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Year: 1867

APPLE JELLY.-Cut of all spots and
decayed places on the apples quarter them,
but do not pare or core them put in the peel
Of as many lemons as you like /; about two to
six or eight dozen of the apples ELL the
preserving pan, and cover the fruit with
spring water; boil them till they are in
pulp, then pour them into jelly bag; let
them strain hot. Care must be taken not
to let the pudding get too deep color. The
above is only half the quantity for large
pudding
Year: 1867

In summer time, when heat oppress


es and dust STILES, then is the rain re
freshlng then do we watch with pleas
ure the silver skeins reaching from Hea
ven down to our thirsty Earth; thel
then we watch the mimic silver woof
hear It patter on the roof, and we be
come poetical as well as thankful. Bu'
when the air is chill, and all the blue O.


Heavens vast concaveis obscurcd by
lowering clouds for a whole week; nc
sunbeams breaking through to cheer
us; nothing but cold gray cloud from
pole to pole and Orient to Occident-
how can one be cheerful Verify, such
weather as we have had for a week past
if'it continue much longer will cngen.
der thoughts Of suicide, the hope of O
brighter world, free from gloom and
corroding melancholy. Alas! the
gloomy weather we are having seems to
auger the fate of our land under the
rule of the Radicals. What with ma
ture all dark and cheerless, and our ru.
lers bent on building their earthly pros
perity on the wreck ofcivil liberty, who
that has q heart can shut out touch of
sadness. Yet, there never was day
so dark but sooner or later must be
followed by sunshine. And this is just
as true, metaphorically in regard to
human affairs as it is literally in regard
to nature. The storm must expend its
fury; the rains descend fearfully, and
swelling the turbid waters, wash away
the bridges, and fencing, and necessi-
tate much labor and expense to repair
the damage done. So when the storm
of revenge and blind fanaticism shall
cease, which is now bowling around
and threatening to engulf our Ship of
State, and all the hops and happiness it
is freighted with: when reason returns
to the brains from which it seems to
have flown, and Mercy finds an abiding
place in the breasts now ranking with
dark thoughts of darker revenge, and
these Heavenly attributes Of religion
and enlightenment shall say: Peace;
be still we may expect, with a little la.
Dor and little expenditure of forbear-
ance to get back somewhat TO the ante
dellum happiness and prosperity
Spring returning wiN bring sweet flow.
ers once again and so we look for bet.
ter times when the season of Radical
rule and tyranny shall have passed
away--into history, as warning to fu-
ture generations So mote it be.
Year: 1867

A few days since two or three ole


citizens of Franklin county, who used


before tho war, to subscribe and come


regularly for the Home Journal, but


who, since the war, have foregone the


pleasure they used to have in reading


their county paper,-forcgoae it be.


cause, NO doubt, we Southern people


were al so nearly ruined pecuniarily--


well, these men have subscribed again,
and to see them coming in town on
Saturdays for the Home Journal--not
it alone, Of coursc-but to see them
walk into our office and ask for their
papers, is so natural, looks so much like
''yc olden time" One of them said he
had frequently seen the Home journal
during the past twelve months, and one
article alonc---a selection-made him
determine to subscribe. Thanks 10
our scissors. Another said he was
pleased with our course, "Truth is
mighty, and wW prevail" Another
said he was pleased with the print.-he
could read it so easily. Thanks to at
tention in the mechanical department
"What is worth doing at all is worth
doing well.",


Aside from these old gentlemen, we
have gotten something near dozen in
the last few days. One saidhe liked
but no, we will not tell what he said,
for we consider modes:y the mostbe
tiful thing in the world. If our efforts
at writing, especially when made in
hurry whether the spirit moveth ornot,
should please, we are pleased to make
greater exertion in the future.


One said he felt it his duty to take
his county paper, especially where there
was only one in the county, whether he
liked it or not. This was q little indef-
mite, but, believe us, tie money wasnt


And what do you think q lady said ?
She subscribed, saying that she had i'm
posed upon us for twelve months by
reading our paper which another per-
son subscribed for, and was so pleased
to see that nothing bordering upon
smutty anecdotes or low wit ever ap-
peared in it, that she wanted it for her
children. This is really what she said,
and convinced us that there was one
person who observed and appreciated
one effort on our part, made upon prin
ciple, but with q doubt whether it would
ever be noticed. Ofcourse the reverse
would have been, yet this remark of
the lady in question ought to remind
us that we should encourage abstinence
from wrong, as well as condemn wrong,
when done.


Now, dear readers of the Journal,
pardon these remarks about ourself.--
We don't tmean to be vain, nor do we
offer an affected modesty TO cover
self-conccit as evidence OF modesty.--
W have honestly stated the remarks of
subscribers as we made minute Of them
from time to time.
Year: 1867

The Supreme Court has decided that
to enable man to pay his taxes in State
Bank paper, he must have owned the
money at the time of the repeal of the
Bank bill in 1865. This decision is re-
pudiation directly in the teeth of the
decisions of the Supreme Court Of the
United States.
Year: 1867

The report Of the House Committee on In
dian Affairs, is to the effect that there is nc
evidence of fraud or corruption in letting
those contracts, and that the House should re-
scind the resolution which directs the Secre-
tary of the Interior to suspend the execution
of them.


This is just as we expected. From the well
known character of the Commissioner Of IN
dian Affairs, for strict integrity, we looked
for no other decision. The whole complaint
was hatched up by disappointed bidders. 1t
will be gratifying to our Indian neighbors to
learn, that Mr.. BoGY, has been entirely re-
lieyed Of any censure in the matter. As a
general thing, he has the confidence Of them
all in the Southwest
Year: 1867

We're purchased in New York, direct from
Importers and Manufacturers, during the late
panic in gold, and as we pay no second profit
ton of parties who wish to replenish their
stocks. I'll


We rectify our own Whisky, and defy COM
petition.


We are prepared to make liberal advances
on Cotton, and shall pay strict attention to
Year: 1866

The Confederate Democratic Press
throughout the land are making siren
uous efforts to prejudice the people a
gainst the party in power. Every
thing that ia done and everything that
is left undone is seized upon with a
Witty and tortured into every con-
ceivable shape to act upon the preju-
dces of the people. The object is pal
pably to obtain power at the hands OF
those thus attempting to mislead.-
Power is still the dream Of the Con-
federate Democratic party. Now,
what is this Confederate Democratic
party for which SO much labor is be.
ing expended? We need not go far
back into the past to ascertain. In
1861 all parties were broken up. Re
publican, Democratic both Wings and
American all went by the board. The
only question then was, to preserve
the Union, and all true and loyal men,
Republicans, Democrats and Ameri-
cans forgot all party differences and
side by side marched to the battle
field or met in conventions and sw0re
"by the eternal that rebellion should
be crushed and the Government sus-
tained Thus was formed the great
Union party. But as the burden Of
tho war grew heavy, and the issue OF
of the contest doubtful, many Of the
leaders of the old Democratic party,
for whom places of profit had not been
found, began to revive the name OF the
old Democratic party and organized
under it what they called the Demo
cratic party, but what the people call
ed "Cupperheads. They claimed the
name democratic" but all that was
vital of that organization had been
merged into the Union party. Moth
ing was left the Copperheads but the
sum of the villainies and dregs of cow
ardice Of the old organization.


To be convinced Of this it is only
necessary TO look ut their nomination
in this State in 1868, when they set
forward for leader a man who had
actually advised and organized forci-
Bile resistance to the Government at
home-a man who had attempted TO
got up rebellion in the rear in order
to help those who were firing into
the breasts of our Union soldiers at
the front. They nominated ClemcntL.
Vallandigham, an exilcd traitor for
their standard bearer and exponent Of
their principles.


But this is not all. In 1864 when
our Government was drawing togeth


er us il were all it's force and putting
forth all its ergies,-whcn Sherman
was hewing his way through Georgia,
and Grant stubbornly fighting il out
on his proposed line; when, as it were,
success hung poised in the scale, this
Copperhcad party met at Chicago and
resolved that the war was failure,
and adopted resolutions cravenly su-
ing for peace on any terms.


These are the men who now seek to
poison the public mind against those
who fought tor and sustained the cause
Of the Union This is the record they
have the unblushing efh'ontory to
ask rcturncd soldiers to attach them
selves unto. These arc the hands
from which the assassin's dagger has
| just fallen, they ask the intended vic
Tins to clasp. We sincerely trust
there are no Union men SO poor or SO
craven as to do them reverence,
Year: 1866

A CURIOUS HANGING BAsKET.-Pro-
cure turnip of large size and scrape
out the under side, leaving q pretty
thick wall around fill the cavity with
earth, and plant in it some climbing
vinc-cypress vine or morning glory.
Suspend the turnip with cords, and in
little time tho vines will twine
around the strings, and the turnips
sprouting from below, will put forth
leaves and stems that will turn up
wards and curl gracefully around the
base.
Year: 1866

New YORK, August THE Prussian
Government has made demand upon
the English Government for the treasure
packed up and carried off by the King of
Hanover and his suite in their fight, and
deposited by them with the Bank of Eng
land, asserting that she will seize and
retain the Hanoverian domain if not
given up The amount of coin was one
million two hundred and fifty thousand
thalers.


The Pdtrie announces that Mexican
army, $4,000 strong recruited among
Mexicans and officered by Europeans,
will take the place of the French army,
and will maintain Macmillan on the
throne


The Municipal Council of Vienna has
presented petition to the Emperor re-
affirming their loyalty, but seriously
urging upon him certain reforms IN his
military and civil affairs.


They say also at momentous period
the representatives Of Vienna will not
dwell upon all the courses which have
brought about the present deeply serious
position of the Empire To one course,
however, they must allude 1t is that
this position has been not so much oc-
casioned by the recent reverses in the
field as by the unfortunate policy which
the advisers Of the Crown have pursued,
both at home and abroad, for long
series of years. 1000 H
Year: 1866

work the Hungarian war, is rather
clumsy and fails to convince. Certain
it is that the world charged him with be-
traying his country and his eountrymen,
and the very lenient treatment he re-
ceived at the hands of Austria, in the
sight of the gallows at Arad, gave strong
evidence of the justice Of the charge. If
now he should be called forth from his
retreat at Klagenfurt, it would be again
to save the monarchy, which already
once by his military genius lie brought
to The brink Of ruin and then saved by
voluntary surrender. But whether the
Hungarians, with the memory of Villages
in their hearts, would cheerfully follow
him into battle again, may well be ques-
toned The very fact that Gorgey is
spoken of as possible military leader,
is enough TO show the necessitous condis
ton OF the Government We would
have TO suffer many defeats before our
people would think of General r. E. Lee
as leader of our armies. -Neto York


Times i ufa Ha
Year: 1866

THE POPE AND IRELAND. D.-Ielegramssy
the cable give the particulars Of an interest
ing interview between William E. Glad
stone, the distinguished British statesman,
and Pope Pio Mono 1t appears that since
Gladstone resigned the Chancellorship of
Exchequer he has been travelling in South


ern Europe. While At Rome he called up


on the Pope, to tender his sympathes to
the Holy Father who feels in deep affection
in consequence of the encroachments Of Vic
tor Emmanuel upon the States of the
Church. In the course of the conversation
Mr. Gladstone alluded to the now prominent
question as to the future residence Of the
Head of the Roman Catholic Church, in
case he shonld feel constrained to leave
Rome The fope said he had no inten-
lions whatsoever of going to the Island OF
Malta, as it was in no respects suitable tor
residence of the Holy See, but he did in
tinlate the possibility of his taking up his
residence in Ireland, should he be driven
from Rome He spoke of the Irish as the
most faithful and devout children of the
Church 1t certainly would create pro-
found sensations in the Emerald Isle if the
Head of their favorite Church should take
refuge among them, to avoid the eIicroach-
ments of the Italian King. rsa
Year: 1866

LOST By Senator REEDS advertise
ment in another column, it is evident some
thing has 61'oke The accident happened
in the dark, which rather IT fleets somewhat
on the Senator former good character as Il
gentleman Of good habits. and one who
STAYS at home o nights But there's no
telling what man may do after Spending a
winter or two in Madison. We've been
there
Year: 1866

, CLAY-GUT AND MANCHAC ROAD.
As our police jury are to meet on
Monday next, we desire once more to
call the attention of the members of
that body to the deplorable condition
of the parish roads, and especially to
the road leading from here to Clay
Gut and Manchac. 1t is one of the
crying evils that the bridges along
that road are in q most wretched
state OF dilapidation, rendering it alb
solutely dangerous to man and beast
to cross them, particularly after
nightfall.


There is no calculating the amount
Of injury inflicted upon our parish by
allowing the public highways to re-
main in their present impracticable
condition. The season of the year
is at hand when they should be thor
oughly worked, and the police jury
will, we hope apply all the resources
within their control, to hasten on so
important and desirable an object.
Let not another fall roll around to
find our roads-turned out into quag
mires and "sloughs of despond" to
break down the patience of man and
the limbs Of the poor beasts that
have to struggle through them with
their burthens. The roads are bad
enough now that the weather is dry !;
what will they be when the rainy
season shall have again set in, and
they will have to be used for convey
ing the crops to mrrket? =?
Year: 1866

% The President told the truth,
when he said that he sometimes forgot,
for hours at time. that be was President
of the United States. 1t is easy to know
when these spells come upon him. Per.
bsps if he did not SO frequently forget the
position he holds, he would not disgract
it so often.
Year: 1866

SPIRIT OF THE Passive notice the
newspapers in ell parts of the country
seem to be going into extacies Of late over
the wonderful medical properties of Goes
Cough Balsam and Goes Dyspepsia
cure. We are glad to know that these
reliable remedies are for sale BY every
Druggist in the land. E
Year: 1866

FAcT.-Our i" forgetfup President,
in his confab with the British newsmon.
ger. advanced the bold proposition thai
i" some sums want figuring up more thar
others, before you can get the answer"
An original idea, and correct one
One of those difficult sums, which the
President does not seem to have figured
az, is the true value of the blood and
treasure that the rebellion cost the coun
try. But a kind of sum that he has &
peculiar talent for getting the answer TO-
is the amount of bread and butter o
which he can deprive some loysl office
holder who refuses TO see the beauties o
"my policy"
Year: 1866




A correspondent desires to know how the
continued exclusion of the Southern States
would affect the next Presidential election.
He says that those States will probably be
represented in the Democratic Convention.
that they will choose electors, and that thew
will vote solidly against the Radicals. The
question is will the votes of the States ex-
cluded from representation be counted in
the electoral college? We answer that their
votes cannot constitutionally be exclu-
ded. The Constitution says that " each
State shall appoint in such manner as the
Legislature thereof may direct a number of
PRESIDENTIAL electors, equal to the whole
number OF Senators and representatives to
which the State may be entitled in the Con-
gress." These electors shall "make distinct
lists of allpersons voted for as President, and
of all persons voted for as Vice President,
and OF the number of votes for each, which
lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit
sealed to the seat of Government of the
United States, directed to the President of
the Senate" This having been done,
"The President of the Senate shall, in
the presence of the Senate and House of
Representatives, open all the certificates, and
the votes shall then he counted the per-
son having The greatest number of votes for
President shall then be President" etc.
The foregoing language is certainly plain
enough to give the Southern States an
equal voice in the electoral college, for it
leaves nothing whatever to the discretion
OF Congress 1t declares that the Senate
shall open and count ALL the votes sent
to them from the several States, and gives
that body on power of exclusion. The Sen
ate is likely to continue to be Radical, how
ever, and as the Radicals think the Consti-
tuition is not of much account they NAV
to ''let it slide in 1868.


" y Sun.
Year: 1866

remember that once was human and pure
Then loved ones came to my call
And l dreamed, that despite earth's passion an(
guilt,
Gods mercy was over US all
But I'm human No more! There's blood. blood
blood,


Wherever my vision may fall
There's blood on the hearthstone, blood in the sky
And blood on the temple wall.
And my brain grows hot with the burning thought
OF my fair young daughter defled,
OF her mother dashed to earth and slain,
AS she struggled to shield her child.
And nv brain grows hot with the burning thought
That manacled, bound oppressed.
I saw it all, with hand at my throat,
And felOn's knee on my breast.
How did bear it? Ha! ha go ask


The vultures that feed on the slain,
From the red ravines of the wild Southwest


To the waves of the Eastern main.
In the lone morass, where the panther and fox


Snarl over their mangled prey,
In city and hamlet field, mountain and wood,


Yea ever by night and by day.
am tracing the fiends who murdered my peace,


And O'ertaking them one by one
Oh, God but whenever bring them to bay,


Ask not OF the deed that is done!
Herel look on my sabre! It's coated with gOre


For its strokes were sudden and fell;
But it shall not be sheathed while the Master


Fiend


Lives vet unclaimed of Hell.
That Devil who 'whelmed my daughter in shame,


While manacled, bound oppressed,
l writhed with rutfan hand at my throat,


And ruffian knee my breast.
He may crouch in the darkest cave of the earth,


Yet I'll tear him out from his den,
And I'll feast my eyes on the blood of his heart,


We're he backed by a thousand men.
Then away to my doom! wheresoever Hope"


The ''fOrlornest" speeds to the strife.
NV breast shall be barred to fire and the steel,


For I'm sick to my soul Of life.
Year: 1866

FoRNEY THE AUTHOR OF THE LEDGER Ca
ARD.-Commenting on the Ledge''s expla-
nation of now it came by the recent sensa-
ton Washington dispatch, which SO excited
the money market and shocked the nerves
of financiers, the Herald says:


Our own explanation of the canord is
very different from that af the Ledger, but
is more generally accepted as correct Ac-
cording to our version the false information
originally came from Washington to New
York, having been sent by Flint, or some
body of the same calibre, and was tele-
graphed from this city to Philadelphia by
the New York Bohemians, who were en-
vious of the reputatian the Ledger had ac-
quired for soberness and correctness, and
were anxious to use it for &c d gambling pur-
poses A variation of this hypothesis, also
current in Wall street, is that Forney was
the author Of the original dispatch, and as
Forney is no more reliable than Flint, we
are not indisposed to accept the amend
ment.
Year: 1866

A Washington special of Sunday says:
The prospect of an early settlement Of the
Davis question grows more and more re-


mote. 1t may not begenerally known that


If brought to trial under the Indictment


now pending for treason, Davis could, by


the act Of Congress of 1862, only be SEN


fenced to imprisonment for ten 10) years


and a fine of ten thousand dollars, if the


decision of Judge Field, OF California, in


the Chapman case, is taken as a precedent.


The Chief Justice some time since ad-
dressed letter to the other Judges, asking


their opinion upon the question of the pow


er of the Judges to aIlot themselves and


have jurisdiction under the act of May 22d,


1866. All Of the Judges have not yet re-
piled, although it is known that they gen
orally coincide in the opinion that they
cannot have jurisdiction until allotted by
Congress, which is the view held by Judge
Swain. It is understood that the Chief
Justice has expressed his desire to have the
Circuit Courts held, if it can legally be
done, but Is now almost certain that the
Judges Of the Supreme Court will not pre-
side at Circuit Courts until Congress takes
action in the NATTER and that as there APP
pears no disposition to bring Davis to trial
before the District Judge alone, his case
will not come up until after the meeting Of
Congress.


The correspondent Of the He1u3d at
Fortress Monroe writes as follows Oh the
llth inst:


No intelligence has yet reached here con-
tirming the statement of your Washington
correspondent that final settlement Of the
case OF jeff. Davis has Just been determined
on in a Cabinet session by what I deem
very reliable authority, [ am advised that
Mr.. Davis eXpec-s to be tried next month,
that his more immediate and intimate
friends look for the trial then, and that his
counsel are labOrlOusl y preparing to enter
on his defence. The most serious CUES
ton OF all at present relates to the health
of Mr.. Davis While all most interested
III him hope for the best, the most sanguine
express the fear that his health is at too
low all ebb to be restored, that the sands of
his life are rapidly running out, and that
he soon will be beyond the reach of all
earthly tribunals Mr.. O'Connor spoke of
of his growing feebleness when here. Every
day the increasing weakness of his voice,
his unsteady and painful walk, the deepen
ing hollow of his cheeks, his eyes more
sunken, his dimming sight and failing APP
petite and spirits, show it with palpable
and undoubtlng certainty [ write from
my sympathy for Mr.. Davis on the "lost
cause" of which he was the offending head
and front l write the simple facts as l
learn them and become convinced of their
While there may be doubt as
to the time of his trial, and while it may
be doubtful whether he will be tried at ali,
there is no doubt as to the present state of
his health. Strangers who see him unite
in this statement. His friends, many of
whom visit and see him every day, tell the
same story. Southern editors obtaining
with him unite in the same
strain. Meantime his wife and their
youngest child remain with him. The only
fault he finds is in the delay of his trial.