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Year: 1874

often seen him reclining, and fervently be-
sought the God of comfort and consolation
to endue me with wisdom and grace, that !
might have fitness to take up the work
which my dear father had so faithfully per-
formed, and that his mantle might fall upon
me, that 1 might be blessing to all who
should come under my sphere of usefulness.


1 had my aunt and sister with me, but not
to remain long, for my sister expected to be
the bride of one of my dearest college
friends, (who like myself had chosen the
church for his profession, and she was not
willing to be separated from the affectionate
aunt, who had from her infancy, so tenderly
cared for her; and 1 was engaged to the sister
of her lover. In time both marriages were
celebrated, and my aunt and sister were
taken to parish about thirty miles from my
own.


My home was one of sunshine, my dear
Mary's cheerful disposition endeared her to
all my people, and the little tendernesSes,
sweet loving words, cheerful spirit, sunshiny
face, looking upon the bright side of every
thing, keeping away gloom and dependency
from my heart, and thankful for the abund-
ance of Gods gifts. His love the greatest,
the conscious nearness of a living Saviour,
we rest our souls upon him, feeling that "all
things work together for good to them that
love God"
Year: 1874

BE SILENT.-It is a great art in the
Christian life to learn to be silent. Under
opposition, injuries, still be silent. 1t is
better to say nothing than to say it in an ex-
cited or angry manner, even if the occasion
should seem to Justify degree of anger
By remaining silent the mind is enabled to
collect itself, and to call upon God in the
secret aspirations of prayer. And thus you
will speak to the honor of your holy profes-
sion, as we'll as the good of those who have
injured you, when you speak from God.
Year: 1874

The following notice is to be
seen displayed at the corner Of
a street in New Orleans: Sen
tlemen are earnestly requested
not to fire off their reyolyers
near this corner, as the prOprie-
tor of the peanut stand is ner-
vous, and has double-barrelled
shot gun constantly on hand.
Year: 1874

A negro who lived near Mad
ison, Fla, went with his son to
watch for bears that had been eat
ing his corn. He told his son
to fire on whatever passed a GER
tain point, and the consequence
was the boy killed his father.
Year: 1874

A tiInid man wants to know
show 10 tell a mad dog We
don't know what he wants TO tell
him, but the safest way wOuld bo
to communicate with the dog in
writing. Send the letter from a
gun in the shape Of wadding, fol-
lowed by small shot to see If be
gets it.
Year: 1874

we are glad to learn that the prospect
for securing the whole subscription loan
of twenty-five thousand dollars TO the
Paducah road bTightens every day. II
is exceedingly important just at this
time, when our merchants are making
extra exertions for cotton and trade, that
g road so important as this should be
com pleteG as far as Hatchie river before
spring, and we renew our urgent en-
treaties that 10 that end the committee
nov ssking subscriptions meet with
hearty and prompt responses from our
citizens. Even though they made q
present OF twenty-five thousand dollars,
it would be a cheap purchase Of lucra-
tive trade that only needs the expendi-
ture Of that amount TO add over two
hundred thousand dollars TO our annual
receipts.
Year: 1874

AMONG several others Of minor i'm
portance the following canon wSs before
the Episcopal convention sitting in New
York yesterday, on the subject Of church
music: at shall be the duty Of every
minister OF this church, with such as
sistance as he can obtain from persons
skilled in music, to give orders concern
ing tunes to be sung at any time in his
church, and especially shall it be his du-
ty to suppress all light and unseemly
music, and sll indecency and irrever-
ence in performance by which vain and
ungodly persons prOfsne the service Of
the sanctuary"
Year: 1874

The Barbour County PEaindealsr,
whose motto at the outset Of its career
was ut shines for all" says that


"The Democratic party never has d.
Vided or disagreed as to the principles ol
the party"


II this remark is specimen of the kind
Of light that "shines for all" from the
pages of the RaindeaIer, we fear that
many Of It's readers will be found sitting
in darkness. Perhaps the editor will
specify some ol the "principles" upon
which the party is agreed at this present
writing. . ~


We have had an idea that tho Demo.
catic party, like the Republican organi-
zation, was pretty badly split up nova.
days. and that 1t had no principles in par.
ticular that any body knew ot. We should
like to see the man who could write out
a creed for the Democracy these days.
The fact is, the party never was more at
sea in lts lie; never knew SO little where
It stood on the questions Of the day.
Jspheth in search Of his father was not
more bewildered than arc the Democracy
at this present time in search OF their
Drincinles.
Year: 1874

built for in some other counties in the
State where the resources In the way al
lime stone do not exceed those Of Ohio
county.


The fact that the county Is not over
flush Of means Is no reason that she should
settle down in the sloughs Of country
mud out Of sheer despair over the fruit
lessness Of the past and conclude to do
nothing in the future, but It is the best Of
reasons that hereafter she should see that
every dollar counts for something perma.
nent. The city rightly aspires 70 be The
emporium Of her country domain. She
rightly looks to that domain as the legili.
mate source from which to draw her sup.
plies. The interest therefore Of both city
and county in good permanent highways
Is Identical. The city Is the heart, as in
the living body, and out Of It and into It
lead the great arteries Of business lie. II
these be not in good condition the little
scattered sprangling veins but feebly
nourisheither the body or tho heart.
Year: 1874

BY Our Old Employe.


Our former remarks upon the subject
Of county roads were based upon what
we learned to be their actual condition
from the written report OF the Chairman
of the Road Committee. We do not
know that we can add anything TO them
by way Of elucidation.


Mr.. Whitman, In his communication
Of last Tuesday, indicates that in times
past the efficiency OF our road manage
ment has been to great extent vitiated
by the want Of harmony prevailing
among the country people themselves as
to the location Of and necessity for Ger.
tain roads. No ono seems to have taken
the pains to investigate the subject with
q view Of determining the main lines, or
arteries of travel and the location Of them,
with reference to the general interests OF
the people Of the county. 1t would seem
that no such thing as an organized sys.
tenn Of road making has ever been con-
sidered by those who have had the man.
agement Of county roads.


The building Of roads has been too
much localized; there has been too much
Of mere neighborhood interest brought to
bear on the question, and, as Mr.. Whit
ham suggests, the majority Of the Super
vising Boards have been inclined to give
too much weight to views that were too
sectional in their character. We have no
doubt that during tho past ten years
much Of the pecuniary aid that has been
asked from the county has been merely
for the purpose Of opening new roads or
changing old ones to new locations, and
there has in all that time been little or no
attempt to put any Of tho roads In per-
msnent condition:


The legitimate result Is before us. No
roads that are above the midiocrc charac.
ter OF the newest settlements on tho very
outskirts Of civilization.


WHAT DO WE THIN WANT.


We want q system inaugurated that,
irrespective OF and without regard TO the
special interest Of any particular section
or neighborhood viii designate, and lay
out upon the best-and most economical
grade that can be determined by actual
survey, an adequate number (say four ol
roads permeatipg this county from end
TO end, radiating from the City Of Wheel
Ing, upon which there shall be 4 regular
and continuous expenditure Of the funds
appropriated by the county for said pur'
poses, until mile by mile they shall have
been made permanent highways.


the PUBLIC OPINION 3 +.
ofthis county must DO educated up to
this point must realize that In no other
way will the county ever secure q system
OF highways that will be credit to its
wealth and intelligence, or equSlize the
value oil It's landed estate.


ECONOMICAL PAVING,


In order 70 secure a permanent high
way, it not necessary that our county
roads, or rather the main lines Of which
we now speak, should be macadamized
the fall width OF the road way. Awidtt
Of ten feet is amply sufficient 10 accom-
modats the tonnage and travel upon any
road in Ohio county. 3. r 10 E0ltHI +


The Chairman Of tho Road Committee
from his general knowledge Of the county
ought 70 oeand no doubt is able to make
n calculation that wonl6 o,n.oi,, : ,,I,,.a-
innate the cost ofsuch width oI payipS


We know what such road can b
Year: 1874

God of the Israelite look down upon and bless
you, who are kind to poor old man, who has
not friend in the wide, wide world"


"Don't talk so much, old man, else will
forget to give you some nice sandwiches OF
mutton and white bread with your ale!''


"Mutton and white bread May your bed
be of roses hereafter! And may you have a
husband with more gold than you can count
in a year! Mutton and white bread, and q
mug of foaming ale-a dinner for king"


And thus muttering, the old Jew followed
closely at Ola's heels, until they reached the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, where her mistress oc-
cupied a magnificent suite of apartments.
Year: 1874

the floor and place it on the bed, when he
rang for assistance, and when the servants ap-
peared, he turned away-after the briefest ex-
planation of the deed as that of a maniac
and with shudder of horror moodily strobe
out of the house and on into the park attach
ed to the grounds, with his gloomy eyes bent
upon the earth, and his sinful heart gnawed
upon by the keenest remorse.


And so, like a drifting shadow, Gertrude's
spirit passed from earth. Death was prefera'
BILE to dishonor
Year: 1874




RUNNING FOR A FERRY-BoAT.-A New
York reporter relates scene of this sort which
came under his observation:


He was an Irishman, and when first seen
he was coming down Montague street, Brook
lyn, on his way to the Wall street ferry. Over
his port shoulder hunga bag containing about
bushel of potatoes, and in his starboard
hand he carried stout stick. Being under
full sail, the momentum acquired in coming
down the steep grade carried him nearly
through the gateway, when seeing boat ten
feet from the dock, he shook out another reef,
made an astonishing burst Of speed and jump
ed. Just as he reached the deck the potato
bag shifted heavily to port and laid out a
broad street clerk, who was smoking Henry
Clay through meerschaum holder; while
the stick hit rotund South street merchant
in the waistband, shutting him up like a jack
knife, and Pat himself assumed an involunta-
ry devotional attitude. He was the first to
recover his perpendicularity, and as he placed
the bag in its normal position he complacently
remarked, "Be jabbers, but I got the boat
anyhowW


"Got the boatw screamed he of Broad
street, splitting the pieces of amber out of his
mouth. "Why, you double blank idiot, this
boat is coming inW And so she was.
Year: 1874

To The EdtfOr or The Ift0Nne.


SIR: Your newspaper refers to the discovery
of rock in the North Atlantic by Italian captain Of


vessel in lat N, long coo 1S W. DO not believe
such rock exists for the reasons will give. Many
years since was preparing chart of the North Allan
tic for publication. 1 examined iuto tine reported
dangers of the ocean, and expuneed number, what


thought good authority, in the negnborhOod OF where
the captain thought he the rock Tns Is part of
the ocean where the Gulf Stream current almost ceases
not running knot per hour Any wreck which had
hoated in that direction would there and it would
be q long time before 1t would DRIFT out OF the way.
lerd you the Memoir which please return to zone of
the narrow minded blockheads o! the Union League
Club Of whom you speak this morning


Keir- York, Dec. Is, 1874 GEORGE W. BLUNT
Year: 1874

But this can always be said and, in fact. al
WAYS ia said. In like manner, whenever there
is a change of parties, the canals are found to
be scarcely navigable, requiring immense out
lays to put them in order. But we may safely
appeal to any disInterested citizen to decide on
the measure of economy which is shown by
the above facts and comparisons, of which Sena-
tor Conkling is the author and not The TRIB-
UNE. In ten years loss of one hundred thou
sand dollars on two years maintenance of the
prisons has been converted into loss OF
million dollars, and yet we are warned of the
danger of displacing the great reformers who
are spending every year one hundred million
dollars collected from the citizens of our State,
and every year drawing more and more of our
blood. The capitalists and laboring men begin
to feel little weak, but if they will cling to
the breed of reformers who now fill the Offices,
LET them be sure the said refOrmers will cling
to them until they sink into the dust from loss
of blood and breath.
Year: 1874

The ordinary citizen hurrying through the
squares in these late October days gives no
more heed to the whirling yellow maple leaves
blown across his path than to the whirling
dust, and turns from the frosty blaze over the
fall roofs at sunset to look at a cherry checked
schoolgirl going by. But Nixon, who returned
only month ago from his vacation to take
charge OF his city church, finds the burning
leaves and Indian Summer sky waken in him
a sort of hOmesickness for out of doors, woods
calenture. He takes two of the children, and.
under the pretense of "seeing the old folks"
runs up to the country village where he was
born. He is little tired of the heated dis
cussion among the members about the new
CARPET in the aises, and his soul is vexed and
angry within him at the squabblings of the
Episcopal Convention and the scandals in the
Plymouth and jersey City churches. (Iis own
flock are neither EpiscOpalians nor Presbyte-
rans.) He is appalled, at the amount of suf


fering coming in this hard Winter to the masses
of hungry, unemployed poor, and at the lux


ury and lack of sympathy among the rich that
crowd his front pews. He thinks of the old
innocent friendly life of his childhood in the
hill village, and fancies if he could escape to
its purer atmosphere and Arcadian simple
hearted people he would be strengthened for
the vice and vugarity of the city.


But the village disappOints HIM. He Is a
great man now: the Squire and the Doctor
and the Candidate for Congress from that
"deestrect" come to call on him, and call daily
and nightly thereafter Their voices are shrill
and stridulous They lay down the law upon
their county politics, and illustrate by nasty
Jokes, and close the matter up to begin it all
over again. The "Betseys and Annes and
"Elizas,n who were his old sweethearts in
those moonlit ewes of yOre, ask him to tea.
They wear black false fronts and gay caps,
and their talk Is of picking and corning beef,
with relish of the TiltOn scandal. Their
daughters come to call on his shy, soft-vOiced
little Lucy, and are gorgeous in the latest
"New-York styles" The people are Arcadian
and simple hearted, just as he thought them !;
Int the intolerance, the petty ambitions, the
crudeness and narrOwncss of ideas, TO which
he had been blind as boy, shock and appal
him. Presently he goes out into the old gar
den. II fills such q vast beautiful space in his
childhood 1t is, he sees now, but a narrow,
ill-cared for strip, 1S by 90 feet. But there
are the dusky rows of damsOn plum trees,
whose branches used to lie on the
ground heavy with the little purple
fruit; and there are the celery beds which
Ben called the Himalayan Mountains. That
was Just after they "went into" geography,
but before they were through the book Ben
died. He remembers how he could not cry
over the little white figure which they took
Liw to MS. lg w2pdsgiug bow they ever had
Year: 1874

REPCBLICANISM IN THE STATE CANVASS.


We have steadily maintained the high per-
sOnal character of both the distinguished can
didates for the GovernOrship of this State.
The Democrats probably now see that they
have only harmed themselves by questioning
the integrity of Gen. Dix. If the Administra-
tion party does not yet, it soon will see that it
has lost far more than it has gained by assail-
ing the honesty or loyalty of Mr.. Tilden.


But there is another point of similarity be-
tween the candidates which has hitherto had
less notice. Both, while sincerely and Loyalty
supporting the war for the Union, were OppO-
nents of the Republican party and of the ad-
ministratiOn of Abraham Lincoln. 1t was at one
time thought that Gen. Dix might be induced
to withdraw his opposition, and glittering
prize was held before him, but he promptly
put it away. He was asked ION the sugges-
ton, it was understood, of the President him
self if he would consent to have his name
associated with that of Mr.. Lincoln on the
ticket for 1864 as candidate for Vice Presi-
dent. He declined in the following letter:


NEwYORK 9th June. 1864.


DEAR SIR: From your intimatiOn to me at a recent
Interview and similar suggestions from other quarters
infer that may possibly be named as candidate for
the Vice Presidency In the Baltimore Convention and
owe 1t TO you well myself should such purpose be
manifested say that should feel constrained de-
cline the nomination If it were rendered to me.


have gwen unhesitating and Jealous support 10
the Administration in the conduct OF the war. shall
continue do the last But the close relation 10 il
which such a nomination involves would imply a con.
currence in its political measures, and there Is more
than one OF these measures TO which cannot give nv
assent without Inconsistency with my whole life I'm NV
military position there is no such embarrass ment and
need not say that every energy OF which capable
will be given 10 the support OF the Government who.
ever may administer it, till armed resistance TO its
authority is efectuay suppressed, and the Union of
the States reGstabshed (Sgned), JOHN A. DIX


ISAAC SHERMAN. esq.


1t is reasonable to infer from this that Gen.
Dix did not vote for President in whose
political policy he did not concur, and with
whom he was unwilling to so before the peo-
pie. 1t was not until Andrew Johnson was
President, and the Arm-in-Arm Convention
met in Philadelphia, that the General really
became q thorough-going and an Outspoken
supporter of the Administration.


TO those to whom Republicanism means
more than merely the party of spoils which
has been igrOwing rlotous since the close of
the war, we do not see that the personal
aspects of this canvass present much choice.
Both the candidates are excellent men,
either would make thoroughly safe
and good Governor. neither was a Repub-
lican before or during the war. What
original Republicans should do is question
which they must decide (without aid from
any differences in the position or character of
tho eandidatcs> according to their beat iqlg-
Year: 1874

Whatever enthusiastic Conservatives In New
Orleans may have thought about their chances
of fair vote i'm the coming election, nobody
at the North has probably imagined for a
moment that Mr.. Kellogg would surrender
any of the advantages which the scandalous
acts of his fraudulent Legislature placed in
his hands. The appointment of the abOrtive
Advisory Board was shallow pretense which
probably deceived hardly anybody outside of
New Orleans, and even the peaceful progress
of registration awakened no delusive hopes


We could not forget that the new election
law made Mr. Kellogg master of the situation,
and it was not possible to imagine that he
would step down and out until he had ex-
hausted his resources. The supervisors of
registration, all of them his appOintees, are
empowered to revise the lists after the enroll
ment is closed, and to strike out all names
which they Judge to be improperly recorded.
This power is purely arbitrary. The State
courts are forbidden, under penalties, from in
terfering in any way with its exercise. Hence
if the supervisor of registration sees fit to
disfranchise qualified voter, the law not
merely fails to provide any means Of redress
but actually fOrbids the injured citizen from
seeking his remedy before the proper tribunals.
We have never doubted that Kellogg would
make use of the despotic authority granted
him by this Act and we now see the process
by which he means to do it, His Attorney
General has prepared an opinion that all GER
tifcates of naturalization granted by the Sec
ond District Court of New-Oreans since 1864
are void, and the supervisors of registration
are to be instructed under this opinion to dis
franchise about 5000 voters. Whether AttOr-
ney General Field is right or wrong we need
not stop to inquire; but it is atrOciOus that
thousands OF fOreign-bOrn citizens should be
deprived of one of their most valuable privi-
leges on the mere opinion of single func-
tOnary who is their political opponent, with
out the judgment of any court, and without
even the privilege of appealing to court for
the examination of the law.


1t is question whether the action of the
supervisors in this case may not be reviewed
by the Federal courts and we trust the dis
franchised citizens will proceed to try cOnclu-
siOns with their adversary at once. The Ku-
Klux Act provides "that any person who,
"under color of any law, statute, ordinance,
regulation, custom, or usage OF any State,
"shall subject or cause to be subjected any
"person within the jurisdiction of the United
Estates to the deprivation.of any rights privi-
"leges, or immunities secured by the COnsti-
tuition of the United States shall be liable
= to the party injured in any action at law,
"suit in equity. or other proper proceeding for
redress" the proceedings to be prosecuted in
the District or Circuit Courts of the United
States. 1t would be a strange instance of
poetic justice if the very statute under which
the Carpet-bag governments have committed
so many wrongs should turn out to be an in
strument for their own destruction.