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DIRECT TAXATION.

aptly remarks, ga tax that
starts in it's career by disturbing
the natural courses of private
industry and impairing the pro-
ductive power of labor, and
then comes to the consumer dis
tended by profits of successive
Intermediates, and by insnr-
ance against the risk OF a tickle
or uncertain government policy
and of a fluctuating standard Of
value, blights human well-being
at every step when it reaches
the hapless child of toll, who
buys his bread by the loaf and
his fuel by the basket, it robs
him Of his earnings and inficts
starvation AS Governor Til
den is mentioned as a probable
candidate for the Presidency, we
quote this paragraph from his
pen that our readers may I'M
derstand his position on the
most vital question now before
the American people. In the
very organization of this gov
eminent this question was
brought prominently before Con-
gress. There was a strong oppo-
sition to any tariff at that time.
but the Government was deeply
involved and the people poor
and it was agreed as a compro
mise to collect a small tariff
upon a few articles of luxury
only, believing it would lighter
the burdens of the laborins
classes. But from that day t,
, the present, the advocates of tn
, tariff have left no stone unturnet
to increase the tariff, not onl,
upon articles of luxury, bu
5 upon every article Of necessit..
used by the laboring classes
Once or twice this question $
disturbed the Government tina
! civil war seemed eminent, an
was only prevented by the de
: termined firmness of Presider
: jackson. The tariff party, how
. ever, were kept in check unit
J the end of the recent war, whe
that party got control of the Go
eminent. By levying a tart
/ upon article imported into Il
y country, and a number of art
! cles produced by the people,
e become necessary to appoint
q large army Of officers. It is /
y the influence of these officer
and the expenditure of the mo
G ey they have embezzled, that Il
g tariff party has been kept
10 power. If all the money tn
ce has been filched from the labe
g ing people by this iniquitio
or tariff law, had been paid into t
&c Treasury Of the Government, t
or Government debt would ha
ne been paid in full. But to s;
~ nothing of the corrupting inf
It. ences of the law and the oppr'
It, sive burden laid on the peol
ne by theft, and by supporting
We army of idlers and thieves,
at very principles upon which t
'st law is based is wrong. PERI
M equality is the only enduri
ng basis of a Republic. Equal
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distributed with lmpartlal JUS
tice among all the people. The
only burdens Of Government is
the financial cost to support It. /
To divide this burden so as to
make it bear exactly equal,
every individual must be asses
sed in proportion to his ability
to pay in proportion to the
amount of property they own.
Any government based on the
idea of the superiority OF a IA
vored class smacks of ancient
feudalism and is but wreck OF
barbarism. The world has suf-
fered long enough from feudal-
ism or laws to favor classes. Our
Government is based upon the
idea that all men are equal, but
collecting customs upon imports
and other indirect taxation i'm
plies class Legislation, and so
long as this prevails the Ameri-
can people are unequal. Ittaxes
the necessaries of life that ought
to be free, and delivers them to
the people at double the amount
they ought to cost. But they
claim that 1.-THE necessities OF
| the Government compel this
course" but if the Government
is for the benefit and not the OPP.
preston of the people, where is
the necessity of giving US oul
food and raiment at double price
This system taxes mankind TO
the privilege of living, and para
lyzes his noblest energies, itrob'
him and leaves him helpless il
his misery, and is nothing bu
an engine Of oppression. Prop
erty alone should be taxed, AM
impartially taxed, to defray tn
, expenses Of government. Civ
us free trade, open our ports t
! the world, and let Americans b
free and equal. The Custor
House is the incubus upon on
commerce and Government, an
through it Indirect taxation
sucking the very life-blood OF
of the laboring people; and III
!. less it be speedily changed tt
people will rise up in their migl
J, and take matters into their ow
hands.
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In the six principal markets
of this country the number of
hogs packed this season amounts
to3 200, 900, a decrease of nearly
SOC, 600 compared with last year.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-04-14

To be patient and thorough in all
that one does is to COMPEL success in
any calling.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-04-14

An empty pocket is no sign q =
empty head,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-04-14

Of the nine members Of Con
gress from Iowa, four Of them
decline a reelection. Probably
a little relation in Office may
work that State no harm.
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Bee culture is spreading rap
idly in California. The Los
Angeles Herald says that at the
present rate in four years there
will be a million stands of bees
in that and the two adjoining
counties, producing annually a
hundred million pounds Of hon
ey, which are more valuable
than the sugar and molasses crop
of Texas, Louisiana and Florida
combined.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
VIEW YoRk NEWsPar.ERs.


A New York letter says: This is not
a good time for newspapers; hardly any
of the dailies here have made any money
in the last two years, though, with the
general revival of trade, their business
must necessarily improve, and the pros
porous days return. -C
Nothing is harder to estimate than the
value of newspapers; but it is just to
hold that metropolitan newspaper is
worth ten times the amount of its regu-
lar average earnings; buildings and real
estate being independent of good will.
AS rule, few persons would pay for
prosperous journal what its proprietors
would ask for it, since everything de-
ponds on its careful and judicious man
agement, and the proprieters are likely
to have knowledge, gained by long ex-
perience, which buyers would be COM
PEELED to acquire, perhaps, at immense
cost.
Judging by earnings, price of stock at
asst quotations, real estate, rental, mate
rial, good will, and other journalistic be-
longings, the value of the leading New
York dailies may be estimated as fol-
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
AMERICAN GIFT TAKING.

Scruggs is his name. He was our rep
resentative at Columbia, and was APP
pointed arbitrator to settle a diplomatic
question involving claims of British
subjects. He decided in favor OF the
British claimants, and for his kindness
Queen Victoria wishes to present the
aforesaid Scruggs with silver inkstand.
Poor Scruggs wants the silver evidence
of his arbitration, and the senate said he
could accept il; but the house cop-
mittee on foreign affairs through MIR.
Faulkner of West Virginia, Friday, de-
feated the bill giving him the privilege.
Mr.. Faulkner made one If the most in
teresting speeches of the session, relating
the history of these efforts to enrich
faithful servants for doing their duty.
The first case was in 1873 with Thomas
Pinckney, which wasrefused by congress.
The next was the offer of the Creek In
dams to present to Andrew jackson a
strip of land in 1914. That, too, was re-
fused. Forty years passed, when NJ. F.
Maury. the celebrated scientist, was per-
mitted to receive from the King OF
Sweden gold medal. Since then there
is no telling how many persons have been
enriched by foreign presents MIR.
Faulkner said il was time that this sys-
tenn of corruption should end, and his
motion to indefinitely postpone the SEN
ale bill was unanimously carried.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
MIND AND AITERATURE.

The literature of America is but an
insufficient measure of the realized ca
pacities of the American mind. When
Sir William Hamilton declared that
Aristotle had an Imagination as great as
that of Homer, he struck at the primary
fact that the creative energies of the hui
man mind may be exercised in widely
different lines Of direction. Imagination
is in the popular mind, obstinately con-
nected with poetry and romance. This
prejudice is further deepened by associa-
ting imagination with amiable emotions,
regardless of the. fact that two of the
greatest characters created by the hui
man imagination are two of the vilest
types of intelligent nature-Iago and
Mephistopheles. When the attempt is
made to extend the application of the
creative energy of Imagination to BUSH
ness and politics, the sentimental cutlery
against such a PROCLAMATION of the term
becomes almost deafening. Every poet
aster is willing to admit that Newton is
one of the few grand scientific discoveries
that the world has produced; but he still
thinks that, in virture of versifying some
commonplace of emotion and thought,
he is himself superior to Newton in inn
agination. The truth is that, in spite of
Newton's incapacity to appreciate works
of literature and art, he possessed crea-
tive imagination of the first class-an
imagination which, in boundless fertility,
is Second only to Shakspeare's. In fact,
it - the direction to the creative faculty,
and not to the materials on which it
works, that discrininates between Full
ton and Bryant, Whitney and Longfel-
low, Bigelow and Whittier, Goodyear
and Lowell. Descending from the in
ventors, it would be easy to show that in
the conduct of the everyday transactions
of life, more quickness of imagination,
subtilty and breadth of understanding,
and energy of will have been diplayed
by our men ::of business than by our
authors. By the necessities of our posi-
ton, the aggregate mind of the country
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI, APRIL 8, 1876.

names of places are barbarian, but some
Germanic. Many common expressions
are mixture of both, and names of
persons are almost Germanic, as also re-
igisus phrases and the titles of public
functionaries.
Herr Loeher believes that the Vandals
or Goths settled in the isles in the eighth
century, finding there a weak barbarian
population whom they subjugated, that
they gradually lost the use of iron and
ship building, and mostly relapsed from
into German heathenism
but though degenerating in their COM
plete isolation, retained the features and
customs of their race in all essen
tial points until their discovery by Euro.
peans. Fair-haired mummies have been
found in their tombs, and the dimensions
of the skulls agree with those ofthe Ger
manic races.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
CURING SNAKE BITES.

Several cases of snake-bite, in which
the value of Prof Halfopfs remedy, sub
cutaneous injectiono of ammonia, has been
demonstrated, have, says the Melbourne
Argus, lately occurred in the colony.
At Seymour, on the 14th of December,
a young man, twenty-six years of age,
named Dwyer, was bitten by snake be-
tween the thumb and the first. finger of
the right hand. The wound was re-
ceived at nine o'clock, and no treatment
was applied until half past eleven, when
the patient was powerless and almost in
sensible. 'i- - T= ea
Ammonia was injected into his right
arm, when he revived at once. He suf-
fered relapse, but the ammonia was
again successfully applied, and he ulti-
mately recovered. At Bungaree young
girl was bitten by snake, and gradually
sank into state Of rstupor. Two hours
and half after she was bitten ammonia
was injected. Relief was Immediately
obtained, and the girl rapidly recovered.
A third case happened on the Acheron,
eleven miles from Alexandria, where a
little girl, two years of age, the daughter
of farmer named Doak, was bitten by
snake just above the ankle of the left
foot. Symptoms of complete coma were
setting in when the ammonia injection
was used with magical effect. The child
sat upright and became quite lively. A
relapse occurring, a second injection was
made with as great effect as before, and
the child from that time continued to
improve until her recovery. Another
case is mentioned of a native woman on
the Wirrega station, South Australia,
who was bitten bv a snake on the ankle.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
Ex1RAoRD1x.4nr E1orEmEy1:

The Liverpool Mercury says: The de-
movement of an extraordinary elopement
case took place on board the Allan steamer
Moravian. The steamer was leaving the
Mersey with a full complement of pas
sengers for Portland. Just as she got
under way a river gig was seen approach
ing in all haste. In the bow of the boat
was seen an aged man, who gesticulated
frantically to those on board the steamer
to stop. The boat got alongside of the
steamer, and in a short time two of its
occupants man about sixty wears of
age and young man of twenty-five
clambered on board the Moravian. The
officers were naturally surprised atseeing
the steamer boarded in this fashion; but
noticing that the old man was in trouble,
they received him courteously, and lis
tened to his tale, which was to the effect
that his wife-a woman of forty-eight,
and the mother of grown-up children
had eloped with young man of twenty
two; that they were on board the Mora
Wan en- route for America J and the de-
serted husband and his son demanded
that the captain should send the runa-
ways on shore. While the captain was
explaining that the law gave him no such
R)wef the runaway wife happened to pass
along the deck near where the group were
the point. She recognized her
husband. A fit of repentance seized her.
She at once forgot her new love, and now
only thought of the old. Exclaiming, 4
" Oh, John, are Souhereln aheembraced
her husband and kissed him. Her son,
too, she saluted in most afectionate
way. But while the preliminaries to
reconciliation were going or, the faithless
wife's companion made his appearance on
The scene, and placidly asked what ait
was all about ?" The deserted husband
mplored his former spouse to return to
ner home in Wednesday,. This she con-
'ented to do, but made it sine qua non |
hat the companion of her fight should |
,e allowed to return with her. The hus-
,and accepted the terms thus dictated.
The master of the Moravian, seeing that |
IN arrangement had been come to, facili-
,ated the return to the shore of the troub.
esome party who had for a time disturb
ID the decorum observed on boa'd his
When the party arrived at the
tage they were jeered by crowd who
lad heard of the strange elopement and
he wonderful reconciliation. Wife and
husband walked arm in arm lovingly
long the stage, and the lover" as if TO
make atonement for his wrong-doing,
walked meekly behind carrying the lug
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

has been exercised in creating the nation
as we now find it. There is, indeed,
something ludicrous, TO large observer
OF all the pheomena of our national life,
in confounding the brain and heart of
the United States with the manifestation
that either has found in mere literary
expression. The nation outvalues all its
authors, even in respect to those powers
which authors are supposed specially to
represent. Nobody, can write intelli-
gently of the progress of American lit
erature during the past hundred years
without looking at American literature
as generally subsidiary to the grand
of the American mind
Ed,Cin p. Whipple.
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i57s AND ls7e.-rhs New Yoik, World

! 1576 AND 1s76.-The New York World
suggests a. very plain, but very pointed
device for a grand national. banner which
should be hung out in front of the grand
enterance of the Centennial exhibition
at Philadelphia, to mark Che exact pro-
gress which we have made in one hun
bred years of existence as people:
The Spirit of 1776-" 1 am not a rich
man, but, poor as l am, the King of
Great Britain is notrich enough to- buy
me."-[ JOS. Reed, of Pennsylvania, to
the British commissioners.
The Spirit of 1876" My wife must
have diamonds and laces enough to shine
at Long Branch and Warrington Pay
me ten thousand down and six thousand
year, and you shall have the exclusive
right to sell supplies to the soldiers of
the United States on the frontier at your
own rates."-[ William w. Belknap, Sc
cretary of war to post-trader Fat Fort
Sill. Z = 3.E az
THE EARLY INHABITANTS OF THE
CANARY IsLEs.-Herr Won Loeher has
read paper before the Munich academy
Of Sciences in which he argues that the
Guanch or Wandseh population of the
Canary Isles, who for more than cen
fury repulsed all invaders, are the de-
J scendants of the Vandals. Most of the
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08

BRUSSELS LACE. : Brussels lace is
famous throughout the world. 1t is
manufactured chiefly in the city of
Brussels, and is superior to every other
quality made in Belgium or in foreign
countries. The fax employed is the
finest that can be procured, and costs
from sixty to eighty dollars pound.
The spinning is performed in darkened
rooms, with a beam of light only adj
mitted upon the work through small
aperture. The patterns are well worked
separately and stitched on. The pc
culiar qualities of this lace are its deli
cate firmness, elegance and variety of
design
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-08
Emmett T. Ross & CO.. Proprietors

offices. A look of patient endurance, we
fancied also look of grief for unrcquited
love, sat on her marble features. Her
children were there clad in weedsof woe,
and in an irony we remembered the
strong mans words, "She was good
mother in her day."
When the bell ceased tolling the strange
minister rose in the pulpit. His form was
very erect, and his voice strong, but his
hair was silvery white. He read several
passages of scripture expressive of Gods
compassion to feeble man, and especially
of his tenderness when gray hairs are on
him, and his strength faileth him. He
then made some touching remarks on
human frailty, and of dependence on
God, urging all present to make their
peace with their Maker while in health,
that they might claim his promises when
heart and flesh failed them. .sThen," he
said, "the eternal God shall be thy ref
uge, and beneath thee shall be the ever
lasting arns' Leaning over the desk
and gazing intently on the -cofined form
before him, he then said reyerently:
From child 1 have honored the aged;
but never till gray hairs covered my own.
head, did / truly know how much love
and sympathy this class have a right
to demand of their fellow creatures.
Now I feel it. Our mother" he added
most tenderly, "who now lies in death
before US was a stranger to me, as well
as all of these, her descendants. All r
know of her is what her son told me to-
day-that she was brought to this town
from afar, sixty-nine years ago, a happy
bride-that here she has passed most of
her life, toiling, as only mothers ever have
strength to toll, until she reared a large
family Of sons and daughters THAT she
left her home here clad in the weeds of
widowhood, to dwell among her children;
and that till health and strength left her,
she had never ceased in her devoted |
kindness to those she loved. God forbid |
that Conscience should accuse any Of you |
of ingratitude or murmufing on account
of the care she has been to you of late.
When you go back to your homes, be |
careful of your example before your own |
children; for the fruit of your own doing |
you will surely reap from them when you
yourselves tottsr on the brink of the1
grave I entreat you as friend, as one
who has himself entered on the evening
Of life, that you may never say in the
presence efvyoar families or Of heaven,
Our mother hsd soutlived her ussfnk
was j burden to us. Never,
never; another cannot live 50 long as
that. No; when she can no longer labor
Tor her children, nor yet care for herself,
'he can fall like a fprecious'weight on
heir bosoms. and call forth by her help
ali the noble, generous feelings
If their natures"
Adieu, then, poor, toil-worn mother;1
here are no more days Of pain for thee.
Undying vigor and everlasting usefulness
ire part of the inheritance of the re-
leemed ee-r..1.-
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THE ART OF FLATTERY.

| If flattery is to be grateful to sensi-
| BILE and truth-loving man or woman, it
must clearly conform to several condi-
tions. AS we have remarked, it must
not be too broad, wholly. setting at de-
fiance the bounds of truth, but must be
recognizable as an approximation to the
truth. Thus the compliment bestowed
should clearly point to meritcrious
quality having an undisputed existence.
Further, it should never be forced on a
person in an obtrusive way. 1t should
be couched in modest language, and not
break violently on our attention in bald
eulogistic epithets. And it should not
be kept before our minds so as to arouse
a full an embarrassing consciousness of
the speakers meaning, but rather APP
pear as transient element in fugitive
conversation. 1t is always better to let
the praise be inferred from the language
used than to declare it in direct terms.
In this way it will be appreciated by
swift movement of the feeling, while
there will be no time for its arousing a
painful selfconsciousness. Once more,
fattery is always more acceptable when
it seems to be the product of the moment,
and not the result of generalization, for
in this case it has aSgreater appearance
of reality. Or if the speaker distinctly
intends to indicate deliberate wish to
crafty, and to show the exercise of fore
thought, the praise should be rendered
with a certain delicate skill so as to
assure the recipient Of the giver's anxiety
to make the offering as graceful as pos
sible. The indirect ways of fattery are
also worth attending to. One may fiat
ter person by saying to his intimate
friend-for instance, his wife-something
highly eulogistic, which it would be diff
fcult, to say to himself directly. AM
other and still more useful method is to
fatter by action instead of words; that
is, by treating people as if they had a
certain kind. of. merit of excellence.
Thus we may astudiouslyi consult the,
taste of a lady whose aesthetic judgment
we wish to extol, or may enlist the CO |
operation of aiperson in benevolent
scheme, and thus indirectly attribute to
him generous disposition. The advan- |
tage of this last mode of Hattering is that |
it escapes the necessity Of even a slight
verbal untruthfulness. To appeal to a |
persons opinion is not the same thing as
to declare him to be wise, even though
he may be readily disposed to conjecture
from the former that we mean the latter
also. u IL, e
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lzzlasfz " 10 mike Nh1m AvcEi1o china breaks
Who take the topmost buckwheat cakes'
L who ns:. Our s5s s TSn sasn ! wakes So,
Ssa ssSe Il, 4: needle ssssss 1870 e n
70 wake Those stupid tnings inc mon?
Our Wouieni '~iaf'r.@tf
who kindfed tire centennial asspe & { S--s
Il "a si mean s:S sps
Our Women
who When the men. IN blank dismay.
sat wondering II the thing would pay,
Our Women,
J wAostermea olslnde nsdenes hall 81
And woke the councils, one and all,
zsz.ss With With si1ty-ss ,..s CALI
- Who xhen eeptenni.l stock was low ia
= Did bravey take their books and 20, -
: And beg a share from every beau7
it7Rf-rtf. Our Womenl
al who have the cradle and the tub: p-1
who cesx pspa and wheedle hub,
Our Women. -'' '""'
<'~a whov.hed thedeyrof Washington,
Confusing Jefe and fair and fun,
- While Polly puts the kettle on? a.t.,l 4,
q Who, In the loveaiest array, azt.
Iurn woi 4 centennial into play,
Our Women!
"a ~ So r grzz eTEH ri
Who, when the days Of toll wers Ieng;
81 When meath the burden kowed the strong,
SIN cheered the flint with buoyant song,
Our Women! -.
Ard sang that lay That n unan wrd&e.
= Rsseser 6hasl our balper noat,zsS
Our orifamme, the petticoat !"
Our Womeni
who, when centennial days ana or,
nd ~ kfur3n skSI -, Ulorel
VIII be the things W most adore = e
Our Women! s =