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solve the most complicated problems in
mental arithmetic wiih a moment's
hjsitation.
Now and then the prices will run up
wildly upon a given slate of facts and
Yun down as rapidly when it is discov
ered that the facts are not having the
'effect which was generally expected
by the operators. They are pretty
cold and accurate in (he r calculations,
but the atrnosphero of the gold rdom
almost inevitably pert ets a man’s
judgment, and. brings hini to grief fn
the long run.
CONCLUSION.
Thf stock board is provided with a
tnodfiiator and two reporters, thus
having the semblance of parliamentary
law lor its government. The gold
board has nothing of the kind. It is
a ceaseless jungle, a whirlpool of voic
es, without order, without umpire, ref
eree or stakeholder. Yet as it spins
on, millions upon millions are bought
and sold, the prices of all goods, wares, j
merchandise, produce bonds, stock and
property generally throughout the
country are marked up and down, obe
diently to the inexorable “indicator'’
in the gold room. How these men
can understand each , other and avoid
making mistakes is a mystery.
Now and then the noise flags, and
almost ceases.. While. I was there, it
'ceased for a memejit entirely, The
smokers placidly puffed their blue
wreaths upwards, and the murmer of
tbe little fountain became audible.---
In ten seconds Bedlam had broken
again, wider tl an ever. ‘‘Market ex
cited ’ said my friend, to whose polite
ness I was indebted for an introduction
to the room ; and almost immediately
the indicator rose from 141 to 141 ii.
The id:a that those twenty or thirty
men were “the market/’ and that when
they exchanged views a trifle more vo
ciferously than usual, ‘‘the market was
excited” struck me as being so droll
that 1 laughed immediately. Jt was
nevertheless true. These men were
the market, and the market was ex
cited. Some spark of information had
just come from some quarter of the
globe which warranted the operators
■in believing that United States legal
•tender notes were worth a fraction less
than they were ten seconds before.—
The gold room is as sensitive to news
ns the “thermoelectric pile to heat”
CLASSES 01' OPERATORS.
There arc two classes of operators in
the gold room- —commission men and
speculators. The former buy and sell
for others.” With them it is “ heads
I win, tails you ltse.” 'J lieir com
mission is a certainty, and if they con
resist the temptation to do a little on
their private account they make money.
The speculators make none! Rich to
day, pcor toiinorrow, is the rule with
them. Those who make money eannot
■get away- When a man makes a mil
lion in the gold room, it is as though he
had swallowed a gallon of salt water at
one draught to quench his thirst, lie
must have more. 8o ho stays and
loses it. If he loses more than holms
and cannot pay his difference, he must
take his place at the outer railing.—
Even then he cannot drag himself
away from the place. The evil genius
of gambling has possession of him.—
It holds him fast. ‘ Yonder,’’ said my
compaion, “is a young man who might
have gone away With two millions of
dollars, lie was wo/th it once. 11c
is now among the “dead-beats,” as poor
as any of them. They have all been
tich in their time.
- uses or it he cold room.
To say that the gold room is not
useful would be oltpgctlu-r wrong It
is not only useful lut necessary. I
should not wish any friend of nj i tip to
do much business in it, but it must be
recognized as a necessity of tiro times
Its iiK-tlrod of doing business was ne
ver invented by anybody Men slid
into it, just as men s’id into lire prac
tice of using gold and silver for money.
It has been li.und that, the work can ho
done more economically aud expedi
tiously by the rat-pit made than any
other. If it could be done any faster
or any cheaper by tiro operators stand
ing on their beads, they would do so.
The Next Delthlgre. —N French
work, recently publishtd, maintains
tliat every 10,000 years the waters of
the sea pass from one pole to the other,
submerging and overwhelming in their
passage the earth and all its inhabit
tants. According to the i utlvor of
this theory, M. Paul de Jouvcnel, the
last el' those deluges occurred 4,000
years ago, (lie next or e is due in 6,-
000 years more. M. Jon vend re
counts this great cosmicnl drama with
the vigor and pictorial effect of an dye
witness. Fix thousand years—sixty
centuries—then, only, are lift to us
wherein to do our whole world’s work,
and to complete and perfect that civil
lization which has yet hardly dawned
on the greater number of mankind 1
Sixty old men may touch hands across
the interval between the present mo
ment and the last hour of the world as
it exists; then all will be finished, all
consumed, all will di; appear! The sea
for 10,000 years in its immeasurable
depths will crush out our history and
leave nothing of it at all but a few fos
sils ! —so, at least says M. Jouvcnel.
Dfuspia anil the lVar. —The Prussian
war cost $42,000,000, to pay which
the conqueror has levied upon his en
emies $56,200,000, givings epargain
of sl4, 200,000, earned by the "nee
dle” in a few weeks, and this indepen
dent of the territory and other proper
ty acquired.
J&ST’Tbe Washington correspondent
ol the llaltimore Sun gives an "on dit”
that the advocates of Southern territj
rilalzation have been canvassing the
two Houses, and doubting their ability
to carry it this session, have conclu
ded to postpone the matter until next
session. We suspect it was the Sit
preme Court that they canvassed,
.SEMI-WEEKLY
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L. C. BRYAN, : : : : Editor.
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ITITOMASVI LEE, O. A.:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1867.
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Cash.
VETO MESSAGE OF THE
PRESIDENT.
Tbe Message of President Johnson
vetoing the bill to establish negro suf
frage in the District of Goltirfibia, was
communicated to both Houses on the
7th instant, but the bill was nrvcrthoi
loss immediately passed over the veto,
by the requisite majority, and is now
the law of tire land. How any nmn or
set of men, could vote for tin cstub
ment of such u measure, in the face
of the overwhelming truths contained
in this message, we can account for in no
other way, than that, they were either
1 blinded by a foolish fanaticism, or mad
1 with passion and thirst for power.—
Perhaps all these ingredients enter
j tire body of the Radical or in pound ;
but this message of the President, is,
j in our opinion, one of the ablest expoi
I sit ions of sound doetrino that Iras ever
emanated from the Executive Dosart
ment of the Government, ana when
such noble conservative views, so
sir.kingly sot forth by tire Executive!,
arc not only disregarded by the na
tional legislature, it is indeed time for
American citizens to look around them
and ascertain whether they havo any
lib cties left. It is evident that the
Radicals no longer have respectful- tire
Executive or the Judiciary,for they
are endeavoring Id impeach the one
and threaten to abolish the,other, and
1 themselves constituting the third and
most pt wcrltil eo-ordinpte branch of
i the Government, they seem, from (lien
action, resolved upt n consolidating
1 an 1 vesting all power in their own
: hands The Constitution is a mere
j play thing in their hands, so he taken.
| up whenever they desire to punish,
I ail’d cast away whenever its provisions
I run counter to their arts of aggression,
i Their lear ol I'-q utilitury and civic
i powers of the South, notwithstanding
htr defeat, prostration mid poverty
has driven them to measures violative
of every principle of tho ('opstijution,
of civil liberty, and the common rights
.of mankind, and having entered upon
such a emirs'.', infamous as it may be, 1
they see. no oseapo save in the final
success,of their schemes, which they
| are well aware will be the ruin of Arne*
rican Liberty.
IMPEACHMENT OF TIIE
PRESIDENT.
At length the lladicajs have deter
mined to put their threat of impeach
ment into execution, or at least, to try
the experiment, and a no member of
Congress, knowi. to the country for
his high charaoter and statesmanship,
would r sk his reputation ho far as to
ntsumo the leadership, n man to do the
dirty work has been found in the. pen
sun of Mr. Ashley, of Ohio, who, as
he could not be worsted by defeat,
might, it is supposed, become famous
by success, like Krostratus. Accord
ingly on the 7th inst., the would-be
famous Mr. Ashley, introduced in the
House of Representatives, a paper and
iCsolniion impeaching Andrew John
son, Vico President, and acting Presi
dent of tlio United States, of high
crimes and misdemeanors. Wo had
expected on this extraordinary occa
sion, some spread ca.-le attempt at
imitation of Sheridan, in the deathly 1
stillness of a crowded house, a desper
ate effort to produce a grand sensation ; !
but in this instance, the first, to im- I
peach the highest dignitary of th ■
1 nited States, there was Bo combina
tion of art, thquenee and genius, ut:d I
Mr. Ashler s all important resolution,
though burdened with the fate of a ,
mighty empire, fell upon tho ears of j
the assembled wisdom of Congress, ]
only with the force if ordinary busi. j
ness. It passed both houses, it is 1
true, by a large majority, but as a mat- I
ter of c< ur.se, as a part of the Radical !
programme, well understood. Its past |
sage has created no surprise among 1
the people, because it was expected by
the Radicals and the Conservatives re
gard it as a measure calculated to has
ten the (’ownfalf of the party or sac- -
tion, who originated it as a means of
self-agg'imtlizeriMint. VVe did not be
lieve the Radicals would even go so
far as to introduce the measure, be
cause of their own doub; of success
and fear of the people ; but they hayg
entered the wedge that shall overthrow
Con titutional liberty, or grind therin
selves to powder. Wei 1 , let them pro-'
ceed as rapidly as possibly, for we agree
vvitli some of our cotemporaries, -h t
they must fail in their undertaking,,
and to them failure is total ruin. Whe
ther President Johnson tamely sub
mits or- not, we believe the result will
be tl e same in the end. Ifjie resists,
there will be revolution, vyh’reh: ijrust
inevitably overthrow the Congressional
faction, and if he submits, they may
convict yud displace him if they
choose, bet that will disgust and open
tho every qf the blinded people. Ret
tiro eyes of the people once be epened,
and all 'will turn but right. Let the
South waitpmd be patient.
r 1 ———r
WHAT OCCURRED IN THOM
ASVILLE LAST NIGHT.
Antony, a Freedman, liavinir a short
journey before him concluded to bor
row Mr, Jamqs Alderman’s horse witln
out no.-.satiation—ho was over‘a ken and
in prsou awaits a ~settlement of the
matter.
The 0. S, fjoldiom atf,-relied to the
Frc’dman’s Bureau in Thrmasville,
got on another bust —one of them
went to the residence of Policeman
Spair, in his absence, and with loud
threats and abuse frightened bis wile
from the premises. Mr, Spair, over
took him and Was conducting him to
prison, when <jpome of Ins comrades
coming to tiro rescue, were severely
handled and the bust bunted up. This
same squad of Soldiers, having no one
to control them, have given the city
authorities more tvoublo than the
whole population of the county.
A Mr. Jones, of Twiggs County ar
rived here from Brooks,'having under
aricst several negroes charged with
murd r in Twiggs Countv, and also
Mr. John Denson, of Brooks, charged
with having decoyed and curried off
sail] negroes from Twiggs, while under
coi tract to labor on his farm, in Brooks
County. Mr. Denson sued out a writ
of habeas corpus on arriving atTl om
nsvilie and the case is now undergoing
investigation bef'.iro Judge Hansel! of
the Superior Court.
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR.
Tins excellent work for January is
upon our table, filled, as usual, with
all kinds of useful information, on all
the industrial pursuits of men, but es
pecially for the benefit of farmers, who
should never ho without it. Jt points
out and explains the farm work for
every month with great judgment and
experience, and is not only a good
occrsccr to hurry fhrward the Industrie
ous farmer, but is also Iris faithful and
unerring preetptor, instructing him
where he is ignorant. How can fann
ers ui) without this valuul lo guide ?
The price is .y all.y ■■insignijicunt-—, only
$2 a year. I’ublisiifd at Athens. Gu.,
by Win. N. White,
BSY" IVe acknowledge receipt, yes
terday, ol a dainty printers' fee, with
the compliments of Mr. Sc Mrs .James
F. Evans ol' Thomasville, who were
joined in the holy bans of matrimony
on Tuesday evening. May ! eaven
guide and L-fess cur young friends in
all their actions throughout life. The
high moral character and Christian
zeal of t he Groom gives promise of
much fruit in the future. Lot him
wave on high his banner of truth and
never 'lower its standard.
Congress in tho House on 7th inrst.
Mr Asliley introlnced a paper und
resolution iiiqn aeo tig Andrew John
son Vice I’resi-lo it and acting Died
dyirt of thq Hpitod *»tnU's, } of high
crimes mid misdemeanors, in that l!o
usurped power and violated laws: that
Ire had made 0 rrupt 11*0 of the ap
pointing power; the pardoning power
and the veto (rower: that he had cur.
ruptly disposed of tho public property,
of the United States; tin t he hud cor
ruptly interfered in election, and was
guilty of other high crimes and mis
demeanors.
January 0.
(ii-ld closed in Now l’ork last night
at 1643.
Kentucky rejects the constitutional
; Ainenilnicnd.
Liverpool cotton market closed dull
at l«>d., New York easier at 15 a 35J.
Total r-ciints of cotton at all the
I ports ol'lho United Ftutes, from Ist
i September, 1566, to Ist January, 18(57,
. 770,000 bales; stock on hand 600,000.
The Democratic State Convention of
Ohio is in session at 1 olumlms.
The leading Conservatives at Wash
ington had a grand banquet last night,
Tho President was greeted with cl eors.
the House passed the Columbia
District Suffrage Dill over the I’resi
ileiu’s veto, by a vote of 113 to 38.
The Supreme Court has decided that
National Rank shares arc subject to
assessment and taxation by the States
Governor Ward, of New Jersey in
hi* annual message, takes strong Radi
cal grounds.
Mexico is swauning with guerrillas,
who seek tin* life of Maximilian.
1 lll)J'higl sh Government desires to
know whether or not tin United States
Government wil submit the Alabama
claims to arbitration.
Beiy* The following is a record of
events in New Yor; lor tho year just
dosed : There we>c thirty-five homi
cides, thirty six infanticides, and sixty
one suicides. Os the latter, twelve
hung themsc ! ves, twelve used the pis
tol, five took paris green, ami one Cos
tar's rat exterminator; two hundred
ad thirty seven persons were drown,
ed, and thirtyeight -deaths resulted
from burn*
Proceedings of Council.
COUNCIL ROOM,
Thomasville, Ga., Jan. 7, 'O7.
Council met this day in regular
meeting. Present his Horror the May
or, Aldermen Stark, Bower, Tooke,
Stegali and Reid.
The minutes of the last meeting
weie read confirmed.
A petition from R. F. Fudge, to be
permitted to build a wooden building
in the Fire District, to be covered with
tin and sheet iron, was presented, con
sidered and granted.
His Honor tbe Mayor stated that he
had received a communication in re
gard to a Fire Engine, &c , which was
ordered to.be turned over to Fire Com
pany,
The Clerk and Treasurer presented
his Annual Report, with endorsement
of Finance Committee, which was rc<
ceived and approved, as follows :
COUNCIL ROOM,
Thomasville, Jan. 7, 1867.
The. Mayor and Aldermen oj the
Town of Thomatrille:
Gentlemen :—Allow me respect,
fully to present my Annual Report
upon the Finances of the Town of
Thomasville for the preoeding year,
ending on the 31st.day of December.
1866 » The quarterly aggregates are
taken f-orri the quarterly reports, which
were ca-efullv examined and revised
by your able Chairman of tire Coin
mittec on Finances, at the time tire
quarterly reports were made. The
aggregates for specific work are com
piled from the quarterly reports, and
have been made to let the citizens of
Thomasville know, should rfns report
he published, how their public funds
have been expended.
With nry warmest, acknowledgments
for your kind and courteous indulgen
ces during the year, and be-t wishes
for your future health and prosperity,
I am, Gentlemen,
Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM CLINE,
Clerk and Treasurer.
Wm. f t.INK, Clerk and Treasurer, in
account with the Town Council of
Thom a grille, from Ist hf January
till 81st December, 1866, inclusive.
1866. Du.
Jau. 18. To cash from Trea
surer of 1865, $44 90
Oct. 22. To cash from Maj.
Wiw. .Stegall, for
a mule, 175 00
Dee. 31. To cash for Licen
ses of nil ocs.-rip
tions, tili date, 2318 70
“ “ To cash from Fines
and Forfeitures, 1218 50
“ “ Ti caslr from S.
Drovcis and Iti
nerant Traders,do 40 00
“ “ To cash from Ex •
empts from street
work do. 403 50
“ “ To cash by Mar.
shal from fresh
Meats sold, do. 93 95
“ To caslr from Auc
tion Sales, do 15 15
« « To caslr from Cot
ton in sL're and
goods sold on con
signment, do. 87 20
“ “ To cash collected
oh General Tax, 3182 00
7559 00
Note ol Dr. Adams 25 00
Cash belor-ging to
Cemetery l-’und, 40 00
Cash by sundries
to balance, 43 46
$7667 46
Wm. Cum:, in account with Town
Council of Thomasnlle;
Cosh received first quarter, $2440 06
Cash received second “ 836 GO
Cash received third “ 871 06
Cash received fourth " 4018 84
7667 46
Cash paid out first
quarter, SOOS 90
Cash paid out se
cond quarter, 1751 22
Cash paid out third
quarter, 864 59
Cash paid out 4th
quarter, 2965 49
6577 20
Clerk’s commis
sion on $7667 46 191 69
Clerk’s commis
sion o i 6577 20 164 43 6038 32
$734 14
Note of Dr. S. S.
Adams, 25 00
Cash belonging to
Cemct’ry fund, 40 00 65 00
669 14
Commission on $43 46, 1 08
Cash in hand, $668 (16
Wo, the undersigned,Committee of
Finance for the Town of Thomasville,
hare carefully examined the Annual
Report of our worthy Cl* k and Trea
surer, and find it correct and recom
mend its adoption.
P. S. ROWER,
JM> STARK,
11. 11. TOOKK.
Recommendation confirmed by Coun
cil.
Wm. Ci.inr, in account with Town
Council of Tltomasril/f, from Is/
of January till 81st of December,
1866, inclusive:
1866. Cn.
Ry salary of Mayor, SSOO 00
Ry salary of Mar
shal, 900 00
Py salary of Clerk
and Treasurer, 300 00
By salary of L. C.
Bryan, printer, 100 00 |
Apr. 25. By salary ol Tiros.
Cbuptuan, Police
man, from date
till 25th July, 140 00
“ ‘‘ By salary of Jno.
Spair from date
till 31st Dec. 402 75 j
Feb. 14. By cash to J.
Harris, for Town
,I y Lot, .... 400 00 ;
NoV. 5; lfy cash to C. J.
Harris, for Ceme
tery Lot, 1000 00
July 23. By services of Maj.
r J. A. Maxwell,
Engineer & Sur
veyor, from date
till 22d Oct. ’66, 389 00
By Lewis Hadley,
assisting Surv’or, 71 00
By Willi, l ittle (col
on and man) assist
ing Surveyor, 27 64
By liquidating act
counts of former
Council.-’, 208 00
By Alexa'der &
Love, legal servi
ces, .... 200 00
By L. C. Bryan, ex
tra printing, 151 50
By Work an the
Stncts, 022 27
By Work on the -
Market House, 60 cS
By Lumber and
Hauling, 249 17
By Public Pump
and Fixtures, 79 75
By Lime for Sani
tary purposes, 40 00
By Stationary, 15 50
By IVm. Houston,
for a Mule, 200 00
By ( lerk, for com
piling ordinances 25 00
By Marshal for com
missions, 151 17
By Clerk and Trea
surer’s Commist
sions, 356 12
By Jailor’s Fees for
prisoners, 71 81
By Sun fries, 276 81
By Cash in hand, 669 14
r . . * A . / 37667 46
His Horror the Mayor reporter! rhat
he had settled the arbitration of Broad
street right of way with T. <T. Mcßain,
Esq., in full, and given and received
the necessary papers.
Also with the Executor of the WaU
tlen Estate, giving the note of Council
for 815 U, 00 with interest for five years,
up to 7tn January, 1867.
The following Ordinance was read
a second and third time and passed .
An Ordinance to adopt the Flans and
Drafts of Maj. J. A • Maxwell in
the Surveys of the Town of Thorr.-
nsvillc.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Council of tire Town of" Thomasville,
and it is hereby ordained by authority
of tlie same, That from and after this
date the surveys arid plans of the
Town of Thpmugvijle, tnade by Maj.
J. A. Maxwell in the year 1866, be
and they are' hereby adopted as the
standard drafts and plans of the Town ;
Provided, That nothin - hqrein con
tained shall convey a title to the own
ership or use of any land or oth'-r
properly which has been thrown on
u ;;v lot or piece of ground by narrow
ing any of the streets in said survey.
Passed in Council -fan. 7, 1867.
P MuGLASHAN, Mayor.
Attest,
Wm. Cline, Clerk.
An account of lt.’.v. Win. T. Taylor
for forty dollars, for damages to his
premises by small pox patients, was
prosentpd, and Tor want of time was
laid over foi’ examination by next
Council.
An aecnu it or J. It Alexander,
Esq , for forty dollars, for legal servi.
ocs, was presented and ordered so lie
paid, as creditor Requests, by crediting
him with that amount on Cemetery
Fund.
Council then adjourned.
WM CLINK, Clerk.
Disgusted —Tlio Senior Editor of
tho "Griffin Star” ran for Solicitor, and
was - we regret to say-beaten ; wher •
upon lie indites the following :
Afolouy. A:r. —The readers of the
Star will please : ccept the apology of
our Seni r Editor for his remissness in
looking after their interests for the
past, month. Having been afflicted
with tho mania for office for that tin c,
he lias not done his entire duty edito
rially, but promises great improvement
in the future, having entirely recover,
ed Irotn Ins severe attack of a most
dangerous epidemic, lie is also quite
confident '-c will never experience an
other. He desires us to express his
prof-mod sympathy for all candidates
for office, believing that of all men they
must be the most miserable.
/inch-wheat Calces —Hall’s Journal
of Health sa.s buckwheat cake*, prop
erly baked, are very healthy and nutri
tious. They should he put on the
soap stone griddle, over a good fire,
and turned once only, and the sooner
they are eitcn after baking, th • better
and healthier they are. Whew turned
over more thaw once, like wheat cakes,
they are .spoiled, and instead of being
the most nutritious of food, become
iho most indigestible. Son e House
wires, not knowing lhis fact—which is
really a chem cal one—-spoil this favor
ite moil. Soapstone gr-ddles require
no grease, and mver burn the cakes.
JuJr- Tho following is given as the
statistics of the Protestant Episcopal
i hurcli in this country, including the
Southern States: Whole number of
parishes, 2,306 ; number of clergy, 2,.
530 ; total membership , 161,225 ; con
tributions the past year, 83,951,667. J
The President’s Political Posi
tion.
The President’s position on the subt
ject of reconstruction is still made tbe
theme of seems to us very needless
speculation. It has been 30 c-learly
defined by what he has done and said
and by what ha lias not done and said
as to leave very little room for further
doubt. It could not have been expec
ted that the result of the elections
would cause any change in his opinions
as to e ther the justice or the expe
diency of the policy he had urged up
on Congress; and it is now equally
certain that it has made no change in
his estimate of the feasibility of giving
that policy practical effect. It may
have led him to charge the grounds of
his reliance. Before tbe election he
believed the people would elect a Con
gress wh'ch would adopt that policy
and carry it out This hope has failed
lie now believes that the Supreme
Court will annul any hostile policy
which Congress tnay adopt, and that
the necessities of tire country, opera
ting alike upon the interests and the
.sentiments of tbe people, will c impel
a resort to the action he has recom
mended.
Tire President evidently thinks that
| things cannot remain in their present
| position. The country cannot stand
I still in its present atitude. The 1111.
terra! interests involved, —the vast
commerce whose movements are sus
pended,— the industries reaver for <lc
vt ropincnt, —the want-', necessities and
; demands of the whole country unite to
compel some action lookir g toward
! relief fietn its present dislocation and
I paralysis. Congress must do some
thing. If it takes violent action, —if
it annuals the local governments which
now exist in the Southern States, and
which arc the products and repiesen
| fives, regularity or irregularity, of the
1 local popular will, and substitutes for
i them Territoral governments of its own
I creation, the President believes the
Stipreiive Court will pronounce its ac
: tion null and avoid. Upon what this
| belief is based, except the general tem
per of (Ire Court and its decision in the
! Indiana cases, we are not aware ; but
he holds it and nets upon it. He bc
! lieves that Court will bring the action
of Congress upon the status of the
Southern States, to the test of the
Constitution, —and that it wi-I veto,
by an adverse decision, every attempt
to impose upon those States universal
j suffrage assent to Constitutional
Amendments or other conditions of
the kin-1 proposed to their enjoyment
'■ of the right of r presentation in Con
gress and the Electoral College, 'lire
! threatt tied action of Congress, therc
i fore, Ire believes is destined to prove
abortive.
Rut even it this should not be so,
he still believes the policy of Congress
inns', fail. A hill s!r pping the South
ern -States of their existing Govern
ments, aid imposing Territorial Go
vernments in their stead, will not exe
cute itself. It must be supported by
force. An army must hr sent and kept
in every Southern State. No law can
be enforced, 110 tax can he collected,
no allegiance can be maintained, hut
by military p twer. This may be possi.
hie, hut it will be expensive, and it will
become odious and intolerable. It
will convert tire Nnti -uul Government
into a cerrralizcd depotism. and tiro
people will not endure it. They will
inevitably and speedily expel from
power any party that may -to it, and
thus the country will he brought to
necessity of adopting the policy he lias
urged- -which is the only one at once
sanctioned by the Constitution and adet
quate to the reconstruction of the
Union.
M e belie' o these to be the views
and opinions upon which the l’res dent
is acting It is no part of our present
purpose citlnjr to approve or oppose
them We m* rely state them as the
probable, we think tlm coitrin, basis
ot the Executive action during the re
mainder of President Johnson’s official
term.—A*i 10 York Times.
Rheumatism. — 1 send you receipt's
for two preparations. The first is in
vuluai lo 1 got it at Nashville, and it
cured me of rheumatism in 1851.
Since that time it has been extensively
used for nervous pains. 1 bate no
doubt l have given two or three dozen
receipes. My wife uses it extensively
for neuralgia, and it cured tw 1 dies
S-) quickly of sick headache, they got
sealed ; thought perhaps it would do
them some serious injury.— 1 cz Oil
Rosemary, l oz Oil ( fives, I o* Oib
Origanum, 1 oz Spirits Turpentine, 1
-r, 8 pints Ammonia, l oz Tincture
Gantharides, l oz Alcohol. Mix in a
light glass stopper hot lie, and shake
them up when u-e-l Heat a saucer on
embers, pour a li'tle in the saucer, and
rub it on t' o part affected with your
hand pieviously warmed by the fire,
so as to oncoarage absorption. Get
pure articles, a speifie measirc to each;
do not let the druggist guess as usual
For Rheumati.-m, ueuruL-iu, pain in
the jaw, siek headache, (if nervous.)
and in fact for all nervous pains it is
invaluable. Try it all you uiUoriionate
nervous pain suffers. If it stops sick
headache in twenty minutes, do not
be alarmed.— Corretpondnil Southern
Cultivator.
The Western Wonder
The g-estest wonder in the State of
lowa, nd perhaps any other State, is
what they call the ‘\> ailed Rake,’ in
Weight county, twelve miles north of
the Dubuque and Pac fie railway, and
about out huudrei and fifty miles west
of Dubuque City.
1 he water is .rom two to three feet
higher than the earth’s suiTaee. Ir.
most places the wall is ten feet high,
width at bottom fifteen feet, and at
the t A p five.
her fact is the six-* of the stone
used in its construction; the whole is
of stone varying in weight front three
tons down to one hundred pounds.
There is an al undance of stones til
M’ tight county; but surrounding the
lake, *0 the extent of five anil <<a
miles, tiore are. none, j, Sf
No one ein form an idea as tqthe
means emplo-ed to bring them to tho
spot, or who constructed it
Around the cntiie lake is\a belt of
woodland, half a miff in widt'ff, com
posed of oarc ; with this exception the
country is a rolling nrarie. The trees,
therefore, must havetbeen placed there
at the time of building the waA
In the Fpring of 1856 there was a
great storm, and tbe ice on the lake
broke the wall in several places, ar.d
the farmers in that viaini-y were oblig
ed to repair the damages -to prevent
the inundation. The lake occupies a
ground surface of 1,960 acre-, depth
of water as great as 25 feet The wa
ter is clear and cold', soil sandy and
loamy. -ty -
It is singular that' no one has been
able to ascertain where the water comes
from* and where it goes, to, yet it al<
was remains clear and fiesh.
Races of ,1/en.—A gentlemen who
ChaUnecy Burr is delivering an in.
! tensely int.resting and instructive
1 course of lectures in mur city, on the
different races of men. In his lecturo
! last night lie declared that the Lau
easian race were never barbarian or
srvage, gt any time or place, during
the history of mankind. Onthecthcr
hand, he contended that all races who
ever were savages, are so still—that
no instance exists of sa age people vol
untarily iieceftoig civilization longer
than the hand of force was held oyer
them. His (roofs on this subject
showed great research, and were of the
most conclusive character. Civiliza
tion and savageism, he contends, arc
natural conditions of certain racd*,
ilrut there are wild tribes of inert who
can never he civilic.d, just as there
are certain wi-d auinutls which can
never he domesticated. Os these wild
races of men, lie imtm.'oed tho native
Australians, Tasmanians, and the Oce
anic and African negroes His lec
tures have been the theme of talk and
debate in this place, and if all are not
eonvinded of the truth if this theory,
they are, to say the least, puzzled what
to do with his a-gurueuts and proofs.’’
Hartford Paper.
The Gr.cjut Mission of flic South. —
An inflii jritiql Northern coufemporary
says “The refusal of the Southern
people to concur in amendments to the
Constitution will preserve that instru
ment as a rallying point for the frrends
of republican liberty.”
D is even so. The last hope of re'
publican liberty on the American eon-'
tinent now rests with the South',
crushed aud tyrannized over as/she is,
and she should not target'her high and
Indy tt issiot). T-- accomplish i{ she
lias only to stand still and say no.
MAH ItIED
Ify Rev. Mr. Clisbv, nt (tie residence of
lire Bride’S father, 011 Tuesday, 8111 inst.,
Mr. J antes l*\ Evans with Miss I.cotiia
Koid, alt of TlioiiiasviUe>
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Tin- above ticket wn recommend, s os
Mayor nnd Ablm-mmi for* the Town of
Tlionmsviile, al the ensuing election.
MANY OfnZHMB.
A CARD.
1 lie-eby respectfully inform lliose ger
ll'-mcn wlro uiay *>e effete I as Mayor and
Aldermen, I bat 1 shall be a candidate br«
fore them for the office of Clerk and Trea
surer. I have approached no one pe-Bon
ntly on the subject, as T consider il an in
digoitjr -to ask any; owe lupie-lgo himself
16 me or aby one efs’o belorJi lnc ttme of
election. If elected, f shall do my duly
10 the best of tov ability.
Respectfully, WM. CLINK.
NOTICE.
MY frit mis yet* MrtW roei»lb*-t ilmt-the lf)th
of February. will Im- vonr last day of
gnu--- to pay your State uud ('--iinty Tax You
-an flint Mr Lit-beu* Oikli-, u’t the
It -line, in l-ia -.nil-.., ready to receive your
money ami r-ceipt for the -tuna, I will tie in
Tliomsstille Court week, eoinuieneing l»l
Monday in February.
S A. DICKEY, T. C.
Jan II ts
Sale Postponed.
I. I 03t1.l t—Tbomnw fuiintr.
BY authority from the honorably Court of
Ordinary of- aid eountv. I will xell'before tu#
C-airt house door in Tfo-ni isville, -aid county,
'titbit! the legal hours of -ale, on the first
Tm--lay in K. brimry next, I*>t of |,aud. Xiint
hor :trr', in ITtli Diatriet of Thomas I>i„,uy.
T -rum rush. T L>. I’AIiKKB,
Jan II td
J. U. ItKID, M 1).
W. F DeWTTT, M. T>.
I \lts UK ID a D* IV ITT offer their Fro-
I f frsab-ad -,-evieea to the ritizeo* of Thorn -
uiTills and vn mit *.
IjfOUU-e at llcii) Store of Keid. l>eVVitt Sl
Cio—t-l*- >«l sits
VOTIGi. — Wilt he so hi before the
Court House door in Thomuxtille, oo
me hrsi Tu»-kay r# February next, if not
called h-t ami ex : cnees paid’ before that
time, one Single Buggy in good repair.
Sol I as the properry of billiatn I?. Shuler,
to defray expense ol repair*.
HIRAM SAURETT.
Jan 2 4t
n «»« <*! ami i,oi ru i t MLB
The R-K.ee and l.ot near the Rail
r| -t. on JelTerxin Sireet, formerly owned
by Mr*. Julit M Fisher, hut occupied laat
yrar by Mr*, Iwtrnv.le. are now offered for
sale, the place can be bought cheap if
application is made at once to the under
signed. Terms cash.
Jan 2lf t. C RRTAV