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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
REMARKABLE LETTER
From a Gentleman Known and Hon.
ored from The Atlantic to the
Pacific Coast.

Messrs. WEEEs & POTTER, Wholesale Druggists, Bos-
ton. Mass: entlemen,-lha have for some months felt it
q duty that L owed to suffering umanity TO write you,
stating the great benefit that l have derived from the
use of SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE FoI CATARRH. For
more than 20 years l have been afflicted with this very
troublesome complaint. have tried all the remedies
that | could ind, but without material or permanent
benefit. Last fall the disease had arrived at that state
that / must have relief or die. The entire meInbran-
Gus system had become so lufamed, and the stomach
| could go tc the Pacific coast. or If l did go whether
i should live to come back or not. Isaw an adver-
tisement of this medicine. and although being very
fucredulous about specifics or n~ostruIns of any kind,
yet in sheer desperation 1 tried this, and was at once
benefited by it: The changes OF climate, a chronic
disease of the liver, and my age-ove r1O-may pre-
vent my entire restoration, but the benefit l derive
from Its daily use is to me tHCGlHGbte, and | am hoping
TO be completely cured, and at last arrive ct o respect
able old ageE
If this statement OF my case can be of any service to
those afflicted as l have been, and enable you to bring
this remedy into more general use, especially on the
Pacific coast Cwhere it is much needed, my object in
writing this note win be obtained.
- Very truly yours, HENRY, WELLS.
AURORA, N. z, June, lTG. of Wells, Fargo & Co.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26

Take the advice of a reporter and
never patronize a milkman who has to
beat his horse to get him by q street
pump.-St. Louis Republican.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26

Each package contains DR.. Sanford's Improved In.
haling Tube, and full directions for use in all cases.
Price St!M. For sale by all wholesale and retail
druggists Throughout the United States. WEEKS
d. POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale Drug
gists, Boston, Mass.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-26
Gong TO sQH0oL,wn
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N&&$DE UUH1E SOUREhs
He helped her over ths4neadow brook.
While her feet she timidly set.
{Twinl lilies they weraDs on the messy stone -
With the cooling rippies wet. q
They passed the brook, and it seemed to sing
With 6 sweeter, mcrrier sound,a ia
AS the tive wfth their school books wandered on
Der the ol6yer-iaden gfonndFk
o little made how fair ySn wera#
With yorrrl les Of heave!Iy hiues
And the din les played on%E our cheekss as pIay
On a rose Ne drops Of dew
As; x R,sg =. sssss se ss aT1R; BIZ ssY I'M
And %H yoaS lips they We're 4imts ~ tRs fipendfng
In the mornings ruddy glow.
Bare feet; how they twinkledt molg thekrassl :
Did you know, whenever you TOOK
The path for school, that he waited for you
BY the willow shaded brook?
Since then the fr,graSsbESoossssam nj B hasvsc om 4
To the bows, fh maHy til$y III HI 4
AS of oid.a D pleaS ant rhyme;
And two are straying Jtha bank x~.mxmw~ %
AS 1 pen these wanderiI2$ II - ~
And they talk of the happy school-day time -
AS they watch the bufldingbfrds. NsasS W
But a stream there is with a grapder flow,
With a sterner,e sadder s0@g;s
And lovers will cross u a GffferSnt schooL, "a
And help each other alOngi
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
PAUPER PALACES.

The st. Louis Republican says the
absurd rage for palatial asylums for
insane paupers has spread to the Pa
cifc coast, and the people of California
find that they are in for one that will
cost million and half dollars and
probably more. The structure is hes
ing erected at Napa, and was planned
to accommodate 500 patients and to
cost 5000, 900, but the plan has been
amplifed till it is found the cost will
be $1,5OO,OOO. It is a magnificent
edifce, with stone front, carved cor
ridors up to the roof, and with the
words Dignitas and Opulentia repeat
ed everywhere in the moulded stope-
as if dignity and opulence had any
necessary connection with insanity.
It is so large that the circuit of it lacks
only 200 feet of being mile in.extent'
If the whole lot of inmates allotted to
this asylum shall be 500, the California
lunatics will each have So, 900 worth of
house room-a far more liberal allot-
ment than the average of persons in
good circumstances can boast of.
They will, no doubt, dwell very COM
fortably amid the maple, redwood,
marble and iron adornments that
embellish their palace.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
kILROURSE-s LITTLE GAME.

In view of the fact, says the Savan-
nah Meas. that the Sergeant-at Arms
of the House has been authorized to
employ counsel to assist him in pros
cutting an appeal from the decision of
Judge Cartier in the habeas corpus
case of Hallet Kilbourne, the action
of that body in refusing to respond to
the invitation of that willy rascal is
no longer mysterious to outsiders. 1t
seems clear that Kilbourne's letter to
Speaker Kerr not only emenated from
a more fertile brain than his own, but
that it was part of a deliberate attempt
on the part of the real estate manipu-
lators and those interested therein to
entrap Democratic members into at
least semblance of acquiescence in
Judge Cart ar's decision. The major
ity of the House, however, in their
forethought appear to be more than a
match for the conspirators.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
CALIFORNIA.

SAN Francisco, May B -Noon.-The
South San Francisco Anti-Coolie Club
AID the Young Mems Reform Society
held meetings last night and passed
resolutions endorsing the destruction
of the Chinese quarters in the town of
Antioch, advocating a similar course in
this city unless the federal government
should take Immediate steps to stop
their immigration. Highly incen-
diary speeches were made and letters
were received from societies in the in
terror of the State stating the coop
Grafton of San Francisco Antioch or
CARNATIONS. The sergeanJ- farms of
the Young Mems Universal Reform
Society announced that he had re-
ceiyed q telegram from New York
STANG that 260G stand of arms could
be delivered here at ten days notice
While such talk aud actions are uni
versally regretted by the great mass of
thinking people in the city there can
be no doubt that it meets the approval
of large and dangerous class in the
community. and that on the event of
no action being taken in the matter by
the general government there is grave
reason to fear serious destruction here
at no distant day.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
WHAT BLUNDERERs.

''Ihe capacity of the Democrats
for laundering appears to be without
end. "-Atba'ay Journal.
Yes, says the Baltimore Gazette,
they Numbered into proving that a
cabinet officer sold post-traderships;
into compelling the President to re-
move his private secretaries; into
showing that the President put his
hand into the treasury to re-elect
himself; into showing that Orvil Grant
was doing thriving business as a
jobber around the departments; that
millions of dollars were squandered in
bogus mail contracts; that Schenck
swindled the people to whom he was
accredited as a minister; that the
whole government service is as worth
less and corrupt as it can be. They
have been laundering all the way
through.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12

In the House of Representatives on
Tuesday Mr. Randall presented a state
ment showing the reduction of the ex-
penses of collecting the revenues from
customs in the several districts and
ports of the United States. December
/, 1875. The total reduction was at
the rate of 81, 623. O38 per year. Nearly
one third of the total, or 1926, 600,
was effected at the port of New York
alone, beng fifteen per cent. Expen-
ditures in Boston were cut down at the
ra of S91, 900 per annum;i Baltimore
at $50, 900; in San Francisco at $50, 900;
in Philadelphia at $54, 100; in New
Orleans at $50, 900; in Portland at Sl9,-
PAT; in Detroit at SIG. 1877, being thirty
per cent; in Charleston at $15, 1862; in
Chicago at $13 234; ia Port Huron at
$11, 300 Over Your per cent?; III
Marquette at 50, 800 twenty-five per
cent?, and in Grand Haven at $72O
eight per cent? The greatest reduc-
ton in proportion to cost was made at
Empire City, Oregon, being at the rate
of eighty one per cent.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
THE SMALL CHANCE FAMINE.

We learn from our exchanges that
there isia prevailing complaint through
out the country, especially in the large
cities of the North and West, of the
scarcity of small change. Although
large amounts of silver have been paid
out by the Treasury, and tradesmen
have endeavored to put it in circula-
ton, very little of it comes back to
them in return, the people seeming
disposed to hoard it. The New York
Tribune speaks of the ''small change
famine" and says "Change of every
kind is scarce. For the moment, bus
mess finds some Embarrassment in the
anomalous situation, for while pre-
MUM is paid for silver, varying from
one to four per cent in different cities,
premium is also paid for fractional
currency. There is remarkable
scarcity of postal currency, SO that re-
tail business is somewhat embarrassed
already, and as yet the silver paid out
by the Treasury does not pass into free
circulation. Those who were opposed
to the substitution rather hastily rush
to the conclusion that the undertaking
proves a. failure. and hope that Con-
gross will suspend the issue of silver,
and order more fractional notes to Je
Drinted"
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
WHO Is DESERVING OF PARTY
HOW (sEkS.

There is disposition on the part of
both editors and correspondents to re-
commend parties for offices who have
no claims upon the party whatever,
except the fact that they probably
voted the party ticket. Now all of this
iss wrong says the Charlotte Observer.
We know gentlemen of influence and
talent who could, by their activity
have effected great gains in the elec-
tons of this State, who have sat
quietly in their offices without making
a single speech in the whole campaign.
Such men should not be invited to the
feast, for they have done nothing to
deserve an invitation. But only those
who have in the hot broiling days of
summer borne the heat and burden of
the day, should be honored by their
party. Truly the laborer is worthy of
something at the hands of those for
whom he has tolled and it is simply
justice to give him preference over one
who hes done naught.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
NEW YORK.

New YORK. May g. Noon-A Herald
special from Chicago says: "Custar.
while en- route for his. command, was
detain d here by Sheridan under in
structions from Washington"
New YoBK, May 6-N1ght-The
bark Skerryvere arrived here to-day
from Melbourne. which port she left
on December u. with a number Of
articles for the Centennial exhibition.
On April oath in lat. % 81, long. 20
So, discovered seven feet of water in
the hold and making water at the rate
Of fifteen inches al hour-cause not
known but supposed to be rats. The
leak was stopped by low ring a sail in
the front of the vessel, which covered
the bottom. The crew were two days
pumping the water out.
Weekly bank statement-loans in
crease 81 $4,000; specie incl cease
$2,75O, 600; legal tender decrease 49,
$4,000, deposits decrease So, 125O00;
reserve decrease 81, 900, 900.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
GRANT AND CUSTER.

President Grant, who relieved Bel
KNAPP of his office SO that he mighthave
a chance to escape impeachment. has
now relieved Gen. Custer of his COM
mand for no apparent reason, says the
Boston Post, except that he came
to Washington to testify against Bel
KNAPP. This is rather worse than the
removal of Henderson. The able
prosecutor of the whiskey ring was put
out of the way to save Babcock; while
the degradation of the dashing young
cavalry officer can do no good to Bel
KNAPP now that his story is told. But
Gen. Custer is something of politi-
clan himself and probably knew what
to expect. He is only relieved of his
honors and duties of his brevet rank,
and will still continue with his regi-
ment as Lieutenant Colonel. But tits
not pleasant picture-this of an army
officer kicking his heels in the White
House ante. chamber, waiting chance
to be allowed to tell the President that
he meant nothing personal when he
testified about the sale of post-trader-
ships, and being denied an audience
for even this humble explanation and
anOIoovi
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12

The Boston advertiser says the
month of May, 1776, was a busy and
anxious period for the leaders in our
revolutionary struggle; and beside an
unremitting activity in military prepa-
rations it was marked by two or three
events of great historical significance.
In the course OF the a ticle our
Boston contemporary proceeds to tell
with pardonable pride that on the 10Th
of May. 1776, the House of Represen-
tatives of Massachusetts, voted that a
town meeting should be held in each
town in the colony to advise their
Representatives in the next General
Court whether, if Congress should
declare the colonies independent of
Great Britain, 1.-THE said inhabitants
will solemnly engage, with their lives
and fortunes, to support them i'll the
measure" Under the authority of
this vote, q series of town meetings
was held in May; June and the early
part of July, pie lging the support of
the inhabitants to. American indie
pendence. The earliest of these meet
ings it is believed. was held in Boston
at the Old Brick Westinghouse on
the 23d.
That is all very well for Massachu-
sets men of hundred years ago but
what would Massachusetts, men of to-
day give to find upon their official
records hundred years old resolu-
tiou like the following:
"Resolved, That the delegates from
this colony il the Colt mental Con-
gress be empowered to concur with
the delegates from the other colonies
in declaring independence and FORM
ing foreign alliances, reserving to the
colony the sole and exclusive right of
forming a constl ution and laws for
this colony"
This resolution was unanimously
adopted by the Provincial Congress
of the colony of North Carolina on the
18th of April, 1776. In other words,
final action was taken by the Congress
of North Carolina full month nearly
before the House of Representatives
of Massachusetts deemed it advisable
to consult their constituents about the
matter! But unfortunately for their
fame, North Caroliniens have ever had
a wonderfl al habit of doing more wor-
thy deeds and saying less about them
than any other people on the globe.
We confidently commend our Boston
cotemporary and all others who desire
to get at the bottom facts of the true
inwardness of the days of one hundred
years ago to consult the records of the
Old North State.
And just here we beg leave to make
a suggestion to the ladies charged
with the duty of preparing a North
Carolina flag for the Centennial. We
suggest that they have inscribed upon
the flag the words of the resolution
above quoted, together with the date,
the place and the BODY, when, where
and by whom it was adopted. What
say the ladies? The flag will be in.
complete without some reference to
that memorable resolution of our fore
fathers.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
THE ADJOURNME LENT OF Cons
GRESS.

We most cordially commend to our
readers the utterancss of the Balti.
more Gazette about the adjournment
of Congress. They are sound and
wholesome. It says: 1.-The news
papers and the men who are
anxious to see the Democratic
party defeated in the coming
campaign want Congress to adjourn
as soon as possible. If there were
no other reason why the democrats in
the House should remain in session as
long as there is single thing to be
done, corrupt republican official, no
matter how obscure, to be punished,
a charge of fraud to be Investigated,
a scandal to be exposed, or dollar to
be saved, this desire on the part of the
opposition ought to be sufficient to
keep the democratic leaders at their
posts. Washington is now, and will
be for months, the place for members
of Congress. There can be of more
service there than anywhere else. If
they will do the work they have been
elected to do, fearlessly and unf1inch-
ingly, the people at home will take
care of the rest.
It is quite natural that the repub-
licans should be in a hurry to get
away. At the end of the fiscal year
they will have the disbursement of
millions and millions of dollars, and
we may be certain they will spend it
where it will do the most good. AS
long as the House remains in session
they will be careful as to how they do
it. The President will not be SO ready
to order Mr.. Pierrepont to pay chaps
like Davenport thousands and thous-
ands of dollars to run elections, when
he knows that democratic House of
Representatives is watching him.
Cabinet officers will not be SO eager to
use up all their appropriations and
give contracts in the hope of controll-
ing votes in doubtful states, when
they feel that an investigating COM
mittee is looking over their shoulders.
The longer Congress remains in SEES
sion. the better the prospect of fair
election. To adjourn next month, as
was suggested few days ago. would
be the EXTREMIST folly. The rank aud
file can take care of the St. Louis con-
vention and the platform without the
assistance of couple of hundred con-
gressmen. They will be better with>
out them than with them. They were
elected to go there and stay there until
their work is done, and they will be |
unfaithful to their duty if they rush |
away from Washington the moment it |
ceases to be comfortable. Every day |
the House continues in session some
thing is gained to the country. step |
is taken toward "A better and purer |
government. The organs which are
edited by the government advertising,
and the organs which have been paid |
for their support in the campaign, will
assert the contrary, but the people |
know better. The duty of the demo-
cratic majority in the House now is to
strike. There is plenty of work for
them to do if they will only do it."
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
THE TIMES.


"When the wicked ruleth, then the
people mourn" and perhaps never in
the history of the country, says our
esteemed contemporary the Hillsboro
Recorder, was this proverbial truth
so fully appreciated. The deeds of
wicked rulers are brought home to
every man, and are felt in every mo-
ment of his daily life. And by wicked
rulers, we do not mean merely to indi-
cate an individual, the chief executive
officer of the country, who from ty-
rannous temper, Expresses the people
by despotic acts, or of his own will
loads them with the burdens of taxa
ton. The Executive though proven
capable in limited degree of the first
has no power to impose the latter.
But we refer to the men he has drawn
around him, the men who have had
his confidence, the men who have used,
or abused-it matters little which
their privileges, to rob, swindle and
souander the monies that come from
the people, belong to the people, and
ought to be used for the people. These
constitute the government and these
are the wicked rulers under whom the
people mourn.
It is probably fact, that within the
past ten years as much has been stolen
as would have kept before the war, all
the machinery of the government IN
easy and active movement. It IS an
appalling fact, the more so, that, now
that the stealing, the perversion OF ap-
preparations to illegal purposes, the
cessations of fraudulent contracts is
apparently approaching it's end by the
vigilance and perseverance, of the
Democratic Congress. The operations
of bad and incompetent government
have destroyed credit, deranged finan-
ces. paralyzed business, dried up reye-
nues, and yet leave the people burden
to bear almost insupportable in times
of the greatest prosperity. The ma
tional debt is not appreciably dlmln-
ished and even with the retrenchlng
process of Congress, the expenses OF
the government are still enormous.
Taxation presses now more cruelty
than ever, for while it is not dimin-
ished, the foundation from which 1t is
drawn is weakened.
The evils of the present a,lministra-
ton cannot be shaken off at once.
The principles Of the party which
adheres to that administration have
developed, as they originated, those
evils. The only hope is the overthrow
of the party, and the Inauguration of
new practices not only foreshadowed,
but put in operation by the Demo-
cratic party.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12

The Centennial Legion, of which a
good deal has been said in the papers,
is to be composed of thirteen compa-
MES of one hundred picked men from
the thirteen original States. 1t will be
divided into three battalions-Eastern
Middle, and Southern-the companies
composing each battalion to elect their
own field officers. In accordance with
this arrangement the companies Sc
lecsed for the Legion from the Eastern
States elected General Burnside; those
from the Middle States, General 81.
W. Slocum, and those from the South
ern States, General Fitzhugh Lee.
These companies will make body of
thirteen hundred men, who will rem
devious in Philadelphia upon the End
of July, and parade there upon the
4th. The command will be differed
by the three field officers chosen as
above specified. Gen. Lee, says the
Richmond Enquirer. has not as yet
signitied his acceptance of the posi-
ton so honorably assigned him by the
troops of Maryland, Virginia. North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
The field officers are required to furn-
ish their own horses, pay their own
expenses, and dress in Continental
uniform,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
SomETHINC OF A BoomERANG.

SOMETHING OF A BOOMERANG.
The New Orleans Republican is nat
urally Disguised with the course OF
Congress in investigating the Radical
frauds, the more especially as Com
mittee, headed by Gen. Gibson OF
Louisiana, are to overhaul all the Fed
eral officials in the Kellogg satrapy,
including Packard and Brother-ln-iaw
Casey. But there is no use. says the
Charleston NeaUs and Courier. for the
choleric outburst of the Republican In
stigmatizing the witnesses before the
committee as "dead.beats and bum
mers of the Democratic party" Gems.
Hazen and Custer, for instance, who
denounced Belknap, and District At
torney Dyer, who has his opinion
about Babcock, and Professor Marsh,
who made the life of Delano weari~
ness to him, are not democratic
dead-beat and bummers."
On the other hand, B. F. Butler, who
swung Dana at the yard-arm for piracy,
ex-Attorney General Williams, who re-
vealed-the little secret service game,
Detective Whitley, who knew all about
the safe burglary, G. P. Marsh, who
brought Belknap to grief, and even ).
@. s. Harrison, who has made Blame
squirm in the bonds of iniquity and
the gall of bitterness these though
mayhap dead-beats and bummers, are
not Democrats. When the Repubts'
cans temper subsidies, ii will doubt
less retract the expression for the sake
of the gentlemen it wounds in its own
house.
This is no Democratic funeral. The
official thieves, and their partners in
crime, belong to the great Republican
party of Reform, which, since 1860,
has run the country entirely, and held
soie-possession of the national money
bags.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-12
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN NEW
ORLEANS.

It is a comfortable thought even for
outsiders, says the Macon Telegraph,
that the city of New Orleans is at last
delivered from the thraldom of the
wretched thieves and adventurers who
have been stripping hertz the bone for
decade. But if it be a pleasant and
joyous fact to US, what must it be to
the white taxpayers of that city ? We
fancy some of then took too muck
whisky yesterday. We are inclined to
fear that several felt the occasion de-
manded copious libation to Bacchus
as we'll as thanks to Heaven. It is
true they have secured but the wreck
of ancient prosperity. Every depart
ment of the city government comes
into their possession plundered and
sacked, but still they have got posses
sion and can begin the patient and
weary labor of restoring order and
Oublic credit