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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-18
LATEST NEWS.
SOUTH AND WEST.

An official telegram from Camp Brown
Wyoming, to-day, says: "The Indian scouts
sent out from here report hostile Indians
moving to the southeast. They traced then
from the head of Crazy Woman Fork to the
head of Little Powder river. Their number
| is not known, but it is believed to be large
This corroborates the reports received from
other sources that a large number of Indians
are doubtless making for the agencies.
An immense cotton factory will soon
be opened in Atlanta, Ga. The buildings are
of sufficient capacity for 81 800 spindles and
five hundred looms, and oneh half of the ma
| chinery is nearly completed.
A little girl, child of parents living in
healthy locality on one of the ridges near
Pensacola, had an attack of yellow fever
which much puzzled the physicians, as there
was then no yellow fever in the city, nor had
she and her playmates been in contact with
any one from there. After her recovery she
described a game of "hide and SEEK" where
she hid under an old sail so cunningly that
she could not be found. The sail had been
imported from New Orleans during the cpl
demic of previous season.
Along the st. Johns river, in Florida,
the estimates of the orange crop have been
reduced one-nalf, and the young trees are
said to be dying by scores on account of the
dry season.
Grasshoppers are spreading in Georgia
and creating great alarm among the planters.
Senator Sharon, in applying for the
reduction in the valuation of his palace ho-
tel, San Francisco, which was put at s., ,O00,-
900, said that it was not paying, and was not
likely to. 1t cost, he said, $5,OO0,0OO, but
labor and material were then high, and it
could not be sold for half that sum.
A Georgia theorist, who wishes to in
crease the production of corn in the south,
proposes a tax of $40 an acre on every acre
of cotton more than five which may be raised
by any planter.
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WHILE in Buffalo visited one of the
banks, the cashier ofwhich I had known
when he was resident of Liverpool.
As / was talking with him, a small, thin
man passed out of the bank. Said the
cashier: "Did you notice that slim lit
tie man who just went out2 No?
Well, 1t me tell you about him. That
man, about this time every week, comes
TO deposite 4 few dollars, which are
placed to the credit of the--Insur-
ance Company. Last year he had an
office in a building that was insured for
fifteen thousand dollars, about all it was
worth. One day, as he was about to
leave his office, he happened to drop some
fire from his cigar into basket ofpapers
Fear his desk. Half an hour after he
had gone the building was in blaze,
and somehow the origin of the fire was
traced to the room he had left. Now,
what do you think? Why, that man is
saving every cent he can get and putting
it here to reimburse the insurance COM
pany, because it was through his absence
of mind that they had to pay for burnt
building. He may never get enough
together to cover the whole amount. but
lie is doing what he can. Now that's
what some of us would call Internal
fooliShness. l callit honesty Hodqson's s
Notes on 1BlcTicn.
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THE CONSEQUENCES.

The consequences of these errors are now present
public calamity, hut they were never doubtful
never invisible; they were necessary and inevitable
and were fOreseen and depicted when the waves of
that fictitious prosperity ran highest in a speech
made by me on the twRnty-fOurth day of September,
1858. 1t was said of these taxes that they bear
heavily upon every mans income upon every in
dustry and every business in the country and wear
by year they destined to press still mere heavily
unless we arrest the system that gives rise to them
II was comparatively elsy when values were doub-
ling under repeated issues Of legal tender paper
money, to pay out OF fhe growth of growing
and apparent wealth llese taxes, but when values
TeCCde and sink toward their DatuTaI scale the tax
gItherer takes from hot only our income not onv
profits, but also portion of our capital.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-18

BEAUTY BY VACoINATIoN.-Tra Transfer
of beauty by simple vaccination is the
newest trick in France. The following
advertisement recently appeared in a
Paris paper: Madame Y. X. permits
herself to say that she has the skin white
to pearl, full health, the check of roses,
face of sweet expression, blue eyes, black
hair, figure coquette; therefore is full of
health. She will be vaccinated next
Tue.dav, and in as short a time rs pos
sibie the lymph of her arm will be ready
for the vaccination of anybody desiring
TO possess all these mentioned charms
For terms, apply" etc.
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ADDITIONAL AGGRAvArIoNs.

1t was aggravated by most unscientihc and iIl-ad-
justed methods of taxftiOn that increased the sac
rices Of the people fat beyond the receipts of the
treasury. 1t was aggravated moreover, by inan-
cial policy which tended TO diminish energy, econo-
my of production and frugality of private Conslmp-
ton, and induced misoalculatiOn in business and u-
remunerative of capital and labor even in pros
porous times. The daily wants of industrious COM
munities press closely upon their daily earnings.
The margin, If possible, OF the national savings is
at best, small percentage of the national earnings
yet now, for these eleven years, the governmental
consumption has been a larger portion of the ma
tOnal earnings than the whole people can possibly
save even in prosperous times, for all the new in
vestmentS.
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The Drought in the East.
n. Y. Tribune.

Very rarely has the country suffered
such u killing drought as the one Which
now prevails in many localities within a
hundred miles of this city. In addition
to the failure of rain, parching winds
seem to have absorbed all the moisture
from the ground, which is dust dry to
an unusual depth. In some parts OF
northern New Jersey the standing crops
are injured nearly beyond the chance OF
recovery; the "truck" in the gardens
has withered away, and the pastures
look as bare and brown as the stretches
of a California summer landscape.
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$50 you are going to marry drug
pist's clerk ?'' remarked Chicago giIl
to another on the street cars yesterday.
The question was asked in an unmIstaE-
able tone of derision, and so the fair one
addressed half apologetically replied ::
s' OF course-don't they have all the soda
water they want for nothingf' Yes,
was the gloomy reply; they're all right
in summer, but what about next win
ter?'' "Oh," mildly answered the en-.
gagged one, maybe by that time we will
be divorced!" The interfering friend
seemed satisfied then.-Chicdgo Jour
nal
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-18
SPECIFIC MEASURES.

The specific measures and actual date are matters
of detail, having reference to the ever changing
conditions. They belong to the domain of practical
administrative statemanship. The captain Of a
steamer about to sail frrm New York to Liverpool
does not assemble n counsel ever Ills ocean chart
and fl an angle 10y which to lash the rudder for a
whole VOYAGE. Human intelligence must be at the
helm to discern the shifting forces of the wa ters
and winds; a human hand must be at the helm to
feel the elements day by day and guide to a maste-
ry- Over them such prepare tions are everything
without them legislative command fixing a day
official promise fixing day-nre shams. They
wCrse-they are a delusi)n and snare to all who
trust them. They destroy all confidence among
thoughtful men whose judgment will at least sway
public opinion. An attempt to act on such q COM
mand-withOUt preparation, would end in u new
If cnnfu dist ust a nd
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THE PLATFOM ENDORSED.

1t would have been impossible for to accept the
nomination if could rot heartily ndOTse the plat
orm of the convention; am gratihed, therefore,
be able uneI IuivUCally, to declare that agree in
principles, approve the policies and sympathize
with the purposes enunciated in that platform. The
institutions of country have been solely tried by
the eNigencies of civil war, and since the by
selfish and corrupt management of public affairs,
which has Shamcd us before civilized mankind by
unwise and partial legislation, every industry and
interest of the people have been made to suffer- and
in the executive department of the government dis
honesty. rapacity and Vcnality have debauchcd the
public service. Men known to he unworthy haVr
been promoted. whilst others have been degraded foe
fidelity to official duty. Public Office has been made
the means of private profit and the county has been
offended to class of men who boast of the friend
ship of the protectors of the state amassing
fortunes by defrauding the public treasury and by
cOrruptin the of the people in such crisis
OF the history of the country.
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RADICAL EXACTIONs.

| do not wish TO exaggerate or ALARM l simplv
say that cannot afford the costly and ruinous pol
icy of the radical majority in congress. We cannot
afford that policy towatd the south. We cannot af.
ford the magnificent and oppressive centralisn into
which our government is being converted. We
cannot afford the present magnificent scale of taxa
uOn. To the secretary of the treasury said, early
in 1855: There is no royal road for n government
more than an individual or corporation; what you
want TO do now, is to cut down your expenses and
live within your income. would give all ledger
demain of finance and inanciering
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EASE.

The extensive cotton mills at Little
Falls, belonging largely to commodore
Garner, says the Albany Argus, are at pres
ent closed, awaiting some adjustment of his
affairs. The commodore, it will be remem-
bered, was drowned in New York bay few
DAYS ago. He was one of the largest, if not
the largest, buyer of cotton in the Memphis
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OLIVE WITHIN YOUR INCOME y

I would give the whble of il for the old homeIy
maxim " live within Iour income" This refern
will be resisted at every STEP but it must be pressed
persistently. We see to-day immediate representa-
tives of the people in branch of congress- while
struggling TO reduce expenditures compelled TO con-
front the menace Of the senate and executive that
unless the Objectionable appropriations be consented
to- the operation of the government Hereunder shall
1ofr
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TIMELY TOPICS.

THE Brooklyn Argus says Boston is
gradually becoming accustomed to Anna
Dickinson. When she thrusts her hand
under her hustle, where her pistol pocket
hangs, and says with horrible calmness,
keep away from me, sir" everybody
knows there is dramatic critic some
where around.
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RESERVES AND REDEMpTIoNs.

Public economies, official retrenchmeuts and a
wise finance are the means which the st. Louis
convention indicates the provision for reserves
and redemptions. The best resource is a reduction
in of the government below its income for
that imposes no new charge on the people. If, how
ever the i'm providence and waste which have con-
Quoted TO period of falling revenues obIge us to
supplement the results of economies and retreL ch
ments by some resort to loans, should not hesi-
tate. The government ought not to speculate on
its own dishonOr in order to the interest of its
broken promis s, which il still compells private
dealers to accept at fictitious par. The highest
national honor is not only right but would prove
prOfitahle.
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REFORM.

The necessity OF reform in the scale of public ex-
pense, federal, state and municipal, and the modes
of federal taxation jusifes all the prominence given
to it in the declaration of the St. Louis convention.
The present depression in all the business and indus
tries of the people which is deprvng labor of its
employment and carrying want into so many homes,
has its principal causes in excessive governmental
consumption under the Illusion of specious pros
perty, cngendered by false policies of federal gov
ernment. waste of capital has been going ever
since the peace OF 1855 which could only end in uni
yersal disaster.
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A GOOD suGGE EsTION.

In my judgment an amendment of the constitr-
tiOn ought to be raised separating into district bills
and appropriations for various departments of the
public service and excluding from each bill all ap-
preparations for other objects and all indepeDdent
legislation. In that way alone can every power of
each of the two houses and OF the executive be pre-
served and exempted from moral duress, which
often cOmpes assent to Objectionable appropriations.
Rather that stop the W heels of the government.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-18

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, JR., after a
protracted study of the railway problem,
has arrived at the conclusion that rail-
road competition has been tried all over
the world, and that everywhere it is now
consciously or unconsciously, but with
one consent, slowly but surely being
abandoned. In its place the principle
of responsible and regulated monopoly is
Inserting itselfn
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-18

As FAST az Jovellar gets any money
from Spain to carry on the war against
the Cuban insurgents they capture it.
The other day they seized baggage
train with 100000 in gold intended for
the Spanish soldiers. Every few weeks
the republican treasury is thus replen-
ished. That war is likely to be coz
t'nued on the part of the patriots"
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TIE SOUTH.

An accessory cause, enhancing the distress if bus-
ness is to be found in systematic and unsupporta-
be government imposed on the states of the south.
Besides the ordinary effect of ignorant and dishonest
administration it has infiicted upon them enormous
issues of fraudulent bonds the scanty walls of which
were wasted stolen, and the existence of which is
public discredit, tending TO bankruptcy or repudia-
tion. Taxes generally oppressive, in some instances
have confscated the entire income of property and
totally destroyed its marketable value. 1t is impos-
sbe that these evils should not upon the pros
perity of the whole country. The nobler motives of
humanity concur with the material interests of all
in requiring that every obstacle be removed to a
complete and durahlet reconciliation between kim
dred population once lInnaturally entangled, on a
basis recognized by the st. Louis platform of the
constitution of the United States with its amend
mens, universally accepted final settlement of
the controversies whidh engendeTed civil war but
i'm aid of result so behehcia to the moral influence
of every good citizen, PS well as every governmental
authority, ought TO Xerted not alone to maintain
their Just equality before the law, but likewise to
establish n cordial frathruity and good will among
the citizens, whateverltheir color, who are
unitel in the one destiny of common sef-gov-
ernment If the duly shall be assigned TO me-
should dot hesitate tb exercise the powers with
which the laws and constitution of our country
cothe its chief magistrate to protect all its citizens
whatever their former condition. in every political
and personal right.
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FEDERAL TAXES.

The federal taxes of the last eleven years reach the
gigantic sum of forty-fve hundred millions local
taxation has amounted to twO-thirds as much more.
The vast aggregate is not less than seventy-ve hun
dred millions This enormous taxation followed a
civil conflict that had greatly impaired aggre-
gate wealth and had made prompt reduction of ex-
penseS indispensable
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THE TIME FOR RESUMPTION.

The proper time for resum ption is the time when
wise preparation shall have reigned into perfect
ab Ity to accomplish the object with certainty and
ease, that will inspire Gnnficence and encourage
revival Of busiEeSs. The carlie-t time in which
such result can be brought about is best. Even
when preparations shall have been matured, the
exact date would have to be chosen with reference
to the then existing state Of trade and the
sheet of operations in our country, the course of
foreign commerce, and the condition of our ex-
changes. with her ma
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-18

Of the public debt nine hundred and eighty five
million dollars bear nte rest at six per cent. in gold
and sixty-ve millions at five per cent. in gold the
average interest is 55S per cent financial policy
that should the highest credit wise y availed
Of ought gradually to obtain reduction of one per
cent. in the interest most of the loans. saving
of one per cent. the average would be seventeen
million dollars year ia gold. That saving, regu
larly invested at four and half per cent, would,
in less than thirty eight years. eNtngush the prin
Cipal. The whole seventeen hundred millions of
the funded debt might be paid by this saving alone,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-08-18

AK English baronet, Sir Simeon Henry
Stuart, wrote a letter to his daughter
and another to Miss Blandford, and by
mistake misdirected the envelopes. Con-
sequently, the daughter received and
handed to her mother, missive contain
ing such passages as this: "My own
darling. 1 was so pleased to see you last
night. How good of you to come over.
l do love having you here, dearest. 1t
seems so nice when 1 wake up to be able
to say to myself, I shall see my darling
to-day What shall do when you are
gone, dear? 1t is so weary then to know
that shall not sec you then for
days; but it will not be long, will it
You will come to me again, and soon."
Sir Simeon, upon discovering his blum
der, telegraphed to his daughter to burn
the letter, but he was too late, and it is
now being used in a divorce suit.
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HENDRICKS LETTER.

The following is the full text of Gov. Hendricks
letter of acceptance:
INDIANAPOLIS, July p, 1876.
GENTLEAEN-I have the honor TO acknowledge the
receipt of your communication, in which yOu have
formally notified me of my nomination by the ma
tional democratic committee at st Louis their
candidate for the office of vice president of the
United States. 1t is a nomination which / had
neither expected nor desired, and yet recognize
and appreciate the high honor done me 10y the
vention. The choice of such body, and pronounced
with such unusual unanimity, and accompanied
with so generous an expression of esteem aud conf
dence ought to outweigh all merely personal desires
and preferences of my 1t is with this feeling,
and trust also from deep sense of public duty,
that now accept the nomination and shall abide
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RADICAL RESUMPTION.

The act of congress of July, 1873 provided that on
and after the first of Janury, 1879 the secretary of
the treasury shall redeem in coin the legal tender
notes of the United States presentation at the
office of the assist Mt treasurer in the city of New
York. 1t authorizes tnc secretary to prepare and
provide for such resumption of specie payments by
the of any surplus r-Venues not otherwise ap-
propriated and 10y issuing in his discretion Glasses
of bonds. More than one and a half of the four
years have passed. COngjcss and the president
have continued ever since to unite i'll act which
have lcgislated out of existence every possible
plus applicable to this purpose. The coin in he
treasury claimed to belong to the e vernment had,
the thirtieth OF june fallen less than S45
OO0 against $59 600 the first of July 1873 and
the availability of part of that is said to be
uupstiOunble
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THE WANTS OF BUSINESS.

1t was in reference to such that in a dis
cussion of this subject in annual message to the
New York Legislature of January ., 1878. a sugges-
tiOn was made that the federal government is bound
to redeem every portion of its issue which the public
do not wish to use. Having assumed to mOnOpoliZe
the supply of currency, and enacted exclusions
against everybody else il is bound to furnish all
which the wants of business require. The system
should passiYely allow the volume of circulating
sredits to ebb and flow according to the chang
ing wants of business. It should initiate closely
possible the natural laws of trade, which it has
superseded by artificial contrivances. In similar
discussion in message of January 4, 1876 it was
said that resumption shoul1 be effected by such
measures would keep the aggregate amount of
currency ef-adjusting during all the process with
out creating, at any time. artificial scarcity,
without exciting the public imagination with
alarms which impair confidence and distract largely
the whole machinery of credit and disturb the nat
mr. fion aofh huaiu
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COIN RESERVES.

So, make the coin in the treasury availablefoT
the objects of this reserve To gradually strengthen
and enlarge that reserve, and TO provide for such
other exceptional demands for coin as may arise,
does not seem 10 me a work of difficulty. If wisely
planned and discreetly pursued it might not cost
any sacrifices to the business of the country. 1t
should tend, the contrary, to a revival of hope
and confidence. The coin In the treasury on the
thirteenth of June, including what is held against
coin certificates, amounted seventy-four millions.
The current of precious metals which has flowed out
of our country for the eleven years. from July 1865
TO June 30, 1875, averaging nearly seventy-sx mil
liens year, eight hundred and thirty-two mil
seventeen millions were the product Of our own mines.
To aass the requisite quantity by ntercepting from
the current flowing out of the country, and from
stocks which exists abroad without disturbing the
equilibrium Of the foreign money markets. is result
to be easily worked out by practical knowledge and
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GARIBALDI has new pet nationality
He writes to the Servians "My dear
friends-In the name of oppressed people
I thank you for your indefatigable devo-
tiOn to the holy cause. To-day every
generous soul in the world ought to con-
tribute tothe deliverance of the Christian
slaves from the horrible despotism of the
crescent. From Gambia to the Pruth all
the peoples ara more or less oppressed
must shake off the criminal yoke of the
yataghau. My heart is with you and
all other valorous souls that join in the
holy crusade. GARIBALDI"
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SUBMARINE LANPs.-Some interesting
experiments have lately been made IN
Cork harbor with the Denavrouzs SUP
marine lamp. While at the pos.on IL ~
the harbor diver lighted the lamp ana
read from newspaper an account OF an
examination of the prov OF tne IRON
Duke, which was distinctly heard at the
surface by means Of At speaking tube.