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Year: 1874




Wuo IsA GENrLEMAN.-A gentleman
is a person not merely acquainted with
certain forms and etiquette OF lite, easy
and selfpossessed in society, able to
speak and act aud move in the world
awkwardness, and free from habits
which are vulgar and in bad taste. a
gentleman is something beyond this;
that which lies at tho root OF every
Christian virtue. 1t is the thoughtful
desire of doing in every instance what
others should do unto him. lie is con
stantly thinking, not indeed how he
may give pleasar1 to others for the
mere sense of pleasing, but how he may
avoid hurting their feelings When he
is in society he scrupulously ascertalns
the position and relations OF every one
with whom he comes i'll contact, that
he may give to each his due honor, bis
proper position. He studies how he
NAV avoid touching in conversation
upon any subject which may needlessly
hurt their feelings-how he may abstain
from any illusions which may call up
a disapreeable or offensive association,
4 gentleman never alludes to, never
even appears conscious of any defect.
bodily deformity, inferioIity OF talent
of rank, of reputation in the person in
whose society he is placed. lie never
assumes any superiority to himself
never ridcules, never sneers, never
boasts, never makes display OF his
own power, or rank, or advantages
such as is implied in habits or tricks,
or inclnations which may be offensive
TO others.
Year: 1874

or medium of exchange, is caus-
ing great diversity OF opinion at
the present time, 1t is the
most important and most difficult question
to dispose of, that has ever engaged the
attention of any nation. lnleed. 1t may
be termed the key to the science of govern
ment. The cause, however, OF the diver
sity of views Of the people now, think, is
that we are inclined to view this question
from our own standpoint, rather than as
the best general financial policy for the
nation to adopt--a policy which will equal
ly and Justly facilitate every interest, and
Justly discharge all of our obligations.


Those in debt desire imitation; they log
ically conclude that imitation means higher
prices for produce, and consequently, less
produce will pay their debt. While those
interested in the income, OF course, would
give their money more power.


The Independents, as L understand
them, desire to avoid either extreme, aud
are, therefore, iD favor of stable, un-
changing currency, that will do justice to
both debtor aud creditor, issued directly
from the Treasury; not IN an Unlimited
amount, but sufficient for healthful
transaction of the business OF the country,
but not so much as to distarO just stand
ard of values. Based upon all the gold
and silver, all the land, and every species
of property OF the whole nation, with the
faith Of the government stamped upon it,
which would give it all the functions which
mopey can possess. To question this, is
to question the validity Of the government.
Indeed, we believe that currency OF
this kind would be worth its face In gold
10 very short time. believe am safe
in saying that the Retormers would be
glad to know that it was possible to have a
currency based upon a gold basis, which
would be safe in any emergency. But the
experience of the past has been such that
tbey are fearful that TO adopt such policy


WOULD REpEAT THE DISASTERS


which have hitherto overtaken it, aud the


producers of the country would again sui.


fer in consequence OF an insuf1ciency ol


gold To redeem the outstanding liabilities


of banks thus based.


also believe that the Independents are
Year: 1874

in the interest OF the whole people, 10 such
way that every pursuit, or interest may
be protected and restored, so that tree
and independent nation may be maintained
and SO improved that it may be pointed
to by all the nations Of the earth as the
home Of the free aud the asylum OF labor.
Year: 1874

WETTING COAL A MIsTAkE.-It has
frequently. been maintained that wetting
coal Increaces the mount of hest given
out in combustion but careful inquiry
has shown first. that there is no increase
OF heat second, that a loss of heat always
follows addition of water, third, both the
amount of heat and tue temperature of
The fire are considerably deminished,
Year: 1874

Rather more than three hundred
years ago, Il ship partly laden with
green birds captured in the Canary
Islands, having been wrecked near
Elba, the birds made their escape,
flew to the island, and settled them
selves. Numbers Of them were caught
by the inhabitants, and OIL account OF
their sprightly vivacity and the brill
liancy of their voice they soon became
great favorites, and rapidly spread
over Europe. The original color of
the canary is not the bright yellow
with which its feathers are generally
tinted, but kind of dappled olive
green, black and yellow, either color
predominating according to circum-
stances. BY careful management the
bird fanciers are able to produce cana
ries of every tint between the three
colors, having instituted set of rules
by which the quality and arrange
ment of coloring is reduced to regu-
lar system. Still the original dappled
green is always apt to make its appear
ance and even when two colored birds
are mated, green one is pretty sure
| to be found in the nest. For my own
part care little for the artificial va
rieties produced by the bird fanciers,
and TO me an intelligent bird and a
good songster is not one whit the less
attractive because the colors of its
plumage are not arranged according to
! the fanCier'S rules.
Year: 1874

HayDes-all made speeches, which had


telling effect upon those present


Whilst Colonel Logwood was speaking


Major Sykes handed Radical ticket to


him, and when Colonel Logwood read
/ the nams OF Emerson Etberidge
/ on It, the impression produced vas very


percsptible. Men who had some Idea
Of voting for Eiheridge because be had
said be was no Radical and intended TO
vote for Young, so soon as they saw hir
name on the Rtdlesl ticket Immediately
abandoned him. The points made by


The speakers weYe clesF and strong, aud
Produced a fine effect. i is now thought
there will be no scratching OF tickets at
that box, and there should not be IN any
part Of the county. 1t was shown that
The railroads, which under Radical gov
eminent had cost the ate over twenty
million dollars, had been from the be-
ginning insOlvent, and the bonds had
been issued to them by the Radicals
when they were known TO be insslvent
These were the roads that were sold for
six million five hundred and ninety
eight thousand dollars, and which cost
the State nearly a million dollars each
year they were run. Colonel Logwood
made some strong points on Emerson
Etheridge and Robertson ToPp, which
told on the crowd. The views expressed
by the candidates on the subject Of re-
form were very acceptable. We wish
we had time to give full report Of the
speeches, but we have not, and must
content ourselves with this short and
imnerfeet notice.
Year: 1874

1t seems that we have not yet heard
the last of unhealthy watering places.
The Boston Journal says: The fact that
very large number Of persons who
have passed the summer at the White
Mountains have returned to their city
residences and are now suffering from
typhoid and slow fever is attracting at
sention and creating widespread alarm.
Year: 1874

search of items, when, to his surprise,
happening to glance up at an old ice
house hard by, whom should he spy on
the roof thereof but the same noble wo-
men who had wrestled with him in the
morning? They were peeping over the
walls of the tent and watching the cele-
brated equestrienne, Mile Rosalinda, in
her daring bareback act, and listening to
the sidesDlitting jokes Of the Shakspear-
can clown
Year: 1874

Last week a band Of noble women
called upon the editor of the paper pub
hshed at Salisbury, Nd, and pleaded
eloquently aud tearfully with him that
be should not in any way encourage the
circus people who we're then giving their
exhibition in the town Circuses were
wicked things, they said. They led to
immortality aud cost money, and kept
people out late at night and we're alto
eether things to be Stunned. There was
a matinee that afternoon, and the editor
was prospecting around the tent in
Year: 1874

Hotels.


There are number "t' first class
hardware, dry goods, drug. shoe and
grocery stores, and all the trade usually
found in thrifty city. 1t is said that
this city buys more wheat from teams
than any other city in the west. In
the year 1872 their receipts by wagons
and sleds were a little over two million
bushels the receipts of 1873 will ex-
ceed those of the former year at least
one half million bushels The money
paid for this wheat is nearly all retained
in the country, consequently there is no
scarcity ofmoney here as compared with
the Eastern States. I have not had
the opportunity of seeing more than .
small portion Of the country. but what
l have seen leads me to think it one o
the best wheat growing States We have
Great cities ar springing up all owe
the State. St. Paul and Minneapoli
comes first on the list. with many 9th
ers following close after, these growing
like magic.


The health Of the community canno
be better. This winter SO far has bee,
y delightful about four inches Of snow
and have had good sleighing for til
past six weeks. H. WATERS.


& a.
Year: 1874

The return of the Fourth of July is
anticipated with come degree OF dread
by staid housekeepers and by the Fire
Insurance Companies. We believe that
Independence Day has not beenrraper,
ly celebrated in this country for many
years past without the accidental burn
ing OF much valuable property in one
city or another, and the serious
wouudiug or death Of dozen or more
persons. We do not know that it will
accomplish any good, but still we must
utter to our readers in this city and
elsewhere word OF caution as to the
use OF firearms and fire works next
Saturday. The danger of accident is
greater than those concerns
ell are generally willing to
admit, and the precautions are
less than the danger demands. A few
years ago the city Of Portland, Maine,
was almost destroyed by fire kindled
by q Chinese cracker, and thousands OF
families were rendered homeless by the
careless sport OF the boys. Let US be
careful that no such disaster visits


Wheeling next Saturday.
Year: 1874

THE Bellaire Commercial, a thriving
weekly newspaper, is offered for sale
by Miss MARY HOOVER, the editress,
because she finds it impossible to give
10 it that personal attention which is
necessary 10 it's continued success. We
shall be sorry to part with Miss Hoov-
Ere sprightly pen, but when wo-
man Wills she will" YOU know, and
there is no help for it. Bellalre is
growing town and we doubt not that
the Commercial will prove an advan-
tsgeous investment to the right parties.
Year: 1874

TIE newly appointed Postmaster
General having declined to serve, there
are thousands Of obscure Republicans
throughout the country who are in
momeutsry danger and expectation OF
receiving the appointment. If there
be any member Of General GRANTS
military staff not already provided for
he may expect the place; or, possibly
the Ksuawbs Valley Of West Virginia
may yet furnish a cabinet officer. Who
knows
Year: 1874

Mr. EDWARD PIERRPoNr said at the
Vale Isw school semi-centennial: mo
government can prosperously endure
which in the main is not administered
BY the higher intellect and the higher
moral sentiments OF the people" This
is certainly true aud suggests some
serious reflections as to the present
danger of the Republic.
Year: 1874

At various times within the last eight or
nine years Congress has undertaken by general
legislation to secure the cOlOred people of the
South in the enjoyment of their new privileges
as citizens and voters, and in all the various
rights conferred upon them by the COnstitu-
tional Amendments. The Civil Rights Bill of
1866 gave them equality before the law and
a remedy against unequal State legislation.
The Enforcement Act of 1870 reafirmed their
right to vote, and prescribed penalties for any
attempt to interfere with them in the exercise
of the suffrage by " force, bribery, threats"
conspiracy, "depriving of occupation" or that
form of menace generally known as masked
outrage" The Enforcement Act of 1871,
sometimes called the Bayonet Law, authorized
the appointment of Federal supervisors of
election, and conferred upOn them extraordinary
mowers for the prevention, detection, and
punishment of fraudulent voting and regis
tration and improper influences at the polls.
The Ku-Klux Act of 1871, primarily intended
TO SUPPRESS the violence of masked outlaws,
made it a high crime to conspire by force' IN
timidatiOn. or threat to prevent any person


from voting, and empowered the PRESIDENT 10
Interfere with the aid of troops whenever the
due course of justice and the good order OF
the State were disturbed by conspiracics
against the black population. Such in brief
was the scheme by which the Congress of the
United States undertook to protect the wards
of the nation, and to stop the cruel persecu-
ton of which they were made the victims
during the first years after reconstruction.
Most of the provisions of the four laws we
have cited seemed proper if not necessary at
lie time, and however Objectionable they may
appear in tho light Of experience, we mako ~
Year: 1874




Some of the colored men in the With Dis
trict of New-Jersey say they mean to vote
against Mr.. VIM. Walter Phelps because ha
opposed the Civil Rights bill. He did so on
the avowed ground that it would destroy theiI
schools and injure their race. They purpose
to punish him by voting for Democratic
competitor who is not only opposed to the
same bill, but also to the Constitutional
Amendments themselves, on which it is based.
One rarely sees clearer case Of biting the
nose off to spite the face.


Next come certain Democratic papers pub
fishing at the head of their columns words bit-
terly denouncing the record of their partys
claiming that Mr.. Phelps uttered them at masa
meeting in Hackensack, and urging union OK
the Democratic and cOlored vote to defeat him.
1t is strange union for strange object. The
black man seeks by it to destroy an anti
Slavery leader, and the Democrat to defeat a
representative whose arraigned votes he ap-
proves, whose career has brought honor to the
district, and whose influence for the District,
and for the measures he advocates is far
greater than that of any new man could be.


We know that Mr.. Phelps did not utter tho
words in question. A TRIBUNE reporter was
present, took full notes, and heard nothing OK
the kind. 1t is not credtable to the party organs
that tiaunt the slander. Mr.. Phelps must be-
gin to think there is great encouragement in
these days for independent and honest men
to enter the peoples service.
Year: 1874

were made has been accomplished or not Is OF
slight Importance. II tho Administration has


won any advantage by them in Alabama it


has doubtless lost in other places great deal
more than it has gained there. But it is OF
the first Importance, if this Republic is to
last, that an instant stop should be put to such
practices, and an example made of those who
have been guilty of them. When Congress
meets we trust that an official investigation
may be ordered into this Alabama campaign,
so that it can be ascertained under what in
structions the detectives, marshals, and COM
missioners have been acting, and whether the
real culprits are not higher functionarles than
any in Alabama.
Year: 1874

No commentary can add force to the clear
and dispassionate review of the Sumter
County arrests furnished by our correspond
ent in Alabama this morning. The lies of
Charles Hays, the vaporings of the Depart
ment of Justice the feigned terror of South
ern Deputy -Marshals, the night-rding of
political cavalrymen, all sink into insgnili-
canoe by comparison with the crime against
personal liberty committed by the Federal
officers in Alabama. Arbitrary arrests for par
tisan purposes are so little known IN this free
country that we hardly believe they can be
perpetrated, or fail to take in their full
enormity when they are described by author
tiles which we cannot fairly question. But
there can be no doubt as to the real charac-
ter of the fraudulent prosecutions which have
Just collapsed at Mobile, and unfortunately
they prove that a republican government can
be quite as despotic, as cruel. as wickedly OPP
pressive as the most absolute rulers OF the
old world.


Whether tho nnrr0so f0r which these arrests
Year: 1874

A very large assemblage was collected last
night at the Republican mass meeting in
Brooklyn. The speech of Senator Conlling
was the principal feature of the occasion, and
was largely devoted to financial topics. He
could not be induced to say anything about
the Third Term. The weakness OF the Dem
ocratic city ticket gives easy opportunity Tor
Year: 1874

cinnah Gazette resurrects seems to be thought
by that journal to have some occult reference
TO the Third Term. What it shows is that the
General thought he made sacrifice in taking
the Presidency, and consequently was still in
the hands of his friends.
Year: 1874

Two years ago THE TRIBUNE investigated
the adulteratiOn of milk in NewYOrk, and
published lists of milkmen implicated. 1t was
a most laborious work, undertaken in the
interests of the people, and rendering an
important public service. 1t fixed upon the
culpable parties the guilt of the monstrous
adulteration which, as Prof. Chandler testified
Yesterday in court, amounted to an average of
nearly or quite one third water in all the milk
sold in this city. Our investigation was pros
ecuted with the utmost care, it led to good
results, and it is not unlikely to be under


taken again. A Mr.. Ganong considered his
character damaged by the publication to the
extent of $4,000, although it was distinctly
stated that there was no reason to believe
him personally responsible for any adultera-
ton. He sued for that modest amount; the
case came to trial yesterday and the jury
rendered verdict for the plaintiff for
the nominal sum of $50 Ii they had
received in season the transcript from the
photographers notes of the particular testi-
mOny for which they sent out from the jury
room, we believe that the verdict would have
been not only substantially but absolutely
and in terms for the defendant. We have in
structed our counsel to appeal the case.


Meantime we entertain no doubt that THE
TRIBUNE reporter did see the milk adul-
| teratcd in the wagon Of Dir. GanOpg. We
Year: 1874

CLEANING WALL PAPER.--Take q
piece of wood, of the shape Of scrub


bing brush, nail handle on the back,
then upon the face nail piece of dried
|sheepskin, with the wool upon II; or fax
or tow will do, or cotton flannel Of sew
eral thicknesses will answer very well.
Dip this brush into dry whiting, and
rub the smoke lightly with the brush,
ON the upper parts Of the room first,
protecting the carpet with mating or
newspapers, as the whiting dust Is
hard to sweep OF q carpet. The whit
ing that remains on the wall is easily
brushed of with q soft cloth attached
to stick. IL Is very efiecfuai II the
room is not damp and the whiting Is
dry.
Year: 1874

The civil-rights statute of 1869 has
come to naught in the first trial Ander
it at New Orleans. OF course it was by
mere technical dodge. Hurry up
that supplementary bill on the subject.
Year: 1874

In the year 1865, young girl of very


prepOssessing appearance, from one of


the interior provinces of France, was


placed at Paris in the service of man


depraved by all thevices of that cor


rupt metropolis. Smitten with her


charms, he attempted her ruin, but was


unsuccessful. Incensed at his defeat,


he determined on revenge, and, in fur


therance of his design, secretly placed


in her trunk articles belonging 10 him,


and marked with his name. He then
denounced her tO magistrate, who
caused her to be arrested, and the miss
ing articles being found in her posses
sion, she was trial. In her defense she
could only assert her ignorance of the
manner in which the property came
into her trunk, and protest her innO-
cence. She was found guilty, and the
sentence of death was pronounced
upon her. The hangman's Office was
insufficiently performed, it being the
first attempt of the executiOner's son.
The body was placed in the hands of
surgeon, by whom it had been pur-
chased. He Immediately conveyed it
home, and was proceeding to dissect it,
when he perceived a slight warmth
about the heart. By the prompt use
of proper remedies he restored the sus-
pended animation. In the meantime |
he sent for trustworthy priest, and |
when the unfortunate girl opened her
eyes she supposed herself in another
world, and addressing the priest (who
was man of marked and majestic
countenance), exclaimed: Eternal
Father! you know my innocence; have
pity on mep In her simplicity, be-
lieving she beheld her Maker, she con-
tinued to sue for mercy and it was some
time before she realized she was still in
the land of the living. The surgeon
and priest, being fully convinced of her
innocence, she retired to village far
distant from the scene of he unjust
punishment. The community subse-
quently became acquainted with her
story, and the author of her misery be-
came an object of reproach and con-
tempt, though it does appear that any
attempt was made to bring him to JUS
tice.


Inan editorial article with the head
ing, "Not to Destroy, but to Fulfill"
the Christian Onion says: The whole
machinery, Romish or Protestant, of a
creed Of which men must assent on
pain of damnation, visible church ordi-
nances, which are the special channels
of Gods grace, conditions of salvation,
which consists not so much in right
ness of lie as in intellectual conviction
and mystical experiences and outward
observance---all this is fading out of the
belief of the world almost as swiftly as
the mists of q summer morning melt
away before the sun. The work OF
demolition goes on almost of itself.
The service for true laborers is less to
clear away the old than to plant the
new. Above all things, men need to
be impressed with the transcendant
importance of personal character, and
with the universal and intimate pres
ence of God.