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a New Movement.

Memphis Western Methodist: For some
years we have been watching with interest
and hope movement going forward under
the guidance of few noble women of our
church. This movement has been attended
with no display of banners or sound of trum-
pet-not sign have we seen of petty desire
for publicity and glory. Indeed, there has been
perhaps unuseful concealment of persons and
names-shrinking out of sight, and 80 out of
mind, in part This fact we state for i'm
-provement' sake, and not by way of criti-
cism; for it is to be condoned most readily,
since it resulted from the modesty of the
sex-a trait of character nowhere stronger
in influence than among southern women.
But work has been done, and good work, SO
known by its fruits. A foundation has beer
laid, and preparation is going on for solid
structure, and extensive as well, through the
cooperation of many who have hitherto not
been informed of the movement, or, at any
rate. have not been impressed sufficiently to
prompt them to action. We refer, of course,
to the movement which, after some years of
struggle on the part of few choice spirits
here and there, eliminated last month in the
organization of the Woman's missionary So
clety of the Methodist Episcopal church,
aor,th
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The Tobacco Tax.

Lynchburg Virginian: The tobacco men,
who were in Washington during the last
days of congress, seem to have no doubt that
the bill for reducing the tax on manufactured
tobacco would have passed the senate if it
could have reached that body in time, and
they look with confidence to the next session
to perfect the work of reduction. 81 Q. w, ="
telegraphing to the Louisville Courier Jour
nal, says: "An executive committee was ap-
pointed to call convention of tobacco men
some time in October or November, the object
being to concentrate the entire trade in a
request to congress to fix upon the first of
April next as the time for the law to go into
effect This general agreement would relieve
uncertainty in the trade, and put every
manufacturer on the footing of those who,
like the Lorillards, have guaranteed their
goods. The representative Of the tobacco
men are generally satisfied with the prospect
for next winter. They expect that then there
will be no depression in trade, but, on the
contrary, good business season for the next
two months at least. The Lorillards are
much cut up at their failure to stop the bill
in the house -
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ROBBERIES
BY Railroad CorporariOns-Lands that
Belong to the People Being Sold
In violation OF Law.

Kansas City Times: The New York
World calls attention to strange failure on
the part of the interior department to enforce
one very important provision OF law which
the Pacific roads are treating as dead letter.
The third section of the Pacific railroad act
of 1862 provides that all lands granted to the
company (which shall not be disposed of by
said company within three years after the en-
tire road shall have been completed, shall be
subject to settlement and pre- emption, like
other lands, at price not exceeding 81 %
per acre, to be paid to said company. Yet,
though the Pacific road was opened for busl-
ness between Omaha and San Francisco IN
May, 1869, and recent decision of the court
of claims fixed November, 1869, sthe legal
date of completion, which would make this
provision operative on and after November,
1872, there has been no attempt to enforce 1t,
and the companies have been and still are
openly violating it without remOnstrance or
rebuke from the interior department. Ihey
have sold and are still selling hundreds OF
thousands of acres of land at prices ranging
from 50 up to $12 per acre. The Union
Pacific railroad had sold during the hrst
four months of this year los, AIS acres of
land at an average of S. Oh per acre; the
Kansas Pacific, 127 ,721 acres, at an average
of So 80, and the Denver Pacific, $500
acres, at an average of 50 81 per acre. The
Union Pacific, in May, sold 81, 1877 acres, at
prices averaging IS IL per acre. The Cen
trail Pacific directors report for the year end
ing December 81, 1876, shows that between
that date and October l, 1870, the company
had sold 81, 104 acres, at prices averaging
50 So per acre. 1t sold over 124, 900 in the
year ending May l. 1878, at an average price
of $12 IS per acre. This is about ten times
the price at which, according to the act of
1862, THAT land was to be held at after No
vember, 1872. The plain intention of the
law was to secure the rapid settlement Of the
territory traversed by the Pacific roads. They
accepted the grant upon these conditions,
and have since, by the conniVance OF the ad-
mipistration, been making an enormous profit
upon it, in violation of the law-retarding
settlement and literally robbing the people of
their right to buy that land at 81 25 per acre,
and robbing the west of that rapid growth
which the land grants were made to secure.
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OUR CUsTOsIHOUsE,

Special dispatch to the st. Louis Globe
Democrat, 26th: The material for the Memphis
customhouse and postofice having been
changed by act of congress from Illinois
sandstone to Tennessee marble, the contract
originally awarded to P. w. Schneider, for
Illinois sandstone, was to-day changed by
direction of the secretary of the treasury to
the material directed by congress. In view
of the change Of material, the contractor has
been allowed an additional sum of eighty
five thousand dollars. Mr. Schneider is now
in this city, and will be in st. Louis on FRI
day.
The attention of our senators and repre-
sentatives is specially called to the above, in
the hope that they will make it their duty at
the earliest moment after the assembling of
congress to secure the passage of resolution
compelling John Sherman to explain this
latest proof of his hate for the people of Ten
nessee, and, if possible, to ascertain whether
he is not partner of Schneider, or il not in
terested In the contract which he renews
without warrant of law and in defiance of
public usage and decency. Ever SINCE the
question of constructing the Memphis Gus
tomhouse was settled and work was ordered
begun, the wishes and desires of the people In
regard to it have been thwarted by Sherman
and that other sneak-the present supervis-
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The omission by the enrolling clerk of the
house of the paragraph providing for what
is said to have been intended as Hot Springs
swindle, was the subject recently of letter
by Senator Dorsey in which the unlucky
clerk was severely handled. Clerk Adams is
out in a reply to this, in the course of which
he says the omission was purely mistake,
owing to the fact that the engrossing clerks
were driven to get the bill ready, so that con-
gress could adjourn at seven o'clock in the
morning. Adams goes for Dorsey in this
manner: SIN your zeal to place the entire
blame upon an enrolling clerk, you omit to
state the fact that, in spite of his hurry, he
was accurate enough to discover an error of
omission by the conference committee of an
entire amendment, of which committee you
were member, and which report you signed. ;"
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The sreat work to be Done in 1850.


Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel: In
1860 the cry was that the south was aiming
at the life of the nation; in 1877, when the
currency question was sprung, the song was
burdened with the warning that we had de-
signs upon the honor of the nation; now we
are accused of craving to pick the national
pocket. The policy of Senator Hill during
the darkest hours of the electoral gloom
proved that some of the real patriots of the
country were southerners; the conservatism
of Mr.. Stephens in the investigation scheme
shows that the revolutionists do not dwell in
the south; and the manly utterances of La
mar on the silver bill convince the north that
with us national credit and national honor
are sacred things indeed. The New York
Times is right in motive, but faulty in policy.
Rebel claims need strike no terror to our
government, ana southern subsidy schemes
need not fire the northern heart. 1t must
suggest another and wiser issue. The Times
cannot yet predict the disintegration of De-
mocracy. Our people are more tolerant and
more independent than when the issues of
the war were yet fresh upon them In past
campaigns; but the mission of the Democratic
party In the south is not yet accomplished
and its strength is far from failing. In its
ranks disorganization may find place, at
times, and independents now and then brush
away party ties; but the tone of the great
party throughout its length and breadth here
is healthy, vigorous and wise. In 1880 a
great work is to be performed and a great
wrong to be righted, and the rash hand that
smites the rock in the wilderness will not be
the one to lead the people into the fatherland.
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A CORRESPONDENT of the st. Louis Jour
nal of Commerce, writing from this city, says
of it, that "there are but few cities on the
American continent, if any, more favorably
situated, or having such vast fertile terri
tory tributary to it, as the subject of this
sketch. Occupying a central location be-
tween st. Louis and New Orleans, on the
banks of the Father of Waters, it may be
Justly said to control the interests of at least
four hundred miles square of the rich cotton
producing region of the Mississippi valley;
and, although the disasters of civil war and
political strife have considerably checked her
growth for over decade, recent move in
the manufacturing line, by some of her lead
ing and most enterprising citizens, attests the
fact that she is still possessed of the essential
elements to make her at an early day an I'M
portant manufacturing center, as well as one
of the largest and best cotton markets in the
countryh
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Grant I'm Holland.

New York Herald: General Grant, hav-
ing exhausted the east and grown weary of
the honors showered upon him in London
and Paris, has now branched off to Holland,
and is there the recipient of attentions as
gracious and as fiattering as any he has I yet
ners, ministerial dejeuners, and the usual
round of entertainments have marked his
stay at The Hague, and the sturdy Dutch
soldiers have been put through a grand re-
view in honor of the first general of the age.
In the steady, plodding cities of Amsterdam
and Rotterdam the phlegmatic citizens have
been excited to enthusiasm by the presence
of the American ex-President, and have sig
nifed their admiration of his character and
achievements by crowding the streets through
which he passed. General Grant goes to
Berlin, where he will probably learn the final
result of the congress which is : to avert a
European war. The great diplomats who
are now assembled in that capital will no
doubt find time to do honor to the ex-Presi-
dent, and will be well pleased at the oppor
tunity to meet so distinguished an American
soldier
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Hendricks on the Political Outlook.

w ~NAA> -N-SS'I
WASHINGTON, June Ex-Governor Hen
bricks, who is on his way to Charlotte, Vir-
ginia, for the purpose of delivering COM
mencement address, arrived in Washington
this evening. In speaking with friends on
the political outlook, Mr.. Hendricks is re-
ported to have said that the elections of the
coming autumn will be important mainly be-
cause they may indicate the attitude of the
people toward the two political parties and
furnish the data for judging of the Presiden-
tial campaign. He admitted that in the
meantime events might occur which would
change the situation to such an extent that
the fall elections would indicate nothing of
the great contest to take place two years from
now. Mr.. Hendricks thinks that the next
candidate of the Republican party will be
General Grant. He thinks he will be nomi-
mated because he will be the strongest man
in the party, and because many of the Re-
publican leaders have already made up their
minds to put him in the field. This, he said,
is the sentiment in Indiana. The renomi-
nation of General Grant, in his opinion, will
be followed by fierce campaign, in which
the old issues will be revived
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ing architect of the treasury. A citizen of
another State was imported to supervise the
work, the original plans by Mullett-who was
friendly to Memphis-were thrown aside,
and when Senator Harris had the resolution
appropnating the additional sum of eighty
FIVE thousand dollars passed in the senate,
John Sherman, before it could be got before
the house 10y Casey Young, made haste to
close contract with his friend, and perhaps,
partner, Schneider, for sandstone that every
honest architect in Washington condemned.
Now he clinches his villainy by turning ever
the eighty-6ve thousand dollars additional
appropriation to the Illinoisian when he
should have re opened the bids. His general
character, and the fact Of his great fortune
made while he served IN congress for salary
that would barely cover his expenses, would
lead to the belief that there may be some
thing rotten in this Sherman-Schneider busi-
ness. Any way it ought to be investigated.
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The Suffering OF Women from Surf
Bathing.

Women suffer even more than men from
the tyranny of this atrocious custom of surf
bathing. For woman to enter the surf in
wolves long and abstruse process of undress-
ing and redressing, which is terrible strain
upon her strength and temper. Moreover,
the act of bathing makes pitiless revelations
concerning the female form. 1t is
estimated that at lest eleven thousand
young men annually return from Long. Branch
with the conviction that woman is wholly
false, with the exception of rude frame
work, intolerable to the esthetic eye. True,
there are exceptions. Every summer there
are seen at our Atlantic watering places two
or three ladies whose beauty even the surf can
not wash away, and it is credibly asserted
that few years ago there was Boston la
dy who entered the surf at Nahant, and who.
On emerging, could be distinctly seen, even
when her edges were presented to the specta-
tor. Nevertheless, as rule, woman becomes
not merely impossible, but absolutely I'M
thinkable, when the sea has remorsely anal
yzed her. Paradoxical as it may seem, 1t Is
this very fact which drives thousands of mis-
cradle women into the surf. The woman who
does not battle is instantly credited with fear
of exciting comparisons between herself and
the women who do battle, and is thereby sus-
pected of unparalleled excess in point of
bones
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The FTemOnta.

Washington correspondence of the Detroit
Post: General and Mrs. Fremont, who have
been spending numoer of weeks in the city,
are off and away from their homes in the
western wilds of Arizona, the general to fill
the gubernatorial chair of that territory where
the rains fall seldom and the Indians abound
Mrs. Fremont is one of the most interesting
women l ever met, Astounding IN anecdote
with sparkling narrative power and
charming ease of manner. She
has a fine figure, portly, without
an undesirable degree of embonpoint
She dresses elegantly, but in perfect sim
plicity. Her head is masculine in its con-
tour, with its broad, fine forehead, from
which she sweeps her abundance of snowy
hair over Martha Washington roll. Her
hand is wonderfully pretty for a woman of
her years, looking as white and dimpled, and
pink-tipped as a mMden's. She has an
adopted daughter, who is highly accom-
plished, presiding like master at the piano
and being mistress of several foreign tongues
The report going the rounds of the press rela-
tive to the extreme depths of poverty into
which the family were plunged is incorrect.
They have been greatly rednced In their cir
cumstances, but not to the extent which me-
cessitated the selling of all their pictures and
household articles in order to buy bread for
their hungry mouths.
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promising. The outlook for fine crop was
never better than it Is to-day. The demand
for our products abroad continues unprece-
dentedly strong. The railroads are making
an enormous increase In traffic, resulting in
heavier receipts, Notwithstanding the low
rates that prevail. The enforced economy of
the past FIVE years has borne fruit. The habit
of making things go far has resulted in
clearing off of the stock laid aside when the
era of extravaganza came to an end, and the
time is not distant when there must be a
general restocking. Whether the indications
of return OF the wave of prosperity can be
seen or not, they must soon appear. There
was some grounds for the belief that the tide
was turning when congress met last October,
but if so the flow was speedily checked. Yet
the delay may make the recovery more strong
and persistent now that the barrier has been
swept AWAY
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Now that the Republican National Gran
ger -Workingmen's Democratic Irish Ger
man ticket has been officially promulgated,
would it not be well for the Democrats of
Shelby to organize ward and district clubs ?
1t will take hard work and plenty of it to Sc
cure victory. The personnel of the hybrid
ticket and the various interests it seeks to
unite forbid the idea of walk over, as has
hitherto been the case. The candidates and
executive committe will have to take off their
coats and roll up their sleeves, making up
their minds at the same time to labor with
out intermission until the election is over. To
lose the county Offices would be to jeopardize
the congressional race, for which we under
stand the zebra organization has a dark
horse in training.
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Troublesome Tramps.
To tina CfncInn aff Ennr1irar

DECATUR, ILL, June 25.-Last evening
the freight train from st. Louis, due here at
about seven o'clock, brought to this city near
ly two hundred tramps, who boarded the
train at East st. Louis and at various points
along the line of the road. They all refused
to pay fares, and were so numerous that no
attempt was made to put them off. On the
arrival of the train they found quarters for
the night in lumber-yards, stables, sheds and
box-cars. Some of them had money, and
bought themselves food, while others begged
it from house to house. About half of them
left town by the early morning trains, while
the rest remained until the afternoon. When
the train on the Central road that leaves here
here about four o'clock was about to pass out,
about thirty of the tramps boarded it to go
north. They were ordered off by the con-
ductor, but they refused to leave. Sheriff
Forshmeyer, with posse, was summoned to
the place, and under his order they left the
cars, the sheriff and his posse remaining on
the train until it was beyond the reach of the
tramps. All is quiet this evening, but our
citizens feel exceedingly nervous and anxious
over the present state of affairs. The armo-
ries of the military companies are guarded by
detachments of soldiers, and the mayor has
appointed several SPECIAL policemen.
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JOHN SHERMAN, who has amassed for
tune while serving as congressman-some-
thing that no honest man could do-writes
to the secretary of a Republican county con-
vention in Ohio, referring to his action in the
louisiana matter: 81 have done nothing that
l have the least cause to regret, or that 1
would not do over again, if possible, with
greater zeal" Upon which the New York
Sun remarks: "We have never supposed that
Mr.. Sherman regretted having done what he
did. 1t was the being found out, as we took
it, that he regretted. Nor did we doubt that
he would do the same thing over again.
That is one great objection to Mr. John Sher.
man. 1t is his habit to do such things,
though it is not his habit to be detected in
doing them
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THE editor of the Charleston Ne,es an

The editor of the Charleston Neuos and
Courier states that, while the electoral COM
mission was In session, Mr.. Tilden told him,
in reply to question, that he was opposed
to the electoral commission, and thought 1t
unwise and wrong. He said, also, that he
had not interfered, because he presumed that
"our friends In Washington" knew best what
to do, and should not, therefore, be interfered
with. This was at the time that the COM
mission were considering the Florida vote.
After this let us hear no more of the lying
assertions of Radicals and Radical Independ-
ents that Tilden was in the least responsible
for the commission, for which the country is
alone indebted to Conkling.
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Iuhuman Fiends.

Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
BRISTOL, TENN, June 26.-Information
has just been received here of some atroclous
kuklux business in Lee county. Day before
yesterday band of masked men went to the
houses of several unpopular citizens of Wal
Inns creek. They erected gallows at two
places, one at Captain Boon Gibson s and an
other at Mr.. Zach Senter's. The band left
notices to each of these men that they must
leave the State in eight days or die. At Glib
let, whom they treated in the most indecent
manner; they stripped her and exposed her
person to the gang, and at the same time
compelling her to 60 through many disgust
ing evolutions. Gibson tried to protect Miss
Willett. but he was powerless. After their
disgraceful treatment to the woman the ku-
klux stripped Captain Gibson and made him
stand in the road, where they left him.
Jane Gulley, where they were about to COM
NIT some of their diabolical work, but were
scared off. No arrests have been made.
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ADelusiou and a Snare.

Florence (Ala.) Gazette: We unhesitating-
ly assert that the settlement of Texas has
caused great depreciation in the value of
property in every other southern State; and
we are called on to vote thirty eight millions
to still further depreciate our property. Ger
tain newspapers endeavor to hoodwink the
people by asserting that the eastern terminus
burp or Memphis, but this is all a deluslon,
any man who considers the matter will see
that the road will go to st. Louis and cross
on the splendid bridge there so as to connect
with the Pennsylvania combination of rail-
roads.
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Grant in 1850.


SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, June 26.-"Grant
in 1880 is the universal sentiment In
Springfield to day. Such enthusiasm has not
been known since the war. Grants name is
on every tongue. The very children lisp it.
Last night men seemed to forget that there
were candidates boiling over with eagerness
for State offices. Such slight things were
forgotten in the excitement of a campaign
two years away. At nine o'clock this morn
ing a Grant glee club from Macon county,
followed by two hundred sturdy grangers
with their wives and daughters, and headed
by a gorgeous brass band, marched down
Sixth street to the Leland hotel, and the
band playing Hail to the Chief. A dozen
Grant banners were carried in the procession.