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The Twenty-6fth anniversary of the
election of Plus TX. to the Papal digni
ty was celebrated on the 14th Of Jan
nary at Rome. This event was celcbra-
ted with great deal of pomp, as it is
the only time that such festival was
celebrated since the existence Of the
Catholic Church. The Buon Seno, of
Rome, says that only one Pope OF Rome
has been longer in Office than Plus TX,
and that was ST. Peter.
State Senator johnson, of Mississip.
pi, has proposed an act for the imprison-
ment of any one using profanc language
on the Sabbath.
W. D. Winter, of Bayou Sara, La,
insured his life for 100000, and then
procured himself to oe assassinated. !"
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w Some time ago interest was ava

-.
EE Some time ago interest was ava
kened in regard to one Harry Meiggs,
an American, road builder in Chilli
Private advices have given further par
ticulars in regard to him. He is known
as the great American -spendthrift. Hc
has now changed his base of operations
from Chill to Peru. In his last contract
he took Peruvian bonds in payment, and
sold them in Europe at such an advance
as to clear about S7,000,06O. He lives
in the largest house in Lima, and on Pc
rnvlan independence day he paid 81.
600 for the erection of gaspipes to IL
illuminate his house on the exterior. He
frequently invites parties. o. hundreds
to take pleasure excursions on hisroads
a recent one cost him nearly fifty thou
sand dollars. He paid an artist 5000
for large Photographic views Of the ex-
cursion train. His last contract awards
him forty millions. He does great good
with his money; has under him hosts Of
poor men, for whom nc has no use, but
keeps them employed so as to give them
money. In charity he gives away for
tune every month.
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~Oratorical gentle

w Oratorical gentlemen who have
been inclined to spread themselves upon
Fourths of Julysw will please take a geo.
graphical and descriptive point from
this magnificent outburst which is char.
ged to the occount of a member of the
Indiana Legislature: aColumbia reaches
from the ice fettered lakes of the north
to the febrile waves Of Australian seas,
comprising the vast interim of Eve bill
ions of acres, whose alluvial plains, ro-
mantle mountains, and mystic rivers ri.
val the widest Utopian dreams that ev1
er gathered around the inspired bard as
he walked the amaranthine promenades
Of Hesperian gardens"
Who speaks nowY ss s..->
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PEACE! pEACEl PEACE!
A TREATY AGREED UPON.
It Will be Signed Immediately
Germans to March Through Paris,
And Then TO Return Home.
The Assembly 10 Adjourn 10 Paris.

PARIS, February l3-Every thing has
been arranged at Bordeaux A cons
mittee to negotiate a treaty of peace has
been selected, and the draft of the treaty
has been approved by Bismarck and
Moltke. The treaty will be signed i'm
mediately, and the German troops will
then march through Paris to Strasburg
Station, and there will take tram for
home. Trains will follow each other as
rapidly as possible. The Assembly will
then adjourn to Paris and proceed with
the reorganization of France.
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Brlt.sl,Ir

{ OF the total exportof British rails for
the first three months OF 1870, barely
i69,4S0 tons were taken by al the ont
lying.British possessions, including In
dla, with her two hundred millions OF
people. Deducting these, Great Britain
sold to all foreign countries whatever
692 73S tons of rails, whereof the Uni
ted States and Russia--.wo Powers
which protect their own ,industry-took
no less than 5l7219 tons, leaving bu,
115,5I9 tous as her total export to all
other countries. YORK. Tribune.
This, too, is gravely urged by the or
gan of the monopolists as an argument
forprotection The fact that the only
two countries which have protective tar
IFS on grand scale are the only two
countries which are compelled to buy
their railroad iron IN foreign narts, in
stead of being able to manufacture itatI
home! Iron is the most highly sprotcc
ted" of all our industries it is fortified
behind an intricate series of breast
works; !; it is screened 10y ircn.elad defen-
ces Of tariff, drawback, and bounty, and
by all the contrivances and devices or
the shrewdest aud most unscrupulous.
politicians in Congress; 1T has all the ad-
vantages Of enormous demand, cheap
q
coal, and the greatest abundance of the
best and most economical material and
yet SO absolutely paralyzed is American
industry by the pressure of ,s;;protection"
upon its every nerve and fibre, that it is
not able to profit by any Of those facti-
tious advantages, but sits with hands
tied, dazed, bewildered, helpless, like
some unhappy victim of sorcerer's
COMPUTATIONS! Our industry is in the
condition OF that unhappy bear, Who,
when he hsd nothing to eat, and was
going to suck his own paws, was incon-
tinently s:sut out from even that poor
comfort by being muzzled: Meantime,
lit is evident from the present state of the
iron trade, that protection still does not
protect, and that we shall have the iron
masters of Pennsylvania coming down
to Washington again, and dolefally
grinding out new variations to their old
song:
"a ladle to my silver dish
Is all want, is ell wish"
We shall hear the CAaERoNIAN whisper
and the KELLEY blate, and once more
will Mr.. GREELEY. act over again that
pleasant proyerb, in two scenes, Of the
boy who-wanted mustard to put on his
beef, and when he had got that ingeni-
ously requested some beef to put his
mustard on! As long as We have spro-
rected industries. we shall have stagna-
| Ting industries, "Protection" will never
lead to the invention; OF q reaping ma
chine, machine for making gunstocks,
Hoe press, or Michigan plow. It is
demand and competition which produce
Esuch inventions; and nothing IS so fatal
to demand and to competition as'the dead
incubus and nightmare burthen of pro-
lection. le
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RHscuiity Rewarded.

1t was supposed for while after the
ChorpeGning developments that Cres-
wells place in the Cabinet would cer-
tainly be vacated: SHUT the public arri-
wing ut this conclus,on." writes Dom
Piatt to the Commercial, ..know very
little of his Excellency, Gen. Grant
The way he incllnes to the wrong side
is really astonishing. General Cox made
his fight againts fraud and found the
President in his way. Mr.. Crcswell is
caught playing into the lands of rogues,
and the President actually sustains him"
The indignant scribe continues:
"The Pennsylvania politicians have
been determined to put Creswell out, and
have Postmaster General from their
beloved State Until this Chorpenning
affair occurred, 1t was supposed they
would succeed. Now, however, Mr..
Crcswell is firmer in his place than ever.
At the first White House reception af-
ter the exposure, Mrs. Grant invited
Mrs. Creswell to receive with her; and
the President not only attended the re-
ception at CreswelPs house, but went
out Of his way to show that the Chor-
pennipg agent had the countenance. We
are getting to be just the least bit impe-
rial in our ways here, and have the coun-
teNance. For the first time in the histo-
ry of the Executive Mansion, the SER
wants appear in livery. His Excellency
is surrounded by the military. There
is continual jingling of spurs and
clank of sabres, and the ilustrious 'tan-
ner,' now grown so great, can only be
reached through a battalion of funkeys,
and Brigadier Generals (by brevet) are
as thick as blackberries. hrs. Grant,
when she receives, is surrounded by her
ladies of honor, and the handsome, jolly
General Micnler acts as master OF cere.
monies, and presents the vulgar crowd
to their exclusive Exeellencies."
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THE w AIR.

GERMAN ARMY TO ENTER PARIS ON SUNDAY.
LONDON, February l3.-A telegraph
Versailles special, dated the 18th. says
the German army will make a triumphal
entry into Paris, at noon, on the 18th
inst. The Emperor will proceed to the
Tuileries, and after partaking of lunch
will review the army. In case the Tuil-
cries should not be in condition for the
reception of the Emperor, he will occu,
py the Palace of Elysees. The Emper-
or will return to Berlin on the last Of
February.
BORDEAUX, February 13.-At the pre-
paratory sitting of the French National
Assembly today, about 800 deputies
were present. The session was formally
opened and secretaries appointed.
FLORENCE, February 13.-The italian
Parliament declared the libraries and
galleries of the Vatican to be national
property. The measure was objected to
by the ministry.
BERLIN, February 13-The Prnssian
Cross Gazette judges from the result OF
the elections in France that the resump-
ton Of the war need not be expected,
and thinks there is scarcely a doubt that
the arrnistice will be prolonged.
VERSAILLES, February 13-Hostilities
continue in the departments of Jura and
Daubs, the French refusing to accept the
armistice
TIE ARMlsTIcE PROLONGED.
LONDON, February 15.-The Berlin
special correspondent to the London
Times telegraphs that journal thai
in consequence of the pacific result ot
the French elections Count Won Bis,
marck has prolonged the armistice for .
week, this agreement to be dependent
on certain military conditions.
BELFoRT suRRENDERs.
DIXON, February 15.-Belfort has sur
rendered. The garrison will be allowed
to march out with all the honors of war
RESUMPTION OF HosTILITIEs EXPECTED
VERSAILLES, February 14-It is re
ported that General Faidherhe, in re
cent communication to the French Gov
crnment, stated that the Army of th'
North.is in readiness again to meet eli
ther foreigners or internal disturbers..
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EDosx PIArr says that there is a
robust conviction at the capital-young
but doirg well-that the denomination Of
GRANT isn't a necessity to the Republi-
can party.
GRANT win be renominated, neverthe-
less; and DosN PIArr will support him,
and SO will SunssR and the balance of
the factious Radicals.
The men who will Gefeat GRANT at
the polls don't belong TO that class they
viii be the honest, straight forward vo-
ters, and not the professional politicians.
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rs-Ricbard Smith. of tbe Cincinnati

EF- Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati
Gazette, writing from Washington, says !:
"The Republican is essentially an honest
party On the other hand, ,Donns Piatt,
thorough Radical, and far more con
versant than Smith is with the inner life
and habits of the thing, says: .'The Re
publican party is the party Of organized
rascality.' The history of the party
since its success gave it the opportunity
to develop its qualities proves conclu-
sively that Piatt, and not Smith has the
correct appreciation Of its distinctive
trait.
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The New York Democrat says: eMrs.
Donnelly, of Philadelphia, has left this
vale Of tears per keresoEe express, ow'
ing to the fact that her FIRE would. mol
burn alone. They found q piece OF the
can which contained the fluid IN an ad
joining county, and on It, in large let
ters, was mon explosive T6is is thi
kind to buy.s' ssn
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EyNA bill has been reported IN tue
Virginia Legislature favoring an appro-
priation for the purpose ofinyestigatlng
the proprioty end feasibility of the ar
tificial breeding of fish in the mountain
streams, rivers, and bays of the State.
Care will be taken to facilitate the up
ward passage Of the migratory fish, such
as. shad, bass, and cels, by fsh-ways
over the dams in the rivers. and all the
fresh. water streams OF the State will be
replenislled by the artificial propagation
Of fish and by depositing in them va
rieties of fresh water fish from other
streams.
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Members OF the Grant Family Not
Yet Appointed 10 Any once.
IVHIo OurfesPuHueHce NeW ufh DuA'J
FULL COUSINS ON MOTHERS SIDE.

lVHIo CorfesPuHuence NeW I Ufh buH.J .
FULL COUSINS ON MOTHERS SIDE.
J. S. Griffith, a. R. Griffith,
Louis A. Griffith, Mrs. NJ e. Ashburn.
R. d. Griffith. 4
S FULL COUSINS ON FATHERS SIDE.
VIM. Marshall,S ,Sr., Col. j. G. Marshall.
JAS. H. Marshall, Mrs. John Marley.
SECOND COUSINS SUFFERING IN THE COLD.
VIM. Marshall, jr. Nella Griffith,
White Marshall, Thos A.. Griffith, 81
Billy Marshall, Mrs. Belle Kennedy.
Mrs. Melissa Elrod:
uNcLEs AND AuNTs WHO ARE vrRt CHILLY,
Samuel Simpson, Mrs Marg Marshall
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The way 1t Oppresses the People

The Way 1t Oppresses the People.
To THE FD1roRs OF THE EVENING Posr:
We have just closed up our farm ac-
counts for 1870. Among the items Of
expense / ind the article Of salt. ! use
but little salt for packing meats; small
quantity for family. use. Our salt is
consumed mostly for cattle, and some
for curing hay. have used six barrels
for the year on farm of little over two
hundred acres. On comparison of pri-
ces with former times, / find have paid
for the protection of the salt monopoly
OF Syracuse about nine dollars sup
pose there may be three thousand farms
about my average in the county. The
county therefore pays about twenty-sev-
en- thousand dollars yearly to support
the monopoly. As there is a consider
able quantity of salt used for packing
meats and other purposes, it can not, /
think, be unfair to estimate this tax for
Oneida County at forty thousand. dol
lars. This the county pays to enable
the salt company to divide some six
hundred per cent on their investment
We formerly supposed those saline
springs were benefit to Central New
York. But it appears they are only a
protection to monopoly.
It is apparent that if the State should
bore a hole through the earth and let
the salt brine fow out the opposite side,
we should save in this county $4,000 a
year on our salt, if We could only al
low the people On the other side to send
salt to MS free of any charge for the
protection of the salt monopoly.
In addition to many taxes for sup
port of the government, Congress has
laid on us this tax for the protection Of
the salt monopoly. However this may
appear to Congress. as farmers We re-
gard it as wholly unjust and oppressive.
We think it legislation to protect mon
opolies at our expense, taxing the many
for the benefit of the few. Now, as our
taxes for government purposes are in.
creased tour-fold, we protest against this
oppression in the further tax for this
salt monopoly.
As an excuse for continuing this op-
preston, it is said this Congress will not
have time to give the attention necessary
to revise the tariff 1t would not take
much time to mend it in this and sever
al other items that are notonously q
mere tax on the people, and a protec.
ton only to monupolies. If they can
not do all that should be done, they,
can do much to relieve the existing op-
press.on-and they will be wise if they
remember we have votes, and that we
begin to learn how to use them. There
lis no excuse for this salt monopoly. The
labor is small and the oppression large
This oppressive Protection has made
what Providence designed to be a bless
ing to the people only a blessing to
monopolists. So far as the people are
concerned, the blessing is turned into a
curse.
may call your attention to some
other very prominent wrongs that Con
gress should correct at once; for / be-
lieve we had better have reforms as fast
as we can get them, and not wait for
these until we may have the whole
Oneida County Farmer, IN Post, { ". 7. }
January Is, 1871.
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EEA striking illustration of the
Protection sophistry is afforded by
the fact that when the projectors of the
great Macon cotton factory in Georgia,
now in process of erection, sought the
cheapest machinery, they found it in
England; the inordinate tariff on the
materials preventing successful. compe-
tition IN this country by our own ma
chinisis, for whom the SO called Protec-
ton is inyoked Patriot, Washington,
Dec. 90, 1870.
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HThe delay Of the Tennessee in
reaching San Domingo with the Com
missioners brought out pretty full
discussion of the condition of our navy,
The general conclusion arrived at is that
our government has scarcely vessel
asst IS ct to go to sea. The Q ! ones
ere worn and decayed, and most Of the
nav ones are so family in construction
Z. tp be unmansgeable in rough seas.
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ETA Radical organ in Vermont says
that the principles Of its party are four
dcd on Holy Writ. Just 50. In that
case where the fellow sold out for thir
ty pieces of silver.
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For some months past there has been
so much insuboreination at West Point
that Congress found it necessary to dis.
patch committee to that place to ascer,
tain the cause The committee reports
that laxity Of discipline is the cause ;and
Gen. SLocUx explains the cause Of the
loose discipline.
GRANT has son, cadet in the insti
tuition, and whenever cadet was court
martialed and ordered to be expelled or
otherwise punished, young GRANT wrote
tohis father, and by due course of mail
came pardon. Out of twenty-five re-
cent cases of conviction and sentence
twenty zone were pardoned The odd
one doubtless not being under the wing
of young GRANT failed of his protec-
ton
1t became notorious to the cadets that
BY toadying to young GRANT they could
do very much as they pleased. OF
course this put an end to discipline.
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EgThe Senate has opened the flood
gates of the subsidy schemes. One Of
the bills has passed, and a swarm are to
follow.
The tariff which taxes the. people so
erievously has broken down the shipping
interests. The subsidy remedy is to
pile on more taxes, out Of which few
fayorite lines are to be galvanized into
artificial life.
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EE Gamestets are possessed Of an up
rightness and strict SENSE of honor
which nothing can appall, not even the
presence 4ef death. A Frenchman at
Monaco once made an engagement to
shoot himself, aud the day previous TO
his expected death a friend invited him
to dine with him on the morrow. "Yes, y
SAID the gamester, 81 will. with pleasure
but, stay--I have an engagement to kill
myself at five o'clock" And he kept
his word. But this was merely from a
desire to stand right in bis own opinion.
The following shows honor even more
remarkable: One day last week, at New
burg, Indiana, man named Hall laid q
wager Ola dollar that he could drink a
quar-. Of whisky and .walk off with it. !"
He drank the liquor, but had walked on
ly ten or fifteen feet when he fell, and
died during the night. The bet has been
decided a draw.
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An onset TO the Alabama claims.

Our WASHINGTON snecial corresnOn
dent in alluding to the Commission
wh:eb has been amounted bv Great Brit.
o;n and the ITnited States 70 settle tbe
nrod;nsted d;ffarnnces of tho two conn
tries resneciino the fisheries Alabama
claims &c remarks
aOm,e = number Of Senators and
Members are \ little dnhious however
and seem 70 think that So far from Emo
land havlno made anv 'couccssious. all
have hpen made .hv the Administration
Great stress il laid nnon the fact that
th;s Covern {, arr h.s aaroeJ - jot an
tha m claims which arosa mi ~ the "a. Va
hol,,am T - a.s,ao a = 'as ~ oonrtsr - Tho Alo
pon,o oon a,.; SGs - ,.n;ah % ~ :; sha - no;n, aa
tha. % tho u Iohnsan. @ G.rsndon ION Treaty Pow. COW
..l ..,I 49,, az JT.,tal ct.to, Co.
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ETA bill is now pending in Congress
to extend the blessings of the Federal
bayonct law to all towns having popu.
lation of more than 10000. But one
more step is necessary to make its ope-
ration universal. Then We shall have
our elections managed not by officers of
our own choosing, but by men appointed.
generally through the influence Of Rad
cal candidates.
One Of the despotic features Of this
bill is that it authorizes those Federal
Ipimps to arrest citizens without process
of law. = :
If the passage of such alawaaoes not
make votes against the Radicalsparty, ii
will be because bayonets enough shall be
employed to keep from the polls men
who have a patriotic regard for republi-
can government.
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EgGRANr was opposed to the bill
repealing the law known as the test-oath
act. but he had not the courage to veto
it He refused to sign it, But dndwsdit
to become law by expiration of the
time in which he was required to return
it. eA
If he was afraid to veto the bin, he
could at least thus show his spite. He
was like the chap who hadn't the game
to lick 'tother fellow, but took vengeance
by making mouths at his sister.
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woodstleld. Feb. 81, 1871.

~ union Of hearts, a union Of hands,
A nnion that none may sever;
A union of lakes, union of lands,
The AMERICAN USloS FOREVER.
The Lincoln County herald., 1871-12-14
ST. LOUIS
Business DIRECTORY.
The Name, Business and Location of
Leading Houses.

Agricultural Depot and seed store.
WIN kUENlG d co, 207 n Second street
Aromatic Wine.
GREEN CLARK, 1000 & 20O2 Pine street
Cider Missouri
GREEN CLARK, 1000 Il 2002 Pine street
Carpets, Viicloths. Sc.
F1NNEI X McGRATH, l0S Fourth street 4
HART POWELL, 4l0 and 4l2 Fifth street
Druggists-Wholesa
A A MELLlER, Goo n Main, cor Washington av
Dry Goods.
JOHN ALLEN 4 son, 81 y Main street
Family Medicines.
NJ d X IlARTER X co, IA n Main street
Glass and OuccnsWare.
WITllMAR GLASS QUEENSWARE CO.,
lib N. Main street, bet. Chcsnut and PinO Il
Jones Commercial College.
w JOHNSON, Man. Prin. : W cor 9TH Il Olive
Lumber Mel chants.
SCHNELLE a. QUERL W cor sth Il Mullanrhy
N BROTH ERTON, Yard Office 393S Broadway
Office 800 Locust street.
Merchant Tailor.
y SMUCKER, 5l7 Olive street
Marble Dealers.
PARK & McCLINT0CK, 5th street and WASH
ingtOn avenue
Piano Ware Rooms.
Mrs POMMER, 7l2, Chcsnut street.
Rcgalia. Flags and Society Goods.
PAR~oN G co, 7l6 N Fourth street u
X l. ROSEBROUGH SONS, 1921 Broadway
Vinegar Manufacturers.
ALDEN CLOuGlI, 3l5 and 3l7 Spruce street
Watches. Jcwelly. Sc.
ID. C. JACCARD AZ co., 4Ol a. 4O3 n. Fourth St.
EDWARD MEAD 4 Co, 3O4 N Fourth street.
JEHU SYLVESTER, 2lO Fourth street