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Year: 1872

THE Northern papers are full of praise
Of General Meade and of the pomp and
marnifcencc Cf Lis funeral. a discreet
silence, however, is maintained in refer
ence to his conduct when in charge of the
State of Georgia during Reconstruction
DAYS. No Federal officer commanded the
respect and confidence Of the Southern
people IN higher degree than did General
Meade prior to his assumption of authority
in that State. His conduct thea, however.
showed that our confidence was misplaced


We make these remarks with reluctance.
1t is not pleasant tospeak :hus Of the dead !;
but a sense of duty to our own people
makes 1t imperative OH us to see that the
records now being made for future hsto-
rians shall speak the truth.
Year: 1872

The appearance Of tile Boston Post
among our exchanges, on yesterday, gave
us the gratifying assurance that our old
friend had escaped the destruction that at
one time seemed inevitable.


The Post is one of the best papers pub
iished i'll the United States, and exhibits in
very marked degree, ability, integrity
and dignity in its editorial conduct, as
well as journalistic enterprise and judg-
ment in its business management. Il is a
paper that people can read with confidence,
no less than with profit and satisfaction
and we tender our sincere congratulations
on its fortunate escape to its editors, pro-
rretors and readers.


The following article from its issue OF
tuesday last, shows what a narrow es-
cape it had. The Post says:


1t is not with the purpose Of parading
our individual trials for commiseration III
the midst of such great misfOrtuneS on
every hand, but as an apology due the
public for the many shortcomings that ap-
peared in our yesterdays issue, in to-day s
ana that will possibly appear for some lit
tie tme longer, that we allude to the eX-
Perlences of the Post in the great fire
lie lame that swept nOrthward to Milk
street, and thence made a detOur of the
nc" pCsto1hce, to swOCp upon the prey
hom which it was barred by the iron anG
granite OF that building, crept up 10 oul
very walls. The Post Building alone
S'"haS on Water street, in the space from
Year: 1872

''M. II. b. the New York lady cores
pondent of the St. Louis Republican, speak
ing Of the poor class of New York, and re-
erring to the fact that many of them are
suffering for food, says:


"Y esterday sickiY looking man, care
fully dressed in what had been nice busi-
ness suit, with that suspicious buttoning
up that speaks Of scanty wardrobe, but
scrupulously clean in the way of shoes and
face and hair-the respectable looking man,
l say, deliberately poked over the ash-bar-
rel, and beating the dirt off q morsel OF
bread and fragment of celery, began to
eat it. This was altogether too much.
sent 4 girl flying after him, to ask bin
woull he please help her to put up a
s,.ye-pipe that had fallen. In the mean
time l went and knocked the stove pipe
down. He came back readily, rendered the
assistance, and while he was wash
ing his hands | cleared the smoke out of
my throat and asked him to have bit of
luncheon. 1t would make your heartache
to have seen that poor wretch eat. Finally
his story came out, amidst many tears
good, strong, manly, Dutch tears. He
was q German, Ga cabinet maker out of
work., and ready and willing to do any
thing for his food and lodging. But he
couldn't beg, and he was fairly starving.
That one Dutchman is cleaning horses to-
day, and will have odd jobs hereafter to
keep him from hunger till hc gets chance
to work at his trade. But oh! the thou
sands, penniless, homeless and hungry in
this great city! If only there was place
where homeless woman could find days
work, and, in return, get food and bed !;
where a starving man could apply and be
set to work, and thus earn the meal they
could not or would not beg, there'd be a
deal less misery in the city, many useful
ljfe saved, and many soul rescued from
shame and disgrace"
Year: 1872

RIVER LIGHTs.-We learn that petition
is about to be started in Smithville to have
Bald Head light restored. The Lighthouse
is still standing and in good condition. Its
absence is seriously felt, as from its very
position it was necessarily exceedingly i'm
portant, not only as a sea beacon, but a
river light. There is not single light on
the river now between this city and Smith
vile, and consequently navigation at night
is almost next to impossible. We trust to
see not only Bald Head, but Piver's Creek,
Olton and Big Island lights all restored at
an early daY
Year: 1872

kIPP0RHlM HlMORRHEA.-AS the horse dis
ease Is now upon us we give the following
practical hins upon the treatment of the
horse The three essentials of treat
ment are lest, warmth and care. The
horse should be excused from work, the
instant any symptoms manifest themselves,
even if the load be left IN the street. The
stables, which should at all times be clean
and we'll ventilated, should be kept so more
than ever now and disinfectants-carbolic
acids, bromo-cloralum or sulphate of IRON
may be freely used. The patient should
be carefully groomod, the nose and eyes
frequently sponged and the legs, if cold,
bandaged. The drink should have "the
chill taken off it" and the diet should lie
light and laxative-short feed or scalded
bran, with limited quantities of hay.
The only medicines indicated are saline
laxatives, with perhaps little anodyne
to relieve the cough. The nauseous
doses, blood-letting and other depressing
remedies still in favor with horse
doctors will only sggravate the disease. The
patient needs absolute rest, perfect clean
illness and careful nursing; with these he
will recover and probably be little the
worse for the attack; without these he will
die"
Year: 1872

The producers have got up union
among themselves, and have agreed en-
the basis OF cooperative plan for man
aging their business. They have got
along for ten years and more without
any concert of action until very recently
in respect to the control of development
and the regulation OF prices. They have
suffered accordingly from ignorance OF
their real condition, Of their real
stength, at the hands OF adverse combi'
nations and spectators, and from rail,
roads at one time, from refners at an
other, now from this monopoly, and then
from another still, and again from their
own disregard of the law of supply and
demand, either accidental or intentional.
they now hope to remedy these evils and
grasp the whole question by the wisdom
of united counsels and united effort.


The scheme proposed is, taken togeth,
er, very large one; the contfol OF Sc
vast product, aggregating in its COM
mercial value over twenty-five millions
of dollars annually. The experiment is
new and untried. Some of its features
are probably good and expedient, and
should be adopted even if nothing else
was attempted. The chief financial part
of the scheme has, in our judgement,
more difficulties, but it is to be hoped
that these can be modified and made to
accord with sound business principles.
The importance of unity among the pro-
ducers as class cannot be oyerlated,
and the desirableness of securing the ap-
provaI and support Of all business classes
must be apparent to all.-TttusrWs Her,
Year: 1872

BUTTER MAKING IN SOUTH AMERICA
A correspondent of The Methodist, writ
ing from Brazil, says: "In South
America there are four native modes of
making butter. The first is, putting
the milk in 4 common bowl, and beating
it with spoon as you would an egg
The second, pouring the milk in a bot
tie, and shaking it until the butter ap-
pears, which is extracted by cracking of
the top of the bottle. Bottles are value
less in this part of South America, on
account of the number imported with
fruits and liquors. The third, where
the dairy is more expensive, is performed
by filling a hide with the milk, which is
Justify shaken by an athletic native at
each end. The fourth, by dragging the
hide after galloping horse, until it is
supposed the butter is formed. The
milk is never strained and the butter
never washed. lam speaking of the ma
tive mode. OF late years, English and
Scotch people have introduced few
Yankee churns. The greater part of the
butter used in the cities is imported
from Ireland, France or Germany, while
thousands of COWS Craze on the vast
pampas in South America.
Year: 1872

White as the snow is the garment I'm making;
Fleecy and flmy, and foamy, and fine,
and every stitch that my needle is taking
Pierces and tortures this sad heart of mine,
There fs mlrth and music to-day in the palace
Tomorrow the bells will be ringing with


glee;
And robed in this garment, the fair Lady Alice
Will wed with Duke Harold. Ah,woe is me |!
Is it not strange that the tender young Bios


som,


Wakens to life meath the Springs balmy


skies;
Is it, thon, strange if, within the maids bosom,
Love wakes unmasked in the light of dark


eyesP
he was as far as the heavens above me,
King Of my castle and knight of my DIR cams ;
I never thought-neyer hoped he could love


me,


Yet Pm sewing my heart piece by piece in


these seams.
Sitting and sewing through long Summer


hours,


Here at my window watched him pass by;
Sometimes he'd toss me a bouquet Of flowers,
With kind, pleasant glance from his bonny


black eye;
Sometime he'd bring me bundle Of sewing,
And lean in the window moment and rest ;
Then of to the hunt, or the chase. little know


ing


The love and the passion that ragged in my


breast.
kept each bud, like the gift of lover,
keep them still, they are dearer than gold ;
I lived our moments of meeting all over
Again and again, and they never were old,
Tomorrow the bells all will ring for his mar


rage,


pray the skies may hold never cloud;
He will pass by with his bride in the carriage
Would God this robe were my burial shroud.
Year: 1872

Mrs Fair doesn't appear to value her
life very highly after all the trouble
that was taken to save it and the scandal
upon the administration of law that was
caused by her continuing to live. She
agreed to pay her counsel $1,000 at the
beginning and the same amount at the
end of each of her trials. Having paid
the first instalment she repudiates the
rest of the contract and declares that
she has paid all that the services were
worth. n
Year: 1872




THE Democratic Executive Com
mittee have issued formidable doc
ument, in the shape of Andy's war and
Presidential record. Were he Grim
inal at the bar with such evidence
against him, and the people sting as
an intelligent and Conscientious jury,
his conviction would be inevitable.
But, not being a criminal in the eye of
the law, and the people not being such
a jury as we have indicated, the dam
ming evidence ofhis treachery, tyranny
and lawless usurpation, appeals for
sympathy, rather than condemnation,
to those who are too indolent to inves-
tigatc, too ignorant to appreciate, or
too prone to fellow feeling for those
characteristics which develop want of
individual honor, love of liberty and
devotion to the Constitution. 1t is a
strange moral and mental hallucina-
tion-we hope it is no worse-which
prompts men to follow after Andy
johnson with all his political crimes
fresh in their memories and his will
ingness to repeat them stamped upon
his ill-omened features.
Year: 1872

Audubon relates that he once saw
toad undress himself. He commenced
by pressing his elbows hard against his
sides, and rubbing downWards. After a
few smart rubs his hide began to burst
open along bis back He kept rubbing
until be worked all his skin into folds
on his sides and hips; and then grasp
ing one hind leg with his hands, he
hauled off one leg of his pants the same
as anybody would; then stripped of the
other in the same way. He then took
bis cast OF skin forward between his fore
legs into his mouth and swallowed it;
then by raising and lowering his head,
swallowing as his head came down, he
stripped of his skin underneath until it
came to his forelegs, then, grasping one
Of those with the opposite hand, BY a
single motion Of the head and while
swallowing, be drew il from the neck


and swallowed the whole.
Year: 1872




A ARepresemtmt1ve6 Granite Exposes


the Cloves Feet or HezaHen1fsnm- :


Mr.. G. E. Harris, one of the Grant
members of Congress from Mississippi
elected under the Ames usurpation, and
an aspirant for reelection, declared in
the course of his harnngue at Holly
Springs recently that if Col. Lamar
should be elected to Congress and apply
for the removal of his political disabilities
his application would not be granted and
that he Harris would be opposed to
removing them. As this scallawag is an
exponent of Grantism, we have cited his
declaration in this matter as an example
of the principles of his party and as a
commentary ON the pledges which it is
represented to have made in favor of
Universal Amnesty.


We well know that their pledges are
utterly insincere. That the Radicals
are party of Prescription as well as
Plunder, and of Strife, is attested by
thei- acts from the close of the war to
the present time and it is equally well
known that every act of amnesty they
have passed was concession to the de-
mands of a public sentiment which they
did not dare to resist. The law which
was passed at the close Of the last Con-
gress was due to the pressure brought
upon them by the Liberal Republican
movement While the Administration
is on trial for its usurpations and its un-
just discrimination between citizens on
account of their political opinions, we
were not prepared to believe that one of
its partisans would make so open con-
fession of the falsity of their pledges.
When Col. Lamar shall have been cleo
ted to Congress-as elected he will be-
his case will have become the matter of
the people of the 1st District-and the
application for removal of his disabili-
| ties will be made In form far more
imposing than if simply presented in
behalf Of an individual.


We have referred to the conduct of
this representative Granite to illustrate
the hypocrisy of his party. In the first
place we have no idea that the GRANTEES
will have majority in the next Con-
gress. We believe that the same popular
wave which will carry Mr.. Greeley into
the Presidency, will elect Liberal and
Democratic Congress; but if this conf
dent expectation should not be realized,
still the GRANTEES will not dare turn
deaf ear to an application so imposing as
that which will go up from the 1st Mis-
sissippi District by majority for the
recognition of the peoples right to be
represented by a man of their choice.


In any event, it is the duty of the
people of that District especially of the
friends of Greeley and Brownie poll
their heaviest majority for Col. Lamar
the larger the better-and to devolve
upon Congress the responsibility of over
ruling their choice and of thrs striking
fatal blow at the vital principle of
Republican government
Year: 1872

THE STATE UNIvERs1TY.-.tA Tax.
Payer" in the exercise of his right of
free investigation, into the management
of this public institution, submits some
observations and presents some suggestive
inquiries which its managers cannot ig-
more nor treat with indifference. The
public eve Is wide omen
Year: 1872

The Enterprise Courier states that as
James Hendley, colored, was returning
to his home near Winchester, in Wayne
county, and while near his domicil, he
was shot, the ball taking such effect that
he died within fifteen minutes.


The Courier states that it is the i'm
preston that the deed was committed by
negro, and the only possible cause that
can be conceived is that the murdered
man had warmly espoused the cause of
Greeley and Brown. Hendley had been
for several years one of the leading lights
of the Republican party in Wayne, and
was last year elected over Levi Hobbs to
the Radical State Convention, in which
he took conspicuous part.


1t is well understood that a system of
terrorism and murder has been put into
operation by Loyal Leaguers, against
colored men to deter them from exercis-
ing their right to vote as they prefer in
the Presidential election. 1t is the duty
of the whites to thwart this bloody and
savage game, by throwing around the
blacks who are designed to be the victims
of it, the protecting egis of the law. Let
every desperate who is known to have
INDUCED threat, be promptly informed
upon, arrested and summarily dealt with
under the Enforcement Act,





Meantime let our people exercise the
utmost caution to do no illegal violence
1t will afford the Admins
tration the pretext which it desires, to
interfere with the military for partisan
purposes.
Year: 1872

The celebrated fight between
Adam Poe and the Shawnee chief
Black Feather, has been spoke of in
the histories of early Kentucky, but
l believe the particulars of the COM
bat have never been given to the
public.


The fight was remarkable, not only
on account of the well known PROV
ess of the parties engaged, but with
the exceeding stubbornness with
which it was conducted, and the
many phases it assumed before it
ended.


They literally fought on the earth,
in the air, and under the water.


Adam Poe, one of the first settlers
of Kentucky, had often expressed a
desire to meet the Shawnee chief in a
hand-to hand combat, and these
boastings having reached the ears of
Black Feather, he declared his inten-
ton of seeking out the daring white
man.


This for two seasons he actually
did, but circumstances combined to
keep them apart for a time. Finally,
however, the opportunity came.


Adam Poe and his brother had
been out hunting, and were return.
ing, toward sundown, bearing buck
on q pole between them.
Year: 1872

Forthcoming Naval Engagement.


1t is probable that this spring will
witness a terrible naval engagement
fought off the British coast. The
conflict will be no sham agar; it will


be an earnest pounding with the
monstrous artillery of modern times,
hurting those Titan bolts of five
hundred-weight apiece which are to
be the pleasant medium" of future
sea-fghts. But the peculiarity
about this tremendous battle is that
there will be no enemy; the action,
for all the laundering discharges
and frightful noise of war, will re-
'semble those friendly suits in our
courts where there is q difference of
opinion, and people go to q kind of
amiable loggerheads to get the opin-
ion of the judges. In a word, the
British iron-clad HOtspur is inteud-
ed to attack the British iron. clad
Glatton, in order to test the real
strength ofrevolving turrets, the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of the
system under fire, with other points,
which can be proved only by actual
experiment. 1t is a pity that the
Glatton cannot return the Hotspur's
missive, as that would also test the
fixed turret and steam gan-carriage
of the assailant. But there must be
a crew on board to effect this; and,
perhaps the British Admiralty hard
ly sees its way to such q thorough
programme. One reflects pensively
upon Don Quixiote' 8 famous expert
lment with his sword proof helmet,


to make which took so long-snd


then, alasl his Toledo Glove through
It at the first stroke.
Year: 1872

At least twice a week the roller
should at this season Of the year be
passed over the lawn, and newly
seeded laws are better to have the
roller over them every day. Every
pressure assists in aid of the tiller-
ing or making of new roots, aud 50
Year: 1872

The mining stock market has been excited
in San Francisco for some weeks, and we
observe that the excitement is beginning to
reach and affect the country. Real sensible
men are talking of going below and engaging
in the business with view Of suddenly real
izing fortune. This we regret, as the
chances of these greenics being skinned out
of all they have is fully ninety-ninc to one
Of their making dollar. The great bulk of
the business done in the brokers' board and
on the curb-etone, in San Francisco, is mere
gambling, aud is similar to poker, or other
short card games of 3 pluck one. There are
numerous rings formed, the little rings catch
ing tho outside minnows and swallowing
them, to be in turn swallowed themselves by
tho bigger rings; and so on till the great
whale rings gulp them all down. Common
sense teaches all men that no money is made
in this stock business, but that only one man
loses whnt another wins. The faro dealer
or short card sharp is as honorable man as
these stock bulls and bears. these opera
tions develop no mines, or add nothing to the
wealth of the country. Congo once said
there were but two ways Of accumulating
wealth, one was to work for it, and the
other was to steal it. The speculation in
really valuable mines is more criminal than
in the mere wildcat concerns. Take, for
instance, the Savage. The officers and SUI
perin:endent are all that know anything about
the present and future of the mine. They
dig, drift and bore until they find large
body of rich ore, when they Immediately let
it get out that the mine is exhausted; a
meeting of the trustees is held and a heavy
assessment levied; down goes the stock, as
oil not in the ring would rather sell for any
price than pay the assessment, and in comes
the managers and buy it for a song. In a
short time the rich ore is opened into, the
news spreads and up goes the stock to about
double the price it ought to reach, and
then the managers sell, tho greenes are
twice stuck, and the knowing ones have
made fortune. You can hardly pick up a
city paper but you read of some man cutting
his throat, taking strychnine, or committing
suicide in some other way. Reason, ruined in
mining stocks. These are the minnows-
the little fish and rings. Volumes would
not tell of the rascaitics and ruined men in
this stock gambling. We have written this
much to induce our readers to think this
matter over in all its varied shapes, forms
and iniquities before quitting an honorable
legitimate and safe business.
Year: 1872

ROLL OF HoNoR-oHIIDREN WHO HAVE BEEN


REGULAR IN ATTENDANCE DURING LAST TERM.


The pupils in our public schools whose names
are found in the following list, are worthy OF
honorable mention for their constancy and reg
ularity in attendance during the term just closed.


The roll is made up of those scholars who
were perfect in attendance at school that is,
not absent, tardy or dismissed at any session Of
the school, except as a reward Of merit, during
four school mOntha
Year: 1872

The plumbers are busy.


Boston has money plenty.


Never was there better slelghIng.


Horse nesh Is excellent human food.


Indians object to bald white psople.


Send the clothes you do not want yourself to
the poor who suffer from the cold.


No matter where you are at O'Clock Of morn
ing YOU can hear the roosters crow, II you are
awake.


If You are unmarried and out Of debt and own
a horse, sleigh and two strings OF bells and love
girl, 20 aleighing this evening and sit close.