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The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
The Great Musical Jubilee.

The Bostonians are to give another
grand Musical Jubilee this year. to open
Juue the 18th and close July 4th. An
immense building is now in progress of
erection at Boston, which is to be sup
piled with a gigantic organ. The roar
ing octavoes are to be produced by a cans
non fred by electricity, the electric
keys being placed on the organ and op-
Grated like other musical keys, by the
organist. The Changing notes are to be
done by means Of chime of church
bells, also worked by keys.
The grand choruses will be sung by
twenty thousand performers, repre-
sented by some two hundred musical
societies, from all parts of the coun-
try.
The orchestra will be made up of one
thousand selected musicians, which with
the military bands, American and for
eign. will constitute in all about two
thousand players New York, it is ex-
pected will furnish FIVE hundred of this
number; while Boston, Baltimore, Gin
cinnati, Chicago and others cities of the
South and West will make up the
remainder.
The instruments Tor this Seclect orcheS-
ira will be as follows: First violins
$50. second violins 200, violas $50, vio-
lencellos 100, concra base 100, first
clarionets II, second clarionets IL, first
flutes II, second flutes IL, first oboes 10,
second obeos 10 bassos-6rst, second,
third and fourth-2O, French horns
first, second, third and fourth-24,
trumpets-frst, second, aud third and
fourth 24, alto trombones II, tenor
trombones II, bass trombones 8, bass
tubas G, tympani-pairs-6, small drums
10, bass drums 4, cymbals, paris, great
drums l, great triangle l, total, 1000.
The building it is calculated, will
seat not less than 100000 people, The
chorus and orchestra occupy nearly two
acres, while nearly three acres will be
given to the audience. The great drum
is to be twelve feet in diameter.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
The Difference Between Grant
Greeley.
from the Brooklyn Eagle. ]

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Perhaps no circumstance could more
fttingly illustrate the difference between
the character of Mr.. Greeley and Presi
dent Grant than the following story, the
truth of which is vouched tor
In 1851 the hatters employed by Mr.
Genin, the Broadway halter, struek fol-
higher wages. and being refused started
an Independent hat shOp 0T rnef own
on the CO operative principle, while Mr.
Genin employed number Of men called
''scrabs" to fill their places. An article
appeared in the Tribune endorsing the
cause of the men who struck, aud on the
following day a committee of men, was
appointed to wait on Mr.. Greeley and
thank him for the article. The committee
waited on him and performed their mis-
sion and uunoticed by Mr. Greeley, one
member, managed to get hold OF his hai
and take the size of it, and then they
took their leave. 4 few days atterwarc
the same committee came back with {
magnificent hat, the production OF the
best workmen in the shop and putting
it on the philosophers head as he sat a
his desk, a&ed him how he liked it
Mr.. Greeley looked at himself in the
glass, looked at the hat, and declared i
the best hat he had ever worn. Said he
Gentlemen, what's your price for this
hat2"
The committee said they didn Intend
to charge anything for the hat that i
was intended as a slight token of theii
gratitude for his services in their cause
''I can't accept the hat, said Mr. Gree
ley. turning to his desk, "unless pay
for it. What l did, did for principle
and not for presents. IF you will tel
me how much money the hat is worth,
would like to take it, for [ like the hat
but if you don't do that, you can take
it back with you again.
Coruered thus, the Committee had NJ
option but to name the price for the hat
which they fixed at IS. Mr.. Greeley
bought the hat at that price, with evi
dent satisfaction, and wore it severa
years afterward.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
Tbe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The indications are unmistakable that,
the Democratic masses, in all parts of the
United States sre concentrating on Gree
ley. The greatest unanimity appears to
be in the South, which has long felt the
necessity of the present movement.
In New England the Democracy gen
orally have concluded that Greeley is the
only road to victory.
Pennsylvania and New York, without
one or both of which, the Democracy
can hope nothing, will cast their vote
soidIy for Greeley, at Baltimore.
The Western States, in the main, re-
port a strong Greeley feeling, with a
strong minority against him.
The Baltimore Convention will consist
of six hundred and seventy two members
and only sixty of them are as yet count
ed who will insist on straight Democ-
ratio ticket. The Greeley Democrats be
ing confident that they eau control the
convention are now discussing the ques-
ton whether it will be best to endorse
Greeley directly by name, or to declare by
resolution it expedient at this time tC
make a nomination, and endorse the lead
ing principles of the Cincinnati Reform
The latter view We believe will prevail.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
Four Years In WAR and Four
Years in Congress.

4 Ballard county Democrat, writing
to the Paduch Tobacco Plant, has this to
say of Judge Crosslands prospects in
Ballard county:
eve have some politics among US oc-
casionally, though we DO not feel as
much interst in it as we should. l
believe democrats generally propose to
vote this time for Greeley to beat Grant,
bnt you must know that we do not con
slider ourselves republicans. We are
still democrats, and will cast pure old
democratic vote for Edward Grassland
for Congress. We suppose Capt Clark
and Col Martin both have friends some-
where, but we are for wing Grassland
an endorsement, and believe every coun
ty in the district should vote for him.
and after he has served his second term.
let Clark. Martin & Co, fight over it. l
( see no reason why Col. Grassland should
be defeated now. He has just entered
on the field of usefulness and has COM
menced his work in earnest to check
radical legislation. | have just read his
great speech on the tariff. aud wish every
man in the district had copy of it. Why
don't you publish It? We might pick the
State over and could not ind man who
would discharge his duties more cheerful
ly as Congressman or serve his constit-
uency more gratefully. La 1861 l gave
him my only boy. and he promised to
stand by him like father during the
terrible war before them. lie kept his
promise, and brought him back to Ken
tucky. Four years they struggled and
fought together, and my son says Gross
land was always his friend--that he shared
his blanket and last dollar with him
often--and did the same by all of his
command that needed it. You know,
Mr.. Editor, that officers as a general
thing, were very unkind to the privates,
and | am glad to make this statement
You know also, that Col. Grassland was
poor in money aud an invalid with a
large family, when the war commenced
and how he left his wife aud children to
fight the battles of the South, and du
ring the entire war did not know whether
his physical condition would bear him
through it. But it did He served four
years 10 the war and should serve four
in Congress. think this nothing but
fair.
Yours respectfully,
T n M
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
GraDt ana Johnson.

1t is a singular fact that Senator Sum
ner now stands in the same relation to-
wards President Grant as he stood in
towards President johnson; and the in
terest of this repetition of his course is
increased by the fact that, in comparing
Grant with johnson, he makes the
former the worse of the two. The Re
publican party impeached President
johnson for alleged usurpations of pow
er and violations Of the constitution, aud
they came very near deposing him; yet
Mr. Sumner, who warmly supported the
movement against J Johnson, now declares
that President Grant more richly de-
serves to be impeached and deposed than
his predecessor. Ia his late speech in
the Senate, the Massachusetts Senator
says:
SIN exhibiting this autocratic preten-
sion, so revolutionary and unrepublican
In character, l mean to be moderate in
language and keep within the strictesi
bounds. The facts are indisputable, aud
nobody can deny the gross violation oi
the constitution and of internationaI
law with insult to the black republic
the whole case being more reprehensible
as also plainly more unconstitutional ant
more Illegal than anything alleged agains
Andrew Johnson on his impeachment.
This is strong language; if it had beer
spoken by a Democratic Senator, the
Presidents friend would only have
laughed at it; but when it is spoken By
the most eminent Republican Senator
from the most steadfast Republican State
in the Union, they cannot afford to make
light of it. They must either answer il
or take the consequences Of its effect on
the public mind.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
~onan,s paradise.

AI,ogetber the widest of all the Uto
man schemes that were ever concoeted
has lust been developed in Massachusetts
developed on paper only, for it IS SO
utterly impracticabe that no part OF 1t
.on ever be consummated. Miss Aurora
II Phelps is the mother of it, aud calls
II the "Woman's Economical Garden
Homestead League
The first aim is to provide every wo-
man home of her own, which cannot
be taken away from her or her female
heirs. by any event or process of law,
although this arrangement is made with
out any thought of the law. One item
of the declaration of principles reads /.
"The one great first need of childhood
and womauhood is a tax and debt ex-
empted, self sus,ainable and Independent
garden-home, controllable by and trans
ferable to women only.
It is assumed that as a guardian of
the public veal it is peculiarly the duty
and province of the State in its corporate
capacity to provide such a home for
every woman within its borders. For
this purpose it is insisted that one-half
the public domain should be set apart
perpetually for women's garden home
steads The womens villages in con-
temptation are to have executive COM
mittees, village inspectors, resident
( physicians. &c, to be chosen from amoug
/ the poorer members. A homestead COM
] l. IL, III bal
/ Jurisdiction In all the women's villages,
and preside as superior judges in all
cases of jury trials held by the authority
of the league Then there are special
village rules to govern details, modelled
after those of other commune systems.
But the most singular feature of the
scheme is that no owner of any land in
these villages can at the same time pos
sess more than six acres, and on the death
of any member intestate the property is
to follow the female line of descent. a
strict law of primogeniture is added
which is supremely ridiculous in America
to say nothing of the absurdity Of 6
private corporation setting at defiance
I the fundamental law of the State creating
/ it. There is also rule in contempt o.
law that "no distinction shall be made
between daughters because legal, natura
or adopted
For the benefit of those in this un.
happy region who may wish to avail
themselves Of this sublime Utopia W,
will. state that Miss Phelps is Offering t.
the members of the league who are re
cosded as such on or before Novembe
%, the right of purchase to /, ,329 yerl
desira HE extra size house lots In th,
village of Aurora, Woburn, Mass. Th'
entire cost of lots to members availine
themselves of their right of purchase
for transfer of titles, deeds, &c, will no
be less than FIVE, nor exceed ten dollar
per lot. Who wants cheap garder
home
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
Fulton Endorses Greeley and
Brown.
Ed. CrossIand Re-EndOrsed.

The Convention of the Democracy of
Fulton which assembled in this place
Monday last, was characterized by an
eminently liberal and conservative spirit.
The Convention advised our State Con-
vention to oppose any Democratic party
nomination for President and Vice
President Of the United States, aud the
acceptance of the Greeley and Brown
ticket as our choice under existing cir
cumstances. The resolutions declare all
other political contentious subordinate
to the issues of general amnesty, local
self government, subordination of the
military to the civil authorities, and op-
position to the centralizing tendencies of
the Federal government, precisely as in
corporated in the Cincinnati Liberal
Republican platform The Convention
also, by resolution, expressed the con-
tinued confidence of the party, in the
ability, integrity, and fidelity, of Oul
present member of Congress, the Hon
Edward Grassland, and commended hi,
claims to the favorable consideration o
the District for a re election.
The resolution accepting Greeley unt
Brown passed unanimously. The reso
luton endorsing Judge Grassland passed
with but two dissenting voices.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
WIro Arc TheYl

y. s. Internal Revenue John P. Hall,
the probable Radical candidate for Con
gress in this District, says he thinks,
Grant will get ten Democrats where Gree
ley will get one Republican. He, also,
says, he is confident several old Demo
cratic leaders of this District will take
the stump for Grant. Who are they
These "old leaders" who are expected
to stump it for Grant are now fighting for
straight ticket" and are said to habit
around Paducah. Let the McCracken
leaders speak out.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
Fame of American Babies.

The little children of America have
unwittingly achieved fame abroad, and
are in demand as models for other ma
tiors to build their men and women by.
They have attracted the attention of for
eigners by what is termed their acute
ness and extraordinary talents for early
mischief 1t thus appears that the traits
in them most Objectionable here have
excited the admiration, especially of the
-..vrrI.aes, ss.,I -sI.ssy -4-s'e DESTROYS of in
formation and samples and advice
which will enable them to produce the
same sort Of thing in their young gen
erations.
There is to be worlds exhibition In
Vienna in 1873. They are going to as
semble presentatives of all nations
there, and have collection of every
thing useful aud ornamental that the
world affords. 1t will be a regular ark
full of the wealth, industries and Curl
osities OF all the peoples. They desire
to establish a department in it called
The Child" and in this department
there is to be a compartment especially
devoted to the American baby.
Baron Won Schwarzenboren, the presi-
dent OF the coming e3hlDltiOD, mas maue
an appeal which American mothers can
not withstand, and we venture the pre-
diction that the nursery department. as
signed to the United States will be full.
Fair specimens of American growth
are wanted. Also books, papers, essay
and other printed matter referring to
baby pedagogy. Nursery furniture toys,
and mechanical tools are to form part of
the exhibition. so these things are prac-
tical and new. The Germans evidently
have an exalted idea of young America.
What a pity if they should be disa-
busedl
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
Congress Adjourned.

Congress adjourned Monday last, aud
contrary 10 the expectations Of the peo-
pie of the,country-the worst disappoint-
ed Of whom are the Radicals themselves
at that moment the dangerous power
of the President, the power TO suspend
the hallowed writ of hob6ds corpus, ex-
pired by Limitation. A measure forced
at first for partisan purpose, it was
supposed that those who created it would
continue it, but they did not, and there
is no better or more encouraging evi-
dence of the end of Radical disruption
and the return of safe conservatism and
common sense than the result of Mon
day. The Radicals found themselves so
dwindled as to be unable to sustain the
dangerous measures they had inaugural
ed. The Liberal and Democratic ele-
ment found itself strong enough to assert
its power with effect, and did so. though
the struggle was hand to hand and vi
cious one. President Grants chiefest
measure has been defeated, and the fact
pretty plainly indicates that the Radical
party can go no farther. 1t has reached so
near to the end of the rope that there is
only enough left for moose
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
A CongressIonaI Convention

Says the Princeton Banaer, "We al
ready have three candidates for Congress
from this district. and how many more
there will be no one is prepared to say.
1t is clear that a convention will have to
be called to settle the matter of candi-
dacy between.these and such other Dem
ocratic gentlemen as may become candi-
dates. The time aud place for holding
said convention will have to be fixed up.
on by the Congressionals Democratic
Committee, composed of the chairmer
of the various county committees. They
should by correspondence or other wise
select the place and appoint the time
As to the place, We beg leave to sugges
Princeton"
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
Meeting OF the Fulton County
Democracy.


A Convention of the Democracy of
Fulton county met, pursuant to a call,
at the Court House, in Hickman, on
Monday, June 10th.
The object of the meeting being stated
by Capt. Ii. A. Tyler, an organization
was effected by the election of Judge Jno.
W, Wingate as Chairman, and Mr.. Frank
Bondurant, as Secretary
On motion of Geo. Warren, the Chair
appointed Committee on Resolutions.
whereupou the Chair appointed, Geo.
Warren, Robert Easily, DR.. John NJ.
Morris, T. NJ French, H. n. Niehol and
7. o. Goalder.
During the absence of the Committee,
Judge B r. Walker addressed the Con
venton
The Committee, through T. 0 Goal
der, reported the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee have called State Con
ventiou, to select delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention to be held
at Baltimore ou the 9th day Of July
| next; and
Whereas, Convention assembled at
/ Cincinnati on the lst day Of May last
which nominated candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice President, aud adopted q
platform IN favor of universal amnesty
| the principle of local self-government
| the subordination Of the military to the
civil authority the checking of the cen
/ tralizing tendency of the federal CAV
| ernmcnt; aud
Whereas, We regard all other objects
Of political contention at this time a
subordinate to these, therefore be 1t
/ ReSoled, That the Democracy o.
/ Fulton county, whilst in favor OF main
/ tanning its organization, and adherlng K
/ its principles, believe that it would bt
unwise for the Democratic Nationa
/ Convention to make party nomination
but we pledge ourselves to abide by th'
action of said Convention.
Resolred, That the following persons
be appointed delegates to our State Con
vention, to-wit Frank Bondurant, W
b. Mcconnell, Henry Campbell, and al
democrats of Fulton county who MAJ
4 choose to attend.
Resolred, Further, that deeming i
proper on this occasion, we the Democ
racy Of Fulton county do express ou
undated confidence in the ability, integ
rity and patriotism of our distinguished
representative in Congress, the Hon
/ Edward Grassland, that his late, bold anC
able speech in Congress exposing th
most outrageous system of legal robber,
ever perpetrated upon a people in th'
shape of tariff for protection, meet
our hearty appreciation, and entities hin
to our continued confidence and supper;
JNo. W. WINGATE, Chr IN.
FRANK BONDURANT, Secy.
HICKMAN. KY, June 10, 1872.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
GRAND ana Women sumrage

1t is impossible to misinterpret the
fourteenth resolution of the Philadel-
phia platform, alluding to women suf
frage. 1t does not declare exhaustivels
aud positively on that difficult question
but as far as it goes, it is significantly
explicit The resolution is as follows
IA. The Republican party is mindful
of its obligation to the loyal women ol
America for their noble devotion to the
cause of freedom; their admission to
wider fields of usefulness is received
with satisfaction, and the honest de-
mands of any class of citizens for addi-
tional rights should be treated with re
spectful consideration.
Here is full recognition of female
suffrage as a question in our national
politics.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
The Preaching OF BrIgham
Young.

Brigham Young appears to be now en-
gagged il mission of preaching through
out the length and breadth of his terri
tory, and like Beecher, Spurgeon, and
other prophets, is having his sermons
reported verbatim and printed as they
fall from his lips with all their i'm
perfections on their head.
In sermon lately delivered in the
tabernacle at Ogden he draws the follow
ing picture of the social condition of
Utah, and the extract which we make
will give good idea of his style of put
ting things:
Il will say to the Latter-day Saints,
there cannot that community be found
on the face Of the whole earth that, as a
community, is as we'll off as we are here
in those mountains. There are more
women and children, with their husbands
and fathers, sleep under their own ROOT
In the midst of the Latter~day Saints
than in any other community on the face
of this earth, 10 civilization and lesi
women and children go without food anG
clothing than in any other community il
Christendom. Looking around among
the Latter-day Saints 1 will ask, hoV
many are there who have been takeI
from cellars, from pits under ground, o
from their little rooms where one pound
or FIVE dollars, would buy everything
they possessed on the face of the earth
aud brought to this country and taugh
how to plant their potatoes, beans, beets
carrots, how to raise their cucumber
and squashes, their corn and their wheat
how to milk COW, feed calf, take car
of the chickens, how to build a pig pc
and put pig in it, to take the offals c
the house aud give to the pig, and ho'
to raise calf ora colt--experience the
never had before in their lives? "
they have learned this economy, au
some of them, ] am sorry to say, Ii
their heel against the Almighty aud b
anointed.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
Hickman and Fulton Counties
Instruct for CrOssland.

The Democracy of Hickman County
met on the 3rd, and the Democracy oi
Fulton on the 10Th inst, both conventions
passed the following resolution, unani.
mously, endorsing Judge Grassland, and
recommending his reelection.
Resolved, That deeming it proper on
this occasion, we the democracy of Hick.
man county, hereby express our uuaba.
ted confidence in the ability. integrity and
patriotism of our distinguished Repre-
sentative in Congress, the Hon. Edward
Grassland; that his late bold and able
speech in Congress, exposing the most
outrageous system of legal robbery ever
perpetrated upon people in the shape
of tariff for protection, meet our hearty
appreciation. and entities him to our
continued confidence and support.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15

THE STRIKERS AND THEIR FIRST
CHECK.-The eight hour movement
which has attained such unexpected and
sweeping success up to the present seems
in some instances to have been brought
to a stand still in its infringement against
that class of capital which has copious
reserve of money behind it and dull
season before it. This is scarcely other
wise than could be expected.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15

DEcLINEs.-The Trigg County Dem
ocrat, speaking of the Congressional race
in this District, says of Judge Dabney s
candidacy:
"But our friend Judge Dabney is not
a candidate for Congress or any other DO
litical position. He is devoted to his
profession; has lucrative practice, and
could not be induced to neglect the in
terests of his numerous clients and leave
the pleasures and enjoyments of home to
engage in a wild hunt after Office"
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15
THE KENTUCKY WAR CLAIMS PASSED

BY BoTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS- "A
dispatch was received in this city, from
Washington Monday, announcing that
the Kentucky war claim for about
S525 600, which unanimously passed the
Senate last week, yesterday passed the
House, and now only awaits the sigma
ture of the President TO the general ap-
preparation bill-wiheh, of course, will
not be withheld-to become law. So,
it may be considered certain, that Ken
lucky is at last about to receive q portion,
at least, of the debt justly due her from
the General Government debt which
if the whole were paid at once, as it
ought to be, would place Kentucky out
of debt.
The Hickman courier., 1872-06-15

THE Cairo Gazette asserts that OF the
200 German votes of that City cast for
Grant four years ago, 100 will now 90
for Greeley, and is authorized to bet
$500 that Greeley will carry that city BY
400 votes.