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Year: 1873

1t lies there alone-it is rusty and faded
18th patch on the elbow, hole in the side
But we think of the brave boy who wore it


and ever


Look on it with pleasure and touch it will
A history cings to it--over and over,
We see proud youth hurried off to the


fray,
With his form like the oak and his eye like


the eagles
How gallant he rode in the ranks of the


Gray
1t is rough, it is worn, it is tattered in places,
But love it the more for the story it bears
A story of courage in struggle with sorrows
And heart that bore bravey its burden oi
cares;
It is ragged and rusty, but ah it was shining
In the silkiest skeen when he wore it away
And his smile was as bright as the glad sum-


mer morning,
When he sprang to his place in the ranks Of
the Gray"


tarnished,
The buttons all gone with their glitter and
gold.
'Tis thing of the past, and we reverently lay
Away with the treasures and relics of old
AS the gifts Of love, solemn, sweet and un-
spoken


Are cherished as leaves from long vanished
day
We will keep the old jacket for the sake of
the loved one
Who rode in the van of the ranks of the
Gray"
Shot through with bullet-right here in the
shoulder.
And down there the pocket is splintered and
soiled,
All more, see the lining is stained and dis
colored
Yes, blood drops the texture have stifened
and soiled.
It came when he rode at the head of the COL
umn,


Charging down in the battle one deadliest
day.
When squadrons of foemen were broken asun-
And victory rode with the ranks of the
"Gray."
Its memory is sweetness and sorrow commn-
gled


To me it is precious-more precious than
In the rent and the shot-hole volume is writ
ten,


On the stains on the lining is agony told.
That was ten years ago when in life's sunny
morning
He rode with his comrades down into the
fray
And the old coat he wore and the good sword
Were all that came back from the ranks Of
the "Gray."
And it lies there alone; I'll reverence it ever,
The patch on the elbow and the hole in the
side,
For gallanter heart never beat than the loved
one,


Who wore it with honor and soldierly pride.
Let me brush off the dust from its tatters and
tarnish,
Let me fold it up closely and lay ii away
It is all that is left of the loved and lost one,
Who fought for the right in the ranks of the
Gray"
Year: 1873

Already the Red Republicans in Spain are
beginning to enact the scenes of the first French
revolution, and the cable dispatches indicate
probability that the streets Of Madrid will soon
run in blood. A people who have been in the
condition of bondage under which the Spanlards
have labored for years past, are not prepared
to enjoy the blessings of Republican govern
ment.
Year: 1873

JAY oooKE& 90.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company having
de ermined to close ta TsO First Mortgage old Loan
at an aggregate not exceeding thirty million dollArs
and thereafter to pay higher rate of interest than
per cent On further issue of its bonds the limited
remainder of the s-'Oioan is now being disposed
of through the usual agencies.


As the bonds Of this issue are made receivable in
payment for the Companys lands at 1.IO, they are
in constant and increasing demand for this pur-
pose and will continue to be after the loan is cos6d
"a fact which much enhances their value and
attractiveness as an Investment.


The Company has more than 500 miles of its road
built and in operation has earned title to nearly
ten million acres Of its land grantaud sales of anis
have thus far averaged IS 66 per acre.


All marketable securities are received in exchange
| for Northern Pacific at current rates.


John McLear- 81 Son.


BANKERS,


No. COZ Market street.
Year: 1873

captious hostility to General Grant.
will judge him impartially by his
official action, and will cordially CO.
operate in every measure of his admin
istration which may be beneficent in
its design, and calculated to promote
the welfare of the people and to culti-
vate'sentiments of good will between
the Union.


Fourth, That the interests of large
section of this Union, no less than
those of Virginia, demand the speedy
enlargement and completion of the
great James River and Kanawha wa
ter line that should connect the wa
tiers of the Ohio with those of the Ches-
apeake, affording to the teeming pops
ulation of the West cheap transporta-
ton of their products to the point of
of shipment and marts of trade in the
East. The completion by the govern
ment of this great design of George
Washington would be an additional
bond of union between the commu-
mites whose products and commo-
dities would pass over the line of the
great national work.


Fifth. We recognize as funda-
mental political truth, that upon the
intelligence and virtues of its people
must rest the prosperity, and powers
pre-eminence of State. We point
with pride to the successful establish
ment and progress of the free school
system of Virginia, inaugurated and
conducted under circumstances of pc
culiar difficulty. for which we are
indebted to the wisdom and zeal of a
Conservative State government. Lib
eral provision ought to be continued
for the support and retention of the
free schools for the white and colored
races respectively.


The resolutions were considered
seriatim.


General Early objected to the reso-
luton relative to James River and
Kanawha Canal, as he thought it
matter in the interest of the Great
West and entirely beyond the control
of the United States Government.


The report and resolutions of the
committee were carried almost unani-
mously, only one vote being castin the
negative.
Year: 1873

Iudoe Ould has raised question
rs 70 the eligibility of Col. Hughes,
claiming that the new constitution
merely extends the anti-duelhng
clause of the old one, leaving no
neriod of time when the crime OF
the duelist was tolerated by our orr
panic law. The duel between
Hughes and Cameron was fought
prior to the Walker election, which
is the date of the adoption of the
new Constitution. We think the
matter not worth debate. The
people of Virginia will defeat MIR.
Hughes by a vote which will as
tonish him. There is no more
doubt about it than if it had al
ready been done. The Ccnserva-
tive party is at perfect peace with
all of its component parts. The
people who compose it know per
fectly well that the triumph of Col
Hughes will be a revolution: that
it means the transfer Of power to
the negroes: that it means the
practical disfranchisement Of the
white people that the good old
State will then become roOst up-
pon which vii. come and sit all the
negroes and carpet-baggars who
are unsatiated elsewhere that it
would transfer to them the patro-
mage Of the State and the possession
of our railroads that it would
turn over to them the schools of
the state by enforcing the mixed
school system: that our hotels and
sleeping cars would be practically
abolished: that those who pay the
taxes could no longer appropriate
the money, but that the non-tax-
paying negroes of the State, intox-
icated by the possession and con-
troll of a fund which would dazzle
and tempt them would soon ruin
and gut the treasury of the com
monwealth, and paralyze every in
dustry in it.


1t can never be.
Year: 1873

EX-President Davis has been sit
ting in Richmond for measurement
by Valentine the Sculptor, who has
been engaged to furnish statue of
the celebrated Confederate leader


Mr.. Davis was permitted to view
the artists recumbent statue of
Gen Lee, designed for the grave of
the great confederate general. His
admiration of thes plendid triumph
OF Valentine is said to have been al
most unbounded. The attitude of
perfectIepOse particularly attracted
his attention. Bending over the
fgure of the immortal soldier he
declared that he almost felt as if in
his actual presence. The features and
the grand expression were there.
The immortal spirit had gone into
the loftier life above.
Year: 1873

tives, struggling for the honor and sal
walton Of the Commonwealth, which
they both love better than their lives.
as they have proven on a score of
bloody fields, there is no connection
between them. That is enough and
they will together fight for old Vir-
glaia to the death. Whatever of diff
ference there may have been between
this journal and General Malone, we
say squarely thai we are always pre-
pared to give him full credit for his
splendid services to the State, and ,
stand by him against any such assail-
ant of the editor of the Washington
National Republican.


"As to the reflections upon our stan
dard-bearer, General Kemper. in the
eyes of Virginians, they require no
comment. They will be accepted for
what they are worth, and they are
worth nothing. Without fear and
without reprOach, he stands before the
country in the exact attitude wich will
command for him every Conservative
vote in the Commonwealth of Virginia
and which will destroy the last yes
tige of Radical aspirations within its
limits"
Year: 1873

Then Betsey she got her specs from of the maltel-


shelf,
And read the article over quite slowly to herself
Read it by little and little for her eyes is gettin


old,
And lawyers writin' amt no print, especially


when it's cold.
And after she'd read little, she gave my arm a


touch
And kindly said she was afraid 1 was 'lowin' her


too much.
But when she was through. she went for me, her


face streamin' with tears,
And kissed me for the first time in over twenty


years
l don't know what you'll think, sir, didn't come


to enquire,
But picked up that agreement and stuffed it in


the fire
And told her we'd bury the hatchet along side of


that cow,
And we struck an agreement never to have another


row.
And told her in the future wouldn't speak cross


or rash
lfhaf The crockery in the house was broken all to


smash.
And she said in regards to heaven, we'd tIy and


learn its worth.
BY startin' branch establishment and runnin' it


here on earth
And we sat talkin' three quarters Of the night
And opened our hearts to each other until they


both grew light;
And the days when was winnin' her away from


many men,
Was nothin' to that evenin' l courted her over


again.
Year: 1873

COL. WITHER'S ACCEPTANCE.


"Afr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
the Convention: L shall make no at
tempt to express in words my high
appreciation of the distinguished hon
or you have done me by thus nomina-
ting me by acclamation to the second
office in the gift of the beople. From
my heart thank you.


"When first informed of your action
L peremPtorily refused to accept the
place rendered, not from any feeling of
pride, still less from any unwillingness
TO serve in subordinate position to
that distinguished soldier and gallant
gentleman whose name heads your
ticket, but from the promptings of that
self-respect which l feel deeply i'm
planted in my breast.


1.-THE answer which gave the COM
mittee repeated again and again on
my way to this stage, and after my ar
rival to the most urgent and forcible
appeals of those whom | know TO be
my tried and true friends, am in
clined even now to listen to the promp-
tings of this, perhaps false pride, which
impels meto Teiterate the refusal
But when the appeal is made in behalf
of the people of Virginia; when am
urged to make sacrifice of feelings,
of sensibility of pride for the sake of
securing more certainly the defeat of
that Internal party which seeks to Sc
cure the control of our dear old State,
and especially when am admonished
by that tried and true patriot and SOL
dier, Cen. Early, that it is n1y duty to
make this or any sacrifice for the good
of the cause, can DO longer refuse. 1
surrender at discretion. Take me and
assign me to any duty, in any position
where it may be deemed by you that
my poor services may be made availa-
BILE in defending Virginia from the
grasp of Radical rule-n


Loud and continued applause.l
Year: 1873

And one thing put in the paper that, first to me


didn't occur,
That when am dead at last, she'll bring me back


to her,
And lay under the naples planted years ego,
When she and was happy, before we quarreled 60.
when she dies wish that she would be laid by


me,
And, lying together in silence, perhaps we will
agree.
And If ever meet in heaven, wouldn't think 1t


queer,
If we loved each other the better, because we


quarreled kere.
Year: 1873

The Knoxville Chronicle says;


Certainly there are no class of
men more affectionate than farmers"
which form of expression may be
very good on the farmers but are
very bad on the editor who Piques
himself on his grammar,
Year: 1873

The State Committee.
l. There shall be State Committee,
composed of three members from each
congressional district. Such members
shall be appointed by the President OF
the Convention Oh the nomination OF
their respective congressional delega-
tions provided that such nomination
shall be made by at least a majority
of such districts concurring; otherwise
and in default of such nomination. the
president shall make the appointments
for such districts.


Vacancies in any such delegation af-
ter the same shall have been formed,
shall be filled by the committee upon
the nomination of the remaining MEM
bers from such district.


The State committee thus constitu-
ted is charged with the affairs of the
party, and shall have power to perfect
its organization and to direct its con-
duct in obedience to the declarations
and policy of the party as the same
shall be sent forth by this Convention.
1t may decide all questions at issue
which may arise in election districts
calculated to effect the harmony and
the interest of the party.


The State committee shall meet at
such times and places as they may
themselves determine. but especially
at such time and place as the EXecu-
tive Committee may designate.


,. There shall be All Executive Com
mittee, resident at Richmond, COM
posed of three persons, to be appointed
by the President of the Convention !;
and a secretary to be appointed by such
committee.


This, the Executive Committee,
shall have no power to originate any
measure. 1t shall be their express and
single duty to execute and carry out
the plans of the State Committee, as
the same shall, from time to time, be
laid down by that Committee, under
whose authority it shall act. and to
whose revision all the acts of this EX-
ecutlve Committee shall be subject.


CITY AND COUNTY oRGANIzATION.


8. Each city and county. by popular
meeting, after due notice or through
the medium of existing organizations,
may appoint city or county commit
tee. consist of two members from each
township or ward in each city or coun-
ty, who shall be charged with the af-
fairs and conduct of the party in such
city or county regulating and
directing the same, either by
wards and townships or otherwise, as
such committee may prescribe.


Such committee shall elect a chair
man, whose duty it shall be to appoint
all meetings and regulate all affairs as
to the party, which may embrace the
city or county.


In the election of delegates to any
election district convention, it shall
be the duty of such committee of the
city or county to prescribe by public
notice whether such appointments
shall be made by ward, township, city,
or county meeting, and the number of
delegates to which such ward, town.
ship, city, or county shall be entitled.


ReSoiUed, That all nominations made
by counties, senatorial of election dis
tricts, and all that may be hereafter
made by delegates already appointed
under the plan of organization hereto
fore adopted, are hereby declared regu-
lar and valid.
Year: 1873

mating with the commercial interests OF
New Orleans, which shows the two repub-
hes of Mexico and the United States in &c
cord for interoommunication by rail and
and steamer. We have the evidence that
this linz Of communication should be
most properly made by postal steamer
between VEGA Cruz and New Orleans.
VIII our merchants permit this commerce
TO fail for want OF filing this shor. link.
which might be done by contract IN thirty
days: We shall see.
Year: 1873

the murder of Mrs. Mcbride and attempt


ed murder of her husband on Tuesday


last. Nine thousand dollars in gold were


found on his person. He c0nfesses the
crime


SALT LAKE, July 25-Butcher, who
killed Cotton and his two sons was arrest


ed yesterday The youngest son was shot


FIVE times with revolver aud once with


gun loaded with buck-shot The eldest


son was shot five times, and cut in several
places with a kuife


WACO, July 25.-Deputy Sheriff Blan


kenship was fatally shot last night near
the city, by Bob Christal, notorious out


law. One hundred mounted men have


gone in search OF the murderer
DEsMoINEs, Iowa, July PA set Of
swindlers are travelling over the State
selling goods to farmers, representing that
they are friends 10 Grangers, are down on


niddlemen, and will sell their goods much


cheaper than they can buy them of their
home merchants. They carry with them


samples of the goods that they propose to
furnish, take the farmers notes for the
goods, and sell the notes at a discount
The goods never come. Another set is
operating in the southwest part of the


State in the same way, and carry their


goods with them and deliver them to their
customers. The goods universally prove
| TO be worthless shoddy
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
!
Year: 1873

Reader, the merchant, druggist and gro
Ger where you usually trade, keeps Renne's
Pain Killing Magic Oil for sale. If they
are out, they will get anew supply at your
request but be sure and call for it by the
full name, and take nothing else in its
stead. 1T works ike a charm"
Year: 1873

Our readers should be careful to notice
that PROCTOR K CANDLES STAMP is upon
the bars of their NOTIFIED GERMAN Soar,
as all good articles are initiated, and this
Soap being so popular, other manufactur-
ers have copied their stamp 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

WHAT YTHE MATTER although wo have
a contract for a mail six times week from
st Louis, it is now only OIL and on tha, we
get it with any regularity. Sometimes it Il.
no mail then again two more ut once. I'm
der the plea OF "spzootic many wilhl
negligences seem to creep into the mail SER
vice, Will our L. S. Mail Agent look after
this matter little.
Year: 1873

ey- The City Fathers should pass an Ordl-
nance, prohibiting the leaving Of horse or
mule teams on the main streets unhitched.
We came near having serious accident on
Saturday, through the negligence OF leaving
a team unattended on Main street
Year: 1873

There are two very flourishing socie-
ties now in Los Angeles all of whose
members are total abstainers. The
one is the Good Templars, who have a
handsome hall lover Caswell & Ellis
store, and the other is the Olive En-
campment of the Champions of the
Red Cross. In every town these bodies
save hundreds of their fellow-men
from the degrading curse of habitual
intoxication, and render them useful
members of society. The moderate
use Of stimulants is probably as great
an assistance to nature as the abuse of
stimulants is destructive; yet there are
many men who cannot use the "good
gifts of God' without excess, and it
is the special mission Of Temperance
Societies to aid and encourage the re-
form of all such.
Year: 1873

In rnply to the call for the establish
ment of madufac lures ON this coast, it
Is constantly urged that the high price
Of labor, and the great cost of fuel for
generating steam, will always make
home manufacturing too expensive for
profit; and we are constantly being
reminded by eastern journals, that it
will pay us better to buy our goods of
them, and devote our attention to ag-
riculture and mining. Such counsels
can only be the result of ignorance or
interest. Labor is high in California,
and we hope it may always remain so;
but that is no reason why we should
ship our wool, hides, and other raw
material to the Atlantic States or to
Europe, and exchange them for manu-
factured goods, paying enormous
i.reights both ways, and eXhorbitant
profits to manufacturers and middle
men. Better pay high wages to our
own laborers, and keep the money in
the country.


The bugaboO of expensive power
need deter no one from going into
manufacturing. All over. Southern
California there is sufficient water
power going to waste, to do all the
work we shall need for the next hun
dred years. To the traveller over our
plains there may seem to be a scarcity
of water, and, under the wasteful and
useless system now in operation, there
is not enough for irrigating purposes;
but where the streams issue from the
mountains, there is always large vol
ume of water, which can be used to
turn innpmerable wheels, without in.
terfering with its, use for irrigation.
The San Gabriel river, for instance,
has an average fall Of 100 feet to the
mile, and at the mouth of the cation
where the stream issues upon the
plain, there is, even in the dryest sea.
son, a flow Of at least 1900 inches o1
water. From that point to the place
where the water is used for mining, a
dozen large mills could be driven, with
no other expense than the construction
of short bitches to carry the water to
the wheels. What is true of this stream
applies to others, and our rivers, in
stead of rattling uselessly over their
rocky beds, might be driving thou.
sands of fspindles and working up our
wool and cotton. If a proper use OF
these advantages were made, there
would be no question in regard to the
profits of ofmanufacturing, and Califor-
mia, instead of helping to support a
dense population in New and Old Eng
land, would become hive of industry
herself.
Year: 1873

The local paper of one Of our neigh
boring cities bemoans the fact that the
erection Of q new hotel necessitates
the destruction Of an adobe cottage.
That editor must have an intense af-
lection for everything venerable, and
doubtless wears his grandfather
pants, In preference to a new pair.
Year: 1873

THERE is q singular disposition on
the part OF many Of our people to set
their buildings fiat on the ground.
Elevate them little, and they will
look better and be healthier to live in.
Year: 1873

No All men ought To know that all kinds OF
gentlemen's Clothing will be made with neat
ness and dispatch by regular tailor The
finest Imported and Domestic Cloths always
on hand at D. W. Fitzpatrick, corner OF
Court and Spring streets.
Year: 1873

wa- The tide OF Immigration Is steadily set
ting in, and the nrst thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one Of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two O
Year: 1873

A Bro sell. Last week we published
wonderful story from the Philadelphia Press
about a sea captain, drowned at Lewes, coming
to life. The affair turns out to be sell, as
was supposed, though the Press published the
item in all seriousness. 1t seems that the
undertaken at Lewes, fearing that he really
had cOtflned live man, wrote to the parties
in New FORK to whom the corpse was consigned
for information, and they assured him that the
man was dead and buried. The Press ac-
knOwlcdges it was sOld and says the sell
occurel in this way THE facts as detailed in
that article we're obtained in the usual course,
from specific information given at the Ii-eSS
rooms by the officers of Adams Express in
this city, who so firmly believed the entire cor
rectncss of what they were stating that the
tact that their evidence was merely "heresay''
was overlooked. 1t now turns out that the
only man who sd,0 the resuscitated corpse was
driver of the Long Island Express Company.
When he saw the box opened at Greenwich
Point, and peculiar flush Of blood in the face
of the dead man. the eyes wide open, and a
remarkable lifc-like appearance about the
body, he ran out frightened and spread the
report to the bystanders. And by the time
the tale reached the Office of the Adams FIX
press Company it had been exaggerated into a
| perfectly constructed sensation, harmonious in
all its parts, and sustained by cOrrOboratng
circumstances. The regularly commissioned
officers of the Adams Express Company were
so firmly convinced of the truth OF this sup
posed remarkable resurrection that the infor
nation was given at the Press rooms as Of
an authenticated fact"