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Year: 1872

Within year every one OF the fot


loving declarations were made by
Horace Greeley. The sentiments
are expressed in good plain language
the meaning OF which cannot by any
possibility be twisted out Of shape
Now as Mr.. Greeley must by this
time have finished chopping has
wood for the season, VIC would be
glad to havo him appear "once more''
10 the Tribune to say what he thinks
about the matter now. These ex-
tracts furnish good reading, and ex-
hibit Greeley as he was before the
presidential worm took fatal hold
upon him.


Grant and his policy deserve the
very highest credit.-[H Horcee Greeley.


The people OF the United States
know Gen. Grant; have known all
about him since Donelson and Vicks-
burgh; they do not know his slander.
ers, and do not want to know them.
II Horace Greeley.


While asserting the right of every
Republican to free and untrammel-
ed choice OF candidate for next
President until a nomin alton is made,
I venture to suggest that Gen.
Grant will be tar better qualified Tor
that momentous trust than be was
in 1861 Horace Greeley.


l hold our government bound, by
it's duty of protecting our citizens in
their fundamental rights, to pass and
enforce laws tor the extirpation of
the execrable Ku.klux conspiracy;
and il it has not the power to do it,
then I say our government IS no gov
ernment but q sham. / therefore on
every proper occasion advocated and
justified the Ku klux act. I hold it
especially desirable for the South;
and If it does not prove strong
enough to effect It's purpose, ] hope
it will be made stronger and strong
err Horace Greeley.


A Democratic national triumph
means restoration to power ofthose
who deserted their seatsin Congress
and their places under the last Dem
ocratic President to plunge the coun.
try in the Red Sea of secession and
rebellion. Though you paint an inch
thick, to this complexion you must
come at last. The brain, the heart,
the soul of the present Democratic
party is the rebel element at the
South, with its Northern allies and
sympathizers.-[ Horace Greeley.
Year: 1872

force us to believe that this liberia


movement, il successful, will inaugu


rate reign OF terror throughort the


South, such as the world never be
fore witnessed. When eight con


servativen men, who clam to be


loyal, and whom we know to be in.


telligent, come 10 the conclusion


that the right of citizenship, confer


red by the Constitution On the freed


men Of the South, is nothing more


than party right, to be tolerated


while certain party is in power, and
no longer, what can we expect OF the


thousands of ignorant and dlsloyal


men who live on violence, who be


lieve the killing Of negro to be a
divine right, who are restrained in
their acts of crualty by the strong
arm of the law, aud who see in the
defeat of President Grant He,r oppor-
tuaity to plunder, scourge, and mur.
der the unoffending freedmen OF the
South? It the conclusions reached


by the minority and published to the


world, after careful investigation,
after months of deliberation, is not
an ivitation to begin the work of ex.
termination or subjugation, as soon
as the Democratic party comes into
power, we are no judge Of language.
1t is the latest echo OF the old slave.
holders cry, "a negro has no rights
which a white man is bound to re-
spect." The nation can not be de.
cei we'd BY the fgure-head of Horace
Greeley. Back Of him, and urging
him onward, are all the dangerous
elements which threaten our national
existence. His election would betray
our Government into the hands OF
Its enemies, and, in all human proba-
bllity, plunge our Republic into an
other war more fierce and destruc-
tive than the one which followed the
rebellion. The support of the Re
publican party is duty OF the hour.
Its triumph IS the triumph of peace,
law, Justice; its defeat, the practical
reinstatement of labor and the re.
vival OF anarchy throughout the
States of the South.
Year: 1872

adoption was effected through the


agency Of the Republican party; in


all their opposition to that party they


confess themselves 10 have been al.


together IN the wrong. Conlcssine
their own wlckedness, acknowledg.
ing the insufficiency and rottenncss
Of their past policy, they ask that the
Republican party whose work they
endorse, be turned out IN order that
they may administer the affairs
OF the country. Looking hack
over the past twelve years and dis
cerning clearly that their success at
any time would have been disastrous
to the country, they nevertheless ask
confidence and trust.


The people will not be deceived
The contest is now, as 1T has been,
between Democratic Copperbeads
and Republicans. Both are known.
Let us Judge them by their works
and not by their promises. Let us
jadge of their future by their past
Confidence should be plant Of slow
growth; let not the words Of an hour
be weighed against the faithful, hon.
est work of years.
Year: 1872

The free trade orators are fond Of
quoting the policy of Great Britain,
as furnishing an example which we
ought to initiate. There wonld be
no objection to tho example provid-
ed it was fairly quoted. The truth
OF history is that Great Britain pur-
sued the protective policy for hund-
reds OF years; and did not adopt tho
doctrine of free trade at all, and op-
EN- her ports and markets freely to
the commerce of the world. until her
own supremacy in production rend
cred the policy no longer necessary.
When this supremacy, acquired as
one OF the effects OF the protective
policy, naturally excludes articles Of
foreign production, and thereby pro
tects her own industry in her own
markets against the injurious effects
OF foreign competition, she, of course
needs no tariff law to gain what is
already gained BY her productive su
periority. She can tindersell in her
own markets all competitors, and
this necessarily excludes them, with
out any tariff duty. Free trade will
do for Great Britain; but it will not
do for this county, since the reason
which exists there does not exist
here. We are but young nation,
and have not reached the point a:
which American industry can COM
pete in its own market with the
cheaper labor Of other countries
without being aided to some extent
by protective tariff. We need such
a tariff. and Great Britain does not;
and thisis just the difference between
the present condition Of the two ma
tions. When Great Britain needed
it she mainta aimed it, and abandoned
it only when she no longer needed
it. We shall be quite willing to have
her example initiated by this coun.
try when the circumstances Of the
two countries are PARALLEL Indepea
| dent.
Year: 1872

Among the charges raised by the
enemies Of the Administration
against President Grant, and which
investigation has shown to be as
groundless as other charges from the
same source, was one to the effect
that he owned number of shares in
the Seneca Sandstone Company, and
through bis official position had made
largo amount OF money by encour-
aging its use in the erection of pub
lie building. The best answer TO this
charge IS brief statement Of facts.
General Grant, while General in the
army, invested q small amount Of
money in the Seneca Sandstone Co.,
because he thought the investment q
good one, and because he desired to
encourage the opening Of quarry
in the vicinity OF Washington, which
would supply as good stone as any
that could be brought from abroad
The inv estment has been a poor one,
andas far as we can learn has never
paid cent by way OF dividend to
any Of the original stockholders.


President Grant has endcavorcd
to sell the five shares he owns, bat
can find no one to purchase stock in
30 unfortunate an organization as the
Seneca Sandstone Company.


He has never sought to use his in
fiucnce, either personal or official, to
encourage the use of the stone in the
erection OF public or private build
ings.


No public building has been built
Of Seneca stone, and in very few OF
the large buildings which adorn the
capital las it been used at all.


1t has been used to construct some
of the interior partition walls in the
new State Department, and its use
has saved to the Government $32,
SS4.4O, this amount being the differ.
ence between the cost Of Seneca aad
granite.


1t IS a good, durable and hand.
some stone, equal TO any in the mar
ket, for interior walls, and has no gu.
perlor for walls, steps, window heads
and other purposes tor which it is
used.


Although the stone is good the
stock Of the company is bad, and #
any one.is ambitious TO share in the
imaginary profits OF this Seneca Stone
Company they can purchase all the
shares they want by making known
their desire to any stockholder of
said company.


So much for this charge against
President Grant. A purely business
transaction, entered into before he
dreamed of being President. a poor
investment at most, is distorted
through partisan malice into an
abuse of his official trust. The mean
ness Of the charge ID in keeping with
others Of the same character. An
intelligent people know the source
from whence it comes, and will seal
it with their condemnation in No.
vembcr next.
Year: 1872

On the principle that when you find your
neighbor or his property being injured from
a misapprehensiOn Of facts it is your duty
to try and assist him or it, your cores
pOndent feels it Incumbent on him to Write
few lines in defence of one Of our much
abused railroads; it has become a common
saying that it is not only dangerous, but
positively a great risk to travel on the
Northwestern Railroad and the policy seems
to be that everything that could be said or
done to injure that road was right and
proper; in fact your correspondent had such
fears of the road that only short time since
as one of a party wishing to go to
Mckenzie he proposed paying extra fare,
and travelling thirty miles farther sooner
than risk, as he thought, his life on the
Northwestern road. He had not travelled
on said road for several years, and when he
did its condition was such that he had no
desire to pass over it if it could be avoided


But a few days since having business at
Mckenzie again and being anxious to lose
as little time as possible concluded he would
risk the Northwestern one time, and he
must confess that he was greatly sur
prised at the present condition
of the road, with new CrOss-ties,
bridges, trestle-work and a good deal OF
new iron, everything is now being done to
make it a fiIst-class road, and under the
present able management the road ere long
will be one of the best in the State. The
General Agent, Lands, has no superior,
the conductors, Harrison and Roberts, are
just suited for their positions, polite and ac-
commodating, doing everything possible to
make the traveller comfortable, and the COM
pany have been fortunate in securing their
services, and with such management it is
certainly the interest of every one to assist
in removing the prejudices which have
grown up against said road, it being one Of
the most important roads to our city.
Year: 1872

Work on the Exposition buildings still
PROCESS rapidly and satisfactorily. Twen-
ty-three rafters have been put up, leaving
only three more to be raised on the sides
and those for the center arches. These
rafters for the sides and ends are each sixty
feet on the base with radius of sixteen feet,
while the center rafters will be each eighty
five feet on base with a radius Of forty-fVe
feet. Much of the building has been wealth
er-boarded and lathes placed on the rafters
ready for the roofing. The floor beams
for the gallery have already been laid, and
some of the flooring laid. When completed
the gallery, which extends the whole length
of the new building, will be twenty feet
wide and over four hundred feet long, fur
nishing a promenade grand and pleasant,
looking down Upon the magnificent scene
of art, science and natural productions
that will be exhibited below. The
erection of the four towers
will be commenced next week,
and when finished be quite ornamental to
the architecture of the building. Work ON
the addition to power hall has also been
commenced, and will soon be ready for the
reception of machinery intended for exhi-
bition, the shaftings having been placed in
position last week.
Year: 1872

WYE WILL BE PREPARED To PUR-
w chase all the WOOL that may be offered
us during the coming season, and to pay not only
the highest price in Cash, but to pay as much as
can be realized in any market when expenses of
shipping are deducted.


win be glad to furnish quotations when Spring
cbaariOn
Year: 1872

LIGHTNING Sometime lightning produces
complete and instantaneous paralysis. The
of movements In the victim In
these circumstances is so rapid that those who
have witnessed it might have thought they
suffered from some illusion. Who would not
think he was dreaming if he saw an unfOrtu-
nate creature, full of life and activity, petrihed
and motioness as a rock in less time than it
required to witness the phenomenon? jerome
Garden relates that eight reapers, who were
eating their dinner under an oak tree, were all
struck by the same flash of lightning, the ex-
plosion of which was heard far away. When
some people passing by approached to see
what had happened, they found the reapers to
all appearance continuing their repast; one
still held his glass in his hand, another was in
the act of putting piece of bread into his
mouth a third had his hand in the dish.
Death had come upon them suddenly while In
these positions, when the thunder-bOlt fell.
One might have taken them for statues sculp
tured out of black marble. The catastrophe
was so rapid that the faces of the victims had
not time to take any expression OF pain; lite
was suppressed 20 lnstantaneOusly that the
muscles remained unmOved. The eyes anC
| the mouth were open as in life; and had mol
| the color of the skin been so much changed
| the illusion would have been complete. 1t ha
been remarked also that the features of per


sons struck by lightning, instead of being con


tracted usually assume calm, happy expires


sion ; and the conclusion has been drawn tha
they enter without shock or pain into tn


presence of the Infinite Being. 1t has eve


been assumed that death by lightning is tn


prelude to glory and happiness. AppletOn


Journal
Year: 1872

GONG TO COLLEGE From Mrs Stoves
new story we quote the advice given Harry on
his leaving home for college: 80 you are
there $ no use advising you; you'll do as ali
the rest do In one year you'll know more
than your father, your mother or I, or all YOU
college officers; in fact, than the Lord Him
self. You'll have doubt about the Bible and
think you could have made better one.
You Il think if the Lord had consulted you he
could have laid the foundations of the earth
better, aud arranged the course of nature to
more purpose. In short, you'll be god,
knowing good and evil, and running over all
creation measuring everything and everybody
to your pint cup. There Il be no living with
you But you'll get over tits only the
febrile state of knowledge. fyou have good
constitution you II come through with it. -
Year: 1872

An irate Western editor lately wrote to a
contributor: " If you don't stop sending me
such abominable poetry, I'll print piece of it
some day with your name appended in full, and
send a copy to your girl.
Year: 1872

Josh Billings says that the difference
between a blunder and a mistake is this
When a man puts down bad umbrella and
takes up good one, he makes mistake but
when he puts down good one and takes up
bad one he makes a blunder.
Year: 1872

mutual admiration sprung up be-
tween the gallant young army officer
and the fascinating belle, which soon
ripened into love. But the fates
we're not propitious. The parents
objected to the match so persistent
~ that General Eweil, becoming
piqued, did not press his suit as
otherwise would. The duties
t-f military life carried him to the
frontiers; yet throughout al the
stirring campaigns in which lie bore
3 conspicuous part, he carried with
him the image Of his early love,
dreaming, in the pauses of the battle,
OF the time when he might yet win
from the unwilling hands of fame
q distinction which should commend
him to the fathers esteem.


Meantime the daugher, with that
high sense of honor peculiar to her
race, and q filial devotion almost
without parallel, addressed herself
rs best she could TO the meek OBJ
servances of dutiful life-eeasing
to communicate with, vet. IN secret
cherishing her hearts one idol. An
other won her hand, and in her
twentieth year she married an est
mable gentleman and settled with
him on a beautiful farm near Spring
Hill, Tennessee. A short time be-
fore the war she was left a widow,
free to bestow her hand again on
whom she would. But she had never
forgotten her giriish vows. Through
AL the stormy life of him who first
won her affections she followed, With
her prayers and tears, her idol-her
hero-Yho was winning laurels on
distant fields. When st the battle
of Wilderness, In May, 1861, he was
stricken down at the head of his
columns, Mrs. Mary Polk Brown
laid aside all minor considerations
and flew on the wings of love TO his
bedside, nursing him through all his
suferings until he was again able to
take command. It was shortly after
his recovery that the dream of q
long and eyentful life was realized
by the consummation of his early
hopes, and these twain, devoted in
youth, parted for a quarter Of a cen
tury, met at last in the shadows Of
declining years to pledge anew that
faith which had waxed stronger
through the trying ordeal OF long
separation"
Year: 1872

@Just one more story, Grandma,
abont when you we're a little girl
and lived in the woods y said Frank.


And Grandma drew of her spec
tacles and shut her book. She lean
ed her head back against the large
easy-ehairs and shut her eyes, think
Year: 1872

means this admirable and unsectarian institu-
ton has been the means of saving many q
child from destruction, many young mother
from life of forced infamy. Already one
hundred children are upon its record
book, the ages when received being
from one day to two years Already
twenty children have been born within the
asylum's walls, six of whom have been
adopted by excellent people. The stories told
by the unfortunate mothers, who are always
desperate, always forsaken by friends and de-
serted by their seducers, and whose ages vary
from fourteen to thirty years, the majority
being under eighteen, render the pathos of a
terrible drama most heartrending With all
it is first offence, generally committed under
promise of marriage. The New York Infant
Asylum requires the mothers to remain and
nurse their infants six months, knowing that
the union of mother and child will induce
undying affection. Wages are paid for this
maternal duty, and should the mothers re-
main longer than the time specified they re-
ceive eight dollars q month in order to have
the means of obtaining an honest livelihood
This opportunity is embraced by many, and
the letters received from those who 60 out into
the world are such as to rejoice the souls of
the noble women engaged in truly Christian
work We heartily wish them ''Godspeod,"
and if, by calling attention to what is being
done in New York for the reduction of the
saddest misery and crime, we can successfully
o,~y@ %ok he &c IL
and fire neighboring cities to generously emu
late our tardy example we shall not have
spoken in vain.
Year: 1872

Our Present Jury system-Ncccssities
:. OF Reform.


AS administered in New York at present
our jury laws serve to abstract and defeat JUS
tce in criminal cases, rather than promote it.
Designed originally to shield the public from
arbitrary and prejudiced action Of irresponsi-
BILE rulers, to commit the life and liberty of the
citizen into the jealous keeping of his neigh
bors and peers who could protect him from
the penalty of trumped-up charges unsuscepti-
BILE of proof, while their own interest as we'll
as their sworn duty assured conviction of the
culprit whose guilt was proved, the jury was
long the cherished guardian of popular rights
We have changed all that In the early days
those who knew the circumstances of ON
alleged crime were the immediate neighbors.
They were likely to be biased by prejudice.
Now the daily newspaper, with lightning de-
spatches, acquaint all people of average intelli-
gence of the circumstances of all interesting
criminal events throughout the whole country.
Thus the rule which holds it trequisite to reject
from jury all who, being conversant with the
reported facts, have formed an impression as
to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner,
really excludes from the panel all the really
good jurors, puts stolid ignorance OF pre-
MUM and practically makes it almost impossi-
BILE to secure panel for an important trial.
We have case in point where the second
Stokes trial occupied the Oyer and Terminer
for the last four days, and barely secured the
twelve men deemed qualified for the jury. It
cannot be doubted that were this rule abro-
gated q far better panel than is possible to
secure under it could be empanelled in two
hours. All rejecting men know that such
opinion as may be formed from q hurried
news report in the mind of right thinking
man will at once be corrected on listening to
the careful presentation of the facts in evil
dence. Intelligent citizens who keep up with
the news of the day by reading reputable
journals are the class to whose verdict an
innocent man or judicious public prose-
cutor would wish to entrust an important case.
Let us, then, so change our jury law as to allow
this. This Winters Legislature can scarcely
better employ the peoples time than in enact
ing a law declaring that general information
shall not disqualfy a citizen from serving as
juror in criminal case. Such clause would
save q large amount of time in the Courts Of
this city, which are now hopelessly blocked
by the difficulty in securing juries. Another
proposed change, which has the sanction of
many judicious men, is to make the verdict of
two-thirds or majority of the trial panel
sufficient to convict. Possibly this latter may
be too sweeping innovation. 1t is the rule
in some European countries, and there works
to public satisfaction. Some form of relief
we must have or else criminal trials will be-
come an impossibility. Crime outruns the
capacities of our numerous Courts. Our jails
are too few to accommodate prisoners un-
tried on capital charges. We must have
facilities for more rapid trials or see crime
fearfully increase in consequence Of immu-
nifty from punishment.
Year: 1872

ny will give another entertainment on Wed.
nesday evening next. The net proceeds,
after paying expenses will be devoted to
paying the debt incurred in fitting up the
School house. This company are doing
good service in the cause of education in
Shasta, and we think no one will regret CO.
ing to their next entertainment. See ad-
yertisement
Year: 1872

Sec. 50. Every person who aids or abets in the
commission of any of the ofenses mentioned in the
four preceding sections, or who, being present at
or cognizant of the commission of either of such
oenses, does not give information thereof as soon
as practicable to the District Attorney Grand
Jdry of the proper county, or to some Justice of
the Peace of such county, is punishable by i'm
prsonment in the County Jail for the period of six
months, or in the State Prison not exceeding two
years.