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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-07-17

Grant when they make bets Of any
consequence. In Washington l learn
the same difficulty has occurred in Sc
curing bets against Grant, who, as
Greeley said, ''never has been beaten,
and never will be-"
THE INDIANS.
Secretaries Delano and Beiknap,
Genl Walker, Commissioner of Indi-
an affairs, Mr. Walker Indian Agent
and Gen. o. 0. Howard, special
Commissioner OF Indian affairs, held
conference last Tuesday at which
the Indian question was discussed
with special reference to the interest
ing report just made by Indian Agent
Welch of Phila. Mr. W. is great
Philanthropist, and sustains the Pres
ident's peace policy as the only means
of pacifying, christcnizing and ulti-
mately enlightening the Indian tribes.
Most of his recommendations were APP
proved by the conference. The pub
lished rumOrs of the uprising of the
Indians on the reservations are be-
licved to be entirely false, as are
most Of such stories circulated in the
interest of those harpics who wish to
fatten off of cheating the Indians, as
was done under previous administra-
tions.
CAPITAL ITEMS.
The Postollice Department have
decided that the new postal cards
shall be three inches ard five and one
fourth in length, the stamp and lines
to be engraved on them in variety
Of cOlors. All of the colors now in
use in postage stamps will be used.
The whole number of pupils at
tending the public schools of this city
during the month of June was 6.l22.
There is now no smallpox in the
city except a few cases in the small
pox hospital, aud there patients are
convalescent. For a time, there
was something of a panic on Capitol
Hill all the yellow flags are now ta-
ken down and quiet runs the even
tenor of its way in all parts of the
city. C.. NJ.
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DEESTABLISHED.-
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srRAws SHOW THE COURSE OF THE

mover recognize the argument of
betting, but it has something to do
with the confidence Of opinion on the
side that wager is laid Thus in
Baltimore, Immediately after the nom
ination of Greeley and Brown, the
supporters of Gen. Grant offered bets
freely on his election, and could get
no better term than to put up 800,
against $25. by any of the Greeley
men. Even the liberals who are pos
ted lay their wagers on the side of
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-07-17
EMocRATs ARE puGILIsTs, GAMBLERS
OR HARLOTS.

Erery one achO chooses TO lire by
pugilism, or gambling, or hdrlotry,
lcih nearly ecery keeper Of tip
pling-House, as politically a Demo
cSat-Horace Greeley, Jan. I. 1868.
DEMOCRATS FILL ALL THE HAUNTs OF
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-07-17
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

Acknowledging the corn. "Rah
for Greeley-Honest Old Horace" !"
hOwls Democracy. I'VE do not say''
"says Honest Old Horace" "that
every Democrat is thief, but every
thief is Democrat
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-23
WHAT consolation is it to the Demo

WHAT consolation is it to the Demo-
cratic party even if, as contemporary of
that faith alleges, "the people are awaken
ing to the fact that their liberties are in
peril ?" Are the people likely to ASS the
Democracy to rescue their liberties ? If
SO, why? What has it done in the last
twelve years to evidence that it is the best
agent for this work? Has it espoused the
cause of the downtrodden and oppressed or
relieved the sufferings Of the weak and per-
secuted? Did it oppose that grand con-
spiracy-the rebellion, and the later one,
Tammany? The truth is, the Democratic
party is the last one that will ever be trust
ed by the people Of this country for any
good wook. 1t has many good and pure
men in its ranks, but they are generally
strangers to the active impulse of the age,
and of narrow, restrained views. Its next
candidate for the Presidency has truly said
that its constituencies are generally moral
ly and physically debauched.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-23

EVERY citizen must be made to feel that
the Republican party is his party; that it
exists for his benefit; that it gives potency
and power to his will and that it is its
first mission to take care of the welfare OF
all and particularly the poorest of the land.
Could our leaders and orators become only
inspired with this grand and ennobling idea
that the Republican party is the will and
the voice of the people, that it is so tlexl-
BILE, that it always represents the will Of
the majority legally expressed, they could
infuse an enthusasm-poweri into the cam
paign that would carry every loyal state in
Union.
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THE WEEKLY JOURNAL


Will contain faithful resume Of the News OF
the Week from all parts of the world; full and
accurate reports OF the Richmond and Baltimore
Markets; well digested Editorials upon all the
current matters of interest, Political, Financial,
Commercial Agricultural and general topics;
selections from the leading journals of this coun-
try, local and State news, &c. This paper will
maintain the principles of The National Repub-
lican Party, and strenuously advocate all mea-
sures to advance the public good. Believing
POPULAR EDUCATION to be the great want
of our State and Country we shall give large
space to its advocacy. We shall devote a large
portion of our columns to the subjects of Agri
cultural. Horticultural and Mining interests, CIV
ing interesting articles these subjects from able
contributors. essex H#. MaI .EFfg
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nestle animals, that feed, and clothe, and
share the care and affection of man. The
question involves millions of dollars and the
personal safety of our women and children.
We want the public mind so aroused,
and the people so informed, that there shall
be no excuse for indifference. Every good
citizen will secure his dogs when he reflects
upon the wrong of leaving them free. 1t
will not be difficult to influence the politi.
clans when the farmers of Virginia unite as
one man upon this question. The careless
and irresponsible portion of the community
can then be compelled to restrain thei
dogs.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-23
No. 400 Walnut street, Phi
sDACK-LOG STUDIES"

~
In this unique series of papers, now appearing
in SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, MI. Warner, au-
thor of my Summer in q Garden" is doing his
best work Here We haye--in q pleasant fiction
of a talking group in front of an od-fashioned
country -philosophic suggestion, sar-
casm that smiles, not sneers, bright bits OF de-
scription, social out-looks--and, enliyening all,
fresh. ''crisp, yet juicy' and delicious humor
BACKLOG STUDIES have been quickly APP
preciated by the press. The New York Times
says that these sketches, "for light, airy, but
genuine delineations of character, have rarely
been surpassed by any writer of the present
day." The Boston Transcript says that "ior
delicacy of tonch, quaint sentiment, and quiet
humor, BACKLOG STUDIES are the best of
things in their way" The Nation thinks that
BACKLOG STUDIES No Ill. ''renews and
increases the evidence given in his previous pei
formances that we have in him q humorist of
real merit" Writing of one of these papers,
the N. Y. Mail says it is the ''best thing he has
written, and the best thing in its way any
American or English magazine has had for many
a day. and the Boston Commercial Bulletin
says: "BACK-LOG STUDIES constitute de-
oided hit in magazine literature" Another OF
these delightful papers will appear in the April
number of SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, which
will be for sale by all booksellers ana newsdeal-
ers. "a a year, SO cents a number.
SCRIBNER s. CO., d.
NH l5--lt 65i Broadway, New York.
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1882
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
i TED STATES for the Eastern District of
Virginia.
In the matter of Robert c. Newly, bankrupt
lin bankruptcy.
At Richmond, Va, this Goth day of March,
1871. ElEE prl a
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Please take notice, that petition has been
presented to the Hon. John @. Underwood, Judge
of said District Court in bankruptcy, by Emmett
Crump, assignee of the estate of said bankrupt,
to sell the real estate belonging to said bankrupt,
free from all liens and encumbrances thereon.
This is to give notice to all persons interested,
that in the terms of said petition an order has
been issued for all persons who may be inter-
ested in said estate to appear before W. w.
Forbes, Register, at his office, in Richmond, Va,
on the SOth day of March 1872, at III clock A. NJ,
and show cause, If any they have, why such
order should not be granted
EMMETT CRUMP,
NH e0-W2w Assignee.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-23

The Dispatch is engaged in labor
just now, which must be anything but
gratifying to its pride and vanity as a
Southern journal. We refer to its effort
at belittling the military services of such
men as Colonel Mosby, Colonel Ewell,
General Beauregard, General Longstreet,
and other Confederate officers, who happen
to prefer Grant to Greeley as Presidential
candidate. Republics are VIGOROUSLY UNI
grateful, but the most ungrateful things in
them are such splenetic journals as turn
their backs, for the most trifing cause, on
their friends. ,
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-23
MIR. GREELEY'S LETTER.

We publish to-day the letter of MIR.
Greeley, accepting the nomination rendered
by the Cincinnati Convention, in which he
epitomizes the resolutions of that body as
the cardinal faith and doctrine OF the
I" Liberal" Republicans of the country. If
we except certain charges, mostly in the
shape of vague inuendoes, against the
present administration, there is little in the
resolutions, as epitomized by Mr.. Greeley,
that any one will seriously object to, unless
he has been too deeply indoctrinated in the
ideosyncracies of the Tribune, in past
years, to thoroughly accept the present at
titude of Mr.. Greeley ON the subject of
state rights.
His first, and manifestly most cardinal
standpoint, is, that " all political rights and
franchises which have been acquired through
our late bloody CONFUSION must and SHALL
be guaranteed, maintained, enjoyed, and
respected ere'more ~
Well, this is all that any one can ask,
and is all that the Republican Congress has
exacted at the hands of President Grant,
or that he has sought to secure in the exer-
else of his authority as Chief Magistrate
of the nation. The same proposition, or
one equivalent to it, is all that any member
of the Philadelphia Convention could de-
sire as plank in the Republican platform.
What the Republican party has claimed in
all these past years, and what it now
claims, is, that the Federal government is
bound to protect the enfranchised citizen
the same as any other, and that where any
state refuses or neglects to protect him, the
Federal power must be exercised to thai
end. The rights and franchises acquired
during the war must and SHALL be guar
anted by the Federal government-just thu
ground precisely which has led to all tn
abuse and denunciation of General Grant
who has simply executed law of Congress
to the end of securing this individual pro.
lection to the enfranchised citizen.
In the states where the rights of enfran
chised citizens have been properly recog
nized and guaranteed by the local authori
ties, there has been no Federal interference
in the past, and will not be any in the fl
ture. But the position of Mr.. Greeley, o
to the right and absolute duty of such in
, reference where such local protection
& not secured, is even stronger than any tina
has ever been taken by General Grant,
, not stronger than it may be possible t
/. embody it in Philadelphia PLATFORM
| The true doctrine is, that the rights an
E franchises of the citizen-every citizen
must be respected everywhere; on boar
e of an A ustrian man-of-war in the Meditel
: ranean as we'll as at that National Capitol
4 on the Rio Grande in Texas as well as 0
Q the Penobscot in Maine on the streets {
. Richmond as well as on those of New Yor
| or Boston. This is what the Republica
. party demands--it is what Mr.. Creole
: demands. Where is the vital issue, thel
between the friends of Mr.. Greeley an
the friends of General Grant?
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YIAkE 1T 70 YOUR HOME.

1t is so much the fashion nowadays to con-
vey information, and moral truths and senti-
ments in the form of stories, that even some
popular lecturers have adopted this style of ad-
dress. The mass of people, especially the young,
demand stories to such degree, that papers
filled with sensational novels and exciting,
trashy stuff, have wide circulation. To fore
stall this taste, and supply something better to
the masses, the publishers of HEARTH AND
HOME in addition to the usual variety of that
paper, have engaged corps of first-class writers,
among whom are Jean Ingelow, Edward Eg-
gleston, Mary Il. Dodge, Louisa M. Alcott, Ed
ward Everett Hale, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
Harriet Prescott Spofford Rose Terry, Maria r..
Oakley Lucia CT. Rumble, and many Others who
furnish to this journal the best original stories,
of the purest character and highest grade--thus
conveying much instruction in a pleasing form.
Besides these, the WEEKLY HEARTH AND
HOME contains q large amount of firs-class
reading, editorials, literature, art, science,
amusement; instruction for the housekeeper,
the gardener, the farmer; a capital department
for children and youth; the news of the day;
financialiand market reports etc. Its engravings,
costing over $4,000 year, are of high order of
merit, unsurpassed by any illustrated paper in
the world. Altogether, HEARTH AND HOME
is such a journal as may be safely and very pro-
fitably taken into any family. 1t is supplied at
the low rate of SO year; four copies for $ll !;
and ten more copies for $3.50 each.
ORANGE JUDD Il CO., Publishers,
APP 4-tf 245 Broadway, New York City.
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NOTWITHSTANDING the great strength
of Horace Greeley among portion of the
Southern Democracy, it is doubtful if even
the vote of its delegates will be cast for him
at the Baltimore Convention. The opposi-
ton grows stronger every hour, and the
feeling in favor of straight-out ticket APP
pears to be gaining ground. Rumors are
now rife in Washington to the effect that
powerful movement has been organized to
defeat the ratification of the Cincinnati
ticket. The parties engaged are said to
embrace wealthy business men and bond
holders of the South, who believe that Mr..
Greeley is incapable of filling the high
office for which he is candidate.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-23

The Enquirer has got "arch fiend" on
the brain-a terrible malady, and fearfully
deep-seated, if we may judge from the
symptomatic tendencies of the patient. 1t
remains to be seen whether this malady OF
the mind shall act as medicine to the body,
or whether it shall result fatally in the
taking off" of our generally sane and
otherwise rational neighbor. ,..
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ORDER FOR FRUIT TREES

upon the well-known Venondale Nurseries of
Ohalkley Dillingham;, who has splendid as
sortment of fruit trees, grape vines and shrub
berry, of all varieties, especially adapted to Eir-
ginia This order is worth FIFTY DOLLARS,
and will entitle the holder to that amount of
trees, at cash prices. This prize we offer to the
second best list sent us before the 10th OF March,
in time for spring planting
The third prize is of the same kind as the Sc
cond worth FORTY DOLLARS, and will be
given to the person sending the third best list.
AS additional prizes, we offer WEBSTER'S
DICTIONARY, unabridged, worth $l2; two
horse, DIXIE PLOW; set of best Agricultural
Works, worth $40; Fowler and Wells publica-
tons New Music of Peters & Co., worth $40 |;
also sets of valuable miscellaneous books, worth
$40 each also, orders for nursery stock, worth
ten dollars each. One of the above prizes will
be awarded to each club of fifty, and prizes of
one-half the value, in our discretion, to each club
of thirty. Each competitor may indicate the
prize which he prefers, and it will be awarded
to the first who has SO expressed preference.
Please state what prize you aim at. This will
not prevent You taking any smaller prize should
you fail to secure the higher. Il
Every club of five will be entitled to an extra
copy of the WEEKLY. Oanvassers along the lines
of the railroad will find 1t to their interest to in
clude also the DAILY, and SEMI-WREKLY, espe-
cially, in their list. Every subscriber for the
SEMrWEEKLY will count as two for the WEEKLY,
and for the DAILY in same proportion.
At our club rates, two cents week supplies
You with a firstclass paper. Newsdealers and
others will find il for their interest to keep our
They will be furnished at favorable rates.
To aid parties -aising clubs by enabling them
to offer some inducements TO each subscriber, we
propose the following:
To each club OF ten subscribers or more we will
send sufficient number of GRAPE CUTTINGS
of the new and best yarities to furnish each mem
Der TWO DOZEN VINES. With these cuttings
we will send directions for roofing.
To each club of fifty or more we will send TWO
ROOTED VINES each, and also CUTTINGS as
above. These will be sent for distribution to the
club. These VINES and CUTTINGS will be from
our own grounds where we have over one hundred
varieties ON trial, including all new and choice
kinds, which we will be glad to aid in distributing
over the State among our readers and others. u
any prefer seons of choice apples cherries, pears
sc. We will substitute or add them 10 the
grapes, II informed in time. We believe that
next to good newspaper, bountiful supply OF
good fruit for old and young is the best gift OF
Providence
Remittances should be made by money orders
or registered letters, and addressed to
EDWARD DANIELS,
Editor and Manager state Journal. Richmond
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THURSDAY EVENING, MAY %, 1872.
THE NEW YORK TIMES AND WEEKLY
.87 STATE JOURNAL.
Great Inducement to Clubs.

We offer the WEEKLY STATE JOUR-
NAL and the Ne,o York Times to single
subscribers at t,co dollars and fifty cents
per year to clubs of ten and upward, at
tpo dollars per gear, giving our subscribers
a frst-class home paper and first-class
New York paper for ONE DOLLAR EACH.
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SAVE THE TREES.

THE Richmond Wing has the following
excellent suggestions on saving and replant-
ing the forests of Virginia
at is well known fact that during the
late war an immense number of forest
trees in Virginia were felled by the oppos-
ing armies, and since that period we have
not only been afflicted with desolating
drouths. but been visited with floods Of un-
paralleled magnitude. The Wing has re-
peatedly urged the land owners in Virginia
to plant forest trees walnut, chestnut,
maple, etc., specially as means OF in
creasing the resources Of the owners, and
incidentally of securing the climatic inhu-
ences claimed by the investigators. We
earnestly commend the subject to the
attention of the Farmers clubs and other
agricultural associations in Virginia"
We are often astonished to see men, who
claim to be sensible, clearing up lands coy
cred with a fine growth of young timber,
which will not yield half pay for the labor
employed in cultivation. Rugged and
broken hills, even, are despoiled of their
forests, and given up to wash and waste
after a few years Of Improbable cultiya-
ton. As a rule, the high lands of all
countries should be left in timber. Only
lands adapted to the use of farm machinery
should be cleared. Not an acre of forest
should be cut until the old fields are
brought up, to the highest possible degree
of fertility. Let any man who proposes to
open new lands put the value of the labor
required upon old fields, in manure and
cultivation, and it will double its pro-
ductiveness, and give him handsome
profit. On the other hand, the growing
timber will be constantly increasing II
value, and will pay good interest upor
| the present value of farm lands in Virginia
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-05-23
THE DOGS AGAIN-.PERsONAL ExPE.
EHr.. ..a..r RIENCE


Last Saturday we went to our farm on |
the Potomac, to spend a quiet Sunday.
We were aroused at daybreak by the yelp-
ing of dogs, near the house, and reached
the door just in time to see our favorite
and most valuable buck, the leader of the
flock, driven past by pack of savage ours
All hands were aroused and Selling their
guns followed to save the poor brute from
his pursuers. We found him cornered,
but doing his best to fight his assailants.
One ear was torn off and his legs badly
bitten. Sd n
. Taking the back track, we spent the
whole day hunting up the scattered flock
and caring for the dead and wounded.
Three lambs and two ewes were found
horribly torn and mangled, one Of them the
pet of our children. Others were bitten,
disfgured and famed. We confess to some
feelings not altogether appropriate for Sun
day. These few sheep are all that remain
to US of a large flock which we sold to save
from the dogs after they had killed many.
But the children plead for a few sheep, and
50 we kept small flock near the house.
But even in our own yard we have no i'm
munity. These dogs belong to people ut
terly irresponsible. They run at large, and
are under no restraint.
Where is our remedy? We feel and our
children feel that we have suffered an ire
parable wrong. Who can pay as for the
cruel destruction of these innocent crea-
lures that we have reared with such care,
and to which we have become attached
with an affection almost human? Who
can give us any equivalent in money for
our wasted time and our bitter sense of
wrong and loss? The man who thinks
that this is trifing matter, that money
can repair it, is as brutal as the dogs which
such public sentiment permits to run
free. Tine inadequacy of any tax to meet
such case is seen at once. 10 let dogs
run at large, involves the cruel destruction
of innocent animals, and of hundreds of
human beings every year. IL as crane,
aud should be declared so, and prompt
punishment provided Tor It's suppression.
Every man has right to keep dogs, or
wolves and tigers II he chooses, but only
on his oton premises. The moment be lets
them lose he takes the risks OF their de-
stroying the Roes and property Of others,
and should be held responsible for aohat
they do. He shows wanton disregard of
the rights of his neighbors, and should be
punished as thieves and other felons are.
Our own experience is that of many others
in our circle of acquaintance.
The little hocks Of sheep which promised
so much for the owners, have been nearly
all destroyed in Eastern Virginia. The
old lady cries for her wool to knit, and
the children cry for their pet lambs, de-
stroyed before their very eyes by ferocious
dogs. We appeal to Whatever intelligence,
sense OF justice, humanity and selt-interest,
there is in the State, to arouse and help us
~ a.