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Year: 1867

The Tullahoma Appalachian says
one of our most enterprising ship
ping firms hands us the following
extract from a letter received by
them from the we'll known firm
of Jones, Baxter& Day, Macon, Ga;


$ s. owe think your people
would act wisely if they would
stuff all the corn they can into
pork this fall, as this country will
not need very much corn, but ba-
con they are not attempting to
make; they say the freedmen steal
too many hogs, it is no use try
ing to raise them"
Year: 1867

They are not parted, though their feet


Have wandered far in different ways;
And though they never more may meet


On Winter ewes or Summer davs.
1t matters not though realms divide,


Though boundless seas between them roll
For still, defying wind and tide,


Heart yearns to heart, and soul to SOUL
They are not parted those


Are parted whom no love unites;
Their absence breaks not our repose


Who have no share in our delights;
They may be by our side, and still


As far from US as pole from pole,
Who lack the sympathetic thrill


Of heart to heart and soul to soul.
Year: 1867

At a spiritualistic camp meet
ing at Harwich, Mass, a commu-
nication was received from a young
lady recently drowned in the
town, stating that her friends
were in too much hurry about bu-
rying her, and that her soul was
three days digging out of the
grave, having left her body after
interment.
Year: 1867

''She whom loved, and fondly loved,


For whom I'd gladly die,
If it would please her own proud heart,


Or save her soul one sigh
She whom loved to look upon,


My idol and my pet
Does she, o! does she ever say.


You may be happy YETI"


If any one has ever heard her
say SO, we hope they will drop a
line through the post-office to the
author of the above. He is in a
bad way.
Year: 1867

GA good one" is told of well
dressed lady, in Fulton avenue
car, the other day, whose garments
were befouled by tobaccojuice
from q vulgar fellow who got near
her. She quietly turned up the
soiled portion of her dress and
wiped it OH the dandy's pantaloons,
with q result that made little
channels run down to his boots,
and with a simple "Take that,
you dirty puppy" she resumed
her composgre, while the man re-
membered that he had an errand
on the street.
Year: 1867

Tournament.


The Fair will open each morn
ing by nine o'clock, by which
hour all entries must be made.


The entrance fee in all cases is
Is per cent.


The association being desirous
to advance agriculture and the
mechanic arts, solicits competition
from any quarter. 8


All competitors will be required
to comply strictly with the fore
going rules and regulations.
4 No intoxicated person, nor any
spirituous liquors will be allowed
on the Fair Ground.


The Society will award a pre-
mium on any article if considered
worthy, whether enumerated in
the above list or not.
Year: 1867

The New Orleans Picay,ne re-
grets to hear that several planters
in the richer portions of Louisiana
and Mississippi propose abandon
ing their present occupation
The reason given is that they can
not hope to secure labor to carry
on their plantations to any large
extent, and that the insolence and
exactions of the freedmen make
the business disagreeable.
Year: 1867

While reconstruction, says the
New York World, snder Radical
manipulation lags in the South,
the great party of constitutional
freedom is marching on to inevita-
bic triumph in the North. Let us
count up the Democratic gains in
Year: 1867

SRCRBTA AIRY BRowNING-Hon o. H Brown
ing, Secretary of the Interior, is rapidly IN
proving. and yesterday he was able to ride
out tor short time. To day he was able 10
attend the Cabines meeting, and returned to
his residence n Georgetown Immediately
after the adjournment Of the Cabinet. He
win be at his office in few DAYS
Year: 1867

A BILL concerning colored witnesses
has been engrossed in the Virginia
legislature, which provides that here
after colored persons shall be compe-
tent to testify in the State as If they
were white.
Year: 1867

AN ITEM FOR THE DEMocRACY.-The
Wheeling Intelligencer says the return
made by the Assessors of Berkeley
county to the Auditor Office shows that
in the year 1866 there were 355 births
one for every day int year-in that
county and of these not a single one
was n1ulatto. That is to say, speaking
more accurately, no. q single child was
born Of black or mulatto mothers that
could claim white paternity. The re-
cord of the county shows not less than
forty or fifty such children born in any
previous year. The fact is curiously
suggestive, and may be instructive to
those who have been predicting general
as result of the new
in the Aansfeld Her
ald @ K@s A&a
Year: 1867

Here is q recipe for making beer, a
very wholesome aad refreshing summer
beverage: Put two gallons of cold wa
ter into pot upon the Ere, add to it two
ounces of good ginger, bruised, and two
pounds of white or brown sugar. Let
this come to boil, and continue boil
ing for a bout half an hour. Then skim
the liquor and pour it into a jar or tub
along with one sliced lemon and half an
ounce Of cream of tarter.


When nearly cold put in q teaspoon
full of!yeast,to cause the liquo: to work
The beer is now made !, and alter it has
worked for two DAYS, strain it and bottle
it for use. Tie down year corks i.rmly.
Year: 1867

a. This gentleman must be renominatedf by
the Radicals for Representative. There is
no man in the county whose record will so
well aUit the condition of their party K He
is either Conservative or Radical as the cir
eHmstaDces require. He will suit that por
ton of the Radicals who oppose negro
suffrage. for they can refer to his first vote
OIL the question in the Legislature and his
declarations at home and elsewhere, that
he would not be whipped IMP to vote for
such aproposition. He will suit the most
intense Radicals. for they can turn to- his
last vote on that question, and his speeches
in favor of negro suffrage and negro
equality e5js z fysliaj aI.seqg3


Capt, t,sA1exander has not been soldier
enough to make him offensive to the citi-
szens; nor citizen enough to make him posi-
lively obnoxious on that account to the
soldier. He was a, Democrat almost the
whole Of his life, and has been for the last
six years a Republican in measure Heis
just the man for the times. He will be re-
nominated His sacrifices for his party
have been great if a Republicans principles
are counted anything. His claims cannot
be Overlooked.-Pj4uaD D enaocrat.
Year: 1867

TuE DEMOCRATS fad in convenient to
have short memories. Processing to befill-
ed with alarm at the increase Of taxation IN
this country, they altogether ignore the fact
that their own conduct led to the war and
all the burdens il imposes.


Every State that went into the Rebellion
was a Democratic State. In 50 going they
yielded to the natural tendency Of the Dem
ocragic party.


All the men at the North who sustained
or syIapathized with the Rebellion were
Democrats, inspired thereto by the. doctrines
Of the party.


If there had been no Rebellion there
would be no taxation. Ifthere had been no
taxation the Rebellion would not have been
put down.


No owonder the Democrats are sensitive on
the subject Of taxation. u IitsJurg Gazette.
Year: 1867

Entries may be made at any time during this day.


All articles and animals must be upon the ground,
and in their appropriate place when the entries close
No article or animal to be removed before the close Of
the Fair wi thOut permission Of the Chief Marshal


Az haf-past two O'Clock P n. the Fair will be for
mally opened All committees Will rendezvous at the
Oficers' Stand Vacancies will be hlled and tickets
distributed that will be good during the Fair.
Year: 1867

We find in the New York Tribune an
interesting account Of the ice boats on
the Hudson river. The season for their
use is Just beginning. The finest ice
boats in the world are at present owned
by the POughkeepSie ice bOat association,
whose fleet now numbers ten OF these
vessels. The quickest time on record IN
the world was made last winter by one
of these bOats-the Snow Elake-and
was nine miles in eight minutes, the
wind being on the beam, Ice boats,
which have only becOmecommon within
q few wears, cost from SIS to $500. The
most expensive are OF course elabOrately
fitted up.


"The hull Of an ice boat is triangular
in shape, the deck being only four or
five inches from the surface of the ice.
Under the forward part are two station
airy runners, the wider part Of the trian-
gle being the bow. Under the stern IS
movable runner called the rudder. The
balance Of the vessel is rugged exactly
like a sloOp, except that wire rigging is
brought into reQuisitiOn. All well regu-
lated ice boats have two sets Of runners,
one for smooth and the other for rough
ice. The standing rigging Of the Snow
Flake is made of charcoal wire. The
shoes on the runners average three feet
in length, with twelve or thirteen inches


Into this gets the adventurous voy-
ager, clothed as for journey in the Arc


Z" You will find his feet encssed in
heavy boots and the boots eucased In
fur-Ined moccasins. He will have on
heavy wooden under clothing, heavy
pantaloons and vest, the latter covered
.-I@
comes his short pilot cloth coat, and
over all the inevitable long oyercoat.
His ears will be covered with the patent
mufIers, and on his head will rest a
close-rigged skull cap, with just enough
front-piece to call it such. Add 10 the
above comforts two huge buffalo robes,
one TO lie down on and the other TO cover
himself up with, and the sailing master
of the ice boat is ready for tiiiymile
scud to the wjndward."


A sudden flaw of wind sends these
swift-winged craft seudding along on one
runner, and for the time the helmsman's
ruddeT is Of course useless, bpfzif prop
erIv ballasted no accident hSr3peDs. If
the ice is smooth an overturu results in
sending the passen gers shooting out forty
or fifty feet over the ice, and heavily clad
As they are no great harm is done. An
accident of this kind where the ice was
rough or jagged would be more serious.
An account in a European paper, of ice,
boats on the Danube, remarks, however, I
that in consequence of the multitudinous
perfls, the crews Of some boats forbid the
pr, sence Of married men, either IS pas
seugers or able-bodied nayigatOrs.


\ race for 4 service Of silver Is shortly
to take place al POughkeepsie.
Year: 1867

The legislature has been in session now
for more than a week, and yet, strange
as it may seem, there has not been a sim
Gle speech made in either house. We
have seen 8 good many legislative as
semblies, in Kentucky and elsewhere
have witnessed the proceedings Of many
deliberative bodies; but We have never
seen any in which there was as little
disposition for speech making as in the
present legislature of Kentucky. This
does not proceed from the fact Of an ab-
scence Of speaking ability, for in the two
houses there are a number of the ablest
speakers in the state. There seems to
be, however, a universal disposition upon
the part Of the members to address them
selves to the business before them, and
not to consume time in discussions,
which, as a general thing, are productive
EST Importance, and upon which there
exists great diversity of opinion, are in
trOduced, printed, considered and dis
posed of without single remark upon
the floors upon their merits. 1t is doubt
less from this fact, that results the uni
versal good feeling which exists between
the members, personally. We have yet
to hear Of the first unpleasant feeling be-
tween any two members Of the present
legislature. There is total absence of
cr. .miuatiOn and recrimination, which
naturally and Inevitably grow out OF
heated iscussions.-Hentucky ReOBldR.
Year: 1867

COOKS H,REoR, NIInAu. November, 1867.


Beneath the surface soil, the formation of the
plain Of NawiIiwili, is identically that Of the
bed Of the surrounding ocean, before the present
superincunlbent coral was formed. IL is n great
wave Of eIevation-a plain between two noun
tain ridges sections of distinct volcanic action,
and Of nearly the same geological age. The plain
which forms the basin between them, was pushed
up laterally with their upheaval, AMI became the
depository Of the drift and detritus, worn and
carried by the floods from each. Imagination,
not calculation, must approximate their ages
Extinct for countless centuries, with marks of
any recent eruption, the current of volcanic
ton has apparently left Kauai and Niihau for
ever, and has extended in Its uniform channel,
from northwest to southeast, and IL now exhaust
ing its force in KiIauea and Nlauna Loa, probably
to break forth fresh again further southeast The
line Of this volcanic action il parallel with the
Pacific coast, the Coast Range, the Sierra Nevada
and the great chain Of the COrdilleras-the Rocky
Mountains These Islands will constitute the
eastern rim Of continent in the pro-
cess Of formation in the Central and South Pacific
Ocean. They arc the Himalayas Of an incipi-
ent continent.


The Waiua valley proper, is but depression
in the plain of Nawiliwili-a deep chasm from
where the torrents pour down their mountain
gorges to the sea. The low marshy valley imme-
diately beyond the crossing of the Wailua, is
land but recently closed from the ocean by a
dyke of beach sand, abraded coral and shells
formed by the northeast trade winds. Ii is rich
alluviou, easily reclaimed, and from the many
foundations Of ruined buildings along Its borders,
it was formerly in cultivation and the neighbor-
hood densely inhabited.


Have you ever been to Wailua falls? If you
have not. you should visit them and behold that
which il not all n dream of the 80 Ambrosial
God" but n reality Of the beautiful and enchnnt-
ing The upper fall, particularly, is n scene Of
the widest grandeur but they have been 80 often
described, will not endeayOr To- paint
them. But when you do visit the falls, do not
fail To go 10 the mansion and garden, which owe
their origin to the enterprise of Thomas Brown,
Esq, where you will find the fora Of every climate
from the equator to the poles thus exhibiting the
great resources Of the soil and climate Of Kauai
for any production


The romantic and picturesque valley Of Kealia
il next in order to Waiua. Dashing down from
deep wooded mountains, through Its wild, emer-
aid glens, the stream winds clear and bright
through once highly cultivated little valley to
the sea- Now all is silent and sad-a weird
ehurch-yard air hangs over il, and it only want
the dropping willows to weep around it in place
Of the dead koa, to make the picture complete
Year: 1867

THE CONDITION OF THE RlVER.-The
river is frozen over at and below Rockets,
and persons were on yesterday walking
across to the southern shore. There were
also skaters upon the ice enjoying their
sport there, where skating is most eX-
traordinary occurrence. For when the
river below tide is frozen it is almost inva-
riably covered with very rough ice that
has been disrupted and compacted by the
tide.


or course it may be readily imagined
that the port is still sealed up, and naviga-
ton suspended. Neither the gay George
anna nor the solid and stout Hatteras left
their wharyes on Monday morning. They
are still fast bound in ice, and We fear will
so remain for some time.


1t is one OF the rarest events for the
river to be frozen across at Rockets. But
the ice now extends long way down the
river. 1t was reported here that there
was too much ice at City Point for naviga.
ton; but telegraph yesterday announced
the arrival Of steamer there.


With the river and the canal frozen,
there must be very great curtailment OF
business, which, indeed, was dull enough
with all the avenues of trade unob.
structed.
Year: 1867

SUFFERING FREEDMEN.-Any one who
wants to know the straits to which these
unhappy victims of misguided philanthropy
are reduced, may form conception OF
their misery during the cold weather by
going out about twilight on the Williams
burg turnpike and seeing numbers OF them
coming in from their afternoon excursions
in search OF Wood. OF good fuel there is
none to be picked up, but by walking a
mile or more from their houses in tie Su-
burbs, each one succeeds in securing
bundle of brush or bag Of chips. II this
is their dependence for all the purposes Of
washing, cooking, and warming themselves
all night during this bitter cold weather,
their suferings must indeed be severe.
Year: 1867

THE BoDY OF THE MURDERED BoATMAS
FouHD.-We noticed some days ago the
murder of boatman connected with a
boat belonging TO MeSsrs. Werth, Rathbun
s. Co., and the robbery of the boat and its
destruction by fire. This occurred on the
canal 4 few miles above Richmond. On
Yesterday the body OF the murdered man
was found under the ice near the stern of
the boat. Vigorous measures have been
adopted to discover the perpetrators of
this brutal murder but up to late hour
yesterday no arrests had been made. At
the inquest to he held this morning all the
facts Of the case will be developed.
Year: 1867

THE VIRGINIA HALL VARIETIEs.-lt has
been correctly stated in some of our city
papers that party of gentlemen had
formed a design Of establishing at Virginia
Hall sort of varieties theatre, and that
for this purpose they had gone to New
York to engage performers. A dispatch
was received Monday by the proprietorS
of Virginia Hall stating that, after every
effort, it was found impossible to obtain a
suitable company, and that therefore the
enterprise would have to be abandoned.
Year: 1867

New HYMN BooK.-The new "Psalms
and Hymns" laid before the General As
sembly at Memphis, by the "Committee OF
Revision" and adopted by that body, is
soon to be published by the COMMITTEE
of Publication in this city. The
work is the result OF long and care
ful labor on the part Of the Assembly's
committee, and will no doubt give general
satisfaction to the denomination for which
il isdesigned.
Year: 1867

USFoUSDED RUMOR.-There was a ru-
NOR rife on the streets yesterday that the
street cars, SO neatly parked on Main
street, were to be let out to lodgers at so
much per night. We are pleased to learn
that this rumor is untrue, and that these
cars will some day be used again as car.
riers for the public Of Richmond.
Year: 1867

MEETING OF THE CuuaCf AND UNION
HILL BUILDING FUND AssoCIArIoN.-A
meeting of this Association was held yes
terday afternoon for the purpose of elect
ing officers; but majority OF the stock not
being present, the election was postponed
until the Sth of February next.
Year: 1867

YoRK RIVER RAILROAD CONpASY.--The
meeting of the stockholders Of this CON-
pany has been postponed on account of the
weather. Due notice of the time and
place OF the meeting will be given BY Us.
Year: 1867

MEMPHIS, lellll., muTcn Eo, 1901.


EDITOR PINE BLUFF DIsPATcH. Since
the passage of the military Reconstruc-
ton bill by Congress, | have received
several letters from friends and acquant-
ances in Arkansas, asking me what
thought should be the course Of the peo
pie Of that district under the surrounding
circumstances. As all | have that is
valuable in this life, either socially 20


litcally, or pecumarily are with the peo-
pie Of that State, of course, it would be
unnatural for me not to feel deep inter
est, not only in the present status, but
the future Of that people. Their pros
perty and happiness, is my prosperity
and happiness. Therefore ! have no
motive or reason for Withholding any
views | may have as to our duty at the
present time and under the present cir
cumstances and as your paper is read
generally by the people of your section
of the State, / send you this note for pub.
lication that all may know where / stand
and what | think should be done.


1st. think that the civil authority in
all departments, should, with scrupulous
aud cautious integrity and prompt and
impartial justice, to all classes of fcitizens,
continue to administer the laws, and there.
by prevent even the appearance of the
necessity Of military interference on their
part in the conduct Of the local affairs Of
the State And here | will remark that
the commander at first will be dsincined
to take upon himself the duties Of civil
administration, and will only do so when
provoked into it, by the failure Of the
civil authority to do their duty, or, n
thing which is likely to take place, upon
the petition Of bad and designing men,
who are alike unwilling to do or secure
justice, representing to the commander
that the courts are not doing their duty
in certain specified cases, This clas, Of
men are to be greatly feared; and can
only be counteracted, by extraordinary
diligence and caution on the part Of the
courts, and the people. ....


ID | think that people every where
should contest one with the other who
shall live and conduct himself with the
greatest propriety, forGiving and forget
ting all past differences and difficulties,
Year: 1867

and rcviying and cultivating old friend
ships, feeling and knowing that the com
mon dangers which now alike threatens
all. should make rs friends and brothers
not enemies aud strangers,


3rd. think SO soon rs the registra
ton OF voters shall commence every
white man who can, should go forward
and register, and that the black man, who
will be ignorant in part of what is going
on, should bc taken in hand by the whites
and instructed in their rights and aNties,
and made to feel they are anon Their
friends not their enemies. And those for
whom they are laboring, at the time,
think, should especially see to it, that
they register,


ith. think there Is an identity of in
terest between the whites and blacks OF
Arkansas, aud that the parties should be
taught that fact. They must live to
gether as friends or enemies-make them
friends


| think before the election for the con
vention shall take place, good Conserva
tive men, identified with the country,
should be put forward as candidates, and
that they should make appointments and
call the people together, and speak to
them honestly and fairly of the situation
and call upon them to come on the day
of election and declare their will


9Th. | think the convention should
adopt constitution in conformity with
the demands of our Congress.


have given no reason for the above
opinion, but hope to be at home soon
and will then be ready to give my reasons
on all proper occasions.


w. Z. GRACE.