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Year: 1866

THE MINERAL WEALTH OF THE STATE
Very few men give themselves the trouble to
think, understandingly, of the immense min
eral wealth ofour State. At least ten thous-
and men could be proftably employed with
in her borders, delving for the rich treasures
which underlie her surface, if the. attention
ofcapitalists couldonly be turned in this
directiYn We arelcrediblE informed that at
the COD Der mines of Jackson anu adjoining
counties alone, it requires from forty to fifty
wagons and teams daily to haul the rich oar
to the railroads for shipment, when the
mines are properly worked and the mines
already discovered on this side of the noun
tains, are said to be equally rich. They can
not be worked, however, because there is no
coal in their vicinity for smelling purposes,
and to haul the oar to railroad would
ruin the profits. Once the road is completed
through the mountains these rich oars as
well as thousands of Others, which the keen
eve of the mineralogist would soon discover,
will be shipped down to the neighborhood
of the coalfields in Chatham county ,probab-
ly to Greensboro. to be smelted and prepar-
ed for market In addition to copper and
other finer metals, the mountains of this
State abound in mines of iron ore than
which perhaps none are richer on the conti-
nent. These massive beds of mineral wealth
are so far removed from water OF railroad
transportation that the working of them
cannot pay until transportation is supplied.
When that is done, they will at once become
great sources of wealth to the State,as well
as to those who may be so unfortunate as to
own and work them. Even the immense
1uarreys of marble, than which none on the
continent are finer, which this mountain road
will penetrate, would, in the course of time,
almost pay for building the road. Strange
as it may seem,. portions of our mountain
country, equally rich in mineral wealth, and
surrounded by civilization for the last fifty
years or more, have been less explored and
are less known to mineralogists and miners
generally, than the Rocky Mountains of the
far off West where the buffalo, bear, panther
and Indian still roam together in their ma
tive wiIdness and ferocity. Why is this
We know no reason but the tardiness of our
people in penetrating those mountain regi-
ons with the fiery steed, and thus opening
up the way for enterprise and commerce.


North-Carolina, it seems, has been partic.
ularly unfortunate She has been, ever
since our earliest recollection until within
few years past, trying to get communication
from the coal fields to the outer world, and
yet she has never succeeded. She has spent
money enough, first and last, on the deep
river navigation, to build railroad half way
round the State, all to no purpose, and now,
for the last. we do not know how many
years, our people have been pecking away at
a railroad from Raleigh to the coal fields,
and it has not been completed yet.


Well do we deserve the appellation OF Old
Rip Nan Winkle 1t is high time we should
wake up from our lethargy, invite labor and
capital into our midst, and make us State
of which we shall be truly proud.-Neao6er7,
Times
Year: 1866

tured BY Pierce and Buchanan, and the


Democratic party the secession party Of


1861. songht to divide the country and


erect on its ruins new confederacy,
having for its corner stone the divine


institution" of slavery In reviewing
the acts of the Union party, he said that
peace had been coDquereI, slavery for
ever prohibited, and justice performed,
and he mentioned repeated instances in
which the Democratic party had op-
posed all measures for public safety and


benefit.


Mr.. Cullom said he was willing to
rest the whole matter in the hands of
loyal people to decide. They would he
said he slow to believe that the Union
party was false and hypecritical in the
shaping of its policy and in announcing
the declaration of its principles. The
nation has been vindcated and the
problem solved; nullifcation and seces-
sion have been tIampled in the dust, and
Congress is now charged with greater
responsibility than ever before. Since
The formation of the government the
Democratic party was a negative party
rather than of affirmative principles, and
in addition to their opposition to other
benefcent measures they say there is no
power under the constitution to pass
the Freedmen's Bureau bill He took
it for granted the President would sign
it. He spoke in relation to the question
OF reconstruction arguing that the Con-
gress of the United States had full pow
er to reorganize the rebellious States
and to admit them to repre-.
sentation when in the Judgment of the
national government, through its Con-
gress, it shall be deemed safe to do So
looking to the loyalty of the people fer
the guarantees which are demanded to
secure to all that equal and exact justice
which is SO imperatively demanded. 1t
was not pleasant for him to look upon
the dark side of the picture and recount
the many acts of treason and tieudish
barbarity which had characterized the
rebellious people for the past four years.
But he could not forget the dreadful
struggle through which we had passed,
and winter quarters of millions OF brave
men who had been slain in the terrible
contest for national existence. He could
not forget the dreadful night in April
last when that great man, SO fully styled
the savior OF his country, was struck
down with the bloody dagger of brute,
and as We proceed in the discharge of
our responsible duties let us stand by
that old maxim "let justice be done
though the heavens fall"


House Adjourned.
Year: 1866

Work can be ordered from any part of the Te, ritory, and will be promptly executed and car.. fully sent by mail sor directed.

 Henceiorth the business Of the office will be conducted strictly upon the
Year: 1866

Some people in the North appear inclined
to put the worst face on everything which
occurs in the Southern States Affairs there
arc bad enough; the South has always been
a frontier land, in which the laws were less
respected; and violence more frequent, than
III the more t6ickly settled and treer East
But 1t is of no use, but only mischievous, to
insist that the whole of that region is law
less, deprared, and irrctricvabIy given oyer
to.violcucc. The Southern States arc, by our
own act. part of the Union; We are deter
mined they shall remain so and we mean
they shall live in the same house with us. it
seems only sensible and prudent to try to
make the best, instead Of the worst, of our
companions.


Those people who sec in the Memphis riot,
and IN every other occurrence of that kind
proof that the Southern people ought not
to be represented in Congress, and that the
greater number of them ought to be disfrau-
chised-as though that would make them
coutcntcd or peaccable-rcmind us-in their
indiscriminate suspicion and dislike. of an
old story of Cornwall in the last century. a
ship was wrecked on the Cornish coast and
it happened that the only one of the crew
saved alive was monkey. Jocko was taken
to fire, dried and warmed, and thercunon
strictly Intercepted as to his nativity, where
the ship belonged, whittier she was bound,
&c, &c.


He made such answers as he could, which
his questioners vainly tried to understand
No ono IN that region had ever seen mon
key; they took his chattering and grimaces
to be some foreign lingo; and finally it was
determined to- have him regularly examined,
and his case decided on by jury. ~Jocko
was oucc more rigidly questiSRSd by mag
istrate in presence of the juF o. made an n
swcr, as before, in tongue none of the ma
tivcs understood. Thereupon, tied hand and
foot, he was locked up in the Jail, while the
jury delibcrated upon his case 1t did not
need long time for the twelve wise men to
agree upon verdict; they declared 'sHe is
a Frenchman and Papist-hang him.
Aud accordingly Jocko was hanged.


1t seems to us that hore and there North
ern journal or Congressman is inclined to
think of and treat the Southern people-or
at least considerable part of themImuch
as the Cornish jury treated poor Jocko. We
! do not think it the wisest method.


~ Y. Post.
Year: 1866

TExNTsoN AND GENERAL Brr1ER.-We
infer, says an exchange, from the following
stanza of his SIN Memoriam that the Lau-
reate of England can have no great respect
for the hero of Big Bethel apd Fort Fisher:


envy not THE BEAST. who takes


His license In the field of time


UnFetteIed by the sense Of crime


To whom conscience never wakes,
Year: 1866

observations must have been mazda
among that class Of our community
who make Sunday a day of social
pleasure, and spend il in their beer
saloons. lie did not think that
one in ten Of those who wtrs
thoroughly taught in the Sunday
school ever spent their Sabbaths
in the drinking shops.


We do not profess TO be familiar
with the drinking saloons, but
from our own observations on the
streets, at the station houses and
in the Police Court, we are inclined
to think that DR.. Waldo's estimate
of the drinking vice, with its
degrading coucomitants, is not far
ont OF the way--taking the wide
range from the adolescent smoker
and tippler, who still hangs to the
Sunday school by the slender thread
of an occasional visit mp to the
hoary headed and profane drunkard
whose besotted mind can barely
remember that he once read tho
Bible, and tried to keep the Sab.
bath day holy. Whether the chill
dren's church service would pre-
vert the growing evil we are not
prepared to say.
Year: 1866

A PRAYER.-In the State of Ohio there
resided family consisting of an old man
of the name of Beaver, and his three sons,
all of whom are hard pets" who had often
laughed to scorn the advice and entreaties of
pious though very eccentric minister, who
resided in the same town. 1t happened one
of the boys was bitten by rattlesnake, and
was expected to die, when the minister was
sent for in great haste. On his arrival he
found the young man very penitent and
anxious to be prayed with. The minister,
calling on the family. knelt down, and pray
ed in this wise: "Oh Lord We thank Thee
because rattlesnake has bit Jim. We pray
Thee send a rattlesnake to bite John :
send one to bite Bill send one to bite Sam /;
and. O Lord send the biggest kind ofrattle.
snake to bite the old man for nothing but
rattlesnakes will ever bring the Beaver fam.
ily to a repentance"
Year: 1866

The FINEST SPEECH EVER MADE-The
Westminster Review nronounces Abraham
Lincoln's Gettysburg speech the finest that
ever fell from human lips In view of this
fact, and that it is even more pertinent than
it ever was. we need make no apology for
republishing it, especially as it will but lit
tie occupy space. We give it below.


g Four score and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this continent a
new nation, conceived in liberty and dedi.
Gated to the proposition that all men are
created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation,
any nation so conceived or dedicated,
can long endure. We are met on a great
battlefield of that war. We are met to
dedicate a portion of it as the final resting
place of those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. 1t is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do this


But in large sense we cannot conse-
crate, we cannot haliow this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who struggled
here, have consecrated it far above our
power to add or detract. The world will
little note nor long remember what we say
here but it can never forget what they did
here 1t is for us, the living, rather to be
dedicated to the unfinished work that thew
have thus far so nobly carried on. 1t is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us-that from
these honored dead we take increased devo-
ton to the cause for which they here gave
the last full measure Of devotion-that we
here highly resolve that the dead shall have
not died in vain-that the nation shall, un-
ner God, have new birth of freedom. and
that the Government of the people bv the
people, and for the people, shall not perish
from the earth'
Year: 1866

Crmors RIVER PnEXoMESoS.-A few weeks ago the bed of the river Klamoth, in California, suddenly rose several feet, converting the stream into q broad and shallow torrent. The Yreka Journal explains the phenomenon as follows:

 - ss.1'he river, where the uprising took place, was very deep, with q slate rock bottom, which the eddies in the river gradually wore through making an escape for strata chalk foima- tion, heavily pressed, no doubt. by the hill back of the bank, which sunk down level at the same time the bed of the river rose up. As the original bank, with large trees along it., between the sunken hill and river channel re- main firm, the natural suposition is that the foundation of that locality is of solid rock, with a vacuum from which the chalk substance emanated. Since the rise in the river from last week rains, the stream is fast washing away the chalSy incumbrance intruding it's original channel. The locality is about thirty miles from Yrcka, and we learn that some of our citizens contemplate visiting thc-scene.7
Year: 1866

not made its decision. grant it, the Court has not written out and promulgated its de- csion, but know that that opinion was made and I know it from the very best of sources. Cloud chccring) have it from the Judges of the Supreme Court them selves. Now am speaking to the people that know me. am speaking to the men that have known me and watched me these twenty years or more. l know that can appeal to every man in this house tonight. Did you ever kYaw John Hogan to tell a liey (Crics of no !! no) Not man of them. Now I say that the Supreme Court has decided that the oath of Missouri is an oath. While I don't know it from any written opinion which they have published, have it, as l said before from the Judges themselves that made the decision; that decision is now on record in the Court.
Year: 1866

All communications addressed to this Office must be plainly written on one side of the paper, and the authors name must invariably accompany each article We will accept or reject all manuscript as our judgment dictates. sas,g s.,-T5T
Year: 1866

DWARF APPLE TREEs.-The culture
of dwarf apple trees (worked on the
paradise stock is yet very limited in
our country, and it is only within a
few years that they have attracted
any attention; but as they become
better known, and their real value APP
preciated, they will, we are sure, be
considered as indispensable as the
pear. They are less particular as to
the soil than the pear, grow quite as
readily, occupy but little more space
than a currant bush, and bear three tC
six dozen large and beautiful fruit
each. Besides this, they are so com
plctely within the control of the cuI
tivator that if the canker worm at
tacks the trees, they can easily be de
stroyed by the application of whale
oil soap. Now that this pest is so de
structive to the orchard trees. the ap
pies supply their place and the SAM
ground, covered with a dozen or tw'
trees will produce nearly the sam


quantity as a standard, and much lar
ger and more beautiful fruit.-Hou
eg's Magazine.
Year: 1866

Oheart, sore tried thou hast the best
That Heaven itself could give thce-rest-
Rest from all bitter thoughts and things!
How many poor ones blessing went
With thee beneath the low green tent


Whittier.
WASH FOR STIFF .JoINTs.-Salt brine
is said to be the best wash for stiff
Joints in horses. It is also good for
hard boof as it attracts moisture and
thus keeps the hoof soft. 1t can be
easily tried by any farmer.
Year: 1866




SMALL FARMs.--,We have, at differ
ent times heretofore, advocated the
propriety of dividing large plantations
and estates of our country into small
farms, and, as the present year draws
to close, we feelconvinced that the
propriety which we have urged is be.
coming a necessity-surely necess-
ity,-and the only thing we can see,
that will bring with it prosperity for
our section.


Large plantations did not pay be.
fore the war by one quarter as well as
small ones, andnow the outlay isso great
and the labor SO uncertain that the ef-
fort to carry on large place is prov,
ing every day to he all ,outgo and no
income Again, in times gone by,
when we could. control our labor, we
succeeded by hard work in making
money in the exclusive cultivation Of
staple productions, but the experience,
of the FIVE years has established most
clearly that the policy was suicidal
that the purely agricultural country
or section was the most dependant.
Now shall we continue this ruinous
course, with the additional burden Of
an operous and discriminating taxa
tion, when better one lies within our
reaeh-yea ia forced upon us Z We
think not. Let us, then, get to work
10 earnest to live for ourselves-lay
aside the cultivation Of staple Of
forced growth, or dependant entirely
upon the uncertainty of our everlvary.
ing seasons, and taxed to no end when
made, for certain crops, in the culture
Of which we can supply by improved
farming implements and machinery,
the labor we lack. Let US turn a por-
ton ofour large fields, now teeming
with weeds and harbor for vermin,
into pasture-pay attention to our cat
tle-horses, sheep and hogs, which we
use as others do, in less propitious latl-
certainly can raise as well for our own
tudes, and send to us under the ad-
ditional expense of transportation, at
profit; and the portions Of our places
we reserved culture let us cultivate
well in such productions as we will
require for the farm first, and then at.
tend to staple productions or in palmer
phrase, let as. farm it and make cot
ton and sugar cane secondary conssd-,
erdtious in our planting calendar, and
in the uncertain future before us we
will live in plenty if not in peace
lbereiUe South. .aaai g.l Bas .s.g
Year: 1866

an occasion may soon be given for ju-
dicial decision which will leave no
doubt as to the status of the negro.
1t does not become me to enter into
any discussion Of the character of mill
tary tribunals established by the United
States Government, as l am no more re-
sponsible for their existence than I am
for the condition of the country where
their jurisdiction has been deemed
necessary.


Thanking you for your patience and
courtesy, and sorry to have given you
so much trouble, 1 remain,


Yours very respectfully,


E. WHITTLESEY.


assistant Commissioner.
Year: 1866

1t is with sincere and heartfelt sorrow that


we are called upon TO announce the death of
DR.. j. F. VAUGHAN, which took place at his
country residence in Christana Hundred on


Sunday afternoon at half-past three O'Clock,
after brief illness. About four weeks ago,
shortly after hisremoyal to the country he was
attacked with Cholera Morbus, from which
he had partially recovered, when he was
prostrated with infammatory rheumatism,
which baffled the skill of his medical atten.
dants. Congestion of the brain ensued, and
after much intense suffering he breathed his
last on Sunday afternoon Dr. VAUGHAN
was among our most highly respected and
liberal citizens; every good work found in
him an earnest supporter, and his decease
will leave void that cannot be easily filled.
The Doctor did not practice medicine, hut
was a partner in the extensive morocco
mandatory of Bush Clark s. Co. He was
an honest, upright man, ever earnest in his
efforts to promote the commercial, moral
and intellectual welfare of our city. AS
member and officer OF the Wilmington
Institute, he labored indeiatigably to provide
everything essentially necessary to add to
the prosperity of the institution, and impart
thorough information to the public. He was
among the most patriotic and loyal men in
the State, and throughout the war earnestly
engaged in every project calculated tc
strengthen the hands of the general gov.
ernment relieve the wants of the families o.


the men who were fighting our country's
battles, and provide comforts for the volun


teeEs while in the field. His loss will be severe


ly felt and universally deplored by all who
knew him. His remains will be inferred
from his late residence, No. 800 Marke


Street, tomorrow afternoon at six o'clock
Year: 1866

sW"The Mineral Point Tribune of the
9th.inst, says: 1--WE are pleased to see
the spirit of improvement manifested by
our Dodgeville ncighbors. A visit to that
village few days since convinced US that
large amount of building is to be done
the present season. Already are the
foundations Of several fine buildings under
way, and preparations for others are being
made. If We mistake not, the present sea-
son will produce marked change in the
appearance of that thrifty village"
Year: 1866

SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-A couple of RATS
men were engaged in tying up their rafts
at Helena. on Friday last, and one ofthem
got entangled in the coil of the rope, and
before. he could extricate himself the rope
tightened with tremendous force, cutting
off both his legs below the knees. We
have been unable to learn the name of the
man. He is now at Patrick Kings, at
Helena, and is considered to be in rather
a dangerous condition.
Year: 1866

The Galena Gasette says that Capt.
Yates discovered dead body floating in
the river last Tuesday afternoon. Itproved
to be Tie body Of a colored man who had
evidently came to his death by blow on
the head, as the scalp was slightly torn
away. He is supposed to have been deck
hand on some steamer.


The same paper says an Indian with
both feet frozca off, and who has been
travelling the streets Of Dubuque and beg
ging money for the purchase of cork legs,
vas found dead on the bluff in that city
ast Saturday.
Year: 1866

Fishing excursions are quite fash
ionable in Dodgeville just now, and altho'
they do not prove very successful in regard
to catching fish, they are still kept up with
morning last, a party Of about thirty start
ed out, destined for Davis mill, situated
about seven miles north east Of the village
They arrived on the grounds about ten o.
clock, and Immediately set about getting
fish polls and hunting for angle worms to
bait with. After an unsuccessful hunt OF
half an hour, it was discovered that some
one of the party had been provident
enough to bring bait with them, which was
s bon distributed around. Fish lines were
then unwound, hooks baited, and fishing
commenced in earnest, and although the
fishing was diligently prosecuted all day
with hook, lime, seine, snare and various
other tackle, very few fish were caught.
Mr. Davis, the miller, was found to be very
obliging, and shut off the water to enable
what fish there were to be caught, but all
to no purpose, and the conclusion was
forced upon the fishers that the fish had
left for parts unknown. 4 bountiful re-
past was prepared by the ladies, Of which
all partook with relish seldom felt
Although the fishing part of the affair was
a failure, the excursion part was not, and
we hear that other parties of the kind are
on the tapis.
Year: 1866

Those ladies who wish to purchase
a first class family sewing machine, will
do well to call at our office and examine our
machines. For cheapness, simplicity ,dura-
bility, and speed they cannot be beat. ;
Year: 1866

been better for it to have exerted its
influence TO secure the establishment
Of q Southern Coufederacy in 1861,
rather than urge the prosecution of q
war which is to end in the ruin of all
Southern Unionists who remained true
to tie Federal Government, and be-
lieved that the Union men OF the
North were sincere in their professions
OF friendship?
Year: 1866

HATS AND CAps.-Those wishing any
thing in the shape Of covering for the head
cannot Go better than call on Mr. F..
CARUs, one door south Of koRToN's, on
Eighth street. He has all the latest
styles of Hats and Caps, OF all sizes and at
prices to suit everyone. As he is engaged
exclusively in the business Of furnishing
head gear for the million, he can sell
cheape, than can be sold elsewhere IN
town and also has larger stock to select
from. Remember the place, one door
south Of tie corner Of York and Eighth
streets.