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New-York tribune., 1872-07-31
THE PRESIDENT And THE COLORED CADET

THE PRESIDENT IND The COLORFD CADET
The case of the colored cadet at West Point
which made so much talk some time ago has
never vet been told in full. We present this
morning a curious contribution 10 history in
the form of letter from the Hon. David
Clark of Hartford, who may be remembered
as the patron of the boy Smith, to the Hon.
Sayles j. Bowen, ex-Mayor of Washington
1t appears from this letter that the real perse-
cutors of the cOlOred cadet were not mere
parcel of school boys and snobbish young
military officers, but Master Frederic Dent
Grant and his excellent father.
The statements of thisletter are extraordinary;
but they are made with every appearance OF sin
cerityand upon most excellent authority. A word
about the writer of the letter may not be amiss.
Mr.. Clark is wealthy and benevolent gen
tleman, who has devoted large share OF his
means to the education of the Southern blacks.
He has travelled extensively in the South TO
study the needs of the freed people: he has
given more than $4,000 for the establishment
of schools among them and the support OF
teachers, and is constantly giving more; he
gave $4,000 to the Howard University; his
other charities have been cOrrespOndiDgly lib
eral; and throughout North and South Caro-
lima, Georgia, and Florida especially he is
well known as a warm friend TO the cOlOred
race. He was a Grant electOr, we believe, In
1863 and until recently he was jealous sup
porter of the Administration. Whether the
or gans of the reGlectonists will have the ef-
frontery to assail the personal character and
motives of this gentleman, as they do all the
opponents of their candidate, we are rather Gu
riouS fo gpp
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districts. rAs the election draws near, the
interest becomes almost intense. Our dis
patches show chat both parties are alert and
active. At Lincolnton, where Liberal meet
ing was in progress, a difficulty occurred be-
tween some of the citizens and United States
soldiers As this may be magnifed into a
Ku-Kux affair, we may as well say right here
that the invisible spirit of whisky was at the
bottom of il.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

One of the puerilc arguments brought against Mr.
Greeley is that the people Of the South cannot posi
bly, vote for him because they are so angry with him
for his socalled ION to Richmond course IN THE
TRIBUNE. Another is that Northern people cannot
vote for him because he sympathized with the Reb-
els all through the war. Would MT It be Just as
we'll w select of these lies aud stick TO Ihey
will not hang together,
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

We have known Stanley Matthews of Cincinnati
as an able lawyer, conscientious public man, and
gallant soldier. His conduct with reference to the
Reform movement has been curious combination
of perversty and folly, but we have been unwilling
TO attribute it to anything else than his
terrible disappointment and his equally terri
BILE confusion at discovering that he had publicly
refused to do what he bad previously pledged him.
self in writing to do. Mr.. Matthews should rise to
explain one thing He had declared in writing, as
well as verbally, and over that he would sup
port Horace Greeley if he were nominated by the
Cincinnati Convention When Horace Greeley be-
came that nominee he threatened to bolt, and a
few days afterward did bolt. In the mean
time, as Cincinnati papers hint, a dispatch
had been sent from Cincinnati to Gen.
Grant, and in response Judge Matthews had been
engaged OF continued as counsel for the United
States in great whisky case then pending for fee
of 5000. The unregenerate mind puts the violation
of the pledge and the acceptance of the fee in con-
nection and prettier opportunity for an explana-
nation was never afforded an able lawyer with line
gifts of utterance
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In the Carolinas it is literal fact that any man,
white or coored, can vote for Grant without let or
hinderance and without any fear personal violence
abuse from any quarter But in very many places,
where there is q large negro population under un-
serupulous white leaders, no man can speak or vote
for Greeley without and insults, and no col
ored man can do so without danger to life or limb
The bayonet backs up the semi-sayage mob who ter
rorze the whole community and if a man, especially
a colored man. is not willing to vote for Grant as
against Greeley he must either stay away from the
polls or take the consequences. And all the elections
are managed and returned bytoos of the robber King
II the American people wish to save the country let
them do it by such overwhelming majorities In
those States where the people are free, that the
two Carolinas, and especially South Carolina will be
made to count but as a drop for oppression against
an ocean for freedom
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

Grape growers and wine-makers will find on
another page of THE TRIBUNE, to-day, full
and careful summary of the vineyard business
of California. AS now conducted in that
State, it forms one of its mest profitable
industries, and therefore will attract the study
of agricultursts everywhere.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

We are informed by The Boston Times that not all
the colored men in that city by any Means support
the Philadelphia nominees. The Times says Some
are for Grant and some for Greeley and they are
arranging 10 bring their differences out as strongly
az possible into the light where they may be thor
oughly examined and better understood The dis
cussions that to be inaugurated among them
cannot prove fruitess." This is certainly better
than receiving any candidate bndly upon the
strength Of Henry Wilson's recommendation, or
anybody's recommendation, for that matter The
Liberal party afford good, strong discussion, and
plenty of it. arI.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

He is a wise man who thoroughly cOmprc-
bends all the ramifcatiOns of Louisiana politics.
In the maze of conflicting statement, however,
one thing is clear enough-that the opposition
to Grant is almost solid. Why it is at all
divided is explained minutely by a correspond
ent of THE TRIBUNE, whose letter we print
on another page. This exposition is somewhat
clarifying and seems fair.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be ready this
morning at o'clock, in wrappers for mailing. Price
cents.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

Our city readers who spend the Summer in
the country can have THB TRIBUNE mailed TO them by
sending their orders to this Office Price 81 per month.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

An avenging Nemesis has at last Overtaken
the watering place hotel-keepers. Who that
has been a Summer traveller is not glad OF 1t !
The flight to Europe has been increased by
the exactions impertinences, and insolent
oppressions of the baronial clerks and pro-
prietors of Summer hotels and taverns. With
few notable exceptions, the famous places OF
Summer have fallen inte doleful dumps,
for reasons above stated. The case is very
clearly set forth by correspondent of The
TRIBUNE whose letter on the decline and fall
of landlords is published herewith This ad-
versity, which falls alike on the just and the
unjust, may, by-and-by, bring about corree-
ton of abuses, tI.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

North Carolina chooses at the election to-
morrow, besides State officers, eight members
of Congress. If we start from point ON the
Virginia line, almost directly north of Raleigh,
and draw curved line, bending fifty miles to
the west of that city, and ending on the
South Carolina boundary, at a point almost
directly south of the capital city, we shall
cnt the State into two portions of
nearly equal area. The eastern half con-
tains four Congress Districts which
a year ago gave Republican majorities, and
the western half four districts, which year
ago gave Democratic majorities, The former
were Republican by reason of the preponder,
ating colored vote. We shall be surprised IL
they all remain so, while the Liberal candi-
dates will undoubtedly increase the maJorlueS
against the Administration In the western
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

The acknowledgements fiction died some days
ago. IL il now reposing IL the silent tomb; it hes
GOV into zbs Ireydegce Journal
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

All public men are liable to grave and rail-
ing accusations and Senator Wilson is not
exempt from this common aflliction. Some
body has been making charges against him in
the newspapers, and some other body writes
TO ask him if these are true. Without speci
flying any count in this vague Indictment Mr.
Wilson gives them all general denial. The
case may be considered closed.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

Two fatal casualties of considerable magni-
tude are chrOnIcled in our reports to-day. By
a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi near
McGregor, Iowa, fifteen lives have been de-
stroyed. And five persons were killed by a
wreck on the Kansas Pacific Railroad. The
cause of the first catastrophe is not yet made
public; but the railway accident seems to have
been one of those which ordinary foresight
could prevent
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

The day after its Fifth Avenue Conference,
The Epening Post suddenly betook itself to an
elaborate discussion ola corner in Oats, IN
Chicago! After it has been the second or third
time challenged to express its opinion about
that infamous circular to the loyal Governors,
which its ally, Grants Orn, pronounces also
treasonable it suddenly develops a profound
interest in a discussion of political casuistry
How much longer is the clumsy effort at
dodging to be kept up2 Gentlemen of 4he
Evening Post, do muster courage and tell us
what you think of that shameful circular OF
Mr.. Greeley's to the loyal Governors.
New-York tribune., 1872-07-31

Mr.. Sclla Martin makes a sharp retOrt to
his fellow -laborer, Frederick Douglass, in a
letter which we print to-day. Mr. Douglass is
reminded that a Grant advocate is the last
man to throw stones on account of any alleged
personalism in politics. What is the Grant
party but personalism7 Grants desire to be
rechosen, his personal gifts of office to friends
and relatives, and his personal animOsities, are
all that make up the political capital on which
his partisans trade. Mr.. Martin has set forth
the rights of the case most clearly.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-19
Why Endure what ia Cur.b,e

What cant be cured must be endured" says tie
preverb but indigestion be cured, and therefore
II is the merest stupidity 10 endure It, Dyspeptic
have certainly right 70 continue dyspspties to the
end of their days If they ehsose but it is not sup
posed that any tiona being prefers hysiO0
to and health, the probability is that If all suffer
from indigestion were convinced that absolute.
infsllibs remedy for their complaint existed they
would with accord resort tOh. We most emphsI =
iesly declare tina: such romsdy does exist, that
its name Hostetters Stomach Bitters. The record
ofits extends period f mere than TWEEN
ty years and il is feSrlsssly alleged that during the
whols Of that time it has failed to afford perma-
nsnt relief in any disorder or dersngement Of the
stsmash that not organic, malignant and ineura-
BILE. The testimonials that to establish this mpor-
tsnt fact can b0 counted by the thousand Stomach
complaints thst had been aggravated by total disro
gard Of all dietary rules and intensified and rendered
chronic by medicinal treatment drastic purgation
have in hundreds of instances been cured within three
months by the systematic of this celebrated stom
schic and al srative, II should be remembered tha
weakness of the digestive involves many othe
ailments. Billiousness, headache, nervous debility
spasms pslptatiou Of the heart rush of blood to th
head nausea, vertigo and sleeplessness IRE among it
concomitsnts and results and for all these the
vegetable tonic is q specific. 1t acts frst upon tn
stomach, and throsgh the stomach upon the secrstol
and nervous systems and the bowels, its general etec
being always genial and benehcent.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-19

THE SUPREME ndoubt-
edly health is the most important OF
earthly blessings, and therefore the ner-
vous anxiety of the sick to ascertain the
relative merits of the various medicines
in use is not surprising. Within the last
two years many thousands of invalids
have abandoned the preparations of the
pharmocopolist for the famous remedy
introduced by DR.. Walker, of California,
uuder the somewhat eccentric name OF
Vinegar Bitters. That this new Vege-
table medicine is " winning golden opin-
ions of all sorts of people" is beyond a
doubt. The accounts we hear of its ex-
traordinary effects in cases of chronic
dyspepsia, rheumatism, liver complaints,
malarious fevers, nervous prostrations,
and many other Distressing diseases, GER
tainly justify the popularity which it has
everywhere acquiI ed. DIR. Walker claims
for his specific a remedial power over all
disorders that do not involve an irrepara-
BILE destruction of bone and fibre. and
results SO far appear to have justified the
claim. In this age of wonders we are
not disposed to deny the possibility OF
any phenomena not directly at vaIiance
with the laws Of nature, and as it is held
by many psychologists that all maladies
proceed from the same generic cause, we
see no reason for the incredulity with
which some people regard the idea of a
Universal Medicine. That DR.. Walkers
famous preparation is destined to be
universally approved can scarcely be con-
sidered doubtful.--Com
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-19
Taking Cold.

It is unwise to change to cooler clothes
except when you first get up in the morn
ing.
If you find yourself inclined to wake
up at a regular hour in the night and
remain awake, you can break up the
habit in three days by getting up as
soon as you wake, ard not going to sleep
again until your usual hour for retiring.
"Order is Heavens first law" regu-
larity in eating, sleeping and exercise,
has very large sAare in securing long
and healthful life.
If you are caught in a drenching rain,
or fall in the water, by all means keep
in motion sufficiently vigorous to pre-
vent the slightest chilly sensation until
you reach the house then change your
clothing with great rapidity before a
blazing fire, and drink instantly pint
of some het liquid.
To allow the clotking to dry upon you
unless by keeping up vigorous exer.
else until thoroughly dried, is suicidal
If you are conscious of being in pas
sion, keep your mouth shut, for words
increase it. Many person has dropped
dead in rage.
If person "faints," place him on hi
back and let him alone he wants
arterial blood to the head and it il
easier for the heart to throw it there il
horizontal line than perpendicularly
Feel noble pride of living within
your means, then you will not be hustled
off to cherries hospital in your las
| days of sickness.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-19
Density Of Population in Bengal.

The Calcutta correspondent of the
Fall MdU Gazette, in analyzing the fig
ures of the recent census OF the lower
provinces of India, states some astonish-
ing facts as to the density of the pepu-
lation. The total population subject to
the jurisdiction of the Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor of Bengal, is 66,600,000, sistribu-
ted over an area of $4,000 square miles,
which gives the high average of 272 to
the square mile; but the average in the
regulation provinces" of Bengal, Behar,
and Orissa, discarding the outlying pro-
vinces of Assam, Chota, Nagpore, and
wilder tracts, is much higher. In these
regulation provinces, with total area
of 100000 square miles, the population
is 58,000,000, giving an average density
of 4S0 to the square mile-a density, it
is stated, exceeding that of the popula-
ton of BelgiSm, which stands highest of
any European state, and extending over
a tract Of country more than ten times
as extensive as that kingdom. 1t may
popularize the idea of the density of
population in these regulation provinces
if we add that, with an area only rather
more than half that of France 100000
SqudTo lnAi6o w SOoiOuOb Vtcy ppSoesS
about one and three-quarter times the
the population of Francois, 100000 in
Bengal, g. y, to 36,000000 in France.
And even this is not the whole truth as
to the density of population. The cor
respondent goes on to state: "In the
districts more immediately round Calcut-
ia, and in the more densely peopled parts
of Behar the ground is still more thick
ly occupied. Indeed, in the district of
Hoogley, after years of epidemic fever,
the density is represented by the almost
incredible figure of 1000 to the square
mile. / should have suspected some err
ror in the areas, but every district of
Bengal has now been surveyed and mark
ed with an accuracy which precludes any
mistake on this point The singulaIity
of the density of population is all the
greater, because it is the density of an
agricultural and not of manufacturing
population, and it is impossible not to
look at the figures without recollection
of the passages in Mr.. Hunters books,
which point but the special danger crea-
ted for us in India by the very excel
lence of our rule, which abolishes the
old checks to population.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-19
Newspaper Advertising.

Ever since the era of advertising wa.
inaugursted, business men Of all classet
have been made the victims of certain
GLASS of men who, with hippant speech
and with persistency as provoking at
it would be admirable in q better cause
have persuaded them to enter into Their
particular schemes. These schemes are
numerous, as many an advertiser can at.
test, and when we weigh their influence
in a calm, impartial manner, we shall
become convinced that they are q sub
lime fraud upon the too-lenient adver-
tising public; and the advertiser, when
he has submitted to the imposition, has
literally thrown his money away.
Ths schemes of these honey-tongued
and metal-visaged gentry, who besiege
the unwary advertiser on every hand
and bore him into giving them an "ad."
which the advertiser generally does in
order to get rid of him-are, as we have
heretofore mentioned, exceedingly nu-
merous. There is the programme "
scheme, for instance, cunningly inter-
spersed with stale jokes, or other eight
and entertaining reading matter" and
handed to the passer-by on these days
when there chances to be an unusual
gathering in the town or city, only to be
all, and then carelessly thrown away to
be trampled under foot This is decided
ly waste of money on the part of the
advertiser.
Then, again, we have the hotel-regis-
ter scheme, hotel card advertising scheme,
and the hotel card rack scheme, together
with other schemes too numerous to
uention. Now, what the honest adver-
tisers want, and, indeed, what every ad-
vartiser in the land wants, is the greatest
return for the amount of money invest
ed. In order to secure this there is but
one reliable method, and that is the
newspaper, (for which there is demand,
because of its WORTH. The American
people are pre-eminently reading peo-
pie, and of all the literature thrown
broadcast over the country, that of the
newspaper predominstes and is the most
generally read. The people are grad
ually being educated up to the practice
of looking into the advertising columns
of the newspaper in order to find where
their wants can be supplied. This being
the fact, it is patent to every sensible
advertiser that Che place to display his
wares is where they will be the most
likely to be seen and read. In conclu-
sion, then, the advertiser, in order to re-
ceive a rich return for his investment,
must seek the most reliable medium,
which is most emphatically the news
paper, and the wise and judicious adver-
tiser will always reject every other
American Press.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-19
A Huge Den of Robbers.

A letter from Naples in the Grensbstsn
draws an alarming picture of the condl-
ton of that city and of the surrounding
country. "Southern Italy" says the
writer, sis huge den of robbers: not
only the mountains and the fields, but
the large towns, are full of them. The
higher officials of the towns are now toll
erably honest, but their subordinates
form a sort of Camorra, whose sole object
IS plunder. At the cab-stands in Naples
there are persons who extort money un-
der various pretexts from every one who
takes cab in all public eating-houses
and theatres there are swarms of pick
pockets who do an excellent business,
and are on very friendly terms with the
gendarmes and police. Thieves are sta
toned in the squares and markets and in
the mosS~frequented streets; and in the
hotels they have private relations with
the servants, and in the harbor with the
custom-house officials. Nearly all the
porters at the water-side belong to this
Camorra, and it seldom happens that
twenty per cent. of the luggage which
they carry to the custom-house does moi
disappear.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-12-19
How to Make Coffee.

An old coffee drinker tells an exchange
something about his beverage. Shall L
give you long tried receipt! say for two
persons: We will buy our coffee of a
grocer that we can rely upon to give us
pure Java, and fresh-browned. We will
only buy small quantity-not over two
pounds-so as to keep it fresh, have it
ground, sent home, and Immediately put
into our tightly CLOSED tin canister. Now
we are ready for some boiling-water,
which first use to scald out the coffee
pot we are to use in making it, aud see
that it is perfectly clean; then dip into
bowl two tablespoons full of coffee
from your canister; break an egg, take
one-fourth of both yolk and white. care
fully with u teaspoon-for, if the egg is
put in cool place it will serve several
times; add the egg to the coffee, stir it,
pouring in little cold water, until you
can beat it thoroughly then have three
or four cups of water boiling in the cof.
| fee-pot, and stir your mixture of egg and
coffee into it, setting it on where it is
hot but only let it boil up two minutes,
then set it where it will keep hot, but
not boil, and pour out half a cup of the
coffee to clear the nozzle of the pot, and
throw it in again, which will settle it
and when your breakfast is dished VI
you will have beverage fit to set before
king Now what Is difficult about
that2 The same rule is applicable tC
Mocha, Rio, or any other real coffee, but
trial has proved that Java gives the
most universal satisfaction. Now, dC
you wish to know how to manage thi.
rule for hundred? Use tablespoon.
full for each person: mix two eggs witt
the coffee and cold water, thoroughly
and have two bags made of double mos
quito netting, in which put the mixture
and then put them into the boiler o
boiling water, and do not let it boil an,
longer after it boils up than a smalle
quantity, always being sure, in eithe
case, that no old coffee or grounds ar
lett in the pot when you are ready t
make new supply.