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Year: 1867

E@-The Texas papers speak Of q gen.
eral disposition among the farmers OF
that State to Lessen the quantity and
improve the quality Of the land they
cultivate. This change is caused by the
scarcity Of labor, which leads 70 improved
cultivation and an increase Of production
from given quantity Of land. The i'm
provement in the system Of cultivation
in Texas will ultimately extend to all
parts of the South.
Year: 1867

B@-An exchange says that il is safe
rule TO wet the wrists before drinking
cold water, if at all heated. The effect
is immediate and grateful, and the dan
ger Of fatal results may be warded of BY
this simple precaution.
Year: 1867

vidual Effort.


GaEENBRIER COUNTY, w. Va,


November Is, 1867. }
Editor of the Register: .


I desire through your excellent paper
to say few words to the Conservatives
of West Virginia, as am apprehenslve
very many of them do not properly 2p-
preciate the duties devolving upon them
as the friends of good government-as
those who desire the return of constitu-
tional liberty to the people of our be-
loved State. Ifyou ever intend, gentle
men Conservatives, to labor for the
cause of freedom-I mean, the freedom
of white men, now is the time. And
let me tell you that you can in no way
subserve the cause so efficiently as by
the dissemination of Democratic docu-
ments and papers. If every Conserya-
tive in West Virginia will feel that he has
something to do in the great work
of redeeming the State from the curse
of Radicalism, and that that something
should be commenced at once, and pros
ecuted with untiring energy, the day
of our redemption will soon come to
gladden. the heart of every good citi-
zen in tho State. The most humble OF
us can d. much in this work. We
should avail ourselves of every opportu-
nifty to expose the abominations, usur-
pations and wicked deeds of every char
acter Of the Radical party to those who
may not haze had the facilities of learn
ing them. We should urge upon every
family the great Importance of taking
good Democratic paper. know money
is scarce, and hard to get, but there is
no one who is able to labor who cannot
save dollar, and that will pay for
paper six months, and in that
time another dollar can easily
be procured, with which to re-
new the subscription. we should
send the names of all persons in our
respective localities, not subscribers to
any paper, to the publishers of our
Democratic papers, that they may occa-
sionIlly send them specimen copies. l
would also recommend to all who are
w bClhONAatAS paPSAo ~ ~
solve that they will procure three SUBJ
scribers to the paper or papers they
may take, and when the resolve is made
to 90 to work at once, and cease not
their efforts until the money is obtain
ed and forwarded to the publishers. l
made this resolve not a week ago,
and to-day l shall send three names,
with the money, to our friend Baker,
of the REGISTER.


We are under yoke of bondage, de-
prived of almost every right sacred to
freemen, Cat least the disfranchised por-
ton of us), and we must fight if we
would again be freemen, not with carnal
weapons, but with the sword of truth
and justice, which will prove powerful
in pulling down the strongholds of Rad
icalism. We should labor to carry the
State at the next election, and if each
Democrat or Conservative, q use the
term interchangably), will do his duty,
it can be done. What say you, gentle
men Democrats ANON.
Year: 1867

A writer in the Memphis appeal sug.
gests the destruction Of the cotton seed
as partial remedy for the evils under
which the South is now laboring. He
argues that ifthis policy is adopted, Ii
will make the fact patent that the next
crop must be short one, and will thus
raise the price, and that in addition to
this the people will ecompelled to turn
their attention to other crops for want
ofse to plant large crops Of Gotten.
Year: 1867

We take pleasure in calling the attention of
public the advertisement; the a Of the AsEsiA CAR
We had recently the establish
aud know FROM personal observation that everything claimed
The materials strong the workmanship eIoeent the finish perfect
ID. every variety aud dssred Special attention 10
given the combination Of htne with great strength and


thing which goes make up perfect carriage in quality and durability
proprietor eneuy ard deseed successful Business
professional other occupations who will have occasion
carriages description for city country either
during Spng and Summer months will do well Aks
and addition the pleasure Of agreeable ride through
pleasant picturesque country they will have the Qualification Of
finding thoroughly honest aud capable who sell make
ptct carriage style price nucb less than b. obtained



10 NeS.TOk ~' r. ''-


vel SSh spending dsy 10 sste two hundred dollars
Year: 1867

The RECENT SALE OF CORPORATION REAL ESTATE.
Up TO 70 o'clock yesterday, the Collector Of City
Revenue had received the OF sCO account Of
the recent extensive sale of Corporation real estate
Year: 1867

TIE BARBARsM OF STEEL PENs.-l am aware that
IL may be very fairly said that man is green enough
10 he induced by any Of seller or adyer
tiser 10 make his coffee with wndlass and shave him
tclf with stone only verdict he expect from an
intelligent Jury is served him light hut look AT another
invention under the tyranny of which we all groan
more or less which very few have the strength OF
mind torcsst Has not the Of steel pens swept over
the land until decent handwrtingis is almost unknown
DO not ninety nine persons in hundred use steel pens
and than out OF the ninety the efont-
ery TO say he can write with emi Lord Pamerson was
quite right-the handwriting OF this generation Is abom-
nable and as improvements in steel pens 80 on that
Of the next will worse The ne Roman hand OF the


last century has died ont: the steel can't do H. There -
neither grace nor ebilty in the angular scrawl that
prevails open any parish register OF ~ years back
and see i'm what fine legble hand. aud scOaTike too.
i'm most cases parsOn of that day made his entries
our present young parson though be took first class a
Oxford and wears most correct waistcOat, doesn't do
IT. and couldn't do it, If his benefit OF clergy depended on
it lBlackwoOd.
Year: 1867




in wears past and could never find one that we
preferred to a good steel pen but few weeks
since being induced by friend to try gold
pen again, we were both surprised and de-
lighted to find it a decided improvement over
the best steel pens. Its fiexbility, however, was
not perfectly adjusted to the hand, and we sent
il back to the manufacturer by letter. Another
came in return, which was but slight imprOv-
ment Oh the first. This was returned also with
n careful statement of its DEFICIENCIES, and then
came third which proves TO be just the
article we have wanted for years; and now
after using it few weeks it would take quite
a pile of greenbacks to buy it, If We knew not
where to look for another


We write with far more ease than heretofore,
there is no scattering OF scratching, and we
are truly delighted with the change. The pen
is from A. Morton, No. % Maiden-lane, New
York, who on the receipt of stamp will send
a circular giving a full description of the
various sizes with the price of each.-lIhe
Congregationalist, Boston, April 12, 1867.
Year: 1867

A pleasant anecdote is told Of Dickens.
The Queen was, on certain occasion, gra-
cious enough to invite him to take part in
a theatrical performance in the royal draw
ing-room. He returned the simple answer
sMr. Dickens declines to appear as an art
ist in any place where he could not appear
as q MAN"
Year: 1867

LeaDjs TdppGn Us. John and Horace
BcnrdSJcy. was suit against Tap
pan for libel and SANDER of the defend
sBts in respect to their credit as q mer-
camille firm, carrying on business in
NOrwalk, Huron county, Ohio. The
defendant resided in New York, and had
established in that city a mercantile
agency, the object of which was 70 pro-
cure Information Of the pecuDiary ability
and standing Of merchants in the cOun-
try for merchants in the city, to be COM
municated to the latter in a confidential
manner. The defendant had some twenty
clerks who participated in the business OF
the establishment, and were, Of course,


privy to the Information obtained,


whether favorable or UnfavOrable TO
the character and credit Of the country
merchant; and who participated in
the communications Of the Information
to their customers or customers clerks.
The defendant communicated through
his clerks to several customers and to
their clerks facts seriously affecting the
credit of the plaintiffs house and the
main question in the case, on the merits,
is whether or not be is exempt from the
consequences Of the publication, on the
ground of its privileged character. The
Court charged the jury that if the defend
ant himself had communicated the infOr-
nation to person applying to him for
the papers in good faith, the communica-
tiOn might have been privileged one


but that a publicity given to it by record
ing the li6ellOus words in q book TO
which others had access, and to whom
they were communicated, though stand
ing in the relation Of clerks, deprived the
communication Of its otherwise privi-
legged character. This is no doubt a very
important question and involves In its
practical operation, whichever way iJ


may be decided, interests Of very great
magnitude. On the one hand, to legalize
these establishments ia the manner and


to the extent used by the defendant, Is
placing one portion Of the mercantile
community under the organized system
Of espionage and inquisition for the
benefit Of the other, exposed, from the
very nature Of the organization, to per-
version and abuse; and, on the other, to
refuse to legalize them may be restrict
ing injuriOusly the right OF inquiring into
the character and standing of the GUS
toner asking for credit in his business
transactions. We are strongly inclined
to think, II the establishments are TO be
upheld st all, the limitation attached to
them by the Court below is not Unrea-
sOnabIe, to-Wit: that it must be an indi-
vidusl transaction, and not an establish
ment conducted by an unlimited number
Of partners and clerks. The principle
upon which privileged communications
rest, which, Of themselves, would other
wise be libelOss, imports confidence and
secrecy between individuals; and is in
consistent with the idea Of q commune
cation made by a society or congTega-
ton Of persons, or by private company
or corporate body, The other objections
in the case are technical in their charac-
ter, not involving the merits. We have
looked into them, and are OF opinion
they are not available to the defendant.
New trial denied.
Year: 1867

Telegraphic Correspondence Of the Louisville


wAsI1SGToN, D. c., october 16.


MY POLICY.
The determination Of the President 10
change the Cabinet has been repeatedly
alluded toin this correspondence. There
is authority to repeat the same with full
permission of the President. It was sug-
gested 10 him this afternoon that the
great popular verdict, indorsing his
policy, would prevent the further agita-
tion of impeachment. The President re-
piled that he thought not, but apprehend-
ed that the Radical leaders would become
even more desperate, and hesitate at
nothing to accomplish their revolution
ary purposes.


In response to question OF his course
should the Radicals attempt to depose
him before trial, he said: Resist, Sir
with all the power which the COns6tu-
ton furnishes for its own protection and
preservation. This was said with great
warmth and earnestness. 1t would be
criminal, he said not to resist an effort
on the part of Congress to usurp upon or
destroy the Executive Department, and
he thought it well for the country to
know his opinions and his purposes. In
relation to Cabinet changes, he said he
would strengthen himself for any emer-
gency that might arise. Circumstances,
he said, necessitated q change, and this
should be done before Congress met in
session.


The President declared he would not
consult or be governed by party cliques,
but act on his own judgment, and for
what he thought was the hest interest Of
the country. 1t was his intention to
draw around him men Of nerve, ability,
and patriotism.


SHERMAN.


In answer to an inquiry about Gen.
Sherman, he said A.: L can assure you
that Gen. Sherman will be here between
the 10Th and 18th Of November, and in
ample time for the discharge Of any
duty, however responsible, which may
deVolve upon him" The General, he
further said, had deemed it best to return
to his. command to meet the Indian
Peace Commission, as he had promised,
and, that done, he would return forth
with to Washington.


The President evidently expects te
avert any trouble by being prepared TO
meet it.
Year: 1867

A cottage residence of ten rooms, with lot
60xlO0, in the city Of Chicago, H., only three
quar- ers OF mile from the heart OF the city,
and within one OcK OF the street railroad in
tersecting every part OF the city, Valued at
Year: 1867

Voorhees, was serenaded tonight, and
spoke to a vast crowd He said the vic
tory won by the people Of Ohio meant to
redeem the South from the horrors Of
negro supremacy, and save the country
from Radical misrule and ruin. It also
meant that money good enough for the
poor man was good enough for the rich
bondhOlder, and he now served a notice
on the pampered class Of money vultures
and shOddy contractors, that if they did
not pay taxes on the bonds or reduce the
interest, the bonds would be paid of in
greenbacks. The Democracy would fight
it out on this line, and not allow the
Radicals to shirk the issue they created.


The speech was interrupted frequently
with manifestations Of satisfaction and
general appreciation.


Montgomery Blair also spoke.
Year: 1867

We take the following from the New
York TEi6asae. Although not complete,
they suffice for the purpose for which we
wish % use them.


ALABAMA-OFFICIAL VOTE.


The following is the vote upon the
question of Constitutional Convention,
and the number of registered voters in
each county, as far Rs heard from:
Year: 1867

Tie favorite pet Of the animal creation in all
Partisan households is gold and silver fish.
You see them in every drawing room. on every
shop counter, in every window. Last year
ninety thousand francs worth we're sold IN
Paris
Year: 1867

Leaves Of geranium are an excellent appll-
cation for cuts, where the skin is rubbed off,
aud other wounds Of that kiud. One or two
leaves must be bruised and applied to the part,
time @
Year: 1867

faith in the divinity that was within him,
energy to perfect its development, aud
time in which its great aims could be
wrought out. These talismanic words
were indelibly stamped on his memory,
and always chesred him through hardships
Year: 1867

"See Naples and then die" said somebody !;
but bachelor friend reminds us that China
is the place for family man to die in; for in
that country the physician that kills you has
to support your family.
Year: 1867

The United States Economist and Dry
Goods Reporter, of the oath, contains a
long and well considered article on the
Commercial prospects in the fall. 1t
refers to the large crops, the liquida-
tion of old debts and other circum
stances indicating good business, but
adds caution, which VIC will give in
its own language:


"The liability to rash extension of
credits must, however, be reckoned
among the dangers of the Fall trade.
In the present position of our industries,
nothing could be more unfortunate
than season of over-trading. The at
tendant demand for goods would check
the natural downward tendency of
prices, and might induce an actual
raise in values, to be followed by n
violent decline and consequent check
to business. Those who are disposed
to push business in this imprudent
manner may rest assured of one thing;
the banks and other lenders are fully
awake to this tendency, and will do
nothing to countenance it; so that it
may be taken for granted that it may
be taken for granted that it would be
taken for goods than to dispose OF the
paper made against the sales"


We do not pretend to indicate what
will be the actual result of the Fall
trade, so far as respects profits. Were
it safe to rely upon the general pru-
dence of men of business, there could
be but little risk in predicting gener-
ally profitable trade. Were domestic
manufacturers to limit themselves to Il
strictly moderate production, there can
be little doubt that they would be able
to command remunerative prices for
their goods; for the demand con-
sequent upon the large crops would
certainly place the market to n large
extent under their control. Job
bars, however, have their misgivings
upon this point. They expect
that the encouraging prospects
of trade will induce manufacturers to
their utmost capaity, and hence are
buying only "from hand to mouth"
This mistrust respecting the action of
manufacturers, unless removed by un-
mistakable signs of their moderation,
will operate against their interests and
keep business unnecessarily backward.
The imports of dry goods have been
thus far strictly moderate, so that job
bers show little hesitation in buying
fair amount of goods; and prices are
constantly upon scale to leave fair
percentage of profit"
Year: 1867

ELECTRICITY - LIGHTNING. = Elec-
trical phenomena are so strange, and 80
little understood by the general public,
that they stand ready to accept electrical
action as tkA cause of any obsure occur
renee. Electricity is the great refuge of
the would be scientific, who say that this
and that is due to electricity, and that
ends all further questioning. A western
write. Oh pruning, in the Gardeners
Monthly, will not have the terminal buds
cut from the treesin pruning, because
they act as prime conductors" of cleo
tricity, which is a very scientific way
of talking profound nonsense. We have
before US two curious illustrations of the
way in which electricity is treated. One
upon the pear blight, in which the wri-
ter refers this malady to the effect of
lightning upon the leaves, and another,
by lady. who considers the potato rot
due to the absence of sufficient lightning
in certain years. The last named writer
accompanies her article by observations,
Ehich show that, in her section of coun.
try, the years with the most lightning
were the freest from the rot. Now, as
the rot is we'll known parasitic fungus,
brought comparatively recently, from
abroad, and, as in this country before
this unwelcome guest was introduced
here, we probably had years quite def
cient in lightning, as we have since had
we cannot regard this view as at all sat.
isfactory. If those who are so ready Il
ascribe this and that to electricity, would
just take the trouble to first study some
of the elementary laws of this branch Of
physics, they would be less apt to run
in.o speculations respecting the influence
of electricity.
Year: 1867

We Do FADE AS LEAr.-As the trials of
life thicken and the dreams CT other days
fade, one by one, in the deep vista of dlsnp>
pointed hope, the heart grows weary of the
struggle and we begin 20 realize our insig-
nifcance Th9se who have climbed to the
pinnacle of fame: or revel in luxury and
wealth, 60 to the grave at last with the poor
mendicant who begs pennies by the waysde
and like him are soon forgotten. GET era,
ton after generation, says an eloquent mod
ern writer have felt as we feel, and their
fellows were as active in life as ours are now
They passed away as n vapor, while nature
wore the same aspect of beauty as WHOM
her Creator commanded her to be. And 20
likewise hall it be when we are gone. The
heavens will be as bright over our graves as
they are now around our our path the
world will have the same attraction for off
spring yet unborn that she had once for our
selves, and that she has now for our chill
dren. Yet little while, and all this will
have happened Days viii continue to
move or, land laughter and song will be heard
in the very chamber in which we di led; aud
the eye that m ourned for us win be dried
and will glisten with joy; and even our chill
dren will cease to think of US, and will moi
remember to lisp our name.
Year: 1867

A GENTLE WIFE's ExPLANATIoN.-In the
police court of Chicago, wife thus ingens
iously explained vc,y serious charge of
harsh treatment towards her poor hus-
band:


One day when she was running across the
room, with fork in her hand, he jumped
in th9way, and struck his wrist against the
fork, wrenching it from hcr grip by the
tines, which he ran into his wrist. Then
be Undertook to strike her, but she held up
a pan of hot dishwater between them and
he split it all over Lis head. Then he got
still more angry this accident, and star
ted to jump at her, but his head came agains
her hand and he fell down. She took hold
of his hair to raise him up, and the hail
wa moistened by tue bot water so that i
came off. Then she saw it was of no use t.
reason any longer, and she left the house
Year: 1867

H q.


GIVING JOY TO A CHILD. Blessed be
the hand that prepared a pleasure for q
child, for there is no saying when and
where it may again bloom forth. Does
not almost everybody remember some
kind hearted man who showed him a
Kindness iu the dglcet days of his child
hood The writer of this rec llects him
self at this moment as barefooted lad,
standing at the wooden fence Of poor
little gatdcn in his nat ye village, while
with longing eyes he gazed on the flowers
which yere blooming there quietly in the
brightness Of Sunday morning. The
posscssor came forth from his little cot,
tage. He was 4 wood cutter by trade,
and spent the whole week in the woods
He had come into the garden to gather
some flowers to stick into lis coat
when he went to church. lie saw the
boy and, breaking off the most beautiful
of his cArnations-it was streaked will
red and white-hc gave it to him. Nei
ther the giver or the receiver spoke I
word, and with bounding steps the bo.
ran home. And now here, at vast dis
tance from that home, after so many event
of so many years, the feeling of gratitud
which agitated the breast of that boy ex
presses itself on paper. The carHatioI
has long since whithered, but now
| blooms afresh.
Year: 1867

-CayenHc pepper mixed with fine
round dust sifted over young vines, will
prevent their destruction by bugs. The
same mixed with moist meal, will saya
young chickens from death by egapes,p
Year: 1867

The Radical leaders oil the North On
nounce with braggadocio that they are
helping the starving South" We
have seen the Radical organ at Nash
Vile parade in its columns that so much
corn, &C., has been sent by certain Rad
ical persons to keep the people in many
portions of the South from starving
Now, grant that this be true, we think
all merit in such charity is taken away
by the contemplate spirit which would
boast about it, for genuine charity does
not love to vaun. ITSELF 1t comes as
the dew from Heaven-silenuy, but
with a blessing to parched vegetation.
And aside from this, if the South is
starving, where is the necessity ofsend
ing troops to keep her quiet for fear
she may rebel! Dispossessed of arms,
and power to even defend herself from
foul and unconscionable outrage, and
starving as the Radicals say, we can
not see that it requires so much legisla-
ton and DISTINGUISHING to enable the
Radicals to maintain their power.


But, without arguing this point. we
will say that wo don't believe any Radi.
cal has yet given anything to help the
South, except for some base political
purpose. by Heaven, we can get along
without such charity as Radicals be-
stow, or VIC ought to die in trying.
Year: 1867

The late civil war closed in April,
1864. Since then the laws of the Uni,
ted States have been as easily enforced
in New Orleans and Charleston and
all over the South as in the Northern
States. For near two years those
Southern States by the consent Of
Congress-, have enjoyed all the rights
of States save representation in Con
gress. Now, why put these States
out of existence Us States and place
the people under the tyrant rule of
military sway9 The Radicals might
have done this after Lees surrender
with some show of an excuse, but now
there can be no necessity. The tyrant's
plea will not do now. This high handed
step of infamy is inexcusable on every
principle of right. The scheme is, of
course, to enable them to carry the
next Presidential election in spite of
the will of the large majority Of the
people.