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Octavlus V. Catto.
Wakttt\gtok, November 6. 1571. I
Tu the El't>r of the V<;u> Xatioual Era :
It ta with h feeling of melancholy pleasure |
t^at I render this small tribute to the memory J
of one who, Murine his life-time, w in to me both
a friend and briber. That strong attachment
which we had funned for each other in oar boy ,
hood was carried^ into after life, and although i
the earth has cl >sed ever him nnd Death has !
well nigh robbed us of all but the blessing of
revering his inunory in the present and the
happy h pe of meeting him again in the fu- :
ture?still it is a glori'us consolation to know
that he "died in theharners"?died in defense
of the cause and the people he (loved so well? |
fallen at a time when our lore for him was the
strongest?our appreciation of him the high- j
eat?our expectation of him the greatest?
fallen in the strength and vigor of hit manhood,
witho it scarcely a moment's warning
hurried iuto eternity, and that, too, by the i
blood stained hand of assassination?
44 Multis ille flebellis bonis occidit."
But the triumph of Death is not always corn
plete. It is true that the grave may cover up
all that was dear to us?and as we turn away
perchance the sileDt te.?r may creep up iuto our
eyes as retuin sconces of the pa?t recall themselves?wc
may erect the co.-tly pyramid and
scatter rosea upon the grave and think that this
is all?but no; when the good man surrenders
up bis spirit be leaves in his past acts a monument
to his memory more lasting than sculp
tured marble or the fragrance of flowers?a
monument which will command public appreciation
and prove a sweet ha!ra to surviving rel- 1
atives arid friends. And thus it is with my
daar departed friend, Octavius V. Catto?martyr,
scholar, geutleman, who. by his integrity,
affability, and gentleness, had drawn us to him i
self sod bound our affections to hioi with a
golden chain?who, by the power and bril
Jiaticy of his intellect, had dazzled our senses I
like the diamond which, concentrating and re i
fleeting the rays of light, reveals its beauty |
and its value, and as .? teas from the burning {
walls of Troy upon his shoulders bore Ancbi ,
ses, so he, bearing in his great heart the injured <
honor of an oppress id people, loved us all so i
well that he was n <t afraid to die in order that 1,
we might live. Sleep on, honored one, covered I
as thou art w ilh glury ! Although thou art gone i
from amongst us, yet the greatness of thy past <
life is a living testimony for the*. This is the i
imperishable in nuaient, the rich legacy thou
has left us! And, perhaps, in after years i
when even-handed Justice shall nuke up her <
jewels, she will record it?the nation shall ac
knowbdge it?the impartial historian will ,
write it ; hi d ti e g i er us stranger visiting I
t 1} shrine will pause in the miJstof bis prayer
t<? cm Dfees it?ail?all shall say of tbee, trulj i
thit ivan b?g left beoind bun a uioiiutnent? J
"Aere perenr.ius,
Regalique si'u pyramidum alttas; j ?
Quel n< n iiiib' r ediix. tun Aquilo impotens j
F<#*it diraere, nut im umeiabrhs
nnorutii ter.ee, et lug* temporum."
T Graua* Dossier. i 1
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Letter front 4 liuiunatl, Ohio. '
Cincinnati, November 4, 1871. i
To the Editor i f the Artw Nutional Era : ! ,
PROrKSSOR catto. i
Though there ha? been no public expression ,
here, yet a deftp feeling of sympathy is inani ,
festcd oyer the lo s of Philadelphia in the |
death of Proft>sor Cutto. (
We realize aud Appreciate the need of our i
people in their waut of energetic, well directed <
ability, such a? he give to the performance of <
duty. Y ung men of classical attainments are |
too rare for m to escape the sense of loss to i
onr race in hi9 death even at this distance.
chicago hki.irf. 1
TheMueonsof Illinois, under a lawfrom the <
National Compact, refuse to recoguiae breth 1
ren under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge '
of Ohio as au di. [ am glad to record the fact 1
that G M. Wm. T. B <jd chooses to evidence <
a forgetfulness of it by issuing an appeal in
behalf of the brethren who have been burned
out.
Corinthian L- Jgo, No. 1, of this city, Peter
H. Clark, W. M., was the tirst to respond to
this call for charity, even though the brethren
in Quiney refused to aiJ a distressed brother
of that Lodge within a very short time.
The National G and Lodge was to have met
in Ch.fc???. *ut l*ie prevented its i
taking place. Nearly all members of thefrater- j
nity in the ?vtst looked forward with interest to
this anticipat-ed assembling of the craft, hoping
some inearn wou'd there he presented by which
all diff? renews mi.'ht be harmoniz-d. Cnfor
tanately Chi ago is gone, and with it, it seems,
the convention of the National Grand Lodge.
TBI CLA.RK LITERARY CIRCLU,
of this city, propose to celebra's the evening
of Thank-g vini: D.iy by their first public entertainment.
Composed of the best young male
talent of the city, and under the efficient man
sgemcnt of ire President, Samuel W. Clark,
there can be no d ubt of its success.
"THE COLORED CITIZEN."
As predicted ina farmer comuiunicat ;..u, this
most irregu ar periodical b.ts a^ain expired.
Resurrected a- a campaign paper in the interest
of the Republican par,j, it breathed its last at
/ n ii .I ? ... j TP j
d r. m. iuc s'u i.u i i' t'uj in u?.iuuiT,
0?ufd and controlled by h white man.
(represented by r color .'d man a* figure bead,) j
this libel upon the journalistic ability and
success of the race hat had the most curious ,
and precarious of all xisienoes from the time
of its ong n by Johu P. Simpson to the day i
of its death above wiitteu. May it rest in
peace fur ever more.
thk ocobqia xivstrkls,
with a brilliant b <r?>p?-nn record to maintain,
opened h?-r?* on M .nday evt-uing. a< d have ad
the week bee? peiforming to crowded houses
The tiovelty of genuine nrgro performers
ceuied to attract, notwithstanding Forrest is a
one theatre and Theo. Th in is at another. A
friend ot aiine ouce said that negro tniostre.s j
taught the American people uiudc and manoers
i h<>ogh S nator R v-l? was re'uted ac
comtDodau n, these black kui^hts of ths bom
and tambourine were very readily entertained
ot a white hotel. 1 regret I cannot eay *o much
of their tnn*io. which, with two exceptions, it
?oryordit?ry.
aoiber of prominent gentlemen hare been
NEA?
VOL. II.?NO. 41.;
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discussing the project of a branch of this inisti- 1
tution located here. What will be the result
is rot foreshadowed. J. W. Alvord, agent, is
in the city. II? addressed the pu pils of Oaines'
High School on Wednesday, and related a ;
number of incidents of the day* when he taught ;
a colored school io Cincinnati 35 or 40 years ,
ago. He reviewed the changes which have ,
taken plaoe sirce, and congratulated both j ?
teachers and pupils on the work they are j
accomplishing.
thf. colored orphan asylum r
managers are raising funds to give a fair for
the benefit of the children in their charge. 1
should like to say something of this institution,
as it has a very singular and interesting his
tory. But I have made this letter too lengthy
already. 4t Depuoh," j
Letter
from Denver, Colorado.
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Denver, Colorado, Not. ft, 1871.
To the Editor of the New National Era :
The death of Catto has thrilled the heart of c
every lover of justice here with horror and in- a
dignation. The bullet of a Democratic bully and ^
murderer has aent another noble spirit tremb- I
ling to its Cod. Another shining star is blot- |
ted from our intellectual sky, and the bloody 1
work of Democratic mnrder still goes on. Who 1
will be the next victim of the murderous Do- ,
mocracy ? Will it be Douglass, Delaney, Langston,
or Turner? These are uil eminent and
illustrious men of their race, and are guilty, in ' I
the eyes of the Democratic party, of the same ^
high crimes and misdemeanors as the mur- 1 t
dered and lamented Catto. They Hre the lights h
and leaders of their less favored brethren, the n
freedmen of the S >uth, the unfortunate victims j 11
of Democratic tyranny and barberism. As the ''
a n a!? a_
raun tuiu uif wi inn i'eiiiorruiic puny wt re |:
allied to slavery, treason, and rebellion during o
the war, so are they now allied to the bloody
Ku Klux organization, whose aim and policy j J
is to prevent, by intimidation and murder, j
every colored tnan from voting the Kepubli t
can ticket; and every colored man who has the ^
ability, courage, and patriotism to lead and ?
direct his people in the path of political faith ' Q
and duty, becomes at once the marked object n
of their hate and vengeance, and is liable at ! o
any time to be the victim of the haltor, the !
blot)dy bowie knife, or the assassin's bullet.
The united condemnation of the Ku-Klux bill tl
by the Democratic press, and its bitter donurici-1 a
atiou of President Grant for enforcing the V
lame, and its half suppressed exultations at 1 -t
the fonl and cowardly murder of Catto, is con- J a
slusive evidence of its warm synjpathy and 1 a
wicked complicity with those midnight assas ^
lins who are reddening the land with the inno- j rj
;ent blood of their murdered victims. ! h
When Brutns murdered Caesar, be was ac- s<
tuated by envy, jealousy, or ambition ; but '
when Booth assassinated Lincoln, he executed ! ,
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the will and the vengeance of subdued and
vanquished traitors. When a Democratic fiend , a
wardered Catto, lie only executed the hellish !
designs of detested and defeated Democracy.
As the assassination of Lincoln was the death ?
!
>f the rebellion, let us hope that the murder ol 9i
i^ano may 00 too aeam or toe Liemocraoy. H1
We bare looked in vain to see this bratal a1
nurder denounced by some of the leading H]
[)ftnocratjo organs, but instead of this they are ,-i
nore disposed to make light of it, and to ridi- "i
ule the Republican press for making so inuco c<
'uss about a dead negro. In the face of these ,j
Facts, bow palpable is the malignity and hy- H
pocrisy of the Democratic party to the c-lored tl
people of this land ! Let the colored voters ^
verywnere, throughout the length and breadth w
jf these United States, make a note of this. Is h
mis the evidence they give you of their accept o!
?nc6 of the results of the war and the acts of
reconstruction? Is this the fruits of their new ^
ieparture? Beware of this ingenious snare tf
tnd do not allow yourselves to be caught in it, h
for if you do, just as sure as Judas betrayed *r
Obrist, just as surely will the Democrats betray ^
you. Therefore we beseeoh you not to allow n
yourselves to become a party to your own (t
degradation and disfranchisement. If your j(
lives and property are barely secure under the j
strong and protecting arm of a Republican
Administration, in the name of Heaven what ai
would be your condition under a Democratic u
me? Let us act and vote with the party to a
which we are indebted for our freedom and our n
rights ; so long as it is true to us lot us be true tl
to it. Let us endeavor to retain the R ;publican
party in power nntil its principles become ^
the established and settled policy of tho Gov- 0
ernment. Let us insist in the renomination of ti
Grant, because be is a true aud tried friend of tl
the colored race, and if noiniuated, would re- 1
ceive their united and hearty support. He is ^
uot only popular with the colored Republi- 0
cans, but he is deservedly so with the great
mass oi wnue nepuoncans, wortn ana s?utn, 11
who acknowledge und appreciate his efficiency jl
and fidelity. j,
While there is much in the death of the p
lamented Catto to sadden our hearts and to j l'
discourage us, there is also something to en- *
eourage us. Few white men ever received the ?
honor after death that he did, and never before, h
in our knowledge, did any colored inan receive ' ?
the same honor in this country. And the 'J
popular expressions of indignation and disap- j
piobation by the Republican press of the 1
country of this foul murder, and the large and f
enthusiastic meeting at Philadelphia, composed j
of the best citizens of that city, are evidences
to us of a growing sense of right and justice on a
the part of our white fellow-citizens toward P
us, which speak in thunder tones to our *
enemies that our sacred rights to life and 0
liberty cannot be violated with impunity ; that
the time has oome when men will be regarded ^
according to their merit, regardless of color. 1
Professor Catto was a noble and shining ex- *
ample of triad manly merit. Let the colored e
youth of America strive to emu'ate him, that r
their lives, like his, may be useful and glorious, *
and whi n they come to die, they will leave be- t
bind them honorable and imperishable names, i u
Wm. J. Uakdin. S
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Erratum. f
icasaoao, October 30, 1S71. j
To the Editor of the New National Era : v
In iny last you bad the name of T. W. Car- r
doio as Clerk of the Chancery Court, wbeo it (
-bouId have been 0. W. Davenport, Clerk of l
Cbaocerj Court, aod T. W. Cardoso, Clerk of p
Circuit Court. Bj making the above cor- u
rectioo too will oblige Cms. 1
a
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?Pr .bably bat few pereona are aware of tbe "
fact that Indians atill txiat in tba State of b
Haw York asedistinot tnb?. Tbe Oooodagaa j '
live on a reservation of twelve thousand acres e
ir. a beaatnol valley near Syracuse. Tbia tribe d
never bad more than live hundred members, i
and it is now nearly four hundred strong. P
The Indiana are considerably advanced in morals tl
iixi '-iviiiaatien, and support two flourishing u
barahsa. j a
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WASHINGTl
riie "Impciidiiii; Crisis" of the
Democracy.
Br 11 ok. Scuctles Coifax,
Vica Pcesiixxt or thc Usino Stats*
[Fr/?m tho Saw York Independent.]
Death or defeat! Surrender or overthrew!
rhese are the unwelcome t?l*ernative8 whioh
tow confront the once pr->ud and powerful Da
nocratic party of the nation. Last spring how
auntily their leading presses talked of K pnbican
di?int? gratiun ; bow hoastingly they
jrophesieu the overthrow of Republican d-initiation;
how oracularly they discussed, as they
iftve Jor so many years, ol Republican viola
ions cf the Constitution, which were nt last |
;<> he rebuked by the uprising of an indignant !
people! Anon the State elections began to be ;
leard iroui; but their rebuke fell on the D<_- j
nocracy instead, and the new departure be aine
the theme of their discussion. They !
night be willing, they thought, to escape the
>diutn of their past course by accenting the
neasures they hud fought against so zealously, i
f the people would again entrust them with
lower. But the elections went on ; and with
he clearest possible voice they declared, either
mold platforms cr new ones, on the principles
>f '64 or '68, even with the resolutions of '98 '
I'tached or detached?the people would not !
tave the Democracy to ruie over theai.
The " anthem of Republican victories thus (
esouiiding across a continent"?ir. a year, too,
vhen the victors themselves scarcely expected
11 oh a succession ot triumphs?has had a chill- I
tig result on the Democratic leaders, but re-j
ently so buoyant and elate. Their jubijant,
oostcrs refuse to crow. The pyramids of;
itates which were to insure the Democratic trimiphof'72havetumb!ed
into ruins. Their bitter
lersonal attacKS on the President continue, re 1
aidless of their evident laik of effect on all 1
in prejudiced minds. And the railing accusa
ions against the Republicans as Constitution
ireakers are kept up ; for during ten years De- I 1
nocracy has consisted in arguing that every
ueasure for the protection of the nationspr the 1
ndividual was tl.igraotly unconstitutional. But | '
he utter hopelessness of the party is evinced 1 '
>y the discussions now going on in its presses '
if the plan proposed by the St. Louis licpub i '
\can, oue of the ablest anil boldest of their | 1
railing papers, that the Democracy should 1
take no national nominations, but support In- *
ependent Republicans for President and Vice I I
'resident! And Senator Blair, their last can !
idate for the latter office, and one of the frank ;
at of their public men, declares to a Southern [
t liuf ^Pitboe ?Kur. r?,-v LnuB /> . t??
UUII.IJUV muij iiLiii, i mall uav.i\ uu ?uj
wn principle, (by agreeing formally to the 1
pw departure,) I would prefer to make a j 1
hoice of Republicans, and go for a man who 1
hould be nominated by the disaffected Repubcans,"
etc. 1
What a change is this that has come o'er ! 1
he spirit of their dreams! The once great j 1
nd potential organization that for so many ' 8
ears governed this country; that in the days ! 1
f its prime overthrew every party that resisted c
3 sway; that but recently was so full of hope 1
nd enthusiasm, and so sanguine of its return. '
fter its long exile, to national power, is now 1
iscussinrf whether it will dare to run Demo j 1
rats at all at the Presidential election of 1872 ! j 1
o nominate candidates of their own party, v
elievers in their own principles, is, as they 11
?? plainly, to go down to a foredoomed deleat ; 8
o abandon the field iu advance is political l]
eath, real or assumed. Such is the sad di 8
:mma afflicting the Democratic mind.
There is a reason for this decline and fall of '
once powerful party. It is written in its j r
iter history. Itself has been its worst enemy,
t has forced the people to believe that it has r
;ill, as during the rebellion, a Southern and u
Northern face. That, as it then on the one ' ^
de warred for the destruction of the nation, 1
nd on the other side warred on all the war 1
ipasurei of the Government, so now at the ?
nuth it inspires or palliates organised outruge '
nd assassination, and at the North denounces ^
rery etf -rt of the nation to pumsh *uoh horrid I ^
rid unexampled crimes as tyrannical and un- 1 I
institutional. v
Io the issues they have voluntarily ra ide on a
iis question they have been smitten with po j
ticul blindness?perhaps mslcd by the fact 1
jat s me able Republicans doubted the wis i J
orn of the details of the Ku K.ux bill. But ; ,J
ur opponents could not have made themselves j 8
eaker before the people at lar*;e than by the 1
itter denunciations which have been the staple
f their canvassmz 8oe?ohP3 this vear. Their 1
rkuments that the nation had no right to en- 11
>rce its Constitution and laws for the pro- M
iction of its 01 tilens, itemed exactly akiu to w
teir theories of ten years ago, that the nation 1
?d no right to coerce a State which was seek 0
iif to destroy the Union. Through all their 8
phistries the people recognized that under e
le amendment which devolved on Congress H
ie power, and hence also the duty, to enforce ^
he strong'st word in the dictionary) every 11
>t and title of the article by appropriate y
gif iat;on, Congress hud enacted that wherever e
isguiaed bands, organized and sworn to com- i 11
nt outrage aod murder, have made the ordin- ! 1
ry process of law impracticable, where local '
uthorities approve their horrid iniquities or u
re overawed by them, this reign of terrorism t;
nd fiendish violence is to be ended by the *
ational power, wielded not for oppression, but ; 1
> suppress disorder and protect the helpless,
'roteetion of the poorest and humblest againBt 1
utrages that would disgrace the convicts of '
lotany Bay or the brigands of Italy is the |J
bject of this much maligned law. And "it* ^
rue intent and meaning" (that the security of a
tie ci'izeu is the most vital object of consti- ; v
utions) is appreciated and endorsed and hou- 1
red by millions of American hearts?not 1
imited, I rejoice to say, to the ranks of any I 1
ne party in our land.
It is because the people at large recognize so *
ally and detest so utterly the wicked and 1
loody deeds of these daugerous bands at the '
outb, who rob, burn, beat, maim, shoot, and
ang ; it is because thoy reject so sternly all f
ablations for these atrocities, which dishonor 2
ie Republic; and it is because they demand 11
hat under our amended Constitution, the v
reakest citizen shall be defended against the 1
aost powerful organization and conspiracy at *
otne, as ho would be against the most arrogant , 1
r powerful empire abroad, and by the whole J u
lower of the nation, wherever the exercis# oi e
bat power becoiues necessary, that all the
lemouratic arguments against the Ku R'ux *
egislatiou of the lb-publicans have not only "
alien so pointless, but, recoiling, indeed, on '
heir authors, have proved to them so unmis- v
akably an element of weakucss. 1
Nor is this all that has tended to sap the 1
tresgth and blight the hopes of the Democratic ^
arty. There is "a dangerous class," North 8
s well as South, which the people feel it would *
ot be safe to install in power, i.i the persons 1
f its favorites or apologists.
Go into any of our large cities, E tst or West, t
l-k any of its citizens ot any party this ques '
ion : "In the quarter of this city where vice I
nd evil reign supreme ; where everything that ; *
a good and just is trampled under foot, and ?
verything that is vile and iniquitous is domi- .
iant; where you would uot dare to let vour ' 9
rife or daughter wak after nightfall uuat- I
ended ; to wb:cb party do its denizens give , t
heir confidence, their endorsement, and their | 1
pproviag votes?" And the answer you are ! c
ure to receive is to-day the weakness of the t
democratic party. With the dangerous power 1 k
if the dangerous classes, North aud South, as fi
dauny illustrated as it has been of late, the : [
bousands of votes our oppouents receive from
hem are more than offset by tens of thousands 1
rho ret use to cast their votes in the same di- ,
ection, and thus to be found fraterniziug with i c
hem at the polls. : f
But though the inevitable defeat which t
)emocratic leaders see awaiting them, if tbey
daoe Democratic* nominees before tne c< uutrj >
n a Democratic piaitorm, may be avoided by j
be hari-kari proposition now under discussion >
monget tbeui, Republicans uiubt not close 1
beir eysa to the fact that such a campaign I i
jav be more dangerous to tb<?ua ai an orgaa- I
tatioo than the open field on which they have I
o often met and defeated their opp acuta. By t
xactly auch a polioy was Republican asoeu i
auoyoverthrown in reonessee and Missouri, i
Lod, though it would be more difficulty to t
lay the same game on the broader arena of
be wuole nation, and its reunite in the future
tight be far more disastrous to the party |
rhicb sought political resurreetion through . j
)N, D. C., THURSDAY. NOV EM
apparent suicide, the fact that such a plan is ,
contemplated at all should impel action this ,
winter which would placethe if-pnbHranson impregnable
ground. First of all, unity. With
thorough concord and zealous energy New
York could he carried now as surely as Ohio or
Pennsylvania ; and the nation in 1872 as surely
as the Si ate elections of 1871. But, next and
unove ail, meeting the new ?n<l living issue* ot
to day like a brave and living party of faithful,
patriotic, and large hearted uien.
With a hearty endorsement of the reforms I
attempt* ?* to outline in my article of last month
on the "Pathway to Victory?with generous
reductions of taxation, arid especially treating
taxes on tea, coffee, incomes, Jbc., as war burdens.
to be dispensed with in peace and reserved
for the monetary exigencies of war? i
with thorough and searching retrenchment
and economy in every branch of the service?
proving Republicanism to be the party of gen- ,
uine practical reform, of philanthropic princi- j
pies, ot even-handed justice, and of healthy !
progress?the newest departure of the Demo j
craey, whatever shape it inay finally assume, |
can be made a confusion of tongues for it, resulting
only in a defeat which will shatter it as
a political organisation heroafter, and become,
at last, only a winding sheet of all its future
hopes.
Got. IfulltM'k.
A L*lt?r Explaining the Cause of Hie It ?.t| (f- '
notion. I* |
Executive Department, State of Georgia,
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23, 1871.
To my Political Friends and the Public: I
have this day received information, the truth of |
which caQnot be doubted, that the political j
conspirators who seek the overthrow, not only (
of the reconstructed Government of Georgia, '
but of the United States, have secured the
pledges of a sufficient number of the incoming ,
lower house of General Assembly to vote, j -
with >ut previous investigation, for articles of
impeachment against ine, immediately after ! .
their assembling and organixing on Wednes : ,
lay, November 1. And that having so adopted ,
luch articles in the House, a sufficient number
of Republican Senators will be unseated by the . (
majority to insure a two-thirds vote for convic- (
tion. Also, that the Judge of th'1 Supreme j ,
Uourt, who has continuously acted with these j ]
parties, has informed his friends that this pro j.]
gramme has been perfected, an<l that he has \
been selected to preside during the trial over ,
.he Senate, whtle the Senator representing j
*en. Toomb's district is to be elected President (
>f the Senate, and immediately aunouue himself j
is (Governor pending the trial before the Senate, ,
ind dnring the unexpired part of my term. \
Upon this state of facts I have decided to (
eaign the (-ffioe of Governor into the hands ot t
he Hon. B njauiin ('only, now President of c
he Senate, and thereby defeat this nefarious *j
icbeme of these desperate political conspira j .
ors. By this course I shall protect mypoliti- t
ial friends in the Senate fro in the expulsion i t
hat had been preordained in order to secure -]
ny iinpeachtneut, and at the same time save ^
he State from the disorders that would be sure
o follow in the wake of success on the part of \
he unpardoned and unrepentant rebel leaders, a
vho, though comparatively few in numbers,
novo the masses by tTie irresistible pressure of ?
ectional hate and social proscription. I have ?
uaintained my official posit on against the as- ']
aults of these people upon the cause of equal ^
ights and Republican Government iust as
ong as it possible fur me to be of service. And a
iow, for the purpose of again defeating this I j.
atest onslaught of these destroyers, I have ' c
e.iigned the office into the hands of that noble ! r
ind unswerving friend of right and justice, the , 3
ion. Benjamin C'only, who, under the 0 ?nsti ! r
utiou, by reason of being now President of' t
he Senate, becomes Governor during the un j t
xpired part of mv term, or until a successor ,
3 elected by the people. No charge has yet
teen brought against him, because ne has not H
eretofure been supposed to be an obstacle, i ?
f assaults nre now made upon him. the country j
rill understand the purposes for which they f
,re made. a
As for myself, being divestel of official posiion,
the charges of every churacter wliieh they t
re sure to make in the public priuts, can be j v
wrought before the courts, and i shall never ^
hrink froru any jud cial inquiry tliut is not ; |
he result of political bias and prejudice. f
May I be pardoned for a word of warning to
he men who fought for the Union? riix
jonths ago, in Georgia, the mass of the people j
fere acquiescing in the results of the war, and . i
filling to aceept those results as being finali
ies, but under the public teaching of certaio
Id leaders, who need net be named, the whole |
ituatiou has changed, and leading gentlemen,
ven in the Democratic party, who dared to
peak in favor of acquiescence and peace, have e
>een assailed and denounced, and the people so j
ritimidated that they dare not follow their ad 0
ice. These couspirators fear, above all t(
Ue, the re election of General Grant. Their ^
risidious efforts to mislead hiiu as to the g
rue situation iu the South having utterly ' H
ailed, th^y now fear that same persistent ! ^
rid irresistible maintenance of the right under 1 v
ivil administration which so brilliantly marked i j,
>en. Grant's military advance iu tbe over- t
hrow of the first rebellion. a
i am iuliy sa'istied that these men purpose s,
o control tue Government and reverse the po j
itical results of the past few years by peacelul t
ueans if tbev can. and bv foul means if thev _
? # ' ~t~~? / " ?? ? - ? tf t ^
lare. Failing in this, auother attempt at sep- a
ration will bo made. If evidence of this were j
ruuting, we need but point to the public and v
irivate utterances of those who were foremost t
u secession and rebellion, still maintuiii that j
hey were right, and denounce and ignore the
uudamental law?the Constitution of the L7ni- j
ed States. Will the couutry take heed in t
ime, and thus avert another war, with its feur ?
ul train of disasters? i e
If my action at this emergency had been c
lostponed until after the meeting and organi- ! e
atiou of the coming b dy of legislators, the j c
executive branch of tbe State government ;
vould havo been absorbed by the conspirators c
n the legislative branch, and there would have j j
>een no check upon tho wholesale re[?eal and \
lestructiou of all the great measures of reform c
tud progress that we have labored so hard to ^
establish. i
The free school system would be abolished ; ; c
he colored citigen denied evsn the right guar 1 a
iiiteed to him, and the w-hole work of internal t
uiproveme<its earned out by Northern capital I ,
vould be swept away. The growing spirit of <;
awlessness and proscription tor opinion's sake ' j
s daily rendering the property and lives of'
Juiun men and Republicans uiore and more un- e
ale, and I fear the worst consequences if the i j
xccutive office should be filled by one not only (
u sympathy with those who urge on and in- c
lame this leeling, but who is moved and ac {
uated by tbetn. With no one in the executive ^
ffi :e to call upon the General Government for c
irotection and support, its frieuda and support- r
irs would be handed over without mercy to the ]
kss iuiift ui taeir enemies. : t
. For these reasons I have determined on this i
tep, believing that much good that has already ?
)eeu accomplished can be preserved through ]
he wise and firm check upon revolutionary >
ueasures that will be given by Gjv. (Jonly in t
soutrol of the executive department, and that
hereby the good of the whole people of Geor? t
pa wdl be promoted, and I shall cheertully t
;ive to Go?. Couly all the information in my c
>ower that he uiaj desire. s
Kcrus B. Bollock. t
I
Rkvknue Statistics?The following is a j
:omparative statement showing the receipts
roin the several gentral sources of revenue, c
azable under laws now iu force, for the fiscal *
ears ended June 30, 1870 and 1871 : 1
Source* of
Rov.ua?. 1870. 1871. ?
Spirits $55.60o,u94 15 $46.282 208 10 c
L'obacco .... 31.360,707 88 33,587.007 18 c
fer. liquors.. 6,319,126 90 7.389,Ul 82 t
Junks 3,020.083 61 3,644.433 19 p
acorns 37.775 873 62 19.162 650 76 i
Jus 2.313,417 37 2,573,122 92 t
Ld. stamps.. 16,544 043 00 15,342,739 46 j c
>enalliss .. . 827,904 72 636,980 35 : v
Articles for- h
merly taxed ! t
now exempt. 31.478,616 66 15.40-J.992 47 !
kg. receipts..SIwJbS,167 97 $114,011,17$ 24
;al i
BER 9, 1871.
Ylae Reason* Tor I ho I,at?> Ropubcan
Triumph*!.
The following Is from the Washington German
Wttkly Columbia, published by W.
Koch, aud edited by leadir g German Republicans
:
During onr recent s ?j ?urn in Germany, we
found that two American events had made a
profound impression npon the nias?es of the
German people. Go where we would, in ciry
or country, as soon as it was kn >wn that we
were an American citizen, America was complimented
on account of the late German war
and peace demonstrations, (of which full ac^nnntri
WOTP I'irpiilafail \ rliP ivanoral crmnothy
)
of America with the German cause, and 'he
large amount of substantial aid which was
forwarded. The next theme was, how is it pos
sible that you are able to reduce the public
debt, for a uniform period of nearly three years. '
and to the amount of a thousand millions of 1
florins? Great was the astonishment when the
telegraph announced that another thirty five '
millions of florins, the entire annual income oi 1
a small kingdom, was saved during the month
of September.
" Surely," said a German statesman, "your s
Government must be not only in honest and in- f
corruptible hands, but in strictly economical <
likewise. A diminution of taxation and a con- 1
tinuauoe of taxation, which the people are *
willing themselves to levy, is incomparable 1
with this enormous monthly surplus, except !
the people are thoroughly convinced that the (
strictest economy prevails in all branches of 1
the public service." '
This intelligent and philosophical gentleman
was not only able to penetrate the disguise 11
which the American partisan press has en- j ?
deavored to throw around the subject, but also 1
to withstand the habitual misrepresentations
which the monarchial press promulgates, based e
upon Democratic slanders. It is, therefore, no
wonder that the patriotic and well-informed r
American people have said in the late elections, 1
dike in California, Iowa, Ohio, and Pennsylvania,
"well done thou good and faithful ser- 0
vaut,'' by decided majorities.
The result of these elections is not acei- 1
iental, nor is it the result of excitement, but
:he sober and irreversible judgment of the wise il
ind thoughtful American people. It is alike
augbable and pitiful to see the contortions of 8
Francis P. Blair, Dana, and other Democratic f1
eaders. Here is the stupendous fact of uni j(
rersal victories, when upon every principle of
niruical philosophy there ought to be universal ll
lefeat. The dictionary of vile epithets em ' ?loyed
against the President and his family, as 8'
veil as against Boutwell and the Administra
,ion, having been exhausted without effect, the e,
{uestion is asked how much blanker can the t|
ievil be painted, and how many new slanders
:an be invented since the old ones are stale ? 8'
1'he people seem to be all unconscious of the
'usurpation," "tyranny," and "corruption" of
he Natioual Administration, and tne wrath of
ho handful of disorganirers, ex rebols, and ^
ratnmany Hall Democrats is only equaled by (i|
heir impotence. . j t|
We can inform these people why the Rcpub- i
ican party has been triumphant in the past, 'J
md wny Grant will be re elected next year.
In the first place, the American people set a ~
ligh value upon their Government. Nowhere j
ire people more devoted to their institutions. .
They see that all other Governments are either r
lespotic or torn by factions and unstable, while ^
mder the Grant administration there is peace ^
it home, abroad, and among the Indians. A
lostile rebel population is kept in check and t
ompelled to obey the laws, as well as 300,000
mmad Indians, while our army is less than ,
>0,000 men. They feel that under Grant the ()
ights and liberties of all the people are secure ;
hat he is ready to co-operate in the inaugura- I j
ion of administrative reforms ; that the finances /
re administered with great freedom and sa ^
;acity, that the public credit and public honor t)
ire alike safe ; and that the Republican party, ^
.8 the representative of all the wise, honest,
iberal, and progressive elements of the coun- 'f|
ry, can be best used for its development and
dvancemenfc. ^
These, gentlemen, malcontents nre some of
he reasons why the Republican party has been
ictorious, and whvvour nitiful oersonal ahuse "
* * ft I " I
ias mot with the general contempt of the pub- ^
ic. The Republican party cannot be destroyed ^
roiu without; it will only fall when it ceases a)
0 be true to its mission within.
^ ( , f j
1 Democratic Journal Gives ip 1
the Party Ship?.4 Rotable Instance
of Latent Departure.
[From the Mleeouri KrpuMiotn, Dam.J
The grave difficulty that the Democracy have
ncnuntered in all the national contests since '
860 has been their inability to dictate the issue
f those contests. They enter every campaign 1 ,
o find the issues already dictated and defined ?
>y their opponent*. They are not able to ^
elect the field of action; they are compelled, *(
t great disadvantage, to fight on a field chosen ,
?y their opponents, and to take the position >
fhich their opponents assign to thorn. They
lave eudeavored to wage the campaigns on the ; |
ariff, taxation, amnesty, civil service reform, j
,nd the legitimate constitutional rights of the s
states ; but they have signally failed in every 1,1
nstance, because the dominant party refuses
o permit the country to forget the war. It 'J
irofesses and pretends to have given us peace,
md to havo established an equality before the ?'
aw whioh will make peace permanent, but '
mh all these professions it continues to nurse
he war spirit with industrious care and to use
t with effective and most mischievous vigor.
It revives this spirit on the eve of every iuimrtant
contest; it refuses to allow the people P
o think of tariffs, taxes, ship building, civil w
erviee reforms, States rights, or anything R
ilse; it appeals to their war spirit by pro- ,
laiming that the settlements of the war are ai
indangered, and rallying them to the defence
if the threatened adjustment. And this
itrategy of our opponents is invariably sue ^
lessful, for the simple reason that on the sub- ?
ect of Unionism the people of the North are L
nore sensitive than on any other, or on all j*
ithers. Any disturbance of, or an interference 1
vith, the established results of the war would ^
>e a stultification of themselves which they .
lanuot permit nor even think of without re- 11
eminent; and hence, while tbinkiug men know 1)1
hat an undoing of the constitutional amend- 11
nents is an impossibility, the imputation of a ^
lesign to undo them never fails to have a temjorary
effect upon the masses.
If the dominant party is to be overthrown at
ill, it must be done by depriving it of this
lower, and directing the popular attention to
itber subjects. A withdrawal of the Demo- vi
iracy from the field would, we think, effect e:
his. Such a withdrawal would remove the H
var from our politics, and it is perhaps the I.
inly thing that can so remove it. Tfie formal V
etirement of a great historic party from a g
Presidential camDaimi. with the declaration n
hat it leaves to the people the duty of reckon- ei
ng with the party in power, would be a moral t*
ipeotacle that would have the profundest effect, j G
[t would vindicate completely and forever the , V
patriotism of the Democracy, and it w >uld force , ti
be dominant party to staud naked before the p
people for trial. That party could not impute d
lisloyalty to its antagonist, for it would have J ni
10 antagonist, except one horn and bred in its 1 ci
>wn camp. It could not boast that it had w
laved the Union, for the people would answer it
hat they had saved the Union themselves. It
;ould not draw its war sword, for there wonld | S
>e no enemy whom a war sword could wound, tt
t would be bewildered by the novelty and le
lunger of its position ; it wonld feel for iteold w
veapons only to find them gone, and in the si
oom of its old antagonist it would find a new al
me, assailing it at the points where it is weak- fc
ist, forcing it to fight on new ground, and pi
:ouipeiling it to deal in answers instead of ac c<
lusacioos. The Administration mastership of si
be situation would be destroyed ; liberal Re tl
utblioana would ows to the Democracy their pi
elease from subjection to President Grant; re
be Democracy would owe to liberal Republi- in
ana the release of the South from ite semi <J<
a htary rule, and the country would owe to 01
iotb its delieranee from the danger of a disas tii
roue centralisation. bi
mm m Ol
?Hew to get a rearing trade?Bay a men- to
gerie. in
?RA.
f S2.50 n vp?r in ?ilvano?
I n (/opien fbr $10.
Tlie l.un of Liberty.
Kiuauclp'tUuu In Braill?A l>?tr?ct uf the
Slave Act-Dawn of Freedom lu
Ilia Kraplre.
Art. 1. The ehi'dren of a slave mother born
from this day in the empire shall be free. Mi
nor childreu will remain in charge of their
mothers till they are eight years old, when the I
slave owner w,il either receive an indemnity of
600 milreis (about $300) from the State, or may ,
retaiii their services till they are twenty-one
years of age. The indemnity will be paid in |
thirty-year* six per cent. State bonds.
Art. 2. The Government ia authorized to
hand over to such associations as it may create
the children of slaves born from this day, who
v ujf, v#i iai\u(i ?ni*t uimii, iliv
owners ot said slaves, and such associations
shall be entitled to the gratuitous services of
such children till they have completed twenty>ne
years ; and snch associations shall be un
tier certain supervision which the law specifies. |
Art. 3. Tpere shall be annually liberated in .
?ach province of the >mip:re as many slaves as ,
the emancipation fund allows. Tnia fund con- ,
ist* of the following items: 1. The slave tax. ;
1 The general -mies' iax on the transfer ol j
iluve property. 3. Out of the net proceeds ol i ,
tix lotteries to be annually drawn, and ten per
:ent. on all future lotteries that mav be created t
n the capital of the empire. 4. Out of fines t
vhicb may be collected under this emancipa- e
ioa decree. '?. Out of certain amounts which g
provinces or municipalities may be made to a
ontributo by decree. A. Out of subscriptions, ,
tifts, and legacies which may accrue to the .
und. I j
Art. 4. The slave shall be allowed to accu- j *
nulate a private fund from donations, savings, | a
t, . i i 1?- * ?? ?
i-c., niiu me provincial governor snail iook lo | n
lie safety of snob private savings.
Arts. 5 and 0 have} farther unimportant ref- i r
rence to the foregoing. j r
Art. 7. \o slave man and wife shall be sepa- ; e
ated, and n (children shall betakeufrom theui 4
ill they are twelve years old.
Art 8. No division of families through cases a
f inheritance shall take place. In any such ,j
ase the whole slave family shall bo sold, and r,
he proceeds divided. 0
Art. *J. First. All the slaves of the nation
re herewith freed. 2. All the crown's slaves. c
. All slaves under vague inheritance. 4. All jj
laves abandoned by their masters. 5. During | ^
ve years those emancipated will remain sub- ?|
sot to government inspection. A census is to I tj
e taken of all slaves of the empire. Then ! ^
>l!ow the tines imposed in cases of ueglect to !
ive proper returns to census officers by the e;
lave owners. j ^
The 11 i o Janeiro Times has the following a
litorial, explaining the spirit of the act and w
ic effect it will have in the speedy abolition of ?
lavery in the Empire of Brazil.
THK THIN END OK TIIK WKDUK. Ol
Slavery is at length checkmated; it has revived
a fatal blow, and already 1,650 slaves ol ei
tie nation are r? joicing in their treedom. Librty
for all conditions is now the standard of
le monarch, the princess-regent and the peole,
and the prince-consort, who, two years ago,
-cured emancipation of the slaves of Para ay
uay, has now seen his royal spouse sign the ! fo
lagna charta of Brazilian liberty, which de T
lares that hencefurth not a slave shall bo born w
pon the Brazilian soil. Happy acts like these
ive now lustre to the dynasty which lias linked J(
self to the honor and moral progress of the ot
ountry, and with it to posterity. a>
A measure of such reach is an irrefragable lu
istimony to the lsberaiitv of the Brazilian na- so
on, notwithstanding Utopian philanthropy di
hroad may still declaim and deriiutid impossi i in
ilitics. The ta*k of extirpating within the di
mits of a generation an institution which hi
Tected directly one fifth of the whole popu- di
mou of the country, and has pushed its roots 1 at
ito every crov ee of its groundwork, is one
Jut would strain the powers of any nation. t?i
owever vigorous and w'irtliy, stili more those
f one just emerging from tlie exhaustion of r
io Paraguayan war. Had the powers of the ol
reasury permitted the measure would have
een still ni ire magnanimous ; as it is. it does ^
io greatest honor to the generosity of the
oble Brazilian nation. ^
Brazil, by a strenuous effort of prudent anoipiition,
lias already peaeeably begun a work
Inch cost other less generous nations ruins
tid torrents of blood. And the spirit of gene- i gt
)us progress is still impelling her onward in
le road she has ho bravely, so nobly eutered. g(
he slave-owners no longer are reposing heedssly
in that self-delus on which had dulled
leir faculties and blunted their powers. To
lem also, at last, the truth has beeoiue plain I g
lat slavery is doomed ; and, to their honor be
said, the numerous inquiries tor free labor, g(
ice so spurned by theui, which have been ^
ade within the last three months, testify that, y(
ith the passing of their delusion, their eneries
are braciiig to the call upon theui.
The 9lave-owners are doing more than this,
ot a few among them have already sponta
sously commenced the work of regeneration, | \
j transferring their laborers from the rule of" di
uvery to that of flMdw. oc
And, among these acts of spontaneous libei- ui
ity, which are so indicative of the generous to
tntimenta inspiring the slave owners in com be
ton with the rest of the Brazilian people, is eo
lggestivo th.it by which the Benedictines, in ex
nnpletion of the hb?r il work they coininencsd hu
ve years ago, have contributed to the conse- fo
ation of the memorable date of the law of ad
bcrty, by freeing upon it 1,6<X) slaves whom
icy still possessed, proposing, in addition, gl
ith the Government authorization, to endow of
icm with all the lauds of the order. di
Undoubtedly, the transmutation of labor will to
roduce some temporary emburrassmeuts, ch
hich, without the energetic action of the di
lauters and the earnest co-operation of the te
overnment, may even become serious. But, b<
j regards the actiou of the latter in prevision s't
nd providence, we can state with authority fo
lat the Minister of Agriculture, to whose de- hi
artuieut such providence belongs, has beeu 1)
live to the ueed of that co-operation, has care "j
illy studied the means for affording it, and, in di
resence of the object, has already signed con- qi
acts for the importutiou of free labor. sc
The rule of free labor is now initiated in 01
irazil, slavery and its manifold evils are pass- di
ig awuy, and a prosperous future is gleaming in
q her through the fading clouds of departing - F
ight, the dawn of brilliant day beneath the P
lorious sun of liberty. 01
Kceplii? Hire I lie Rebellious
Spirit. |dl
re
Perhaps the most notable illuelration of this n<
iolent temper?this tendency to keep alive the ai
xasperation of the war?was that furnished at
I'llhmAPP lufcjf tt/nnlr leKnti n 1oa*.i-a 4U~ 1
??wv f? WV I* f " utu ICUlUiC Mil vnr
life and Character of General Lee, by General R
fade Hampton, was made the occasion of a pi
rand demonstration by the rebel sympathizers c<
f that city. A.u immense aadieoce was pres su
at, Jeffersou Davis being among those in at- tfc
mdance and greeted with a storm of applause. d<
reneral Hampton placed Lee above Napoleon, in
Wellington, and all other Generals of modern in
mes. Not content with that, he drew com- F<
urisons with the Federal Generals, whom he to
eclared luoapable and inferior and guilty of a or
lode of warfare which was a disgrace to a at
vilized nation. These remarks elicited the iy
oldest applause, the whole audience uniting th
i cheering the lecturer. j ar
We are not of those who expect that the ' ed
outhern people will forget or cease to honor
ie names of those whom they recognized as
laders in their late disastrous struggle, but
e are quite sure that no man who really de- ac
res to see the nation thoroughly united and f.
il old animosities buried out of sight will be i,
iund stimulating afresh the prejudices and j '
assions which led to all the difficulties and J ^
inflicts of the past. The people of the South i ?
iou!d kaow that such a Course can ouly injure j
temselves. postponing the recovery of the _
restige which they lost by their uujustihable
ibelhon, and prolonging the sufferings result- j
g from it. The people of the North have no
wire to impose npon the Sooth any hardens,
r place in its way any obstacle to the restora- s
on of itt prosperity and political privileges,
it they do demand that Southern men shall :
ley faithfully the laws which we are required th<
obey, and will not, it is certain, acquiesce th<
anything less. i ro,
i
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rates of advertising. i
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v ub?qoe>nt la?rtk'a , j^H
Th?iy??of tnllaM Brerl*r tiya conatitutix an aJrar
Utinc vuar* In thto p?pf>r. ir womuwi?.MT?r |H
'"** tb*? lr" " ** U charr 1 th? ratacf a ftU
zyzir ???? - < ?
1... ohtr^t^'.r^.'r' '- " *??
4 urio*itic? or Memory. jfl
John Kemble used to NftlMt ho OOvM 1 am I
a vkoll number of the HWmw| fW in tiur I
days ; and Ceneral Christie made a similar
assertion ; hat it is not known how far either
f fh hi ver;ri >d this statement. Kobert lhilnu I
could repeat in the morning ail oliWNof a I
new*pa|*r he had read over night. Puringtbe tH
repeal debates in the House of Commons, H
thirty seven years ago, OM of tt? members
wrote out his speech, sent it totlM HVMW I
and repeated it to the House in the evening: it H
was fouud to be the same verbatim as that 9
which he bad written out. John Fuller, aland t H
agent in Norfolk, could remember every word
of aserir >n, aud write it out correctlr after
going home; this was tested by comparing his
writteu account with the clergyman's maru- H
script. Scaliger could repeat a hundred vers ? H
or more alter having read them a single t in - I
Seneca could repeat two thomaud words on
bearing them once. Magliabecehi, who had a
prodigious memory, was once put to a sev? It yH
test. A gentleman lent him a manuscript. H
which was read and returned. The owner. *9
lome time afterwards, pretending he had lost JH
t, begged Magli:ih?whi to write nit a* much
is he could remember; whereupou the latter, j^H
ippealing to his meuiorv. wrote out th*? whoU
ssay. Cyrus, if some of the old historian* are 41
0 he credited, could remember the name of
very soldier it. his immense army. There wai I
1 Coraican boy who Mtkl rehearse torty thoaiand
words, whether sens? or uotisenae, as they I
vere dictated, and then repeat t'n iu in the ft all
'ersed order, without making a single mistake. &j|
V physician of Massachusetts, about ha!'" a
entury ago, could repeat the whole of " Para- ;l
lise List " without mistake, although he had
ot read it for twenty years. Fuller, the great I
lathematiciau, when he became I,lino. 01 lid $]
epeat the whole of Virgil's jEaied," and OOUM ,
emember the first line and the last line on
very page of the particular edition he hadbecn ' I
ccustomed to read.before he became blind. I
One kind of retentive memory may be con* _
idered as the result of sheer hard work, a ,
eterminatioQ towards one particular achieve- ?!?
lent, without reference either to cultivation p I
r to memory on other subjerts. Tim is fre- I
uently shown by persons in humble life in re- 1
ard to the Bible. An old blgpnm at Stir t?l
ng, known some forty years ago as Blind
Jeek, afforded an instance of this, lie knew A
le whole of the Bible by heart, insomuch that 1
a sentence were read to him he c m l bum 1
00k, chapter, and verse ; or if the book, chip I
t. and verse were named he could fin Um *
sact words. A gentleman, to test him, re- 1
pateda verse, purposely making one vi rbal in I
L-curacy; Aleck hesitated, named the place I
here the passage is to be found, but at the 1
une time pointed out the verbal err< r. The 1
inie gentleman asked hiin to repeat the nine J
?-th verso of the seventh chapter of the Book ^ J
f Numbers. Aleck almost instantly replied : 1
There is no such verse ; that ehapter has I
gkty-nine verses. ' (* 'd
Pension Sttttlsllcs. 1
The following facts in relation to the pension I
stem have been coinpileu from data BftDlfti jfc u
r the report of the Commissioner of Pensions : 1
he aggregate annual amount of poiaioi |
idows and depeudent relatives upon the roll
ine 3d, lsTl, was less than on the 30.h of Hi
jnu, iotu. mis was owing to the ItMWiaf j
*illililhl?1 pensions by BUMfl f?obiajr t h? .]
;e of sixteen years. TklN were 57,023 Kevo- t, "J
lionary soldiers pewaionelibrae*? 1 ' J. I 1,308 ,|
ildiers of the Mexicau war, and 103,791 s.tiers
of the war of the rebellion pensioned as
vuli Is. It Is thought that the annual expen- l,
tures for pensions for other than the cla^s WD
ive nearly reaehed their maximum, and that '
iring the next ten years they will gradually j jj
id materially decrease.
The following is a correct statement of the . _
.tal number of soldiers serving in the Wiir-*. '*
which the nation ha- enga^-d in sineo *. 4
175. It will appear in the forth soaring rej. .rt V'/O
F the Coiumissiouer of i>ensions:
ildiers of thewar of the Revolution..
ildiera of the war of 1812 27,636
ildiers of the Seminole war of 1817.. 5,911 Mai
ildiers of the Black Hawk war of
1832 5.031
ildiers of the Florida war of 1836
to 1842 29,953 ?
ildiers of the Creek disturbance of K j
1838 12,483 J
ildiers of the Southwestern disturbanees
of 1S:;6 2,803 T J
ildiers of the Cherokee county disturbances
of 183G 3,986
ildiers of the New York frontier Bffj]
disturbances 1,836
ildiers of the Canadian rebellion.. 1,126
ildiers of the Mexicin war of 1816 73,260
ildiers of the war of the rebellion V'S
of 1861 2,688,523 f*j|
The Raoe for False Diamonds.?The New ? ,*1
ork Tnbune calls attention to the mania that
splays itself in an exhibition of bogus diamond
i the person. After telling us that it is not
icomiuon to *ee diamonds?or what purport
be such?in the ears of shop girls, or in the
sum fronts of stable-boys, and that the
nsequence is that this class of jewelry,
pensive when real and gaudy when false,
is been given up by the majority of honest
Iks, pearls being woru instead, the Tribune In
Ms:
Artificial diamonds are made of a peculiar s.j'jass
called strass. This glass has a property
refracting light in the same way as the
amonds, and its manufacture has been carried
? such perfection that an ordinary observer
mnot distinguish gems made of it from real
amonds. After a few years these diamonds
nd to crystalizo, so that in ten years they
come terbid and lose all their lustre. These |m
ones, however, can always be distinguished .Kg
f a practical lapidary by vari us tests, such as
irducss and peculiarities 111 the cutting.
iamouds are also imitated by a system called
plockage,"in which a very thin slab of
atnond is cemented to some stone, such as
jartz or white topaz. Other real stones,
ich as zircon and topaz, when they are colore 1,
only slightly colored, are passed off as
amonds. It is generally supposed tha: diuonds
are white, but they are of all colors.
also diamonds are made almost entirely in ?! ri
aria. Alaska and California diamonds are -MB
aly quartz or rock quartz. HX
The above facts about false diamond-1. Ac., if
iuerally known, would have the effect of
imitiishiug the wearing by Americans of tho
ial diamonds, just as imitation gilt jewelry is
>w diminishing the use of real gold ornaments
ltong people of good taste and refined culture.
Education' in. Virginia.?The Richmond
Inquirer claims that there are three thousand
ubiic schools now in operation in Virginia,
)8ting annually ? 1,000,000. The Enquirer
iys: "It baa been no holiday affair putting
lese schemes in opera'ion. Our people are
?ad poor, and are grumbling and quarreling
icessantly about their tuxes. It is like drawg
their eye-teeth to get money out of them,
ar them at suPh a time, without a murmur,
have undertaken the education of 100,0<JO coltd
children?to furnish them school hou- ;v \
id books, and teachers, and fuel?is a decidednotable
thing. We say most emphatically ' * i
at we are the warm friends of the system,
id want to see our colored population iustructl
and elevated and improved in every way."
?A Chicago boot-black, eleven years of
;e, arrived in Detroit, Mich., from Chicago, fete*
days after the great lire, and purchased
urougb a gentleman) u lot and house on
?/"* J nan > Q1 m .1 # ft'il ki I nad C * A
V/^I'VV w O (it VVI^ IU4 ^ , HUU pQlU lur il 1U
it-tul currency, mainly of the denomination
10 cents. '1 his was not done up in pack- LT
es, but was palled oat of the nameruus reptacles
that pertain to the clothes of the gfj
nus gamin, and the counting of the purchase
jney occupied three hours. The youth de- Ml
kres that he ha9 saved this amount, and
lich be has in bank, daring the past flvw J
ars. This is no fancy sketch, but an actual |l
?The Tammany Ring, the K.u-Klui, and I
9 Polygamista are all scattering to escape I
9 law. This is a poor season for the work of I
gues. It doesn't seem to thrive. I