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much injury can be done by the emigra
ton of the colored people ia shown by
the aiarm ana actual distress caused
by the EXODUS from Louisiana and
Mlsslssilp Two or three years ago.
The broad proposition is that the color
ed man should be able to live as well
in South Carolina as in any other state,
have the same rights and privileges.
possess the same means ot educafinp
his children, and have as good chance
to become farmer on his own ac-
count. II this is not the fact. what
are the obstacles in the way. and are
they irremovablep The explanations
given by some of the emigrants to our
Augusta correspondent must. of course.
be taken with considerable allowance,
The colored people are improvident as
a class, ana when, at the end of the
year, they find that they owe as much
as they have earned, they are apt to
attribute the result of unfair dealing
instead of to their own shiftlessness.
If they are imposed on. the circum-
stances should be made known. What
with the white emigration, it is reaon-
able 10 assume that forces are in opera
ton OF which we have no sufficient
knowledge. The first thing to be done
is to get at the whole truth, and lay
bare every sore, whatever it is. South
Carolina needs additional population,
and cannot afford to lose a single
working citizen. And to keep the
population we have, and increase it,
every reasonable grievance must be
removed. and the state be made de-
sirable home for the colored man as
well as the white man, for the laborer
as well as the landowner.
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Dr. Foote'S Health Monthly.
a physician writing from Yokoha-
ma concerning the medical practice IN
Japan. states, that the physicians there
are Of two classes, the old and the
new. The old school there comprises
the Chinese physicians, and those
physicians who have adopted the prac-
tice of Europe and America are said to
be Of the new school. Most of the
large cities have hospitals conducted
on the plan of ours. Though the physi-
clans Of the emperor are all Of the new
system some Of his majesty's house
hold have little OF no faith in them.
and send for the adherents of the
Chinese school when i'll. One of the
most curious facts noted by this writer
is that although the garments and
apartments of the invalid may be of
the richest material and kept scrupu-
lously clean, the invalid himself Is per
mitted to become very dirty in a long
illness by the careful avoidance of the
use Of wafer even for the teeth and the
failure to cut the beard or the nails.
Even the doctors of the new school do
not dare to insist on personal cleanli-
ness lest they be dismissed from at
tendance on the case Some attention
Is given to diet in sickness but not with
good judgment, and many Of the sick
die from inanition or starvation when
they might have been saved by the use
Of sufficient nourishment, tonics and
stimulants. II the japanese are not
wholly wise in the treatment of the
sick they are certainly in advance of US
In disposing Of the dead by cremation ;
and. though they have not the advan-
tage OF the most approved furnaces
they nevertheless manage to effectually
cremate bodies at small expense and
] without offense.
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GIVE THE CHILDREN LOVE.

When the little ones gather about you,
At study, nc work, or at play,
Remember their needs and their lOngings,
Nor thoughtlessly turn them away;
AZ blossoms look up for the sunshine,
lnstlnctive they turn unto you;
Don't measure your leve for the children,
Fond mother, whatever you do.
From dear little hearts that are growing,
Soft tendrils creep up like n vine;
In their beauty, their grace and their
weakness,
They must have some place 20 entwine.
Shall IL be on the gray rocks OF sternness,
That frown I'm their cOldness above?
Nay, rather I'm sweet, sunny places,
Environed with mothers fond love.
Look once at the face Of an orphan.
Though fed and well clothed he may b.,
And you miss the abandon OF childhood,
The spirit that makes the child free,
You miss the look tender and trustful,
That beams In the innOcsnC face
When some little one runs "tO meet father
And prattles with infinite grace.
Don't measure your love for your children,
Or hinder It's great overflow;
The better for dew and for sunshine
These fair human blossoms will grow,
The better they'll lend you their succor
When time shall have silverud your hair
And the shadow li.s deep at the portal
'rwtSt you and the mansion SO fair.
Mrs. W. A. Kiddcr.
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italy and the Italians.


The natural attractions of Italy are
very great. Her climate is genial and
delightful, and if one wishes for noun
tain, lake and seashore scenery where
can they be found in greater abund-
ance than in Italyp In former times
her mountains prevented free inter
course with the outside world, and be-
tween different parts of her own terri
tory, but they also served as barriers
of defence, without which she could
hardly have protected herself from her
enemies. Italy was highly civilized
before one of her sons discovered
America, and her cities have been the
admiration of mankind from the earli-
est times up to the present. The north
Of Europe was overrun with savages,
and Europe would probably not have
advanced very far in civilization had
it not been for the rise of these Italian
cities. They took for their models, not
so much their mother Rome, military
living by force of arms, as the free cit
les of Greece, devoted to manufacture
and art. The commerce of Europe
began in the seaport cities of Italy,
and Italians were the first bankers.
Many of the rich bankers and mer-
chants Of Italy were men of largo
heart and noble purpose. who used
their wealth to enrich and adorn the
cities in which they lived with fine
buildings and works of art. Genius
was appreciated and cultivated, and
where this is the case men of genius
are sure to appear. Excellence In
architecture and the fine arts is lead
ing characteristic of the Italians
Other nations may vie with them in
architecture, and the Greeks may equal
them in sculpture, but in painting they
stand alone. Italian cities are vast
storehouses of art, to which artists
from all parts of the world resort fol
instruction and inspiration. In music
the Italians excel all others. with the
exception of the Germans. The opera
is exclusively Italian as the oratorio Is
German. Italian literature was one OF
the frst to be developed, and no coun'
try. ancient or modern. can produce
four greater poets than Petrarch. Tas'
so. Ariosto and Dante. Boccaccic
| stands high as master of prose style
Italy has also had scientific men of the
highest distinction from the time OF
Galileo.
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Emigration of Colored People from
South Carolina.

Charleston Is. Co. Newa
The emigration of colored people
from South Carolina threatens to com.
plicate serious affairs in this state. At
this time it is impracticable to tell
what is the extent of the movement,
but it is startling to hear that already
entire plantations have been left with
out laborers, and that the emigrants ex-
pect to fare better in Arkansas than
they have in this state. The colored
people who 60 to Arkansas will most
likely find that they have been imposed
upon. It will be the Azor project over
again. This, however, is no consola.
tion, present or prospective. The col
ored people are the foundation of the
whole agricultural system Of the state.
Without there labor a large part of
the state would remain uncultivated
until white emigrants could be obtain
ed to I'LL the gap. White laborers
would not be satisfied with the wages
and rations which content the colored
people, and, in seeking white immi-
grants, South Carolina Is In active CON-
petition with the whole west and with
most Of the southern states. How
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The Timber Scarce.

A writer in the Montreal Star takes
the ground that there is no reasonable
apprehension that the country will be
shorn of its stock of timber within the
short period that has been allotted by
lumbermen and others from time to
time. He says:
1 do not altogether deprecate GER
tain anxiety about the depletion of our
forest timber, and l admit that the de-
pletion is going on rapidly. But peo-
pie who say that eat our present rate
of consumption" our timber limit will
be exhausted of all its valu BILE trees
in ten, fifteen or twenty years, talk
without reasoning the question out as
it deserves to be. The fact is, sir, that
we are every year substituting other
material for timber, and that we will
not use any species of timber in fu-
ture Eat the present rate of consump-
tion." Within the past few years
boards are giving way to wire fences; !;
brick and stone are replacing wood for
houses; asphalt and stone are replacing
for sidewalks, and IN i short time
wooden posts for fences will be re-
placed by posts OF stone or iron. Wood
is going out of use as hoops for bar
rels, and even baskets made of strip
iron for picking cotton in the southern
states, gathering potatoes, harvesting
fruit or such work, have replaced the
old wooden baskets of former days.
Then look at our sea-going and river
ships, while our locomotives are every
day using coal to generate steam, in
stead Of wood as formerly. In erect
ing our buildings see how much iron
is used where it used to be wood. In
the construction of bridges; in the
manufacture of agricultural imple-
ments, furniture, seats for gardens
cradles--in fact everything where wood
used to be the exclusive commodity in
use, We now see iron pushing it to the
wall. And this is becoming more the
case every year, so that the depletion
cannot continue cat the present rate of
consumption" 1 grant that the increase
of population may, however, give rea-
sonable ground for the belief that
Canada's timber limits, as well as those
in the United States, need looking
after, but believe that if farmers took
advantage of the waste spots on their
farms and planted forest trees on them,
much could be done to meet the an.
ticipated evil.
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An EngIishman's Ascent of Pixies
Peak.


Saturday Review.
The ascent of Pixies Peak is usually
made on horseback; for, just as in
Switzerland no one rides who can walk,
so in America no one walks who can
ride-the guides themselves accompany
the expedition on horseback. 1t is a
curious fact that, on attaining an alti-
tude of about $4,000 feet, the pedestrian
is attacked with an extreme lassitude
and oppression not experienced on the
Swiss Alps even at much higher alti-
tudes. This statement we do not make
only on our own authority. We have
the assurance of a very distinguished
mountaineer, well acquainted with
Switzerland and the ranges of Central
Asia, that it was as much as he could
do to struggle up to the top of Pixies
Peak. Occasionally party will an
nOunce their intention of going up the
Peak to see the sunrise therefrom, and
will make great preparations accord
ingly. They will start early the previ.
GUS afternoon with goodly supply of
wraps and food, carrying revolvers to
intimidate the bears, but, according to
the inhabitants of the signal station
before mentioned, they usually arrive
somewhere about 10 A. NJ, and are con-
tent to see the sunrise from a much
lower level Should you chance to fall
in with sunrise" party on the noun
tain, you will ind they are a little
tetchy if you condole with them on the
incomplete success of their expedition,
and they will assure you with some
warmth that sunrises can be seen just
as well from the precise spot attained
by them as from any more elevated
position. After this assurance you
would do well to drop the subject. The
path all the way up is perfectly well
defined, and no guide is needed. Wher-
ever any reasonable doubt can arise a
sign.post treasures the traveller. 1t is
practicable by moonlight, even through
the forest, and revolver is not neces.
sary part of the outfit, the chance of en-
countering bear being remote in the ex-
treme. The mountain buck, species of
wild ram much affected by tha sports
man, is not unfrequently met with.
AOWoAA VIC SOP LILO paul. DCCOluco Dttkc
ard uninteresting, but for most Of the
way the scenery is picturesque, bold
and diversified. From the stony pla-
teau on which the weather-signal sta
tiOn is built one can see about one hun
dTed and fifty miles over the prairie,
and on the opposite side long range
of mountains is visible. The station
is a substantial building, containing
three or four rooms, in which the two
permanent inhabitants contrive to look
very cheerful. The furniture of the
principal chamber in this highest in
habited house in the worlds, $50
feet above the sea-level- consists OF an
elaborate writing desk, large wooden
bed, few book-shelves, well filled, a
stove, a table and a few chairs. One
of the signal men, an ex-first lieaten.
ant in the American army, dispenses
hospitality for a consideration. A cur
iof coffee with condensed milk, costs
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twenty-five cents, or one shilling. and
the charge is the same for glass of
lemonade. The gallant officer is much
pleased with his quarters, in spite of
the low winter temperature, the mer-
curry, or rather the spirit thermometer,
having been known to recede to forty
seven degrees below zero. He affirms
that he never had good nights rest
till he attained his present elevation,
having previously suffered from asth-
ma. The number of signal men at
tached to the station is three, of whom
two are always there. Their expert
ence of climatic changes must be in
teresting, as furious thunder-storms
take place with short notice, and heavy
gales come on quite suddenly in clear
sky, blowing over without a drop of
rain, on which occasion the dust is in
tOlerable.
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From an extensive use of ST Jacobs
Oil in the editors family, we are able
to speak confidently Of its great worth
in numerous ailments, and fully recon-
mended it a. an article most desirable
to have on hand in the medicine chest.
-Stdnaf ford (Coa1n.) Herald.
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Selection of Seed Wheat.

The Rural New Yorker has the fol-
lowing on the amount of seed wheat
to be used, and the care to be used in
selecting it:
"Most farmers are careful to shell off
the butts and tips of seed corn. They
should be just as careful in the selec-
tion of seed wheat to reject all but the
outer seeds of the spikelet, aad to cut
off the "tip" and the "butt" so to speak,
Of the wheat ear. Those breasts that
are just about the middle of the ear or
head, or a little above are the first to
bloom, the first to ripen their grains.
1t is very evident that saving seed in
this way in quantity would be absurd.
But the Rural advocates seed plots just
the same for wheat as for corn. For
this purpose plots 33x38 feet Zone
fourth of an acre. are plenty large
enough. The seed carefully selected
from the largest, heaviest heads, while
yet standing in the field-the butt and
tips cut off with pair Of scissors-are
planted foot or less apart each way.
This plot is cultivated once in the
fall, again in the spring. So planted,
only little over 1000 seeds are re-
quired, and these are furnished by
about 75 head. If an acre be laid eff
in ten-inch squares, it will require
about 81, 800 grains to plant it. Now,
if we suppose that each grain produces
20 heads (which is not excessive for
grain so sowed or planted), and every
head twenty grains, allowing 100000
to the bushel. The yield of these cul-
tivated plots is, in most seasons, sur
prising, and the straws and heads are
fully double the usual size. If we
were to suppose that seed wheat yields
but thirty fold, one bushel of seed
would produce thirty bushels of crops.
But every seed produces, by tillering,
more than one head, and every head
win produce at the least estimate. 20
grains. When, therefore, two or three
bushels are sown to the acre, we may
see what an immense waste of seed
there is. When wheat is planted as
above described, one grain to every
foot, 1t is found that nearly every grain
terminates, and the plants SO tiller as
to cover the ground by mid-spring. In
the usual methods of sowing wheat,
either broadcast or by drilling, it has
been found that not less than II BUSH
els viii produce the best yield. If,
however, the land is rich and well pre-
pared, less quantity should serve; and
the same may be said Of oats, rye, bar
J ley or corn
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Women. Young or Old.

married OF single, If out OF health, will be
greatly benefited by taking Kidney Wort.
In either dry or liquid form II Is an effect
ual remedy for some OF their most trouble
some complaints.-lndependenk
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A party recently made an exploration in
Death Valley, California, where they
found some relics Of the immigrants who
perished there In 1S49, consisting Of a
pocket-knife and portions Of wagon.
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PUBLIC SALE.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE PROPERTY DE
the Utah goT aaq now remaining unclaimed in the possession of
TO the charges thereon freight together
0s OF SAFE The said sale will be made at the
Saturday, October 81, 1882.
UNCLAIMED FREIGHT AT OGDEN STATION.
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TIE CAMPAIGN.

The Peoples Territorial Central
Committee and the nominee for
delegate to Congress having decided
upon a campaign, it is probable
there will be somewhat lively and
interesting times throughout the
territory between now and election
day. There is less than three weeks
before the election, hence there will
be no time to waste; but if energy
and diligence be manifested there
will be opportunity for holding
mass meetings in all the principal
cities and towns of the territory.
The county committees will I'M
doubtedly be able TO arrange for
meetings in The villages, and
out of the way places, providing
speakers, and performing the other
necessary labor. The campaign
having been determined upon, to be
of value it must be thorough. 1t
ought to be the aim and effort to
bring every voter within the sound
of the voice of an able, earnest
speaker, who could make it plain to
all why honest, interested votes
should be thrown for the Peoples
candidate. We know what the
registration is, and now let the
votes equal it.
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THE REPLY.

SALT LAKE C1Tr, October 10th, $50.
Hon. Philip Z. Fan zlJe, Salt L,ol,
City: ''''
Dear SiT-Referring to your favor n,
the ISth inst, which I did not receive
Hndl Saturday afternoon, l beg to say
that l do not agree with you in believing
that the principles and claims Of the two
parties oSa be better understood BY the
voters by listening to Joint discussions.
AE I fsjl to see that my party has any,
thinR to gain by such discussions. Its
mambera are fully confirmed in their
principles aud claims, and csre moth
ing for the views Of the so-called
Liberals: and I cannot ask my
friends to attend meetings under the pre-
tense Of listening to q discussion Of poll
teal issues, when, Judging from the past,
so far Rs the Liberals are concerned, il
would be nethinE but an attack upon
their religious principles.
propose 70 conduct my campaign in
the interest of my friends, the party who
nominated me, snd not in tie interest of
my opponents, aad I do not propose to
furnish the latter with audiences which
they could not otherwise obtain, nor in
any other manner give them either aid
OF comfort.
l therefore most respectfully dec line
your challenge, and remain,
Very truly yours,
JOHN 7. GAME. I
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PEOPLES CANDIDATE
Election, Tuesday. November 7, 1882
FOR DELEGATE TO THE FORTY
EIGHTH CONGRESS:
JOHN 7. GAME.
no JOINT DISCUSSION

The following correspondence ex-
plains itself. Judge Van ZiIe chal-
Ienged Mr.. Game to public joint dis
cussiOns, and the latter respectfully
declined. We are confident the
public will commend Mr.. Gaines
wisdom. With Judge Van lille and
his party discussion simply means
insulting and abusing the majority
class of this Territory, and scandal
izing those whom the people most
respect and revere. That sort of
discussion may be interesting and
Astructive to the 'sLiberal" can
didate's constituents, but it can be
neither to Mr.. Gaines. AS to the
two platforms of principles as set
forth by the respective conventions,
there can be no discussion. One is
broad, liberal, democratic and
manly, couched in respectful Ian
guage, and appealing to the good
sense, the wisdom and man.
hood of the voters; the other is
narrow, vicious and insulting, and
appeals only to the baser sentiments
of men. The two platforms, side
by side, would be q better campaign
document fer the Peoples party
than anything that could be devised.
AIr. Game has displayed wisdom in
declining Judge VanZtle's "chal-I
lenge." The people do not care to
be blackguarded or hear the men in
whom they have all confidence
Yillihedand maligned, and it would
be unfair to ask them to swallow
the Unsavory dose that the Liberal"
nominee is so anxious to administer
Here is the correspondence:
TIE CHALLENGE.
SALT LAKE CRY, UTAH, /
October Is, 1882.
Hon. John z. Cdine!s
1fy Dear Sir-You have to-day re-
caiYed and accepted the nomination for
Congress ct the hands OF the ''PeOple's
Party" and I understand your party is
anxious TO make a thorough canvass of
she Territory. Believing that the prin-
oiplsE and claims Of the two parties can
be better understood by the voters By
listening TO joint discussion, do most
respectfully challenge you to discuss
with me the political issues, ct pub
lie meetings to be arranged for By
she two central territorial committees
throughout the Territory. The time to
be divided between Us at each joint dis
eussion as follows:
The opening speaker to have forty-fve
minutes to open, the speaker to follow to
have one hour to answer. The one who
opens to have fifteen minutes to closs the
debate, AS the time is very short before
election day I sm anxious for an early
reply, and hope to hear from you by TO-
morrow Saturday evening.
Hoping yOu will accept this challenge,
! am yours, very respectfully,
PHILIP r. VANZILE,
Nominee Ofthe Liberal party Of Utah.
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Democratic majority over all, Is:
over the republicans, 10.
If one viii take the trouble to
compare the above table with the
representation in the present Con-
gress, he will discover that adyan-
tage has not been taken of any
democratic tidal wave, such as both.
parties are rather expecting. Ac-
cording to the outlook in the
several states, the reasonable prom.
Use is the election will result as
above indicated. Should there be
a boom in favor of the democrats.
as there was in 1874. and as Ohio in
dicates may occur next month, the
democratic majority will be ten or
twelve more than stated above.