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Published Every Thursday J- Vohime V. “IMRE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNA WED BT INFLUENCE AND UNARMED BT GAIN.' •{ Two Dollars Per Annuls. MEM. E. RU39ELU ProprietsT. Saiafcndco. Georgia Oct. 5th 76 vSaF itaktha Washington jriSDED THE FIRST YEAS or HSK MARRIAGE In an uld country h u*e in .New Je.% •*7> ■”* f**r from Philadelphia, owned by a family who ;luim rcm >te reatim •hip to Martha Washington, ihe writer reoeally found among other relic* the part. M<*t carefully hoarded, a memoranda ofitouie toilet article* which George Washingt *n eent to London f-r in 1759. the firat yerr of his marriage The following is an exact copy of this memoranda, which is cnri >Usly quaint; One cap. handkerchief and tucker. Two fine lawn apron*. Two dotibh- handkerchiefs. Two pair* of white silk l.ose. Mix pairs of fine cotton huee. Four pair* of thread hose. Ouc pair of black satin sh ies of ihe smallest fires. One pair of white I’atin shoes One pair caliuiauco shoes. One fashionable hat or bonnet. Mil pairs of kid gloves. Mix pairs of mils. Six breast kuots One dosen silk atay laces. One black mask. Oae d< iscu fishiunable cambric hand kerchiefs. Two pairs neat small scissor . One pound of sewing silk. Ouc box of real miuikcu pin and hairpins. Four pieces of tape. Six pounds of permuted powder. One piece narrow white satin ribbon. Oh"', puckered petticoat of a fashiona ble color. One silver tabbo petticoat. Two handsome breast flowers. Niue pounds of sugar candy. So, girls, you see its all bosh about Jfoar boieg more extravagant ihau our mothers and grand ui .theis in the good old days gone by. if they didii t have j their puli backs and all such modern j tHiSisrie* you sc- Ladv Washington! i uaMti perfumed powder, breast kuots, | satin shoes, and siikeu hose : whether! they had stripes or u .t history d ies uot. j exactly say ; but then she indulged in ! all the vagaries and whims of fashion j just like any modern lady w ho makes any pretensions to style. Ilut tin ii how many of you have husbands • r fathers with an income equal to iliat of the pro- pi iotor of Alt. Vernoe and his stately wife? After ail, just hate your own pretty sweet ways and n .tioiis, girl .— Troy (.V V.) I ‘rets. IS TIMID ATIoV* INTIMIDATED A number ol the South Carolina cot ton strikers went to a field in Marion county S. 0., last week in which a stal wart son of Ham was w irking, and ac costed him about how much h. receiv ed, when the following dialogue took plac * : Strikers—Say. Nat, what y.ra git for dat dar work you doiu' ? Nat—Look here, niggers, tell me, are you ready to meet yo’ God ? Strikers—No foolin', Nat ; what dese buekra pay you for dm work ? Nat—I'm cot foldin', nulder; tell me, niggers am you ready to meet yo’ God ? * Strikers—See here, Nat, we come to •top dis workiu' for nottiu’; so you got to atop dat work ’mediately and go wtd a*. Nat—Fore God. niggers, you flingin’ graveyard dirt on yo’self, and if you ain’t ready to meet yo God leave hear, fur de fust nigger puts his hand on me, dal nigger'll wake up in hell. Nat worked on. BAL\BRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1876. THE SOUTHERN FROSLEM The True Way to Win the South. [From the New York Herald. J There are rnm ns to hope that ve are at last coming to the true way with the Mou'h. ’i here has been going *-n • here since 18G5 ail exp -riuient the like of which no civilised nation ever made in the wor d Wh it was meant by c n- terring the suffrage upon f rar milli -ns oip rsins just emmclpit.*d, without education, without .property, withom tmining in the exorcise of citixcnsh p. with nit a correct, moral sense, and with no sense of public responsibility at all what this meant Air Lamar, in his singularly, able and pliil *8 -phic.il: Beech • in Wednesday, brought vividly before the senses of hi- he rers and readers. To help him he had the foremost friend of the negroes in all the land. Senator Morton hi ms-If; fur we must confess that the languige of Mr. Morton, cited by .Mr. Lamar, describes in even more vivid detail than that of the .Mississip pi m. the perils, the evil results and the inconveniences of ibis gift of citizcn- ship to the freeduien. The two speech es—Air. 1-amar’s and Mr. .Morton’s— deserve the careful attention of all thoughtlul citicens, not as arguments for withdrawing this gift from the Southern blacks—that is out of the question—but in order that the North ern voters may realize the true ua»ure of the Southern troubles, in order that they may see that the ques tions there involving the whole of socie ty in turmoil are not to be settled by a mi itary order, a tew companies of cav alry or a Force Bill. Air. Lamar spoke truly ; time was needed and mi some of those States time is still needed. And besides time they need vigorous, Cour ageous local governments, ready to as sert the laws, to punish evil-doers and to hold society together in peace until time shall sdvc the still remaining dif ficulties. One of the phrases used about the Southern States is that they "inlist become like the North.” "We want to make Loui.-iena iikeihe North,” p iwerless Federal Government, t-.r j i* tice and protecti »n against the lawless part of the community. We sh.uidlHAY rajTucii) : 15 mr3 HAftS JJ i i M XM ,i£UTrf. like to see s iciety in the South re »r- g mixed with the brains at the top. and that Is what the Republican rule’d iw.i th»re with its constant cry for Federii interference and its fatal habit of teach ing the ignorant negro that office is one of his rights, n • matter how he abuses it. and that the Federal power is his only protector, has continually obstruct ed. Among the d-mu.n-Mits sent in bv the President with' his rec t Southern message are letters from the United State* District Attorney of North -ra Mis.'issippi. lie relates that the grand OF NORTH CAROLINA. Curious C oafs* non of a Former Re publican Congressman—The Villai nous Rseori of Some Gtorm* R*- pniicaa LsaJers— Hur the Ne^ro Legislators we e Corrupted- Gol,oj3jr>, N. 0., 3 pt. 13.—send you a copy of a letter from John T. Di- wese, no.v of (Jlevelua I, O no, a,l lress.-d to tils voters of X >rih Uarolin v which li n j.ut he News. baggers who helped to misgovern this State after the wir hid clued, an l he was twice elected to Congress from th us voters ot X >nh Uarolin d which ’ V, j.Ul been oj ilishe.i in fcs : Sweps ws. Deweesg w is one of the carpet- SOT I released any c . , . , , . . . , , i Raleigh district hy the aid of the negro jury, which had just been discharged, j votH He left the State some years ago, c insisted of eleven Republicans and i an I professes to have repeated of his seven Democrats ; that b.-fore this b *dy J misdeeds while acting with the KepubI was brought evidence of in'iinid ition at 1 can P' 4r, A*- Atany rate, whether he i i cannot think lucre is a doubt about s result ot the pending contest. Tue publicans demand me restoration ot [justified power in all branches of the lend Governinenl, but this is done in 1 face of much llirt is condemned bT : tboughttul men of their own party.— uv. Seymour's Letter. riie time has now come when the spirit justice which auuu.iles llie Northern >ple will require me expulsion iroiu Southern Slates oi tlie nordos ot cals, black and wuile, who have suu- :uted ruihkss oppression and pillage free Government —[Jennings, lute tor New York Times. M£, Our paper is only fifty cents for the campaign. .•aid a very prominent Kepuliiican oi that Suite the oilier day. "We want t" make Aiisnis.-ippi like de Norf,” said a col ired sheriff of that State, u->t long agd. to a Xurtl e n traveller, who re plied to him, gravely, "You ar sheriff of this count o, my friend; you cannot write a sentence c rrt ctly. you can barely read ; y ra own less than five huiid'ed d .liars' w Till of pr p -rty in th w rid : ye - y u ire sheriff of a great county, and you want to have y ui State like the North. Believe me when I tell y u thd there is not a State n .r county in all he V ith where ten men c uld be found to nominate V -ii hit sheriff; or. in met, fur any of fice whatever. Id >» >t speak it to of fend you but t inform y u li'yu lived ally where ill the North, even in Mass chusetts or the \V.-stern Reserve T Ohio, n • s ml w u I ever fir a nm- iii-iit think ..I'nuaiiii itiug y‘U even f >r constable. much les- sheiiff Aou would be a patient and contented day lab rer or farmer, aiid vour wild st dreams would not !e..d you to think of ffiee.” I* not this true? And if so, when we echo the Southern Republi can’s 01 Southern negro's cry that the South shall be like the North.’ ought we n l to think what that means? Lou isiana h :sa negro Lieutenant-Governor; .Mississippi had out- until he was im peached for bribery. Almost every Sout ern State has e. lured State offi cers. colored sheriff-, col >red tax collec tors. colored judges, colored school of ficers. In this are they not un ike, very unlike, "the North ?" Frederick D..uglass i-a c titivated man. an elo quent speaker, a forcible writi r. a man of property, a g md citizen. What par ty in New York has ever thought of uomiii.iting him lor Lieuteiiaut-G«ver nor ? We, too. w uld like to see the South "like the North,” aud like the best part of the N rth. Be should like to see. for iustaucc, the rude, unlettered Colored men <>f the South warned and guided by the Republican leaders to give up their greed for public ■ ffiee, and taught to select their guve. n >rs. their sheriffs, their legislators, their judges and county supe visors 1'roJi among the educated and property ■ we ing white residents. V\ e shou d like to see them calling upon these, aud uot upon the far-off aud to a great extent an election ; that he—< native .Missis sipian—in vain pressed up-n thei the necessity of indicting the guilty pir- ties ; that they absolutely refused to d > so. and he encloses their rep >rt to the judge. Now, having just refused to find iudictinents >>n whieh the guilty ■night have brought to justice, whit do these Republican grand jury me . d).' They unite in a wild, ganeral indict ment of the wh 1 State as revolution i- ry and full of violence, and demand the immediate interference of the Fed eral ! What is the use of that? Senator Boutwell cannot be accused of lukewarmness toward the Southern blacks no- of an amiable weakness t »- w. rd the Southern whites, as his parti sail report on the .Mississippi Gover norship abundantly proves. When re cently in .Mississippi what he there saw led him, as he was leaving the St ile, to call around him a number of the lead mg colore 1 men aud to advise them to select this fall for all the offices, Stare and loc-.l, not negroes not even North ern men, b. t prominent, influential, in telligeut men of the nlJ white resid mts • natives of t’ e State, and to vote for th.-se That advice was sound aud statesmanlike, but it will ti it be taken. Even if the mass of the col ired men were willing, the vagabmd cirpet-b g element would n >t let them That class lives upon office ; "divides with j ■ he it has taught the black sincere in nis rep mt tnee or n at, he h is made an open confession, wnicti is good for his seal, but exceed.iiuly o 11 for his former associates, wao hive represented Grant’s A im.ui-nr.ition here, an 1 are now the leaders ol the Hayes an! Wheeler party ol North Carolina. There is hardly a prominent Republican in the State, from the ex-Confederatc Settle, who is the cindi lute of that party tor Governor, do.va to the rural district managers, w.i > w is n >t a in unaer of the King which Dewese exposes, and the main facts th it he recounts have lon^ been known to the plundered tax payers, lu 137.2, wj ;n Grant was runnin r for re- election, not less th m |J15,i)JJ taken from the United States Treasury, ostensibly for the purpose o: suppressing illicit dis tilling, was .-pent hy United States oili eials in this State for political purposes. It is a sUgnl ir fact tint, s» lar as is known, there lias not been one revenue collector appointed by Grant ia North Cir lina who his not proved a defaul er, aud tiie aggregate stealings of these de faulter* amount to over half a million of dollars, B low ;ire the most interesting portion- of the address of D-wcese. Tne James H. Harris mentioned in it is the lia lmg colored politician in the Slate, au l the chief m mager of the Republic in party here, llol.ieu is the i apeached and dis- amueu VjroVcruor A !ia e;r v# . unde Emperor, an 1 to Hare his son Fred succeed him on the throne: dkwkesr’s add;u;s3. To tits Voters of North Carolina: When I left your State six years ago, it was with a determination never again ! mingle in politics; hut, in a quiet way, man that his voting strength entitles him to a share of public plunder, aud it lives up. ui bis fears r.ud has It is grad for : p 1 It is often a-ked. "Why ,-lionld n t i N n lhern man run f >r office in the Smith? and the qnesii >n is tliiught to de nous’ i ate -S mth rn ill tolerance ” But suppos .Mass ;chuse ts had a ma- j rity of cilix ns. but lately slaves, tg uor.iiit, with nit pi-p-rty. with little moral sense -Mid less value f-r t.iat which we eall cliar.icterand reput ition Suppose a Louisianian sh-mld there- up ui remove to Massachusetts and at nee c ntrol this ignoraiir aud deb is-d ui ij rity f.r hi* own p »li ical ambiti oi; -upp ISO he sh uild d ■ this by appealing n ‘W to their cupidity ; should unscru pulously arouse their unw Tthie-t ambi t ions ; teach then tliat lack of character and capacity need not keep them from taking the most important officers : should divide the plunder of the State with them ; and when he had attract ed to himself and to them also the sus picion. fear and hatred of the old citi- z ‘ns. should then appeal to the omnipo tent and dreaded Federal power for siipp >rt and ge; it. what would be the condition of j ublic opini m in .Massa chusetts? Would n >t society be shaken to the c >re? Would n->t respectable and otherwise virtuous citizens be em bittered to the point where they would shut their eyes to violence ? We d > not excuse violence. Noth ing excuses murder >r 11 wlessness. Bu f these crimes which happen in th<* South and of whieh. just now, the President aud the Republican organs and politi eians give such horrifying accounts, are not without cause. They are the results of a long course of abuse begun and continued by unscrupulous and sel fish N irtheru adventurers, who have, the help of the Federal Govern ment, preyed upon Southern society, and wh- have not e.en ha 1 enrage and energy to punish ihese cnim-s ot which their conduct has been the main cau.«e. Let non-interference have a tiial. Let us see what will happen’d iventurers can ro longer call upon the Federal power to maintain them. That is the only cure. vote for ami suppoit the men ami party 1 thought were best or my c uutry’s wel fare. I had also determined th it so far as any of the nutters connected with p ilitics in your State were to be of a sealed natur . so far as I was concerned, to let the dead past bury its dead—shed no tear over its grave; but unfortunately, perhaps, for some ol the pirties concerned, they con cluded they would shi t their sins on my shoulders. Now, i have enough oi my own to hear, and propose, in a few statements, to put the sin where it proper ly belongs. In the first place I was,as you all know, an officer in the regular army ot the Unit ed States, stationed am mg you from the close of the war until I resigned to take tiie appointment of Register in Binkrupt- cy, which I held until 18i>8, when I was elected to Congress. When the Constitu tional Convention in 1868 was in session, Messrs. Soutter & Co., bankers of New York city, were desirious of getting that assemblage of corrupt end doubtful rep resentation to endorse $1,000,000 ot old State bonds, or repledge the faith of the State to their payment. I was then inex pcrienccd in a! 1 kinds of legislation, hut had quite an extensive acquaintance w ith the members of that body. One of them, Gen. John C. Abbott, late a Senator in Congress, on learnirg what Messrs. Sout ter & Co., wanted, told me that they would pay some considerable money to get ihe Convention to p 'ss a law re-en dorsing the bonds; tiiat if I would see a Mr. Porter, then in Raleigh, and make a liargam with him foi some definite sum, he (Abbott) would put the bill through the Convention, and that he would divide the money received from Soutter & Co. I did ns he suggested. Mr. Porter agreed to give $1,000. Gen. Estes, then a partner or in some way connected with Abbott, represented Abbott; the bill was passed, and the money paid by draft on New York ami cashed at tne Raleigh Xationa 1 Bank The money was divided in Ab bott’s room, he and Esies taking $9,500. and 1 getting the other $2,500. Of this sum, I save $.500 >o a Major Rice, from Pitt county; $250 to Janies H. Harris, and kept the remainder. This was the commencement of the swiefil-s that were perpetrated by the j tn.it time the itiug was formed uy Swep son, Abbott, and Littlefield by which ail of tbo e stealing laws were pissed. They had up to that time been friendly with me. I was. through their influence anil a liberal use of money, nominated to Con gress. Air James H Harris was the only opponent I had in the Convention, and he was paid by me $1,050 to get out of the way and support me. I paid him by a check on tiie Raleigh National Bank dat ed February 28. 1308. About this time tiie Ring concluded I hey would make a close corporation and shake me, bur I .Mr. Swepson paid me claim I hail on them, or the spoils of the Ring. I was again nominated, when Harris again wanted to leech mr; and this time the colored patriot would take no less than $2,005, bus making me bleed $3,000 te represent as mean and worthless a con stituency of whites and blacks as ever called themselves Republicans. Th>-y should have been called by their proper names of thieves and leeches. I had, by this time, come to tiie conclusion that Swepson, Abbott,Littlefield & Co., would be tired of their slinking me in I he way they had, so I went and saw Judge Sammy Watts; made an ar rangement with Judge Watts to enjoin the issue of bonds to the railroad coiupa ny, and he was to have $5,000 of State bonds lor issuing and sustaining injunc tions in the Atlantic and Tennessee Rail read case. The suit was in the name ol one Kelioe of Newhern; the case was fix ed up, and Sammy got his $5,000. There was but one railroad, I now remember of, that did not pay tribute to this Ring, and that was the Salem road. They eclined to "bleed." It was well understood that Mr. Swop sou was to and did take care of Gov. Hol den, and that he was paid for his influ ence. Andy Jones and Swepson have often told me that Swepson paid Gov. Holden Some $25,000, besides his stock in the Raleigh National Bank. I kno v that Littltield gave Gov. Holden $15,000 for the St'indtrU. The price was high, but tbe Govtrnor gave his countenance and encouragement to steal his State. So it was about even. Gov. Holden, Bill Sloan, Andy Jack- on Jones, Windy Billy Henderson, Joe Abbott, Gen. E-tes. Sara Watts, Jim Harris, M. S. Littlefield, G. W. Swepson, steals. AN ANXIOUS PARENT. J. C. L. llirris wanted to be Postmas- r; his daddy, C. L. Harris, offered me $1,000 los.gn his recommendation. 1 ieebn .d. Hairis then had Shaffer, the :irpet-hag register, who lias about .is much brain as a bull calf, to write me a •Her, offering me $1,005 te sign it. I de lined. Logan then wanted t.< fight nr- n Malil -r’-s jewelry store for not giving him a r-.comm ud.ition. Littlefield, Swepson, and Abbo't are to blame, one as ma.-li as the other, for the condition of affairs in your State. They corrupted the L‘'gi>l.iture, using nch willing tools as J. H. Harris to get he negro'members to vote for all of th-ir railroad schemes. Harris was by them paid the m >noy with which he purclms'? his farm. In tact he would do nothing uifess he was paid for it. - He must have received not less than $15,000 for his in fluence and his vote. Abbott got at least $100,000 fur his share. You all know how much your State “was swindled out of ; the members themselves received but little. Sam Carrow whs paid $3,500 for tryi"g to influence Rodman’s opinion on the legality of the bonds issued by the railroad company. Dick Badger and Tim Lee each got their $8,l>00 of State bonds out of the Atlantic and Ohio Railroad Company ap propriation. In fact, not one of these radical chaps that are now houndiig me ■Ida lick of work; but they got their pay, and your State had to pay them. The stealing extended from one cud of the State to the other, an t was confined en tirely to the Republican party. More than one man now in ease and plenty in your State stole what lie is daily eating, and if the Republican parly is to be con tinued in power, you will get ju.->t four years more of it. . John T De weese. MODERN JOSEPHS- The Fellows Who Bagged the Shekels —Tribute to Distinguished States men. [Rev. Henry Morgan's Lecture.] Joseph was private secretly to the old patriarch Jacob, like Babcock to Grant, but with this difference, Joseph reported the evd deeds of his brethren. Babcock didn’t. YVhen Joseph’s Brethren stole sheep Jo-eph exposed the rogues to Jacob and won their displeasure. IS’hen Bab cock’s brethren stoic whisky Babcock didn’t report to the old man. He went shares, divided the spoils ol the whisky. Joseph represents the party uf “moral ideas” sold into Eg.pt—sold to the spoil grabbles. Judah said.' “Let us sell Jo seph.” Now Juflah was a shrewd finan cier. He saw [here was money in the slave trade, so he put his brother in the market, sold him to his cousins. Reuben was the best of the cabinet, he designed to rescue Joseph—run an underground railroad. It is well for Potiphar that he did not puiehase either Reuben or Judah for servants. He could not trust them in hi9 family. Airs. Potiphar might become too familiar. Tliey represent the modern Joe. Joseph was imprisoned because of his virtue. The modern Joe is incarcerat ed for want of if oseph was sold by his brethren* Tire modern Joe often gets osld bv the other sex Grant says: “l didn't sell Joseph, I ouly took double salary aud a tew presents.’’ Babcock says: “I didn’t sell the party, I only took a few thousand from the whisky ring.” Beiknap says: “I didn't sell him, I only got $25,000 out or the suller’s’ posts, just to please my wife." Delano says: “I only made a few th usamls out of the land jobs and the Indians." Boss Shepherd srys: “I only took $30,000 out of the Freedmen’s Bauk.” Scbenck says: I only got the Britishers to invest in Emma mine.” Ben Butler says: “I didn't sell the party, I only preached inflation and repudiation. " Yet all had their part of tiie shekels, all made money out of the sale of poor Joseph, or the Republican party. Butler would have a leather-medal currency; Butler thinks much of the flag; much of hunting—if it is made in his lac- lory. The election will turn on tUelinane* question, and on the color line. It Moses had married a white worja~ we I didate. But Moses was a regular*bishop —Gilbert—Haven—friend of the colored people! He rode out with the blacks,and married an Ethiopian—Aiaies I mean. In our day Amalck means the whisky ring nd the Washington rings. And Saul aid: “I nave done as thou comm indest me” Samuel said: “Ah! Ha! Hast thou! What meanerh this bleating of sheep; and lowing of oxen?” Saul said: “I have to the best of the spoils to sacrifice kept Lord ” So says the whisky ring “Kept he best of the sp iils to serve the party with.’” Samuel said: “Obedience is better than sacrifice. Bring hither Agag, king of the Amaleki'e-!” “And Samuel hewed Agag to pi- C •* before the Lord.’ IVumber SI NEW GOODS SOW TOURING IN TH* And will soon be one of the prettiest most attractive stores ia town. THE FAIR- Plant rs and everjb aly else should bear in mi.id that it is now but a little over six weeks until the Fair opens.— Irfais should stimulate every one who feels an interest in thf exhibition to take prompt measures looking to a full exhibition of T homas county's resour ces. This exhibition should call iut> play all .he latent energies of our peo ple. Nothing should be left undone to make this the grandest exhibition which h s yet marked the brilliant series of exhibitions- in the past. We cannot retrograde in this matter. On- C’onvention and Legislature which led to ! on d upward must be our course, tne financial ruin of your State. Before ! All it require* is that we should have the close of the Convention the bill was 1 concert of acti-n among the farmers and passed giving State aid to the Chatham farmers wives. Let us have this and j by the bestowal up *i\ them ot tiie b-w road, and $60,000 of bonds were given to | the Fair is already an assured success. | public offices which they afe legally Gen. Littlefield to pay the members for ; Witn<rat this, even with all the prestige j qualified and c mpetent to fill, and we their votes . ; <»f the past, failure will Stare us in the j know ot no better beginning in this re i face. Theft let town and country go to i form which could be made, than the ap j work now preparing something Ft the ! pointment of an accomplished laity tore met and me memo rs V P ht ;„ rk f ., r 1 , h * wid -W and daughter of distinguish- ever cbimarous for all kinds of « j each . Ut when argued will make a , d Georgians-1- ,he position of State and s Zeals, there influence and 1 mi tt wh j Librarian.-Columbus Tan*. were up for sale to the highest bidder At o J AN OFFICE FOR A LADY. We are informed that Mrs. E. S. Overby intend to be an appl.c.mt for he p siti'ui of State L brari n, when the duly of making a new appointment for that office devolves on Gov. Colquitt Mrs Overby is the wid iv of Judge Overby, and he daughter of lion. Hugh Harals.ra—two i'f Georgia’s late talented and distinguished sous. She is,a lady of fine accomplishments aud supeiior mental endowment, and vmild till the position most intelligently and gracefully. We hope that Gov. Colquitt will do an act at once of gallantry and justice by giving the appointment to this lady He might thus initiate a • u -w depart ure” in politics, the following of which throughout the South wovld do much to better tbe pecuniary condition of many wou.cn who well deserve such fa vor* of the State But. perhaps we c.i n >t exactly cdl it a in-w departure. f..r we understand that .Mr*. Haskell, the widow of the gallant Gen. Haskell, h *lds a similar p .siii<iu in the State of Tennessee The office of Librarian is. at all events, one well suited to both the capacity and the taste of an aceom piished woman Hard as has been the c ndition oi a great many of our people since the de struction of their "r>>petty and the de rangement of their industries by tbe war. that of large numbers of wouitu has been the hardest Th rasands of them found themselves reduced from affluence and luxury to absolute want. In the eleven years oi* conflict with ad verse fortune, whieh lias followed, they h ive not had as g-i..<l a chance as the men. who could always make a liveli- h.M-d by hard w rk And yet nothing has b en done by the State f»r their special benefit We hope that (here will be an improvement in this respect A LEGISLATCIUi TOT SALK. w & E B b 'li it distinctly understood in tb of the season that they CAN’T BE UNDERSOLD BV ANY HOUSE IN SOUTH WES UIA, NOR ELSEWHERE. We have On hand and are constantly ceiving a full line of DRY GOODS, II ING, FANCY GOODS, GROCERIES OF ALD KINDS. We invite >he attention of tbe trading pab* lie to the inducements which we propose M offer during tbe incoming season. Wa ii. tend to sell goods at bottom figures, having as our motto ‘Quick sales and small prafiw.’ GIVE US A CALL Aal be setuSsl of thstrutn 9t* WEIL t LOU,