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THE GBAITOE ADVANCE. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1,1874. T. A WW, St. Paul, B. HERBERT, Bed Wing, dito TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ingle Subscribers $2 par year. Grange clubs of ten or more, $1.50. Subscriptions oayable invariably iu advance. All money should be aent by Drift or Post Office Order to THE GBIHUK ADVANCE. Bed log, Minn. Please send in your subscriptions at once. Advertising Rates. ON ADVERTISING PAGES. 1 column 1 year, $100, 1 month, $15. 73, 10. 54 48, 1. J4 35 5. M« column..'.*.'.'.' Si,' 3. IN ASYBBTUXNtt COLUMNS OP PAGES DZVO'EB TO BEADING MATTES. 1 column Ijear, $130, 1 month, $30. 84. 15. J4 60, 10. 42, 7. 1-ld column 25, 4. Special notices in editorial columns, 25 cents per line. Cash before insertion for all advertisements for a mouth or less, and invariably in advance unlets speeial arrangements are made. THB GBANGB ADVANCB is furnished iu cluts of tea for $1.50 per year, and will be famished for the next thirty days to single subscribers for three months, and to clubs of ten or mora for four months at 59 cents each on trial. We want five thousand new subscribers in the next thirty days, and can have them if every one of our friends will go to work in earnest. THB Inter-Ocean, of Chicago, comes out this week with forty pages of delinquent tax payers. How is that for evidence of prosperity LB SUEUR County Agricultural Society hold their Eighth Annual Fair September, 1874. The premium list extends over a wide field, from premium horses to chil dren's penmanship. SYRACUSE.—At a church festival, when all were joyous and happy, the floor sud denly gave way, resulting in the death of fourteen persons,and ljuring many others, ftome of whom are not expected to recover. SALARIES.—There are more than 200, 000 men subsisting upon the revenues paid in by the laboring classes As a class, these salaried men want more than the law allows them, hence the conspira cies among office-holders to steal. The back pay salary grabbers were as mean and dishonest as the worst of them. FARMER GOVERNOR.—When the Illinois fanners were in convention they sent com plimentary congratulations to the Farmer Governor of Wisconsin, thanking him for his firmness in dealing with railroad com panies of his State. It takes afarmer who &B3 suffered to know how to deal with the men who inflicted the suffering when he gets rji opportunity to bring the offenders to justice. TKB ESB.—When Congress adjourned every leading independent paper uttered an exclamation of rejoicing. The inference is plain that no good but only mischief was apprehended from the government. Sad state of affairs when the people are forced to look upon government as hostile to pub lic interests. It matters not whether the evil comes from incapacity or premedi tated deviltry, the calamitous results are the same. Better have anew government as speedily as possible. Next time a gov ernment of the people and for the people. REPUBLICAN papers in the State think to alarm the GRANGE ADVANCE by setting up the howl that it is a Democratic organ. The other party—what do you call it ?—wt mean the "Outs who want to be Ins the fossiliferous end of the old Democratic party the disappointed, disaffected, cha grined faction of Republicanism the san guine Anti-Monopolists, with their one idea the Owatonna Apostates in fact, the tag-zag and bobtail the Wandering Jew element, made up of incongruous frag ments roughly dovetailed together —well, we are even accused of being the mouth piece of this lusus nature. Hold on, gen tlemen, until the real men of the country the toiling millions who support the gov ernment, and pay for all its extravagance, get themselves in working order, then probably you will hear something drop. REFORM.—This is the worst abused word in the English language, and as Neckar said of "impossible," it ought to be ex pelled from the lexicon. Every public scoundrel uses this cloak to hide his crimes. Shephard preached reform to the congressional committee when under ex amination for pillaging the government. Phelps, Dodge & Co. used a portion of the millions fraudulently abstracted from the public revenue to build ohurches in which to pray. The robber can always cry "stop thief" as lustily as any one. In a few weeks when ^he political trumpeters ar* Tive from Washington, and get their wind instruments in order for blowing, the first loud blast will be BBFOBM, and this note will be caught up by all the penny tram pets throughout the State, and this too by the very men who have made reform a necessity—the old cry of "stop thief." These men are all pious, all reformers at the close of an official term. When the devil was sick, The devil a Honk would l»: When the devil was well, The devil a Monk was he. THE CLVB.—Farmers pay for the elub which breaks their heads or backs with hard labor. Every Congressman has his parasites about him in Washington under government pay. When votes are needed at home these fellows get leave of absense to come and visit "friends," which means to electioneer for their master. To use money the farmer has paid into the treas ury to keep the farmer out of the govern ment. The game has been long and ably played and will be repeated this fall. The speeches are already manufactured in Washington, where that business is done by contract, and will be fulminated upon the people when the proper moment ar rives. They will descant upon the supe rior talents of che present members, of their undying devotion to their constitu ents of their unimpeacliable integrity, and of the peculiarly delicate condition of the Republic at this moment, which can be safely managed only by experienced mem bers that they are suffering self-imela tion for the safety of the country. The same old story repeated again and again for the last 20 years, and perhaps will be listened to with the same credulity. STATE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION, which holds its first Annual Fair on the 2d, 3d and 4th of July, offers purses and premiums amounting to $5,000. This is a bold beginning, but the entries of fine horses show that the country is ready to respond fully to the generous offer. No doubt farmers will treat themselves to aheliday and have a good look at the stock, and become acquainted with the plan of making this establishment a well known and reputable place of sale as the circular announces this to be one of the objects of the exhibition. PROGRAMME. First day, July 2d. Purse of $400 3 minute class $200, $100, $60, $40. Parse of $600 2:45 class $300, $150, $90, $60 $150 will be added to the first horse, pro vided he makes 2:35 in the race. Second day, July 3d. Purse $400 4-year old class $200, |100, $60, $40. Purse of $600 2:38 class $300, $150, $90, $60 $200 will be added to the first horse, pro vided he makes 2:S0 in the race. Third day, July 4th. Purse of $600 2 50 class $300, $150, $90, $60. Purse of $500 Class free for all $350, $100, $50 $250 will be added to the first horse, provided he makes 2:25 in the race. Run ning, mile heats, 2 in 3 purse $300 $150, $75, $45, $30. REVOLUTION.—This word differing from reform has a meaning in it. There is no sham, fraud, or trickery about revolution. When oppression rouses the people up to this pitch, they mean business. Words can no longer be made a substitute for facts. The government has already expe rienced several of these revolutions. The defeat of Martin Van Buren ended the old Democratic regime. The people had grown alarmed at the centralization and corruption of power, which by a sudden revolution they speedily brought to an end. Thousands and tens of thousands who had come, by long usage, to imag ine they held a life-lease upon the public treasury, were suddenly turned adrift, and a new set of men installed in tleir places. Neither the danger nor corruption of that day bore any comparison with the pres ent. It is hiih time for farmers to de termine upon another revolution a thorough clean sweep that will not leave a trace of the old stench behind. We can not believe our people will remain forever satisfied to be hewers of wood and draw ers of water for a horde of blatherskiting politicians, but will fill Congress and the State iegislatureVith a newjclass of men direct from the farms, and thus restore the Republic to its old credit and respectabil ity. THE BEECHER-TILTON denouement ha3 long inflicted upon the religious community a shock in which grief can scarcely find expression. Mr. Beecher is a man of such superior intellectual powers so active and efficient in doing good so free from cant and hypocrisy so manly and up right in his public life so invaluable as a world-teacher, for his usefulness ex tends beyond his parish to every reading community, that it seems like a national calamity to see such a man fall into a polluted and ignominious grave. As mat ters now stand, Beecher will be forced to make some bold denials or sweeping ex planations, if his usefulness as a beloved pastor is not suddenly brought to a close. By comparing the career of the two men we can recollect many things appearing in the writings of Mr. Tilton which, long since, led us to look upon him as mercen ary and possessed of no high sense of honor, but ready to use his paper unscrup ulously for purposes of gain. The man who could lend himself to write the fasci nating life of the Woodhull-Clafflin free lovers stands so low on the moral and re ligious ladder that it will require more than his word to condemn such a man as Henry Ward Beecher. Still, he may be right in his accusations, and in the end we may be forced to acknowledge that an other bright star has fallen. We see,' said Swift, in one of his most caustic moods, what God thinks of riches by the people He gives them to. JttODEBH SPIRITUALISM. A Defence of Its Philosophy by Al lied B. Wallace, F. E. S. MISS NICHOL'S PLOWBR TEST. The most remarkable feature of this lady's mediumship is the production of flowers and fruits in closed rooms. The first time this occurred wag at my own house, at a very early stage of her develop ment. All present were my own friends. Miss Nichol had come early to tea. it being mid-winter, and she had been with us in a very warm gas-lighted room four hours be fore the flowers appeared. The essential fact is, that upon a bare table iu a small room closed and dark (the adjoining room and passage being well lighted), a quantity of flowers appeared which were not there when we put out the gas a few minutes be fore. They consisted of anemones, tulips, chrysanthemums, Chinese primroses, and several ferns. All were absolutely fresh, as if just gathered from a conservatory. They were covered with a fine, cold dew. Not a petal was crumpled or broken, not the most delicate point or pinnule of the ferns was out of place. 1 dried and pre served the whole, and have attached to them, the attestation of all present that they had no share, as far as they knew, in bringing the flowers into the room. I be lieved at the time, and still believe, that it was absolutely impossible fer Miss N. to have concealed them so long, to have kept them so perfect, and, above all. to produce them covered throughout with a most beautiful coating of dew, just like that which collects on the outside of a tumbler when filled with very cold water on a hot day. Similar phenomena have occurred hun dreds of times since, in many houses and under various conditions. Sometimes the flowers have been in vast quantities, heaped upon the table. Often flowers or fruits asked for are brought. A friend of mine asked for a sun-flower, and one six feet high fell upon the table, having a large mass of earth about its roots. One of the most striking tests was at Florence, with Mr. T. Adolphus Trollope, Mrs. Trol lope, Miss Blagden, and Col. Harvey. The room was searched by the gentlemen Mrs. Guppy was undressed and redressed by Mrs. Trollope, every article of her clothing being examined. Mr. and Mrs. Guppy were both firmly held while at the table. In about ten minutes all the party ex claimed that they smelt flowers, and, on lighting a candle, both Mrs. Guppy's and Mrs. Trollope's arms were found covered with jonquils, which filled the room with their odor. Mr. Guppy and Mr. Trollope both relate this in substantially the same toms. Dialectical Society's Report on Spiritualism," pp 277 and 372.) Why don't these spiritualistic mediums, who are more wonderful than the Egyptian soothsayers, and can create material sub stances by a movement of the will, bring on bread and meat—something serviceable? Why do they lose so much time and strength manufacturing sun-flowers six feet long with fresh dirt on the roots," when they could just as readily conjure up wheat and corn in unlimited quantities? Give us such a medium and we would cor ner the Milwaukee or Chicago market any day. But if they can't produce wheat, why don't they go to Paris or Naples, and control the flower market Strange that these obstinate spirits who have been loafing around for twenty-five years or more, will not consent to grant to poor toiling humanity anything servicea ble. We don't complain on the part of the healthy and lusty, but why can't they make contributions to the sick and dis tressed Owens and Wallace, with many others, have made them useful in moving furniture, in soothing them with seraphic music, proceeding from locked up pianos and other instruments, and loading their tables with choice flowers of exquisite perfume but there is no manna from heaven coming down now-a-days to feed the destitute. Perhaps when we get the right party in power things will change. It is doubtful if Grant and his political satelites invoke the right kind of spirits. There are the spirits of Bourbon,, the spirits of camphire, the spirits of turpen tine, and the spirits of just men made per fect." So far the Grantites have confined their devotions to the first named spirit, and are slow to invoke the blessings of the last. It is questionable whether these spirits, of which Wallace writes, are in the right place to hear much about Christian be nevolence. They know how to manage fire, and can toss it about with perfect im punity, as is proved by the following par agraph taken from the Defence: Lord Lindsay and Miss Douglas have had hot coals placed in their hands, and they describe them as feeling rather cold than hot though at the same time they burn any one else, and even scorch the face of the holder if approached too close ly. The same witnesses also testify that Mr. Home has also placed red-hot ooals inside his waistcoat without scorching his clothes, and has put his face into the mid dle of the fire, his hair falling into the flames, yet not being the least singed The same power of resisting fire can be tem porarily given to inanimate objects, Mr. H. Nesbit, of Glasgow, states ("Human Nature." February, 1870,) that, in* his own house, in Januarv, 1870, Mr. Home placed a- red-hot coal in the hands of a lady and gentleman, which they only felt warm and then placed the same piece on a folded newspaper, burning a hole through eight layers of paper. He then took a fresh and blazing coal and laid it on the same newspaper, carrying it about the room for three minutes, when the paper was found, this time, not to have been the least burnt. Lord Lindsay further declares —and as one of the tew noblemen who do real and scientific work his evidence must be of some value—that on eight occasion^ he has, had red-hot coals placed on his ovn hand by Home without injury. Mr. W. H. Harrison (Spiritualist, March 15,1870,) saw him take a large coal, which covered the palm of his hand, and stood six or seven incheB high. As he walked about the room it threw a ruddy glow on the walls, and when he came to the table with it, the heat was felt in the faces of all pres ent. The coal was thus held for five min utes. These phenomena have now hap pened scores of times in the presence of scores of witnesses. They are facts of the reality of which there can be no doubt and they are altogether inexplicable by the known laws of physiology and heat.'' There is one gratifying result growig out of all this evidence, and that is, that these artful spirits have managed to get ahead of Old Nick, so that they take to the fire with as much gusto as a Turk does to a sweat-bath. The mediums find red-hot anthracite coal rather cool" and enjoy able. The old fellow below can't get up anything hotter than a blast furnace. Platform of tlie Autl-Monopoly State Convention. Resolved, That we delegates and repre sentatives of the people of Iowa, favorable to the organization of an independent po litical party, laying aside party differences of opinion, and earnestly uniting for the common purpose to secure the needed re forms in the administration of public af fairs, cordially unite in submitting these declarations—that all political power is inherent in the people that no govern ment is worthy of preservation or should be upheld which does not derive its power from the consent of the governed, by equal and just laws that the unquestionable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happi ness should be secured to all men without distinction of race, color or nativity: that the maintenance of these principles is es sential to the prosperity of our republican institutions, and that to this end the fed eral constitution with all amendments, the rights of States and union of States must and shall be preserved. That the main tenance inviolate of the rights of States, especially of the right of each State to order and control its own domestic insti tutions according to its own judgment ex clusively, is indispensable to that balance of power on which the perfection and en durance of our political fabric depends, and that we denounce as criminal the ex cess of constitutional powers and the policy of President Grant's administration. It is fostering enormities perpetrated in certain States of the Union in arbitrary interfer ence with their local affairs, in sustaining therein the usurpation of aliens and irre sponsible adventurers who by certain men have been illegally clothed with official authority, and others deprived of their constitutional rights and oppressive laws enacted, burdensome taxation imposed and immense and fictitious indebtedness created, resulting in the degradation of these States and the general impoverish ment of their people. That the recent conduct of the present administration in its bold defiance of pub lic sentiment and disregard of the common good, in its prodigality and wasteful ex travagance, in innumerable frauds per petrated under its authority, in its dis graceful partiality for, and rewards of, un worthy favorites, in its reckless and un stable financial policy, and in its total in capacity to meet the vital questions of the day, and provide for the general welfare, stands without parallel in our national history, and the highest consideration of duty requires the American people in the exercise of their inherent sovereignty to correct these accumulating evils and bring the government back to its ancient land marks of patriotism and economy. Fourth—That the faith and credit of the nation must be maintained inviolate, that the public debt of whatever kind should be paid in strict accordance with the law un der which it was contracted that an over issue of paper money being at variance with the principles of sound financial poli cy, the circulating medium should be based upon its redemption in specie at the earli est practicable day, and its converti bility into specie equivalent at the will oi thd holder, and that, subject to these restrictions it is the duty of Congress to so provide by appropriate legislation, that the volume of our government currency shall at all times be adequate to the general business and commerce of the country, and be equally distributed among the sev eral States. Fifth—That tariffs and all other modes of taxation should be imnosed upon the basis of revenue alone, and be so adjusted as to yield the minimum amount required for the legitimate expenditure of the gov ernment, faithfully and economically ad ministered, and that taxation to an extent necessary to the accumulation of a surplus revenue in the treasury, subjects the peo ple to needless burdens and affords tempta tion to extravagance and official corrup tion. Sixth—That railroads and all other cor porations for pecuniary profit, should be rendered snbservient to the public good that we demand such constitutional and necessary legislation upon this subject, both State and National, as will effectually secure the industrial and producing inter ests of the country against all forms of cor porate monopoly and extortion, and that the existing railroad legislation of this State should be faithfully enforced, till experience may have demonstrated the propriety andjustice of its modification that while demanding that railroads be subject to legislative control, we shall dis countenance any action on this subject cal culated to retard the progress of railroad enterprise, or work injustice to those Corner of Mam aad Bush streets, invaluable auxiliaries to commerce And civilization. Eighth—That limitation of the Presiden cy to one term, and election of President and Vice President and United States Sen ators by direct popular vote, and thorough reform of oar civil service, to the end that capacity and fidelity be made the essential qualifications for election and appointment to office, ia a proposed reform which meets our hearty endorsement. Ninth—That we demand such modifica titn of the patent laws as shall destroy the monopoly now enjoyed-by manufac turer.fi of agricultural and other imple ments of industry. 'Tenth—Declaring the inefficiency of the prohibitory law of Iowa to stay the rava- I ges of intemperance and favoring its re placement by legislation whichwill further the cause of temperance. ST.1PAUL, Eleventh—That holding in grateful re membrance the soldiers and sailers who fought our battles, and by whose heroism the nation was preserved, we insist that Congress shall equalize the bounties and grant to each one of them, or to his widow and children, a homestead of a hundred and sixty acres of land from the unap propriated domain of the country. [From St. Paul Press, 26th.] The Patrons of Husbandry of Blue Earth county, at their county council, held on the 19th inst., invited Senator Windom to address the farmers of the county at Good Thunder Ford on the Fourth of July. Mr. Windom is recognized in Con gress and by the country as the great cham pion and exponent of the cheap transpor tation sentiment of the West. He has earned that position by his thorough and laborious study of that question for two years past, ending with his masterly ex position of it in his official report, and in the great speech which commanded the attention and now the plaudits of the en tire country. The farmers of Blue Earth and Faribault counties will show how thoroughly they appreciate his labors by turning out by the thousand to hear the chief champion of their most important in terest. Mr. Windom could make no bet ter use of his leisure during the summer, if he has any at his disposal, than by famil iarizing the people of this State with the merits of his comprehensive plan for the solution of the transportation problem. And it would be well worth the while of the Chamber of Commerce of this city and the Board of Trade of Minneapolis, Man kato and other points to invite him to ad dress them on these pre-eminently interest ing topics. A BAR of lead, a spoon hook and a five cent piece were found in the stom ach of a pickerel caught at Otsego, Wright county, the other day. D.W.Ingersoll&Co. 8T. PAUL, MINK. NEW STOCK OF DRY GOODS, Now Open. BLACK SILKS, ALPACAS. BRILLIANTINES, MOHAIRS, SHAWLS, CASSIMERB8, &c, &c, &c. We show the best stock of Domestic Good* In the State. PRINTS, SHEETINGS, GINGHAMS, &c, & &c, At Still Lower Prices. Special terms and discounts at wholesale, or to Granges. D. W. INGERSOLL & CO. CATHCART & CO- [ESTABLISHED IN 1852.] Dealers in Foreign and Domestic DRY GOODS THIRD STREET, Samples sent by mail, tended to. ST PAUL, Orders promptly at- E.P.LOWATER DEALER IX BOOKS AND STATIONERY, TOYS, FANCY GOODS, Pianos, Organs* And all *he smaller Musical Instruments CLOCKS, WATCHES AND SJLYER AND JEWELRY* SILY1R PLATED WARE. RED WING, MINN. BRANCH OFFICE Weed Sewing Machine Company, No 30 West Third Street, It INN.