Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03

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GILBERT SIsTERs.-This most excellent
company viii close their engagement in
this city Friday and Saturday nights. This
evening" Friday is the benefit Of Miss Katie
Gilbert, and the touching drama of " East
LynneE will be presented. Miss Katie de-
serves a rousing benefit from our citizens,
for she is certainly the most talented young
actress on the American stage. We hope
to see a large crowd on this, the most in
teresting evening OF the week.
"WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT FARAIING."-
We have had some experience as a farmer.
It was brief, but impressive-we had heard
Of North Carolinian who got rich on one
crop Of goober peas. We resolved to do
likewise; so We planted about twenty acres
in the spring, cultivated them well, and
gathered them In due season. We dream
ed luxuriOusly Of wealth and ease; but,
alas, we were disappointed. The peas
proved small and unsound, and q few days
after being housed, heated, and we lost the
whole crop. That pea crop busted us, and
this is all g we know about farming"
ACQUITTED Esq. Mat. Tidwell and his
son, Joe, who were summoned 20 Memphis
last week to answer charge OF intimidat-
ing 18th amendment, were promptly ac-
quilted by the Federal Court. These gen.
tlemen were reported by a vindietiye and
irresponsible wretch. and quito considers
Bile expense, when there was not even the
shadow Of a just charge against them.
This affair forcibly illustrates the character
of /" the best government the world ever
saw" under radical rule. The best citizen
in the South, under existing laws, may be
put in peril Of life, liberty, and property be-
fore the Federal Courts, by the malicious
swearing Of an irresponsible seOundrel.
Can peace and fraternal unity between the
two sections be maintained under such a
system: Can true patriots love govern
ment that thus imperils their peace and Sc
tcurity? These are serious questions, and
upon their solution hangs the fate of the
American Republic.
THE GRAND DUKE.-We take this occa-
sion 10 inform his Royal Highness that he
need not visit this city, as the grand pro-
gramme OF reception published in our issue
Of the Goth, has been bursted. The venera-
BILE ex-parson. who edits the Plain Dealer,
got mad because "pure old Madison" instead
Of sold Bourbon" was selected as the festal
beverage, KICKED UP row, and, as we said
before, played havoc with the whole mag
nihcent arrangement. The rival claims of
(" old Madison" and - old Bourbon" the
former represented by US, and the latter by
the venerable eX-parsOn of the Plain Deal
or, has raised storm Of controversy which
renders It wholly impractieable for his
Highness to visit this city. We regret it,
and did all we could to compromise mat
tiers, even to the extent Of providing for the
ex-parson private bottle OF cold Bour-
bon,' but he was memorable, and would
not be pacified. Hence, as grand master
OF ceremonies,'' we officially notify his
highness not TO come to Jackson.
MAKE SHIFTS. The world is full Of
= make-shifts." Fortunes are lost; ruin
made more irretrievable, by this short
sighted policy. Make-shifts, literally, are
simply costly eXpediencies by which thou
sands are drlvelled away in a vain attempt
save few hundreds. Under this delu-
sive system, ruinous per cent. is paid for
mOney-extravsgant prices for labor-ex-
tortions submitted to, and the attention Of
monied Shylocks and sharks attracted-all
to patch up rotton and cTumbling fortune,
or 10 postpone an immediate outlay, or .
day Of reckoning that must come. Commu-
mites, as well as individuals, are guilty Of
this supreme folly. Communities by patch
work repairs on streets and roads, and mig
gardly contributions in the interest OF in
ternal improvements. individuals by Dor
rowing from " Peter TO pay Paul by neg
Letting necessary improvements-by pay
ing ten dollars for delay when one dollar in
time would meet their wants-by paying
taxes on unimproyed property, which if
improved would yield handsome income
by asking thousand dollars for proper
ty that Is only worth five hundred, and then
by suffering taxes 10 eat up its increased
valuation-by gripping money in hand,'
aud ignoring the future; and by forgetting
that there is a tomorrow as well as a to-
day. Each and all of them are simply
" make-shifts," whether communities or in
dividuals, and as such they are curse to
civilization and progress.
SELF-sACRIFICE.-Enoe Arden, wreck
ed upon desolate island in the vast Pa
cide Ocean, watched fer fifteen long years
:. for = sail" Over thousands Of billowy
miles away, amid the green vallies and oak
crowned hills Of Old England, he had
vine-wreathed cottage, beautiful and low
ing young wife, and sweet, promising child
dren. After fifteen bitter, lonely years Of
wasting, - sail appeared" Emaciated,
enfeebled, and gray with suffering, yet that
sail, promising to bear him home again,
made him almost forget the terrible years
OF exile. Once more, with a step buoyant
and hopeful, he approached the ivy-bound
cottage of his early manhood joys. Gazing
through an opened window, he beheld the
beautiful bride Of his youth the wife Of an.
other, and other children than his climbing
about her knees. Like frail piece of Chi
IA when dashed upon the ground, the
bright and beautiful hope which had sus-
tanned him for fifteen years was shattered
Yet, seeing that comfort and domestic
bliss once more surrounded his heart idols,
approaching his own physical md pecuni-
AIRY wreck, like a hero he turned bis back
forever upon the dearest spot, the sweetest
hope and bliss on earth-home, wife, and
children. In these days, men inspired by
the same tender hopes, stimulated by the
same ambitions, that prompted Enoeh Ar
den, 20 forth in search OF fortune. Yea,