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Year: 1878

"Whew!" exclaimed Mrs. Clement that is stereotyped hOt-weather pre- face of hers-'' whew and she vibra- ted her fan--" Oh, for lodge in some vast wilderness and I responded wag ging my beaver, ''some boundless con- tiguity of shadei" You will remember Cowper quoted the same. The weather seemed worthy of special mention. I made note of it. 1 went out to get a breath of fresh air. Soon as 1 struck the sidewalk. "Good morning Clem- hot day!' said friend. I knew it was hot, but didn't say so. When those I meet insist on posting me up let them post. It is cheap way have of pleas ing my friends. It cost nothing. I went to the post-office. I met nineteen men who saluted me with Good morning, and seventeen supplemented the remark with !" hot day." The odd two were ab- sent minded, they would have added the supplement only they forgot it. On my way back met some fifteen and about fifteen thought it hot, and a percentage of them quoted it as it is said Beecher did when he preached his celebrated hot sermon on profanity. They lay every thing to Beecher.

 Perhaps ought not to mention it, and yet l am divulging no secret when say we young fellows in Danbury carry cocoanut in our hat this warm weather. This we expose when we take of our hat to the ladies. but we do it in no time, just as they get by us, and then clap it on as if we were catching flies. It Is little humiliating, especially when the stem end is on top of the head. But the fashion brings out the ears prominently. And this reminds me of the girls, and way of theirs. The moisture of tender ness aims my eyes when I think of it in connection with the dear, sweet angels; they 's bang their hair. It Is admir- able. I can conceive of nothing more becoming, had almost said bewitching- ly angelic, especially when they give us n straight bang and drop it down square just over their eyebrows. Who can blame us boys for giving them glimpse
Year: 1878

One Of the Cincinnati: Commercials


correspondents has been walking up and
down the piazza Of farmhouse in War
rem county and listening to the sotrows
of woman whose love had unexpected
ly turned up in the guisc Of tramp,
after roaming about the world and
prospecting diamond fields. Sc used
to live in Wilmington, Del, with her
father and her aunt, and she loved a
young man. Her father found ont tfat
her lover was distantly related to bad
man who had been hanged for killing a
fellow and chopping up the body into
little bite; and he decided that his daugh-
ter mus: not marry kinsman of SO in
famous person. The young man was
turned away from the door ana the young
woman nearly lost her reason. The
Delaware home was sold and the family
settled in Ohio, where they have been
living for several years. Last Friday
afternoon tra,np-a very dirty tramp
stopped at the farmers house to beg 8
meal. and tie farmers daughter went tc
to tho door. There was an instan,
recognition; she fell into the arms Of the
tramp, It was her Wi!mipgtoa lover. +
Year: 1878

The republican party is invoked by
every principle which it holds dear, by its
hopes of the future safety and prosperity
of the country. to oppose with its whole
strength the efforts making to install the
ex- Confederates in full power in both
branches of Congress and in the Execa-
tive Department. This is the supreme
political question confronting us. Ques-
tions of finance, tariff, or what not, sink


into insigniicance before the question,
Is this government to be handed over to
the tender mercies of the men who would
have destroyed 1t if they couldP In his
able article in the last North American
Review. upon The Irrepressible Conflict
Undecided" Senator Cameron of Wis
consin says: "Are those men fit to govern
the nation? answer, No. Is this then
time to despair of the republican partyP
answer, No. 1t is time to fight. not to
mourn; a time to unfurl banner, not a
time to prepare tomb. And to this high
duty, rising far above all personal con-
tests, and removing the conflict far from
the malarial regions of the White House,
tbe patriot who loves America because OF
her freedom, and the philanthropist who
loves America because of her humanity,
should urge the young men of the nation
to pare at once. For it is the peoples
battle once more that is approaching"


Yea, verify. it is the peoples battle" D"
upon the issue OF which great events de-
pend. Away with all minor questions,
and let every energy of all loyal men be
devoted to the duty of keeping this gov
ernment in loyal and patriotic hands.
Year: 1878

Importance In the South or he would not
have been invited to deliver the address
upon the occasion for which his letter WAS
prepared His sentiments meet with the
warmest approval by the Southern pa
pers. They agree with what we know of
the opinions of the mass of the Southern
people. No Senator or Representative in
Congress from the South dare rise in his
place and disown this letter, or say dis
respectful word Of the man who wrote it.
1t speaks, as we said before, the soul of
the South. Lamar's Union speeches are
repudiated by the South. They are false
and deceptive. But the words of Jeff
Davis are the voice of the South. and
hence they are of the deepest Importance
to the country.


While such are the opinions and feel
ings of the South in relation TO the war
what madness it is to think that the dem.
ocratic party, which is but the tool of the
ex-Confederate leaders, may safely be en-
trusted with the control of the govern.
ment. Who would think of giving over
the care of our penitentaries to the con
victs, or our lunatic asylums to the charge
OF the insanep Yet this would be wis
dom when compared with giving the gov
ernment of forty millions Of people to the
men who fought four years to destroy 1t
Year: 1878

Senators held caucus to-day, concerning
which the most mysterious secrecy Is main
tanned. The subject under consideration was
the administration as marked out In Senator
Howes late speech. should be followed.


Quite lengthy debate eDsued, In which the
President and his advisors were rather roughly
handled. and it is understood that it was finally
determined, by vote Of 20 to 3. to keep up tho
Jpnr
Year: 1878

An interesting paper appeared
not long since in the English
Agricultural Gazette, on the color
of animals, and its relation to
their health or hardness. The
nature of the food or surround
ing earth appears to exert an in
fuence on the color both of ami
mails and plants. Alum directly
influences the color of the by
drangen flower; and hempseed
causes bullfinches and other
birds to grow black. The ma
tives of the Amazonian region
feed the common green parrot
with the fat Of large siIuroid
fishes, and the birds thus treated
become beautifully variegated
with red and yellow feathers.
Year: 1878

SEATTLE, W. t.. April 5, 1878.


To THE EDITORS CT YHE DISPATCH:


As per agreement I will cffer o
few thoughts for the consideration
of our, to be, Delegates to the Con-
stitutional Convention, upon the
policy or practice of assessing a
Poll Tax. Oar laws require that
taxation shall be equal and uni
form" Is it equal to tax one class
of people under the same govern
ment, twice or three times in the
same year, and other classes only
once? Are not men between the age
Of 81 and so. who own property,
taxed once for the value of their
property, once on their head, for
poll tax, and once on their head for
road poll tax? Is not this double
and treble taxation, and purely un-
constitutional? Women of all ages,
owning property, and minors own
ing property, and men over 80 years
of age, owning property, are taxed
for cash value set upon their prop
erty. while neither one of these
three classes are assessed a poll tax.
Is this equal and uniform, even in
the light Of the law, as compared
with The other classes? But some
argue that it is the property that is
assessed, and net the individual.
Ny answer is: that there are many
head taxes whose heads wouldn't
bring the assessment under this
rule. Others ask: What, would
not you tax the hired man on the
farm, or the hundred men in mine?
Yes. il they have any property-any
money to assess value on, and No,
if they have not. I do not believe
in assessing a man for that which he
has not, and then taking the first
money he earns to pay it. The
policy of assessing poll tax assum-
es that certain pei eisons' heads are
worth two dollars some times, and
some times six dollars, (and that
other persons heads are not worth
anything) and then it takes all the
cash value set upon the head to pay
the assessment. II we assess man
one hundred dollars as the cash
value set upon his lot. we tax Ger
tain number of mills on the dollar,
but when we say that the cash value
of g persons head Is two or six dol
lars, we demand the full cash value.
Is this uniform taxation?


Let each person pay taxes on an
equal and uniform assessed valuation
of his or her property. or that under
their control. and it appears to me
that they will nave fulfilled the man
date of equal and uniform taxation.
If [ work on farm, or in mine,
or mill for company, and my L.
Dor is Of any value to them. that
value enters into their property and
increases its value, upon which
taxes are assessed. If The wages
paid me are only sufficient to keep
myself and family, l cannot see
why / should be taxed for living.
If I earn more than living and
keep it, l am justly taxed on the
cash valuation of what [ have. II
I squander my earnings, over and
above my living, it goes into the
Golfers of Others who pay taxes upon
it. Respectfully submitted.


NJ S. BOOTH.
Year: 1878

A serious joke was recently
played upon a jealous special
revenue agent, who had come
from Florida on a special tour Of
inspection through thu Mar
quette district of Lake Superior.
He was told that he could dis
tinguish himself by ferrcting out
a band of smugglers on Isle
Royal, a mineral knob which
lifts itself out Of the northern
central part of Lake Superior.
The agent forthwith took the
last boat of the season to the is
land, without knowing that he
could not return, SO there he
must remain until next June,
when navigation re-opens, enjoy
ing the society OF few Cornish
miners and Indians who form
the population of the island.
Year: 1878

1T is R0MANTICALLY SAID, in relation TO the
marriage OF the Countess Marie Won Bismarck
that her husband was Smitten by her charms
even in their earliest youth, when he as boy
at tie Gymnasium waited for the Countess
then little damSel to carry her books from
school. Count RantZau is not wealthy and the
Chancellor has given his daughter handsome
dOwry. The father and daughter are deeply
attached TO each other. She has hitherto rarely
left him, and has been in the habit OF accom-
panying him for hours in his rides over the
plains and through the woods OF Narzin
Year: 1878

SUDDEN DEATH FROM HEART DfSraSF-Tnp
Wcli-knOWn livery stable keeper Mr. John q
COOK. was found dead In his room. No g2I NJ
street saturday morning. from heart disease
He had been in his usual heath, anl retired to
bed the night previous in good spirits. and the
Iatal attack came upon him while undressing
He was an Old citizen OF South WaShin gfon and
Formerly quite prominent as a military man
ana took an active pau in the organization
known as the Presidents Mounted Guard He
had been Ia the livery stable business in several
places I'D the city, and latterlY was proprietor
OF the PaTlOr livery stables, on near 18th street
He was an active member OF Mount Vernon
Place VI. Z. church, South, at the time OF his
DEATH
Year: 1878

SECRETARY MCCRARY is in no way connected
with whatever fight or controversy there may
ba between the officers of the army and the In
terror department and Indian bureau concern
ing the management OF the Indians. He IS only
a loOker-on in Venice. He doesn't seem TO care
whether the Indian bureau is transferred to the
army or not He may have views on the
subject. but no one has ever heard him express
them. II the bureau is transferred to the army
he would institute the new orderOf things and
get them in running order. but he does not take
any part in the controversy, nor does he in
tend tc
Year: 1878

Extremes meet. We would especially
call this truth to the earnest attention of
our Communist friends. In speaking thus
we do not refer to the red flag brigands
who if they could, would subjugate society
to the reign Of torch and sword, but to
certain enthusiastic philRnthropists who in
all sincerity bewail the haIdships of pow
erty, and in all kindness seek to invent
some human scheme for social ameliora-
tion. All these plans seem to tend to one
grand centre, in fact, we might say, head
centre-and that is increased government
authority. They would take away from the
citizen and give to the ruler. The authors
contend that under the individual sys-
rem, where each man may get what he can
and keep it, the rich grow too rich, aud the
poor too poor, and that the proper remedy
for this is to prevent the acquisition, to put
all things in common and have administra-
tors-wise and upright men-who shall see
Year: 1878

Some days after having sent his letter of
submission to the Pope, Father Curc visited
Cardinal Franohi, Secretary of State, and ask
ed permission to be received in audience by
His Holiness. The Cardinal made the appli.
cation to the Holy Father, and received q
reply that Father Curoi must first be recon-
oiled with Father Beokx, the General of the
Society of Jesus, and, after undergoing re-
treat Of ten days duration, he might again
make his application. Father Curci received
this answer with great resignation, and pro-
mised the Cardinal to act precisely as the Holy
Father desired.
Year: 1878

The beautiful and touching devotion of the
Way Of the Cross is believed to have originated
with the Blessed Virgin, who was accustomed
to visit every day the places which were sano-
tined By the incidents of the Passion; and it
is thought that her practice suggested Chris.
tian PROFESSIONS.
Year: 1878

Our community cannot justly be charged


with stiDginess. Amusements are iberSiiy


patronized in New Orleans, even in these hard


times, when all superhuity of means has been


pretty much dried up. And certainly that 10
right. The principle Of all work and no en-
joyment Is an extending Of the primevsl curse
much farther than the offended deity ever in
tended. The bow always bent loses its spring
The boss himself may not be in any danger of
losing his spring, as long as the lager beer
saloon keeps anything on tap, but there is the
neglected wife at home. She has no such
spring, and doesn't want it. She is exhausted
with the heat of the confined air Of the ovens
which by compliance We call houses, and over
burthened with the cares and anxieties Of the
household. The man who would refuse to
spend q dollar occasionally just to take her
out of that atmosphere and give q little variety
to the monotonous current of her lifeis-well,
never mind what. We will merely remark
that he 10 in a fair way of haviD & his soul
grow fast to his dollars.


But, says the guilty individual, as he reads
this lecture, Where shall take her 7 The
amusement season has closed and she doesn't
like the beer-gardens. Sir, what of music
What of o magnificent hall, msgnifoently
lighted, airy, breezy, gay with the youth and
beauty of o Southern metropolis : What of
the classical and nicely artistic chef d'eurres
city in America


No pfaceF No amusement, when the spten-
did, recherche entertainment gotten up in
honor of Mrs. Theresa Cannon Buckley, comes
af to morrow evening in st. Patrick's Hall I
Year: 1878

Commenting on the lawlessness in
Breaihitt county, KY, the Louisville
Courier -Joarnal says: "One OF the
charges against Breathitt is that the
tail Of parsons horse is never safe
there. While the good man is ex-
pounding the gospel. his horses tail
Is shaved. The parson whose horse
is not thus treated must needs hitch
the faithful brute near the window,
that the clerical eye may see what is
going on outside as well as within
the church. This charge may lack
truth, but it would be well IL nothing
worse had ever carried the name OF
Breathitt to the furthermost parts Of
the State"
Year: 1878

DAIN in the right side, under the
edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top Of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss Of appe-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen.
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy
sensation in the back part. There is
generally considerable loss of mem
ory. accompanied with a painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cough is sometimes An
attendant. The patient complains Of
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of prickly sensa-
ton OF the skin; his spirits are low
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, yet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough TO try IT. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them ex-
isted, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.


AGUE AND FEVER.


DR.. c. McLANE's LIVER PILLS, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinile, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease 10 give them FAIR TRIAL.


For all bilious arrangements, and as
4 simple purgative, they are unequaled.
Year: 1878

Only Three Men Left to work the vessel


Capt. Minot, of the bark Wild Hunter, from
Liverpool, arrived yesterday morning and
kindly furnishes us with the following item !:
When fifty-tWo miles from Tortugas he spoke
the schooner Lille Faulkenburg, twelve days
from Mobile, bound to Cuba The captain Of
the schooner was dead and the mate dying,
both from the fever. Not having any navi-
gator on board of the unfortunate vessel, they
applied TO Capt Minot for one The captain
not having any one to send, was compelled,
reluctantly, to refuse. There were only three
men seen on the deck Of the schooner, which
fact would lead one to suppose that the vessel
either had a very small crew or others were
down with the fever. Should a severe storm
0vertake them the consequences are to be
fparpd
Year: 1878

after the publication by the German govern
ment of the correspondence between the Pope
and the Emperor and Grown Prince, negO-
tiations were resumed, and they have pro-
ceeded 50 far that little remains in the way
of an amicabIe settlement.


The Papal Nuncio at Munich, who is short
ly to repair to Berlin, is understood to be
charged with the mission of completing the
negotiation.
Year: 1878

Italy is found to have no substantial basis, Is
rapidly subsiding and it is believed will soon
completely cease.


The movement is wholly confined to the
and the Catholics had nothing whatever to do
with it.
Year: 1878

There is nothing in the world more
ineXcusable than the tolcration of rum
shops. They have not the least right to
exist. They are conceived by desire
to get ones living without labor be-
yond that of standing behind a counter,
and begotten by Willingness TO do any
amount of harm to ones neighbors.
Almost every occupation by which men
get their living has the scmblance of
usefulness. But rum-selling has not
the faintest claim to any such quality.
The money that is spent in rum-shops
had better be thrown into the sea. The
liquids that are dispensed there had
better be poured into the cutters of the
strcets.-CThe Churchman.
Year: 1878

Said good lady, 81 can't remember
the time when l did not pray God to
free the slaves. From my babyhood 1
was taught to pray for them, when |
prayed for my father and mother, and
brother and sisters" Let us teach onr
little children to put in their daily pray
crs petition that God will n'ee the
land from the curse of intcmperanca
Teach them about the drunkard's little
children, and that they must love n,d
pray for them.
Year: 1878

The Dcadwood Enterprise, the Demo
cratic daily, is trying to explain its first
statement that Judge Bennett would carry
the full Republican vote of the Hills, and
gain largely from the democratic, ON the
ground of typographical error. 1t now
alleges that Bennett will not receive halt
Of the Republican vote.
Year: 1878

The Black Hills times reports that post
master James, Of Crook City, left few
days ago with the avowed purpose of
committing suicide Gambling and cxccs-
sivc drinking is said to he what allied him.
Year: 1878

Mr.. Mitchell is also mistaken in as
sumIng that the road will not pay, and
that, the money Invested in it will be a
dead investment of capital, because
private funds are not advanced to con-
struct it. Capital has not the holhnpss
and sagacity our friend would attri-
bute~ to it. Many great enterprises
which have been made successful by
government aid would have been dis
astrous failures if they had depended
upon the sagacity and courage of private
capital.


And yet, if there is anything in this
argument OF our friend, he ought to be-
lieve in the road, for probably very
nearly all the capital which could be
spared from trade here has been sub
scribed to the enterprise. The diff
Guilty is that the financial policy of the
national government has contracted
the currency, alarmed capital and
forced every great enterprise to fail or
stand on its crt dit.


Our people have no money to sub
scribe; but our State can, without any
risk, establish the credit of the New
Orleans Pacific Railroad and enable it
to accomplish what, under IL better
financial policy, there would be private
capital to carry out. To show that the
road is one which inspires capitalists
with perfect confidence, it is only neces-
sary to repeat what we have said be-
fore, that large and wealthy firms have
guaranteed to furnish all the steel rails,
locomotives, and rolling stock necessary
to finish and equip the line SO soon as
it is graded and crosstied II the
Governor can conscientiously sign this
bill, this c.In be done and the road be
completed in less than twelve months.
Year: 1878

We call attention of our readers to
the two articles headed "Robbery in
South Carolina" and "The revelation
of Mosses.' They will give an idea of
the manner in which the machinery of
government was used by the carpet
bagger, to steal from the tax payers, du-
ring their domination in the South. And
vet the pious folks of the North turned
no the whites of their eyes aud cried
bloody shirt" persecution, &c; when
to save the last remnant of their prep
ety Southern men voted to rid them
selves of such pirates.


Such rascality and thievery as these
carpet baggers, were guilty of in the
Palmetto State" deserved no less
urnishment than death and that it would
have been meted out to every mothers
,on of them, had it not been for the
protecting arm of the Federal govern
uept can not be doubted for an instant


Should it ever be again attempted in
any Southern State we look for coll
siderable rise in the price of hemp.
Year: 1878

on our Civil Code and Code of Practice
then we for one say, put the sessions as
far apart and have as few of them as
nossible. The proclamation of the Gov
ernor, it strikes us has something of the
sarcastic in it. He evidently has been
sadly disappointed, because when he
nrpached reform he meant it.


However it is to be hoped, for the
sake of common decency, that having
had their special attention called to
what they are wanted to Go, our Legis-
lators will go to work and co-operate
with the executive. They have had
sixty days frolic, and it is about high
time to get to doing something.
Year: 1878

An Eastern editor says man in New
York got himself into t,Ouble by marry
ing two wives. A Northern editor le-
plies by saying he knew number OF
men who had got into trouble by marry
ing one. A Southern editor reterts by
saving he knows of some who got into
trouble by merely promising tn marry
withDut going any further. A Western
editer eloses up the list by saying that a
friend of his got into tranhle enough
by being found with another mans
yyiffs