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Year: 1867

The LEIGH-sTREET FEAST still draws
nightly crowds. and all who attend them
well satisfied that their evenings are well
spent. Let everybody attend who can,
and the display of beauty alone will be
ample remuneration.


We are informed that the feast win con-
tinue from night to night during this week.
Year: 1867

HoGs.-Hog meat may do to eat, but it
is decidedly unwholesome to the city to
raise it within its limits. This is fact
that our Council ought duly to appreciate,
especially now as the summer season ap-
proaches, and return Of that dread cpl
demic, cholera, is feared. We have been
told that certain parties in this city have
been granted permission to raise hogs in
the city limits, while large number have
been refused the same. 1t makes but lit
tie difference to us who enjoys this privi-
lege; but it certainly seems highly unjust
in the Council to grant to one or two men
a right which if granted to many Others
would endanger the health of the city.
Year: 1867

The DAILY DIsPAroH FOR The SPRINGS AND
SUMNER REsoRTs.-The Daily Dispatch will be
regularly mailed for the whole or any part Of the
season, to our friends who may visit the Springs
any summer resort. Orders left a, our counter or
sent by NAH will receive attention.
Year: 1867

CITY RAILwAY.-Under an arrange
ment commenced on yesterday, the cars on
the city railway now run from o'clock in
the morning until 10 o'clock at night. The
managers Of the road seem to be striving
in every way to serve the public, and with
the present polite and gentlemanly con-
ductors they are rapidly winning increased
favor from all classes Of the community.
Year: 1867

PHILoLoGIAN SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER
We are requested to call upon all the
members Of this association to meet at
their hall in Manchester at o'clock this
evening, for the purpose of participating in
the literary carnival at st. James church.
Year: 1867

VNO OUR FRIENDS AND TIL + rS5p
i PUBLIC.-We take this opportunity REA
OF Informing our friends and the publict
that we have made arrangements with the v0s
manufacturers to make expressly for as q good
and general assortment OF BOOTS, sHoBs. and
TRUNKS, and we shall keep on hand the very
best BOOTS ana SHOES that can be made. We
shall receive them every week, and We Invite all
in want OF goods in our line 20 give as call be-
fore buyin elsewhere. We will show tb EN- our
stock with pleasure {; and We think any one who
bought either in this market or at the North Will
say that our goods the best they ever saw, and
our prices as low. As regards sizes, We have paid
and shall pay great attention to getting such al
will sell.


We have some styles OF goods that cannot bs


spa PUTEgY & WATTS.
Year: 1867

The Richmond Examiner says that
Congress is sabOlishing geverything else,
and the man on horseback will abolish
Congress-" and it adds, with more can
dor than wisdom, "may we live to see
it," But You won't! The people of the
United States may do good many
rash things and may tolerate a good
many more, but that is precisely The
one thing which they will not tolerate.
Year: 1867

An elegant ball dress is made with
double skirt. The under one, of tuIle,
is embroidered with rose-colored satin
and black velvet in the form of stars
and the crescent moon. The upper skirt
is also of tulIe, shorter and not en-
Year: 1867

property. The loyal men in them can
carry on the governments without their
resistance aud as their ultimate fate is
bound up in that of their race, they and
their best friends should desire to see
the experiment fairly tried of lifting
millions of them from slavery to citizen
ship, unembarrassed by the Invocation of
State pride and personal prejudice The
Negroes of the North have been depress,
ed by the degradation of those of the
South, and must be lifted by their ele
walton. The work of emanclpatius them
eIevating them to all the rights of eiti>
lzens, and reoonstructing the govern
meuts of all the rebel States, would APP
pear to be enough for generation of ine
tellectual giants. Let this be completed
before revolutionizing the loyal States.
Let the Republican party, at least keep
upa marked distinction between treason
and loyalty and leave Rebel Equality
to the fare of the Democracy.
Year: 1867

TO ask advice merely to cast about
for sanctions to firmly made up opin-
ion, with determination to accept none
but what agrees with it, is little less than
an insult. 1t shows both rccklessness
OF giving trouble and a want Of decent
respect for another's Judgment The In.
sincere inquirer not only gives trouble
unnecessarily; but also repays it most
ungratefully with neglect and contempt.
Year: 1867

From the Norfolk Day Book, sept iIth.


There are dozen negroes in this city
who are slowly turning white; to say
nothing of one old fellow, who took the
start several years ago, and is now COM
pletely white. Ii is curious 70 watch the
progress of these physiological phenomena,
which 80 far as we are informed are puzzles
to the most astute psychologists. 1t takes
many years for the change to pass entirely
over the person, and while it is 50 passing
the subject presents the most singular, and
in many cases, revolting spectacle irnagin-
able There is one negro man IN this city,
bearing the unmistakable features of the
African, whose body is white, and whose
face is as blsck as lamp-black, not one OF
the usual shade of bacon rind, but as black
as if he had been painted with coat OF
lamp-black. There is q woman whose lace
pie-bald, and another who has lately com
menoed to turn; in this last case the hrst
indication of q change in complexion was
given by the appearance of white spot be-
hind one of her ears. There rs another
subject in this city, whose face, hands, and
arms are white, and whose body is black )
the change in this case has been very slow,
he having commenced to turn when boy.
1t is remarkable fact that in most cases
Of this kind the subjects bear on their
physiognomies all the features OF the full
blooded African.
Year: 1867

Every department Of business bss an imms-
diate interest in the markets Of the country. and
in its financial fluctuations and condition The
man who fails to keep himself properly ad
vised as to the rise and fall Of the markets a.
controlled by the lava Of demand and supply.
and the relative condition Of the currency. is
exposed to constant loss. and must necessarily
fall behind his more intelligent and eatsrprisins
neighbors. In order 70 make our paper valuable
a. well as int resting. We shall continue 20
make this a SPECIAL FEATURE Our Daily
Market Reports. domestic and foreign. By tsls-
graph. and our City Reports. gotten up at heavy
expense. have challenged the commepdstion Of
our best business men; while our current Finap-
cial Reports from all the leading money centre


Of the country are fuller than have ever


published by any other Journal in Tenn0sssse.
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the Macon Ga,
Telegraph writes that paper:


Between IL and IL o'clock, on Thursday
night, 10th inst, the moon, planets and
stars shining as clear aud brilliant as any
one ever saw them, and not Vapor any
where to be seen, black and ominous
looking cloud, with the snddenness of
thought, leaped into the eastern horizon.
1t ascended to the zenith Immediately over
the city with the rapidity of a flying cam
non ball, being then at an altitude of one
and half miles, two miles long from
north to south and one mile wide from east
to west, the edges all round it beautifully
illuminated with the light of the moon.
1t was accompanied by roaring sound
like that of a distant cataract; but on the
earth there was only the slightest rustic in
the foliage. For moment the atmos
phere was chillingly cold. From the time
it first appeared on the eastern and went
entirely out of sight on the. northwestern
horizon was not exceeding three minutes.


The center was very dense and black,
and the whole cloud rolling and boiling
like the waters of the sea, when lashed by
a furious storm.
Year: 1867

GEFNRAL BUREaARD and Colonel Blan
ton Duncan are organizing an Electrical
Brake Company, to extend in this country
the use Of Mr. Achard's great invention
for stopping railroad trains almost instantly
vet without concussion, even when run
ming at foil speed, by the single hand Of
the engineer. The power is derived from
the motion Of the train itself, and its appli-
cation made instantaneous by electrical
wires and suitable gear. The prize of the
French Academy was awarded TO the in>
vensor after the acknowledged success of
practical experiments made in the course
OF regular traffic, and followed mp for a
wear on the Paris and Strasburg railway,
and for three months on the Belgian State
railways.
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admOnish the Southern
people to be self-reliant 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 manufacturing.
and exert ourselves to encourage tho diveTsif-
cation of Southern industries and toe develop
ueut Of Southern resources
Year: 1867

BY A CONSOLIDATION OF THE. lash
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DISPATCH. and by the generous and unitsi
support Of the USIoS AND DIsPATcH by the
patrons of both the former papers. the Propris-
tors are enabled to present a Newspaper hiths-
TO unsurpassed in this city or State


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS, our paper will compare fsvorably ith
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many
our patrons, who are most capable Of iudEiugiu


uch matters.
Year: 1867

And kindred topics. We shall also give an sx-
tsnsive variety Of valuable and interesting mat
ter-the best adapted to the farming classes o,
our State, which will, in a great measure, sep
ply the place Of a family agricultural paper
Year: 1867

question it is, too. Men may talk as they
please in Congress and on the stump about
1t, but it is subject that must be arranged
by the law of nations. l don't wish to be
understood as saying exactly what will. be
done about it, but merely to say that it will
be difficult and complicated question to
adjust before we get altogether through


with it. Then there's great national
debt to pay, and the people are getting
restive under heavy taxation. Then we
have an Indian war on our hands, the pos
sible extent and cost of which are not easy


to foresee. Now all these things demand
and fear they will be lost sight
of in the great struggle for the Presidency.


The country needs all the friends it can get


now, irrespective of party, to help save it
from breakers. Any man who will help


me in the work is my friend, don't-care


what his politics may be-" MACK.
Year: 1867

When a few years ago conservative
men protested against assumptions Of IN
constitutional power by the President OF
- Congress, the answer was that the ex-
igoncy Of the times justified tn course,
that the salvation Of the lie of the nation
was tie all important object, that arbitrary
power was necessary, and Its use pardona-
bic for such 4 purpose. and that when thc
exigency was passed tic old rule would
again be rigidly observed. We Go not
intend renewing The discussion. Grant
that the reasons we're ample and contrcll-
ing, Tut let it be remembered that con
scrvatiye men then said, We are afraid


that when the exisency is passed you viii


not have the strength or courage left t.


rebuild and defend the old barriers " It


was argued, and forcibly argued, that


breaking down constitutional imHunitier
was 4 dangerous business. establishing bad
precedents, and that it would be very diff
cult at the end OF the war to stop the hab-
it and custom Of disrcsardlng the superior
force Of the old charter Of liberty. Ths
time has long since arrived when those
who promised to stand By strict constitu-
tional law after the crisis was passed should
redeem their promise.


Thousands have followed blindly the
lead Of ambitious or artful men, far beyond
the limit which they marked out when
they joined these men. The present
aspect Of affairs in Congress is that of
bcdy OF men seeking to break the whole
system of government and concentrate in
Congress the power held by the Presi-
dent, Judiciary and Legislature. Devices
are every day brought forth overcoming the
provisions Of the Constitutions and destroy
ing the checks which TIE fathers wisely
provided. The tendency of every thing
is toward thorough revolution. Is il
not time for men TO pause and think ?
However they may have felt in time of
war, We are persuaded that the present
aspect Of affaias is calculated to arrest the
Of thoughtful men ard to remind
them OF thc duty Of standing by the Con-
stitutlon as il IS, as the only hope for the
future. The downward track is easy. Ii
is more difficult to pause and turn back.
But 1t is assurcdly the moment now for
wise citizens to redect, and if they have
become accustomed to regard the Consti-
tuition as myth or en- cid parchment. i.
is time to lock on it with something of the
ancient yeneration.-N 7. Jourael Of
{ ON 1perce
Year: 1867

PROTECTING TIE FIsH-Last week the
General Assembly passeda law prohibiting
the scining OF fish in any OF the public
streams in this State, under heavy penal
ties for any violation of the act. we are
informed that the bill does not in any way
affect the fishing at the Reservoir, in Green
county, that being private property telong>
ing to the canal company over which the
State has no control. We presume ouf
readers, generally, will acquicsce in the
utility OF this law, as the fshiE al our rivers
and small streams have nearly disappeared
under the process Of catching them with
scins, resorted to by those who make it a
business to supply the markets with that
article Of food.--Nc,7 4i5aay Lcdqcr
Year: 1867

The country is on the eve of the most ex
traordinary and exciting crisis it has yet
witnessed While the darkness Of the lu,
ture is, of course, impenetrable, and the eye
of apprehension or of hope may be panied
in the effort to penetrate the gloom, the
LIGHT that the present sheds upon our en>
trance into il makes it look most forbid
ding and uninyiting. Clouds and dark
ness rest upon the future Of the Republic.
The blacklist record ever made by the rep
rcsentatives Of free people has been made
by the American Congress to disfigure the
escutcheOn of popular liberty. The cheek
of every American citizen should burn
with shame, and his nerves thrill with in>
dignation at the insult put upon his coun>
try, upon the memory Of the patriots of '.6,
and upon himself, by the passage through
Congress of the bill to govern the South>
crn States by military despotism.


The Senators and Representatives who
voted for the bill should never be forgotten
in the detestation of every American, while
liberty has voice to proclaim their igno>
miny. The principles OF The bill are the
very essence of despotism. 1t subjects
onc>third OF the people of this country to
the will of fmilitary power, without any re-
straints on that power, except that life un-
der sentence OF death cannot be taken with
out tho approval of the President being
first had and obtained A military com
Year: 1867

The new short dresses tor spring wear
made in two colors-the dress Of one, the petit
coat and sac paletot of another. A black
dress with purple petticoat and paletot is a
good combination, also black and dark bright
blue. A green poplin dress and black silk un-
derskirt and paletot is q good style or fine
thibet dress with jacket and petticoat as the
contrasting color. Care should be taken not
to make the upper dress too short Six inches
is sufficient difference between the length of
the upper skirt and the lower, measuring, of
course, from the point of the dents, if it is cut
in the usual way. The handsomest short
painting below, but they are less fresh and
spring-like in their appearance than the con-
trasting styles mentioned above.


SPRING BoNNETs.


This is a very important question. All fem
ininedom are anxious to know what new sur
prises the milliners are preparing for them, and
whether they will have to sacrifice their last
new chiqnon. Their milliners, on the contra
ry, are as anxiously inquiring hoWthey can
invent a small bonnet which will be piquant,
which will not interfere with the hair and
which enterprising young ladies and economi-
cal persons cannot make for themselves. The
results of their labors are not as yet very clear
ly defined. "Opening day" is still too far off
but the indications are all in favor of return
to the complex bonnet, the regular orthodox
combination of crown, brim and cape which
preceded the saucy little "saucers" worn du-
ring the last nine months.


Among the advanced styles that we have
seen, the "Levigne" is the most decided novel;
ty. The brim turns up in front like the rim Of
a turban, with this difference, that it ascends
instead Of lying fiat to the crown, and forms a
tiara over the forehead. A narrow cape at the
back surmounts the chignon and forms a comb.
This is quite new and rather distipgue, but it
can be becoming to very few women. Other
styles in fancy straw approach more nearly to
the bonnets of several years The brim is mar
row, but somewhat pointed and elevated in
front, the cape small and surmounts the CHG
non. The crown is the most important part of
the bonnet, and fits to the top Of the head in
stead of at the back, leaving the cape and
er than indispensable parts Of the main struc-
ture-Boston Post.
Year: 1867

RAILWAY ACcIDENT.-The night tram
from here, on the Rutland road, was thrown
from the track Thursday evening, between
Charlotte and Shelburn, and badly smashed
up. The engineer and fireman were a good
deal hurt and scalded, and some of the pas
sengers more or less bruised, but We hear
of no limbs being broken.


The train was a twenty minutes behind
time and running very rapidly, when the en-
gineer caught sight of a tie on the track, and
arod or two further on some more. lie whlstl-
ed = down brakes" instantly, and shut of
steam, but the speed of the train was scarce
ly checked at all before reaching the obstruc-
tions. The engine and tender were thrown
down the embankment, some feet, and part
" turned over, the smoke stack, cab and
tender being pretty thoroughly broken up.
The engineer and fireman both went over
with the engine, and it is almost miraculous
that they were not killed.


The cars ran of the other side Of the track,
and were also somewhat damaged, The pas
sensers were not little alarmed at the sud
den and violent shaking up which they got.


The baggage car was completely turned
round, but the cars did not receive nearly a'
much damage as the engine. 1t is the opin-
ion of the railroad men that If the train hat
not been at such high speed the srnash-ul
would have been worse, and probably fata
to some on the train.


On examination it was found that old tie
had been laid on the track, and also careful
" wedged on end in the cattle-guards
the crossing, showing a deliberate purpOs
on the part of some miscreant to throw tb
train from the track.


man named Smith was arrested nea
morning and lodged in Jail here on suspiciO
Of having dorc the deed. lie had been
the emoloy of the road, and waf lately di
charged and had had trouble with the col
ductor. as we arc informed, in consequen'
of which lie had made threats Of vengeane
Year: 1867

RUNAwAY.-About five O'Clock last eve
ming, the black mare Of Mr.. j. S. Pierce,
driven by Henry the colOred boy in his EN-


ploy, took fright from disarrangement of
the harness, in Maiden Lane, and ran into
the front of Jacob Green's shop, shooting
out the boy, demolishing the bow window,
carrying away an awning post in front of
WaltOn's harness shop, and finally upsetting
the wagon in front of BlOdgett & Sweets.
The horse then broke from the vehicle and
ran a short distance, when a passer-by
stopped the animal, without much difficulty.
The eolored boy got an ugly cut in his scalp,
bus otherwise was little injured. The wa
gon was somewhat broken. Jacobs show
window was not as full of prepared horse
radish as it is sometimes, or probably there
would have been more tears shed by the
crowd that gathered to look over the wreck.
Year: 1867

| you what to call it. And when they make


them ready, and come to the covering Of


their head, they will call and say.-Give


me my French hood, and give me my bonnet,


or my cap, and so forth. would wish that


the women would call the covering of their


heads by the terms of the scriptures. As


when she would have her cap, would she


should say,-Giye me my power. l wish


they would, as they lave much pranking,


when they put on their cap, wish they


would have this meditation: ''T am now put


ting on my power upOnimy head" II they


had this thought in their minds, they would


not make so much pranking up at themselves
as they do nowadays. But now here is a


Vengeance devil we must have our power


from Turkey of velvet, ami gay it must be,


tar-fetched and dear-bought; and when it
cometh, it is false sign. had rather have
true English sign than a false sign from
Turkey. 1t is false sign when it covereth
not their heads as it should do. For if they
would keep it under the power as they ought
to do, there should not any such thussOeks
nor tufts be seen as there be, nor such lay
ing out Of the hair, nor braiding to have 1t
open. would marvel of it, how it should
come to be so abused, and so far out OF Or
der, saving that know by experience that
many would not be ruled by their husbands,
as they ought to be.


But there be now many Adams that will
not displease their wives, but will in this
behalf let them have all their own minds,
and do as them lisseth. And some others
again there be nowadays that will defend !
1t, and say it may be suffered well enough, |
because il is not eXuressed IN Scrinture nor
spoken Of by name. Though we have not |
express mention in scripture against such !
laying Of the hair in thussocks and tufts, |
yet we have express mention in Scripture of |
wrelthen hair, that Is. for the nOuce to |
culr. Bus of these thussocks that are laid |
out nowadays, there is no mention made |
in Scriptures, because they were not used in |
Scripture time. They were not yet come to
be go far out Of order, as to lay out such /
thussOcks and tufts. But | will tell thee, if |
thou wilt needs lay it out, or if thou wilt |
needs show thy hair, and have it seen 90 /
and poll thy head, or round it. as men do
for to what purpose is il to pull it out go, /
and TO lay it out Some do it, say they. OF /
a simplicity some do it of pride; and some |
Of other causes. But they do it because
they will be quarter masters with their hus-
bands. Quarter-master? Nay, half-master /
yea, some OF them will be whole masters,
and rule the roast as they list themselves.
Master Lafnner's Sermon before RiH" Ed


icGrd The &irth. 1850.


Braided locks Of hair, such as the lslies Of |
those times wore 'some dangling down be
fore on their breasts, and others hanging down
behind"
Year: 1867

A RELIc.-Recently Master Charlie Blair,
while bathing in the WinOoski, just above
Montpelier, found a sword which evidently
must have seen service in the Revolutionary
War. 1t is of the old Continental pattern,
and has every indication of having rested at
the bottom Of the river for half a century.
Year: 1867

FAsr TmE.-Dexter won the match against
Brown George and running mare at Boston
Tuesday in three straight heats, making the
second in PIG, which is said to be the best
ever made on hali-mile track.
Year: 1867

The Boston policemen are making a good
thing by complaining of people who keep un-
licensed dogs and getting a third of the fine.
One of them cleared eighty-hve dollars in
two days, in addition to his regular pay,
last week.
Year: 1867

Dispatches from Paris give the cir
cumstauces Of the late attempted as.
sassinatiou and make il plain that
tho life Of the Gear and not of Napo.
Icon was intended. Tho man who
fired the bullet is Pole named Bur.
gouski. One OF the Imperial grooms
seeing a man in the crowd making q
menace, drove his horse between the
assassin aud the Emperor. The
horse was fatally wounded by the
bullet, which also wounded a woman
beyond the Imperial carriage. The
assassiau was set upon by the people
and his life saved only by the iner-
position Of the police. He says he
wished to relieve the world Of tho
Car, and mauifsrts no repentancs Of
tho act.