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Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-23
An Interesting Calculation.

Mr.. Spoffcrd, the librarian Of
Congress, has discovered the cause
of all the trouble In business. 1t
is too much interest on borrow.
ed money. He maintains that
one of the causes of bankruptcy 10
that 80 few persons properly est.
mate the difference between high
and low interest, and therefore Dor.
row money at ruinOus rate that
no legitimate business can stand.
Very few, MIR. SpofiOrd thinks, have
figured on the difference between
six and eight per cent. Ono dollar
loaned for a bpndred years at six
per cent, with the interest collected
annually and added to the princi.
pal, will amount to $40. At eight
per cent. it amounts to ~, BOB, or
nearly seven times as much. At
three per cent, the usual rate In
England, it amounts TO $40 20,
whereas at ten per cent, which has
been q very common rate in the
United States, it is el2, 800, or
about seven hundred times as much.
At twelve per cent. 1t amounts to
ASSESS, q more than four thousand
times as much. At eighteen per
cent. it amounts to els, IA ,OO7. At
twenty four per cent, which we
sometimes hear spoken Of, IT reaches
the sum of 42,45l, 799, 4OA. One
hundred dollars borrowed at six per
cept., with interest compounded
annually, will amount TO u, S42 in
fifty years, while the same one
hundred at eight per cent. will
amount toe4, $50 in fifty years. One
thousand dollars at ten per cent.
compounded, will run up to Gill;
800 In fifty years.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-23
Fears Of q Negro lnsurrectlon.

RODNEY, Miss, Oct. 1S.-T. c.
Sache, of 81. Joseph, Teusas parish,
transmitted the following: 'Capt.
John G. Peck, while on q peaceful
mission to Alfred Fairfax, Repubh-
can nominee for Congress in tho
Fifth Louisiana district, and the
negroes Of Tensas parish, to remon'
strate with them upon the course
they were pursuing In drawing the
color line, thereby exciting raco
prejudices, was nurdeFea ~ 10
near Waterproof iass night "
negro. Arc dcAast snA sefa9e -
su61it 70 ssvest, ssd sthsse - ~
enoosh nss here 70 exeeate ths
process OF The ecort Aid hss besa
sought nom STATE troops IN othcs
| parishaa Peaceful people are much
slarIsed and there arc Tears Of IN
| insurrectioo.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-23
Ben Hit on the Situation.

Upon the nomination of DR.. n. !.
Hammond for Congress, at Atlanta.
Ben Hill made a telling speech,
from which we take the following
extracts:
First, wish to say to this audi.
ence that the Republican party is
dying. He is blind who cannot see
it.
said to a distinguished Republi-
can two years ago, There will ncv.
er be Republican House OF Repre-
sentatives in this country Some
SAY we will not have the next House
of Representatives. | tell You. my
friends, We will have one by fifty
majority; and the time never will
come WHEN the Republican party
will have a majority. Applause
said to him, ain the course of
time we will have II Democratic Sen.
ate He WAS startled. But il is
81. The character of the next Sen.
ate in fixed. And il will not he less
than six nor higher than ten Demo
cratic majority. Applause.
After the year 1880 there Will
never I've another Republican Prcsi.
dent in America. Thank God fos
that, IApplausr. They have n
Republican, President from 1876 10
1880. created 10y fraud and We have
submitted rather than break the
peace of the country. Then natur'
ally. philosophicaIly, the Republican
party must die.
Ii YOU refuse to act with the Dem
ocratic party you fight it. and You
put yourself against it You weaken
the party to that extent, Ii YOU
ask inc what remedy that party is
going to adopt, | tell you l don't
| know.
| could tell you what | think prob;
able as an individual, but the party
has not gained possession Of the
government. and you cannot tell
what the party is going to do until
| il gets possession of the government.
| beseech you, tellowcitizens, to bat
tie for Your rights within the ranks
of the Democratic party; and wheI
the Democratic party shall come in
to power and determine, after calcn
tatiOn, what is the remedy for al
these evils, let us go with it and &C
complish that remedy.
No man ever accomplished an,
good who fought everybody that die
not agree with him. He is schis
matte.
But | will tell you some feature
of the remedy which will be applied
In the first place, the remedy whicl
the Democratic party will apply vii
be q constitutional remedy. 1t vii
be within the powers granted 4
Congress by the Constitution. ID
YOU agree with thati lfyou do no,
you are unconstitutional aud a Re
publican. The Democratic party,
l. tell you, is the party of the Consti
/. Triton, and it will be false to itsel
if it attempts to adopt q remedy or
constitutional in it's character. Al
plause.l In the second place, wha
ever remedy the Democratic part
j., adopts will be an honest remed.
= Are you in favor Of thati
Fellow citizens You need NJ
doubt it, you need not question
!, The Democratic party is going
control this Government for g,
Grafton. There 10 no party whit
= can control it; no nation on cart
can control it.
begin to think that the Dem
g cratic party can never be kille
!" Applanse. Secession did not X
II, the war has not killed il. frat
Il, has not killed it, it has killed itse
and it will not die. Applause.
/ do not care what may be the :
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-23
Uncle Remus a. q Murderer.

Uncle Remns met Officer Jarral
on Broad street yesterday.
"You ain't here talk er no dead |
Niger nOwhar dis mawnin', is yOu
Mars Whilst" asked the old man
earnestly.
"No,r replied the policeman re.
flectively. "No, believe not.
Have YOU heard of any,
"Pears unto me dat come nigh.
ty nigh gittin' some news bout dat
size, and OATS wat I'm huntin'
fer. Becaze ef dey is toun' a stray
nigger layin' 'roun' loose, wild is
BRET gone, den wanter go home
an cit my brtakfns, and put on
some clean cloze, an liver misef up
tur WINNER doze jestesses er de
peace, an git far trial.
"Why. have you killed anyhodyT
"Dai's wat I'm a'quirin' inter
now, but | wouldn't be sustonished
ef amt laid nigger ont some.
wcres on de suburbs. Hits gone
got so is agin d.. law fur 10 bns'
loose an hill Niger, amt it, Mars
! Willist-
"Well | should say so. You don't
mean 10 tell me that won have killed
II colored man. do your
III spec is. Mars Willis. Ispec'
| done gone an done it dis time,
sho. Hits bin sorter GROWN in on
inc. an j; come To a head dis mawn.
in, less my name amt Remus, an
OATS wat dcy been er calm Inc
sence wuz ole er nuff fer ter
scratch myse,t wild my let hand
"Wen, if you've killed a man.
You'll have some fun, sure enough.
How was III"
"Hit wuz dis way, Mars Willis;
WIZ layiH' in my bed dis mawpin'
sorter rumenatin' round, when de
FMS news knowh ! hear a fuss
'mong de chickens an den my bris
sels riz. done had lots er trubble
wild dem chickens, an wen ] hears
wun un um squawl my ve'y shoes
cum omitted. So DIES sortcr riz mp
an reich fer my ole muskit, and deu
| crope on, er de back do, waiter
yon reckin | seedl'
81 couldn't say
IL seed de biggest, blacklist mig
ger dat you ever laid eyes on. He
shined like de paint Oh i'm wuz
fresh. He had done grabbed fo'er
my forwardes' puIlets. | crope up
nigh ne do, an hollered an axed
lin how he was ge,tin' on, an den
he broke, an ez he broke jammed
de gun in de small er his back and
banged aloose. He let yell like
.. forty yaller cats q courtin' an der
,, he broke. Yon never seed 10 mig
,, ger hump hissef like dat niger did
He tore down de we'll shelter ant
fU pannils er fence. an de groun
look like WINNER deze here harry
> canes had lit dar and famed up d.
: earf'
! "Why, I thought you killed himi
|. ale bleedzed ter be dead, Mar
Willis. Didn't PIT the gun RICH
J. on to 'imi could feel i'm give va.
, wen abe went off,"
', "Was the gun loadedf7
"Dat's wat my ole oman 50,
i She had de powder in dar sho, bu
| dis'member wedder put de bucl
u shot in, er .wedder l lef' um on
|, Leas'ways Pm gwineter call on wur
U ner desc year jestesses. SO-lonl
Mars Willis
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-23
weather boyA you know,s saiA To
shor; man; ,sils aw fui ni00rs -

short MAN; .lts awtnl ns0osPs..s.
The next day the Office was crowd.
ed with rdniors Of their exploits.
Filled with seductive and entang.
ling fluids which they Ind imbibed
in suburban hotels, they had wreck
I'd thu carriage aud lalned the horse,
and Mortified at the idea Of having
to pay three or four hundred dollars
damage, had incontinentty decamp.
ed, leaving their equipage to 10
picked up By passers- by.
81 knew said one OF the com.
positors thonghifully, next evening,
"that those bloats wouldn't iRst
long. They were to fresh! And
now they're on the tramp again"
WhereupOn the dignified artisans
who were above the folly Of tramp
ing, resumed their wonted serenity
of misdemean0r.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-23

Train up . child in the way that
he should 20, and il may turn out
that way in q long run, but all the
precept and example ever promui-
rated can't save him from the Sheep
ish, awkward feeling sure to se'se
him when he goes sparkling the hrss
time.-Cixcinsdi Saturday Fight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-09
THE BATH dLVSHOTSE

The fiery and frightful calamity at Bath on Sun.
doy morning last, should not be passed over with.
out some wholesome public reflection II seems 10
be a REGULARITY of such tragedies that they do moth
ing by way of warning 10 make them fewer or less
horrible. Here was an insane man. proba-
bly, an epeptic, who was permitted so much
liberty that he could, obtain means 20
SET fire TO the almshOusc Here again was building
40 constructed that il was next to impossible for the
inmates 10 escape from the flames The consequences
might easily have been foretold. The poor idiots
and children, the blind and the eplleptc were
DESTROYED like horses in burning stable. This was
the care accorded to the unfortunate helpless
Their lives would evidently have been safer if the
authorities had permitted them to go at large They
were gathered together IN pen under pretencc of
bencvolcnce. And then such vigilance was exercised
that they were roasted standardization of them
in a-from the cripple of seventy years of 0ge
10 the baby only one year old The only cOnsola
ton is that 1t might have been worse, for there
sixty insane persons sleeping in the building when
it was fired.
Aud all this mischief came because the managers
Of the House pleased, against all experience and all
the teachings Of medical science, To consider per-
son insane through epilepsy or fits to be trust
worthy, and consequently to allow him liberlles.'
Those who were unaware Of the constant
and particular danger IN such cases, were
not to be trusted with the care of epieptic
patients, often among the shrewdest, most cunning
and most dangerous of the insane. However right
IN mind they may appear to be, however amiable
and harmless there is no form of mischief Of which
they are not capable. Moreover fire is plaything
of which they are particularly fond, 50 that
the utmost care should be taken 60 keep
them from the possession of matches, or
from access TO lamps and stoves In the
best managed asylums, where every precaution is
exercised occasionally patient of this kind will
prove sharper than his keepers and in the course of
few minutes will do q great deal of mischief,
sometimes even setting fire to his own bed and
then stretching himself upon it to be con-
sumed At tho establishment just burned there
could not have been sufficient care-the
result proves that incontestably. Somebody is
responsible for the oatastrophe-and an inyeStlsa-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-09

party. and Mt the same time will disgust ana
render Indifferent the very men. both East
and West who have most stOutly defended
the party hitherto because of its defence OF
the public faith.
There is but one safe course, IN party
point of view. That is to make resumption
practically a thing accomplished before the
Fail elections. Secretary Sherman, politi-
clan of experience and shrcwdness, sees and
shows that it is possible to anticipate the prac-
teal effects of resumption before the elections
come. If gold can be brought to par by
October /, so that the large stock OF gold Ill
the country may then be added to the circu-
lation, and business may revive with ASST
rance of a solid basis, all opposition 10
the Resumption Act will be para!-
wed. 1t is the habit of the American
people to recognize an accomplished fact, ana
give it fair trial before attempting some
thing new Dread of disasters, which 1t Is
supposed resumption will cause, has made
four-ffths of the opponents OF resumption.
When the end is once reached, and, instead OF
disaster, there comes revlving prosperity
INDEPENDENTS and Democrats who will have
committed themselves to the schemes OF IN
fationists and regulators will he confronted
with their own dismal predictions. Nobody
will trust them. The accomplished fact Will
be sustained until the people can see how far
the new conditions promote their prosperity.
Republican members tried to commit suicide
when they voted for the Silver Bill. But Tor
that, a final settlement of the money question
would have been reached before October, ana
the danger would have been passed 1t is
still possible for them to do much to sustain
Secretary Sherman. Events so marvellouSly
favor that, in spite Of all past errors, resump
ton may yet be reached. No member OF Con-
gress can escape his responsibility as a Re
publican for Republican administration and
Republican measures and pledges. He can
help Secretary Sherman to get the question
settled as soon as possible, and if he has only
the worldly wisdom that self-interest inspires,
he will do 50 without hesitation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-09
anncr 10 ADVERTISEMENTS.


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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-09

For some years past an anonymous correspondents
always signing his letters 81 L. ID. Hy" and neys,
giving the slightest clue to his real name. business
whereabouts has been in the habit Of sending IA
the Editor of THE TRIBUNE sums Of money
lin currency, sometimes for particular charities
oftener to be bestowed according to the judgment Of
the Editor. A few days ago he sent $685. with re-
quest that should forward it to the most desery
ing Jewish Charitable Institution in New-YorkD Wa
have delayed few days TO make inquiries con.
corning these institutions. It would be in.
vidious to say that either the Hebrew On.
phan Asylum, Seventy near Third-sye,
the Hebrew Home for the Aged and Infrm corner
of Eighty -soventh-st. and Ayenue-A or the Hebrew
Hospital Lexington-ave and Sixty-sixth-st, is the
most deserving. All of them appear of excellent
repute. We have sent the money to the one first
named.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-09
STICK RY TIE REAL ISSUES.

The soldier who habitually gets behind
tree is not likely TO be very efficient in
charge, and the expert managers III Washing
ton who want to keep the Republican party
out OF the range Of every pOint-blank asser-
ton of principle on all vital issues ought to
remind themselves that it is difficult to
achieve any noteworthy results in the way OF
aggressive fighting and successful lodging at
the same time.
The Republican party has always been adj
dictcd TO "reanrming," and If it has any
principles left, it is an excellent time to state
them very positively and precisely. 1t did
not manage to check Southern aggression
or to defeat reputation and initiation by
carefully abstaining from any affirmative and
defiant declarations of faith and no amount
of left check Cancellation and no dicker with
disguised communism or National dis
honesty will be of any avail this Fall.
There surely ought to be some party
which is in earnest for honest money
and the honest fulflment of the National obi
cations and against surrendering the National
Treasury to the South, and it ought to be
party which is neither ashamed nor afraid to
declare just what it fayors, and what ii pro-
poses TO fight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-09

NAV fairly be described as Improbable. Inc
device of nominating Democrat for DooF-
keeper simply because it would present an
issue between a Union and Confederate sol
der, was one which the Republicans OF the
House would hardly have adopted under any
leadership but that of General Butter. Anu
the Democrats so cleverly turned the tables on
the General, by voting to give his candidate
handsome pension at the same time that they
refused to elect him, that the member from
Massachusetts must come to the conclusion as
he looks back upon the debate, that he has fOr
once failed to do a smart thing. The selec-
ton of General Field was sufficiently sIgnlh-
can't considering the circumstances OF the
nomination, without this attempt to sharpen
an edge already sharp enough. The name OF
the Confederate House cannot beglven to or
taken away from the present House, inasmuch
as it is fixed there already. It is only neces-
sary to add that it was the same House as
ever even in doing kind action. Of course,
the bill putting General Shields on the retired
list was so stupidity drawn that the General
will gain nothing by it. 1t wouldn't have
been the work of the Confederate House IL
there had been no blunder about it.
The debate on the address to the Queen
will clear the political atmosphere in England,
bv forcing the Government to show whatreason
it hasf0r leading the country tothe verge OF war;
Lord BeacOnsfeld's speech, with which the
discussion began in the House of Lords, sue
ceeds III being bitter without imparting much
infornaton He regards the articles of the
new treaty as mere suggestions" showing
thereby a sublime disregard for accomplished
facts. He gives the Bessarabian question
undue prominence, probably to annoy the Gar,
and draws the fantastic conclusion that because
Mehemet Ali threatened COnstantinOplc III
1888, the Russians might march to the Suez
Canal Relieved from the trammelS of Office,
Lord Derby was in a position to refute
courteOusly the Prcmier's fallacies. lie
limited that the Government was turning
the war feeling to account; said that
matters were at a deadlock" because
neither side would give way, for fear of
loss Of dignity, and asked why England
should rush into a purpOseless war, while
every other nation was disposed to remain at
peace. The Marquis of Salisbury, from whose
explanations something might have been cx-
pected, said nothing to break the force of the
ex-Foreign Minister'S argument, his principal
point being that Russia should have followed
the programme of the COnstantnople Confer
ence-a scheme which the war had long since
placed outside the domain of practical poll
tics. The general drift Of the debate in both
houses is undoubtedly favorable to peace
The British people are in an angry mood, but
they are likely to think twice before entering
upon a war to avert dangers which are a long
way in perspective.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-09

tbe boys on the dock, Glover has had the most,
if not the best luck. lie has done more to
make it lively for the rest of the boys, and
has at the same time employed more experts
than any other boy with pole. And his hook
has been either in the ali or the water or the
seat Of some other boys trousers just all the
time. This last performance-catching some
other boy-has been so often repeated
by Glover as to become monOtonous;
and as remarked above, it has now
come to that pass that whenever Glover cries
"a btei" every boy clasps himself behind and
prepares to extricate himself The other day
Glover dropped line, as he supposed, into
quiet-little spot out of which he felt confident
he should pull something that would make all
the boys happy. He played it very fine; said
"H-u-s-h!" to everybody till he thought he
had his game fairly hooked, when he shouted,
"Now I've got him." and gave his usual
jerk There was a yell Of pain, splash
in the water, and then a big boy
named Banning, who had been sitting on the
Dufing and blowing, with GlOyers hook
in the old place. And Glover said, "Oh, is
L" that you, Banning? l really am very sorry.
but / hadn't any idea you were there"
Then Banning climbed up on the dock and
shook himself, and said Glover was
BANKED fool, and did his fishing in
BANKED reckless way, and that if the
family depended much longer on his
fishing, they would not merely starye, but be
laccratcd beyond recognition with fish-hooks.
Then Banning vert off, dripping dirty water,
and GIover's experts began putting on fresh
bait, and the rest of the boys scattered up the
dock, saying, "Those things ought to be taken
away from Glover; he's all the time doing
"mlschicf there's nobody safe while he's
" flinging that hook round"
But all the same Glover keeps fishing. lie
is determined to catch something, if it's only
n cold.