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Year: 1875

After General Sherman made his
march to the sea, all in the wide track
of waste and desolation that he made
with the tramp of his footmen and the
iron feet of his cavalry, there sprung
up new and unknown grass from the
soil, which the farmers called "Sher-
man clover" 1t would grow up in
the most unexpected places, and it is
said would root out Bermuda grass;
and as strange similarity, we now
hear that after the Franco Prussian
war of lS70-7l, in many districts of
France q new vegetation sprung up,
evidently the result of the invasion.
1t was believed that this vegetation
would be acclimatized, but very few
of the species introduced in this way
appear likely to continue to flourish.
In the Department of Loir and Loir-
et-Cher, of 1853 German species, at
least one-half have already disap-
peared and the surviving species ap-
pear to diminish in vigor each year.
Scarcely five or six species manifest
any tendency to become acclimated.
Can any of our naturalists account
for it?
Year: 1875

The following new bills were intro
duced in the Senate to-day:


BY Mr.. Boyd-A bill to repeal an act
passed by the last Legislature, provi-
ding for the erection of East and West
Tennessee Insane Asylums. The bill
further provides that the State Treas
urer shall advertise, in the papers pub
llsbed at Knoxville, for sale ali the
realty and personal property acquired
by the purchase made by such act so
repealed, aud shall sell such property
at such lime and on such
terms as he may believe to be for
the best interest of the State.
IL further provides that the Attorney
General and two competent citizens
bee appointed by the Governor as COM
mlssiOners to settle with any con-
tractor any damage he may have sus-
tanned by the reason of the suspension
of work on the East Tennessee Asylum,
such settlement to act as a bar to all
claims whatever against the State on
account of work on the East Tennessee
Insane Asylum. The bill was referred
to the Committee on Charitable In
stitutions.


Mr.. Butler introduced a bill to create
an Office Of County Judge of Jackson
county and abolish the Quorum Court
of that county.


BY Mr.. Jordan-A bill to prevent the
sale of Intoxicating liquor to inebri-
ates. This bill provides that if the
wife or any other relative of an inc
briate shall give written notice t.
liquor sellers not TO sell to such inc
briate, such wife or other relative can
collect the sum of twenty-five dollar.
from said liquor sellers violating such
written notice.


BY Mr.. Aden-A bill to equolize the
taxation of State corporations in Ten
nessee whose charters provide they
should pay one-half Of one per cent
in lieu Of all other taxatiRn, and those
corporations, who refuse 10 pay take,
Year: 1875

Somebody in late periodical, a traveller
who has tasted the wines of France and the
coffee of Turkey in their own homes comes back
and sings heartily the praise of cider, declar-
lug it is and ought 20 be the national Ameri-
can drink, as it is the f2vorite beverage in
Normandy, where it is found J2 the tables OF
the great landed proprietofs, who cherish their
apple orchards as the monks of Cyprus their
vineyards. He goes SO far as to declare, too.
that all genuine Americans, in secret, prefer
cider to any other drink, and are only
deferred from its use by shame. We
heard keen sighted social philosopher
assert the other day, that the rapid physical
deterioration of the New -Englanders as race
might be dated from the time when they gave
up cider and the hearty good-living which it
typifes, and took to tea and mental pabulum
instead. The Massachusetts farmer in Endi-
cott's time ate his four meals day, measured
six feet two in his stockings, read his Bible,
and died, believing it, ut four score and ten.
Nowadays, he has cut down his apple or
chards starves at home and sells the last
cleaning of wheat to educate his son at Cam
bridge, finds his religious speculations in En-
erson, until his lean body, being too tired to
work longer, goes down to death to prove the
truth of these speculations ut the untimely
age of fifty five.


We. Of course. cannot approve these vigOr-
Year: 1875

There used to be. many decades ago. q song which
every musical young lady in boarding-school out
was expected to warble for the admiration Of
parents and friends it is faded and old-fashoned
now as the yellow paper which it was printed.
and the crazy piano which accompanied it, 1t had
q burden something like this: 90, tits love. It's
love, tits love that makes the world go round" and
there be sentimental people who declare that though
the song is gone its meaning stays. This is tho
opinion of q youth who abides in small town in
the State of Connecticut But his views did not
commit him to any poetical nonsense-he was prac-
teal. A short time ago he said to his bretrothed.
Let us have home and build it our own selyes.'
and the winner of his affections and possessor Of
his heart acquiesced He bought an acre OF ground.
and in the intervals of factory work cleared it.
Then he began to build small house, and the young
lady, learning carpentry with dispatch and energy
became his sole and apt assistant. They finished IT;
they furnished it, and now the two youngsters have
married and gone to housekeeping in 1t as happily
Us two provident robins.
Year: 1875

We should regret it if the reports which
represent Mr.. OrtOn as belittling his cause in
Washington, by declaring that Gen. Buffers
telegraph bill is only stock jObbing opera
ton, should prove true. This is the invari-
able resort of shysters who have no argu-
ments with which to resist measures. and
consequently take to calling names Mr.. Orton
has abundant arguments against Gen. Buffers
remarkable bill, and ought to be able to use
them. No measure affecting great corporate
interests can be introduced into Congress or
the Legislature without having an in6u-
ence of some sort on Wall Street. Some
times it ought to have such an influence,
sometimes it ought not. But whether it will
or will not is not the primary question for
legislators to consider. The thing they have
to decide is whether it is right, In Gen.
Buffers bill we think they will find two
points in which it is seriously and hopelessly
wrong. 1t undertakes to make foolish war
fare on the Associated Press and it goes
further than any excepting the most despotic
governments have ever ventured, in under
taking to violate the sanctity of COM
munications held in trust by authorizing
the seizure of telegraph dispatches. The
passage of o bill containing this last
feature would be more disgraccful act
than any which our Capitol has recently wit
messed. TO the provisions requiring telegraph
companies to pro-rate and interchange bust
ness, we see less cause Of objection. But if
they cannot be disentangled from the rest of
the bill, it ought to be defeated, and will be.
According to the present prospect it has not
one chance in hundred.
Year: 1875

THE DILEMMA OF HONEST REPUBLICAhS


We have received letter, of type not
uncommon of late, from an old subscriber in
Philadelphia, who tells us that he is three
score and ten, that be has read THE TRIBUNE
always that he thinks il the best newspaper
in the world, that he agrees with us in doing
honor to Gen. Grant for his services to the
country in time Of war, and IN condemning
his civil administration as an utter failure.
that he regards the victory of the opposition
next year as inevitable, that he profoundly
distrusts the capacity or the purpose of the
Democrats to govern the country wisely or
purely. that he fears for tho fate Of tho negro
Year: 1875

We learn by our Paris letter that after do
ing his best to injure the prospects OF the
Republic in France by many subtle devices,
the Duke do Broglie contributed his mite
toward the adoption Of the WALTON amend
ment. Subsequent kilograms lead us very
strongly to the opinion that he only joined
the Republicans to betray them. If 50. the
Republicans, in their new alliance with the
Right Center, will probably profit by the
warning. If no is able to betray them sec
ond time it will be their fault.
Year: 1875

The Senate went as far as possible. without
utter defiance of public opinion, in voting yes
terday for partial resuscitation of the Frank
Ing Privilege. The whole course of the debate
showed that there was an irrepressible longing
for it's complete restoration. The amendment
agreed to provides for the passage through
the mails of The Congressional Record, or of
any speeches or reports contained therein, On
the frank of any member of the present Con-
gress. This is quite as bad in spirit as the
old indefensible law.
Year: 1875

Despite the efforts of an untiring lobby and
active friends on the floor, Col. Thomas A.
SCOTS Texas Pacific subsidy scheme met
signal defeat yesterday in the House of Rep
resentatives. The measure showed consider
able strength, but ON test vote failed to
secure majority on call of the Yeas and
Nays, whereas a two-thirds vote would be
necessary for the passage of the subsidy bill
itself.
Year: 1875

1t becomes every day more apparent that If
On extra session of Congress is necessary, it
will be owing to the willfulness of the most
violent men of the Administration party in
pressing the consideration of purely partisan
measures, when business of real Importance
claims attention. Our Washington dispatches
show that the latter is 50 far advanced that
nothing but such abuse of time as is proposed
by Mr.. Morton in the Senate and the advo-
Gates of the caucus Force bill in the House
Year: 1875

The new rumors of diSseDsions in the Cabi-
net will occasion little surprise. In view of
the wcll.known difference OF opinion on the
treatment of the South between the President
and the three or four of the members of his
Cabinet who still command the confidence of
the public, the only wonder is that it has held
together so long. The Presidents Arkansas
message and the caucus Force bill, which is
known to have bis sanction, are opposed by
some of the ablest and stanchest Republicans
in or out of Congress and by a majority of
Republican newspapers. 1t would be strange
indeed if Secretaries Bristow. Jewell, and
Fish were to support the Presidents policy
in the face of such opposition within the party
fold, and against all the dictates of justice,
consistency, and sound craftsmanship.
Year: 1875

The fact that recent decision in the Su-
preme Court disallows claim previously
made by the Treasury on the Pacific Rail
roads, and reduces by from third to half
million the amount which the Government
can demand, seems to make the recent offer
of these railways more advantageous than it
first appeared. If the Government knows how
to get more money out of the railways by all
means let 1t do it, Thus far its success in
that way has not been sufficiently marked to
encourage us in hoping for very much in case
it refuses the million to million and half,
which under the proposed arrangement it is
SIRE of
Year: 1875

Blessings on the man" says Sancho
Panza, 'who first invented Sleep" Pro-
badly sleep came upon the first man rather
as an unconscious fulflment of the order
of his being than as discovery sought
out and invented. Every mother and
every nurse knows that sleep, instead of
being welcomed, is contumaciously resisted
by the little child, for anticipating the
character Of manhood and womanhood,
babies commenced life by crying protests
against the conditions of existence The
chief and indispensable requisite to long
and healthy life is rest, and the indication
Of its need is fatigue, just as certainly as
hunger prompts eating and thirst suggests
drinking Among the courses fallaciously
considered improvements on state Of ma
ture is that resistance against rest which
the feverish demands ofsociety impose upon
everybody. To go without food or drink
would be quite as rational as to dispense
with sleep and rest. Nobody thinks Of
abstinence from food, however, though it
would be quite as sensible to see how long
one could 60 without eating as without
repose. On the contrary, food and drink
are drawn in as allies in the unnatural war
against quiet of mind and body; pressure
on the brain and the stomach is maintain
ed, that no part Of the system may escape
fatigue. The human constitution, in all
its parts and functions, is forced into un-
natural and wasting excitement.


II is an unweary world. And what
then2 It's a hungry world, too, and hun
ger finds relief in food. SO should unrest
find its relief in repose, and repose should
be sought as resolutely as hungry man
seeks his dinner. We can no more exist
without rest than without food. Why not
remember the nightly recurring commem-
grafton of primal institution and the seven
days interval, whose antiquity is proved
by the mystical traditions concerning the
number seven; traditions, the date Of
which no man can FIX. 0ne-seventh Of
mans working time is consecratsd to rest,
both by religious and natural sanction. 1t
is overworked mans privilege, and he, Of
course, will claim it. These are matters
to be thought of by those who are seeking
"rest" and Incorporation" by rushing about
over the railroads and among summer re-
sorts, indulging in card parties, wine par
ties, chops" and other inventions for
keeping late hours, as il the whole design
of the summer holiday is to crowd as
much fatigue as possible into their season
of arest."
Year: 1875

/ had done it--and she loved me still.
And still she prayed God help her--help
her to whatY Help her to love her father
| was killing her, and she tried to smile
nPon me. One evening | heard you both
eonvesing in the old hut. Ny child chose
misery with duty TO her father rather than
break the duty in union with the man she
loved And you uttered a prayer. You
prayed that | might be made penniless---
stop hear me through You would then
show your disinterestedness. | walked
away and pondered. Could it be that /
had found man who would love an old
wretch like myself with no money? II
il was so then that wsuld break the last
layer of crust from my soul. l determin-
ed to test you. ! had gained a glimmer-
ing of light-my heart had begun to grow
warm--and prayed fervently that |
might not be disappointed. | went to the
bank and dFow out s3O0,00 in bills
That night my miserable hut was set on
fire--or--a--caught fire. | always think
my candle did it. But the old she'll burn
ed down, and room was made for better
building. came out with wrong trunk
and the other trunk was burned up. But
the money wasn't in it. No, no, / had
that safely stuffed into my bosom and
all buttoned up; and the next day car
ried it all back to the bank, and had it
put with few thousand more which had
not disturbed. And so my experiment
commenced; and / found the full sunshine
at last. Aye, Walter, l found you the
noble, true man | had prayed for. You
took me into your house and loved me
when you thought me penniless, and you
took my child to your bosom for just what
God had made her And now, my boy,
I've been doing bit Of work in the dark.
I've paid Mr.. Osborn 100000 in cash
for his share in the business, and it all is
yours. And let me tell you one more
thing my boy, if your partners can raise
100000 more to invest, tell EN- you can
put in $50, 900 more at twelve hours no.
tice. Tell 'em that, my boy Tell EN-



old Noah amt quite ashore yet Tell 'em
he has found heart--a heart, my boy
Come here Agnes-come here Walter.
God bless you both-bless you both as
you have blessed mel


Nobody pretended that they had notes
in the eye now, for the occasion of the
weeping was to palpable.
Year: 1875

The night following appears to
have been squally, and at daybreak Mr..
Trelawny made inquiries among the
crews Of the vessels which had returned
to harbor as to whether they could give
any information about the missing yes
sci. The boat. we are told was
eventually discovered off Via Reggie.
having sunk In fifteen fathoms. Since
nothing on board of her had been dis
placed, IL was ut once conjectured that
she could not have been capsized
Moreover. many Of the timbers on the
sttrboard quarter were broken. both
masts had been swept away, the bow


spirit shattered, the gunwaIe stove in,
and the hull half full Of a blucish clay


These things suggested the probability
of her having been run down during the
the sq,all. That the natives were capa-
bic Of committing this or any other
crime the following extract from Mary
Shclley's Journal would go far to
show Wild rs were the elements aud
the spot. the natives were wilder still
Their manners were almost savage,
with mixture Of the fierce revelry of
Baccllauals Whether or no the old
sailors confession be ~ true story, it
comes to us through the most reliable
source. and forms u most interesting
episode in the history Of both Shelley
and Byron II Is TO be hoped that no
stone will be left Inturned in order to
discover and get direct statement
from the priest to whom the publica
ton of this matter was intrusted.
Year: 1875

From the Carroll Watohnlan1


In 1872 party took form and national
selDblance throughout the Northern
States Of the Union called the Liberal
Republican party. In the early part Of
the year their generous political views
seemed to strike the popular current In
the North, and we of the poor South"
were led to believe that better feeling
towards us had set in with the Northern
people.


The nomination Of the old philan-
for President, seemed to give promise
Of the dawn Of reconciliation, u genuine
shake hands across the bloody
chasm." so the Democrats Of the
entire nation gave over their aspira-
tions and accepted this candidate. The
overwhelming defeat of Horace Greeley,
and the overthrow of conciliatory feeling
in the nation is familiar to all. We will
not take space to comment upon it,.
But the inauguration OF this party led
to a generous feeling throughout the
South, which caused US to uuite in ruin
Gus fusions, and have kept US loaded
with oppression ever since. VI. G. War
moth was at that time Governor OF the
STATE. clothed with almost unlimited
power to control the State elections.


He had made an enemy of Gen. Grant,
and was eager for vengeance. so he
seized upon this new movement and
called upon the people of Louisiana to
unite with him In the overthrow of the
Radical party in this State. His prom
iscs were glowing. and his claims for
recompense modest He asked moth
ing, and declared on the floor Of
the Liberal Convention that he wanted
no office In the gift OF the people /:
thatif he was the means Of bringing
peace and harmony and good govern
ment to Louisiana, he would be abund .
antIy paid in the glorious realization Of
IL. The Democrats Of Louisiana
thought best to follow the example set
them by the national Democracy
They fused with Warmoth' s party, had
u generel shake hands, and as u result
brought down on themselves, in
stead of the sympathy, the hatred of
the National Government. We were
deprived Of all our officers sclect by
force Of arms, and have lived under
Federal interference and usurpation
ever since. The editor OF this paper
went heart and soul into The Liberal
movement aud built great hopes in il
for the redemption OF Louisiana, and of
the whole country.


But we acknowledge our mistake.
we cOunteu 100 generously on the mag.
nauimity of the Northern people, and
we, with the great majority Of the Dem
ocrats OF the State. erred. We see our
error, and henceforth we will have no
fusions, no alliances. We raise
FROM henceforth the unadulterated
banner Of Democracy, Louisinnd Demo
cr0cy, and under that banner We go to
battle, To win or lose, exclailning, "her
destiny is our destiny, II she rides the
wave we will ride safely with her; if she
sinks, we ALSO will go down in the vor
tex"


We have glorious precedent set rs
in our sister State, Mississippi. Let us
do Us they have done.
Year: 1875

" rom the Montgomery huNtftiSerI


At last the white people of South Car
olina have touched the winning card.
At last, after years OF wandering IN the
promised land There was no hope
so long as "conciliation Of the negro"
was their watchword. Sambo never
did and never will respect men
who cringe before him. He was not
educatedto that sort Of thing, nor will
he ever become accustomed to IT.. He
will respect the man who respects him
self and compels others TO respect him
but for those who cajolc and flatter him,
or who bend the pregnant hinges OF
the knee that thrift may follow fawn-
ing, he enteitains the liveliest con
tempt 1t is his nature and he cannot
help it.


There are certain poisonous medicines
known to the phafmacopGias which are
dangerous only when taken in modera-
ton Larger doses produce vomiting,
and vomiting saves the patient. SO with
the corruption which has 50 long pois-
oncd the body polite Of the Palmetto
State. While il flowed in stinted streams,
the people, accustomed to go from one
degree of forbearance to another, could
find no point more decidedly prominent
than another at which stand could be
made. But the late election Of con
victed felon and felon unconvicted to
two Of the most important Judgeships
of the State has produced a general
spew all over the State, and furnished
the people their long sought vantage
ground on which to make a stand
at once against the swelling tide OF
official corruption and villainy. 1t has
aroused even the most callous to sense
of the common danger. 1t has nerved
for the conflict strong arms which have
never yet stricken a blow for their State
and country. 1t has summoned from
their hiding places all who have not
ssyoted since the war"-a numerous
class who, in all the Southern
States. have for many years ta-
ken narrow and circumscribed
views of their duty to the State. 1t has
clothed the whole State with fierce in
dignation as with q mantle; and unless
we have broadly mistaken the Anglo
Saxon character, it will eventuate in as
thorough cleaning out Of the Augean
Stables in South Carolina, as SINH
lar outrages, some weeks ago, oc-
casioned in Mississippi. Viewed in
this light, the election Of Moses, Whip
per and Wiggin to the Judiciary is d
blessing to South Carolina; but it can
not be denied that it comes in a disguise
as black as hell. 1t opens up the path
OF duty so plainly that no one can mis-,
faka II and ua hr,a1o Tor the -b<,noE- al
Year: 1875

become immortal He will be none the worse
off if the project fails but if it is successful
his reign will receive great share of the glory.
And to Garibaldi it is simply new oppor-
tunity, for the association of his name with
the project gives it popular interest and raj
lies in its favor the thoughts and the SYM
pathies of the people everywhere. That
which in the government budget would be
odious as a new head of taxation, or which,
in the hands of engineers, might be passed by
as speculative vision, becomes, associated
with the name of Garibaldi, part of the cause
of the people. Well might King or Pope
envy the man whose name possesses this
quality.


pope encouraged the dreams of Rienzi; q
pope accepted the dedication of voltaires S
"Mohammed;" perhaps another pope may be
willing to receive that second Procida who has
avenged the wrongs of Naples, that happier
Rienzi who has restored the good estate of
Rome
Year: 1875

dishonest profit, and when the amount Of
work was increased the same dishonest rate Of
profit extended through the whole job. The
Governor would have made his case strong
enough against the Canal Ring if he had not
stopped to sophistry. There is equal sophistry
in the replies of the Ring advocates, but the
people desire to see facts precisely as they are.
They are not willing to be misled or have their
judgment warped either by the Governor or
by the Canal Ring. The frauds and corrup-
ton which have long prevailed in canal
management are undeniable, and we devoutly
hope that the present angry explosion may
lead to effectual preventive legislation.