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Year: 1874

EF- The New York Herald, the head
Of the self styled Independent " press
Of the country, which has been attempt
ing to create a third party, thus gives up
the whole affair in the following lines;


There is no longer any attempt by
any leading journal of the country to
create new opposition party to take the
place Of the Democracy. The prejudices
growing out Of the war are supplanted
by the feeling Of intense hostility to the
Administration, and the demonstrated
strength Of the Democratic organization
in the recent elections tends to make il
the sole rallying point of all the elements
OF opposition. We regard this as g
healthy tendency" f."
Year: 1874

cE The St Louis Republican says of
the canvass now progressing in New
York:


We are advised by gentleman just
from New York, and who is keen OBJ.
server in political affairs, that the empire
state is certain to go from twenty-five to
rurty rnuuo""a ssvnI0vro.fv. Is - said
that the revolution in public sentiment in
the interior of the state is tremendous,
thousands Of original republicans -
men who have clung to the name Of the
party through thick and thin--this year
avow a determination to vote the straight
opposition ticket for the first time in
their lives. The same gentleman COM
putes that New York will elect twenty
democrats and liberals to congress
against fourteen republicans.
Year: 1874

Please allow me small space to speak
of the election. In this county especial
ly has no election Of such Importance
past away so quietly, in my remember
ance. As usual, candidates for county
offices were arrayed against each other,
which so often creates discord and which
so often transforms extreme anxiety INTO
unfair measures, but no dissatisfaction
do hear.


We have rolled up good majority, as
you see, for the new constitution and the
State ticket 'Tls true, the farmers tick
ct headed by F. NJ. Elsey, carried off a
right solid vote, attributable in part, per-
haps to the manifest disposition of Mr.
Elsey to do justice to all parties, since he
has been sheriff: a thing so different
from old days Of radical sheriffs, that it
had its bearing among the people,


We do not hear that usual murmerlng
of defeated candidates. Upon the con
trary the candidates upon the farmers
ticket quietly acquiesce, as though the
voice of the people were also their voice.


How mysterious that so great change
should SO TRANQUILITY appear. 1t is as
though some Kind wind had gently born
to us the new constitution. and new or
der Of things, and laid them at our door


Praise is due to some one, and our
hearts swell with gratitude when we re-
member our days Of oppression. We
feel first to thank heaven for our deliver
ance; then, if we could behold those who
were instrumental in regaining our lost
freedom, even were Baxter among the
number, we feel as though we could en-
brace them.


1t had been so common for US to be
furnished with Claytonites who would
fix US up for voting, that we can scarcely
realize that we had an impartial election,
and as our hearts continue to 60 out in
gratitude We feel like giving the Board of
Supervisors some credit One Of whom
was one of Charleston's best merchants,
Mr.. Spencer; another was L. D. Berry,
Esq, but who is it that don't know Uncle
Tom. The trio was complete with John
Long, the miller, whom we do not believe
to be radical of the scratching kind.


Thus it is the election has past away
and we are happy We have good team
of officers Just look at them: there is
Shores, that competent and kind hearted
Dick, who will collect the taxes; Stephen
Gage, that good old man, will carefully
handle the "greens y; while George,
generous old soul, will cautiously swing
his honest pen; E. d. Turner, that par
agon of beauty, with dignified grace will
sit upon the county judges bench and
Dupre, honest like most bachelors, will
be our advocate at the capitol, and we
have an abiding Faith, that he will not sell
nor be sold. Nota ripple to disturbe the
calmness.


AS Mr. Elsey retires from the office Of
sheriff, he will take with him the respect
that he has merted risen. as he has,
above wrangling unjustly for office
Young, the .epublican clerk, may not be
happy, but we are too much elated now
to have our feelings reduced to sympathy.
Neither can we look after the interest OF
boilers and can not afford now, as we
stand ready to step upon the threshold
OF liberty, to desert the grand army Of
democracy which has 50 gallantly fought
our battles, thus far. Therefore we must
carry Franklin for WILTSHIRE.


Yours, truly
Year: 1874

The Radicals are straining every nerve
to elect Hynes, and they will poll every
vote for him they can. The word has
gone out to every precinct in this Coun
ty to give him the full Republican vote
The same is true all over the District
Is there a Democrat that will give him
any assistance to-day? Do we want Ar
kansas re- constructed If not vote for
W. w WILTSHIRE, and throw no vote
away on Gen. Thomson.
Year: 1874

T Shall our State be put in
jeopardy, that one ambitious man
shall have a few votes for Congress ?
We warn you, Democrats, a few
votes given to Thomason, may in
sure the election of Hynes, and the
Brooks-Clayton dynasty again put
in power in the State.
Year: 1874

~ Thomason's friends will not con.
sent to less than 300 majority for him In
this County. But We think they will be
- much astonished on the night of the
81 OF November as they were when an
old plow horse trotted up within fifty
votes ofhiIn, In the Convention campaign.
There are not very many men that sup.
ported 6angster then that have any good
cause to support Thomason now
Year: 1874

Hopes are entertained that Arkansas
will send every one OF her congressman
democratic, as it will add considerably
to the political effect Of the situation
Senators Clayton and Dorsey are becom-
ing odious to their best friends.


Arkansas must not disappoint our
friends wish We must elect solid
congressional delegation.
Year: 1874

BISMARCK AND ARNIM. THE second arrest
of Count Arnim seems to have made deep
impression in Germany. AS we learn from our
dispatches, the moderate newspapers criticisa
the act as severe and unnecessary. Whatever
the charge against the Ambassador, there is mo-
reason for the apparent wantonness and ca
price with which he has been treated. Even
if Count Arnim were q criminal, open to the
most degrading processes Of law, he would be
entitled to more consideration than has been
shown him. But when we remember that he
is great nobleman, and has held high placs
under the Empire, and that the controversy is
really strife for power, the whole action Of
Bismarck is extraordinary. We are promised
further revelations, but from what we gather
it seems that the Chancellor is making des-
perate struggle for ascendancy, and that, like
Sir Robert Walpole, he makes unsparing war
upon all who seem to be in his way. Before
the struggle is over we shall probably find
that Arnim's arrest was the beginning of one
Of the most important events Of the time, not
SO much in itself as the consequences that
seem inevitably to flow from it.
Year: 1874

The citizens of New York have right to be
proud Of their public charities. Nearly one
million dollars is given ungrudgingly in the
annual tax levy to asylums, reformabries and
charitable institutions. The excise moneys
are similarly distributed. The various estab-
lished aid and benevolent societies present
long lists Of liberal donors, who contribute in
the aggregate an enormous yearly sum for the
relief of suffering and the reclamation Of the
erring. Probably no city in the world is more
open handed in its benevolence than this
metropolis. We have less abject poverty and
misery here than may be found in the older
capitals, because in q new country and q
nation Of workers some employment may
generally, at least in ordinary times, be found
by those willing to earn a living. Neverthe-
less in q city with over million inhabitants
there is always certain to be wide field for
charity, and when commercial pressure
comes upon us, when money is scarce and
business dull, the dependence of all our people
upon labor for the means of sustenance makes
the distress the more widespread and severe.


But, useful as our established charities are,
they are untitled to meet those special emer-
gencies produced by scarcity of employment
and severe winter weather combined. For
these we need direct, immediate and sufi-
cient relief, simple in it's operation, free from
the forms and safeguards very properly re-
quired in the established institutions, and
ready TO be applied wherever suffering and
death are to be instantly grappled with and
overcome. The evidences OF want in the city
are undeniable. The present cold weather
seems to indicate hard winter. When men,


women and children are found perishing OF
hunger and cold there should be some means
by which they can be Immediately fed and
warmed without the delay of tickets, registers
or testimonials Of years residence. The
surest safeguard against imposition is the
establishment of depots where meals can
be supplied, and to which the profess
sional beggar, who solicits aims, can
be referred for relief either for
himself or his family. Some undeserving in
dividuals will occasionally obtain food and
fuel no doubt; but this is no excuse for per
mitting single human being to die of want
in Christian community. While depend
ence on charity should not be encouraged we
are no advocates Of the English system Of
''passing" o pauper "on" to his "parish."


If we have severe suffering among the poor;
if whole families are destitute and perishinp
for the want OF the common necessaries of life,
we cannot get rid Of the duty hun nity i'm
poses upon Us by the plea that some worth
Year: 1874

-~--~sO~.~s


While the Archbishop of Westminster is de-
ploring the evils which may result to the
Church and the world from an unnecessary
agitation Of religious differences and writing
to the HERALD to deny that there has bern any
change in the relations of Catholics toward
the civil powers, the Archbishop Of New York
returns to his archiepscopal see to deplore the
prosecutions Of the bishops in Germany and
Italy and report to his people the great calm
ness Of the Supreme Pontiff amid the trials
which afaict him. Archbishop McCloskey
preached in ST. Patricks Cathedral yesterday
for the first time since his return from Rome,
and his sermon was an affecting description of
the condition Of the Holy City as


it was presented to his eyes and an
expression of his confidence in the speedy
triumph Of the Church over the
prosecutions and prosecutors who are now
warning against it. The discourse Of the
Archbishop was the principal event in the
churches yesterday, and after it in Importance
was the sermon of the Rev. DR.. Hepworth,
which was o presentation Of the Protestant
view Of the thought underlying the Arch
bishops theme-namely, the duty Of Chris
tans to God and the Church And as the
Archbishop found the enemies Of the Church
in the kings, princes and potentates united in
their powerful opposition against the Pontiff
in the see of Peter, so DR.. Hepworth pointed
out the enemies Of religion in the science
which had put itself in antagonism with the
Church. Both the Catholic Archbishop and
the Protestant divine complain of the sneers
at religious faith and the ridicule Of religious
teachers which come from hatred Of Catho-
Year: 1874

Disraeli in forming Ministry, and guided
our former Presidents in selecting their ad-
visers. Nearly all the great men in our
political history have served as Cabinet off,
GERS, including Jefferson. Hamilton, Madison,
John Quincy Adams, Clay, Calhoun, Web
ster, Van Buren,, Marcy. Seward, Chase, and,
indeed, almost every man Of great eminence
except Washington, John Adams and Jack
son. Washington and Adams were called to
other posts at the very beginning of the gov
ernment which precluded them from such
service. The fact that nearly all our states
men of the highest class have served as
heads of departments is as striking o
proof as could be given of the desire
OF our former Presidents to make their ad-
ministrations strong in political ability and
influence. President Grant has proceeded on
quite q different principle, and no reelected
President ever before received SO humiliating
rebuke from the people. But he can re-
trieve the blunder and make the last two
years of his administration respectable. He
has, indeed, forever forfeited his power to
influence legislation except during the next
session, as the democrats win control one
branch of Congress for the rest of his term
but much could be done before the 4th of
March if new Cabinet should come in
between now and December.


Secretary Fish ought to be sensible of the
heavy debt of gratitude under which he would
lay the republican party if he would precipi-
tate change Of the Cabinet by prompt
voluntary resignation, which would force all
his fellow members to retire. The fact that
he has better qualifications to remain than
any other on the list would enhance
the merit of such q service. It is
the truest act of friendship he could render
to President Grant. A Cabinet should always
consist of able, experienced men ''inside poll
tics" 1t is especially necessary now, when
the whole policy of the republican party
needs to be promptly revised, and the utmost
concert is required for that purpose The
Cabinet should be strong enough to insure
the confidence Of the republican leaders in
Congress- and to secure their active co-opera-
ton in measures for unloading the party of
odium during the short period while it re-
tains control Of every branch of the govern
ment. Subsequent to the 4th Of March the
President and his Cabinet can only execute
the laws, and nothing can afterward be done
to mend the political situation; but q vigorous
and powerful Cabinet during the coming ses-
sion, consisting of strong men and recognized
political leaders, would be able to put the re-
publican ship on new tack and commit it to
favoring winds for the Presidential election.
If Mr.. Fish would see and use his opportunity
he might make himself the most popular and
respected man in the republican party.
Year: 1874

THE ARKANSAS GovERNoRsHP. There is q
sort of tragic farce in the multiplicity of Gov
ernors in Arkansas which might be very
amusing if it did not indicate 30 much under
lying evil. And the State is one Of those
unfortunate Commonwealths which is not
more blessed in her United States Senators
than in her many Governors. The young
man Dorsey, who holds seat in that body,
is, we are told, importuning the administra-
tion to sustain the claim of Garland. As we
said before, all this would be amusing if it
was not sorrowful
Year: 1874

less creatures would rather live by charity
than by labor. We hope to see the subject Of
the temporary relief Of the poor in the winter
months taken up in the pulpits of the city.
The cold weather warns US that an organiza-
ton and system Of relief controlled by the
most prominent of our citizens should be
completed without any further delay.
Year: 1874

PRESIDENT GRANTS OPPORTUNITY is now be-
fore him for brilliant display Of statesman
ship in the preparation of his annual message
to Congress, particularly on the currency ques-
ton, banks and bonds, and on the tariff
Southern reconstruction, the late elections and
the third term
Year: 1874

The TERRIBLE TYPHooN which destroyed SO
much property and SO many lives in China is
described in our letter from Hong Kong. The
scenes in the town of Macao were appalling in
the extreme, as may be judged from the fact
that the dead were numbered by thousands,
some accounts estimating the number who
persisted at twenty thousand.
Year: 1874

A MATTER OF No CoNsEoUENCE-Whethe
General Butler shall determine to return to
the democratic fold or to organize a new party
on labor reform, temperance, cheap money,
imitation and women's rights.
Year: 1874




in controlling the action of their own party.
Their most powerful engine for exerting such
influence is their ascendancy over public
opinion, by which they can bring o strong
pressure to bear on members from their con-
stituents. In the next place, Cabinet of
great ability is more likely than Congress
to reach sound and sagacious views
and the force of truth and reason
is apt to make an impression. In
the third place, the Executive has patron
age for which the constituents of members are
applicants, which is great resource in the
hands of vigorous, united Cabinet which
takes an interest in the passage of good laws
The President is not merely the Executive;
he is an important part of the legislative
power. 1t is his duty to examine all bills,
and none can become law without his ap-
provl except by two-thirds vote of both
two Representatives should be unani-
nous for bill and fifty of the seventy
six Senators should also vote to repass it, the
President with the support Of the other
twenty-six Senators, can defeat the
will of three hundred and forty-two
legislators He has also an unlimited power
to propose new laws, and can argue their
merits to any extent he pleases in his an
nual or special messages. Possessing so large
share of the legislative power, he is more
responsible for Legislative measures than any
hundred men in Congress, and it is accord
ingly his duty to maintain around him Cab
met of such mark and influence as will give him
efficient aid in the discharge Of this great
trust.


Since the country has passed an emphatic
sentence of condemnation on his administra-
tion President Grant owes 1t to himself to in.
quire wherein he has failed and try to rectify
his mistakes Such an inquiry, If fairly made,
Will show him that his chief error has con.
sisted in not composing his Cabinet on the
| same nrinciple which guides Gladstone oil
Year: 1874

SMART Doaa.-We often hear sto-
ries Of the wonderful intelligence Of
dogs, but the canine residents of q
town in Maine must certainly be
awarded the palm, Judging from the
following vote passed at the last
town meeting: "Voted that the AS
SCISSORS assess one dollar on each dog
kept in town, and any dog that does
NOT pay, to be shot by the town
agent" Can any one imagine o
prettier sight than a procession OF
well fed, sleek, household pets
marching into the Office Of the town
agent, each with silver dollar be-
tween his teeth, and proudly
and gleefully laying the coin at
the feet of this great manP or a
more affecting one than that OF the
poorer ours, who, unable, to gather
the requisite number Of pennies,
slink into the presence Of the dis
penser Of death, and, reading their
doom in the expression Of his face,
walk heorically into a corner Of the
room and await the beginning Of his
pistol practice upon them with calm
resignationT
Year: 1874

A writer IN the Milwaukee Sentinel
deserves the respectful sympathy Of
all gentlemen who give out their
washing: ut is awfully annoying
TO have some other fellows clothes
loft in ones room by the washergwo-
men. Saturday we put on another
fellows shirt, but couldnt wear It.
Although IL was ruffled around the
bottom the sleeves were too short to
button cuffs on and there was no
place for collar
Year: 1874

To relieve night swcats, dissolve
fifteen grains Of sulphqte Of quininp
in half an ounce Of essence Of tanzy,
q quarter Of an ounce Of alcohol, q
quarter Of an ounce of water, and
thirty drops Of muristc acid. Dose
"A teaspoonful twice during tho day,
and one at bed time. in connection
with tbis remedy, cold sage toa is
recommended 10 be used freely as a
drink.
Year: 1874




Every now and then the world is
horrified by the story that upon the
exhuming Of body signs have been
discovered showing that il had been
buried alive, and to-day we are the
recipients from Salt Lake Of q most
painful history, wherein a young man
Is said TO haye been inferred while in
a state of scyncope without any
efforts being made for his resuscita-
tion. Tho details of the shocking
event are to be found in another col-
umn, but the reflections which arise
from it demand careful thought and
attention,


The advocates of cremation are
prone to draw an argument in favor
Of their theory from these terrible ac-
cidents, although it is net easy 70 see
in what way the haplesS sufferers
would be benefited by being burned
Instead Of buried alive. The alter
native is somewhat painfully like that
which the two gendarmes proposed
TO "Qenevive do Brabant." "Will you
be drowned or die?' and the unhappy
subject OF it might find an answer
difficult. 4
Whether we are to burn or bury
our dead, it is quite certain that there
is no excuse for disposing OF them
before we are sure that life has
ceased. The painful signs of docpm
position are upmistakable, and can
never occur in the slightest degree
whore life still remains, Until some
token Of decay is visible, the appaT'
emily dead should be kept unburied
and in all cases Of sudden death from
supposed heart disease, Rtimulants o
all kinds should be freely applied
and galvanism should be used TO tes'
whether the power OF reousitation re
mainn r. Chronicle Il
Year: 1874

becomes of communities where the
black element prevails? Does it
take man very deeply learned in
laws of human nature to understand
that if the whites, where they are in
the majority, combine to take pos
session of the Government, the
blacks where they are in majority,
will combine for a like purpose I?


This sort of combination points to
but one end, and that is war OF ra-
ces, in which it cannot be doubtful
who would come Off conquerors.
But who wants such contest I?
There is mutual dependency be-
tween the races, which once recog-
nized in good faith, must lead to
hapy results. But ignored, no man
not endowed with supernatural gifts
can pretend to tell the consequent
ces,n
Year: 1874

L. II. Gates went to Newton a year
or two ago to buy Marsh Harvest
er, the price of which was s2lo. He
wanted the dealer to let him have it
for $l75, promising, in return for the
reduction, to use his influence with
his neighbors and the Patrons of
Husbandry to induce them to buy OF
the same dealer at $2l0. The Mon
roe Herald thinks that If he
will sell himself for 50 small a sum,
and try to sell the Patrons at the
same time, that the very day he
would land i'm Washington as the
representative of this district, he
would hang out his shingle emblaz-
oned with large letters so that all
might read, "For sale"
Year: 1874

Henry Clay Dean made a political
speech at Charlton few days since.
The weather being inclement, he ex-
pressed great surprise that anybody
had turned out to hear him. He
said the contest in Iowa Is between
two factions of the Republican party
and he very much enjoyed every
thrust they make at each other. He
did not belong to either of the fac
tions, or parties in Iowa, and If he
were citizen of the State would not
vote either ticket. He was Demo
crdt. He asserted that "for seventy
Ave years under Democratic rule not
a single man or woman i'm the Uni-
ted States was ever arrested or pun
ished without due process of law"
The Democratic party had always
been the especial champion of Free
dom of speech. He endeavored to
give the Republican party a terrible
chastisement for having successfully
fought to put down the rebellion and
preserve the Union, and for not hav-
ing made war upon Spain when the
Virginius trouble gave it such an
excellent opportunity. He denied
in the most positive terms that
the Democratic party had "ever en-
shaved one human being in this
country" The Attriot cites the above
statements, among others as samples
Of the falsity and absurdity of Deans
doctrines, and pronounces the speech
incoherent, and "a miserable failure
for Dean, both in point of matter and
delivery, but accounts for it by his
having so much bourbon in the
stomach, that it interfered with the
proper flow of bourbon ideas from
the head.