The Patriot and Times, September 24, 1868]

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Business Directory.
Attorneys at Law.
Scott «fc Scott.
North Elm, opposite Court House.
Gilmrr dr Gili,t<r,
North Klin, opposite Court Housp, (see
advertisement.)
Adam* «fc Staple*.
Second floor, Tate building.
Scales d- Settle*,
North Room, Patrick lio\v,in rear of Por,
ter St Eckle's Drug Store.
Apothecaries and Druggists.
J IV. Glenn, M.D..
West Market Street, MeConnel building.
Porter dr Eckel,
West Market, next courthouse, (see adv.)
Auctioneer.
W. E. Edwards.
Barbers.
Willet .£• Wiley,
North Elm. opposite Court House.
Bankers and Insurance Agents.
Henry G. Kellogg,
South Elm. Tate building, (aee adv.)
Wilton d- Shober,
South Elm, opposite Express Office, (see
adv.)
Boot and Shoe .linkers.
E. Kireh Schlagel,
West Market, opposite Mansion Hotel.
Tho*. ft Hay*,
Davie nt., 4 doors North Steele's corner.
Cigar manufacturer.
A. Rrockmann,
South Elm, Caldwell block.
Cabinet Makers and Undertakers.
John A. l'ritchctt.
South Elm. near Depot.
Wm. Collins.
Corner of Sycamore and Davie streets.
Contractor in Brick-work.
Jtarid MrKnight.
Contractors in Wood-work.
/. J. < ullitr.
Jot. L. Oakley.
Ihi rid Krrsiy.
Confectioners.
F ItrSmet,
Tate Building, corner store.
./ Harper Liiu/joy, Jr.,
South Elm.
Dress-linking and Fashions.
Mrs. .V. Mni<»•!'•'.
South Elm, (see adv.)
Mr*. A. lUlicurth.
Next door to Times Office.
Dentists.
• ,/. IV. Ifoiclett,
1st door left band, up stairs. Garrett's
building.
Dry Goods, Grocers and Produce
Dealers.
IV. & ifoore,
East Market, Albright's new building.
L. H. Routzahn,
Corner East Market and North Elm.
l.iiulsav corner, (see adv.)
A. Weathtr'ly,
Corner East Market and Davie streets.
JT. 1). Trotter,
East Market, Albright's new building.
/,. tt. May,
West Market, opposite Potter &■ Eckel,
S. C. Dodton,
West Market, opposite Court House.
Jas. Sloan d' Son*.
South Elm, near Depot, (see adv.)
t*. G. Yale*.
South Elm.
Smith d- Gilmer.
Opposite Southern Hotel.
J. IK Kline,
East Market street.
S. Steele,
Corner Ea*t Market and Davie streets.
I>. W. C. Benbo,c.
Corner South Elm and Sycamore.
Bogart dr Murray.
East Market, South Side.
Foundry and Machine Shop.
J H TarpUy,
Washington st.. on the Railroad.
■Grocers and Confectioners.
StarreU d- IVkite,
East Market, next Post Office.
(General Emigration Office, for the
West and South-Wcst.
Louis Zimmer,
Gen'l Southern Agent. It and O. K. R.,
West Market, opposite Mansion Hotel.
-Guilford Land Agency of North-
Carolina.
Jtio R Gretter Oen'l Agent,
West Market, opposite Mansion Hotel.
Harness-makers.
J. IV. S. Parker,
East Market st., near Court House.
James E. Tho.r,
Corner South Elm and Sycamore.
Hotels.
Southern Hotel, Scales & Black, proprietors,
West Market, near Court House.
Planter's Hotel, J. T. Reese, proprietor,
East Market, near Court House.
Liquor Dealers,
Dean dr Bugbee, Wholesale Dealers,
West Market st., Garrett Building.
Livery Stables.
IV. J. Edmond-son,
Davie street.
Millinery and Lady's Goods.
Mrs. TV. S. Moore,
East Market, Albright's new building.
Mrs. Sarah Adum*.
West Market, opposite Court House.
Music and Musical Instruments.
Prof. F. H. Maurice,
South Elm, (see adv.)
-Tailors.
IV. L. Fowler.
West-Market, opposite Southern Hotel.
Tinners.
Jne. E. (ySvllivan,
Corner West Mauket and Aslie streets.
C. G. Fates,
South-Elm.
Photographers.
Hugh* d- Fates,
West Market, opposite Court House,
up stairs,
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Tomb-Stones.
Henry G Kellogg,
South Elm.
Sign and Ornamental Painting*
J. IV. Ingohl,
East'Market, Albright's Mock.
Physicians. *
A. S. Porter,
West Market st., (near Times Office.)
B, 71'. Gtrnii,
West Market, McCoiUiel building.
Ja*. K. Hall,
North Elm, opposite court-house.
J. E. Jjoynn,
Comer West-Market and Greene.
Watchmakers and Jewellers.
IV. R. Farrar,
South Elm, opposite Express Office.
David Scott,
East Market, Albright's block.
Guilford County Officers.
Sheriff, R. M. Stafford.
Coroner, John A. Pritchett.
Treasurer, John Hall.
Clerk Superior Court, Abram Clapp.
Beeordcr of Deeds, J. W. S. Parker.
Surveyor, G. W. Bowman.
Commissioner*.—Wm. M. Mebanc, Chairman;
Wm. W. Wheeled, John C. Denny, Jonathan
Anthony, Zeph.iiiiah Mitchell, (colored)
J. W. S. Parker, Clerk ex-ojicio of the board.
WHITE MEN REMEMBER.
" One Colored man is worth a half
dozen Irish or a dozen Germans,"—
Stilley's Radical speech in Greensboro.
A CAMPAIGN PAPER.
Let every Conservative Club
SEND IN
SUBSCRIBERS.
Besides being a good local and agri-cultural
paper, THE PATRIOT AND
TIMES advocates the election of
Kcrmour and Blair »
as the only hope of averting
ANOTHER W\A.R
rj^ In clubs of ten the paper will be
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can send us at least ten subscribers,
and we trust they will do so,
AND AT OWE!
GOOD OLD BRANDY.
Why is it that our common farmers
can't distill a little brandy for their
own use ? Because the Radical Con-gress
lias placed the SMALL TAX OF
FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS upon
all distilleries forcing the poor men to
quit the business, in order that the
rich may grow fat ! How much longer
will you vote for such gross outrages
upon your rights 1
COLORED MEN!
Who rents you lands? Is it Radicals or
Democrats? Look out for your interest?.
AN ACT
Toprovidefur the registration ofvoters.
The General Assembly ofNorth Carolina
do enact :
Section 1. That the Commissioners
ofCounties shall have power,(a majority
of such Commissioners WHO are duly
qualified being present,) to establish,
alter, discontinue or create such separ
ate places of elections in their respec-tive
counties as from time to time they
may deem expedient, giving thirty days
notice thereof, by advertisement in
some public journal, if there be one in
their county, in three public places
and at the Court House in their county.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of State shail,
prior to the tenth day of September
next, provide for and forward to the
Commissioners of Counties, suitable
registration books for each election
precinct as established for the last
previous election, and a suitable num-ber
of the blank forms of oaths, pre-scribed
by Article VI, section 4, of
the Constitution.
Sec. 3. In case the Commissioners
of Counties shall not receive on or be-fore
the first day of October next, a
sufficient number of registration books
and blank forms of oaths, as above pre-scribed,
they shall provide themselves
with the same at the expense of the
State.
Sec. 4. The Commissioners of coun-ties,
or in case no Commissioners shall
have qualified, the Governor shall, on
or before the fifth day ot October next,
select one Justice of the Peace for
each election precinct in their counties,
who shall act as Registrar of voters for
such precinct. He shall be furnished
with a registration book and blank
forms of oath, and shall at all times,
from the fifteenth day of October next
until the day of the next Presidential
election, receive and register such
qualified voters as may offer, adminis
tering the oath provided by the fourth
section of the sixth article of the Con-stitution,
to which oath he shall re-quire
each elector to subscribe previ-ous
to registering his name in the reg-istration
book. lie shall receive a fee
of five cents for each voter registered,
to be paid out of the County Treasury.
5. The County Commissioners, or in
case no Commissioners shall have
qualified for their respective preciucts,
(counties,) the Governor shall, on or
before the twentieth day of October
next? appoint two electors in each
precinct, who shall, with the Registrar,
be judges of elections at the next ensu-ing
Presidential election, and shall,
fifteen days previous thereto, appoint
one Justice of the Peace and two elec-tors
in each precinct as judges of elec-tions
for every ensuing State, county
and Muncipal election. The judges of
election shall attend at the places ior
which they are severally appointed, on
the day of election and shall be sworn
by the sheriff, or, in his absence, by
some Justice of the Peace or other
officerauthorized to administer an oath,
to conduct the election fairly and im-partially,
according to the Constitution
and laws of the State ; and in default
of acting, shall be guilty of a misde-meanor.
Such judges, in addition to
the powers conferred upon them by
this act, shall have all the powers and
duties heretofore vested in inspectors
ot elections, not inconsistent herewith,
and be subject to the same penalties.
Sec. G. Every male person born in
the United States, and any male per-sou
who has been naturalized, twenty
one years old or upwards, who shall
have resided in the State twelvemonths
next proceeding the election, and thirty
days in the county in which he offers
to Vote, shall be deemed au elector and
shall be entitled to registration upon
application.
Sec. 7. Except in cases provided for
in section eleven, of this act, no person
shall be allowed to vote at any election
unless his name shall be found upon
the registration book of the precinct in
which he offers to vote unless he shall
take and subscribe the following oath:
" I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will support and maintain the
Constitution and laws of the United
States, and the Constitution and laws
of North Carolina not inconsistent
therewith; that I have been a resident
in the State ofNorth Carolina fortwelve
months, and in the county of for
thirty days, and that I have neither
registered nor voted during this elec-tion
in any other precinct." Such per
son having taken this oath shall there-upon
be registered.
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the
judge of elections to keep the registra-tion
books for their precinct at the
place of holding the election dining the
the day of such election, and to regis-ter
therein the name of any legal voter,
first administering the oath as provided
in the last section, before receiving the
vote of any elector not previously reg-tered.
Sec. 9. Immediately after any elec-tion,
the judges of election shall de-posit
the registration books for their
respective precincts with the Register
of Deeds of their counties.
Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the
Register of Deeds, previous to any
election to be held after November
next, to furnish the judges of the elec-tion
for each precinct with the registry
books for their precinct.
Sec. 11. The Registrar of voters
shall, at- the request of any legal regis-tered
voter in his precinct, furnish to
such voter under his signature a certi-ficate
of registration, stating the county
and procinct in which such voter shall
be registered, and shall make an entry
of such certificate against the name of
such voter on the registration book.—
Upon such certificate of registration
such elector may vote in any precinct
in his county, without further registra-tion.
Sec. 12. Upon receiving such vote,
the judges of elections shall fold such
certificate of registration with the bal-lot
of the elector offering to vote, there-upon
and deposit it with his ballot in
the bollot box.
Sec. 13. All acts and sections of acts,
ordinance and sections of ordinances,
in conflict here with are hereby repeal-ed.
Sec. 14. This act shall be in force
from and after its ratification.
Ratified the 24th day of August, A.
A., 18G8.
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled u An Act to
providefor the Registration ofvoters.''''
The General Assembly do enact:
Section 1. That the Justice of the
Peace appointed by the Commissioners
or by the Governor to act as Registrar
of voters in each election precinct, as
provided in the fourth section of an
act entitled " An Act to provide for
the Registration of Voters," shall make
out two copies of the original registra-tion
book for the purposes hereinafter
mentioned; which said copies when
certified to be correct by the Registrar,
shall have all the legal force and effect
of the original registration book.
Sec. 2. That the countyCommissioners,
or in case no Commissioner shall have
qualified, the Governor shall, on or be-fore
the 20th of October next, appoint
Biz electors at each precinct who shall,
with the Registrar, be judges of elec-tion
at the next ensuing Presidential
election ; and the said six electors shall
take the place of the electors provided
for in the fifth section of the said act
and shall perform all the duties which
have been conferred upon them.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the
judges provided 'or in the preceding
section to provide at least three separ-ate
ballot boxes on the day of the
election at their precincts for the con-venience
of voters, and as many more
boxes as they may think necessary.—
Two judges shall preside at each of the
three ballot boxes, and if a majority of
the iudges think more boxes necessary,
they shall appoint two additionaljudges
for each additional box. The Registrar
shall assist at all the boxes.
Sec. 4 The Registrar of voters shall
furnish the original registration book
and the two copies hereinafter provid-ed
for, to the judges of the election in
the precinct for which he is appointed;
he shall furnish one copy to the judges
of each of the three boxes, and it' there
be more than three boxes, he shall
furnish one additional copy for each
additional box.
Sec. 5. The Registrar shall receive
one cent for each name copied from the
original registration book.
Sec. 6. Any person who shall, with
intent to commit a fraud, vote more
than one time, shall be guilty of a mis-demeanor,
and, on conviction, shall be
imprisoned not less than six nor more
than twelve months, or fined not less
than one hundred nor more than five
hundred dollars at the discretion of the
Court: and any registrar of voters or
any clerk or copyist who shall ma.ve
any entry or copy with intent to com
mit a fraud shall be liable to the same
penalty.
Sec. 7. No registered voter shall be
challenged on the day of election, but
those offering to register on the day of
election may be challenged, and every
person applying for registration before
the election may be challenged at that
time in like manner.
Sec. 8. All acts inconsistent with
the provisions of this act are hereby
repealed.
Sec. 9. The Secretary of the State
shall furnish a printed copy of this act
to the Commissioners of each County.
Sec. 10. This act shall be in force
from and after its passage.
Ratified the 24th day of August, A.
D., 1808. *
WHO CAN VOTE.
The impression is prevalent, we are
informed, in some portions of the State,
that those persons who were disfran-chised
under the Reconstruction Acts
are still disqualified from voting. This
is palp ibly erroneous. North Carolina
having been officially declared to be
in the Union, and her representa-tives
to Congress having been admit-ted
to seats, these Acts are no longer
operative within this State. Nor is
there, any other law of Congress or
clause ot the Constitution of the Uni ted
States which establish these or any
other disabilities restraining the citi-zens
of this State from the exercise of
the elective franchise. The disabilities
of the so-called Fourteenth Amendment
known as the Howard Amend ment,
have reference to office holdi-g and
not to voting. We must, therefore,
look to the so-called Constitution of
North Carolina and the laws passed in
|MUH9tMMMM> thereof.
"Every male person born in the Uni-ted
States, and every male person who
has been naturalized, twenty-One years
old or upward, who shall have resided
in this State twelve months next pre-ceding
the election, and thirty days in
the county in which he offers to vote,
shall be deemed an elector."
So it will be seen every one of suffi-cient
age and residence, without regard
to color, race or former condition, shall
be entitled to vo e. Upon reference to
Sec. 0 and 7 of the Registration Acts
published in full this week, it will be
seen that every male person who has
obtained a residence and is of age is
entitled to register, and after registra-tion
there can be no challenge, as the
applicant for registration, and not the
voter, can be challenged.
Therefore no disabilities exist by any
real or pretended authority, and citi-zens
hitherto disfranchised by military
power are no longer excluded from the
privileges of voting, and it is the duty
of such persons to register their names
and cast their votes at the coming elec-tion
for President and Vice-President.
It may be well to add that all former
registrations are now of no effect. In
order to secure the right to vote there
must be a new registration. Persons
heretofore registered cannot vote un-less
they register anew. For this pur-pose
time is given from the 15th of
October until the election, and in cer
tain cases on the day of election, to
register. We suppose the officers ap-pointed
for this purpose will give ample
and sufficient notice of the times and
places. Should this not be done, the
political clubs and the public press will
do all in their power to give the proper
information. Nothing will be left un-done
by the Democratic party to secure
a fair election, and we hope that no
means will be spared to bring to punish-ment
such as may violate the registra-tion
laws, whether they be officers to
execute them, or applicants for regis-tration.—
Wilmington Journal.
TIIK EGO FROG.—Louisiana Sugar
Planter tells the following story : A
neighbor showed us yesterday one of
these little terrors to poultry raisers.
Although not very large or handsome,
its mouth has quite a taking appear
ance. These frogs have a curious way
of demolishing the 'hen fruit,' in order
to get at the inner substance. The egg
is swallowed whole, two and sometimes
three being necessary tor his frogship's
snack : but unfortunately for the good
housewife, his appetite is unappeasible.
After swallowing the eggs, the hog
climbs a tree and then precipitates
itself to the ground. The concussion
breaks the shell, and then frojygy spits
out the pieces. This funny little chap
has hitherto, we believe, escaped the
attention of naturalists.
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From the Sentinel.
TO THE VOTERS OF WESTERN
NORTH CAROLINA ?
I drop you a line from the East. I
am a white man, always was a Union
man until the government, after the
war, got to be under such as Butler,
Brownlow and Holden, and I address
you to make an appeal which you, as
good men, will heed.
Do you know, fellow-white men of
the West, the condition in which the
white men, women and children of the
East are now placed ! Many of you,
I regret to say, have stood by, sileut
spectators, aud seen your white fellows
completely ruined in the adoption of
the terrible Constitution that now rules
North Carolina.
Soon the counties will be divided
into townships aud in each township
there will be elected two Judges—these
two Judges, with a Clerk from a Board,
having the right to tax the people of
their township. But this is not my
point. In nearly every township in
our section, the two Judges will be ne-groes.
Look at Warren, Halifax,
Northampton, Bertie, and other coun-ties.
Yes, Western friends, more than
three-fourths of these Judges, in many
counties, will be negroes. The negroes
now rule us in these counties with
absolute mastery. The office of town-ship
Judges the negroes know very
well is more important, more directly
influential, more powerful, than any
other. The Judges controls cases un-der
two hundred dollars. Now that
credit is nearly abolished, his jurisdic-tion
will take in pretty much the whole
business of society. He can try all
criminal cases where the fine is under
fifty dollars and the imprisonment un-der
a month. This gives him control
of ninety-nine hundredths of the crim-inal
cases. What a dreadful deposit
of Dover!
Thirty black Judges are put in pow
er in Halifax county, say. They are
put in by the black vote. These thirty
Judges look about them and they see
Watts, who is on their side. Looking
higher up, they sec Pearson, Reade,
Settle, Rodman and Dick. Oh! my
poor country, I weep for thee !
The black majority puts the Judges
in. They know that the same black
majority can keep them in, receiving
their heavy pay and wielding their
vast power, or turn them out.
Pray tell me, my fellow men of West-ern
North Carolina, did you think of
these things, when, in the last election,
you stayed from the polls ? Did yon
then behold me, x,our brother, an intel-ligent,
educated, honest white man, in
a deadly fight with two brutal negroes,
and yet stand aloof and not help me !
The negro Judge is elected as before
said. A white Clerk is selected to get
a writer. Artfully contrived! The
Judge holds his Court and tries his
cases. Woe be to the white man in
his township, who does not bow down
beforehisJudgeship. Have you thought
of the ten thousand instances in which
he can and will make himself u master
of the situation!" He visits a gentle-man's
house. If not taken in on equal
terms, that man's land, crop, fruit,
timber, stock, every thing, goes with-out
redress. For he is the fountain of
power and his supporters know his
feelings.
Think, fellow men, of a negro Judge,
League man. Put a case: A negro is
taking out of the field, secretly, corn
which he makes on land rented on
shares. The land owner prosecutes him
l>efore Judge Cesar Smith. The de-fendant,
a League man, sees the Judge,
also a League man, and they bargain
together beforehand that the landown-er
shall be put down. So, in ten thou-sand
thousand ways, villainy, mean-ness,
thieving, corruption, niggerism
and Holdenism abound.
Western brethren ! I sicken when I
think of our terrible struggle against
the foregoing and you helped ns not.—
You are not so cursed. But arc you
indifferent to OUR fate! Why did
you stand by and see us bound hand
aud foot, and reduced to such terrible
ruin ! The contrivers of this ruin have
artfully put off the full execution of
the villainy until after the Presidential
election, and the negroes all know it.
But it is soon to be here, and then may
a kind Providence help us!
ALBEMARLE.
THE COUNTRY UNDER RADI-CAL
RULE.
Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, made
a speech lately at York in that State,
in which, after giving expression to his
serious apprehension that the Govern-ment
is about to become a total wreck,
he declared: "We cannot possibly en-dure
much longer this devil's dance of
discord, misrule and corruption." The
party iu power, he said, have virtually
destroyed the Executive Department,
the Judiciary and the State*, and up-on
their ruins they have "erected a des-potism
as absolute as that of au Asiatic
Sultan." It is, too, the most corrupt
Government on the face of the earth.-
I cannot, he says, speak with perfect
accuracy, but I believe I am witlra
reasonable bounds when I tell you that
a thousand millions would not cover
the frauds committed since the close of
the war. We have the heaviest debt
that the industry of any people ever
struggled under without beiug totally
crushed, and it is increasing instead of
being diminished. We are taxed
enough to keep the Government run
uing and to pay off the whole debt in
ten vears, if tho money were honestly
applied. But, one-half the internal
revenue imposed by the Federal Gev-ernmeut,
and collected from the people
is stolen before it reaches the treasury,
and the other half is squandered by
Congress in schemes of the most extra-vagant
corruption. Li conclusion, tho
speaker said: "The most hideous shape
that tyranny ever puts on is that of a
corrupt oligarchy, where the forms of
a free Government are coupled with
substantial despotism; where the rights
of the people are .acknowledged in the-ory,
while they are practically trodden
under foot; where there is a written
Constitution which the rulers swear to
observe without keeping thc'.r oaths.—■
Rather than see Gen. Grant elected
President, with the understanding that
he is to administer the Government on
the Congressional plan of disregarding
all constitutional obligations, it would
be far better to let him or somebody
else be proclaimed absolute dictator,
aud abolish the Constitution at once.-
For myself, if I must choose between
tho two most frightful evils that ever
scourged the human race, I will, with-out
hesitation, take an unlimited mon-archy
in preference to a rotten repub-lic."
A STRIKING nrCIDEBT.
The Hon. John T. Hoffman, Demo-
' I>II (' < o...ll.l.«(v /V»» 0«r * ^a •««>• -#1T.
York, opened his canvass at Buffalo
on Tuesday last. At the close of his
masterly effort, he said :
" But we want no military President.
The country wants a statesman. [Loud
cheers.] The day of the sword is pass-ed.
An incident occurred at the meet-ing
of the National Convention which
was an omen. That grand hall where
the Convention met was full of patri-otic
men. Upon its walls were placed
the shields of thirty-seven States, and
around every shield was the American
Hag. Upon the platform stood two
bronzed statnetes of noble soldiers,
one lea uing upon a great bronzed sword.
The Convention had been in sesNiou
for several days; ballot after ballot-had
taken place. For one was up and
then another, and at last a gallant
General, whose name has never been
mentioned anywhere save with respect,
1 mean Geueral Hancock. No man
knew whether on the next ballot he
was not to be chosen. Everything was
uncertain, when suddenly tho great
bronzed sword in the. hand of that no-ble
statue snapped asunder at the
hilt. It was not touched by mortal
hand. No human agency broke it.—
Some mysterious, invisible, and irre-sistible
j>ower snapped it at the hilt,
and the word went forth that the coun-try
was henceforth to have a states-man,
and not a soldier, for a leader."
[Tremendous cheering.J
SINGULAB BIRD KILLED rx Km-
TUCKY.—James Henry, of Mound City,
Illinois, on Sunday week, shot a new
and comparatively unknown bird, ou
the Kentucky shore opposite that city,
which is thus described by the Cairo
Democrat:
It is larger than the ostrich, and
weighs one hundred and four ]>ounds.
The body of this wonderful bird is
covered with snow white down, and
its head is of a fiery red. The wings,
ot deep black, measure fifteen feet from
tip to tip, and the bill, of a yellow
color, twenty four inches. It legs arc
slender and sinewy, pea green in color,
aud measure forty-eight inches in
length. ()ne of the feet resembles that
of a duck, and the other that of a tur-key.
Mr. Henry shot it at a distance
of one hundred yards, from the topmost
branch of a dead tree, where it was
j>ercbed, preying ui>on a full sized sheep
that it bad carried from the ground.—
This strange species of bird, which is
said to have existed extensively during
the dayK of the mastodon, is almost
entirely extinct—the last one having
been seen in the State of New York
during the year 1812. Potter has it
on exhibition in his office at Mound
City. Its flight across the town and
river was witnessed by hundreds of
our citizens.
The wine crop iu Prussia is very
abundant. On the banks of theBWiask-naw
wine has been bottled in July ear-lier
than any previous scasou for fifty
yean.