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Year: 1877

Whenever Mexico is mentioned Gen.
Pillow must speak. He is again be
fore the public and insists that the
boundaries of the United States must
be extended to the Sierra Madre range
of mountains. If the mountains would
serve as better and safer resort for
cattle thieves than the chaparrals of
the Rio Grande, the Generals policy
would be admirable for the cattle
thieves and If we want most fascinat-
ing bronzed population addicted to dis
order and poverty and ignorance ad-
ded to the present supply of stupidity
and vice thrust into our social system
ballot-boxes we should annex the princl-
and pality, as Pillow proposes, of Cortina
and extend our confines to the noun
tain chain of the Sierra Madre. If we
must dismember Mexico let us adopt
no halfway measures. The whole or
none is the only true policy of the
United States. If we must have satraps
to rule provinces unfit for statehood,
let US have space enough to supply the
demand for satrapies and Mexican
towns and provinces by the score in
which American patriots are to be
trained In the vices of office holding.
We, of the South, have seen enough Of
systems of government to be instituted
in Mexico, if we seize the country or
any part of it, and it is only amazing
that a man of Gen. Pillows
learning and ability should pro-
pose the acquisition, at this juno
ture, of Mexican territory. The fruit
is not ripe. 1t will fall into the lap of
the Union at last. The Union, wisely
administered as to-day through q
quarter of century, will absorb
Mexican and Central American States
by sheer force of governmental and
popular grayitation. When these
mixed races are unified and educated,
when peace and order and intelligence
are begotten of the American railway
system extended into Mexico and from
Yucstan to Acapulco, then these dis
orderly, semi savage States will be pre-
pared for self government, and thus
for annexation. Until that condition
of peace, progress and intelligence
supervenes, we would have no political
confraternity with the Spanish and
Indian races of the Southwest. They
are not fit to govern themselves. They
are of course unfit to participate in
the task of governing the United
States. If we become Just now Their
masters our vices become greater than
those of the people We would rob and
wrong and must virtually euslave.
Year: 1877

OATMEAL. = In Great Britain, chill
dren of all ranks are raised on oatmeal
diet alone, because it causes them to
grow strong and beautiful, and no bet
ter food can be found for them. L is
also quite as desirable fer the student
as for the laborer. and for the delicate
lady and her hard-working sister; in
deed, all classes would be greatly bene-
fted by its use, and dyspepsia, with
all its manifold annoyAnces, can be
Kept at q distance. Oatmeal is more
substantial food, it is said, than veal,
pork or lamb, giving as much, or more
mental vigor, while its great desidera-
tum consists in ones not becoming
weary of it, for it is as welcome for
breakfast or tea as is wheat or Graham
bread. It can be eaten with syrup or
butter as hasty pudding, or with
cream and sugar, like rice. 1t is es-
pecially good for young mothers. upon
whose nervous forces too great . de-
mand has been made, and they lose
the equilibrium of the System and be-
come depressed and dispirited. Oat-
meal requires 70 be cooked slowly, and
the water should be boiling hot when
il Is stirred in.
Year: 1877

THE Emperor of China is compelled


by the custom of the realm to plow s


piece of land once each year as an ex-


ample to the people. It is surely full
of significance in country in which
Mother Earth can hardly furnish susie
nance for her countlessly multiplied
children. It is now proposed that at
the next fsir at Austin Governor Hub
bard be induced to put his hands to
the plow handles and show his fellow
countrymen how to tickle the fields
and make them laugh with the fatness
OF the coming harvest. From sheer
sympathy with our chef magistrate
this result will supervene, and we can
not refrain from commenting to the
managers of our State Fair the illus
trious example of the Oriental Emperor
as worthy of imitation even here in
Texas. If the Emperor of China, as
Claimed, may make two blades of grass
where there was before only one, Gov
ernor Hubbard, Georgian, can pro
duce, under the same circumstances,
not only the grass that adorned the
Nlrglnian's julep-moistened grave, but
at least peck of goobers.
Year: 1877

the robber. We approve these results


of the Presidents policy, and are,


therefore, said by some insane fell


low to be Radical" Every hon.


est and intelligent man in the South


il as Radical as the STATEs4AE.


The difference between ourselves and


those excessive Democrats who dread


Hayes's growing power with the intel


ligent people is that that they fear and


we desire the dissolution of sectional


parties. We would have the South


morally as we'll as politically liberated,


and this perfect emancipation of the


South cannot be achieved until section
al parties cease to exist. Every fiery,
furious Democrat tells US that so odi-
Gus to the Unionists of the North are
the secesslonists of the South, and so
earnestly do Northern people, outside
the great cities, dread the reproduc-
ton of ''rebel power" in Washington
that civil war would have ensued if
Tilden had been invested with Office.
In precipitatIng this conflict, the Rad
icals of 1876 would have been as un-
wise as those other Radicals of 1901.
But such are the facts, and to remedy
these evils and obviate the possibility
of their recurrence, we would coop
crate with the President in obliterating
every trace Of sectionalism and give the
country lasting and sure repose. If
all this may make the STATESMAN
every honest patriot in the
land will call down heavens choicest
blessings upon every purpose it con-
templates and every end it would
achieve
Year: 1877

The President of the New York Co.
ton Exchange reports that the year had
not been prosperous one to those en-
gagged IN the cotton trade either as
merchants or manufacturers, owing in
part to the dread of general European
Year: 1877

NEVER TREAT RELIGION LIGHTLY
Impress your mind with reverence for
all that is sacred. Let no wsntonness of
youthful spirits, no compliance with the
Incorporate mirth of others, ever betray
you into profane sallies. Besides the
guilt that is thereby incurred, nothing
gives more odious appearance of petu-
lance and presumption of youth, than the
reflection of treating religion with levity.
Instead of being an evidence of superior
understanding, it discovers a pert and
shallow mind, which, vain of the first
smatterings Of knowledge, presumes to
make light of what the rest of maE nd
revere. At the same time you are not 10
Imagine that when exhorted to be relig-
ious, you are called upon to be more for
mai and solemn in your manner than 9TH
ers OF the same years, or 10 erect yourself
into superciliOus reprovers of those
around. The spirit of true religion
breathes gentleness aud kindness. IL is
social, kind, cheerful--far removed from
that gloom and illiberal superstition
which clouds the brow, sharpens the tenn
per, dejects, and teaches men 10 til them
selves for another world by neglecting
the concerns Of this. Let your religion
90 the contrary connect preparation for
heaven with an honorable discharge Of
the duties Of life. or such religion, dis
cover on every proper occasion that you
are not ashamed bat avoid making any
unnecessary ostentation Of il before the
world.
Year: 1877

Not only Is the cone very steep, but IL
is covered With ashes, 80 that one has no
firm hold for his feet, but sinks deep at
every step. Thus he makes slow progress,
and is soon out Of breath. He can only
keep on by going very slowly. had 10
stop every few minutes,a and throw myself
down in the ashes tO rest. But with these
little delays, | kept steadily mounting
higher and higher. As we neared the
top. the presence of the volcano became
manifest, not merely from the cloud,
which always hangs about il, but by
smoke Issuing from many places ut the
side. II seemed rs If the mountains were
vast, smouldering heap,out of which the
internal heat forced its way through
every aperture. Here and there long
line of smoke seemed to indicate sub
terranean fissure or vein, through which
the pent- up fires forced their way. As we
crossed these lines of smoke the sulphur.
Gus fumes were sitting, especially when
the wind blew them in our faces. But
at last all difficulties were conquered, and
we stood on the very top, and looked
over the awful verge into the crater.
Those who have never seen volcano are
apt to picture it as a tall peak, slender
cone like a sugar-loaf, with round sper-
ture at the top, like the chimney Of a
blast-furnace, out of which issues fire and
smoke. Something of this indeed there
is, but the actual scene is vastly greater
and grander. For, instead of a small,
round opening, like the throat of a chin
ney, large enough for one flaming column,
the crater is, | should think, early a
mile across, and ha.f mile deep; and
one looks down into a yawning gulf, a
vast chasm in the mountain, whose rocky
sides are yellow with sulphur, and out of
which the smoke issues from different
places. AT times it is impossible to see
anything, as dense volumes of smoke roll
upward, when the wind drives toward us,
so that we are ourselves lost in the cloud.
Then they drift away, and for an instant
we can see far down into the bowels of
the earth. The point where we stood
projected over the crater. The great
eruption three years since had torn away
half the cone of the mountain, and now
there hung above it ledge, which
seemed ready at any moment to break
and fall into the gulf below. AS stood
on that 'perilous edge" on the crum-
bling verge of a volcano, seemed to be
in the position of q human being exposed
to dangers vast and unseen, to powers
which blind and smother and destroy. AS
if nature would fix this lesson, by an i'm
age never to be forgotten, the sun, that
was declining in the west, suddenly burst
out of the cloud, and casting my own
shadow on the column of smoke that was
rising from below. That shadowy form,
standing in the air, now vanishing, then
reappearing, with every flash of sunlight,
seemed no inapt image of human life, a
thing Of shadow floating in cloud, and
lowering over an abyss DR.. Field.
Year: 1877

LIFE is itself neither good nor evil; Il
Is the scene d good OF evil as yoa make
IT. and " you have lived 8 day you have
seen all one day Is equal, and like all
other days; there Is no other light, no
other shade; this very sun, this moon
These very stars, this very order and feyo-
luton Of things Is the same your an
eesiors enjoyed, and that shall also enter
tAln your posteTity.-NsafdigH.
Year: 1877

EVERY little fly, and every little peb
BILE, and every little flower, are tutors in
the great school of nature, to instruct the
mind and better the heart. The four ele-
ments are the four volumes in which all
her works are written.
Year: 1877

Bangs sends us the following copy of
a letter written by Cambridge boy
who is up in the conutry: "Billy, why
don't you right me letter? I am hav-
ing bully time but l have to go on
crutches, for horse rake fell off a hay
NOW on me and spraint my legs. A boy
from Charlestown named Hockey boards
where 1 do, and me and him go round
together and have a good time. We
catch hogs down at the brook and throw
EN- through the winders on to the table
and see the boarders when they eat !;
there amt no policemen here and you
bet its fun to tie papers on to hog and
set it on fire and hear EN- squeal. Mr..
Smith was awful mad. 1 was awful
sick last week and I have worn out four
pairs of pants since 1 have been here.
When 1 left home 1 forgot to let my
rabbits out, and l wish you would go in
my back yard and let EN- out but /
guess they are dead now and if they are
you may have EN- rabbits cant live three
weeks without nothing to eat if they
can they are tuff. l have got three
turkies and crow and lot of things ]
shall bring home in my trunk if my
mother don't find it out. My mother
says I fret her to death, and says she
never'l let me go into the country with
her again. l can't write any more for
me and some other fellers is goin down
in the pasture and throw stones at some
calves. Hockey broke out lot of glass
in school house and his mother paid
ten dollars"
Year: 1877

What a powerful country England
would be if her ironclads would only in
fict as much damage on an enemy as
they do upon themselves. The Shan
non, the first vessel of new class, tried
to make six hours steaming trial at
Plymouth recently, but her bearings be-
came so overheated that she had to be
stopped. After week she was still in
such shape that three stoppages for
cooling had to be made in one hour.
Then it was discovered that her bow
spirit was out of place, so that for ram
ming purposes she would be useless !;
also, that she was so overmasted and that
such mistakes had been made in calcula-
ting her displacement that she drew
twenty-three inches more than had been
expected and allowed for. AT the same
time the Flamingo set out from
Plymouth for Malta, and during her
brief voyage displayed faults so multitu-
dinous and multifarious that Admiral
Rice declared that unless she was put in
better shape in fortnight he would or
der her home as useless.
Year: 1877

BURLINGTON Hauk-Eye: Friday
night smart young man who lives out
on Maple Street found toad hopping
around in the garden, and thought it
would be capital joke to put it in
table drawer and let it hop suddenly out
and frighten his wife. Before he could
close the drawer he was called into the
adjoining room, and forgot all about the
toad, which during the night hoped
out on the floor, and crawling into va
cant boot, passed a pleasant night of it.
The next morning the household was
Mortified by shrieks of masculine dis
tress, and an old woman on the other
side of the street going home from mar
ket, was knocked into the middle of
next week by flying boot that came
crashing through front window. The
smart man drank pint of whisky to
settle his nerves, and said this custom of
playing practical jokes on people was as
dangerous as it was foolish, and if he
ever caught anybody fooling around his
boots again with toads or anything else,
he would teach him salutary lesson.
Year: 1877

A BEAUTIFUL story is told of Sir
Philip Sydney, while he was borne away
dying from the battlefield. He had just
placed a cup of cold water to his lips,
when there was carried past him a
wounded soldier, who looked with long
ing eyes on the draught of the more
favored Sydney. He withdrew his lips,
and instead of drinking himself, gave
the cup to the poor MANNED soldier, with
the simple utterance, "thy necessity is
yet greater than mine." That was an
illustrious instance of unselfshness, and
does honor to his character in the sphere
of heroic deeds more than the most bril-.
liant passage of arms.
Year: 1877

THE telephone has not yet reached the
fishers of Aberdeen, Scotland. Carrier
pigeons are taken to the fisheries, and
when the work is done they are sent
home to announce the amount of the
catch. The time they make is a mile a
minute, and preparations are made when
they arrive ut their destination for de-
livering and curing the fish. In case of
adverse winds the carriersare sent for
tugs, and at all times the birds prove
themselves trusty and speedy messen-
gers.
Year: 1877

IT has been discovered that the pea
cock is the natural ecemy of the Colo
RADIO beetle. We are glad that this biped
has at last found mission, and that he
is now useful as well as ornamental.
He can make as many eyes at us as he
pleases if he only destroys the potato
bug, for what would life be without the
festive Murphy?
Year: 1877

BURLINGTON Hamk-Eye: A family of
this city Yesterday on their return to
Indiana. They had suffered every
thing, and were in the last stages of des-
titution. This man had been compelled
to part with nine of his dogs, and the
woman was positively ashamed of her
bracelets and earrings, and she refused
to get out of the wagon because, she
tearfully informed the President of the
Woman's Relief Society, her tilter was
nearly three months out of style.
Year: 1877

In the Globe Theater, Boston, Clara
Butler, the wife of Frank Frayne, while
shooting at an apple in her husbands s
hand, took off the first two fingers of his
left hand. Frayne took it so quietly
that no one in the audience was enabled
to perceive the accident that had taken
place. The same afternoon the wounded
man, after losing a great deal of blood,
had the fingers amputated at the middle
joint. 1t is curious that Mrs. Frayne
says she had a presentiment all day that
something bad was about to happen.
She tainted when she found what she
had done,
Year: 1877

A PARTY of thieves recently drove off
seven thousand head of cattle from Col
orado. They were followed by party
of herders and overtaken, surrounded
and surprised in the extreme north
western corner of Kansas. The pur--
suers shot seven of the thieves dead and
hung one to a tree, recovering all the
stolen stock with no loss to their party
Year: 1877

NELSON FL. CARR, prominent and
worthy citizen of Great Plain District,
Danbury, Connecticut, was killed in a
shocking manner. He had procured a
quantity of dynamite, or giant powder,
for blasting purposes. He went in COM
pany with visiting friend to field a
short distance from the house, and while
showing the manner of using the ma
terial it exploded in his hands. His
bowels were torn out, his left arm half
way to the elbow is missing and can not
be found, the right hand torn into
shreds, and the lower part of his face
blown off.
Year: 1877

ONE of the new and curious objects of
the japanese Capital is a gigantic image
of a woman, made of wood and plaster,
and dedicated to Hachiman, the god of
war. In height 1T measures fifty-four
feet, the head alone, which is reached by
a winding staircase in the interior of
the figure, being capable of holding
about twenty persons with comfort. A
sword is held in the right hand and a
huge ball in the left. Internally, the
novelty consists of an extraordinary
anatomical model. A fine view of the sur
rounding district is obtained by looking
through one of the eyes, and the price of
admission is only two cents.
Year: 1877

CREDIr--A great many people fall
into the habit of landing credit. Credit
IS very good sometimes and at other
LINES very disastrous. Cash is better and
never does injury so far as We know
Credit has immersed all the States In debt,
This solid reason why the goyernmen,
s unable to pay cash. Credit is very bad


Il badly used and that it has been badly
used the heavy taxes all our cities Law
under IS proof primd tdcia. Get out o.
1s5t-and you will be sure TO hay,
enough credit-perhaps the less you hav,
OF It the better, if you would be happy.
Year: 1877

THE SILVER DOLLAR AND ORGANS OF
THE BRoKRRs.-All the newspapers
owned by brokers, bankers and large
hondholders are just now using all the
sophistry which their writers can develope
TO prevent the remonetization of silver
that is to prevent Congress repeating the
law which it passed in 1878 limiting sill
yer as legal tender to S.. II Congress
repeals . part of this clause and makes
silver legal tender to any amount as it
was before the war, we should then, no
doubt, be able in very brief time to ex-
change greenbacks for gold just as we
exchanged bank notes for gold before
the rebellion. The brokers and private
bankers are opposed to this;it will greatly
lessen their business, and equalize the
currency, thus stopping the trade in it to
great extent; or to an extent that would
hardly pay clerk hire.


1t is astonishing to see to what extent
the organs of the brokers 60 to keep
down the value of silver and elevate that
ofgold. They did the same when the
greenback was struggling up toward
gold but now they effect their purpose by
stigmatizing the silver dollar alone. The
wealthy brokers hold large interests in
nearly all the great city papers. Jav
Gould's organ the y. Y. Tribune, in a
long article denoLncins the remonetlzinc
of silver, gives circulation to the follow
ing which we extract from that paper of
yesterday.


"Germany Is waiting with very large
sum in silver. anxious for market in
which TO sell 1t. Attempts 10 sell else
where have pushed down the price rapid
". Though writers differ as 10 the
amount which Germany has for sale. no
one questions that il is much more than
the entire produc, of our mines for a
year. and the product must be sold at
any price


We don't believe that Germany has A
silver dollar to sell al a sacrifice: and we
do believe that the paragraph is bald lie
coined with the object to delude the peo-
pie and help the lobby in Congress. ANY
one who has silver is ready to sell it if
they can MAKE money by doing so. If
Germany has it and can sell it to advan.
tage she will do SO and she would sell
her surplus gold if advantageous terms
were offered. And this trade is going on
every day in California where the miners
make merchandise of both gold and sill
yer. We repeat Germany has not dol
lar ofsilver to sell lower than it is worth
in this country. That kind of talk
by the Tribune is bosh. If silver is so
cheap in Germany would not it be we'll
for the U. S. banks to buy it, and GO in
for its being made legal tendero Would
II not be good operation TO fill their
vaults with it and thus get ready for re-
sumption. The people do not refuse 10
take silver, if it is cheap. If Congress
will remonetize silver it will Immediately
become more valuable. Before the war
duties were paid in silver; and il the Gov
ernment were TO receive it now in paw
ment OF duties: or receive 50 per cent. in
silver and 90 per cent in gold, the silver
thus received could be put in circulation
by paying it cut for services rendered BY
officers and workmen. and to the army
any navy. 1t would not be refused: nor
would il decrease in value; on the con-
,-ary It would increase and assist also n
carry the greenbacks up TO par with
gold.
Year: 1877

As our readers are aware, Col. Rich

 ard J. Hinton, principal editor of The

 Post, is in Arizona for the twofold purpose of personally examining the merits and wants of the Territory with view to have the paper speak intelli- gently and correctly thereof, and also to collect maternal for a hand book as per advertisement in THE CITIZEN. In addition, Col. Hinton has engaged MT. Fred. c. Pratz to visit important parts of this Territory and then pass into Mexico and go as far as the City of Mexico, as special correspondent of The Post, and hIs work will begin in June. Another Arizona correspondent is writing enthusiastically for il. As soon as Col. Hinton returns, he will employ an experienced and accom- plished writer now resident near San Bernardino, to canvass every town, mining camp and agricultural district, and even where no settlements exist. It is intended to have this the most thorough personal examination ever made of the Territory. The writer has passed the middle age of life and his experiences have been such that he will see and recognize merit wher- ever it exists, and while not over look ing unfavOrable points will not exag- gerate them Col Hinton is now writ Ing letters and editorial matter for The Post, and he does so after seeing and examining the country to far greater extent than most men representing metropolitan journals ever do. While here, he went nearly to the Sonora line up the Santa Cruz, and spent sey- eral days among the rich ore in the Santa Rita mountains. He has em- ployed competent persons to furnish him facts in special matters on which he has not time to post himself; also letters to superintendents of mines and others for information best known to them. On Wednesday,, he left for Florence and thence north ward, intending to see prominent points and secure competent residents to sup ply him with facts regarding other places. He is a very industrious man and does not hesitate to do work neces- sary in his line and which his time per mits.

 It IS so rare that paper of the char acter of of The Post, sends out such a representative, that the above remarks are regarded due the journal and man it.