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Year: 1867

Pete is In terrible stew over the con :
dt;onS the State Treasury an says it is
insolvent. How could he expect it other
wise after hungry herd of Radicals had
for four years been feeding from it! What
was the condition in which his party left
it? Only by selling the States interest in
the Tobacco Warehouses, her stock hel
in various Banks and Railroads Companies
was the Treasurer enabled to meet the de-
mands upon him at the close Of the extra
scs ion Of the Legislature. And what was
that extra session called for? TO save the
obligations of the State fast maturing from
being Observation-Disclosures incurred by
the extravaganza, wastefulness, plumber
ing of radical Legislature and Governor.
So depleted was the Treasury that at the
close of this extra session there remained
nothing in it but postage stamps to plum
der, and so ravenous were the plundering
crew that they appropriated even these to
their own USE The Treasury may b.: in
solvent, but few years of Democratic
rule will again fill it to overaowing.
Year: 1867

1t seems the late villsinous disuaion
Congress raise the tariff on Wool to ten
cents per pound and ten cents adsalorem
They did not. however, pass the. tariff bill.
THIS wool business is to draw the wool over
the eyes Of our farmers, but it will not avail.
The price of wool is down-lower than six
years ago in specie times, and there is not
mich probability of the wool advancing.
The factories in the east are not runnin g;
the market for woollen goods is overstocked
and hence the wool tariff is only to fool
the people. We all, in time, may better
understand these kriaves.


ssHow ridiculously mean to rob the farm
ers, by the tariff Of thousands on every
thing they bay, and pretend to give them
a little sop on wool.
Year: 1867

| AT social party, wag found himself
in the course of the evening in conversation
with nervoas looking stranger Pom
ting out to him a gentleman of inqulrlng
turn of mind in another portion of the
room, he said:


..Do YOU see that man there? He has
mania very unpleasant one too
lie is possessed with the idea that he must
bite off strangers ears, and it has caused
dreadful amount Of trouble. | do not
know whether he will show any symptoms
tonight, but perceiving you are stranger
deem it my duty to put you on your guard
Don't let him approach very near you. :"
The expression ofhoFror that spread over
the face of the nervous man, clearly proved
that he had heard the warming. A little
later the benevolent informant got an OPP
portunity to.teR the inquiring man that
that man (pointing out the individ.uai) was
physical wonder, as a roaring noise could
be distinctly heard proceeding from his
ear By getting within eighteen inches OF
him. Onr curious friend was struck with
this unheaed of phenomenon, aud very
properly began to work himself close
enough for personal investigation. The
movement was seen by the nervous man,
and great drops of apprehcnsive sweat
oozod out from his brow and triekled down
his cheek. Nearer and nearer approached
the one, and more terribly intense grew
the horror of the other. The space be-
tween them was slowly but surely lessen
ing. The curious nan within an age Of
the roaring" when the agony of the
''rsarer" reached its crisis. and elehching
bis fist he landed it between the ''lookers"
of the unfortunate searcher after physical
wonders, shouting at the top of his voice:


'Bitc of my cars. willYou?


The effect of this on the sas!onished; au
ienoe may.b imagined,
Year: 1867

felt every morning, but about week
ago he discovered a small puncture on
his arm, from which it was evident that
blood had been drawn, and every morn
isg thereafter he found a new puncture
upon some heshy portion Of his body.
He was mysti6ed as TO how these pune
lures were made and what made them.


For several nights he remained awake
late in the night for the purpose Of soly-
ing the mystery, but such was his weak
condition he invariably became exhaus-
ted and fell asleep before morning, and
always found fresh puncture. lie got
an acquaintance to sleep with him, but
becoming tired Of watching, he, too, fell
asleep, and in the morning there was a
fresh puncture upon both Of them, which
so alarmed his acquaintance that be re-
fused to sleep in that room again. Be.
tween the loss of blood and his anxiety
to know the cause of it, the young man
was nearly crazed, presenting haggard
and careworn appearance, and he was
an object Of solicitude to his friends,
who sympathized with him in his dis
tress, and advised change in scene
but such was the fascination with which
he had become imbued that nothing they
could say could induce him to forego his
determination to remain and clear up the
mystery. His body by this time was a
strange almost completely covered
with small swellings from the punctures,
which were a source Of irritation. A few
nights ago he was awoke by stinging
sensation in his arm between the elbow
and shoulder, and instantly reached his
hand to the spot but could feel nothing,
and, although light was burning in the
room, could see nothing The old super
stition of vampires at once became fixed
upon his mind, and he resolved to leave
the house, which he did the next morn
ing, repairing to another part of the
city. Strange to say, since his change
of quarters he has not been again visited
by the midnight blood-sucker, and Is fast
regaining his health. Since his story has
become known, we have heard of several
other persons who occupied the same
room that were visited in the same way,
but they never stayed more than few
nights before they left the house and said
nothing about it for fear of injuring the
reputation of the house. We have given
the facts as they were related to us, and
have no reason to doubt the veracity of
the parties; but we have no faith what
ever in the superstition regarding vam-
pires, and are inclined to think that the
blood loving visitant was more of ma
terial than supernatural creature. We
have suppressed the names of the parties
concerned in this strange affair at their
own request
Year: 1867




If we have said little on the subject Of
the outrageous impeachment Of Judge
Frazier, it is not because we have been
Indifferent. The Nashville Union and
Dispatch thus discusses the matter:


Not satisfied at the turpitude OF Judge
Fraziers conviction, contrary to law and
the evidence, the majority Of the Court
OF impeachment could not permit the
opportunity to pass without an effort to
defraud the Treasury by drawing unlaw-
ful pay for their mischievous services.
The pay of Senators, as such, is four
dollars per day, and they cannot in
crease that stipend during their term of
office. But it seems that as Court of
Impeachment they rose above the con-
stitution, and proposed to draw a per
diem of six dollars-under color, we be-
lieve, of some law or resolution enacted
or passed by themselves. Not only so,
but they also demanded forty per cent.
on account of the depreciation of the
legal tender currency of the country.
I heir demands upon the Treasury, thus
mounted up from four dollars, to eight
dollars and forty cents They not only
did this for the twenty. five or thirty days
they were actually in session, but for
eighty-Si1 days-the entire time inter
vening between the adjournment of the
Senate on the llth of Msreh-including
that day for which they had already re-
ceived pay-and the adjournment on yes
terday.


Such cold.blooded and deliberate at
tempt to obtain money from an overbur-
thened people, without the pretense of
service, is, SO far as we know, unex-
ampled in the history of legislative bod
les. The expenses of this trial, inclu-
ding the pay of clerks, reporters, mes
sengers, attorneys, printing, ETC., will
exceed the sum of twenty thousand dol
lars. The pay of the members and at
torneys alone, at this rate, would amount
to seventeen thousand three hundred
and odd dollars And all to prosecute
and degrade an innocent victim of their
dastardly malice-whose shoes the best
of them are to-day unworthy to loose


We learn that the Controller was so
shocked and amazed at this infamous at
tempt to plumber the public treasury,
that he refused to pay them more than
the four dollars allowed by law, and that
several of the graceless harpies have
threatened him with suits, etc.


How long will the public close their
eyes to the infinite meanness of these
Radical abusers of public trusts, and de-
spisers of public honesty and personal
deceneyl Has the time not already
come TO hurl them from place as the
children of hell we're cast down from the
battlements of Paradise2 We think it
has; and should the people tolerate them
longer than till August, when they have
an opportunity to dispose of them, they
will be no longer worthy of freedom or
the name of freemen.
Year: 1867

Resolved, That we sustain and approve the
reconstruction policy OF the Union party, as
shown In the measures adopted IN Congress
and that the welfare of the country demands
that that policy be carried out, aud the con-
troll Of the government be retained In the
hands of Uuion men,


Resolved, That it is the part of wisdom, as
il Is also thedicrate Of patriotism on the part
Of the States lately engaged in armed rebel
lion against the authority of the Uuited
States, to accept at once, in cordial good
faith the terms of reconstruction laid down
By Congress, TO the end that at the earliest
possible day they may be fully represented in
the legislative department of the Government,
and al tremendously move onward in the glo-
rioUs career awaiting the Rep lblic-


Resolved, That In justice to the innocent
holders of the Treasury warrants issued by
the Auditor during the last two years for leg
islative and other expenses, the same should
Be confirmed, and that che Territorial indebt-
sdneSs should be ct once paid or funded, so
that the expenses of the Territory can be paid
e from the Treasury in currency, a0d not in the
depreciated scrip in which such expenses are
now paid.


Resolved, That reform in the postal laws,
increased postal facilities from the Mississippi
valley westward to Montana; extended mail
facilities within the Territory; a survey of
our rivers end n removal of distractions
therein; thorough protection TO our border
seNAlelleGlAS NllI TO lllOllEeAS anu PlbSRSN-
tors who penetrate the mountain Businesses in
search of gold the government aid essen
tisl to the early completion of the Northern
Pacific Railroad; appropriations for our pab-
lie buildings, and complete protection TO and
q thorough repair of the highways leadin z
hither, are now az they were upon the organi
ration of the Territory, among its most i'm
perutiye needs, heretofore shamelessly neglect
cd; and we appeal TO all men in the Territory
who desire to promote these great enterprises
SO essential to our welfare, TO unite with US
In the election TO Congress or a Delegate
identified with US SO to comprehend our
wants, able 60 present them fully, and whose
influence with Congress viii insure success.


Resolved, That the early completion of the
Northern Pacific Railroad is a matter cf great
national interest, and In importance TO US
tTanscends all other material enterprizes; that
tn secure its early completion, this Territory
should bend every energy and exhaust every
means.


Resolved, That the thanks of the Union
party are due and are gratefully rendered to
the officers and men who generously left
their homes TO protect our borders from the
masSacrrs which threatened its peaceful inhab-
itants, and 20 save to the Federal Government
imperrilled and starving fortress, and 90
those who so literally furnished them sup
plies, and we pledge them our utmost endel-
Eors % procure at once from the present Con-
gress an appropriation which shall fully com
psnsate them for their generous service and
contributions rendered the Territory in the
hour Of peril.
Year: 1867

The telegraph brings us information


of two important facts. The attack of
an American squadron upon the inhabi


tants of one of the japanese Islands, who
had murdered the crew of an Ameri-
can baJ6, and the reconstruction of the
Cabinet. Secretary Stanton, without ex-
ception, the ablest member of the Cabinet.
is removed and Seward is about 10 be
deposed. Whether il is voluntary or
coerced is not stated, as there is evident
ly news dispatch missing. General
Grant accepts the position of Acting
Secretary of War, with a well deserved


compliment to Secretary Stanton. The
dispatches also intimate that Governor
Andrews is to receive the Secretary of
Wars portfolio, which is probably an


error, General Steadman having been
named for that position. Gov. Andrews
would answer better for Secretary of
State. The nervelessness of Seward in
his diplomatic correspondence in regard
to the French occupation of Mexico; the
probability of foreign difficulties, in
case the grave charges made by a
Mexican official are sustained, and the
complications that may grow out of it,
makes it desirable that an able and ex-
perienced diplomatist should receive the
portfolio of State. President Johnson's
recent visit to Boston and interview with
Ex-Governor Andrews, would suggest the
inference that it may be the intention
of the President to give him Seward s
place President johnson has taken the
bit in his teeth and is going to make
trouble again. What unhappy bursts
of temper he always shows Immediately
after Congress adjourns, and then
soothes down as a session approaches


Not succeeding in his attempt TO remove
Sheridan he has made bold stroke and
set about the reconstruction of his house.
hold, with a vengeance To Stanton,
the country owes more than to any other
one man in Washington, its salvation,
and the immediate curtailment of ex-
penditures on the close of the war.
Whatever may be his defects, he has an
indomitable will, untiring energy and
abilities of the highest order. He was
the right man in the right place, and his
like will be difficult to find While
Year: 1867

Grant holds the position all will be well,
but the loyal people of the Union will
await with nervous anxiety the further
action of that man whose stubborness,
vanity, and malicious perverseness has
sown nettles where the olive branch was
growing, and done more to embitter
against each other the people of the
United States than even did grim visaged
Year: 1867

DeA. A man named John Chambers,
says the Alton Telegraph, was tried
before one Of the justices on Tuesday
morning upon the charge of attempting
to commit an outrage, on Monday night,
on a woman named Catherine Riordan
while asleep with her husband at a room
in the City Hotel, kept by John Killoren.
The details of the, affair are long and
unfit for publication, and we shall merely
say that on the woman giving the alarm
the intruder escaped Early the next
morning the night police found man
asleep on the leves in an almost nude
condition, and arrested bin. Circum-
stances indicated that he was the person
who had escaped from the hotel the night
before, and he was accordingly tried on
the above charge. The examination
resulted in his being bound over in the
sum of $1,000 to appear at the next term
Of the City Court.
Year: 1867

The Federal SLAM Reports show that
34l,67O Of the Union soldiers slain during
the rebellion, have been buried in the differ
ent national cemeteries since the close Of the
war. Doubtless the bodies Of many killed
have never been accounted for, while many
others who died from their wounds, and
were buried by their friends do not enter
into the account. 1t is safe 10 estimate the
Union slain at half million.
Year: 1867

porter, with all the associations of the vine
''clad homes that the great writers have been


'tanaizing US with since the days Of the
Greeks"


The beauty of the matter is that with all the
poetry of the sceue and the occupation the
country is growing rich. The account before
us states that the land is held and sold at high
er prices than any wheat land in New York,
reaching as high in some cases rs fifteen hun-
dred dollars per acre. This would be . most
compensating price for the rocky sleeps Of the
Blue Ridge. The story is somewhat incredible,
but it is related by correspondent Of the New
York World


Now. these facts are suggestive. It may be
asked why is it that here in Virginia, where
the grape Is entirely at home-where the soil
and the cline are so congenixl that it springs up
spontaneously everywhere-it has never been
cultivated beyond the limited wants of the more
independent families, which have been supplied
by few vines in their gardens. The answer
which Is so often given to inquiries relative to
the limited variety of crops here in the South
is the only one that can be made to this-viz,
the existence Of slavery. The institution was
not at all adapted to multiplicity Of crops
Especially was it unSuted to the close and PROV
ident tillage required for such products ~ the
grape. The planting, the careful culture of
the vine. and the handiwork of the harvest was
not at all congenial with the habits and capa
bities of the African slave. This accounts for
the failure to prof; by the magnificent advan-
tages of climate and soil for the grape culture
which exist in Virginia But the institution Of
slavery being ended, our people now should en-
deavor in every way to increase the variety of
their crops as the best means of making the
most from their lands, and applying their labor
so as to produce the most profitable results
The grape offers one of the richest resources of
the occupation Of husbandry in Virginia-Dis-
patch.
Year: 1867

Why should the wind coming from the East
over an ocean of water depress the human body,
while that which comes from the West across
the continent, enlvens the spirits and gives
courage and vigor? Be this as it may, it seems
as if some people never felt any wind that was
not East They are always 'out Ofsorts. " The
weather is always just what they don't want. /
met one of these men awhile ago. farmer,
who raised all manner of crops. 1t was wet
day. and said:


''Mr. Nayling, this rain will be fine for your
grass crop"


Yes, perhaps but it is bad for the corn, and
will keep it back. [ don't believe we shall have
crop.


A few days after this, when the sun was shin
ing hot, said:


'.Fine sun for your corn sir


''Yes, pretty fair, but its awful for the rye
Rye wants cold weather.


Again, on cold morning, l met my neighbor,
and said:


sYes, but it is the very worst for the corn
and grass. They want heat to bring the@ for
ward.


So the man lives in perpetual East wind
Nothino suits him, and it would be impossible
far Providence to give him weather about which
he would not grumble. | know one man who
feels that our country is on the very brink of
ruin. the govern ment a curse, and everything
to be destroyed. And he has felt and talked
thus for at least thirty years, and yet, his pro-
perty has been increasing in value all this time,
amid thi, gathering ruin The fact is, the man
lives in an unchanging East wind And there
is MIR. Slow, who lives in the hollow under the
Long Hill; he has been mourning for many
wears over the degeneracy of the times, and
always telling what wonderful lawyers, AMI doc
tors. and ministers there were when he WIS
Young! He can sleep under any preaching he
now hears, and the lawyers seem to be young
upstarts. or too old To practice. He longs Tor
the good old times. All Mr. Slow does your
weather vane pont anywhere but to the East?-
Reu. John Todd ID. u.
Year: 1867

JoUBERT's THOUGHTS THE body is the
barrack where our life is encamped.


There is an admiration which is the daughter
of knowledge.


To be born obscure and to die illustrlous are
the two bounds of human felicity.


When we have found what we seek, we have
no time to tell it; we must die.


One must choose for wife only that woman
one would choose for friend if she were a
man.


The attention of the listener serves as an ac
compartment to the music of the speech.


1t is much better to agitate question with
out deciding it, than to decide without agitating
it.


If fortune would make man estimable, she
gives him virtues if she would make him es-
teemed, she gives him success.


Time and truth are friends. although there
may be many minutes opposed to truth.
Liberty Liberty Justice in all things will
be liberty enough.
Year: 1867

A TTENE ION! Our entire Stock of


FALL AND WINTER GOODS
is open and being sold off.


We have received, in addition, a large lot of
city made Ladies' Shoes, Of all styles, and
Of the best quality.


Also another lot of latest style CLOAKS and
WRAPPINGS.


We will keep up full line of desirable goods
we receive goods almost daily.
oct8-tf kAYSER u YOUNG.
Year: 1867

We are now in receipt of splendid Stock Of


.SEASONABLE GOODS.
We can show the ne0est and prettiest Dress
Goods that the Eastern cities can offer for sale.
The same goods that the best city retailers sell,
are the kind that we buy


Our stock is unusually large and embraces all
styles and varieties Of first class Dry Goods.
sen 81 KAYSER g YOUNG
Year: 1867

~ Piper, Drake & Co.
are now receiving from New York and Baltimore
the Largest and Cheapest Stock Of Dry Goods
they have had for years. Fortunately we hap
pened to be in market just heavy decline
took place in all kinds of Goods, and we have it
in our power to sell at less prices than we have
since the war.


No house CAN OR SHALL sell at less prices
for CASH than we can and we would advise our
friends to give us call before making their pur
chases.


We have received also very large supply of
QUEENSWARE at our store at whites Cor
ner" oct0-tf
Year: 1867

Universal love Is like a glove without fingers
which fits all hands alike and none closely; but
true affection is like glove with fingers which
fits one hand only and sits close to that one.
Year: 1867

We find this bit of quiet fun in an
English paper; GA gentleman going
down the river Ona steamer, the engine
of which was on deck, he sauntered
out to see the working of the machine
ry. Near him stood a man apparently
bent on the same object. In a few
moments a squeaking noise was heard
on the opposite side of the engine.
Selling the oil cana gigantic one by
the way-the engineer sought out the
dry spot, and to prevent further noise
of that kind, literally applied the con-
tents of the can to every joint. All
went on well for a while, when the
squeaking was heard in another direc-
ton. The oiling process was repeated
and quiet was restored; but as the en-
.gineer was coming quietly toward the
spot occupied by the stranger he heard
another squeak. This time he detect
ed the true cause of the difficulty.
The stranger was a ventrilOquist.


Walking straight up behind him, he
seized the astonished joker by the nape
of the neck and emptied the contents
of the can down his back. There,
said he, q don't believe the old engine
will squeak again.
Year: 1867

What is necessary to farmer to assist himi-sys-
tenn


What would give a blind the greatest delight p
Light


What Is the best piece of counsel given by Justice
Of the Peace Peace


Who commit the greatest denominations l-Nations.
What is the greatest terriher Fire.