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Year: 1867

ROCKETS RELIEF AssOCTATIoN.-At {
meeting of this Association on Friday
night last the secretary submitted re-
port of the work of the Association from
its organization to the present time, EN-.
bracing a period of about three months
The report doubtless cheered those to
whom it was submitted, as it shows how
much good may be done with small
amount when properly directed and i,
should, and doubtless will, encourage the
charitably disposed to extend further aid
to those engaged in this good work. Below
we give the report in full:


Report of the Secretary.


To tho Board of Directors of Rockets
Relief Association | have the pleasure to
report that there has been collected in
money, for the use of this Association,
sl23.3O, and that twenty three bushels of
meal, one barrel of -four, about forty
pounds of meat, and two cords of wood
have been donated.


| In the distribution of these means and
supplies, relief has been furnished in fifty
cases to the destitute families of the neigh
borhood. Only six applications have been
refused by the Association after being re-
ported to the directors. Some of these
applications, however, have been rejected
the second and third time; and others
have been laid over and referred to the
visitors for further investigation, which are
not embraced in this report.


| 1t would be impossible to give correct
! list Of the number of applications to the
officers of this Association for relief, and
it is therefore not in the power Of your
secretary to do them justice by a fair re-
| cord OF the amount of annoyance they
! have been subjected to, or of the work
they have performed. But from the fact
that, during the early part Of the late very
| cold spell, large number were appealing
to this Association for aid, and that during
the last several days the applications have
been inconsiderable, am Of the opinion
that there is much for which to congratu-
late the Association, and that a work has
been performed and good done which will
only be reckoned at the casting up of our
/ final accounts before that Judge to whom
all our acts and their influences are known.


Your secretary believes that more good
and less injustice has not been done either
by individuals or by any association with
/ the same means: : nor does he believe that
q more perfect system can be shown by any
other association of like character. 1t is a
gratifying reflection, also, that in the lau-
rel wreath of charity there isnot cypress
twig Of unkindness to mar the pleasure or
retard the progress of our work.


| There is now on hand twenty-six dollars
and twelve cents in money, and meal
enough for one weeks distribution.
Respectfully submitted.


r. II. MULLEN, Secretary.
Year: 1867

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.-A thief at
tempted on Sunday to get into the sleep
ing apartments of young gentlemen on
Eleventh street, near Marshall, and had
succeeded in getting half way into the
window when policeman saw him and
gave him chase. Our city is well guarded,
and thieves have not much chance to carry
on their operations.
Year: 1867

| ADDRESSES OF GENERALS WISE AND
RossER AT BRoAD-sTREET METHODIST
| CHURCH LAST EvENING.-A goodly number
of persons, including fair proportion o
ladies', assembled in the lecture-room o.
the Broad-street Methodist church last
evening, in spite of the bad weather, to hear
the addresses of Generals Wise and Rossei
| in behalf Of the Southern Orphan Asso-
citation.


The exercises of the evening were open.
ed by General Rosser, who, as the repre-
sentative of the members of the Southern
Orphan Association, addressed the assem-
blage in its behalf. Speaking with due ap-
probation of the efforts that were being
made to glorify the memories of those who
had nobly died for our South, he elo-
quently impressed upon his hearers the
d,tty of the hour-to take care of the liy-
ing. He then referred to the formation OF
the Southern Orphan Association, and read
the address of its members setting forth
the plan of raising the money necessary to
establish an oryhan asylum here-that OF
purchasing charity through the means Of a
prize lottery.


He then continued to appeal forcibly
and feelingly for aid to the cause. Mary
land was not forgotten in the appeal, for
the speaker paid glowing tribute to the
fearless and generous liberality displayed
by the good people of that State towards
their sister, Virginia. A hearty round of
applause from. the audience told of the
grateful response that was echoed in tho
hearts of Virginians to this tribute Of their
sister State.


After General Rosser had concluded his
remarks, General Henry A. Wise came
forward amid enthusiastic applause and
made an address, which, for eloquence of
appeal and pathos of sentiment, almost
surpassed anything we have ever heard
from him. The cause was q holy one, and
the old mans heart, warm with love for it,
sent thrilling words to his lips, which
touched hearts cold to the memory of the
dead soutfron, or the wall of those he left
behind him. He fairly exceeded himself.


We regret very much that the length OF
the remarks delivered, and the latencss OF
the hour, prevents US from giving anything
like a just sketch of the remarks Of either
speaker. Suffice it to say they were wor-
thy the object for which they were made.
We have given enough to show what a
number of good people are making strong
efforts to achieve, and what our people are
asked to do to aid them. Our part is small
in comparison with theirs, and if every
able hand is opened in response to their
call, the time is not far off when we will
have in our midst what will be source of
pride to us-an asylum, home for the
little ones Of those who died for what is
worth living for-thc honor and liberty Of
their and our native land.
Year: 1867

CHEAP WooD.-Forty cords Of seasoned
pine wood will be issued on Broad street
between First and Second this afternoon.
Price four dollars per cord. A less guam
tity will be sold to those unable to buy a
cord
Year: 1867

ARREST OF HOG THIEvEs.-Early Sun
day morning Mr.. Henry Ziekel, living
on the Richie farm, about three miles
from the city, missed two fine hogs. He
Immediately commenced search, and in
q short time found where they had been
slaughtered. A further search found a
portion of one hog under the floor of a
negro cabin, and whole hog hid in the
woods near by. Suspicion strongly resting
upon three negroes in the neighborhood
they were arrested, when evidence OF
their guilt was found. They were carried
before Justice Wade, who, after a short
examination, sent them on to the Circuit
Court,
Year: 1867

The following is the speech of the Hon.
Edmund Burke on assuming the duties
of the presiding officer of the late Demo-
cratic State Convention in New Hamp-
shire:


Gentlemen of the Convention Il
thank you most cordially for the distin-
guished honor Of being elected to pre-
side over,your deliberations to-day. Such
token Of respect and confidence from
the intelligent Democracy of New Hamp-
shire IS worthy the ambition of any man.


Gentlemen, we have assembled here
to-day under circumstances of great and
absorbing interest. Our country is pass
ing through a revolutionary crisis ofgreat
and imminent peril. The conflict of arms
the least dangerous phase of this Rev
olution-has indeed ceased, by the sup
preston of the late revolt against the
Government of the Union. But new
and more dangerous phase has superven-
ed. 1t is the attempt in Congress, by
set Of political desperadoes, through the
chicanery and legerdemain oflegislation,
to subvert our Constitutional Republic as
founded by the Fathers, and to substitute
in its place Consolidated Despotism, in
which the few will rule, and the many
obey and serve. And the party who are
guilty of this meditated treason against
the Republic, claim, par excellence, to be
the true friends of Freedom and Liberty.
On the pretext of giving freedom to the
negro, for thirty years they waged war
fare upon the domestic institutions oil a
portion of the States of the Union, which
were guaranteed and protected by the
Constitution.


The crusade at last eliminated in
sectional war, the sacrifice of five hun
dred thousand precious lives the destruc-
tion of ten billions of property, and the
entailment of a national debt and taxa
tion which are to harrass and oppress the
people, for generations yeti come. Under
the the pretext of giving suffrage to the
negro, this party are edeavoring to dis
franchise and take from the white man
the sovereign ballot. Clamoring for the
rule of the majority, they are attempting
to establish the despotism of minority
in the States and in the Union. To ac-
complish this wicked scheme, State Sow
ereignties which form the very basis of
our Republican system, must be annihi-
lated and reduced to Territories. And,
as intermediate in this bold scheme of
Revolution, the Supreme Court of the
United States must be practically super.
ceded by the addition of partisan judges.
And the President of the United States,
who stands in the way and blocks the
game of these desperate conspirators,
must be impeachcd and deposed from his
high office.
Year: 1867

There is curious clock at the Paris
Exhibition that shows at a glance the
time of twenty-four of the most impor-
tant towns Of the world on a revolving
globe, besides a complete movable alma.
nae of the month and week, and the
phase of the moon, while the pendulum


is both barometer and thermometer.
Year: 1867




This is the startling programme pro-
mulgated by the leaders of the revoltion-
AIRY party, who are carrying out their de-
signs under the sacred name of Republi-
canism. Itinvolves the most daring and
attrocious treason ever yet meditated a.
gainst our Republican system of Govern
ment, and should be met by the firm ,stern
and steady courage of the people; and,
gentlemen, let me add BY ARMS, if need
be.


1t is high time for the Democracy,
composing large majority of the people
of the country, to speak out in voice not
to be misunderstood by the conspirators
against the Constitution and the Repub-
lie, in Congress and out of that body
Let the Democracy of this State, and of
every State, say to the men conspiring
against the cause of liberty and the rights
of man, that if they fail in their treason
able designs, that shall expiate their mon
strous crime against the people, upon the
scaffold. And let us tell the men of cap
ital, the owners of the banks, the manu-
featuring establishments, and the ships
and commerce of the country, who coun-
tenance and support the Radical fanati-
cism which is rending and destroying our
Republic, that they are inviting another
war, war which will not be sectional,
but general, and internecine, whose great
theatre will be the North, and which will
involve their own lives, fortunes and
homes in its desolation.


| hope, gentlemen, that the people of
this country will not tamely submit to
the Standardization of the sovereign
States of the Union, and the overthrow Of
Constitutional Liberty. To avertit they
must make up their minds not only to
resolve, butto act. Resolutions and pro.
tests on paper arc mere cowardly expedi-
ents, if not backed up by firm and brave
purpose to sustain them by corresponding
action.


The Republic should not be permitted
to fall without a struggle worthy Of our
Revolutionary fathers.


l cannot, gentlemen, anticipate what
your action may be here to-day in refer
ence to the great question which the
events of the times present for your con-
sideration. But in conclusion allow me
to hope that it will be worthy of the in
teligent and patriotic Democracy of the
Granite State-worthy Of the men who
can claim Stark, Sullivan, a Scanned,
a Pierce and Mcneil. for compatriots--
worthy of men who know their rights,
and knowing, dare maintain them.
Year: 1867

"A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT. - Life is
beautifully compared to fountain fed by
thousand streams, that perishes if one
is dried. 1t is silver chord twisted with
thousand strings, that parts asunder if
one is broken. Frail and thoughtless
mortals are surrounded by innumerable
dangers, which make it much more
strange that they escape SO long, than
that they all perish suddenly al last
We are encompassed with accident every
day to crush the mouldering tenements
that we inhabit. The seeds of disease
are planted in our constitutions by nature.
The earth and the atmosphere, whence
we draw the breath of life, are pregnant
with death. Health is made to operate
in its destruction The food that nourish-
es contains the elements of decay; the
soul that animates it by vivifying fire.
tends to wear it out by its own action:
death turks in ambush along our paths.
Notwithstanding this, the tsuth is SO pal
pably confirmed by the daily examples
before our eyes, how little do we Law it to
our heart We see our friends and neigh
bors perishing among us, but how seldom
does 1T occur to our thoughts that our
knell shall, perhaps, give the next fruit
less warning to the world


MIXING BABIEs.-.Tho Alliance
(Ohio) Monitor tells the following good
one:


Some days ago there was party given
for the benefit of the Fenians, on the
outskirts of town, and several Of the Ia.
dies present had little babies, whose moi
sy perversity required too much attention
to allow their mas to enjoy the shop" A
number Of gallant young men volunteer.
ed to guard the infantry while the ladies +
engaged in the "break down" No soon
or had the mothers left their cherubs
with the mischievous wretches, than thew
stripped the darlings, changed their
clothes, giving the apparel of one to an
other The dance over, the mothers
each took as she thought her own baby.
and hurriedly left the scene Of gayety
and started to their homes, several miles
apart, being far on their way before the
"peep o day." The following day there
was tremendous row in the settlement
Mothers discovered that single night
had changed the sex of their babies
and then commenced some of the tallest
pedestrianism. Living six miles apart
it required two days to unmix the little
cherubs, and will require as many weeks
to restore the mothers to their natural
sweet dispositions.


DON'T LIKE CURLEw THE Salt Lake
Vedette is responsible for the following:
Year: 1867




DEAR SIR: l received this morning your
letter of the 10th inst, in answer to mine
OF the 9TH inst. As our views of duty to
observe and comply with orders issued by
me as District commander are irreconcila-
BILE, and as consider it my duty to enforce
my own opinion on the subject, and as |
am very unwilling in the case of a gentle
man of your character and standing to re-
sort to so unpleasant an act as your remoy-
al from office, L Suggest that, to avoid un-
pleasantness-which am sure neither of
US seeks-you resign your Office. If you
should conclude not to do so, be pleased to
inform me, and to consider this letter a
positive prohibition against the further
exercise of your office unless you conform
to my order concerning jurors in this State.
regret very much that this disagreement
should deprive the State of Georgia of the
services of so competent and worthy a
Judge.
am. sir, very respectfully,


Your obedient servant,


rf JOHN PORE,
Brevet Major General U. S. Array, COM
manlino
Year: 1867

Many person has seen pet cana
ry or other bird IN a state of pertur-
baton, plucking at himself continual
", his feathers standing all wrong. q


In vain is lis food changed, and in
vain Is a saucer OF clean water ALWAYS
III his cage. The cause OF his wretch
edness has not been found out. If the
owner Of a pet IN such diiIicultie. Will
take down the cage and look up to the
roof thereof, there will most likely be
seen mass of stuff like red rust
That red rust Is nothing more or less
than mvriads of parasites infesting the
bird, and for which water is no RENE
dy. BY procuring a lighted candle
and holding it under every part of the
top Of the cage till all chance Of any
thing being left alive is gone, the rem
edy Is complete. The pet will coon
brighten up after his house warming
Year: 1867

means. We by this bill reserve the right in
! Congress to inspect the constitution that
shall be formed, and to see whether it duly
secures the rights of loyal men; and We
shall have the power to protect them. Can
we not trust ourselves?


am in favor of proposing some distinct
plan Of reconstruction which shall be just
| and which shall be an answer to those who
have reproached US, that we have presented
no plan by which the Union could be re-
stored and the people again en- Joy the right
OF self-government under the Constitution.
But it is said by gentlemen upon the other
side of the Chamber that this bill everturns
State governments and sets up military
despstisu. The conclusive answer Is this:
these governments are not loyal governments.
They do not secure protection to loyal men.
They are mere instruments in the hands OF
disloyai men to oppress those who have the
strongest claims To protection at our hands.
Loyal men not protected in the rebel
States to-day The fact that /, man is a
loyal man is e reason why he is not secure
in person or property. The duties of alle>
glance by the citizen and protection by the
Government reciprocal and coextensive.
If we cannot protect loyal citizens of the
United States in life and property, we have
no light to claim their allegiance if We
have no right to protect the rights Of loyal
men except through State governments, then
We have no right to claim their allegiance
except through State governments; and the
doctrine of State rights is established, which
justified every man in becoming traitor to
the Union upon the call Of his State. And
however consistent gentlemen who denounced
the doctrine OF coercing States may be IN
advocating this doctrine, it is impossible
that those who believed in crushing the re-
bellion by military power can be influenced
by such sophstry to such an extent as to
fail to extend practical and efficient protec.
tion to the men who need that protection,
only because they Eave been faithful TO the
Constitution and the Union.
Year: 1867

Speaking Of home runs--that was
an earnest prayer offered by young deacon
who. fresh from game Of base ball, step
ped into the weekly prayer meeting. He
was called upon to pray, and in winding
up his invocation said 30 Lord, as we
start for home run to glorv, don let us
by the devil be caught out on the fly


- Advertising is the oil which wise
trsdesmen put in their lamps-thats all


- A little Swedish girl was walking
with her father one night under the starry
sky, intently mcditating on the gories of
heaven. "A. last, looking up TO the sky,
she said, Father, ! have been thinking if
the wrong side Of heaven Us so beautiful
what will the right side be?'
Year: 1867

The Radicals of Haywood county held a
meeting at Brownsville yesterday for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for the
Legislature, etc, which was attended by
Dave Num-, Gen. Eaton and two colored ora
tors from Memphis named Harris and Car
ter. During the meeting a speech was made
by Major Smith, who resides near Browns
vile. His speech was we'll calculated to ex-
cite the cOlOred people in attendance. He
told them that some of the rebels had beg
ged clothing of the negroes in the past, and
they would have to do 1t again, and that the
time will come when the present order Of
things will be reversed, and rebels will work
for negroes and be glad of the chance. He
was followed by the colored orator Carter,
who endeavored to excel his predecessor in
the violence of his language, saying in the
course of his speech that every man who
had ever traded in negroes should have his
heart cut out; that he was not fit to live, ETC.
The meeting took a recess about noon, and
as Carter was standing in the street with
some of his friends, white man approached
him and asked him what he meant by the
language he had used. Some words ensued,
pistols were drawn and several shots fred,
whereby three negroes and two white men
were wounded slightly. 1t is said that the
Memphis Radicals acted nObly on the Occa-
sion, retreating to the woods to form a reserve
corps Comment on the above affair is un-
necessary-it is but the natural result Of the
Radicals, who are endeavoring to poison the
mind of the negro against the Southern peO-
ple
Year: 1867

The TIDE Is TUREING.-Not a day passes
but what we hear or read of influential men
leaving the Radical party and earnestly CO.
operating with that which is the only one
that foreshadows peace and prosperity to the
people Instances almost innumerable
might be sighted, but it would be waste of
time to do so, as the fact is well known by
every intelligent, correctly informed man in
the State Why is the radical party in Ten
nessee being shOrn of its best members ?
Simply because an hOnest man never fails
to leave bad company when once he is con-
vinced that he is in it. The better class of
men who cIung to radicalism during few
years past did so because they thought that
they were subscribing the best interests Of
the nation and the State, now they begin to
see better, and are leaving their former as
sociates with feelings of disgust. There
accessions to the conservative ranks are more
valuable than gold, for each and every one
of them brings with it power and force
irresistible Why? Because they have the
right to talk and knowledge whereof they
speak they were Union men, good and true
have been deceived, and will never fail tC
heap Goals of fire upon the heads of those
that deceived them.
Year: 1867

North and South the contest in this State
is being closely watched, and great interest
is being manifested by leading men in regard
to the result on the first Thursday in Au-
gust The great wave of reaction that is
sweeping over the country and carrying
down to merited oblivion tyrants and tyran-
ical measures can receive no check here, but
will gain strength, volume and power from
every hilltop and vale from the Mississippi
to the North Carolina line. Tennessee is
too grand in her fair proportions to be ruled
by handful of thieves and tyrants She
will be free.
Year: 1867

In March, 1862, Brownlow penned the
following endorsement of Emerson Ethe-
ridge. On page $50, of BrownlOws book,
you will find it just as it is given here


Night before last heard a speech from
Etheridge, delivered before an attentive
audience of twelve or fifteen hundred PER
sons. He spoke over two hours. l never
heard him in a regular stump speech before
I saw ct once the secret of his great success
before the people. He is the peoples man,
and keeps up the interest all aae time. He
was severe on the leaders of the rebellion,
but not more so than they deserved; and his
blows met with a hearty response from the
crowd.


Will the Radical papers make note of
this
Year: 1867

Nine young ladies recently took the veil
in Philadelphia Memphis Bulletin


We heard of young lady once that took
nine wells from milliner shop On Main
street. That makes the count even.
Year: 1867

In his speech at Brownsville on the 4th
Num- said that he could see himself a walk
ing off with the certificate Of election" A
good many Of his party have been seen walk
ing of with things that did not belong to
them
Year: 1867

The receipts from customs and internal
revenue for the last ten months are three
hundred and sixty-four million dollars, show
ing a falling off Of thirty-one millions, as
compared with the same period last year.
Year: 1867

ray President johnson, it is under.
stood, denies most emphatically that
the recommendation for mercy, in the
case of Mrs, Surratt was ever presented
to him. Whether it was or was not, is a
matter of comparative unimportance.
Had 1t been placed before him, it would
have been more than his life was worth
to have disregarded the Radical cry for
blood which went up all over the land.
Mrs. Surratt was hanged, not because
she was innocent or guilty, not because
the President did or did not see the
recommendation for mercy, but because
Radicalism wanted blood and would
have it. 'f
Year: 1867

BG- A horse committed suicide by
drowning in Mobile the other day. The
Adrertiser says "no reason is known
for the rash act" He may have con-
tracted the mania from the human
species, among whom it has been raging
of late to SO alarming an extent