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Year: 1874

We of to-day look upon George
Washington's memory with reverence
and respect. 1t may be consolation
to politicians who nave been abused by
their opponents in the late champaign
to see that even Washington did not
escape caumny. The Philadelphia
American of March A, 1907, contains
the following:


"Lord, now lettest Thou thy servant
depart in peace, for mine eyes have
seen Thy salvation," was the pious
ejaculation OF man who beheld flood
of happiness rushing upon mankind. If
ever there was time that would license
the reiteration of the exclamation, that
time is now arrived, for the man who is
the source of all the misfortunes of our
country is this day reduced to a level
with his fellow citizens, and is no long
er possessed of power to multiply evils
upon the United States. If ever there
was period for rejoicing, this Is the
moment. Every heart in unison with
thh freedom and happiness of the peo-
pie ought to beat high with exultation
that the name of Washington this day
ceases to give currency to political
iniquity, and to legalize corruption. A
new era is now opening upon us-aD
era which promises much to the people,
for public measures must now stand
upon their own merits, and nefarious
projects can no longer be supported by
a name. When retrospect is taken of
the Washington Administration for
eight years, it is subject Of the great-
est astonishment that single individu-
al should have cankered the principles
of Repubicanisn in an enlightened
people just emerged from the gulf ofde.
spotism, and should have carried his
designs against the public liberty so far
as to have put in jeopardy its very ex-
istence. Such. however, are the facts,
and with these staring us in the face;
this day ought to be jubilee in the
United States.
Year: 1874

Charlotte Cushman, in bidding adieu
to the stage, said: II the few words 1
am about to say SAVIOR of egotlsm or
vainglory you will, l am sure, pardon
me, inasmuch as am here only to ospeak
of myself. You would seem to compli>
ment me upon an honorable life. As
look back upon that life 1t seems to me
that it would have been absolutely i'm
possible for me to have led any other.
In this have been merclfully helped
more than are many of my more beautl.
full sisters in art was, by press of
circumstances, thrown at an early age
into profession for which l had re-
ceived no special education or schooling;
but had already, though so young,
been brought face to face with necessi-
ty. found life sadly real and intense
ly earnest; ard, in my ignorance OF
other ways of study, resolved to take
UherefrOm my text and watchword, To
be throughly in earnest, in all my
thoughts and in all my actions wheth-
er in my profession or out Of it-be-
came my one single idea, and l honest
ly believe therein lies the secret of my
success in life. do not believe that
great success in any art can be achiev-
ed without 1t.


say this to beginners in my profess
ion, and ain sure all the associates in
my art who have honored me with
their presence on tbs occasion, will in
dorse what | say in this--art is an alb
solute mistress; she will not be CO.
quetted with or slighted; she requires
the most entire self.deyotion and she
Tepays with grand triumphs.
Year: 1874

They have new hired girl over at
Keyser's farm, just outside our town,
says Max Adeler, apd on Tuesday, be-
fore starting to spend the day with
friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed the girl
to whitewash the kitchen during her alb
sence. Upon returning, Mrs. Keyser
found the job completed in very satis-
factory manner. On Wednesdays Mrs.
Keyser always churns, and last We'd
nesday when she was ready she went
out, and, finding that Mr.. Keyser had
already put the milk into the churn she
began to turn the handle. This was at
eight o'clock in the morning, and she
turned until ten without any signs of
butter appearing. Then she called in
the hired man and he turned until din
ner time, when he knocked off with
some very offensive language addressed
to that butter which had not yet come.
After dinner the hired girl took hold of
the crank and turned it energetically
until two o'clock, when she let go with
a remark which conveyed the impress
ion that she believed the churn to be
haunted. Then Mr.. Keyser came out
and said he wanted to know what was
the matter with that churn, anyhow. 1t
was good enough churn il people only
knew enough to work it. Mr.. Keyser,
then worked the crank until half-past
three, when, as the butter had not come,
he surrendered 1t again to the hired man
because he had an engagement in the
village. The man ground the machine
to an accompaniment of frightful inn
precautions; then the Keyser children
each took turn for half an hour, then
Mrs. Keyser tried her hand, and when
she was exhausted she again enlisted
the hired girl, who said her prayers
while she turned. But the butter didn't
come. When Keyser came home and
found the churn still in action he bias
ted his eyes and did some other limo
cent swearing, and then he seized the
handle and said he'd make the butter
come If he kicked up an earthquake in
doing it. Mr.. Keyser effected about
two hundred revolutions of the crank a
minute, enough to have made any Or
d;nary butter come from the ends of the
earth; and when the respiration began
to stream from him and still the butter
didn't come, he uttered one wild yell
of rage and disappointment and kicked
the ehurn over the fence. When Mrs.
Keyser went to pick it up she put her
nose close down to the buttermilk and
took sniff. Then she understood
how 1t was. The girl had mixed the
whitwesh in the churn and left it there
A good, honest and intelligent servant
who knows how to churn can find a
situation st Keyser's. There is va
caney.
Year: 1874

| suggestion of answer There has not been q
moment since the publication of MIR. Iliton
statement when full explanation OF 'hose
letters-which constitute, so Tar, the only
| evidence i'm the case-was not absolutely es-
sential. The delay in this, and the accuinuia :
tion of every sort of vile stories, sown broad
cast by Titon and his male and female gossips
for the last three years, and now rising TO the
surface in a mantling scum of uncleaDnesS,
have begun to rouse in the community lear
lest a satisfactory explanation should be really
| impossible A full and convincing statement
would still satisfy the demand OF the decent
public; but it will now require to be tuiler
and more convincing than would have been
necessary last week.


To those friends and correspondents VINO
ask why we have so little to say OF MIR. III
ton, our answer is that it is MIR. Beecher VINO
is on trial and not his assailant. III Mr..
Beecher falls it will be through his own letters,
and not through any words OF his accuser
He is the only parsonage on the scene worth
considering We have therefore declined,
hitherto, to publish the revelations crowding
in upon us in regard to the licentious and
foolish life of Theodore Tilton. Those who





lished statemcnts His sentimental gossip, drib-
bled through three years into every ear open TO
him, his ostentatiOn of dishOnOr, real or fanced
paraded everywhere like a badge OF merit, In
streets, ferry-boats, newspaper o.iices, ana at
The. tea-tableS of social refOfmer5, sparlng
neither sex nor age in his hunt for c0nidants
the strange mixture OF maudlin magnanimity
and currish malice which his account OF HIM
self DISPLAYS, have seemed more than enough
TO enable the public to take his just measure,
without entering into Objectionable narratives
of his private life. His chosen familiars are like
unto him. Il is irreparlby disastrous to Mr.
Beecher, and might serve as a warning to
men ike him. If there were any such that he
has admitted the i1timates of Tilton to too
great familiarity with himself. Think Of in
trusting delicate matters, involving the peace
of families and the fair fame OF women, to
duh bIunderer like Moulson, or an empty
headed babblcr like Carpenter. MOult0n, wIo
had no more conception of the gravity OF his
Office of go-bctwecn tnan teleSraph-b0y has OF
the secret place of the thunder; and Carpenter,
deyoured by pruriont lust OF gossip whlch
makes it physically impossible for hun to stay
in his own shop at work when there il chance
for him to be meddlilg i'll the affiirs of his
ncghbors. How can any one think OF people
like these while Plymouth pulpit ia in danger
And what more exasperatng sOrrog cln there
be tilan to remember that it is by association
with people like these that the most eminent
preacher in the world is in peril Of shIpwreck


Bat we repeat it was only Mr.. Beechcr who
could shake our confidence in him; it is only
he who can enable us to answer his asSailants.
We say to him and 10 his friends. that there Is
no time to b. lost if tbs is ever TO be done
Year: 1874

The elaborate review of the crops which we
print this morning on our fifth page gives
an encouraging prospect for the present year
The cotton crop, though not quite up 10 tne
general average is shown to he above the
average of the years since the war, while IN
creased facilities for cultivation and improved
methods make it probable that the yield VIII
continue TO increase steadily henceforward.
The extension of cotton culture into new
regions such as the State Of Kansas has been
shown to be practicable and remunerative.
The prospects of the corn crop are also prom
| isinp. Though late in some states 1t is
now coming rapidly forward, and Good yieid Is
confidently expected. The promise oil sugar
and rice is excellent in Louisiana, III spite OF
the desolating floods which have afflicted that
State. The crop of wheat is unusually good,
and now that the harvest is almost completed
| it is estimated that the excess over iaS1 year
will amount to some twenty-five niii'on
bushels Altogether the prospect Is so laVor-
able that sanguine people may DE paruohcu
for concluding that the pinchng times conse-
ouent upon the panic are ending and that
better days are coming for the community.
Rpt thev must not count on high prices TIL
they have gagged the foreign demand.


Gov. Morton opens the Indiana campaign IN
stump speech quite worthy OF his reputation
as an able and unscrupulous politician. lie
points ont, Justly enough, the preposterous
DISCREPANCIES in the Democratic platforms OF
the different States, but carefully omit5 to
Indicate the equally grave discrepancies in
Republican platforms, and even between the
avowed policy of the Republican Congress
sional Committee and the avowcd pol
icy of the Republican Administration.
He boasts that the Administration party has
investigated its own coTupdonS; but carefully
omts to mention that it utterly refused the
task until driven to it by popular clamor, and
that its leaders in each case skulkcd and
denied down to the moment of conviction,
while their associates, in their blind fury have
been making warfare upon the press that
exposed them and compelled the Investigations.
He is frank enOngh to declare that the
financial bill which passed Congress
is a measure of initiation and an explicit
declaration against the policy of contraction; /;
but he omits to say that this brings 1t IN
conflict with the whole Administration party
of the East and with the President himself.
For the rest, the Governor is somewhat more
direct. as well as more statesmanlille, than
his opponents in his suggestions concerning
the railroad problem and he vindicates Gen.
Grant from the charge OF hostility to the Civil
Rights bill.
Year: 1874

Our well informed special correspondent
now in Minnesota gives sketch of the personal
issues of politics in that State, and shows that
neither fear of the Changers nor OF public
opinion has been strong enough to keep the
Republican party from nominating its salary
prabbers and its lobbyists to Congress.
Year: 1874

II is singular that the advent of the German
squadron on the Spanish coast for the purpose
If intimidating the Carlists should be deemed
at Madrid likely to cause the Spanish navy to
declare for the Pretender. But anything is
possible in Spanish politics.
Year: 1874

The call for only twenty-five millions OF the
five-twenty bonds, instead of the whole fifty
five millions for which new fves have been
sold. is understood to be made in accordance
with the request of the Syndicate. Ihey
hold themselves responsible for the entire
amount purchased, and hope also to take the
remainder, on which they have SIX months
call; but they seem to wish that the Treasury
Department should allow them to begin the
work somewhat deliberately.
Year: 1874

The loss of several millions by Tammany
robberles suggested the wisdom of the clause
of the Charter authorizing any taxpayer to
institute suit to reStraip officials from ex-
travagant expenditure of public money. 1t is
somewhat dscouraging to know, nOtwith-
standing present extravaglnce of the Depart
ments, that the first and only suit of this sort
instituted in the public interest was begun by
disappointed bidder for a contract to save a
few thousand dollars i'll the printing of the
Corporation paper. The weakness OF the law
is best exposed by quoting the old adage
which intmates that what is made every
body's business is performed by nobody. But
the moment any individual interest is touched
the law is instantly appealed to.
Year: 1874

The marvellous story told elsewhere of
girl of fifteen who is possessed of a morbid
mania for burning to death the infants she is
employed to nurse would at once be set down
as incredible if it were not that the incredible
things seem to be the ones most likely to
happen nowadays. We have, besides, been lately
made familiar with illustrtitons of juvenile de-
pravity and strange insane tendencies. This
newly discovered child iIehd is described as
being in all outward appearance sweet tenn
pered and mild manneTed. and, when de-
tected, she confessed her murderous designs
with such frankness, and such evident ig-
norance of the nature of the crime, that little
doubt is left of her insanity. The judge who
examined into the mattel has wisely ordered
an inquiry concerning her mental condition,
and it is one which ought to be promptly con-
Quoted.
Year: 1874

From Colorado, long favorite battle ground
of the GraSshOpper, we nave less doleful
view of the inyasions of that abused insect.
The letter of a careful and experienced OBJ
server, printed on the fifth page of this morn
ing's TRIBUNE, identifies the Grasshopper of
this Period with the Locust of the East. An
interesting account is given of its habits OF
life and mode of warfare; and it is represented
that while a raid of nrasshoppers is bad
enough, it is by no meals such calamity as
to justify a Congressional appropriation for
the relief of its vctims Some apparently
iudicious suggestions a. to the manner of
fighting the invaders are made for the benefit
of the perplexed sufferers in Minnesota and
Iowa.
Year: 1874

A fresher and more picturesque form Of
Hummer excursion than usual-that is about
what the Black Hills Expedition appears to
be thus far, as portrayed in the faithful letters
of our correspondent, printed this morning on
the fourth page. There is chance for hard
6ghting, and hope for some scientific infor-
Year: 1874

We print this morning another letter from
Mr.. Bayard Taylor i'll regard to recent African
explorations single other one, already re-
ceived with this, closes the present series of
letters in regard to Egyptian and Central
African matters from this distinguished OBJ
server and poet. We have the pleasure of
announcing to our readers that he was re-
called from Africa to represent THE TRIBUNE
at the millennial celebration of the settlement
of Iceland, and that he probably arrives in
the Island to-day. We received offers of SER
vice from some of the most distinguished ex-
plorers of our time, but we knew of none who
could compare with Mr.. Taylor in general


learning, in knowledge of the history and the
social life of Iceland in power of observation
and description, and lin the training and disci-
pline of the thorough journalist. We consider
ourselves warranted therefore in congratulat-
ing our readers in advance upon the certainty
OF receiving by far the best account Of this
Year: 1874

China has resolved to establish consulate at
San Francisco, but shrewdly allows the ex-
penses thereof to be betrayed by the six Chi
nese companies of that city. The Consul is to
be an American. He will not be long in find
ing his position less satisfactory than if he
were not the stipendiary of others instead of
the Government he represents.
Year: 1874

1t is not strange. but it is deplorable, TO
find the Democrats of Alabama carefully or
ganizing on a platform of distinctly avowed
hostility to the negroes, and thus deliberately
abandoning any hope of preventing the con-
tinued political warfare of the races. The
Justice of most of the complaints they make
there is unfortunately no opportunity to dis
pute But these men belong to the race
which has so long ruled Alabama; they are
accustomed to political processes, and to the
exercise of foresight in public affairs. RecoS-
nzing that the negro must live with them
forever as citizen, with equal rights, would
if not be wiser to continue to practice that
forbearance becoming the superior racei
Year: 1874

The remedy of the Post-0ffice Department
for the refusal of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad to continue to
haul the postal cars for the present pay, seems
10 be to transfer them to a rival and slower
road Whatever may be the actual merits of
the controversy between the Department and
the railroad, the people affected by the delay
will not accept this as the proper solution.
Year: 1874

When the bill establishing an Assay ONCE
for Montana was mp in the House, Delegate
Maginnis maalc q speech in behalf of the
mcas,.rc, from which we make the extract
below:


81 would say to the House that the Terri
tory of Montana. although one most isolated,
is and has been our greatest gold producing
Territory 1t has been organized ten years,
and in those ten years it has produced $780, :
600. 900 of gold and silver bullion. more than
a million month, and nearly enough to pay
onp-half of your grecnbackS: and believe
in the ten wears to come it will produce
enough to nay the rest. BY the laws of the
United States, and more than that, by the
Constitution Of the United States, every man
who possesses or produces bullion is entitled
to have it coined at reasonable cost But
on all that magnificent contribution to the
nations wealth, the miners of Montana have
had to pay from four to five per cent to get
their bullion to the mint at Philadelphia, or
to the market in Wall street, New York.
They have been obliged to pay express con-
panies two and half per cent. to get their
gold to the mint, and have had to pay in ad-
dition quite as much to get their greenbacks
back in exchange
Year: 1874

The Montana public will notice that the
HERALD is again on hand with the telegraphc
report 1t is little delayed, but the news is
better late than never. Under the new ar
dispatches reach us over the wires
as far as Corinne, from which point Gilmer
& Salisbury pick them up and transmit them
north by coach 10 our sanctum. Paper and
people are greatly benefited by the stage
company in its new rolr as u telegram carrier.
Year: 1874

sn1,ord;nates in the First National bank in
Now York The old banking house here has
been rented for the same purpose of carrying
on banking and brokers' business.


The Committee will probably sit for sever
al days considering the above and other prop
ositions, and deciding upon terms of COM
promise and sales of property. Whether a
five per cent. cash dividend will be announc-
ed will doubtless he known after this or the
next meeting of the Committee, which latter
will take place in about two weeks.
Year: 1874

Nothing can be more transparent
than the pretended solicitude manifest
ed by good many Radicals of our
county in regard to the anticipated


Democratic convention to select candi-


dates for county officers. 1t has be-
come a common text among the Radi-
cal fraternity, and to expatiate largely
upon the injustice of conventions is the
burden of their long, whispered softly
Snto the ear of some las they think
tender footed Democrat. 1t would be
a nice little game if they could succeed
IN creating an opposition to conven-
tons In the Democratic ranks. 1t is
their only chance to succeed in this
county, and they fully realize it, and
their apparent solicitude has no other
object in view. IF, however, we under
stand anything of the Democratic SEN
tlment IN this county, they are certainly
wasting breath. We have mixed with
the people, and so far have found the
feeling almost unanimous In favor of
conventions. Political independence,
IN party sense, is humbug, and the
man who strides the position is almost
invariably made the stool-pigeon of
party organisms He is nobody's man.
He is used only for tne OCCASION
ShetbyUille Commercial
Year: 1874

AT the recent term of the Court of Gen
eral Sessions in nSumter, SC, Judge Mackey
Instructed the Grand jury to inquire wheth-
er the tax assessment had beenwilfully and
unlawfully increased; and if so, to indict
the County Auditor. The Grand Jury re-
ported that the increase in the assessment i'm
that county was not caused by the Auditor
nor by the County Board Of Equalization,
but by the State Board of Equalization,
who raised the assessment fifty per cent.
Year: 1874

The Dixon correspondent of the
Vallejo Chronicle states that the wheat
market there continues to be remark
ably dull. It seems to be settled now
that nearly the whole wheat crop will
be stored.
Year: 1874

% The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
ls to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 21ao
Year: 1874

We have to dispose Of our immense
Stock OF Clothing, Dress Goods, etc., etc., to
make room for very extensive Stock Of Fall
Goods, just purchased In New York, and en-
route for us. We have reduced the prices, and
you will find 1t to your advantage to call a
tho
Year: 1874

made for grand good time, and a
large number of tickets have already
been disposed of so that the success of
the affair is now we'll settled. Among
the other emusements will be some
solid and fancy comfort set out by p.
Golding, of the Washington Restau-
rant, and people may rest assured that
the vacuum which nature abhors, will
be well provided against. Go to the
firemens' ball if you wish some first
rate endowment.
Year: 1874

ps- The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is TO throw away their New York Hats and huy
a new one of DESMOND They say there is no
comparison between the two. go
Year: 1874

Young man ahoy! Fitzpatrick is
the man you are looking for. He will give
you the incest fitting garments to be had in
the city; cloth Of the best material; work
done upon honor, and the best satisfaction
generally. Call on him and have full suit
made at once. Jy2tf--3
Year: 1874

We have to dispose Of our immense
Stock Of Clothing, Dress Goods, ETC., etc., to
make room fora very extensive Stock Of Fall
Goods, just purchased in New York, and en-
route for us. We have reduced the prices, and
YOU Will find 1t to your advantage to call a
the