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IMP, DEL "BOIETIN '..FORTALExA 81,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-02-15
GRANT APPROVES
The a. IcctOraI Vote BiH, and II is Now
Law-sIc also Gives His Reasons
for Executive Endorsement
nj Length,

The following is the text of the pres
idents message concerning the electoral
bill:
To the Senate Of the United States:
| followed the example heretofore oc-
casionaIly presented, OF communicating
in this mode my approval of the act to
provide for and regulate the counting
of the votes for president and vice pres
ident, and the decision of questions aris-
ing thereon, because of my appreciation
of the eminent peril to the institutions OF
the country, from which, in my judg-
ment, the act affords wise and c0nstitu.
tional means of escape. For the first
time in the history ot our country, under
the constitution as it is now, dispute ex-
lists with regard to the result of the cleo
tion OF chief magistrate of the nation.
1t is understood that upon the disposition
ofthe disputes touching the electoral votes
cast at the late election by one or more
of the states depends the question
whether one or the other OF the candi-
dates for tho presidency is the awful
chief magistrate. The Importance Of
having clearly ascertained by procedure
regulated by law which of the two citi-
zens has been elected, and of who, having
the right to this high Office, recognized
and cheerfully agreed in by all the peo-
pie of the republic, cannot be Overesti-
mated, and leads me to express to con-
gress and to the nation my great satisfac'
ton at the adoption of measure that
afford orderly means ofdecision OF gravely
exciting questions. While the history
OF our country in its early period shows
that the president Of the senate ha,
counted the votes and declared theii
standing, our whole history shows thai
in no instance of doubt or dispute has hi
exercised the power of deciding, and tina
the two houses of congress have disposed
of all such doubts and disputes al
though in no instance hitherto have the!
been such that their decision could es
sentially have affected the result. Fo
the first time, then, the government c
3 the United States is now brought t
meet the question as one vital to tn
6 result, and This under conditions nc
the best calculated to produce agree
ment or TO induce calm feelin
in the several branches of the govern
ment or among the people of tie cou;
4 try. In case where, as now, the resul
: i, involved, it is the highest duty OF tn
6 law-making power to provide In advahc
- a constitutional, orderly AMI Just metho,
o of executing the constitution IN tDl
' most interesting and critical clause o
. its provisions. The bill, SO far from be
ing compromise Of the right, is an en-
soTcament of the right and an executis
nr The rower. conferred by the constI.u
, lion ON cnngreas, I think that this ol
icyly msthni has been secured by III,
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Searching for Wealth in Arctic Wilds.

Amidst the frozen wastes of the arctic
regions there are no doubt, stores enough
of mineral wealth to raise halt the hui
man race from poverty to riches. If we
could only get at them! IN the days OF
good queen Bess, the celebrated navl-
GATOR Frobish made several expeditions
into those inhospitable climes in search
of cold. And now we hear of the return
of an American expedition, sent out by
Philadelphian merchants, in search OF
mica-a humber mineral, it is true, but
perbaps as profitable. The Americans
had proceeded to what is known to whale
men as Nialtic valley, and there they
had laid tramway, built shanties, ana
conducted mining operations for about
six weeks. The Eskimo lent them
helping hand, but only for short time,
as thew had TO set out on their summer
deer hunting. The miners worked IN
ousrries about 800 feet above the Level
ot the sea. 1t was impossible to carry
the tramway to that height, and the
mica was transported the greater part 9i
the distance on the backs oil lhe HoLA-
men. Some ofthe blocks we're ren:srka'
blv LARGE and clear, and about nitren trs
TONS ot mica were brought away; Inc
Io;naral was estimated to be worth nom
fya dollars TO twelve dollars Pounu.
The charms OF wealth may thus iure We
On nearer and nearer the coveted noi.n
IL Ard. after all, we mus. ns a.
Pv'.. s,,;n for an object as weilsss .h .ho
seg. inosea 81 scientific knowledge % nhu Wv
,ne,is s,;ses,isn of a parlonahle Hm"u"''
T,s,sifs M,gczfrf
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-02-15
more gamblers, spectators and superhu-
Gus middlcmen must fall by the way
New York Times.
The United States Senate After
March 4.

The election of Judge Davis to sue
ceed Logan enables the Republican to
state definitely the political complexion
of the United States senate on the toruth
day of march next, and nothing indicates
more strikingly the wonderful victory
achieved last fall by the democracy. With
seventy-fve seats filed in the senate to-
day the republicans have a majority Of
seventeen, while with the entire seventy
six seats filled they will lawfully be
entitled to but two majority on the fourth
of March. What majority they will
actually have depends, OF course, to n
great degree upon the extent to which
they can use the majority they will have
in the portion Of the senate holding over
March 4, 1877, in seating the republicans
returned by the pretended legislature of
Louisiana and South Carolina, and deny
ing admission to democrats from other
states. 1t will be interesting to note,
however, the changes which will occur
in the senate during the next six years,
which covers the period OF Office forwhich
the new class of senators have been
chosen By adopting the phraseology
used in college catalogues and classifying
the senator's according to the years in
which their terms expire, these changes
can be easily marked.
The first changes in the composition OF
the senate occur on March 4, 1877, and
will be as follows;
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-02-15

bill, which appealing to the constitution
and law as guide in ascertaining the
rights, provides means OF deciding ques-
tions Of single returns through direct
action of congress, and in congress, and
in respect to double returns by a tribunal
Of inquiry, whose decisions stand unless
| both houses OF congress shall concur in
determining otherwise, thus securing
definite disposition of all questions Of
dispute in whatever aspect they may
arise. With or without this law, as all
the states have voted, it is impossible,
it must be that one Of the two candidates
has been elected, and it would he de-
pIorable to witness an irregular contro-
versy as to which Of the two should re.
ceive, or which continue to hold the
office In all records of history contro-
versiGs have arisen as to succession or
choice of chiefs of states, and no party or
citizen loving their country and its
free institutions can sacrifice too
much of mere feeling in preserving,
through upright course of law, their
country from The smallest danger to its
peace on such an occasion; and it cannot
be impressed too firmly in the hearts of all
people that true liberty and real progress
can exist only through a cheerful abhor-
cnce to constitutional law The bill pur-
ports to provide only for the settlement
of questions arising from recent elcc-
tions The fact that such questions can
arise demonstrates the ncCessity-whch
| cannot doubt will, before long-be sup
piled, of permanent general legislation
to meet cases which have not been con.
templated in the constitution or laws of
the country The bill may not be per.
feet, and its provisions may not be such
as would be best applicable to all future
occasions, but it is calculated to meet
the present conditions of the questions
of the country. The country is agitated;
it needs and it desires peace and quiet
and harmony between all parties and all
sections. Its industries are arrested,
labor unemployed, capital idle and enter
prise paralyzed by reason of doubt and
anxiety attending the uncertainty of a
double claim to the chief magistracy OF
the nation. 1t wants to be assured that
the result of the election will be accepted
without persistence from the supporters
of the disappointed candidate, and that
its highest officer shall not hold his place
with a questioned title of right, Be-
lieving that the bill will secure these
ends, | give it my signature.
L. S. GRANT
Executive Mansion, January 90, 1877
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Mustard Plasters.

How many people are there who
really know how to make Il mustard
plaster? Not one in a hundred at the
most, perhaps, and yet mustard plasters
are used in every family, and physicians
prescribe the application. The ordinary
way is to mix the mustard with water,
tempering it with little -four; but such
a plaster as that makes it simply abem-
inable. Before it has half done its work
it begins to blister the patient, and leaves
him finally with a painful flayed spot,
after having produced far less effect in a
beneficial way than was intended. Now
mustard plaster should never make a
blister at all. If blister is wanted,
there are other plasters far better than
mustard plaster, then, use no water, but
mix the mustard with white of an egg
and the result will be plaster which
will draw perfectly, but will not pro-
duce blister even upon the skin of an
infant, no matter how long it is allowed
20 remain on the part. For this We have
the word of an old and eminent physi-
clan, as well as our own experience. -
Christian Mirror.
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PretentiOus Pests of the Period.

Our expenditures must he made more
productive; the dignity of labor must
have more recognition, and the gentility
of varieus counterfeits of work rather
less. The country yields enough for all,
and we must learn to make all earu their
share of its abundant wealth, The able
bodied tramp who lives on the earnings
of honest toll is no more of social pest
than some more pretentious members of
society, who live by various ingenious
devices for levying toll on capital and
labor. A good many such have found
their natural level Of late, IN our progress
toward sound business methQdi many
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SENATORS.

1t will be seen that the republicans
only have a majority of nine in that
portion of the senate holding over March
4, lS77-so that a charge of five votes
will prevent them seating republicans
instead of democrats lawfully chosen.
There is only the remotest possibility,
therefore, that they will keep Butter
from South Carolina, Eustis and the
democrat yet to be chosen in Louisiana,
out of their seats. Eusts is entitled to
his seat now, and he will probably be
admitted as soon as the presidential
dispute is settled, and certainly if the
decision Of the arbitration commission
be in Tilden's favor. In that event, the
fifty senators who hold over will stand
twenty-one democrats and twenty-nine
republicans, a majority of only eight for
the republicans. OF the twenty-six new
senator's, sixteen will be democrats,
counting democrats from Louisiana and
South Carolina; and the account will,
therefore, stand thus:
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= MISCELLANEOUS.

Negotiations have been commenced be-
tween the United States and Spain for a re-
vision of the treaty of 1898.
The American spiritualist Slade, sem
fenced to three months confinement at hard
labor, had his sentence quashed on an ap'
peal on legal technicality.
Slade follows Flint to liberty, but
probably not to the public resumption OF
his business Flint was net locked up for
practicing on public credulity, but omitting
to pay alimony.
There is very modest Pacific railroad
project before congress It only asks for
ten or fifteen thousand dollars to enable a
survey to be made, under the direction Of
the war department, of line from Austin
Texas, crossing Mexico, and terminating at a
harbor on the gulf of California called Topo-
lovampo pay. The length of the proposed
line is only eight hundred miles. A bill
making the appropriation is now on the
senate calendar, backed by report OF the
committee on railroads. The route indi-
Gated is the shortest available line for a
road connecting the railroad system OF the
east and south with good harbor on the
waters of the Pacific ocean.
The prospects of American cotton
manufacturers are brighter than ever they
were before. The Boston Advertiser states that
there are thousands of bales on order books
that have not yet been started at the mills
About year ago Mr.. Edward Atkinson, oil
that city, in an able paper on the subject
calculated that the export OF cottou goed'
would reach fifteen milllan- aud stop, aud
,his represented the annual surplu. 81 9n'
menufaeturers The annual export has now
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-02-15

The grainheavers of the Brooklyn
warehouse docks are on strike.
The New York state senate unanimous
ly favors the speedy resumption of specie
payment.
1t is no wonder that the revenues of
New York city do not pay its expenses, The
salary of its mayor $4,000; corporation
counsel, $4,000; commissioner of public
works, $l0,0O0 president of the board Of
police, $4,000; president of the fire depart
ment, $780, president of the health depart.
ment, $1,000; president of the common
council, $4,000; aldermen, each, $4,000;
chamberlain and clerks, $4,000; police jus.
tices, each, $4,000; judges of the supreme
court each, $4,000; city Judge, $4,000;
commissioner of juries, $4,000. And so on
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FOREIGN.

Rinderpest has appeared among cattle
in the suburbs Of London.
The king of Sweden, the crown prince
and prince John OF Glucksburg, have all be-
come Freemasons.
The French senate has passed grant
for the relief of the famine.stricken inhabi
tants of Pondcherry.
G. w. Griffin has arrived, bringing full
powers rs minister from the government of
the Samoan Islands, tc treat with our own
in their behalf. He has not yet had an in
terview with the secretary of state, and
therefore it is not known whether he will be
recognized as minister frem that country, as
he holds commission as United States
consul
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NEWS SUMMARY.
THE SOUTH.

Several nickel counterieitors were ar
rested In New Orleans, Thursday, together
with the machinery for working up the base
material.
The number of ships in Charleston
harbor had decreased TO sevcnty.fiyc on the
Goth, of which four were steamships, six
ships, fifty barks, nine brigsand four schoon'
ers. OF these, fourteen were under the flag
Of the United States twenty.eight the flag
of Great Britain, eleven OF Spain, twelve Of
Norway, two Of Sweden, three OF Germany
and two Of Russia. Sixteen were loading
for Liverpool, three for IIavre, four for the
United Kingdom, six for the Continent, two
for port in Europe, one for Trieste, two for
Barcelona, and the remainder for coastwise
ports, ready or waiting.
The Plaquemines Observer, of Janua.
ry 20, says; Our sugar planters are highly
encouraged by the splendid crop Of last year
and the high prices obtained therefor and
will open the planting campaign with re.
newed confidence and energy. Many sugar
plantations heretofore planted in rice will
again resume the cultivation of cane, and it
IS reported that many small rice planters in
the upper portion of the parish will plant
their front lands in cane, the produce there
of to be sold to the sugar planters or be
hauled to their mills and ground on shares,
on the same system that prevails in Martin
ique and Guadaloupe, and which has been
attended with most brilliant results.
The Memphis Appeal thus headlines
its local column: "John b. Jones cuts the
throat Of Pat Connell, a fireman, and Alon.
10 Bleming (colored) shoots at Susan Dale
(coored) through a window; Walter Nelson
accidentally shot and killed by Preston
Jones; attempt at murder near Central
Point; several shots fred John Campbell,
assaulted by two negroes, has his skull
crushed; negro waylays belated pedes-
trlan fer the purpose of robbery a myste'
rious shot on Gayoso street last night;
fearful list for one day, and one that calls
for an effective remedy"
The clearances from Charleston ports
for the week ending the Goth, were three
hundred and thirty-three bags Of sea island
cotton, 2O,SS7 bales of upland cotton, 1872
tierces rice, Ais barrels resin, 1000 tons
phosphate rock, 2,27O barrels -four OF
this amount ifty.one bags sea island cot.
ton and 0,549 bales of upland cotton were
for Great Britain; forty bugs of sea island
cotton and $40 bales of upland cotton were
for France; 3,543 bales of upland cotton
were for the continent of Europe, 1850 bar
rels resin to Rotterdam, 500 tons phosphate
rock to various European ports, 2,270 barrels
flour to Matanzas, $3.50 bales of cotton, 1,272
tierces rice, four hundred and fifty tons
phosphate rock, 1,27S barrels resin and sun
dries to coastwise ports.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-02-15

Without entering any comparison with
other means for educating mankind t.
higher standard of morality, it is i'm
possible to deny that the theater is Il
powerful lever for good or evil. The
tendency of the modern stage TO melo-
drama, to butfoonery, to indecenCy, can
not be too harshly condemned. Black
Crooks and Observation-Disclosures dramas,
with no moral, no idea, no sentiment,
but appealing only to the eye or to the
more sensuous emotions, are productive
of as much harm as the most bitter op-
ponent of the stage can denounce against
it. In this category may also be in
cluded that peculiar species of drama
known as the French school, wherein So
cial vices are depicted in attractive colors,
and the sympathy of the auditor is
aroused for the impure when clothed in
a false sentimentality. This may be
canddly admitted without any reflection
upon the stage, or those who belong to
the actors profession. Vice, unfortu.
nately, is not confined to any one class
or calling. The stage is no more respon-
sible for having loose characters upon it,
than is any other profession. No one
dreams of cOndemning a whole class OF
persons because some fall by the wayside
| If so, then from the very city from which
DR.. Talmadge inveighs against the stage
would come the most fragrant attacks
upon his own sacred calling.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-02-15

Under the above heading Il cores
pondent of the Scientific American says
The monopoly to be feared by farmers is
the brains of other professions, While
the farmersnumber6, 600, ,000in thisCoun-
try, there are only about II, 900 lawyers,
yet one of our best writers on political
economy says that he can select one hun
dred lawyers, who exert more influence
in public affairs, than all the farmers put
together. The same is true to only a
slightly less degree of manufacturersand
transportation companies. Yes, they
have a monopoly of brains. Farmers
ourselves, we are sorry to confess it, but
confess it we must. Who control the
aifairsofnine tenths ofour country towns?
Usually the second-rate lawyers, other
professions and trades at the Center" "
Yet, ii they but awoke to- it, the farmers
too might do a little of the public think
ing. The first step in the uplifting OF
this class to place of power in society
is to place its men and women on the
same plane, intellectually as the others,
In education is the farmers bulwark
against encroachments and usurpation of
power by the few over the many.
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UNCLE REMUS' REVIVAL HYMN.

Oh whar will we 20 wen de greW day comes,
Wild de BLOWN NV de trumpets an de bangin' Nv
dedruns?
How many POI sinners II he cotched out late,
An fine No latch to de GOLDEN gate
No use fer ter wait 'twell iO.mOrrcr9
be sun mus'n set on yo' sorreT,
Sins es sharp e2 bamboo brier--
Oh, Lord fetch the moners up higher
II.
Wien de nashuns nv dc oari isl stannin all nroun,
" hos gwinO ter be chosen Tor tor war de glory
crown
Who's agwinc fer ter stan stif kneed an bOl'
An answer to dCre name al de Calin' Nv de roll
You better come now Of you Comin'-
Ole Satan Ia loose ans q bummin'-
De wheels Nv distlucshun Ia q nummin'-
ON, come along, sinners et YOU comm
De song nv salvation Ia mighty sweet song,
An dc Paradise wn blow fur an blow strong
An Aberhams bu22um is sHf an it's wide
An dat's de place whar de sinners oughter hide
No use TO he Stoppin' an 4 lookin',
ri you fool wild satan you get took in.
You'll hang on de edge an get shook In.
III you keep on stsppin' an oekin'.
".
De time is right now an dishere's dc place
Let de Hvashun sun shine sVuar' In yo' face
Fight de battle Of de Lord, fight soon and fight late,
An you'll alters hnoa latch on de golatn cato
No use ier ter wait 'twel to morrcT--
De sun mustn't set on yO' sOrTer.
Sins cH sharp c2 bamboo hTier--
AK de Lord fer ter fetch you mp higher.
-ANdHd Constitution
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SENATE.

In the senate on the 9th, during
the morning hour the military academy and
fortifcation appropriation bills were called
up. The amendments reported by the CON-
mittee on appropriations were agreed to,and
the bills passed without discussion. The
Pacific railroad bill was again called up,
and read at length, when Mr.. Thurman, in
charge of the bill, yielded to executive ses.
sion, and when the doors were reopened the
senate adjourned.
In the .enate on the 2sth, Mr., Robert
SOP called NJ Nr, Gorden's resplu,iog ae;
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RECAPITULATION.
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Nothing need be palmer than that'the
republican majority oftwo will instantly
vanish when Tilden takes his seat, 50
that his administration will begin with
good working majority in both branches
T congress, which will I've greatly In
ocrsased after March 4, lS7a.--.J, Lqp
RepulIaa,
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reached that figure, The annual export be-.
fore the war did not exceed eleven mil.
lions, and was confined then to standard
drills and sheetings; now it includes all the
best styles Of our manufactures. The inabil.
ity now to fill orders for the foreign markets
arises from the low staLe in the streams.
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COUGH TRocHEs. One ounce Spanish
licorice, two ounces refined sugar, two
drains finely powdered gumarabic and
extract of opium, one scuple. Beat the
whole together, with nucilage of gum
tragacsnUh, make into small troches, to
I've dissolved in The mouth when cough is
troublesome,
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CLASS OF 1877.

The names placed in italics indicate
the senator's who have been reelected.
TO make the change more apparent
the result may be summarized in this
form:
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Of these seventy-six senators, the term
of twenty-four expire March 4, 1879, oS
twenty-six March 4, 1881, and of the re
naming twenty-six March 4, 1888, a
will be seen by the following statements