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Year: 1872

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LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
CARPENTER ON CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
WOMEN TO HOLD OFFICE
MILITARY DIVISION OF THE SOUTH
1T IS TO BE DISCONTINUED
REPORTING TO ARMY HEADQUARTERS
MURDERER STOKES IN COURT
ST. LOUIS RAILROAD CONVENTION
WARM WEATHER IN HATJEORNIA
Year: 1872

O, there's power to make each hour


AS sweet as heaven designed 1t
Nor need we roam to bring it home,


Though few there be that frd it.
We seek too high for things close by,


And lose what nature found us;
For life hath here no friends so dear


As home and friends around us.
We oft destroy the present


For future hopes-and praise them,
While flowers as sweet bloomat oUrteet,
If we'd but Stoop to raise them;
For things atar still sweeter are


When youths bright spell hath bound
Soon we're taught the earth hath naught
Like home and friends aroundus.
The friends that speed in time of need,
When hopes last reed Is shaken,
Do show us still that, come what will,


We are not quite forsaken.
Though all were night, if but the light


From friendships altar crowned us,
Twould prove the bliss Of earth was tins
Our home and friends around us.
Year: 1872

A distinguished man lay on hisdeath-
bed, when q great mark OF distinction
and honor was brought to him. Turn
ing a cold glance on the treasure he
would once have clutchcd with IN eager
grasp, he said, with sigh, Alas ! this
is very fine thing in this country; but
am going to country where it will
be of no use to me- Who can reflect
without sadness ON the closing moments
of the gallant Gen. Neill ! His life long
dream was to obtain the little Jatonand
ribbon of marshal OF France. lie could
not sleep after seeing it conferred on
McMahon as reward OF yalor in the
battle of Magenta. Before the next en-
gagement, he told his friends that this
time he would win the prize he 50 much
coveted. The conflict was over and
they sought him anXiously upon the
CORY field. They found him almost
crushed beneath his war-horse, and the
practiced eye Of the surgeon told him
that life would soon be over. Word
was sent to the Emperor, who quickly
arrived, and taking from his own breast
the badge OF the marshal Of France, he
placed it over the heart Of his faithful
follower. The life long dream was re-
allied, and with 4 single throb of cNul-
tant JOY and gratitude he threw his arms
about the neck OF his sovereign; the
next instant he fell back into the en-
brace Of King Death.


Oh, how can we struggle, and toll,
and distract our hearts from the one
great purpose of life, simply to gather
about us possessions which, thoughthey
may be very fine things in this country,
will be of no use to us in the country
we are so shortly going to?
Year: 1872

a crusty old bachelor in Congres'pro-
poses to levy tax Of twenty-five per
cent on corsets, whereupon a down
East paper remarks: since there is no
tax on men getting tight, why should
not ladies have the same privilege?
Year: 1872

Somebody who evidently knows chow
it is himself, sagely remarks that when
you see young lady making fuss
over q widowers children, make up
your mind that if she don't soon have
the right to spank 'em, it won't be her
fault.
Year: 1872

4 Coon WoRD foH LoCAL PArEEs.
The New York Times SAYS you might
nearly as well forget your churches,
your acadames and school houses, rs
to forget your local paper 1t speaks
to ten times the audience that your local
minister does, and it is read eagerly each
week from beginning to end ltIcaches
all and if it has a lower spirit and less
wisdom than sermon, 1t has a thOUs-
and times better chance at YOU Lying
as it does, open on every table, IN al
most every house, YOU owe IT 90 your
selves to rally liDerally to its support,
and exact from it as able, hi2h-ioned
character as you do from any education
in your midst. 1t is in no sense be-
meath your notice and care, for il is
your representative. Indeed, in It's
character it is the summation OF the
Importance, interest, aud welfare Of
you all. 1t Is the aggregate Of your
consequence and you cannot ignore IT
without miserably depfeciating your
self.
Year: 1872

A correspondent writes: If any one will
break his ground deeply and thoroughly
two or three times during the spring and
summer, the extra amount of wheat per
acre will pay for plowing and leave hand
some profit besides. l have tested this
practice several times with the most salts
factory results. In 1869 L had field OF
sixteen acres of like fertility. l expected
to plant half the field in corn, but for some
reason | did rot. In the half that had
been plowed for corn after the ground had
been broken the weeds grew more rapidly.
Consequently broke it again the goth of
June. On the first of September following
/ plowed the entire field and sowed in
wheat. The result was as follows The
half which had only received a single
blowing yielded per acre thirteen bushels
and eighteen pounds; the half that receiv-
ed three breakings yielded per acre twen-
ty-three bushels and forty pounds, which
made difference of more than ten BUSH
els per acre. At one dollar per bushel
this would pay for the extra blowing and
leave net profit Of six dollars per acre
besides.
Year: 1872

It has been so long since we enjoyed
the benefits of a free government, that we
can scarcely appreciate in its fullest extent
the change in our affairs that the election
of Mr.. Greeley will bring about. We have
been so long accustomed to official inter
ference with Our liberties as citizens and in
so many ways we have been SO long ac-
customcd to official plumber of our proper
ty, and in so many ways, and all without
remedy or redress, that if an era of free
constitutional government should all at
once return, we would doubtless feel like
men who had just walked up i'll some for
eign Land of such strange beauty and sur
passing brightness, as to make them doubt
the evidence of even their waking senses !!


1t Will indeed be a strange sensation, but
none the less pleasing, when North Car
Gilman can once more tread the soil upon
which he was born, and in which lie the
bones of his ancestors, and feel that he is
free man; that the government under
which he lives is organized, that the laws
are framed, and that justice is administer





innocent, and not for their oppression.


1t will indeed be a strange sight when
we can enter our courts Of justice and
once more see upon the bench men like
CASTOR, and Manly, and Ruffin, and
Badger, instead of men like Tourgee, and
Watts, and Logan, and Henry, and Rod
man. and Peason, and Reade, who are an
offence and stencil in the nostrils OF all
who honor North Carolina, and look with
shame upon her judicial errnine, dragged
in the mire OF partizan strife or dissraced
by corruption, cowardice, drunkenness or
ignorance.


1t will be a rare feelieg of relief TO know
that the horde of vUlltures, calling them
selves Revenue officers, who have SO long
preyed upon the very vitals of the State,
have forever taken their flight !: to know
that the foul brood of spies no longer in
tests the land, catching UP mems words
and dogging their paths; to know that
Deputy United States Marshals no longer
roam over the land-their pockets filled
with blank warrants and clothed with
power to arrest and imprison innocent
nen and young children and delicate
women!


1t will be a safe feeling, that will possess
a man, when he realizes that the writ Of
Habeas Corpus cannot be suspended; thai
| the rule of the statute book has takeI
the place of the rule of the bayonet!


When all these things come to pass, the
| times will indeed seem strange. That they
are benefits no man will deny, but will the
election of Mr.. Greeley bring them about
This is the great question for Us OF the
South to decide for if they are to follow
Mr.. Greeley's election it will plainly be ou
duty to vote for him regardless of old pei
sonal or partizan prejudice.


These great blessings, of which even tn
anticipated possession makes the futur
look SO bright and hopeful to us, can b.
summed up in single word almost, peac
and constitutional government!


Is Mr. Greeley pledged to these things
Let the following noble utterances at Vicks
burg, in 1870, answer:


"I hope that the time may come Whel
the whole American people, North as WEI
as South, may take pride in The militar
Year: 1872

There are signs of break among the
negroes in favor of Greeley and Brown.
Meetings are now held in various parts of
the State, and efforts are on foot to secure
the services of an able speaker of color to
labor among their own people. The in
dustry of the Administration party is un-
tiring, and the methods they employ to
keep the colored people in doubt, and solid
for Grant, show that the situation is viewed
as critical in the extreme. An intelligent
colored man from one of the thickly popu-
lated counties reports that in many neigh
borhcods clubs are formed, and readers
are engaged to read for the people from the
leading Conservative papers in the State
Year: 1872

liver since the North Carolina election
there 3.as been lull in the political world.
Ihe result in this State, while it was not
all that the Liberals hoped for, was a Bit
ter disappointment to the Administration
Year: 1872

OF the many Poles emigrating to this
country it is remarked that very large
per centage are journeyman tailors. This
is doubtless owing to the mutual attraction
between the needle and the Pole.


[How about Andy Johnson.l
Year: 1872

The night train on the jackson railroad,
going north, which left New Orleans Friday
evening, was thrown off the track about
one o'clock yesterday morning, half mile
south of Magnolia. The accident was
caused by the removal of rail by some
distardly miscreant. The baggage car, two
passenger coaches, and sleeping car
were throne entirely off the track, but the
engine, tender, and mail car jumped the
break, Colonel Kilbourne, the baggage
master and Mrs. Baker, of Cook county,
on her way to Memphis, vera seriously
injured, the latter dangerously. Five or
six others we're badly bruised. The injured
persons were taken to Gottig's Hotel, and
placed under medical treatment. The
south bound train was delayed.


The latest information from the scene of
the disaster-half mile from Magnolia
assures us that one rail had been removed
from the sleepers, and the adjoining rail un-
lOOsened by the withdrawal of the spikes.
The engine and mail car passed over in
safety, however, while the baggage car and
two passenger cars were thrown off the
track and down the embankment. Several
of the passengers were badly bruised, but
the worst accident occurred to Colonel Kill
berne, conductor, who had a rib broken.
The colonel came in town on the eleven
o'clock train last evening and the balance
of the injured passengers continued on.


The dastardly attempt to take human life
by removing the rail from the sleepers was
unexpected, since the kindness and courtesy
of all the employees of the road it was sup
posed had endeared them to all parties; but
a detective was promptly dispatched to the
spot, and probably by this time the wicked
secret is unraveled
Year: 1872

morning to make fire before day that
summer was here"


Well" said Fatty, chats the way with
all of us, suppose. We're never satisfied
with the weather, and it's lucky we're not.
If we couldn't keep up this agitation we'd
fall to pieces for want of exercise
Year: 1872

"That sneak of a reporter who took notes
Of Greeley's private conversion at Chap
paqua deserves to be held up" remarked a
politician.


1T will teach the old boy lesson" said
a cautious old fox; there's nothing does so
much harm as talk. A man with an open
heart is always talkative, but no politician.
All candidates should be careful of what
they say, even to wife or daughter. A
loose tongue has ruined more men than a
tight head"


There's considerable anxiety on this
point
Year: 1872

A property owner who had lost by fire
nearly all he had, found in the statement
that the Erie railroad shops were burned
by the workmen whom they would not en-
ploy verifcation of his suspicious that
the dreaded Internationals had clan in
this country and also in New Orleans.
zone who determined to make bar.r1s nv
machinery,"' said he, "set up shop some
time ago., receiving warnings on all sides
not to do it. After everything was in oper-
alton a mysterious visitor approached his
foreman and told him thousand dollars
was his property if he would slink off and
let the shop be burned. This fellow was
turned over to the police A few davs
after large house belonging to the owner
Of the shop was set on fire and burned to
the ground, the house of another machine
cooper was also burned up within few
squares, and every now and then l hear
of mysterious fires which destroy those
shops where machinery is used


els that the principle of the Information
ais l''inquired an insurance agent.


Il don't know. Somehow it is mixed in
my head with the Commmes who used Pc
troleum on Paris and at Marseilles, where
all the shipping would have been destroyed.
Wherever their influence gets strong you
find strikes and secret meetings, in which
even murder is plotted and incendiarism
advised. See the brutality of the strikes
in Pensylvauis; but in New York they
were more peacaable. A secret society,
such as they keep in Italy and France,
is impossible in this country of news
papers, and to that 1 lay the failure of
their concern. That the dreaded spirit is
at work, or that the seed is sown, 1 have
not the slightest doubt"


The secret and the horrible are always
sensational. 1t is no wonder this was heard
with suspended breath.
Year: 1872

Thou scurvY wretch, come now, your arts forbear,
And fer hereafter cleanse and pray prepare
Assai the Governor with such vile arts as these
Pander and fawn the pOpulace to please;


The ladders there, bat you will never climb
Through knavish arts Of lust and guile and crime
Year: 1872

There is nothing more difficult for a
sane man to understand than why peo-
pie will commit suicide. The problem is
rendered still more perplexing by the
fact that many suicides grow out of
causes which are considered the most
trivial. Only little while ago there
was the girl who plunged into a watery
grave because she had warts, and the
man who hung himself because his wife
had her hair cut off in spite of his op-
position; and now within few days a
West Virginia man goes out into his
barn and becomes his own hangman be-
cause his dinner isn't ready promptly.
As in these cases the victims must have
been infinitesimally endowed with
brains and with all so senselessly sensi-
tive that their lives would not only be
burden to themselves, but to every
body about them, it is as well, perhaps,
to count their taking of themselves off
the only "happy thought Of their lives,
and for their benefit to make the dis.
tinction of justifiable suicide.
Year: 1872




Mr.. EplToR Little OF Importance
has transpred since my last, every
thing has been very dull and vuIet at
this Post for some time past. Lieut..
Smith Of my Company returned from
a scout a few days go. lie went
West from this point, secuted tn"
country some eighty miles around the
Post, returning by way OF CHmi
Supply. He reports al | quiet and no
Indian signs; the day before his ar
rival at supply u small party OF the
Third Infantry, who are guarding the
crossing OF the Cimmcrone between
Supply and Dodge, Were attacked by
party of Cheyennes; but fortunately
the Boys in Blue We're on the alert
and gave them volley, kl1.eN one
and wounded several. Lo dId not
like this mode OF treatment and fled
in disorder. Most of the Indian news
at present come from Texas; the latest
report from that quarter is the killing
aud carrying Oft OF an entire family
by the name of Lee, seven in number
This family is well known to youl
correspondent; this was done by
party of Kiowas, about fifteen mile
below Fort Griffin, on the Clear Fork
of B.azos. Gen. Mackenzie, under
stand, is organizing an "Xpe"Iilo'
against the kiowa tribe in Northtr'
! Texas, and woe be to the Indian thai
dares to cross his path. Little Phil
Sheridan ought to be turned loose
among them tor Il short time; just lie
him have his own way for a few
months, and | will venture to say 1T
will soon settle all our Indian troubles
lead instead of bread is his MOTTO
Ny firm belief is and always has beer
that this is the on y system that ough
to be adopted. In regard to tn
treatment of the Indian a peace polio,
will never have the desired effect, b
Year: 1872

Speaking evil of ones neighbors is
a hldeous crime 1t works to the
prejudice of their fame, safety and
welfare, and tends to bad ends. 1t is
a restless evil which disturbs society,
spreads dissension in communities,
wherever it is practiced. 1t is an
enemy to peace, comfort and christian
good brceding-still more dreadful
is this evil, when it is found among
and practiced by those who are mem
bers and loud spoken professors of
the Lord Jesus Christ s Church.


There is sometimes malignant
pleasure manifested, a studious recol-
lection of every thing that can be
brought forward, delight in hearing
anything spoken against others, a
secret in knowing that another fall
will be an occasion Of our rIse-aIl
this is base and ticnlish to an ex-
treme. The impropriety and sinful
ness Of evil speaking will appear II
we consider that it is entirely opro-
site to the whole tenor Of the Chris
tan religion, expressly condemned
and prohibited as evil. No practice
hath more severe punishments de
nounce,l against it it j. an evidence
Year: 1872

What is youth? When compared
with nature we find an allegory
Look at the youth of either sex, there
il some executions. What is it that
causes the radiant beaming face p
Ask the morning. What is it that
causes its brightness, yea morning,
the brightest Of all the day? Behold
the ruling orb of day as he lightens
up the horizon it is surely this that
arrays the morning in all its lowell
ness. And is not youth the morning
of life; and is it not the ruling orb OF
the youthful heart-Happiness that
causes the rosy cheeks, merry laugh,
bright eve and sweet voice to blend
so harmoniously with the gay flowing
eddies of life s river, as it flows along
by sweet smelling flowers on every
side. Alas youth is as the flower,
it will and must fade. Young friends
look at that decrepid old father with
his hoarv locks, sunken cheeks and
faded eve; was he not once young
Yes, his now hoarv locks were once
beautiful raven curls, his snnken
cheeks, rosy dim eyes, bright as your
own. But ah his youthful days are
passed, and SO will the youth of onr
lives soon pass, and we, if permitted
to live, ere long, will become as the
old man. Youthful reader laugh no
more at the old and decrepld; they
were once young like yourself-and
though your thoughts now may be
bright and your future seem brilliant
and gay, as the picture is beheld BY,
the minds eve Of youth. Stop and
think what were the old man s
thoughts, when youths bloom was on
his cheek he too had brilliant hopes
of the future-but his thoughts Of the
future now are far different; he sees
quite near the grave in which shall
soon be laid those old weary limbs
Young friend do you ever think SEN
siblv of death If You would have
the fact called to your minds that
Won too must die-mavhe Young


Walk with me to the cemetery and
there read upon some of the marble
tomhs. "Died in his or her youth. -
Youthful eyes that now scans these
lives bright because of the Joy OF the
heart that now beats even as Is the
life Of it's vonng owner; remember
that many young eyes have become
dim and hearts ceased to beat. When
the strong arm Of death has arrested
Nature and the immortal soul has
taken its flight for eternity then
young friends, is that soul prepared
for that land, where the JOY of youth
is felt in every heart If not, Oh
stop and think who has given you the
happiness you enjoy in youth-lt Is
God and unto him must you give an
account of the spending of that
youthful life. NJ. Il, M.
Year: 1872




manners; it is the adherence OF all
wise and good men it is exceedingly
injurious to society and inconsistent
with the relation we bear to each
other as christians; it is opposite to
the examples which Christ laid down
and whom we profess to follow. He
commands US, Follow Inc. No."
this is exempli6ed in walkins acting,
speaking as he did while in the flesh; ;
and those who profess him should en-
deayor to act out what he has com
manded. But some take great pleas
ure to act as though they had full
license to do as they think best, Ieav-
ing out of question anything relating
to the christian profession. Some de-
light to speak evil Of one another; 1t
become second nature, and are not
satisfied unless they keep up n com
motion; if it dies out, they revive 1t
again; they must have something t"
talk about; the well becomes dry
they borrow from others and throw it
in and then commence to pump again;
what a fepdish disposition. They
make pits for others to fall in, but
most generally have the good luck to
fall into them themselves; ! was only
in fun say some if defeated but this
is a monstrous fun, kill a man or wo-
man and say it was done in fun. No
one is at liberty to destroy the repu-
tation or character of any one
Thou shalt not kill, is broad com
mand, and this can be done by evil
speaking. An example here cited
and founded on truth.


A very pious minister living IN one
of our large cities; a deacon OF his
church lived just opposite. One night
when retiring, the deacon > family
attention was drawn to an unusual
voice across the street; they all look
ed out and to their horror, they saw
the minister beating his wife around
and around the room with the stove
poker; his wife and two chlIdren
running and screaming at the top OF
their voices. This scene continued
until his wife fell exhausted to til"
floor; the deacon, wife and daughter
all saw this; can II be possible. (eS,
We all saw it; that good llous man
beating his wife shalnetullv; II $50, -
\ family counsel was held, ;hc deacon
enloined it on his family not to tell
it; they could hardly believe " hat
they saw. The deacons daughter
told member of the church ; then 1t
spread and lost nothing; ii went 50
far that it was necessary to arruGn
the minister before the Council tor
unbecoming conduct. When present
he asked what charges were against
him they were stated, all right, We
we must send for my wife and let her
speak for herself. Iha, might on en-
,erins tAe room they discovered II rat
and got after it ; it ran up his wife 5
clothes, scared her, she ran and hal
lowed the minister ran after and beat
her clothes to beat he rat out, nnlll
she tell--1here the scene closed.


Be careful all YARNS or hurttuI
gossip may hay" a rat at the bottom
of them. 1t is wisdom to hold your
tongues.
Year: 1872

Our adversary across the hall says
that we edit the ADVERTISER for our
board and whiskey bills. Our neigh
Dor is evidently jealous. We fancy it
would be good thing for his land
lord and our saloon keepers, did some
responsible gentleman assume respon-
sibility for the payment of his board
and Whiskey bills. The fact, howev-
er, that the editor of this journal does
not indulge in spirituous or malt Ii
quors, rather takes the edge Off of our
meighbor's Joke.
Year: 1872

The dirty scribblerof the Democrat
challenged Us some two weeks since
70 bet that lac did not own the mate
rial or the Office over which he pre-
sided, knowing fall we'll that it was
covered sith mortgage. Last week
he was obliged to give 4 new mortgage
covering what little material he had
added since the old mortgage Vaagiv-
en-. He would rather sacrifice to lie
than to make money by telling the
truth.
Year: 1872

Which party may be successful in
the Old North State, is yet doubtful
but no doubt exists about Brown &
French selling first class groceries
cheaper than they can be bought any
where else in town. Come and see for
Yourself.
Year: 1872

Upton recently told citizen of this
country that he would vote for jeff
Davis in preference to Grant. OF
course he is not actuated by prejudice,
but from patriotic impulses. A year
ago he told US he would vote for the
Democratic nominee regardless of the
platform on which he stood, in pref
erence to Grant, and he is keeping
his word good.