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ton, too. In the history of England, siEoe
the revolution, the Duke of Beaconsfeld will
be, with one exception, the only man who
has risen by parliamentary talents alone
from the position of a commoner to the high
est rank of the peerage. Charles Montagu,
perhaps the greatest of parliame ntary figures
before Pitt, only died an earl, though bis
descendants are Dukes of Manchester. The
English dukes, as body, are either the de-
scendants of great feudal mobiles, like the
Dukes of Norfolk and Northumberland, or of
kings mlstresses, like the Dukes of st. Al
bans, Richmond and Grafton, or OF great
soldiers, like the Dukes of Marlborough and
Wellington. The Duke of Portland, vino
seems to be an exception, descends from the
favorite of a king, though most worthy one,
rather than from an English statesman. The
other man is Sir Thomas Osborne, the Tory
Yorkshire squire vino. possessing scarcely any
special ability save that of Mr.. Disraeli, the
ability for managing parliaments, rose under
Charles H.. James H., and William to be
Earl of Dandy. He skipped, like Lord Bea-
consfeld, two steps of the ladder-Marauis
of Caermarthen and Dnke of Leeds
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Proposed New Product for AIabama's
Soil.

Huntsville Independent: Governor David
P. Lewis has received letter from MIR. Will
son Watson, of Brooklyn, inclosing some jute
seed, and urging the importance-of develop
ing the culture of jute in Alabama. The let
ter has the Endorsement, in his own hand
writing, of the venerable philanthropist,
Peter Cooper, the Greenback candidate for
President in 1875. The agricultural report
for 1876 states that Mr.. c. B. Stewart, of
Montgomery, raised jute eight feet high,
(which branched largely" Corn, cotton,
oats and wheat lands are good for jute, rails
ing three thousand pounds in stalks, or one
thousand pounds in fiber per acre; which, at
FIVE cents per pound, would give fifty dollars
per acre, seven times above the average of
six dollars and seventy-six cents, this latter
being the average of product values in Ala
bama staple productions. In his letter to
Governor Lewis, Mr.. Wilson adds: "Advlsed
by Mr.. Cooper, am urging on our State leg
islature the polity of developing said pro-
ducts, and silk. by paying bounties. This
system made England and France the two
richest nations in the world. General LeDuc,
commissioner of agriculture, believes with me
that the full development of such products
would employ every idle man in the United
States, making an important era in our coun-
try S industrial history" The product of the
jute is smooth, serViceable, beautiful textile.
Governor Lewis has written for full particu-
lars as to how the seed should be planted,
and for all other necessary information. He
will plant the seed sent, experlmentally.
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BE Warned in Time.

New York Egening Post: TIE elections
of this year are preparatory for a more impor-
tant election. The canvass of 1873 is for
members of congress; the canvass of 1880
will be for Presidents and the two are closely
related. The saying is attributed to Horace
Greeley that a party cannot hope to elect a
President if there is majority against it in
the house of representatives last elected be-
fore the Presidential election. The saying
was disproved in 1876, when President Hayes
was elected, although the Democrats then
had a majority in the popular branch of con-
gress. There is no doubt, however, about
the truth which the saying was meant to en-
body. The course of Presidential canvass
is usually determined two years before it be-
gins. By that time the parties into which
the country may be divided have declared
their principles, and the people are prepared
to choose among them. The political prefer
ences shown by the voters in the COMPRESSION
al districts this year will indicate, not with
absolute certainty, but with tolerable accura-
cy, their preferences throughout the Union
year after next. 1t is well, therefore, for
party leaders everywhere to remember that
they are now making platforms and molding
public opinion, not in their several districts
merely, but in the whole country.
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Dorsey,s ResponsibiIIty.

Little Rock Gazette: If Dorsey had tackled
on to the sundry civil appropriation bill an
and continuation Of the commission-all that
the people of Hot Springs were at that time
asking and praying for-there would have
been no objection in the house, and conse-
auently no conference committee, so far as
that measure was concerned; and mistake,
error and omission would have then been i'm
possible III the enrolment. So the people of
Hot Springs, after all, are to thank Mr.. Dor
sew alone for the misfortune and trouble that
defeated their hopes of immediate relief.
Through his greedy, grasping, mercenary
motives and instincts in introducing pro-
vision foreign and unnecessary to the main
object of their wishes and desires, Dorsey
succeeded in defeating all legislation, and
upon his shoulders rests the whole RESPONSE
hilitY for the failure.
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The Duke of BeaconsfieId.

London Spectator, June 18th: The Berlin
correspondent of the Standard telegraphs on
Wednesday story of the congress which is
worth more than passing note. On the ar
rival of Lord Beaconsfeld at the ''Kaiserhof,"
he was presented, on behalf of the crown
princess, with a bouquet of flowers, IN the
center of which was a strawberry plant
crowned with a single large strawberry.
German courts do not pay honors of this kind
without consideration. The crown princess
is but lust returned from London, and if the
story is true, it can have but one signifcation
that Lord Beaconsfeld, if he returns sue
cessful from the congress, having made a
peace and secured some kind of scenic tri-
umph, Is to be made duke. The statement,
which has been whispered about for some
time. is not improbable in itself, for the court
has shown disposition to honor the premier
The public, whether favorable or hostile to his
policy, will not care what title he takes,
thinking justly that the man who made an
empress may well make duke; and he HIM
self has of late years displayed a thirst Tor
social precedence and distinctions. The prIvy
seal gave him for a time ducal precedence,
and he will enjoy the supersession OF the
class which, of all others, he scorns with the
deepest contempt-the English aristocracy,-
the barbarians "who did not conquer the
land and who do not defend it, who know
but one language and never open book.
There viii be a certain loneliness In the POSI-
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GENERAL EWING
Meets with a Hearty Reception at the
Hands of the NatiOnalists of New
YOrk-Peter COOper's Ideas.
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.


NEW YORK, June ga committee, COM
posed of George w. Gibbons. Walker H.
Sharpe, and E. P. Miller, representing the
National party, called upon General Thomas
Ewing, of Ohio, at the Fifth Avenue hotel,
this evening, and thanked him for his oppo-
sitlon to the resumption act, and congratu-
lated him on the defeat of the senate substi-
tute bill in the house. By invitation from
Peter Cooper, General Ewing accompanied
the committee to Mr.. Cooper's house, where
general conversation ensued upon the green
back question. General Ewing asked Mr..
Cooper what ought to be done to insure re-
turn of prosperity to the American people.
Mr.. Cooper replied that the time had come
when the American people would demand
the establishment of justice. Without JUS
tice it would be impossible to secure domes-
tic tranquility. The people were coming to
understand that the money found in circula-
ton as currency at the close of the war had
become the peoples money, over which the
government had lost all control except to tax
1T as SO much property. The people will
come to see that that money was wrongfu'y
taken from them, and converted into a ma
tional debt. Justice cannot be establish !,
and the general welfare promoted, withodt
the return of the peoples money by the pur-
chase of all the interest bearing bonds of the
government, and in that way putting an end
to the national debt; by the I .yment of the
bonds now due, one billion five hundred mil
lion dollars of currency would be put into
circulation, which would flow into all the
channels of business like new blood to REIN
vigorate the whole commercial body.
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Something should be Done with Maiu


New York Times: Although Bristol is a
small and unimportant town lit Is called
city in the south), it has two mayors, two
municipal governments, two bodies of police,
and is taxed in two States. 1t is in both
Tennessee and Virginia, the center of Nam
street being the dividing line, and its pecu-
liar position causes no little confusion and
many droll incidents. Young couples elope
from Virginia, and, by crossing the street,
enter Tennessee, and are married without
hindrance. A man commits crime III Ten
nessee, flies to the opposite sidewalk in VIr-
ginia, and defes the officers of the former
State. He needs to be very guarded In his
movements, however, lest he cross the bound
airy, and become amenable to the laws Of the
commonwealth he has fed, or stepped away
from. Fugitives are often pulled across the
street by officers armed with warrant, and
so legally arrested. Not long since, fellow
who had stolen horse in Tennessee crossed
the boundary-by walking twenty feet-and
seating himself on pile of dry goods boxes,
laughed a pursuing policeman to scorn.
While so occupied a law-abiding citizen
pushed over the pile Of boxes, and the thief
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The Hot springs Commission.

Washington correspondence of the Balti-
more Sun: The omission OF the clause rela-
tive to the Hot Springs of Arkansas from the
sundry civil bill continues to be matter of
much comment a Democratic member of
the conference committee on the bill expressed
to-day the belief that the omission was de-
signedly done, and said that he thought it
would end In landing some parties in the
penitentiary. All the members of the con-
ference committee, Democrats and Repuhli-
cans, have united in written request to the
President that he execute the provision as it
was agreed to by both houses, and that they
will undertake to protect him. 1t was said
by the members of the conference committee
above alluded to that some of the old claim
ants of the Hot Springs property had been
very active all this session endeavoring to
prevent any Legislation in the interest of the
government, and it was believed that this in
terest had something to do with the singular
omission in the enrolment of the sundry civil
hill
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The British Judge.

London Week: There are few positions
more enviable than that of an English judge.
A salary of twenty-five thousand dollars a
year, with pension of fifteen thousand dol
lars on retirement, are pickings for which a
French or German judge, who does much
the same work for about two thousand
FIVE hundred dollars or three thou
sand dollars a year, must long with
all the strength of his Judicial mind. If
the pecuniary position of a judge is good,
his social status is even better. On circuit
he is treated with almost royal honors, and
on the bench the outward Difference paid to
him by suitors, by witnesses, and, above all,
by counsel, is enough to turn the head of any
but the most humble minded of human be-
ings; and humble-mindedness is not the char
acteristic of judges any more than of other
people. The British judge has many virtues.
He is not to be bought; his honor is above
suspicion; his moral character is, Utmost
cases, immaculate. He is, except when af
flicted with the govt, or exasperated by a
sutton who insists upon conducting his own
case, uniformly courteous, and he is dignifed
in the extreme; sometimes little overriding
the part, and, usually, in the inverse propor-
ton to the strength of his intellect.
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TIE FREIGHT QUESTION.

We are IN receipt of q letter from very
intelligent correspondent, resident of Holly
Springs, which we publish in another column
Of this mornings APPEAL. The facts therein
presented speak for themselves, and need no
argument to strengthen or make them clearer.
Holly Springs is the center of a wealthy and
-~siy unrlvfnfs section or mississippi, tho poo
pie Of which are anxious to trade with Mem
phis to the exclusion of any other point. The
only thing that stands in the way of the con-
summation Of their desires and our wishes is
the Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans rail-
road company, which seems to have but one
idea, and that is: that all freights should be
forced to New Orleans, st. Louis or Chicago.
To this end a prohibitory tariff is levied upon
freights shipped to other points, the local
traffic being thus forced to pay for the de-
fcencies inevitable in carrying freights under
the stimulus of rivalry to points so far apart
as are the eatremities of this road. There
shodld be some remedy for this. There
must be some recourse in law. If
not, the sooner we know it. with a
view to securing the needed legislation, the
better. There can be no objection to legiti-
mate opposition in trade, and all fair minded
men must applaud enterprise wherever and
whenever it shows itself. But there is moth
ing legitimate or enterprising in this heavy
discrimination against Memphis and in favor
of other points, or in furnishing he people
who live along the line of road and contrib
ute most to its support, merely because they
prefer to trade with their old friends and
neighbors who do business here. There must
be some way to put stop to so unrighteous
a proceeding. There must be some remedy,
come method, by which growing community
like ours can be protected from rapacity
that is like nothing so much as the method
of the gentlemen of the road whose cry Is
"Stand and deliver" These railroads are
the creation Of the legislatures of the States
through which they pass, and, their charters
to the contrary notwithstanding, are in no
sense removed from the reach of the long
arm Of those legislatures. Their charters
can be amended, if not repealed, and they
can thus be brought under subsection to
law and compelled to deal as fairly with
the local traffcker as with the now more
lucky trader who lives at either |
end of the lines. But before steps to so de- |
sirable an end can be taken, we suggest that !
our merchants give expression to their
views, and respond to the generous senti
ments of our country cousins, who prefer |
and want to deal with US alone. The signs |
betoken bounteous harvest, and at all the |
great trade centers there is felt the presage of
good times coming. Nowhere more than in
the region tributary to Memphis are these
signs more hopeful, nor at any other point are
the presages more reassunng than here. 1t
behooves US to prepare for propitious sea-
son, to put our house in order and to do all
we can to keep what trade we have and get
as much more as we can.
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COnkIIng Painted by q Republican
Artist.

New York Ereniny Post: Republicans who
are asking themselves whether it Is worth
while TO vote again for Senator Conkling, di-
rectly or indirectly, may be helped to answer
the question by the testimony of Ex-Marshal
Pitkin. It exposes Mr.. Conkling as a nego-
tiator with the lawyer of the dlsreputable
Anderson for information concerning the East
Feliciana protest and the Mathews letters.
His purpose was not to denounce crime or
right wrong; he never has made move
ment in that direction. He appears to have
desired that "Mr. Mathews might be held by
the bride a little" and, perhaps, that Mr..
Harlan might be defeated as justice of the
supreme court This secret negotiator and
intriguer is scarcely the man for senator,
though he might have served as Mrs. jerks s
anauuensis.
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American Carnets

Scientific american: Our production of
carpets Ia larger than that of any other coun-
ty IN the world. In 1876 the value of the
product was S32, $40, l6S. In 1872 our i'm
portatons of carpeting amounted to nearly
$4,000, 4 %; in 1877 they were only SG74, 9Ii.
In their report as to the character OF american
carpets, the Centennial judges said: The
proofs at the exposition of our attainments IN
this manufacture were observed with no little
surprise. 1t was manifest, from the absence
OF rival foreign exhibitions, that in respect to
the carpets of the cheaper aud medium quail
tiles, up to the two and three-ply ingrains.
the competition is confined to our own manu-
facturers. Even rival English manufacturers
generally admitted that IN the production of
jacquard Brussels, tapestries and Wiltons.
and narrow Administers, we have nothing to
learn from them either in design or fabrica-
ton. 1t is worth remarking in this connec-
ton that when American inventors under
took the task of devising carpet weaving ma
chinery, the work was all done on hand-looms
by men. Now women and boys do all the
labor. In 1874 a man with a helper
could weave not more than seven yards of
Brussels carpet in day. Now a girl will
weave fifty yards in that time.
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The whIppIng-Post In virginia.

Virginia new criminal code, writes cor
respondent from Richmond, will become ope-
rative on the first of July. Under it one or
more whipping posts will be established in
each city and county in the commonwealth.
In future there will be no Imprisonment for
petit larceny, except for second offenses, and
when in the judgment of the justice or Judge
the condition of female offender may rem
der stripes unadvisable. The Legislature de-
termined on this change at the last session,
In view of the crowded condition of the prs
ons, the cost of maintaining convicts. and
the Impeachment of the Commonwealth
financial resources. The right of appeal from
the Judgment of a justice to trial by jury is.
of course, reserved. There is some division
OF opinion as to the necessity for the re-estab-
hshment of the whipping post, but the ma
JoIlty OF the people undoubtedly expect great
things from it as an economical and crime
preventing measure
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AT THE LAST.
JAMES BERRY BENsEE.

There must be something after all this woe;
A sweet fruitiOn from the narrowed past;
Rest some day for this pacing 10 and fro;
A tender sunbeam and dear flower at last
There VIII be something when these days are done
Something more fair by far than starry nights
A prospect imitless, as one by one
Embodied castles crown the airy Nights.
So cheer up heat, and for that morrow walt!
Dream what you will, but press toxard the dream;
Let fancy guide dull effort through the gate.
And face the current would she cross the stream.
Then, when that something lies aihwaIt the way
Coming unsOught, as good things seem TO do
Twill prove beneath the flash of Settling a AZ
nobler need than now would beckon you
For lifted up by constant. forward strife
Hope will attain so marvellous hight
There can be nothing found within this life
Alter this day TO form fitting night.
So heaven alone shall ever SatisfS,
And Gods own light be ever light enough
To guide the purified. ennObled eye
Toward the smooth which lies beyond the rough.
There will be sonnet hing when these clouds skim by
bOunteOus Yielding from the fruitful past;
sweet peace aud rest upon the pathway lie,
Ken though but death and flowers at the last
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OHIO.
The Nominations and the Platform of
the Recent Democratic COuven.
tfOn.

Cincinnati Enquirer: The Ohio political
canvass of 1873 Is inaugurated. The issues
are made. The parties have met in conven-
ton, have named their candidates, have pro-
claimed their respective beliefs, and the case
is before the jurors, that number more than
six hundred thousand. The Democratic con-
vention yesterday placed in nomination a
ticket above reproach. In so far as we can
control the condrct of the canvass 1t will not
be a personal one. The Democrats will not
endeavor to win the suffrages of the people
OF the State by personal abuse of the Re-
publican candidates. We shall seek to lift
the contest to higher plane. Ideas and not
admit the responsibility of the Republican
nominees. The ticket placed in nomination
yesterday by the Democratic conven-
ton is one that commands the entire
respect and confidence of the people
of the commonwealth, and is eminently
and exceptionally worthy of the support of
the voters of Ohio. The nominee for secre-
Summit county. Mr.. Paige comes of an old
Democratic family. He Is a son of the late
David X. Paige, of Lake county, who was
recognized for many years as one of the lead
ers of the party IN the western reserve. Mr..
Paige is a graduate of Union college, New
York, and Is In the very prime of life. He
removed from Lake to Summit county, where
most prominent families, and where he is
now largely engaged in business. Mr.. Paige
has twice been elected treasurer of Summit
county by large majority, and is the only
Democrat who has ever been elected to po-
sition in the county. He is a gentleman Of
fine presence, excellent business qualities,
and will make faithful officer. There could
not have been better selection for the head
of the tickle. Judge Alexander F. Hume, of
Butler county, the nominee .or supreme Judge,
is one of the most efficient judges of the court
of common pleas In southern Ohio. He is a
resident of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio,
and has had large experience both as a prac-
hhoner and on the bench. He is a close
student, and has given great sF .isfaction in
his judicial district. Judge Hume will re-
ceive a 'arge support in the Miami valley,
wnere he is well known. 1t is high COM
plIment =, the judge to say that his decisions
have never been revC SGD. The convention
selected for the member of the board of
public works Mr.. Rush Fields, of Richland
county Mr.. Fields is one of the most active
business men Of Mansfield, and has excellent
executive ability. He is a good representa-
tive of the young Democracy, and will in-
fuse new life into the board. But the plat
form is the real candidate. As we trusted,
the noble Democracy of Ohio did not abate
one jot or one title of the faith they have
bravely declared in these few years past.
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Kearney's Grave and Tombstone.

st. Louis Republican: The Kearneyites of
San Francisco held jollifcation Thursday
night of last week to rejoice over their tri-
was held at their headquarters at Oak hall,
and as soon as it was learned that Kearney
would speak, great crowd poured into the
room, considerable number of ladies secur-
ing seats in the gallery. Kearney, in his
speech, ridiculed the non-partlsans for being
misguided dupes, who had worked against
their own interests, and allowed themselves
to be hoodwinked and psychological" He
said all he asked, when his life was ended,
was an humble slab over his grave in Lone
Mountain, with this inscription: Here lies
Kearney, the drayman, who led the victorious
charge of the people against the hordes of
tyranny and corruption, and died for liberty
and the rights of man.