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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-20

The Grand Rapids Times says /:
The license by which the Federal
troops were allowed to interfere
with the organization of State
Legislature, or to decide who of
that body are entitled to seats, is
what fair minded people are anxi-
Gus to see. The qualification, cleo
ton and returns of its members is
the exclusive province of every
legislative body, with which the
Federal government has no more
to do than it has with the organi-
cation Of the House of Commons
Of Great Britain.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-20

The New Orleans correspondent
of the New York Tribune sends to
that paper the following statement
made by Mr.. Foster, Of the Con-
gressionsl investigating committee,
to Frank Morey, a Republican
member Of Congress from Louisi-
ana:
81 presume the President can
keep this thing up for two years
more, and as he evidently so in
tends, presume he will do it. But
you may rest assured that II he
does, 1t win be utterly out of the
question to elect q Republican
President in 1876. Our party in
the North is On intelligent end we'll
meaning one. It wants to do right.
and when IL sees the way will do
IL. But this support by military
force OF government which can
not live an hour on its own re-
sources, q government which Is
opposed Ivy the combined wealth
and intelligence of the whole State,
Is killing IL slowly and surely"
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ment. The attempt to Justify
Sheridan, however, deserves brief
notice. Like all the other justifl-
cations which have been offered,
IL is practical condemnation. The
measures suggested by Sheridan
he says, unequivocally, cannot be
adopteded !" but'he is inclined to
the opinion that they would eff
legal, soon put an end to the troub-
les and disorders of that State"
Evidently he wishes they were
"legal.' He would like, as Sheri-
dan would, to put the State under
martial law. and have such OF his
political opponents as his military
agent might select declared "ban-
ditti," to be summarily dealt with
in such manner as would prevent
their ever voting again against him
or any PARTISAN tool whom he
should desire to seat in the execu-
tive chair of the State. -rt
The people will await with the
deepest anxiety the action of Con-
gress in relation to, this message,
for upon its treatement of the
question involved therein depends
very largely the future welfare of
the country. If it shall rise above
the spirit of party and condemn as
they merit the outrages on liberty
in Louisiana, which Grant scarcely
attempts to palliate, it will deserve
well of the whole country; but if
It shall fail to do this, it will bring
Town upon its own head the right
eous condemnation of a liberty
owing people.-Free Press.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-20

The subcommittee which was at
New Orleans has made its report
to the full special committee on
Southern States, and it was discuss
ed for some time. 1t was signed by
the members of the subcommittee,
Phelps and Potter, and it will not
take more than two newspaper
columns. The question is undecid-
ed whether the report will be made
public or the full committee start
for New Orleans. The chances are
In favor of the latter course.
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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-20

That able journal the Nation,
while Conservative, cannot by any
means be called Democratic. And
yet it condemns the Louisiana out
rage in emphatic terms. The edi-
tor, Mr.. Godkin has always been,
and is now a strict Republican, and
yet he cannot stomach the usurpa-
ton business. Have the Radical
"organs" any sense of shame, or
any repect for public opinions
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Checking the Increase.
From the Lumherman,s Gaz.

run ti4c lsunlUeIInduh uhZette.
Every year since the trade in pine
lumber became business in the
Western States, has seen q very
considerable increase in the number
of mills for the manufacture of
that product. At some periods,
and in certain localities, this in
crease has been astonishingly rapid.
We call to mind just now one rail-
road district in Eastern Michigan,
where the mill capacity was increas-
ed from ten millions to nearly one
hundred millions in scarcely a sin
gle year. Along the Wisconsin
Central railroad last year, there
were built twenty-three mills with
in short distance. Others locali-
ties have shown an increase nearly
or quite as remarkable as the above.
Not only in the regions opened up
by railroads, but in those having
water communications and depend
ing mainly or wholly upon ship
ments in that way, has the increase
been rapid from year to year. The
Saginaw river mills increased in
capacity from about three hundred
millions to over eight hundred mil
lions between 1865 and 1874, while
during the same time most OF the
the great manufacturing districts
OF the more Western States have
sprung up from absolute nothing.
The decade which ended with 1874
was the great growing period OF
the pine lumber manufacture in
States producing the bulk of that
product.
We have evidently reached the
end of this growing period. Doubt
less new mills will be built from
year to year, and especially in re-
gions where new railroads open
up country which has been mac
cesssble. But the time for the
and rapid construction of
railroads seems to have also passed.
The fever which led municipalities
to pledge the public credit, and
urge the general government to
run the nation in debt to build
railroads here and there and every
where, has apparently passed its
climax and is dying out-or per-
,sps we should say, is already dead.
70 Michigan especially, the mills
which will be built hereafter, II
nay be safely said, they make up
or annual losses by fire and other
wise, bot IL will not do more than
hat. In Wisconsin where the pine
lumber trade is newer than in
'tichisan, the chcck has not yet
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-20
tho same ground concerning operated

Operated 10 the same extent put
the present year will unquestion-
ably show the same influence efIec-
lively at work. In Michigan it
NAV he said that even in the new
railroad districts the building Of
mills has been stopped in Wiscon-
sin the same thing will probably
be tue a year hence, unless some
change now unseen should come
over the general fortunes of the
trade.
We may conclude, then, that the
pine lumber manufacture in the
districts now developed, has prac-
tically completed it's growth. And
this is tantamount to say that
manufacture has reached its great
est production in the whole country.
There are, 1t is true, vast forests
in the South yet unimproved, but
the conditions surrounding them
are not such as give promise of
such a growth of manufacture as
we have seen in the Northwestern
States. There are also some dis
tricts in the last named States
which are yet to be opened up !;
but, as everyone knows, the grand
resources of those countries have
already been measured and brought
into the field. The headlong race
in production has como to an end
hereafter it is to. be o closer calcu-
lation of both ends of the operation
the selling as well as the cutting
of pine lumber. rr1,
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-20
The New Hampshire Repnbli

The New Hampshire Republi-
cans assembled in state convention
on the 18th, declared unalterable
opposition TO the election of any
man to the Presidency of the Unit
ed States for the third term; de-
nouncing all rapacity and malad-
ninistration on the part of any Re-
publican Official, whether white or
black, and ali lavlessness and intim-
idation on the part of the White
Leagues or white employers and
condemn the use of the military
power Of the nation for any pur-
pose not clearly defined in the con-
stitution. Upon certain points the
collective heads of the New Hamp-
shire Republicans are indisputa-
bly, level.
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Even Ben. Butler, stepped as he
is in double-eyed villainy, refuses
to stand by the Louisiana outrage.
He has introduced a bill providing
for q new election in that State. 1t
is surprising to see any man laying
claim to integrity, sustaining a
wrong that Butler refuses to en-
dorse.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1875-01-20

Let the Representatives and Sen
ators of the Forty-third Congress
remember that the people will now
expect them to order the army out
OF Louisiana and out Of every
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The Utica New York; Herald
Congressman Roberts paper Is
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Sealed Proposals.

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He had saved a few hundred dollar
before he was twenty-five years old
at which time he bought farm, pay.
ing for what he had, and then finding
that he spent too much time in cook.
ling he married a strong, healthy
woman, leaving the bayfield, an hour
and half 10 have the ceremony per
formed, when he returned to his work,
and his wife went into the kitchen to
|gct dinner OF course they could not
afford bridal trip nor anything of the
kind, nor could they afford TO have
children, and they lived forty years
blessed with health, working all day
long, wet or dry, ont doors and IN.
Churning, wood-sawing and shclling
|corn were done after dark.
They always had apple sauce and
never wanted butter salt pork answer
cd instead OF beef or fish potatoes in
stead of eggs and if thcy thought
they needed doctoring they drank
thoroughwort and catnip tea, and soak
cd their feet in warm water OF books
they had no need, because they had no
'lme to read, though they made ont 10
read the tracts given them, so that
nothing might be lost. They never
attended church, because they bad
money which they could worship, and
they could not afford to give 10 the
poor some day For quarter Of a
century he hauled hay twenty miles
70 market getting sS to $40 ton, all
OF which was saved, since he carried
hls victuais in a round box, and bed
clothes, so that he could sleep in the
wagon, - %
len years ago he was sixty years
old, and he was so crippled in various
ways with hard work, having varicose
volns and ruptures and some other lit
lie things, and their farm which had
become Inc best ~ The country, was
sold, bringing over 100000, and this