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Year: 1872

Judge Butler was nominated with
out opposition at Bulls Gap on We'd
nesday. The opposition had exPend.
cd its forces prior to the assembling
Of the Convention, and those who saw
the doom of prearranged defeat qui-
city walked out of the Convention
and then the work was mere matter
of form. We believe every radical
of Carter and Johnston was on the
down mail train of Wednesday. A
more iOvial and confident crowd we
never met. There were a few who
took the excursion as funeral. but
they will probably allow Butler to
meet the celebrated orator Of Carter,
under the plea that the fight would
be one for which any other radical
would be wholly and palpablY une,
quail.


The evening train brought them all
back in jolly humor and " black
betty" was freely passed around
Judge Butler got off at Greenville,
delighted with the day, but fearing
the future.
Year: 1872

We have never seen W. B. Car
ter our nominee for the 1st Dist, but
from all quarters there comes the as
surance that his nomination was one
emincntly proper. 1t was first deci-
ded to bell the Red Fox, and next
that Carter was the man who could
do it. 1t is said that he possesses
one of the very first intellects of
the State. In treating of his nomina-
ton, we desire to deal in plain truths,
and we now state that the Democrat
ic party Of the First Dist, can de-
feat Butler. If properly organized
and brought into the field, it ,ciU do
it. We lay down this liberal plank
that the reJels ,r,H support Carter,
and we are told that the COnserva-
tive Union men have in him the very
one they desired. Carter will make
the Canvass ring as it las not done
sincs 1860. And now let the great
combined army, composed of those
rebels who got what they did not
want, and these union men who got
more than they wanted. come shoul-
der to shoulder, and knee to knee, to
the support of BLACK Bill Carter"
and the First Dist, will become
again a thing Of respectability.
Year: 1872

The carpet bag appointees of Gen.
GRANT have a good time of it. For
instance: The collection of the in
ternal revenue cost in Alabama in
1871 fourteen and three quarters per
cent while it cost in Illinois a frac-
ton less than two per cent. 1t cost
in Arkansas a fraction over twenty
seven per cent, while in Indiana it
was less, than three and half per
cent. 1t cost in Florida more than
eighteen and a half per cent, while
in Kentucky it was a fraction over
three per cent. 1t cost in Georgia
more than thirteen per cent. and in
Maryland little over three. 1t cost
in Mississippi a fraction over twenty
three, and in Massachusetts, less than
three per cent. 1t cost in North Car
olina between ten and eleven per
cent, and in Missouri two and half.
1t cost in South Carolina a fractson
over ten per cent, and in New York
a fraction over two and half 1t
cost in Texas twenty four per cent.
and in West Virginia little more
than eight. Il is not TO be wandered
Year: 1872

the ancient habitatioBs of these races
and the mounds which are the work of
their hands.


The Yuma Indians have a tradition
regarding these extinct races, which
runs in this wise: At the time that
COrtez held MOnteZuma captive the
inhabitants Of this region marshalled
all the available forces-includinge ev-
cry man able to bear arms-compri-
sing an army of over six thousand war
riors, and marched to the rescue of
Montezuma, their king; and not only
their king, but, as they supposed, their
Savior; for MonteZuma was their
"child of the sum-" and the sun-the
most powerful and poductive object
in the whole scope of their knowledge
the father or source of all. After
this powerful army had been upon
the march for several months they
heard of the death of Montezuma. At
this juncture a council of war was
held, at which division arose among
them as to whether they should pro-
coed to Mexico and assist in driving the
invaders from the soil, or return to the
north. This division led to mutiny
and internal war amongst them, and
ended in the entire annihilation of the
whole army-not single man being
left to tell the tale. How the tale was
told at all we are left to conjecture;
but the above is the traditionary his
tory of the determination of the pre-
decessors Of the present occupants of
this region. Soon after this, the
Apache Indians invaded the homes
they had left from the farther north,
and desolated the region, and since
this time it has been the "land of the
Apaches."


We leave for the Colorado River to-
morrow, and thence to California via
the "Death Valley.n [ will write
you again after reaching the Big Colo
RADIO, and tell you all about my expe-
rience i'm "Ant-hill Geology" the dia
mond fields, and whatever else of in
terest we may meet with on our ad-
venturous journey to the sea.


RALPHO RINALDO.
Year: 1872

The great globe which we inherit
is itself a magnet. On the one side
of the magnetic equator, the north
end Of the needle dips; on the other
side. the south end dips, the dip va
rying from nothing to ninety degrees.
If we go to the equatorial regions of
the earth with a suitable suspended
needle, we shall find there the posi-
tiOn of the needle to be horizontal
If we sail north, one end of the nee
die dips; if we sail south. the oppo>
site end dips; and over the north or
south terrestrial magnetic pole the
needle sets vertical. The south mag
netic pole has not yet been found,
but Sir James Ross discovered the
north magnetic pole on the 1st of
June, 1S31.-Ftudddy.
Year: 1872

SPOTTED TAIL made speech the
other day at st. Louis, in which he
expressed the fear that when he dies
and goes to the happy hunting grounds
of the hereafter his white father Pres
ident GRANT, and his people will try
10 take his reservations for him.
SPOTTED TAIL may rest his soul in
peace. If he is fortunate as TO locate
claim i'm the hunting grounds to
which ne retired, there will be no
member Of the GRANT party there to
enter an action of eiectment against
him. Courier Journal.
Year: 1872

the pinning of our faith to any party
sleeve, or the chasing up of any Washing
ton opinion, were it forty times as potential
as the editor of the Lynchburg Republican
may imagine. On the question of the
spoliation of Virginia by the war-making
power, the disfguring of her territory, and
the partitioning up of her sovereignty, we
have had but one opinion, and have adj
vanced but one, since the war and that is,
that Congress should have remanded the
discovered territory, with the perfunctory
government organized by its authority
therein, to its proper constitutional status
in the Union, Immediately upon the termi-
nation of hostilities. This it failed to do.
But what it failed to do at the proper time,
it should do now-should do tomorrow
before adjournment-nay, it may constitu-
tionally do before the electoral vote of the
state is, counted. IF the statement Of this
proposition, and an appeal to the states
manship of Virginia to take counsel of its
wisdom rather than its folly-to play the


part of an astute politician rather than that
of Jack Pudding or cynic-is so mons
trous in its audacity, and inconcei9ably
overtopping in its infamy, as to turn the
head of the Lynchburg Republican, we
cannot help it. We are not responsible for


the looseness with which Lynchburg heads


are set on human shoulders.
Year: 1872

We see the statement going the rounds
of the opposition press that Gen. Grant is
endeavoring to secure the extension Of the
suspension clause of the ku-klux act to en-
able him to control the electoral vote of the
southern states. We are authorized to de-
nounce this statement as an unqualified
falsehood. Gen. Grant has never requested
any member of either branch of Congress
to continue the suspension of the habeas
corpus at the will of the President. The
whole story is a baseless fabrication, in
vented to prejudice him in the minds of the
people. 1t is part of that cruel, unrea-
sonable and wicked conspiracy to create a
feeling of suspicion and hostility against
man who, of all others, has always been
scrupulously careful to use no doubtful
powers, and to use with moderation such
as were clearly conferred by the law.


The man who calls Grant tyrant and
usurper, is either too ignorant to reason or
too prejudiced to see the truth, or is utterly
reckless in his statements. From Appo-
IildttoA W 1uho uay VIC ugly VIC "hoiC opPo-
sition to point to single instance in which
the President has shown a vindctive spirit
towards the South. In his conversations,
his messages, and ia all his acts he has uni
formly shown warm interest in the welfare
of the Southern people. ID .


No act of kindness has been more sub
stantial than his vigorous enforcement of
the ku-klux law. In breaking up those
dens of midnight murderers and ruffians he
has entitled himself to the lasting gratitude
of the whole south. Let the bomb proof
warriors who denounce Grant ask those
who met him on the battle field, and who
accepted the honorable terms of peace
which he gave them, when the fortunes OF
war turned against them ask any one ol
these war-worn soldiers if they are afraid
to trust General Grant for fear he will
abuse his powers? They will laugh at it
as the invention of demagogues to catch
votes. The people of the south know how
entirely false this statement is, and a re-ac-
ton will sooner or later come in favor Of a
man who, cruelty belied and slandered, is
faithful to the laws and the interests of the
whole people. ..r
Year: 1872

We are happy to inform our neighbor of
the Dispatch that we are not quite so
"furious protectionist' as to object to any
''labor" that may be imported from
Europe, not even the labor that is pauper-
lied by the free-trade policy of foreign gov
ernments. The "pauper labor" of Europe
ceases to be such in this country for any
and every man who has work in him when
he gets here, can turn it into good round
equivalent in money in a very short time,
thanks to the protective policy ofthe country
which secures its greatest blessings to the
laboring man. Wendell Phillips flies a
good many more kites than we have strings
to attach to their tails, even if we recogniz-
ed the kites as having any intrinsic value
in their fight. We are willing the Dispatch
Year: 1872

THE Democratic newspapers object to
the ratification of the new article to the
Alabama claims treaty. Rather than that
Grant should have the credit of putting our
foreign relations on permanent peace
footing they will prefer to involve the
country in war and pile up the national
debt to the point of reputation. Anything
to beat Grant, YOU know
Year: 1872

Any person who chooses, may collect. list of
subscribers, large or small, and receive the pre-
MUM.


1t is only necessary to exhibit copies of the
paper, explain its value, and forward the names
and money. The money should always be sent
by DRAFT OR PosT-oFFcE ORDER ; but if that can
not be done, by REGISTERED LETTER, the money
to be placed in the envelope. which is to be sealed
in presence of the postmaster.


The terms (EQUAL TO ANY IN THE
WHOLE SOUTH upon which we offer the
JOURNAL, bring it within reach of the poorest.
There are many young persons, engaged in teach
ing and other callings which give leisure, and
who would be quite certain to raise club for us
in q week if they really set themselves at it, We
now offer. as our first prize, a splendid
No. 2 WHEELER & WILSON SEWING


MACHINE. WORTH $50.


This splendid machine will be awarded to the
person who sends us the largest number of sub
seribers before the first of June, 1872 Our
eond prize is an
Year: 1872

aid to extend the circulation OF N


A FIRST-CLAsS NEWSPAPER
The JOURNAL is now favorably known all over
the State, and it will be much easier to raise
clubs for it now, than heretofore.


AS A FAMILY & AGRICULTURAL PAPER
the WEEKLY STATE JoURNRL will be found espe-
cially valuable. No pains will be spared 10 keepi IL
Year: 1872

affection, and calculated on the SAM


feeling in return. When, in their ex


treme peril, they failed to find it


they conceived mortal resentment


and all through the want of q mutua


understanding. If the American


could have taught us ten years agt


what kind of feelings they though


should exist, and did exist between


England and the United States, there
would never have been any Alabama
question. A privateer might vel
have escaped from our ports, but the
accident would never have been i'm.
puted to enmity, nor made the ground
of an international charge.


When the project of secession was
first mooted at least half the people OF
this country heldit to be unjustifable,
according to the theory of the federal
constitution but the contrary belief
was held by many Americans of the
North, and Americans of all classes
had so long and .unreservedly advo-
Gated the abstract right of popular in
surrection that we began to think
six millions of United States citizens
might be credited with knowing their
own mind and discerning their own
interests as well as any other people.
Then came all the heroic campaigns
of the war, in which each side natu-
rally had its friendsand sympatlizers;
and then the end, after which we
found ourselves blamed fer half the
consequences of the rebellion. But
how is it no American ever candidly
estimated or measured the feelings
which would naturally be created in
this country by the manner i'll which
for years before the war the people of
the United States had apparently
treated us I


How is it, we again ask, that with
SO constant and general an inter
change of visits, Americans and Eng
lishmen should have gained so little
knowledge of each others views 7
The peryading assumption of all
American minds is complimentary to
us. They start with the idea that we,
as kindred people, owe them special
fayor, and we are perfectly willing to
stand on that footing. But then, in
common fairness, we should look also
for similar consideration. We are
quite ready to give and take, provided
there is giving and taking on both
sides. We deplore anything like a
difference between the two countries
but, the Americans should be pre-
pared in turn to deprecate any such
misapprehension with equal feryor.
We do not pretend to apportion the
blame of the case, but it really ap-
pears as if we were better understood
in the United States after six months
of decided resistance, than we ever
were in days when almost anything
was done for the sake of peace and
goodwill.
Year: 1872




The Homer Iliad, Jasper Black
burns journal, has the following:


It would seem that Governor War
moth is thoroughly committed to the
Liberal Republican movement, and
viii support Greeley. This may be
best for all of us; but in Governor
WarmOti's case, certainly no faF OF
reasonable man can blame him. AS
to Greeley, he certainly has as good a
Republican record as Grant and as
to Warmoth he certainly has as good
a Republican record as many in this
State, and at Washington city, who
have persistently sought to rule him
out of what is by them termed regu-
lar Republican party of Louisiana.
Our prediction is that Warmoth will
win in-whatever the national result
may be. We certainly want a Re-
publican elected to the Presidency,
without any entangling alliances with
the 'Possum Democracy; but if we
can not have this without the sacri-
fee of personal honor, and without
sanctioning glaling personal and poll
tical injustice to a man like Governor
Warmoth, who helped so manfully
and efficiently to build up the Repub-
lican party in the South. and espe-
cially in Louisiana, and who has done
so much and endured so much sacri-
flee to lift the black man from his
former degradation-why, we must
say, rather than submit to and en-
dorse such conduct and such pro-
gramme as this, we, as a Republican,
in whom there is no guile," would
be willing to take old Harace Greeley
on trust, with even his present ALI
ances, for we know the old man, per-
sonally and intimately; and if he is
not, in a personal and individual
sense, honest and good Republican,
we certainly have no such character
in all the land. But we shall see
what we shall see, when the waters
are little more troubled.
Year: 1872

The National Republican, which is
Grants organ in New Orleans, is the
bond slave of the Louisiana Levee
Swindle that first corrupted the Leg
islature of Louisiana and is now at
tempting to buy up the National
Congress through such men as Kel-
logg and Ramsey, while West and
Sheldon set by with their fingers in
their mouths winking at the r;tscality.
That such a paper should talk OF hon
esty is as horrible joke as grinning
in the face of tomb full of skeletons.


State Register.
Year: 1872

The cheapness Of living In France is
due not alone to the price Of articles,
but to the simple and unostentatious
manners Of the people. A writer
in Frazer's Magazine says that however small
France, their social position is not in the least
affected by their circumstances; and that the
general diffusion Of wealth shown by the
French Loan is owing to the economical liv-
ing and the thriftines5 Of the women, who
generally participate in the business Of earn
tSsv nndsr the
parental roof, as before, in one family, thus
reducing the expense and holding the families
in sort of communion until both parents are
dead.
Year: 1872

1t Is said by those who have given the subject
their attention that not for many years has the
earth been as dry az at present. One OF our
yery best veterinarians attributes the horse cpl.
zootic to this fact. We are sorry that We are
unable TO give his reasons.
Year: 1872

You think that one hour buries another ::
but it is not so. You think that you have
parted forever from the things that havo gone
by you. No you have not. Thoro is much
in your life that you think has gone which
you never shall part from It has stepped
behind you, aud there it waits That which
you have done is with you to-day that which
you arc doing will be with you Tomorrow
When the mason carries up the wall. tho
course of brick which he laid yesterday is the
foundation on which he is laying another
course to>day. And all that you do to-day
on the structure which you are building. will
remain basis for that which you do tomor-
row. The work proceeds without intermis-
sion; and all that has been done is the under
structure for that which is to be done.


Young man and maiden, take heed how
you build. That which you arc doing, tho
work which you are. performing, you do not
leave behind you because you forget it. 1t
passes away from you apparently, but it does
not pass away from you in reality. Every
stroke, every single clement, abides. And
there is nothing men think SO little of as
character, although there is nothing that SO
belongs to Immortality, and that is SO incom-
parable in importance as character.


IF You PLEAsE.-Boys, do you ever
think how much real courtesy will do for you z
Some of the creates. men were ever cautious
in this respect. When the Duke of Yelling
ton was sick, the last he took was little tea.
On his servant handing it to him in a saucer.
and asking if he would have it, the Duke re-
piled, "Yes, if you please" These were his
last words. How much kindness aud cour-
tesy is expressed by them! He who had
commanded great armies, and was long ac-
customed to the tone of authority, did not
overlook the small courtesies of life. All.
how many boys do! What rude tone of
command they often use to their little BROTH
ers and sisters, and sometimes to their moth
ers They order SO. That is ill-bred. and
shows, to say the least. want of thought
In all your home talk remember '.If you
please" To all who wal. upon or serve You,
believe that '1f you please" will make you
better served than all the cross or ordering
words in the whole dictionary. Do not for
get three little words :-"If you please"


s.speak gently: it is better far


To rule by love than fear"
Year: 1872

= The ladies give as reason for marrying
for, money, they SO seldom find anything else
In man worth having. =


= The best people are not only the happi~
est, but the happiest people are generally the
best y
Year: 1872

And the worshippers throng to the shrine below,


And the sight seers come with their curious eyes
But deep In the shadow where none may know
Its beauty, the gem of his carving lies.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the South.
ern Cultivator says: 81 notice the
question is asked, which is the
best fertilizer or manure for sweet
potatoes. From the experience |
have had, in manuring the sweet
potatoe, l must say that rotted ash.
es, when properly put on, has pre-
cedence over all others | have had
any experience with. The plan
that | adopted was to open a deep
fnrrow with a scooter pillow, and
put in n plenty of ashes. Bed ont
on the ashes, and q sure crop NAV
be realized on the poorest soil
Cow penning is good-so are cot
ten seed and stable manure but
after expel irnenting with the ash
es, they will all be abandoned.
provided ashes can be had. | ex.
experimental on as poor soil as |
had, and the result was as fine a
crop of potatoes as ever saw on
any kind of land. Rottcd ashes
is good for cotton also, and almost
any kind of vegetation. | am
convinced there is no better fcrtil.
Izer made on any plantation than
rotted ashes. So every one will
find it greatly to his interest to
take special care of it,"
Year: 1872

WHIsKr IN THE BLooD "A mar.
died the other day from habitual
Drunkenness. "A post mortern
examin ation of his internal organs
showed that bis blood was largely
mixed with alcohol. The coroner
testified that the heart smelled as
though it had been stepped In al
cohol. People who are in the hab.
1t Of keeping themselves saturated
with the vile compound under the
name of rum, gin, bourbon, etc,
should take warning from snch an
example. We may talk of soft
hearts, noble hearts, and true
hearts, but how can a heart steep-
ed in alcohol be any Of thesea


THERE is dew in one flower and
not in another, because one opens
its cup to take it in, while the
other closes itself and the drop
runs off. So God rains goodness
and mercy as wide as the dew !;
and if we lack them, it lie because
we will not open our hearts to re-
ceive them. ..
Year: 1872

that lie was the soul of honor aud
chivalry. did not believe it pos.
sible for such a man to play the
cruel tyrant and oppressor OF his
race and country, as he afterwards
did whilst in command of the mil.
itary district of Georgia.


lie expressed feelings of sympa.
thy, to me, for the South, which
greatly attached me to him, and
thought him the bean ideal of
military honor. He spoke of the
battle of Gettysburg, and said the
war ought to have ended with the
retreat of General Lee into Vir
ginia. That all hope of Southern
independence was then gone, and
the continuance of the war was a
cruel sacrifice of human life. /
thought to myself, that if the war
had then ended, General Meade.
and not General Grant, would
have been the great hero of the
war. How far this may have in
ffuenced his Judgment, l am not
able to say. But surely the Con.
tcderate States did a great deal of
hard fighting sitter the battle of
Gettysburg. and were successful
on many occasions after that.


General Meade was dressed in
full uniform, and l thought him as
tine looking an officer rs | had
ever seen. l met him afterwards.
at the depot i'll Philadelphia, dress.
ed very shabbily in citizens clothes.
with an old straw hat on, and it
was hard for me to realize that he
was the same person, whom l had
met twelve months before in Co.
!umbia, dressed as Major Gener.
al OF the United States. He did
not appear to be rs tall by several
inches, and his courlly air and
manner were gone.


The sister of General Meade
married Captain Huger, who died
glorlously defending the Confeder
ale flag below the city of New Or
leans. She died, andlef two SONS.
who were with Mr.. Alfred Hugcr.
in Columbia. General Meade
went to see them, and insisted on
taking them with him to educate
and bring up. But Mr.. Huger.
though i" great poverty, could not
tolerate the idea of giving up the
children of his adopted son, to be
carried to the North to be
brought up and educated. The
General spoke kindly of Mr..
f1nger's feelings OF delicacy and
protection on the subject, alter his
return from the visit.


The conduct of General Meade
in Georgia has taught me to be.
lieve that very few military men
arc tit for civil government, or can
appreciate Republican principles.


CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.