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The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10
"A Non-ExportahIr Currency. .

1t has escaped remark that the ingenious
project for a on-exportabe currency is an
audacious plagiarism, the same thing having
been tried in this good city of New York no
less thau two hundred years ago. That vera
cious historian of New Amsterdam, Diedrich
Knickerbocker, describes in his immortal
work scheme Of our Dutch governor, Will
liam the Testy, for abolshing poverty and
making money plentiful throughout the col
ony-a scheme from which it is plain that our
moder1 political economists must have stolen
all their notions of currency reform. The
governor finding sort of money called wam-
pun, composed of ''strings of beads, wrought
out of CLAIMS, periwinkles, and other shell
fsh, in use among the savages of Manhattan,
conceived the idea of making it the currencv of
the province, inasmuch as it was a great deal
easier to get than gold and silver, and could be
manufactured in any desired quantity. To be
sure 1t b d no intrinsic value, but the Indians
were ready to take 1t in exchange for peltry,
and the Dutch settlers passed it readily from
hand to band, as being "based upon the credit
and resources of the whole colony" The
governor, as honest Knickerbocker relates,
''began by paying all the servants of the
company, and all the debts of Government
in strings of wa npum. He sent emissa-
RES 10 sweep the shores of Long Island, which
was the Ophir of this modern Solomon,
and abound. d in she'll fish. These were trans
ported in loads to New Amsterdam, coined
into Indian money, and launched into circula-
ton And now for time affairs went on
swimmingly; money became as plentiful as
in the modern days of paper currency, and TO
use the popular phrase, "a wonderful impulse
was given TO public prosperity" The YAM
KEGS poured into the colony, buying everything
they could lay their hands on, and paying for it
with Indian money, and as the currency was
non-exp portable, il always remained in New
York, getting more and more abundant, until
every Dutchman in the colory had barrels of it
slowed away in his house. Trade might
have flourished in this way indefinitely, but
somehow-the simple minded burghers never
understood the philosophy of 1.-THE colony
found itself drained after while of all its furs
and other merchandise, while 1t had nothing in
return but lot of nOn-exportable oyster shells,
based upon the credit and resources OF the
whole colony, which their neighbors would not
receive in exchange for Goldfish. tnware,
wooden nutmegs and other Yankee produce.
Thus ensued period of great business depres-
sion, until Peter the Headstrong, in spite of
the clamors of spectators, who insisted that
the colony needed nothing but that wampum
should be "made and kept equal to the wants
OF trade" decreed that gold and silver should
again be accepted as the only legal tender.
There was great outcry about tampering with
the currency and destroying the business inter-
ests of the country; but it soon died away, and
though few overblown Spectators came to
griet, the steady Dutch merchants began to
grew rich and contented.-Nelo York Tribune.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

STRAWBERRIES AND OLD FRUITS. The Ru.
raj New Yorker says that iour-fifths of ali the
strawberries coming into New York m market are
Wilson's, although over two hundred new
sorts have been introduced since this old favor
'te was trst brought to notice; and every one
at the I me of their introduction to be superior
to the Wilson. And yet the Wilson has been
more denounced as a poor berry than all the
rest put together. As counterpart of this,
there more than .wo thousand sorts of apples
been introduced since the Baldwin and Rhode
Island Greening, and yet neither of these old
sorts have been replaced by any OF this great
multitude. Again. there is pear, a century
old, long known in England as Wl1hams bon
chretein, and by the French as PORE Gullia.
laume, the Bartlett of this country, which still
stands at the head for popularity among pears,
although over a thousand newer sorts have
since appeared.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

AND now the ear-rending death shrek OF
the porcine monster is beginning to be heard
in the land, and in the local columns of the
papers appears his obituary with age, pedigree
and virtues attested by Fairbanks scales and
ending with four words of eulogy and chal-
lenge "Who can beat this ?" The season OF
the savory home made sausage is at hand and
the unctuous. toothsome but dyspeptic- provo.
king doughnut abounds at the rural home.
In the season of the unsalted pig none but a
Jew would call this earth other than para
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

The contest for the speakership of the
next national House is becoming decidedly
interesting. No man is sure of victory. Mr..
Randall expects the nomination on the first
ballot. Mr.. Cox thinks the only opponent
he has to fear is Mr.. Kerr. What Mr.. Kerr
thinks he takes good care not to say. Mr..
Fernando Wood is jaunty and hopeful and
has much confidence in the power of ''de-
pertinent" A host of others, among them
Gen. Banks and Gilbert G.. Walker, hold
themselves in reserve as compromise candi-
dates Gen. Banks is the best parliament
tartan in the New House, and Mr.. Walker
the handsomest man. What other claims
they have does not appear. Kerr is the
most able and honest of the candidates, and
so probably will not be nominated.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

The latest convert to the Tyndall and
Huxley school of science is Prof. Richard A.
Proctor. Heretofore he has been classed
with the thinkers of whom Agassiz was CON-
sidered the leader, and of whom Prof. Daw-
son is now the acknowledged head. But in
his lecture delivered in Boston Saturday eve
ming Prof. Proctor took occasion to recant
the views expressed in "Other Worlds than
Ours'', and TO declare not only in favor OF
the theory OF the development of man from
the formless protopasm but also in the
theory of biogenesis-the formation of life
from inorganic matter.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

A FACT worthy of the consideration Of
those economists who lave much to say
about the "balance of trade'' is that the
balance of trade' against England for the
past five years amounts TO 81, 40o,0o0.0OO.
England seems to get along very well despite
this, and is certainly not in a condition OF
poverty.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

The failure of Rossi to come to this country
is accounted for:-When Tomaso Salvini came
to America, rumor had it that his proper name
was Thomas Sullivan; Tom Karl, the tenor. it
is insinuated, is likewise Hibernian, whose
rightfnl cognomen is Thomas Carroll. Now it
said that Carlo Rossi, is Charley Ross in dis
guise, and that his managers do not think 1t
safe to allow him to come to these shores.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

Mr.. BANCROFT announces that he shall
continue his "History of the United States"
from the close of the revolutionary war down
to the present time. The continuation will
embrace four volumes. The first volume,
containing the period from the Peace of Paris
in November 1882 to the Inauguration of
Washington in May, 1889, is nearly ready,
and the other volumes will rapidly follow it.
Mr.. Bancroft recognizes in the history of the
union five great epochs. The first extends
from the Inauguration of Washington to the
consolidation OF the union by the acquisition
of Louisiana. The second, which he entities
s'the vindication of the place of the United
States among the powers of the world"
reaches from 1908 to 1916. The third epoch,
is described by the title ''the States and the
United States," and extends from 1916 to
1887. The fourth epoch, "the annexation Of
Texas and California;" is from 1887 to 1S45.
The fifth epoch is Secession and Union,''
from 1S49 down to the present time.
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return CT reserve commu-
nications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1875-11-10
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 10, 1876

EVERY regular attaehe of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersgned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Journal
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17
A Foreign Opinion Of the Capital.

The papal ENJOYS spent the day in
this city under the charge of Father
White, of Baltimore. They called up
on the President, but owing to his ell
gagement, only left their cards. They
visited all the public buildings, and
drove about the city. They stated that
Washington, in their opinion, is the
most beautiful city in the world.
Count Marefaschi, one of the ENJOYS, is
an eminent architect. He is the Papal
Supervising Architect. The plans of
all the Catholic churches i'm the world
are forwarded to Rome before the
buildings are begun, and submitted to
him for inspection and approval. He
is thoroughly cOnversant with all the
architecture of Europe. He to-day en-
Enthusiastically declared that the Capitol
building here is the finest public build
ing in the world.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17

There is not joyful boy or innocent
girl buoyant with fine purposes of duty,
in all the street full of eager and rosy
faces, but a cynic can chill and dis
hearten with single word. Despond-
ency comes readily enough to the most
people. The cynic has only to
follow the hint with his bitter confir-
and they go home with heavi-
er step and premature age. They will
themselves quickly enough give the hint
he wants to the cold wretch. Which of
them has not failed to please where
they most wished to please or blum
dered where they are most anxious of
success or found themselves awkward
or tedious, or incapable of study,
thought or heroism, and only hoped by
good sense and fidelity to do what they
could and pass unblamed? And this
wicked malefactor makes this hope less
with satire and skepticism, and slack
ems the spring of endeavor. Yes, this
is easy ; but to help the young soul add
energy, inspire hopes, and blow the
Goals into useful flame; to redeem de-
feat by new thought, by firm action
that is not easy, that is the work of di-
vine men.-R. w. Emerson.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17
Newspapers.

Small is the sum that is required to
patronize newspaper, and most amply
remunerated IS the patron. care not
how humble or unpretending the ga
zette is which he takes, it is impossible
to fill sheet fifty times year without
putting into it something worth the
subscription price.
Every person whose son is away from
home at school, should be supplied with
a newspaper. well remember what a
difference there was between those of
my schoolmates who had and those who
had not access to newspapers. Other
things being equal, the first were al
ways decidedly superior to the last, in
debate and composition, at least. The
reason is plain-they had command of
more facts. Youth will peruse news
paper with delight when they will read
else.
JUDGE LONGsTREET.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17

The object of advertising is to make
known your business or your wants.
The best advertising is that which
reaches the most people likely to buy of
you or to satisfy your wants. The best
medium is that which reaches the larg-
est number of these people. If your
business is confined almost entirely to
the city, it is not wise to advertise only
in a medium which is seen by few peo-
pie i'm the city. To derive the greatest
benefit, you want to use medium that
is read by the people in the city. Ad-
vertising is most excellent thing for
business men, but thousands of dollars
are thrown away every year in this city
alone, in patronage given to mediums
which do not extensively reach the
class from whom the benefit must come
to the advertiser. After deciding to
advertise at all, it is the main thing to
advertise well, and many men never do
that. They throw away their money
on papers of small circulation, directo-
ries, railway guides. and other trumpery
issues, when half the money, invested
in well established, influential news
paper of large and widely extended cir
culation, like the Evening Ne,os, would
accomplish fifty times as much.-Ind.
NetCs.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17
Kansas Correspondence.
CORNING, Kansas, June 9, 1875.
To the Editor:

CORNING, Kansas, June 9, 1875.
To the Editor
Thinking that some of your numer-
Gus readers would like to hear a few
words from Kansas in regard to the
grasshoppers, will say that in some
localities alongthe valleys, and streams,
and timber, farmers have suffered con-
siderably, and great quantity of grain
has been destroyed; but upon the up
land or rolling prairies, crops of all
kinds look magnificent. Wheat, rye,
oats and potatoes beat all creation.
There are some thirty-seven counties
that the grasshoppers have not dam
aged at all, and it is believed that to
take the State over there will be more
than an average yield of all kinds of
grain, except flax. We are having
plenty of rain and every thing is favor
able for an abundant yield. Rye will
soon do to harvest. We had very
hard winter, and many sufferers, but
owing to the liberality of the good peo-
pie east those 'hao stayed here have
been helped so as to come through all
right, and now can see fair prospects
ahead. OF those that left great many
are trying to get back, and if no other
disaster befalls us until after the pres
ent harvest, there will be plenty and to
spare. Never did farmers take hold
with a more determined ambition than
they did this spring; and the cOnse-
quences are that there was greater
amount of acreage sown this season
than ever before, and in my opinion
they will reap rich reward. We trust
we shall never again have to call OH
and tax our eastern friends to keep us
another winter. Respectfully,
III. w. HAZEN.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17

BE Kind to the Little Ones.

We heard two old fossils yesterday
exchanging falsehoods about the days
of their childhood. One said his father
was an old Puritan fraud, whose shoe
squeaks were more terrible than an
army with banners, who read his Bible
on the Sabbath, and would not let him
play, though the boys were outside, and
the birds and the sunshine. He con-
tinued: After while the old man
died, and though | pretended to be sor-
ry, L was glad enough The other
said: my father was my God in my
childhood. L heard him, when 1 was
about eight years old, tell a neighbor
he was going to send me to college.
though he had not much hopes of me
for he thought there was nothing in
me-" He continued: 81 believed him
then, and it benGmbed me; was dOz-
Ell years in awakening, and when did,
though my father was dead, L cursed
the old man, for he lied" Listening to
these old frauds, we thought we would
put down their words, and make it an
occasion to say to parents, be very ten
der to your children; they will have
sorrow enough; let their morning be
sunny, and after you shall have gone
back to dust, their lips will bless you,
and with trembling voices they will say
your lives were treasure and your
death an endless regret.-Neroda En-
terprise.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17

An exchange says: Editing a paper
is nice business. If we publish Jokes.
people say we are rattle-headed. If we
omit jokes they say we are an old fossil.
If we publish original matter people
scold us for not giving selections. If
we publish selections folks say we are
lazy for not writing something they
have not read in some other paper. If
we give man complimentary notice
we are censured for being partial. If
we do not cater to the wishes of the la
dies the paper is not fit to make bus
tie. If we remain i'm our office and at
tend to our business, folks say we are
too proud to mingle with our fellow
men. If we go out they say we never
attend to our business. If we do not
pay our bills promptly folks say we are
not to be trusted. If we wear Door
clothes folks say business is bad. If we
wear good clothes they say we never
paid for them. Now, what are we to
do?
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17

The postmaster general has issued an
order modifying the postal regulations
by striking out that part providing that
no subscriptions to newspapers for less
than three months shall be considered
regular subscription, within the
meaning of the law. The effect of this
change is to allow newspaper offices to
send papers to subscribers.at regular
rates of postage, whether for one week,
one month or three months. Hereto
fore subscribers for less than three
months have had to pay transient
rates.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17
Running a Newspaper.
From the Memphis Avalanche

From the Memphis Avalanche.l
BY some unaccountable misapprenen-
sion of facts, there is large class of
people i'm the world who think that it
costs little or nothing to run newspa-
per. and if they buy copy from the
newsboy, when too far from the office
to come and beg one, they are regular
patrons and entitled to unlimited fa-
vors. Men call every day at newspa-
per offices to get copy of the daily pa
per, inst from the press. fci nothing,
who would never dream of begging 4
pocket handkerchief from a dry goods
store, or piece of candy from "a cOnfec-
toner. even on the plea of old acquaint-
ance, having bought something once
before. One paper day is not much,
but hundred day amounts to some
thing in the course of time. But this
is small drain compared with the free
advertising newspaper is expected to
do. Some men who have paid two dol
lars at an early period of life for an ad-
vertisement worth fonr or five. appear
to think that they are stockholders in
the establishment for eternity. They
demand the publication Of all marri-
ages and funeral notices, obituaries,
and family episodes for the next forty
years gratis. Speak of pay and they
grow indignant. Don't | patronize
your paper?" "Yes; but you receive
the worth of your money for what you
pay" But" says the patron, 1T
will not cost you anything to put this
in" which is just as ridiculous as to
ask man 20 grind your axe on his
grindstone. and graciously tell him it
won't cost him cent. 1t takes money
to run newspaper as well as any other
business: no paper will succeed finan-
cially that carries dead-head system.
Any mention of the peoples affairs
that they are anxious to see in print is
worth paying for, and when printed is
generally worth as much as any other
investment of the same amount.
The newspaper business Is very ex-
acting on all connected with It and the
pay is comparatively small; the propri-
etors risk more money for smaller prof
its, and the editors, reporters and
printers work harder and cheaper than
the same number of men in any other
profession requiring the given amount
of intelligence, training and drudgery.
The life has its charms and pleasant
associations, scarcely known to the out
side world; but it has its earnest work
and anxieties and exhaustion, which
also are not known to those who think
the business all fun. The idea that
newspaperdom is a charmed circle,
where the favored members live a life
of ease and free from care, and go to
the circus at night on free ticket and
to the Springs on a free pass in the sum-
mer, is an idea which we desire to ex-
plOde practically and theoretically.
Business is business, and the journal
that succeeds is the one that is run Oh
a square business footing, the same as
banking or building bridges, keeping
a hotel or running livery stable.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17
LIERIC'S
H E A 1T ii BIT / + RS

The great tonl-, exces all others, being composed
entirely of vegetables known TO be adapted to man
wants for the purposes recommended. Compounded
principally of Wild Cherry, Dandeli0n. Calisaya,
SBake-Root, Leptandrin, Mandrake, Jamaica Gin
aer, Yellow Dock and Iron These Bitters act on
invigorator, giving vitality to the whole system.
One bottle of this medicine contains more med-
scinal virtue than any whisky btfers you can take
containing no whisky. purely medicinal and arouses
no appetite for strong drink. No Btters equal
them.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

One inch constitutes a square.
Special place double column advertisements
from ten to twenty per cent. extra.
LOc al notices ten cents per line for the first nser
tion, anil five cents per line for every subsequent
insertion.
No notice, however short, inserted once for less
than 81.
Legal advertisements, according to the rates al
lowed by law.
All bills for advertising payable quarterly.
Locals payable every month";
job work. cash.
Transient advertisements must be paid for in adj
vance
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17

The Memphis Aralanche certainly
knows something about the difficulties
of running a newspaper. In another
column we publish an article from it
that will suit Logansport as well as any
other city. There are few people in
LoganspOrt who dream what it costs to
run the Star office. This office gives
employment to twenty-fOur persons, at
weekly expense of about two hundred
and fifty dollars. We pay out for lights
nearly five hundred dollars a year. and
one thousand dollars for telegraph.
During the winter we used about five
car loads of coke and coal for fuel. To
this is to be added the cost of paper.
ink, &c., which swells up the aggregate
largely. There are but few establish
ments in the city that pay more money
for labor than the Star. The printers
in the news room average twelve hours
work out of the twentv-four, while in
the editorial department the average is
fifteen hours of the severest kind of la
Dor. The city news gatherer will aver
age every day ten miles of walking. and
that must be done rain or shine. cold
or hot. Yet the work in the Star office
is but drop compared to that i'm some
OF the great metropolitan journals.
There is no class of men who give more
to charitable purposes than printers.
There is not paper in Logansport that
does not give in the way of money, ad
vertising or job work to charitable and
church purposes two hundred dollars.
and no doubt it will exceed that sum.
There is no one branch of business that
has done so much to build Up the CITY
as its newspapers, yet there is no branch
of business that is so little remunera
tive. a merchant will enter into bust
ness with capital of from $1,000 to
$1,000, and his sales will amount to
S25, 900, with a fair profit on all. A
newspaper publisher, to do business
of S25, 900, will require capital of from
$4,000 to Sl5,0 900, and will pay out for
labor S15, 900, while the merchant will
pay out not to exceed 81 500. No busi-
ness man ever yet invested money in
Judicious advertising that it did not re-
turn him four fold, yet how many of
them expect the publisher to almost
give their advertisements. How many
business men are there i'm Logansport
who never advertise a dollars worth.
yet if the editor expresses view upon
any subject different from their own
find fault with him, and feel offended.
We do not believe there is a business
man in LOganSpOrt who would like to
see either of the two dailies now pub
lished cease publication, yet how little
the majority of them pay toward sus-
tanning them.-Loqansport Star.