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Year: 1874

The Portland Transcript recently con-
tanned letter from some one in this
portion of the State, alleging that the
National Colony was ''sell"; that
wood and flour had to be brought from
Minneapolis, and people in Maine might
Judge of the price that our people
were obliged to burn hay for fuel that
the lands of the National Colony were
not adapted to farming, and that, to
sum up, the whole Colony, land and
all, was ''farce.''


Now we admit there is good deal of
''sell'' about the National Colony. For
instance, our lumber dealers ''sell' lum-
Der to nine or ten of the surrounding
counties our merchants ''sell' goods
over a radius Of 60 to 100 miles, and our
real estate dealers 'sell'' more lands
than any new town on the road, while
those engaged in selling the railroad
lands have sold more than have been
sold at all other points on the railroad
put together. We admit also that a
great deal of our ''wood'' is brought
from Minneapolis. All our lumber
dealers bring their pine "wood" from
that city, and in order to enable our
Maine readers (for the ADVANCE cir
culates in nearly all the States,) to
Judge of the price," we will say that
common ''Wood" of this kind sells at
from $16 to $22 a thousand. Flour is
sometimes brought from Minneapolis,
but it is also ''brought'' to Portland
from Minneapolis, and it is quite prob
able that some of the readers of the
Transcript, while they read that letter
over their breakfasts, were biting into
noW-White biscuit made from Mime
apolis flour, or probably from the Oka-
bena flour made here in Worthington,
for our Worthington mills have ship
ped great deal of flour to Boston and
New England. Just think of people
way down in Maine having to bring
their flour all the way from Worthing-
ton and Minneapolis. We can, indeed,
judge Of the price. 1t is fully 1925 a
barrel in the Boston market. We see
no relief for the readers of the 1'ron-
script but to come to the National Col
ony and get at the source of this very
flour itself, and save the cost of trans
portation. This is what we wish to
urge upon friends in Maine. They can
not afford to live so far from their food
supply. Come to the National Colony
and raise your own wheat. But this
croaker says our people are obliged to
burn hay for fuel. We learn that some
farmers burned hay all winter, and
that they rather like to do it. They
can cut from two to four tons of this
fuel to the acre, and thus secure it for
the mere labor of gathering. It makes
a hot fire and some Of our farmers pre-.
fer it for baking. But that people were
''obliged" to burn hay for the want of
other fuel is not true. There has been
all abundance of wood and coal. at the
yard all winter, and scores of men who
had not the money to pay, and do not
expect to have it until after harvest


have been supplied by Mr.. Ames on
time. Next, this croaker says the lands
of the National Colony are not adapted
to farming. Let us see. Last veal
was an exceedingly unfavorable veal
for farming, yet in some instances *
bushels of wheat, from IS to 40 bush
els of corn and a thousand bushels OF
turnips and beets were grown to tlt
Year: 1874

Some one from Worthington writes
to the Adjutant General that he is
"gettinga little uneasy about that pen
siUn," and wants to know chow it is
coming along" But as he neglected to
sign his name, and as the Adjutant
General is not Clairvoyant nor Me-
dium, it is a little difficult to tell Just
which of the two or three pensions
the Government allows is referred to.
Year: 1874

What is the matter with our friend
of the jackson Republic? Is it because
he has no railroad? ? Is it because the
Land Office is coming to Worthington :?
Is it tleas =? Or what is the matter, any
how? If we had a new brick Office and
a new court house, like the editor of
of the Republic, we should not be jeal-
Gus of the prosperity of any of our
neighbors.
Year: 1874

Some Of the young people of WORTH
ington held party a few evenings ago
ut the large white house on the ridge
Northwest Of town. Ore OF the gen.
guard. The doors were closed, search
Was made, and the charm was found
clinging to some of the farinas or other
tloulishes on young lady's dress.
There was general burst of laughter
and the question was ''How did it get
there 20
Year: 1874

The discussions in Congress thus far
show only one thing plainly, and that is
thst no scheme looking to an imitation Of
the currency has any chance Of being
seriously considered. There is a decided
change in this respect since last session.
So icciled is the change that it is now
not the most improbable thing in the
world that some plan looking towards a
retirement of a portion Of the greenbaCks
may yet pass both houses before the ses-
sion ends, in connection with q free bank
Ing bill. The Executive Committee Of the
National Board Of Trade have recon-
mended TO Congress TO authorize the Sec.
retsTy of the Treasury to borrow $4OO,-
100000 in gold when he can get it at At
and 4 per cent. With this he shall retire
aCd destroy $66.0OO,0O0 Of greenbAcks,
leaving $3l6,O00000 in existence as legal
tender currency, to be sustained at par by
redemption in specie whenever they are
presented, and we presume paid out again
whenever the necessities OF the Treasury
require it.


The Washington correspondent oI the
New York Graphic says that those who
were formerly inlstionists in Congress
begin now 10 favor repeal Of the legal
tender clause on tho ground that repeal
will help business by inducing people 10
put greenbacks In circulation instead OF
boarding them. Hc says that the intla-
tjonIs's are satisfied that adding 10 the
currency would not revive business. There
isplenty Of paper money now,and the only
hope Of its entering the channels Of bus
ines3 lies in an assurance being given that
stsomC time IN the future 1t will be dis
credited as legal tender, and quoted at
discount with reference TO gold. Once
insure tho decentralization Of this paper,
and at once it will be used in productive
enterprises. The only way in which pa
per money can stimulate business is in
the certainty OF its depreciation; this
makes every one who has it anxious 10
part with it for stable property. Hence
y rise in prices; hence the rapid passage Of
notes from hand to hand.
Year: 1874

Editors Intolligehcer:


AS items to be put in the hands OF o
friend and TO be used for the best interest
oil Wheeling, desire some ofyour readers
through your columns or addressed TO me
in your care, TO furnish statistics Of the
present population OF Wheeling, its bank.
ing capital and deposits, its manufacture
ing capital, mineral resources and sources
Of substantial prosperity and progress. 1t
Is designed Tor prospectus which will be
widely circulated among capitalists and
business men Of this country and Europe,
and will aid in making reputation for
our city that must result in good to us.


CITIZEN.
Year: 1874

The New York Sun gives biography
of an inventor who has done more for
the world than the world has for him.
Aftcr making half dozen scientific
improvements in mechanics, any one of
which would have made another mans
fortunc, he has gradually fallen to the
position Of tender of the stage-door in a
New York thcater. His name is frcligh


When twenty years old he invented a
diving-dress, for which he got $6o0-
about the only reward he ever obtained


lie served his apprenticeship at the Nov
city Iron Works and afterwards oh
tanned a position as engineer of the
Jersey City Ferry Company at 5000 a
year. For inventing the revolving
crate for ferry boats the Superintendent
gave him pair Of patent-leather boot
for inycnting an apparatus To heat water
by waste steam and save ten per cent
fuel, he received doublc-barrel shot
gun; when he built model for span
lard who wanted boat of light draught
and immense carrying capacity To nayi-
gate the shadows of the Amazon. and
was about to sign contract to construct
Aotilla of such vessels, the Spaniard
was murdered in a cigar store when
four years later, he invented comb
nation gauge" to indicate the action OF
the forcc-pump, the temperature OF the
water in the hot-well," and the density
Of that in the boiled, a Scotchman stole
his discovery and patented it in his own
name when he compounded lubrica-
tor for locomotives the general supply
agent of the Erie railroad refused TO ac-
cept it unless he was paid bonus of
$4,000. And, lastly, after a day had
been appointed by Jim Fisk, Jr., in
which Freligh was to receive $50, 900 in
stock and money for the secret Of
the compound. Stokes interferred and
murdered the only man who had ever
promised him fair treatment. To such a
man the fates have done their wort.
Year: 1874

INEXPENSIVE HAPPINESS.-Th most
perfect home l ever saw was in little
house into the sweet incense of whose
fires went no costly things. A thousand
dollars served for years living of
father, mother and three children. But
the mother was the creator of a home;
her relation with her children.was the
most beautiful have ever seen; even O
dull and commonplace man was lifted
up and enabled to do good work for souls
by the atmosphere which this woman
created; every inmate of her house in
voluntarily looked into her face for the
keynote of the day; and it always rang
clear. From the rosebud or clover-leaf
which, in spite of her hard house-work,
she always found time to put by our
plates at breakfast, down to the story
she had on hand to be read in the even
ing, there was no intermission of her in
fluenee. She has always been and al
ways will be my ideal of mother, wife,
home-maker. If to her quick brain,
loving heart and exquisite face had
been added the appliance of wealth and
the enlargements of a wider culture,
here would have been the ideal of home.
AS it was, it was the best L have ever
seen.-HeLen Hunt.
Year: 1874

THE WIFE OF AGASSIZ.-It may be a
fact less familiar TO the public, but it is
one well known to Prof. Agassiz's friends,
that his wife was his complement and
in every sense helpmate. What the
Professor lacked in order, method, or
business habits was sabundantly supplied
by Mrs. Agassiz. 1t was her graceful
and assiduous pen that recast and put
into more classic moulds the Professors
ready English. 1t was her constant
encouragement and stimulus that sup
ported the Professor in new and difficult
Undertakings. Her counsel was always
listened to with respect. 1t is safe to
say that we should not have had so many
of his works put in permanent form in
English if il had not been for her earnest
cooperation. The Professor, as all
knew, was a ready lecturer, and always
delivered his addresses without manu-
script. In all his lectures and speeches
near home, Mrs. AgassiZ accompanied
him whenever possible, and took eOpi-
Gus notes and thus preserved the
thought for future use. All his COM
munications for the press passed
through her hands. She wrote much
from his dictation, attended to great
many of his business details, and in a
thousand ways forwarded his work.
Every word Of praise we bestow on the
silent dead is an unuttered recognition
of her who shared alike his labors and
his rewards. Let us hope that she who
knew him better than any or all of US,
may crown this life of devotion by COM
pleting and giving to the world her own
record-long since begun-of the genius
and work of him whose departure has
left such void in our hearts.-N. y.
Tribune
Year: 1874

"INvIsIBLEn WRITING.-A solution
of cobalt nitrate may be used to write
with upon unglazed paper, and the
characters will be invisible. Hold it
before fire, and the characters will be
distinct. A solution of sulphate Of cop
per will also be invisible, if weak
enough, and may be plainly seen if
washed with little ammonia.
Year: 1874

THE DRoUaHr-SIGNs OF RAIN.-The fearful
and disastrous drought, which we may say has
dried up all the land from the great plains to
the Atlantic coast, and from the Gulf of Mex
leo far into the interior Of the New Dominion,
u.s. we hope and believe, now rapidly coming
TO an end. The signs of rain are thickening
from day to day, and the widely extended
July temperature, of the last two days particu-
iarly, must surely, we think, bring about a
speedy and far extending atmospheric reac-
lion, with bountiful rains.
Year: 1874

! Marshal Bazaine's denial that he is q pollti-


clan is just If he were politician he would


not in this bitter way attack the man to whom


he owes his life nor denounce him as one OF


the principal authors of the disaster His
tory will assign to the great captains of the
war the blame or praise they have deserved,
and present recriminations are idle. If
Bazaine comedies that MacMahon honestly
did all he could for France, as he seems to
admit, criticism of his military actions might
as well be left to others. Marshal Mac
Mahon now holds the government of
France in trust for the people. He
has shown integrity and faithfulness
amid great temptations. No party can justly
claim him as its agent. He belongs to the Re-
public as it is, not perhaps, to the Republic as
it may become, and is we believe, resolved to
maintain that government till the people
themselves reclaim the power they have dele
gated by constitutional methods which no
faction can control. Whether he fought
wisely or unwisely in Alsace is not the ques-
ton now, nor would the proof of his error
exonerate Marshal Bazaine. Bazaine must
look higher when he would find the author of
the ruin for which he claims, and not without
truth, that he has been made the scapegoat.
Let him go to the Emperor. Beside the
marble tomb at Chiselhurst he may stand in
silence, and, in loyalty to that great memory,
utter none of those just reproaches which
would be wasted on the dull, cold ear Of death.


That his duty to the Napoleonic dynasty
did not end with the Emperors death is
The words near the close of his letter are
a menace to the Republic and to President
MacMahon: 81 do not look upon my
military career as ended. Some duties
remain to be fulfilled, and shall
fulfil them when the time comes"
There can be but one Interpretation of these
sentences, and that is that Marshal Bazaine is
resolved to be as faithful to the son as he was
to the sire. We regret this devoted but
useless passion for the Empire which was
always an evil to France. But that
which entities Marshal Bazaine to hon
orable consideration in oil that he may
say is that fate has made him the suf-
ferer. He is banished from his country, de-
prived of his rank, stigmatized as unfaithful.
Much more could be excused to him in this
hour of disgrace than anything he has said
here, and, altogether, the tone of his letter is
honorable and manly. He has the right to
make the proud boast that "MacMahon and
were sometimes unhappy, but never ridicu-
lous No German could afford to laugh when
attacked by me-" The spectacle of heroic
spirit surrounded by misfortune commands
admiration, and this old soldier of France
bears his burden as bravely as if it were the
knapsack he carried when the marshals baton
was no more to him than glittering distant
dream.
Year: 1874

Our correspondent in Nashville sends an
able letter concerning the operations Of the
White League in Tennessee. and. We
regret to add, affirms the resurrec-
ton of the Ku Klu1. Nothing could
he more injurious to the South than the re-
vival of the bloody spirit of that secret order.
On the other hand the United States troops
have arrested persons supposed to be guilty
of completely in the murder Of negro prison.
ers in the Trenton Jail, and their
trial at Memphis is expected to take place
at once The punishment of these murderers
now would be better for Tennessee than If the
gold mines Of the Black Hills were set down
among her mountains The whites have
nothing to do but to maintain order and law
to become masters of the situation and to in
sure the defeat of any outrages by misguided
blacks
Year: 1874

The THIRD Term IN THE SOUTH. There
was recently an extensive movement among
Southern conservatives from Virginia to Geor-
gia in favor of General Grant for third Pres
idential term. But if since his recent letter to
Attorney General Williams, which was a carte
blanche touching the employment of United
States troops tor the suppression of Southern
ontrages-if since this official proclamation the
southern conservatives are still in favor of an
other term TO General Grant, they must surely
be id favor of the restoration of the blessings
of martial law. We dare say, however, that
even General Toombs is no longer fre-eater
in support of the dangerous proposition of
givinz u tls President third term.
Year: 1874

We publish in another column on interest
ing and thoughtful letter on the Art Exposi-
ton in Cincinnati. That Western centre of
trade is beginning to devote its attention to
aesthetic subjects, and will, no doubt derive
much help in its educational march from
the presence Of the many gems that have
been gathered into the art departments OF the
Exposition. The sight Of the artistic produc-
tions Of foreign nations must exercise
stimulating effect on the minds of men alb
sorbed in employments as useful, though
scarcely 80 elevating, as is art work, and
exert q healthful influence in setting up cor
rect standards of public taste. We are
glad to see the West beginning to
take an interest in the marvels of
production. No country can ever be truly
great whose people do not possess high me-
chanical and artistic Skill and some influence
is needed in the West to counteract the ten
dency toward agricultural and pastoral pur-
SUITS TO the exclusion OF manufacturing in
dustries. The problem of inducing the West
to enter the industrial field and compete with
the East in manufactures is Of Importance to
the whole country, and whatever tends to turn
the attention of the people into artistic and
industrial channels deserves consideration
and support.
Year: 1874

GAME IN THE Rocky MOUNTAINS Else
where this morning we publish letter
from our correspondent who is ''roughing it''
ject of universal interest; for hunting, as
therein detailed, is not merely an idle sport,
appealing to our spirit of adventure alone,
but sanitary pursuit. having the best effect
upon body and mind.
Year: 1874

THE FLOATING HOSPITAL made its sixteenth
cruise yesterday, and the eight hundred sick
children and mothers who enjoyed the pure
salt air were fortunate to escape the sitting
atmosphere of.the city. The next excursion
will take place on Tuesday, and contributions
to the fund are needed and earnestly desired.
Year: 1874

Mr. Weed and the Proposed Convene


The veteran Thurlow Weed has expressed
certain views on the proposed convention of
peace and reconstruction which our readers
will find elsewhere. They are worthy of the
respect that should always be paid to expert
ence and patriotism. Probably no man now
living is as familiar with the inside Of our war
history as Mr., Weed; for during the war he
possessed the confidence of Mr. Lincoln and
Mr.. Seward, and largely influenced the diplo-
matte result by his counsels and his influence.
Mr. Weed, we observe, takes issue with the
HERALD upon our argument that emancipa-
ton was a ''fne." He regards it as "a
penalty" which the South invited by enter
ing into causeless war. We do not differ
with MIR. Weed. He merely states our argu-
ment in another form. We do not question
ship OF emancipation. We entirely agree
that the Southern leaders invited it
and should not complain. But what
we say is this, that in considering
the results of the war, 80 far as they tend to
the present unhappy condition of affairs in
the South, we must estimate the act of eman-
cipation as financial question. By this act
property to the amount, let US say, of two
thousand millions Of dollars was extin-
guished, and the men who owned that prop
erty were so much poorer. Instead of being
fine imposed upon the Commonwealth, as
Germany with France, and paid by system
of general taxation, it was the amercement of
the slaveholding classes, in many instances
to the extent of their whole possessions. In
this respect it resembled more the policy of
Henry VIII. in seizing the lands of the
Church, or the policy of the French Conven-
ton in confscatng the lands of the fn,igrks


We recite this military view of emancipa-
ton, not as special grievance that should be
remedied, for we do not admit it to be q
grievance, but rather as an illustration of the
severity of the war upon the South. And,
while we do not recognize any claim on
the part of the shareholders for compen-
sation, we do say that in dealing
with reconstruction We should consider
this extraordinary amercement and aid
the Southern people in some way to bear it,
| We should do this the more because in look
ing at the question from high point of view
we must admit that slavery was an institution
which we in the North cherished for two CEN
turies, and which Mr. Lincoln would not
have abolished had it not been to his mind
war measure. It was therefore fine, or, if
Mr. Weed prefers the word, self-invited
penalty" imposed upon the South. And
we do not see how there can be any generous
and abiding plan of reconstruction that does
not so consider it.


In the main the views of Mr.. Weed are
statesmanlike and brave. If the Northern
people would only enter npon the question of
reconstruction in this spirit there would soon
be an end. Is it not time to put away hatred
and seek truth and fraternity?


(rENERAT. MuEq' INDIAN
Year: 1874




and sound patriotism of the Sun for its CO.
operation in the only scheme of reform which
can rectify the abuses which it depicts in
such vivid and truthful colors. A mere
change Of administration is no effectual rem
edy. 1t would only lop off the branches of an
evil which ought to be plucked up by the
roots. The Suns patriotism and the patriot
ism OF any virtuous citizen should be alarmed
and astounded at the bare possibility of such
evils as it exposes being perpetrated under
color of legal authority conferred by the re-
construction acts. The very possibility of
such abuses should be shut out by amend
ments Of the federal constitution. The SIN
comedies that the third term folly lies at the
root Of this military interference in the
South as its prompting motive, and that the
powers conferred on the President by the
reconstruction acts ore its pretext. An
amendment of the constitution limiting the
President to single term would extinpuish
the motive and another amendment would
destroy the pretext Too much is LETT under
our present system to the play of party pas
sions and the promptings OF Presidential am
bition. A wise revision OF the constitution
would render such evils impossible. We
therefore invite the Sun to unite with us in
agitating for national convention to enoraft
such reforms in the fundamental law as will
protect and pacify the country