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Year: 1870

On the surrender of Gen. Lee at Appo-
mattox Court House, he made an arrangement
with Gen. Grant to use his influence to secure
the immediate surrender of all rebel authority.
BY this arrangement Grant was to proceed to
Washington and ascertain the views of our
Government and the terms, If any, that would
be accorded should the Confederate States
Government at once abandon further resist
ance and surrender its armies. Lee was to
return to Richmond, and there wait the result
of Grants mission to Washington. On re-
ceiving which he was to be permitted to pass
through the lines and convey the ultimatum to
jeff. Davis, and secure his assent to it. The
assassination of President Lincoln, however,
deferred the consummation of Grants purpose
in visiting Washington, and the subsequent
surrender of Johnston's army in North Caro-
lima, and the collapse of the rebellion in its
organized character, rendered the further
prosecution of the mission unnecessary
Year: 1870

NOW Lei me LGbC be Enforced
The House has concurre3 in the Senate
amendments to the House bill to punish
masked maraaders, which is, therefore, now
a law, and is as follows


AN ACT TO PRESERVE THE PUBLIC PEAcE.


SECTION I. Be 1t enacted 6y the General
Assembly Of the State Of Tennessee, That
if any person or persons, masked or in dis
guise, shall prowi, or travel or ride, or walk
through the country or towns of this State.
to the disturbance of the peace or the alarm
ing of the citizens of any portion of this
State on conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than one hundred dollars, nor more
than five hundred dollars, and imprisoned
in the county Jail of the county wherein con-
vcted, at the discretion of the jury trying
the case.


SEC 3 That if any person or persons
disguised or In mask, by day or by night,
shall enter upon the premises of another,
or demand entrance or admission into the
house or inclosuro of any citizen of this
State, il shall be considered. priDaa facia
that his or their intentions is TO commit 8
felony, and such demand shall be deemed
an assault with an intent to commit felony
and such person or persons so offending
shall upon conviction, be punished by i'm
prisonment IN the Penitentiary not less than
ten years nor more than five years


SEC B. That if any person or persons
so prowling, travelling riding or walking
through the towns or country of this State,
masked or in disguise, shall or may assault
another with deadly weapon, he or they
shall be deemed guilty of an assault with
intent to commit murder in the first degree,
and on conviction thereof shall suffer death
by hanging Provided, the jury trying the
cause may substitute Imprisonment in the
Penitentiary for period of not less than
ten years nor more than twenty one years


SEC. That it shall be the duty of the
several judges of the Circuit and Criminal
Courts of this State to give this act in
charge to the grand juries at each term of
said court


SEC. 5. That The grand iuries of this
State shall have full power to compel the
attendance of witnesses whenever they or
any one of their body may suspect viola
ton of any of the provisions of this act


SEC. 6. That the Governor of this State
Is hereby authorized to offer a reward of
$3.50 for the apprehension and delivery to
the sheriff of any county in this State, any
person who may be guilty of the violation
of the second or third section Of this act


SEC. 7. That this act shall take effect
from and after its passage.
Year: 1870

celled by the Treasurer in the presence OF
the Governor and Comptroller, who shall
keep a record of the number, denomination
and amount Of the notes 50 cancelled and
the State of Tennessee-shan be substituted
to all the rights of the note holders as to the
notes hereby cancelled as secured to them
By the 30th section of the act passed Febru-
ary 8, 1860, entitled 'an act to regulate the
business of banking in this State


SEC g Be at further enacted, That all
laws or parts of laws in conflict with this
act are hereby repealed, and that this act
shall take effect from and after its passage.
Year: 1870

PLAINLY STATED-The n Y. Herald
says the appeal, is the first Northern jour
nal to open its eyes 70 see and to say what
we of the south have always seen and
always said in regard to the southern States
being compelled to ratify the XVIII Amend
ment as condition of restoration to the
Union. 1t says:


q As they could not be trusted to come in
and then ratify it, they ratified first and
then came in They were. therefore, not
in the Union when they acted on the Con-
stitution, or else they were never out Of the
Union Either then, says the Herald, ali
the reconstruction laws of Congress are
invalid. OF these Southern ratifcations OF
the XVIII Amendment are Invalid If the
States were in the Union there was no
need to ad nit them, and if they were not
in the Union they could not participate IN
making laws for States that are in.


According to our views, the Herald IS
fortified by constitutional law and It's argu-
ment cannot be refuted.
Year: 1870

The Convention has refused to exempt
Magistrates and Circuit and Chancery
Court Clerks from the sweeping provision
that members of the General Assembly and
those elected at the forthcoming election
shall vacate their places on the ratification
of the Constitution.
Year: 1870

Many writer these lines and invalid physician while visiting the
Island Of St. for their health experienced and witnessed surprising and
beneficial theinvai who k
seeking health and inquiry and investigation obtained full history
its medicinal delighted and recovery
which occurred determined possible the sole right manufacture
and sell II in


The result his abors glorious for himself suffering humanity
for the
TATIoN BTTEa being Of real upon principles


relying wy world for its medicinal effects rapid
ton in the history medicine and became household word all the civilized
world The cabaste Tlsso anan
the PLANTATION BTTERS exceeded the abilities Of the


Notwithstanding large importation St cx Rum made expressly for the
pounding Of quantity Inadequate necessary
that abroad should and
dispatched to St Thomas for that He fortunate securing and
leasing several plantations a. productive
island Houses stills and erected BY which utterly
hed the natives The experienced and natives heand
cured and the pets the PLANTATION BITTERs position


supply their laboratory with all the perfectly st. c Bum needed manui
turing DYSPEPTc vaoaATR
the natives crushing the preparing stills


ando Fever and Intermittent Mariou Dyspepsia and
kindred PLANTATION sTTER unsurpassed the
history the world Over FIVE million bottles disposed annually They
adapted old and male and female They agreeable TASTE and always
-roiuce immediate beneficial result.
Year: 1870

A dressing which
IS at once agreeable,
healthy, and effectual
Tor preserving the


hair. Faded or gray
haar IS soon restored
to its original color
,c'M the gloss and


freshness Of youth.


Thin hair is thick
Year: 1870

The Due de Montpensier has put Henri
de Bourbon out of his way by numbering
him in cold blood The impulsive Span
;ards cannot iufliot upon Montpensier
crueler punishment than to set him upon
the bloody throne and compel him to take
| his chances for his head.
Year: 1870

Iron pokers are the latest improvements
in school discipline in Indiana. The result
of their first introduction is not quite satis-
factory, however, being a boy killed, and q
teacher in prison, with q good chance OF
hanging.
Year: 1870

Now that Seward has been to Alaska and
found out all about the sealing business, and
now that he is entirely out of an Office, why
not make one for him-say Keeper of the
priyy Seslskins?
Year: 1870

The Mutual Base Ball club of New York have
issued challenge to all the clubs in the country
to join in tournament for the championship,
beginning on the Union grounds at Williamsburg
on October 18th. The club winning two out of
three games will be declared the champion of
the country, and receive gold ball and flag.
Year: 1870

The New York Herald shows profound wisdom
in the declaration that "if iron ships are built
on the British Clyde it is now demonstrated that
iron ships can be built upon our own Delaware
and test Of speed power, capacity and safety,
among them all, will eventually ensure to Ameri-
can iron built steamers the palm of superiority
Year: 1870

The United States Treasurer on Wednesday
received letter from Springfield Mass, enclos-
ing counterfeit fifty cent note (new issue) for
which the Treasurer stated recently he would
give five dollars, believing there was no such
counterfeit in existence. The writer calls his
attention to this offer, and General Spinner will
accordingly remit the five dollars.
Year: 1870

The only yellow fever that exists here
now, worth qnoting, is the gold fever, and
that is on the decline. There is some fever
III the lottery business, and it is common to
many people who purchase tickets in the
Louisiana State Lottery. 1t is. however, a
healthy excitement, superinduced by the
good fortune of persons who have had the
good sense to invest few dollars in the
daily and single number drawings of the
Louisiana State Lottery J. Seymour
Burke, of 367 Lafayette street. has had an
attack Of this kind of fever lately. He was
the lucky holder of one-fourth combination
ticket, embracing numbers y. az, G9, which
drew the handsome little prize of two thou
sand and fifty dollars on last Monday. As
matter of course Mr.. Burke was a little
1everlsh-or if you choose to call it by some
other name less objectionable at this time,
say somewhat excited over his good fortune.
And none but the most stole could be in
sensible to such exciting results. As we
have sad before, there is no danger in this
fever, though its cause be declared eademic.
AS there are but few Of our people who
would not risk an attack OF fever from the
cause OF drawing prize in the Louisiana
State Lottery, let them not forget to buy
tickets and secure the chance Of wealth.
Year: 1870

In behalf of Governor Warmoth and
company, we return special thanks to DR..
Z. A. Williams and other clever young men
OF Homer for their serenade ON Tuesday
night. The music was excellent, and the
general friendly greetings most agreeable.
The affair was apropos aud most praise
worthy to those engaged. and was most
highly appreciated by Governor Warmoth
and the distinguished gentlemen with him.
as well as by OurSelf
Year: 1870

All that remains to be done to complete
the Mobile and New Orleans section of the
Chattanooga railroad, is to lay the rails for
distance of less than five miles, between
the Rigolets and Lake Catharine, and on q
small gap between Biloxi and Mississippi
CITY,
Year: 1870

Beecher writes: Tobacco is the one best
remedy for all stings of insects. Wet it so
that the juice shall start, and place it Oh the
place stung, and in one moment You are all
right arain
Year: 1870

Last night, at halfpast nine, there was a
decided change in the weather, so decided
that occupants Of thin suits had ardent
visions of overcoats and flannel under
clothing. Somewhere about three o'clock
in the afternoon the first installment of the
long expected rain came to hand, precursor
of the delayed equinoctial storm. The rain
did not last long, but still there are album
dant indications that continued spell of
wet weather is about to visit us, none the
more pleasant because accompanied by u
wintry chiliness of the air.


Rain is much needed, not only in the city,
for lavatory and culinary purposes, but,
equally, in the country for the sake of the
maturing crops.


Much as it is desired, the delay of rain
has been of decided benefit to the cotton re-
gion, as the picking has gone on to compile
tion without let or hndranee
Year: 1870

MARRIED LIFE.-There is blissful re-
lance the devotion with which a man may
inspire his wife, by proper regard to her dis
position, aud proper respect TO her sensibility,
apart from considerations merely affecting her
personal condition alfhough these. too should
have his care-that gives to what may be
called the fifth &c: of the drama of welded
life hoEer and happier interest than memory
disposed as she is to gid the past. can find to
embellish the scenes IN which it is believed
by many the torch of Hymen to burn brightest.
Year: 1870

"A neighbor of ours. the other day. 10
formed his milkman that he could not employ
his services any longer unless he shingled his
cows He did not say whether the milk was
affected by the late heavy rains or not, but
such is the natural infereDce.-EI.
Year: 1870

No HARM IN TRYING IT.-The following
remedy or rather preventive for Scarlet Fe-
yer. We yet from a lady. aud as it is simple
and cau.ln. little trouble, no harm can result
from trying it. She says: while two in a
house were lying dead of this fever, was
enabled by the Divine mercy to carry our
children uuharmed through the epidemic. by
merely putting small piece of gum camphor
in little bag, and suspendng it around the
neck of the child while in health. This is
an astonishing fact, and I have often tried it
in times of danger. was told it by an old
countryman of great intelligence. who used
it thus in whoopiug cough I believe II forms
an atmosphere of it, own around the person
VINO wears it, and thus repels the infected air
beyond 1t should be- removed when the
danger has passed"
Year: 1870

AFTER DINNER NAPs.-The Herald of
Health says:


Many persons are in the habit Of sleeping for
a half and hour or an hour Immediately after
dinner This is bad practice. Ten minutes
sleep before dinner is worth more than an
hour after II rests and refreshes and pre-
pares the system for vigorous digestion. IF
sleep is taken after dinner 1t should be in a
sitting posture as the horizontal position is un
favorable to healthy digestion. Let those
who need res, and sleep during the day. take
it before dinner instead of after and they will
soon find that they will feel better. and that
their digestion will be improved thereby.
Year: 1870

city exhibits the same object under
an enlargement of nine thousand
million times its natural magnitude.
An ordinary fly, seen entlle under
such magnllication, would seem to
cover space as large as the whole
city of New York below Wall street.
A man would appear more than
hundred miles high and lady's
hair would reach half way from New
York to New Haven.


This wonderful instrument is so
sensible that q loud word spoken
near it destroys all diStiuctness of
vision, from the tremor impaired to
it by the motion of the air, and n
footstep on the floor shakes it out
of adjustment. The field of view
that is, the area which can be seen
at once--is a circle only the one
twelve -th0usandth of an inch in
diameter, but it appears to the eye
| to be eight inches il di II, or \
microscopic shell called an dHguld.
/ tim, of which about one hundred
and forty placed end to end will
reach an inch, and which is simply
marked with lines of the most ex.
quisite delicacy when examined I'm.
der ordinarily powerful microscopes,
( exhibits under the new instrument
half globes of white silex, whose di


ameters appear 40 be an inch and
three-quarterS, of which only fifteen
can be seen at once. In reality the
point Of a cambric reedle is larger


than the circle upon which these tif


teen half globes exist, and yet that
circle appears like dessert plate


covered with lady apples.
Year: 1870

given general satis saetion, and tiat we should feel sorrow at his departure Is not wonderful. We have pleaded with the department at Washington, we have pleaded with the department at San Francisco and we have pleaded with Gen. Ord to permit him 10 remain, and to revoke, ere he left, the order to take him fiem us His records of service to his country are equally indulgent whether we consider him in the past or whether We view him in the present. We shall still hope that he may yet be sent ba ok to resume command ot the forces which he is now about to leave
Year: 1870

The LAST WEEK.-We trust our readers
will not fail to discover that there are Tut
seven days now, TO an important election.
There is evidently not to be so much excite
ment as usual, but we hope no proper efforts
will be left unfinished this week for full
vote Of the Republican party of this STATE.
1t is highly necessary of itself in the present
stage Of public affairs, that the prestige o.


Maine victories should he kept up; and its
rights besides to give support to an honest
National Administration, which the opposi-
tion are striving to undermine and break
down. The reasons are numerous and para


mount why all the Republicans shouia feel
the duty of making every exertion to swel
the vote on Monday A full vote is a grea
majority in Maine. With but little exertiol
on the part Of committees and indiHiA''ais
Year: 1870

Our lively Republican friend from Oxford
county, who now appears in the columns OF
the Argus occasionally, made his second ap-
pearance on Saturday. lie still retains his
good humor accompanied by large flow of
self conceit. He evidently was not "born to
blush unseen, and waste his sweetness on the
desert air. He is full OF schemes for defeat
ing the candidates for the Republican nomln-
ees in this State as the marshals of the
French army have been of strategy; and they
will both probably prove the same abortions.


His ardent wishes for the success of the
Democratic nominee for Governor, Gen. Rob-
erts, bristle out like "quills upon the fretful
porcnplne" When he reaches that mount Of
his wishes, it seems as though his small
frame if only punctured would collapse. 1t is
the ecstacy OF exaltation. When he touche:
on Gen Chamberlain for the next Senator
Pisgah is scaled. Steady, good friend, steady
You will "burst up" before you get in you


bolting vote, if you don't mind your helm
As for the great number you have on youl
string ready to follow you in your crusade
which you boast of, that is very likely 9
dream OF your vivid Imagination. But il
would be pity after all your bouncing rount
that you should SO strain yourself as to be un
able to be carried to the polls next Monday.
Year: 1870

PARIs.-Wili the Prussians march on Paris
and will it undertake to make resistance
Some time since the London Spectator said,
"Paris is absolutely indefensible, except by an
army in the field. If the hill Montreout were
once carried-an event the girdle of forts
could neither retard nor prevent-the city
must either surrender or be destroyed house
by house; while bes.eging army sufficiently
large to risk battle with the most martial
population, could in three days starve it into
submission"
Year: 1870

THE WAR-Thesurrende of McMahon Is
generally coDsdeHd as deciding the contest
even by those journals which have favored the
French in the struggle. Indeed it is difficult
to see wbat the French can do but submit
and mase the best terms they can, inasmuch
as tbe Germans will probably be able to crush
new levies as fast as they are forwarded Ma
roleon Ill, like bis uncle, has an opportunity
of finding out that plant tools are not true
friends, and that those who were glad to rev
erence him in prosperity and power, desert
him in the hour of adversity as sycophants
ALWAYS do
Year: 1870

VERMONT ELEcTIoN.-The election in Yer
mont occurs to-day. There is very little ex
citement and the vote will probably be light.
There is no doubt about the success of the
Republican candidates. The ONLY question is
as to the size of the majority. The system of
biennial elections comes in force this year and
the State officials are therefore to be elected
for two years. The opponents of the system
predict that it will produce dissatisfaction and
be speedily oyerthrown.
Year: 1870

The CALAIS ADvERTISER.-Th Advertiser
issued an extra as soon as possible after the
great fire, in which the editor said that his
loss was about $1,000 over the insurance, and
about all he possessed in the world, and the ac-
cummulation of years of toll. He is not
disheartened, but has procured place for an
Office, and will as soon as the materials can BE-
got together, resume the publication of the
paper. He calls upon all who are indebted to
pay up and so put him in possession of the
necessary funds.
Year: 1870

A CMTIcIsM.--If the author Of the
"MSS on the Profound Secrets Of Edu-
cation" would confine himself more to
his subject; write more with view to
instruct and interest the people, and less
for the purpose of senseless fattery and
self-exaltatioh the space occupied by
him in this paper would not be entirely
wasted. He is evidently a young man
of some attainments, but has fallen into
the common error Of spreading very
little though over great deal TOO much
space; straining sense and rhetoric to
ring in some elegant quotation, or Dncom'
mon Eord;. using terms and phrases en-
,rcly out of place, and so showing that
he does not know their meaning All
the thought and information contained
in the two column article before us could
If stripped of their ycfbiage, DO pnt into
one tenth the space.
Year: 1870

TNHE undersigned would hereby respectfully
l. beg leave to return his sincere thanks to the
Democratic and Conservative voters of New Cas-
tie county for their partialty in selecting him as
their candidate for the Sherffalty, from among so
many other gentlemen, whose names were pre-
sehted to them on Saturday last, any one of
whom would have done honor alike to the office
and the great party to which they so long and
faithfully adhered.


1t would afford him great pleasure to visit his
friends in every Hundred in the county and to
tender to each, personally, his thanks for the
honor conferred upon him but, as circumstan-
ces, which are best understood by those who are
most intimately acquainted with him. render this
impracticable, he adopts this as the only availa-
BILE mode of expressing his gratitude to his fel-
ow-citzens for their past support and of solicit
ing continuation of the same at the ensuing
general election, pledgng himself, that should
he be so fortunate to be elected to the said Of
flee, he will discharge its duties with honesty, f.
deity, and to the best of his humble ability.


JAMES ARMSTRONG.


Newark, Del. June H. l970-te
Year: 1870

WHEN TO PRUNE APPLE TREEs.-A
correspondent of the Watertown IN. W
Times gives the result of his ex pcrence
in pruning apple trees " 1t has long been
a practice among farmers to commence
pruning apple trees in FEBRUARY, mainly,
l suppose because there is leisure time.
There are reasons why this should not be
dome There will not be sufficient action
, In the tree to harden the surface where
limb has been taken off before the sap as
cends in the spring. When this action
does take place, the sap flows out and
spreads over the surrounding bark, and
by some chemical action which takes place,
it is changed to poisonous fluid, which
greatly Injuries the tree. Trim your fruit
trees in August, and I will guarantee
you will have no black hearted trees"