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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10
ORGANIZATION OF COLORRD MIN IN
VIRGINIA..

The Richmond Wing Of yesterday endeav-
OTIS to prove that there Is no occasion for the
colored men Of Virginia organizing on .'the
race line," and assures them that not ono Of
their rights is threatened by the Conservative
party. The colored men OF Virginia, after
the experience they have had with the con-
sti;uency of the Conservative party, will
hardly accept the assurances Of the Whig and
rush pell-mell into the meshcs of the enemy.
It Is true, as the Wing says, that the Conser-
VALVES have not denied to the colOred people
the rights,priyileges and franchises conferred
upon them by the constitutional amendments;
but even for this negative service the Whiq
cannot claim any credit. SO far Us the Con-
sentative party Of Virginia Is concerned, II
Ia not the love Of justice or vencration for
the law that induces them to accord to the
colored race that to which they arc funda-
mentally entitled, but rather the fear of the
penalties Imposed under the law. There Is no
distinction de jure, as regards race or color
in Virginia, but de Tdcto there Is, and none
know this SO well as the victims themselves
The organization Of the colored men Of
Virginia Is not meant to be threatening and
aggressive towards the whites, as the Wig
charges, nor was the organization prompted
by any such feelings or motives. 1t was the
natural growth Of events that are daily
transpiring In Virginia-evcnts that would
place the colored men In state Of political
degradation as bad as that from which they
were rescued by the Republican party. The
colored men organized for defence, and not
for aggression, and the Wing and Its party
I'll a. a.. sbia mi
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

SOME TINE 400 we opened the columns Of
the REPUBLICAN to q discussion Of the sub
ject Of the taxation Of church property. The
Cincinnati Commercial, in inquiring Into. the
same topic, quotes the constitutional pro-
visions Of fifteen States, which effectually bar
all favoritism in exempting property from
taxation merely because it belongs to a
church or religious corporation.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

TEE Chicago Tribune moralizes upon the
life and death Of Beau Hickman to the extent
Of q column. There Il scarcely paper In the
country that has not had something to say,
enc way or the other, in regard to the unfor-
tuuate loafer. In fact, very few Of our public
men, Of the real benefactors OF the State or
Of society, have been discussed as he has been
since his death. But is 1t not about time TO
end M
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

The wAsuISoToSsBRAS Of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad Ia one Of the best
managed pieces Of road in the country. No
accidents of any kind have occurred during
our recollection. During the difficult times
Of the war, when large masses Of troops were
carried over this branch, we do not rcmcm-
Der to have recorded single accident result
ing in death.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

IL GENERAL BUTLER should be defeated In
the convention which meets at Worcester to-
day, his most prejudiced enemies cannot
deny that he has made gallant fight. lie
has given hi. opponents the closest run they
ever had In the State, and developed per
sonal following such US no one Of them car
command,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10
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d din ConoeS. Public Library Bulid,AS..ait.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

TIE MOST REMARKABLE EVENT In the
financial world yesterday was the payment
Of the amount Of the Geneva award-flfteen
and half millions of dollars in gold. The
formalities Incident to the transfer will be
found fully described In our news columns. ,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

and build them up. The colorcd men have
no schemes looking to the consolidation Of
political power In their hands. They simply
want to be treated, under the law, Us other
men are treated, and when this Is done by
the party now In power in Virginia the ne
cesaty for the organization Of colorcd men
on 'the race line" will have passed away
mot Till then
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

GEN. N. P. BANKS, 1t Is announced, viii
lecture this winter on 1.-THE American Re
public-wlil Il endure" No man has done
more to preserve II thus far than Gen. Banks.
Just think Of his superb services In the shen-
andoah valley.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

The WHOLE STOCK IN TRADE OF KEMPER
In Virginia Is his rebellion record. Every
where he goes, everywhere he speaks, the "lost
cause" and what he suffered for II Is the bur-
den of his song. The evidence that what we
say Is only the truth, Is to be found In the
kemper organs. For instance. correspond
ent Of the Whig,writing from Carroll county
where KemPer addressed a meeting few
days ago, says; "When he (Kemper) alluded
TO the brave boys of Carroll who followed
him during the war, and who proved them
selves heroes worthy of their country and
State, / saw strong men weep, and tears roll
down the cheeks of aged matrons and fair
maidens." Kemper is simply reviving the
Issues OF the war, and fighting the rebellion
over again. Secession and the war of races
are the two issues on which he expects to
win.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

1t will be noted that our immense increase
of exports during the three last years Of the
late civil war In the United States were
caused by the demand for Illicit traffic with
Texas and other portions Of the late Confed-
eracy. Probably q large portion of these
exports cleared for Mexico ran the
blockade of the Southern ports without
touching the ports OF that republic.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

In OTHER COLUMNS will be found the first
Of series Of articles bearing on some Of the
doctrines Of the Universalists, whose repre-
sentatives will assemble in this city In gene
raj convention next week. The Rev. T. J.
Sawyer Is one Of the leading writers Of that
denomination, and Packard professor of
Christian theology in Tufts college, Mass.
The article in question Is well worth an at
tentive pcrusal. Tomorrow we shall print u
paper entitled "Organized Universallsm, by
the Rev. Giles Bailey, of Reading, Pa.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

The MOVEMENT which was inaugurated In
Chicago some time ago to unite oil the citi.
zens Of foreign birth in opposition to the
Sunday prohibition laws Is, 1t seems, q fall
ure. The Chicago Tribune, In commenting
on the subject, says: THE Irish as body
utterly refuse to be sold by any person to
take position antagonistical to the Sunday
laws, or In hostility to their American fellow.
citizens" In this the Irish show their good
sense. All combinations in this country on
the basis OF color or nationality are wrong,
and contrary to tho spirit and genius Of re-
publican Institutions.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

Col. W. VI. GRosyESoR, OF st. Louis, who
will be remembered as one of the most activ,
writers and speakers In the Greeley cam
paign year ago, prints card In Western
paper in reply to some recent newspaper
structures. Here is what Mr.. Grosvenor says
about his late associates;
"Nelther Is the Democratic party hostile tC
monopolies of banking or transportation. The
chairman Of Its national committee, Augustus
Scheli, IL Identified with the Vanderbilt railroad
interest and with the banks. The Democratic
Organization In Pennsylvania and Ohio belongs
70 Scott and the Pennsylvania company; In
Maryland 70 Garrett and the Baltimore and
Ohio; In virginia to Malone and his railroad
Bank OF California. To cla,n that such party
Ii or even can be the representative OF the anti
monopoly force In this country 10 as impudent
and colored voters TO Join movement for the
restoration Of slavery"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

u r SALE.
About "a gallons catswba and Concord WINE,
made in Waahinston. p, 2. isis, from Erspes
$50. a.d ~ q ~. a. ysarT - a This state
ment Is 20 coniradiction when explained BY the
mtss nav i = hSIcd shG md n,yoi
sqpn1H%9Ea IA 9sfsn ps,S,; prs;Taiss .s.in..
made N this country. This Wine requires FIVE
WARS 10 manufacture 1t, and Is made by an en-.
ai,sly new process. Known only 70 my.slIand Oh.
cost that has compelled me 70 abandon Ia future
manufacture. hence no more OF II ecu be had bnt
that have on hand, and were mot I'm need this
sSud not now DO offered for sale Il the price named
n ssIoKNEss IT WILL BE APPRECIATED.
As this Wine 10 too high priced for The trade TO
handle propose 70 dispose Of to some person
who desires 10 for his own private use. II can be
bought for cAAh, at oi0 Rer gallon By taking the
whole; II IL richly worth s6 per bottle whsn bottled
IeT.ons Of wealth have hero an opportunity to
~; and snsrshteed free from drug and foreign mat
is It's own reconmsndatjon. Gall and examine i 81
my private residsnce. No. 1888 Seventh str eet
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10

Is on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. adjoining
the grounds Of the Deaf and Dumb Institute, My
twelve minutes walk from tbs II street cars 1t
Ninth street east. Lots containing 5000 feet for
only ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS. on
easy terms. Any one can buy . lot.
Apply 10
GEO. NJ. LANCKTON,
aulstf bla Seventh atrset. onno.,,. n
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-10
FOR SALE AND RENT.

TOR sALE-THE STOCK AND FIXTURE
II OF q sTORE doing good busineSp, near II
Centre Market Rent low. Apply al No ssI Louj
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15

"ACKNowLEDGE THE Corn. This
phrase is variously accounted for. Prof.
De We're, in his "Americanisms," gives
this history of it: In 1928, Andrew
Stewart, M. c., said in a speech, that
Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, sent their
hay-stacks, corn-fields, and fodder to
New York and Philadelphia for sale.
Wickliffe, of Ky, called him to order,
declaring that those States did not send
hay-stacks or corn-felds to New York
for sale. "Well," asked Stewart, ''what
do you sends" "Why, horses, mules,
cattle, hogs" "well, what makes
your horse, mules, cattle, and hogss
You feed hundred dollars worth of
hay to a horse, you just animate and
get upon the top of your hay-stack, and
ride off to market. How is it with
your cattle? You make one of them
carry fifty dollars worth of hay and
grass to the Eastern market. You send
hog worth ten dollars to the Eastern
market; how much corn does it take at
thirty-three cents bushel to fatten it,"
"Why, thirty bushels 'Then you
put that thirty bushels into the shape
of hog and make it walk off to the
Eastern market" Mr.. Wickliffe jump
ed up and said: "Mr. Speaker,
acknowledge the corn"
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15
AN ITEM FOR BoYs.-It is not neces

AN ITEM FOR BoYs.-It is not neces-
sary that a boy who learns a trade
should follow it all his life. Governor
Palmer, of Illinois, was country black
smith once, and began his political ca
reer in Macoupin County. A circuit
judge in the central part of Illinois, was
once book binder. Erastus Corning,
of New York, too lame to do hard
labor, commenced as shop-boy in AL
bany. When he applied for employ
ment at first, he was asked, "Why,
my young boy, what can you do?"
"Can do what I am bid," was the an
swer, which secured him his place.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts,, was
shoemaker. Thurlow Weed was a
canal-boat driver. Ex-Governor Stone,
of Iowa, was cabinet-maker. which
trade the late Hon. Stephen A. Doug
las worked at in his youth. Large
numbers of men of prominence now
living have risen from humble life. by
dint of industry, without which talent
is as gold coin on a barren island.
Work alone makes men bright, and it
does not alone depend on the kind of
work you have to do, whether you rise
or not; it depends on how you do it.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15

A REPENTANT Crow. Scarecrows
manufactured arrangements, "set up
in the cornfelds to scare the crows"
have their merits, just like everybody
else. At least, we were once led to
believe so from what we overheard while
listening to small gathering of juve-
nile rustics over in the Jarseys.
"Scarecrows Hei he!'' SAYS one
the party-an overgrown, slab-sided,
spoony-looking youth He! het" he
says, evidently in reply to some remarks
that had preceded his. "You don't
know anything about scarecrows. If
you'd seen one that Uncle Ben made
once, 1 guess you'd think so, too.
Why Uncle Ben made one, and set it up
in daddy's cornfeld, that nearly fright
ened the feathers off of every crow that
looked at it; and by gollyl one crow
that had been pecking around the field
for two or three days, after he seen it,
actually few away, and brought back
all the corn he had stolen in that time
'-factl"
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15

THE RING OF SATURN.-The rings
of Saturn have always been an enigma
to astronomers. La Place showed that
if they were solid, and of the same
thickness throughout, they would soon
fall down on the planet and be de-
stroyed. He therefore supposed them
of irregular density. Not many years
ago Professor Peirce found that the
same catastrophe would occur even in
this case, and he and Bond have con-
cluded that they are fluid. 1t soon be-
came doubtful whether a fluid ring
would be any more stable, and Pro-
fessor Pierce hence conceived the
idea that it was held up by the attrac-
tions of the satellites. Mr.. Hirn, a
French physicist, has lately presented a
paper to the French Academy, in which
he maintains that the ring is neither
solid nor fluid, but is a swarm of small
particles. which looks solid owing to
the great distance at which we see it.
The idea is not new, as it was devel-
oped mathematically more than ten
years ago by Mr.. ]. C. Maxwell, of
England; but Mr.. Hirn adduces some
new arguments in its support. One Of
these is that when the ring is seen on
its dark side, which is presented to us
on very rare occasions, it does not seem
absolutely black, a little light shining
through.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15
WIT AND HUMOR.

A gentleman ordered his Irish ser
want to call him at six; but he awoke
him at four, telling him he had two
hours longer to sleep.
An exchange, in announcing the
death of lady, says that she lived
fifty years with her husband, and died
in confident hope of better life"
Whittier being asked for an auto
graph, at once complied by penning:
"The name is but the shadow which we find
Too often larger than the man behind"
A New Orleans paper says that a
young widow in tina. city, who writes
well, " is training herself for an editor"
Who is the editor she is training for
A witness in a Hoosier court being
asked how he knew that two certain
parties were man and wife, replied,
"Why, dog gone it, I've heard 'em,
scolding each other more'n fifty times.
The evidence was held as conclusive.
Young Willie Ito whom dear Grand
pa has just offered half dollar). "No,
thank you, Grandad." You stick to it a
bit longer, and lay it out at interest,
and I'll get all the more when you pop
off, old man."
"Please tell me what the time is"
asked a little boy of an apothecary,
who was much troubled by such in
quiries.
"Why, I told you the time but a
moment ago" snapped the apothecary.
eyes, sir," said the boy, "but this
is for another woman"
This of Mr.. Greeley: A young auto
graph hunter, and poor penman with
al, residing in Central New York, wrote
to Mr.. G. some years ago, requesting
his autograph, and received by return
mail his own letter with the following
Endorsement: 1T gives me great pleas
ure to comply with the wish of young
man who writes worse than I do.-H.
GREELEY"
There was an old Scotchman who
always rode donkey to his work, and
tethered him while he worked on the
road, or wherever else he might be. 1t
was suggested to him by my grand
father that he was suspected of putting
him to feed in the fields at other peo-
pies expense. "Eh, laird, 1 could
never be tempted to do that, for my
cuddy Wilma eat anything but nettles
and thistles.' One day my grandfather
was riding along the road, when he saw
Andrew Leslie at work, and his donkey
up to his knees in one of his clover
fields feeding luxuriously. "Hello, An
drew" said he, 81 thought you told
me your cuddy would eat nothing but
nettles and thistles:" cay" said he,
"but he misbehaved the day; he near
ly kicked me over his head, sac l put
him in there just to punish him.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15

WHY JENKs NEVER MARRIED.
I" think woman is a tremendous be-
ing" said jerks. "When she's right,
she's the rightest thing that floats.
When she's wrong, she's the biggest
nuisance that plows the sea, even if she's
little and don't draw two feet of water.
Perhaps it isn't just the thing to say to
a boy like you, but you'll never speak
of it, if should tell you little some
things"
"Oh, never!" I assured him.
Well, s'pose l might have been a
married man." and jerks avoided my
eyes by pretending to discover horse
shoe in the road.
"You don't say so ~ exclaimed in
undisguised astonishment, for it had
never occurred to me that such man as
jerks could marry.
"Yes, l waited on a girl once"
"Was she beautiful" l inquired.
Well, l should say fair to mid
ding responded jerks, pursuing his
lips as if determined to render candid
judgment. Fair to middling, barring
a few freckles."
but you didn't leave her for her
freckles y said.
''No, didn't leave her for the freck-
les. She was good girl, and l waited
on her. 1t don't seem possible now that
ever ra'aly waited on girl, but 1 did" !"
''And why didn't you marry her :"
inquired warmly.
1t wasn't her fault" said jerks.
"She was good girl
"Then why didn't you marry her :"
/ insisted.
"Well, there was another fellow got
to hanging round, and-you know how
such things go. l was busy, and
didn't tend up very well, l s'pose-and
she got tired waiting for me or
something-and the other fellow mar
ried her, but I've never blamed her.
She's been sorry enough, l guess"
jerks gave sigh of mingled regret
and pity, and the subject was dropped.
-Scribner's for Janucry.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15
PRESERVATION OF FENCE Posrs.

PRESERVATION OF FENCE PosTs.-
Fence posts, if allowed to become thor
oughly seasoned before being set into
the ground, will be more than twice as
durable, and seasoned posts may be
made to last an age by the application
of heavy coat of coal tar to the por-
tions buried in the earth and few
inches above the surface of the ground.
Some recommend seasoning the post
well before setting it, and when the
post-hole is filled within ten inches Of
the surface of the ground, to apply a
heavy coat of tar and fill up with earth.
Owing to the fact that fence posts al
ways decay first near the surface of the
ground, it is not necessary to protect
the post more than few inches above
the surface and foot below it.-Rura'
american.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15

SOME GREAT LovERs.-A strange
lover was Jean Jacques, the only
Frenchman, says de Stael, who has
been totally un-French. The apostle
of sentiment, who is declared to have
set the fashion of humanity, he loved
often rather than much; beginning with
Madame de Warens, grand and gifted
woman, and ending with Therese Le-
vasseur, creature of commonest clay,
so stupid that in nearly twenty years of
intimacy he could never teach her to
tell the hour by the clock. After all
his tender eloquence and burning bla-
zonry of Maman, to decline on such a
leman was like the eccentric sophist
who praised paternally without stint.
and left his children at the founding
hospital.
Few men have been more attractive
to women than Mirabeau; who, when
written to by one of his feminine ad-
mirers for personal description, re-
piled: Imagine tiger that has had
the smallpox, and my portrait is COM
plete." He was SO homely that he was
handsome; and you who wish to find
favor in the eyes of the fair should
pray, if you can not be as comely as
Ferdinand, to be as ugly as Caliban.
Downright plainness in sentimental as
saults is as good as a scaling ladder
against the wall. And when masculine
homeliness owns potent tongue, it
holds odds against an average Apollo.
John Wilkes declared that he was only
half an hour behind the handsomest
man in England, for it required just
that time for him to talk away his face.
Mirabeau was cleverer still. When
he spoke his looks were forgotten-he
was transformed.
The greatest woman-woer of recent
centuries was Goethe, who interpreted
not only his age, but his sex. Enam-
ored of Gretchen at fifteen, he continu-
ed to be enamored, not of her, but of
Ann Schoonkopf. Frederica Bron, Char
lotte Buff, Maximiliane Laroche, Lii,
Charlotte Won Stein, and a score of
others in turn, until he welded Chris
tiane Vulpius, commonplace, prosaic,
in no respect his peer. Minna Herr
lieb, the original of Ottilie, he had a
profound passion for, in spite of the
disparity of their years. The sonnets
he addressed to her, and his warm
painting of her representative character
in the Wahlverwandtschaften, prove
the fervor if not the depth of his feel
ing. Surely no man has been better
qualified by his intimate self-knowledge
and varied experience to write such a
book, in which Eduard and the Captain
merely illustrate the duality of his own
nature.
Falling in love became by long in
diligence fixed habit with the great
German, and we see him in his seventy
fourth year glowing and throbbing over
Fraulein Won Lewezow, whose grand
father he might have been. He was
happily constituted for a lover, since
he enjoyed all the pleasures of love,
and very few, if any, of its pains. His
heart was as elastic as his temperament,
and when it was breaking-its chronic
condition almost-he mended it (unti
the next time) by writing poem from
his griefs. Like SO many of his sex
he loved women rather than woman
was loyal to love, but inconstant tc
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