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Year: 1874

THE SCALAwAG.-lt cannot have
escaped the notice ofthe least obser.
want, that there has a change for the
worse come over those men born at
the South or of long residence here,
who have earned for themselves an
immortality Of infamy by utilization
with the party whose leaders have
manipulated the ignorant blacks for
their own selfish end, and to the des-
tructiou Of the best interests Of the
South. These men have acquired a
hang.dog look that is unmistakable,
A few Of them may endeavo', with
brazen face, to defy public sentiment
and pretend to disregard public con-
tempt, but in their hearts they have
forfeited the respect Of their fellows,
and what is worse, their self.respec'
rs well. Can money compensate q
man for all this? Orif he TO indif'
ferent to the ignomity of his own po'
sition, how can he reconcile it to hlE
conscience to leave such legacy to
his children' In his solitary mo-
ments does he never think Of thu
coming time (and come it surely will


when the slow, unmoving finger o
scorn will be pointed at his children
as the descendants of scalawag


Can lie forget that the infamy at
tached to o tory has not been removed
by the tapse Of a hundred years : AM
does he not understand that, while


man may have been an honest 10y


alist during our revolutionary strus


gle no man 10 the South can by pos


slbility he an honest radical now
! I-Shrereport Times.
Year: 1874

There is one among the many.


Can you tell me were he stays
He's an odd, old fashioned party;
Called the honest man, who pays
Yes-the honest man who pays


Every dollar he may owe,
Keeping up the good old ways


That SO many scarcely know.
If he gives his word of promise


'Tis a bond as good as gold:
If he holds a post of honor,


Not a trust is ever sold,
By the honest man who pays


Every debt he may incur,
Yielding each a just award.


And no grudging ordemur'
And Pm told this rare old party


Lives-within his income, won
By the fairest, sQuarest dealing


We see beneath this son.
And the honest man who pays


Always holds it good and right,
For the rich to help the needy
When the times are tough and tigh
Year: 1874

VNANTED-A NICELY FURNISHED ROOM, FOR A
w gentleman and lady, with Board for lady only be-
tween Fourteenth and Forty streets and Lexng
ton and sixth avenues Address COMFORT. Herald Up
town Branch Office.
Year: 1874

A THOROUGH AND PRACTICAL STEAM AND
n gas dtter desires situation as journeyman Or to
take charge of plumbing and gas fitting shop
best uId security furnished willing to go TO
any part OF the city country. Address BUSINESS,
box liz Herald office
Year: 1874

Inasmuch as mistakes are common


among planters on this subject, we


make the following extract from sen
sible letter written by ane of our cotton
firms to o planter in North Alabama:


6 In order that you may understand
fully the sales OF your, cotton, we beg
to state that we draw the samples when
your cotton is put on the market. We
sell by the samples. Should the buyer
find, upon re-sampling. (Which he has
right to dO,) that the cotton fails to
come up to the sample, we make such
allowances as may be found by our city
weighers and examiners. We have had
throughout the whole Of this season, in
almost every lot handled, great deal
of trouble in settling these differences.
The whole thing grows out of careless
handling of cotton by ginners. 1t is q
rare thing to find lot of cotton to run
through as an even lot. Many bales
are mixture of low middling and
good ordinary; many more OF good Or
dinary and inferior. Unless this thing
be corrected at the starting point, we
cannot hope to make as satisfactory
sales as we desire. 1t is so strange that
producers will submit to see fine bale
of cotton, injured by fifty or one. hun





would be cheaper to them to throw in
ferior cottOns away, as the balance
would bring enough to pay for the
trash twice over. We beg of you to
talk to your ginners and packers on
this subject and correct it if you can.
Take a case of which we have an ex-
emp1ifcatiOn. In December last we
bought of a house here lot of cotton
for a house in New York, who shipped
it to Liverpool. Now we have the Teri-
fed statement of parties opening one
of said bales, that quantity of cotton
seed was found in the interior of the
bale and damaged to the extent of
$6.78, which we have to collect of the
commission man here, and he, if he can
of the producer. For those who handle
cotton at $3.50 per bale, to have to pay
s6ie tor an
and AmnpIR9n =
Year: 1874

The inventor of the Gatling gun is
about to have himself tied to the muzzle
of his invention and shot. His aberra-
ton was brought on by seeing telegram
from San Francisco announcing the de-
parture of lot Of Gatling grass for
japan.
Year: 1874

A LIVELY TINE AT TOWNSEND Last Fri
day. at Townsend, negro was before Esquire
Collins for stealing coat, and while the
hearing was going on the negro made his
escape from the office. About fifty people ran
after him. The Every EVening says that while
the chase was in progress, young negro was
standing n the platform at the depot but he
made no attempt to stop the flgitive Rather
than be cheated out of victim the crowd took
tins unoffending negro into custody. A gen
teman in the employ Of the railroad then
took the Squire to task for his proceedings in
the case of this latter arrest In an instant the
sleeves of the Squire and the railroad man were
rolled up, and rough nd tumble fight was
imminent, when Samuel Townsend put stop
to hO>tilities, and the matter wound up with
sending the thief, who had been caught after
running more than mile, to Jail and letting
the other negro go. 1t was thought that the


Squire would have insisted upon convicting
the wrong negro if the right one had not been
caught in time.
Year: 1874

IT'S INTENTION There are predictions in
Sussex of hiL results from the purchase of the
junction & Bre ,kwAter Railroad by the Old
Dominion Steamship Company. The Old Do
mini0n is represented to be rich corporation,
and it is said it may consolidate number of
railroads down the Peninsula and thus draw
all the pro .uce trade Of that region to LeweS
to be shipped to New York hy its steamships
The New York Times talks thus


The Old DomniOn's plan is supposed, by
those most Interested in its operation in Mary
land, to be the opening up Of the already
built railroads of the lower Peninsula by close
connection with steamers from Lrwes with
New York To do this requires only that
seven mile, more of railroad Shall be built in
Worcester County, Md, being the seven miles
between st Martins, on the WIcOmico and
PokOmoke Railroad, and the Delaware State
line When these seven miles shall have been
built, the entire Eastern Shore Railroad, sixty
miles in ength the Wicomco and Pokomoke,
twenty five miles in length and the Berlin and
Snow Hill, twenty miles in length. and forty
miles OF railroad passing through Delaware
! (frOm Lewes to harrington will be brought
into direct connection with lIewes. Thus the
| Old Dominion Company will have secured by
this purchase one hundred and fifty miles o
railroad which permeates every section OF


large and easily cultivated and fertilized coun
try, and country capable of being made t.
produce enough fruit and vegetables to feet


New York.
Year: 1874

The POSTAL CAR CONTROVERSY between
the p. W. & B. Railroad and the Postoffice
Department seems to be in hard knot. We
give the substance of tbe correspondence in
another column. Mr. Hinckley positively re-
fused to haul the postal cars after the lst inst
without increased pay, and the p. o. authori-
ties as positively refused to increase the pay be-
cause they have no authority in law for doing
so. So, with each party refusing to accede to
the demands of the other, the mail service is
continued as heretofore. 1t is understood that
this is to be a test case to settle the question
whether or not the Government can compel
railroad companies to haul the postal cars car
rying the mails at rate of compensation fixed
by Government ITSELF The New York Tribune
says that the opinion of the Department
officials is, that in case of the refusal of any
road to carry the mails, the Government may
take the road and administer it by its own off
GERS" This will be one of the first oustion:
for Gov Jewell to attend to upon his entering
on the duties of his new Office.
Year: 1874

The DEMOCRATIC CoNvENTIoN.--We hope
the Democratic State Committee will select
Smyrna as the place to hold the State Conven.
ton. We have good hall, excellent hotel
accommodations. and everything else to match,
while our central location is fully understood


1t would be pleasant episode, out of the
usual routine to the politicians, We should
think, to meet at some place other than Dover.
Year: 1874




NOVEL READING.-Use fiction as you
would spices in your food. No man
takes quart of cloves, nor exhausts
the cruet, at single meal. These things
may be used with moderation to season
ones food with, but they are not to be
used alone; and so fctions, while they
are not to be resorted to exclusively,
may be used with discretion to season


ife with. If you find that using them
bring you back to duty with more alaci-
ty, with more cheer, and with more apti-
tude, if you find that it makes you bet.
ter in your relations to your fellow men,
then it does not hurt you, and you are
at liberty to use them. But if you find
that using them makes you morose; if
YOU find that it inclines you to run into
a hole that you may get away from your
fellow men; if you find that it makes
you unkind, disobliging, and selfish
then you may be sure that whether it
Injuries anybody else or not, it Injuries
you'll. W. Beechel.
Year: 1874

FREE LECTURE lecture of Hon.
Frank Henry, at the Pavilion on Friday
evening. on ''The Philosophy of Hum
bug" will be free to ALL No collection
at the close. The Occidental Brother
hood bear all the expenses of the lee
ture, and all are invited to enjoy the
most entertaining lecture of the season,
as universal beneyolence is the prime
motive of the Brotherhood.
Year: 1874

The steamer Zephyr, the favorite pas
senger boat upon the Sound, is laid up
for repairs which will take about two
weeks to complete, when she will be as
good as new. In the mean time she
will be sadly missed by travellers be-
tween this port and Olympia, being the
only regular day boat on that route.
Year: 1874

DAMAGES A gentleman who is large
ly engaged in business operations in this
valley, estimates that our farmers sus-
tanned loss of full 100000 through
the failure of the ON. Company to take
away wheat and produce as It offered
last Fall. That is to say, with adequate
means of transportation, our farmers
would have been 100000 better off.
With the gathering of the next harvest
it is hoped that facilities will be provid-
ed for moving the crops WeHa UIalla
Statesman.
Year: 1874

PHILOSOPHY OF HUMBUG. The
lecture of Hon. Francis Henry, at the
Pavilion, on Friday evening, proved to
be the sensation Of the season. Never
before was the Pavilion so crowded,
and the lecture was pronounced by the
most competent judges the best ever
delivered to a Seattle audience. The
affair was under the managent of the
Occidental Brotherhood and entirely
free to the public.
Year: 1874

~" Open your mouth and shut your
eyes and see what God will send you,
is the manner in which many happy
go-lucky folks attempt to go through
the world. They would do better to
keep their eyes wide open and wear
real pebble Speetacles, which they can
obtain only at Jamieson's.
Year: 1874

FWSt HtuL-Laura TOOK the lead, Black Diamond
breaking up as soon as the word was given. and
losing fifty yards thereby. Laura rrotted to the
quarter pole In AZ seconds to the halfmile pole in
1:2, and came home q winner by sixty yards in
2:53


Second Heat.-Laura took the lead with the word
the black breaking up alter getting around the
turn. The mare trotted to the quarter pole
half dozen lengths ahead OF Black Diamond IN
49, seconds, and TO the halfme pole In l :25.
The black closed gradually after tnat ana was at
the mares wheel when she passed under the wire
at the end OF the heat Laura won by short
length in 25lk.


Third Hedt.-This heat was won by the mare for
want OF skill on the part OF the driver the black
horse, and not from the horses want OF speed.
The mare led IRON start finish. She passed the
quarter pole IN A seconds, the hall in l26, and
came home a winner by eighty yards in 2:56,a.


SAME DAY.-Sweepstakes S300 mile heats, best
three IN five, IN harnnss.
Year: 1874

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


l wonder at the praise bestowed on the Creed
moor shooting match. What is the merit OF hitting
a target twelve feet square, though 1t be 1000
yards or lying down and holding the rife as in q
vice ? Such position seems to me eminently rldicu
lous. What Is the use Of that shooting but for an
unmanly show2 How can a man hunt or fire at
moving object lying down on his back or on his
face, particularly on broken grOund2


To call Lieutenant Fulton the best marksman in
the world. as some papers did, it is necessary to
see what he can DO standing like man. Is there
any merit in hitting the target with the rife held
In two vices That IS for the present the merit or
Mr.. Fulton. Nothing more. Let the Irish and
American teams shoot standing as rnemen do
and then we snail know II they deserve 80 much
praise. AN AMATEUR.
Year: 1874

THE CIVIL RIGHTS Built is now pretty
generally conceded that the civil rights bill
will not be passed by Congress. On Monday
last an effort was made in the House by Gen
eral Butler to suspend the rules for the pur-
pose Of taking up the bill and putting it upon
its passage. The vote on suspending the rules
was l37 to So, which shows large falling off
upon the part of the Republicans since Monday
week, when the bill lacked only six votes Of
having two-thirds. Last Monday it lacked
thirty-nine. Had there been any prospect OF
the bill obtaining two-thirds vote, it is freely
charged that number Of Republicans would
have recorded themselves against it. A rumor
which has gained great currency, to the effect
that the President would veto the bill has had q
visible effect upon the action of the Republicans


And We notice that there is also some differ
ence of opinion among the colored people as &c
the benefcence of the BILL The masses, o.
course, hail it with delightful satisfaction but
many OF the thinking men of this race feal
that in the end it will be huItful to the culoreC
people-particularly in some of the Southern
States As rule, the public schools are ;
greater necessity to the colored than to th
white population, because those colored mel
who Can educate their children at their OWL
private expense are comparatively few. A
the present time separate schools, equal in a
respects, are provided but should this bill b
enacted, it is feared the entire public shoe
system in many of the States will be DESTROYED
or they will be, at least, materially impaired
Civil rights will compel the admission of color
ed children to all the schools maintained at tn
public expense; but civil rights cannot CON
pei the maintenance of the schools themselves
This is where. they ground their fears; anC
while cOntending for the equity of the prime
pie Involved in the bill, they doubt the pre-
priety Of the public school system.
Year: 1874

A Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia
Press says the "colored members of Con-
gress are highly indignant at the failure of
their white colleagues to support the civil
rights bill, and they predict that it will cause a
division in the colored vote all over the United
States. Where would they go-thOse who
left the Republican ranks? Would the Demo
Gratis give them the bill in payment for their
votes? Quite probably they would.
Year: 1874

A FUNNY FREAK.-The horse Of Mr.. D. ].
Quim5y, the music teacher, took a strange
freak in this town yesterday. Whilst MIR. @.
was at the carriage factory to see a new vehicle
he is having built, his horse in harness only,
was given the range of the back yard. The
ANIMAL as if also anxious to see the progress
of the work on the new carriage he was to
draw so proudly, walked up the steep inclined
platform leading to the second story of the
elevation. his weight caused the boards to
break under him. and his hind quarters fell
through the aperture to his launches. He
was rescued from his critical position without
material injury and he retraced his steps with
out tumbling end over end down the declivity.
His dog like seat, at such an altitude, was
rather amusing.
Year: 1874

William Dudley FOulke read a paper on


ral by Jury" before the Liberal Club last evening In
Plmpton Hall. He first related the early history OF
Jury trials giving many curious facts about the prmi-
tive methods OF conducting them in Norway, Iceland,
and among the AngloSaxOns. Then followed some
amusing anecdotes. iuryman once refused to find a
verdict for the plaintiff because that individual carried


gold headed cane; charged with horse-steaing
was convicted of man-saughter because the jury did
not like to see him hanged for so small an
with all its mperecons It would be better TO any
other of the cherished institutions OF the country over
thrown than that Of trial by jury Whatever the iRno-
and prejudice OF the jury might be mere was one
liable a system OF legal instruction TO the people,
Moses wisely provided that his laws should be read
aloud every The unwillingness OF Jurors 10 en-
force an unjust law OF the strongest arguments


I'm favor OF the system. II had forced the legislative
and to do justice and the usury laws OF
the State to-day. under the influence OF this system
Where juries mistaken is either upon the side
of mercy of natural Justice, as opposed 10 arpitrary
laws. IT, instead Of allowing single 1ndge 70 decide
both law and fact college Of judges for the trial OF
fact only the ancient Romans did, be created tnls
body would be to corruption as the single
Judge, while they would not be equally Responsible;
might honestly be two opinions they couid sheter
themselves in every instance behind an uh-
just verdict and escape punishment. Inc puD-
lie example OF judicial corruption was more
mischievous than a thousand mistaken yerdlcts.
II history showed anything n comparison between
English jurisprudence and that OF Continental Europe
of English oertes from the encroachments OF despoc
powers in great measure 10 the right or tral
by iury In the maintenance OF the jury system there
was security its abolishment nothing but doubt. On
arbitrary power In its preservation substantial justice,
and in It's overthrow the seeds OF iniquity.
Year: 1874

NO CAUSE FOR APPREHENSION.


RECENT FAILURES THE RESULT OF LAST YEARS


PANIc-sUsPENsIoN OF AN AUCTION FIRM.


The failures which have been announced
from day to day have excited some apprehension among
timd business men, who fear that another season OF
mercantile distress is approaching This view OF the
case finds supporters the sound, active busi
ness men who conduct their affairs wellestablished
commercial principles. These ms regard the recent
failures as the postscripts OF the last panic
Men who were weakened then, but who succeeded In
passing through the crisis apparently solvent, have
been obliged to confess their weakness Firms which
failed during panic. and received extension, have
been unable to meet their paper and their notes have
again gone protest It is safe to however, that
90, one Of tho commercial failures has resulted from
operations entered into since last Fall All the failures
mentioned are to be accepted o matter OF course
Competent authorities state that the liquidation which
has been steadily going for tho past IL months mas
brought tho mercantile community to sounder basis
OF business than at any period since the war;


Another OF those post-panic failures was announced
yesterday in walst This time 1t was the old and re-
puted wealthy auction and commission house OF WILL
merding & Mount Of Worth-st Application TO Mr.
Mount ST., elected q confirmation OF the rumor, but
none OF the details The firm is very old one, ana az
one time stood the very top Of the auction trade
Tho explanation Of the failure, asoer-
tanned from outside = sources, is that the
house has been receiving cOnsgnment5 OF merchanuso
upon which heavy advances required to be made
before the goods sold. After the goods were sold
tho paper which was given in payment had toi be
guaranteed by the auctOneers for consideration OF
five per cent This has always been regarded as
dangerous business Many Of the advances were under
stood to be on assignments from New-England woolen
and other mills. When the panic came the
mills suffered severely, Of course, and 1t Is
understood that some Of them passed into the


o&oI xhaVnf for lima a a
heavy loss. This system could not continue forever,
and the firm were at last compelled to suspend. In
respect to this assertion Of advances to the mills, Mr.
Mount said there truth in IT, 1t Is expected
that an cement will be made with the creditors
and that an early resumption OF business Will roiiow'
The assets and Liabilities OF the firm are unknown.


notice was posted in the Produce Exchange yester
day by William j. Preston, member, Offering reward
OF 500 to any who would give him the name OF the
person who caused the circulation OF rumors to the
effect that he had failed He denies the report ana
says that the person who circulated 1t was actuated by
m alicous motives,
Year: 1874

CHICAGO, June 20. "A Springfield
special says the supreme court Of Illi-
nois has rendered decision in the case
of Porter ct al. against the Rockford,
Rock Island and st. Louis railroad COM
pany, which Involves the question of
assessment by the board of equalization
of the capital stock. The decision sus-
tains the board of equalization and is Of
great interest, as it virtually decides all
similar cases brought before the supreme
court. The decision concludes as fOl-
lows: Even from the appellants own
showing it is difficult to conceive that
this assessment does it injustice. The
capital stock paid in is presumed TO have
been used in the corporate business, and
this Indebtedness could have been law
fully created for no other than corporate
purposes. But be this as it may, we are
convinced from the allegation in the bill,
taken in connection with the accompa-
Dying exhibition, that the valuation Of
the appellee's property, as made by the
board Of equalization, is so UNJUST and
oppressive as TO be sufficient evidence
on the part OF the board to justify US in
restraining the collection of the tax inn
posed upon it. Some further objections
are figured on the ground that the cor
poratiOns were not notified of the meet
ing of the board of equalization. The
constitution does not provide that the
legislature shall require that persons or
corporations whose property shall be as
sessed for taxation shall be notified Of
the assessment. But in the case Of the
Western Union telegraph company
against Loeb, where the board
Of equalization assessed the capi-
tai stock, the court held that the
board of equalization is empowered TO
assess for taxation the capital stock Of
such corporations as are created by or
under the laws Of Illinois, and that
shares Of stock in such corporations are
not liable to be assessed for taxation, but
that persons residing in this State, and
owning shares of stock in corporations
created by the laws of other States, must
be taxed only the value Of such shares;
that the assessment for taxation OF the
capital stock OF the Western Union tele-
graph company, foreign corporation
is Unauthorized by law, and void, aud
thst the collection Of the tax levied on
it must be eDjoined in the various coun-
ties in the State