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Year: 1867

harsh words and abusive epithets. Let
us, therefore, lay aside every feeling OF
passion and prejudice, and enter upon
the settlement of these questions, In
that spirit and temper inculeated by
the Saviour of mankind, before whom
we must all shortly appear and render
our account of the manner in which we
have discharged the responsible duties
thrown upon us in this emergency.


JAMES H. FURGUsON."


Neither the public nor the commit
tee of investigation, will perceive why
a man honestly holding such views as
we have quoted, should be made by
copperheads the victim of political
conspiracy. On the other hand, all par
ties can understand how hatural it
would be for corrupt politician III
dread of punishment for an infamous
offense, to feign such sentiments in or
der to find favor with those whose in
fuence might operate upon the pardon
ing power. We cannot see why men
like Jndge RICE should plot against
on political grounds, but we
can see why FURGUsoN should make
false professions to them for personal
reasons, and sham political conviction
and conversion in order to escape more
practical and less agreeable sort of con-
viction, then impending. We confess
to some difficulty in understanding how
a man honestly entertaining the views
we have quoted could steal, but in view
of this gentleman's precedent course,
and of his subsequent reputation of
the doctrines he advocated in the fall
of '65, the difficulty is entirely removed,
and such exploits as we have indicated
are clearly brought within the limits of
Year: 1867

They are about cutting a canal in
California that will irrigate over q
million acres of waste land in several
of the counties of that State. The
canal will not only furnish supply of
water for the land, but will serve also
as a highway for conducting the pro-
ducts Of the land to the San Francisco
market
Year: 1867

The Christian Sabbath is not only a


day of rest--it is a day of peace and


thankfulncss. There Is much miscon-


ception on this point. All men feel


the need Of one day in seven, when


they lay aside their business cares and
duties. Tired nature demands as much
as this. But how few feel, when the
holy day comes round, that IL Is IA God
given season. Into how few hearts does


the great truth sink, that God not only
cares for man, the nolslest work of his
visible creation, but for beasts ofburden
also, and the cattle that are 'upon a
thousand hillsv The Christian Sab


bath is a day of holy meditation. Since
that great day when the Lord of life
burst the bars OF death, and rose trium-


phant from tho grave, men have left


the shadow and taken hold of the sub


stance. They have ceased to revere the


last, and have kept holy the first day of
the week. And when the morning sun
first breaks over the eastern hills, how
the heart Of every human being should
thrill with joy! For does 1t not speak
of angles, and the three Maries, and Pc


ter and John, and the stone rolled
away, and the linin clothes lying to-
gether by them selves? Does it not
speak Of the worlds redemption? And


what heart can be cold when nature
herself seems to catch the inspiration
of the blessed morn? This is no time
for dreary moodiness-no day for cheer
less gloom--that man knows nothing
of the blessed influence of the day
which saw the Lord arise, who does
not feel his "heart new opened,o and
heaven nearer to Garth than on other
days. And that mans faith I'm the Di-
vine Record must be small, who can
feel his check famed by the wings of
the angels, see their smiles in the bright
rays Of the advancing sun, and hear the
psalm of joy and thanksgiving, borne
to his ears by the mornings breeze.
For Christ Risen is the corner stone Of
our holy religion. 1t means that earth
and heaven have met. 1t means tiiGt
the inanimate God once trod the earth.
It means that our great High Priest,
who is ever touched with the feeling
Of our infirmities," Is sitting on the
right had of God. tt means that we,
too, may reign with him in glory here
after, If while on earth, we love him
and serve him with earnest hearts,
Rural Iellifenlatl
Year: 1867

We sheuld never rise from our knees
In the morning until I'm our secret pray
ers We have earnestly asked God to
keep through the day our intention
pure. III our miserable self-seeking,
our vanity, our low aims are to be cor
rected or cast out, Ii must be under the
direct teaching and aiding of God the
Holy Ghost; and that teaching and aid
will be given to US five thus earnestly
seek IL. Thus shall we be beforehand
with the enemy when he comes with
his foul breath of temptation to whis-
per his poisonous suggestions In our
ears. He will find us preoccupied by
the thoughts of God, to whose direct
glory we have solemnly devoted all the
day. But then beyond this, through
the day we must often, even amidst
our busiest occupations, renew this Of
fering of we do or design to His glory.
As much as possible we should pause
before we begin any new occupation,
and I'm secret prayer, shot up like an ar
row to Him pray Him to purify our in
tention in beginning 1t, and to accept
must live more and more I'm secret i'm
tereourse and direct communion with
Him; we must often retire, at least In
thought and aspiration, from business,
pleasure. nay, even from outward SER
vice itself, into the sacred shrine Of His
presence; I'm that presence the most
subtle delusions OF the tempter stand
exposed to oui gaze. We see the emp
tiness of all the rewards of this world
and its prince; his enchantments fade
away; the bcwitching countenance of
seeming beauty turns under the light
of that eye into the hollowness and cor
ruption of the grave; we see the worm
In its loatbsomeness where all looked
but now enticing; and we hear the soft
sounds OF fiattcry turn into the malig-
nant execratiohs of the pit.--Bishol ?f
Oxford.
Year: 1867

Henry Smith OF Whitestone, Long
Island, accidently dropped . cup into q
cistern last Tuesday. and while fishing
for II he hooked fiest to the clothes Of
his little boy, who had been missing
for an hour or two. This was the first
tintimaion the father had that tile boy
was drowned.
Year: 1867

B0Ys.-A son Of Scranton, the found
er of Scranton, Pa, joined the ranks of
the laborers in his fathers founderies,
that he might learn the practical part
of the Iron business. The son of well
known and wealthy New York publish
or used to leave his elegant home every
morning with his tin pail and IN the
the hardest, that he might learn the
business. We also know the son of an
Ieminent college Professor who is doing
nearly the same thing. g.--Ncw York Ga
ysctte.
Year: 1867

The good man is tho very salt of So
ciety. And fortunately for almost all
communities, at least one suclI man Is
to be found everywhere. He may or
may not be the most prominent, the
most wealthy, the best educated citi-
zen of his neighborhood but be his
surroundings what they may, he is i'm
the center of q distinct class Of infu-
ence Indispensable to the veal of soci-
ETY.. He stands firm when others are
yielding; the farthest removed from
dishonest tricks, or headed strifes, he
is composer of differences. Always
happy in the conciousness of his own
integrity, he Is calm when others
around him are violent and alarmed !;
invariable areful in forming and ex-
referred to when the heats of passion
have subsidized and men wish to ascer-
tain the path of safety.


One such person In community,
one such christian In q church, is OF
more value than thousands of silver
and gold. Great mnltitudes of people
cannot have, in the strict sense, minds
of their own. They either lack origin
al capacity or training; and they must
have some such man insensibly to think
for them, to be their moral or spiritual
guide. He becomes reservoir which
Is constantly tapped for spiritual knowl-
edge. Lesser and dfeeblersohls take hold
Of his strength and are held up by IL.
BY the riches of single rich man, en-
ployed i'm manufacture or commerce,
hundreds of poor families may live
and SO there may issue from the heart
OF one good man streams of religfods
wealth which will nourish and indirect
religious world.
Year: 1867

- ~~eAslaA GA4~1 " OsAssS ~ tVAh v We


There's the secret! A saving woman
at the head of the family Is the very
best saving bank established--one re-
ceiving deposits daily and hourly, with
no costly machinery to manageit. The
idea of saving is pleasant one, and If
the women would imbibe 1t at once,
they would cultivate and adhere to 1t,
and thus when they were not aware of
it. would be laying the foundation of q
competent security I'm a stormy time
and shelter in rainy day. The woman
who sees to her own house, has large
field to save in. The best way to make
her comprehend 1t is 10 keep nm account
of all current expenses. Probably not
one woman in ten has an idea how
much are the expenditures OF herself
and family. Where from one to two
thousand dollars are expended annual
ly, there Is chance to save something
If the effort Is oply made. Let the
housewife take the idea, and act upon
It, and she will save many d0llstrs-per-
haps hundreds--where before she
thought IL impossible. This is duty,
yet not prompting of avarico, but a
moral obligation that rests upon the
woman as well as the man.
Year: 1867

Our opinion of all this business is that
it is thoroughly contemplate. Military
merit is no evidence whatever of Presi.
DENTAL qualification, and the leading
men ofboth parties who are running wild
on the subject of soldier candidates, as
such, are toadying to a supposed ex-
pediency in very unworthy and dis
gusting manner.


There is just as much sense in talking
about medical candidates, or theological
candidates, or even rail-splitting candi-
dates, as in all this clamor for heroes of
blood, buttons and brass. What the
people want is a. Presidential candidate,
and if such can be found, (and it is an
easy task he will sweep the country
as triumphantly as did PIERCE in 80.
Year: 1867

These patterns are cut TO it the form with
artistic elegance. are Of permanent value. and
WILL enable every LADY % cut and 1t herself or
children. Ladies living a distance ean have
patterns cut % ft the form and sent by mail
free Of postage, By snding the price Of the pat.
terms with the measure Of their chest and waist
tzrOund the FORM length Of waist under tbs
arm, length Of sleeve, and length Of skirt front
and baekD The following are the
Year: 1867

unkindly toward the negroes, and that
this nation owes them debt Of justice
aud gratitude which il should repay them,
but not at the expense Of the white race.
The white race must be cherished and its
purity preserved. IL has been the only
race that has proved itself capable, in
the worlds history, of creating and main
tanning constitutional and free govern
ment [applausel; and the black race has
never maintained any kind of govern


ment There is no evidence throughout
the whole Of Africa that there was ever
any kind Of government there except the
brutal control which is sometimes as.
serted by one chief over his few naked fol-
lowers; and even when they have been
taken TO other countries and been spec
tstors for years and generations OF the
work Of the white man, as was the case
in Hayti, they have not been able to sus-
tain free government. The French there
maintained government before the eyes
Of their slaves; the slaves rose and mas
sacred the white population. What be.
came ofthe government they established Z
II has degenerated and degenerated to
this hour, and they have gone back to
the fetish worship Of their ancestors in
Africa. Also in Jamaica, where the
British Government liberated the negroes
and gave them full and equal share in the
government, and the right to vote and
hold Office, yet the other day the negroes
rose and attempted to massacre the white
men, but were thwarted II is notorious
that in that island they have not i'm.
proved; yet our Radical friends wish to
try the experiment upon a grand scale
in our own country and have improved
on the British idea have almost gone to
the extent that the Africans in Hayti
themselves went. The Radicals place
the negroes here in a position to exter-
inmate the whites They will have all
the political power if the Radical pro.
grsmme is carried out by the disfran-
chsement of the white men and the en-
franchisement of the negroes; and as a
matter of course, they will be instructed
by the meddlesome Radicals ofthe North
to domineer over the downtrodden whites
and possibly the mass of those people,
in disgust, may be compelled to abandon
their country and yield it up, and those


who remain will in time be exterminated.
Year: 1867

Two of the most intelligent colored
Inen in this place informed us few days
ago that not one-tenth part of the negro
vote in Wilson county will be cast for
Brownlow and the Radical ticket at the
coming election. The reason is obvious,
and is, as they informed us, because they
place no confidence in the professions of
friendship constantly made toward them
by these Jacobins. They say: You have
allowed us the privilege of voting in
order to re.elect you to office, while the
true friends of our race, and the only
friends we have who are in condition to
befriend us, are the very men whom you
expect us to vote against All our pc.
cuniary aid must come from the Con-
servatives, and where our interests is
there we shall cast our votes This is
sensible reasoning, and our Conserva-
tive citizens should see that every
colored voter appreciates it-Le6anoR
Herald
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be self-reliant. and shall do what we
may be able to induce the establishment Of
manufactures in our midst for our home pro-
ducts. To this end we will pay special attention
TO the COST and STATISTICS OF manufacturing
and exert ourselves 10 encourage the diversih-
cation Of Southern industries and the develop
uent Of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

And for the special pleasure and profit Of the
young. each week we will give a general literary
and religious miscellany. Nothing shall fnd
its way into our columns unfit for the serusal u
the mothers and daughters Of the land. Dspre-
eating the demOralizing sensationalism Of many
contemporary journals. we shall eschew that
character; striving to give Thereafter substantial
matter, preferrins to be useful rather than


ensatiOnal.
Year: 1867

The wheat crop is more extensive in
Wisconsin than the corn crop, which is a
full average this year. Reports of the con-
dition are very favorable Iowa, which
had full crops last year, promises equal re-
suits for the present year. The acreage of
corn is eight per cent. greater Winter
wheat is about the same as last year, and
spring wheat is twenty flour per cent. better.
Year: 1867

A full average breadth of corn is indi-
Gated. A little deficient in condition early
in the month, but improving rapidly.
Winter wheat is ffty-fonr per cent. better
than last year spring wheat ten per cent
Rye and barley are also above, but oats are
ten per cent below the standard of last
year. Pastures, timothy and clover, as in
other States, are in excellent condition.
Year: 1867

venture the assertion, that eight parents
out of every ten are guilty of like neg


lect. Parents will take care to have
their stock provided with suitable
houses and sbeltering, but they fire.
quently complain of paying a small
pittance for constructing sultahle
houses in which to have their children


instructed, as well as for the better
maintainance of their health. Now l
would by no means have farmers neglect
their stock, for this would lie cruel.
But think, at least, equal care should
be manifested in the educational inter
ests of their children. Let me say in
conclusion. (for / find my article Is
growing too tedious) that school officers
an d parents should visit the schools; it


will have a salutary effect both upon
teachers and pupils. 1t will be great
incentive to exertion, when they feel
that the rhole community is deeply in
terested in their behalf They should
take care to have the school properly
provided with suitable furniture, appa-
ratus, fuel and out-buildings. 1t is a
lamentable truth that many of our
schools are not provided with out-build-
ings in which the children may be
screened from the gaze of others while
answering the most secret calls of
nature. After all of our care to have
our children inculcate the principles OF
virtue and modesty at home, must this
teaching be counteracted, by our own
neglect, at the school. May we not
hope for a better state of things
in the futurei Now that our minds
are freed from the embarrassments of
war, let us all, officers, teachers, par
ents and friends unite in the support
and perfection of our system of COM
mon schools, the object of which is to
instill into the minds and hearts of
the rising generation the principles Of
virtue patriotism and intelligence,
which alone are the pillars of true
government. TRIADELPHIA.
Year: 1867

How eloquently does Chataubriand reply to
the inquiry is there a God?':


There is a God The herbs of the valley,
the cedars Of the mountain, bless Him; the
insect sports In His beams the elephant salutes
Him with the rising orb of day; the birds sing
Him IN the foliage; the thunder procaims Him
In the Heavens the ocean declares His immen-
sity Man alone has said there is no God =
Unite in thought at the same instant, the most
beautiful objects In nature; suppose that you
see at once all the hours of the day and all the
seasons OF the year; a morning of spring and
morning. OF autumn; night bespangled with
stars and night covered with clouds meadows
enameled with flowers and forests hoary with
snow; fields gllded by tints of autumn then
alone you will have a just conception of the
universe. While you are gazing upon that sun
which IS plunging under the vault of the West,
another observer admires him emerging from
the gllded gates of the east. BY what inconceiv-
able magic does that aged star which is sinking
fatlgued and burning in the shade of the even
ing, reappear at the same instant, fresh and
humid with the rosy dews of morning? At everv
instant of the day the glorious orb is at once
rising, resplendent at noon-day, and setting in
the West; or rather our senses deceive us and
there is properly speaking no East, West or
South, in the world. Everything reduces itself
to single point, from whence the King ofDay
sends forth at once triple light in one substance
The bright splendor is perhaps that which ma
ture can present that is most beautiful, for while
1t gives us an idea of the perpetual magnifcence
and reSlstless power of God, it exhibits at the
same time shining image of the glorious Trini-
tV"
Year: 1867

True to yourselves-true to each other-true
to God. What more abhorrent vice than de-
ceptlon? The face covered with smiles, and the
heart rotten as a sepulchre. The hand first
binding your eyes, and then leading you to the
brink of the precipice The tongue beguiling
your face with honied words, and shaping its
arrows to launch at your back.


Oh that inestimable jewel of truth-truth
In the tongue, in the life, in every manifestation
OF the reason, she loves the passions of human
ity.


Terrible to the heart is the first DECEPTION.
She who looked all purity, all angelic goodness.
betrayed her trust, and left her soul desolate.
Heaven only knows through what depths of
darkness the bruised spirit struggled to light
and joy again. But the light has never been as
pleasant, the joy rekindled burns not like the
bright fires of long ago. The tears, the Sleep
less nights, the hours of keep despair, when a
hand seemed even on your throat, and a dagger
at your heart-for who would live them over
Death would be more welcome


we could bear with petulance, smile at un-
klndness-the assaults of harsh temper, or the
moody silence ofa frowning brow but treachery,
talthlessness, trust betrayed-thank God that
we have never yet known the full import of these
terrible words


Be true, then, if you would be respected. No
power on earth can change the fiat that even
IIo WoIlu gives Tie uecelVer. lie may weep
tears OF blood, but the monuments of his shame
still stand to testify against him. Once liar,
always liar. A very child can tell where de-
eeption conceals itself; and casual thought,
lightly expressed, ferrets it from its foul hiding
place,


Be true if you would be loved. The heart is
ike an armory-beautiful and harmless seem
the long rows of bristling steel-but every one
of those polished shafts may be used as an in
strument of torture.


So if you deceive, the heart that beats warm
est for your love, your appreciation, may be
converted into gallery of deadly weapons, and
you will be responsible for the mischief that re-
suits through life's long battle. Let truth be
as dear to you as the apple of your eyes; and
when the blush springs not to your cheek, and
your tongue falters not even at the unuttered
thought of deception, then be sure you are
neither fit for earth nor heaven-for the society
of men or angels
Year: 1867

To the Editors ofMe Columbia Phenic


1t is most extraordinary, indeed, and will be
as terrific IN It's results as 1t is now strange and
wonderful, to see an educated, refined and gal
liant people seeking repose and protection from
apprehe1ded political evils under the govern
ment and control Of their former slaves-an in
ferior RAGE, utterly ignorant and debased. There
is nothing in the history of all the nations of
the earth, for the last six thousand years, COM
parable to it in folly and madness Future ages
will regard it as the most remarkable faulty
that ever possessed any people.


What change has come over the spirit and
feelings of South Carolina within the last seven
years The Federal Union was then benefcent,
republican and constitutional. There was not
an act Of Congress, for eight previous years,
which any one complained Of as unjust or op-
pressive. We were as happy and prosperous
as people could be. And yet that Union was
hated and despised The people rose up en-
naasse and solemnly determined to rid them
selves of it, Or die in the attempt Now, that
Union has trampled the constitution in the dust,
violated every republican principle, and heaped
on us tyranny and oppression which, it's Chief
Magistrate declares, no people. speaking the
English language, have ever borne for the last
five hundred years And the people of South
Carolina have so changed, within seven short
years, that they are now clamorous to get back
into the Union, and hug it's tyranny and op-
preston to their hosoms--to lick the rod that
has smote them to the earth and desolated their
State In order to hasten their return they
are not only willing to give up all the rights of
their State-all constitutional and republican
principles, and f-government-but to trans
fer the government of their once proud and
chivalric State into the hands of the negroes !
Intelligence, virtue and refinement are to be
ruled by ignorance and basenessl The wealth
of the State to be taxed and plundered by a
race Of paupers who will portion out the lands
and vote themselves homesteads, and whose
legislation will be such as to bring, eventually,
sooner or later, war of races, in which one or
the other must be exterminated Whilst wri-
ting, have been told that confscation was
boldly avowed by the negro convention which
assembled in Charleston last week.


1t is great mistake to suppose that, by all
this humiliation and degradation, we shall get
back into the Union, Or be relieved Of military
government. Congress has given no such
guarantee and leading Radicals assert the con-
trary The Union will not be restored till after
the next Presidential election-the votes of the
Southern States are not wanted in that election.
A military government, Or standing army, in
South Carolina, after the epfranchisement of
the negro, will be absolutely necessary, to pre-
serve the peace and keep down the oppressed
white race. Nothing else will do it. Instead
of being relieved from the expressions Of Con
gress and military rule, we shall have called in
to existence, by our own votes, a third power,