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DeinagOgisnl.

A letter from the Fourth Congressional
District arrives too late for this weeks issue.
1t contains an account of the effort being
made to defeat the reelection of Mr.. Stow
ell to congress. Not to return.Mr. Stowell,
who has been faithful to Republican princi-
pie and consistent advocate and worker for
the passage Of the civil-rights bill, will show
lack of appreciation on the part of his con-
stituents. We are sorry to hear of colorel
man fighting Mr.. Stowell on the ground of
color, and because he was not born in the
State. The colored gentleman who aspires
to the position held by Mr.. Stowell, was a
carpet-bagger to Mr.. Stowell's native State,
and was made welcome to government posi-
tons by men who held the same regard for
humanity, come from where it might-as
does Mr.. Stowell. Opposition to Mr.. Stowell
from such a quarter and for such reasons
smacks not little of demagogism.
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According to dental estimates it costs
the American people $4,000, 900 year to
keep their teeth in order.
The st. Louis bridge cost Sll 900 900.
The East river bridge at New York will span
over that by costing sl3,0O0,OOO.
Circumstances alter cases. For instance,
when Virginian arose in church and said:
'"Here's hundred dollar bill for the old boss
behind the pulpit" no one thought Of put
ting him out.
-"Dennis," said lady to a man she had
assisted in obtaining work, ''you have a good
master now. l am certain you cannot do
too much for him." "FaitlI, num-" said the
grateful Dennis, 81 don't name to-"
james Russell Lowell's resignation OF
the prOfessOrship of bellies iettres at Harvard,
which he presented on his departure for
Europe, has never been accepted, and he
will resume the chair at the opening of the
next college year.
-"Why did you leave your last place."
inquired young housekeeper about to en-
gage a new servant. "Why. YOU see,
am" replied the applicant, ii was too
good looking; and when | opened the door
folks took me for tn missus.''
A Philadelphia clergyman hopes the Lord
will forgive him when he aunoun ces, "Let
US continue our worship this morning by
listening to piece Of sheet music which the
hired quartette will please execute"
Why not as well ask to be forgiven Tor
being hired preacher?
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H Don't delay in sending us
your subscriptions. "Procrastina-
ton is the thief of time"
Periodicals..

THE SANITARIAN for August is at hand,
and presents a valuable table of contents ia
the student and the graduate of sanitary
science. Its contents are as follows:
Concentration and Sanitary Regulation of
the Business of Strengthening in Cities, by
stephen Smith, M. D. Boiled Hammers
Mental Culture, by Nathan Allen, NJ. D..
IL. d. "Do You Live Over The Shop"
Morbid Impulse, by the New York Medico-
Legal Society. What Alcohol Will Do.
Typhoid Fever and Sanitary Administra-
ton, by John NJ. Fox, NJ. D., etc., atc. A..
N. Bell, NJ. d., Editor. Office 23I Broad
way, New York. Price SO per year.
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Go on The Public Lands.

Can our people in Georgia be awakened
to sense of their duty to themselves? Not
only in Georgia, but in all those States in
which injustice to the negro has become fixed
and permanent? Why are our people sitting
quietly down and allowing the public lands
to be appropriated by Others? Wake up!
The Freedman's Bank is gone. Save your
money by putting it in improvements on
land which will cost you next to nothing.
60 to Arkansas, and, by your industry and
accommodating wealth, make Of it an enter
prising State, and Of yourselves valuable
citizens. This is the true solution of our
difficulties. Form communities, build school.
houses, send your children to school, pat
ronize one another in business. In short,
go for yourselves on land Of your own, and
your American citizenship will be all the
more valuable. Remember all you who toll
day after day upon Georgia plantations for
miserable pittance, that large profits accrue
to your employers. These profits will be
yours if you own land and work for your
selves. The profits you make for the land
owners in the South build railroads, run
steamboats,, erect cities, and facilitate the ac-
QUESTION of knowledge which is power. Go
on the public lands and eschew politics.
Strike for the almighty dollar and knowledge.
The colored people Of the cotton States can
cultivate that staple from a long experience
in growing it. Those of the tobacco States
and corn States can find in Arkansas and on
the public lands soil and climate favorable to
the profitable culture of either cotton, corn,
or tobacco, as well as hogs, sheep, and cattle.
people are on the move for the public
lands.
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five Liberals, making a RepubI;c,n ,,.,o-,..,

five Liberals, making Republican majority
Of twenty-five. Even at the last bour tbere
were but twenty-scven of the twentv-ninc
present who voted for the bill. What are we
to say OF the other twenty-onc Are thew
to be excused? or is it the two only who
were present and did not vote who arc to he
sentenced? The fact is, twenty ut least NJ
the forty-eight have been traitors all the wav
through. In the House of Representative
there are SO Democrats, 6 Liberals. and i95
Republicans, leaving n clear majority of lO5
Republicans, or pledged friends to the hin
Yet for two months Buffers bill was kent in
the committee room, which might have been
produced at any time, or a bill identical with
that of the Senate might have been reporteJ
and passed with a simple majority after the
reception Of the Senate bill, but the final
vote shows a pronounced opposition to the
bull, by Republicans.
We do not advocate leaving the party and
becoming a shuttle-cock, but we do saw we
have been too ready to follow the behests Of
the party, without asking any questions, and
we propose to ask questions in the future and
be answered, too.
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a Deserved AppOint m emf.

Our friend, J. Sella Martin, has received an
appointment as special inspector in the Treas
ury Department. We understand that the
first duty to which he will be assigned will
be in the State of Mississippi. We need say
nothing in commentator of this appointment,
as our friends in Mississippi know Mr.. Mar
tins fidelity to the cause of his race and will
as we do, look upon his appointment as some
thing of a recognition of his worth. Mr..
Martin has the confidence of the IEIA and
we hope to be able to give our readers the
benefit of communications from him.
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THE REPUBLICAN ENEMIES OF
CIVIL RIGHTS.

The6ollOwing are the names of
the Republican members of the
House of Representative. ) who
voted against the Civil Rights Bill,
on June 20, 1874: RoDERICK r.
BUTLER, Tennessee; II. HI. HARRISON,
Tennessee; Ira B. HYDE, Missouri :;
LLOYD LowNDEs, Maryland j. B.
SENER, Virginia; J. AMBLER SMITH,
Virginia w. W. PHELPS, New Jer-
sey; W. II. RAY, Illinois; f. O..
STANARD, Missouri; CHARLES ST.
JOHN, New York G. Y. THOMAS,
Virginia j. nj. THoENBURG, Ten
nesSeo,
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D0Wnlngisnl.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for treachery to the
best interest Of the race, by seeking political
alliance with its enemies-is being denounced
by the best papers controlled by colored
men. The Louisianiam, published in New
Orleans. and managed by the most sagacious
politician OF our race in this country, as well
as one of the most earnest advocates Of his
peoples cause, Is out in an able article in
opposition to the advice of the pretentious
Downing.
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INDUCEMENTS.

Any one sending us $3.50 will receive
the New NATIONAL ERA and hoods
Monthly Magazine for one year, to,
gether with beautiful chrome of the
Yosemite Valley, or fine photograph OF
either Fredericl. Douglass, Esq, or Tous-
saint L'Ouverture, as they may choose.
This chrome is a fine copy of piece OF
natures grandest work, and is not presented
in the usual limited style-its dimensions,
14x2O makes a picture of very desirable
size.
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Our Civil Rights Dlsregarded.

There are two classes of people who OPP
pose law securing equal civil rights to the
colored race. First: Shallow observers at
the North who judge from the treatment
generally accorded to cOlored men in the old
free States when the negro population was
comparatively small and Northern Democrat
ic negrOphobists. Second: EX-slavc holders
and ve.breeders who are filed with hatred
to all mankind for the destruction of their
profitable trade and the loss of their property.
Both of these classes DANGEROUSLY insist that
negroes now possess all the civil rights that
much respected. But every intelligent man
knows, and every honest man admits that
this is not true. Every day we are furnished
with proof Of its falsehood, and that freed
men need more protection Of their civil
rights, Miss Holley who is teaching at Lofts
burg, has just furnished an instance in point.
She says in a recent letter that only last
Saturday all our school apparatus was seized
and carried out of the school-house by mob
and now lies on the ground exposed to de-
struction - school-library, books, charts,
maps, states, pictures, globes, ETC., valua-
BILE collection anywhere, and priceless in its
usefulness here to hundreds of these poor
cOlored children. This at present breaks up
our good school Of nearly six years. constant
progress in that school-house. 1t was not
a mixed school, but one devoted to the in
struction Of colored children. Like the white
man, the negro may sometimes misuse the
right Of suffrage, but when we hear Of such
outrages, we are glad to remember that while
colored men can avense some of their wrongs
at the polls, they are not utterly helpless.
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Senator z. b. S. Pinchback proposes to
"stump" the State in the coming campaign,
and seeks a seat in the United States Senate
by direct appeal to the people. He will
be warmly welcomed wherever he goes, as
the champion of the denied rights of his
party.-NaciaocAes Republican,.
The injustice done Senator Pinchback by
the Republican Congress is one Of the blots
on the Republican party: Our race needs a
man with the energy and courage Of Senator
Pinchback ia the Senate of the United
States.
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''Depugh.''

Our Cincinnati correspondent, "Depugh."
has married. That is we'll. We tender him
all the compliments usually extended to the
newly married. His letters to the ERA have
been read with interest by many, and have
not gone altogether unnoticed in Cincinnati.
His spicy, gossipy letters will be just as well
come hereafter as heretofore. A very inter-
esting and graphic description of the wedding
is given in another column by "Miami."
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For the information and convenience Of
our readers, wepublsh the following abstract
Of the postal laws of the United States. We
advise our readers TO cut this out aud pre-
serve it for reference:
Postal cards. one cent each, go without
further charge to all parts of the country.
All letters to all parts of the United States,
three cents per half ounce.
Local, or "drop" letters, that is for the
city or town where deposited, two cents if
delivered by carriers, and one cent if there is
no carrier system.
For newspapers and magazines, regularly
issued and sent to regular subscribers, the
following rates per quarter of three months,
payable in advance at the Office where re-
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rg- Prof. John NJ. Langston, Acting
President of Howard University, will lecture
during the coming month at the following
places "Chicago, August ] Lima, Ohio,
August 3; and will attend the Commence
ment at Oberlin, on the 4th proximo. On
the sixth of August he will speak in South
Charleston. Ohio.
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pO- The communication which appeared
in our last issue from Rowland School-house
signed "From One Of the Audience" was
by error dated as coming from Huntsville
instead of Heathsvtlle, Va.
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By. J. w. Cromwell and VIM. Waring
have been promoted to third-class clerkships
in the Sixth Auditors Office. These are the
first colored men that been promoted to
third.class clerkships under the civil service
rules.
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Is it because of the base injustice through
prejudice against the negro perpetrated by
West Point officials that the Republican of
this city does not wish to encourage discus
sion of the outrage on Cadet Smith
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Ms Don't delay in sending us
your subscriptions.
The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-23
A BRA " HERO.
brethren

To the already long roll of American
railroad heroes must be added the name
of Thomas Furlong, baggage master on
the Old Colony railroads New Bedford
express train. Mr.. Furlong happened
to be riding on one of the switching en-
gines in the Boston yard, which was
backing over the draw. Just as the
engine was entering the bridge struc-
ture, Mr.. Furlorg noticed two men
starting to walk over the narrow tim
bers, on which the rails are laid, and,
seeing their peril, he told the engineer
to shut off, and then prepared for the
rescue of the men. One of them was
struck by the engine and thrown to one
side, where he lodged, comparatively
uninjured. The other man had pro-
| ceeded further on the timber, and, if
struck by the engine, would have been
thrown l~engthwise on the rail, ard con-
s~equently cut in haves. Mr.. Furlong
cached forward, and taking the man
by the chin raised him from the track
with the intention of carrying him
across to the other side; but. his
strength being unequal to this task, he
| lifted the man clear of the rail and
dropped him over into the water. BY
this time the engine was slowed con
siderably, so that. leaping off, Mr..
Furlong and the fireman secured a boat
hook and iished the man from the
water. The rescued men were employed
as divers at the Broadway bridge draw
uier, and were filed with gratitude to
their daring cscuer. This is by no
means Mr.. Furlo1g's first successful
attempt at li~ie-saving.
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THE JOURNALISTIC SMALL BOY.

III DNA'
Some juvenile journalists in San
Francisco, emulating the examples of
their older brethren, have varied the
monotony of their amateur sheets ~
offensive personalities which have re-
suited in q libel suit. The editor who
caused the arrests of his rivals was only
fourteen years of age. He was at
time associated with them in the publ
cation OF the Pacific Youth, but break
ing with them, started a new Pacific
Youth at a low rate, the older journal
being conducted by a chubby child of
twelve. His former associates retail
ated by publishing two vindictive
sheets called the GrOWler and the Yin
dictator, in which the character of their
rival was most savagely assailed. Not
content with this, one of their myrmie-
ons attacked him in the rooms Of the
Pacific Coast Amateur Press Associa-
ton, of which he was President. The
following extract from the alleged libel
gives a good idea of the success with
which the juvenile amateur initiated
the style of some of his professional
brethren: ever the room at our dis
posal, We could give accounts of theft,
lying, misrepresentation, cowardice, and
blackmail schemes of this foul-mouthed
slanderer. But it is not his reputation
which is at stake +; the only reputation
he has is that of a liar, thief, and cow
ard. His reputation he earned at
school, and he has carried it from the
desk and school-yard to the Office and
into society. And the hatred FOR him
by all who have ever associated with
him is great and unexceptionable." On
the case being brought into court, it
was attempted to be shown by the
sci for the defense that the offensive
words were to be considered in a Pick
wickian sense. He thought the boys
should be spanked and allowed to go,
as they belonged to good families and
had promised to discontinue their jour
n~alistic excuses, but the opposing
counsel urged hat it would not be fair
to allow them to go free because they
did not happen to be hoodlums. The
court decided that there was clearly a
libel, and held the boys for trial, so
that these amenities of juvenile jour
nalism will result in litigation, which
will, We trust, he an expensive warning
to other amateur editors not to initiate
the bad qualities of their professional
brethren.
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THE n FOLKS.
Jack of all Trades.

There = 4 wee boy; if his wants were as small
As he i. he wouldn't have any at all;
But arst he Is longing a soldier 10 be,
And :Eel q bold sailor to sail DER the sea.
But soon for ,he life of a hunter he signs,
Then 0,,. a book he's a scholar, 20 wise:
A spade and 4 llow he is wishing for next;
His wondering mother is sadly perplexed.
A box full et tools he will ask for next day;
Then brushes and paints draw his fancy away;
Bit soon he's a blacksmith, a doctor, a clown,
Likewise q policeman he strides up and down.
And tex zines a day will he change ere he sleeps ;
But whi.e he IS busy from mischief he keeps;
1 hope Be won't make, when his boy days are done,
Observation-Disclosures, and the master of none.
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IF you WANT 4 Kiss, TAKE IT.


There's a jolly Irish Proverb
That is pretty much like this:
That 4 man is half in heaven
When he has a woman's kiss.
But there's danger il delaying,
And the sweetness may fcrsake it;
So, l tell you, bashful lover,
If you want a kiss, why take it.
Never let another fellow
Steal a march on you in this;
Never let a laughing maiden
See you spelling for a kiss,
There's royal way to kissing,
And the jolly ones who make it
Have q motto that is winning
If you want 4 kiss, why take it.
Any fool may face a cannon,
Anybody wear a crown,
But a man must win 4 woman
If he'd have her for mis- OWL.
Would you have the golden apple,
You must find the tree and shake it;
If the thing is worth the having,
And you want a kiss, why take it.
Who would burn upon a desert,
With a forest smiling by?
Who would give this sunny weather
For a black and wintry sky?
Oh, / tel there is magic,
And you cannot, cannot break It;
For the sweetest part Of loving
Is to want IA kiss and take it.
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Cool ESoUGH.-An impecunious gen.
tleman once saw n thief enter his room
when the moon shone brightly upon
him. He lay quietly, as if in sound
sleep, for a time, as the examination
vent rapidly on. At length he was con-
vulsed with laughter, which started the
miscreant peering into his desk. See
ing he was taken at a disadvantage,
the intruder turned and asked what
occasion there was for such an outburst.
He REPLIED 81 was thinking how ez-
trenely ridiculous it is for you to be
searching for money in the night when
1 am unable to find any in the day
time"
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Too ORDERLY.-There are certain ag-
g~ravatins persons who are continually
putting your conveniently untidy books
and papers in order-that is, according
to their notions of the matter-and hide
things, lest they should be lost, where
neither the owner nor anybody else can
find them. This is a sort of magpie
faculty. If anything is left where you
can find it, it is called litter. There is
a pcdantry in ho~usewiffry as well as IN
the gravest concerns. Sir Walter Scott
complained that whenever his maid
servant had been in his library, he
could not set comfortably to work again
for several days.
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THE largest locomotive in the world
is the "Pernsylvania," on the Philadel-
phia and Reading railroad. The prin-
cipal dimensions Of this engine are as
follows: Diameter of cylinders, 90
inches; length of stroke, 26 inches F;
number of driving wheels, II; diameter
of drivers, 4 feet !; and the weight of the
engine alone is GO tons.
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VARIETIES.

GOOD muSlcla ans execute tnelr music
he bad ones murder it.
WHAT is that which increases the
more you take from it why, a hole,
of course.
DoBBs thinks that, instead of giving
credit where credit is due, the cash had
better be paid.
ADEUSKARD is generally a bad arguer,
for the oftener he comes to the "pint,"
the more incoherent he is.
WHY has a hog the most brains of all
the animals? Because he has a hogs
head full of them.
A FEMALE pawnbroker, hauled upfor
extortion, claimed immunity on the
ground that she was a loan woman.
A FARMER, when fagellating his two
unruly boys, was asked what he was
doing. "Thrashing wild oats" was the
reply.
TEAcHER-Peter /; you are such a bad
boy that you are not fit to sit in the
company of good boys on the bench.
Come up here and sit by me, sir.
DARWIN acknowledged himself sold
when his little neice asked him, serious
~, what a cat has that no other animal
has. He gave it up, after mature delib-
Grafton, and thus the sly little puss an
swered kittens"
A DETROIT young woman tried to be
aristocratic, and did not look at the
money that she gave the horse-car con-
ductor, but he meekly gave her back
the lozenge on which was written. "11l
never cease to love thee" and said he
was an orphan with five little brothers
to support, and must be excused.
"IN London, no nan thinks of black
ing his own boots" said a naughty
Briton once to the late Mr.. Lincoln,
whom he found polishing his calfskin
CATERS. "Whose boots does he black?"
quietly responded Uncle Abe.
HERE is An obituary gem from the
death-column of the Shell Rock (Minn.)
Enterprise
On the pl far Iowa,
wheret Is ing-time grasses wave,
Fragrant breezes now sigh low, ah,
Dirge above my grandma's grave.
Eow's business now?" inquired one
Nashville merchant Of another. dull,
fearfully dull" was the reply. 1.-THE
fact is, nobody buys anything just now
but provisions and whisky-the bare
necessaries of life, as it WERE"
A YOUNG fellowin a Western town
was fined $40 for kissing a girl against
her will, and the following day the dam
sci sent lrim the amount of his fine,
with "a note saying that the next time he
kissed her he must be less rough about
it, and be careful to do itwhen her faith
er was not around.
There are habits of manner and habits Q: mind,
Habits ~ almost every kind:
| uahitsof dress and habits of walk,
| Habits of slang and habits of talk;
Habits that make us act like fools,
Hat Is that make us other mems tools;
Habits that make us think we're great,
Habits that make us think we amt!
| Habits that make us love the light,
| Habits thai make us wish 'tw.re night!
Habits that hit up and la bits that pull down,
Habits that should be followed wherever they are
found;
Habits that make us noble men,
If We only viii choose and follow them.