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Year: 1874




SIR: Several years ago one of your staff
CRIED Blank when you die THE TRIBUNE will give you


good show. This promise, worthlivng and dying for
has been great comfort to me- When poor Ralph
Keeler disappeared wanted to throw little chapet
upon the pyramid Of good show" you gave him. but
was fat on my back at the time A friend at my elbow
suggests that my brick for the pyramid will be timely
yet


It's six years since was introduced to Keeler, he
stranger in New York. asked HIM to sit my salt
On way back from lunch he asked me to accompany
him TO bankers he wanted to buy bill Of exchange
in favor Of Genoa, telling that he owed
money there and paying as fast he could.
The author OF "Yagabond Adventures" was no vaga-
bond, and he brought discredt on the American
name which cannot be said OF all who travel abroad.


p 9. Let me thank for that splendid photograph
Kingsley and OF his lecture. In point OF merit your
portrait OF the father OF "The Fishermen" aud your
report OF his lecture ike the Dutchmans teamhe
couldn't tell t'other from which, Your nmblenngered
reporters assure you. make palata6le the morning
coffee OF your TRIBUNE family outside the big city


EIisabsth, N. j.. March 8, 1874. ALPHA
Year: 1874

The news from Alabama which VIC


print this morning is significant. With
out attaching too much Importance to
the details OF it, which are in great


part the floating rumors of Montgomery,
there must be in it a nucleus of fact. 1t
is symptom of what is running through
out several States. At any rate, it is an
index of the feeling of the respectable
classes throughout the South, and no
body but fool can think, nobody but
miserable demagogue can pretend to
think that that feeling is not to be re-
garded. What has happened in South
Carolina and Louisiana has happened to
a less extent in all the Southern States
In which native negroes and imported
demagogues have gained power. In Lou
isiana the sham government of Kellogg,
known by every man in Louisiana and
pronounced by Congress itself to be a
sham, was put into power and Is now
held In power by the direct ihterposition


with force and arms of the Federal Gov


ernment. 1t is idle to snppose that what


has happened there will not have its in
fuence in other States. Every public
robber holding State Office in the South
felt his hands strengthened for mischief
by the action Of Grant in beating down
with Federal troops the righteous upris-
ing OF the people of Louisiana against
the public enemies who held the public
offices. Does anybody suppose that that
action had purifying intiu ence on the


rest Of the South. or that men anywhert
in the planting States felt SEQ ure in their


occupations Of the protection Of the law.


Grant interposed to put kellogg in office


when the government Of Kellogg was


only illegal. Grant has interposed to


keep him in office after his government


had been proved iniquitous. The South


ern people the Southern politicians,


but the solid, peaceable people of the


South who are doing their best to repair


their shattered fortunes, anil the shat


tered fortunes Of their States together


with their own, are plainly notified that


attempt they are to receive no counte


nance from the Government Of the Uni


ted States. The tiice-holders of the
Southern States, comprising the dregs of
the South and the scum of the North,
whose object it is to stifie the will of the
people whom they have come by force OF
fraud to rule, are as plainly notified that


in that bad industry they may count
upon the active help Of the Federal Gov
ernment, if passive help will not suffice.
We see the result in the utter paralysis
Of industry in South Carolina and Louis
lana. We see it anew in the nsolence Of
office in Alabama which is reported to-
day. The people of the North have ac-
customed themselves to apathy in the
face Of these outrages. They cannot re-
main apathetic much longer in the face
of the fact which is coming more and
more to be fixed upon their notice, that
the people of the North must suffer with
the people of the South, and that if pro-
duction is stopped or hampered in one
section of the Union, and the people of
| that section are turned from production
into mere consumption, the deficit that
the loss of their industry causes must be


made up by their prosperous and apa-
thetic countrymen.-N. Y. World.
Year: 1874

Upon examining the returns from the
whole State the victory for the Demo
Gratis is seven more complete than was
expected and shows that the popular
vote is not only with the white people
in each county but they have secured
about three-fourths of the election Off
GERS and thus control the Board of Can
vass in each county.


The Democrats have great cause for
congratulation; had the white people
been defeated there would have
been cause for serious fears for the re-
suit in November.


In Wilmington the Democrats carried
six wards out of ten, and elected seven
officers out OF twelve. The popular vote
being q tie.
Year: 1874

SON0t ANSSe CSoosOsss


Tho short and last session of the 43d
Congress commences ON the first Monday
Of next month. 1t can hardly be expect
ed that the expiring Republican party
will be able to get through the session
without quarrel, if not complete rup-
ture. 1t is quite possible that the terri
bio censure that has been inflicted upon
its leaders in Congress by the people msy
crystalize them moro firmly together.
But this is not likely. On the contrary
it is more than probable that such men
as Butler and Dawes in the House, and
Carpenter and Morton in the Senate,
will differ widely as to the causes of the
late defeat; and as they are about to
take final leave of the national halls,
they will more than likely speak pretty
plainly Neither will these gentlemen
allow all in their own party to escape GEN.
sure. We may therefore witness break
ing up of the old party war lines even
before the 4tth Congress assemblies. The
House will not meet until the 1st Of De-
cember, 1875, unless called together by
the President. But it is assuredly Dem
ocratic by majority ranging from sixty
five to eighty. The Senate will reassem-
ble no doubt on the 4th of March next
for the consideration of Executive bust
ness. IF such q rupture should take
place as we have limited at, it may be
that when the Senate reassembles it too
will show an opposition majority. If so,
then the 4ith Congress will be entirely
under the control of the Democrats and
will be enabled to commence reform at
once in the affairs of the Government
and lay out more economical iystem
One Of the first duties, however, that it
owes the country is to ferret out the
abuses Of trust and power and show
them up to the people. Investigations
with this object SHOULD be thorough; and
if the hands Of the Executive are not
tarnished he will himself, as he is in du-
ty bound to do. afford aid and cncour-
agement in this direction.
Year: 1874

In less than two years from this time
the country will be convulsed with one
of the most important election campaigns
that it has ever witnessed. 1t is anne
eessary to refer to any leading issue that
will divide the parties. 1t is simply
enough for us to know that the one par
~ represents the extravagant classes
hat have fed upon and grown fat by
class legislation, and the other repre-
sents palmer class Of people who des-
pise the heavy and unequal taxation that
is imposed upon the country.


1t is important, therefore, that the
Democratic party, which has announced
itself as opposed in toto to the legisla.
tion Of the last several Radical Congress.
es, should at once commence more
thorough and complete system of organ.
ization. In fact now is the very time
tha. this matter should be looked to-
for now is the time in which men arc
assessed and thus made voters. Let the
young men in each of the school districts
and the wards Of the city hold meeting:
and appoint committees competent te
see that every Democrat is assessed ane
properly enrolled on the list of voters.


Let tho clubs be reorganized or con
tinued where they exist and where there
are no clubs let them be formed, and thu
organization thus be effected complet,
throughout the whole State.
Year: 1874

The outlawry of the boys Of ths sSesp
Orleans High School, in driving out the
colored girls, illustrates the influence being
exerted by the political agitations in thas
city and the exact aniInus that underlies it.
all. 1t is an old saying that children and
fools toll the truth" and it might be added,
act the truth. OF course, tho boys referred
to reflected their home education. and did
it by driving the colored girls out of school
by violence. We have in this the clearest
possible illustration of what is behind all
the political issues in New Orleans. Hatred
toward the cOlOred race and u purpose to
deprive them of the advantages of educa-
ton, that in some way they may again be
actually ensaved-this is the aninating
spirit, disclosed by this emeute of the high
school boys. More and more is it evident
that the evil spirit of the ex-rebel element
in parts of the South must be held in check
by the most rigorous measures. This done o
and we will, in time, have settled peaces
but if the rising generation of whites is
infused with the pro-slavery hatred Of the
colored race, there will be fifty years of
disorder and tnmult at the South This
fact had as we'll be looked directly in the
face first as last. 1t is important to the
welfare of the South. and the question sim
ply is, to compel the whites to let the negroes
alone, to cease race agitations. 1t must bs
done. s)oner or later.-Pittsbmrg Gaeettes
Year: 1874

The new Hibernia Hall will echo 20 the
tread Of merry dan GERS for the first time
next Saturday night. The entertainment
will be un der the auspices Of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians of this city. No effort
has been spared to render the first bali the
event OF the season. The finest band of
music that could he obtained bas been se-
cured. and every arrangement has been
made for the comfort and convenience OF
guests. The supper rsom is in charge OF
one Of our best restaurateurs, and the retir.
ing rooms will! be comfortably warmed.
Applications for invitations should he LETT
as stated IN the advertisement. which will
be found in this mornings REPUBLICAN,.
Year: 1874

This immortal old lover Of children has
this year started out on new tack. This
time the old gentleman came by way Of
Patagonis. and there met Rex, the King of
the Carnival. Rex gave old Santa pile of
Louisiana Lottery tickets. charging him TO
put one in the stocking Of each good little
child, with the assurance that much good
might thereby result to many poor little
children. Santa Claus promised and the
youngsters may now look out for prizes.
Year: 1874

The leaders of the opposing interests in stocks
have not made their felt in todays trans


actions, and the market may be said 10 have been
left to the smaller spectators. Tomorrow or next
DAY is expected the great chiefs will be present 10


wage war in earnest. The occurrence of two holi-
DAYS in succession have given them and their fol-
lowers an unusually good opportunity to inform
themselves upon all the subjects that are to affect
the market in the future. immediately after the
passage of the new Currency bill the bulls We're so
confident that it favored their interests as TO induce
them 20 increase their purchases of stocks aud "a
general advance was the consequence. Some of
them have changed their views aud have sold out
and realized moderate profit, while the bears feel
morally sure that the new Currency law must prove
to be one of contraction. and the action of some
aud the determination of others. go far TO convince
the general public that they right. Even If con-


traction were not the nnasssted tendency of the
law il is clear that the bears. if need be- may so en-


ploy few hundred thousands as to annoy many of
the country banks out of all peace and comfort
Indeed, if the bill had been framed expressly for
their Use il could not have been better admitted than
il is TO put powerful weapon in their hands Under
the provisions of this law tue bear clique may daily
send batch of currenoy TO Washington for rodenp-
tion aud within few days the legal tenders given


in lieu Will begin to be returned, that the supplies
will come back with such regularity that compara
lively small amount of ready cash. constantly
swinging round the circle may be used TO annoy
and disturb the tranquility of half the small banks
in the country 1t will not be fault if the strin
gency thus created should take our stock specula-
tors unawarcs.


The opening Of proposals for the new five per cents
is subject that must soon excite very general
interest Throughout country, Inasmuch as it sa
matter of individual well National impor-
tsnce. There probably never was a time in our
history when all classes Of persons had sustained
such heavy losses BY injudiciOus Investments as
within the last two years These misfortunes have
taught them lcsoH that il is 10 DO hoped will lead
them TO apply for the new bonds and We submit to
the new Secretary Of the Treasury that the true
interests of the country could hardly be we'll
subseryed in any other way as by keeping the
Sl79,00O,0OO until our own people have bad q fair
opportunity to take what they want of them. This
courso liight secue " them this enlus Investment
Year: 1874

school than OF the Eugsh, and win doll tess call forth
little admiration from those who prefer pedantc for
maity rhetorical escapades Still the vitality and
may be saven the audacty OF his manner arc adspeu
TO secure large following and TO impress the facts OF
history ou n crowd OF readers with whom q tanner
method would have been Of no avail
Year: 1874

THE RATE OF INTEREST FOR MONEY is always an
important subject to both borrower and lender An
able and suggestive Oh this topic by Prof. f..
u. Elliott of tue Treasury Department read at the
Portland Scientific Meeting, is reported fully in
TRIBUNE LECTURE EXTRA No. 10. Price 10 cents.


Address The TRIBUNE. New York.
Year: 1874

A Saloon Keeper Clubbed for Refusing


to Give q Woman Liquor.


At about halfpast eight O'Clock Tuesday night
q woman Of notorious character, who appears at
the Tombs Court now and then in the role OF prs-
oner, went into the lager beer saloon kept by Fer
dinand Genna at No. 43 Mulberry street, and
called for glass Of beer. Genna gave her the
beer and when she had drank it she marched to-
ward the door, saying she had no money to pay
for her drink. Believing what she said be true.
Genna issued from behind the counter and as
sisted the woman into the street. In few minutes
she returned, in company with Onlcer Regan, OF
the Sixth precinct, who said he had come to az
rest the proprietor for assault and battery. Genna
was behind the bar cutting bread, and as he does
not understand English he did not pay particular
attention to what the Olflcer SAID until he came
up to hlm and attempted to drag hlm out. Gennas
wife ran to his assistance and the officer grabbed
her and dragged her and her husband Off to the
station house. In the station house a charge OF
assault and battery was entered against the
couple by the woman who had refused to pay 1OI
her beer. In the meantime the store and It's busi-
ness were LETT TO any one who chose to take pos
session OF them.


Yesterday morning, in court. the Judge dis
missed the case OF assault apd battery, as he
habits and unworthy OF belief. Then Oficer Regan,
who had made q boast that he would have the
italian sent up to the Island somehow or other,
thought OF the knife and entered a charge Of as
sault and battery against Genna, which the Court
entertained


MIR. Conan, the counsel for Genna, taxed the
ollicer with having boasted tnat he would send the
prisoner TO the Island somehow or other, and he
did not deny 1t.


Judge Fammer thought what was called "the
bOast' might have been said on account OF zeal
business and not on account OF malice, and conse
quently he locked Genna up on the charge OF the
officer, who, by the way, win not have the pleasure
OF seeing the Italian go to the Island, as his fine
was paid last night and he Is to be released this
morning.
Year: 1874

'AH, so FA1R.'-A Nashville paper de- scribes the 'only young man in Fayettes- vile as follows: He was young, he was fair and he parted his halr, like the average beau. in the middle; he was proud, he was bold. but the truth must be told, he played like fiend on the fiddle. But aside from this vice he was every thing nice, and his heart was so lovingly tender, that he al- ways turned pale when he trod on the tail of the cat lying down by the fender. He clerked in store, and the way that he tore off calico, jeans and brown sheeting, would have tickled calf and made the brute laugh in the face of quarterly meeting. He cut quite dash with darling nous tache, which he learned to adore and cher. ish; for one girl had said, while she drooped her proud head, that 'twould kill her to see the thing perish. On Sunday he'd search the strait road to the church, ,unheeding the voice of the scorner; and demurely he sat, like young tabby cat, with the saints in the far amen corner. He sang like bird, and his sweet voice was heard tuggine away at long metre; and we speak but the truth when we say that this youth could outsing hungry mosquitre.
Year: 1874

Norfolk.

 The new house of R. |. Crissey is rapid-

 ly approaching completion, and when fin

 ished will be as fine if not the finest

 or the kind in town......Preparation for

 laying the cellar wall of new house to be

 built by $. s Whiting, Esq.,, just south of

 the Norfolk House, are going on with

 vlgor......Mr k. s. Gaylord is also remod,

 cling and repairing his house throughout putting in bay windows, adding porch

 here and there and raising part of the roof; in fact making an entire different looking place of it...... Beach Bros. have their soda fountain Tn operation, where you can have a cooler these hot days for the small sum of five cents-no trust. ....A new firm oc- cupy the old Battell store for few days, selling boots, shoes and hats at auction evenings, and at private sale during the day......A special town meeting is called for Thursday, the 2lst inst to again recon. sider the burying ground question. .. Sun days are of late made hidcous to all lovers of decency, by gang of young and small ruffians who arrive on the milk train from Winsted and manage to get, in this no-li cense town, drunk enough to forget what little decency Nature gave them, before the train returns at 7.35. It is a pleasure and consolation to know that generally one or more before they return are marked Tn such manner that no one would have any difficulty in identify ing them in the week to come. It is eyi- dent to any close observer, from the new ness and extra sickness of their clothing, and their awkward attempts to seem at ease therein, that their shoulders are more accustomed to the hod, ,.and their hands to the spade and pick than anything else, and the foulness of their conversation but con- firms our belief. It would be more seemly if these young Americas should tarry at home until their boards be grown before exhibiting their city CD airs too much among these mountains, for it may strike ID. X. K. X.
Year: 1874

THE Pqcitfc WedicuI and Surgical
Journal says: \ striking instance of
inherited appetite for alcoholic liquors
has been recently brought TO our knowI-
edge A lady, wife of the Mayor of an
Atlantic city. was Il confirmed inebriate,
and in spite of the most assiduOgs efforts
made by her husband and others 10 re-
strain and reform her continued to drink
until her life fell Il sacrifice 10 the indul-
gence Her grandmOthers were both
Incorporate and both died from drum
kenness. Several OF her brothers were
inebriates She had one child, daugh-
ter. who exhibited in childhood a marked
appetite for strong drink, and who drank
to intOxication whenever she had the
opportunity. The child died at the age
of six years. During her brief lite she
was known 10 have been repeatedly
drunk So inveterate was her appetite
for liquor that she would resort to the
most cunning tricks in order 10 procure
it-tricks such a. would do credit TO the
ingenuity of an adult.


NEARLY every pound Of butter used
Year: 1874

Few people unacqnainted with physloiogicai
chemistry ate aware Of the quantity OF iron in
the blood, but all should know the Importance
of keeping up the sappIy,for debility, disease and
death are sure to follow when the quantity be-
comes too much reduced. The Peruvian Syrup
Ia protoxide of irony supplies this vital element
and has cured many chronic diseases.
Year: 1874

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.-Perso at a
distance desiring information from this point can
address me. If the subject does not require much
investigation a few postage stamps win be snffi
cient remuneration.
Year: 1874

When they told an Indiana woman
that her husband had been sliced
up by reaper, she impatiently re-
Piled "Well, take the pieces 80
the barn; I can't leave the goose
berry sauce just now"
Year: 1874

state Grange Patrons of IEusbandry-


ST.. LosIs, Feb. 20-In the State Grange
to-day, the following resolutions were re-
ported by the committee and adopted.
L. That we fully endorse aud approve the
declaration OfprincipleS adopted at the late
meeting of the National Grange at St.
Louis.


2. That as cultivatOrs ofthe soil we have
been too long governed and controlled by
the great moneycd power of the land, and
by rings which are against us simply be-
cause we have been ignorant OF our own
strength in oIlr defense, or have wasted it
wrangling with each other.


3. That as retrenchment and reform is
our motto, as true patrons We should be-
gin at home, and while we demand, as we
have a right to, that our Legislators and
rulers shall be economical in the eXpendi-
ture of public money, let us not be prOdi-
gal in expenditure Of our private means;
while We condemn extravaganza Of public
officials and complain of wrongs inflicted
upon us by those whom we have entrusted
with power, let us not still further wrong
ourselves and families by living above our
income and involving ourselves in debt,
thus sacrificing peace, comfort and indie
ptluellCc az the SHRINE OF IldSulOQ ana snow.


4. That We invite the hearty support and
cooperation of the sisters Of our order in
our ref0rmatory movement; that wOman's
true position is GOd-given and the divinely
sanctiOnedOne of helpmeet to man, there
fore her place is by his side. Hers is a
high and noble position, and if rightly i'm
proved, will rear to her memory monu-
ments more durable than marble, and leave
an Inheritance to those that viii come after
her more TO be priced than wealth or
honor.


). That in republican government all
power is vested in the hands of the people,
and in OUTS majority of people belong to
the producing classes: yet the power and
strength of these classes have been used by
a less numerous and more unscrupulOuS
class for the advancement of their own sell
fish purposes.


g. That although Ours is not a political
organization, and especially ignores politi-
cal or partisan questions, yet We call upon
our Representatives in Congress and State
Legislatures to listen to the appeal of more
than one hundred thousand patrons of Mis-
souri,, to ecOnomize the resources of the
government and TO stop currents of eXtrava-
gance which have borne us to the very
verge Of bankruptcy and ruin.
Year: 1874

THE Catholic church crisis in Germany
causes no small excitement in England. A
larcely-attended meeting in st. James
Hall, London, held to give an expression Of
popular sympathy for the church party, was
addressed by Archbishop Manning, who
fatty contradicted the assertions Of the
Emperor in his celebrated reply to the
Pope's letter, that the Catholics ofGemany
were conspiring against the government.
He also attacked the statement that the
church was in no way affected by the opera
ton of the new laws. He intimates that,
rather than allow the State to govern him
in ecclesiastical matters, he would, God
giving him grace, lay down his life. Lord
Russell. who was invited TO preside at this
meeting, emPhatically declined, on the
ground that lis fullest sympathy was with
the German Emperor in the noble struggle
for liberty in which he was engaged.