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Year: 1878

our washington Letter.


Special Correspondence of MeOBsERvRR


w WAsHINGToN,D. c., Aug. 2, RS
Among the recent remarks
Iof General Grant in Europe,
duly served up here, is one that
is very complimentary to Ben.


Butler as a general, a statesman
and citizen. Gen. Butler has


promptly responded by saying


that Grant was not only our
greatest soldier, but in civil
capacity showed the highest
order Of ability. A little while


ago Butler had in print, though


he did not publish it, a pamphlet


in which he attempted to show
and believed that he did show


that Grant was a blunderer and


butcher as soldier, and wholly


unfit, by reason Of ignorance
and incorporate habits, for civil
employment. Will some one
find copy of that pamphlet
and will some Boswell reproduce
the table and bottle talk of Grant
about Butler? Both of them
wish to be President. Grant
thinks he alone can be elected
by the Republican party, and
Butler believes that the coun-
try In the agony and delirium
of giving birth to a new party
may mistake him for a states
man and an honest man. Of
course, they ssre doomed to dis
appointment, but the publica
ton just now of the honest O
pinions they entertain of each
other would have a good effect
upon people who do not under
stand them both.


A Maine Republican Conven-
tion has about the same relation
to Blaine that the tail has to a
dog. If the Senator had made
a violent greenback speech in
the Convention held at Portland
the other day, nine-tenths of the
delegates would have applauded
him as heartily as ever. He
happened, however, to alight on
the hard money side of the fence


and the applause came all the
same. Two-thirds of the voters


Of the State dislike and distrust
the man, but the other third
manage the Republican Con-
yentions.


Unless sooner called togther
by the Chairman, the Potter
Committee will not meet again


until August 18th. Then wit
nesses from the South will be
examined, and the preparation
of the report commenced. The
House, it will be remembered,
voted that the title of Mr.,
Hayes to the PRESIDENCY was
sacred, and, in effect, that that
title would not be affected if 1T
was shown that he was not really
entitled to the vote of a single
State, SO that whatever the
Committee has proved or may
hereafter PROVE. unless it fur
nishes ground for impeachment,
will not disturb the Admins
tration. But after the publica-
tion. of the Committees report /
do not believe that all honest
and we'll informed man will as
sert that Hayes was entitled to
the vote OF Louisiana or FLORIDA.


What little labor troubles we
had in Washington last week
were settled summarily by the
police. Absurd prominence was
given them by the Associated
Pressreports. The chief spokes-
man of the supposed disorderly
class paid his fine of five dollars
and is again speaking in the
streets. The laboring men of
Washington, white and black,
are as orderly as any in the
world. A year ago, when Pitts
burg and Chicago were red with
fire and blood, the laborers here
were as hungry as any, but en-
Iirely peaceful. AUSTIN.
Year: 1878

The Trenton Mirror says:
Col. John III. Savage is making
poor headway in his efforts to
reach the Gubernatorial Chair
by haranguing the people upon
the State debt. His arguments
although in support of a good


cause, are unworthy of the
merest shyster and proves him
unsuited to the high position
to which he aspires. A poor
argument Injuries a good cause,
and if Col. Savage can not
show better reasons for wishing
to be Governor than he has
hitherto done, he had better ree
tire to his mountain Businesses,
and wait for something to turn
up. He insists that every dol
lar of the State debt is unjust
and was created in violation of
the constitution, yet he is III IA
vor of paying one-third of /.
Why this generosity to the,
bondholders5 If We owe no
part Of the debt why tax the


people to pay iarthirg of it?


We either owe the debt or we
do not owe it. If the former,
then it is only a question of a.
bility to pay. Col. Savage's
argument that State bond is a
bill of credit is too absurd to be
considered for a moment, and
we are astonished that lawyer
of any standing at all, would
make it. Col. Savage has failed
to impress even the low tax
men who have heard him.
Year: 1878

A son of Mrs. Harriet Beech
er Stowe has been licensed to
preach. He is not likely to
steal the livery of the court
of heaven to serve the devil in
unless, indeed, there is more
than one such livery to steal,
as he surely wouldn't have the
check to rob his Uncle Henry
Ward. Courier Journal.
Year: 1878

"Pshawl" said young lady Of musi-
cal taste. passing certain church Sun
day night. where an incompetent
organist was torturing the instrument.
"I''s enough to make that congregation
all go wicked just to Imagine their
organist having harp in the New Je-
rusalem and being entitled to play on
it,"
Year: 1878

Above all, let every farmer treat his
wife and children with kindness. Give
them every advantage for culture.
They will grow about you like flowers;
they will ill your home with sunshine
and your lives with happiness. See to
it that they have all the comforts and
all the conyeniences Of life that you
can possibly give them. Give them the
advantage OF every improvement as
soon as you can. Try and make life a
perpetual delight. Recollect that cook
ing is one of the fine arts. It takes far
more sense to be an excellent cook than
tolerable lawyer. | am a good cook
myself, and | haye no accomplishment
of which am so proud. The farmers
should have good things to cook and
good things to cook with. Of all people
in our country, you should live the best.
Throw your miserable little stoves out
of the window. Get ranges, and have
them SO built that your wife need not
burn her face off to get you break
fast. Do not make her cook in kitchen
hot as an orthodox perdition. 1t is just
as cheap to have everything conve-
nient. 1t is just as easy to cook we'll
as to cook any other way. There ought
to be a law passed making it a crime,
punishable with imprisonment in the
penltentlary, to try Dee1steak. Br0ll
it; it is just,as easy, and when broiied,
it is delicious. Fried beefsteak isn't fit
for beast. Give your wives and
daughters the conveniences, and in a
little while they will be most excellent
cooks. Good cooking is one of the
highest arts of civilization, and we are
more indebted to this art in developing
real manhood than to almost any other.
The man whose arteries are filled with
good, rich blood, made of good and
we'll cooked food, has pluck, courage,
endurance and noble impulses. The
man who invented d. good soup did
more for his race than the inventor OF
any system of theology. You must re-
aneInber that it you wish your wife to
cook well, she must have the conven-
fences to cook with. In old times there
would be eleven children in the family
and only one skillet and they general
ly depended upon w hat few boards they
could tear off the house for kindling.
See to it that there is plenty of good
wood, plenty of good coal, plenty of
good kindling and plenty to cook.
There is no reason why farmers should
not have fresh meat all the year round.
There is no sense in stutfing yourself
with salt meat every morning and max
ing well of yourself for the balance
of the day and then wondering why
you don't enjoy good health. There is
ne sense in this.
Year: 1878

A recent writer reproduces from the
files of the Louisville journal some of
George ID. Prentice's witticisms. which
were not dependent upon time and cir
cumstances. as most of them naturally
were, for their point and force. Follow
ing are few of them:


TO keep your friends, treat them
kindly; to kill them. treat them often


He who reels and staggers most III
the journey OF life. takes the straightest
cut to the devil


Men should not think too much of
themselves. and man should be care
full not to forget himself


a dinner TO which man is not in
vited generally sits hardest on his stom-
ach.


There are many men whose tongues
might govern multitudes. If they could
govern their tongues


The working of corkscrew is about
the only thing best achieved by indlrec-
ton


The reduction of postal facilities has
gone too far. The mail passed through
--towh the other day in a couple of
stockings tied to the back of bull
dog


A few years ago the freedom of New
York City was presented to Mr. Van
Buren, in gold snuff box. There was
plenty of room in the box for all the
freedom that New York has enjoyed for
many years


There are two periods when Congress
does no business. One is before the
holidays and the other after


Were il not ungenerous to remind a
man of his natural deformitieS. we
should inform the editor of the Grand
Gulf Adcertiser that he is q natur al
fool


An opposition editor offers to bet
his ears on something to our discredit.
He shouldn't carry gambling to such
extreme lengths


If the editor of the-isn't q rogue,
he ought to bring u libel suit against
his own race
Year: 1878

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. Cat a meeting of
the Drug Exchange, resolutions were
adopted asserting that some of the proviS-
ions of the tariff bill will disasterously affect
the interest of large portion OF the mem-
bership located in Philadelphia and other
sections of the country. The resolutions
further protest against the manifest injus-
tice of discriminating in favor of some in
dustries and against others, and appeals to
the sense of justice and fairness ofthe mem
bers of Congress in cOntending with them
for the same benefits to our chemical indus
tries which are accorded to all Others, and
petition to the Committee on Ways and
Means not to propose to Congress any
measure of legislation affecting the indus
tries of manufacturing chemists. The COM
mittee is composed of one representative
from each branch of the chemical and phar-
maceutical industry to prepare a memorial
to Congress and to the Committee on Ways
and Means explaining their grievances, and
to take s1ch other action in the name OF the
Drug Exchange as may be found necessary.
Year: 1878

to issue, immediately,a warrant for the arrest
of the person indicted and 10 place the same
In the hands of the Sheriff, and, having issued
such warrant, he shall enter each case by Its
number, leaving blank for the name of the
defendant upon the State docket and each
case, so entered, shall remain upon the docket
and be called by lis number; and orders
taken and made thereon, as in other cases
until otherwise ordered bv the Court. Unon
the return ofthe Sheriff thst he has arrested
the defendant, or if the defendant shall be
upon bail or recognizance to answer for the
offence charged in the Indictment the name of
the defendant shall be entered in the blank on
the docket


APPROVED, February G. 1878
Year: 1878

J.
consuming some time in the discussion IF
the WiggintOn-Pacheco contested election
case, adjourned without taking any action
upon them.


SENATE.


Mr.. Ransom of North Carolina, submitted
the following resolution:


Resolved, That the Secretary Of the Treas.
ury be, and is hereby directed, to report as
soon as may be- the present condition and
efficiency of the Life Saving service on the
coast OF North Carolina, and in what re-
spects the same, in his opinion, needs increase
or improvement in or to make the same OF
the greatest benefit.


Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy
be, and he is hereby directed to report as
soon as there may be any information rela-
tive to the disaster of the Huron that may
affect the improvement and security of
navigation on the coast of North Carolina
and in what respects, in his judgment,
greater Improvement and security NAV be
attained.


Resolved, That the Committee on Com
merce be, and it is hereby authorized, TO
take into consideration the expediency of
so improving the inland navigation be-
tween the waters of Norfolk harbor, Curri-
tuck Albemarle, end Pamlico Sound; and
also the Cape Fear river, so as to afford
safer and better channel OF commerce be-
tween the States than those now existing,
and that said committee have leave to re-
| port by bill or otherwise.


! Mr.. Ransom in explanation of the resO-
| lutions, said they had been suggested by the
| melancholy loss of the Huron and Metrop-
oils on the coast of North Carolina. He
| spoke of the dangers of that coast, but said
he appreciated the power of the Federal
| Government with advantage of science and
| the skill of engineers, and he had faith til at
| this decided curse to our shipping might
fall under them. Hatteras stood as
an ocean Blue Beard, leading to the
chamber of death gallant lives. Vessels of
all descriptions, from the poor Indian canoe
TO the prOudest vessel of our navy, had been
wrecked there We paid half a million
dollars for a ship, and she went down on
that coast with IA burden of young and GAL
liant life. He proposed that the Govern
ment should be one of safety, instead of a
wrecker's beacon. He alluded to recent re-
ports in regard TO the people of North Car
olina not providing for the sufferers. and
said that he had made careful inquiry about
the matter, and that the reports were gross
ly false and had been denounced by citizens
of Carrtuck county. He knew the people
that lived on that sea and wind ridden
beach, and that they were honest, yrtuous
and humane.


The first two resolutions were agreed to
and the third was referred to the Commit
tee on Commerce.
Year: 1878

AN ACT to regulate the pay of members of


the Legislature.


SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Mississippi, That the annual
salary and mileage now provided by law,
shall be in full compensation for the whole
term of the present members of the House of
Representatives, and for corresponding
period of Senator's unless there is a called
which case members may receive three dollars
during such session. and ten cents per mile,
to be computed as row provided by law.


Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That after the
ex piration of the term of the present Legis
lature, members shall receive as full compen-
sation the sum of thee hundred dollars each
for each regular session, and ten (10) cents
per mile going and returning from their re-
spective homes to the Capital, and for called
sessions, the sum ofthree dollars per day each
during the whole of said session, and mileage
as aforesaid. The Speaker of the House shall
receive four hundred and fifty dollars for each
regular session, and four dollars and fifty
cents per day for called sessions.


SEC g. Be it further enacted, That this Act
take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.


APPROVED, February6, 6, 1873.


AN ACT to amend sections 1894 and 2795, of
the Code of 1871 relating to the return of
indictments into Court, and for other pur-
poses


SECTION ]. Be it enacted by the Legislature
| of the State of Mississippi, That sections
| 2794 and 2795, of the Code OF 1871 be, and the
same are hereby so amended, as to read as
follows: All indictments must be presented
to the Court by the Foreman Of the Grand
Jury, IN the presence of al least twelve of such
Jury including such Foreman, and must be
marked "fled,' and such filing dated and
signed by the Clerk, and may with the consent
of the Grand Jury or of the Court, he amended
at any time during the term at which II was
found; but such amendment shall not be
made after such term except by the consent OF
the defendent, with the permission of the
Court The order of the Court making or al
lowing the amendment shall be entered upon
the minutes, and the Clerk is hereby directed
to attach to the indictment copy of the order
of amendment, showing the date of such
order But, whether such copy be attached oil
not the order of the Court allowing such
amendment shall have the same effect as i
such amendment were actually inserted il
the Indictment, and SUCH filing shall be evi
dence of the proper Snd legal return int,
Court of such indictment, and no entry of sucl
return on the minutes shall be necessary upoI
the return of Indictment, and soon as thi
same shall have been marked filed it shall
be the duty of the Clerk, unless otherwis
instructed by the Court or District Attorne.
Year: 1878

IL. c. Castelanos argued for the defense.
He said that the crime charged had not been
established; that the consolidated statement
Offered in evidence, Is not a public record,
NOT being certified by the Clerk OF the Dis
trict Court. lie said the alleged converse
ton at the Four Seasons Restaurant had
been denied by all who were present and
had been on the stand
Year: 1878

In the times of wild cat banks and un.
secured bank notes no man dared take a
five dollar bill unless he knew the bank
of issue. And then while he slept it
might become worthless rag. When a
national bank breaks-a phenominaily
rare thing-its notes are eagerly sought
for. The National Banking system is
the best and safest system for the depos-
itor that was ever planned. The Ma
tionals demand a return to wild cat and
disastrous banking.
Year: 1878

a GLASGOW, Scotland, bank failed last
week for fifty millions. and has already
produced other bank collapses amount
ing to ten or fifteen more. Thank God,
that owing to our banking system. we
have only lost in all the National Banks
together since their inception, some six
and half millions. Remember this,
when an enemy to sound money, asks
YOU to vote the Greenback ticket.
Year: 1878

MEIGHEN made his money by loauing
and speculating in greenbacks when there
was big margin instead Of one quarter
Of one per cent. to work on. He wants
the balmy days Of the uncertain dollar to
Year: 1878

1t is a well-known fact that from
time immemorial herds of wild
horses have roamed over the plains
of Southwestern Kansas. Their
origin no man knoweth. 1t may be
dated back to the early Spanish
conquest of the country. 1t has
been exceedingly difficult to cap
ture them, the method pursued
having been to run down and lasso
them with fleet horses. Lattefly,
however, it is found that they can
be captured in herds. The method
is to get up an outfit of a fast walk
ing team on wagon carrying pro-
visions and cheap supplies, and
three or four riding ponies, and as
many men. When a herd is found
they are kept moving, no effort be-
ing made to drive them in any di-
recion. The teams and ponies are
not driven faster than a walk, and
every opportunity is embraced Of
cutting across to save distance. The
wild horses are kept in motion till
dark, being given no opportunity
to Craze during the day. At night
they are too tired to Craze and will
lie down. The pursuers camp. feed
their horses from grain which they
carry with them, and are
up by daylight, have break
fast, and start again. This is kept
up day after day. Every day takes
some of the scare and wild out Of
them, they become accustomed to
the sight of the men on horseback
and the team, find they are not 90.
ing to be hurt by them, and .tired
and leg-weary with constant travel
and little feed, in from eight to
ten days will allow the men to ride
in among them and drive them in
any direction. They are then head.
cd for the rancho and are quite
tame and docile by the time they
get in. They are of the pony or


der, such as are used in the cattle


business, make good riding ponies


and, when thoroughly broken, goot


teams for light driving in that coun


try. They sell, when broken tt


ride, at SIS to $25 per head, ant


when broken to drive at from SCI


to SIS per span.
Year: 1878

hhnsA Olty 1lmes.l


A nice young man EMPLOYED in
the Kansas Pacific office resolved
the other day to present his beloved
girl with a nice pair of shoes. He
accordingly procured her measure
and went into one of the fashiona-
BILE stores on Main street and pur-
chased 81 pair Of shoes. In or
der to make the present appear
more valuable, he marked $5 upon
the soles of the shoes, and, at his
request, the clerk put a receipted
bill for s. into one of the shoes.
The presentation was made and the
lovers were happy, as lovers should
be. But mark the sequel, the girl
examined the shoes in the daylight
and was not satisfied. She was
convinced that her lover had been
cheated in the purchase of such a
pair Of shoes at that price. She
decided to go and change the shoes
and get better bargain. Yester-
day she appeared in the store and
selected a pair of shoes, price SO so,
and politely requested the clerk to
take back the shoes for which she
said her husband had paid S.. The
receipted bill was produced in proof
and the boot man found it impos-
8ible to go "behind the returns"
The smart girl took her SO so pair
of shoes and obtained 81 so in
money, and went home happy and
satisfied. The boot seller sent a bill
for SO to the young man, who
promptly paid the difference, but
he thinks that girl a little toe
smart for him.
Year: 1878

give you strength to bear this terri
bic loss" The queens remains
rest temporarily beside those of the
Bourbon Princess in the vaults of
the Escurial. On the day of the
funeral, throughout all Madrid al
most all of the ahops were partially
closed. The people generally wore
mourning, and business was entire
ly suspended. More than 10000
persons visited the chapel where the
remains lay.
Year: 1878




There are two gentlemen named for the
lower House who are now canvassing the
city for nomination. The pressure Of events,
the great distress prevailing. the necessity
for reform In many ways are such that the
opinions of the candidates should be freely
obtained. 1t is no time to permit man to
be nominated through courtesy-he should
be in accord with the people, and alive to
the wants and need Of the masses. There
are pressing evils which demand redress
We want man In the Legislature able to
represent the wants of our city. Among
the reforms, we ought to have liberal
exemption law, one which would prevent
in the future the narrowing scenes which
sometimes occur, by selling the last article
of furniture to pay landlords rent. We
will take occasion at some near day to fully
state our views. ... ..
Year: 1878

A concert will be given at Plymouth Church,
fn Brooklyn, tomorrow evening the benefit Of Miss
Aretla K Camp, who Is member Of the choir of that
church There viii be number Of artists to take part
In the concert several Of them very fayorsby
Year: 1878

Mr.. George Ticknor Curtis, referee, being
asked yesterday concerning the lostponcmcnt
Of the sale Of the Eric Railway said:


by tie judgment of foreclosure and sale !
was directed not to postpone the sale except on
the request of the plaintiff attorneys. but was
authorized TO postpone it upon receiving their
request. On the 10Th Of this month | received
from them the following letter:
Year: 1878

In the adjustment Of the estate Of the
'sick man" By the European congress, Eng
land bore off her plum in the shape of the
island of Cyprus, and there seems to be no
dissatisfaction on the part of anybody over
the result The Cyprians will be delighted
to be under the wing OF powerful and
stable government. The Turks are graft
fed to have the English represented at a
point so near them. Russia doesn't grum-
BILE, France is gratied, and Germany thinks
it's all right, for BISMARCK did it, while
BEACONsFIEID thought ull the while II was
his own personal feat. England Is on q
broad grin over the affair, and Prince AR
THUR concludes that as his mother has an
addition to her real estate, he can afford
to enter upon a matrimonial alliance, pro-
vidcd Parliament will vote supplies, and
perhaps he will settle down in Cyprus and
/ become Granger.


We notice that there is some little hig-
Cling in Parliament over the mere marriage
dowry that the Prince solicitS and expects
and will get Some ofthe Lords being so very
ungracious us to intimate that the Queen is
rich enough to marry of her children and
settle them down in the world at her own
expense without taxing the national ex-
cheuuer but that will make no difference.
! The usual dowry will be voted, and the
Prince will marry, and then England will
bc happy over her new island and her new
Princess England is great country, and
we are proud of hcr-we only wish the Pill
grims had landed at Charleston, s. C., in
stead of Plymouth Rock ; then an entirely
different race of bullet-heads would have
peopled the south. The chivalry of the
Pilgrims would have been of the stalwdrt
CROMWELL type, and the CALHOCNs HAMp,
TONS and the like would have found Jordan
n hard road to travel