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Year: 1870

TENNESSEE PoLITICs.-The State convention of Ten
nessee elected to revise the present constitution or
form new one, assembled at Nashville and was
promptly organised. John c. Brown, lawyer of
high rank, who resides at Pulaski was unanimously
chosen President During the war he held the posi-
tions of Colonel Brigadier and Major General.
A special dispatch to the Courier-Journal from
Nashville on the 12th says there is considerable in
terest manifested there to whether Congress will
undertake to reconstruct Tennessee The dispatch
goes on tosayt


"Gov senter and other State officials scout the idea
that such thing will be attempted They express no
little indignation at the alleged deliberate misrepre-
sentation embodied in the petition to Congress signed
by Tennessee Congressman praying to have the pres
ent State government set aside The general, almost
universal opinion is that Congress will not interfere in
view of the fact that the fullest political rights are ac
corded the negroes and that the only persons pro-
scribed white ex-rebelS.


As far as the Constitutional Convention is concerned
it may be set down, for ALL that that body will
not do anything revolutionary. The main question to
be acted on relates to suffrage and there is hardly any
thing certain than that when the matter is dis
posed of by the Convention the negro will be in pos
session of full political rights As for the Convention
repeating the acts of the Radical Legislature, the
thing is simply absurd. That is within the province
of the present Legislature and it has repealed some of
the laws Of the last body, but they those of
grossly partisan character.


C In the convention to-day resolution was intro
duced proposing to amend the constitution so as to


limit the ballot to white men. 1t is extremely doubt
full if ten of the seventyfve members composing the
body, would vote for such proposition. The express
sion of opinion in regard to the impartial suffrage is
positive and unequivoca in the affirmative. All sorts
of amendments have already been introduced in the
convention, but they of minor character compared
to suffrage question"
Year: 1870

Are made and compounded in the most scientific man.
ner and are the most powerful known in the vegetable
kingdom, and are warranted not only to cure all the
diseases for which they are recommended but Grad
icate them from the system and leave it in the funess
of its vgor and strength They are alike prescribed
and used by the abest and most learned medical men
and by the ministry and in no instance have they ever
been known to fail in performing rapid and certain
cure.
Year: 1870

Is purely vegetable. 1t acts the sick and enfeebled
like charm, giving them renewed vgor and strength
The old and the young, also ladies confined to the
house. ought to it freely, there is nothing that
gives such appetite, at once bringing up the tone Of
the stomach thereby giving health and vigor to the
system.
Year: 1870

Contains no more acknowledged powerful and effect
i've medicines than those fthe vegetable kingdom
At the time it is fact beyond dispute that such
medicines leave in the human system bad effects
cnes that in any form contain the least part of any
the many mercurial and arsenical preparations.
Year: 1870

Adds and brings in in medicine. 1t is pure


y vegetable and not only Chills and Fever and
Fever and Ague, but restores the blood to its proper
consistency and rds the system entirely of the ma
laria.
Year: 1870

two of his band to offer themselves as
guides and to conduct me safely to his
rendezvous, where he would wreak per
sona vengeance upon me and for this
purpose the roaring fire was made in the
hut was to be thrown bound hand and
foot, into it.


He confessed, also, that he had in
structed his followers to enact the mock
tragedy of the cliff, so that one might
ride on and appraise him of his coming.


Such were the villains intentions He
begged hard for life ; but without remorse,
the settlers swung him into that bourne
whence no traveller returns


In silence we returned to the settle.
ment and in few days, under an ex-
perienced backwoodman's guidance, [
reached Ularksvile with my gold belt
around me-
Year: 1870

lady Of his stage adventure two winters
before. she had remembered his face,
and making herself known, she made
known also her troubles. She had been
kept in a seminary in Mt Holyoke du-
ring three seasons. She had that sum
mer determined to emancipate herself,
and forming an acquaintance with q
travelling theatrical company, she had
run away q month previous from her
school and had travelled thereafter with
the troupe-playing small parts, and en-
joying herself hugely Her father, who
had been skirmishing oil over the East
ern States, had got on her track and cap
tured her at last, and was taking her
home q prisoner. She was even then
locked in her state-room, but at the ta-
BILE having recognized the friend of her
previous escapade, she had pointed him
out to a quick-witted waiter, and effected
this communication.


The Boston merchant began to feel a
growing interest in the willful captive,
and an arrangement was made for further
communication in New York.


The young man, armed with proper
credentials, approached the paternal rel
ative, who perhaps feeling incompetent
to manage with continued credit the
fiery, untamed spirit of his offspring,
made no great resistance to the invader;
and this month, with great pomp and
splendor, the Boston merchant has taken
for better and worse the adventurous
young lady he met in Fifth avenue
stage, bound for Brooks. academy.
Whether she may not learn some day
the steps peculiar to Lanigan,s ball
time can alone determine. But, all
things considered, of the trio who took
the introductory ride that brought about
this connection, / am disposed to think
paterfamalias has the best Of it.
Year: 1870

makes is more durable and beautiful than
any other, presenting the same appear
ance on both sides Of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
requiring oNE-THIRD LESS cotton than
any ot.er kind Of stitch Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use
the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make a stitch
with ridge on the under side, which can
only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.
Year: 1870

they were too obtusc to see the point,


and Pelletier had TO try another over
ture, which resulted in lodging him in
the Tombs, but for how long remains to
be seen. He claims TO have the control
of 81 100000, which ought TO suffice to
secure him fair trial, and perhaps an
Year: 1870

The prices are within reach of every
onr. Machines are made to suit all
tastes and circumstances, and the PLAIN
est in finish will work as well as the most
costly.
at the house of the customer at any time,
free of charge, and the utmost pains
taken to render complete satisfaction
Year: 1870

A South Carolina horse breeder, after
losing a valuable horse, writes to the Far
mer and Artisan that he is certain more
horses die in the South from eating
oats than from all other causes.
As oats are cut rather green. and ofen
With many green weeds among them, il
is very difficult to keep them from mold
ing more OF less in the center. Many
animals die from this cause which are
supposed to have had blind stAggers.
Year: 1870

A LITTLE boy in Cincinnati was sliding
on the bannistcrs Of high building ut
one o'clock Of q recent afternoon, and be-
tore the night the arrangements for his
f(Irncral were complete.
Year: 1870

Congress has still some work to do in en-
forcing the Fifteenth Amendment by appro-
pirate legislation. In the States where the
Republicans had the dominancy there has
been but little difficulty in securing with
reasonable safeguards. the right guaranteed
the people of color in this added article of
the Constitution. In some of the other
States however, the path has not been made
so easy for the feet of the new corners into
the political wilderness. The registration
of these men is one difficulty which, where
the parties in power insist upon it, will take
some little time to get over, and prevent for
while the passage into the promised land
of political equality. In California the
matter has assumed still stronger shape,
and the Attorney General of that State has
rendered an official opinion, that until the
StGte law is changed, it will be the duty of
the county clerks to refuse registration alto
gether, thus putting off for still greater
distance the enjoyment of the privilege.
This is nonsense. Whether this amend
ment is, or is not calculated to advance the
prosperity of the Union is not the question.
1t is now the law of the Union, and we con-
fess that we should be willing that Congress
should administer rebuke to this estate
rights supremacy, which would be felt for
a good while to come.
Year: 1870

There are some facts in the present his
tory of the country, which make startling
appearance to every thoughtful lover of his
country. Among these facts is one to the
effect, that in agriculture we are certainly
declining, while in manufacturing, we do
not sensibly advance. In the statistical re-
port published by Ohio, which is probably a
fair illustration of other States, it is found
that the land titled in that State in 1858,
was nearly half million of acres less than
in 1860. In the general staples there were
thirty -one millions of bushels more pro-
duced in 1868, than in 1860. In this time
100, 900 people have been added to the pop
ulation, which fact ought to have given a
large increase to these agricultural interests
In the statistics of the agricultural bureau
of the United States, it appears that the
country possesses only 21,000,000 of neat
cattle now, against 26, 100000 in 1860, and
sheep have decreased fifty per cent. We
are not prepared to give the reasons for
these facts, but the facts themselves tell
strongly against the real prosperity of the
country, which prosperity is always under
lain by the advance of the interest connected
with the soil.
Year: 1870

AS the accidents from the use of this ar
ticle of daily or rather nightly necessity,
do not boone any less numerous, everything
that tends to make its employment safer
should be generally known. Competent
authority states that the most of the explo-
sion occur from two causes. The one is the
filing of lamps after nightfall when other
lights are close at hand. This of course
can only be guarded against by filling the
lamps in the day time and away from fire.
People who will persist in replenishing them
at night, are incapable of listening to any
thing that can be said by way Of caution,
and there is nothing to do but let them go
their way. The other chief cause is found
in allowing the lamps to burn too nearly
out before refilling. AS the oil is consumed
it generates a gas which covers the oil in
the lamp, and which is nearly as explosive
as powder. The tendency of the flame is
toward this gas, and when there gets to be a
large quantity in the lamp, the danger Of
an explosion is always imminent. Let the
lamps be large and filed full every morning,
and probably half the accidents from the
use of coal oil would cease at once.
Year: 1870

The Lady by this name, who applied last
year to the New York Conference, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, for admission
into the ranks of the travelling preachers
and was put off for a year, reversed her ap-
plication at the last session of the Confer
ence. The report of the committee to
whom the case was referred, was in her ia
vor, but the Conference tabled the report,
thus letting it lay over again. The case is
perple1ing one. The lady is possessed of
fair abilities as public speaker, and of un-
blemished points of religious life, but the
Methodist Church is, evidently not yet up to
the point, where it is prepared to confer the
pastorate of the societies upon females. The
same difficulties perplexed Mr.. Wesley in
his day, but with his usual good sense he
cut the knot, by allowing the women to
preach where they could, but he did not ad-
NIT them to his conferences. What the f.
nal settlement of the question will be in the
church, no one can fortell, but it is proba-
BILE that the old Wesleyan solution will be
the one adopted now.
Year: 1870

What has been talked about for years, b,
the women in their conventions as posi-
bility of the future, is at least beginning tc
assume definate form and shape in the in
PRODUCTION of bill into Congress by Mr.
Julien, proposing sixteenth amendment,
by whose operation the women shall be en-
dowed with the elective franchise. Its
wording reads:


"The right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States, or by any State, on ac-
count of sex,'' and adds the usual second
section that Congress shall have power to
enforce it by appropriate legislation. 1t is
not likely that the bill will be acted upon
during the present session, but still its in
PRODUCTION is significant fact which can
not fail to produce much fuller investiga-
ton of the subject, than it has hitherto re-
ceiye6. 1t is true that good many women
have held conventions, and great many
nonsensical things have been said in those
assemblages-that number of men have.
avowed themselves in favor of the idea
that there is growing sentiment IN favor
of according to females the privileges of
their individuality-bu still the public
mind has not in any serious forms SO can
vassed the question as to have very de-
cided opinion upon the subject. Now OF
necessity the subject must be canvassed.
The distinction of color has been a long


q. Al IL a,.1
while that lasted there was little use in pro-
posing any new project involving similar IS
sues. Now however that this is settled the
question of abolishing the disability of sex
is fairly open, and sooner or later will reach
definite belief in the popular mind Up
till now the women generally have taken
but very little interest in the matter. Their
pressure was not found in any great num-
bers at the conventions" nor have they
in the general said anything in the public
journals demanding the privilege. The
few, who, like Lucy Stone, Anna Dickin-
son, and others of like spirit, have written
and spoken, have not been sustained very
largely by their sisters, and the conclusion
has been forced upon us that as yet they
care very little about the matter. The
speeches made in the public gatherings to
which we have alluded, whose stock in trade
was comprised in ringing the charges upon
the tyranny of men, have not been seconded
by their sisters, and they have been left to
fight their battle pretty much alone.


Now that the amendment is actually le-
gally proposed, it is likely that the women
of the land will look earnestly at the ques-
ton and if it appears to them as good. they
will demand it, and if not they will let it
sleep. We presume that the ultimate fate
of the proposition will depend just here. If
the women want the privilege there is no
power which can stop it, and if they do not
want it, it is all idle to attempt forcing it
upon Them.
Year: 1870

EDITOR PIONEER. While looking over
the applications received by prominent
sLife Insurance Company" one morning
last, week. my attention was called to one in
which the applicant states that the has had
seven brothers, all of whom are now dead


the death Of each and emery one being
caused by intemperance. I have seen
much-very much misery arising from in
temperance, but never have seen anything
which made such an lndelible impression
upon my mind, as that one simple state
ment simple in itself, but telling story
of misery, want, degradation and perhaps
sin and shame, that would fill volume of
many hundred pages. How quickly and
readily the mind associates with this case,
the picture of seven lovely and trusting
brides led to the altar by seven young men,
who in the proud strength and vigor of per-
fected manhood, vow to love, cherish and
protect the lovely beings SO dear to them.
A few months or years of unalloyed happi-
ness follows, and then a small cloud appears
near the horizon, and gradually works it's
way up toward the meridian. Diminutive
at first, it scarcely attracts passing glance
from the loving wife, over whose head it is
sailing but as time passes along it spreads
slowly at first-then more rapidly, until
the bright prospect above is entirely shut
out by dark and ominious clouds, which
every moment threaten to burst and deluge
her with their contents. We look again.
The clouds have burst, and although their
fury is spent, their work can never be un-
done. The husband and father, with con-
stitution undermined by frequent debauches
has gone to fill drunkards grave. The
wife and mother borne down by the dis
grace of drunken husband, wearied and
worn by daily toll and midnight watches,
is also laid beneath the sod, and her once
lovely and idolized children are scattered
thrown upon the cold charities of too of
ten heartless world. All this-and seven
times all this misery in our families-oH
caused by the demon alcohol.


How long, Oh God, wilt Thou suffer these
things to be? O.


Bridgeton, April 14th, 1870.
Year: 1870

The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided that State can tax the shares
of a National Bank. This is question
which has been in dispute almost ever since
the present bank organization. and was sur
rounded with numerous difficulties in the
settlement. The national character of their
securities would seem to exempt them from
taxation, while on the other hand the fact
that they made these securities the basis of
business far more profitable than gold
and silver could possibly be, appeared to
indicate the right of taxation. The ques-
tion is now settled by the highest legal au-
thority in the country, and henceforth the
banks will pay their proportion of the taxes
of the State, the same as any other corpo-
ration.
Year: 1870

The "Feejees' it is said, are expressing
wish to be annexed to this free and indie
pendent nation. What the peculiar mo-
tives are which animate this gastronomi-
cally, highly civilized community, are not
given, but the fact is said to be undeniable.
Their little playful habits of eating human
flesh, and killing the humans in order to
procure it, has been given up, whether for
chilly or of choice is not known. We do
not see why we might not take it, We
have taken Alaska, where, while they do
not eat each other, yet they are but little
higher in the civilized scale-we have Utah
where marital morals are no higher than
Fegee, and, why should we not take that
also? We have been playing the part of
the man who bought all the .cheaply priced
articles at every vendue-and why not buy
Fejee? If Secretary Seward was in the
chair of State we would not wait long for
an answer, but Mr.. Fish swims in different
water, and we fear he will think that the
gentle war dubbed islanders had. better
govern themselves little longer, before
they come to us.
Year: 1870

Rev. CHARLES II. WHITECAR.-This
gentleman, SO well and favorably known in
this city, publishes card on the occasion
of leaving Camden for another field of la
Dor, in Which he expresses his acknowledge
ments to the press for the free receipt of
their issues while he resided in that city.
We may add just here, that just previous
to his leaving he was presented by his
friends, with a splendid gold watch in token
of their high esteem. Mr.. Whitecar leaves
Camden as he did Bridgeton with the high
appreciation of the entire community.
Year: 1870

THE RED MEN.-Cohanzick Tribe of Red
Men, of this city, have leased the new hall
in Mr.. James L. Whitaker's building, on
Commerce Street, and are now fitting it up
in fine style. The Red Men as an organiza-
ton for beneficial purposes is truly good
one, and is founded and imbeded in and
upon the rock of genuine benevolence. Ben
eficial societies as general thing are the
best systems of aid for the people in time
of need that we know Of, and among the
very best of them is the above named Or
der.
Year: 1870

SERIOUS ACCIDENT. very serious ac-
cident took place few days since, on
board Of the oyster sloop Alice Ludlow,
trading to this port. Mr. Jesse Gray, COM
mander of the vessel while engaged with
his crew dredging for oysters, was violently
struck by the handle of the windlass with
which they were winding. He was taken
up senseless and as soon as possible con-
veyed to his home in this city. He is now
doing well and will if nothing happens,
be able to resume his occupation in few
weeks.
Year: 1870

~ The attention of our readers is directed
to the advertisement of GOES DYSPEPSIA
CURE in another part of this paper.


This truly Valuable Medicine is recon-
mended by all who use it. Read the certif-
Gates
Year: 1870

The Mayor of New York has recently set
an example to politicians worthy of being
followed. The new charter of that city
confers upon him the power of appointing
the heads of departments, and in exercising
this privilege he has stepped outside of the
party lines, and given places to number
of men who are not of his own political
faith. 1t is true that he has kept the lions
share for his own political friends, the dem
ocrats but it is equally true that he has
placed quite number of the Offices in the
hands of the Republicans. The Mayor
says, that while he would feel justified in
comforting all the Offices, according to Gus
tom upon the adherents of his party, yet
grave city interests would be thus imper-
illed, and he prefers the interests Of the
city to those of party. This from New


York is wonderful. No one ever supposed
that that city by whatsoever party it might
be governed, would administer itself in
other than party interests, but SO it is, and
without being able to give reason for the
fact, we simply record it to the honor of
Mayor Hall. It will be wise if the politi-


clans generally would rise to SO noble a po-
sition, though we fear there is not virtue
enough in them as class to emulate the
example.


DIsGRAcEFUL FIeHT.-On Wednesday
evening fast, while Hon. James M. Scovel
was speaking in Grosscup's Hall, at the Gel
ebration meeting of the fifteenth amend
ment, row took place in front of the hail.
which caused so much disturbance as to
interfere materially with the speaking. 1t
appears that colored man who was intox-
icated, struck some white men and they
went into a general fight. Mayor Dare,
Marshal Green, police officers Gillen, Shute,
and Dubois were promptly on hand, and in
attempting to quell the disturbance were
considerably banged around. MIR. Gillen
had his head badly cut, and Mr.. Shute was
struck several hard blows on the back and
had one of his fingers sprained. At one
time there was about two hundred in the
street knocking down and dragging out any
one who came in their way. Some of the
colored men were handled roughly by the
crowd. Is


There seemed to be no intention to inter
fere with peaceable citizens, of either color.
As usual, in such disgraceful fights, rum
was at the bottom of it. The principal par
ticipants in the row were more or less in
toxicated, and struck the officers as though
they had no right to interfere with their
fun. On such occasions, it would be well
to have large Police force on hand, and
arrest at once the leaders and instigators.