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Year: 1874

A French gunmaker has invented rife
so arranged that the breech is opened by
cooking the piece, and the charge being In
trodaced, the breech isclosed and the gun
fred by touching the trigger. The car
fridge consists Of hollow ieaden cone
filled with powder and closed a. the bass by
means OF q piecs of cork. At the moment
the cartridge is introduced into the breech
the powder escapes by small hole in the
cork, and an impercsptihle ball of fulminat-
ing powder, which forms the printing.
takes its proper position. Tbs triple action
OF cocking, loading and firing is thus effect
ed simultaneously, so that man with very
little experience can fire twenty rounds
minute. The cartridges are stored in an
iron tube. which is placed parallel with the
barrel and contains thirty balls, so that the
piece may be fired as many times almost
without any interval and without re-


moving the stock from the shoulder, ae
there is nothingt to be done but 70 cock and
pull the trigger.
Year: 1874

In this city there is no question that
money is hard to be obtained in the ordinary
lines Of business. 1t is about as hard to keep
mp legitimate business as it was twelve
months ago in the height of the panic. Yet
there Is not that fear and apprehension, for
1t is known business activity must grow
and that the land teens with abundance of
the resources OF wealth. In Chicago, the
Inter Ocean says: Business generally seems
to have diminished. This is indicated by the
smaller amount of clearings this week than
last. The decrease of business at this time
in the fall, just before the pork packing be-
gins, is the usual experience. The tall trade
in Chicago seems to have been satisfactory
to the great majority of merchants, and
though the average iprofts has been small
the voiame of legitimate mercantile bust
ness in the month closing tonight has been
greater than in any previous October. There
IS also reason to expect that the winter busi-
ness will be an equally favorable compari-
SOD with former years.


The San Francisco Alta of the 22d says:
The shipment OF treasure this week has
been as follows:
Year: 1874

the port.........s7, ,l52, ,so5 ssS6l2,745 ss09O6S2
During the corresponding month Of last
year the stock in bonded warehouse in
creased, but it has recently diminished,
there being no inducement to keep over
anything which can be sold. The total
thrown upon the market is nearly three
quarters OF a million more than the total
landed at the port.
Year: 1874

OtNClNNATl, HONeLnOof Eoft-
The market continues dull and with little that
is encouraging in the outlook. some further
sales of round lots OF foundry iron have been
made private terms There is a moderate
demand for soft irons for immediate consump-
ton. There is some demand for forge iron, but
only at low prices.
Year: 1874

THE LATE BnitrsH F.LECTIuNs.-The
number of votes cast at the late Parlia.
mentary election in Great Britain was
over 2,GO0,0O0, while the full vote is in
the vicinity of 3,O0O.OOO. 1t Is said that
some fifty years ago there were only
about 100000 voters. The estimate is
made that proportiOnate progress for
the next half century would bring
about universal suffrage, and some
predict republican form of govern
ment. TO this latter conclusion we
might have assented short time since,
but the character of the late elections
and the riOtOus proceedings connected
herewith, raises the question wheth her
an advance in freedom of suffrage
among IL people educated and trained
as are these moDarchists, is attended
by a like advance in knowledge and
appreciation of free institutions and
their surroundings. 1t would seem
that in such matters they are behind
the age, and are not really convcrsant
with the true principles of the elective
franchise, and ought not to exercise it
until they know it's importance and
how it should be improved.
Year: 1874

From the Nashville Union and American.
The Third Congressional District is
the largest in the State in point of terri
tory, embracing seventeen counties on
either side of the mountains. In point
of population it ranks fourth, outnum-
boring five others. Yet the representa-
ton at the McMinnyilIe convention was
a full one, every one of the seventeen
counties being represented. This is a
good omen, as showing that the people
are thoroughly aroused to their political
interests. Without good government
we cannot prosper as we should. The
nominee, Gen Dibbrcll, is II gentleman
of worth and public spirit, whose record
is we'll known to all. The resolutions
denouncing recent horrors were no less
than we have the right to expect from
every body of representative white men
who may assemble under present cir
cumstances.~ Tt may never occur to the
negroes to denounce the Outrages and
rapcs committed by their race, or the
infamous resolutions passed by last
Mays convention in Nashville But we
expect more Of white men, because we
understand better the precious interests
of life and liberty that are jeopardized
by Iawlcssncss. On us depends the
maintenance of order and society. If we
do not yindicatc them our future is Il
diabolic chaos.
Year: 1874




Why all this noise and confusion about
Civil Rights


From the simple fact that but, few
people have had the pleasure of enjoy
ing the. thing, and all this unnecessary
fuss is made by those who know moth
ing about Civil Rights. Now, here at
NaayrjHe, we enjoy the thing to its full
est extent. We have it in our schools,
and appreciate lis benefits We have it
in Maryville. College, and like it there
1t is true there are some poor white
trash (as they are termed by the colored
people, girls generally, who object to
being associated and classcd with color
ed girls, but do not object to mixing in
the class with the colored boys. Why
this is cannot tell. The white boys do
not object to any of the colored stu
dents. This shows that they understand
Civil Rights better than the females do.
Now, we have our schools and colleges
so arranged here that the colored people
can have their choice as to whether they
will mix with the whites or not. There
- Il IiliC COIiS5C 1T 6iliS BIdCc, BuIiJ eA-
pressly for the colorcd people whopre-
fer a separate school from the whites.
But those who arc willing to associate
and receive an education with the
whites are provided for at Maryville
College. Here we enjoy Civil Rights
in all its imaginable shapes. It's a
real shame that people viii continue
this opposition to Civil Rights when it is
so nice Now, here at Mafyville Col
l3ge, where once some 300 students at
tended regularly, we only number about
d at present, and all on account of the
mixed feature of the thing and only
about ten Of this number are colored


In the name of Yardly, the Chronicle,
and President Bartlett we ask, why is it
thusly Let all who oppose Civil Rights
send their children to Maryville Col
le@e, and we will train them up in the
way they should go. 1t is true we will
not grant them Gf they are white) the
same privilege we will the colored peo-
ple-for we compel the whites to go to
college with the coiorcd people, while
the colored people can go to their own
college if they choose, where they are
not bothered with the whites This is
just as it should be- Loyalty and Civil
Rights must and shall prevail ARP


MARYvTLIE, Aug. 81, 1874.
Year: 1874

We cordially endorse the following
well-timed editoriE remarks in ethe
Washington Chronicle: No man has
either license or authority to take the
life of "A. fellow man, unless to preserve
his own, and the law well provides that
the danger must be imminent to adthor-
ize the resort to deadty.weapons. If our
law officers win see to the prompt ar
rest and punishment Of all persons, rich
or poor, high or. low, that are found
having concealed in their possession
deadly weapons, they Will do more to
preventive occurrence of these sad en-
counters, which result in bringing such
misery on societys than il any other
way


So long as it is popular for a person to
boast of having about his person pistol
or bowie-knife, or other rnurderous wea-
pons, so long will their use be noticed
in the constant recurrence or the com
mission of crime.


Let the law DE. so vigorously enforced
that no man will risk being detected Ia
carryinga deadly weapon any more than
he ewould of being found attempting the
crime of robbery, and honicide win be
come less frequent, and these murderous
and disgraceful quarrels cease.
Year: 1874

In corroboration of the views we
have on several occasions presented
in regard to the convention ques"
sion, we publish below q letter writ
ten by Judge Manly to the VII,
mington Journal. Judge Manlys
recognized ability, his state pride
and patriotism and his devotion and
loyalty to the cause of his political
party, should entitle his views to
careful and respectful consideration.
It is not to be presumed that he
would risk the veal Of his State on
fancy or advocate any policy that
was not, in his opinion at least, wise
and safe.
Year: 1874

In Europe, and especially in England, the
evident relations Of sympathy between Russia
and the United States have been the subject
Of no small degree Of comment, generally
cynical in tone and pharisaically deprecating
the notion that the freest of people could
have any points family and good will toward
the great autocracy which in theory denied
In England it was fancied that what was
called the coquetry between this country and
Russia was an attention to John Bull. That
sef-suficient parsonage fattered himself that
it was only to keep him on his good behavior
that we troubled ourselves with any attention
to the Northern Bear. But here is now be-
fore the public a fact that indicates
deeper and an unconscious SYM
pathy in good purposes between the
two nations-a relationship not accounted for
by the shallow theory referred to. Only the
United States hitherto among nations has
really endeavored to subject war to rules as
strict as those that govern peace. Only this
nation ever put in the hands Of its command
ers in the field 9 code for the protection of
the people in whose country war was necessa-
rily carried on. Now Russia is endeavoring
TO do in Europe what we did here. It has pre-
pared code that will take from war halt its
horrors, and presents it to the nations and in
vites their attention to its provisions. Eng
land turns cold shoulder, France gives half
hearted assent and Germany proposes the ad-
dition of impossible conditions, and the
"Great Barbarian North, /" like the Great Re-
public, stands well nigh alone in the assertion
Of the interests and the claims of humanity.
This is one of the strange spectacles of the
politics Of our time.
Year: 1874

It is an illogical and unwarrantable infer
ence from the bad effects Of negro suffrage in
the federal district to argue, as some Of our
contemporaries are doing, that its failure there
proves its inexpediency in the Southern
States. And yet the argument has an air of
superficial plausibility. The negroes of
Washington are probably more intelligent
than the average of their race. Most of them
were bred in Maryland and Virginia, where
slavery was least oppressive They were the
earliest of the negroes to come into pos
session of civil and political rights, and are
presumed to have had superior guidance from
friendly whites interested in their welfare.
on their suffrage proved to be one OF the most
corrupt and scandalous that ever existed, and
Congress was compelled TO abolish it and SUBJ
stitute q government from which the will Of
the people as expressed in elections is ex-
cluded. If the comparatively intelligent
negroes of Washington cannot be trusted with
the elective franchise the argument is specious
and plausible which infers the necessity of
also taking it away from the negroes of the
Gulf States


But the argument is only specous and not
sound 1t is really as absurd as an argument
against universal suffrage founded on Tweeds
late control OF certain classes of voters in the
city Of New York. The negroes of Washington
were subject to influences which operate in
few other places. They were dependent for
employment on the local public works. man
aged by the NOTORIOUS Washington ring. whose
Year: 1874

TIE SALARY GRABBERs.-The salary grab
bers have learned costly lesson in the
dear school Of experience, but it comes
too late to be of any advantage to
them, however impressive as warming to
others Of the one hundred and two men,
bers of the present Congress who voted for
the salary grab only twenty-four were re-
nominated by their constituents, and nearly
half of those twenty-four were defeated at the
polls. II an expiring Congress had raised the
compensation of their successors the public
indignation would not have fallen with such
severity; but for men in the public service to
raise their own pay and date it back for nearly
q year previous to the passage of the act
evinced SO sordid and dishonest a spirit that
the people were justly incensed. Less than
one in six of the salary grabbers have been
returned to the next Congress. We trust this
impressive rebuke will not be lost on their
SUCCESSORS.
Year: 1874

THE Won ARNM TR1A1.-The Court before
which Count Won Arnim is to be tried will be
asked by the Public Prosecutor to exclude the
public The ground is taken that the Official
documents to be read must be concealed, as
the State might be injured by their publca-
ton. So it is to be a Star Chamber affair
after all If Prince Bismarck can make it SO,
but we doubt that it will be possible to hide
1rom the world any of the important factss
Year: 1874

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The general expression Of the American
people is in favor of a reciprocity treaty with
Canada. When the old Reciprocity treaty was
in existence the Canadians although receiv-
ing the larger share of its benefits. were un-
wise enough to violate it's spirit, If not Its
letter, by the imposition of discriminating
tolls on their canals and by other illiberal
acts. They had themselves only to thank for
the termination of the treaty by the action OF
the American government on its conditional
expiration. A renewal Of reciprocity is now
proposed, and certainly it promises greater
benefits to the colony than to the States It
therefore appears singular that the PROPOSE
ton should call forth the alarm Of British
Chambers Of Commerce and manufacturers,
and that the Foreign and Colonial Secretaries
of England should deem it neces-
sary to explain and in meas
ure apologize for such treaty. The
cable yesterday brought us long account Of
an interview between deputation OF the
alarmed Chambers of Commerce and Lords
Derby and Carnarvon in London. The repre-
sentatives Of the English manufacturers pro-
tested against any dependency Of Great
Britain being allowed to negotiate treaty with
foreign country by which England should be
placed in q worse condition in trade than
such foreigners. They demanded the inser-
ton of clause in any reciprocity treaty be-
tween the United States and Canada which
shall distinctly declare that 1.-THE United
States shall never have the right to claim any
remission Of duties not accorded to British
commerce." The British Secretaries entirely
concurred in the views expressed by the depu-
tation, but affirmed that no provisions unfa-
vorable to British trade are inserted in the
treaty. Lord Derby suggested to the deputa-
ton that if England for any supposed inter-
ests of her own should endeavor to prevent
the establishment of free commercial relations
between Canada and the United States it
would create discomfort among loyal Cana
dians and strengthen the party in favor Of
annexation.


How far Canada is "dependency' of
Great Britain it is for the colonists to decide.
The day appears to have gone by, however,
when the home government would venture to
prohibit the adoption of treaty SO clearly
beneficial to the colony as that proposed with
the United States. We do not desire the
annexation of Canada at the present time, for
our government is large and unwieldy enough
as it is. But annexationists on this side of
the ST. Lawrence are naturally opposed to
reciprocity. They believe in granting no
fayors to Canada until she seeks them by a
union with the Republic. Reciprocity is
therefore in reality safeguard of the in
tegrity of the British colonial government
At the same time the most impatient annex
ationist in Canada or the United States could
not ask for more effective aid to their cause
than would be afforded by the opposition to q
commercial treaty between the two countries
melted by the selfish interests of British
manufacturers.
Year: 1874

power Of . greenback dollar and gold dol


lar gold could, even now, be had for the ask


ing; and specie payments viii come of them
selves very soon after the greenbacks are
brought to par under circumstances which
guarantee permanent equality Of value. The
great problem for the President to solve in
such q manner that Congress will adopt his
solution is not how supply Of gold can
be obtained for specie payments but how the
currency of the country can be brought to par
as preparatory measure to resumption. In
the necessary order of events the actual use
of coin for redeeming our paper currency will
follow and not precede the restoration OF the
currency TO par. The notes Of the Bank OF
England were at par before that great insti-
tuition began to redeem them after its long
suspension, and there is no instance in all
history Of resumption Of suspended specie
payments until after the paper to be redeemed
had already been brought to an equality Of
value with the redeeming medium. Nobody
will dispute that our paper circulation might
be brought to par by curtailing its amount
The great difficulty consists in discovering
method by which this may be done without
great shock to trade and injustice to the
debtor class. This, and not the means of
procuring supply Of gold, is the great point
which President Grant is bound to eluci date
in his Message.
Year: 1874

control over their means of subsistence
operated as bribe for their votes. In the
greater part Of the South they are exposed to
no such temptation, and as soon as federal
coercion is withdrawn from that section negro
voting will be just as safe as that OF the
illiterate whites of the South, who have always
exercised the right of suffrage. "Boss"
Shepherds bribes in Washington prove just
as little as 'Boss" Tweeds bribes in New
York as to the safety or expediency Of uni
versal suffrage.
Year: 1874

From the basis on which has been arranged
the settlement of the differences between
China and Japan we get the most accurate in-
dication of the exact point of difference. China
agrees to pay to Japan half million taels, or
seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and
Japan agrees to withdraw her forces from
the island Of Formosa. Japan has, therefore,
offered to China either horn Of diplomatic
dilemma. China, it will be remembered, had
declined all responsibility for Formosa or her
people when there was something to be done
in the interests Of humanity against that dlfh-
cult country. Energetic little Japan, how
ever, went and did what was demanded for
the safety of the seas, and having punished
the pirates seemed disposed to make the coasts
safe by keeping possession. Thereupon China
discovered that the country was hers She
had a claim, and demanded that Japan should
withdraw her troops Every well" said Ja-
pan, s'if this country is yours we want an in
demnity for the money we have spent
in furnishing the pirates, and will leave;
if it is not yours we will stay. So China has
decided that the country is hers, and will
pay the money. Japan's firm attitude on .
point directly and clearly in the interest of
civilization and commerce does her honor as
the foremost Eastern student of Western
thought But the solution is, nevertheless,
to be regretted by commercial nations. II
Japan had remained in possession of Formosa
the barbarous conduct Of the savages of that
island would not have been heard of again.
But as China comes again into possession
there will be other piratical butcheries when
the savages have forgotten the lesson lately
administered. And for this solution Mr..
Bingham must apparently be held in some
degree responsible
Year: 1874

first brought to par by other methods. So
long as there is q difference of q fraction of one
per cent the experiment could not be safely
tried, because the inevitable consequence
would be run upon the Treasury which
would speedily exhaust its whole stock Of
gold. The indispensable condition of equi-
librium between gold and paper is that they
be previously brought to the same value, 80
that nothing can be gained by exchanging one
for the other beyond the convenience of the
holder in making certain classes of payments
So long as gold is worth three mills in dol
lar, or even half mill in dollar more than
paper, the profit to be made by the exchange
would quickly transfer all the gold into pri-
vate hands. It is truth Of which our states
men have as yet but dim idea, but truth
on which the currency question really hinges,
that our currency must be previously brought
to par by other means before o single dollar
of gold can be wisely applied to its redemp-
ton. The Bank of France has clear per-
ception Of this truth, and, although it has
accumulated an ample store of gold in its
vaults it defers any offer to redeem its notes
until it gains permanent assurance that
there can be no substantial variation between
the value Of its notes and of the coin they
represent.


If President Grant is wise he will say very
little about accumulation of gold or the bal
ance of trade in the Message he is preparing.
The balance Of trade will adjust itself without
any legislation as soon as our currency is at
par, end no gold will be actually used for re-
demption until after the greenbacks shall pass
in commerce as the equivalent of coined dol
lars. 1t is absurd to regard actual redemp-
ton as the means of bringing greenbacks to
par instead of means it will be conse-
quence, and q very easy consequence, of re-
storing the value Of our paper currency. If
there were no difersnca in the purchasing
Year: 1874

Under the head of the first title given
above the HERALD, (of which George
G. Harding the father of the Moritz
victim, is editor) of last night, gives its
opinion of Sol. Moritz as follows. It
is very generally concurred in: 1t is
hard to kill certain beasts. The hyena
who has been tossing on bed of pain
for the past fortnight, with two bullets
in his foul carcass, has lacked the de.
cency to die and sink to the hell that is
yawning to receive him. He will be
out again in a short time free to walk
lhe streets, free to breathe the air that
is brcathed by decent people, and free
TO resume the practice of his hellish
arts. He will not be molested. Vile
and indecent as he is, the law throws
its protecting arms about him, no one
dare load shotgun with buckshot, and
blow his vile entrails out at the first op-
portnnity. 1t is lawful to kill mad
dog. 1t is not lawful to kill a lyena.-
But what shall be done with this dis
grace to the form of man, this parody
on human nature? What punishment
shall society inflict on the human ghoul
who is not guilty of woman murder.
but follows his victim to the grave with
his foul malignant tongue? As we
have said before, it is snot lawful to kill
him, though his life is justly forfeited
to God and man But there is one way
to reach his coward heart. Let him be
made to feel that he is IA leper, an out
cast, a pariah, y creature too vile to as.
goeiate with even the vilest of human
kind-an obscene beast whose bare pre-
sence pollutes, the air. Let no man
speak to him or take him by the hand.
Let cverywoman gathcrup her skirts for
fear contamination in passing him on
the street. Teach little children to re-
gard him as athing accursed. Let him
in the midst of multitudes, feel the hor.
rors of solitude and the want of COM
panionship. His own race and relig-
ion have driven him forth as moral
leper. Let no one give him shelter from
the scorn and contumely with which
all decent men regard traitor, q cow
ard thief, liar, and finally if remorsc
Is possible to so heartlessa creature let
him fully realize what men think of
him, and thepdie of his own loathsome
ness. In this way, and IN this way on
X! can society punish him for his
crimes. The law is weak. Public SEN
timent is stronger than law. Let him
feel the weight of its scorn.