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Year: 1874

Since the failure Of Congress to do any thing to
relieve the oppressed South. the carpet Dagger rs
and negroes down there have been more thievish
and impudent Than ever. They interpret the si-
lence Of Congress as consent, II not approval and
keep on stealing. When the South Carolina tax
payers asked for an investigation, they did not
put much fait b in the result of such work. but
they did think, correctly, that it might frighten
little the band of robbers who govern them, and
somewhat mitigate their mlseries. This least OF
all fovors being denied the political tyrauts of that
State are now carrying on things with higher
hand. The shameless Governor Moses has actu-
ally pardoned out the three Barnwell Commission
ers, convicted Of corruption and that few weeks
ago and sentenced to prison tor Terms OF three,
nine and ten years. This Governor, bad as he IL,
and sympathizing as he does with the official ras-
cality all about him, would never have dared this
but for the indifference OF Congress to the woes OF
the taxpayer. 10 Louisiana, too, we mark fresh
outbursts of violence ana rapine from the mongrel
Slate Government; and the poor. taxpaying whites
are in pure self defence, organizing themselves TO
resist the spoilers by every means, lighting includ-
ed. Men OF sll the old parties aud factions, count
ing in the two Republican varieties, are Joining
this corps and they mean business, The Govern
ment of the State is rotten and Infamous from
end to eud. The Legislature is a gang OF black
and white thieves, with small sprnkling OF hon
est men, powerless to etay the corrupton, and ouly
showing it up in bolder relief. Judges can be
bought Tor peck OF potatoes Juiies are all



there is a desperate contest to see who can con-
troll (which is equivalent to steaiiug) the largest
share of the public funds These creatures are
perfectly willing to turn Louisiana into swamp
or wilderness, so long as they can fill their
pouches aud get away in safety from the scene
of devastation. The recent overflow Of large
districts and terrible loss Of lite and property
are attributable TO the theft Of millions OF dol
lars which should have gone 10 the making OF
dollars which should have gone to tue making
of strong levees. The people of the North have
been obliged to give aims to the wretched suf-
ferers from these crimes, because the Louisiana
taxpayers have been robbed OF nearly the ir last
dollar. Goadcd on by outrages, the honest white
men of the State nov turn a. bay, and will hight
for tie overthrow of their oppressors. Friends OF
peace must deeply regret the appearance oil any
sign of an impending war Of races, such as Is OIL
fered by the organization ofwhites against blacks.
But it is said there, may be no other modes OF self
defence, except pledged and thorough union OF
tho victims against the tyrants. The negroes can
not protest against new party based on COM
plexion alone, for they have long been banded
and sworn together.
Year: 1874

Tue RADICAL STATE CoNvENTIoN-it Is said
the call for the Radical State Convent IN will be
issued in a few days, and that it will meet at
Georgetown during the present month The elec
t:on OF delegates will be held week or ten days
before the assembling OF the Convention The
proportion of delegates assigned to the negroes
is expected to be named pro rata for each hundred
and the city CT Wilmington. The ticket will
probably bo composed OF n majority Of white
men, notwithstanding the negroes belong 10 tho
party casting the most votes. This course is
to be pursued here, we infer in retaliation for
;he conduct Of the Radical negroes in South
Carolina, who, being in The majority, monopolizc
nearly all the State offices and have raised the
salaries go high that enough money cannot be
collected from taxes to lay them. Even tho
negroes not in ofIice complain that they are thus
robbed of their labor.
Year: 1874

Tie indications now are that we shall have
letter times d.!.ng the iall ard " inter months
ard that by tie next spring business will again
revive and hope and confidence produce that
prosperity and business life fer which we have
oil been anxiously looking for the past two or
three years. Those therefore, who proceed With
the buildings and improvements now at care.
fully reduced rate of cost, are likely TO he the
gamers in the end.
Year: 1874

As the handling and using Of dry Paris
Green, especially by persons unaccustom-
ed to its use, is attended by considerable
risk, and often attended by serious conse-
quences, we make the following sugges-
tions, founded on our experience as man
utacturers


All packages, whether large or small,
should be plainly marked poison.


THERE'S great danger in the mixing Of
this green for potato-bug and cotton orm
poison, owing to the fine dust which arises
in tho process, which is inhaled and also
very rapidly absorbed by the pores of the
skin, especially if the person using it
should be in a state of perspiration. To
guard against this, the hands and face
particularly nostrils) should be protected
as much as possible, and should be care.
fully washed after working in it, or in any
Of the preparations OF which it is an in
gredient. As it penetrates and poisons
wood, gets into the seams and crevices OF
articles made Of metal. and even into
earthenware that is at all porous, all
household utensils, or anything in barn OF
stable which cattle or horses could have
access to, in which the article may have
been mixed, or from which it has
been used, should be carefully set aside.
and never again used for any other pur-
pose.


Malignant sores are not unfrequeutly
caused by scratching the skin when Itch
ing or irritated from handling the green.
It should be constantly borne in mind
that it is more dangerous and deadly pois
on than arsenic, and farmers, planters and
others, when purchasing, should be duly
cautioned to exercise the utmost care in
using it.


As a remedy for the poison, the free use
Of milk as beverage is recommended, but
we have found hydrated peroxide of iron
a simple, harmless remedy-the best an
tidote. Sores caused by the green should
be well covered with it, as with an ordi-
nary salve, and teaspoonful in wine
glass Of water should be taken twice day
internally, while working with the green.
This remedy can be obtained frem any
druggist or chemist.


The consumption of Paris Green has
largely increased within q few years, and
the article is now applied to such variety
OF purposes, that carelessness in its use OF
ignorance of its highly dangerous proper
ties on the part of those who use it, can
not fail to produce the most deplorable re-
sults.-Paint and Oil Journal.
Year: 1874

Early chickenhood is the time when
poultry breeders should assist nature in
developing the size and growth of fowls.
In it the frame of the future bird is mold
ed, its size increased or its growth retard-
ed, just in proportion to the degree of care
and attention then bestowed. Whatever
be the object sought in raising chickens,
size, with very few exceptions, is one of
the points looked for, and this can only be
obtained to degree Of perfection by the
proper treatment of chickens from the
time they are hatched until they arrive at
maturity. Feed we'll, feed often, and keep
the chicken-pen clean, are golden words
which should be emblazoned on every
chicken-coop in the poultry yard.
Year: 1874

IBY THSkGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUEE.I


WASHINGTON, Nov. 6-There were no matters Of
Importance to receive the attention of the Cabinet
at its meeting to-day and, besides the most ordinary
routine nothing of business nature occurred of
sufficient interest to record After certain small
matters relating to the departments had been dis
posed of, the members of the Cabinet and the Pres
dent turned naturally enough into the political
stream, and the events Of the last few
days were discussed on all sides. Con-
sidering the terrible defeat and rout of
the Administration at the Tuesday elections, it must
be acknowledged that the President and most of his
Cabinet were in admirable temper. and the remarks
we're all in good-natured spirit None of the gen.
tlemen present, not even the Attorney General.
expressed tho opinion that the country was in
danger and the President himself rather treated the
occurrences of Tuesday as good joke. He talked
moro freely with reference to the third term than
he has ever done before, and repudiated the whole
attempt to get up third term issue as colossal
Joke. He laughed at it as the best joke Of the
season. He thought no sensible man could imagine
there was such an issue in the field; still he could
not fail to remember that the South Carolina Repub-
lican Convention had placed itself on record
in favor of q third term, aud he seemed to
derive much comfort from the fact that South
Carolina had gone 80 largely Republican. He said
IL was the only oasis ia tho desert. He regretted
exceedingly the defeat of Ellis II. Roberts in the
Utica District because he regarded him as straight
forward, upright unpreiudiced. honest man, and be
had shown himself good legislator, but the Presi-
dent seemed to take pleasure in remembering that
Mr.. Robertss convention passed resolutions
AGAINST the third term principle. Whether
Gen. Grant is seeking q third term or
not is @ subject on which there is diyis-
ion of opinion. but 1t is very certain that
be is proud of the fact that South Carolina was
in favor of third term. and carried her ticket on
that ISSUE and that Mr.. Roberts. with Convention
opposed to third term was defeated. The Presi-
dent during the conversation did not seem to regard
the defeat of Butler as great calamity to the party
and treated mention of the subject with great
sauanmity There was o good deal of chatting
among tho members of the Cabinet over the fact
that Secretary Belknap of Iowa was the only mem
ber from Q Republican State. Attorney y-Generai
williams thought Oregon ought to be classed in the
Renublican list but there was so much doubt on the


Anyonsh R0wos
Year: 1874

THE PRESIDENT AND CABINET TALK OVER THE
RESULTS OF THE ELECuoNs-THE THIRD TERM
ISSUE LAUGHED AT By THE PRESIDENT AS a
HUGE JoKE-HE TAKES COMFORT, HOWEVER, IN
THE FACT THAT SOUTH CAROLINA REMAINS LOYAL
To THE PARTY,
Year: 1874

for week, and the fat will have become
pomade la heliotrope.


The same process may be gone through
with all the other flowers mentioned. A lady
may in this manner make her own perfume,
and we may add, in the words of Mr.. Piesse,
zone that she cannot obtain for love or mon
ey at the perfumer's"
Year: 1874

POWER OF BEARING HEAT.-It is general
ly supposed that the human frame cannot en-
dure great heat, and if exposed to it will soon
sink in exhaustion. This is true in hot eli
mates, to which people have not been accus-
toned. But in this case the effect may be
due to influences from vegetation, or to some
disturbances of nature.


1t is certain that artificial heat, far greater
than the heat of the sun in the torrid zone,
may be borne without special suffering or
harm. The British Journal of Science says
that men in iron establishments work without
inconvenience with the thermometer constant
ly at 120 degrees, and in pits for making the
Bessemer steel at 14O degrees. In Turkish
baths the shampooers are often busily engaged
for four or FIVE hours in succession, with the
temperature at 11O degrees. In the Red Sea
steamers the stoke hole marks 145 degrees,
and in enamel works the operators are com.
PEELED daily to endure heat Of 300 degrees.
The elastic power of the human body in ac'
commodating itself to extremes is wonderful.
Year: 1874

A LITTLE ADVICE TO FARMERs.-Help
your wives in every way you can, trivial
though it may seem to you. For instance:
keep an extra pair of shoes or slippers in the
hall or entry, and always remember, change
your dirty boots before entering her clean
rooms Then you may be sure Of smile OF
welcome, as no dirt will be left after you for
her to clean up. In the evening comb your
hair as carefully as ever you did in your court
ing days, put on clean coat or dressing
gown, and when you take your paper to read,
do not read to yourself and leave her to lone
some thoughts while sewing or mending, but
remember that she, too, has been working
hard all day, and is still working. Read to
her whatever interests you, so that her inter-
ests and opinions may grow with yours, and
that she may comprehend something besides
love stories, of which too many have read
more than they should. You will both be
happier, and being farmers or mechanics
wife will not be such dreadful tiresome and
lonely life as many girls have every reason
now to think it is
Year: 1874

OLD LErrERs.-Never burn kindly writ
ten letters; it is so pleasant to read them
over when the ink is brown, the paper yellow
with age, and the hands that traced the friend
ly words are folded over the hearts that
prompted them, under the sod. Above all
never burn love-letters. TO read them in
after years, is like a resurrection to ones
youth. The elderly spinster finds in the im-
passioned offer she foolishly rejected twenty
years ago, fountain of rejuvenescence On
glancing over it, she realizes that she was
once belle and beauty, and beholds her
former self in a mirror much more congenial
to her taste than the one that confronts her
in her dressing-room. The "widow indeed
derives sweet and solemn consolation from
the letters of the beloved one who has jour-
neyed before her to the far-off land, from
which there comes no message, and where she
hopes, one day, to join him. No photographs
can so vividly recall to the memory of the
mother, the tenderness and devotion of the
children who have left at the call of Heaven,
as the epistolary outpourings of that love-
The letter ola true son or daughter to true
mother is something better than an image of
the features; it is reflex of the writer's SOUL
Keep all loving letters. Burn only the harsh
ones and in burning them, forgive and forget
them.
Year: 1874




p9- A Worcester boy was engaged in noe:
turnal cherry-steaing short time ago, and
was observed by the owner of the fruit, who,
unnoticed by the young rohher, placed largo
stuffed dog ut the foot of the tree and retired
to watch the result of the strategy. The boy
descending observed the dog, and then the
fun commenced: he whistled, coaxed, threat.
ened unavailing, the animal never moving,
and finally the youth accepting the inevitable,
settled down to passing the night in the tree.
After some hours had passed wearily enough
to the lad, morning dawned, and the proprie.
tor of the tree coming from the house, asked
him how he came to be in the tree, to which
the boy answered that he took to it to save
himself from the dog, who had chased him
quite distance 1t isn't healthy for smaller
boy to say stuffed dog to that youth now.


s9~ Valuable knowledge can be obtained
only by personal effort. Every one must ira
verse the hills and valleys for himself, and it
is only by unremitting application and perse-
verance that the attempt will be crowned with
success. But to the devoted, persevering
seekers success is certain. The state of mind
is such as to insure the best use being made Of
any accessible helps, and of the exercise of
ingenuity and application in surmounting
difficulties, even in the absence of all foreign
aid Whatever may be his present de6cien-
cies and disadvantages, the person-especially
the young person-who is so sensible Of the
value of knowledge as to apply his heart to
understanding-to seek for it as for silver,
and to search for it as for hidden treasures
assuredly shall not seek in vain. knowledge
is the prize of application.
Year: 1874

In future, will keep on hand full assort-
meut of Diplomas, on parchment and Bristol
board-for pocket and framing-and will furn-
ish them at publishers price, Uithout fee for
certificate Of Grand Secretary or Grand Re
corder. The Diplomas which l will keep in
stock will be of the most elegant design and
handsome print.


Believing that every Mason should have
Diploma, for his personal use, and as souy-
enir for his family, will not only make no
charge for Certificate, but will pay postage on
Diplomas Purchasing by the wholesale, l
shall be satisfied with the small margin Of
profit for the labor involved.


Tha fnllnruinr are nrinied on narch hmelt. in
Year: 1874

farmers of the State, aud Democrat. though not a
politician will probably be placed at the head Of the
ticket He is not very widely known but will. no
doubt, be strong candidate. 1t is not expected
that questions of National policy will be much dealt
with by either Of the approaching Conventions,
though some non-committal resolution on the cur
rency question may be put into one or both of the
platforms.
Year: 1874

stream, so declared by treaty anG by act of
Congress, and that the plaintiff had no
right to run his fence so as to prevent or OBJ
struct the navigation Of. the bayou and the
public use of it's banks for all purposes of
commerce, etc. There is no doubt Of the
fact that the bayou has been dedicated to
the purposes of commerce, and its banks
are free to all persons. c. c. 455, 453.


It follows that the proprietor Of the land
had no right to obstrucJ the public use Of
its banks SO as to prevent any person from
using them within the limits fixed by law.
The evidence in this case shows that the
vessel occupies but forty-nine feet OF the
bank Of the bayou, measured from the
water, and that the injary done to the
plaintiffs fence was within forty eight to
sixty-six feet of the water, leaving space
of eleven feet to his fence. Whether the
road on the west side of the bayou was q
public road by usage or not, is not material.
Had it been a wilderness any one had Q
right to the use of the banks If the plant
iii had right to put picket fence there
he had the same right to build brick wall
This is inconsistent with the purpose Of
Congress declaring the bayou to be . navi-
gable stream, and with the letter and spirit
of the provisions of our code in declaring
the banks of all navigable streams free for
the use OF the public. do not deem it
necessary to cite the various authorities on
the subject. Besides, the Quantum of dam
ages, did any lie, would be the cost Of ye-
pairs, and such as due vigilance could not
have prevented. '.-- 5--.-
Year: 1874

The abuses that have existed in the OH
cial intercourse between the several courts
of the municipal magistrates and the First
District and Superior Criminal Courts will
probably come to an abrupt ending. now
that Judge Atocha has returned. 1t has
been a cause of complaint with the district
attorney and the clerk of the Superior
Criminal Court that police magistrates were
careless in sending cases to the First Dis
trict Court when that court had NO jurisdic-
tion. These cases would be fixed for trial,
witnesses summoned, bonds taken and per-
haps couple Of oontinuances would be
had before the want Of jurisdiction would
be discovered. Then only would 1t be
transferred. OF course the First District
Court clerk charges the city with all the
fees, which causes double the expense.
Yesterday Judge Atocha issued an order
which will remedy all this. cause the magis-
trates to pay more strict attention TO the
law and save the expense Of these irregu-
iarities,
Year: 1874

Katie Woodruff.


Many Of these young ladies will leave
school at the close of the present term,
while others will remain to fit for the high
school; but all who united in this testl-
monial did SO from sincere love of a
devoted, a1ectionate and accomplished
Year: 1874

to his Office, took seat by his desk and
such face-well I began to get uneasy
about him fox he has worked 50 hard to
make this thing success, aud to have
it knocked in the head in this way, it
Was enough to unsettle the strongest
mind. But just at this moment hap
pened to think that I had No 33 Of the
GRANGE ADVANCE in my pocket. Il al
ways keep the Advance with nle) gave,
it to him calling his attention to g An
Innocent Granger--How Farmer Smith
of Madison outwltted d money LENDER. "
Well I think this was all that saved
Mr.. Milne, for before I left there he
had made arrangements to furnish a
three shovel pillow and cultivator CON-
bined, with rear shovels so arranged
that they will throw the dirt to or from
the corner as desired It will be bet
ter and cheaper pIow than the one owned
by the gents that Owa the State" and
| think we may possibly hold out few
months longer ii nothing more Of the
kind should turn up, and the Patrons
should find it possible to get along
without the assistance Of these gents


Yours Respectfully,


4. L. DICKERSON.
Year: 1874

thus far yielded any fruits beyond that of
saving a few dollars to Mr.. Sloan himself


The people ought to feel proud Of such an
Attorney General. -MilOaukee Sentinel


Thus we hear them, continually blowing:
all Archangel of light would fail to over


come the craft and prejudice of patroniz-
ing fealty: no matter whether it blows
good or i'll, blow it must and blow it will,
leaving the poor people to discriminate
and if possible CLEAN the truth from
among the rubbish. We fail to see the
necessity for our State press undertaking
to make this Monopoly question ride the
horse Of party politics. It is question of
general interest; one in which the indi-
vidual interests Of all citizens are concen-
trated, and consequently not subject to
party manipulation. But there seems to
be a tendency upon the part of some TO make
it an issue by which to ride into favor OF
the Oranges, the movement of which they
at present fail to comprehend. Now gen
tlemen we don't propose to bite: we know
your .decoy, bait is very attractive and
carries with it a facinative delusion that


has trapped many older subjects. But we,


like other children Of nature, are simple
in habits and particularly desirous Of max
ing our own abilities furnish our wants.
Should We fail, then We might approach
tie gates Of your charities with hands ex-
tended solicitous Of help: until then we
refuse to be pleased with the glitter Of your
baubles which you may as we'll dangle in
the eyes of cheaper game, for we have


learned to find the intrinsic value Of things
from the experience of past personal life
history, the concentration Of which YOU
may see outcropping through organization


Ut course we don't refuse cooperation hon
estly extended /: humanity has ever de.
pended on the press as mediator of adju-
dication between the grasping and extor-
tlonate desires OF its more wealthy, and
perhaps in one sense intelligent portions of
communities; and we regret to say has
been as often sold as obligated for aid
! and defense. The future will demand Of
the press honesty and truthfulness in all


transactions that pertain to the interests of
this busy hum and hustle Of every day life.
The eyes Of the laborer have past the
crudity OF that time incident to the un-
folding of his vision, and he now sees with
the keener sigh, Of practical knowledge
and intelligence. Consequently look out
| for the ''spotters y for they are with Us,
and that press that would sell his birth
right to feed and maintain demagogues,
political and cooperative functionaries will
be advertised and sifted as chaf ready for
| the burner. G.