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South Carolina 6re-eater sent him a challenge,
which he disregarded, on the ground that
dueling was remnant OF barbarism,
branded by the law, and that it ill-be-
came lawmakers to violate law so grossly
At the same time he intimated that should
any assault him as his colleague had
been assaulted, it would be seen that be be-
lisved most fully in the right of self-defense.
The cowed bravo comprehended this, and left
him in peace. And now the whilom farmer
lad and shoemaker stepped into the front
rank of the Senate, and was recognized by all
as emphatically strong and shrewd man,
keen debater, and a wise, foreseeing states
man. His great speech in defense of free
labor in reply to an attack of Senator Ham,
mOnd, OF South Carolina, was circulated in
every workshop of the free States, and taught
the workingmen to recognize their champion.
His term of Senatorship expiring the next
year, he was reelected by an immense ma
jority. AS the vacillations of Buchanan and
the treachery of Southern Senators plunged
the country into fierce and tiercer troubles,
Senator Wilson'S value became more and
more apparent. When the Senate assembled
in March of 1861, he was made Chairman of
the Committee on Military Affairs. In this
capacity he introduced the act to authorize
the enrolment of 500, 900 men as an army,
besides other matters of equal military i'm
portance. Gen. Scott declared that no man
ever did so much work in one short session
as Senator Wilson, and this only re-echoed
the general sentiment of the country. From
that date his actions have embraced all the
important work that has been done by the
Republican party. He was reelected in
1865, and again in 1871, and his present term
of service will expire in 1877. Such is the
man the Republican party have selected as a
0pv, or,fa t-itt kbo,,
dental ticket. That he will distinguish him.
self as Vice President none who know Henry
Wilson and his record can doubt.-Nep York
Times.
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Leading Democratic journals are much ex-
ercised because of the disposition of Congress
to protect the citizens of the United States
Protection by the General Government has
been made necessary to the safety of black
voters in the Southern States because the
Democratic party (now merging into the
Liberal Republican party have considered
it their right to murder and intimidate all
persons opposed to them. The bayonet of
the Government comes in against tho vio-
lence Of armed men who violate the laws of
the land by attempting to deprive citizens of
the exercise of the elective franchise. 1t is
or that way, but to protect them in voting in
whatever way they may choose. What
wrong is there in this? Who is in any way
injured? Protection of voters means that
Republicans shall not be allowed to use
force or unlawful means to drive Democrats
from the polls, nor shall Democrats be all
lowed umlawfully to drive Republicans away.
This is pronounced by the Patriot of this
city "daring scheme of usurpation, !" endan-
gering the very foundations of civil liberty.
Any one not blinded by party passion and
negro hate can readily see how foolish and
false is the position taken by the Patriot.
OF what value is this Government if it does
not protect its citizens in the exercise of
those rights which distinguish it from tyran-
nical and monarchical governments. 1t is
easy to understand from the opposition made
by Democrats and Liberal Republicans to all
measures for real protection of voters in
what condition we may expect to find our
selves should that combination succeed in
obtaining control of the Government. All
their opposition to the enforcement act, the
Ku-Klux bill, and the civil rights bill goes to
show that success for them means strong
effort to subjugate the negro.
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ColOred Agricultural Fair.

1t will be seen .byour advertising columns
that the cOlored agiculturists Of the State
of Tennessee prop0e holding State Fair,
at which will be exposed products cultivated
by the colorsd peops of that State. This is
q move in the right Erection. 1t will induce
greater attention tolearning how to cultivate
the soil proftably. The colored people of
the South are, from .ears OF service ON plan
tatiOns, best calculated to make agriculture
success in tho Souti. We wish the man
ayers of these fairs oould see the importance
of colored men being owners of farms and to
induce them, when land cannot be obtained in
their own State, to 90 to the great West and
avail themselves o. the liberality of the
National Government by taking up and pre-
empting the fertile soil which only awaits
their skillful touch to return valuable pro-
ducts, which will feed, clothe, and educate
themselves and families.
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The fate of the Alabama Treaty is yet I'M
decided, and meanwhile the Greeley organs
the New York Tribune foremost-are busily
engaged i'm the cminently patriotic work of
demonstrating to the civilized world that the
difficulty is altogether owing to the incapa-
city, the stupidity Of our Administration.
"The Alabama Blmder," "The Alabama
Surrender" are standing headings in that
sheet, formerly the first in the country, and
now degraded to the rank of the vile tool and
mouthpiece Of one man, and the imbecility"
Of the President and Secretary Fish, is
harped upon and held up for general contempt
and ridicule as pleasing diversion from those
other interesting and interminable topics
Office holders Conventions ahd Accessions
to the Liberal Ranks. Before commenting
ON the course of the Greelcyftes, let us for
once examine that of the English Govern.
ment.
What, in fact, is at the bottom of the whole
anair! For months England has been quar-
reling with and defying us, in order to bully us
INTO the abandonment of our claims for indi-
rect damages, until our Government, to save
the treaty, and in it the principle Of the set.
uement of international differences through
arbitration, yielded so far as to annul those
cialns by an additional article, establishing
tne principle that neutrals guilty of breach
OF neutrality can be held responsible merely
for direct damages. The English Govern
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Tired.

The weary waiting of Southern citizens for
the good time which has been so long COM
ing, is well described by the Hicksbwg Herald.
" A few dead mem" it says, "whO cannot
see the situation as it really is, may talk and
write as long as they please, but the voting
millions intend to get rid Of the bayonets
which threaten to make desert of the South"
sour citizens" it continues, "are tired of
being hurried off to prison because secret
the Enforcement act, or some other kindred
measure /; they are tired of seeing strangers,
SO often without intelligence or honor, rule
and rob them; they are tired of seeing their
plows lying idle, their broad acres growing up
in weeds, with poverty in the house and the
Sheriff at the door," They are ready to sup
port Mr.. Greeley, because "the road which
leads to him leads also to the much coveted
haven of repose." With this in view, the
"clap-trap about dying in the last ditch'' has
lost its charm. 1t is better to live and to live
upon dry upland. This is wise resolve, which
every sensible man will agree with us in
thinking should be applauded.
The above is taken from Horace Greeley,s
paper (not an organ y the New York Tribune.
Why don't the Tribune tell the Vicksburg
Herald how those tired and wicked people of
the South may find rest by ceasing from
troubling the true and devoted upholders of
the nation in the day of its peril? BY
stopping the murders of colored men, women,
and children, by leaving off burning down
school houses, by recognizing tho rights of
American citizens without distinction as to
race, color, or previous condition of seryi-
tude, by putting their own hands to the plow.
or by paying fair wages to others for tlling
their soil, by not forcing men to vote con-
trary to their own views under penalty of not
being allowed to work for the support of them
selves and families?
The loyal men of the South are tired and
want repose. They are tired of the outrages
heaped upon them, they are tired of the UNI
certainty of life, made so by the Ku.Klux
Klans, they are tired of the farce of living in
a nation that will not protect them, they are
tired of hearing the Government denounced
as tyrannical whenever it essays to protect
them, and they are ready to, and will, support
Gen. Grant, as the easiest way out of their
difficulties. While rebels, school house burn
ers, and Ku-Klux Klans base their hopes on
Greeley, loyal men, black and white, look to
Grant for that peace and prosperity that will
follow laws enforced for the right.
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at this time In this country would be so
efectual check upon the Klans in the South
that are numbering and burning those who
differ with them, these colored delegates to
Philadelphia, representing specially the in
terests of nearly five million people, gave
their votes and support to General Grant.
Through the exertions of the colored men
ct the convention plank was inserted in the
platform Of the party in favor of the recogni-
ton of the equality of all before the law.
The carrying out of this most important prin-
ciple, is the work of the great Republican
party that has just nominated Gen. Grant
and Senator Wilson.
The colored men in those States and Con-
gressional districts where they have the
strength, should be active and vigilant and
see to it that no man is elected to Congress
who does not favor, and who will not vote
for the protection of every citizen in his
"civil, political, and public rights" You
having power are bound to use your power
for the protection Of your race against the in
justice of their enemies and the enemies of
the nation. We, as colored people, if we do
nothing else that shall be glorious for all
time to come, should use our mght-the
power of one million votes-to enlarge and
protect Liberty and Equality in this the fore
most nation on earth. Having lived under
the curse of slavery for centuries We know its
evils; having enjoyed the blessings of an
almost complete freedom, and having become
advanced, elevated, and ennobled to point
that enables us to comprehend and under
stand the still greater blessing of complete
freedom, our race must strive without falter-
ing for the abolition of all invidious discrimi-
nations in law or custom against their rights
as citizens of the United States, and by using
the weapon given them for their protection
uncompromisingly for the right, the blessings
Of permanent and complete freedom for all
in the United States will be the reward of
the steadfastness of colored men to what
should be to them the GREAT CAUSE.
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A HANDSOME little Indian boy named
Charles Robertson, attending secondary
school No. 2, (third DISTRICT in the Wailach
building, came within one of securing the
prize medal at tho examination Monday, his
teacher speaking in the highest terms of his
department and scholarship. Wash. Ecening
Star.
We have been led to believe that the
Wallach school was for the use Of white
children only, but by the above we see that
it is not only for whites, but for the savage
Indian. We would like to have the Star tell
US why an Indian, whose race amuse them
selves, by killing, scalping, and outraging
white people who venture in their territory,
is more tolsrabls in public schools than col
ored children belonging to a race more adj
vanced and more eager for advancement than
the Indian race?
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II seems as though the New York Tribune,
now tnat its editor-in-chief is candidate for
inc rresldency, would Guido the old-fashioned
negro mating journals Of former days in low
hings at the negro. Its latest slur is at the
colored men in the Philadelphia Convention.
Their speeches are denounced as contemptu.
GUS by Mr.. Greeley's paper. We take this
as indication of Mr.. Greeley's anger at the
colored people of the country for not allowing
themselves to be duped into supporting for
the Presidency man that would throw them
back to the tender mercies of tho Ku-Klux
Klans.
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THE following was sent to the Indiana
delegation in the Philadelphia Convention.
1t proves the faithfulness of Schuyler Colfax
to principle, and gives dissatisfaction to sore
heads of the Greeley stamp, who no doubt
expected the Vice President to follow in their
footsteps, and attempt to disrupt the Repub-
lican party because he failed to secure the
lOayes and fishes
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Complete liberty and exact equality in the
endowment of all civil, political, and public
RIGHTS should be established and efectuaiiy
maintained throughout the Union by efficient
and appropriate State and Federal legislation;
Neither the law nor its administration should
admit of any discrimination in respect OF citl-
zens, by reason of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude.-A Plank an the Fiat
form of tile Philadelphia Convention.
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DISPATCH FROM MR.. COLFAx.

To John W. Foster, Indiana:
Accept for yourself and the delegation my
sincere gratitude for your gallant contest. l
support your ticket cheerfully. Men are
nothing, principles everything. Nothing
must arrest Republican triumph until equality
under the law, like liberty, from which it
springs, is universally acknowledged, and the
citizenship of the humbest becomes sure
protection against outrage and wrong, as was
Roman citizenship of old.
(Signed,) SCHUYLER COLFAX.
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collegiate Con,ns encement Of
Howard University.

The graduation of st,Elents from Howard
University Collegiate Department took place
Tuesday evening, the 9Th ult, at the Con-
gregational church.
The exercises were very pleasing consist
ing of music by fine choir of students and
the following orations: sSalutatory by A. e.
O. Hear, of S. c." Motives to intellectual
Excrtion," by Josiah II Settle, of Miss
ellis Soul is Marching en-" A. C. O'Hear,
final grafton, 1.-THE Ideal and Valedictory,"
by Jas. NJ. Gregory, of Ia.
The gentlemen gradua1 ing were then pre-
scented with their well-n grited diplomas, by
Gov. II. ID. Cook, who, er some appropri-
ate remarks, conferred honorary degree OF
l.. l.. d. upon Hon. S. omeroy and Hon.
Fredk Douglass. This pmencement is the
first of the College Del pent. Both pro-
fessOrs and the gradual students deserve
commentator for the ldable efforts to
make it a success.
Truly this great ente at Howard Unit
versity, in favor of Ion without any
odious distinction of or caste is fairly
started, and if we may Of its future sue
cess from the result of abors, in patience
we can look hopeful ward to the day
when this institution stand monu-
ment to noble zeal and |sewOrthy labor.
-
THE AMERICAN Pr M HOUSE, AND
UNIVERSITY FOR THE IND is national
institution, incorporated the District of
Columbia.
The objects of the ms ton are to furnish
to the blind Of the who, ountry series of
text books in raised pril (of which there is
an almost utter destitut works in litera-
ture, history, and scien illustrative appa-
ratus addressed to the b, (needed by the
school for the blind,) collegiate nstruc-
ton which Is not no ccessible to the
blind.
The means to csta and endow this
much needed institution to be raised by
subscription.
In this considerable gress has been
made. Some s29, 900 ID have been coll
lected, which is invest State Board of
Trustee.
And now building subscription has been
opened in this District, headed by Governor
Cook, Mr.. Corcoran, and others. AS soon
as the amount of 100000 shall be subscribed
to this fund, the institution will DO estab-
lished.
The general agent, Mr.. Shenod, is now
pressing the subscription on the attention of
our citizens. Aid in this direction will not
only promote the welfare of this afflicted
class, but will also help tho material and
business interest of the city of Washington.
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White Woman Burned AIIve-Two Ne
gr0es Murdered Ina L old Blood-What NAV
be Expected should the Tamm any Candi-
date Prove Successful.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-08-23
What Befel TIVE Trojan Dressmakers.

Two of the leading dressmakers of this
city took it into their heads, about month
ago, to go over to Europe, and make ar
rangements for getting the fashions at the
earliest possible moment. Each had an
eye on the other; each intended to get
clear ahead of the other. Neither of
them knew that the other was intending to
60 abroad AS rivals sometimes do, even
if they are women, these two hated each
other. They had not spoken to each
other for years, though they had now and
then spoken of each other. They en-
gagged passage by first-class steamer that
sailed about two weeks ago. Each knew
that she was to have companion in her
stateroom, but did not know who she
would be, and was probably somewhat
anxious on this point. Truth is stranger
than fiction. The steamer sailed proudly
down the bay. One of our dressmakers
was on deck enjoying the scene, which
was novel to her. She was delighted that
she had outwitted her rival up IN Troy.
Presently she went down to her state
room to see what sort of a roommate she
had On entering the room she found
herrival. Both ladies' threw up their hands,
exclaimed. "You hereP' and both tainted.
A passenger saw two number three gait
the doorway. This excited suspicion,
and the matter was Investigated. Both
ladies were found insensible. The Cap
tain was heard to remark to the second
officer, an hour afterward, that he'd be
blessed if he ever saw anybody get sea-
sick so quick as those two women did.
Our reporter, from whom we learned
these facts by special cable dispatch,
says it was the most comical sight he ever
saw to see how the two ladies studied to
avoid each other during the trip. They
tried to trade state-rooms with somebody,
but could not Finally, after living to-
gether for nearly ten days, each began to
appreciate the fact that her rival was a
most estimable lady, and very sharp at
business. Gradually they began to talk
to each other, coldly at first, but at last
they fell into each others arms, wept and
asked forgiveness. The result was that
they formed copartnership, and when
they return will set up the most extensive
dressmaking establishment ever known in
this part of the State. If you believe this
is yarn, Just make a few inquiries and
satisfy yourself-IhOy (M ~ Press.
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An Ungrateful Railroad.

Jones had heard about a widow who
saved a train of cars from destruction by
warning the engineer, as the train ap-
preached, that certain bridge had been
washed away, and who had been literally
rewarded by receiving free pass for life
on nearly all the railroads in the country,
and present of ten thousand dollars
from the company whose train she had
saved, so Jones thought it pretty profita-
BILE business and concluded he'd try it.
He lived near railroad bridge, and he
anxiously watched and waited for it to
wash away, feeling sure it must go some
time. Every rainy night he got up and
paced the floor by spells, and then took
his umbrella and went out to see if the
bridge was beginning to go; but twas no
go.
At last he concluded that if an accident
would not happen of its own accord, he
would make one to order; so he got upon
a high bank at the side of the track one
afternoon, and rolled a big rock down
upon the rails.
Il was just few minutes before the
lightning express was due, and throwing
off his coat and hat, so as to appear as ex-
cited as possible, he went forth to meet it,
He saw it looming in the distance, so he tied
a red cotton handkerchief to hoe handle
and waved it above his head in wild, ex-
cited manner, as signal of danger. But
he presented such singular appearance
that the engineer thought him a crazy
man escaped from neighboring lunatic
asylum, and so paid no heed to him, and
the train Numbered on.
There was sudden whistle of "down
brakes" rapid reversing of the engine,
then terrible crash. The train was
wrecked; the engineer and fireman in
stantly killed; the conductor and all the
brakeman dangerously if not fatally
wounded; and about ten per cent. of the
passengers horribly mangled.
Jones didn't get pass for life on the
principal railroads of the country, and a
purse of $4,000; but he got ten years in
the penitentiary for manslaughter, having
been seen by neighbor when in the act
of rolling the big rock on the track which
caused the calamity.
And now he is learning to manufacture
shoes by the original process, and is of
the opinion that railroads are curse to
the country.
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Rules to be Observed by Hotel Clerks
and Travellers.

The following rules are suggested as
those at present governing the gentle
men who preside at the offices of some
of the leading fashionable watering
places:
Always to remember that the entire
travelling public are your social interiors,
and to be treated as such.
No matter how many rooms are vacant,
make it seem difficult matter to get in,
to any guest who appears in the least
anxious.
All single gentlemen you don't know
are to be put into the uppermost rooms, or
those overlooking the kitchen or steam
pipes, and other undesirable points
no matter if the house is half empty.
These men ought not to pe. travelling
alone. i
The head-waiter will also take care that
these single travellers are placed at the eX-
IRENE end of the dining where they
cannot see any of the other guests, and
that they are served with the legs of the
chicken, the tough side of the rOast-beef,
and the unripe fruit, reserVing the best for
''the ladies table,.
If a guest arrives within an hour =, a
meal stick it into his bill, whether he has
it or not; and book-keepers will do well
not TO make out bills when guest calls
for it; simply sing out twenty dol
lars, Mr.. Pidgin;" and Pidgin half the
time, especially if he is young and ve1-
dant, and there are several persons stand
ing about, will throw out the money rath-
er than bother about the extra two dollars
he knows he does not owe, because he is
simple enough to think it looks mean to
dispute hotel bill.
Difference is on no account to be
shown to any one. The reason defer
ence is shown to you by travellers is not
on account of getting favors of you as a
hotel clerk, but simply on account of
your exalted abilities and superior attain
ments.
OF course old fogies unfashionably
dressed, men who stay only day or two,
who order no wine, and who deign to in
quire about rates of charge or insist upon
being waited upon without feeling the
walters, will be treated with the contempt
they deserve.
You will also never permit any one to
give you an order; he must make re-
quest-and mind how he does it, also.