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APATHY.-Our people seem
to think it is enough to take
their position, and wait in 81
lence to be dislodged by the
enemy. The tactis of defense
are not sufficient against an
unscrupulous foe, who is open
ly and secretly alert in his
plans to retain the political
power seized upon at the close
the war and clung to with
such tenacity for the last four
years. The carelessness of
our friends is little less than
criminal. There is no time for
hesitation. scarcely enough for
action. 1t is true many of US
have reached our conclusions
slowly, but once reached, let
us not tamely slumber on
them, or think we have moth
ing to do but hope for success.
We must assail the enemys
camp, watch every salient
point that reveals itself, and
concentrate for the grand at
attack next November,
Attend the meetings of your
clubs, turn out and listen to
your speakers, give every en-
couragement to those who are
engaged heart and soul in the
movement, and even our own
State may be wrested from the
folds of the Serpent, Radical
ism, under which she has been
writhing like LAGOON, power
less to break the coils, which
Will be frightened as we relax
our efforts Macon Beacon.
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BELLEVUE La. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 49, 1872 ~
Liberalism Versus Carpet Bag,
gerry.

lChicago Tribune Editorial, August, 6.l
The census of 1870 shows a
decline of one-ffth in the erea
OF improved lands since 1860
in those States which have
been reconstructed under car
pet-bag and Radical govern
ments, and a decline of from
one-third to two-thirds in the
value Of farms in them; while
in the States of Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,
and Missouri, where the heav-
lest battles were fought, and
where most property was de-
stroyed by the war, there is
neither no such decline or the
decline is very slight. There
can be no other reason for
this remarkable fact than that
the ascendenco Of whites, or,
as we stile them "rebels," in
the five northernmost States
has secured them from
carpet-bag and Radical robbery
and misrule. Why is it that
in Kentucky, under white, or,
if our friends please so to call
it, under "rebel'' State govern
ment the value Of the lands has
advanced from S291, ,496,955
to 81, ,23S,916; while in South
Carolina, under a government
wholly Republican and two
thirds negro, the value of
lands has fallen to one-third of
the value in 1860? In the
"Copper-head" State of Ken
tncky, the number of acres i'm
proved has increased from
7,644,20S to S,102,S5O; while
in the Radical State of South
Carolina the number of acres
improved has declined one
third. The reason is that in
Kentucky the white popnla-
ton is so numerous and pre-
dominating that emancipation
is there a mere industrial in
cident, as it was in the North
Atlantic States seventy years
ago, when slavery was there
abolished. But in South Car
oilna, where the population is
two-thirds black, emancipa-
ton results in that more COM
plete suspension of industry
which attended it in Jamaica
and other Islands of the West
Indies in which slavery has
been abolished. The decline
in the production and pros
perity of those islands, after
slavery was abolished, was
the standing argument of the
Southern congressman prior
to 1860. We, as Republicans,
however, saw in those admit
ted facts, no good reason why
slavery should be extended
over our Territory. Now that
slavery has been abolished,
however, at prodigious cost OF
blood and treasure, we are
deeply interested in prevent,
ing emancipation from result
|, ing in a decay of industry, a
falling off in production, like
that which SO sadly disappoint-
ed the hopes of the British
Abolitionists in their expert
ment in the West Indies. 1t
cannot be denied that those
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that, too, in a manner that
threatens a disastrous contin-I
uance of the decline, unless its
causes are arrested and re-
versed. Compare again:
In Tennessee, the carpet
bag Government was super
ceded by a union of intelligent
Republicans, under Governor
Senter, with Democrats, en-
franchising the rebels in 1868,
and placing the control of the
State in the hands of the ma
jority, who were whiteS.-
This gave the State Govern
ment capable of enforcing it's
laws. The census taken two
years after showed that the
area of improved lands had
even then slightly increased
over 1860; and in the past two
years the increase has been
very marked and beneficial to
all claSSeS-to none more than
to blacks. Compare with
this the adjoining and far rich
er State of Georgia, where,
under carpet-bag and radical
rule, eliminating in a Gov
ernor who has absconded with
his pockets and trunks full of
State bonds Bullock we find
that the area of lands improv-
ed has declined from 100000
acres in 1860 to 6,S00,O0O
acres in 1870, and the value of
farms has fallen from $751;
100000 in 1860 to s9f,O0O,OOO
in 1870. Tennessee suffered in
proportion to her wealth, three
or four times as, much as
Georgia during the war,
was fought over and plunder-
ed without limit, and yet her
exemption from carpet bag
rule since the war has restored
her prosperity; while the once
far richer State of Georgia has
declined with fearful rapidi-
| ty- E..a
| Again, in Missouri, under
white and Liberal rule, or, il
our Radical friends choose to
style it, under the "Rehel''
reign of universal amnesty
and impartial suffrage, and
Gratz Brown, the acres i'm
proved have increased from
6,246,S71 in 1860 to 9,13O,615
in 1870; while in Alabama, nm
der carpet-bag and so-called
Republican rule, one-fifth OF
the land cultivated in 1860
lies waste. We do not claim
that the result in either case is
wholly due to any action of the
State Government, though we
know that the pacification OF
Missouri by amnesty has
largely increased her popula-
ton and prosperity. But dc
claim that the same prepon,
derance of blacks in Alabama;
which lessons her production
also promotes carpet-bagism
while the preponderance o.
, whites in Missouri, which pro.
notes production, keeps the
State in the hands of white
rulers. We cite these facts
not to prove that the black:
are not a valuable element il
|
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on so pacifying that whole
country as to secure for it in
crease of white population
large enough to assimilate
and hold up the black, as it
does in Missouri, Kentucky,
and Tennessee, instead of
suffering it to decline in indus
try, as it has done in Jamaica,
South Carolina and Florida.
In Missouri the value of
farms asincreased from $780,
632, 126 in 1860 to S392, ,90S,047
in fS70-a rise of moro than
one-third; while in Alabama
the value of lands has declined
from S175,O00,00O in 1860 to
S67 100000 in 1870, or nearly
two-thirds and in Arkansas,
adjoining Missouri, but under
carpet-bag rule, taxes are four
and One-half times greater than
in 1860, and the value of the
whole lands of the State has
declined one-half. .
In Louisiana, before the war,
not a few. of the cQlored people
had become wealthy, and were
prepared, in some. degree, to
take the lead of their race when
emancipated, and to guide
them honestly and intelligent
ly, instead of leaving them a
gaping prey to demagogues
and tax-thieves. Yet, even in
Louisiana, we. find the State
and local debts run up from
S11, 100000 in 1860 to S67, ,0OO,-
900 in 1860 (none of which is
war or rebel debit, the taxes are
doubled, the area of cultivated
lands has declined one-fiflh and
the value of lands has declined
in the enormous proposition OF
two-thirdS, or from ,000,-
600 in 1860 toS6S,OOO,OOO in
in 1870. Very little of this de-
cline can be attributed to de-
| struction of property by the
war, as there were almost no
destructive army operations in
the State. No facts in the his
tory of Jamaica or British
Guinea show a more startling
decline of productive industry
after emancipation than these
in Louisiana, where the blacks
are about two-ffths. or one
half, of the whole population
of the State. n
! No candid Republican,
whether black or white, can
contemplate these facts with
out a feeling of apprehension
least the ultimate verdict of the
country and of history may be.
that emancipation, SO glorious
I ly labored for and so dearly
bought, has been, by reason OF
the ignorance of the emancipa,
ted class, industrially a failure
The colored men have even a
I greater interest than the whites
in vindicating the success OF
! this great revolution. They
cannot make it a success sc
{ long as the South is returning
: to jungle or combining an Afri-
can desert. No humanitarian
: Qualifications can be kept uI
over an event which lessons the
aggregate wealth, industry
and self-reliance of the South.
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Gresham, James A., Bookseller, Stationer
VI &c 80 Camp Street.
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calm study of colored voters,
especially, They see by the ex-
ample of Kentucky, Tennessee,
Missouri and Virginia, where
Liberals rule, that their own
rights are as faithfully protect
ed, and the peace is far better
kept there, than in the Caro-
linaS or Florida. The Ku-klux
only range in those States
where carpet-baggerS prevail.
In Virginia, Missouri and Ten
nessee they are unknown. But
the most important fact to the
black meu is, that in the Liber-
al States emancipation is a sue
cess, while in the carpet7bag
States its failure is bringing on
the blacks the stigma of being
unfit for freedom. As race,
therefore, whose interest it is to
make emancipation a complete
success, let them labor for the
best government, rather than
the blackest government in the
Southern States. Will they
think of this camly and kindly,
in the spirit in which we urge it?
MADE HIM PAY.-When
General jackson was PreSi-
dent a heartlesS clerk in the
Treasury Department ran up
an Indebtedness with a poor
landlady to $50, and then
turned her off as he did other
creditors. She finally went to
the President with her COM
plait, and asked him if he
could not COMPEL the clerk to
pay the bill.
"He offers his note," she
said, "but his note is good for
nothing"
Said the President: "Get his
note and bring it to me-"
The clerk gave her his note,
with the ieering request, "she
would let him know when she
got the money on it."
Taking it to the President,
he wrote Andrew Jackson"
on the back of it, and told her
she would get the money at
the bank.
. When it became due the
clerk refused to pay the note,
but when he learned who was
the indOrser he made haste to
"raise the wind" The next
morning he found note on
his desk saying that his servi-
ces were no longer required by
the Government-and it sery-
ed him right. f
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-23
CHINESE BRIDGES.

The most remarkable evidence of the
mechanical science and skill Of the Chinese
nt this early period, it is to be found in
their suspended bridges, the invention of
which is assigned to the Han dynasty.
According to the concurrent testimony of
nll their historical aud geographical writer's,
Sanglcang, the commander of an army un-
der Kaou-tsoo, the first of the Hans, under
took and completed the formation Of roads
through the mountainous province of
Shense. to the west of the capital. Ilith-
crto its lofty hills and deep valleys had
rendered a communication difficult and
circuitous. With body of l0O, 600 labor
ers he cut passages over the mountains,
throwing the removal soil into valleys, and
where this was not sufficient to raise the
road to the required hei ght, he constructed
bridges, which rested on pillars or ubut-
mcnts. In another place he conceived and
accomplished the daring project of sus-
pending bridge from one mountain to
ano,her across a deep chasm. These
bridges, which are called by the Chinese
writer's, very appropriately, flying bridges,
and represented to he numerous at the
present day, are sometimes so high that
they cannot be traverSed without alarm.
One still existing in Shense, stretches 400
feet from Mountain to mountain, over a
ohasm of 500 feet. Most of these flying
bridges are so wide that four horsemen can
ride on them abreast, aud balustrades are
placed or each side to protect travellers.
1t is by no means Improbable Gas Nj. Pau
thier suyyests) that, as the missionaries TO
China made known the fact more than a
century and half ago, that the Chinese
had suspended bridges, aud that many of
them were mlde of iron, the hint may have
been taken from thence for similar con-
structions by European cngineeers.
v A bill to provide fer the irrigation
of lands lying between Boise and Snake
rivers, in Idaho Tcrritoy, has been intro
duced in Congress The bill provides that
James II. johnson, of Idaho Territory ;
Basil d. Buford, James NJ. Beardsley.
Cornelius Lyndc, Jr., W. Ransom, II. Ca
bic, Daniel II. Brant and Il. j. Layton,
their successors, etc, are created body
corporate under the style of Boise and
Snake River Valley Irrigation Company"
The capital stock Of the Company shall be
$5,00O,OOO in $4,000 shares. That the
object Of the organization is to irrgate the
lands between Boise and Snake rivers, to
furnish water for agricultural purposes.
Right is given to construct a head canal
from point in that river, or near the
mouth of Canyon at the head of Boise
valley, and the right to take tho water
from boise Rivcr-water level, after reach
ing plateau, to be so constructed as to af-
ford a water bed sixty feet in width, six
feet deep. an average current one mile per
hour. Right Of way granted, aud COM
pcnsatiou to be appraised when private
parties are damaged. Grant of land, six
sections per mile. Canal to be finished by
.Julv 1873
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-23

sO- The first severe blow at monarchy
in Europe comes from little Portugal
where the Cabinet has just announced q
project Of reform which sweeps away many
of the bulwarks which hedge in majesty
1t includes abolition of the hereditary
peerage the removal of all restrictions on
the press the abolition Of punishment by
death the right Of holding meetings
subject only to police regulations, and
the extension Of the suffrage, already very
low, to heads of families who can write.
If these measures are carried out, and il
is supposed they will be, Portugal will
differ only in name, perhaps some minor
particulars, from genuine republic.
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The Washington Patriiot is very pow

The Washington Patriot is very pow.
erful in statistics. 1t estimates the steal
age under Grants Administration from
data furnished by Mr.. Garfield and the
report Of the Civil Service Commission
at s125, 600, 900 per snnun, making q
total of 375.000,0 in three years. The
Courier Journal observes that one would
naturally suppose that this stealage would
have been larger; but then we must re-
member that there wasn't anything more to
steal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-23

- It is now authoritively announced
that Chief Justice Chase, owing b Con-
tinued i'll health, has finally dismissed IN
thought of being candidate Soe The Pres
idency in the coming campaign. Hs hae
poiutedly expressed his partiality in favor
Of Judge Trumbull - the one prouiasst
man most in consonanee Nth his osn po-
litical views, and strongly urges his support
upon all friends. Mr.. Truu5all i a anti
Protectiouiss. and strongly eondsnss Tie
extr. vagance aud corruptios of The pEsssst
Administrations; be is, however no fiissai
Of the South aud rstaias. Ill the prsjudisss
aud hatreds which spriag fssu The u~sia
all their pristine vigos.i l.s4ssas .s 81
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Some English political economists

Some English political economists,
who have read De Quincy to good purpose,
contend that the island is getting too pop
ulous. aud it has become necessity to kill
of the surplusage. General Grant will
soon be out of q situation. Let England
hire him, and it will not require much Of
a war to accomplish tho requisite amount
Of butchcry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-23

THE RAILROADS OF THE WORLD.-The
New York Post has collected quantity of
valuable statistics showing the progress Of
the railroad construction in the world. In
the United states 10 1888 We had 1,235
miles of road in operation, .4,9O2 then
building, and 1881 projected" In
England there was then 1S4 miles COM
pletcd, 412 building, and 994 projected J"
in France there 91 miles built, in Bel
gium 13 miles, in Germany l89 miles, in
Austria 2S2 miles building In Russia
only one short railroad, from St. Peters
burg to Zartkoje, was actually built. The
change in period Of about thirty.three
years is very striking. s9,sgg7ss' tsi,sas /
In 1871 there was l24, lis miles Of rail-
roads in the world at the close Of 1859
there were 1859 niles. OF the in
crease, 5,556 miles, about one-half, org2,-
TAG miles, were in the United States, while
in the previous year we had built 5000
miles of new road. The lines that have
actually been built in this country exceed
$4,000 miles in length. This, il will be
seen, is about four-6fths Of the amount
credited to all the European nations. In
1869 tho entire cost Of railroads in tho
world, with equipments, was estimated at
S11 AGO, 100000, averaging S96,6l9 par
mile. OF this amount Ts represented So
267 ,0o0, ,000. averaging III, ,583 per mile
(equipped) in Europe is tl36, ,l89. In
England it is $l76,269. The average cost
of construction only 10 the United States
is as follows. In New England, tl0, 600 I;
Middle States, $55,000; 6eathsrs States,
$50, 900; Western States, ~, 600; Psei6ei
States, $4,000. 0neuv cheaper lines vs,
however, find greetor asnual outlsy tor
reconstruction and repairs. bs
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Speaking of ear rings, the Louisville
Courier journal suggests to the ladies that
If they wish to make these articles useful
they can wear good sized valise in one
ear and handsome, capacious lunch bas-
kct in the other Something really prac-
ticable, now, would be pair Of cut glass
smelling bottles.
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WHOLE NO. 593.
TERRIBLE JUDGMENT AGAMST P1IS
siI wss,i IDENT CRAFT. ssw at.i,

Itisa singular and significant fsct, thst
the hardest js1gmsnt pronounced against
President Grant are uttered by those who
assisted, four years ago. to put him IN the
Presidential ONCE. Andy johnson, whom
Grant deceived, whose coufidance he Be.
trayed and BY whose Cabinet he was proven
to be . falsi6er, has never said spythiag
more terrible against him than the follow
ing utterances by Senator Sumner. The
senator confirms all thsl exsPrcsidcnt
johnson has ever said in regard 70 Grant.
The Washington correspondents Of tho
Chicago Times writes as f0llows h sga;t
Mr.. Bowen, the editor and proprietor of
tho New York Indrpendent, has been in
Washington for several days canvassipg
public opinion. On Sunday last he de-
voted as much time as possible to inter.
viewing Charles Sumner. lie came here
a Grant Man, and as such, called upon Mr..
Sumner. Mr.. Bowen was not long in, ind
ing out the Senator's opinion Of, and future
purpose relative to, U. 8. Gfaut. Mr.
Sumner said: 81 am satisfied that Giant
is dishonest man. That is sufficient to
justly me in saying most positively that
I cannot and shall not support him. For
other reasons he is unfit to be President of
the United States. He is ignorant Of the
details Of civil government, aud does not
manifest disposition to learn them. He
is venal, ambitious, vulgar in his habits.
and possesses cunning which is low and
dogged. He has strong will, but il is
never controlled by reason, hence becomes
perverse, and the man when he should be
most yielding and gentlemanly is most OBJ
stiuate aud unmanly. Such man is unfit
to be the President of the United States,
and most unfit to be the candidate of the
Republican party. He ought not to be
nominated by that party, and shall not ifI
can help it. ! cannot honorabIy support
party that will sustain such a man"
Mr.. Bowen then propounded to Mr..
Sumner tho following questions: "Sup.
pose the Convention should place your col
league, Mr.. Wilson, on the ticket with
Grant, what would yes do 10 that case p,
II would oppose it," was the prompt re-
sponse Of Sumner. 5} - pc sen
Mr.. Bowen then questioned the Senator
upon the possibility Of the nomination Of
! Mr.. Colfax, aud Mr. Sumner said: !" will
support Mr.. Colfax or any other good Re.
publican cheerfully" ~ ie s'i97
This conversation has been the subject
Of discussion among the leading Repabli-
cans at the Capitol and throughout the
city, and is the main cause Of the mixed
condition of the outlook Yesterday Mr..
Bowen was at the hotels and Capitol, in
conversation with leading men in favor Of
Colfax and Wilson. g4r7
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1t is said that the proprietors of the
Russell House, in Detroit, were offered
$500 for the bedstead on which Alexis
slumbered, and the chambermaid was
bribed in almost untold amounts to let q
fashionable dress maker have the sheets.
She said she would cut them up into hand
kcrchicfs and sell them to the "bon ton" j"
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R9- Some Wesier churches have adopted
the plan of having tho collections taken
up by young ladies of beauty. They look
smilingly at reluctant victim, and give
him slight wink. This process always
wins.
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aS- Crinoline has been adopted by the
Madagascar queen.