The Greensboro patriot [March 25, 1869]

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Established in 1824.1 THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1869. \ New Series No. 59.
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Krom the New York Tribune.
KINO COTTON*.
Hardly a Southern paper reached us
hot lias i-il ii orial coniineut of some sort
on the prospective crop of 18(>9. It is
generaDj cooeeoTcn that it will bo large
it' the Beamu is at all favorable. Some
••ilitors have the sagacity to see that
saving so much about a great crop
this year will have a bad effect on that
part of the crop of 1868 which remains
unsold.
• Now. friends at the South, before
\ our double plows have thrown all the
land into ridges or cotton rows, take
lime and give this whole business of
agriculture a sober second thought.—
Vmi have just come out of a great war
in which you were worsted. The weak-est
thing in the Southern military ser-viceduring
that war was its commis-sariat.
A strictly agricultural people
having as much pride of acres as any
landed aristocracy in the world, were
from the first, and in all stages of a
lour years' strife, weakened, hampered,
thwarted, demoralized, and finally de-feated,
for u ant of beef, corn, wheat,
hay, and oats.
A great war is like a severe illness;
it tries the constitution and 'unmasks
i he weakness of the system. The ag-ricultural
system of the South lias been
proved defective, became in a protract-ed
light the breach appealed there first.
Now what is the great characteristic
of planting ? It is, and fro.n the first
has been, the deriving of a large in-iMinc
in clear money from a broad sur-face,
by the sale of vegetable products.
A small planter is one whose account
sales ofcot ton or tobacco, rice or sugar,
do not figure up more than 95JB00.—
The sales of the large planters range
all the way from *">.000 to $100,000.—
A few, a very few, Southern proprie-tors
received over I*J00,<HK> from a sin-gle
crop. That mode of deriving an
income may have been connected with
the character ami statin of the laborer,
but such connection was i>.ot insepara-ble.
A slave could cradle wheat or
fatten hogs if ordered to, just as well
as he could pick cotton or sticker to-bacco.
Slavery had inherent sins
enough without charging it with blun-ders
that were not, in the nature of
things, inscpcrable from unpaid labor.
Prom the time of Pocahontas the
Southern domain was divided into
large estates. Those who surveyed
and plotted it felt as Urutus did about
< ':esar"s hotly :
•l Let us carvehim as a dish fit for the
Gods, not hew him like a carcass foj
the hounds.''
These broad areas were cleared and
cropped by sptni-loving men, for whoso
ears the baying of a pack of foxhounds
was sweetest music 1'nt a man with
these tastes at the center of a 1,200
acre tract, and what will ho dot He
will have as few inside fences as possi-ble:
he will make his money ou
a crop that will cost him the least
time, or planning or worn-. He will
say, rfuia rin'mttu riramif*—"after us
the deluge."' Taiktohim of rotation, fer
The inducements that draw the
Southern agriculturist toward cotton-fields
are very great. lie is in debt.—
He wants carriage horses to replace
those which Bragg, or Johnson, or Leo
broke down dragging cannon. Ho is
living in a cabin, and would like to do
something with those ghostly and
blackened chimney stacks. The saws
of his gin-stand are. bent and rusty.—
His press is rudoand slow. His mules
are stiff, and his plows worn : his to-bacco
sheds went for camp tires. We
admit that it would be a help on your
place if you could sell three hundred
bales next December at two bits a
pound. But let us reason about it.—
You do not propose to move West.—
You know of no good cotton or tobacco
land that is cheaper than your own
plantation. Besides, you have no mo
nev to go on. If you leave your chil-dren
anything, it must be in the acres
over which you walk. If you drain
those acres of the last tun of potash
and phosphorus they contain, you
leave to those who come after you a
wide waste of broom sedge and stunt-ed
pines—a heritage of briers, and gul
lies, and rotten fences. N'o, geutlc-men
; you will be wiser and more prov-ident
than that. You will see that
while there is some, money in cotton
and tobacco, there is iu it little true
wealth or power, little of that which
makes nations great and keeps them
so. The South has never been suffi-ciently
devoted to the production of
articles of prime necessity. Mankind
would be better oil if frost or worms
should destroy every tohueco plant that
•jWVttOt this Spring. Cotton is a very
important textile; but nations were
clad, and well cfad before BIS Whitney
was born. Agriculture means the cul-ture
of the fields, not skimming and
desolating them. Enjoying the best
climate and plowing the best soil on
the continent, the Souihron ate import
cd bread, drank imported wine, gave
his hands imported pork, shod them
with imported leather, and buckled an
imported saddle on the back of a horse
that had' traveled a thousand miles
southward to find a purchaser. When
such a people went to war with Slates
that fed and clothed them, the result
was inevitable. Julias Ciesar with his
tenth legion could have delayed that
exchange of notes at Appomattox
Court-House, but he could not have
made it impossible.
In profound peace, with a strong,
silent, vigilant man at the wheel, the
country is entering upon a decade of
material prosperity and development
that will In! more amazing than the
magnitude and the obstinacy of the
recent strife. What the South wants
above all other things, is not disfran-chiscment
or enfraiichisement,ora man
in the Cabinet, nor even a high price
for good middling, but ail agricultural
system that is true, just, and lasting.
Her laud has bad no Sabbath ; there
has been no restoration. The balance
between the living and the dead pro-ducts
of fanning was destroyed and
must be regained. No lands that are
not often renewed by the mud of inun-dations
can survive such an exhaustive
succession as the planter has required
of bis cotton and tobacco fields.
A lost fertility must be restored —
That savagery of broom-sedge and
| brier thickets must be abolished. But
the purchase ofa few thousand tuns of
guano will not work the desired change.
Those
CHARITY.
Now abidcth theae three; Faith. Hope,
Charity; bnt tha greateat of theaa la Ch.ii ity.
If we knew the cares and erosaea
Crowding round oar neighbor** way;
If we knew the little loaaea,
Sorely grievoua day by day :
Would we then BO often chide him
For Ida lack of thrift and gain,
Leaving on hia heart a ahadow—
Leaving on our live* a stmin t
If we know the clouds above us,
Hold but gentle Meaning there.
Would we go away all trembling,
In our blind aud weak deapairf
Would we ahrink from little shadow*
Flitting o'er the dewy grass,
If wo knew the birds of Eden
Wore in mercy flying past I
If wc knew the silent story,
Quivering through the heart of pain;
Would we drire it with our coldueas
llack to haunts of guilt again T
Life has many a tangled croaaiug,
Joy hath many a break of woe,
Bnt the cheeks toar-waahed are whitest,
And kept in life are llowera by snow.
Lot us roach into our bosoms,
For the key to othor lives,
And with lovo towards orring nature,
Cherish good that still survives,
So that when our diamond spirits,
Hoar to roaliue of light above,
Wo may say, " l>ar Father, love us,
l-'i ii as we have ahowu our love."
From the New York Evening Post.
THE EAKTH CLOSET AND TIIE
THEATMENT OF WOUNDS.
As you were foremost in calling the
attention of the American public to the
Earth Closet System—the use of sifted
dry earth for the dcodorizatiou and
disinfection of human feoes—and thus
became the pioneer of a reform that
promises not only unspeakable relief
from the gravest annoyance of our lives.
but the prevention ofthe greatest waste
of the fertility of tho earth, it is just
that to you should bo commuuicated
an outgrowth of this system that offers,
if possible, a still greater benefit to suf-fering
humanity.
One of the experimental commodes
scut out by the Kart h Closet Compa-ny
was placed at the disposal of Dr.
Addiueli llewson, of the Pennsylvania
Hospital, in Philadelphia. Its intro-duction
into the surgical ward, There
il has been for two weeks iu constant
use by about twenty patients, and has
been subjected to the severest test
possible, has been so entirely satisfac
tory that it is proposed to substitute
earth closets for water closets wher
ever these exist iu that institution.
At the time of its iniroiliiclioii there
was lying in the ward a patient suffer
tug from a very severe compound frac-ture
of the lower leg. The wound was
in an unhealthy condition, and its exu-dations,
amounting to a pint iu twenty
four hours, were sooffensiveastocauso
a sickening and even dangerous stench
that the excellent ventilation of the
ward aud the use of the usual disin-fectants
were hardly able even to miti-gate.
It occurred to Dr. Hcwson to
test the power of dry earth to absorb
tins odor, as it had that of excrement.
Tho effect was magical. Not only
was tho oll'ensiveness entirely over
come, but the effect on the character
of the wound itself was such as no pre-vious
treatment had been able to com-pass.
The suppuration was within a
few days so reduced that thedaily dres-sing
of a single half pint of earth was
not even saturated ; the edges of the
lleslj wound lost their inflamed charac-ter
: the intense pain of the sore was
entirely relieved; aud a healthy gran-ulation
has ensued.
engaged in breaking up condemned
shells, exploded one that was charged.
The powder burned bis face and arms,
and (seriously) one of his knees, which
was struck by a fragment of the iron,
that completely shattered the knee-pan.
His burns and the fracture were
immediately dressed with dry eartb.and
tho freedom from pain and the absceuce
of iiiliamation have been as marked in
this case as in the others. Without
this dressing the knee joint must inev-itably
have become involved, and the
leg must have been lost. Now the
wouud is evidently healing, and al-though
it is too early tosiieak positive-ly,
there is every reason to hope that
the only result of the injury will be a
stiff knee.
Sixth. Within a few days a « email
was brought to the hospital with her
neck and a large part of her body very
severely and dangerously burned.—
That she could escape long weeks of
agony was beyond hope. Yet ou Mon-day
her eye was clear and calm, aud
her voice was strong, and when the
doctor asked her how she felt she said
sue wits a great deal better, aud that
she had no pain.
Seventh. Last Wednesday an entire
breast was removed for cancer, and
the wound was dressed with dry earth.
It is now healing rapidly. There has
been no inllamation and no suppura-tion,
and this woman, too—calm and
happy-looking, with a healthy color
and a steady voice—spoke far more
than her cheerful words iu thankful-ness
for her relief.
Surely, with our gratitude to the Vi-car
of Fordingtou, who has conferred
the greatest benefit on the human race
that it has ever been given to one man
to accomplish, we must unite our
thanks to the senior surgeon of the
Pennsylvania Hospital for thus apply-ing
the principles of his invention to
the saving of unspeakable suffering.
And the end, 1 trust, is not yet. It
seems inevitable that the pustules of
small-pox must give up their pain and
their offcusiveiicss at this magic touch
ot mother earth ; and if it is true that
its contagion spreads from its exuda
tions, may we not hope that Dr. Hew-son
has bound its feet as Mr. Moule
has those of cholera ? iiVspeotifiilly.
GEORGE E. WARING, JR.
Ken Ymk, February 24, I860.
EARTH -DRBSSTNG FOB WOUNDS,—
To the Editor of the Tribune: Sir.—I
notice you recently quoted from the
I'nxt an article by Mr. Waring giving
the value of dry earth as a ilressingfor
wounds and ugly sores. I have many
times treated purulent contagious op
thalmia with dressings or poultices
made only of wet cla.v dug from cold
springs. By binding it on the eyes at
night, in as large quantity as a pint, ii
oiten acts like a charm. Its first effects
are to reduce the inllamation, but it
soon 1M mes dry and hard, and then
absorbs, like day earth, any poisonous
matter ib.it is secreted by the inflam-ed
parts, preventing it from doing fur-ther
injury. This remedy was sugges-ted
to me years ago by an old man who
never knew anything about the regu-lar
practice Of medicine, and 1 have
seen it work so well that 1 belched it
to be worth a careful trial.
M. L. HOLBROOK, M. D.
Keie York. March '■>. IBM.
SPEECH <>K GEN. BRECKINRIDGBAT
HIS HOME.—On Tuesday Hon. John
C. Breikinriilge reached bis home at
Lexington. Kentucky. At half-past
ten o'clock at night he was serenaded,
and made the followring speech :
Filloir t.'ithnm: In reluming home
after so long an absence, 1 would be a
Ssch an indication of a newly-found | very strange being if I were insensible
healing agent was not disregarded.
On Monday la.st, beiug in Philadel-phia,
I was invited to*attend the morn
ing dressing of the earth treated
wounds. This is what I saw :
First. Two patients suffering from
serious varicose ulcers, after prolonged
suffering, aud with little relief from the
usual treatment, have ceased to be of-tensive
to their ward-mates; thev find
their sores grow ing daily smaller; all
pain and inllamation have left them ;
phosphatic stores on Ashley I ami they feel the- certainty of an early
river alone will not do it. Tho South
thinks she. needs manufactures—aud
so she does. But artisans and opera-tives
will not move there till good food
and good cloth are less costly. These
will not be more abundant till there
are more good barns and well-designed
iann-yards; till those poor, wild cows
are replaced with Durhams, and Here-fords,
and Alderneys; till those razor-back
ho;.;-, are killed, and Suffolks and
Chester? take their place; till they
have titter chickens and more of them :
till potatoi s. and cabbages, aud apples
are cheaper. Cotton always was a
king. He was full of pride, and vani
cure.
Second. A railroadbrnkeman, whose
hand was, a yearaud a half ago,crush-ed
between the coupling beads of two
cars, and who has never been free from
pain, and seldom from intense pain;
whose hand from the wrist to the knuck-les
was a festering mass of carious
bones and inflamed flesh, and whose
system had been so reduced that he
could not have survived the amputa-tion,
which alone can entirely relieve
him, is now happy in freedom from
pain. His flesh-wound has taken on a
healthy character, and his strength is
fast returning. He even hopes to save
his hand, but the long continued de-cay
of the bone makes this impossible.
Third. Another brakeman, suffer-ing
from a precisely similar injury, in
no respect less serious, but received
1. at the tilizers, bonednst,the foot of the sheep
i iy tie lik-heei having gold beneath it; he answers
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PltOOi - r. i . loiir.ll , r.:.. u. you by a blast on his bunting horn.—
i t everythingl« My niggers know how to make cot-i
i . :, .;.i.,-ii.'c ton. These seven words were the
:MI;■-'■ : '"•< "''"' f^ doom of true progressive agriculture
J. niLDESHZTMER. ! south of Mason and Dixoo.
•ty, and weakness. He urged his sub ,. . . ,
jocts into an unequal strife, and then within a few days, was ,, m -li i
showed no influence at courts to make
alliance oi secure open ports. He
gave the planter's family pocket-money,
a handsome carriage, and a heritage
of barren fields. If ever king tit all,
lie was King Stork. The South to day
•tees nbt need cotton factories half so
modi as she does manure factories.—
She thinks the Constitution as it was
furnishes a panacea for all woes; but
it is not half so important to her just
now as the Held-Book.
to this very cordial reception from my
friends and neighbors, I feel it deep
ly. and 1 thank you sincerely. Kcceiit-fv
I have observed that it is very ditli-c'ult
for persons in my situation to pur-sue
that line of conduct that they might
wish to pursue. Nevertheless, it may
be proper to say that I accept this in-formal
but most cordial welcome as
purely personal ami containing no par-ticle
of political significance. [A voice
—••That's right."]
Indeed, ! can and w il! say. that the
tremendous events of the last eight
years have had a great tendency to
Id party feel
la re
that I no more feel the political "excite-ments
that mark the scenes of my for-mer
years, than if I were an extinct
volcano. I will not now say more, ex-cept
to express the pleasure that I feel
iu coming back to the people whom I
so dearly love.
HOW THE SOUTH IS MISREPRE-SENTED.
In our younger days we had great
admiration fnr Republican government,
never thinking for a moment that in-justice
most foul, aud tyranny most ab
solute, and fraud most flagrant, aud
corruption most rotten, could exist tin
der this same admired aud most ex
travagantly lauded system of American
Republican Government. What do we
behold to-day t What manner ofGov-ernment
is that which exists in the
Southern States! By whom is the
South represented in the Halls of Con-gress
I and who do these so-called rep
resentatives represent I How were they
elected aud by whom I These are ques-tions
pertinent to the present condition
of the South and to her condition for
the last four years. But we need not
answer them. Every one in the South
is familiar with the syslem ofCongres-sional
disfranchisemeut, intimidation.
fraud and violence, by which these peo-ple
who now misrepresent the South iu
Congress were elected. The intelli-gence
aud worth and respectability of
the South are disfranchised. The ig
noraiit and lowly had their prejudices
worked Upon by moan, designing white
men, who secured office by their votes,
and now we see these creatures occupy-ing
high places in tho Radical conclave
at Washington, while the true men and
good men ofthe South—those who have
intelligence, ability, worth and the re-spect
aud confidence of the people—are
forbidden to hold office and prevented
from exercising the right to vote.
And now as to these carpet-bag rep-resentatives—
who are they t and by
what right do they claim to represent
(t) tho people of the South ! Let us see:
• Arkantat.—The so-called Senators
from Arkansas are Alex. McDonald
aud Benjamin F. Rice, the former from
Pennsylvania and the latter trom New
York. The so-called Representative is
L. H. Roots, from Illinois.
l.ouixiana.—The so-called Senators
from Louisiana are John S. Harris, of
New York, and \V. 1*. Kellogg, of :
and the so-called Representatives are
J. II. Sypher, of Pennsylvania, aud J.
P. Newshatn, of Illinois.
Alabama.—The so-called Senators
from Alabama are Willard Warner, of
Ohio, aud George E. Spencer, of New
York; and the so-called Representa-tives
are F. W. Kellogg, of Massachu
setts, C. W. Buckley, of New York, and
B. W. Morris, of Maine.
Florida.—The so-called Senators
from Florida are A. S. Welch, of Michi
gan, and Thomas W. Osbotn, of New
Jersey: and the so-called Representa-tive
is Charles M. Hamilton, of Penn-sylvania.
Ueoryia.—The .Senator* from Geor-gia,
Messrs. Hill and Miller, being to
the manor-born, and not carpet bag
gcrs, were prevented from taking the
seats to which they were elected, and
to which they are entitled. The carpet-bag
Reprsentatives are Joseph W.
Clift, of Massachusetts, and Charles
H. Prince, of Maine.
fciilli Carolina.—()ne of the so-call
Senators from South Carolina is F. A.
Sawyer,of Massachusetts; and the so-called
Representatives are B. V. Whil
leinore, of Massachusetts, and C. C.
Bowen. of Rhode Island.
Xortk Carolina.—One ofthe so-called
Senators is Joseph C. Abbott, of New
Hampshire; and the so-called Beprc
sentatives are J. R. French, I). lleaton
(both carpet-baggers, where from not
known) and J. F. Dewees, a Southern
renegade.
Here we behold the wisdom and jus
tice of Congressional Reconstruct ion '■
Our people had rather submit to end
less taxation and be deprived forever
of representation than to be cheat
ed and outraged by foisting upon them
such miserable shams. It is adding
insult to injury io call this infamy a
restoration of co equal Suites under
the Constitution. It is not reconstruc-tion
of the I'nion but destruction of
the rights aud liberties of the States
aud people of the South.—Father Uy
an'* Banner.
that will make him laugh if there is
any laugh iu him—and if they miss
fire I have some others that'll make
him cry or kill him. ont>or the other."
Then the yoniignian blessed me. and
wept on my neck ami blew his nose on
my coat tail, and went after bis uncle.
He placed him in full view, iu tho
second row of benches that night, and
1 began on him. 1 tried him with
mild jokes; then with severe ones ; J
dosed him 'with bad jokes aud riddled
him with good ones; Iflred old jokes
into him, aud pcpiicicd him fore and
aft with red hot new ones: I w armed
up to my work, aud assaulted him on
the right and Ihe left, in front and be-hind,
1 fumed and sweated, and ranted,
till I was hutm and sick, and frantic
aud furious—bill I never moved him
once—I neasr started a smile, or a
tear! Never a ghost of a smile, ami
novel* a suspicion of moisture! l was
astounded. I closed the lecture at
last with one dispairiug shriek—with
one wild burst of humor—and hurled
a joke of supernatural atrocity full.it
li Iin. I never phased him ! Then I
sat down bewildered and exhausted.
The president of Ihe .society came
up and bathed my head with cold wa
ter, and said:
"What) made jflu carry on so to-ward
the last P
1 said. ■• 1 was trying to make that
confounded old fool laugh, in the sccoud
row."
Ami lie said : •• Well, you are wasting
your time—because he is deal ami
dumb, and as blind as a badger."
Now was that any way for that old
man's nephew to impose ou a si ranger
and an orphan like me .' I simply ask
you, as a man and a brother, if that
was any waj im him to do 1
STAY LAW.
i'.n-' ...... ..«•• •• e. »- -
deafen, if not destroy, old ingTand lor myself I can truly deelnn
treated with dry earth. Its constant
application has entirely prevented in
ilamation. and a healthy healing ot the
flesh and knittingof the bone will soou
return him to his duties with two use-ful
bands. .
Fourth. A farm laborer on Friday
last had three of his fingers nearly cut
off and his hand fearfully torn by a
horse power hay-cutter. Since the first
application of tho dry earth (a few
hours after the accident) he has been
free Irom pain, and he will save his
hand.
Fifth. On Saturday last, a laborer
General Slocum, in hia lecture on
•'Military Lessons of ihe War," tells
the following story in reference to the
battle of Bull Run :
•• The influence of our officers over
their men. and the state of our discip-line,
is best illustrated by an incident
which occurred on the field in the beat
ofthe battle. An officer, who has since
become very prominent and well known
throughout the country, was then in
command of a brigade on ihe right of
our line. While riding over ihe field
he di-covered a soldier concealed in a
hole n the ground which was of just
A WICKED FRAUD.
Mark Twain tells the following story
of his own personal experience.
It is seldom pleasant to tell on one's
self, sometimes it is a sort of relief to
a man to make a sad confession. I
wish to unburden my mind now. and
yet I almost believe that I am moved
to do it more because I long to bring
censure upou another man than be-cause
I desire to pour balm upon my
wounded heart. (I don't know what
balm is, but I believe it is the cornet
expression to use in this connection—
never have seen any balm.; You may
remember that I lectured in Newark
lately for the young gentlemen of the
Clayonian Society ! I did at any rate.
During the afternoon of that day, 1
was talking with one of the young gen
tlemeujust referred to, and he said
lhat he had an uncle who, from some
cause or other, seemed to have grown
iiermanently bereft of all emotion.—
And with tears in his eyes this young
man said:
" O, if I could only see him laugh
once more ! O, if I could only see him
weep!"
I was touched. I never could with-stand
distress. I said :
•• Bring him to my lecture, I'll start
him for you."
" O, if you could but do it, all our
family would bless you forevermore—
O. my beue-
An Act in Rcyuril (o 1'riKccilinn* hi/ore
Magutrate*.
SKCTION 1. Tli- General Amteinbly <•/'
Xortk Carolina </« ma.:. All writs of
summons on contracts eaten d into be
fore the lust of Ma\, eighteen hundred
ami sixty fivi. for sums of two hundred
dollars ami under, shall In- made re-turnable
before .iusiiees of tile Peace,
at the expiration «f ninety days from
the issuing tiieiioi.
SEC. 2. On the return of SUeh sum-mons,
the defendant shall lie reipiired
to enter his pleas and make such de-fence
to the action as ho may desire,
when the cause shall I rdeied for
trial, at the expiration of the ninety
days next succeeding the return day of
the summons.
SEC. 3. Ti.e defendant shall be at
liberty to demand a jury of six men to
try the issues thus made, to appear at
a day subsequent in the discretion of
the Magistiale. which shall mil lie less
than ninety days, when ihe cause shall
lie tried unless i iilu r parlj shall ie un-prepared
for trial, iu which ease the
Magistrate shall give, in his discretion,
such further continuance, for nol h«s
than ninety days.
Sl.i'. 4. In case ehher parly shall be
dissatisfied with thojudgment rcndi r I
by the uiagi-trate. such par'y shall
have the right toappeal to the Stiperim
Court of tk« county, without sccuriti
fur the appi al, win a the cause shall U-docketed,
and stand for I rial-in its reg
ular order according to the enure of
the Court.
SEC •">. The defendant shall be at
liberty in any judgment before a Jus
tice of tho Peace, to have a stay of et
edition for six months.on giving«mi
rity. to he judged of by the magistrate,
for the payment otlhodubl; I'roeidtd,
Thai tin sei uritj be gi\i n al any time
tvitliin tweiitj days from the remit rii ,
of the judgment.
Si'.'. *i. All e\e utinns issni d 1,'i'in
judgments rendere-l under this a«t,
shall be made returnable within ninel.
days, aid no sale shall take place v. i; h
iu less than si\tj day sfroui the issuing
of the execution.
SKI". 7. All writs of summons, issued
since the I'n.-l day ill .laiiuaiy. eiglile. i,
hundred and sixty nine, upon judg-ments
rendered on • i.ntract sln-fi re Ihe
fir-1 day of May, • ighteeii hundred mid
sixty-live, shall In- made returnable us
writs ofsummons in like casi .• providi ,i
in tin- first aectiuu of this M" .
SEC. S. All j ulgim uts rendered on
such contracts since January, eiglitt en
hundred and sixty nine, by my magis-trate
shall, ou application of the deloli-dant
before thcsauicor auy oilier mag
istrate, be set aside, and iluill be npi u
for pleading, trial, judgment and up
peal, as iu cuvs pioviiii'il for in the
first -iy sections of this act.
SEC.!». It shall be the duly ol Ihe
Magistrate to keep a docket of all nth
cases had beforehiui with propcrcntrii -.
setting forth the various stages ol I be
cause, niiil ii shall he the duty of lite
sheriff or other officer to make return
before the Magistiale issuing the snui
nioiis ol all proce: hands. : I
this
is tar-ing
fui!y ami truly his action on Ihe
process.
Six. 10. The provisions of
shall not apply to proceeding
tachiui nt. IL arrest ami bail.
Si:c 11. This net shad be n
from and after its ratification
IPassed March 1-. I si.!..;
force
The Washington correspondent of
the Comineit ial : Republican!
makes the following statement:
'■ Mr. Julian, of li iliaun, aski d ' fen.
Grant if the fact that an uuicc I older
is a Democrat, and has 1-ccii; John - a
man, ivould hi it >« II bea suffh icut can S
for removal ' The Presid nf replii d
that In- should protect office-holders
who do their duty, whntoier may he
theii politics,ii the Ian rcmaius^igniiist
both Executive and senatorial inter-ference.
Tills he had said to (a natoi
and the justice Of the view WHS ac-knowledged."
Dr. N.Iaion, of I ark, the buq« ror'a
medical adviser, has inspected the Siur
.siifficicnt dimensions to afford him
shelter. The General rode up to him, I for he is very dear to us.
inquired as to his regiment, and order- j factor, can you make him laugh T can
ed him tojoin it at one''. The man. [you bring soothing tears to those
looking him full in the face, placed 1 parched orbs P
his thumb upon his nose and re j I was profoundly moved. I said:
plied, • No \ on don't old fellow, you '• My sou, bring the old parly around,
want this hole yourself."' I have got some jokes in that lecture
Hiese Tv. ins. uinl
safely divided.
thinks tiny can
One ofGeneral Stoneman's new is«i»
upon ri ei iviug hi-iillicial notice with a
copy of the oalli prnstrlilawl. end
made the fallow ing remark: ■■ II
Hell condensed in 1*1 lines."
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