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Year: 1879

Jefferson Miller. colorcd. q waiter employed in .
restaurant at No. 1,250 broadway. was
saulted and terribly beaten by crowd of
roughs last night the corner of Thirty
first street and Seventh avenue. He was passing
through Thirty first street about half-past nine
O'Clock alone. When near Seventh avenue about
twenty white men, number OF them armed
with bail sticks, attacked him. Three of the
sticks were broken over his head. His
upper liz was nearly cut of, while his
chin received ugly cash from some sharp instru-
ment. Officer Thomas arrived on the scene, but
failed to make All arrest, his explanation being that
the roughs ran away. Tho injured man was re-
moved to the New York Hospital.
Year: 1879




ACCORDING to Secretary Sherman's re-
sponse to recent Senate resolution there is
now 81, 725, 104 of direct tax due and uncol-
lected from the States which participated in
the late rebellion, while the balances due
from all the other States and Territories
amount to only S455,22 The larger items
included in the latter total given above are
the taxes of Wisconsin and Kansas, and for
them offsetting war claims have been pre-
sented but not adjusted. From the South
ern States from which direct taxes are now
due, Alabama heads the list with 1920 900,
and Georgia follows with S5O2,OO0. Secre-
tary Sherman says that the laws of the
United States give him no alternative but the
collection of these taxes, as to leave them
uncollected will be an unjust and inequita-
BILE discrimination against those States which
have paid their share of the $40, 100000 lev
led in 1861. He therefore wants Congress
to decide whether any additional legislation
is necessary to enable the collection to go on,
and if so to give it as soon as possible so that
there need be no further delay in attempting
lIC COllCCtlOll VI llltSt ldAtS lHC pICoCIlU
prospect, however, of any helpful legislation
in this direction or of any marked success in
the collection of these taxes, either with or
without new legislation, is not very brilliant.


THE call for the Republican state conven-
ton, published in another column, is adj
dressed to all those who would maintain the
power and prestige of the Union against all
attempts to subvert or oppose its just
authority; to those who discountenance and
reprobate the reasonable and revolutionary
course of the Democrats in Congress; to
those who believe in the right of the United
States to enforce its own laws wherever they
are to operate; to those who believe that
elections should be free, not only from Ma
tional military interference, but also from
the interference and violence of so called
State militia and the assassins who with
deadly weapons have seized the polls in
many of the Southern States; and to those
who would uphold the financial credit of the
Government and assure to the people of all
sections, sound currency, equivalent to
coin at all times and in all places, and re-
deemable in coin. The men who are not
invited are those who still believe in the
State rights doctrine, allegiance to which
gave rise to the rebellion; those who think
the course of the Democrats in Congress has
been patriotic and for the good of the coun-
try; those who would deny to the general
Government the right to enforce its own
laws; those who would allow Southern bull
dozers and ruffians and Northern repeaters
to work their own sweet will at the polls;
with currency based on nothing and re-
deemable in nothing.
Year: 1879

DIR. WALTER BAILEY of New Orleans
thinks he has got real yellow fever germ.
If the doctor would like to have a genuine
Asiatic cholora germ we think we shall be
able to accommodate him during the Sum-
mer. There's been one about here for a
number of years-just one
Year: 1879

Or course the Legislative bill will meet
with the same fate as the Army bill-a
veto from the President. Of the two bills it
is much the more mise hievous, for itrepeals
all the legislation viii ch has made it impos-
sible, or at least difficult, for New York Dem
ocrats to stuff the ballot boxes and vote as
often as they chose ON election day.
Year: 1879

THE Boston Herald thinks troops will be
needed to protect the Senate from DR.. Mary
Walker. The door-keepers of that body are
unable to manage her. If they attempt to
put her out she threatens TO scream and if
they allow her to remain she pounds the
floor with the end of her umbrella.
Year: 1879

THE Democrats are gradually coming to
their senses. 1t is reported that an under
standing exists between the Southern and
Western congressman of that party in favor
of passing the appropriation bills and going
home as soon as possible
Year: 1879

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
tion but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1879

ANOTHER REPUBLICAN JOB --Sprink-
ling French street at cost Of $lo per
week is another old Republican bequest
which the Democratic Council ought to
get rid of. Mr.. Norton is certainly right
In his expressions of dissent from such
partiality. The old English Bulls ex-
penses are constantly recurring to tax
our people and this is one of his back
kicks. The street is free from noise aud
the most pleasant to live on. Why tax
the whole people to sprinkle it? This is
a job that ought to be discontinued as
soon as possible. I.r
Year: 1879

IT IS new idea that the city is bound
to protect the goods in vacant houses
while their owners are junketing n the
watering places or In the country. 1t is
true these people pay taxes. But they
do not pay any more proportionately
than those who do not expose their
property to the acts of thieves by leaving
their houses vacant.
Year: 1879

A QUARTER of million free baths
per week is what the city Of New York
contributes to corporal sanitary pur-
poses. These baths are free to both
sexes and that they are enjoyed the
weekly number who indulge is sufficient
evidence.
Year: 1879

New 1 Ork tribune.


The career Of Bayard Taylor is one of the
most striking illustrations in recent American
history Of the substantial reward which our
republican society offers to purely literary
ambition A generation or two ago the man
OF letters was so rare character among US
that his very singularity was q claim TO pub
lie distinction. But Mr.. Taylor made his ce-
lebrity long after Dana, and Irving, and Pres
cott, and Bryant, and a score OF others had
taught mankind to respect the taste and schol-
arship of the new Western World, and he
won his highest honors. in the very thick of
the struggle for literary success which dis
tinguishes these latter years of the nineteenth
century. He owed nothing to the accident Of
time or of fortune. The prizes which en-
riched the close of his life were the we'll
earned fruit of the hard and persevering l6-
bors of more than thirty years. From the
day when he set out, poor and unknown, to
make the tour of Europe with knapsack and
staff, until he arrived only few months ago
at one of the greatest of the European courts,
bearing the highest diplomatic rank it is in
the power of the United States to confer,
cheered ty the farewell plaudits eff his coun-
trymen, and greeted with marked honors by
the people and princes of Germany, it can be
said that Bayard Taylor was the maker of all
his own good fortunes, and that he made them
by the most conscientious and faithful of lit
erary work. He was simply and always
man of letters.


This is not the place for critical estimate
Of his writings, but there is one conspicuous
quality in them which shone so brightly also
in his personal character that we cannot pass
it over here in silence That quality is hon.
esty. 1t is seen in the frank simplicity of
his style, the thoroughness of his workman
ship, the clearness of his opinions the fidelity
with which he held through life to his chosen
work, sparing no pains TO produce the very
best of which he was capable, however small
the subject or trivial the reward. Nobody
could read one of his books without feeling
the influence of this virtue. Nobody could
know him without perceiving that this high
literary merit was reflex of an earnest and
simple nature. If there is long remem-
brance for honest men, there is no less long
life for honest books. 1t is a golden lesson
for authors and journalists that in this in
Stance literary honesty and personal upright
ness have secured a brilliant success in life,
and an enduring reputation.
Year: 1879

From c. T. Campbell's Lecture at Maysiicld,


Kentucky.


Some one asks how the bar rooms can
be clOse d. Bar rooms are not kept for
amusement. There Is not man in the
State who would keep bar il there
was no hope for a profit. Let every
man who has brains enough to attend
to his own business determine not to
drink at bar, and the bar room will
soon be closed. Men who are ashamed
of their habits Of drinking, and who
must have q screen to hide them, will
often have an opportunity to drink
elsewhere, and one great step In the
temperance reform will have been ta-
ken.


Barkeepers In this city pay, on an
average, 81 per gallon for whisky. One
gallon contains an average OF fifty five
drinks, and at 10cents drink the poor
man pays S. 30 per gallon for his whis-
KY and 81 80 to q man for handing over
the bar. While IL would be better for
all not to drink, some men will have
whisky, and nay advice to them is
this: Make your wife your barkeeper.
Lend her So TO buya gallon Of whisky
for beginning, and every time you
want drink go to to her and pay 10
cents for it. By the time you have
drank gallon she will have $3.50, or
enough to refund the 50 borrowed of
you, to pay for another gallon of Ii.
quor, and have balance Of $3.50. She
will be able to conduct future opera
tiOns on her own capital, and when
you become an inebriate, unable to
support yourself, Stunned and de-
spised by respectable people, your
wife will have enough money to keep
you until you get ready to fill drunk
ards grave. But had you paid all this
money to q barkeeper, he will not
have given cent to bury you, or
crust of bread to keep your children
from starving.


Few people ever to stop to calculate
the cost of fdrsm-drinking. At 10 cents
per drink, one drink per day will cost
$3.50 per year, two drinks per day
will cost $73, three drinks $109.50 and
four drinks $146 per year. A man
came TO me the other day to pay the
interest on a note for 500 I hold
against him. Said he, "I only receive
$500 year, and with family to sup
port am not able to pay my debts"
/ asked him to take pencil to make
"a slight calculation for me, and then
asked him how often he drank at
bar? His average was three drinks per
day, which, by his own calculation,
amounted to $l09.5O, or enough to have
paid both principal and interest of the
note, and have $l.50 left. He was as
tonished at this discovery, and is now
determined never to drink at bar
again,
Year: 1879

Every boy should have his head, his heart and hls hand educated. Let this truth never be forgotten. By the proper education of the head, he will be taught what is good and what evil, what is wise and what foolish, what is right and what is wrong. By the proper education of the heart, he will be taught to love what is good, wise and right and to hate what Is evil foolish and wrong, and by proper education of the hand, helwill be enabled to supply his wants, to add to his comforts, and to assist those around him. The high est objects of good educa tion are, to reverence and obey God, to love and serve mankind. Every thing that helps us in attaining these objects is of great value, and every thing that flinders us is comparatively worthless. When wisdom reigns in the head, and love in the heart, the man is ever ready to do good; order and peace reign around, and pain and sorrow almost -Blackwood.
Year: 1879

the plea your lawyers bring np, that this coistpanT is not responsible foI the old company's debts They say let the company go. The railroad shell not flourish over good men s empty pockets. Tit is not good for its debts, nor can't be made good for such, it shall no. run; be good for anything after certain time. These men would defend the road with the same spirit if it was mis- treated by any body. The only mo tive fcr ta's step, which will be ta- ken If you do not satisfy the debts, is justice, and justice only is their mot to. They are in favor of all public enterprises. when such things are self-sustaining. l travel through this country often my business calls, and with all due respect to them, I give you this chance 10 save much.

 We are no apologist for any indi- vldual or corporation who refuses to pay a just debt, but at the same time we must say that any man who would threaten to ditch cars Or burn bridges, thus eEdangering the lives of innocent passengers. under the spacious plea of getting even with a railroad, is villain for whom there is but one fit home-and that is in the State penetentiary. We trust the Company may succeed in ferreting out the author of the above.
Year: 1879

As corollary of Judge English s celebrated pisto. decision. the most remarkable ever delivered by a Judge a lady liylng in the suburbs of Fort Smith came running home almost breathless, . few days ago, saying, q met two tramps with great navy revolvers buckled around them" She did not stop to measure their length to see whether they were of the proper size to be within English's construction of the law. Indeed we believe English himself has left us in doubt about the precise nunIber of inches long they must be to be of 2 legal length, Nor do we see how the uncertainty is to be rem edied unless tlie manufactures of pis- tols for ,he Arkansas market have a graduated scale of inclies upon each barrel, so that both Jhs rniIian and the state may know just where the dividing line between their respect we sovereignties hes. We would recommend to the dealers in small arms in this state that they suggest this decision and this improvement to the manufactures. It may save good deal of useless and expensive litigation. Besides 1t would be ter rible to have rufIian sent to prison merely because of mistake of q half or quarter of an inch. Fort Smith Independent.
Year: 1879

The whole question is question of constitutional law, and but few men possess the rare ability to jndge cbn- corning it, or b reason extensively about it. while many will claim to possess tlIis ability, and are feady to enter their judgementupon it,who know no more of constitutional law than q primary student in arithmetic knows of the virtue of "Napiero Analogies for the solution of an ob- ligue angled spherical triangle" II the State has been deprived of the effect of good law, which is the irresistible judgement of every good man, and the reason whereof be in the constitution itself, which it doubt less is, why blame Judge English? Statute law, according to the very na- ture of the case must give way to the organic law, because it is a crea- ture of that law. And as to whether tfe decision of the Supreme Court be valid or not, men may judge and rejudge and jndge again and con

 tinue to judge. until every man in the State should resolve himself into a Supreme Court, and then supreme Y judge, but as for the ability and prerequisites of Chef Justice, and the consequent ability to decide fins oUEsrios, or any other question of constitutional law, no better abili

 ty, both intellectual and moral, can be found m this State, than that of him who has already judged of it, and who is the present Chef Justice of Arkansas. SUMUN BoMuN.
Year: 1879

We have received the first mum Der of Pine Bluffs new weekly paper entitled the Pine Bluff City Times. W. Jasper Blackburn, spicy, pun gent writer is editor and proprietor. The Times is republican in politics. Barring the politics of the paper we wish it much success as newspaper enterprise.
Year: 1879

The Mississippi River is so low between Cairo and Saint Louis that boats cannot take out more than one third of full cargo. The Ohio is also very low. So seriously is this low stage of water affecting trade that the question of narrowing the channel therby deepening the cur rent is exciting comment
Year: 1879

The Argus finds great comfort in serving
up daily the Commissioners rep ort on the
State Prison. The report amuses it, and
doesn't deceive anybody. All intelligent
people understand the motives that governed
the Commissioners and know that the only
issue between them and the Inspectors is a
question of Judgment. There is absolutely
no proof of wrong or mismanagement on
the part of ex-Warden Rice.


Very likely there has been shrinkage in
value of stock on hand since the last inspec-
ton, as there has been of late in the value
of almost all stock. At the annual meeting of
the Portland Company, Tuesday, which was
reported in the PRESS yesterday, and which,
very likely, will be copied into the argus to-
day, the shrinkage in the value of stock
since the last meeting is given at $4,000.
No presumption arises that the affairs Of
the company have been misconducted. And
no presumption of that kind would be put
forth in regard to the affairs of the State
Prison were not the Commissioners seeking
to make political capital out of the investi-
cation. Perhaps some bad debts have been
incurred. The establishment must have been
the case, much better conducted than the
affairs Of any business firm in the State, or
perhaps of the Commissioners themselves.
But that the shrinkage of stock and the loss
in bad debts amount to SS0,0OO or so, no
unprejudiced man believes.


The gst of the matter is, the Commission
ers have put upon the property much low
er estimate than the Inspectors put, and have
chosen to consider uncollectable many debts
the Inspectors believed would be paid This
may be an error of judgment on the part of
one or the other of the two boards. But
people generally believe that the Commits
sioners are pandering to partisan malice in
making their estimates, and some charitably
believe they have set down the property at
the lowest prices it would bring at auction
if put upon the market in mass and at once
The Argus knows how unjust an estimate
that is. Should its own material of war;
be put upon the block to-day it would not
probably realize half it's value. The entire
report is partisan scheme to discredit the
old Warden and the Republican administra-
tions that kept him in office. This same
property, so undervalued to-day, will very
likely be appraised at much higher figures
at the next inspection, and the Democrats
will point to the difference in valuation as
proof of the excellence of Democratic ad-
ministration. That is an old Democratic
trick that has already been practiced in this
State
Year: 1879

Hartford, Conn.,, has another social sensa-
ton. A wedding which was to have taken
place last Tuesday between Mr.. G. H. Watson,
well known New York insurance man, and
Miss Jane Forsyth, the fashionable dress
maker of the city, and which was to have been
grand affair, was unavoidably postponed on
account of the non appearance of the BRIDE
groom Letters and dispatches which were
sent back and forth only elected the fact that
Mr.. Watson left his boarding house on
the Saturday afternoon previous and since
that time had been no more seen. Miss For
syth believes that some accident has befallen
her lover, but there are others uncharitable
enough to think that having obtained large
sums of money from her ostensibly to furnish
their New York residence, he misapplied the
money, and then resorted to flight as the
easiest way out of the difficulty. An investiga-
tion is now in progress.


Johnny Dobbs, who is now in prison in New
York on the charge eff being concerned in the
Manhattan Bank robbery, is one of the men
whom detective Wiggin processes to believe
was connected with the supposed Dexter
Bank robbery and the murder of cashier Bar
ron. Sam Perris, alias Worcester Sam, an
other individual for whom the detective has
been looking for some time in the same con-
nection made his appearance in New York
last week, for the purpose as is supposed of
seeing what could be done to aid his pal,
Dobbs. The detective, however, got on his
track and he suddenly disappeared. Dobbs
and Pcrris are also believed by Wiggin to have
been concerned in the murder of the burglar,
Geo. Howard, in which case he worked in con-
nection with the New York detectives. Wig
gin says he has the requisition papers for
Dobbs and Perris in the Barron case, and
should the former escape justice under the
Manhattan Bank and other indictments. he
will be brought here to be tried on this.


Several Mormon missionaries are laboring
with considerable success among the illiterate
Year: 1879

IT is intimated that letter has been pre-
pared by conservative Southern men, dis
claiming all responsibility on the part of the
South for the present attitude of the Demo-
cratic party in Congress. This is unexpected
good sense.
Year: 1879

Wedo not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
tion but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
Year: 1879

The Boston Herald says the Maine ''Dem-
ocrats alone are doing nothing. They have
not even fixed on the date of their conven-
ton, and it wouldn't make great deal of
difference if they didn't hold one at all, and
saved expense. True, and not very sad.
Year: 1879

Frank Leslie's of last week contain
ed fine picture of General Solomon,
the new President of Hayti. Gen.
Solomon has just announced his cabi-
net, which gives general satisfaction.
He appears to be man of excellent
sense His advice to the young men
of. Hayti could be taken with profit
by good many young men in the
United States, the acme of whose am
bition is to hold an Office.


He says that Hayti is ruined by too
much politics-that young men are
trying to hold Offices who ought to
hold the plough. The young men Of
Hayti, and of our own country as
well, should know that there is q
thousand told more happiness in the
business and professional vocations
of life than in office holding.
Year: 1879

such a method of spelling the word
Negro in your papers won't have the
tendency to belittle US in the eyes of
the ignorant rabble, who are barely
able to read. All who 60 to school
only few years are taught that prop
er names, such as the names of cities,
counties, nations and races begin
with capital letters; and when they
take up your papers, they find this
to be the case until the Negro is
reached, when they find him dished
up without the,use of a capital This
naturally begets feeling of contempt
towards our race in the minds of the
ignorant AS Editor Harding, of the
Herald, is gaining a national reputa-
tion as word critic, we should like
to hear his opinion on this matter.
Year: 1879

We do not exaggerate when we say
that the cordiality with which The
Leader has everywhere been received
and the substantial encouragement OF
our friends, white and colored, have
gone far beyond our first anticipa-,
tions. We have faithfully tried to
make a newspaper worthy the con-
fidence and support not only OF the
people of our own race, but of our
friends throughout the land. We
have pledged our sacred honor, and
we will keep our word, to devote our
time, our money and the best ener-
gies of our lives to this enterprise, to
the end that the equality and univer-
sal brotherhood of man shall be estab-
lishd. AS business enterprise The
Leader has thus far been eminently
successful We have paid cash for
everything, and The Leader can
proudly look the whole world in the
face and say she owes not any man.
The measure of our success in the
future must depend upon the patron
age of our friends.


| We know that our salvation lies in
making good newspaper and keep
ing out of debt. To this end we ask
our friends to aid us by liberal pat
ronage and prompt payments. Every
colored man in the land, and espe-
cially in Indiana, should aid in the
permanent establishment of this en-
terprise as an entering wedge to the
business and literary world. Every
white friend of our race should aid
us in this honest effort for the moral