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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
The PardOnins Power.

Illinois has been greatly excited dur
ing the past year by the numerous pardons OF
desperate fellows by Gov. Beveridge to the de-
feat of justice and the peril of society. One Of
the Circuit Court Judges in his charge to the
Grand Jury of his court on Wednesday, char
acterized Beveridge's pardon of murderers
and other great criminals as 'an insult to the
intelligence of that jury that convicted and
the Judge that passed sentence, and calculated
to bring the administration of justice into con-
tempt"
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
An EVANGELIST.

'sRobert McCord. you are charged
with assault and battery said his
Honor in the Fifty-seventh Street Po-
lice Court yesterday to a respectable
looking man who stood in the rrison-
er's dock. ''What have you to say,
Mr.. McCord!'
II will explain, your HONOR said
Mr.. McCord, striking a stage attitude,
81 am an evangelist. l am engaged at
present in making straight the way of
the Lord. saw young man this
morning who was not in the ark of
safety. I stepped up to that young
man. said to him, Sir, am a phys
iognomist; I perceive by the Inca
ments of your .countenance that you
are an assassin. Your head, sir, is the
exact fac smile of Gains. pity you,
and will knock your head off; there
upon hit him with a CLUB, that the
Scripture might be fulfilled, which
says, '*Cast out the bond-woman and
her son.
''You are an energetic laborer in the
vineyard, Mr.. McCord, said the Court.
"Who are youe''
81 am a Belfast Scotchman.''
s'Indeed! And where do you live?'
'sBetween Jerusalem and Jericho.
Long Island.''
''Well, Mr.. McCord,'' said his Honor,
81 guess I'll have to lock you up
''Don't you do it, Judge. Beware
of the awful avalanche! am the one
ordained by fate to settle the troubles
of our country. Listen! I am the true
President of the United States, and if
[ am locked up shall demand servi-
tors, who at my beck shall load my fes-
tive board with quail on toast, and all
the delicacies of the season. Here a
policeman tapped the evangelist on the
shoulder. ''My servant calls, said he.
with great dignity. Il go to the halls
of mirth," and MIR. McCord descended
the fatal stairway in search of his hy-
pothetical quail on toast.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17

A hotel furnishing all the comforts of home,
together with the luxurious appointments m
more pretentious establishments is necean
sitv demanded BY the refnements of modest
House, John Baugh, PROPRIETOR, corner Of St..
Peter and Fourth streets, st. Paul, where the
best accommodations can always by secured
at reasonable rates.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
Affairs in Louisiana.

Both the Republican and the Demo-
cratic candidates for Governor OF Louisiana
were inaugurated at New Orleans on the 9Th
anst. There was no fuss nor threats. Gov.
Nichols, who was inaugurated by the Demo-
cratic legislature, promised in his inaugural
address to obliterate the color line and To er-
ecute the laws and maintain public peace.
The balcony Of st. Patrick's Hall. from which
theaddress was. delivered, was draped with the
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17

flags Of all nations. The crowd in attendance
was estimated at ten Or fifteen thousand
The police around the State house prevent
ed a crowd from entering to witness Gov.
Packard's Inauguration, and perfect quiet
reigned. In his inaugural, the Governor
said he should invoke all the powers confer
red upon him to enforce obedience to the
laws Of the State, and enduring peace.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
The Eastern Snow Storm.

The new year snow storm in the
Eastern States was the heaviest known for q
number of years. Nearly all the railroads in
New Englan dwere blockaded, and in Boston,
owning to the amount of snow from the roofs
and sidewalks, together with that which fell
in the streets, the horse cars were unable to
make their usual trips, and thousands had to
wade through the snow for miles to their
places of business. Travel was greatly i'm
peded in many localities Of Pennsylvania and
New York.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
Crook Believes in Indian Scouts.

Gen. Crook has unbounded faith in
the successful working OF the plan of the en-
listment Of friendly Sioux as scouts. An in
stance of their value is found in the fact that
in the last campaign against the Cheyenne,
wherein the Snake and Pawnees had followed
their circular trails for several days, the
Sioux darted out in direct line and struck
the village at once, the surprise proving so
complete that many Cheyennes fed without
even moccasin on their feet, with the Their
mometer several degrees below zero.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
RObbing the Mails.

Harry Dearborn, the young son of a
prominent manufacturer of Springfield, O.,
has been arrested for robbing the mails
over 81, 900. Dearborn was not in need, but
induced to do wrong, 1t is said, by an ardent
desire to please young lady who il now
missing,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17

The Importance of giving Sheridan's
Cavalry Condition Powders to horses that
have been out in the cold rain, stood in cold
wind, Or drank too much cold water, cannot
be over estimated; no man should be without
them who owns good horse.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-17
Condition of the Markets.

The mercantile markets are still Sc
riously affected by the political condition OF
the country, but collections are reported to
he tolerably easy. The feeling in sugars and
cofees is still bouyant and advancing. In
other articles in the grocery line there was no
change. Other mercantile branches were en-
tirely unchanged.
Wheat in St. Paul and Minneapolis is firm
at sl.25 for No. l; 81. 20 for No. 2; and s1.15
for No. 5. In Chicago, No. remained tolera-
bly, firm at $l.30; in Milwaukee, at $1.33 The
prospect is good for an upward rather than q
downward movement.
Corn is steady in Northwestern markets
at 4s045c. oats at 33@35c; barley at sQ@35c
tor No. 2; gror I'd feed at Sl7.000lS.O0.
Butter is inactive, low grades selling in
bulk lots at 12@l5c; good table butter at 200
csc.
northwestern cheese at 1l@12c.
Eggs remain in good demand at 19@24c,
according to quality.
Dressed beef A@4Xc per pound. Dressed
hogs, s6,85@7.25 per cwt.
Olive stock, a St. Paul report says: "a
decline OF Ac is noted all around. Very fine
smooth steers, the selections of droves, and
weighing 200 lbs and upwards have sold at
4Hc, while good stock cattle, well fatted and
handled, but not choice stock, have brought
3@3 Ac. Car load lots Of average quality of
COWS, heifers and steers have sold in lots at
about &c. Calves are in demand at 4X@44c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03
TIE RdjLPO4D WIZ.

When Mr.. Vanderbilt surrendered iii Deem
bcr it was only to get breath for another fight
He knew that the sO-called agreement would
hold water about as long as a sieve. But it
gave him poor excuse for raising rates in
Winter when the canal was ice-bOund, and a
Door excuse is better than none. A little ear
lier than he expected or desired, probably, he
is compelled to put on the guise of phllan-
thropist once more, and to resume his task of
" prOtectng New-YOrk." Meanwhile, who will
protect the protector His stocks are going
the wrong way for a railway king, with alarm
ing rapidity. Grain is drifting away to Baltl-
more, while the opposition OF Mr.. Jewett has
indefinitely delayed the completion of the
only improvement which can enable
this city to compete with Baltimore Oh
fair terms-namey, the use of the Belt
road for freight, with tracks upon the piers.
The Central road was sOrely neglected last
wear, for not even miscellaneous earnings
would have enabled it to pay the dividend if
it had not pinchcd $780, 99 in repairs OF
track and equipment. \ very hard Winter
has disordered the roadbed and crippled
eouipment still further, and it is but reason
able to suppose that Mr.. Vanderbilt was not
''''''
cleared away wrecks. But here comes the rail
way war again, more ugly than ever, and the
stock of Central and Hudson rattes down
below 80 on the last day of March, just as ii
began to slide downward, though some 20
points higher, in March last year.
OF the great rivals, the Baltimore ard ONO
is the strongest in its strength and the Erie
in its weakness. For Erie stock at is pretty
safe it cannot lose very much more, and peo-
Die have ceased to expect the road to earn
enough to pay the first charges, which exceed
$5,53S, 200. Last year the net earnings fell
short about 81 900, 900, and whether they de-
cline still further or not, the Erie can con-
tinue to fight. The stock Of tho Baltimore
road sold at 172 in March of last year, and
had slipped down by easy stages to 145 when
the contest ended last Winter 1t rose only to
1929 in January, and has already dropped
with much alacrity in sinking to 124i2. Al
the worst, however, it is about where Delaware
and Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson
were at their best, aDd the Baltimore road hai
never overloaded itself with many leases mol
with mountainous debts. Its mortgage deb
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03
SUPERFL UOUS LAGS.

1t may be said to the credit, not only of the
American people but of human nature itself,
since it illustrates q common quality rather
than any special trait that the magnificent
blackguardsm and splendid venom of hlr.
Wendell Phillips's recent lecture have been
everywhere received with expressions of
loathing and disgust. 1t having been
thought worth while to telegraph Mr..
Phillips's hot arraignment of the new
Administration to the press OF the
country, we have been interested in OBJ
serving the manner of its reception and the
tone of comment thereon. There Is no posi-
bility of mistaklng the meaning of either. 1t
need not be said that the language in which
Mr.. Phillips clothed his denunciations was, for
the purpose. well chosen and fit; that the
phrases were of his choicest stock,
the terms sllillfully selected and ingeni-
ousIy combined, the sentences turned
rbythmically and periods well rounded,
and the grace and beauty of his Incompatible
art thrown over the whole. All this goes with
the name of .the silyer-tongued orator y for
il is the glitter of his polished speech alone
that makes his discourse attractive. He may
he a iishwoman of Blllingsgate, but a fish
woman of so many refnements that of all the
coarsencss and vulgarity and british insolence
of the original type there remains only the
condensed and concentrated essence, clothed
on now with all the adonments of art and
fashion, trained to tricks of speech instead of
clamorous brawlng, and using vocabulary
wherein keener and cleaner weapons have dis
placed the decaying vegetable and offensive fish
No other person in this age has ever 80 made
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03

was only $2S, i6S,930 at the date OF the last
report, and its first charges were much less
than those of either of the other trunk roads.
II has admirable facilities at Baltimore, ana u
line shorter than any other from Chicago 10
tide-water. 1t is not quite clear how such a
road can be driven out of the tight by inc
waterloggcd Central.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad does much
larger business than the others, and reports Il
lower average cost of transportation. Last
year, though receiving only. 1872 OF one cent
per ton per mile, it reported $40 OF one cent
as It's profits, its reported cost OF transporta-
ton being .12S lower than the Central and
.3O3 lower than the Erie. Nor is the debt Oh
the road as large, in proportion to the enor-
nous business done, as that of many other
roads; its first charges, including rentals, were
$5,546,572 at last repOrt-about ~ per ceht
of its net earnings-while those OF the Centrai
are 40 per cent. The weak point OF the fehh-
sylvania is its vast system OF leases anu III
dorsements which involve great rsk In q tiIlc
when competition pushes all rates 10 'he
lowest point. TO this is due the dlstIuSI
which had caused the stock TO SINK from
1l5la per 500 in March last to 9H2 III
January. and which caused it to drop from
97ls to Sc prior to the latest wariike news
and to 76ls on Saturday last. This, 1t must
lac confessed, is somewhat too much Ike the
history of New-Jersey Central to be enchant-
ing to stockholders, but the traffic of the road
is very large and its cost of transportation
very low. The strong point of the road is its
enormous and very steady local traffic. The
Pennsylvania leases, moreover, have not yet
proved very burdensome, for if some involve
large losses, others bring in gains almost
equally large. 1t can make a stout fight,
and, if not embarrassed by unexpected depre-
citation in its leased properties, can probably
live longer under heavy fire than the Central.
The stock of these four roads amounts to
$2G3,977,070, upon which the depreciation
from the highest point in the first quarter OF
1875 to closing prices of March, 1877, has
been $76,3O2, 900. OF this loss about S2G,-
$4,000 was on the Pennsylvania, and about
S24928,OOO on the Central and Hudson
stock What losses another year of war rates
will involve remains to be seen.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03
UdITPTON'S CHANCE,

Gov. Wade Hampton returns to Columbia
one of the most important men III the United
STATES The future of the whole South may be
said to depend in a great measure upon INN.
He can confirm the Federal Administration i'll
its new policy of. nOn-interfcrence. or he can
provoke reaction in public opinion which
President Hayes would be unable to resist
even if he wished to do so. The South, for the
first time since the close of the war, is placed
upon its good behavior, and Gov. Hampton's
State is the one in which the initial experiment
is to be tried. Naturally the country watches
the result with some anxiety, and If the eXpec-
tatiOns of the President and his friends are
disappointed the consequences will be diSas-
trous to the South and to the whole Union.
Gen. Hampton is gentleman OF whom we
all wish to think well, and if he has lately
been regarded with some suspicion he has pro-
voked it by his own conduct. Only few
weeks before his nomination he publicly COM
mended Mr.. Chamberlain as one OF the best
Governors South Carolina had ever known,
and advised his fellow citizens to vote for
him. Yet as soon as ii was decided ut Gram
Grey Park that South Carolina must run
straight Bourbon ticket, Gen. Hampton seems
to have discovered that Chamberlain was all
that is bad. The campaign was fought with
the aid of rihe-clubs, and although Gen.
Hampton is said to have exercised strong
pressure upon the more desperate men among
his supporters, the fact cannot be denied that
he owes great many votes to the Mlssis-
sippi plan" and that the record of his, vic
tory is stained by violence and fraud. We
can hardly suppose that he realized how his
a.. bnI no
waved it with such theatrical flourish all
the way from Columbia to Washington.
1t is to be hoped that Gen. Hampton now
understands the temper OF the country little
better. There must be no more Hamburg mas
sacrcs and no more wholesale " discourage
"mentn of the negro voters. Mr. Hampton
has promised TO keep the peace and administer
the laws with equal justice to all but he must
20 further than that; he must break Oft all asso-
citation with "bulldozeIs" and irreconcilables,
and show the whole world that such men are
not to be the new rulers of the South. There
il no doubt whatever that by really liberal
policy the Democratic Governors of the South
ern States can eradicate carpet-bagism imme-
diately there is equally no doubt that Il con-
trary course will bring back the old curse
heavier than ever.
Mr.. Chamberlain has been shrewd, able,
and energetic administrator, and by his con-
duet since he became Governor he has earned
| the good opinion of many who looked upon
| his previous associations with some suspicion.
He will retire from Office with the good viii
of the Republican party. But let him not
impcril his reputation by accepting any Federal
appointment as if he had been bought Off
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yrofs to ADVERTISEMENTS.

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TIE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-It follows from the signing OF the
protocol that Russia will treat with the Porte Tor
disarmament on both sides. = The Montenegrin
delegates will be satisfied with part OF the Nicslcs
district - Rio Janeiro is pronounced healthy
- In Russia 100 persons are TO be tired Tor urea
sonable acts.
DoMrsI1C.-The Cabinet has voted to withdraw
the troops from South Carolina State House; saues
were fred and meetings held in the South Carolina
cities in rejoicing; Gov. Chamberain's letter to the
President is published to-day in THE TRIBUNE
- The public debt was reduced during March
over S1I 900 COO principally by retiring some per
cent Geneva award bonds.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Peter b. Sweeny denies
any purpose of making revelations or of compromis
ing his suit = Recorder Hackett is believed to
have received a dispatch from Oakley Hall. GO
Controller Kelly showed that $22G,711 81 has been
spent in the Ring suits, and $690Si9 80 recov-
cred. - The report of the State Charities Aid
Association showed abuses in the juvenile Guardian
Society - Speedy action on the Municipal
Commissions report urged by the Municipal So
cicty = The book trade sale was begun &C
Gold. 1851, 100, 1913. Gold value OF the legal
tender dollar at the close, 9j4O cents. Stocks eX-
cited and irregular, generally closing higher and
firm.
THE WrATHER.-TRIBUSE local observations ind-
cate cool and partly cloudy followed by clear
weather. Thermometer yesterday, 40, 80, 42' !;
nj midnight. $50.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03

taste an English bard. Mr.. Upper says not by any
means for the first time that he loves all dearly.
that we are his brothers, that he thanks us tendery
that he praises goodness. and, finally, that we
have "bis thankful blessing and Farewell" Not to
be behindhand in courtesy, we wish him voyage
home undisturbed by nautical nausea; and we shall
look with interest for the little poem which he will
write upon his return to dear Mother England :
Mother mighty, mother mild, Welcome back your
wandering child. From the Yankees safe returning
All his old affection burning! Hear song he puts
his heart in, And say, how you, dearest Martini
THE TRrBUNE's new serial story, the publication
Of which is begun to-day in our Semi-Weeky ISSUE
has a way to delight everybody. 1t has all the
rapid movement of play, and is at the same time
full of piquant character study The personages OF
the story have life and thorough individuality
there is not a puppet among them. 1t has been said
of one of them-the American "medium"-that he is
simply a caricature; but those who have seen GER
tain cratic countryman of will recognize many
of his curious traits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-03
is another.

Now he leaves. but ere he leaves us, One more
gentle song he weaves us, Says "Farewellw in
stanzas three, And on Wednesday goes to sea- We
refer to Mr.. Upper, who having taken passage in
the Bavaria has produced and printed twenty -four
lines in honor of his visit, and to commemorate Its
conclusion. We are pleased 70 learn from this pro-
duction that Mr.. upper has many friends for whom
he promises to yearn" when he gets back to En-
gland but we likewise panied to learn that he
has few foes :" we DO not why, for more
harmless man we never read or heard of. To be
sure, in this little lyric Mr. Upper assumes Il war
like manner which is sufficiently striking. He says
that he has not feared his foes" but to the
battle bravcly rose, man to fight his fight with
men, We have not received any particulars of
these rencounters to which Mr. Upper trucu-
lently aludes, but we must take his word both for
his prowess and his punishment of his enemies.
Indeed rather rejoiccd to hear that they
have been 80 justly and vigorously dealt with ;
for whatever may be Mr.. Tuppers merits as
a manufacturer of verse, we are bound TO
say that he has never shown anything but
good will TO the United States Of America-except,
perhaps, during his short sojourn in the South.
where he tossed off few lines in honor of the South
ern Confedcrlcy, which, dare say, he has al
ready forgotten. The truth is if Mr.. Upper should
visit the King of the Cannibal Islands, he would
thing pretty in praise of human chops and roasting
pieces, not meaning. of course, to recommend that
kind Of meat, but only to make things nice and
pleasant during his soourn, doubtless they would
be unless King Cannibal should take fancy to