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Year: 1867

spirit of the age. High-handed outrage
upon Union men defiance of Congress
sional authority oppression of the freed
men /; and numerous other outrages have
occurred, until forbearance has ceased
to be virtue, and the loyalists, of both
North and South, demanded that this
state OF things should cease to exist.
Congress has at last taken hold of the
question, with a irmness that shows
they will maintain the supremacy of the
Union, and show these oligarchists that
the days of brow-beating, defiant rebels
and slave-drivers, are with the past.
The multiplicity of schemes and plans
for an adjustment, have been numerous,
and all have failed 1t is now decided
to place them under military control,
and retain them there until such time as
they shall manifest desire to return to
representation. The State authorities
are declared null and void: their courts
abolished, and they are again placed un-
der proper and wholesome restraint
The hue and cry that will be raised
against this action of Congress, will be
terrific. There is nothing in it what
ever to please the patrician rebels of the
South, or their friends in the North and
the tempest in teapot that greeted the
Constitutional amendments, will be as
nothing, compared to the whirlwind of
editorial wrath that will now be raised
against Congress by portion of the
press. For our part, the proposed plan
suits us exactly. 1t curbs the rebels,
protects the Unionists, and sewers this
Gordian knot with blow. We hope to
see the Senate amendments confirmed,
and then have it passed over the
veto, which will inevitably come.
In less than year from the time this
bin is enforced. the entire South will be
represented in Congress by Union men /;
and this much vexed question of resto-
ration will be forever settled, for the
good of all.
Year: 1867

1t is stated by the Gazette that Gen.
Meagher is about to organize regiment
of mounted rifiemen, and will turn over
to them the arms and ammunition which
were turned over to him by Col. Saw
yer last fall. Further than "as a credit
and protection to the Territory" it is
not stated what the purpose of the or
ganization is. IL may be for protection
against Indians or the Union League,
or intended as body guard to escort
the General to the Missouri river, when
he starts to Washington as delegate.
The Gazette thinks that the uniform
will be very pretty, which we hope is
correct, rs tastily- soldiers are
much needed for fighting Indians. The
officers are to be worthy of the men, and
the men are to be the best material that
can be found anywhere.
Year: 1867

The New York Tribune says Secession
was never the choice, the voluntary act of the
Southern masses. On n free, fair vote, tbere
was n large majority in the slave States for the
Union without conditions. Then where is
the danger in allowing large majority of the
recent slave States their constitutional rights
to the Union asks the Boston Post. Are the
Radicals afraid to trust the unconditional
Union men of the Southern States, who are
largely in the majority, according to Radical
authority.


"Where is the danger" you obtuse hubite,
the danger is, they would help the minority of
the Nation to become an overwhelming ma
jority, now do you know ?-[ Colorado Times.


The assertion of the Tribune shows no
inconsistency on the part of the Re
publicans, who believe the statement.
The masses of the South were loyal when
secession was first promulgated and at
tempted. The leaders never dare trust
it to the votes of the people, The masses
are loyal to-day. Those who sustained
the Union are desirous to re-invest them
with forfeited privileges. But they have
the wicked, crafty, deceitful, treaeherous.
traitorours. despotic crew who conceived
and forced secession upon the South,
beneath the plated heel of retributive
Justice, and there they should and will
stay until their power of doing farther
evil is gone, and forever.
Year: 1867

A NAME WITH A MEANING.-W. J.
Forbes Esq, an editor whose pen is a
whole galvanic battery of condensed
Tightening, and who goes for all that s
out when he starts, has recently pur-
chased the Daily Union, Virginia city,
Nevada, and in changing the name of
the paper, INDUCES in the following
rather fanciful views.


The Daily " Trespass " makes its appearance
this afternoon, as successor to The Virginia
Daily Union" Material for a change in
the mechanical Set-up of the paper has not yet
arrived, but will be here in the course of time,
by team process. Meantime, il is thought best
to come out In plain, under the proper title.
The title is odd, which for the purpose is n
merit. In its application il is original-which
was strong reasons for its adoption. To be
taken daily, before dinner, till the ills
you suffer of disappear and the objection
which the unco' good make to the title will
wear away, and you will like The " Trespass. -
To do the right thing when occasion offers,
regardless of the behests of those who are in
power, or those who offer you money to do
wrong TO stand by the right in general to
stand by the interests of the people against
powerful men who have their seat of power
In money they have amassed-to do these
things has come to be a trespass, against the
common usage.


Then, for the pleasanter view remember that
some of the most exquisite pleasures of life
are intensified by the consciousness that they
are trPspasses. And finally, when the record
IL made up, and the sum of our agressions and
shortcomings is In the balance, how perfect
and comprehensive the supplication, Z" Father,
forgive us our Trespasses 20
Year: 1867

Fancy, says the Glasgow Scotland Herald,
the thrilling effect of the Scriptures if read
as Kean reads Shakespeare, orrecites Macau-
lay. And why should we not have it so?
Is 1t right and proper that every book for
public reading should have justice done to
it except the Bible? And that, while every
other subject is allowed the advantage of
natural and impressive delivery, religion
which is the most important of all, should
be denied By all? The monstrous fallacy
with which well meaning but obtuse people
have been beguiled o. have beguiled them
selves, is that such reading and reciting
would be theatrical, and that theatrical
exhibitions are aot becoming IN the house of
God To this hollow and ridiculous fslacy
may be traced most of the execrable pulpit
reading and delivery that rob the Scriptures
of half their power, and have often made
the dullness of a sermon proverbial. Set
Kean to read the song of Miriam or the fight
of David with Goliah, or the story of the
prodigal son, or Christ's denunciations of
the ScFibes and Pharisees, or to Fecite one
of Chambers sermons, and you will see peO-
pie who had begun to adjust themselves in
the corner of their seats for their accustomed
snooze sit up and listen TO him very close,
with eager eyes and bated breath. And all
this simply because Kean would do the piece
justice, that is, read it naturally, and as it
ought to be read. On what possible ground
either of common sense or good taste, can
objection be taken TO the natural delivery of
at least the sermon? lfGarrick could set
even the grim soldier, who was on duty at
the corner Of the street blubbering like a
child, and if Mrs. Siddons could so over
power the eminent tragedian, Young, that
he could not refrain from sobbing aloud
though he was himself on the stage acting
the villain of the piece aud all this while
merely utteiing the words Of fictitious
charactcr-what overwhelming affects in
the way Of awakening sinners and pressing
home the message OF the Gospel might not
be introduced by men who are giving utter
ance in their own character, to the most
sublime and soul stirring truths?
Year: 1867

Du Chaillu, the celebrated traveller in a
leetuc on Africa, gives the following de-
ScrIption OF the black Bashikonay ant.


These black Bashikonay may Be well call.
ed the lords Of the forest. IL is the most
VoraeiOus creature / eyer met. Il is the
dread Of ali living animals, from the leopard
to the smallest insect Its their habits to
march through the forest in long regular
line, line about two inches broad and often
several miles in length; all along this line
are larger ants, who act as officers-stand
outside the ranks and keep this singular ar
my in order. If they come to a place where
there are no trees to shelter them from the
sun whose heat they cannot bear they inn
nIediately build an underground tunnel,
through which the whole army pass in col.
umns to the forest beyond.


When they grow hungry, as by sudden
command, the long file spreads itself through
the forest, advancing forward, attacking and
devouFlag all living things with fury quite
irresistible. The elephant and the gorilla
fly before them, the black men run away;
every animal that lives in their line Of march
is chased. In an incredibly short space of
time those that are caught are overwhelmed,
killed, eaten, and only the bare skeleton re-
mains. They seem to travel day and night.
Many time have | been awakened out of a
sleep and obliged to rush into the water to
save myself from them When they enter
a house they clear it of every living thing
Cockroaches are devoured in an instant;
rats and mice spring around the room in
vain. They will not touch vegetable mat
ter thus they are very useful, clearing the
country of many insects. When on their
march the insect world flies before them,
and | have often had the approach of a
Bashikonary arm heralded to me by this
means


Wherever they go they make a clean
sweep even ascending to the top of the trees
in pursuit Of their prey. Their manner of
attack is an impetuous leap, instantly the
strong pincers are fastened and they only
let go when the piece gives way. At such
time this little insect seems animated by a
kind of fury which causes it to disregard
entirely its own safety. The negroes relate
that criminals, by which they generally
mean Wizards, have sometimes been ex-
posed to BashikoDy ants, tied to a tree so
they may not escape, and then been devour-
ed to the bones. They are larger than any
ants we have in America The number OF
one of their armies is so great that one does
not like to enter into calculations, but have
seen a continuous line passing at a good
speed a particular place for twelve hours.
90 you may imagine how many millions
there have been.
Year: 1867

There S secret drawer in every heart as
in every desk, if we only knew how to touch
the spring oft.


Dispose of the time past for observation
and reflection; time present to duty; and
time to come to Providence.


Pitifull that a man should so care for
riches, as if they were his own; yet so use
them, as if they were another $; that when
he might be happy in spending them. he
will be miserable in keeping them; aud had
rather, dying, leave wealth with his enemies,
than, being alive, relieve his friends.


IT is no wonder if he who reads, eonverses
and meditatos, improves in knowledge. BY
the first, man converseS with the dead, by
the second, with the living, and by the third.
with himself SO that he appropriates to
himself all the knowledge which can be got
from those who have lived and those now
alive.


When the world crowds Christ out of
the heart, duty becomes simply cold, irk-
some, hard duty, and the worship of God a
bore.


A business that does not challenge the
scrutiny of God, and the approval Of good
conscience, cannot be consistent and proper.


Cherish your best hopes as u faith, and
abide by them in action


Tear Dropsl Resting like pearls upon
the red cheek of childhood in its first grief;
swelling into young eyes in bursts of merry
laughter; falling like summer showers up
on the new made graves of loved ones;
wrung from the heart, scalding hot, upon
the bier of youths blighted flowers and
coffined hopes; pouring tempest like, from
the eyes of a strong man in his agony, or
slowly trickling over the furrowed cheek OF
age. Ever are ye sacred, Tear Drops, for
,Issns 1reDt
Year: 1867

THE Best INHERITANCE following
paragraph we clip from one of Henry Ward
Beecher's recently published sermons:


'.Not money, not honor, not even good
name is the best Inheritance Of child. Far
above all secular gifts is a parents good
name: but there are some good things that
are better than that, namely, those trans
missable moral qualities which put the soul,
from the first, under the dominion Of the
higher instinct From my mother | had a
legacy which / would not be able to thank
God enough for in this world, if | was to
live for long ages Have you not reason to
thank God that you sprang from such pa
rents as yours were? And DO you not know
that the nature which they handed down to
you was one that represented, as it were, in
our journal, the point at which they left the
conflict having gained victory upon victory,
that your warfare might be less and your
victories easier? And that which you have
inherited of tendencies toward things noble
and true, and away from things selfish and
false, you may transmit with argumentlng
power. Here is great lesson OF life.
Year: 1867

ONE OF THE GENEROUS PUBLIC LAWS
Among the general laws of last session is
one which may justly be called generous
act, as well as a most just concession to dis
abled soldiers. 1t provides that every hon
orably discharged soldier who is a resident
of Pennsylvania, and who. from wounds, or
on account of disease contracted while In
the military or naval service of the United
States, and on account of such disability is
unable to procure livelihood by manual
labor shall have the right to hawk, peddle
and vend any wares, by procuring license
for that purpose to be issued without cost.
All that is required TO insure soldier the
benefit of this act, is a certificate from
surgeon of the United States army that he
is unfit to make his living by manual labor


The soldier must also procure certificate
from a prothonotary of any county in this
State, that he is the bona fide owner of the
goods he sells. No doubt the liberal provi-
sions of this law will induce many disabled
soldiers to adopt peddling as means Of
making a living Harrisburg Telegraph.
Year: 1867

NEVER make use of a woman's name III
an improper place, or at an improper time,
or in mixed company. Never make asser-
tons about her that you think are untrue;
illusions that YOU feel she herself would
blnsh 10 hear. When you meet with men
who do not scruple to make use OF wo-
man,s name in a reckless manner, shun
them, for they are lost to every sense of hon
Year: 1867

He is the most thoroughly educated man
who derives his knowledge not from books
alone, nor from men alone, but from the
careful and discriminating study of both.
A truly learned man is liberal towards oppo-
nents, tolerant of error, charitable toward
frailty and compassionate toward failure.
Only the ignorant and half educated arc
dogmaticaI, illiberal and intolerant
Year: 1867

THE world is fulof trials and annoyance:s,
and will be to the end. But better world
is coming, where there will be no more
trials, no more sin for ever. Ii we would
obtain an inheritance in that world, we must
learn to bear meekly and patiently the trials,
of this. That inheritance is promised only
to the oyercomer. Let as, then, try to pray,
and keep trying and praying that God will
helm us to overcome.
Year: 1867

HUMANITf. I've clip the following from
one of our exchanges II will well repay
persusal: All striving, pushing, grasping
after wealth, honor and power The poor
claiming wealth only that they may be above
want; the rich seeking to add thousands to
their millions, So we move. Not one ap-
pears to think how soon he must sink into
oblivion-that we are one generation of
millions Yet such is the fact. Time and
Progress have through countless ages come
marching hand in hand-the one destroying,
the other building up. They seem to create
little or no motion, and the work ef destrue-
ton is as easily and silently accomplished as
child viii pull to pieces a rose. Yet
such is the fatel A hundred years hence,
and much of that we now see around NJ,
will too pass away. Ii is but the simple
repetition of hfe's story; we are bern-we
liye-we die and hence We will not grieve
over those venerable piles finding the com
mon level of their prototypes in natue-an
ultimate death.


We all within our graves shall sleep,


A hundred years to come,


No living soul for us will weep


A hundred years TO come;


But other men onr lands viii till,


And others then our streets win fill,


And other birds will sing as gay,


And bright the sun shine as to-day.


A hundred years TO come.
Year: 1867

BEAUTY is never so lovely as when adorn-
ed with a smile, and conversation never sits
easier upon us than when we now and then
discharge ourselves in symphony of laugh
ter which may not improperly be called the
chorus of conversation
Year: 1867

A PART of goodness consists, perhaps, IN
esteeming and loving people more than they
deserve; but then part OF prudence Is TO
believe that people are not always worth
what We tate them at.
Year: 1867


Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver
No more by thee my steps shall be,
Forever and forever
Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea;
A rivulet then river;
Nowhere by thee my steps shall be,
Forever and forever
But here win sigh thine alder-tree,
And here thine aspen shiyer;
Aud here by thee viii hum the bee
Forever and forever.
A thousand suns will stream on thee.
A thousand moons win quiver;
But moi by thee my steps shall be,
Forever and forever.
Year: 1867

the charges of crime in these articles OF
impeachment against Judge Frazier, in his
official capacity, are in accordance with
these provisions in the Code? Did we not
hear that charge was TO be brought against
Judge Frazier of conspiracy to break up
the government and Legislature? But the
gentlemen seem to have lost sight of this
fact. In order 10 sustain a charge of con-
spiracy, il must be proved that he COM
bined and conspired with others to break
up and disrupt the Legislature of Tennes-
see. One man cannot be guilty Of con-
spiracy. You cannot make a conspirator
of one man.


Mr.. Trimble: The. objection you now
make was not made by any counsel pre-
yiously. In the testimony we offered to
prove that there was conspiracy, concert
of action, or whatever you may please to
call it. We offered to connect Judge Fra
zier with it, to show his guilty intent.


Mr.. Ewing resumed: like to be cate
chised. say now, if any member of the
Senate feels any difficulty about any propo-
sition Of law through my neglect, [ would
be glad and happy if any suggestion of that
kind should be made; for If cannot an
swer it, shall be willing to fall under it.
i say the State mas omitted to charge this
conspiracy, and are prohibited from making
any proof establishing it; and am insist
ing ON that motion l made to suppress all
testimony relating to it.


The court adjourned to nine o'clock to-
morrow morning.
Year: 1867

Every department Of business has an immc


date interest in the markets Of the country, aud
in its financial fluctuations and condition. The
man who faas to keep himself properly al
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets,
controlled by the laws Of demand and supply.
and the relative condition Of the currency, j.
exposed 10 constant loss. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and snterprising
noighbors In order 10 make our paper valuable
as well as interesting. we shall continue 90
make this a SPECIAL FEATURE. Our DAILY
Market Reports. domestic and foreign. by ieic


graph, and our City Reports. gotten up at heavy
expense. have challenged the commendation OF
our best business men; while our current finan


cial Reports from all the leading money centres
Of the country are fuller than have ever been
published by any other journal in tennessee
Year: 1867

The UNION AND DISPATCH. a. hereto
fore. will take the Constitution and laws for its
guide; and in the discussion Of all the new and
intricate questions and issues arising out of the
extraordinary condition in which the country is
placed it will adhere to the principles and
teachings Of the founders and expositors Of our
government and institutions. IL will eudeavor
to guard with vigilance and defend With unwa-
vering earuestness and faith the rights and iute-


sts Of all the States. and the essential prjnci-


les which constitute the basis Of the Republic.
We shall oppose all invasions Of these. and
uphold to the utmost Of our ability, the union
Of the States under them. Feeling that they
are endangered by the revolutionary schemes OF
the Radical politicians who now hold the Legis-
latiye power Of the Government, we shall abate


athing Of our past opposition to their mea-
are With these views which are no less than
rvtoGnd convictions. we cannot and will not
hesitate to defend the unfortunate South fro
the aspersions and impOsitions heaped upon its
people, and urge that JUsTICE and kIGHT shall
be meted out to them.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be selfreHant. and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS Of manuiacturing
and exert ourselves TO encourage the diyersih
cation of Southern industries and the develop
uent of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

And for the special pleasure and profit n the
young. each week we will give a general literary
and religious miscellany. Nothing shall Cad
its way into our columns unfit for the perussl Of
the mothers and daughters Of the land. Deprs-
eating the demoralirins sensntionalism of many
contemporary journals. we shall eschew that
striving 20 give the.reader subsiantal
matter. greierrinz to bo useful rather than


ensatiOnal
Year: 1867

SPECIAL NOTICE. We would call the atten-
tiou Of Of our readers to the Grover K Baker Ma
chimes. Their reputation is too we'll established
for us to attempt a word in their favor. but
would advise any person wanting reliable Fam
i,v Sowing Machine, to investigate these before
buyiug. "A word 10 the wise is sufficient


THE GREAT BLOOD MEDICINES. Let every man,
woman and child in our conntry learn. that l.c-
Doyens Family Medicines are the beet in use.


See advertisement on fourth page.
Year: 1867

how much Of wrong and suffering might
be saved honor your true-hearted
self-devotion but shall be no party to
Its continuance. As 1t is, i ain your
debtor fifty dollars, and will repay it in
ny own way and time"


Mr.. Sterling made good his word
Under Providence this circumstance was
the means Of breaking through the hard
crust OF selfishness and cupidity which
had formed around his heart. He was
not only generous to the widow in after
years, but doer Of many deeds Of kind
ness and humanity to which he had been
in other times a stranger.
Year: 1867

Gov. BRowNLow has done nothing
for long time which will so much delight
all right-thinking men as his kind and
sensible treatment ofTshsm G.. Harris
when that person returned from exile
The loyal Governor and the Rebel ex-
Governor met courteously, in spirit
which unfortunately has not been very
common in the Border States, and we
are glad to see the Rebel newspapers
mention it as an example of the revival
of = brot herly and forbearing sentiment
between the long estranged citizens of a
common country.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1867

A man was taken out of his dying bed in London, few days ago, and carried to prison, for debt of e34. He barely lived to get there. The coroner's jury rendered the following elegant verdict: "Death from congestion of the lungs, from natural caus ees; and the jury declare it was painful tc hear such case, and that their feelings were excited at the manner in which the deceased had been removed"