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«< The New Rebellion.
A Race for Life.
Tine Political Horizon.
MR. PRATT.
DEMOCRACY.
AN ILL-TIMED DISCUSSION.
W. Ct. Barrett, Proprietor.
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At the last Presidential election
the Radical party needed a new at
Judge d A. Frazer.
March 4,1869,
been inhabited not by intelligent
freemen, but by miserable serfs, they
could hardly have been expected to
act otherwise than they did ; and had
all the
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Jan. 14, ’69.
AUSTIN STREET,
Marslal), Texas.
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Nov. 22, ’65.
Sept, 3. 1868.
J. T. MILLS.
amsne.
Feb. 25, 1869.
The Count replied :
" What will you bet ? ”
" Twenty-five thousand francs,”
was the answer.
“Taken,” replied the Count.
The Count felt in honor bound to
his friend to ride the horse every
day, and the horse showed himself to
be so very vicious that the Count
had his coffin made and sent home,
for he was sure he would require it
before long. His wife (who had long
tice agree.
Marshall, Feb. 25, '69
8th Judicial District.
Sept. 13,’66.
W. R. POAG.
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E. P, GREGG.
Just when their own plans seemed to
be fulfilled, involving the success of
their own principles, members of the
Legislatures of these States were elec-
ted whose political status indicated
the probability of a Conservative Sen-
ator being chosen, and Northern car-
pet-baggers left out in the cold, at
which they suddenly changed their
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Radicals of the old revolutionary
creed cut themselves loose from the
new programme, and they received a
E. B. BLALOCK.
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D. McPhail,
Watchmaker and Jeweller,
If the Democracy have accomplish-
ed no other good by supporting Re-
publican candidates in Virginia, Ten-
nessee, Mississippi, and Texas, they
have at least set the two portions of
the late Grant party to fighting each
other.— Courier-Journal.
Fifty per cent, on the above added for
double column advertisements.
Persons desiring to do an active adver-
tising business, that is, to change their
ndvertissmentsfrequently, will be charged
the usual rate of One Dollar per square,
their profession, will attend the Courts in
the counties of Harrison, Panola, Rusk,
and Upshur in the 6th, and Marion in the
GEORGE LANE
Attorney & Counsellor
At Law
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
escopic Pebbles and Gold Spectacles, fancy
gold rings and gold jewelry of all kinds,
Silver Ware, warranted, of every descrip-
tion, Clocks of all kinds, Diamond set-
tings, Guitars, Violins, Accordeons, Music
Boxes, Guitar and Violin Strings, Amber
Pipn stems, Silk Watch Guards, &c., &c.,
Engraving neatly executed. Call and ex-
OFFICERS.
President—H. P. PERRY, M. D.
Vice Presidents—E. P M. JOHNSON,
M. D., and W. F. BALDWIN, M, D
Secretary—E. J. BEALL, M. D.
Asst. Secretary—W. G. THOMAS, M. D.
Corresponding Secretary—B F. EADS.
M. D.
Treasurer—T. M. MARKS, M. D.
cordial support. They have been
stricken down in their own section,
mainly beecause they would not join
in the hue and cry raised against the
it, and around the curves, at the rate
of mor than 70 miles an hour, as
the engineer declares, and as every-
body can believe who witnessed the
spectacle. The whole heavens were
illuminated, and the landscape was
lit up as by the noon-day light. On-
ward and downward flew the engine,
and behind it flew and thundered the
DR. J. A. RICHARDSON,
RESIDENT OCULIST.
JEFFERSON, TEXAS.
WIL operate upon or treat all
DISEASES' OF THE EYE.
as a certainty by
E. P M. Johnson & Son,
TT AVING associated themselves in the
LLpractice of Medicine in the city of Mar-
shall, offer their services in all its branches
to the city and country. Their purpose is
to give prompt and careful attention to all
cases entrusted to them,
Bills due when the case is discharged.
Office—Front room over Dr. A. Sear’s
drug store.
made their candidate pronounce a
watchword : “ Let us have Peace,”
and Congress shaped its reconstruc-
0. HENDRICK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
he garxison Elg,
ones, lately our bitterest
If the national Democra-
POAG & McKAY,
A ttorneys and Counsellors at Law,
IL Marshall, Texas. Will practice in
the courts of Eastern Texas, and in
Supreme and Federal courts, at Tyler.
T. M. MARKS, M. D.,
TTAVING permanently located in Mar-
• shall, offers his professional services
to the citizens of the town and surround-
ing country, and hopes by close and stu-
dious attention to his profession to merit
a liberal share of patronage.
OFFICE—At Sears’ Drug Store.
RESIDENCE—-At W. P. Hudgins.
References—Dr. Eagan, of Jefferson :
Dr. Williams, of Shreveport; Maj. B.
Smalley, Uncle Joe Taylor, Maj. J. F.
Womack, Capt. A. M. Burnham,‘and Gen.
W. P, Lane, of Marshall.
Professional and Business Cards.
gions ! ” exclaimed the Governor in
a passion. “Alas! your pious fa-
ther is dead,” retorted the shop-
keeper.
History repeats its trying situa-
tions, it is said, for every people.—
The Dents are our Ibrahims. We
meet them omnipresent here, and
only by a virtuous life have the hope
of escaping them in the hereafter.
Count de CHATEAUVILLARD.—
A true representative of the nobility
of a past age has just died in Paris.
Count de Chateauvillard was in his
day one of the most brilliant men
and dashing equestrians of France.
It was he who one day rode up the
steps of the Jockey Club (then at
the corner of the Rue Drouet and
rison and, adjoining counties. From his
A sheet of intensely bright flame, TER was regarded
was seen coming down the southern' 1- he -he
slope, apparently with the speed of a
meteor, and really very near the
speed of a hurricane, (eighty miles
an hour); for pursued and pursuer
flew over the course, or rather down
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Shiraz,” was the reply.
HALL & TURNER,
ACTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS
AT LAW,
Radical press.
“ But your uncle is Governor there.”
in many instances, failed of success
because they would not abate one jot
or tittle of their opposition to Radi-
cal misrule and outrage upon the
people of the South, when by yield-
ing only a tacit acquiescence to Rad-
ical iniquity they might have secur-
ed a portion of the local and Federal
power.
The Democratic warty, largely re-
cruited, as it now is, from the best
of the material of the old State Rights
Whig party, affords the only hope to •
the American people for a restoration
of the Government to the principles
and policy of the Constitution. They
are making a glorious fight now in
Pennsylvania and Ohio. They have
brought into the field their best men, '
hear the buzzing of a fresh swarm of
Dents—come out like locusts—ap-
plying for satrapies in the South-
west.
One believes almost that there is
somewhere a brokerage of this magic
name, upon whose bearers honors
and offices are expected to drop like
stars. A storekeeper of the capital
of ancient Persia went one day to
Ibrahim, the Governor of his prov-
ince, to request the abatement of the
taxes he was unable to pay to Hasse
Ibrahim, a chief magistrate of the
city, and the Governor’s brother.
<£ You must pay, or leave the city,”
replied the Governor. “Where shall
I go ?” asked the storekeeper. £t To
EProfessiomal Notice I
pRS. LEWIS & BEALL are permanent-
• ly located, and will continue the prac-
ice of their profession at Marshall, Texas.
Liberal deductions for cash payments.
•OFFICE—At Lancaster & Garrett’s
Drug Store.
Dr. Beall’s residence removed to Mrs.
Pennsylvania and Ohio. While it
is true that we cannot actively and
directly aid our friends there, we
can indirectly give them a moral sup-
port which will not only be gratify-
ing but at the same time tend to
strengthen them in the present con-
flict.
So far, then, as we are concerned
we shall say nor do nothing which can
by any possibility, be tortured into
a suspicion that we are lacking con-
fidence in the patriotism, virtue and
integrity of the National Democracy.
—A^lgusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sen-
tinel.
revival of the rebellion, and attempted
once more to arouse the old war spirit.
Cacpetsbag correspondents reopened
their batteries against that which a
few weeks before they had cheerfully
approved, and whilst, it was asserted
on all sides that there never had been
more peaceable elections held any-
where than those in Tennessee and
Virginia, they denounced the result
as having been produced by threats
and violence. It was easy to make
those who desired such things be-
lieve in their realty, and when one
of the most hypocritical of these let-
ter-writers had turned his eyes to
heaven and ejaculated, “ Only Ho,
who rules all things can know how
this will end,” such pious papers as
the New York Tribune and Missouri
Democrat pretended to be convinced
that the country was threatened with
a “ new rebellion,” and that there-
forty new measures had to be devised
to subject these States once more to
absolute Radical rule.
It would be preposterous to sup-
pose that the Radicals did not know
beforehand that, if free elections
were guaranteed to Virginia and
Tennesse, the people of those States
would-vote for their friends, for their
interests and the exercise of their
scarcely have hoped to see the South
conform to the views of Yankee ad-
venturers. The roots of a tree find
their way through the fissures of bar-
ren rock to the soil. It could not
occur that a liberty-loving people
would not discover even the narrow-
“ Your
The Conduct OF Our People.—
The conduct of our people of Vir-
ginia in their hour of victory has
been creditable in the extreme.
There have been no blatant threats,
no vindictive ravings, no fierce out-
breaks of Passion. They have had
during the campaign, and long be-
fore, many things to exasperate them.
They have seen the emissaries of a
base, bad man, coming amongst their
old servants, exciting all their worst
passions, and stirring up strife against
their old masters.—They have seen
men, who had no claim to be called
Virginians, either by birth or feeling,
desecrating the offices once proudly
held by the great, pure men of the
Republic, dragging in the mire the
honor of the State, and making pub-
lic traffic in the courts of Justice.
They have seen the creatures, who
never looked them in the face in the
day of battle, who have not the same
speech, (thank God) or the same re-
ligion who regard every great State
interest wtth the soul of pedlars—
they have seen these creatures, walk-
ing in their midst, controlling by
their public positions the lives and
fortunes of men, the latchet of whose
shoes they were not worthy to stoop
down and unloose.
We feel sure that the true Vir-
ginians will continue to exercise this
moderation both in speech and ac-
tion.
The victory has been owing in
some measure to the votes of the col-
ored people, and they will find that
in casting their lot with the whites
they have acted but the part of wis-
dom and prudence.
White men intend to rule Virgin-
ia, because it is but right that they
should, but they intend to guarantee
to the negro every right which he
has under the Constitution and to
make good to him every promise •
which they have ever held out.
The speech of Governor Walker, at
Richmond, gives the key note of his
policy, in which he will be backed
up by the tremendous majority, who
in good faith accepted General Grant’s
offer, and have in unmistakeable
tones proclaimed that our “ Old Do-
minion ” shall be freed from the
greedy mal-administration of grasp-
ing carpet-baggers and traitorous
scalawags.—Petersburg Index-
ovuv, uucy nave vecu ucuvunccu. South, at least, is in no condition
villified and traduced because of to cast away old and tried friends for
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pies of the Constitution, They have, from new
enemies.
heroes of another stamp than carpet-
baggers, political persecutors and
confiscators. If the Radicals had
nominated a President who repre-
sented in any manner the fanatical
class of impeachers, they would very
probably have been defeated, not-
withstanding all the mistakes of the
Democrats. To attract the crowd
they had to play another piece, and
Eliza Emery warns all girls in the
South and West to look out for her
gay, deceiving, runaway husband,
David. She says that he cruelly left
her, and told the folks when he start-
ed that he was going southward to
preach universal salvation and mar-
ry a Hoosier. Eliza thinks he may
be early known, and to prove it says :
“ David has a scar on his nose,
where I scratched it!”
J. EI. • ohnson,
D2rs,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
HARRISON COUNTY
Medical Association.
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ister.” “Then go to the lower re-'
grade. A mile short of the junction
he saw the effort was a vain one, for
the conflagration had rushed up out
on the Lake Shore track, and was
roaring onward in the direction of
Dunkirk. He checked the headlong
rush of his train and brought it to a
stand still. It did not proceed until
I months longer, I’ll bet he kills you.” 3 o’clock in the morning.
The case took in another danger, the Radical party been composed of
and it was imminent. A heavy the dulleet nalitininne the" ne"1d
freight train was coming up the Lake
Shore road. All I will say of this is
that it did escape ‘ to the side track,
and only escaped by the last minute
of possibility.
Instead, then, of even questioning
among ourselves the possibility of a
coming necessity, which shall force
us into new alliances and bring us
into associations with new friends,
let us all throw the whole weight of
our undivided moral support in favor
of the true and gallant men who are
over this road that immense quanti-
ties of petroleum are brought.
On Tuesday evening, about nine
o’clock, a train, consisting of six oil
cars, reached the summit, on its way
to the junction. Here, by some „
cause, as yet unexplained, one of the sissippi and Texas accommodated
oil tanks took fire. The passenger cars
were at once detached, and the brakes
from Shreveport, ready to carry passengers
to any part of the city.
Horses will be fed by the month, week,
day, or single feed, at reasonable rates.
George W. Shearer is my duly author-
ized agent, who will give his undivided
attention to the business.
R. H. HARGROVE.
Marshall, Texas, Jan. 18, ’69. nlOtf
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AFFICE.—South side of the public
U square. Special attention given to
theinvestigaionof land titles.
STEAM saw
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Ywo Miles and a half Sow th West of
Marshall.
"pHE undersign would inform his friends
| and the public that his Steam Saw Mill
is now in successful operation, and he is
prepared to furnish any amount of lumber,
fo the very best quality, and as low as can
be purchased at any mill in the country.
Bills will be filled at the. shortest notice,
As times are hard I will do a general
bartering business, will take in exchange
at the market price, corn, fodder, hides,
cotton, oats, chickens, eggs, butter, &c.,
Here is a chance to buy lumber cheap,
and on easy terms, warranted to be of the
best quality.
H- JOYCE
April 4th, ’68. 21
MAMMOTH
LIVERY STABLE.
rights. Had all the Southern States
pump; then again, the Cincinnati
express was due at the junction at
this time. The engineer of the oil
train whistled “ open switch,” and
shaking hands with the fireman they
bade each other farewell, knowing-
that their lives depended on the open- 1
ing of the Lake Shore switch by their 1
friends below, and this was to impers
il the express train coming down 1
from the west with a living human :
freight. The engineer on the train :
soon saw the fire when it first broke 1
out on the summit, and supposing he !
could clear the junction before the
flaming terror reached it, he, too, put '
his engine to its utmost on' a level
Running on to a safe distance from
the depot, the engineer of the oil
train detached his engine, and left
the six cars to consume. He says
his situation was fully realised by
him. He expected to lose his life.—
At every moment he expected the
engine to leave the track. He saw
he was going at a perilous rate of
speed, but there was no help for it.
The demon was behind him, and he
declares that it looked like a demon.
With that fondness, or real affection,
for his engine, which these men dis-
play, he said: "Ithought everything
of my engine, and was determined to
stay by it to the last.” The fireman at-
tempted to escape by jumpingfrom the
tender, but the engineer restrained
him. Altogether, the occurrence was
a remarkable one, and in part remark-
able for this, no lives were lost. The
brakemen on the oil cars had gone
back to the passenger cars, when the
oil cars started. It was well they
did. Unless those rear cars had
been detached and stopped, their in-
mates would have been burnt to
death inevitably.
rgihIS Association holds its regular meet-
i ings on the first Wednesday in every
month in Marshall in the room over Dr
Sears’ Drug Store. The Phy-icians of
Harrison County are invited to attend.
forms, which not only entitle them
to our respect and gratitude, but
which demands from us a full and
MILLS & GREGG,
AT ORNEYS AT LAW,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
VKTILL give prompt attention to al
VV business entrusted to them in the
Sixth and Eight Judicial Districts of the
State, and the Supreme and Federal
Courts at Tyler.
April 24th, ’68, n24-tf.
G. A. FRAZER,
Attorney at Law,
MARSHALL, TEXAS
nephew rules that city, and your fam-
ily are my enemies,” said the shop-
the distance by four miles. It is
Whigs, they have waged a war upon
Radicalism in all its most hideous
Office—West side of the public square.
Marshall, Sept. 20, ’66. n45-tf
WM. STEDMAN. J. W. POPE. Democrats have been cordially
POPE, STEDMAN, & POPE. line silver grey Whigs in
TTORNEYS at Law, Marshall, Texas. Northern and Western States.
— - - , ,, A. POPE.
with a deduction of fifty per cent., or one half .......
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
VN / ILL practice in the Courts of the
V V Sixth Jdicial District. All business
entrusted to them will receive prompt
tmble-down Cabinet affair. The mind until, arising from sick bed, I
people have pinned faith to his mys-
teriousness long enough, and it is all
that they have yet, or perhaps will
have till the end, to assure them of
Livery Business.
Persons wishing to hire Buggies and
Horses, Saddle Horses, Hacks, Waggons, ite.basegfromonetoa full sett, and per-
Drays. &c., can be accommodated.
His Omnibus will always be in waiting
at the Depot on the arrival of the cars’
summit the grade is about 80 feet to 'they called it “ Moderation.” They
the mile, with curves which increase
rHE subscriber takes this method of
I informing his friends and the public
generally that he has purchased the entire
lansaxp8rince.arauclosa.applisation.to
where he intends carrying on a General
tion policy so that peace might really
a patriotism and devotion to princi-
ples rarely exhibited in this country,
these Constitutional Whigs have
abandoned their old party associa-
tions and cut loose from many of
their old political friends and identi-
fied themselves with their life-long
political antagonists, because the lat-
ter party offered the only compacts
organized and available machinery
by which their old principles could
be defended and sustained.
It is true, that $o far, complete
success has not crowned the efforts
of the true Democracy. But we in»
sist that this want of success cannot
be fairly attributed to any unfaith-
fulness to their old and timehonored
principles. Aided and supported as
they have been, by the old line
Avenging Wounded Honor.—
In a recent discussion between the
Russian Ceasarewitch and his chief
of staff, Col. Hunnius, a German by
birth, the Prince remarked that
« when one deals with Germans one
is sure to be cheated.” The chaloric
German retorted, “ if your Highness
means that observation to apply to
me, I must beg you to understand it
as both offensive and unjust.”
Whereupon the Prince made aswer
by coolly slapping the Colonel’s face.
As this insult could not be avenged
upon the heir of the Throne, and as
it was one which chivalry could not
endure to live under, the chivalric
German deliberately blew his own
brains out with a pistol rather than
survive such black disgrace.
Before committing the rash deed
he penned a note to the Prince, in
which he said, “ Your Imperial
Highness has offered me a mortal in-
sult. When you read this letter I
shall have ceased to live.”
It is somewhat consoling to know
that the Emperor was greatly dis-
pleased at this affair and gave ors
ders that the Colonel should be bur
ied with great pomp, and the Prince
having attempted to prevent these
orders from being carried out was
ordered by the Emperor to attend in
person the funeral of the poor victim.
Many sharp, nd many very just
criticisms have been indulged in by
public censors against what they
have been pleased to call the “ chiv-
airy” of the South, but we venture
to say that, with all our hot blood
and excitable nature, nothing has
ever occured here which approxi-
mates in the remotest degree the su-
perior contempt for life under in-
sulted innocence as was displayed by
this choloric German.
the future.
There is a kind of pretentious in-
consequence about the Administra-
tion that is ridiculous, a running to
and fro of blue-breeched, shoulder-
strap lackeys, a buzz of bass drums
in the back ground, as if there were
being spread the net of some compli-
cated, far-sighted, tremendous policy,
a shimmer and show of ponderous-
ness that exists only in the expecta-
tions of the people. The doubt,
once in a while, grows thick whether
Grant is not more at home in a gig
behind his Havana than in the White
House, fronting the people. Look-
ing him steadily in the face, it occurs
to you the Republican party, power-
ful as it was, might have taken from
his box the first intelligent hackman
on the street, and done as well.—
Grant’s face has no clearness or illu-
mination in it, more than his milita-
ry policy for breaking down the re-
bellion. The Atlantic Monthly con-
tained an article upon his " intellec-
tual character.” It is in doubt
whether it exists. Not a man, wo-
man, or child in this great country,
but has constantly put the riddle for
these two years: “How is it that
Grant, with his face like a stogy
boot, is a great man?” The real
query is as to the fact. The whole
matter will probably turn out sim-
ply enough, that, like other men, he is
what he appears to be. The Bru-
tuses who seem fools and turn up
wise men are few. Grant swung to
the head of military affairs when the
momentum of the nation was ready
to break down treason. He swung
to the front of civil affairs when the
party that gave him supremacy to
become possible. The new pro-
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STABLES,
HOUSTON AVENUE,
MARSHALL, TEXAS.
A good story is told of a rustic
youth and a buxom country girl who
sat facing each other at a husking
party. The youth, smitten with the
charms of the beautiful maiden, only
ventured a sly look and now and then
touching Patty’s foot under the table.
The girl, determined to make the
youth express what he appeared so
warmly to feel, bore with these ad-
vances a little while in silence, when
she cried out. “ Look here, if you
love me, why don’t you say so, but
don’t dirty my stockin’s.”
and, what is better still, they are
making no compromise with Radical no"
Jacobins. The fight in those two
We have yet to see a better com-
mentary upon the Grant administra-
tion, than the following Washington
correspondence of the Cincinnati
.Commercial:
A morning gust sweeps down upon
us daily from Long Branch. It is
disgust. Forney continues to edit
Grant’s cigar stumps and the hours
of Mrs. Grant’s baths. These things
are ambrosial to sycophants; they
are nauseous to sound stomachs. I
burn my cigar stumps no shorter
than Grant’s. Your wife keeps her-
self as clean with ablutions as the
Mistress President. Why so much
fanfarenade ? If details must be
told, the news comes of the latter
lady that she is hanging to Grant’s
arm at Long Branch with every step
he takes, like a broken spring of dog-
wood. How else would she be
known as the lady of the President?
Certainly. The President, what of
him ! Grant, turning his adminis-
tration into holiday, sends for his
stud. The velvet sands of Long
Branch have not felt for their mag-
netic. spanking tread. Grant, with-
out a horse, loses his electricity. The
horses without Grant lose their air
ing. The black favorites must be
sent to him, perhaps, as Dana accuses
the Tallapoosa, at the Government
expense.
We will wait a little. But, giving
the best guess from the present stand-
point, the President has failed us.—
He is a disappointment. He has not
done one luminous act since coming
into power on the 4th of March, not
one that the people have risen up and
applauded him for. He is opaque
to-day as in the inter regnum form-
ing his Cabinet, and the thing clear-
est in this capacity is that the light
is not in him, no more than in the
Boulevard) and played a game of
billiards on horseback. He rode for
cy, backed and strengthened by the
support and influence of the very
flower of the old Whig party—men
like Fillmore, Adams, Johnson and
Campbell—cannot be relied on to
support and faithfully maintain the
principles of free government as ex-
pounded by the founders of our com-
plex system in the Virginia and Ken-
tucky resolutions, where shall we
turn for success and support?
THE proprietor of these P-9
VAen Stables, begs leave to re- MT
{rm turn his thanks to his ")
friends and the public for the very liberal
patronage he has received during the past
year, and to assure them that no pains
will be spared to merit its continuance.
He is better prepared with facilities for
your accommodation than heretofore ; be-
ing well supplied with substantial and
comfortable
HACKS. GOOD TEAMS
AND
CAREFUL DRIVERS,
Lor the transportation of Passengers ; and
t those who would take a drive for either
Lusinessor pleasure, he would say that
be has good BUGGIES,and fine HORSES
for your accommodation. So come on
gentlemen, select your team and take a
tide.
The Stables will be, as heretofore, under
the control and management of Capt. WM.
T. SMITH, whe is the authorized agent
for the transaction of all business connect-
ed therewith.
E. P. M. JOHNSON, M. D. F. H. JOHNSON, M. D.
RESPECTFULLY tenders
his services to his old
S h t
II
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face. In either case the people have :
been of real importance, and the man
There is something fresh and nov-
el in the advertisement a Zurich
tradesman has circulated. “ Wish-
ing,” he writes, “ to put an end to
my life, which is a burden to me,
and being determined to die as soon
as possible, I shall sell my goods at
such low rates as have never before
been heard of,”
42
I
A reporter visited Fort Schuyler
l to-day, and had a conversation with
I Pratt, who said : " I was absent from
Jefferson on tae 4th of October, 1868,
but returned in the evening, I was
not present when G. W. Smith and
the two negroes were killed. I was
in Jefferson about six months after
the parties implicated in that affair,
and now on trial, were arrested ; was
during that time, often in the stock-
ade where they were confined, and
went frequently to Gen. Buell’s head-
quarters, and rendered him such as-
sistance in the discharge of his du-
ties as lay in my power. When I
learned that I was also implicated
in the affair of the 4th of October, I
was astonished. Suffering from my
wounds all of which were received
on the battlefield, feeling conscious
of my innocence, and dreading -the
horrors of confinement in the stock-
ade prison, I left Jefferson and came
to New York. I am willing to stand
a fair trial, but if I am tried by a
military commission it will be might-
ily against my will. Since the war,
I have accepted the situation in good
faith, and have earnestly labored to
prevent collision between whites and
blacks, and when such have occurred
I have always exerted myself to the
best of my ability, to stop them. I
have several times aided the Federal
officers stationed in Jefferson in pro-
moting peace and harmony between
the white and colored population.
On the 4th of July, 1868, when some
were afraid that there was imminent
danger of a general conflict between
several hundred armed negroes and
whites, I exposed my person to the
people, appeased the excited popula-
tion, and received the thanks and
commendations of the whole commu-
nity. I was second under the com-
mand of Generals Sterling Price and
Marmaduke, of Missouri, and was in
General Price’s raid in 1864, through
Missouri and Kansas. At the battle
of Marie de Seine, Kansas, fought in
October, 1864, I was dangerously
wounded, and now carry a minnie
ball in my body received in that en-
gagement.
The above statement of. Major
Pratt with reference to his where-
abouts during the day of the 4th of
October, was proven by several wit-
ness in the late trial of the prisoners
before the Military Commission at
Jefferson and fully coroborrated the
statement of that gentleman. •
of fictitious importance. We wanted
a hero and a President, and pros
nounced the word—Grant.
grant’s pigmy cabinet.
Grant came, believing in himself,
and imposed upon us. His oracular
silence at the beginning made us ex-
pect a Cabinet of grants. When the
roll of these awaited Colossuses was
finally called in the Senate, the half
of them were too feeble to answer to
their names. Then some of them
came and drifted away again. The
Cabinet went to pieces, and formed
again like a decimated battalion.—
The ministers hang to it unsteadily
still; and “Who are to +e Grant’s
Secretaries?” is an open question
yet, just as if you asked what grains
of floating sand would go into a pet-
rification.
You have heard how Robeson was
appointed Borie’s successor—a jolly
fellow introduced diplomatically to
Grant, in a good mood, on shipboard,
and deftly carving his way into the
Cabinet with his knife as he dined at
the same table. The people needed
introduction, too, to the new man.—
But that was a little matter.
The monkey races sometimes se-
lect their leaders by the length of
their tails. Louis XVIII made
Monsieur D’Avaray a duke for help-
ing him into his carriage.
grant’s “love of quiet and re-
tirement.”
Then Grant imposes upon us with
other pretensions. He has publish-
ed to an extravagant eccentricity his
love of quiet and retirement. No
public man of his station, since the
beginning of the Government,
has so constantly thrown himself in
the way of the people. A triumphal
procession through the country every
six months since the war has been
the least of it. As President he is
pushing his social prerogatives to
the fullest bent. There have passed
fourteen weeks since adjournment of
Congress. Grant has passed half of
them here, the rest in social unbend-
ing elsewhere. • They say he takes
gaily to the dance at Long Branch,
sliding through the figures mor
glibly than at Annapolis and West
Point. This is very well, but the
country is asking of him and his Cab-
inet a few serious questions that it
would he well to have answered from
Washington, reception balls at the
seashore notwithstanding. What
about Cuba, South America. Virgin-
ia, the South, the Alabama matters,
and political assassinations?
THE SPHINX POLICY DON’T FILL
THE BILL.
It is credible that the Cabinet and
the head of the nation, properly di-
gesting these things, would not find
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huge fiery demon. Twice its prodi-
gious weight was driven against the
___________ fugitive, as with instinct with a pur-
KThengo to Cashan.”— pose to drive it from the track. It
seemed as if to the heroic engineer
and fireman there was a perfect envi-
ronment of peril. The speed of the
engine was such that it ceased to
We copy as follows from the cor-
respondence of the Grand Rapids
(Michigan) Eagle :
To make it an intelligible matter
to the reader, let me say that the Buf-
falo, Corry and Pittsburg road inter-
sects the Lake Shore road at this
place. The station at the junction
is named Brocton. Now, let it be
understood, that from this point to
Mayville, at the head of Chatoqua
Lake (a distance of only ten miles,)
a train is carried over an elevation of
700 feet. From the station to the
some time a most vicious horse.—
A friend said :
. We copy as follows from the spe-
. - . . cial correspondence of the Cincinnati
traction ; other decorations than ruin- Commercial, dated New York Au.
nd homes and hlondv hattle-fielda • ■ gust 15:
front, designated the elections as a
MARSHALL, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1869.
malcontents, and would give to the
concern neither strength or respecta-
bility. The truth is, that the at-
tempt to raise a new party now would
only fall stillborn, but would inevita-
bly bring its authors and abettors to
political ruin and disgrace.
What if the National Democratic
party has failed in some particulars
to carry out and faithfully subserve
the great interests committed to its
care by the American people-? Shall
we find a remedy for its supposed
shortcomings in the total destruction
of its organization ? Does not a
sound and true policy dictate that we
should rather correct its errors and
bring it back to its original, just and
constitutional pathway by a gener-
al forbearance toward its faults, and
a strong and cordial support in those
maters and upon those issues, where
it is unquestionably right? The
struggling so manfully and
The Late Capt. J. W. Russell.
—The Louisville Courier-Journal
says :
The incidents related of Capt.
Russell would fill a volume. On one
occasion, in New Orleans, he had a
personal rencounter with the pirate
Lafitte, and unarmed whipped him
and ejected him from a ball room.
On another, while landed atNatchez,
a passenger of his boat was robbed
by the gang which then infested the
portion of the town bordering on the
river and known <ls “ Natchez under
the Hill.” By surrounding with his
crew the house in which the robbers
took refuge, he passed a cable around
it, and under threat of pulling it with
inmates into the river, he compelled
restitution of the money, and made
himself a terror to the thieves and
gamblers who then infested the river
towns. Of his great strength, peo-
ple who knew him only in his late
years, when enfeebleb by age, would
have but little conception, though in
his prine it was known from Pitts-
burg to New Orleans that he had
lifted a shaft weighing 1647 pounds,
and that he had carried entirely
across the deck of the boat an anchor
of 1242 pounds weight.
There is no harm in a glass of
whiskey if you-allow it to remain in
the glass.
“ Then complain to Shab." “He is
It occurs to ns that no more inop-
portune time could have been se-
lected than the present for the diss
cussion which has been recently
sprung by some of our leading States
papers in regard to the life or death
of the great National Democratic
Party. Leaving out of view entirely
the reasonableness or unreasonable-
ness of the charges which have been
made against that party by a few of
our Southern contemporaries, evil to
the country must follow a continua-
tion of such discussion at this time.
It will not be denied that the great
States of New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio control the elections of the
country. In these three States the
Democratic party has, since the close
of the war, stood firmly by the prin-
ciples of States Rights and State Sov-
ereignty as defined and laid down
and supported by both the old Whig
and Democratic parties. The De
mocracy of these States and, so far
as we have been able to judge, the
entire Northern and Western Democ-
racy have fought, inch by inch, and
step by step, the monstrous advances
which have been made by the Radi-
cals toward the destruction of our
federative system, and the erection
upon its ruins of a strong, irrespon-
sible consolidated Gevernment, en-
tirely free from and independent of
the several States Government.
In this constitutional warfare the
. ideas had become the nation itself,
cheerfully for the overthrow of Rad and he as a bubble borne on its sur-
icaism in the great central States of - . - - - -
been extremely uneasy lest his horse
should kill him) seeing her husband
look upon the horse as dangerous, as
she herself considered him, no sooner
saw the coffin placed in her hus-
band’s dressing-room, than she went
to the stable armed with a pair of
pistols and shot the dangerous steed
through the head. On one occasion
the Count was asked by a friend, a
Marquise, to see her to her carriage.
They were at a ball. Going down-
stairs somebody trod on her dress
and tore it. She asked for a pin.—
The Count took from his scarf a dia-
mond pin worth $600 and presented
it to her. She declined, saying :
Oh, Count, it is too valuable.”
“ Is that the only objection to the
pin?”
“ Certainly.”
This word was no sooner out of
the Marquise’s mouth than he broke
off the diamond and threw it out of
the neighboring window, and gave
the golden pin to her.
much time to be absent from the cap-
ital. Anyhow, the nation is anxious
to see looming above the rosy hori-
zon of bolls, routs, excursions, ban-
quets, receptions, and seaside frivol-
ities, the executive head of a power-
ful Republican Administration. We
are hardly contented with this
sphinx-like policy. It may be Del-
phic, as Shellaberger said, but is less
than Republican. The President
would do well to accept humility
from the Cabinet fiasco and consult
the people henceforth. A member
of the Grant family is reported to
have remarked, just after the nomi-
nation : “It was the General’s de-
sire not to be made President by a
party, but by the people.” Perhaps
Grant believes that the "era of good
feeling,” may return again under his
administration ; that he is a Colossus,
under whose legs all the people can
walk.
So far the
PETTINESSES OF HIS ADMINISTRA-
TION
have been the most objectionable,
and now, playing President he re-
minds you of a boy who wished to be
a king, “ so that he might ride on
the gate post all day.” If he will
stop buying bagatelles in New York,
and parading his Presidency along
the porches of the Stetson, and keep
to Executive business here, he will
look more like a successor of Wash-
ington—his ambition, we are told.
THE DENTS FOREVER.
Early after the inauguration, when
offices and honors were heaped, like
Attila’s bucklers, upon the royal
house of Dent, you might have heard
here among certain sagacious Wes-
tern men pertinently suggested the
establishment of firms “ to go into
the brother-in-law business-” The
States is made upon the clear and
finely cut lines which have marked
their disagreements with the Radical
party for the last ten years. While
negro suffrage and the adoption of
the Fifteen Amendment would have
little local effect upon them, they are
showing a glorious devotion to just
principles in stoutly and bitterly
opposing those uuconstitutional
schemes. There is a growing discon-
tent at the North with thre present
rule, and thousands of what are call-
ed moderate Republicans would de-
sert the standard of the Radical par-
ty and cordially unite with the De-
mocracy if the latter would yield
some of their State Rights dogmas
and abandon the constitutional doc-
trine of State sovereignty. If the
Northern Democrats were actuated
by no higher motives than of party
supremacy and control they could at
this time, when the discontent with
Grant’s administration, North and
South, is showing itself in marked
and decided utterances, by mak-
ing slight concessions of principle
and adopting a shuffling diplomacy,
secure thousands of Republican votes.
But, true to principle and their past
history, they spurn such an unholy
alliance.
Is it not, then, to say the least of
it, exceedingly ungracious in the
Southern people at this particular
juncture, to throw obstacles in the
path of our Northern friends by hint-
ing, and that very plainly that they
have been untrue to us in the past,
and that they will continue to be so
in the future? Is it not ungracious,
ungenerous, unjust and wrong for
Southern men to taunt the Ohio and
Pennsylvania Democracy with fight-
ing over dead issues because they ad-
here to the principles of the Consti-
tution ? Should we not hang our
heads in shame for questioning the
propriety of their continued opposis
tion to negro rule—to the unlimited
and unrestrained power of Congress
on the franchise question? We say
that the question of suffrage is not a
dead issue. It has not been settled
that negroes shall rule and govern
the Southern States. So long as the
Northern Democratic party maintains
its organization and adheres to its
true faith—so long as the Southern
people are true to themselves and
their country and the Constitution—
so long as all parties in all sections
of this great country who are op-
posed to an unbridled, unchecked
despotic government ruled by the
mob, or by an autocrat, shall con-
tend for the common good against
the party now in power, so long will
there be hope for the restoration of
the Government to its original sim-
plicity. and purity as a limited feder-
ative Republican system.
But if we abandon the Democrat-
ic party because of its adherence “to
dead issues’’ where under heaven
shall we cast our voice and lot? Is
it proposed to re-enact the fatal blun-
der of the Philadelphia Raymond-
Johnson Convention and attempt to
organize- a new party with new princi-
ples, and a new name ? If this be
the plan proposed we ask, in all se-
riousness, who is to compose such a
party—what are to be its principles
—and from whom it will be recruit-
ed?
Would not such a new party have
to rely almost entirely upon the pres-
ent Democratic party for its recruits?
Is it seriously believed that a large,
compact, homogeneous influential
organization like the Democratic
party, will dissolve its organization,
disband its members, and renounce
its life-long princi les for the doubt-
ful benefits of a new organization,
which its strongest supporters can
only claim as likely to be successful?.
There are too many memories of past
successful conflicts, too much of
pride, and too much of devotion to
old ties clustering around the banner
of the great national Democratic
party to permit, for a moment, the
belief that they will all be surrender
ed and abandoned without the over
ruling influence of an irrepressible
emergency should imperatively de-
mand such a sacrifice.
If we look to the Republican par
ty, what signs of success do we wit-
ness there 1 When in the history of
Parties in this country, has a party
flushed with victory and in undispu-
ted control of the Federal and nearly
all the State governments, volunta
rily abandoned its power and dis-
solved its organization ? It may be,
and doubtless is true, that a few dis-
appointed Republicans—those who
have failed to secure their share of
the public spoils in the recent distri-
bution of the Grant gift enterprise—
would cast their fortunes with the
new party. These men are mere
stopped .them. Next the oil cars
were cut off, and the locomotive, ten-
der, and a box car, containing two
valuable horses and two men, passed
down the road, the engineer suppose
ing that the brakemen on the oil
cars would arrest the course of those,
but what was his horror, on looking
back, to see the six cars in pursuit
of his down the grade, enveloped in
flames. They not only pursued, but
overtook him, striking the box car
with inconceivable force, knocking
the horses and men flat upon the
floor, and yet almost miraculously
not throwing the engine from the
track.
It was now, with the engineer, a
race for life and he gave the engine
every ounce of steam. Looking
south from the place of my residence
at that terrible juncture, one of the
most magnificent.spectacles was wit-
nessed that a man sees in a lifetime.
HrofessiommI Card.
p F. FADS, M. D. and WILLIAM G.
• 9 Thomas, M. D., having assosciated
themselves in the practice of the various
branches of their profession, respectfully
offer their services to the people of Mar-
shall and vicinity.
TERMS—Cash.
OFFICE—South-west corner of Public
Square, the one formerly occupied by
est paths to freedom and selfgovern-
ment. And yet, no sooner had in- ’
evitable events transpired then the
same indefatigable disturbers of the
peace, under the false prophecy of a
revival of the rebellion, endeavor
to poison the public mind, and to
stimulate it to new deeds of persecu-
tion and cruelty. Upon their heads
be the consequences, if they neces-
sitate what they predict. If business
is prostrated for another season ; cap-
ital should still distrustingly abstain
from any entsrprise ; if in view of a
gloomy future the country does not
resume its wonted and much needed
activity, the people will know where
to find the originators of all these
evils and will not fail to hold them
responsible for their existence.—Mis-
souri Republican.
Fly-gobbler’s last is one of his
best. He has met in Newport a lady
of fashion who extinguishes her rivals
by wearing a ring cut out of one
solid diamond.” This is truly beau-
tiful, and worthy of the Arabian
Nights. Of diamonds large enough
to be made into a ring, there are
known to exist at this present time
in the whole world less than a dozen.
The " Star of the South,” since Mr.
Coster re-cut it, at Amsterdam, is
the only one of these (unless, per-
haps, we should except the drop-
shaped brilliant of Mr. Dresden, of
London,) which has, for a long time
past, been in the market. The
t Star of the South ” weighs now 125
carats, and was held by Mr. Coster,
when he exhibited it in the London
Exhibition of 1862, at £60,000 ster-
ling, say about half a million of dol-
lars in greenbacks. Mr. Dresden’s
diamond, though smaller than the
“ Star of the South,” it weighs only
761 carat.) is of superior quality,
being more brilliant than the re-cut
Kohinoor. A ring might, we sup-
pose, be made of it, the total cost of
which would not be much more than
three or four hundred thousand dol-
lars. Fly-gobbler’s female friend
also possesses a set of tea-cups made
of hollowed pearls of the finest water,
and she wears eye-glasses like those
of Nero, made of flawless emeralds,
which enable her to see something
green even in the intelligent optics
of Fly-gobbler !—N. Y. World.
It will be twenty eight years be-
fore the fourth of July will again fall
upon Sunday.
sharp lecture for so doing from the
New York Tribune, the Missouri
Democrat, and papers of similar char-
acter. The elections came on and
the result in Virginia and Tennessee
was what might have expected. It
was really peace and submission to
the new order of thing’s ; but at the
same time the reassertion of rights,
without which no peace can be im-
agined in an American Common-
wealth. The ruling party, including
the President and the majority in
Congress, were aware of this, and they
had ordered the forthcoming elec-
tions, as if they had looked with pro-
phetic eyes into the future, and fore-
seen that in Virginia, for instance,
the Constitution would be adopted,
disfranchisement discarded and the
Walker ticket elected; whilst in
Tennessee the success of Gov. Sen-
One of Life’s Contrasts.—
Three years ago, while breakfasting
at a mining restaurant near the Ore-
gon line, a stranger with uncombed
hair, hung gray whiskers and tat-
tered coat, took his seat at the table.
By accident I was relating to the
landlord an incident which had oc-
cured some years previous in Con-
necticut valley. After I bad left the
table and was walking alone, the un-
shorn stranger accosted me. “ You
are the first man,” said he “ whom I
have heard mention my native town
for twenty-three years, and it made
my heart come up into my mouth
when you did so.” This circum-
stance, doubtless made him unusually
communicative. He said he was liv-
ing in the mountains, ten miles from
any habitation, subsisting by hunt-
ing, and visiting the settlements two
or three times a year. This state-
ment was afterward corroborated by
other evidence. What induced him
to lead this hermit life he did not see
fit to explain. In his early boyhood,
on the banks of the Connecticut, he
and the present Chief Justice of the
United States were living on adjacent
farms, and attended the same public
school. What a sharp contrast has
marked their -subsequent lives—the
one having filled the most responsi-
ble stations in the gift of the Ameri-
can people—the other a hermit, un-
knowing and unknown, amid the
wild and almost inaccessible fast-
nesses of Southern Oregon. Corres-
pondence Boston Journal.
9 9
CAPITOLHOTEL.
MURPHY & DAWSON, Propritors.
Fare Reduced to $2 50
per day. Currency.
FgVHIS Hotel is recognized as one of the
I finest Hotel buildings West of the
Mississippi river. The rooms are commo-
dious and pleasant, and are well furnished.
The Proprietors set out to makemoney,
and, in order to do so, they have deter-
mined to keep a No. 1 house, charge rea-
sonable prices, and by kind, hospitable
treatment, induce people to visit them
again.
Try it Once.
and see whethar this is true or merely de-
ception.
If good living and attention can induce
custom, it will be forth-coming.
Connected with the hotel is a large
Brick Livery Stable,
that is as well kept, if not a little better,
than any similar establishment in Texas.
The Proprietors have reduced the price
per day, and increased the fare, fry
them and see how professions and prac-
he usual price.
The above terms have been agreed upon,
and will be strictly adhered to.
R. W. LOUGHERY,
Proprietor of Texas Republican and Jef-
ferson Times.
W. G. BARRETT,
Proprietor Harrison Flag.
September 19,1867.
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