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THE MORRISTOWN GAZETTE: inerfcivfs oo per ltststtivi. by john e. iieiis. invariably iiv advance , r . . . . . ...... ... 1 VOLUME 9. MORRISTOWN, TENN., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1875. NUMBER 1. New Advertisements. Tames p. evans, Attorney at Law, MORRISTOWN, TENN. Win practice in all t- courts of East Tenuessee, hre the KKE will Jasttfy. Prompt attention will ftTen to collection. A. H . PETTIBONE, Attorney at Law. GREEN E V 1 L L E , ' T E N N . Win practice in the courta of the First Judicial Clrcnit and the Supreme Court at Kiiosville, Will a too give prompt attention to the collection of all kind of claimH aud debts. WM. G. TAYLOR, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Morristown, Tenn., WILT, practice in the Courts or Hamblen, and the adjoining counties. nprl5 n5 ly. D.J LEWIS O JACKSON JOHN A BHEA. Lewis, Jackson & Rhea, Manufacturers of aud Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES, Hats, t aps. Trunks, Umbrellas, GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Indies' Hats, Etc., Etc. No. 52 Gay St., Knoxville, Teun. Not. 1 u38 ly. W . M. WILMETH, MAIN STREET, MOUKISTOWN, TENN. Has now n hand a complete stock of Family Groceries. To which he has recently added a full line of BOOTS AND SHOES, Which he offers cheap for Cash. He will ray the highest market price for all kinds of country produce. Provisions and Eatables of every description kept on hand at nil times. Jel9-ly. IfiSCTISTKY. DK.MTISIJIY. THOS. J. SPECK, D. D. S. OFFICES: aogersvllle,Tenn.,from 1ft to 15th of ench month. Iforristowi., from 15th to last of each month. TERMS -Casta or Its equivalent W. W. LANGHORNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY, Newport, Tcnn., PR VCTTCKH in the various Courts of Kast Ten nessee, and in the Supreme Court at Kujuv.lle. Dec 3o, 1874 ly WILL. S. DICKSON, Attorney sit Tw9i MORKISTOWN, TT.NN. fIDI. ITBCtlc e.a a me ,"uio. ..i f TsntiHHsef. Prompt uud is-chil attention given .. - . . . r T.-oo, to collections. .,... t- , j SirenKKCF.K uy Plcmis-ion Boot McHrlaJia, B. M. Barton, sr., l. Morris, Win. Fulton, 1. J. Kldwell, Karuest fc Hriscoe, pem'e s I.vlc, Dr. O. j- Macee atorristov n, Teun. ; J. A. KayL, Knox vihrTenu. ; Wm. H. M. Sett, New Market, Teun. ; H Baker, Cireeueville, Tcnn. ; Davis & McFurlaml, Mristol, Teun. mar25-l. L. C. SHEPARD, JJNDERTAKER, Knoxville, Tonn. EVERY I) BSCB I PTI O N O F Metalic Caskets and Cases, W ood Caskets and Coffins of every Grade and price ready for use. Orders by Telegraph will receive personal and prompt attention. Tornis satisfactory. u40. J. H. W ALLEY, AOENT FOR P. HOCKENJOS, TOBACCO, CI6ARS, SNUFF, All Kinds of Pipes and Smokers, Articles, AT W ALLEY'S OLD STAND, Gay Street. All th- former jiatrons of the old aud favorite stand are itivited to call, and new customers will find it to their interest to tfive us a trial. lnar 1 1 1,1 " Wilson, Burns & Co., WHOLESALE Grocers anfl Commission Merchants, 80 South Howard Street, corner of Lombard, BALTIMORE. WfT. Keep constantly on hand a large and well as " sorted stock of Groceries, suitable for the Sonthern and Western trade. We s.. licit consign ments of Countrv Produce, such as Cotton, Foath ers. Ginseng, lieeswax, Wool, Dried Fruit, Fur Hkina, etc. Our facilities for doing business are ach as to warrant quick sales and prompt returns. All orders will have our prompt attention. mar27. M L. BL VCKLF.Y, WAXTKB H. ItOHERTSON, Bristol, Teiui. Goodeon, Va. O I . BLACKLEY, Bristol, Teun. Blaciley, RotartM & Blackley, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ANT) REAL ESTATE AGENTS, BRISTOL, TENN., PAVE ESTAB LISHEI) A N L' Agency for the sale of all Real Estate en trusted to theiu aud for the introduction of Immi gration and Capitalists. Mineral, Farming, Graz ing and I'Dimproved I .ami- in E. Tenu . ami S. W Va and Ky will be negotiated through this Agency. Strict attentiou given to all business that may be placed in their hands ly aepfJ3 u D, V. PRICE, CONFECTIONER TOBACCONIST, MORRISTOWN, TENN., KEEPS ON II AND CONSTANT ,Iy, Pia n anl French CANDIEH. fakes, JJuts, Oyster, Sardines, Grackers, Cheese, Tobao- C gars, ate. " Cash sales and uiul! prolltis." Jau f , im ly The Morristown Gazette. ADVERTISING RATES. One ho u lire, (ten lines, or lea, for first insertion One Dollar, each subsequent innertion Fifty cents. A liberal discount from the above rate will be made to yearly advertixers. Obituaries of over ten lines Will be charged as advertisements. All bills due upon first insertio of advertise ment, unless otherwise contracted for. All-announcements of candidatdee must be paid for in advance. Job Work mnst be paid for on delivery. THE GAZETTE is a permanently established newspaper with a paying aud constantly increasing list of subscribers. Its circulation in the counties of Hainblon, Hawkins, Cocke, Jefferson. Grainger and Claiborne is more general than any other pa per making it the best advertising medium in Upper Kast Tennessee. Laws Relating to Newspaper Subscriptions, &c. 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the contrary, are considered wishing to continue their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their periodicals, the publishers may continue to send them uutill all arrearages are paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse their periodi cals from the office to which they are directed, they are held responsible until they have settled their bills, aud ordered them discontinued. 4. If subscribers move to other places without in forming the publishers, and the papers sent to the former direction, they are held responsible. 6. The Courts have decided that "refusing to take periodicals from the office, or removing and leav ing them uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of intentional fraud." C. Any person who receivs a newspaper and makes use of it, whether he has ordered it or not, is held in law to be a subscriber. 7. If subscribers pay iu advance, they are bound to give noticeto the publisher, at the end of their time, if they do not wish to continue taking it ; otherwise the publisher, is authorized to send it on, aud the subscribers will be responsible un til! an express notice, with payment of ell ar- earss s sent to the publisher. STABBING THE SOUTH. WHA T MALIGNANT AND DAMN ING DEEDS THE NOHTHEIIX METHODIS T HYPBOCRTTB8 ARE toRIVINQ A T. We give below au exfjaact clipped from the Fiacastle (Tiffi Heruld, of a gathering of so-callec prthern Methodist preachers in L fP re cently, and how they chatted with each other in such unbecoming man ners as Christians, that it would make the very old devil himself bow Ids head with shame and mortifica tion : At a meeting of Methodist preachers in Boston the other day, a miserable, savage brute, named Rev. Dr. Ives, who "wears the livery of heaven to serve the devil in," made it speech in which he denounced the Southern people as "mis erable whelps," against whom nothing but strychnine and '-annon ought to be used, ailding, with an audacity of irrev erence that approaches the verge of blasphemy, "he believe that the more be hatetMhe rebels of the South, the more lie loved Ood." The South has not been plundered and persecuted enough for him. He wanted its "spirit crushed out by another war." "lie longed," he said, "for the appearance of some colored man able to become a lead er among his people, to wield the sword and the torch!" These infamous outbursts of venom were greeted by the congregated preaeh ers with rounds of applause. Comment is unnecessary. If the above be true, the religion of the Northern people arc coming to a pretty pass and assuming a very queer shape at this enlightened day in a free bible land. The very idea of any preacher or preachers being engaged in such damnable and con temptible business as alluded to in the above paragraph, is ridictdous in the extreme, and should be faced boldly with public scorn, when and wherever such doings come in con tact, with genuine Christian hearts. If they want to be politicians, let them abandon the pulpits, or else keep their mouths shut against things that does not concern them, or even becomes Christian ministers of the Gospel to meddle with. The fact is, and it will sooner or later become known for the neces sary good of the civilized and chris tianized people, that such ungodlj' and contemptible beings should be kicked out the pulpits immediately when caught in such transactions ; and let the kick be hard enough as to cause no relaxation of speed, that thej- may "go down" direct to hell where they justly belong. All that they are fit for on earth, is to stir up strife and hatred among the Northern and Southern people they fceem to take much pleasure in so doing. That is their chief object and delight. They have been pillag ing the South ever since the war, stealing everything they could get their hands on ; aud vain was the cry of J.he Southern people for pro tection, for the abominable wretches and plunderers had "ringed" them selves under the military cloak, in order to satisfy the desires of their gluttonish and thievish hearts. The hottest spot i7i the domains of the low er regions is not hot enough to burn away their perjured and damning sins. Well they should sneak ofTto the negro huts for sociability when they come South, as their previous wrongs indicted upon the people of the South are not forgotten ; and, consequently are looked upon as curs, not as ministers of the Gospel. Perhaps this "little meeting" of Northern Methodist preachers, was for the purpose of buying "Grant stock," for his "third term" expedi tion. Of course Grant would stoop to anything to carry his point ; and as he has already "ringed" the ne gro element, he wants to invest ex tensively with snch a class as these so-calied preachers. And just as" soon as the bargain is closed, just so soon will be verified the truth, spoken by a wicked man once, "that hell is ou earth!" DE CULLUD B RUDDER. PM ALL RIGHT NOW, J08IAH JES SO! The Press and Herald of the 3d says, our colored brother is to have full, free and equal accommodation in "inns, public conve3ances on land and water, and theatres, or other public places of amusement." An "inn" has been judicialby defined as a house where a traveler Is furnished with everything for which he has oc casion when on his way. Some pen alties annexed for violation of the law will form interesting reading to opera house and hotel proprietors, railroad and steamboat companies. The colored brother is also entitled to assist hereafter in framing com plimentary resolutions by United States Grand Jurors, and other lit tle matters conneted with the jury system of the country and State. Mixed schools will come next. THE FORCE BILL. The attempt to pass the Force Bill, says the Press and Herald, brings to mind the stormy language in which Richard Brinsley Sheridan denounc ed in Parliament the "unconstitu tional exercise of the prerogative that hail been assumed in employing the military to suppress the late riots (1780), without waiting for the au thority of the civil power." In burn ing words that are applicable to these times he said : If this doctrine was to be laid down that the crown could give orders to the military to interfere when, where and for what length of time it pleae, then we wight bid farewell to free dom. If this was the law then we should be reduced to a military gov ernment of the worst species, in which we should have all the evils of a despotic State without the discip line or the security. But we are giv en to understand that we had the best protection against this evil in the virtue, the moderation, and the constitutional principles of the sov ereign. No man upon the earth thought with more reverence than himself of the virtues and modera tion of the sovereign ; but this was a species of liberty which he trusted would never disgrace an English soil. The liberty that reste-l upon the vir tuous inclination of anyone man was but sespended despotism ; the sword was not, indeed,- upon their necks, but it hung by the small and brittle thread of human will. The Science of Advertising. It has been well said that "how to advertise" is a department of commercial knowledge as essential to mercantile success in these dajrs as arithmetic. Money need not be wasted in it, but it should be liber ally, while judiciously expended, "where it will do the most good." The whole science of advertising may be summed up in one sentence make your business and name known to the purchasing world "familliar as a household word." A little re flection will convince any one of the value of the columns of the newspa pers for this purpose. You pick up j our favorite journal daily, and there staring you in the face, in bold let ters, is the name and business of some firm in the city. It meets your eye day after day until it be comes stereotyped upon the tablets of your memory. When j-ou want any thing in that line, the name and the firm that yon have so often seen looms up in your mind, and you re call everything connected with it. That firm may have a fine store, a magnificent sign may grace its doors, but you seldom pass along the street upon which they may be located, and have never noticed it. You on ly know of it from having seen it so often in your newspaper. This ap plies to not one advertiser, but to all whose names are familiarized to the reading public by frequent repetition in the newspapers. The sign in the paper is more essential than the sign over the door, when we take into consideration the limited number of people who may chance to pass through that particular thoroughfare, comparatively, with the number of persons who daily peruse the columns of a newspaper. These facts are indisputable, and have already been extensively ac knowledged by those who have left the beaten paths of old fogyism, and instead of sitting in their handsome stores waiting for their friends to hunt them, visit them as it were, daily through the newspaper, and extend them an invitation to call. The newspaper is the city's repre sentative in the great big, bustling world outside. The name of a busi ness firm, constantly presented in its columns, ia soon learned by heart, until in comes to be associated with a certain line of goods and business, that the latter cannot be mentioned or thought of in connection with that particular merchant does not instinct ively present itself to the mind's eye. Advertise little as you may, as to space and cost but advertise often. The advice is not altogether disin terested on our part, but it is none the less good advice. Practical ex perience, a thousand to one, has abundantly attested it. They Sat on a Carry Comb. New York Sun, February 28th . They sat on a enrry comb. There were six of these army officers incu bating like hens. One was a colonel of cavalry ; four were captains of cavalry ; and Mordecai, imperishable in the ordnance department, was the sixth. As a board they sat on the curry comb. Since 1775 the United States Gov ernment has bought, manufactured, captured, borrowed, found, used the curry comb. It has had a full round ed century of familiarity with the handle of the curry comb, its teeth, its back, its sides, its braces, its shank, its color. If the Government of the United States may be said to know anything, it may be said to be exhaustively acquainted with the enr ry comb. It marched with it, fought with it, camped with it, retreated with it, slept with it, whipped with it, and got whipped with it, in four different wars. The curry comb has rusted and rotted in the hands of the Government. It has been the sub ject of lamentable larceny, waste, and disappearance. It has been the occasion of courts martial. It has stopped the accounts of quartermas ters. It has scratched the patience of auditors of the-Treasury, and rais ed a dust of profanity in department arithmetic. If the United States last year didn't know the curry comb, they didn't know anything. Yet those six army men sat like hens on the curry comb. They went two thousand miles to sit on it. They sat on the curry comb on Januar 20. They got off it on May 5. As the six rose, did a brood of little curry combs scuttle from under them and run about scratching imaginary horses of cavalry and artillery? Oh no The army hens never hatch. The- only eat rations, and draw pay and commutations of allowances. What did that board of grown up men sit on that curry comb for? Unilluminated tax payer! That was military service. 'Twas public employment. The fiction that Unit ed State army officers should make some return to the Government for their free education at West Point and their genteel support for life pre vails yet to some extent in the ord nance department, and among colo nels and captains of cavalry unat tached. So, annually, when the weather is pleasantest, when around Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley or Fort Wallace, the prairie chickens are fattest and the quail the plump est, they get themselves appointed as boards to examine something.and they travel delightfully at the pub lic expense, waited on by soldier servants whose wages are paid out of taxes on labor. And they sit on something, and shoot, eat, fdeep, drink, smoke, and sit again. Last 3-ear they sat on a curry comb ; this 3'ear they will sit on a bridle bit ; the next on the width of a spur strap ; the next on a nose bag. The follow ing financial 3ear will have to bear the burden of aboard travelling three thoand miles to sit on a tent peg. WI13'. the3' would have sat last 3'ear on a horseshoe nail if it had not been so nncomfortabty sharp. Bnt they got the semblance of emplo3Tment out of that nail ; the3' did something about a horseshoe nail which they airily offset agaiust their West Point education and their genteel support for life. They made the horseshoe nail the subject of the electoral fran chise. They organized a vote on the horseshoe nail, and, using the United States mails, gathered the ballots of the officers of all the cavalr3' regi ments to determine which of the dif ferent kiuds of horse nails was the best. But the United States arm3r meth od of electing a horseshoe nail by ballot deserves a history br itself. Oh ! ours is a wonderful army, espe cially down in Louisiana, and it costs the taxpayers only $35,000,000 a 3'ear. Boys and Their Mothers. Some one has written beautiful' to the bo3's in the following manner. Here is a whole sermon in a few sen tences : Of all the love affairs in the world, none can surpass the true love of the big bo3' for his mother. It is a love pure aud noble, honorable in the highest degree to both. I do not mean merely a dutiful affection. I mean a love which makes a boy gal lant and courteous to his mother, saying to everybod3r plainly that he is fairly in love with her. Next to the love of her husband, nothing so crowns a woman's life with honor as this second love, thia devotion of her son to her. And I never 3'et knew a boy turn out bad who began with falling in love with his mother. Any man may fall in love with a fresh faced girl, and the man who is gal lant with the girl may neglect the worn and wearied wife. But the boy who is a lover to his mother in her middle age is a true knight, who will love his wife as much in thesesr leaved autumn as he did in the dai sied spring-time. CIVIL RIGHTS ! Yes, we can eat at de white man's tabic now, JosiaU ! Jes so. A YOUTHFUL THESPIAN. Painful Result of Having- a Fath er who will not Appreciate. Shakespeare From the Detroit Free Press . A few days ago young Gurley, whose father lives on Croghau street, organized a theatrical company and purchased the dime novel play of "Hamlet," The company consisted of three bo3Ts and a hostler, and Mr. Gurley's hired girl was to be the Ghost if the troupe could guarantee her fifty cents per night. Young Gurley suddenly bloomed out as a professional, and when his mother. asked him to bring in some wood he replied : "Though I am penniless thou canst not degrade me 1" "You trot out after that wood or I'll have your father trounce j'ou !" she exclaimed. "The t3'rant who la3's his hands upon me shall die !" replied the bo3r, but he got the wood. He was out on the step when a man came along and asked him where Lafayette street was. "Doomed for a certain time to roam the earth !"' replied Gurley in a hoarse voice, and holding his right arm out straight. "I say you ! Where is Lafayette street?" called the man. "Ah ! Could the dead but speak ah!" continued Gurley. The man drove him into the house, and his mother sent him to the gro cer3r after potatoes. "I go, most noble duchess," he said as he took up the basket, "but my good sword shall some da3' avenge these insults !" He knew that the grocer favored theatricals, and when he got there he said : "Art thou provided with a store of that vegetable known as the 'tater, most excellent duke?" "What in thunder do you want!" growled the grocer as he cleaned the cheese knife on a piece of paper. "Th3T plebeian mind is dull of com prehension !" answered Gurley. "Don't try to get off any of 3our nonsense on me, or I'll crack 3'our empt3r pate in a minute !" roared the grocer, and 'Hamlet' had to come down from his high horse and ask for a peck of potatoes. "What made 3'ou so long?" asked his mother as he returned. "Thy grave shall be dug in the cypress glade !" he haughtily an swered. When his father came home at noon Mrs. Gurley told him that she believed the boy was going craz3 aud related what had occurred. "I See what ails him," mused the father ; "this explains WI13' he hangs around Johnson's barn so much." At the dinner table young Gurley spoke of his father as the "illustri ous count," and when his mother asked him if he would have some butter gravy he answered : "The appetite of a warrior cannot be satisfied with such nonsense." When the meal was over the fath er went out to his favorite shade tree, cut a sprout, and the D03' was asked to step out into the woodshed and see if the penstock was frozen up. He found the old man there, and he said : "Why, most noble lord, I had sup posed thee far away !" "I'm not so far away but what I'm going to make 3rou skip !" growled the father. "I'll teach you to fool around with ten cent tragedies ! Come up here !" For about five minutes the wood shed was full of dancing feet, flying arms aud moving bodies, and then the old man took a rest and inquired : "There, your highness, dost want any more?" "Oh ! no, dad not a darned bit!" wailed the voting "manager," and while the father started for down town he went in and sorrowfully in formed the hired girl that he must cancel her engagement until the fall season. $W De cullud gemblemen can ride in de "buses" now, Josiah, or make de proprietors pay five hand red dol lars for de refusal. I tells j-ou boy its am de truth its am de genine civil rights ! Jes so. Andrew Johnson's Place of Nativity. Andrew Johnson, seventeenth Pres ident of the United States, and re cently elected U. S. Senator from Tennessee, was born In this city De cember 20, 1808, and from the age of ten until the autumn of 1824 was the apprentice of a tailor in Raleigh. In 1826 he settled in Greeneville, Tennessee, and worked at bis trade. He was elected Alderman in 1828. 1829 and 1830; Mayor 1831, 1832 and 1833; member of the Legisla ture 1885 and 1839, and Presiden tial elector in 1840. He was elected to the State Senate in 1841, and sat in Congress from 1843 to 1853. From 1858 to 1857 he was Governor of Tennessee, and United States Sena tor from 1857 to 1863. He was nom inated for Vice-President by the Bal timore Convention in 1864, and on the assassination of Preside t Lincoln succeeded him in the Presidential chair. iiaeA Qs.Qpgkvs Determined to be a Pirate. kesult of Paternal discipline on a detroit boy angry thoughts in a woodshed a fond fare well all around. From the Detroit Free Presa. CHAPTER I. THE BOY. He was one of that kind of boys who need a good whipping about twice per week, but who think they ought not to be whipped more than once in two 3 ears. His amusement was sliding down bill on nothing, bluffing some boys, and preparing Ca3'enne pepper, lozenges for unsus pecting cats. He was often heard to remark : "Things has got to git up 'n howl when Leon id as is around." , CHAPTER II. AT TWILIGHT. Time, sundown scene, the in terior of a well-preserved woodshed. The sound of blows and cries rent the solemn stillness of twilight's mystic hour, and the old man was heard saying : "There, I guess that'll last j'ou for a day or two! I've put up with 3'our sass as long as I can !" No repb nothing but deep-drawn sobs and quivering sighs. The old man threw awa3r the strap and walked into the house, and Le onidas sat on the corner of an old table to meditate. CHAPTER in. A BLOODY RESOLVE; "That's the last licking I'll ever take from an3' mortal man I' whisper ed the lad, shaking his fist at the kitchen door. ' And I'll make the old man sorry that he ever laid a strap over his only son !" He resolved to run away and be come a pirate ! He would sail the raging main, revel in murder, ac quire ducats, and then come home and take revenge on his father. With Leonidas to resolve was to ex ecute. He entered the house, pass ed up stairs, and was soon engaged in making up a bundle, consisting of one pair of patched pants, one pho tograph of his girl, one jack-knife, one cotton sock, and a few walnuts. The bundle was thrown out of the window, and then CHAPTER IV. LEONIDAS LOOK8 around the room for the last time. The bedstead looked familiar, the old blue chest in the corner had a thousand tender memories connect ed with it, and the broken-down chair seemed to hold out its arms and plead for him to sta3'. "I would if the old man hadn't licked me," answered Leonidas ; "but I'll show him what kind of a coffee mill I am !' He passed down stairs, and halted to embrace the baby. 'He wasn't down on his mother, and he gave her a sweet smile. He crawled in behind the stove, and whispered to the dog : "Good-bye, old Samson. I'd like to stay here, but I'm too old to be licked!" And he passed out of doors, and the great wide world was before him. CHAPTER V. SOLEMN THOUGHTS. Securing his bundle, Leonidas crept into the back yard to see if it was really best for him to become a pirate. The polar wave chewed at his ears and reddened his nose, and he wondered if the pirate business wasn't pretty cold business. He didn't know whether it was best to make for Toledo or Chicago in order to become a buccaneer, but he finally passed through the gate. He walked around the house several times to to catch a glimpse of his mother. It was hard to tear himself away. He knew how she would take on next day, and the papers would call it another Charlie Boss case, and he decided to go into the j'ard and think it over again. CHAPTER VI. A RAY OF LIGHT. After a little time spent in thought Leonidas decided that if his father would agree never to lick him again, and would give him $2 per week to buy cand3r, he would not run away and become a pirate. He would go in and make the proposition to the old man, and if it should be rejected farewell to home welcome a career of blood. He went in. No one had noticed his absence, and each face looked as natural as if he h id n't been goue twenty-eight minutes. He felt some little delicacy about broaching the proposition, and, as a "feebler," he asked the old man to lend him his knife. It was handed to him and returned after a while, and Leonidas decided to put off making the pro position until morning. He got in to his little bed feeling that it was positively bis last night, but the next forenoon he was heard splitting wood in the back yard and saying to Jack Sparling : "I've concluded to wait until he licks me just once more, and then nothing can stop me nothing on earth." Come to 3'our mudder's bus- ui, child, 3'ou is de whfte child's ekal now, malf dey don't 'spect you I'll make dey parents pay five hundred dollars ! Jes so, child, 'member you' a a civil righlcr. Bijah Rises to a Sharp Point. Detroit Free Preee. "One of the pleasantest sights in human nature," remarked Bijah as he sat down, ' is to" He rose up sud denly, became very red in the face, and as be held an eightounce tack up in his fingers, he hoarsely whis pered : "Show me the wretch who sot me down on this 'ere tack!" There was an awful stillness. Some of the loafers looked straight at the wall ahead, and others looked down, while the boys turned pale and crowd ed back against the partition. "Nev er mind," continued the old man ; "justice sleeps but never dies. I'll live a hundred years but what I'll have blood for this?" The last captive brought out was Jacob Hauscr. "You don't feel well this morning, I see," remarked his Honor, as he took a square look at the prisoner. "No, I'm pretty near gone," sigh ed Jacob. "Is it consumption, asthma, insan ity, or what?" "Yes, I think so." "Do j'ou have pains iu the head, hot flushes, a back-ache, cold sweats, a nervous feeling, and a loss of ap petite?" "Yes, I do," replied Jacob, blow ing his nose softly. "Can't sleep nights no ambition to run for office, don't care a cent whether school keeps or not?" "Them's the 83'mptoins," answered Jacob. "Oh ! well, 3'ou can go. If I should send j-ou to the House of Correction and 3'ou should die there of Charles Sumner's ailment or Napoleon's dis ease, I'd never feel like buying an other pound of Catawba grapes." Bijah said that was all, and the driver of the Black Maria rushed his vehicle around on a gallop, and the boys formed a circle, took off their hats and sang : Kiin and sailuee mixed together, Tears of woe aud smiles of hope; Some get off, and some are boosted Better stay outside the rope. IdPCome along, Josiah, I's gwine to de white folks concert to-night. If dey don't treat me like a gemble men, dar will be a little bill 'posed agin dem to about five hundred dol lar, sar ! Jes so, Josiah. Shall We Meet Again. The following is said to be one of the most brilliant articles ever writ ten by the lamented George D. Prentice : "But the fiat of nature is inexora ble. There is no appeal for relief from the great law which dooms us to dust. We flourish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and flowers that bloom and wither in ada3' have no frail er hold on life than the mightiest mon arch that ever shook the earth with his foot steps. Generations of men will appear and disappear as the grass, and the courtless multitudes that throng the world to-day, will to-morrow disappear as the foot-print on the shore. Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their own path, hiding from their eyes the traces of loved ones whose living smiles were the sunlight of their ex istence. Death is the greatest anta gonist of life, and t he cold thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark valley, although its passage may lead to Paradise ; and, with Charles Lamb, we do not want to he down in the grave, with princes for our bed-fellows. In the beautiful dreams of Ion the instinct of iinmortalitj' so beautifully uttered by the death of the devoted Greek, finds a deep response in eyery thoughtful soul. Then above to yield his young existence a sacrifice to fate, his beloved Clemantha ask if they shall not meet again, to which he re plies : I asked that dreadful question of hills that seemd eternal of the clear streams that flow forever of the stars among whose fields of azure my raised spirit has walked. As I look upon thy living face, I feel that there is something iu thy love that cannot realty perish.-We shall meet again, Clemantha." EF" May de good Lord bless Grant for signing de Civil Rights Bill, and making de colored man de ekal ob de white man ! Five hun dred dollars fine, if he isn't! Jes so. Civil Rights Bill Signed. Press and Herald. Grant has signed the Civil Rights Bill. The predictions that he would veto the " quintessence of abomina tions," so aptly made last Fall to strengthen weak Republicans into voting the straight ticket, prove to have been baseless. Grant's third term ambition necessitates holding the negroized Southern Slates, at the expense of the white Republi cans in Tennessee and the other bor der States of the South. X3F Golly ! Josiah, we can do just as we dam please, and hab all de priblleges dat de white folks hab ! Yon seem de Civil Rights bill am passed ! Grant 'dorsad It ! Five hundred dollar fine for violation 1 Ha! ha!! ha!!! Jes so. Cirerier-ai TVetvs.. In Portland, Maine, on the 3d ir -tt , A Democratic Mayor was elected by & ma jority of 486, against a Rebublican ma jority last year of 507. Lewis E. North, assistant potmaatr at Pittafleld, Maine, who was recsatly arrested for robbing the mails, has con fessed his guilt. Through a lste act of Congress, the political disabilities of Charles H Smith, of Virginia, and Robert H. Anderson, of Georgia, have been removed. In the United States Senate recently, an amendment to the tax bill to tax tea and coffee ten cents a pound, was lost; yeas 6, nays 66. In consequence of the Civil Bights Bill, and fearing trouble, both the prin cipal hotels at Alexandria, Virginia have cancelled their licenses and closed. This is just the beginning of what will be ex tensively practiced throughout all the Southern States. And so we hear that our vlcinitj- sports a man that drinks sixteen cups of coffee every day. Surry (N. C.) Visitor. Forty girls will run after a snob with a gold-hearted cane, where one will shy up to a fellow with sound horse sense, Valentine's day has passed and goae, and we are mad. We sent out about fortj'-'leven and didn't receive a darned one. Surry (N. C.) Msitor. Mr. Joel Wright, a most estimable res ident of Liberty, Va., died on Thursday at the advanced ajie of 89 years. He leaves a widow and a large family of children. The Culpepper (Virginia) Observer says that Itev. Joseph Carson celebrated his nintieth birthday on Frldaj'. In Culpepper county, Virginia, a few days since, a cow that had been bitten by a rabid dog was attacked with hydro phobia, and died. Two San Francisco capitalists recently bought two hundred thousand acres of land in Oregon, at $1 per acre. A Canada paper lately recorded the death of a young woman in Tilsonburg, caused by her sleeping with her corset on. Mrs. Captain Jack, in her lonely se clusion, may take comfort in knowing that it cost the government $411,000 to make her a widow . The New York Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association, In view of the de pressed state of trade have reduced their wages 12 per cent . M -: Kellogg is making $2,500 a week, and doesn't care for men. She did not come of a very romantic family, and never could see any poetry in skirmish ing with a needle and thread around the ragged edges of u husband's shirt button holes. A gale in New York a few days since blew down one of the walls of a recently burnt store. It crushed through St. An drew's Church, Duane street, which was crowded, mostly with women and chil dren, at vespers. Seven persons wers killed and many wounded. A person of an inquiring turn of mind asks, "Does the Lord love a man who spends at a church festival the money he owes to his washerwoman?" We pass the conundrum to the next man. A Kansas farmer purchased a revolver for his wife, and insisted on target prac tice so that she could defend her house in case of his absence. After the bullet was dug out of his leg, and the cow bur ied, he said he guessed she'd better shoot with an axe. There arc three citizens in Dublin, Va whose combined ages amount to 260 years. They are aged respectfully 91, 85 and 84. They all use the "weed," and yet still bid fair to enjoy the breezes of many a returning autumn. Lynch bnrg Republican. Mr. Robert H. Colhoun, the father of Mr. Charles A. Colhoun, of the Mont gomery White Sulphur Springs, died at Shawsville, on Friday, aged ninety years. His remains were brought down to Bonsack's yesterday, en route to Fin castle for interment. He was highly re spected . Lynchburg Republicjn, Feb. 28. Mississippi. The spirit that animates the black legislator in his wise law mak ing, is thus illustrated: Mr. Speaker, de wite folks owns de lan', dont dey, an' dont we make de lawsf Dat's what lax you. Now, Mr. Speak er, if de wite folks owns de lan' and we make de laws, how we gwine to live 'cept we take de land? A dispatch from Florence, Arizona, states that a man recently arrested as Bender, the Kansas murderer, escaped a few days since, and wandered four days in the mountain, when he was driven in by starvation, and was recaptured. Ho gives his name as Henry de Rockmilsler, and is very reticent. He answered the description of Bender. At 1 o'clock yesterday morning, says the Lynchburg Republican, the river was precisely 15 feet above the ordinary tide, and remained at that height for nearly an liour, when the waves began gradual ly to subside. During the day the tur bid waters receded inch by inch from the banks, and the roar of the stream grew perceptibly weaker. At night the flood had subsided five feet, and was still slowly falling. All danger of a de structive flood being understood to bs over, persons residing in the vicinity of the river ' 'turned in," and gave them selves up to pleasant dreams. Drowned. William Simpson and his son were drowned in Holston river, three raltes below Kingsport, last Thursday. It seems that they in company with oth ers had ventured Out upon the river u a canoe for the purpose of catching some lumber that the tide was sweeping away. W bile thus engaged young Simpson was thrown from the boat and his father in the effort to rescue him turned the canoe over. All except Mr. Simpson and his ou succeeded in reaching the bank. Wil liam Simpson was a son of Jesae Simpson and lived near Klugsport in the upper end of Hawkins county. JoHesboro Journal. I