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Year: 1874




SmpBUuDINa. 1t would not be a wild esti-
mate to say that one-third of the vessels
sailing from this port, of whatever class,
are unit to combat the tempests Of the
North Atlantic or the severer trials to which
they are exposed along the coast line. Ship
building itself is no longer q high and con-
scientious art, where men make or lose their
regulations on good or bad work, as they may
elect. The tendency nowadays seems to be
to build hull of great capacity and proper
tionate weakness in the shortest time with
whatever material may be at hand, the main
idea of the job being to make the abomina-
ton sell. These evils are undoubtedly
directly traceable to the decline of shipbuild-
ing It's fog end alone remains to sustain
American commerce, and this is the reason
why so many disasters are recorded from
day to day. If our wealthy and enterprisng
capitalists wish to start q new line of steamers
to foreign countries-as, for example, on the
Pacihc-their only available vessels must be
selected from old and worthless craft, which
burn more coal than they can safely carry
across that broad ocean, and hence the COM
manaer is obliged to avail himself of every
mnkeshift to reach port if, indeed, he reaches
his haven at oil. There is but one encouraging
sign which points to better times, and that is
the successful introduction of iron shipbuild-
ing on the Delaware.
Year: 1874




We cannot shut our eyes to the. monstrous
outrages which have been committed against
the citizens of Louisiana by the officers of
the Federal government. In every shape
and form, the most systematic and deter
mined efforts have been made to destroy
the organization against the Radical party.
The citizens have been subjected to an
ordeal which is Infamous, and will most as
suredly bring down upon the administra-
ton the anathemas of the iberty-loving
and fair-minded people of the United States.
The treatment of Louisiana is different from
anything that we have heard of in modern
times, except the prosecutions and arrests
which were perpetrated in South and North
Carolina in 1872, but more particularly in
the former. Previous to the revolution of
the fourteenth of September, the Federal
government, through Kellogg, lwas carry
ing on system of outrage and persecution
which could not be longer borne by the
citizens. His intention was to COM
pletely disarm them, and then issue
such DEGREES in relation to the election as
would secure, beyond all doubt, the State to
the Radicals. Now that this may not APP
pear as vapid statement for political pur-
poses, without foundation, we would call at
tention to the perfect license which Kellogg
enjoyed in the furtherance of all of his
wicked schemes against the people. It is
well known that they had applied to the
President and Congress time and again, for
relief from the CALLING tyranny under which
they were being ground and crushed, with
out avail. Kellogg knowing the situation.
and holding his Office by the favor of the
President alone, would not have dared to
violate the plain constitutional rights of the
citizens, unless Le had been encouraged to
do so by the Chief Executive, either direct
ly or indirectly conveyed to him. He had
triumphed over the vote Of the people
against him, and was, sustained BIZ Federal
bayOnets; the next step was to disarm them
and deny them the ballot except upon such
terms as would ensure his reelection. He
was not rebuked or interfered with. not
"Aea1soANA-S tAC tSAcSloluS announced to
the President his high-handed violations Of
the Constitution. But Just so soon as
the citizens of New Orleans asserted their
rights and hurled him from his seat Grant
became rampant and ordered part Of the
army and navy to the city, breathing out
slaughter and destruction to people who
had only claimed the right to bear arms
and to elect their own officers. Stripped Of
all extrapeous facts, these were the offcnses
for which the President Of the United
states had ordered resort to arms. Were
there ever greater crimes Perpetrated against
people who were entitled to be freei
But mark the sequel. When the citizen
sOldiery laid down their ans and sub
mitted to the authority Of the Federal gov
ernnent notwithstanding their superior
numbers to the troops sent aguinst then,
and thus proved that theY Were not design
ing any resistance to the au.hority of the
Year: 1874

THE Houston Telegraph of the twenty
ninth instant replies to our last article on
usury; but as it makes no new point, and
does not successfully controvert the posi-
tions assumed by US, we do not think that
another reply is demanded. If the 1ele-
graph had presented any new arguments or
facts, then the Importance of the, subject
would require an answer, or admission.
We believe that sufficient reasons have been
adduced to show the necessity for an usury
law; and that the trainers of our new Con-
stitution will make provision requiring
such legislation as will secure our people
and State from the bhghting effects of ex-
orbitant rates of interest. Other States
have done so, and are reaping the vast ben
efts of cheap money, steady progress and
material Improvement.
Year: 1874




WE regret to see that many Texas papers
are so aVerse to giving the proper credit to
articles and news copied from exchanges.
As we have been out of the business for
some time, however, the time-honored Gus
tom we were taught to be governed by may
have changed, and it may be considered
right and high-toned to use whatever can
be ''cribbedi" but we must be allowed to
adhere to. the good old way, and shall
always endeayor to give full credit to what
ever we copy,-Je6srsop JiH.pIecute.


Each paper is entitled to credit for all
original articles and news which tpublishes
and we make it duty to acknowledge the
same from whence the information is de-
rived. We have seen many Of our articles
appropriated by our exchanges without any
credit whatever. This is wrong; and w1ll
at last do those papers an injury, as it is
universally recognized that ''fair play is a
Jewell"
Year: 1874

The. New York Herald is excoriating the
Radicals on their refusal to speak right out
in convention against the third term non
sense. The Herald says that it is too late
now; that everybody can see that the re-
suits of the elections in Ohio and Indiana
have opened the eyes of the advocates of
another term to the great damage which it
has done to their party, and that now they
propose to unload the ship when it is
already sinking. The Herald is right.
That paper has warned and entreated
them to come out and state positively that
the Republican party was opposed to a third
term, but all in vain. Grant was consid-
cred so strong that it was not believed that
his and their silence would be injurious.
Now, however, they are ready to speak,
when nobody wishes to hear them, having
made other engagements and arrangements.
The Herald hits them the hardest kind of
blows, which will have very weakening
effect, and help greatly to run their ship
high upon the political breakers.
Year: 1874

HIGHwAYNEN on Long Island are becom-
ing somewhat impudent and dangerous
From the account of their exploits, which
we give this morning, there is evidently an
organized band of these outlaws established
somewhere in the woods between Jamaica
and Flushing, and they ought to be hunted
out.-NeO York Herald.


The above shows that the great and pro-
gressive State of New York is troubled
with footpads and highwaymen as well as
less favored localities. Will the Herald be
able to prosecute them more successfully
than the Shakspearean question:
Year: 1874

How IS IT Now Ais there one man who
has failed to do his duty9 who still neglects
to register SO as to be ready to vote Tues
day next7 If so, let him go and place him
self right on the record. No man can vote
who does not register. If any man wants
good government, and neglects to register
and vote, he deserves TO be under Radical
rule-to pay high taxes, and 1--we hard.
Remember the eyes of the people are upon
those men who, at such time, fail to prove
that they are identified with them.
Year: 1874

Those who are interested in purifying the
turf of those practices whereby the drivers
and not the horses determine the result Of the
race, will cordially ndorse the action of the
National Trottlng Association, which held
its annual session at Philadelphia last week
Under the rules as amended by this action,
whenever the judges have reason to suspec.
that driver is holding back his horse they
may substitute another driver of their own
choosing, and if the original driver demurs,
he will be expelled from the association,
Moreover-and this is altogether novel fea.
turc-wlen the substitution has been made,
If the horse wins the race, the original driver
will be expelled. This promises to afford a
very thorough remedy against jockcying
Year: 1874

The success of the Tnhationists by strong majorities in the House, and by very small margin in the Senate, is un- doubtedly occasioned by sectional com bination of the West and South against the East. The fallacy of the popular plan that proposes to supply their lack of capital by extraordinary issues of green backs, or by some free banking system, has been repeatedly exposed, notably MT. Schurz, in the Senate. The ablest finan- ciers of the West oppose the scheme; but such is the weakness of the average Congressman for catering to the whims of his constituency, no matter how absurd he knows them to be. that this combina- is carrying everything before it in Con gress. Unless the present movement is checked, we fear that some of the reck- less financial experiments of the French Convention and of the Continental Con- gress may be repeated here, in the midst of peace and without any pressure of un- avoidable necessity.

 Here is an emergency in which Presi- dent Grant might, by iudicious use oi his constitutional veto, regain the public confidence he has unquestionably been losing by an injudicious use of his appoint ing power. We hope he will now develop some of that steady persistence which characterized his military career, but which he has not often manifested in the unfamiliar field of civil administration.
Year: 1874

The saw-mill of E. E. Baker, west of the village, was burned on Saturday morning at half past one o'clock. There had not been fire in it this winter, and it must have been fired by an incendiary The property was valued at from three to four thousand dollars upon which there was an insurance of S1 ,600.
Year: 1874

The Democracy have at last. for the

 first time in twenty years, made clean

 sweep of Connecticut. Theyh have carried

 1t, too, under circumstances that will put

 their promises of reform to an immediate

 and most severe test. The incoming

 legislature will have the appointment of

 three judges of the Superior Court and of

 an United States Senator. It will decide

 upon the important questions of license

 or prohibition and of the due FeeistratieH

 of voters. It will take the responsibility

 of submitting the question of calling a

 constitutional convention to the people or

 of refusing to be bound by its own plat

 form. In short the responsibilities that

 are usually distributed over many years

 will be heaped upon single legislature.

 We must confess to a certain feeling of satisfaction in this state oftflings. If the

 capacity for reform of the Democratic party is to he tested it is we'll that it should be speedily and thoroughly tested.

 The people of Connecticut will know by

 the first of September next whether that

 Organization, under It's existing leaders,

 is 8 success or a failure as reform party.

 If they fill the vacancies on the bench with first class lawyers and men of integ-

 rity and of high repute; if they elect

 worthy successor to Gov. Buckingham; and it they pass an election law which though perhaps less cumbrous, will be as effective against frand as the existing statute; and if they give us as good H. quor law as the one now ill forcs, we shall expect for them long lease of power. If on the other hand, they select weak men and second rate lawyers for judges; if they send Mir. Wm H. Barnum to the United States Senate; if they open the door for electoral fraud in ourlarge cities; and if they substitute some sham statute for the present effective local-option law, their day of mastery will be short

 That the composition. and party neces- sities, of the Democracy of Connecticut are not such as to lead us to expect for it successful career of reform we have tried to enforce on our readers during the re- cent campaign. If the result proves us in error, We shall frankly acknowledge our for, however deeply imbued we may be with party prejudice the issues be- fore the next legislature are so many and so important that their decision will de- velope the tendencies of the Democratic party either towards good or towards evil too clearly for anything short of wilful blindness to misinterpret them.
Year: 1874

The Enquirer says we are circulating an ex- tensive campaign edition in the interest of Bar mum and at fis expense. This is one of the most fat-footed lies that ever was published

 Did we not know the motive that actuated the fool that wrote it we would leti pass; bHt-Me cannot The truth was not to be told. It was 8 stab at the Journal for selfish and personal gain, and this is not the first instance on record scorn on him whose blackened purposes shonld receive the execrations of all men. We venture the assertion that there is better men in the bottomless pit, suffering under the -renseance lies in the columns of tha Enquirer to make
Year: 1874

Again, the editor OF one OF the representative
newspapers here has been treated TO the following
murderous threat


Mr.. Coon, SCRANTON, Pa


You had better discontinue your attacts upon
the mOle macquires ana leeve Tor the simple re-
cornor's inquest the same as Monagsn was. There
viii be an eye on you IN the future, ana tue first
chance they git they will put nie thro your
hart. You had better leeve this country and do it
soon. AS give you this advise as you done me a
good turn once.
Year: 1874

Under the title OF Norman Lesie,n what Is
called on the bills four act drama was produced
at this house. lis action is supposed to pass partly
in this city and parity in Italy at the beginning
OF this century. 1t would oe loss OF time
to attempt a description Of the plot. All
the Incidents are borrowed from the
luoubriOuS drama with when Bowery au-
d,ences are familiar. "Norman Leslie" is by lar
the duiest attempt at play making we have ever
witnessed. 1t Is the quintessence Of inanlty. and
the onY wonder Is how any persons, of even
moderate intelligence, should have undertake TO
produce stage representation so entirely lacking
in interest II the play deserved to be placed
among the curloslties OF literature the ACTORS
were scarcely less deserving 0. embalmmenL.
IL Is treat TO so distinguished collection OF
people skilled in the art OF show not to 90 IT,"
But 1t was one that could very well be dispensed
with. The whole AFFAIR was most oppressive and
Leslie Is a pretty neavy load to carry.
Year: 1874

STILL ANOTHER
very prominent gentleman residing here, who
asks me iOr particular reasons to withhold his
name, has been the recipient Of the letter given
below


Mr.-If you don't git out OF these parts In ten
days you Will be killed and your tombstone Will be
Year: 1874

A correspondent Of the Phila. Bulletin thus
writes:


| would say, with your permission las one
who is well acquainted with Delaware politics,
and those most deserving and trustworthy of
office thereln) that the Democrats have even
made more serious mistake in their Domina-
tiOn for Governor than the Republicans.
Their candidate Is not a representative man by
any means; neither is he known to be identi
fed with any interests save his own. In my
estimation he has nothing to recommend him
to the suffrage of Deawareans, unless 1t be
because he is man of some wealth, and a
huge amount of self cOnceit, expecting the
latter to force liberal outlay of the former in
case such thing should become necessary to
accomplish the ends Of the party. | am a
Democrat, and desire that we should have
men Of common intelligence and SELF. respect,
at least, for our standard bearers.


Had the Democrats Of Delaware nominated
Col. II. T.. Douglas, Of Smyrna, they would
not only have elected their man without dread
or difficulty, but would have had the satisiac-
ton of knowing that their Governor was per
son Of sound intelligence and gentlemanly re-
hnement As it is, OF now stands, the Repub-
fore them it they will only draw on the right
liDe-and that line is now unhaDdled. Della
ware is small, but there is now for her hand
some opening for an exciting campaign, with
just little cupidity. However. we shall zee
but will bid the Democrats to look we'll into thG
game, and watch the moving Of the knights


lest they, on election day, discover themselves
entirely beHighted. CONSISTENCY.
Year: 1874

The Democratic free train, to Dover last
week, was hardly success as campaign doc
ument. 1t was successful in drawing crowd,
to be sure, but that crowd proved detliment
co itself and its party For thousand men or
more from a city like Wilmington to be set
down in quiet town like Dover, with no where
to go and nothing to do but to get drunk. which
many of them did to excess, was we'll calcula
ted to put the Capital in an uncomfortable posi-
tion. The only source Of pleasure in the free
train was its departure. The party managers
will hardly repeat this blunder to secure q
Democratic outpouring' in the future The
crowd, which might have been increased to
almost any extent by still other free trains,
was poor party advertisement.
Year: 1874

There was trouble in Coushatts, in Red
River Parish, Louisiana, last Friday, which
seems to have arisen from an attempt OF the
whites to depose the parish officials. 1t ended
with the capture of the Sheriff, Deputy Sheriff,
Tax Collector, Register and Attorney of the
and six colored leaders-all of whom were
lodged in Jail. In the conflict, two colored men
and one white man were killed, one white man
being dangerously wounded.
Year: 1874

Among the popular fertilizers Of the day
none have earned for themselves better repu-
tatlOn in so short time as the Sun GuanO'
which is advertised in another column This
gusno was first used in the spring Of this
year; as it was an entirely new article, farmers
perhaps regarded it with some doubt, and yet


many were found who had the courage to try
it, Their faith in its value has been amply
rewarded. and now heavy demand from all
parts OF the Peninsula affords ample evidence
of its merits, as the orders already largely
exceed the anticipation of the manufactures


The very moderate price of the Sun Guano
places it within the reach Of every farmer Its
entire freedom from adulteratiOn with sand and
other worthless rubbish which largely enter
into the composition Of most of the low price
fertilizers in the market-anG its prompt and
decided effects ln supplying nutrment to grow


ing crops, entitle il to the favorable considers


ton of every farmer The unlimited facilities
of MesSrs. Walton, Whann K Co., of Whining
!. ton, who manufacture this fertilizer, and the
fact that they produce all their raw materials
alone enable the guanO to be offered at the low
price at which it is Sold 1t profits had to b,
paid to other manufacturers and middle men


it would be impossible to sell such produc
at so very reasonable price. But as thes,
gentlemen control immense sources of stool
which sre entirely manufactured by thQmselve
it is evident that their ability to turn out sucl
! an article cannot be approached by any of tht
: mere mixers of already manufactured mate


rals, who are scattered throughout the country
We advise farmers to try the Sun Guano il


seeding their wheat. Its effects on sprin
crops have been in the highest degree sstisfac


tory, end there is but one opinion among thos


who have used it-that it is the cheapes
(: fertilizer ever offered for the money.
Year: 1874

THE steubenvilc Gascttc is so worked
up over the result Of the late elections as
10 remark that truth crushed to earth
will rise again" This ia not tho first
time these words have appeared in print,
We have seen them at least once before
ourselves.
Year: 1874

to so good husband y said Farmer
Royston, when Sidney asked him for his
prize and the good wife spoke likewise.


And so the days rolled rapidly along
toward the one appointed for the wedding.
And on that very morning letter came
from the absent uncle. II was as follows:


DEAR SIDNEY The speculations that
we thought had ruined you have turned
out utsplendid. Ihaye in my possession over
one hundred and seyenty-five thousand
dollars, all yours Come and take posses
SIGN at once.


Then followed his uncle's address and
signature.


Not until after they were married did
he show tho letter TO his bride. She
rejoiced at his good fortune--for his sake
and said :-"You were poor, Sidney,
when | married you so you see | loved
you for yourself alone"


His rich friends would have come back
to him, but they found no welcome. He
had tried them, and they were found
wanting.
Year: 1874


The summer has gone and the autumn Is here,
And the flowers are strewing their earthly bier;
4 dreamy mist DER the woodland swima.
WhIle rattle the nuts from the windy limbs.
From bough TO bough the squirrels run
Al the noise OF the hunters echoing gun.
And the partridge flies where my fOotstcp hcayes
The ruStlIng drifts OF whitening leaves.
The focks pursue their southern flight,
Some all the day and some all the night;
And up from the wooden marshes come
The sound OF the pheasants feathery drum.
ON the highest bow the moyTner crow
sits in his funeral suit woe;
All nature mourns, and my spirit grieyes
At the noise ofmy feet in the withering leaves,
| sigh for the days that have passed away
when my life like the years, had It's season of May
When the world was all sunshine and beauty and


truth,


And the dews bathed my feet IN the valley Of youth
Then my heart felt It's wings, and no bird Of the sky
Sang over the flowers more joyous than /.
But youth is fable and beauty decciyes,
For my footsteps are loud IN the witherlng leaves.
And sigh for the time when the reapeFs at morn
Came down from the hill at the sound OF she horn;
Or when dragging the rake followed them out
while they tossed the light sheayes with their laugh


ter about;


Through the field with boy daring, barefooted ran;
But the stubbles oreshadowed the path OF the man.
Now the upiands ofliie lie all barren Of sheaves
While my footsteps are loud in the withcring leaves.