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Year: 1871

There are those who believe that God
reserves the punishment Of the wicked"
for future state; while others believe
that the only punishment inflicted upon
those who transgress the moral law, as
also the laws of our physical being, are re-
warded in time only. The Bible doctrine
would however seem to uphold both of
these tenets. And however the christian
world, or those learned in the Scriptures
and their evangelical Interpretation, (and
we suppose that none else have any au-
thority for interpreting them. J may teach
US, every mans experience will recognize
the glaf1ng, universal fact. that violations
of the moral or physical laws of our being
are invariably followed by suffering on
the part of the criminal-here, in this life.
The doctrine of future rewards and pun
ishments we do not intend to discuss, nor
to weary your intelligent readers with
a homily on ethics. nor yet disquisition
on physical diseases and hygiene; but
simply to say, that at the close of the late
war between the States. we were tempted
to disbeleve in natural justice, divine
truth, and even in the very existence of
Divine Being. We knew that every base
and barbarous instrument had been used
by the Abolition government at Washing
ton to suhjugate the South to Yankee
control; that nearly the whole world had
been their recruiting station; that the
jails and penitentiaries of Germany and
Ireland, as well as those of the Northern
and Western States, had been emptied to
plunder, burn and murder the helpless
women, children and old men of the
South that even our own slaves had been
fired up" to the highest pitch of incen-
diarism, and belched forth by thousands
upon" the unprotected districts Of the
Southland all this that the arrogant and
intolerant Yankee might gorge himself
on Southern wealth. and hold hi gh carni-
val in the national treasury. We knew
all this and thought that if there was a
just God,


"Could such things be,


And overcome US like a summers cloud
Year: 1871

When man like Hon. VIM. p. Pres
ton, who, not only by his talents, but by a
brave adherence to principle under every
circumstance, has won the admiration and
respect of his party and of the community.


is unexpectedly put to new test and
comes forth triumphant, it must surely
be subject of earnest congratulation to
all who admire honesty and manliness.


We doubt NOT that in this county aud
Year: 1871

top, or little concave, generally aims to
have it higher in the middle to carry of
the water and not permit it to 60 through
the bottom of the stack. Does not the
parallel with regard to roads ''go on all
fours p


In forming the road bed, the writer be-
lieves that the most economical plan is to
do nearly all the work of moving the earth
by horsepower. Two good horses or
mules to plow out the side drains, and two
one-horse cast iron scoops to be operated
by the plowman, will, under favorable
circumstances, move more earth than
twenty men can with shovel and hoes
In addition to the above force. three or
four men to remove stones, stumps. roots,
&c., level the earth moved by the scoops
and finish the side drains, are believed to
be sufficient. -


For repairs, after the road bed is form
led. Cor it may be used under favorable
circumstances in forming it, the writer
constructed scraper, similar to such as,
be was informed by friend from New
York. were used in that State, each SUI
pervisor being required to have one. In
preserving the form of the road bed and
filling up ruts, it will. in his opinion, do
as much work. and do it better, than 100
men can with shovels and hoes. For two
horses, it is made with head piece Of IL
inches wide and 81 inches thick, and S
feet long. having plate of iron bolted on
the front side and extending about II
inches below the wood. To the head
piece attach the tongue and hounds by
three strong bolts to and through it. the
heads of the bolts being countersunk in
the wood on the under edge, the tongue
and head-piece to form an angle Of IS de-
grees with each other at the right and for
ward end Of the scraping part. That.
part should be verticle when in use, and
as the front end of the tongue, when
the team is attached. will be lighter than
the back end, it should be allowed for


when attaching it to the head-piece. It
is also necessary to have lever some or
8 feet long attached to the back part, TO
act as a rudder to keep it in position. II


four horses are used, the head-piece may


be feet long.


1t is not claimed that this or any other


plan will make turnpike out of earth, as
continued wet weather, with constant trav-
lel, together with freezing and thaxinq.
| will make bad roads at those seasons when


they occur; yet, if the foregoing system is
carried out. the writer firmly believes that,


in the language Of an acquaintance who,
was at one time opposed to it, but who is
now convinced of its correctness, 1--WE:
shall have better roads longer in the year."
After getting all the railroads and turn
pixies that we possibly can, there must
still be left far greater proportion of
earthen roads, and which will be the more
travelled from such improvements. It is
of course our interest, therefore, to keep
them in the best condition for use, and
with all the means which are in our pow.
er. 1t needs no argument to prove that
the wear and tear of vehicles. the strain-f
ing of horses and the difficulty of getting
produce to market, constitute vastly
heavier tax upon the community. than
reasonable sum of money judiciously ex-
pended upon our country roads. IS
Year: 1871

but SCeli9 1UuDoe1ded Hllen the
very instruments they hired TO carry out
their hellish schemes, and form breast


vork IN the hour Of battle, turned against
them. I think l am safe in saying that
scarcely paper has been issued north of
Mason and Dixon's line since the close of
the war that has not contained accounts
of murders and other crimes of equal
magnitude committed by those very in
|struments of brutality in the late war
Truly there are desolate houses in the
North since the war, as there were in the
sunny land during its ravages.


Call to mind, if you please, and count
if you can, the thousands of railroad ac-
cidents, steamboat explosions, and terrific
conAagrations that have scourged the
North and West since the war. The
work of setribution is going on slow but
sure. Can any man read the account of
the recent confagration in northern Illi-
nois and disbelieve in retributive justice ?
Before the close Of the year 1868 five
hundred towns in the South had been re-
duced to ashes. The valley of the Mis-
sissippi, Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana,
North Carolina, Texas and Alabama were
enveloped in cloud of smoke, ascending
from the cherished homes of thousands of
once happy families whose only crime was
love of those who, upon the tented field,
were battling for their constitutional
rights. While the fires of Puritanical
persecution were yet burning on the banks
of the Mississippi, the favorite statesman of
Illinois, (Grant was yet clerk in the lea
ther store, Washburn, delivered public
address in Chicago, exhorting the pious
denizens of that city to give men and mo-


ney without stint to carry on the war on
the programme of the government-ec-
termination, fire and sword That pro-
gramme was carried out so far at least as
fire could do it. And now behold the re-
verse Of the picture! Look at Chicago.
Read their cry for help. Three thou
sand square miles reduced to ashes, and
no human hand can stay the flames. -
Well, we should think not. Such things
will occur in the course of human events.
May God have mercy upon them. is the
language OF our hearts-a prayer that we
fear never assembled from Chicago in our
behalf But let all good men believe in
Divine government and retributive JUS
tice, and let those who have suffered all
but death, take heart. for though I'VE are
cast down, we are not deserted though
afflicted, We are not without help" And
while the arm of Providence is thus lifted
on high for the punishment of crime, we
must not forget that we have here amongst
US as bitter enemies of our rights, natural
and political, as those misguided people
of the North were during the late crusade
against the South. We must fight them
here, mow, by every means in our power,
trusting firmly in Omnipotent power
Their punishment may be delayed, but it
will surely come. They may riot in their
ill-gotten power, but the wicked shall
be destroye ed and that without remedy"
Time at last sets all things even"


BELIEVER.
Year: 1871




of debt decrease or meaningless pancgy-
ric upon pretended civil service reform.
Point to single usurpation of lawless
power. single invasion Of the rights of
State or the liberties of the citizen, and
at once cry of dis}oyalty and "Ku-
Klux" is the response. And call popular
attention to the glaring fact that the ma
chinery of government has been and is
prostituted to the vilest purposes Of parti
sanship and subordiuated to the aggran-
dizement and ambition of one unscrupu-
lous and grasping man. and at once whole
packs of paid parasites fall to abusing the
Democratic party and predicting horrible
things as the sequence Of its success.


1t is about time that the people of this
country were using their eyes and brains.
These pieces of partisan deceit have been
played so often and have become so thread
bare that the most short-sighted can see
through them the lurking villainy they
are intended to conceal. The time has
come when the people of this country must
look stern facts in the face; with their in
telligence analyze the issues befjre them,
and with true courage strip them to their
naked deformity When they do this they
will see that questions of finance. and tar
ifs and internal taxation. important as
they are, are but secondary and almost
Insignificant beside the greater and graver
issue the party now in power at Washing
ton SO industriously seek to conceal.


That issue simply and plainly stated is,
shall the future fnd US republic or
despotism? We know there are many
who will shrink from believing that we
have reached such a serious pass. But
in the declining days of republics that
have existed before US. there were thous-
ands who INDUCED in the same delusive
hopes, and suffered themselves to be de-
ceived into fatal apathy. When man
notoriously unscrupulous and corrupt, who
has had the mean crime of falsehood,
treachery and deceit proven upon him F;
who clutches money, no matter how, from
whom or for what purpose it is offered
who has disgraced his Office and his coun-
try by figuring in speculations that would
have damned far less conspicuous felon
to social and moral infamy; who has besi-
tated at no resort however despicable, no
means however disreputable, no instru-
mentality however shameful to gain an
end or increase his store; whose cupidity
obscures if it does not obliterate conscience;
and whose record shows him to have been
as citizen nuisance, as soldier freak
of fortune and as President fraud. is per-
mitted to usurp unlimited powers. surely
it is time to hesitate and consider. Greeks
and Roman. as free and prosperous as we
have been. believed liberty imperishable
and learned to their sorrow the weight of
tyrant's heel. They rocked themselves
in fancied security as we are doing. They
saw encroachment and usurpation squeez-
ing one artery of liberty after another,
and as the progress was gradual they be-
came accustomed and Indifferent to ID,
Year: 1871

until at last they awoke from their apathy
to find themselves the slaves of few am


bilious favorites and the helpless victims
of tyrant's rod.


We, too, have been gradually led into
the labyrinth of political decay. Had any
man twelve years ago predicted that a
Secretary Of State could ring his little bell
in Washington and arrest citizen of New


York without warrant or process of law,
convict him without trial and punish him
without even informing him of the charge
against him !; that the press could be muz-
zled or suppressed with inpunity; that no
privacy of the citizen was exempted from
forcible search that citizens could be pun
ished anywhere without trial by jury; that
the mails we're not sacred from the prying
eyes of Government detectives, and that
every right guaranteed to the State or ci-
tizen by the Constitution could be openly
and repeatedly violated, such prophet
would have been set down for a>fanatic or
a fool. Yet all these things have come to
pass, and the people who would have look
ed upon their prediction as something pre-
posterous and absurd quietly and abjectly
submitted to their infliction. But that
was during terrible war, a struggle for
the nations life? Suppose the same pro-
phet bad predicted that in time of peace a
reckless faction would turn State out of
the Union for partisan purpose, restore
it to the Union when patch was to be put
upon the organic law to make it more of a
party platform. and then legislated out Of
the Union again for mere party purposes;
that military satraps should rule with the
bayonet original States; that hordes Of
disreputable demagogues should be sent to
rule communities in which they we're
strangers, and plunder and Cypress dis
francHiscd people; that a President noto-
rious for the taking of bribes,. compli-
city iu the foulest schemes that persistent
avarice and perverted ambition could sug
gest. would be armed with absolute pow
ers to perpetuate his power; that the Su-
preme Court be packed to do Presidents
pleasure; that Congress could legislate
without restraint, and the Constitution
could be ignored, or robbed Of the judicial
strength by which alone it could be. prot
pcrly asserted; that the bayonet should
overshadow the ballot box, and minions of
power could invade any section of the
oo,,tru onl =. :>,:Jot,>1S/n n1aGna
Year: 1871

We cannot believe that the vast body
of the American people are so utterly in
different to their liberties as the lethargy
which pervades them would seem at a cas-
ual glance to indicate. The reign of
military necessity" may have made them
forget for season their duty and their
manhood, and their very love for republi-
can institutions may have been perverted
by the persuasion of demagogues that the
nation in her extremity demanded tenn
porary sacrifice. The misrepresentation
and SANDERS of unscrupulous politicians
may have blinded and deceived them into
believing that the usurpations and en-
croachments of the past five years were
necessary for the protection of free gov
ernments, the establishment of the
Union and the assurance of perpetual
peace. And a sense of security growing
out of the idea that republican institutions
are so valuable, and the results of their
experience so bencfcient, that they are
absolutely invulnerable. and that no heart
could he found base enough and no hand
strong enough to attempt their overthrow,
may have led them to abate for season
that vigilance which is the price Of liber-
ty, and permit themselves to- be so absorb
ed with the active duties of domestic life
as to fail in proper appreciation and con-
sideration of their duties as freemen.


Whatever may be the cause Of popular
Indifference or patience, however, the
stern and inevitable result is apparent to
every thinking and earnest mah. The
very existence of free government is me-
naced. and if the sovereign and heroic
remedy is not speedily applied. its eternal
downfall is imminent. Demagogues are
Disgusting the issues Of the hour; foul
slanders of one section are exciting and
alarming the other; false pretences of e.
economy are being made to cover the hide
Gus corruption that testers in every branch
Of the public service, and popular atten-
ton is purposely misdireeted to questions,
subjects and issues which are of but Sec
condary consideration. ASuch have been
the tactics Of IL R w. uia the past,
Year: 1871

Tir Top,-As usual, the tip top holiday
goods are at Cartwright's A sight of the
beautiful there is worth quarter, Ladies
like jewelry better than anything else as
presents. Cartwright will cell You set or
piece, iust as cheap now as any time during
the year.
Year: 1871

The great Blood Purifier and Delicious Brink

 WARMERS VINUM VITE, or WINE OF LIFE, is free from any poisonous drugs or impurities, being prepared for those who require stimulant. It is splendid appetizer and tonic, and the finest thing in the world for purifying the blood It is the most pleasant and delicious article ever offered to the pubic, far superior to brandy, whiskey wine, bitters, any other article. It is more healthy, and cheaper. Both male or female, young or old, can take the Wine of Life. It is, in fact life preserver. Those who wish to enjoy good health and free flow of lively spirits, will do well to take the Wine of Life. It is different from anything ever before in use. It is sold by all druggists. Price $1, in quart bottles
Year: 1871

The bcst way to humble proud man is
to take no notice of him. .


Remember that recreation must not be
your business, but preparation for it.


They who spine" in their youth can
never look "sprucc" in old age.


Fly in all haste from the fricnd who will
suffer you to teach him nothing.


Politcncss is like an air cushion there
may be nothing solid in it, but it cases the
jolts wonderfully.


Natural wants arc few and easily graft.
fed !; only those which are artificial per.
picked us by their multiplicity. , |


Value tho friend who stands by you in
storm; swarms Of insects will surround you
in the sunshine.


There are many doublings in the human
heart don't think that you can find out
the whole of mans real character at once.


Never answer a calumniator. If you
will only give rattlesnake time enough,
he will sting himself aud die Of his own
venom.


Tho secret of ones SUCCESS or failure in
nearly every enterprise is usually contained
in the answer to the question-Ilow car.
nest is he?


A man is hcalthicst and happcst when
he thinks least either of health or happi-
mcss. To forget an i'll is half the battle !;
it leaves easy work for the doctors.


Sir Peter Lely made it rule never to
look At bad picture, having found by ex.
perience that whenever he did 50 his pen.
Gil took tint from It. Apply the same
rule to bad company.


lie who resolves frequently is apt to
spond all his energies in his resolutions.
1t is better to advance upon the Journey
which you have proposed, even though the
baggage be left behind.


Good actions, though they diminish our
time here as we'll as bad actions, yet they
lay up for US happiness in eternity, and
will recompense what they take away by
aplcntifui return ut last. ~,
Resignation is an exalted Christian virtue.
1t is plant that grows not from nature g soil.
1t is a grace that must be cultivated like the
rosc-tree that it may flourish aud shed forth
its sweet fragrance amid the passing scenes
of life.


Women govern US lot rs render them
perfect, The more they arc enlightened,
so much the more shall We be. On tho
cultivation ofths mind Of women depends
the wisdom Of men,, 1t is by women that
Mature writes on the hearts Of men. ..f.
Year: 1871

SooN.-Aningeuious mind has invented
a sheep-sheariug machine, to which the
animal under operation supplies the motive
power. We shall soon have mutton roast
ing itself and walking on tho table.
Year: 1871

This has been the worst season for mos
quitoes at the South ever known. To
Florida, Of a cloudy day 6eldhands found
It impossible to labor, owing TO the fierce.
ness Of these terrifying little insects. As
soon as the sun is down people have to get
behind a mosquito net to keep from being
devourcd,
Year: 1871

We lived far away in the country in
a rustic district. My father was post
master OF the little place, and kept a
few groceries for sale. But he bad
enough 10 do TO maintain his tkmily
scantily and clothe them decently. l
was sixteen, and house-keeper my
mother was dead. and wxs the eldest
Of US four children. The rest being
younger, 1 strove to do my best for
them.


My one great trouble then was my
clothes. Other girls Of our station
that associated with dressed better
than could. and it grieved me. Van
ity begins earlier than that in the fe-
male heart. l had made up and re-
made every article OF my mothers
wardrobe for the children or for me,
had worked up every shred to the best
advantage: and now that was all gone,
and did need a new dress for the COM
ing winter. had made my shoes last
AS long again as the other girls did, for
knew my father needed every sixpense
he could earn, and dreaded wanting
anything. Not that he was cross, but
he often sighed, and looked SO panied
and sorrowful when asked for money,
that l tried TO do with as little as pos
sible.


But here it was the last Of October:
my summer dresses. poor enough At
times, looked very thin and paltry now.


One Saturday afternoon l shalt new
er forget. 1t is what am going TO tell
of. Ny work all done, the children at
play in the orchard, l combed out my
long, brown hair, put on my best cot
ton frock, selected plain linen collar
of my own making, and pinned itrOund
my neck with an old breast-pin, the
only bit of jewelry had ever owned.
With NE think it was an instinct to
dress well. Not fine; only neat
Then, taking out my last winters best
frock, l sat down by the window to see
what could do at renovating it. II
was light blue merino-very light in
deed now-and l knew it was too
short for me, as was still growing,
and was very shabby. But by turning
and putting in wide band of trim
ming which had, l thought it might
be made to answer SO l set to work
with q will.


The work was vexing. was trying
to do what scarcely could be done;
and as sat sewing and contriving,
felt fit to cry over our poverty. Just
then the dog on the shop-sill set up a
loud barking, and looked to see what
it was. A man coming in at the gate
with a pack on his back; travelling
peddler, l knew. He smiled and came
in, although l said did not want any
thing; and the children. seeing him,
came running in too.


Il cannot afford to buy; indeed L
cannot l kept saying. But the man
only kept on smiling. and opened his
pack on the parlor floor. And 1t was
too great . treat TO me to see the
things, to make great opposition.


The first thing that came out WAS
lust the very thing l had most longed
for-a beautiful fine French merino, of
a dark crimson color. lhad once seen
a dress of this color, but none had ev-
or been offered for sale in our little
place that could equal this in shade or
texture. =,


The pedler looked at me with his
keen black eyes - l knelt down 70
Year: 1871

between them and tho cityj now dozen pretty cot
tages, neatly painted line the road Rome has NOT 20
lshments are going up and Others are being enlarged


Tie Northern man moving into this section can Iann
drouth has this year off the wheat crop, and has
sold at e. Is per bushe He may raise grass or gram as
he peAses His market Ia neRrthe great cotton DelC IN


days ride. In manufactures there 10 an opportunity
for profit in cotton and wooen factories; there an
urgent demand for an agricultural implement WORKS
and the railroads progress the country on the west
presents unrvaled field for the production OF pig iron
and the various articles made from It,