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Year: 1878

a hasty deIiverance from the provisions of
the obnoxious inheritance Of earpet-bagism
under which we are living at present. and
which must necessarily remain In force until
n constitutions framed by the people Of lou
isiana, based upon justice, equal rights and
an honest and economical administration of
the laws can be prepared and adopted, Many
of our exchanges are urgent upon this sub
Year: 1878

ernment and Of every Southern man who
stood on that side OF the House; he
wanted that vindication to be made on
a clear statement Of the facts; he thought
he knew the explanation Of the matter
and that he had the key 10 the whole
matter, but he preferred that the bill
should be recommitted and that the
facts should come out, and he was
sure the gentleman on the other side
who Thought: they had found mares
nest Of dishonor to the Confederacy
would be gald to see, as their present fel-
low citizens, that their honor had been
vindicated. He therefore moved that the
committee rice and recommit thebill.


The committee rose, but the point Of
order being raised that the bill was still
in the Committee OF the Whole, a motion
to re commit to the Committee on Post
offices and Post Roads could not be enter
tained.


The Speaker announced that be would
be absent tomorrow and appointed Mr..
Blackburn Speaker pro tenn.


Adjourned,
Year: 1878

We are satisfied that cats generally coulo
be trained, not only as retriever9, but also TO
catch game for their masters. lady OF
this city, when living in the country several
years since, seeing a cat bring quail TO her
kittens, took It from her, csresssd her anu
gave her piece of fresh beef The cat then
understanding for the first time that her
mistress wanted quail, brought one to heI
the next day, aud frequently afterwart-
once three in one day. Previously she had
caught them for herself or kittens. 1t j:
we'll known that cats are expert bird
caichers, and the question whether their
skill can not be used for the benefit of their
masters deserves attention.
Year: 1878

Notice is given by the Lighthouse Board that and
after January 1879. the light the Naval Hospital
Wharf Elizabeth River la win be exhibited from mast
- feet high erected 80 feet the north OF the former
light station and the light is changed from fixed white to
fixed rod The old structure will stand as day mark.


Steamer Eleanora at Portland from New York reports
the the sonherly of Stone Horse had drftcd
opposite to the Handkerchief Shoal Lghtship
Year: 1878

The Camden Herald, which comes to
us printed on half sheet, insists that the
Greenback party is growing. But why
the party should grow and its papers
shrink, the Herald doesn't explain.
Year: 1878

\ recent letter from Augusta to the
Boston Journal, commented on the aspect
of the Greenback question in Maine, and
said something concerning the Progress
siye Age, which made the editor furious
Assuming that the letter was written by
some one connected with the kennebec
Journal, the Age charged like mad bull
upon that establishment. The Journal
appearing somewhat surprised and a good
deal amused, comments thus


If the Progressive Age was shooting at anybod,
connected with the kennebcc Journal, in its art
Gle upon the communication in the Boston journal
relating to the greenbackers in this State it simply
wasted its ammunition. We neither wrote nor
knew of the article until saw it in the Boston
Journal Between the green-eyed monster and
and greenback deusion, the editor of the Age has
gone wildly astraV
Year: 1878




That money can be maintained steadier and
more uniform in purchasing power and made to
perform ITS true functions with greater eXactnc>~
when made of some substance always attainablr
and not possessing utility Or valuc for other bur
poses, than when made of gold or silver which
possesses such values and which are difficult and
uncertain of attainment and are subject to con
slant demand for uses in the arts


All, here's wisdom The trouble with
gold and silver money is that they possess
utility and value. only give us a worth
less paper money mot possessing utility
or value for other purposes" and it viii
not tluctuate, according to this sage au-
thority. Sure enough, such a money
would always remain on a dead level Of
worthlessness, inconyertibiity and ire
deemableness.


Further on is the statement:


That as quantity controls the value of money.
the alllmpOrtant quality of steadneSs in value can
be better assured through system which subjects
that quantity to absolute control, than through
metallic system which RENTS the regulation of
quantity to accidents


If the Age admits that quantity controls
the value of money, it must also acknowl-
edge that an inflated currency is worth
less and will buy less than restricted
currency, then what does it want the in
flated money for9 Now what is the alb
solute control over the quantity of money,
mentioned above? 1t is the absolute con
troll of Congress yet to be elected, con
tanning elements of mischief and dema-
gogism, only to be guessed at it is the
absolute control Of set of men given
power to arbitrarily multiply the legal
tender notes to the ruin Of creditors and
the destruction of all faith in the validity
of contracts.


Again the Age says:
Year: 1878

United States on reception in their midst,
that the price of tickets is advanced from
ten cents to twenty-five cents
each. And in these hard times
when we all know that the prices Of
necessaries of life are down to hard-pan,
and four twenty-fve-cent pieces of base
silver dollar will purchase as much of any
thing as before our national unpleasant
ness. Was the price advanced in order
that only the 'gold-bugs" should approach
His Excellency, leaving the silver ten
centers" out in the cold? We give it up.
1t reminds us somewhat of the story told of
a former Cabinet officer, who at one OF
his receptions furnished champagne to
prominent guests and sherry to the COM
mon horde. Or like unto Mons SANFORD,
who at one Of his parties, when trying to
impress the State Department with his fit
ness to be appointed American Minister to
Brussels, had blue ribbon strung across
his rooms to separate the sheep from the
goats.


If these things can be in the first century
of our Democratic Republic, what will an
other hundred years bring aboutP Again,
we give it up!
Year: 1878

The pressure of hard times is severely
felt by all classes Of people, and the bencvo-
lent, social, and charitable organizations
throughout the country are often put to
their wits-cndS to create an attraction
which will bring the money Of the worldly
to their Golfers for disbursement to the re-
Spcctivc objects which they have in view.


But it appears by the following advertise
mcnt, which we clip from the Baltimore
SIM Of the 2lst ultimo, that the managers
of the Great DcnOminational Fair" re-
Gently held in our sister city, We're fully
equal to the occasion, and, with the assist
ance of our kind-hearted President and his
most estimable wife, bill for an attractive
exhibition was posted throughout the city,
and the result of the performance was, we
understand, satisfactory to the manager i'll
charge of the tickct-Olcc:


re- THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. HAYES


WILL HOLD \ RECEPTION


AT THE GREAT DENOMINATIONAL FAIR IN


MASONIC TEMPLE


on THURSDAY EVENING. 2lST INST,
On which day and evening admission win be
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Admission by season
tickets Us usual. No ten cent tickets received,
1t is the first time within our recollection
that the leading attraction of an evenings
entertainment was the exhibition of the
President of the United States at twenty.
! five cents per head, and no announcement
| of half price for children in arms or other
! wise.


The fact that mo ten-cent tickets would
| he received" set forth so prominently il
/ the advertisement, is but evidence Of the
superior star engagement announced fo
that night only. Then it also shows tha
our dcnominatiOnal friends in Baltimor,
appreciated the dignity of the position o
the President Of the United States by ignOr
ing the ten-ccnt tickets, good on othe
nights of the exhibition, and placing the
price Of admission at twenty-five cents, and
it is presumed that base silver coin was ac
cepted in spirit of concliation.


The increase in the price Of tickets was
financial stroke of policy worthy OfOur com
mcrcial neighbor, as the house was will
such an attraction, sure to be filled a
twenty 1--WE cents each and therefore to m
form the people that mo ten-cent ticket
will be received" for admission to the recep
ton of the President Of the United States
both elevated the dignity of the occasion
and swelled the gross receipts. But wha
must have been the effect upon the horny
handed grangers, the sun-burnt sons of toll
and the sturdy yeomanry of my Mary
land" when the first opportunity is pre-
sented them Of seeing President of th
Year: 1878

THE commendable mania for extinguish-
ing church Indebtedness is spreading. The
latest achievement Of this character was the
extinguishment of the debt of the Rutgers
Presbyterian Church of New York city,
which had reached $4,000.
Year: 1878

then than before We shall see what we
shall see. In OUR opinion, after uttering
this prediction, vice-President WHEELER
will suffer more profound disappointment
than either of the divisions that he refers TO.
Year: 1878

THE Democratic slander current upon the
streets that President HAYES finally signed
the silver bill after it became law, as an
evidence of his spirit of conciliation is, we
are informed, mo such thing"
Year: 1878

THE New York papers arc already report
ing revival of business. The hotels are
filling up with Western and Southern mer-
chants, and there seems to be disposition
TO buy liberally. Confidence is returning
and strengthening. such are some of the
effects of the bill to utilize our large silver
productions by converting them into coin.
Year: 1878

CHANGES will soon be made in the chiefs
of the Bureaus of Docks and Yards Naviga-
ton, and Ordnance, in the Navy Depart
ment Secretary THOMPSON will no doubt
use every effort to render these nominations
creditable to his Department and useful to
the service; and, in order to do so, he must
exercise especial care and wise discrimination
to protect himself and his action from de
ccptions that usually lay in wait for such
occasions A cautious study of the charaC-
ter and qualifications of the several appli-
cants will no doubt lead to wise selections.
We have confidence to believe that he will
act wisely and well in the premises.
Year: 1878

VICE-PREsIDENT WHEELER has been in
tcrvewed at Pittsburg on the subject of the
silver bill, and gives it as his conviction
that both sides will be profoundly disap-
pointed in it, The bill, if it becomes a law,
will work neither the good nor the evil
which has been prophesied; for the amount


of silver that will be coined under it will
be like a drop in n bucket. 1t will affect


the financial situation only in the least pos
sibc degree, Aud now on the chief money
subject, supposing millions of silver be
coined. The Government will pay ii out to
its servants, and they will pay it out to the
storekeepers and Others. In that case it
will simply replace the same amount OF
greenbacks used by these persons, which
greenbacks will be laid away in the banks.
How ID that arrangement to better matters
There will be NO more money in circulation
Year: 1878

The great question with the cotton
manufacturers at Lowell and Lawrence
! to-day is not how to accustom the mar
kets Of the world to their superior fab
rics, and make them purchase mOre of
their coarse shirtings and drillings, but
how to initiate England in mixing lot
of clay and other foreign substances in
the finer grades. America to-day is eX-
porting about $l3,0O0,O 900 worth of cot
ton fabrics, but they are of the cDarser
material, and that particular branch is in
creasing by the week almost. In fact,
the mills at Lowell are worked up pretty
closely to the ever increasing demand for
these coarser goods, but when it comes to
the finer grades England succeeds in
making an article which our best manu-
tacturers cannot approach, not because
they do not know how, but because they
lack the peculiar machinery required to
mix these foreign substances with the
cotton aud still produce fine article, as
England does.


ave will get hold of that kind of ma
chinery by and by" said a Lowell maru-
iacturer to me yesterday, "but we are not
in hurry. In fact, we are getting along
very nicely. Our prosperity does not de-
pend upon our export trade, and popular
judgment should not be misled by con-
tinually repeating that our home markets
cannot consume all we make. There are
to-day less dry goods in the American
market than there is demand for, and
when in the course of time we can fully
supply all that demand and initiate Eng
land thoroughly in the manufacture Of
the finer grades of fabrics, then and then
only can we honestly compete with her
| in the neutral market. But we are as yet
a very far way from it. Only this can
tell you," he added, "the American mills
are making money and the English mills
are not, with all of their vast export
trade. We have just taken account of
three Of our mills, and we find that dur


ing the past six months they have paid
from three to five per cent, which means
about ten per cent per annum. There is
not II mill in the whole Of Great Britain
that has such large return on its invest
ments. Of course, our trade needs fos-
teriDg and great care, but it is folly to
say that we would not make as heavily
weighted an article as England does. We
are not bit more honest; only, as | told
you before, first, we have not the machin-
cry for it, and second, there exists no ne.
cessity for it as yet while we have our
hands full in supplying the present de.
mand, IN. Y. Herald.
Year: 1878

John Brown has been in the Stewart
concern for quarter of century or
more, and has risen to very important
position in the palace'of fashion. He is
a quiet looking man, Of courteous man
ners, and is one of that class ordinarily
called "shop-walker." Mr.. Brown,
however, has a vastly more important
duty than ordinary men of this class. He
is the autocrat Of credit, and has for years
studied the vast range of high life, with
yie-D to know the ability to pay. He has
Il list of the substantial portion of the beau
monde, and also one of the doubtful
class, to which is added a general and
rapid view Of the trash which fits about
the world of show. Every year Brown
makes out new list, but such is the
change in social life that each month
calls for fresh inspection. Brown has his
"tiCklern (as the book is called in COM
mercial parlance) but he carries its con-
tents to a very large extent in his head,
and he is ready when any lady's name is
mentioned to give an immediate reply.
Hence it is very important for fashionable
shoppers to be in good odor with the au-
toclat of credit, and money is the favor
able tale poured into his ear by importu-
nate ladies, but when duty requires it he
is hard as flint. Many of those who for
merly paid cash now want credit, and
there are ladies who run bills at Stewards
of 100000 in year. The collector is
out all the time. lie walks about fifteen
miles day, and takes on an average
hundred refusals to ten that pay. This
kind of business is undesirable, but it is
found to be unavoidable, aud the colIec-
tor learns sad lesson of the falsehood of
the fashionable world. No doubt it was
much the same in Pope's day, for he tells
of one "who paid tradesman once to
make him stare" A very liberal credit


is also given by modistcs and milliners,
who must sell their goods or be stuck
with unfas hiOnable stock. Stewards con-
ccrn is making incessant efforts to retain
tirst-class position, but it has a severe
rivalry. The fashionable world is now
turning toward the cheaper places of
trade, such as Sixth and Eighth avenues.
Macy's great establishment ON the Sixth
avenue has taken an immense amount of
trade from Broadway Correspondence Of
Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1878

Or the late Miss Catherine Beccher,
the Hartford COuTam says, in speaking
of her great interest in sociology, that
"she was whole Socia. Science Asgocia-
ton in permanent session. Miss Beecher
had mind Of original yigor but with
out much imagination; and perhaps
it was the want Of imagination that made
some OF her schemes for doing good i'm
practicable. She had good deal of
racy humor and mother wit; she had pa
tience, magnanimity, rare III her sex, and
unbounded good nature. She was most
entertaining companion, alert, suggestive;
and her talk was full of flesh comments
on persons and things without the least
bitterness or malice. But she made
her own common sense the standard of
judgment, and doubted the value of any
thing not commended by that"
Year: 1878

CALCULATIONS. regarding the fate of
the Silver bill in the Senate, in ease of
a Presidential veto, indicator very close
contest. The opponents of the bill
claim to have 26 votes-exactly enough
to sustain veto-with Sharon away.
The full vote is %. BIf there are 25
Senators to sustain veto this would
make a tie, and the Vice-P President could
vote the same as if the Senate was equal
lY divided
Year: 1878

AT Ferndale, Northampton County,
Pa, on New Years night, John Had
dock, an unsuccessful suitor for the
hand of Miss Lizzie Davis, in fit of in
sane jealousy killed that lady and then
took his own life. S The murder was
committed at the residence of the young
lady, where Haddock had gone fully
prepared for the deed. He first attack
ed her with butcher-knife, but not be-


ing Immediately successful in killing her
on account of her desperate struggles, he
fired three shots at her, one of which
proved fatal. The maniac lover, after
satisfying himself that his victim was
dead, proceeded to his own home, where
the fourth shot from his revolver ter
minated his own life. The murderer
left behind no words of explanation,
but on the paper collar which he wore
he had written in a bold, legible hand
these words Forgive me, mother!''
Year: 1878

IT iss peaceful. refreshing sight to
see q female nsgligently reclining
against the softly-cushioned seats OF
her fashionable landau, smiling swestly
to her friends as she passes them on
the avenue. while her placid face I.
shaded by q cardinal silk parasol. More
peaceful far than TO think OF her cross.
ing nvs-acrs lot on foot with that wild
sunshsds oscillsting in the air and an
inquisitivs bovine following her in hot
pursuit.
Year: 1878

DURING the late crisis at Paris the
following enigma was current "what
il the hight OF patience 2" Answer
"To explain something to the Marshal
and then wait till he has understood IL. "
Year: 1878

"A New Orleans dispatch says the fe-

 yer recalls curious prophecy of negro Voudoo sorcerer last year, that plague would come upon the city equally fatal to number of deaths equalled tho degrees of the thermometer when it would decline. The coincidence in the death rate and the thermometer has exi sted the past three days.
Year: 1878

MIR. CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: T feel an unusual interest in coming into the presence of such company, gathered, in spite of so many adverse circumstances, in a cause which has so much to do with and for the good of society, of ourselves our children and the future, We are here to-day to confront face to face monster of hideous mien and vas proportions, standing with his feet on the earth and his head in the sky having the world for his mother and the devil for his fla ther, and capable of all evil He has no head, and therefore cannot think; no heart, and therefore cannot feel no ears, and therefore cannot hear ;no eyes, and therefore cannot sec. He has only an instinct to gratify and please the passions, claws with which to rend, a coil with which 10 crush, an infinite maw with which to consume. impeach this mon- ster here to-day, before the bar of public jus tice, and arraign him for public judgment to demand his punishment on account of public peace robbed of it's safety; of public honor prostituted and outraged of public credit for
Year: 1878

tons comport with the vindication
and majesty Of the law. The com.
plaint was made out by Pruss, against
Mr.. Wood and others, charging them
with arson, riot and trespass, on the
3rd of December. A few days there.
after, Smith wrote Mr.. Wood, setting
forth the crimes charged, saying he
thought he could convict on one or
all Of them, but that he would stay
further proceedings in consideration
Of the sum of 5000, and that the is
suing of warrant would be deferred
to await an answer. We read the
letter signed by Mr.. Smith, in his
own handwriting, and consequently
speak from direct knowledge. Here
was an open unblushing offer to CON-
pound or conceal crime; (supposing
the defendants to be guilty. and, If
brought before the District Court,
can hardly fail to deprive the at
torney of his right to practice at the
bar. AT any rate 1t IS conduct un-
becoming his profession, and shows
him to be an adventurer whose thirst
for gain gets the better Of his sense
of propriety. Being an attorney, he
could hardly plead ignorance of the
statutes.


The showing herein is made in
obedience to Mr.. Smiths own defiant
call for a more extensive account OF
the suit, and not from any desire to
persecute him. 1t might easily be
made more lengthy by showing
other points, among which is the
fact that the prosecuting attorney
for this district is the proper person
to attend to such business, therefore
Mr.. Smith was acting in the wrong
capacity by conducting the suit. We
were surprised TO read his published
letter supposing he would only have
been too glad to let the matter drop
without further notice.
Year: 1878

WHEEL.BARRows.-When a per-
son is hurrying along sidewalk on
a dark night and meets wheel-bar-
row too suddenly to be graceful
about it, the first impulse is to con
ceal the fact from the world. Besides
encouraging deceit in this way,
wheel. .barrows are viciously prone to
reaching out after peoples shins.
Mark Twain says the most
uncertain thing about wheel-bar'
row is in knowing, after you start to
fall over one, when you are going to
get through. 1t will bark fellows
shins, pound his knees against any
stones that may he lying handy, jam
his elbow throught crack in the
fence (if there is one around) bruize
the Joints in his backbone out level,
to say nothing about removing sur
plus hide from his nose, and then set
itself up meekly to wait for the next
passer by. Even ladies are often
victimized. Only a few evenings
ago three of our fair sex had an en-
counter, but we think they "got
away" with the wheel-barrow, as
one jumped aboard and the other
two gave her a ride up street.
Wheel barrows are perhaps persecu-
ted most on account of being left so
frequently near the corners of streets,
as in this way about nine out of ten
men who may be travelling that way,
instead of passing peaceably by, Gao.
not forbear stopping to wrestle a
while with them. Experience, how
ever, doubtless toughens them be-
cause it has been demonstrated that
an old wheel-barrow will take care
of itself almost anywhere. Our on
" object in penning this brief ap-
peal in behalf Of wheel-barrows is
to warn the people Of Port Town
send that for the sake of humanity,
and to discourage the use OF profane
language, they ought to have secure
corrals, duly labelled dangerous"
in which to keep their wheel-bar-
rows when said articles are not in
active service.
Year: 1878

THE sCOlonist" announces the type and
a Hoe cylinder press, used in its publica-
ton, for sale cheap for cash, If applied for
before the the first OF March. Cause
prospective enlargement. We wish the
paper abundant success, as Il is valued
exchange
Year: 1878

Don't tear the house all up from garret to
cellar. Clear one room and put in order be-


fore commencing another. Don't take up
carpets that will possibly do with thorough
dustlng; wiring out mop very dry and rub
thoroughly; they will seem most as good as
new. Carpets are generally worn and torn
more in taking up andputting down than
with six months use in living room. Don't
think your house must ''catch it'' because
some of your friends, with twice your strength
can do theirs; better leave some dust for seed
than SOW the seeds of disease and death in