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| committee TO Interfere With the state
organization Of the National party.
! but 10 assist them in forming a per
feet and uniform organization. To
this end the national committee will
furnish weekly lists OF councils char
/ tered in each state to the executive
| committee OF that state. IT there be {,
state organization: and. by the inStru-
mentality vi this system OF councils.
| secure the organization OF states now
| tinorgailiZed. From these local cOun-
els the organization Of counties. cities
and states viii be developed as the ne
cesslties OF each locality may demand.
The National committee viii pub
llsh promptly L campaign song book.
and it invites contributions from song
writers. The songs should be accom-
panied ~ the music. or Should he set
70 popular airs. The committee feel.
that this crisis should bring forth
such songs us similar struggles IN be-
half of human rights have inspired.
The committee urges that local or
CARNATIONS be perfected rapidly. and
that tickets be nominated in localities
where there are spring elections. i
StCttSS HI 1t CIT Oh lONll. Oh lONu-
ship. OF In q village. is often the key
TO more important victories. The re-
cent gratifying successes of the Ma
tional party in local contests III New
York aa.I Pennsylvania are encour-
a-iag 10 the workers in the cause
everywhere. These gains III the east
may he eqnalled and surpassed else
where by active and Jealous work.
The committee respectfully requests
that ttreenback and Labor local or
CARNATIONS ROW in existence apply for
charters aS National councils that the
unliicatlou Of interests secured with
such harmony and enthusiasm by the
Toledo convention may be utilized.
I'll" national committee invites
communications from the executive
officers OF all state organizations of
the National party. that there may
be cooperation ana harmonious ac-
ton.
All communications should be adj
dressed 70
y. H. STURGEON.
Chairman National TX. Com.
Toledo. March Il. 1873. Toledo, O.
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HOW GRAPES RIPEN.

according to Complies Redus. st.
Pierre and Magniea have arrived at
the following conclusions in regard to
the changes which grapes undergo
while ripening. During the process
they evolve carbonic acid in darkness
as we'll as in light, when exposed to
the air or placed in an Indifferent gas.
The amount of oxygen evolved III air
is always in excess of he oxygen TAX
en- up; this has been remarked in the
case of observations extending over Il
long space of time. Grapes can alb.
sorb or give off water according as
they are placed IN Il moist or dry me-
dunn. AS the change goes on the
acids decrease in amount. while the
quantity of sugar increases. The
acids and the glucose are carried to
the grapes by the sap. Here the
acids are slowly consumed. while the
sugar increases in point of the concen-
tration. and at a still later stage the
sugar itself is consumed.
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were Oh their feet again, and others
had come to their rescue The right
hand Of MI. Stevens. that had seized
the knife as it came at his throat. was
horribly mangled i'll the turning and
twisting Of the blade in Cone S efforts
to get it out Of his grip. The hemorr-
hage from the severed artery would
have resulted in speedy death but for
the presence of DR.. Hitchcock, of the
United States Army. whose skill ar
rested 1t. Mr.. Stevens was confined
to his bed for several weeks with
these wounds, and the right hand was
thought to be perfectly disabled. The
tendons of several fingers and the
thumb were severed, and he began
to write with his left hand, not using
the right for twelve months. To this
permanent hurt his terribly bad chi
rogaphv is now due.
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AMERICAN HORSE CARS.

\ World reporter has obtained
from the veteran street car builder.
Mr.. John Stephenson. III this city. a
column OF interesting facts concern
ing the origin and progress of street
railroads and horse ears throughout
the world The first street car line.
the Fourth Avenue. was opened in
1882. and the following year Mr.. Ste
phenson took out his first patent for
improvement in car building. No
other roads Were opened in New
York until 1852. when the Second.
Third. Sixth. and Eighth Avenue
lines were inaugurated In 1861.
Boston and Philadelphia adopted
street cars. and some years after the
leading Canadian cities followed. In
1889 the first street car line outside of
America was started by George Fran
els Twain. at Birkenhead. England.
The same year a road was built at
Buenos Ayres, South America
About the time Of the Vienna Exhi-
bition. tramway lines were built at
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CHINESE BARRIERS.

The Chinese mode Of wearing the
hair makes the flowery land the para
disc of BARRIERS. and the Chinese bag
Der has not his counterpart the world
over. From dawn he is in the streets.
carrying upon his shoulder. at either
end Of Il long ban boo. adorned with
an effigy OF a chimerical nature. the
parapherualia of his craft Eagerly
on the look out for any one whose
head is not perfectly shaven. as seen
as he detects such one he has him
in a trice Installed on a stool beneath
a large parasol. fixed IL the ground
In the twinkling IT an eye All is
ready. and the skull under his mani
pulationS. soon becomes smooth IS
ivory. This done. he passes on to the
pig tail, which he brushes. perfumes.
and dresses with the greatest care
| USless as ii seems TO Is. i really is
by no means so. The schoolmastfr
brings it Smartly to bear on the fin
gers OF the recalcitrant youth. the ass
driver has no other instrument
wheTewlth to stimulate his beast. the
man tired of life employs it rs hang
ing rope. and. lastly. the execntioner
selzes hold IF it when he decapitates
4 man.
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GREEtB1CK NOTES.
ENDORSING A GREESBAcKEr

n FIX
Special Telegram 70 the Pioneer Press.
DEs MONIES. Aug. 1.-the Demo.
cratic congressional convention FIR
the sixth district today decided 10
make no nomination, which leaves
the field TO the Greenbacker. Gen.
Weaver.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
COLUMBUS. Aug. l5.-The Republi.
can convention for the Ninth con-
2ressionai district declined to make
any nomination to-day. but endorsed
Lorenzo English, of Columbus. AZ an
independent candidate for congress.
BANGOR, Me-. Aug. 1.-THE Dem
ocrats Of the Fourth congressional
district have nominated q. ". Tadd
as the Greenback candidate for con.
gress.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 1.-THE Ma
tionais of the Fourth congressional
district have nominated Judge WIN.
D. Kelly for reelection.
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THE 2 l3 IA OF RhRUS

We have been asked if Rarus OBJ
tanned Il record of 2:l3 IA at Buffalo.
Our reply is. Yes. Although his
trials were somewhat irregular, the
Judges decided that he had won the
5000 offered to the horse which should
beat 2:l4. and the association paid
him the money 50 won. Rarus trotted
for consideration, and he received
the consideration: therefore his time.
2:l3 II. has passed into the record.
We may talk as much as we please
about the irregularity of the trials.
but we cannot 30 behind the returns.
The decision Of the Judges will have
to be accepted until it is overthrow
by some competent authority. This
is the law Of the National Association
and, in the case OF Rarlis. no departure
can be made from the law. The Bnf-
fa,o Park A>sociation is the pioneer
81 the new era Of the trotting turf.
Had it not been for it there would
have been no National Association.
1t has been the fountain head Of turf
law. and Il decision emanating from il
carries with it a force which Will
make it respected MI over the land.
We shall decide that Rarus gained a
record of ,:l3 IA at Buffalo until the
Board OF Appeals pronounces differ.
entIy.-TVrt, Fifid md Furm, iueHst
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button of its products, and the requir-
ments of business, fixing minimum
amount per capita of the population as
near as may be, and otherwise regula-
ting its value by wise and equitable
provisions of law so that the rate of in
terest will secure to labor its lust re-
| ward.
FIFTH 1t is inconsistent with the
genius Of popular government that any
species of private property should be
exempt from bearing it's Just share of
the public burdens. Government bonds
and money should be taxed precisely
as other property, and q graduated IN
come tax should be levied for the sup
port Of the Government and the pay
ment of its debts.
SIXTH-Public lands are the com
mon property of the whole people, and
should not be sold to spectators nor
granted to railroads or other corpora
tons, but should be donated to actual
settlers, in limited quantities.
SEyENTH-The government should
by general enactments, encourage the
development OF our agricultural, min
eral, mechanical, manufacturing, and
commercial resources. to the end that
labor may be fully and proftably en-
ploved, but no monopolies should be
legalized.
EIGHTH-All useless offices should be
abolished, the most rigid economy ia
vored III every branch Of the public ser
vice, and severe punishment inflicted
upon public officers who betrav the
trusts reposed in them
NTH As educated labor has de-
vised means for multiplying production
by inventions and discoveries, and as
their use requires the exercise of mind as
well as body, such legislation should be
had that the number Of hours of daily
toll will be reduced, giving to the work
ING classes more leisure for improve
ment and their several enjovments, and
saving them from premature decay and
DEATH
TENTH-1he adoption OF an Amerl-
can monetary system. as proposed here
in. viii harmonic all differences III re-
gard to tariff and federal taxation. re-
duce and equallze the cost of transpor-
tation by land and water. distribute
equitably the Joint earnings Of capital
and labor, and secure to the producers
Of wealth the result of their labor and
skill and muster out of service the vast
army Of idlers who, under the existing
system, grow rich upon the earnings OF
others, that every man and woman
NAV, by their own efforts secure COM
petence, SO that overgrown fortunes and
extreme poverty will be seldom found
in our republic.
ELEvENTH-Both national and state
governments should establish bureaus
OF labor and industrial statistics, cloth
ed with the power Of gathering and
publishing the same.
TwELFTH-That the contract system
O.: employing labor IN our prisons and
retornlatory institutions wor1s great IL
justice TO our mechanics and artisans.
and should be protected.
I'HIeTEENTH-The importation Of
servile labor into the United States.
from China. is Il problem of the most
serions Importance, and We recommend
legislation looking to its suppression.
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Platform Of Principles dopted al Toedo,A
One. February u, 1878.

INC : 0Df<-ettY ( (, lO| ..
WHEREAS. throughout our entire
country the value Of real estate is de-
precia.eol. industry paralized. trade de
pressed. busines, incomes and wages
reduced. unparalleled distres, inflicted
upon the poorer and middle ranks of
our people the land filled with fraud.
embezzIcm bankruptcv. crime. suf-
;eiine. pan, e.sla and starvation: and
WHEREAS. THIS state Of things has
be.l. brought a5out u, eeislation in
the interest ~ and dictated bv money
lenders. bankers and beadhoi,jer,: and
WHEREAS. N4..r we recognize the
fact that the men In Congress con-
aect.d win Ri. old political parties
have stood ~ nmluliy for the rights
ii tha people. taI lne- the threats Of
the money power aud the ridicule of an
Ignorant and ~al~idised press. vet
uestael the Republican nor the emo
cIa-ic party, in their uatlona. politics.
propose r.me,.s,s Ter the existing evils.
ANA
v nrHEA~. The independent Gre IL
back lettfv aud other associations. more
-. less effective nave been unable hath
erto 70 nakea Formidable opposition to
the old party organization: and
WHEREAS. The limiting OF the legal
tender quality Of greenbacks. the chang
inc OF currency bonds into coin bouds
thu. decentralization Of the silver dollar.
the excepting OF bonds from taxation.
the contraction OF the circulating me-
dunn. the proposed forced resumption
Of specie payments. and the prodiral
waste ot the public lands, were crimes
against the reorle. and. as far rs posi-
bic. the result of these criminal acts
must be counteracted bv ludicic Us leg
islation:
TnEREroRE. We assemble in nation
nj convention and make declaration
Of our principles. and invite all patri-
otto citizens to unite in an effort 10 ~
cure financial reform and industrial
emancipation The organization shall
be known as the National PARTY. and
under this name We will perfect, with
out DELAY national. state and local as
soeiations to secure the election 10 Of
flee OF such men only as will pledge
themselves to do all IN their power 70
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Brussels and Berlin. Very recently
they have been adopted in Paris and
Russia, IL South America. and al
most every where in the large cities
of the English colonies.
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iCF> ron YHI PEoPAE.
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Chairman National EX Com.
Toledo. March l.. ISIS. Toledo, O.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-05-03

III the British Government had deliberately
calculated upon opening war with Russia, say
some time III May, it could not have acted
differently from what it has been doing for
the last two months. One step after another.
political and military, has been but the clear
ing Of the decks for action The driving war
preparations in England and the hurryIng up
Of troops from India arr only part Of the
meuacmg indications II Is Just reported
that ali the Powers have accepted invitations
10 the proposed peace congress except Eng
land which still reiterates her demands as TO
the entire submission 10 the congress of the
San Stefauo treaty between Russia and Tur-
key This attitude II confirmed in its ap-
parent isolation from the course Of all the
other Governments will go fHr to neutralze
the part England has taken in the negotiations
for the mutual Withdrawal Of troops and fleet
from the neiGhborhOod OF Constantinople
1t lends some color to that most discounglng
Of recent rumors. that Germany itself Is en-
ergetically pushing forward war preparations.
There Is no obvious reason for connecting
the recent Mussulman insuTection IN Turkey
with the British programme, but this sort Of
proceedings has already been contemplated
in England in case of war. A prominent en-
gineer in London in letter 10 friend in
Baltimore dated the 10th inst writes In
the event of war 20 the knife with RUSSIA We
should have Austria an ally and Italy best of
all, the beaten Turk, whom we will resusci-
tate under British officers and give the bear a
taste of the honey he learned the smack of at
Plevnu. in addition to the new dishes we shall
serve up at the banquet" The Turks, then.
are to be used to make the Russian occupa-
ton Of their country as troublesome as posi-
bic. although the present outbreak may have
been spontaneous and not through foreign in
stigations On the whole, while there are
still hopes of peace, it must be confessed that
the policy of England is doing more than any
thing else TO weaken them.
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President Hayes paid four days visit to
Philadelphia last week in response to the ur-
gent solicitation of the Union league, the COM
mercal exchange, and other public and social
organizations of that city. He was accom-
panied by Mrs Hayes and other members of
his family, and by Secretaries Sherman,
Schurz and Devens, and Gen. Patterson, with
ladies'. The visit seems to have been, from
beginning to end, a continued ovation on the
part of the people. Dense crowds greeted
the President wherever he appeared, and the
greatest enthusiasm over his presence was
constantly manifested. The party arrived in
the city on Wednesday, and on the evening Of
that day a brilliant reception rendered the
President by the Union league took place at
the Union league house. Thursday, after
visitingthe Philadelphia commercial exchange,
the party with 500 other people went on an
excursion down the river to the Richmond
coal wharves and Chester, during which a
sumptuous banquet was served on board the
steamer Friday the President WAS taken
on a tour of general sightseeing, and at p.
A., lac held a reception in Independence Hall,
Mrs. Hayes meantime visiting various CHART
able and educational institutions. The recep-
ton which was given to Mrs. Hayes Thurs
day evening at the Academy of fine arts, by
the ladies of Philadelphia, was pronounced
the grandest social event of the kind even
given in the city. Saturday was spent in Wis
iting the coal and iron regions of Lehigh and
Schuylkill valleys, and the party left for Wash
ington in the evening.
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To thu Edt0rs III, eymoHt PiuAJ.
Tho remarks i'm your hast issue on the text
Of au article from N, Bvrin0i"a Fra Press
seem TO mo open 10 some criticism In the
first place our act O. 1876 is based not at all
upon the bankrupt Act-it is framed upon
the Iusolyeu Law of Massachusetts. as the
same as printed IN tin General Statute of
that STATE, edition of 1850 the law having
been passed many year. previously a com
parisou OF our act with that of Massachusetts
shows that many sections of our act are cop
led rerbdtym from that Of Massachusetts. and
the substantial provisions Of the whole are
similar The operation Of that act met with
the general appreciation If III, people Of
Massachusetts until it fell into allegiance 10y
the passage of the Bankrupt Act ! agree
with you that "A bankrupt act Of universal ap-
plicatiou throughout the Union could such
one be devised, and faithfully. intelligently
and cheaUv admiust cred would be prefert-
bic to any insovent act which could be passed
10y any State limited as its application must
be- in some respects. 10 State lines l do not
express any opinion whether the repeal Of
the Bankrupt Act is desirable, however faulty
that aw or its administration may be--nor do
l say that uu insolvent law for Vermont is
needed. or would receive my vote had one
TO give. But ! think You arr quite IN error
in your remark Tint our Stat, law is cum
brous affair retaining some of the
Objectionable features Of the national law. %
circumstance have induced me 90 make re
Gently careful study Of the act Of 1876. and
a comparison Of it with the similar act Of
Massachusetts used and approved IN that
State for many years before the passage Of
Bankrupt Act 1t seems to me that the
"cumbrous and Objectionable features Of
the national act are not III our law. Assum-
ing that the fundamental principle Of all
bankrupt and insolvent laws-to wit. that "a
debtor unable to pay his debts ought to be re-
heved from their obligation upon his turning
over his property TO be equally divided among
his creditors, is sound, principle which do
it, then l believe that our Insolyent Act of
1876 will furnish simple, effective, speedy
and cheap mode of attaining that result, and
that its operation will commend it to all of
our people who hold TO the principle on which
ali such laws are founded Those who do not
believe in bankrupt or insolvent laws of any
kind cannot like the operation of this one,
nor could they of any one which human skill
could devise. RI.
April 20, 1875.
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1t would seem that the members of the Mrs.
Rutherford b. Hayes temperance society of
Washington, ID. c., were guilty of a very un-
necessary exhibition of narrow mindedness,
as well as of an outright insult to n very worthy
lady, when, at a meeting held last Saturday
evening, they discarded the name of the or
ganization, on the ground that although Mrs.
Hayes discountenanced wine at the Duke
Alexis and other dinners at the Executive
Mansion, she countenanced the of claret
punch ut the dinner on board the excursion
steamer on Delaware Bay during the recent
Presidential trip. That this action was en-
tirely gratuitous and uncalled for is shown by
the fact that neither Mrs Hayes nor any 9th
er lady of the party tasted the claret punch
on the occasion referred TO, and that, more
over. no wine was served at the Union league
banquet, out of Difference 10 Mrs Hayes S
well-known temperance principles. At the
annual meeting of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in New York, Tuesday
evening, William L. Dodge made II speech de
Tending the conduct of Mrs. Hayes and say
ing that. in his opinion, it did not help the
cause of temperance 10 assail a lady of such
high position and well-known character, and
who had done so much for the cause of tenn
perance.