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The Russellville Democrat., 1878-09-19

must have n efficient head to our school system Ne believe in re- trenchment and economy in the con duct Of our state government, and we believe the views of Auditor Crawford in regard to the need for retrenchment and the cutting down of expenses as in Etho main correct, but we protest most earnestly against weakening the efficiency of our school system by trying to run i, without an efficient head. If we have . single interest more sacred than all others, one upon which we should be willing to spend our money, and one from winch we may hope to reap mnhiffcent returns, it is oul Public School system. The intelli gence of rising generations, and the character of our coming govern ments, depends upon the present means of education placed at the use of the present people. What kind of government can we expect people to set up, when perhaps 2 majority who exercise the elective franchise cannot read the ballots they cast? The idea is repugnant Let us never retrograde in the man agement of our school system. Let the public press of the State see te it that we have no more trihing witt this great interest as we had in ante bellum times in our State.
 We hope Col. Smithee will lay bare the iniquitous mis-management which characterized the management of this interest ia the good ole times" In such a plain manner that no one will wish to return to simi- lar management now.
 We shall be glad to hear from him on the swamp land subject.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-09-19
THE LAND GRANT OF I'll E
 l.. Is. & F. s. R. Es.

Land Commissioners ". D. Slack.
 One only need to travel along the line of tue Little Rock and F't. Smith railroad, and compare the same coun try with five years ago, to appreciate the large amount of labor and en- ergy which has characterized the official career of Col. ". D. Slack, Land Commissioner of this Land Grant. Thousands have found rich and happy homes, towns have been built up where few months ago forests stood, colonies have been located, churches built, school houses built and an air of general improvement seems to extend along the entire line. He is one of the live men of our State, and is doing all he can to make it thrifty and prosperous by inducing an intellI- gent, industrious, working emigra- tion to settle and people the millions of idle acres, and develop her ineX- haustIble resources.-Spirit of Ar kansas.
 As one living directly upon the line of the road above referred to, and under whose observation comes the practical workings and results of Col. Stacks management, we can bear faithful witness to the correct ness and truth of the remarks above quoted from the Spirit of Arkansas. There is no portion of our State which has made more progress and secured a larger influx of thrifty, industrious immigrants in the past four years than the scope of country comprised of the counties in which the land grant of tue Little Rock and Ft. Smith lies-tlie counties of Conway, Faulkner, Pope, Perry, Yell, John son, Franklin, Logan, Crawford and Sebastian The immigration which we have secured is due in a very great measure to the efforts of Col. Slack.
 The land grant of this road com prises many tracts of valuable lands in all of these counties yet subject to purchase at 9 reasonable price and on easy terms of payment. We predict that within the term of few years more these lands will ali be settled and occupied by an energetic, industrious population, and that this portion of the Arkansas River Valley will be the garden spot of Arkansas.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-09-19
A Significant Straw.

It has long been an old saw in po- litical parlance that Gas Maine goes so goes the Uuion." The Repubh- cans have religiously preserved that old saying, for since the organization of that party Maine has always been faithful to It's standard, and never failed to roll up it's accustomed Re publican majorities in State as well as National elections.
 But Maine has at last taken a new departure. For the first time in the memory of man it has failed to sup port the Republican party or the party that was in opposition to the Democratic party. Maine, the truly loyal-the home of Blaine, has gone against the Republican party. Even Hale, the fidus Achates of Blaine, has been beaten and retired to the shades of private life. The Demo, crats and Greenbackers have one Congressional District and q majori- ty of the Legislative Districts. The General Assembly on joint ballot, will be antl-Republican.
 What a ehange What a reyolu- ton, The Republican Natonal Com mittee arc dumb founded. They are demoraIized and panic stricken, and so are tho whole Republican party, for Maine the eycr-faithfal, has gone against them, and they know that 'as Maine goes so goes the Uuion,
 Gazette,
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-09-19
We repeat that s2, 500 in cnrrencyI |

We repeat that S2, 900 in currency viii build T neat, commodious conn- ty building, anu it will last us until we get out Of debt and get our scrip up to par.
 What we need now is not fine courthouses. We need economy in the administration of our public affairs so that onr counties may get out of debt We need light taxes so that our people may be able to do something for the public schools, fer their county fairs, for their own farms and homes, and for the pay ment of their own private debts. We want to get free from debt, both pub lie and private, and to get start upon the Eighroad of prosperity. So long as we are grooming under bur den of public debt, incurred in pay ing useless public expenses, in bull. ding fine eourthouses, &c., We can not hope to get much ahead of the hounds. We have no fear that the people of Pope County will be gulled into the error of demanding a fine and costly courthouse by such soph- lstry as is contained ill the above ar ticle from the News.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-09-19
BRIDGING THE BLOODY CHASM WITH A BAND OF LOVE.

LCt E,
 A cord of love draws tighter, and binds stronger, than the stoutest chains of oppression. The proud neck bows readily to the caress of love and sympathy, while it spurns the yoke of tyranny and despotism. Words ard acts of humanity and brotherly sympathy do more to sof- ten and melt the heart, than com mands and royal edicts, sent forth with all the pomp and impressive grandeur of majestic power.
 We sec this forcibly illustrated Tn the present crisis. In thousands of Southern homes the angel of death has made his dark tracks, and the vail of the dlseonsolate and the heart broken goes up Tn mournful cadence upon every breeze. The happy home where the joyous shouts of eb:ldhood but q short time ago l&ng out in clear accents, is now still and gloomy, and .naught but the sob of the widow and the orphan, and the measured tread Of the be- reaved husband and father, breaks the stiffness of the melancholy sl-
 
 lence. The tramp, tramp, tramp of the hearse- bearer and the slow rum bling of the death cart is heard alone upon the Ideserted and deso- late looking streets of our Southern cities, but recently active and alive with the whir and buzz of business.
 But in the back ground of this picture a silvery gleam of light breaks through, and as the tear is wiped away it's softening sheen is seen to settle down upon the scene, and is reflected from every object and every saddened face. The welcome gleam comes from ev- cry point of the. compass. Wherev- CT there is heart stirred with the noble feelings of humanity the gleam is lighted up and is shed abroad Tn acts of human kindness, and love and charity.
 "Man's inhumanity to man" is a repugnant picture to look upon; but the brotherly love and sympathetic humanity which flows out from the North, the East and West, toward the afflicted people of the South, is a golden link in the beau tiful garland of love which is draw ing the sections together. The bloody chasm is being bridged by a garland of love and brotherly alice tion. From every town and city in the.Union the kindly aid offered by brotherly hands comes flowing in If there is single reflection to which we may turn in this sad hour with feelings of satisfaction, it is this display of human sympathy and love; and if there is a single omen which bespeakes long and lasting peace between the sections which will forever bar out the monster, War, and bind the North, the South. the East, and the West together in one indissoluble Union, it is the manifestation of brotherly love which we now behold. So mote It be.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-09-19

In Benton county, the banner nrwo- cratic county of the state, Gov. Miller did not poll half of She vote east.
 Col. sam. W. Williams occupies tha bench during Che term of the toH"t Circuit Court now in session, JH.I' Mansfield having resigned and Ju'&e JacoWay not yet having 4ua'iat@'
 JaetA-ses after they get to oe of a certin age in Kansas, are cNenpy from taxation. If in Aghausas a'd Conway county the chances arg thy would be eiactcdto tha Legislature on the Independent ticket
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good forehead. sn agreeable presence, and manners
which natural kndliness well as cultivation apd asso
citation have made delightful He IA very successful in
his work and has built FOR himself beautiful house Ia
s married, bat has children Ono OF the many excel.
lent things for which blr Boughton is known IA his Good
ness TO poor young artists. lie has always for them
words Of GdiciOus advice and OF knduess and where
encouragement is deserved It slways comes from his
honest heart Not long ago. he wrote Il is an easy
thing 70 look at the work Of beginner art but IL il
not easy always to foresee what will Of It, Il Is an
awful thing to say to young man eyen If il be plain as
dayl D0n't 20 ODyOu'ye made mistake The stand-
ard excellence IS being raised every day, and that
makes u harder TO begin now One may stTug 10 for
years and mako no impression even When doing the
famous"
Professor Edison, while in Virginia CITY
New, stepped into telegraph Office and local paper
describes him as the worst dres ed the room by
all odds An old black hat cheap ssrt with the stud
holes In the bosom unoccupe& t@o-bt necktie several
months old, pants and vest, aud m0useeoored
linen buster completed his attire One OF the oceboys
asked him to put his name in an autograph album He
wrote line that looked like print aud fixed his name at
the Doltsin. Everybody admired the marvellous pen
mGnsbip, which was emphatically new STYLE The lot
ters were awKwardly made, taken sngIy, but when
grouped in a line all looked exactly alike as II engraved
on eOpperpate. You couldn't take thirty words min
ute and prpt like that, said take forty was
the reply The fastest operator present took end OF
aWrt ana Edison, sitting at the receiver, picked up
sheet OF paper and said, Let the come sat
there three minutes aud took 100 words with apparent
doing better than he had promised The dispatch
was written In the aultess hand that graced the
graph album"
SARATOGA, Aug. 25.--Judge Sanford, of the
Superior Court arrived last evening and was to-day she
centre OF group OF friends on the hotel piazza He
showed very little trace Of his recent illness.
VIENNA, Aug. 25.--Mr. KassOn, the Ameri-
can Minister, gave banquet tonight in honor Of
General Grant The General viii leave on Monday for
Steiermark.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-The Emperor William,
of Germany has arrived at Gastein, the famous Aus
trian Summer resort
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THE FINANCIAL .SITUATION

The position of the United States Treasury
is peculiar. The internal revenue was large
in July, because many were obliged TO sup
ply themselves with stocks Of taxed articles,
who had refrained from purchasing as far as
possible while Congress was still debating O
reduction of taxes. But the receipts in Au-
gust have been much smaller than those of
the corresponding period last year. During
eight weeks of the new fiscal year,
from July l to August "a inclusive,
the receipts have been about $7,123,O
against about S7,500,000 to the same
date last year. The decline thus far has not
been very large, but, in view of the prepara-
tiOns necessary for resumption, any CORES
ponding decrease in receipts from internal
revenue hereafter would be unfortunate. 1t
is not pleasant, in connection with this in
formation, to learn that strong bands Of
revenue officers are still hunted down and
murdered by leagued and defiant law-breakers.
Neither is 1t pleasant to observe that public
sentiment at the South does not seem TO sus-
tain the officers of the law in the discharge of
their duties. Undoubtedly the loss of revenue
through high-handed defiance of law at the
South is already large, and it docs not de-
crease.
Nevertheless, the currency balance in the
Treasury on Saturday was $4,539,000 an in
crease of about $3,431 900 since August 1st.
This increase has apparently been caused, at
least in part, by the efforts of the Treasury to
get silver dollars into circulation. Although
81, 1877, 2s4 in these coins had been sent from
the mint last week, and n large amount had
been issued, the Treasury offering to trans
port them free of cost TO banks at n certain
distance from any Sub-Treasury, nevertheless
$1O,0S6,5O4 in these coins was in Treasury
vaults last week, and only $1,110,7s0 had
been temporarily forced into circulation. AS
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FoRErGN-Prince Nicholas of Montenegro has
agreed to defer hostilties for three days at Pod
eoritza, pending an appeal to the Porte. =- The
town of stolatz, herzegovina, has been fined by
the Austrians. - Russia seeks loan of
s23s. 2OO. OOO the issue price is 93. ==
In Venezuela the revolution in favor of Guzman
has been making progress slowly. == Commits
sioners have been appointed TO revise the British
Penal Code. - Il is said that the German nego-
tiations with the Vatican have failed.
CRY AND SUBURBAS.-The registration frauds oil
1868 are being actively prosecuted. -- Five
witnesses testified before the Potter Commit
fee on Saturday. 80 The Hewitt Committee
listened TO the statements of T. b. Thurber
and Others. - FIVE of the directors OF
the Teutonia Savings Bank were arrested liz GRIM
NAL proceedings 80 Pacific Mail and Union
Pacific have made new passenger agreement
80 The New-York County Democracy has
issued an address. - man committed
suicide on a Sound boat by cutting
his throat. =- Gold, 1903, 1909, 1O0l2. Gold
value of the legal-tender dollar at the Close $3.50
cents Stocks dun and irregular, closing unsettled
DOMESTIC. - Over $4,000 was raised in this
city Saturday for tho yellow fever DIS
tricts. There is no abatement of the
disease in the South 80 Bishop Keane
was consecrated at Richmond. - This Reve-
nue. officials have had a skirmish with il
Iicit distilers in Tennessee. -T The Sara
toga Railway Conference has adjourned
- Senator Patterson, it is reported, has
offered to resign his seat in the SEN
ate. = Three naval vessels have been
condemned.
The WRATHER-TRIBUNE local observations IN
dictate clear OF partly cloudy weather. Thermom-
eter yesterday, TO, TO-, 6e'.
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"'is hid; what time they wax warm they van
al sh; when il is hot they are consumed out
"'of their place." 1t is the heat of the
Presidential fever that has consumed the best
part of the record OF Senator Thurman's life,
and it will not be long before he passes away.
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completed his cipher for second manifesto
he should explain without further delay In
what Mr.. John +. COyle was exceedingly
-,
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Business NOnfss.

TR1B11SF EXTRA No. 40, now ready. con-
tans among thng Professor Ainods Illustrated Lee
latest gift OF science sent 70 any
sdre post paid on receipt Of cens TIKI TRIBUNE New
York
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reflect. with no little annoyance. that they manage
these things better in Cincinnati.

The New-York Philharmonic Society deserves
this year. specially earnest and liberal support
from all the lovers of art. 1t is our only hope
If we could motor would not-saye tho Thomas
Orchestra let at least for the credit Of the city,
save something
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General Butler says the Potter Committee
has the so-called Sherman letter, and is con-
WINGED that it is genuine. This is hardly con-
elusive. General Butler can believe anything
against this Administration, almost without
trying
The review made by tho Surgeon-General
of the Marine Service of the past weeks
progress of the yellow fever, shows an increase
over previous reports in the Mississippi Val
lev. In New-Orleans, the number of cases
since the pestilence began reaches the terrible
total of 1000, and the number of deaths Is
900. New-York is giving aid with generous
hand but there is need for all that can be given.
If the real worlzingmen have not grown
tired of watching the Hewitt Committee they
will do well to compare the views OF such
merchant as Mr.. F. B. Thurber, which are
much in the wOrlingmen's favor with
those of one of the professional reformers.
Mr.. Thurber believes that there is basis for
the discomfort of the working classes in the
fact that they are contributing more than
their share of taxation, and contributing
it in ways which they do not per-
haps appreciate as In charges for rail-
way transportation, etc. Without pausing to
discuss these opinions, it may be we'll TO di-
rect the attention of laboring men to the mod
crate views of one of the capitalist class who
sympathizes with them, as compared with the
insane talk Of their seIf-cOnstituted represent
atives.
General Garfeld's speech, though referring
kindly TO Senator Thurman, contains some
merciless proofs of his inconsistency. General
Garfield is the first to call attention to the
fact that Mr.. Thurman, in what seems to be
an effort to belle all his past utterances,
whether on the finances OF not, went
so far as TO denounce the. Electoral
Commission for not going behind the returns
although he had himself voted in the Senate
against an amendment to the bill which au-
thorized the Commission to go behind
the returns. Mr. Thurman boosted to
the Ohio Democracy that he opposed
the Resumption Act, cOnoealing the fact,
which General Garfield points out. that
his opposition Was based upon belief that
the bill would not bring about specie pay
ments not ON tho belief that it would. But
nothing which General Garfield says can gall
him so much as the echo Of his own words in
the Senate four years ago, when, in re-
sisting what he called "a dangerous
and disastrous initiation of the cur
"rency," he said II begin to believe
81 that those who are opposed to initiation are
FILLING off one by one, and cannot but re-
member some words in the book of Job,
where he reproaches his friends: Ny
go brethren have dealt deeeitfully as
ga brook, and as the stream Of brooks
they pass away; which are brackish
'by reason Of the ice, and wherein The snow
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II the late Mr. Samuel Wood, who made q futile
attempt to found College of Music in the Cental
Park. by means of will over which heirs, lawyers
and other people are now quarrelling retains any
interest in the affairs Of the mortal sphere he must
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General Butler says the Potter Committee
has the so-called Sherman letter, and is con-
WINGED that it is genuine. This is hardly con-
elusive. General Butler can believe anything
against this Administration, almost without
trying.
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

MONDAY, AUGUST %, 1873,
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BY HORACE GREELEY.