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Our COuntry's Shame.

An accomplished violinist, with ability
this country from Mexico last fall and per-
formed in New York City and Washington.
The competent critics of these cities pro-
nounced him a wonder as a violinist. 1t was
his intention to travel in the United States
and appear before the public in our principal
cities, but that insane American prejudice
against gentleman, if he has negro blood
coursing in his veins, drove the violnist,
DelgadO, back to Mexico. He was an edu-
Gated gentleman of Negro and Indian de-
scent, spoke fluently the French, as we'll as
the Spanish, language, but, unfortunately,
did not understand the English tongue. In
his native Mexico he was free man, respect
ed and honored. In Europe he travelled
without an insult, finding himself respected
and entertained by the nobility, from whom
he received many admirable presents. In
the United States refused admission into ho-
tells, forced into smoking cars, and constantly
made to feel that he was being Stunned as
something loathsome. Depressed and dis
gusted he left the country and made his way
through Texas to his native land, there to
reflect on the barbarsm Of "the home of the
free aud the land Of the brave" Our ma
TONS shame and disgrace is that no gentle
man or lady, Notwithstanding they may be
cultivated, refined and enlightened, if they
have African blood in their veins, can be
protected in the enjoyment or exercise of
rights and privileges, that the most ignorant
and dissolute white person can enjoy.
The Jubilee singers, who have for some
Tins been travelling in England, and where
they have not only been we'll received, but
by the highest and best in the land, will, in a
few days return to this country to be remind
ed by separate cars, separate schools, no adj
mission into hotels, no trial by jury of his
peers for the negro, that the freedom they
enjoyed in a land of which they were not
citizens, deserved more the name of freedom
than does the boosted liberty of the great
American Republic.
The intelligence and nobility of the peo-
pie of the United States should be respected
in their laws, and We feel sure that those
Americans who rise above a narrow prejudice
based on color, and who can but feel ashamed
at the treatment accorded colored ladies and
gentlemen in this country, will welcome any
legislation on the part of Congress that will
have tendency to relieve, not only colOred
people from injustice and oppression, but al
the same time prevent white people from be.
coming barbarians.
IF Congress will only give US the Supple.
mentary Civil-Rights Bill, and the courts
execute it, the work of bringing the United
States up TO as grand a height Of civilization
in the matter of personal liberty as is en-.
joyed in England, will have been well inau.
gurated.
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INDUCEMENTS.

Any one sending us $3.50 will receive
the New NATIONAL ERA and Woods
Monthly Magazine for one year, to-
gether with beautiful chrome of the
Yosemite Valley. or fine photograph Of
either Frederick 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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Mr.. Douglass will do all that he can to pro-
tect the people with whom he is identified
and we trust no one will interpose the
slightest obstacle in his way; but it is evil
dent that he has a hard job before him, and
nothing, but the authority Of his name, is
likely to prevent panic among the freed
men, and thus precipitate the disaster which
n lot of white thieves seem to have so in
dustriously provided or.-Rochester Democrat.
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lUOhdI F.ru.I
DIANOR All.
By s. ADAMS WIGGIS.

BY s. ADAMS wIGGIN.
Dinahs eyes are black as night,
Full of merry glee,
Dlnah soul is pure and white.
She is glad and free.
Dinah's cheek is olive dark,
Soft as velvet sheen,
And she singeth like the lark,
And sweeter far, | ween.
Dinahs hair just ripples down
To her dainty feet;
Nature gave the matchless charm
Of her laughter sweet.
Dinahs hands are full Of charms -
Dimpled, satin rare,
While her lovely rounded arms
just perfection are.
Dinah's heart if free from guile,
Maidenly and pure
Dinah hath sunny smile,
Full of music, sure.
Then, she shows her teeth of pearl,
Thro' her scarlet lips;
Dinah is bonny girl,
To her finger tips.
Dianorah loves youth,
Archie is his name,
He is handsome, full of truth,
Free of wrong or shame.
Archie worships Dianorah,
Loves the happy ground,
Which her tiny footsteps cover,
May his joys abound.
When the dells of Maryland
Wear their richest crown,
Archie calls sweet Dianorah,
Mr.. Archie's own.
'AsHNGToN, d. c., May IL, 1874.
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For the New National Era
UNDER THE PINE AND PALM.


UNDER THE: PINE AND PALM.
BY J. WILLIS MEy4RD.
Far from the city's din and strife,
And from the scenes of busy life,
III.
o | wander to the woodland bow RS.
Where may muse through pensiSe hours
Under the pine, under the palm,
In sombre shadows soft and calm;
The atmosphere, though charged with heat,
Is filled with woodland odors sweet.
Up in the boughs OF verdant trees,
Where sports the gentle lleetful breeze,
The merry birds, with tiny threats,
Chlrp ont their songs in sweetest notes.
Fair Nature in her best array,
Sits crowned, the floral Queen of May
The sunbeams on the vine clad bow'rs,
Descend in gentle, golden show'rs.
o TX.
Sweet May forever fair and bright
For e er iadened with sweet delight -
lis thine to cheer our lonely hours,
And deck this sunny land with flow rs.
Sweet summer land, forever green,
With climate blisstul and serene;
No icy wind with chilling SHOWS,
Around thy fairy borders blows.
XIII.
o, arching pines with towering height,
Grim watchers of the silent hi ght -
Have ye no tales of wild romance
To lure my soul in blissful trance?
Perhaps beneath these very bowrs,
In by gone happy days and hours;
The warrior and the Indian maid,
Sweet VOWS of lasting love have made.
XVII.
How pure and simple in the woods,
Is love in in all its varied moods
XVII.
Its life, an endless summer day
With no dark clouds to foil it, sway
XVIII.
But must leave these sunny bow'rs,
With their enchanted birds and flow RS:
NIX.
These are but tastes to mortals given,
Of that endless Spring in Heaven.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA, May, 1874
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Take Notice.

Our friends should be particular in address,
ing letters to publishers of this paper not to
add land CITIZEN" 1t is possible that
letters intended for us have fallen into the
hands of those whose attempt to destroy the
paper has led them into all sorts of annoying
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Has- Hon. Solomon G. Brown will accept
our thanks for copy of the Annual Report
of the Board of Regents Of the Smithsonian
Institution.
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To Correspondence.

WM. E. WALKER.-Please state explicitly
what you desire at our hands. We will do
you full justice.
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The Marquis d'Ourches who lately died
at Paris, founded prize of 20 900 francs to
be awarded by one of the members Of the
Paris Institute to whoever discovered the
most certain sign of death in human being.
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caperS.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-23

Attention is called 20 a Ioti.e from \.
J. L.ocLSnol asking t5r proposals to DO
certain mining woJh.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-23

Looking around for an item, yester-
dey afternoon, We beheld two objects,
the acknowledgements after shutdown, and
our honored--District Attorney perched
upon the Plaza fence. Couldn't des-
cribe the two separately, and couldn' t
blend them; gave it up.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-23

Miss. Morgan, who was engaged about
a year ago, at Carson. giving lessons in
drawing, we learn from the Gold Hill
Ne,os of last night. has resign ed her sit
uation As principal Of the Dayton Pub
lie School,
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-23

WArERMELoNs plentiful at tho fruit
stands. They have an inviting outside
and look fresh, except where they are
sliced up and turn ID into fly roosts.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-23

o." Of the liveli,st places of a1nuse-
mel, in town is shu. Up. The sad an
nounccment is 1lade on shingle on the
wall, "Close1 for repairs. Reopen on
Saturday" Il is lump Winston's
place which is 10 re-appear in a garb Of
light and beauty on Saturday evening
next. Meanwhile the retainers are in
the dumps. The rosy niXolosist sits on
the threshold and smokes his Havana
warm and disconsolate.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-23


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lis rare coataItior.s. the sacred coz. AMI
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New-York tribune., 1874-06-19
TIE FRANRING PRIVILEGE.

With sober faces and solemn mien the Ad-
ministration party at its National Convention
in 1872 resolved, as its tenth bid for public
favor and approval, that "the franking priv
"ilege ought to be abolished and the way
prepared for a speedy reduction in the rates
"of postage" Greatly to their own surprise,
at the last session of the last Congress they
did it-aboished the franking privilege and
prepared the way for a speedy reduction in
the rates of postage. Had they ever been half
as sorry for any of the manifold iniqui-
ties that have been carried on under
the protection and encouragement of the party
as for this. there would be great hopes for
them. They at once set off the Salary Grab
against the repeal of the franking privilege,
and upon the pretext that they had divested
themselves of an important and profitable per-
quisite, made raid upon the Treasury for an
increase of salary and handsome amount of
back pay. The general Indignation that this
action aroused alarmed them, and on the
assembling OF the present Congress the Salary
Grab was repealed.
But ever since then both Houses of Con-
gress (but particularly the Senate) have been
going round the franking privilege turning it
ONeT, III, w
up the courage to revive it. The debate over
the Post Office Appropriation bill has dis
closed great anxiety on the part of Senators
and Representatives to get back the privilege
which in spasm of honesty they gave up,
simply because they had in their Presiden-
tial platform promised to. The proposition
bluntly and squarely made by a carpet-bag
Senator to repeal the act abolishing it and
restore to the able bodied statesman of the
period the privilege of franking his cOrre-
spondence and his washing and his household
furniture, received the support of eight lead
ing statesmen who in 1872 thought the frank
"ing privilege ought to be abolished and the
"way prepared for speedy reduction in
"the rates of postage" That failing, they
have voted that The Congressional Record,
which probably contains imOre unadulterated
bosh than any publication of the same num-
ber of pages in the country, shall 90 free
through the mails, while the rate of postage
on newspapers which publish what the people
want to read is increased and prepayment
compelled.
These gentlemen are rapidly convincing the
people of the fact that-whatever they may
actually and honestly mean-the things they
positively do not mean they put in their plat
forms. We are coming by slow and gradual
processes to estimate platforms at their worth.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-19

pcribcd by the Indiana platfOrm-makers have
never been able to cure these evils. Besides,
IL il not honest, any more than 1t is for
hungry man to steal his dinner from the
shelves of the first bakers shop he encounters.
In promising to pay dollar the Government
promises to deliver to the bearer of its notes
certain quantity of fine gold, and nothing
else, To evade this promise, year after year,
is not only dishonorable. but bad policy. No
merchant could carry on successful business
if he habitualy neglected to keep his prom
ises. Neither can nation.
The Illinois resolutions show an equal def
cheney of the moral sense and an equal igno-
rance of the merits of honesty, simply as the
best policy. But they add to these faults
dash of hypocrisy. They are in favor of
"return to specie payments at the earliest
"practical day." Now what would be thought
of a spendthrift who should tell his creditors
that he would pay his debts as soon as 1t might be
convenient? Does this declaration OF the Illinois
Republicans mean anything moref Perhaps
they wish to be understood rs in favor both
of more paper money, and OF the restoration
of the legal-tender dollar to the constitutional
standard, by its redemption IN com. But
surely they cannot be ignorant that the two
things are inconsistent. The National bank
note is simply promise to pay greenback
ON demand. 1t rests chiefly Oh the credit of
Government bonds, and receives still further
support from the Government by being
received on equal terms with the greenback
in tho payment of taxes. Government also
forces the bank-note on all its creditors, ex-
cept the holders of its bonds or coupons. 1t
is at the same discount as the grecnback, and
neither it nor the greenback, under existing
laws, can ever be brought to par without
strictly limiting the combined quantity of
both.
There is but one encouragement to be de-
rived from the platforms of the two Conven-
tions, and that is from the one adopted by
the Illinois Republicans. Not because there is
any sincerity In the politicians who adopted
it, but because it indicates a wholesome fear
of the people and grave doubts of the popu-
larity of any scheme of initiation. MIR. Logan
tried to array them squarey against the Pres-
dents veto, and he failed. That is the only
good sign in the situation. For it cannot be
doubted that the politicians feel carefully the
public pulse, and estimate with their best
Judgment public sentiment. Otherwise we
are constrained to say that OF the two plat
forms we have much more respect for that OF
Indiana People who are sincere should never
be despaired of, but those who are alike desti-
tute of convictions and of courage can render
no service to a cause which draws Its strength
from mems cOnsCiences.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-19
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will to protest against such Q grossly I'M
proper appointment, it was surely easy enough
for it to do nothing, and allow the nomlna-
ton to fall to the ground. The House has
already voted to abolish the Board OF, Public
Works, and unless the Senate means to set
itself plainly against this reform the confrma-
ton of Lieut.. Hoxie is merely matter OF
unnecessary form-signifcant as testimony,
but of no importance otherwise.
We are inclined to believe, for our own
part, that the Senate just now ia bent upon
being "ugly," for no other reasOn in the world
than because the newspapers are pressing 1t
to do right. Because the newspapers declared
the removal of Mr. Cluss indecent, the
Senate got mad and voted to approve it. Bo-
cause the newspapers insist upon the reform
of the Customs service the Senate declares
that the service shall not be reformed. Be-
cause the newspapers demand that the party
shall keep its pledges on the Franking ques-
ton the Senate determines to break them.
Children often have these fractions and con-
trary turns under correction, but discipline is
good for them all the same.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-19
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TIE SAFE BREAKERS.

We shall pronounce no opinion upon the ex-
traordinary testimony of Michael Hayes, re-
ported in our paper yesterday, until the per-
sons implicated by his statements have an op-
portunity to be heard. BY his own account,
Hayes was employed to commit an atrocious
crime, and he is evidently person whose
word should be accepted with the ut
most caution. That he has been hired
to tell this story of the burglary for
the purpose of discrediting the District
officers is in the highest degree i'm
probable; but he may have had motives of
his own for lying, and it is only prudent to
wait for his evidence to be impeached, il it
can be. At the same time we cannot forget
that his story has been confirmed in several
particulars by other witnesses, and it is cer-
tain that the outlines of it were told 10 two
reputable men in Baltimore, and repeated by
them to officials in Washington, before the
burglary occurred. Unless Mr.. Hayes, there
fore, should be Immediately and completely
demolished by Nettleshp and Whitley, the
case in which he figures would seem to be
proper one for the Grand Jury.
But the trouble is that the Assistant Dis
trct Attorney is the principal person whose
conduct the Grand jury in that case would
have to investigate, and it is too much to
expect thorough and complete inquiry
through his agency. We trust the Committee
New-York tribune., 1874-06-19
TIE INTERPRETATION THEREOR.

The financial resolution of the Indiana Re-
publicans means cheap money; unlimited
greenbacks and bank currency-the more
worthless the better; reputation of gold as
the measure and standard of value; repudla-
ton of the Governments promises to pay GER
tain quantities of gold to the holders of the
notes which, ten or twelve years ago, it forced
not only on its own creditors, but on all
other creditors subject to its laws and the
issue of further irredeemable promises to pay,
to be forced on creditors as legal tender, to
such additional amounts as may serve to settle
the debts incurred by the agricultural,
industrial, and commercial interests"
We have nothing but sympathy for
those who have borrowed money which they
cannot pay, or undertaken enterprises which,
through inability to borrow, they cannot carry
through. We dislike to see mortgages fore
closed and laborers without employment. But
experience teaches that the remedies pro-
New-York tribune., 1874-06-19

The European money markets are now in
a condition of great ease. The Bank of En-
gland yesterday fixed its minimum discount
rate at two-and-a-half per cent, which is
lower than it has been for more than two
years. 1t gained nearly five million dollars in
specie during the week. The Bank of France.
on the 4th inst reduced its minimum rate to
four per cent, having at that date brought its
note circulation below five hundred million
dollars and its specie reserve up to two hund-
red and twenty-eight millions. The French
mint has commenced the coinage of twenty
franc gold pieces. Meanwhile this country
looks idly on the scene, exporting its gold to
France and England and hugging the dear
greenback to its breast. Paper currency is
superabundant here; and Congress proposes
Tin the last Conference reporD to give us
practically fifty-slx millions more of it. Like
the sacred cats of Egypt, our dollars are free
to multiply, but woe to him who attempts
to destroy one of them. Egypt was pleasant
land for those who understood it. Congress
would have been venerated there.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-19
FYNANCE,-DO QUIT AND GO HOMEi

FINANCE-DO QUIT AND GO HOMEl
The details of the latest Conference Com
mttee's attempt to patch up something in the
way of financial legislation, are less encOurag-
ing than was yesterday supposed. The friends
of the measure declare their belief that Prcsi-
dent Grant will sign it. He may; but we do
not see how he can, unless he chooses
to set his foot on his own veto
and financial memorandum. 1t is nom
sense to talk about beginning to prepare
for specie payments with practical initiation
of at least S56OO0OO0. We have now S2G,OOO,0OO
of the "reserve" ont, which ought to be i'm
mediately retired. instead, this measure pro-
poses to keep it out permanently. We have
at least S3O,O0O00O more shut up in the Ma
tional Bank reserves, which this measure pro-
poses to pour out in tepid, facilitating flood
upon business community already drowning
in our watered currency.
We can see but one thing to recommend
the bill, and that is, that it will put stop to
the business of playing fast and loose with
the currency through the forty four million
reserve, which the President claims the right
to Issue or retire at pleasure. Against this
positive good are to be set deliberate aban-
donment of practical steps toward specie
payments, and an outrageous imitation.
1t is poor outcome for so much
conference, but it is no worse than the pe0-
pie have been taught to expect We still trust
either House or Senate may serve this rs the
House served the last Conference bantilng (;
or, failing this, that the President may add
to the splendid service he has already done
by another veto. Oh, for the twenty second