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Year: 1878

The GREEDY AND INsATtATE BoND-
HOLDERS AND THE VoRAcIous COMMUNE
are making and likely to make It hard for
the babes of this generation and the next
at least The bondholders demand gold
for paper that was worth GO cents in gold,
and mortgage upon all property, with
the annual interest, while the Commune
demands share of all that the parent
has left. So the poor babes win find
themselves not only minus, but their
little hands mortgaged to the government
before even the breath of life is drawn.
How terrible is this to think of to Amer
leans who were taught that they were
born free. How the last ten decades
nave changed the affairs of our fair and
happy country. Now the horrid Com.
inuhe rears It's Satanic face and glares
It's ghostly features upon us thlrstinp for
the little we hope TO bequeathe our wives
to help to complete the education of our
children whose after efforts have already
been bargained away to pa v for the SINS
OF the Northern fanatical abolitionists
anu the southern hre-eaters, III the death
struggle OF civil war;and the subsequent
ioppeIy OF the people by horde OF
Niiiai nous once holders II not so numerous
aS inischleVous as were the locusts OF
Egypt Ihe uepts OF civil wars have
iaieiy peeh paiu ana to mortgage the
enorts Oh the UNBORN babe for the sins OF
wicked parents, should lie held as al
outrage upon humanity. The horrio
commune! send 1t back to its fate il
rance where The people stamped it out
Is worse than an assassin-give it NJ
quarter anywhere
Year: 1878

AFTER serious delays, decision has at
last been reached by the joint Democratic
Congressional Committee which promises
TO lead to an investigation into the frauds
practised at the last Presidential election
Year: 1878

The success OF Griffith G.. Williams, a
merchant of Utica, in treating and saving
valued horse that had broken leg, is
proved to be complete, and it naturally
attracts much attention, and provokes no
little discussion among men who have to
do with horses. The practice from all
time has been to regard a broken-limbed
horse as ruined and to kill it. In view of
Mr.. Wil!ams's experience, it may not be
uninteresting to recall the circumstances
and the treatment.


The animal was black mare that
easily made her mile in three minutes, a
model Of grace and beauty, and of such
excellent disposition that women and
childen drove her with safety. Mr..
Williams valued her at $1,000, not so
much for her speed as for her rare COM
bination Of good qualities. A twist in a
rut broke her right hind leg between the
fetlock and the gambrel joint. The
break could not have been made in a
worse place. The advice of veterinary
surgeons that she be killed was disregard
ed. The mare was slung up in blanket
and precisely the same treatment was
given as is employed in broken limbs in
men, The bones were placed carefully
In position, the limb was bandaged, and
then set in plaster. In six weeks the
animal could bear her weight, and in
seven weeks she was taken from the sling.
AT tie broken part there was consider
able enlargement, and there was not
wanting evidences of the limbs weak
ness. The case was widely commented
ON at the time, and the prediction of those
who saw the mare and of writers who
Joined in the discussion was unfavorable
to the getting of any practical service
from her. The New York sportingjour-
mails in particular expressed the opinion
that the cost and bother must come to
more than the animals worth, even
though the operation were successful.


This was in March, 1876. The repre-
sentative of the Utica Morning Herald,
who has visited the mare within week,
pronounces her absolutely cured and
seemingly as sound in the injured limb
! as she was on the day before it was
broken. The enlargement has entirely
passed away, and the mare spins around
the Driving Park track or over the smootf
Oneida County roads at her old-limt
three minute gait as readily as before
While moving at her fastest she shows ne
sign of having been injured. She is th'
mother of promising Hambletonian col


tive months old. Experienced horsemer
pronounce her absolutely as good as pre-


vious to The accident. The total cost O
the treatment was less than 500.


Mr.. Williams who is something of |
horse fancier, is strongly of opinion tina
nina ont of ten similarly broken lep


may be reset and the horse saved by thu


simple process he used. Whether thi


be so or not, it is plain that veterinary


surgeons cannot longer ridicule his ex


pertinent; and it is altogether quite pos


sible that he has opened to them nev


door for study and practice.-N. Y. Sun
Year: 1878

IMMIGRATIoN.-FromC California we have re-
ports OF immense preparations for immigration
to this country. In Sonoma county colony
is now being organized that is to number 300
persons, to move in a body to this valley. At
San Jose a colony is being formed that is to
start for Walla Walla before the end of the
current month. These colonists are in the main
small farmers, who are disyustsd with the huge
land claims and uncertainty of crops in Califor-
MIA, and come here in search OF cheap lands and
with the knowledge that our crops never fail
At a moderate estimate, California alone will
send It's twenty thousand immigrants this year.
From Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and the
whole tier of Western States, We hear OF per
feet heisra for TIE Pacific slope, and of all this
immense train of adventures, nine out of every
ten will head for the great Walla Walla eoun-
try. Forty Thousand souls is a moderate esti-
mate Of the gains we may reasonably expect
before the close of the current year, and with
the advent of this host of strangers the settle
ment of the country will date. To those of us
who have lived east of the mountains for the
past twenty years this thronSinS host of new
comers will be the realization of what we have
long looked for, and many Of us like the old
patriarch will be ready to excaim-" Now let
thy servant depart in pcace,'
Year: 1878

MORE RELIEF.-Senator voorhees, IS
not disposed to let the senate rest with


the passage of the silver bill. He. has
oiyen that body notice that the silver bill
having been passed, the repeal Of the re-


rumption act is next in order, and there


is no doubt but that he will urge this
matter ON to a successful issue. Senator
Voorhees, appears to have gone to the
senate for the purpose of DONG something
for the benefit of the people, not to sit
down and idly dream of the presidency
and future personal glory, as so many
other senators are doing. He seems TO
think that it is a senator's duty to work
for the relief of the distress that prevails
throughout the country, while many other
senators do not seem to be aware of the
fact that there is any distress to relieve.
Year: 1878

WAxrEp-Two young men who have a
large size spring wagon, double harness.
and travelling outfit, would like to make
up a party of three or four persons to travel
over the country in search of good location
to settle. Anybody having team of horses,
or two persons each owning work horse
will have good opportunity of travelling the
country and finding good location, at very
small cost. Apply to NJ. G. Harris, at the
STATESMAN office.
Year: 1878

A wise man will change his opin
ions as he extends his knowledge, a
fool never. All greenbackers were
five years ago. either Democrats OF
Republicans.


A fool will stick to an old political
party, whether right or wrong; assum.
ing il it was once right it must al
ways be right.


A wise man will use political par
ties as he does railroads, following
one IS long as it leads him in the
right direction. and then abandons il
for another.


No political party in power ever in
itiated = reform. An reforms come
through third parties.


We had better be with minority
with principal on our side, than with
the multitude in the wide gate and
broad way of evil.
Year: 1878

In a recent speech, Hon Thomas
Ewing said:


Our people are in debt at least
twelve millions of dollars for govern
ment, individual and corporate obi.
cations. These debts represent an
annual interest charge OF eight OF
nine hundred millions year. Our
government taxes, national, state and
municipal, are about seven hundred
and fifty millions annually. ExcIud.
ing SIC taxes for interest on bonds,
the two sums together represent an
annual charge of nearly fifteen hun
dred millions year. This sum is
abont twice the amount Of the annual
increase of wealth in the United
STATES. after deducting living ex.
penses, and is equivalent to interest
at six per cent. on a sum greater than
the present selling value of all the
property, real and personal in the
United States.


The above is doubtless true. But
what an AWFUL TRUTH! The inter.
est twice the amount of the annual
increase of wealth in the United
States, proves as conclusively as that
two and two are four that unless this
interest is at once stopped it will alb.
sorb very soon every dollar of the
total valuation of all the real and
personal property in the whole coun.
try and will certainly end in repudia.
tion, revolution, and bloodshed
The greenback proffers the only posi-
BILE plan to prevent this result.
Where is there any other door out of
this difficulty! Any other remedy
for this terrible yellow fever! Who
ever votes the Republican ticket
votes against this remedy, and votes
for our national death by reputation,
revolution and bloodshed.
Year: 1878

In assuming the position to which
the writer has been called by friend
Donnelly. he needs to make no ex-
tended remarks. Being poor. work
ingman, and granger. all his sympa-
thies are with these classes yet he
would have all other classes in the
enjoyment of all their inalienable
rights. Reverencing justice and
truth, he will endeavor to state moth
ing but what he believes to be true,
nor advocate any measure not strictly
Just. Remembering that the preju-
dice of education, and bondage to
some political party. blind many peo-
ple to their own best interests, he
will give line upon line and argument
upon argument to prove that the
Greenback system Of finance will be
..big money to every poor laboring
Year: 1878

The patent office at Washington
needs reformation or abolition--and
Of the two we incline to the latter.
It is hampering the industry of the
country by all manner Of eXactions,
and as it lives by the income derived
from the issue of patents it is ready
to patent anything. We showed the
other day that it had issued patent
for knife to pare apples with; and
now it seems it has perpetrated the
absurdity of granting patent for
making a pin hole in the big end of an
egg. Our friends must be careful
hereafter howthey play with egg
shells,or they will find law snit on
their hands.


Here is what the Scientific Ameri.
can says on the subject:


Be that as it may, it never fails to
strike one as consumedly funny to be
advised, under official seal and sigma.
ture, that the United States have
granted letters patent to A. b.. or G.
for-well, say a pinhole in the big end
of a picked egg!


Seriously. that is inst the point OF
the specification upon winch patent
No. 5O5,3l3 was granted. The pat.
entee calls it "new and useful i'm.
provement in processes of treating
eggs" the object of the improvement
being to provide means for preven.
ting the bursting of picked eggs
when boiled; said means consisting
in the piercing of small hole in the
egg shell over the air blister. The
hole is too small to be observable. yet
yet sufficient to allow the expansion
that ensues when the egg is INNER.
sed in boiling water, and thus the
liability Of such eggs to burst their
shells lin boiling is obviated. BY
this ingenius process old eggs, the
patentee AYERS, are made as good as
new laid eggs, and they are much
cheaper. What he wants to do with
his old eggs after they are boiled he
does not say. Possibly that. like the
suitable instrument for piercing the
shells, may constitute 1.-THE subject
matter of another application now be.
fore the patent Office" If so, we
trust the application twill be prompt.
ly granted; it would be such blessed
relief to travellers to have some one
man monopolize the use of stale eggs,
and SO keep them from the breakfast
tables Of hotels and boarding houses.
Year: 1878

"Many laboring men want the government
TO issue unlimited paper money, and think
it new idea. Mr.. Hewitt cruelty remarks
before his committee that the Chinese have
tried the experiment three times and failed
each time. "


The above is from the editorial col
umn of the Sun & Republican of
Sept. l3. Recently we published a
denial that this paper had ceased to
be greenback, but the above shows
the contrary.


It also contains a falsehood in the
assertion that ''many Elaboring men
want the government to issue UNLIAI.
TIED paper money!" for every Green.
back platform in the country limits it
to ''the payment of the interest-bear
ing bonds,; and to s'an amount ade
quate to the full employment of labor
the equitable distribution of it's pro
ducts, and the requirements of bust
ness. Mr.. Hewitt may have made
the remark attributed to him, for he
is bitter partisan, with too little
good sense to understand the advan
tages of the greenback, and too little
honesty to state the truth about il
when a falsehood happens to be just
as convenient. Neither the Chinese
nor any other nation on the face OF
the earth has ever tried the Green
back system of finance. Our OWL
and that of ancient Venice have made
the nearest approach, and their com
bined experience have led up to thi:
''mOre excellent way
Year: 1878

whoever receives copy of this
paper and is not subscriber, will
consider it an invitation for him tC
do so. either for the campaign
quarter or year. If he is either un
able or unwilling to thus help the
cause this paper advocates, please
hand it to some neighbor. We ask
investigation; we invite discussion
we ad with all to act and vote fol


cir own highest interest, which we
assert to be the Greenback policy OF
finance.


FRIENDS CIRCULATE THE DOCUMENTS,


Get every one you can to read ou1
papers. Remember that ours is the
cause of the laboring man against the
capitalist, of the poor against the
rich, of the granger against the
monopolist, of the Greenback against
the banks. of labor, which produces
all wealth. for just portion of that
wealth 1t produces. The money power
OF the country is against us. It will
flood the country with lying docu.
ments. 1t will deceive and mislead
wherever possible. It will buy every
vote that money can produce. It has
all the Government patronage to sup.
port It. 1t has an army of bond.
Il


holders to fight for it. All these will
cry from early dawn to dewy eve
'Great is Diana of the Ephesians r.
Her throne is gold. If she should
topple over. flor she is only an idol. !
the craft of those who live in idleness
upon the labor of others would be in
danger. Friends circulate our papers,
Get every body to read them.
Year: 1878

t8 1O dCCOuuU lOI tllc SIodC UIccu.
back vote in Maine, some of our daily
papers have said that it was owing to
the fact that in some parts of that
State the people have no money, and
do all their trade by traffic. Be this
as it may, ali trade is but traffic, though
it be for gold and silver, if they have
not the fat of government on them
to make them money. Suppose the
article is wagon. A passes it to B,
and B to C, and so on. It is plain
that such traffic would be cumbersome
and not as easily conveyed from one
to another as a greenback. Let a
greenback then represent it, and the
wagon could be put to use, and no
longer be unproduct;ve capital as it
would be when passing from one to
another. Would yon not suggest to
the owner of the wagon to represent
it by paper, and he could keep the
wagon to use? Gold and silver, like
that wagon, are unproductive capital
so long as they are used as money
Let them be represented by paper,
and they could at once be turned into
channels Of use in the arts and scien.
ces, and our exchanges with other
countries. This would increase our
productive capital by the whole
amount of gold and silver in the
land. 1t would relieve them from
doing service as MONEY, and we could
apply them to other uses. These
metals locked up in the treasury OF
in the vaults of banks. are dead pro
perty, and so far from being nseful
might as we'll have remained in the
ores Of their native mines, or be sunk
in the depths Of the sea. Make them
merchandise, and use greenbacks fol
money, and it would increase our pro
ductive capital by the whole amount
we use. 1t would enable us to pay
our debts and yet have our money te
use. Then we need not take the wa
gon over to Mr.. b. s; we can keep il
to ride Improving that the economic:
of the greenback system of finance
are boundless multiplying capita
which is the great want of most peo
pie, and spurring industry into new
ane unwonted activity. Let us ther
demonetize gold and silver, and make
the greenback our only money, and il
would at once place all classes of peo
| pie on the road to wealth.
Year: 1878

e The faith of the government is
the only guarantee for the payment
of our interest-bearing bonds, yet
these bonds are always above par.
The legal-tender greenback should be
worth IS much as the bond, for it has
the same guarantee. Then why should
the government pay over q hundred
millions annually as interest, when
the greenback is equally good, and
upon which there IS no interest!
Year: 1878

e Our whole financial system is
wrong. and has always been since the
birth of our Republic. Its injustice
has taken from the laboring classes
one-fourth of all their net earnings
without equivalent or compensation.
We knew no better than to think in
times past that it was the best system
possible, but we have been educated
by the force Of circumstances to think
differently now. Having become !
man 1--WE put : away childish thines. >
Year: 1878

There is no heart 80 utterly hardened
that it cannot be touched by woman's
love and tenderness.


The freside is a seminary of infinite
importance because it is universal, and
because the education it bestows, being
woven in with the w)of of childhood,
gives form and color to the whole texture
of life.


We should never forget that home is
the residemce not merely of the body but
also of the mind; and that the object Of
all ambition should be to be happy at
home, and to render home happy.


knowledge does not comprise all that
is contained in the large term of educa-
ton. The feelings are to be disciplined
the passions are to be restrained; true
and worthy motives are to be inspired a
profound religious teelingto be instilled
and pure morality inculcated under all
circumstances. All this is comprised in
edueation.- Ddniel Webster.


Partisan economy does not allow any
thing to be wasted consequently all
pieces of dry and damaged bread are
utilized. Some of them are dried in
ovens, and used in soup at lowclass res
tdurants; Others are pounded into Il
white paste used by butchers to adorn
outlets; while the poorest crusts are re-
duced to charcoal, ground into powder,
and converted into tooth paste.


would wish your daughters to re-
sembIe me in nothing but the love of
reading; knowing by experience how far
it is capable Of soitening the cruelest ac'
cidents of life; even the happiest can not
be passed over without many uneasy
hours, and there is no remedy so easy as
books, which, it they do not give cheer.
lulness, at least restore quiet to the most
troubled mind. Those that fly to card
or company for relief, generally find tha
they only exchange one misfortune TO
another,-- Laiy liootdgucs Letters.


Vanity, ill nature, want of sympathy
want OF sense--these are the chief sour
cas from which bad manners spring
Nor can we imagine an incident il
which man could be at loss as t
| WudI w HhN VI wv III IL h' WI
always considerate for the feelings q
others, did not forget himself, and di,
not lose his head or leave his common
sense at home. Such one may no
have studied etiquette yet ne will speal
and act like gentleman. On the othe
hand, a very pedant in form and bigo
in ceremonies may be nothing less thai
"the mildest hammered man that eve
cut n throat" As we can be wise with
out learning, so it is quite possible to b'
well hammered with little or no knowl
edge of those rules and forms which are
at best, only a substitute for common
sense, and which cannot be considere'
essential to good manners, inasmuch a
they vary in every country, and even il
the same country change about with tn
weathercock of fashion.
Year: 1878

And why should he not? lie was a
man of great authority under Candacc,
Queen of the Philippians, and had charge
of all her treasures He rode in royal
state, and doubtless was the envy Of mul
titudes. And yet it was not in consid-
Grafton of these things that he was joy
full. For all these things he might have
been miserable man, as has been the
case with many, even more exalted than
he.


As he was returning from Jerusalem,
whittier he had been to worship, sitting
in his chariot he read Esaias the Prophet.
He was a devout man, religiously in
clincd. BY divine direction Philip put
himself in the way and was made serv-
iceable in explaining the passage which
he was engaged in reading. 1t was tie
place where it is thus written. lie
was led as sheep to the slaughter, and
like lamb dumb before his shearer, 50
he opened not his mouth. In his humil-
iation his judgment was taken away,
and who shall declare his generation tor
his life is taken away from the earth"


This was all Greek to the cunuch. He
could not comprehend its meaning. lie
said to Philip; 81 pray thee. OF whom
speaketh the prophet this? of himself
or of some other man" Fortunate i.
was for him that the question was ad!
dressed to one competent toinstruct him,
to one indeed sent to him by the source
of all light by for this special purpose
"Then Philip opened his mouth and be,
gan at the same scripture. and preached
unto him Jesus" lie preached to him
the great atonement through his obedi
ence unto death. lie told him He was
the Lamb OF God, that taketh away
the sin Of the world"


The seed fell on good ground on a sol
prepared to receive it, and it Immediately
sprangupand broughtforth precioustruit
By the grace of God, the eunuch at once
became cordial believer in the LORD
Jesus Christ, and was ready to profess
himself his friend and follower, whicl
he did by then and there receiving the
ordinance of baptism at a fountain by TIT
wayside. 1t was happy, joyful expert
ence in the history of this eminent man
"And he went on his way rejoicing"


And why should it not be so with al
Christians? Like this recently-converte'
eunuch, they are believers in the Lore
Jesus Christ For His sake their sin
are all pardoned and blotted out, ntve
to be remembered against them any NOR
forever. They are justified in the sigh
of God, and He is their rec0nciled Fathe
and Friend And now, as they so oI
their way in the pilgrimage of lite, ever
step brings them nearer to their eyerlast
ing home in Heaven. They are nearer t
that home at night than theywere in tn
morning, and nearer to it in the mornln
than when they laid themselves down t
rest at night. "Soon shall they wax
and find them there" Come health o
sickness, come prosperity OF adversely
come life or death, come what may, a
is working together for their good. Th
rough storms that beat upon them her
are waiting them more rapidly across tn
ocean. Soon shall an entrance be minis
tered unto them abundantly into tn
everlasting Kingdom of their Lord an
Saviour Jesus Christ.-N y. Observer.