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Year: 1874

New YoEK, May A letter FROM
Berlin says il was the evident purpose of
the liberals, in voting to tx the military
strength of Germany for seven years, to
enable the Emperor to prepare for any
hostile demonstrations. During the
seven years President McMahon is to ex-
ercise his power in France. The letter
adds the addition of some four hundred
thousand to the regular army, a fact
which carries its own explanation, but
the effect of This increase on the availa-
BILE military material of the country in
wolves another calculation besides the
three years which he series under the
flag. The recreant basis nine years in
reserve and the Landwshr increase of
eighty-six thousand to the permanent
army implies yearly addition
of the same number to the train
ed reserve. This amounts in seven
years to 80, 900 men; or rather since the
effect of the increase will be felt on the
reserve only. After the expiration OF
three years from the beginning of new
levies, 100, ,0C0 will represent that addi-
ton, while l20, 900 more will be still in
active service. In other words, in 1881
Germany will be able tc meet France
with nearly 800, 600 more skilled soldiers
than to-day.


A Paris letter-writer says: Evidently
difficulties are fast closing in about us,
and every day we have some fresh cause
for rejecting upon the security of the
moment. The spirit which animated
the commune is very far from being
crushed. The same men are once more
organizing for another attempt, and just
as they did before in lS4S and in 1871.
Scores of working men are formed in
each srrondis sement under the direction
of district committees, which take their
orders from the central committee. The
next step is to bend men by max
ing them solitaire in all dangers
and benefits, and by the element
of secIesy-alwsys attractive to the
unedueated. Members of the So
ciety who have work are privately
taxed, and dne-half of the proceeds is
added to the sinking fund reserved for
the war budget. The rest goes to aid
those who are out of work and in distress.
Just before the war matters had reached
the stage where we find them to-day,
and CreuzOt was selected as the best
point for beginning the strikes. The
difficulties then caused made possible
the fourth of September. This time the
strikers are to be encouraged in the pos
tive certainty that the septennate must
come to au end one day or another. The
belief that it will not last long gives the
chiefs of the International aD Opportu-
nifty for saying that it viii be succeeded
by another commune
Year: 1874

From an Occasional Correspondent


NASHVILLE, May 4, lS74.-The great
Impression here seems to be that the ne
grOes, in their convention at this place
the other day, made great mistake. If
their object Is to destroy the school sys-
tenn OF the State, then they have started
in the right direction. This would in-
jure them more than il would the white
people. There are some persons in the
State who would be glad of any pretext
10 abolish the free-school system, and
those Nashville convention negroes ap-
pear inclined 10 give them that preteXt.
The negroes of this State generally are
not responsible for what those ambi-
tiOus, self-cOnceited negroes did
at Nashville. The Nashvil .e con-
vention negroes are those who are
ashamed of their own race and IN
willing to associate with persons of their
own color who are far better than they
are, and these same negroes Ed. Shaw,
Nelse Walker, and such like, are trying
to force themselves into the society OF
white people and quit their own people.
The sensible negroes will find them out,
and will scOrn and repudiate them. Ne
grOes should have equal privileges with
white people, that is they should have as





accommodations when they pay for
them, as good hotels if they wish them,
etc, are built them, but they should keep
themselves separate and apart from the
white race in schools, hotels and rail-
roads. Tne anxiety on the part of some
negroes TO force themselves into white
society implies that they feel their iDfe-
riOrity. If a negro had the proper pride
and self-respect he would and should be
no more solicitOus about getting into the
society Of white people than white peO-
pie would be to get into his society.
This nervous anxiety about their social
status is an acknowledgment OF inferior
ity which no negro of self-respect should
ever make. Equal rights and equal
privileges should satisfy them without
having them jointly and in common.
Let there be white and colored schools,
white and colored churches, white and
cOlOred cars, but let each be equal in
privileges and equal in accommodations.
This is all they should ask and all they
will oct
Year: 1874

A LITTLE CURIOUS Philadel-
phia INQUIRER compares the late de
feat of the Radical forces to the first
Bull Run battle, The simile is Ger
tainly strange one for that influential
journal to resort to. 1t is not correct
ut all, in as much as the forces against
the rebles were two to one, while in
the present case the loyal voters and
victors in the fight are only about five
to three.
Year: 1874

-Oilcloths, if we'll rubbed with u
woolen cloth and warm water, with
the addition of little skinned milk.
if convenient, will look nearly as fresh
as new. Scrubbing brushes and
stong soap are ruinous to them. :.
Year: 1874

In short it Is the SIMPLEST, SAFEST, most
the world. We fully guarantee them in all the abeve
particulars. COLTS ARMS CO. have spared no
expense in getting up SPECIAL TOOLS AND MA
CHIMES with which to build these Engines, so that
every part is made to gauge and are perfectly in
Interchangeable, the Importance OF which Will be un-
derstood by all who are at all familiar with machin-
cry. Thus every Engine of given size is an exact
OF breakage, the broken part be Immediately re-
placed by its perfect duplicate.


The inventor of this Engine had in view, in its
construction, the great need that exists tor perfect
Steam Engine-of small power-adapted to all kinds
of light mechanical work. and that should also COM
bine all that is good in Steam Engineering.


The first point was, to secure perfectly philo-
sophical Boiler and Furnace in order to insure the
most perfect combustion and to take up the greatest
possible amount of heat IN generating steam.


The second point was, to make a perfect cutoff
Engine, working steam expansively, and keeping up
the temperature OF the cylinder to Prevent loss by
radiation or condensation.


The third point was. to combine and make the
chine; all its parts being provided with means to
take up lost notion that it may be used for any
number of years, and always run smoothly. In all
these particulars much has been taken as in
the largest and most perfect engine constructed


The result is-THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF POWER
PROPORTIONED TC THE AMOUNT OF FUEL CON-
sUMED-thus proving the fact-weI known to men
of scence-thdt scater is the best medium to trans
NIT the mechanical forces, generated in the COM
Machinery for any purpose furnished at


Manufacturers Prices.
Year: 1874

The Postage will be prepaid by the publishers
without charge to the subscriber, only on the express
condition that subscriptions are paid avorabtu in
GdcGnce at the Commencement of each year.
Year: 1874

IF an elderly and respected member OF the
House of Commons were to rise in his place,
and ask whether another member had said
that Mr.. Gladstone's ministry had ''fallen be-
meath the contempt and horror OF all honest
men;'' if, in the absence OF the gentleman
thus questioned, another were to reply that
he took the responsibility of the words upon
himself; if the first speaker were then to call
the second liar; if, amid indescribabe con-
fusion, the member originally addressed were
to enter the House, and to say that he repeat
ed the accusation; if the elderly and respect
able nquisitor were then to call him a liar,
also, and the Speaker to leave the chair in a
fright, we should all fear that there was a
screw loose in the British Constitution, and
that some of the wheels might come off. Yet
that is exactly what happened in the National
Assembly of France a week ago, without do
ing any particular harm to anything or any
body. And the heroes of the row are all
personages so strange that they merit little
more attention than they have received amid
the fierce clamor raised by the public worship
bill. M. Schoecher, who shivered the Assem-
bly, into splinters by his profuse employment
of the word "lar,' is about seventy years
cid, and he is one OF the most highly respect
ed men in France. When a young man he
visited the United States, Mexico and Cuba,
and he then saw the shame which was cast
on his country by the existence of slavery in
its colonies. Filled with burning hatred of
the iniquity, he resolved to devote his life to
the extirpation of it from the institutions of
France. Being an enthusiast of that steady,
intense, and we might almost say cold, type
of tanaticism which gave an iron force TO the
Puritans, he never lost sight of that one OBJ
ject amid all the distractions of political
strife. He made journeys TO the French colo
nies, to Africa and all the abodes of slavery.
He tried to quicken the moral sense Of his
countrymen to perception of its enormous
wickedness by writing one iervid book after
another. A rich man as well as zealot, he
gave freely, generously, lavishly, for the sake
| of the good cause. He is said to have spent
| half his fortune in helping the black people ol
| the French settlements. And at last he had
| his reward. The revolution of 1S4S placed


men of generous ideals in positions OF power,
| and M, Schelcher became under secretary ol


state at the Ministry of Marine. The very
| next day after he was appointed, he drew up
| an official declaration against slavery, and a


commission was instantly appointed to sci


the negroes free. M. SchGlcher himself wa:


tbe president of the commission, and tbt


work of emancipation was speedily done


Thus was the dream of his life fulfilled, an,


the poor freedmen of Guadaloupe have testi


fed their gratitude to the Wilberforce o


France by electing him as the member 70


that colony in the National Assembly. HI


might have sat for any one of half dozel


departments of France, where he is as muci
respected as in her distant colonies; but h
Year: 1874

Wha. an impress the first Napoleon Left up
on his times may be seen from the fact that
writers to this day put his initials, IN. b.,
before the portions of a manuscript to which
they would call special attention.
Year: 1874

"She saw him ON his bright blue steed
A dusting down the road,
And pit pat, and pit pat


Her little heartfelt COED;
And soft she sobbered to herself,
Though swift his PAGES be,
He cannot kite so fast but what


My heart keeps up with he.'"
Year: 1874

On next Tuesday Jan. 5th, at 10
o'clock a. m, will assemble the most
importat meeting that this Council ever
held. A wide range Of most important
questions were brought out at the regu
lar meeting and the initiative steps TAX
en- towards working out these problems
to practical and useful results, it re-
mains for the adjourned meeting to COM
plete the work. The matter of the
Business Agency, the Importance Of
which needs no remarks.will be the ques.
ton first to demand attention. Then
action on the formation of Stock Com
pany for manufacturing and other pur-
poses, will ccme up for consideration
under the report of the committee. Of
course this organization in its objects
and manner of operation will be left
wholly to the determination of this
meeting of the Council, and it is most
important that such a direction be Civ
en- to it as will not only insure its per-
manent success, but will also be sure to
advance the industrial and agricultural
interests of the County. We believe
that ali realize the Importance Of build
ing up home manufactures and home
markets. in preference to shipping our
products, and bringing back our neces-
cary supplies half way around the
globe; yet knowing and believing will
certainly do no good without this knowl-
edge and belief result in acts. Beside
these main questions there will he 9TH
ers of almost equal Importance. Why
cannot every Grange in the County be
fuzzy represented ? = ~,.,zz::.


Besides taking part in setting on foot
enterprises which will add to the wealth
and prosperity of the County, for all
coming time, all who come may expect
a pleasant social time. The Red Wing,
seconded by the Wacoota Grange, are
preparing to spread rich dinner at the
Grange Hall, for the abundant supply
and thorough qualification of all that
come. Come together friends and have
hearty hand shake and do yourselves
proud.
Year: 1874

The tragedy of the stealing of
a child in one of the best governed
cities of this Christian nation and
the demand of $4,000 for his ran
som was sufficiently shocking in it's
self, but time seems only to devel-
ope new horrors in connection with
this fearful example Of human de-
prayity.> Last week we gave an ac-
count of the shooting of two burg
lars in the act of committing burg
larry, one of whom confessed to the
abduction of Charley Ross, and
thereupon it transpires that these
men have been long known as dar-
ing burglars and river thievs and
have been under the watch of the
police and yet permitted to run at
large. We are forcibly reminded
that in our cities thousands of men
of the same low character, whose
crimes are we'll known ply their
trades Of thieving, and robbery in
comparative safety. They are per-
mitted to marry, raise families, &C
cumulate wealth aud breed GRIMM
ais. Because they are so cunning
as to cover up their different crimes
from positive proof, foolish senti-
mentality turns them loose as wild
beasts to prey upon society. The
principles Of presuming a man in
nocent of any particular crime until
he has been proved guilty, and of
requiring proof such as will remove
a reasonable doubt, are good enough
in themselves, but does it necessa-
rily follow that men who are posi-
lively known to follow crime as a
trade should be permitted to run at
large? Is there no way of forming
a law to reach this class of miserable
miscreants? Until law is made and
enforced that will reach such cases,
it would be we'll for us to quit boast
ing of our high Christian civilization
and turn our talents to devising
means for our own protection. We
believe that these reputed thieves
should be locked up and set to work,
and that there should be a criminal
code for their particular benefit.
Year: 1874

will the depths Of corruption
ever be reached? There has
been SO much revealing of
corruption IN the shape Of
Credit Mobilier, Back Pay, Pine
Land and Indian Contract steals
and out and out bribery with
money and offices, that when we
read of another stupendous case of
corruption in the shape of a whole
sale buying up of Congress with one
and half million dollars to secure
the subsidy to the Pacific Mail Ship
Company-the effect becomes act
ually sickening, and we are ready
almost to doubt, whether with all
our boasted civilization, we are
much in advance of the most cor
rupt and benighted nation on the
globe. 1t is evident that the desire
Of wealth, luxury and position, is
eating the very life out of, this ma
ton. Talk as grandly as we may
of a love of equality, and our hatred
of aristocracy, observation teaches
every day that nine tenths of our
people would sell their souls for the
title Of an: Hon. or M. c., or the
position in society which wealth will
buy. .a~ i
Year: 1874

our heartfelt sympathy in this their
time Of afiiction at the loss of one who
was devoted and loving wife, a fond
and in1ulgent mother and an esteemed
friend throughout the community.


Resolred, That a copy Of these reso-
lutions be published in The GRANGE
ADVANCE.
Year: 1874

THE present Congress will probably
he known hereafter as the Congress of
the thousand and one Investigations.
Everything that the Republicans have
done or failed to do within the last
decade will be looked into and proba-
bly, condemned. The rule that two
wrongs will not make right holds as
good in national legislation as in
neighborhood affairs, ald we doubt if
Congress that Gevotes its time to in
vestigating the transactions of its
predecessors will manufacture more
popularity than by applying itself to
legislating such laws as will be for the
good of the whole country. The Re-
publican party is dead, and let it's
faults, or crimes, if you will, die with
those who committed them. If the
present Congress can profit by the
errors OF those that have gone before,
let the lesson be we'll learned; but the
jackal business is always more pro-
ductive of bones and corruption than
substantial food. F
Year: 1874

The prospects of the Los Angeles
and Pacific Railroad project becoming
something tangible grow brighter day
by day. The Centinela Land Com
pany, through whose lands the road
will run from the point of leaving the
water to the city boundary, are taking
active interest in the road and will
contribute largely to its construction.
To the people of Los Angeles valley
this or some other road to the water
will be worth at least three hundred
thousand dollars per year in a re-
duction on the cost of freight. We
are informed that our freight now
costs nineteen cents per mile per ton
from the anchorage at Wilmington to
this city. This is an enormous tariff
for transporting freight less than
twenty-five miles and while we have
no disposition to dispute the railroad
company's statement that they cannot
afford to carry our freight at less
price, we shall maintain the right of
the people to secure their freight
transportation at less rate, if it can
be done by the construction ofanother
road. One of the great wants of los
Angeles is another road to the water,
and we trust the company above
named will lose no time in supplying
that want. Every consumer should
aid to the uttermost of his ability an
enterprise which will so materially
reduce the cost of supplies.
Year: 1874

THE prospect for early rain is any
thing but favorable, and fears are be-
ginning to be entertained in some
quarters that we shall not have suf-
ficient rain this Winter. tits hardly
time for any serious alarm to be felt
on this score. Some of the most fa-
vorable seasons California has had
have been in years when little or no
rain fell before the middle of January.
dry season as yet. We may have an
abundance of rain within the next two
weeks. The shower of several days
ago did a great deal of good, and we
may reasonably expect a second in
stallment of the blessing within a
fortnight.
Year: 1874

SECRETARY robson of the Navy,
has been trying to persuade the Presi-
dent to appoint ex-senator CATrELL,
of New Jersey, Special Treasury
Agent to negotiate loans in Europe
and act as United States financial
agent in London CATTELL may be a
good man for that business, but what
interest need the Secretary of the
Navy take in the matter? If robson
would resign himself and go on a one
hundred years trip to Europe it would
be good thing for the country that
he left.
Year: 1874




ST. LOUIS, Sept. 11.--At the ratifica-
ton meeting to night to endorse the
nomination of the Peoples Convention
Senator Schurz made a speech in which
he declared the movement had his ear
nest sympathy, and pledged in his ac-
tive support. Heheartily endorsed the
candidate for Governor, while he ap-
proved all the platform which bore
upon State affairs. He took exception
to its recommendation concerning ma
tional questions, and was sorry to see
it ION the fence" on the financial pro.
blem. lie should do all he could to keep
it down on the right side.


The Senator states that he has been
charged with setting the peoples move
ment on foot or causing it to be done
for the promotion of his personal inter
ests This he denies absolutely and un
qualifedly, and said he abstained from
taking any part in originating it that il
might not have personal character. =
He had no communication with it!
leaders, direct or indirect, Their pur
poses and actions were unknown to hin
he stood as a private individual il
advocacy and promotion of the move
ment.
Year: 1874

ATTEMPTED SUIc1DE.-On Saturday morn
ing Samuel Preston attempted TO take bis
own life by drowning himself In the basin at
q point between Ninth and Tenth streets,
north side. Boatmen who happened to be
in the vicinity saw him take off his bat, and
after carefully laying it down, plunge into
the water. The bystanders were at first
somewhat excited, but he was soon rescued
by the sturdy boatmen and placed on dry
land. He then walked further up the bank,
and but for the intervention of other per-
sons would have jumped in again. AS il
was evidently unsafe TO allow him to remain
at liberty, be was detained until police ofll


Ger arrived on the spot and took him to the
station-house. Preston gave no reason for
the attempt except that he was in trouble.
Year: 1874

CELEBRATION AT ASSOCIATION HALL.-The
Richmond Amateur Literary Association ex-
poets to have grand celebration at the
rooms Of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation tonight. They propose to have
public debate, and to enliVen the occasion by
the aid of band of music.
Year: 1874

ALE FOR FAMILY UsE-ENGL1sH ALE, CREAM
ALE, AND PoRTER.-To supply demand from his
many countrymcn here, HENRY BOWLER has now
an ale that he atters himself will fairly compete
with their home beverage both in flavor and quality
and with his universaly-approved cream ale" and
porter will enable him 10 please the paates of all.
Orders to Spring Park Brewery promptly filed.
Year: 1874

the most smiling way he aS1ures US that


his medicine Is just as good in this case


aStneither Of the others. In that casehs
tells Us that we will have just the same
pro rata, the same relation Of currency


and prices. Like the Iaraelltes gathering
mama in the wilderness, "they that gath.
cred much had nothing over and they
that gathered little had no Lack This Is
his position, and 1t 10 pretty strong one.
Year: 1874

The nominations for Assemblymen from this
City are yet to be made, and it may possibly
be of benefit to call attention to the great
power welded by our representatives, and to
the importance of selecting better class of
men than those who have hitherto governed
us from Albany. 1t is to be observed, in the
first place. that all legislation relating to the
expenditure of money for boulevards, public
buildings, parks, docks, water works, &C.,
proceeds from the representatives of the City,


The country members concern themselves very
little about such matters and may always be
depended on to vote for what the representatives
from the City of their own political faith ask
them to support. In the second place, though
the City has some twenty-five or six Senators
and Assemblymen at Albany, most Of them
are looking out for their own interests, which
are not always identical with those of the
tax-paying community, including therein all
citizens who get their living honestly. But
even if they were all good men and true, those
who do not belong to the party in the ma
iority have no control over legislation.
During the last three years the Re-
publican party has had the Legislature. The
government of the City of New-YOrk
last Winter was vested in the six As
semblymen and one Senator who were the
only Administration Republicans so fortunate
as to be elected. Of these seven, four were
nobodies, the men of power and talent"
being James w. Booth, Bernard Biglin. and
Charles S. Spencer. At the back of these,
however, there was lobby made up of such
men as Commissioner George Van Mort,
Thomas Murphy, George Bliss, the Custom
house. Post-office. and Internal Revenue off,
GERS generally, and John !. Davenport


We state, what all our readers know to be
the fact that the only effective opposition
made during the last three years to the
schemes of these men has come from the pub
lie press. Now we are not willing to give the
name of reform to any and every exercise of
the governing power which falls short of the
yillainy of Tweed and Tom. Fields. Bliss,
Delafield Smith, Spencer, Murphy, Davenport,
and the rest of them, though perhaps not of
different species from Tweed, would have
need of more than his courage to equal his
exploits with the public In its present state Of