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Year: 1874

This long, rambling document of the
President has been before the public for
some days, and we can find nothing in it
worthy of reproduction. 1t exhibits
strength in but one place, and that is where
Louisiana is mentioned. His Excellency's
venom is as strong as ever, but If there Is
any other strength, we are unable to perceive
it, He is determined to keep his iron heel on
the neck of this State, until an-indignant
national protest shall teach him that human
ity still exists and that tyranny has its
limits.


The President finds it natural that the
negro population should attach itself to
that political party which contains its
friends. We need not say that he
begs the question. 1t is a mere assertion
on the other hand it may just as well
be asserted that the Republican party is
friendly to the negro merely because the
negroes have Joined its ranks. AS long as
the colored people are unanimous, or nearly
SO, in their allegiance to that party it will
be their professed friend, but if they were
divided between the two parties, where
would they find their best friendsf Does
any one believe that it would be among
the Republicans If so, and if he could give
his reasons for it, it would be more than
| the President has done.


AS fertile as the Chief Magistrate is in
finding means to carry out his Louisiana
Policy, he is very barren of expedienti
in the matter of resuming specie pay
ments. He claims to be almost al
rabid on the latter question as on til,
former. He thinks decidedly that we ough
to resume specie payments, but not SO soor
as in January 1876. When, then There h'
is sphynx. Nothing definite. No re
turning board there to be sustained in II,
matter what outrage upon popular free
dom.


The fact is that His Excellency is only


financial tinker and the less he .tinkers th


currency question the better for every body


If he and his Cabinet will only let it alone
greenbacks will naturally reach the pa
= value in two or three years, when nobod
f will thank him for returning to specie pay
) ments.
Year: 1874

AS heretofore announced in these col
umns, the Inauguration OF the magnificent
new st. Patrick's Hall will positively take
place next Thursday evening. Not only
is the Hall ready, but we learn from Mr.'
John Henderson,, Vice President of the
Association, that over thirtyfve hundred
chairs have been received aud are. now in
their proper places, aud that as early as
Wednesday next every ythng will be in
perfect order for the reception of the thou
sands who will grace, with their presence,
the Inauguration on Thursday.


From the first it was the intention of the
Managers to have a lecture or. concert on
the opening night, and it was happy in
spiration, and one fully in accord with
their generous impulses, which caused then
to make the occasion one of profit to that
noble institution, the Infant Asylum. We
sincerely hope that, considering the grand
eur of the occasion, the great worthiness OF
the object, and the distinguished talent OF
the amateurs who are to perform, our gen.
erous public will respond literally to the
call now made upon them, and that Thurs
day evening will witness such a gathering
in st. Patrick's Hall as was never before
seen in this city.
Year: 1874

OEvIcE MORNING STAR AND CATHOLIC MESSENGER }


November lat, 1874 }
The Postal Regulations, which will be enforced
the lot of next January require that postage on
M newspapers be paid at the Office from which they are
mailed This will naturally transfer the expense of
postage from the subscriber to the publication Office
and hence many of our contemporaries have given
notice that In future their Subscribers must send with
hesubscrpon price of the the amount required
for postage for the term Of the subscription.


We do mot propose to adopt this plan but shall CON
tnue to send the STAR to all at the old
price, THREE DOLLARS A YEAR WE PREPAY
ING THE POSTAGE.


At the same time this increased expense will render
imperative sticter adherence to rule of insisting
upon PAYMENTS IN ADVANCE for all subscrip-
4iona.


We have heretofore been very indulgont with our
suhscrbers this matter feeling assured that all those
fAkng tho paper considered In conscience
hound pay their Indebtedness, at sacrifce
% themselves, whenever such payment reasonably
Traeticablo Experience has shown that our
misplaced in regard to the vast majority of
eascribere but the exceptions have been numerous
70 entail heavy Losses Justice and prudence. there
1srs require that after the Arst of January the eash
rule be enforced regardless of persons Commencing
from the present date will send out bills, on postal
cards. to all subscribers giving them two full months
opportunity for remitting advance Payment.


All whose subscriptions shall not have been paid in
Advance by the FIRST OF JANUARY. will then be
necessarily DROPPED thOM IhE LlSI At tne
aams time, the postal card will notify them of past
aass, II any which earnestly request will be for.
wArded.


Itmust also be distinctly understood that the fact
OF dropping subscrber who does not prepay does
not imply that relieve him from the obligation OF
paying whatever arrears he may the ntrary
rely upon receiving what is due payment
1s possble It would therefore. be we'll for those who
cannot settle now to keep their bills reminders o
fhe.r obligations


All postofhce money orders. drafts, ETC.. should be
made payable to the order of tho


EDITOR MORNING STAR.
Year: 1874

In the state of the public mind with regard
to politics the bloody occurrence of yesterday
will scarcely excite just tone of comment.
Such things seem to flow SO naturally from the
bad spirit and violent party oppositions to
which we are accustomed that it is something
if people are surprised at them; and even if
they are their surprise will only note the fact
that such occurrences have been lately less
common than they once were. To stir up
popular indignation that the vices in our po-
litical system out of which such things grow
are possible seems labor beyond the reach
of the press. And to argue that the presence
on the street. on such an OCCASION of a candi-
date for Congress is unseemly and wanting in
self-respect would, perhaps sound ridiculous.
as seeming to imply an opinion that Congress
men regulated their actions on some good
ethical standard. But the telegraph
will carry the news to an outside
world less apathetic than our own people in
comment on our misdoings, and perhaps the
distorted picture OF us that is made abroad
out Of every such occurrence will compel
attention. In ten or twelve days we shall
receive the London papers, with their tele-
gram to the effect that in the election in New
York fight was provoked in the streets about
the person of q candidate for Congress, that
pistols were used, and that one man was
killed and another badly wounded; and we
shall have the free comment of the English
press with the Saturday Rerieu at the head,
on American manners and American ideas Of
fair play, and, in short, on the operation of
popular government. 1t is very certain that
we shall not like the comments, but they will
be salutary if they teach us to see ourselves in
this matter as others see us.
Year: 1874

A NEW JERSEY SWIMMER recently astonished
the natives Of Skihbereen, on the coast Of the
Emerald Isle, by jumping overheard from
transatlantic steamship in the middle Of q
gale and reaching land after seven hours
swim. But they might have told him the
story of their countryman who offered to swim
from Quebec, with an anchor as ballast,
against the champion in that locality, and
was prevented only from doing SO by the other
man backing out.
Year: 1874

The AMERICAN Press ASSOCIATION announces
in q cable despatch from London that the
German government has determined to prose-
cute leading German newspaper for reprint
ing from the NEW YORK HERALD the cor
respondence between Won Bulow and Won Ar
come from the Associated Press. We have
observed that on several occasions recently
the American Press Association has had better
foreign dispatches than the Associated Press,
and its members certainly deserve credit for
their enterprise, promptitude and accuracy.
Year: 1874

The SULTAN AND THE SLAVE TRADE.-In
answer to the protest of the British govern
ment the Sultan has declared his intention to
suppress the trade in slaves carried on with
his dominions through Egypt If he keeps
his promise the efforts OF Mr. Stanley on the
East Coast will be likely to prove thoroughly
successful The HERALD is delighted to
welcome in the Sultan a coworker in the
suppression of the trade in human beings
No government could lend more effective aid
than those OF Egypt and Turkey if they were
in real earnest in their desire to put an end to
the unholy traffic.
Year: 1874

The THIRD TERM. present indica-
tions, although General Grant leaves this i'm
rortant question in the hands of his friends,
the office-holders, we incline to the opinion
that from the pressure of outside influences
he will be constrained to haul off and cut
them adrift
Year: 1874

The WEATHER yesterday, from the Atlantic
coast to the Mississippi River, was all that
could be desired by the republicans. There
fore, If they still find that the tide Of public
opinion is running against them, they will
know that it means something more than
general apathy
Year: 1874

The ELECTIONS ARE OVER, and all concerned
in them are now at liberty to proceed to the
needful preparations for the coming winter.
Trade has been dull, business Of all kinds has
not been prosperous but now, let us hope,
We have passed through the ordeal of stagna-
ton and that better times are at hand.
Year: 1874

that the strictest economy shall rule In every
department Of the government, and the people
have shown that they will put the marks Of
their disapproval upon any party which fails
to subserve the true interests Of the country
Year: 1874




S. NJ. Smith, Esq:


DEAR SIR:- It has now been some
time since l had the pleasure of hear
ing from you directly; but I have been
watching your course with great deal
of interest. I congratulate you most
sincerely on the unparalleled success
that has attended your efforts to relieve
the industries of the land from the op.
pressions Of those monopslies and capt.
talists that, like the locusts of Egypt,
we're exhausting and draining the life
blood of the Nation. There is no surer
evidence of the Importance and value
Of the services you are rendering the
farmers Of the Northwest than the hos
tility and abuse that a corrupt press is
pouring out on you but it is like fool
throwing dirty water at the moon-it
only returns to confound and pollute
himself.


Persevere. You have the best wishes
and sympathies Of the farmers. The
more they abuse you, the more We will
esteem you. But there is one thing
you must make up your mind to: you
never will be popular; you are too ag-
gressive. 1t requires an oily CANNON
to become popular man ; but man
who dares proclaim his honest convic:
tions is too apt to tread on and hurt the
corns of his neig ghbors and if you
should express an opinion in opposition
to some pretty penny newspaper, the
whole fraternity is down on you. -,


Now, there is question would like
to see discussed this winter in the Clubs
and Oranges What class of papers
should the farmer patronize p I have
just sent an article up to the Age on
this subject.


Well, our elections surprised every
one. Had there been the teas, effort
n,ade the result would have been much
more decided Our newspapers that
took hold on our side gave us only a
very lukewarm support, and as for our
State Central Committee they did not1-
ing. 1t is said the sum total of their
expenditures amounted to 81 20, and as
they had $5 to start Oh, there remains
$1:8O towards next campaign.


=. There is big job before US this win
ter. We must cork, scork all the time.
The old hacks prophesy that, now we
have gained the elections, we will dis.
baud aud cease all future effort; that
there is not stamina enough amongst
the farmers to persevere !; that after a
little time to cool off they can be honey
fugled and humbugged as easy as ever.
Well, all I say, if they do give up now
after learning how much power and in-
fluence they can exert, they deserve to
be the slaves and serfs of the monopo-
! lists. , ~'#. H..
I want TO get the Oranges in our
State to thoroughly discuss the ques-
ton Of taxation. this winter. There are
thousands who are supremely ignorant
of the principles and manner in which
our taxes are levied. We should try
and remove the burthenI Of taxation Of
Of the real estate and place it on all
the net.pro6ts Of all the incomes
Year: 1874

The aims Of the order, composed Of
farmers and their wives, are:


To increase knowledge by stimulat-
ing mental activity and aiding inquiry.


To add dignity to labor and elevate
the social position Of the Husbandman.


To mutually relieve sickness and suf-
fering among the Fraternity.


To revent cruelty to animals, and to
lessen litigation and its consequent ills.


To collect accurate statistics of pro-
ducts and gain fuller knowledge Of
markets.


To give better understanding of the
principles of business and the laws Of
trade.


To overthrow the credit system and
encourage the practice Of true economy.


To bring the manufacturer nearer
the producer and foster varied home
industry.


To place the producer and the con-
sumer in more intimate relations with
each other.


To teach better culture of the soil
and to surround our homes with beauty
and comfort.


To avoid imposition and dispense
with middlemen as far as practicable.


TO inculcate morality and temper
ance, foster education and cultivate
brotherly love.-Lndustriol Aqe.
Year: 1874

A CATHOLIC VIEw.-The Boston
Pilot. in commenting on the report OF
the murder of an American protestant
minister in Mexico, says:


1t is said that priest instigated the
crime, which we cannot believe. But
should it turn out to be true, the crime
of all the mob should be intensified on
his head by a terrible punishment.
The wretches who could kill man
witt religious cry on their lips are
the greatest wretches in the world.
Year: 1874

The United States Senate, on the


2lst, unanimously confirmed the
nomination of Morrison r.. Waite, OF
Ohio, for Chief Justice. His nomi-
nation is said to have been mainly
due to the recommendation sent to
the President by the members OF the
Ohio Constitutional Convention,
which was in session at Cincinnati at
The time Of the withdrawal of Cush-
ing's name. Jadge Waite was the
President of this convention; and
the receipt Of the news of his nomi-
nation was the occasion Of great ap-
pIause there. This unexpected choice
gives general satisfaction. He was
one of the counsel for the United
States in the Geneva arbitration case
Year: 1874

Surveys and Investigations are in
progress looking toward a railway
tunnel from the continent of Europe
to the coast of England, under the
British channel. The shorter con-
tempIated route is from Dover to the
neighborhood Of Calais, about thirty
miles. On this route the tunnel
would necessarily be built at II much
greater depth than on the longer
one, about eighty miles, on a line be-
tween the mouth of the Thames and
Dunkirk.
Year: 1874

Satisfactorily adjusted.


The Philadelphia Press Of the
30th uit., in an editorial on Jay
Cookies estate, gives the following
information:


"The decision given yesterday in
the Jay Cooke case is one of the
most important that has ever been
rendered upon the bankrupt law,
for this forty third section has new
er before been construed in any au-
thoritative manner. The effect of it
is to enable three fourths of the
creditors to take an estate so far
outside Of bankruptcy proceedings
as to put its management into the
hands Of those creditors by the
election of trustee and committee,
whose powers are sufficiently wide
to permit the estate to be wound up
under the administration of business
men and in a business way, freed
from the control of court of law.


"The history of the particular
branch of litigation which is thus
closed by this decision is briefly
this: In September last Judge
Cadwalader, upon the application
of single restive creditor, order
ed that a second meeting of all the
creditors should be held on the 9th
inst, under the provisions of the
twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth
sections of the act, which direct
how dividends shall be made. This
order was made on the ground that
the word trustee in the forty third
section meant assignee and that
the committee elected by three
fourths of the creditors was merely
an advisory body, without power to
act. This view of the learned d
Judge was resisted strenously by the
able counsel for the trustee and
committee, and also by several OF
the larger creditors. who dreaded
the result of being forced to wind
up the estate under the assignee
system "a system which would
make it necessary to fling an enor-
nous mass of unsalabie securities
upon the market under an auction
Year: 1874

| vi h''ihilCf, anu distribute
whatever cash might be realized
from such ruinous sacrifice of the
millions of deprecated stocks which
constitute the great bulk ofthe assets
ofthis estate. An appeal from Judg ge
| Cadwalader's decision was there
fore taken to the circuit court, and
upon this appeal the exhaustive and
learned opinion of Mr.. Justice
Strong was delivered yesterday,
sustaining the trustee aud his com
mlttee IN view of the law which
gives them full discretion to sell
when they deem it judicious or to
withhold the securities from the
market, or to distribute them In
kind among the creditors. And
this they are to do utterly without
any control of the great body OF
creditors, whose power has passed
from them, aud even of the bank
rupt court, unless of course, the
committee exercise that discretion
naqta tide,


sand now, as TO the future
and in this the eighteen hundred
large and small creditors of Jay
| Cooke e co. are most interested.
1t is incidentally but authoritatively
learned that the trustee proposes to
complete within two or three weeks
tull account and report of his adj
ministration Of the estate, showing
the amount Of money received by
him the sources from which it came,
what property is still OF hand undis-
posed of, what claims have been
proven against the estate, and what
are in dispute. This account will
be submitted to the committee, au-
dited, adjusted, and settled by them
in order that the distribution may
be made by them. They will send
notices to the creditors, fixing a time
and place at which they can make
an examination Of the account and
make exceptions to the report or to
the claims of other creditors
When this has been done, distri bu-
ton of the money on hand (amount-
ing certainly to 5 per cent, and pos
slbly to 7 I-2 per cent together with
such securities as are susceptible of
distribution in kind will be made.


"By the judicious management
and firmness OF the trustee and his
committee, acting at every step I'M
der the sound legal advice of their
counsel, nothing has been sacrificed,
aud nothing will be sacrificed for
by dividing the securities, Of which
there are some six or eight millions
susceptible of distribution, each
creditor will be able to nurse and
take care of ms own share. All
this, it is hoped and expected, will
be fully completed in a month or six
weeks from this day"
Year: 1874

ER4%S.


CONTINUED from The last numberl


This much hes commonly been applied
to waters communicating with the sea and
so nearly so, that the great migrations visi-
BILE, are of those varieties whose pastures are
in the salt water and whose cradles are in
fresh water. Ii will be seen that the ne
cessity for regulations permitting the pas
sage of fishes grows out Of this part of
their nature. 1t is not the mere stergOr of
propagation which mpels these movements,
for that is the common provision Of all We
rieties but that unknown we call in
stinct, that mysteriously begotten parental
solicitude and knowledge which, under the
coercion of universal law, maniftsts its
care for its young, either in personal pro-
lection during infancy, or in leaving its
young in conditions where all the wants of
its life, for both birth and growth are found
ready and at hand in temperature, food and
security 1t is not the mere distance be-
tween spawning ground and feeding
ground, II is not the fact that striped bass
go from Long Island Sound to some near
stream not two miles away, or that the sal
mon leaves the weird coasts of frozen seas
to penetrate the vast distances of the CO.
| lumbia. 1t is the mere passage from the
ground they feed in and grow to maturity
in, TO the waters they spawn in, that deter
mines the natural limits of migration, and
this, no matter whether they go one mile
or a thousand miles away. The obstruc-
ton to the miles trip is as bad as the oh
stacle the thousand miles journey. 1t is
no matter whether the obstruction IS from
the deep pools of the lower reaches of a
river to the spawning beds in the brooks
above, or from deep waters of st. Georges
banks to the salmon ridds of the Connectl-
cut. The obstacle is efficient for evil in the
one case as in the other. 1t as effectually
destroys the race in the one case as iu the
other. And the wrongfulness of building
of an obstacle to the migration is the same
in one case as is in the other. True the
effect upon the.fshing right is proportional
TO the amount of the evil, or the amount OF
damage Is governed by the quantity and
quality of the fish destroyed or rendered
impossible TO human use


If upon trout stream mll-dam sewers
feeding from spawning grounds, that NIL
dam Is wrong. 1t may be in some case'
that the injury TO the fishing is more than
paid for in the opportunities the created in
dustry furnishes, that, in small streams
in which there are no mlgrations except OF
the fishes native and constant to them, th'
Year: 1874

A workman at the slate quarry of Mr..
McGrath in Poultney was probably fatally
injured few days since by the falling of
a loose stone from the top of the quarry,
striking him upon the head and breaking
the skull over the left eye. DIR. l.. ID.
Ross took out the bones, and it was sup
posed he was doing well. Yesterday mat
ter began to discharge from the wound,
and DIR. Goldsmith was called, whose ex-
animation showed that the injury was such
that it would prove fatal.
Year: 1874

The dramatic entertainment at this place
on Tuesday evening last was a success, al
though the evening was stormy there was
goodly attendance, and all the actors
played their parts well showing much study
and some little aptness. The following is
Year: 1874

WHEN THE Cows COME HOME
Many of our farmers have wasted years
of valuable time just because they did
not teach their cows to come home at
night. Any one who has lived or trav-
eled in the country will remember the
familiar Co-bos, Co-bos of the far.
mers' son or hired man, as he endeavors
to coax the cows from the pasture. We
have had little experience in these
matters, and we'll remember how many
times we have waded through the brush
and bogs looking for the cows, and, boy
like, we thought them dreadfulIy contra
~ animals; but we have lived long
enough to learn better, and now think
the biped the more contrary animal of
the two. Boys, we will tell you secret
that will save you great trouble, and
it is this; Every time the cows are driv-
en- up at night or in the morning give
them a good lick Of meal or bran, and
our word for it the COWS will always be
On hand at milking time. Besides this,
they will give more milk, and forget to
kick over the milk pail, even if you do
whistle little too loud.-Nelg York Oh
server.