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Year: 1874

TO the volume of the currency will be an i'm
mediate though temporary benefit to
many sections OF the agricultural districts,
and of this temporary advantage the
South is in position to reap the
full benefit. All the good that imitation
may possibly do is clear and Immediately
apparent to all, while the vast evils that
must necessarily flow from it are only
apparent to those capable of applying to the
future the recorded experience of the past, and
these evils are therefore beyond the vision of
the people, and equally beyond the compre-
hension of the oracles of the coun-
try grocery, from whom the popular
opinion derives instruction on subjects
beyond the peoples knowledge Southern
opinion is, therefore, controlled by the same
circumstances that affect Western opinion;
but, unlike this, it does not feel itself under
the little restraint OF regard for the national
pledges, for to the Southern people the
national pledges are simply the pledges OF a
party to which they are opposed, and OF
an enemy who has ruthlessly ground the
South under his heel. BY what conceivable
principle in human nature could they be sup
posed to care for that enemy's honor? They
want money, and they want Congress to vote
any measure that they are told will give them
money Immediately. That this measure will
be source of ultimate ruin they do not
believe if the warming is even heard, while
that it will be an injury to the credit Of the
United States is perhaps an additional point
in its favor


But the most significant fact is the adhesion
of the republican party of the West to the
Southern policy; the acceptance by them OF
the lead of North Carolina democrat, and
the virtual thrusting aside of all the proposals
ignominiously of the bill of that tried repub-
lican-the most capable fnancier in the
Senate-Mr Sherman, for the crude,
naked, revolutionary imitation programme
of Mr.. Merrimon, Southerner and an
opponent Of the party in power. This is
simply the going over Of the republican party
to that party which it has always declared to
be the enemy Of the country, and going over
on point where the welfare of the country is
most perilously at stake. II Horace Greeley
was slaughtered by the people at the polls for
going over in a way no worse, what shall be
done to oil these party leaders in Congress
who merely repeat his offence? Are these
men renegades? Are they betraying their
constituents? Or does the country mean
repudiation2
Year: 1874




J. H. WAGGoNER, editor of the
Richland County Republican, is out
in card announcing his willing
ness to serve his District as Mem
ber of Assembly, but declaring that
he will not stoop to any pipe-laying,
or make any pledges unbecoming
an honorable man to secure the
nomination. From our knowledge
of Richland County and the mate
rial at hand there for making AS
semblymen, we should say the Dis
trict is not likely te do better than
to nominate Mr.. Waggoner.
Year: 1874

GEANaERs' ADDREss.-We pub
lish in full, in another place, the
address OF the Executive Commit
tee of the State Grange, to the
Patrons Of Husbandry in this State.
1t is timely, well tempered docu-
ment, and We hope its admonitions
will be needed by every granger in
Iowa county-that all will attend
the primary meetings and secure the
election of delegates to the County
and Congressional District Conven-
tons who will nominate such men
for the various positions as will
prove satisfactory to the people and
safe guardians Of the public inter-
ests. Especially would we urge
upon Republican Changers to at
tend their party caueuses, as we
believe that upon the Republican
party must devolye the task of
bringing about the reforms demand
ed, and correcting the evils COM
planned Of. That party is thorough
ly and peculiarly identified with the
industrial interests of the country,
and in the issue now before the peo-
pie, its position was taken at the
outset, and has been resolutely and
unswervingly maintained. There is
no need of fear but that every can
didate of the Republican party will
he able to say, in reply to any ques-
ton that may be put to him, tina.
he is neither to be frightened by
the threats nor purchased by the
money Of the monopolists.
Year: 1874

The river CLYDE was the scene of an in
teresting affair during recent visit there
of the channel fleet of the British navy.
All the movements, possible and probable,
in the case of actual conflict, were exc
cuted on board the great war ship, the
Devastation. and are described as follows :


''All the men, from captain to the low
est grade, were under orders to be on
board by 8 a. m. AT $3.50 the drum beat
to quarters, it being understood that In the
pilot tower an enemy's ship had been sig
nailed in the distance. The captain took
his post within the shellproOf tower, and
gave his commands through speaking
tubes. The turrets were manned by their
full complement of men-twenty-iOur TO
each gun, eleven taking inside and thlr-
teen outside position in working each.
From the turrets down to the magazines
every trap-hole was manned. On the
word being given to load guns the seven
hundred pound shells were within a
minute brought out, hoisted on the pulley
carriage, run down to the guns mouth,
and the gun loaded and run out. The
distance to the enemy being given, the
gun was raised to the proper level, and
discharged within the second minute.


"The enemy being supposed to have
escaped, bore down on the Devastation,
and boats put off to board her. The bugle
sounded to arms to repel the boarders,
when two-thirds of the men of the crew
comprising 100 men in each division-tiew
to arms, and with swords and guns ran
up TO the boarding-deck, the third division
remaining below TO protect the magazines
and as a reserve. The boats being re-
pulsed, it was supposed that the enemy
had returned TO their guns, and that a
shell having burst had set fire to the De
vastation. On this three bells were ruAg
and the men were ordered to the hose.
Four hose were set in operation on the
sounding of the bugle, and the forepart Of
Year: 1874

There is nothing respecting which man
kind is more credulOus than the effect OF
medicines unfortunately administered
to their own species and to domestic ami
mails. If poultry are sick they are dosed
with the first thing that somebody recon-
mends, without endeavOring to ascertain
what the ailment really is. Then if, in
spite of the drugs the bird gets well, the
medicine gets the credit, and acquaintances
are advised to administer blue-pill, jalap,
colchicum, cayenne, carbOlic acid, or
whatever it happens to be, But if the
fowl dies under treatment, it was not the
fault of the drug, but the bird was too far
gone before treatment, that's all. "Na-
ture did it," We do not condemn all doc
toring of poultry. We hope that in all
instances where it will pay it will be in
telligently performed. But it will not
pay in ordinary instances to fuss with a
sick fowl, because of its small value, even
when the disease and the appropriate REM
edy are both clearly understood. If the
medicine can be mixed with the food so as
TO dose the whole flock at once, but little
painstaking is required. But where there
is one patient, and it must be caught and
held by one person while another forces a
pill down It's throat, better off with its
head and have done with 10 Still, this
method, though convenient, is not very
scientific, and will not be popular with
those poultry keepers who have speci-
mems, in these days of rare breeds and
high prices. worth $40 to 500 each.
When fowls are worth as much as sheep
or cattle, it will pay TO spend as much
time doctoring the one as the other. But
let us go slowly and surely. and not drug
until we know what the complaint is. and
what effect the medicine will produce.
The notion that the prescription will dc
no harm if it fails to do good, is mis-
chievous, because apt to be false.-Er.
change.
Year: 1874

There was an argument last night by
father and by Uncle Ben about the fire
crackers, which my Uncle Ben said he had
read in Detroit paper that the Abolition
lists was going to do away with them on
the HOLIDAYS, on account of their danger
business about fire. Then | heard my IA
ther say he, for one, was sorry, because
he was a bOv once himself, and knew how
it went: and my Uncle Ben, which it is
always Just like him, said he, for another
one, was glad. | would given jest then
all the money | have got saved up If L
could of slipped a whole pack under his
heels behind him. 1t was nay bad luck
for to be named for my uncle when | was
small. and don't like it, but it is one of
that kind o. things that nobody car help; (;
and neither can |, and so what is the use
to fret? But, any how, the more | see of
the cross ways of a certain kinfOlks that |


have got the greater | would like to have
some other name than Benjamin if you
please. That's what kind of Il hair-pIn
am. But they kept on talking about
fire-crackers and things, and had little


loose time afOre bedtime to listen. l knew


well enough that it was no put in OF my
oar, but there was no objection IT L kept
nv ears open. if | did have to keep my
cIlll Slill anu 81 llN utlClC llJ NttlNN'l OuA


ward through his nose and got worked up
so desperate red-hOt that | thought surely
he would 90 off into some spaSmS about
nothing. | don't like to see people have
fits. but | wish he had just few. 1t was
a trifling firecracker, he said, as burned up


Portland and Memphis and dead loads OF
other cities and towns and they would


keep on a burning up places till the whole
United States would be all in the country


again like it was when Christopher Col
umbus lived here But, finally, father got
tired of that sort of music and told him he
had better take some vermifuge for his


worms and 90 TO bed; and | thought so
too. and so | got cooked out and went to
bed myself; but didn't take no vermi-
| fuge i'm mine. So I-laid in bed and thought
over what Uncle Ben said about a fire
cracker would some day burn up Louis
Vile: which | would only like to see il
| tried on while the Watkins and the ellis
| and the Leech and the Levi and the rest OF


the engines, also the hooks and ladders


are around. Ii sounded TO ne like that
kind of talk was all stuffed nonsense.
| But by and by went into a hard sleep
and dreamed that had gone into store
| for to buy Roman candle and some rock
cts. and was in such a dreadful hurry TO
fire the candle that it went off atOre L got


out of doors, and set fire to box of tor


pedOes and barrel of serpents, and big
! powder can; then the whole business
| blowed up and sent me ten times higher'n


the City Hall clock; and when L came
down Twas wide awake. But | was lying


with nv shoulders on the floor and my


legs in bed all tangled up in the 'squlto
bar. and nv nose was skinned dreadful


where 1 had scraped it against the bed
post. But it was fun enough while it last


ed, and all right but the noise, and just 50


the Abolitionists will keep their hands of


the fire-cracker business | don't care a
cent Ben SPINNER.-LouisUiLLe Courier
| Journal.
Year: 1874

ST. PETERSBURG, the capital of Russia,
is the haven for children who have pro-
pensity for making mud and sand pies. In
many of the small public parks OF that city
there are, here and there. large open spaces
covered with gravel. Every morning in
each of these spaces may be seen large
pile of sand cone-shaped, about feet high
and 6 feet in diameter at the base. After
breakfast all the children of the neighbor-
hood. equipped with little spades, hatchets
and wagons, repair to these cones and en-
ploy themselves in digging them down
and scattering the material, according to
their fancy. over the gravel spaces. The
next morning the cones are all ready for
another assault. The result of this simple
plan is that the children acquire fondness
for exercise and labor, ard get that health
full open-air amusement so essential to their
vitality in a city. Perhaps they always
get the usual maternal spanking for soiling
| their clothing, but this is one Of the sweets
of the halcyOn days of childhood that can
be looked back TO in after years without
| reyengeful feelings.
Year: 1874

Editors of Dispatch,-Thc citizens of


Church and Union Hills desire to return
thanks to Captains Bossieux and Carter for


the handsome military display Of the Fourth,


on which occasion they honored their part


of the city With visit, which was the first
appearance of the military in that locality


since the war (save our gallant local Com
pany "G.~ Why it is that Marshall Park
Libby's HilD is not used for military dis
plays we cannot imagine. 1t is admirably


adapted for that purpose, being level and on


a commanding position overlooking the city


and also country to the south and east. The
citizens would be pleased to have the mill
tary on the hill occasionally, and would be
equally well pleased If the new Council
would place stone seats on the brow Of the
hill overlooking Rockets under the shade oil
that one glorious old tree. WATT.
Year: 1874

ROANOKE VALLEY RAILROAD Several
prominent citizens had an interview with
President Buford, OF the Danville railroad.
yesterday. for the purpose Of urging the
completion Of the Keysylle extension. We
understand that Colonel Buford expressed
himself as hopeful of a favorable result from
the pending negotiations with the citizens of
Mecklenburg county,
Year: 1874

A LARGE and enthusiastic meeting
was held I'm jefferson on Thursday
last, which adopted a series of resolu-
tions censuring the Supreme Court of
Texas for its decision in the late cleo
ton case, denouncing Governor Davis
for secretly applying to the President
for troops to be quartered in the State
capitol in a time of perfect peace, with
a view to overawe the action of the
people of Texas in the late election,
applauding the President for his well
timed reply, and urging the Fourteenth
Legislature to do their duty, and with
magnanimous moderation, but un-
yielding firmness, to inaRgurate and
sustain Governor Coke and the new
administration.
Year: 1874

To the Editor of The Dallas Herald:


AS a profound Democrat I confess
that the position am now occupying
as Sheriff of Dallas county is, under
all the circumstances by which we are
surrounded, as unpleasant to me as to
my friends. am not only willing but
anxious, to surrender to j. E. Barkley
the duties of my Office. simply desire
to say to my friends in this county that l
have given large bond, payable to
the State of Texas, for the faithful per-
formance of my duties, on which sew
eral of my friends have mutually obli-
gated themselves with me that those
duties would all be faithfully filled.


L fully intended to surrender my
office upon the first demand of ]. E.
Barkley, until the case of Rodriguez
was carried to the Supreme Court.
Before that case was decided ! went to
Austin and stated to both the Comp
troller and Governor what intended
to do, and was by them informed that
if the Supreme Court decided the cleo
ton law unconstitutional my liability
to the State would continue, and that
the government at Austin would not
recognize ellleT iuy IlSuV w suIl lShuoi
the Office or j. E. Barkley as Sheriff,
even though he filled that position.


These facts communicated to Major
Barkley some time ago, and requested
him to abide the action of the Four
teenth Legislature before taking any
steps whatever to dispossess me. / am
anxious to see the last election go into
practical effect, and anxious that the
will of the people should prevail all
over the State, but 1 am unwilling to
incur liability upon either myself or
my friends who have signed my official
bond, and particularly so when but a
few weeks will suffice to regulate the
temporary disturbances that are now
agitating our people.


1 beg you to publish this explain alton,
as wish my friends to understand
that nothing could induce me to OPP
pose the expires ed will of the people,
but desire 10 preserve myself and my
friends from any individual conse.
quences that might arise from legal
irregularities. Respectfully,


]. NJ. BROWN.
Year: 1874

ferent gentlemen that he had nothing
to do with the Supreme Court case ana
believed the election had been fairly
conducted. He talked fair, though re-
naming non-committal.


But now comes sequel which, while
life lasts, will prevent Governor DAVIS
from commanding the confidence or
respect of the people of Texas. With
out notice to any one, and while the
chosen representatives of the people
were on the eve of assembling at Aus
tin, he secretly applied to President
Grant, both by letter and telegram,
for United States troops to prevent
what he called "apprehended vio-
lence," but in reality to override the
will of the people and prevent their
Governor and Legislature from being
installed. Many have believed he was
not in the conspiracy, but he has re-
moved all doubt OH that subject. Had
his plans succeeded, to-day Texas
would be under bayonet dictation.
That it is not so, is simply because
President Grant fatty refused to lend
his sanction to the meditated outrage
on the sovereign rights of this State.
TO Graft are we indebted for safety
against this insidious attempt to again
place a whole people under the heels
of men whose past career would be Il
guaranty of nothing but outrage, tyran-
ny and official plunder. Governor Da-
Wis has missed golden opportunity by
utterly refusing to let people forgive
him. He retires under stain of oblo-
ouy which time can never efface.
Year: 1874

The mortality among newspapers
within the last two years, has been so
great that it does not indicate very
considerable degree of enterprise among
those communities that have allowed
themselves, without an effort, to be de-
prived of their press. This is truth,
that many excellent newspapers have
been forced to suspend just at time,
when, if properly supported, they
would have been most beneficial.


The great trouble in this country is,
that the people fail to justly appreciate
the press. A custom ruinous in its ten
dency, by which the people are led to
look on newspapers as not worthy a
living patronage, yet bound under O
penalty of eternal condemnation to
watch with argus eyes their every
interest seems to prevail. Mer-
chants whose patronage alone con-
tributes to the existence of daily
paper in this country, where the sub.
scription at best is but tithe toward
supporting it, advertise just as if the
comparatively small patronage they
give would yield them neither income
nor profit. Again, vast number Of
business men do not advertise at all
We do not propose to try to convince
this class of our readers of the truth
that the mere matter of advertising in
good paper will pay them, aside from
any other consideration. Some o.
do not believe it, are impossible to con
vince.


The experience of most newspaper
men in Texas Is that few of her citie'
have supported their daily newspapers
Many Of them have eked out a misera
BILE existence for a year or two, anC
then either bankrupted or changed
hands-in the latter case for some cour
ageous man to make a renewed attempt
only to meet with the same fate.


Just as newspapers are supported
they are enterprising, and they go out
from their place of publication, theil
appearance indicating their local sur
rOundings. The business men of the
rising young cities of Texas will sooner
or later learn these facts, and thost
who first discover what their newspa
pers are commercially, politically ant
socially, and who give them a liberia
support, will sooner profit by being
represented by newspapers that will b'
an influence of immense benefit t.
them at home and abroad.


Merchants and all advertisers shoult
think of these things and if the las
few years have proven, with few excep
tions, series of abortive results II
newspaper enterprises, is it not time t.
consider show much they can lay ou
for their press annually, in considera
ton of its Importance" Let this b.
done and deserving journals can liv'
and do good.
Year: 1874

GOVERNOR CoKE's inaugural address,
at his installation on the 18th instant,
is a calm, mastery review of the situ-
ton of the country, and clear enun-
citation of the principles upon which
the government was founded, and by
the perpetuation of which only can
our free institutions be preserved in
their purity. Its spirit is broad and
catholic, and will be accepted in the
North as a complete refutatiOn of the
false charges so often made by the
Radicals of this State, that the Demo-
cratic party OF Texas was revolution
ary in its ulterior designs. We regret
that it's length precludes its publication
In THE HERALD,
Year: 1874

from Jne JeHeTSOI DclHOcTdt.l


Among the Judges who have graced
the Supreme bench of the State, with
honor and credit, none of them have
won brighter laurels nor more sub
stantial reputation for probity and
ability than the gentleman whose
name heads this column. Judge
Reeves lived in this city for several
years, but our acquaintance with him
began i'm Anderson county, years ago,
where he had the confidence and es-
TEEN of the people, and was respected
by such lawyers as Douley, Booth An.
derson and Bonner as a profound jurist
and a just Judge.


He was elected to the position OF
District Judge for several consecutive
terms, and that district was 10th to
give him up when he determined to
enter the Confederate service. While
in the army the people elected him to
the Supreme bench, and he was thus
called home to take his seat as mem
ber of that high tribunal. 1t was GER
tainly high honor, but yet it was an
earnest of what he was worth to his
State as a jurist. His whole record is
one of which, in this day, he may well
feel p-oud.


Numberless chances have presented
themselves for him to have occupied
high positions under the Radical ad-
ministration of the State, but he pre-
ferred to preserve his reputation pure
and unsullied, by declining to affiliate
with a party that has drawn down
odium upon itself from the enlightened
people of the whole country, But
now, when an administration elected
by the people is about to go
into power, when q government sci
up by the proper authority Is about to
be inaugurated, we mention Reuben
A. Reeves name i'm connection with O
high appointive office, knowing that
he would esteem it an honor to accept
it. Whose claims are superior TO his !
We believe that his appointment by
the newly elected administration would
meet with universal approval, for he
is competent, honest, and has proven
himself faithful.
Year: 1874

WITH good educational facilities S e.
curely established, with public spirit
in founding our factories, with unity
of action in all matters affecting tho
development of Dallas, the growth of
this town will be upward and onward
Sell property at reasonable prices, keep
taxation down to the lowest reasonable
rates, continue to invite trade by low
prices, fairtransactions and the urbanity
for which our business men are already
we'll known, and, Notwithstanding the
stringency of the times, Dallas will
continue to extend her limits and daily
become more and more the seat of
trade,
Year: 1874

WE invite special attention to the
communication Of DR.. James Il. Scott.
His views are sound and practicable.
The land and water proposed to be
donated as the seat of n factory are es-
timated at two thousand dollars in
value. The water is abundant and in
exhaustable, and is, perhaps, the only
water in the whole country which has
not the effect of encrusting on the
boilers, so near is it to being freestone.
The site is eligible and convenient, and
the ground would doubtless be enlarged
by the liberality of adjoining pro-
prietors.


We earnestly invite our men of
means to give this subject its merited
consideration. We are greatly cheered
by the growing spirit of our people in
favor of all such enterprises.