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Year: 1866

| off and look for new homes. Whether
II is from q dislike Of their former mas
/ ters, or from any desire to change, or
that they feel more free and independ-
ent. do not know.
@. What is your opinion in regard to
the material interests Of Virginiaf Do
they think they will be equal to what
they were before the rebellion, under
the changed aspect of affairs7
A Il will take q long time for them
to reach their former standing. think
after some years they will reach it, and
I hope exceed il, but it cannot be i'm
mediately.


@. II will take number Of years2
A. It will take q number Of years,
think


@. On the whole the condition Of
things in Virginia 10 hopefui-both IN
regard to its national interests and the
peace of the coantryf ~
A. I have great hope and there is
great cheerfulness TO labor.
|. Q. Suppose this policy OF President
johnson should be all you anticipate,
and that you should realize sll that you
expect ia the improvement of national
interests, do you think the result of
that viii be the gradual result OF the old
feeling.


A. That will be the natural result, I
think, and l see no other way in which
that result can be brought about.


O. There is fear in the public
mind that the friends of the policy in
the South adopt it because they see in
it the means of repairing the political
position which they lost in the recent
contest. Do you think that is the main
idea with them, or that they merely look
to it, as you say, as the best way of re-
storing civil government. and the peace
and prosperity vt their respective
Statss2


A. As to he Erst point you make,
do not know that ever heard any per-
son speak upon ii. never heard the
points separated. / have heard them
speak generally on the policy of Presi-
dent johnson Ths feeling is, so far as
/ know new, that there is not that
equality extended to the Southern States
that ia enjoyed BY the Northern.


q. Did you not feel down there, that
while yoa accept the result, we are as
generous as we ought to be under the
circumstances.


A. They think that the North can af
ford to be generous.


@. That 10 the feeling down lhere7


A.. Yes, and they think il the best, Of
those who reflect on the subject and are
able to judge.


Q. understand il to be your opinion
that generosity and liberality towards
the South would be the surest means of
regaining their good opinion.


A. Yes, and the speediest.
Year: 1866

THE following article vas sent to the
Richmond Fdrmey by practical vine
grower of Pennsylvania, and contains
Some very valuable hints and sugges-
tions with regard to the propagation of
the grapevine; we publish It with the
more pleasure, because we think that
wips-making onght and will, we hope,
soon become one OF the great sources of
revenue 10 West Virginia and other
Southern States. In our opinion there
is nothing that promises so rich har


vest, such certain, constant aud album
dant income to the cultivatOr of West
Virginia soil, as the culture of the grape,
both for wIne-msking and for table use
Ws hope that the day is not far distant
when labor skilled in cultiYating the
vine shall be settled over thousands OF
Year: 1866

WITH RESPONSIBLE AGENCIES IN
w every County In Tennessee, and very shortly
throughout every Southern State. This Company
insures against THEFT or DAMAGE to Stock
while stolen. If not reeavered within
Year: 1866

securities. the penal sum in which shall be
double the amount of tax upon the cotton
described In the entry of Withdrawal


Section four requires that the cotton re-
moved under bond and permit as aforesaid,
shall be delivered to the collector Of Inter
nal Revenue forthwith upon its arrival at its
point of destination, and shall remain sub
iect to his control until the taxes thereon
and any necessary charges Of custody thereof
shall have been paid; which payment must
be made within ninety days from the date
of the permit granted by the assessor for
the removal Of the cotton.


Upon the arrival and delivery Of the cot
ton to the collector, and upon the payment
to him of the taxes stated in the permit and
the proper charges of custody, if any, he viii
make, under his seal of Office, and deliver u
certificate


The collector receiving the tax VIII de-
liver this certificate to the person paying the
same, who viii thereupon present it to the
assessor of the district where the tax was
paid, who will thereupOn debit the bonded
account Of the collector Of the district with
the amount Of tax so received, to which he
will certify at the bottom Of the collector 5
certificate In the following form:


hereby certify that the foregoing certif-
cate has been presented to me, and the
amount thereof entered in the bonded ae-
count Of this district.
Year: 1866

ted her, that is politeness. IF he gives his
seat in a stage to a weary little seamstress
returning home from her days labor thatis
politeness. And if a pretty damsel listen
with an interested face to the embarrassed
conversation Of an ineligible gentleman
while her flvorite beau is talking with some
one else, that is the very extreme of petite
ness Heroism in little things constitutes
politeness-petty acts Of self-denial-inper-
ceptible sacrifces-trials for which You re-
ceive neither credit nor epplausel And if
poEteness is not one Of the cardinal virtues,
1t most assuredly ought to bel We can all
Of us behave bravelY enough in the stress of
a great emergency, but what miserable
towards we are about the small tribulations
that are scattered over life as thickly as dai-
sizes in a pasture field We could all die for
our country If It we're necessary but if the
coffee is muddy, or if cold pork salutes our
optics instead of the expected broiled chicken


that is quite different matter a body
is justifable in grumbling and making
himself generally disagreeable under such
circumstances as thesel


The fact is, We are not half polite enough
to each other We want more of the little
amenities that spring straight from the heart
we want more working politeness. Re
member, this is everybody's business. Shall


ve not institute reform?
Year: 1866

Mai. Gen. F. P Blair, who bore such a
conspicuous part in behalf Of the National
Government, during the late struggle, and
who is now making such a brilliant canvass
against the radicals IN Missouri, took occa-
sion in a late speech to pay the following
beautiful tribute to the vaIor of those against
whom he bore arms.


"What civilized nation on earth would
hesitate an instant, if the opportunity offered,
to incorporate with themselves the brave
and heroic people Of the South, whose forti-
tude and endurance in a mistaken cause,
challenges the admiration of the world 2


Would France or England, or any other
civilized power, hesitate to give to such men
the full and equal rights accorded 70 al
other citizens? Would not those nations be
most happy 20 claim as their own such men
as Lee and Johnson, and a host Of others
and to confer upon those living heroes the
reward which genius and courage have al
wavs commanded Would they fail to
honor and cherish, as a part Of their own
glory, the memory of that illustrious throng
] Of the dead led by Slonewall jackson"
Year: 1866

On the 18th of the present month the vo-
ters of Shelby county are to determine
whether or not Memphis shall be the future
county seat Of said county. In all proba-
biity the vote viii be cast in favor Of Mem
Dhis
Year: 1866

We offering to the public, FOR CASH Of the
and stocks Dry Goods and Groceries
brought Hardeman County We by for cash sell for
cash. and, matter course offer inducements
wi on


No liquors Of any kind kept for sale by this house but
entire given the purchase and Dry
Doods and standard Groceries.


We offer Summer Dress Goods greatly reduced fig
ures make room for
the FAN and Winter trade.


Dir. r. C. Wilkerson returns his thanks his
patrons


call from all those who wish money by dealing with
legitimate mercantile house. juy2I-3m
Year: 1866

TOUR BUSINESS Will INCREASE ,as,


II you Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE -


II YOU Advertise In your County Paper.
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


If you Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE "


If YOU Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE


II vou Advertise IN sOur County Papel
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE
.A,.- If vou Advertise in youf County Paper.
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE .-.


J: YOU Advertise in YOUR County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE
ass-z If you Advertise in your County Paper
YOUR BUSINESS WILL INCREASE
If YOU Adyertise in Nour County Papet
Year: 1866

TIE WEEKLY ARGUS


Is the Oldest Paper in the County
THE WEEKLY ARGUS


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THE WEEKLY ARGUS


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THE WEEKLY ARGUS


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Year: 1866

we would never have reached the city Of
Nashville.


The negro, after trusting him on the
picket line, after employing him as q
scout, after deeming him fit to bear arms
for our defense on the battlefield, shall
we refuse him the privilege of the ballot
box, and, if so, in Gods name, whyf
Depend upon it, If you discard their aid
by such refusal, you can never establish
Federal authority without the constant
presence of Federal bayonets. Do not
be afraid to trust the blacks. They are
the friends of the government. They ap-
preciate the blessings Of freedom, and
will show their appreciation by graft
tude to their benefactors. did not in
tend to enter upon this subject, but the
thought came up, and could not for
bear utterance. have seen what these
men could do. l have commanded
them. l have fought alongside of them,
and will advocate their rights wherever
l have the opportunity, for it is simple,
even-handed justice. In the battle Of
Nashville, in my division, there was a
brigade of 1,400 colored troops, and Of
this number 450 fell in less than fifteen
minutes, giving their life's blood to their
country. Is it unsafe to trust men who
have done so much for our country, with
the rights of citizens


Since the utterance of these words,
Steadman and the President have evil
IDENTIFY changed their minds, and declare
now not only against impartial suffrage,
but against the protection of the negro
in the rights guaranteed him BY the
civil rights bill and constitutional
amendment.
Year: 1866

The New York correspondent Of the
Albany Argus give the following;


A romantic affair occurred in Brook
lYn short time ago. A handsome Or
phan work girl, Mary Elizabeth B., lived
comfortably on the fruit of her honest
labor, and had for some months been
courted by young man, a journeyman
halter. One day the young girl said to
him; Albert you have been pressing
me to marry you for three monts, and l
have postponed the marriage. Now,
however, will no longer delay it. A
rich lawyer has offered me $1,000, g
month if would consent to be a dis
honest woman and has promised that I
should have splendid apartments on
Fifth avenue. There is my hand-marry
me directly" The lover, highly indig-
nant at the attorney and counsellor,
was too glad to obey the direction. The
marriage took place at the residence of
the bride. The evening before the we'd
ding, however, the bride groom told
Mary Elizabeth that he had a secret to
tell. He was not journeyman halter,
but was one Of the richest men in the
city Of Boston, and said he would take
her the next day to the beautiful country
seat in the suburbs OF the modern Ath-
ems, which he had inherited from his
father and mother, for he indeed was an
orphan like his bride, his Mary Elizabeth.
The young lover, it appears, saw Emma
a few months ago at Barnum's Museum
at the Wednesday afternoon matinee,
and fell in love with her at first sight,
and while she was gazing at the happy
family, consisting of cats, rats, dogs,
mice and monkeys, all confined in one
cage.


She lived IN an attic, and he had taken
a room in the upper story of the same
house to be near her. Thus he could
see her every day, and mutual passion
soon sprung up between them. On the
Dist of next month the happy couple
sail in the Arago for Havre, and after
spending the honeymoon and the winter
abroad, they will return to their own
native land in the spring time Of the
coming year.
Year: 1866

IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE.-About a year
ago the following appeal for impartial
suffrage was made and President John
sons support pledged to certain ex-
tent for that measure by General Stead
man in speech at Nashville:


If know anything of Andrew John
son, he will never consent that the man
who has borne arms in the defence of
the government, though as black as
black can be, shall be degraded by a re-
fusal of civil rights. The blacks have
fought for US, have died for US. They
have helped save the Union, and to per-
petuate il, and shall we deny them the
right Of suffrage, the right of partici-
pating in the privileges they have aided
to preserve2 No. not man In the
country who has ever worn the Federal
uniform should have put upon him the
mark of civil degradation. Remember,
they were our friends from the begin
ming of the rebellion, Without them,
Year: 1866

DEATH FROM ANGER.-The Sherbrooke
(C. W. Gazette says that last week Law
renee Doyle, who had been drinking,
got very angry with his son, and his
excitement was such that he burst some
of the blood-vessels OF the heart and
dropped dead in an instant. Only q
short time before his death he said he
did not care for God, man or the devil,
and told his wife that she might prepare
a coffin for his son or for himself before
night. When ander the influence of IL
Quor his passion was uncomfortable.
Year: 1866

"A saloon keeper in Connecticut has
been convicted on charge of refusing
to allow colored person to play bill
lizards at his tables.


Sweden and Norway are rising out
of the sea at the rate of half an inch
per annum, and Greenland is gradually
sinking.
Year: 1866

Bryan QuiDn-You still owe me that sum
Of money Iloaned you to defray the expenses Of
yourself and bride from Cleveland to franklin.
You must have thought me as much Of an ignora-
mus yourself when you sent by your aequaint-
ance acertain amount OF counterfeit and incur
rent money to liquidate your indebtedness to me.
Then allow me to state here that the letter Of your
compeer, Mathew wynne, to the pToprietOrs Of
the Weddell House, had just about as much effect
on me as water has on a drowned mouse. These
gentlemen too familiar with my career here and
elsewhere to be prejudiced against me by any such
lying and slanderous stories you your associ-
ates can hatch concerning me. All your threats
and false reports will not deter me, 1 assure you,
from branding you kRaTe, prone to resort
to the meanest lodges to evade the pay
ment Of what you are in honor bound to pay But
have concluded that the idea Of you having any
HONOR is a farce.


II the debt you owe is not paid forthwith,
you will wake up one Of these fine mornings and
see the public places OF Franklin embeIished with
posters calling attention to your knaVery in Ian
guage that will be very agreeable even to yoHr
callous understanding.


JAMES DIGNAN.
Cleveland o., Feb Is, 1866. feb14
Year: 1866

We have been shown sample of excel
lent crude oil, taken frsm well on Little
Yellow Creek, which empties in the Ohio
river at Wellsville, Ohio. This oil is a
light straw color and as clear as refined
oil and burns well in lamp in its crude
state 1t is obtained at Island Run and
WellsyiIle and Little Yellow Creek.
This is safe territorv for operations.
Year: 1866

Otherwise his education was altogether
American. The Declaration of Indepen-
dence twas his compendium of political
wisdom, the Life of Washington his con-
slant study, and something of Jefferson
and Madison reached him through Henry
Clay, whom he honored from boyhood
For the rest, from day to day, he lived the
life the American people, walked in its
light, reasoned with its reason, thought
with its power of thought felt the beat
ings of ITS mighty heart and so was in
every way child of nature, child of
the West. n child of America.
Year: 1866

success is certain" To the men of Indiana
he said: II am but an accidental, tenn
porary instrument; it is your business to
rise up and preserve the Union and liber-
ty." At the capital of Ohio he said;
GWithout a name, without reason why
l should have name, there has fallen
upon me task such as did not rest even
upon the Father of His Country" AT
various places in New York, especially at
Albany, before the Legislature, which ten
dered him the united support of the great
Empire State, he said: awhile hold my
selfthe humblest of all the individuals who
have ever been elevated to the Presidency,
Ihave more difficult task to perform than
any of them. l bring sstrue heart
to the work. I must rely upon the people
of the whole country for support; and
with their sustaining aid even 1, humble
as am, cannot fail to carry the ship of
State safely through the storm" To the
Assembly of New Jersey, at Trenton, he
explained: 1 shall take the ground l
deem most just to the North, the East, the
West the South, and the whole country,
il good temper, certainly with no malice
to any section. 1 am devoted to peace,
but it may be necessary to put the foot
down firmly In the old Independence
Hall of Philadelphia he SAID: i have
never had feeling politically that did not
spring from the sentiments embodied in
the Declaration of Independence which
gave liberty not alone to the people of this
country, but to the world in all future
time. If the country cannot be saved
without giving up that principle, 1 would
rather be assassinAted on the spot than
surrender it. have said nothing but
what am willing to live by and die by" +"
IN WHAT STATE HE FOUND THE COUNTRY


Travelling in the dead of night tC
escape assassination, Lincoln arrived al
Washington nine days before his inaugu


ration. The outgoing Prs-;lent at the
opening session of Congr ..ad still KEEP


as the majority of hi :ig cas men en-
gagged in treason; had declared thst u
Year: 1866

Love of office and honors was the main
cause of the late unnatural war. The same
cause that led to all our troubles is still op-
Grating to continue them. The secession
leaders endeavored to destroy the government
on account of the offices. Bathed in this, as
soon as the war was over they managed
again to monopolvze all the offices, and they
refuse to yield them. though they know it is
not possible to restore the Union until they
do So


A marked illustration of this intense sell
fshness is seen in the conduct of one Raph-
ael Semmes, of Mobile, once commander OF
the Confederate ship Alabama. He was eiec-
ted Judge of the Probate Court of Mobile.
The President refused to pardon him for his
treason, and forbade his entering on the du-
ties of the Office. But he refuses to resign,
though the business of the Court is entirely
unattended to, and the estates of widows
and orphans are suffering for the want Of ju-
dicial proceedings The people will have no
peace. no restoration of the Union, and no
prosperity, until such selfish creatures as
Semmes are seourged into private life 1t
seems to be favorite maxim with these
arrogant and hungry leaders that the many
should suffer for the benefit of the few.
Year: 1866

The Legislature of Texas having rejected
the Howard amendment submitted to the
States by Congress, her Secretary of State, by
direction, returned it to the State department
at Washington, with a message that Texas
had no use for it.


The New York Tribune seems to be san
guine that the amendment will be accepted by
the Southern States 1t says:


"The results of the October elections re-
move all rational doubt Of the emphatic in
dorsement by the uniformly loyal States of
the terms of Reconstruction matured and sub
mitted to the States by Congress in the shape
of an amendment to the federal Constitution.
The amendment has already been ratified by
the Legislatures of several States. including
Connecticut, Hampshire and New-Jer
sey The fact that few Legislatures have been
in session since it passed Congress has alone
prevented its general ratification. Other
States are sure to follow very soon. That
this amendment will be sustained and ratified
We cannot doubt"


The Tribune was never more mistaken
The recently insurgent States wiU not accept
it. We doubt whether they would accept it,
evenif the President were to request them to
do so. They might, if he should request it,
but he would at once incur the mortal hatred
of those leaders who are now controlling the
Southern States. These leaders are already
so infamed against the Northern people that
they will not even tolerate advice on this
subject when offered by Southern men, The
Southern man who urges the adoption of the
amendment merely as the lesser evil, and
not on its merits, is held up as Radical, as
mean white man, and as traitor to the
South. And we are sorry to say that this
feeling manifested by the leaders, is extend
ing itself to some of the Unionists of the
Snuth
Year: 1866

all but marr0w and ignoble minds. Besides,
the republicans are aware that they have
won only because their own mistakes were
exceeded by those of their opponents, and
hencetorth they will shape their policy so as
to create Republican Party in the South
The Southern people have but single con-
cession to make-the adoption Of the Con-
stitutionaI Amendment -and they aciU COM
ptetety silence the .tep Northern men qoho are
seeking to keep alice the old animosity. This
is what the people have said to them in the
recent elections. They viii do well to under
stand it, and to accept the offer in the spirit
in which it is made"


The New York Times edited by Henry ].
Raymond, gives the following advice to the
Southern States. Mr.. Raymond was the
great leader in the Philadelphia Convention,
of which Messrs Graham, Ashe, Barringer,
Howard, and Others of this State, were mem.
bers. MIR. Raymond is known as the nation
al leader Of the Worth men of this State.
He is the author of the Resolutions and Ad-
dress of the Philadelphia Convention, so
warmly endorsed by the Worth men ofthis
State. Mr., Raymond, who voted in Con-
gress for the Howard amendment, now says:


Nor will it be wise for the South to leave
out of view the probable consequences of re-
fusing to accept the Amendment as the ba-
sis of restoration. They cannot doubt that
the effect of refusal will be to strengthen the
Radical sentiment which already demands
more extreme coalitions and threatens the
most ultra and destructives measures. That
sentiment is not yet dominant in the Union
Party, nor will it become so unless it is streng-
thened again, as it has been hitherto,
by unwise action on the part of the President
and the Southern States At almost any
time during the last session of Congress it
might have been disarmcd and overborne, if
the resistance to the Union party on the part
of the President had been less indiscriminate
and more judicIous; ; and even as it was, it
failed to carry any of its extreme and violent
measures. II the President and the Southern
States will accept the popular decision Just
pronounced as entitled to respect, and afford,
by judicious and considerate action, basis
for the more moderate and discreet portion of
the Union party to act upon, we are confident
that all our difficulties may yet be overcome.
The people are not revengefal nor irrational
in their temper or their views. They do not
seek or desire the degradation of the South,
NOR do they endorse or approve the wild vag-
aries and crazy schemes of Butler, Stevens,
and their confederates. But they believe the
Constitutional Amendment to be essentially
just, and its adoption necessary to the peace
and safety of the nation. Hostility and Bit
ter resistance may drive them into more ex-
treme positions, and thus strengthen the fac
tion from which the country at lage, and es-
| pecially the South, has the most to fear and
it cannot possibly change or improve the ac-
tion of Congress for at least three years to
come" SIS