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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-22
CowARDICE OF THE DEMOCRACY.


COWARDICE OF THE DEMOCRACY.
From the Baltimore American.
When a short time since we suggested that
forcible resistance to the fifteenth amend
ment on the part of the people of Maryland
would be as unwise as it would be hopelessly
futile, we by no means intended to deprecate
an uprising of the people of this country
against the faction now dominant at Wash
ington. On the contrary it is our deliberate
conviction that all further aggressions and
usurpations of Congress should be checked, if
it can be done in no other way, by the mighty
voice of a popular revolution. We speak
these words advisedly. They embody the
doctrines for the vindicaton of which the
founders of the American Republic staied
their fortunes and their lives, and it becomes
this people to cling to them now, despite
the menaces of the faction which Yields the
purse and sword of the nation and controls
the corrupt currents flowing from what
short time since was our great fountain
of justice What is called loyalty
to-day is a barren lie, and true patriotism
means stern and manful resistance to the
powers that be. is there never more to be
opposition to arbitrary rule Is there never
more to be limit to subservient submission?
Are the majority of the citizens of this country
to refrain henceforth from having a voice in
its affairs? Is the radical faction to be suf-
fered to obliterate the Constitution altogether
and forever and to trample at will upon the
rights Of two-thirds of the people! It would
seem So Now or never is the time when
those who would stop this mad radical reyo-
luton must act. No tyrant has ever more
manifestly abused the power condded to him
for the public good than has Congress
has ever rendered himself more justly amena-
BILE to popular indignation and punishment
than the leaders of the radical faction. They
have overthrown the public laws and time
honored, chartered institutions. They bave
cruelty oppressed and wronged thousands
upon thousands of innocent men. They have
| by trickery and violence forced upon the
people of various States rulers whom the
latter Justly and cordially despise. They
have wrested political power from the hands
of the white man and conferred it in large
measure upon the negro. They construct aud
oyerturn State Governments by their own
despotic edicts, regardless of the will or rights
of the governed. They are the masters of this
land, and if they be not now called toaccount,
the American freeman mast soon sink into
the political serf. The hypocrites call their
| course progress" Cromwell called 1t the
Lords work" when he put his foot upon
! all that was best and noblest IN England
stabbed his dragons in her churches and
cathedrals, and filed the Parliament at West
minister Hall with set of ignorant and can't
| ing Jewellers. Marat preached fraternity
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ARMY BREYETS.
From the N. Y. Times.

From the ~ Y. Times.
While there are many doubtful and many
Objectionable features in the Logan Army
bill, as despatched by the House and sent
post-haste to the Senate there is one which
we think can be commended very warmly to
the favor of the latter body-and that is the
section abolishing breyets.
This provision in Mr.. Logan bill is sweep
ing in character and instantaneous in opera
ton. 1t declares that from and after the
passage" of tho act, brevet rank in the army
''shall be abolished and in order to effectu-
ally wipe out all its vestiges, it adds that
thereafter no officer shall assume the title
or wear the uniform of a rank other than that
of the grade actually held by him." Although
80 precise and peremptory, this section of the
House Committees bill was adopted without
amendment aud without debate, and we may
safely predict a similar reception for it in the
Senate.
TO say the truth, the brevet system had
been perverted from a privilege to a habit,
till its rank had become not distinction but
a nuisance. At first, it was confined to it's
original purpose of advancing in nominal
honors officers for whom vacancies in the
actual grade to which they had been bre-
veted were not open. But soon brevets
came in shoals, and not the having one but
the lacking one was the noticeable thing. 1t
can be shown that in many cases officers who
would have shrunk from seeking preferment
through the aid of friends were forced to
have their names pushed for brevets, simply
because the want Of such an additional title
was constructive disgrace. The fashion had
been set, and to appear in public without
such an extra handle to the name was like
mans parading in some old-fashioned ap-
parel
There is no end to the ridicuIe which has
been cast, and deservedly cast, on the service
for this profuse distribution of distinctions
which do not distinguish. II is said on high
authority that, one night in the year 1864, a
stick thrown at dog in front of Willard's
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Hotel, at Washington, hit Eve brigadier-
generals-''and IL wasn't a good night for
brigadiers, either" Shoulder-straps are little
when they are as common as greenbaozs and
of about the same sizes and brevet rank be-
comes trihing when boys are breveted brigs-
ders by the hundred, when Congress raises
whole catalogues Of captains to be colonels by
brevet, and when, to cap the climax States
add their shoals of brevet ranks to those Of
the nation.
The only possible reform was, in "Himlet's"
phrase TO ''reform it altogether" This is
the remedy proposed in Mr.. Logans bill,
which accordingly WILL we presume, have
the support of those who enjoyed the brevet
rank until il became SO common as to be
meaningless
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A MANLY STROKE FOR CIVIL SERVICE
REFORM.

FrOn, the ~ y Erenmg Post
Mr.. William D. Kelley, of Philadelphia, has
served his constituents of the Fourth district
Of Pennsylvania for an unusually long time
in Congress- He is now in his fifth term as
a representative; all this time he has been a
Jealous personal friend of Union, freedom,
the equal rights of citizens, pure and eff
cient executive, and the honest payment of
the public debt. He has done good service in
those matters, and has maintained an unble-
mished personal character
These excellent features of Mr. Kelley's
course would doubtless have been insufficient
to secure for him great popularity in his own
city, without his earnest and even fanatioal
devotion to "a protective tariff" He has
dome everything in his power to build up and
maintain the tax monopolies which enrich
some of his constituents. But while doing
them this service he has neglected his profess
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And this, It must be remembered, is but
one instance, taken at random from hundreds
of others which might be cited. These facts
alone ought to arouse Senators to a sense of
their obligations in this matter to a heavily
taxed people struggling to pay great ma
tional debt
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Could men believe in the efficacy unto sal
walton of prayers and aims, and holy
psalms, there would be much more praying
and giving and chanting than there is
but with Protestants and Rationalists all that
has passed away.
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ever he WAS What does il mean That this
man takes such a step, and 80 coolly refers
his interlocutors to the orders he has received
from Grant? Heretofore we have been told
that this parsonage wanted 60 close the recon-
struction sore; that whatever was done in the
way of delay, evaporation, or unstating was
done by Congress; and that he, in his heart,
opposed the same. And yet here he is in
structing Candy, before there has been SO
much as a breath spoken in this matter in
Congress, TO upset Virginia reconstruction
and set his swerd above the law.
What does it mean? 1t means the man on
horseback, and every bitter Rebel in the South
ecstatic at the thought. What he does to us
of Virginia to-day he will do TO you of New
York tomorrow, one can almost hear them
cry. We fought at the bare possibility, the
faint outshadowing, of such thing you lie
cowed and prostrate when its living presence
is half within your door. Georgia, Tennes-
see, Virginia-what State next? The mo-
tive cause is one that is common to them all.
II means that Democratic Congressman are
not to be elected this fall, even if States So
lemnly recognized as such by this admins
tration have to be put under martial law to
avert that possibility. For this fall, the
States of the South will be sufficient: but in
1872, who shall say where the act Of unstat-
ing hardened by two years prescription into
a right, will terminate?
Congress, be it remembered, did not put
Candy within these few days past in military
command of Virginia anew. Grant did it.
It is the work of the administration, and
dissipates the last film of that cunning which
heretofore has thrown the onus from the
White House to the Capitol.
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GovERNoR SENTER, Of Tennessee,
wished bill passed to preserve the
peace of that State and punish masked
marauders. Such an act was introduced
into the Legislature Of that State, and
defeated by the Radicals. Ten of the
twelve members of that party left the
House, and thus prevented a quorum
The Radicals do not desire peace in
Tennsssee. They provoke disturbances
and then use them as arguments in IA
vor Of Congressional interference in the
affairs of the State. Mr.. FARNswoRTu
declared in his speech that when an
outrageous bill was to be passed in Con
gress the cry Of murder was raised by
BUTLER, and now that game is being
played in Tennessee. The Radicals
prevent the passage of bill to break
up gangs CT Iawless and disguised mer
in Tennessee, and then they implore as
s:s'ance to put down the Klu-Klux and
other organizations. The whole move
ment is adisreputable politicsl trick.
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PERSONALITIES.

1t costs st. Louis lawyers $50 to call
each other "liar' and "cowari"in court,
The Chicago Times says that one OF
those who wept over the pathos of Miss
Dickinson's lecture was--Miss Dickin.
son.
John Onion is the suggestive name OF
an editor. When he peels himself and
gets down heartily to his work, he must
bring water to the eyes of his readers.
Stephen York, of Rochester, New
Hampshire, recently took his bread and
water in prison for four days, rather
than pay his taxes, but finally caved in
and settled up.
Sir Charles Mordaunt will, it is said,
leave England at an early day for Amer.
lea, intending to spend season in the
enjoyment of the sports of our Western
prairies.
One of the greatest proofs Of friend
ship that one woman can bestOw upon
another, says the Saturday RerielC, is to
give her the pattern of some unhack-
ney ed, unpurcbasable article of dress.
A male tyrant in Chicago finds fault
because his wife threw dishes in his
face while he was sick and helpless.
Being a woman of proper spirit, she has
gone to Omaha with gambler.
When Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the
"lae lamented," gets pension, or Mrs.
Stanton gets one years pay for an office
that her husband died before he filled,
would it not be we'll to repeal the tax
on the hand-organs that crippled SOL
diers grind for living.
Bessemer, the inventor of the steel
process, has discovered and patented a
plan by which sea-sickness may be
avoidtd in future. "By the application
of the principles upon which a ships
cOmpasses are suspended, he provides a
room which will be perfectly free from
the rolling or pitching motion of the
vessel. A wOrking-model, which has
been already constructed, shows the
simplicity and efficacy of the plan. The
suspended chamber in this model is
hemispherical in shape, and can be
made with glass roof"
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Income Tax

The following clause of law in regard
to the income tax seems to be botherinG
some honest and other sort of people
"That the taxes on incomes herein i'm
pos sed shall be levied on the lst day Of
March, and be due and payable on c,
before the 18th day of April in each
year until and including the year 1870
and no longer" Now, what is the prr'
pose of this clausef 1t is to define and
declare as what time in the year the
income tax is due and payable. And it
declares very plainly that the tax shall
be due and payable by the ."l3th day OF
April in each year until and including thS
year 1870, and no longer" No payment
Of the tax can be demanded later than
April, 1870, and at that time we pay the
tax on our incomes Of 1869. On tie
income of 1870, therefore, Eo tax is ray-
IL
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0Nothiur in the Paper.0

The following spicy chapter, on The
subject of newspapers, we clip from an
exchange elected, no doubt, by the toe
frequent remarks of the Indifferent
reader, after perusing the news of the
day, that "lhere's nothing in the paper
Itsays:
And men are always grumbling about
their papers, and insinuatipg how much
better they could do it. The talk as
fiippantly about "fine articles" on every
imaginable subject as if they could effect
such a change. Let some of these over
running philosophers tryit for one hun
dred aud fifty days in succession.
And then they think it is nothing tC
select for q newspaper; you have merely
to Iun the scissors through half dozen
exchanges, and you have got matter
enough. Now, this is the most import
ant and most difficult department to til.
on a newspaper. Very few men have
the slightest idea how to do the work
1t require q thorough newspaper man
who knows the public appetite we'll;
who knows what is going on in tht
world, and who knows how to re-writt
and pack column into a dozen lines
Men who skim newspaper and toss II
aside, little reflect how much brains anC
toll have beer. expended in serving up
that meal. Busy heads and bnsy hand:
have been toiling all day 10 gather ant
prepare these viands, and some vas
building has been lit from cellar to gar
ret, all night, to get the paperTeady fol
the newsboy by crack of dawn.
Nothing in the paper " Nothing il
your headl that's what's the matter.
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HERE AND THERE.


If you can't coax fish to bite, try
your persuasive powers on a cross dog,
and you will be sure to succeed.
If you call to see poor family do not
give them a prayer half an hour long,
but send them barrel of flour. 1t will
60 further aud do them more good.
An enterprising gentleman turned an
honest penny by renting anger holes at
81 a peep in q stable overlooking the
Jail yard, at the last Pennsylvania hang
ing.
Because the negro has wool on his
head, is not a good reason why the Rad,
icals should pull it over his eyes.
Mosquitoes are born of poor but hon.
est parents who have in their veins
some of the best blood in the country.
"Lst Us remove temptation from the
path of youth" as the frog said when
he plunged into the water, upon seeing
boy pick up stone.
If you are going to visit at house
where cross dog is kept, take a pistol
along for company. Then when he
snaps at you, you can snap at him.
A woman arrested in Troy, "struck
out from the shoulder" knocking down
the officer. Her sentence was doubled,
and so was he-doubled up.
at isa pleasant thing to reflect upon,
says Dickens, "and furnishes complete
answer TO those who contend for the
gradual degeneration of the human
species, that every baby born into the
world is finer one than the last"
One day last week horse attached to
the Chatfield & st. Charles (Minn. )
stage coach, while troting at the usual
gait, threw of one of its hoofs and
bled to death from the wound in a few
minutes.
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FENIININITY.

Nice. girls who attend the Presidential
levees think Father Grants style of
kissing them too boistereus.
In the game of love, men used to win
women by playing hearts. Now only
those who play diamonds are Successful,
Appended to marriage notice lately
we found "no cards, no company, no.
hody's business" There's independence
for you.
The Chicago bellies number their
suitors and marry them in rotation.
Each one has to wait until his turn
comes.
A young lady in Chicago laid wager
of kiss, but the umpire declared all
bets off because che failed to put up the
stakes.
A cobweb wedding was celebrated
in Iowa the other day. Mr.. Joseph
Cobb was united in marriage to Miss
Kate Webb.
The following toast was given at a
recent banquet: 1.-THE rights Of woman
if she can not be captain of a ship, may
she always command smack"
The model girl of the period lives in
Lafayette, Indiana. She wears with
.pride-and just pride, too-a dress
made up of material woven by her own
fair hands. She is still unmarried.
CHILDREN THAT NEVER CRY.-There
is lady in this city who is the mother
of five healthy, intelligent children, the
eldest of whom is about eight years old.
A singular fact in connection with these
children is, not one of them has ever
been known to cry. They have been
victims to the pains and aches that
child flesh is heir to, yet all the signs of
pain they have ever manifested are low
means. They never cry. In other
things they are as other children, full
of fun aud mirth, and are more than
ordinarily healthful. A physician now
in this city, who has been steady in the
practice of his profession for third OF
century, says this is the most remark
able thing that ever came under his
Observation-Disclosures Ne,c Era.
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deaths is one in 1864 of the population |;
about 54-100 of one per cent. for the
year, or in 1000. In estimating the
number of deaths for compari-
son with reference to climate, we
must deduct the number of
deaths by violence or accident, which
foots up 100, and leaves the number of
deaths by disease l to 95, and the per
cent ofmortality for the year to 81 1OOths
of one per cent. of the population. This
is a much smaller proportion Of deaths
to the population than in any other
State in the Union In Washington
territory in 1860 the proportion was "A
per cent; Oregon, at same time, At;
Minnesota, .G5; Wisconsin, SO. These
are the only States or territories at that
time showing less than one per cent of
deaths in the population. Nearly all
the States and territories show rate
of Ito to LIS per cent. mortality. Two
States only (Arkansas and louisiana
show mortality rate of over two per
cent.
The average rate of mortality in the
United States is l to 79, or 1.27 per cent.
The rate in England is to "A, in France
l to A, in Prussia l to 36, or 277 per
cent. In West Virginia it is to 195,
or one-half of one per cent.
Compare West Virginia with the
New England States, which exhibit as
follows:
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CLARKsBURG DISTRICT.

SAMUEL STEELE, p. z.
Clarksbug Stdtion-To be supplied.
Vest MiDord-Spencer King.
FreemanSburgh-To be supplied.
WeStOn-M. w. Rider.
Frenckton-G. Rogers. /
PruHtytOW"-W. L. Hindman, F
Hughes.
Phillippi-S. B. D. Prlckett.
Buckhannon-H. C.. Sanford.
" Circuit-John ConwelI.
Upshw-J. w. Roger.
FairmOnt-E. c. Wayman.
MariOn-M. Allen.
Lumberport-To be supplied.
BererIy-T. NJ. Hartly.
Salem-J. A. Williams.
Eridgeport-John W. Eckess.
4gent american Bible Society,". L. Ir
win.
Normal School-W. K. White, Princi
pal.
c. H. Lakin transferred to Des Moine'
Conference.
w. E. Williamson transferred to Cen
tral Illinois Conference.
E. F. Pitcher transferred to Philadel
phia Conference.
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Loves Device.

Here is a new reading from Paris OF
the old, old story of lthe course of true
love, etc. A young girl is beloved, and
gives back sigh for sigh, by young
gentleman, her superior, socially. Her
parents forbid the courtship, and re.
quest the lover to visit no more. But
the uncle of the lever is constant Wis
itor-twice a week regularly-at the
house Of the young lady, whose father
is his friend of many years standing
He also passes two evenings per week
in the society of his nephew, whose
love matter he disapproved of. Now
guess how the young people correspond
By inclosing their letters in the uncle:
hat in sure part of the lining; and il
proved a safe letter box, until one
evening paterfdmilias was suddenly
called from home, took uncle's hat il
mistake, and in examining It, found a
letter from his daughter. The latter
was put under lock and key, and it wa:
only after an attempt to suffocate her
self with charcoal fumes, that pity be.
came akin to love.
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neuRridus over the Ohio.

A company TO build a bridge over the
Ohio river near Guyandotte, West Vir'
ginia, has been Incorporated in Ohio
We believe it is for the purpose of af
fording a connection at the point named
between the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad and the Cincinnati and Chesa'
peake. The capital stock of the com
pany is 100000, in shares of 500
The corpOrators are Thomas W. Means
Hiram Campbell, E. NJ. Norton, Cyru;
Ellison, George Willard, L. T. Dean
John Peters, S. w. Dempsey.
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Friday
coRRnsPoNDENCE.

-. ,,i,nds sf tie REGISTER throughput Rss' a
iEe -, ,nd the bor5eriRq counties of Oaeo ah'N
p2r pp%raniG are particularly rsi.stsdt ,toGS % G1
5r promptly ,gh sHy GscSTsSs snS,,:sse G ssI IN
'Htr's,t "sossiqI importance the Telegraph may GT
'l' y or STps,ss ia most eases The Ta 'Sa.
E''s ElabIrdte aud ornate essays are lI2s T ae &c
a,' 5,,, brsf aud accurate tcttsrs g.g,g az Ms
,,s SiaeeS and incidents ot interesting s''''' ~
~y a' setting forth the H'atsrldI eoIla'
.'" ,"nd dCrcIopment Cf the country; ne eLCPS,
5sn YER, Of land, and all other subjects G terss'
. 3; Agriss5rSI g y Srop, 1S,s,"asS p%s!sSsd Ssf
'"c m public meetings Of l7hdtsrer ndthre
A% o,k;r occasions Of interest 10 the people, to'
b tc,la0ms. t,:k !, ,c,.r tbnt shcQ reject
hs .o,nss from hS People, and IS Of rGtu[
,sHiI g iatrsst to em I0ia reee1e our instant ana
S..L al attention.