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Year: 1872

NEW YORK, February A Paris
correspondent of the World has had
an interview with Victor Hugo, and
in answer to questions regarding the
Commune,s Hugo said:


'In this last revolution honOred
the principles on which it was made,
but 1 despise the members of the
Commune who compromised by their
foliies and crimes, one of the
grandest popular movements that
the world has ever saw. Only think,
If the army had not been bounded on
by Thiers to a asas5inat9 the young
republic and to murder her children,
the vagaries Of the Commune would
have been arrested by the co-opera-
tion of the great towns or centers of
civilization. How thorough we
should be laying by this time the
foundation principles Of social re-
generation" Hugo further said: 81
have no hesitation in telling you that
/ consider Theirs meaner spirit than
Louis Napoleon. Those who call
him a great statesman know as little
of him as OF French history. He is
little man, and has a little mind
that is inc ,pRble of learning any
thing from the experience of
past; and is incapable of learn
ing a liberal plan for the future.
His name will go down to pOsterity
gered with the blood of the misled
men he masSacred in the streets of
Paris. Tens of thousands fell under
his chassepots. Napoleon le petit has
been surpassed by Thiers ie tres petit.
If another chamber were to De elect.
ed tomorrow Thiers' power would
crumble into dust. His home policy
is to hold the sword of State by
the handle and give the blade
to the people, but his foreign
policy is to humOr Count Bismarck
by acceding to all his requests and
delaying measures. His war policy
is that of compulsory military SER
vice, which might enable us to lift up
our heads again. In his cOnceit, he
may think it the first duty of every
good patriot to keep Theirs in Office,
but whether he be sincere or not his
government is based on corruption,
and let it call itself provisional, re-
publican, or mOnarchical, its fall is
certain. God grant that 1 may be
false prophet; but as sure as the sun
will set to-day, so sure am that the
military tyranny will again be infiiet-
ed on my poor country. When it be-
comes a question OF cOnspiring and
underhand dealing there is but one
party who has any chance in such
infamy. The BOnapartists must
have all their own way, the Due de
Chambord's is an anachrOnism. The
tieur de lis would never live in the
modern French soil. The Due d'Au-
male is valiant soldier in the repub-
lican army, but he has as little chance
of wearing the crown as he has Of be
coming president of the republic, and
supposing either to be probable, he is
not the man to have any influence
over the destinies of France. There
is but one man at present in France
for whom / would vote for the presi-
dency; that man is 6ambetta. He is
a great and true citizen. He has
proved himself a practician as well as
theorist. His ideas are moderate and
at the same time they are infiexible.
Year: 1872

Ths Yachting Laws Reviewed GrOwI


from n Commodore.


NEW YORK, February 4.-CommOs
dore Ashbury, In q letter to the New
York Yacht Club, raises the question
whether the time-allowance system
should not be rearranged, in order to
give time for the necessary six m0nths
notice to be given OF the Intention to
compete again for the American cup.
He says he has no knowledge that
any one contemplates such course
this year, but should he ever decide
to revisit New York, he will not take
the equitable spoFtmanlike inter-
probation Of the club to the deed
of trust which he did last year,
and then find an act of courtesy and
generosity met by a series Of unfair
proceedings, but shall take purely a
legal construction of that document,
asking no modification or faVOrs and
giving none. Bis letter was quietly
tabled by the club, which subse-
quently agreed, as the cup was the
property OF the club, o suitable die
should be struck for medals to be
given to the owners OF the yachts
Year: 1872

To THOSE Who ARE Bowed Down by
Nervous Debility, and despair of ever recov
ering the vigor and misn of manhood, we
earnestly reoomend DR. WALKERS CALI
FORNIA VINEGAR BIrTERs. Before they
have finished the frat bottle, they will feel
the restorative principle at work in every
portion of their brokeu-dOWn systems, and
hope will spring up in their hearts. No
case of Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Intermittent
Fever, Rheumatism, Gout or Kidney dis
ease, can resist this unequaled tonic, which
is unpolluted by any distilled or fsrmented
liquor.
Year: 1872

Nsuralgia is cured by the use of Renne's
Pain Killing Magic Oil, sursst OF anything
we ever tried; in fact il cures any kind of
pain or lameness, and is al article every
family should keep IN the house. Sold BY
our merchants
Year: 1872

The Shreveport Times says of the
crops: One of the leading planters in
this parish specially impressed itnpon
us the other day that we request the
pious people of both city and country
not to offer up any petition for Fain.
Indeed, II heavy rain now would do in
ealculable injury to the cotton. Near
~ all that will ever open is open now,
while the fields are banks of dust. A
rain would not only beat out and into
the ground great deal of the staple.
but would cover with dirt that left on
the stalks. The result would be sncll
crop as that of 1858, we believe,
which was about one half dirt. Itwas
no unusual thing that year for 200 and
800 pound bales to be packed in press
es that would only turn out $50 pound
bales of clean cotton


| A large planter on the river above
/ here Informs lis that the worms have


completely stripped the cotton in that
neighborheea, and that no crop will
be made. Where three weeks since,


he expected to gather bale to the


acre lie will not gather half q bale.
Year: 1872

This is from the New York 1fibane
of Saturday before last:


We reprint to-day, from the Name
Standard, a well considered and rea-
sonahle estimate of what the Liberals
and Democrats of the State may prop
erly expect. 1t shows beyond question
that if they are able to reduce the ay-
erage majority of 10000 twenty-five
per cent, bringing it down to $4,000 a
similar decease of the Grant vote all
over the Union would insure the cleo
tion of Greeley and Brown by an
overwhelming majority of the electoral
vote. 1t would be fairer to compare
with the last State election majority
in year VIXEN Grant was n c;tntsittatc.
The State was then carried by 20,403,
and twenty-five per cent reduction
even on this would indicate percent
age, which, if carried throughout the
Union, would far more than insure our
triumph. We should like to see the
Liberals do much better than this, but
in-view of the tyrannical organization
of the Grant party and their lavish
expenditure of money in the cam
paign, it is possible that they may fal
little below it. They have made :
most gallant fight, but the odds were
overwhelming from the start.
Year: 1872

There are various ways of ascer-
tanning whether a gun is loaded, but
blowing in ct the mtlzzle and pressing
the hammer back with the foot at the
same time is not a good way. A young
man in New Providence, Indiana,
adopted this plan few days ago, and
though the coroner concluded that the
gun was loaded, the informatiolp was
of no use TO the young man.
Year: 1872

RAILWAY PEED.-Fifty and sixty
miles an hour for railway travel is
oftcner talked about than realized. A
speed of sixty miles an hour for a
regular passenger train has never been
attempted, except in one instance, and
that on a wide seven foot gauge in
England. This rapid speed pleased
travellers very much, and many will
ingly paid the large extra charge for
being shot along over the ground at
the rate so great as to render the way
STATIONS 81 the ;deeofI1BIotisFtiefs trains
almost invisible. But the railway
company soon found they had passed
the practicable limit of the endurance
of wood and iron. They found that
the "wear and tear induced on both
road and rolling stock of such exces-
sive speed was beyond the endurance
of finance, and that high rate of speed
was consequently abandoned. There
are but few trains now running on the
best wide gauge, straight roads in
England which average Il speed of fif-
ty miles an hour The express traffic
is usually done at the rate of thirty
five to forty miles, while the ordinary
travel is about twenty two. Railroad
travel in this country is much slower,
and necessarily so, in consequence of
the lack Of solidity in our roads and
rolling stock, Our "lightning trainsh
scarcely reach, and very seldom ex7
ceed, thirty five miles an hour-in fact
our fast trains do not average over
thirty miles, while our general passen-
ger traffic does not exceed an average
of twenty. Freight trains usually
run about sixteen to eighteen miles
an hour.
Year: 1872

To prevent the tire of wagon wheel
from coming loose and requiring to be
re6tted, method highly recommended is
to ELL the felloes with linseed oil before
the tire is put on. The timber thus
treated is not liable to injury by water
and lasts much longer. The process fol-
lowed is to hang the wheel in the oil, each
felloe being immersed for one hour
The oil which is contained in a cast iron
heater of suitable length is brought to
boiling heat-a higher degree must be-
avoided, or the wood will be burned the
timber should be dry as in green state
it will not take oil. The tire of wheel
thus treated will wear ont before coming.
loose. .s-r.
Year: 1872

Dio Lewis gives the following ad-
vice. Go 10 bed at .half-past eight or
nine O'Clock, and don't be In hurry
about getting up In the morning. On
going TO bed and Oh getting up In the
morning, drink rs much cold water as
you can swallow. Soon you will learn
to drink two tumblers and some per-
sous may learn to drink still more.
Spend good deal Of your time In the
open air without hard exercise, but OK
posed to the sun. IL practicable, ride
IN n carrisge some hours every day.
Remain out enough to give you a good
appetite, but do not work hard enough
to produce excessive perspiration.
Eat great deal Of oat meal porridge,
cracked wheat, Graham mush, baked
sweet apples, roasted aud brolled beef,
though the vegetable part Is more
fatteiiing than the animal part. Lie
down an hour In the middle OF the day,
Just before you take your dinner, to
rest, and II possible, take = little nap.
Cultivate jolly people. Laugh aud
grow fat" rests upon sound physio-
logical basis. A pleasant flow Of the
social spirit Is n great promoter Of d.
gestion. Keep your skin clean. sleep
In room where the sun shines, keep
everything sweet and clean aud fre.h
about your bed. sleep nine, IL possible
ten hours In the twenty-four. cat as l
have told you, cultivate the jolly spirit,
and In six months you will be as plump
rs you could wish.
Year: 1872

to Voorhees, but it seems pretty clear that he Is de-
feated. Coburn in this district, was only saved by
the most shameful debauching OF the local ballot
box 1t IS proved tiat negroes cast r. nigh as 30
votes each and voted in all the precipcts in town.
Some were caught in the act but set at liberty by
partisan policemen and Morton managers. Two
suits viii be begun in the local courts at once for
false Imprisonment on the part of Liberals who were
impeded at the polls and denied the right to vote:
When the full investigation is brought about one OF
the most corrupt episodes in American politics Will
brought TO the public attention-a corruption which
can only terminate by complete reversal of the
present methods
Year: 1872

AN ENGRossED COPY RECEIVED AT WASHING


TON.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.-The Secretary ofState,
to-day received by special messenger an Official copy Of
the decision and award of the Geneva Arbitration hand
somely engrossed on parchment and bound with the
signatures OF the Arbitrators The document was IN
closed In neat wooden case highly polished Inc eeere-
tary of STATE presented It President Grant this morn
ing and It was aferward taken to the Department to be
deposited IN the archives.
Year: 1872

At meeting OF the Jefferson Club, Of Harlem,
held last evening, the Presiuent, Mr.. Henry w.
Genet, after a lew pertinent remarks relative to
the death OF Horace Greeley, offered the following
resolutions =


with sad and heavy hearts the Jefferson Club unite in
the universal expression OF grief Tor the death OF Horace
Greeley.
nehcent exercise Of the highest qualities with which the
Creator has endowed mankind. -
His great natural gifts were trained and cultivated by
wise and persistent use and he added to them compre
hensive knowledge constantly gathered in the wide and
useful field In which his talents were employed To this
great intellectual power recognized wherever our Ian
guage is spoken was united an ever,present humanity
Whether it the necessity OF an individual or the well
fare OF class his heart was always open TO any act
movement that would promote the interests OF others
lie abored for all 1t Is fitting that all should mourn
for him. We therefore apply to him the apt words OF
one OF our own countryInen respecting the idol of a
foreign land, OF kindred genius and humanity


A nation stood


Beside his with weeping eyes


Her-brave, her beautiful her good


As when 10y ed one dies.
Year: 1872

days had any such Inherent qualities OF strength
~ England has to-day. We call Canada young
because her history begins from very modern
date, and so with the United states. We are
accustomed to associate vigor and energy with
youth, but IN the case OF nations they can
only be said to resemble individuals in
the Impulses from which they act II might
be laid down as rule that the moral
character OF nation brings with 1t the same
reward or punishment as the moral character of
the individual; but while the individual has to de-
pend for reform on his own selfsustaning renec-
tions thousand minds come to the rescue OF the
nation. and that which was supposed to be old aud
decreptt receives new youth and new lease OF
life IN the volume Of patriotic thought and EN-.
deavOr."


WAR BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA


"You suppose, then. England will always stand
by Canada and Canada will cling to England"


most assuredly. have no reason for supposlng
that Canada is tired OF the connection, nor have
any cause to believe England will be disposed to
throw her or In the future no more than IN the
present."


"What II war should break out between the
United States and Englandf"
'That would be sad calamity; bat yet, I'm
strategic point Of vew it would still be the inter-
est Of England to retain Canada. However strong





difference such a formidable base OF operations as
England would still have on this territory. She
might be driven from. Canada and Canada might be
conquered, but the undertaking would cause vast
loss and injury to the American Republic"


GENERAL GRANTS CONSERVATISM.


''Your Excelency, presume apprehends no bel
ligerent movement on the part OF General Grant
against the Dominion ~


'By no means. Your President has established
for himself highly conservative character. He
reflects, no doubt the general sense OF the Amerl-
can people. II l Judge them Alright they are
neither disposed to extend nor accept outrage.
Their intelligence Ia the safeguard or their Repub
ic and, however much 1t might add to the military
laurels OF President Grant to make successful
war on England no one who has read history to
any purpose can fail to perceive that any offensive
war on the part Of Republic weakens is intrinsic
power and predsposes it for an imperial despot-
ism.u


After some further conversation your c0rre-
spondent took his leave, satisfied that II Canada is
happy In every other particular she is abundantly
blessed tor her loyalty in having so kindly cordial
and intelligent representative OF royalty for her
Governor as Lord Duferin.
Year: 1872

The steamer Tybee, which sailed yesterday for
st. Domingo, carried with her q large number OF
merchants and bankers, who go to the West
Indies to look out for fresh openings in trade. The
steamer will go on a general cruise OF inspection
and the trip will probably occupy more than a
month. The projectors OF the enterprise mean
business and IL will not fail from any lack of
money skill and energy. There many oppor-
tunlties offered In the West Indies for the profit.
able investment OF capital and they should be
seized hold OF by Americans before Europeans step
in 10 reap the harvest. The Tybee was to have
sailed on Wednesday, but she was detained by
storm signals from Washington.
Year: 1872

1t is impossible to conceive a greater ab-
surdity than the proposition of a number
of citizens to resist the collection Of legally
levied taxes. 1t strikes at the foundation
Of all government and if admissible un-
der any circumstances, would make indi-
vidual opinion the arbiter Of all law. Upon
precisely the same parity of reasoning, the
impecunious debter could repudiate the
demands of his creditors, by simply say
ing his obligations were excessive. Social
and moral laws could be put aside on ac-
count of their personal inconvenience; and
by these means government and society
would resolve itself into chaos.


1t is undeniable that taxes are high.
But is it any more the fault Of the law
maker than the citizen? Every rational
thinker reasons from cause to effect.
Adopting this method, it can be very
clearly shown that the authors Of the nigh
taxes are the taxpayers themselves. No one
will dispute the premises that the primary
cause Of our domestic difficulties, unset
tied government and pecuniaTy distress
was the war. Who produced it? Those
who now make laws, or those who refuse
to pay taxes? True, that much Of the pub
lie revenues may have been put to i'm
proper uses; but it is equally true that
which is needed to discharge the functions
Of government is legitimate and proper.
Title to property is secured by the State
to the citizen in consideration of the sup
port which he gives to the government
Let the citizen renounce his obligations to
the State. and the inviolabiEty of the
rights Of property cease. The State can
not be expected to maintain the citizen in
his right and title to property when he re-
fuses the State the power Of existence.
This is on the principle Of mutual de
pendence.


But to carry the idea further. What
right has the landlord to exact rental
from his tenant who refuses to pay taxes
to the State? He renders no service for
his security in the enjoyment Of his prop
erty, and therefore, upon what principle
Of right can he exact money or rental
from the tenant? He claims the property
by right Of possession does the tenant;
he pays no tax-neither should the tenant.
The tenant has just the same claim. to
the protection Of the laws in his right Of
possession as the landlord has. The law
is under no more obligation to the one
Year: 1872

An honest man being solicited once upon


a time to publish his reasons for being an


atheist resisted the appeal with this argu-


ment: that the belief was one which no


reasonable man could justify himself in


preaching, because, if it was right, the


human family would enjoy its benefits


without believing, but if it was wrong the


believer would stand in danger of an eter-


nal punishment for his mistake. He could


not take the responsibility Of teaching a


doctrine which might be fraught with such


everlasting evil if it was wrong The


philosophy Of this silence should commend


itself to the Picapuoe There are thou


sands Of poor people who will have to sub


NIT to heavy expenses if the attempt to re-


sist the payment of the taxes fails. Is it


honest or sensible to advise these parties


into litigation where there are other men


who can contest the payment of the taxes


without feeling the expense? Let one or


two men engage lawyers, and carry the


case to all the courts in the country, and
when they have gained, then let the poorer
people take the benefit Of the judgment
thus rendered by appealing to the Council
for the repayment Of their money.


What is the use Of involving thousands
of men and women in a contest that can
Just as well be carried on by half dozen?
Why urge people to engage in litigation
that may fail, and, which even if it wins
will have the poor comfort Of being a VIC
tory over ones self. The men who are
being paid by the city and State to-day
will not suffer if the city and State lose
their suits with the taxpayers, for they
sell their per diem or spend their money
as fast as they get it. The ofice-holders,
against whom the resistants are so hostile,
Will continue to draw their salaries from
the treasury, and by the time the suits are
ended, a new governm ent will be installed
by virtue Of public election, and the
new officers will have to make good, by
additional taxation, the debts which the
present government is creating. There is
a terrible personal punishment in store for
those who embrace the doctrine Of resist
ance in the shape Of the immediate penal |
ties which must fall upon themselves if
they fail; and this reflection should induce
great caution in honest men how they
seduce their fellow-citizens into trouble
which may cost them all their little store
of property. Let each man act upon his
own conviction in this natter so that |
hereafter he may not be able to lay at the
door Of his trouble the evil which may
result.
Year: 1872

The agents Of the United States sold
arms to the agents Of France while the
latter power was at war with Prussia. This
was a violation of international law and
its effect might have been to involve the
United States in a serious complication
with our friends, the Prussians Senator
Schurz demanded an explanation of this
unlawful proceeding, as he was in duty
bound to do, not to satisfy Germany, but
to protect our own honor and good faith.
He did not charge the President with any
completely in the business, but laid the
blame where it belonged, upon a subor-
dinate officer of the government. By
some strange mistake, or from some in
nate consciousness of guilt, the friends of
the administration, instead Of dismissing
the officer who made the sale, at first de-
MED the truth Of the charge and then
confessed and assumed the entire respon-
sibility of the transaction. And by a still
greater mistake they defend the admins
tration by insisting that the Senator who
has brought this illegalac to the attention
Of Congress performed that duty in the
interest Of a foreign government. This is
a plea that the American people will not
sustain. It is our duty to correct our own
abuses. If one Of our officers commits
an act that is not only unlawful, but that is
calculated to involve us il trouble with
those who are friendly toward US, the voice
Of reason, honor and policy all insist
that he should be first indicted, tried, con-
victed and punished by ourselves, in order
to demonstrate that our government had
no part in the wicked transaction. This
was what Senators Sumner and Schurz at
tempted in seeking to have the sale Of
arms to the French investigated Their
! design was to make instant showing to the


Germans that if any American officer had
done IN his own interest, what the neu-
trality Of the American people forbade him


to do, the American government would at
once dismiss such officer from its service


The administration did not indorse this


statesmanlike endeavor, but weakly evadad


the issue by first denying the transaction.


and then, when it could no longer denv


by attempting to silence the men who


we're engaged in bringing it to light.


There have been too many arraignments in