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THE SMOKY HILL AND REPUBLICAN UNION.
VE JOIN OURSELVES TO NO PARTY THAT DOES NOT CARRY THE FLAG, AND KEEP STEP TO THE MUSIC OF THE UNION."
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;By Blakely & Martin.
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.A-t J" unction City. Kansas.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BARTLETT, W. K., Gbocer and Produce
Dealer, Washington street, between 7th
aud 8th streets.
BECKER, WM., City Bakery oni Confection
ary, Washington Street, befn Cth and 7th.
BECKERS, M., Painter and
Washington and Seventh,
Glazier, corner
CASPER, JOHN, Boot and Shoe Maker, Wash
ington street, between 7th and 8th.
OBB, EDWARD, Builder and Architect, cor
J ner of Sixth and Jefferson.
D
REW, F, T., Physician and surgeon.
Office
at Eagle Hotel.
D
ALE, JOSEPH, Butcher and Dealer in
Meat, corner Washington ana higtiiu.
E AG LIS HOTEL, J. II. BROWN, Proprietor.
Corner Washington and Sixth street.
I LETCHER, F. M., Builder and Architect,
' 5th street, bet'n Washington and Adams.
jANTZ, HENRY, Dealer in Dry GoodB and
" Clothing, corner Cth and Washington.
GROSS & THIELE, Cabinet Makers and
Undertakers, Washington street, between
Seventh aud Eighth.
GILBERT, N. S., Dealer in Dry Goods and
Groceries, corner 7th and Washington.
H
ALL. LUTHEK, City Druggist, Washington
Street, bcloT Eighth.
- TEHLE, FRANK, Boot and Shoe Maker, Wash
J ington street, between 6th nd 7th.
KAHNAN, J. H-, Tinner and Dealer
Stoves, Corner Ninth and Washington.
LE
:G0HE, J , Jeweler, Waeaington etreet.
above Sixth.
MITCHELL, 1)., Surveyor and Civil Engi
neer, Washington street above Seventh
MOBLCV, 11. D., District C'.crk and Land
Agput. Office in Taylor's Building, oppo
site the Park.
M
ONROE, WILLIAM, Stone Cutter
and
Mason, comer Gth and Washington.
M
AY, CHARLES, Brick Mason, Washington
Btreet above Seventh.
M
ARVIN. FRED F , Bawjer, corner beveatn
and Jefferson.
0
DLIN, WOOD11RIDGE, Attorney at Lav,
Seventh street, near Jeflerson.
PERKINS, B. F-, Attorney at Law, Frontier
Building, Washington street.
STREETER k STR1CKLER, Dealers in Dry
Goods, Groceries and Hardware, corner
Washington and Seventh street.
STRONG, HENRY, Tailor, Washington street,
below Ninth.
S" EYMOUR, E. W., Physician and Surgecn,
City Drug Store, Washington street.
STRICKLER, S. M., Post Master, corner
Seventh and Washington.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. R.
McBratncy, Register; S. D. Houston, Re
eiver. Corner Eighth and Adams.
UWIOW JOB PIUNTlIfG ESTAB
LISHMENT, Jefferson street, above
' Seventh. i
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S. EXPRESS OFFICE, City Drdq
Store, L. Hall, Agent.
WILEY, J. P., Grocer and Dealer in Pro
duce, corner Washington and Seventh.
WHITE, S, B., Attsrneyand Notary Fublic,
Washington Btreet, below Seventh.
W
OOD & MACKEY, Blacksmiths,
street, below 8th.
Adams
EDWARD W. SEYMOUR, M.D.,
AND
ACCOTJCEETJR.
OFFICE, AT THE CITY DRUG STORE,
Junction City, Kansas.
W. B. SUTLIFF,
Merchant Tailor
' Eldridgo House,
xjhwj-wv-
Kansas.
J. LEGORE,
JEWELEE.
Dkaiur is Clocks, Watches, asd
Jewelry. .
. jg5 Repairing done to order on short notice,
1 P gsd in good -style. nlSyl
H
ARPER LESLIE, and other Iixcstju-
TKDlVeeklies,for sale by uaijIj.
S
PAULDING'S Cephalic Pills at
Uduuo.
JXnSTCTIOISr, DAVIS CO., KuSTSS, THimSDAY,
feral fSJkdktg.
THE RESULT.
Several worthy individuals, who frequent
ly, now-a-dnys, attempt to sbout for the
Union, but whose loyal utterance stiak in
their throat as though not accustomed to
the thoroughfare, are, just now, very fear
ful that the war is being carried too far;
that its legitimate object has been attained
in Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland; that
it was never intended to be really carried
into Africa; that 'our erring brethren' were
to be soundly scared, and then to be put to
bed beside the brothers and sisters they
failed to murder. Like the Scotch Minis
ter, sorely vexed by some unruly urchins in
the gallery over the pulpit, who prayed,
" And now, Oh, Lord, take those unright
eous brats in the gallery by the nap of the
neck, shake them over tbe bottomless pit;
but merciful Father mind thy grab that they
decend not into perdition," do these over
sensitive philanthropists desire that mischief
makers shall not suffer the penalty of their
crimes. They desire the general Govern
ment to shake them thoroughly, but they
arc continually uttering groanings unspeak
able, lest it shall not mind its grab, and
allow one of these traitors to be ruined in
tbe storm of fury he, aud they, with whom
he acts, havo evoked.
Such tender-footed Union men arc fear
ful tbat slavery will not come out of this
revolution as strong, robust and healthy as
it went in. We repeat, this war has no
more to do with slave labor in the States,
than it has with mule labor. The war is
waged to restore the supremacy of the Uni
ted Statca Government, and it will not cease
till that Government is acknowledged
supreme in every one of the thirty-four
States. m -
But, bear in mind one thing. Slave
property depended for its protection, within
its own States, upon the local laws of those
States. Outside of that locality, the United
States laws had thrown their protection
around the institution to the extent of com
pelling the return of the fugitives. The
popular mind had acquiesced in such laws
because the original compact between the
people, the Constitution, demanded thus
much. Through the machinery of the Fed
eral Courts, the slave-holder recovered his
property. What greater protection could
be demanded, what higher security asked ?
But the insurgents, who have for thirty
years been dreaming of, and planning and
scheming for, a separate Confederacy, think
ing a more complete uuion of all parties
could be affected on the slavery question
than any other, made that the pretext for
the overthrow of their only protection.
They declare that t!i2y uo longer submit to,
nor ask protection from, the laws of the
United Statca, and yet some of their sym
pathizers, in this section, tremble lest they
fail to get aid and comfort from laws and
institutions which they not only despise,
but have entered into a death struggle to
overthrow. In the mad attempt of seces
sionists to make this a war for their pecu
liar institution, " they have aroused a
thousand enemies to it, where it had one
before; and their course has been especially
fatal to the States that were to serve as their
bulwark."
These are facts which every thoughtful
man must see. If this rebellion goes on,
the institution is doomed. The insurgents
are blindly feeling their way, through car
nage, strife, and the smoke of a cruel and
barbarous conflict, to the main pillars of the
edifice they pretend to be fighting to pre
serve, and when it tumbles, as tumble it
will if they do not pause in their madness,
on them, and them alone will the rums fall,
and they and their will surely be crushed
under the weight of their own demolished
institutions. The cause of this God-daring
rebellion is unholy ambition in the hearts
of a few. The pretext is tbo negrd. The
result will be the complete and utter ambu
lation of everything which opposes the pro
gress of the Union forces.
It is high time for all to sec and ackwnowl
edge one fact Under the Union, slavery
piospcred. In civil war, it droops and dies.
The real Abolitionist is the man who assists
the rebels in prolonging civil strife, and
hastening the death of the institution.
Many are anxious that everything shall
remain, during this rebellion, and come forth
from the fiery furnace, in as good shape as
it was before. Shadrach, Meshecb, and
Abcdnego are not living at the present time,
and the probability is that something will
npt singed. If so. the party injured "will
only have to blame himself for heating the
furnace. No rebellion ever protected local
interests to any very alarming extent, and
this will not prove an exception. What
ever opposes the Union and the Constitu
tion, be it slavery or any omer institution
will go to the wall, if this contest is pro
longed by the rebels. Anybody with the
least penetration can see that much. St.
Joe Herald.
-"J. B." Emerson Etheridge, in
his recent speech at Nashville, said : " I
am not superstitious, gentlemen; yet allow
me to tell you that I shall always keep clear
of the initial -J. B.' J. B. stands for Jonn
Bfcokinridge; J.B. stands for James Buch
anan; J. B. stands for Judah Benjamin; J.
B. stands for John Bell; and, without in
tending to be offensive, I will remind you
that J. B. stands for John Brown."
TONE OF THE REBELS A YEAR AGO.
Tbe Columbia (S. C.) Guardian, just
about a year ago, had an article which was
general! v coDied and aoDroved by the
secesh press, showing how easy it would be
for the Confederates to whip and destroy
the soldiers of the Union. We quote the
following :
" Months ago the minds of our people
had been settled resolvedly to meet any
issue. Now the people of the North are in
all the wild panic and confusion of war's
first alarm. We confront them, a cool, col
lected foe, that will never give them time
to recover from their surprise. We are
ready for action they are getting ready to
prepare to act. They may raise plenty of
men men who prefer enlisting to starva
tion, scurvy fellows from the back slums of
cities, whom Falstaff would not have
marched through Coventry with but these
recruits are not soldiers, least of all the
soldiers to meet the hot-blooded, thorough
bred men ot the South. Trencher soldiers,
who enlisted to -war on their rations, not on
men, they are such as marched through
Baltimore squalid, wretched, ragged and
half-naked, as the newspapers of that city
report them. Fellows who do not know
the breech of a musket from tho muzzle,
and had rather filch a handkerchief than
fight an enemy in manly open combat.
White slaves, peddling wretches, small
change knaves and vagrants, tho offscour
ings of the populace these are the levied
- forces ' whom Lincoln suddenly arrays as
candidates for the honor of being slaught
ered by gentlemen such as Mobile sent to
battle yesterday. Let them come South,
and we will put our negroes to the dirty
work of killing them. But they will not
come South. Not a wretch of them will
live on the border longer than it will take
us to reach the ground and drive them over.
Mobile is sending forth to wage this war
of indepenbence the noblest and bravest of
her sons. It is expensive, extravagant, to
put such material against tho riff-raff of
mercenaries whom the Abolition power has
called out. Wc could almost hope that a
better class of men would fall into the
Northern ranks, that our gentlemen would
find foeincn worthy of their steel, whom it
would be more difficult to conquer, and
whom conquering would be more honorable.
For the present, however, wo must not
expect to find any foo worth fighting, with
the exception of a few regiments, for the
North is just getting ready, and will likely
be whipped before it is ready."
This was public opinion among the reb
els a year ago. They are probably untie
ceived as to the btuff of which Union sol
diers arc composed by this time.
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DON'T GET DISCOURAGED.
Don't get discouraged. Whoever gained
anything by drawing down the corners of
his mouth when a cloud came over the sun,
or letting his heart drop like a lead weight
into his shoes when misfortune came upon
him ? Why, man, if the world knocks you
down, and jostles past you in the great race,
dou't sit whinning under people's feet, but
get up, rub your elbows and begin again.
There are some people whom even to look
at is worse than a dose of chamraomilo tea.
What if you do happen to get a little
puzzled on the dollar and cent question.
Others besides you have stood exactly in the
same spot, and struggled bravely out of it,
and you are neither halt, lame, nor blind,
that you cannot do likewise. The weather
may be dark and rainy, very well, laugh
between the drops, and think cheerily of
the blue sky that will surely come to-mor-mow.
Business may be dull : make the best
of what you have, and look forward to some
thing more hopeful. If you catch a fall,
don't lament over your bruises, but be
thankful that no bones are broken. If you
can't afford roast beef and plum pudding,
eat your codfish, joyfully, and bless your
stars tor tue lnuigcsuon auu uyspupoia you
thereby escape. But the moment you be
gin to groan over your troubles, and count
up tbe calamities, you may as well throw
yourself over the docks and be done with it.
The luckiest fellow that ever lived might
have woes enough, if he set himself serious
ly to work looking them up. They are like
invisible specks of dust you don't see
them until you put on your spectacles. But
then it is not worh while to put on your
spectacles to discover what is a great deal
better let alone.
Don't get discouraged, little wife ! Life
is not long enough to spend in inflaming
your eyes and reddening your nose because
i, nnddiner won't bake and your husband
says the new shirts you worked over so long
" set like meal bags." Make another pud
dingbegin the shirts anew. Don't feel
down in the mouth because dust will settle
and clothes will wear out, and crockery will
get broken. Being a woman don't procure
you an exemption from trouble and care;
you have got to fight tho battle of life as
well as your husband and it will never do
to give up without a bold struggle. Take
things as they come, good, and bad togeth
er, and whenever you feel inclined to cry,
just change your mind and laugh. Keep
the horrors at arm's length; never turn a
blessing round to see if it hasgotadarkside
to it, and always take it for granted that
things are blessings until they prove to be
something else.
Never allow yourscu to get aiscouragea,
and you'll find the world a pretty comfor
table sort of a place after all. That's so.
A YANKEE TRICK.
The Richmond Dispatch, of a recent date,
Contains the following startling intelligence,
Copied from the Atlanta Confederacy. It shows
that there area few Union men still in existence
down there t
On Thursday last, while the regular mail and
passenger train on the State Road was stopped at
Camp McDonald or Big Shanty, and the engi
neer, conductor and passengers were at breakfast,
some four men, as yet unknown, after having
cut loose all but the foremost three cars, got upon
the engine, put on steam, and shot away like an
arrow, leaving the baggage and passenger cars,
conductor, engineer and train nands lost in
amazement at this unparallelled and daring
outrage.
Some distance above, they tore up the track
and cut down the telegraph wires, aud went on
stating to those who inquired what it meant that
they had some car loads of produce, and had
been pressed by tue Government mat morning
in great iiast to carry it to the forces near Hunts
ville. At Kincston, where they met the down
freight train, they went upon the turn-out, show
ing that they understood the schedule and min
ute workings of tho, roads. As the train passed
them, the conductor made the same inquirv, and
received the same answei" taking powder to
Beauregard's army. As soon as the train passed
and the switch could be changed, they shot
away, with all their speed and mystery. We
learn that a tram lias Deen seut in pursuit oi
them, and hopes to overtake them before they
reach the bridges over the Chickamanga and
other steams. It is supposed they are Lmcoln-
ites, sent down among us to destroy those bridges
to retard the movements of our troops, and the
thought is a very serious one.
P. S. The conductor, as soon as he found his
engine gene, brought into requisition a hand-car
and followed with all speed. At Etowah lie
obtained an engine, and pressed on with it.
Arriving at Kingston, he got the Rome road
engine, with its engineer and forty men, and
pressed on, twenty-five minutes behind the fugi
tive train when he left Kingston. The Augusta
Chronicle adds that eight of the party were sub
sequently arrested, and after being soundly
whipped, confessed that tney nau Deen sent out,
from Shclbvville by the Unionists forthe purpose
of burning up the bridge and tearing up the
track, so as to prevent reinforcements being sent
to the army at Corinth.
The Tower of Imagination. A wealthy lady
had a tickling in her throat, and thought that a
bristle of her tooth brush had gone down and
lodged in her gullet. Her throat daily grew
worse. It was badly intlamcd and slio sent lor
the family doctor. He examined it carefully,
and finally assurred her that nothinjj was the
matter it was a mere nervous uciusion, ne saiu.
Still her throat troubled, and she became so
much alarmed that she was sure she would die.
A friend suggested Hint she should call in I)r.
Jones, a young man just commencing practice.
She did not at first like the idea, but finally
consented, and Dr. Jones was called. He was a
person of good address and polite manners. He
looked carefully at her throat, asked her several
questions as to the sensation at the scat of the
alarming malady, and finally announced that he
thought lie could relieve her. On his second
visit he brought with him a delicate pair of
forceps, in the teeth of which he had inserted a
bristle taken from an ordinary tooth brush. The
rest can be imagined. The lady threw back her
head ; the forceps were introduced into her
mouth ; a pick a loud scream ! and 'twas all
over; and the young physician, with a smiling
face, was holding up to the light and inspecting
with a lively curiosity the extracted bristle.
The patient was in r.iptuaes. She immediately
recovered her health and spirits, and went about
everywhere sounding the praises of "her sa
viour," as she persisted in calling the dexterous
operator.
Advertising The first two verses of the first
chapter of the Chronich-s of Success, read thus :
" Who hath sadness ? Who hath wo ? "Who
'shincth' the streets with gloom of countenance
and perplexity of mind ? Who loseth confidence
and patronage, and sinkcth into poverty and for
gctfulness ? He that advertiseth not He that
doth not make himself known through the papers.
He who by his negligence in this matter, denriv
eth himself of cain and securtth to himself loss!
His business wisdom is foolishness. His lack of
knowledge, yea, his stinginess sticketh out, and
the deeming shun him."
" Who hath gladness ? "Who hath joy ? Who
hath growing business and full coffers? Who
payeth his notes promptly? "Who gaineth the
confidence and patronage of men, and raiseth to
affluence? He that advertiseth liberally that
through the journals of the day maketh himself
and his business known: lie nam cnosen tne
part of wisdom, and his riches and honor increase
like light in the morning his shadow qrowcth
broad.w His complacency increaseth. His fame
extendeth. His happiness endureth, and he is
honored and blessed of all men particularly the
printers." So mote it be ! Topeka Record.
Whiskey as is Whiskey. A Richmond cor
respondent of the Charleston Courier gives the
following lively description oi a ugiuami wnoie
somc spirit now manufactured to an immense
amount in Virginia :
" It cauterizes the mucous membrane of the
windpipe, sets the brain on fire, and sends a
cold tremor through the S3stem ; the soldier who
indulges in half a dozen nips is likely to stay
drunk a week, and a second or third application
drives the breath out of the body."
O General Shields was wounded at the battle
of Cerro Gordo, and was being raised up by his
comrades, when he said : " Men, I am of no fur
ther use to my country you are. Lay me down
and let me die ; I might as well die here as to
be taken off to die. You are all strong, able
bodied men. able to do your country some ser
vice. For God's sake lay me down and do your
duty."
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(CTlt is astonishing how "toddy" promotes
independence. A well-known " bnck" lying, a
day or two since, in a spiritual manner, was
advised in a friendly way to economise, as " flour
was goin up." " Let it go," says old bottle nose,
"I kin git as 'high' as flour kin any day."
irJ Franklin said a Bible and a newspaper in
every house, a good school in every district all
studied and appreciated as they merit-are the
irincipal support oi virtue, moraniy, nu ciwi
iberty.
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O" Three beautiful and charming young girls
came into our ofHce ou Saturday night to sing
Union songs to us. Their voices were enchanting-.
Theirs was a kind of syrenade that we
like.
i
ItrKeep out of bad company, for the chance
is, that when the devil fires inta a flock he will
hit somebody.
O The Confederate troops on the battle field
- 1 consi8t pretty much of flying artillery, flying
' cavalry, and flying infantiy.
MAY 15, 1862.
A FEW SIMPLE REASONS AGAINST SMOKINO.
1. Because it injures the curlains.
2. Because it is injurious to tho furniture
generally.
3. Because it is not agreeable to break
fast in the room when tho gentlemen have
been smoking over night.
4. Because no man's temper is the better
for the next morning.
5. Because it keeps, persons np (o late
hours, when every respectable person ought
to be in bed.
6. Because the smell haunts a man's
clothes, and his beard, and his hair, and his
whiskers, and his whole body; for days after
wards ; so much so, that it is positively un
comfortable to go near him sometimes.
7. Because it is a selfish gratification tbat
not only injures those who partake of it,
but has further effect of driving the ladies
out of the room.
8. Because it is, also, an expensive habit,
which the ladies, not participating in its so
called enjoyments, cannot possibly have the
smallest sympathy with or appreciation for.
9. Because it has the further effect of
making gentlemen diink a great deal more
than they otherwise would, and so weakens
their purses, besides ruining their constitu
tions, to say nothing of the many comforts
and new dresses that their dear wives and
children may have been unjustly deprived
of, supposing the same amount of money had
only been judiciously laid out.
10. Because it gives extra trouble to the
servants who have to clean and to ventilate
the room tho next morning.
11. Because how are oneTs daughters to
get married, if the gentlemen are always
locked up in a separate room, paying court
to their filthy pipes and cigars ?
12. Because it unfits a young man, who
is wedded to it, for the refining influences
of female society.
13. Because it puts a stop to music, sing
ing, flirting, and all rational enjoyments.
14. Because it is a custom originally
imported from the savages.
15. Because we sec the nations that smoke
the most are mostly the stupidest, heaviest,
laziest, dreariest, dreamiest, moat senseless,
and worthless beings tbat encumber like
so many weeds, only capable of emitting so
much smoke the faco of the earth.
16. Because when a man says he is going
out to smoke a cigar, there's no knowing
what mischcif he is bent upon, or the harm
the monster may bo likely to get into.
17. Because it is not allowed in the Pal
ace, or Windsor Castle, or in any respecta
ble establishment.
18 Because tbo majority of husbands only
do it because the know it is offensive to
their wives.
And a thousand other good reasons, if one
only had the patience to enumerate them
all. Pray, did Adam smoke ?
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Gen. Prentiss Makes a Speech.
It was pleasantly told of Gen. Prentiss,
when moving through Northern Missouri
last fall, that he would march all day and
address the people at the cross roads every
evening. As he always makes a good speech
it was not so bad for the people after all.
But they are telling at Savannah and Pitts
burg of a later and his latest speech at Grand
Junction, Mississippi, where he was taken
a prisoner from the field on Sunday. A cor
respondent tells the talc for us. He says
Gen. Prentiss was confined in a large hall
and excited great curiosity among the pop
ulace. Ho bore their staring with great
good humor, but when they began to ask
questions he told them he would make them
a speech if the commandant would allow.
That officer on being consulted gave his con
tent and his countenance by dropping in
himself, when Orcn. Ben. lifted up his voice
and went in on a rousing Union speech.
He told them of the Government that was,
of its beneficence and mildness, of its pow
er, and the position it had won before the
world, and of the hopelessness of their
strggle with it. And then he talked pathet
ically of the dear old flag and the times gone
by when it floated over an united land, and
at this point his elder listeners broke down
and tearfully heard him through. The story
is told on the authority of twelve men of the
aged persuasion who have come to into
Gen. Hallcck's lines and nrofesscd their
Unionism, revived by Gen. Prentiss' speech
and desire to take the oath of allegiance.
That is the story that comes to us.
Don't Punish tub Romps. A celebra
ted female writer thus pleads the cause of
the little girls:
I plead that she not be punished as a
romp, as she keenly enjoys those active
sports which city gentility proscribes. 1
plead that to make her accomplished do not
chain her to the piano, till the spinal col
umn, which should consolidate the frame,
starts aside like a broken reed nor bow
over her book, till the vital energy, which
ought to pervade the whole frame, mounts
into toe uraiu,
fever."
and kindles the brain
- fgr The Providence Press lays that one
night lately, when the streets were a glare
of ice, a citizen was accosted by an Irish
man, who desired to be put on the road to
Wooosocket.
" Woonsocket l""said the astonished gen
tleman, " whom do you want to sec in
Wtbnsockel in this kind of going?"
"An' faith," says Pat, "its meself I
want to see there, sure."
Pat received the necessary directions.
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Vol. L-No. 30i
MATTERS TN NORTH CAROLINA.
Mr. Vincent Colyer, an agent of the
New York Young Men's Christian Associ
ation, writing from Newbern, N. C., says :
' Many of the white pcdple are very poor
and ignorant, and I think, the most pitiablo
objects of charity I have ever seen. As a
white man, I am ashamed to say they aro
really more abject and degraded than tho
blacks. I never realized so much beforo
the dignity that the mere ability and will
ingness to labor gives a man; Tho blacks
have always been forced to work, although
lazy, generally ask for and go to work ;
while, too often, tho white, having been
taught to regard work as degrading; allows
himself to sit in laziness and sink dotfn in
to utter helplessness. The consequence can
be easily imagined; in a timo like thd
present, he who can and will work is get
ting it to do, and with its reward; prosperity
and plenty; and they who will not (or can
not) become dependent. Most of the negro
women get work in the hospitals, washing
and peddling of cakes, and earn support in
this way. Wo gavo them a lift at first
with a few pounds of flour, and so far,
immediately on their arrival, they have
been able to find them a house to live in;
When they arrive they usually coma in
groups of ten or twenty, often all from one
plantation. They havo travelled in some
cases, long distances. I have one poor
negro of about twenty -five who had como
over sixty miles. His feet were all bloody,
and tho first thing he could do after he had
reported his name for work and had a break
fast, was to lio down and sleep : for two or
three days he was quite sick. At the end
of that timo he went to work, and is now
doing his best to support the United
States government with ' do ahobel and do
hoe.' He gave valuablo information to tho
Government. . ,
'-1 have been appointed superintendent
of the poor, as a Newbern paper which I
send you will show ; and under this head
ing lam doing the work. The men arc
mostly employed in the trenches building
a line of earthworks to protect tho town ou
the west or land side, in the direction of
Goldaborough. In the duties of my new
office I havo to see to and supply the want
of the suffering population tho townspeo
ple whites as well as blacks. I have some
sixty families of the whites, and theso arc
not all there are, as some go to the commis
sary department for provisions; Among
the applicants for aid aro some five or six
wives of soldiers in the Manassas (now
Richmond) rebel army. What do you
think of that ? They were starving, and
we had either to feed them or act worse
than heathens. Is not that getting in tho
rear of tbe enemy when we arc in his
home supporting his wives and children ?
Yesterday I had application for support
from the widow of a late United States
major-general, the wife of an officer whd
had served in the Mexican war; and she
was a daughter of a colonel in the war of
1812. At the very same time there was a
poor escaped slave knocking at the door for"
the very satno assistance."
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THE MUD-SILLS OF THE NORTH.
Some South Carolinian, a few years since
made soma taunting remarks about oar Sav
ings Banks, an institution, it seems, that
was not appreciated in.the Palmetto State:
From a late official report, I sec that theso
Banks in our city, have on deposit nearly
forty millions of dollars. All these dollars
are the hard earned savings of a class, of
which the world takes but little notice, but
which it cannot by any means do without.
Without this class, even tht Fifth Avenue
Hotel Committee, might not be able to wear
spotless linen, or get their daily bread, even
by praying for it. The mechanics, labor
ers, brick-layers, hod-carriers carmen, wash
erwomen, and omnibus drivers of this city,
havo really saved, and have placed on inter
est, at 6 per cent, the magnificent sum ot
$40,000,000 I Does this speak badly for
the social system of our Northern cities ?
Verily, the " mud sills " of the North are
planted on foundations of solid gold ! Their
escutcheon is of that glittering yellow, which
glistens in the eye, alike, of prince and
peasant, and leads willing captive, both tho
savage and civilized ! -iV, Y. Cor. St. Joe
Ileradl.
"Daniel Webster says: "Small is
the sum that is required to patronize a
newspaper, and amply repaid is its patron,
I care not how humble and unpretending is
the gazette which he takes. It 13 next td
impossible to fill a sheet without putting
into it something that is worthy the sub
scription price. Every parent whose son
is away from home at school, should supply
him with a newspaper. I well remember
what a marked difference there was between
those who had access to newspapers and
those who had not; Other things being
equal, the first were always superior td the
last in debate composition, and general
intelligence."
19-Old Mrs. Cracker, talking at a party
about beads of hairs, exclaimed, "If thcrd
is anything I hate, it is red hair." Then
seeing a young man standing by who had
red hair, she made a former speech worse
by saying, " But no such pretty red hair as
yours, Mr. W."
WSf Dr. Franklin used to say that rich
widows are the only piece of second-hand
goods that sell at prime cost.
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