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Year: 1874

" l think" said fellow, Il should
make good member of the Legislature
for use their language. l received two
bills short time since, with requests for
immediate payment; the one l ordered
to be laid on the table, and the other to
be read that day six months.
Year: 1874

TUESDAY Oct. 20-P VI.


Nearly the entire list Of speculative stocks shows
decline of to 2. from the closing quotations Of
yesterday on business not at all remarkable for its
volume but noteworthy for the extraordinary ef-
forts made to break down prices The whole artil-
lery of the shorts to have been directed at the
Lake Shore shares, though others brought
down in the expectation that this leading speciality
would follow in their train, but it to possess
the quality OF stubbornness in degree 1t hardly
ever received so severe pommeling as was admin
istered to it during the earlier hours of business to-
day. and the quotation advanced in the very face OF


it. When left to itself however, as il finally was. it
gracefully receded from s0i the highest price Of the
day, to 79I, the final quotation at the close. The
of waiting, and OF hoping apparently against hope,
bought in his short stock betimes in the morning,
may have helped to sustain the price. Erie, which
was the subject of the usual coquetng between the
various markets Of the world in which il is dealt,
maintained itself here generally at 80, but was
with view, doubtless, TO influencing to-
monow's opening price IN London. which
Will reach of course before the beginning Of our
operations. The manipulators are probably accumu


lating stock slowly; but to do so without marking
up the price requires q vast deal of tact and indus


try. much telegaphug hither and thither. and an
expenditure of money that makes theirs q rather
rugged path. If. however. they accomplish their
alleged object the probabilities are that the game
Year: 1874

Money was in very good supply at ~ per cent
most of the day; toward the close better demand
sprung up. and the rate advanced to per cent
Discounts are unchanged.


Government bonds dull but strong at q
further advance in some issues The following were
Year: 1874

taxes. So a man may be patriot whose eye
has never mOistened at the sight of the flag,
although Gen. Hawley thinks he is to be
pitied. A man might refuse to lend a red
eyed hummer dollar to drink to the memory
of his mother, or if his resources were limited
might decline to borrow q dollar himself for
the same purpose. without being open to the
charge of flial ingratitude.


Oratory, rhetoric, sentiment. are well enough
in their place, but they do not take mp notes
or pay debts The answer to all of it in this
case is simple, and it ought to be final" We
"cannot afford it, The defeat of,the appli-
cation for Government aid should be cOnsid-
cred as the end of that matter. There should
be no more hinging of hard words or indlg-
nant rhetoric at the opponents of the meas
ure. What is needed now is a determination
to carry out the plan independently OF Gov
ernment aid and to enlist friends for the en-
terprise rather than incense against 1T those
who differ with the projectors upon this sub
ordinate question. The people will sympa-
thize more heartily and assist more cordially
if the assurance can be given that no further
effort will be made to make the Exposition
burden upon the National Treasury.
Year: 1874

III. ohout the qualifications of candidates.
No one, for instance, could accept what Is
called an imperative mandate-that Is, the
candidate cannot pledge himself In advance
to sustain this or that course OF conduct or
nolicy II he does so, the Chamber Is pounu
70 annul his election. II is hard to conceive
of 40 scnselcss proposition. IL w0ulu shub
ont of politics all men OF pronounced con-
victions. The only explanation which can
bo made of it Is that the BrOge candi-
dotos. during the last year, have rarely ever
made a clear declaration of their principles or
nurposes, while the Republicans have never
failed to pledge themselves frankly to
the support of the Republican policy.
The BOnapartists, in some cases have done
the same, and also ono or two Legitimsts.
The purbind members of the Commission
seem TO have come to the conclusion that
their defeats were owing to this difference In
practice, and therefore have resolved to abol-


sh the difference by law. At all events, the
clause has aroused the most violent opposition
on both sides of the Chamber, as well among
those who stand by the Republic as among
those who honestly and frankly desire the
restoration of the BOurbOns. The age OF
eligibility, thirty years, does not seem to meet
with much objection, although such pro-
vision would have deprived England of some
of the most glorious days in the life OF Pitt;
and if to command an army requires as much
wisdom as to sit on bench at Versailles,
similar restriction would have erased many
of Napolcon's victories from the history OF
France. But it is when the Commission
comes to define the eligibility of candidates in
respect to residence that the play of personal


interests becomes really comic. Heretofore,
anybody has been eligible anywhere. without
regard to domicilc. Any clever man in Paris
was sure of seat somewhere, and popular
personages, in general elections, were usually
chosen by several districts, from which they
could elect at their pleasure the constituency
they preferred. This plan has both its adj
yantages and its drawbacks, and much could
be said in favor of retaining or abolishlng 1T.
But the Commission could not make up their
minds to do either. They evidently wanted
some freedom of choice themselves in future
elections, and so, while pretending to do away
with the present system, they have given a
whimsical latitude to candidates. They can,
by the proposed law, stand for the district
where they live, where they were born, where
they pay taxes, or where they have held
office. This ought surely to give room and
verge enough for the whole FaubOurg st.
Germain But in fact, as it is reported, the
aristocrats of the Right are as ill-pleased as
the radicals of the Left, and it may be that
the coming debate will result in the overthrow
of the Ministry by the very measure which
was expected to keep them in place.
Year: 1874

The decision of the President in the Arkan-
sas case is what must have been anticipated
by every one who has given any attention to
the legal question involved in it. Gen. Grant
as not thought it his duty to examine the
alleged frauds in counting tho returns Of the
election. The State Constitution has estab-
lishcd tribunal for the settlement of issues
of that kind, and this tribunal has pronounced
in favor of Mr.. Baxter. When the President
had ascertaned that Baxter was regularly
declared elected by the final authority compe-
tent to decide whether he was elected or not,
he had no business to inquire any further.
Recognition followed as a matter OF course.
The opinion of the Att0rney-Gcneral sweeps
away with bold hand great many
sophistries and msstatements with which
the adherents of Mr.. Brooks have be-
logged the issue, and puts the case in
very clear and :satisfactory light. 1t
seems to us that tho decision has
been unnecessarily and unwiscly prolonged.
AS soon as the Governor of the state applied
for assistance to put down domestic violence,
alleging that the Legislature could not then
be convened, it became the duty OF the Presl-
dent to act, provided the emergency was
pressing. The President has waited however
nearly month, during which time Arkansas
has been in condition OF civil war, number
of persons have been killed, and the Supreme
Court of the State has lost what character it
may have previously possessed. 1t was not
right either to expose Arkansas to the daily
danger of q bloody pitched battle, or TO
submit the fragile virtue of the bench to
| perils which have proved its ruin. The orders
to the federal troops at Little Rock to prevent
bloodshed were abortive; and Col. Rose only
succeeded in Obstructing the lawful Governor
in the discharge of his duty, without mate
rally hndering the indulgence OF anybody's
| taste for fighting.


| But it is useless to complain now Of delay
for which there may have been stronger rea-
sons than we are able to perceive and which
| at any rate has been employed in careful
and apparently impartial hearing of the argu-
| ments on both sides of the controversy. 1t IS
of vastly moro consequence that the JudS-
ment should be sound than swift. We can
hardly congratulate anybody on the result 4;
for neither party is entitled to a particle of
sympathy, and neither has pursued the quarrel
with much respect for decency or law. 1t Is
better, however, that Baxter should remain III
an Office to which he was not selected than
that he should be turned out by an illegal
process. The Attorney General well says that
"it would be disastrous to allow the proceed
"ings by which Brooks obtained possession
" of the office to be drawn into precedent {;
" there is not State in the Union IN which
"they would not produce "a conflict and proba-
" bly, bloodshed."
Year: 1874

TIE PROPOSED FRENCH ELECUON LAW


1t is reported from Paris that there is
probability of breach between the Ministry
of Marshal MacMahon and their supporters of
the extreme Right, in relation to the new
electoral law which the Commission of Thirty
some weeks ago completed and submitted to
the Chamber. There is some likelihood
that the issue may be made promptly, as
NJ. de BrOglie desires the immediate con-
sideratiOn of the subject If any considerable
number of the Conservative Deputies unite
with the Left in demanding postponement,
the Government will be defeated and reOr-
ganizatiOn of the Cabinet may become neces-
sary 1t is doubtless in reference TO some such
contingency that the Premier insists upon
bringing before the Chamber his plan for the
construction of an Upper House, charged with
the power of checking q recalcitrant AS
sembly, or even of terminating its exist.
ence. This news, although not generally ex-
pected, is not at all improbable or unnatural.
From the time when the Commission of
Thirty was created it has been seen that its
duty was of the most difficult char
acter, as it was required by the
majority to bring in bill FOL-. which
should favor the Conservatives in future
elections, without Outraging the public senti-
ment by an open mutilatiOn Of universal
suffrage. Since it was formed, the majority
have been made still more nervous and un-
easy by the successive defeats the reactionary
cause has met at the hands of the Republican
voters. Every one of these disastrous elections
has increased the difficulties and dangers in
@J,o II L..
every day more important to do something to
stay the progress of Republican success, and
every day the task has grown more critical
and hazardous The stronger the opposition
grows the less easy to muzzle it becomes. 1t
was therefore hardly to be expected that any
plan the Commission should present would be
satisfactory even to the majority, and the
energetic opposition of the Left was of course
counted upon.


When the report was at last presented, it
was even less satisfactory than most people
had anticipated 1t was absurdly cumbrous in
its provisions, bringing into exercise at every
step the judicial, administrative, and execu-
tive departments of the Government. 1t be-
trayed in every clause the anxious preOccupa-
tions of politicians, rather than the common
sense of men who were trying to make laws
for the good of the country. 1t fixed the
electoral age at 25 years, because it was known
that young men are inclined to be radical. 1t
required three years. residence in a commune
so as to prevent thousands of skilled artisans
who are generally Republicans, from voting, as
this class change their residence much Oftener
than the well-to-do tradesmen and peasants
At the same time it admitted to the polls all
functionaries of the Government past and
present, all priests and clergymen of sects
recognized by law, without regard to the
length of time during which they may have
had their residence in the voting district


But there WAS something still more objection.
Year: 1874

held any Office for a Ions time. What they
want is some little grips AID passwords and
things, that will let enough persons into tho
Democratic party to furnish these patient per-
sons with offices. And yet no doubt there arc
people who jeer at the whole proceeding.
Human nature Is Just so low and ridiculous.
Year: 1874

The condition of the iron industry, as shown
on another page of THE TRIBUNE, continues
very unsatisfactory and is causing consider
able loss to the work people in the iron re-
gions, as we'll as to those who depend on them
for livelihood. The ironmasters deserve wen
of the country, and ought not to suffer for the
enterprise they have displayed in making
traffic for the railroads, and increasing the
general prosperity of the nation.
Year: 1874

Americans bound across the Atlantic will
find some pleasant personal gossip, of season.
able interest to them, in a London letter
printed on our third page. The Summer exo-
dus has fairly begun, and we give here the
first echoes of its arrival over the seas.
Year: 1874

THR particulars Of a stupendous scheme
Of robbery are given in the dispatches this
morning. It reads like story OF the
Arabian Nights and we are almost led to
fancy the return of the Forty Thieves, re.
inforced by numerous posterity, and
more powerfully organized than ever
they were in the days OF romance.
Year: 1874

The Bellaire Furnace Is nearly ready
for blowing in again. The interruption
has been longer aud more serious than
the company originally estimated. They
expect to "draw it mild" this time. The
Benwood Furnace Is still blowing a very
moderate blast,
Year: 1874

The agricultural interests of Arizona will, we believe, receive far greater atten- ton than now at no very distant day. Will not some of our readers there send us some information with regard to the agricultural resources of that Territory, and what is now being done there in this direction? In this connection we are pleased to give a few extracts from letter recently written by a very worthy citizen, now residing there, to MT. Daniel lmman, Master of LivermOre Grange Alameda county.

 The above was taken from The Rural Press of San Francisco. THE CITIZEN is regularly sent to The Rural Press, and nearly every number of it contains much moro information regarding the agricul- tural interests of Arizona than the letter it publishes, and yet we have vainly watched for years to see some of our mat ter or of the other Territorial papers in that journal. The Press conveys the idea that it has no means of knowing anything about Arizona's capacity for farm pro- ducts, and yet for about three years THE CITIZEN has been regularly mailed to it, and very often the general as well as spe- cial yields of crops in Arizona; the various kinds of grains, vegetables, fruits, etc, which flourish herein; the abundance of pasturage and favorable climate for stock; as well as other relative facts, have been set forth in its columns. If The Press examine it's Arizona exchange or ex- changes, and note all that is said about the productiveness of our soil and the abundance of products grown, it will not have to depend upon letters in such roundabout way for any and all the in formation it needs 90 a full understanding of the subject under consideration.
Year: 1874

prietress of a diminutive incipient sheep, whose outer covering was as devoid of color as cOngenial atmospheric vapor, and to all localities to which Mary peram bulat- ed her young SOuthdOWn was sure to fol- low. It tagged her to the diSpenSary of learning one diurnal section Oftime, which was contrary to all precedent, and excited the cachinations of the seminary attend ants when they perceived the presence of young mutton at the establishment of instruction. Consequently the preceptOr expelled him from the interior, but he con tinued to roam in the immediate vicinity, and remained in the neighbOrhoOd with put fretfulness until Mary once more be- eame visible.
Year: 1874

s. W, CARPENTER was awarded the con- tract for carrying the mail weekly, be- tween Tucson and Tubac at SIT per an- nun, distance sixty miles. We have not heard of any one seeking to sublet it from him, nor do we know that he is disposed to part with any portion of good thing. still he ought not to be selfish when there are so many poor people that he could as- sist by coming to divide. It is the opin- ion of many that all they have to do to get on the road to fortune is to obtain contract, If this be true, then Carpenter is all right, for he has surely got con- tract. ftT3H lsss
Year: 1874

the use Of federal troops in searching for the two
Judges, but the President declined TO let them De
used for that purpose.


Considerable activity prevails on both sides to.
ters headquarters, and general military air per-
vades everything.
Year: 1874

Tomorrow, according to ADVERTISE
ment, large amount of property is
advertised to be sold for City taxes.
Do we ask too much af the Board of
Aldermen to postpone the forcible col
lection of this tax? We are we'll awal e
that the City needs money, but this
very fact arises from the monetary
crisis through which this immediate
section is now passing. The tightness
of money in the ve1y height of the
crisis last Fall and Winter, is nothing
to that which now exists. Indeed, We
may say truly, that the present bust
ness depression is without parallel
since the war.


Upon these grounds we ask, in all
sincerity, the Board of Aldermen
to take some steps looking to a
postponement of the sale of prop
erty for taxes. The people need
relief, and surely the City is bet
ter able to extend the time of payment,
than are the people to meet the tax.
Many of them cannot do it, and their
property must needs be sold.


And we desire also to appeal to the
County Commissioners in this same
behalf. Tho postponement of the col
lection of County taxes should also be
postponed, SO that our citizens can pay
in instalments. Last year the Legis-
lature postponed the collection OF the
State tax, and will doubtless do SO
again. If people ever needed relief
ours do now, and having the power,
our officials ought to extend it to them.


If property is sold, the owner must
pay twenty-five per cent in order to
have it restored and, besides. many CT
them, unacquainted with the proper
forms, are compelled to employ law
yer to attend to it for them.


Under all these considerations we
earnestly appealto our City and County
officials to extend the time for the col
lection of taxes sufficiently long to af-
ford substantial relief to our over
burdened citizens. We hope they
will heed our appeal.
Year: 1874

We regret to learn that the distil-
lery and store house of Mr.. John r..
Jackson, situated within two miles of
Pennington, were entirely destroyed
by fire last Friday night. A brother
of Mr.. Jackson and another gentle
man were asleep in the store at the
time but knew nothing of the fire until
it was too late to save anything.


The fire was accidental, and is said
to have originated from fire left in the
furnace. There were about $50 barrels
of turpentine on the yard at the time,
and also a considerable quantity of
spirits of turpentine and rosin, no
shipments having been made for a
together with the distillery and the
contents of the store.


The loss foots up about $4,000, on
which we regret to learn that there
was no insurance.
Year: 1874

The Petersburg Iadcr-A1opeal says
Last week the order of the United


States Court, sitting at Richmond,
compelled certain registers of this city


to surrender to United States grand


jury the books of registration, of
which the State law makes them the


sworn and sole responsible custodians.


These registrars are State officers, ap-


pointed by the State courts, paid by
| the State, and made responsible for
any delinquency of duty to the State


authorities. One of the duties to
which they are sworn is to keep per-
sonal charge of their registration
books; and this duty they were COM
PEELED by process Of the Federal Court
last week to violate, although they en-
tened most solemn protest. The re-
suit is, the books have passed out of
their hands, and they are no more
able to certify to their correctness;
and they refuse most properly to be-
come responsible for any registration,
when the opportunity has been offered,
and perhaps improved, for the perpe-
tration of fraud and the corruption of
the record.


All this outrage on the dignity and
authority of the State of Virginia has
elapsed without protest, without even
ordinary newspaper notice, except on
part of the local press. The Governor
does not appear to have heard of it,
and the press OF the State has never
made any the least allusion to the out
rage, SO far as we are informed. The
people are really DISTINGUISHED by act
of Federal Court, and it is altogether
probable that the polls will not be
opened on the day when the rest of
the State will exercise the usual civic
rights. And yet there arises no voice
of remonstrance-there is offered no
word of objection!


To this degree of supine submission
has the country been reduced by the |
long infliction o. tyrannjcal rule and |
Year: 1874

ly, and that the heat was so intense


that the rails had become warped by


it. The Conductor, Engineer and


brakesmen, and all the male passen-
gers on board the train ct once went
vigorously into the business of fight
ing the fire and soon had it under
control. By this time workmen had
arrived on the spot and in an almost
incredibly short time the track was
again in order and the train passed
over safely, reaching the city two
hours behind schedule time. About
800 cords of wood were burned and it
is thought that it was set on fire.
Year: 1874

Judge Manly has written letter to
the Wilmington JOURNAL favoring n
restricted Convention. If restricted
Convention can be called, we would
like to see it. for in that we can over
come the objections that would be
offered, and would not be liable to the
misrepresentation that would be
made and which would probably de
feat an unrestricted Convention
GrCCnSOOrO Patriot
Year: 1874

Ere Near Dupl1n ~ hOaOs ahO nc.


tentiOn OF the Train.


The southern bound passenger train
on the Wilmington & Weldon Rail
road arrived here yesterday morning
two hours behind time, the detention
having been caused by the burning of
large lot of wood piled up On the
side of the track about miles south
of Duplin x Roads and about 80
miles above the city. As the train
approached that point the engineer
discovered the fire ahead and shut
down at once. The traiu was stopped
when it was ascertained that large
pile of pine wood ahead, probably
about 500 cords, was burning furious
Year: 1874

Mrs. Henry Wood, who has written some
Of the best novels Of the day, puts in the
mouth Of the hero of one Of her stories the
following admirable sentiments - senti-
ments which it would be well for all to aot
out in their daily lives: cpd rather do q
man A good turn than . bad one, be he
friend or enemy. That is the only way to
get on pleasantly in this life. 1t all comes
home to ue. If We SOW flowers we are re-
paid by the perfume; if we plant nettles
they will spring up and sting US. don't
believe man ever did the smallest kind
ness but it was in some way returned to
him. feel sure that for every injury a man
or woman inflicts On others a worse evil ia
returned"
Year: 1874

Coupons enjoined-that is the coupons on
the bonds of the State; but no injunction
will lie against the Louisiana Lottery, for
selling or paying the prizes in it's grand
single scheme drawing on the twenty fourth
of January