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Letter from Iowa.
kEOK UK. February II.

KEoK UK, February II, 1873.
To the Editors of the Ne,c National Era:
DEAR SIRs: Yours of the 4th received,
the papers are all right now. l see in your
paper that you would be thankful for any COM
munication received concerning the interest
Of the colored people. We as a people are
still denied certain rights and privileges given
to other citizens, and think if all of us could
be as boldand courageous as others our rights
would be gradually yielded to us. This fact
is clearly shown by an occurrence that hap
pened in our city last fall. In September,
1872, Miss Emma Coger en- route to Quincy,
Qrom Keokuk,) applied for first-class fare on
board steamer, which was refused her by
the clerk. She then applied to the superin-
tendent OF the company, Capt. Carrier, who
went on board with her and fixed things, as
she thought, all right. But after the boat was
we'll on her way and being ready, she at the
second table sat down to eat her dinner in
the cabin. The captain seeing her there Or
dered her up and told her to go in the pan.
try to eat. This she refused to do, where
upon the captain forcibly took her out. She
then put the case in the court, which was
tried here last week.
Mr.. Daniel F. Miller, her able and worthy
counsel, thereupon sued the company for five
thousand dollars on these two points, viz fol
refusing to sell her first-class ticket, ant
for assault and battery. The trial occupied
nearly two weeks and was concluded on the
10Th instant, resulting in her favor, but fol
some prejudice or other cause of the jury they
made small award of money, two hundred
and fifty dollars. Miss Coger don't care fo
that, as money was not her object. Her OBJ
jcct was to vindicate her rights. She havin!
done so is now satisfied.
Miss Emma Coger is lady Of remarkable
talent, well refined, and highly educated
Her residence is in Quincy where she ha
charge Of the public school. She is also
professional music teacher, and holds tn
position Of organist in the Baptist church.
am, sir, respectfully yours, &C.,
WIN. o. VANCE.
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GEO. w. MCCRARY.
Letter from Hon. Daniel +. Mill
Ter.

kEOKUK, Iowa, Feb. i, 1873.
DEAR SIR: seize the opportunity Of a
few moments rest from court affairs to write
YOU about the Emma COger suit rs the NV.
L. Packet Company. The trial lasted about
five days, four Of which were occupied in
speeches by defendants counsel, and one
day by US for plaintiff.
Emma Coger has one.eighth negro blood
in her veins, the child of slave mother,
whose mother had belonged to her white
father in Missouri some years ago. Emma
| is twenty years of age, exceedingly beautiful
| refinement above the ordinary standard o.
what is usually found among what are dem
onstrated educated white young ladies o
wealthy families. She was removed from ;
table On steamboat where she was pas
senger from Keokuk to Quincy because 0
her tinge Of African color.
She seated herself at the table with tn
white passengers of the boat when the Off
GERS Of the boat requested her to get out be
cause of her being a negress. She refuse
and they seized and forcibly removed he
from the table. Our firm, as attorneys 70
Emma, sued the boat for damages, for assault
and battery, &c. 1t came out in evidenc
that defendants officers had told Emma sh
should have a dinner on the guard, in tn
pantry, or at some other place.
We based our legal right to recover on II
facts which were substantially as i hay
stated above, on these grounds
t Ist. The colored population being now a
I free, and being by constitutional amendment
, endowed with the right of the elective frau
! chise, are part of the public, part Of Il
e body polite, and being part Of the COZ
stituency in which the sovereign power p
marily resides, it is not competent for pu
lie or common carrier to discriminate again
any respectable person because of color.
!. I'd. BY nature all persons are Great
G equal, and where the express statutory la
J. have not Disseminated to the prejudice Of
C person Of color, no custom or usage can
+ permitted to be made or exercised TO {
" prejudice and dishonor of class because
" color y previous condition OF servitude.
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OF the colored people Of the nation, at the
capital, and, consequently, alive to every
movement here and elsewhere, having the
interests Of humanity at heart, how does il
happen that the movements of the Nora
dueation Society Of Washington, radical and
comprehensive as they are, have not ELECTED
one word Of comment, not to say commend
alton, from your able paper? The ladies,
members Of that society, propose to make
sure work, by enlisting the youth Of the ma.
ton in the cause Of Temperance, and by pledg-
ing against profanity and the use Of tobacco
and, as they clearly set forth by circular.
BY teaching proper notions Of the lops cflYe
and health.
These objects are so eminently proper,
and this attempt to prevent vice and inn
morality, by beginning with the young, seems
80 in keeping with the dictates Of common
sense, that the measure and the workers
appeal to colored people with peculiar force.
The peculiar institution" was not choice in
its methods-no warning voice was raised
against tobacco, profanity, or intemperance,
on the score of refinement or Christianity !;
hence tobacco and whisky INDUCING chill
dren, as we'll as old Christians and to-day
much Of the opprobrium that enemies cast
upon the colored people is because Of the
indulgence of these habits encouraged by
them.
lie is true philanthropist who encourages
a people to renouuce customs which make
depraved and unhealthy appetites and prac-
tees; for thus may a people be aided to
worthily ascend higher life.plane.
Mrs. Chandler and her lady workers are
doing just that thing they are heightened
philanthropists. affirm, in the absence of
your reporter, that no more thoroughly cul-
tured and logical lectures have ever been
given to either sex in this city than those of
Mrs. Chandler to the walters upon her words
at the meetings of the Moral Education So
ciety; and, as one of your readers, feel
solicitous that the ERA, paper not slow
to recognize woman's appropriate sphere,
should proclaim this work i'm our midst.
Credit Mobilier has its say and its enormous
pay, and also enormous audience, but cor
ruption and death are its watchwords. There
are no greenbacks in this new work. In the
Moral Education Society it is greenbacks
out. The good that must come in the future
to those who work heartily will be more sat
isfyiug and permanent. The very courteous
assurance of consideration by prominent
members of the Board of Colored Public
Schools of this city, though the only evidence
that it has been recognized by us, leaves
no doubt that when laid before them, in de-
tail, by Mrs. Chandler and co-workers, they
will regard the methods proposed as COM
mendable-a verdict which could not fail to
become general among the people would the
press speak out.
NJ A. s CARY
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Letter from Ohio.

CINCINNATI, February 81, 1873.
To the Editors Of the New National Era:
An essay on the ''Iife and Labors of Ben
jan.in Lundy,' read before the
CINCINNATI LITERARY SOCIETY.
about two weeks ago, induced Mr.. William
F. Poole, our public librarian, to prepare a
paper entitled
ANTI-SLAvERY OPINIONS BEFORE TIE
YEAR lS00,'
which has since been brought out in PAM
phlct form by the eminent law publishing
firm of Robert Clarke & Co., and copy
handed me for review this week.
The essay embraces about one hundred
pages of finely tinted paper, to which, since
the original reading, has been added many
valuable notes, references, &c., a fac simile
reprint of DR.. George Buchanan's "Oration
on S:avery," delivered at Baltimore July 4,
l79l, before the Maryland Society for Pro-
noting the Abolition Of Slavery, &C., to-
gether with a list of delegates to the first
convention of anti-slavcry societies held at
Philadelphia January l, 1874.
Mr.. Poole manages to galvanize new life
into an old subject, and, aside from that, the
value of his research, resulting in collection
of information regarding the earliest pioneers
| in the cause of emancipation or colonization,
| is worth several times the cost Of the book
| (75 cents.) He mentions names and Incl
dents OF distinguished cOlored persons not
before known to me, and gives an insight
into the opinions Of leading public men o
that period regarding slavery, by copiou'
extracts from their correspondence hitherto
unpublished. Those DESTROYS Of preserving
a record Of anti-slavery movements befor'
the time Of the ''great agitator," VIM. Lloy'
Garrison, will find this work just the thin;
to meet their wants.
The Gath anniversary Of the birth of Abra
ham Lincoln was celebrated on the 18th in
slant by the
i LINCOLN MEMORIAL CLUB
by a fine banquet at the residence of Pete
II. Clark, Esq. Having once executed IN
share of damage to the spread" of that o.
casion, | shall make no attempt to repeat
by description thereof. Suffice it to say
was magnificent. As we filed around tn
table, l observed the napkins neatly folde
in the form of Maltese cross, exposing til
words
February II, 1909.
With malice toward none;
With charity fog all; :"
, which had been stamped upon each Of then
) But / promised above not TO describe Il
4. table, and you will pardon my forgetfulnes
0 Mr.. T. n. c. Liverpool responded to Il
first toast Of the evening and paid han
. some tribute to the ''msrtyred President
I Each gentleman present followed in a ie
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Personnel OF the Mississippi Leg
1slature.
VICKsBURG, Miss, Feb. IL, Is.

VIcKsBURG, MISS, Feb. Il, 1873.
To the Editors efhe Nep National Era:
In my last promised to take you from the
Senate into the House, where there is every
variety of intellect, appearance, and size, but
on the whole prepossessng set of men. The
senate has stiff, sombre appearance with
perfect neatness about everything. But the
House has sort Of Wall street appearance
every member thereof seems to be busy.
Chief among the members of the House
stands young colored man of lamb-like ap.
pearance, and who, by the voice of his fel.
low-members, occupies the Speakers chair
in the person Of
HON. JOHN r. LYNCH.
You have had sketches so frequently Of
Mr.. Lynch, that it may be somewhat super
fiuous in me to give you another But as the
chief member Of the House of Representa-.
tives, and one whose political course has
been so remarkable, 1 must give you shor,
sketch of him. Mr.. Lynch was born slave
in the State of Louisiana, but was brought Il
Mississippi when an infant by his master
He is a man Of about twenty-six years o
age, light brown skin, black curly hair, broat
forehead, soft black eyes ordinarily, but wher
engaged in a warm discussion, piercing an,
wild; and the whole face presents a genia
and intelligent expression. said Of Senate
Bowles, "that a five-year old boy could wall
through the curve Of his limbs without touch
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The Moral Education Society.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. p,

WASHINGTON, d. C., Feb. 81, 1873.
To Tie Editors Of the Nep National Era:
As the NEW NATIONAL ERA stands con-
iessedly and deservedly head and shoulders
above the many very good, passably good,
niddling, and very ''leetle" newspapers in
the hands Of colored men, and "manipula-
tors" in the interests Of the colored people,
and for other purposes and as, by reason
Of its transcendent ability, impartiality, and
absence Of jealousy, it Is the admitted organ
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Civil Rights.
House OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, Feb. q, 1873.


To the Editors ofthe Ne,o National Era:
SIRs: A suit has recently been tried and
determined in the District Court of Lee
county, Iowa, at Keokuk, before Hon. Joshua
Tracy, Judge, which Involved the question OF
the right of a colored person to travel upon
a public conveyance and receive frst-class
fare and treatment upon paying for them.
The case has excited great interest and much
comment, and it involves question so in
teresting and important at this time, that
take the liberty of enclosing you copy o.
the judges charge, together with a letter
from Hon. ID. F. Miller, one of the counse
in the case, and you are at liberty to publish
one or the other, or both, if you see fit.
Very truly YOURS
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COMMUNICATIONS.

lTRr Nr. NATIONAL does hold itself responsible
views expressed by correspondent Well written and
Interesting will be gladly received
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-12-03

DIprHER1A.-Thc following rec
inc for the cure ofdiptheria is from
physician who says that OF one
thousand cases in which il has been
used not q single patient has been
lost. The treatment consists Ill
thoroughly swabGng the back OF
mouth and throat with q wash made
thus: Take salt, two drains; black
pepper, golden seal, nitrate OF pot
ash, alum,one dram each. Mix and
pulverize, put into q teacup, which
half fiji with boiling water, stir
we'll, and them FIJI up with coed
vinegar. Use every half hour,
one, two, or four hours as recovery
progresses. The patient may
swallow little each time. Apply
one ounce each Of sweet oil, spirits
| Of tarpcntinc. and aqna ammonia:
mixed, to the whole surface Of the
threat and over the breast bone,
every ioar '.our$, keeping flannel
to the parts.
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Stationery assd Binding.
NEV STATIONERY HOUSE.
=. r. STOKES

HAS inst opened, in the new and hand
some building immediately opposite the
Phnnix Office, on Main street. ] complete
stock OF ..
STATIONERY, .. .s
Comprising Letter, Cap aud Note Paper. o,
all sizes, qualities and Of every deScrpuoh'
Flat Papers Of Cap, DENY. Donbie-Cap. Nc,
diam, Royal, Super-Eoyai, and Imperial
sizes. which vii! he sold IN am quantity, or
manufactured INFO Blank Books OF any SIC.
and ruled 10 any pattern, and bound IL any
style, at short notice.
ENVELOPES
IN endless varicty--all sizes, co.orS and quail
ties.
BLANK BOOKS -..
OF every variety, Memorandum and Pass
Books, Pocket Books, Invoice and Letter
Books, Receipt Books, Note Books.
ARCHITECTS and DHAUGHTSNEN will
find complete stock O! materials for their
use. Dlawing Paper, in sheets and rolls,
Bristol Boards, Postal Paper and Boards, Oil
PAPER, Pencils, Water Colors, in cakes and
boxes, Brushes, Canyons, Drawing Pens.
SCHOOL STATIONERY
Ofevery description; great variety of con-
vcnient and useful articles for both Teachers
and Pupils.
Plotograh Albums, Writing Desks, Port
fo!!oS, CabaS, with boxes, and countless
variety Of
FANCY ARTICLES.
Also, y most elegant stock Of Col! Ien'
and Pencil Cases, superbly mounted Enboer
Goods.
INKS.
Black, Blue, Violc: and Carmiae. lnde.ib.s
and Copyiug; Muc!age; Chess and lack
CANNON Mcu and Boards: Visiting and We'd
ding Cards, and everything usually kept 10
First Glass Stationery House,
Which the subscriber intends this Shall be.
lie will still conduct his BINDEhf and
BLANK BOOK MANUFACrORY and Pa
! PER.RCLING ESTABLISHMENT, which
las been in successful operation for over
thirty wears in this State, and to which he
will continue TO devote his own persona! at
tcntion. His stock will be kept up full and
complete, and his prices vii! be found always
reasonable, and lie Eopes to have share OF
patronage. oo,.
Nov. IS, 4G-tf Opposite Phoenix Ofice.
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PRESERVING EGGs.-J' c. T

PRESERVING EGGs.T' c. Hlg-
gins, Delhi Mills, Michigan, writes :
;sIn answer to corresl oadeut in June
number about preserving eggs, l
would say that l think the following
plan will keep them, and without CIV
ing them any uunatnral flavor: DIP
them in boiling hot water, taking out
Immediately, then lay them in fresh salt:
separate from each other, small end down
To my certain knowledge, eggs that
were packed after this plan last sum-
mer, were is fresh apparently when
used in April last, as when laid. l
know one woman WHO sold four hum
,lred dozen at one timc during the
winter, when they Were high, that
were put down during the summer
in this way; they We're all good.
IPoutlfy World.
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PLANT YOUNG TREES.

Most persons want fruit trees
two or three years old under the
impression that they will obtain
fruit sooner than from young ones.
This is an erroneous idea. The
best age at which to plant an apple
or peach tree is one year from the
bud or graft. Att age the root
is two years old and the top one.
They are generally termed year
ings. We decidedly prefer this
age, even if they are not two
feet i.igh, to Older trees six feet
in height, or even higher. Why
ASKS IN inquirer. Because you
you take up the yearlings almost
entirely. Very few Of the roots
arc broken or otherwise injured,
and If planted in the fall they grow
nearly as well rs if they had not
been removed at all. AS the trees
get older the roots extend farther,
and the second year they arc too
long, 10 be taken up without mutila-
ton. Fully half and almost all OF
the small working roots are cut Oft,
and it will take two or three years
for the tree to recover. BY this
time the yeariing has caught up
and generally outgrown the older
tree.
IN the Spring Of 1868 VIC trans
planted . lot Of trees, mostly two
years old. We had eight small
yearlings, that did not average
over foot and . half high. All
were planted with the same care
and in the same manner. Ihry
grew off the first season and did
very well, the small ones gaining
perccptibIy on the larger ones
L ,st fall they were all about the
same size. Now, the younger
ones are decidedly the larger, and
in every respect are superiortrees
We have noticed the same thing
repeatedly before. There is 10
advantage in planting even two
year Old trees. You have better
trees, and fruit fully as soon: by
planting ycarlings.-PIantati0".
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aSIAEDy FOR THE Gspc,.,
aS = COWS CDDER I

40 lows frequently have 50 slight j
touch Of the garget that their nronr;a
'''S 90 not always observe the fact
\ @e'shb0r's COW, during the past seq.
;, son. was affected with the garees, 50
snat her milk was full of small and
haFa Jumps Of milk. But they did
10: observe it until the difficulty W: $
pointed out to them. l.. B. Arnold
secretary OF the American Dairvmen'x
Association, says :-Garcet NAV "
cured if taken in season. 10 rcar,a
Inc swelling and Jumps in the udd,r.
i: any exist, rub the swollen narfx
twice day, till they disappear, with
IMMINENT made by mixing one-half
ounce of oil of turpentine and one-half
ounce Of liquor Of ammonia with 2
half pint Of linsecd oil. This will re-
move them if anything will The ap-
pearance Of blood in the strippings is
IN evidence Of weakness in the lacteal
glands. They are too much dehilita-
ted to hold the blood they take up
long enough to elaborate it into milk.
when the milk already formed is re-
moved, and ceases to afford any resis-
1ance to the passage Of the blood into
the tubes Of the uddcr. The blood
which appears in the strippings has,
doubtless, a bright and fresh appear
ance. The lacteal glands should be
strengthened BY Increasing the gener-
al visor Of the animal and by lessenius
the labor Of the glands by abating the
ilow ofmilk. To increase the strength
of the animal some kind of grain that
will not be heating should be givcn.-
\ sruel made of scaldcd oatmeal would
be as eficacious as anything. To
diminish the flow Of milk leave little
in the bag at each milking till the
blood disappears, but do not leave 50
much IS to create any feverin the bag.
Stop milking just before you suspect
the blood will begin to appear in tic
1:.ilk. When the milk ceases to be
coiorel by blood the milk may al! be
drawn out rs usual.
Another remedy for the garget is a
piece Of poke root, sometimes cal!cd
"kvke root as large IS a mans fore
finger, cut into ssnai! pieces and min
=Ivd with cows feed twice day.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-12-03

Coop AUTHORITY Glass the diff
fereut breeds of fowls thus For hard
mess -Brahn,sS, Houdaus, Hamburgs,
Spanish, and Leghorns. For size
B:ahmas and Cochins. For size OF
eggs-I.a Fleche, Houdans, and Black
Spanish. Number ofcggs-Hamba.gs
Span::sA, Leghorns, and Polands. Fol
setting qualitics-Cooilins, Brahmasi
and Dorkings.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-12-03

HENS NEsTs.-Hen's nests should
be made by placing in the bottom Of
the uest-baskct or box cut turf and :;
shoyelfnl of dry earth Or ashes; OF
this place SHORT straw, first hollowins
cut the earth il tie sl;ape Of a nest
\ more even temperature is obtained
for the eggs than in straw nests alone
Such nests are particularly adapted fol
early setting, when the weather is
cold.
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-12-03
So

TO PREPARE LErTUCE.-Prepare 4
lrixturc-a cup Of rich milk or thin
cream Que egg beaten light, a table
spoonful of mustard, lump Of butter
half size of an egg, salt to your taste.
Set on the fire until the ingredients
are thoroughly heated. Whe" cold
add by degrees a cupful of strong vine,
gag. This mixture poured over the
lettuce viii mai;c~sa very appetizlng
addition to dinner,
The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-12-03

NERVOUS HGsDAcgE-Bathe the
spine every night with vinegar and
cayenne, having some person rub it
bciskly with the hand: also bathe the
back of the neck, behind the ears, and
the temples with the same daring the
attack, and take few swolloTs Of it
once in tve or ten minutes. Hot pill
lows around the head are benefclal.-
Perfect rest must be had.
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-,,.-, -, TovEs.-Feed fo~!s :

repn v;,a FowLs.-Feed fo#!s
little and often. It is very careless
,.a,bod Of feeding fowls which. We See
50 often adopted. where the gram 'S
;i,Tawr down in great heaps on '"'
,,,,n,.d or floor. 1t is not only waste
81 but INJURIOUS to the fowls, because
,t.r, u..t oycr-icl. and it is in IN iua'
,or.aI.t raspcct contrary to their hab-
It's: !or .hcir nature IS to 'scf"''H'
,v.,n, .ho old hen with 4 brood when
g., :, lust ict out Of tic coop. One
},,2lv ssirs from the sprt, but Is soon
sho has realized her freedom, down
..o ler claws into the soil, and after
ward, whenever you see her: she Is at
it. Always feed, then, nc more TIA"
,,n h.. e:,tcp at once, and take care
,I.+ this is scattered among some light
rubbish, that they may have the lux
n,1 of scratching for it. If feed IS
i,rrirJ in fresh earth, then they get'
with tbc;r mouthfuls Of grain, some
thing Of use to their peculiar o's'S', ,,
i've organs. Grain, however: should
W.. J.. allowed to come in contact with
:e filthy, tainted soil too ctten toH75a
IN the poultry yard.-lo"'t'y H1rl".