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Year: 1867

omission which the Legislature now sitting sbauld
make haste to supply. We trust that not fort
night will be allowed TO pass without the purchase
Of an Executive Mansion.


We haye hitherto spoken of this duty in general
terms But there are specific and personal reasons
Why the fITcElase should be made early during the
present aasunln. The people have recently re-
elected Governor Brownlow, and the Legislature
has Just elected him 10 the United States Senate,
and we take it for granted that they feel deep So
llcitude for the preservation OF his health They
should enable him to bring his family to Nashville
that be may receive that care and attention which
no others can bestow, except those of his own
household. The cares of his Office require his almost
continual preiIence at the State Capitol, and the
possible complication aud emergencies Of political
atfalrs at Washington during the coming session of
Congress, will, doubtless, make his presence more
indispensable than ever. II is not proper that he
should be absent We hope that tue Legislature
will enable him TO stay here in the bosom Of his
family. Let home be bought for him without
delay. The act viii be heartily approved by the
people Verywhere.--NashUiHeP Press and Times.
Year: 1867

working for bis Road and It is conceded by all that
ne is the right man in the right place.


Win these suggestions, it is perhaps prudent to
close Dy asking you TO give them a place in your
columns as many Of my friends have written to me
IN reference to the topics herein presented, and 1
ind it impossible TO answer them separately.


Yours truly, L. &. HOUK
Year: 1867

The editors of the New York EUeniny
Gazette have been asked by some of their
young lady readers if they believed with
the Apostle Paul that it is best not to marry.
To this query they reply as follows:


Yes and no, dear girls. That depends up
on circumstances. A husband is like q
blacksmiths largest hammer, in being very
handy and useful article to have bout, if
you need it and can manage it and very use
less and nsdIdpropOs if you don't and can't.
Speaking chemically, marriage is mixing
the oil and water of opposite tastes, unless
the alkali of genuine love be added, in which
case you have, soap and smoothness, and glide
through life easily. Or we may vary the
expression a little, and may say that love is
a solvent and unites. 1t is indispensable, ii
is delightful, it is powerful ;but the trouble
is, that great many people are apt to mis-
take a weak solution Of sentiment and ro-
nance for genuine extract whose bower and
flavor will last through life. Don't be in a
hurry to try these chemical experiments fOr
yourselves, dear enquirers-check aprons are
better than chignons, and housekeeping
should be studied under mama's tuition be-
fore you try chemistry under your own.
In this matter don't be eager to take time by
the forelock, lest he roughly take off your
own locks, the boom from your cheeks and
the light from, your eyes. zlaYf9
Year: 1867

Men and woman make their own beauty
or their own ugliness. Lord Lytton speaks
of man who was. uglier than he had any
business to be - and If he could but read it,
every human being carries his own life in
his face, and is good looking or the reverse
as that life has been good or evil-On our
features the fine chisel Of thought and emo
ton is eternally at work. Beauty is not the
monopoly Of blooming young men, and Of
white and pink maidens.--There is a slow
growing beauty which only comes to pre-
lection in old age. Grace belongs to no pc
riod of life, and goodness improves the long
er it exists. / have seen. sweeter smiles on
a lip Of seventy than upon a lip Of seven
teeH.o There is the beauty Of youth, and
there is also the beauty of holiness beau
ty much more seldom met, and more fire.
Guently found in the armchair by the fire,
with the grandchildren round its knees,
than in the ballroom or promenade. Hus-
band and wife, who have fought the world
side by side, who have made common stock
of Joy and sorrow, and grown aged together,
are not unfrequently found curiOpsly alike
in personal appearance, and in pitch and
tone of v0ice-lj ust as twin pebbles on the
beach, exposed to the tidal influences, are
each others second-selE He has gained
feminine something, which brings his man
hood into full relief. She has gained mas
cuiine something, which acts as ia foil to her
womanhood. 80
Year: 1867

Money is represented to be SO scarce in
some portions of the south that planters
who, in order to secure their crops, have been
forced to borrow, have paid as high as ten
per cent per month for its use,
Year: 1867

THE APPEAL.--On our first page we publish
the appeal of the National Executive Commit
tee of the Republican Party for material aid
in promulgating its principles throughout the
South. To do this large outlay Of money
is necessary to defray the expenses of num-
Der of prominent speakers who have consented
to give their time and their talents to the work,
and also to print and circulate documents cal
culated to spread the doctrines and purposes
of the Party through every section of the coun-
try, that they may be known and read of all
men. This is urged as especially necessary
now that the blacks of the lately rebellious
States have been enfranchised. They must be
instructed. Already appeals have been made
to them in various localities by the DenQ Qcrqts,
and it is necessary that they should hear
both side of the question if we would secure
their strength to our ranks. And in order to
make the Party permanent it must be made
national. Now that free speech is guaranteed
in the South this can be done most effeetually
if the friends Of the Party will respond to this
appeal with the hber&lity it demands.


The men of the South are disposed to dea
with facts as they find them. They would moi
enfranchise the negro, but now that it is done
they look upon him as prize to be won. He
is to be struggled for by rival parties, and the
one which secures him secures success. He is tC
be to the South what the FIVE Points and ig'
norant foreign vote is to the New York pabob
Each will be in demand on election day.


The aim is to employ intelligent, judiciou,
canvassers, whose aim will be not to harrangu'
the blacks, urge confscatiop or create discen
sions, but to .instruct the negroes, put ou
principles fairly before the whites and strength
en- the bond of Union" between the sections
All efforts that do not seek these objects vii
defeat them. " In short, we need hundre
such men as Henry Wilson to speak throug
the South for the next six months" says al
exchange.
Year: 1867

THE SUNKEN BRTG. Last week we men,
toned that "a brig had been sunk off Collin
Beach, 1t was the lfddora, loaded with coal
and bound to Maine. She was struck by the
steamer Stars and Stripes. A party Of wreck
ers, from Cape May, came on Monday to raise
the brig, but have abandoned the attempt.
They report her split open from the stern and
not worth the expense. A large quantity Of
beef and other things of value have been taken
from her cabin by divers.
Year: 1867

AN OUTRAGE.-E johnson, was sent
some time ago by the " Delaware Association
for the Moral Improvement and Education of
the Coored Poop lie" down the State to super
intend the young teachers in the employ of the
association. At Laurel she was attacked by a
rowdy and struck. A short time afterwards
while at Georgetown, she was hooted at by a
crowd of boys who wound up their 9 chivaric
performances by throwing stones at her. Com
plaint was made of the assault to j. IT, Adams,
a Justice Of the Peace, at Georgetown, who
refused to take any action in the matter. The
refusal of so-called officer of justice to per
form his sworn duties in such a case is great
er outrage, if possible. than the assault itself
and a summary stop should be put to such pro
ceedings -Daily Commercial
Year: 1867

The PEACHES. are informed by gen
tleman from the Neck" that his peach crop
has been so badly injured by the late frosts
that he can not have more than one-third of
a crop, while his neighbors crop, (adjoining
farm) has received no perceptible injury. 1t
is the general impression that the crop was
injured last week, but the loss may not prove
very serious. Our farmers do not desire a
full crop.
Year: 1867

PERsoNs in want of Spring Clothing made
in the best style can now have them at very
low figures US we are selling all our goods at
cost. .Baggs a Cotton.


Now is the time to get bargains in cheap
goods of every description at Baggs & Cotton.
Year: 1867

to him they were not allowed to read North
ern newspaper If man OH the cars was
found with one in his pockets he would be
hunted like a felon. Cheers While the
rights Of free speech apd free press are pre-
served, we never can be cursed with another
war.


Here there was some interruption on the
outskirts Of the meeting, with cries of Put
him down." Then the riot commenced, and
the judges speech was brought to sudden
conclusion.
Year: 1867

The clerical story of Norwood" Beecher's
novel, does not seem to show so well on the
stage as it did in the Ledger, and any one
might have guessed as much, since there is
nothing dramatic or sensational in the tale
itself In truth, when you take away the ef-
fective style and manner of the author you
deprive the work of its great charm. 1t has
not passion enough to produce anything like
dramatic effect, and the stage play is to. the
story what the wrong side Of a garment is to
the right one None of Scott's novels did well
on the stage-except Rob Roy-and this ex-
ception was owing to the Baillie Nicol Jarvie
of his friend, Terry.
Year: 1867

To CURE FIrs.-For fit of passion walk in
the open air.
For fit of idleness, count the ticking of
clock.


For fit of extravaganza or folly, go to the
workhouse


For fit of ambition, go into a church yard
and read the grave stones.


For fit of repining, look about for the halt
and the blind, and bed ridden and afflicted.
Year: 1867


o COMRADES! fill no glass for me,
To drown my soul in liquid flame;
For if drank, the toast should be-
To blighted fortune, health and fame.
Yet though long to quell the strife
That passion holds against my life,
still boon companions you may be,
But, comrades. fill no glass for me
know a breast that once was light,
Whose patient sufferings need my care;
! know a heart that once was bright.
But dropping hopes have nestled there.
Then, while the tear-drops nightly steal
From wounded hearts that l should heal,
Though boon companions you may be,
o comrades fill no glass for me
When was young felt the tide
Of aspiration undefled.
But manhOod's years have wrOnged the pride
My parents centred in their child.
Then by mothers sacred tear,
By all that memory should revere,
Though boon companions you may be,
comrades fill no glass for me!
Year: 1867

Az ACT to authorize the establishment mail steamship


service between the United States and the Hawaiian islands,


Be enacted by the Senate and House
the United States OF America in Congress assembled That
GEera be. and he Is hereby authorized to invite
proposals. by public advertisements for the period OF
New Work. BOSTON, and Francisco, respectively for
Steamship between the Francisco
the United States, and the port O Honolulu i'll the Hawaiian
Islands, by al monthly line OF hrstcllss American
going steamships to be OF not than thousand
GONerment measurement each and OF sufficient number
perform twelve round between said and
contract with the lowest responsible bidder said
iOr term not than begin the day
first steamship the said line shall depart from the San
francisco with the mails for the Hawaiian islands, Provided
That bid snail be considered which shall amount to
than sevenyve thousand dollars the twelve round trips
unless the be from citizen citizens
the United States and by offer O good
heent suree sO citizens Ot the United ttes) the faith
full performance OF such contract And provided further That
before the acceptance OF the said steamships by the Postmaster
and experienced naval
detailed for that the Secretary of the Navy
report shall be made to the Postmaster General.


And further enacted, That contract which
the Postmaster General execute under the authority
shall before
stipuatiOns mail
that the Government OF the United States shall be entitled
have transported free OF each and steamer
mail take charge OF and the mail matter
suitable accommodations for tnat shall be- assign
ed that failure. from to perform
the monthly stipulated tor in this contract
deduction be made the compensation
such omitted that suitable fines and penal


imposed delays and irregularities the pernr-
OF the service and that the Postmaster General shall
Ot its being underlet assigned any other party.


Approved, March 2, 1851
Year: 1867

None are SO likely to adapt hcircropI
TO the quality of the soil as he who has
made the nature of that soil a study
and none so apt to apply the proper
manure at the proper time and in the
proper manner, MS he who has made
himself familiar with the composition
of fertilizers aud their effects upon diff
ferent plants. No nau is so likely tO
make a really valuable improvement iu
an agricultural machine as the farmer
who, while using il, sees its defect, and
possesses the mechanical skill and train.
ing to originate and construct. 1t is,
in fast, from the efforts Of men like this
that the real advancement Of agriculture
must be derived; and by further im,
provcments in the management of crops
aud of stock, in machinery and in man.
ure, farming will be brought to claim
its true dignity, and become in name as
it is already in flet--a noble science
L,r.
Year: 1867

We are glad to see you, John Marshall, my boy,
So fresh from the chisel of Rogorsl
Go take your stand on the Monument there.
Along with the other old eodgors.
With Washington, Jcieraon, Henry and such,
Who sinned with great transgre,sion,
In their old fashioned notions Of Freedom and
Right


And their hatred Of wrong and oppression!
You come rather late to your pedestal, John,
For sooner you should have been here;
For the volume you hold Is no longer the law,
And this Is no longcr Virginia.
The old harshall-law, You expoundcd Of yore,
Is now not at all to the purposc;
And ~ martial.law Of the new Brigadier
Is stronger than haLeos corpus.
SO keep you the volume shat with care,
For the days of the law over;
And it needs all your bras TO be holding il


there


With "JrsrlcL" inscribed on the cover.
Could life awaken the limb ofbron1c
And blaze in the FURNISHED eye,
What would ye do with your moment Of life,
fc ofthe days gone by?
Would yc clile US or pity u, blush or weep,
fe men Of the days gone by


Would Jefferson tear up the scroll he hold,
That time haa proven a lie2


And Marshall shu, the volume Of law,
And lay il down with sighg
Would Mason roll up tho Mil orRights,
From race unworthy to scan itY
And Henry dash down the eloquent sword.
And elang it against the granite
And Washington. seated in massy strength
On the charger that paws the air,
Could he see his sons in their deep disgrace,
Would he ride so proudly tbercH
He would get him down from his big brass horse,
And cover his face at our shame;
For the land Of his birth is now District One
Virginia was once the nane


r.
Year: 1867

| wish to call attention again to an
infusion o. red clover, as one among
the best remedies We have in treating
persistent cough in children, Make a
strong Infusion, strain and sweeten, and
let the child take a teaspoontul every
one or two hours. 1t is one of the best
remedies for hopping cough, standing
next to belladouna and stramonium.
Year: 1867

A sharp old gentleman out West got
a scat beside his wife in crowded rail.
road car BY telling young man who
sat next to her to watch that wom,n
while he wont into another car, Us she
had 6ts."
Year: 1867

"Ven you're married man, Sammy,
you'll understand great many things
as you don't understand now but veth-
er its worth While to go through so
much TO learn so little, as she charity
boy said when he got To- tire end Of the
alphabet, is matter Of taste"
Year: 1867

p@-A boiler recently exploded in
Memphis blowing the Engineer out of
sight. He will receive SIS day frop
an accident insurance company until he
comes down. The same man was blown
up by his wife and got nothing for IT,"
Year: 1867

We hall constantly aimaui5h the Southern
people To be self reliant. and shall do what WS
may he able 20 induce the establishment OF
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
duets To this end We will pay special attention
to the COST and STATISTICS OF manufacturing,
and exert ourselves to encourage the diver7iG-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE NASH
WILLIE UNION AND AMERICAN and the
DfSPATCH. and by the generous and unitet
support Of the UyIoS AND DIsPATCH BY the
patrons Of both the former papers the Propris-
tors are enabled TO present a Newspaper hiihs,
to unsurpassed in this city OF State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY OF
NEWS. our paper win compare favorabiy with
the best in the entire country; and in saying
this. we only repeat the expressions Of many Of
cur patrons. who are most capable Of Judging in
uch matters.
Year: 1867

The time of Congress is taken up with
legislating for Bond holders and Negroes
interests against the interests Of poor
White men. The elections of 1863 will
undo all their bogus legislation. Have
patience, poor men; continue to vote the
Democratic ticket,and ere two years have
passed yo1 will jubilate over the down.
fall of the Radical party and your own
release from crushing taxation. Be strong
in the faith.
Year: 1867

UTICA, November 25, 1867.
To the Editor of the Democratic Union, Onei.
da: .s5sati


SIR: I see. that you have put my name
at the head of your paper as ! candidate
for the Office Of President Of the United
Estates. Other journals in this, as well as
| in the Eastern and Western States, have
also thus expressed their wishes for my
nomination by the National Democratic
Convention. These marks of good will
and confidence give me great pleasure, but
/ am compelled sa say that | am not and
cannot be candidate for the Presidency.
As my reasons for saying this are per-
Isonal, it is not necessary to state them
They in no degree grow out Of waning
interest in the great and serious ques-
tions which divide parties in this country.
On the other hand, / feel that we are
about to enter upon an earnest and
thoughtful discussion Of the condition of
public affairs. The passions and preju-
dices excited by civil war are dying out.
All new see that the questions of finance,
tariff, the rights of States, and the pow.
ers Of Government, cannot be settled by
clamors and calumnies. Both parties
feel that the grave problems growing out
of the disordered state of the country
must be confronted, and that due respect
for their organization demands an earnest
and thoughtful inquiry as to the best
modes of Tightening the load of debt and
taxation which hinders the business of
our land and weighs down with heavy
shackles the arms Of labor. In trying
in the future, as l have in the past, to
uphold principles which / deem to be
right, can do battle with more yigor
when ! am not candidate for official
position. Very truly yours, &c.


HoRATIo SEYMOUR.
Year: 1867

g@ The finest idea of thunder storm
extant is when Wiggins came home tight
Now, Virgins is teacher, and had been
to temperance meeting, and drank to
much lemonade, or something. he
came into the room among his wife and
daughters, and just then he tumbled over
the cradle and fell whop on the floor.
After while he rose and said


"Wife, are you hurt?"


mo"


"Girls are you hurt?"
Year: 1867

The following communications from
the people exhibit very clearly the feeling
Of the masses in regard to the U. S. SEN
atorship. These are but a sprinkling of
the shower we intend giving to the pub
Year: 1867

SPEAKING Of home runs-that was an
earnest prayer offered by young deacon
who, fresh from a game Of baseball, stepped
into a weekly prayer meeting. He was call
led upon to pray, and in winding up his in
vocation said: 20 Lord, as we start for a
home run to glory, don't let US by the devil
be caught out on the fy.'
Year: 1867

DIR. Browne having long admired a very
beautiful yong lady, made point of always
giving her for his toast. Being once told it
was time to change it, he replied 81 be-
lieve it is for though have been tossting
her for these twenty years, l have not been
able to make her brown yet"
Year: 1867

JOHN JOHNSON writes the American
Farmer that sheep fat more rapidly in Oc>
tober and November, if they have first rate
pasture, than at ary other season of the
year. In fattening sheep during the winter,
it is of special Importance that they be in
good condition before being put on their
winter feed.
Year: 1867

CANcELLING STAMPs.-The only lawful
manner of canceling stamps is to either
write or print on the stamp the name or
initial of the party using the same, also the
year, month and day of the month. Any
other method is illegal, and makes the party
liable to fine of fifty dollars for each of.
fpnse
Year: 1867

KEEP THE CALVES THRIFrY.-A calf
kept winter and summer in thrifty growth,
at two years old will make as much more
beef than one neglectfulIy kept at twice that
age. The profit will all be found on the
two year-old, and the loss on the four-yea
old; yet the owner of the latter has pursued
his system, if system it can be called, with
the idea he was saving money. Keep the
thrifty animal two years longer in the same
way, and something very handsome in the
way Of beef will be the rcsult-while the
starveling can never pay the expense of its
rearing and feeding.-Am Stock Journal.
Year: 1867

The Judge Of Rockingham Circuit Court
on Monday directed the petitions OF the
different Methodist churches in the county
to be spread upon the minutes Of the court.
It will be remembered that ou2 Legislature,
at it's last session, in order to settle and
quiet the division in the Methodist Church
in Virginia, passed law authorizing the
congregations of the churches to deter
mine, by the votes Of their members, to
which division OF the church they would
attach themselves that such action, upon
the approval of the Judge Of the Circuit
Court, should be spread upon the minutes
of the Court, and that the same should vest
the title to and the control and use of the
property in that division of the church for
which the majority Of the members cast
their votes. An overwhelming majority Of
the votes of the several congregations in
Rockingham were cast, Of course, for the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. Their
application to court was resisted by the
Northern portion of the Baltimore Annual
Conference at q former term Of this Court,
but has since been abandoned


Rockingham (Va.) Register.
Year: 1867

A correspondent in King William county
informs us that but one negro in that whole
county voted against the Convention and
in favor of the Conservative candidate, Col.
VIM. II. Aylett. The name of this negro is
Thomas Ruffin, and the citizens of Kirg
William have united in a subscription to
purchase piece of land and give it to this
man for home in the county as his own.
This is well done. We have urged, and
still urge, every employer OF negroes to
turn adrift all who voted the Radical ticket !;
and we are equally as earnest in urging
that all who showed their kind feelings to-
wards the white people by voting on their
side, shall be kindly and literally rewarded
for their good sense and Conservatism.


Richmond Enquirer.