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Year: 1868




The Governor of Alabama has vetoed the
measure providing that the Presidential
electors shall be chosen by the Legislature and
not by the people, and has thus brought out
very handsomely the hitherto latent differences
between the radical rogues in that State The
political division in Alabama is no longer be-
tween the radicals and the people, but between
the two factions of the radicals-the carpet
baggers and the scalawaggers-a sign OF
promise. Your carpet-bagger is loose fish
from the North who shoots about in the shsllow
water of party in the South, and because he is
loyal and has friends in Congress and can take
any sort of an oath gets some fat place, or gets
into the Legislature with view of getting
fat place by and by. He has no consistency,
no home, no character and no means. He is
altogether bogus and is more or less radical
exactly in proportion to his moral and political
worthlessness. Such is the stuff mainly from
which Congressional radicalism has made the
deceptive fabric of reconstruction. The scala
wags are resident radicals-fellows who, per-
haps, were more or less sincere in their readi-
ness to cooperate with Northern men in recon
structing the South on Northern ideas. Gene
rally they are looked upon by the mass Of
Southern people as recreants; and they are
also looked upon with no great favor by the
carpet-baggers, for scalawag is Yankee
phrase, and, no doubt, was given to one section
of Southern radicals by the contempt Of the
other. But the scalawags served the purpose
of the radicals, inasmuch as their presence in
the new governments gave them some appear
ance of authenticity. 1t seemed to imply that
the new governments were genuine when q
portion of the resident community participated
in their formation. But more significant
fact now appears when we find that the mean
est white men of the South-the contemplate
residents of Southern States who joined in the
radical scramble Of cOnstruction-cannOt at
the last get down low enough or grovel in the
dust with sufficient humiliation to keep on
terms with the Northern element in the recon-
struction juggle-the carpet-baggers. This
will show to the North how absolutely impossi-
BILE it has been from the beginning for the real
people of the South to participate in the recon-
struction instituted by Congress, and by show
ing this the fight over the electoral law in
Alabama may do good.
Year: 1868

Some unruly fellow threw a stone few days
since at body of nigger soldiery parading the
streets of Washington city with fife and drum
and all that popinjay display of blue cloth and
gold lace of which niggers are as fond as white
men. Thereupon the ''soldiers" opened fire
upon the crowd, and Of course they hit
niger. They always hit niger. 1t makes
no difference what happens in Washington,
damage to nigger is the result, for the niggers
are always in the way in that semi-African
city. But such firing, if done by anybody but
a body of niger soldiery, might have caused
greater harm. And so there follows an inquiry
into the state of the legal provision made for
public safety. 1t is found that in view of the
imminent probability of just this sort oftrouble


t was ordered by the President some months
since that all these militia companies should be
dlsarmed but great radical noise was made
over the order at the time and it was never
put in force. General Grant is blamed; but
as there is subordinate commander for the
District we doubt not the blame rests else
where than with the Commander Chief.
The fact that no notice was taken Of
the order is, however, an indication of
the disgraceful tendency things assumed
In the government under the influence of
the arrogant spirit of the radical bulles.
1t became the fashion to ignore the President.
Congress set the example, and even made
practical division of the Presidents office,
giving part to the Secretary OF War and part
to General Grant These officers, in accepting
powers that Congress had no authority to give,
strengthened the tendency, and there was no
functonary so small but he would have been
ashamed to acknowledge in the presence Of
radical associates any respect for the Execu-
tive or his commands. Did not the magma
tive Butler make out that there was cOnspi-
racy on foot when Emory only talked as if he
might under some circumstances obey an
order from the President? In those days,
therefore, no man hesitated to disregard the
Presidents order, and thus the niggers still
carry their loaded muskets in the streets. 1t
is time this was done with. The order was
not half stringent enough on this offence. In
the city of Washington there should not be per-
mitted any display of arms whatever, and
there is power to prevent any. In the seat of
the civil government of the nation there is a
quasi-despotic power over the conduct Of resi-


dents. Men have not the rights they possess
in the several States, and they take up resi-
dence there with the fact before them. There
is reaction in the tone with which the Presi-
dent is regarded now, and he will do well if
he uses the OnnOrtunitv for a pOsitiye assertion
Of authority in this matter.
Year: 1868

Affairs in this city appear to be approaching
point when the question may arise whether
the rowdies or the police authorities are mas
ters of the situation. On Saturday night q
number Of policemen were assaulted while
conveying prisoner to the station house and
two of them seriously injured by the rescuing
party of rufians. Similar occurrences have
taken place in Brooklyn, and 1t is said that an
organized plan is in contemplation on the part
of the rowdies of both cities to set the police at
defiance. We do not know whether this Is
true or not, but it is evident that for some time
past disorder has been increasing, the exercise
of violence with the knife and pistol has be-
come more frequent and attacks on the police
appear to be systematized. We must look to
Superintendent Kennedy to put stop to this
stratum of society. The members of the police
force, with few exceptions, perhaps, perform
their duty faithfully even to the exposure OF
life and limb, in the service of the public; but
it is for the Superintendent and the Commits
sioners to see that they are not subjected to
unnecessary violence. If policemen were to
go in groups of two or three on their beats in
dangerous districts, instead of patrolling alone,
they would soon bring the rufllans to their
senses The police must be protected, or the
peace of the city cannot be preserved There
ought to be intelligence enough among the
Police Commissioners to devise some plan for
the safety of their men,
Year: 1868

A special exhibit of the flow Of emigration
from Great Britain and Ireland to America,
prepared for the use and information of the
readers of the HERALD, appears in our columns
this morning. The writer sets forth, in brief
and careful analysis, the numbers, ages, social
classification, mode Of transit and points OF
debarkation of the hundreds Of thousands OF
the subjects of Queen Victoria who have sought
shelter, employment, industrial reward and
permanent homes in the United States and
Canada during the year 1867 and some OF the
preceding years.


This report so far as it applies to Ireland, is
exceedingly ample and very complete, and will
consequently attract much attention from our
citizens of Irish birth and descent, as it places
before them fair explanation OF the prevailing
local causes which tend to the exodus of their
brethren and friends from 30 fertile an island
sets forth the rate of mortality which inures
the voyagers to their Western refuge, and gives
the total numbers which took their departure
from each of the four provinces and each OF
the thirty-two counties of the kingdom during
the past year. The remarkable fact Of the
benefit which Ireland receives from her ener-
getic and Industrious children when settled in
the United States is attested by the statement
that they remitted to the Green Isle during
the year 1867 over half million of pounds
sterling while from Canada and New Bruins
wick the sums so sent out did not aggregate
FIVE thousand pounds sterling.
Year: 1868

firmly established. Though Japan had the
start of China few years ago in a more free
intercourse with the Western nations and in
adopting their improvements, there is no doubt
now that China will take the lead. The Bur-
lingame mission, the liberal tendencies of the
existing government of that empire, the vast
emigration of Chinese to America, the steam
ship communication between China and the
United States and the rapid introduction of
American improvements and enterprise will
soon bring that country into close relations
with us and the rest of the world and will open
a vast and profitable trade. We are on the
eve of wonderful development, and this
country occupies the most favorable position
to reap the greatest advantages.
Year: 1868

THE CRUISE OF THR YACHT SQUADRON.
The accounts which our correspondents give
from day to day of the proceedings of the New
York Yacht Club squadron show that their sum-
mer cruise is great success. The description
of the race in yesterdays HERALD was pic
ture that might well make those immured
within the limits of the city pine for the salt
airs of ''the blue, the fresh, the ever free, and
the salt water companonship Of the clubmen.
The present cruise Of the club may be called
the dilletantism of yachting when compared
with ocean contests, amid the hazards of an
Atlantic midwinter voyage; but it is pleasant
sto observe that this delightful and manly sport
is put 20 such good use in the waters that sur
round the metropolis. II is necessary that the
lighter craft should have an opportunity of
showing their sailing powers, their graceful
ness and their beauty, as they have been en-
abled to do in the present cruise. New rival
ries will be created, and yachtmcn will become
more Jealous than ever when the next Yachting
season comes round.
Year: 1868

against the party in power. 1t is evident from
numerous circumstances that the Southern re-
constructed States are not to be relied upon
for Grant and Colfax. 1t is evident from the
late Kentucky election that the radicals have
lost every inch of ground they had gained in
that quarter. The general result there, in fact,
is SO overwhelmingly against them that it can
hardly be reconciled to the radical theory of
local causes. We are soon to have, however,
something more definite and satisfactory in
reference to the drift of public opinion in the
North in the coming September State elections
in Vermont and Maine. Nobody expects that
in these elections in either Of these States there
will be democratic majority of the popular
vote. But if in Vermont and Maine, or in
either, the result shall show marked falling
Off in the republican vote or in the republican
majority, the radicals may begin their prepara-
tions for an impending political revolution.


How far President Johnson's influence may
be exerted to the advantage of Seymour in
Vermont and Maine we do not suppose to be
matter of much consequence; for if there is
any marked reaction in either of these States
it will be due to the great issues involved in
this campaign, and not to the few petty federal
offices here and there. If, however, Vermont
and Maine in September shall indicate a de-
cided turn in the popular tide against the party
in power, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana in
October will be apt to give it greater momen-
tum, and then New York in November will
settle the question, and Andrew Johnson, in
his new political departure, may hopefully re-
turn to Tennessee, although in its general con-
sequences the election Of Seymour may be as
proftless as the election of poor Pierce.
Year: 1868

A Washington dispatch says that the
letter from YARMOUTH, carpet bag Gov
ernOr Of Louisiana, in regard to
thevialleged threatened insurrection
in that State, has been refer
red by the President to Gen.
eral SCHoFIELD, with instructions to
report some general rule, TO govern all
similar cases. 1t is also stated that the
President will send no Federal troops
to any State unless some insurrection-
airy movement is apparent, and it can
not be controlled by the State author
tiles.


If this rule had been adopted long
ago, West Virginia would not have
been disgraced by the presence Of
troops, ostensibly to preserve order, but
actually to disfranchise her citizens and
enable the Ra.ical party to carry the
elections. The soldiers sent into Bar
bour county last Fall, under the mis-
representations of interested parties,
were about as necessary to enforce order
there as ten regiments would be
to keep the peace in Ohio county.
They were taken there to inaugurate
kind of terrorism and protect guilty
and cowardly gang of Registrars in
striking the names of several hundred
qualified voters from the lists. After
the accomplishment of this rascaliy
business, and when, as con
sequence thereof the Radical
party had carried the Barbour
county election, "order reigned In
Warsaw" The people of the county
remained, as they had been, peaceful
and submissive; even under the heaped
up outrages laid upon them, they at
tempted no retaliation or retrlbution
upon those who had robbed them OF
their rights they were patient ander
the WRONG as they had been peaceful
prior to its commission.


A similar injustice was done by quar-
tering troops in the Greenbrier Valley
They were sent there under the repre-
sentations of NAT. HARRISON, a person
whose name the Radicals of this section
are ashamed to print or mention. AL
though he is not worthy of theli
acknowledgements, he is convenient al
an agent, and his statements concern
ing the condition of thingsin his section
are held to justify the kinS of response
made by Governor FOREMAN in sending
the military to suppress mutiny whiel
never had an existence. CYRUS NEW
LIN is another creature of the kind tha
can always get military force to pu
down imaginary instructions. Why :
il that our authorities are so ready III
case of this sort, to rely upon the state
ments of rotten partisans whom, di'
they sbey their consciences, they wcult
not believe on oath !


We are glad to see that, at last, tn
President is inclined to be more care
full in carrying on this military bust
ness. We are glad to see that he want
proof of the necessity for troops before
he sends them into every State wher
Radical exigencies may demand them
Keep these bayonets away from peaceful
people, using them only against lawless
ness toe powerful for local authority t'
master, and not only West Virginia
but other States, will soon have th'
present rulers in retirement, and re
SD ectable party in power.
Year: 1868

A RIPLEY (Ohio) paper says that an
elm tree in the neighborhood, which
was set on fire by a party of young men
for the purpose of catching coons, on
the 10th day of February last, is still
burning. The fire was commenced
about fifty feet from the ground, and
has burned down to about twelve feet.
Some time in October the coons will
have to surrender, according . the rate
at which the tree has been burning
The coons have not far to go, and the
young men have had far to get.
Year: 1868

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Year: 1868

WHENEVER Fenian is convicted,
in Ireland, he holds himself up as a
martyr to the cause of liberty. Among
those thus convicted, we notice that
not few were among those who hired
themselves for fifty cents per day to
fight against the South, which, like
Ireland, is the victim of a sectional
tyranny. Yet those traitors to the
cause of liberty and political justice,
here, have been most clamorous
against England, for real or supposed
injustice to Ireland, and loudest in
their appeals for sympathy with n
cause almost identical with that
which they resisted for a pitiful pecu-
mary consideration. We know not
whether to ascribe such conduct to
hypocrisy or impudence. In either
case, we can have no respect for those
who are doomed to suffer under En-
glishll law for advocating in Ireland, the
cause which they fought against in
the South.
Year: 1868

WHEN we hear the exultant tones
of Northern democrats over the re-.
cent elections and hear their confident
assertions of their ability to hurl the
Radical usurpers from power, in No
terhber next, We can but ask, if they
really have faith in what they say ? or
really believe that such feat can be
accomplished by peaceable means p
Revolutions do not 10 back ward. The
Radicals see that the elections por-
tend their defeat at the ballot-box, yet
they go on unrufiied by the indica=
tions. Unruffled because they have
made up their minds to maintain their
supremacy by force. They have con-
troll of the army and the purse; the
Executive will soon he with them
they know that they are prepared for
war, and that thelropponents are not,
and their determination is either to
carry the election by the bayonet, or
appoint a President, declare Congress
a perpetual body, and say to the DEM
ocrats help yourselves If you can!


This purpose is 30 well defined by
every movement, during the two
year just passed, that it seems incred-
ilbe that any observing man has failed
to see it. No party defeat in any
State has produced the slightest
change or pause in their course. They
feel that defeat at the polls will bring
upon them a ruin SO crushing, and a
disgrace NO damning, that it is better
for their character to wade through
blood to victory, than to encounter
the blasting effects of defeat, and the
exposure Of their consummate viii
lainy, enacted during eight years of
unhallowed supremacy. We are no
croaker, on the the contrary, hopeful
and sanguine, yet it is wilful blindness
not to read the near future, in the un-
mistakeable signs of settled purpose,
back by unresisted power. A feigned
respect for the opinions of mankind,
and the forms of law may suggest the
propriety Of submitting their claims
to the popular voice, under the pre-
scribed forms of an election; but with
the ballot-box controlled by the armed
myrmidans of Radicalism, the mock
election will simply serve to add in
suit to on, ,ressiOn. and when the ga mo
is played out, the usurpers will have
become too secure in their power to
regard the idle vaporings of the tame
spirited dupes of II silly faith in public
virtue and the powerOf disorganized
majority to resist an armed and well
organized minority. Numbers rarely
avail against discipline, and votes
agains muskets, never.
Year: 1868

We incline to think that contradic-
tory habit of mind is very common
cover for weakness. 1t is form OF bully
ing where the strength of true suprem-
acy is wanting. A strong mind can
hardly be a carping one. Husbands
like to snub clever superior wives by
fiat contradictions, with an impression
that they are asserting their rights,
and diverting respect and attention in
to their proper channels. The matter
in dispute may be immaterial in itself;
the man snarls only as means OF shar-
ing the honsrs with his wife. Its also
a spurious form of originality. There
are many persons whose opinions and
views may be guessed at by the rule of
contrary. Tell us who they live among
they are sure to run counter t. them.
Contradiction is often excusable where
people are bored for their opinions.
Many persons of mark find it impossible
to say what they know to be expected
of them: the assumption that anybody
can read their thoughts and guess at
their tastes arouses their perversity.
They will not prophecy according to
programme. They must contradict
the iAtention of an ofticious friend,
though that intention be their own
gloriticatien. When Charles Lamb was
asked how he felt among the lakes and
mountains of Cumberland, and detected
a desire in the Questioner to make him
say something fine, he replied that he
had felt himself obliged to think of the
ham aud beef shop near st. Martins
Lane, as finding the sober regions of
| life most congenial.
Year: 1868

LARGE PEARs.-We were shown this morn
celebrated Duchess Tor Duchess d d'Angouleme)
pears raised by him on his farm near town.
Not one in the basket would weigh less than a
half pound, and perhaps many would weigh q
pound. He took them to the great Horticul-


tural Fair in Philadelphia. We wish all our
farmers would take more pains to exhibit theis
fine products at the great fairs of the country ,
its the best thing they can do to bring our
lands into notoriety and show the value Of our
soil. It's one way to enhance our real estate.


toes had been exhibited at the Wilmington
fairs; we saw nothing there that excelled them.
Year: 1868

The CoLoREn CAMP.-The colored people S
village camp, which has been going on at their
new Church in this town since Saturday week,
closed On Monday night. Bishops Wayman
and Brown and other distinguished preachers
among them preached last week, and were
listened to by good congregations, both white
and colored. The order was good throughout
and a considerable sum was realized in aid Of
their new Church,
Year: 1868

WHAT pleasure it used to be for the Della
ware Gazette to publish the arrival Of the
"gallant Gen. Torbert" in Wilmington, and
that he was the guest Of Senator Riddle. Ere
quently people are disappointed when looking
for straWs
Year: 1868

EIGHT HUNDRED MILES COMMEMORATE
other hundred mile post has been reached on
the Union Pacific Railroad not many times
more can we repeat this report which has come
to us eight times within to years past, before
the whole line to the Pacific ocean will be COM
plete, and the longest railroad in the world will
be in successful operation. Less than one year
ago the achievement of five hundred miles was
made the occasion for national congratulation
that halt thousand miles of the national rail-
road had been built now three hundred miles
have been added, and the Indian days
will see the track-ayers at or beyond the point
which marks nine hundred miles. Such rapid
ity of construction, unparalleled in the history
of railroading, has not been attained at the ex-
pense of safety or permanence, as is testified
by the government commissioners appointed to
examine and report upon the road, and by a
multitude of intelligent eye-witnesses of the
condition and working of the road. The Union
Pacific Railroad has been frequently referred to
as a national work. The extent of this nation
ality has just been strikingly manifest by q re-
port upon army transportation on the Plains,
recently made by the United States Quarter
master General. From this report, it appears
that the price paid the railroad for transporta-
tion of army freight is only about one-fourth
that paid for similar service by wagons. The
amount paid the railroad in 1867, for such
transportation, was about 100000, and the
same amount of transportation by wagons al
the contract price for that year, would have
cost 81, ,625, $500 In other words, the saving
to the government by railroad, in one year
wish an average of 3S6 miles in operation, was
almost two million dollars General Sherman
well said that the government could better af
ford to build the road entirely at its own ex
pense than to have it remain unbuilt.


The Treasurer's report shows the net earn
ings for the year ending June 3O 1868, tC
have been over four million dollars. This, ot
course, was on way business alone, and give:
only hint of what the total traffic will be wher
the road shall be complete,


So rapidly Is the road being built, that there
now remains no doubt that the whole line t
the Pacific will be finished next year. Furthe
information concerning the road and its popu
Year: 1868

Biliousness, Indigestion, General Debility, and
all the complaints which proceed from want of
proper action in the liver, the stomach and the
bowels, are eradicated BY q course of this great