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Year: 1874

A Saratoga correspondent writes: "Ihe
old beaux at Saratoga are very numerous al
present. They come here and dangle para
soils and fans in return for invitations to
parties and Germans during the winter.
This is easier than calling now and then,
which gets to be terrible bore with the
old beaux, who like their cigar and news
paper and home comforts of an evening,
and are not to be coaXed out unless
there is a swell affair with wine supper to
repay them. So here they are dangling
fans and doing penance, and next winter
they will be invited again, because they
were $50 attentive at Saratoga The old
beaux are growing bit heavy in figure, and
show few crows feet, but on the whole
get themselves up well, and, as they are ac-
knowledged society men, the young ladies'
are satisfied to have them at thesr heels.


"The old girls who are hawked about
from one watering-place TO another are also
well represented this season. These young
ladies are expert in casting die-a.way
glances, hanging their hands fin-fasblon
and in all the gushing tricks of maiden,
hood. They are striving to make the mos
of themselves with deadly effort, and are
really very stylish in their fine toilets, Will
escalloped foreheads, hair parted on on'
side, and bOnnetS pinned on captivatlngly
This old stock have been waiting IN the
market for rich husbands, and could now
be bought cheap"
Year: 1874

and ignored the civil power and set the
army up as the exponent OF the law; lnSa-
ded and subverted the sovereign rights OF
States, revived the sedition laws; attempted
destroy the liberty Of the press; DONNA
ted the white by the negro race in some
States, and by its proposed civil rights Dill
made war Of the races imminent.


Therefore charging these otfenses upon
the Republican party, we call on all honest
and upright citizens to redress them by so
voting in November as to produce change
and expel their authors and abettors from
all places of public trust and confidence.


Industrial Depression.


Resolved, That the following are among
the leading principles Of our political be
lief: That present proStration OF the III
dustrial and commercial interests OF the
country has been brought about by the un-
wise legislation of the republican party, and
that prosperity can only be restored by a
change in the Administration of the Gov
eminent.


2. That We are opposed TO Government
grants Of public lands to corporations as
tending to general corruption, and the de-
mOralization of the public service.
Retrencnlnent.


3. That we favor an honest and econom-
ical government; that looping off every
needless expense and reduction of the num-
Der of ofhce-holders, the abolition Of the
fee system, local and national, and the re-
turn to the moderate salaries and plain
customs of former days.


4. That we cherish a grateful Temem-
brance of our brave soldiers and sailors,
and will give a prompt recognition TO every
Just claim in their behalf, or on that oi
their widows and orphans.


Specie Resumption.


). That a steady effort should be maGe
to bring the government notes to par Will
gold, and to secure a return to specie pay
ment at the earliest possible period, that n
sumption can be effected with safety.


Mixed Schools.


G. That we denJunce the Civil Rights
bin Of the last Congress, believing that its
passage would be a gross measure OF the
rights of the States to control their dOmeS-
tic concerns in their own way. and that it
would result in incaleulabevle il to both the
white and the negro races.


Z. That while we recognize 20 the full
est and broadest extent that it is the duty
of the State to secure To all the blessings o
education and hence that our public school:
system should be generously sustained
We emphatically declare against establish
ing mixed schools by Law in which white
and Dlack children shall be compulsOrily
associated, believing as all do that the in
terests of the two races will be best served
bytraining the children inseparate schools


The eighth resolution arraigns the Re
publieans for their opposition to the new
constitution.


The platform was unanimously adopted
Gen. VIM. McCandless, Of Philadelphia
was nominated for Secretary Of lnterna
Affairs. Adjourned sine die.
Year: 1874

IT turns out that the big excursion
hound Long Island of the new Pacific
steamer Peking, in which all the ram
bling magnates of the government
have participated, was planned to IN
fiuence them in favor of new subsidies
to the Pacific steamship company,
Year: 1874

THERE appeared in our columns yes
terday call onvoters of the Second ward
to increase their double work tonight
of appointing two sets of delegates, by
also nominating at the same time the
Alderman and Councilmen for that
ward. While our opinion is strong
that State and city affairs win be best
managed by keeping them entirely dis
tinct, and dealing with them separately,
vet we have not adverted to the sub
ject, satisfied that the people were
pretty much of the same opinion, and
could determine the matter for them
selves. We understand the Second
ward is the only instance where It has
been proposed to deal with Legislature,
Congress and City all at once. The
publication yesterday developed a
strong feeling against it among the
best citizens of the ward in question,
and a circular was freely signed by
hundreds, which we publish elsewhere
The reasons are many and obvious why
city affairs can be best managed by at
tending to them separately.
Year: 1874

A RELIGIOUS paper published in New
York says that the officers who take up the
Sunday collections in al least one church
complain that the new ten cent stamp IN
our American currency bears a perplexing
resemblance to the fifty cent stamp. 1t re-
quires more time now TO count large col
lection, and it does not amount to sOmllch.
Indeed, some Of these officials go so far rs
to suggest that the resemblance is employed
to conceal a cuTtailment Of giving. To
put a ten cent piece in basket at charity
collection looks as liberal as TO put in fifty
cents.
Year: 1874

Resolved, That We are opposed 10 the
passage of the Civil Rights bill, believing
il to be unealled for by the blacks and
grossly unjust to the whites, sure TO work
great injury to the cause Of education
tn -oughout the nation, aud possibly lead to
a dangerous conflict between the two races.
While thus declaring we announce our
selves in favor of liberal system Of edu-
cation, for the benefit of the negroes as
well as the white children of Missouri, but
are opposed to the mingling of the white
and black races in our public schools or
other educational institutions.
Year: 1874

BY Aid. Eslin-Resolution directing the
chairman of the Street Committee to mac
adamize South Cherry street, and to pur-
chase $500 bushels Of broken stones for
Claiborne street. Adopted.


By Alderman Eakin-ResolutiOn direct
ing the chairman Of the Street Committee
to instruct the street oVerseer To construct
a small sewer from South Union to High
street. Adopted.


A petition was received from number
Of citizens asking that the smoke stack Of
Diekeyis mill be repaired or removed. Re
ferred to committee with power to act.


The Board then adjourned to meet the
Common Council in convention, to elect a
member Of the Board of Education
Year: 1874

II seems to be the general verdict, both
in this city and in Washington, that the
Presidents Message is failure, If Judged
BY any influence it is likely to exert on
the legislation Of this session. This re-
suits partly from the impracticabilty Of
the most important Of his recommends
tions and partly from the tone he as
Message is addressed. The evident at
tempt to cast upon Congress the respon-
sibility for the shortcomings and failures
which have brought the administration
into discredit is not well received by the
members OF that body, who came togeth-
er In no very amible temper toward the
President: He reminds Congress that
he invited their action on the Louisiana
case last winter and that they treated
they acted and solved the difficulty they
would have relieved him from an odious
responsibility and might have ended the
Louisiana troubles instead of leaving
them to plague the President and dam
age the party. But, if Congress were
disposed to retort, it might tell the Pres
ident that he got himself into the Louis
lana scrape by his own action, without
their advice, and that after he had crea-
on his swn responsibility he had no right





left to bear the consequences. If he had
not chosen to intermeddle the McEnery
government would have been peaceably
installed, and the State have escaped the
turmoil and the republican party the
scandal of these two years.


The President seems also to charge
Congress with the failure Of civil service
| reform, and in this part Of the Message
he gives away to sharpness of tone
1 ~ dOac a hof otI Ino
| umept. He threatens to abandon the
| experiment unless Congress comes at last
to his relief. Here, again, Congress
| might retort upon him that he was q vol
| pnteer i'll this business; that, in adopting
| the civil service rules, he acted on his
own mere discretion; that if law Of Con-
gress was necessary to make the rules ef-
| fective he should haue foreseen that ne
| cessity, have recommended suitable leg
islation at the outset and not have begun
the experiment until the conditions ex-
listed for making it successful. The Pres.
| ident is put by his rather ill-tempered
threat in this dilemma: If law OF Con-
gress was necessary he should not have
started without it; if Executive disere-
tion was sufficient there is no excuse for
impetuously abandoning the reform
Had it succeeded he would have taken
the sole credit, and since it has failed
l Nohsicn niay ieusSouhpiy deCliue hliy
part of the b.ame. Be this as it may, the
temper he exhibits toward Congress is
not calculated to secure its indulgent
judgement of the Message.


1t must be further borne in mind that


the Congress to which this Message is ad
dressed is the same Congress whose mo-
Ijority he confronted and humiliated by
his veto last spring. They silently swal-


lowed their indignation and chagrin lest


the party should be weakened by an open


breach with the President.
Year: 1874

why? Because they are just building .
mighty structure to bridge the chasm
between poverty and riches; mighty
viaduct from ignorance to wisdom
When this bridge is built (upon which
about two million Patrons are at work,
some earnestly engaged while others are
employed in bringing the timber;) I
say when this is built, then will they
see that this great uprising has not been
in vain.


1t may be asked whether this will
ever be accomplished. Any candid,
thinking person will not deny itlpnless
he "be blind and will not see." Was
there ever so large body organized for
reformation and to assert their rights,
whose demand was just and honorable,
that did not accomplish their object?


Talent is met by talent and strength
by strength, and the Order Of the Pa
irons Of Husbandry have enough of
these to balance all opposition.


Yours fraternally,


A FLAX SEED.
Year: 1874


Editor Grange Advance


Many are called but few are chosen
1 believe I am called to write for your
valuable paper, but if my letters are not
among the chosen ones and go straight
(not Major Strait for the waste paper
basket, then 1>shall subside, and continue
to hope tor your success hut shall con.
clude that my pen will not materially
advance the cause for which you are la
boring, the cause for which thousands of
brave, true men: are nobly struggling.


For onoe will the people be in earnest /?
Will they accomplish the reforms they
have undertaken ? The minds Of men
appear, at the close of the nineteenth
century, to be awakened, the souls of
men stirred, and all seems ripe for the
greatest reformation the world has ever
seen. Neither do they give warning as
did the reformers Of old, by low sounds
that came from every State in Europe
that gave warning Of the terrible storm
that was soon TO. burstsover all Europe,
deluging it with the blood Of the wars
of the. reformation but 81 earnest tones
Year: 1874

Dlsnop Wnlppie conarmed class OF
seven at the Grove School House, in
Green Vale last week, and preached a
splendid sermon, which, to our notion,
was the best part of it.


On Sunday night the Christian TEN
perance Union Society held its regular
monthly meeting. The Rev. j. D. Bat
son delivered the address. Brother
Batson is at once very mild and very
radical on the subject. How adroitly
he wrung in the tobacco question; he
even condemned the sale of that delec-
table narcotic, which hits somebody
round here rather hard.


Mrs. Sheileubarger has three hens
that have incubated forty-three chickens
from forty-6ve eggs. Those hens are no
dead-heads.


VIC. Vanslyke is putting up a first
class residence on Second street, Eureka,
where, when completed, he will be
pleased to entertain the editor Of The
GRANGE ADVANCE when he comes to
see the sights of Dakota Co., and report
the same in the G.. A.


The Methodists of East Castle Rock
seem to be in earnest about BUILDING
that church. A part Of the lumber is
already on the ground. According to
Spalding this means more sweat out of
the laboring man.


Will somebody explain why it is that
our young ladies and gentlemen will
persist in going off fishing when they
never catch any fish?


G. B. Lowell, the County Surveyor,
is trying to settle the question of boun-
daries in this vicinity. Somebody is
bound to be dissatisfied we'll war
rant,


We would like to inform those wo-
men, who meet at the parsonage every
Saturday to sew for the heathens, that
we have couple Of young heathens at
our house and we are anxiously waiting
for orders to bring on the stuff for gar
ments. Quite likely, however, our good
sisters are like all other benevolent So
cieties, have more sympathy for the
heathens abroad than the heathens at
home.


1t is amusing to note the difference of
opinion Of intelligent men in reference
to the speech Of Grand Master Parsons
at the Grange celebration last week.
Mr.. S. said it was rather tame affair :;
B. said it was good if certain portions of
it had been left out; while P. said it
was just splendid


The above items from Dakota Co.
arrived just as we were going to press
last week: Ed
Year: 1874

4 kOl1tfcs II tho ef1ng0s.
/ II seems that some partixan editor,
and writer's are grievously troubled
about the Oranges meddling in politics
The question is what is the n.otiive d
heir complaints and warnings Ar
q honestly and kindly concerned
to1 Fhe good Of the Patrons, or is i,
mo- from the fear that their own par:
ty craft is in danger ? There is reason
for suspicion.


1t is evidently wise policy to ex.
olude from Grange meetings all bitter
debates on partizan politics and sectarian
religion, which tend TO distract and di.
vide the members but it is not poll:
tics simply so much as the strife and
disharmony that are to be avoided.
AS to politics per se,:in. the sense of
principle and practical measures, that
was the very bottom plank of the farm
ers' movement through the Oranges.
That is politics of the true kind-the
politics Of working men and producers
politics of brotherhood and humanity
That must be discussed and ventilated
everywhere. The more the better
The people need a universal, friendly,
and happy agitation, through the chan
mel of the newspaper and public speech
which shall develop and perfect new
order Of things.


The grand original purpose and start
ing point of the Oranges was, to coun-
teract, circumvent and undermine the
monopoly, extortion and corruption Of
the money oligarchy of the nation. It
is spontaneous outburst or upheaval
of the masses-the rough undercrust
Of society. 1t is social regeneration
which introduces to the country new
system of politics, that is destined to
spread and triumph. But discussion is
its life and strength, and the County
Councils are wisely provided as the prop.
'er outlet and safety valve for all the
y political gas Of the order. Free speech
Where will be entirely harmless, and
nohe but party slaves or such as have
political axes to grind, can desire to
turn screw the against it.


The newspaper above all is the great
avenue of public thought, that should
never be shackled or muzzled. Who
has any right to gag anothers utter
:ance? Speech is our power and our
manhood, and the printed journal is our
public mouthpiece. It is sustained by
the peoples money, who therefore have
a right to its use. Grange politics
must come in. Let it come None
but old party hacks need fear it. Well
may they tremble, for their judgment
day is at hand.


A new quality of newspapers will
spring up to advocate che new order,
and the old ones must die. Let the
dead bury the dead. The mourners
will belong to the respectable and aris-
tocratic class, and they may soon make
ready for the funeral obsequies.


Old names we have oXerown. The
flesh pots Of Egypt: in u party sense,
have lost their relish. The leeks and
onions don't taste so good as they did.
Repubhcan-what does that mean
Or Den,ocra,?' Who can explain them
or rub off the dirt? But then. what
noble politics we may have when we
become enlighten ed.


A. GAYLORD SPALDING. /


CHAMrl1S, MINI, June 2Sd, 1874


~
Year: 1874

they demand reform reform in govern
ment, reform in the church, reform in
social life. Verify they are building
wiser than they knew What will this
day be called in history
Ii WINSLOW,
Year: 1874

IMPAIRMENT OF JUSTICE,


WASHINGTON, Jan.7.
To the President:


SIR !: Your were kind enough. without
my solicitation, or any knowledge on my
part that you contemplate such thing.
to nominate me for Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
Since that time the flood gates of cal,lm-
ny In all directions have been opened ND.
my abilities have been disparaged. and
my integrity brought in question, and it
seems to- me that public opinion adverse
to my appointment has been created which
might hereafter embarrass your adminis-
tration, and perhaps impair my useful
ness upon the bench. With the perfect
conciousness that have performed. with
clean hand and upright purpose. all
the dnties of the various public Offices
to which j have been called. and trust
ing to time and a just public when better
informed for my vendication, I respect
fully ask yon to Withdraw my nomination
for Chief Justice. I have the honor to
be, with great respect


GEORGE H. WILLIAMS.


The President would have withdrawn
his name sooner, had it not been, that
he had said decidedly to Mr.. Williams,
that he should not do SO except at his
own request.


Mr.. Williams, letter speaks for itself,
but it is not as much the question of his
integrity as it is that Of his abilities
which prevented the Senate from con-
firming him to the most responsible place
in this government.


We now learn that Caleb Gushing
whose appointment as Minister to Spain
had already been confrmed-was nomi-
mated for Chief Justice by the President
last Friday and, we have no doubt will
be confirmed by the Senate. as he is q
large minded man in every respect, of the
most extensive experience in law prac-
tice and the most learned in all it's bran
ches, and has established in his long and
useful life character beyond reproach.


Williams remains in Office as Attorney
General. The nomination of Col. Bris-
tow for that position, is consequently
withdrawn.
Year: 1874

night, that the unfortunate man was
duly sober, was not dissipated man,
and that on the night in question they
had communed freely with him in regard
to his people and his former residence
in Sacramento. Mr.. Russell was MAJ
chinist by trade. but owing to the lack
of business in the city, he had been un-
able to secure position, and being in
stra;tened circumstanc had improved
the opportunity of working his way to
Victoria, where he expected to find em-
ployment. Reaching the ship, he told
his friends that on that day the ship
had been smoked in order to kill the rats
with which she was infested, and that
although the thing was somewhat dam
gerous, he preferred going on board to
sleep, rernarking that by that time the
greater part of the foul gas must have
passed off. This was the last seen Of
him until Saturday morning. when he
was found deaf in his bed, having been
suffocated by the fumes of sulpher and
charcoal still remaining in the vessel
He was about thirty-fve years Of age,
and leaves wife and many relatives and
friends to mourn his untimely end
Portland Ne,cs.
Year: 1874

T The action of the Winona and
St. Peter Railroad Company in dispos-
ing of its elevators and cutting loose
from everything but the business it wss
chartered to carry OIL, is reform that
that will do more towards quieting public
complaint than any change in its power
to have made. The people are every
where and naturally jealous Of incorpor-
ated companies controlling not only the
carriage, but purchase of their surplus
product St. Paul Pioneer.
Year: 1874

Weekly, cit Is Indispensable to every one who
would truly understand the political history Of
the country No young man, who enters now.
upon active life, can properly comprehend and
appreciate the situation of the Republic, without
knowing the antecedent facts which work like
this presents. 1t is the moral record which he
needs. The bare dry surface Of events may be
scanned with little benefit, but the Development
Of the principles of difference, the tracing OF
their growth and their issue. teach him that
which is indeed the history of the new United
States.


Space is too brief to 20 Justice to Mr. Will
sons great work. 1t takes i;s place among the
standard authorities Of the world It has special
value because its author knew, saw and particle
pated in much that ho records. Those who have
not already -ubscibed for the work should do 80
at once. lIessrs. Boughman, Thomas, Co.
will supply it
Year: 1874

Our bodies are not as vigorous, nor our
minds as clear as they might be. This
remark is true of at least two-thirds of
civilized society, and of these two-thirds
probably one-halt is laboring under bodi-
ly infrmities of a character likely to shor-
ten the lives of the sufferers. This is
melancholy exhibit and furnishes abund-
ant food for reelection. Can the evil be
mitigated ? 1t can. Lack of vitality is
the primary cause of most of the physical
and mental suffering to which we are sub
jected, and therefore vitaliziag medic
lnal agent is the remedy required. Is
there such medicine ? There is. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters will rouse and
energize the mind and body when the
life power of the system is in compara-
lively dormant state. The languid, fee
BILE, desponding invalid is not aware of
the latent energies that underies his de-
bility. He thinks there is no element of
vigor left in his frame, when the fact is
that his physical capabilities are merely
asleep and require waking. Let him
stimulate and tone his natural machinery
and endow it with new motive power,
through the agency of this incompatible
invigorant, and he will soon feel like a
new man, or rather like man who has
received new lease of life. and the req
uisite health to enjoy it. Many business
men suffer from chronic languor and de-
preston caused by too close application to
business. Hard students are eften op-
pressed with melancholy from like
cause. Mechanics and working men arc
affected in the same way as the result OF
over-labor. To all who are in this condi-
ton, from whatever cause, Hostetter's S
Stomach Bitters will prove an invaluable
blessing. 1t is a perfect panacea for
physical debility and mental gloom. 1t
strengthens the body, clears the mind and
calms the nervous system while as n
remedy ior Indigestion, bliousness, con-
stipation, rheumatism, and intermittent
and remittent fevers, it takes precedence
Of all other medicines.
Year: 1874

Work on the ditch from West Wea-
yer across the Oregon Mountain is being
pushed forward as rapidly as circum-
stances will permit. A force Of 200 men
is employed, and thirty more were expect
ed to begin work on Thursday morning.
The weather has been very unfavorable
for the prosecution of this enterprise, but
the company expect to have everything
ready and the water at work by the first
day of June.