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The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-07-09
NEW SERlES--VO |. NO. 36.
On Choosing Men.

| OAl SBAOOSuU1S V101Bs
From " Thonghts on Government" by Arthur
Hclps]
Almost all rules are bad which
tend to limit the choice of men for
employments Of any kind. ANY rule,
for instance, about excess of age, is
injudicious. The power Of different
men are so various that it is not too
much to say that men are often
twenty years younger Or older than
their age according to years. If we
look at the great events, not only in
ancient history, but at those Of the
last few years, we shall see that the
greatest of these events have been
carried to a prosperous issue by men
who were anything but young. .
Now, why should we copfine our
view in this matter to generals, aud
kings, and statesmen ? If the view
is good for anything, it applies to all
men ; and a more foolish thing is
seldom done by any government, by
any minor body Of men, or by any
individual, than in fixing limit Of
age as regards the employment Of it's
or his agents.
Similar statements might be made
as regards several of the disquali6-
cations, which are frequently set out
in the shape of rules and bylaws,
and which prevent men from choos-
ing those of their fellow-men who
would be most capable of conduct
ing their affairs
/ Pecuniary disqualification is IN
instance of what I mean. You think
to gain good man to manage your
affairs, because he happens to have
a small share in your undertaking.
It is a great error. You want hin.
to do something well which you are
going to tell him to do. If he has
been wisely chosen, and is an able
man, his pecuniary interest in the
matter will be mere dust in the bal
ance, when compared with the de-
desire which belongs to all such men
to do their work well. On the other
hand, by insisting upon a pecuniary
qualification, you may easily prevent
yourself from being able to choose
the best man. Rules of this kind
generally punish most the men who
make them. The real reason why
men, even Of great ability, whether
in government or in other public
bodies, have circumscribed them
selves by these rules and these dis
qualifications is, that they are not
sufficiently penetrated by the idea of
the value Of having the right man in
the right place. The advantage to
the world Of having men rightly
placed is almost inconceivable. All
success depends upon it. It is IL
thing which cannot be over-estima-
ted. Through the tmost adverse cir
cumstances, the able man will form
path for himself and others.
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ms suffrage gives rise to
kaks on the Pacific coast. A
kppeared at q wo.nan's suf-
pSention in San Francisco,
with one half of his face
ban and the other half cov-
pa full beard. He explained
''ar appearance by saying
ss in recognition of the fact
was half man and half wo-
The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-07-09

hn Farris of Carroll county,
working in a field a few
found and killed a snake
aeasured hear 6 feet in
q > inches in circumference
fe body, it being the color
'esnake having a head in
diamond, tapering from
the nose and from the
with beautiful diamond
ef'ng the top of the head,
P'nted, tail, and when at
de a kissing or blowing
could be heard at the dis
ne hundred yards.
The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-07-09

Unfortunate Macmillan, of
who carpet-bagged to NIexi-
'ost his life there, it now
died a bankrupt, and his
The Emperor Of Austria. has
3ayed out several millions of
his debts, and those of his
0'ta. Among other sums is
pn francs to the King of
rom whom Macmillan
pwed that amount in 1865.
The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-07-09

(stineuished Grant man in
brk, on reading Summers
khrew down the paper and
ii with some approach to
II don't like it." Why
uuired a friend. 4" Because" "
he angry critic" because
continued he, stamnering
/ it is true"
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An Address from the Hon. Cas-
sius Nj. Clay.

WHITE HALL, Ky, June Is, 1872.
To the People of Kentucky The
platform and the candidates of the
Cincinnati Convention are before
you. The first avows all the great
principles upon which our govern
ment was founded, and which have
given our country growth and
prosperity unknown before in his
tory. The candidates are men of
unquestioned ability, patriotism and
honesty. There is no liberty with
out law, and no form Of governmant
can exist but q despotism when the
Treasury is robbed with impunity.-
U. s. Grant has usurped all the pow
ers of Government, the judicial and
Legislative being added to the execu-
tive. He habitually and obstinately
violates the laws of the land, and al
lows the Treasury, knowingly, to be
robbed. To-day we live under a
centralized despotisln, impelled by
the lowest instincts, tastes and self
indulgence ; which, unlike European
aristocracies, shares nothing with tho
people, but absorbs all their sub
stance for camp-followers who are
equally corrupt and vicious. The
Philadelphia Convention, composed,
as was never before seen in our ma
ton, of office-holders and time-ser-
vers, have shown themselves fit fol-
lowers Of Grant. Nothing remains
to us but the union of all lovers of
liberty and manhood upon the Gin
cinnati nominees, or defeat and the
unlimited rule Of the Grant conspir-
ators. Kentuckians, we have no love
for party or personal past, Or future
aspirations above country. Join us,
then, and save the nation. Let hon.
est men rule let amnesty restore
the States to their legitimate rights !;
let the military yield to the civil
power ; let the National Government
return to constitutional law, and let
all citizens Of every race and condi-
ton stand equal in civil and political
liberty before the law. We have Il
majority on these great issues. Let
not party, inferior questions, or per-
sonal ambitions lose us and the world
self-government. Now, to-day, we
must save ourselves !; another day
may be forever too late.
CAss1us Nj. Clay,
Chairman Provisional Executive Com
mittee Of Kentucky.
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The only way for man to escape
being found out is to pass for what
he is. The only way to maintain a
good character is to deserve it. 1t
is easier to correct cur faults than to
conceal them.
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Washington Patriot, which
kofore held out against the
lon to indorse the Cincinnati
} at Baltimore, fell into line
morning, and advises har-
ID union with the Liberal
kans for the common good,
ut an end to existing official
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tas sheriff, who lately ran
as vigorously pursued, cap
ii reipstated in office. This
Encouragement to absconding
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lUCuUs
The World Accepts the Situa-
tlOm.
From the New York World.
The National Democratic Conven-
ton will assemble at Baltimore a
week from tomorrow, and we are
reluctantly constrained to believe
that it will nominate Horace Greeley
as the Democratic candidate for
President. Most of the State Con-
ventions for appointing delegates to
Baltimore have been held, and it
seems tolerably clear that MIR. Gree
ley will have a two-thirds majority
on the first ballot. Our readers
know how earnestly We have depre-
Gated such a result but as this pre-
posterous nomination seems fixed"
we suppose we must make the best
of it. Mr.. Greeley is going to Bal
timore without any competitors.
Mr.. Hendricks has virtually commit
ted himself to Greeley by consenting
to run as the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Indiana in close
conjunction with the Greeley move
ment Gov. Seymour has publicly,
and Chief-Justice Church privately,
indorsed this strange proposal Gov.
Randolph, who, SO long as there
was any hope, was its most active
and jealous apponent, has given in
Mr.. Thurmans friends aud Mr..
Pendleton's friends make no sign !;
Mr.. Kerr, who was perhaps the
most thoroughly disgusted of our
able Democratic statesmen, has ac-
cepted the situation and even Mr..
Voorhees, has withdrawn his opposi-
ton. The retreat of the Democratic
press has not been quite SO complete.
The Boston Post, The Hartford Times,
The Philadelphia Age, The Washing
ton Patriot, and several leading South
ern papers, which secuted the Gin
cinnati nomination at first, have, one
by one, succombed to the inevitable ;
The Chicago Times, Detroit Free
Prees, and our able German cotem-
porary, the SIaats-Zeit,sng, alone re-
naming Of the prominent Democrat
ic allies of The World in opposing
Mr.. Greeley. Moreover, we cannot
discover, in any quarter, signs of a
formidable or even a respectable bolt
rgainst this stronge nomination. A
Liberal Republican bolt against it
was attempted in calling the Fifth
Avenue Hotel Conference but that
gathering resulted in an indorse-
ment. We have no reason to be-
lieve that a Democratic bolt against
what may now be regarded as the
certain action of the Baltimore Con-
vention, would be more successful
It is therefore pretty we'll settled
fact that there will be but two can
didates in the field in this Presiden-
tial election, and that citizens must
choose between voting for Grant,
voting for Greeley, and staying away
from the polls. For our part, we
shall advise nobody to vote for
Grant and as between the remain
ing alternative Of voting for Greeley
or staying at home, we have no coun-
sci to offer. Our own duty and that
of Democratic citizens may perhaps
more clearly appear after the can
vass has made some progress.
The semi-weekly Republican. (St. Francisville, La.) 1872-1872, 1872-07-09

;s said to be $25,O00,O00 in
silk manufactures in this
| and the production of these
ktucs sell at $3o,o0o,0o0.
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who bear many crosses
erossness are stronger ta than.
and wiser than Solomon.

! Jordon, the actress, has
kte, more beauty, more dresses
ks money than anybody at
Ranch, except Tom Murphy.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-11-22

Il B ave this day formed Copartnership, the
n u style of the firm to be
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-11-22
POINTS FOR FARMERS.
WHEAT IN THE SOUTH.


We are no great advocates of any
mans having too many irons in the
fire, and hence we have never ia
vored to much extent the endeavor
to induce Southern planters to aban-
don cotton for other crops. Our be-
lief is that it is generally best for
any one to attend to a business he
understands, and, by sticking to it
aud learning it more and more thor
oughly, to be able to carry it on
with less labor and expense. The
truth is, that the cry for diversified
farming has been really a delusion.
Corn and cotton, though one a fiber
and the other grain, are not di-
verse in their time of planting or
culture, and, in fact, are usually in
fuenced by similar climate causes.
Hence, to cultivate one we'll the
other is apt to be neglected. But
there are crops diverse in nature and
and cultivation which may be grown
throughout the South. These are
the small grains and grasses, but we
here especially refer to wheat
There are but few acres of cotton
uplands in the South which will not
grow wheat, and the great lime belt
Of Southern Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi, where not subject to
overflow, will grow that grain as
easily and with as great yield as the
prairie lands of Minnesota. 1t was
once thought that it was impossible
to grow whea. on lands on which the
snow never fell, but many actual ex-
periments have proved the falsity
Of this theory. The mari lands of
Eastern Carolina and the limestone
lands We have indicated will all grow
wheat to perfection, and an article
of that grain which will sell in
New York market at higher rates
than any from the West. But,
looking at the matter in home
light alone, it is as good or better
for maR or beast than corn; it can be
raised at one-third the cost, and re-
quirCs but little labor.
Winter wheat may be sown any
where within 200 miles of tho sea
coast with q certainty of good
crop. Heretofore these lands have
been thought too valuable for cotton
to be put 10 such an ignoble use as
growing wheat.
Wheat seldom sells at less than
50 per bushel in the South, and good
Southern -four is always worth from
SO to SIP per barrel in New York.
But in addition to this it is crop
sown and harvested when the time
can be spared, and it is growing at
a season of the year when work can
be done on other lands than that
which it occupies. Again, such q
change is fertilizer; it is real rest
to the soil, and if the green weeds
and grass are plOwed in during the
next summer, a value will be derived
almost equal to the money price of
tho grain crop.
1t is not alone wheat that We
would urge as crop for this true
system of diversifying, but rye, oats,
clover, peas, beans aud the roots,
turnips and beets; but we especially
commend the small grains to the at
tention of our Southern planters
who desire some new crop for food or
money which vii! yield most sith the
1 least labor, and not detract from the
value of their lands. - New York
World.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-11-22
PROGRESS IN RUSSIA.

The work of progress has been
inaugurated in Russia, aud that des-
potic government has recently had
its first popular election. A late
number Of the Messenger Official, of
st. Petersburg, gives the results of
the first elections iu Russia for
mayor, municipal councillors and
ether officers, in one hundred and
twenty-five Russian towns. The
new law is based on the principle of
giving votes to those who pay local
taxes, and the results of the elections
are that in only forty-six of these
towns have mobiles been elected
to fll the post of civic magistrates.
In ten towns the nobility form the
majority of the council, while in
thirteen no noble has been elected
to any post. To is per cent. of
seats in the councils, and to Is per
cent. of the magisterial offices in
those 1875 towns, the electors have
returned mobiles, while 90 per cent.
of the councils and II per cent. of
the magistrates were filed with peas
ants or small tradesmen. The mer-
chants end manufacturers supply
the remaining 81 per cent. of the
holders of the magisterial Offices
The new Law does not apply to st.
Petersburg, Moscow or Odessa
This law is new feature in the
government of Russia, and cannot
fail to be an entering wedge 10 still
more important steps.
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Friday Morning November %, 1879.
THE OLD LETTER.

Only a yellow old letter
In womans delicate hand,
With just faint hint of perfume
Why keep it you don't understand.
We were lovers once, but we quarreled-
Pride against pride, ron know;
1t ia simply the same old story,
And it happened years ago.
1t is quite thing of the past,
She is somebody elss's wife,
While IL can smile at the passion
Whose rsptures once thrilled my life.
Quite thing Of the past-and yet
As with dream troubled eyes stand
Idly scanning this yellow old letter
In woman's delicate hand,
Drifts from me the loveless presence,
And almost think can trace
In the fsde, lines Of letter
Ny old loves beautiful face.
And | know in my heart OF hearts,
Just as lightly as | may,
That life has nothing to give me,
Half as dear as that long ago day.
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many feet, the deep breathing which
when heard in the forests of the
north, caused the widest dismay
then drawing nearer to ne said, II
did not know there were any wolves
so near the city, Henry" "Neith-
er did | think there were any," re-
piled "but it seems we were mis-
taken, for these behind us are Of tho
gray species, and most dangerous of
any to meet. Driven by hunger,
they have approached the settle
mente, and unless our horses can go
to the Stone tavern in Parma before
we are ovcrtaken, we are lost.
"At this juncture the old curly
horned leader, tired and out Of wind
from the long run, gave vent to a
prolonged blast which was fearful
enough to scare girl less timid than
Fanny. | sawed on the horse bits,
fiourished my whip frAntically
around them, until they were excit-
ed and apparently doing their best
to escape the fate behind Thorn, but
was secretly holding them back,
to allow the wolves q to get closer.
On came the bloody horde, painting
tor breath, nearer, until ] began to
throw out robes and blankets. These
will keep them chewing few min
utes," said, "and we may escape"
But the sheep had no appetite for
the robes, and were close behind us.
II arose in the sleigh, gave the
reins to Fanny, saying, "Drive for
your life. | will sacrifice myself
for you," and made a movement as
if to jump out of the sleigh. "Nev-
err, never" SEQ screamed. eve
will die together" and she pulled
me down beside her, to await her
fate. While thus employed | sue
ceeded in obtaining hasty avowal
of Fanny, at the same time was
holding back tie horses to let the
pursuers go by. They came; the
monsters separated and passed US on
either side, while held my hand
over her face that she might not see
the dreadful deception ! had played
upon her.
"She tainted the moment we were
overtaken by the wolves, and with~
out trying to revive her, | turned
the horses homeward, and only stop
ped to pick up the robes which had
been thrown out to check the fero-
cious animals. After driving a mile
or two, my now affianced wife re-
vived sufficiently to hear how we
were saved by a party of sleigh
riders who met us just as we were
surrounded. Though nervous and
weak from excitement, she recover
ed buoyancy of spirit before we ar
rived home, and had promised to
keep our adventure a secret, as in
formed her the ''owner of the horses
would charge me fearful price IT
he knew to what test his steeds had
been put. And that is my adven-
ture with wolves, and how came
to marry"
"But did your wife never find out
the deception you practiced 2" we
asked the old settler, as he laughed
again while thinking of his boyish
pranks.
"Not until eight years ago." he
replied, "whcn | told her of it one
evening when she was ironing"
"What did she say 7"
"Not much not very much"
answered the old romancer, but re-
moving his hat, he showed us tri
angular space upon his head, such
as might have been made by a hot
smoothing iren, and with not hair
upon its surface. We thought
Fanny was rsvenged.
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FEMALE PLBAsANrRIES.

II heard it !"
"Who told you I"
"IIer friend !" ~
"You don't say sof'
"Tis dreadful !"
Eyes, awful |"
'Don't tell it, / pray "
Good gracious !"
"Who'd think it 7"
"Well ! well ! we'll y,
Dear me i
"I've had NV
Suspicious 7"
"And !, too, you see =
Lord he'll us !"
Poor creature !"
$50 srtful!'
$50 sly I"
mo beauty y
Quite thirty %
Between you and /"
''Pm going p
DO stay, love !"
II can't !"
"I'm forlorn !"
Farewell, dear p
Goodbye, sweet p
Pm glad she's gene y
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For FORTY YEAR it has proved its great
value in all diseases OF he LIVER, BOWELS
and KIDNEYS Thousands of the good and
great in all parts of the country vouch for lite
wonderful and peculiar power in purifying the
BLOOD stimulating the torpid LIVER and BOW
ELS, and imparting new Life and Vigor to the
whole system SIMMONS LIVER REGU-
LATOR is acknowledge to have no equal as
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LIVER MEDICINE.

1t contains four medical elements, never unit
ed in the same happy proportion in any other
preparation, viz: gentle Ca:hartic, won
derful Tonic, an unexeeptionable Alternative and
certain Corrective of all impurities ofthe body.
auch signal success has attended its use, that
it is nsw regarded as the
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1872-11-22

Messrs. Geo. G. Hull and Chas,
B. Wallace, sho have been appoin-
ted by Governor Smith and the lea
sees Of the State Road to make
new appraisment Of the property Of
that Dad, have selected Dir. Jas w.
Robertson, Chief Engineer of ihs
Georgia Western Railway, as UNI
pire, and will commence their work
on the 25th inst.
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NEW "a aRrNERsHlP
p. n. LYON & M. n. LYON,

~ ave this day formed a Copartnership, the
n q style of the firm to be
LYON 81 BROTHER
For the purpose of carrying general Pro
duee and Grocery business in the City Of Ma
rietta, Ca, fraln this day aud have rented for
that purpose tue
OLD sEWEL CORNER, CHEROKEE ST.
We shall keep at all times Fresh and Cheap
supply Of every article pertaining to that bust
ness, which we will sell as low as any other
house can in upper Georgia.
All we ask is give call and see for your
selves. We invite all our old friends and Gus
toners to bring US their trade-COuntry Pro-
duce, for which, we will pay the highest mar
ket price Cash. Come one Come all and
try, LYON & BROTHER.
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GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC,

for LIVER COMPLAINT and the painful off
spring thereof, to wit DYSPEPSIA, CON.
STIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks SICK
HEADACHE, Collie, Depression Of Spirits,
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CHILLS AND FEVER.
Simmons Liver Regulator
Is harmless,
Is no drastic violent medicine,
Is sure to cure if taken regularly,
Is no intoxicating beverage.
Is a faultIess family medicine,
Is the cheapest medicine in the world,
Is given with safety and the happiest results
to the most delicate infant.
Does not interfere with business.
Does not disarrange the system,
Takes the place of Quinine and Bitters of ev-
cry kind,
Contains the simplest and best remedies.
Simmons Liver Regulator the
GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE.
Is manufactured only by
j. n. ZElLIN x CO.,
MACON, GA, and PHILADELPHIA.
Price $l00 per package; sent by Mail'
postage paid, $1.25 prepared, ready for use,
in bottles, $3.50.
SOLD BYALL DRUGGISTS.
II Beware of all Counterfeits and limitations.
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