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Year: 1874

The Wareham (Mass.) Nt"s OF q
few days siuce, in discussing The pos
sible inability OF the East to compete
with Pittsburgh and Wheeling in few
years" says: "In the struggle to main.
tain bis footing il the market, the East
eru manufacturer has not only been
Obliged to match the skill aud knovl-
edge OF his Western competitor, but has
had to struggle also against distance
and winter. Granting equal skill, en-
terprise and business tact TO the Eastern
and Western manufacturer, the
problem for the Eastern man
has been to find an Offset to
these two powerful allies OF bis
rival. Evidently if tie cost OF manu-
facture is the same at the East and at
the West, the Eastern man is at a dis
advantage by just the extra cost Of
bringing crude iron and coal from
Pennsylvania to the Eastern mill. And
this disadvantage, if not coanterbalspc
ed in some way, is enough to put out the
fires and stop the wheels OF every mill
in New England.


For these two disadvantages, distance
and winter the Eastern manufacture
has found two corresponding remedies,
10 wit: Cheap lsbor and large capital.
Aud these are two Indispensable requi-
sites for an Eastern mill.
Without them it cannot live.
Aud more especially is the ques-
ton of cheap labor vital one.
Ii il as clear as sn axiom that, uuless
labor in the East ia enough cheaper
than labor in the West 10 balance the
extra cost OF transportation TO which
the Eastern mills are subjected. they
must stop.


But how permanent will these con-
ditious be- What certainty lie there
that labor will always be lower at the
East thar at the West ? or that West
ern manufacturers will no, in time be-
come as economical. careful and watch
iul as those at the East


How far of is the completion OF this
process2 How do the wages OF labor
at the East and at the West compare
with each other now ?


The late financial storm has swept
ever the West with power which 10
net generally appreciated here at the
East. Its effects are visible in the count.
less manufactures which are there
standing idle, and in the heavy reduc.
| tion Of wages paid in those that arc
running. For the purpose OF compsFi-
sop, the following table OF wages DoS
paid in different places for two branches
OF labor in iroa manufsc.orics, similar
to those running in our own ;ow7, is
given:
Year: 1874

The Finaneier has this 10 ssy in favor
Of the policy offree banking;


If Congress will simply make the
banking act open to everybody who will
secure his notes BY depositipg bondi,
exact q central redempto on demand,
and then allow banks to manage the
details themselves, these RESULT will
certainly and directly. follow: There
will be just the amonut o. currency
that is wanted, whether that is more
than the present volume or .ess there
will be just the requisite supply at all
times. thus securing elasticity" the
currency famine hitherto experienced
at regular intervals will be easily and
materially doue away and there will be
no more panics, in 30 far as they de-
pend upon the volume and supply OF
currency.
Year: 1874

How THE Iron MEN FRE1.-Philadel.
phia advices intimate that the statements
that have recently been going the rounds
Of the journals, that general revival Of
tho Iron trade is expected in the fall, are
not indorsed by persons in that city who
are familiar with the conditions and pros.
poets Of the business. Some improve
ment Is hoped for, but 1t is not believed
that there Ia any reason to anticipate a
brisk demand for iron and a consequent
revival Of activity in furnaces and rolling
mills at the earliest date. 1t Is admitted
when revival Of business comes It will
be very general, and that when once re.
covered it will be more securely held
than before, the iron masters having
learned lessons Of prudence which they
will not soon forget.
Year: 1874

WEST WISCONSIN,, r.. r, May IL, 1B7A.
To the Editor Of the wOEknsnAS's ADvOoAsn


A terrible disaster occurred here but q
few days ago by which three men lostthqir
lives and nine were badly wounded. Il
appears short time since mn order wmn
issued from headquarters to rum am extra
traiI between the time OF the regular
trains. Through negligence upon the
part of same one, the regular trains were
not notified Of the extra train being put
on. A fire broke out in the woods, about
three lIiles from the Black River FAlln.
near to pile Of wood belonging to the
company. The road-master on being in
formed of the fire ordared the engineer Of
q construction train to back down, with
all possible speed, to the location Of the
hre, and, If possible, save the wood, the
engineer in obedience to orders backed
down about q mile when he saw a iRht
and supposing it TO be the reflection Of The
ire kept up his speed. The light pre-
viously seen proved TO be train coming
from the opposite direction but was din
covered too late to prevent q collision.
Three men-Mr. Hill, John LOrA and
Andred Makenny were killed and nine
others were badly wounded. The com
ductor who was on top Of the cabOOse saved
himself by jumping of.


The loss Of life and manning Of limbm,
is the result Of gross careIessness on thn
part of some of the officials Of the road.
and ought TO be investigated by the proper,
authority. B.R.F.
Year: 1874

Captain General Concha of Cuba, has
issued decree in which it is stated that
the Railroad companies have now to suffer
the inevitable as do all other interests in
the country in consequence OF the present
financial condition Of the island. BY de-
cTees issued last December, the companies
were allowed to fix their rates for each
month according TO the premium Of gold
current ON the 20th Of the month, but it is
alleged they have been in the habit Of
charging much higher rates than allowed.
Gen Concha has inierposed and fixed the
increase for May at fifty per cent over all
their rates.
Year: 1874

THE agony is over. Andrew John
son has indorsed them. Colyar is
happy and the hearts of the Twenty
Centers are lifted up for JOY.


OF Mr.. Johnson's speech, given else
where, we have but little to say just
now. except in commentator
of the moderate tone by which it was
characterized. Whilst or views are
completely at variance with those ex-
pressed by him last night in reference
to the State finances, we have
no particular objection to the
style In which they were
presented. He has either not warmed
up to his work yet, or he is convinced
that this new departure lies in a
very different direction from tina
which resulted so disastrously for
him and for the Democratic
party in 1872 If he means that the
issues announced IN this opening
speech of the campaign are to be fully
and calmly and fairly discussed before
the people, and not in the ranc9rous
spirit of two years ago, the
Democracy Will meet him and his sup
porters in the same spirit We believe
that we express the sentiments of nine
tenths of the Democratic voters in Ten
nessee when we say that they wish to
make no war upon Mr.. Johnson These
differences can be settled among our
selves, while We present, at the same
time. an unbroken front to the enemy.
Year: 1874

There seems to be general awakening of in
terest in relation to the Usury Law of Delaware,
and next to Peninsular Union this subject
seemed uppermost with those who participated
in the Press Association banquet. In the upper
part of the Peninsula, where there is the most
manufacturing, commerce, &c, there seems but
one sentiment, viz; that money should be a
marketable commodity like any other article { I
commerce. 1t is evident that the extreme rural
districts are falling into the same line of
thought, and the time seems not very far dis
tant when this sentiment will predominate.
Year: 1874

we have quoted reminds US of those good
old days before the war, when the Rich
mond journals and the Virginia statesmen"
threatened the Northern ''mudsillsp with
war and secession if they dared to interfere
with the sacred institution of slavery. 1t
is spark of the old fire which still smould-
ers in the Virginia breast. The Wing is,
however, correct in its estimate of some of
the Northern journals which are just now
prating so glibly about principle, " notably
of the Tribune. If there is paper in the
country which has been shorn of its influ-
enca during the last two years It is the
journal founded by Horace Greeley. To be
sure, it is still great newspaper, and will
probably always remain so, but it no longer
influences party or the most Insignificant
part of party. In scientific and other
matters which belong to the class journals
it has done some important work and has
been of some use, perhaps. 1t is an author
ity upon Coggia's comet, and upon the best
way to raise babies; but it is powerless in
politics, in the government of the State,
which is the highest duty of the citizen.
In that field it has no principles, does not
pretend to have any. Animated by blind,
unreasoning hostility to Gen. Grant and the
party whose existence and success is the
living, speaking evidence of the Tribuns'S s
weakness, It's printed for apparently no pur-
pose except to spread scandal and defama-
A. 1, q.
country as no man has been honored since
Washington, whose achievements will live
through all time. The Tribune has placed
itself in the unfortunate position where it
can be vindicated only by his destruction,
and the Whig is right in implicitly de-
nouncing that position as without either pa
triotism or principle.
Year: 1874

Is IT NOT about time to have an end OF
this Beecher scandal, or Beecher SORROW, "
as some of the New York journals in
the interest Of Mr.. Beecher term itH
So far as we are able to judge we can see
no reason whatever to justify the course Of
Tilton If 1t was matter which at all in
teresLed the public he should have made
his exposure long ago. We have always
entertained a high respect for Mr.. Beecher,
but in this matter there is evidently skele-
ton in the closet. However, we cannot see
much good in exposing it now. The cause
of morality and of religion has been done
infinite harm in the whole affair, and the
sooner Tilton and his friends stop stirring
it up and the newspapers cease writing
about it the better.
Year: 1874

Mr.. LoNsFELLow, we are assured upon good
authority, intends to write the life OF the late
Mr.. Sumner. We are glad that the work Is to
be undertaken by one so thoroughly capable Of
doing it as it should be done. Who so fit to
write the story of the man whose lie was in
MANY yyays a Doem as q poeti
Year: 1874

LOSNESAsy N M sept 10, 10 4.
To the Editor Of the Star;


Will you afford me little space in YOUR psp7r
to offer few words of advice to the young men
of the east who are afflicted with western fever,
or, in other words, who contemplate seeking
speedy fortunes in the far west. Will premise
by saying that the advice comes from one who
has traversed nearly the whole country from the
Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, aud whose eyes
have ever been open to the most CAREFUL scruti-
ny aud close observation, and believe can
say without danger, where known, of being
charged with egotism, that there has been no
lack OF energy or perseverance on my part. In
nearly every large western city 1 have found a
foating mass OF transient young men seeking
situations, most of whom seem to have started
west win barely money enough to pay their pas
sage and the necefsary expenses of a few weeks,
relying solely upon obtaining lucrative sItua-
tion as clerk, bookkeePer, or some other posi-
ZION IN which they could lead sedentaly and
easy life, and at the same time accumulate
money. The re 1ult, in nine ce ses out of every
ten (ss judicious person would anticipate), Is
sad disappointment, which frequently lel1s to
the most serious consequences.


will here allude TO one city alone, which is
but the true counterpart of several others that
have visited, viz: San Francisco, California. i
spent nt arly two years In that city, and venture
to say that there was no time during this period
that there were not ten thousand young men In
the city without employment or any visible
means OF support, many of whom were fully
competent to fill creditably and efficiently
almost any position from a hotel porter to that





ing-house. L met a number of young men who
had received the most liberal collegiate educa-
uon; but who, after exhausting every effort to
secure suitable situation were Offering their
services in any capacity without other compen-
satiOn than theIr beard.


Without sufficient capital to embark success.
fully in business, no young man should venture
west unless he Is prepared physically and has
the disposition to obtain his bread by the sweat
Of his brow. If destitute of the above all
essential elements, he is almost certain to fail,
a str Rnt1
to the young man with strong arm and stout
heart, with will and the muscle to overcome
all obstacles that may arise to impede honest
industry, my advice is, come west but shun
large cities, which in nearly every instance you
Will find surfeited with idle thousands who have
not where to lay their heads, and every avenue
Of industry closed against your honest endea-
yor.


There are millions of broad and fertile acres
awaiting development by the strong arm of the
sturdy emigrent, while the idle and unprodu-
ing class in the cities and towns are constantly
clogging the wheels Of industry and ENTERPRISE


WESTERN FARMER.
Year: 1874

OUR fellow citizens of Mexi- can birth celebrated the anniver- sary of Mexican Independence last Wednesday, the 18th. The young men were so ardent to commence the celebration that they began firing anvils about sun-down the day before, and kept it up pretty lively most of the night, so that when the an- niversary dawned their powder was about all gone and there was very little firing during the day. At night a fac ball was given at the house of Jesus RedOud0.
Year: 1874

JUDGE DEFOREsT PORTER and wife came down the river on the cocopah, which arrived here Thursday morning. Their many friends are glad to see them home again. Both the Judge and wife are recovering fast from the in. juries received st the time of their recent upset near Prescott.
Year: 1874

OUR enterprising citizens are doing a vast amount of work in repairing Gila street, which was gutted out by the flood last spring. Wagons drays and carts are de posting thousands of loads of rock and gravel and if the work is kept up that street will soon be in a much better condition than it ever was. Frank Townsend is superintendent of this work.
Year: 1874

At High Falls, New York, the other day, a young lady, while crossing a field was knock ed down by a ram, and the next time the damaged damsel saw her lover she informed that astOnished youth that he might go about his business, as she was disgusted with the sex.
Year: 1874

OUR excellent and liberal mer.

 cantiIe friend Henry s. Fitzgerald, Esq, presented us the other day

 with a demiohn filled with the

 finest "ladies crusade" that we have tasted lately. It is good to have on hand in case of snake or other reptile bites. It is also good to have when a weary friend calls to pay his subscription and other little things. The other day our foreman found very large scor- pion under the press. It didn't bite or sting, but there is no knowing what it. would have done if the crusade" had not been on hand. As it was, it just went
Year: 1874

GODS WORK GOES ON.-It is not ontiona,
win you, my friend, whether you shall live on
a redeemed earth, and in times ON which the
ends OF the age are come ; it is only optional
WIN you how you shall live here II cannot
be with you as if your Saviour had not sancti.
ned the world with his feet and sweetened Ire
air with his charity, and judge it by his cross


These supernatural facts are a part of the o..
tate you occupy. Neither your ingrattude nor
the accountability they bind upon YOU Your
indifference may. blind your eyes OF paralyze
your limbs; it does not slide you oat M of T ihe he
range of the Medatorial ministry, or Of the
reckoning that must follow it. In anv case


therefore, the scale of your choice does moi
hang evenly balanced. Your right decision is
already weighted with the coming of the Son
oi Man. The way of life has his light upon il.
Choose ye this day whether you will serve, in
joy, the Master Of the house, or turn your bacL
upon it and upon Him If you have wandere a
some distance away, turn you, for your place is
kept for you, and you are yet within lie bor-
ders of the Kings country !! Ifyou have fallen
into slumber OF unconcern, awake and arise
and Christ shall give you lieht!-BisLop HINT
tngaon.
Year: 1874

DGA1Sh WI S<AoAA@


The country around Beechwocd
Castle is a dead level, and underly-
ing the thin crust of sandy soil are
rich beds of mari, which the plow
stirs up to mingle kindly with the
surface and make the grass grow
rank and green for the steers and
heifers who stand in it knee deep
and contented; and


The BEECH TREES,


which love the Iiny soil, tell in their
tall, smooth barked trunks, their
great outspread branches, and their
close grown leaves, how wide and
how deep their roots have struck in
to the nourishing soil below.


There are no other trees than
beeches in this tract of country, but
no one who knows the true beauty
and variety of this tree where it
grows to perfection would regret
this. They were here of every age
and kind; there were sapling trees,
feathering their branches gracefully
to the earth, like the wide spread
wings of some great bird; there were
great forest giants, round whose
huge trunks men walked admiringly
and whose boughs held aloft, in
Summertime, clouds of green leaves,
and looked like great ships sailing
under press of canvass; and there
were the ancient moss-coyered trees
most beautiful of all-with lichen
stained trunks, with fern growing
in the clefts and crannies of the
wood, and on their smooth bark a
hundred names written of lovers
dead and gone long generations ago
trees that, shorn by time of half
their branches, still put forth their
delicate green LEAKAGE in Spring. and
changed it to red and gold in the
Autumn. The whole district was a
forest of these trees, known as Beech
wood, and the great house set in
the midst oft was


BEEoHwooD CASTLE, .
where lived Sir Philip and Lady
Sandon, and Miss Eugenia Sandon,
their only child.


Beechwood Castle was in name
and in fact real medieval castle,
with moat, turret, and projecting
bartizans, and Sir Philip Sandon was
a man worthy to have inherited
such monument of the old time.
If every individual of the genera
tions of men through whose hands
the tenements built in ancient days
have come to us had preserved his
precious heirlooms as Sir Philip had
done, the England of to-day would be
full of buildings erected by men who
knew the art of building churches,
houses, and halls as we shall never
know it.


Sir Philipshad been at pains to re-
store his house to the pristine con-
dition. He had thrown down a wing
added in the Elizabethan period; he
had, with less hesitation, removed
an Italian portico of later date, and
with zeal of an iconoclast he had
ruthlessly demolished hideous ia
cade which bad defacedIoHe side of
the house since the time of the Sc.
cond George. The same tasteless
period had filed in the moat; he
cleared it out, and could with diff
ficulty be induced not to replenish it
with stagnant water.


The house now stood as it stood in


THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY,


when it was built-a dwelling house
and a strong hold. Every stone was
as the medieval builders had left it.
Year: 1874

The most oconothical governor in
the Union is the governor Of Wis'
cousin. The chief jus ice Of that
commonwealth rendered decision
some weeks ugo, in the railroad
cases, which vas thought the most
important decision that wns ever
rendered In that state. But the
governor sent message to the chief
justice requesting him to out down
his opiuion TO about oBe.third or
on, half it present length, because
it will cost too much TO print it.
Year: 1874

Halfway acros>-this vast, sandy plain
| two or three specks were visible, which I,
our guide Informs US, were salt lakes al
so, that it was from the shores of these
lakes that the Spanards formerly pro-
cured their salt, and even the present in
habitants of the territory used it to large
extent. II said that ia close proximity
to these lakes was a very peculiar sand
stone formation, well worth seeing and,
as all were but few miles distant from
our direct route, we determined to visit
them. Bringing our glasses to bear up
on that portion of the plain pointed out
by our guide, we saw what seemed to US
to be large city, with its spires, and
domes, and towers glittering 10 the bright
sunlight, and rivalling in splendor even
the creations of the genii conjured by
"Aladdin's wonderful lamp"


But We must not liuger longer admis-
ing the wonderful panorama spread out
before US, or we shall fail to reach the
wood and water level before ni.htfall.
We therefore dedcensed the mountsir,
and are once more upon the plain.


Upon reaching beautiful little stream
that comes trickling down the sides of
rocky, cannon, we encamp for the night.


Sunrise again finds US on our journey,
and after hard days jaunt over the
same unchaugeable plain, night brought
us to the first of the lakes whose blue wa
ters had so enchanted US the day pre-
viOus Its shores were white with pure,
crystallized salt, aud we were told by our
guide that cdrettS full were carried away
every year, in its natural state.


The next morning the guide called US
to behold the wonderful effect Of the ris-
ing sun upon the city of enchantment
that We had seen from the mountain the
day before. As We approached this mar
velous architecture of the elements, We
could not repress exclamations, of wonder
and delight. Streets were plainly visible;
massive temples with their spires and
domes monuments of every conceivable
shape castles Of huge proportions tow
ers and minarets, all formed Of pure white
silica, which glittered in the bright sun
light like walls Of crystal. 1t was hard
to persuade ourselves that art had no part
in forming these graceful testimonials to
the wonders of nature.


Surely said DR.. Parker, "that must
be city"


Yes" replied [, IA city, but not made
with hands"


Around the whole was massive wall
ten feet in hight, with arched gate ways
and entrances as perfect as it is possible
for the Imagination Of man to conceive.
Entering the confines of this magical spot,
we were soon undeceived for what in the
distance our imag agination had conceived
to be enchanted ground, was, in reality,
mass of white sandstone, worn by the
winds and waters into wonderful simli-
tude OF magnificent city.