The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, July 16, 1869 Page: 1 of 4
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A. Weekly Journal Devoted to Christianity, Education, Homo Enterprise, and G-eneral Xntelligenco.
<i. A. KELVX Proprietor
V. J. FA'l'ILLO, Editor uttti Publisher.
JEFFERSON, TEXAS. JULY 16. 1880.
VOLUME K.
!*l'MBEH 'W.
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Telegraphic.
We copy the following specia's
from the N. O. Times of July 9;
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, July 8.—Gilbert C.
Walker arrived at 1 o'clocK this
morning from Norfolk. The day
was made a holliday for his recep-
tion, and when the cars arrived
about 5000 people had congregated
at the depot. A committee, cum-
posed about equally of the most
prominent white and colored citizens,
v.-U8 at the cars to receive him, bnt
the populace rushed in, and seizing
Walker, bore him on their shoulders
to'a coach ornamented with National
and State flags.
Th<- procession, which was nearly
a mile long, marched through the
principal streets. Many of the coach-
es, of which there were 100 in line,
were covered with National flags,
and on the band wagon was a trans-
parency, with a painting of a white
and colored man shaking hands.
The streets were blocked with peo-
ple following the procession, and at
least 20,000 people were out.
Oa reaching the house of Colonel
James R Branch, the conservative
candidate killed by the calamity on
Friday last, the procession passed in
silence and with uncovered heads
Upon reaching the hotel, Walker ap
peared between the National and
State flags, held by the reresenta-
tvves of the two races, and alter a
i'gw minutes of deafening cheers,
made a brief speech. After con-
gratulating the audience on their
complete victory, he went on to say
that in this moment of triumph they
must not? forget charity for the de-
feated ; they must remember that
the votes cast against the ticket
were given by deluded and ignorant
men—of a race that had not yet had
time to be educated sufficiently to
know the wrong of disfranchising
others. We must remember that we
have succeeded on a platform of
universal suffrage and eijual rights,
and we must see that those who op-
posed us, as well a-i those who sup-
ported U8, have all their tights, and
are protected fully by the law.
[Loud cheers.] They must be edu-
cated and taught the value of tin
great boom of franchise that has
been conferred upon them, and the
true value of being a citizen. We
mast not forget that the opportunity
of winning this victory was given
us through the liberality of President.
(Jraut, [loud and continued cheers,]
and we must see that the fruits are
for the benefit of all.
.After a jocular allusion to the
grief of the present State office hold-
era of the Wells persuasion, the
speaker concluded by a cheerful pic-
tare of the future prosperity of tiie
State.
Three cheers were given for Grant
at tho close.
Walker was followed by Isaac
Hunter, colored, and several white
speakers.
The election returns to-day contin-
ue to be moie and more favorable to
. Walker. The returns this morning
show that the Walker men will have
a majority of 60 on joint ballot in
the Legislature.
Washington, July 8.—Additional
returns recvived to-night show that
Walker's majority will proably be
60,000. In many of the white Coun-
ties west of the mountains, where
Waikergets 300 or 400, Wells only
get 3 or 4 votes.
Gen. Canby, in a conversion to-
day with a Republican member elect
cf the Legislature, said he was much
pleased at the good order of the elec-
tion, and thought, from the reports
of hi.-j officers, that it had been, as
far as heard from, as fair as could
be held in j ny state in the Union.
Gov. Walker left for New York to-
night and Gov. Wells leaves for the
same place to-morrow to visit a son
there.
The excitement of the election is
not yet subsided, and the city is
bright with fireworks to-night.
Washington, July 8.—It is said
that if Gen. Hancock receives the
Democrat nomination for Governer
of Pensylvania he will ivsign from
the army and accept it. It is under-
stood, however, that tne State has
been so manipulated as to secure the
nomination of Gen. Cass, which is
considered a mistake, as it is conce-
ded that Hancock would sweep the
State.
The nomination of Gen. Rosecrans,
by the Democrats for Governer of
Ohio, gives general satisfaction to
the members of the party here.
His election is considered certain.
Since the election all the negroes
in Virginia have declared themselves
Conservatives. It is difficult to find
one who does not assert that he vo-
ted the conservative ticket.
The Republican members of Con-
gress here express the opinion that
no good ocjection can be made to
the admission of Virginia, and that
no additional legislation can be
urged respecting it. CARLOS.
LETTERS AND FUNDS.
Miss Nannie Cross, Honey Grove,
cur
Mrs. Sallie Cox, Sherman, $1 cur.
Maj John Howell, Fort Arbukle,
Chickasaw Nation, 1. T., $1 cur.
Miss Josephine Lincy, Warren,
Fannin co., $1 cur.
Capt. Boswell, 75 eta., cur.
Prof. A. Adams, $1 50, Paris.
Stephen Tucker, Bright Star, Hop-
kins co., $2 cur.
J. W. Morris, Kaufman, Texas,
$2 cur.
Miss C. E. Tomlinson, Bright Star,
Hopkins co., $2.
Received of Mr. Geo. S. Fnqua,
$4 50 spe., for Thomas P. Payne, W.
Ray, San Augustine, Texas; and for
Wm. Caraway, Shelbyville, Shelby
co., Texas.
"THOU VISITEST TIIE EARTH."
BT MARIANNE KARNINGHAK.
Azure skies in the ftir-off height,
Forest-deeps with your Shady glooms,
Golden meadow-lands bathed in light,
Hedges Heavy with hawthorn blooms:
God Is your guest on these happy days,
And ye write on a myriad leaves his
praise.
Billows that thundered in midnight caves
W'th crests uplifted in wrathftil wise.
Ye all are changed into laughing waves
That creep to the shore with happy
sighs.
Love has touched you; your Lord has
been
And smoothed your waters to silver
sheen.
Mighty mountains that frowned all night,
• Upon valleys sleeping beneath your
feet,
j On you. hoary heads there are crowns
of light,
And the dales are offering odors sweet.
God has visited eartii to-day,
j And beauty and fragrance mark his way.
A little friend of ours, says the
editor of Merry's Museum, who had
been told that, though the flowers
died in the autumn, they would come
up as beautiful as ever in the spring,
lost her little baby sister, and some
time after was found sitting by the
little grave with a face full of hope
and expectation. On being nsked
why she was there, she said with an
air of innocent faith:
" 0, I'm waiting for baby to dome
up. We planted her last winter;
but she'll soon come up now, pret-
tier than ever, like my snow drops
in the garden."
It took a long time to teach her
the truth; and she was much grieved
because baby would not sprout
visibly, and blossom again in the
little green bed where she Lad slept
so lon^.
Bird? upsoaring on eager wing,
Cleaving y >ur way through the scent-
ed air,
So happy you are you needs must sing,
For the sua is \variu and the earth is
tair.
And the bright heavens woo ye as up ye
fly,
AndGod who cares for you draweth nigh.
There is a joy in the world to-day:
Happy children with laughing eyes,
And way-worn pilgrims turn to pray,
And take the rapture in glad surprise;
A new light rests upon heart and home,
And earth is happy, for God has come.
Neai er yet to the contrite soul
Comes the Father whose name is Love,
Blessing, and soothing, and making
whole,
Till earth seems lifted to heaven above,
And the full heart whispers its breath-
ing thus:
" Visit us not, but abide with us."
Thk Flux.—This very dangerous
direase is prevailing to a very alarm-
ing extent in this community, indeed
it may be regarded as an epidemic.
It has appeared in a mild form and
haB, so far, yielded very readily to
proper treatment. There has been,
perhaps, twenty cases, and three of
mortality, namely: Joel Dickinson,
Jeff. Taylor, freedmen, and a negro
child daring tho past week. The
physicians attribute its malignancy
to atmospheric causes. — Crockct Sen-
'.in el
TROUBLES OF CHILDREN.
This paragraph is for parents, and
worthy ot two readings:
Tlit disappointments of children
are as hard to bear as those of adults.
The hopes and plans of a child often
refer to what his elders esteem tri-
fles, it is true; still he values his lit-
tle possessions as highly, and clings
to his aims as tenaciously as older
persons do to theirs. But they re-
member that all human affairs are
uncertain, and lay their plans hoping
for success, but at the same time
more or less apprehensive of failure.
The child, on the contrary, sees noth-
ing but sunbeams; and when the
sudden darkness comes, he feels even
more disappointed than those older,
when their important projects come
to naught. The child has not learn-
ed to reason coolly upon matters
and things as men do, and is moved
by impulse rather than by deliberate
judgment. Children very often suffer
real injustice. Sometimes the wrong
comes from their playmates, and
sometimes from the parent or teach-
er, who does not take time to ascer-
tain facts, reasoning that the thing
under consideration is such a trifle
that it is not worth inquiry. Parents
and teachers should always remem-
ber that the trials which seem trifles
to them are often very serious to the
little ones in their charge, and iu
dealing with children, should help
them to l>car their burdens rather
than scold them for being irritated
or grieved. Ono of the most impor-
tant lessons that can be taught them
is to hear their trials and troubles in
a proper wsy.
MAKE FRIENDS OF YOUR PUPILS.
In old tinic.a teachers in schools
acted on the conviction that to be
successful in their calling, they must
wear a stern aspect and be liberally
supplied with formidable implements
of punisbmont. The background of
the teacher's desk bristled with rods
—standing menaces to those who
should chance to whisper to a fellow
pupil, or be guilty of smiling at an
oddity, or of munching an apple
while the school was in session. In
those days, each violation of pre
scribed rules, no matter what the ex-
tenuating circumstances might be,
brought tho rod into requisition,
eliciting from some piteous sobbings,
and from others-hardly suppressed
vows of vengeance when opportu-
nity should offer. This was'the daily
routine in school management, deem-
ed requisite for tho maintenance of
due subordination and the proper in-
culcation of knowledge, for tho at-
tainment of which schools were in-
stituted. This rigidness has been
much relaxed of late years, and we
think to the benefit of both teachers
and pupils. " Moral suasion'' is now
the predominant doctrine with refer-
ence to teaching, and we think, as a
general rule, its results justify the
innovation made on the old system.
The experience of several years in
teaching when the rod was the pre-
dominant influence in the school, and
several subsequent ones where it
was kept from sight and rarely re-
sorted to, has deepened the convic-
tion that a rigorous recompense for
every trivial violation of order tends
to retard the advancement of the pu-
pil in scholastic attainments, to viti-
ate the temper, and to render irk
some and revolting that which a
more judicious course of treatment
would constitute a pleasure We
have found great advantage from
drawing around us a circle of em-
bryo men and women, smoothing
their heads with the hand, kindly
pointing out any defects in deport-
ment, atid counselling to improve-
ment in the future. On such occa-
sions commendation would light up
the countenance with joy, while
implied censure even woujd bo fol-
lowed by a quivering of the facial
muscles, showing that contrition for
the past was to be followed by
amendment for the future. Experi-
ence induces us to say to teachers:
Make friends of your pupils as a
preliminary tu the business of im-
parting to them instruction and the
graces of deportment which it is the
object of scholastic restraint to im-
part.
Death in a Church.—The Darling-
ton (S. C.) Democrat, of tho 16th
ult., relates the following case of sud-
den death in a church at Timnions-
ville:
At Timmonsville, last Sunday, dur-
ing divine service in the Methodist
Church, just as the congregation was
singing the last lines of the last
hymn, Mrs. Powers, wife of Thomas
Power®, and grand-daughter of the
late Rev. Wm. Brockington, fell
from her seat with an infant, iu her
arms. Her lady friends went to her
relief at once, and found that life had
eeased with her. The infant lives—
but the mother is in the grave. The
Rev. Mr. Jones, the late Pastor, had
just closed an impressive sermon on
the frailty of human lifo—the cer-
tainty of death, and the uncertainty
of the time of its approach, as is
that of the thief at night. We learn
that there was no unusual excite-
ment. The facts are, as ws state
them, from an e\c-witness. We are
rejoiced to add that Mrs. Powers wan
an exemplary member of the chuich.
TOE FASHIONABLE LIKE,-"NOT
I at u.omu"
" I never," Hays a lady* ** tnvi that
message to tho door bnt once, and
for that once 1 shall not forgive mj-
aolf. It was more than three years
ago, and when I told my servant
that morning to say ' Not at horns,'
to whomsorver might call, except it
was somo intimate friend, I felt my
cheeks tingle, and the girl's look of
surprise mortified mo exceedingly
But she went about her duties and 1
about mine, sometimea pleased thai
I had adopted a convenient fashion
by which I could secure time to my
self, sometimes painfully smitten
with tho reproaches of conscience!
Thus the day wore away, and wlie:
Mr. Lee came home, he astonished
me with the news that a very inti
mate friend was dead.
"'It cannot be,' was the reply,
' for she exacted of me a solemn
promise that 1 would alone sit by her
dying pillow, as she had something
of great importance to reveal to me.
You must be misinformed; no ono
has been for me.' Hero auddenly a
horrible suspicion crossed my mind.
" 'She sent for you, yon were
not at home,' said Mr. Lee, innocent-
ly; then he continued, 'I am sorry
for Charles, her husband; ho thinks
her distress was much aggravated
by your absence, from tho fact that
she called yo/fr name piteously. He
would hnvt.Jput for you, but your
servant Bald sho did not know
where you hud gone. I am sorry.
Charles sent over here three times.'
" I never in all my lifo sxperienced
such loathing of myself, such utter
humiliation. My servant had gone
further than I iu adding falsehood to
falsehood, and I had placed it out of
my power to reprove her, by my
own equivocating. I felt humbled
to the very dust, >nd the noxt day I
resolved, over thc-cold clay of my
friend, that I would never again,
under any circumstances, say ' not
at home.'"
Not Dkao.—Some weeks ago wo
published a rumor (from the Quit-
man Clarion) that Rev. W. Pitt Pet-
ty, and active and useful minister of
the Methodist Church, had been mur-
dered near Sherman. It was sup-
posed that ho was killed for his mon-
ey and horse. His body was said
to have been found badly mutilated
with shot, and near it his saddle.
Now it turns out that he was not
murdered at all. The Sherman Cou-
rier of the 10th says that no attempt
has ever been heard of to "murder
Rev. W. Pitt Petty, lie is not only
ulive, but well, and satisfactorily
discharging his pastorial duties at
Sherman.—Exchange.
1$;
SAMBO FEELS HIS OATS.
The Hearth and Home gets the fol-
lowing perhaps from Rome apocryp-
hal source: A Southern friend, who
is curious in his observations as to
the effect of. freedom on the ordinary
field-hand, says that in no way does
Sambo "feel the oats" of liberty
more than in his devotions; and in
support of his assertion scui's the
following, which he states is i:i many
quarters a favorite hymn in public
religious services:
We*8 nearer to t he de Lord
Dan de white folks, and Hey knows it;
See de glory gate unbarred;
Walk up. darkeys past de guard :
Bet u dollar he don't close it.
Walk up, darkeys, froodc gat' ;
Hark! decolored angels holler,
Go 'way, white folks! you's too late;
We's de wiuuin' color; wait
Till de trumpet sounds to foller.
Hallalu'ah! t'ank* an' praise :
Long enough we've borne our crosses;
Now we's de superior race;
We's gwine to heaven afore the bosses I
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Patillo, F. J. The Home Advocate. (Jefferson, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, July 16, 1869, newspaper, July 16, 1869; Jefferson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235551/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.