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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-11-05

At the present moment. when the
free opening of the Tower is exciting
such general interest, it may not be I'M.
interesting to mention custom called
the locking up of the Tower. which is
carried out nightly at II o'clock. As
the clock strikes that hour the ycoman
porter, clothed in a long REQ cloak. bear
ing huge bunch of keys, and accom-
panied by warder carrying lantern.
stands at the front of the main guard
house and calls out, Escort keys.
The sergeant of the guard and five or
six men then turn out and follow him
to the outer gate, each sentry challeng-
ing as they pass with, "Who goes
there p the answer being ''keys. "
The gates being carefully locked and
barred, the procession returns, the SEN
tries exacting the same explanation.
and receiving the same answer as be-
fore. Arriving once more at the front
of the main guard-nouse, the sentry
gives loud stamp with his foot and
asks, "Who goes there 2 keys.
Whose keysl" "Queen Victoria $
keys" advance, Queen Victoria
keys, and all's WE'LL The Woman
porter then calls out, 'SGod bless Queer
Victoria To which the guard re
spends, amen The officer on dut,
gives the word, present arms, ane
kisses the hilt of his sword, and thu
yeoman porter then marches alone
across the parade, and deposits thu
keys in the lieutenant's lodgings. Thu
ceremony over, not only is all egres'
and ingress totally procluded. but ever
within the walls no one can stir withou
being furnished with sAe countersign.-
London STANDARD.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-11-05

The Chicago chamber of commerce
has appointed committee OF five to
devise plan for securing food and clo-
thing for the suffering poor in the grass
hopper regions of Nebraska.
AT Chicago last evening Charles
Wagner. pattern maker, shot ana in.
stantly killed Frank Rhombers, a
saloon keeper, whom he had accused OF
seducing his wife, and on account Of
which they had separated. Wagner
gave himself up to an officer.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20
From the junction City fKan.l Unionl
A BRAVE MAN INDICATED.

It will be remembered at the time
of the Modoc war, various statements
were made respecting the conduct of
Capt. Ben. Wright, who whipped the
Modocs many years ago. The dis
cussion took SO many forms that Ben.
Wright's brother, Capt. John X.
Wright, of this city, published a com
municationin the Junction City Union,
giving brief and truthful sketch Of
his brothers life and death.
We notice, however, that the name
and fame of Ben. Wright, came up
for discussion in Congress on the l4th
inst. Mr.. Shanks, Of Indiana, who
is very fond of all Indians, and No
docs in particular, took occasion to
assail the policy which had been pur-
sued toward the Modocs in years past,
and was particularly furious about
the Ben. Wright "massacrer. He
was replied to by Mr.. Nesmith, Of
Oregon, and Mr.. Luttrell, of Califor-
MIA, who evidently carried with them
the sympathies of the House.
Mr.. Nesmith stated that he knew
Ben. Wright well, that he served
with him in the Cayuse war, had slept
under the same blanket with him,
and had eaten with him from the car
casses Of the same dead horses, and
that "a more brave and gallant man
and soldier never lived" Mr.. Nes-
NTH said that shortly after the horli-
bic massacre Of emigrants by the
Modocs, on Lost River, Wright went
after the Modocs with fifteen men,
and met in fair fight and whipped o
much larger force of Modocs.
Mr.. Shanks told over the old pois-
oning story, and Mr.. Luttrell, who
stated that he had lived in California
since he was fourteen years Of age,
and in the vicinity Of the lava beds
for eighteen years, denied utterly
that any Indians were ever poisoned
by Wright and his men, or that any
poisoning was ever attempted.
Our impression is that Messrs.
Nesmith and Luttrell know more
about the history Of the country in
which they have lived for years, than
does Mr.. Shanks, who lives in Indi-
ana, ard is a crack-skulled frantic on
the superior goodness, sweetness and
general loyeliness of the Indian char
acter All the testimony shows that
Ben. Wright did right, and it is a
shame that his memory should be
blackened by wide-mouthed would.
be-philanthropist, who seeks to make
saints out Of a lot Of dirty, blood
thirsty, bowling savages.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

A VAIN SECRET. "A writer in the
Washington Star relates the follow
ing anecdote of the White House:
During the civil war letter was
received by the State Department,
following telegraph dispatch from
Boston, relating in terms of such
conviction and certainty q plot to
undermine and blow up the Execu-
tive Mansion, with Mr.. Lincoln and
all his Ministers, on some Cabinet or
reception day, that Caleb Smith,
Secretary Of the Interior, was con-
fdentially charged to investigate it.
He sent for a native District and
Union man, known to every citizen,
and asked him if it could be arrang-
ed to have some expert mechanic
examine the White House cellar and
approaches, without exciting sus-
picion among the workmen. He said
he knew such man, and called on
Tom Lewis, q reliable master mason.
Lewis took a gang Of men, picks,
shoyels, &C., and informed them that
he wanted to excavate for drain or
spring which made the cellar damp,
had floors taken up, countermines
and trenches dug, and informed Mr.
Lincoln, who was not a particle
scared, that he could see nothing like
the work of Guy Fawkes. Caleb
Smith was much exercised, however,
and telegraphed to his informant in
Boston to write more explicitly
The man did so, and assured the
Secretary that there could be no
mistake about his information, for he
had derived it personally by com
munication with spirits "
"So mote IL BE- "
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

IL was 10 pe tne organic law OF red
eral Government for only such States
as should afterward ratify and adopt
it, and as it could not then be known
what States would and what would
not accept it, preamble reciting the
names Of all the States, was inappro-
pirate. In the light of these histori-
cal facts, was it the manifest design
of the Convention to change the mean
ing of the preamble? Certainly not.
But does the change made in the
phraseology of the preamble actually
change its obvious meaningP The
Constitution, if adopted by nine
States, was to be the bond OF union
between the States SO adopting it;
then they were united, and the style
"United States" was proper without
pay change an the sense SO far and as
the Legislatures or conventions Of the
several States were always elected by
the people, it therefore became the
act of the people of the States united
by the Constitution, or ''the people of
the United States" Thus we see that
really there is no change in the sense
or meaning, for in the form of rati-
fication the sovereignty of the States
was fully recognized; this conclusion
seems irresistible when we look at
thesshistory Of that important Con-
yention and the character of the men
composing it. Many of them were
distinguished for their learningas we'll
as for their patriotism, and they could
not have been betrayed into the grave
error of saying, owe, the people Of
the United States, and intending to
be understood as meaning the whole
people in the aggregate without
reference to States, and at the same
time and in the same instrument
making provision for its ratification
by the States in their sovereing ca
pacity.
Though I have already extended
this letter beyond the usual length, l
cannot close without calling atten-
ton to one other matter of vital i'm
portance in the consideration of this
subject, and a matter too that seems
to have escaped the attention of those
who attach so much Importance to
the preamble Of the Constitution as
to rely upon it as conclusive evidence
of the national character of the Gov
ernment. | refer to the attestation
affixed to the Constitution--thc legal
evidence that it is what it purports to
be-and that it is the act of the par
ties certified to by the attestation, and
as necessary to its validity as the at
testation of the Speaker of the House
and the President Of the Senate is to
a statute passed by both branches of
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

The General Plan as Sketchod by a Wo-
| M s}Myat man. 4i tA titW
4 It is proposed, says alady CORES
pondent; to erect building covering
thirty acres, and yet 50 devised that
more than half of it is visible from,
the centre at bnce--an effect made
evident to the eye by pink and white
cambria map wherein thelobster-like
pink projections represent tbeyisihle
area. Outside this vast building is o.
great pafalelogram; inside it is bro-i
ken'up into pillars sixty feet square,
and such is the arrangement Of the
roof, in small domes, that each iof'
these pillars encloses an open spacer
reaching up to the sky itself, bright
with grass and flowers and musical
fountains Yet the area Is So intense
that heseonelosed courts appeanonly
like ordinary pillars. Thetgeneral
plan is Of aisles radiating from an
elliptical centre, crossed by, other
aisles encircling the same centre. K.
The outside Of the whole building
measures / 1916 feet, the open space
inside /, ,77Gfeet, Outside thereNaroa
domes and cupolas, projections and
embrasures, and, crowning all, q
dome Of such singular construction
that you forget it is 500 feet high,
and notice only that, instead
of following the ordinary plan of
domes and settling down upon the
building with an immense base too
suggestive of solidity to hint of grace,
this one is contracted at the bottom,
sort Of an irregularly shaped octa-
gonal globe resting upon one Of its
sides and supported by pillars which
seem to bind it to the building be-
meath. You think Of solidifed bal
loon, and then you think it is much
prettier than that 8would lbe. Yoh
are thankful for thevarietypat least;
you are speedily in love with thisya7rs
ration, and you are, amazed to be,
told that the Capitol dome might
mount upon itself and still peer up
ward unayailingly TO the crown of
this aspiring summit lsIreoo %
You may easily exhaust one after
another the whole round Of favorable
adjectiyes in describing the building,
and find the last circumactibed and
unsatisfactory The wonder Of lies o
in the fact that it is a temporary bull :
ding; that an architectural pile which
is the growth Of ages past Or the pct
of future centuries should be all that
art and money can combine to make
III is no great marvel. That this
structure neither equals nor resem- /.
bles the world-famous and time-defy-
ing architectural standards is an evil
dence Of its fitness to its purpose;
moreover, it is American in every
sense, and it deserves the commenda-
ton Of, the people Of America. Dr.
William Carpenter has somewhere
called common sense the resultant OF o
the whole previous action Of our
minds, Perhaps this building might
be called solidi6ed American common
sense-rthe resultant of oil the variety
of inside force and outside circum-
stance that for a hundred years has
nodded our coutitry into what il is
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

A young Lady Of Lyons, iowa, re-
Gently said "Some men are always
talking about patronizing their own
town--always harping on that duty
and yot they so abroad TO get mar
RED, while here we all stand waiting
l do hope Chat some Of these men
who marry Eastern women will get
cheated" vi
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

A MIcmoAN school-master says: II
will spell emmy man, womun or child
in the hull state fur O dickshinary, Of
kash prieze Of one hundred dollars a
side, the mony to be awarded by a
kommittee Of clergymen or school
directors. There has been q darned
site Of blown about my spellun; now
! want them TO put up Or shet up.
/ won't by put down by a passel Of
ignarammussos bekese | differ with
noar Webster's style Of spellin.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

A conscientious Sunday.school teach.
er felt panied upon looking throhgba a
crack in the fence at seeing some othis
scholarsin attendance upon the trials ot
speed at the fair, asked ono Of them II
he did think there was great waste
of time at the RACES The youngster
replied that he thought "there was
laundering sight too much time lost
in scoring ' ti'H
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

Mrs. Brown, widow Of Governor
Aaron v, Brown, Postmaster Geper
al during the administration of Presi-
dent Buchanan, has been appointed
regent Of the Ladies' Mount Vernon
Association for the State ofTenhessee.
She is arelalive Of President Washing.
ton s family and also Of fPrcsident MAdi
sons N~A
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

A AChicago paper thinks that every
body who dies in Milwaukee is sure Of
going to a better land. Milwaukee
has an idea that everybody who lives
in Chicago can 60 70 a bctet land
without DYING.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

There is nothing quite SO exhaust
ing to village newspaper man as To
write up d complimentary notice Of a
local exhibition, in which there are
thirteen performers who design send
ing copies Of the paper to their
friends.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20
ALBANY BATH HOUSE! .

-sHE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT
fully inform the citizens of Albany and vi
niey that be has taken charge of this Establish
aal, and, by keeping clcan rooms and paying
|rlct attention to business, expects to suit all
|aao who may favor him with their patronage.
ating heretofore carried on nothing but
Tirst-Class Hair Dressing Saloons,
Expects to give entire satisfaction to all.
- ChildIen aud Ladies' Hair neatly cut
| 4 shampooed. JOSEPH WEBER.
v3n33tf
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

A new stylec Of boys tfowsers has
been invented ID Boston, with 4 copi
per scat, sheet-iron knees. fiveted
down tho seamss and waterproof
pockets TO hold broken eggs
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

There is a preparation ior coloring
ladies gums q beautiful and delicate
pink, and the restilt is song that is
popular among confidential friends
Cum, oh gum with me.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

A New English paper states that
Elder Knapp, the retivalist, declined
to 60 70 lis dying mothers bedside
recently, for the reason that she was
sure of hoavon, and the audience ho
was exhorting was in danger Of dam
nation. 81 ts4a os4
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

A New York paper thinks that "a
Japanese youth who has been to
America is as great bore as q Yankee
stripping who has dined ID Paris"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20
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Hertion. eF8 i M# gE
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20

Motto Of tho lard msnufaeturtf
"I'll Try"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-03-20
THE tENTENNIAL BUILDING.

This General Plan as Sketchod by T0-
e8 E}AntNt man. gA Ni tA AtAW
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12

A muscular little man by the name OF
Hogan went to the city hospital this
morning to have his shattered arm
bandaged and splinted up. He was
thrown down the stairs of his boarding
house two days ago and had lis head
broke thereby, for which the Recorder
fined him FIVE dollars yesterday. Going
forth again on the war.path, armed with
twenty-five dollars, he CALAMITY fought
his way into the station-house once
more, which he entered with accumu-
lated honors, two black eyes, broken
arm and two dollars He is now repos-
ing on his laurels and shuck mattress.
The ebon school boys and deacons eff
South Memphis church, whog gave too
much Zip" to the pastor, aud we're war
ranted before the Recorder therefor,
were this morning let go with the simple
penalty of a. good advice delivered in
the favorite oleaginous style Of Pat
rick W."
The city is so distressngly moral that
the court where the Recorder presides
was quite deserted in appearance this
morning. The docket only showed the
names of three or four hypothetical
offenders and his Honor did not collect
dime in fines.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12
NEW YORK.


New York, September IL. -Sona'
sourneborne & Co, of l26 Pearl street
an exporting house that suspended
nearly three weeks ago, announce that
they are able to pay only thirty cents on
the dollar. Nearly all their creditors are
foreign bankers. Sourneborne has been
orrested and admitted to bail in SIS, OOO
on the charge of obtaining bills of eK'
change from the banks of British North
America, furnishing as security property
which had been transferred.
Rocco Fredericks was found killed in
the streets of Flushing, Long Island
Thursday evening and Vlvrenzio lno'
NJ orato has been arrested as the MUIR
derer.
julius L, Mendelssohn who claims to
be the son of the great composer has
been convicted of forgery and sentenced
to State prison for Eve years.
Bank statement: Loan increase, ST.
1882, 900; specie increase, 1911 800; legal
tenders decrease, s27s,S 800; deposits in
crease, $780, 500; circulation decrease
$50, 700; reserve decrease, $9l, l25.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12
The Coming Man.

Colonel Rees B. Edmondson, yielding
to the solicitations of his friends, has at
last consented to allow his name to go
before the convention on Tuesday next,
and it affords US pleasure to announce
that the nomination could not be given
to more faithful, determined and ener-
getic champion of the people interests.
Our personal knowledge Of Colonel Ed
mondson qualities the statement that he
will support no measure in which the
welfare of the whole people is not appa-
rent, and where that welfare demands
his support he will be found sustaining
it with unwavering fidelity; but the peo-
pie will recognize him as too we'll known
and thoroughly identified with their in
terests to render further comment nee
essary, and we will only add that he is
certainly the right man in the right
Mace
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12
What a sneeze Done.

A respectable person was arrested the
other day in Paris, says the Pail Mall
Gazette, on the charge of picking a
pocket under circumstances which must
command the sympathy Of the most
rigid moralst. He was returning home
from a social gathering, when the natu-
raj CONFUSION to which Lord Dundreary
used to be so subject overlook him, and
he sneezed in the most uncompromising
manner. This usually satisfactory ope-
ration is not, however, entirely so to a
civilized person, unless he can command
the assistance of pockethandkerchief
The subject Of this crisis, therefore, felt
wildly in his pockets for the desired arti-
Gle, but his faithful companion had dis
appeared. Suddenly an emotion
of joy, such as that with which
shipwrecked sailor espies a
distant sail, lighted up in his fearful
eye. He saw depending from the pocket
Of friend, few PAGES in advance Of
him, red silk handkerchief, large, soft
and lustrous. A few seconds more and
be had buried his still quivering and
wistful nose in those delicious folds, when
the hand Of police agent was laid on
his shoulder, and the owner of the
handkerchief turned round, revealing
the counteuance Of a complete stranger.
The pickpoeket NAL gre lui was about to
be led off to the station, when certain
papers found on his person established
ais respectability so conclusively that be
was suffered to go home, duly provided
witt pocket.handkerchief obligingly
lent Inn by police officer.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12
Chnrch sorrIce. ro.norrow.

Union Street Presbyterian Church, near
Marshall avenue-Serviees II am. and 8
pm. By Rev. A. shotwell. Sabbath school.
9: 30 a,p.
Memphis Bethel - Services in Exchange
building, entrance on Exchange street, every
Sabbath at II am. By Rev. Geo. Hadell. pas
tor. Sunday school. 2:S0 p.m.i N. W..
speers. superintendent.
First Baptist Church Second street. near
AdamH-services at II an. and pm. by
Rev. g. A Lofton, pastor.
Central Baptist Church-services 10; 30 am.
By DR.. Landpm, pastor. Sabbath school.
Gam.
Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church i.
Vance Street-Services at 1880 am. and at
Pm. By Rev. James NJ. Hubert.
Central Msthodist Church-Services at 1880
am. by Rev, DR.. Slater. Sabbath SCHOOL,
9am.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12
Fire tbis Morning

At seven o'clock this morning an
alarm of FIRE was given at No. AZ Mon.
roe street, occupied by j. s. Schmidt
locksmith, etc. Last night fire was left
in the soldering can from which fire
dropped on the floor. The fire had been
smoldering all night and this morning
when the street door was opened it
burst out into a bright blaze. a few
buckets of water settled the matter.
The damage was slight
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12

WASHINGTON, September II For Ten
nessee and Ohio valleys, rising barome-
ter and temperature with light local
rains and generally clear and hazy
weather. over lower Missouri and up
per Mississippi valleys and northwest,
rising barometer, northerly winds, lower
temperature and cloudy or partly cloudy
weather, with local rains.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-12

The Appeal ofyesterday morEu g con-
mented upon the absence Of B1bour
Lewis and other leaders from the RAi.
cal Congressional Convention, whicL
met 10 this city on the 9th inst, and &C.
cepts this fact as significant Of a carpet
bag exodus. We cannot attacha as much
importance to this circumstance as our
contemporary. Barbour Lewis occupies
the same relation to the Republican
party Of this district that Henry Ward
Beecher does TO Plymouth Church. No
doubt he wrote the platform before he
left and secretly called the convention.
It would have been tame affair but for
the eloquence Of colored brother, who
had been ordered to stir up the back.
sIiders. Barbour took a bath and left
town soon after the August election, but
he announced his nomination before be
left, and will be back to ell a few ap
poiBtments in order to keep himself be.
fore his party. If the Democratic
papers will refuse to report his speeches,
which he generally writes beforehand
and pays for. he will never be resur.
rected as a POLITICIAN The Democratic
papers Of this district have given him a
seat in Congress and eli his honOrs, and
yet, when backed by 8 i>'r bullies, the