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Year: 1874

tion Of the contract, and in that case the action
Of the federal judiciary would be confined to
declaration of the invalidity Of the State law
that impaired the obligation. In the case Of
Won Hoffman VS.. Quincy, citizen Of New
York, who held bonds Of the city Of Quincy,
ILL.,, issued under the authority OF laws which
authorized the municipal corporation to levy
special tax to pay the annual interest,
brought suit in the Federal Court in that
State to compel the city by mandamus to levy
and collect the tax to pay his coupons. The
city set up subsequent statute which limited
the amount of the city taxes, not leaving
enough to pay these coupons. The Supreme
Court of the United States held this statute to
be void, because it impaired the obligation OF
the contract of which an exercise of the power
OF taxation was an essential part, and directed
the mandamus to issue. This, be it observed,
was proceeding on the contract of q munich
pal corporation, not the contract of State,
and the Federal Court had jurisdiction be-
cause of the citizenship Of the parties. It was
a most valuable and important decision, but


its principle is available in any plan for put
ting the debts of States on better footing,
only by legislation that shall either throw the
debts upon the municipal bodies Of the State,
or else by legislation that will open the State
courts to suits on the contracts of the State.
If the obligations are made to rest on the mu-
nicipal corporations of the States-cities,
towns or counties-the Judicial power of the
United States may reach them; but SO
long as they are State debts merely the
remedy must be confined to the State
courts, unless foreign sovereign should
see fit to assert his international right to col
lect debts due to his own subjects. Whether
this international right can be exercised only
by diplomacy, reprisals and war, or can be
exercised by resort to the Judicial tribunals,
is very grave question, which will possibly
arise somewhere in the world, considering
what q mass of national debts of oil kinds
exists all through Christendom. The opera
ton of the eleventh amendment of our con-
sttution is probably not to be regarded as ex-
cluding from the judicial power suits brought
by foreign State or sovereign against State
Of this Union. If SO, and if foreign sov-
ereign should make himself the assignee or
trustee of his subjects In respect of debts
due from one of our States, could he maintain
o suit to collect those debts in our federal
courts2 This would be very serious ques-
ton, depending upon principles Of interna-
tional law that have not yet been fully devel-
oped. All that can be said now is that the
possible existence of such questions, and the
various plans that may be proposed for put
ting any of our debts on better footing, are
SO many admonitions to our legislative bodies
to get out Of the disgraces and dangers of re-
pudiation by any honorable means that can
be agreed upon with their creditors
Year: 1874

SouTHERN TROUBLES. 1t is reported that
the President will in bis Message urge upon
Congress the necessity Of immediate legisla-
ton for the protection Of the blacks in the
South and in view Of the general restoration
in that section OF law and order. But after
tinkering for ten years at this melancholy
business would it not be we'll to give to the
reconstructed States, each and all, fnil
opportunitv to govern themsslves2
Year: 1874

BOSTON will not easily part with her historic
Common. The proposition to use it for busi-
ness purposes has excited general opposition,
the incidents of which are given in our CORE
spondence elsewhere.
Year: 1874

As WE 1SrrMArED the other day, there will
be no trial OF the Beecher scandal case. The
decision of the Court yesterday seems to have
that effect and to throw the cause into the
eternities. At the rate in which Mr.


Beecher's counsel seem disposed to "gsin
time" the actual trial will be reached about
Year: 1874

JUDGE PoLASD's opinions of the situation
in Arkansas are given in our correspondence
to-day, and they are Of more than personal
value, as he is chairman OF the Congressional
Committee of Investigation Of recent affairs
In that State
Year: 1874

The WASHINGTON LoBBY.-It is understood
that there will be a numerous and powerful
lobby at Washington at this coming session
Of Congress, and that, although the session
will be short, the lobby is promised rich
harvest
Year: 1874




BY SHERMAN D. RICHARDSON.
No mansion is mine, with costly design,
Rising up with grand pillars and towers;
But a Get by the way, unpanted and gray,
Mid the vine covered hedges and bowers.
Yet pass by the gate Of the wealthy and great,
With never = sigh for their store,
For know shall find at the cottage Of mine
A smile and kiss at the door.
Tho weary my feet from the toll and the heat,
As labor on day after day,
Yet this is my song when the shadows grow long
And the evening tints melt into gray:
"What care for toll, or the weary turmoil
That the future may have me in store.
With my heaven on earth, with its love guarded


hearth,


And smile and kiss at the door,"
No king OIL throne has the worth that own.
Or pleasures that I can command;
For tine gold laden crown makes the brow wear


frown,


And wealth strikes palsied the hand.
Then away with life of contention and strife,
Tho the world shoRld be waiting before;
Give me "love In cot" and contcntment my lot.
And smile and a kiss at the door.
Year: 1874

ABDUCTION OF A SEVENTEEN N-YEAR ON
iRL.-Philadelphia has another abduction
case on hand which may turn out TO be a sad
and mysterious as that OF Charley Ross ON
tuesday afternoOd girl seventeen years of ags
named Annie Beaver was sent to a grocery
store at Sth and Poplar streets to purchase few
ROUNDS OF Hour. She did not return, and the
family with whom she lived becoming alarmed
at her Prolonged absence, started out TO look for
her. They found traces OF flour spilled on thr
gfouhd, which seemed TO indicate that she had
been carried into an alley leading from ri,
street net far from her home. The police are
scar ching for her.
Year: 1874

THs CONCERT by the Thomas Orchestra"
last evening at Lincoln hall called out large
majority OF the lovers OF orchestral music. The
orchestra is fully up to its well known standard
and the addition OF several soloists wouid seem
10 maze IL better than formerly. The new
american prima donna, Miss Emma Cranch
MADE her debut last evening, and her selections
were calculated TO display the great beauty and
Richness OF her voice, though they were not a.
popular as could be wished for tir-t appear
ance. MisSCranch delighted the audience with
The lovely caVatina tIom the Hugenots in
response 10 sn encore in the first part and a
second part of the programme. Her voice is
freehi and as true ss 1t would seem possible for
a human voice TO he, while its natural tone
makes her foremost in the rank of American
prima donna. i golden opportunity will he
lost BY those who fail to attend the last concert
to- night.
Year: 1874

TIE ARKANSAS SENATE yesterday passed a
joint resolution commencing the prompt action
Of Governor Garland in the Smith matter a
bill was also introduced and passed to q third
reading authorizing the governor to offer a re-
ward OF 81 900 for the apprehension of the par
ties charged with oonspiring for the overthrow
OF the government, and other crimes OF the like
character.
Year: 1874

The PARAGRAPH published in New York
paper 10 the effect that President Grant had
called for Minister washburne TO return home
at once, with a view to secure his advice AMI
counsel III the reorganization of his Cabinet
while not officially denied, is generally dis
cfedlted. The popular opinion is that the para
graph was manufactured at the hoTae ice, for
the purpose of making basis upon which TO
found an editorial advising President Gran
what 10 do AID what not to do.
Year: 1874

Some one writing to the Pioneer from
Clearwater, Minn., tells of man who,
under the influence Of ''mixed juices -
struck his wife with a chair and broke
her arm. 1t took the sheriff and the
doctor to put the man and the arm
"here they respectively belonged.


At the same place another couple
were at neighbor's house. The lady
was playing the violin, when her would
Debut couldn't be--lord and master,
issued peremptory mandamus for her
TO cease those dulcet strains and at once
accompany him home. The lady inti-
mated that she couldn't see it in that
llsht so early in the evening. Thercupon
her h'sh'toned lord in order to assist her
visual organs, or in other words as a sort
ofeye-opener, seized the instrument and
dashed it to the floor, and then, to make
sure thing of it, jumped upon
the offending violin and ground it to
powder. This grated harshly on the
heart strings Of the lady, and an arrest
for assault and battery, together with a
suit for divorce was the result. There
was but little music in that mans son1
to begin with, and there is less nov. and
Year: 1874

the notes in that family are all discord.
ant. Still another couple up there had
little domestic collision, and the wife
picked up her duds and went.


Another ''lord of CREATION at this
same Clearwater. under the benevolent
impulses Of the stimulating fluids, at
tackled his wife and magnaninously gave
her all out of doors, rescrving only the
little space inside for himself. Now
wouldn't the name of this place Clear
water be more expressive if it was
changed to Clea rwhiskey
Year: 1874

WHEREAS, The question of political
discussion in the Grange is receiving
support enough to call for
a clear expression Of sentiment
from all loyal oranges, and whereas a
division of opinion on the subject among
law-abiding Patrons seems to US i'm
possible.


Therefore resolved. That in our
Grange capacity we will not lend our
selves to any political party or faction,
but will engage in those pleasures and
discharge those duties for which the
Order was alone created.


Resolved further, That we hold it to
be the duty Of every Patron to be we'll
informed on the leading issues of the
day, and to exercise his right of suf-
trage in such manner as he believes
most likely to fulfill the mission of the
Order, but this is duty to be per-
formed outside the gates.


Resolved further, That there are sew.
eral reasons why we believe it to be un-
wise and inexpedient to discuss these
questions in Grange, foremost and suf.
ficient of which is that the law forbids
it. And further


Resolved. That we look with suspicion
upon the motives Of those who advocate
the violation Of law for political profit,
and that he who would subvert the order
to his personal gain or aggrandizement is
traitor, worthy Of ignominious defeat
and expulsion from the Order; and
finally


Resolved, That at all times and under
all circumstances, in the matter Of obe-
diencc to the law, as in all things else.
We will ''hew to the line, let the chips
fall where they may


Unanimously adopted July II, 1874.


FIVE. TWENTY -ETGHT
Year: 1874

ling and strife. Under any
rule that might be adopted
much would still have to be left to the
discretion of the Grange. We can con-
ceive of circumstances under which it
would be perfectly legitimate to discuss
the merits Of the candidates of the
different parties within the Grange, but
this could very rarely occur.


If we shall make peace and unity of
action the polestar Of all our efforts
we shall meet but little practical diff
Guilty in these troublesome questions. So
mote it be.
Year: 1874

In another column we print certain
resolutions of Fountain Brook Grange
on the subject Of this article. We print
them because it is intimatcd in the rcso-
luti0ns that some man or men favor DO
litical discussion in the oranges. We
confess that We have never seen or heard
Of man or woman who was in favor of
violating the constitution by discussing
political questions in the grange, but we
take it that Fountain Brook Grange has,
and therefore print their resolutions.


The great question as we understand
it is, what are, and what are not, politi-
cal questions ? This question being de-
termined all are, or should be, agreed to
exclude the former. But it is very diff.
ticult thing to fix the line of dcmarka-
tion. a question that was political last
year may not be this year, or one that
is political this year may not be next.
There was time when the question of
slavery was the greatest political ques-
ton before the people, but to day no
grange would be considered as violating
the rule by discussing the question of
slavery, or favoring its abolition in
Cuba and South America. There was a
time when the question of tariff was a
political question but it is not now. The
great political parties are no longer di-
Vlded on this question. Democrats and
Republicans are alike found on both
sides OF it, and so Of hundred others
that we might point out.


But there are many othc RS that it i
mot so easy to determine. For instance
we are told by some that it is not prop.
er to discuss and denounce the tak;no
and keeping of the salary grab. We
think otherwise. Some will think that
the currency question should not be
discussed, because it is political; others
will think differently; and so we might
go on.


How, then, are we to determine
whether a question is or is not within
the prohibition? Without undertaking
to fully answer this question we will say
that it will be found safe rule to ex.
clude every question that is calculated
to stir up strife and bad feeling, and to
destroy the harmony of the Grange.
whenever any question arises that
threatens to destroy the unity and good
feeling of the Grange, let it be instantly
expelled. No matter how important it
may be, it is of thousand times more
Importance that peace and fratcrnal re-
lations should be maintained.


Political and religious questions arc
forbidden simply because they are ant
, to cngender strife and bad feeling. Anv
question that will produce the same re-.
suit is within the spirit of the const;tu.
tional provision. If we are so disposed
we shall be able to find plenty of sub.
jects to discuss that will be edifyinp
and instructive without at the same
time >tendeng to produce wrang.
Year: 1874

TuE GRANGE ADVANCE is furnished in clubs
of ten for $3.50 per year, and will be furnished
for the next thirty days to single subscribers
for three months, and to clubs OF ton or mora
for four months at so cents each on trial. We
want five thousand new subscribers in the next
thirty days, vnd can have them il every one of
our friends Will 90 to work in earnest.
Year: 1874

The attention Of all thoughtful men
has been arrested by the action of the
Republican Convention at Owatonna on
the l4th inst, in nominating the Hon.
Mark II. Dunnell as the Republican
candidate for Congress from the First
District. We had supposed there was not
man in the district, however humble
and unknown, who had not a better
chance for that nomination than Mr..
Dunnell. We believed firmly that no
man who was tainted with the salary
grab, or had ever touched one of the un-
holy, Judas 1scariot pieces of silver CIV
en- by that infamous measure could ever
get vote in any convention for any
office whatever. And yet already,
while the storm of indignation aroused
by the measure has scarcely begun
to lull, here is man who
publicly proclaims that he was illegally,
constitutionally and morally author
ized'' to take and keep the back pay
money for which he had given neither
labor nor time, and who says that if he
had given it back, II should have con-
sidered that was guilty Of an act of
degradation from which l recoil.' This
man is nominated as the candidate of
the Republican party Of the First Con-
gressional District Of our own State.


We can neither express our surprise
or our grief. It would seem that what
the people denounce by their voices one
day, they will sustain by their votes
the next. Is it possible that after all
VIC have heard against this back pay
steal, that nevertheless the people
are going to send the salary grabbcrs
all back to Congress! If so, we confess
there is but little hope for reform, and
the outlook is gloomy.


We cannot yet believe that the peo-
pie of the first district have made this
nomination. It surely must have been
the work of the politicians-the men
who have shared in the spoils. But
even if this be so, why have the people
permitted it? Are they so dead to
their own interests that they still al
low themselves to be run and voted by
wire pullers and tricksters? If yea,
then let us hear no more about the peo-
pie being down'trodden and oppressed.
Let US hear no more abou tunjust and par
tial legislation or political corruption.
for if the people will make no effort to
prevent it they arc not worthy of any.
thing better. ''Who would be free.
himself must strike the blow


But if the people of that district have
been negligent to their own interests we
still hope that they will now have their
eyes opened and that they will instant
ly arise and grid themselves for the
fight. Place in nomination some man
whose skirts are clean, whose character
is bed rock, and whose integrity is un-
impeachable, and then turn out and
support him to man. This is no
question of politics or political parties.
1t is question of principle, and of vital
Importance, and one upon which the
oranges have spoken both inside and
outside of the grange. We cannot be-
lieve that they are ready to swallow
their own denunciations, and the man
they have denounced. If not. let them
see to it that no salary grabber shall
again darkcn the doors of Congress
from the first district of Minnesota.
Year: 1874

DEATHS take place, the world over, at
the rate Of one every three seconds, and
births at the rate of one every two sec.
onds. There is sense of profound re-
lief in the thought that every time a
man goes out of the world, a baby
and half are coming into it.
Year: 1874

The House Committee on Public
Lands have proposed the appointment
of Commissioner Of Forestry to look
after the preservation of the forests of
the country.


The farmers and laboring classes
of Indiana have called a political con-
vention. The farmers 20 into the
movement not as Gransers, but as free
and Independent citizens of a free
country. They do not believe down in
Indiana that belonging to the Grange
takes away mans right of citizenship,
no more than does belonging to deba-
ting society or even to the church.
Year: 1874

The London Spectator is distressed
because the term royal" is applied to
people who are not entitled to it.


Nothing is more common" says the
editor, than for visit from subject
TO be called royal visit, for the mar.
riage of two subjects to be called royal
marriage. This means of course that the
persons spoken Of are sons or daughters
or other near kinsfolk of a king or queen
But that does not make their doings


royal They are members of royal
family, because they are members OF a
family which exclusively supplies kings,
but they are not royal themselves.
No one would call visit from a duke
son or daughter ducal visit, or the
marriage of dukes son or daughter a


ducal marriage. But he might quite
rightly speak of ducal family, that
is, family which supplies dukes, fam
lily one member Of which at time is
always a duke. Why is there this diff
ference of usage2 To call visit from
a person who is not king or queen a


royal visit is of course vulgarism
which ought to be left TO the penny-a-


liners. But the fact that any people at
all talk about royal visit, when they
would not in the analogous case speak
of ducal visit, has causes which are
worth thinking Of. The cause is just
this, that, exalted as dukes may be, they
and their children do not form a class
which is absolutely cut off from the rest
of the world. There are others whose
rank GENES so near to theirs that they
do not stand by themselves as an abso-
lutely distinct class, but at most a class
within a class. They freely intermarry
with other people; they need not be
spoken to with bated breath; they are
not necessarily attended by some one
wherever they go; they are not said to


honor people by dining with them;
their doings, public and private, are sub
ject to free discussion. In short, they
are still ordinary human beings, though
they may hold the first place among or
binary human beings. But the royal
personages are really, in popular belief,
something more than ordinary human
beings They are royal that is, in
fact, they are treated as if they were
themselves kings and not subjects. "
Year: 1874

This case, involving so much of i'm
portance to the people of Texas, was
disposed of by the supreme court on
Thursday evening last. The following
statement is from the Austin States
man of the 10th instant:


The supreme court decided, yester-
day, that mandamus did not lie against
the comptroller to compel him to sign
national railroad company, or in any
other case; that his duties were not
alone ministerial; that he formed a
part of the executive power of the
state, and that he could exercise a
sound discretion as to the duties which
he was required to perform under the
constitution and laws. Judge Reeves
delivered dissenting opinion, in
which he held that the duties of the
comptroller were ministerial; that the
supreme court had jurisdiction. and
that mandamus would lie against him.


This prevents the issue of the bonds
to the international road, and is, in
our Judgment, most unfortunate de-
cision. The credit of the state is inti-
mately involved in the issue. The leg
islature in effect admitted that the state
ought to pay the bonds to the road.
The supreme court avoids it by dispos-
ing of the case on legal technicality.
Wouldn't it be better in every point of
view to come out square and fiat footed
and say that Texas does not intend to
issue the bonds?
Year: 1874

The readers of The HERALD will re-
member that when the yellow fever
broke out at Shreveport, Lieutenant
Woodruff, of the United States army,
was ON duty in charge of the work for
removing the raft in Red river above
that city. Immediately upon the ap-
pearanoe of the disease, he fastened to
the doomed city and devoted himself
with untiring energy to organizing
means of relief for the sick and suffer-
ing. Finally he was stricken down by
the disease, and his life was a sacrifice
to his heroic devotion of himself to
the succor of his fellow-men. He left
a mother in impoverished circum-
stances, and upon her applying to the
war department for the usual pension
allowed to the representatives of those
in the army who lose their lives in the
service of the country, she was refused
it on the alleged ground that Lieuten-
ant Woodruff was "not in the line. of
duty" when. he lost his life.


The head of the department, govern
ed by the statute law of the land, is no
doubt correct i'm his ruling; but if con-
gress does not provide the pension, it
will afford another striking illustration
of the ingratitude of republics.