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To Boston. Hchym ire Oo Corner
and College turner, on Tuesday ana
Friday, at 12:80 m.
MAILS ARE OPES
At 8:00 a. in. from Indlanapolia and CJncln
AtmT Ctuelnnati, way and
. iHJH "romEaM via Colombua RaIN
road , and Day ,-h je-o Ksi 1
a 1 74ju d in. from Norm, .! , . -
Jnd-e of the Way no County Circuit Cour
Prosecnting Attorney of the Wayne Clr
enltCourtU. W. Comstork. .
Clerk of the Court- W. W. Dudley.
IHsputy-W. H. Lynde.
BUerlir-Win. II. Study.
Deputy Jsepli l.nnMtn. '
. . Auditor -K. Ba. Parker.
Deputy-K. H. King.
Treasurer Joseph U. Mmon.
Deputy -O. V. temon.
Recorder-Jesse K. Jones.
Deputy-James W. VV " wfc.
County Commissioners Andres n. wnj.
Ctna, William Brooks, Jonathan Bald win.
Count Assessor-Kile jr W. Anderson.
justice or TKI rCACK.
Enoa Thomas, Richmond.
Jim nil M. roe, "
John W. Martin, Cheater.
OONSTAHLJM.
Thomas McQlr, Charles Beam an and B. I
Miner city sneers.
Mayor James Elder.
Marshal Le wis U. Hhofer.
Clerk-Peter P. Kim.
Treasurer William P. Wilson.
Attorney John H. Lyle.
Civil Knulneer Oliver Butler.
Wood Measurer James M. Mmith.
Market Mastar David Bullerdlck.
OHy Assessor I wis M. Baxter.
Street Commissioner David Haner. .
Chief Fire Impertinent I. U- Donmn.
n Follee Board Klder, Dlekman, and Zeller
Chief of Police Thomas Atkinson.
copsnt omirmia.
Board of Public Improvement Nye,
Peterson and Watt. ,
Board of Heaith-Dr. T. Henry Davis,
R. Jobhaon and Frank Pruyn.
City C-ommlsstoneia K. H.Pafte, Joan H.
Moormann, W. 11. Bennett, U. Annus, J no.
L. Thompson. .
Committee on Fiaanoe Dlekman, ti em
tor. Rosa.
ClaimsLand. Dulln, Conklln.
Streets and Alleys Nye, Peterson, Keller.
vi it..Mniatii Rnu. Keller. Land.
Public Mchools DutlnTPickman, Nye.
MarkeU and Public Buildings - Zeller,
Watt, Conkli n. .
itailrosxIa-Neator, Roan, Land.
.. Tiro Atem
Tha following la too correct location of
the new Ore alarm boxes:
U-Na. 4 Ensine House. ;
J- No. Eniiine House. .
sKnclnncr House.
I-a Cor. Waahlnston and Baaaafraa streets.
1-4 Cor. WaHhinKton and Market streets. .
4- t Corner Pearl and Sailor streets.
5- 7-Cor. Franklin and Hyeamore street.
Corner Seventh and Park street.
4 Corner Ninth and Main street.
1-2 Twelfth and Mulberry atteet.
V4 Corner Eleven Ih and North streets,
ft- Corner Sixth and Walnut streets.
4-2 Corner Malu and Fifth street.
$- Rosa's.
N
Iff HACK LINK.
DAVID 8AJNTMEYER
Ha established a HACK CONVEYANCE
from this city to WUllamsburg, three daj a
tn each week.
lay, Tim:
(rainy.
Lesvins Richmond at S o'clock, p. ra.each
day. All orders left at the Postofflce by S
o'clock, p.m. will be called for. Rose's Llv
ry Stable, the Poatofflce or NesJ's Dining
Hall, at the Depot, are the places for passen
gers to leave orders, desiring to go to Web
Mar, Koonoiuv or W illiamsburg.
Rich mond, Sept. SO, 1874. JMm
Civil mm KellctosM Mm
ta Eav
Th Pall Mall Qaiette "Some
iatereiUns, details regarding the prao
riesi workiutt of civil marriage laws in
Cathotio continental eoantries came
oat daring the diaoataion of the ab
ject in the Swiss National Council,
the result of which was telegraphed
n Friday. The chief speaker against
the proposal for nuking the civil oon
, tract a necessary preliminary was M.
Week-Reynold, a Catholio aember
from Fribarg; and he showed that
the similar law of ItaJv was verv Irm-
. . -W v . vw, uw . ... I (
7 , , ,-VmilUS,
certain legal obligations. Than offi
cers and noa-eommissioned officers of
the Italian army, being forbidden
snarriajre except with certain gnarran
teed meaos, avail themselves of the
priest's services to contract a anion
whkh is valid in their own eyes,
, though it does not bring them under
any penalty. Similarly, widows of
public officials drawing their pensions
from the state, notoriously frequently
remarry ia the church, and are treat
ed in all re8ccta as married by socio
ty, while the state, which refuses to
recognise merely ecclesiastical wed-
. lock, has to eoatinue to pay them
their annuities, la Italy, therefore,
the state seems to suffer; bat in
France, where the civil rite is not
merely indispensible, but rnut pre-
eede the other, conscientious Catho
lics, women especially, are often cheat
ed out of what ther consider an usm.
tial part of the ceremony by the spouse
suddenly refusing to go through the
second form when the civil official han
. sraee made them legally man and wife.
These statements do not seem to have
been in any way contradicted: bat the
assembly held that the objections
named will not hold in Switzerland,
and adopted the French system by a
Tote of very nearly two to one."
. SaI.YI of Springfield," was
taught by her father, who was a shoe-
: l"er to. Make women's and chil-:
drens slippers. Six years ago. he
, married and went to Kaasas with her
hatband, who had considerable pres
erty there. The man becama dUei.
-1 ' ,ost tH hi Property, and was
finally sent to an asylum incurably in
wjue. And now comes the moral.
The woman, having a good trade,
weat to work at u, and for a year past
; hM eupported herself and two cbil
ttren and saved money enough to pay
L?"rtlr J ih atfeWoruVle
awuse that she puirhased on credit.
. ' "BE JUST AND FEAR NOT! LET AIX THE ENDS THOU AliTST AT, BE THY GOD'S, THY COUNTBXS AND TRUTH'S!" 7
VOL. XLIVJ
LOUISIANA.
TsteOwa
svl Invastlgmttoni I
a tbw M
ter.
If xw Oilcans, La- Jan. 27.
The session of the Congressional
Committee to-day was on that devel
oped information that undoubtedly
will have great influence at Washing
ton, in the final disposition of the
Louisiana ease. The evidence intro
duced was entirely new, and given
Srioci pally by United States army of
cers, who have been located ia dif
ferent parts of the State for months,
but, who, although summoned, were
not permitted to testify before the late
sub committee. Therefore its impor
tance will be more apparent, ana to
the fact, perhaps, is due the presence
of the four gentlemen who are now
mskins an examination of evervthint
connected with the State elections and
troubles.
In the cross-examination of Mr.
Piert on it was developed that the high
taxes in - his parish (Natchitoches)
were for the purpose ol paying old
Confiederato war claims.
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM GIRLACH,
of the Third United States Infsntry,
stationed at Shreveport, testified as to
violence, intimidation, etc., at Shreve
port something similar to that before
the wsr. Referring to the incendiary
article in the Shreveport Times, be
said thev did Droduce intimidation
and outrages; that the presence of
United States troops was even neces
sary now to protect the lives of the
colored people; thst some of the
Shreveport men had told him they
would not fight for the Yankee Gov
ernment in case of a foreign war.
Regarding the Coushatta affair, he
said an intelligent negro boy who saw
it said a number of white men shot in
a field where he saw their bodie", but
the necroes dared not bury them, for
fear of being killed for it. Some of
the bodies were riddled with bullets
from head to foot.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM ALLEN,
of the Sixteenth Infantry, testified
that a conversation between two
'White Leaguers was carried on in his
presence, they conversing with the
editor of the Natchitoches Vindicator
as to the best method of working up
on the negroes to prevent their voting.
They had tried everything, they said,
except one, and that was to work up
on their fears, which wits decided
upon, with the result shown in the
many murders commmitted subse
quently. Soon after that a public
meeting was held at Coltax, and the
Grant parish prisoners then released
were warmly congratulated. After
the meeting two negroes were killed
by these men, but the coroner dare
not hold an i Danes t until accompanied
by troops.-" The bowie knife of one of
the Urant I'ansh prisoners was louna
ander one negro s body and there
identified, bat subsequently, when the
troops sided the Sheriff in arresting
the murderers," no one dared come
forward and identify the knife. It
would have been as easy for the Sher
iff to take the city of New Orleans as
to arrest the murderers without the
aid of, the troops, and that the mur
derers were -again cleared. Soon
thereafter a public meeting was held
and violent speeches made, resulting
in a demand for the resignation of all
the parish officers, and an adjourn
ment had. the last speaker saying to
the mob that at the next meeting they
must come armed and prepared to
overcome resistance. Then followed
the President's proclamation, which,
with the presence of the troops, pre
vented another meeting for the time
being, but the feeling was such that
thirty or more whites and blacks came
to camp for protection until they could
fly the country to save their lives, and
that although some Democrats did
not approve of the killing and butchs
ring, they never lifted np their voice
aaainst it. Then, in answer to cate
gorical questions from Mr. Frye, the
witness stated that .Republicans daie
not vote or express themselves openly.
The presence of troops is yet neces
sary tor the preservation of life. U
thev are withdrawn all the Republi
cans will have to leave. The feeling
of the mob is acainst the United
States as well as the State govern
ment.
LIKCTKNANT COLONEL ll'lNTOSH .
corroborated the above in his testi
mony, notinc instances that came un
der ms personal observation.
GENERAL MERRILL
was next sworn, and in addition to his
published statement, said that Louisi
ana had really no government other
than the influence exercised by the
White .League, which was anarchical.
eauin terror and ostracism to the
fullest possible extent. Hundreds of
negroes were yet skulking in the
woods fearinsr assassination: that the
only object of the White League was
the overthrow of the State Govern
ment that they might obtain power.
lo you believe, said Mr. rrye,
that with troops in every parish, a
fair and full expression could be
had?
No " said Mr. Merrill. It was
asked then if it would be safe for
Judge Wheeler to travel through the
State and make Republican speeches.
The answer was in the negative.
To a question by Mr. Frye, he re
plied that even the removal of the
Kellogg- government would not help
matters; that there was nothing in
Louisiana to day that had the atti
tude of a government; that the exist
ing government had not power except
that afforded by troops, and that the
White League was the only power in
Ue State. -If," said Merrill. the
Jkellocg government is removed and
another government placed in power,
Vt bbuld be the government of the
United States, and should be retained
until the people would recognise a
government of their own." General
Merrill farther states that be, by or
der; was making a detailed report of
his operations since assuming com
mand, and would file that with the
committee.
. Messrs. Frye and Wheeler will ex
amine it, and select such J arts of it as
bear upon . the facta sought by the
committee. . ; . .
The evening session was confined
almost eatirely to a cross-examination
of General Merrill by Mr. Marshall,
who did his best to break down Mer
rill's evidence, but ?
- failed at xye&y point. :
Part of the session was devoted to the
testimony of another army officer who
RICH3I0ND.
re counted numerous outrages in
Iberia and St. Martin parishes, con
firming Merrill's general statement.
Merrill told your correspondent to
night that the statement he was pre
nmrintr wnnld snow 3(W) murders in his
part of the State, as well as numerous
nf different characters. Mer
rill acknowledged to a friend to-day
tnat tne evidence was mucu airuugci
for the Republicans thsn he expected
to hear, and that so far it had been
almost conclusive.
GENERAL SHERIDAN
has his report of outrages and mur
ders nearly completed, and that per
haps will be called for as evidence by
the Republican counsel.
THE LASH.
Haw Meai ar Flwaweal la the Hta
sart State lenlletlry.
Correspondence of the Republican.
Jefferson Citt, January 19.
When they whip men in the Mis
souri State Penitentiary the thing is
generally done in secret and in the
night. So when your correspondent
was admitted, last night, behind the
massive walls patrolled by sentinels,
placed in the revolving iron gate,
which looks as if it might be the
counter-part of the celebrated iron
shroud, and landed in the immense
quadrangle that constitutes the prison
yard, with a promise from those in
authority that he should see the whip
ping of some of the late refractory
prisoners, he congratulated himself
that he was the first newspaper man
who had ever been allowed to witness
the sight.
In the centre of the quadrangle is a
round brick building, which is known
as the round-house, and serves as the
prison headquarters. At half past 7 a
dozen guards were in the room, silent
men, who wore comforts and shawls
about their necks, and when they
spoke couohed their tones low so that
none would hear.
At half past 7 Mr. Bradbury came
in the man who lays on the strap
and raw hide, and who is more taci
turn than his fellow-officers.
"We wish to see the whipping to
night." ,
r'I don't know," is the answer, "it s
against the rules, and we have to
serve all alike."
"Will any harm be done if the truth
is told?" ' ; ' T,
"Well, I don't know; I goe-s I'll
let you in, and you may stay until one
man is whipped."
And so with the crowd of guards
we walked to the "old hall," filled
with 426 cells. Posiaons are taken
by the crowd at the end of a lofty
aiele, bounded by a massive wall on
one side, on the other by the tiers of
cells, as appears from where we stand,
though a little further down the hall
a flight of steps conducts you to two
tiers or cells lower. We are at one
extremity of the hall, where short
angle is made by the hall, which de
scribes a parallelogram.
Two posts near by stand out clearly
in the light of a neighboring lamp,
which is answered by a light from an
other further down the hall, and the
glare of a stove at the other extrem
ity. At first a young negro boy is
brought up by the guard. As ho
comes up with abashed countenance,
he trembles like an aspen.
"Take off your shirt!" A slow
movement in that direction. "Lie
down and you can take it off quicker."
When he has the shirt off he conies
up to the post and extending both
hands sees each firmly bound by a
rope in the hands of a man on the
other side of the post. The man on
the other side then takes the rope,
which leaves about a foot's distance
between the negro's hands, and twines
it on an iron hook placed further np
on the post. When this is fixed the
prisoner can only stand on tip toe.
Mr. Bradbury here comes up.
"What is your name?' "Henry
Sehaeffer." "What have you been
doing?" "Speaking in the line, sir;
that is all." "Don't you know better
than that; how long have you been
here?" "Nino months." Turning to
your correspondent, Mr. Bradbury
remarked: "We have begun a differ
ent discipline here."
Bradbury takes a rawhide and lays
it on the bare yellow back before bim.
The effect is two-fold. It raises a long
red line on the yellow back, and it
raises the negro two feet off the floor.
Further it bring a yell of pain, and
an abjectcry of, "Mr.Bradbury, please
Mr. Bradbury, sir." But Bradbury
lays on four or five more lashes with
out flinching. The punishment is
done, and the spectator feels a disgust
at the cowardice of the African, who
humbly picks up his clothes and goes
baek to his cell. '
James Shea comes up an intelli
gent and fine-looking young fellow of
less than 23 and takes his punish
ment with bravely-suppressed moans
of anguish, until eighteen blows are
measured oat. It is curious to mark
the blows, how Bradbury tries not to
Slow up too much space, but to plow
eep. The long red lines deepen and
darken, widen and lehgthen; .then be
come clotted; but you have the satis
faction of knowing that to-morrow
they will be blue. "Eighteen blows,
take him down, if he is ready." "Oh,
yes, sir, JL am reagy, Dut x nave oeen
imposea upon oy loese men, js iue
prisoner, pointing to the guards.
Imposed upon, have you," said
Bradbury- "string him up again."
The deed is done. The already quiv
ering flesh is made to quiver again,
and the teeth are gritted together
tiehter and tighter, though the moana
caused by the reorchiag rawhide can
not help coming, and the face pales to
a deeper pallor, and the eves oh! the
look of despair and antruirhed suffer
ing that looks up at the stone walls in
unutterable desolation !
Other nrisoners are whinved. but
time can not be spent on all. The
braggadocio leader in the revolt dis
graces his humanirv when it comes to
a little suffering. The brave, patient
follower faints before a cry of pain .
shows how the blows have sunk into
bis flesh and into the sensitive cover
ing ol his souL Some come up, daunt-
less, some with trembling; all depart
with a look out of their eyes that be
tokens a desire lor eternal revenge.
- Ia there any excuse for a revolt?
Outside of dietary and other consider.
ations, are there any reasons why men
should preter death to rartner impris
onment? Suppose good conduct se
cures light and easy Tabor, is not death
a succor and relief ? I say yes, though
WAYNE COUNTY,
Lknow fortune may be regained, social J
position may Dm ODiamea, ana iur so
cial stain almost wiped out. I say
yes. though a man might be reunited
to hil family aad to his friends, the
horrors of ten years' life of imprison
ment, ten years of silent labor, exclu
sion from the world, from communion
with society, with intercourse with
mankind and womankind, ten years of
self-contemplation and introspection,
ten years for remorse and deipair are
enough to derange the human intel
lect, as the intellects of nearly all men
who have been eon fined in the pen for
any great length of time have been
shattered and broken. Nothing equal
to it was ever invented.
Kansas City Journal of Commerce.
Another bread riot in the Missouri
penitentiary I The miserable wretches
whose misdeeds have forced a great,
brave and humane people to lay their
strong hands upon and confine them,
have been seised by a merciless and
corrupt ring of soulless politicians
and sold, and now in their slavery are
able to obtain food to keep them alive
onlv by riot. Such is the chapter of
history this leasing business is writing
for Missouri. Slavery, abolished as
to the individual flaveholder is adopt
ed as a State enterprise, and in addi
tion to the puniihment a State may
inflict upon malefactors, starvation is
added to the portion of the unfortu
nate and helpless victims. It may
save the State a few dollars, but it
conflicts with the theory of the Con
stitution, shocks common humanity,
shames religion, and disgraces a great
State.
A more horrible place than the
Missouri penitentiary, under the leas
ing policy, it were difficult for imagi
nation to paint. Starved and fed on
rotton food until especially subjected
to disease and death, the dead convict
is hustled, nude as a new-born babe,
into a rouah. pine box. and buried
with no ceremony or recognition of
his humanity than marks the inter
ment of a rabid dog. The men are
denied soap with which to wash or
shave, and hence go for weeks with
unshaven faces and unwashed bodies;
and when discharged at the termina
tion of their sentence, although the
law requires that they be sufficiently
clad, they are sent into the wintry
blasts shivering, with their garments
so badly moth-eaten lhatthey will not
hold together until the poor wretch
gets out of the city. . ' "
Such are the facts as stated by one
who is evidently informed. And,
added to all this, the lessees are con
stantly coming forward with applica
tions for State aid, alleging that the
institution does not pay. Did men
ever know such infamy to prosper?
Saving Bank.
Colonel J. W. Ray, of Indianapolis,
addressed the Merchants and Real
Estate Exchange Tuesday evening -on
Savings Banks. He said:
The first bank of this kind was es
tablished in 1778, aad from that time
they have continued to increase rapid
ly in numbers and usefulness. The
first savings bank in America was
established in Philadelphia in 1816.
The banks are usually managed very
carefully, and the trustees serve with
out pay. The report of the bank ex
aminers of New York show that there
were among these banks but three
failures in forty-seven years. These
banks encourage industry and econo
my from the tact that they receive
very small sums an deposit, and a man
does not have to wait until he has a
large amount of money saved up be
fore putting it in bank. They are,
therefore, gatherers up of small sums
whieh otherwise could not be saved
at all. Statistics show that this has
grown to an immense business, hun
dreds of millions being invested in it.
Last fall Boston had no panic, which
was owing to the great number of sav
ings banks in that city. The figures
speak volumes in behalf of this sort
of banks. In Indianapolis there are
nine savings banks, and from imper
fect reports of their condition it may
be safely asserted that there are not
less than 10,000 depositors and f 1,500,
000 on deposit. If $500 be placed on
deposit at the end of the first year the
principal and interest will amount to
545; in fire years, $786.45; in ten
years, $1,504.90. Experience has
shown that eight per cent, is about as
much as these banks can afford to pay
in Indiana. Mr. Ray then gave a
number of cases, within his knowl
edge, showing the practical benefits
resulting from the frequent deposits
of small sums. And the habit is one
of benefit to the employer as well as
the employe. If the latter i careful
and economical in his own affairs, he
will show the same qualities in the
affairs of his employer. There is no
competition or rivalry between savings
banks and banks ol discount and de
posit, for there is room for both and a
separate field for each.
A BXteraaiBiael "Taller mr.n
The traditional "yaller" dog of the
mover has immortalized himself. The
Tipton Advance tells the tale as fol
lows:. "A son-in-law of Mrs. Herron,
who resides in Liberty township,
started for Kansas in a wagon last
fall, taking with him a large dog of
the yellow persuasion, which dog was
tho property of Mrs. Herron. Arriv
ing in the bleeding State the dog re
solved that he did not like the water
of the country, he was adverse to a
diet of grasshoppers, he found the air
conducive to consumption, he did not
like the political aspect: and, alto
gether, he despised- the place. He
therefore resolved to come back to
the flesh-pots and big log fires of Tip
ton. He bad miles of waste prairies
to travel; be bad to eross the Kaasas
and Missouri rivers, but he was bemnd
to come and ha came. He arrived at
Mrs. Herron a homestead the other
day, a little footsore, rather hungry,
and looking generally as if be bad
slept out of doors for several nights.
But he took bis victuals calmly, and
went to driving the pigs oat of the
yard as if he bad only been on an
hoar's visit to a neighbor's dog. Let
ters from Kansas show that the dog
was six weeks on his journey from
Kansas to Tipton. , Kokoaao may beat
us on saloons, but she owns no such
yellow dog as Tipton can boast of."
A Boston i journal innocently re
marks that there is an air of improba
bility about the Chicago Post's story
of "a woman who was eaten np by
grasshoppers.'! Some of those Bos
ton papers would doubt the veracity
of Mr. Gulliver himself. .
INDIANA, FEB. 3.
Prom the Northern Indian Ian. k
k Iter Fim Flawla, -
Little River Yinetard,
Welborn, Fa., Jan. 15, 75. J
I now want to say a word or two to
persons wanting to come to Florida
for their health. First, make up your
minds and come before you get so
weak that you are beyond all hope.
The climate of Florida is the finest in
the United States. There is no doubt
of that; but it will not raise the dead.
When all vital action is worn oat, and
the poor consumptive is on the very
verge of the grave, it ia too late, and 1
would advise all such to stay with
kind friends and die in peace. True,
while there is life there is hope; but
why not come before they gat so feo
ble as not to be able to bear the jour
ney? Another mistake is made by
nearly all invalids that is, going to
tho seaside or on the rivers, where
there are fogs and damp air. Go into
tho interior of the State, find some
planter and stay with him. Ton then
get the air'that has passed through
the pine woods for miles, and becomes
impregnated with the balsamatie odor
of the pine trees, and loses a large
portion of its dampness. If you will
look at the map you will see that the
Peninsular portion of the State ia sur
rounded with a wide expanse of sea
or salt water. The air in passing
over this water becomes damp and
impregnated with salt; it is aleo chilly.
East, southeasterly, and west winds
all pass over this large expanse of wa
ter. Now, would not common sense
teach any reflecting mind that if this
air should pass through a dry pine
forest, some forty to sixty miles or
more, it would, in a great measure,
lose much of this dampness and cool
ness, while it would become impreg
nated with the health- incense of the
pine? Tet in the face of this seeming
fact, most invalids take up their quar
ters on some river, the seaside, or
some town equally unfortunately loca
ted, and then wonder why they do not
get well. I have seen twenty of these
unfortunates crowded into one house;
two or more into one small room, to
inhale each other's breath, and talk
of each other's sufferings. Why not
go to some planter in the interior,
where you would have your own room,
cheerful company, and the whole farm
to exercise over, and plenty of hunt
ing and fishing? I have not one par
ticle of doubt that there are many
persons now in the North who would
be greatly benefitted by a winter's so
journ in the State of Florida, and use
ful lives extended many years thereby.
To all these I would say, try Florida
at least one winter; and to all these 1
will, so far as I know, give all the in
formation in my power; but would
say, come before you are too far ad
vanced in yonr disease; make up your
mind to stay from November until
May; leave all your cares and busi
ness behind you; make up your mind
to be pleasant, cheerful and content
ed while here; do not come loaded
witb disease aad cares, and then ex
pect Florida to cure your disease, as
well as allay your cares. The climate
will do much, but cannot perform
miracles. I will close my article with
two extracts: "Much care should be
used in selecting the proper location
for such invalids. The low, humid
atmosphere of rivers and lakes should
be avoided, and the dryer and more
elevated regions of Middle Florida
chosen, where a residence of three to
nine months will cure the most invet
erate cases." "Nature, the great
healer, has in her larboratory an anti
dote for every poison, and a salve for
every bruise, and the balm of her
breath borne on the soft breezes of
the Gulf, charged with the healing
resinous exhalations of the pine for
ests finds its way into the most remote
tissues of the diseased lungs, healing
over the ulcerated surface, closing the
open abcess, and by its mysterious
power doibg what no drug or medi
cine could do, or had done, in reviv
ing the blood, and bring back to the
paled cheek the bloom of health cli
mate only cures these cases."
Persons who desire to come here,
by addressing me. and enclosing
stamps, will receive all reasonable in
formation as to routes, distance, cost
of living, and everything else pertain
ing to the interest of invalids or per
sons seeking homes in our Land of
Flowers.
I send you some flowers from my
garden. I have peas six inches high;
potatoes, beets, onions and radishes
growing; strawberries in bloom; oats
all sowed, and planters plowing for
corn. How is that?
G. R. Thralls.
Xle nhlc Lata.
A while ago writes "Eli Perkins."
Mr. Samuel N. Pike sold an amphi
bious Jersey building lot to a Dutch
man. There are large tracts of land
in New Jersey which overflow at high
tide. The Dutchman, in turn sold
the amphibious t-uildiog lot to a
brother speculating Dutchman as
"nice arable land." Dutchman No. 2
went to look at it at high tide and
found it covered with salt water, eels,
and leaping frogs. He came back in
a great fury, and sued Dutchman No.
1 for swindling him.
"Did you sell this land for dry
land?" asked the judge of the sharp
Dutchman, i
"Yah! It vasch goot try land."
replied the Dutchman. -
"Bat sir the plaintiff says he went
to see it and it was wet land. It was
not dry arable land" said the judge.
Yah Yah ! It yasch goot try land.
Ven I sold it to mine friend it vasch
low tide!"- i
Vice President Wilson has an arti
ticle in the Independent of Liat week
on ; "The Dyhte Legacy of Gerrit
Smith to his Countrymen." This leg
acy was riven to the public a fews
days before the death of the a red
philantropist, and was i.n appeal 7 to
the .Republican party to rise to its
feet," sod, by wise legislation, to pro
tect the menaced rights of the colored
race. In the circular this large
hearted man appeals to the South to
accept the higher Uw of justice in
stead of the lower law of slavery. ' "1
close with beseeching tho South to
accept the wise advice which Presi
dent Grant offers her in bis recent
message. He is her friend, and he
says to her : 'Treat tho negro as a
citizen snd a voter, as he is and must
remain."' . ; ' :i-t ;
. The Santa Cruz Sentinel compares
that town to "the dimple on beauty's
cheek." More cheek than dimple,
probably.
,875.
rati iMa mi ottrtcel.
The other night when twenty or
thirty persons were assembled at a
residence on Lafayette avenue, it was
proposed to test the theory of mind
reading. There was a pale, solemn
looking yoang man present, having
accompanied his widowed mother from
the Fifth Ward, and he was selected
as the one most likely to make the
experiment a success. He submitted
to re blindfolded, aad it was deter
mined to see if he could tell what any
one was thinking about. A corpulent
widower clasped hands with the young
nan, laid his other hand on the mind
raader's forehead, and after a moment
of other preparation there was dead
silence. The widower closed his eyes,
snd the young man lowered his head
and moved it from side to side.
"What's he thinking of?" whispered
several persons.
"Of how he kicked his wife out of
bed and caused her death t" waa the
answer.
The widower tried to laugh with
the rest, but he made poor work of it,
and explained that he was thinking of
the city-hall. He slid back and sat
down, and a single lady, about thirty
years of age, took his plaes. After a
moment the mind-reader waa told to
speak her thought, and he an
nounced :
"She'd give all her old shoes to
catch a husband."
The lady tried tt laugh, and sat
down in a corner, while a bald-headed
married man. who was a firm believer
in mind-rcading, took her place as a
victim. He fixed his thoughts on a
chromo banging on the wall, and held
them so firmly there that the perspi
ration started out on his neck. After
two long minutes of silence the mind
reader whispered : - -
"You are thinking of a little blue
eyed widow woman in tho Sixth Ward
wondering if she got your letter the
Other day."
"No, air no. sir !" exclaimed the
man, "I was thinking of that chro
mo r
"Can't help it," replied the mind
reader, "I saw her and her house so
plainly before me that I'll bet $10 I
can take you right to the door !"
The bald-headed man pretended to
bo tickled almost to death, but sat
down looking very red in the face and
very anxiously toward his wife.
The young man. declared his readi
ness to read the thoughts of others,
but no one else came forward. Final
ly, to spin ont the exhibition, a man
stepped up, something hidden in a
particular pocket, and asked the
mind-reader to tell what it was.
Hands were clapped, there was a
pause, and then the mind-reader said:
"It's a bill from a jeweler's for a
$60 ladies chain ! The bill says that
the account is two years old, and will
be sued after this weck.1"
"See how he is mistaken !" replied
the young man, pulling a nickle from
his pocket, but ho couldn't laugh to
save his life, although he tried very
bard.
The young man had become greatly
interested by this time, but the crowd
held back strangely, seem in or to be
afraid of him, while nearly every one
declared that they thought mind
reading a great humbug. The young
man moved his arms about, command
ing silence, and after a moment cried
out:
"I can see as plainly as any of you
whose eyes are not bandaged."
"What do you see?" inquired one
of the men. ,
"There are three ladies present who
have holes in the heels of their stock
ings," replied the mind-reader.
There was a small laugh, and sev
eral hints were thrown out that the
audience would take up some other
amusement.
"There are two men here who owe
for their boots 1" contincd the inind
reader. "I guess we will remove the band
age now," said one of the men, rising
up.
"And there's a lady here who'd
give a hundred dollars to have the
freckles removed from her nose," ex
claimed the young man.
"The theory of mind-reading," said
the man as he worked at the knot in
the handkerchief, "is as "
And there are six women here who
have cold feet," interrupted the mind
reader.
They lifted the bandage, run the
mind-reader off to a cl.air in the bay
window, and although the hour was
still early a great share of the com
pany announced that they must be
going, as the children had .hard
colds.
"Hlati r
When you call at the office for your
mail, and the Postmaster hands it out,
ask him if that is all. It you ask for
mail, and hs tells you there is none,
tell him there ought to be. Then go
home and send all the rest of the
family around to ask at different times
through the day. Don't bring your
mail to the office until the mail is
closed, then curse the Postmaster for
not opening the mail-bag and putting
your letter in. When you want a
stamp on yourJetter, tell the Post
master to put it on; i( he don't like it
lick him. In case you put it on your
self, soak it in your mouth long
enough to remove the mneilage; it will
then stick until it is dry. Be sure
and ask the Postmaster to credit you
for stamps; if he has any accommo
dation about him he will do it. If
you have a box, stand and drum on it
until the Postmaster hands out your
mail; it makes him feel good, especial
ly if he is waiting on somebody else.
Be sure end ask the Postmaster for
your mail while ho is distributing, and
before the window ia open for deliv
ery . J. W.3I.
Morning View. Kt.
Charles Warren Stoddard quietly
removes the romance from tho Vene
tian flower girls by saying r "There
are flower-women who offer you a
straw with a bud sod three geranium
leaves at the top of it. Offer, I said.
Offer is a mild word to apply to their
attacks; they stab you in the button
hole with their villainous little bou
quets, and fellow you for half a block
imploring you to buy. If you take
the woman by the nape of ber neck
aad dangle her over the canal for a
few moments she merely smiles when
she returns to earth, and at once se
lects s new boquet, even less desira
ble than the last, with which to be
guile you."
The Granger's trump Spade.
WMm" : NO; 47.
Tkra Waa a Bea Sm.
The Houston, ( Mo.) Pioneer relates '
the following: While Doctor Young
and Hayden Lynch were on their way
from Waynesville to this place they
stepped at a cabin by tho wayside to
warm . The proprietor announced
himself as a doctor of medicine, and
was entertaining his guests with s
vivid account of the honors be bore
off at the McDowell Medical College
at the time of his graduation. ' While
intent on his narrative, an obtrusive
hen, oblivious of . the profundity of
the doctor's discourse, and of her own
duty as a genteel bird, entered the
room, and flying upon the bed depoa -ited
thereon a new-laid agg. A well
bred hen would, of course, have re
tired quietly and waited for another
voice to have sounded her praise, but
this plebean biped, copying her mas
ter's example, at the eloae of the per
formance, cackled loudly to eall atten
tion to the feat she had to expedi
tiously accomplished. The pseudo
doctor was annoyed at the intrusion.
To think that a high-toned chicken of
his own brood, one ho had nurtured
with great care, and instructed in the
profoundest mysteries of hen litera
ture, should to far forget the respect
due her master aa to caekle in his
presence, and thus interrupt and
break the thread of hie narrative, just
at its most interesting part. Annoyed,
yet seeking not to sppear so, bs glanced
furtively about for a missile to hurl
at the offender. A cat at his feet
seemed the most convenient object,
and seizing her by that rear append
age vulgarly called a tail, and with a
back-handed toss threw her at the ob
trusive biddy, and thus drove her
from the apartment. The doctor re
sumed his narration, and the cat en
seonsed at his feet, seemed to take
her use as a matter of course. A few
moments passed and another hen, em
ulative of her predecessor, entered
through a crevice in the logs, sought
the nest, and beside the first deposi
ted another egg, all unobserved by
the master of the house, but much to
the merriment of his guests. - The
host had reached a point in his narra
tive just preceeding the climax, and
was using the pronoun I with fright
ful frequency, just as the hen accom
plished her purpose and broke out
witb the most interna! din of which
the bird language is capable. For
bearance was no longer a virtue; and
the exasperated man sprang to his
feet, made several brief, ejaculalory
quotations not found in Scripture,
and seizing the recumbent rat, waved
her fiercely over his head for a mo
ment, and then hurled her at the of
fending bird. A squall from both cat
and hen ensued a cloud of hair and
feathers arose, and amid the confusion
and din our friends fled the apart
ment, with narrative of the doctor in
complete, and posterity will never be
apprised of the eonclnsion of . the
thrilling tale. , s ' ."
eerret nnaltn
In a discourse delivered in Peter
boro, February 21, 1858, Mr. Smith
said: .- -u,i i':,,: " r-.-;
I confess, perhaps to my shame and
condemnation, that I do not feel a
deep and abiding interest in the next
stage of our being. Far less concerned
sm I to know what is the future state
than to koow and do tho duties of the
present. : . ; -
. I believe in future punishment. - It
is a reasonable doctrine.- It is philo
sophically and necessarily true. Ev
erywhere our character must deter
mine our condition. Every man on
dyicg inut go to bis own place to
the place for whioh his character fits
him. The death of his body can no
more affect his character than the
breaking of his spectacles or cane. It
ia s part of himself. Thst his charac
ter will surely remain eternally un
changed, I deny that any one haa the
right to affirm. Jade teaches that
persons can fall from heaven. Why
then may they not arise from hell ?
For aught we can certainly know,
there may be room in the life to come
fr repentance, as well as apostacy.
In one sense of "everlasting punish
ment," I am aa undonbting believer
in it; for I cannot donbt font punish
ment of the sinner will bo as everlast
ing as his sin. Whilst I confess 1
have no certain spprehensioas of the
kind or degree or continuance of
either future punishment or future
enjoyment, 1 nevertheless confidently
maintain that enough knowledge for
me and for all men on this point is
that in the life to come "it shsll be
well" with the ' rigbteoas and "ill"
with the wicked, and that the "Judge
of all toe world will do right," as well
there as here. Whilst earth is our
home, let ns discharge with alacritr
and delight the duties of earth. In
that way, and in that way only, shall
we get to heaven. I spoke of the fu
ture as place. I had perhaps better
eall it a state. That there are mil
lions of heavens and millions of hells
that they are in short aa numerous
as are the difference in moral charac
ter better answers my conception.
Congress should do its utmost to
wards cutting down expenses. - That
is always a mors popular way of mak- -ing
tho ends meet than increasing
taxation. Still, when all that is pos
sible has been done in tho way re
trenchment, it will probably be found
that more revenue ia really needed
and must be provided. Tho ten per
cent, horizontal redaction of the tar
iff was a serious blander which should '
be promply corrected. Tho restora
tion of tho duties on tea and eeffee is
the very last measure that should be
thought of. ' It will not bo' easily
borne by the people, and both political
parties in tho West in Ohio sod
Indiana, at least were pledged to the
policy of putting tea ana coffee on the
free list. Only a strong emergency,
like that of war. will justify a return
to the former policy. Duties should
be levied, ss tne interests of Aaarncan
labor require, on competing and not
on non-competing imports. .
The editor of tho Madison Courier
siding with tho e hewers of tobacco,
declares that tbo weed is s "powerful
tranquilizer and allayer of irritability."
and that, therefore, it sear bo usefully
employed in tbo household. If he
would step into a Texss bar 'room
about the time tho shooting- com
mences, snd ass how lively some of
his tobacco-showing friends can make
a dull evening, bo would placo less
confidence in tho great tranquilizer.
Tbo State for editors Psatcil-vsnia.
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The Dast few weeks havn mi ten
thousand changes upon ."the reign ot
oppression aad barred" which the Re
publican party haa visited spon ' the
staid, equable, and loug-safferiag peo
ple of the South. ' A document is up
on our table as we" writein which one
of the oppressions is set f'Wih in fig
ares which do toot lie. It is the report
of Secretary' Belknap of lis 'expend i
supplies to sufferers from the over
flow on the Lower Mississippi, and
on the Tombigbee, Warrior, snd Ala
bama Rivers, under tho act ot April
23, 1874, and the aets aad joint
resolutions snppkmeatary thereto."
These acts were passed hy a Republi
can Congress, spproved by a Republi
can President, and carried into effect
by the Regular Army of the United
States., Louisiana bleeding Loaisi-
ana in which State the Goddess of
Liberty has boon so shockiaslv de
floured received daring a period of
118 days 2.699.622 ration i crk.
2,931.688 ratios at corn saeal, 168.300
rations of hard bread., and 2..62.240
rations of beans enough, . says the
commissary of subsistence, . to have
fed 26270 persons dailv during that
portion ot the time. I be Jouth has
been fed by the North when she has
been starving. Northern people havo
flown to the relief of her cities when
the yellow fever has decimated them
laying down their lives in the fruitless
effort to stay the pestilence. Bat to
day all this beneficence is lest sight
of, and the air ia blue with the curses
of those whom we have naraed and
fed. Tho viper, warmed into anima
tion, turns and bites the hand to
which it owes its life. later-Ocean.
rka rawsMttOT Pease.
Senator Peae, of Mississippi, ou
the 25th, sent to the Clerk's deck the
resolutions of the Mississippi Legisla
ture indorsing the action ot Geueral
Sheridan in Louisiana, and said the
President had been declared an
usurper and a military dictator. He
had been arraigned on mere newspa
per reports.. When the - facts came
out it was shown instead of a ay at
tempt to overthrow the government of
Louisiana, the President had only
performed that which his oath of of,
fice compelled him to. The President
waa bound to recognize Kellogg ns
Governor of the State. . Cengress has
taken no action lo establish a govern
ment there, and the President had no
other course than the recognizee of
Kellogg left htm. . He said the act of
Wilts was psrt of a conspiracy oa tbo
part of the Democrats to overthrow
the government of Louisiana. Not
one word of'' censure has come freiu
the Democratic aids of this chamber
toward Wiltz, who was the revolution
ist. He was surprised that an Amer
ican Senator should stand fn bis place
and apologias for the outrages com
nutted, in Louisiana is. tho hist few
years, when it bad -been howa that
3.500- persons bad been - murdered
there for political reasons since 1866.
He read from the report of Mr. Scaurs
upon the condition ef the South made
in 1865, and said ho berged ta assure
Senator Schnrs that the condition of
affairs hs found then bad been grow
ing worse every day since.; This new
movement at the South me a at revolu
tion and the destruction of the Re
public Under the political teachings
of the Senator froas Missouri (Seharz)
bis State bad been turned over to the
secession Democracy, aad be would
have the Republican party now turn
over the South. t the White League
banditti. The old Knklux organiza
tion and the White League of to-day
are the iame, yet these murderer and
assassins had their apologists on this
floor.
A New Englander, riding ia a tail
road car, seemed partiealarlr anxious
to astonish the other passengers with
tough stories of Yankeedotn. ' At last
be mentioned that one of his neigh
bors owned an immense dairy, and
made a million pounds of butter and
a million pounds of cheese yearly.
This story produced some sensation;
and the Yankee, perceiving that bis
veracity was in danger of being que
tioned, appealed to a friend as follows:
-True, isn't it, Mr. P.? I speak of
Deacon Brown you - know Deacon
Brown?" Y-o-o-a." replied, the
friend, '"that is, yea 1 know Deacon
Brown; I don't know aa I ever heard
precisely how mnny pounds of batter
and cheese bo snakes a year,- bat I
know that be has twelve saw mills
that go by buttermilk." j ,
Us TIM Ymb)-; Wife.
The marriage of middle age is com
panionship, tbo second . marriage of
maturity, perbaps the reparation of a
mistake, perhapa tbe pallid transcript
of a hurried joy, bet the marriage of
the lovinr Tonnr is by the direct blesa-
k ing of God, aad the complete idea of a
lovely human life. j. Jrt those who
have found that pearl hold it fast and
keep it safe. Within tbe doors where
love dwells no evil thincrs should en
ter, snd the loving bride who would
be the happy wife must speedily gaard
against ber own impatience and de
spair, when the lover is e met gins into
tne husband, the flatterer into the
friend. Margaret Fuller.:
is ' -
We have the authority of the Chica
go Evening Journal thai tbo Bishop
Wilmer, who protested against Gen.
Sheridan's telegram from' New Or
leans, after swearing before tbe Con
gressional Investigating Committee to
the fact that even a worse state of af
fairs existed ia Louisiana than Sheri
dan reported, was the first Episcopal
minister to refnae - Mring tot the
President of the United States st the
beginning of tbo vrar." We : suppose
that be would even refuse to pray for
Sheridan, now! , -'j. . "..:
t The hast bit of tbe able debate nn
Louisiana aCairs in the, United States
Senate was zssde, tbe other day. by
Gen. Logan when he said:. ."The
Democrats ef this chamber have de
nounced Sheridan more ainee he wrote
that dispatch than they ever denoune
ed Jeff. Davis aad the whole rebellion.
uunavtesi Jewry
ing at tbe eemrtiti
it was thunder-
eoneiif tion." , ; : , ,-,r ,
Abill
Indiana 1
introduced into the
to prevent medi-
aal onaeka irsn iamiaiu m A
love iwblie. A law en the aubieet, of
1 .s a
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.way to . live is to