il the same with regard TO the new crop,
the extent Of which croakers and specu.
lators are busily ct work In belittline. With
all The cry about the disability of planters 70
procure laborers, there Is no doubt an i'm


mense area Of Southern territory will this
season be planted n cotton; and u the
Year: 1866

STREET OBsTRUcTIONs.--ith has now Decn
nearly q year and half since the great
fire occurred which destroyed the best
part of our city, and during an that time
Main street has been occupied on both
sides by piles Of brick and lumber. The
ordinance allows builders the use Of . GER
tain portion Of the street, but they 80 ire
quently appropriate more space than they
are entitled to, that 1t has come to be
matter Of general complaint. It Is the
duty Of the police to report all cases Of this
kind to the Mayor, and for their informa-
tion, as well as the builders, We append an
extract from the ordinance on the subject


"Any person engaged or about to be en-
gagged in building, repairing, excavating,
or making any improvement on house or
lot on which materials are to be used, or
from which they are to be removed, may
deposit materials in that part Of the street
or public alley opposite his premises, or so
much of the carriage way as does not ex-
ceed one-half the width thereof, 50 that
the use of the gutter be not obstructed.
But where two persons are building or
making other improvements, hereby au-
thorized, opposite each other on the same
street, each shall occupy but one-fourth of
the street."
Year: 1866

PROFITABLE BUsINEss.-Major Claiborne,
Chief of Police, yesterday sold at auction
the hogs and goats captured by the netmen
in their raid on the previous day. BY this
operation the handsome amount of $l45
was placed in the city treasury. The
number of dogs captured was forty, and
hogs and pigs seventeen. More dogs would
have been taken but for the fact that the
nctmcn were rather late in starting out on
the expedition, owing to some misunder-
standing. They pick up only the worth
less cannes, whose owners do not set suffi-
cicnt value upon them to pay the city a
small tax, and procure the badge which
entities them to the privilege of living.
Year: 1866

SANITARY CONDITION OF THE COUNTY
While the general health of the people Of
Henrico county is unusually good for this
season, we regret to hear that several cases
of cholera have occurred, some of which
have proved fatal. The cholera, in its first
stages, is easily managed, and readily
Yields TO medical treatment. 1t is because
the premonitory symptoms are neglected
that so many people die.> If the pestilence
makes its appearance in the open country,
where the air and water are pure and vege-
tables fresh, how can those who dwell in
crowded cities expect to escape Every
family should be provided with bottle of
"Squib," or some other approved medicine,
and apply the antidote at the first symptom
of the disease. l.FtI. .'.'
Year: 1866

SHOOTING AFrAIR on SEVENTH STREET
A MAN UHr"R ARREST BEATS A POLICEMAN
AND Is SHoT BY HIM.-Last evening at
about s o'clock policeman James Angle,
while on his beat, had occasion to arrest a
man named Jefferson Horne for being
drunk and disorderly on the street. He
was proceeding with him to the second
station-houss, and when near the corner of
Seventh and Broad, Horne attempted to
resist the policeman and get away. The


latter commenced to disengage his club,
which was tied to his belt, and whilst he
was in the act of doing so, Horne
seized the club, wrenched it away,
and knocking the policeman down, COM
menced to beat him severely. The latter
then drew his pistol and fired twice at
Horne, the first ball infcting slight
wound in the right hand, and the second
indicting rather serious one in the right
groin. As soon as the second shot was
fired Horne ran off, but was reiirreStcd on
Marshall, between Seventh and Eighth
streets and carried to the station-house.
Policeman Angle was so badly beaten as
not to be able to raise his arms after the
affair was over.
Year: 1866

The hour up to which FREIGHT for this road will be
received at the Depot in Manchester, is extended to
FOUR O'CLOCK p NJ from and after this date. As is
necessary to enable the clerks to make ont the proper
way bills, to have fixed hour to stop receiving, notice
is hereby given that freight will be received after
the hour named.


The Freight on goods for Danville and Greensboro
may be paid at destination at the option of the ship
pers but the freight all goods for way stations must
be prepaid.


shippers will please pay their freight bills by four
o'clock, P. NJ otherwise goods will not be sent for
ward. THOMAS D0DAMBAD,


mh5 Superintendent.
Year: 1866


OF LIME, TO


SOD per 5000 Pounds:
which is a reduction of SIS per ton in less than one
year-our price being in the Spring Of 1865 Seven
ty Dollars per Ton in Philadelphia, and Seventy five
Dollars per Ton in Baltimore.


This is much lower according TO the present value
of all the materials used in the manufacture of our
MANURE than ever before.


~ The price for the Spring season will not be
further redueed-but may find it necessary to ad
vance from the above figures as the season progress



The constantly increasing demand for our Raw.
Bone Super Phosphate of LINE from all parts of our
country, and the great advantages alone possess
in controlling large amounts of Bone stock, enable
to give the Agricultural community manure ut


less price per tom than be produced by the far
mer himself even if he possessed the advantage of
buying all tho Bone stock at wholesale prices


Send in your orders to the nearest Dealer us early
as possible. Yours. very truly,
BAUGH 6 SONS,
mari 81 Sole Manufacturers.
Year: 1866

PURITY OF CHARACTER.-Over the
beauty of the plum and the apricot, there
grows bloom and beauty more ex-
quiste than the fruit itself--a soft, deli
cate flush that overspreads its blushing
cheek. Now, if you strike your hand
over that, and it is once gone, it is gone
forever, for it never grows but once. The
flower that hangs in the morning, impearl-
ed with dew-arrayed as no queenly wo-
man ever was arrayed with jewels-once
shake it, so that the beads roll off, and
you may sprinkle water over it as you
please, yet it can never be made again
what il was when the dew fell silently
upon it from heaven On frosty MORN
ing you may see the panes of glass, COW
cred with landscapes-mountains, lakes
and trees, blended in beautiful, fantas-
tic picture. Now lay your hand upon
the glass, and by the scratch of your fin
ger, or by the warmth of your palm, all
the delicate tracery will be obliterated.-
So there is in youth beauty and purity
of character, which, when once touched
and defiled, can never be restored; a
fringe more delicate than frostwork, and
which, when torn and broken, will never
be re-embroidered. A man who has
spotted and soiled his garments in youth,
though he may seek to make them white
again, can never wholly do it, even were
he to wash them with his tears. When a
young man leaves his fathers house, with
the blessing of mothers fears still wet
upon his forehead, if he once loses that
early purity of character, it is loss that
he can never make whole again. Such is
the consequence of crime. Its effects
cannot be eradicated; it can only be for
given.
Year: 1866

Two leading Episcopal Churches at
Charleston, 5. c., are making united
movement for educating the colored child
ren, and have already 600 scholars under
their tuition. These churches are also
making arrangements to provide higher
education for the blacks as soon as they
can be prepared for it by this primary
movement. The colored population fall
into the plan enthusiastically, and more or
less colored persons have been placed up
on the committees raised by these church.
es as means of forming link between
the two races, and of uniting or identify
ing their interests in this great move
ment. The pastors engaged in carrying
out this plan are whites, in accordance
with the wishes Of the colored people
themselves.
Year: 1866

How TO LIvE.--A wealthy gentlc-
man of Boston several years ago, gave
the editor of the Worcester Palladium
short narration of his own experience
He had an income of $4,000 a year, "a
large sum then, but not considered so
now house in town, and country seat
few miles out. He had several chill
dren---a coach, fine horses and driver;
and took pleasure in riding every day
with his children.


One day, when riding, the thought
struck him that each one of his children
would expect to have fine house and
coach and horses and driver, as their
father had before them, and to live as he
lived; and if they did not they would be
unhappy. He did not think that all of
them could have things as he had them,
or live as he was living and he rode
home; sent his coach and horses to mar
ket and sold them; bought a cheap carry
all, and became his own driver.


With emphasis he declared that no
amount of wealth could induce him to re-
turn to his former mode Of living, for If
any of his children should chance to be
poor, as in all probability some of them
would be, they should not suffer in their
feelings by the reflection that their father
rode in his coach while they had to rough
it on foot The example he gave them
afforded him satisfaction greater thar
his wealth had to bestow.
Year: 1866

have formed o-partnershp for the purpose OF
carrying General Confectionery and Family
Grocery at the stand formerly occupied by Mr.
dence on Mint Street, where they would be pleased
TO see their friends and the public generally. we
desire share of public patronage, and hope that
you will give call and We will try to please.
We have also connected with our establishment a
ROOT AND SHE SHOP, where we will have your
Boots and Shoes repaired ct short notice or new
ones made to order.


THOS. LEDWELL,


WM. L. SIZER.
Year: 1866

We trust that the high price of cotton will


not cause our people to ignore entirely, the cul-
flVatlon of corn. We must have corn for man
and BEAST and if all the land shall be put 10 cot
ton then the price will be so reduced as to make
1t no big thing after all. On this subject the
Norfolk Day Book says.


awe regret to learn from gentlemen of this
city who recently visited North Carolina, that
many planters, allured by the high prices of cot
ton are about to give their chief attention to the
culture of this staple, ignoring to considerable
, degree, or wholly, the production of cereals.


This course is certainly unwise. 1t will not
do in the experimental era in which we find
ourselves, to count too confidently upon GER
tain yield Of cotton. Ours is an uncertain re-
sion at best for the growth of this staple, be-
sides, labor may be waited when most needed
when the grass is rank in the field, and if not
to be bad then, the crop is doomed. The sea-
SOUS may not be propitious and worms may sal
ly forth like guerrillas blighting whatever they
touch.


1t is just as we'll to prepare against any evil
contingency, rather than take gamblers haz-
ard Of fortuitous results. We have for'some
time urged upon planters to try cotton
crop, buTwe never dreamed that the cultivation
Of corn was therefore to be abandoned.


g. If but small crop of corn is to be raised in
ttbe South, we gravey apprehend partial famine
in the year to come.


This section has been for many years consd-
cred one of the great granares of the South, and
annually had large surplus of corn to SELL
But matters have greatly changed within few
years, and if the few laboring men have left
are to be devoted to the cultivation of cotton, to
the exclusion of corn, verify, we nothing
but trouble ahead We are in "bad streak of
luck" aut famine may be in the list of our tu-
ture trials if VIC do not heed. We call upon
our planters to weigh these suggestions and act
upon them if they worthy of consideration


The immediate result of the cotton mania
amongst our planters, Is to pnt up the price OF
corn in this market. They propose 70 hold on
to their old corn and to live off it, through this
year, hence they must psshipping at once"
Year: 1866

LterU,ea0 betgeen the President end Hon
Henry j. Raymond.


The Washington Republican of last Tuesday
afternoon says:


On Friday last the President chad free con-
yersation with congressional representative
from New York City" We do not deem it a
violation of any confidence, since publication
is made OF what occurred, to state that the rep
resentative was the Hon. Henry j. Raymond.


The result of the conversation is the more i'm
portant from the fact that Mr. Raymond is not
only representative 10 Congress, and the editor
of one of the leading republican journals in the
country, but he is also chairman of the national
executive committee. of the great Union party
in the United States, and hence, in the latter
capacity, is charged with high and important
responsibilities. His constituency is not con-
fined to single representative district of New
York. but takes in every man who voted for
Lincoln and Johnson. Therefore it is that his
words and acts IN the Times, and especially in
Congress, are watched, weighed and criticised
with more than ordinary interest and care. 1t
is for these reasons that Mr. Ray ymond's own ed
itorial account of his interview with President
johnson Possesses more Importance than 1t 9th
crwlse would.


But the most interesting point in this inter
view was that concerning tne party relatlobS vi
the President. Upon the representative remark
ing ''that some persons might take, or profess to
take the Presidents speech to the negroes an
indication that he was at variance with his par
ty friends, and that some others nigh endeavor
to found upon it the charge that be was prepar-
ing to 60 over," the President smiled and an
swered 'that if the party which opposed his
election indulge in any great expectations on
that score, they were likely to be disappointed.
He might differ with individuals Of what was
called the Union party as to the means to be
used, but he considered himself in general ac-
cord with that party, whole, in the ends to
be reached. He not a party man, and he
meant to sink the partisan in the patriot. But
so far as he understood the sentiments of the
Union party, he was IN general accord with il"
In subsequent remarks he was even more point
ed on this matter, saying that he "proposed to
fight his battles within the lines of the party
which elected him to Office. He might differ
with some of his friends, and he should feel
wholly at liberty to SO differ, and to state the
ground of his contrary belief or opinion; but he
considered himself identified with the great
Z nion party, and had no desire or intention Of
being found outside"
Year: 1866

boarder at one Of our city boarding houses
on being asked how they lived there, replied
that the hash was rather doubtful, but the beef
"bully.'' This dubious compliment failed to
attract new boarder.