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Year: 1867

A DUEL AND a FERCE.-A singu-
lar duel has just taken place at Berlin
between a ajourneyman siIversmith and
another artisan. The arms selected
were a bottle of sulphuric acid. The
arrangement was, that whichever of
the two adversaries threw the lowest
with dice should swallow the contents
of the fatal vial. Chance favored the
silversmith, who Immediately poured
out a glass of the liquor and handed it
to his adversary who unhesitatingIy
drank off the liquid, but to the aston
ishment cf his antagonist, instead of
falling seuseless, smacked his lips and
asked for another glass. The seconds
had acted on the sensible idea of sub
stitutihg arrack for the corrosive fluid.
It is hardly necessary to say that the
affair terminated in a reconciliation.
Year: 1867

Theodore TfTtOn, the editor Of the indie
pendent, in writing letter TO his journal
from the prairies of Iowa, uses the follow
ing language in regard to young men Of
the East seeking homes and fOrtune~ in the
West "If a brave and brawny young man,
who cannot get along at the East because
he can find no open door, will go to the
West, put his hand to the plow, and look
not back, he will find himself st the end of
ten years man of property, a chief citizen
Of his neighbOrhOOd, an esteemed member
Of society, and the architect of g successful
career. know that many other writers
have said all this over again ; but believe
the testimony needs constant repetition, IN
the hope that they may lead the feet of
many disappointed throngers Ofcity streets
to make pilgrimage to green fields This
is the path to fortune"
Year: 1867

Omaha dispatches say that track.
laying has recommended on the Union
Pacific railroad, and will be prosecuted
vigorously. Ties are at the end of the
road for a hundred miles of the rOadi
Forty miles of railroad iron are now
in Omaha. The grading will be done
at the rate of two miles per day. The
quartermaster at Omaha has notified
the superintendent of the road that he
shall want transportation for thirty
millions pounds Of government stores
the coming season.
Year: 1867

Alexander Lachane, living about thirty
miles below Quebec, has been arrested for
inhuman treatment of his child, a dumb
cripple six years old. The child Ia girl)
died lately and the cOroner's investigation
showed that its death was accelerated If
not caused by the orders of Lachane, who
habitually kicked it out of his sight, and
beat its mother for giving il food. During
the inquest the prisoner got into a warm
discussion with those present, maintaining
his right, if not to kill the child, at least TO
break ali it's bones if he saw fit to do so,
W 'EoUt the right Of molestation by any
person. The rOor little atom of humanity
was always kept out Of sight, in a box
slowed away under bed in the small, i'll
ventilated hOvel of its brutal parent and
whenever the father on coming home found
the starving child out of the black hole he
had allotted to it, he was in the habit of at
once kicking the box and its dumb inmate
under the bed out Of sight again.
Year: 1867

In magistrates court in Savannah.
the other day, there was quite an ex[
citing scene, growing out of the fact
that the Justice had hung upon the wall
OF his Office a steel engraving lIIustra-
ting the poem of the Conquered Ban
ner," and bearing a representation Of
the rebel flag. Colonel HEssEL7INE,
a lawyer interested in a pending case,
protested that he would not plead in q
court where that flag was displayed,
and after some sharp talk from rebel
lawyers present, the conquered ban
ner'' was turned face to the wall, and
the case proceeded.
Year: 1867

Mrs. Gen. Gaines, who not long
since obtained a judgment in the Su-
preme Court of the United States, by
which she came into possession Of an
immense amount of property in the
very heart of New Orleans, valued at
many millions, is about to erect the
most splendid private palace on this
continent, ON a large and elevated
tract of ground in the vicinity Of Cen
tral Park and Eight Avenue, New
York City. Every appliance that sci
ence or art can suggest, for either
pleasure, comfort or convenience, is to
enter into the structure. The house
itself is to be one hundred feet wide by
one hundred and fifty-four feet deep
and five stories high. In addition to
being in the immediate vicinity of the
Park, it will have quite extensive
grounds Of its own.
Year: 1867

A HO7sE's PETITION TO DRIVER.
Going UP hill, whip me not; coming
down hill hurry me not; ON level road
spare me not; loose in stable, forget me
not; of hay and corn rob me not; of
clean water stint me not; with sponge
and brush neglect me not; of soft, dry
bed, deprive me not; tired or hot, wash


me not; if sick or cold, chill me not;
with bit and reins, oh! jerk me not;
and when you are angry strike NE not.
Year: 1867

The count now gives 81 Republicans
and 60 Democrats for the Constitutional
Convention of New York. Only one
Republican is elected from the city Oh
New York. Though the Republicans
have a working majority the question
Of negro suffrage is problematical.
Year: 1867

Thousands of cattle have did in
Kansas during the past Winter from
exposure and lack of proper food.
The mortality has been especially Sc
we're in the southern part Of the State.
One company has lost twelve thousand
in two or three weeks.
Year: 1867

The Eaton Register says that live
ly debate was recently held among the
citizens Of some of the out 'stOwnships''
of that county, upon the question :
S'Does the earth revolve on its axis -
A Democratic Justice of the Peace
headed the party on the negative side
They thought any fool could see that
If the earth turned over, the water
would all run of the We lis.
Year: 1867

At Radical meeting at Albany, New
York, the Hon. Mr.. Barker attempted to
explain why the Radical strength tell
of in the recent Maine election. He
found it SO difficult that, before he was
half through he said he was sorry he
had made the attempt. According to
the Argus, he admitted that there had
been falling off of eleven thousand
vetes, and the reason for this was, that
the party had taken on q heavy deck
load. Now, what this load was all
We're anxious to learn The speak
er proceeded to say that the
&" Down-Eastp people had peculiar no.
tions as to the duties of legislatures.
They believed in legislating morals into
men, and men into morals; and that no
man should kiss his own wife on week
day, and no other mans wife on Sunday,
without permission of the Legislature.
Well, in Maine, he said they had a
stringent liquor law, but a year ago the
gentlemen who wear white neck-ties
got together and demanded something
more effective. So these men came
to the Legislature with law
imposing q penalty of thirty days
imprisonment for selling a glass of
cider for the first offense. They wanted
the law passed, and it had to be done,
no matter how repugnant it might ap-
pear. He (Barker) advised against TAX
ing such deck-load on the party boat,
but the gentlemea with the white neck
ties insisted, and it went through. And
at the very time it was voted upon,
more than tico. thirds of those roting for it
had four inches Of rdw whisky in their
stomdchs!


All that was very Radical-like, and
perfectly consistent with the high moral
ideas of Pnritanism.-Cin.E Enquirer.
Year: 1867

The Committee to whom has been
assigned the duty Of providing for the
reception and session of the State Con-
vention, have concluded to connect
with the proceedings an appropriate
celebration of the eighth of January. A
Grand Mass Meeting will be held in the
evening, to he followed bya supper at
Washington Hall, in honor of the day
and the man whose name it so readily
recalls. A number of gentlemen from
other Statesmen of National repnta-
tion-have been invited to participate
in the evenings proceedings. Their
presence and eloquence will render the
demonstration unusually imposing.
The attendance from other parts of the
State is expected to be very large, and
it i'd proposed TO make the meeting of
this Convention an occasion long to be
remembered. AS the arrangements ap-
proach completion due notice will be
given. Iu the meantime the Committee
authorize us to say that tickets for the
Anniversary Supper will be issued
shortly, and the public advioed of the
place where they can be procured.
Year: 1867

We invite special attention to the
last clause of the Executive Commit
tees call for the State Convention.
This clause has just been inserted. 1t
has been thought proper to advise the
people that the Convention will choose
Presidential Electors, and Delegates to
the National Democratic Convention,
in order that these objects may be had
in view in the selection Of county and
township Delegates. .t.


We are glad to observe that the Demo-
Gratis and Conservatives throughout the
State are responding to the Committees
call with heartiness and uhanimity
unprecedented. From all quarters of
the State the tidings come that the
people are moving. The necessity OF
organization is more deeply, felt than
ever before. The prospects of success
seem to cheer and arouse our friends to
vigorous action. Unless travelling
should be rendered impossible by the
severity Of the weather, the eighth Of
January will witness larger concourse
of people at Wheeling than has erei
been assembled in this State upon any
similar occasion. .H...
Year: 1867

AS may be seen from the advertise
ment, the Good Templars' Supper will
be repeated this evening at United
Hall, in Centre Wheeling. Those who
wish to spend pleasant evening and
partake of nice supper would do well
to attend.
Year: 1867

The Chicago Times very truly says
that "it is sheer humbug and bosh to
talk of paying our debt, upless we stop
the vast and useless expenditures Of the
Government 1


The most useless of these expenditures
grow out of the effort of the Radicals in
Congress to Africanize the South for the
benefit Of the Repablican party. s.
Year: 1867

In Poughkeepsie, the other evening,
a young lady was walking along the
slippery pavement of Market street,
when her feet went from under her like
flash of lightning, and the back part
Of her head came down upon the stones
with tremendous force. Fortunately
she wore huge waterfall, which un-
doubtedly saved her life By acting as a
pillow The force with which she came
down was sufficient 10 have crushed any
unprotected skull. La tk-.Es,Li


The Maine Farmer tells of young
man and woman who get married in
Bethel last winter, and the Rext day the
happy couple started on their honey
moon tour into the woods, where he had
contracted to cut large quantity of
wood. He built q camp, where she
spends her time in promoting the CON-
fort other husband, and on every Satur-
day night they make their appearance
in the village to secure fresh supplies
for their next weeks work, and return
on Monday morning to their camp home
as happy as king and queen.
Year: 1867

ALIKE CRRDITABLR TO the Judgment of the
movers in the good work and acceptable to
the people has been the establishment OF CO.
lumola Division. Sons of Temperance, east
OF the Capitol for their progress IN less than
thTee months has rendered il necessary to OBJ
tain the most extensive hall available on the
navy Yard for their future place of meeting.
See Advertisement in another column.
Year: 1867

The MINsTRELs-The excellent troupe of
Messrs. Goes, Purdy Converse, whose per.
formances al Wallis Opera House during the
week have been so satisfactory to the large
audiences present every evening. have been
induced TO remain next week. We enioyed
their singing and burlesques very much last
evening, and recommend any of our readers
who like good laugh to go and see theta The
banjo playing, the burlesque of Parepa and
Brignoli. and other specialities of the troupe,
are excellent
Year: 1867

The New Commander of this District.


Brigadier and brevet Major General Ed
ward r. s. Candy, the new commanding
General of North Carolina and South Car
olinia, was born in Kentucky In 1919. His
father emigrated to Indiana in 1884. He
was appointed Cadet at West Point, and
graduated in 1889 with fair position IN his
class, and was assigned as Il I'd Lieutenant
to the I'd Infantry. In 1861 he was promoted
to Major, and when the nine new regiments
of Infantry were raised in May, 1861, he was
appointed Colonel of one of them. Shortly
afterwards he was made Brigadier of vol
unteers, aid in May, 1854, attained the
position of full Major General OF ofvoluntcers,
and relieved Gen. Banks of tine command of
the department of the South. He COM
manded at the siege and taking of Mobile.
At the close of the rebellion he was made a
full Brigadier in the regular army, and has
since been in command ofthe department
of Washington City.


Gen. Candy is brave and able officer
We do not know that he has any politics.
But he is devoted to the government and
the flag, and his sympathies are doubtless
strongly with the loyal men OF the nation.
Year: 1867

RAIsED.-Thc N. Y Post says:


"We learn that several companies of col
ored troops have been organized in this city
for the purpose of ultimately forming a reg
iment to be attached to the National Guard
Many of our prominent military men are in
favor of the movement The companies al
ready formed have been regularly drilled,
and are well advanced in military move
mentS" r a f
Year: 1867

We are requested by the Registrar to
state that they will devote two more days to
Raleigh, to wit, the 9th and 10th of Septem-
ber.- The Board win also give Cue notice
when they will sit to revise the lists.


This Board will commence to registerto.
day, Thursday, at Eagle Rock. aeat


P. Sup to 1aa o'clock Wednesday, the
registration in Raleigh was whites 81, col
ored SO. ~ J
Rowan CoUNTY.-The result of registra-
ton in this county SO far as heard from is,
whites i,048-blacks 726. We can safely
count on a majority Of nearly or quite 500
for the whites in this couuty.-S Salisbury
Banner. aa 81


What is this but separating the two races
politically, and arraying one against the
othera Their interests are the same. 1t is
wrong to boast that the whites have the ad-
vantage in one County or the coored peo-
pie in another No advantage of this sort
should be thought of, but all should pull
together to restore the State to the Union
and put her on the high road to prosperity.


The Worthites OF this State have a quick
eye for the rising sun, and smooth tongue
of dattery for. the ear of power. Now that
Gen. Sickles has been relieved and General
Canby put in his place, these decayed and
desperate politicians will make a dead set to
obtain influence with the latter. Their plans
are already laid. The Sentinel, the organ
the Worthites, will soon begin, like the boa
constructor, to lick the General preparatory
to swallowing him.
ai We believe Gen. Candy will profit by the
experience of his predecessor, and that the set
of politicians referred to will approach him
in vainfor favors or special recognition. lie
will give them Justice, but nothing more.
Year: 1867

NICKSBURG IN DANGER.-VicksburR is
again alarmed at the prospect OF becoming an
island city. The canal dug by our troops
across the peninsula, opposite the city. threat
river. The canal failed originally because the
main current struck below its head, but the
rapid caving Of the NIX during the psst two
years renders 1t probable that VicksburE will
be left high and dry before the year 1870 The
Herald, OF that city, fears that the next flood
will complete the diversion Of the channel,
and calls on the citizens to prevent the disas-
ter by proper engineering operations.
Year: 1867

COMING BACK.-The Nevada Trespass thinks
that " Westward the Star of Empire takes its
way" for it concludes a late leader thus 60 So
they go-some to Placer, some to Ell Dorado,
others to Butte, Nevada and Sierra counties-all
returning to their old love, California each fol-
lowing up the direction of the enchantress which
ever lures him on with visions of pot of gold
hanging at the neither end of the bow of promise
which his bright-hued dreams throw over his
checkered course of life. Thus they go, leaving
the Silver State scarce touched, its veins, rich in
ore, cropping high through long mountain
ranges. They seem impelled by destiny toward
the Occident their temporary stay there being a
mere vagary, slight variation from the regular
tramp in the march of the empire
Year: 1867

THE DEMOCRATIC PARrY.--In an able review of
the past, present and future of that party the
american Flag forcibly alludes to its present
status in the following =" The old issues which
gave vitality to the Democratic party have be-
come obsolete, and its ancient platforms have
gone all to pieces and foated off on the turbulent
current of new events. In this State, according
to the definition of its Central Committee it has
no living principle, except dogged sort of op-
position to the party of progress and conquest
and its stale dogmas have no longer any relevan-
cy in the new lexicon of things. 1t is opposed
to the Radicals, when radicalism is rresistibly
the prevailing sentiment of the nation it is con-
servative, while change and advancement are the
ruling spirits of the age, and while itself has
nothing to preserve. save the recollection of its
former splendor and the memory of its final de-
basement. Having failed in assisting to destroy
the whole structure of our Government, it is now
the doughty defender of the Constitution, after
that instrument has been restored to supremacy
at the point of the sword and dating the COM
mencement of its splendid career at the era OF
Thomas Jefferson, it is now about to wind up its
affairs, end its degenerated course, and ignomin-
iously expire in the tremulous arms of Andrew
Johnson, the apostate."
Year: 1867

PIcTUREsQUE.-The San Francisco Dramatic
Chronicle has the following
We occasionally poke fun at our reconstruct
ed neighbor of the Flag, as we do at every body
and everything when thereunto moved by the
spirit that possesses us but we are not blind to
the Flags peculiar genius. We confess that we
do not greatly admire its leaders, which are
probably constructed upon too high "pane of
intellectually" for our matter of fact apprecia-
ton; but those little graphic paragraphs, with
their picturesque drollery ard saturnne humor,
we do relish hugely. The following, for in
stance, addressed to the Times, is decidedly
characteristic


why don't our evangelical neighbors grid
up their loins, strike out and go someuhere2 Bet
ter be washed out to sea, beached on a savage
coast, and devoured by the King of the Cannibal
Islands, than to lie in the scummy frog ponds,
along shore, to be ignominously water-logged
and covered with lazy barnaces."


Still better is the paragraph dedicated to the
Peace Democracy, which pictures the Examiner
with hands to its mouth, in the fashion of
speaking-trumpet, bawling:


Democrats Are you Awake to the
Importance of the work before your


g While a voice away down in the grocery
cellar responds


g Go to thunder Rich h-mond is took, and
the c-a-u-s-e is lost Send down another half
gallon ,"


Some of these paragraphic flashes are as bril-
liant as anything of the sort that Kentucky
Prentice ever got off.
Year: 1867

The Boston journal says -" We cannot help
reading the accounts of that happy fraternization
meeting at Columbia, South Carolina, with in-
creasing wonder and delight. Now, indeed, is
the bugbear of the Africanization of the South
slain in the house of its friends. That war of
races, which we have heard for years predicted
with such lugubrious solemnity turns out to be
only race for votes. The thieving negro which
fancey assured our citizens in Faneuil Hall, but
few years ago, was only capable of maintain
ing respectable existence under the lasIrof his
white owner, has become an acknowledged fell
low citizen with the late plantation lords of the
South, meeting on the same platform, and hum
bly, solicited to his vote. If DR.. Russell were
to travel again through the Southern States, he
would hear nothing more about that natural in
ferority drawn from the genealogy of Ham and
the curvature of the shin bone. The magical
qualities Of the ballot have annihilated all these
absurdities of a slavish era, transforming chat
tells into freemen, redeemed, regenerated and
disenthralled. And let it not be forgotten by
whom this ready acknowledgment is made. 1t
comes from the chiyalry' of South Carolina
from the very Brahmins of the late salavehold-
ing oligarch, who invented the term mud-sills'
for the free laborers of the North, and did more
than all others to precipitate the thunderbolt of
secession. 1t is Wade Hampton and his aristo-
cratic associates who now gather anxiously about
the freedman, beg him to give his friends at the
South fair trial. to look to each others well
fare and happiness, to test the sincerity and
good will of his neighbors before experimenting
on the sympathes of strangers Does history
afford another instance approximating to that
great change typifed by the lying down together
of the lion and the lamb? Allowing that there
may be mixture of the foxy with the lon-like
element in the demonstration, still it presents
phenomenon of the most remarkable character,
and one calculated to exert a great influence up
on the times. If the aristocracy of South Caro-
lima can enter upon this course of political fra
termination with the negro, it may well be at
tempted in all other parts of the South. After
this, too President johnson and his Cabinet may
very properly forego all further efforts intim-
idate Congress and the North with the alleged
terrors of negro equality at the South. We have
heard from the South, and the terror is not there.
Finally, what becomes of the old stock in trade
of our Northern Democrats? While they are
fighting in Connecticut and elsewhere against
negro suffrage, Wade Hampton and his friends
in South Carolina are begging for negro votes.
Truly, among all the strange developments of
the times this is one of the strangest the most
significant, and, we may add, the most auspic-
ious."
Year: 1867

HEALTHY SIGN.-When the steamer Montana
last sailed from this port, her passenger list en-
braced only four hundred and twenty souls.
Yesterday afternoon she arrived back from PAN
anna with eleven hundred and seven passengers.
This is a favorable showing for our State and if
the excess of influx will continue to exceed the
refiuent tide for two or three years in the same
proportion, California will leap into career Of
prosperity unexampled heretofore in her brief
but brilliant history. Population is what we
have been hoping and praying for. 1t is our
great need, and nothing that can be done ought
to be neglected in the way of adopting measures
to secure it.-San Francisco Iimes.
Year: 1867

THE USE OF PETER Pepper is an almost
universal condiment. Black pepper irrtates
and infames the coatings of the stomach
Red pepper does not irritate. consequently
it should be used instead of black pepper
1t was known to the Romans. and has been
in the East Indies from time immemorial.
as it corrects that fiatulence which attends
the large use of vegetable food. Persons in
heath do not need any pepper in their food.
But to those of weak and languid stomachs
it is far more healthy to use cayenne pepper
at meals than any form Of wine, brandy o:
beer, that can be named, because it stimu
lates without the reactions of sleepIness or
debiIity.-HaPs Journal Of Health.
Year: 1867

Two men, recently, died suddenly a. a
Canadian tavern after drinking a cup OF
coffee. The laadlady called the police, who
suspected her of poisoning the men. She
protested she had not, and to prove the
harmlessness of the coffee drank cup her
self, when she also fell down dead. An
examination of the coffee pot showed that a
bunch of matches had been boiling with the
rOtfaa
Year: 1867

TocHIvILEN. the tutor of the Imperial
family of Russia, who is somewhat advanced
in years, recently married beautiful young
lady, many years his junior. A few weeks
since he was found in bed, and after close
examination of the body it was discovered
that he had been stabbed in the heart by
long needle, which had left scarcely any trace.
The murderer is unknown.