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Year: 1877

PEOPLES LANTERN.
Each style being the best of its class in the market
Catalogues Of Lanterns and Slides, with diret
tiVns for using. sent on application.


Any enterprising man make money with a
Magic Lantern.


Hs- Visitors to the Centennial Exposition will do
wisely to defer purchasing goods III line until
they come TO stores in New York where they
will find greater variety and more moderate price,
and can select more at their leisure. But ne have
concession to sell some styles of our goods in tn
building of the Department of Public Comfort and
those not coming to New York invited to call on
our representation there.


RB- full stock of Views Of the Exposition Bnild-
ing and their contents.


June %, '76-m6.
Year: 1877

The prime object of the Aztecs, it


may be surmised, is the pacifcation of


the northern states of Mexico and the


opening of the rich mineral and agri-


cultural resources to peaceful enter
prise and industry, which end can on
ly be accomplished by wrestling the
Territory from the anarchy SO long
maintained under the designation of
Republican Government. The pro-
gramme appears to be political organ
ization looking to a secession move
ment as early as practicable, and in.
once established, and an
nexation to the United States as the
ultimate aim of the harmonizing
scheme. The movement is thus sort
of peaceful filibustering in its present
stage of development, as appears on
the surface It is not unlikely, how
ever, that crafty and designing men
are at the bottom, and in the end the
rank and file may find that the assess
ments have gone to secure the benefit
of few who stand ready to snatch
the prospective Mexican bonanza, and
that the sacred fire" they have guard
ed with pious awe, has, after all, only
served the Insignificant purpose of
boiling the pot for these ancient grab
bers.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, II. c., March 23d.


"Sir,-I am instructed by the President
to bring to YOUR attention his purpose to
take into immediate consideration the posi-
ton Of affairs in South Carolina, with q
view OF determining the course which under
the Constitution and laws OF the United
States it may be his duty to take in refer
cnce to the situation in that State as be
finds it upon succeeding to the presidency.
1t will give the President great pleasure to
confer with you in person, il you shall
find it convenient to visit Washington,
and shall concur with him IN thinking such
a conference the readiest and best mode
OF placing your views as to the political sit
uation in your State before him. He
would greatly prefer this direct communica-
ton Of opinion and information to any
other method Of ascertaining your views
upon the present condition and immediate
prospect Of public interests in South Caro-
lima. II reasons OF weight with you should
discourage this course the President Will be
glad to receive any communication from
you in writing, or through any delegate
possessing your confidence, that will con-
vey to him your views Of the impediments
to the peaceful and orderly organization OF
q single and undisputed State government
III SOulu SdlOllud, AlS VA tiiS bCSo hiOehNoS
OF removing them. 1t is the earnest desire
Of the President to be able to put an end as
speedily as possible to all appearance OF
intervention OF the military authority Of
the United States in the political de-
rangements which affect the govern.
ment and afflict the people OF South Caro-
lima. In this desire the President cannot
doubt he truly represents the patriotic feel
ing of the great body OF the people OF the
United States. 1t is impossible that pro-
tracted disorder in the domestic govern
ment OF any State can or should ever fail to
I've matter OF lively interest and solicitude
to the people Of the whole country. In
furtherance Of tue prompt and safe eXecu-
tion OF this general purpose he invites
full communication Of your opinion on the
whole subject in such one OF the proposed
forms as may seem to you most useful.


.By the direction of the President have
addressed to the Hon. Wade Hampton du-
plicate OF this letter.


81 am, very respectfully, yours,


"W. X. ROGERS, Private Secretary.


"To Hon. Daniel Il. Chamberlain"
Year: 1877

POLICE BUSINEsS.-There has been an un-
exampled dullness in police business for
two months past. Experienced officers say
that it is owing to the scarcity OF money;
that when there is plenty OF money there is
much liquor drunk, and when the liquor
flows freely arrests are numerous
Year: 1877

THE NEXT CONVENTIONAL the meeting
Of the State Conservative Committee to be
held in this city on the 4th OF April the
time and place for the next State Aomina-
ting Convention will be discussed. - ,.&
Year: 1877

The annual report of the Engineer OF the
James River Improvement has been sub
mitted to the Mayor and forwarded, with
the other reports Of heads OF department.
to be printed with the annual reports OF
the citv
Year: 1877

By the work in progress the chan
mel over Richmond bar, which in former
years required more or less dredging after
ireshets, has increased in width in the last
year from the action Of floods, and also in
depth wherever the contraction OF the
rlyer-width has been completed according
to the present plan. A greater depth OF
channel could have been. maintained here at
slight outlay for dredging, but with the
Year: 1877

TESTIMONY OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE
OF GEORGIA.-I have used Simmons Liver
Regulator for constipation of my bowels, caused
by temporary arrangement of the liver, for
.he last three or four years. and always whom
used according to the directions, with decided
benefit l think it is g good medicine ior the
Iorsngement of the liyer-at least such has been
INV personal experience in the use of it.


HIRAM WARNER,


Chief Justice of Georgia.
Year: 1877

that only be characterized as stupendous No. Is
sublime from first to last, and do not envy the man
who could listen TO 1t without quickenng OF the pulse
and flush Of enthusiasm There is undoubtedly much
In the Requiem" which q careless audience VIII not
understand, partly because the thought is too Deep
partly because Brahms Is so much inclined to
an Over-elabOration which o. occasionally Involves
obscurity; but 1t will be relished more and
with repeated hearings and besides 1t has beauties
enough the surface make the fortunes OF TWO or
three composers Mr. Stoddard sang the baritone SOLOS


last night and the beautiful soprano part was nrusted
Of members Of the society who unfortunately
was not equal to it. With this exception the perform
deserved the very hearest praise The orchestra
of the Philharmonic Society furnished the Instrumental
part and played exceedingly well throughout the even


ing 1t is sad to be obliged to that for this remark
able concert perhaps the most interesting the Oratoro
Society has given, there not very large audl
ence and many OF the people went away before the
finest part Of the Requiem was reached.
Year: 1877

The secret of the composition Of that splendid soap
B r. Babbtts Toilet Soap is simple He only the
pures vegetable oils that suffice to pemeate the compound
The Of false Odors Is III Itself
Year: 1877

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN the Tax on the Proceeds Of the Mines
for the Quarter ending june 30th, 1877. is
now due and paya hle to me. at my Office. in
Eureka, and that the law with regard to the
collection of the same will be strictly enforced.


HANK KNIGHT,


Assessor Of Eureka County. .
Eureka, August q, 1871. au2S-l I'm
Year: 1877

The completed circle of summer and winter. seed
time and harvest have brought to the accustomed
season at which religious people celebrates with
praise and Thanksgiving the enduring mercy of AL
mighty God This devout and public confession of
the constant dependence OF man, upon the Divine
Father for all the good gifts of life and health and
peace and happiness, so early In history made
the habit of our people, finds in the survey OF the
past year new grounds for its joyful and grateful
the benignant seasons this has indeed been memo
rable Over the wide territory of our country with
all its diversity OF soil and climate and products the
hust aDdman; the health Of the people has been
blghted by no pestlence widespread diseases; no
great disasters by shpwreck on our coast to our
commerce on the sea have brought loss and hardshps
to merchants mariners, and clouded the happ ness
Of the community with sympathetic SORROW Ia all
esas m our ssrengn ana peace and greatness
security OF our government and the benecent nsti-
tutions on which 1t rests; in all that affects the char
pacty to enjoy and uphold the equal and free condi.
ton Of society now permanent and universal through
q picuousy marked by the protecting providence of
generations.


Great Ruler Of times and and events let us
hum6ly ascribe 1t to own faults and frailtes if
in any degree that perfect concord and happiness,
peace and Justice which such great mercies should
diuse through the hearts and lives of people do
not altogether and always and everywhere prevail
Let us with spirit and voice lift up praise
to our land, Bis manifest care for the nation.


Now. therefore, /. Rutherford B. HAYES, President
OF the United States. do appoint Thursday the 29th
day Of November next, as day of national thanks
giving and prayer. and earnestly re commend that
in withdrawing themselves from secular cares and
labor the people OF the United States do meet
together on that day IN their respective places of
Worship there to give thanks and praise to Almighty
GOD for his mercies and to devoutly beseech their
continuance.


In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
affixed


Done at the city Of Washington, this 29th day


Of october, in the year OF our Lord thousand


Independence of the United States the one


hundred and second.


(Signed( r. B. HAYES.
BY the President.


WILLIAM M. EvARTs, Secretary of State
Year: 1877

he must shun the help of the ''demons of dis
cord'' from the North. All this would be
very fine, and as treaty of peace between
the races, would be quite equal to that old
treaty between the wolves and the sheep in
which the parties of the first part kindly as
sumed the guardian duties of the dogs. But
one cannot help fearing that it would lead to
rapid and alarming increase of s''luDg dis
ease" among the negroes of the South.


Mr.. Gayarre represents the best sentiment
OF the South on the negro question. His
opinions are repeated and approved by in
fuential newspapers in his section. They
are held by the leaders, and they receive
striking endorsements by the people, as for
instance ln Mississippi where the leader in
the Chisholm massacre has been elected
sheriff of Kemper county. There is no
longer doubt that the South, despite its
fine promises, is resolved to disregard the
spirit if not to break the letter of the con-
stitutional ana endments
Year: 1877

THE spectacle of an old Shareholder grow
ing red in the face denouncing the oppression
of labor by capital, and the sight of Western
Congressmen worth millions stigmatizing as
selfish money kings Eastern men who hold a
few hundred dollars In governme ent bonds are
among the latest exhibitions of demagoguery
in the House. When the Southern plan t.
er and the Western millionaire Join hands in
defense of oppressed labor it is time for the
laboring man to look into the character and
objects of his champions. Such a comblna-
ton bodies him no good
Year: 1877

SUNSET Cox is laboring under an attack of
his old disease. He does not see how the
Paris exposition bill can be constitutionally
passed. In the time of the war he was
troubled by like scruples. and was in constant
fear that the rebellion would be unconstitu-
tionaly put down.
Year: 1877

The Shoe and Leather Reporter is Of the
opinion that, while there is every promise of
a large business next season, there will be
need of conservatism in the conduct of every
economy in all directions; that there is no
ground whatever for expecting that the peo-
pie will have either occasion or inclination to
be lavish in their expenditures. and that the
surest guaranty of success will be, studious
utilization Of materials with view of pro-
ducing the best attainable commodity at the
lowast nOssihla prioos
Year: 1877

that can be compiled for what has
been generally classed, with all
like atrocities Of the war, as a dis
grace to our civilization. That he
Obeyed orders in the burning o1
Cham bersbnrg is no longer q dis
puted point, and it is well, in the
dispassionate reign Of peace, te
recall the vandalism Of the conflict
by whomsoever committed, tc
teach ourselves the Lesson of the
possible barbarities Of fraterna
strife.
Year: 1877

ceeded to the dining-room, and there,
much to her astonishment and consteF-
nation, confronted the only man who
had ever had remotest cause to look
upon her with dishonor.


"Your amend in bringing my poor
child to me has covered a multitude OF
SINS" she said, offering a purse, and
bowing with dignified politeness. Take
this money, get you some clothes, and
equip Yourself like man and go to
work. 1 am a reformed woman, and
when you prove yourself as strong to do
right as you have been foremost to do
wrong, you shall not fail to find friend
in me. But you must do right, and
prove yourself able to snstaia yourself,
ere shall again attempt to assist you"


ITO be continued.
Year: 1877

quaintance and last night Joined among
her callers. Assisted by her niece, Miss
Mcfarland, she received her visitors I'm
the freest and most unconstrained man.
ner, and certainly possesses the faculty
of making each one feel perfectly at
home. Ten years have told in some de-
gree upon her. While she converses with
as much animation as ever, yet Father
Time has laid his hand upon her and
apparently subdued somewhat the exu-
berance of spirits which made her then
the life of our party, and whether from
cares of State or the queting influence
OF age she seems now much more the
staid matron than ten years ago. Doubt
less not one of our pleasant New Or
leans party dreamed that the quiet and
dignified member Of Congress, Mr..
Hayes, would, with his fascinating wife,
occupy in the near future the White
House, and be the arbiter of the desti-
MES of the very people whose hOspitali-
ties we were accepting, and last night
it was difficult to realize the fact. In
the morning of the 10Th of October, 1864,
when at Cedar Creek the rebels were
driving US like so many sheep, Colonel
Hayes passed me in the confusion and l
could not repress the wish that he might
be spared from death. Not as a soldier,
for as soldier his life was plumed on
his sleeve to be plucked off by any rebel
bullet, and was therefore of no more
worth than that of any other soldier,
but because he was member of Con-
gress and the country needed his servi-
ces in the future rather than his life in
the present. But little did dream that
out of that battle would come the chief
magistrate of our nation. We felt then
that our defeat would insure McClellan's
election, and that the country would
need the presence in Congress of her
truest patriots, hence my wish Colonel
Hayes might escape death. The same
power that gave us victory that event
full day has carried US safely through all
our troubles, and now 1 am no more ap-
prehensive of the nations future under
Mr.. Hayes than then under Mr.. Lin
coin, whom all knew to be all that any
patriot could desire. FELIX.


Washington, d. c., April Is, 1877.
Year: 1877

The following is from the St. Louis
Democrat:


In Missouri, where woman is more
highly valued than in Massachusetts,
in consequence of the greater scarcity of
the article, woman is, by legislative
concession, allowed to own the clothes
she wears. But she must not abuse her
privilege. If she be a single woman,
and have no other comfort than in her
wearing apparel, she may not only own
her clothes, but she may even sell them,
bequeath them or give them away
such tender consideration hath the law
for the rights of woman. But it would
be mOnstrous to allow woman to own
a husband and dress at the same time,
aud a married woman, though she may
indeed call herself the owner of those
vanities on which her heart is set, may
not hequeath them nor otherwise dis
pose of them without her husbands con-
sent. We do not know whether the
law would interfere with that weakness
of the feminine mind which prompts
the housewife to exchange worn but ser
viceable garments for chinaware mantel
ornaments, but we know that the SOL
emn Legislature of Missouri is now
SIdNely utDdIluS ulll W dllOW IudIIltu
women the privilege of bequeathing
their personal effects, a privilege not
yet enjoyed. The position of woman
under the law is, since the abolition of
slavery, the last relic of barbarism, and
it is not likely that the present genera
ton will see her in possession of all
those natural rights which are denied
her only by the intolerance of stupid
prescription. But we might allow heI
to own her clothes, which she does not
own in Massachusetts, and we might
even allow her to bequeath them, which
she cannot do under the existing statutes
of Missouri. Our liberties are now SC
safely secured that they may confidently
be relied on to stand the moderate shock
of these concessions, and after they are


made, the satirists may be able to make
their points more acutely and aim theil
shafts with better show of judgment.
Year: 1877

One never forgets the scene, if, in
crossing from Europe in one of the
great steamers, he takes his station for
ward some foggy night on the banks of
Newfoundland, feeling the gigantic
mass on which he stands culver as it
foams and wrestles with the waves,
while all around the walls of mist seem
to shut out the world, when suddenly
the faint stroke of a dull bell comes
upon his ear, then a small light in a
halo of mist dances fitfully under the
lee bow, and in an instant he looks
down from his lofty height on little
sloOp or schooner riding with tre-
mendous pitches on the waves, while q
couple of faces under sou'wester hats
gaze up in the light from the steamers
PORTFOLIOS, as the great black mass
shoots above them, shaving off death by
spoke of the wheel.


How many of these fishermen's
coekle-shells, that ride the waves in the
midst of the Atlantic to a hempen cable,
have been struck and swept down under
great ships, making scarce a quiver
from stem to stern, can never be known,
but certainly many. How many have
fOuled each other by the parting of ca
bles in some terrific storm, and crushed
each others sides like egg-shells, is
equally unconjecturable, but out of al
most every fleet that sails from GlOuces-
ter or the towns along Cape Cod, some
never return by the casualties OF the
most favorable season.


Again, there are storms, as that OF
December, when waves are borne of
bodily by the force of the wind, burying
their little barques in an avalanche OF
water, under which they are whelmed
like chips, and all that is known OF
their fate is that, after months of heart
sick waiting, they do not come home.
There have been disasters greater than
that of last year, but twenty-eight ves-
sells and 22l lives will cause many an
empty cupboard and desolate hearth
stone on the windy coasts Of Cape Ann
and Cape Cod.


With such a perilous livelihood as
this, it is no wonder that the suits Ot
solemn black are the common wear in
Gloucester, and that the widows and the
fatherless number more than half the
population. In the pathetic language
of the old Scotch song, the fisher wives
may well think it's not the fish they're
selling, but the lives of men. The he.
roic courage of these men, who take
more than the risks of battle for 8
bare subsistence, was, generations ago
celebrated in the glowing language o
! Burke, and that it still continues is {
proof of the uudegeneracy of the New
! England blood.
Year: 1877

The CAOIERoNs.-Mary Clemmer,
one of the most observing of Washing
ton correspondents, writes thus: "Hhe
empty seat of Simon Cameron is, indeed,
conspicuous, and anything morally
more remarkable than the final flight of
this old man from political power and
place could not be imagined. If Don
could only have been Secretary of War,
the father would still be in the Senate.
But an administration, and that Re
publican administration, too, that had
no special use for Cameron was more
than the venerable Simon could bear,
and he retired in wrath and disgust, to
slip out from among men at last with
his ancient harness off,"
Year: 1877

To THE EDITOR OF THE NEW NORTHWEST


When 1 last wrote you matters had
assumed such a pacific and temperate
aspect that the sanguine American was
cougratulating himself on his President,
his national system of citizenship, and
on most of the historical transactions,
the past, present, and anticipated. Now
the little cloud "no bigger than mans
hand" for it is mans hand and Sena-
tor Blaine's at that, has shown itself
and threatens to disturb the unanimity
of his party's ranks. 1t was gathered
from the Presidents inaugural address
and his subsequent conciliatory conduct
that he intended to disrupt the "Solid
South" and insert wedge into the
Democratic ranks strong enough to pre-
vent them accommodating at the next
canvass. But schism seems arising
among his own partisans which, if it
spread among the leaders, may defeat
his schemes. Mr.. Blaine is an ambi-
tious man and full of courage. He is
one of the best fighters that has appeared
in the Congressional arena for many
years, and should he antagonize the ad-
ministration hereafter, we may expect
lively times. In the Senate he will not
have that opportunity for exercise of
his great powers and astonishing par
liamentary ability which the House
Toar faH inf he hn ln.l 70
the Presidents policy, we will see rep
etition of the grand struggle between
Mr.. Sumner and General Grant, for he
will bring every energy to bear to secure
his point. We, however, do not expect
more than mere passive antagonism
to any administration from any mem
ber of Mr. Blaine's party, for those who
incline now to oppose are regarded as
the extremists who unite at the rear
rather than at the front of their party
1t is too soon to cast the political horo-
scope, for experience teaches US that the
roaring lion of to-day, under some fam
cied political expressions, is as mild to-
morrow as a sucking dove, hence the
many expressions of dissent now heard
may be turned to words of praise. The
Presidents "amiable stubborness" will
render him formidable opponent, and
may serve him as good purpose as did the
dogged persistency of his predecessor by
preventing many an attack that would
be made upon an antagonist of greater
pliabiIity. The small majority which
either party will have in Congress will
serve to prevent passage of all radical
measures, and should the President sue
ceed in adjusting his Louisiana embrog-
lilo satisfactorily, the session will be a
short
Year: 1877

A witty writer has observed, with
much truth, that every man is, in a
sense, three different men. In the first
place, he is the man he thinks himself
to be; in the second place, he is the man
other persons think him to be, and
finally, he is the man that he really is.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON, July lot is expected
NEE nesting ing at old Point about tt the eo25 18th
inst, and that they will be met there
by committee representing the chief
commercial communities from Wash
ington to New Orleans, and will then
and there decide which is the most ad-
vantageous rate for fast mail from
New York to New Orleans. President
Hayes and Postmaster General Key
will in all probability be present at the
conference. The President is quoted as
saying that he is anxious to meet rep
resentative business men Of the South,
and that he will attend on the occasion
as a looker-on, if public business will
permit.