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Year: 1879

About hundred and fifty of Merchants.
Bankers Insurance and Business Men, in addition to
those whose orders have already been received have
promised their patronage in aid Of the
ILLUSTRATED VISITORS GUIDE TO


NEW ORLEANS


have spent many tbs and large Gums of money
on the enterprise and exceedingly anxious to bring
the book out therefore ask that you will delay
but promptly give your orders when called by my.
self or my agents. will not trouble you to send in
your ORDERS unless you feel disposed to do but
respectfully urge you to have your orders ready when
called upon.


Thankful for the liberal support given to my publi-
cations the past, promise that the ILLUSTRATED
GUIDE shall be a work worthy OF onr great city.


J. CURTIS WALDO, Publisher,
ia26 ct &c Camp street, Story Building.
Year: 1879

As charges have been made by the Citizsns'
Association that there are at least 1000 false
registrations, it is highly important that the
books should be carefully revised before the
election for the Constitutional Convention.
And this should be done under other officials
than those who conducted the registration.
Year: 1879

it would, in thirty days, add one third to the.
present membership; would tighten the
burden carried by business men, and in
every way would advance the cause of
Christianity to an unlimited extent.


In general sense, the effort to remove the
overplus population is one than which there
Is nothing more needed with reference to
the men and women to be moved or the
cities to be relieved. The Irish more than
any other foreign nationality flock to the
cities. The majority of them are unskilIed
iaborers; aud the result is an arduous strug-
gie Tor mere existence. Lack of employ
ment begets idleness and destitution, and
these are often but hating places on the
highway leading to crime. There is
much larger proportion of criminals among
this class than there would be were it placed
In more favorable localities, and surrounded
by less hostile circumstances. Perhaps ten
Germans go to farming where one Irishman
takes up the same pursuit; and the result is
that the average condition of the for
mer is largely in advance of the latter. The
distressing condition of 80 large an ele-
ment of our population would be remedied
at once were it transferred from the un-
healthful air and influences of city life to
the breezy and healthful country.


In view of these facts, intelligent people
will wish this Irish colonization scheme
most abundant success. Not only this, but
they will wish that others may be started
and be operated until million Irishmen.
now struggling and sometimes starving in
our great cities, shall be located on the
boundless prairies of the great Northwest.
Year: 1879

down with such eager thirst and such blind
rage that even the strong arm of sovereig7
power cannot always protect him from tho
avenging spirit that seeks his destruction.


But, when the producing causes of these
disturbing elements have passed away, the
facts can be examined into calmly, carefully
and justly. Then the errors and injustice
of the past can be retrieved. The man who
has been the unfortunate victim can be re-
stored to his good name and his rights.


You are called upon to review the proceed
ings of the court-martial in the aspect have
thus presented to you. If you should re-
verse their action, it involves no necessary
reflection upon the court or it's members.
You are but reviewing the action of a. court,
to ascertain whether their judgment was cor
rect or not, in view of all the light you have
upon these transactions. -,


Nor is this at all an unusual thing: for
there is not an appellate court in the land
which is not constantly reviewing the pro-
ceedings that have taken place in some court
below, where judges who are supposed to be
entirely free from partiality and from preju
dice, have yielded to influences


one KIND or another, and where
the appellate courts have been COM
PEELED to set aside their judgments,
either because they have been unable from
prejudice or partiality or bias to render a
correct judgment, or because they have made
mistake, without impairing, in the slightest


egree, confidence in the integrity and honor


the judge and court below. And want


distinctly understood that do not mean
y one word which I have said to impute to
ne court martial, or to the judge advocate
general who conducted this case, any want of
0r 1rofo +0o
upon their motives or conduct in the course
of the trial.


My whole effort has been to show that
they have been misled, and have fallen into
these errors chiefly by reason of the testi-
mony which was adduced before them; that
those errors are now manifest and clear; that
that record cannot be read without finding
them; and if you believe that, then it is your
duty so to find, and so inform the President
of the United States. If you come to that
conclusion-if you come to the conclusion
that they did make these mistakes s-if
you come to the conclusion that they did so,
either by reason of the testimony as it exist
ed before them or by reason of the testi-
mony which has been brought before YOU;
IN either event we feel that it is your duty,
under the circumstances, so to declare by
your finding, and to vindicate Gen. Porter
from the charges which were made against
him, which destroyed his name and his rep
utation at the time the trial took place. So
far as any further recommendation NAV be
concerned, have no suggestions to make
The only effort have made is to have the
facts so presented as to induce you by your
finding to restore Gen. Porter's name to
that page of history which, thus far, since
1862, has been blank; to restore it there
with the purity and integrity and the honor
for which he exerted himself as q soldier,
and Which he has always endeavored to
maintain as man.
Year: 1879

Hosv They "Established Meeicon Trade.


American Reporter.]


The party of e1cusionists who went down
to Mexico went to establish trade between
the two countries about as much as Noah
went up the mountain to take bath. They
went to have good time, and they had it.
Its manager needed money, and he made it
out of the excursionists. He had an eye to
trade himself, ard he came back Mexican
consul at Chicago. Some of the excursion
lists wanted business, but great many more
OF them wanted warm climate in cold
weather, a grand time at the expense of the
Mexican government, and plenty of Mexican
whisky. They got the warm weather
and the whisky, but all they got at the ex-
pense of the Mexican government you could
put in your eye. AS business undertaking,
the expedition was not even colossal fraud
it was very small humbug. To call it
''The American Industrial Deputation" was
enough to make an overworked Mexican
donkey smile. have before me list of
the e1cursionists; of the eighty persons en-
rolled can pick out at moments notice
forty-four persons who had no business
whatever, ostensibly or otherwise. Of the
remaining thirty six, not six actually went to
Mexico to extend their trade; and not four of
them actually did anything toward it. If they
had they would not have succeeded. The ex-
cursionists were after riches, and they found
them in half the old idols and decayed skulls
in the Mexican republic. I might mention
one of the party, who had no business at all,
who would not have hesitated to 20 into
a gentleman's house and ask for sample of
| his parlor carpet. This gentleman brought
home cargo of Aztec Indian skulls, and
enough roots and plants to set up second
hand botanical garden. Nothing could
satisfy his rapacity, and he was but little
worse than large majority of the party.
The unlucky Mexican who brought samples
of his wares to the principal hotels for ex-
hibition soon had to 60 back to his shop for
more samples. The excursionists always
met him half way, and always loaded them
selves down with the samples. Anything
! that was free was soon gathered in.
Many of the party were from
quiet rural Western towns, and were
getting their first taste of rubbing against
the outside world. They scattered their
satchels and bundles all over the republic
leaving one or two in every town the
stopped in. The man who did the mos


1ourishing business was chrome man
from Chicago, who sold cheap but gaudy
chromos at high prices, just as fast as the
Mexicans could make the change. The ex-
hibition in the college of mines, if it could
be looked upon seriously as an exhibit of
American wares, would be a standing dis
grace to the country. The goods exhibited
we're of the cheapest and most ordinary
kinds, and there were very few of them.
There is tenfold better display of American
goods in any pawnshop's sale store in the
Bowery than was exhibited in Mexico.
Year: 1879

At the hearings at the police cour
last Thursday evening two boys Zone o
whom was deaf were arraigned fol-
traspassing on the property of Mr..
Bush on Clayton street. The evidence
being sufficient to convict the boys were
required to pay 81 and cost each.


BENZ Lottman for being drunk and
disorderly was fined 81 and cost. An
other young man for being drunk was
fined SO cents and cost.


There were nineteen cases at the po-
lice court yesterday morning. They
were for being 1runk and disorderly.


Atthe hearing last evening two young
men were fined one dollar and cost
for fighting.


Amos Underwood, young mai from
the country was arrested yesterday af-
ternoOn by officer Mccormick. Amos had
been imbibing rather freely in the cup
which intoxicates and at the corner OF
Front and French streets he engaged
in a quarred with two other men. He
would not leave when ordered 30 to do,
and he gave the officer to understand
that he could not arrest him. This was
saying too much and Amos was landed
in the cells. A fine of so cents and cost
was imposed.


A little boy by the name of John
Hanigan vas arraigned on the charge
Of stealing bottle of tonic beer from
Antonio Cardinello, who keeps a fruit
stand at the corner of Fourth and Mar
ket streets. The boy legged hard to
be let off, and getting on his knees said
that he was innocent of the charge, and
told His Honor that if was ever brought
before him again that he could whip
him and kill him also. The beer was
stolen on Thursday and tho boy was
arrested on Friday without a warrant.
His Honor dismissed the case.
Year: 1879

Complaint was made to the City Treas.
nrer on Thursday last that the Collector
of Christiana Hundred still collected
taxes upen the bonds of the City of Will.
at least he got the tax upon
them from one lady. The law taxing
the city bonds was repealed by the last
Legislature. The assessment on the
city bonds however had been made by
the Assessors. The law taxing them
was not repealed until after the assess
ment was made.
Year: 1879

Not so fast my friend for if you would see
the strong, healthy, blooming men, women
and children that have been raised from beds
of sickness, suffering and almost DEATH by the
use OF Hop Bitters you would say Truth,
glorious truth" See Truths" in another
column.
Year: 1879

Does onr friend Bogie endorse
the Yhzoo democracy or does he
not. His readers "away mp here
in North Missouri would like
TO know.-Carrollton Record


The above paragraph appear.
ed at the close of an article
strongly condemning the shoot.
ing Of Dixon by Barksdale in va
ZOO county Mississippi, a few
weeks ago, ana as it calls for our
position on the question we will
give IL. II Dixou was killed by
a political opponent simply TO
get him out of the way, we do
not endorse the act, but think
that it was not only wrong, but
au outrage that honest men can
not too severely condemn. But
On the contrary, if Dixon was
killed for traducing the charac-
ter Of the mother and sisters Of
BarKsdale. IL was an. acffhat ev.
cry iover of virtue and female
purity should applaud. Anthem
tic reports from Yssoo county,
say that Dixon publicly traduced
and attempted to blacken the
character of Barksdale's mother
aud sisters for no other reason
than to bring about collision be-
tween himself and Barksdale,
whom he wanted 20 put out of
the way with his tDixon's) ever
ready pistol, as he had done 9TH
ers before. Suppose friend Tur'
uer that some candidate for OF.
iice in Carroll county should take
a dislike to you, and your man
ner OF treating him, aud should,
for revenge, publicly traduce and
attempt to hlacken the charac-
ter of your sister OF some fe-
male relation that is near and
dear to you, what would you dof
You would be u standing dis
grace to manhood If you did not
take n double barTelled shot gun
and shoot him down as you would
a wild beast. From the above
you can easily see how we stand
on the question of the killing.
But as to whether we endorse
the Yazoo democracy is another
question. We know nothing Of
the democracy in that section to
prevent our endorsing it.
Year: 1879

A new religious sect has
sprung up in Texas. 1t is called
the Tabernacle Of the coming
Lord" One of the principle ar
ticles of the faith is a belief that
Gen. Grant will be the next
President Of the United States
Several Republicans in this sec
tion are willing to join "a soor
as missionaries from the head
church arrive.
Year: 1879

England is greatly disturbed
on account Of the amount of gold
that has to be shipped to the U.
s. to pay the balance of trade
now in our favor. We are sell.
ing her more than we are buying
and she dou't like il at all.
Year: 1879

Tilden is beginning TO make q
great deal of noise over the
country and il is evident he is
trying TO get in bis work for a
democratic nomination in 1880.
We can support him but be is
not our cbolce.
Year: 1879

IF young ladies' attending church
would CIV. more attention to the mum
Der OF the hymn the pastor gives out
and not so much attention to the num-
Der OF hims that are In the church. they
they would not DO so ap, to sing one
hymn while the congregation are sing
ing another.
Year: 1879

The HERALDs exposures concerning the
dumpings of garbage into our harbor have
aroused the people of San Francisco to q
realization of the dangers which threaten
their own beautiful bay. The land upon
which San Francisco is situated Is largely
made of sand drifts whose very confgura-
tions show the constant action Of the in
tense sea breezes upon them. These heavy
breezes from the Pacific Ocean, during six
or more months Of the year, drive great
quantities Of sand through the streets and
over unoccupied land and toward the bay.
The wharves are affected by the driftipgs, and
the sweepings from them and from the
streets, to the amount of "millions Of cart
loads" in a year, are dumped into the
nearest waters. Much of that part of San
Francisco adjoining the bay and on which
the great commercial houses stand was
made of soil taken from the old sandhills
and from garbage carted from the western
part Of the city; and this encroachment
upon the bay has, in the opinion of San
Francisco people, had great effect in de-
creasing the power OF its current in carrying
the deposits out to the sen, with which
it is connected by tho Golden Gate.
The same breezes that during the
dry season drive sand through the
streets aid to drive sea sand into the
bay. The Sacramento River, flowing from
the east. continuously contributes its mud
to the Swallowing places. With the Pacific
and the Sacramento naturally tending to
decrease the depth of the bay the San Fran
cscans think that the one other source of
danger, the dumping of garbage and sand,
might be avoided. But, as the Alta Cdlifor-
MIA shows, the public authorities of San
Francisco are apathetic when appealed to
on the subject Those authorities are mere
politicians whose sole business seems to be
TO court the favor of the railroads to-day and
Of the communists tomorrow, Just % they
Year: 1879

bling or trebling the yield per acre of the


part he retained. But the whole estate
being tied up in entail for transmission to
future heirs, he can part with none of it,
even though it goes to waste for want of
capital to make it productive. He cannot
even mortgage it to raise money for
successful cultivation, since, having but
a life interest. he can pledge only that, and
the uncertainty of life makes that an inse-
cure basis for loans. This is the chief
reason why so much land in England is i'll
cultivated. A.3t. -


If primogeniture and entails were abol-
ished and the present possessor of land
were as free to part with it as he is to sell
his other property, and if the formal
tiles OF conveyance We're simplifed
and the heavy legal expenses of the
purchaser reduced, the agricultural prod
ucts of England might be doubled in the
course of one generation. Sales of land
for the purpose of procuring capital to i'm
prove the rest would bring in a numerous
body of small holders. and the great and
the small estates would be equally well cul-
tivated. Whether farms be large or small
is of comparatively little consequence.
The great thing is to remove obstructions
to liberal application to the soil.
Year: 1879

The specifications of the charges brought
against the management of the House Of
Refuge by Colonel Clay, the late assistant
superintendent, together with the cir
cumstances attending their presentation.
are given in full elsewhere. It must
not be considered that we accept
these charges as proven because they are
advanced, and we know nothing of the mo-
tives Of the gentleman in making them
beyond his own perfectly comprehensive
statement that the support of the
alleged abuses by those in authority
rendered his reformatory endeavors
nugatory, but the charges are so
grave as to demand full investigation.
Whatever hope or chance there is Of reform
ing the criminal classes is strongest in the
case Of the youthful and unhardened.
Any failure in the system. any short
coming, brutality or corruptness in
the management, must, therefore, be
doubly deplorable to society. Were one
only of the long list of charges
proven the instant change of the heads of
the institution would be imperative; with
all Of them sustained it would demand a
public reprobation of the offenders which
should mark them as q disgrace to hu-
manity. 1t is charged that the young
inmates are underfed; are overworked
for the benefit OF contractors are
brutally punished for trifing breaches
of discipline; are ill-clad are gov
erned by an ignorant Board, who rstain
brutal, intemperate, ignorant and immoral
persons in charge; are SO mixed as
to ages and degrees of criminal habit
that the bad are allowed to per-
vert the good; are ill-treated when
sick, and finally buried in unidentified
graves. without funeral services, when
dead. This is not the picture of a reform
atory institution that can be expected to
reform, and reform is that for which this
House OF Refuge was designed and tor
which the community pays.
Year: 1879

PLAIN WORDS IN RESPONSE TO AN INVITATION
FROM NORTH cARoLINA-A POSITION IN WHICH
HE WOULD BE OUT OF PLAcE--wHAT HH
THINKS OF THE SOLDIERS REUNION.


[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERAID.1


SALISBURY. N c.. Sept. 10. 1879.
In response to an invitation to attend proposed
grand reunion Of the survivors Of the federal and
Confederate armies to tako pace here ON the 23d OF
October next. General w. T. Sherman replies as fol-
lows:-


The time is too remote for me to make promise.
but assure you that 1t would be most agreeable to
me personally and socially to meet you any suit
able OCCASION There Is no use in my mincing terms.
Whenever and wherever the honest men Of North
Carolina meet to allay sectional and party anmosi
spect for their fellow citizens Of the United States
1t will be to me most tempting to come.
as before. with vast army leaving desolation be-
hind. But must not be construed as asserting to
the proposition that Confederate men and Union
men were alike worthy Of celebration Tor the ter
rible history Of l86l-GS. would much prefer to
come some civic occasion when all are absolutely
equal all alike interested in the present and future
glory Of our common country.


THE SURVIVING SOLDIERS.


There were very few Union soldiers In North
Carolina during the war. though believe the
people generally opposed to secession and war,
SO that your meeting. If confined to surviving
federate reunion, where would certainly be out of
place. All soldiers in their social reunions

will hardly be exception. and it., would
be strange sight for General Sherman to cheer the
victories Of his enemies and respond to the claim
that because the soldiers Of North Carolina were
brave and true to their State and section their
sacred ours. which finally triumphed aud
made our Union more glorious and more resplendont
than before We're present and you should sup.
press this natural feeling would feel myself An in
truder marring the natural happiness Of festive
occasion.


THE SOLDIER ELEMENT.


know that the soldier element wero tho first to
lay aside the angry partisan feelings of the war.
and are now leaders in the new epoch which 10 sure
to add wealth and prosperity to our whole country.
and when some occasion arises whom may all
meet common ground in North Carolina to cele-
brate some revolutionary event or to encourage
some modern enterprise. it will give me great
pleasure to come to Salisbury. to Raleigh. to Gull
ford Court House. or any other place In the old
North State.


GENERAL MERIDAx DEC11NEs.


Lieutenant General p H. Sheridan politely de-
clined invitation account OF other pressing
gagements, but warmly expressed himself In favor
Of the success of the movement The managers Of
the proposed reunion have extended invitations to
all the surviving officers and soldiers OF both armies
who choose to come. The reunion is to be solely
with view to reconciliation and harmony and has
no political significance.
Year: 1879

A namesake out in Ohio of him who
Illuminated against the Jews at Manhattan
Beach, and who also keeps, or rather kept,
citizens an intimation that he is not wanted
which it would be difficult to mis-
understand. The Corbin of Wester-
vile, Ohio, it seems, had been in
formed once before that his presence
was undesirable because he sold liquor as
we'll as kept hotel. They did not write
letters to the local press saying that his
absence would be boon; they did not call
on him and berate him for son of Belial,
but they otherwise and literally blew him
up. The explosive nature of their objec-
tions induced him to retire for q while,
but probably deeming it little pleas
antry he again returned and opened
his spirituous establishment. That there
was no joke concealed in the first can of
gunpowder is what is plainly implied in
the explosion of a second the other even
ing, which effectually demolished his hotel
and more or less demolished himself Here
is a method of dealing with the liquor
question which is startling as we'll as new.
Ohio, which Is SO celebrated for its '.ideas"
in other branches, became famous q few
years since for its temperance pray
ing bands, but the example of Wester-
villo is not encouraging in the
line of the ''prayer test" 1t looks as
though there we're sceptics of the Bob Inger-
soil stripe among the Buckeye teetotallers.
They seem, it is true, to have been success
full in removing the bar and the proprietor,
but their method cannot be recommended
for general use 1t is obviously the
Yazoo plan modified to suit the Ohio
case 1t will not do. In Mississippi the
Senators CON afford to be silent when
q man is murdered for political causes, and
that is the end of it; but in Ohio man
blown up can recover against the county
for himself and his gin mill. We ask the
Temperance men over the country not to be
misled by this latest ''Ohio idea," but to
cling to tho methods of Mathew, Cough
and Murphy rather than to those of Guy
Fawkes. That the mans name is Corbin
should make no difference.