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Year: 1870

We are somehow of the opinion that
the House of Delegates "cut up uncom,
mon bad" yesterday over the Capital
question. Instead of repeating the act
of location and accepting the Wheeling
proposition, the majority indicated q
purpose to transfer the permanent loc a
ton to Parkersburg, passing to third
reading bill for that purpose. The
LAMB substitute, merely extending fol
five years the time at which last years
act locating the Capital at Charleston is
to take effect and accepting the Wheel
ing proposition in the meantime
met with most iAglorious defeat. As
we understand the friends of Charles.
ton they prefer permanently locating the
Capital anywhere else to keeping it here
even yea-. They have voted against
taking the Capital after limited time,
even ore year; have voted to repeal
their own bill, without knowing or try
ing to ascertain whether there was a
sufficient force in the House to repeal
it without their aid, and have voted to
make permanent location that would
forever preclude their obtaining
the prize. Now if these Charles,
ton gentlemen don't want the
Capital, all right. Their votes mean
that and nothing else, and nobody will
force it on them against their will. But
there is one point that seems little
hard to understand. Our much respect
ed friend, Colonel SMITH, announced
in the House his ability TO prove that
the Legislature had no power under the
Constitution to repeal the bill locating
at Charleston, and fifteen minutes there
after the Colonel and all the balance of
the friends of Charl eston voted for
repeal and permanent location else
where. OF course, in inditiEg this,
which by the way, we hope may never
be regarded otherwise than as joke by
the people of the Kanawha Val
ley, We proceed upon the idea that
the Charleston men are acting in per-
feet good faith toward Parkersburg.
That being true, we find no little con-
ISOLATION in the fact that in case Par
kersburg succeeds through Cbarleston's
aid, the people of Wheeling will have
ab bout fifty miles less distance to travel
going to the Capital, than the good
people of Kanawha county.


The Senate does not seem to be dis.
posed to harmonize with the House.
The former branch has passed simple
repeal bill. We do not know how
things may yet be fixed up, but if the
Senate sbonld obdurately refuse to
sanction the present project of the
House, there would be much unhappi-
ness
Year: 1870

We presume the people of no State in
this Union have more earnestly and con.
sistently opposed the enfranchisement
of negroes than The people of West
Virginia. The opposition has been
confined to no party and to no particu-
lar section. 1t has been general and
deep-rooted, aud so nearly implacable,
that throughout the entire agitation of
the negro question, not even the most in
teusely Radical politician has deemed it
safe to avow himself in favor of confer
ring the ballot upon the blacks. 1t is
therefore not without fair understand
ing of the responsibility before us that
we propose this morning to lay
before our readers some reflections upon
this suhject-rehections of possibly
unpleasins character.


The passage by the House Of the
FLICK amendment to the Constitution,
an amendment recognizing the enfran-
chisement of the negroes, ard provid-
ing for restoring the ballot to the dis
franchised white citizens of the State,
las occasioned no little stir. The inter
est has not been lessened by the fact
that the amendment was urged by Dem
ocratiespeakers and adopted by Demo
cratic votes. That any Democrat, true
to the traditions of his party and faith
ful to the dignity of his race, should ad-
NIT by his vote that the negro's power
at the West Virginia ballot-box now
equals his own, may seem surprising
and unaccountable but that twenty
out of the twenty four Democratic men,
bers of the House of Delegates should
declare by their votes the negro
suffrage question to be practically
settled, is an incident that has
sounded every note of astonishment as
well as some of consternation. Not,
withstanding the course of these mem
may seem to be somewhat out of the
line of Democratic propriety and prece.
dent, we believe that they will ulti-
mately be sustained, not only by the
Democratic party of the State, but by
the great body Of the people of the
State, and we further believe, as firmly
as belief is possible, that their action
was not only the best that could be taken
under the circumstances, but that it
was probably the only alternative by
which to secure the ultimate restora-
ton of the ballot to the many thousands
of disfranchised citizens in our State.


Granted that the FLICK amendment
does concede the fact of negro suffrage.
Can any man with eyes open to curren,
history deny that the fact does exist
lean any observer of the poll tical events
Year: 1870

Head aches, nervous as we'll as others,
arise from torpid state Of the stomach
liver and bowels. Never take any min
erals or morphia for it. They hurt more
than they do good. But take Rosenbeim''
Stomach Bitters; the Great Western
Remedy, and you are sure Of a cure
Soc Advertisement.
Year: 1870

The English press sees signs of the
speedy and certain triumph of free trade
in the United States, and the London Times
notes the silence with which Grants plan
Of subsidzing American steamers has been
received and the discussions in the House
on the Tariff bill as among the evidences
of the inevitable defeat of the protection
lists. At the same time the Times ques-
tions whether the clogging of the indus
trial progress of the American people by
protection would not be for the material
advantage Of England
Year: 1870

Mr.. EDITOR The first battle of the
campaign in Delaware came off today in
this town, for Town Co mmissioners, and
Clerk of the Market, and the negro troops
were routed, horse, foot, and artillery I!
it was an unexpected defeat to them
They were well drilled and confident of
victory, and if it was not too serious a
matter to joke about, l might give YOU a
laughable description of the sable knights
as they proudly made tht ir charge. Tho
ragged and dirty, they generally looked
pleased and self-satisfed, and found the
place to deposit their tickets, which had
been distributed to them the night before
though one poor fellow wandered into
the Office of the Clerk of the Peace, and
handed his ticket to the deputy, who kind
ly informed him he was in the wrong pew.
1t was sad sight, and the leaders kept
in the back ground, as if they were really
ashamed of the farce. Fifty-four negroes
voted, being one-half tho votes polled bv
the Mongrel Party.


Well, Mr.. Editor, the first battle is won
by the Democrats, with The aid of whites
true to their race. All honor to them who
come to the rescue now. The free schools
are at stake, the jury box, the levy court,
and the Legislature. Shall these be pollu-
ted? l think the people, all over the
State, will give the same answer at the
polls, as was given today by


New CASTLE.
Year: 1870

From DovER.-But few persons, we
learn, were present at Dover, on Thurs
day, to participate in the convention to
organize white mans party. The day
was rainy and the farmers busy in the
midst of corn planting, but does not the
small number in attendance indicate that
the advocates of the supremacy of white
men are satisfied with the existing white
mans party, and will be found in accord
with it, on the issue of mongrelsm
Year: 1870

TNHE ELLIPTIC SEWING MACHINES ARE


1 manufactured and warranted by the Wheeler
& Wilson Sewing Machine Company. The late
and important improvements enable us to guar
antee to every purchaser that the Elliptic Ma
chine will do more worn, better work, and a
greater variety of work than any other Sewing
Machine now in use. The economy of the Ell
liptc Machine in a family is almost incredible ;
with one, n good operator can do the work of
twelve hands. BY it the making of garments is
reduced from question of hours to one of min
utes as the following table will show


Ut not to be understood that the following table il the
time to make the garments but to do the stitching ony
Year: 1870

THE g SCRUB" DANcE.-The /" Scrubs turned
out in full force, on Thursday evening. Twenty
one ladies attended and dancing was kept up
till two o'clock 1t was the most successful
effort made by them as yet, and was social,
pleasant and decidedly successful affair. Next
week expect to hear from the /" Whiskey
Ring" 1t was said long ago that Opposition
is the life of trade" but it would seem from
this springs experience, that the same rule will
apply to the Weaveryille dancing crowd. Go
in, ladies and gentlemen, its fun for the out
siders as well as for yourselves.
Year: 1870

THE SAME SroRY.-W. H. Dayton, who went
from this place to the States last fall, writes
back that that country can't keep him.
Although finely situated, with a fine farm and a
cash capital to work on to boot he is bound to
return as soon as he can sell out.
Year: 1870

In an old churchyard stood a stone,
Weather-marked and stained;
The hand Of Time had crumbed Il
So only part remained.
Upon one side | could Just trace,
"In memory Of our motherl"
An epitaph which spoke Of "home"
Was chiseled on the other.
I'd gazed on monuments Of fane,
High towering to the skies,
I'd seen the scuptured marble stone
Where a great hero liesi
But by this epilaph paused,
And read It DER and Ger,
For / had never seen inscribed
Such words as these before.
"she always made home happy" What
A noble record Left
A legacy Of memory sweet


To those she left bcreft,
And what a testimony given


BY those who knew her hest,
Engraved on this plain rude stone,
That marked their mothers rest.
1t was an humble resting place
/ know that they were poor
But they had seen their mother sink,
And patiently endure;
They had marked her cheerful spirit
When bearing one by one,
Her many burdens up the hill
Till oil her work was done.
So when was stilled her weary head,
Folded her hands 50 whitoi
And she was carried from the home
She'd always made so bright,
Her children raised a monument
That money could not buy,
As witness Of a noble life


Whose record is on high
A noble life, but written not


In any book Of lamei
Among the list Of noted ones
None ever saw her name
For only her own household knew
The victories she had won
And none but they could testify
How cell her work was done.
Year: 1870

An Illinois woman committed sui
eide by hanging herself to an apple
tree. At the funeral u neighbor, no
ticing the sad appearance ct the bus
band, consoled him by saying that he
had met with terrible loss AYES" f"
said the husband heaving a sigh.-
"She must have kicked like thunder
to shake OF bushel Of green apples
that would have been worth dollar
when they got ripe
Year: 1870

There's an ailment very prevalent in this
County which. any other name being wanted,
we call the snufRes. 1t affects chiefly males
in the Spring and causes them to cough and
sneeze and sniff and snuff and their faces
puff up and out and assume melancholy,
bummerial air which is really pity seeing
that they are temperate and virtuous and 6o
nothing that their countenances should as.
sumo such disreputable and villainous ex-
preston. The disease hardly yields to any
sort Of treatment and comes and goes just a.
it pleases. Perhaps it is one Of the minor
dispensations of Providence.
Year: 1870

The editor Of the Marietta Register is get
ting into hot water on the woman suffrag,
queetion. and proceeds to define bis position
in this highly diplomatic manner:


/. If a woman is disposed to argue with
us in favor of woman's suffrage, we are ir
favor of it also.


II. If the lady happens to be against it.
we are against it likewise.


Ill. If it is mixed assembly of ladies,
one or more on each side, they may have il
out among themselves, we holding the bon
nets.


We should prefer holding the women.
Year: 1870

Speaking of the Constitution Of the United
States the Golden Era says: "Tbat vener-
able document now resembles garment in
which the patches are SO numerous and SO
large that the original cloth is lost to view.
At the rate patches are being put on, there
will soon be nothing 70 fasten to, no basis
that is not undermined and destroyed by sub
sequent additions. We anticipate the next
move will be the purchase Of new gcruent
made to suit the idea Of the 6mee.n


Straight-Jacket2
Year: 1870

Woods Greek is gradually year by year
filing up portions Of the road between Sono-
ra and jamestown. The tailings are raising
at the rate of about foot per year. The
principal ferries are now by Longs Ranch,
below Bells Mill and Just above Jamestown
Year: 1870

A cut is now being run from the Table
Mountain Humbug tunnel to the New York
tunnel. The interninable lawsuit between
these conflicting claims is at last over. There
is still enough ground for 10 or l2 years.
work.
Year: 1870

Don't fail to come to our Fourth Of July
Celebration. Because our citizens are tiring
and straining and exhausting themselves bod ,
and soul to make it day in Sonora worth
living for. There is talk of purchasing
pipe of whisky and putting it on free
tap at the head of Washington street. This
ought to be. Because the free and indepen-
dent spirit which often animated our fathers
should be handed down gratis to the sons.
Year: 1870

AFTER The PRocRAHnR.-As usual il is tc
be supposed that we are threatened with the
reading of the Declaration of fIndependenceat al
our coming Fourth of July celebration. Now
who cares to hear it read? Who does NOT
know it nearly by heart? Who will not be
bored by iti Who viii hang on every word
with - much eagerness as they would on
the reading Of the announcement that theirs
was the lucky ticket in the Big Lottery We
suggest that the Declaration be blacked-ball-
ed this Fourth and in its place be substituted
q chapter Of "Mark Twains Innocents
Abroad" That win interest instruct and
amusc.
Year: 1870

LOOK Forward The Community have
confidence that our coming Fourth Of July
orafions will be shorn OF all tae old Fourth Of
July piatitudes concerning the "Land of
rreedom,'' the 'Birth Of Freedom" the
Patriot Fcthers, "Banker Hillp and 'Li-
berty or Death" We want something living
and vital, il possible little ahead Of the
times, rather than mp to il. There is much
10 talk about. We are on the thresshold OF
great changes, social, political and religious.
The glare of new day is seen in the horri-
ron of futnrity. let our eyes look that way
rather than upon the setting San Of the past.
Our patriots and statesman did their work
well. The story is pleasant. But let them
sleep--at least for one Fourth. The present
is here full Of new conditions, new surround
ings, new questions. 1t is our privilege and
duty TO grapplo with them. Let Us think
and reason and discuss them coolly and dis.
passionately. For we are the workers. We are
the best and only judges of our time. We
arc always bowing to and worshipping the
Past. For us, we reverence and admire the
Great Present and still more tbs Mighty Flu
ture. We hold ourselves no degenerate sons
Of noble sires. In intellect and skill, ir
knowledge and wisdom, in great enterprise.
and disinterested action, this age is the van
guard Of Time. Human nature is growing
richer and nobler. Because meanness and
and murder and corruption and narrow mind
edness are by pen and press and pencil sc
constantly dragged to light, some imagine
we retrograde. 1t is only that more and
more evil comes to the surface. The diseases
ofsociety are now seen breaking out 10 un'
slightly blotches upon the cuticle. But this
is better far than that in concealment, they
fasten upon the unseen vitals.
Year: 1870

PORT Royal RAILROAD COMPANY.


Five-sixths of the road are already graded.


CroSs-ties for the same are all delivered upon the
line.


Nearly one-third of the track is laid with rails


Over half the Dock and Bridge work is completed.
THOUSAND MEN are vigorously pushing tie
work to completion aud the whole line will be dn-
ished and ready for business by May next.


The Company. being determined to push thr work
as rapidly AZ possible offer the remainder Of the
LOAN at S5 and accrued interest in currency.


We regard this enterprise as one OF the very hest IN
the South, and confidently recommend the bonds 10
our correspondents and customers.


A liberal commission allowed agents. and those
who buy to sell again.
Year: 1870

BY w. NJ. THAYER,


MANY boys and girls make failure in
life because they do not learn to help
themselves. They depend on father and
mother even to hang up their hats and to
find their playthings. When they be-
come men and women, they will depend
on husbands and wives to do the same
thing. "a nail to hang hat on" said
an old man of eighty years, ais worth
everything to a boy" He had been
Through the mill" as people say, 80 tnat
he knew. His mother had a nail for him
when he was boy-"a nail to hang his.
hat on" and nothing else. 1t was
"Henry's nail from January to January,
year in and out, and no other member Of
the family was allowed to appropriate til for
any purpose whatever 1t the broom by
chance was hung thereon, or an apron or
coat, it was soon removed, because that
nail was "to hang Henry's hat on" And
that nail did much for Henry; it helped
make him what he was in manhood-a
careful, systematic, orderly man, at homo
and abroad, on his farm and in his house.
He never wanted another to do what he
could do for himself. tt


Young folks are apt to think that GER
tain things, good in themselves, are not
honorable. TO be blacksmith or boot
maker, to work on o farm or drive o.
team, is beneath their dignity, as COM
pared with being merchant, or practis-'
ing medicine or law This is PRIDE, an
enemy to success and happiness. No
necessary labor is discreditable. 1t is
never dishonerable to be useful. 1t is be-
meath no ones dignity to earn bread by
the sweat of the brow. When boys who
have such false notions of dignity become
men, they are ashamed to help themselves
as they ought, and Tor want of this quality
they live and die unhonored. Trying to
save their dignity, they lose it.


Here is fact we have from very sue
cessful merchant. When he began bust
ness for himself, he carried his wares from
shop to shop. At length his business in
creased to such an extent that he hired q
room at the Marlboro Hotel, in Boston,
during the business season, and thither
the merchants, having been duly notified,
would repair to make purchases. Among
all his customers, there was only one
man who would carry to his store the
goods which he had purchased. The
buyers asked to have their goods carried,
and often this manufacturer would carry
them himself But there was one mer-
chant, and the largest buyer of the whole
number, who was not ashamed to be
seen carrying a case of goods through
the streets. Sometimes he would pur-
chase four cases, and he would say, "Now,
/ will take two, and you take two, and we
will carry them right over to the store"
So the manufacturer and the merchant
often went through the streets of Boston
quite heavily loaIel. This merchant, of
all the number who went to the Marlboro
Hotel for their purchases, succeeded in
business. He became q wealthy man
when all the others failed. The maniac
tuTer, who was not ashamed to help him
self, is now livipg-one of the wealthy
men of Massachusetts,, ready to aid, by his
generous gifts, every good object that
comes along, and honored by all who
know him.


You have often heard and read the
maxim, "God helps those who help
themselves" Ia it not truef-MerTy's
HyeelgD
Year: 1870

A SINGULAR instance of presence of
mind is reported from Swinemuende, in
Prussia. AT the arsenal at that place, a
workman had TO give coating to grenades
by dipping them rapidly into a kettle of
boiling pitch. Suddenly one of them
slips from his hands into the kettle. Quick
as lightning the foreman plunges his bare
arms into the kettle and succeeds in saw
ing the grenade before it has time to ex-
plode. The pain he suffers from his burns
Tobs hin OF consciousness, but ne has
saved his life and that OF a great many
laborers by this heroic act, for thousands
of pounds of powder lay within the i'm
mediate vicinity, and moments hesita.
ton would have brought about the explo-
sion of the grenade and inevitable ruin
to all persons near by. t....,, a.
Year: 1870

wanted instantly at George B-s; he
mad been sent TO me by another man, ana
could tell me nothing beyond the fact that
something very alarming had taken place
and that, if | did not hasten thithcr on the
instant, and with my very greatest speed,
could be of no use. / took with me what
| conceived might be wanted, for my sus-
picIons were more communicative than toe
messenger, and proceeded, with aIfthe ex.
petition in my power. TO the house where 1
had lately seen so much suffering.


On my entering the house, most extra
ordinary spectacle presented itself. On the
small truckle-bed that stood opposite the
door in the kitchen lay a female figure,
dressed in white, with both her hands
wrapped up in cloth, from which issues Of
blood, rolled on the bed and her face, not
less pale than her dress, was spotted and
besmeared with the element It was Mar
garet B in her marriage dress. A
young woman, her bridemad, was beside
her, looking in her face as if to see whether
life was still in her body. A young man,
also dressed as if for the marriage, hurried
me to the apartment Of George B.,
where scene not less awful was presented
to me. The unhappy man was lying in the
middle Of the floor, on bis back, with bis
throat cut, and James H, in his BRIDE
groom clothes, was bending over him, with
his hands busily occupied in stanching a
wound that would let out ten lives, if he
had bad as many to destroy; the floor was
literally swimming in blood, and on chair
in the corner of the room lay the fatal in
strument still open. My services were use
less: the man was dead his attendants
were engaged in stopping blood already
curdled with death. | hurried to the patient
that was still living She had lost almost
the whole blood of her body. and it was
difficult to detect in her any symptoms of
life. | unloosed the cloths from her hands /;
they were cut in a fearful manner-the
blade of the razor, which she had, in her
struggles with her parent, endcavored to
wrest from him, having been Whisksd
through them when hard clenched. No one
had been in the house her marriage-dress
was still incomplete-her bosom bare, and
her head uncovered proof that she had
been called from the mirror wherein she saw
halfdressed bride, to SEQ a father kill
himself by bis own hand against her efforts
to save him. Her screams were heard BY
the bridemaid and the bridegroom, as they
approached the house but, before they en-
tered, the struggle was nearly over they
found her bending over the body Of her
father, which lay on the floor, grasping the
open wound with her hands. 50 spoke the
attendants as | dressed the wounds. l took
up several arteries but there was one in
the left wrist which, for long period, de6ed
my efforts, unassisted as was with profes-
sional aid, to stem it's torrent l succeeded
at last-so, at least, I thought-in my en-
desvors to stop the issue Vain thought !!
Death bad stopped them!


This was the first time | had seen dead
bride