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Year: 1866

In noticing the fact that meeting is Il


be held in Choctaw county, Alabama, in Q


few days for the purpose of organizing a cot.


ton manufacturing company the Mobile Tri.


bune so forcibly expresses the views which


we hold, and have from time 10 time given,


that we reproduce them entire. 1t says:
This is directing our resources and in
dustry in the right direction, for il mi II own
ers in New England can declare one hundred
per cent. annual dividends, we do not see
why we of the South may not get as much !;
although half Of that, or even fourth, ought
to serve as stimulus 10 capital. The water
power is to be found everywhere: the cotton
lies by its side. Our days are longer in
winter than those of New England. Our
country, where there are mill sites. is
healthier. Fuel is abundant. Consumption
that terrible avenger of Yankee cupidity-
is not here, although il may be found, if well
sought for, in any country. Lying adjacent
to the mills are lands which the artizans
can cultivate, and from them educe home
steads which, when fairly started, will make
within a few years. beautiful places, where
true poor men can live well, and who, when
they shall have grown accustomed to them.
viii not leave them for any temptation in
the bleak and inhospitable climate of New
England.


All this is true and, therefore we cannot
possibly see why the cotton may not here be
made up into cloth or yarns and yield to
those who make them very remunera'ive
return. In Choctaw county there are hun
dreds Of little negroes, who, under the new
evangel ofthe Radicals have been cast forth
without much hope of bread and butter.
These little waits, under q skilful manufac.
turing system, could be made useful to them
selves and their parents; and we are quite
sure that they would like the employment.
Their fathers and mothers might 90 into the
fields to make cotton. The little chaps might
go into the factories to help TO spin it, and
thus child and parent would be all the time
getting something to make themselves COM
Portable. Nay, if they desire it, ultimately
to invoke the uses of education in order to
fit themselves for the good time which is
coming; and, in the interim, purchasing
lands, as their means of doing so increased,
so that. with industry, within a few years,
the black man may be able to say to his fell
low sufferer, the white man, " see here, we
have been dligent in the performance of our
duties, why shall you not Respect us2" Well
when they can ask this question, it will be
bad man who will refuse to accord to them
the respect which is their due.
Year: 1866

LADIES SHOULD READ NEwsPApERs-It Il
o great mistake in female education TO keel
a young ladys time and attention devoted
70 the fashionable literature of the day. II
you would qualify her for conversation, you
must give her something to talk about-g've
her education with tins actual world and ia
transpiring events. Urge her to read the
newspapers ard become familiar with the
present character and improvements OF our
race. History is Of some importance; but
the past world is dead, and We have nothing
10 do with II. Our thoughts and concerns
should be for the present world, to know
what it is, and improve the condition of il.
Let her have an intelligent opinion and be
able to sustain conversation concerning the
mental, moral political aud religious i'm
proyements of our times.
Year: 1866

The St. Louis Republican complains of
dull times, with the Southern trade now the
only open one, and seven or eight boats con
tending for freights at the rate Of csc per
barrel to New Orleans, with hardly enough
tor two.
Year: 1866

The subscribers having accepted the agency for
the Western and Northwestern States for this
deservesly celebrated Collar, are now prepared
to take Orders for the present or future delivery
Year: 1866

most lugubrious accounts Of whippings, muir
ders, resistance until one absent rom the
scene would suppose that rebellion had just
begun. Every trivial fact Is exaggerated
each individual act Of folly is magnifed; the
local disturbances are all paraded, and while
an undue prominence is given to every indis-
cretion that may be committed among pop
ulation Of twelve millions Of people, no effort
is spared to lash the public mind into state
of fury and fire the northern heart with
hatred and revenge.


We believe that the act Of the Secretary
Of State in ceasing its official relations with
common berator, and an organ that thrives
on the mischief it can make, will be hailed
as eminently wise and judicious.
Year: 1866

Although many Of the dispatches about
the movements Of the Fenians originate with
interested parties and are very much exagge-
rated, yet we are assured that all the reports
respecting the present action Of the Fenians
in the East are not without some good foun-
dation. The Government Is watehful, how
ever and will not permit any combination Of
men, for any purpose whatever, to entangle
us in new and unnecessary difficulties with
friendly Powers.
Year: 1866

As relief to the minds Of many anxious
friends of numerous candidates who will not
be appointed Collector of New York, we will
announce as a fact within our knowledge that
the aboye.named office has not been filled.
Year: 1866

One Sunday night a clergyman
was preaching in Belfast, when a
young man in the congregation get
ting weary of the sermon, looked
repeatedly at his watch. Just as
he was in the act of examining his
piece for the fourth or fifth time,
the pastor, with great earnestness,
was urging the truth upon the con-
science of his hearers. "YoLng
man." said he, show is it with
your Whereupon the young
man with the gold repeater bawled
out In hearing of nearly the whole.
congregation, "a quarter past
eight" As may be supposed, the
gravity of the assembly was very
much disturbed for a time.
Year: 1866

One night v - l Wa, slInoering sweet


Upon old Morpheus tranquil breast,
] bad a dream which made me think


That | forever more WAS blest.
tn pught that al the love on earth


lad turned into a flowing sea,
AID Ger it, in a graceful boat,


Ny sweetheart sailed along with me.
Our boat was bright as bright could be,


As if it was made by hands above,
She gently rocked along in peace,


While rlow.ng through the waves of love.
No furious wind was on that Sea


To risk our boat upon the shore,
But gently er its breast we went,


To dwell IN love forever more.
The waves of love that rolled along,


Kissed by the shining moon on high,
Did sweetly smile at me and her,


As gently we went sailing by.
Bright love was all we e'er could see,


Except the shining globes above,
While 10 our boat We gently sailed,


Upon the mighty sea of love.
Year: 1866

A retiring Western editor says
that call is vanity From the
hour he started his paper to the
present time, he has been solicited
to lie upon every given subject,
and can't remember ever having
told a wholesome truth without di-
minishing his subscription list, or
making an enemy. Under these
circumstances of trial, and having
a thorough contempt for himself,
he retires in order to recruit his
moral constitution.
Year: 1866

Public whipping in the South, we agree with Gov


Holden is impartially set down in the law for Of.
tenders, black and white; but what observant South


erner will tell us that there is not marked difference
in its administering and applyingthe greater weight
and number Of blows for the backs Of greater num-
Der of negroesi The best that Mr. Holden say Of
the pllory and whippngpost is that they are rough
economies for naicting disgrace while saving the OK.
pense of prison. We know that in South Carolina,
whore the lash is the common law there is no pen-
tentary whatever. For this wildcat state Of social
discipline, Mr.. Holden only pleads that it is prefer


able to the alternatives of the Draconian system of
hanging all offenders, or suffering the guilty to go
free" Are these the only alternatives Is this the
quaint and old-iashoncd justice of the South Then
better abolish the whpplngpos at once, and set up
jails right speedily. We venture TO say that there
will he many exocutioners 10 reform as conyicts.
Year: 1866

been surpassed in point Of variety novelty or general msh
torousns by similar GLASS Of entertainments in this
try We had hoped to record tho determination Of the PART
Commissioners to naugurate system Of outdoor
concerts similar to those Of Of the European capitals.
with bard Of from 90 to 100 Indeed noI
destitute hopes that such experiment may be tried before
the expiration Of the There scarcely
be doubt of the success OF such scheme.
really none whatever to the certainty Of securing
popular approval and applause While the subec1 OF music
In Central Park will hardly reach the dignity OF great
national issue there Is nevertheless inevitable shortening
of national pride rejecting that in the production Of barn.


less recreaons for the people do not compete with other
countries During the it is safe ooox
for weekly Of popular pleasure the like Of which has
parallel with though in Europe similar enertsnmenh
and recreations by unfrequent uncom-
mon Under the careful supervision Of the authorities Of hs
Park and with the dgent execution Of their wishes by thu
police the music season OF 1866 cannot fail to be
successful than any which have preceded It.
Year: 1866

We record to-day the death of the distinguished
and learned physician and prominent citizen Dr. Joseph NJ
Smith He has long stood very high in his profession in this
country He born at New Rochelle Westoheser County
NJ Y. March H. l7s9 and the Of the eminent Dr.
Matson Smith.


Dr. Smith graduated at the College Of Physicians and sur
geons NewYork in el5 and in ls26 appointed Pofes
in his Alma Mater position which he has most ably
filed to the time of his doah For nearly forty years he has
been OF the physicians Of the NewYork Hospital and
during tha. long period he has suy and kindly attended
the patients there gathered and drew hther prior the
removal OF the Colleges up crowds Of students to listen
to bis clinical Instructions In 1854 be elected President
of tho SewYork Academy Of Medicine The Council Of


Hygiene of the Citizens Association Of New York made him
their President at their organization and Is chiefly due to
the efforts Of that body that have at length efficient
Board Of Health
Year: 1866

The colored people of Norfolk, Va, recently formed
in procession and marched through the streets, in
honor of the passage of the Civil Rights bill Certain
badly reconstructed White ru6ans attacked them on
the way intending to break hem up but got the worst
of the fray. Whereupon says The Express


tn, Y the recent massacre Whites by the negroes
Norfolk tho natural result Of the pernicious teachings OF
the Radicals Under proper discipline the negro Is doce and


but pampered and spoiled by indulgence he soon
becomes arrogant and insubordinate"


Thank God for the Civil Rights bill, and for every


measure that tends to protect the and the humble
against such rutan as assaled the Norfolk procession,
and such villains as are allowed to perve the columns
Of journals to throwing the blame of their ruanism
on the objects of their brutal antipathy


Who ever heard of Blacks assailing Hhite process
sion
Year: 1866

For years, The TRI:JYR has been calling for the sale
Of tha p-5perty-s for it now, and expects to remain
80. But there will still be City property, and we
shall need honest men to manage it. Whenever it
gets into the hands Of men who are not honest-who
manage it with paramount regard not to the public
good, but to their own emolument and that of their
confederate heveswe shall do our best to get it out
of their hands, and to this end shall try one
means after another. Hence our partiaity for new
broous
Year: 1866

come near US by means OF emigrant ships from
Europe and is very likely to visit US in the course Of
the ensuing Summer, though we have Health Com
mission that is doing its utmost to keep ii away Ift
does come, our distant readers shall be promptly ad
Yised Of the fact through these columns
Year: 1866

The letter of our correspondent in Maine shows
that the Fenian doings on the border amount to
nothing in fact and very little in point of vapor
The reported exploits in the streets of st. Stephens
and in capturing the flag of British revenue cutter
prove emnently not Fenan. Mr. Killian, who ap-
pears to be the master spirit of this inactivity is
accompanied by convention of twenty or thirty
patriotic Irishmen who arc the sole dscoverable force
of tho Fenian INVASION
Year: 1866

The conclusion of the inquiry Of the Jamaica Com
mission points to q verdict which will not take the
world by surprise. The Commissioners have dealt
firmly with Gov Eyre, and in the Investigation itself
have throughout acted impartialy.
Year: 1866

HAVING removed his Office to the Irving Block
L would return his thanks to his friends and the
public for their liberal patronage. Hoping that his
earnest endeavors to give satisfaction in the past
will guarantee him large share of practice in the
future, he is prepared to perform all operations in
his profession in the most skiful manner.


C$-Dr. w has new preparation for identifying
and cleansing the teeth. Maylgdim
Year: 1866

A Farmer is a trustee, or stewart. His
great Employer has committed charge 10 him;
and said Occupy till remove you. Raise
whatever crops you choose, but keep the soil in
as good a state Of fertility as it was when you
received it. The soil is to support those who
will come after you It's robbery 10 take crop
after crop of grain off farm and do nothing
towards repairing the waste"


He who recklessly adopts bad system Of
husbandry, not only wrongs himself, but is
guilty of great injustice to bis successors. The
Creator works by means and He viii not re-
store impoverished soils by miracle. If far
iner by bad husbandry Injuries the fertility OF
his soil. he and those who come after him must
suffer the damage resulting from his abuse OF
the resources Of the farm. lis therefore the
solemn duty Of every man to try to keep his
soil in good state of fertility by means Of the
manurial resources which it affords. If he
does as well as every farmer Dsdu do, the day
win soon dawn when our grassfields viii yield
two spears where only one groIss now and all
our crops Of cereal grain viii be increased at
least two fold. Every farmer can do this in a
few years. by simply commencing renovation
svstenl-by understanding. manuring, and
growing crops in rotation. Let yonpg farmers
resolve to leave their soil in a better state Of
fertility than they received il. Then they viii
nave the satisfaction Of knowing that they have
been faithful in their stewardship as tillcrs OF
the SOIL
Year: 1866

Dim shadows gather thickly round,


And up the misty stair we climb,
The cloudy stair that upward leads,


To where the golden portals shine,
Round which the kneeling spirits wait
The opening of the Golden Gate.
And some with eager longing go,


Still pressing forward, hand in hand,
And some with weary steps and slow,


Look back where their beloved stand;
Yet up the misty stairs they climb,
led on by the angel Time.
AS unseen hands roll back tho door,


The light that floods the very air
Is but the shadow from within,


OF the great glory hidden there;
And morn and eve, and noon and late,
The shadows pass within the Gate.
Year: 1866

Wilt thou never, never change


Wilt thou love as well Tomorrow
Will the moments never come,


When I'll think of thee with sorrow?
Wilt thou never, never change


Wilt thou wander from me never
VIII thy smile be always mine,


Ard thy heart be mine foreverf
Wilt thou never, never change


Can trust the vows thou'rt making
All my heart though happy now,
Without thee would soon be breaking.
j have pledged thee all have


| will play thee truant never
viii thy smile be always mine,


And thy heart be mine foreyerY
Wilt thou never, never change


In youth. in age, in sorrow?
When Old Time has ploughed my check
With his beauty -marring furrow--
viii thy hand be near 10 help


VIII thy heart forsake me never
Will thy smile be always mine,


And thy heart be mine forever?
Year: 1866

Every form and feature of these prevalent and stubborn
disorders is eradcaed locally and entirely by the of this
emoient lamentations should precede its application
healing qualities will be found TO be thorough and in
variable


BOTH TIE OINTMENT AND THE PILLS SHOULD BE


Used In THE FOLLOWING CASES:
Year: 1866

ut is generally conceded that Secretary
Harlan is about to resign"


II it were not for the repeated rumors Of
bis resignation the country would never know
that Mr.. Harlan was in the Cabinet.


Vicksbur0 Herald.
Year: 1866

DISAGREED The Supervisors of Placer and
and Nevavda counties met at Valley on Tues
day. to determine upon the starting point for
the boundary line between the two counties
but failing to agree as to the true source
of Bear River, nothing was accomplished
The Placer Board have since resolved to re,
quest the State Surveyor General to establish
the boundary line. The precise location Of
this line is considered Of importance, from
the fact of the construction OF the Central
Pacific Railroad; and both counties are look,
ing out, this year, for poll taxes from the la
borers engaged upon the work.
Year: 1866

This is a wicked world | verify
believe, and l am confirmed in that
sage opinion by a scandalous af.
fair, which l may refer to without
any violation of good taste, since
the matter is one of record.


Your readers will remember that
a year or two ago there was a we'd
ding in high life $50 called.) A
young but prominent citizen of a
Northern State, who counted his
fortune by millions, was the happy
bridegroom, and a daughter of a
then Cabinet Minister was the
bride. Rare jewels, worth hund-
reds of thousands of dollars, were
lavished on the bride, and such a
wedding was never in the land,
since Commodore Bartlett's daugh-
ter married the Cuban negro OWE
do. Well, there had been many
rumors about the couple just nam
ed, and the air has been thick with
scandalous rumors. 1t was known
the husband was a festive cuss, and
that his thousands were spent in
riotous living-wine, cards and
other etceteras. But only latterly
did his wife seem to know or at
least seem to notice the delinquen-





cy of her lord, when it was pre-
sented to her in such a shape that
there could be no doubt of his inf
deity, or, to be palmer, the servi
ces of a physician were required
to heal her body as well as a law
yer to heal her wounded sensibili-
ties. And SO she has brought an
action for divorce, and will of course
get swinging damages; both of
which she is entitled to, albeit the
lady herself is very gay. The case
will create a sensation when the
names are given to the public.


STOPPING to folly is a common
thing in this world, especially in
the hot-bed of corruption. A sad
case has just been made known,
Where a young woman belonging
to the most aristocratic circle Of
the Federal city has gone astray.
She had not even been suspected
till a few days ago, when her pro-
lOnged absence in New York,
where she had gone on a visit, led
to inquiry, and her parents to their
horror ascertained that she had
voluntarily become the inmate of
fashionable brothel. No cause,
other than that innate wickedness
which the devil sometimes implants
into poor. weak human nature, is
assigned for the conduct of the wo-
man who thus recklessly brings
shame on the honored name of her
family.


The parties referred to in the
first part of the above article, are
Senator Sprague and his better half,
formerly the "talented Kate Chase
daughter of Salmon P. Chase.
I.,ks
Year: 1866

1t is very. well known that Ma
jor-general Candy, Commando oi
the Middle Military Departmeat,
visited this city on Monday am
had an interview with Mayor Chap
man, to which the Police Comn1is-
sioners were invited. The inter.
view had reference to the getting
up of military organizations tore
sist the operations ofthe laws of The
State in the approaching eletion
General Candy informed them that.
if any military organizations were
necessary in Baltimore, he had
them already organized, and as he
is the military commander of the
department, should direct the mill
tary operations. He said, if any
blood be shed, that blood will rest
upon the Mayor and Commission.
ers, but would insist that order be
preserved. If it becomes neees-
sary, he should not hesitate to put
the city under martial law. The
visit of General Canby to the CITY
Year: 1866

The Ohicaeo fnass, and oieIor twt


other psofszsed Democratic papers q


the North, having declared III favor y


qualified negro suffrage as something


bound to succeed, the Radical press
seize on II with great joy, blinking \
will relieve them Of much Of the odium
Of supporting that doctrine. They will


have to bear the honor Or the shame oi


that measure alone, for the Dcmocratic
and Conservative press generally meet
the proposition with indignant denpn-
citation.


The Radicals seem anxious to drive
or coax the South into Negro Suffrage
as soon as possible, suspccting that the
people down there may fnd out soon
that all they have got to do is to do
nothing, whilst the psiichce Of the
North may s.e tired out BY their contin-
ued exactions. Accordingly they grasp
at every pretext which promises to let
them down easily. They have flied
the country with silly rumors that the
President has concluded to cave in, aud
will no longer oppose their Copgression-
al policy, and will recommend qualified
Negro Suffrage to the South Such
stories they circulate one day, and deny
them the next. Tha President is not Of
such unstable character. lie believes
the decision of the people of the North
at thelato elections 20 have been foun-
dcd on passion and prejudice, which
will yet pass away; and is as confident
that his policy is the only proper ono 10
restore the country as be was before the
late elections fIe must wait, like the
whole country, until the folly of Radi
calism burns itself out, as it will do in
less than two years we hope.


Their solicitude on the question Of
Negro Suffrage shows TINT they fear it
They showed this at their Philadelphia
Convention, when the North refused to
participate, and the Border States ran
away from the Convention before the
Radicals from the Gulf States could
commit them 10 it. Since The election,
they arc in a delightful state OF eonfu.
sion ia Maryland, moet Of them being
disposed TO follow the 1h,rricaa, aud
to talk lovingly Of the beauties Of I'm.
partial Suffrage" Some Of theif papers
squirm at il little, but they have been
progretsiag for some years very fact, and
doubtless they will soon be ready to
obey the managers They rather Ike
il as a punishment on thc South, but
are much afraid of its effects on many /
Of their voters They can doiye this,
question no longer. When tho NEXT |
Presidential platform comes 10 be made |
up We will soc big bolt n,adu from th1, I
party Thank fortune our friends hare .
not fooled much with that question sud .
have nothing TO fear from Il. I
Year: 1866

GoLD.-The fluctuations in the
price of gold is about the most un-
accountable phenomenon of trade.
There are those that can give rea-
sons for q change in the price of
wheat or cotton, and we have seen
those who could givequite lucid rea-
reasons for a rise or fall in gold after
it had occurred, but the man that
can tell two days ahead what will
be the course of the precious metal
would be invaluable. 1t goes up
and it goes down with apparently
no reason orrcgularity. Everything
else seems to be governed by some
law. but the gold traffic knows none.


There are, to-day, over a hundred
millions of gold locked up in the
United States Treasury. Is it pos
sible gold is thus allowed to accum-
ulate with a view to the resumption
of specie payments9 Who knows !?
At any rate, within a fortnight, gold
has declined fully IL cents or eight
per cent. If so, we may look to see
the decline continue. But our ad-
vice is not to depend on any calcu-
lation of this kind. Gold may go
TO 125, or it may go kiting again
among the fifties. One thing iscer-
tain, il is the basis of all values in
Texas, and those who have use for
currency, will do best to buy what
they want when the want it, and
not worry about whether they have
paid too much or too little for it
Houston Commercial Revier, Nou.
9th.