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Year: 1879

ence of undertaking new legislation at the


present extra session, and that there is a pos
sibility that a determination will finally be
reached in favor of admitting legislation
with limitation that it shall not interfere
with the passage of the appropriation bills,
and that when those are acted upon Con-
gress shall forthwith adjourn. Such plan


would be fraught with danger, for once the
door is opened there will be perfect flood
of schemes of diverse natures forced
upon the attentions of Congress. No
matter how honest the members were in


their Intentions, it would inevitably delay


the legitimate work of the session, and thus


prolong the deliberations far beyond the


proper time for adjournment. There is


really nothing urgent that calls for action at


this time-nothing that cannot as we'll be


delayed till the regular meeting of Congress


in December next. We trust that the eau


Gus, which meets tonight, will look at this


matter carefully, and not allow the insertion
of the entering wedge which will result in
prolonging the session far into the summer
months. We advise now, as we have ad
vised heretofore, that nothing be done at the
extra session except what is actually neces
sary. By this course nothing can be los
| and much may be gained. There is time
enough in which to do all that is necessary
before the 1st of May, and every days pro
longation of the session beyond that time
! will result in harm, not only to the country
but to the party. Again we say, do as little
as possible at this session of Congress.
Year: 1879

The French Senate and Assembly have
voted to hold their next session in Paris in
stead of at Versailles, which, ever since the
commune, has been the capital of France.
The wisdom of this action is open to ques-
ton. Paris has been in the past, and will
continue to be in the future, the center and
breeding place of revolutions. All the ele-
ments of disaffection with the government
consolidate in that city, and the utmost
vigilance of the police cannot crush out the
germs of revolution or stay its progress when
once it is in full progress. Within the men,
ory of men now living the national assembly
has thrice been placed at the mercy of mob,
and has been completely overawed. What
the motives of the deputies who voted for
the proposition were cannot be told, but it
looks little like conspiracy to place the
governing power of the country at the mercy
of the next revolution that may como to the
front, and that revolution, it is unnecessary
to add, is one in favor of the return of the
Napoleonic dynasty.
Year: 1879

A"C DEMOCfd1IC PROGRAMME,


We are glad to observe that the Demo-
Gratis In both branches of Congress have
determined to recede slightly from the DO
sltlon they took at the last session in regard
to the political legislation attached to the
appropriation bills. At caucus on Satur-
day evening it was decided to adhere to the
original programme Gs 10 the repeal of the
Jurors test oath, and the law authorizing
the employment of troops, but to modify
the supervisors of election law SO as to pre-
vent the appointment of chief supervisors
and deputy marshals. If modified as pro-
posed, the law will be robbed of its most
dangerous features. 1t will simply provide
Tor the appointment of two supervisors. one
from each political party, who shall be
present at the polls and witness the connt-
ing OF votes, but shall have no power to
make arrests or do aught save protest
against proceedings that may appear to be
illegal. They will be simply wit
nesses of the manner of conductino
Inc elections, and in cases of
contest their testimony will be valuable-far
more so than if they were governed bv pute
partisanship, and had arbitrary powers of
arrest and proceeded to intimidate voters.
as has been done in the past. It is thought
that, while this change in. the Democratic
programme will not wholly satisfy Mr..
Hayes, it will prove so far satisfactory as to
induce him to sign the appropriation bills
with these amendments attached, as he will
understand that this is the best that can be
done under the circumstances.


We regret that there was division of
opinion in the sub caucus as to the expedi
Year: 1879

SPEAKER RANDALL will announce the stand
ing committees OF the House tomorrow. 1t
is not at all probable that he will succeed in
pleasing everybody. There are only forty
six chairmanships at his disposal, and there
are one hundred and forty-four Democrats
who want to be placed at the head of one OF
more of them. It is very evident, therefore
that ninety-eight members will be disap-
pointed. Before the week closes Mr. Ran
dali will no doubt be anxious to pay pro-
longed visit to his mother in law, that he
may enjoy sursease of sorrow for spell.
We don't envy him.
Year: 1879

Shippers continue to send live cattle
abroad. as they consider it q much less ex-
pensive manner of shipping than to send
dead meat in refrigerators, and the meat
commands much better sale on the other
side than dead. -
Year: 1879

We are pleased to state that all
the preliminaries lave been ar.
ranged for the construction Of the
Deer Greek railroad. aud tha. work
will be commenced within sixty
days. Gen. s. D. Buckner aud bis
associates feel confident that they
can complete the road in ample
time to move the next crop il 10
unforeseen obstacles arise to pre-
vent them. This road will be Of
incalculable benefit to Vicksburg
as |, will not oul. increase the
trade Of the city in localities from
which she has heretofore received
only share, but will open up en-
tirely new avenues. The road
will also be Of great benefit to a
large scope Of country through
which It will pass, as It will place
II in direct communication with
tho outside world and offer con-
venient aud easy transportation to
market for the produce Of the
country. We have the utmost
confidence IN the gentlemen who
have undertaken to construct the
road and we do not doubt that w
next Fall We shall bc united 10
our friends Of Sharkey county by
iron bonds. Every assistance
should be rendered and no obstacle
thrown in the way Of building the
Deer Greek railroad, us directly or
indirectly, every citizen OF War.
rem aud Sharkey counties is inter
ested in its early completion.


Vicksburg Herald
Year: 1879

Portland tMe.) Press.l


Friday morning, about o'clock,
a little boy, aged three years,
named Sanborn, whose parents re-
side on Newbury street, Portland,
saw team standing by the side-
walk. 1t was nice, light wagon,
to which a white horse was at
tached. Into this carriage the in
FAINT scrambled, gathered up the
reins in his tiny hands and drove
off with the GOODNESS and assurance
of a veteran. Finding the animal
did not proceed at a pace fast
enough to please him, he managed
to draw the whip from the socket,
and laid on the lash with energy
that surprised "Old Whitney"
The animal had good blood in him,
and away he weut at at a three
minute gait, causing other teams
to give him wide berth. The
owner caught sight of his equipage
and started in pursuit. He might
as we'll have tried to catch a will o.
the wisp. Other teams Joined in
the pursuit, at the request of the
anxious proprietor of the stolen
team, but the little rascal managed
to evade them all. AT last, when
the horse began to show signs of
exhaustion, the child drove him
into the stable on Pearl street and
vanished.


The boy was in high feather
with his success, and he next got
into wagon which was drawn by
black horse, and again the for
mer experience was repeated.
Leaving this wagon ne ap-
propriated horse and buggy
that was said to be the team of
Mr.. Sawyer, the agent of the
society with the long name, and
was driving of, when man sprang
forward and seized the horse by the
bride. To him sternly the pre-
cocious infant remarked: "Let go
that 'ors or L sap 90 fathe." The
man was so dumbfounded at the
child's brusqueness that he dropped
the bride and away went the child
and team. Around and around he
went, but the team was captured
On Exchange street, and as the cap
tor was about to seize the boy, 10!
he was gone like nimble flea, and
slipped into Judge Goddard's car
riage standing at the Postoffice.
But this time the crowd which had
gathered was too quick for the in
fant, and he was gohbled and taken
before the Postmaster. Male and
female clerks gathered to see this
remarkable child and hear him re-
capitulate, with infantile glee and
baby tongue, how he had seized
Mr.. Mann's team and had q good
time.


He was escorted to his home by
one of the clerks, followed by the
Year: 1879

admiring public in the shape of o
long string of men, women and
boys, and when he reached home
told his mother che had ever so
nice time with white 'ors and a
black 'ors, and been everywhere. -
The boy was gone from s O'Clock
till IL. In order to make sure of
the child's age, the mother was
asked the question, and she replied
that he was only three years old.
Year: 1879

Moscow society is just now exer-
cised by the suicide Of one of its
brightest ornaments, the young
and lovely Countess Vera Koshe-
left, who disappeared two days after
her betrOthal to Count Hermann,
and wrote that 'she was going to
battle in river on her Crimea es-
tate, and would never return.n
Her body was found there sewn in
a large straw sack, with the seam
In the interior, showing that she
had sewn herself deliberately in it,
as letter near her said, "from her
extreme fear of crawfish aud water
beetles.u
Year: 1879

rhe Herald steam Printing House Is
not surpassed by any Job Printing office
Oh the Pacific Coast. outside of San Franz
cisco, in facilities for doing job work,


ow prices. good work and expedition
nav he relied upon at this office.
Year: 1879

A number of desirable rooms to
let at No. 7 Third street. The loca-
lion is accessible and desirable
from every standpoint. The neigh


borhood is good and the house Is


barely five minutes walk from the
Court House.
Year: 1879

The Massachusetts Hayden has been &C., quilted of the charge brought against him of poisoning his sister. The evidence of the poi soning was sufficient, but there was apparent ly no sufficient proof of his having administ- cred the polson. Still, there was SO strong a probability of guilt that the jury were out twenty hours before they could agree on a verdict of acquittal
Year: 1879

The reports of South Carolina schools show an attendance of about 64000 colored pupils during the year-probably something less than half the colored population from five to fifteen. less than four months
Year: 1879

ABOUT RUBBER BooTs. Undue competition between manufacturers has led to an extent of adulteration and cheapening of material never before known in the business. Crude rubber has the quality of absorbing or of becoming incorporated with very large quantity of cheap and bulky substances, like lamp-black. chalk &c., which can not be detected by the uninifated, and which impair the durability of the goods. People call for low priced goods, not reflecting that low prices always mean low, quality. The result is they waste money on ''wild cat" Rubber Boots, when an extra dollar or two would buy them pair which will wear to their utmost satisfaction whole season and more. The ''95 Per Cent" Boot, described in another eeanmn, is meant to reform this abuse, and is Wolsn s 1ne aasraotion of those in need of real
Year: 1879

The Tribune correspondent from Paris writes of an interesting interview he recently had with Gambetta, in which that remarkable man speaks in confident terms of the progress that will be made in France under the impulse of the judicious reforms which he thinks the Assembly sure to adopt. One matter he con- siders of prime importance the better educa- lion of women. So long as all French women are brought up bigots, he believes that the re- public will be in constant danger, and to meet the difficulty national system of higher edu- cation for girls will soon be proposed:

 GAmbetta is persuaded that if girls are not educated up to the level of the Republican ideal the Republic will fall down to their mo- tion of what it ought to be. It will become a disguised monarchy or theocracy, until the time IS ripe for the Pope and Cesar to advance upon the stage and invest themselves with all pow CT. Gambretta said the best advisers he ever had-Hot alone as to the conduct of his private live. tut in politics-were good women, whose minds were emancipated from sacerdotal tyr amy. The French woman, Tn his opinion, is A nsarsellously gifted creature, and would be, d emaneipated. simply peerless. It was of vital importance to the commonwealth that the fullest justice should be done to the girl hood of France.

 1t is greatly to be regretted that the politi. cians who pass for statesmen in America were not gifted with an equally wise foresight.
Year: 1879

| CAUSE AND EFFEoT.-The main cause of nervousness is indigestion, and that is caused fby weakness of the stomach No one can have sound nerves and good health without using Hop Bitters to strengthen the stomach,

 purify the blood, and keep the liver and kin neys active, to carry off all the poisonous and

 waste matter of the system. See other col umn Adpn7ace
Year: 1879

At the earnest solicitation of many
persons living on Market street between
Second and Fourth, We present their
complaint to our citizens. They say
that the horses and mules drawing the
city cars are often overloaded, and they
are numerically beaten to drag the fear


full weight up the hill. No christian
man or woman would stop full car on
the hill, and no driver with spark of
conscience would stop such car to let
the soulless creatures in, with only two
moor little mules ahead with their slen-
der legs to strain and struggle in start
ing the dreadful weight. We think the
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Animals should present this alienation
before the company, either to have a
leader for every ascending car, or to
make it illegal to take a standing pas
senger. In Philadelphia a boy waits
ready with a leader at every steep place
and placards are hung outside the cars
requesting the ladies not to stop the
cars between the corners, the strain on
the horses in starting is so terrible. We
know a driver in that city who lost his
situation by refusing to overload his
horses--he preferred to serve his Heay-
enly Master rather than his earthly one.
When Wilmington produces such man
we shall shout for Joy. Il. W.
Year: 1879




| MEssRs. EprToRs As is well-knowl
we have In this country party com
posed Of numerous adherents, which
claims to be democratic party; and a
its assemblies and through the press
have much to say about democratic
principles and democratic measures
But after carefully noting its ante
cedeDts in political management, am
at loss to find in what respect it bears
any likeness to democracy, or upon
what grounds its adherents are entitled
TO the name they have assumed.


OF course, in one sense, they have a
right to assume any name, bnt the in
ference is, that in adopting the name,
it was supposed to have some signif-
eance in pointing to the principles by
which the party should be governed,
and there can be no doubt hut that
there are many simple minded men
who (mistakipg the rame for the prin-
ciple, really imagine that in support
ing the party, they are in fact support
ing democratic measures. "A demo-
crat il one who adheres TO a govern
ment by the people, or favors the ex-
tension of the right of suffrage to all
classes of men," This is Mr.. Web
ster's definition of the term, who be-
lieve is generally accepted as standard
authority.


Now instead Of extending the right
of franchise to all classes of men, 1t has
been and Is the policy Of that party,
not only to prevent the extension of the
franchise, but to deprive those Of the
right by whom the privilege has been
already enjoyed except there was an
assurance that it would be especially
favored by that extension. 1t is we'll
known that this has been catch name
to entrap the simple,


In order to obtain supremacy, or to
maintain that which it has, by a sys-
tematic policy to that end, thousands
of Republicans have been defrauded Of
their right; and as tar as the ballot is
concerned, have had no voice in the
government.


It has done everything it could do,
to abridge this privilege to political OF
ponents; and 1 ask what more than
this, could any autocrat dor


A party which resorts to such means
to maintain its ascendency, is not only
unworthy the support of free people,
but it is a constant threat against the
perpetuity of free government. That
it has many good and true men among
its supporters, | will not undertake ia
deny but that they are aiders and
abetters in every snti-democfatic princi,
pies, am free to assert. A party that
has to maintain itself by fraud and dis.
franchisement is not only to be regard
ed with suspicion, but has need to be
watched as common foe to political
equality.


Itmay be said that as party 1t has
not justified those things laid to its
charge which have been perpetrated in
certain sections; but when have the lead
ers Of the party protested against such
acts ? Have they denounced it as
wrong and unwarrantable Never!
ask then in conclusion, in what sense
are its acts consistent with tue princi-
pies of democratic government Will
some of its friends please enlighten us!
EARNEST.
Year: 1879

Their readiness 70 accept Mr.. Greeley rs their
candidate showed how desperate were their
fortunes, and their fnilure 20 deliver the vote
of the party disclosei the futiliiy Of any at
tempt TO use the organiz ition as Az engine 0i
reform


In tie crisis that followed they had 20 hold
ms many ms possible Of the Liberal Rcpgb-


icans, and retain 10y party nominations their
own original strength. 1t was the turning
point with them. They were sagacious
enough for once to see that IN carrying out
the pretence of reform lay their only chance
for success. There was but one leader to ft
this emergency; but one prominent Democrat
If we NAV except Mr. O'Conor, who can
hardly he called prominent in the SENSE OF
availability for Office who had record that
entitled hm TO the confidence Of the Liberal
and Independent Republicans and the large
class Of unattached voters who made reform
the first article in their political creed. Dir.
'rildcn had made n reputation as a reioimer
by his labOrs IN unearthing the frauds OF the
Tammany Ring and bringing the perpetrators
to justice. The logic of party necessity pointed
to him. and with consummate sbrcwdness he
steadied its outstretched finger No man but
hc could have saved his party at that junc'ure.
He did it. though they we're almost as unwilling
then as now to take him rs their leader. His
administration rs Governor was not lncon-
sistent with his recent record IA political
reformer, and when his party, borne along I'M
willingly and reluctantly upon the wave OF
their own insincere and hollow professions OF
reform, nominated him for the Presidency, they
found that their only living issne was the one
that he had made for them, and their only
claim upon public confidence was based
upon his administration rs Governor OF
the State of New-York. Is it too much to
say that this man saved his party not merely
from defeat but from annihilation 1t was
nothing and is nothing without him. And yet
they say he is an incubus, and are anxious to
throw him off. Except for sort of selfish in
stinct which dmly recognizes the fact
that they cannot get along without him,
they would have tumbled him out and
marched over him long ago. They distrust
and dislike him, and would have none OF him
if they could help it. They make believe that
he is n Political RefOrmer, and they arc so
half fearful that it may actually be true that
they don't dare trust him. They are an
ungrateful gang.
Year: 1879

tor from Ohio when the Legislature in .Iaar.
arY. His few opponents I'm the Republican PARTY
manage to make considerable noise about a f0s mid
abe vote against him. but ilc Tact remains that he
isnow likely to get fIe position without difuity,
ana by handsome majority.


Mr. Tildcn has not yet stepped ont upon his porch
bareheadcd. and proclaimed That be has finally con-
cludel to condone it. Until he does this in a loud
tone of voice and with distinct enunciation he may
be oonsidefed a candidate.


The current belief that a Connecticut Democrat
is the meanest man the planet Will probably
need VINE revision in the light OF recent develop
mentsin Maine


The bold position which President Hayes has
taken the financial question is indirectly an ar
gument in favor Of the Presidential term the
ory. In all probability he would have taken SIM
liar position II he had not been pledged against a
denomination. but at the same time he IL able 10
take cODcr view of question fraugiit with so
many political possibilities than be would have
been II his mind were occupied with lOngngs fOr a
reelection.


Justice Field is said to be Mr. Hewitfs candidate
for 1880. Isn't he afraid Tilden would be dread
fully silent" with n member of the Field family at
the frontf


The Louisiana REPUBLICANS have gained one sub
siantial triumph which does them great credit. 1t
s thought now thar they have defeated the State
Debt Ordinance which provided for partial rcpndia-
ton. The Constitution. which leaves the State
debt entirely alone, has been adopted by the ard OF
the solid Republican vote, but the Debt Ordinance
which changed the contract with the bondhOlder 20
bis disadvantage, and boldly laid hands on the in
erest tax applied TO the payment of coupons falling
due in January next. has probably been defeated
by reason OF a solid Republican vote against NJ.
This IN an offset to the conduct of the Virginia Re-
publioans and rs a welcome evidence that the latter
are alone among their brethren IN the South In
their alliance with repudiators


Mr.. Tiden listens to the spiteful attacks of his
recent friends with clumsy uncoDcern. He knows
the party doesn't love him, but he knows, too that
the party can't get along without him and his barL
Year: 1879

Hone is indulged by Mr.. Chittenden and
some other Republicans that an early decision
of the Supreme Court in the legal-tender case
may relieve timid Congressman from embar-
rassment. But it is too late. Had a decision
been rendered prior to the meeting of Con-
gress, some Republicans might have escaped
the necessity of committing themselves for or
against an honest course. But while the
decision is still awaited Congress has as
sembled, the President and Secretary of Treasury
have made formal recommendations, Senator
Bayard has offered bill for the repeal of the
legal tender clause, with the support of many
Democrats, and an advisory committee, sup
posed to represent the Republicans of the
Senate, has advised no legislation whatever
at this session on questions of finance. Evil
IDENTIFY. such decision of the Supreme Court
as Mr. Chlttenden expects would now place
the Republicans in an embarrassing position.


Let us suppose, for example. that the Su-
preme Court should decide to-day that any
issue OF legal-tender notes in time of peace is
unconstitutional. Nearly all the recognized
leaders of the Republican party in Congress
are at this time apparently committed against
any modification of the existing law. True
and able Republicans will undoubtedly urge
different course hereafter, but as yet they have
not spoken. TO all appearances, the Republi-
can party in Congress is represented by the
Advisory Committee. and the other members
who have made haste to oppose a change OF the
law. The party, then. seems to insist upon