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Year: 1878

rhe result yesterday gives ground to Re.
publicans for thorough satisfaction in some
of its aspects and profound regret in others.
In the first place, to count our mercies, we
have elected Thomas B. Reed to Congress
from this district by an increased plurality,
and have stamped with the seal of peoples
reprobation the unscrupulous and tricky at
tempt to obtain his seat by devious ways.
Reeds election is not only a good thing in
ITSELF but it illustrates the advant-
age of straightforward adherence
to principles in political affairs and
shows the confidence which people feel
in man who knows what he thinks and
SAYS what he means. As to the rest the Re-
publicans of Maine are like spoiled children
they have been so used to indulgence
in absolute and sweeping victory that
they are likely 10 be unduly chagrined
and disappointed by temporary and par
tial defeat. We have elected Reed,
Frye, Lindsey and possibly Hale to Congress,
and yet we are greatly disappointed by the
loss of the fourth and perhaps the fifth
districts. 1t is grievous thing indeed to
have lost Representative in the fourth
district, but the defeat of Hale, if he be
defeated, is national calamity. His loss as
member of the lower House will be keenly
deplored throughout the length and breadth
of the land. 1t gives an additional pang that
he should be beaten by so utterly worthless
and unsuitable person as Murch, a man
whose ignorance and improvidence were his
leading recommendations, communist,
trade union leader, man indoctrinated with
all the dangerous theories which threaten
the fabric of society.


As to the state ticket it is shameful that
Maine fails to give majority of all her votes
for the noble Connor, man who honors the
state which has honored him, and who is the
embodiment of everything fine and manly.
But SO it is and we must trust to the chance
OF holding. the legislature for his election.
This is as yet matter of doubt and uncer-
tainty. The Senate We probably have and
the House we hope for, but must wait for
more complete returns for definite knowl-
edge. About one thing we can heartily con-
gratulate ourselves and that is the gallant
fight we have made for honest money and
the unity and good organization of our party
on the subject. The Greenback craze has
utterly wrecked and demoralized the
Democrats, while it leaves US COM
pact and earnest body, proud, even
in partial defeat, of our position and of
all We have done and said throughout
the campaign. For us defeat in good cause
is honorable, but for the Democrats what
shall we say. They are broken and
defeated, they have deserted their an
cient faith without espousing a new one,
they are party without principles,
aims or conference. Whether in defeat or
victory we say what we mean and know we
are right. Soon or late We must attain COM
plete victory, for right, honesty and decency
is sure to prevail, and so we go hopefully
about fighting the good fight again without
the possibility of wavering or equivocation,
in full confidence of future success.
Year: 1878

The Savannah Republican in its annual re-
view, Sept. 2, says: "Vessels seeking frelghts
which are SO much dependent upon a good
cotton crop-will do good business by COM
ing to our port early in the season, especially
as stocks of cotton in Europe are exceeding
ly small, and an urgent effort will be made to
send forward the new crop as speedily as pos
sibls. Peace in Europe being established,
trade reviving, and crops Of cereals every
where good, we have every reason to expect
general revival of business throughout the
world"
Year: 1878

GOLD and Greenbacks are now almost at
par; double the issue of greenbacks and pa
per dollar, though still called dollar, would
only buy halt as much as it will now. We
would go back to war prices, but not to war
activity
Year: 1878

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
ations, The name and address Of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
out as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return Or preserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1878

The trial of the suit of Thomas Barry against
the Twenty third Street Railroad Company took place
Yesterday before Judge Sanford, in Superior Court.
Special Term The plaintiff claimed that he got on the
front platform Of car and that the conductor pushed
him off, He fell and the wheel passed over his left
hand He asks $1,000 damages. The defence is that he
was intoxicated that he tried TO get tho front plat
FORM which has gate but no step or hand rail, and
missing his grasp FELL the driver almost instantly stop
ping the car The jury is TO bring in scaled verdict
this morning G. ". Wager appeared for the plantf;
Flanagan Bright for the defendant.
Year: 1878

bounty and good cheer which attend
the departure of autumn, their influence
fails us in contemplating winter, and
we look upon the beginning of it's long
reign with dread. But even in winter
we find quite as valuable, though less
pleasant, discipline as in summer
itself, for while summer keeps hope
alive, winter tests and tries its sister
virtue-faith. Even though that faith
is strengthened 10y previous experience
and knowledge, it is still called strongly
into exercise during the brief days of
December, and must endure the ordeal
of many long and gloomy nights. Now
the year goes down into the Valley of
the Shadow of Death, and it is only by
the exercise of IA strong belief that we
can look before and see it emerge again
from the shades into brighter light
and Il warmer life beyond. Thus does
even the death of the year aid us by
giving us broader faith and renew
ed and quickened confidence. Boston
Journal.
Year: 1878

Men harp about new Issues. We
have none. The Independent dodge
all fully understand, and it Ia hardly
worth while to discuss it. The National
dodge can he put in tho same category.
In other sections Of the country, thnt is
In the older States, these two parties
may mean something, and may in the
course of time accomplish some good,
bat we havo live issues to meet In the
old battle-f3elis against an arch enemy.
No need for US to seek new issues.
Time enough for that two years hence,
after we have secured another two
years. guarantee OF peace from now
until then, but the terrible ordeal


through which this State has passed
should be an all-sufficfent warning to


her sons not to triile with this matter.


In reference to the new parties that are
being SO much talked of lately, an en-
inent Judge and lawyer OF ability OF


this State, in speaking Of them, says
s'That the white people will sooner OF


later divide into political organizations


is almost certain. This, for the good


of tho country, will perhaps come too
soon, as 1t will leave the negro vote


the balance of power, a condition of


things, politically, that will be un.
pleasant and dangerous" This gives
the whole thing in a nutshell, and it


is we'll worth while to carefully con-
slider the subject The same jurist
says: "Left to.thcir individual choice
many Of the negroes would vote for
mon Of our party, but their leaders
drive them to support the ticket" A
more convincing argument for tho


Democrats of this state, and of Grant
parish particularly, to stand united
0OaSvNef So,
uttered in fewer words. - Cblfar
(Tiv,nicLe |
Year: 1878

The Radical politicians of this
State have been getting quite bold oil
late, owing to the wishy- washy
policy pursued by the Democratic
members of our Legislature, and
seem to think that there will be some
chance for them to get into Office
again at the next election. But they
need not lay any such fattering unc-
ton to their souls. The victory
gained over the cohorts of Radical
ism in 1876 was won after q hard
fought struggle, in which many sacri-
tices had to be made, and we do not
believe our people intend to let the
fruits of that victory slip from their
grasp yet awhile. When the cam
paign opens the people of Louisiana
will be found solid against the
enemy, no matter in what form it
may present itself. 1t is true, some
of the men elected to office by the
Democratic Conservative party have
been weighed and found wanting,
but this is no reason why we should
become lukewarm and again give the
State over to the robbers and thieves
who have plundered us SO mercilessly
in the past. Instead of this, throw
those who have been unfaithful over
board and elect new men.
Year: 1878

Our school system ought to be de-
centralized. A central junta in New
Orleans ought not to control the ap
pointment of the directors and through
them the teachers of every remote par
ish. The only thing comparable to it
is Louis Napoleon's centralized i'm
perial system. The people of each
school district ought to levy their own
school taxes, as is done in free States,
and there might be one experienced
educator or local superintendent in
each parish. The people ought also
to decide what text books shall be
placed in the hands of their children.


Sugar Planter
Year: 1878

After all that can be said about the


shortcomings of Mr.. Hayes and his


lack of skill in management, the I'M


proved state of things which his ad.


ministration has brought about must


be recognized and acknowledged. It


is true he has lost the support of his
own party without securing that of
the Democrats; it is true he failed of
an admirable opportunity to strength
en- himself with the people when he


refused to approve the silver bill it
is true his civil service reform scheme
has heen so transformed that there is
little Or nothing left of it; aud it is
true he has managed to divest himself
of nearly all the authority and influ-
ence that his station ought to bring.
But for all this, his administration is
a great improvement over that of his
last predecessor. There is no district
ring permitted under it. There are
no detestable favorites and f1unkeys
like Babcock and Shepherd nourished
by it. The Southern States are no
longer proconsular provinces, but CO.
equal States. The animosities which
the Grant administration assiduously
cultivated have given place to good
order and good feeling; and the peace
which Grant merely promised has
become an actual fact under Hayes.
The departments have materially i'm
proved, rings have been broken up
and higher standard of official con-
duct has been imperceptibly intro
duced. The civil service has been
partly reformed in spite of the failure
of the particular way in which it was
to be reformed. Partisan politics have
been SO nearly banished from the dis
cussiOns at Washington that there is
no organized power that can be called
all opposition. Secretary McCrary
of the War Department, is great
over Belknap and Cam
eron; Schurz is great improvement
over Delano and Chandler; Thomp-
son is far better than Robson, and
Devens is far better than Williams,
Pierrepont and Taft. These things
must be credited to Mr.. Hayes in
the balance for the first year
of his administration, and they largely
the faults on the other side.
Year: 1878

IT almost surpases belief that cabinet
officer should give currency as the truth to
what he knows to be deliberate and mali
cious lie. And yet Mr.. cCrary, in his speech
at Keokuk on Tuesday evening, is reported
thus:


The secretary gave it as his deliberate
opinion that there is great danger in the Con
'ederate war claims now before Congress. Ii
there ls no purpose to push these claims, why
are they kept alive7 Why are they kept con.
stantly before Congress3 Why are they re.
newed from session to session, and kept al
.sa>s pending? You need not be told that thu
Democrats can gain and keep control of Con
greas only by the aid of solid South. and you
know we'll that solid Democratic South would
dictate the policy of the party. There are now
on file many thousands of claims in which the
evidence is more or less conflicting on the
point of loyalty. With federate Democratic
commission to pass upon the question it is
from the treasury tO pay rebel claims, without
any open action in the way of the repeal of the
law prohibiting the payment of any but loyal
claimants.


He gives voice to this malicious slander
we'll knowing that the constitution expressly
prohibits the payment of such claims; that
every Democratic speaker in the country
has denied any such intention; that the
Democratic House allowed but five millions
of war claims at the last session of Congress,
and these only after full proof of the loyal
ty of the claimants; and that the Democrats
passed law outlawing all claims for war
losses after the year 1879. Such fragrant
dishonesty and unfairness is disreputable in
any one, but more especially in a high Of
6cer Of the government.
Year: 1878

THERE is a grim humor still remaining in
the fever-stricken cities of the South. New
Orleans has a"Can't-Get-Away club" that is
busily engaged in philanthropic work among
the sufferers. Hemmed in by relentless
quarantine they have found it impossible to
fly from the plague, and making the best Of
bad bargain they have banded themselves
together for works of charity, at the same
time acknowledging by the choice of ,their
name that they would have run away if they
could. There is both humor and candor IN
the name, with slight hint Of the despe-
rate straits in which they find themselves.
Year: 1878

SCRATCH the back of man who has GOT
ten richeby stealing pine and you find
Washburn man, no matter what his politics
may nominally be. They know that Wash.
bnrn is ono of them, and hence they feel that
they can rely upon him to keep them out of
the penitentiary. AS candidate of pine
thieves Washburn is success Unfortu-
nateIy for him the honest man are in the
1naiority.
Year: 1878




Not only in Minnesota, but in. every part
of the country, the Democrats must wage an
aggressive warfare in the pending campaign.
Like an army that storms the works of an
enemy, it must not stop to parry the blows it
receives, but rush resistlessly forward to the
victory that is even now within sight. It is
not necessary that the Democratic orators
should stop to apologize for or explain tie
past record of the party. History has
claimed that, and if eventa have not already
sufficiently indicated the wisdom Of its
course. those in the near future will do 80.
There are wounds and sores enough in the
Republican party into which swords may be
thrust displaying its rottenness. We must
strike wherever we ses the head of an enemy,
and strike to kill.


The battle must be fought on the issues of
the present, not upon those of the past The
Democratic party is impregnable in its posi-.
ton on the financial question. It abhors
the reputation of any of the governmental
promises to pay, and will insist that the cur
rency of the government as we'll as its coin
must be duly honored. It must insist
| that every piece of money bearing the stamp
or the imprint of the United States govern
ment shall be received by that government at
it's face value, and this accomplished TIE peo-
pie will honor and receive the currency as it
should be honored. It must denounce the
repudiating schemes of Sherman and his
Wall street partners and abettors who receive
one issue of coin at its face value and repu-
diate another issue at the same time as they
repudiate the whole paper currency Of the
government.


The Democratic party must insist that the
tariff laws be remodelled so as to place the
tariff on basis of revenue only. The peo-
i pie refuse to be any longer taxed to support
few favored manufacturers or importers.
They want to buy their goods in the market
where they are sold the cheapest; for they
have learned that the cry of protection to
American industry is cheat-a mere excuse
for the most aagrant system of robbery.


The Democratic party must expose the ex-
travagance and corruption of those who
have for nearly two decades fattened at the
public crib. To claim that party which
spends more in ten years than the Demo.
cratic party spent in sew nty-two years is
honest is too great task upon human
credulity. The people need only to have
the facts. They can draw their own infer.
ences.


The Democratic party must be aggressive.
It must declare war to the knife and the
knife to the hilt against these enemies OF
good government who have made of the
temple of the republic den of thieves
We can win success if we but work for it
and certainly the reward is worth the effort
Year: 1878

year with Knute Nelson for Lieut. Governor.
Then Washburn's plan is to go to the Sen
ate and Knute Nelson is to succeed him in
the House. There is no question about this,
and if Washburn should be elected that is
what will be attempted. Window is an ally
and party to this farming out. How do the
Republicans life to have Washburn farm out
the Offices for years to come?
Year: 1878

ORGANIZE for victory. Democrats, Green
hackers and everyone opposed to the longer
continuance of Republican misrule should
organize without delay and be prepared to
do effective work at the polls. Do not delay
organization until the time Is too short
Every town and ward should have club or
ganized within the next ten days.
Year: 1878

JOHN SHERMAN processes to be earnest in
lis desire to assist in the circulation of the
standard silver dollar. A correspondent of
Cincinnati paper, however, asserts that he
has neglected the best opportunity that
could present itself for attaining that end.
In paying off the employees of the departments
he treasury might issue nearly million
lollars a month of the standard silver dol
l.rs, but instead of doing so '.e persists in
paying them in greenbacks, and when small
bills are wanted he issues subsidiary coin in
stead of silver dollars. The truth of the
matter is that Sherman does not want silver
to obtain circulation, and is doing all in his
power to defeat the purpose of the remoneti-
zation act, while he processes to be e:.deavor-
ing to carry it out.
Year: 1878

DR. NoB1L1No, who made the last attempt
upon the life of the German Emperor, has
cheated the executioner by dying of his
self-inaicted wounds. He could not have
done his country better service.
Year: 1878

MINNEAPOLIS already has one Senator in
the person of VIM. Window. It does not
seem important that she should secure a
second one and send Bill Washburn to the
House, that he may reach the Senate.
Year: 1878

CHOICE OF THE NEXT PREslDENT.-As it is
possible that the national contest of 1850
will result in throwing the choice of Presi-
dent into the House of Representatives it is
of exceeding interest to learn the probable
political complexion, by States, of the next
House. The theory ofnon-election assumes
that three candidates will be in the field,
and that the third will secure sufficient
votes to prevent choice by the people
If the choice could be made by majority
of the House of Representatives the result
would, of course, be in favor of the Democ-
racy. The Constitution directs that " in
choosing the President the votes shall be by
States, the representation from each State
having one vote" In this way the one
member from Colorado will be the equal OF
New York's thirty-three members. With
the present outlook, and leaving out Cali
fornia and Indiana, the delegations will be
divided equally, with eighteen votes on
each side. California's delegation of foul
members will not be chosen till next year
The Indiana representatives comprise Sin
Republicans and six Democrats, with one
Greenbacker. 1t is thus seen to be possible


for the solitary Greenbacker from Indiana


to hold the balance of power and cast thu


vote which elects President.
Year: 1878

AN INDEPENDENT LEGIsLATUREMAN.-W
are likely to have faithful legislator in
VIM. Dean, of Newark, if he carries out
what he says and he is very independent
man. He says he expects to legislate for
the people irrespective of party, color or
any other distinction, and any law passed
for purely partisan purposes will receive mis-
decided opposition. On the tax collection
question he will favor an honest collection
of taxes from everybody liable to pay a
tax, but not for partisan purposes. He
invites full and free correspondence upon
all subjects which effect the public veal
and promises his assistance in conducting
the government in the spirit of honesty


true economy and reform.
Year: 1878

Now that it is solid North and solid
South with the Diamond State in the
centre, let it balance fairly and give them
good advice when required.-Ne'0ark Ledger.
But who is to speak the "good advice"
Col. Martin?
Year: 1878

NO. 41Z5--AdmInlStratlOn SeTleS.I


An ordinance providing for the payment Of


the several accounts therein named.


Be it ordained, That the following appropri-
atons be and are hereby made for the month
Of October, 1873, and that the Administrat tor
of Public Accounts warrant on the Admins
traitor of Finance in payment Of the same
whenever there shall be money in the city
treasury to the credit Of the appropriate fund
Year: 1878

Some men are good because it pays best;
some are good for nothing.


Always act as if you believed God was
present, and that you must give an account
to him.


People who do wrong seldom have any
difficulty in finding out excuses and justiii-
e..:~,, for it


He who receives good turn should
never forget it; he who does one should
never remember it.


Idleness is the dead sea that swallows up
all virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher
of a living man.


There are too many men trying to solve
the problem of how to live without work.
and this is what keeps up hard times.


He who feareth to submit any question
to free discussion, hath greater love for
his own opinion than for truth.


Keep out Of debt, out of quarrels, out
of damp clothes, out of reach of liquors.
and out of doors all you can in good
weather.


Sunshine Is powerful treatment for
diseases. If you aspire to health and hap
piness, allow the sunlight to come into
your houses.


None are too wise to be mistaken. but
few are so wisely just as to acknowledge
and correct their mistakes; and especially
the mistakes of prejudice.


Ifyou have good sister, love and cher
ish her with all your heart. If you have
none, why then love and cherish the
good sister Of some other man with all
your heart.


A daughter is almost always right when
she endeavOrs to initiate her mother: but
we do not think the mother is right if. at
a certain period of life, she tries to initiate
her daughter.


Mems lives should be like the days. more
beautiful in the evening, or like the spring,
aglOw with promises, and like the autumn.
rich with golden deeds. where good works
and deeds have ripened on the field.
Not only is kindness due to everyone.
but a special kindness is due to everyone.
Kindness is not kindness unless it be spe-
cial. 1t is in its fitness, seasonablencss
and individual application that its charms
consist.


Hyou are wise man you will treat the
world as the moon treats it. Show it only
one side of yourself, seldom show yourself
too much at a time, and let what you show
be calm, cool and polished. But look at
every side Of the world.
A wise man hath foibles as well as fool.
But the difference between them is that
the foibles of the one are known to himself
and concealed from the world; the foibles
of the other are known to the world and
concealed from himself.


What is a home without wife? She is
the lamp that destroys darkness-the angel
putting loneliness to flight; and is, or may
be, the dispenser Of every blessing the
mind of man may conceive, or the soul
sigh for. Home without wife is no home
at all, it is ''strange land''-a head with
out brains-a heart without consc;ence-a
ship without sails-an ocean without
waves-a world without religion.