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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22

disorganization of society, must feel;
a you do feel, that you have had no
rympathy, no help, no encouragement;
and that which was approved on the
part of the people of Chicago in the
defense OF society in the midst of her
trouble, is made an accusation and
held up against you by the vindicitiye
passions and the animosity Of your
political opponents.
rejoice that all the suffering you
have undergone, all the perils
through which you have passed, have
not deprived you ofthe disposition to
sympathize with the sufferings OF
others. loud applause.) The small
offering which the impoverished South
has been able to send to Chicago will
weigh like the widows mite; it will
have the blessing of God. (Applause.)
1t will teach your oppressors that
whilst suffering and smarting under
wrong such as no people have borne
before, this has not extingnshed in
your hearts the common bond of hu.
manity. prolonged applause.)
Ny fellow citizens, we knew before
that that feeling still lived and burned
in the hearts Of the people of the
South; men as brave as they showed
themselves TO be in the great strug.
gle which has passed could never for.
get the claims OF humanity. Loud
and prolonged applause.) Ruin and
insult have not been able to extin
guish your sympathy nor your hu
manity, and the time is coming, and
nearly come, when the whole people
of this country will recognize tha
truth which all the soldiers who
fought against the South already ac
knowledge. (Cheers.y
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACTS.

When Washington Irving was
about leaving Sir Walter Scott-after
having spent an hour in the society of
that great mamie extended his hand:
Scott accepted and said: II VIII not
say farewell because it always makes
me sad, but WILL say, come again
and make this your home"
Bayard Taylor once called on Hum
boldt. The venerable Baron met him
cordially, saying as he did so, aYou
have travelled much, Mr.. Taylor. and
seen many ruins, now You see anoth-
er." "Not ruin," replied Taylor, abut
pyramid"
The poet Rogers was one evening
at reception, and in promenading
with lady, remarked, stheren point
ing her out, 'is beautiful girrl.' sBut"
retorted his companion, ashe is so
young" "Ah,n said Rogers, ito us
who are old, the young are alway
beautiful
Alexander the Great ence had a
number of prisoners, and one day
proposed to free them all if they
would give satisfactory answers to all
questions asked. Among others he
asked one of the captives (which is
the most numerous, the living or the
dead?" To which this answer was
readily given: The living, for the
dead no longer exist"
| Probably of all the beautiful and
eloquent passages ever written by
Geo ge d. Prentiss the following is
the hnest:
1T cannot be that earth is mans
only abiding place. 1t cannot be that
earth is bubble cast by eternity to
float a moment upon its waves and
sink into nothingness. Else why is it
that the high and glorious aspirations
which leap like angels from the tenn
pie OF our hearts are forever wander
J ing unsatisfied? And why is it that
bright forms of human beauty are
: presented to cur view and taken from
us, leaving the thousand streams OF
our affection to flow back in an Al
pine torrent upon our hearts? Thers
, is realm where the rainbow neve,
t fades; where the stars will be spread
! out before us like the islands tha,
: slumber in the ocean, and where the
: beautiful beings which pass before u,
3 like shadows will stay forever in oul
!; presence"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22
MORMON DISTRIBUTION OF
WIVES.

A characteristic anecdote, one
which I have often heard related by
the Mormons themselves, will clear
ly illustrate this principle in the au-
thoritative distribution of wives. -
Among the applicants to Brigham
for this especial privilege of modern
saintship, there came, one day, a
brother of unusually bad character,
when something like the following
dialogue ensued:
so, you want wife, do you ??
eyes, if you please, Bro. Brigham .
"Well, the short of the matter is,
that you can't have one"
"Why can't I have one as well as
the other saints?"
$50, you want to know the whole
story, do you?"
Eyes; l should like to know why I
can't have more than one wife, as well
as the rest of EN-"
"Well, you shall know in short
order Iaoant your race to die out r.
I will not stop to discuss the ques-
ton how far the principle is probably
carried out in the actual administers
! ton of affairs in certain cases not SC
easily disposed of as was the above,
nor how far the temptation to appro-
pirate to themselves the choicest eve.
| lambs of the flock is likely to be re.
sisted by those whose power in such
cases is mainly limited by their will
I strongly suspect, however, from
certain hints and glimpses of facts
which have come under my notice
that special instances might bs
brought forward of rather a damag
ing character as to the perfect i'm
maculateness of this kind Of admin
istration. At the same time, it may
perhaps, be freely admitted, that, a,
general thing. the principle pro
fessed is honestly carried out, or, a
least, that it is lived up to about Al
closely as principles generally are, b.
persons not especially remarkable fo
conscientious scruples. = Ocerldlat
, Monthly for December.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22
THE NEW DRAGOyADE.

How strange and incredible it will
seem TO the children of the next gen.
Grafton, when reading the history of
the United States, to come across
such narrative as the following:
A factious and violent minority of
the people have secured temporary
control of the Congress, and there be-
ing selfish soldier as Executive, who
kept his own counsels, and was will
ing TO be tool in order to realize his
ambitions; such legislation was pro-
cured at the sessions of 1S70-'71 as
virtually subyerted the liberties of
America. 1t was not long before
General Grant showed what use he
intended to make of the dictatorship
conferred upon him. Having by proc.
lamation, feigned the existence of
state of war and insurrection in
time of profound peace, and in sec
tion of country where poverty and
the mere necessities Of existence
pressed too sore for the people to in
dulge in the luxury even of political
agitation. much less revolt, he follow
ed his menace with aspeedy and ter
rible blow-such a blow as had never
before fallen on the people of this
continent.
The habeas corpus was suspended,
martial law was proclaimed, the troops
were marched into the doomed dis
trict, and reign of terror was estab-
lished, like that established by Collot
and Fouche at Lyons, and by Carrier
at Nantes, in the era of the first
French Republic. Then was seen the
strange and bitter spectacle of United
States troops marching and counter
marching from Jail, "escorting" help
less citizens, arrested for no crime,
without warrant or excuse, and inn
prisoned without law and without
remedy. Then was seen the stranger
spectacle still, of the peoples cavalry
Taiding upon their masters, besieging
homesteads, invading hearths at night
and with drawn sabers dragging citi-
zens from their homes and beds in
obedience to irresponsible snbalterns.
Then was seen also, the saddest and
strangest spectacle of any, the entire
good people of nine counties aban-
doning their homes and goods and fly.
| ing in terror and despair to the
swamps and woods and mountains, to
escape the Justice" of "Government;'
just as, only week before, the people
of Wisconsin and Michigan had te
flee to escape the tenderer mercies o.
confagrations! And this, all this wa.
done, not to enforce any doctrine o
national concern, any grand politica
scheme, not even to procure the pre-
dominance of a party, but simply te
destroy the lingering vestiges of
confirmed opposition to the re-elec
ton of General Grant in 1872! Ant
the American people stood by, witt
folded hands, indifferent, if not con
senting.- Washington Patriot.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22
JAMES BUDGE, OF THE MUD
SCOW KATE.
-as 81.

Here, from the Boston Goxene, 10 poem thst
was built Milton IL our authority for the yssdl
to beat Jim Bludso," and has done it:)
Oh. yaas I kDow'd him like book
I know'd him both root and branch
And there warn't better bearfed esss
Went Ioafn around the ranch.
guess you're stranger in these parts,
For its getting mighty late
To tell the story how bold Jack Badge
Saved the stauncb old mud-scog Kate.
He warn't no common sfouch. you bet
He'd the heart Of roar5n' lion;
And his hands was as hard as kpefted osk,
And bis heart was torgh IRON.
He'd take no cheek. but as quick as thooght
Would out with his fasbin knife,
And rip IL into feller's ribs.
The most natural thing in life.
I've seen him gouge out suckers eye,
And ebaw of the end Of his nose:
Then put six slugs through bis tarnsI hide,
As easy as 'here she goes."
Yes, Jack noble-beartcd boy,
There's no discount on that:
And be laid out bis critter every time
That be made up his ind for q sDat.
Lor. I've seen him mash bis dad in the jaw.
And slap his old mothers snoot;
Aud II they chiDneG him back again
He cussed and drank like a bully boy,
And wish we had him back.
All II ever . Christian went aloft,
That ChristiAu was poor old Jack.
Bot Tn clean foryettin' the mud-scow Kate,
That Jack Bulge chaDced to save,
With Cap'D and crew and Passengers,
From sarfin watery grave.
I've heard him swear, If the tine should come
And r. should be aboard,
That Nd die TO save that brave old scov
II it suaked him afore the Lord.
And this Is the way II was. you see
'Twere 3 starless night 10 June;
| He was playin' the drum shipmate's head,
Below. With Stone spittoon;
When the Captain called all hands on deck
! For the waves was Tisin' high.
And the air was full of angry sounds,
And storm was l. the sky.
The barometer hung on the binpacIe mast
And il made q drefBe show,
A. the mereur fell. and fell. and fell,
Til IL never fell so low.
! WI II did Jack do a. he saw Il fall?
He give orful frewn,
And seized the darned jigamsree IN o fam,
And turned it upside down.
Az be held it tight in deathly grasp.
He shivcred from top % toe.
For the storm had fou BIT hard to have its way,
But IL hadn't no sort Of shew:
For his grip was grip of iron, you see,
And be gripped with grim despair.
Till the clouds cleared Of and the wind died
| ont,
And the sky once more was fair.
| But be still held that barometer
The dewuside up. as you've heard,
| And stopped that storm q comm on,
! To be Just as z ~od as bis word
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22
From the New York Sun.l
CHAS. A. DANA AND u. 8.
GRANT.

The Louisville Commercial is gen.
orally a sensible paper; but it falls
into ridiculous nonsense when it says
that 1.-The editor of the Sun has a
bitter personal hostility toward Gen
eral Grant" We have no more per-
sonal hostility against Gen. Grant
pow than we did in 1868. when at
Vicksburg we saved him from being
relieved from his command and sent
back to sell sole leather at Galena on
salary of $500 a year. Supporting
him then did not grow out of person
al reasons; neither does opposing
him now. He was good General
but he is very lad President, and
his continuance in Office would be ar
unmixed evil to the country. Thai
is the whole story.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22
FOR SALE.
NOTICE.

A LII PERSONS OWING ON sUBSCRIP-
tion or mute on acc count of railroad compile
fion to Albany please call and settle Immediate
y. BEN. HOLLADAY,
v7u6 #. By ]. q. Foster.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22

The honor of being the richest man
in the United States lies between
William B. Astor, Cornelius Wander
bilt, and A. T. Stewart. Probably
neither of these gentlemen can tell
within SO. 900. 900 Of what he is
worth, and there is not supposed to
be much difference between them.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-12-22

Aworthy temperance advocate. who
was engaged in getting up facts for a
new lecture, visited penitentiary
to learn the experience of the con-
victs. Addressing the first prisoner
he came to-a burly burglar-he
said My friend. did whisky have
anything to do with bringing you
here?" Eyes, it had all to do with
it" "How SOP" "Why, the Judge
and jury who tried me were all drunk !
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
EreyitipS,

John RoraX, Of Blount county, raises
81 bushels of corn to the acrc-upland.
The South Carolina colored Secretary
of State has resigned.
Mrs. Julia Savings, who killed her
husbands paramount at San Francisco,
has been acquitted.
y negro who attempted an outrage
upon white woman near Musor, Mo-,
was hanged by citizens.
Casscyvillc, near Salt Lake, contains
13 buck Mormons, who have. in the ag-
grcgatc, 81 wives and J22 children.
Benz L. Davidson has been indicted
in the Federal Court at Cincinnati for
presenting fraudulent vouchers for for
age.
Victor Powell. a confederate of Col.
Stokes in the alleged Tinker Dave swim
die. has been released on 4 bond of ten
thousand dollars.
1t is said that Col. Killcbrcw, of the
Nashville Union and American, knows
more about farming than Horace Gree
ley.
Both branches of the Georgia Lcgs-
laturc have passed resolution denun-
ciatory OF Governor Bullock, aud i'm
peaching his vcracity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
Hog Market.

The COJier journal of the Sth says:
The packers of Louisville are now
paying more for hogs than is paid at
any other point. Prices range from to
4 cents. One gentleman bought sew
eral lots yesterday at Al , and a fine lot
at AZ. and others are purchasing at the
same figures. In Cincinnati the market
is quoted as weak at 4 to 1-5. This
was more or less the case, we believe
last ycar--thc Louisville market offer
ing almost uniformly the highest rates
quoted. The prices paid this seasorare
so much less than those of last year as
to allow the handling of a vast amount
more pork with the same capital. The
price last year was, in round numbers,
six cents, or nearly fifty per cent. higher
than the present price. II money is as
plentiful and available as it was last sea-
son. the same establishments will DO
able to use II much larger number of
hogs than they did then. and probably
more than they will be able to get.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
County Warehouses;.

\ contemporary gives the following
synopsis Of the bill now pending in the
Tennessee Legislature for the establish
mcnt Of warehouses in the various
counties of the State:
The act provides that all offenders
punishable by imprisonment in the
county jail, or by imprisonment in the
PenitCntiary. where the term does not
exceed three years. shall be hereafter
punishable by confinement At hard labor
in the county workhouse. 1t no way
mobiles or changes the degrees or
grades of crimes as the same now exists
and are defined under the laws of the
State.
The bill further provides that each
county shall provide for such lands.
buildings and articles rs may be nccCs-
sary for the establishment of work
house: and appoint suitable persons to
supervise the work. who shall receive Il
reasonable compensation therefor, and
shall MAKE necessary rules for the rcgu-
lation of the inmates. which shall not
conflict with the existing laws of the
State.
All revenues arising from the county
warehouses shall belong to the rcspcc-
tive counties, and shall 90 into the conn
ty treasury and be controlled as other
county funds.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
War Predicted.

The New York Herdld says: Prince
Bismarck speech to the members of tho
Prussian Legislature on the subject Of
the National War Fund bill is one of
the most important open cnunciations
which the world has had from the ia
nous German statesman for long time
past. Bismarck tells the Prussians to
make ready for war. He AYERS that
such q preparation is rendered absolute
ly necessary by the existing condition
of affairs in the Old world. When
Prince Bismarck makes such an asser-
ton he knows full well the grounds on
which he makes it, so that we are forced
to accept the confusion that Europe is
approaching another and grand convul-
sion by war, for such is really the indi-
cation conveyed in cable telegram
which reached us from Berlin at an
early hour this morning.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
Monroe County.

Some of our patrons in Monroe-and
we have quite a number in that direction
want to know what has become of the
bill restoring the Chancery Court ofthat
county, and attaching it to Chancellor
Keys District We are unable to an
swer positively, but believe the bill has
passed three readings in the popular
branch of the General Assembly and
one reading. if not two. in the Senate.
Whether it is sleeping in the Commit
tee Room the sleep that knows no wax
ing, or has been delayed for some good
and substantial reason, we are unable
even to guess. THERE'S said to be a good
deal of feeling in Monroe county on the
subject, and we regret our inability to
furnish the desired information.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
South Carolina.

The statement below is from source
friendly to the administration who re-
sides in Chester county, South Carolina.
When Grant reads, and learns the facts,
if he has soul susceptible of the ordi-
nary emotions, it might be supposed
that he would feel tolerably streakcd.
The Chester man says:
Midnight arrests, breaking open hous-
cs and sending men to prison without
permitting their relatives or lawyers to
see them will not remedy the evil. To
day the people of Newbcrry arc stupi-
fled tomorrow they may be something
worse. In Union, Spartauburg and
York counties. the feeling is intensely
bitter. Men are fleeing from their
homes because they are not safe from ar
rcst. Any negro can have dozen
white men arrested and they dare not
ask the reason. Let an unprecedented
person come to this section of South
Carolina. and sec for himself whether
unprincipled sCoundrcls have not mis-
represented the people to the President.
Let him traverse the nine counties and
point out Il single insurrCctionary band
or a single individual who has resisted
the officers OF the law, and | will take
back all have written and justify the
proclamation OF martial law. What ii
may be to morrow or next week know
not. How far the relatives Of those men
who have been dragged from their
homes and put into prison may 60, no
ono can tell. | only know that to-day
politics are at the bottom of this whole
busr css. and il looks as if designing
men had. by means Of the most damna-
bic lies, induced President Grant to aid
them in devilish design to provoke the
South into another attempt at rcvolu-
ton.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
ErOm Standardization.

A friend Mt Nashville, who OCCASION
ally uses about the Capitol, writes that
there is great diversity of opinion as to
the proper rate of taxation, and init
mates that 40 cents on the ono hundred
dollars worth of property will proba-
bly, be agreed upon as q compromise
between the advocates of u heavy re-
duction and those who urge standard
necessary to meet the urgent and press
ing wants of the State. We hope not.
With as much sclfshncss as other pco-
pie, our first impulse when the Legisla-
turc met was to join the clamor for Tor
tdres, but subsequent thought and re-
Election have satisfied us that the rate
provided in the Committees bill, print
ed on another column, is as far down as
we ought to go at this time, and in this
we think we but agree with large ma
iority of the taxpayers of our section.
We would not presume to shape or to
misrcprcsent public sentiment in refer
once to a question in which the property
and industry of every substantial citi-
zen is involved. We are all alike inter-
ested in Keeping up the character and
credit of our State, and, speaking for
our own people, we are confident the
burden Of taxation, however hard it
may seem for the time, will be cheerful
ly borne rather than that the shadow of
suspicion or faint should rest upon the
good faith and integrity of the Common
wealth. We believe the views on this
particular subject enunciated in Cover.
nor Browns message are correct and in
conference.-the, and that the people Of
the State generally and Irrespective of
party approve and will endorse them
whenever the opportunity occurs.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
Internal Revenue Bureau.

There is said to be much excitement
among the revenue men, as some heavy
''ir,egularities" have already been dis
covered and no one can tell where the
lightning will strike next. a recent
Washington date says:
In the Internal Revenue Bureau the
Commissioner has directed that there
shall be a prompt settlement of all ac-
counts of collectors, and taxes carried
on the books and reported as uncollcct-
ed for reasons other than is allowed by
law must be at once paid into the Trea-
sury. The enforcement Of the order has
brought TO light irregularities which
promise to impicate number OF high
officials in the revenue service. who have
INDUCED in the prevailing vice Of the
age. Evidence of the guilt of these men,
whose names have not been made pub
lie, will at once be filed with the At
torncV General.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
Georgia.

Acting Governor Connelley's message
was sent into the Legislature on the 4th.
He says nothing about an election. lie
hopes that there will be no ground for
further reconstruction. He promises
retrenchment. lie says he cannot now
tell ofthe disposition ofthe State bonds,
and urges an investigation of the matter.
lie counsels the execution of the laws
and promises to pardon sparingly. lie
argues for free education but against
mixed schools, and urges that the State S
pecuniary faith be kept inviolable.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
Consolidation.

a bill "authorizng Railroad Compa-
MES to consolidate with each other. by q
sale Of the property and privileges OF
one or more companies to another, and
providing for the issuance of Railroad
Bonds after such consolidation" has
passed the requisite readings in the Sem
ate, without material opposition, and
was made the special order for Tuesday
in the other House. The bill seems to
be general in its provisions, but it is al
legged that one object sought in its adop-
ton is to enable the Memphis and Char
lesion Company to finish the Manches-
ter and McMnnvllc Road to the Ken
lucky line, and then connect with the
Danvilc Road through Eastern Ken
tuckv
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
Election RrtnrnH.

The returns from Tuesdays elections
are too mcagrc to indicate the result
Maryland is largely Democratic; New
Jersey has probably elected Demo-
cratic Governor. In New York, the
Democrats carry the city by about the
usual najority-30,000; Tweed is large
ly elected, and the Tammany Ticket
generally. Brooklyn, $4,000 Democratic.
Returns from the interior indicate Re-
publican majority in the Legislature.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1871-11-09
Consistency,

WE admire and commend that sense
of party fealty and devotion which re-
CARDS organization and compactness as
paramount and essential to success; but
we haven't a very large amount of faith
in the honesty or patriotism of those
who, though continually clamoring on
the subject, are always ready to lose
sight of party, and, if necessary to Sc
cure the end, strike hands with the OPP
position whenever there is selfish or
local object to promote. Such are nei-
Their safe leaders nor reliable followers.