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The Hickman courier., 1877-09-21

\ representative ol The New York
Herald interviewed Mr. VIM. II
Vanderbilt alta Saratoga hotel few
days ago. with reference to the couu
try, condition, and Mr.. Vanderbilt Is
reported as saying:
The trouble Is that every BODY in
America spends too much money
Every body lives beyond his income
We MAKE more than any other people.
but sc expeud more tnan we make.
[ real ihIuk it ali-es from our be
iu4, all OF u, too hopeful. The
Americans are hopeful people We
have for the last two years been hopiug
aud believing every mOn.h, aud lhe
next mouth, and 50 on. All this
would be vcrv well were it NOT that all
the time people are hoping for the tu
tine they are hyPothecauns it. How
many men do we know who are living
beyond their incomes, contracting
debts, in hope Of some day or other,
some how or other, being able to pay
them. perhap7 with interest, discount
log the future.
The Hickman courier., 1877-09-21

Joen E Hagan, do ......... 900
VIM q Nelson, do ...... 1000
Col James Elder, Columbus .......- 5000
Louis Nicht olumbus......... .OO0
Greenbery Griffith, Coium hus..... 1000
Levi A Hanson, Mayfeld ........... 2,OO0
Lawrence T Hobbs, Graves county. 600
Thos J Jenkens, Ballard county,. {. OOO
Monroe ShelbOurne, Ballard co... 900
Benz Haworth, Ballard county,. $500
James VI Potter, Ballard county -..... 900
EPhfam Jackson, Ballard county ... 900
Dhie' ballard county y----.....-.... 1000
III Lane' Ballard county ....-.... 5000
Jonh II !nston, DreSden' Tenn. > 600
Wilson Walker, 0bion CO., Teun :. 900
The Hickman courier., 1877-09-21
SAMUEL ElANEDEe UNI.
General Insurance Agent,
Ed1 nn, HaA~-
Policies Issued u The olowiOg old RELIABLE Companies

orgeist select the of the lloujn
policies Old Reliable Mutual Benefit
pauy O New k =
The Hickman courier., 1877-09-21

'.A' t+t7..i- ta i.tH ..i| q tunes
now hIv uE ls ou account ot SOD much liti
CATION which IT, constantly going on he.
tween the citizens ot JHI- county. Atfat
last session of tUe Court af Common
Peas, which hell fvc weeks. tle jury
cost the county ~Ltfu. the judge 500
and for special judges r - was paid out
ana yet can amy ONE be surprised thar
hard times are among u-! We cef,aiuiy
are NOT, but, on the contrary, vc won ley
ihat rhe people are geiting along and
prospecting rs We'll as they are now -Bot
tfra Astrs
1t may be assumed that the Ballard
Circuit Court Is more expensive thau
thc Court of Common Pleas, for it has
the additional expense of IA Grand
Jury. The two courts for two terms
each will cost the county near s. 600
and the charge OF prisoners for petty
larceny cases will approximate $4,000
more, or the snug little sum of $40 600
To this may be added -. 900 or So o0C
more tax in the shape of county levy
or poll tax proper. 1t is no argument
to say that, the Sue pays all except
the:In,rer, ~ on an average it falls or
should fall proPortionately on each
county of the State.
The politician, in his caserness to
obtain Office, Is too much given to rep
rescnling the burdens upon the people,
and after he has persuaded the people
,hat they are oppressed and suffering
as no other people ever before, he
comes forward with plan Of relief in
which he Is to prove their deliverer
They generally lay the blame on the
heads Of their political opponents, and
attribute all the hard times to political
causes Such things have something
to DO with it, no doubt, but in truth, il
is some Snes very remote. We believe,
two thirds, or large per cent of the
cause of hard times and want Of pros
perity, lies a our own doors-at home
| don't suit the politician to tell the
people r7-1ese thing~,-It is not pleas
ant for the people to heart don't
make votes; but, it is Il fact, and those
IF Us who are not candidates, can lay
the issue plainly down.
Ballard county is taxed $4,000 an
uualiy for her courts aud we dare
"a fully one half Of it unnecessary
The same Is proportiona'e!y true of
perhaps nearly every county iu Ken
tucky. Impose such tax on our
people for building bridges or any 10
teruaI Improvement, and what a howl
will 20 up. We, the people, tax our
selves $40 600 annually, for the evil
doing Of our fellows, and not one cent
for his good 9eing There Is a rene
dy for these things. Courts eau not
be dispensed with, but much of the
expense can be. People who will 90
10 law should be made 90 foot the ex
Peuse Of juries, aud all other costs;
Imprisonment for petty larceny aboi
i-hed; aud the number Of courts re
dueed.
This is but one item of The home
cause Of hard times.
The large number Of producers
= men who never work, never produce
anything, but absorb the production
OF their neighbors, Is the heaviest tax
on the prosperity of our country.
Again, the extravaganza which char
acterize some who do wcrk-who do
Produee-cau-iug them to live beyond
their income.
The real burdens on our prosperity
may be found in these causes.
The Hickman courier., 1877-09-21
LOSSES :

following Agency since its ear
Hshmet Mutual sOf deceased members:
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ports. Nor are they likely to get them WI lie
the companies make their statements substan-
tally in their own way, unchecked by effective
official supervision. What we need is verin
cation of the Reports by competent State ex-
omine,s. an investigation such as is made into
the affairs of banks and insurance companies.
The need for such safeguard Is no greater
in the case Of one class of these corporations
than it is in that of the other. We urge the
Legislature to give the subject prompt atten-
ton. and we call upon one of the Railroad
Committees to report bill for the periodical
examination of the affairs of the companies by
q comuetept officer or board Of railroad ex-
pcrts. Such measure is absolutely needed
for the public protection.
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TILE OH .IIHE Y

Which member of the High Commission is
No. Fifteen? The solution Of tins problem
would seem to depend upon where tle hume
ration begins and in what order it is pursued.
And yet Mr. Justice Bradley HIS been by
common consent ranked rs the central and
controlling aGhtcr upon whose sole decision
hangs the selection Of a President Ii Is
around Mir. Bradley thet al! the Oratory of
eminent counsel whirls and eddiea. II
is Nj. Bradley who is the response
bic interpreter of that sovereign law,
the Statse' collected will. 1t is Mr.. Bradley
who. is trusted 30 search ont all tn" facts mid
den in Wilderness of divergent testimony
and link thcm into IA Chain Of coherent truth.
But why should No. Fifteen lie weighted with
Il heavier responsibility than that which bur-
dcns No Fourteen or No. One Not because
he has been clothed with any special powers
nor because he is bound by an cath Of unique
sOcmnty. II il true that Mr. Brad
ley the Commissioner was created III
mysterious way by four ether Com
missiOncrs, and not vulgariy voted into
existence by two houses of Congress. But
this method of artificial selection was employed
not TO insure any peculiar Judicial qualilca-
tlOUS, Dui ~ llrut iifSNdSt 81 INC EIttlDIdI
BILL SO long as the politics of the Commission
hung in even scale each party was content 10
trust in Providence; but an odd Judge would
have destroyed the balance and defeated the
bill in one house or the other. Neither party
imagined that thc fifteenth man would be free
from political lcaHings, but each one hoped
that he might incline just trile in the proper
direction.
But now that the lot has been cast into the
lap, Justices, Senators, and Representa- tiyes
all stand on the same judicial level, and
by no fiction or confusion OF mind are we al
liberty to relieve any one OF them of his full
responsibility or to shift upon any one bur
den which all should share alike. People who
hold that the ten members of Congress are at
liberty to decide rs paltsans. but that some
sterner virtue is to be expected of the Judges,
possess phenomenal talent for drawing ethical
distinctions. Ii is difficult Tor plain people 10
discover any moral obligation which does not
apply with equal rigor to Mr.. Hoar and to
Judge Clifford. Ii it should happen then that
upon any question the Commission stands
divided with eight more or less determined
Republicans Oh the one side and seven more or
less determined Democrats on the other it only
proves that in political matters the Judgment
of all men, Justices and Senator'S included, is
biased by their modes of political thinking.
And this Is only saying that all men are to a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-10
IITERdTURE IN PRISON..

A neritentiary with library OF 4,00o
volumes. solely for the use of the prisoners
il to be found in very few countries, ana hlty
wears ago could not have been found IN all
the world. The State PenItentiary OF western
PENNSYLVANIA is thus endowed; ana the
philanihropic will be interested in some facts
respecting the reading habits of the prisoners
which are set forth in the last report Oh the
chaplain vino appears also to be the iiDrariah'
The average daily population during the year
was 637. To these were issued from the
library 28.S43 volumes. These included 1852
works of fiction, 1851 biographies, l,OII
poems, 2.753 histories, and 1857 books or
travel Mr.. Millgan, the chaplain, seems to
think some apology necessary lor tle
matchmaking number of novels read,
and pleads that g work OF fiction read lor
"mere amusement will sometimes awaken a
thirst for more solid books:' to which we
venture to add that it is better TO read good
novels than to read nothing at all. The books
are kept in excellent order, and are eagerly
sought for by the prisoners.
A curious instance is given OF coiored
prisoner, who brought to the teacher Oh s0iled
rough brown paper a list of some ninety
Greek proper names, and words derived from
the Greek. Of these he wished to obtain the
proper pronunciation, and upon inquiry 1t
oppearrd that he had been reading history
of Greece from the library. The questions We
are told were intelligent and credltable
Some of the men try their hands at writ
ing the English language, although they
could not even read when they came
in; and they are tempted to do this
by their desire to send letters to their friends
and families outside. They are not Obliged to
attend the school, and their interest in it Is
therefore all the more credtable. Some OF the
prisoners have even yentured upon brief essays,
suggested by what they have read III these
books or in the newspapers. The latter, after
some hesitation on the part OF the authorizes,
are now freely furnished to the cOnvicts, 1t Is
thought with excellent results. Some OF the
prisoners purchase newspapers from their own
earnings by extra labor, and the perusal OF q
record of current events must OF course render
them filter for an intelligent use OF liberty when
it shall in time be restored to them. Beneyo-
lent people knowing the arrangements OF the
pepitcntiary, send gifts of books and newspa-
pers; and one good gentleman in Philadelphia
Is credited with "a barrel Of reading matter"
The PENNSYLVANIA Legislature passed law
in 1869 authorizing the Inspectors at their
discretion to assemble the conyicts for Labor,
Learning ard WOrship-terms which have
been styled 1.-the three factors in Prison Re-
'.form." The result seems to have been good;
and the report of the Western Penitentiary
of Pennsylvania is really cheerful and en-
couraging pamphlet.
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RAILROAD REPORTS.

During the past year the whole country has
been startled by n series Of great railway mis-
fortunes which have brought III their train ex-
tpnsiye bankruptcies and untold individual
suffering. The disasters have been the more
alarming because they have been entirely I'M
expected. Companies supposed to be strong
have collapsed like bubbles. In no instance
had the annual reports of The unfortunate
roads given the slightest indication OF trouble /;
and vet in our own and other States the CONT
panies are required by statute to make every
wear a full exposition of their actual condition,
Tor the protection of their stockholders and
the general public. The question is getting to
be disagrecably common whether these reports
are not made with intent 20 deceive.
For example, tie Ncw-Jelscy Central Rail
read Il short time ago was paying Its regular
10 per cent dividends, and It's stock was
sought for investment at ll6 nevertheless III
a little over six months it ceased TO be div
dend paving road, and It's stock went down to
% The Reading, the Delaware and Hudson.
and several other companies have furnished
scarcely less conspicuous examples of disaster
which the Annual State Reports, made with
perfect regularity, have failed to forecast and
October of last year we published a series OF
articles reviewing tie six preceding Annual
REPORTS of the New-YOrk Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company. On their face
these reports looked well enough, but
when submitted 10 the analysis OF an expert
they disclosed some facts which to say the
least were extraordinary. 1t WAS shown that
in a certain year the amoont OF net pFoI,ts ap-
plicable To dividends was exactly the amount
required 10 pay. ) per cent on the stock, with
out the variation OF dollar ana that during
another year the difference was only $1,000 ;
and that during the whole period covered by
the six reports embracing the years OF great
est railway prosperity dnd the years of greatest
railway depression, the surplus applicable to
dividends remained almost fixed quantity
Just enough to pay the invariable s per cent.
Prices nuctuaed from their mayimum TO a
point below actual cost; gross earnings
varied from So, 100000 to $3l 900, 600;
but the steady 8 per cent never
fraction more nor fraction less, was
divided every year. Ii appeared moreover
from this analysis that if the Reports were
true the dividends could by no possibility have
| been paid out of the legitpate earnmgS-cr
to put it the other way, that il the dividends
were earned the Reports could. not have been
true. The Report for last year, printed since
the articles to which we refer were written,
represents that the surpu. after paying int,r-
est and dividends in 1S76--a year universally
conceded to be disastrous beyond precedent to
railroad interests-was five times as large as
in the prosperous times of 1872.
The public are entitled to know the facts
concerning all these companies, and they do
not get the facts from the present Annual Re-
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certain extent under the control of sub,con-
scious tendencies, and that it is Impossible 10
ipsulate the reasoning faculty altogether rom
these subtle influences .,
The excuse for the existence.Of the lriouhai
WAS not that it would assuredly give to reason
and testimony their exact weight, and that IL
would therefore decide in accordance WIN
absolute justice, but that it would reach some
decision, and this decision its creators agreed
70 accent as final. 1t is therefore hagraht
oxbibition of bad faith for the advocates OF
the Electoral bill to critlcise the rulings Oh ING
Tribunal, and especially so to criticise the
attitude of one of its members while the trlai
IL vet In progress.
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HOW no RESUME.
not much.


President Grants recent message has been
very widely and warmly approved. 1t was
anticipated, in every essential feature, by the
bill introduced on the 9Th Of January by Mr..
Chittenden, and we earnestly invite attention
to this bill now, as the best way Of carrying
the Presidents more practical recommends
tions into immediate effect. It's very tile
is an appeal to public honor: "a bill
for paying the legal-tender debt in bar
"mony with justice and the repeatedly pledged
"faith of the Government Of the United States"
Strange that any member of Congress should
need TO be reminded that the legal tender is "a
debt! 1t is not dollar; it rcads, "The
" United States will pay one dollar" Non
Davment is dishOnOr; every hours needless
delay in payment is bad faith and disgrace.
The preamble rccitos that the legal-tcnder
notes were first accepted by the people because,
.'by a provision of the act authorizing them,
"they were fundIbe at the option OF the
"bolders into bonds of the United States
Clearing six per centdm annual inter
"esf,n and without snch provision neither
the Secretary of the Treasury nor either
house of Congress would have consented
TO their ISSUE This is bare recital of facts
known to every intelligent person Had it
then been supposed that these notes could
not be funded; that they would not be
drawn upward to par by the general credit OF
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POLITICAL NOTES.

Dade County has ceased to be of natlOn@
Importance.
Democratic hope has slowly evaporated' anu
the residuum is CrOnin.
Many asses have done excellenty, '1uuS'
Hoadlev, bu, thou excelest them all
One pivotal State the less. The loss OF TWO
more will b1ng the Presidency down to bed rock
Future Governors afflicted with a propensity
to A." ,,,shv in an inaugural address learn lesson
from Coy Ncwboll Of Iowa. After taking the oa'hoi
on,ce he summed ny his policy in these Six WORDS
10 the best can"
Gov. Hendricks ambition for Office is cool
ug or else his hOre OF obtaining it is becoming NoIA
lie is willing to surrender the strongest citadel Oh m
party. In a rsaton with Judge DAVID DAVIS NC
r,oorted TO have said well there's one thing aOo''
mot Louisiana crowd don't want any position OF III.
teres OF aine to depend upon testimony iro 'h'' S
on either side" II
The treatment which the cOlored voter woV''o
receive should Mr. Tlden reach the Presidency p''
plainly foteshadowed in an editorial In ire Troy - -
Tnat Journal docs not mnce words when deaiAE VIZ.
the subject 1t says: The country ousis never " ~
subjected to another treat such II has eiJ'y'u
the recent upheaya OF politics. The niggeis nave
II all This country has had all the trouble On '"' ~
copnt that il desires and might be wei, enou iIr
tGeIr TO understand II might hs se,, tey want
item 10 understand hat II they can nV'' 30 ~
to vote they lad Better not vote al a'i' - "a,
The Springfield Republican sees no nop' , iO
Mr. lllde except In Oregon. and IL aekno"l'"e'' -
the changes there are poor, That Joarnh me- NJ,
tcmpt.d 10 disguise its disgust al inc "''''P LINT
vote from Hayes in that state, aud II SHOWS ii" an.
satsfaetion when II knocks that prop from un"'' 80.
Dmocracy in This rude way: 1.-THE $4,000 prize 80
with which Ti,den put up the Cronin jobs INC ."
Of he numerous election investments from '"a'
,or, WHICH there is now any hoie Of realizing agI1hs.
and nt hope Is slim la spit. Of some itn 80 q
s"me technicalitcs. the Republicans nave 'he Wv
too"
The views Of the politicians, ConsresSinen .;
and lawyers gathered at Washington on the us' 81.
the Presidential arbitrators are as many
.a,.,,,, an, Wasbiuaton star succeeded In eoHa'l"s
the opinons of a number Charles o'Conor said i".
has lost one point in many. Hayes has gained ono
few Senator THURMAN believed that the p ss,s@.h,
had gained great victory ON Their pre''",y ,,u.,t
Chairman Hewr. took dspepte view off, and ,ous
that II Hayes Was declared elected. he would ".
presdept OF the United statcs for he dant 'in. ~.
Rapublic could endure Ben Hill did not despair VI
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THE NETS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN The Porte has issued an important
note Oh the failure of the Conference. - Earl
Granville holds that England ought to unite with
the European Powers in cOcrcing Turkey. -
The Spanish Senate has been dissolved.
DoMIsTIC.--The Electoral Commission has decided
TO report Florida as for Hayes by vote of to z;
protest will be presented in Congress against the re
port - Electors Levisse of Florida. DaEgett OF
Nevada and Peyser of West Virginia testified before
Congressional Committees as ii their eligibility
Ievisse told about an offer to him of 100000 to
get him to vote for Mr.. Tiden.
CoxGRFss.-The Senate passed the bill incorpo-
rating new submarine telegraph company. The
amendments to the Pacific railroads were debated.
The House passed the Deficiency Appropriation bill
Messrs. Morrison and Townsend presented ma
jority and minority reports Oh the election III Lou
isaua.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-Tbe Continental Life's af-
fairs were further examined before two referees !;
additional evidence OF Encouragement and of ex-
traorlinary payments to officers was produced.
- Al a.mccting of New-Jeisey Central directors,
the majority thought receiver must be appointed.
- James Flood and Joseph Morrison were held
as principal and accessory in the murder of Mary
Flood - Horace f. Brown gave more damaging
testimony about George l.. Maxwell in the forgery
Case - The foot-bridge between the Brooklyn
Bridge towers was completed &C Cold lO32i,
1861 1854 Gold value of the legal-tender dollar
ut the close 94la cents Stocks feversh and erratc
closing unsettled.
THE WgATHFR.-THE TRBUNE's local observa-
tons indicate generally clear weather, with little
change of temperature. Thermometer yesterday,
26o $50 $50.
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never once saw a chance TO blame him u.
not keeping his word. He is proud of his Scotch
traits, and fidelity is the chief of them wbatevs.
Simon Cameron does he does not break hisprou.
ises. The widow should abate herself. She /,
humbug, If not also blackmailer. II Simon Cam.
eron has promised to marry ybody. he is gona !.
do it, or die in the attempt.