Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 January 1872 — Page 1

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RICHMOND, Wayne county, has an tack of "Esther"—superinduced, by excess of SEAGER.

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OVER one thousand dollars was con tributed on Christmas day by the Catholic churches of Indianapolis to the support the Vincennes Catholic Orphan Asylum

WE HAVE a hateful suspicion ZACH. CHANDLER'S antagonism to Associated Press is due to the fact that its whisky quotations are transmitted cipher, which is Greek to ZACH

WHEN three white Democratic Ku Klux brutally murder, in cold blood, an unarmed negro, the Terre Haute "Jour nal" calls it a "massacre of the whites by an alien and barbarous race!"

THE "Journal"

fear that "a full company o! United States soldiers" will be sent "to carry

A BOARD OF TRADE has been organized in Fori Wayne—Exchange. Every ambitious little city has an attack of that kind, but, with proper care, they are all pretty sure to get over it. We have no serious apprehensions that Fort Wayne will succumb.

WHEN a trio of Kentucky "chivalry' force their way into a church where colored Christians are trying to worship God, draw pistols and fire into the congregation, murdering unarmed and helpless people, "just for fun, you know," then the Terre Haute "Journal" raises a loud roar about "NEGRO INSURRECTIONS.

THE "Journal" has lost its temper again and talks in a naughty way that doesn't become a nice, little Bourbon org,in. If it doesn't behave itself more prettily, "VIGO,"or some

tion. THE friends of Mr. CATACAZY, in answer to thecharge that he had improperly attempted to influence the Treaty of Washington, have called attention to the fact that when Mr. CASS was abroad as American Minister, he wrote pamphlets against the treaty of European powers concerning the right of search, and otherwise interested himself openly to de­

feat it. WITH the opening of spring the Democracy want to gel to work in earnest, wiih a thorough determination to organize for victory! —Journal.

The party has done little else for the past vear but to organize and make certain its own de'eat. So far has this work been carried that many of the ablest Democratic organs and leaders now adrait that the job is finished.

UOCKTOHT pronounces itself "the rival of livansville." So!—Ind. Journal. Rock port is near a deposit of block coal which Doctor FOSTER thinks is even better for manufacturing purposes than any in Clay county. With such wealth within their gra»p, the people of Spencer county maybe excused for putting on

nirs. DOCTOR FOSTER'S letters to the New York "Tribune" are attracting much notice. The statements of so high an authority relative to the superior quality of Indiana block coal, placed before the country with the "Tribune's" editorial endorsement, can not fail to arrest the attention of capitalists, stimulate inquiry, and thus lead to investments in mamifac-

(iiies. A WASHINGTON SPECIAL states that Senator WILSON expects before his return from Massachusetts to prepare a speech comparing the defalcations under the administrations wilh those of its predecessors, with the object of showing that they are far less in proportion to the moneys disburhed than at any time ithin twenty years.

WHEN inoffensive colored citizens, at the South, have their dwellings burned over their heads when their school houses are destroyed, and their churches reduced to ashes when many of them are brutally murdered, others-maimed for life, and others subjected to devilish tortures —when all these acts are perpetrated in hundreds of places, by organized Democratic assassins, the Terre llaute "Journal" calls such work "NEFLRO INSURRECTIONS

A RF.roRT comes from Washington that the pressure now being made for clerical appointment under the government is beyond all precedent. The reason alleged is a fear on the part of applicants that they can not pass the examination under

the

new civil service regulations, and a desire to be appointed before the latter go into effect.

THE very first important act done by the Inst Democratic Legislature was to

place

itself upon the record against the proposed canal swindle —Journal. There is another mistake. The ffst and most important act ot "the last Dem ocratic Legislature" is entiiled "An act appropriating one hundred thousand dol lars to defray the expenses of the Forty •eventh General Assembly of the Stale of Indiana And further, so far as the Pe niocracy in that Legislature went in the canal business, it went in just the direction marked out by the Canal Ring. This we have shown heretofore, and will prove it again if necessary.

WITH 'bated breath, palpitating hearts and hair on end, just listen to this awful warning from the local Bouibon organ, and then,"To your tents, O, Israel!"

The object of the vagabond radicals is to litst make a negro empire of the cotton Slates, then enlarge the area of the Empire bv embracing all the States, and crown the work bv making Grant Em peror.

The danger of such an overturn of our present government is so ihiminent that the credit of the Uiiiied States is steadily improving in all the money markets oi the world! But, seriously, does the "Journal" imagine that there is any human being outside the lower wards ofa lunaticasylum who can befiightened by such stuff as that?

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WE SEE it stated in several newspapers th .i Great Britain exhibits an inclination to renounce the sovereignty of British Columbia, north of Washington Terri tory. The area of the province is two hun

is quaking in horrible dred and twenty thousand square miles

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election

in Vigo county and in the city of Terre Haute!" Isn't the Bourbon organ getting childish?

THERE is likely, it is eaid, to be considerable opposition in the Senate to the Labor wages bill of Mr. HOAB, although it is believed that it will pass that branch The anti Eight Hour lawmen will oppose it as a unit.

and the inhabitants number about fifteen thousand whites, two thirds of whom are located at or near Victoria, on Vancouver's Island, and New WestminsterThere are sixty thousand IndianB, with whom)a considerable trade in pelts is maintained. It is thought that the prov­

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other Democrat­

ic father, will have to take it across his knee, and apply "the discipline of prin­

ciple."

IT is stated that Philadelphia has been agreed upon by the National Executive Committee as the place to hold the next '.Republican Convention. Cincinniti is not considered a favorable point, on account of the deficiency in hotel accoramo dations. Chicago would have been the place selected but for the late conflagra­

will ultimately be incorporated with the United Slate-, giving us complete possession of the Northern Pacific coast.

THE cultivation of beets and the manufacture of sugar therefrom, experimentally tried at Amherst College last season, has proved a success for we find it stated in a reliable eastern paper that the best granulated sugar can be produced for seven cents per pound, and that, at that price, it will make a better return to the cultivator and manufacturer than most of he crops now grown in the Connecticut Valley. Experiments made in France and England have proved alike successful indeed so far SB France is concerned beet sugar has been a staple product during manv years, and has returned the capital invested in its manufacture in about three ars.

A WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT learns that Mr. HOAR has received numerous letters since the House passed his bill for a Labor Commission, which generally begin by expressing the highest admiration of his course in Congress, and praising him for his attitude on the labor question, but end with a statement of the writer's fitness for a place on the proposed commission, and the desire for Mr. HOAR'S influence in securing the appointment. But, unluckily for these applicants, Mr. HOAR is inclined to find some other eigna of capacity in any person whom he might indorse for a position than the ability to be fulsome in compliments to himself and besides, the Senate has yet to act upon the bill before it becomes a law. It is, however, believed ^hat the Senate will concur with the House in this matter of course, after amending the bill in some particulars, as it almost invariably does all proposals emanating from the House.

THE utterances of a leading journal upon any great question are matter of public interest. For this reason we reproduce the New York "limes' article on Woman Suffrage. The editor fears the influence of depraved women, but we can't see how that objection touches the real merits of the question. If women are entitled to the ballot on equal terms with men (and the advocates of woman suffrage claim just this, and back up the claim with arguments that have never been answered) any restriction that may be found necessary should be applied irrespective of sex. This is so plain a proposition that no argument is needed in its support. A bad woman's vote is not more likely to do harm, than the vote of a bad man. And when we consider tho impottaut fact that the proportion of moral women is greatly in excess of the ratio of moral men, it is readily seen that the enfranchisement of women would tend to purify the ballot.

SOME weeks ago, in reply to an aiticle on the Democratic party, the "Journal' advised the editor of the EXPRI-SS to emigrate from Vigo county if he didn like Democracy. Bearing this advice in mind, we quote from the "Journal of yes terday, which, speaking of the Republican

party, says: "A shabby, mangy party a party corrupt and festering with dishonesty, and overrun with thieves."

Following the recent example of our neighbor, we remind the editor of the "Journal" that he is living and prospering in a Republican city, a city in which four-fifths of the business is done by members of this "shabby, mangy party a party corrupt and festering with dishonesty and overrun with thieves." The money of these "shabby," "mangy, festering," "corrupt" and "dishonest'' Radi cals goes a long wsw towards supporting the entire press of the city. Still further following the same example we ask the editor of the' Journal" il he doesn't think he had better try emigration as a means of getting rid of such surroundings? We should grieve to part with him. but it would be cruel to detain him amid so

much

that is "corrupt and festering with dishonesty."

THE advocates of the one term principle as confined to the office of Pre-ident, have a stumper in the tact that the President's called 10 serve a second term have been specially worthy of public confidence, ind the second terras have been as conductive to the public welfare as the first, while such common place poliiicians as Van Buren, Pierce. Polk, Tyler. Buchanan and John-on have been quietly set aside. The public in this case seems to have been the public safeguard.—Ind. Commercial.

Still the one great fact remains that the temptation to use the enormous power of public patronage, possessed by the President, to insure a renomination and re election, is a temptation so great and so dangerous to the public weal that expediency demands its removal by the adoption of the one-term principle. On the other hand, there is net much reason to suppose that the country will ever have so good a President that it will be impossible to replace him with another equally as good. It" our Indianapolis cotemporary will study the administrations of those Presidents who were "quietly set aside," he will find that, in the case of a portion of them, the public interests suffered serious detriment from their efforts to hold power .mother term while others were prevented from such an abuse of patronage only by the utter hopelessness of the situation. Their unpopularity was so overwhelming that they could only hope to be tolerated to the end of their term, and then be permitted to sneak back to their former obscurity. We are by no means prepared to admit that all "the

Pi evident* called to serve a second term have betui specially worthy of public confidence," and were it not an unpleasant occupation to dwell upon the faults of the dead, we might readily show that bad

Mrs. TOODI.ES bought Tuo.Mr- matters have been made worse by the SON'S second-hand door plate at auction, re election of Presidents whose policy on

supposition that she might

be

blessed with a daughter, and that said daughter might marry a man named THOMPSON, and, in that contingency, the door plate would be a good thing to have in the house, Mrs. T. calculated on a possibility much less remote than does the

was inimical to the welfare of the coun-

Until the millennium is much nearer than it now appears to be, we cannot hope to see our ablest statesmen in the Presidential office. The principles and acts that make a man truly

frightened Bourhon, on lower Main street, great and fit him for that place, invarwhen he talks of U. S. GRAST'S becom- i»bly create enemies and mar his availing limpcrctr. abilitv as a candidate

"AN alien and barbarous race!" That what the "Journal" styles the colored population of these United States. The

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expression does not possess the merit of

Bat are the native-born colored people of this country "aliens?" Not a bit more so than the whites. The decision that would make them aliens, would include every human being in America except Indians.

Are they "barbarous?" Let us see. Tbe term is synonymous with savage. Well, during tbe late war, the slave masters of the South left their wives and daughters to the care and protection of these "barbarous" negroes while they went to the field to fight, and these "barbarous" negroes knew, all the while, that, if their masters were successful, their en slavement would be perpetual. Yet these "barbarians" supported and protected the families of the men who were fighting against their dearest interests.

And when the war was over, these "barbarian*" applied themselves to learning with an avidity never shown by anyother people. Their rapid progress is the intellectual wonder of our age. True, tbe Democratic party, north and south, in Indiana as well as in South Carolina, has dene all that it could do to keep them in ignorance. It has used the ballot and the incendiary's torch, oratory and the bullet, the press and the halter with equal and unfaltering zeal to prevent them from sippi/ig a single draught from the fountain of knowledge. But in vain. In spite of a Democratic opposition that has never hesitated at incendiarism nor paused at murder, an opposition involving all that is diabolically criminal, the blacks have gone steadily forward in their noble struggle for self-improvement. II they are "barbarous," there is a large proportion of the Democratic party that would be wonderfully improved by exchanging its peculiar style of "civilization" for their "barbarism." ....

THE Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee has sent the following circular to the members of that solemn body and other prominent Democrats:

INDIANAPOLIS, December 26,1871. DEAR SIR—There will be a meeting of the State Central Committee here on the 8th of January.

This is not intended as an exclusive committee meeting, but for general con sultation, where there can be a full and tree expression of opinion, and some course of action adopted that will tend to unite and harmonize us, thereby strength ening us for the important approaching campaign.

By a general meeting, especially of the press, this can be effected, and the maintenance of our present political position in Indiana.

I hope you will be present. Let me hear from you. Yours, truly, E. S. ALVORD, Chairman.

It will be seen that there.-are three ob jects set forth in the call, to-wit: 1st. Unity. 2nd. Harmony. 3id. Strength.

If the first can be eS^ted, the second will not be impossible. As to the third, the "strengthening" operation, we appre hend that Mr. RYAN'S extensive mer canlile establishment contains sundry fluids eminently adapted to this end, and his accustomed liberality will not,-be wanting on the 8th proximo.

Manning's Missionaries. The Rev. Henry Edward Manning, D., who succeeded the late Cardinal Wiseman as Archbishop of Westminster, has established a mission for the conversion of the coloied race in the United Slates, and there were great rejoicings at the Roman Catholic Missionary College, liendon, near London, on the occasion oi the firsl ot his convenors proceeding to Virginia. It may be useful to bear in mind that the Archbishop, a very .able and eloquent man, now in his sixty third year, was formerly considered one of the staunchest and most promising among the Protestant clergy of England, and was appointed Archdeacon of Chichester (considered one of the stepping stones to a bishopric) at the early age of thirty-one,: but joined the Church of Rome in 1851, and became Archbishop of Westminster in 1865. "A new broom sweeps clean," is an adage olten applied to the zeal of con verts. Dr. Manning illustrates it in his own person. In the reign of Elizabeth, three centuries back, il was said of some English settlers in Ireland, who warmly affiliated with the natives, that they were "Hiberniores quam Hibernis," that is, more Irish than the Irish themselves. It may be said of him that he is more

Papal han the Papacy, inasmuch as the head of the Church at Rome has not sent missionaries to the colored race in the Southern States, deeming it unnecessary, perhaps, becau-e these have been ecclesiastically divided into bishoprics, the in cumbenis ol which, it may have been believed, would do what was needful tor the propagation of their faith

Aichhishop Manning hasdeclared that his missionary movement is an act of reparation, of atonement. In his sermon at liendon, on the occa ion referred to, he said (we quote from a London paper) "thai those now going were proceeding to theSotiihern States of America to demote themselves to the instruction of the negroes. England owed much reparation to the negro tace, a« she had so long been prominent in the slave trade, of the horrors of the traffic of which he drew a striving picture. England had, by the payment of twenty millions sterling, abolished slavery in her colonies, and lately America had done the same by a great sacrifice of life in civil war. There were five millions of negroes in the United States, and amongst a portion of these the missionaries now going forth were to labor The Archbishep addressed the missionaries in solemn and earnest language, and they pronounced vows binding themselves to devote their lives to the special work of teaching the negroes." ,.

It is a pity that before establishing this new mission Dr. Manning had not ascertained whether there was any mceswty for it. Il he had made a thorough investigation, he would have found that the colored people in the United States, with few exceptions, have a lively sense of religion, and are as regular church goers as any of the white race The Manning missionaries will tindthe majority of them in communion wiTh ibe Methodist Episcopal Church, and by no means likely to follow the example of the Archbishop in joining the Catholic Church Many, verv many of them, are^ good theologians, well read in Holy Writ, fully able to give a reason for the faith which is in them, very competent to hold their own in a controversial discussion even with learned professors

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Rome,

the Sorbonne, or Hendon. It'Was a joke against Dr. Colenso, of heterodox repute, some years back, that he had gone, as Bishop of Niual. to convert ibe Zulee tribes in South Africa, but that theZ^lees had convened him! Perhaps the colored race in our Southern States, instead of being converted bv the Manning mission aries, may turn the tables, and finally convert them. A more limited and un promising field for missionary labor than the Southern States of America could not have been chosen by Archbishop Man ning on behalf of the Church to which he now belongs.—Phil. Press.

THE fourteenth amendment has been cut in Senator Howard's tombstone, Michisan.

Doing Our Own Work.

It is the vice of speculative philosophy to sdlow nothing for the friction of it*

practical

i• t* L.«*• nHara/1 frnTTl ft •«_ tkaf vAAiilt nnflf

novelty, having been uttered from hundred to a thousand times on every stump in this Congressional District.

application. lis logic runs out

to a definite result, and that result must be, in all its length and breadth, the Ynould of policy and practice. If obstinate facts resist it, so much the worse for the lacts. It will see no modification as a means to applicability, no limitation as a possible boundary of utility. 1 his vice is constantly illustrated in the arguments of free traders. To "buy where you can buy cheapest, and sell where you can sell dearest" is an axiom which they hold true to the fullest limit of national industry and intercourse. They can't see that certain national conditions may modify it so far that the advantage of cheap purchases may be counterbalanced by the evil of restricted industry. If the United States produce grains and meats more cheaply than England does, and England makes iron cheaper than we do, we should invariably produce grains and meats and swap them to England for iron. The inevitable consequence that England gets the profit that might be made of our own coal and ore is overlooked in the headlong rush of their logic. The inevitable evil of limited lines of industry is forgotten. The axiom that a nation prospers permanently in proportion to the diversity of its products is allowed no weight against the fallacious axiom of "cheap buying and dear selling." Yet if there is any one principle of political economy more obvious than another, it is that tbe nation whose industry is confined to few products in vast quantities, is at the mercy of every other nation that diversifies its labor and rests its prosperity on no one or two or three classes of products.^ An entirely agricultural people is never a rich people. In all history, from Tyre and Sidon to England, the people of many industries is the accumulative people. We must have manufactures as well as agriculture to fill the measure of our resources and destiny, and the policy that tends to develop and establish manufactures is a wise policy, let English free-traders and other cis-Atlantic echoes blow anxious as they may. Even JOHN STUART MILL, the great champion of free trade, doubtless with this country in his eye, said in his first treatise on Political Economy, that "there was one national condition in which the protection of manufactures was justifiable on economical principles, and that was when a nation possessed abundant national resources, and lacked only the skill to develop them which other nations possessed by mere prioirty of existence." Precisely the condition of the United States. We have immeasurable resources, and we only lack, in a degree, the skill to work them up, which judicious protection, and the opportunity to

work

Dantzic and Odessa and Alexandria fixes the price that is to come home in the shape of English iron or earthenware, bonded with as much profit as the manufacturers, unchecked by our home competition, might choose to put upon them. Fancy American iron work reduced as it was under the free trade nuisance of 1846, when the blast furnaces were all cold, and rolling millsas silent as a graveyard and English "pie" ran up from $19 a ton to $35 because we had no tariff to enable our resources to check it and then fancy our wheat and pork going to England to buy the 500,000 tons of railroad iron that we buy now, and the hundreds of tons of steel that we are buying every year.

What sort of an economical fix would we be in? Free traders allow nothing for the certainty that foreign manufacturers, re-t leased from the restriction of our compe tition, will run prices up to a point clear above the old home prices, and this oversight is fatal to many an ingenious argument. "But when foreign prices get so high," they say, "we can resume work profitably and bring them down." "Yes," we reply, "if we can be assured that while we are putting fresh capital into furnaces, and restoring old mills, and getting ready for work, the foreign manufacturer won't drop down upon us, and put our freshlykindled furnaces out." And that is just what we can never be sure of so long an the opportunity for competition rests with our competitors. Right here is where a judicious tariff steps in and makes an opportunity for competition. It secures ns against the chances of the foreign market and the combination of foreign manufacturers. If anybody has ever found any other security, we should like to know what il is. But the want of home com|etition is not the only evil of a low tariff, or no tariff, that leaves our coal fields unwoiked and our mountains of iron ore as idle as sand heaps. Tbe farmer feels it as plainly as the unemployed workingman. Suppose all the mills jjnd furnaces of ihe country were to be ruined in the next six months by the repeal of all tbe duties on iron, as they would be—for even "block coal" can not yet make ''pig" iron as cheaply as the half starved, wholly ignorant labor of Warwickshire and Wales can do it. Suppose we bought all our railroad iron, ail our sawa, all our bar and rod and sheet iron, and bad only our food products to pay for them with, eked out with heavy shipments of gold to "balance trade," for England uses but a small part of the surplus produce we have to sell,what would the unemployed workmen do7

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 3,

There

are probably one-hundred thousand Ocular, but firing at the thickest of the men, with their families, dependent upon crowd, and hooting and laughing^ the the iron product, which free trade would P«nic they created. Four inoffensive '-r. colored meif were wounded, two of them r- mortally, it ia believed. Unfortunately

abandon utterly and go to England for

Thia half miUjon 0f

•"ft

inhabitants—allow-

The following paragraph from the "Journal" of yesterday is selected as an average sample of the false and malicious anti negro howls which almost daily burden the columns of that paper:

The open insurrection and the terrible massacres of the whites by the negroes in Arkansas, seem to be looked upon by the Federal Government, to judge from its inactivity and silence, with favor. It can proclaim martial law in North Carolina and South Carolina, where there is no rebellion, but organized negro ruffianism is a horse of another color. We doubt, if

the

long enough to acquire skill, will give us. We must have skill, knowledge of processes, economical "short cuts" in work to compete with nations that have been centuries in obtaining them. Capital and reiources are not enough. All the money in the world, operating on the most illimitatble resources, will never make manufactures if the product is inferior or more costly than that of a rival nation. Such a product can never make a market, and capital will not remaic in a business that never pays. Judicious protection gives us the means and opportunity to acquire skill, and nothing else will where competition is strong and constant. The question of protection, therefore, is reduced to this form: "Is the acquisition of adequate skill to encounter any foreign competition, and the consequent certainty of diversified industry and independence of foreign supplies, in peace or war, worth the extra cost of the protected products?" We believe it is. We believe the present condition of the country proves it. We have protection—not for its own sake, though that is immaterial—and our manufactures are flourishing as they never did before. Their prosperity reacts upon agriculture, and farming is profitable as it has rarely been before. Millions of bushels of grain find a quick and paying market at home, which, but for manufactures, would have to go abroad, paying long freights to an uncertain market, where the competition of

negroes should plot and carry out a massacre like that of San Domingo in 1791, whether it would at all excite the sensibilities or lead to the interference of the men in power in Washington. Can there be anything more disgraceful than this discrimination infavor of an alien and barbarous race against our own white fellow-country men?

One who did not know the real cbaractet of the "Journal's" assaults on the colored race, might fairly infer, from such statements as the above, that they were ferocious monsters engaged in a "terrible massacre" of inoffensive white citizens. We propose to show, by testimony ot the highest character, just what "the terrible massacres of the whites, by. the negroes in Arkansas," were, how the sad affair originated how it progressed, and how it ended. We shall call as a witness the Cincinnati "Commercial," a violent antilarge

Arkansas,—which

!open

sacres of the whites by the negroes," —had their origin "in the outright murder of a negro lawyer named WYEN, from Washington City. He had a dispute with an old resident of Lake Village, in the grocery kept by a man named GARDNER, who passed a bowie knife to SENDERS. A brute named DCGGAN prevented WYEN from escaping, and SACNDERS gave him the coup de grace with he knife so obligingly lurnished by GARDNER."

Thus we see that the negro insurrection" and the terrible massacre of the whites'' commenced with the brutal murder of a negro I

But the "Commercial" continues the story: These men were arrested and lodged in jail, with a posse of forty negroes, summoned by the Sheriff, to keep guard over ihem. The negroes ol Chicoi coun ty were not satisfied. In former times lynch law was much in vogue in Arkan sas, as in most of the Southwestern Sta'tes. They had the precedent of white men, impatient of the law's delay, overpowering the Sheriff and bis posse, drag ging the offender from his cell, and hanging him without benefit of clergy. So they assembled, to the number of a hundred or more, well armed and disguised, overpowered the guards, demanded and obtained the prison keys, and taking Saunders, Gardner and Duggan out of prison, dragged them a lew pace*off, and literally riddled them with bullets. This was all in harmony with precedent, and shows the negro to be as imitative an animal as the Chinaman employed in a New England shoe factory, who. seeing his instructor fashion a shoe, and, in so doing, drive a peg out of place, repeated the mistake in his subsequent work.

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ing five to a voter—would cease at once there was no attempt made to arrest the

to be consumers of other men's grain and meat, and begin to produce their own this country, with its cheap and easily reached lands, farming, is the inevitable recourse of everybody who has lost his trade. A half million of mouths would cease to furnish a market to Indiana and Illinois and Wisconsin, to Kansas and Texas, and a half million hands would at once become competitors with our farmers. How much would this operation advance the price of grain and the profits of farming? Not much. A resort to free trade, a strict application of the logical consequences of the great- free trade axiom, would inevitably make the farmer sell cheap, and, English work being unchecked by home competition, buy dear. In fact, it would work a complete reversal of itself, turn itself upside down, and leave the country to reflect in a very serious mood on the wisdom of applying the axioms of speculative economists without regard to facts and the friction ofa practical working of the logical machine. "Negro Insurrections"

Yet there was apprehension that while lynch law was well enough for the white man, it was too good for the black, and there was a consequent general uprising and arming, and some show of military discipline and rule. The whites fled with fear and trembline. and the negroes remained master? of Lake Village and the country round about There were frightful reports for a few days of ravishing and other atrocities, which came by way of Memphis. These, however, have not been confirmed. At last accounts, the negroes were disbanding and returning to their homes. Possibly they have had assurances that no effort will be made^ to bring to punishment those who, following ihe code of Judge Lynch, avenged the murder of one of their number.

And that is the whole story, fairly and plainly told. If tbe "Journal" were susceptible to shame it would blush scarlet for the falsehood and malice which characterize its course towards the colored race. We have no apology to offer for mobs. We detest them always and everywhere. The "Commercial" expresses our views when it says that "no en couragement should be given to these violent methods of administering justice. It is, in the long run, beat to leave the Courta to deal with offenders, but those who have set the example of taking the law into their own hands should be the last to complain of the action of the blacks in Chicot county. As a rule, the negroes have been timid, patient and law-abiding, and brutal men have taken advantage of them on this account, and outraged them in almost eveiy conceivable manner. If they have, by their decisive action in Chicoi conntv, inspired the citizens with respect for their rights, the influence will be wholesome."

Before dismissing this subject, we will give the story of another and more recent "NEGRO INSURRECTION" which hap pened in a neighboring Stale. Condensing an editorial from the Cincinuati "Commercial" we find that a congregation of colored people assembled in Florence, Kentucky, on Christmas Eve was disturbed by threeyoung men (white, of course), who were, among other things, enjoying a buggy ride, and stopped to amuse themselves. Tbey entered tbe church just before the close of the relig ious services, and made themselves manifest by loud talking. When the congregation was dismissed the scoundrels each drew a pistol and opened fire upon the colored people, shooting at BO one is par-

assassins. We have the assertion of the "Commercial" that "there never was an act of barbarity, wontonness and bloodthirsty malice upon the earth to exceed this. An element exists in Kentucky that rejoices in such murderous villainy. The Governor had the impudence, in his late message, to attribute these disorders to the interference of the National Government in the domestic concerns of .Kentucky. The truth' is the General Government has attempted unhappily without much effect, to protect the class of people in Kentucky who are the sport of the 'high-toned gentlemen' who go about burdened with pistols, and make it a matter of drunken sport to blaze away at any flock of'niggers' convenient."

In the light of the facts we have cited, how contemptible the position of the "Journal" appears. But we have not done with that organ yet. It denies tbe existence and horrid crimes of the KuKlux Klan in South Carolina. In reply to this, we reproduce testimony that appeared in a recent issue of this paper. A little more than a month ago REVERDY JOHNSON presided at a meeting held iu Baltimore to protest against the declaration of martial law in South Carolina. In his speech, and that of the other gentlemen present, it was emphatically denied that there was such an organization as KuKlux in existence, that the horrible crimes imputed to it had ever occurred, and that there was any necessity for national interference. Ntrtv read the following extract taken from a verbatim report of bis address to the jury in the case of the United States vs. ROBERT HAYES MITCHELL, the charge against the prisoner being intimidation of voters and conspiracy to murder: "Neither my distinguished friend, Mr. STANBERY, nor myself, are here to defend or justify or palliate any outrages that may have been perpetrated in your State by the association of KuKlux. 1 have listened with horror to some of the testimony which has been brought before ou. The' outrages proved have been shocking to humanity they admit neither of justification nor excuse they violate every obligation which law and na ture impose upon men. These men appear to have been alike insensible to the obligations of humanity and religion, but the day will come, however, if it has not already arrived, when they may deeply lament it. Even if justice should not

administration paper, having a large overtake them, there is another tribunal Southern circulation, obtained and main- from which there is no escape. It is tained by systematic fairness towards the their own conscience, that tribunal which Southern people. This paper declares sits in the breast of every living man, and that the troubles in Chicot county, that still small voice that thrills through

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the "Journal" calls the heart, and as it speaks gives happiness or torture—the voice of conscience— the voice of God. And if it has not al ready spoken to them in tones which have aked them up to ihe enormity of their conduct, I trust in the mefcy of heaven that a voice will speak before they shall be called to the dread tribunal to account for iheir transactions in this world."

The evidence of REVERDY JOHNSOM must be admitted, but there isn't a Democratic paper in the Union that has honor enough to print it.

Mr. Greeley Once More!

From the St- Loui* Democrat.] Mr. Greeley has written a letter. It ia not an uncommon thing for Mr. Greeley lo write a letter nor is it a subject for special wonder when Mr. Greeley says in one letter something quite different Irom what he has said in previous letters. 4" fact, Mr. Greeley is a man of letters in moe senses than one. The last epistolary effort of Mr. Gieeley which has found its way into tbe public prints addressed to Mr. Patrick Donan, the expletive and explosive editor of the "Caucasian." a newspaper which has the thriving town of Lexington, Mo., for its place of publication. It is as follows:

NEW YORK TRIBUNE, New YOHK. Oct. 18,1871

P. Donan, Esq., Lexington, Mo: MY DEAR SIR—I have yours of the 14th inst. I have no doubi that the policy you suggest is that which your party ought to adopt They should have run Salmon P. Chase in 1868. Then, as tbe re suit of that contest, tbe return of genuine peace and thrift would have been promoted. That policy gave you more last year in Missouri than could have been achieved by a party triumph.

You only err as to the proper candidate. I am not the man you need. Your party is mostly free trade, and I am a ferocious protectionist. I have no doubt that I might be nominated and elected by your help but it would place us all in false positions. If I, who atn adverse ly interested, can see this, I am sure your eood sense will, on reflection, realize it. You must take some man like Gratz Brown, or Tiumbull, or General Cox (late Secretary Interior), and thus help tj pacify and reunite our conntry anew

Yours, HORACE GREELEY. The "policy" referred to in the second sentence is, of course, the'Possum policy. Mr. Greeley thinks the Democrats made a mistake in not adopting it four years ago, to the extent of running Chief Justice C: aseas their Presidential candidate It was well known at that time that Mr Greeley's personal preference was for Mr. Chase as a Republican candidate. He had, however, pledged himself in advance to the support of the nominee of the Chicago Convention, whoever he might be. From this letter it is manifest that his pledge was insincere that if Mr. Chase, having failed to secure the nomination at Chicago, had been honored with that ot the New York assemblage, Mr. Greeley would have supported ihe Demo' cratic candidate.

In this letter Mr. Greeley departs from what he has hitherto declared to be his unvarying rule of conduct. He declines a nomination. He has always told us thai he neither sought nor declined such things, but felt himself ever bound to obey the call of his countrymen. Now he says he won't take a nomination, even when he has reason to believe it would re-ult in bis election. And why? Simply because of a difference of opinion between himself and the Democrats on the tariff question. He draws the line altogether too fine on a mere matter of prin ciple. He says, practically, that he cannot help to inaugurate free trade policy by becoming the cand date of a free trade party yet if the free traders will put up some other candidate he will give'hem his support. It is a* if JohnB.Googh should say that bis life long devotion to the cause of temper ance would not allow bim to be the rum sellers' candidate, but, nevertheless, if the rumsellers would put up some of their own crowd, he (Gongh) would help them to elect him If there is any difference between the real case of Greeley and tbe supposed case of Gough, we fail to see it. Mr Greelev professes to be a protective tariff man, and be says tbe R*puolicaa party is a protective party yet be believes the success of a party which emblazons fre* trade as tbe chief motto oi its banner, would "help to pacify and reunite the country anew." If inconsistency were any new point to make against the sage of Chappaqua, be"mighr fairly be said to have furnished the material for it in this letter.

OVER two million photrgrapbs of Mgr. Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, shot by the Communists, have been sold in Paris.

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From tie Philadelphia Bulletin, Dee. 18.] The amusement afforded by ludicrous typographical errors will be iuexhausti ble while printers are fallible and editors write with abothinable indifference^ to legibility. On* of the most astonishing blunders of this kind was committed some years ago in an edit oral in the "Bulletin." The writer, who had can tioned his readers against "casting their pearls before swine," was amazed and grieved to perceive that the compositor bad warned tbe public- against "carting their pills before sunrise." This was corrected in the proof but the reporter who declared of a certain new store that it had '"sixty fancy windews" was even more indignant than the store-keeper when he saw in his paper the statement that the establishment contained "sixty faded widows." Ami then there was the poet, in Muncy, who sought to sooth the wounded feelings of a bereaved family by publishing in the local paper a poetical tribute to the deceased daughter Emily, in which he declared that "we will hallow her grave with our- tears." He was pursued next morning by Emily's exasperated brother because the printers insisted that "we will harrow her grave with our steers."

The poets suffer most deeply. Nothing could be worse, for instance, than the misery of the l»rd who asserted, in^ his copy, that he "kissed her under the silent stars," only to find that tbe compositor compelled him to "kick her tinder the cellar stairs." A certain Jenkins, also was tbe victim of an aggravated assault, because when, in his report ot a wedding, be declared that "the bride was accOm panied to the altar by eight bridesmaids,' the types made it that "the bride was ac com panied to the altar by tight bridesmaids." These things are peculiarly un pleasant when they occur in remarks upon death as in the case of the editor, who, while writing a sympathetic paragraph, observed that "Mr. Smith could hardly bear the loss of his wife," only to find that the printer had made it "Mr. Smith could hardly bear such a boss for a wile"

Even more deplorable is the injury done to the journalist who complimented a certain candidate with the observation that he was "a noble old burgher, proud ly loving his native State" Imagine the indignation of the candidate and tbe horror of the editor, when the paper the next day contained the assertion that the said burgher was "a nobby old burglar, prowling around in a naked state."

But the printers do not make all the mistakes'. We remember the laughter and comment provoked by the statement of a provincial reporter, who called'the attention of the constable to the fact that "on Sunday last some twenty or thirty men ealkcted in the hollow back of Thomas McOinnis, and engaged in fighting during the whole morning." Mr McGinnis' back must have been uncommonly large.

During the Franco Prussion war a great deal of fun was poked at the New Jersey editor who read in the cable dispatches that "Bazaine has moved twenty kilomotres out of Metz He thereupon sat down and wrote an editorial, in which he si id he was delighted to hear that all the kilometres had been removed, and that the innocent -people of Metz were no longer endangered by the presence ol those devilish engines of war—sleeping upon a volcano, as it were. And then he went on to describe some experiments made with kilometers in the Crmea, in which one of them exploded and blew a frigate out of the water.

Another edi or clipped from an exchange an obituary poem, which he sent to the composing room with some introductory remarks: "We publish below a very touching production from the pen of Miss It was written by her at the deathbed of her sainied mother, and it owerflows with those expressions of fil ial affection which are the natural outgrowth of a pure, untutored genius that has developed beneath the sheltering influences of a mother's love. The reader will observe how each line glows with aident affection and tenderest regret."

Somehow, in attaching this introduction to the poem, the editor turned up the wrong side of the clipping, and the consequence wa» that the editor's lines led the reader gently into an article upon "Hog Cholera in Tennessee." It was rumored that the relatives of Miss were seen prowling around the office the next day, armed with shot guns, but this has not been traced to any reliable authority.

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^OBITUARY.

REV. DR. BRECKINRIDGE.

Robert J. Breckinridge died yesterday at this home in Kentucky, in the seventyfirst year of his age, from what might be termed a general giving way of his system. For months the country has been prepared to hear of the death of this aged servant ot the church and state, yet ihe annoucemenl will be received every where with the profoundest grief. Dr. Breckinridge was born at Cabell's Dale, Kentucky, March 8, 1800. He studied successively in Princeton, Yale and Un ion colleges, graduating at the latter in 1819 He ihen fined himself for the bar, and practiced law in Kentucky for eight years from 1823, being in thai period several times a member of the State Legis lature. His tamily had been Presbyterian since the time of the Reformation, and upon profession of his ta.ith in 1829 he joined the church. He was ordained pastor of tbe First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore in 1832, in which position he remained thirteen years, and rose Jo eminence for his eloquence and power in the pulpit In 1843 he was elec«d President of Jefferson College, Pennsyl vania, where he remained two years, at the same time ministering to a church in the neighboring village, after which he removed to Kentucky, assumed the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of Lexington, and became Superinted ent of Public Irstruction for the Slate In 1853 he resigned the-e charges having been elecied by the General Assembly, Professor of exegetic, didactic an^polcto ic theology in the newly established seminary at Danville, Kentucky.

Dr. Bieckinridge has participated largely in the religious, moral and philanthropic movements and controversies of the last forty years. In the General Assembly he has always maintained an exalted position and wielded a command ing influence. During the controversies which led to the disruption of thechurch into the old and new schools he held steadily to the old landmarks, but re moved from the controversy all elements of personal rancor and bitterness He took a great interest in the Union movement, chiefly as a champion of the strictest letter of the old school law. But when'the basis was finally agreed upon, none were heartier over the re marriage than he His position on the celebrated "Deliverance," in a critical period of the war, is well known and remembered by the country. On the slavery question the

Doctor wa« always a moderate man, receiving at one time from the free blacks of Maryland a testimonial of gold plate from more than one thousand of them. He accepted the results of the war in good heart, maintaining throughout every trial tbe firmest devotion to the Union.

In 1864 Dr. Breckinridge preached in the House of Representatives before Pres ident Lincoln and the members of the Cabinet and Congress He was then of commanding appearance and venerable mien a little above the medium hight, erect stature, rugged features, and silvern air. He was the embodiment of an ideal gentleman and patriot of the old school. His death will make a vacancy in society, the State, and the Church, which will long be felt.—Ind.Journal. 28.

THE St.'Louia "Democrat states that Mrs. Mary A Livermore, editor of the "Woman's Journal" (of Boston), is coming We*t on an extended lecturing tour in Janury. She is now the most popular lyceum woman lecturer in New England and the Boston "Journal" speaks of her as "tbe most eloquent woman in Ameica." Her success as a lecturer in New England has been unexampled'

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Tbe Inangtiral of governor Booth From the LouiniUt Commercial The inaugural addrrm of Governor Booth, of I alitornia, a copy of which we havejusi received, ia in marked contrast to the great majority of similar State papers. Although the author is distinguish ed for bis elegant tasie and general erudition, this address is singularly free from anything like pedantry or parade of rhetoric, the very best evidence in fact that his reputation as a scholar is'not founded on cheap newspaper puffery or he partial judgment of his immediate friends. The address is briet. terse, clear, yet comprehensive, and throughout a model of good ta-ie.

Upon the management of State finances Governor Booth says: "The fiscal affaire of the State should be managed as a prudent business man manages his own, paying well for services rendered, and for no more every dollar ot taxation represents the labor of some one—labor connibuted for the common good to the commonwealth, but which is telt as an unjust exaction, a wrongful use of arbitrary power, when devoted to indi vidual or partial benefit."

Tbe truth contained in this sentence can Bot be too often repeated or too emphatically enfotced. It could not be better ex pressed. Governor Boot h, has imself been a "prudent business man," a merchant, and the result is a fortune while he is yet in the meridian of life, a fortune, not one dollar of which has been acquireid in questionable ways, or at the sacrifice of utte manhood also a reputa lion lor integrity and real worth not to be estimated in- dollars. He is tbe man competent to entorce the homely old maxims that underlie the success of individuals or States. When the "prudent business men" of tht country interest themselves more in the affairs of State, we will enter upon a new era of prosperity.

The suggestions of Governor Booth on the ight of State Legislatures to regulate railroad fares and freights, on compulsory education, and on Chinese immigration, are concrete wisdom. From her seat on the Pacific, young California, her citizens representing all races and climes, sends back to ber older sisters words of counsel on the question of compulsory education, which are at the same time words of warning and wisdom. Virginia, in her sad decreptitude, and Delaware, 'n her deep abasement, may learn from California the cause and the cure of their humiliation.

We heartily indorse the closing'senlence of a review of Governor Booth's message, from the Indinapolis"Journal," which reads as follows: "Upon the whole, we regard this first ^official uttrance of Governor Booth as a model State paper. The State that has the benefit of his wise counsel is to be congratulated upon Iter good fortune, and it would not surprise us if the great party of freedom and progressive principles hould some day call the new Governor of California to become one of its standard bearers in a national campaign."

There is no office in the gift of the nation which Governor Booth would not honor. In him the Pacific States present the man often asked and looked tor, but seldom found—a man of broad and liberal culture, of the highest character and unspotted reputation, national and not narrow, positive, though not partisan, a devoted friend and an able champion of the principles of Republicanism, and in no sense a demagogue We predict lor Governor Booth a glorious career and a high place among the eminent men, to whom henceforth must be entrusted the destiny of the Republic

Black Lyncli Law.

It shocks the Democratic mind that a number ot black citizens of Cbicot County, Ark, avenged the brutal murder of one of their neighbors by three white ruffians, by executing them accotding to the code of Judge Lynch. It shocks the Democratic mind, in the first place, that anybody dared to deny the right of a Southern Democrat to kill a black man whenever and however it suited his pleasure And when the black citizens look the ruffians by force from the jail and executed them, the Democratic mind thought the frame work of the social order was destroyed. Northern flunkies all at once forgot their scruples about martial law and military intet position, and demanded why the United Siates troopi were not sent to take possession of the district, alftiough they were wont to declare the Constitution overthrown if the troops were sent to a county where the white KuKlux had kepi up a reign of terror and murder for many months.

Did not these Chicot county black citizens practice the customs of the country. Did thev not foilow the example pet before them by the whites? Did they not thereby demonstrate their capacity for citizenship? If the Southern blacks were not the most docile race in the world, would they not years ago have established this practice of retaliation? Would it not have promoted the public peace if they had done so? It is one of the strange things in the South that the custom ot muder by the whiles has not driven the blacks to retaliation

Flunky Democratic journals relate with uplif ed hands that white persons became alarmed at this black execution, and took flight. Why, bless you! with the end of the poker reversed, that is the normal condition of Southern society. To put unoffending black families and Republicans to flight by murder and organized ruffianism is regarded as the perfected state of Sou'hern society.

No Northern Democratic journal ever expressed anv concern because Republicans and blacks are maltreated, murdered, or put to flight by warnings from armed bands Their only concern was because the law and sometimes the army tried te stop this Southern liberty. But becau-e some blacks of Arkansas executed three brutal murderers in accordance with the custom of the country, and because some who know what cause the blacks have for retaliation took flight, they cry for troops and martial law. It is probable that what the blacks of Chi cot county have done has executed justice and is conducive to the peace of society. It is likely that a pretty sure prospect of retaliation would be the best thing to put down tbe practice of murdering the blacks, which in the South and among the Northern Democracy, is regarded as the right of the Southern white man.— CYn. Gazette.

Escape From Wolves.

A Sunday School superintendent, out in Alaska, treated his entire charge to a dlegh ide. There were just forty one of the cherubs, and a six-horse sleigh. On the way home they were beset by a pack of ferocious wolves. Cool and collected, in the hour of fearful trial, the heroic superintendent saw at a glance that he must soon be overtaken. In an instant his quick mind grasped the only means of escape Seizing the child that always sung 'I want to be an Angel" two notes too high, he flung it at tbe rapacious horde. It Btaxed their onward rush for a moment. Next came the urchin who never brought any pennies to the heathen And so on swept the pursued and pursuers until the last infant was exhausted. But tbe brave fellow had economized his material nobly. And bwides a whole Sunday School slows off a pack of wolves perceptibly. We have always noticed this. In another moment the sleigh da»hed into the village, and the grand, noble, true hearted man knew he was saved.— Washington (frpitai. '4^

Why Don't tbey Go West? London must be a place full of unemployed talent. The other day a tradesman advertised for a clerk at eighteen shillings a week (less tban two hundred dollars a year). He received three hundred applications for tbe place, and among them were two Masters of Arts, over twenty graduates of colleges, and about the same number who bad a familiarity with several fareign languages-

C'Arr. Burton, the celebrated African traveler, is bringing the skeleton of a man eleven feet'high, to England.

OUR Western civilization is gradually overshadowing all nations. Japan has just reeo its first baseball match.

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Fr»m the Hew York Our readers areawarethat Gen. Butler has introduced into the House of Representatives a bill conferring upon women the right to vote. In other quarters also the demand for woman suffrage has been very much increasing of lat, and we ebserve that some of our contemporaries regard this as an excellent theme for ridi».. cnle. We can not look upon it in that.light. We have always held that wben-_ ever the time came that women generally claimed the privilege of tbe franchise,. it would be the duty *f the Legislature to concede it to them. The old prejudices. against women are fast disappearing, and, have not much left to stand upon in this country, where women, as a general rule, are quite as "bright" as men. Indeed, if most men gave a candid opinion on the .» subject, they would admit tnat the clever women of their acquaintance far out number the clever men As for their influence on political life, it it is always to be exer-. cised as it was in this city during tbe fight with Tammany, there would assuredly be no reason to dread it. Although the women could not vote, they worked very hard at home in the cause of hon- jigj estv and good government, and if they could have gone to the polls, the blow delivered at tbe Tammany thieves would have been even more overwhelming than it was

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inquiry and discussion, fully as much as anv other public topic now before the §f Mtry. We find in this week's "Revolution" a condensed account of what some f| of the leaders of the "woman suffrage movement" ask for, and we confess that we are unable to see anything unreasonable in the programme "The American Woman Suffrage Assoiation, at its recent Convention in Washington, resolved, 1. That we demand suffrage for women, as citizens of the United States, and that we claim this not as a privilege, but as a right, because those who obey laws should have a voice in their enactment, and those who pay taxes a voice in the expenditure 2. That woman suffrage will promote tbe public welfare, be%iise the meBtal and moral qualities in which women differ from men are imperatively needed in government, and because the equal co operation of men and women is alike essential to a church, and a Republican State 3. That women suffrage, which means equality in the home, means therefore greater constancy, and greater permanence in marriage 4. That we respectfully call upon Congress to enact a law extending suffrage to women in the District of Columbia and all Territories also to take such steps as are needed, by the constitutional amendment or otherwise, in order to abolish political distinction on acccount of sex everywhere throughout the Union."

There are, howevever, two or three points upon which information ought to be obtained before positive legislation can be safely entered upon. In the first place, we should likely to know, if possible, what proportion of women throughout the country ask for if' the suffrage? The leaders have been at work long enough to form some idea of the strength of their forces, and ought to find no great difficulty in giving us this information. In the next place, how do women propose to deal wiih the thousands of their own sex who infest great cities, and live by the most shocking of all trades, and who certainly would not form desirable additions to the voting population It is bad enough to have to deal in this city with the gangs of ignorant ruffians which Tammany has always had at its beck and call. Add to them the inhabitants of Greene street And similar localities, and we much fear we should be taking a long atep backward in tbe work of government. Depraved women would undoubtedly be brought up to tbe polls in great numbers by their cronies, who are generally found among the worst class of men and it may be that the respectable women would do as respectable men too often do—refrain from voting altogether. What restriction can you place upon the suffrage so as to guard against this danger? The educational qualification would not do—and a test for virtue would be hard to find, and harder still to apply. We mention this difficulty, because we should like to hear what the womansuffrage advocates have to say about it. Of course it is an awkward and a delicate subject to discuss, but it must be discussed before tbe proposed change in the franchise is made. It is Aaeofthe practical difficulties which have to be fairly faced. Instead of laughing at people who talk about woman suffrage, it will be much more to the purpose to listen attentively to their arguments, and to ascertain whether they have duly thougat over all the obstacles in the way of the reform—for it may turn out to be a reform —ther so persistently demand.

A NoTel Festival.

Last spring the Superintendent of a Sunday School in a town near Boston •gave each scholar twelve kernels of corn, telling them to plant them, and the proceeds at harvesting were to go toward enlarging their library he offered SI as a premium to the one who raised the most corn from the twelve kernels. The com having ripened, tbe time was set for the festival each member brought his or her bundle lo the Town Hall, where a large number of friends had gathered, notwithstanding the evening was very stormy. The premium was awarded to James A. Hewes, as the one raising the most corn, he having thirty full grown ears. One of tbe scholars brought a chicken which had scratched up her corn, which was sold instead of tbe corn she bad expected to raise poor Biddy was quite startled by being made a public example of. Refreshments were furnished the children, and a farmer's supper of baked beans, brown bread, pumpkin pies, and so forth, was not slighted by the company. The North Reading band furnished excellent music. The whole receipts above the expenses are $60, which will be expended in books for the school. One little item deserves notice. Mr. F.

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A Good Story.

Florence, the comedian, tells a capital story of a waiter at one of the London taverns who was sadly given to drink. A party of young men determined to reform him, and one day read an imaginary paragraph from the paper relating a terrible accident in which an inebreate, in blowing out a candle, was killed by the flame igniting with the fumes of his breath. Jerry pricked up his ear at this and requested that the paragraph might be read to him again, which was done, to the evident horror of the poor man, who immediately went in search of tbe cook to borrow a prayer-book. Returning with this he expressed a desire to take an solemn oath upon it, bemoaned the fact that be bad been a sorry tippler and was bringing himself to ruin, and then swore that never again, so long as be lived, would—he attempt to blow out a candle!

THE Adjutant General's report, showing the casualties to Illinois troops during the war, is an interesting paper. According to it 397 officers ana 5,453 enlisted men from that State were killed, 125 officers and 2,899 enlisted men died of wounds, 372 officers and 19,035 enlisted men died of disease, and 11 of tbe former class and 189 of the latter were lost at sea on board the steamer General Lyon. In addition to these there were 867 deaths of Illinois officers and men in Andersonville

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Prison, making tbe total of deaths ol Illinois soldiers during the war 28,138, or about one in every six soldiers who enlisted This is a sad vet noble record worthy of tbe State which made it, and of the proud recollection ofevery citizen of that Slate.

A Hog Killed.

•David R. Dickey, of Randolph, Tipton county, Tennessee, came to an end Monday. He made a bet that be could eat four bottles of brandy peaches and drink all the liquor, together with two tumblers of raw whisky. He drank the whisky and eat all the peaches, dropping dead while holding the last jpeach in his mouth.

THE New York "Werld" is going through tbe tariff alphabetically. It has now got to L. That ia the place (with a slight aspiration) where all free traders ought to go, and stay.—Chicago Journal.

A DAUGHTER of Mr. Gladstone is about to marry a German gentleman who was the tutor of Princess Louise.

THE population of Virginia is said to be declining, on account of tbe migration of people to more prosperous regions.