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MORTON, JOHN F. & CO.——Publishers, Booksellers, Stationers, Book and Job Printers, 156 West Main street.

ROBINSON, A. L. & G.——Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Pipes, and Cigars. No. 48 Fourth street. 

NEWCOMB, BUCHANAN & CO——Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants, 54 Wall st. 

YOUNG, JNO. P.——Saw Mill and Lumber Yard; M'f'r all descriptions of Framing and Building Lumber, Laths, Slats, &c., 368 Fulton, above Campbell. 

DAILY COURIER.
BY W. N. HALDEMAN
OFFICE: 109 WEST JEFFERSON ST. 
Between Third and Fourth. 

THURSDAY MORNING. - - NOV. 21, 1867.

"Radicalism in the South."

Under the above caption Hilton Rowan Helper, of North Carolina, has written to the National Intelligence a letter filling over five columns of that paper. It will be remembered that he was the author of the book called "The Impending Crisis of the South," which gave so much satisfaction to the abolitionists of the North, and especially of Congress, some years ago. Perhaps that work had more to do with giving form and purpose to the anti-slavery fanaticism which culminated in the late disastrous war than any other one agency. Mr. Helper is now heartily sick of the fruits of his labors. He sees slavery abolished at the South and the old anti-slavery party in possession of the Government, and he pronounces the freedom worthless and demoralizing, and speaks of the Radicals in anything but complimentary terms. The letter to the Intelligencer is in fact a queer medley, in which the attempt is made to reconcile his old-fashioned abolition notions with the just indignation he feels at the ruin and degradation brought upon the country by Radicalism.

Emanating from such a source, statements like the following concerning the condition of things at the South will not be without their effect upon "the good people of the old free States," to whom Helper inscribes his address:

Under the wrongfully discriminating, negro favoring enactments of this unconstitutional and unprincipled Congress, not only are white emigrants from the North and from Europe now coming hither in less numbers than they came under the old condition of things, but many of the whites who are already here are every day becoming more and more anxious to abandon their homes and emigrate to distant and foreign lands, rather than remain the victims of that terrible thralldom of negro supremacy, which a most mean and malignant assemblage of heartless Radicals are now fastening upon them.

Almost every day for several months past——ever since I last returned to the State——have I seen whole families and sometimes two or three together, leaving North Carolina, some going in the direction of Illinois, some travelling towards Indiana, and others, of the more able and venturesome sort, bound for Brazil and elsewhere, far beyond the utmost limits of their own native soil. While thus, under the oppressive and tyrannical operations of Radical military despotisms, our own native white people are robbed of their natural freedom, and forced to flee to foreign lands, European emigrants and emigrants from the North are restrained almost entirely from coming to the South! And thus swiftly and infamously are the narrow-minded and revengeful Radicals converting all the States of the South into one vast Hayti, or Jamaica, or Mexico——driving from the country the white people who are, whether here or elsewhere, the only worthy and saving elements of population, and surrendering it completely to the pollution, devastation and ruin of stupid and beast-like hoards of black barbarians.

Of the extreme poverty and distress of many of the poor whites who are now emigrating from the State, and of a still larger number who, rather than submit to the further danger and disgrace of Radical-negro and negro Radical domination, are anxious to leave, but are destitute even of the scanty means necessary to take them away, I have scarcely the heart to speak. To enter adequately into details or particulars upon this subject in a mere newspaper article is quite out of the question, and so I will only remark here, in a general way, but with all the emphasis of earnestness and truth, that I do not believe any people in any part of America were ever subjected to such unjust and oppressive straits, such miserable and wretched shifts, as the poorer classes of white people of North Carolina and of the South generally are now having to struggle against; and all this mainly in consequence of the blundering and unconstitutional enactments, the unstatesmanlike and infamous legislation of that oligarchy of sectional demagogues known and the rump Congress.
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Because of its gross excesses, its shortcomings, and its corruptions, the first and most important thing necessary to be done, in order to remedy existing evils, is to utterly break down and destroy the whole Radical party—— a party which in its monstrous affiliation with negroes, is bringing utter abjectness and ruin upon at least ten States of the Union, and disgracing and crippling all the others.

We might make other extracts from the letter to the same purpose, but the above is sufficient to enable our readers to form a fair idea as to the present views upon practical issues of a man whose word was not a great while since considered almost oracular by the Republicans of the North. Most fully do we coincide with Helper in the opinion that "the first and most important thing necessary to be done, in order to remedy existing evils, is utterly break down and destroy the whole Radical party——a party which, in its monstrous affiliation with negroes, is bringing utter abjectness and ruin upon at least ten States of the Union, and disgracing and crippling all the others."

☞ Congress meets to-day. A Washington dispatch informs us that the Radical members will hold a caucus this evening for the purpose of deciding upon the business of the adjourned session, and especially in relation to the matter of impeachment. We have no sort of apprehension that Congress will attempt to remove President Johnson, for even Jacobin Congressmen must now see that the project is impossible. We wish we were as confident that the reconstruction iniquity would be abandoned; but there is no prospect of that, since the sole hope of Radicals for success in the approaching Presidential election is to "establish negro supremacy at the South, and then employ the electoral votes thus obtained to defeat the will of the white freedmen of the United States. Even this nefarious plan, however, will not save Radical party. 

☞ Our excellent Lexington correspondent furnishes us with a very interesting paper this morning to show that the steamboat is a Lexington invention.

OVER 50,000 MAJORITY.——The Democratic majority rises above 50,000, if the reported vote in New York and Kings is officially confirmed.

New York speaks with imperial emphasis when she thus declares on the side of Democracy and constitutional liberty.——[Albany, Argus, Nov. 18th. 

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and odious heresies of Radicaliism. In political concerns, however, as was remarked of one of the Bourbons, Col. Jacob, unfortunately for himself, seems utterly incapable either of learning anything or forgetting anything. He still insists upon the untenable charges against the Democratic party of Kentucky upon which he proposed building up a separate organization, not withstanding the fact that those charges have been repudiated time and again by an overwhelming majority of the people of Kentucky, and in the face also of the constant and cordial recognition of our party by the Democracy of all the Northern States. And it is with the ostensible purpose of closing up this breach of their own making between himself and his handful of adherents and the Democracy of Kentucky that he has written his letter to Governor Magoffin.

Col. Jacob's terms are such as could not be entertained even if he were the accredited agent of a real party. After stipulating, as a condition precedent for the proposed union, that the proscription of Union men shall cease, that the doctrine of a secession shall be declared against, and that a resolution of thanks to the soldiers and sailors for putting down the rebellion shall be adopted, he proposes that all the State and county committees shall be divided between the members of the two parties. Now, Democrats recognize the fact that the doctrine of secession has been practically settled by the war, and they are content to leave it where the war has left it. It can do no good to revive by party action any questions not of present moment calculated to produce discord among the opponents of Radicalism, nor will it be done. A great struggle is going on in which Democrats are contending for constitutional government and white supremacy, and they cannot afford to ostracize men on account of their antecedents, even if they were disposed, which they are not, to do so unwise and unjust a thing. With the Democrats of Kentucky, as with the Democracy of the nation, that man is received into full fellowship, no matter what has been his war antecedents, who is willing to assist in restoring and maintaining the supremacy of the Constitution, and in putting down the party of negro equality and despotism. There is not now, and there never has been, anything like a proscription of Union men. The Democratic party of Kentucky is, in great part, composed of original Union men, many of whom served through the war on the Federal side, and it is little likely that they would prescribe themselves. As for reorganizing the committees of our party in the State for the purpose of giving Colonel Jacob and his friends a place on them, as he so modestly proposes, the thing is wholly impracticable. The committees have already been appointed, and an organization effected, after the regular usages of the party; and, moreover, it is very questionable whether the remains of the Jacob-Harney society would suffice to furnish a moiety of the several committees. 

If Col. Jacob really wishes to obtain admission for himself and friends into the party, we undertake to assure him, on the part of the Kentucky Democracy, that his application will be favorably received on two or three slight conditions. In the first place, the name of Harney must be left out of the application altogether, because we do not desire the harmony of the party disturbed by his propensity for rows. Then we must stipulate that Harlan shall take a back seat, and make no political speeches for at least one year; and last, but not least, we must insist that Col. Jacob himself shall abstain from writing political letters for at least the same period. On these conditions we venture to assure Col. Jacob that his application for membership into the Democratic party will be favorably entertained. 

☞ The Hickman Courier has an editorial strongly opposing the granting of license to lotteries by the State. 

A Good Word for John B. Scudder. 
MAYSVILLE, KY., NOV. 16, 1867.

To the Editor of the Louisville Courier:

I have noticed recommendations of several gentlemen for Clerk of the next House of Representatives, and among them Mr. John B. Scudder, of the Frankfort Yeoman. Mr. Scudder is a native of Mason county, the banner Democratic county of the State. We have known him long and intimately, and as a life long Democrat we can say to those who do not know Mr. Scudder that the party could not select a more suitable and worthy man for clerk than him. Mr. Scudder is a fine Kentucky gentleman, a most genial companion, and wins the hearts of all who come within the circle of his acquaintance, a man of most excellent moral character, industrious habits, ability for positions to which he aspires, and as a matter of last importance in such times as these, when public trust is betrayed and power prostituted——and men, formerly considered good men, even in petty positions, become lunatic on public policy and do much to destroy all that is worth saving to the 'country'——I say as a matter of last importance, under such circumstances, Mr. Scudder is and has been a stanch and true Democrat——a lover of his country and the Constitution of the fathers. He belongs to and rejoices with the millions of the country——some of whom have spoken, and some of whom cannot speak, at the ballot box against the ruin of fanatical Radical misrule. We have heard them, Mr. Editor, with joyous hearts here in Kentucky, speak recently throughout the whole North, and we feel that the redemption of liberty is nigher, and that this is a land where she yet may dwell. Mr. Scudder is a self-made man, and is struggling upward by his own individual exertions. His most excellent parents have never been able to assist him in life, and all that he is he owes to himself alone. He recently took one of the fairest Democratic daughters of this portion of the State to dwell with him at Frankfort. It is a small favor Mr. Scudder asks of the party for which he has done so much. He needs the assistance, the party owes it to him, and ought to give it to him. 
MASON COUNTY.

Transylvania University.

To the Editor of the Louisville Courier:

In a recent number of the COURIER is an interesting article upon "Transylvania University," her rise, progress, power and fame, by "Attorney Fairfax," which deserves attention from the reading public. But there is another page of her history which Attorney Fairfax failed to present, viz: The history of her DECLINE, together with the cause thereof. Will you allow me the privilige of your columns to call upon Robert W. Scott, of Frankfort, an alumnus of that institution, and a close observer of her history, to furnish this unfinished page? It is full of warning and instruction to us all, especially in the conduct of our educational interests. 
Respectfully,  R. M. DUDLEY. 
LOUISVILLE, NOV. 20, 1867.

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The editor settles the question of the antiquity of the invention but speaks indefinitely. John B. West, the inventor's son, states decidedly that it was in the year 1793. The memory of Edward West should be cherished by all his countrymen. His name should be placed on the list of human benefactors along with those of Watts, Gutenberg, and Morse, for to his genius is due one of the grandest inventions recorded in the "geographical history of man," since Jason sailed in search of the golden fleece, or the Phoenicians crept timidly along the shores of the Mediterranean in their frail, flat-bottomed barges. The time when steam was first used as a motive power will form an era in the world's history, for the revolution it has worked has been a mighty one, and a hundred years from now the little stream called the "Town Fork of Elkhorn" will have become classic. The identical miniature engine that West made and used in 1708 is now in the possession of Maj. S. D. McCullough, of this place, from whose well-stored mind I have obtained the facts contained in this article, and to whom my sincere thanks are due. 
LEXINGTON, KY., NOV. 19, 1867.

State Aid to Rail and Macadamized Road Companies.

[From the Columbia Dispatch, 14th.]

Some of the leading newspapers of the State——among them the Lexington Observer and Reporter, and Louisville COURIER——are advocating the propriety of the assembling of a convention of railroad men at Frankfort on the second day of the approaching session of the Legislature, to induce that body to grant State aid to railroad companies. 

The most famous statesmen of our old Commonwealth——Clay, Crittenden, Wickliffe, Morehead, Helm, Marshall, Guthrie, and a host of her other noble sons——have all been advocates of granting State aid for railroads and construction of slack water navigation within her borders, and we may presume that this convention will attract the largest crowd of internal improvement men that has assembled at Frankfort for many years. 

We claim to be in favor of every project that offers a reasonable prospect of increasing the wealth of our State, or adding to the convenience and comfort of its people. We are decidedly and unequivocally in favor of internal improvements——improved roads, improved navigation, improved lands, crops, implements, improved streets, the improvement of people, and particularly in favor of improving the Radical plan of running the Government. Furthermore, we are in favor of this proposed convention of railroad men at Frankfort. We are not prepared, however, to say that we are in favor of granting State aid to the railroads, but we have so much confidence in the financial skill and ability of several of our statesmen and internal improvement men, who will be participants in its deliberations, that we very cheerfully indorse the call for the convention, feeling assured that it will result in no harm, and with the hope and belief that their action in the premises will be acceptable to the people of the State.

Unlike most of the States, Kentucky has given her aid very sparingly to railroads. Except a small amount of stock taken in the Louisville and Lexington road, we believe the State has given no aid to railroads. But from 1838 to 1846 she gave very material aid to the long lines of macadamized roads traversing the State, besides giving several millions of dollars toward providing slackwater navigation on the Kentucky, Green and Barren rivers. Now, since transportation by railroads has, in a great measure, superseded that by rivers, we may expect a somewhat different legislative policy to be pursued.

The proposed Frankfort convention will likely shape, to some extent, the policy that will hereafter be pursued by our legislators.

Whilst the people of southwestern Kentucky have been participants in the general prosperity of the State brought about, in part, by the construction of these improved roads, and increased facilities of transportation on our interior rivers, we have never received any direct aid toward the construction of any road west of the Tennessee river. This has not been because of any want of kindly feeling toward our portion of the State, but solely from the fact that we never asked for ourselves, or wanted others to have, the aid of the State in building roads. There can be no doubt that the policy heretofore pursued in this matter by our immediate representatives has worked badly for Southwestern Kentucky; for while the rich and populous counties asked and obtained the aid of the State in constructing hundreds of miles of macadamized roads and slack water navigation, that has resulted in increasing ten-fold the value of their lands, cheapened the transportation of their products to the markets, and multiplied their comforts and conveniences, we in the Southwest——poor, and in a new and sparsely settled portion of the State——have, through our representatives, persistently rejected any assistance from the State that would likely have enabled us to make some miles of good road.
Should it become apparent that the Legislature at the ensuing session will--with or without the aid of our immediate representatives--adopt the plan of aiding railroad companies in constructing some of the lines of road now under way in our State, we hope our representatives will not be so straightlaced and over righteous as to refuse to ask for assistance, and if necessary work and vote for it. If the funds of the State are to be appropriated in this way, let them be expended where they are most needed, and where the investment will be the safest.
  
THE LATE RAILROAD DISASTER

Detection and Arrest of the Guilty Parties.

[From the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal, Nov. 18th.)

The parties who placed the obstructions upon the track of the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway, one day last week, by which the train was thrown from the track near West Lebanon, and Mr. Israel Dodge, the engineer, lost his life, have been discovered and are now in custody. A reward of $1,000 had been offered for the apprehension of the guilty parties, and Dr. I.H. Wright took charge of the case and succeeded in working it to a successful termination. They are three boys named Scott C Lane, Horace Crow and Aaron Briggs; the former aged about seventeen and the two latter not more than fourteen. Lane has been for some time at work upon the farm of Anthony Swisher, about two miles from West Lebanon, the scene of the disaster.
Young Crow is a son of William Crow, of Crow's Grove, in Warren county, a well known and wealthy stock raiser. Briggs is the son of a wealthy widow lady, also living near West Lebanon. Lane was caught on Friday afternoon, but the other two fled on horseback to Paxton, Illinois, where they were followed and captured on Saturday evening, and are now in jail at Champaign City, Illinois. Lane was brought to this city and lodged in jail, where he now is. An Irish-man named Wm. Cutter, also in the employ of Mr. Briggs, was arrested and is in jail here, charged with complicity in the transaction.
Lane has made a full confession, and says they placed the obstruction on the track to see "the engine and train jump," a statement that does not look reasonable when it is known that they left the spot as soon as the ties were places in the cattle-guard to their satisfaction.

☞ Mr. Bancroft, of Athens, Georgia, has picked this season from one and three-fourth acres of ground four thousand two hundred pounds of cotton, and expects to get eight hundred pounds more. The reasons of this yield are one hundred pounds superphosphate, one hundred pounds Peruvian guano and one hundred pounds salt.

☞ The famous Missouri test oath case has at length been decided. It will be remembered that Francis P. Blair, Jr., was denied the right to vote because he refuse to take the test oath. He appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court, and that tribunal declared the State test oath unconstitutional, thus sustaining Blair.

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INSURANCE ITEMS -- It is reported that the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company, of St. Louis, Mo, has lost over $250,000 by yellow fever this summer at Galveston, New Orleans and Mississippi, the locality to which their business is chiefly confined.

☞ Board reduced to five dollars per week at Lucas' restaurant.

☞ Board reduce to five dollars per week at Lucas' restaurant.

☞ A Kentuckian by birth, a Southerner by nature, a photographer by choice, makes every picture to please or no charge. And it is just as easy to make a fine picture of a baby as to eat a plum pie. Look for the old red show case, No. 186 Main, below Fourth street. J. C. Elrod's Gallery.

☞ Step ladders, clothes-horses, skirt boards, Virginia biscuit brakes, fire guards, coal vases, tongs, hods, fire safe and stands, gem pane, all kinds of stoves and tinware, plate warmers, fire carriers, and full line of winter goods at Pyne & Creighton's, 82 Fourth street between Market and Main.

Interesting To [[?]].

The largest and most complete stock of Boys' Youths' and Childrens' clothing that was ever brought to this city, has just been received at Masonic Temple Clothing and Gent's [[?]] Store, corner of Fourth and Jefferson streets.

Brides and Bridegrooms Attention.

Don't think that you will be able to enjoy the full delights of a wedding tour without one of D. O'Hare's bridal trunks. No. 112 Main street, between Fourth and Fifth.

Look to Your Interests,

and buy where you can buy the cheapest, and that is at D. O'Hare's Great Trunk Manufactory, on Main street, No. 142. between Fourth and Fifth. where he is retailing this immense stock at wholesale New York prices.

AUCTION SALES
BYSHERMAN P. WHALEY & CO., For this Week.

☞ Thursday morning, Nov. 21st, 1867, at 10 o'clock, regular sale of furniture and household goods, at our Auction Rooms. Also, a lot of new Furniture.

☞ Thursday afternoon, November 21, 1867, at 3o'clock, peremptory sale of a house and lot and ice-house, located on Walnut street, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth street.

☞ Friday afternoon, November 22, 1867, at 3 o'clock, we will sell three of the finest building lots in the city, located on Breckinridge street, between First and Second streets.

☞ Saturday morning, November 23, 1867, at 10 o'clock, horses, mules, wagons, farming implements and household furniture at the farm of W. H. Merriwether, Esq., on the Shelbyville Branch Road, 1 1/3 miles from the city.

☞ Taylor's Ague Remedy contains neither quinine, arsenic, or other poisonous ingredient. The only safe, pleasant, and effectual cure for chills or intermittent fever. Guaranteed to effect a cure in every case. Try it. "For sale by all druggists. Edwin Morris & Co. proprietors.

Life Insurance Agents, Attention.

A first-class "life man" wanted to take charge of an agency in Kentucky, where the renewals will pay $500 per[[?]] on business already worked up. The most of them are due before the 1st of January. Desks, signa, &c., ready for work. This is a rare chance for a good agent wishing to settle permanently. None but those who have had experience and can give a bond need apply. Also, two good men, accustomed to canvassing, will find it to their interest to call on us for work. Apply at the office of the Southern Life Insurance Company, No. 59 West Main street.

☞ $20,000 worth of fine clothing at auction and private sale,, 109 west Market street, between Third and Fourth.

GREAT CLOTHING HOUSE-J. M. Armstrong now occupies his fine building, 132 Main Street, below Fourth.

THE SHERIFF TO DELINQUENT TAX-PAYERS.-Sheriff Wash Davis urges tax-payers to come forward and pay their dues if they would avoid expense and trouble. It would do well for such to notice his advertisement in another column.

CHILLS AND FEVER-Every box of Graves' ague pills is warranted to cure any case of ague, chills or intermittent fever. Sold by all druggists.

LOCAL NOTICES.

CHINCHILLA CLOAKINGS.
I will open to-day 20 pieces Chinchillas in brown, drab, and Bismarck, which I will sell at a great reduction of former prices. Paper patterns of my latest styles cloaks, furnished free of charge to our cloth customers.
MORRIS LEVI, Manufacturer of cloaks, 114 Market street, between Third and Fourth nov20 d6

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME IN WANDERING AROUND among second and third-class dealers, but if you want a trunk, or anything in line, go to head quarters, at D. O'Hare's on Main street, No. 142, between Fourth and Fifth, where you can select from a stock of 5,000. and only pay the lowest wholesale price for a single trunk.

For Rent

three rooms with board, at No. 2s2 Walnut street, between Seventh and Eighth. Also, day boarders, can be accommodated.  mov19-d6

CLOAKS! CLOAKS! CLOAKS!

Very risk imported cloaks will be exhibited to-day at MORRIS LEVI'S Cloak Manufactory.
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CARPETS AT NEW YORK WHOLESALE PRICES.

It being my intention to make important changes in my business, I offer my stock of Carpets, Oil Cloths, Shades, Curtains, &c., at New York wholesale prices.
Housekeepers will do well to give me a cell as they can certainly purchase goods in my line very much under the ordinary rates.
C. FRANK, No. 771-2 Fourth street, bet. Main and Market.  oc21dtf.

MARRIED.

EW NG-ATKISSON-Nov, 12 1867, at the residence of Dr. H. Atkisson, Shelby county, Ky.,by Rev. W. W. Foree. G. B. EWING. of Louisville, Ky., to Miss SUE E. ATKISSON.
POPE-MILLES-On the 19th Inst., by the Rev Mr. Whittle, Dr. Henry D.POPE to Miss Alice P., daughter of the late ISSAC P. MILLER, all of this county.

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